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Agony of the One Direction mothers forced to buy cardboard cutouts of their sons they never get to see
There's a heartbreaking moment in the new film charting the rise of boy band One Direction.
The mother of group member Liam Payne, a 19-year-old Wolverhampton lad who is unashamed of admitting that his favourite movie is still Toy Story, is seen breaking down in the merchandise tent at Madison Square Garden in New York where the band is playing.
Karen Payne sobs inconsolably as she is filmed buying a £34.99 cardboard cut-out of her son. She says: 'We miss him. He left home my little boy and became the boy in a magazine. If I have this I can still see him every day. When I see him on stage I absolutely burst with pride, but we do miss him so much.'
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Mummy's boy: Liam Payne pictured with father Geoff and mother Karen, who bought a cardboard cut-out of her own son because she sees so little of him
It's a poignant and troubling vignette that casts an unexpected light on the parents that Britain's hottest pop properties have been forced to leave behind on their rise to fame.
There those mums and dads were, in Leicester Square on Tuesday evening, bright-eyed with tears, on the red carpet with their beloved boys at the new film's premiere. Zayn Malik's mother, Tricia, for one, looked almost overwhelmed by emotion.
But behind the smiles there is heartache. The parents of the five teenage boys who were made into superstars have been left to reflect on how much they have lost.
Since taking part in the 2010 X Factor, each boy has been worked to a phenomenal degree.
The band's first world tour — the Up All Night Tour, showcasing their debut album of the same name — was followed a bare seven months later by the start of another world tour.
Her little man: Anne Cox's son Harry Styles' world-wide star status means that the roles are reversed and she have to get used to her boy showing her the world instead of the other way around
One family: Zayne Malik took his mother Tricia to the This Is Us premiere, where he is seen close to tears as he speaks to her over the phone after buying her a house, and Niall Horan holds tight to his family's values
Fame effect: Louis Tomlinson has acknowledged that his road to fame has been 'tough' on his parents, particularly his mother
In the gap in between the globe-trotting, the band had to make their second album, Take Me Home, and promote it with interviews and personal appearances.
And when they have finished the current tour, another will start.
This breakneck adventure in popular culture has, unsurprisingly, had an impact on their lives. While they may have been earning millions for themselves and others — with total revenues hitting up to £640 million in a year, making up to £28 million for each of them — there is a litany of missed birthdays, snatched family celebrations and sheer, frustrating loneliness for the loved ones they left behind.
A pop star's life may look enviable — the wealth, the adulation — but One Direction work to a punishingly draining schedule that leaves precious little time for what most of us would consider normality.
The boys are aged between 19 and 21 now, and most families would have spent these past three years guiding their offspring's transition from sweet teenagers into independent young men, rather than following their unstoppable rise to fame at one remove via newspapers and the internet.
Zayn Malik complained this week: 'It's frustrating, I don't even get time to call my mum and dad.' In fact, they barely see each other.
Louis Tomlinson's mother, Jay, says that he has made it back home to South Yorkshire for only five visits in the three years since The X Factor.
Indeed, the One Direction film, This Is Us, directed by Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock, is unexpectedly moving when it comes to telling the stories of the families watching the boys' success from afar.
Liam is the adored youngest sibling of a close-knit family. His father, Geoff, works in a Wolverhampton pub, and he has two older sisters.
There was a visit over Christmas of 2012, when the family went for a celebratory meal at their favourite local curry house, the Penn Tandoori, but they haven't seen Liam as much as they would like. They travelled to New York this year just so they could spent a few hours with him.
The film shows Geoff close to tears as he speaks about how much he misses his son. He says that he has missed out on 'rites of passage' such as seeing Liam finish school, and buying him his first pint of beer.
This is them: The five boys have gone from obscurity to dominating the charts in three years, which has meant that their families have to travel across the globe to see them
Geoff says: 'It's not just the mums, it's the dads that struggle, too. I mean, I can't offer him much, I could take him out for a drink or play some pool.
'But he's the only lad in the family and I'll never get this time back, he's gone. And I can't give him advice because he has seen more of the world than me.'
It's not easy viewing, and Liam himself found it upsetting to watch. He told an interviewer: 'He's always so happy when I see him and happy to have me home; to actually see what he's like when I'm not there was a bit mad.'
Bandmate Louis Tomlinson, 21, agrees it is 'tough' for their parents.
He said: 'You know a lot of families anticipate that once you get to 18 you'll go to university and mothers know that that's the day [you'll leave] whereas for us, it kind of just happened out of the blue and our mums just had to wave goodbye to us on The X Factor, so I think it was a lot for them to take in at first.'
Zayn Malik, 20, sometimes allows himself to have wistful daydreams about what his life would be like had he not become an internationally famous pop star.
He thinks he would be studying for a degree in English literature — in fact, he still would like to do a degree once the band have finished.
Although he has bought himself a Bentley Continental, a Rolex, two places to live in North London and a new house for his mother, Tricia, he says that the fame barely feels real.
'These past few years have been a digestion process for me and only now can I enjoy it a lot more,' he said this week. 'Before, I didn't accept it was real. It happened so quickly and we didn't get any time to absorb it.'
Over recent months he has met singer Robbie Williams, film director Martin Scorsese, Hollywood star Will Smith and U.S. President Barack Obama. But he has missed out on seeing his mother and he wasn't even there when she moved into her new home in Bradford. In the film, he is shown telephoning her after contracts have been exchanged. He tells her, 'I promised you I would get you one,' but then rings off saying: 'I'm going to go before you make me cry.'
The band's Irish singer Niall Horan, 19, has missed his home comforts so much that for a time he rented his mum, Maura, a home around the corner from his new base in London, just so they could spend some precious time together while he was working on the band's yet-to-be released third album.
His father, Bobby, works at the meat counter in Tesco in Mullingar, in County Westmeath, Ireland. He has also been missing his son.
'The good thing is that he's still the same young fella that left our house in Mullingar that day in 2010,' says Mr Horan.
Long way from home: Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Tomlinson and Liam Payne attend The BRIT Awards in February last year as their world domination takes hold
'He hasn't lived at home since the day he left for that audition, but he still has his own bedroom, although it is at the bottom of the garden.
'I converted the garage for him because his guitar playing was making such a noise and we're so close to the house next door.
'When he comes home he just wants to be Niall and leave "Niall from One Direction" behind. He's through the door and straight to his room, and when we do talk he does it while he's strumming his guitar, and you have to talk to him over the chords. It's funny, but that's the way he is. He's not a big drinker, but we often go for a pint when he's home.'
Like all the parents, Bobby Horan can see how lucky his son has been. While many of his friends are students, or on the dole, Niall is a multi-millionaire.
But he has also been in a state of arrested development — he has only just got his driving licence because he struggled to find the time to take lessons.
Des Styles, the father of charmer Harry, 19, echoes Bobby's sentiments. Like him, he saw his beloved son leave the house to go to The X Factor auditions, never to return.
Sitting in a cab on the way to the boys' show at Madison Square Gardens in New York, Des's ex-wife Anne says: 'There's this feeling that we should be showing him the world, and instead he's showing us. We would never have been able to take him to a place like this. It takes a long time to get used to.
'There's also always this thought in the background that you have to be ready to pick up the pieces if it falls apart . . . and we've been waiting for it, but it never comes. The fame just gets bigger and bigger.'
And so do the earnings. There is no more stark measure of just how wide the gulf now is between the lives the boys lead and the modest existences of their parents.
One can only assume that, as One Direction earn ever more money, that gulf will become a yawning chasm.
Estimates vary, but the band members each now have fortunes of between £5.5 million and £28 million and they are set to earn a whole lot more this year.
The band is the biggest in the world at present, and even music industry insiders are staggered at the amount of money they are making.
Andy Greene, associate editor at Rolling Stone magazine, says: 'It's insane. They are working them like dogs and printing money just now.'
Indeed, Business Insider magazine believes that they will have earned $1 billion (£640 million) by the end of this year.
Never changing: Niall's parents Maura and Chris, right, say they are proud that their son is 'still the same young fella that left our house in Mullingar that day in 2010'
Jesse Lawrence, the CEO of New York ticketing specialists TiQIQ, says: 'The earnings are certainly unprecedented. I think that the big driver here is the window of opportunity.
'The end is certainly out there, but no one knows when it is coming because teenage girls have pretty fickle tastes. The band are getting everything that they can, but the bottom could fall out of it tomorrow.
'I think that Justin Bieber is a great example. He has now been eclipsed by One Direction.
'In terms of their earnings, the tickets are over half of the revenue. There was a time when you earned more from albums, but the economics of album sales have changed quite a bit.
'Now, releasing an album is sort of a point of entry, and if you are successful then you can tour, and then you can make money.'
The Take Me Home tour started in London in February 2013 and will conclude in October in Melbourne, Australia. Now in its North American leg, it has also covered Europe.
There are around 120 shows, at venues averaging a 12,500 capacity. With a typical ticket price of £64, and allowing for a substantial number of tickets at a higher price, Business Insider magazine estimates that the tour will generate £119.5 million in gross revenue.
NEXT May, the band will start their next tour in Santiago, Chile. So far only 12 dates have been announced but there will be more — and this is a stadium tour, with average gates of 60,000 plus. Even if the tour is only half the size of the current one, that would be 60 dates. At a £48 average sale price, the 2014 tour should gross almost £173 million.
The band has made £191.4 million by selling 30 million records to date. The new film, meanwhile, is projected to earn £95 million.
Such astronomical sums are beyond comprehension for most of us, presumably the boys' families included.
One Direction's Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD has earned them £9.6 million, and they've made £43 million from the sale of One Direction books, watches, pillows, backpacks, pencils and so on. A perfume, Our Moment, is imminent and may add a further £12 million — or more — to the coffers.
They have made considerably more money for their paymasters at Sony, and for Simon Cowell himself, of course.
In April last year, Cowell signed off a £2 million performance bonus for each band member, so pleased was he with their global chart domination.
But while global chart domination pays very well indeed, it also has a heavy cost — as One Direction's parents and the boys themselves are learning.
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You could be forgiven for forgetting but IAS 39, the controversial international accounting standard on financial instruments, was first published in December 1998. Largely based on American accounting literature, it was designed to introduce rules quickly to deal with this important topic.
Response to the proposed standard was muted because it was expected that a new international standard for accounting for financial instruments would be in place by 2001, so the original IAS 39 would never be applied.
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The first controversial area is possibly the revised standard's best feature: the option for an entity to choose to hold any financial instrument at fair value with all gains and losses taken to profit or loss – the fair value option. This amendment is valuable because it allows entities to obtain consistent and symmetrical accounting treatment for financial instruments, which are managed by reference to their fair values. It sidesteps the narrow definition in IAS 39 of what can be viewed as "held for trading" and avoids the complexity and bureaucracy of hedge accounting.
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First let me say, I really enjoy and look forward to your newsletter articles. Keep 'em coming. BACKGROUND:I purchased an Intel Mac mini from PowerMax back in April to mirror (backup) my MySql database for photographs. The database is actually on at Lacie 250 HD (and on a webserver) interfaced through the mini. The workflow has me moving batches of photos containing 10 to 50 (55mg) tiff files and a set of 3 duplicate Jpeg files (for web use) to the mini where a php script puts the files in appropriate folders and another script zips up the package to send to the server and the Mysql database on the drive attached to the mini.PROBLEM:After moving 1000 images in 42 batches, I found my hard drive space on the mini was down to about 1 GB of available space. Bear in mind, the mini is designated to the task described above so there is no music, movies or even an email account on the computer. I've been careful to remove the quite large batches of photos (up 4 gb sometimes) after performing the operations described above. Naturally, I've searched extensively for any reservoirs of data (large or small) on the surface and even (with help from a friend) searched for hidden directories through the terminal. Based on calculation of system requirements, application use, and comparison to another mini serving a similar function we estimate that 35 to 40 GBs on the mini are unavailable and unaccounted for. QUESTIONS:Do you have any ideas based on this brief description and does your technical team at Powermax have any special tools or techniques to tackle this sort of problem? Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated. I'm stumped.Thanks in advance.
It may be a long shot, but "swap files" could be eating up your drive space. As you probably know, the swap file is a section of hard drive set aside for temporarily moving data out of the RAM and storing it until the RAM is free. When you are moving large files you could end up filling that file and forcing the OS to create a new swap file without deleting the old one. You can check it by clicking on the desktop and then going to the "Go" menu. From the Go menu select "Go to Folder..." In the text box type "/var/vm" without the quote marks and click on the "Go" button. That will take you to the folder containing the swap files. If you have more than a few files there then you should check their size. Most often a restart will clear these files and free up some space but something could have failed with that process.Let me know if that solves it.


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Booze as food.
Everywhere we turn, the news is packed with stories about the nation's obesity epidemic. But one little-discussed fact about our daily calorie count is that Americans consume an average of 100 calories each day from alcohol, according to new numbers from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
The center, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that on a daily basis, about 33 % of men and 18% of women consume alcohol calories daily. Men, who drink more than women, account for 150 daily calories, on average. Women consume a little over 50 calories in the form of alcohol, or roughly half a glass of wine. Predictably, the hardest-drinking cohort was men aged 20-39, who accounted for about 175 calories on daily average.
That may not sound like much—and it is generally within the normal moderation guidelines of one drink per day for women and two drinks for men. However, among members of the study group, about one in five men, and 6% of the women, consumed more than 300 alcohol calories daily—three drinks or more. Considering that the average daily per capita calorie consumption was about 2,500 calories in 2008, according to USDA estimates, this category of drinker can easily end up downing 15% or more of the daily caloric intake in the form of alcohol. The report notes that government dietary guidelines for "solid fats and added sugars"—the broad category into which alcohol falls—should represent "no more than 5%-15% of calories," no matter what the overall level of calorie intake.
"A lot of people don't think about the calories in the alcoholic beverages," Cynthia Ogden, one of the researchers, told USA Today. "It's not a diet soda." Even a shooter of hard liquor, hold the mixer, will run 50-90 calories. A 12-oz Coke and a 12-oz beer both contain about 150 calories. "We've been focusing on sugar-sweetened beverages. This is something new," said Ogden in an AP article, prompting the unnamed AP writer to ask: "Should New York officials now start cracking down on tall-boy beers and monster margaritas?"
But the Distilled Spirits Council, the lobbying group for hard liquor, saw the silver lining in the research: "The overwhelming majority of adults drink moderately."
Nonetheless, nutrition policy director Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest told AP she was disappointed that the Obama administration plans to exempt alcoholic drinks from upcoming federal rules mandating calorie labeling on restaurant menus. Customers will be able to see the number of calories in a flavored ice tea drink, but not the calorie count for a Long Island Iced Tea, with easily four times as many calories.
The NCHS Data Brief also found that "no significant differences were observed in average calories per day from alcoholic beverages consumed by non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic persons." In addition, those in the highest income category drank more than those whose income was at or below the poverty line. Men preferred beer, and women preferred wine.
The study was based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2007-2010. Researchers collected data through in-home interviews and at a mobile examination center. The researchers oversampled population subgroups to obtain reliable estimates of nutritional measures in those cohorts.
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Sahrye's Performance Suffers So She Must Do The Same - Part 1
Sahrye has a few chores and jobs that are required of her and lately they have not been done to my satisfaction. For Sahrye, today will be spent on display, tightly tied to a rotating post. The clip starts with her being lead in and made to step up onto the foot pegs. She is held there as a rope is tied around her waist. Her wrists have already been bound behind her back. She is also wearing a tick posture collar. I continue adding ropes to her shapely legs, securing her even more ridged to the steel pipe. I padlock her collar to a ring secured to the post, limiting her movement even more. I then take some time to grope and smack her ass. Next I grope her tits and pull them free of her bra. Her nipples are going to get plenty of attention today. I add some heavy duty clamps before I continue adding more rope. I soon remove them, but only to turn them upside down. She hates this. Now that they are upside down, I pull them tight and tie them off. I add yet more rope before I start spinning her around. One of these days I'll have to rig up a motor so I can sit back as she rotates. I walk away and leave her to endure the bondage and clamps. This is where Part 1 ends.
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This clip starts where Part 1 ended... I limit Sayrye's movement even more by grabbing hair on both sides of her head and making rope piggy tails. I tie them off up and out, further limiting her mobility. I leave her for a while. I return and remove her collar. I then remove the nipple clamps and she screams and moans as they come off and as I pinch her nipples afterwards. I grab more rope and I tightly tie each of her tits. More rope is then added to her upper body and the steel pipe. When I'm done her tit bondage is even tighter as they are cinche together tight, with the pipe in between. She's really going to feel a stretch when I bind her elbows. Now it's time for a gag. I attempt to stuff 2 very large pairs of panties in her mouth, but it doesn't look like they'll both fit. This is where Part 2 ends.
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University of Michigan freshman golfer Chris O'Neill, a Deep Run High School graduate, was named the Big Ten conference Golfer of the Week Oct. 17, following his career-best performance at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational Oct. 15-16. It is the first conference accolade of his career.
O'Neill, who tied for 14th individually at the MacKenzie Invitational, recorded his second top-20 and lowered his career-best 54-hole tournament total by eight shots with his three-under 210. He bettered the 218 he posted earlier this season at the Windon Memorial Classic, held Sept. 23-24.
En route to the career-best tally, he carded a career-best two-under 69 in the first round, following with a one-under 70 in the second and an even-par 71 in the third. All three of his rounds at the MacKenzie Invitational topped his previous career-best round total of 72 shot in the first and second rounds of the Windon Memorial Classic.
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Home > Press > Liquidia Technologies Receives $2 Million Advanced Technology Award
Liquidia Technologies announced today that it has received a $2 million award from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The award supports innovative research and development projects across a range of technologies including medical diagnostics, alternative energy, transportation, and nanotechnology.
Liquidia received the award to develop and manufacture high-efficiency, cost-effective patterned thin film solar cells based on the company's breakthrough PRINT(TM) platform for precision nanomolding. The PRINT platform combines photolithographic precision with a scalable continuous manufacturing process to commercialize nano-structured films for novel light management. Liquidia is currently working with partners to improve light management efficiency across photovoltaic and display applications.
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In a world where the pressures on girls are greater than ever, one age-old influence still rises above all others.
A scared but determined Faye Fualau boarded a plane from Samoa to New Zealand with her twin 3-year old girls.
She was 29, broken-hearted but thinking only of the future of her precious toddlers.
"My girls were going to have opportunities, schooling and sport. I knew I was bringing my girls to the good life and what was best for them," she says now.
She still longs for Samoa. She didn't earn much there - a dollar an hour back then, but it was a more simple existence.
But she will remain in Christchurch so Fayreen can be a PE teacher and Mayreen a doctor.
Now 16, the girls are grateful.
Mum is the top influence in their lives. Even singer Beyonce - whom the girls adore - can't match their mum.
"She was our mum and dad you know? She bought us from the hard life and has sacrificed so much," says May.
It is a common theme among young woman: Sacrifice, strength and selflessness - the influence of their mum.
Across the city at Burnside High School, Nataija Petrovic sums it up.
"They just have enormous buckets of love and always put us first," she says.
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology lecturer in human services Rachel Lattimore says mums are more influential than friends because they are a "constant".
"Caregivers are the ones who are there for them when there are issues. Friends come and go and often fall out, but if you have a fight with your mother you don't fall out - they stay there and love you," she says.
Vicki Burns, a social worker with the St John of God Waipuna youth agency, says maternal relationships are integral to a sense of belonging for a young woman.
"If the relationship with mum is bypassed or if it is not a secure relationship, young people can fill that sense of belonging with other things or people," she says.
In her work, she sees that void filled with a man, a baby, drugs and alcohol.
But it can also be filled with another maternal influence, like an aunty, nana or sister.
Jahvanah McCausland, 17, knows this well. Her nana is the top influence in her life, closely followed by female youth workers at Christchurch's Te Ora Hou.
"My mum and dad split up before I was born. She [her mother] dropped me off at my nana's - Dad's mum. He didn't even know who I was," she said.
Nana went to court expecting to battle for Jahvanah. "Mum never showed up," Jahvanah says quietly.
There are times she misses "a mum" but not "her mum". She apologises if that seems harsh.
"Sometimes I miss the simple stuff. Seeing a mum and daughter getting a formal dress altered and think I never got to do that and it hurts."
Once in awhile Jahvanah gets a negative reaction because of her family background. But, as she says on a billboard she features on in Christchurch for Te Ora Hua, it doesn't matter where you come from, what matters is who you choose to be.
On one side of the billboard are all the words associated with her background: Crime, drugs, weapons, neglect, hurt and brokenness.
On the other side is what she learnt at Te Ora Hou: Loved, beauty, wise, caring, family, calm.
"I know I am loved. I have my nana," she says.
In the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton, Sylvia Elkayem, 6, has spied the camera as she and her siblings and mother are interviewed for this story.
She jumps off the couch and tears down the hallway yelling behind her, "I'm putting on my pretties".
She triumphantly re-emerges in a pink dress.
Mum Martha Baxendell says she never dressed her three girls in pink.
But still Sylvia and her sisters Maisie White, 11, and Kiera Heartford, 16, have learned what a girl "should" look like.
"Pretty is wearing new and fashionable clothes, lots of makeup and having your hair done really nice," says Maisie.
She is thoughtful about the topic on the influence on girls around what they look like.
"Everybody tells you you should be pretty - not Mum or Kiera, but at school and the people on television - you just, like, hear it all around," she says.
Kiera has experienced firsthand what society appears to judge her on and she is unhappy about it.
"I put up a Facebook photo which was your typical teenage girl photo - really posed. Usually I have a photo with my sisters. With this photo I had three times the amount of 'likes' - from people I didn't even know. It's not right," she said.
Christchurch Youthtown co-ordinator Jade Manyweathers says social media platforms like Facebook and Ask.fm have created a new influence - the "friends of friends" influence.
"I am horrified at the number of girls who are told to go harm themselves by people they don't know."
Lattimore says social media makes advertising and celebrities more accessible, which can "insidiously" influence young woman.
"Young women know these images are not real, are Photoshopped. But there is knowing and then being caught up in an image of perfect body and skin which is promoted - it still has an impact on them," she says.
Women of all ages need to ask who said you had to be pretty, Lattimore adds. If it is advertising and media, it's time to challenge that.
Creating anxiety is advertising's goal, says Canterbury University head of media and communications associate professor Linda-Jean Kenix. "Quite cleverly they [advertisers] separate us from our money by creating anxiety - 'you are not pretty enough, not cool enough, not hip enough, but if you have this product you will be'," she says.
Student Bhavna Lata has already learned that. The message to young women is that "I must have great hair, great skin, look a certain way".
Mayreen, Fayreen and their friends Jordan Meddings and Bhavna idolise singer Beyonce.
"She is just so confident, independent," says Bhavna.
But even Beyonce in all her "fierce" glory comes second to the dominant influence of the key maternal figure in a young woman's life - whether that's a mum, nana, or aunty. They still rank No 1.
Mayreen Fualau, 16, studying to be a Navy doctor: Mum, friends, family as in uncle, aunties and cousins.
Fayreen Fualau, 16, studying to be a PE teacher: Mum, friends, boyfriend.
Jordan Meddings, 16, studying medical sciences: Mum, my friends, my goals or what I want to be.
Bhavna Lata, 16, studying for the sporting industry: Friends, family, Beyonce and celebrities in general.
Jade Manyweathers, Youthtown youth co-ordinator: Mum, friends and my youth.
Rachel Lattimore, senior lecture CPIT: Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird, story detective Trixie Belden, poet and author Maya Angelou.
Martha Baxendell, mum and community co-ordinator: Mum, Beatrix Potter, Madonna.
Kiera Heartford, 16, student: Mum, my year 7 & 8 school teacher, Maria Elena Moyano.
Maisie White, 11, student: Kiera my sister, my teacher, Amy Ridpath.
Sylvia Elkayem, 6, student: My friends, Holly and Naia.
Clara Fergus, 17, student: Mum, my coach.
Wan Zhi Tay, 17, student: Mum, grandma.
Nataija Petrovic, 17, student: Mum, my older sister.
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Title: Preventing erosion on a sloping lot
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QUESTION:I am trying to find a native plant to use on a sloped area in my back yard to help prevent the slope from eroding away (zone 7- N. Atlanta, GA). I want something evergreen, between 6 to 30 inches tall, and somewhat fast growing. The slope gets about a half day's sun and ends in a natural wooded/stream area. Thank you!
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To prevent erosion on a slope, you want a plant that forms a dense, fibrous root system. That usually means grasses, sedges or ferns. Grass tends to grow tall; ferns and sedges are evergreen and closer to your height preference. I've selected some plants close to matching your height requirements. Light requirement for a sun-loving plant is 6 or more hours daily, for part shade 2-6 hours, and less than 2 hours for shade. Many plants are quite tolerant of any amount of light and/or moisture. Here are a few for you to consider.
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Asplenium platyneuron (Ebony spleenwort) 12-18 inches; part shade, shade.
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Woodwardia areolata (Netted chainfern) 1-2 feet; part shade, shade; appropriate near the pond.
Gaylussacia dumosa (Dwarf huckleberry) 3-15 inches; part shade; slower growing ground cover that thrives at margins of ponds.
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Most Nigerians who are conversant with our political history know that our country's problem is a failure of leadership. Our country's stalled economic and technological growth is traceable to poor political leadership as well as military intervention in our politics.
Military interventions in our politics contributed in no small ways to our national woes. The Soldiers who deemed their regimes corrective ones plundered our economy and ruled us with iron-first. RTD General Babangida embarked on rigmarole of transition to civilian rule. His duplicity as to the 1993 presidential election nearly caused Nigeria to bowl over. And Sanni Abacha got his kick from perpetrating murder and fiddling with the book. He stole Nigeria blind, and stashed our money in foreign banks.
Since 1999, Nigeria has been enjoying democratic governance. But none of our national leaders have lived up to our expectations since then. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who believes he is infallible, squandered our collective goodwill and the opportunity given to him to lift Nigerian out of economic quagmire. He sunk millions of naira into the power sector without recording any success. Rather blanket of darkness was thrown over the country during his political reign. And he earned notoriety and infamy for himself by clandestinely trying to change the constitutional provisions for presidential tenure in order to rule for the third term.
Dr Goodluck Jonathan got into the most exalted political office in Nigeria by providential intervention and luck. His tardiness and visionless marred his administration. It's obvious to us that he's ill-suited and ill-prepared for the leadership of Nigeria. But he will be remembered for his uncommon act of patriotism: he accepted his defeat at the presidential polls. Then our polity was heated up, and the political situation was tense. His refusal to cling to power, as African leaders are wont to do, pulled Nigeria back from the brink of precipice.
Dr Goodluck Jonathan's vanquisher at the polls and successor in office, Muhammadu Buhari, rode to victory on the coat tails of his famed zero tolerance for corruption and Spartan lifestyle. Before his emergence as our president, he had contested the presidential election many times without success. That is a testament to his resilience and tenacity. He is believed to be the political messiah that will right the wrong in our political polity, and take Nigeria to great economic and technological heights. He is with messianic complex, forthrightness, and hyperbolic moral uprightness. But is president Buhari's leadership ability not hyped?
It should be noted that one's eagerness and hunger for political power cannot confer leadership qualities on one. Is president Buhari's personality and leadership capabilities not unraveling and unfolding? Soon, he will mark his first anniversary in office, but he has committed some grave missteps. It took him eon period to assembly his executive cabinet. Yet the pedigrees of members of his executive cabinet do not compensate for the long period he took to form it. His members are recycled politicians, who had held political offices in the past. In the face of fuel scarcity in the country, the minister of state for petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, threw his hands helplessly in the air, and said that he was not a magician. Does it take a magician to solve our national problems? And Dr Fashola, who was saddled with the responsibilities of three ministries, has not banished darkness from our country.
And since his assumption of office, President Buhari seems to be afflicted with wanderlust. He had traveled to several countries for diverse conferences and summits when common sense dictated that he should have sent his ministers to represent him at those global meetings. His penchant to travel to other countries for sundry reasons has reinforced the belief and perception that he is running away from his presidential duties. But is he overwhelmed by Nigeria's seemingly intractable multifarious problems? He should scale down his foreign trips and stay at home to tackle our national problems head-on and frontally.
There is no gainsaying the fact that our President is obsessed with the fight against corruption. We are not unaware that corruption is the leukemia debilitating Nigeria. Now some key members of the opposition party are standing trial for allegedly committing financial crimes. But we would like their prosecution to follow due judicial processes and procedure. Otherwise, their trials will amount to with-hunt, which is aimed at decimating the ranks of the opposition party. At this critical juncture in our national odyssey, Nigeria can ill-afford our country's descent to fascism or civilian dictatorship.
More so, his ability to rein in the centrifugal forces trying to tear the country apart will endear him to Nigerians. He has managed to stop the Boko Haram territorial expansionist moves. The frequency of the group's bomb attacks has reduced drastically owing to our military's re-invigorated offensive against the group. But a wave of ethnic-nationalist sentiments, which manifests in protests and violence, is sweeping across the South-east and South-south geo-political zones. Members of IPOB, whose leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is standing trial, want a sovereign state of Biafra. And there is a resurgence of militancy in the Marshy creeks of the oil-rich Niger-delta region. Their violent activities disrupt oil production in the region with its dire economic consequences.
But President Buhari's resolve and utterance that he would crush the resurgent Niger-delta militants while turning a blind eye to the murderous activities of the Fulani herdsmen portrays him in a bad light. From Benue to Taraba, from Kogi to Enugu, the Fulani herdsmen have run amok and gone berserk, killing people in their host communities with impunity. Has the Nigeria police successfully arrested any Fulani herdsmen and arraigned them in court for murder? The fact is, the Fulani herdsmen have encircled a proprietary hand around the presidential seat as their kinsman is occupying the most exalted political office in Nigeria.
And his economic policy regarding fixing price for petroleum has irked almost the entire Nigerian populace. During the Jonathan political regime, some members of the APC vehemently kicked against the removal of fuel subsidy. But now they have bought into it. Is the removal of fuel subsidy a well-thought out economic policy that will better our lot in the long run? Our government should implement policies that will alleviate our sufferings. Now NLC has called out workers to embark on industrial action, which will paralyze economic activities in Nigeria. Industrial action costs countries a great deal in terms of financial loses.
It has now dawned on us that President Buhari is not our political Messiah. He possesses neither the mojo nor leadership qualities, which he can deploy to revolutionize Nigeria. Has he evolved policies that can diversify our economy? More worrisome is the fact that he has reneged on his promise that every unemployed graduate would start receiving N1,500 each month if he won the presidential election. The issue of unemployment should be tackled speedily. An unemployed person is vulnerable to being lured into a life of crime. And criminal activities have the potentialities of causing anarchic situation in a country.
Chiedu Uche Okoye wrote in from Uruowulu – Obosi, Anambra State Tel: 08062220654


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When evaluating the cost of cell culture, it is important to consider all the costs that go into cultivating cells. Labor and time account for one of the largest costs associated with cell culture (although they are probably a smaller portion of costs at 20,000 L, but at that scale many considerations change). Accelerating adaptation to new growth conditions, reducing the scale up period, and shortening batch times can all significantly reduce the total cost of cell culture.
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