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TNPSC ASI Answer Key 2016
TNPSC ASI Answer Key 2016 will print soon on the official website by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. Applicants who have given the written exam on 11th July for filling Assistant Statistical Investigator posts, they will soon get notification through this page for downloading Answer Sheet.
This examination has been taken by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission for filling total 268 vacant posts in their state government departments on 11th July. To become an employee of this commission plenty no of candidates had applied and appeared in this exam.
Now they all are searching their TNPSC ASI Answer Key 2016 on Google to match their answers with the correct answers because they very well that by doing this they will be able to get estimation or calculate of their scores which provide rough idea towards their result of this exam. As per the details, department will soon issue paper solution for all sets.
Organization: Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Examination Name: Assistant Statistical Investigator (ASI)
No of Posts: 268 Posts
Date of Examination: 11th July 2016
Status: Within One or Two Weeks
Link: www.tnpsc.gov.in
TNPSC Asst Statistical Investigator Exam Key 2016
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission is going to release a TNPSC Asst Statistical Investigator Exam Key 2016 of its recently arranged recruitment exam on 11th July. It will publish in coming short time period on online mode at the main site of this commission.
At this time applied candidates of this exam are bust in searching process to check solution paper because they know very that the result for this exam will take some time to declare but the Solution paper as not take much time as compare to the result. Candidates may check the step for downloading Solution paper and able to get it after the declaration by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission.
Steps to Get TNPSC ASI Answer Key 2016
- Primarily, aspirants may open the official website.
- Then move on what's News Section which is visible at last of home page.
- Thereafter search desirable link form option section.
- Once applicants will get link, just press particular Link.
- Then select the set code like Set A, Set B, Set C and Set D for which you have applied and hit on it.
- Within few second, solution paper will open in front of you as pdf format.
- Save it and get hard copy.
Note: After get Solution Paper, applicants are advice to keep is with you and check their answer as relief time.
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The Astronomers have revealed one of the most fanatic disclosures of all times ever since life on the earth came into existence. What kind of feeling does it give when you think of having one more Sun over the planet earth? Goose bumps arise for sure!
The extraterrestrial phenomenon, that may happen as soon as this year and remain for at least a week or two, is expected to be the most stunning light show in the planet's history.
The astronomers say that the Earth will certainly have a front row seat when the dying red super-giant star, called Betelgeuse, finally blows itself into oblivion.
The explosion will be so bright that even though the star in the Orion constellation is 640 light-years away, it will still turn night into day and appear like there are two suns in the sky for a few weeks, the Daily Mail reported.
In stellar terms, Betelgeuse is forecasted to be crashing and blaze in the coming future.
Brad Carter, of the University of Southern Queensland in Australia has claimed that the galactic blast could be happening before 2012 or any time over the next million years.


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Because CRL validity is so important to the functionality of your PKI, it's important to have proactive monitoring of the validity of your CRLs. Particularly in situations where you're using smart cards for logon, having a CRL go stale can be a very disruptive experience to end users.
In my session at IT Forum in Barcelona this week, I'm showing some of the new manageability features of Certificate Services in WS08. One of the major investments for CertSrv in this release is manageability, including integration with MOM/SCOM. One of the features I'm demonstrating is the extensibility of SCOM to help with monitoring the freshness of CRLs. The following scripts can be used to alert you to the status of CRLs before they go stale, allowing you to avoid outages before they happen. They can be integrated with MOM/SCOM for centralized alerting and reporting or just run by themselves.
Here's how the scripts work:
- checkCrlFreshness.cmd calls wget.exe (you'll need to download this separately) and downloads the CRL from whatever location you specify
- checkCrlFreshness.cmd then calls compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs
- compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs calls certutil "nameOfCrl" and scrapes the NextUpdate: line from its output
- compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs then compares the hourly NextUpdate value to whatever value is passed by checkCRLFreshness.cmd when it calls compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs
- if the NextUpdate value is < the threshold value (i.e. the CRL's expiration is below your minimum value), an alert is written to the application log on the machine where the script is run
SCOM can then be leveraged to watch the event logs for this particular event and then alert or take whatever other action you've specified. Note that if you're running the scripts on Vista or WS08, you can also take advantage of the new Windows eventing infrastructure to run a task or send an email when the event occurs, without having to have MOM/SCOM involved at all.
The nice thing about this script is that it can easily work against any HTTP CDP. So, you can use it to monitor CRLs inside or outside of your organization, including those of partners or service providers that you might depend on.
Scripts are provided as is, us at your own risk, no support, etc, etc…
:: CRL freshness monitoring master script
:: downloads all relevant CRLs with wget, calls VBScript to compare NextUpdate time with current system time to determine freshness
:: John Morello, Windows Server Division
:: uses wget to download CRL; -r says to overwrite existing copy, -nH –cut-dirs=1 says to save in current directory (removes –cut-dirs value from end of URI)
:: wget must be in same directory as this script or in %Path%
wget.exe -r -nH –cut-dirs=1 "http://ws08rc0.pki.test/certenroll/pki-ws08rc0-ca.crl"
:: calls compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs to compare time difference between Now() and NextUpdate value in CRL
:: if difference is < the second parameter (in hours), compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs writes warning to AppEvent
cscript compareNextUpdateToNow.vbs "pki-ws08rc0-ca.crl" 336
' CRL date comparison script
' takes 2 command line parameters, the name of the CRL and the acceptable age threshold
' if NextUpdate time from CRL is not > acceptable threshold (or other error condition exists), writes event to AppEvent
' Robert Deluca, Windows Server Division
' John Morello, Windows Server Division
Option Explicit
' check if command line parameters were passed
If WScript.Arguments.Count < 2 Then
wscript.echo "Usage: cscript crldatecheck.vbs <CRL filename> <age threshold in hours>"
End If
' assign params to variables
Dim CRLFilename
CRLFilename = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
Dim ThresholdHours
ThresholdHours = CInt(WScript.Arguments.Item(1))
' Create wscript.shell object for exec
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
' Execute certutil
Dim oExec
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("certutil """ & CRLFilename & """")
' Wait for certutil to finish running
Do While oExec.Status = 0
wscript.sleep 100
' Read certutil output until end of stream or found the NextUpdate: line
Dim DateString
Dim Found
Found = false
Do While (Not Found) And (Not oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream)
DateString = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine
Found = instr(DateString,"NextUpdate: ") = 1
' exit if the proper line wasn't found
Dim NoNextUpdateFoundMessage
NoNextUpdateFoundMessage = "Failure to read Next Update time from CRL."
If Not Found Then
wscript.echo "Failure to read Next Update time from CRL."
WshShell.LogEvent 2, NoNextUpdateFoundMessage
End If
' remove the header from the line
DateString = Replace(DateString,"NextUpdate: ","")
' exit if the rest of the string isn't recognized as a date
If Not IsDate(DateString) Then
wscript.echo "Date not recognized as valid."
End If
' convert the string to a date variable
Dim d
d = CDate(DateString)
' calculate hours until NextUpdate
Dim HoursUntilUpdate
HoursUntilUpdate = DateDiff("h",Now,d)
' display update and threshold information
Dim Message
Message = "Next CRL update is in " & HoursUntilUpdate & " hours. Threshold is " & ThresholdHours & " hours."
wscript.echo Message
' update time is below acceptable threshold, write message to screen and event log
If HoursUntilUpdate < ThresholdHours Then
wscript.echo "Time is below acceptable threshold! Writing warning to event log."
WshShell.LogEvent 2, Message
wscript.echo "Unknown failure! Manually verify CRL and diagnose run time failure."
WshShell.LogEvent 2, Message
End If


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A person who recycles EVERYTHING and forces EVERYONE to do the same, by use of threats, insults, and violent behavior. Also known for digging through the trash to retrieve items which can be recycled.
A Recycling Nazi McDonalds employee won't let you near the garbage can until everything which is recyclable is recycled.
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This is a bit different than what I usually do so I'd be curious what you think!
One show per week, so very limited time and it's a lot less polished than film post production, but I was quite happy how it all works well together with the dancers and the accessories on the set.
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Revolutionary computer chips in development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could make future computers much more efficient and powerful.
With funding from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) young investigator award, Jing Li, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, is creating fully morphable computer chips that can be configured to perform complex calculations, store massive amounts of information within the same integrated unit and perform efficient communication across units.
She has named the new chips "Liquid Silicon." "Liquid means software and silicon means hardware. It is a collaborative software/hardware technique," says Li. "You can have a supercomputer in a box if you want. We want to target a lot of very interesting and data-intensive applications, including facial or voice recognition, natural language processing, and graph analytics."
The chips will pack a powerful computational punch, while being able to store significant amounts of data—tasks that require two entirely different types of hardware in modern computers.
That separation makes our machines less efficient.
"There's a huge bottleneck when classical computers need to move data between memory and processor," says Li. "We're building a unified hardware that can bridge the gap between computation and storage."
Right now, processor and memory chips are separately produced by different manufacturing foundries owned by different industries. Then, they are assembled together by system engineers on printed circuit boards to make computers and smartphones. The wide separation between computation and storage means that even simple operations, like searches, require multiple steps to accomplish: first fetching data from the memory, then sending that data all the way through the deep storage hierarchy to the processor core.
The chips that Li is developing, by contrast, incorporate memory, computation and communication into the same device using monolithic 3D integration: silicon CMOS circuitry on the bottom connected with solid-state memory arrays on the top using dense metal-to-metal links.
End users will be able to configure the devices to allocate more or fewer resources to memory or computation, depending on what types of applications a system needs to run.
"It can be dynamic and flexible," says Li. "We originally worried it might be too hard to use because there are too many options. But with proper optimization, anyone can take advantage of the rich flexibility offered by our hardware."
To help people harness the new chip's potential, Li's group also is developing software that translates popular programming languages into the chip's machine code, a process called compilation.
"If I just handed you something and said, 'This is a supercomputer in a box,' you might not be able to use it if the programming interface is too difficult," says Li. "You cannot imagine people programming in terms of binary zeroes and ones. It would be too painful."
Thanks to her compilation software, programmers will be able to port their applications directly onto this new type of hardware without changing their coding habits.
To evaluate the performance of prototype liquid silicon chips, Li and her students established an automated testing system they built from scratch. The platform is so versatile that it can reveal reliability problems that even the most advanced industry testing setup typically cannot observe. That's also why multiple companies recently have sent chips to Li for evaluation.
Given that testing accounts for more than half the consumer cost of computer chips, having such advanced infrastructure at UW-Madison will not only help make liquid silicon chips a reality, but also facilitate future research.
"We can do all types of device-level, circuit-level and system-level testing with our platform," says Li. "Our industry partners told us that our testing system does the entire job of a test engineer automatically."
Li is the first computational researcher at UW-Madison ever to receive a DARPA Young Faculty Award. In 2016, she joins 25 other young faculty award recipients nationwide whose research topics range from gene therapy to machine learning. The grant guarantees $500,000 of support for two years.
Learn more: Liquid silicon: Multi-duty computer chips could bridge the gap between computation and storage
Scientists have identified a new "multicomponent" virus — one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles — that can infect animals, according to research published today in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.
This new pathogen, called Guaico Culex virus (GCXV), was isolated from several species of mosquitoes in Central and South America. GCXV does not appear to infect mammals, according to first author Jason Ladner, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). However, the team also isolated a related virus — called Jingmen tick virus, or JMTV — from a nonhuman primate. Further analysis demonstrates that both GCXV and JMTV belong to a highly diverse and newly discovered group of viruses called the Jingmenvirus group.
Taken together, the research suggests that the host range of this virus group is quite diverse–and highlights the potential relevance of these viruses to animal and human health.
"Animal viruses typically have all genome segments packaged together into a single viral particle, so only one of those particles is needed to infect a host cell," Ladner explained. "But in a multicomponent virus, the genome is divided into multiple pieces, with each one packaged separately into a viral particle. At least one particle of each type is required for cell infection."
Several plant pathogens have this type of organization, but the study published today is the first to describe a multicomponent virus that infects animals.
Working with collaborators including the University of Texas Medical Branch and the New York State Department of Health, the USAMRIID team extracted and sequenced virus from mosquitoes collected around the world. The newly discovered virus is named for the Guaico region of Trinidad, where the mosquitoes that contained it were first found.
In collaboration with a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USAMRIID investigators also found the first evidence of a Jingmenvirus in the blood of a nonhuman primate, in this case a red colobus monkey living in Kibale National Park, Uganda. The animal showed no signs of disease when the sample was taken, so it is not known whether the virus had a pathogenic effect.
Jingmenviruses were first described in 2014 and are related to flaviviruses — a large family of viruses that includes human pathogens such as yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses.
"One area we are focused on is the identification and characterization of novel viruses," said the paper's senior author Gustavo Palacios, Ph.D., who directs USAMRIID's Center for Genome Sciences. "This study allowed us to utilize all our tools–and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health."
While it is difficult to predict, experts believe that the infectious viruses most likely to emerge next in humans are those already affecting other mammals, particularly nonhuman primates.
Learn more: Newly discovered 'multicomponent' virus can infect animals
See NPR.org for a more detailed explanation . . .
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have confirmed that a benign bacterium called Wolbachia pipientis can completely block transmission of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species responsible for passing the virus to humans.
Matthew Aliota, a scientist at the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine(SVM) and first author of the paper — published today (July 1, 2016) in the journal Scientific Reports — says the bacteria could present a "novel biological control mechanism," aiding efforts to stop the spread of Zika virus.
Thirty-nine countries and territories in the Americas have been affected by the Zika epidemic, and it is expected that at least 4 million people will be infected by the end of the year. Scientists believe the virus is responsible for a host of brain defects in developing fetuses, including microcephaly, and has contributed to an uptick in cases of a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome. There are not yet any approved Zika virus vaccines or antiviral medications, and ongoing mosquito control strategies have not been adequate to contain the spread of the virus.
Researchers led by Jorge Osorio, a UW–Madison professor of pathobiological sciences, and Scott O'Neill of the the Eliminate Dengue Program (EDP) and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, are already releasing mosquitoes harboring the Wolbachia bacterium in pilot studies in Colombia, Brazil, Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia to help control the spread of dengue virus. Their work is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
An important feature of Wolbachia is that it is self-sustainable, making it a very low-cost approach for controlling mosquito-borne viral diseases that are affecting many tropical countries around the world.
A novel, inexpensive method for detecting the Zika virus could help slow spread of outbreak, and potentially other future pandemic diseases
An international, multi-institutional team of researchers led by synthetic biologist James Collins, Ph.D., at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has developed a low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for strain-specific detection of the Zika virus, with the goal that it could soon be used in the field to screen blood, urine, or saliva samples.
"The growing global health crisis caused by the Zika virus propelled us to leverage novel technologies we have developed in the lab and use them to create a workflow that could diagnose a patient with Zika, in the field, within 2-3 hours," said Collins, who is a Wyss Core Faculty member, and Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Department of Biological Engineering.
Building off previous work done at Harvard's Wyss Institute by Collins and his team, along with collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Harvard Medical School (HMS), University of Toronto, Arizona State University (ASU), University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), Boston University (BU), Cornell University, and Addgene, joined their efforts to quickly prototype the rapid diagnostic test and describe their methods in a study published online May 6 in the journal Cell, all within a matter of six weeks. Collins is the paper's corresponding author.
Emerging innovation during the Ebola health crisis
In October 2014, Collins' team developed a breakthrough method for embedding synthetic gene networks — which could be used as programmable diagnostics and sensors – on portable, small discs of ordinary paper.


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Timeline 4
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See also: 1985A
Timeline 4 or Timeline C, sometimes called the "Biffhorrific timeline", was an alternate history created when "old" (78) Biff Tannen, from 2015, gave Grays Sports Almanac to his younger self, 18 year old Biff Tannen, on November 12, 1955. Doc Brown, Marty McFly, Jennifer Parker, and Doc's dog Einstein returned from 2015 to a different-looking 1985 than the one they had departed. Doc described the alternate reality as 1985A, and soon discovered that the history of that timeline had started diverging at some point before 1958. Eventually, it was determined (by asking Biff) that the skewing of the timeline had begun on November 12, 1955, and Doc and Marty traveled to that day, arriving a few hours before Old Biff's visit was to begin.
Before Doc and Marty's intervention, however, Timeline 4 was changing the course of historical events from 1955 onward.
Behind the scenes
- As with the other timelines, some of the alternate reality can be witnessed directly, while other aspects of it can be inferred from newspaper headlines and dialogue. In effect, Timeline 4 is happening in the final hour of Back to the Future Part II from the moment that old Biff is seen collapsing (as 2015 alters to 2015A), until the moment that Marty's burning of the almanac causes objects from 1985A to return to what was normal for Timeline 2.


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Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40
25 September 2011 - 01 October 2011
Compiled by the Official Charts Company, the UK's biggest dance albums of the week, based on sales of digital bundles, CDs, vinyl and other formats, across a seven day period. Click here to view the Biggest Albums of 2017 so far.
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The sound of the front door slamming shut echoed in the darkness that engulfed the hall. There was some shuffling and grumbling before a hand hit the switch, light flooding the entrance and revealing a young adult boy fumbling with his clothes.
Jacket and shoes were thrown onto the carpet as Sky stumbled into the kitchen. He grunted and swore his way to the countertop, letting the strap of his bag slip from his fingers and drop onto the floor to clutch the marble edge instead. Sweat rolled down his temples, dripping from his chin.
One of those drops hit the floor, causing a ripple that broke the surface of his shadow, a black mass rising from its depths, growing and swelling until it hovered over him. Its movements were far from graceful, tendrils twitching and quivering in the fluorescent glow.
Blinking his eyes open at the sudden decrease in light, the boy stood up straight and turned to the cabinets, hands forcing them open, groping around till he found what he was looking for.
Turning around, he slid down onto the floor. Hands shaking, he took a tentative bite out of the dark chocolate bar he had fished out. At once, a warm feeling rushed through his body and he could almost feel his blood sugar and serotonin levels rising.
"I hate archery, Ink, I really do hate it," he whispered to the symbiont, rubbing his shoulder with his free hand. "I swear I'm never stepping foot in those stinking grounds ever again!" There was no response to his outburst, but he felt a shift in the air and suddenly there was a black wolf resting beside him, its dark muzzle nudging his arm.
The wolf's thick fur was soft and warm to the touch, but Ink was still shaking, the sharp teeth tugging at Sky's sleeve, willing its host to stand up.
"What's wrong, Ink?" he asked, petting the soft mane in an effort to calm the restless symbiont. "You were acting strange in the archery grounds as well," he muttered, frowning as he remembered his horrible afternoon at the archery range. "What was that all about…?"
Then, for some reason, his brain chose that precise moment to remind him of something important.
"Mom?" he called, squinting his eyes at the dark corridor beyond the kitchen door. Rising up, he made his way to the study, followed closely by the wolf Ink.
The door to his mother's study room was open, but that alone wasn't cause for alarm. She wasn't inside.
"She must be in the lab," he told Ink, who had yet to set foot, or in this case paw, on his mother's study. She never did like to have him there.
He ignored Ink's odd behavior and went to the expensive laboratory that was his mother's pride and joy, something she managed to convince the company she worked for to offer her, free of expense. He often wondered how she did it, but then would quickly remember he was talking about his mother, the woman with the PhD in Biology and an iron fist the size of Alaska. It was sound proof, so his mother wouldn't have heard him coming home.
He dialed the code, passed by the changing room and entered the lab. There was no one there, not a living soul. Still managing to remain calm despite his increased heart rate, Sky checked and double-checked every corner of the lab and, only then, the rest of the house, running around opening and closing every door he could find.
Finally, he had no choice but to address Ink, who hadn't moved from his spot at the study's door, sitting still as a statue as it stared at its host with black beady eyes. Sky knew what that meant, he just didn't know if he was ready to face it yet.
He stepped into the room and this time Ink did as well. The wolf trotted towards the oak desk, a paw lifting to claw at a book that rested close to the edge. But Sky didn't need that. He had already noticed it, the empty space on one of the shelves. It stuck out like a sore thumb in a room belonging to such an order and symmetry obsessed woman.
Then he snapped.
Taking out his cellphone, the blonde's fingers flew over the keys, calling the number that his mother had given to no one but him. It barely rang before disconnecting. He tried her normal number, with the same results.
Finally, he hesitated before calling the next one. His mother's work number.
'"Don't call my work number."'
Face bathed in the glow of the screen, his fingers moved on their own accord, pressing each individual button before taking the phone to his ear. It rang for a while and then…
"The number you have dialed is no longer in servi-"
The phone fell to the floor with a thud.
"Ink, destroy it," were the calm words that slipped through the boy's lips. In the span of a second, the wolf was gone, the mass of black ink snatching up the phone and shrinking to the size of a marble. There were absolutely no sounds, but when the creature expanded again, only a few small pieces of metal and dust remained scattered on the tiles.
'"You know what to do. Remember what I taught you."'
Wasting no time, Sky went to the supplies room, where he ordered Ink to drill a hole in the exact place his mother would keep reminding him of. There he found a bag he knew was packed with everything he would need. While Ink destroyed everything he deemed too dangerous to keep, Sky turned off the lights one by one and closed all the curtains.
He went through each room, snatching anything else he might need. The last thing he took before calling the police on the pre-paid phone he found in his bag was his jacket and the chocolate bar. He kept the call as short and direct as possible, being careful with the information he gave, and then went on to join Ink at the back door.
"Let's go," he whispered as he opened the door, letting Ink fly past him and on to the garden. He ran in the cover of darkness, trees and Ink, stopping only when he reached the road. There, he watched Ink change into a sleek racing motorcycle and, as silent as the night, they rode off, never looking back.
He was heading towards the college dorms, like his mother had said, but he had another place in mind. He just hoped the lowlifes who took his mother wouldn't find him there.


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The project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) will prepare a national sanitation master plan addressing the policies, standards, and guidelines for the development of sustainable wastewater systems throughout Samoa, and an integrated, fully costed, and prioritized water supply, sanitation, and drainage master plan for the greater Apia area. An investment project will be developed under the PPTA. Delivery of the project is envisaged to be through a sector approach with core and candidate subprojects from components identified in the integrated water supply, sanitation, and drainage master plan for Apia.
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Megan, from Not Martha, is excellent when it comes to devising unusual holiday goodies. This year, her take on a traditional gingerbread house is no exception. She baked up some mini gingerbread houses that fit on the rim of a mug of hot chocolate (or coffee). Although I've seen gingerbread competitions with houses almost big enough to live in, these mini houses are just as ... Read More »
Category Archives: Holidays
Last Minute Foodie Holiday Gift Ideas
There is something of a thrill to getting your holiday shopping done at the last minute. There is a rush of adrenaline, wondering if you'll find the perfect gift as you rush up and down the aisles of different stores, followed by a huge sigh of relief and sense of accomplishment when you pick up the prize you've been searching for. Last minute gifts ... Read More »
Brandied Fruitcake Friands
Fruitcake isn't for everyone, even if you like all the individual components that go into a batch of the dense, spicy holiday cake. It's heavy and filling – something that you don't want after a big holiday meal. My solution to the problem is a batch of fruitcake friands. These are definitely not your typical fruit cakes. While they do have dried fruit and a ... Read More »
What is fruitcake?
As the holidays approach, there are inevitably some jokes about heavy, hard, inedible fruitcakes that get passed around as gifts. Some people, I would bet, have never had a fruitcake – and no small part of that is due to the cake's bad reputation. So, what is fruitcake? And is it really as bad as it is made out to be? Fruitcake is a dense, ... Read More »
Shiny Ornament Cookies
I have to admit that sprinkles are still one of my favorite ways to decorate sugar cookies and butter cookies, but there are so many other ways to decorate them that I can't just stick to the same old sprinkles every time I bake. Frostings and glazes are great to work with. It is even more fun to paint cookies. Cookie paint can be made ... Read More »
Make your own Orange Pomander Balls
The Orange and Clove Snowballs I made recently were cookies that featured the flavors of both orange and clove, chosen because I often made orange pomander balls around the holidays as a child (and still do!) and I really associate the season with the warm, spicy scent combination. As good as the cookies are, I still couldn't resist making some real pomanders to set around ... Read More »
Eggnog Ricotta Cheesecake
Eggnog is one of those foods that really conjures up thoughts of the holidays because it's only available for a few weeks of the year (although you can make it at home anytime). There are also lots of eggnog-flavored treats out there, like cakes and cookies. Many don't even use eggnog as an ingredient and just include vanilla and nutmeg in the recipes to capture ... Read More »
Holiday Tips from Dove and Martha Stewart
The bite-sized Dove Promises are one of my favorite types of chocolates to keep around the house for snacking. Each one usually has a fortune cookie-type message inside the wrapper, which I tend to glance at and then cast aside. Imagine my surprise when I found one that read: "Use cookie cutters as tree ornaments. Martha Stewart." All of the messages inside Dove's holiday Promises ... Read More »


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Mon., May 6, 2013, 1:15 p.m.
Otter Pardons Convicted Drug Sellers
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has pardoned two first-time offenders who were convicted of selling drugs to undercover officers, years after they served their time, paid all restitution and fines, met and exceeded the terms of their parole and lived for years in society as employed, productive citizens. They are the only pardons Otter's signed since he first was elected governor in 2006. "I do not condone the sale or manufacture of illegal drugs," Otter wrote in his orders approving the pardons of each of the two men, Eric Robert Hinckley, 37, and Robert Frank Thornton, 57. "Notwithstanding these concerns, there are several mitigating factors that weigh in favor of clemency"/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.
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text: Financing Research and Development Projects Practical Seminar 13th - 14th February 2012, Berlin With Experts from: Brochure Avoid Indirect State Aid – Implement Full Costing Correctly • European Commission • Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany • BASF SE, Germany • University College London, United Kingdom • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands • PROvendis GmbH 1 Practical Seminar Financing Research and Development Projects SEPARATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IS OBLIGATORY! AND NON-ECONOMIC Already since January 2009 the separation of economic and noneconomic activities has been obligatory for all universities and research organisations in the European Union that receive public funding. The European Commission applies specific criteria to evaluate the State aid character of public funding for universities and research organizations. The criteria are defined in the Community framework for State aid for research and development and innovation. When applying the framework, public authorities as well as universities, research organisations and companies still face many difficulties and problems. The Commission supports a stronger R&D sector and cooperation between universities or research organisations and the industry. Nevertheless, the State aid criteria need to be fulfilled and no State aid element is allowed in technology transfer. A spillover of public funding into economic activities needs to be prevented. But how do you separate economic from non-economic activities in practice? How to avoid spill-over and unlawful State aid in research projects? How do you calculate prices for new products that are confirm with the EU State aid regulations? FULL COSTING AS AN IDEAL TOOL! Full costing is seen as a perfect tool for separating economic and noneconomic activities. Moreover, strong universities and research organisations with a greater autonomy and accountability will easier contribute to achieving a globally competitive European higher education and research area. Only institutions that know the full costs of their activities and projects can judge if they are able to operate on a financially sustainable basis. Therefore, the method of full costing is crucial for universities and research organizations FOR WHOM IS THIS SEMINAR? • Universities and research organisations • Research and technology centres • Public administrations engaged in R&D activities as well as competition authorities • Companies and industry working in research, development and innovation • Audit courts from • Legal departments • Finance departments • Accounting and bookkeeping • Controlling • State aid and State aid Control • Competition policy • EU and national funding • Coordination of implementation of the EU funds • EU affairs • Research and development for innovation operational programme management • OP research and development • Research service • Technology transfer • Business development • Higher education and collaborative research • External affairs • Intellectual property • Internal and external audit across Europe. However, only in very few European countries, for example in the UK and the Netherlands, a uniform and flexible system is in use. Full costing is an essential tool to ensure accountability and to build up trust between universities, research organisations and public authorities. 2 The seminar may also be interesting for lawyers and consultants specialised in R&D cooperation. WHAT DO YOU LEARN AT THIS SEMINAR? • Why and how to separate economic and non-economic activities? • How to avoid a spill-over from public funding into economic activities? • How to find out if there is a State aid element in technology transfer? • How to identify unlawful State aid in R&D&I projects? • What is the impact of State aid regulations on R&D&I projects between industry and research organisations? • How to calculate a price for new innovative products to act in line with EU State aid requirements? • How to implement full costing successfully and what are possible challenges? • How to calculate direct and indirect costs of an R&D&I project? • How to prepare for a financial audit in R&D&I project? Your Benefit • • • • • • • Avoid the risk of unlawful State aid within your R&D&I project Gain certainty about State aid issues within technology transfer Be proactive – know how to carry out an R&D&I project between research organisations and the industry successfully and without State aid complaints Learn from best practice in implementing full costing from the most experienced universities in Europe Be prepared for a financial audit of your R&D&I project Receive practical advice on your individual questions Discuss and network with experts from the European Commission, universities, the industry and a national public authorities 3 PROGRAMME DAY 1 Financing Research and Development Projects 8.30-9.00 Registration and Hand-out of Seminar Material 9.00-9.05 Opening Remarks from the European Academy for Taxes, Economics & Law 9.05-9.15 Welcome Note from the Chair and Introducton Round Dr. Hans Arno Petzold, Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 9.15-10.00 Why Separate Economic and Non-Economic Activities in Cost Accounting for R&D&I Projects? Competition Rules and Unlawful State Aid •Introduction to the Community framework for State aid for research and development and innovation •What are the preconditions for cooperation between research organisations and the industry? •When do universities grant State aid to the industry? How can it be avoided? •Why separate accounting for economic and non-economic activities? •Third-party funded projects Bernhard Michael von Wendland, Case Handler, R&D, Innovation and risk capital, DG Competition, European Commission 10.00-10.15 Discussion Round 10.15-10.45 Coffee Break 10.45-11.30 Keeping Clear of State Aid: Lawful State Aid in Technology Transfer •How to find out if there is a State aid element in technology transfer and licensing? - Distinction between lawful and unlawful State aid in technology transfer. •When is a research organisation an undertaking and therefore a potential State aid beneficiary? •Infrastructural projects – how can they be funded with R&D means? •When is technology transfer an economic, when a non-economic activity? •How can knowledge be transferred successfully? Dr. Hans Arno Petzold, Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 11.30-11.45 Discussion Round 11.45-12.30 Problems and Challenges when Calculating a Market Price for New Innovative Products Pra Ex ctic am al ple •What are common challenges and problems? •Example: How to calculate a price for new innovative products to act in line with EU State aid requirements? •How to calculate a market price for a product that does not yet exist? •Some ideas on calculating full cost for scientific services Heike Huisken, IP Lawyer, PROvendis GmbH 12.30-12.45 Discussion Round 4 12.45-14.00 Lunch Break Your Chair Dr. Hans Arno Petzold Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Since 2007 Dr Hans Arno Petzold has been working for the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport. He is mainly dealing with EU State aid matters. Previously, Dr Petzold worked in the public and private sector. He was legal adviser of a social health insurance and private secretary to a State Prime Minister. Moreover, he worked as manager for a trade and industry federation, as visiting lecturer at a police academy and as director of an EU information office. Bernhard Michael von Wendland Case Handler, R&D, Innovation and Risk Capital, DG Competition, European Commission Bernhard Michael von Wendland joined the European Commission in 2002. There, Mr von Wendland worked for the Directorate General Energy and Transport, as the financial manager of the Trans-European Transport Network. In 2004, he changed to DG Competition and was involved in State aid for R&D and Innovation, for risk capital investments, and public guarantees. Between May and December 2008, he was back to DG Energy and Transport as a project manager, in order to monitor the transposition of the Energy-efficiency Directive and to look at investments and State aids in this field. Since January 2009 he has been working in DG competition again as a case handler. In particular, he has been dealing with large R&D aids in the aeronautics sector, public funding for universities and research facilities, and State Aid for risk capital investments. Heike Huisken IP Lawyer, PROvendis GmbH Heike Huisken is an IP lawyer admitted to the German bar and holding the French maîtrise en droit. She is advising PROvendis GmbH in all aspects of technology transfer contracts. As a patent marketing agency for 27 universities of North RhineWestphalia, Germany, PROvendis GmbH offers exclusive access to inventions and patents of over 30,000 scientists in a wide variety of technology fields. As a lawyer in a patent attorney and law firm, Heike Huisken has been giving advice to SMEs on technology transfer and R&D contracts as well as IPR in proposals and executions of funded research projects. Prior, she had been Head of the Legal Team of the IPRHelpdesk – the European Commission contact point for all IPR and contractual issues of EU funded research projects. 14.00-14.45 How to Separate Economic from Non-economic Activities? How to deal with Economy-Oriented Services? Pra •Separation of economic and non-economic activities, but how? •Prevent spill-over from public funding of non-economic Ex ctic am al activities into economic activities ple •How to separate in practice? (Practical example: e.g. in an university hospital) •How to define economy-oriented services? •How to handle contract research with regards to State aid Dr. Hans Arno Petzold, Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 14.45-15.00 Discussion Round 15.00-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-16.00 Impact of EU State Aid Regulations on R&D&IProjects between Industry and Research Organisations - Field Report of an Industrial Company René Schäfer Senior Counsel, Department Global Intellectual Property, BASF SE, Germany Since 1999, Mr Schäfer has been working for BASF SE. He is senior counsel in the Department for Global Intellectual Property and mainly responsible for trade mark matters of various business units as well as for research contracts for various research units. Previously, he was working for a cosmetic company in Germany and France and was dealing with intellectual property matters worldwide. From 1992 until 1996 Mr Schäfer was responsible for licensing, trademarks and remuneration of employeeinvestors at a chemical and pharmaceutical company. Prior to that he taught civil law and constitutional law to civil servants and public officers at the Hessian School for Education of Civil Servants. Mr Schäfer studied law at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt and is admitted to the bar in Germany as attorney-at-law. •The specific regulatory purpose of the community framework for State aid for R&D&I •Differences between contract R&D&I projects and R&D cooperation •Conditions to successfully award a R&D&I contract and to carry out R&D cooperation •State aid conform agreements René Schäfer, Senior Counsel, Department Global Intellectual Property, BASF SE, Germany 16.00-16.15 Discussion Round 16.15-16.45 Practical Experiences of a Public Administration with Unlawful State Aid •Experiences with State aid in the context of R&D&I •How to control if State aid is involved in technology transfer? •What happens when an unlawful State aid is detected? What needs to be done by the public administration? •Will the research organization make profit with their national or EU funded project? How to control this? Dr. Hans Arno Petzold, Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 16.45-17.00 Discussion Round 17.00 End of Day One 5 PROGRAMME DAY 2 Financing Research and Development Projects 9.00-9.05 Welcome Note from the Chair Dr. Hans Arno Petzold, Desk Officer State Aid Control (et. al.), Ministry for Science, Economics and Transport, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Jan Pieter Aartsen Corporate Controller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 9.05-9.45 Full Costing as a Tool for Fulfilling the EU Requirements •How to identify full costs •Covering costs from internal and external sources •Managing costs strategically • Calculating direct and indirect costs and determining relevant cost area types •Relation of research, teaching, infrastructure and indirect costs •Separation of costs for research, teaching and scientific service Jan Pieter Aartsen , Corporate Controller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 9.45-10.00 Discussion Round 10.00-10.30 Coffee Break 10.30-11.15 Preparing for Financial Audit in R&D&I Projects •How does a financial audit look like? What will be controlled? •How to prove that all costs are correct? •How to demonstrate that high indirect costs are satisfied? •How to show that calculated and charged prices are compatible with the market price? •What do auditors expect from research organisations, the industry and public authorities? •Criteria for audits Pieter-Jan Aartsen (MA) had been Internal Auditor at the University of Amsterdam for seven years, before he was appointed as Corporate Controller in 2006. In this position he has been responsible for the implementation of the full cost methodology throughout the universities financial system. Based on this experience he has been advisor to the Dutch Universities Association in setting the principles of full costing nationwide in the Netherlands. In the most recent years he has contributed as architect to the establishment of a business warehouse and management reporting system to anchor all aspects of the current financial governance model in the organization of the University of Amsterdam. He takes part in the EUIMA-project of the European University Association to help and train universities in developing to financial sustainable institutions as state funding decreases in most European countries while autonomy of universities is increasing. Jan Pieter Aartsen , Corporate Controller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Tim Fähnrich 11.15-11.30 Discussion Round 11.30-12.15 Forecasting and Documentary Proof – Implementation Problems with Full Costing •Problems and challenges and how to solve them Tim Fähnrich, Systems Accountant, Research Services, Finance Division, University College London, United Kingdom 12.15-12.30 Discussion Round 12.30-13.45 Lunch Break 13.45-14.30 The Successful UK Approach: Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) B Pra est cti ce •Activity based accounting methodology •Full transparency of costs by all actors involved •Clear understanding of costs •How to implement methods such as the transparent costing approach? Tim Fähnrich, Systems Accountant, Research Services, Finance Division, University College London, United Kingdom 14.30-15.00 Discussion Round 6 End of Seminar and Hand-out of Certificates 15.00 Systems Accountant, Research Services, Finance Division, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom Tim Fähnrich, a UK qualified Management Accountant, has been working for UCL since 2000. He arrived at UCL following several years working in banking in Germany, mainly in the areas for foreign exchange and money market. Currently he is working as Systems Accountant in the Research Service at UCL dealing with all aspects of fullcosting of research projects, the annual TRAC return as well as the integration of the costing requirements into the various systems at UCL. Mr Fähnrich is also the Financial Manager of a multi-national project (SINTROPHER) funded by the Interreg IVB North-West Europe programme, with a budget of 23 million Euros. 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Enrollment in Medicare is automatic for a person who is turning 65 and who is already getting Social Security or Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) benefits, or who will start getting them at age 65. A Medicare card will be mailed out about three months before the 65th birthday. If a person isn't getting Social Security benefits when he or she turns age 65, the person will have to sign up for Medicare.
Enrollment is also automatic for a person who has been entitled to Social Security disability benefits for at least 24 months. A Medicare card is mailed out about 3 months before the 25th month of disability benefits.
Automatic enrollment includes Part A and Part B. If people don't want Part B, they should follow the instructions that come with the card, and send the card back. If they keep the card, they keep Part B.
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42 Percent Of Antidepressant Response Explained By Common Gene Variants
A new study published in Biological Psychiatry now shares progress in identifying genomic predictors of antidepressant response.
Many previous studies have searched for genetic markers that may predict antidepressant response, but have done so despite not knowing the contribution of genetic factors. Dr. Katherine Tansey of Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and colleagues resolved to answer that question.
"Our study quantified, for the first time, how much is response to antidepressant medication influenced by an individual's genetic make-up," said Tansey.
To perform this work, the researchers estimated the magnitude of the influence of common genetic variants on antidepressant response using a sample of 2,799 antidepressant-treated subjects with major depressive disorder and genome-wide genotyping data.
They found that genetic variants explain 42% of individual differences, and therefore, significantly influence antidepressant response.
"While we know that there are no genetic markers with strong effect, this means that there are many genetic markers involved. While each specific genetic marker may have a small effect, they may add up to make a meaningful prediction," Tansey added.
"We have a very long way to go to identify genetic markers that can usefully guide the treatment of depression. There are two critical challenges to this process," said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. "First, we need to have genomic markers that strongly predict response or non-response to available treatments. Second, markers for non-response to available treatments also need to predict response to an alternative treatment. Both of these conditions need to be present for markers of non-response to guide personalized treatments of depression."
"Although the Tansey et al. study represents progress, it is clear that we face enormous challenges with regards to both objectives," he added. "For example, it does not yet appear that having a less favorable genomic profile is a sufficiently strong negative predictor of response to justify withholding antidepressant treatment. Similarly, there is lack of clarity as to how to optimally treat patients who might have less favorable genomic profile."
Additional research is certainly required, but scientists hope that one day, results such as these can lead to personalized treatment for depression.
The article is "Contribution of Common Genetic Variants to Antidepressant Response" by Katherine E. Tansey, Michel Guipponi, Xiaolan Hu, Enrico Domenici, Glyn Lewis, Alain Malafosse, Jens R. Wendland, Cathryn M. Lewis, Peter McGuffin, and Rudolf Uher (doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.10.030). The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 73, Issue 7 (April 1, 2013), published by Elsevier.
The authors' affiliations, and disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available in the article.
John H. Krystal, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and a research psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. His disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available here.
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Renovated in 2005, the hotel comprises a total of 69 rooms spread over 2 buildings. Facilities in the 4-storey building include an air-conditioned lobby, with a 24-hour reception, a lift, a safe, a cloakroom and a currency exchange counter. Meals and drinks are served in the hotel bar/caf� as well as in the cosy breakfast room. Business guests may make use of the conference room and a public Internet terminal with a WLAN access point is also available. For an additional fee, there is also a bicycle hire service as well as a laundry service and room service on offer. On request and at an extra charge, medical attention and a babysitting service may also be taken advantage of. A car park and garage are also available as well as a bicycle storage facility.The hotel offers facilities for wheelchair users and an airport transfer service is also available. Tours through the "Eternal City" of Rome may be booked at the hotel reception. Small pets are allowed within the hotel.The pleasant rooms include an en suite bathroom with a hairdryer, bath or shower as well as a direct dial telephone, satellite/cable TV and Internet access. Further standard fittings include a hire safe, a minibar, a balcony as well as individually regulated air conditioning and central heating.
Regardless of which motorway guests are travelling on, take the "Raccordo Anulare" and then exit 18 "SS Via Casilina" towards the centre. Then take the first street left onto the "Via Silicella" and the hotel lies roughly 300 m on the left-hand side.


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Une maison familiale : confortable, pratique, pour toute la famille
Guaranteed quiet sleep in our house in its small street, with fresh air to breathe (unlike central Paris). Nothing but small houses with little gardens around, just like ours!
French bakery within walking distance (5 minutes away); all stores within a ten minute walk.
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If Cung Le is Looking for a Fight, Keith Jardine Is More Than Happy to Accept
What weightclass would this be at? This match has bad idea written all over it. Jardine is basically asking for a fight with a light middleweight and he's a lightheavyweight.
I actually like the fight & think it would be interesting. If Jardine was to strike with Le he would get ktfo easy. I do believe that Jardine should outwrestle him and win tho.
Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I have to agree that this would be a good fight. Though I'm not sure Jardine's wrestling is that superior.
I would definitly watch this fight. Cung Le would use his footwork and speed to stay away from TDs and use his hands and feet to demolish Jardine by either the end of R1 or midway through R2.
Jardine via nipple twist
Yeah, that nipple twist thing is funny. It would definately be an interesting fight to watch. Though I think Le would win.
Jardine would have to duck down, shoot for the legs, and hope for the best as soon as the bell rings if he wants a prayer winning this fight. If he stands with Le for any significant amount of time, Le will kick Jardine into the 11th dimension. Speed kills and unfortunately for Jardine, Le also hits a lot harder despite being smaller.
Yeah, taking Le down is the only way that Jardine can hope to win. Jardine can be a tricky striker but Le is ten times better. I agree that for a small middleweight Le can kick.
Le has been inactive for a long while now and is getting up there in age (the two don't go together well).
Jardine just fought Mousasi to a draw (despite Mousasi probably actually winning that 'fight').
So I wouldn't be so quick to jump all over Le here. Altough I would be cheering for him the whole way.
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A site-specific Tosca under its belt, and a co-production of Orpheus in the Underworld currently playing in London's Young Vic, Northern Ireland Opera claimed ownership of Belfast's Grand Opera House last weekend with Oliver Mears's production of Hansel and Gretel.
The trappings were modern: a white melamine flat-pack kitchen, a fridge decorated with alphabet magnets, the fat-knotted school ties and untucked shirts of feisty latchkey kids. But the themes were as old as the Grimm brothers' source material.
Written in 1892, a decade before Freud expounded his theory of sexuality, Humperdinck's Wagnerian lollipop is the ultimate opera for the orally fixated. Appropriate, then, that the Ulster Orchestra's toothsome account of the overture under David Brophy was accompanied by a descant of popping drinks cans and rustling sweets. Never mind the irony, this was a panto audience, eager for action, words, song. Mears's joyfully violent staging caught their attention instantly, every syllable of David Pountney's allusive translation crisp in the mouths of a largely home-grown, expertly balanced cast, the locally sourced Angels and Gingerbread Children heaven-sent.
Thrift is a virtue in this production, as the humdrum domestic items in Simon Holdsworth's set are transformed by dreams. Rearranged for Act III, the letters on Hansel and Gretel's empty fridge spell "Satan Gender Hell" as dutiful Gretel (Aoife O'Sullivan) and her lazy brother (Niamh Kelly) are seduced by visions of cream cake, gobstopper and liquorice. A sugar-paper drawing becomes the forest, a sinister stick-figure the Sandman (Rebekah Coffey). Gretel's Barbie doll is reborn as the twinkling Dew Fairy (Aoife Miskelly), the kitchen a pick-and-mix counter cornucopia.
What finer dish for the starved siblings than a silver platter of tête de maman? What stickier end for Graham Clark's rasping Witch than five minutes in a giant microwave? Are Peter (Paul Carey Jones) and Gertrud (Doreen Curran) bad parents or just hard-pressed? Mears suggests the former, his final provocation the glistening gob of spittle triumphantly hawked over the charred corpse of the Witch by Hansel. Hard to know whether to cheer or shudder. Impossible not to admire the chutzpah of the scarlet splat against the microwave door and the squeal of delight from the children in the audience. Panto or opera, Freudian essay or Wagnerian fairytale, Northern Ireland Opera continues to punch above its weight.
Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra took the Queen Elizabeth Hall by storm on the second and last UK date of its European tour. Cellists aside, the ensemble stands to perform, its players moving with the pulse of the music. There's a tang to the string sound that is almost Hungarian. Tutti chords start with a vigorous assault then swell accordion-like, the tuning bright and sour. It's audacious, gripping, a little brash, a Valentino clinch. But gosh, it makes you yearn for something still and pale, a chance to catch your breath.
Stillness and paleness were in short supply on Tuesday night, heard briefly in the sonata da chiesa quality of the Haydn encore and at greater length in Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings. Soloists Simon Trpceski and Tine Thing Helseth sparkled in the slapstick burlesque of neo-classical arpeggios and tart fanfares, magnetic in the inconsolable sadness of the elegy. Arranged for string orchestra by Tognetti, Grieg's introspective G minor Quartet became a Janacekian outpouring of angst. Mozart's Symphony No 40 was similarly propulsive, the tempi fast, the woodwind elegant, the violas dark and true. You'd have to be awfully fit to dance a minuet at that speed.
Terry Riley's iconic 1964 work In C drew a capacity audience to the first concert of 50 Years of Minimalism. Long overshadowed by Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, which does the same thing but better, In C is an ecstatic series of contrapuntal figures and fragments that lasts for as long as the musicians want to play it, which was 20 minutes longer than I wanted to listen. Curated by Igor Toronyi-Lalic and starring Katia and Marielle Labèque, 50 Years was nothing if not flexible in its definition of minimalism or, indeed, of a half-century. Riley and Walter De Maria's musique concrète tapes book-ended the first programme, in which Satie, whose music has some minimalist qualities and is ideal for the moonlit lyricism of the Labèque sisters' playing, appeared. So, mystifyingly, did Ravel.
Unarguably an early example of minimalism proper, Colin McPhee's 1934-1938 Balinese Ceremonial Music for Two Pianos achieved the same moonlit sheen, as did the following night's performance of Howard Skempton's exquisite preludes and interludes from Images (1989), losing specificity in the process. At least Marielle Labèque kept a straight face. In Reich's Piano Phase a giggling Katia fell into sync with Nicola Tescari when she should have been out of sync.
Away from the grand dames of the grand pianos we had La Monte Young's 283 is for Henry Flynt and James Tenney's Postal Piece No 10: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion, both exercises in dynamics. Less pointful were the works by members of the Labèques' supporting band, Nicola Tescari's noodling Suonar Remembrando: Chaconne and David Chalmin's Gameland for electric guitars and amplified percussion, both written this year.
Having heard pieces from 1891 to 2011, many of them pretty flimsy, I felt 25 years of 50 years was more than enough and left at the interval of the second concert, ears bleeding.
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One hundred years of Romanticism – Anna Picard hears the Arcanto Quartet play Schubert and Berg
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Tone in writing is just as important as tone in speaking. The tone of the message will affect the reader just as the tone of voice affects the listener.
Your attitude toward the reader and even toward the content of the message will influence the tone of the document. You want the readers to perceive the message as a professional communication meant to either provide information or persuade them to do something.
There are two basic questions to consider when determining the tone of the document.
When answering the questions, take a minute and reflect on how you feel about the content of the document as well as the recipient. Keep your thoughts:
as you set the tone of your communication.
Take the time to think about the purpose of the document.
The tone of your document will convey your confidence (or lack thereof) to your reader, so be sure to use language that will make you sound not only competent, but confident. Your reader will trust you more and be more likely to do what you want if he or she feels you know what you are talking about.
For example: Marcella has accepted a position at another company. She is not quite sure what tone to employ in her letter of resignation. She asks herself what she hopes to accomplish with the letter.
The answer she arrives at is she wants to let her current supervisor know that she appreciates the opportunity to work for the company and she has learned a lot. She does not want to burn any bridges in making this move to a new company. Once she has thought about those things, she is able to write the resignation letter with a professional and grateful tone.
When thinking about your audience, you need to consider how much information you need to include, how to include it, and what level of language you are going to use. All of these things come together to convey the tone of the message.
If you are writing a memo to your team members, letting them know that deadlines have changed, the level of detail and language will be much different than if you are sending an email to a supervisor to update her on the progress of the project.
When writing a business message, the tone should be confident, courteous, and sincere. Language becomes important as well as the level of understanding in the document. Some general guidelines that will help you write professional, competent messages with the appropriate tone are:
Let's examine each of these guidelines.
In order to get your message across with confidence, you need to be prepared. You need to be knowledgeable about the subject and write with confidence without being overbearing.
You do not want your reader to think you are being presumptuous or arrogant; therefore, the goal is to present yourself in a confident manner, showing your competence in the subject matter.
For example: You are writing a memo to your supervisor asking for approval of a proposal:
Politeness in a business message is not enough. You must also be sincere. You want your readers to believe that you actually mean what you say and are not just being courteous because you think you have to be.
You need to be respectful and honest in your communications, even when delivering negative news. Your readers will be more willing to accept the message if they feel they have been treated with respect.
For example: you are writing a note explaining why a request was denied:
Language that singles out specific people or causes someone to feel he or she is not being treated fairly is discriminatory. There are several ways to avoid the use of discriminatory language in a professional business environment.
If your purpose is to persuade your reader, you will want to give him or her some incentive for doing what you ask.
Therefore, it is important to write from the reader's perspective. In other words, use a structure that will answer the question the reader is asking him or herself: "What's in it for me?"
Writing from your perspective is: "I will not be working on your project until next week." Turn it around and let your reader know what is in it for him or her: "I will complete your project by the end of next week."
If there is some kind of reward or other benefit for the readers, tell them. For example, "You will see an increase in productivity in your department once this process is implemented."
The style and structure of your writing must match the reading ability of your audience. If you are explaining a new software program to a group of IT professionals, you will use jargon and technical language that you know they can understand.
On the other hand, using that same technical language and jargon to the end users of the software program will only frustrate them. Technical language needs to be simplified for non-technical readers, but not "dumbed down" to the extent you insult them.
Here is an exaggerated example of using technical language for a common nursery rhyme (from http://spiritofthebeast.deviantart.com/art/MENSA-Nursery-Rhymes-52577345:
While this is an absurd and extreme example, you can see how using technical language in that nursery rhyme would do nothing but confuse the audience: a small child.


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Erratum to: Distribution and trends in mesothelioma mortality in Italy from 1974 to 2006
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- Gatto, M.P. & Di Tanna, G.L. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2013) 86: 497. doi:10.1007/s00420-012-0820-2
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In the original publication, the second author's family name has been published incorrectly. The correct family name should be Di Tanna.
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This is a first… A Swedish man, 42 year old Roger Tullgren, is now able to claim disability benefits after his heavy metal obsession was declared an 'addiction'.
He's been 'suffering' for awhile apparently…"I have been trying for 10 years to get this classified as a handicap." He's got the tattoos, the long hair, he went to almost 300 gigs last year and says it's an addiction. "I spoke to three psychologists and they finally agreed that I needed this to avoid being discriminated against." He currently has a part time job as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Hassleholm, but this will be supplemented by disability benefits.
Wait a minute so because of his love of heavy rock, his desire to go to so many concerts and need to listen to the music all the time the government is going to pay him to hold a part time job instead of full time so he can continue to do all this? WOW.
His new boss reportedly will let him wear what he wants to work and give him time off for gigs, as well as let him play music as he works. Roger says "I signed a form saying: 'Roger feels compelled to show his heavy metal style. This puts him in a difficult situation on the labour market. Therefore he needs extra financial help'. So now I can turn up at a job interview dressed in my normal clothes and just hand the interviewers this piece of paper".
Just when you thought you'd heard it all.