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|Dead End
"We're all just food for rust"
Before Nautilus
Sometime in 1986, Megatron got in a snit over his evil Decepticon jets being made fools of by a bunch of Autobot cars, and decided to build his own team of evil Decepticon cars. To this end, he sent Soundwave's two juvenile delinquents, Rumble and Frenzy, on a car-collecting tour for raw materials. Based on the fact that they mostly brought back European sports cars and race cars, they apparently went on a tour of Europe on Megatron's expense account. Where else are you going to find a Porsche 928 being used as a bank robbers' getaway car?
Megatron and the Constructicons rebuilt the cars into drone Transformers, then took them to Cybertron to get them issued personalities by Vector Sigma, the mysterious, pre-Cybertronian "super-computer" that brings Transformers to life. So were created the Stunticons, of which Dead End is a member. Vector Sigma gave Megatron exactly what he asked for in personalities1, which resulted in all the Stunticons being psychotic in one variation or another. (Vector Sigma either has a nasty sense of humor, or had an oversupply of defective personalities to use in filling careless specifications). See the G1 episodes "Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1" and "Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2". Dead End's psychosis seems to be clinical depression (see personality notes below).
After that, the Stunticons' main employment seemed to be (a) commit crimes as cars, making the humans think the Autobots had turned on them, and (b) "combine to form… MENASOR!" (just in time to spoil one of their demolition derbies). Yes, the Stunticons were a combiner-team: they could re-assemble together as a really gigantic single robot with a bad temper even for a Decepticon and whose appearance meant the Autobots would haul out their opposing combiner team of jets that assembled into a really gigantic single robot whose main purpose was to whale on Menasor a lot. Dead End considered this entire career pretty pointless.
Fast forward twenty years, aka "Transformers: the Movie (1986)" aka "The movie that traumatized every small child that hero-worshipped Optimus Prime". It's a rather alternate 2005, the Decepticons are winning--they've pushed the Autobots off Cybertron, though the Autobots hold two moon-bases and have Autobot City on Earth and are preparing to re-invade Cybertron from the twin moons. One botched raid by Megatron later, Optimus Prime is dead, Megatron is apparently dead, half the jets are gone, Starscream is in charge (!!)--wait, Starscream has just been vaporized by this Galvatron dude, and oh by the way, there's a GIANT TRANSFORMING PLANET coming to eat Cybertron!
Dead End is right; they're all doomed.
What do you mean, all the Stunticons survived?
1 "Make them hate the Autobots and all that they stand for"
Nautilus: First Wave
At that point, Dead End Woke for the first time. He ended up in the Western District, swore allegiance to TFA Megatron, lived in a garage next to the cemetary, and made friends with Aya Brea, Leslie Vernon, Smaug the Dragon, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, William Jesse the preacher, Lt Rip Van Winkle, and various other strange people. He was acquainted with all of his fellow Cybertronians at the time, and didn't consider any to be enemies—Megatron had ordered a truce, and hating people was pointless anyway. He disliked Graham Spector for the latter's habit of dismantling vehicles belonging to friends and the assault on Sideswipe.
In the course of his time in Nautilus, Dead End revisted his home universe twice; he got to witness the starving time on Charr, and the restoration of Galvatron and the exile of Blitzwing. Preparatory to the fight against Isis, he brought back the personalities of his four teammates, copied while combined as Menasor, so that he could borrow their skills and special powers. He and Sunstreaker had a road rage death duel that killed both of them; on returning from death, they found that they had earned each other's respect.
In Nautilus itself, he joined in the fight against Isis, fighting hideous monsters in Kalliste and facing down Isis herself. He choked during the final confrontation and the alternate personality of Motormaster took over. Motormaster helped bring down Isis, and then rampaged around Nautilus for a few weeks being Motormaster (i.e., punishing Dead End by hurting his friends) until the combined Bending of a team of Wakened forced his vile, violent personality to subside and that of one of the other Stunticons to take over. Eventually Dead End reverted to himself, though he would let the other personalities strengthen him for specific purposes—on a tight leash of control. He'd learned not to let Motormaster get loose again.
Weary after the fight against Isis and the madness of having all the Stunticons trapped in his head, he succumbed to his own depressive tendencies and slipped back into Sleep for some time… until his home universe became too unendurable once more.
Back in his own universe, he continued as part of the Stunticons--unappreciated by Galvatron as a team of skilled automotive terrorists, but only desired for their ability to combine and form Menasor. He and the rest of the Stunticons were infected by the Hate Plague, but survived. Eventually, they wound up under the command of Sixshot (Headmasters cartoon), Galvatron fell, and Scorponok was hailed the new Decepticon leader. At this point, Dead End Woke up again.
Nautilus: Second Wave
What came back from Sleep was far more than the Stunticon Dead End had been, though he had not yet grasped that fact. For over a decade, at the behest of various Decepticon leaders, the Stunticon team had been repeatedly merged to form Menasor, for prolonged periods. Separations had been come more and more problematic; echoes of each one's personality bled over into his teammates. Eventually, had Dead End remained Asleep, all five Stunticons would have blended permanently to become one of the legendary "Demon Generals" of the Decepticons: Menasor [loosely based on Transformers:Victory and wild extrapolation].
In Nautilus, Dead End had those personality echoes as well, but he gradually assimilated them rather than being submerged by them. His consciousness was still his, but his personality--was becoming a variant of Menasor. He was well on the way towards fully integrating Wildrider and Drag Strip, a change most obvious when in his human form as Mori Finite. (As a human, he did not have the hard-wired circuitry enforcing his personality as Dead End--and twenty-something testosterone encouraged all the immature, impulsive aspects of their personalities). One mark of that integration was that he no longer switched to their voices when channeling aspects of their personalities.
Breakdown and Motormaster's integration was progressing, though it was more subtle. Breakdown's paranoia surfaced whenever Dead End felt vulnerable, such as when a reality storm stripped him of his powers. He started to acquire Breakdown's dislike of being watched by Nautilus' ever-present cameras, as well. Motormaster's integration was… less subtle, as Motormaster's nature tends to dominate Dead End's personality, rather than being subsumed by it. Dead End still sometimes switched to Motormaster's voice when he was channeling the Stunticon leader's brutal rage, malice and power--but Motormaster's lust for dominance was being modified into a more Megatron-like desire to command and lead through power.
In the end, Dead End was becoming Menasor—but in Nautilus, he was becoming the Menasor that Megatron really wanted: intelligent, integrated, in full control of his emotions. Unable to bear losing himself completely in Menasor, but seeing no way out, Dead End fell back Asleep.
Nautilus: Third Wave
Once again, Dead End is back. This time, he's himself, not proto-Menasor. It's complicated, but the personality fusion has proceeded far enough back home that "Dead End" is effectively dead, and only Waking Dead End retains his true personality. Stubborn as always, Dead End's spirit has rejected change to Menasor and returned to his roots. There are no teammates in his head anymore, just Dead End. His place is here in Nautilus, and for the first time since the Ashura of the West left him behind, Dead End has regained angelli status.
Before Ascending, he spent some time tending to Irene when she "came back wrong" from a visit home—some kind of timeslip into an alternate timeline had turned her into the Fallen Angel Irael, who was quite insane and terrifying to almost everyone else in Nautilus. She was also unused to being mortal. Dead End didn't know quite what had happened, but assumed some kind of reality shift had happened to Irene to make her Irael, and since Irene was a friend, he ignored Irael's crazed rantings and took care of her, making sure she got food, rest, and remained safe from would-be assassins. Irael's obviously traumatized mind reminded him of himself and his own team, after the Autobots had exiled them to starve on Charr, for Irael's Hell Cathedral just reminded him of Charr, and he pitied her.
From Dead End's DW/Marvel profile: "Sullen and fatalistic; Dead End sees little reason to continue the Aotobot-Decepticon War since all Transformers will eventually become inoperative anyway, even though it might take tens of thousands of years. Yet he spends more time keeping himself unmarred and shiny than any of his fellow Stunticons, an irony not lost upon Motormaster, who speculates that Dead wants to at least make sure he leaves a pretty wreck when he dies. This vanity leads to a lot of teasing and derision directed toward Dead End, which makes him feel worse. The only thing that can lift his spirits is blasting Autobots in battle, despite what he says about the pointlessness of it all. It seems he's too busy trying to save own life to get depressed about the possibility of losing it."
My Dead End is a depressive; he varies from mildly apathetic with a sardonic sense of humor to black funks where he has to be beaten to get him to do more than sit and stare at the opposite wall. If even that works. Except when he's in a black funk, he's quite vain about his appearance and manners; he affects the persona of an aristocratic, bored dilletante. Life is pointless, it's just marking time until you die, and we're all going to die soon, but one might as well look good while you do it… and enjoy a few sensual pleasures. He's very much the mopey-gothboi.
I followed the Dreamwave write-up originally and wrote him as the most intelligent of the Stunticons, though his tech spec only rates his Int at 6. I see him as very intelligent, but hobbled by his depression and apathy. His diversions are all ones that appeal to his intellect: reading, music, conversations with people as intelligent as he is.
He's a member of the Stunticon team, and his primary loyalty is to his team--his brothers, as he sees them. Without them, he tends to feel adrift and lost, and very likely to fall into a funk. He is also a Decepticon, but as a depressed fatalist, he really sees no point in the War and Decepticon/Autobot is no more than a label that says who is less or more likely to shoot at him and who should be shot at--if a superior officer is around to insist on it. He has no philosophical or emotional investment in the War or his faction.
He's a skilled and courageous warrior—when he can be motivated to fight. His brothers (or other people he cares about, if he should somehow come to care about others) depending on him or in danger are among the things that will motivate him to fight. When he does fight, he's cool and precise and would be very deadly if he had more powerful weapons.
He has a reputation among the Decepticons who know him for his skewed risk analysis routines; ask him to give a tactical assessment of a situation, and Dead End will figure out the worst possible way it can go wrong and inform you that's what's going to happen. He's convinced that he'll die in every single battle he enters, and he's been pleasantly surprised every time so far. He knows this unnatural streak of luck can't last, though, and next time will be It. This fatalism is the source of his courage: he knows he's going to die, so whether it's now or the next minute doesn't matter. He just hopes it won't be too painful.
He's very young as Transformers go, having been built a mere twenty years before his Awakening. However, like most Transformers brought to life by Vector Sigma, he has a late adolescent-to-young adult level of maturity… with quirks, thanks to Megatron's specifications to Vector Sigma when he had the Stunticons brought to life. Dead End's 'quirk' is his depression, fatalism and apathy. He also believes, thanks to Megatron's instruction to Vector Sigma that gave Dead End his personality, that he is incapable of hope or joy.
He was a bit traumatized right after he Awoke—for all his fatalism, Megatron was a constant in his universe. Shortly before Dead End Awoke, Megatron fell. Fortunately he's recovered from that since them. An interesting encounter with Cyrus in a dream has convinced Dead End that the mad, broken monsters of the Western District are also his brothers/teammates, like his fellow Stunticons. If you are an insane killer, or just tormented and violent, Dead End loves you and wants to help you. You're his kind of people.
After his first trip home after achieving Angelli status, Dead End brought a few extras back home with him—the personalties of his 4 brothers, courtesy of a merge into Menasor form and some subtle bending to keep the mind imprints, and the weapon systems for his own use. Unfortunately, his teammates are getting a bit loud in the back of his processor, and Dead End is starting to worry that one of them might manage to take over. He was correct to worry.
After a brutal road rage race with Sunstreaker that left them both dead (and Hunter limping home in Sunstreaker's battered body), Dead End returned from his first death ever with a bit more upbeat attitude. He tasted joy and hope on the other side of the grave, and carried the ability to hope back with him.
From profile: "In car mode, Dead End can reach speeds of up to 220 mph. He emanates a radar signal that allows him to detect the movements of any vehicle or robot within a 200-mile radius, and he can use it to mentally map the surrounding terrain as well. He's adept at using this ability to lead enemy Autobots into traps- such as dead ends! In robot mode, he carries a compressor-air gun, which can let out a blast of air that packs a 40,000 psi punch, enough to splinter a grove of oak trees. He combines with his fellow Stunticons to form the giant robot, Menasor."
i.e. he's a fast car, he has an aircraft/spaceship-grade active sensor array with real-time mapping capabilities, he carries a super-high-pressure air concussion rifle, and has been shown in the cartoon to mount a couple of blasters or lasers in car mode.
These days, he's once again an Angelli. Back in his First Wave days, he could shapeshift rather freely, and preferred human, animal and avian forms. He could teleport, though almost never did—he prefers to drive, and he can use the fast movement of his type. He can see Bending traces and flaws or tampering in worlds. He is slowly regaining those more advanced abilities.
He is a Decepticon, and was very loyal to Megatron, the Ashura of the West. After seeing too many would-be and actual Decepticon leaders abuse his team back home and mostly turn out to be complete losers, Dead End no longer cares who else is leading the Decepticons. Since he became the Last Decepticon in Nautilus, Dead End has decided that he's the Supreme Leader of the Decepticons in Nautilus, and any new 'Cons who don't like that can talk to the hand… holding the atomic particle cannon. All other things being equal, he tends to like intelligent people who aren't jerks. He likes intelligent people who aren't jerks but are crazy even more, because they remind him of his team back when they were people and not fragments of Menasor's personality. He has some tolerance for crazy jerks, if it's the crazy that's making them into a jerk.
In Nautilus, he was fond of Leslie Vernon, and William Jesse, and Starscream, and Megatron (of course!). Wheeljack, from his own reality, had Dead End falling all over him. He learned serious respect for Sunstreaker after their death-race, and thought Sideswipe was a loud-mouthed jerk. Sadly, all those people are gone back to Sleep now. He liked Wade (Deadpool) a lot, because Deadpool reminded of Wildrider, but Deadpool went to sleep, too. He likes Harley Quinn, too--she's still here, and reminds him of Wildrider, too. Frank Castle, traumatized war vet, reminds Dead End of himself and all the other veterans of a war that went on far, far too long, so he's patient with the guy. Irene, Ashura of Redemption, he respects and likes immensely because she's competent, fairly wise, a leader, and they get along. There are other new friends he's making, or hoping to make as time goes by.
Pre-Third Wave: Like ribbons of black lace, shot through with threads of dark red, gray, yellow, blue and dark purple.
Now: Like ribbons of black lace, shot through with threads of dark maroon and violet (like his optics),
GalleryPorsche 928S - Dead End's vehicle mode
Icons for the Strawberry Tabby Tiger, Dead End's former animal form
Icons for Morituri Finite, Dead End's human form
Icons for the Raven, Dead End's former avian form
Stunticons in action


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It is still early in the year and I will be adding events as they are announced, so make sure to check back now and again ahead of your visit. Some of the links might not work yet for later events (or they direct to last year's information), just keep checking back to see when they update their websites. I have put in some of the larger fairs, but there are a plethora of them going on, covering all sorts of interests from gardening to design to boating. Check the Stockholm Fairground's website (Stockholmsmässan) to see if there is something that piques your interest.
- 18th to 21st- Formex, the largest fair for Nordic interior design at Stockholmsmässan.
- 29th to 31st- Stockholm Fashion Week at various venues.
- 31st- The FIS Ski World Cup Stockholm at Hammarbybacken.
Press image from Vikingarännet.
- 6th to 12th- Stockholm Design Week at various venues.
- 7th to 11th- Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair at Stockholmsmässan.
- 12th- Vikingarännet. Outdoor, long distance ice skating race. Subject to weather.
- 17th- The Weekend, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 25th- Andrea Bocelli, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 28th- Shrove Tuesday (the day to eat a semla).
- 4th- Drake, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 7th to 10th- Kings of Tennis, tournament at Stockholm Waterfront.
- 11th- Melodifestivalen final at Friends Arena. Song competition. Winner represents Sweden at Eurovision.
- 25th- clocks "spring" forward one hour (Daylight Savings Time).
- 25th- Stockholm City Line Tunnel Run. Underground race!
- 25th- World Cup Qualifying football match (Sweden vs Belarus) at Friends Arena.
- 30th- Ed Sheeran, concert at Ericsson Globe.
Spring means cherry blossoms in Kungsträdgården.
Photo by Henrik Trygg/mediabank.visitstockholm.com
- 1st- Stockholm City Bike season starts!
- 1st- Premiärmilen (10k run) at Stockholm University/Frescati.
- 1st & 2nd- Lakritsfestivalen, world's largest liquorice festival, at Annexet.
- 1st & 2nd- Weeping Willows, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 14th to 17th- Easter weekend.
- 29th- Stockholm Culture Night (Kulturnatt) at various venues throughout the city.
- 29th- Gröna Lund amusement park opens for the season.
- 30th- Valborgsmässoafton (Walpurgis Eve).
- 1st- International Workers Day (Labour Day). Bank holiday.
- 3rd- Enrique Inglesias, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 5th- Depeche Mode, concert at Friends Arena.
- 6th- KISS, concert at Tele2 Arena.
- 6th- Lidingöloppet mountainbike race on Lidingö.
- 8th- Ariana Grande, concert at Friends Arena.
- 13th- Kungsholmen Runt (running event) on Kungsholmen.
- 17th- Shawn Mendes, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 20th- Bruno Mars, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 22nd to 24th- FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress at Stockholmsmässan.
- 24th- UEFA football Europa League finals at Friends Arena.
- 25th- Kristi Himmelfärds Dag (Ascension Day). Bank holiday.
- 26th to 28th- Elitloppet, popular harness (horse) racing championship at Solvalla.
Happy June 6th!
- 1st to 6th- Taste of Stockholm (Smaka på Stockholm) restaurant festival in Kungsträdgården.
- 1st to 6th- Stockholm Early Music festival at various venues in Gamla Stan.
- 3rd- Stockholm Marathon.
- 6th- Swedish national holiday. A good place to celebrate is Skansen.
- 9th- Radiohead, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 9th- World Cup Qualifying football match (Sweden vs France) at Friends Arena.
- 9th & 10th- Summerburst. House music festival at Gärdet.
- 17th- Celine Dion, concert at Tele2 Arena.
- 18th- Bauhaus Athletics, international track & field meet (Diamond League) at Stadion.
- 23rd to 25th- Midsummer weekend (major Swedish holiday).
- 29th- Guns & Roses, concert at Friends Arena.
- 29th to July 2nd- Stockholm Street festival in Kungsträdgården.
- 29th to July 7th- ÅF Offshore Race (sailing regatta) at Skeppsholmen (Stockholm harbour).
July. This is generally a slow month with events and festivals as most Stockholmers have their summer vacation at this time and tend to leave the city.
- Continuation of both the street festival and offshore race (see June).
- 29th- Robbie Williams, concert at Ericsson Globe.
- 29th to 31st- Stockholm Music & Arts Festival on Skeppsholmen.
Stockholm Pride. Photo by: Yanan Li/mediabank.visitstockholm.com
August (EDIT: I have made a more detailed list for August here)
- July 31st to August 6th- Stockholm Gay Pride at various venues throught the city.
- 15th to 20th- Stockholm Culture Festival (Kulturfestivalen) in the downtown area. Everything cultural, all free.
- 15th to 20th- We Are Sthlm, youth festival in Kungsträdgården.
- 16th to 20th- Outdoor Cinema, in cooperation with the Stockholm Film Festival, in Rålambshovs Park.
- 19th- Midnight race (Midnattsloppet) on Södermalm. Festive atmosphere!
- 22nd to 29th- Baltic Sea Festival (Östersjöfestivalen) classic music.
- 23rd to 26th- Formex, the largest fair for Nordic interior design at Stockholmsmässan.
- 26th & 27th- Vattenfall World Triathlon Championship.
- 27th- Raoul Wallenberg's Day at Raoul Wallernberg Torg.
Tjejmilen! Photographer: Rickard Forsberg/Tjejmilen
- 1st & 2nd- Popaganda, pop music festival at Eriksdalsbadet.
- 2nd- Tjejmilen, 10k womens race (largest of its kind in the world) around Djurgården.
- 3rd- Sthlm Bike, bike race in the city.
- 9th- Stockholm Half Marathon.
- 10th- Velothon Majors bike race (round trip race between Stockholm and Nynäshamn).
- 23rd- FIM Speedway Grand Prix at Friends Arena.
- 28th to 30th- 25th annual Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival at Nackastrandsmässan.
- 5th to 7th- 25th annual Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival (part 2) at Nackastrandsmässan.
- Stockholm Jazz festival at various venues throughout the city (dates to be announced).
- 15th to 22nd- IF Stockholm Open, tennis tournament at the Royal Tennis Hall.
- 28th- clocks "fall back" one hour (Daylight Savings Time).
- 31st- end of Stockholm City Bike season.
Press image for IF Stockholm Open.
- 1st to 4th- European Health Congress at Stockholmsmässan.
- 4th- All Saints Day (bank holiday).
- 9th to 12th- Sthlm Food and Wine, food & beverage fair at Stockholmsmässan.
- Light festival in Hagaparken (date to be announced).
- Christmas market season starts (dates to be announced).
- 30th to Dec 3rd- Sweden International Horse Show at Friends Arena.


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Justin Timberlake may have broken the law by voting
On Monday, famed singer Justin Timberlake shared a selfie on Instagram about flying from LA to Memphis in order to vote. The photo showed him casting his ballot (UPDATE: The photo has since been deleted):
Timberlake took the trip because even though he lives in Los Angeles, he's registered in his native state of Tennessee.
Many of his fans were shocked and delighted to see him, including local government candidate Suzanne Jones:
While he initially received praise for voting early and encouraging others to speak their voice in the election, it soon became apparent that he may have broken the law. Last year, Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill banning photos and videos in voting booths. Phones may be used for informational purposes, but not for documenting the voting process.
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The best way to get out of a desperate situation is self-motivation and for that there is no need of others, it is just the capability of our mind to overcome that situation. We are here to help you with some tips that may help you to be self-motivated. Come let's do this and have peaceful day ahead.
Stop thinking about how tired are you
The main problem is that we may show laziness in all the activities because we are tired but never should we think that we are tired since it may decrease our confidence and our energy level. It is quite common that after our classes, office work that often we become tired and we should think ways to get off this tired ness and move. After classes we may not find interest in doing homework or assignments and not even to study the daily portion. Similar in the case of office duty. The world doesn't care how tired are we and if we are ready to hard work then only success will accompany us. Learn to face all situations in life and to make our capability stronger.
Find time to read some inspirational Quotes
If you have some favourite quotes of your choice go through it when you're not in good mood and read it. This may help you a lot to get out of the problem in detail. Think on it if your dull it is only a loss for you and not for others so try not losing hope in yourself and having faith in all the things you do either in your educational career of in your job. Always keep keen on that everyone's time is limited and don't waste it living others life.
Stop thinking about the thing that which makes you desperate
Never think on what has happened and find a way either to solve it or to get rid of that. Thinking on that will not help you. Find ways to be happy and take your phone and make a call to your best friend and share your feelings. Sharing is caring and this may reduce the burden on your head.
Start doing activities that give you satisfaction
Never think of doing the activities in which you are not interested and start engaging to work on those activities that make you happy. Try to list out the positive outcomes after doing that activities and make it accomplished.
Think always about your success
You should always have faith in yourself and be confident enough to complete your task of writing and make it a huge success. You should concentrate more to get it done completely. Make a call to your friend who picks up and speak your mind.
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Then just brew up a cup of coffee or tea. Otherwise try to make short walk with friends. Or else taking a shower will help you relax. If you are in crowd find someone whom you already know, go to them and tell them how much you appreciate them. Gratitude is happiness and making happiness is motivation so think about the things that which makes you happy and pours a smile on your face. If you are not happy pretend that you are the best and move on and this may easily reach to the peaks of success in your life.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed for a second time a ruling on JPMorgan Chase & Co's controversial plan to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) physically backed by copper.
The regulator set a new deadline of December 14 to rule on one of two planned ETFs. It said it needed more time to consider the issues surrounding the fund, which has ignited fears among U.S. copper fabricators about its potential impact on metal flow and prices.
"The Commission finds it appropriate to designate a longer period within which to issue an order approving or disapproving the proposed (fund)," it said in a release. The SEC had been due to issue a decision last Wednesday.
JPMorgan has tried for two years to get approval for its fund, which would effectively allow U.S. retail investors to trade physical copper easily for the first time.
U.S. copper fabricators have fought to have the fund blocked, saying it would disrupt supply and inflate prices by removing a large chunk of metal from the market.
In July, the SEC postponed making a decision on JPM's XF Physical Copper Trust until October 17 and asked the U.S. bank for more details on the potential impact of its plan.
The SEC is due to rule on another fund, the iShares Copper Trust proposed by BlackRock Inc, by December 24, but that can be extended for another 60 days.
The SEC declined to comment beyond the statement. JPM did not immediately respond to requests for comment. BlackRock declined to comment.
A consortium of U.S. copper fabricators - SouthWire Co, Encore Wire Corp, Luvata and AmRod - as well as Red Kite, a large hedge fund and physical trader, has opposed the JPMorgan and BlackRock funds in a series of filings and meetings with the SEC since May.
They say the removal of up to 180,000 metric tons (198416 tons) of copper, which would be used as collateral against shares in the funds, would have a "devastating" effect on the market.
While that is only a tiny part of a 20-million-tonne global market, fabricators worry that it accounts for the majority of the metal available in exchange-bonded warehouses.
They argue there is not enough metal available outside the exchange networks for immediate delivery to prevent a squeeze in supply because it is tied up in long-term contracts.
The long-running dispute has divided traditional industrial consumers, which use copper in everything from air-conditioning units to cars, from banks looking to attract investors seeking exposure to the potentially lucrative copper market.
In July, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said the funds would cause a boom-and-bust cycle in the copper market.
JPMorgan and BlackRock say such fears are unfounded because the funds would be miniscule compared with the global market. Emphasis on exchange stocks as a measure of spot metal availability has been overdone, they say.
The ETF would sell investors shares in a fund backed by physical metal as collateral. JPMorgan and BlackRock have said this would make it easier for smaller investors to get exposure to copper prices, which have more than doubled in seven years.
JPMorgan's fund would store LME brand-approved copper valued at up to $499,761,150 - equivalent to about 62,000 tonnes based on a copper price of $8,000 per tonne. BlackRock's iShares Copper Trust would use up to 121,200 tonnes of copper as guarantee against shares in its fund.
Reporting by Josephine Mason; Editing by Dale Hudson


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Before jumping to my Celtic Stencils, a little bit of historic information...
Nobody knows where the Celts came from, but we do know that this tribe was spread over Europe especially in the Atlantic seaboard (Britain, Ireland, Brittany, Galicia) and also in other parts of the continent since prehistoric time: France, Switzerland, Southern Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Northen Italy, the Balkans and Turkey.
When Ireland was Christianized under the Influence of the Great visionary Gregorius Magnus, the idea was to do it with love, delicacy and respect of the previous believes (despite today tendency to see Christianization as a negative event).
So, sacred places of, say, Celtic origin were kept as such. Because, it was reasoned, the quest for God within humankind has been always present since the very beginning: Christianity would simply explain who God was and even gave him a face, that of a real person, Jesus Christ.
This long introduction is to explain why Celtic art merged with Christianity to produce that wonderful product which is the "Book of Kells" , today in the Trinity College Library of Dublin. The book measure 33cm x 25cm and uses ink on vellum and is a latin version of the four Gospel based on a vulgate of the Bible written by St. Jerome in 384 AD.
You can find some celtic clip art I am making in this website that I created about vector graphics and with free vector art to download::
Google images of the Book of Keels, where Celtic art meets Christianity
Interlaced patterns, (probably an influence of Roman floor mosaics) are a key characteristic of Celtic decorative art. Example taken from a belt buckle (see below)
Interlaced celtic belt buckle (Source, wiki)
The pattern has been taken for inspirations for later Christian art such as the following leaves decoration on the bronze door of the San Zeno church in verona, Italy.
The scene narrates the Gospel story of two women arriving at the empty tomb of Christ, greeted by an angel. The panel was probably remade by a German artist from the 9th century original rebuilt during the period 1120 -1138. I can see the inspiration he took from Celtic design, something he maybe might not have been aware of.... .
...and maybe there is still something of the celt culture in todays' work of hand-engraving professional...
Roland Baptiste hand-engraving work. Yes, maybe in metal hand-engraving there still is something of Celtic...
The Triskele (from the Greek "three legs") is another common Celtic pattern.It's a interconnected triple spiral.
The Significance of the Number Three
The Celts ascribed great significance to the number three. To them, everything of importance occurred in threes – birth/life/death; birth/death/rebirth; the visible phases of the moon (new, half and full); land, sea and sky; the realms of otherworld, mortal world and celestial world. It has also been suggested that the whirling vortices of the triskele represent forward motion – cycles of development, progress or growth – which may in turn be physical, emotional and spiritual
Triskele images (wiki common website)
|Celtic decorations in the Book of Kells (IX century)
But what are the elements of Celtic art? Read on here.
My celtic stencils will be much less sophisticated, starting with "simple" celtic knot decorations and the triskele...
(coming soon...)
Beautiful handmade vector files from the book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospel. Plus lots of other handmade clip arts! A great website.
Return from Celtic Stencils back to the historic stencils homepage
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Lot 2C2, Putrajaya
Menara PjH
Menara PjH
GBI Gold
Completed in 2012
The construction of the commercial green building on Lot 2C2, marks the first of its kind in the main commercial boulevard of Precinct 2 in Putrajaya and underscores the city's status as a pioneer of green technology.
Comprising two 4-storey courtyard buildings surmounted by a tower building of 8 additional storeys, Menara PjH aims to provide a conducive working environment via its energy efficient emphasis and environmentally sustainable design. It has been designed to achieve the Gold rating under Malaysia's GBI
- Client:
Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd
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Not only is April 22nd my Birthday but it is also Earth Day! They made a national holiday of my birthday! I knew I was special ;) Anywho.....
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This report consists of 9 parts: Introduction | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Species List
Track down from Martin's Lodge to Sinharaja Village
Today was moving on day, but not until breakfast time had handed Crested Treeswift over the valley. With all bags stowed into the back seating area of Martin's Land Rover, he again drove us gingerly down the wonderfully uneven track towards the village. This was just as bumpy as the ride up, but conducted in brilliant warm sunshine. We did stop on the way to pick up a trio of Sri Lanka Green Pigeons, in the company of a couple of Sri Lanka Hanging Parrots.
Once at the village, Jaya fetched his car while Jith and I made a second attempt at Green-billed Coucal. This could have been a different place from the rain lashed torrent we paddled through the previous afternoon, with sun instead splashing the leaves on the trees. This may have been the reason for the Green-billed Coucal we saw to be found so easily. It was sunning itself on the outer branches of a nearby tree, and just above eye level for good measure.
Track and habitat just above reception centre at the village
View from first stop on the journey
White-bellied Drongo
Back on the road again, and another stop was made a short distance from the village, ostensibly to identify an overhead raptor. This turned out to be Crested Honey Buzzard, but also unveiled a few extra tantalising birds. A dapper White-bellied Drongo showed no fear on the wires above, as did a calling Yellow-fronted Barbet and Purple-rumped Sunbird. We watched these birds to the bemusement of a couple of the locals, one a horrendously elderly fellow who seemed more intent on trying to stay upright. Overhead were Indian Swiftlets, whose identification from Asian Palm Swifts seemed new to Jith. Thankfully, they obliged by displaying their tail shape convincingly. With them was a Barn Swallow and separate Ashy Woodswallow. The Yellow-fronted Barbet calls were added to by a pair of Brown-headed Barbets, set in trees above the impressive cultivated valley below.
We actually managed a further 10 minutes or so of driving before the next stop. On the left of the road were some quite extensive paddy fields, and I wanted to grab some video of some of the Indian Pond Herons wading around. Once finished, Jith pointed out a pair of Chestnut-headed Bee-eaters, and while following these, a Brahminy Kite glided into view. The temperature was climbing rapidly by now, but I postponed the return to the comfort of the air-conditioned car to track down some singing Plain Prinias.
Two brief stops were subsequently made before our 5 hour journey to the mountains began in earnest. The first was for a crake which had flapped its way in front of the car to a bank on the opposite side. A short wait pinned down Slaty-legged Crake. The second was for a distant raptor circling over the hills - a Black Eagle is always worth some time.
Paddies at the second stop of the journey
Entrance to the gardens
Just before 3pm, and after countless hundreds of twists and turns on the way to Nuwaraeliya, Jith turned and asked me if we should head for the hotel, or would I mind terribly if we did some birding at Hakgala Botanical Garden first. Sorry, the answer is too obvious! We pulled up alongside a stretch of market stalls and throng of people, with the entrance to the gardens opposite. The fee paid and the guards bypassed, we spent an enjoyable couple of hours walking the manicured paths (well, not always on the paths) and gardens. Most of the visitors seemed to prefer to gather and sit near to the entrance gate, such is the flock mentality of human populations. However, it was here that the first Sri Lanka White-eyes and Cinereous Tit (now separated from Great Tit) were located. Both were to prove common throughout the gardens.
When we ascended the paths a short way, we lost most of the people and started to gain birds. Amongst the first group were Forest Wagtail, Kashmir Flycatcher, and a small party of squabbling Dull-blue Flycatchers. The latter turned out to be numerous today, but the Kashmir Flycatcher was more difficult to track down. Onward and upward, and we added Velvet-fronted Nuthatches, Scarlet Minivet, and a trio of calling Yellow-fronted Barbets (in the same tree).
The small area where we had first seen the flycatchers seemed to be one of the most active for the birds, and this thought was verified on return to that spot, adding a small group of Grey-headed Canary-Flycatchers and Bar-winged Flycatcher-Shrikes.
Before the light had abandoned us totally - the afternoon seemed to get visibly murky at around 4.30 - we drove a short way further towards Nuwaraeliya to stop at a favoured location for Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush. This is an odd spot for such a shy bird. The running water and accessibility of cover ticked the boxes, but the busy road is only a few metres away, and a path next to the stream and waterfall is often in use by noisy locals. Suffice to say, a couple of false alarms of movement within the dense bushes failed to find the target bird, although my first Indian Blue Robin wasn't a bad substitute.
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
This report consists of 9 parts: Introduction | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Species List


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Hey everyone! It's that time of the month for another edition of Market Insider! This week I'm featuring the lovely town of Augusta, WV. If you happen to be buying or selling a home here, you might want to take a quick read at this!
The number of active listings in Augusta dropped by 9.8% from the previous month. The percent of unoccupied properties is 15.2% more than the national average.The median listing price for homes in this area is $199,900.
Median household income in Augusta is $37,040 with 98 households earning between $35,000 to $40,000 annually.
The Crime Risk Index compares the likelihood of different crimes happening within this community to the national average. The national average for each type of crime equals a score of 100. A score of 200 would represent twice the risk as the national average, and a score of 50 would represent half the risk.
Median Age
Number of Homes
Homes with Children
The above data was gathered from multiple sources and includes current listings, recent sales, and more. Whether you're a buyer or seller, the knowledge you gain will help put you in control of your real estate transactions.
If you'd like to read more statistics on the current housing market in Augusta, visit my website here. You can find more information on it such as local schools, a list of establishments (categorized and searchable by map), and you can even compare areas/neighborhoods according to zip code. It can really provide you with a thorough insight so you have a better idea of the community you want to move into.
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MDeC and global key industry players share insights on the business value of the Malaysian data centre industry within the region
Johor Bahru, 26 March 2014 – The Multimedia Development Corporation today held the Southeast Asia DataCenter and Cloud Congress, featuring key global players from the data centre industry. The congress aims to establish Malaysia as a world class data centre hub with Iskandar Malaysia being one of its primary regions. This is one of the key projects that are part of Malaysia's Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).
Now in its third iteration, the two-day event highlights Asia Pacific as a growing region for the data centre industry while showcasing Malaysia's potential as a preferred data centre destination. MDeC, working with the Iskandar Regional Development Authority is confident that Iskandar Malaysia can become the region's data center hub due to a number of factors such as infrastructure, talent, and geography.
Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer of MDeC said, "Creating and enhancing the data centre industry is an integral part of Malaysia's digital economy aspirations. Our nation's data centre industry continues on an upward trend, recording over RM630 million in revenue in 2013, a 40% increase from the previous year. With such positive growth within a short period of time, we are confident of Malaysia achieving the world class data centre hub status by 2020"
He added, "As the lead agency for this project, MDeC's role is to boost the marketability of our data centre infrastructure and service providers through various platforms. This increases the opportunity for industry players to showcase their services and value propositions. We are currently spearheading the establishment of data centre parks, with Cyberjaya and Iskandar Malaysia earmarked as locations for these new facilities."
There are now 23 data centre providers in Malaysia under the ETP's Entry Point Project 3 (EPP3), which generated RM630 million in revenues for the year 2013, surpassing the targeted projection of RM563 million by 12%.
2013 was a good year for the data centre industry – it attained five more International Data Centre Organisational Certifications, in addition to the eight certifications that were achieved in the previous year.
The Malaysian Data Centre Directory was also launched in September, as a one-stop guide to Malaysia's data centre industry players and providers, while October saw the formation of the Malaysian Data Centre Alliance (MDCA). This was a timely effort as it provides the industry with a unified voice and further drives the growth of Malaysian data centre services.
Based on the above initiatives as well as other ongoing activities to support the EPP3's objective, the data centre industry is set to contribute a total of RM2.462 billion to the country's GNI, RM7 billion in private investments and create 13,290 jobs by 2020. For 2014, the EPP3 is targeting to achieve RM787 million in revenues.
Beyond discussing the growth of the industry in Malaysia, the two-day congress will also look at issues surrounding cloud services, finance and investment, as well as new technological innovation, and data centre megatrends. The line-up of speakers include Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of MDeC, Steve Wallage, Managing Director of BroadGroup Consulting, Bob Sharon, Founder and CEO of Green Global Solutions, and Markku Lepisto, Technological Evangelist, APAC, and Amazon Web Services amongst other business leaders.
The event sponsors include MDeC, Iskandar Malaysia, Basis Bay, Digital Realty, and Vads Berhad as well as Malaysian Data Center Alliance as the official partner organisation.
For more information on the Southeast Asia Data Center and Cloud Congress, please visit http://www.datacentersasia.com
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Southeast Asia DataCenter and Cloud Congress Unlocks Malaysia as an Ideal Destination for Data Centre Growth
MDeC and global key industry players share insights on the business value of the Malaysian data centre industry within the region
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By Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE — A lot of promising startups in the green energy field get stranded in what venture capitalists call the "valley of death." These companies may have great technology but can't put together the capital or partnerships needed to scale. (By contrast Internet companies, which aren't nearly as capital-intensive, can grow much more quickly and easily because it costs almost nothing to produce each additional piece of software or app.) Broadscale Group, a new kind of investment company, hopes to change all that by helping these fledgling companies make it through the most dicey periods.
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a record $260 billion was invested in clean energy in 2011, yet commercialization challenges persist for new companies due to uncertain public policy as well as basic economics. (The cheap price of natural gas is hurting alternatives like wind and solar.) Many big corporations have long had their own venture capital arms to search for new technologies, but results have been mixed. It's risky, time-consuming work to sort through the thousands of startups out there. Broadscale's idea is create a central clearinghouse where startups are vetted and then pitched to big corporations looking for the next hot thing.
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Founder and CEO Andrew Shapiro, who previously launched the consulting firm GreenOrder, which among other things helped General Electric (GE) launch its ecomagination initiative, says: "The small companies will love it because they'll get access to the big players with deep pockets and access to markets. The corporations will like it because we'll save them all the time-consuming shoe leather."
Shapiro points out that corporate investment in the green energy field is ramping up but in a scattershot way. Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang Group recently invested $420 million in Greatpoint Energy, which has a technology to convert coal into cleaner natural gas. It is now trying to buy electric-car battery maker A123. Monsanto participated in the $144 million investment into an algae fuel maker, Sapphire Energy. According to the research firm Cleantech Group, five of the top 10 venture deals in Q1 had corporate participation.
Broadscale, which launched this week, wants to systematize that process. It has created a network of large power and utility companies — including Duke Energy (DUK), General Electric, National Grid, and others — to invest in and help commercialize new technologies and services created by growth-stage companies. "Technology is key to Duke Energy's mission of delivering affordable, reliable, and cleaner electricity," said Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy. "We believe this network approach can help us to cost-effectively identify and benefit from promising new energy solutions."
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Proving that it is serious about the companies it pitches to the big guys, Broadscale will take an equity stake in the startups and to avoid any financial conflict of interest will do so only after its members have had an opportunity to invest. Pegasus Capital Advisors, a $2.7 billion private equity fund manager, has joined the network and will provide capital from its current fund to back opportunities identified by Broadscale.
One challenge facing Broadscale: why would competing companies want to share the next, hot, new thing? Shapiro says that he is starting out mainly in the regulated utility sector where companies really don't compete with each other. How he handles this issue once Broadscale grows is yet to be seen, but a problem that Shapiro probably wouldn't mind having.


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The C. elegans germline imaged with a membrane marker in green and histone marker in red (image by Priti Agarwal)
Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts stained for actin (green) and beta-catenin (red) highlighting the cell-cell junctions.
(Image by Megha Vaman Rao)
Hela cells naturally arranged in a circle stained for actin (red) and myosin IIa (green) (image by Megha Rao)
Eph4 mouse mammary epithelial cells stained for cadherin (red) actin (green) and microtubules (blue) (image by Cristina Bertocchi)
Eph4 cell under increased tension stained for actin (red) non-muscle myosin II (green) and cadherin (blue) (image by Cristina Bertocchi)
E-cadherin (red) in vesicles near junctions. Actin is in green (Megha Rao)
ani-1::GFP embryos lined up by Wei Yung for inspection
Hela cell stained for F-actin with phalloidin visualized with super resolution microcopy (Wu Yao). Each image in the series of four is an enlargement of the one above
During ventral enclosure epidermal cells wrap around the embryo from the dorsal side to meet at the ventral midline. In this movie hypodermal cells are expressing an actin binding GFP reporter.
Elongation involves dramatic cell shape change in all cells, including the hypodermal cells. Cell-cell junctions are highlighted in this movie of DLG-1::GFP
Gastrulation cleft closure is seen in this embryo, which is expressing a CED-10::GFP bound to all membranes.
Microtubule dynamics in a comma stage embryo can be appreciated in this 20 second interval movie of tubulin::GFP
GFP can also be expressed in the nuclei allowing the following of nuclear dynamics in developing embryos
MDCK ECad cherry monolayer dynamics (Megha Rao)
HMP-1::GFP;AJM-1::dsRED (Yemima Budirahadja)
HMR-1/Cadherin::GFP (Dorsal view) (Yemima Budirahadja)
HMR-1/Cadherin::GFP (Ventral view) (Yemima Budirahadja)
Early embryo PH-cherry;His-GFP (Anup Padmanabhan)


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Dear Eddie,
The Picture Post is for people who move their lips when they read. […]
Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books. I am very tough and have been known to break a Vienna roll with my bare hands. I am very handsome, have a powerful physique, and change my shirt regularly every Monday morning. When resting between assignments I live in a French Provincial chateau of Mulholland Drive. It is a fairly small place of forty-eight rooms and fifty-nine baths. I dine off gold plate and prefer to be waited on by naked dancing girl.
But of course there are times when I have to grow a beard and hole up in a Main Street flophouse, and there are other times when I am, although not by request, entertained in the drunk tank in the city jail.
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I get my material in various ways, but my favorite procedure (sometimes known as the Jerry Wald system) consists of going through the desks of other writers after hours. I am thirty-eight years old and have been for the last twenty years. I do not regard myself as a dead shot, but I am pretty dangerous man with a wet towel. But all in all I think my favourite weapon is a twenty dollar bill. In my spare time I collect elephants.
Yours respectfully,
Enlighting Ray
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Rafting on the Ottawa River. Take in both channels in one day, for double the fun and excitement.
A list of abandoned mining towns in central Ontario. No photos, but each town has basic directions.
Southern Ontario has its fair share of ghosts and haunted tales. Four different walks to choose from.
Not only is this hotel haunted, it's a budget hostel in an old jail building. Maybe you'll meet some inmates who never really left.
An extensive list of abandoned places and ghost towns all through Ontario. Most have photos and directions.
Ontario's huge and scenic Algonquin park is the perfect place to try mushing with a team of dogs.
Tours of several major cities, like Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Edmonton. Not all hot air balloon trips have to be over wilderness or natural sights!
Many different tours to choose from, even a night-time moonlight mushing trip. All in the remote Haliburton Highlands region of Ontario.


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I'm a Theater Set Designer and an illustrator. I was born in Madrid, Spain. The main challenge in my industry is the passage of the sketch to the actual construction of the set, and in the case of illustration, the approach to different styles according to customer needs.
I think that the qualities that best describe me professionally are that I listen, I show and retouch my work according to customer needs.
Because my work focuses on other areas, the fact of having to learn to program or to use a specific web design software when you do not have time, can be a problem. The Wix editor is very intuitive and it covered everything I needed to create my own portfolio. That has helped me a lot. Also, Wix has great, totally customizable web templates which help you get started on a design idea and will hopefully prevent you from getting stuck with a design that is unchangeable or not what you need.
I'm still taking the first steps in my career, but I can say that having a Wix website has been the most comfortable way to show my work to prospective clients.


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The primary source of misery in the world isn't warfare, or natural disaster, says Bill Gates.
It's the death of children.
Gates is in New York talking to the U.N. about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are a set of priorities for improving life in poorer nations.
Ahead of his talk at the UN, he spoke with a few reporters, including us.
At the end of his talk he was asked about the progress made on the MDGs. He says he's pretty happy overall with how life has improved, but the top achievement is the reduction in child deaths.
Here's Gates:
"Child mortality, we cut it half. We're talking about 12 million a year. Remember there's always mis-perspective that the latest natural disaster or unrest is the primary source of misery. The primary source of misery in the world is the ongoing mothers whose children die. That was 12 million back in 1990. Now, we'll be around 6 million by the end of this time period. That's just such a phenomenal thing. Ask people on the street, "Hey, what bad things are going on?" They'll say, "Well maybe Syrian refugees..." It's just not well known and that to me is the top achievement of this entire period."
Gates foundation has delivered vaccines and improved healthcare in poor nations, leading to lives being saved.
Unrelated, but, still interesting, he said that while a lot of people think having a good, democratic country results in better health care for the poor, that's not always the case. He was asked about why Ethiopia succeeded despite a political system that isn't great:
In poor countries there's a negative correlation between democracy ratings and saving children's lives. A negative correlation. That's been true since 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. The way these factors interplay to each other is fairly complex. The Ethiopia story is primary a health care story. Meles supported Tedros. The donors came in, they ... put out 15,000 health posts, 30,000 trained community health workers — it's a work in progress, it's not Vietnam or Rwanda. Rwanda, now there's a great health system. Ethiopia benefited from having such a bad baseline. You want to get to a certain level, you better be doing a really bad job in 1990s, it is very helpful. Ethiopia is a very poor country, so this primary health care they're in the process of building ... it's quite impressive. They've built a system, people show up, the supply chain largely works.


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Manager – Human Resources
Towell Mattress & Furniture Industry
Gratitude is my Attitude!!!
Gratitude- paying respect, being appreciative or being thankful is what you do when you are poured and benefited with someone's act.
Gratitude is an expression that has to reflect through action. This phrase means little when you are young, beginner or a starter. You feel like you don't owe anything to the world as you have got everything in you. A wrong notion, a very wrong feeling and a completely destructive mentality.
You as a person, always know that your personality, your individuality is because of your DNA and there's only you as YOU. We perceive ourselves, portray ourselves that 'I am this way because that's in my DNA'.
Over a period of my work life, one thing I realized that you even develop a professional personality eventually. Working for so long, with seniors, especially with your boss- you adopt some traits. The tendency is to pick up the working style and approach from your boss, as you have been putting your hours, days and years with him/her for over a longer time. These transfers take place knowingly or unknowingly with you. Most of the time you follow certain things because you have to and you are left with no choice other than work according to your boss. Slowly and gradually, looking back into the time, you realize that your professional personality has a unique style and it turns out to be the collective style of all the bosses you were working for.
Now- it's time to think about them, be thankful that- you as a professional, is only because of your seniors. A very much "can't deniable fact!" It is that when you meet the best, you give your best- just a 'Ripple Effect' or 'Effect of Reflection'!
Conventional wisdom says that people don't leave companies, they leave bad bosses.
My experience says that visionary people quit for better prospects, rather than bosses. Good or bad- every boss communicates something really effective and he can hardly be the 'only reason' for your quitting. C'mmon… lets be more practical… having worked for six different organizations, I have never quit for a boss, rather yearned for spreading my wings in a wider horizon. And, also a casual check in my circle gave me the idea that they too have never changed for the reason being 'the boss'.
It's time to remember them… I have found that all of my professional traits is from the so called 'professional DNA'- 'Desired Noticeable Attributes'. Me too have borrowed certain traits and thoughts from my bosses and have developed a combined working style. I am 'me' in professional world because of all of them. A big thanks to all of you… for making me …ME.
The answer to all the question marks raised on my professional behavior are the lessons I learnt from my bosses. Coming to the point- all of them were not given as a teaching or preaching nor it was transferred technically; it was picked naturally in the long term process–
Boss #1 – Be a friend to your juniors and still you will find them following you for the knowledge you possess. [This encouraged me to acquire in-depth knowledge]
Boss #2 – Take decisions… will back you always… will praise you in public and punish you in private. [Empowered me and made me understand the importance of empowerment]
Boss #3 – Everything is negotiable… keep yourself upgraded with the market.
[Learnt the worldly fact]
Boss #4 – Don't settle for mediocre… aim big, be perfect and remain very much in trend. [Developed the art of perfection]
Boss #5 – Nothing is above the company. [Gave an insight of organizational vision]
Boss #6 – You are not here to please everyone, make everyone happy. You are not here to be liked or loved. Your role has to be commended. Know your job, your role and act wisely. [Taught me to be objective]
During those days, frankly speaking- I was bugged up with some of them, an example to demonstrate this…. It was a herculean task to satisfy one of my boss. It was really difficult to please him, as he use to highlight some or the other mistakes even from a beautifully crafted piece of work (at least I thought so). He wanted everything perfect. Even though he wasn't a tech-savvy, but the beauty was that he knew what he wanted and would not agree to settle for anything less. Because of him, we started exploring new arenas and the result was that we rediscovered our hidden potentials. Now, looking back… really want to thank him.
You may not notice, observe or agree with the same when you are still working. But you may find that working for some five plus years, you tend to become like some of your bosses. I wasn't fortunate to know, understand and analyze it earlier but thought of sharing this so that you can work wonders, if you know it already. You can be the sculptor of your career… so shape it up and design it uniquely when the clock is still ticking. Here I refer to a motivational speech "You are the co-author of your destiny". So, craft it the way you want…
Whatever position or title you hold today… is merely a reflection of all your seniors and this day- again, you still ought to pay respect to all your seniors. Believe me…
their experience was, is and would always be much more than yours… and experience is something that you don't get thru books. No theory can beat the experience.
Wearing the HR hat- today, I find it important to look back and pay due reverence to all my bosses for being themselves, good or bad, because I learnt from everything that was thrown to me. Today I realize that everyone instills you with something or the other and helps you grow and flourish.
Slowly… but definitely… I have a developed an attitude- Gratitude is my Attitude… Find out what's yours???


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Indoor netball is relatively a new term for some people. It is a team sport and, as the name suggests, is exclusively played indoors. The driving force behind the invention of the game was to make the netball game much faster, which for many people was too slow. A net covers the entire field and thus the ball is prevented from getting out and as a result there are no play stoppages. The result is a fast-paced game which is fun. Additionally, it is much more fun playing within the confines of a net. There are a variety of sports competitions for the indoor sport throughout Australia and some of them include super league competition, and the indoor netball world cup, the only international tournament that has been organized for the sport. Read on for a deeper understanding of indoor netball Brisbane sports lovers play.
How it differs from the traditional netball
While indoor netball Brisbane sports enthusiasts play now borrows heavily from the traditional outdoor version, there are a few differences between the two that are minor. First is unlike the traditional version, indoor netball makes use of nets all-round the field including above. Also, while the traditional netball was played mostly by women, here all kinds of people including men and children play the game. This actually leads to a very fun atmosphere.
How they are similar
Just like the normal field for the traditional netball, the field here is also similar. They also incorporate goal posts on both ends as well as hoops. Just like the traditional netball too matches here are played for four ten-minute periods. Additionally, the rule that applies in the traditional netball games also remains constant. The same goes for the objectives of the game where the teams move the ball towards the side of the opponent goal post and then make a score by having the ball thrown through the hoop. At the end of the game, it is the team that manages to have the better of the points, goes home as Format of the game.
The winner
The indoor netball game is also played in different formats. Typically, the game consists of 6 members, or even seven members, which is dependent on the number of players that are allowed per team. It can also be single or mixed gender depending on the players that make up the team. As regards the rules of the game, they remain constant.
There are many games in the world but just as technology the games also keep evolving. If you are looking forward to trying something more fun than the conventional netball, then indoor netball, which is a fast paced version of the same game, is the best solution for you. Still the popularity of indoor netball Brisbane players play does not compare to that of the traditional netball. It's only until recently that the number of countries (with teams participating not only in the indoor netball games but in the international competitions as well) is beginning to increase. For more on indoor netball, visit http://www.iplaysports.com.au/


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Posted on July 12, 2017.
City officials announced Tuesday morning that the Germantown fireworks show, which was canceled on July 4 due to lightning, will not be rescheduled "due to issues with relocating the show, rain damage and additional costs."
The city will receive a credit from Pyro Shows Inc. for the value of unused undamaged shells.
"After carefully reviewing the situation with our procurement department, the best decision for the city was to simply apply the credit from the canceled show to next year's event," said Parks and Recreation Director Pam Beasley. "While we would love to reschedule the show for a later date, it quickly became clear that it wasn't the best course of action," added Beasley.
Due to the uncertainty about the size of the credit and the costs associated with setting up the complicated system used to fire the shells, a rescheduled show would be smaller than the planned show.
The cancellation of the fireworks show on July 4 was the first time in the more than 30 years of the show.
"We share in the community's disappointment and appreciate everyone's understanding," Beasley said.
Other city news:
The city's Board of Mayor and Aldermen deferred the acquisition of a tract of land on the west side of Germantown Road at Wolf Trail Cove Monday night.
The acquisition is part of the Germantown Road and Wolf River Blvd. Intersection Improvement Project. The board will address the acquisition again on Aug. 14.
Board members did approve three other right-of-way purchases for the improvement and widening of the roads. Eighty percent of the acquisitions will be federally funded, with the other 20 percent paid for by TDOT.
City Engineer Tim Gwaltney said the intersection is "one of the most heavily congested intersections within the entire Memphis area," with an average daily traffic count of 75,000 vehicles.


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Peel tomatoes and cut in half.
Mix onion and parsley, add oil; let stand two hours before using.
When ready to serve line salad bowl with lettuce, place tomatoes in it and on each half put 1 tablespoon onion and parsley mixture.
Pour on French dressing.
Everything should be ice cold.
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The Peach Emoji Has Changed And The Internet Is Furious
As part of the latest iOS rollout, the new peach emoji will not doubt disappoint those iPhone users who do not use it for fruit purposes.
The new peach looks like, well, a peach... well, actually it looks like an apricot.
Until now, the peach was appreciated by sexters everywhere as it depicted not a ripe stone fruit but a pert derrière.
TBH, it still looks bottom-like, but the internet isn't having any of it.
It is unclear if the eggplant will be next.
Apple is redrawing most of the food emoji in 10.2...the peach has lost all of it meaning though. pic.twitter.com/bVSmzd7SCj— Nacho Carretero M. (@carreteronacho) October 31, 2016
Y'all done misused the peach emoji so often apply had to change it. Just watch, they bout to delete the eggplant in the next update. pic.twitter.com/R3cbBaODbI— Oscar Pimienta (@Opimi1) November 1, 2016
They're changing the peach emoji so it won't look like a butt? Kiss my 🍑, Unicode 9.0.— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 2, 2016
for everyone complaining about the new peach emoji 🍑 pic.twitter.com/48vIhrtEJX— V☻TE4HER IN 5 DAYS (@tigerwang) November 2, 2016
Good Morning everyone except the guy that changed the peach emoji pic.twitter.com/EhUxaMSls0— Jamil OMKS (@Juhmil) November 2, 2016
Soon there's going to be some very perplexed apple engineers, looking at the emoji frequency data and googling "peach consumption decline"— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) November 1, 2016


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WarPaint International Artisans show you makeup tips & tricks in your home or office! Just choose the class that is right for you and click the "Book Now" button to get started.
1-on-1 Grab Bag Class: $150
In this 90 minute session we do a consultation of the products you already own, give you professional opinions on them, what you could add to your arsenal, and what you can edit including skin care.
Then we teach you a technique from one of our Signature look book applications. Naturally you, Day time you, Sun kissed you, Glam you, Classic you, Rebel you or whatever look you would like to achieve. We will SHOW you the technique on one side of your face, then we will guide you, as you apply the look onto your other half.
Morning Makeup in 15 Minutes:
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For the Gal on the go. Round up to 5 of your girlfriends who would like to learn how to look their best in just 15 mins of everyone's morning routine. In this two hour class watch two of our WarPaint Artisans teach you tips and tricks to make your morning makeup routine easier. Or, as the host of the party, be the model yourself and let your friends watch as you become quickly enhanced for the stage of life.
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We built this for our land customer. Will build any type house for you. No headaches for you. We handle it all, including all permits, and inspections.
Come ride with the original Developer to see what is ready and get prices. Then taken back to your car to make yourself at home there, any time you want to. A family atmosphere about 20 years behind the times. Laid back area that will grow on you.
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