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The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics
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A little knowledge of Darwinism is a dangerous thing. People blame their genes for all kinds of bad habits and misfortunes. Journalists and politicians are fond of invoking evolutionary anthropology to explain and guide social behaviour. In 2008 Michael Reiss, director of education at the Royal Society, was mocked in the press, attacked by his colleagues and forced to resign when he committed the heresy of saying that science teachers should engage with the religious opinions of their students when teaching evolution. I thought at first that this book, thanks to its title, was yet another work purporting to explain politics from the perspective of the Pleistocene Era, which goes to show how ubiquitous such books are now. But Dennis Sewell's The Political Gene offers something far more valuable. It is a counterblast to that genre of books.

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I love butter. Such a great invention.
Also, really sharp cheddar cheese. Two thumbs up.
I also adore really good, tart, plain greek yogurt...just a little in a dish, with blueberries on top, and some honey, with a sprinkling of diced almonds. Yum. Best ever.
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A+ Does Not Mean All Asians:The Model Minority Myth and Implications for Higher Education
This paper explores the model minority myth and its current implications for higher education. Analysis of literature from the counseling, journalism, institutional research, and student services fields illustrates how the myth perpetuates stereotypes, both nationally and in the higher education field. Additionally, the implications of enrolling increased numbers of Asian Pacific American (APA) students relative to the number of higher education and student affairs professionals with APA lineage are discussed.
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Victoria, Nathabniel A.
"A+ Does Not Mean All Asians:The Model Minority Myth and Implications for Higher Education,"
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One of our favorite bloggers, The Pintester, puts her crafting where her Pins are, and tests out projects she sees on Pinterest regularly. This week she tested out a delicious-looking Strawberry & Cream Mug Cake. How did she fare?
Nailed It.
Read the full (hilarious) post: Strawberries & Cream Mug Cake at The Pintester
Who in their right mind believes something "baked" in the microwave would taste good?!
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Ariana Grande's summer hit "Problem" is currently sitting at No. 2 on the Hot 100 — just below her featured guest Iggy Azalea's team-up with Charli XCX, "Fancy" — so now that the video's out, don't be surprised if Grande overtakes her collaborator in the No. 1 spot.
But the girls play nice in the mod-styled clip, which sees Grande reprising the choreography she's showcased in previous performances while Azalea rocks the biggest hair of her career. Play it again, Mr. Saxobeat.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Huntsville attorney Joe H. Ritch has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become only the second Alabamian to ever serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors.
The first Alabamian to serve on the TVA board was also from Huntsville. Howard A. Thrailkill, former president of Adtran Inc., left the TVA board in December 2010 after serving more than four years. Thrailkill, appointed by President George W. Bush, is the only Alabamian ever to serve on the board of the 79-year-old federal utility's board.
Ritch said Saturday he only wanted to make one comment about the nomination, which will have to be approved by the U.S. Senate.
"It's an honor to be nominated by the president," Ritch said.
Ritch, an attorney at Sirote Permutt PC, is active in Huntsville economic development work and is the longtime chairman of the Tennessee Valley BRAC Committee. Under Ritch's leadership, the BRAC committee successfully marketed Huntsville and North Alabama as a good destination for military commands shifted around under the Base Realignment and Closure Commission's 2005 and 1995 moves.
Obama also nominated three others, D.V. Lynn Evans, Marilyn A. Brown and Michael McWherter, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. McWherter was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Tennessee. Evans is a Memphis accountant and Brown is seeking a second term on the nine-member board.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he looks forward to learning more about the nominees, who will be responsible helping set strategies, goals and objectives for the utility that has customers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia, according to the Associated Press.


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Worries and Plans for the Future
Companies make plans as they wait for the harvest
The last few weeks of August brought a lot of announcements of new investments in infrastructure.. Showing that, at least for now, the agriculture market doesn't seem to be slowing down, on the national stage. As Labor Day passes and harvest season inches closer, the agriculture community seems to be holding their breath, waiting to see how the harvest turns out. Even though there is some concern over drought emerging in the Corn Belt and the risk of frost, most seem optimistic about it.
Top news stories for the week of Aug. 26 are…
- Third Man Charged With Burning Grain Truck
- CHS Inc. and Dakota Plains Cooperative Consider Consolidation
- South Dakota Grain Elevators Worried Over DM&E Railroad Sale
- Pilgrim's Pride Building $15 Million Feed Mill in Alabama
- Washington State Grain Inspectors Will Stop Inspections for United Grain Corp.
Third Man Charged With Burning Grain Truck
Three men apparently stole a 1975 Ford grain truck from a private residence in Lincoln County, MO, right outside of St Louis. They simply drove the truck through a wall of the building it was housed in.. Though it is unclear who, one of the men drove the truck off the road and subsequently set it on fire. Mitchell Houston and Adam Bote had previously been arrested and admitted to the burglarizing and stealing, but both blamed the other for setting the truck ablaze. Zachary Hill was arrested about a week after the other two men. All three are charged with burglary, two-counts of tampering with a motor vehicle and property damage. Hill and Bote are also charged with knowingly burning. The bail is set for $75,000 for Hill and Bote, and $100,000 for Houston.
CHS Inc. and Dakota Plains Cooperative Consider Consolidation
CHS Inc. and Dakota Plains Cooperative have taken the first steps towards a merger by seeking their respective boards of directors to approve it. This merger will help CHS inc. meet its goal of enhancing its agronomy assets in east and central North Dakota. Those plans also include the possibility of building three new fertilizer plants in the Dakota Plains Cooperative trade area in order to take advantage of a fertilizer manufacturing plant in Spiritwood, ND.
South Dakota Grain Elevators Worried Over DM&E Railroad Sale
The Canadian Pacific is close to selling the western part of Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. They have reported four to five interested parties and are reportedly close to making a deal. South Dakota grain elevators fear the possibility that the rail will be sold to a short-line railroad. If sold to a short-line, who would have to make a deal with The Canadian Pacific for access to an international network, it could mean that there would only be one way out. This could mean an increase in rates for the elevators that use the railroad.
Pilgrim's Pride Building $15 Million Feed Mill in Alabama
Pilgrim's Pride is investing a total of $25 million in its Alabama operations. The plan includes building a $15 million feed mill in Pinckard, AL, and $10 million in upgrades to its poultry processing facility in Enterprise, AL. The news came shortly after Pilgrim's Pride announced it would be closing its facility in Batesville, AR. The mill will begin construction in September and the upgrades will be made over the next six months.
Washington State Grain Inspectors Will Stop Inspections for United Grain Corp.
Washington State Grain Inspectors no longer feel safe crossing the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's picket line at the Port of Vancouver, WA. Reports of threats from the picketers, including an instance where a picketer opened an inspector's car door in order to scream at them, has caused inspectors to threaten to stop inspections unless the two parties reach a solution by the first week of September, or more steps are taken to ensure their safety. The Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association says that grain flow is unlikely to stop because they believe that federal inspectors will be forced, by law, to take over the inspections. The Port of Vancouver claims that they have enough security in place to protect all parties involved. The lockout has been in place since February and though both parties claim that they have tried to resume talks, both say that the other group has been unresponsive.
That's it for this week. I want to remind you to email me if you have any story ideas, comments on what news you want to hear about, or just to say hey. Subscribe to Industry Watch, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook for all the latest news in the industry.


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Rebecca Judd and her ex-AFL star husband Chris were working on a stunning side project while Bec was recently pregnant with the couple's newborn twin boys.
The celebrity couple worked on refurbishing their four-level melbourne townhouse in Prahran, Melbourne. The home was transformed as a part of Bec's online home style series.
The incredible property oozes style and luxury, with four large bedrooms, a master suite that spans the entire top level, spacious open living and quite possibly the prettiest bathroom we've ever seen.
Their pad is valued at $1.9 million and goes to auction on Sunday, December 4th.
According to The Herald Sun, Bec and Chris plan to donate all proceeds from the sale to a victorian-based drug rehabilitation charity called Windana.
Click on the gallery above to check out their home, it DEFINITELY has the X factor!
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"a catalyst for cultural respect, continuity and innovation"
To provide a forum for the community's educational, cultural, artistic and scientific interests. We are a catalyst for cultural respect, continuity and innovation. The Center is a non profit organization. We have a gift shop, museum, art gallery, Native dance and performance plaza. We have lectures, music, plays and much more year round. Some of our major programs are The Pueblo to Pueblo Run held in April, the Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival, held in May, and the Southwest Traders Rendezvous in September. During the summer months we have Native American Dances and programs that are held in our outdoor Dance Plaza.
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See the highest-rated EHRs for usability
The American Medical Association, alongside MedStar Health's National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, has launched a new framework to rank electronic health records according to their user-centered design, of UCD.
The aim, according to AMA and MedStar, is to spotlight the importance of UCD -- something officials call "an essential component in improving patient safety and the satisfaction of physicians, patients and medical professionals who use EHRs."
Too many vendors - even those certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT - still don't feature best UCD practices, they point out. Vendors must only report on the UCD processes they followed for the eight capabilities deemed critical to patient safety by ONC, which doesn't use UCD best practices as a basis for certification.
[Related: How does your EHR stack up? See our 2015 satisfaction survey results.]
"We believe that EHRs should be designed with the end user in mind and the ONC's requirements do not go far enough to encourage fully functional and usable products," researchers write. "This framework can be used by the ONC to improve their certification program and as a method to track improvements EHR vendors make as they recertify their products over time."
The framework rates EHR products according to a 15-point scale of UCD best practices (rather than the actual usability of the EHR as experienced by end users). Using testing reports from ONCs' Certified Health Product List, AMA and MedStar analyzed 20 common EHRs, five inpatient and 15 ambulatory.
The top five EHR usability scores, according to the framework:
- Allscripts Enterprise EHR v11.4.1 (Score: 15)
- Allscripts Sunrise Acute v15.1-c INPATIENT (Score: 15)
- McKesson Specialty Health Paragon 12&2.0 INPATIENT (Score: 15)
- McKesson iKnowMedEHR v6.7 (Score: 14.5)
- athenahealth Athena Clinicals v14.9 (Score: 13.5)
The bottom five EHR usability scores:
- Nextgen Healthcare Ambulatory 5.8.2 (Score: 9.5)
- Epic Systems EpiCare Ambulatory 2014 (Epic2012) (Score: 9)
- Dr Systems eHR MU v2.0 (Score: 7)
- Greenway PrimeSUITE 2014(17.0) (Score: 7)
eClinicalWorks Version 10 (Score: 5)
See the full ratings and read about the ranking methodology here.
"It is important to recognize this framework evaluates conformity with best practices identified in human factors and usability literature for user-centered design and testing," said Raj Ratwani, scientific director of the Human Factors Center and a principle developer of the framework, in a press statement.
"We are not evaluating the actual usability of the product as experienced by end users," he added. "Alignment with best practices for user-centered design and testing is a starting point that regulators and industry should meet and exceed. The framework we developed is the first step in bringing greater transparency to the usability processes of EHR vendors."
"Physician experiences documented by the AMA demonstrate that most EHR systems fail to support effective and efficient clinical work, and continued issues with usability are a key factor driving low satisfaction with many EHR products," said AMA President Steven J. Stack, MD, in a statement. "Our goal is to shine light on the low-bar of the certification process and how EHRs are designed and user-tested in order to drive improvements that respond to the urgent physician need for better designed EHR systems."
See also:
Object of beauty, or ungainly nuisance?
Senate panel to look into EHR usability
When EHR design is a 'what not to do'
Q&A: HxD conference co-founder Amy Cueva talks user-centered design
What will EHRs look like in 2020?


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By Jacob Chamberlain | Agencies | 20 Dec 2012
After a ceasefire was brokered to end Israel's eight day siege on Gaza earlier this month, Israel has continued to attack Palestinians in a number of ways: showing an unwillingness to give up its pursuit of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, withholding tax revenues indefinitely from the Palestinian Authority, and continuing to fire indiscriminately at Palestinians along the border. The latter resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy last week—an event that sparked two days of tense protests in Hebron and what some are now saying will be the beginning of the third Intifada.
Interpress Service reports Wednesday that a new Palestinian group called the National Union Battalions (NUB), comprised of multiple political groups, has already called for the third Palestinian uprising in a video released over the weekend. The group is comprised of members from Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who simultaneously announced the establishment of their group—the purpose being to unite differing political factions in solidarity against Israel.
"This is the beginning of a third Palestinian Intifada, which is erupting from the heart of Hebron and will spread to all of Palestine," the video states.
IPS reports:
The Battalions' demands include removing all IDF checkpoints in the West Bank, the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, an Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian land, and the transfer of all tax revenues Israel has been withholding from the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the U.N. voted on upgrading the Palestinians' status.
The NUB also demands the opening of all border crossings, and the supply of water and electricity to the besieged Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, as Palestinians begin to reach across their former political boundaries—a movement ignited by Israel's most violent and oppressive campaigns in recent years—the Israeli government announced yet another new round of settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank this week, which will include 1,500 new settler homes in East Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo. The exorbitant amount of new settlements proposed this month, as well as Israel's punitive tax revenue withholding, comes in the form of retaliation for last month's historic vote at the United Nations that established Palestine as a non-member observer state at the UN, Israel officials claim.
These moves, however, seem to be only further alienating Israel from a broader international community. Four European members of the United Nations security council, UK, France, Germany and Portugal, are composing a strongly worded joint condemnation of Israel's recent retaliatory settlement expansions, the Guardian reports Wednesday.
All members of the 15 state security council, with the exception of the US, are expected to sign on to the international condemnation, stating the settlement activity is illegal and must stop, according to Palestine's envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour.
Whether strongly worded condemnations will have any effect on the US-backed military giant is yet to be seen. What has become apparent, however, as IPS reports, is the mass anger, as well as unification, in Palestine that Israel's recent actions have sparked, as was seen in the days of protest in Hebron that spread to other towns and cities in the West Bank.


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MONDAY, July 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D does little to defend your brain against multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease, a new review shows.
The finding is based on an analysis of more than 70 studies.
"Our work counters an emerging belief held in some quarters suggesting that higher levels of vitamin D can impact positively on brain health," said study author Krystal Iacopetta, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Adelaide, in Australia.
"Past studies had found that patients with a neurodegenerative disease tended to have lower levels of vitamin D compared to healthy members of the population," she explained in a university new release.
"This led to the hypothesis that increasing vitamin D levels, either through more UV [ultraviolet] and sun exposure or by taking vitamin D supplements, could potentially have a positive impact. A widely held community belief is that these supplements could reduce the risk of developing brain-related disorders or limit their progression," Iacopetta said.
"The results of our in-depth review and an analysis of all the scientific literature, however, indicates that this is not the case and that there is no convincing evidence supporting vitamin D as a protective agent for the brain," she said.
Study co-author Mark Hutchinson added, "We've broken a commonly held belief that vitamin D resulting from sun exposure is good for your brain."
While vitamin D is essential for health, it "is not going to be the miracle 'sunshine tablet' solution for brain disorders that some were actively hoping for," said Hutchinson, who is a professor at the University of Adelaide.
The study was published July 10 in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience.
-- Robert Preidt
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Disseminating Photography
Picture a history of photography freed from the tyranny of the photograph. No longer confined to static objects or specific technologies, this history would instead engage the photographic image in all its various manifestations, wherever and in whatever form they have appeared. As a consequence, dissemination, rather than production, would become our study's guiding logic. In taking this expanded view of its territory, the history of photography would at last fall into sync with its own story. The earliest sustained photographic experiments were motivated by a desire to develop a mode of automated reproduction, and this continued to preoccupy photography's pioneers. Several people attempted to turn the otherwise unique daguerreotype plate into an engraved matrix capable of generating ink-on-paper prints. This effort found fulfillment in the efforts of English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, who spent the last 25 years of his life developing a photographic engraving system in which a metal plate could be imprinted with a photographic image—the system that came to dominate 20th-century publishing. But even before this became possible, early commercial photographers frequently had their work published as wood or steel engravings or as lithographs, allowing that work to appear in multiple copies in the illustrated press and to be seen all over the world. For this to occur, the photographic image had to be divorced from the photograph itself, a conceptual displacement of form from substance. This displacement is of course now central to our everyday experience of photography; indeed, it is what photography is.
A shift in focus from the photograph to its dissemination would have any number of effects on how we understand the practice of photography. In the short term, it would do away with a lingering art historical bias that privileges origins and originality, innovation and invention, over ordinary and vernacular practices. More importantly, it would acknowledge that the same image has the capacity to come in many different looks, sizes and formats, and, even stranger, can appear in many places at once and exist simultaneously at many different points of time. Equally complicated is the way its capacity for reproducibility ties photography to the processes and social implications of capitalism, making any examination of its effects an unavoidably political issue. But perhaps the most significant consequence of this new history would be its necessarily critical engagement with the identity of its subject. Dissemination both divides and multiplies, complicating our grasp of photography but also of identity of any sort—including our own.
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GEOFFREY BATCHEN, a former resident of Brooklyn, teaches the history of photography at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His most recent book is a co-edited volume titled Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis.
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Social Photography VIBy Graham W. Bell
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WATERLOO, ONT.—So, one evening around the dinner table, your 17-year-old son rattles off a list of things he'd like to do in life. Skydive. Bungee jump. Start a really big food fight. Streak a Blue Jays game at Toronto's Rogers Centre . . .
You're like, yeah, sure. Skydiving and bungee jumping are dangerous. And it's on to the next subject. Maybe the girls' ballet lessons. Or the next family adventure-vacation.
The next night, Yannis Carayannopoulos announces he's actually going to the second game of the Jays' opening series. He and his friends are taking the bus, they have return tickets, what could go wrong?
Parents Peter and Sofy Carayannopoulos, both business professors, feel there's nothing to worry about. After all, Grade 11 honour roll student and varsity athlete Yannis is, in the words of his father, "a quiet kid, in all respects a good kid, one who never gave us problems."
Then, just after 8 p.m., the phone rings.
"Any phone call that starts with, 'This is Sgt. whoever from the 52 division,' from that point on, you're not thinking," recalls Sofy. "Immediately running through my head, the son of a gun did it."
He sure did.
"They can't say I didn't warn them," says Yannis as he leans on the kitchen counter, wearing a Jays T-shirt.
On Tues., April 10, at the bottom of the third in a set-to with the Boston Red Sox, Yannis hopped the fence from his front- row seat at the home-run wall, stripped off his shirt, tripped over his duct-taped tearaway shorts and sprinted in a Speedo.
For an incredible 51 seconds, the crowd roared as he ducked and weaved — until security and police officers finally tackled the 140-pound teen to the turf and sat on his head.
The crowd booed. When he was brought to his feet, cuffed, Yannis just couldn't resist letting the fans know he was all right. So he clicked his heels. The crowd went nuts.
Sitting up high, a friend captured it all, in high-definition yet, and posted it on YouTube. Of course, this being the Internet Age, complete strangers also shot it on camera phones and also put it on YouTube.
The video attracted the attention of Drake, the Toronto-born actor and hip-hop star whose profane song "The Motto" urges, "You only live once: that's the motto, nigga, YOLO." Yannis, you see, had painted "YOLO" on both his back and his pecs before streaking the field. Which is why Drake tweeted the video to his 7 million-plus followers.
"I didn't expect it was going to get all this attention," says Yannis. "I knew I'd get love from my friends. I got standing ovations in my first-period class and the cafeteria. But what drew all the attention was the YOLO because then it turned into, 'He's a streaker with a message.' "
Yannis' Facebook and Twitter followings doubled. The buff-but-baby-faced youth — he's got of a bit of a Justin Bieber thing going on — was hit on by countless girls online. And the videos went viral so fast that his uncle, away on a business trip in California, heard about it within an hour of the streak.
But it wasn't quite a streak, seeing as Yannis didn't do the Full Monty.
"The original plan was to go naked or in a Borat (thong) suit," he explains. "But when I did my research, I found out I could get charged with public indecency, exposing myself to a minor, listed as a young sex offender. It only gets very messy. That little piece of fabric is what saved me from a bunch of other charges."
As it turned out, Yannis was charged with "mischief — interfering with property." The legal consequences of his actions have yet to be decided. Despite his blemish-free record, his grades, his dancing and filmmaking hobbies, and his volunteer work as a basketball coach with younger kids, he could also be facing extra-judicial penalties.
Which is what he pretty much expected when he planned his streaking operation, starting with watching Blue Jays videos to determine where security was weakest. He researched the law, thoroughly weighing all possible consequences. He made his own tear-away shorts because none of his friends would lend him theirs, knowing they'd never get them back. He even planned to do the run early enough so that, when the police called his parents, it wouldn't have to be a late-night drive for them from Waterloo.
Of course, he didn't pull it all off as planned. He never got a chance to perform the breathtaking backflips he makes in his dance videos. (Last year, his entry came second in a Tic Tac commercial contest, and aired on TV.) And he missed the big finish: sliding into home plate. But still, he pulled it all off and, even though his parents and some of his relatives and teachers disapproved, they had to admire his planning.
"It was between, 'Oh my gawd, I am going to kill him and I can't believe he actually pulled this off,' " says Sofy as she and Peter both laugh in spite of themselves. "Because this is Yannis we are talking about.
"When he says he is going to run out on the Blue Jays field, there are 50 things that could go wrong and he probably would have run into all of them. He would have been sitting at some place in the field where the wall would have been too high to jump over. He wouldn't pay attention to security. He'd jump right into the arms of security. Would give himself away at some point.
"It amazes me to hear the story: the thoughtfulness of the 'YOLO,' the detailed consideration of consequences, the planning as to where to get the ticket. This is a kid you send upstairs and he can't find his pajamas in his room because he is standing on them."
"The image of him being taken away in handcuffs really bothered me," adds Peter. "It still bothers me. The only good thing out of the experience at least is that it showed he can be organized, that he can pay attention to details."
"As a mom and a dad you want your kids to have guts, to set a goal and reach for it and find ways to accomplish it," says Sofy. "It would have been nice if this hadn't been his goal. But, hearing the story afterwards in terms of how he planned, that gives me some encouragement, hope, that he possesses these skills and will be able to apply them in life to other, more appropriate projects."
Neither parent wants Yannis to be rewarded for what he did. They were even reluctant to speak to the Star for fear it would just make matters worse. They're very concerned that this will be a blot on his life forever, and might hurt his future career in what he now says will be business.
But the Internet never forgets, and one more Google hit won't make a difference, they realize. The story is out there — so might as well make it a cautionary tale.
"I've always had the philosophy that, okay, you're entitled to do one stupid thing but harmless thing in your life, and buddy, you've just blown yours," says Sofy.
For now, Yannis is grounded. His i-privileges have been taken away. He and his sisters, Laiya, 18, and Kia, 15, have always had chores, but now Yannis is carrying an extra burden.
"Let's just say the fridge has never been so clean," Sofy says wryly.
Yannis' streak wasn't just a good thing for the family appliances.
The night he ran the bases at the Dome, the Jays trounced the Sox 7-3.


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In honor of Father's Day I thought I would share one of my favorite photos of my dad from when I was little. I have maybe one memory of this time (well I think it was from this time): it was my dad sharing an ice cream bar with me. He would pretend like he at it all only to surprise me with it was still completely intact. It was so silly but I was absolutely amazed by it, I pretty much thought my dad was a wizard or something, haha. My dad can still be as goofy as he was back than and I love it. Happy Father's dad Papa, I couldn't have asked for a better dad.
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That picture is adorable! I love how a little you thought your dad was a wizard, that is so cute! :)ReplyDelete
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Lovely to meet you here Amanda, what a beautiful space you've created here. And I must say i'm truly loving your specks in that profile pic!
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Aww, what an adorable photo! And such a sweet little memory :)ReplyDelete
that is so adorable! and i love goofy dads like that - little tricks are so fun when you are a kid.ReplyDelete
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One of the most compelling stories of human survival recently came full circle as former Ukraine orphan Oksana Masters won a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympics Games in London.
A Louisville resident for the last 12 years, Oksana is a double amputee whose early years in a Ukraine orphanage brought near-starvation, pervasive sexual abuse, and complex physical challenges. Adopted by a persistent college professor, Oksana is now one of the most successful rowers in the world.
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The stunning ending to the Packers/Seahawks game has left a sports crazy nation puzzled.
Seahawks receiver Golden Tate pushed Packers defender Sam Shields to the ground. Tate then jumped with the cluster of players seen above. Packers defender M.D. Jennings (above right) appeared to catch the ball, pull it to his chest, and fall down on top of Tate (#81 below). But Tate's arm was extended out from under the pile with his hand touching the ball when the referees arrived to make a call. One signaled it was a touchdown while the other referee signaled that it was an interception.
After a momentary review, the referees decided to award the touchdown. Bettors saw about $200 million shift from Packers bettors to Seahawks bettors.
The next day, the NFL released a statement affirming the award of the touchdown, but noting that pass interference should have been called, effectively ending the game as a Packers victory.
With replacement referees working all games while the NFL continues negotiations with its employee referees, NFL coaches, players, stadium crowds (and bettors) are going ballistic over shoddy work by the novice refs.
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Studio Visit – Ada Zanditon
I went to visit Ada at her studio and had a look at her new collection. I can't show it to you, so I took a picture of her knitting machine instead! I've known Ada Zanditon for a few years. We met at Vauxhall Fashion Scout, and I was the stylist for the One's to Watch show where Ada debuted her collection in September 2009. It's quite exciting that only a few seasons later Ada's doing a film presentation on the Digital Schedule at Somerset House. She's also exhibiting at Esthetica at Somerset House for the duration of London Fashion Week 16th – 20th September and at Zip ZoneTrade Show in Paris 30th September – 3rd October.
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Koupon Media is excited to announce a new partnership with GSTV, the national video network reaching targeted audiences across tens of thousands of fuel retailers, to deliver mobile offers at the pump through digital signage advertisements. By allowing brands and retailers to deliver in-store redeemable offers across a national video network, the two companies have essentially created a new consumer engagement model for the c-store space.
Leading up to this year's NACS show, Koupon Media is excited to announce our partnership with Skip, a scan and go technology thatprovides c-store customers with checkout control through frictionless checkout. The partnership allows Koupon Media to send CPG-funded offers to customers as they shop using Skip's technology. As part of the alliance, Skip will integrate Koupon's mobile offer capabilities directly into its app. When a customer is adding items to their basket, Skip will reference Koupon's database of offers and apply or suggest relevant deals for that customer.
The mobile device continues to present an array of channels and opportunities to reach consumers. But in the race to reach consumers through each and every channel, one of the most basic functions of the mobile device - SMS - is often forgotten.
We'll be the first to admit that millennials deserve the attention they get from marketers. Between their annual buying power of $600 billion and their population of over 75 million, they're a force to be reckoned with. Yet in the race to reach millennials, the newest kids on the block – Generation Z – have yet to receive the marketing attention they deserve. So step aside millennials, because Gen Z now has an estimated $200 billion in annual buying power (including influence on parental purchases) and they make up a staggering 22% of the US population.
Koupon is excited to announce its most encompassing report to-date titled, The State of the Coupon Industry. The report provides data and key industry insights into what has happened to the mobile coupon industry, where it is going and how Koupon has kept up with the exponential growth. The report was formed using both owned and partner data collected throughout 2015. The report answers frequently asked marketing questions, dives into industry benchmarks and illustrates success with 5 successful case studies.
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LES dessert links: First Prize Pies : Ledd Zeppole and La Lucha23 Apr 2010, Posted by First Prize Pies in
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In The Spirit of Mother's Day
It's May! Happy Mother's Day! Many of you have celebrated past Mother's Day weekends by attending one of our Rocked By Women shows… Continue reading In The Spirit of Mother's Day
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May is for Labor Marches and hard work, for Mother's Day and birthing movements, for May Baskets and the magic of giving and receiving anonymous beauty.
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(This article originally appeared in the print publication of The Monthly, May 2015 issue) The Monthly — May 2015 CRITIC'S CHOICE Rita Felciano Rock Out With Mom Sarah Bush has just the thing for a memorable Mother's Day. There is something slightly icky, or sentimental, about Mother's Day. Most of us may have difficulties finding … Continue reading Critic's Choice – The Monthly 2015
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Rocked By Women This weekend. Join us! Oh my goodness!! We just did our first (nearly) full dance-thru of the show with props and it was SO GOOD! I am blown away by this cast of dancers and am feeling excited for the show! We've gotten some great press coverage — a photo across 2 … Continue reading Rocked By Women is this weekend!
Rocked By Women Pays Tribute in Dance to Women's Culture Heroes April 30, 2015 issue of SF Bay Times Oakland-based Sarah Bush Dance Project explores issues of identity, gender, and sexuality within the broader themes of love, relationships, loss, power and empowerment. Several of us at the San Francisco Bay Times were recently wowed by … Continue reading Tribute in Dance – SF Bay Times 2015


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- The first wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter shot back in a Washington Post op-ed against comments White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made about abuse victims.
- Colbie Holderness, who says Porter gave her a black eye while they were married, said that Porter's alleged abuse "chipped away at my independence and sense of self-worth."
- Jennie Willoughby, Porter's other ex-wife, has also spoken out about her experience with Porter, accusing him of domestic abuse. Porter has denied the allegations.
The first wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter shot back against a top Trump administration official who suggested that women in abusive relationships aren't strong. Porter has denied the allegations, and resigned last week after his two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse.
On Sunday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went on CNN to defend the administration's response to the abuse allegations against Porter.
"I was horrified and I was also very shocked," Conway said of how she reacted after seeing photographic evidence of Porter's physical abuse against one of his former wives. "As many people have noted, this is not the Rob Porter we worked with in the White House."
When she was asked whether she is worried about White House communications director Hope Hicks, who is reportedly dating Porter, Conway said she has "rarely met somebody so strong with such excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts."
She then clarified that "many women get abused" and that "there's no question that there are no demographic or geographic bounds."
But Holderness took issue with the implications of some of Conway's comments, saying in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday that her statement about Hicks "implies that those who have been in abuse relationships are not strong. I beg to differ."
"Telling others about the abuse takes strength," Holderness said. "Talking to family, friends, clergy, counselors and, later, the FBI, I would often find myself struggling to find the words to convey an adequate picture of the situation."
Holderness' comments come as Porter's other ex-wife, Jennie Willoughby, has also spoken out against her relationship with Porter. In an appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" last week, Willoughby said she doesn't think Porter has changed, and that she's worried about Hicks.
"It definitely worries me because if I'm being frank with you, if [Porter] hasn't already been abusive with Hope, he will," Willoughby said.
The White House has come under fire for initially defending Porter against the allegations. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised Porter last week and said President Donald Trump and chief of staff John Kelly had "full confidence in his abilities and his performance."
They then walked back their initial dismissal of the allegations after the Daily Mail published photos of black eyes that Holderness said Porter gave her while they were married.
"I think it's fair to say we all could have done better dealing with this over the last few days," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah conceded last Thursday.
Trump has largely defended Porter, although Shah told reporters that Trump was "saddened" by the allegations. In a tweet Saturday, Trump suggested that the allegations against Porter may not be completely true.
"Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation," Trump said. "Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?"
Conway said Trump was referring to allegations in general, not specifically Porter's case.
She also said she believes Porter's ex-wives' accounts.
"I have no reason not to believe the women," Conway said, "and a week ago I had no reason to believe that that had ever happened."
Holderness wrote in the op-ed that "recognising and surviving in an abusive relationship takes strength."
"The abuse can be terrifying, life-threatening and almost constant," she continued. "Or it can ebb and flow, with no violence for long periods. It's often the subtler forms of abuse that inflict serious, persistent damage while making it hard for the victim to see the situation clearly."
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The trend of brands spawning pop-up shops as opposed to permanent storefronts is showing no sign of slowing. The latest participant: Phaidon, the British publisher behind decades of iconic tomes covering art, design, architecture, and photography. They're setting up shop in New York's Soho. The publisher will occupy a whopping 2,500 square feet at 100 Wooster Street for just shy of three months. In addition to art and design books, Phaidon-approved titles like Wallpaper's city guides and cookbooks like The Silver Spoon will likewise be up for grabs.
"Other goodies include collector's editions on such luminaries as Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr and Luc Tuymans, as well as events and special offers," says Cool Hunting. The store is opening on November 2 (where it will remain through January) just a hop, skip and a jump away from Taschen's relatively new Soho shop. The move is no doubt a strategic one — not to mention the store will very methodically remain open throughout the holiday shopping season. No matter, as what better stocking stuffer than works from aforementioned provocateurs like Araki and Goldin?


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It is thrilling to develop a plan for business success and part of that is understanding your business' finances. This article is the fourth in a five-part series on preparing business plans. Each article has been dedicated to creating a plan for starting or running your business. At the end of the series, if you follow the articles and complete each section, you will have a complete business plan you can use to operate your business or seek financing. Each article will cover a different topic:
As was discussed in Part One, Part Two and Part Three of this series, a business plan is a tool for gathering all the important information about running your business and your financial condition all in one place. A well-done business plan will help you run your business on a day-to-day basis according to a pre-set, well thought out and organized plan. Even in times of unexpected crisis, a business plan is a great tool, to keep you focused, on track and mindful of the big picture you have set for your business. This article will deal with the current financial information section of the business plan.
The financial information section of the business plan is where you set out the financial aspects of your business. In this section, start-up businesses will include start-up costs and a description of how the loan will be used. This section will provide the reader with a clear picture of your profits and losses, cash flow and other relevant financial information. This is where you will put your balance sheet, income statement and other related documents. The financial information section of your business plan will include the following sections:
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Posted by The PerfectHouse Team on Monday, May 26th, 2014 at 7:34pm.
One of the big selling factors that real estate agents love to use is the old: "My real estate sign in the yard will bring in tons of buyers."
Well that was probably true five years ago - and for the most part the sign is important - According to National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), 53% of buyers said they used real estate signs to get information about the property they eventually purchased.
But here's the real deal: Selling your home involves much more than just placing a "For Sale" sign in your yard.If the yard sign were all powerful, 70% of For Sale By Owners wouldn't eventually list with a professional REALTOR®, like every member of The PerfectHouse Team. Because there are too many things that pop up in every single listing we encounter - and we have almost a combined 100 years of real estate experience between our team members.
When the agent you interview comes in and starts going on an on about the sign hit them with these facts on where buyers get their real estate from NAR:
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- Real estate agent: 87%
- Yard sign: 53%
- Open house: 45%
- Newspaper ad: 27%
- Home book or magazine: 18%
because we know where and how to market your property. We do a complete full valuation report for every home we list because pricing your property correctly is one of the most important steps - and many agents don't understand this.
Each of our sellers gets when they list with a PerfectHouse Team REALTOR®:
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- Provide a full valuation report including a Pre-Appraisal Review & Total Market Overview
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- Constant Contact the way you like to communicate in order to keep you informed
- Present the purchase agreement putting you in the driver's seat
- Negotiate & present all your options details
- Handle all the inspections, disclosures and arrange closing
As your REALTOR®, every PerfectHouse member is here to help you prepare your home for sale, professionally market your home, and guide you through the sale process to ensure you sell your home within your time frame at the best price & terms possible.


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I had the great pleasure of hearing my debut collection Liffey Swim reviewed on RTÉ's Poetry Programme last Saturday night, along with Dylan Brennan's Blood Oranges. Philip Coleman of TCD gave really insightful reviews of both books and I was very gratified by the parallels that Philip drew between the two books, as I'm a big fan of Dylan's work.
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The Poetry Programme
On tonights show we have the Pigott Prize shortlist & review Jessica Traynor & Dylan Brennan's debut collections.
If you haven't come across the Poetry Programme yet, do make it your business to listen in. It's a great mix of work by up and coming and established poets, and has a fresh and contemporary feel. I think the half hour model works really well to keep the content lively!


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World's largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices
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Can Your Data Survive a Flood?
Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. Historic floods in Louisiana in August 2016 caused over $8 billion in damage. The August floods marked that state's second flood incident of the year that caused more than a billion in damage. In the wake of Louisiana's significant losses, take time to check whether…Read More
How to Prevent Cyber Crime By Training Your Employees
A study from the Aberdeen Group and Wombat Security Technologies suggests that training employees on how to recognize and avoid cyber crime can reduce your business risk of a security breach by anywhere from 45 to 70 percent. If you've been wondering how your small business can find the funds to recover from a security threat,…Read More
Are Data Breaches the New Cost of Doing Business?
As of June 28, 2016, 500 data breaches took place, with more than 12,700,000 records exposed, notes the Identity Theft Resource Center. Data breaches have become so commonplace that business attitudes toward them have shifted. Increasingly, large corporations see data breaches as just a "cost of doing business" that need to be dealt with quickly…Read More
Email Security for Small Businesses
In December 2015, more than half of the phishing attacks executed were against small and medium businesses. If you think that your business is immune to the risks associated with email attacks, think again. Learn how businesses are at risk of email attack, and how to protect your employees. The Risk to Small Businesses Email…Read More
Office 365 Vulnerabilities & How to Stay Safe
Earlier this year, technology researchers exposed a vulnerability in the way that Office 365 handled federated identities with SAML. This security flaw left hackers with ready access to user accounts and data. As a result, Office 365 users, including major companies such as British Airways, Vodafone, and Verizon, were left at the mercy of attackers. While Microsoft was…Read More
Cyber Security Trends for 2016
Too many businesses remain vulnerable to cyberthreats because they do not stay up-to-date with the latest trends in cybersecurity until it's too late. Keeping up with cybersecurity predictions can help you protect your business from the latest threats and provide the peace of mind that you are well informed. Here are some of the top…Read More
Office 365 Connectors:What You Need to Know
In November 2015, Microsoft gave the world a glimpse of Office 365 Connectors at the the Connect() 2015 developer conference. The utility was in limited preview for a while, and then only available for early release adopters. Just last week, however, Microsoft officially opened Office 365 Connectors to all users which means that you can access it…Read More
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Monterrey Hospitals include San Jose Tec de Monterrey, Christus Muguerza Sur Hospital and Clinica Vitro Hospital. Each hospital is a leading medical facility equipped with state-of-the-art technology and top surgeons capable of handling the most complex procedures. In fact, Monterrey is home to four Joint Commission International Accredited Hospitals that provide world-class healthcare services.
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As was announced yesterday, China government officials have pushed pause on the initial coin offering (ICO) market with a strong statement effectively banning any tokenized offerings in the near term. The actual document, released by the People's Bank of China, may be found here in Chinese. A translated version, using Google Translate (so not 100% accurate) is linked below.
The rough translation states:
"The tokens or "virtual currency" used in coin financing are not issued by the monetary authorities, do not have legal and monetary properties such as indemnity, do not have legal status equivalent to money, and can not and should not be circulated as a currency in the market use."
The move by China has put a chill through the ICO sector but was not totally unexpected. China is expected to announce further clarifications in their regulatory approach regarding cryptocurrencies and ICOs before the end of the year.
The translated version may be viewed below.
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Film: Mayanadi (2018)
Scene A: Mathan sees the Jacuzzi tub. He seems excited and prepares a bubbling bath with aromatic candles and expensive bath salts. He soaks himself and relaxes.
Scene B: Mathan lies on the belly of Aparna, after they make love. He asks if he can make arrangements for relocating to Dubai, intending that since they had sex, she'd give her consent. Aparna replies "Sex is not a promise, Matha"
Film: Eeda (2018)
Scene A: Aiswarya walks towards Anand'a bike, declaring that she loves him and walks back to the car. Anand doesn't know what to say. Later, in the car she gets a text message by him, saying that he loves her too.
Scene B: (In Anand's flat) Aiswarya asks : Do you have Adhar card"? Anand replies "Yes, why?". She asks again "Is the rental agreement of this flat in your name?". Anand says yes. Later he is seen following her into the Registrar's office for applying for marriage.
Film: Aadi (2018)
Scene A: Aadi is reluctant to meet Mohanlal in the restaurant and asks for a chance in his film. His mother insists on him meeting the actor and she accompanies him.
Scene B: Aadi is dining with Sarath and Jaya in their house. Aadi sheds tears, homesick. When he sees that Jaya is looking at him, he wipes his tears off.
The three films above are all released in 2018 in Malayalam. Three of them are stories of young men and women struggling to overcome something beyond their power. Mathan doesn't survive in the game while Anand is likely to end up as the same. Aadi manages to stay alive but is scarred incurably. Mathan and Anand are men who lost their lives and love. Aparna betrays Mathan and Aiswarya has to marry someone else for saving Anand. And for Aadi, though there is no woman to betray him, Jaya remains as a question mark to his conscience. He keeps a physical distance from Jaya, as one would from Siva's third eye, knowing that he can never replace Jaya's loss. Aadi escapes from the trap, but he gains nothing but regrets. Three of them are failed heroes.
When movies like Premam (2015), Thattathin Marayathu (2012), and Bangalore Days (2014) celebrated the restless Malayali angry young man and his victory over love and life, there is a serious change in the story line and the characterisation of men in the recent films. Firstly, they seem 'half' the men from the three films from yester years. Mathan, Anand and Aadi are neither lucky nor skilled in the game of 'the survival of the fittest'. Secodly, none of the recent heroes is as active and decisive as George, Vinod or Arjun. Despite of having money, job or family they fail miserably when compared to the aimless, undisciplined and irresponsible trio of the latter group.
Mathan's feminine nature is obvious as he slides into the bubble bath of Jacuzzi. Bath tubs are used metaphorically in cinema medium. It is seen as a temporary relief like a womb, a calm before the storm, a moment of serenity before the violence and this is why the amphibian man takes sanctuary in Eliza's bathtub (Shape of Water), Tom and Izzi have a passionate lovemaking in her tub (Fountain) and the girl always takes a nap in the tub before the clawed glove emerges from the water (A Nightmare on Elmstreet).
In movies like Psycho, A Perfect Murder, The Big Lebowski , Godfather II, and The Reader also bath tub often appears as a moment of relief before tumultuous events happen. On the other hand, some movies used it for showing an intimate moment of a couple or friends (Fight Club, Pretty Woman, Original Sin and Fifty Shades of Grey) or the most erotic phase of a woman, lying naked in the tub (Seven Year Itch and American Beauty). Indian films have often borrowed the bath tubs for this purpose. It was a very convenient way to show nudity in a not-so-nude way.
Many B class movies could make good use of the bath tubs. As Mathan lies in the tub, aromatic candles lit around him, one remembers the character Chandler who steals Monica's bath which indicates one of the many feminine traits in the character (Friends –American TV sitcom aired in NBC from 1994 to 2004). There aren't many Indian movies which use a bathtub for anything serious than offering a sneak peak to the bathing scene. In this context, when Mathan slides into the water (though the event is immediately followed by a series of turbulence in the plot) a native viewer is not prepared to see a possible semiotic reading of the bath tub like in Psycho or Godfather.
Mathan is, also, presented as the embodiment of the average Malayali conscious which would like to believe that sex is something irreversible and it literally 'traps' a woman into a man. But this sudden change in the Malayali Hero cannot undertake the Herculean task of changing Malayali's concept of masculinity.
Both Anand and Mathan don't have a towering villain in the film. Mathan's enemy is police which consists of three police men who do the Tom & Jerry chase. Anand's villain is a social evil which has rather an abstract form than a single person with excessive testosterone. Aadi, unlike Mathan and Anand, has a villain- a powerful, rich and influential person who looks fearsome. But does Aadi face the villain in any of the scenes before the climax? No. Aadi is confronted by lesser ferocious petty villains until the last scene and when the movie ends the main villain ends up as a decoy and is shot down not by the hero but by his own evil world. In short, these three films are similar in lacking i) a masculine hero, ii) a vulnerable heroine, and iii) an antagonist to highlight the hero.
The theatrical success of these three films shows that Malayali could digest the lesser manly heroes. But if this sets a trend in the coming films or not is something to wait and see. Perhaps Malayali is finally tired of the burden of exaggerated masculinity attributed to a man and is coming in terms with the reality.


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Quebec leads provinces with commitment to implement payment disclosure through securities regulations Français
Jun 05, 2014, 16:17 ET
RRTWG congratulates Quebec for the commitment in the 2014 Budget to work with Ottawa on Prime Minister Harper's Transparency Commitment
OTTAWA, June 5, 2014 /CNW/ - The Resource Revenue Transparency Working Group (RRTWG) today congratulated the Government of Quebec for its commitment in yesterday's budget to "work with the Autorité des marchés financiers to implement this initiative in Québec."
This week, Quebec becomes the first province to publicly support the federal government in its efforts to promote transparent and responsible resource revenue management. This is a significant step toward aligning Canadian disclosure standards with those in the US and EU, which have implemented disclosure rules through securities regulation. Quebec's budget announcement follows a Canadian government commitment to enhance extractive sector payment transparency, announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the June 2013 run-up to the G8 Summit.
The RRTWG would like to acknowledge and thank the Quebec Mining Association, in particular the QMA's President and CEO, Ms. Josée Méthot, for her efforts in support of the RRTWG, and Quebec civil society, who have been actively promoting increased transparency in the resource sector.
The Working Group—consisting of the Mining Association of Canada (MAC), the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Publish What You Pay-Canada (PWYP-Canada), and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) (formerly Revenue Watch Institute)—developed and finalized recommendations for Canada's mining sector on the reporting of payments to governments. These recommendations are the result of more than a year of multi-stakeholder consultations across Canada, and take into account expert guidance and a substantial public comment process. The recommendations provide Canada's federal and provincial governments with a blueprint for a payment reporting framework that will serve the needs of the data's end-users, such as citizens, governments and investors, but also those of the reporting companies.
Government implementation of the RRTWG recommendations will provide citizens around the world with valuable information about payments from companies to governments in countries that produce minerals. Increased transparency will allow citizens and media to hold their governments to account for the revenues generated from mining activities and help to ensure that these revenues contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction. For example, the Africa Progress Panel stated that Africa is home to 30 percent of the world's mineral reserves, yet resource-rich African states still lag in almost all development indicators. Enhanced payment transparency is critical to ensuring that governments mobilize natural resource revenues to fight poverty and promote development.
For the full text of the recommendations, visit www.pwyp.ca.
About MAC
The Mining Association of Canada is the national organization for the Canadian mining industry. Its members account for most of Canada's production of base and precious metals, uranium, diamonds, metallurgical coal, mined oil sands and industrial minerals and are actively engaged in mineral exploration, mining, smelting, refining and semi-fabrication. Please visit www.mining.ca.
About PDAC
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is a national association representing the mineral exploration and development industry with over 10,000 individual and corporate members. The PDAC exists to promote a responsible, vibrant and sustainable Canadian mineral exploration and development sector. The PDAC encourages leading practices in technical, environmental, safety and social performance in Canada and internationally. The PDAC also hosts the mineral industry's largest annual convention in downtown Toronto. The PDAC 2014 Convention will take place from March 2 to March 5.
About PWYP-Canada
Publish What You Pay Canada is the Canadian coalition of Publish What You Pay, a global network of over 700 civil society organizations united in their call for oil, gas and mining revenues to form the basis for development and improve the lives of citizens in resource-rich countries. Please visit www.pwyp.ca and www.publishwhatyoupay.org
About the Natural Resource Governance Institute
The Natural Resource Governance Institute, an independent, non-profit organization, helps people to realize the benefits of their countries' oil, gas and mineral wealth through applied research, and innovative approaches to capacity development, technical advice and advocacy. We work with government ministries, civil society organizations, journalists, legislatures, private sector actors, and international institutions to promote accountable and effective governance in the extractive industries. The Natural Resource Governance Institute is the result of a merger between the Revenue Watch Institute and the Natural Resource Charter. To learn more visit www.resourcegovernance.org.
SOURCE: Mining Association of Canada (MAC)
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For more information contact:
Jessica Draker, Director of Communications
The Mining Association of Canada
+1 613 233 9392 ext. 225
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Steve Virtue, Senior Director, Public Affairs and Communications
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
+1 416 362 1969 ext. 225
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Claire Woodside, Director
Publish What You Pay-Canada
+1 613 7943536
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Lee Bailey, Director of Communications
Natural Resource Governance Institute
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"Power Quality" is a highly abused term.
So, let's start with an easy definition: "Ideal AC Power" has fully sinusoidal voltage and current wave forms, with the wave forms exactly in phase. In three-phase electrical power, this is true for each phase. Moreover, each phase is offset from prior and subsequent phases by 120°.
"Power Quality" confusingly enough refers to the extent to which the electric power circuit observed does not conform to this ideal. So, when people talk about "Power Quality" they actually mean "Power Impurity". Starting from this contradiction, "Power Quality" has several working corollaries:
- Below a threshold, the effects of "non-ideal" power can be ignored.
- When connected to shared power grids these thresholds are either statutory, or generated by customer complaints . They must be addressed or the cause of the power impurity disconnected from the public system.
- If it prevents effective end-user operation, the situation must be addressed in order for them to stay in operation. "Ineffective Operation" includes the inability to start an electric motor, inability to maintain motor torque, or inability to control operating issues like weld quality
- Voltage aspects of "Power Quality" include recurring "sags", "surges", "flicker" and voltage harmonics.
- The current aspects of "Power Quality" primarily includes current harmonic (recurring voltage wave forms different from the ideal power frequency).
- "Power Quality" also covers irregularly occurring events such as lightning (referred to as TVSS) and actual power interruptions (outages).
Here's how Dynamic VAR Compensation lines up against common PQ Issues:
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|YES-full solution
|YES-full solution
|YES-partial solution
More than one issue can occur at a time.
If your issues include Voltage Fluctuations [or Stability], Voltage Harmonics, or Current Harmonics, then Dynamic VARS are a potential solution.


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The "Implementing Credits and Incentives for Innovative Stormwater Management" project promoted the implementation of low impact development (LID) stormwater control measures (SCMs) that reduce the impacts of stormwater runoff on Ohio's coastal communities and Lake Erie and worked to improve state and local stormwater policies. A project team led by the Chagrin River Watershed Partners (CRWP) and Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve (OWC NERR) assessed the performance of bioretention and permeable pavement on poorly draining soils by collecting and analyzing hydrologic data from 3 bioretention cells, 4 permeable pavement applications, and a permeable pavement-cistern treatment train to determine runoff reduction by these SCMs. This case study document includes brief descriptions of each site and monitoring results. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative funded this project.


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