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Here in New England, we've had two big snow storms in just a few days! For all of our skiing and riding wedding planners, we know that many of you want to include skiing and riding into your wedding. Here is our Pats Peak themed wedding idea that can transform to fit your wedding must-haves!
The Proposal
Hey guys, here is the best idea of all; bring your future finance to her favorite ski mountain for a weekend away and propose right there on the mountain! That way you can come back every year for a great ski vacation every year!
To accompany your gorgeous dress, you can get a custom-made snowflake crown or jewelry made from local jewelry artists on Etsy. These creations are all custom made to your needs; you are getting a locally sourced product perfectly crafted for your special day!
You can utilize the astounding talents of local wedding invitation designer, Ashley Elizabeth! She is able to take your wedding ideas and turn them into art with her designs! See our Q&A with Ashley and a gallery of her work to find out more!
You can also utilize the mountain you will be having your wedding at in your save the dates or wedding invitations!
From your guests signing a pair of skis when they enter to snow trimmings from your local ice rink, the ideas are limitless! You can create a winter wonderland in the summer or have the wedding in the winter for some serious POW in your wedding day!


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Last year, it was announced that Eric Church would be the headliner for some of Canada's great country music festivals this summer, now the country music standout had gone Platinum with his fifth studio album. Mr. Misunderstood has now sold over one million copies since its release in November 2015.
From Mr. Misunderstood, Church released four singles which includes his latest hit "Round Here Buzz". As of this week's Mediabase country radio singles chart, is currently sitting at number one!
"I've done a few of these songs in my career; this nostalgic kind of song about the guy that kind of wishes things were different than they are," Eric Church shared with Country Fancast. "I know a lot of people like that and like this from where I'm from. I'm from a small town, and I've just seen this. I think part of the reason, I feel like we're pretty good at this kind of song, and I think part of it is because I've seen it, I've felt it. It's a motive to me. So, I think with this song, there's just something about it that's always spoke to me."


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This isn't really the start of the adventure, just the birth of my new site. I'd like to think that the adventure got started years ago but it is only now that things are getting really exciting. So why not start with a little background, to explain how I got to where I am. At the age of 27 I recently decided that had to make an exciting positive change in my life and career. The problem for me was deciding what to do and what move to make next.
I have until now been proudly working with my family business (www.cleanmy.biz) since graduating from the University of Birmingham. Stepping into the business was something I never thought I would do growing up, especially as cleaning and hygiene supplies isn't the most exciting of industries to be involved in. However, it was my family business, I was needed, so I stepped in to help pick up the pieces that nobody else had time for. 5 years on and the company has gone from strength to strength, relocating to new premises, total rebranding, modernising and streamlining, and most importantly we have built a team perfect for running the business for years to come.
At this point now, I was left in the fortunate postion where everything was in place for me to step away from the business and pursue what I really wanted to do for the rest of my life. So, back to my original dilema, what and where?
Luckily I have always known what makes me tick. I love adventures, the great outdoors, being active, being creative, i'm a bit of a closet geek with technology, I love photography and finally i've always loved and been fascinated by wildlife! (Its is worth noting that none of these passions were satisfied by working with my family business). Therefore, I sat with a friend and decided to think what my dream job would be. It was extremely obvious to me, but equally as unrealistic. I wanted to be involved in wildlife film in some way for this would tick all my boxes, yet how would I ever get into it? I do love wildlife, I do obsessively watch wildlife programmes and collect wildlife magazines, but, I had no previous experience working with animals, or film making and I certainly didn't have a degree in Zoology.
However, despite my seemingly thin level of experience I knew that I had the skills, desire and ability to get into the industry somehow. At least now I knew what I wanted to do, even though it still seemed unrealistic that I could actually attain my dream job, I was going to have a go at it anyway. So I faced my next question of, where? where on earth do I start? It was after trolling through the internet looking at numerous volunteering scheme's, photography workshops and wildlife adventure experiences, that i eventually stumbled across the dream course..........MA Wildlife Film Making at UWE Bristol. It seemed to too good to be true, it was in Bristol, for one year and ran in partnership with the BBC Natural History Unit. This was incredible and there was no doubt in my mind that if I was ever going to get into the industry, this would have to be my route.
So the application process began, immediately buoyed with optimism after reading that the course was actively looking for applicants from various backgrounds. It seemed that my dream job may not be such a dream after all. So I took to digging out the old GCSE, BTEC certificates none particularly relevant for a masters. Even my degree in Sport and Exercise Science seemed a tenuous scientific link to the course content. I knew that my strengths lay not in my qualifications, but in my heart so i poured it out into my personal statement as best i could.
It seemed to have done the trick, and on the 20th July 2012, up popped an e-mail on my laptop inviting me to attend an interview for the course. I was ecstatic, I couldn't believe i had been given an interview but knew that if there was anyway I could prove myself, an interview would be it, perfect! So that left me one week to prepare for the interview. Plenty of time you would think, but when you are anxious to impress you always believe there could have been more time to prepare. I prepared some of my favourite personal photography and put together a 7 minute movie showcasing footage taken from a trip to Tanzania. Never had i thought that the footage taken on that trip would be shown to professionals in the industry. Oh well, its all i had, so it better work!
Interview day came, with my interview at 11.30am, i set off bright and early leaving Hereford at 8.15am for Bristol. Leaving plenty of time for me to grab a cup of tea, relax and obtain some passport photo's. Or so i thought, it seems passport photo's on the 26th of July are hard to come by. I tried four photo booths in four different locations in two cities, luckily I found a working machine in plenty of time and it had justified my early leaving time from Hereford.
The interview was at the leafy Bower Ashton Campus, I sat waiting in reception, 11.30am came and it seemed they were running late. Nevertheless, I was greeted by a smiling Susan McMillan (one of the course leaders) and we made our way to the interview room where I met Reema Lorford and Abigail Davies. Thirty or so minutes later i shook their hands and thanked them for a great interview. I then left with a smile on my face as i felt it had gone very well, but i wasn't getting too excited just yet.
During the interview I had been told by Abigail that they would let us know their decision as soon as possible, 'great' i thought, but it was only that afternoon I realised I didn't ask exactly how they would let me know. So i sat staring at my inbox all day friday eagerly waiting for a response. By 5pm it hadn't arrived so I resigned myself to a weekend of anxiously waiting until monday.
When monday arrived I continued watching my inbox, i must admit it wasn't my most productive couple of days at work. By 4.30pm, still no sign............ then I remembered. As we had applied online for the course using they're online application process, it was obvious that that was where their response would be. Feeling a little stupid and even more so anxious than ever, I logged on, checked my application for my dream course, and read the two best words i could wish to see... UNCONDITIONAL OFFER.
With out hesitation, I clicked the option to firmly accept the offer.......the adventure starts here!


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Concept: Adalimumab
Anti-drug Antibodies in Psoriasis: A Systematic Review
- The British journal of dermatology
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
Anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) against biologic agents may be clinically significant and potentially alter a biologic drug's treatment efficacy. This systematic review aims to 1) determine the prevalence of ADAs against infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, and ustekinumab in psoriasis patients; 2) ascertain whether ADAs are associated with changes in drug efficacy; and 3) explore the use of concomitant methotrexate to prevent ADA formation. Through a systematic search using MEDLINE and EMBASE from January 29, 1950 to March 29, 2013, we identified 25 studies that met the inclusion criteria. Of 7,969 psoriasis patients, 950 patients tested positive for ADAs. Antibodies against infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, and ustekinumab were reported in 5.4%-43.6%, 0.0%-18.3%, 6.6%-44.8%, and 3.8%-5.5% of patients, respectively. Anti-infliximab antibodies were associated with lower serum infliximab concentrations in three studies and decreased treatment response in five studies. ADAs against etanercept were non-neutralizing and not associated with any apparent effects on clinical response. Anti-adalimumab antibodies were associated with lower serum adalimumab concentrations in three of five studies and reduced clinical efficacy in four studies. Two of six studies reported that anti-ustekinumab antibodies were associated with lower PASI responses, and three ustekinumab studies noted that most of these antibodies were neutralizing. Although the use of concomitant methotrexate with biologic agents to prevent ADA formation in other immune-mediated diseases is promising, their use in psoriasis is sparse. ADA development remains a challenge with biologic therapies and therefore should be considered in psoriasis patients who experience diminished treatment response. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2013 update
- Annals of the rheumatic diseases
- Published about 5 years ago
- Discuss
In this article, the 2010 European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (sDMARDs and bDMARDs, respectively) have been updated. The 2013 update has been developed by an international task force, which based its decisions mostly on evidence from three systematic literature reviews (one each on sDMARDs, including glucocorticoids, bDMARDs and safety aspects of DMARD therapy); treatment strategies were also covered by the searches. The evidence presented was discussed and summarised by the experts in the course of a consensus finding and voting process. Levels of evidence and grades of recommendations were derived and levels of agreement (strengths of recommendations) were determined. Fourteen recommendations were developed (instead of 15 in 2010). Some of the 2010 recommendations were deleted, and others were amended or split. The recommendations cover general aspects, such as attainment of remission or low disease activity using a treat-to-target approach, and the need for shared decision-making between rheumatologists and patients. The more specific items relate to starting DMARD therapy using a conventional sDMARD (csDMARD) strategy in combination with glucocorticoids, followed by the addition of a bDMARD or another csDMARD strategy (after stratification by presence or absence of adverse risk factors) if the treatment target is not reached within 6 months (or improvement not seen at 3 months). Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (adalimumab, certolizumab pegol, etanercept, golimumab, infliximab, biosimilars), abatacept, tocilizumab and, under certain circumstances, rituximab are essentially considered to have similar efficacy and safety. If the first bDMARD strategy fails, any other bDMARD may be used. The recommendations also address tofacitinib as a targeted sDMARD (tsDMARD), which is recommended, where licensed, after use of at least one bDMARD. Biosimilars are also addressed. These recommendations are intended to inform rheumatologists, patients, national rheumatology societies and other stakeholders about EULAR's most recent consensus on the management of RA with sDMARDs, glucocorticoids and bDMARDs. They are based on evidence and expert opinion and intended to improve outcome in patients with RA.
Updated treatment strategies for intestinal Behçet's disease
- The Korean journal of internal medicine
- Published about 1 year ago
- Discuss
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic, idiopathic, relapsing immune-mediated disease involving multiple organs, and is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, ocular disease, gastrointestinal ulcers, vascular diseases, and skin lesions. In particular, gastrointestinal involvement in BD is followed by severe complications, including massive bleeding, bowel perforation, and fistula, which can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. However, the management of intestinal BD has not yet been properly established. Intestinal BD patients with a severe clinical course experience frequent disease aggravations and often require recurrent corticosteroid and/or immunomodulatory therapies, or even surgery. However, a considerable number of patients with intestinal BD are often refractory to conventional therapies such as corticosteroids and immunomodulators. Recently, there has been a line of evidence suggesting that biologics such as infliximab and adalimumab are effective in treating intestinal BD. Moreover, new biologics targeting proteins other than tumor necrosis factor α are emerging and are under active investigation. Therefore, in this paper, we review the current therapeutic strategies and new clinical data for the treatment of intestinal BD.
Secukinumab is superior to ustekinumab in clearing skin of subjects with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis: CLEAR, a randomized controlled trial
- Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
- Published over 3 years ago
- Discuss
Secukinumab, a fully human anti-interleukin-17A monoclonal antibody, has shown superior efficacy to etanercept with similar safety in moderate to severe plaque psoriasis (FIXTURE study).
First-in-human randomised study of bimekizumab, a humanised monoclonal antibody and selective dual inhibitor of IL-17A and IL-17 F, in mild psoriasis
- British journal of clinical pharmacology
- Published about 2 years ago
- Discuss
Assess safety, pharmacokinetics (PK) and clinical efficacy of bimekizumab, (formerly UCB4940), a novel humanised monoclonal antibody and dual inhibitor of interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17 F, in subjects with mild plaque psoriasis.
Efficacy and safety of CT-P13 (biosimilar infliximab) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: comparison between switching from reference infliximab to CT-P13 and continuing CT-P13 in the PLANETRA extension study
- Annals of the rheumatic diseases
- Published over 2 years ago
- Discuss
To assess the efficacy and safety of switching from the infliximab reference product (RP; Remicade) to its biosimilar CT-P13 (Remsima, Inflectra) or continuing CT-P13 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for an additional six infusions.
Phase 3 Trials of Ixekizumab in Moderate-to-Severe Plaque Psoriasis
- The New England journal of medicine
- Published over 2 years ago
- Discuss
Background Two phase 3 trials (UNCOVER-2 and UNCOVER-3) showed that at 12 weeks of treatment, ixekizumab, a monoclonal antibody against interleukin-17A, was superior to placebo and etanercept in the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis. We report the 60-week data from the UNCOVER-2 and UNCOVER-3 trials, as well as 12-week and 60-week data from a third phase 3 trial, UNCOVER-1. Methods We randomly assigned 1296 patients in the UNCOVER-1 trial, 1224 patients in the UNCOVER-2 trial, and 1346 patients in the UNCOVER-3 trial to receive subcutaneous injections of placebo (placebo group), 80 mg of ixekizumab every 2 weeks after a starting dose of 160 mg (2-wk dosing group), or 80 mg of ixekizumab every 4 weeks after a starting dose of 160 mg (4-wk dosing group). Additional cohorts in the UNCOVER-2 and UNCOVER-3 trials were randomly assigned to receive 50 mg of etanercept twice weekly. At week 12 in the UNCOVER-3 trial, the patients entered a long-term extension period during which they received 80 mg of ixekizumab every 4 weeks through week 60; at week 12 in the UNCOVER-1 and UNCOVER-2 trials, the patients who had a response to ixekizumab (defined as a static Physicians Global Assessment [sPGA] score of 0 [clear] or 1 [minimal psoriasis]) were randomly reassigned to receive placebo, 80 mg of ixekizumab every 4 weeks, or 80 mg of ixekizumab every 12 weeks through week 60. Coprimary end points were the percentage of patients who had a score on the sPGA of 0 or 1 and a 75% or greater reduction from baseline in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 75) at week 12. Results In the UNCOVER-1 trial, at week 12, the patients had better responses to ixekizumab than to placebo; in the 2-wk dosing group, 81.8% had an sPGA score of 0 or 1 and 89.1% had a PASI 75 response; in the 4-wk dosing group, the respective rates were 76.4% and 82.6%; and in the placebo group, the rates were 3.2% and 3.9% (P<0.001 for all comparisons of ixekizumab with placebo). In the UNCOVER-1 and UNCOVER-2 trials, among the patients who were randomly reassigned at week 12 to receive 80 mg of ixekizumab every 4 weeks, 80 mg of ixekizumab every 12 weeks, or placebo, an sPGA score of 0 or 1 was maintained by 73.8%, 39.0%, and 7.0% of the patients, respectively. Patients in the UNCOVER-3 trial received continuous treatment of ixekizumab from weeks 0 through 60, and at week 60, at least 73% had an sPGA score of 0 or 1 and at least 80% had a PASI 75 response. Adverse events reported during ixekizumab use included neutropenia, candidal infections, and inflammatory bowel disease. Conclusions In three phase 3 trials involving patients with psoriasis, ixekizumab was effective through 60 weeks of treatment. As with any treatment, the benefits need to be weighed against the risks of adverse events. The efficacy and safety of ixekizumab beyond 60 weeks of treatment are not yet known. (Funded by Eli Lilly; UNCOVER-1, UNCOVER-2, and UNCOVER-3 ClinicalTrials.gov numbers NCT01474512 , NCT01597245 , and NCT01646177 , respectively.).
Nature-inspired design of motif-specific antibody scaffolds
- Nature biotechnology
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
Aberrant changes in post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as phosphate groups underlie a majority of human diseases. However, detection and quantification of PTMs for diagnostic or biomarker applications often require PTM-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which are challenging to generate using traditional antibody-selection methods. Here we outline a general strategy for producing synthetic, PTM-specific mAbs by engineering a motif-specific 'hot spot' into an antibody scaffold. Inspired by a natural phosphate-binding motif, we designed and selected mAb scaffolds with hot spots specific for phosphoserine, phosphothreonine or phosphotyrosine. Crystal structures of the phospho-specific mAbs revealed two distinct modes of phosphoresidue recognition. Our data suggest that each hot spot functions independently of the surrounding scaffold, as phage display antibody libraries using these scaffolds yielded >50 phospho- and target-specific mAbs against 70% of target peptides. Our motif-specific scaffold strategy may provide a general solution for rapid, robust development of anti-PTM mAbs for signaling, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Efficacy and Safety of Biologic Treatments in Familial Mediterranean Fever
- The American journal of the medical sciences
- Published about 6 years ago
- Discuss
OBJECTIVE:: Colchicine is the mainstay treatment for Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF). However 5% to 10% of the patients with FMF are unresponsive or intolerant to colchicine. Biologics are efficient in many rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes. We performed a systematic review to analyze patients with FMF, including juvenile patients who received treatment with biologics. METHODS:: A MEDLINE search, including articles published in English language between 1990 and May 2012, was performed. Patients who had MEFV variants but could not be classified as FMF according to Tel-Hashomer criteria were excluded. RESULTS:: There is no controlled trial on the efficacy and safety of biologics in FMF. Fifty-nine (32 female and 27 male) patients with FMF who had been treated with biologics (infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, anakinra, and canakinumab) were reported in 24 single reports and 7 case series. There were 16 children and 43 adults (7- to 68-year olds). Five patients were reported to have colchicine intolerance or had adverse events related to colchicine use, and the rest 54 were unresponsive to colchicine treatment. CONCLUSIONS:: The current data are limited to case reports, and it is difficult to obtain a quantitative evaluation of response to biologic treatments. However, on the basis of reported cases, biologic agents seem to be an alternative treatment for patients with FMF who are unresponsive or intolerant to colchicine therapy and seem to be safe. Controlled studies are needed to better evaluate the safety and efficacy of biologics in the treatment of patients with FMF.
Efficacy of ustekinumab in refractary palmoplantar pustular psoriasis.
- The British journal of dermatology
- Published about 6 years ago
- Discuss
Palmoplantar pustulosis is characterized by sterile pustules with hyperkeratosis, erythema, scaling, and fissuring on the palms and soles.(1) It has been reported to be more frequent in middle-aged women, smokers, and diabetic patients(2) , and it is increasingly reported as a paradoxical reaction to antitumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNF) biological agents.(3, 4.) It can present itself alone (PPP), or in association with psoriasis vulgaris (palmoplantar pustular psoriasis, PPPP).


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Refugee Rights Day 2015
- The now 30-year old Supreme Court of Canada decision in Singh was a real high water mark. Our highest court said that the constitution required that refugees be given a "fair shake". This is something to really be proud of. Our highest court said that people who claim to face persecution – grave abuses of their fundamental rights – will have their claims heard in a fair manner in this country. Right on! So let's hold onto that. It is really worth celebrating and remembering and protecting.
- Today I'm going to share two different things with you. One is some observations of the system in Hong Kong, where I spent a few years working in refugee law. The other is observations about some legal changes in Canada during the last 5 years: effectively, significant erosion of that high water mark of the Singh case. I'll end to touch on a side-effect of this, which has been a new focus on humanitarian and compassionate discretion in immigration decision-making. The common themes in these sharings, I suppose, are fairness and compassion.
So let's start with Hong Kong
- In late 2005 my husband was transferred to Hong Kong for work, and so I chucked my fledgling new practice in and went with him. Shortly after we arrived I met a lawyer named Raquel Amador who was offering free legal advice to refugees. I quickly began volunteering with her, and she became a dear friend.
- Raquel and I bonded over our common observations of the legal environment in HK for refugees. Although China is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, it has not extended that status to the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region. What that meant was that during my time in Hong Kong, it was the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ("UNHCR") that carried out refugee status determination, not the local government as happens here in Canada.
- Refugee claimants went through the UNHCR process without any legal representation. There was no legal aid, and further, lawyers or advocates were not permitted into UNHCR's hearing rooms. The hearing was effectively an interview through a glass window. No written reasons were provided for refused claims, and there was no right of appeal or judicial oversight of any kind. It was a closed system that had no checks on the very real potential for human error. This was not a fair system.
- I learned that this was a highly uncomfortable role for UNHCR. It carries out refugee status determination only when forced to, ie. when local governments refuse the role. There was no option for refugees to remain in HK. Resettlement to a third country, on recommendation by the UNHCR, was the only option. Refused claimants faced deportation to the last country they had left.
- In 2006 refugee claimants arrived in Hong Kong from about 120 countries. Most had sold everything in order to pay an agent; HK, being a pretty open port, was often as far as these agents could get and there they abandoned their human cargo. HK was rarely the intended destination.
- There was little to no social assistance for those seeking refugee protection. People relied on hand-outs from churches and often slept on the streets with their children. While refugee claimants waited as long as two years for their interview with UNHCR, they were not allowed to work. This was particularly stark in wealthy Hong Kong.
- When I began working with Raquel, her legal aid project operated out of a tiny office in Kowloon. As word spread, demand for our services grew. Raquel proposed that we fund-raise to set up an independent legal aid clinic. By then I was hooked and so I agreed. For the next 3 years we were on a tumultuous journey. We successfully negotiated access to UNHCR's refugee hearings, and convinced them to re-open many cases where they had overlooked important facts. We partnered with law firms and law faculties and trained a corps of pro bono lawyers.
- I left Hong Kong in 2009 to return to Toronto. I am proud that the organization, then called the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre, remains vibrant and strong.
Current Canada experience
- Now I'm going to jump to the present day in Toronto. For the past 5 years I've been working as an immigration lawyer at a legal aid clinic. I do a lot of post-refugee determination work, helping non-status people whose claims for refugee protection have been refused, but where there are extraordinarily compelling facts nonetheless.
- The last 5 years have seen tremendous changes to our immigration law. A lot of the most troubling changes affect refugees who make claims for protection within Canada. The list of recent erosions to the Singh decision is long: an increasing number of people can't get access to the Refugee Board. Timelines for those who do get access are swift. Refused refugee claimants are deported quickly. Many of these changes are being challenged and will make their way to the Supreme Court of Canada eventually.
- I want to focus on one particular change: If your refugee claim is unsuccessful – maybe you were totally believed, but you do not meet the very specific legal definition of a refugee under the Convention – you can no longer request to have an application to remain considered on "humanitarian and compassionate grounds" until 1 year after your refugee decision. The idea is that you will likely have been deported by then. Still other groups are barred from any H&C consideration at all.
- The same Barbara Jackman who argued the Singh case will argue a case called Kanthasamy v. MCI at the SCC this Thursday. This case will consider what H&C discretion ought to mean in the immigration context. I am privileged to be part of a team representing the Canadian Council for Refugees, which has been granted intervener status in this case. Since the ability to access protection through the refugee stream has been quite narrowed due to the recent changes I mention, it is a wonderful time to have our highest court look – for the first time, head-on – at the importance of the exercise of H&C discretion.
- And jumping back to Hong Kong, in 2013 a landmark Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruling finally forced the HK government to set up a system to consider claims for protection. So, in 2014 the HK government took over this job from UNHCR. The Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre changed its mandate, and its name to Justice Centre Hong Kong, and now helps people navigate this new system.[1] Right on Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal! I imagine that is their Singh case that I hope will be celebrated, remembered, and protected in 30 years.
[1] http://www.justicecentre.org.hk/framework/uploads/2014/03/USM-Briefing-Meeting-the-Bare-Minimum-HK-New-Screening-Process-for-Protection.pdf


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New Delhi, Feb 23 : South Africa bowling coach Vincent Barnes admitted on Tuesday he's missing Sachin - his dog Sachin that is, not the Indian batting superstar in whose honour he's named.
"Sachin is not here, I am missing him already," Barnes told the Midday newspaper.
"Obviously I couldn't bring him along, what with all the travelling but there are enough people back home to take care of him."
Barnes named his dog after Sachin Tendulkar, his favourite batsman.
"He's a superman and is capable of anything." AFP


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This weblog explores all currents running through Catholicism in particular and religion in general. It also explores the reaches of those currents in other disciplines such as philosophy, literary criticism, biblical hermeneutics, medicine and ethics. The approach is generally theological with serious inoculations from post-structuralism, including deconstruction and phenomenology.
Monday, February 29, 2016
What can a miracle do
but bring you back to me?
Miracles return us to memory, our own, our faith's, our religion's; miracles orient us toward the past made present, and protend to the advent of the miracle-for-us awaiting through hope for a future. Beyond any horizon of expectation, miracles surprise us by jarring the predictions of the natural world, or through uncanny synchronicity of events, those meaningful concurrences of the unexpected with presence.
Meillassoux's spectral dilemma compels him to remain open to the advent of [a] God, heretofore inexistent, now existent, whose effect instaurates past and present, resolves all death into life, all injustice into justice. Such a dilemma calls for a 'miracle' of sorts, one quite different from the Incarnation, which by Meillassoux's standard, accomplishes little more that a wrinkle in time that fails to point to anything. Incarnation as instauration: that would be something Meillassoux could sign on to; but that would be no miracle, but a mere prestige, a return to Eden on a magic carpet that whisks Eden to-us and for-us that's all a pocus which never knew a corpus. Eden brought back from the ruins would certainly make the past present, wiping away every injustice that occurred since its heyday; but how would that be real-for-us?
An all-immanent incarnation would not require a divine logos to unite to the human; the return of everything to immanence solves the spectral dilemma by simply starting again, ricorso. It fulfills a hope grounded in immanence and in a materialism that undermines and overmines the real object. Miracles simply do not happen that way. A miracle marries immanence with the wholly other. A miracle cuts a gap in immanence with an edge of reality that withdraws from its entry; it itself is tout autre. And if tout autre est tout autre, then the gift of death visited upon us in the Incarnation must go beyond immanence, perhaps to the transformation of immanence.
If we finally find God, we find him in the transformation of immanent existence, in the death of finitude as such, which is the gift of the death of death offered in the miracle of the Incarnation, the miracle of miracles that ground all miracles not within the horizon of being, but in the horizons of hope and love, in hoping and loving. Miracles provide the givenness of hope and love: a miracle is where hope and love are real.
The Incarnation is not the virtual god proffered in expectation of the solution to the spectral dilemma. The Incarnation does not eradicate all misery, suffering and injustice in an instauration of a decrepit 'justice.' Instead, the Incarnation is the inauguration of the advent of the justice to come. Christ comes to witness to injustice, to experience every injustice, not to eradicate finitude but to validate it, and open it up to transformation.
The miracles of Christ are the signs of the in-breaking of transformation of creation, not the transformation of the Creator. They open us up to metanoia, a change of heart, but do not alter us by fiat. For every miracle accomplished, a million miracles are left undone. But hope and love encounter us in the countless, nearly invisible miracles that occur in every moment where hope and love give themselves, grounded as they are in the other, the interpersonal and inter-Personal, which authenticates them on their own terms of vertical experience.
All miracles are saturated phenomena, and they are as banal and as precious and unique as there are encounters of the reversibility of the visible and the invisible. Now you see them; now you don't. Hocus Pocus? Hocus Pocus declares verticality null and void in its idolatrous delimitation of the real. Is there any place in horizontal experience where the miraculous encounters the willful idolater? How broadly must horizontal experience spread before it discovers a productive, that is generative, synechism? How far down the horizontal plane must one go, how many metonymic signifiers down the road does it take to move, finally, paradigmatically, to the vertical? What syntagmatic occurrence loosens idolatry from the grip of delimitation, freeing into the vertical? Answer: a miracle. An impossible miracle made possible at the intersection of metonymy and metaphor, where a bump in the road calls the vehicle into being, and awakens idolatry from its ennui.
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Had you read any of Viktor Frankl's work, you would have made this point in a very different way. That you read it as a poor apologetic, a saccharine blush of gobble-dee-guk, betrays very thick lenses of theodicy twisting a view not just upon this piece, but upon any vista in the lifeworld. A silver lining to the Holocaust? What kind of point of view finds the Holocaust in this piece? What purchase does a worldview have if *everything* must pass through a hermeneutic of the Shoah? When Meillassoux recovers a weak correlationism, is it the weak fideism of the camps? How shall we move past the arche-fossil made of Zyklon-B?ReplyDelete
If you misread the hope that informs every page of *After Finitude* as the movement of evil erasing contingency, where does such a point of view come to rest?
I've been looking hard at Meillassoux lately, and I find him open and honest, hopeful and good-humoured. His essential spectres are nothing like the ghosts that haunt your hermeneutic of a justice never to come.
Don't blame me, Joe, that is what Christianity and Catholicism teaches. "Silver lining to the Holocaust"? This is interesting. What you have done here is given my assessment of your religion's belief (in a powerfully good God, providence, etc) the most inane and laughable description in order to somehow make it seem like, *of course* Christianity couldn't speak of a silver lining to so much evil. Sorry, Joe, that rhetorical trick won't work. The sad, despairing fact of the matter is that Christianity does believe God allows evils like the Holocaust to happen for some perfectly good reason, whether it's known or not. You should be writing more posts against Barron and your fellow Catholic apologists, because they say this very thing and you know it. They influence Catholic opinion more than any atheist or secular person, especially some random commenter like myself, could ever do. You should use your energy and intelligence more wisely.ReplyDelete
Also, I would only suggest you look a bit harder at Meillassoux—he finds your religion, as I do, to be utterly hopeless. Yes, he certainly hopes in a future whose probability literally cannot be measured (because it is neither probable nor improbable). But you can't fail to see Meillassoux's argument that either there is no god worth believing in now or that the truly worthy, virtual divinity must have nothing to do with Yahweh, Yeshua, the holy trinity or the great, merciful Allah. The only god worth hoping for is the one who has had nothing to do with history up to the point that it appears. I have serious problems with his treatment of contingency and probability, but he's absolutely right with regard to the theism of the religions. To call that god "good" is a blasphemy against goodness.ReplyDelete
That is why you find yourself stuttering and teetering at the edge of an abyss when you cannot find Jesus Christ in the world today, why Jesus does nothing to prevent or end the suffering that you believe he did when he was alive. You almost imply this when you say Jesus's miracles were a sign of the transformation of creation. What happened? Did the transformation end? Are the people who cry out to Jesus for help, in faith and hope, different somehow from Jesus's contemporaries? Do they have less faith and hope? Are their needs any less dire? Is the risen Jesus somehow *less* efficacious, less powerfully good than he was when he was alive in the first century? You have no answers to these questions. More than that, the very absence of Jesus, the very fact that these questions exist, is a contradiction, a challenge to who you think Jesus is in the first place. No, wait, not a contradiction. That is far too abstract. These problems are a crisis. There seems to me to be only two solutions: compromise or abandonment.
And you've never given a good reason why you have hope in a total justice to come, either. I certainly believe justice is possible, but that also means there are many times when it is simply not realized, that possibility is lost, and I don't want to pretend otherwise. The only reason it's a justice to come is because it isn't here now, and if there is a god, that delay and silence is its responsibility. Unless you want to posit two completely separate orders of justice and goodness, one for us and one for God, then God will more to answer for than any created being. And if God IS the good, the perfect good, then there is a serious flaw in being perfectly good.
"The miracles of Christ are the signs of the in-breaking of transformation of creation..."ReplyDelete
There's too much evil and suffering, BC and AD, for this to be believable.
What the God of love does today, he'll undo tomorrow. There is no pattern or consistency to these events which reveal the possibility of the impossible. Jesus opened the eyes of one born blind—yet blindness at birth persists throughout history with no resistance (save scientific medicine) as it did before Jesus was born. What is this God of love, of perfect love, a God who, Marion says, loves before us and loves better than us, what does this God mean when impossibility remains only a possibility? Jesus's love, which is God's love, came to Lazarus's tomb and Jairus's house bearing impossible love.
Omayra's lahar, though, did not yield to any impossibility. Her torturous death never transcended the possible. Possibility promised nothing but horror for her, her family, her friends, first responders, rescue team and the photographers that witnessed her inescapable suffering.
When Jesus became the possibility of the impossible, he created the starkest contrast with a creation almost completely abandoned to the merely possible. We are left to our own devices on the horizon of possibility.
How does an impossible love tolerate any possible suffering?
Job—Jesus—Omayra: what if all three are revelations about God? There're no Jobs after Christ, you once said. And, for me, there's no Christ after Omayra.


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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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4 things to watch: Seahawks vs. Cardinals
SEATTLE -- The Seahawks regular season comes to a close this afternoon against NFC West Division foe Arizona.
By now you have likely heard the scenario that must take place for the Seahawks to extend their postseason streak to six straight years. First and foremost, the Seahawks must beat the Cardinals, keep in mind Arizona has won three of its last four games in Seattle. The other part of the equation is the Panthers need to beat the Falcons in Atlanta. But If one of those two things doesn't happen, the Seahawks season will end before the New Year begins, and that is strange territory for Seahawks fans this decade.
Here are four things to watch in today's must win game against the Cardinals.
Russell Wilson.
Wilson usually puts up gaudy numbers through the air in December. That hasn't been the case the past two weeks especially. Against the Rams Wilson completed 14-30 passes for 142 yards and one touchdown. Against the Cowboys the struggles continued, Wilson was 14-21 for 93 yards and two touchdowns. Asked about the struggles of the passing game this week Wilson saw room for improvement. " I think we can be a little better and I think I can be a little bit sharper. Other than that, we've been very successful throwing the ball all year. I don't think it's anything that we're doing or anything like that, I think we just have to be a little bit sharper."
Arizona is very good defensively against the run so Air Wilson may be the best option to scoring points in this must win game where the passing game will indeed need to be sharper.
Doug Baldwin and Friends
Where have they been? Normally boasting big receiving numbers in the month of December Doug Baldwin and the rest of the Seahawks receivers desperately need to rack up some catches. Last week Baldwin had four catches and a touchdown in the win over the Cowboys. This week the entire Seattle receiving corps will need to play the best. Baldwin knows what is on the line, he's been a part of this Seattle playoff streak and doesn't want it to end. This week Baldwin was embracing the must-win scenario the Seahawks now face. " Because your backs are against the wall, there's really no other option. You have to lay it out on the line. There's a lot that you can control there's a lot that you don't control and so to me it's just a beautiful example of life, of adversity that life throws at you and again it introduces you to who you really are, so I'm looking forward to that."
The Seahawks under Pete Carroll have traditionally played well when their backs are against the wall, that is certainly the case this week.
Jimmy Graham
One of the biggest, most talented players on the field during any Seahawks game is tight end Jimmy Graham. He should be a dominant offensive force for the Seahawks every single week but too often this season we are left wondering if Graham even played. Still effective in the red zone despite his struggles, Graham has more touchdowns this season ,10, than any tight end in Seahawks history. It's the absence of Graham though in critical third and long situations at midfield where he should be utilized more. Offensive Coordinator Darrell Bevell was asked about the challenge lately of getting Graham involved with a passing game that is struggling. " Yeah I can't stand right here and just put my finger on it, exactly this time. There is always things that we try. We tried to throw him the ball and we get a 2-yard loss on a naked a couple weeks ago. So there is things in there. Obviously he is a bigger factor in the red zone ,which we are still able to make him show up there, but I think again, a lot of times it comes down to opportunities. I think we need to continue to find ways to give him opportunities, which means either that we have the route designed to go there or we have to throw the ball to him."
They have certainly struggled to use Graham effectively but a basic approach to integrating him more may be the perfect approach to a passing game that desperately needs a boost.
The Crowd
The 12s never had a chance to be a factor against the Rams. LA's early dominance took the Centurylink Field out of it early and the lack of noise was just part of a bad day all around for the Seahawks, honestly there was very little to cheer about.
This week the place needs to be electric from the start. Anything to add to the confusion for the visiting Cardinals will help. We saw last week against Dallas how important forcing turnovers is for the Seahawks. A heathy dose of crowd noise and the confusion that ensues for an opposing offense may play a factor in Arizona making some costly mistakes.
There is also the other factor of scoreboard watching. Everyone in that stadium will be well aware of the Panthers and Falcons game being played at the same time. It is one of those rare days where Seahawks fans will root for Cam Newton and the Panthers to win. While the energy of the crowd in Seattle may be indicative of what is going on in Atlanta, Pete Carroll will be doing all he can to stay focused on the game in front of him. "Well there is always stuff that can distract you and there's always stuff out there." Said Carroll this week when asked about what his team will need to be focused on Sunday. " This happens to be this scenario. It's hugely important to focus on what's at hand and that's for sure, so you know it's not anything different than what it normally is. We're trying to win every game and every one of them counts and it's a big deal and we do everything we can to play for that."
This should be one tense Sunday afternoon. Enjoy the game.


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Semiconductor Firm AMD will release a much-expected 45nm update to its quad-core Opteron processors which will should bring down power dissipation, improve efficiency and most importantly, allows the company to ramp up clock speed.
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Tests performed by a number of hardware websites have shown that AMD has closed the gap between itself and Intel and the new Shanghai fares much better than the old Barcelona core, beating it by more than 10 percent in most benchmarks.
AMD however still holds the leadership when it comes to overall power consumption though that could change in the next few months as Intel refreshes its platform.
Shanghai will be AMD's Server flagship for the next year and will be followed by Istanbul, a six-core product. Whether this will be enough to counteract the mounting threat of Intel's Xeon family is altogether unsure as the biggest CPU maker moves to 32nm manufacturing process, ramps up speed and moves to eight-core Beckton/Nehalem-EX processors by H2 2009.
The next few months will be a significant make-and-break period for AMD and will see the introduction of desktop 45nm quad core chips under the codenamed Deneb, more details about the future Bulldozer architecture and, lest not forget, AMD's own Bobcat platform to prevent Intel's Atom from taking over the Netbook segment.
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How often do we find that 'business as usual' tactics desensitize the customer and takes away from their over-all experience? A novel idea that seemed great at first blush, soon wears out its welcome and becomes a negative experience. With the amount of competition increasing, practices like this need to be changed. Consumers are expecting more – not only in their products, but in their experiences.
Increasing Customer Experience
Below are some examples from my own observations, and how they win – or fail.
- Reminder Cards: Creating personalized reminder cards for important events. Mailing these out are great, because as illustrated above – no one gets good mail anymore, just bills and flyers. On the flip-side, while email is still impersonal and lazy, it can still be used effectively. Out of the possibly hundreds of companies that have my personal information only FIVE sent me a birthday email with a special offer. You can bet I remembered which five they were, and while I haven't used their services in a while, that added touch has me swayed to try their services/products again.
- Customer Service Professionals: Almost everyone has heard the story of Zappo's, or at least the rave reviews on Tony Hsieh's book 'Delivering Happiness'. Yet in spite of success stories like this, companies are still outsourcing customer service to save money, or routinely hire people who are disengaged. If customer satisfaction is really that important to companies, then why do they keep showing us that they dont care by providing horrendous automated services, mind numbing phone tree's, and employees who read off a sheet or generally dont care? You'll be amazed at how simple acts can create brand advocates. Don't believe me? Check out this Harvard Business Review blogpost on exactly that.
- Lip Service: Last but not least is lip service. Nothing is worse than a company that uses boring business speak, saying what they think customers want to hear – and then even worse … not living up to it. The local movie theatre near me was bought out by a bigger chain a few years back. I'm giving it away with this, but the new slogan is 'Movie Going How It Used To Be – Only Better'. This brings up visions of an ushers wearing a bellhop type outfit with that little hat, showing you to a seat, walking around with flashlight to keep the peace, and just an overall high quality customer experience. Here is the problem – nothing has changed since this theatre was bought. In return, I have zero loyalty to the theatre. With rising ticket prices my theatre going has continued to drop because there is no added-bonus to make me want to go back. If you promise a great experience, you better deliver upon it.
These are just a few examples, but there are countless others out there. What business practices do you run into that detract from your experience – and how can they be made better?


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Multi Storey Units - Honour Avenue
Residents may not be aware that a development application has been lodged for a multi storey block of units in the heart of Graceville. The proposed development comprises fourteen units and two shops in addition to the existing seven shops with heritage and character value in Honour Avenue opposite the Graceville Station. The development will be three storeys in height and include an excavated basement car park, and will have 35 car spaces. The residential units are to be located above car parking to the rear of the site and partially over the existing shops. Vehicular access is proposed from Rakeevan Rd. (Details can be found on the Council website at http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:STANDARD::pc=PC_914 . The development application number is 903001.)
The surrounding area is classified Low Density Residential with a height restriction of 8.5m. The area occupied by the strip shopping centre along Honour Ave is designated Multi Purpose Centre level 3. This classification allows for a development to go to three storeys, once residential development exceeds 30% of the mixed retail and residential site. It is highly likely that the remaining similarly designated area along the strip shops of Honour Ave will also be developed in this manner and will result in a complete change in the residential character of the neighbourhood.
A key area of concern is the increased traffic conflicts at the already dangerous Rakeevan and Honour Ave intersection. Traffic from Rakeevan Rd is currently prevented from turning right into Honour Ave to reduce the danger. Additional traffic generated from this development will presumably be forced back along Rakeevan Rd, Bell Tce and Bank Rd to the detriment of the local residents.
It is unfortunate that residents are NOT entitled to be formally notified of the development proposal; or have any formal input into the planning process or have any appeal rights. Residents have no means of having a say in this sort of development that will have a significant impact on the area in which they live.
Walter Taylor South is under consideration for a Neighbourhood Plan by the Brisbane City Council. Multi unit constructions such as these should be considered as part of the Neighbourhood Plan, not as isolated developments.
The implications of this development will also be discussed at the public meeting on Sun 14th Nov.
Implications of South East Queensland Regional Plan for our area
Is the Honour Ave development a sign of things to come?
Sun 14th November at 3:30pm
Presbyterian Church, Bank Rd, Graceville
Invited Guests: Cr Jane Prentice, Cr Carol Cashman, Mr Ronan Lee MP
Come and have your say.
Implications of Draft SOUTH EAST QUEENSlANd Regional Plan
The Draft South East Queensland Regional Plan released on 27th October has big implications for our suburbs. Existing suburbs have been earmarked to bear the brunt of much of the extra half a million new dwellings needed in SE Qld over the next twenty years. It is being proposed that 40% of all new dwelling constructions between 2004 and 2016 will be created by infill and redevelopment of existing urban areas, rising to 50% between 2016 and 2026."
We will see an escalation in the infill in our older suburbs. Our water, electricity, sewerage and road systems are already overloaded in this area. Unless adequate infrastructure improvements are made, our quality of life will be seriously degraded. It is important that our Neighbourhood Plans are put in place so the increased density can be planned for and managed, rather than the current haphazard arrangements.
You can see the details of the Plan on the following website:http://www.oum.qld.gov.au/?ID=29
Cr Jane Prentice will address residents on this topic at the public meeting on Sun 14th November. (See front of newsletter for details.)
OXLEY CREEK COMMON PUBLIC MEETING - SUN 28th Nov
An open invitation has been issued to all who want to make a contribution regarding the future of the Oxley Creek Common to attend a public meeting on Sunday 28th November from 10am - 12:30pm at the Environment Building, Oxley Creek Common, Sherwood Rd, Rocklea. Suggestions to date include local organic agriculture, sustainable housing, a village market and a community enterprise program
Recently local residents have contacted WTSAG over the proposed listing of houses on the City Plan Heritage Register and the impact that this listing might have. There are a number of heritage listings that attempt to ensure that our cultural heritage is protected for the enjoyment of future generations: the Register of the National Estate (Federal Government), the Queensland Heritage Register (State Government), the National Trust listing, and the City Plan Heritage Register.
The City Plan Heritage Register is a list of properties or places that provide an important cultural heritage contribution to the city. The Heritage Place Code applies to these places. A development application is needed for demolition, removal, subdivision, alterations or extensions.
Heritage listing differs from character housing controls, which concentrate on pre-1946 buildings within Demolition Control Precincts. Heritage listing does not rely as strongly on visual appeal, and has no age limit on the age of the place.
There is opportunity for public consultation for owners and other interested parties prior to the final decision. Once the property is listed, the listing is not subject to appeal. Future development applications decisions can be appealed by owners through the Planning & Environment Court.
The next round of proposed additions to the City Heritage Register for inclusion in the City Plan in Jan 2005 was published in the Courier Mail of 15th August.
They are as follows:
Residence "Kawarra", 35 Hanlan St
Ex-Golf Clubhouse, 115 Honour Ave
Residence "Dalmuir", 10 Lama St
Residence "Floraville", 115 Laurel Ave
"Camphor Laurels", Laurel Ave
Residence "Pontresina" ,66 Longman Tce
Former Chelmer School of Arts, 15 Queenscroft St
Residence "Gelnmore" ,20 Verney Rd West
California Bungalow, 71 Victoria Ave
Mullen Farmhouse, 73 Wharf St
Residences: 161 Graceville Ave
17 Kew Rd 8 Rakeevan Rd
Residence "The Gables", 15 Molonga Tce
Brick War Service Homes at:
15, 27, 39 Magee St & 27, 43, 51 Strong Ave
Bulk Store, 11 Rakeevan Rd
Sherwood Scout Hall, 16 Young St
Residences: 22 Ettie St
40 Hazelmere Pde 36 Lily St
62 Kitchener St 31 Linda St
Sherwood State School, 464 Oxley Rd
Shop-Residence, 526 Oxley Rd
Brick Cottage, 1/46 Primrose St
Hives Park, 34 Thallon St
Already listed Schedule 1; Brisbane City Plan
St Davids Anglican Church, 69 Chelmer St East
Former EHF Swain House, 139 Laurel Ave
Beth Eden Verney, 19 Bell Tce
Graceville Memorial Park, 173 Churchill St
Christ the King Roman Catholic Church 12 Oxley Rd
Uniting Church Graceville, 215 Oxley Rd
St Mathews Anglican Church, 481 Oxley Rd
Sherwood Uniting Church, 515 Oxley Rd
Berry & McFarlane Monument, Sherwood Anglican Cemetery
Uniting Church, 706 Sherwood Rd
Sherwood Arboretum, 39A Turner St
John Herbert Memorial Vista, 57 Dewar Tce
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Twitter Shadowbanning 'Real and Happening Every Day' Says Inside Source
Jake Baker · January 12, 2018 · Featured, Media-Entertainment, Left Wing Ideology, Leftist Bullies, Same Sex 'Marriage', Pro-Life Abortion, Second Amendment, Homosexual Agenda, Climate Change
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Rumours that Twitter has begun 'shadowbanning' politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.
According to the source, Twitter maintains a 'whitelist' of favoured Twitter accounts and a 'blacklist' of unfavoured accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritised in search results, even if they're not the most popular among users. Meanwhile, accounts on the blacklist have their posts hidden from both search results and other users' timelines.
Our source was backed up by a senior editor at a major digital publisher, who told Breitbart that Twitter told him it deliberately whitelists and blacklists users. He added that he was afraid of the site's power, noting that his tweets could disappear from users' timelines if he got on the wrong side of the company.
Shadowbanning, sometimes known as "Stealth Banning" or "Hell Banning," is commonly used by online community managers to block content posted by spammers. Instead of banning a user directly (which would alert the spammer to their status, prompting them to create a new account), their content is merely hidden from public view.
For site owners, the ideal shadowban is when a user never realizes he's been shadowbanned.
However, Twitter isn't merely targeting spammers. For weeks, users have been reporting that tweets from populist conservatives, members of the alternative right, cultural libertarians, and other anti-PC dissidents have disappeared from their timelines.
Among the users complaining of shadowbans are sci-fi author and alt-right figurehead Vox Day, geek culture blogger "Daddy Warpig," and the popular pro-Trump account Ricky Vaughn. League of Gamers founder and former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, as well as adult actress and anti-censorship activist Mercedes Carrera, have also reported that their tweets are not appearing on the timelines of their followers.
The pattern of shadowban reports, which skews towards the alt-right, the populist right, and cultural libertarians, follows close on the heels of Twitter's establishment of a "Trust and Safety Council" packed with left-wing advocacy groups, as well as Islamic research centre the Wahid Institute.
It also follows my prediction that Twitter would use its influence to interfere in the 2016 presidential election by muffling conservative voices on the platform.
For close to a year now, Breitbart has covered Twitter's march towards political censorship. In May 2015 Allum Bokhari reported that the site had begun to experiment with shadowbans, ostensibly to protect users from abuse. Then, as now, it was suspected that "protecting users from abuse" was an excuse to implement a system that would later be used for political censorship.
With shadowbans now confirmed by an inside source, there is little room for doubt that the platform is intent on silencing conservatives. Furthermore, it has demonstrated a complete lack of regard for transparency, concealing its shadowbanning system from users and hiding its political bias behind a veneer of opposition to online abuse. (In reality, the site turns a blind eye to abuse from left-wingers.)
Users in search of a transparent, politically unbiased platform will soon have to find - or build - an alternative.
Article source: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real...Twitter, Blacklist, Anti Conservative, Whitelist, Shadow Banning, Stealth Banning


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I'm so excited now that I'm actually planning my trip to London in the UK! The Utah chapter of JASNA is planning a trip in May and June and I can hardly wait!
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Today I finished this book that tells about English authors and the places where they wrote and wrote about .
There's a map included with so many amazing must see spots and their places in English literature, that I am compelled to enlarge it, hang it on my wall, and make notations of places I just cannot miss!
There are some 20th century authors that I never cared to read because I always prefer the classics or historical novels. Now I MUST read those to appreciate the places they wrote about!
I've wanted to go to London and other parts of England since I read my first historical novels as a 14 year old. It's been a part of my ever expanding bucket list for the longest time. Now I'm counting down the days!
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Drake, (born Oct. 24, 1986, Toronto, Ont.),
On Feb. 12, 2015, Canadian rap musician Drake announced via the microblogging service Twitter the surprise release of a 17-track mixtape-cum-album, If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Critics praised the album, which, like his previous releases, shot up quickly to the top of the charts in Canada and the U.S., as a return to the personal, emotional, and melodic style of his earliest production. His astonished fans had been anticipating the release of a studio album entitled Views from the 6, which was expected but not released in 2015. In April Drake was a headline act at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
Aubrey Drake Graham's parents divorced when he was a small child, and he was raised by his white Jewish Canadian mother, though he also spent time with the musically connected family of his father, an African American drummer. He first came to public notice as an actor, playing basketball star Jimmy Brooks (2001–08) on the acclaimed Canadian TV teenage drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. His true interest was music, however, and he began rapping during that time as well, using his middle name for his "nom de hip-hop." He self-published his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, in 2006. The follow-up, Comeback Season (2007), included the single "Replacement Girl," featuring Trey Songz; the track was highlighted on the TV network BET's music-video show 106 & Park as "New Joint of the Day," increasing Drake's exposure. He gained the support of such artists and producers as Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne.
Drake's breakthrough came in 2009 with the release of the mixtape So Far Gone, with its hit single "Best I Ever Had." His trademark mixture of singing and lyrical rapping and of braggadocio juxtaposed with raw vulnerability won him a large following, and within a few months he signed with the label Universal Motown Records, which put out So Far Gone as an EP. At the 2010 Juno Awards (Canada's music awards), the EP won the prize for rap recording of the year, and Drake was named new artist of the year. His first full-length studio album, Thank Me Later, was released in 2010 and was followed by the highly praised Take Care (2011). That album won the 2012 Juno Award for rap recording of the year and the 2012 Grammy Award for best rap album. Drake's next studio album, Nothing Was the Same (2013), also took a Juno Award. Those albums, more commercially oriented than his earlier mixtapes, showed the influence of his collaborators, notably Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. In addition, Drake founded a Toronto-based collective, October's Very Own (OVO), which became a record label in 2012.


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Human resource being a significant factor of the organization, therefore, utmost care should be taken while effecting changes in the organization. Change as a recurring factor of any organization should be adequately managed to avoid disruptions and slacking in overall performance of individuals and the organization. Where change is necessitated by the organizations internal factors, the management should consider including the employees in facilitating the change to ensure effective and efficient transition.
Internal factors influencing change are significantly attributable to management style and reconstruction of the organizations structures. External factors affecting changes can be directly or indirectly attributable to the organization. These can be changes in the market or developments in consumer preferences.
When change is characterized by internal factors, it is essential for the change to be adequately communicated to the employees. Care should be taken to prevent feelings of alienation or being threatened by the change. The impact of this would be resistance to the change or realigning of the employees in an effort to undermine the change or to protect them. Change management should be inclusive, pro active and motivating in order to succeed.
External factors which are beyond the organizations control can sufficiently affect change processes. However, communication plays a significant aspect of change in these circumstances. The reasons and realities of the change should be made clear and understood by all stakeholders. Essentially it should be noted that the rationale behind the change is for the benefit of each individual and the organization as well. For instance, conforming and adapting to changes and advances in technology is beneficial to the organizations stakeholders.
In the apparel industry; Nike, a leading performer in the industry has significantly embraced change in its marketing and sales functions. Nike has invested in a marketing development program where its managerial staff are exposed and trained on the dynamics of the marketing function. This exposes and involves the employees in the changing dynamics of customer preferences and new methods of satisfying their needs.
On the other hand, Adidas a rival company has a weaker performance given its approach to change and the market dynamics. Given its previous successes, Adidas was not quick to conform and adjust to change as it occurs. Employees kept on conforming to traditional habits which have left them stagnating. Change when managed effectively can be significantly productive and on the other hand if not carefully managed can be derailing to an organizations performance.
If change resulting from internal factors is not managed carefully to be informative and inclusive then it is most likely to be faced with resistance and may cause derailment or sabotage of an organizations operations. Change influenced by external factors is critical in any organizations growth and overall achievement of its objectives. Therefore, changes in relation to the market, consumer demands and expectations are defining to a company's overall performance.


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When a web of society has evolved to be as complex as the ones existing on Planet Earth today, there is no such thing as utter originality. Individuality exists only in the context of localized norm, but is obsolete in the realm of the world and history. In an idealist view, our oh-so-familiar human egos wouldn't lead us to NEED rules and regulations on ideas. We would accept that we are all interconnected, sharing with each other and utilizing the thoughts of others for growth and prosperity as a whole. But in a business-based world, there is no other choice. We have set our lives and personal economies up so as to run on the fuel of our inventions and brilliancy. By no fault of our own, our ideas become our territory. This territory is used to help raise families, pay bills, and be a functioning member of society. It would only make sense that a copyright/patent protection persist as long as it benefits the member of society for whom it was originally intended to. This could occur until the end of one's working life. Furthermore, when (not "if") society evolves beyond the point at which the copyright/patent was made, it ceases to be beneficial. Remixing, as long as credit is given where it is due (which, often times, it is not), isn't considered plagiarism. It is merely a resurrection of ideas that existed in previous stages of social evolution, creating further complexity in an already complex world. We are not as individual as we wish to believe, and remixing merely accepts this and builds from it.
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Mangalore Buns Recipe is the ultimate snack cuisine of Karnataka. It tastes sweet and is very famous in undivided Dakshina Kannada.
To make 15-20 buns you'll need:
- Maida – 1/2 kg
- Ripe medium sized bananas – 2-3
- Sugar – 10 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) – 1/2 tsp
- Sour buttermilk/curds p- 1 cup
- Oil for deep frying
- Ghee – 2 tbsp
Mangalore Buns Recipe Procedure:
1. Peel and slice and blend the bananas add 1 teaspoon salt, 10 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 cup buttermilk/curds.
2. In a bowl add in the remaining curds/buttermilk into it, add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and transfer the ground banana paste into a bowl, and mix well.
3. Heat ghee in a tempering pan, remove it off heat and keep it aside.
4. In a bowl, add maida flour to the mixture little by little and knead it into a dough. Make a sticky dough, add in the melted ghee and knead well.
5. To this add in more flour if needed to make a nice dough that doesn't stick to your fingers. But make sure the dough isn't too hard. Let the dough be wet, soft, sticky, rubbery dough.
Make sure you do not add any water while kneading the dough.
6. Cover the dough with a damp muslin cloth and allow it to rest at room temperature for 7-8 hours.
7. Fermentation takes place. once they are cooked on both the sides and are golden brown, remove the poori from the hot oil and place it in a bowl lined with paper towel.
8. Roll the dough like poori and deep fry till they are golden brown.
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