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It's not long now until the Christmas Advent Calendars can go up. I'm a tad excited as are the children. I normally put our tree up on the 1st of December as well so its double excitement here. The range of advent calendars on the market is incredible. They range from £1 up to hundreds and I'm sure thousands if I looked hard enough. There really is something for everyone. This year we have a selection for the teens and the smalls and today I'm going to be sharing some that we have been gifted and others that I adore on the market with the hope that you guys may find something suitable for your home or even to gift to a grandchild or family member.
The following 2 Christmas Advent Calenders are from Find Me A Gift. Both are super affordable and a great treat for adults or older teens who are beginning to experiment with makeup.
Featuring: 2 x Lipsticks (3.5g), Powder Compact (3.5g), 3 x Nail Polish (5ml), 3 x Lip Gloss (6.5ml), 2 x Lip Gloss (2.5ml), 2 x Eye Shadow (3g), Eyeliner Pencil (0.5g), Lip Liner Pencil (0.5g), Blusher (3.5g), Blusher (2.5g), Sharpener, Toe Separator, Lip Brush, Blush Brush, Nail File, Applicator and Festive Nail Stickers.
A completely reusable Wooden Village with LED Lights Advent Calendar from Not on the Highstreet. Priced at £45.00.
If like us you are trying to limit the intake of sweet that your children have this is a fabulous Advent Calander for the little ones. It is a fold out calendar from Born Gifted.
Featuring : Advent Fold-Out Calendar to Colour by Usborne Books, 4 panel hardback book style calendar, Colour in the street scene day by day and what's behind each door, A lasting memory to bring out and display every year and Includes dedication page that can also be coloured in.
Featuring: 2 x A4 sheets of 15 circular stickers.
There seems to be a smaller amount of choices when it comes to advent calendars for me which is a shame but the ones that are on the market are fantastic.
I know is a Lux advent calendar but I absolutely love it for all the beer lovers that you may know. I can guarantee if I bought this for Mr Adayinthelifeofamumof6 he would be absolutely thrilled.
We're not going to spoil the surprise by telling you exactly which beers are hiding inside its 24 separate compartments, but expect to discover the likes of Magic Rock, Thornbridge, Mondo, Brewdog and other world class breweries, with 7 countries and 14 different beer styles represented from 4 continents!
The chocolate Brussels Sprouts are a random mixture of solid milk chocolate and dark peppermint sprouts, so every day is a little suprise as to what the flavour will be. One thing is for sure – no actual brussel sprouts are in the mix!
What a great selection I've yet to buy an advent calander for myself my son and hubby have the usual chocolate ones.
I love buying Advent calendars. We all have at least 2 this year which is just crazy!
I love the look of the wooden advert calendar with led lights. It's amazig just how creative they have got with products. The mad make up one sounds brilliant for the amount of products in it!
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Interview:1996/04/01 Marilyn Manson Family Values
MARILYN MANSON Family Values
April 1, 1996 #93
Alternative Press [1]
John Pecorelli
Marilyn Manson: Manson Family Values
By John Pecorelli
Alternative Press magazine
"Music is one of the only things that matters. I don't even think kids care who the President is... I think if someone like Adolf Hitler or Charles Manson were going today, they would be rock stars." —Marilyn Manson
Dateline: Thanksgiving Day, 1995, Omni Hotel, Detroit MI:
"I don't think I can even sit at the same table as you," mutters Twiggy Ramirez, flipping a lime wedge at me. Marilyn Manson's gaunt, cross-dressing bassist is pissed off that I've asked for the traditional word of prayer before we cut into the Thanksgiving bird. Okay then, I say, the least we could do is ponder what we have to be thankful for this holiday season.
"I'm thankful I have two middle fingers," sneers lead singer Marilyn, showing them both to me. "I only wish I had more."
"I refuse to even eat," puts in keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy, whose bald head and half-foot devil goatee have him looking like a cross between Vladimir Lenin and Nosferatu. "How could I endorse any holiday that symbolizes cooperation among peoples?"
At this point Marilyn announces his plan to sodomize me later, after which he'll "devirginize" Donny Osmond, who's staying in the same hotel, too. I tell him I think Donny's been married, and is no virgin.
"I meant with this," Manson proclaims, holding up his fist, which is well-stocked with large, horned rings.
That was my first encounter with the Manson family, not exactly holiday dinner at home with Mom and Sis. And Detroit ain't high on most people's list of winter vacation meccas, either. But what better place to ponder the decline of American civilization than the economically battered Motor City, and who better to ponder it with than bisexual, flag-burning, devil-worshipping, teen-sex-mongering, you-name-it-they'll-smoke-it, self-proclaimed "Antichrist superstars" Marilyn Manson?
"I think our band is simply America at its truest," Marilyn told me at the time, sporting pinkish sequins instead of eyebrows across his bone-pale face. "Caffeine, sugar, violence, drugs—these are all the things we were raised on. And as things start to get more and more out of hand in America, everyone's trying to take it all back and give you NutraSweet and PG-13 and safe sex," he says calmly. "But how can they take it away and try to start over? It's like we're listening to a cassette tape of the end of the world—I just want to fast forward it and turn it up louder."
Now we're on the eve of 1996, sitting comfortably in Times Square's Millennium Broadway hotel, 28 floors above the 400,000 partiers gathered outside for the world's largest New Year's celebration. While Marilyn Manson's show at the Academy Theatre will be over early, he's got no desire to join the festivities.
"Fuck celebrating," he says tiredly, reclining on the queen bed. "Fuck having fun. Fuck loving everybody. What good does that do?"
Perhaps not surprisingly, my initial question regarding Marilyn Manson was not a complex one: Are these guys for real? After all, there are those who claim Manson is not so much a rock-and-roll group as a cartoon drama premeditated for maximum offensiveness (and the free publicity it garners). Regardless, Manson is playing the moral minority like a deck of cheap tarot cards: In the past year alone his group has managed to enrage everyone from PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) to the Christian Coalition. Even members of British Parliament have gotten into the act, trying to ban the band's Trent Reznor–produced debut album, Portrait of an American Family, from English record stores, calling it "an outrage against society" (an endorsement most extreme artists can only dream of). But after so much of Marilyn's figurative and literal devil's advocacy—he is, after all, an ordained reverend in Anton LaVey's Church Of Satan—you can't resist wondering if some of the critics have a point: Is Marilyn Manson simple shock rock, a band whose actual music is to be taken lightly—if at all?
"I would say if that were the case we could be a lot more offensive," winks Marilyn. "I mean, if our music didn't matter, we wouldn't be sitting here having this conversation. I think anybody can say what I want to say. Anybody can look like I look. But if the music isn't something that people can identify with, it's not going to matter... I think in the end Marilyn Manson is definitely a band, and we like to write songs. But at the same time I think things need to be powerful, need to hit you in the face these days, because there are so many things in your face, and everyone's so desensitized.
"You really need to pummel them to get your point across."
Over beers and Camels at the hotel bar, Madonna Wayne (a Schopenhauer freak and Ramones fanatic) is markedly less contemplative about the issue. Sporting an exquisitely loud black and red t-shirt ("the colors of fascism!" he notes gleefully) that reads "I Love Satan," Madonna Wayne cackles, "Why would I want to look like I have some kind of office job, like most of those plaid-shirt college bands, when I'm in one of the only professions there is that allows me to look completely fucking insane?!"
Twiggy just sighs, toying with the hem of his floral sun dress. "I think the rock star today is dead," he says quietly. "My stage persona is closer to who I am than my true identity. When I became Twiggy Ramirez it sort of overcame what I was," he smiles. "I think people can change their identities on the turn of a dime, and I don't think that means being fake... You're cheating yourself if you just wanna be one thing when you can be everything. Identity is much bigger than one single thing—but sometimes they call that schizophrenia," he chuckles.
"Everyone is so worried about being real, being themselves," Twiggy concludes, "that I think our image actually adds to our message."
The message, in short: fuck authority. The long version, of course, is a bit more complicated, dealing with the complexities of modern American culture: the inherent contradictions between capitalism and Christianity, the hypocrisy of moralists, the struggle to retain individuality in a consumer society, and, of course, a healthy dose of sex, violence, and Satan. Borrowing from glam, goth, death-metal, punk—hell, name your poison—Marilyn Manson brew up a foul elixir that is pure adolescent fantasy, and one so rife with taboo and aggression it's sure to rile up mom and pop back at the trailer. And there's the frontman Marilyn, looking like a cross between Alice Cooper and some modern-day transsexual Willy Wonka, lending typically powerless teenagers a voice against all the societal structures they're being forced into—something very fundamental in the spirit of good rock and roll.
Twiggy's description of his band is less dramatic. "Well," he hesitates, "we're probably somewhere between the Village People and Slayer."
"It's powerful, fascist music mixed with make-up and sex," cuts in Marilyn. "It's things that don't belong together. I like what Boyd Rice said about us. He described our live show as, 'T. Rex at Nuremburg: It was violent and everyone wanted to fuck.'"
If Social Darwinist avant-prankster Boyd Rice exaggerated, it wasn't by much. The extreme nature of the music aside, the spectacle itself is both grotesque and entertaining:At a Detroit show, Manson carves up his chest with a bottle, Iggy style, and invites the obliging "cunts" in the front row to spit in his wounds. Lurching around under a giant Ouiji board backdrop, with eight lynched Howdy Doody dolls hanging in clumps around him, the skinny, panty-clad singer douses himself with beer, simulates sodomy with the mic, and regularly challenges local obscenity codes, once fellating Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finch at a Miami gig at which Marilyn's own parents were present.
"It was the end-of-the-tour period where bands are like playing pranks on one another," Manson explains. "He was trying to egg us on, running onstage, making a spectacle. But instead of being made a fool of, I embraced the situation: I grabbed him and pulled his pants down and sucked his dick," he laughs.
But Marilyn's sexuality isn't always so playful. In an especially visceral rendition of "Sweet Tooth" at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall, he glares into the eyes of a young female fan and screams, "I want you more when you're afraid..." At another show he asks, "How many of you little girls want to come up onstage," then, pausing to listen to all the teenage shrieks, adds disgustedly, "and get fistfucked?"
"I've always had more of a morbid and ugly fascination with sex," Marilyn told me later. "I had this weird grandpa who just died last year from cancer, he had one of those tracheotomies. He couldn't speak, just kind of barked in gravely grunts. He spent most of his time in the basement where he had these train sets and what we discovered when we were about 12 is that whenever he'd turn the trains on he was always masturbating, heavily, to all these real extreme fetish mags, like enema mags and gay porno.
"This was my first real introduction to sex—I guess that's how I started forming my ideas. Sex has always been an ugly thing for me, not necessarily in a negative way. I've always found horrifying things exciting, like pictures of naked women that have been murdered or something were always more arousing than just your standard Penthouse magazine pictures."
But Manson gigs aren't merely explorations of sexual ugliness. Fascistic elements are involved that can be downright creepy. That Marilyn Manson enjoy one of the most fanatical followings in rock and roll, almost like satanic Deadheads, is apparent after just a few days with the band: In New York, a pair of teenage girls pop backstage with the word "manson" freshly carved into their chests, while another shows up with a copy of Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, a barely legible inscription scrawled on page one: "Mr. Manson, U are my hope and everything. U make my life tolerable." In a Detroit, a young couple pleads with the Reverend Manson to seal them in marriage.
Perhaps recklessly, Marilyn occasionally uses this fan devotion to dabble in mass psychology. The charismatic singer will pause the set to lead the crowd in a sort of anti-pep rally: "We hate love, we love hate!" At one point in Detroit during the band's typical encore stunner, Patti Smith's "Rock And Roll Nigger," he and the audience flip each other off in an eerily Nazi-like salute, chanting, "Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate!" Next to me is a middle-class white girl, barely pubescent, screaming it with every fiber of her small body, thoroughly immersed in the violence of the moment.
The following day, in the back room of the band's tour bus (where a copy of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's Occult Roots of Nazism lays conspicuously), Marilyn addresses my observations with characteristic bluntness.
"I just like to see what happens," he says, emphasizing each syllable. "I'm interested. It's always been a bit of a science project for me: I like to find out what scares people, what excites them, what makes them angry.
"But you ultimately need to accept responsibility for your own actions," he continues, the Stooges' Fun House blaring in the background. "I'm perfectly aware of that—I've gone to jail for things that I do onstage. People love to scapegoat and shove the responsibility off on somebody else. Parents are always blaming heavy metal and horror movies for teen suicide, but it's the deprivation of things that the kids love that drives them to these desperate means, I think. It's not in the music; it always starts in the family. And anyway, I've always said if more people killed themselves over heavy metal that's fine, too. It's just less stupid people in the world," he chuckles.
Twiggy barges in on the interview, looking a few shades paler than normal.
"I'm so mad," he blurts. "Remember those drugs yesterday that made me sick? You know what that was? Heroin!"
"Really?" asks a disbelieving Marilyn.
"Yes. I pulled a total Pulp Fiction and didn't even know it!" he yells. "I thought, 'Well, it's white,' and she said, 'Here's some drugs for you and Marilyn.' I go out and cut 'em up, and think, 'This tastes funny—is it speed or something?' It was horrible. It was like I played in a coma."
Twiggy exits, and Marilyn gets back to the topic at hand, the fact that sometimes the live show seems closer to Nuremburg than T. Rex.
"It's one of those old clichés about performing when people say sometimes there's a magic that happens between the audience and the performer and certain nights it really clicks," Marilyn says. "But that cliché's kind of true, because different nights you really tap into something powerful and I think it's not unlike a lot of the things that those people—you know, Antichrists of the past—tapped into.
"There'll be nights where you move a certain way and the whole crowd reacts to it and it's very powerful," he continues. "To me that's the closest thing to black magic—or whatever you'd want to call that unexplainable supernatural force—that I've come to. A lot of people, my being associated with Satanism, come up to me after the show and say, 'Do you practice satanic rituals?' and I tell them, 'What do you think you just saw?'"
Marilyn decides to hit the malls the next day, wanting to pick up some new pantyhose and a few CDs. While we're waiting for the car in the hotel lobby with Twiggy, drummer Ginger Fish hurries by with a young woman, careful not to look our way.
"That is called the 'Walk of Shame,'" Marilyn grins crookedly.
"When you leave the hotel with a woman that looked a lot better the night before," finishes Twiggy.
The woman spots us and comes rushing over, alone, introducing herself and giving Marilyn and Twiggy a peck on the cheek.
"Poor thing," murmurs Twiggy when she's gone, "she had to sleep with Ginger just to kiss us..."
"You see, elitism exists even within our band!" Marilyn chuckles.
"You must be a band!" announces a large black woman passing by, dragging her two children over to us. "Who are y'all?"
"Krokus," Twiggy offers sincerely.
"Can you sign something for me?" The woman digs through her purse, fishing out a Christmas card. Twiggy signs as "Jeffrey Dahmer," while Marilyn opts for "Adolf Hitler." She puts the card away without looking at it.
"Here, have some Christmas presents," Marilyn says as the woman saunters off, tossing her a bag of demos he's been instructed to listen to by road manager Frankie Callari.
Later, at the hotel, Twiggy's beaming over his new CD purchases: an Olivia Newton-John greatest hits package, Rainbow's Long Live Rock and Roll, Lionel Richie's Front to Back, and a King Diamond disc that contains a written drug warning: "Stop the madness! Drugs are no fun."
As lines of cocaine are drawn out over the King Diamond CD, Marilyn ruminates almost apathetically on some of the band's enemies. Predictably, the Christian Coalition pops up, whose power in Manson's home state of Florida has had the singer jailed several times already.
"In Florida , the separation of church and state is just not real," Manson observes. "I think that's one of the reasons Marilyn Manson came from Florida . It's almost to create a balance between the conservatism and the tourism and the whole phony Mickey Mouse, sunshine bullshit associated with the state. The dark underside had to surface at some point. That's what happened...
"But I almost have a weird respect for Christianity," he continues, putting in a Gary Glitter CD, "because I think somebody, somewhere must know that it's complete bullshit. They're in on the inside joke."
"The people in charge of all those religions are very intelligent," Twiggy concurs. "They're controlling a lot of mindless fuckin' people. Actually, I think they're the most satanic of all, which I respect."
But the indignation is not limited to the Far Right. Animal rights group PETA has vocally protested the band's occasional use of a chicken in a cage as an onstage prop. Marilyn finds an amusing irony to the situation.
"In the past we had six-year-old Robert Pierce, who sang on our album, onstage in a cage," he says. "We let him sing 'My Monkey.' And my point to PETA was, 'Where were you when this kid was onstage?' Which I think is a bigger concern than an animal used for McChicken sandwiches. I think a lot of these people, for lack of any other identity sometimes, have to identify themselves with things that they don't like and attach themselves to some sort of morality. I happen to like animals, you know, I have pets. But at the same time that kind of fanatical reaction to having a chicken in a cage —I think these people could probably spend their time doing more important things—bombing abortion clinics, for example," Marilyn chuckles sardonically.
"So we'd stopped having chickens in cages," he continues, "and they just kept sending the police to our shows to make sure like a year after the fact. I wrote them a letter stating, 'Each time I hear our name brought up in association with PETA, I'm going to torture an animal in the privacy of my own home.' We haven't heard from them since."
Even the band's own distributor, Interscope Records, was reluctant to carry them at first, concerned particularly with the serial-killer monikers. But when Trent Reznor (who signed Manson as the first act to his Nothing Records, solely on the strength of their demos) started shopping the band around to other distributors, Interscope relented.
Marilyn shrugs it off. "I think [Interscope] were just a little nervous at first, which is understandable. If they weren't," he laughs, "then I must be doing something wrong."
Marilyn's New Year's message to the crowd at the sold-out Academy Theatre is a simple one: "Rehab is for quitters!"
The band then plows through a tight, invigorating set which culminates in Marilyn giving Daisy Berkowitz a shove, sending the quiet, introspective guitarist careening over the monitors and down into the security pit. Afterward, the band fights its way through the Times Square crowd and piles into a van headed for a party at MTV VJ/irritant Kennedy's apartment.
Wandering around Kennedy's pad, filled with industry bigwigs and other musicians, it's clear Marilyn's not comfortable. "Look, there's J Mascis," he says, pointing out the Dinosaur Jr. frontman. "We should kill him."
A 30-ish long-hair pops over to us and offers Marilyn a pill.
"What is it?" Marilyn queries.
"It's X," he proclaims, "it'll make you love everybody."
"Sorry," Marilyn snickers, "you've got the wrong guy."
I wander around, picking up snippets of band conversation. Daisy, who looks almost conservative by Manson standards in green hair and P-coat, is having a weird reaction to a combination of hash, X, and booze. Twiggy comforts him with a reminder of far worse chemical gumbos the band toyed with during their brief relocation to New Orleans : Special K, crack, Tic Tacs, bits of human bone—in one pipe.
In another room Madonna Wayne corners a fellow partier, animatedly sharing some suicide advice the son of an old war veteran gave him.
"If you have a shotgun," he says excitedly, "and you pour a little bit of water down the barrel, and you put a big fuckin' deer slug in it, the shell will push the water up the barrel when it fires. The water actually scours the inside of your skull, it's like a high-pressure water cleaning, blows everything right out, like a guaranteed, can't-lose kill! Also, he said you can just hold a grenade right under your chin and pull the key—boom, ha ha ha!"
It's clear after an hour or so that everyone wants a new scene, and Marilyn and I eventually end up back at the hotel to conclude the interview.
Approaching five in the morning, with the sun creeping up on a new year, Manson becomes introspective, speaking modestly and openly about his true motivations.
"I think I've grown to become all the things that tormented and terrorized me as a child," he says quietly. "Like in junior high school when I was constantly being bombarded with all this propaganda about Armageddon and the rapture, and if you're not born again you'll be left to suffer, the Antichrist—all these terrifying things that I was being lied to about. When I finally grew up and realized it wasn't true I felt almost obligated to make it come to pass, just call them on their bluff to pay them back for all the lies...
"Don't get me wrong," he continues, "because I love paradoxes, but America's so confusing. Capitalism tells you if you work hard enough you'll be better than the next guy—but everyone's created equal. So what's it gonna be? And everyone's so down on child pornography, but then the big thing, just a year ago, was the waif model, who looked like a 14-year-old, flat-chested and skinny, dressed like a schoolgirl. I mean, they send out so many mixed messages it's no wonder there's Ted Bundys and Jeffrey Dahmers—they don't know what else to do. And then when you put the Christian guilt in there, that's when people just start breaking apart, you know. It's no wonder everyone wants to kill themselves and kill everyone else."
Perhaps the key to this enigmatic performer, who publicly toys with every supposed social ill that Middle America abhors, from drugs and Satanism to bisexuality and fascism, lies in the convincing lyrics from "Lunchbox," a melodic hard-rock anthem, and the band's best song to date: "The big bully try to put his finger in my chest/Try to tell me, tell me he's the best... And when I grow up/I wanna be/A big rock-and-roll star/When I grow up/I wanna be/So no one fucks with me."
"It tells the story of how I developed such a chip on my shoulder," Marilyn says. "It just goes back to high school and not being someone…" he pauses, "…that people liked. I think a lot of people can identify with that—getting your ass kicked a lot for being the skinny kid or whatever. And I think that gave me an 'I'll show you' kind of attitude, which, after reading a lot of stuff on serial killers, I found I identified with them because they had that same attitude. But they didn't really have an outlet. I've found a lot of similarities between artists and musicians and serial killers."
We talk a little longer, about the band's propensity for back-masking, about Marilyn being misquoted into a "voice of reason" in a Family Circle article on moshing, and again about the allegations that Marilyn Manson is merely one giant, ill-intentioned charade. Like everything else, Marilyn confronts the issue head-on.
"I'm almost inclined just to let people have their opinions," he says. "If that's what they wanna think, that's what they wanna think. But I know that if Marilyn Manson were just merely a creation, when it was created six years ago, it is something that devoured its creator. Because it has consumed me and become everything that I am. And I really don't have anything else."
Eventually the phone rings, and Marilyn explains that a friend of his is coming up to do some drugs. As I get up to leave, Marilyn tells me there's one topic we haven't yet addressed.
"I think a lot of people may misunderstand what type of person I might be," he says quietly. "I consider myself actually, and this sounds almost funny, a sensitive person. I think that's why I've constructed such a hard shell around myself, because things do affect me a lot and I am probably pretty fragile on the inside.
"People think maybe that I hate everything, that there's nothing in the world that I love. But there are things that I care about enough that I would give anything for. I think it's just the fact that I'm hurt by... my dissatisfaction with so many things around me. It's like, I guess, just being offended by how much everything sucks, that I can't help but to be in a bad mood all the time."
And here he cracks a smile.
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1. Is there a Creator ....and does He know what He is doing?
2. Is the Creator conscious of Himself?
3. Why does God need Man?
4. In what way does Man not conform to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
5. What is our conception of Fate?
How does psyche shape and guide Vocation? For Jung, vocation was "an irrational factor that destines a man to emancipate himself from the herd and its well-worn paths" (CW17, para 299). This presentation considers what Jung and others in the depth psychological tradition, such as James Hillman and Joseph Campbell, had to say about the nature of vocation and calling.
Susanne shows how a depth psychological approach, which values the creative unconscious or autonomous psyche as a source of wisdom and knowledge, may inform and deepen contemporary approaches to career development. These are now shifting from the hegemony of positivist, logos-centred approaches, toward more metaphoric, imaginal and narrative methods, encouraging individuals to connect with their "personal myths".
Suzanne looks at the New Zealand film WHALE RIDER (2002) to illustrate how vocational calls from soul (psyché) may arise, including via ancestral patterns, amor fati (love of one's fate) and attunement to synchronicity. This lecture extends the field and scope of contemporary Jungian Research by showing how engagement with film at the Jungian level of symbol can support the reimagining of work in a post-modern framework that includes collaboration with the deep psyche. The nexus between Jung's concept of individuation and the call to Vocation (both individual and collective) is developed: both conceived as a response to the anima mundi (world soul), with radical implications for work, environment and sustainability.
Having worked as a lawyer, conference producer, screenwriter, publisher and career counselor for adults in midlife, Suzanne's doctoral research at La Trobe University analyses films to explore Jungian and imaginal approaches to vocation and career development. Suzanne holds two Masters Degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute (USA) in Engaged Humanities (depth psychology and mythology) and Jungian & Archival Studies, plus Degrees in Arts and Law from the University of New South Wales. She is the Immediate Past President of the C.G. Jung Society of Queensland, and co-founder and director of scholarly publishing house eContent Management (www.e-contentmanagement.com). Suzanne also serves on the Board of Directors for Pacifica's International Alumni Association. Recently she has co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches (vol 13/2, 2013) on "Depth Psychological Research Methods: Multiple and Engaged Approaches."
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Snow forecast for the capital as cold snap brings sub-zero temperatures, Met Office says
Snow could settle as an easterly wind brings wintry showers to our shores
Lois Swinnerton
Londoners are being warned to brace themselves for snow and freezing temperatures as the weather takes a turn later this week.
Temperatures are set to plummet to as low as -1°C to -3°C in the capital, with the outskirts of London experiencing temperatures as cold as -5°C.
That's colder than the snowy Reykjavík in Iceland, which has lows of 1°C forecast this week.
The Met Office have forecast wintry showers (Image: Getty Images/ Oli Scarff)
Heathrow Airport cancelling flights when fog or bad weather is forecast explained
Met Office spokesman, Helen Roberts, told getwestlondon: "It's really from Wednesday onwards when we start to see a change in wind direction to an easterly, bringing cold air from the continent and that cold air looks like staying with us then for the rest of the week and into the weekend.
"So increasingly cold, widespread overnight frosts, risk of icy patches and then towards the last part of the week in particular, we start seeing a increasing chance of some showers pushing in which are likely to be wintry.
Snow fell across London for the first time in 2017 on January 12 (Image: Getty Images/ Carl Court)
Snow arrives in London as commuters prepare for drenching weather during rush hour
"I think there will be some snow showers, the air will be very cold by then.
"If you do get any snow showers, they are probably quite likely to settle on the ground.
"But the showers will be quite fleeting, so your not likely to get a big dump of snow."
During the first half of the week, the weather is expected to be quite damp and grey and it will feel quite chilly but no too cold, with highs on Tuesday, February 6 of 10°C.
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Boyeros es uno de los 15 municipios de La Habana, Cuba. Fue establecido en 1976, y fusionado con el pueblo de Santiago de Las Vegas. Está ubicado al suroeste de la ciudad y se extiende hacia el Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí.
Ubicación
El municipio Boyeros limita al norte con el municipio Cerro, al este con el municipio Arroyo Naranjo, al oeste con los municipios La Lisa y Marianao y al sur con el municipio Bejucal perteneciente a la provincia de Mayabeque. Tiene una extensión territorial de 134,2 km². Cuenta con siete Consejos Populares: Santiago de las Vegas, Nuevo Santiago, Boyeros, Calabazar, Wajay, Altahabana y Armada.
Demografía
Actualmente hay 188 712 habitantes con una densidad poblacional de 1406,2 habitantes por km².
Esbozo Histórico
Fue a mediados del siglo XVII cuando comenzó el asentamiento, con carácter estable, en lo que llegaría a ser después el primer núcleo poblacional del territorio: Santiago de las Vegas, conocido hasta 1694 por Las Vegas.
El municipio Boyeros ostenta en la actualidad este nombre por ser la localidad homónima, que le pertenece, la más conocida nacional e internacionalmente debido a la instalación en sus terrenos del Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí.
Economía
Las producciones principales se proyectan hacia la elaboración de reactivos, producciones de industria de materiales de la construcción, productos alimenticios, cartón, cartulina, envases de cartón, envases de papel, tejidos, hilazas, medicamentos, etc. Es característico del territorio los servicios aeroportuarios.
Existe en la localidad un centro científico de gran importancia: el Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales para la Agricultura Tropical (INIFAT), cuyo antecedente histórico fue la Estación Experimental Agronómica de Cuba fundada en 1904, la primera de América Latina.
Salud
Se dispone de siete policlínicos, dos clínicas y cinco departamentos estomatológicos, 263 consultorios médicos, 7 Hogares Maternos y una casa de abuelos destinada a la atención a las personas de la tercera edad, un Centro de Investigaciones de Medicina Tradicional, Asiática y Natural (CIMTAN), un Hospital Psiquiátrico Diurno e instalaciones de salud de gran importancia como lo son: Hospital Dermatológico "Guillermo Fernández Hernández Vaquero" (más conocido como San Lázaro), Sanatorio de Los Cocos (SIDA), Hospital Pediátrico "Wiliam Soler", Cardiocentro e Instituto de Inmunología y Hematología "Wiliam Soler", Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana Dr. Bernabé Ordaz Ducungué (Mazorra), la Clínica de Medicina Tradicional "Ernesto Che Guevara", Hospital de rehabilitación Julio Díaz, Hospital Pediátrico Leonor Pérez y el Hospital General "Enrique Cabrera".
Educación
Cuenta Boyeros con 34 círculos infantiles, 50 escuelas primarias, 15 secundarias básicas, 6 escuelas especiales, 6 escuelas de superación integral para jóvenes, 4 Facultades Obrero Campesina, una escuela de idioma, la escuela de oficios y una escuela de reeducación femenina en Calabazar. Se encuentran también los institutos politécnicos de: Gastronomía, Metalurgia, Construcción y de Veterinaria.
Deporte
En Santiago de las Vegas fue donde por primera vez en Cuba se jugó el jockey sobre césped, para lo cual se fundó el Centro Nacional de Jockey "Antonio Maceo", igualmente se tiene cerca del zoológico, el campo de golf de La Habana, desde 1955.
Boyeros posee 14 instalaciones deportivas: cinco estadios de béisbol, dos CVD deportivos, una academia municipal de ajedrez y otra de tenis de mesa, y un campo de tiro. Existe también un Complejo municipio, y un Centro de Entrenamiento de Alto Rendimiento "Cerro Pelado".
Entre otras personalidades deportivas del municipio destacan los famosos beisbolistas Juan Padilla, Pedro Chávez y Orlando Hernández.
Cultura
El municipio cuenta con cinco Casas de la Cultura, un museo municipal, una biblioteca municipal, un centro de arte, una galería de arte y dos cines. Existen tres festejos tradicionales los cuales son: "La fiesta del café" en el pueblo de Wajay y "Las parrandas santiagueras", en Santiago de las Vegas y "Los festejos por la fundación de Calabazar" en el pueblo de Calabazar.
Como personalidades destacadas se encuentra el Lic. en Historia y Filosofía Fabio Urquiola González, vecino del reparto Residencial Altahabana, es uno de los escritores más jóvenes entre los publicados y reconocidos del país, principalmente por su poesía, aunque con solo 20 años ya cuenta con dos novelas publicadas y ambas premiadas.
En Boyeros se encuentra el Parque Zoológico Nacional, sito en Carretera de Varona kilómetro3 1/2, que tiene 340 hectáreas de superficie contando con más de 800 animales de más de 100 especies diferentes. Instalación que está diseñada respondiendo a las más modernas concepciones de exhibición zoológica en aparente libertad, constituye un sitio especial de visita para todos aquellos amantes de la flora y la fauna.
Ciudades hermanadas
Torrejón de Ardoz
Rubí
Guarulhos
'''Amacuzac (2001)
Reus
Referencias
Municipios de la provincia de La Habana
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The only thing this meal is missing is my Better Than Red Lobster Biscuits!
My favorite way to cook chicken, especially when wrapped in bacon is in my Convection Counter-top Oven. It allows the bacon to get crisp and the chicken to get done at the same time. I also don't have broilers in my ovens (apparently all restaurants use a salamander type broiler) so it's a must to have when I want to broil. I also love using the Counter Top Oven to cook bacon all by itself. No splatter and it only takes about 10-12 minutes!
Lightly season both side of chicken with Cajun Seasoning.
Place 1 tbsp. of cream cheese on the corner of the chicken.
Roll chicken then wrap with bacon and sprinkle with more Cajun Seasoning.
If additional browning of the bacon is needed, turn the broiler on to brown bacon before removing from the oven.
Toss cooked broccoli with butter and season with Cajun Seasoning to taste.
Follow directions on blog to prepare spaghetti squash in crock pot.
Using a fork, scrape the inside of the squash to remove the "spaghetti"
Add butter to large pan over medium heat.
Add garlic and cream to pan and whisk.
Continue to whisk and slowly add Parmesan cheese.
If Alfredo sauce becomes too thick, whisk in the 1/4 cup of water.
Place spaghetti squash on plate, followed by the Alfredo sauce and then the bacon wrapped chicken. Serve with broccoli and diced tomatoes.
Add cooked "spaghetti" to the Alfredo sauce then add broccoli and stir. Top with tomatoes and serve with the bacon wrapped chicken on the side.
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Audubon's Haiti
Tags: John James Audubon, born in Haiti, Smooth-billed Ani, Charles Lucien Bonaparte
I had a fantastic time last weekend at the magnificent Audubon Museum in Henderson, Kentucky, as the invited speaker for the celebration of John James Audubon's 233rd birthday. It never felt more relevant to remind people that Audubon was born in Haiti (then Saint-Domingue), and that Haiti shaped his art and his thinking in ways that still remain to be discovered. Looking through Audubon's books art the museum, I found a marginal note in his copy of ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte's works, where Audubon refers to himself proudly as "J.A. born in Santo Domingue." And he underlines it, too. A very moving moment.
The beginning of the note--"The very bout de Petun's Note"--refers to the Creole name for the Smooth-billed Ani, still common in Haiti, whose song Audubon here compares to Bonaparte's description of the "Great Crow Blackbird," likely the Great-tailed Grackle. An earlier marginal note confirms that he had derived this information from his reading of Buffon but the later comments directly relate this knowledge to his early years in Haiti, whether he actually remembers the bird or merely feels he can claim special authority for himself as actually coming from the same place as that bird. Amusingly, Audubon also rejects the illustration Bonaparte provides, denying that it's by him, as Bonaparte had claimed: "My Drawing has been So Shamefuly cannibalized by an unknown Individual that to See My Name at the corner of the Plate might make me wish to abandon the great Labours I have been at to represent Nature as it is." Well, he didn't abandon those labors. What still remains to be discovered is the extent to which Audubon's Caribbean origins (about which he consistently lied, with the exception of the comment I found) had helped him to persist in his quest.
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Today's workforce is more diverse than ever before, presenting interesting challenges when designing workspaces suitable for a variety of individuals. In the last century, industry and scientific knowledge have come a long way, leading to more progressive and effective practices in the field of commercial office design.
As commercial fit-out strategists, we don't stop at project and build management. We care about delivering a superior final product, incorporating safe and healthy choices with quality materials and an uncompromising approach.
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For example, research has shown that higher concentrations of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and VOC (volatile organic compounds) can be linked to impaired cognitive performance, which may lead to greater absenteeism and lowered performance from employees. To combat this, we select suitable ventilation systems and low/no-VOC materials, paints and adhesives. Additionally, we fit out every office with indoor plants known for their air filtering qualities.
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Where possible, the commercial spaces we create aim to minimise glare, provide adequate light and shade, and include healthy quantities of natural light to help prevent a light exposure 'hangover' when employees head home for the day.
We also tackle the ever controversial issue of climate control. Based on the male-dominated workforce of the 1960s, conventional office temperature formulas are no longer relevant for the modern workplace. Today, women make up about half the workforce, allowing us to incorporate more economical and sustainable practices around heating and cooling.
With open plan offices currently in fashion, it becomes increasingly important to balance noisy and quiet spaces throughout the entire office. This can involve decisions as big as floor plan layout to shelter meeting rooms and sanctuary spaces from wayward sounds, and duties as small as picking floor and wall coverings to manage the acoustics in a room.
A well-designed office can foster a positive work environment, but it's not the space alone that determines a healthy workplace. Research shows the stress of bad workplace relationships can have negative impacts extending far beyond the office walls, and that positive social support support from colleagues can actually be good for employee health.
There's no doubt about it – people matter most in a healthy work environment. Providing them with places to collaborate and 'collide' can offer the mental refreshment and social bonding that their work routines may not.
We go a step further than the old water cooler, assigning comfortable congregation zones strategically positioned and connected to encourage relaxed and incidental social interaction. It's the approach we take to support our clients' healthier workplace policies, serving their staff and their business well into the future.
Some of the most common office fit-out mistakes we've seen after 15 years in the industry, along with tips on how to avoid them.
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Have no fear, cowgirl! This brief course in searching the Internet for financial information will help you find what you need. We'll start by helping you to become more familiar with the most popular search engines, and help you construct a search that will lead to financial information on your particular topic. Then, we'll cover alternate ways to search for financial information.
First, take a look at the three most popular search engines on the web, Google, Bing and Yahoo!. All three help you find information about other websites on the Internet. Searching through these sites can help you locate information on many financial topics from a great variety of websites. Google's search engine favors sites that have a lot of links to other sites. Yahoo! organizes sites by category and helps you to find similar sites on the topic you have chosen. Take a quick look at each of these sites to familiarize yourself with their structure.
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When examining websites, favor ones that are educational in nature-for example, choose Money magazine at money.cnn.com over Joe Financial Planner's website. Also favor large sites by well-known organizations, such as the IRS, Department of Labor, university extension programs, and major financial institutions. You are more likely to get a good general education on the subject from these sites, instead of having to separate what is generally accepted fact from personal opinion.
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A Vendor Management System (VMS) is a web-based (Cloud/SaaS) application that acts as a central hub, and a system of record, to procure, manage and pay, your contingent workforce - sourced directly, or via staffing agencies and strategic service providers.
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With a well-configured VMS, organizations can automate and streamline critical processes that support the sourcing, acquisition, management and payment of your on-demand workforce. This includes requisitions (request for services), candidate selection and on-boarding, compliance, approvals, time management and scheduling, expense management, payments and reporting. In addition, VMS technologies can provide extensive reporting functionality and features to support your human capital strategies and objectives.
HCMWorks is technology neutral. This means we can help you select the best Vendor Management System (VMS) based on your unique specifications and needs. Furthermore, our vast experience working with different VMS technologies offers us the distinct ability to help you optimize your current VMS systems and improve your overall workforce management program.
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The final concert for Jazz at Two series features Melanie Massell and Company. Melanie delights and entertains her audiences with her charm and charisma. An Atlanta native, she has been a featured performer at the Atlanta Jazz Festival and was nominated as "Outstanding Jazz Artist" at the Coca-Cola Music Awards and appeared at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Atlanta Concert Band. She relocated to the Sarasota/Bradenton area in 2007 and has been performing in venues throughout the area with her vast repertoire of jazz, blues, country, soul, r&b, pop and Latin music. Joining her are Keith Carman, piano; John Lamb, bass; Johnnie Moore, drums. Unitarian Universalist Church, Fruitville Rd. Admission $10 – $20 and free for students. Friday April 12 from 2 -4 pm.
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September 1: This Day In History
Day In History
September 1, 2014 – Segment 1
Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ethel Waters passed away, the day the first Black person graduated from the Harvard Dental School, and the day a coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrew President David Dacko.
1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1867 – The first Black person to graduate from Harvard Dental School is Robert T Freeman
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1875 – White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, Mississippi. One white and three Blacks were killed.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1952 – Atlantic Records bought Ray Charles' contract from Swingtime Records, where Charles had been recording in the mellower, bluesy style of Nat King Cole and Charles Brown.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 – Tran Thien Khiem becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1984 – After a 25-year career, Tina Turner had her first solo No.1 single in the US with 'What's Love Got To Do With It'. This song was originally written for Cliff Richard, however the song was rejected. It was then offered to Donna Summer, who has stated she sat with it for a couple of years but never recorded it.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (d. 1950)
1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977)
1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1982)
1927 – Tommy Evans, The Drifters, (1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Save The Last Dance For Me').
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author
1944 – Archie Bell, American singer-songwriter (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer (Sly & the Family Stone and Weather Report)
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
1975 – Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter and activist
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
Sources: The People History; This Day in Labor History; Wikipedia List of Historical Anniversaries; This Day in Women's History; This Day in African History;History.com; History Orb; Yenoba; Selected Black Facts; Phil Konstantin's North American Indian History; and This Day in Music
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Wei-Ming has a bachelors degree in molecular biology and genetics from Purdue University and a masters degree in business and biotechnology from Northwestern University. He has experience with genetic engineering of red blood cells, sickle cell anemia, bone cells, and thermophilic bacteria. He was a salesperson of scientific laboratory equipment and DNA oligonucleotides. He is a certified project manager (PMP) with experience managing IT projects for national companies such as Walmart and Home Depot.
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Q: Teracopy: "File read" vs "OK" status When copying with Teracopy, the Status column sometimes reads "File read" and sometimes "OK", along with a green check mark.
The files marked "File read" seem to have been copied fine (I tested a random set of files; they work).
What is the difference? Should I worry when the status is not "OK"?
A: I was wondering the same as I was having this issue as well. The technical support ([email protected]) answered to me as follows:
"File read" means that the file has been read into the memory, while "OK" means it has been written to the disk.
However, the files marked "File read" seem to have been copied fine on my computer as well, so I think it's a bug (it's probably worth comparing the size of the destination folder with the size of the source folder, or do some more advanced checks).
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3 MOUNTAIN BIKERS, 3 RIFUGIOS, 3 ROUTES, ONE GREAT PASSION!
Sometimes you start a journey with the sole aim of setting out, trying to nourish an ambitious idea that has yet to take shape.
In these circumstances, Elena, Alfredo and I ventured out to explore some mountain areas on our bikes, staying at charming facilities immersed in nature in Valle d'Aosta.
Unsurprisingly, we started at a traditional and renowned agriturismo in a village near Aosta, Maison Rosset in Nus, managed with care by Camillo.
On the first part of the trail we escaped the rain that subsequently accompanied us on the last stretch up to Rifugio Magià at 2,007 meters. Dario and his daughter Manuela, who in winter remain connected with the rest of the world only through a cross-country ski trail that leads to Saint-Barthélemy, welcomed us to their little corner of paradise. Fire, warmth and good food would reenergize us for the challenging second day.
Reaching Col Vessona at an altitude of 2,788 meters was not easy, despite our training. It is one of the most picturesque passes in the Valle d'Aosta, from which a freeride/enduro trail descends for 10 kilometers along another wild valley, Valpelline.
Humidity and mosquitoes followed us for a while and then relented while we pushed and "portaged" our bikes up the final section to the pass. After a brief stop at the Clermont Bivouac, still surrounded by the clouds that gave us respite while we reached the pass, we launched ourselves along technical switchbacks on clay, alternating with fluid sequences on dirt and sometimes-slippery roots – with an inevitable puncture, of course. Once we reached Oyace, we headed out again toward Champillon, a village at 2,000 meters' elevation, located in a strategic area for accessing Rifugio Adolfo Letey at 2,430 meters, where we were welcomed by Silvie, Marcello and Mattia.
The window of good weather in the morning rewarded us generously for the effort of the previous day, granting us a sunny descent along a ridge that led us to the dense forests of firs and larches crossed by ancient irrigation channels connecting the high valley of the Great Saint Bernard.
Doues, Allein, Etroubles: these are the small mountain villages we encountered during our descent and the subsequent transition to the right side of the valley, along the Ru Neuf canal to Gignod. The day's stage was to take us to Rifugio Fallère, a true work of art – located at 2,365 meters' elevation, at the foot of the mountain of the same name – managed by Siro and his son François.
From here, the temptation to reach and tackle the Becca France, an exposed and jagged mountain from which a truly one-of-a-kind single track drops down to the city of Aosta, was too strong.
Three intense days that end with this loop, crossing Roman Aosta and following the bike path that takes us back to our starting point, ready for another trip – why not? – together.
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UniQuest promotes breast cancer breakthroughs at Ausbiotech
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month observed internationally throughout October, UniQuest will be promoting three potential new treatments for the disease, along with 100 other biotechnology innovations from Australian universities, at the annual Ausbiotech Conference next week.
The novel breast cancer therapies being developed by The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute and Faculty of Health Sciences address tumour growth and the spread of cells to other parts of the body (metastases).
Other cancer-related research UniQuest will be marketing to pharmaceutical and biotech companies include a peptide-based immunotherapy for hormone-dependent cancers, therapies to combat infections and the side of chemotherapy, a device which supports adaptive radiation therapy for men with prostate cancer, less-toxic therapeutics for multiple myeloma, and a range of diagnostic tools.
"The Ausbiotech Conference is the premier biotechnology meeting for the Asia Pacific region, attracting about 1500 delegates from 20 countries each year, which presents plenty of opportunities to talk to a wide range of representatives from major international biotech and pharmaceutical companies about licensing university-based technologies and about working with our researchers to find cures and better health management strategies," said UniQuest Managing Director, David Henderson.
"The Conference also attracts venture capital and private equity firms looking to invest in ground-breaking technologies. With University of Queensland innovations are now generating annual sales of more than A$3 billion globally, from vaccines like Gardasil to high-tech MRI machines and telehealth systems, there's a lot interest in what the research institutions we represent are working on right now to benefit future generations."
UniQuest will man booth #66 in the trade exhibition, where the innovation portfolio will be showcased on a flat screen and in the latest edition of UniQuest's technology newsletter, The Deal Sheet. Visitors to the booth will learn about a range of market-ready projects, from a clinically validated telehealth system for Allied Health Professionals to a program empowering health professionals with proven strategies to support patients' compliance with their medication.
The diversity of biotech breakthroughs also includes an innovation that limits heat stress and promotes rapid recovery for people working in dangerously hot conditions, and several technologies related to medical testing devices.
These opportunities to collaborate on ground-breaking biotech developments are based on research from The University of Queensland's science faculties and institutes, as well as UniQuest's research commercialisation partners: University of Wollongong, Mater Medical Research Institute, James Cook University, University of Technology Sydney, University of Tasmania, and Queensland Health.
UniQuest has helped to launch several Australian university life sciences innovations onto the global market since 1984:
• UniQuest was involved with the early commercialisation of the HPV technology discovered by Dr Ian Frazer and his late research partner Dr Jian Zhou, which has contributed to the development of a vaccine for cervical cancer. Pharmaceutical company Merck has distributed 65 million doses of Gardasil® since the vaccine's global launch in 2006. It is now approved in 123 countries.
• UniQuest bio-pharmaceutical start-up QRxPharma Limited listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in May 2007 and made history as Australia's biggest biotechnology float. QRxPharma recently announced its successful completion of Phase 3 trials of its patented pain management product.
• Another UniQuest start-up, ImpediMed Ltd, closed oversubscribed when it listed on the ASX and as a publicly-listed company in September 2007. It recently became the first company to offer FDA, CE and TGA cleared L-Dex devices for simple point of care, standardised and objective metrics to aid in the clinical assessment of lymphoedema.
• Spinifex Pharmaceuticals Pty Limited recently secured A$6.3 million in the final tranche of an A$18.3 million series B round to fund clinical efficacy trials of its innovative neuropathic (nerve) pain therapy. The Phase II trial will begin with post herpetic neuralgia patients, while further trials in peripheral nerve injury patients and cancer chemotherapy patients are expected to start by the end of the year. UniQuest established Spinifex in 2005 with a pre-seed investment from Uniseed, and the start-up company has since raised A$22.3 million to develop a market-ready product.
These three companies and other UniQuest start-ups are among the 1000+ Australian biotechnology and medical technology ventures contributing to the industry's global growth. Of the 151 healthcare and biotech public life science companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, 27 are capitalised at greater than A$100 million.
Ausbiotech 2011 will take place at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 16-19 October.
About UniQuest Pty Limited
Established by The University of Queensland in 1984, UniQuest is widely recognised as one of Australia's largest and most successful university commercialisation groups, benchmarking in the top tier of technology transfer worldwide. From an intellectual property portfolio of 1,500+ patents it has created over 60 companies, and since 2000 UniQuest and its start-ups have raised more than $400 million to take university technologies to market. Annual sales of products using UQ technology and licensed by UniQuest are running at $3 billion. UniQuest now commercialises innovations developed at The University of Queensland and its commercialisation partner institutions: the University of Wollongong, University of Technology Sydney, James Cook University, University of Tasmania, Mater Medical Research Institute, and Queensland Health. UniQuest also provides access to an expansive and exclusive network of independent academics to tailor a consulting or project R&D solution to meet the diverse needs of industry and government, facilitating some 500 consulting, expert opinion, testing, and contract research services each year. UniQuest is also a leading Australasian provider of international development assistance recognised for excellence in technical leadership, management and research. Working with agencies such as AusAID, NZAID, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, UniQuest has developed and implemented more than 400 projects in 46 countries throughout the Pacific, South-East Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Africa.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 – UniQuest Pty Limited
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Rodolfo HALFFTER (1900-1987)
Piano Sonata no.1 op.16 (1947) [10:56]
...Huésped de las Nieblas (Rimas sin Palabras), for flute and piano, op.44 (1981) [7:21]
Pastorale for violin and piano, op.18, (1940) [5:07]
Égloga for oboe and piano, op.45 (1982) [7:43]
Soloists of the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
María Elena Barrientos (piano) [Sonatas]
Francisco José Segovia (piano) [opp. 18, 44, 45]
Cinta Varea (flute) [op.44]
Victor Arriola (violin) [op.18]
Vicente Fernández (oboe) [op.45]
rec. Madrid, November 2006. DDD
NAXOS 8.572418 [63:10]
This is the first of three volumes (at least) by Naxos of the piano and chamber music of Rodolfo Halffter. Volumes 2 and 3 are only available as downloads for the time being from ClassicsOnline.com. The main works on this first volume are Halffter's three piano sonatas, with three shorter works for piano with oboe, flute or violin.
One of Halffter's five brothers, Ernesto (1905-89), and their nephew Cristóbal (b.1930), are both composers, and both have had full CDs of their works published by Naxos. Of Prussian descent - hence the Germanic-looking surname - all three were born in Madrid, and whilst Ernesto and Cristóbal have remained there, Rodolfo emigrated to Mexico, where he took citizenship in 1939. Though he was aided by Carlos Chávez among others, there is nothing particularly Mexican-sounding about Halffter's music. In fact, his basically melodic-tonal style is more along the lines of Manuel De Falla, whom he knew, and at times reminiscent of that of his brother Ernesto. Naxos too have decided that Halffter's music is not Mexican, issuing this disc in their growing 'Spanish Classics' range.
All of Halffter's music on this disc is essentially frugal and light. The three Piano Sonatas are short, that is to say, concise - they say what Halffter wants to say and nothing more. There's no hint of superficiality. The first two Sonatas are luminous and airy, with dance-like rhythms and bouts of unobtrusive polytonality. The Third Sonata, on the other hand, written at a time when Halffter was well into a more avant-garde style, represents an experiment with twelve-note techniques. For this reason it is certainly the least accessible of the three sonatas, indeed of all the music on the disc. Yet, even incorporating aleatoric elements in the third movement, Halffter does achieve his goal of reconciling sonata-form and serialism well enough for the Sonata to give the impression of something approaching development, and even glimpses of nationalism. It is the dramatic music, not the maths, to which the listener's attention is drawn.
The title ...Huésped de las Nieblas comes from a poem by 19th century Spanish poet Gustavo Bécquer, though the piece is not programmatic. Nor is it, despite its date, by any stretch avant-garde - impressionistic, rather than expressionistic. There are three slow sections of a similar nature, and the flautist is sometimes required to play notes that have almost fallen off the bottom end of the instrument's range. The Égloga op.45 was written around the same time, is of a similar length and has the same kind of feel to it, albeit slightly faster and sunnier in a bucolic way. The Pastorale op.18 continues the rustic theme and moderato tempo of the Eclogue. It predates Halffter's avant-garde turn having a much more diatonic sound. It is the most Spanish-sounding work on the CD, and undoubtedly the most appealing to a broad audience.
The sound quality on this studio recording is very good, as are the liner-notes. The multi-national soloists are obviously not international superstars, but they do bring considerable experience to this music. They perform admirably throughout, especially Mexican pianist María Elena Barrientos in the Sonatas.
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The cuisine of the dragon has been breathing fire into the belly of Bangkok diners since the city was founded over two centuries ago. From Cantonese to Sichuan, Chinese food is at the heart and soul of Thai culture and Bangkok's best restaurants.
Bright lights, ornate furnishings and spinning Lazy Susans decorate the restaurants, with abundances of food on display; there is something flashy, yet down-to-earth and totally exotic about a Chinese banquet in Bangkok. The city's love of gaudy glitz balanced with delicate Asian touches offers those needing reviving after a day of sightseeing the fragrant flavours of the Orient. Bangkok's Chinese restaurants are part of the city's heritage, preserving the city's world class restaurant reputation.
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Apart from free time, arts and crafts play is essentially the most exciting time for the preschool student. This Masters provides artists, practitioners, teachers and educators, in informal and formal learning environments, the chance to extend, enrich and consolidate the overlapping practices and theories of latest art and learning and teaching by individual and collaborative analysis.
At Cashman Elementary College in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Peterson does not get pleasure from a schoolwide deal with arts integration to bolster her commitment to the follow. An arts specialist co-plans and co-teaches alongside the final training instructor to assist guarantee tutorial studying is happening by means of an art type and visa versa.
David Worth's workplace in the annual Congressional Art Competition for highschool students in the 4th U.S. Congressional District. Study instruction, present points and legal guidelines, and methods to provide all students with full entry to learning.
Without even realizing it children that take part within the arts are persistently being challenged to unravel issues. Turnaround Arts will broaden to 20 more faculties subsequent fall. The UNESCO Chair in Arts and Studying promotes access to and high quality of arts education through analysis, communication and collaboration, in alignment with the UNESCO priorities for schooling, culture and sustainable development.
This spiral process ensures that college students' learning is relevant, in-depth, and meaningful. Modern analysis is starting to explore new neuroscientific hypotheses in regards to the results of learning in actions corresponding to musical efficiency, drawing, visible esthetics, and dance, on studying in non-artistic domains.
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People go on vacation in the summer. Then they go skiing in winter. People are wrong. Visiting a city in full sun does not necessarily come to capture the soul, to maximize the interest. Sometimes, an autumn walk is worth a thousand summer crushes: one is alone, one is good, and the cities are unveiled whole. Click this link to get access to affordable air tickets to the best cities in the world!
In Dubrovnik, in autumn, it is 20 degrees on average. And we are not going to lie to each other: going to a city without peeling them is still a considerable advantage. Especially since the sea next door is still hot enough to bathe. Indian summer, but in Croatia, it's not bad. In addition, out of season, the city returns to its normal colors and the cost of the stay is reasonable. The cultural wonders of the city can be easily reached, Baroque buildings can be visited and classical music and food festivals can be enjoyed.
The large wooded avenues, the canals, the parks: so many places to walk in the middle of the dead leaves while shivering from slight cold. The charm of Berlin in the heart of autumn is exceptional, especially as the Festival of Lights projects its sound and lights around the city till mid-October. And the party never stops, she, summer and winter.
In autumn, it is still good in Lisbon, but not too hot. The prices of hotels and restaurants are already low in summer and defy all competition. And since Lisbon is anyway one of the three or four best cities in the world, eh, summer, winter, spring or autumn is always good.
To live the true Mittleeuropa atmosphere, it is necessary in any case to privilege the cold weather. In addition, in Prague, it is not uncommon for the sun and relative heat to linger until the end of November. Sunsets, dead leaves in the many parks, walks in the nearby forest and rich Czech food. All while raising his collar well.
When we combine canals, beautiful architecture, red and brown tones reflected in the water, crazy churches, not too crowded and a kind of light softly tinged with mist, we get what is called a place great for walking around in the cool romance way before getting warm under the big fat duvet fucks later.
What is striking is the number of festivals taking place in autumn in Budapest. Here you can taste wine, visit contemporary art fairs, watch horse races, sample puffs from all over Hungary, and listen to music for all ears. Not to mention the pleasure of going, after doing all that, to immerse yourself in a thermal bath.
In summer, Barcelona has become a hellish city: too many people and only French people. In winter, the city regains some of its calm. It is less hot, prices drop and we can always visit the usual tourist attractions. But the locals will be more relaxed, more pampered, and being French will not be worth insulting you permanently. And then Gaudi with dead leaves, it's pretty.
In autumn, the melancholy of Paris is totally unveiled. In the rain, crushed dead leaves and a little attenuated mass tourism, one gets a real idea of the former capital of ideas that has become a kind of museum to its own faded glory. But there is a crazy romanticism to cross the bridges under pollution and see the night fall on a panorama of the Seine.
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Love me or leave me / MGM presents in Cinemascope ; produced by Joe Pasternak ; screenplay by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart ; directed by Charles Vidor. .
Vidor, Charles, 1900-1959 (Added Author). Cagney, James, 1899-1896 (Added Author). Day, Doris, 1922- (Added Author). Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994 (Added Author). Warner Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully. (Cast).
Publisher: Burban, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005.
Special features:: 3 vintage shorts, the first two with Ruth Etting: a Modern Cinderella - Roseland - A Salute to the Theatres; theatrical traler.
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully.
Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital' dual-layer format.
Subject: Jazz singers > Drama.
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Effective date: July 1, 1978.
Statutory basis for payment: Appropriation Act for the Department of Workforce Services, 1978/1979.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to all SSI recipients, including children, who are living alone or with others.
Payment calculation method: A standard applies that is established by the state for the total SSI payment.
Includes recipients residing in a federal Code A living arrangement.
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※ The numerical value displayed in the catalog may differ slightly from the measured value.
※ Please consider the weight of the golf club (gross weight) as a guide.
※ The specification value is the published value of the manufacturer (NSPRO = Japan Shaft Company, Dynamic Gold = TRUE TEMPER company).
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Home › Last Gasp Publications › The Fetish Coloring Book
The Fetish Coloring Book
50 black and white illustrations
7.68″ x 10.0″
Magnus Frederiksen
Color in your own fantasy with this very NSFW coloring book. Bizarre and kinky fetishes of all kinds, depicted in clear, bold lines. Draw your friends in obscure positions. While you're at it, play "try to find the pussy." This adults- only coloring book will make you laugh and blush.
"The Fetish Coloring Book" contains equal amounts of both naked women and naked men. It is a perfect gift for nearly every occasion, from Valentine's Day, to bachelorette parties. Packed with over 50 images, it is a remarkable way to say "I love you" on Grandma's birthday, your friend's birthday, your mother's birthday, your colleague's birthday, and so on, and so on.
Magnus Frederiksen is a Stockholm-based illustrator and graphic designer who is drawn to the odd. Frederiksen works under the name of Glafisk. In addition to his design work, he occasionally teaches illustration and creativity at his alma mater, Forsbergs School in Sweden. "I make books that make me feel good, and I hope that will spread to every one who finds my books." On a side note, Frederiksen collects retro games and is slightly obsessed with draft beer. His work can be seen at glafisk.se
I Saw It Keiji Nakazawa
LAURIE LIPTON drawing Laurie Lipton
Last Gasp Publishing Catalog 2022 Last Gasp
FETCOL • LGP • H03
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Kriti Sanon looks beguiling as she gears up for Luka Chuppi promotions!
Kriti Sanon looks so charming and beguiling in her recent photo shoot as she heads for Luka Chuppi promotions.
We are all waiting for Kriti as she will be seen next in 'Luka Chuppi', a romantic comedy film, along with Kartik Aaryan.. The film is scheduled for release on 1st March, 2019.
She also is a part of the Housefull 4 cast and will star alongside Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Kriti Kharbanda and Pooja Hegde. The film is aiming for a release during the festive season of Diwali this year.
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Saye, Gette and Diamond Dermatology Associates is committed to providing the highest quality dermatologic care to all ages in the Central Pennsylvania area. We put our patients first, working constantly to improve their experience and deliver excellent healthcare in a personable and compassionate environment.
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With Acronym wines the only shortcut is the name – not the flavor. Standing for something more, our enticing wines with abundant fruit match your lifestyle – modern and convenient. Acronym wines don't require interpretation, just simple enjoyment.
Enticing aromas of black fruit and cherries segue into raspberry and plum flavors. Classically structured with soft tannins, vibrant acidity and a velvety finish.
Pour alongside light meat dishes such as pork loin, grilled salmon or mushroom risotto.
A dark ruby-red blend with dense aromas of red berry fruit, hints of roasted coffee, vanilla and milk chocolate.
A perfect partner to sausage and cheese appetizers, and will enhance anything on the grill.
A smooth and compelling red blend bursting with cherry, blackberry and vanilla flavors, followed by tempting hints of mocha, caramel and velvety tannins.
Delicious along side creamy polenta topped with sautéed mushrooms and sprinkle of cheese or spicy sausage rigatoni in a classic marinara.
Loaded with dark fruit aromas and a hint of spice. The silky tannins and vibrant acidity enhance a solid mid-palate and lead to a long, lingering finish.
Pair with heartier fare such as a steak, hamburger and sharp cheeses.
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The Politics and Law Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee has recently drawn 100 key business leaders from the grass-roots legal affairs department to form 9 review teams to conduct off-site assessment activities on more than 1,000 cases that may have enforcement issues.
In response to the public seizure law, the three wrongs cause Zhao Zuohai's eleven-year jail time. From June 10, the Henan Politics and Law Committee launched a four-month special education campaign on "correcting law enforcement and promoting fair law enforcement" in the province's legal system. After two months of investigating and penalizing problems, the province investigated a total of 1,626 cases that may have law enforcement problems, corrected 556 corrections, and investigated 117 police officers who had law enforcement problems.
Li Xinmin, Member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, introduced that if the issues found during the review require a new handling decision on the original case, it should be conducted in accordance with relevant legal procedures. If it finds that the political and legal police officers have violated laws and disciplines, they shall be dealt with by relevant departments in accordance with the law in accordance with the administrative authority for cadres. For those who do not implement the opinions of the cases on schedule, the provincial Politics and Law Committee will issue a written supervision notice requesting that the deadline be met. For those who have failed to do so, are not correct, have failed to implement the assessment opinions after the deadline, or have not implemented the position, they should seriously investigate the responsibility of the relevant leaders and responsible personnel.
There are mainly seven categories of cases for this review: First, cases that the People's Court has found acquitted since 2005; Second, cases that the procuratorial agency withdrew from prosecution since 2005; Third, cases of repeated visits to the province since 2010; Fourth, 2005. Cases where the case file and evidence were lost since the fifth year; Fifthly, several cases where the retrial was not yet resolved have been reimbursed; Sixth, the case of an unnatural death of a prisoner in custody; and Seventh, a case of commuting a parole and serving a foreigner for medical treatment.
4. Vacuum dryer is applied to dry the powdery, granular, fibrous and pasty materials in the pharmaceutical, food, chemical and other industries.
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The VT range of vibration baits are another fantastic lure in the ECOGEAR premium hard bait range. This lure comes in two sizes and has been designed around fresh-water impoundments with tough fighting bass in mind. Due to the quality of the components and action of this lure, many other species including snapper, travelly and triple-tail have been regularly taken in the salty stuff.
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Are we hindering children from coming to God?
We all know the verse. We all knew what happened. But are we committing the same mistakes as the disciples? Are we hindering children from coming to God?
Do you know what do children need in order to come to God?
Is bringing them to church and Sunday school sufficient?
Teach them (the commands of God) to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Next The very real effects of cosmic powers and God's sovereignty over them.
This is SO. unspeakably important!!
The problem with today's world is that parents are too fixated on their own lives, their own careers, and whatever have you. Children are often left to the church for a few hours a week then left to manouveur life's challenges. It's no wonder morals are degrading and children are leaving God. We need to pray for wisdom on how we should guide these children back so that our future generations may once again be aligned to God.
Yes and AMEN!! Lord Jesus, strengthen and empower us for this responsibility!
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If You're Feeling Sorry for Yourself . . .
This movie, 37: A Final Promise, will straighten you out real quick. Hugely sobering.
This is beyond inspiring. The first mission to Mars intended to establish a permanent human settlement headed up by Bas Lansdorp of the Netherlands.
After over 200,000 people applied for a one-way mission, 100 were chosen.
See the the 100 candidates.
All of us need to make decisions all the time, big decisions and little decisions.
There is one easy way to make decisions.
When you don't know what to do, just ask a question: How do I do this? What's the best way? and so on. Then listen for an answer that comes from within.
This is the trick, the answer comes so quickly, we generally don't even notice. But, you can train yourself to notice.
In other words much of the time answers are already there, but since we're anxious and focused on the fact that we don't know the answer that second, we miss when the answer does appear.
Try it next time you're puzzled and don't know what to do.
My experience has been that the minute I begin to ask the question--before I'm even finished--the answer forms in my mind.
When does this approach not work? When there are big questions. When many more experiences need to be had before there is an answer to your specific question. Simply the time is not right for you to know; you might need many more experiences before you can know.
However, with most situations, this is a wonderful approach. I particularly love it because this way I am in constant communication with my inner self, a self that knows more than my human personality, has a larger view, has more wisdom. This is hugely comforting.
I see all kinds of people for psychic readings, men and women of all ages, young adults, children and teens. It always amazes me just how different each person's path is, and where they are on their path of evolution.
Sometimes a person is very tuned into their soul attributes and life purpose, at times not at all. That is the widest distance. Then there is everything in between.
Another way of saying the same thing is that a person is very invested in physical reality and largely unaware of anything else, and other times, the person is fundamentally aware of their larger reality understanding the physical realm to be one facet of expression of their being.
For me what's challenging is when a person is hugely invested in physical reality and looking for solutions to their hardships. The solutions are always about knowing larger truth. A relationship may not go well, but it's okay. From soul perspective, the person is unfolding, learning, and through this hardship being prompted to discover her own truth, higher truth, know the essence of her being. Basically, things are okay. The world is not ending; you're just learning.
As we progress in our evolution, the learning does not stop, but it becomes easier. We know we're always learning and don't panic when challenges arise. They may be uncomfortable, but we know it's not the end of the world.
It's a great leap in growth when we arrive at this place. We can get comfortable with existence, and enjoy what's in front of us.
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Arrive at Yangon International Airport. Have a Lunch. Then visit to Botataung Pagoda, to Bogyoke (Scott) Market (closed on Mondays), ChaukHtatKyi Pagoda is the fourth largest colossal reclining image. And Visit to Shwedagon Pagoda is the world famous golden Stupa. Dinner at Karaweik Palace Restaurant where can enjoy dinner with Myanmar Cultural show. Stay overnight at hotel in Yangon.
After breakfast at hotel, leave Yangon to Heho by domestic flight. Then Vist to Pindaya Cave Pagoda the cave set in limestone hill Thousands of Budha images cramped in cave then visit to Kalaw CityMany of Kalaw's original colonial-era buildings remain, and it is also known as Myanmar's trekking mecca. Stay overnight at hotel in Inle Lake.
Drive to Inle Lake- famous for their leg rolling style. Visit to PhaungdawOo Pagoda. Have a lunch. Then go to Inpawkhone Village - famous for silk weaving workshop, silver workshop & to Ngaphechaung Monastery. Have a dinner. Stay overnight at hotel in Inle Lake.
After breakfast at hotel, transfer to Yangon International Airport for your departure.
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Meet the Jerusalem African Community Center
July 2022 Volunteering
Omer Tadmor
Photo by Ayelet Rosenzweig
By Ma'ayan Rubin and Omer Tadmor
Translated from Hebrew by Norman Silbert
About 3,500 asylum seekers from Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia currently live in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem African Community Center (JACC) is the only organization for asylum seekers and stateless persons in the city that offers humanitarian, educational, employment and financial assistance to the community's families, adults and children. Many receive no state assistance. The aim of JACC is to serve as a hub for members of the community who are in distress. Since they hold temporary residence visas, based on psychological or societal profiles following migration and PTSD, JACC tries to assist them to cope and to provide access to information that could help minimize or treat the symptoms as far as possible. This article outlines the organization's work in Jerusalem and demonstrates its philosophy through the presentation of real cases.
JACC Activities
As an alternative to welfare or national insurance services, which are not available to either holders of temporary residence visas or asylum seekers, JACC provides assistance in two key areas: utilizing available rights, and addressing psychosocial situations. The first assists asylum seekers with issues concerning employment, health and residence status. (There are several categories of residence visas based on the circumstances surrounding arrival in Israel; each category is associated with different rights and each is valid for a different duration.)The second provides emotional and practical support (food, money, milk substitutes for babies and diapers) to both individuals and groups.
In addition, JACC provides training for adults, allowing them to widen their employment possibilities. Some of the areas covered by the training include language and computer skills, carpentry, sewing and hairdressing. In cooperation with the Jerusalem municipality, JACC also runs a youth club and learning center. The learning center recognizes that the pupils' parents have poor Hebrew language skills and so provides the children with assistance in understanding and preparing homework, remedial teachers, emotional support and even a hot meal since most of the parents work at more than one job and are away from home much of the time. There are also additional projects available to the children of the community. One of our key initiatives is the orchestra, where they are taught to play string instruments by student volunteers from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Photo by Idan Treger
A day in the life of JACC
To capture the spirit of JACC we have chosen to present two examples of what we do. One describes our work with the individual, and the other with the community and the public.
"Jennifer": A few months ago, a woman in the advanced stages of her pregnancy arrived unexpectedly at my office carrying a small suitcase, on her way to give birth by C-section at a hospital in Jerusalem. She came to JACC because there was no one to accompany her to the hospital since her partner had been diagnosed with Corona and was at home taking care of their daughter. She realized she would be unable to negotiate the hospital bureaucracy because her Hebrew was poor. One of the women of the JACC team immediately left the meeting, accompanied her to the hospital and assisted her to have a safe birth by ensuring she had the appropriate medical care.
Asylum seekers: JACC also works toward improving the quality of life for asylum seekers in general. For example, in the early days of Corona, asylum seekers experienced problems in obtaining a Green Pass, even after having been vaccinated. This was the result of a technical problem caused by the fact that they held residence visas and not ID cards.In order to solve the problem, the JACC department responsible for asylum seekers' rights worked tirelessly for several months together with MDA (one of the bodies providing vaccination services) in representing the asylum seekers during negotiations with the Health Ministry. As a result, many of them were able to receive the documents they were entitled to, thus allowing them to resume as normal a life as possible within the restrictions imposed due to Corona.
Photo by Ruchama Yael Ehrenhalt
JACC continues its work with great dedication, but none of this would be possible without the more than 100 men and women who volunteer and keep our organization operating smoothly.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all.
If you would like to volunteer, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or learn more about JACC, click on www.jacc.org.il
Omer Tadmor is Vice-President of JACC and grandson of the editor of this magazine.
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Do you have a different connection file for live versus local? You normally only get this error when the values referenced on these lines is not in the connection file that is included at the top of the page. If you have different connection files for the live versus the local you will need to update one or the other so that the connection file itself is the same, but the values used in it differ.
For example, if you have a different host, username, password, or db value in the connection file you should update the version you are working with to have the correct values in it. Normally the file just makes use of the values that were entered into the wizard, so if you set it up locally but now want it to be on a live server you will need to update the information that is in this connection file.
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Got this idea after one too many late night ionic breeze commercials, then driving past a tractor plowing up a field. It was leaving a plume of dust behind it. Therefore: Attach a heavy-duty ion generator to the moldboard or coulter (the part of the plow that actually cuts into the earth) which captures this dust. Probably save an inch or two of soil after a while. I suppose you could also try a simple vaccuum system but I think a static field would be cooler.
Wouldn't that electrocute all the worms, or at least give them bad headaches?
cloudface: Go look up the definition of "earth" or "ground" as applied to electricity. Now consider that you're sticking your metal plow into the real thing. You won't even get as far as electrocuting those innocent earthworms - the charge will dissipate as fast as you can generate it. You need to tow the device on an insulated cart behind the tractor, and keep shoveling off the accumulated dust.
Though it would still be easier just to spray water ahead of and around the plow.
Mounting an ion generator near the plow blade should be close enough.
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JK Police Constable Physical Admit Card 2019 PET / PMT Exam Date @jkpolice.gov.in: Jammu & Kashmir Police Recruitment Board announced J&K Police Constable Physical Test Dates 2019. Applicants you may check JK Police Constable PET / PMT Dates 2019 Zone District Wise form provided below table on this page. Jammu & Kashmir Police Constable Physical Measurement Test and Physical Endurance Test from date 20 March 2019 to 21 April 2019 at the various venues / places in the Jammu Kashmir. Applicants who done online registration for the Recruitment for 5381 Executive & Armed Police Constables in Jammu & Kashmir Police can Download JK Police PET / PMT Admit Card 2019 online at official web portal. Proper links for the JK Police Constable Physical Test Admit Card is mentioned below on this page. Scroll down this page for J&K Police Admit Card PST / PET Exam call Letter details.
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Schedule for the conduct of physical endurance test / physical measurement test for the candidates of Jammu province for recruitment as constables in JK Police under TRP will be conducted on venue in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Rajouri, kisthwar, Ramban, Udhampur, Reasi, Poonch, Doda District. You can check venue in the following image. JK Police Constable Physical Exam Admit Card download is important because it will conduct information's about Exam Date, Reporting Time at venue etc. you can also check JK Police Admit Card 2019 Name Wise for the Constable PET / PMT exam. Bring important document at the physical exam day at examination centre.
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IT Challenges
How much does it cost to replace an IT vendor?
You have had enough – or maybe your IT budget has.
The cost for your IT vendor has grown too great to remain sustainable. It could be due to direct expenses–the money required to maintain the service—or it might be from indirect costs--such as the money lost to downtime while a problem was being solved. While either of these is likely options, it's just as likely that your company needs to make a break because your vendor can no longer accommodate your current IT needs.
However, that leaves you with a significant question. How much will it cost to replace your IT vendor?
Are maintenance costs for on-premises servers really high enough to make it worth transitioning to hosted services? How can you reduce license fees without losing access to tools and services? What are good metrics and tools to evaluate a service provider? What are the hard costs of an integrated on-premises phone system?
Guidelines to vendor replacement costs
Although it would be nice to put out a definitive number on the costs of transition, it's just not possible. Relationships with vendors vary, and more substantial ones may be deeply intertwined with your current processes. If this is the case, the costs between two given companies with the same vendor could vary wildly.
However, there are general rules that can help in estimating replacement costs. These fall into the following categories:
Vendor search and contracting,
Transition to the new vendor, and
Management of the new vendor after transition.
Experience with and research into outsourcing indicates that these frequently overlooked costs can wipe out as much as half or more of expected savings. According to Gartner, about 7 in 10 companies opt not to change vendors because switching is thought to be too expensive, painful, or both. Roughly half the time, companies will, instead, renegotiate the terms of a contract with an existing vendor. In that case, having an idea of the likely expenses involved in switching vendors could be important.
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Minimizing expenses
Of the three categories, transition costs to a new vendor are probably the hardest to pin down. Think about outsourcing internal IT to an external supplier. If internal IT has a wealth of expertise in important legacy or one-of-a-kind systems, the transition will not be complete until that information is transferred. That process can take as long as a year.
When switching from one IT vendor to another, the transition will be faster and less expensive, assuming there are no penalties for breaking a contract. Generally, the more competent and professional the two vendors involved are, the easier the transition is. Equally important, there will be less disruption during or after the transition, which is another form of switching expenses.
The cost of management after transition will also depend upon the competence of the new vendor. That's because these costs can be minimized if the vendor fulfills its obligations with little guidance and supervision.
What this points to is that the way to minimize vendor replacement costs is to make sure that the search and contracting process is thorough, which will help reduce secondary expenses from transition and management. So, it's important to exhaustively evaluate a potential new IT vendor to see if it possesses the necessary breadth of expertise, experience, services, and support to accommodate your company's needs.
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Allowability Of Expenditure Incurred By Pharma Companies On Medical Conferences.
23 Jul,2018
Recently the Delhi high Court in Bostom Scientific India (p) Ltd.v.Asst.CIT 2017 Tax Pub (DT) 3985 (Del –HC) has give it's verdict regarding allowability of expenditure incurred by pharma companies on sponsoring medical conference in and outside India. The learned author analyses the impugned issue in the light of this recent verdict.
It is general practice of pharma companies to sponsor and conduct medical conferences in & outside India and for this purpose these companies also make arrangements for travel and accommodation of doctors attending the conferences. In a recent past, a serious controversy arose as regards allowability of expenditure incurred b pharma companies for organising such conferences. These expenditure incurred by pharma companies for organising such conference.these expenditure are claimed to be allowable as business expenditure for being incurred for business purpose, however, the department tends to disallow the same by invoking Explanation 1 to section 37 (1).
Explanation 1 to section 37(1) disallow illegal expenditure
The Finance (No. 2) Act, 1998 has inserted an Explanation to section 37(1), with retrospective effect from 1-4-1962, so as to clarify that any expenditure incurred by an assessee for any purpose which is an offence or which is prohibited by law shall not be deemed to have been incurred for the purpose of business or profession and no deduction or allowance shall be made in respect of such expenditure.
Nature of expenses incurred by pharma companies
The pharma companies incr expenditure to sponso and conduct doctors' conferences , to distribute its product amongst doctors as free samples, to give gift articles to doctors , etc. These expenditure are classified as advertisement and sales promotion expenditure and claimed to be allowable on the ground of being incurred wholly and exclusively for the business purposes.
CBDT's clarification as regards allowability of expenses incurred in providing freebies to medical practioner
The Medical council of India in excersise of its statutory powers amended the Indian medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Reguations, 2002 (the Regulations ) on 10-12-2009 imposing a prohibition on the medical practitioner & their professional associations from taking any gift travel facility , hospitality, cash of monetary grant from the pharmaceutical and allied health sector industries.
Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act provides for deduction of any revenue expenditure (other than those failing under sections 30 to 36) from the business Income if such expenses is laid out/expended wholly or exclusively for the purpose of business income if such expense is laid out/expended wholly or exclusively for the purpose of business or profession. However,the explanation appended to this sub-section denies claim of any such expense, if the same has been incurred for a purpose which is either an offence or prohibited by law.
Thus the of any expense incurred in providing above mentioned or similar freebies in violation of the provisions of Indian medical Council (Professional Conduct Etiquette and Ethics ) Regulations, 2002 shall be inadmissible under section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act beingan expense prohibtited by the law. This disallowance shall be made in the hands of such pharmaceutical or allied health sector industries or other assessee which has provided aforesaid freebies and claimed it as a deductable expense in it's accounts against income.
It is also clarified that the sum equivalent to value of freebies enjoyed by the aforesaid medical practitioner or professional associatiosns is also taxable as business income or income from the other sources, as teh case may be,depending on the facts of each case.The assessing officers of such medical practitioner or professional associations should examine the same and take an appropriate action.
However,the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations,2002 which has been amended on 10-12-2009 prohibits medical practitioners and their professional associations from taking any gift, travel facility, hospitality, cash or monetary grant from the pharmaceutical and allied health sector industries.
Thus, the expenditure incurred on freebies are disallowed on the ground of being incurred in violation of the provision of Indian medical Council ( Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002.- circular No. 5/2012,dt.1-8-2012.
Judical controversy as regards allowability of expenditure incurred by pharma companies
In live Healthcare Ltd. v. DCIT (2016) 161 ITD 63 (Mum),the Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal held that the expenditure on foreign travel and accomdation of doctors and their spouses was incurred with the intent and the objective of profiteering form the distribution and entertainment that had a direct nexus with promoting the sales and profitability which made such expenditure violative of the provisions of the said regulations of 2002.It held that the expenditure was incurred to seek favours from the doctors by way of recommendation of the company's product which was an illegal gratification ,was against public policy,was unethical and was prohibited by law. Accordingly,the expenditure in question was liable for disallowance.
However in PHL Parma (p) Ltd. v. ACIT (2017) 163 ITD 10(Mum),the decision was given in favour of the assessee by observing that the code of conduct has meant to be followed and adhered to by the medical practironers and doctors alone and did not apply in any manner to pharmaceutical companies. The Indian Medical Council did not have any jurisdiction nor had any authority upon the pharmaceutical companies and could not have prohibited such companies in conduct of their business. The CBDT in issuing Circular No. 5, dt. 1-8-2012 had enlarged the scope of the said Regulations by applying it to the pharmaceutical companies without any enabling provisions to do so. Further the circular in any case could not be reckoned retrospectively i.e., it could not be applied before the date of its issue, i.e., on 1-8-2012.
Thus the expenditure incurred by the assessee company was in the nature of sales and business promotion and was to be allowed; the gift articles bore the logo of the assessee and could not be held to the freebies,the free samples proved the efficacy of the products of the products of the company and again were not in violation of the said Regulations framed by the Medical Council of India.
Applicability of CBDT Circular No. 5/2012
In Syncom Foundations (I) Ltd. ( IT PPEAL Nos. 6429 & 6428 (Mum) of 2012, it was observed that CBDT circular would not be applicable in the assessment years 2010-11 and 2011-12 as it was introduced w.e.f. 1-8-2012. Similarly it was held in UCB India (P) Ltd.v. ITO (IT Appeal No. 6681 (Mum) of 2013, dt 13-5-2016), that the CBDT circular colud not have a retrospective effect.
Recent decision of delhi High Court in Boston Scientific India (P) Ptd.'s case
In Boston Scientific India (P) Ltd v. Asstt. CIT 2017 Tax Pub (DT) 3985 (Del-HC), the assessing officer on the specific heads of 'advertisement and business promotion' and travel related expenses ' made the following disallowances :
(i) Expenditure of Rs. 13,14,548 was stated to be constituting freebies provided to medical consultants and other doctors, disallowable in view of Explanation 1 to section 37(1) of the Act , read with CBDT Circular No. 5/2012, dt.1-8-2012.
(ii) Expenditure of Rs 19,06,000 incurred on conducting seminars conventions, meetings, etc., for the purpose of Appellant's business.
This was disallowed on the ground that details were scanty, despite ample opportunity being given to the assessee .
(iii) Expenditure of Rs 8,00,000 incurred on sponsorship for organizing conference/seminor. This was disallowed on the ground that the payment was made after the event had place.
On appeal before ITAT , it was held that as the assessee had incurred expenses in the garb of marketing the cardiac machine, onus was upon the assessee to prove that the expenses incurred did not violate any law that may be applicable. The burden lies uopon the assessee which has not been discharged by evidences/materials. Merely by placing the bills of payments, the travel details, the hotel details , where the doctors were stationed , and the seminars / conferences that were actually attended by such doctors. Assessee had also not demonstrated that the doctors by participating in such conferences and accepting the hospitality extendedby it (the assessee ) have not contravened any MCI Regulations.
The High Court ,however, said that the ITAT placed an unfair burden on the assessee to prove that the above expenses was incurred bona fide for the business purpose of the assessee. The assessee had placed before the ITAT all the relevant details thereby discharging the initial onus. Thereafter,it was open to the Revenue to prove to the contrary . It was not possible for the assesee to show that doctors "actually delivered any lectures, attented any meetings for, providing training courses and seminars for assessee, etc.
As regards other disallowances, it was held that since the ITAT proceeded on and conjectures and failed to deal with the contentions of the assessee in that regard , it is only fair that the ITAT considers the entire appeal of the assessee on merits afresh.
Thus, the High Court rendered decision in favour of assessee and against the revenue and all the contentions of the assessee raised in the appeal before the ITAT would be considered afresh.
The decision of the Delhi High Court has provided some rays of hope in favour of Pharmaceutical Companies for doctors. If relief is provided, it wil be of great help in sharing and upgrading knowledge in the field of medical science and ultimately whole mankind would get benefitted therefrom.
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Can Accommodation Services Be An Inter-state Supply.
Accommodation services are under the purview of tax net since a long time It was a handsome source of revenue under service tax law and the legacy is continuing in refined manner,even under GST law.
Accommadation service is the service to provide a place to live or stay, it has been introduced in the service tax net since positive list regime.The same is carried forward in the GST law also.Under GST law there is classification of services and accordingly accomdation services have been classified into the various categories according to the practice prevailing in the industry.
2. Classification
Accommodation services have been classified under HSN/SAC 9963 wherein the further classification ia as under.
Heading/Group
Service Tariff Code (HSN/SAC)
Room or unit accomdation services provided by Hotels, INN,Guest House , club, etc
Camp Site Services
Recreational an vocational camp services
Room or unit accomdation services for students in student residences
Room or unit accomdation services provided by Hotels, Capms, Paying Guests, etc.
Other room or unit accomdation services not specified else where
3.Nature of supply
Accommodation services are generally provided at the premises used for providing accomdation services. Since the GST is destination based consumption tax, therefore, the place of supply of accomdation services is the place where the property used forproviding such services is situated and the nature of supply is intra – State supply. However, before reaching at the conlusion we need to understand the relevantprovisions of the GST law.
The relevant provisions of law determaining the nature of services are coverd under the provisions of section 8 and setion 12 of the IGST Act,2017 read together.
According to setion 8(2) of the IGST Act,2017 supply of services where the location of the supplier and the place of supply of services are in the same State or the same Union territory shall be treated as intra-state supply.
According to setion 12(3)(b) of the IGST Act,2017, the place of supply of service by way of lodging accomdation by a hotel, inn, guest house ,home stay , club or campsite, by whatever name called and including a house boat or any other vessel shall be the location at which the immovable property or boat or vessel, as the case may be, is located or intended to be located.
Thus, on a combined reading of the above two provision,one can easily figure out the nature of supply of accomdation services is intra-State supply.
4.Whether accomdation services can be an inter-State supply
Although by referring to the provisions cited above, it can be inferred that the basic philosophy of implematon of destination based consumption tax goes in line of taxing accommodation services as intra-State supply. Howeve, the following provisions of IGST Act,2017 are worth noting-
(a)Provisio to section 8(2) : The said provision reads as –"the intra-State supply of services shall not include supply of services shall not include supply of services to or by a Special Economic Zone developer or a Special Economic Zone unit".
(b) Section 7(5) (b) : Supply of goods or services or both to or by a Special Economic Zone developer or a Special Economic Zone unit shall be treated to be a supply of goods or services or both in the course of inter –State trade or commerce.
The direct implication of the above provisions on accomdation services is that the said services if provided to any unit in SEZ shall not be considered as intra-State supply. In other words, it shall be considered as inter –State supply.
Hence, it can be fairly concluded that the accommodation services when provided to any unit in SEZ or by unit in SEZ evolves a concept divergent to the basic intent of the GST law of taxing the services on consumption basis.Now the question that flashes in the minds is the need of such a provision. The purpose of introduction of such provison can be understood with the provisions of section 16 of the IGST Act, 2017
Implication of sections 7(5), 8(2) and 16 of the IGST Act, 2017
The implication of sections 16 and 8(2) can be understood i two parts. In one part the supplier of services is outside the SEZ and in other part the supplier of services is in the SEZ. The impact on both the transaction shall be different.
(i) Supply to SEZ – Zero- rated supply
Accordingly to section 16 of the IGST Act, 2017, "zero-rated supply " means any of the following supplies of goods or services or both namely :- (a) export of goods or services or both; or (b) supply of goods or services or both to a Special Economic Zone developer or a Special Economic Zone unit.
The provision stated in section 16 clearly mandates that the accommodation services provided to SEZ developer or to a unit in SEZ shall be treated as zero-rated supply. To put it differently, the same shall be considered at par with export of services. Thus, such services shall fall under zero –rated supply under GST law and shall be eligible for benefits attributed to zero rated supplies including refund of taxes paid on the relevant , services,subject to the other provisionsof GST law.
(ii) Supply by SEZ-Inter-State-supply
On a close reading of section 8(2) and section 16 as mentioned above, it can be inferred that accomdation services provided by the unit in SEZ to any person outside SEZ shall be treated as inter-State supply. Meaning thereby that the said services provided by SEZ shall be considered as inter-State supply and IGST shall be considered as inter –State supply and IGST shall be chargeable on the same.
(iii) Supply within SEZ–Zero–rated supply
Since in case of supply within SEZ the recipient shall always be in SEZ, therefore, such supply shall always fall within the meaning of zero-rated supply.Hence,supplies within SEZ shall be eligible for benefits at par with the benefits available to zero –rated supply.
Accomdation services are generally taxed as intra-state supply, however the law contains the relevant provisions for treating the same as inter-state supply also. Thus, before reaching at any conclusion about the place of supply, it is essential to refer the lwa as a whole and relevancy of sections 7(5) and 8(2) cannot be undermined.
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Anti-Profiteering Measure Under GST-An Overview
The learned author attempts to make an overview of anti-Profiteering measure introduced under the GST regime and the scope of powers of National Anti- Profiteering Authority.
Anti- Profiteering measure- Meaning
It is fundamental spirit of an indirect tax regime that reduction in rate of tax any supply of goods or services or the benefit by input tax credit should have been passed on to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices. However, it has been the experience of many countries that when GST was introduced there has been a marked increase in inflation and the prices of the commodities. This happended in spite of the availability of the tax credit right from the production stage to the final consumtion stage which should have actually reduced the final prices.
This was obviously happening because the supplier was not passing on the benefit to the consumer and thereby indulging in illegal profiteering.
With the introduction of GST regime in india, National Anti- Profiteering Authority has been constituted central Government to examine whether input tax credits availed by any registered person or the reduction in the tax rate have actually resulted in a commensurate reduction in the price o fthr goods or services or both supplied by him,this is to ensure that thecosumer is protected from arbitrary price increase in the name of GST.
2.Statutory provisions
The statutory provision relating to anti- Profiteering measure are enshrined under section 171of the CGT Act.Rules 123 to 133 of the CGST Rules,2017 deal with provision in respect of constitution of the National Anti- Profiteering Authority and scope of its powers.
As per sub–section (1) of section 171 of the CGST /SGST Act, any reduction in rate tax on any supply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit shall be passed on to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
As per sub- section (2) of section 171, the Central Government may, on recommendation of the Council, by notification, constitute an Authority, or empower an existing Authority constituted under any law for the time being force, to examine whether input tax credits availed by any registreted person or the reduction in the tax rate have actually resulted in a commensure reduction in the price of the goods or services or both supplied by him.
It is clear from the above that when input tax credit is availed of by an registered person, the amount of tax is excluded from the purchase price or cost the goods and the input tax credit is used for discharge of output tax on outward supply. The Authority constituted under sub-section (2) of section 171 is required to examine that input tax credits availed by any registered person results in a commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or b both supplies by him.
The Authority is also required to ensure that any reduction in the tax rate must result in a commensurate reduction in the price of the goods or services or b both supplies by him.
3. Constitution of Authority
The National Anti- Profiteering Authority shall be a five-member committee consisting of a Chairman who holds or has held a post equivalent in rank to a Secretary to the Government of India ; and four technical Members who are or have been Commissioners of State tax or central tax or have held an equivalent post under existing laws.
The Additional shall cease to exist after the expiry of two years from the date on which the Chairman enters upon his office unless the Council recommends otherwise.
4.Power to determine the methodology and procedure
The Authority can determine the methodology and procedure for determination as to whether the reduction in the rate of tax on the suppy of goods or services or the benefit by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
5.Duties of Authority
As per rule 127 of the CGst Rules, the Authority would have the following duties:
(i) to determine whether any reduction in the rate of t axo any supply of goods o services or the benefits of input tax has been passed o to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices;
(ii) to identify the registered person who has not passedon the benefit of reduction in the rate of tax on supply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices;
(iii) to order;
(a) Reduction in prices
(b) Return to the recipient , an amount equivalent to the amount not passed on by way of commensurate reduction in prices along with interest at the rate of eighteen per cent. Fromthe date of collection of the higher amount till the date of the return of such amount or recovery of the amount or recovery of the amount not returned, as the case maybe, in case the eligible person does not claim return of the amount or is not identifiable, and deposite the same in the Consumer Welffare Fund;
(c) Imposition of penalty; and
(d) Cancellation of registration.
(vi) to furnish a performance report to the Council by the 10th of the close each quarter.
6. Application to the Authority
According to sub-rule 128, the Standing Committee shall within a period of two months from the date of the receipt of a written application froman interested party or from a Commissioner or any other person, examine the accuracy and adequacy of the evidence provided in the application to determine whether there is prima-facie evidence to support the claim of goods or to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
All applications from interested parties on issues of local nature shall first be examined by the State level Screening Committee constituted in each State by the State Government consisting of an officer of the State Government to be nominated by the Commissioner, and an officer of the Central Government to be nominated by the Chief Commissioner.
7. Initiation and conduct of proceeding
In terms of sub-rule (1) or rule 129, if the Standing Committee is satisfied that there is a prima-facie evidence to show that the supplier has not passed on the benefit of reduction in the rate of tax on thesupply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices , it shall refer the matter to the Director General of Safeguards for a detailed investigation.
In terms of sub-rule (3) of rule 129, if the Director General of Safeguards shall conduct
investigation and collect evidence necessary to determine undue profiteering and before initiation of the investigation,issue a notice to the interested parties (and to such other persons as deemed fit for a fair enquiry into the matter) containing, inter alia, information on the following, namely:-
(a) The description of the goods or services in respect of which the proceedings have been initiated;
(b) Summary of the statement of facts on which the allegations are based; and
(c) The time limit allowed to the interested parties and other persons who may have information related to the proceedings for furnishing their reply.
The evidence or information presented to the Director General of Safeguards by one interested party can be made available to the other interested parties participating in the proceedings in the proceedings. The evidence provided will be kept confidential and the provisions of section 11 of the Right to Infomration Act,2005, shall apply mutatis to the disclose of any information which is provided on a confidential basis.
The Director General of Safeguards can seek opinion of any other agency or statutory authorities in the discharge of his duties. The Director Genearal of Safeguards,or an officer authorised by him will have the power to summon any person necessary either to give evidence or to produce a document or any other thing. He will also have same powers as that of a civil court and every such inquiry will be a judicial proceeding.
The Director General of Safeguards will complete the investigation within a period of three months for reasons to be recorded in writing as allowed by the Standing committee and, upon completion of the investigation, furnish to the Authority, a report of its findings along with the relevant records.
8. Confidentiality of information
For the purpose of ensure confidentiality of information, it has been provided that notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rules (3) and (5) of rule 129 and sub-rule (2) of rule 133, the provisions of section 11 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the disclosure of any information which is provided on a confidential basis.
It is also provided under sub-section (2) of section 130 that the Director General of Safeguards may requie the parties providing information on confedential basis to furnish non-confidential summary thereof and if in the opinion of the party providing such information, the said information cannot be summarised, such party may submit to the Director General of Safeguards a statement of reasons as to why summarisation is not possible.
9. Cooperation with other agencies or statutory authorities
As per rule 131 of the CGST Rules, where the Directors General of Safeguards deems fit, he may seek opinion of any other agency or statutory.
Authorities in the discharge of his duties.
10. Power to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents
In terms of sub-rule 132,the Director General of Safeguards, or an officer authorised by him in this behalf,shall be deemed to be the proper officer to exercise the power to summon any person whose attendance he considers necessary either to give evidence or to produce a document or any inquiry in the same manner, as provided in the case of a Civil Procedure,1908.
Every such inquiry referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be deemed to be a judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code.
11. Order of the Authority
As per sub-rule (1) of the CGST Rules, the Authority shall (after granting an opportunity of hearing to the interested parties if so requested) within a period of three months from the date of the receipt of the report from the Director General of Safeguards determaine whether a register person has passed on the benefit of the reduction in the rate of tax on the supply of goods or services or the benefit of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
If the Members of the Authority differ in opinion on any point, the point shall be decided according to the opinion of the majority.
Where the Authority determines that a registered person has not passed on the benefit of the reduction in the rate of tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices, the benefit of input tax credit to the recipient by way of commensurate reduction in prices, the Authority may order-
(a) Reduction in prices;
(b) Return to the recipient, an amount equivalent to the amount not passed on by way of commensurate reduction in prices along with interested at the rate of eighteen percent. from the date of collection of the higher amount till the date of the return of such amount or recovery of the of amount including interest not returned, as the case may be, in case the eligible person does not claim return of the amount or is not identifiable, and depositing the same in the Fund refered to in section 57;
(c) Imposition of penalty as specified under the Act ; and
(d) Cancellation of registered under the Act.
Any order passed by the Authority shall be immediately complied with by the registered person failing which action shall be initiated to recover the amount in accordance with the provisions of the Integrated Goods and service Tax Act or the Central Goods and Services Tax Act or the Union territory Goods and Services Tax Act of the respective States , as the case may be.
The Authority can direct any authority of central tax,State tax or Union territory tax to monitor the impletion of the order passed by it.
12. Decision to be taken by the majority
As per rule 134 CGST Rules, if the Members of the Authority differ in opinion on any point, shall be decided according to the opinion of the majority.
13. Compliance by the registered person
In terms of rule 135 of the CGST Rules, any order passed by the Authority shall be immediately complied with by the registered person failing which action shall be initiated to recover the amount in accordance with the provisions of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act or the State goods and Services Tax Act of the respective States, as the case may be.
14. Summing up
Anti-profiteering measures are globally Accepted policies which are implemented by various countries for controlling temporary inflationary prices of goods and services during the transition phase of implementation of GST. Anti-profiteering measure are adopted for providing benefit of GST to the consumers in terms of reduced prices and curbing more profit margins to the businessmen sought to be earned due to rise in prices of goods and services resulting inflation in country.
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Q: Determining geo location by arbitrary body of text I am working on a project that I am not exactly sure how to approach. The problem can be summarized as following:
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*Given an arbitrary body of text(kind of like a report), determine what geographic location that each part of the report is referring to.
Geographic locations range from states to counties(all within US), so their number is limited, but each report generally contains references to multiple locations. For example, first 5 paragraphs of report might be about a state as a whole, and then then next 5 would be about individual counties within that state, or something like that.
I am curious what would be the best way of approaching a problem like that, perhaps with a specific recommendation in terms of NLP or ML frameworks(Python or Java)?
A: I may actually be able to help a little here (my research is in the area of Toponym Resolution).
If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a way to (1) find the place names in the text, (2) disambiguate the place name's geographic reference, and (3) spatially ground whole sentences or paragraphs.
There are a lot of open source packages that can do #1. Stanford Core NLP, OpenNLP
There are a few packages that can do #1 and #2. CLAVIN is probably the only ready to use open source application that can do this at the moment. Yahoo Placemaker costs money but can do it.
There isn't really a package that can do #3. There is a newer project called TEXTGROUNDER doing something called "Document Geolocation", but while the code is available it is not set up be run on your own input texts. I only recommend you look at it if you are itching to either start or contribute to a project trying to do something like this.
All three tasks are still part of ongoing research and can get incredibly complicated depending on the details of the source text. You didn't provide much detail about your texts, but hopefully this information can help you.
A: Old question but it may be useful for others to know that Apache OpenNLP has an addon called the GeoEntityLinker and takes document text and sentences, extracts entities (toponymns), performs lookup on the USGS and GeoNames gazateers (Lucene indexes), resolves (or attempts to at least) the topopnymns in several ways, and returns you the scored gazateer entries in relation to each sentence in the document passed in. It will be released with OpenNLP 1.6 if all goes well.... not much documentation if any at this point.
This is the ticket in OpenNLP Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/i#browse/OPENNLP-579.
this is the source code:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/opennlp/addons/geoentitylinker-addon/
FYI: I am the main committer working on it.
A: Identifying mentions of geographic locations is rather trivial using OpenNLP or GATE etc. The main problem comes afterwards, when you have to disambiguate places with the same name. For example, in the US there are 29 places named "Bristol". Which one is the correct?
There are several approaches you can use to disambiguate. A simple one is to gather the list of all location mentioned in the text, get their potential longitude/latitudes and then find the set that has the minimum sum of distances.
A better solution that I have seen people deploying is get from Wikipedia all articles that refer to places, put them in a DB for text like Lucene, and then use your text as query to find the most promising location between candidates by measuring some similarity score. The idea, is that in the article except the word "Bristol" also a river name, a person, or something of similar will be mentioned.
A: In order to do the task you need a labelled training set. Then you train a classification model over that training set and predict the location of new pieces of text based on the model.
You can see how all of them work together in this sample code written on top of SCIKIT-LEARN: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/text_analytics/working_with_text_data.html
labelled training set:
You can train a classifier over a training set where each sample in training is (a paragraph, region_id). the region_id can be the id of a country, region or a city.
Training a classification model:
You build a bag of words (e.g. unigrams) model of each sample and train a classifier (e.g. Logistic Regression with L1 regularization) over the labelled training set. You can use any tool but I recommend using SCIKIT-LEARN in Python which is very simple and efficient to use.
Prediction:
After training, given a paragraph or a piece of text, the trained model is able to find a region_id for it which is based on the words used in the sample.
Remember to tune the regularization parameter over a development set to get good result (to prevent over-fitting the training sample).
Read my paper and this one on geolocation using text:
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N15-1153
and the corresponding poster:
http://www.slideshare.net/AfshinRahimi2/geolocation-twittertextnetwork-48968497
Also I have written a tool called Pigeo that does exactly that and comes with a pretrained model.
Besides these works there are lots of other research papers on text-based geolocation that you can find.
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NASA rover "Perseverance" sends audio recordings from Mars for the first time!
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In the video: "Perseverance" lands on Mars – this is what the red planet looks like!
"Perseverance" has been raging on our neighboring planet since Thursday – and makes a slight impression already a few days after landing. Equipped with all kinds of measurement technology and sensors, But with a camera and microphone, Mars diligently collects video and audio data from the red planet. In doing so, he will answer a question we never ask ourselves, but whose answer do we really want to know: How is this on Mars? Answer – In the video!
"Perseverance" makes a little sense
The US space agency NASA released audio recordings of a press conference on Monday and posted it on its website. The microphones on the rover did not send any useful data from the landing – but then sent the first recorded audio recordings from the surface of Mars. Among other things, they may hear something that sounds like air gas. Other noises would have been more unusual by the rocky desert.
New videos of Mars landing show the parachute and the surface of the planet
In addition to the audio files, the rover has sent new videos and photos of its own landing to NASA. The videos show the last eleven kilometers of the "perseverance" path. For example, you can see how the parachute opens. The rover landing surface is also visible.
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After about six months of flight time and a journey of 472 million kilometers, the 1,000km NASA rover landed on Mars on Thursday. At 9:56 pm German time, the control room in Pasadena (California) said: "Touchdown confirmed!" (In German: landing confirmed). Dangerous Maneuver was an amazing success and they saw the first data confirming the landing.
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Expansion of trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) within genes plays a major role in pathology of various neurological diseases. The correlations of these unusual repetitive sequences with the aetiology of these diseases and the mechanism by which those repeats are expanded during replication have been extensively studied. Small-molecule ligands that bind to TNRs could provide potent biological applications. First, the length of the TNR is the most important determinant of these neurological diseases. Ligands that reduce the repeat length or impair repeat expansion may be used to delay onset and reduce the severity of these diseases. Interestingly, many important anticancer ligands and antibiotics have desirable qualities when interacting with TNR DNA, and may form the basis for the development of novel therapeutics against neurological diseases. Second, designed ligands that bind to expanded TNRs with high specificity based on the structural and chemical characteristics of these repeats can serve as diagnostic tools for determining repeat length and may have applications in preventive medicine. In this article we will review our current understanding of the interaction between DNA-binding ligands and TNRs.
Diagnosis, DNA expansion, Neurological disease, Therapy, TNRs-acting ligands, Trinucleotide repeats.
Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan.
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Russia and the West in the wake of Ukraine's crisis
A ceasefire between the Ukraine government and Russian separatists takes effect on Sunday, February 15, 2015. It follows a summit in Minsk involving the presidents of Ukraine, Russia and France and the German Chancellor. But the EU has not lifted the sanctions on Russia which will ensure the ceasefire terms are respected by Russia and that the Kremlin ends its supp...
A ceasefire between the Ukraine government and Russian separatists takes effect on Sunday, February 15, 2015. It follows a summit in Minsk involving the presidents of Ukraine, Russia and France and the German Chancellor. But the EU has not lifted the sanctions on Russia which will ensure the ceasefire terms are respected by Russia and that the Kremlin ends its support for the separatists, writes Prince Michael of Liechtenstein.
GIS has regularly analysed and forecast developments between Russia and the West. Ukraine's current crisis is a terrible symptom of how much relations have deteriorated.
Former Warsaw Pact countries and the Baltic States decided to join the EU and Nato after the collapse of the USSR in1991. Ukraine, however, was always seen as a red line which should not be crossed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He expressed this several times.
The EU's offer of an Eastern Partnership to Ukraine crossed this red line, in Russia's view. The West ignored Russia's sensitivities by continuing negotiations. But the West had no strategy of how to handle things when President Viktor Yanukovych's Ukraine government rejected the Eastern Partnership deal and deadly violence erupted in Maidan square in Kiev.
Russia wants to regain the status of a leading global power, while believing that the West developed an opportunistic 'value based' foreign policy which includes the right for it to determine further regime change.
Ukraine was Russia's red line because it was intended as a cornerstone of Mr Putin's Eurasian Union. The annexation of Crimea and Russian support to the aggressive separatists in eastern Ukraine followed the very different positions adopted by the West and the Kremlin and has led to Ukraine's proxy war.
Russia was struck emotionally by the West's humiliations and insults, while being damaged economically by a free-falling oil prices and, to a lesser extent, Western sanctions. This cocktail of emotional and economic attacks has boosted Vladimir Putin's popularity among the Russian population.
Russia has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to survive for some years, but it needs Western technology more than ever to keep its oil flowing as cheaper oil reserves begin to run out.
Western sanctions have galvanised the Putin regime in the short term so that the financial elite is more dependent on the Kremlin than ever. They have given Mr Putin a perfect excuse to blame hardship on sanctions, rather than on his own shortcomings.
The sanctions will slowly strangle Russia's economy by hampering all development in its all-important energy sector and ensuring that nobody - Russian or foreigner - will invest in Russia.
The West will be blamed for this, and Russia can be expected to want revenge. The stated purpose of sanctions is an illusion. Nobody can honestly believe that Vladimir Putin will back off under pressure.
There is a growing likelihood of a new Cold War as perceptions of what is happening and the reasons for it are fundamentally different on both sides. But the West now has no intention of offering Nato membership to Ukraine.
The West - especially the EU - and Russia need to find a new 'Continental Order' which embraces European and Russian interests. This should also safeguard the sovereignty of the countries between them. But currently there is a complete lack of mutual trust. This will not solve the emotional issues and makes trade talks between the two blocks almost impossible.
Countries between the two blocks need to be free to trade with both sides. Trade and prosperity guarantee peace.
Any partnership Russia develops with China may generate revenues but it increases Russia's dependence on its Chinese neighbour.
Both the EU and Russia have to understand clearly and unemotionally the position of the other side and maintain dialogue to find common ground.
This evaluation of the entire West-Russia situation was confirmed at 'The Vaduz Roundtable', a side event organised by GIS and held at the 2015 Munich Security Conference.
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Tripp comes from a long line of accomplished stockdogs, both on the ranch and at the national competition level. He is conformationally correct, with a nice flowing sidegait. Tripp is an upright, wide-running, and moderate-eyed Australian Shepherd who will use "eye" when necessary to control his sheep and ducks. He is a confident, intent worker, who also possesses a lot of power. Tripp can think for himself and work independently hundreds of yards away from me without ever losing control of his stock. He loves working any livestock but Tripp is, most definitely, a hard-core cow dog! His athleticism allows him to gather cattle all day, drive them into the corral, then load them into a trailer without missing a step. He can move cattle through dense brush, over creeks, and along steep hillsides with ease. At the same time, he is calm in the pens and has no trouble pushing cattle through chutes and gates.
Tripp can definitely be pushy at times but he will never back down from a mama cow or a bull when needed. His grip is efficient and he hits heads, heals, and front feet instinctively. Tripp will hold cattle, sheep, or other livestock anywhere he is asked, for as long as is needed. No-one is allowed near me while I am feeding, and often you will see the cattle standing thirty feet away from the feeder while Tripp watches them intently. One step over "his" imaginary line and the cattle will immediately be turned around and moved back from where they came. Tripp is a natural ranch dog whose instinct can sometimes be in conflict with what is being asked of him in the trial arena. But, as he is extremely biddable, he will always take the correction and move on, even if he doesn't really want to… He has a great temperament with other dogs and LOVES people… Tripp is extremely intelligent and loves to work. Whether he is moving livestock, or guarding the family and the ranch, he always gives a hundred and fifty percent… At night, after a hard days work, you will find Tripp curled upside-down on the couch beside me or sleeping at my feet.
Tripp's sire Spur was the main ranch hand at the W Lazy J ranch in Montana. He was Betty Williams' partner on the ranch and in the trial arena. There are as many great stories about him as there are hairs on a dog, but suffice to say he was one good dog. He could handle just about any kind of cattle in any kind of terrain, and if someone ever needed a hand, suddenly Spur came out of nowhere and helped you get the job done. He was also a great trialing dog, winning many buckles and awards at the local and national level.
Rook earned asca's first Stockdog Champion title, and has competed all over the USA as well as Sweden and Germany.
Rook's sire Duke was also a very talented dog, who quickly learned to intuit what his handler needed from him in the trial arena. His owner says of him: Duke was my first working Aussie and covered my back every single day… He acquired 25 Silver Belt Buckles and over 160 HIT awards during his 6 years of competition.
Cerise is from our very first litter here at Superfly Aussies, the "Redbug" Litter (WTCH CH Cocoa x HOF WTCH Quinn). It was clearly from a very early age that she was going to be a precocious puppy. She was always waiting for me to come play. At 3.5 weeks she would take a Q-tip from me and hold it like a tiny dumbbell, at 4.5 weeks she would fetch a toy and bring it to me. By 8 weeks she had made it clear that she would not be going anywhere else, and so she didn't. Cerise proved her worth this year competing at her first National Specialty, where she beat out 70 dogs to win The Most Versatile Aussie competition, as well as winning the high combined Non-WTCH award in both the National Specialty, and stockdog pretrial, at the young age of 3!
Cerise is a very driven dog, and rarely requires external motivation to get to work. She loves to work stock, and balances her speed with bidability. She has a nice circle and sense of group on stock. She progressed a lot this year working cattle, from a started dog at the beginning of the year to my main hand moving 75 head of cow/calf pairs many miles on unfenced roads and trails to new grazing pastures. She has a great wearing style when working cows, and she never stops until the job is done. She doesn't often grip, but doesn't often need to. She can keep large groups of cattle grouped and moving, as well as locate and gather in large fields, brush, and marshland. She often moves cattle as a team with her brother Rubin, and together we have helped the local rancher make his drives quick and easy, preventing cattle from ending up all over the valley.
In agility she has great obstacle commitment, and is naturally able to work at a distance from me. Weaves and contacts came easy to her (lucky for me, a novice agility trainer). In obedience she has a natural heads-up heeling style that required little training on my part, and she is very attentive to verbal and physical cues. Treats, toys, and praise/play are all acceptable rewards in her books, as long as we get to do stuff! Cerise's siblings are training and competing in herding, agility, obedience, rally, flyball and dock diving. To learn more about Cerise, visit her page.
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The Emmy's most awkward moments
by MoJoe
The Emmys are like any big party: you have some great moments, a lot of forgettable moments, and some truly awkward moments. Some jokes fell flat, and others left you kind of mortified. "Did she just say that? On national TV?"
A lot of it had to do with Jane Lynch, an odd choice for Emmy host, and who apparently has the social graces of her TV character. Take, for example, her cutting response to Ricky Gervais: "Someone didn't get enough hugs from Mommy and somehow it's Hollywood's fault." Yeah, uhm… cut to commercial! [Read more…] about The Emmy's most awkward moments
Filed Under: Jane Lynch, Julie Bowen, LL Cool J Tagged With: emmys, Jane Lynch, Julia Stiles, Julie Bowen, LL Cool J, Ricky Gervais
Ed O'Neil Didn't Diss Jane Lynch
by Peter "Paparazzi" Fielder
Darn, looks like TV Guide – Canada Edition can't get their quotes right. The TV based magazine recently published an Ed O'Neil quote that appeared to attack Glee actress Jane Lynch, now Ed has went on the record to fix the misquote.
The magazine originally said Ed O'Neil believed Jane Lynch didn't deserve her Emmy award for best supporting actress in a Comedy and that it should have gone to his Modern Family co-star Sofia Vergara. According to the TV Guide quote Ed said:
"I love Jane, honestly I do," while adding, "I'm dying to star in one of [mocumentary director] Christopher Guest's movies alongside her, but I don't think she should have gotten the Emmy for that part. Sofia is just so, so funny," he said. "I don't think people realize how hilarious she is. She's so sharp with her wit, it's amazing."
Here's what he really said:
[Read more…] about Ed O'Neil Didn't Diss Jane Lynch
Filed Under: Celebrities Tagged With: Celebrity Feuds, Ed Oneil, Jane Lynch
Glee Rules The Golden Globes!
by Kate Alvarez
No surprise there. Glee took home the award for best musical or comedy television series, beating veteran shows as The Office, 30 Rock, and Entourage at the recent Golden Globe Awards.
Although the hit Fox show bagged the biggest award that night, it didn't win three other awards that its cast members were nominated for. Leah Michele, who was nominated as best actress in a musical or comedy series lost to Toni Colette from The United States of Tara. Jane Lynch, who was nominated as best supporting actress, lost to Chloe Sevigny of Big Love. Matthew Morrison lost the best actor award to Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock.
"Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbara Streisand," said Glee creator Ryan Murphy in his acceptance speech, with the cast celebrating behind him. "We would like to thank all the wonderful people who actually thought a musical would work on primetime television."
Congratulations, Gleeks!
View the highlights and complete list of winners here.
Filed Under: Awards & Accolades, Golden Globes, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison Tagged With: Glee, Gleeks, Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison
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incredible post and just what i needed! i'm actually kinda new to blogging (my first year coming around) and so far my expertise has been in copy writing/seo copy writing. however link building has become tedious for me. your talk about influencing influencers makes perfect sense, but i find it difficult for my niche. my blog site is made as "gift ideas" and holiday shoppers complete with social networks. i get shares and such from my target audience, but i find that my "influencers" (i.e etsy, red box, vat19, etc.) don't allow dofollow links and usually can't find suitable sources. I guess my trouble is just prospecting in general.
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As students began classes last week at Wayfinding, there were several changes that people new to the building would not have noticed. Crew offices had been repainted and rearranged, but more importantly they no longer housed the same people. The crew who mostly support the work of the college and do not interact with students on a daily basis now occupy the offices downstairs. Upstairs, where classes are normally held, the crew you'll find are those whose day-to-day focus is serving students. With good reason, we decided it was time for a swap.
Two years ago, the Wayfinding crew who first welcomed Cohort 1 was comprised of creative and daring people who were excited to start something completely new. They dreamed together, and together they built a college from scratch, giving Wayfinding its all-important foundation by cementing its values in place. The crew did not worry about titles or job descriptions. They just wanted to create a college where the student, the whole student, comes first.
It has long been understood that the place in which someone learns affects how they learn. The first rooms to be set up at Wayfinding HQ were the student classroom spaces, and students often think of the building as home. There are cozy places to quietly work or study, shared spaces for meetings or chance conversations, and no barriers exist between students and crew, faculty, guides, or anyone else who comes through our doors. We are all part of the Wayfinding community, and in any community there will naturally be growth, conflict, and change. The makeup of Cohort 1 changed, as has Cohort 2, and members of the original crew began this adventure knowing that their time would be finite. They helped see the college through its first stages of transformation, and as it continues to grow and transform, they still are still a part of our community. They are no longer as active day-to-day, but they still attend events, check in, and look on, eager to see what happens next.
Everything sits in the Navigation Hall, waiting for its new home.
In the two years since Cohort 1 first stepped through the doors at Wayfinding Academy, a lot has changed. The formerly bare walls of the Navigation Hall are now encircled by a colorful mural designed and painted by Cohort 1 student, Austin, who had plenty of thematic help from the Wayfinding community. The founders' wall hangs in the commons, a colorful assemblage of tiles that catch the light as students study, and Cohort 3 is working with new Guides as well as some new faculty members who are teaching several core courses. On top of this, the current crew has decorated and painted their new offices. They are settling in for the new year, making the spaces their own as they invite students to continue growing, stretching and exploring.
In start-up culture, organizations face challenges after the initial momentum dips. As organizations scale up, retaining their values and their culture is essential, and it's important to confront changes fearlessly. Our students are taught to explore feelings of uncertainty and discomfort. They are taught to stretch by challenging themselves constantly. They are taught to try, and to fail, and to always question and to always learn. As an organization, we have to be prepared to do the same.
We call our current time of transformation "The Great Crew Office Swap." It represents another cycle in the life of Wayfinding, an intentional and visible reaffirmation of our core value to always support our students first, to always learn, teach, serve and explore. Together.
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Agios Announces the Randomized Phase 3 ClarIDHy Trial of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib) Achieved its Primary Endpoint in Previously Treated IDH1 Mutant Cholangiocarcinoma Patients
– TIBSOVO® Demonstrated a Statistically Significant Improvement in Progression-Free Survival Compared to Placebo –
– Safety Profile Consistent with Published Phase 1 Data in Patients with IDH1 Mutant Solid Tumors –
– Supplemental New Drug Application on Track for Submission by End of 2019 –
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGIO), a leader in the field of cellular metabolism to treat cancer and rare genetic diseases, today announced that the global Phase 3 ClarIDHy trial of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib) in previously treated cholangiocarcinoma patients with an isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutation met its primary endpoint. Treatment with TIBSOVO® demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) by independent radiology review compared with patients who received placebo. The safety profile observed in the study was consistent with previously published data.
A full analysis of the ClarIDHy trial will be submitted for presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress taking place in Barcelona, Spain from September 27-October 1, 2019. The company plans to submit a supplemental new drug application for TIBSOVO® in previously treated IDH1 mutant cholangiocarcinoma by the end of 2019.
"Advanced cholangiocarcinoma is a life-threatening disease with no currently approved treatment options," said Chris Bowden, M.D., chief medical officer at Agios. "The data from the ClarIDHy Phase 3 trial demonstrate the clinically significant benefit of TIBSOVO® in patients with this challenging disease who harbor the IDH1 mutation. We are committed to working with regulators to bring this potential treatment option to patients as quickly as possible. We thank the patients and physicians who participated in the ClarIDHy study, without whom this important advancement would not be possible."
ClarIDHy Phase 3 Trial
The ClarIDHy trial is a global, randomized Phase 3 trial in previously treated IDH1 mutant cholangiocarcinoma patients who have documented disease progression following one or two systemic therapies in the advanced setting. As of the January 31, 2019 data cutoff, 185 patients were randomized.
Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive either single-agent TIBSOVO® 500 mg once daily or placebo with crossover to TIBSOVO® permitted at the time of documented radiographic progression per RECIST 1.1.
The primary endpoint of the trial is PFS as evaluated by independent radiology review with secondary endpoints including investigator evaluated PFS, safety and tolerability, overall response rate, overall survival, duration of response, PK/PD and quality of life assessments.
The study was designed with 96% power to detect a hazard ratio of 0.5 for PFS (TIBSOVO® vs. placebo), with a one-sided alpha of 0.025.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is providing next-generation sequencing to detect IDH1 mutations for all tumor samples as inclusion criteria for enrollment in the study and will develop and commercialize the validated companion diagnostic.
TIBSOVO® is not approved in any country for the treatment of patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma.
About TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib)
TIBSOVO® is indicated for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test in:
Adult patients with newly-diagnosed AML who are ≥75 years old or who have comorbidities that preclude use of intensive induction chemotherapy.
Adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML.
WARNING: DIFFERENTIATION SYNDROME
Patients treated with TIBSOVO® have experienced symptoms of differentiation syndrome, which can be fatal if not treated. Symptoms may include fever, dyspnea, hypoxia, pulmonary infiltrates, pleural or pericardial effusions, rapid weight gain or peripheral edema, hypotension, and hepatic, renal, or multi-organ dysfunction. If differentiation syndrome is suspected, initiate corticosteroid therapy and hemodynamic monitoring until symptom resolution.
Differentiation Syndrome: See Boxed WARNING. In the clinical trial, 25% (7/28) of patients with newly diagnosed AML and 19% (34/179) of patients with relapsed or refractory AML treated with TIBSOVO® experienced differentiation syndrome. Differentiation syndrome is associated with rapid proliferation and differentiation of myeloid cells and may be life-threatening or fatal if not treated. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome in patients treated with TIBSOVO® included noninfectious leukocytosis, peripheral edema, pyrexia, dyspnea, pleural effusion, hypotension, hypoxia, pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, pericardial effusion, rash, fluid overload, tumor lysis syndrome, and creatinine increased. Of the 7 patients with newly diagnosed AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 6 (86%) patients recovered. Of the 34 patients with relapsed or refractory AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 27 (79%) patients recovered after treatment or after dose interruption of TIBSOVO®. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 1 day and up to 3 months after TIBSOVO® initiation and has been observed with or without concomitant leukocytosis.
If differentiation syndrome is suspected, initiate dexamethasone 10 mg IV every 12 hours (or an equivalent dose of an alternative oral or IV corticosteroid) and hemodynamic monitoring until improvement. If concomitant noninfectious leukocytosis is observed, initiate treatment with hydroxyurea or leukapheresis, as clinically indicated. Taper corticosteroids and hydroxyurea after resolution of symptoms and administer corticosteroids for a minimum of 3 days. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome may recur with premature discontinuation of corticosteroid and/or hydroxyurea treatment. If severe signs and/or symptoms persist for more than 48 hours after initiation of corticosteroids, interrupt TIBSOVO® until signs and symptoms are no longer severe.
QTc Interval Prolongation: Patients treated with TIBSOVO® can develop QT (QTc) prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias. One patient developed ventricular fibrillation attributed to TIBSOVO®. Concomitant use of TIBSOVO® with drugs known to prolong the QTc interval (e.g., anti-arrhythmic medicines, fluoroquinolones, triazole anti-fungals, 5-HT3 receptor antagonists) and CYP3A4 inhibitors may increase the risk of QTc interval prolongation. Conduct monitoring of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and electrolytes. In patients with congenital long QTc syndrome, congestive heart failure, or electrolyte abnormalities, or in those who are taking medications known to prolong the QTc interval, more frequent monitoring may be necessary.
Interrupt TIBSOVO® if QTc increases to greater than 480 msec and less than 500 msec. Interrupt and reduce TIBSOVO® if QTc increases to greater than 500 msec. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO® in patients who develop QTc interval prolongation with signs or symptoms of life-threatening arrhythmia.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Guillain-Barré syndrome occurred in <1% (2/258) of patients treated with TIBSOVO® in the clinical study. Monitor patients taking TIBSOVO® for onset of new signs or symptoms of motor and/or sensory neuropathy such as unilateral or bilateral weakness, sensory alterations, paresthesias, or difficulty breathing. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO® in patients who are diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
The most common adverse reactions including laboratory abnormalities (≥20%) were hemoglobin decreased (60%), fatigue (43%), arthralgia (39%), calcium decreased (39%), sodium decreased (39%), leukocytosis (38%), diarrhea (37%), magnesium decreased (36%), edema (34%), nausea (33%), dyspnea (32%), uric acid increased (32%), potassium decreased (32%), alkaline phosphatase increased (30%), mucositis (28%), aspartate aminotransferase increased (27%), phosphatase decreased (25%), electrocardiogram QT prolonged (24%), rash (24%), creatinine increased (24%), cough (23%), decreased appetite (22%), myalgia (21%), constipation (20%), and pyrexia (20%).
In patients with newly diagnosed AML, the most frequently reported Grade ≥3 adverse reactions (≥5%) were fatigue (14%), differentiation syndrome (11%), electrocardiogram QT prolonged (11%), diarrhea (7%), nausea (7%), and leukocytosis (7%). Serious adverse reactions (≥5%) were differentiation syndrome (18%), electrocardiogram QT prolonged (7%), and fatigue (7%). There was one case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES).
In patients with relapsed or refractory AML, the most frequently reported Grade ≥3 adverse reactions (≥5%) were differentiation syndrome (13%), electrocardiogram QT prolonged (10%), dyspnea (9%), leukocytosis (8%), and tumor lysis syndrome (6%). Serious adverse reactions (≥5%) were differentiation syndrome (10%), leukocytosis (10%), and electrocardiogram QT prolonged (7%). There was one case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
Strong or Moderate CYP3A4 Inhibitors: Reduce TIBSOVO® dose with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors. Monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
Strong CYP3A4 Inducers: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO®.
Sensitive CYP3A4 Substrates: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO®.
QTc Prolonging Drugs: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO®. If co-administration is unavoidable, monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
Because many drugs are excreted in human milk and because of the potential for adverse reactions in breastfed children, advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with TIBSOVO® and for at least 1 month after the last dose.
Please see full Prescribing Information, including Boxed WARNING.
About Cholangiocarcinoma
Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is a rare cancer of the bile ducts within and outside of the liver. Cases that occur within the liver are known as intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC) and those that occur outside the liver are considered extrahepatic. Mutations in IDH1 occur in up to 20% of IHCC cases. Current treatment options for localized disease include surgery, radiation and/or other ablative treatments. There are no approved systemic therapies for cholangiocarcinoma and limited chemotherapy options are available in the advanced setting. Gemcitabine-based chemotherapy is often recommended for newly diagnosed metastatic disease.
About Agios
Agios is focused on discovering and developing novel investigational medicines to treat cancer and rare genetic diseases through scientific leadership in the field of cellular metabolism and adjacent areas of biology. In addition to an active research and discovery pipeline across both therapeutic areas, Agios has two approved oncology precision medicines and multiple first-in-class investigational therapies in clinical and/or preclinical development. All Agios programs focus on genetically identified patient populations, leveraging our knowledge of metabolism, biology and genomics. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.agios.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding: the potential benefits of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib); Agios' plans to submit a supplemental new drug application for TIBSOVO® in previously treated IDH1 mutant positive cholangiocarcinoma by the end of 2019; the expected timing for the report of full results from the ClarIDHy trial; and Agios' strategic plans and prospects. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "would," "could," "potential," "possible," "hope" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Agios' current expectations and beliefs. For example, there can be no guarantee that development of any of Agios' product candidates will successfully continue. There can be no guarantee that any positive developments in Agios' business will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other important factors, including: Agios' results of clinical trials, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. FDA and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies; Agios' ability to obtain and maintain requisite regulatory approvals and to enroll patients in its planned clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; competitive factors; Agios' ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any product candidates it is developing; Agios' ability to maintain key collaborations, such as its agreements with Celgene and CStone Pharmaceuticals; and general economic and market conditions. These and other risks are described in greater detail under the caption "Risk Factors" included in Agios' public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Agios expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Investor & Media Contact:
Holly Manning, 617-844-6630
Associate Director, Investor Relations
[email protected]
Source: Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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My approach to meals on the John Muir Trail has evolved over the years. I started out about as light as you can get and ate strictly for fuel. Breakfast was a mixture of granola, dried fruit, nuts, and powdered milk. Snacks, lunch, and dinner were energy bars. No stove, no warm food, no joy at dinner time.
As my confidence grew and I was willing to carry a bit more weight I incorporated a Jetboil. A couple cups of hot water mixed into a freeze-dried meal was nothing short of wonderful in the evening. Many of these meals (Mountain House, Mary Jane's Farm, Backpacker's Pantry, etc.) are quite good, but they all share a common imperfection: they are so processed that they do not taste fresh. I wouldn't go so far to say that they all start tasting the same, but they can get a little tiresome. Enter the lowly hot pepper.
Hot peppers are small, light, flavorful, and will last a couple of weeks easily in your bear canister. Depending on the ones you prefer you can either add a bit of heat or much more. I like jalapeños because they are piquant and aromatic without being fiery.
Little things can mean a lot on the trail; morale can be a fragile thing. Toss a few jalapeños (mild), serranos (medium), or habaneros (hot) and you may find that your tasty freeze-dried meals are transformed.
I like to add the Mountain House freeze dried bulk meats to my meals. The added meat adds a great deal. Also Mountain House and Backpacker's Pantry both make a vegetable package. Fire Roasted Vegetables from Mountain House and from Backpacker's Pantry Sicilian Mixed Vegetables. Either one makes a big difference in a meal. You just use a little bit to enhance other meals.
Good idea, Casey. Thanks for the comment!
Great suggestion Ray. When my wife and I hiked the JMT this past summer, we started blending our dehydrated meals and devising new twists. We also brought plenty of Tapatio sauce packets (smart and final iris) to blend into meals or tuna wraps as well.
We enjoyed coating peanut or almond butter on Boba bars, Clif bars, etc., sometimes with a jam packet or honey added as well (great in oatmeal too), for breakfast, and loved using a little cocoa in our coffee at times.
My experience with eating on the JMT was that I did not need to replace the total calories that I burned the day before. I just needed to learn to keep my engine stoked with regular small amounts of energy and hydration, especially before and during a big ascent. By not having so much food, the weight of the condiments were incidental.
Thanks, Paul. Your comment about keeping the "engine stoked" is right on.
Great tip! I've found that some red pepper flakes or dehydrated salsa can produce amazing results but I never thought of bringing fresh jalapenos. I'm going to try it.
Hadn't thought of that, Vance. Great idea!
Going stove less on the JMT was a poor choice for me this past September on my 13 day JMT thru. I will never do that again! You should check out Hawk Vittles dehydrated meals!!! Waaaaaay better than any of the many brands I've tried. No need to add anything. Great tasting and about the same price as the bland MH meals. Made by a retired chef…thanks for all the great info you provided in your book! It made my thru hike a pleasure with all the useful info.
Thanks for the kind words, Richard. The Hawk Vittles stuff looks good. I may have to try some of them!
Thanks for the tip on Hawk Vittles! The breakfasts I have had from MH are not my faves, and I get tired of my own granola and oats mixture every day. These look amazing and I am ordering my first batch!
Darn! I wish I had known this ahead of my hike. I don't usually love jalepenos, but on the trail, even adding the smallest bit of variety can help morale, as you point out. I also wish I had learned about Hawk Vittles instead of what I brought. I am definitely going to try them in the future.
Thanks for the comment, Chris. I'm looking forward to trying the Hawk stuff, too.
Shallots are also a good addition that can make a meal taste fresher. Pretty high ratio of weight to flavor though not as high as jalapenos. I think the biggest food is not so much carrying it as making myself eat it so flavor ideas are important to fight food boredom and the loss of appetite that can come with exertion. The JMT hiker surveys have shown fairly common problems of people carrying food but not being able to eat it.
Love the shallot idea, John. Just shows that you have a much more sophisticated palate than I do! Thanks for the comment.
Wow! This would not work for me at all. I have a low tolerance for spices in the mountains. And I don't even eat any peppers except maybe bell peppers at sea level. I have to maintain a very bland diet in the mountains and to some degree even at lower altitudes. When ever I have tried prepackaged trail meals I have often had to vomit and waste the food.
wow, that Spam was good!" I wouldn't eat Spam at home, but go figure.
Did the JMT 2014 22 days same diet every day except for Tuolemne, Reds Meadow, Vermillion and Muir Trail Ranch, where I usually got a juicy Hamburger.
I have hiked with guys who like to spice up the meals and it kills me. But I would hike with you as long as we cook separately.
Strange, Keith, how our culinary preferences change on the trail. Thanks for the comment!
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Alcoholic smashed liquor store door
A SELF-confessed alcoholic embroiled in terrorising the Thornton Square neighbourhood has landed himself in even more trouble.
Magistrates heard that Michael Oultram smashed a door in frustration at not being let into a liquor store.
The defendant is due to appear in a civil court trial at the beginning of September when he faces an Anti-Social Behaviour Order hearing brought by the police in a bid to stem the trouble at Thornton Square.
Oultram, 20, has lived on Earlsway, Macclesfield, for most of his life but is currently staying in Biddulph with his brother in an attempt to tackle his drink problem and keep him out of trouble.
He admitted criminal damage - breaking a £150 door panel at Bargain Booze on Chester Road - and breaching his 12-month community rehabilitation order.
Magistrates added a further six months to the order, fined him £50, and made him pay £150 compensation for the glass panel.
Shirley Kelly, defending, said: "He has got an alcohol problem, but now that he has moved to Biddulph he has radically reduced the amount he drinks.
"He has tried to get himself away from his former associates and overcome his alcohol issues."
She said his record since last year included drink driving and on three occasions stealing alcohol from shops.
Patrick Hutchinson, prosecuting, said Oultram had already been barred from Bargain Booze, and when he appeared an assistant recognised him.
He said: "The assistant told him to remove his foot from the door and reminded him that he was barred.
"She then tried closing the door, he gave her a dirty look, and as she turned away she heard a loud bang."
Video footage showed Oultram breaking the door.
Miss Kelly said Oultram kicked out because he was angry that the shop assistant hurt his leg by shutting the door on it.
Probation confirmed that he had also breached his community order, but said he deserved a second chance.
Miss Kelly was unhappy with probation because since Oultram had a job he had been unable to attend courses aimed at tackling alcohol abuse, even though he had been with them six months.
She added: "It's a tremendous pity, and words fail me that the criminal justice system works on the basis that you have to be unemployed to be able to work it.
"He needs help, but has been waiting months. Unless work is done he will continue offending."
The court head that Oultram would soon be able to attend a course.
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Pro & Con Arguments - Best Easy Home Ultrasonic Cleaner Of 2018. Buyer's Guide.
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Large tank – suitable for long dental equipment and tube. Tank size: 11.8″ (l) x 9.5″ (w) x 6.0″ (h). Tank working capacity: 9 liter (2.38 gallon) (maximum tank volume: 10.8 liter/2.85 gallon). Drains with flow control valve for easy cleaning and rinsing. Digital program cleaning cycles ranging from 1 to 99 minutes-easy to operate. Heater – powerful heater (300 watts) makes the temperature reach the presetting one quickly. Digital temperature control with temperature ranging from 20 to 80 degree in celsius (68 to 176 degree fahrenheit). The led digital display also shows real time temperature.
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Great for commercial or home use: ideal device for laboratories, electronic shops, glasses shops, jewellery shops, clocks and watches shops, mobile phone repair shops, hospitals, dentistry, office and home use. Applications: cleans jewelry, necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, coins, eyeglasses, keys, diamonds, silverware, metal badges, watchbands, waterproof watches, shaver heads, razor blades, dentures, combs, toothbrushes, valves, nozzles, machine parts, printer heads, and other valuables.
Heater – safety and reliable with temperature up to 60 degree in celsius (140 degree fahrenheit) – significantly enhance cleaning. Strengthened transducer makes the ultrasonic more powerful (40 khz and 165 w is total wattage which includes an ultrasonic transducer (65 watts) and a heater (100 watts)) and provides remarkable cleaning results. Degas function to enhance cleaning efficiency. Digital program.5 working cycles; choose freely (90.180.280.380.480 seconds) -makes it easy to operate. Circuit protector — protect the circuit to lengthen unit life. Radiator fan – to protect every parts in good condition after working a long time. Wet-proof pcb — good to be used in lab. Machine is ce certified and power cord is ul certified.
Large & lengthened tank – suitable for long dental equipment and tube. Tank capacity: 5.29 pints (2500 ml).
Adjustable power with three different energy levels. Don t damage your delicate items anymore, use the lower power level on the more delicate items and higher power for the less delicate items. Large 17 oz stainless steel cleaning tank is wide enough for most delicate items, including cd's and dvd's. The compact size fits anywhere in your home or work. Heavy duty double safety structure and fine finish for durability and cleanliness. Accessories include: jewelry basket, watch & earring holder, and cd/dvd stand. Simply fill the tank with regular tap water and get professional cleaning results in minutes. Clean all your fine jewelry, watches, eyeglasses, contacts, lenses, filters, cd s, dvd s, dentures, shaver heads, retainers, ornaments or any delicate household items with this professional ultrasonic cleaner. Millions of microscopic cleansing bubbles clean in ways no hand or brush could match; bringing your items to a clean, bright shine without using any harsh chemicals or scrubbing. Removable water tank with detachable cover and carry handle for easy filling and emptying in comfort and convenience.
Digital settings let you choose from a variety of 5 different cleaning time periods, from 90 seconds to 8 minutes. No need to waste electricity and your precious time, set the cleaning time according to the dirt and grim.
Powerful ultrasonic cleaner cleaning system 60w 40khz frequency. 2.0l capacity enough for home use cleaning eyeglasses watches rings necklaces coins dentures pcb forks spoons. Stainless steel tank and basket, digital timing, adjustable heating function, super easy to operate, high resistance to wear and long work life. With digital display, timer setting, adjustable heating function. Digital program cleaning cycles ranging from 1 to 99 minutes-easy to operate. All stainless construction (body, tank, cover and mesh basket) – anti-acid and alkaline, resists damage from chemical spills.
Maximum tank capacity is 600ml, the equivalent of 20.288 fluid ounces, or 2.536 cups. Plugs into 120 volt wall receptacle – no batteries needed. A note about tarnish – silver or brass tarnish is a chemical reaction that requires another chemical reaction to properly remove it. Ultrasonic cleaners do a great job of removing built-up dirt and grime from jewelry, and keeping it grime-free with regular use. But, though ultrasonic cleaners will remove some surface tarnish, they are not an effective way to remove silver tarnish. 30 minute timer – easy to read display has 18 pre-set cleaning cycles from 90 seconds up to 30 minutes, with auto shut-off. Please let the unit cool down entirely between longer runs. It is not designed or built to be run continuously, cycle after cycle for hours on end. Ce & rohs certified, safe and ecologically friendly, it's the perfect ultrasonic denture cleaner. Again, this machine is designed to run a maximum of 30 min and then allowed to cool, not run continuously for hours, or for commercial use.
Available in 3 colors: choose from pink, green or blue. This looks great on your dresser or bedside table in your house, or on the desk, table or counter top at your optometrist or jeweler office or store. Works efficiently: this professional grade ultra sonic cleaner quickly & easily removes dirt, grime, residue and bacteria from personal items including sunglasses, reading glasses & all types of eyewear. Quick & easy to use: this electronic glasses cleaning tool works with your standard lens solution contacts, and for everything else you can just use soap and water – there is no special formula required. Non slip feet: the suction cups under the base of the unit keep it firmly in place so it does not slide or skid.
Battery operated: for your convenience this ultrasonic cleanser is completely portable and easy to use at home or travel with thanks to battery operated power. It uses 2 aa batteries (not included).
42.000 cycle ultrasonic energy wave feature cleans dirt, dust and grime away. Automatic three-minute cleaning cycle and auto shut-off; quiet operation, extremely easy to use (no chemicals). Great for proffessional, business, commercial or home use use. Millions of microscopic cleansing bubbles; simply fill the tank with water and and get professional cleaning results. Detergent can be added to water for enhanced cleaning; also cleans tarnished items.
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Most of the time seller will return your money without any trouble. If you received a malfunctioning easy home ultrasonic cleaner, you will easily get a refund or a replacement. Nonetheless, if you value your time, we highly recommend you to thoroughly check the item's description before making a purchase.
Do good easy home ultrasonic cleanerrequire a lifetime warranty?
The recommended warranty period depends on how often you use your easy home ultrasonic cleaner, how expensive is it, what company made it, and many other factors. Manufacturers sell their most expensive products with a lifetime warranty, while the least expensive easy home ultrasonic cleanermight be not guaranteed at all. We think that the best warranty period for a good easy home ultrasonic cleaner is five years.
In order to create this buying guide, our team had to go through hundreds of user reviews and compare dozens of easy home ultrasonic cleaner models and brands. Finding the best easy home ultrasonic cleaner nowadays is a hard task: the selection on the market is so high that you would have to spend months to study all available options. Thankfully, our TOP list will help you find a good easy home ultrasonic cleaner much quicker!
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We recommend all our readers to buy easy home ultrasonic cleanerwith at least the two-year long warranty period. This is the optimal term for an average easy home ultrasonic cleaner. Instead of overpaying for a lifetime warranty, save the money to buy a new easy home ultrasonic cleaner later.
How did you create this rating list with the best easy home ultrasonic cleaner?
During the creation of this buying guide, we had to look through hundreds of easy home ultrasonic cleaner. Our team compared many products from various brands in order to find the most optimal model with the best price to quality ratio. The goal was to determine easy home ultrasonic cleanerthat offer the most value for their money, and we think that we have achieved it.
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Q: Show an adaptive card in popup (using tabs configuration url) while bot is installed in msteams I want to show a task module (not url) while bot installs (with tab) in the teams. Something like Text does, but a bit more interactive with drop downs and all.
I have referred to the link to create deep link for tab and paste the link here, in app-studio manifest editor:
But this doesn't seem to work. Only an empty pop up shows following this procedure.
Can someone correct me, where I am going wrong! TIA!
A: This "Text" screen is not showing a Task module, it's showing a custom Configuration page for the app's Tab installation. When you create an App that includes a Tab, you have the option of creating such a "Configuration" popup that gives the user the chance to configure how your tab will actually work. See here for more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/tabs/how-to/create-tab-pages/configuration-page
Within that configuration page, you can show whatever web content you'd like. Showing an Adaptive Card is a bit of a strange scenario considering it's a web page, but you could conceivably do this using the adaptive cards js library inside the page (https://www.npmjs.com/package/adaptivecards)
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Tencent-backed Chinese EdTech start up seeks overseas funding
By Kirsteen Mackay
EdTech is an exciting area of investment with many start-ups getting noticed. The Asian markets look particularly lucrative, and SPACs are popping up too.
Yuanfudao is a Chinese live tutoring app that's been going great guns during the pandemic. The homework tutoring app founded in 2012 has gradually risen to prominence. In October it became the world's biggest EdTech unicorn, with $2.2 billion in funding and a $15.5 billion valuation. Skip to today, and its market valuation is thought to exceed $20 billion.
In its latest fundraising round, it hopes to raise at least $1 billion. Based in Beijing, Yuanfudao is reportedly in discussions with potential investors including DCP Capital and Boyu Capital. Although no details have been finalized yet.As well as having the backing of Tencent, Yuanfudao is supported by many more prominent investors including Hillhouse Capital and IDG. And it seems its push to boost its valuation could be in the hope of a possible stock market IPO in 2022.
EdTech is a thriving industry
The sector is seeing unprecedented growth and investment. An area that was undercapitalized and poorly performing a few years ago is now thriving. In 2020 it's believed global venture capital funding into online education start-ups more than quadrupled in 2020 to around $9.2 billion.
Rapid growth and expansion to take full advantage of the pandemic effect, meant companies like Yuanfudao had to spend a fortune to stay ahead of the game. Now it's looking to replenish its funds in anticipation of further growth and expansion.
But rivalry is fierce, and last month Zuoyebang raised $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Yuanfudao's early success is particularly impressive considering it's up against some of China's industry heavyweights such as TAL Education Group and ByteDance's education division.
However, as Beijing clamps down on big tech, this rapid growth in EdTech has also drawn scrutiny from the powers that be.
From China to India, EdTech's here to stay
But it's not just China seeing exceptional growth in this space. Indian EdTech start-ups are also raising money successfully.
Leverage Edu is an Indian EdTech startup which raised approximately $6.5 million this month. This was part of its Series A funding round led by Mumbai-based venture capital fund, Tomorrow Capital. Existing investors Blume Ventures and DSG Partners also participated in the round.
In January Tomorrow Capital also invested around $1.9 million in a series A investment in BeyondSkool, an online upskilling platform for young students.
Meanwhile Delhi-based Lido Learning is hoping to raise $30 million from Singapore's Temasek Holdings. If this goes ahead, Lido will be worth over $100 million.
The Asian private education industry is a lucrative place to be. It's well known throughout the world that education is highly regarded in China and India. And childhood education is taken far more seriously here, than in many Western countries.
The Asian market has an ingrained culture of education as being vital to success. This makes it one of the biggest EdTech markets with the potential for lucrative returns.
Does EdTech make a good investment?
While investment in EdTech is fierce, some venture capitalists still prefer ecommerce, consumer and fintech sectors for added value.
Mercedes Bent of Lightspeed Venture Partners commented:
"EdTech didn't tend to have heady valuations before the pandemic, and through 2020 I'm seeing EdTech companies raise at valuations that are reasonable for Silicon Valley; still nothing like what we see in fintech."
Valuations are rising and in the financial markets this can be seen across the entire technology sector. However, what EdTech may lack in dizzying valuations, for many investors it provides an opportunity for acquisition and exit strategies such as via SPAC.
Just last month Nerdy which owns the popular tutoring business Varsity Tutors, announced it's merging with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. It's expected this will take place in Q2 of 2021. And the deal will give Nerdy a valuation of $1.7 billion.
Meanwhile, Skillsoft, a corporate learning company, merged with IT skills provider Global Knowledge Training and was taken public via SPAC by Churchill Capital Corp II (NYSE:CCX) in October.
Then there was the story of Vista purchasing software development course provider Pluralsight (NASDAQ: PS) for $3.5 billion in December. This was one of the largest enterprise buys of 2020. And Pluralsight has been publicly listed for less than two years.
This is not the first time we've discussed EdTech at Value the Markets. Read our report here.
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Author: Kirsteen Mackay
Digitonic Ltd, the owner of ValueTheMarkets.com, does not hold a position or positions in the stock(s) and/or financial instrument(s) mentioned in the above article.
Digitonic Ltd, the owner of ValueTheMarkets.com, has not been paid for the production of this piece by the company or companies mentioned above.
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then sat across the street and wept.
I'd overslept, erased the magic.
and ate the simple dish.
Matthew Chamberlin says: I am a professor at James Madison University in Virginia, and this is my first published poem. I have work forthcoming in Apex.
I'm inspired to write poetry that has to do with fantasy because that's mostly just how my mind works, I'm confronted with something mundane and immediately imagine it having some really odd, unsettling, outlandish, and far-flung significance.
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Posted on January 20, 2016 by Fairborn Daily Herald
Local Sports Briefs
Bellbrook junior Stephanie Dorn (34) drives in for a score Monday night in a home game against Wilmington. The host Golden Eagles won the non-league game, 62-39, and are now state-ranked and undefeated with a 16-0 record.
State-ranked Golden Eagles roll
BELLBROOK — Led by 6-2 center Gabby Ozoude, unbeaten and fourth-ranked Bellbrook overpowered Wilmington 62-39 Monday night in a non-league game on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Ozoude put on a dazzling show as she towered over the other nine players on the floor, finishing with 27 points, five rebounds and four blocked shots. She was 13 for 17 from the field.
"She's a force," Wilmington coach Mark Short said of Ozoude.
Wilmington was led by Mya Jackson who had 12 points and Katlyn Jamiel, who had 11 points. Sarah Quallen came off the bench to lead WHS with seven rebounds. Jackson also had seven boards. Faith Sanderson, who was in foul trouble much of the night, led with three assists.
Cassidy Hofacker scored 10 for Bellbrook while Stephanie Dorn tossed in nine.
Bellbrook was clicking on all cylinders early, racing out to a 17-1 lead before WHS finally connected on a field goal with 1:26 to play in the first quarter.
"This is one of our better all-around games," said BHS coach Jason Tincher. "I thought all facets of our game were great. We seemed to be on point."
The difference grew to 30 at one point, 45-15, as Wilmington could never find the range offensively, connecting on just 12 of 41 from the field. Bellbrook, on the other hand, was 27 for 60, but 15 for 28 in the first half.
"Like I just told them, 16-0 is pretty cool, but let's get back to work tomorrow," said Tincher. "Let's play loose and focus on energy and enthusiasm. It doesn't take any talent to bust your butt and work hard."
The Golden Eagles will host Middletown Madison at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Jan. 20 at Bellbrook High.
Skyhawks lose to CJ
DAYTON — Evelyn Oktavec scored a team-high 19 points, Courtney Mustard scored nine, while Jana Brown-Griffith, Kaylie Cook, and Kirsten George scored six each in Monday's 56-48 loss on the road to Chaminade Julienne.
The Skyhawks (4-11) held a 20-12 lead after one quarter of play, but the host Eagles outscored Fairborn 32-16 combined in the second and third quarters to nab the win.
Fairborn will host Xenia at 7 p.m. tonight, Jan. 20, at Baker Middle School's Memorial Fieldhouse.
Beavercreek parks and recreation department
BEAVERCREEK — The City of Beavercreek Parks, Recreation and Culture Department is currently accepting applications for its summer staff. Be a part of the team by joining the staff as camp counselors, sports management intern or recreation intern. For more information, contact the City of Beavercreek Parks, Recreation and Culture Department at 937-427-5514 or human resources at 937-320-7387. Job descriptions are posted on the city website, www.beavercreekohio.gov.
Greeneview seeks two coaches
JAMESTOWN — Greeneview High School is looking for a Reserve Softball Coach for this spring and Varsity Volleyball Coach for the Fall 2016 season. If interested, please email resume and letter of interest to Athletic Director Mark Rinehart at [email protected] .
Fearrin named Swimmer of the Week
INDIANAPOLIS — Wright State senior Kayla Fearrin has been selected as the Horizon League Female Swimmer of the Week for the week ending January 17, it was announced Tuesday by the league office.
Fearrin (Carmel, Ind.) won three individual events as the Raiders won at Cleveland State on Saturday, 158-142. She was victorious in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:06.03), 200 breaststroke (2:20.53) and 400 individual medley (4:41.51).
Along with the three individual wins, Fearrin was part of the WSU team that won the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:44.90.
On the season, Fearrin holds the team's top times in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and is third in the 200 and 400 individual medley. She is also part of the top 200 and 400 medley relay teams.
Wright State returns to action at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23, with a tri-meet at the University of Cincinnati against the Bearcats and Virginia Tech.
Benzinger lifts Raiders past Detroit
FAIRBORN — A Grant Benzinger three with 17.1 seconds remaining capped off a 17-7 rally in the final 4:31 as the Wright State men's basketball team pulled out a 77-76 Horizon League victory over Detroit, Monday night at WSU's Nutter Center.
Mark Alstork led Wright State with 21 points, 16 coming in the second half, while Michael Karena had 15, Grant Benzinger 12 and Joe Thomasson 10 along with eight rebounds.
Paris Bass paced all scorers with 28 for Detroit (9-8, 3-3 Horizon) while Anton Wilson had 16 and Jaleel Hogan added 13.
Wright State (11-8, 5-1 Horizon) continues the five-game homestand on Friday, Jan. 22, as the Raiders takes on league leader Valparaiso (16-3, 6-0 Horizon) for a 7 p.m. contest.
SPORTS BANQUETS
Masterson to headline First Pitch Banquet
FAIRBORN — The Wright State baseball program has announced that major league pitcher and Beavercreek native Justin Masterson will be the keynote speaker at the 12th annual First Pitch Banquet on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, on the main arena floor in WSU's Nutter Center.
Justin Masterson is a 2003 graduate of Beavercreek High School where he starred in baseball and basketball. He then attended Bethel College in Mishawaka, Ind., for two seasons before transferring to San Diego State University for his junior year. There he pitched for Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 2006 MLB draft following the college season. He shot through the minors and made his MLB debut on April 24, 2008.
The First Pitch Banquet features a sit-down dinner along with a silent auction. The cost for the event will be $70 per person or a VIP table for 10 guests costing $1000. The VIP table includes recognition during the program and admission to a pre-event meet and greet with Masterson. The doors will open to the public at 6:30 p.m.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2016/01/web1_DornStephanie.jpgBellbrook junior Stephanie Dorn (34) drives in for a score Monday night in a home game against Wilmington. The host Golden Eagles won the non-league game, 62-39, and are now state-ranked and undefeated with a 16-0 record.
Compiled by John Bombatch. Wilmongton News Journal sports editor Mark Huber wrote the story on Monday's Bellbrook-Wilmington girls high school basketball game. You can find the complete story on the xeniagazette.com website. Please send your sports information to: [email protected]
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Android application Google Calendar developed by Google LLC is listed under category Productivity. According to Google Play Google Calendar achieved more than 500,000,000 installs. Google Calendar currently has 985,202 ratings with average rating value of 4.168. The current percentage of ratings achieved in last 30 days is 0.45%, percentage of ratings achieved in last 60 days is 2.71%. Google Calendar has the current market position #620 by number of ratings. A sample of the market history data for Google Calendar can be found below. Last update on 2019-04-03.
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Zachodzko (niem. Hütten Hauland) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie wielkopolskim, w powiecie nowotomyskim, w gminie Miedzichowo. Wieś jest położona przy drodze wojewódzkiej nr 160 i nieczynnej linii kolejowej Zbąszyń-Międzychód (przystanek kolejowy Zachodzko).
Pod koniec XIX wieku kolonia nazywała się Zachadzkie Holendry i wchodziła w skład powiatu międzyrzeckiego. Liczyła 982 ha i 42 dymy (domostwa) z 328 mieszkańcami, z czego 20 było wyznania katolickiego. W latach 1975–1998 gmina położona była w województwie gorzowskim. W 2011 w Zachodzku mieszkało 105 osób.
Około 2 km na północny zachód od wsi, na wzgórzu 109 m n.p.m. znajduje się wieża obserwacyjna, zwana Wieżą Marii.
Przypisy
Zachodzko
Miejscowości olęderskie w powiecie nowotomyskim
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Please prepare the abstract, not to exceed 300 words, on a sheet of 8-½ x 11 inch paper, as illustrated below. Alternatively, complete the web form below for the submission.
Type the title and authors' names in all capital letters.
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Marvell: NO WAY should we have to pay jumbo $1.54bn patent judgment
Tells appeals court Carnegie Mellon Uni patent ruling was result of 'series of legal errors'
By Neil McAllister in San Francisco 13 Aug 2014 at 23:08
Fabless semiconductor firm Marvell has fired the opening volley in its appeal of the record-breaking $1.5bn judgment against it in its ongoing patent dispute with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
"No patent infringement judgment for more than a billion dollars has ever received this Court's imprimatur, and the $1.535 billion judgment here should not be the first," the company's lawyers said in a filing with the US Federal Circuit Appeals Court last week.
Marvell has been locked in what has mostly been a losing battle with CMU ever since the university first brought suit against it in 2009.
At issue are two US patents – numbers 6,201,839 and 6,438,180 – that describe technologies used to improve the accuracy of data read from hard disks.
In its suit, CMU alleged that Marvell shipped some 2.3 billion chips that incorporated those inventions between 2003 and 2012, when US District Judge Nora Barry Fischer ruled in the university's favor.
The judge slapped Marvell with a whopping $1.17bn bill as a result of the infringement, and although the chipmaker sought to have the judgment reduced, it was ultimately raised by another $370m in punitive damages in April 2014, after Judge Fischer found that Marvell had "wilfully" infringed CMU's patents.
In its 75-page appeal filing and 360-page addendum, paper copies of which were delivered to the court on Tuesday, Marvell reiterates its earlier claims that CMU's patents are invalid and that the judgment against it is the result of a series of legal errors by the district court.
The chipmaker argues that its silicon couldn't have infringed CMU's patents because the patents in question merely describe theoretical algorithms that are "incapable of commercial implementation in a semiconductor chip."
In fact, Marvell claims, CMU approached at least 11 companies about potentially licensing these exact patents between 2003 and 2005, yet all declined, citing prior art. Intel, it says, wouldn't even license them for a flat fee of $200,000.
Marvell further argues that even if the judgment of infringement stands, the court's $1.54bn award is way out of line. That figure is based on a valuation of $0.50 for every chip Marvell sold during the disputed period, it says, even though there's no evidence that CMU ever licensed its patents on a per-unit basis, rather than for a flat fee.
The chipmaker also notes that the judgment is based on its total worldwide chip sales, when the majority of those parts were manufactured, sold, and used exclusively overseas, outside the jurisdiction of US patent law.
Finally, Marvell argues that the court should reduce the award by a minimum of $620m, owing to the fact that CMU waited six years before notifying Marvell of possible infringement. And because it had ample reason to believe that CMU's claims were invalid to begin with, Marvell says, the court's award of additional damages for willful infringement should also be vacated.
CMU has yet to file a formal response to Marvell's claims in the appeals court, but in the past it has said that it was "gratified" by the district court's ruling and the resulting award of damages. ®
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Marvell: So, looks like Chinese buyers were cautious about networking kit...
Plus market's slow to swallow gear, especially storage. Hmmf. At least Huawei 'ban' won't hurt too much
Marvell cooks up 400* Gbps Ethernet chips
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Self-driving cars are gonna need a decent amount of internal networking
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Analysis CPUs, HBAs making up for disk drive controller decline
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WASHINGTON — Six students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest D.C. were taken to the hospital Friday afternoon after becoming sick at school. A D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman said the students.
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A teen boy was arrested at Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest D.C. Monday morning after he was found with a gun, police say. The 16-year-old was stopped with the loaded gun at the security check.
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A 17-year-old has been charged with a firearms offense after D.C. police said he tried to take a gun into Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington on Monday. A police report says a security.
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Q: Child Process with Meteor I use Child-Process with NodeJS to call my .exe , but now I'm using meteor.
How could I call my .exe from Meteor?
This is the code used in Node
const exec = require('child_process').exec;
exec('"C:\\Users\\obarrera\\Desktop\\desktop.exe" omar_barrera', (err, stdout, stderr) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(stdout);
});
A: You can do something very similar in Meteor. I would suggest moving the exe file into your Meteor project, though. If you move your desktop.exe file to the private directory within your project, you can do the following:
import childProcess from 'child_process';
childProcess.exec('assets/app/desktop.exe omar_barrera', (err, stdout, stderr) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(stdout);
});
Of course, make sure you use npm install --save child_process in your Meteor project first.
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Return of Chinese Super League still shrouded in uncertainty
By Lu Wenao Source:Global Times Published: 2020/6/17 22:08:36
Shanghai SIPG midfielder Odil Ahmedov (center) celebrates scoring against Beijing Renhe in the penultimate round of the Chinese Super League in Shanghai on November 7, 2018. Photo: VCG
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) insisted on Wednesday that the 2020 season of the Chinese Super League (CSL) must be held in the calendar year, with the restart of the season yet to be decided.
The league, which was originally set to start in February, has been postponed indefinitely due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic in the country. The easing of the situation in April raised hopes for the restart of the season in the following months, but this has not yet happened.
A spokesperson for the CFA told the Global Times on Wednesday that it remains unclear for now about a specific date for the restart of the season, but said a fundamental principle is that the league won't be held in split years like the top European leagues.
"The CFA is actively preparing for resumption of the professional football leagues," the spokesperson told the Global Times. "A fundamental principle is that we won't have a season in split years."
The CSL traditionally lasts from March to November, which means there will be a very limited time period in 2020 if the season is not to run into a new calendar year.
Earlier reports suggested that the CSL season might be played in Shanghai and Guangzhou, two cities that host four CSL teams. But the proposal was denied by the government due to safety concerns over the coronavirus.
To have the CSL games played in Shanghai's neighboring Jiangsu Province has become an option for the CFA, as multiple stadiums in the East China province have hosted FIFA international games - though not at the men's top level.
But the new coronavirus outbreak in Fengtai district of Beijing in June may further cloud the restart of the league, as CSL giants Beijing Guoan were preparing for the new season in a training center in Fengtai.
The team were dismissed for a week and had to transfer to another training center in Beijing's neighboring Xianghe county in Hebei, according to a Beijing Youth Daily report on Wednesday.
China international Wu Lei has become the only Chinese footballer to watch for now. He has played in two matches since the resumption of La Liga earlier this month, scoring one goal to help his relegation-battling team RCD Espanyol secure vital points.
"It's exciting to watch Wu playing, but I sincerely hope the Chinese Super League will return to action soon to invigorate our weekend life," a fan posted on Weibo.
Fellaini becomes first COVID-19 case in CSL
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Rutgers Signing Day: Strong finish boosts 2015 recruiting class
Ryan Dunleavy
@rydunleavy
Rutgers signed a recruiting class rated in the middle of the national and Big Ten rankings
Rutgers added 6 recruits from NJ, 6 from PA, 4 from FL, 3 from NY and 2 from MD
Rutgers finished the recruiting cycle strong unlike last season when there were 12 decommitments
Coach Kyle Flood bulked up on linemen, a sign of the physicality of the Big Ten
PISCATAWAY – Swap a losing season for a winning one and a head coach on the hot seat for one with a contract extension, and it's no wonder that Rutgers football had another dramatic finish to recruiting.
Only, unlike a year ago at this time when Rutgers was scrambling after 12 high-profile decommitments, January 2015 was about cashing in on making a surprisingly strong first impression in the Big Ten – an 8-5 record and a bowl victory – by adding some of the biggest names to its 24-player 2015 recruiting class.
"I think the recruits in our footprint and really nationally are getting to know us as a Big Ten football program," Rutgers coach Kyle Flood said, "and I think the more they got to know us, the more they liked it. And I think that's probably why we finished as strong as we did."
Rutgers' class is ranked No. 52 nationally and No. 9 in the Big Ten by Rivals.com and No. 50 and No. 10, respectively, by Scout.com. It was boosted by the late additions of the only four-star, defensive end Marques Ford, as well as three-star safety Najee Clayton and three-star offensive tackle Jack Shutack.
The addition of South Carolina senior linebacker Kaiwan Lewis as an immediately eligible graduate transfer also is official.
"I broadcasted a Rutgers game this fall and I know that Coach Flood was really excited about the direction they were heading," said Tom Luginbill, ESPN's national recruiting director. "He made a comment to me that I thought was interesting. He said, 'I think we're going to make our most hay in December and January.' That's kind of been how things have unfolded."
Rutgers signed six in-state recruits but none of the Top 11 in the NJVarsity.com rankings, seven of whom are Big Ten-bound. Newark native Al-Kadair Ports committed but did not sign, while his high school teammate Sydney Gopre signed out of prep school and is expected in June after not making the early-enrollee deadline that five others met.
"I think probably the signature of this recruiting class is going to be how they will add overall depth to our team," Flood said. "We have taken players at every position. I think with this recruiting class, every position group, every meeting room in this building, gets stronger and I think it really holds true to the footprint that we have used for a long time, the State of Rutgers, starting in New Jersey."
Rutgers added six players from Pennsylvania, four from Florida, three from New York and two from Maryland – all part of its traditional recruiting territory – and dipped into Illinois, Georgia and California.
"I don't think the State of Rutgers is expanding," Flood said. "I think that footprint has been established, but I think what you are seeing is a little bit of the effect of the Big Ten brand, the Big Ten Network, the visibility of the program now in the premiere athletic academic conference in the country. And that helps us go when our traditional footprint doesn't have the pool of players that we need."
The impact of the physical Big Ten is seen in stocking up on big bodies, with four offensive linemen and five defensive lineman, led by Ford, whose recruitment was handled by assistant Jim Panagos.
"As coaches started to give me that advice, I listened and we tried to address it last year, we've addressed it again this year to continue to build depth up front," Flood said. "Continuing to build the depth up front offensively and defensively, I think that will be something you see continuously as we go forward with these recruiting classes."
Rutgers, which had four decommitments from its 2015 class, has played three, nine and four true freshmen, respectively, in Flood's three seasons at the helm.
"I believe this: As many are ready to play, will play," Flood said. "As a general rule, the further away from the ball you are, it's a little friendlier in terms of playing, because your speed, your athletic skill set can help make up for time."
Staff Writer Ryan Dunleavy: [email protected]
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Publius Mucius Scævola est le fils de Quintus Mucius Scævola, frère de Quintus Mucius Scævola et le père de Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus (consul en -131, qui fut adopté par son oncle Publius Licinius Crassus).
En 179 av. J.-C., il est préteur, en même temps que son frère Quintus. À l'issue de cette préture il reçoit une juridiction urbaine à Rome, avec mission d'enquêter sur une affaire d'empoisonnements.
En 175 av. J.-C., comme consul, il bat les Liguriens et est célébré en triomphe.
Notes et références
Consul de la République romaine
Consul romain du IIe siècle av. J.-C.
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The Ramble 70 comments games
Once Upon A Playtime
I'm on deck at DIY Days NYC to give a talk about storytelling in games (a talk that is, at present, called "Once Upon A Playtime"). Basically, with this talk I'm shunting aside the old question of Are games art? because that question is (to me) meaningless to the designer, to the creator. Instead, I'm focusing on the question, Can games be used to tell an effective story?
I don't know the answer to that, yet.
When I first started cracking the nut that is this question, my kneejerk response was a blustery, stammering, "Well! Wuh. Pffh. Of course they can! That's not even a question."
Then I really took a good long look.
At its core, storytelling is (duh, bear with me) the act of me telling you a story.
Ah, but gaming isn't quite that. Gaming is about you experiencing a story, and further, it's about you making your own story from that experience. I don't mean to suggest that this is a bad thing. It's not. It's a great thing. It's its own thing. But is it classic and effective storytelling?
The campfire storyteller, the writer, the filmmaker, the comic book artist, they're all telling a measured story. It unfolds word after word, page after page, frame after frame. It exists at the pace of the storyteller. It's a roller coaster ride. You're buckled the fuck in. Your only real options as the recipient of the story are:
a) Keep listening (reading, watching)
b) Quit that shit (put the book down, turn off the movie, walk away from the campfire)
c) Change the pace of my consumption (read more slowly, watch the film in increments, choose to read the graphic novel over the comic series as its released)
As a game, though, my options are larger, wider, and altogether stranger. Yes, in the Call of Duty games, I traverse the battlefield, unlocking cinematic events that continue the story that the creators are telling. (Be aware, I'm not arguing that games do not tell stories; I'm asking again whether these stories are effective.) But I can stop. I can dick around. I can run around the battlefield area, shooting holes in cars, or letting wave after wave of enemy spawn for giggles. In Halo, I might even partake in emergent gameplay — me and a co-op buddy might sit and screw around with a level (re: a "chapter") for hours, building ramps for our Warthogs, grenade-jumping to get secret skulls, shooting rockets into each other's faces. Whatever.
Given that an "avatar" in the game world is generally the story's protagonist (Master Chief, f'rex), that's kind of wonky, isn't it? Imagine being told a story and then the storyteller stops in the middle and suddenly rambles on about how Master Chief tried to give his Spartan best friend a plasma fire enema, or how the two of them ran around on the battlefield playing a digital game of high-definition avatar grab-ass for a half-hour. The story's arc suddenly plateaus, or rather, hits something that looks a static frequency. Meaning, at that point it's just noise.
This isn't a bad thing for the game.
But it might be a bad thing for the story.
Is the story just context for the game experience? Is it just The Thing That Frames The Fun?
Is the story that meaningful in a game? In a pen-and-paper roleplaying game it is, but even there, the creators of said game are not actually telling a story. Not even with a module. They're giving the gamers the tools to create and engage in their own storytelling endeavors. In an ARG (alternate reality game), the "story" that's concealed is one that might be meaningful to the canon of that property, but once more, I can experience the story in an ultimately arbitrary and random way. I can come in late, I can come in early, I can juggle the pieces and put the story together as I see fit.
In some ways, this is great, right? Games then embody show over tell. Half-Life and Portal show us the story. We can care, or we can just shoot things. We can search out the writing on the wall (in both games, literally), or we can give the story the finger and run around with the Gravity Gun, shooting boxes into the faces of Combine agents.
It's too twee, really, but in games, are we talking about storyshowing rather than storytelling? Is storytelling an art that simply cannot operate properly in a game context? Does interactivity offer too many random elements? Does interactivity render the old storytelling mechanics inert?
I'm honestly having a hard time thinking of a video game that truly told an effective story. Are there any? I'm not trying to make anybody mad; it bears repeating that I'm not saying I have not enjoyed the stories and worlds put forth by games. I have. I love games. But has the story of any video game matched up with the best films, the best novels, in terms of storytelling potency, in the terms of true craft? Will video games have a 70s-era surge into craft? Can we ever see the video game equivalent to Taxi Driver or Apocalypse Now? Or Moon? Or District 9? Will video games ever give us something as powerful as Ulysses or The Things They Carried or even Lord of the Rings? Yes, I love Bioshock. I love Mass Effect. But even when I can explain a game's story in a way that isn't totally ludicrous, I don't know that I'm really getting the same emotional urgency and narrative impact as the great stories of our time.
By putting the supposed target of the story (you, me) into the story, have we irreparably damaged the act of storytelling in that particular situation?
I cannot help but envision the day that we begin to tell new stories, static stories born out of our digital interactive experiences. Just as today I might tell you a story about how I went to the convenience store and got robbed (relax, that didn't happen), I might in the future tell you a story of the time me and a couple of buddies invaded the Overlord's base and how it was a total suicide mission in the end. Hell, I might tell you that story now. I might tell you how Hindmarch and I sniped some pinko fools, or how last night I protected a Little Sister from an army of Splicers but how everything went pear-shaped when the game dropped one of those ape-bodied brute splicers in my lap at the same time some dude started chucking firebombs at my face. I'm getting stories from the game, but the game is not telling me a story.
Help me out here. Noodle this shit. Give me a boost so I can get my head around this. It feels like a rabbit hole; I tumble, I tumble. Can you think of video games that have effectively told stories to you? Stories on par with the best and brightest? Did the interactivity — the sheer possibility of option — change your notion of "story," or is it simply outside that notion entirely?
April 5, 2010 @ 12:06 AM
[…] were here for the formative discussions that built to the workshop I gave this past weekend. (Part One, Part Two, and then Part Three.) You can also see Guy's kick-ass recap of this and the whole […]
Video Games and Character Part I « An Idiot's Guide to Idiocy
[…] "Once Upon a Playtime: Can Games Tell Effective Stories?", "Once Upon a Playtime II: Revenge of the Gamestory", and "Once Upon a Playtime III: Return to the Gamestory Lagoon". His recount of what his workshop entailed can be found here, "Once Upon a Playtime: The Final Countdown" […]
Video Games and Character Part I « Word Asylum
April 28, 2010 @ 9:57 PM
KamiYugure
I know this is an old article but I hope you hear me out, anyway. I, as an aspiring game designer and a lover of storytelling and being in control, like to look at this from a different perspective. Instead of the game designer and their teams of artists, writers and programmers being the ones telling the story, I believe that with a good game, the creators give the PLAYER a baseline from which THEY can tell THEIR VERSION of the story the way THEY want to. In this effect, yes it is a medium of storyTELLING – the player creates their own story given the tools, background, etc. by the designers in whatever way and flavor they so choose. What makes a good game is Power to the Players, as they say. The player can tell the most ridiculous nonsensical, poorly designed story they want, but in the end, it's the experience AND the story that THEY wanted out of the game. Great examples of games that do a pretty good job of letting the players stay in charge of their own story are The Sims, The Elder Scrolls Series, World of Warcraft, sandbox-type games, RPGs that don't shove a story down your throat *coughfinalfantasycough*, etc.
The PLAYER is the storyteller.
– love dani
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Priyamani refutes rumors finally - Telugu Box Office
Priyamani refutes rumors about her special song in Bunny's next
From the past few days, the rumors are rife that the national award winning actress Priyamani is going to shake leg with Allu Arjun in a special song in Allu Arjun's forthcoming film under Boyapati Srinu's direction.
Quickly refuting these reports as mere rumors, Priyamani's manager clarified that the actress is currently busy promoting her latest Malayalam film in the US and that she was not even approached by the makers of Allu Arjun's film. Priyamani's last released Telugu film was Chandee, in 2013.
Currently, a fight sequence is being canned under the supervision of the stunt masters duo Ram-Laxman. Veteran actor Srikanth, who is playing a crucial role in the film, is taking part in the shoot along with Allu Arjun. Geetha Arts banner is bankrolling the film and SS Thaman is music director.
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What are my treatment options for coronary artery disease?
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Still, it is an impressive victory with twice as many Austrian to Prussian casualties. The state capital is Wiesbaden, the largest city is Frankfurt am Main, the English name Hesse originates in the Hessian dialects. The royal preacher, Jakob Fabricius, rallied a few Swedish officers around him and started to sing a psalm. The Austrian line then broke. In front of him, a cluster of low hills dotted the landscape along an axis approximately parallel to the Austrian line. Because of a complex network of waterways and further misty weather, it took until 11 am before the Protestant force was deployed and ready to launch its attack.
Sweden's new regency was forced to accept a far less dominant role than it had held before the battle. Far away, on the left side of picture, Leuthen village is visible with two churches. Headgear was the tricorne hat for line infantry and bearskin cap for grenadiers. A mist hung over the ground, which was lightly covered with snow, and Frederick saw that the army had emerged from Borne opposite the right center of the Austrian position. Soon most of the Swedish front line was in chaotic retreat.
There is an enormous amount of white space, due to the diagrams, in this article. He sympathized with the travails they had undergone, and, in the most friendly possible way, he encouraged them to behave like heroes just once more. The surprise attack in the on the unsuspecting Austrian flank baffled Prince Charles; the Prince took several hours to realize that the main action was to his left, and not to his right. When things began unraveling they did so with increasing rapidity. These factors, combined with its almost sacred devotion to Frederick, made the Prussian army into a force to be reckoned with.
Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the capital and city-state Berlin forming a metropolitan area. None of Prussia, Austria, Russia or France had been able to win the decisive victories needed to force their enemies to surrender, but by 1763 the war in Europe had drained the belligerents and they sought peace, Austria, facing bankruptcy and feeling unable to proceed without Russia, France defeated abroad and unwilling to fight on to support Austria, and England keen to cement global success and end the drain on their resources. Austria-Hungary collapsed under the weight of the various unsolved ethnic problems that came to a head with its defeat in World War I, to these were added in 1779 the Inn Quarter of Bavaria, and in 1803 the Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen 5. The tents of the encampment disappeared as if struck down. Many pictures and maps can make the text seem less daunting to the reluctant modern day reader! They epidemized his use of the famed Oblique Order method of attack. The Imperial onslaught on was halted, Wallenstein chose to withdraw from into Bohemia for the winter, and continued in its alliance with the Swedes.
Frederick the Great was able to hide his intentions, achieve surprise, and strike a massive blow on the enemy's weakest point — a tactic predictive of Bewegungskrieg war of movement , or much later of. The Austrians were forced back against the river Oder, where the bridges were unable to cope, leaving 21,000 men to fall into Prussia hands. On November 28 Frederick reached Parchwitz where he assembled his scattered army and began the preparations for retaking Silesia. Zieten Routed the Austian Army and Nearly Annihilated the Dragoons The Prussian advance crashed into the leading Württemberg units, which, after a short but determined resistance, broke and ran back into their own lines. From the West in the shelter of the hills a splash of color emerged from the fog, then another. However, when the gunnery paused and the smoke cleared, his horse was spotted between the two lines, Gustavus himself not on it and nowhere to be seen.
Frederick however had other concerns: his troops had been defeated in East Prussia by the Russians at Gross-Jägersdorf, Russian and Austrian forces were converging in a raid on Berlin, his trusted confidant General Winterfeldt, had been killed in a skirmish with the Austrians at Moys in Eastern Saxony and the army fighting to keep the French under the Duc de Richelieu out of Hanover had capitulated at Kloster-Zeven. After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, however, the Carolingian Empire broke apart, according to Regino of Prüm, the parts of the realm spewed forth kinglets, and each part elected a kinglet from its own bowels. In less than a few hours the Prussian inflict over 10,000 allied losses with fewer than 500 of their own. This single shot firearm could be loaded and fired by a well trained soldier around 3 to 4 times a minute. Following his conduct at Frederick Wilhelm von Seydlitz was promoted Major General and awarded the Pour le Mérite.
Concerned that the attack would get out of hand and the army would suffer a repeat performance of Prague or Kolin, Frederick repeatedly sent messengers ordering the lead battalions to adjust their speed. A force under Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick marched from Magdeburg and Prince Moritz brought his corps from Berlin. Other factors include the early defeat of the Austrian cavalry covering force, the low quality of the Imperial German troops that caught the brunt of the initial Prussian attack, the sluggish tactical response of the Austrian commanders and the collapse of Austrian morale. In 1757, Frederick was in his mid-forties, as was his opponent on this early day in December. Zieten quickly countered with all 53 of his squadrons, and after a fierce contest routed the Austrian cavalry from the field, capturing 15 guns and nearly annihilating a regiment of Austrian dragoons. To the north, the Elbe river separates Lower Saxony from Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the banks just south of the Elbe are known as Altes Land.
Now that the gateway was captured, the battalion pressed through in column and spread out. If the infantry under attack seemed unduly aggressive, the attacking cavalry would be liable to swerve around them or pull up. On the right, screened by the infantry columns, cannon after cannon after cannon, pulled by men on sturdy horses. All in all the whole thing looked terrific. Rich blue coats and tall hats of bright gold, flashes of yellow, bursts of red and splashes of pale cream. Even so, if you can update or improve it,. Frederick decided to attack early the next morning before the enemy could firmly establish a defensive position.
The terrain also allows for this as most of the Prussian maneuver is not visible to Charles and his staff. By 28th October 1757 Frederick concentrated his army at Leipzig to strike at the Reichsarmée. By the autumn of 1757 Frederick the Great was beset by enemies on all sides. This is the 261st Anniversary of the Battle and as you will see on Colin's blog current standings are Austrians 7 Prussians 3 so a tough nut for the Prussians and after arrival I joined Colin on the Prussians and was put in command of the right flank taking command of Zieten and the Prussian infantry advance Guard. This act had many of the soldiers halt in hundreds.
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Tag Archives: High N Dry
Classic Songs to Be Discovered, Derivative Works, Influenced, Music, My Stories
The Record Vault: Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry
January 25, 2022 destroyerofharmony1981, Def Leppard, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, High N Dry, music, NWOBHM, review 13 Comments
I don't have the vinyl anymore. It was in a box that went missing in one of my many house moves. I've been meaning to replace it, but I just haven't gotten around to it. And then Def Leppard announced those marvellous box sets that would cover their career a few years ago, and I've seen a few of em reviewed on the blogs I follow, so I'm thinking, it's time to part with some monies and get em.
Spotify also has em to listen and man, listen I did. For those who reckon that once you've heard an album, you don't need to purchase it, well those people have never understood the collectors mentality.
Anyway, let's get to the album, released in 1981.
The band is the same as the debut with Joe Elliot on vocals, Steve Clark and Pete Willis on lead and rhythm guitars, Rick Savage on bass and Rick Allen on drums.
The album cover by Hipgnosis is smart and done well, but my 80's mind, made me ignore it for quite some time. It wasn't as good as the debut cover, and nothing like the covers of the other albums I was purchasing.
It's written by Pete Willis, Steve Clark and Joe Elliott.
Many would say its AC/DC influenced and I would agree, but then again a lot of British acts like Queen, Sweet, Mott The Hoople and T Rex who influenced Def Leppard had songs with riffs like this. But producer Mutt Lange did work with AC/DC and during this period, "Back In Black" and "Highway To Hell" were selling like crazy.
Most Def Lep fans would know that it was originally titled "When the Rain Falls" with different lyrics and performed live during the "On Through The Night" tour.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mutt Lange had something to do with the song title change.
Another Hit And Run
Written by Rick Savage and Joe Elliot. It's one of my favourite tracks from when I dropped the needle on this. I can never get enough of the Chorus riff and the Verse Riff.
High 'N' Dry
The song is written by Steve Clark, Rick Savage and Joe Elliot. If you want to hear the embryo of the "Photograph" riff, then press play on this and enjoy.
And it also became famous when it made a list called the "Filthy Fifteen", which is a list of songs criticised by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), for having explicit lyrics that describe alcohol use and intoxication.
Seriously the subject matter on this song is meek compared to some other song. But then again what would a bunch of politicians wives know about hard rock music.
Bringin' On The Heartbreak
One of Def Lep's best slower tempo songs. Written by Steve Clark, Pete Willis and Joe Elliot. If those harmony guitars in the Intro don't grab your attention, then please check for a pulse.
And that Chorus. Wow. The multi layered vocals that would become synonymous with the "Pyromania", "Hysteria" and "Adrenalize" albums are all here.
Steve Clark also owns this song in the lead department. He didn't have the top hat of Slash to give him that certain unique look, but his pentatonic playing is exceptional.
In relation to the videos, the live recording with Pete Willis is my go to version, but the video with the boat on a lake featuring Phil Collen is the more well-known one. And the 1984 remix version with the synths is a misstep. There was nothing wrong with the original at all.
Switch 625
An instrumental and it was the song playing in the end credits of "Cobra Kai" Season 4 finale. Written by Steve Clark and all solos are handled by him as well.
Just press play, close your eyes and let the music take you to the places your mind conjures up.
You Got Me Runnin'
Side 2 kicks off with this, written by Pete Willis, Steve Clark and Joe Elliot. I've read some reviews that basically ignore Side 2, but man, some of my favourites are here.
I like the 70's vibe this song gives and the hooks keep coming with the Chorus vocal melody. And press play for the "you got me running" section just before the Pete Willis pentatonic bluesy solo.
Lady Strange
Written by Pete Willis, Steve Clark, Rick Allen and Joe Elliot.
How good is this song?
If it had a different title, it would still be in the set lists today.
The intro harmonies get me hooked and the Chorus riff with the melodic lead gets me moving and tapping my foot.
The verse riff has some sped up chords that would be slowed down in a few years' time for a song called "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
But it's that metal riff just before the Chorus that seals the deal. Press play to hear that and then to hear Clark wail.
And as they come out of the Chorus, there is this arpeggio riff which is excellent, Elliot starts singing and the music morphs into the verse riff and then we are back to the Chorus and that infectious vocal melody, of "lady strange I need you, lady strange I want you".
On Through The Night
Written by Steve Clark, Rick Savage and Joe Elliot. The song has the same title as the debut album.
It's another killer riff (which also becomes the verse riff) to start the song off. It's very Blackmore like.
But press play to hear those Randy Rhoads style arpeggios in the Bridge just before the Chorus. For a band who wanted to rule the charts, they definitely kept their fingers on what was hot and what wasn't.
Mirror Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)
Written by Steve Clark and Joe Elliot.
A very underappreciated cut.
Press play to hear how the verses are constructed. The drivers are the bass and drums.
Rick Savage plays a pulsing bass riff with Rick Allen providing a thundering beat and then the guitars start to decorate with chords at low volume and then at a more aggressive volume. Joe Elliot showcases his vocals chops moving between metal god and rock god melodies.
The Chorus has a catchy vocal melody with multi layered vocals.
And those harmonies in the solo. Just so many good sections in the song that words can't describe.
I also like how in the last 40 seconds, it starts off with the pulsing bass and drums for a few seconds before the Chorus riff thunders in to close out the song.
Written by Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Joe Elliot.
I feel like its "Ballroom Blitz" merged with "Tie Your Mother Down" and I like it.
Def Leppard will always be known for "Pyromania" and "Hysteria". Those albums have moved over 40 million in sales combined and they make up Def Lep's streaming Top 10 lists as well. But I've never judged albums on how many units sold. It's based on songs and riffs, and the quality and influence of this album cannot be ignored.
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I am reading the recent issue of Guitar World and I come across a question where Mick Jones from Foreigner is asked how it was to work with Mutt Lange? For those that don't know Mutt Lange produced the Foreigner 4 album in 1981.
Mutt had really wanted to do our second album [1978's Double Vision], I believe. But he didn't seem quite ready at the time. So we did the next one [1979's Head Games] with Roy Thomas Baker.
So Lange goes away and he proves himself to Foreigner. He takes on AC/DC and produces Highway to Hell in 1979 (their American breakthrough album) and Back in Black in 1980 (their first with Brian Johnson and their biggest album in regards to sales to date). He also produced For Those About To Rock We Salute You in 1981.
He didn't just give up. In between the period between 1977 and 1981, apart from AC/DC, he also produced albums for artists like City Boy, Clover, Supercharge, The Boomtown Rats, The Rumour, Savoy Brown, Michael Stanley Band, Outlaws, Deaf School, The Records and Broken Home. He is paying his dues, getting the stats on his side, just so that he can work with a band that he wants to work with.
… then Mutt was kind of knocking on the door again. I must say, he was quite enthusiastic.
Then he gets the gig to do Foreigner – 4 which came out in 1981. Persistence. Paying your dues. Credentials. Hard work. Timing. They all play important parts in the recipe for success.
Mutt's persistence to hard work, made him turn over a lot of records as a producer. A lot of those records made a large impression with the public.
Mutt's timing was off when he first approached Foreigner in 1978. It wasn't off in 1981. This time around he also had the credentials to back himself. For a producer, your credentials are the works that you produced, for an artist, your credentials is the music that you make.
He was the first producer I worked with who really challenged me. He was not only very insightful with the songs and in helping to bring them to fruition but he was also really great at achieving sounds.
The real rock stars hated to get challenged. The "songs are their children" is a common cliché that so many of them would say. Mutt Lange didn't give a shit about that. He wanted perfection. He wanted greatness. He wanted to be involved in something that would last forever.
He was just unbelievably dedicated to the process…to the point where I think we kept Def Leppard waiting six or nine months because Mutt was still working with us on 4.
Def Leppard waited for him. Why? They knew. They knew that this guy was special. They knew he was the person that would be able to capture their pop leanings and merge them with their rock and blues influences. All of that pales, compared to what they really needed. Def Leppard needed a song writing partner. Look at the history that they created.
Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry, 1981
Def Leppard – Pyromania, 1983
Def Leppard – Hysteria, 1987
Def Leppard – Adrenalize, 1992
Mutt really set a standard with Def Leppard. I called it the layers standard. Others call it the over dubs or over producing standard. Others call it multi-tracking. The fans loved it. They wanted the big vocals, the arena rock chorus's layered in harmonies. Once Hysteria exploded every other band released albums in the same layered style. Suddenly every hard rock band was doing the Bon Jovi and Def Leppard thing. Kiss went all pop metal with Crazy Nights and Hot In The Shade. Whitesnake did it with Slip Of The Tongue. However, there was one band that was doing things their own way. That one band is called Guns N Roses. I digress.
Once you become successful, it doesnt mean you stop. Mutt Lange didn't. He kept on going.
Song writing for other artists became a new income stream for him from the eighties onwards. As an artist, if all you do is just write music and perform it live, you are limiting yourself to that income stream. However, if you write songs for other artist, you have an additional income stream. If you produce for up and coming bands, sharing your expertise and knowledge, then you have another income stream. If you are a guitar player, become a guitar teacher on time off from recording and touring. That is another income stream. Suddenly, you have a years' worth of work. Yes it is hard work. It was never meant to be easy.
Look at the following list of people that keep on working hard;
Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater. He plays keyboards in Dream Theater, he is a solo musician, he is an instructor and he is an app developer.
Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria. He is the founder, singer, guitarist and main songwriter for Coheed and Cambria. He also has a side project called Prize Fighter Inferno. He has written novels and comics. He appears at Comic Conventions. He has just signed a production agreement for The Amory Wars story to be turned into a movie or movies. He is also an app game developer.
Corey Taylor is another. The recent House of Gold and Bones releases by Stone Sour have seen that concept story turned into a graphic novel and comic book, as well as a production deal to turn it into a movie. Apart from Stone Sour, Corey still tours with Slipknot. He is also a novelist.
Nikki Sixx is the leader of Motley Crue. He does Sixx A.M as another band. He does photography and his work is being exhibited on line. He has penned two autobiographies (The Dirt and The Heroin Diaries), as well as a picture book/biography for This is Gonna Hurt. He uses social media to build connections with fans. Finally, he is overseeing the long overdue Motley Crue movie. There is also the SixxSense "radio" gig and a range of other outlets like clothing and accessories.
Phil X is currently fill in guitarist for Bon Jovi. He is a session musician. He is a fill in guitarist .He is a solo artist. He is a band member. He is a guitar teacher. Five different income streams. He endorses different product lines of gear.
Kevin Churko is a producer, sound engineer, masterer, mixer and a songwriter. While his production credits involve the hard rock and metal genre, I bet a lot of people didn't know that he was involved with Britney Spears when he started off. Yep that is right. In 2000 he was the Digital Editing and Programming guru on Britney's Oops!… I Did It Again album. He had that same job title for The Corrs, Shania Twain and Celine Dion albums that followed between 2000 and 2003.
From 2003 onwards, he then started getting appointments as an Engineer and a mixer. He had those titles for Shania Twain and Ozzy Osbourne albums.
Then from 2006 and onwards he started getting producing appointments.
Churko built up a credentialed name for himself between 1999 and 2006. Since then he has done I Don't Wanna Stop, Black Rain and Scream by Ozzy Osbourne. Apart from being the Producer, he was also the Engineer, the Mixer and Composer.
He has filled the same role for In This Moment, Hinder, Beggars and Thieves, Emerson Drive, Five Finger Death Punch, Otherwise, Kobra and The Lotus and Rob Zombie.
The point in all of this. Success in music is not just about writing a song and watching it sell. You need to earn your success. You need to pay your dues. You need to live and experience life. You need to be patient. You need to persevere. The bottom line; don't quit.
And remember: still play to your core audience. That is what all of the above artists are doing. They are keeping their core audience satisfied.
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A little mood music for today - Reflection Eternal's Memories Live. I feel like reminiscing for a minute or two.
I'm really pumped. My alma mater, Florida A&M University, has just selected a new president. As a matter of fact, FAMU's Board of Trustees has just selected its first female president. As one of my classmates on Facebook so eloquently put it, "Girl Power!" Dr. Elmira Mangum makes me proud. I'd been trying to keep up with what was happening with regard to the presidential selection, and from what I'd been reading, she was my first choice. I'm looking forward to watching her execute her vision.
All the reading about the presidential decision got me to thinking about FAMU, the place that I called home for four extremely critical years. I always say that I was a good student before I got to FAMU; Florida A&M made me a better person.
I showed up at FAMU as a quirky, first-generation honors student on a full scholarship. There were lots of other colleges on my list, and I was being pursued by some as well - some HBCU, some Ivy League, some top State colleges, but there was something special about shaking hands with then president, Dr. Frederick Humphries, in all of his full, charismatic glory. You have to understand, Dr. Humphries wasn't just a man; he was a force. When he described Florida A&M, his eyes sparkled. Watch him in action.
"We strike, strike, and strike again!"
Dr. Humphries offered me a full scholarship on the spot, and I was S-O-L-D. I soon after made a campus visit, which further cemented my choice. I grew up in a pretty diverse community, but it always seemed that I was one of a handful of Black students in my classes. I saw this as my opportunity to immerse myself in something I'd never experienced - a predominately Black learning environment. I welcomed the change.
I attended FAMU during an amazing era. It was named Time Magazine's College of the Year. It was in a heated competition with Harvard to enroll Black National Merit Scholars. And FAMU wasn't just excelling in academic areas - it was LIVE (I'm dating myself using live, but it was). The social scene was uh-mazing! I majored in math in college, and most of my classes met in a building which sat directly across from The Set, the central location where everyone hung out. It was the heart of campus. I can remember many a day trying to focus during Abstract Algebra, while listening to the music and the fun going on right outside the window. Like I said, it was live.
I learned a lot, both in and outside of the classroom. Meeting top Black students from all across the country was exciting and humbling. I wasn't an anomaly. I made some extra special friends, and because I love them so much, I will not post any of our college pics! I don't talk to most of them often, but the love never changes. Looking at my bridesmaids and into the crowd at my wedding and seeing the faces of friends who knew 19-year-old me meant so much. And just to brag a bit, my FAMUly is impressive - all kinds of scholars, scientists, attorneys, teachers and important stuff. But like real Rattlers, we never lose our down-to-earthness. Just turn on some Luke and we'll show you.
My husband and I talk in "what ifs" regarding our future kids. I don't have many "musts" for future children's lives. I couldn't care less if they don't want to earn Ph.Ds. I don't have any career aspirations that I'd force them to pursue to in order to make me proud. However, the one thing that my husband and I both want is for them to go to college, not just to get a degree, but to experience what I call the "semi-adult" phase of life. College is the only time that I can think of where you get to act like you're grown, but 9 times out of 10, somebody is helping you fit the bill. College isn't all about a degree. It's an important space for social development. So while I don't have a lot of demands for my future kids, I want them to experience college. And, experiencing it at FAMU would make it that much sweeter. FAMU has faced some hardships over the years, but I have no doubt that it will once again secure its rightful place at the top. Hell, we're Rattlers; we strike!
To FAMU's new future president: Be good to my alma mater, Dr. Mangum. You're headed to the highest of seven hills! Your legacy at FAMU becomes a part of my legacy. I love Florida A&M from the softest place in my heart.
Other Rattlers will feel this. Say La La!
Until next time . . . I'll be over here trying to live out the Rattler motto, "Excellence with Caring."
Um, I think my first comment was eaten by the comment monster.
But what I'd said was that I don't miss the working hard and studying part of college but I do miss the social aspect. I'll probably never again be in an environment with the social benefits and conveniences of college life. I miss it.
Yeah. I dont EVER want to be a student again, but I sure miss the fun, too! You don't realize how good you had it until you look back on the experience.
Glad you stopped by the blog!
I would rather have a student go to a more prestigious institution like Hampton University.
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60 Minutes - Newsmakers
The Battle Above
By David Martin
April 26, 2015 / 7:17 PM / CBS News
U.S. and China are locked in a high stakes contest over satellites that are critical to national security and everyday life
The Battle Above, part one 11:00
The following is a script from "The Battle Above" which aired on April 26, 2015. David Martin is the correspondent. Andy Court, producer.
Without most of us noticing, our everyday activities -- everything from getting cash at an ATM to watching this program -- depend on satellites in space. And for the U.S. military, it's not just everyday activities. The way it fights depends on space. Satellites are used to communicate with troops, gather intelligence, fly drones and target weapons. But top military and intelligence leaders are now worried those satellites are vulnerable to attack. They say China, in particular, has been actively testing anti-satellite weapons that could, in effect, knock out America's eyes and ears.
USAF laser-guided telescope in Albuquerque, New Mexico CBS News
No one wants a war in space, but it's the job of a branch of the Air Force called Space Command to prepare for one. If you've never heard of Space Command, it's because most of what it does happens hundreds even thousands of miles above the Earth or deep inside highly secure command centers. You may be as surprised as we were to find out how the high-stakes game for control of space is played.
The research being done at the Starfire Optical Range in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was kept secret for many years and for a good reason which only becomes apparent at night.
First, the roof of one building is opened to the stars then the walls retract and an object straight out of Star Wars appears shooting a laser into the sky. The laser's beam helps a high-powered telescope focus in on objects in space, so the Air Force can get a better look at the satellites of potential adversaries like China whizzing by at 17,000 miles per hour. It's part of a complex -- and mostly secret -- battle for what the military considers the ultimate high ground.
Gen. John Hyten: There is no such thing as a day without space.
That's the mantra of General John Hyten, the head of Air Force Space Command.
The Air Force's top "space geek" 00:58
Gen. John Hyten: Think of what life used to be like and all the things that we have today in warfare that wouldn't exist without space. Remotely piloted aircraft, all-weather precision guided munitions didn't exist before space. Now we can attack any target on the planet, anytime, anywhere, in any weather.
David Martin: What would the U.S. military do without space?
Gen. John Hyten: What happens is you go back to World War II. You go back to industrial age warfare.
David Martin: And your job is to make sure there is no day without space.
Gen. John Hyten: Absolutely.
[Gen. John Hyten addressing his troops: And you should be thinking right from the beginning that this is a contested environment and...]
"It's a competition that I wish wasn't occurring, but it is. And if we're threatened in space, we have the right of self-defense, and we'll make sure we can execute that right."
Hyten drills into his troops that U.S. satellites are no longer safe from attack. Eleven countries, including Iran and North Korea, now have the ability to launch objects into orbit. And Russia and China have been testing new anti-satellite technologies.
Gen. John Hyten: It's a competition that I wish wasn't occurring, but it is. And if we're threatened in space, we have the right of self-defense, and we'll make sure we can execute that right.
David Martin: And use force if necessary.
Gen. John Hyten: That's why we have a military. You know, I'm not NASA.
Space Command has 38,000 airmen at 134 locations around the world. One of their most visible missions is to make sure U.S. satellites can always get into space from launch pads like this one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Gen. John Hyten and David Martin. Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif. Air Force Photo by A1C Ian Dudley
Gen. John Hyten: This is where space begins. If you can't get the satellite into space, it's worthless. I'm a satellite guy. So I get very nervous around rockets. Because the most valuable thing on the rocket is the top -- is the satellite. 'Cause when you have 500,000 pounds of thrust, if anything goes wrong, it's an explosion. It's dangerous. And you lose the capabilities that's on the top
The U.S. has more satellites in space than any other nation - over 500 and counting. More than 30 military and civilian launches will take place this year at Space Command bases in Florida and California.
The Pentagon told us it spends $10 billion a year on space. But we found a White House report that estimates the real cost is much higher -- $25 billion dollars when you count spy satellites and other classified spending. That's more than NASA or any other space agency in the world.
Some of those satellites provide the GPS signals that guide smart bombs now attacking ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. But a lot of people don't realize those same GPS satellites provide the signals your smartphone uses to navigate. It's a service the Air Force provides free - not just here in the United States but to the entire world.
Col. Bill Cooley shows David Martin a GPS satellite at a Boeing plant in Los Angeles, Calif. Air Force Photo by Maj Eric Simon
Col. Bill Cooley: This is a global utility. And there's a lot of people depending on this. And we understand that.
At a Boeing plant in Los Angeles, Colonel Bill Cooley showed us a GPS satellite that was being tested in a special chamber to make sure it was ready for launch.
Col. Bill Cooley: When these things get on orbit there's no depot. You can't drive it back into the maintenance shop. It's somewhat like trying to design an automobile that is going to run for, you know, 12 to 15 years and you can't take it in the shop, you can't take it in for refueling but, it's gotta run 24/7.
Why not charge for GPS? 00:56
In orbit, the satellite will spread out its solar panels, point its odd-looking antennas towards the Earth, and broadcast its location along with a time signal accurate to nanoseconds. A GPS receiver needs signals from four of these satellites to figure out its location. Col. Cooley told us it costs a quarter of a billion dollars to design and build each one.
David Martin: And to put it into space, how much does it cost?
Col. Bill Cooley: That's about the same.
David Martin: So you're pushing half a billion dollars to get that--
Col. Bill Cooley: That's right.
David Martin: --thing into space?
The U.S. has 31 active GPS satellites in space right now, and a lot more than smart bombs and smartphones depend on them. Bank ATMs, cellphone towers, and power grids use their signals. Farmers use GPS to work their fields.
The GPS satellite system the whole world relies on is operated out of this room at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado by Lt. Col. Todd Benson and his team. We were a little surprised by how many people it takes.
Lt. Col. Todd Benson: Eight personnel.
David Martin: Eight people?
Lt. Col. Todd Benson: Yes, sir.
David Martin: For the entire world?
David Martin: So are these technological experts?
Lt. Col. Todd Benson: Yes, sir. But they're as young as 19 years old.
David Martin: Isn't there a minimum age for driving satellites?
Lt. Col. Todd Benson: Not here.
Another thing that surprised us is that there's no way to effectively armor an important satellite like this or to conceal its location from attack.
David Martin: So it can't hide in space?
Col. Bill Cooley: That's true. And we-- in fact, it's-- it tells you where it is.
David Martin: This is a system the whole world depends on, costs a small fortune to put it up there, and it's a sitting duck.
Col. Bill Cooley: Well this is one of the challenges that in Space Command, that we're-- we are very aware of.
David Martin: Today, can a U.S. military satellite maneuver itself outta the way of an upcoming anti-satellite weapon?
Gen. John Hyten: It depends on a huge number of variables.
David Martin: So the answer is maybe.
Gen. John Hyten: The answer is maybe.
David Martin: You've got these satellites worth hundreds of millions of dollars and they maybe could get out of harm's way?
Gen. John Hyten: It depends on the satellite. It depends on the mission. It depends on when it was built, depends on how old it is. It depends on when we know the threat is coming.
Knowing a threat is coming is no small task when the territory you're responsible for is 73 trillion cubic miles. Space Command maintains a global network of radars, telescopes, and satellite communications antennas like this one.
All the information feeds in to the Joint Space Operations Center, JSPOC for short, at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
David Martin: This is the command center for space?
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Yes sir. 24/7, 365 days a year maintaining...
If a U.S. satellite were attacked, Lt. Gen. "Jay" Raymond would use this phone to alert a chain of command leading to the White House.
David Martin: Is an attack on an American satellite an act of war?
Gen. John Hyten: That's been a line of debate for as long as I've been in this business.
David Martin: If there is an attempt to attack or interfere with a U.S. satellite, who makes the decision about what we do about it?
Gen. John Hyten: That would be the president of the United States.
And it's not just an anti-satellite weapon they're worried about. There are other dangers too.
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Today, we track about 23,000 objects.
David Martin: How many of them are actually functioning satellites?
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Roughly 1,300 of those are active satellites. The rest are debris.
David Martin: Junk.
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Yes, sir. Junk.
[From the movie "Gravity": Explorer, this is Kowalski reporting visual contact with debris. Debris is from a BSE sat....]
The movie "Gravity" dramatized the devastating effect manmade debris travelling at 17,000 mph could have on the international space station. The JSPOC tracks dead satellites, old rocket boosters, even stray space gloves, and alerts satellite operators and astronauts if a collision is likely.
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Last year, in 2014, the International Space Station was maneuvered three times to avoid colliding with a piece of debris.
A lot of the debris that's threatening the space station was created in 2007 when the Chinese tested a ground-based anti-satellite weapon. It crashed into one of their old weather satellites 530 miles above the Earth, shattering it into pieces.
Lt. Gen. Raymond: This is the debris that resulted from the 2007 Chinese ASAT. So this is about 3,000 pieces of debris just from that one event.
David Martin: That came just from that one collision?
Lt. Gen. Raymond: Just from that one collision.
David Martin: Debris apart, how important was that test in terms of revealing Chinese space capabilities?
Gen. John Hyten: It was a significant wakeup call to our entire military until that singular event, I don't think the broader military realized that that is something we're gonna have to worry about.
David Martin: Have they conducted any similar tests since?
Gen. John Hyten: They continue to conduct tests. The testing they're doing is to make sure that the - if they ever got into a conflict with us or any other spacefaring nation, they would have the ability to destroy satellites. And that is a bad thing for the United States, a bad thing for the planet.
A bad thing, no doubt, but is the U.S. doing it too? And did China recently raise the stakes -- test-firing a weapon deeper into space than ever before, and threatening some of this country's most valuable satellites? That part of our story, when we come back.
Tonight, we've been giving you a rare look at how a branch of the U.S. Air Force called Space Command is preparing for a battle most of us have never thought about -- one high above the Earth, defending the satellites upon which our daily life and national security have come to depend. Few of those satellites are more important to the U.S. military than the ones that provide early warning of a long-range nuclear missile attack.
Even at the height of the Cold War those satellites -- stationed deep in space, some 20,000 miles above the Earth -- were considered safe from attack. But deep space is no longer the sanctuary it once was. A former Space Command officer told us that two years ago the Chinese tested an anti-satellite weapon that went higher than any previously reported and came too-close-for-comfort to the area where those missile warning satellites are located.
"I think what keeps a lot of American military planners up at night is if China has anti-satellite capabilities when do they use those in a conflict? Do they use them at the start to try and blind the U.S.?"
Brian Weeden: If those satellites are now at risk, that is something that, from the U.S. military's point of view, is new. Because it's always believed those satellites, there wasn't really a significant threat to those capabilities.
Brian Weeden served as an officer in Air Force Space Command until 2007. He's now technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation, which promotes the peaceful use of space.
Weeden says the Chinese have test-fired as many as six, ground-based, anti-satellite weapons. Only one, in 2007, actually hit a satellite and created debris. But one of the others soared to new heights.
Brian Weeden: There was one test in May of 2013 that may have gone as high as 30,000 kilometers. And that's one that I think really is kind of causing quite a bit of concern on the U.S. side.
To understand just how far that is, the International Space Station orbits at about 200 miles above the Earth, and those GPS satellites we showed you orbit at 12,000 miles. The 2013 test-launch Weeden's talking about is believed to have gone up to 18,600 miles, just shy of what's known as geo-synchronous or geo-stationary orbit. And that's where the U.S. military has stationed some of its most valuable missile warning sensors and top-secret communications devices that serve as its eyes and ears in time of war.
Brian Weeden: I think what keeps a lot of American military planners up at night is if China has anti-satellite capabilities when do they use those in a conflict? Do they use them at the start to try and blind the U.S.?
David Martin: Those sound like the crown jewels of American satellites up there in geo-synchronous orbit.
Brian Weeden: Absolutely. Those satellites were developed in an environment where the U.S. assumed there would not be reason to attack them. So you end up with a small number of very expensive satellites that have a lot of capability packed onto each one. And result is: juicy targets.
A spokesman for China's foreign ministry admitted testing an anti-satellite weapon in 2007, but China has denied conducting subsequent tests, and told us it is committed to the peaceful use of outer space. It said the 2013 launch into deep space was simply a science experiment.
But using skills he honed as an officer in Space Command, Brian Weeden analyzed commercial satellite photos and other publicly available data about the launch. He concluded that science experiment was probably fired into space by a military missile launcher like this.
Gen. John Hyten: This building was built...
General John Hyten, the head of Air Force Space Command, has seen the classified intelligence about that launch.
David Martin: These follow on Chinese tests, how high up do they go?
Gen. John Hyten: Pretty high.
David Martin: Well, how high's that?
Gen. John Hyten: I won't characterize what the Chinese capabilities are. I just will tell you that we know what they are.
David Martin: Well, I've read reports by a congressional commission, which said that in the next five to 10 years, China likely will be able to hold at risk U.S. National Security satellites in every orbital regime.
David Martin: Do you agree with this statement by the commission?
Gen. John Hyten: I think they'll be able to threaten every orbital regime that we operate in. Now we have to figure out how to defend those satellites, and we're going to.Space Command is making its new satellites more maneuverable to evade attack, and also more resistant to jamming. It's building a new radar system that will enable the space operations center to track objects in space as small as a softball. And it's deployed two highly maneuverable surveillance satellites to keep watch on what other countries are doing high up in geo-stationary orbit.
David Martin: Satellites watching other satellites.
Gen. John Hyten: Satellites watching other satellites.
David Martin: And how do they improve your knowledge?
Gen. John Hyten: Because they're up close.
Normally, the capabilities of spy satellites are kept top secret. But Space Command put out this fact sheet about its new assets in geo-synchronous orbit.
Gen. John Hyten: We want people to understand that we're watching. There will be no surprises in geo. And we want everybody in the world to know that there will be no surprises in that orbit. It's way too valuable for us to just be surprised.
David Martin: Deterrence in the nuclear world was built on weapons.
Gen. John Hyten: Right. And deterrence in the space world has got to be built on a little bit different construct. It's the ability to convince an adversary that if they attack us, they will fail.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told us the Pentagon plans to spend an extra $5 billion over the next five years to protect its satellites.
David Martin: What do you consider to be the greatest single threat to U.S. satellites?
Deborah Lee James: An anti-satellite weapon would certainly be a great threat. A laser would be a threat. Jamming capabilities are also a threat.
David Martin: Do China and Russia have lasers that could blind American satellites?
Deborah Lee James: They are testing and investing. And that is worrisome to the United States.
Testing and investing in sometimes mysterious ways.
Last year, airmen at the Joint Space Operations Center monitored the seemingly routine launch of three Russian communications satellites. Lt. Gen. "Jay" Raymond and his team spotted what they assumed was just an ordinary piece of debris from the launch.
Lt. Gen. Raymond: About a week later, a young Air Force captain detected that that debris started to move.
Move, as in maneuver, right up close to the body of the rocket that had launched it into space.
David Martin: So what is that object that keeps maneuvering in space?
Lt. Gen. Raymond: David, I'm not gonna speculate. But I can tell you what it isn't. It's not a piece of debris.
Brian Weeden: That type of maneuver is what's called a Rendezvous and Proximity Operation. And it's actually something that the U.S. had been working on for the last several years, if not longer.
Satellites that can "rendezvous" with other satellites may some day be used to refuel or make repairs. But they're potential weapons as well.
David Martin: If you can get close enough to inspect or service another satellite, is that close enough to disable it?
Brian Weeden: Absolutely. And there's a wide range of ways you can do that.
David Martin: Such as?
Brian Weeden: Breaking off a solar panel or even some have theorized, you know, spray-painting over optics so that the satellite can't see anything.
So if you thought space was a peaceful haven, think again. This is a new kind of space race, a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. And the same technology that enables this telescope to see more clearly into space could potentially be used to help a laser weapon focus more powerfully on a target. The Bush administration wanted to develop such a weapon here in 2006, but ran into resistance from Congress.
David Martin: Is any work being done on lasers that could be used to blind satellites?
Deborah Lee James: There's no such work at this time.
David Martin: Does the U.S. have any weapons in space?
Deborah Lee James: No, we do not.
David Martin: I'm thinking of satellites that maneuver next to another satellite and then take some action to disable it without blowing it up.
Deborah Lee James: We do have satellites that maneuver that look at things in space. But not what you just described.
David Martin: You think the Chinese believe that?
Deborah Lee James: I don't know what they believe.
When the Chinese look at America's space operations, they see a program that, by most estimates, spends 10 times more than they do and has tested anti-satellite weapons of its own. Space Command told us an American F-15 fired a missile into space five times in the 1980s, and one of those times destroyed a U.S. satellite, creating debris that remained in space for decades. One of the officers involved in that test was Gen. Hyten.
Gen. John Hyten: I think it was surprise to most people on that program, how much debris we created.
David Martin: So where do we get off lecturing the Chinese about testing anti-satellite weapons if we were the first and if we created debris?
Gen. John Hyten: Well, it-- because we learned our lesson and told the world and the Congress said, "You will not test that weapon anymore."
But when a U.S. intelligence satellite containing hazardous fuel malfunctioned in 2008 the Navy's Aegis defense system -- designed to knock out incoming missiles -- was used to shoot it down.
David Martin: Chinese must think, "We've got an anti-satellite capability as well."
Brian Weeden: I think they certainly have come to that conclusion. Or not-- if the U.S. doesn't have a capability, they certainly could field one very quickly.
David Martin: What you just described is-- the formula for an arms race. They see a capability. We have that capability. They react to that capability. They react, we react, and there you go.
Brian Weeden: I think it certainly could turn out that way.
David Martin: One of the big dangers is that a problem in space could inflame a conflict here on Earth. For instance, if a nation suddenly its early-warning satellites in the middle of a crisis it might assume it was the beginning of an attack.
Brian Weeden: Now in reality, it might've been a simple manufacturing failure. It might've been a piece of space debris. But in the moment of crisis I think that's the sort of situation that could escalate something that might otherwise have stayed partly contained.
Gen. Hyten told us Space Command is currently only developing weapons that do not create debris -- like this mobile jammer which can be used to incapacitate satellites.
Gen. John Hyten: We have a capability called a counter communications system that is built to deny an adversary the use of space communications. All I can say is it's a capability that exists on the ground and it does not create debris in any way.
David Martin: The only two things you told me about the U.S. ability to fight in space, are the ability to maneuver your satellites and to jam other satellites. Is that it?
Gen. John Hyten: --that's not it, but that's all I can tell you.
One secret project is hiding in plain sight. It's the X-37B space plane, a small, remotely-piloted vehicle that can fly in space for 20 months at a time.
A model of it hangs in Hyten's headquarters in Colorado.
David Martin: So here is your chance to end all the speculation about what the Space Plane is really for.
Gen. John Hyten: It's really for cool things.
David Martin: For instance?
Gen. John Hyten: For instance, it goes up to space-- but unlike other satellites, it actually comes back. Anything that we put in the payload bay that we take up to space we can now bring back. And we can learn from that.
David Martin: Can you tell me whether or not someday the Space Plane is gonna become a weapons system?
Gen. John Hyten: The intent is-- I cannot answer that question.
David Martin: But if you're determined not to create any more debris in space, why can't you say that this might not become a weapon system?
Gen. John Hyten: I'm not gonna say what it's gonna become-- 'cause we're experimenting.
Hyten told us there are bound to be conflicts in space. The important thing is to avoid a shooting war that could create so much debris it might become impossible to put satellites or astronauts into orbit.
David Martin: The Chinese of course look at everything you're doing. And they--
Gen. John Hyten: I'm sure they're lookin' at this.
David Martin: --say-- and they say you're developing the capability to threaten them, and that all those satellites are a direct threat to their national security. So why wouldn't they create a capability to take out those satellites?
Gen. John Hyten: You know, the Chinese are also building a very robust exploration program to go to the moon to explore the stars. They could destroy their entire program by going down the way they are.
David Martin: There's not a shooting war going on out there. But it sure does seem like there is a very high-stakes contest going on in space.
Deborah Lee James: It is high stakes.
High stakes with very few rules. A 1967 U.N. treaty calls for the peaceful use of space. That sounds nice but leaves a lot of room for countries to do what they want.
David Martin: Right now, is there any code of conduct for space operations?
Deborah Lee James: There is not an agreed upon code of conduct.
David Martin: So it's every country for himself?
Deborah Lee James: Pretty much.
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Station Eleven's finale found a silver lining in the post-apocalypse
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Station Eleven.]
Midway through the Station Eleven pilot, Jeevan Chaudhary has an anxiety attack, as he recognizes the world will completely alter. His sis Siya, who operates at a health center, has actually alerted him to nestle, to discover his sibling Frank and barricade themselves inside. Jeevan goes to the supermarket — with young starlet Kirsten, for whom he has actually ended up being an unintentional sitter — and loads up various complete carts of food. As he dissociates through having a look at the groceries, the only cashier asks him if the influenza deserves stressing over. Jeevan informs the clerk, in no unpredictable terms, to head house.
I still remember my last pre-mask supermarket run, an impulse journey to Ralphs to stockpile on basics. I've constantly fallen on the stress and anxiety side of things, and one early morning in the very first week of March 2020, I chose to follow the impulses that shouted "better safe than sorry." I took an ill day from work. It wasn't hectic, and individuals took a look at me strangely as I made my mountain of purchases — getting products with the fatalistic hubris that I'd be obliged to consume them, which implies I have beans in an amount that I am still resolving.
It's the closest to anything I've seen that lives at the knife edge of misery and hope of the last 2 years — an elegy to sorrow and living beyond survival
I haven't viewed any sort of imaginary pandemic media because March 2020 — back when loved ones were fretted about the effect of a couple of months of quarantine. Now it's the 3rd year of the pandemic: Omicron alternative caseloads are increasing, the American COVID-19 test facilities is busted, and health centers are overloaded. Viewing Station Eleven under these situations is equivalent parts penalty and a breath of fresh air. It's the closest to anything I've seen that lives at the knife edge of misery and hope of the last 2 years — an elegy to sorrow and living beyond survival.
HBO Max's Station Eleven adjusts Emily St. John Mandel's Arthur C. Clarke Acclaimed 2014 book of the exact same name into a 10-episode restricted series. Mandel's armageddon arises from an influenza that has no incubation duration and triggers near-immediate death. (The scary of this is just clearer after months of finding out incubation durations of COVID alternative pressures, in the procedure of investigating which tests can be relied on at what times after direct exposure.) A handful of neighborhoods increase out of these scaries, making their method forward in the debris of a now defunct society.
Picture: Parrish Lewis/HBO Max
The program makes piercing work of this source product, tracking the lives of different individuals. There's Kristen, the girl orphaned by the pandemic, and Jeevan, the guy who takes her in. There's the taking a trip Shakespeare performers — Kirsten has actually ended up being a starlet with them, years later on — that carries out plays around the Excellent Lakes in a course they call "The Wheel." There are individuals of Severn City Airport, in Michigan, a diverted flight that developed into a long-term neighborhood of survivors. As in Mandel's unique, these individuals's lives are linked. Their connections grow evident throughout the program, as episodes shift time and topic, in between the more instant collapse of society and life twenty years after.
This rhythm is an efficient departure from the storytelling of the book, putting different timelines in more constant discussion with each other. The program layers the Act 1, Scene 2 monologue from Hamlet — Hamlet is still worn grieving for his dad, 3 months later on — over the scene of a kid getting a text from a morgue. It weaves together scenes where a character is dead instantly with scenes where that character is still alive, throughout one episode — frequently utilizing comparable framing strategies to develop the impression that the pandemic is constantly at every point of its beginning, that every character resides in a liminal area where they are both alive and dead, both corporeal and not. These blended timelines provide stars area to carry out the worry, austerity, and grit needed of survival throughout various points in their life. It's the program's extravagance, and with any other subject it may have checked out as ugly or like ignorant camp.
In Station Eleven the impact is suffocating, claustrophobic, and relentless, like the influenza is constantly about to occur, constantly taking place, constantly having actually simply taken place. It's a lot like enduring the previous 2 years, where the ground underfoot keeps moving. The guidelines of what we understand about the pandemic modification, and what is thought about safe or risky is under consistent development. Just the overwelming sense of loss stays constant: Loss of regular or the enjoyment of being around other individuals, loss of faith, death.
COVID-19 has actually turned the modern pester unique into a type of predictive totem, though couple of have actually reached the sort of important beloved status as Mandel's book. Much of the poignant images in Station Eleven's opening episodes have reality analogues. There's the consistent alertness versus illness, which minute you recognize individuals around you — the dynamic material of the crowd on public transit, the buddies in your house — end up being a prospective danger.
The program's post-apocalyptic world never ever stops sensation genuine. Lovely, lavish cinematography provides scenes a sense of contemporaneousness — withstanding the ugly tones that frequently mark the armageddon category. As the taking a trip Shakespeare performers rounds The Wheel, carrying out at different encampments, their horses pull "wagons" that remain in truth old pickup. Outfits are made from restored products. Extravagant, well-stocked structures — a the old country club, a vast airport — end up being centers from which neighborhood sprouts. "Pre-pan" members (those who lived prior to the pandemic) discuss artifacts of innovation to the "post-pan." There were phones, and you might utilize them to discover anybody, and search for anything; you might save all of Shakespeare's plays on them. Much of these artifacts of civilization feel progressively pointless, as the Scotch tape holding together facilities removes.
Contemporary life is as inflexible as ever, the indifference of commercialism a currently developed standard
COVID-19 has actually exposed the failures of that American facilities. There's the outright pressure on health center personnel — much more strained after 2 years — and other necessary employees, much of whom discovered themselves identified "heroes" and yet do not have significant work defenses. There's the absence of assistance for working moms and dads and, more broadly, working individuals, who require to discover a method to pay lease and feed their households. We truck on, even as living under late-stage commercialism progressively seems like an efficiency that cannot continue. We continue working due to the fact that we have no other option, impacting normalcy even as things are drastically hard.
The program's ending aired near the two-year anniversary of the very first COVID case being found in the United States; however much has actually altered, it's simply as frightening to think about just how much has actually remained simply the exact same. Contemporary life is as inflexible as ever, the indifference of commercialism a currently developed standard. In the 3rd episode of Station Eleven, Miranda Carroll (Danielle Deadwyler) takes a trip to Malaysia to pitch a work collaboration chance in the logistics market. Previously that day she discovers she's caught there, as the influenza makes its method throughout the nation. She likewise discovers her ex-husband — the guy she liked and left, who has actually because remarried and had a kid — has actually passed away on phase. Nevertheless, she goes to business pitch. What else exists to do.
"The man I loved died last night, and —" she states to the space, reducing a sob. "The man I loved died last night, and I went to work. The man I love died last night, and I went to work instead."
Picture: Warrick Page/HBO
Station Eleven is shaded by this injury. Everyone's story is approached from many instructions it seems like taking a look at them through a kaleidoscope, refracting their experiences through the context of their whole personhood, and the totality of their sorrow. However it's similarly worried with what it implies to do more than make it through — sorrow is a condition without end, one we should discover lifestyles with, if never ever moving beyond.
People discover various methods to cope. They lie to protect themselves, they lie to give others the dignity of hope. They grow tougher, they grow nostalgic. They carry these heavy burdens, they continue to wake up each day. Kirsten becomes fiercely protective of her found family in the traveling symphony, and wields different knives for self-defense, which the show flashes as Chekov's guns. Older timers cling onto the memory of civilization as it was before. The survivors who form an enclave in Severn City Airport create a museum where technology from pre-pan is put on display. One of the show's primary antagonists, "The Prophet," spends most of Station Eleven insisting on erasing the past.
From this state of duress grow the seeds of life: A Shakespeare troupe, a big-box store converted into a maternity ward, the Severn City Airport's makeshift classroom where children are taught. Station Eleven is that rare piece of pandemic media that dwells less on the heroism of a solution, or the thrill of a core cause, and more on the idea of the persistence of community and the creation of art. Even as the show forges numerous circuitous connections between its characters, much of its plot is left open-ended. The show's vignettes work out more like a collage that convey emotional tones. "Survival is insufficient" is more than a mantra painted on the side of the troupe's wagon. It's a thread that binds episodes together; it's a reason to stay alive at all.
Station Eleven is that rare piece of pandemic media that dwells less on the heroism of a solution, or the thrill of a core cause, and more on the idea of the persistence of community and the creation of art
Have I felt the same way in the past two years? As I've gone on my silly little walks, attempted picnics in the park, and picked up a dozen or so quickly abandoned hobbies. Joy has felt available if distant, each brief moment a kind of ecstatic reminder of what it felt to move more freely, worry less about the people in my life. I've grappled with the past two years by trying to create emotional distance — between me and others, between me and myself — though ultimately I've only ever discovered relief in making new friends where I can, even as I've struggled to see the friends and household who I care most about. I still make time to read and write, though I can't say if there's any meaning beyond clinging to what feels normal, and collating my feelings in the medium that has always made the most sense to me.
As Station Eleven's society slowly rebuilds, art remains worthwhile; though, true to Shakespeare's anxieties, art also outlives many of the show's characters. For the taking a trip troupe, performing remains a reason to keep going; or a way to make meaning out of a horrible situation. The airport community curates their museum, processing the loss of the past. Miranda writes the graphic novel Station Eleven (the program's book within a book) to make sense of losing her family. For Kirsten and Jeevan — whose relationship contains the heart of the program, in microcosm — art ends up fostering their unlikely reunion. These lucky survivors finally get the opportunity to say goodbye on their own terms, this time knowing goodbye may just be short-lived. That appears factor enough to hope.
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A friend recently asked me what I knew about Abraham Lincoln's first vice president. "Andrew Johnson?" I replied. "No, Hannibal Hamlin." Who?! Hamlin was indeed Lincoln's first vice president. His term ended 42 days before Lincoln was assassinated, and, instead of becoming president, Hamlin was relegated to being a historical footnote. What do you know about Almost President Hannibal Hamlin?
Allow me a fleeting moment of Whimsy so that I may posit a fanciful Notion to which I promise to return. Perhaps from the Embers of the raging Fire stoked by Hamilton will arise, like a Great Phoenix, a new Musical Entertainment based upon a Revisionist journey into our Nation's past. Lin-Manuel Miranda, impress upon the theater-crazed Public the story of Hannibal Hamlin so that they may "KNOW HIS NAME." Think not of Hamilton, but of Hamlin!
In these Modern Times, nominees for the American Presidency decide their Vice Presidential "RUNNING MATES" with a degree of focus and calculation characteristic less of Politics than of Non-Euclidean Geometry. After all, a candidate whose resume boasts the perfectly calibrated blend of temperament, geographic origin, and jawline definition just might "SWING AN ELECTION." Or perhaps not! Perchance a Vice President, living in the Shadow of the Presidential candidate, can exert only an influence which is so negligible as to be virtually nonexistent.
The matter of Vice Presidential influence divides so-called experts into positions as polarized as the Electorate itself.
Were there ever a time when one could aver the impact of RUNNING-MATE selection without controversy, the time would, in my humble estimation, have occurred in the antebellum period of our nation's history. This was a time of great political fissures and realignments—a time in which a ticket composed of truly complementary parts attained the power to nurture a new political party (in a fashion not dissimilar to that of a Wet Nurse), giving it the strength to sustain itself during a vulnerable state of infancy.
Take, for example, the Subject of your Inquiry: the Republican "STANDARD BEARERS" of 1860. Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, together, provided the fledgling Republican Party a net capacious enough to ensnare a significant share of Votes. Lincoln, hailing from the Hinterlands of the United States, was perceived by many to hold moderate opinions on slavery, the central issue of the day. Hamlin, by contrast, was an urbane East Coast Gentleman with a more radical reputation among his peers.
Lincoln and Hamlin emerged victorious from the 1860 election. The rest is, as many are wont to declare, "history." History, however, rarely unfolds without frustrating the ambitions of its mortal participants—particularly in times of Tumult and Upheaval.
In 1864, as the conclusion of our tragic Civil War (and the first term of the Lincoln Administration) drew near, the demand for reconciliation between North and South conspired against Vice President Hamlin. Andrew Johnson, a Tennessean, was deemed capable of liaising betwixt Northerners and Southerners while Washington moved to mitigate the destructive tension among Her fractious States. The specter of "RECONSTRUCTION" looming hopefully if tenuously, Republican leaders cast their votes to replace Hamlin with Johnson.
Following Lincoln's assassination, Johnson acceded to the presidency—mere months removed from his predecessor's second inauguration. The line of presidential succession, once enacted, created as one of its byproducts a bitter irony: Hannibal Hamlin, the man who had loyally served as Vice President during his country's darkest hour, had narrowly missed becoming President himself.
As the great-great-great grandson of Hannibal Hamlin the VP, I am delighted at the prospect of a musical about my ancestor. I have talked about him to a number of historians, professional and amateur, and I have never heard anyone suggest that the course of American history would NOT have been better if he had been Lincoln's second VP instead of Johnson. His origins, I should point out, were not all that different from Lincoln's. His family was better off, to be sure, but Maine was still a hinterland too (like the western states where Lincoln grew up). He attended Hebron Academy but never went to university, having to tend the family farm after his older brother got sick. Hamlin kept a farm all his life, returning to real (not pastoral) agricultural work in breaks from his work in Washington. He learned the law as an apprentice, and became an attorney in the small town of Hampden. Though he began in local politics as a Democrat, in 1856, when he was a US Senator for Maine, he crossed the floor to join the new Republican party on the issue of slavery. Hamlin was staunchly anti-slavery all his life. Friends of the Newberry might also be interested to know that Hamlin loved the theater, especially Shakespeare, and knew the acting Booth family somewhat from theater-going in DC. Hamlin's daughter and one of his sons were attending Ford's Theater the night John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. I think this could be a great show!
Hamlin is well known in Maine. Had an office in Hampden, Maine. Is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine.
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Feeling jetlagged? The longterm implications of long distance flying.
Have you ever suffered jet lag after travelling long distance by aeroplane? Have you ever found that as well as a disrupted sleeping and eating pattern, your brain isn't quite as switched on as usual? Does it sometimes take a day or two for you to adjust to your new time zone?
Jet lag is a well-described phenomenon, which affects people to varying degrees. It has also been recognised that flying across time zones going east is more likely to disrupt our body's internal clock than flying west.
Up until now though, there has not been any information available as to what effects if any long distance air-travel has on how our brain works in the longer term.
The results of a new study from Berkeley University of California published in PLoS ONE, have revealed some surprising findings.
In this study, female Syrian hamsters were subjected to the equivalent of flying from New York to Paris (that's crossing six time zones) twice a week for four weeks. The hamsters' performance for learning and memory was assessed in the last two weeks of the simulated jet lag and for a month afterwards.
Not surprisingly the hamsters had difficulty performing simple learning tasks in the two-week period of long distance flying. However what was of surprise to the researchers was that these deficits lasted for a month after the hamsters returned to a regular day/night schedule.
More specifically changes were found in the area of the brain called the hippocampus, a key brain area for learning and memory. It was found that on a cellular level the number of new brain cells being formed there were only half the expected number. The main issue here was that fewer new brain cells were surviving to maturity. It was also shown that the effect was not just through increased cortisol levels as part of the stress response.
For infrequent air travellers, jet lag is a minor annoyance that settles in a few days as the body's internal clock resets itself. However for those having to use air travel, which requires crossing time zones frequently, and similarly for shift workers, the long-term impact can manifest itself in learning and memory problems, decreased reaction times, and an increase in the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer and even reduced fertility.
I'm glad though, not to be a female hamster; the thought of having to go through all that PMT would be hideous.
The World Health Organisation has listed shift work as a carcinogen. In the light of these findings, should long distance air travel be classified similarly?
The current recommendation to avoid jet lag being too much of a nuisance is to allow one day of recovery for every one-hour time zone shift. So flying from Perth to Sydney I would need to allow three days for my brain to recover. Which, as I don't do this very often, is not really an issue.
But if you are having to flying across Australia regularly or are working as air- crew the implications would appear to be far more significant.
Ref: University of California – Berkeley (2010, November 25). Jet-lagged and forgetful? It's no coincidence: Memory, learning problems persist long after periods of jet lag. Science Daily.
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Another symptom of our broken food system is the glaring injustice and disproportionate burden placed on communities of color. Every day, across the US, people struggle to stay on their family farms, put healthy food on the table, and earn a living wage.
Since 1982, over 23 million acres of prime family farmland has been lost to commercial development. Black farmers have been losing family farms at even more catastrophic rates—about 800,000 acres, or 25% of land, compared to the 2.3% of total agricultural land no longer being farmed.
Farmers of color often lack financial support most acutely as they more commonly don't contract with big corporations in order to control the types of crops they grow. This creates a situation where they don't reap the rewards of farm subsidies or insurance, making bankruptcy all too common. Over 1 in 3 White farms receive financial support in the form of direct payments compared to 1 in 4 Black farms, 1 in 6 Latino and Native American farms, and 1 in 8 Asian farms.
People of color often occupy the low-wage food system jobs, like food retail and food preparers. Among all food workers, 21% of Blacks, 24% of Latinos, 38% Asians earn sub-minimum wages, compared to 13% of Whites. These low wages also limit the ability of workers to pay for healthier produce sold by small farmers who rely on sales for their survival.
Overall, 13 million Americans lack access to healthy foods, contributing to rising obesity rates. Latino, Native American and Black communities are two to four times more likely than Whites to lack access to healthy foods. And for people who can access these foods, not all can afford them.
"Sustainable" or "grass-fed" meat isn't accessible or affordable for most people, but plant-based proteins are. One cup of cooked lentils delivers 18 grams of protein; a cup of kidney beans, 15 grams; a cup of quinoa, 8 grams. Protein can even be found in foods where some least expect it, such as spinach and mushrooms.
The growth in per capita consumption of meat is strongly linked to increasing levels of income in many countries of the world. Average meat consumption in America is over 322 grams (.71 lbs) per person per day, compared to the global average of 115 grams (.25 lbs) per capita a day. China consumes 160 grams (.35 lbs) per day, India only 12 grams (.03 lbs) per day. One of the fastest growing meat consuming regions is Asia, particularly China. The disparities in meat consumption in developing vs. developed countries represents a major social justice issue, related to minimal levels of nutrition, chronic hunger, and the high rates of industrial meat consumption in developed countries.
The excessive amount of agricultural lands around the globe dedicated to industrial ag production to feed a tiny percentage of the world's most affluent populations is a form of structural violence for millions of poor and disadvantaged peasant farmers and malnourished families. Worldwide, 80% of the area of all agricultural land is used for fodder (food for livestock), with 44% of the world's grain harvest diverted to industrialized meat production. Imagine how many people across the globe that could be nourished if that 80% of agricultural land went into commodity production for direct human consumption instead of to feed livestock.
In terms of the meat industry, meat processing is one of the most dangerous jobs on the market. Three of the four biggest meat companies, including Cargill, Tyson and Smithfield/Shuanghui, have routinely been anti-union. Most workers in meat processing in the US are African American, Latino, and in the case of the Midwest, African immigrants. Also, there is a major environmental justice component of the geographic locations of CAFOs.
On average, women represent 43 percent of the world's agricultural labor force and 47 percent of the global fisheries labor force, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank. These women produce more than half of the world's food despite being less than half of the labor force, and women account for 60 to 80 percent of food production in developing countries. If the world's female farmers had the same access to resources as men, 150 million people could be lifted out of poverty, according to the FAO. According to the Food Tank, a crop yield gap of about 20-30 percent between male and female farmers is largely due to differential access to resources and inputs. Women fill this gap by working up to 13 hours per week longer than men in agriculture.
A just, responsible food system would benefit small scale farmers, make it more affordable to eat local, fresh, organic food and more expensive to eat processed, refined, packaged food with all their externalized costs, and foster racial and gender equity.
N. Alexandratos and J. Bruinsma, World Agriculture Towards 2030/2050. The 2012 Revision, ESA Working Paper No. 12-03 (Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012).
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Supersmart satellites reveal crops and fields like never before
Tech start-ups are putting cameras in orbit to monitor everything from flood damage to crop yield with greater frequency and detail than ever before
Space 7 June 2016
By Hal Hodson
Fertile territory
Jesse Allen/NASA EO-1 team/USGS
WE'VE long had eyes in the sky. But now a handful of start-ups are using these satellites to monitor everything from flood damage to crop yield with greater frequency and detail than ever before.
Efforts to keep tabs on Earth from above began with NASA's Landsat programme, which started in 1973. It currently has two satellites in orbit imaging the whole of Earth's surface every 16 days. The resolution is high enough to capture major roads, but not individual houses.
"Small commercial satellites can now provide previously unavailable intel on crop yields and construction"
More recent satellites supply far greater detail – and more often. Thanks to private firms like SpaceX, the cost of launching a commercial satellite is also a lot less than it used to be. But the real breakthrough is in the computer-assisted analysis that can be done on the images. Improvements in machine learning let us analyse high-definition images of Earth's surface to gain previously unavailable insights about our planet and the way it is changing.
For example, Google-owned Terra Bella offers its customers overviews of how land is being used around the world and assessments of flood damage, as well as information about the progress of construction projects. Other companies are using satellites to look for landfill sites that might be profitably mined for valuable materials.
Astro Digital, a company based at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, provides similar intel. But it will also focus on monitoring agricultural land – letting farmers monitor their crops from several hundred kilometres up.
It's all about building tools that mine insight from large volumes of data, says Bronwyn Agrios at Astro Digital. "This is not about creating maps or pretty pictures."
In three months, Astro Digital will launch the first of its Landmapper satellites on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc in California. The company's set-up will eventually consist of 30 satellites orbiting 650 kilometres above Earth.
A third of these will take images every day at a resolution of one pixel for every 22 square metres of land. The rest will capture images at a resolution nine times higher every three to four days. The first group will broadly identify where changes are happening, says Agrios. Then the more precise sensors will zoom in and see what is changing and how.
Wide open spaces
NASA LANDSAT
With its satellite launches still a few months away, Astro Digital has been working on its image processing platform. To test the system, it is using existing free data from public satellites, such as Landsat. The company's website already lets you play with processed images of London, for example. One shows built-up areas in blue and grey, with open spaces in red (see image above). Over time, these regions shift. Once Astro Digital's satellites are in orbit, it will be possible to keep tabs on the ebb and flow of the world's largest cities.
The company's main focus will be on scanning agricultural land, however. And South African start-up Farm is ready to help farmers make the most of Astro Digital's tools.
Chantal Yazbek and her team at Farm initially looked into using drones as a means of monitoring land and crops, but decided that training pilots and maintaining aircraft would be impractical. So rather than having a few drones watching a single plot from the air, satellites will be used instead.
Not missing out
However, for individual farmers wanting to know about their farms, existing satellites aren't quite enough. Farmers need updates every few days and Landsat images every 16 days don't cut it, says Yazbek. "You would keep missing the growing phase," she says. But with Astro Digital's satellite updates coming through twice a week, the tech becomes useful. "You can pick and choose what it is you want to focus on in a given month."
Yazbek says that farmers are impressed by the ability to pull insight from pictures taken from space. Yet most just want to know about their crops, not have to learn how to use novel software.
So Farm will use Astro Digital's tools to provide farmers with information about their crops in a way that makes sense to them. It will tell farmers how much of a planted crop has emerged, for example. It will also monitor crop health through the growing season, especially during periods of high temperatures or drought.
Farm plans to start offering its services in October. But the ultimate goal is to estimate crop yield, giving farmers a sense of how big their harvest will be well in advance.
Descartes Labs, a start-up based in New Mexico, wants to make such predictions from satellite data using machine learning. Last September, Descartes Labs projected that US corn harvests would be 2.8 per cent lower than official estimates. A few days later the US government issued a slightly lower forecast – though not because of Descartes Labs.
At first, Astro Digital will send all of its image data to Earth for processing. But Agrios says the company plans to start processing some of it on the satellites to save on expensive space-to-Earth data transmission costs. Not needing to send everything down to Earth will let it capture larger, more detailed data sets as well – including information from other wavelengths of light such as infrared. It will also let them filter images and dump ones that mostly show clouds, for example.
Agrios thinks that small commercial satellites will soon be a widespread source of information. Rather than buying still satellite images, people will subscribe to a service that feeds the data stream directly into an app, she says. "The satellite space is about to be totally commoditised."
In the dark about poverty
Eyes in the sky can also help us learn things about humans. Night-time lights, viewed from space, are known to be a proxy for areas of relative wealth, as they tend to trace urban areas. But in the poorest places in the world there are few lights, so the technique isn't so useful for monitoring poverty. Now Michael Xie and his colleagues at Stanford University have a fix.
The researchers used machine learning to match features visible in satellite pictures taken during the day with levels of lighting seen at night. This let them match data about prosperity previously tied to light levels to physical features on the ground instead. They could then use information about houses and roads rather than the light – or lack of it – to identify poverty.
They found that their system accurately estimated poverty levels in regions that don't have electric lighting. The researchers think that by providing a measure of poverty in the world's least visible places, their approach has the potential to help change people's lives for the better.
This article appeared in print under the headline "Viewed from above"
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Two tone basic tee with long sleeves. This comfortable tee with a dark grey body and wine-red sleeves is in 100% wool and has a slight see-through effect. The tee is a perfect addition to your wardrobe and it will keep you warm all winter for sure.
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China keeps the economic faith in Argentina
A project for space exploration and a loan of 331.5 million dollars, show that China trusts one of the most fragile economies in the region
5 soccer players of the Spanish league who were accused of tax evasion
There are more and more prominent figures in world soccer who have been accused and convicted for tax evasion. Find out here who we are talking about
Would you receive part of your salary in cryptocurrencies? It is possible in Costa Rica
Thanks to the Costa Rican law, there is the possibility of paying part of salaries in kind, which is why cryptocurrencies are an option
Hair on the black market: where does it come from and how much is it worth?
With elaborate thefts and a network of illegal traffic, hair moves fortunes in the global black market and gains prominence in Latin America
How much does it cost to the economy not sleeping well?
It is known that insufficient sleep is a problem that affects health and productivity, but new studies suggest that it is also an economic problem
The cost of a signing: What it is paid and to whom for a soccer player
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Roger Federer: What does the tennis player win of his alliance with the Japanese brand Uniqlo?
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Equality or economic motivations? The reason why Saudi Arabia allows women to drive
The decision of Prince Mohammed bin Salman should not be confused with genuine progressiveness
Which Latin American countries receive more remittances from abroad?
The total of remittances to Latin America increased 9%, probably due to the fear of Latinos to be deported
Is it of any use for women to have more bank accounts than men?
In this Latin country, the percentage of women who have bank accounts is greater than that of men. However, is it of any use?
Nicaragua: Do protests against the state affect the economy?
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Do you know how much LeBron James earns?
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Morocco dodged the bullet with the 2026 World Cup
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This is how Muslim women revolutionize the global economy
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False "influencers": What is hidden in the world of social media?
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Immigrants: A real threat to workers in the US?
Immigrants make up 17% of the workforce in the US and in no sector do they manage to overcome the jobs granted to nationals
An economy without banknotes: What will happen if cash is eliminated?
Many countries are rapidly reducing the use of cash, but your privacy or your their well-being may be at risk
Labor crisis: A robot steals six jobs
The World Bank says that technology generates jobs, however, other studies suggest that a robot replaces 6 workers
The IDB warns that Latin American economy will grow slightly
The region will grow below the world trend due to few and low-quality investments
How is the tourism industry in South America doing?
The tourism sector grew by 5.5% in 2017, and plans to grow at the same rate in 2018
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If you live far from the beach, it may seem strange to learn that any of your habits have an impact on ocean life. But they do. There are maps showing the swirling islands of plastic debris that form out of the waste that washes down into the ocean from stream and river runoff. But the real problems are created by microfibers in the rivers, lakes and oceans.
Reducing microfibers is good for you and the fish.
Today there are areas of the earth's vast seas where there are 60x more plastic particles than plankton. When fish, whales and other sea creatures swallow these tiny microfibers and micro-beads their stomachs become full but the contents provide no nutrition.
From the Great Lakes to Germany's lakes microfibers are clouding the waters and faking the fish, birds, insects and ocean mammals into eating them rather than eating real food. Many die from malnutrition with bellies stuffed to the gills in plastic.
Guess what? You eat those fish if you enjoy seafood. And the same microfibers clogging up whales' bellies can clog up your septic system and negatively impact your local wildlife.
Microfibers are used in carpeting and floor coatings.
Any acrylic or nylon carpet will shed microfibers. But even wool carpets and other flooring types may have microfiber coatings.
Various vinyl and other flooring manufacturers use plastic products in their processing methods, and the runoff flows into waste treatment facilities that can't screen out the particles.
Ocean-safe flooring materials are available.
From reclaimed wood to cork to sisal, you do have microfiber-free flooring choices that are both attractive and renewable. Just be sure to recycle any plastic packaging. Tile, bamboo and stone are also good choices, especially if you can obtain them without any plastic wrapping.
The best choice may be reclaimed wood flooring. There are upscale choices in re-purposed rare woods or you can re-purpose boards yourself from old barns and buildings.
Avoid floor coatings and cleaners that contain microfibers. Install a special filter on your washing machine to trap microfibers from your machine-washable carpets.
Various industries - from clothing plants to carpet makers to washing machine manufacturers - blame one another for the microfiber problem, but the truth is we are all to blame.
Bans on micro-beads are already in place or are in the process of being adopted in some locales. There may soon be bans on more types of microfibers. Stay ahead of the curve and help the fishies at the same time by choosing flooring that isn't made with microfibers.
Your flooring store professionals will help you source and select marine-life-friendly products that are safe for you, too.
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Aurobindo adds to manufacturing with biosimilars plant
Aurobindo says it is building a plant in India to produce biosimilars.
India's Aurobindo Pharma has acquired four biosimilar products from a Swiss company and says it is building a manufacturing plant to support the production of those and eight others it has under development.
The Indian company reported last week that it has acquired the biosimilars from Visp-based TL Biopharmaceutical. Details on the deal were scarce, but it said they include three oncology monoclonal antibodies, including bevacizumab, a biosimilar of Roche's cancer drug Avastin.
Terms of the deal were not divulged, but about 14 months ago a report in Livemint said that Aurobindo was negotiating a $200 million deal with an EU company for the rights to bevacizumab, as well as biosimolars of Roche's breast cancer treatment Herceptin, Johnson & Johnson's autoimmune blockbuster Remicade, and Amgen's rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel.
It said in the announcement that it would expand the four products picked up from TL with "eight more next wave of biosimilars."
The Indian company said in its announcement that it was building a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, Telangana, for manufacturing all of the drugs. It expects the plant to be complete in the second quarter of fiscal 2018, which would mean sometime in the second half of this calendar year.
The news comes just a week after Aurobindo indicated it would build a second sterile injectables plant on a site in New Jersey, partly in response to tax talk from President Trump.
"With the current landscape of what's happening with the U.S. White House administration, and some of the things that may change there, clearly, we don't think having capacity in the U.S. would be detrimental at this point," Bob Cunard, head of Aurobindo's U.S. operations, said in an earnings briefing, Reuters reported.
The drugmaker began work in August on a 567,000-square-foot facility in New Jersey that is slated to include a manufacturing and distribution center and warehouse that will eventually employ 400 to 500.
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While our family eats very little meat, we have a particular fondness for fish. Salt-baking is one of the few ways that we've found to cook fish without it drying out, and is easy enough for us to attempt after a long day in the vineyard. This recipe works with Salmon, Rainbow Trout, or any other fresh fish, but we find that Loch Etive Sea Trout, with its mild nutty flavor, pairs wonderfully with our Pinot Gris.
Heat 2-1/2 cups kosher salt in a large skillet over medium heat for 5 minutes.
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Garnish with fresh dill, lemon slices and additional salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately with Stone Cottage Cellars Pinot Gris.
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Bringing The X-Men Into The MCU
When Walt Disney Entertainment acquired 20th Century Fox the entertainment giant gained the rights to several Marvel Comics properties, particularly the mutant superheroes, the X-Men. Ever since then fans of the comic book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) have speculated into oblivion over the possibilites of bringing the X-Men into the MCU.
Aside from the logistics of finding and hiring the right people (actors, writers, directors, etc.), there is the hurdle of making the mutants fit logically in the intricate MCU. Consider the fact that the mutants in the comics and the Fox X-Men films have been a part of their societies for many years and were widely feared and distrusted. When watching an older MCU film, it is clear that mutants are not anywhere to be found (aside from a deleted clip from Iron Man where Nick Fury references mutants). Where are they? The simple answer is that mutants do not exist and the closest thing to the MCU had were the Inhumans who only appeared on TV shows and it's murky if they are actually part of the MCU. That is a debate for another time, but looking closely at the TV shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. it can be said that most shows are part of the MCU. Otherwise, where were the mutants during the calamitous events of the Avengers films? The heroes could have used their help!
On a related note, the same headache is going on with the Eternals. If they existed in the MCU throughout history why were they MIA during Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame? We'll find out how this is explained when their film comes out next year.
Now, Marvel Studios is free to bring the X-Men into the MCU, so how can it be done? There are a few options and hopefully, Marvel Studios will find the best one. Here is what can be done:
A cheap plot device would be some kind of hand wave where it's declared that Professor X or some other powerful telepath altered the memories of all of humanity to hide mutants throughout history. Alright that is ridiculous and not even Fox attempted to pull off such a silly plot point. Something like that is practically impossible and beyond Professor X's capability. What convenient plot device can be used to even attempt this? How about the Reality Stone or the Mind Stone? Maybe this would work but it would be a reach.
The MCU X-Men films could carry on as if there was not anything amiss and say the mutants have been in their universe all along. They just never got around to featuring them. Add in various reasons as to why mutants were busy during the Avengers films or Captain America: Civil War (off in space fighting aliens?). It can work, this basically asks audiences to ignore such questions, accept the mutants and move on. Think of it as when characters are recast. No one onscreen acknowledges this and their message is neither should we.
OK, that left an unsatisfactory taste in our collective mouths. How about a universe colliding event that changes reality and merges universes like in Crisis on Infinite Earths or Secret Wars or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? This plot would allow fans to see characters from the Fox X-Men films one final time before their reality and the MCU are remolded into a new one. That needs time and a huuuge budget to pull that off. Still, it would be cool though to see Hugh Jackman or Patrick Stewart coming back one last time to play Wolverine and Professor X.
Probably the best option is to slowly introduce mutants into the MCU. They would have existed throughout history but they are very, very rare; numbering probably a couple dozen at most during any given time. This would allow older mutants like Wolverine, Apocalypse, Magneto and Professor X to exist and not have them be a new creation in the MCU. Being they are rare, the mutants tend to keep low profiles until recent events forces them to come out of hiding. A new phenomenon occurs where mutants start appearing in huge numbers seemingly overnight. Just as scared as normal humans by their newly manifested powers the mutants either try to fit in with society, become reclusive or lash out and become villains. This leads to persecution and strife and the creation of the Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men.
In Avengers: Endgame, Rocket Raccoon stated the use of the Infinity Gauntlet unleashed unimaginable energy on Earth, which by the end of that film happened three times. This could trigger the mutant gene in normal teenagers which were otherwise latent in older MCU films. The five year jump in Avengers: Endgame is time enough for a person to develop powers and become public by 2023 when that film ended.
Incidently, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver can be considered mutants. Their powers manifested thanks to Hydra and their use of Loki's sceptre, which had the Mind Stone, as shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. They survived Hydra's experiments and gained powers thanks to their latent mutant genes. A simple retcon could verify this in some film and overall would be a sound method of bringing the X-Men into the MCU.
Whichever scenario Marvel Studios uses, we are completely confident that the way the way the mutants are introduced into the MCU will be entertaining and imaginative.
By Starloggers • Posted in Comic Books, Entertainment, Everything Under the Sun, Movies, Sci-Fi, Speculation & Analysis, superheroes • Tagged Avengers: Endgame, Bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Cyclops, Fox X-Men films, Marvel Studios, MCU, MCU X-Men, mutants, Professor X, Wolverine, X-Men
6 comments on "Bringing The X-Men Into The MCU"
Paul Bowler
I think the X-Men will be gradually introduced into the MCU, perhaps though Easter egg style mentions that will indicate their presence, cameos in some of the new films or in post crew scenes. Eventually it will build to their own movie and then a big team up with the rest of the MCU in something like a Secret Wars movie say?
Current rumors have that is the way Marvel Studios will go, which is for the best.
Honestly, the mutants need to take a break onscreen to allow fans to disassociate from the Fox X-Men films. This would make them more receptive of the new cast.
Gradually introducing mutants into the MCU is a good way of testing out new actors and characters and will create demand for future X-Men films.
Totally agree, we need time to have some distance everything form the Fox X-Men films a bit, and then gradually bring them into the MCU by debuting a whole new cast for the team.
Chris Evans @ Geek Blogger Reviews
Great post! I think for myself personally I'm more interested in seeing the Fantastic Four being prioritised over X-Men. As much as I love the X-Men they need a cinematic breather after 20 years. When the time comes I think the easiest and perhaps most interesting way to integrate them into the MCU would be via the multi-verse…probably the same approach should be taken with FF as well.
I'm in agreement with you regarding my preference for the FF. On the whole, the mutants had their time on film with some outstanding achievements meanwhile we've yet to see a great FF film and have lots of material worth exploring.
I think Marvel Studios will slowly bring in the mutants and the FF, which is the right approach.
ishallakam
My theory is that the FF will be introduced as "retired" superheroes who work as consultants for SHIELD. When the next Thanos-level big bad becomes known, they will have to come out of retirement to help (especially if it's a classic FF villain like Doom or Galactus).
This approach let's the MCU completely avoid the origin story. They could also introduce them as cameos in other films, which would help build hype, and it would let them cast older, established actors instead of trying to bring them in as 20-somethings. (Imagine bringing in Christoph Waltz as Doom, or Steve Carrell as Reed Richards.)
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Something about "About me pages" makes the Steve Miller Band play in my head. Like you, I am many things. A mother, a wife, a writer, a reader, feminist, a striving penny pincher and a passionate Certified Lactation Educator Counselor. My once sure life plan tipped sideways not too long ago, setting me on a new road that is both foreign and welcome.
I am not quite sure this is a lifestyle blog, as I don't think I really have a lifestyle per say, nor is this a money saving blog, or a craft blog or even a review site. It's all of the above, and then some, including a growing section devoted to Lactation. After my eldest was born, staying home was desired, yet hard – leading me to pursue yet another career, one that meshed with motherhood and my own struggles at the time. I became a Certified Lactation Educator Counselor – and I haven't looked back. As this site grows, the lactation section will grow as well, listing resources, articles, guidance and books.
Thank you for being here, and for joining me in this amazing (and somewhat confusing..) journey!
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