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Strike Map Work Accident Map Workers' Calls-for-Help Map What you need to know about workers in China Labour rights litigation Workers Voices Supporting the Workers' Movement in China Guangzhou factory workers seek support from the trade union: The union lets them down The non-payment or underpayment of social insurance and housing fund contributions by employers is endemic in China, and a frequent cause of labour disputes. China Labour Bulletin's Strike Map has recorded 96 collective protests by workers over unpaid or underpaid social insurance contributions so far in 2018, 40 of which occured in the manufacturing sector alone. China's official representative of labour, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is clearly aware of this fundamental problem but so far has done little to address it. Indeed, when workers seek the union's help in standing up to management violations of the law, local officials are at a loss, as the recent case at Tongrong Electronics illustrates. On 25 October, about 100 workers at Hong Kong-owned Tongrong Electronics in Guangzhou's Panyu district issued a collective bargaining letter to management demanding talks to resolve several long-standing grievances, including years of underpayment of social insurance and housing fund contributions, lack of labour contracts, overtime pay deductions, non-payment of high temperature subsidies, tax evasion and using arbitrary job assignments as a reprisal against worker representatives. Workers at Hong Kong-owned Tongrong Electronics stage a protest at the factory gates in Guangzhou's Panyu district. The Tongrong workers, as observed in countless other cases in recent years, displayed a deep knowledge of their legal rights and management's obligations, but more importantly, understood that it is the union's job to represent their interests at the bargaining table. They included the local Panyu district union in their call for negotiations to solve the labour dispute. The union's response by contrast shows how far it still is from the stated reform goal of bolstering its legitimacy among grassroots workers. The day after workers issued the collective bargaining call, a man claiming to work for the sub-district union visited Tongrong Electronics, rejected workers' demands for proof of identification, grabbed a worker's phone in anger and tried to mislead them into believing that social insurance back pay should be retroactive only until 2008, flatly ignoring the Labour Law implemented since 1995. Then on 1 November a task force including representatives from the district and sub-district unions and labour supervision officials participated in a collective bargaining session at the company. Workers were dismayed at the union officials' inaction. Many officials kept silent during three hours of bargaining and failed to stand in solidarity with workers even after management admitted failure to comply with labour laws and regulations. A week later, Tongrong workers decided to bring their case to social media, publishing in detail the failure of the union to represent their interests and the bureaucratic response from labour supervision officials. Workers enjoyed a very short-lived victory: on 13 November another collective bargaining session concluded with management agreeing to pay back years of social insurance and housing fund contributions, the Panyu district union also promised to facilitate the payment within three days. However the next day workers were asked to present material evidence including employment contracts and salary payment slips which they did not necessarily have because company management failed to sign contracts with them in the first place. "As the enterprise had admitted its failure to pay the social security premiums over the years, why should the workers, instead of the employer, be the one to prove this violation?" the workers demanded. The union and labour supervision officials had bluntly chosen to turn a blind eye to Tongrong managements' violation of laws, and instead put the burden of proof on employees who had already successfully made the company admit to its violations of labour law. Reprisals against worker representatives came quickly. On 16 November, nine workers were forced to take a three-weeks leave while others were also forced to take leave on normal working days. The company claimed orders had declined but the workers understood it was simply a ploy to punish workers for taking a stand. In response a group of about 40 workers staged a rooftop protest. Frustrated with the outcome of the two bargaining sessions, workers rejected further negotiations with management. Although none of the workers' demands had been met, the local labour department claimed in its social media account the dispute had been successfully resolved. More recently, on 23 November, the Guangzhou municipal union, the Panyu district union and sub-district union together with the labour supervision bureau hosted a third collective bargaining session. Instead of acknowledging the collective nature of the dispute, the Guangzhou union suggested that workers take their case to arbitration, individually. In the end, the union not only failed to represent workers interests, despite management acknowledging it had violated the law by not signing labour contracts with employees and underpaying social insurance and housing funds, the union also effectively dismantled a genuine collective case into lengthy individual legal cases to be fought by each worker in court. By doing so, the union is violating articles 9 and 58 of the Social Insurance Law, which stipulate: Article 9: Trade unions shall defend workers' legitimate rights and interests according to law, have the right to participate in studies and research on fundamental issues related to social insurance, and act as members of the social insurance supervisory committees to perform supervision over the matters related to workers' social insurance rights and interests. Article 58: An employer shall, within thirty days after taking on labour, proceed to the social insurance agency to apply for social insurance registrations on behalf of the employees. For those whose social insurance registrations are not processed, the assessed scale of social insurance contributions shall be set by the social insurance agency. Since the approval ACFTU's Reform Pilot Program in November 2015, slogans like "eliminate the four impediments" (regimentation, bureaucratisation, elitism and frivolousness) and "increase the three attributes" (political consciousness, progressiveness, popular legitimacy) have been accompanied by a series of measures at the official union's organisation and operational levels, with an emphasis on increasing union membership and promotion of migrant workers to higher positions within the organisation. The Tongrong workers struggle stands in sharp contrast with the ACFTU's self-congratulatory pronouncements at the 17th National Trade Union Congress last month, The union's actions simply reinforced the general perception of workers that it sides with management at the bargaining table. Instead of representing workers interests, the union has helped bosses dissolve a collective labour struggle. "Why should migrant workers continue to believe that we can rely on the union?" the workers asked on social media. Guangzhou factory workers get their trade union but keep their feet on the ground Trade union officials in Sichuan indifferent to dangers at firework factory Bloomberg: Foxconn's China union plans on track Searching for the Union: The workers' movement in China 2011-13 Guangdong provincial trade union federation gets its hands dirty Hitachi sacks worker activist who lobbied for trade union Searching for the healthcare workers' union Factory trade union chairman successfully sues employer after management reprisals How food delivery riders in Shanghai got their own trade union China's social security system More related content Forward to Friends Story Highlight Prominent Hong Kong labour leader sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment "I plead guilty, but I have done no wrong in affirming the rights of people to peaceful procession, and I believe history will absolve me. I have no regret for standing up for the rights of the people." Voices of China's young and isolated workers in retail and service industry Ministry of Emergency Management limited in its power to assist injured workers Migrant worker studies philosophy to search for meaning in the workplace Unit C, 26/F, Ford Glory Plaza, 37-39 Wing Hong Street, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon. Sent us an email Get in touch by instgram Friends of China Labour Bulletin 点击进入中文网站 Copyright © China Labour Bulletin2011-2022 Production: Pixel Action Studio This website uses cookies that collect information about your computer. Please see CLB's privacy policy to understand exactly what data is collected from our website visitors and newsletter subscribers, how it is used and how to contact us if you have any concerns over the use of your data.

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The Cheapest Five-Star Hotel in Every Country ByMikaela Sullivan September 6, 2021 September 30, 2021 There are few pleasures quite as exquisite as a stay in a five-star hotel. Add "getting a bargain" into the experience, and you may as well add an extra star. Bliss! Unfortunately, the words "five-star" and "bargain" rarely appear together. To qualify for the top rating, a hotel's staff must personally greet every guest (with flowers or a gift if in Europe). The accommodation should be luxurious. The facilities should meet every need. This costs money. Add the "exclusivity premium" – the idea that charging more for a room makes it seem more luxurious – and a plain old night at a Holiday Inn starts to seem more feasible. Until now! Following our guide to the lowest-price Michelin meals in the world, Top Dollar has identified the cheapest five-star hotel in every country. And they start at less than thirty bucks for a room for two. Click to see full size The World's Cheapest Five-Star Hotel is India's Novotel Ahmedabad Hotel Click through the gallery to learn more about the world's 10 cheapest five-star hotels. And scroll on for a closer look at the map, continent-by-continent. The world's cheapest five-star hotel costs $28/night: the Novotel Ahmedabad Hotel in Ahmedabad, India. Positioned on the SG highway with nearby airport access and proximity to industrial hubs, the hotel is priced to entice business travelers to stay an extra night. The restaurant serves Japanese and Korean cuisine, and an open-air pool offers respite from the heat. Eight of the ten cheapest five-star hotels in the world are in Asia, and the other two are in Turkey, which straddles the Europe-Asia border. The resort town of Siem Reap in Cambodia has three of the cheapest hotels in the top ten. The Grand Venus La Residence costs only $39/night for a 592-sq-foot room – and if you can force yourself to go outside, it's just a short stroll from the ancient temples of Angkor Wat. North America's cheapest five-star hotel is a Hilton. The Hotel 1970 Posada Guadalajara in Mexico starts at $79/night and offers a mix of Mexican and contemporary styles at an epic scale. Hilton bought the building and completed a $6.5 million renovation in 2018, adding a Presidential Suite, business lounge, rooftop Sky Bar, fire pit, and custom-made headboards made by local craftspeople. The cheapest in the States is the ADERO Scottsdale, Autograph Collection in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to the usual five-star amenities, the hotel offers some of the darkest night skies in America as well as on-site star-gazing facilities due to its location in a protected Dark Sky Community in the Sonoran Desert. A night for two in the NH Collection Bogotá WTC Royal, Colombia, costs just $42 – the cheapest on the continent. The hotel is right next to the Bogotá World Trade Center but offers calming, sound-proofed rooms and proximity to the gardens, cafés, and galleries of the Parque 93 area. Brazil's cheapest five-star is the Windsor Plaza in Oscar Niemeyer's "planned city" of Brasilia. The NH Collection Plaza Santiago is the most expensive five-star to be the cheapest in its country (Chile). It costs $125 per night but offers breathtaking views of the Los Andes mountains. We found 16 five-star hotels for under $100 in Europe, and most of them are in the center or east of the continent. Ukraine's Kupava Deluxe Hotel in Lviv is the cheapest, at $43/night. The Grand Hotel Oslo is at the other end of the scale, costing $212/night. But it has a touch more history than many of the luxury modern hotels we've mapped. The building rose around 1840 and became a hotel in 1874. Henrik Ibsen regularly lunched here in the 1890s. Oddfellows on the Park in Cheadle, Manchester, is the UK's cheapest five-star hotel. The Victorian mansion is set on the 100-acres Bruntwood Park. The bathrooms are modern, the bedrooms retain their traditional charm and the restaurant occupies a former ballroom. Prices start at $118 for a room for two. Middle East & Central Asia Turkey's cheapest is the Hotel Ickale in Ankara. "You will be rejuvenated and feel reborn through the natural gifts utilized in a room illuminated with candle-light and surrounded by exotic scents," boasts the hotel of its Bali Massage, while a traditional Turkish bath is also available. The Golden Tulip in Manama, Bahrain, features the Al Wasmeyyah Restaurant, Kei Japanese Restaurant, and Cavalry Club Bar. It was originally a Hilton hotel in the 1970s before the Golden Tulip group took over. Rest of Asia & Oceania India's Novotel Ahmedabad Hotel is the cheapest in the world, but The Royal Surakarta Heritage Solo MGallery Collection in Surakarta, Indonesia, isn't far behind at $30/night. The hotel radiates traditional Javanese culture and is exquisitely dressed in batik patterns, antique lighting, and talking-point ornaments. New Zealand also offers five-star accommodation on the inviting side of $100. DeLorenzo's Studio Apartments offers rooms for $85, priding itself on remaining small with a home-from-home feel. It was named as New Zealand's second-best hotel in Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards Hotel of The Year contest. Nine African countries offer five-star hotel accommodation for under $100. The cheapest is Egypt's Steigenberger Resort Achti in Luxor. The hotel sits on the east bank of the River Nile in a 1.2-hectare tropical garden. And there is a marina, so you'll always have somewhere to park your felucca. The Palais des Remparts is built between the ramparts of the old medina of Essaouira in Morocco. It has been renovated to capture the essence of Moroccan architecture and décor. It costs just $73 per night. Five-Star Accommodation at Three-Star Prices Five-star hotels aren't usually associated with modesty, but it is possible to have a calming, sensual experience at a very reasonable price. Many of the hotels in our study offer either brand-new facilities or a taste of local tradition, lovingly maintained. Next time you travel, don't assume the best hotels are out of your price range. And if you don't have the cash for a full getaway at the moment, why not book a luxury night away for two at an affordable five-star hotel near you? METHODOLOGY & SOURCES We searched for five-star hotels in every country on Hotels.com for a one-night stay for two in July 2021 and found the 10 cheapest accommodations for each country. Sale prices were ignored, and any countries that had fewer than five five-star hotels available were removed. We separated equally priced hotels in the top 10 by favoring the bigger room in terms of square footage. The Cheapest Ways to Get Out of Debt Some of the Best and Worst Impulse Buys According To Reddit ByAnna Caldwell April 9, 2021 April 15, 2021 We've all been there, in a store after a terrible day and something fun catches our eye. You know at that moment that you just have to have it. Or perhaps you are the "drink a bottle of wine and surf Amazon at midnight" type. Whatever the case may be, impulse buying happens to everybody at one point or another. Sometimes impulse buys turn out to be excellent decisions, and other times they leave us shaking our heads and clutching… Read More Some of the Best and Worst Impulse Buys According To RedditContinue Update Your Wardrobe Without Breaking the Bank ByMikaela Sullivan September 17, 2020 December 18, 2020 When seasonal sales are in full-swing, it's often tempting to reach for your wallet and go on a shopping spree. Although it may give you a temporary dopamine rush, that trip to the mall or virtual splurge can take a toll on your bank account. Consider these simple ways to refresh your wardrobe on a dime. Read More Update Your Wardrobe Without Breaking the BankContinue Money Trends by Decade: 1950s to 2020s ByAnna Caldwell March 29, 2021 June 20, 2022 Every decade is known for its unique stamp on popular culture. What would the 1970s be without bell-bottoms? Can you picture the 1990s without boy bands? While these trends may go in and out of fashion, we tend to think of the financial industry as a timeless mainstay of American life. However, while certain economic principles are timeless, there have been plenty of defining money trends throughout the decades. Read More Money Trends by Decade: 1950s to 2020sContinue The Cheapest Michelin Meals in the World ByMikaela Sullivan March 22, 2021 April 21, 2021 In 2017, a humble brasserie in Bourges, France, received its first Michelin star. The restaurant's clientele of construction workers and locals struggled to get their regular seats as the Bouche à Oreille was overrun with demand for its (deeply satisfying) $15 homemade beef bourguignon. Sadly, it turned out to be a mistake. The real winner of the star was the Boutervilliers Bouche à Oreille near Paris, and Michelin eventually corrected the mistake on their website. Asked whether she was disappointed… Read More The Cheapest Michelin Meals in the WorldContinue 8 Unusual Employee Benefits in 2021 ByAnna Caldwell April 19, 2021 June 7, 2021 Employee benefits like 401k matches, health insurance, paid time off, and annual bonuses are considered normal in corporate America. However, these boilerplate perks are no longer enough to attract and retain the best talent. Companies that want to stand out have to get creative. Unusual employee benefits are one way employers can beat out their competition to ensure that their workforce is happy and committed. Read More 8 Unusual Employee Benefits in 2021Continue Infographic: The Purchasing Power of $20 From 1920 to 2021 ByAnna Caldwell June 8, 2021 June 8, 2021 When you go to an ATM you probably take out twenties more than any other denomination. Twenty-dollar bills account for 23% of all currency in circulation, second only to the dollar bill (31%). While you do your best to stretch your money as far as it will go, you are fighting an invisible force that guarantees the purchasing power of $20 will decline year after year. Read More Infographic: The Purchasing Power of $20 From 1920 to 2021Continue

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At Forestream Dental, Dr. Larry Evola and his Buffalo-area cosmetic dentistry team will use any general or cosmetic dentistry tools available to create the best smile of your life. But there are things you can do at home, too, to make sure your smile remains healthy in between dental visits. In addition to the hallmarks of your fight against gum disease — brushing and flossing twice daily and visiting your dentist for regular cleanings and checkups — you also can be careful about the kinds of foods you eat and drink as some support smile health and others will damage your smile. When you do indulge in one of these treats, follow up quickly by brushing your teeth. What's more, in the same way that "super foods" encourage whole-body health, there also are "super smile foods" that provide tooth- and gum- supporting nutrition for better smile health. Super Smile Food No. 1: Broccoli. This green vegetable helps support smile health by building up the ability of your teeth to fight acid. Super Smile Food No. 2: Cheese. The lactic acid in this creamy snack or ingredient helps fight tooth decay. Super Smile Food No. 3: Ginger. Using this natural root for flavor in your cooking or smoothies supports your body's ability to fight infection and therefore fights gum disease. Whether you have specific questions about cosmetic dentistry, or about what you can do at home to promote teeth, gum and smile health, the Buffalo-area staff at Forestream Dental in Depew is here to help: 716-656-8686.

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As communications experts, we should find it easy to convey the value of our services to the business managers in our organizations. Yet many public relations (PR) professionals struggle with expressing results in a way that allows senior executives to easily recognize the impact that PR has on the success of the business. Having explored the perceptions and attitudes of PR professionals and senior executives toward the impact of PR on business success, I've compiled a list of best-practices for translating intangible PR results into demonstrable success, and reporting PR measurement to business execs. If you doubt the importance of measurement and metrics, consider the results of a recent Gallup Poll, which showed that executives spend 24% of their time on "plan measurement and monitoring," second only to "strategic thinking/planning." No surprise, then, that board directors and CEOs are more likely than other professionals to say "measurement is an integral part of PR." If you're not measuring the right activities and then translating the results into bottom-line numbers, you're missing the main avenue to credibility. Consider how each function in the executive suite adds a tangible and measurable value to a company's success. The CFO ties his team's success to operating income, while the VP of sales and the VP of marketing tie their teams' successes to sales revenues. By contrast, many PR practitioners cite the number of media clips, impressions, and press releases as the results of their efforts. They compare their respective organization's coverage with that of the company's competitors. They assign monetary value to their work by calculating the advertising value equivalency, or AVE, an often-criticized method of devising a value for media coverage by comparing it with the price of advertising. And while this calculation provides a financial interpretation, it's not necessarily a meaningful one for executives. In general, PR measurement calculates activity but does nothing to measure the activity's impact on the bottom line. From an executive's viewpoint, it can be interpreted as the difference between the PR team's being busy and the PR team's being indispensable. Diane Thieke is executive director, Public Relations & Strategic Communications, for Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, and author of the e-book Talk To Me: 10 Tips for Translating PR Results into the Language of Business.

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In the ancient disciple-rabbi relationship, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely that he would be covered in the dust kicked up from his rabbi's feet. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciples—to follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new. Into His Likeness provides an approachable but in-depth exploration of how to live as a disciple and experience the transformation Jesus wants to work in our lives. We might desire to live more like Christ, but we know we fall short. This book simply helps us follow those initial promptings of the Holy Spirit, so that we may more intentionally encounter Jesus anew each day and be more disposed to his grace changing us ever more into his likeness.

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Home TV Shows News DC's 'Stargirl' Renewed for Season 2, Becomes The CW Original DC's 'Stargirl' Renewed for Season 2, Becomes The CW Original Going forward, Stargirl will not be available on DC Universe, The CW will be the exclusive in-season home to the series next season Bradley - Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:53:30 +0100 399 Views DC's "Stargirl" has been renewed at The CW for season 2. The CW will now become the exclusive in-season home to the series next season, with episodes airing on the CW network and streaming the next day on the CW's free, ad-supported streaming platforms. Season 2 will not stream on the show's original home at DC Universe. This will make DC's Stargirl which started as a DC Universe original, a CW series. The first season of the series was commissioned by the DC Universe digital subscription service. The show has done well for the CW and its platform with solid viewership. It is now halfway through its first season. Going forward, DC's Stargirl will not be available on DC Universe. The service's original slate has been dwindling as it has been focusing on its core business of DC comic book and news content for fans. DC Universe has one exclusive original series, Titans; Doom Patrol is now shared with HBO Max. "Stargirl" was the first DCU show to find a home on CW but not the last. Earlier, the CW revealed it had acquired the broadcast rights to the DCU show "Swamp Thing," which was canceled at the DCU shortly after the premiere of the first season. DC'S "Stargirl" follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) as she moves to Blue Valley, Nebraska after her mother remarries Pat Dugan (Luke Wilson). There, she inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. The new drama reimagines Stargirl and the very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, in an unpredictable series. The series focuses on the character that started creator Geoff Johns career as a comic book writer when he created her in 1999, lovingly inspired by his late sister who was killed in a 1996 plane crash. The series stars Brec Bassinger, Luke Wilson, Amy Smart, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington, Cameron Gellman, Trae Romano, Hunter Sansone, Meg DeLacy, Neil Jackson, Jake Austin Walker and Christopher James Baker. Johns executive produces with Melissa Carter, who serves as co-showrunner, as well as Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Greg Beeman. DC's Stargirl is produced by Berlanti Productions and Mad Ghost Productions in association with Warner Bros. TV. TV Shows News Series The CW Warner Bros. Stargirl Season 2 DCU Brec Bassinger DC Universe

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Shannon R Galvin Associate Professor, Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division [email protected] Acute HIV infection; Global Health; HIV Infection; Health Disparities; Health Services Research; Infectious Diseases Certifications and Licenses 2000 Residency, University of North Carolina Hospitals 2004 Fellowship, University of North Carolina Hospitals Education/Academic qualification MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine … → 1997 Acute HIV Infection Dive into the research topics where Shannon R Galvin is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint. HIV Medicine & Life Sciences Malawi Medicine & Life Sciences Breast Feeding Medicine & Life Sciences HIV Infections Medicine & Life Sciences Sexually Transmitted Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences Semen Medicine & Life Sciences Grants per year Chicago Clinical Trials Unit Achenbach, C. J., Cohn, S. E., Feinstein, M. J., Galvin, S. R., Green, R., Hawkins, C. A., Maiga, M., Murphy, R. L., Palella Jr, F. J. & Taiwo, B. O. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 12/1/20 → 11/30/27 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.) Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Pathogenesis of Rebound SIV/HIV Viremia After Antiretroviral Therapy D'Aquila, R. T., Galvin, S. R., Hope, T. J., Song, C. & Taylor, H. E. Viremia Secondary Prevention Subproject for Admin Supplement for "Third Coast Center for AIDS Research" Benbow, N. D., D'Aquila, R. T., Macapagal, K. R., Galvin, S. R., Kim, E., Penugonda, S. & Phillips ii, G. L. Galvin EHE Project Planning Award Galvin, S. R. Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Galvin, S. R., Kim, E., Longnecker, R. M., Palella Jr, F. J., Penugonda, S., Phair, J. P., Teplin, L. A. & Wolinsky, S. M. View all 6 grants Disseminated streptococcus pneumoniae infection associated with an intrauterine device Roberts, S. C., Quinlan, M. P. & Galvin, S. R., Jul 1 2020, In: Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 28, 4, p. 238-241 4 p. Intrauterine Devices Pneumococcal Infections Immunocompromised Host Septic Shock Enhancing knowledge in informal settlements: Assessing health beliefs and behaviors in nigeria a cross-sectional survey assessment of perceptions, practices, and resources in underserved urban communities in lagos Liu, D. Y., Maki, A. W., Maitland, A., Meyer, E. R., Sorensen, J. S. & Galvin, S., Sep 22 2020, In: Annals of global health. 86, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 121. Health Educators Dolutegravir-induced hyperglycaemia in a patient living with HIV. McLaughlin, M., Walsh, S. & Galvin, S., Jan 1 2018, In: J Antimicrob Chemother. 73, 1, p. 258-260 3 p. Co-trimoxazole Prophylaxis, Asymptomatic Malaria Parasitemia, and Infectious Morbidity in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Exposed, Uninfected Infants in Malawi: The BAN Study Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals and Nutrition (BAN) Study Team, Aug 15 2017, In: Clinical Infectious Diseases. 65, 4, p. 575-580 6 p. Parasitemia Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination Trimethoprim Effect of prolonged freezing of semen on exosome recovery and biologic activity Welch, J. L., Madison, M. N., Margolick, J. B., Galvin, S., Gupta, P., Martínez-Maza, O., Dash, C. & Okeoma, C. M., Mar 24 2017, In: Scientific reports. 7, 45034.

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All the extraction is done. The files missed aren't on the path. The names in maps folder are a bit different, without the zeros on start. Look at the image and after look the world-server.log log you will see the different. The log says "ERROR:Check existing of map file '/home/haze/MythikosWOW/WoW-Cataclysm4.3.4/Data/maps/0004331.map': not exist!"

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Under legal pressure, Facebook clarifies how it uses your data The clarifications come in response to a recent court ruling Zach Miners (IDG News Service) Facebook wants to be clear: It can use the names, profile pictures and other data of its members to deliver ads on the site. On Thursday, the site announced a wide range of proposed updates to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, two key documents that explain how the social network collects and uses people's data. The update includes a revised explanation of how things like people's names, profile pictures and content may be used in connection with ads or commercial content. With the updates, Facebook wants to make its policies more clear. And specifically, to make it clear "that you are granting Facebook permission for this [commercial] use when you use our services," said Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer, policy, on the company's website. "We hope this clarification helps you understand how we use your information in this way," she said. The site will be gathering feedback over the next seven days on the proposed updates. Facebook, with more than 1 billion members, knows that its policies can trigger volatile reactions. "We will carefully consider feedback before adopting any changes," the company said. Facebook undervalued in a last-click attribution model Facebook aims to simplify advertising for marketers Facebook talks hyper-targeting, analytics and cross-platforming Facebook is not issuing the clarifications purely for altruistic reasons. On Monday a U.S. judge approved a US$20 million fund for Facebook to settle a class-action lawsuit against the site's "sponsored stories" advertising program, which pairs some Facebook members' information with commercial content to deliver ads to people on the site. Plaintiffs had claimed that their names and likenesses, such as their profile photos, were being misappropriated to promote advertisers' products and services. As part of the ruling, Facebook was ordered to change its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to give users better information about, and control over, how their data is used in connection with sponsored stories. In its revised Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, Facebook says that by joining the site, "you permit a business or other entity to pay us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, without any compensation to you." If users have selected a specific audience for their content or information, Facebook will respect that choice, the company said. Facebook also expects its users to understand that the company may not always identify paid services and communications as such, according to the document. How children's data is used in connection with ads was one of the major issues in Monday's court ruling. In the revised document, Facebook hopes to circumvent future issues around minors by stating that, "If you are under the age of 18, or under any other applicable age of majority, you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to the terms of this section on your behalf." Thursday's changes also include some information to clarify that Facebook's apps may be updated from time to time, and that although the site is free, users are still responsible for access fees like data charges and text messages. Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is [email protected] Tags: social mediaprivacyinternetFacebookadvertisingsearch enginessocial networkingInternet-based applications and services

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i'm off to the factory this afternoon to collect my New Aeromax. Very Excited indeed!!! wow! thats pretty awesome what colour scheme did you decide on?? Dixon is here now and we are driving the 4/4 sport up to collect it now. it's Jaguar Pearl with Yarwood Red. was going to have black wheels but changed my mind last minute. Lucky guy, some of us are working you know - or I would be if I wasn't posting on this site! sounds great - but we DEMAND pictures!! it's Jaguar Pearl with Yarwood Red. was going to have black wheels but changed my mind last minute. I'm not at all envious. Hope the weather is kind.

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I have one bucktail currently and I fished this a good amount this year. It's a 1oz Spro white bucktail that sinks wicked fast -- not much hair on it. Looking to add some more bucktails to my tackle box and found ones that looks nice -- they are called S&S Bucktails John Skinner Striped Bass. I like the look of these because the have more hair and look like they wont sink so fast. I use two rods -- one is around 7' and the other is 8' and they are both Medium or MH rated for ~10-20 lb line. The 1oz Spro bucktail I have casts like a bullet with very low arch from the fast-action rod rip. I cast off the docks in my neighborhood into shallower water at spots (~10-20 feet) and then also into the current of a river (Annisquam River) near the mouth of a large bay (Ipswich Bay). This current in this river when the tide changes can be raging hard. I also cast off the rocks into rocky areas along the coast (Gloucester, Rockport, Marblehead areas). I was thinking of getting 3 bucktails -- 3/4oz (for shallower areas with rocks) and 1.5oz (for casting into raging current) in white. I was also thinking of a black 1oz one for fishing at night. I fish at night mostly. Anyone use chartreause/neon green? Look at some Andrus bucktails for casting. Bunch of styles and weights. Check out Dan the Tinmans stuff in the BST section also. Spro style isn't always the best for cast and reel action. The skinner S&S ones are good from a boat. And yes you will want to by them in multiples. Interesting. What makes a bucktail better for use from boat vs land? I will look into Andrus and others. Thanks for the recommendations. On the spro BT's the hook eye is further back and the weight of the lure is more towards the front so works better with a vertical jigging action. On the S&S skinner ones he moved the eye more towards the front but still fishes similar to a spro. Look at the Andrus jetty caster, ball jig and rip splitters to see the difference. IMO, what you have listed as "to get", sounds about right for weight if the water depth is 10' to 20' as you say. In places I've fished I've used everything from 1/8 oz, up to about 2 oz for casting, and heavier for trolling. Probably used 1/2 oz to 1 oz the most, because of shallower water. The idea of having them dressed both full and sparse is also good. For the same weight, a fuller tied bucktail will sink slower than a sparser tied bucktail. Nothing wrong with that and can be advantageous because sometimes the fish want that slower fall, and it tends to keep the jig in front of them a little longer when they're suspended. Add some different trailers, various plastics and the combinations of bucktail & trailer can allow you to fine tune profiles & fall rates. Pork rind is still a great trailer if you can find it. For colors, everyone has favorites. Those discussions have been done many times. Hard to go wrong with white, black, chartreuse, and yellow is very popular. Wine or Burgundy, is also good colors. But, the fact is it still goes back to everyone has a favorite. I've tried all kinds of colors & combinations over the years, and they'll all catch some fish, sometimes. I like chartreuse for example that is more on the yellow chartreuse, fl. yellow side but still keep some jigs that are on the green chartreuse, or lime green side, because sometimes one produces better than the other when they'll take a "chartreuse" bucktail. Try some different colors and see what works for you, day or night. Many folks like white. Don't forget something to trail it. Usually use the berkley powerbait mullet grub. Backbays, little to no flow.... 3/4 to 1.5oz. Inlets, water moving well.... 1oz to 3oz usually, sometimes you need more. Bought some from dan the tin man recently, they're great. He's has a bullethead style with the hook eye right upfront at a 45degree. I swear dan uses 3 to 4 times as much hair as the leading guys. Mustad makes a bucktail with 2 hook eyes. Don't think more is better. OFten yes, all the time, no. You need the right bucktail for the job. Looks right for what's in the area size wise, but gets down to where the fish are, but not all the way down. Back to color, I like white with a touch of another color all weights. A few yellow ones and a few dark ones. Wine or burple. Dark colors work at the right times at night, not every night. While your bucktailing, get some cheap good sized grubs and jigheads, and a few tsunami shads too. Very similar action and style. Chratruse, some folks believe they're more of a bluefish magnet. Andrus Jetty Casters- white - 1/2oz /1 oz. / 1 1/4oz./ 1 1/2 oz./ 2 oz. and 3oz. Also. get some white trailers from Fat Cow strips, Otter tails or plastic ( rubber) twister tails. I would also buy a few small "lima bean" head bucktails from Andrus in white in sizes 3/8 oz. and 1/2 oz. to use from an "egg and a jig" rig. See photo. This rig is one of the best lures for daytime stripers. You'll have to find some wooden eggs from a craft store and make them up over the winter. A very easy project. How long is the leader on this rig? if you are fishing Chatham and Brewster with any regularity i would for the bucktails and go with a small paddle tail such as Al gags whippet or storm search baits either 1/4 oz 3/8 or 1/2.at least from the beach.before these plastics came out i fished bucktails almost exclusively,fishing the inlets on the south shore of LI,i literally have at least a thousand of them from a 1/4 oz up to 6ozs,and they rarely get used on the sand beachs of the cape. Steve do you ever use heavy plastic or composition eggs to get down deep? The wooden egg helps the cast but doesn't it keep the jig off the bottom or does the jig take the egg down. Are you eggs made of a hard wood ( Oak ) or are the light weight made of a soft wood ( pine ). if you are fishing Chatham and Brewster with any regularity i would for(go) the bucktails and go with a small paddle tail such as Al gags whippet or storm search baits either 1/4 oz 3/8 or 1/2.at least from the beach.before these plastics came out i fished bucktails almost exclusively,fishing the inlets on the south shore of LI,i literally have at least a thousand of them from a 1/4 oz up to 6ozs,and they rarely get used on the sand beachs of the cape. I bought some Andrus Jetty Caster Bucktails from JH last night -- went with a 3/4oz and a 1.5oz for now (white). If I find the need, I will also fill in the other weights in the Spring.

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De Richmond Olympic Oval was de schaatshal voor de Olympische Winterspelen van 2010 in Vancouver. De hal is in Richmond gebouwd, zo'n 25 minuten vanaf het Olympisch dorp. Architect van de hal is Bob Johnston, hij was eveneens betrokken bij het ontwerp van de schaatsbanen in Calgary en Salt Lake City. Sinds de Spelen wordt de schaatshal gebruikt als multifunctionele sporthal. Kijkend naar de baanrecords is de Richmond Olympic Oval in november 2022 de nummer 19 op de lijst van snelste ijsbanen ter wereld. Locatie Aan de bouw van de Oval werd op september 2005 begonnen. De opleverdatum was in augustus 2008 en op 13 december 2008 werd de hal officieel geopend. Enkele weken later werd het eerste grote toernooi gehouden: de Canadese afstandskampioenschappen. De hal is gebouwd aan de oever van de Fraser River. Het dak heeft vanuit de lucht gezien de vorm van een reigervleugel en overkapt ruim 33.000 m². Tijdens de Spelen bood de Olympic Oval plaats voor 8000 toeschouwers. De kosten van de bouw bedroegen 178 miljoen Canadese dollars. Na de Winterspelen werd de Oval omgebouwd tot een multifunctioneel sportcomplex. In de hal bevinden zich nu onder meer twee ijshockeyvelden, een klimhal en een waterbak om te leren roeien. Grote kampioenschappen Internationale kampioenschappen 2009 - WK afstanden 2010 - Olympische Winterspelen Nationale kampioenschappen 2009 - CK afstanden Baanrecords Externe links Richmond Olympic Oval Richmond speedskatingnews.info Profiel IJsstadion Officiële website Voormalige langebaanschaatsbaan in Canada IJshockeystadion in Canada Sportaccommodatie in Vancouver Accommodatie tijdens de Olympische Winterspelen 2010

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(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein pp 165-178 | Cite as Going Continental Anat Biletzki Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 319) It is not by chance that one meets proclamations of the following type: "… there is now an increasing recognition that analytic and continental philosophers genuinely ought to have something to say to one another, and that the later work of Wittgenstein may provide a bridge between them."1 One could embark here, yet again, on a continuation of an erstwhile tradition, on the oft-told tale of two Wittgensteins — the early and the later. Beyond this paragraph being a disclaimer, let us only point, yet again, to the problematics involved in that traditional division: a problematics which addresses not only the legitimacy and accuracy of dividing the Wittgensteinian legacy into a clearly delimited early and later (sometimes by pointing to outstanding continuities, other times to divisions, between the two) but also the exact number of Wittgensteins (usually by adding on a pre-early, a middle, and lately even a post-later level to the original two). These classical partitions are not to the point here, which is not to say that they do not touch, in a way to be followed up on later, on our own point. We do not intend to talk of diverging Wittgensteins here, but rather of diverging readings of Wittgenstein; neither do we intend to continue our survey of the myriad of interpretations now with us concerning Wittgenstein, but rather to point to two main "families" of interpretation — analytic and continental interpretations. Arguable Discourse Classical Partition Continental Philosophy Analytic Interpreter Tendant Intricacy I may find questions interesting, but they never really grip me. Only conceptual and aesthetic qustions do that. At bottom I am indifferent to the solution of scientific problems; but not the other sort. (Culture and Value 79 ) © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003 1.Tel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael Biletzki A. (2003) Going Continental. In: (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein. Synthese Library (Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science), vol 319. Springer, Dordrecht DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0822-8_11 Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht Online ISBN 978-94-007-0822-8

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WASHINGTON — While work continues on a costly new ground control system for the GPS 3 constellation, the Air Force is investing in major upgrades to the existing ground infrastructure so it can operate its newest GPS satellites made by Lockheed Martin. The Air Force on Dec. 21 announced a $462 million contract award to Lockheed Martin to continue the modernization of the GPS ground control system that the company has been maintaining since 2013. The upgrades will allow the Air Force to operate the GPS 3 constellation with the existing ground system until 2025, Lockheed Martin said in a Jan. 11 news release. The next-generation operational control system, known as OCX, is years behind schedule. The $6 billion system developed by Raytheon was designed to improve the cybersecurity of GPS. The Pentagon last year ordered a major review of OCX and directed Raytheon to accelerate the software development process. The company is expected to complete OCX Block 1 by June 2021. The upgrades that Lockheed Martin will make to the legacy ground control system ensure that the positioning, navigation and timing missions of the new GPS 3 constellation can be performed with or without OCX, said an industry source.

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© David Epstein David Epstein | Making the Case for Investors to Work Towards Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Weapons INTERVIEW with David Epstein | You recently released the report Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe: Making the Case for Investors and the Private Sector to Work Towards Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Weapons. Could you please elaborate on the key-findings? As COVID-19 and climate change make clear, government alone cannot be counted on to protect us from catastrophe. The private sector and civil society need to be involved. And with nuclear catastrophe, which could reveal itself in an instantaneous flash one day, as opposed to a more gradual onset seen with the likes of COVID-19 and climate change, we definitely cannot wait to react until after it begins to occur. In the report, I focus in particular on the sustainable investment community, which I believe has to make a multi-pronged effort to reduce the risks of nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear conflict: 〉As discussed below, ESG investors need to begin screening a range of industries for how they, sometimes in surprising ways, might be contributing to the risks of nuclear weapons/nuclear conflict. ESG investors should then engage those companies to alter behaviors in ways that might reduce the risks. 〉Impact investors, particularly those focused on investing into small and private startups, need to expand their purview to include projects that might help reduce the risks of nuclear weapons/nuclear conflict. While traditionally it has been NGO's and various non-profit initiatives that have worked to reduce the risks of nukes, I believe that there is the potential to devise and implement some for-profit projects as well; these can appeal to impact investors, which require a financial return in addition to a social one. 〉The tools of climate and conservation finance – transition bonds, carbon cap and trade and carbon offsets, pay-for-success financing, etc. – need to be adapted and applied to some of the most intractable geopolitical problems. Because the existing toolkit is not enough. | What can investors do to protect their portfolios from nuclear-related risks? It is, of course, very difficult to invest specifically for the occurrence of some sort of nuclear conflict or act of terrorism involving nuclear weapons. It is impossible to know when an incident might occur – the risks compound and are significant over the longer term but the odds are not necessarily high in the short-term. It is also not knowable ahead of time what the nature of the incident will be in terms of the location and magnitude. Particularly without knowing the timing and nature of any potential future incident, it is also very hard to predict what the market and economic effects would be. Market reactions to COVID-19 should be evidence of that; after the initial stock market volatility in the wake of lockdowns, the magnitude and speed of the stock market rebounds around the world was definitely surprising to many. Clearly fiscal and monetary policy, along with other actions by central banks and governments, had a lot to do with that resiliency. But the question remains – would central banks and governments have the same or other tools at their disposal in the future to respond to any shocks in the wake of a nuclear incident? That would depend on many factors, including the strengths of economies and government balance sheets before and immediately following any nuclear incident. It would be poorly advised to build a portfolio that is concentrated to benefit from a nuclear incident but perform poorly in other market environments. At the same time, an overly leveraged or overly concentrated poorly could suffer catastrophic losses in the event of a nuclear incident. Therefore, I think a portfolio should just be constructed with the same diversification and other risk controls that are prudent across a range of environments – able to thrive in good times while also being able to withstand any number of shocks, whether that be a second pandemic, another financial crisis or Black Monday-type event, or a nuclear incident. So, in addition to being highly diversified, I think a portfolio should generally limit leverage, maintain strong liquidity, and keep liabilities fairly long and matched to assets. And, without picking an exact entry point – now is probably not the right entry point for some of these assets – it's probably worth having a small position in assets like gold, farmland, and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS can be a good way to get protection from inflation with only limited downside in the event of deflation). Clearly, though, the most important thing investors can do to protect their portfolios is to try to prevent a nuclear incident from occurring in the first place. Hopefully, this can be done by engaging in some of the steps I outlined in response to the previous question. This will require the efforts of many investors working both individually and collectively. | Do you believe that the probability of aggression-related nuclear detonation is being underestimated by investment industry experts? When I talk to folks in the investment industry, whether they are sustainable investors or not, they are rarely dismissive of the risks. A few investors – a small minority even if we look at just those investors that are sustainable investors – do choose to divest manufacturers of nuclear weapons manufacturers. But for the vast majority of sustainable investors (particularly in the U.S.) and other investors it is more that they are just not informed about the risks of nuclear weapons. Even in cases where they are informed, they just don't think about it to day-to-day in their work. And most investors just don't know what they could do to help prevent it or, in some cases, just think that these are geopolitical type problems and the related policies are really up to voters to solve at the ballot box. The goal of the report is to educate investors about the risks. It's also a call to action, not only to them but also to the nuclear non-proliferation community – to make it their business to provide even more detailed and ongoing education to the investment community. Assuming investors accept that the risks of a nuclear incident are as serious as laid out in the report, the report lays out the reasons how investors can take steps to reduce the risks and why it is not okay or practical to just let voters "solve" these problems at election time. | The current nuclear-related ESG risk management debate mainly focuses on whether to avoid manufacturers of nuclear and/or controversial weapons. What action and developments are required to address the relevant risks properly? ESG investors need to look beyond just the question of whether to divest or not those manufacturers. Instead, I believe they should use a range of screens and screens many additional industries – including financial services, industrials, shippers, social media and others – for how they contribute (sometimes unwittingly) to the nuclear supply chain or the possibility of nuclear conflict. I believe that investors can then use that information to look at the possibility of engaging companies to change their behavior to lower the nuclear risks. For a bank, for instance, companies should disclose and ESG investors should screen for details around the company's counter-proliferation financing measures and details around financing activities provided to manufacturers of nuclear weapons/components, particularly for specific countries. For industrial companies, the companies should disclose and ESG investors should screen for the procedures in place to limit the export or diversion of dual-use technologies, products and commodities and to understand internally which technologies or products could be part of a nuclear supply chain. In the report, I lay out a couple dozen proposed screens. The precise screens are debatable. But that's the point of the report – let's start the debate, because it's not taking place today. This will require the collective efforts of investors, the companies, the nuclear community, and organizations such as SASB and GRI/GSSB to arrive at a reasonable set of disclosures and screens and what is acceptable behavior on the part of companies. | brief bio David Epstein spent nearly two decades as a research analyst on Wall Street. The first half of his career was spent as a senior research analyst at two multi-billion dollar investment managers – Froley Revy, (now part of SSI) and Advent Capital management. The second half of his career was spent as a senior research analyst at investment bank Cowen Inc., and CRT Capital before being purchased by Cowen, where he published research for institutional clients. Over the years, he has worked on analyzing both debt and equity. David has a particular expertise in distressed and convertible securities. With a big focus on distressed securities, he gained an appreciation of risk and the importance of being on the lookout for multi-sigma (low frequency but high impact) events. He has covered many sectors over his career, including Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Shipping, Utilities, Biotech, and Telecomm/Tech. He has long studied nuclear risks and is trying to spread awareness among investors and the broader financial and business communities about ways in which they might be able to help prevent nuclear catastrophe. He has consulted for and has been an Innovation Fellow for the N Square Innovators Network. N Square brings together nuclear experts and experts in other fields – finance, media, technology, etc. – in order to devise novel methods of reducing the risks posed by nuclear weapons. David, who is a Chartered Financial Analyst, received an MBA in Finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in Psychology from Johns Hopkins. nuclear risks Anete Liepina PRI Statement on EU Sustainable Taxonomy The German government's climate plans The Risk of Considering an Inclusion of Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy in the EU Taxonomy EU Taxonomy and the Nuclear Energy and Gas-Fired Power Issue

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Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton (March 10, 1947 – January 5, 2015) was an actress and comedian who was the only child of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his second wife, actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor. Early life and family Hilton was born in 1947 in New York City, after her parents were granted a divorce in September 1946. Her father, Conrad Hilton, was the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain. Her mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, was a Hungarian actress and socialite. Gabor's 1991 autobiography One Lifetime Is Not Enough alleged that her pregnancy was a result of rape by then-husband Conrad Hilton. She was the only child of Zsa Zsa Gabor and therefore the only descendant of the Gabor sisters as well as the only daughter of Conrad Hilton. Her three half-brothers were Conrad Hilton Jr., Barron Hilton, and Eric Hilton. She attended movie premieres with her mother and competed in equestrian competitions as a child. In 1947, while Hilton was an infant, a burglar entered their home and tied up Zsa Zsa Gabor and their housekeeper, and threatened to kill Francesca. The burglar stole jewelry worth over $750,000. She worked in reservations at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California during summers as a teenager. At the time of her death, she was engaged to Michael Natsis. According to her publicist, Edward Lozzi, she had been writing an autobiography. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left most of his wealth to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Francesca Hilton contested the will, which left her only $100,000, but lost the suit. In 2005, her stepfather, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, filed lawsuits against her accusing her of fraud in obtaining a loan using her mother's house as collateral, and manipulation over her mother's will; the court threw out the case for lack of evidence after Gabor did not appear or sign a statement. Hilton denied the allegations. In 2012 she successfully sued for an independent conservatorship to be set up for the care of her mother, who had become incapacitated, but the judge appointed Von Anhalt as temporary conservator. Hilton lived in Los Angeles for most of her life. A month before her death in 2015, she was impoverished and living in weekly rental apartments and in her car. Performing career She appeared in A Safe Place in 1971 and The Gravy Train in 1974. She worked as a photographer in the 1980s. She also worked for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. By 2008, she started performing at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Her show centered on her family. She joked that her great-nieces, Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton, were "pole dancers and porn stars". Death Hilton died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on January 5, 2015, after suffering a major stroke. She was just over two months short of her 68th birthday. Her mother was then 97 and suffering from dementia; her stepfather sought unsuccessfully to take possession of Hilton's body. After it remained in the morgue for several days, an autopsy was performed and her half-brother Barron Hilton took possession of her body. Hilton's funeral was held at St Ambrose Catholic Church, West Hollywood. She was cremated and her ashes interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, close to her aunt, Eva Gabor. Filmography Film Television References External links 1947 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Los Angeles Actresses from New York City American film actresses American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of German descent American people of Norwegian descent American women comedians American women photographers Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Catholics from California Catholics from New York (state) Conrad Hilton family Gabor family Hilton Worldwide

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement late last month enraged many liberals and caused them to erupt into mass hysterics because his departure allows Trump to nominate a second justice just a year and a half into his presidency. He is now a lobbyist in the Washington headquarters of Covington & Burling. "I hope I'm wrong but I suspect this is going to be a rough tough down in the dirt ear pulling nose biting fight", Kennedy said. Conservatives have taken issue with a potential Kavanaugh nomination, with some critics on the right citing his closeness to the Bush 43 administration while others believe he doesn't have a strong enough stance against abortion. The liberals' effort probably will focus on moderate GOP senators, such as Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, who might be wary of adding a hard-line conservative and risking decades-old precedents such as Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in 1973. "Certainly, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett have a lot of name recognition among supporters of the president, and I think that ultimately, when people like them are nominated, you'll see a lot of folks line up", he said. Trump has enjoyed teasing details of his process in recent days, saying Thursday that he was down to four people and "of the four people, I have it down to three or two". Trump is said to have apparently lost interest in Kethledge. "While I appreciate the invitation from the White House to attend this evening's announcement, I declined so that I can meet first with the nominee in a setting where we can discuss his or her experience and perspectives", Donnelly said. Susan Collins of ME and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to oppose any nominee who threatens Roe v. Wade. Two other vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election this fall ― Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana ― did not support Gorsuch's nomination. "Any judge on this list is fruit of a corrupt process straight from the DC swamp". "Whoever the president selects tonight, if that is from the pre-approved list, everyone ought to understand what it means for the freedom of women to make their own health care decisions and for the protection of Americans with pre existing conditions, those rights will be gravely threatened", said Schumer. He went to the University of Notre Dame as the first person in his family to go to college. The Daily Mail report Chelsea are keen to allow Kenedy more first-team opportunities and Newcastle can provide that opportunity. According to the Mirror , Rafa Benitez and Newcastle are deep in discussions with Chelsea to re-sign Brazilian winger Kenedy .

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Aw, I hope Pixel feels better today! What a sweet photo though...such a pretty baby! Awww... That is too cute- I hope she feels better soon. Dina loves to curl up too. What a cozy little nest! Hope you are feeling better, Pixel! My dear friend Pixel. I thought your last surgery would correct your tail pain problem. I am so sorry that such a sweet dog likje you has this cross to bear. Momma Jean needs to hang her camera around her neck because she misses many of my cutest expressions. Oh, and the other dogs cute expressions too. I dkidn't see a blog about the convention. how was it? Awww...Pixel! I sure wish there was something more that could be done about your tail issues. It must be so awful! Luv U! Such a sweet photo. I just wish Pixel didn't have to make those nests to feel better....I wish her to feel all better soon. Aww. Pixel, we are sorry that you are having some troubles... thank you for all the hard work you do with the littles in shelters!! Oh Pixel - you still having tail problems??? I was hoping your corrective surgery helped with all that??

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Amendments to Part II of the Canada Labour Code (Code) are set to take effect as of October 31, 2014. These changes include redefining "danger"' under the Code for the purposes of work refusals and putting in place a new system for enforcing Part II. These changes will have an impact on federally regulated employers. Is driving a bus unsafe? It depends who you ask…. A recent investigation and ruling by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada ("HRSDC") has found that OC Transpo, the public transit operator in Canada's capital city, is not doing enough to protect its bus drivers from workplace violence as required under the CLC. By now, most of us have heard about a controversial decision of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench in which Justice Robert Dewar sentenced a man found guilty of sexual assault to a two year conditional sentence, allowing him to remain free in the community and avoid any jail time. The Ontario Ministry of Labour recently emailed their latest Court Bulletin indicating that a company that makes plastic auto parts received a hefty fine of $50,000 for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. The Ministry of Labour just laid charges carrying fines of up to $17,000,000 against two companies that ran and supplied a platform that collapsed last year. There were also charges against executives and supervisors that could carry fines and time in jail. The 'Ministry' will investigate complaints of harassment… Really??!! As a human rights advisor and educator I was encouraged to overhear this educational conversation about harassment at Tim Hortons. I was concerned however that part of the message this group was hearing was incorrect and misleading.

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Shawn Nelson | Robinson Creative Inc. Hi Shawn Nelson began his design career completely by accident. After buying a computer for his graduate studies in Seminary, he discovered that his creativity went well beyond his musical foundations. Shawn landed a job as a graphic artist and, after only 3 or 4 months, was soon leading a team of them. That was many moons ago, and he is still using his creative gifts to raise the standard both as a designer and a business leader. Having run his own design business for many years, his experience with web design, creative branding, and client relations makes him an excellent fit for our team. As an Art Director, Shawn works hard to create fresh, clean and innovative designs that communicate the distinct personality of our clients. His ability to pick up on the latest technology along with his strategic planning keeps our team on the cutting edge. His print and web design skills are a perfect compliment to his unique ability match phrase with photo or copy with color. In his free time, Shawn still loves singing and acting, performing in community theater or church productions. He also loves watching movies, going to museums, experiencing theater and spending time with his beautiful wife, Danetta, and daughters, Deidre and Dharma.

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Trying out Lena's new off-road track: First Dirt City Duel draws a crowd of 10,000 Kent Tempus LENA – The inaugural races at the new off-road race track last weekend were "above expectations," according to Lena Motorsports Club Board President Don Demeny. "It was above and beyond what we had hoped for," he said. "We really thank the community for checking it out." The only shortcoming was attendance, which Demeny said totaled 10,000 and included folks who showed up in downtown Lena Friday night to see drivers and their vehicles. The board had been looking to attract 15,000 people. Despite the turnout, the event was praised by Jay Schaefer of Crandon, who raced in the Heavy Metal Challenge feature event and assisted with communications in the spotter tower. "For a first time out, to have as few bugs as they did, and have things running so smoothly, and to have this big of a crowd at a sportsmen event is phenomenal," Schaefer said. Still, Demeny said that the hill for spectators was "about at the limit" on Saturday. Dozens of RVs and campers also arrived, filling every space for the weekend. "We're going to start planning for more area for camping and spectators," Demeny said. Other projects will include adding more roads and more gravel in the camping areas, as well as planting green areas around the track. As for the racing, Schaefer said he was very pleased with the course, which he called "fun." "From my standpoint, I didn't think I'd like the split lane, but I like it a lot," he said. "It adds an interesting wrinkle to a lap." The split lane starts on the second turn, where drivers can take one of two lanes that run nearly a quarter mile to the next turn. Tim Beauchamp, whose son Trey was racing, had some doubts about the course at first but was pleased. Trey led his Super Stock division for the first three-quarters of the race on Saturday. "We thought it was going to be a demolition derby, but it's much better than that," he said. "It turned out quite nice." Demeny noted that more than 100 people volunteered for a variety of tasks, from organizing parking in the field across the roadway, to ticket sales, food preparation and sales, track maintenance and more. The not-for-profit track was constructed last fall and this spring, primarily by volunteers. The facility would have cost an estimated $1 million, but 90% of the work — including earth moving, concrete, gravel, fencing and electrical service — was donated. Other costs were covered by about $100,000 raised from more than 200 charter members. RELATED:Off-road racing comes to Lena, thanks to contributions from community RELATED:Verdegan: Iverson ready to pound pavement at Norway with dirt sportmod FOR MORE OCONTO COUNTY NEWS:Check out our website! Contact Kent Tempus at (920) 431-8226 or [email protected].

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Surgut bought the MOL stake from Austria's OMV (OMVV.VI) in 2009 saying it wished to be a strategic investor. MOL has regarded Surgut's buying the stake in MOL an unfriendly move. The deal could be worth about 500 billion forints ($2.60 billion) at Tuesday's market price.

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Camden, Philadelphia, or New York? Fact-Checking the Victor Studio Locations (1901-1920) August 1, 2017 August 15, 2017 mainspring001 Camden, Philadelphia, or New York: Fact-Checking the Victor Acoustic-Era Studio Locations By Allan Sutton .The facts: There is no documentary evidence that the Victor Talking Machine Company operated a recording studio in Camden, New Jersey, from September 1901 through early December 1907. During that period, most Victor recording sessions were held in Philadelphia. A much smaller number, by Red Seal artists only, were held in New York at that time. Very early Victor recording locations are only occasionally noted in the surviving company files. Brian Rust and other early discographers, when confronted with this omission, behaved as usual — They guessed (incorrectly assuming Camden for September 1901 – November 1907 sessions that were actually held in Philadelphia), and then passed off their guesses as fact. Now that the key points are out of the way, let's look at the supporting evidence, from the memoirs of a man who was there at the time — Harry O. Sooy, Victor's chief recording engineer. The following studio chronology is based upon Sooy's memoirs (Sarnoff Library, Princeton, New Jersey), with corroborating circumstantial evidence from the surviving Victor files: The Camden > Philadelphia > Camden Chronology Late 1890s – February 1900: Collings Carriage Factory Building (Front & Market Streets), Camden, NJ According to Sooy, this was the site of Eldridge R. Johnson's first experimental recording studio. No documentation of the recordings made there is known to have survived February 1, 1900 – c. August 1, 1901: Johnson Factory Building, Camden, NJ In late 1899, Eldridge Johnson began construction of a four-story factory building in Camden. Sooy recalled having moved Johnson's recording equipment from the carriage factory to the new building on or around February 1, 1900. By that time, according to Sooy, Johnson was recording masters for Berliner. Recording of Johnson's own masters (i.e., those issued on his various Victor predecessor labels) began on May 1, 1900. The last of Johnson's Berliner masters for which a date is confirmed was recorded two days later. Johnson's studio was moved from Camden to Philadelphia in September 1901, according to Sooy (and the Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on October 3). The move was made to provide more space for the machine shop. Recording in Camden appears to have ended on August 1, 1901, and it would not resume there until December 9, 1907. August 2 – September 4, 1901: No recording activity September 5, 1901 – November 22, 1907: 424 S. 10th Street, Philadelphia Sooy recalled that the Victor studio was moved to Philadelphia from its original Camden location during September 1901. The Victor files, which show that no recordings were made during August 2 – September 4, 1901, lend credence to Sooy's recollection. Assuming this thirty-four day hiatus marks the Camden-to-Philadelphia transition, the last Camden session would have been Rogers & Pryor's "Answer" ("pre-matrix" Victor 837, an August 1 remake of a May 31 session); and the first Philadelphia session would have been Frank Seiden's "Rosinkes und Mandlein" ("pre-matrix" Victor 928, recorded September 5, 1901). The large numerical gap occurs because the Rogers & Pryor catalog number was allocated at the time of the original session. Sooy recalled, "The moving of the Laboratory from Camden [to] Philadelphia was done…by Mr. MacEwan, a bob-tail horse and Mr. Nafey. Money in these days not being overly plentiful, MacEwan acted as teamster on the job, and Nafey, I guess, was boss; however, the moving was done in a very creditable manner… Upon entering our new quarters at 424 So. 10th St., or 10th and Lombard Sts., which was known as the colored belt of Philadelphia, we were furnished with considerable excitement in the neighborhood outside of making records." Philadelphia would host Victor's main studio for six years. The studio was located on the second floor of a building formerly occupied by the Berliner Gramophone Company. A matrix-plating plant was housed in the basement, and a blank-processing department was opened on the third floor in January 1904. Stampers were shipped to the Duranoid Company (and, for a time, to the Burt Company as well) for pressing. Victor also maintained a Philadelphia branch office in the Girard Building during this period. As far as can be ascertained from documentary and circumstantial evidence, no Victor recording studio existed in Camden while the Philadelphia studio was in operation. Thus, the many modern citations of Camden recording sessions from September 5, 1901 through November 1907 are in error. November 23 – December 8, 1907: No recording activity From December 9, 1907: Front & Cooper Streets, Camden, NJ During November 1907, the Philadelphia studio was closed, and a new studio was opened on the fourth floor of what would later come to be known as Building #15 in Camden. The transitional period is apparent in the Victor files, which show no recordings were made during November 23–December 8, 1907. Assuming this sixteen-day hiatus marks the Philadelphia-to-Camden transition, the last Philadelphia recording would have been Alan Turner's "The White Squall" (mx. B 4961, recorded November 22, 1907; delayed release on Victor 16006); and the first Camden recording would have been the Victor Orchestra's "Army and Navy Medley Reel" (mx. B 4962, rejected takes 1 and 2, recorded December 9, 1907). While many Red Seal sessions continued to be held in New York, the Camden studio was also used for Red Seal sessions beginning December 11, 1907. "From this time on," Harry Sooy stated, "recording dates of a Red Seal nature were alternated between the Camden and New York laboratories to suit the convenience of the artists." On March 13, 1911, the studio was moved to the newly added seventh floor of Building #15. Additional studios were installed in the building over the years, the last major addition being a large room for orchestral sessions in late 1924. After RCA's acquisition of Victor in 1929, the Camden studios were slowly phased out in favor of New York. After attempts to record a large symphony orchestra in the regular studio proved unsatisfactory, the eighth-floor auditorium of the Executive Building in Camden was converted to a temporary studio in the autumn of 1917. The hundred-member Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck made its first recordings in the auditorium studio on October 2, followed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski on October 22. In early 1918, Victor purchased the Trinity Church at 114 North Fifth Street, Camden, which it converted to a studio for large vocal and instrumental ensembles, as well as sessions requiring a pipe-organ regardless of ensemble size (the original church organ was eventually replaced with a more robust model). Recording commenced there on February 27, 1918. During 1928, the main floor of the church was used on occasion as a supplemental Vitaphone sound-stage, and a basement studio was used for soundtrack dubbing. Victor's New York Studios (1903 – Early 1920s) Initially, Victor maintained a New York studio solely for the convenience of its Red Seal artists. Less-stellar artists were required to travel to Philadelphia (or later, to Camden). Sooy stated that all Red Seal sessions prior to July 22, 1907, were held in New York, and file evidence seems to support his assertion. March 26, 1903 – October 8, 1904: Carnegie Hall Annex (Room 826), New York Victor leased studio space in the annex, not in the theater itself as has been stated in some works. Enrico Caruso made his first Victor recordings there, and as far as can be ascertained, all Carnegie Hall sessions involved Red Seal artists. Sooy recalled, "It was a great relief to get out of Carnegie Hall, and away from the Vocal Studios where vocal teachers were constantly trying voices, good, bad and otherwise." The Carnegie Hall Annex studio was not a full-time operation. October 8, 1904 – June 1, 1909: 234 Fifth Avenue, New York As with the Carnegie Hall studio, this location was reserved primarily for Red Seal sessions and was not a full-time operation. After June 1, 1909: By the later 'teens, Victor's New York studios were being used for popular as well as classical sessions, and cities usually are listed in the files (see DAHR's free online Victor data for locations of each session). Victor operated its main New York studios at the following addresses during the remainder of the acoustic era: June 2, 1909 – April 1912: 37–39 E. 29th Street, New York (first full-time New York studio) April 1912 – January 18, 1917: 12–14 W. 37th Street, New York January 19, 1917 — January 5, 1921: 46 W. 38th Street, New York From January 6, 1921: National Association Building (28 W. 44th Street, 22nd floor), New York By the later 1920s, Victor was operating at least three New York studios simultaneously, including leased space in Liederkranz Hall. These studios, as well as Victor's Midwestern and West Coast studios and its field-recording locations, will be the subject of a future article. © 2017 by Allan R. Sutton. All rights are reserved. Categories: 78 rpm Record Information, 78 rpm Record Labels, 78 rpm records, Record Research, Recording Industry History, Victor 78 rpm Records, Victor Red Seal Records, Victor Talking Machine Company Tags: Eldridge Johnson Berliner masters, eldridge r. johnson, Victor Camden New Jersey studios, Victor New York studios, Victor Philadelphia recording studio, Victor Talking Machine Company recording studios, where were Victor 78 rpm records made ← The John Fletcher Story, Part 2: The Olympic-Remington Debacle (1921 – 1922) More Gennett Odds-and-Ends: The Wolverines Give a Concert (1924) / Christmas Greetings Ad (1923) →

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Ravens Retrospective Review: Week 9 Loss to the Tennessee Titans The 2017 Baltimore Ravens are the most inconsistent football team I have ever witnessed. One week, they completely dismantle their opposition and cruise to an easy victory. However, in the next week, they completely lose all momentum and fall to a team that they should have defeated. This team went from dropping 40 points on the Dolphins, to scoring their only two touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the Titans. If the Ravens had won this game, they would have been sitting atop a 5-4 record, heading into their bye week in the AFC playoff picture. Instead, they are now sitting on a 4-5 record, on the outside looking in at the AFC playoffs. If the Ravens are going to make the playoffs this year, it will take an outstanding effort from both sides of the ball, especially on offense. The Troubled Ravens Offense This Baltimore Ravens offense was so close to breaking out against the Titans. The Ravens were able to move the football throughout the game but were unable to find much success after crossing midfield. Baltimore, as usual, relied too heavily on small deek and dunk plays to move the ball. Flacco rarely looked down the field, and when he did, he was not very successful. It was not very surprising that the Ravens passing attack struggled against the Titans. Baltimore's air attack has struggled all season. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the Ravens rushing attack barely moved the ball all game. Ravens Passing Attack Marty Mornhinweg has learned nothing during his tenure as the Ravens offensive coordinator. The Baltimore Ravens throw too many screens, too many short passes, and do not attempt enough big plays. Joe Flacco outplayed Titans' quarterback Marcus Mariota, except in a key area. Mariota averaged 7.8 yards per attempt, while Flacco averaged just 5.0 yards per attempt. How can Marty Morhinwheg let this happen? Flacco has one of the best arms in the NFL, but he is not given opportunities to use it. In a recent interview, Dennis Pitta confirmed something that I had been suspicious of for a long time. Pitta confirmed that "Right now, Joe has one read and then he's got to check it down if it's not there,". That is the worst passing strategy possible for the Ravens. Marty Mornhinweg is treating Joe Flacco like a college quarterback with a gameplan like that. It is not like Joe Flacco is some bum off the street. He is a ten-year veteran and is a former Super Bowl MVP. There is no reason that the offensive gameplan should be dumbed down in the slightest. The Ravens have Mike Wallace, Jeremy Maclin, and Benjamin Watson that are all viable options to throw to in the passing game. Flacco should not be forced to stare down the barrel on one receiver, and check down to Javorius Allen when the receiver is not open. "Buck" Allen, a running back, currently leads the Ravens receiving corps in receptions and targets, at 39 and 50 respectively. When he is thrown to, Allen averages 4.8 yards per catch. Meanwhile, Mike Wallace averages 13.4 yards per reception, Jeremy Maclin averages 11.5 yards, and Ben Watson averages 6.9 yards. There is no reason to continue this awful strategy when passing the ball, as it is only going to lead to more pain and misery. Also, special shoutout to Breshad Perriman for only catching 3 of his 7 targets, for 28 yards, and causing one interception. On Flacco's rare deep bomb, Perriman did not fight for the ball, and the ball was tipped and intercepted as a result. Despite having his best game yardage wise, Perriman continues to disappoint and frustrate. He is officially a bust. Ravens Rushing Attack Baltimore must have caught something from Miami. On Miami's first rushing play of the game, Jay Ajayi ran for 21 yards on the first play of the game but got shut down by the Baltimore defense for the rest of the game. The same thing happened to Alex Collins against Tennessee. On the first rushing play of the game, he ran for 14 yards on the ground. However, on 12 carries after that, Collins gained just 29 yards. What is supposed to be the only strength of Baltimore's offense, failed to carry the offense to victory. The Ravens were missing a key piece of their rushing game against the Titans. Tight end Nick Boyle, sat out the game with a toe injury. Boyle has become the premier run blocker of the Ravens offense, and his absence was visible in Sunday's loss. Ravens Offensive Line I criticized the Ravens offensive line a lot earlier this season. The unit simply was unable to give Joe Flacco any time to throw the ball. However, in recent weeks, Baltimore's offensive line has become a much-improved unit. The offensive line was frankly the best offensive unit on the field for the Ravens in Nashville. For the most part, Flacco had plenty of time to sit in the pocket and make throws. Although, this really does not matter as the passing game is poorly schemed, and doomed to fail regardless. Despite the poor performance of the Ravens rushing attack, the offensive line is not to blame. Tennessee honestly just made more plays on Baltimore's running backs than the opposite. Again, Baltimore was also missing Nick Boyle, who is a key blocker in the Ravens' offensive run scheme. Ravens Two Minute Offense Reviewing the Ravens two-minute offense is not typically part of Ravens Retrospective Review, however, the sluggish performance on Sunday merits some dialogue about it. The Ravens are down 10 points with 3:58 left in the fourth quarter. In less than two minutes, Joe Flacco takes the team down into the red zone, and the Ravens score a touchdown to bring the game within 3 points before the two-minute warning. That is what is supposed to happen. Instead, the Ravens decided to slow-walk the entire drive and were cautious not to get tired or run out of breath. It took the Ravens 3 minutes and 12 seconds on a TWO MINUTE OFFENSE DRILL to score a touchdown. This basically sealed the game as a Titans victory, as the Ravens would only have 46 seconds to score again, contingent that they are successful on an onside kick attempt. The Ravens were unable to come up with the onside kick. If Baltimore had simply scored before the two-minute warning, they could have gotten the ball back without having to attempt an onside kick. However, they came up a whole minute and 14 seconds short. The snail-like pace of the Ravens offense in late game situations has been bugging me for years. There is no urgency in the most urgent moments of the game. This needs to change. The Choking Ravens Defense The Ravens defense was able to hold back the Titans offense for most of the game. Aside from a quick drive in the first quarter that resulted in a Rishard Matthews touchdown, the defense kept Marcus Mariota and the Titans in check. However, when it really counted, the defense faltered. Baltimore scored a touchdown with 8:56 left in the game to bring the Ravens within three points of the Titans. The Baltimore defense then failed to stop the Titans from scoring a touchdown, the only score they needed to prevent. Tennessee drove down the field in a 9 play, 75-yard drive, that shaved off 4:58 from the clock. Simply put, the Ravens defense was unable to close the game and choked. Ravens Passing Defense The Ravens pass defense and secondary was solid throughout most of the game but failed to succeed in crunch time. Marcus Mariota threw 28 passes for 19 completions, yielding him a 67.86% completion rate. Mariota also threw for 218 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. Unsurprisingly, cornerback Jimmy Smith was on lockdown all game. However, his counterpart, Brandon Carr, was not. Carr was torched a couple of times during the game, on two consecutive plays. Brandon Carr got beat by Corey Davis, then Rishard Matthews for the Tennessee touchdown. Other than that mistake that occurred in the first quarter, the Ravens secondary was stout. They were lights out until the final Tennessee drive. Marcus Mariota on his final drive threw for 63 yards and scored an all but game-clinching touchdown with 3:58 left in the game. The Ravens secondary was built to close games but failed to do so against the Titans. Ravens Rushing Defense The Ravens rush defense seems to have found direction again. Before crushing the Miami Dolphins, Baltimore's run defense was one of the worst in the league. Since completely shutting down Jay Ajayi and the Dolphins rushing attack, Baltimore's rush defense has been stout. In the loss to the Titans, the Ravens held the elite rushing trio of Marcus Mariota, DeMarco Murray, and Derrick Henry, to just 51 yards on 20 attempts. The three averaged a combined 2.55 yards per carry. Tennessee's best run actually came from a player who does not normally play offense, cornerback Adoree' Jackson. Jackson found a way to gain 20 yards on one rush. Aside from that play though, the Titans rushing attack was completely lackluster. If the Ravens defense can continue to play like this, they will be able to shut down opposing offenses on a regular basis. Ravens Pass Rush The Ravens rounded out their solid defensive performance with a strong showing by the pass rush unit. The Ravens were able to drop Titans' quarterback Marcus Mariota three times, as Terrell Suggs and Matthew Judon each recorded their own sack. C.J. Mosley and Carl Davis combined for another sack on Mariota. The pass rush also hit Mariota seven times during the game. Overall, Mariota was pressured enough to give the Ravens defense the edge on the Titans passing attack. Mariota did not have a lot of time in the pocket and had to escape multiple times using his legs. However, towards the end of the game, the Ravens pass rush was not able to keep up to pace with the Titans offense. On the final Titans scoring drive that put the nail in the coffin, Mariota was rarely pressured, and that allowed him to make plays down the field. When it really counted, the pass rush was unable to come through and make a play. Overall, this was a very frustrating game to watch. The performance that the Baltimore Ravens gave on offense was pitiful. While the offense was stumbling over themselves, the defense was able to keep Baltimore in the game. However, late in the game, the two sides of the ball traded places. The Baltimore offense was able to drive down the field and put much-needed points on the board in the fourth quarter, but the defense was unable to hold the Tennessee offense one last time. If the Ravens use the bye week to focus on creating more big plays on offense, and closing games on defense, this team will be a very different squad for their next game. For this dismal performance in a crucial game, I give the Ravens offense a C- grade. The defense played well throughout the game but failed to come up in the clutch, so they receive an overall B grade for their performance in this loss. Overall, the Ravens get a C+ grade for their performance as a team. By Christopher Linfante Alex CollinsBen WatsonBrandon CarrBreshad PerrimanJavorius AllenJeremy MaclinJimmy SmithJoe FlaccoMarty MornhinwegMike Wallace Former Ravens Safety Bernard Pollard Lashes Out at John Harbaugh Bye Week Viewing Guide: Who to Root For

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"On July 25, 1997, the Agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] was notified by a licensee that a Troxler model 3430 moisture density gauge serial # 24885 had been stolen from the back of a pickup truck. The gauge was not found and the Agency's file was placed in 'Inactive' status. On May 18, 2017, the Agency was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation who reported the gauge had been found in an apartment in Houston, Texas, by the apartment's landlord. The gauge manufacturer was contacted and one of the manufacturer's technician retrieved the gauge and took it to its Houston location. The company that held the license is no longer licensed in the State of Texas. Additional information will be provided as it is received in accordance with SA-300." "The licensee reported the theft of a moisture/density gauge containing a 1.48 GBq (40 mCi) Am-Be source and a 0.296 GBq (10 mCi) Cs-137 source. The gauge was stolen from the back of a pickup truck when the operator stopped by his apartment complex. The lock had been cut from the chain securing the gauge. The licensee notified the local police. The gauge has not been recovered." "On May 18, 2017, the Agency notified the HOO that a moisture/density gauge reported lost on July 25, 1997, had been recovered. The information was provided under the original incident number I-7173. This event is now being tracked under incident number I-9490." Notified R4DO (Rollins) and NMSS Events Notification via email. "Pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1906, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) National Health Physics Program is notifying NRC of the receipt of two packages of radioactive material with removable surface contamination on the outside that exceeded NRC reporting limits. "The packages were received on the morning of Tuesday, May 30, 2017, by the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. This facility is a site of use under the VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, Missouri, which holds VHA permit number 24-00144-05 under the VHA master materials license. The packages were surveyed at about 0700 CDT. The wipe tests performed on the external surfaces of the packages indicated removable contamination of about 1,450 and 1,390 dpm/cm2 as compared to the regulatory limit of 240 dpm/cm2 for beta-gamma emitters. The packages contained unit dosages of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose. The packages were shipped from Cardinal Health in Wichita, Kansas, which was also the final delivery carrier. A facility nuclear medicine technologist notified the final delivery carrier by telephone of the contaminated packages soon after discovery of the contamination. VHA National Health Physics Program, which manages the master materials license, was notified of the incident at about 1700 CDT on Wednesday May 31, 2017. "The VHA is aware that this notification does not conform to the timeliness requirements in 10 CFR 20.1906. VHA will take appropriate action regarding this apparent noncompliance. VHA will notify our NRC Region III Project Manager of this incident."

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Many people don't know that they can get influenza — the respiratory disease we often call the flu — any time of the year. While flu viruses usually peak between December and February, cases of flu can start to increase much earlier. Last fall, for example, reported cases of flu started to increase in September. To be protected before flu season starts, now's the time to get a flu shot. The flu kills thousands of people each year and sends hundreds of thousands more to the hospital. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says most people who are six months or older should get a yearly flu shot. There are many reasons that this is good advice. You can get the disease from someone who doesn't know they have it and doesn't have any symptoms. And avoiding the two to three weeks of fever and severe headaches, muscle aches and pains some people will endure this winter makes the flu shot worth your time and trouble. Your decision to get a flu shot will also help protect other members of your community. That includes older people, children and pregnant women. It also includes people of all ages who have health problems like asthma or diabetes. They're all among those who have the highest risk of developing serious, even life-threatening, complications if they contract the disease. Like they have in previous years, researchers have updated the vaccine. This is to protect you from the flu strains they believe will be the most common during the coming flu season. The result is an effective vaccine you can get from your health care provider or your local pharmacy at low or no cost. In many cases, nearby hospitals or your workplace will also offer flu shots. The vaccine could cause a reaction, but it's almost always mild. You might have redness, pain and swelling at the injection site or even a brief fever. Both are treatable with an over-the-counter pain reliever. Keep in mind that it takes about two weeks for the shot to start protecting you. That's why you shouldn't wait until the flu season is raging to get your shot. Get it as soon as it's available in your area. The CDC recommends getting it by the end of October. What If You Still Get the Flu? Stay home from work or school for at least 24 hours and until your fever subsides without a fever-reducing medicine. Use over-the-counter medicines to ease symptoms. Talk to your doctor about care for young children. Don't skip the flu shot because you got it last year or because you don't have time. It will take far less time out of your schedule to get the shot than you'll spend recovering from the flu. Plan to get your flu shot as soon as it is available so you'll be protected before peak season hits. The persistent threat of vaccine-preventable diseases. A hundred years ago, millions of people would die from a single outbreak of measles, mumps, polio or some other infectious disease. Today, stories about epidemics like those are told in history books, not the evening news — thanks to vaccines. But with some preventable diseases making a comeback, it's important to grasp how vital vaccines are in our lives. You can read about the new threat of preventable diseases and how we can stop them in our online magazine, Making the Health Care System Work.

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Photograph: Hemis/Alamy In Chamonix, with the cable car and lifts, it's easy. And because this is the birthplace of alpinism, when you're in the mountains you're either on a historic route or you can see one, and I find that pretty inspiring. I enjoy just being in the mountains with good friends and family, but in the town, the Maison des Artistes, an artist's residence dedicated to musical creativity, has a concert programme that changes all the time and can be quite unusual. Chamonix is incredibly international: people from all over the world are brought together by the mountains. This part of the Arve valley is divided into three main towns: Argentière, Chamonix and Les Houches. I live in a hamlet called Les Bois, between Chamonix and Argentière, and from my bed I can see the 4,122-metre Aiguille Verte, so that's not bad. Closest to me is another hamlet called Les Praz, which has a nice bar, Le Petit Social, for coffee or après ski. On the other side is Le Lavancher and a 30-minute walk from that hamlet is la Buvette du Chapeau , a mountain cafe with traditional food (cheese, charcuterie, chanterelle omelettes) and desserts such as fruit tarts and faisselle (local fromage blanc) with blueberry jam. It has panoramic views from the terrace. The train to Montenvers climbs up to the Mer de Glace, France's largest glacier. Photograph: Alamy I feel as if the whole of the Mont Blanc range is my garden, and there are great views everywhere – one of the best is from Montroc, further up the valley. At Montenvers you can take a look at what's left of the Mer de Glace, France's largest glacier, which is melting so fast. It's sad when I see the mountains so dry and grey and smoky because of the rocks falling. But it's sadder for my kids and the next generations. And guiding is probably going to be more and more difficult as we will have to adapt to working more in spring, which can be difficult because the terrain is pretty unstable then. Chamonix is a busy mountain town with lots of tourists so the nightlife is good. But since I've had kids, my preferred way of spending an evening is getting the cable car to Plan de l'Aiguille and watching the sunset from the Refuge du Plan de l'Aiguille, which is a 15-minute walk from the cable car. You can have dinner and stay the night there, too, but in summer I like to take a picnic and camp up there. It is my favourite refuge in the whole Mont Blanc range and the mountains are pretty steep from there on, so if I stay the night, I know I can soon be up and doing something interesting the next morning! Pointe Isabelle (doubles from €90 room-only), in the centre of town, is a hotel, bar and bistro with 72 rooms. It sits on a corner, so is a good place for apéro and people watching. 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ASSA ABLOY is a Swedish public limited liability company with registered office in Stockholm, Sweden, whose Series B share is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm. The corporate governance of ASSA ABLOY is based on the Swedish Companies Act, the Annual Accounts Act, the Nasdaq Stockholm Rule Book for Issuers and the Swedish Corporate Governance Code, as well as other applicable external laws, rules and regulations, and internal rules and regulations. 2018 Corporate Governance Report has been prepared as part of ASSA ABLOY's application of the Swedish Corporate Governance Code. The report is examined by ASSA ABLOY's auditor. Shareholders' rights to decide on the affairs of ASSA ABLOY are exercised at the General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting should be held within six months of the end of the company's financial year. Matters considered at the Annual General Meeting include: dividend; adoption of the income statement and balance sheet; discharge of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability; election of members of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Directors and auditor; determination of remuneration guidelines for senior management and fees for the Board of Directors and auditor. The Annual General Meeting 2018 has adopted an instruction for the Nomination Committee, including a procedure for appointment of the Nomination Committee which applies until further notice. Pursuant to this instruction the Nomination Committee shall be composed of representatives of the five largest shareholders in terms of voting rights registered in the shareholders' register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB as of August 31 the year before the Annual General Meeting. The Nomination Committee has the task of preparing, among other things, the election of the members of the Board of Directors and the election of the auditor as well as their fees. Since the Annual General Meeting 2018 the Board of Directors consists of eight members elected by the Annual General Meeting and two employee representatives, together with two deputies, appointed by the employee organizations in accordance with Swedish law. The Board of Directors is responsible for the organization and administration of the Group and for ensuring satisfactory control of bookkeeping, asset management and other financial circumstances. The Board of Directors has a Remuneration Committee and an Audit Committee. The purpose of these Committees is to deepen and streamline the work of the Board of Directors and to prepare matters in these areas. The CEO is responsible to the Board of Directors for the day-to-day management of the company. The Executive Team of ASSA ABLOY consists of the CEO, the heads of the Group's divisions, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Human Resources Officer. ASSA ABLOY's operations are decentralized and divided into five divisions: EMEA, Americas, Asia Pacific, Global Technologies and Entrance Systems. ASSA ABLOY's auditor is appointed at the Annual General Meeting.

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Brett's First Cut: We'll be LIVE from Golden Hall. Vote then tune in for results! Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - ELECTION DAY! The Pulse Opinion Research survey found that 51 percent of Hispanics believe that there has been "too little" done to enforce immigrationlaws. What's more, by a margin of 49 percent to 36 percent, Hispanics "support a policy causing illegal immigrants to return home by enforcing the law."Overall, the survey done for the Center for Immigration Studies, found that most Americans, 54 percent, believe that the administration has done too little to enforce immigration laws and 56 percent support returning illegals. It might seem that Democrats have built up a big early lead. More than 1.3 million Democrats have already voted compared to 990,000 Republicans. But the raw numbers don't account for the 2012 results. President Barack Obama built an early lead then but got trounced by Mitt Romney on Election Day. Wait- WHAT?! US and Turkey plan to take over Raqqa and govern it? American and Turkish military leaders have agreed to develop a long-term plan for "seizing, holding and governing" the de facto ISIS capital of Raqqa in northern Syria, the US Department of Defense's news service reported Sunday."The coalition and Turkey will work together on the long-term plan for seizing, holding and governing Raqqa," Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford said after meeting his Turkish counterpart Army Gen. Hulusi Akar in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday, according to DoD News.

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Few business school graduates at the turn of the millennium will have completed their studies without the oft-repeated phrase "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" ringing in their ears. Fewer still will have emerged unscathed from a well-intentioned but ultimately flawed corporate 'Culture Change Programme'. However, as Clarendon Executive's Mark Latuske explains, after a period of dormancy the 'C' word is firmly back on the agenda for businesses seeking ways to differentiate themselves and outperform competitors in an increasingly complex operating market. Louis Gerstner Jr. who famously overhauled IBM in the 1990s and early 2000s is synonymous with the quote: "I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game." The centrality of culture in organisational success is not a new idea but there has been limited success in codifying, explaining, and repeating how the very best organisations have been able to harness their culture to deliver impact and excellence. A piece of research by the Katzenbach Center in 2013 found that 84% of respondents believed culture was critical to business success yet only 35% thought that their company's culture was effectively managed. Let's pause on that statistic for a moment…. is there any other area within business where such disconnect exists between perceived importance and perceived effectiveness? Yet, it was not always thus. In the late 1990s and 2000s, 'Culture' became a 'buzzword' within organisations – it was a word commonly used in society, but pulled into a corporate context as a new and dynamic way of making sense of organisational performance. In those more affluent times, the world was not short of organisations willing to invest significant money and resource into a range of linked initiatives including 'Cultural Assessment', 'Cultural Change Programmes', and even the appointment of 'Heads of Culture'. But, over time the wheels fell off the culture bandwagon – in part due to a period of recession and austerity, with many organisations unwilling to be seen to invest in initiatives that were not always clearly tangible and explicitly core to organisational success. This was a decline not just attributable to a reduction in discretionary spend, but also the product of failed 'Culture Programmes' which very often were run in a separate and disconnected way from both an organisation's strategy and goals, and as a separate construct away from the day-to-day operation of a business. Culture could indeed eat strategy for breakfast, but all too often organisations approached 'Culture Change' as an optional stand-alone meal – like the fabled 'second breakfast'. However, culture in the organisational context has in the last number of years begun to awaken from its slumber and leave behind a period of hibernation. Organisations are speaking openly again about the impact of culture, are actively measuring it, and are not 'afraid' to talk again about cultural change. Yet, this is not simply a repackaging of old concepts, wheeled out from the back of the 'ideas cupboard.' This rebirth feels quite different to the organisational culture 'phenomenon' of 10-15 years ago - culture is back, but with a twist. It is increasingly seen as not something distinct and separate, but something that is at the heart of the design and delivery of an organisation's strategy and objectives. Culture is no longer stand-alone, it is the way in which an organisation can focus on and accelerate the delivery of outcomes. Organisations are these days less likely to talk about culture being 'The way we do things around here' – which to my mind, always had the air of an excuse that could be rolled off the tongue - and increasingly inclined to see the contribution made by culture as 'The way we achieve things around here.' The right kind of culture is a prerequisite for excellence; not a by-product of success. To some, this might seem like splitting hairs – but this nuance matters. Organisations that are beginning again to embrace the measurement of, and take action on, organisational culture are those that appreciate its worth and impact. Companies are investing in assessing and amending their organisational culture because they increasingly see that in a more complex and competitive business environment, having the 'right' approach acts as a material differentiator in delivering excellence internally and externally, and in turn achieving organisational outperformance. It used to be that the route into a conversation around organisational culture was a period of dreadful hand-wringing with individuals commenting; "The culture is dreadful here – we need to change it." Undoubtedly this scenario still arises, but increasingly we see senior individuals spending as much time on the analysis, design, and implementation of an organisation's culture as we might normally have expected on say strategy and product development. They realise it matters and spend effort and energy in taking stock of how the company's culture currently is, and how it will need to evolve for the next phase of growth and progression. With an enhanced focus on the importance of organisational culture in the ability of a business to accelerate delivery and success, the most progressive companies increasingly realise the impact of the 'wrong hire', and are doing more to check for 'fit' when recruiting from outside, particularly when recruiting for critical and senior leadership roles. Assessing technical competence and track record continue to be critical, but recognising the impact of 'the way we do things', organisations are placing an enhanced onus on how a potential new external recruit's style could complement and also improve the existing way things are done in the business. The very best organisations have moved from seeing a 'test for fit' as one small element of a selection process, typically one question at the end of an interview. These organisations design all elements of their selection approach with 'culture in mind' – with every question asked and exercise undertaken designed to give data and intelligence that fully reflects the 'range' of sub-cultures that exist within a business; the 'below-the-surface' skills and styles the individual brings; and indeed, how some of those less overtly obvious factors might be as compatible as oil and water. At the heart of this, organisations are trying to heighten their insight into the likely impact of an intact organisational culture on the ability of an individual to make an impact; and the likely impact of the individual's style and approach on the existing organisational culture. And this focus does not stop once a preferred candidate has signed on the dotted line. In our previous articles, both Anne Daley and I have considered the importance of 'new external hires' and indeed 'new internal promotes' to Senior Roles in an organisation taking the time to manage their transition properly, appreciating and utilising their strengths, and taking the time to both work on their developmental areas, and 'hit the ground learning'. Arguably this is most acute in the concept of organisational culture, and in fact applies to both the individual transitioning and to the organisation - this willingness to 'hit the ground learning' should be felt on both sides. The new hire needs to blend the way that they have succeeded in the past with the 'way things get done around here' – weeding out and amending the poorest practices and implementing the very best. Similarly, an organisation needs to consider whether the 'way we do things around here' could be improved, and an appreciation that the individual who now holds this position does not just bring 'technical' competence, but also an appreciation of how to get the best from the people at their disposal.

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The Senate's preposterous new ethanol bill. The Senate's preposterous new ethanol bill. The ethanol madness continues! Last week, the Senate passed an energy bill mandating the production of 36 billion gallons of ethanol per year by 2022—a sevenfold increase over current levels. Senators congratulated themselves for their environmental foresight. The president, a biofuels advocate, has enthusiastically endorsed the ethanol surge. But it's almost certainly a fantasy, since no one in Washington seems to have thought for five minutes about where or how that much ethanol could be produced. Let's look at corn first. The Senate's ethanol mandate will increase the consumption of corn, the single most subsidized crop in America. In 2005 alone, according to the Environmental Working Group, corn subsidies totaled $9.4 billion. By increasing ethanol production—and thus corn production and consumption—the mandate will likely cost taxpayers extra billions both in the form of higher subsidy payments and higher food costs. But set aside the budget concerns for a practical one. How much ethanol can be produced from corn? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, distillers can produce about 2.7 gallons of ethanol per bushel of corn. In 2006, U.S. farmers produced about 10.5 billion bushels of the grain. So, even if Congress mandated that all of America's corn be turned into ethanol, it would yield only about 28.3 billion gallons, far less than the mandated volume. And, clearly, most of America's corn is still going to be used for animal feed, family barbecues, and high-fructose corn syrup. So, let's assume that only half of U.S. corn gets used for ethanol production. That would provide about 14 billion gallons of the 36 billion gallons demanded by the Senate. The other 22 billion gallons of alcohol will have to come from cellulosic ethanol—a fuel that can be made from cornstalks, wood chips, or grass (that legendary "switch grass" that President Bush likes to talk about). But cellulosic ethanol is like the tooth fairy: Many people believe in it, but no one ever actually sees it. Maybe. But there's no reason to expect that the cellulosic ethanol industry will be able to grow fast enough to supply the 22 billion gallons in question. Developing an ethanol production system based on biomass will likely take decades. It took more than 25 years of federal subsidies before corn ethanol production reached 5 billion gallons per year. In fact, it took 13 years just to get to 1 billion gallons. Given the massive investments required for new distilleries, storage tanks, and transportation networks, it's reasonable to assume that it will take at least that long for cellulosic ethanol to reach similar production levels. And yet, the Senate expects the cellulosic ethanol business will grow to be four times as large as the corn ethanol sector is today, and do so in just 15 years. Perhaps the most important constraint on cellulosic ethanol is geographic. Like corn ethanol, cellulosic ethanol production is limited by the amount of arable land. In May 2006, former CIA Director John Deutch, who's now a chemistry professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that producing enough ethanol from switch grass (a fast-growing plant that's native to North America) would require vast amounts of acreage. Deutch estimated that producing enough cellulosic ethanol to replace 1 million barrels of oil per day—roughly equivalent to 22 billion gallons of ethanol per year—would require planting 25 million acres of land in switch grass. That's an area about the size of Kentucky, or about 5 percent of the 440 million acres of cropland in the United States. And all of this assumes that making cellulosic ethanol is even worth doing from an energy standpoint. A peer-reviewed study of alternative automotive fuels to be published this week by Jan Kreider, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, found that like corn ethanol, cellulosic ethanol produces minuscule gains in net new energy. (Other studies have shown both types of ethanol to be net energy losers. Still others claim significant energy gains.) Kreider's paper will be published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as part of its 2007 conference on energy sustainability. So, what about using more ethanol from sugar cane? Well, the United States could, at least in theory, grow more cane. But that wouldn't make much sense, given that Brazil can produce it at far lower cost. And, thanks to pressure from farm-state senators, Congress has effectively limited the use of Brazilian ethanol with its $0.54 per-gallon tariff on foreign ethanol. The final issue is quantity. Thirty-six billion gallons of ethanol a year sounds like a lot, but it's only 2.34 million barrels per day. And given ethanol's lower heat content—about two-thirds that of gasoline—the effective production would be equivalent to 1.54 million barrels of oil per day. The United States uses nearly 21 million barrels of oil per day, of which 12.54 million barrels are imported. Thus, even if American ethanol producers can miraculously achieve the Senate's goal of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, they will be producing the equivalent of just 7.4 percent of America's total current oil needs and just 12.2 percent of its imports. That quantity of ethanol will not take America very far toward the oft-repeated goal of energy independence. Alas, the ethanol craze isn't limited to Congress. Presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards, a Democrat, has declared that the United States should be producing 65 billion gallons of ethanol and other biofuels per year by 2025. And every major presidential candidate—including former ethanol heretic John McCain, a Republican—are genuflecting in front of the ethanol altar. So, don't expect the ethanol binge to stop any time soon. An ethanol-induced hangover is sure to follow.

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Measurement matters. An equitable economy is impossible without it. "What we measure affects what we do. If we measure the wrong thing, we will do the wrong thing. If we don't measure something, it becomes neglected, as if the problem didn't exist." That's the bottom-line message of a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that recommends changes in how nations measure their economic progress and the well-being of their citizens. Equitable Growth has long argued that many of our topline economic statistics are doing a poor job of measuring the welfare of citizens. As a first step to remedying the problem, Gross Domestic Product growth should be disaggregated so that each report tells us to whom growth is accruing. Academic analyses of federal tax data show that economic growth is too often benefitting only those at the top of the wealth and income ladders, leaving working- and middle-class Americans behind. Advocating for one federal agency to generate a couple of new numbers may strike many readers as inconsequential, the kind of technocratic window dressing that will do nothing, in itself, to address the challenges posed by rising economic inequality. But as the OECD report makes clear, the policies that governments implement are influenced by the data available to them and by the data that dominate public discourse. This lesson is plain from our experience in the United States. A few key economic statistics dominate our discussion of economic progress. Chief among them is GDP growth. The value of growth is an article of religious faith for most politicians and the political press. Small wonder that presidential candidates promise specific growth targets if they are elected and trumpet gains in GDP as proof of their success. But these conversations are often misguided. They often overlook the fact that not all GDP growth is the same and, moreover, that GDP growth in the aggregate means little for any individual person. In fact, GDP growth could be rising while the majority of workers see stagnant incomes. That we nonetheless pay so much attention to it is proof of the agenda-setting power of government statistics. The impact is not simply rhetorical. What we measure has a strong impact on policy. Consider the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The bill's sponsors promised strong growth gains from the cuts, and critics engaged with this point specifically, arguing in many cases that these claims were unrealistic, and that the actual contribution to growth would be low. But GDP growth really isn't the right metric at all. The core analytic tools necessary for evaluating a tax cut, as Equitable Growth pointed out at the time, are distribution tables and revenue estimates. Distribution tables provide estimates of the change in economic well-being that results from tax legislation for people at different income levels. Moving "Beyond GDP," as the OECD report's title suggests, is a significant challenge. Economists need to agree on what the right metrics are and how to calculate them. But U.S. policymakers can move ahead on some reforms now. Earlier this year, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced bills in their respective chambers of Congress to task the Bureau of Economic Analysis with providing distributional estimates of GDP growth. Rather than one GDP growth estimate, this legislation would require estimates for Americans in each decile of income and would further break out gains made by those in the top 1 percent. Passage of the bill would fulfill "Recommendation 6" of the OECD report. In addition to refocusing the public and policymakers on the need for broad-based growth, these statistics may help economists diagnose weaknesses in the economy earlier and respond to them better. The OECD report persuasively suggests that having better statistics might have prompted a better policy response to the Great Recession worldwide. But we will also have to train politicians and pundits to stop paying attention solely to GDP, which is increasingly divorced from the experience of everyday Americans in this age of widening inequality. The additional complexity of tracking a range of growth numbers instead of one need not be terrifying. If anything, it is terrifying that one-number economic barometers devised in the 1950s still guide our actions, despite their declining relevance to the economic fortunes of average Americans. What if we took equity into account when measuring economic growth?

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Buy Books Online > Research methods: general > Advanced Qualitative Research Advanced Qualitative Research By: Michelle O'Reilly ISBN: 9781446273432 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd Year of publishing: 2015 Format: Paperback No of Pages: 224 Language: English This distinctive, nuanced book addresses the more complex theoretical issues embedded in the qualitative research paradigm. Adopting a reflective stance that emphasises the role of the researcher it carefully...Read more This distinctive, nuanced book addresses the more complex theoretical issues embedded in the qualitative research paradigm. Adopting a reflective stance that emphasises the role of the researcher it carefully avoids a standardised 'tick box' approach to methods. Throughout each chapter, theory is powerfully and persuasively interwoven as its impact on practical topics such as data management and safety in the field is discussed. O'Reilly and Kiyimba bring an authority and clarity to the debate, taking us beyond the mechanical notions of qualitative methods and standardised approaches to research. Instead, they focus on subjects like methodological integrity, perspective driven data collection and theoretically-led analysis. This will be an important resource for anyone looking to practically engage with advanced qualitative research methods. About the author: Michelle O'Reilly Dr Nikki Kiyimba is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Msc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma at Chester University UK, and also... Read more Dr Nikki Kiyimba is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Msc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma at Chester University UK, and also works as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist for Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust. Clinically, Nikki works with a range of clients presenting with severe and enduring psychological difficulties. Nikki's research interests are mainly in the areas of qualitative methods and therapeutic approaches. She is also interested in the impact of trauma and vicarious trauma. Grounded in a social constructionist epistemological perspective, she has a particular interest in qualitative research, and her analytic specialism is in using discursive approaches. Nikki has also recently co-authored the book 'Doing Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Qualitative Methods' (Sage). O'Reilly and Kiyimba's thorough and thoughtful book will be a great help to qualitative researchers looking for guidance in the 'why' of their research method. In navigating the reefs of theory...Read more O'Reilly and Kiyimba's thorough and thoughtful book will be a great help to qualitative researchers looking for guidance in the 'why' of their research method. In navigating the reefs of theory that underlie empirical method, this book provides a welcome and valuable compass. -- Charles Antaki This invaluable book offers a wonderfully clear and accessible overview of the often confusing theories informing contemporary qualitative methods. It is also packed with valuable examples and case studies that illuminate the process, methods and application of qualitative research. -- Alexa Hepburn Other books by Michelle O'Reilly Doing Mental Health Research... A Practical Introduction to... by Alan Morris SPSS for Research Methods by Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges Research Methodology: Theory and... by Jagadish R. Raiyani Innovations in Digital Research... by Peter Halfpenny by Hal A. Lawson Price: Rs.3377 Vendor : Repro Knowledgecast Ltd, Mumbai FREE SHIPPING | Delivered in 21 working days (Cash on delivery not available) Imported Edition

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Although recent reports have indicated that U.S. high school graduation rates have reached an all-time high, many students are still struggling to graduate and compete in today's global economy. With numerous studies suggesting the correlation between education and economic prosperity, having a well-trained workforce has many advantages. Many school districts have been proactively addressing this problem and are taking the appropriate steps to improve the learning outcomes of their pupils. Explore how two such districts, Hamilton County Department of Education and Mobile County Public Schools used IBM Analytics to intervene and offer at-risk students the support they needed to help uncover key factors that may impede their ability to perform. How can IT contribute to raising student graduation rates? Hamilton County Department of Education: We used IBM SPSS and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to achieve a record-high 84.5 percent graduation rate in 2013. Mobile County Public Schools: We used IBM data warehousing to raise graduation rates by three percent. Is it possible to identify at-risk students before they drop out? If so, how? Hamilton County Department of Education: Yes. Utilizing analytics helped increase our graduation rate from 24 percent to 86 percent in five years at Howard High School. Mobile County Public Schools: Yes. We used analytics to identify these students within a population of over 17,000 high school students. How does analytics affect school curricula? Hamilton County Department of Education: IBM enabled us to use data mining and text analytics to assess different types of teacher training against subsequent student progress and performance. Mobile County Public Schools: IBM provided us with insight into specific students to make a difference. How can we use data to determine if a student is in need? Hamilton County Department of Education: We were able to track student performance and provide teachers, social workers and administrators with the insight they needed to predict when students are at risk of underperforming or dropping out, and then proactively intervened. Mobile County Public Schools: Analytics provided our teachers and counselors with information on our pupils to give them encouragement and reach out to parents to help solve student problems. How can analytics improve schools and districts? Hamilton County Department of Education: Our enhancements in teacher training, combined with our existing analytics–led approach to continuous improvement, have contributed to a record 2013 for our county. It was rated in the top five percent of Tennessee school systems for performance and in the top ten percent for progress in 2013. Mobile County Public Schools: We are using intelligence to forge a closer bond with our students to help provide them with what they need and to make sure they get the most from their educational experience. That intelligence is helping us to shape citizens that are better prepared for today's more competitive world. How can data tell a student's story? Hamilton County Department of Education: We used analytics to learn which types of training were most effective in promoting student growth, and it revealed that instructional behavior was the most important focus. Aligning teaching practices with the latest research about how children learn is vital, and we are making it our primary focus for professional development. Mobile County Public Schools: IBM offers the Business Intelligence (BI) capability that enables school officials to define different at-risk scenarios, which helps them to proactively identify students at risk of dropping out. Moreover, BI also enables deeply understanding the different factors—domestic, learning-related or social—that affect this risk. Identifying and tracking risk patterns in real time enables teachers and counselors to intervene before problems begin to snowball. What are your thoughts? How is data and analytics making a difference in your industry? Weigh in by adding a comment. Read the full case studies with Hamilton County Public Schools and Mobile County Public Schools.

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Gerardus Antonius (Gerrit) van der Valk (Voorschoten, 13 juni 1928 – Marbella, 20 januari 2009) was een Nederlandse ondernemer. Hij was jarenlang leider van het familiebedrijf Van der Valk. Hij was getrouwd met Toos van der Valk en had zeven kinderen. Zelf kwam hij uit een gezin met elf kinderen. Carrière De vader van Gerrit van der Valk was eigenaar van het Van der Valk-restaurant te Voorschoten genaamd de Gouden Leeuw en zag voor zijn kinderen een toekomst in de horeca. Hij kocht daarom voor hen diverse horecabedrijven, hoofdzakelijk restaurants. Gerrit kreeg in 1954 het restaurant De Witte in Vught onder zijn hoede. Na een bezoek aan de Verenigde Staten ontdekte Gerrit van der Valk het motel-concept. Hij opperde het idee om ook in Nederland dergelijke zaken op te zetten in combinatie met restaurants. In 1968 werd Nuland geopend, het eerste motel van Van der Valk. Met de steun van zijn familie, bouwde hij het motel-idee verder uit. Eind jaren zeventig telde Van der Valk 20 zaken, in het eerste kwart van de eenentwintigste eeuw waren er meer dan honderd vestigingen onder de toekanvlag actief in binnen- en buitenland In 1982 werd zijn vrouw Toos ontvoerd. De familie legde het door de ontvoerders geëiste bedrag op tafel. Een jaar later vestigden Van der Valk en zijn vrouw zich in Zwitserland. In 1994 werd hij opgepakt op verdenking van belastingontduiking. De zaak werd na jaren van procesvoering afgekocht voor 213 miljoen gulden. Van der Valk overleed op tachtigjarige leeftijd na een hersenbloeding. Hij ligt begraven in Nuland. Nederlands horecaondernemer Valk

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Marquette student diagnosed with mumps Student lives off campus, not in residence halls, officials say Updated: 8:41 PM CDT Sep 9, 2012 Health officials said a Marquette University student has been diagnosed with mumps.The Marquette University's Student Health Service said the student lives off campus and not in the residence halls.A letter, however, was sent to faculty, staff and students who could have come into contact with the student diagnosed with mumps through an academic class.The health department said the incident is not an outbreak, and the student is recuperating at home.Marquette University Medical Director Dr. Carolyn Smith said that since 2007, the university has required every student to receive two doses of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine before they were allowed to register for classes.Students who may have been exposed or think they are experiencing symptoms are encouraged to contact the university's Student Health Service. Health officials said a Marquette University student has been diagnosed with mumps. The Marquette University's Student Health Service said the student lives off campus and not in the residence halls. A letter, however, was sent to faculty, staff and students who could have come into contact with the student diagnosed with mumps through an academic class. The health department said the incident is not an outbreak, and the student is recuperating at home. Marquette University Medical Director Dr. Carolyn Smith said that since 2007, the university has required every student to receive two doses of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine before they were allowed to register for classes. Students who may have been exposed or think they are experiencing symptoms are encouraged to contact the university's Student Health Service.

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Christina Wehner Classic movies, musicals, old books, and the great american songbook Movie Index Frequently Reviewed Directors Movie Essays All Things Pygmalion Tag Archives: Russian Literature War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy I've finally done it! After years of promising myself that I would read Tolstoy's War and Peace, after starting and stalling halfway through the book in my teens, I have at last finished reading Tolstoy's masterpiece. But as soon as I closed the book and returned it to my shelf, I felt deflated. All the energy and attention I had invested in trying to fully comprehend Tolstoy's expansive vision was suddenly gone. I had lost an aim in life and a constant companion. I must say, however, that War and Peace was not nearly as difficult to read as I found it when I was a teenager. I think the key to getting through Tolstoy's many battle sequences and dissertations on the war is to approach them, not as a history lesson, but as Tolstoy making a larger, metaphysical point: Russia defeated Napoleon's invasion of 1812 because Russia lives by instinct, and the characters who do best are the ones who understand this, or come to understand. Tolstoy's cast of characters is massive, but the central characters are Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, an ambitious young man eager for military glory and inclined to morbid intellectualizing. Pierre Bezukhov is his friend, a wealthy count who spends much of the book on a spiritual quest, looking for the meaning of life and struggling against a feeling of futility. Natasha Rostova is the woman both Andrei and Pierre love, a young girl who is entirely uninhibited, free of self-consciousness, who seems to embody that intense spiritual connection to the infinite that Tolstoy values so much. Her brother, Nikolai Rostov, is in many ways like her, though perhaps not quite so intense in his reaction to the beauty of life. Princess Marya Bolkonsky is Andrei's sister, a self-sacrificial woman striving genuinely to be good. The backdrop for these characters is the Napoleonic Wars, especially Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. Actually, it is more than a backdrop. Russia is almost the main character. All of Tolstoy's characters serve to illustrate Russia: its character, the expression of its soul and the deep spiritual nature that eschews artifice and theatricality (Tolstoy repeatedly shows Napoleon enamored of theatrical gestures). He calls Moscow a city that "appeared to be instinct with life" (translations by Rosemary Edmonds). He even makes the case that Napoleon is defeated by seizing Moscow. "And Moscow engulfed the army deeper and deeper into herself" and the result is that five weeks after the French entered the city "they were a mob of marauders" and no longer an army. General Kutuzov is Tolstoy's hero. He is the general who oversaw the driving of the French from Russian soil and he does so, according to Tolstoy, because "Kutuzov's merit did not lie in any strategic manoeuvre of genius, as it is called, but in the fact that he alone appreciated the significance of what happened." He was the only person who knew that by taking Moscow, the French were defeated and so he did not waste time or men with needless attacks. "This extraordinary power of insight into the significance of contemporary events sprang from the purity and fervour of his identification with the people." Tolstoy goes on to explain why the men who shape history the most are never remembered: "Such is the lot, not of great men – grands hommes – whom the Russian mind does not acknowledge – but of those rare and always solitary individuals who, divining the will of Providence, subordinate their personal will to it." Tolstoy has a low opinion of German generals, who embody futile strategy. And Tolstoy's assessment of Napoleon? "Self-confident mediocrity." For Tolstoy, Napoleon was self-deceived because he imagined that he directed events when, in fact, the events of history are determined by the individual acts of the people, which, taken together, make inevitable what the leaders do. For Tolstoy, this means that the insignificant person has more power than any leader, who is merely reacting to what is already happening. Tolstoy doesn't think much of historians, who look for "great" men to explain events and he goes to great lengths to show how wrong historians are, especially in their love-affair with greatness, which Tolstoy fears, gives such "great men" a pass on issues of good and evil: And it never enters anyone's head that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable littleness….and there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent. With this backdrop, Tolstoy's characters struggle to find their place, to reconcile desire for greatness – or even desire for self-comfort – with that world. One of the things I like about Tolstoy (he does the same thing in Anna Karenina) is how he contrasts and parallels decisions and events that characters make. Andrei, Pierre, Nikolai and Natasha all go through an experience where they are troubled, but are then renewed with a fresh understanding of the infinite, of their place in the infinite and that so many things, in comparison, do not matter. For some characters, like Andrei, it takes several such moments and he never truly understands until he is dying. Pierre, however, has a near-death experience. He thinks he's going to be shot by the French and is then taken prisoner. As a result, he is able, without actually dying, to discover what really matters in life. While a prisoner, "it did not now occur to him to cogitate about Russia, or the war, or politics, or Napoleon. He realized that all that was no business of his…" He learns that "man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity." He goes on to comprehend that "Life is everything. Life is God…to love life is to love God." Natasha seems to realize all this by instinct. After Andrei dies, she grieves deeply, but recovers faster than one would suppose, within months coming alive again and welcoming love. She seems to realize (though she never spends time reflecting like Andrei, Pierre and Marya) that it is her duty to live and be sensible of the incredible world around her. 1956 War and Peace An example of contrast between characters is Sonya – Nikolai and Natasha's cousin – and Marya. Both love Nikolai, both of them are dependent and must suffer some abuse from their elders, and both of them are externally good. But Tolstoy draws a clear distinction between the state of both their souls. Sonya genuinely loves her adopted family, but when her aunt verbally abuses her, her response is to try manipulation to win Nikolai. Marya spends the first half of the book submitting her will to her tyrannical and senile father. When it comes time for her happiness, she earns it, not through any efforts of her own, but because Nikolai recognizes the beauty of her soul and character because of how she has responded to trials. She submitted her will, Sonya did not. Tolstoy writes of Marya, who is not beautiful, as Nikolai sees her: For the first time all the pure, spiritual, inward travail in which she had lived till then came out into the open. All her inner searchings of spirit, her sufferings, her striving for goodness, her resignation, her love and self-sacrifice – all this now shone forth in those radiant eyes, in her sweet smile, in every feature of her tender face. As a result, unlike Sonya, she has a deeper spiritual connection with other people and is able to understand them, even without words. This deep spiritual connection is everything for Tolstoy. It is also the source of wisdom for his characters. After Pierre's experience as a prisoner of war, he discovers that he no longer has difficulty making decisions, since "now there was a judge within him." Nikolai, likewise, seems to often know what is right, though he cannot argue effectively: "for in his heart he knew – not by reasoning but by something stronger than reason – that his opinion was the right one." The irony is that the end of Tolstoy's novel does not feel like an ending, but like a new beginning. Tolstoy originally meant to write a novel about the Decembrist Revolt in 1825. Pierre was going to be a character returning from Siberian exile in the 1860s (nearly contemporary with when Tolstoy serialized War and Peace in 1865-1867). But as Tolstoy studied the revolt, he felt that the roots of it were to be found in the Napoleonic Wars. War and Peace ends in 1820, five years before the revolt and you can already see Pierre espousing views that could lead to trouble. 1966 War and Peace made in Russia It is a great irony that after all Pierre has discovered, after 1400 pages of Tolstoy underlining the hubris and folly of a single person imagining that they are uniquely able to influence events (Napoleon is his ultimate example of this folly), it is about to start all over again. Not only Pierre, but Andre's son, Nikolai Bolkonsky, who dreams of making his father proud, saying "everyone shall know of me, shall love and applaud me." Of Pierre, Tolstoy writes that "at that moment it seemed to him that he was chosen to give a new direction to the whole Russian community and the world at large." Pierre, it seems, can't help himself. He deplores evil so much that he longs to do something to alleviate it, not realizing that it is not for him to do so. But perhaps there is hope for Pierre. Pierre and Natasha have a happy family, something Tolstoy greatly prized (despite his own difficulties in his personal life and conduct). Marya says of Pierre's ideas that "it is our duty to help our neighbors…but he forgets we have other duties nearer home, which God Himself has marked out for us, and that we may run risks for ourselves but not for our children." Theoretically, Pierre's family and responsibility to his family could save him from folly. One wonders about Nikolai Bolkonsky, though. Posted by christinawehner on November 4, 2015 in Books Tags: Book Review, Fiction, French Invasion of Russia, Instinct, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, Russian Literature, The Patriotic War of 1812, War and Peace Follow Christina Wehner on WordPress.com What Kind of an "Old Fashioned Girl" are You? 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The capture of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has revived a debate over how terrorism cases are handled in the United States, including whether suspected terrorists should be read their Miranda rights, which include the right to an attorney and the right to remain silent, and how quickly. There has not been much recent polling on this issue, but surveys conducted when this debate was last in the news, in 2010, found that a small majority of Americans favored informing suspected terrorists of their Miranda rights. The most recent surveys in the PollingReport.com database were conducted after a Nigerian man attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 and again after a failed car-bombing in Times Square in May 2010. Different polls asked slightly different questions, but the four polls that asked about this subject found between 51 percent and 65 percent of American adults favored advising terrorism suspects of their rights. New surveys may find that American attitudes have changed since 2010, and the attack in Boston may inspire a different response. The Christmas Day and Times Square bombings both failed, while in Boston, the explosives detonated, killing three people, maiming more than a hundred and terrorizing the city for several days. President Obama has described the Boston attack as an act of terrorism and the administration has said it plans to invoke the public safety exception to the Miranda warning, allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to question Mr. Tsarnaev before reading him his Miranda rights. Still, some Republicans in Congress have pushed the Obama administration to designate Mr. Tsarnaev an enemy combatant and to try him in a military rather than civilian court. Some of the surveys that found that a majority of Americans approve of reading Miranda rights to terrorism suspects also showed that a majority favored trying such suspects as enemy combatants, which would take Miranda rights off the table. Quinnipiac's survey from February 2010 asked "Do you think the accused Christmas Day attacker should be tried as an enemy combatant or as an ordinary criminal?" and 76 percent said enemy combatant. Mr. Tsarnaev, however is an American citizen, and the would-be Christmas Day attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was not. A closer comparison may be with Faisal Shahzad, the naturalized American citizen from Pakistan who planted a car bomb in Times Square in 2010. The Fox News poll from May 2010 asked: "The man who police say admitted to trying to bomb Times Square is a Pakistani who recently became a U.S. citizen. Do you think he should be treated like an American criminal defendant or as an enemy combatant?" In that survey, American attitudes were more evenly split: 47 percent said enemy combatant and 45 percent said criminal defendant. The Gun Vote and 2014: Will There Be an Electoral Price?

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'This Thing of Ours': A Woman's Place in the Gangster Genre Michelle J. Smith More than a Wink: The Nature of Reality in Blow-Up and Las Babas del Diablo Will Hair Ashby, Hal Marking Time, Duration as Subject: Tony Woods: Archive by Andrew Gaynor (ed.) Voices With(out) a Face: On Robert Bresson's Procès de Jeanne d'Arc "That's the Great Puzzle: Who Am I?": Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland (1966) In November 1966, Mary Jean St Clair, the granddaughter of Alice Liddell, expressed anxiety about Jonathan Miller's upcoming Alice in Wonderland adaptation for the BBC's Christmas schedule. The descendant of the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write the most influential children's book in the world was concerned that the film would make her grandmother 'appear into some sort of strange person' when '[s]he was not'. 1 Miller's television play was not intended for child viewers. It was shot on 35mm black-and-white film and, contrary to a well-established tradition in pantomime and film, did not use animal costumes for iconic characters such as the White Rabbit and the Caterpillar, nor any special effects. The program's adult orientation meant that it was certified with an X-rating2 and would be scheduled after the nine o'clock watershed that marked the end of suitable viewing for children. Even before the film had aired, a moral panic erupted about childhood innocence being sullied by 'adult' inflections. Miller intended the film to capture Victorian ideas about childhood, which he described as embodying a tension between discipline and nostalgia: … they saw childhood as a short, unruly episode set aside with the express purpose of training the sober, responsible adult […] But for all this, the Victorian looked back to childhood … acknowledging that the innocent child was often closer to wisdom and sensitivity than they in their grown-up gravity could ever hope for. 3 In addition, Miller wanted to focus on the disturbing, odd and dreamy aspects of the novel, rather than rehearsing the well-worn meanings that it had accumulated through John Tenniel's iconic illustrations and its playful nonsense humour. There are many Alices. As a character, she is often regarded as 'ambiguous' and 'an imaginary surface upon whom historically changing desires and fears are projected'. 4 Carroll's original drawings of seven-year-old Alice in his handwritten manuscript Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864) bear little resemblance to Tenniel's, just as the animated Alice from Disney's 1951 film is also distinct. Miller's Alice is portrayed by fourteen-year-old novice actress Anne-Marie Mallik, who often looks expressionless or bored, with much of her speech occurring in voice-over narration. In this respect, Miller follows the cinematic tendency to cast girl protagonists as much older than in their original literary depiction. (In MGM's 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is played by sixteen-year-old Judy Garland, making her twice as old as the character in L Frank Baum's Oz books.) Consciously rejecting the fantasy and whimsy of Disney's animated feature, Miller adopts a 'somber, naturalistic tone'. 5 The glaring realness of the Victorian era in black and white is rendered dreamlike, not least because of Ravi Shankar's sitar score that connects the film with both the psychedelia of the 1960s and the orientalism of the 19th century. The reconceptualising of the fantasy elements of the narrative into strange realism is evident from the early scene in which Alice pursues the White Rabbit (Wilfrid Brambell) along a long corridor lined with open windows and billowing white curtains. Shot at the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, the corridor is a substitute for the expected depiction of her physically falling down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. In contrast with the inexperience of his lead actress, Miller assembled a remarkable cast including Michael Redgrave (the Caterpillar), Peter Cook (the Mad Hatter), John Gielgud (the Mock Turtle) and Peter Sellers (the King of Hearts), but their comedic talents are largely restrained. The Mad Hatter's tea party, for instance, is no longer a focal point for chaotic silliness, but is grounded in what Rohan McWilliam describes as the stilted conversations of 'sad, disappointed, middle-aged men'. 6 Rather than Alice being drawn into a curious world in which adult rules and regulations are comically nonsensical, Miller's Alice in Wonderland focuses on the distance between adults and children, and the tediousness of the adult world. C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, was an advocate for a dual audience for children's literature: 'A children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story'. 7 Miller's Alice in Wonderland clearly demonstrated the power of Carroll's novel to be reoriented for adult viewers. It also tested the extent to which people were willing to accept the subordination of the perceived needs, interests and aesthetic preferences of child viewers when adapting a classic novel designated for children. The film's dialogue is almost exclusively derived from Carroll. However, Miller imbues the familiar story with entirely new meanings, situating the implied adult viewer as a spectator upon the youthful Alice, rather than forging an emotional identification with events from her perspective. While the central dilemma throughout most Alice narratives is her confusion about her own identity in the face of her body dramatically shrinking and growing, the question of 'who am I?' that she asks herself has a different resonance in Miller's film. Instead, the question of identity and selfhood is turned back upon us as adult viewers, pressing us to consider whether the tedious, pathetic and frustrating adults that Alice encounters are what we too have become. It is no coincidence that the film's final line, delivered by Alice's sister, comes from William Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood': 'The things which I have seen I now can see no more'. Quoted in R. McWilliam, 'Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland (1966): A Suitable Case for Treatment', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 31.2, 2011, p. 239. ↩ In the United Kingdom at the time, an X-rating was closer to what is understood in contemporary Australia as an R-rating: suitable for viewing by those aged sixteen and over. ↩ Quoted in McWilliam, p. 240. ↩ A. Kérchy, Alice in Transmedia Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic, McFarland, Jefferson, 2016, p. 6. ↩ R. Cashill, 'Alice in Wonderland', Cineaste, 30.1, 2004, p. 56. ↩ McWilliam, p. 234. ↩ C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, Harcourt, Brace and World, New York, 1967, p. 24. ↩ Forgotten Dreams: The Tumultuous Life of Lou Bunin's Alice in Wonderland (1949) Alice on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Norman Z. McLeod's Alice in Wonderland (1933) Dr Michelle J. Smith is a senior lecturer at Monash University. She is the author of Empire in British Girls' Literature: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 (Palgrave, 2011) and co-editor of Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 (Palgrave, 2014) and Girls' School Stories, 1749-1929 (Routledge, 2013). Michelle also writes on gender and feminism as a columnist for The Conversation. Reverent Fidelity: Early Adaptations of Alice Pamela Hutchinson David Heslin

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A Room to Die in Ellery Jr. Queen [No Narrators Added] Fiction & Literature, Suspense, Detective Stories BBC Audiobooks America # of Units: Rent ItFrom $19.98/month Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured. Although there was no suicide note, there was a letter proving conclusively that Roland Nelson, over the last several months, was being blackmailed. But to his daughter, Ann, whom he had seen only spasmodically since he had left her mother when Ann was a baby, there were unanswered questions. She was convinced that her father could never have killed himself. Before she found the answers, two people were brutally garroted with a wire, one of them in her own apartment. Could she find all the answers before the killer silenced her, too? Queen, Ellery Jr. Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. After winning a contest for first-time mystery novelists, they collaborated from 1928 to 1971, writing over three dozen Ellery Queen novels, countless short stories, and dozens of scripts for the popular Ellery Queen radio series. Queen, Ellery Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905 1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905 1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age fair play mystery.Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen s first appearance came in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as "The Roman Hat Mystery". Their character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded "Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine", one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee s death.

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Hello and welcome to another brand new post of LLG! This post just so happens to be my 3rd post in a row since my period of uncertainty. It feel pretty good to finally be getting back to a more stable schedule. But today we have a lot to Cover so let's get started! For the H.P. of the day I have this ok-ish page in my sketch book. First of I'd like to note the full pencil drawings other than the face in the middle. These are drawings of bits or whole parts of people or things that I saw. for instance, the horrible sketch of a sink was done during my physics class. As you can tell it did not go very well... On a slightly better path, The sketch on the top right of a person in a chair was one I quickly sketched out in about a few minutes ( since people usually move ) and I was pretty proud of it. During the process of it, I tried to utilize the practice of using simple lines and shapes in order to get the basic shape of the body ( most prevalent in the neck downward ), but then tossed that when doing majority of the head. Moving on to the eye ( which may look familiar to some) which was me trying out for the first time a tutorial on Deviant Art right here! I am going to try this multiple times so do make sure to try and keep track on it. Lastly, the multiple drawings of the heads were done so that I could try and nail head shapes in all angles as much as possible. It is also worthy to note on the pen drawings that the blue is used on the guiding lines while the black is used on the actual shape. As far as HP of today we are done so lets head onto the next thing. Those of you who check my " Contact Me " page would know that I recently up-ed my social media presence. I added not only a Instagram ( here ), I also added my YouTube channel ( here only one video though at the moment), and a snap chat ( just check the page.). I am going to try and make sure to use these mediums in order to better spread the blog and also connect better with you guys. This brings me to the fact that no matter how hard I try that I can only get so far which is why I ask you guys to share this blog with anyone you think would enjoy it. I work very hard on it and would really appreciate it! That's enough of self advertising. Any of you guys who follow my Instagram would know that I have opened a new contest for you guys to participate in! I've been working on a book series, as many of you know, and I've found out that the tittle and cover are not the best. This is why I decided to work on the cover and ask you guys if you have any ideas for a tittle. The link to the story will be located right ( here ) so that you can read it to get a better idea of what it is about. Not only can you do that, but you can also give me some tips for improvement as it is my first series and it is thought out to be very visual rather than wordy so it is going to have many flaws that you can help me with. The only insensitive at the moment to do these things is from the goodness from your heart since I don't have much to give but I can make a shout out if that is what you want or maybe at some point I could even make prints from my shop as prizes. That last one is just an idea at the moment so let me know what you think of it so I can work on it. The last thing I would like to bring up is the fact that as of the Friday that just passed, I have only 1 or 2 more football games to attend as a band member. This means that post will have near to none interruptions so the likely hood of me missing a post is very unlikely. That's all I have for you guys for today. I hope you enjoyed it and till next post, I'll see ya'll later! Make sure to check out my Print Shop ( here )!

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If you have played the previous games in the series you will know what you're doing up to a point. Though there are new games and abilities, they're all fairly straight forward and easy to learn. There are also new tutorial sections in the loading screens just in case you need extra practice. These will unlock with general progression through the game. You won't need to have 100% sync in each sequence, but you should try to complete as many memories as you can with the full sync requirements if you want to unlock "Fond Memories". Over the nine sequences you will need to earn 100% sync in each memory. Most of these memories are fairly simple, and they can also be replayed at any point via pausing the game and using the DNA timeline to select the memory you wish to replay. Some sequences you won't have to put a lot of effort in to, but the ones which require you to take no damage what so ever can be a little tricky. So be prepared. If you're having difficulty with the earlier memories, don't fret, just come back to them later on once you get used to how Ezio and Altair control. Memory 1: Complete the memory. Memory 2: Kill a Byzantine Templar with a counter kill. Memory 3: Do not fail a single tail. Memory 4: Complete the memory. Memory 5: Kill at least 5 guards from a haystack. Memory 1: Do not wander far from Yusuf. Memory 2: Complete the memory. Memory 3: Perform every hookblade move successfully at least once. Memory 4: Climb the tower in under 60 seconds. Memory 5: Perform a zipline assassination. Memory 6: Complete the memory. Memory 7: Do not create any conflict in the Imperial North District. Memory 1: Pickpocket the guard to retrieve the key. Memory 2: Use your Assassin Signal at least 1 time. Memory 3: Complete the memory. Memory 5: Complete the memory. Memory 6: Do not get detected. Memory 7: Complete the memory. Memory 8: Save all citizens under attack. Memory 9: Poison all of your targets while blending with the Romanies. Memory 10: Do not be detected while you search for the prisoners. Memory 1: Beat Yusuf to Topkapi Palace. Memory 2: Do not be detected. Memory 3: Get in and out of the port without being detected. Memory 5: Complete the level within 6 minutes. Memory 6: Do not lose more than 3 synchronization points. Memory 1: Distract 2 guards with bombs. Memory 2: Make sure 40 or more rioters survive. Memory 3: Perform an Air Assassination from a zipline. Memory 4: Steal the painting without the merchant spotting you. Memory 6: Do not take any damage. Memory 1: Assassinate a target from a hiding spot. Memory 2: Perform an air assassination on Tarik. Memory 3: Do not kill anyone. Memory 6: Obtain the Masyaf Key without falling into the water. Memory 7: Do not kill anyone except Abbas and his Captains. Memory 8: Do not kill anyone with blades. Memory 1: Do not get detected. Memory 2: Do not kill anyone. Memory 3: Do not let Janos lose more than half his health. Memory 4: Do not take any damage. Memory 5: Do not take any damage. Memory 6: Do not lose more than half your health. Memory 1: If attacked, kill 5 guards in close combat without getting hit. Memory 2: Rescue Sofia before she loses 50% health. Memory 3: Kill 20 guards. Much like the main story achievements/trophies, these will unlock with progression through Desmonds back story which you can access through returning to Animus Island. The only catch here is you will need to find 30 Animus Shards to access all five of Desmonds memories. These memories give you some history behind Desmond and how he ended up where he is. But the puzzles themselves are rather clunky. You will need to navigate your way through various puzzle rooms using building blocks with can be manipulated to create walkways. On completion of each of these sections you will be rewarded with the related achievement/trophy. You may already know the back story, so these areas may seem fairly obsolete. Much like the previous games, you will find factions spread out throughout the cities. Each faction have a unique ability which you can unlock. With each faction you will have three tiers of challenges which unlock different things. Once you complete all three tiers of challenges in a single faction this will unlock. Depending on which faction you choose, just stick with their challenges. Most of the challenges are fair simple, but take some time to complete. The assassin's guild is probably the easiest but most time-consuming as you will need to have seven assassin's reach the rank of master assassin. This guild also has the least amount of challenges, but it's all down to personal preferences. You can check the guild challenges below, but you can also track your progress from your DNA menu within the game. REWARD: Assassins will be more effective when sent on missions. REWARD: Assassin Signal recharges at an increased speed. REWARD: Unlocks the Assassin faction weapon. REWARD: Cost of hiring Mercenaries decreases. REWARD: Unlocks Mercenary Faction ability. REWARD: Unlocks Mercenary Faction Weapon. REWARD: Cost of hiring Romanies decreases. REWARD: Unlocks Romani Faction ability. REWARD: Unlocks Romani Faction weapon. REWARD: Cost of hiring the Thief Faction decreases. REWARD: Unlocks the Thief Faction ability. REWARD: Unlocks the Thief Faction weapon. This is part of the game's progression as one assassin will reach this rank fairly early on. You will basically need to have 1 assassin reach the rank of 14 which will then allow them to take the Master Assassin training. But as this is part of the stories progression you will unlock this naturally. See "The Mentor" for further details on leveling your assassin's. This may take some time, but you will need to have seven (6) of your assassin's reach the Master Assassin rank. The reason you only need six is due to one being story related. As you start out you will see markers on the map which are black squares with a cross pattern. The symbol looks like a simplified version of the Apple of Eden. As you interact with these memories you will recruit new assassins, for this achievement/trophy make sure you recruit at least 6, but you can have up to 12 assassins at one time with the various dens unlocked. Once you have your assassin's ready for training, you can visit any of the various dens you may have captured. Inside you will find a map which will allow you to send your assassin's on assignments. In doing so the assassin's you send will earn xp for every assignment they complete. As you level up each assassin they will reach a cap at rank 10. At this point you will need to start reclaiming dens for your assassin's to reside at. Once you reclaim a den, your level 10 assassin's will start to show on the map with new memories for you to complete. Once you complete each of the memories for each assassin you will see their new ranks unlock. From here you can then level them up to rank 14 at 15500xp. Once you hit this amount of xp your assassin will no longer level up, but instead will require you to complete their second memory. In doing so, you will then unlock their Master Assassin rank. For your assassin to become a Master Assassin you will need to have each of the seven dens unlocked and accessible. Once each assassin reaches this rank, you will no longer have to deal with the den defense game with that den as the assassin will be trained to the highest standards and be able to fend off any attackers. Fairly early on you will be introduced to the den defense game. You are basically thrown in to combat to protect your first assassin den. You will also earn your first Master Assassin on completion of this task. The game is fairly simple, build defenses, place down an assassin leader and place your guards. This does take some patience and some careful placement. But as long as you're paying attention to what your enemies are doing, you should be able to fend them off without suing the canon. If you do happen to fail, you can replay this memory from the DNA sequence. It's probably the easiest out of the ones you will be faced with. Towards the end the waves will start to get fairly relentless, so make sure you have enough guards ready to take down the moving ram. If the ram gets too close to the assassin den the canon will go off automatically. If you manage to keep the canon back the canon won't trigger and this will unlock. Fairly early on you will encounter the Mediterranean Defense game as you will need to use it to level up your assassin for "The Mentor". You will send your assassins to remove Templar control over each city. These all vary in difficulty but they get far easier as your assassin's level up. Once you have enough will power, you can select the reclaim city assignment. Once a city is reclaimed it will have a white assassin logo instead of the red Templar one. From here you will then need to liberate 12 of the 13 cities. You don't need to capture Rhodes, but if you do decide to capture it, you will earn extra revenue. You can do this almost anywhere in the city just as long as you're high enough to deploy your parachute. You will also need to visit a tailor and buy a parachute if you don't have one. Once you're in position, jump and press :x: to deploy your chute. Line yourself up with a zipline and then press :b: to drop when you're ready. If you manage to do this properly you will finish with a graceful slide down to the rooftops below. At the very start of the game once you reach the city you will need to race to the top of the Galata Tower. You can't really miss it as it's the only large building in this small island like area at the top of the map. Once you climb to the very stop, jump off and deploy your chute with :x:. From here you need to make your way down to the Golden Horn which is basically the river below. This isn't the hardest achievement/trophy, but it's also not the most obvious. This will most likely come with general game progression as bombs play a rather large part in the game. Overall you will be introduced to these almost from the start, but they prove to be rather useful and change your play style slightly. There are three bomb types, lethal, tactical and diversionary. You will most likely find that you only use two or three bomb designs, but they basically all serve the same purpose. To craft bombs you will need to locate a crafting station, these can be found around the city with white bomb markers, or within the various factions and dens. For this you will need to craft 30 bombs in total. They can be all of the same type, and if your inventory is empty, you can make up to 9 bombs in a single crafting menu. It's also possible that you can make further bombs from your inventory wheel while exploring. If your bombs are low and you have the materials, highlight them and press craft :a: to add more of that bomb type. Smoke bombs are rather useful to either kill large groups of guards, or for escaping if you're in trouble. You will obviously need to craft a smoke bomb, use the higher grade gun powder if you have any as this will create a large cloud for you to stun a group of guards. Once you're ready, find a patrol of guards and aggravate them, the more guards you have chasing you the better. Once you feel you have enough guards press :y: so you throw a smoke bomb at the ground. Now all you have to do is make sure you kill at least five guards before the smoke clears. The fastest way to take down guards quickly is with your hidden blade. In doing so you may also unlock "Lightning Strikes". See "I can see you". This can be a little annoying to work out as the map marker has one of the towered listed as the main location on your map. If you walk around the building though you will see that there is a far larger building just to the east of the map marker. Once you locate the main building, quickly scramble to the top of the large dome tower at the top of the building and this will unlock. Duccio will only show up during sequence four, you will know once you're able to complete this as you will see a cut-scene where Ezio confronts him and he will run off. Later on you will then find him in the district to the far west. He will be stumbling around drunk which leaves him open as an easy target. Once you locate Duccio, your task is simple, change your primary weapon to fists, then beat him up. If you kill him you this won't unlock, so make sure you're using your fists. Once you have beaten him enough this will unlock and you can carry on your progression as before. To perform an assassination you will need to sneak up on a guard, or lock on to them from above. Once they are in attacking distance you can press :x: to perform an assassination if you have your hidden blades selected. Once you kill 50 guards in this manner this will unlock. You will most likely get this with general game progression as it's easier to take guards down with assassinations rather than fighting them up front. At first you may think this requires you to loot 50 enemies, but it's really something else. With each faction and guild you have a series of challenges. You can see a full list by reading "A Friend Indeed". You will need to complete set 2 of the thieves guides. This will allow you to hire thieves to steal money from people in the world. Once you have the thieves following you, have your assassin's kill a group of guards, then stand near their bodies so the thieves loot them for you. This doesn't take all that long, and the thieves will steal money from everyone they pass. So you will earn a substantial amount of extra money. Once your thieves have looted 50 dead guards this will unlock. If you're having difficulty locating thieves, find an empty faction building and turn it into a thieves HQ. You will always fine the thieves sitting on the rooftops near by then. Before you can attempt this you should make a cherry bomb and a datura bomb. Once you have these bombs crafted, head to the south-west corner of the city where you will find several guards patrolling. From here climb the archway and throw the cherry bomb between all the guards. Wait for them to come over and investigate the noise, then throw a datura bomb at them. You may need to use more than one, but if you poison all the guards in this area this will unlock. This is probably the most difficult challenge to complete as doing it properly can take some patience and several attempts. You don't need to take out 5 guards in one go, so you can accumulate the requirements for this. You will first need to make some caltrops which are basically spiked barbs you drop. Once you have this you will then need to locate a scaffold and some nearby guards. From here select your caltrops, interact with a group of guards and have them chase you towards the scaffold. From here press :y: to set drop a caltrop in front of the scaffold and hope that the guards are close enough. From here you then need to run at the corner of the scaffold while holding :rt:, you can then press :b: as you run past the corner to pull down the scaffold on top of the guards. It seems that this can be quire tricky to get right so don't get frustrated if you don't get it the first time, you may need to repeat this several times to kill 5 guards in total. Once you have throwing knives in your possession, you can seek out guards to use them on. You will need to look high and low throughout the city to find unarmored guards. But if you manage to find some, this will work the same. If you try to take on Janissaries or armored guards you will just hurt them and not complete the requirements. During your first sequence there are plenty of guards which don't carry armor so this is the best place to do this without issue. Once you have three guards in your sight, select your throwing knives from your inventory, then how down :y: while they're in your throwing radius. This should allow you to lock on to all three guards. Release the knives and hopefully you will kill all three in a single throw which will unlock this achievement/trophy. Have a guard incapacitate 3 civilians while he's poisoned. Head to a fairly crowded area where there you can find at least one guard standing around. From here you will want to throw gold coins around the guard to a small group of civilians hoard around the guard. From here you can then use a poison dart on the guard and then watch the guard incapacitate three civilians. To access this challenge level you must first find all the hidden pages around the city. These pages will show up with a scroll on the map if they're nearby. But you can also buy a map to locate all the missing pages from a bookstore. Once you find all 10 Ishak Pasha's memoir pages you will notice there will be a new marker on your map. It's a hidden entrance on the Hagia Sofia. It's marked on your maps with a white cross in a black box. Once you enter the challenge room, you need to make your way through the area and locate the armor of Ishak Pasha. Once you reach the end this will unlock and allow you to use the armor from here onward. You will need to complete the challenge room in under 6 minutes, but with some trial and error you should be able to do this without too many issues as the challenge is rather simple. Once you arrive in the city you will be introduced to bomb crafting fairly early on. Once you progress through your memories further you will meet an assassin who will teach you various things about the bombs via bomb missions. These are basically a group of eight tutorials showing you how to use each bomb type effectively. You can come back to this at any point, and Piri Reis will always be marked on your map until these missions are complete. You shouldn't have any great difficulty with these at all, they're almost impossible to fail as they're pretty straight forward. To deal with a Templar tax collector you first need to buy at least one bank. At some point you're going to want several anyhow due to the income you will earn from the city. At some point usually around the mid day bank deposit you will see a red money bag icon moving across your mini map. This can happen almost anywhere in the city, but there are set areas where you can trigger this to happen. This marker is a tax collector. Once you see this icon, you will want to quickly hunt him down, but don't kill him, just use your fists or hook to grab him. Once you manage to stop him from running off you will claim back your taxes and rewards yourself with this achievement/trophy. If you want to trigger this event you will need to wait near a bank of choice and wait for the midday deposit. Usually the collector will show up as soon as the deposit is made. If you own the bank closest to the Hagia Sofia you can wait around for him appear, you can then chase him down in a fairly easy to navigate area. I've seen the tax collector in various places all over the city, but this seems to be the easiest to catch him in. It may not be the best spot for you, but if you do see him and you're able to catch up with him without guards chasing you, take the time to stop him and reclaim your taxes. Much like before you have a large group of collectibles to find. This time around they come in the form of Animus Shards. These shards are hidden all round the city, but they're fairly obvious to spot. You will also need to locate 30 of these shards to access all of Desmond's memories on Animus Island. You can't buy maps for these items, but once you collect 50 they the rest will be displayed on your map. You shouldn't need a collectible guide for this, just make sure you pick them up when you see them and reach the required amount to unlock their locations on the map. Collect all of Ishak Pasha's memoir pages. Throughout the city you will find various memoir pages from Ishak Pasha. There are 10 in total which you need to find for this achievement/trophy. Collecting these pages also unlocked the Hagia Sofia challenge level. The pages are relatively well hidden so the best way to find these pages is to collect 25 Animus Shards, then buy a map from one of the book shops. Once you collect all 10 pages you will notice the Hagia Sofia challenge level will be listed on your map, you can then proceed to complete "Holy Wisdom" after you unlock this. Overall there are 24 books to collect, 18 of which need to be bought from Constantinople and Cappadcia book stores. In total you will need to spend around 500,000 coins to buy all the books sold by these merchants. The rest of the books need to be found around the city. You will be given several objectives as you progress the main story which will then allow you to unlock these books. Once the books are accessible you will see them marked on your maker with a black book marker. You will then need to head to these locations and, find the marker, and use eagle sense to locate the hidden book in that area. Seeing as you need a rather large amount of money to buy these books you should start buying as many shops as you can. This may seem a waste to start with, but you will start earning up to 10,000 coins every 20 minutes depending on how many shops you renovate. You should also take advantage of the Mediterranean defense game. If you take the time to take over cities you will increase your overall earnings which will help greatly. This score is only accessible in sequence 7, so if you miss it, you will need to replay this sequence once you have the required amount of money to buy these books. Leveling up will come naturally from playing the multiplayer. You're going to have to put in a moderate amount of time to level up to 20. 136,000+ XP is required, so everything you do will count towards this rank. There are many ways to earn up to 10,000xp per game, but if you want the easier slightly slower method you can play Simple Deathmatch. You can earn up to 8,000 a game as long as you're taking your time with each kill and earning the full bonuses. The best thing to do is find a game mode you enjoy, then just progress at your own pace. If you find a mode and method that works best for you, stick with it as this all depends on your play style. To customize your persona you will first need to reach rank 10. This will unlock the first set of customizable items for your characters. Once you reach this rank you can then use the Templar menu to access your characters. It takes time to unlock various items for your characters, but the first is fairly cheap so make sure you have 25 credits before doing this. Once you have changed one of your characters items, finalize the changes and this will unlock. Customization can be quite useful as your Templar won't display to others quite the same as their targets pictures, so choose wisely and make a worthwhile choice. Overall there are 10 different game modes, half are team based, the other half are free for all. Once you finish a game on each mode this will unlock. You are required to stay until the end of both rounds. If you join a game at the end, you may have to replay as it doesn't always count. You can check the leaderboards to see if you have a score. If you're not listed among your friends or other players, then you will need to replay the modes that you're missing. Accolades are basically rewards that you will get at the end of each game depending on your play style and technique. You will need to hit a set amount of requirements to earn these, most are easy enough so you will earn them while just playing. If you want to earn these without running in to any difficulty vary your attacks as much as possible. Also use various types of cover and always keep moving. If you manage to keep up a creative streak you're going to walk away with more Accolades than if you just hide in a corner. You will see your Accolades listed at the end of your match. You can't miss them as they're displayed as gold tiles. You can also keep track of these via the Templar menu on the multiplayer menu screen. This is another achievement/trophy that requires you to level up. Once you hit level 5 you will be given some extra abilities to use in your multiplayer progression. Most of these items are fairly cheap early on, but don't waste your points, only buy what you think you will find the most useful. Once you decide what you want, buy it and this will unlock. From the very start you can edit your Templar Profile. To do this you will need to access the menu selection by pressing :lb:, then edit profile. Before you can edit your information you will need to reach level 5. From here you can then change your title, emblem and patron details. Once you edit your information and save this will unlock. There are several team game modes, all you have to do for this is join any team game. Then win against the opposing team. Some modes are easier than others, but this all depends on how good your team is overall. Though this may seem like it could be a tough challenge, it's really not. Almost every game you play should reward you with a minimum of 2,000 points. This is all dependent on your player skill, but if you run around and make it obvious that you're killing your target you won't be rewarded with higher amounts of points. If you want to earn a lot of points without putting too much effort into this, play the Simple Deathmatch mode. In this mode you can see all the players and the crowds don't mimic their appearance. If you want to earn high point kills in this mode, find an area high up which will allow you to perform air assassinations. Most players will just walk around so once you spot your target, you can assassinate them with a high score bonus. Challenges will provide you with an alternative way to earn XP over killing your target or stunning your pursuer. There is a rather extensive list of challenges, but most will come with playing the game modes. There are several easy challenges, but if you're just progressing through the various modes and game types, this should come naturally. To earn the incognito bonus you will need to allow your presence meter to fill up. This can be found in the top right hand corner of the screen. If you allow this bar to fill you will earn more points for you kill. Once you reach the third section of the bar it will list you as incognito. If you manage to kill your target with these presence status this will unlock. If you're struggling with this, you can unlock it during your tutorial stages.

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Resubmission - Dealing with rude reviewer I submitted an article in September 2016; after that, I got an invitation to submit at a conference. In January 2017, I got my first round of reviews. The first reviewer had "no comments" as his sole input and the second reviewer was very positive, so my submission is rated as "Minor corrections needed." Meanwhile, I graduated (March 2017). In July 2017, I got my second round of reviews. The first reviewer "woke up" and shot down my article by vetoing it. Of the 12 points he mentioned: • 5 were previously addressed in the first round of reviews. • 4 asked for origin of data clearly labeled (i.e. references were already provided and clearly labeled) • 2 were ad-hominem attacks. • 1 highlights a lack of understanding of elementary principles. (The second reviewer was positive and said that the modifications following the first round were acceptable.) It feels really, really unfair to be dismissed like this, on no scientific grounds, and I was not even given the chance to defend myself! How is this even possible? How: • Can an article go from "Minor corrections needed" to "resubmission required" without any checks? • Can the first reviewer say nothing on the first round of reviews, only to come out with guns blazing? • Can the editor let the borderline remarks pass? • Can the editor not have a critical thought on this second round of review? I've reached out several times to the editor and to the senior editor, and any of them won't even answer my mails. I'm not in a position to resubmit the article myself in the immediate future as: • I've started a (non-academic) full-time job. • I don't have access anymore to the computer framework to run additional simulations or refine existing ones. My former advisor says that another student will rework it, but I will not be primary author anymore. As it will mostly remain the same (my work), I also see that as unfair. I have an amicable relationship with my former laboratory, but I will oppose the decision of removing me from primary authorship if the modifications are only cosmetic. publications peer-review authorship aeismail♦ SiranjSiranj I'm not sure what the (major) question is. Perhaps "how can I still get this paper published"? – henning Sep 11 '17 at 12:44 It is possible that reviewer #1 had confidential comments during the first round that were not at all positive, and still wasn't positive about the paper in the second round. Or it could be that he mixed up the "comments to editor" and "comments to author" fields, hence the first review had no comments. – Mark Sep 11 '17 at 17:09 It's not clear that it's actually the same reviewer as before. Sometimes journals will bring in additional referees on a revised paper; I know that I have certainly been asked to do so on a few occasions. That said, if your review was so biased as you state, then you should be able to write a convincing response to the criticisms made by the reviewer. Be firm but also polite—trading insults or being rude will get you nowhere. Overall, though, it seems that the editor is not a very good one, and you may find more luck submitting to a different venue. (I also don't see why you have to be in an academic position to be the one to resubmit the paper!) aeismail♦aeismail Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged publications peer-review authorship or ask your own question. Responding to a reviewer who misunderstood key concepts of a paper Associate editor's dilemma with inconsistent first/second round review Is it possible to ask editor-in-chief to change a reviewer? Editor sent a mail asking me to revise my submission based on reviewer comments. the reviewer comments were missing. What to do? Decision after first round of peer review How to handle newly discovered problems in second and third round reviews What happens if a reviewer withdraws himself from peer review process? Positive review from an additional (third) reviewer (endorsing the 2nd reviewer) against a negative review from the 1st reviewer What to do for a paper with a very long review process?

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The buoyant, U-shaped barrier made of plastic and with a tapered 10-foot deep screen, is intended to trap some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. SAN FRANCISCO — Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. "The plastic is really persistent and it doesn't go away by itself and the time to act is now," Slat said, adding that researchers with his organization found plastic going back to the 1960s and 1970s bobbing in the patch. The buoyant, U-shaped barrier made of plastic and with a tapered 10-foot (3-meter) deep screen, is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists estimate are swirling in that gyre but allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it. "One of our goals is to remove 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years," Slat said. George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said he's skeptical Slat can achieve that goal because even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year. "We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly skeptical but we hope it works," he said. "The ocean needs all the help it can get." "If you don't stop plastics from flowing into the ocean, it will be a Sisyphean task," Leonard said, adding that on September 15 about 1 million volunteers around the world with collect trash from beaches and waterways as part of the Ocean Conservancy's annual International Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers last year collected about 10,000 tons of plastics worldwide over two hours, he said. Leonard also raised concerns that marine and wildlife could be entangled by the net that will hang below the surface. He said he hopes Slat's group is transparent with its data and shares information with the public about what happens with the first deployment. "He has set a very large and lofty goal and we certainly hope it works but we really are not going to know until it is deployed," Leonard said. "We have to wait and see." The system will act as a "big boat that stands still in the water" and will have a screen and not a net so that there is nothing for marine life to get entangled with and a an extra precautionary measure, a boat carrying experienced marine biologists will be deployed to make sure the device is not harming wildlife, Slat said. "I'm the first to acknowledge this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and close the taps on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to tackle this problem," Slat said.

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Traditional Jharkhand cuisine is equally vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian. These traditional dishes are not available at the restaurants as they have not been commercialised. However on a visit to a tribal village or a tribal wedding in a remote area one can get a chance to taste such exotic food. All preparation except the picles and festive ones are low on oil and spices.

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Makar Sankranti marks the transition of the sun into the zodiacal sign of Makara (Capricorn) on its celestial path. The day is also believed to mark the arrival of spring in India and the Magh month in Nepal and is a traditional event. In Bihar, it is celebrated as Makar Sankranti or Sakraat or Khichdi (in local dialects). As in other parts of country, people take baths in rivers and ponds and feast upon seasonal delicacies as a celebration of good harvest. The delicacies include chura, gur (jaggery), sweets made of til (sesame seeds) such as tilgul, tilwa, maska, etc., curd, milk and seasonal vegetables. Kite flying festivals are organised, albeit on a small scale.

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Sucrose (Suc):Suc 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) is the key enzyme in plant fructan biosynthesis, since it catalyzes de novo fructan synthesis from Suc. We have cloned 1-SST from onion (Allium cepa) by screening a cDNA library using acid invertase from tulip (Tulipa gesneriana) as a probe. Expression assays in tobacco (Nicotiana plumbaginifolia) protoplasts showed the formation of 1-kestose from Suc. In addition, an onion acid invertase clone was isolated from the same cDNA library. Protein extracts of tobacco protoplasts transformed with this clone showed extensive Suc-hydrolyzing activity. Conditions that induced fructan accumulation in onion leaves also induced 1-SST mRNA accumulation, whereas the acid invertase mRNA level decreased. Structurally different fructan molecules could be produced from Suc by a combined incubation of protein extract of protoplasts transformed with 1-SST and protein extract of protoplasts transformed with either the onion fructan:fructan 6G-fructosyltransferase or the barley Suc:fructan 6-fructosyltransferase.

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The Lord Jesus Jan 31, 2023 Kenneth Online Church is leading the spiritual decay of the "church-goers" we have left. Why? Because it has put us on our own little faith islands…ALONE. Which is exactly how the enemy likes it. What we need is COMMUNITY. #faith #catholic #christianity #god #church #community #recovery #catholicblog #family #support 🐶 I am an Animal Rescuer 🐶 The Distinct Dot I was reminded yesterday that even if you're in the same room as other people, see the same things, hear the same words, and experience the same atmosphere, each person there will probably take different things from what they saw/heard/experienced. That is why it's important that when we communicate with others (regardless of the method of communication), it is important that we ensure the message we relate is understood by those receiving that message, simply because we all pick up on different things in different ways. So in summary, present your message using whatever communication methods you want, but get those you've given your message to, to repeat to you a summary of your message. That way, if your message hasn't been fully understood, you can then present it in a different way, maybe using a different medium, to try to get your message across. Go and make followers of… Lives, Words and Actions Jan 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 Kenneth As Christians we have to be careful because our Lives, Words & Actions are seen by those we meet every day. Because they are full of twists & turns, Joys & heartaches, success & failure. People will only judge us by how we act or react to certain circumstances and our actions must be in line with what we believe and speak out love, grace, mercy, faith, kindness, self control, patience to those around us. Do people see Christ in us, or do we hide him? What would our friends & neighbour's call us? Finally would Jesus like what he sees in you? Our Journey to Heaven Jan 15, 2023 Jan 14, 2023 Kenneth1 Comment 1 Corinthians 15 New International Version The Resurrection Body 35 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we[g] bear the image of the heavenly man. 50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[h] 55 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"[i] 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. The Hymn "Thine be the Glory was a favourite of my late father's, so much so he had it at his funeral service. In verse 2 it tells us how Jesus meets us as we enter heaven and it goes on to say that his church should be glad and sing praises. Verse 3 says we have to become conquerors. Glory, Power, Soiritual Body, The Lord Jesus, VictoryDoubt, Fear, Glory, Prince of Life, Tomb, Vicrtory Jan 8, 2023 Jan 7, 2023 Kenneth1 Comment Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. In The Salvation Army we have what is known as 'Commitment Sunday'. A Sunday when we are asked to dedicate/rededicate our life's to Christ. Of course commitment Sunday isn't the only time you can give your life to Christ, it can happen anytime you wish provided you let him in. The words of an old chorus come to mind: Behold me standing at the door, And hear me pleading evermore: Say, weary heart, oppressed with sin, May I come in? May I come in? I leave you with The Chelmsford Citadel Songsters as they sing 'I Dedicate myself to Thee'. I hope it gives you much blessing. Commitment, The Lord JesusChrist, God, pleading, Sin Jan 1, 2023 Dec 30, 2022 KennethLeave a comment Photo by Oleg Zaicev on Pexels.com Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. What can I say about Resolutions, some of us choose to live a healthier lifestyle (cut down/out cigarettes our even alcohol), others choose to diet after the festive period because of the amount of food we have eaten not just on Christmas Day but at our work's Christmas party and any other parties we attend in this period. On a personal note I don't do resolutions basically because a couple of days into it and I literally crash. As it says in today's reading It is important hat we forget what was behind us and move forward toward the goal of the call of God. The tune in this video is called 'Let there be peace on Earth' Bible, New Year, The Lord JesusDiet, God, Health, Jesus, Prayer A Quiet time Dec 29, 2022 Jan 23, 2023 KennethLeave a comment Philippians 4 New International Version Final Exhortations 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Do you ever get those days where all you long for is a bit of 'Me time or Quiet time'. I know I do. In my case, on Saturday night we had my daughter, her husband and 2yr old granddaughter round for tea, and let me tell you granddaughter takes after her mum. (A real live wire). Sunday we attended our local Salvation Army in the morning but managed to grab a bit of ' Me time or Quiet time' before heading to mother in law's for tea that night Please listen to The International Staff Songsters and follow the words of In this Quiet moment In this quiet moment, still, before your throne, Conscious of your presence, knowing I am known, In this quiet moment, set my spirit free, In this quiet moment, make a better me. Anxiety, Christ, Gentleness, God, Heart, Lord, Lovely, Noble, Peace, Petition, Praiseworthy, Prayer, Pure, Rejoice, Thanksgiving, The Lord Jesus, TrueBetter Me, Presence, Quietness, Spirit, Still, Throne Book revue Christian thoughts for everyday of the week by Nathan Haddock Dec 27, 2022 Kenneth http://epilepsycerebralpalsy.com/2022/12/25/merry-christmas-3/

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Deep State Threatens Anti-Trust to Protect CNN's Jeff Zucker in AT&T Acquisition Leftist hold-overs in DOJ blocking Hillary investigation Jerome Corsi | Infowars.com - November 2, 2017 Comments WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Wall Street Journal today leaked from an unnamed source "close to the agreement" that the Department of Justice is preparing to file anti-trust litigation "in case" the DOJ decides to block the AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. The WSJ article from an unnamed source is being widely interpreted in Washington and New York as a salvo across the bow from Deep State leftist left-overs in the Department of Justice that want to protect Jeff Zucker, the current head of CNN, when the acquisition is completed. The WSJ article was also suspect in that the article sourced by an unnamed government agent identified only as being close to the acquisition deal in that shares of Time Warner were down 5.4 percent at $93.10 in late morning trading, while shares of AT&T were down 1.4 percent at $33.08 after spiking as high as $33.98 immediately after the WSJ reported a DOJ lawsuit was being considered. In reporting this, the WSJ neglected to inquire if a DOJ investigation was underway investigating whether the leak of anti-trust legislation being contemplated was linked to any insider trading that may have occurred around the announcement. Throughout the 2016 election campaign and continuing into Donald Trump's presidency, Zucker has been a champion of the "Never Trump" opposition movement, with CNN leading the charge to call for Trump's impeachment. President Trump has repeatedly tweeted his dissatisfaction that Attorney General Sessions appears unwilling to investigate Hillary Clinton on equal terms with the scrutiny Special Prosecutor Mueller is giving to finding "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign – an effort noteworthy to date for the failure to produce any evidence supporting the accusation. The Gateway Pundit reported this morning, that according to Fox News Host Sean Hannity, Fox News Legal Contributor Gregg Jarrett discovered both Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and Mueller's right-hand man, Andrew Weissmann, former head of the fraud unit at Obama/Holder's Justice Department, signed the plea agreement of the Russian businessman embroiled in the Clinton-Uranium One case.

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Author Archives: Associated Press Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, was slapped with a series of disciplinary charges in California that could lead to his disbarment. Gov. Whitmer plans tax cuts, stricter gun laws, free pre-K Gov. Gretchen Whitmer outlined an agenda Jan. 25 that will prioritize enacting stricter gun laws, repealing outdated laws that restrict abortion and who one can marry and providing pre-K education for all 4-year-olds in the state. Tagged with: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer A woman who was a public official in a Michigan community admitted Jan. 25 that she broke a seal on a ballot box to ensure that votes could not be recounted in her 2020 race, prosecutors said. Tagged with: Elections Citizen journalist's lawsuit heard by federal appeals court An online citizen journalist from Texas asked federal appeals court judges to revive her lawsuit against authorities who her arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police — a case that has drawn attention from national media organizations and free speech advocates. Court reverses class action decision in Burger King lawsuit A judge improperly certified a lawsuit alleging that scores of Burger King managers across Wisconsin deserve overtime pay as a class action, a state appeals court ruled. Tagged with: class action overtime Whitmer to call for pre-K for all 4-year-olds Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to announce a plan during her State of the State speech to provide prekindergarten education for all 4-year-olds in Michigan in an attempt to help families with rising costs. NY bill would stop MSG from kicking out enemy lawyers New York City's Madison Square Garden and other sports venues would be barred from refusing entry to perceived enemies of their owners under a bill introduced to the state Legislature. Judge OKs $20M deal in mess over jobless aid determinations A judge has approved a $20 million class-action settlement covering thousands of people who were wrongly accused of fraud by Michigan when seeking unemployment benefits. Tagged with: Unemployment Insurance Agency The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways. Tagged with: EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ex-Las Vegas judge who resigned to settle ethics probe dies A former Las Vegas judge who resigned from her elected position in 2021 to settle a state ethics and discipline investigation has died, according to authorities.

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Find out why a camera company, a pipeline operator, and a coffee giant top our list of income-producing stock ideas right now. Anders Bylund (Canon): The maker of cameras, office equipment, printing systems, and more has been on a shopping spree in recent years. Canon has acquired six smaller companies over the last four years, reshaping the business model and lifting its top-line revenues. At the moment, the company is enjoying strong revenue growth in medical imaging devices, network cameras, and equipment for manufacturing OLED screens. Annual sales have increased by 15% over the last three years, coupled with 26% higher earnings per share. In short, Canon's business is strong today and aiming for even greater heights a few years down the road. But share prices have dropped 14% lower year to date, and Canon's shares are trading at just 15 times trailing earnings -- their lowest P/E ratios in the last three years. As a result, the dividend yield has increased to a multiyear high of 4.6%. CAJ Dividend data by YCharts. If you can get over that psychological speed bump, Canon presents generally growing dividends over the long term alongside rising sales and affordable share prices. In my book, that's a high-yield stock worth buying today. Maxx Chatsko (Enterprise Products Partners LP): It may not have much name recognition, but this $64 billion midstream company plays an important role in the American energy sector. Units also sport a healthy 6% yield, but the business generates more than enough distributable cash flow to cover the generous payout. In fact, the distribution has grown for 56 consecutive quarters. Upcoming growth projects bode well for that streak continuing for the foreseeable future. Enterprise Products Partners operates a robust transcontinental network of storage, pipeline, and export infrastructure for crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The latter products may be overlooked among most energy investors, but they're responsible for 59% of the company's total operating income dating back to June 2017. Enterprise Products Partners is leveraging its leadership position in NGLs logistics to prepare for a huge under-the-radar opportunity. According to the American Chemistry Council, since 2010, global companies have committed more than $181 billion in investment capital to build world-class chemical manufacturing facilities in the United States to take advantage of ridiculously low prices of NGLs, which will be converted to valuable petrochemicals such as ethylene and propylene. Not only can the midstream giant supply NGLs via pipeline to new facilities in the Northeast and along the Gulf Coast, but it's also preparing to shuttle the resulting petrochemicals down to dedicated storage and export facilities it owns along the Gulf Coast. Add it all up, and Enterprise Products Partners will be vertically integrated in an industry expected to grow domestic revenues by more than $100 billion per year by the mid-2020s. That makes the high-yield stock worth a much closer look for long-term investors. Brian Feroldi (Starbucks): Long-term investors in Starbucks haven't kept up with the gains of the S&P 500 over the last few years. Shares have basically traded sideways since late 2015, while the S&P 500 is up 45% in the same time frame. SBUX PE Ratio (TTM) data by YCharts. The upshot of this revaluation is that Starbucks' dividend yield has been soaring. Shares currently yield 2.3%, which is an all-time high for the business. That high yield wouldn't matter to me if Starbucks was in serial decline, but I think there's reason to believe the opposite is true. Asia, ultra-premium coffee, and tea remain huge growth opportunities for this business. The company is also set to receive a $7.2 billion check from Nestle. When combined with the company's knack for generating boatloads of cash, management plans on returning $25 billion to shareholders between now and fiscal 2020 through dividends and stock buybacks. Add it all up, and market watchers project that Starbucks' earnings will grow in excess of 13% annualized over the next five years. With shares trading for about 20 times next year's earnings estimates and offering up a market-beating yield, I can't help but think that this company is a strong buy right now.

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The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists Etsuro Matsubara, Mikio Shoji, Koji Abe The primary pathology of Parkinson's disease is the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway, resulting in a significant reduction in striatum dopamine concentration which is responsible for the altered motor functions. With time and disease progression, efficacy of dopaminergic therapy becomes unpromising. Since adenosine A2A receptor is selectively localized in striatum for controlling motor activity, it appeared to be an attractive target for a novel treatment in Parkinson's disease. Several lines of evidence indicated that KW-6002, highly selective antagonist of adenosine A2A receptor, showed anti-parkinsonian effect in vivo and in vitro without any problematic side effect which is observed in dopaminergic therapy. Further investigation will be necessary to make sure the effect in ongoing progressive nature of Parkinson's disease or the long treatment periods in Parkinson's disease. Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Adenosine A2 Receptor Antagonists Medicine & Life Sciences istradefylline Medicine & Life Sciences Adenosine A2A Receptors Medicine & Life Sciences Motor Activity Medicine & Life Sciences Dopaminergic Neurons Medicine & Life Sciences Dopamine Medicine & Life Sciences Disease Progression Medicine & Life Sciences Matsubara, E., Shoji, M., & Abe, K. (2002). The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists. Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, 60(1), 112-116. The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists. / Matsubara, Etsuro; Shoji, Mikio; Abe, Koji. In: Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, Vol. 60, No. 1, 01.2002, p. 112-116. Matsubara, E, Shoji, M & Abe, K 2002, 'The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists', Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 112-116. Matsubara E, Shoji M, Abe K. The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists. Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine. 2002 Jan;60(1):112-116. Matsubara, Etsuro ; Shoji, Mikio ; Abe, Koji. / The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists. In: Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine. 2002 ; Vol. 60, No. 1. pp. 112-116. @article{52af3506dd1745c9a5e744049459da93, title = "The treatment of Parkinson's disease--adenosine A2A receptor antagonists", abstract = "The primary pathology of Parkinson's disease is the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway, resulting in a significant reduction in striatum dopamine concentration which is responsible for the altered motor functions. With time and disease progression, efficacy of dopaminergic therapy becomes unpromising. Since adenosine A2A receptor is selectively localized in striatum for controlling motor activity, it appeared to be an attractive target for a novel treatment in Parkinson's disease. Several lines of evidence indicated that KW-6002, highly selective antagonist of adenosine A2A receptor, showed anti-parkinsonian effect in vivo and in vitro without any problematic side effect which is observed in dopaminergic therapy. 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Several lines of evidence indicated that KW-6002, highly selective antagonist of adenosine A2A receptor, showed anti-parkinsonian effect in vivo and in vitro without any problematic side effect which is observed in dopaminergic therapy. Further investigation will be necessary to make sure the effect in ongoing progressive nature of Parkinson's disease or the long treatment periods in Parkinson's disease. AB - The primary pathology of Parkinson's disease is the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway, resulting in a significant reduction in striatum dopamine concentration which is responsible for the altered motor functions. With time and disease progression, efficacy of dopaminergic therapy becomes unpromising. Since adenosine A2A receptor is selectively localized in striatum for controlling motor activity, it appeared to be an attractive target for a novel treatment in Parkinson's disease. Several lines of evidence indicated that KW-6002, highly selective antagonist of adenosine A2A receptor, showed anti-parkinsonian effect in vivo and in vitro without any problematic side effect which is observed in dopaminergic therapy. Further investigation will be necessary to make sure the effect in ongoing progressive nature of Parkinson's disease or the long treatment periods in Parkinson's disease. JO - Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine JF - Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine

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The Parent Group at Randolph School is a wonderful way to meet other families and discuss topics of interest related to your children and Randolph School. Get involved in fundraising and help organize social and educational events, too! Provides support for our community (both current families and members of the broader community) by organizing speakers, workshops, documentary film series, and book clubs on a wide variety of relevant topics. Past Randolph Talks have included: Gender and Early Childhood, What is Progressive Education?, Parenting in Today's World. They also created a Resource Manual (available as a PDF) for families to share resources from within and beyond the Randolph community. Sponsors social events for families to come together and create stronger bonds outside of the regular school day, including a back-to-school barbecue and holiday crafts-making day. Helps to raise funds for various programs and equipment through the school. Each year, they hold events and create Randolph "brand" merchandise. They have held an auction that generated enough funds to send a teacher to Italy to study at Reggio Emilia. They have raised money for a weather station and new science equipment for the Upstairs program. They initiated and sponsored the renovation of our kitchen. They have organized an annual community-wide MapleFest in order to raise money for green building renovations. Each group in the school also has at least one parent representative who attend the monthly meetings and voice needs of children and parents, support the teacher (e.g. organize drivers on field trips), and, if desired, organize activities outside of school for the children and families in the group. Additionally, three parent-teacher committees focus on specific initiatives: building and grounds, annual MapleFest, and social/educational events. And, of course, parents are always welcome to set up a time to visit during the school day in order to share a recipe, story or skill with all our children.

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Can / should we do something about answer cannibalization? [duplicate] Including other people's answer into your own accepted answer 3 answers This question is not about copy pasting Stack Overflow questions to essays or assignment. Please read it before marking it as duplicate. Problem at a glance Sometimes, users that own the top answer on a popular question "cannibalize" (copy paste in most cases) secondary answers content into theirs, hogging all the points. This behaviour might end up demotivating people from improving existing answer or update outdated solutions. We have two perspectives to consider 1. Person who seek answer From his perspective it could be better to find the best answer on top without waiting the natural process for the new answer to overcome the old one 2. Person who provide the alternative answer If at all we accept that points motivate users to provide better or alternative answers, then as a consequence, allowing "cannibalization" could demotivate those user, slowing down the rate at which answers get updated or improved. Not looking for a solution just yet, just trying to understand if that's just ok, or a minor problem occurring only in few cases, so my question are: Do you think this could actually lead to demotivating user to post new answers if they find existing one obsolete or unsatisfactory? What is the scale of the problem? Are there many answers affected? discussion answers plagiarism snovellisnovelli marked as duplicate by Sam Hanley, Stephen Leppik, peterh, Blackwood, Arun Vinoth Sep 6 '18 at 18:11 This carries the assumption that the edit is done in bad faith. Are you sure that it's done intentionally? Or might it be a misunderstanding of how SE works? – fbueckert Aug 27 '18 at 20:07 @fbueckert true, but the fact that sometimes it's done unintentionally doesn't solve the underlining problem. – snovelli Sep 6 '18 at 7:35 Do you have any examples of this happening? – Cerbrus Sep 6 '18 at 7:40 @il_raffa: exactly how is that a duplicate? – Cerbrus Sep 6 '18 at 8:07 Today in "Editing to explain why my question is not a duplicate is futile." – BoltClock♦ Sep 6 '18 at 8:49 @BoltClock Yes, editing your question to state that it's not a duplicate, rather than explaining how the duplicate fails to answer your question, is in fact futile. Telling people that they didn't read your question doesn't make your question any less of a duplicate, or make people any less likely to mark it as such. – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 13:54 @Servy: The author of this question didn't just say "This is not a duplicate." They specifically said that this isn't about plagiarizing content from here to an academic paper. And someone voted it as such anyway. That's what makes it futile. (And for that matter - chastising the reader aside - that statement wasn't even necessary to begin with, since neither the title nor body even remotely suggest that it was about the same. It's akin to prefacing "Are strings value types or reference types in C#?" with "This is not about Java, please don't close it as a duplicate of a Java question.") – BoltClock♦ Sep 6 '18 at 14:08 (You'd have to be paying as little attention as a robo-reviewer to associate a C# string question with a Java string question just because it's about strings - and the fact that the usual Meta robo-reviewers contributed to the closure of this question says a lot.) – BoltClock♦ Sep 6 '18 at 14:10 @BoltClock If you think that the question is clearly not a duplicate without an edit, then just say that, rather than saying that editing a post to explain why it's not a duplicate is futile, given that that's not the relevant action there. Additionally I think the main reason it's not a duplicate is because the other question has a pretty bad answer, a good answer to that question could plausibly and this question. Of course, it not existing makes the questions not duplicates. – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 14:13 @Servy: I don't need to repeat what others have stated - and my statement is meant to be in solidarity with frustrated users who take measures (preemptive as in this case or otherwise) to make it clearer that their questions aren't duplicates only for their questions to get incorrectly closed anyway. – BoltClock♦ Sep 6 '18 at 14:22 @BoltClock And my statement is meant to indicate that if people want to edit their question to indicate that it's not a duplicate they should be doing so to actually explain how the question is different, not to insult people for casting a close vote that they think is wrong (even if I agree it's wrong). I'd also like to hope that users, and moderators as well, would strive to keep discourse around the closure of questions professional, polite, and assuming that others are acting in good faith, even if you disagree with their actions, rather than being rude to them. – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 14:24 As an aside, it's interesting to note whose answer the above question was asked about. – Sam Hanley Sep 6 '18 at 14:31 @SamHanley, As an aside, it's interesting to note my answer to that question. I have nothing to hide. – jpp Sep 6 '18 at 15:21 @jpp I don't mean to suggest you're hiding anything - I just thought that the fact that this is a discussion you've been a key part of in the past was interesting incidental context to your puzzling answer to this thread. – Sam Hanley Sep 6 '18 at 15:28 @SamHanley, Well, you certainly missed the sarcasm. Maybe you also missed my previous related question: What are the criteria for plagiarism? – jpp Sep 6 '18 at 15:33 There are two cases here. Either the answer is plagiarizing other answers with its content, or it's not. If it's plagiarizing others' content, either by not properly citing the work of others, or by merely copying large portions of others' work without incorporating it into their own original work, then flag the post for moderation attention and explain why you think the post is plagiarism. If the post isn't plagiarizing, and is merely using another's work in a transformative way to improve on it in their own original answer, then that's a good thing, and very in line with the site's goals. The site uses a very permissive license very intentionally, and very publicly. It should be expected that when you're publishing content on SO for others, both on the site and off, to be using it and republishing it. People who are strongly opposed to others doing so (as long as they follow the license terms) are going to run into all sorts of problems, because they have a core value that simply conflicts so strongly with the site's intended design. Additionally, not every answer using the work of another is necessarily better. If you feel that a post incorporates another's content, but doesn't do so in a way that meaningfully improves on it, then reflect that opinion with your vote. ServyServy The problem not addressed is If it's plagiarizing others' content. From experience, under current guidelines anything but a precise copy-paste job is not deemed plagiarizing. Whether an answer is plagiarizing is not, as you seem to imply, some unequivocal fact. If in doubt, we must assume good intentions! – jpp Sep 6 '18 at 14:59 @jpp Assuming good intentions doesn't mean nothing is plagiarism. It just means there's an underlying presumption that one needs to have evidence to actually outweigh. That you need some evidence that the user didn't independently arrive at an alternate solution isn't an impossible barrier to overcome. – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 15:13 Copying parts of answers is fine This is the moderation line, as we are asked to assume good intentions, so let's put it in bold. In practice, it means anything that is not a word-for-word copy is acceptable. Change some variable names and you're good to go! The usual wording that goes along with this: We only handle plagiarism cases that are clear attempts to copy content from another source rather than simply original work that demonstrates the same idea(s). The counter-argument comes up at regular intervals: Plagiarism policy - how much of an answer can be copied to another answer? What are the criteria for plagiarism? jppjpp It's interesting (but wholly understandable) that people are happy to downvote when no alternative answers exist. Of course, it's a tongue-in-cheek answer bemoaning my own experience. Technically, however, it's correct and backed by examples. – jpp Sep 6 '18 at 13:55 No, it's not correct, and no, it's not backed by examples. The policy, of which you've linked to, isn't that it's okay to copy other people's solutions if you just change a few variable names. Your example merely states that for really trivial solutions it's common for different people to independently come up with the same, or a very similar, solution. The example is saying that the differences observed there indicate that the other user independently arrived at the same solution, rather than copying it (with or without meaningless changes). – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 14:03 @Servy indicate is a strong word and inaccurate. adjudged to have been independently arrived at.. is better, but (as you conveniently omit) still backed by the assume good intentions principle. – jpp Sep 6 '18 at 14:08 That still doesn't make your statement that it's okay to copy anything so long as you change a few variables. That can clearly still indicate plagiarism, even when assuming good intentions. – Servy Sep 6 '18 at 14:10 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged discussion answers plagiarism . Including other people's answer into your own accepted answer Plagiarism and using/copying code from Stack Overflow and submitting it in an assignment Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions? Should I ask a question I know the answer to, if I think it will be useful to others? Feature request: introduce an optional sort option for answers that lets new *good* answers rise faster to the top User doesn't give an answer but gets a bounty reward Is this plagiarism? Add a way to sort answers based on recent votes What about an 'Algorithmic Review' type of topic about solution approaches for programming challenges? Teaching new users how to accept an answer Review Queue for code style? Edit completely rewrites accepted answer

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It's beautiful and so are you" Clementine was blissfully unaware of darkening mood that seemed to be rolling through Helovia. She didn't know that the Gods had withdrawn from their herdlands and the ominous implications that that held for the longtime residents. The flower child had been born in the era of Kaos, the name was not one that caused her heartbeat to quicken or fear to stir in her belly. To her...it was just another name. And it certainly wasn't on her mind today as she skipped her way northward, back towards the land that she she knew to contain endless wildflowers and butterflies to boot. The air was beginning to grow colder, so the flower child knew that soon the desert would be the only place that she'd be able to find flowers. So she'd decided to make an effort in creating her own flower garden like her mother's herb garden so she could have flowers during the winter. She hadn't entirely thought through her plan to get the flowers home, but such thoughts hadn't dampened the sunshine girl's mood. She smiled when she reached the familiar meadow, speckled with the occasional tree. However the flower girl didn't make her way to the flowers immediately. Because something pulled her attention towards a solitary tree. She wasn't sure if it was a sound or just a feeling, but regardless she made her way to the vast oak - curiosity blooming in the flower child. What she found was certainly unexpected. A solitary egg - light blue with brown flecks - looking like it very well may have been displaced from a nest. "Oh no oh no oh no" the girl muttered, upon finding the little egg nestled in the roots of the tree. "Where's your nest?" she said as her orange eyes flickered towards the branches of the tree above. However, the girl just didn't see a nest in the branches. Puzzled, she looked back to the egg. Surely an egg so small had a mother looking for it? But again, she was consumed by that strange feeling that had brought her over here in the first place. Maybe this egg wasn't misplaced after all, she thought. No sooner had the thought popped into her head then did the little egg shift in its nook. Once. Twice. Before the fragile shell split and the creature inside made the tiniest of peeps. Clementine stood in awe, staring down at the scene unfolding before her, slowly sinking to her knees beside the egg as both inexplicable hunger and a sense of awe bloomed hot in her belly. Please tag Clementine in every post.

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This blog's trajectory has often been along nostalgic back roads with frequent glances in the rear-view mirror. Curated by third-person narrators like Aunt Tomato and Lady Alone Traveler, car trips in the present do sometimes dust off old hockey pucks and the ghost of Shawn Walsh. Last weekend, I chased a 20-year-old hockey memory, taking a trip to the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center. As I crossed over the border, I wondered if I should have gone alone. It would have been a sentimental journey in the classic Lady Alone Traveler style, my middle-aged self silently scribbling notes in my reporter's notebook while eating popcorn in a loge seat. But lately, when I talk about myself in the third person, I am "The Duchess of Moxie" in humble homage to the remarkable Kate, Duchess of Cambridge. It didn't seem right for a duchess to be jauntily zooming around alone at night, so I invited a friend to join me. It seemed like a good idea at the time. And I suppose it was, in part, because I became privy to someone else's memory and I was thankful to learn that I was not alone in collecting memories and time trinkets. Today, I share this story in muted tones so that everyone's privacy is preserved and the compassion and love I heard does not die in the sweet six miles of car talk from the Spaulding highway exit to the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center. Jeff and I met in 1975 or so, classmates in school. He moved away, I moved away, we moved back. We crossed paths somewhere in our small town and through random conversations, we ended up making the 90-minute trip to watch the University of Maine Black Bears men's ice hockey team play the University of New Hampshire's Wildcats. The rivalry between these two teams was once quite intense, reaching a crescendo when Maine beat UNH in the 1999 Frozen Four. Jeff and I talked about hockey, marriages, and low-carbohydrate diets. I didn't feel like myself, but I kept my hands on the wheel and motored on. I took Exit 6 West off the Spaulding Turnpike onto Route 4 towards Durham and Jeff picked up his phone to read a text. He apologized and said his friend had died yesterday. Like so many things in this broken world, the random juxtaposition of words like "friend" and "died" made my heart sink into the pit of my stomach. I said "oh my gosh, I'm sorry" and then said nothing more, hoping my silence encouraged Jeff to tell me about his friend. Approaching the awkward merge in the road at the top of Main Street in Durham, I looked over at the old Congregational church's spire. I wanted to reach over and touch Jeff, but I had no choice but to slowly navigate the lanes. There was Wildcat Pizza on the left, empty as the last students scurried out to the game. Are there any good words for death and loss and sadness? UMaine beat UNH 5 – 3 and allegedly the Whittemore Center was sold out. It didn't feel that way. The arena felt dark and dull except for the student cheering section. Why wasn't the UMaine band at the game? Why was there no Stein Song to sing after every UMaine goal? Why did Red Gendron seem like an old man creeping onto the ice after the second period? When I woke up the next morning, tired from the trip and the late night, I kept thinking about this story and how Jeff's very recent loss leaked out along the dark road to Durham. I was so tired; maybe that was why I woke up crying and missing my own dead beloved relatives and friends. Sunday morning dragged on with tissues and tears; I walked to a friend's house and drank coffee. I read the obituary in the paper a few days later and I thought of Jeff again. He helped his friend, who he loved like a brother. I thought of all those stupid and superficial commercials where the bonds of male friendship are subtly mocked with words like "bro," "bromance," "bro hug," and a bag of Doritos. No…that was not what I had heard on the dark road to Durham. I heard what sounded like a Biblical friend, the type that loves at all times, is closer than a brother, and is born for adversity. I heard what sounded like a lifetime of memories that will transcend time and loss. Let brotherly love continue, Jeff. Let brotherly love continue. This entry was posted in Lady Alone Traveler and tagged brotherly love, Hebrews 13:1, hockey, Shawn Walsh. Bookmark the permalink.

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Mary Bates, PhD » Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning? Photo: House Photography via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. In my latest Zoologic post, I take a look at the dawn chorus: the time of day when many songbirds are singing their hearts out. Birds sing to attract mates and establish territories; but why choose the early morning hours to do it? Read the story here: Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning?

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This might mean scheduling calls with families and providers at 3 a.m. Virginia time, to accommodate time zone differences. It's also meant meeting families at the airport after midnight and escorting them to campus. And on campus, the staff handles these after-hours admissions efficiently and compassionately. "We met one family from Korea at the airport around 1 a.m. We were able to drive our car onto the tarmac to meet the father and his child who flew in on a medical transport," Brooks recalled. "They'd been traveling for so long, and the child asked if we had anything to eat. So, we stopped at Denny's for a meal before heading to campus." That kind of concern and attention to detail means a lot to military families, he said. These actions go a long way to reassure parents during a traumatic time. "We were impressed by how proactive the staff were during the admission process," said the father of a child in treatment at BRC. "We had so much going on and you worked with us to make it as stress free as possible." Another parent whose child is in treatment at BRC shared a similar positive experience. "I could not ask for a more personable staff. They all make you feel like they are only a phone call away," said the mother. "The key personnel each introduce themselves and let you know their role and how to contact them if need be. This was amazing to me as they have been put to the test when I have had questions or concerns about anything from the schooling to visitation to accommodations. The team leaders are also absolutely wonderful and pivotal in making my child feel welcome and secure." All parents want to find a treatment facility with a team they can trust, said Rob McCartney, BRC's CEO. "With admissions from overseas, where parents cannot travel to us quickly, the issue of trust becomes even more critical. Trust is not something that should ever be given but should be earned," he said. "I believe BRC has earned the trust of the military community with our transparency, communication and quality treatment program. Often when a child or teen needs treatment in the United States, overseas providers look for a facility close to another family member, such as a grandparent. That makes sense, to provide a family connection for the child, but doesn't always take into account the child's diagnosis or whether the facility may be the best fit. "Our child's case manager referred us to BRC. Being overseas, we were given an overwhelming list of residential treatment centers by region and state. She referred us to BRC knowing the needs of my child and their comprehensive and holistic approach to healing," said a mother. "She also was aware of success stories that came from BRC. To have my child's psychiatrist give us his affirmation made our decision even more solidified." BRC is one of the nation's premier residential treatment centers for military-connected children and teens. 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Ms. Tawanda was perfect for our family and our son. She is an amazing human being! I really can't say enough about BRC. Everyone Thank you for your kindness and help with our child in the last couple of weeks. It has been a huge pleasure to meet you and know that she is in a great place for compassion, healing, nurture and care. We look forward to seeing her grow as an individual and closer with her family I am a former BRC resident from many years ago. I came to BRC for help with my depression, and you reminded me how to find worth in myself once again. Soon after I was discharged, my father received orders to move us to the Washington D.C. area for a new assignment. I started high BRC was the right place to take our son for a dual diagnosis treatment. They were so quick in the enrollment process and helped us navigate the admission process when our thoughts were turned upside down. It was amazing to see how all the different components of BRC worked together to get the best outcome I can't thank you enough for having the patience to help my daughter. She is doing so well now and has a new focus and outlook on life. I am so very proud of her. She even told me that I am her role model and she has never said that before. She now actually We were familiar with other area facilities and, from day one, it was clear that this would be a very different experience. The campus is beautiful and feels like a nice boarding school, not a locked psychiatric facility. Extracurricular opportunities like music, choir and Scouts were offered. The staff is engaged, caring and committed. The I wish I knew how to better express my heartfelt gratitude and the indebtedness I feel towards you. You believed in my son when no one else did. You saw the good in him when no one else could see past the outbursts and destruction. You showed him and me a better way to communicate, I know our journey is far from over in this battle with mental health, but I am forever grateful to you and your staff for helping us out of crisis mode and giving us hope for a future. I know each employee plays a part in making BRC what it is for all the children. My wife and I write this letter of reference for The Barry Robinson Center expressing our complete support for their therapeutic services provided to children and adolescents dealing emotional and mental conditions requiring long term residential care. The Barry Robinson Center saw our son as an individual and designed tailored and unique treatment, education, social We can't thank you all enough for how seamless you made the whole process. From the moment we started our interactions with BRC we have felt extremely well-cared for and important. We did not feel as though our son was "just another admission" but got the distinct impression he was already valued before he even My daughter, a former BRC resident, has been doing an amazing job since she has returned home. Her teachers have made comments that it is a complete change, for the good. She is entering high school this year and was accepted into the BioMed program. She is also going to try out for the school Dear Mr. McCartney, Our child has been at The Barry Robinson Center for two months. I want to first thank Ms. Laura Cheney for taking the chance and admitting my daughter one day after I called her. I was frantic to find a place, and Laura put my mind to rest. BRC has always been I am sitting at the airport in Virginia thinking about the wonderful weekend I spent with my daughter. It was not perfect, and started a bit rocky, but the recovery was quick which enabled us to spend some quality time together. Thank you for enabling me to visit her. Without help for the flight and I want to thank you all. I have met a few families at the Ronald McDonald House staying there to tour The Barry Robinson Center and I've told them how amazing you all have been and the amazing difference you've made with my daughter. I love how everyone from the dorm staff, therapist, doctors, administrators, and Dear Mr. McCartney, I've sat for weeks now, writing, deleting, and rewriting this letter to you. Because how does someone convey in words, what can never truly convey? Let me start at the beginning… My son was bed-to-bed transferred from Maryview to The Barry Robinson Center in November after exceedingly elevated behaviors that left me I wanted to respond to your email once I arrived home and got situated. I had a wonderful trip. Everything couldn't have gone better if I had planned it. Every interaction that I had with staff, my time with my daughter…just everything. I can't thank you enough for the care you have given her and I just want to let you know how much I appreciate the communication from The Barry Robinson Center. It makes me happy that I am able to feel comfortable calling Rodney and asking these questions, getting his perspective/insight, and most of all his support. He is very honest and knowledgeable. I get the sense that he What a great performance today by the Voices of Pride! Everyone really enjoyed the singing performance by the children. The BRC children were respectful and helpful to the staff and residents at The Memory Center. Furthermore, Ms. King is so organized and directed everyone so well. Ms. King is right when she said music brings us Just made it home a little while ago. Stayed through visiting hours and had a chance to just sit at the picnic benches and really visit with my daughter for a long time. First real visit we have had with her in months without the stress of her environment too. Really appreciated and enjoyed so One family's story from crisis to hope. We are your typical American family; happily married parents, four kids, and a dog. In the early weeks of 2016, we found ourselves in a family crisis like none other we had faced. We did what we do best, we started asking questions and seeking assistance. We were Dear Laura, I just wanted to write and say THANK YOU so very much for helping me with my daughter and her transition to The Barry Robinson Center. Ever since my first talk with you on the phone, I was- and continue to be- impressed with the kindness and professionalism of you and all your We just wanted to take a moment to thank you and the BRC staff for all of their help with our son. First and foremost, we thank Mr. Otis Bynum. Otis was very astute at sensing what our son was feeling, and Otis helped him to take off the mask of anger and indifference, enabling The Rise Program has benefited me very much. It has shown me valuable life skills thanks to Mr. Burke and Mrs. Sykes. I have a lot more knowledge about electronics and cabling thanks to Mr. Jones too. I would recommend that this program be continued and funded so that they can enlighten more young minds I just want to take the time to express what I think is important about what I've learned in the Rise Program. Since I have started this program I have had a positive outlook on some things in my life that I needed help understanding. Also, I learned that success starts with me. Everything I

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Microsatellite DNA Analysis of Wild Hops, Humulus lupulus L. To study the relationships and genetic diversity among wild hops, Humulus lupulus, we analyzed 133 samples of wild hops collected from Europe, Asia and North America using polymorphism on 11 microsatellite loci. Although only three primers showed bands in Japanese hops, all other samples showed polymorphic bands at most loci. There were no duplicate genotypes among samples of European, Chinese and North American hops, and each individual hop could be distinguished completely. The phylogenetic tree constructed from DA distance with the UPGMA method showed a large cluster comprised of European hops, although Russian hops from the Caucasus and Altai regions were separate from the European cluster. Chinese and North American samples gave distinct clusters suggesting genetic differentiation. This study has indicated that hop microsatellite DNA is differentiated, and is dependent upon the origin in regions of Europe, Asia and North America.

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5 surprising ways to increase living standards sustainably Bio-paraxylene water bottles. Image: Johnson Matthey Suzanne Ellis Research Director, Johnson Matthey To keep global warming below 1.5℃, we need to find new ways to produce everyday goods, many of which have been built on the back of fossil fuels. 5 ways to raise living standards sustainably: making plastics from plants; greening steel and concrete; recycling EV batteries; making jet fuel from trash; cleaning up deliveries. Over the past quarter of a century, advances in technology and living standards have enabled more than a billion people to lift themselves out of poverty. Many more are expected to experience improved lifestyles in the coming decades as emerging economies grow and the global population increases to nearly 10 billion by 2050. What does sustainable living really mean? This company has delivered the world's first fossil-free steel What is 'bioleaching' and how could it make EV batteries more sustainable? While economic growth reduces poverty, it also increases the consumption of everyday items ranging from toothbrushes to building materials. To keep global warming below 1.5℃, we need to find new ways to produce these goods, many of which have been built on the back of fossil fuels. Here are five surprising ways to increase living standards sustainably: 1. Making plastics from plants While irresponsible disposal of single-use items has rightly come under scrutiny, plastics remain fundamental to modern life. Inexpensive plastics have been key to raising living standards, making many products available cheaply to more people, from lateral flow tests for COVID-19 to cars. Since its invention, plastic production has used fossil fuels as feedstocks and this will need to shift to more sustainable alternatives. Bio-based monomers can be used as the feedstocks to make plastics and polyesters. Both polylactic acid (PLA), a biodegradable polyester that can be used in food packaging, textiles and in engineering, and polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a plastic often used in packaging such as bottles or films, can be made using bio-based feedstocks such as sugar cane or corn starch. In another example, Johnson Matthey and Virent have partnered to develop a bio-forming process to produce bio-paraxylene and bio-benzene – key building blocks for many types of plastic. However, bio-based and sustainable plastics are currently expensive compared to those derived from fossil fuels. The market for these needs to be developed, alongside a sustainable recycling solution for end-of-life plastic products, to accelerate the transition toward a truly circular plastics economy. 2. Greening steel and concrete Concrete and steel may seem mundane, but these materials are building blocks for a better quality of life – homes, roads, schools and hospitals. The steel and cement industries are also among the heaviest emitters of CO2. Both burn fossil fuels for energy, and steel making relies on fossil fuels as a reducing agent while cement production involves chemical processes that generate CO2. What's more, they cannot easily be electrified – but remain essential for raising living standards and are also key enablers of the energy transition. Steel, for example, is used in everything from wind turbines to electric cars. Hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels is expected to be the game-changer for such hard-to-abate sectors since it can be burned without emitting CO2. Clean hydrogen can be produced in two ways: splitting water using renewable electricity through electrolysis, or by reforming natural gas and capturing the CO2 generated. Building a market for clean hydrogen is critical to reaching net zero, and many governments globally are making this central to their decarbonization plans. 3. Recycling EV batteries After experiencing a fall during the pandemic lockdowns, car ownership is back. And while growth will vary significantly across the globe, the one pervasive dynamic is the shift to electric vehicles (EVs). After years of China dominating EV car sales, it was overtaken by Europe as the world's largest EV market in 2020. Sustainability and circularity are key to making EVs not only carbon-free to use – given that over two-thirds of global electricity is still generated from fossil fuels − but also limiting the carbon impact throughout their lifecycle. For example, the active components within batteries can be shredded to a powder known as "black mass". This is processed further to filter out critical materials, including cobalt, nickel and lithium, ready to be used again. 4. Making jet fuel from rubbish Air travel was one of the worst-affected sectors during the pandemic. The aviation industry body, the IATA, predicts that while full recovery is unlikely this side of 2030, markets will pick up as travel barriers are removed and people start to travel further afield again. While pre-pandemic aviation contributed only 2-3% of human-induced carbon dioxide, emissions from aviation have been increasing at a faster rate than for any other transport mode, according to the International Energy Agency. Along with shipping, it is also considered one of the most challenging to decarbonize. A lot of work is going into developing electric and hydrogen-powered aircraft, but the technologies are not yet advanced enough to take over, especially for long-haul flights. Jet fuels can be made more sustainably. Johnson Matthey and bp have developed an award-winning process (using the Fischer Tropsch, or FT, reaction) that converts syngas (a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide) produced from the gasification of household waste into "synthetic crude", which in turn is used for making sustainable, low-carbon aviation fuel. What is the World Economic Forum doing about the circular economy? The World Economic Forum has created a series of initiatives to promote circularity. 1. Scale360° Playbook was designed to build lasting ecosystems for the circular economy and help solutions scale. Scale360° Playbook Journey Image: Scale360° Playbook Its unique hub-based approach - launched this September - is designed to prioritize circular innovation while fostering communities that allow innovators from around the world to share ideas and solutions. Emerging innovators from around the world can connect and work together ideas and solutions through the UpLink, the Forum's open innovation platform. Discover how the Scale360° Playbook can drive circular innovation in your community. Connect to Learn More → 2. A new Circular Cars Initiative (CCI) embodies an ambition for a more circular automotive industry. It represents a coalition of more than 60 automakers, suppliers, research institutions, NGOs and international organizations committed to realizing this near-term ambition. CCI has recently released a new series of circularity "roadmaps", developed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), McKinsey & Co. and Accenture Strategy. These reports explain the specifics of this new circular transition. 3. The World Economic Forum's Accelerating Digital Traceability for Sustainable Production initiative brings together manufacturers, suppliers, consumers and regulators to jointly establish solutions and provide a supporting ecosystem to increase supply chain visibility and accelerate sustainability and circularity across manufacturing and production sectors. 5. Cleaning up deliveries When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, brick-and-mortar stores shut down, and even the most technology-averse people switched to online deliveries. This trend has not slowed since. E-commerce has been shown to increase with rising incomes, providing greater convenience and choice. So as living standards improve, online shopping follows the trend. In the medium to long term, we will see delivery services switch to fuel-cell or electric-powered vans. However, these vehicles are unlikely to be available straight away at the levels necessary to meet growth in demand in emerging markets. One way to reduce the CO2 emissions of delivery vehicles that are powered by internal combustion engines (ICE) is to blend in bio-based fuels, like the recent switch to E10 petrol. Going forward, more sustainable liquid fuels can be produced from captured CO2 and household waste (along with clean hydrogen) – similar to the aviation sector's low-carbon fuels. ICE-powered vehicles continue to be made cleaner using the latest emission control technology to minimise the levels of nitrogen oxides and particulates released by such vehicles. Replacing older vehicles with more modern vans and trucks that meet tightening emission regulations, using catalysts developed and manufactured by Johnson Matthey and others, is another effective way to clean up the logistics sector and the air we breathe. Suzanne Ellis, Research Director, Johnson Matthey More on Climate Change View all UN chief appeals for support for developing countries; German chancellor calls for 'paradigm shift' on climate action; pristine coral reef found off Tahiti. Kate Whiting 21 Jan 2022 How does Earth look from space? 'Like one big spaceship' - astronaut Matthias Maurer on Radio Davos Live from the International Space Station, astronaut Matthias joined the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda, to talk science, climate and space tourism. Robin Pomeroy 21 Jan 2022 3 areas of progress on climate change can help combat anxiety Karn Manhas 21 Jan 2022 How can leaders succeed in the clean energy transition? Michael Grubb · The Conversation 21 Jan 2022 What hydrogen and the global energy transition mean for industry in 2022 Christian Bruch 21 Jan 2022 How to accelerate the net-zero transition in transport Mary Loane and Maya Ben Dror 21 Jan 2022

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Harmonicon audeae is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de Dipluridae. Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Harmonicon. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1998 door Maréchal & Marty. Dipluridae

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After eight weeks, our designers, illustrators and photographers who have put the Wacom Cintiq Companion through its paces tell us how it changed how they create. Show Your Creativity week 6: Can using a Wacom Cintiq Companion change your creative workflow? Show Your Creativity week 5: how does a Wacom Cintiq Companion compare to using a traditional graphics tablet? This week our 8 artists and designers compare drawing and painting directly on-screen using the Cintiq Companion to working with a graphics tablet. Read about our contestants' latest experiences with the Cintiq Companion and get an update on their projects. Week two and our contestants have been getting to grips with the Cintiq Companion. See how they have been getting on. Read about our contestants' first impressions with the Cintiq Companion and see what they've been working on. After our foray into the joys of the Android-based Cintiq Companion Hybrid tablet, we went to try out the Windows 8-driven Cintiq Companion. Illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen gets her hands on one this year's hottest design toys: Wacom's Android tablet.

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2016 Mercedes A-Class Debuts, Mercedes-AMG A45 Now With 375 HP: Video Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 28, 2015 Comment Now! Even in this era of engine downsizing and ever-present fuel economy and emissions regulations, the power wars are alive and well. Audi fired the last shot in the hot hatch arena when it lobbed its RS 3 on the market with a 362-horsepower rating, and now Mercedes-AMG has retaliated with an updated version of its A45 4Matic producing a staggering 375 hp. The updated A45 is the flagship of the 2016 Mercedes-Benz A-Class range, which just underwent a mid-cycle update and is on show this weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed ahead of a formal debut at September's Frankfurt Auto Show. While there are still no plans to bring the A-Class to the United States, at least with this generation, we'll see many of the updates filter across to the CLA and GLA models once they undergo their own updates. Yes, look forward to the A45's extra poke making its way into the CLA45—Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2014. Power still comes from a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, which in addition to producing 375 hp also has a crazy 350 pound-feet of torque on tap. Impressively, boost pressure remains unchanged at 26 psi. Instead, the engine specialists at Mercedes-AMG mainly achieved this increase in power output with a newly configured valve assembly and optimization of the combustion process. But it's not just about brute power, as other areas of the car have also been optimized. The revised gear ratios, aerodynamic fine-tuning and the new Dynamic Select driving modes system—with Comfort, Sport, Sport + and Individual modes—all help boost performance to a higher level. According to Mercedse-AMG, the A45 will now reach 62 mph from rest in just 4.2 seconds, which is 0.4 of a second quicker than before. Maximum traction also on tight bends is ensured by the standard all-wheel drive and the optional front axle locking differential available for the first time. This is part of a Dynamic Plus package that also adds adjustable sports suspension setup with two-stage adaptive damping, as well as a special Race mode for the Dynamic Select driving modes system that turns everything to the max. Other changes made to the A45 include shorter transmission ratios in 3rd to 7th gear for the standard seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, improved aerodynamics brought about by the revised front spoiler and rear diffuser, and a new multifunction sports steering wheel. The infotainment system has also been updated and includes Apple CarPlay smartphone integration as well as Internet connectivity. With the regular A-Class, the engineers at Mercedes strived to make the car even sportier. For example, they have added the Dynamic Select driving modes system, expanded the lineup of engine offerings, and launched a new Motorsport Edition variant that celebrates the success of the Mercedes AMG Formula One team. Striking lines, dynamically curved surfaces and a coupe-like profile characterize the exterior of the A-Class. For the latest version, the designers added a new, more arrow-shaped front bumper that more closely resembles the design on the Concept A-Class unveiled in 2011. Also new is the diamond grille pattern, LED headlights, revised graphics in the tail-lights, and new exhaust tips integrated with the bumper. Inside, the main instrument cluster has been tweaked with new dial graphics and better quality materials have been used for many of the switches. The central display is now a large, free-standing and frameless unit that measures up to 8.0 inches diagonally. New colors and materials as well as new finishes for the trim in the dashboard area round out the changes. As for the new Motorsport Edition, this gets special turquoise elements on the exterior that match the hue used on the Mercedes AMG F1 livery. Eye-catching details in the interior include the green surrounds of the air vents and the contrasting stitching in green. The sports seats are lined in leather and microfiber trim and also have green decorative strips, as have the seat belts. The Motorsport Edition is available for most variants, though not on the Mercedes-AMG A45. As mentioned above, the engine lineup has been expanded. The entry-level A160 now gets a 100-hp four-cylinder engine while the range-topping A250 Sport gets a 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 215 hp. Above this model sits the 376-hp A45. In the area of tech, the latest A-Class range gets a revised infotainment system with CarPlay smartphone integration and a more intuitive menu system with improved graphics. There are also extra electronic driver aids including the Attention Assist drowsiness detection system, Distronic Plus distance control system and the Collision Prevention Assist system with autonomous partial braking to reduce the risk of rear-end collisions. Sales of the updated A-Class range commence in Europe in late September. A similarly updated version of the CLA should follow sometime in 2016. For more from the Goodwood Festival of Speed, head to our dedicated hub. High-Res Gallery: 2016 Mercedes-AMG A45 4Matic forbidden fruit Frankfurt Auto Show Goodwood Festival of Speed Hatchbacks Luxury Cars Mercedes-Benz A Class Mercedes-Benz News Videos With Reveal Of New Giulia Sedan, Alfa Romeo Gets Serious About Brand Renaissance 2017 Audi A4 Is Lighter, More Powerful And More Advanced: Video 2017 Cadillac XT5: The SRX Successor Spotted On The Streets 2016 Mercedes-AMG A45 Spy Shots

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I asked a question on the german language stack exchange, and have gotten several very good answers. Unfortunately, what I forgot to take into account when asking it, was that I have no way of telling which answer is correct! Because I am asking about colloquial usage, rather than something that has a verifiable right or wrong solution, I don't know which of the answers should be marked correct. By accepting an answer, that does not essentially make it the correct answer. It is merely the answer which helps you the most. A checkmark next to an answer does indicate overall that it was proper, but there are times when accepted answers are not correct (although rare) and that is still up to the community to decide on their own. While accepting an answer sends a message, so does not accepting one. It basically leaves the door open, so if you are uncertain or feel like you did not get an answer to your question, then there is nothing wrong with not accepting any of them. Over time, votes from the community will fill the gap between which answer is most correct. While it is encouraged to accept an answer, you are not obliged to. The community can give you an indication of which answer is best, but total up votes is not necessarily an indication of correctness (it's more an indication of popularity - I've seen wrong answers receive up votes before being challenged). Unless you get that indication, do nothing until you are in a position to know which answer is both correct and best (as there could be several correct). Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged discussion accepted-answer multiple-answers . How do I accept an answer when I have no expertise to know which is correct? Which answer do I accept if I have multiple correct answers? Can I upvote an answer if I don't know if it is correct?

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama unveil Mens Ready to Wear, bags, shoes and accessories Maison LOUIS VUITTON proudly unveils the continuation of the collaboration with YAYOI KUSAMA. The Japanese avant-garde artist is known worldwide for her hypnotic and colorful art. True to her signature, which she has preserved over the years, she uses her motifs in endless succession and in this way conquers the entire space. LOUIS VUITTON last met the magical art of YAYOI KUSAMA in 2012. But this relationship never ended - ten years later the sequel followed. A first glimpse of the collaboration between LOUIS VUITTON and YAYOI KUSAMA was given in May 2022 in San Diego during the LOUIS VUITTON Cruise 2023 show. In line with LOUIS VUITTON's artistic collaborations, the encounter between the Maison and YAYOI KUSAMA is based on openness, iconoclasm and, above all, on a mutual appreciation of craftsmanship and excellence over the everyday. The collaboration, which embraces both the women's and men's worlds in the form of ready-to-wear, bags, shoes, accessories, luggage, suitcases and fragrances, is divided into two drops with different thematic directions, all following the iconic ones Motifs by YAYOI KUSAMA. The motif of the PAINTED DOTS is the origin of this project. The Dots are a direct translation of YAYOI KUSAMA's artistic signature through an intricate technique of screen printing and embossing onto leather or iconic coated canvas. The METAL DOTS collection is an expression of infinity, inspired by YAYOI KUSAMA's reflecting spheres - a motif known from her daffodil garden shown (unofficially) at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966. The PAINTED DOTS later transform into the better-known INFINITY DOTS. It is the artist's most popular motif and as a collection, one that includes the most pieces across all product categories for both women and men, appearing in both Drop 1 and Drop 2. Another of Kusama's passions is flowers; the fleeting beauty of the ephemeral is contrasted with the sense of the eternal and infinite. The collaboration between LOUIS VUITTON and YAYOI KUSAMA is celebrated in a fully immersive visual landscape ranging from window displays to pop-ups to animated billboards, AR experiences, an XR game and a proprietary advertising campaign. LOUIS VUITTON x YAYOI KUSAMA Drop 1 will be launched worldwide on January 6th. All images courtesy of www.louisvuitton.com

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Don LeSuer was looking for a place to park his bus in Boston when he suddenly found himself hemmed in by police cruisers. What could be wrong, he wondered? He was only driving Livermore Falls (Maine) High School students on a field trip and had just let them off at one of the city's museums. But that was before one of the cops asked what he knew about the kidnapping. What kidnapping? LeSuer said. Well, the one referred to on the sign a student had hung in the back window, pleading for help. "Unfortunately," the officer concluded, "you're the victim of a prank." Yes, the incident was reported, and school administrators were waiting when the bus returned. The wise guy was suspended for two weeks, among other punishments. Dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, 11,967 people jammed an exhibition center late last month for simultaneous line dancing. So, this must have been in Texas, right? Nope. It was the latest try for a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records by ... Singaporeans.

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"Post-Birth Abortion". . . Seriously Let's talk about a shocker from the British Medical Journal. In a recent BMJ edition, Oxford University's Francesca Minerva, a medical ethicist, and Alberto Giubilini, a bioethicist from the U. of Milan, argue in favor of "post-birth abortion." Specifically, they advocate a right to kill newborn babies if they are disabled, unwanted, or if they would be too expensive for the family. Yes, you read that right. Here is their argument: 1. Like an unborn child, a newborn has yet "to develop hopes, goals and dreams." Thus, while the newborn is human, it is not yet "a person – someone with a moral right to life." 2. In the case of disabled children. . . while the child may be happy, it will not reach the full potential of a normal child: "To bring up such children might be an unbearable burden on the family and on society as a whole. . . On these grounds, the fact that a fetus has the potential to become a person who will have an (at least) acceptable life is no reason for prohibiting abortion." In other words, if you aren't perfect, your don't have a right to live. 3. Parents, siblings and society have goals that could be affected by the arrival of the child, and those goals should take precedence over the child's rights. Therefore, "post-birth abortion" is justified if the mother "no longer has the time, money or energy to care for" the child. Wow, chilling. The abortion movement has always hidden behind the idea that fetuses aren't "alive." Ergo, aborting a fetus is not like killing a child and abortion is no big deal. This argument has worked to the extent we have been unable to define when life begins. That's why many people are indifferent to early-term abortions, but oppose late-term abortions because the more the fetus looks like a human the more likely it is to be alive. That's also why partial-birth abortion was such a disaster for feminists because no one could help but grasp that this was a child being killed. But now Minerva and Giubilini lay bare the real thinking behind the pro-abortion position. They don't care if the child is alive or not. All that matters to them is the economic progress of the mother. Moreover, the mental gymnastics Minerva goes through are stunning. First, she redefines life to have value only if a person has "hopes, goals and dreams." But that's not really her test because babies have hopes, goals and dreams, as does my dog. What she's really saying is life only has value when people have "hopes, goals and dreams" which she considers worthwhile. That is a justification for mass murder of undesirables. And while she limits this to newborns to make her theory seems less dangerous to readers, the fact is her logic does not account for an age limit. Indeed, what difference does it make using her test if someone is 6 weeks, 6 years, or 6 decades old? If they don't have the right "dreams"/goals to be considered human, then logically there is no reason they couldn't be exterminated using her same justification. The sick, the infirm, those on welfare or without useful skills, or even old people who are beyond trying to achieve their goals could all be exterminated using her logic. She also really twists herself to dismiss adoption as an alternative. Indeed, if the mother doesn't want the child, why not just give it up for adoption? Well, Minerva says we can't do that because adoption could cause undue psychological distress to the mother. Think about that. There is no psychological distress with killing your child, but there would be psychological distress in letting someone else have it. How sick is that?! What she's really worried about is that unless the doctor exterminates the child, the mother might want to keep it, and that would expose the atrocity of her theory once the mothers realized that these newborn things actually turn into people that matter. Not surprisingly, our Hitlerian genius Minerva was shocked at the negative reaction, which included death threats. Boo hoo. She claims that her argument has been "taken out of its academic and theoretical context" and that she's not advocating this policy. But the fact is, she is advocating this by issuing a paper in which she claims this is an ethically/ philosophically correct position. Whether she likes the backlash or not, she has tried to justify infanticide and she even provided the euphemism: "post-birth abortion" (as if you could abort something that has already happened). Remember this the next time some abortion advocate tells you they only support abortion because "it's not alive." Index: Abortion, AndrewPrice, Liberal Thinking, Liberals great post, Andrew. You are right, it is chilling. I had not heard of this one. I wonder if the feminazi's have remained silent on this one? This morning in Knoxville, we have this old liberal war horse op-ed writer Ina Mackey Hughes with the News Sentinel jumping on the anti-Rush "slut" bandwagon. Dick Morris, I think, did a great job early on of seeing the administration/media link between the new meme attacking Republicans as anti-women's birth contro; and health because pro-abortionists were losing political steam This has been the end point abortionists and liberals have been advocating for. The logical end to their arguments. Why is it being put forth now? Andrew, I read about this the other day and posted it on Facebook with a question for my liberal friends: "What was that about the "slippery-slope fallacy"? Apparently, not a fallacy." I got no responses. Knowing academics as I do, I have no doubt Minerva was being very sincere in voicing her surprise at the backlash. The phrase "ideas have consequences" is one of the last things you will ever hear in the ivory tower; they must be given their intellectual freedom, without any concern for what effects might come of their words. This is the black culmination of the far-left radical feminism that pushes abortion because it hates motherhood. As father of an autistic daughter, this makes me physically ill. Because of our increasing nanny-state, far too often does it cross my mind that I may one day have to literally protect her from the likes of Minerva. tryanmax also said... The notion of the slippery slope "fallacy" is a sort of fallacy itself. The slippery slope only becomes a fallacy if it is extended too far or made to connect things that have no reasonable connection. StanH said... Sadly, this is the natural extension of unencumbered abortion. However, this is also the natural extension of socialism, they have reached the point of no return. They are attempting to save their useless asses by extermination, Adolph would be so proud. Yes, I read this last week. Now those doctors who perform late term abortions that end up with "live birth" problems can be justified in just killing the "fetus". Eventually it will no longer be illegal or "murder" as I like to call it. Obama must be thrilled as this is what he advocates. I am always curious to ask, who gets to decide a baby's worth? These people are sick. And Tryanmax, would your life be better without the burden of your daughter? Or would you move heaven and earth to protect her and help her realize her hopes and dreams? Just as I would do with my "normal" (I confess, that word is a stretch when referring to my kid...)"non-disabled" or otherwise "undesirable" child? Or, I don't know, has she actually enriched your life in previously unimagined ways? Something these people obviously can't comprehend. Sick bastards. The Brits have finally joined up with the American radicals on the issue. The argument put forth in their article bears a haunting resemblance to the proposal advocated by Dr. Peter Singer of Princeton University, who has argued that the killing of a newborn baby, known as infanticide, should be allowable up to the point that the child develops some ability to communicate and to anticipate the future. In both cases, I think the guiding factor is that without a belief in the God-given right to live, moralists and ethicists can justify almost anything. The William F. Buckley quote that fits here is "With God all things are possible. With man, all things are permissible." As one of the resident pro-choicers on the site, I have to say I'm disgusted by this. Call it compartmentalization on my part or whatever but isn't "post-birth abortion" simply... murder? Tam, as with most things in life, greater challenges yield greater rewards. I would not give up my "pumpkin" for anything, any more than I would part with my "bean" (my son). Back to the slippery slope, my son is what they call "neurotypical" (NT), but being the younger sibling of an autistic child, he had a higher statistical probability of being autistic as well. I have little doubt that in Minerva's utopia, my son wouldn't be afforded the opportunity to be conceived, much less born. Scott, it's only murder if you call it that. Just like modern liberals are the near antithesis of Classical Liberals, yet they still like to claim the mantle. A friend of mine and his wife were going to have their first child several years ago. Then shortly before he was due, they learned he had some severe physical deformity which meant he could only survive a few hours outside the womb. So they prepared for it, and then following his birth, named him and spent every second with him until he passed away. It was an incredibly sad event. When I think about that, and then read bull@#$% like this--well, I have some very unpleasant words crossing my mind. Scott: About five years ago, Hillary Clinton was given a hypothetical situation. "If a partial-birth abortion was scheduled for noon, but on the way to the operating room the mother delivers the baby, is it acceptable to proceed to the delivery room anyway and perform the identical procedure to terminate the baby's life?" She actually hesitated, then said she wasn't sure about the ethics in a case like that. That's at least a partial answer to your question. Is it murder or is it post-birth abortion or is it merely completion of a scheduled partial-birth abortion (an artificial delay to what would otherwise be a normal delivery)? It depends entirely on how man has most recently defined life. Rational, reasonable, loving people have to be shocked by this. At least Jonathon Swift was using satire when he suggested that we eat our children, rather than starve. This is just beyond what any civilized society should opine about even in a published "academic and theoretical context". But, you can always look on the bright side. Only Liberals will be the one's who can and will justify killing their "post-birth" children, so less liberals... Cruel, but true. Well, that's until it is mandated by the state who will now "own" your healthcare and health, and then the state be compelled to decide that your "pre" and/or "post-birth" baby will not be financial enhancing to the hopes, goals, and dreams" of the State. And since I can't understand a thing teenagers say, can we stretch it to include them in the "until they can communicate" deadline? (Just kidding...maybe) LawHawk, there are at least 2 doctors (one in Florida and one in New Jersey) who have been arrested and are being tried on for 1st degree murder on this very issue of botched late term abortion. Both were late term abortion providers who killed babies born live in the process of an abortion. I will spare you the grizzly details of how they completed their task... Thanks Jed. I hate to say this, but it wasn't as chilling to me as it should it have been I've honestly seen this kind of logic before with radical feminists. And of course, this is nothing new historically. The eugenics movement in America long advocated something similar, though it was usually just abortion combined with sterlization of undesirables. On of our own Supreme Court Justices said Virginia could sterilize people because "three generations of idiots is enough." And it was always just under the surface that removing the poor, the sick and the undesirables would make society stronger. Of course, Hitler and his crew did the same thing. So while it is shocking to hear this spoken out loud, I have heard it from leftists before. BTW, There's something from the original article which I left out because I wasn't sure if it was what Minerva was really saying or if it was interpretation, the idea was that doctors would be empowered to make this decision as well as mothers. In other words, the state would now decide. Here's the link to the article where I found this: LINK ". . .adoption could cause undue psychological distress to the mother. Think about that. There is no psychological distress with killing your child, but there would be psychological distress in letting someone else have it. How sick is that?!" Wow what mental gymnastics liberals go through to justify their beliefs. I was adopted as an infant because my mother had 4 children in 3 years (1 set of twins who were adopted as well), she and my father were separated and she was not able to take care of all of us (very long story there). I can tell you that my mother suffered no psychological distress whatsoever because of her decision. Joel, This is the logical conclusion of their argument. What Minerva has done is simply (sort of) unmask the logic -- though she's actually still not being completely honest. If you believe the primary issue is economic rather than any sort of respect for life, then it doesn't really matter to you if the child is unborn, born or too old to be useful to society. Jeez. I read through the Daily Mail article and unless I'm very mistaken, someone in Britain actually performed a late-term abortion a few years ago on a baby whose only defect was a cleft palate. That's....just great. By the way, the argument being made by the editor of the journal, that "we publish articles based on their well-reasoned arguments, not their policy positions," is completely bogus. I bet I could come up with a "well-reasoned argument" defending Hitler's extermination policies, or why women need to be prevented from wearing pants or working outside the house. I guarantee you the journal would refuse to run such an article. T-Rav, I think you're right. And let me respond by numbers... 1. Your friends will not respond because this is their side getting exposed. Liberals do not accept being exposed. They usually just attack the exposer. But in this case, they can't do that so they will pretend it never happened. You watch, they'll be back to the same old arguments and will ignore this shortly. 2. A LOT of are people wrongly upset at the BMJ for publishing this. They claim that this idea is so nasty that the BMJ should have refused to print it. I disagree. We should always be open to hearing all ideas. Why? For one thing, that's how we run across good ideas we never thought about. A lot of science ends up that way when someone challenges the conventional wisdom -- look at global warming where the establishment wants to squelch unpopular opinion. But even more, it exposes people for what they are. In other words, if there's a Hitler out there, I would rather that they make it obvious through an article about aborting children than that they get to keep those ideas hidden. Also, it is through the release of articles like this that people begin to rethink their stupidity. I'll bet you there is some percentage of people who believe that the pro-abortion people are acting in good faith when they say they believe in abortion because they don't see this "thing" as alive. This is the kind of argument that exposes the abortion lobby and makes those fence sitters think again. tryanmax, That's absolutely true. The article actually had an interesting history of infanticide where they pointed out that it was required in Ancient Rome and Greece. The Nazis did this as well. We also had a lessor version of it (learned that in Con Law). Etc. When you are considered nothing more than an economic input by the state, i.e. the socialist way, then it makes sense to eliminate you if you can't contribute or will cost too much. This is the real danger of ObamaCare -- that it gets us closer to those kinds of equations where the state gets to decide who lives and dies based on the cost of your upkeep compared to the economic benefit of your life. The problem with the slippery slope argument, in my opinion, is that it's too easy to ignore by claiming "this will never happen." It also lets people skip over the principle argument and assume that big things are ok so long as they don't go "too far." Andrew, I would go further and say that in government-run schemes such as ObamaCare, it's not even that the government wants to make these decisions (though it very well might), it has to make them. Because then, it's not about taking care of people, it's about not going over-budget. (Speaking of which, the only reason Europe has been able to sustain these systems is we've been taking care of their defense since '45, so they don't have to allocate much money for that. If they did have to handle that responsibility all on their own, they would have been forced to privatize long ago.) This is what the abortionists have been aiming at all along. If this argument is accepted, the next one will be. The next argument is deciding who have missed being aborted and now must be retroactively terminated. All who aren't liberal need not worry, they will be nice about it. First, they will sterilize all the ones who didn't vote for Obama. Next they will sterilize any foreigners who are from a politically incorrect country like Israel. Don't think it can happen here? They didn't think the holocaust would happen in Nazi Germany. Stan, That's exactly right, this is the end result of socialist thinking because socialism is by it's very nature about rationing the things society creates and that implies deciding who lives and who dies. This is it in its most blatant form, but this is the same thinking which goes into everything socialism does -- are you valuable to the state? Bev, That's the thing they always like to avoid saying because it sounds really really bad when they say it. Thus, they always cage these things in terms of "the decisions of the mother" or they put leave it in the third person: "if the child has no worth, then it must be eliminated." The truth is that the state will make up its mind. What they are saying is, "we will appoint someone to make these decisions on behalf of the state, and if the state thinks you have little value, then WE the state will eliminate YOU." That's what this comes down to. Tam, It is sick. It's truly sick that one person thinks they have the right to decide whether another will have sufficient value to the mother to be allowed to live. Just wrapping your head around that kind of thinking is nearly impossible unless you already see yourself as God. Also, on your point about enrichment, I think that's the reason Minerva is opposed to adoption. If mothers keep their children, then they will realize how horrible abortion would have been and they will turn on Minerva and her friends. So it's better, politically speaking, to make sure the doctor eliminates the evidence so the mother can't realize what is being suggested. Lawhawk, moralists and ethicists can justify almost anything.... That's really the problem here. When you divorce yourself from any sort of moral code, then anything is possible. It's a matter of garbage in, garbage out. Indeed, her logic is fine, except it starts with the assumption that life is not life, life is only life when it attains some higher level of sophistication. Thus, this makes perfect sense to her. But I could use the same logic pattern to say that the killing of clowns should be allowed by simply defining life as anyone without an instinct to become a clown. In other words, she has assumed a definition of life with no basis and the rest flows from there. And in the process, she has exposed the real thinking on the left about the "value of life." Life is not precious... certain life is precious. That's how mass murder always begins. In ancient Rome if a new born child was thought to be "weak" the parents would drown the baby in a river. I guess my next question does Minerva want to abandon Christianity and go back to worshipping Appollo, Venus and Zues.... Nevermind.... Scott, It is murder, pure and simple. But the prolife movement would argue that all abortion is murder. The dividing line is where you think life begins. If you think life begins at the point the child first breathes, then this is murder, but abortion isn't. If you think life begins at conception then any abortion is murder. Some people have argued for the point of viability. That's the real question. But what this woman has done is to expose the radical feminist agenda, and this is nothing new, it's just rarely spoken outside of academic circles: she doesn't see life as the issue. For her the trump card is always the economic status of the mother. The reason for this is that radical feminism equates economic success with political power and it wants women unencumbered of "the curse" of children so they can spend their timing winning political power. It's a twisted belief, but you will see it in other forms across the left. tryanmax, I think the fact Minerva invented a euphemism proves your point. How can you have a post-event abortion? You just can't "abort" something after it happens, just like you can't abort a fetus after it is born and becomes a child. At that point, you are terminating a child. If she was being intellectually honest, she would have simply said, "infanticide is justified when..." or "child-termination." But liberalism is never honest about these things. Liberalism hides behind false labels and pleasant words which often mean the exact opposite of what is really going on. T-Rav, That's a sad story. Lawhawk, I remember that moment and I remember Hillary struggling to figure out the answer. That should have been a no-brainer if she really believed the idea that abortion is just about terminating a "non-life." The fact she had to hesitate really showed that she didn't see the issue that way and she was more concerned with the mother's right to be rid of the child rather than any concerns about life. Bev, We should be shocked, except it's not that shocking if you've kept up with the arguments made by the left over the decades. They really see people are tools of the state/collective and if you don't have value to the state/collective, then there's no reason to keep you around. What Minerva is talking about here is the extension of that. Her argument will be aimed almost entirely at poor people and other undesirables. In terms of this getting rid of liberals, that would be true except that they will argue this needs to be a decision made by "experts," who will then decide whether or not you are capable of raising this particular child. So what it comes down to is the kind of nightmare scenario envision in science fiction where the state literally gets to decide who lives and dies and who gets to procreate and who doesn't. In terms of teenagers... I would not be opposed to that idea. ;) TJ, Mental gymnastics is the word for this. What Minerva is doing is trying to justify a decision without saying what's really on her mind. Thus, she reaches for BS arguments like this and it doesn't really matter that they are wrong so long as they sound like they could be right. All she really wants is to put a respectable spin on her position. T-Rav, That's true. The idea of free and open speech in these journals is one-sided. They use it when they get caught doing something that upsets people, but they ignore it when they want to keep out arguments they don't like. Still, I think the idea of free and open speech is a good one, no matter how stupid the theory. Wow, this is nasty stuff. Thanks Andrew. T-Rav, That's true, and that's something a lot of people don't get -- it doesn't take evil motives for government to do evil. Even in a system where no one wants to kill anyone, if they don't have the money to keep everyone alive, they will let people die to preserve the system. And knowing this will be a problem going in, because socialism always results in scarcity, it's easier for them if they can spin certain ideas into people's minds about the need to keep costs down. Hence... abortion of high-cost children and euthanasia of high-cost elderly. It's all part of the same instinct, to keep costs down so the system can continue. You're right about Europe. They've also been living by draining the savings they've collected for centuries. But now they've written too many checks and it's all starting to fall apart. Joel, That is the end result. When you systematically breakdown the belief that life requires protection, you end up with a scenario where people start introducing all kinds of ideas about how certain people should not be allowed to exist. It's the inevitable consequence deciding that you're going to play God. darski said... Totally unrelated. I just lost service at BIG sites. would this likely be a DOS attack. I can't believe they are maintaining the site in the middle of a Wednesday just after launch darski - Yeah, I can't get on either. Looks like some more kinks that need to be worked out. You'll probably disagree, but this is why, when Obama said such matters were "Above my pay grade," I kinda sympathized with him. I'm not saying he was right to use that specific phrase but I understood the sentiment. Indi, The article actually discussed that. They mentioned that in Ancient Rome and Greece the parents left the children to die of exposure if they had defects. You're welcome Ed. I figured this was one people should know about. darski, I had the same problem last night and just now. But I did get on early and nothing had been updated article-wise, so I'm assuming they are doing some sort of maintenance. I don't think they've worked out the kinks yet. The question still isn't answered. Why is this getting out now? All it will do is lose votes in the next election for liberals. Andrew said "Still, I think the idea of free and open speech is a good one, no matter how stupid the theory." "We should always be open to hearing all ideas. Why? For one thing, that's how we run across good ideas we never thought about...[b]ut even more, it exposes people for what they are." I am in absolute agreement. That's what a free and open society is and what "free speech" means. Scott, I would agree except that was rhetorical only. He says life and death is above his pay grade, yet he plunges the government into making more life and death decisions such as rationing healthcare. Also, he's the one who tried to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortion, and it's his Justice Department that is going after pharmacies that won't carry the morning after pill, and he's the one trying to force taxpayers to foot the bill for other people's abortions. That pretty much puts the lie to his claim that this is somehow a matter for individual conscience, doesn't it? What he's done is say the right thing while doing the exact opposite. That's a long-time liberal trick at this point on issue after issue. Joel, It's getting out now because a British newspaper brought it out. It's been nowhere to be seen on the American news. Bev, Thanks! I would much rather have a world in which people are allowed to freely speak their minds so we know what people truly believe than live in a world of euphemisms and secret plans. Knucklehead said... These are the Utilitarians. What adds to the greatest "overall" happiness is what is best. Since babies, mothers, "unwanted" or imperfect people make them unhappy they would prefer such things be eliminated. Yet another academic excuse for authoritarian control of society. After all, who but they are able to judge what leads to the greatest level of overall happiness? These people infest our institutions. They are people like http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/ IIRC, Obama has one of these modern-day eugenicists on his staff or well positioned within his Obamacare apparatus. Kuncklehead, Very true. This is not a philosophy which is grounded in questions of "right and wrong," it's a philosophy based on "better or worse" without any sense that some things are simply off-limits. And you're right, these people are all over academia, and the Obama administration. Here's your link: LINK And the next logical step. What to do about those genetic imperfections that do not manifest themselves until later even into adulthood...now we get into eugenics for real and sterilizing those who may carry defective genes. Bev, That's exactly the next logical. And think about all the implications of that. For one thing, why cure diseases like MS when you can just kill people who have it. What exactly is a perfect human being? What if you're too tall or too short or "the wrong race"? This is the problem with this kind of thinking. Once you decide that life doesn't deserve respect just because it's life, suddenly you open the door to all kinds of nasty thinking which eventually leads to the extermination of those the people in power don't like. Speaking of mental gymnastic, I don't know if this argument is found in the article (I can't bring myself to read it), but a common pro-abortion argument is that defining an unborn baby as a full-fledged human being effectively makes women slaves to the state. But if that is true, the expectation that a born child should be raised is the same. Minerva's argument fixes that inconsistency, but her argument is based on fiscal reasons. If people are regarded primarily for their fiscal value to others, then that by default makes every person a slave of the state. For that matter, if one person has the power of life and death over another, the latter individual is de facto a slave. Minerva is advocating freedom through slavery. tryanmax, She doesn't really go into that. For one thing, the article about her position doesn't give her full theory. So she might actually go into that and I wouldn't be able to say. But for another, she seems to come more from the school that being a slave to the state is a good thing. She is making the very brutal economic argument that some children are simply too expensive to the family AND THE STATE and thus should be eliminated. In fact, I would guess that if you brought up your argument to her, and she was being honest, she would ask why slavery mattered because we are all essentially slaves to the state whether we admit that or not... so let's be smarter about how we handle our slavery. "Indi, The article actually discussed that. They mentioned that in Ancient Rome and Greece the parents left the children to die of exposure if they had defects." These are the same people that state that the Tea Party are out of touch for paying attention to the US constituion right? You know that document that's like over 100 years old. Indi, But the Constitution stops us from doing bad things, so it's irrelevant. Looking back on the dark and darker ages allows us to do bad things. So that's ok. Andrew, You may not think this is shocking, but I do. This is really shocking. How can anyone look at a child and think "eh, go ahead and kill it." I saw this last week and couldn't believe what I was reading. When I posted the link on facebook, a friend said they thought it was satire at first. nope. not satire. hitler would be so proud. Doc, It's not that I don't think it's shocking, it just that I've seen this before. This is nothing new for the left. Patti, It almost seems like it would need to be satire, but it's not. It's both shocking and not entirely surprising. Seriously, I always suspected that we were going to get here one day. I just wasn't sure it would come in this manner. It reminds me of something I once read in an editorial column--to paraphrase, "The real mad scientists are not the drooling, wild-haired hunchbacks who cackle as they tell their plans. They're the professional-looking, articulate researchers with multiple degrees who look you in the eye and calmly suggest murder or gruesome experimentation as though they were reading it off a clipboard." T-Rav, That's always the case. Hollywood and fiction love to portray bad people as maniacal. But they really aren't. 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