...three days of it in intensive care, is why I've not been on the forum. Appendicitis with complications. Never mind; home now. Apologies for delays in responses, but I think you'll understand why!
Gee..... sorry to hear that.
Sharing, approximately, your income source, I can imagine the backlog of work , and effect on future income, too.
Ouch. Get well soon Roger!
Another post to commiserate. Get plenty of rest and may your recovery be a rapid one.
Thanks. Actually, the work side was/is OK. Once I was out of intensive care (Friday night after the operation-Saturday-Sunday-Monday, moved to normal ward Tuesday morning), Frances brought in the big laptop and I wrote a synopsis and selling letter for my novel, plus a couple of (unillustrated) magazine pieces. Another magazine piece (two-parter on a Land Rover journey) was slipped by a month for editorial reasons, so I can get the pics to them in time.
EDIT And thanks everyone else too. Yes, I really am feeling pretty good, now I'm out of hospital!
You do seem to have lots of fun with hospitals!
best wishes to you both from Ann and me - I'll send you some healing.
glad you made it out of there, sometimes you get in with a little issue and catch a big bug. Get well soon and take it easy for a while, although typing might be allowed :D.
Roger, having had appendicitis myself, I know it is not much fun! I'm very glad things turned out OK. The next time my wife and I are in France, maybe we can meet up and do some shooting. Who knows, maybe even in Arles!
Best Wishes and Hopes that you are feeling better. Give Frances a hug for me too.
It's good to see you're back again! Beterschap!
Once again, thanks for all the kind wishes. Be warned that you may see even more of me than usual for a while, as it turns out that the chair, computer, etc. I use for internet access make an uncommonly comfortable place to recuperate.
...Be warned that you may see even more of me than usual for a while, as it turns out that the chair, computer, etc. I use for internet access make an uncommonly comfortable place to recuperate.
This is the good news part of your situation. Always love reading your take on things Roger.
Glad to hear you're recuperating, Roger!
Welcome back, Roger. I hope that all medical conditions have been taken care of.
BUT where will the Land Rover article be??
Ouch! Brings back bad memories of when the exact same thing happened to me a few years ago... As they say in our neck of the woods : je te souhaite un prompt rétablissement!
Sorry to hear, hard way to loose a pound. Get healthy and keep the family healthy. You folks have had way too much hospital time this year!
Land Rover World (Kelsey Publishing, UK), January and February issues (unless it gets slipped again -- you know what magazines are like...). I have the regular back page column there too.
And thanks for the kind wishes.
Welcome back, I'm glad you are out of the hospital!
Glad to see you're back home and feeling much better. You'll still have to take it easy for a good long while. Take care.
Ouch, Roger. Painful and scary. Hope you have a worry-free recovery. Your absence was apparent. Take care.
Good to hear you're feeling much better. I wish you a speedy recovery!
all the best roger, get well.
And to you, four years on!
Glad you are feeling better; best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery, and here's hoping both you and Frances are done with time in hospital for a while!
Roger, you know my prescription, Fois Gras and d'Yquem -- no heavier lifting.
Bizarre year 2009, expect I will be very happy to see this one over.
Here's to a much improved 2010.
Does it get you there faster?
Roger, my best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.
As another who won't get appendicitis again, you have my sympathy, and my best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Just bear in mind that between bugs and drugs and slicing, your body has taken a big hit - so the next bug that comes along, however innocuous it seems, may well flatten you. So take care, and don't be afraid to be a jessie and go to bed if you get a cold.
Welcome back; take things easy for a while.
You'll be back doing cartwheels in no time . . . errrmmm, something like that.
Obviously, take care to have a complete recovery before rushing about again. I hope to be able to say hallo in Arles next year. Best wishes to Frances too.
Ugh...I hate hospitals, even when they're doing a solid job of saving my life. There's just no way to sleep while you're in the ICU, so I'm glad you're out and recuperating at home.
An unexpected bump in the road! Get well soon.
Happy to hear that you're back in the saddle again, Roger.
Wow, what a coincidence. Last Wednesday evening my wife called (I work in Windsor ON, about 350 miles/570 km from Rochester) to say she was going to emergency after a couple of days of being sick. She called at 5:00 am the next morning to say she would be going into surgery for appendectomy.
Long story short, the appendix was perforated, she had sepsis, BP dropped to 50/20 during surgery (she remembers floating to the ceiling and looking down), the appendix had to be removed via open surgery rather than "in camera", and she spent 6 days in hospital.
She is home as of yesterday afternoon and feisty now, beat the doctor's prediction of minimum stay of 7 days by a day, but got exhausted early today.
Abdominal surgeries can be really bad, one of the leading causes of death in hospital.
Glad you're home and all is well, Roger ... be gentle with yourself, be gentle with others.
DON'T TOUGH IT OUT/BE A HERO, KNOW SYMPTOMS, KNOW WHAT ACUTE PAIN REALLY MEANS, CALL AND GO.
Get well Roger, good to see you are back.
Glad to hear you're feeling better and back home. Get well soon!
Makes me realize how easy I had it. And I got some REALLY interesting dreams with the morphine -- wasn't all bad!
Yesterday I was talking to my father about this (he's 82). I asked him if he could remember how long I was in hospital the last time I was in one overnight or more -- in 1953!
He said, "It seemed like forever." I was just shy of 3 years old and my brother was born when I was in hospital (isolation hospital -- I had diphtheria). But he also said that he hadn't spent a single night in hospital since he had appendicitis in the 1940s.
Good to hear that you are better already.
All the best Roger. Like others have said, be a good patient and heal.
Sorry to hear of these horrors but very glad you've survived them and are back writing.
Glad you have come though this well Mr. Hicks. My bout was about 1972. I was first diagnosed with flu. I remember the doctor gently touching my abdomen when he said they wanted to do surgery and it felt as if he had hit me with a mallet. I told him to do whatever it took to stop the pain. Only those who have had it can relate.
Anyway, continue to recuperate quickly. Move as you are able as that really helps in the healing. Just don't over do. Glad all is well!
Roger: Sheryl, my wife, announced this morning that she WILL drive herself to Titus plaza here in Irondequoit to have a pedicure and some retail therapy at Wegmans. I know I can't stop her, so have requested she make sure she take her mobile phone and have it switched on. Sigh.
As to the morphine, she does not like it at all, and had hallucinations at night. After some wrangling with the staff, she got Toridol with the morphine button as emergency backup, which suited her better.
I will convey your wishes ... Best to you and Francis.
Hey... I LIKED the hallucinations! With a minimum of effort I could turn them into lucid dreams, which is something that's always fascinated me.
Tell her she's a silly girl to go driving like that. Then again her car is probably less hard work to drive than my 1972 Land Rover. That's what I meant about a get-well-faster race without being silly.
Sure, she'll be all right. But the point is, that doesn't make you worry any less. I was a lot less worried about me than Frances was. I knew I was all right (as Sheryl knows she is all right). But you don't know that.
You and Frances are having a tough year old boy, thank God for the French health system!!!
I think a glass of good whisky ?
Welcome back and get healthy.
Whew...I was talking to someone about the car accident I was in (at age 17), and all the intestinal mileage that had to be taken out of me as a result, at which point the hospital "crew" took a look at my appendix, which was fine at the time, and decided to remove it. "You don't need it, and it'll only cause you trouble later", they said afterward. I never appreciated this "executive decision" until a few years afterward.
Roger: Glad you're on the mend. Take it easy getting back up to speed!
Trius: Really glad your wife is okay! That's perhaps the scariest call to get. Best wishes to her!
Yes, she is silly. She had a good time, but later in the evening I think she "paid" for it. Ah well, she is, by her own admission, pig-headed.
She drives an '04 Honda Civic, which I imagine is a bit zippier than your Land Rover.
Barrett: Thank you, I will convey your wishes as well.
Been off the forum a while and came back to find this. Glad to hear that you are back home, that is good medicine, by itself. You do have my sympathy, my six pack looks more like a crinkled old road map of where the surgeon went on his last holiday. Enjoy your chair.
Glad you are OK Roger - I don't think I could dee'l with halucinations as well Earl !
Getting to that age when the NHS is becoming a habit .
I have been off the forum myself for the last few weeks, my wife is in cancer treatment and had septicemia. We had a very close call, but it now looks like she's on the mend as well. Glad to hear you're feeling better. Let us know your progress on the novel. One potential purchaser here for your novel, and that's sight unseen!
Seemed to have missed this for some reason.Pleased to hear that you are well again.Some years are just crap,health wise, just had one myself. Keep on keeping on, as someone once said.
Seems it wasn't long ago I read Francis was in the hospital. Glad to hear you are recooping & hope you & Francis have a wonderful 2010 coming up. Also glad you wasn't put on a 6 month waiting list as some are reporting about European Healthcare!
Jeff: What a challenge. All the best to your wife, and to you as you support her.
(And everyone else, but Frances had breast cancer in 2000 So I'm particularly sensitive to that). Thank God your wife is on the mend! I'll go and light some Tibetan incense for her. I'm less than convinced it has any specific, immediate effect, but equally, anything which makes you think of others and a better life for them is a useful contribution to the world at large and a useful antidote to those whose lives are devoted to hatred and a wish for others to fail.
Yes, Frances was in hospital for a week with a particularly vicious bronchitis about six months ago, but she's much better now. She still has PPR (pseudopolyarthrite rhizomelique) which mimics arthritis in one joint after another but that's going away (slowly) too: it normally lasts up to about 5 years and she's had it for about 3.
I've just woken up from 11 hours sleep (well, minus two trips to the bathroom at my age); 10 hours the night before; 9 hours the night before. Last Saturday/Sunday -- none at all (though I did have fun with the hallucinations).
Well, even Americans don't say "When I was at the school or at the university," so it must be what sounds natural.
Besides which, I was actually at three hospitals in a week: Accident & Emergency at Loudun Thursday/Friday, Thouars Friday for the operation, Poitiers (teaching hospital) Friday/Saturday/Sunday for super-intensive care after the complications, back to Thouars Sunday to Thursday, intensive care on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday morning.


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me with the Encyclopedia Tellurica.
the strangest industrial giant in man's history. Well, everyone knew that, too.
watched and listened, she felt the stirrings of a cold enthusiasm.
given stimuli could be accurately predicted.
someone else's name to be inset upon the door of her office.
"Dr. Calvin," I said, as lushly as possible, "in the mind of the public you and U. S.
"Well, I've been called a robot myself.
the window and we looked out.
was flattened out like an aerial photograph.
there where the fire-house is now." She pointed. "It was torn down before you were born.
"How old are you?" she wanted to know.
"You may. To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal; electricity and positrons.
record accurately without taking the little gadget out of your pocket.
back. She had lots of time to cover.
few cautious steps from the tree against which she had been leaning.
of some hardy bird, braving the midday sun.
she moved determinedly toward the two-story building up past the driveway.
ke for the home-tree at full speed.
pantingly past him to touch the welcome bark of home-tree first.
rewarded him for his sacrifice by taunting him cruelly for a lack of running ability.
him any day. I can beat him any day." She chanted the words in a shrill rhythm.
forcing her to veer in helpless circles, little arms outstretched and fanning at the air.
against Robbie's leg and still holding a hard, metal finger.
vague imitation of one of her mother's gestures and twisted to see if her dress were torn.
glowing eyes and from within his body came a steady, resonant ticking.
a few steps and convinced himself that it was Gloria who squatted behind it.
his leg so that it rang again. Gloria emerged sulkily.
shook his head ponderously from side to side.
and shook his head even more emphatically.
I'm going to cry," and her face twisted appallingly in preparation.
his head a third time. Gloria found it necessary to play her trump card.
and placed her on his broad, flat shoulders.
Gloria's threatened tears vanished immediately and she crowed with delight.
bumped rhythmically against his chest was enchanting.
he was a silver 'coaster.
coming into play. The pirates dropped in a steady rain.
"Got another one. Two more," she cried.
spaceship zooming through the void at maximum acceleration.
her onto the soft, green carpet.
complexity that fooled her huge "nursemaid" not at all. He pulled the curl harder.
Robbie made a semi-circle in the air with one finger.
tensely with burning eyes -- when the interruption came.
uneasiness to Robbie and there was always the impulse to sneak away from her sight.
long grass and retired inside the house to wait.
"Honest and truly, Mamma, he'll stay so quiet, you won't even know he's here.
Robbie, appealed to, nodded his massive head up and down once.
The robot left with a disconsolate step and Gloria choked back a sob.
could anyone help but be comfortable?
and his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.
and pretended she wasn't there.
go berserk and- and-" She couldn't bring herself to complete the quite obvious thought.
And with that he walked out of the room in a huff.
any possible answer by the splash of water.
"Saying that doesn't solve the problem. I've got to do my shopping down there.
each time it was weaker and accompanied by a louder and more agonized groan.
suggested a "beautiful" visivox show in the village.
all over the last few words and looked away.
been a gorgeous spectacle indeed.
take much longer with the car. He'd have to face it.
out of serious brown eyes as it wagged its tail on the porch.
Weston's lip grew tighter. He looked toward his wife but could not catch her eye.
"You mean he'll never come back again?" Her eyes were round with horror.
But Gloria's eyelids had overflown, "I don't want the nasty dog -- I want Robbie.
spluttered into a shrill wail.
Her mother groaned in defeat and left Gloria to her sorrow.
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Q: C++ Passing std::vector< boost::shared_ptr< foo > > I am currently learning the basics of the STL and boost libraries and wanted some assistance. Let me first describe where I am at I want to construct a vector of shared_ptrs of say some class foo. Previously I had an array or pointers and was required to use new and delete to handle memory and thought the transition to vectors and smart pointers would be a good idea. I currently have something like:
class foo{
 ....
}

int main(){
 std::vector< boost::shared_ptr< foo > > vec_ptr;
 vec_ptr.push_back(boost::make_shared<foo>);
 ....
}

Now I would like to know how to best pass this vector in two situations:
 - Into a function.
 - Into the constructor of a class object (which via the initialisation list initialises the object.
Into a function I am guessing that it is best passed by reference, as in:
void func(std::vector< boost::shared_ptr < foo > >& vec_ptr_in_func){
  ....
}

Into a class constructor I am not sure my initial guess was something like
class vec_class{
 vec_class(std::vector< boost::shared_ptr < foo > >& vec_ptr_in_class_)
  : vec_ptr_in_class(vec_ptr_in_class_){...}
}

But this seems to be giving errors along the lines of:
no matching function for call to vec_class::vec_class(std::vector< boost::shared_ptr < foo >, std::allocator<boost::shared_ptr< foo > > >)

A: *

*For a function pass it like
// If you intend to modify the vec_ptr_in_func
void func(std::vector< boost::shared_ptr < foo > >& vec_ptr_in_func){

}

// If you intend to not modify the vec_ptr_in_func
void func(const std::vector< boost::shared_ptr < foo > >& vec_ptr_in_func){

}

*Pass it by const-reference for the constructor.

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SINGAPORE (Reuters Breakingviews) - A telecom deal Down Under is dialing up high hopes. TPG Telecom and a Vodafone Hutchison joint venture are uniting to create a A$15 billion ($11 billion) competitor in the cutthroat market. The merger reduces chances of a price war and investors are implying hefty synergies can be achieved. Even rival Telstra may come out ahead.
The union between David Teoh's aggressive broadband provider TPG and Australia's third-largest mobile carrier has been long in the making. TPG made a costly splurge into mobile, while getting squeezed on earnings by customers moving to Australia's National Broadband Network. Vodafone Hutchison Australia, meanwhile, went through a painful turnaround that didn't help it advance on larger rivals Telstra and Optus.
For now, there could be multiple winners. Teoh keeps 49.9 percent of the enlarged operation with Vodafone and Li Ka-shing's Hong Kong holding company owning a quarter each. Vodafone can use dividends thrown off by the merged outfit to pay down local debt. And despite a temporary lockup, the new arrangement should help provide it with an easier path to an exit someday.
At the same time, TPG should be a stronger competitor offering more services. There is also great optimism for cost savings and even potentially revenue uplift. TPG's market value has increased by A$2.7 billion since talks were initially revealed earlier this month, including a 16 percent rise on Thursday. That effectively anticipates annual synergies of some A$350 million a year, or a chunky 6 percent of the combined revenue.
In a rare turn of merger events, Telstra could benefit, too. Its shares jumped 10 percent when the deal possibility surfaced, before sliding back and then gaining 3 percent again following the announcement. The whole industry may become more profitable because of the merger. Markets with three or fewer competitors tend to have higher EBITDA returns, according to Bernstein research. And a race to the bottom, as occurred in India and pushed Vodafone to retreat, will be less likely.
A more muscular rival, with about a 20 percent share of the mobile and fixed-line market, means not everyone can come out ahead, though. Number-two Optus may be the odd one out.


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Livery Companies have a tradition of providing accommodation for the elderly. It was in the Victorian age that the Company built its own almshouses. A site in Barnet was chosen, the foundation stone laid in July 1837, with further wings added in 1849 and 1866. Originally intended for poor members of the Company or their widows, each almsman received a weekly pension and a coal allowance.
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Australia?s prestigious Good Design Awards has unveiled the jury of renowned international and Australian design experts who will decide the winners of the 60th annual Awards to be held on 17 May 2018 at Sydney Opera House. The awards, Australia?s oldest and only international design awards will showcase the best of Australian and international design. The deadline to enter the awards is midnight on Friday, 9 March 2018.
For the first time ever, the Good Design Awards will be presented at the Sydney Opera House, making this the biggest and most celebrated design event in Australian history.
Danish architect Jan Utzon, son of Jørn Utzon who designed the Sydney Opera House will be among special guest presenters at the Awards Ceremony in May. The 2018 Good Design Awards Jury comprises leading international design experts including the legendary Hartmut Esslinger, founder of global design firm frog design and one of the early pioneers of industrial design at Apple. Esslinger was one of the first industrial designers to work with Apple and Steve Jobs in the early 1990s.
Esslinger joins an impressive list of design, engineering and architecture experts representing Atlassian, KPMG, Motorola, Australian Financial Review, Aurecon, Pentagram Design and HASSELL, and other industry leaders, who will spend several days evaluating and debating all entries based on three overarching design criteria including: Good Design, Design Innovation and Design Impact before deciding the winners of...
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Crave announces Kabuki Warriors
Kengo: Legacy of the Blade falls by the wayside, as Kabuki Warriors is announced for the Xbox.
By Shahed Ahmed on May 17, 2006 at 3:09PM PDT
Kabuki Warriors
$9.99 at Walmart
Crave Entertainment has announced Kabuki Warriors for the Microsoft Xbox. Set in the Japanese Tokugawa period, the game puts the player in the role of a leader of a troop of Kabuki warriors. As part of the troop, players must travel from Edo to Kyoto and face off against other Kabuki troops along the way. Throughout the course of the game, players can recruit the best members of defeated Kabuki troops in order to assemble the most potent group of samurai warriors. In terms of gameplay, Kabuki Warriors will be a traditional arcade-style fighting game. Modes of play will include adventure, time attack, tournament, and versus. Additionally, 24 characters with different weapons and abilities will be included in the game.
"Kabuki Warriors combines the easy-to-play, hard-to-master style of classic fighting games with full 3D models and beautiful special effects," said Holly Newman, executive vice president at Crave Entertainment. "The simple, addictive gameplay will combine well with the technical capabilities of Xbox, resulting in an exciting game with beautiful visuals."
Kabuki Warriors, which is being developed by Lightweight Studios, will be released this November for the Xbox. On a related note, GameSpot has learned that Lightweight has cancelled the development of Kengo: Legacy of the Blade for the Xbox and has focused its resources on Kabuki Warriors instead.
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Ella Mai broke out with her Grammy-winning Boo'd Up" released on her third EP, Ready." Her clean vocals mixed over DJ Mustard's club-ready beats evoke traditional R&B sounds of the past, wrapped in anthemic lyrics of love and heartbreak.
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A lot of people will recognize Mai most because of her song Boo'd Up," which soared up Billboard's Hot 100. With that said, it is interesting to note that Boo'd Up" wasn't an instant smash hit. Instead, it took some time for it to build up through Bay Area clubs and radio stations while Mai was building up her profile by going on tour with more established artists. Eventually, these processes built up critical momentum, thus enabling Boo'd Up" to roar to widespread prominence. Something that in turn, established Mai as a notable artist in her own right for a lot of people out there.
10. Ella Mai's hit single 'Boo'd Up' went platinum in June 2018. The group split up and Ella Mai did what many people have done to try for a career in music – started to upload covers onto Instagram. When a song by a newcomer blows up as big as Ella Mai's Boo'd Up" has, there's always a chance it can put the artist on a one-way road to one-hit-wonder status.
is a gritty R&B-trap song that strays from Mai's usual style. The songs that work on Ella Mai let her vocal ability shine. But, when the production overwhelms her crooning, the songs turn into tracks any R&B artist could sing.
An R&B singer and songwriter with a casually commanding voice, Ella Mai wasn't exactly an unknown artist before DJ Mustard signed her to his 10 Summers label, but the U.K. Here, the British singer talks to about her debut album, not giving up, and falling in and out of love.
See below for a list of Ella Mai's GRAMMY Awards history. 2. Ella Mai's song 'Boo'd Up' became her breakout hit in the summer of 2018. This is the accolade that dominated the UK coverage of 23-year-old Ella Mai's breakout single 'Boo'd Up', the sultry jam that conquered US radio stations this summer.
Eventually, the family moved back to the UK and Ella scored a place at music college. Somewhere in her mum's house is an old softback (but not flimsy") Paperchase notebook containing Ella's earliest ideas. I'll probably look back on it and go: 'Oh my God, what was I doing?'" she laughs. But back then, I took it everywhere I went. It was like a sacred piece of equipment." These days, she writes song ideas into her phone.
From 2016 to 2018, she released 3 EP's on the label, including Time, Change, and Ready. Her self-titled debut studio album was released in October 2018 and featured the singles "Boo'd Up" and "Trip", which were released on 20 February 2018 and 3 August 2018, respectively. In 2019, "Boo'd Up" was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Song of the Year and Best R&B Song, winning for the latter, as well as Mai herself being nominated for British Breakthrough Act at the 2019 Brit Awards. At the 2019 Billboard Music Awards she won three awards including for Top R&B Artist.
As our time runs out I say it will be interesting to see how Ella's influence will spread through music in the coming year. Even you saying that is the weirdest thing to hear," she gasps. It's like, my influence! It's crazy." It's exciting for R&B music, she adds. It's important and it was needed, and I'm glad I was part of it." As for whether approval from the Rihannas and the Stevies leaves Ella now feeling as if she is part of the pop establishment she once only knew as an outsider, she pauses for a moment.
Mai wore a billowy, fluorescent-yellow overcoat throughout the performance, which seemed to emphasize her already bright, cheery, swaying stage presence. In contrast to how the jacket looked, her three-piece band sounded thin and underwhelming, and her two backup vocalists seemed to be conspicuously backed up with pre-recorded vocals in some of the songs.
The 25-year-old just welcomed her second child into the world and followed-up on the congratulatory moment with a front-row seat to see Ella Mai perform. Yung is clearly a big fan of the British bred singer since she knew all the words to her international hit "Boo'd Up." However, it's Yung Miami's singing voice that's caught the attention of her fans. As you can hear, Yung is hilariously off-key and isn't afraid to show it. "The reason y'all hate me 🤣 but the reason I love me ❤🥰😍," she captioned the video.
Songs like Trip," Good Bad" and Gut Feeling" present a calm and collected woman in touch with her desires and with her creative strengths; there's nothing overly solicitous or eager to please about the music, even when Mai is singing, as in Boo'd Up," about the thrill of being caught up in the rapture , as one clear forebear, Anita Baker, famously put it.
If Mai continues writing and performing with this verbose depth, her Grammy win for Best R&B Song is just a prerequisite. The 24-year old vocalist says that later, Wonder told her that he was so touched by Boo'd Up" that it made him want to be in love again.
Just as she filled her debut eponymous album to a bloated 15 tracks and 58 minutes, Mai let Thursday's show go on too long. The setlist addition of Anymore," from her 2017 EP Ready," was welcome, but the slow-grooving album tracks Close" and Run My Mouth" created a lull late in the show.
Overall, Ella Mai is a perfectly decent album. But its lack of focus and lackluster production mean that Mai's inner musical gifts we know she's capable of delivering have to be actively sought out. The album would benefit from some variety, in both its production as well as in the thematic content. So listen to Ella Mai and keep on the lookout for her next singles, but beyond a couple of standouts, don't expect anything too innovative.
The nominations for the 2019 American Music Awards will be announced Thursday morning on ABC's Good Morning America. Khalid dedicated his new single Better," to El Paso, and now he's working on the follow-up to his double-platinum debut album, American Teen.
Her next single, 'Trip', followed in the footsteps of 'Boo'd Up', another slick slice of dreamy R&B, that soared to the top of the Billboard US R&B chart. Last week, Mai released her debut album, one that showcased a noticeable maturation in her sound. Whilst boasting some stellar, future radio hits; the album also included a handful of A list collaborations with John Legend, H.E.R. , and one of Mai's musical heroes, Chris Brown.
Well, fans have speculated that the person the Shot Clock" singer is taking shots at is Jacquees because he performed Trip" when he was brought out on stage by Tory Lanez while in London O2 Arena. If you remember, Jacquees remixed Ella Mai's song Trip which caused so much controversy that his version of the song was removed from Soundcloud and Youtube after he was sent a cease and desist.
Ella Mai's whirlwind 2018 has led to her being one of 2019's leading live acts. Her fizzy breakout single "Boo'd Up" hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B Airplay and Adult R&B charts, as well as No. 5 on the Hot 100 '" and it sent her from opening for streetwise singer-producer Kehlani's 2017 SweetSexySavage World Tour to headlining her own run of shows. The Debut Tour crosses North America through May 2019, and she opens for the European leg of Ariana Grande's Sweetener World Tour in Europe from August to October. Live, she's full of charisma, running through songs from her 2018 self-titled debut album with charm and verve.
Ella Mai Howell (born 3 November 1994) is an English singer and songwriter. Her singing career began at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute in London in 2014, during which time she auditioned as part of a trio on the 11th season of X Factor UK. In 2015 she uploaded a four-track solo EP of originals to SoundCloud titled Trouble, and was discovered on social media by American record producer Mustard and signed with his record label, 10 Summers Records.
Once upon a time, Mai was one of the numerous individuals who post short clips of themselves singing covers of famous songs on their social media accounts. In fact, this was how she got noticed , thus enabling her to embark on a music career of her very own.
The deep-in-her-feelings Ella Mai of "Boo'd Up" and "Trip" is a much different Ella Mai than the femme fatale we hear on "Shot Clock." Her previous singles may have been about love moving at dizzying speeds, but here, she's impatient about one that's going too slowly, barely containing her impatience as she presses her romantic counterpart to make a move.
Singer Ella Mai discusses her hit song "Boo'd Up" and the meaning behind the song. Jacquees recently sang his remix of Ella Mai's Trip" at a concert, but the British songstress didn't seem too impressed by the performance.
Chart-topping, Grammy-winning R&B artist Ella Mai will top off a phenomenal year and kick off 2020 in style with an Auckland show. But Ella Mai, from south London, is not on the UK YouTube charts or the UK Singles Chart.
Later included on Mai's self-titled debut LP, Boo'd Up" climbed to No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and won Best R&B Song at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Her single Trip" went on to hit No. 11 in the Hot 100.
All of which would have seemed at best unlikely to the Ella Mai kicking around south-west London hotspots such as Mitcham, Merton and Wimbledon Chase in the early 2000s. Let's just say, tourists on future Ella Mai sightseeing tours won't be in for the most exciting afternoon of their lives. (Ella's summary: It's very residential and then there's … nothing.") She would play football on Saturdays, and on Sundays she'd be in church with her grandmother, a minister in a pentecostal church. Ella's parents had split when the kids were young; Ella says that when it came to raising Ella and older brother Miles, mum did all the work".
It has earned Ella a Grammy for 'Best R&B Song (Boo'd Up) at the 61st Grammy Awards. Her impressive award season has also included: a near-sweep at the 2019 NAACP Awards; three iHeartRadio Music Awards and two Soul Train Awards (2018). Ella was nominated for two 2019 Global Awards and won three of her astounding seven Billboard Music Award nominations. Having recently scored the Viewer's Choice Award (Trip) at the 2019 BET Awards, Ella will now vie for Best R&B (Trip) at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Ella Mai Howell (born 3 November 1994) is an English singer and songwriter. Her singing career began at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute in London in 2014, during which time she auditioned as part of a trio on the 11th season of The X Factor In 2015 she uploaded a four-track solo EP of originals to SoundCloud titled Trouble, and was discovered on social media by American record producer Mustard and signed with his record label, 10 Summers Records.
It wasn't the first surreal twist in her career. Mai, who grew up in London, was raised on Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott, two artists her mom played religiously" around the house. As a teen, she went to performing arts school in New York where she focused on musical theater. Having sung since she was a kid — mostly in church with her grandma — she soon realized that she was most passionate about her voice.


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import android.app.Dialog;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment;
import android.view.KeyEvent;

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      public boolean onKey( DialogInterface dialog, int keyCode, KeyEvent event )
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This year we will battle a typhoon. Today the waves are predicted to be about 4 m. Even now, the water is really choppy. Tomorrow, we hit Iriomote. Might not be able to go to Ishigaki. Perhaps even no fieldwork.


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Q: Gallery scrolling with onKeyDown and spacing Im trying to animate a gallery scrolling when pressing two buttons:
gallery.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT, new KeyEvent(0, 0))

or
gallery.onKeyDown(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT, new KeyEvent(0, 0))

Didnt worked well on Galaxy Nexus S, prefect on Galaxy Note though.
I've read this:
Android: Sub-class Gallery doesn't scroll by onKeyDown event
The solution is to delete the spacing in the gallery. However, i need to keep it. Any trick for that?

A: It doesn't work because the gallery doesn't know a position of a next view, it is not visible yet. You need to scroll to overcome spacing and then the view becomes visible and you can use onKeyDown.
Just look at this Setting any value for Gallery spacing will disable onKeyEvent

A: I've solved this problem by use negative number -1 as the argument of method setSpacing(). which is setSpacing(-1)


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March 22nd, 2001, 10:52 am
Nightmare (3/5/10; WC 885) Q
http://pandemo.livejournal.com/27394.html
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Despina jerks awake, sweating. Arising, she walks into the cool night behind her hovel. She shivers. As she rounds the corner, jeep headlights pin her to the wall, an elongated shadow beheaded by the roof. She shivers again.
"Why ya traipsin' 'round in the cold in that skimpy thing at this hour of the morning? Ya sick, or somptin'?" Paul Peter slurs at her.
"I woke up."
"Nightmare?" Paul Peter asks hopefully.
"That's for sure!" She shivers again.
"Can ya remember it?" The slurring is gone.
He's interested. He'll worry it like a dog with a bone. Better here and now than around the campfire with a wider audience.
"'They' came for Cu again; the ones he used to work for. The man who killed his wife in cold blood." Her expressive fingers add the quotation marks around "they". Their grotesque shadow leaps around on the wall.
Paul Peter kills the spotlight effect, patting the seat beside him. "Sit."
She obeys bonelessly. "All us White Eyes were out there, around the campfire. You, Jacques, Bruno and Horst were on the up wind side, and my log and I were braving the smoke. We were, however, bug free, I do have to admit." She shivers again.
"Go on," Paul Peter encourages.
"Cu slipped in, like he does, draping himself languidly on the other end of my log, careful not to touch me."
"That hardly constitutes a nightmare. Maybe that's just being prudent."
"Shut up! I'm still scene setting. I've got to tell it my way. I'm in no rush to relive the ENDING!"
Reaching behind him, he drags his jacket out and tosses it into her lap. "I don't want it said I caused your death from cold."
Gratefully, she drapes it over her bare legs. "Strange rustlings and thumpings emanate from the desert, occasional metallic clanks, but we ignored them, thinking, I suppose, that some of the children were on the prowl, not in bed."
"But...?" he encourages.
"But instead, as Cu arose, a shot rang out. He spun around, half falling. I saw a gaping hole in his side, blood gushing, before he clamped his hand over it. Low to the ground, he disappeared into the desert."
"Geeze. What an imagination. I bet you have a good 'President Kennedy Conspiracy' theory, too."
"Did you know he was sent to prison after they shot his wife?"
"What? No, he came back here, and refused to enter the United States unless it was to help a tribesman, refused to speak English, and banned its use on the entire reservation."
Give me some credit here... I know a set of prison issue togs from family experience! Just because the family didn't choose to share that experience with you doesn't mean it didn't happen...
"Oh, the vow the sheriff spoke of. I heard the tribe imposed the ban on HIM." She pauses, a confused look on her face. Maybe that tidbit was from another dream. I can't remember now, with the dream so fresh. "Different dream, maybe."
"Let's just hear 'em one at a time."
"One guy gets caught and the old women beat him with one of the kid's cudgels. Everyone else was out hunting for Cu. Instead, we found a second rifleman, and subdued him, too. Someone called the sheriff, who couldn't come out without a tribal leader's invitation. They all got silent until YOU convinced them that 'they' might get Cu and finish him off while we were looking for him.
"One of the kids burned a guy to death in his semi, which had the misfortune to be parked on Indian property when the whole tribe suddenly quit being friendly and went on the war path.
Paul Peter shivers. "Ugh. What a way to go."
"Want your coat back?"
"Nah, I'm not really cold. That was an emotional shiver."
Empathy. He's doing it again. In the dark, he gets almost human. He acts as if he cares about people and things. The cold-hearted 'SOB' facade slips.
"The kids and I couldn't find Cu, but we kept running into more armed men, whom my sweet-natured elementary students beat mercilessly. I guess the men didn't shoot because they were obviously elementary kids.
How considerate of them!
"When Cu's mother spoke to me... well, actually...
"Sarita put her hand in mine and looking up trustingly, asked, 'Where's my daddy?'"
"I started to say, 'I don't know, honey,' but HIS MOTHER spoke, instead."
"Oh, no, not the lady in the deserted cave again." His shiver is eloquent.
"Yes. she told me where he lay by landmark, which, of course, I didn't know.
"Cu's brother, sober for once, asked me to describe what I saw.
Not only did he recognize it, but soon, every person in the tribe was out there, all lying on the desert floor, touching someone else. It seems incredible, but the tribe gave Cu a blood transfusion that way.
"I was stunned. The shock awakened me from the dream."
For once, Paul Peter is speechless. Handing the jacket back to him, Despina climbs out and re-enters her hovel. It is a long time before she hears his steps going toward his hovel. A long time.
Last updated 3/5/10 Changed compounds to a complex - Arising, she walks; rounds the corner, jeep headlights; children were on the prowl, not in bed. He acts as if he cares; whom my sweet-natured elementary students beat mercilessly. 12/30/09 Changed Everyone was out to Everyone went out; where he was to where he lay; 12/17/09 Added Despina's thought: Give me some credit here... I know a set of prison issue togs from family experience! Just because the family didn't choose to share that experience with you doesn't mean it didn't happen... 12/15/09 -- Shortened and removed detail. 9/11/04.11/23/03 Changed "Stoond" to "stood". 9/10/04 (Added quote)
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package cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.skill;

import cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.CardInfo;
import cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.CardStatusItem;
import cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.SkillUseInfo;
import cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.SkillResolver;
import cfvbaibai.cardfantasy.engine.HeroDieSignal;

import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public final class Horn {
    public static void apply(SkillUseInfo skillUseInfo, SkillResolver resolver, CardInfo attacker) throws HeroDieSignal {
        int inpact = skillUseInfo.getSkill().getImpact();
        for(int i=0;i<inpact;i++)
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                if (target == null || card.getSummonDelay() > target.getSummonDelay()) {
                    target = card;
                }
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                return;
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            resolver.getStage().getUI().useSkill(attacker, target, skillUseInfo.getSkill(), true);
            resolver.summonCard(attacker.getOwner(), target, null, false, skillUseInfo.getSkill(),0);
            CardStatusItem item = CardStatusItem.weak(skillUseInfo);
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Q: Is there anyway to connect and edit MySql in VSC? I'm completely new to this database stuff and I have looked everywhere for the answer to this question.
I'm trying to practice MySql and thought it would be cool if I could connect my database to VSC and use it with CSS to style and add Jquery/JS to my tables.
I have looked everywhere, but can only figure out how to make queries with the help from MySql plugin, is there anyway to connect it to my code?

A: Welcome to Stack Overflow Andreas! Querying MySQL requires a server, and is not possible from HTML/JS alone.
Typically, a web application is comprised of a client application using HTML/CSS and Javascript that calls API endpoints provided by a back-end server (you may be most comfortable learning NodeJS with Express).
Querying MySQL from Node is done using an npm package such as mysql.
As you continue your learning journey, please try to be very specific regarding what aspect of the technology stack you are addressing. The more specific your question, the better your answers will be.


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week ending 2022-05-12 BC
There was a press briefing on Tuesday, which didn't actually say much.
The major announcement (which was echoed in this press release) was that they have finished getting data from 17 of the 18 Colleges of regulated health care professionals about their vax statuses. Aggregated by College:
physicians and surgeons: 98.0%
dieticians: 98%
occupational therapists: 96.9%
pharmacy technicians: 96.8%
pharmacists: 96.7%
psychologists: 96.1%
optometrists: 96.0%
dentists: 95.9%
physical therapists: 95.2%
opticians: 94.9%
speech language pathologists: 92.9%
denturists: 92.9%
dental assistants: 92.8%
dental hygienists: 92.6%
audiologists/hearing instrument practitioners: 91.9%
dental technicians: 90.7%
massage therapists: 87.9%
traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists: 79.0%
chiropractors: 78.1%
naturopathic physicians: 69.2%
What they danced around, however, was that it's not clear if you'll be able to find out if your provider is vaccinated. They are worried about balancing provider privacy while at the same time ensuring patient safety. Dr. Henry said multiple times that patient safety trumped privacy, but clearly they also wanted to maintain privacy. It might be that you can call and say, "I prefer to see a provider who has been vaccinated" and then the clinic has to adjust if the provider has not been vaccinated. (For solo practices, that's going to be kind of difficult!)
I'm not going to include all the questions because some were stupid. Snark is mine.
Q: Do you have a breakdown of vaccination of regulated health care providers by health authority? A: No.
Q: Quebec is giving 4th shots to everyone, why don't weeeeee get them? A: We have a CEV list, which most provinces do not. (The unstated implication was that Quebec has to use the really blunt instrument of fourth doses for everybody in order to catch their CEVs.) We have also been watching our severe outcomes by age, and three doses gives really good protection so far. We'll change this if we see waning.
Q: Why have so many doses (600K) been thrown out? A: At the beginning, when we had supply issues, we worked really hard to make sure we didn't waste any, but now that supply is not an issue, we're willing to waste some of the doses in a vial if it means getting a few in arms. It's a demand problem. The percent that have been wasted because they expired is actually quite low — we got some with a relatively short expiry date.
Q: Are pregnant people going to get a 4th dose? A: We aren't seeing a lot of breakthroughs with three doses.
Q: Dr.H, have you had COVID-19? A: I have managed to avoid it.
Q: Do we have BA.2.12 in the province. A: It varies by Health Authority but yes. It's on the web site. (For your information, here it is:
Q: Are we in a good place? A: Dix: last week, we had 17K or 18K HC workers out sick for at least one day, that's stressing the system.
Q: Have we had any cases of pediatric hepatitis in BC? A: No. We were investigating one kid, but it turned out not to be hepatitis.
This press release says that 337K surgeries were completed in the year ending 31 March 2022, which is a record.
This article says that the province dropped $55K in fines against a collection of three scofflaw Chilliwack pastors.
This article says that all of Canada's COVID-19 benefit programs ended on May 7 (as planned). NB: I am really surprised at how few news articles there were on that.
This article says that a judge declined to stop a suit by a group healthcare workers challenging the vax mandate, saying that the group did have standing to sue.
Today's weekly report says that the week ending on 7 May there were: +331 hospital admissions, +1,987 cases, +59 all-cause deaths.
This week's report adjusted numbers for the week ending 30 April: +434 hospital admissions, +2283 cases, +68 deaths.
This compares to last week's report's numbers for the week ending 30 April: +375 hospitalizations, +2283 cases, +50 deaths.
From this week's Situation Report:
From the dashboard:
Note: the way they count deaths changed, so more recent can't be compared exactly to older data.
Categorized as BC, Mitigation measures, Press Briefing, Statistics


It's the start of August and we're about halfway through our Summer larping schedule. You may have noticed that along the way we've been keeping video diaries. So I thought it might be a good idea to group them together in an attempt to give a flavour of the summer so far.
At least two of these were shot quite late at night. It's not that we're vampires or anything. It's more to do with the fact that our days are quite packed at Curious Pastimes now that we're part of the media crew there. Also the night time entries give us a chance to sum up the day as a whole.
A little look behind the scenes. There was a 4th diary set in the games bunk room. However we had a few technical difficulties with that one so we had to abandon it.
Only two diaries from the this larp – but there were plenty of other videos and photos that came out of it.


A retired farm worker from Halifax who hit the headlines last year when capturing live footage of an extremely rare black fox in his garden has ensured immortality for the cherished animal, which has since died, by having it professionally stuffed and mounted.
Robert Burn – aka 'Black Fox Bob' – of Boothtown, was thought to be the first person ever film a black fox when he shot a video of it from his kitchen window, a story that captured the hearts of millions.
Mr Burn spent nine months filming black fox and his red vixen galavanting in his garden and surrounding countryside.
Sadly, black fox died in February this year after being hit by a car and Mr Burn recovered the dog fox's body, which he then sent over to Irish taxidermist Ingrid Houwers in Bangor, County Down.
"A fox like him deserved to be stuffed, not just left to rot. I have such fond memories of him," said Mr Burn.
However, his story does not end there – in fact, it's ongoing.
Mr Burn explained: "Black fox's vixen comes every day for a feed and in June this year she appeared with her cubs. From their colouring, there's little doubt they are black fox's offspring. In fact, one of the cubs looks more like a polecat. I'm pretty sure it's the only one of its kind in the country.


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and efficiency of relief operations."
addition, Ericsson is donating several hundred R250 mobile phones.
building new answers to emergency telecommunications' requirements."
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mobile satellite communications equipment and related services for broadband applications.
preparedness programs around the world.


Speaking on January 19 at the International Religious Liberty Association's regional conference, prime minister Manning spoke of his pride that "we can discuss these matters with candor and freedom in Trinidad and Tobago," noting that the country's constitution guarantees religious freedom. Admitting also that "practice may differ from ideals," he pointed to challenges, especially of the past. "History has taught us that states have unfortunately been party to the suppression of religious liberty," he added. "Trinidad and Tobago suffers from no such ailment-we have not been persuaded by bigotry. There are those who would use religion as a divisive force amongst us, and we must work against such a tendency and mitigate this factor."
In his conclusion the prime minister proclaimed, "Those who espy the bell of freedom should ring it, and those who hear it should respond to the call."
"We are delighted at such a strong endorsement of religious freedom and this conference from the prime minister," commented Dr John Graz, IRLA's secretary-general. "Our goal is well summed up in the conference's theme, 'Building Bridges: The Quest for Freedom and Justice.' We trust that the outcome of our meetings here will be an increased recognition of the vital importance of supporting-in very practical ways-religious freedom and tolerance in every part of the world."


Acanthus Research Inc. now offers a large collection of clindamycin-related analytical reference standards. All standards are of high purity and are accompanied by Certificate of Analysis.
Clindamycin (Cleocin HCl, Dalacin, Lincocin, Dalacin, Clindacin) is a lincosamide class antibiotic. It is used to treat infections with anaerobic bacteria and protozoal diseases, such as malaria. It is also used as a topical treatment for acne. Clindamycin is listed by the World Health Organization as an Essential Medicine.


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No section 553C offset allowed in preference claims!
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Lack of mutuality becomes distinct in Federal Court case law.
For some time, there has been a question whether Section 553C (Insolvent companies—mutual credit and set-off) of the Corporations Act 2001 could be used as a defence against a liquidator's preference claim.
For those unfamiliar, preferences are payments or asset transfers that give a creditor an advantage over other creditors.
Any payments or transfers made to a creditor within a certain period before a company is placed into liquidation, may in certain circumstances, be recovered by a liquidator. Preferences are usually payments of money, although a variety of transactions could be deemed 'preferential' such as transfers of physical assets (e.g. stock, equipment, or motor vehicles).
A liquidator must successfully prove a preference claim by establishing the following (section 588FA of the Corporations Act):
The company (in liquidation) and the creditor were parties to the transaction.
The creditor is an unsecured creditor.
The transaction took place within six months before the winding up commenced (or four years for payments to related parties).
The company was insolvent at the time or became insolvent because of the transaction.
The payment resulted in the creditor receiving more than they would in a liquidation scenario.
Assuming a liquidator can establish these points, they have a fair chance of convincing a court the monies should be repaid (section 588FF of the Corporations Act)—however, creditors have certain defences available against such a claim. Notably, the onus of proving a defence is on the creditor—not the liquidator (Levi v Guerlini (1997) 24 ACSR 159).
In recent times creditors have defended preference claims via section 553C of the Corporations Act. It provides where a party is both a debtor and a creditor of the liquidated company, the debtor/creditor can offset the debts owed to and from the liquidated company and either receive from (i.e. make a claim for) or pay the company the debt's balance. For set off to occur there must be "mutuality" in regard to the debts owed to and from the insolvent entity.
Essentially, creditors seek to offset the monies the company owes them as an unsecured creditor against any claim by a liquidator's preference claim.
Most liquidators have argued that this offset is unavailable as there is no mutuality between the respective parties. That is, a creditor can't claim the offset for monies the company owes against a liquidator's as they are different parties.
In the recent decisions in Morton as Liquidator of MJ Woodman Electrical Contractors Pty Ltd v Metal Manufacturers Pty Limited [2021] FCAFC 228[1] this debate has been answered.
The basic facts of the case are:
The defendant creditor received $190,000 in preference payments during the relation-back period.
The defendant creditor claimed a set-off of $194,727.23 for monies owed by the company as an unsecured creditor.
The liquidator claimed that section 553C of the Corporations Act does not apply.
In short, the court decided that unsecured creditors cannot claim a statutory set-off against unfair preference claims under section 553C of the Corporations Act.
A summary of the judgment reasons include:
A lack of mutuality existed between the company's indebtedness to the creditor and the creditor's liability pursuant to court order to pay the company's liquidator.
The lack of mutuality arises from the different interest in which the company owes and receives money to/from the creditor and as a payee under a court order the liquidator initiates to execute their duty to gather in the insolvent company's estate (and its administration) for the benefit of all unsecured creditors.
The lack of mutuality also arises (at the relevant date) from the absence of any right or equity (vested or contingent) in the company or duty or obligation (vested or contingent) in the creditor to recover or to repay the preference, respectively. Therefore, the essential requirements of section 553C of the Corporations Act are absent.
Liquidators welcome this decision as it unequivocally clarifies the position.
If any professional advisors and/or their clients require assistance on assessing the merits of a preference claim received and potentially settling such claims—we are here to help.
[1] Decision delivered on 16 December 2021.
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You may well have heard some talk about the Nurse Jamie EGF Stem Cell Complex, beauty guru goddess Tati swears by it for a start. Epidermal Growth Factors are said to be a bit of an alternative to retinols, increasing cell turnover, minimising the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and restoring the elasticity and suppleness of our skins, without the irritation.
Swanicoco are a Korean brand I love - in fact they're included in my 7 Korean Brands Every Beauty Lover Must Try post if you fancy hearing a little more. Their EGF Pure Ampoule is one of the best serums I've tried. It's a wonderfully pure, concentrated formula, containing 99% of the active ingredient, at almost half the price of Nurse Jamie. Feel free to have a read of my 7 Anti-Aging Elixirs for more on my experience of the Swanicoco (and don't fret about the bottle, the square shape is just the newly improved version).
For 'pore problems', a BHA exfoliant is perfect to unclog pores and lessen blackheads and breakouts. The Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% Liquid contains salicylic acid, an oil-soluble exfoliant that can help shed dead skin both on the surface and inside the pore, as well as green tea to soothe and protect.
The Cosrx BHA Power Liquid contains 4% betaine salicylate, a gentler version of salicylic acid, as well as willow bark water, a naturally occuring BHA. Thanks to some welcome extras like panthenol and sodium hyaluronate, I find this serum to be gentle enough on my skin for everyday use. It's also more like half the price of the Paula's Choice! Head to my in depth review here for more details.
Diorsnow's blue Base De Teint is a colour-correcting makeup base that offers sun protection but primarily brightens the complexion. It's also pretty difficult to source, which is where Klair's Blue Sun Lotion (and here for the US) comes into play. Both contain the blue pigments to brighten skin, actually they're pretty identical in colour, and both offer an SPF (35 vs 40), although the Dior is much more runny, whilst the Klair's is creamier and thicker in texture.
Now I'm well aware that a mist and a serum are quite a different thing, but if you can put that aside, the active ingredients in both of these products are actually remarkably similar, and will have a similar effect on your skin. In the Odacite Mint + Green Tea Treatment Mist, it's mint, green tea, glycerin and willow bark extract, and in the Neulii Green Tea Pore Tightening Serum (discounts currently available at checkout!) it's mint, green tea, willow bark water and sodium hyaluronate, so clearly, very similar! I love the combination in the Neulii serum, it's wonderfully cooling and refreshing from the mint, soothing from green tea and anti inflammatories, and works wonders on tightening pores - and you get 100ml in a bottle, double the amount of the Odacite spray. The serum is actually very viscous and liquidy, you could almost decant it into a spray bottle and use as a mist - another reason why I feel these would make for good dupes.
Another Nurse Jamie product to talk about now, this time their Uplift Massaging Beauty Roller. And again, it's a dupe from Swanicoco. The Nurse Jamie holds 24 massaging stones containing tourmaline quartz to tone, tighten and energise skin, and replicate movements from a top quality facial. Just by looking at the Swanicoco you can see it's a dupe! Holding 48 stones with germanium this time, the Swanicoco Germanium Beauty Roller is designed to do exactly the same thing. I'd love to know the finer differences between germanium and tourmaline's effects on the skin, if any, but they're both allegedly to do with negatively and positively charged ions etc so appear to be similar in that sense. I think this kind of product can be surrounded with skepticism, and requires you to just 'take the plunge' and purchase, so if you fancy saving around £25 on your 'whim purchase', you might want to try the Swanicoco instead.
By Terry released their Baume De Rose skincare line fairly recently and I was pretty excited to give it a go. The scent and skin soothing properties of rose always peaks my interest. There's no doubt, their cream in particular feels beautiful, silky and delicious and I was pretty tempted just to get the full size at £55, but actually, looking at the ingredients I'm a little put off. There are quite a few preservatives, higher up in the ingredients list, and it contains eugenol, a controversial ingredient I'd generally like to avoid if I can, and really in general, for the price tag, I'm expecting a little better. I'm not saying the Nature Republic Bulgarian Rose cream is a perfect formula, but there are fewer preservatives, more botanical extracts, and you get the lovely scent and rose as the By Terry, but at a much lower price point - about a fifth of the price in fact! The Nature Republic has a bit more of a gel-like texture too so great if you want the hydration, perhaps a pass if you want something rich and emollient, but a worthy alternative - they even look quite similar with the silvered lid and frosty pink jar.
My last dupe for today is a little bit of a curved ball. For any Kbeauty lovers out there, you'll have heard of LJH, or Leejiham, and their Vita Propolis Ampoule. I love honey and bee-derivative products for their glow factor primarily, but serums like this also revitalise skin, help with tone and texture, and improve dullness - they're such a good staple to have in your skincare collection. Turns out there are many of them, so I wanted to share a few alternatives you could try, all of them more affordable.
Firstly, here are some ingredients lists for your perusal. I particularly enjoy Cosrx products, and their minimal ingredients list stands out to me. The Scinic includes the largest amount of propolis (95%), as well as the niacinamide and honey etc, although I'm not sure why they bothered to add the other 265 ingredients as they must be in the tiniest percentages?! All four products, by their nature, have a similarly moist and hydrating texture, and leave a slight tackiness on the skin, which is nothing offputting.
Propolis extract 50%, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Extract, Panthenol, Rosa Centifolia Flower Water, Niacinamide, 1, 2-Hexanediol, Ethyl Ascorbyl Ether, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Bark/ Twig Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Carbomer, Arginine, Spirodela Polyrrhiza Extract, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine.
Propolis Extract 80%, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Betaine, 1,2-Hexanediol, Cassia Obtusifolia Seed Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Carbomer, Panthenol, Arginine.
I also want to throw in Banila Co's honey serum, because it's close enough, with the niacinamide, honey, royal jelly, propolis and all 'bee-like' ingredients, and mainly because I absolutely love the stuff. I mentioned in my 7 Korean Beauty Brands You Must Try post, that I think I'm on my third bottle of this, which is rare as I rotate my skincare so much, and have so darn much of it!
Collagen extract, glycerin, water, methylgluceth-20, polyglycerin-3, niacinamide, ethanol, honey extract, aureobasidium pullulans ferment, theobroma cacao (cocoa) extract, royal jelly extract, propolis extract, chrysanthellum indicum extract, plukenetia volubilis seed oil, argania spinosa kernel oil, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, anthemis nobilis flower extract, oenothera biennis (evening primrose) oil, limnanthes alba (meadowfoam) seed oil, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed extract, calendula officinalis flower extract, pentylene glycol, PEG-8, butylene glycol, glyceryl polyacrylate, PEG-60 hydrogenated castor oil, adenosine, tromethamine, caprylic/capric triglyceride, octyldodecanol, hydrogenated coco-glyceride, sodium starch octenyl succinate, maltodextrin, calcium pantothenate, hydrogenated lecithin, sodium ascorbyl phosphate, tocopheryl acetate, pyridoxine HCI, silica, xanthan gum, carbomer, disodium EDTA, phenoxyethanol, fragrance.
Wonderful post Jennifer! While I'm a huge fan of the Odacite mists, I went through the bottle way too fast - and I didn't even think I was using that much! The Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% Liquid was the first BHA I ever tried and ugh it was horrible - oily and didn't do anything for my skin. The Cosrx version is superior in every way!
I really liked this post. It was very nice to know that there are dupes out there for skincare products. I think that l might give the Nature Republic a try. It sounds awesome. I just wanted to mention one product that I absolutely love which you might want to check out if haven't already. I am a huge fan of Benton's Snail Bee High Content Essence. It has both snail and bee propolis, along with Arbutin peptides and adenosine. This stuff has a nice texture and absorbs with little to no stickiness.


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Volume 5 Number 1, 1997
Georgie's New BabyGeorgiana Stehli Thomas gave birth to a brown hair, blue-eyed baby girl on June 21, 1997. The baby's name is Rebecca Georgiana Thomas. Georgie describes Rebecca as alert and says that she is starting to sleep through the night. She is now 8 1/2 lbs. and is looking at her surroundings and grabbing on to fingers.
Georgie resides in Corvallis, Oregon where she works as an artist and is writing an autobiography.
Our congratulations to Georgie and her husband, Tom (also, see related article on page 7).
*****ASA Conference and SAIT Annual MeetingThe Autism Society of America held its annual conference on July 8 to 12, 1997 in Orlando, Florida. The conference was well-attended and offered excellent keynote speakers and workshop seminars. Dr. Jeffrey Lewine's presentation on magnetic source imaging included exciting new options for studying the neurobiological impact of AIT. Magnetoencephalography and simultaneous EEG were used to measure electrical activity in the brain. This procedure provides information regarding both brain structure and function.
A child with dyslexia and an adult with high functioning autism were tested pre and post AIT. The first recording demonstrated relatively large responses in the areas in the brain associated with hyperacusis. Following AIT, the responses were normalized which indicated a restoration of balance or symmetry. Dr. Lewine is hoping to track such differences over a more extended time period.
In a talk entitled 'Review of Autism Treatments,' Luke Tsai, M.D. briefly commented on auditory integration training. He referenced only one study, conducted by Sue Bettison in Australia. Her study involved 80 subjects, with 40 receiving AIT and 40 receiving unfiltered music. Since the results of this study did not show a significant difference between the two groups, he concluded that it may be as effective as simply presenting unfiltered music to the child in a home setting.
Dr. Tsai did not mention some of the short-comings of the Bettison AIT study (see The Sound Connection, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1996). Since Dr. Tsai stressed the importance of studies with a large number of subjects to assure statistical significance, it is surprising that he did not also comment on the Rimland and Edelson study with 445 subjects, published in 1994, which yielded positive results.
Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. presented a seminar entitled `Improving Auditory Comprehension through Auditory Attention Training.' Dr. Gordon described a 4 1/2 year old boy who failed to comprehend spoken words due to an apparent disregard for auditory stimuli.
A discrete trial teaching format was used to teach the child to imitate a visually presented activity (sit down). The same activity was then taught as a verbal command which requires auditory comprehension. The child could not learn the activity when auditory comprehension was required. Auditory attention was trained successfully by requiring the child to point to a wooden block immediately after hearing a tone. Reinforcement was provided when the child delayed his response until the tone was presented, and responded within 3 seconds after the end of the tone. The results suggest that auditory attention can be effectively trained through the discrete trial format and that this is an important factor in teaching auditory comprehension. The auditory attention training only required a few days of training.
*****AIT Research Summaries AvailableA compilation of 23 summaries of research on various aspects of AIT, from January, 1993 to July, 1997, is available from the Autism Research Institute (4182 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116).
To obtain this compilation, send a self-addressed stamped envelope marked "AIT Summaries" and enclose $1.00 to cover printing and handling.
*****Strange AIT Swedish Study: Shows Good Results, Bad ReportReference. Gillberg, C., Johansson, M., Steffenberg, S., and Berlin, O. (1997). "Auditory integration training in children with autism: Brief report of an open pilot study." Autism, Vol. 1, Number 3, pp. 97-100.
Methods. Nine children, age ranging from 3 to 16 years, participated in this study. This included 8 males and 1 female. Assessment measures included two diagnostic checklists–the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) and the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC). Subjects were evaluated prior to and nine months following AIT listening sessions.
Results. Gillberg et al. compared differences between pre- and post-assessment measures for the subscales on these two checklists. Eight of nine children did better on the ABC total score after AIT, and 7 of 9 did better on the ABC sensory subscale. Using standard statistical procedures on the data , which was reported in the article, showed significant, favorable results. However, Gillberg et al., using the inappropriate Berferonni statistical procedure, reported the results to be negligible. Strange!
Comments. There are several shortcomings of this study, and these are listed below.
1. There were no control groups for comparison.
2. Gillberg et al. assessed behavioral change using two diagnostic checklists- the CARS and the ABC. The authors of these checklists, Eric Schopler and David Krug, have stated that they were not designed to evaluate treatment outcomes.
3. Although the significance level was set at 0.005 to compensate for a relatively large number of pairwise comparisons, 20, this significance level is typically not recommended when analyzing the data of such a small sample size.
4. Arnold Barnett, Ph.D., Professor of Operations Research at MIT, noted that "in 15 of the 17 pre-post comparisons in which the child's score changed, it declined after AIT." Thus, another interpretation of the findings would be that the participants improved following AIT.
*****Results of Board of Director and Officer ElectionsSAIT members recently elected two new members to the Board of Directors. Beverly Hall, M.Ed., CCC/SLP of Henderson, Texas, and Marna Scarry-Larkin, M.A., CCC/SLP of San Luis Obispo, California, were elected to the practitioner positions. Jon Kaunitz, M.D. of Santa Monica, California, was re-elected to the parent position; and Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. of Bowling Green, Ohio, was re- elected to the professional, non-AIT practitioner position. We would like to thank Rose Marie Davis and Sabra Gelfond for their contributions to SAIT during their terms on the Board.
SAIT's Board of Directors elected officers for the 1997 – 1998 term. The officers and positions are: Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D., President; Sally Brockett, M.S., Vice-President; Rose Marie Davis, M.A., CCC/A, Treasurer; and Cherri Saltzman, Secretary.
*****Donna Geffner, Ph.D. President-Elect of ASHADonna Geffner, Ph.D. was recently elected to be President of the American Speech-Hearing Association. Her term is for one year, starting in January, 1998.
Dr. Geffner is a professor at St. John's University and the Director of the Speech and Hearing Center in Jamaica, New York. She and her colleagues have conducted several studies on the efficacy of auditory integration training (AIT) on children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Their findings have consistently shown positive improvements as a result of AIT.
*****An Interview with Professor Jaak PankseppJaak Panksepp, Ph.D. is one of the leading theorists and researchers in the areas of biochemistry and autism. Much of his work has focused on developing animal models of autism. Dr. Panksepp is on SAIT's Board of Directors, and his research has provided us with much insight into biochemical changes occurring as a result of auditory integration training (AIT). Dr. Panksepp (JP) was interviewed by Dr. Stephen M. Edelson (SE) on March 11, 1997.
SE: Would you like to discuss some of your work on AIT?
JP: Yes. I obviously got into AIT on yours and Bernie Rimland's coat- tails. We also were coaxed into it by the parents in this region [Northwest Ohio] who wanted to have the treatment available for their children. We were able to organize a free clinic for them. We conducted several evaluations that were not too cost intensive and did not require too much time. Basically, we found essentially what you did–using the same scales you used, a broad spectrum of improvements was evident. As a result, we became more interested in trying to develop an animal model to explain the changes. We exposed young newborn birds to music for 10 days, giving them the classic AIT treatment (modulation only) using the BGC system; and every study has yielded statistically reliable changes in both behaviors and neurochemistries. Typically however, the animals receiving the unmodulated control music have exhibited comparable effects. In any event, the changes could be interpreted as positive behaviorally as well as chemically. For instance, the neurochemical change resemble what would be expected for an anti-depressant effect.
SE: This is quite interesting.
JP: It really is. We are now planning a study to evaluate music as an anti-depressant. Perhaps an unfortunate pattern, at least for those who are strong AIT proponents, is that music alone has typically had as much affect as AIT. My suspicion is that the extra frills that are added to music using the AIT variables contribute rather little to the overall benefits. The biggest benefit may simply be systematic exposure to attention-grabbing music in a systematic well-controlled manner.
SE: This would be consistent with Sue Bettison's work.
JP: Absolutely.
SE: How soon after AIT exposure did you assess behavioral and biochemical changes in the chicks?
JP: All of behavior was done at mid-treatment and within 48 hrs of the end of the treatment.
SE: Is it possible that a 3-month post assessment may have provided additional results or possibly no results?
JP: Perhaps, but we were not set up to keep a chicken farm running in the animal facility; and we really did not expect to find such striking changes. Lots of follow-up is needed, but we really do not have the resources to do much more on that right now.
SE: Given that the studies involved normal hearing chicks, is it possible that those with abnormal hearing (chicks and people) may show additional benefits? Also, could this possibly explain why you found positive changes in both the modulated and non-modulated groups?
JP: Those are possibilities, but without data I could not hazard more than a guess, and at this point my opinion would be not worth much more than a coin toss.
SE: Is it possible that the modulation used in AIT makes the whole experience more intense?
JP: Certainly, and more attention-grabbing. There is no doubt some variability as to which children respond best to what type of music. I think that simply listening to music through headphones makes the music attention- grabbing. If you do not wear headphones, then the music is simply in the background–it is not actively attended to.
SE: Since the chicks did not wear headphones in your studies, is it possible that you could have observed greater changes as a result of AIT? and is it possible that you might have found a difference between the modulated and non-modulated groups?
JP: It is possible, but headphones for the chicks would have been an incredible nuisance.
SE: I guess another way to look at this idea of `attention-grabbing' is that autistic individuals often have attention deficits. By having them listen to attention-grabbing music for 30 minutes sessions, they are being conditioned to attend for relatively long periods of time.
JP: Yes, and this might be an important component. If the sound just gets into your attention systems, some important brain systems are more vigorously exercised. I know that you collect AIT theories, which one is your favorite?
SE: Those theories that deal with attention.
JP: Those are my favorite too.
SE: In Sue Bettison's study, she found no difference between an experimental (AIT) group and a placebo group. The placebo group heard the same music as the experimental group, but the music was unmodulated. Some people do not realize that the music given to the placebo group was not your 'ordinary, everyday' type of music. It was carefully selected to enhance the effects of AIT. The music had a very good tempo and involved frequencies over a wide spectrum. This criterion fits only approximately 5% of the music available on the market. Can you describe to us the results of your most recent study?
JP: In our last chick study, we used the EASe discs which were produced by Bill Mueller. He also sent us the same music but unmodulated. Interestingly, the unmodulated music had a larger affect than the modulated version. Overall, both the unmodulated and modulated versions had rather spectacular effects on whole brain neurochemistries. The biggest effects were on brain norepinephrine which is clearly involved in brain attentional processes. We had two additional groups–one involved listening to an audiotape of male and female voices and the other one did not involve listening to any sounds. We did not see any chemical changes in birds that simply listened to human voices.
*****Findings of Unexpected Change after AIT: Dr. Guy BerardThe aim of AIT is to correct hearing problems, and as you know, I have found that certain specific hearing problems, such as distortions, lack of selectivity, dyslaterality, painful hearing, delay in response time, peaks of hypersensitive hearing, etc. could contribute to learning disabilities, autism, and various behavior problems which are typically labeled by specialists according to the existing symptoms.
I used to ask my patients to give me a detailed report of their condition three months after the end of their treatment. I was sometimes surprised to be informed, in addition to the concerns relevant to the problems for which they had been treated, that some unexpected responses had occurred:
— Sight: Several patients told me that their sight had changed, generally improved, and that they had to change their glasses, by reducing the necessary diopters. An explanation can be proposed in thinking that with the brain cells of sight begin very close to those of hearing. AIT may increase the blood circulation in this area. The vision cells could take advantage of this physiological situation. This is just an opinion, not scientific assertion.
— Hand dominance: Left-hand dominance changing to right handedness was sometimes indicated; and the opinion expressed previously can be suggested for this change as well. I used to tell my trainees the story of a mother who was anxious because her daughter was left-handed. I was treating this girl for her learning disabilities, and her mother used to inform me of the improvement at school; but she continually complained about the persistence of the left-hand dominance. All of a sudden, six months after the end of AIT, she phoned me, excited and enthusiastic: "Dr. Berard, my daughter has become right- handed during the night! She asked me why I had put her teacup with the handle on the left side, and this seemed wrong for her!" Maybe the connections between the billions of synapses was modifying everyday, according to the different sounds of the environment, until the moment when the last contact was established at the place for the left brain to control the right hand.
As I have always indicated, the aim of AIT is to correct hearing problems. AIT should not be considered to change conditions such as vision, hand dominance, or other problems. Practitioners of AIT will observe some other responses at times; and if these are noted frequently, it would be good to share these observations with SAIT.
Editor's Note: These are fascinating observations. The Sound Connection welcomes related input from our readers.
*****Georgie Starts Web Site on InternetGeorgiana Thomas has her own web site on the World Wide Web. As many of you know, Georgie's childhood was described in her mother's book, The Sound of a Miracle. She improved dramatically after receiving auditory integration training from Dr. Guy Berard in Annecy, France. Georgie's web site contains a brief description of herself as well as many of her drawings and paintings. She is also using the web site to expand her art business. For a reasonable fee, people can send a photograph to have her draw a caricature (black & white or color) or a portrait picture. In addition, Georgie is exhibiting and selling some of her large artworks. If you have access to the Internet, you will enjoy visiting her site. The URL address is: www.autism.com/georgie/