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Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality in Hamsters
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov found those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups. The hamsters were fed either: no soy, soy, low levels of GM soy or high levels of GM soy. Some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths — something rarely seen, but apparently more prevalent among hamsters eating GM soy.
This finding reflects that of other researchers looking at the effects of feeding GM food to animals. The disorders include:
Infant mortality 5 times higher
Mice testicles changed from normal pink to dark blue (!)
the more GM corn was fed to mice, the fewer the babies they had, and the smaller the babies were.
Surov warns against jumping to early conclusions, saying, "It is quite possible that the GMO does not cause these effects by itself." In addition to the GMOs, it could be contaminants or higher herbicide residues, such as Roundup. ... GM soy always carries the double threat of higher herbicide content, couple with any side effects of genetic engineering.
Alexey Surov says, "We have no right to use GMOs until we understand the possible adverse effects, not only to ourselves but to future generations as well."
Food Labelling Review
Currently although up to 70% of processed food contains GM ingredients almost none legally require labelling. The Federal Governmetn called for a review of food labelling and received over 6000 submissions. Public consultations are being held in April and May (you can register for them here). This is your chance to have a say.
You may also ask whether the members of the panel are completely impartial in this. Nick Goddard is the Executive Director of the Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF). He declared on his Conflict of Interest Statement that he is "Contracted to the Australian Oilseeds Federation to provide specific services, including promotion of the 'Market Choice' philosophy in relation to oilseeds crops which utilise GM technology."
AOF's Strategic Plan 2010 says "An important issue for the industry going forward is to continue to promote the positives of GM technologies to maintain access to this tool." It plans to "Continue to participate in working groups and other activites seeking to develop an appropriate policy framework for GM and other emerging technologies."
The Federation's members include Monsanto, the owner of the Roundup Ready (GM) canola, other biotech companies like Bayer and Dow as well as agribusiness giants like Cargill.
As you may know, the biotech industry repeatedly and strenuously resists food labelling.
Pesticide Use Up With GM Crops
A new report by Dr Charles Benbrook, and published by the Organic Centre, uses data from the United States Department of Agriculture to show that the adoption of GM crops has increased pesticide use by 318 million pounds (about 144 million kilograms) over the past 13 years. The primary reason is that weeds have become resistant to the herbicides used with the GM crops. Read Report Here.
The biotech industry relying on the work of PG Economics made an attempt to disparage Benbrook's work. However, Benbrook has detailed the flawed methodology of PG Economics in his report as shown here
More graphically, a US TV news report shows how Roundup Resistant hogweed is choking cotton fields in the American south. It breaks combine harvesters, hoes and means that cotton in some areas will need to be hand harvested. Click to View News Report
Nestlé, Foster's, Schweppes and Lindt to GM Free
Nestlé, Foster's, Schweppes and Lindt are the latest leading brands to commit to keeping their food and drinks free of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in the 2010 Truefood Guide. However, it is not certain whether this policy applies to their products in countries like China and India.
Companies which do not have a clear non-GM policy or have refused to reveal whether they use GM ingredients include Cadbury, Western Star, Woolworths, Kraft and baby food producers Karicare and Nutricia.
Do You Want Better Food Labelling?
The Federal Government is announced an independent review of food labelling laws and has called for submissions. You need to act quickly as submissions close 20th Nov 09! You can email a personal submission to FoodLabellingReview@health.gov.au by that date. Your submission doesn't have to be long. For tips on what you can say, see here.
GM Canola Weeds Growing On Roadsides
Weed GM canola is growing unmanaged on Australian roadsides because the crop was approved for release by the previous Gene Technology Regulator Dr Sue Meek. Dr Meek did not conduct or commission any independent tests on behalf of the Australian people. Dr Meek released it on the basis that the oil had been approved for human consumption by FSANZ, but FSANZ did not conduct or commission any independent tests, neither on the oil, nor on the genetic material and products. These inadequately tested GM products are now flying around with the pollen and escaping from trucks.
No regulatory body has offered to clean up the patented GM weeds, which will soon dry, split their seed pods and spread seeds further. This GM pollen is flying around Australia, contaminating our food. Since GM patent holder, Monsanto, was successfully sued for the removal of GM canola weeds last year, are members of the public going to have to pull up GM weeds and bill Monsanto for the costs?" asked Fran Murrell
Read the MADGE Press Release for more information on this issue.
GM Food And World Hunger
Agriculture minister Tony Burke maintains we have to eat GM food or the world will starve. MADGE issued a press release refuting this link. Monsanto is the biggest patent holder of GM crops and is based in the US. MADGE has done an investigation into hunger and food safety in the US and worldwide to see if GM crops have helped.
There are 38 million hungry people in the USA; that is 12.5% of its population, that number has doubled since the 1980's. People who have difficulty feeding themselves include young families, those on the minimum wage, the elderly and even military families are on food stamps. Experts say the US grows more than enough food and, with political will, everyone could be well fed within months. It has been estimated that half of all the food produced for the rich world is thrown away. This happens before reaching the shops when produce is rejected as the wrong shape and size or by retail outlets over ordering from suppliers, cancelling at the last minute and refusing to pay for wastage. Suppliers and farmers accept this as, often, there are no alternative buyers.
Then there are people who throw food away once they have bought it. Sydney households throw away $600 million of fresh produce a year. Stopping food waste in the UK and the US could lift more than one billion people out of hunger worldwide.
GM sugarcane trial
There is an application currently with the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) for a trial of GM sugar cane resistant to herbicide (able to be sprayed with a weedkiller and not die). The closing date for submissions to this application is 14th October. Details of how to respond are available here.
GM ingredients found in Nestle's infant food in China
Greenpeace China sent a sample of a Nestlé-branded baby food cereal bought in Beijing to an independent laboratory to test for genetically modified DNA.
It came back positive. Greenpeace reported that the sample contained a range of GM DNA, including GM DNA from a virus and from a bacterial Bt gene. The Bt genes create insecticide in GM crops.
What's in Infant Formula?
American Doctors are calling for a moratorium on GM food. There are concerns that GM ingredients have crept unlabelled into infant formula and may be harming babies. Many of the ingredients in infant formula could be GM, such as corn syrup, soy lecithin, soy and canola oils, maltodextrin. These ingredients would be labelled in Europe if they were GM, but not in Australia. Even Vitamin C can be GM.
Omega 3 and 6 oils derived from algae and fungi in baby formula
Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils have been added to infant formula with the claim that they will improve babies eyesight and cognitive development. This US report details that these oils have frequently been derived from algae and fungi and are causing serious illnesses in babies.
"When I worked in the hospital's neonatal ward, the nurses all called it 'the diarrhea formula'. We've seen infants, tiny little humans, with diarrhea that just wouldn't stop after being given this formula." Sam Heather Doak, LPN, IBCLC, from Marietta, Ohio.
Virulent and long-term diarrhea is considered a serious and life-threatening medical episode."
Omega 3 – from fish or algae.
While the labels on some infant formulas in Australia suggest their omega 3 oils come from fish, the remaining formulas contain omega 3 oils batch produced by an algae known as "Crypthecodinium cohnii"
The particular omega 3 oil put into infant formula is Docosahexanoic Acid, and it may be labelled as DHA, DHASCO (DHA-rich Single Cell Oil), or "single cell production".
Omega 6 – from fungus
As far as MADGE can determine, all of the omega 6 oil in infant formula (Arachidonic Acid) is derived from batch production of a filamentous fungus, known as "Mortierella Alpina".
It may be labelled as 'AA', 'ARA', ARASCO (ARA-rich single cell oil), or "PUFA's from single cell production".
Karicare includes 'Arachidonic Acid' in their product which is a fungal oil".
How did this oil get into baby formula? The ANZFA (FSANZ) trail
The Australian food regulator ANZFA (now FSANZ) began the Infant Formula Review Proposal in 1993. ANZFA completed the Inquiry in November 1999 and decided that algae and fungi derived oils were not novel foods after the close of public discussion. The Infant Formula Review Proposal was finally signed off in 2002.
New policy guidelines for infant formula currently under development
The Food Regulation Standing Committee (FRSC) Working Group on the Regulation of Infant Formula Products is currently developing new Policy Guidelines for the Regulation of Infant Formula Products.
Protecting the growing and developing bodies and minds of all children is of the utmost importance. One baby in the US had severe diarrhoea for three months. Tests showed there was no sign of infection, bacteria or parasites. The mother took her son off the Omega 3 and 6 supplemented formula and his diarrhoea stopped. She said "My baby is not an experiment. Mead Johnson (the formula manufacturer) should be ashamed of itself for allowing this to happen and the FDA (US food regulator) should take responsibility for our health and the health of our children." Cornucopia Report.
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Top news: 'Pakistan's desire for de-escalation should not be construed as weakness', says Imran Khan
The biggest stories of the day.
Feb 28, 2019 · 10:26 am Updated Feb 28, 2019 · 06:49 pm
A file photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. | Fayez Nureldine/AFP
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said the country will release Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman from its custody. However, Khan warned India not to mistake his effort at de-escalation of tensions for weakness.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed there was "reasonably attractive news" coming from India and Pakistan, and hinted that the tension between the two countries will soon deescalate.
The United States, the United Kingdom and France moved a new proposal at the United Nations Security Council to blacklist Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad. The group had claimed responsibility for the February 14 Pulwama attack.
Here are the day's top stories:
Supreme Court allows Delhi Police to arrest Amrapali Group chief Anil Sharma and two directors
The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions by home buyers seeking possession of around 42,000 flats booked in Amrapali Group projects in Uttar Pradesh. In December, the court had ordered the confiscation and sale of the group's assets after advocate ML Lahoty, appearing for the petitioners, alleged that the company had diverted around Rs 3,000 crore of home-buyers' money for other purposes.
Delhi High Court rejects Congress MP Jairam Ramesh's plea against money laundering law amendments
The court rejected the petition after first reserving its order on Wednesday. Ramesh had said that the amendments were enacted as Money Bills instead of Ordinary Bills. A Money Bill can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha cannot amend or reject it.
Mumbai metro stations put on high alert amid tensions between India and Pakistan
"[On] basis [of] the inputs received from security agencies, Mumbai Metro One has imposed red alert on all 12 stations with immediate effect. We seek cooperation and support from our esteemed commuters," it tweeted. The Reliance Infrastructure-led Mumbai Metro One Private Limited operates the 12-km elevated corridor from Versova to Ghatkopar.
J&K: Rajouri police issue advisory, warn people against calls from unknown numbers
The advisory said that over the last few days, there had been more than 10 reports of police, bureaucrats and ordinary civilians receiving such calls. Investigations had reportedly revealed that such calls were routed from outside the country, but "specialised software" had been used to display the caller ID with a +91 code.
'Desperate to win polls, war in no one's interest,' says Imran Khan's party on Yeddyurappa's remarks
Yeddyurappa had on Wednesday said India's air strikes against a terror camp in Pakistan will help his party win more than 22 of the 28 seats in Karnataka in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He said the wind was "increasingly blowing in favour of the BJP" and the air strikes have led to a "pro-Modi wave" in the country. On Thursday, however, he said his comments had been reported out of context.
Pakistan will release IAF pilot Abhinandan on Friday as a peace gesture, says PM Imran Khan
Khan made the announcement before addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Parliament to discuss the increasing tension between India and Pakistan since the Pulwama attack, where 40 CRPF personnel died.
IAF air strikes: Pakistan briefs China on border tension with India, Beijing urges restraint
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in an "urgent" call with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday night, expressed "deep concern" over the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir. "Late at night on February 27, 2019, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made an urgent call to State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to update him on the situation between Pakistan and India," the ministry said.
Jammu and Kashmir: Pakistani forces violate ceasefire in Rajouri, say reports
The reports came hours after Pakistani forces allegedly violated the ceasefire in Poonch district on Thursday morning. Both countries exchanged heavy fire, Defence Ministry spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand told reporters in Jammu.
Pakistan's claim about not targeting military installations is false, say defence officials
News agency ANI also quoted officials who accused Islamabad of violating the Geneva Convention by ill-treating an Indian Air Force pilot who is in Pakistan's custody.
AIADMK 'two-leaves symbol': Delhi HC rejects Dhinakaran's plea against Election Commission order
While one faction of the AIADMK is led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam, the other faction is headed by Dhinakaran. His faction is called the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam.
No deal with Pakistan on missing pilot, expect him to be returned immediately, says India
India on Thursday said it would not seek consular access to an Indian Air Force pilot in Pakistani custody, saying there will be "no deal" with the neighbouring country. The government said that it expected Pakistan to immediately return Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, whose jet was shot down on Wednesday.
Air strikes: VK Singh hits out at BS Yeddyurappa, says government action is not to 'win extra seats'
Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh criticised party colleague and former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday for claiming that the Indian air strikes on a terror camp in Pakistan have led to a "pro-Modi" wave in the country ahead of the elections. Yeddyurappa, who is the BJP's Karnataka unit chief, had said on Wednesday that the air strikes will help the BJP win over 22 of the state's 28 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections.
As India-Pakistan tension escalates, Islamabad temporarily cancels operation of Samjhauta Express
Pakistan on Thursday announced that the operation of the Samjhauta Express will be suspended temporarily till the security situation between India and Pakistan improves. "The operation of Samjhuta Express has been suspended today, in view of the prevailing tensions between Pakistan and India," Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
'Reasonably attractive news coming from India and Pakistan,' says Donald Trump amid border tension
Referring to the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan, United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said there was "reasonably attractive news" coming from the two countries and that peace is "probably going to be happening". Trump was addressing reporters on Thursday after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam ended.
Supreme Court stays order evicting families of Adivasis, forest-dwellers across 16 states
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the implementation of its earlier order evicting more than 10 lakh families of Adivasis and other forest-dwellers from forest lands across 16 states. The Centre and the Gujarat government had moved petitions in the top court seeking a stay on the court's February 13 order.
'Modi desperate for re-election': Congress criticises PM for campaigning amid tension with Pakistan
The Congress on Thursday criticised Prime Narendra Modi for holding campaign rallies at a time when the country was hoping for the safe return of the Indian Air Force pilot who is currently in the custody of Pakistan's armed forces. Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said Modi was only "desperate for re-election". "Pradhan Sevak hell-bent on creating a Video Conf. [conference] record," he wrote on Twitter.
Captured Indian pilot tried to swallow documents after he landed in Pakistan: Report
Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistan's custody, tried to swallow documents after he landed across the Line of Control on Wednesday, Dawn reported, quoting a witness. The witness told the daily that Varthaman landed in Horra'n village in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir's Bhimber district and was chased by locals before Pakistan Army personnel took him into custody.
After IAF strikes, Modi says India will fight as one and win as one
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the country will stand united in the face of adversity in the aftermath of the cross-border air strikes and deteriorating ties with Pakistan. "India will live as one, India will work as one, India will grow as one, India will fight as one and India will win as one," he said.
Aviation: New passenger charter lists out travellers' rights, aims to make refunds easier
Union minister of Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday released a passenger charter laying out the rights of air travellers in the country. The aim is to keep the system efficient and approachable, the minister said.
India-Pakistan tension: Manmohan Singh hopes 'saner counsel' will prevail between governments
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said he hoped that "saner counsels" prevail between the governments of India and Pakistan as the tensions between the two countries has escalated recently.
As Karachi Bakery manager receives threat call, Bengaluru police file case
The manager of a Karachi Bakery outlet in Bengaluru claimed to have received a threat call warning him of consequences if the word "Karachi" is not removed from the outlet's signboard.
National Herald: Delhi High Court upholds eviction of Associated Journals from office building
The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld a single judge's order asking Associated Journals Limited, the publisher of Congress-linked newspaper National Herald, to vacate Herald House in New Delhi. The division bench, however, did not clarify the time in which Associate Journals Limited will have to leave the premises.
'Powerless Imran': How front pages reported India-Pakistan air strikes
India and Pakistan on Wednesday claimed that they had shot down each others' fighter jets, a day after the Indian Air Force had struck a Jaish-e-Mohammad terror camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. India said Pakistan had attempted to target military installations in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and confirmed a pilot of its Air Force was missing in action after the operation.
Jammu and Kashmir: Pakistan forces allegedly violate ceasefire in Poonch, heavy fire exchanged
Pakistani forces allegedly violated the ceasefire across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Thursday morning. Both countries exchanged heavy fire, Defence Ministry spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand told reporters in Jammu.
US, UK and France ask UN Security Council to blacklist Jaish chief Masood Azhar: Reports
The United States, the United Kingdom and France on Wednesday moved a fresh proposal at the United Nations Security Council to blacklist Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad. The group had claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama in which 40 security personnel were killed on February 14.
Writer Fatima Bhutto seeks release of Indian Air Force pilot in Pakistan's custody
Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and niece of another former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on Wednesday called on the Pakistan government to release an Indian Air Force pilot in its custody. India on Wednesday said a pilot was "missing in action" and a MiG 21 fighter jet was lost after Islamabad "targeted military installations on India's side".
India-Pakistan tension: US Pentagon asks countries to avoid further military action
The United States' Pentagon on Wednesday urged India and Pakistan to avoid further military action amid tensions between the two countries. The Pentagon in a statement said acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan had spoken to senior US military officials about the situation.
'Exercise restraint,' say Indian, Pakistani students and staff of Harvard University
Indian and Pakistani students, staff and faculty at Harvard University have called for a de-escalation of tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi for the prosperity and security of the South Asian region. Further deterioration of the situation is likely to destabilise the entire region socially, economically and politically, over 140 South Asian members of Harvard University said in a letter.
'Air strikes will help BJP win over 22 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka', claims Yeddyurappa
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said the air strikes against a terror camp in Pakistan will help the Bharatiya Janata Party win more than 22 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. India on Tuesday said it had carried out "non-military preemptive" strikes on the biggest camp of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed militant across the border.
Meghalaya illegal mine: Rescue teams retrieve second body, five detected so far
Rescue teams on Wednesday retrieved the body of a second miner from the main shaft of a flooded coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district. At least 15 miners were trapped in the illegal mine on December 13, and five bodies have been discovered so far.
Chhattisgarh: Controversial officer SRP Kalluri transferred a month after appointment to key post
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday transferred controversial former Bastar Inspector General of Police SRP Kalluri to the post of transport commissioner. Kalluri was appointed head of the Economic Offences Wing and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in January.
Saradha scam: SC asks CBI for details on allegations against ex-Kolkata police commissioner
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation for an affidavit with details on former Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar's connection with the Saradha chit fund scam and the alleged contempt committed by the state police. The CBI had alleged that Kumar had connived to tamper with call data records to help senior leaders accused in the Saradha and Rose Valley ponzi scams.
Terror financing case: I-T Department searches premises of chief of Kashmir's prominent organisation
The Income Tax Department on Wednesday said it conducted a "sensitive search" at several locations including properties owned by the head of prominent organisation linked with terror financing and anti-national activities. The searches came amid escalating tension between India and Pakistan.
'Pakistan and its media happy with Opposition parties' joint statement,' says Prakash Javadekar
The Centre on Wednesday criticised the Opposition parties who had said they were anguished over its "blatant politicisation" of the sacrifices made by Armed Forces. Leaders of 21 political parties who attended a meeting at Parliament on Wednesday issued a joint statement condemning the Pulwama suicide attack and lauding the Indian air strikes against a terror camp across the border on Tuesday.
Delhi Metro issues red alert amid tensions between India and Pakistan
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Wednesday issued a red alert for its entire network following advice from security agencies amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan. The metro covers 327 km with 236 stations in Delhi and its vicinity.
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 James Arnold Taylor – Johnny Test
 Trevor Devall – Dukey
 Emily Tennant – Mary Test
 Maryke Hendrikse – Susan Test
 Ian James Corlett – Hugh Test
 Kathleen Barr – Lila Test
 Andrew Francis – Gil

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 Nick Atkinson – Johnny Test
 Leo Hallerstam – Dukey
 Mikaela Tidermark Nelson – Mary
 Siri Alltärrus – Susan

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News Famous mouth: Even if Kobe returns to the Lakers, he can't get rid of the bad team
Famous mouth: Even if Kobe returns to the Lakers, he can't get rid of the bad team
[Guide] The famous mouth Barkley looked down on the prospects of the Lakers again when he was a guest on the radio show, thinking that the Lakers are bad no matter whether they have Kobe or not, no matter what
It's not a good team to play.
Before that, he also publicly stated that he was not optimistic about the prospect of Kobe's comeback, and the Lakers were "finished".
Forecast Lakers vs. Kings Kobe Bryant and Farmar are absent
Kobe's family does not want to hold a memorial service!Irving pays tribute to his idol, Vogel: The Lakers have a day off!
On December 12th, , before the start of the season, Barkley predicted that the Los Angeles Lakers would not be able to win the championship at all, even if Kobe Bryant came back.
He said at the time: "It's like a hurricane is coming, the windows are going to be shut. The Lakers are done. I love Kobe, he's going to come back, he's going to be great. But man, the Lakers
The team is over."
Kobe has now returned for two games. Recently, Barkley expressed his views again in an interview. He said, "Even if the Lakers have Kobe, they are still a bad team. They were not a good team in the first place, and they will not become one.
Good team."
Barkley not only predicted the fate of the Lakers, but also guessed Kobe's return status. He said that Kobe would never be able to return to his previous dominant level.
He once said: "Kobe can still be a good player after his comeback, and he may also be able to enter the All-Star, because the fans will vote for him. But he can't become a dominant player again."
In Kobe's comeback first game, he only scored 9 points, but also made 8 turnovers.
In the second game against the Suns, his performance began to pick up. Although he did not lead the team to win in the end, he scored 20 points, and also staged dunks and iconic fadeaway jumpers in the game.
No matter how others comment on him or question the team, he still has full confidence in the future. He believes that he will play better and better.
The surprising defensive expert Caspi is better than Durant
Kidd angrily reprimanded Frank for being rude in front of everyone
George: Westbrook supports my decision
Ingram will be back in the game against the Timberwolves tomorrow
Finny-Smith and Josh Green are expected to return to the Eagles tomorrow
Sohan: I like to show presumptuousness when competing with opponents. I know that the rookie wall will be ready
Bismack Biyombo
Guangsha's insider general is about to leave the team and is favored by many teams. The Liaoning men's basketball team may become the biggest dark horse
Awe-inspiring! Why did Rivers stay with the Rockets even with a basic salary? His answer was touching
Team market value, Warriors 3.5 billion ranks third, second 3.8 billion, the first is the league belly
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The mission of Aidan Medical Products is to provide opportunities for healthcare organizations to reach their diversity goals with minority owned businesses. Our product line includes glove dispensers, face mask dispensers, organizers, organizational products, carts, patient transport products, safety products, apparel dispensers, medication storage, suture storage and signage products. Aidan's in-house design team and quick prototype ability will turn your idea into a custom product solution.
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Aidan Medical Products supplies our customers with the highest quality healthcare products while providing opportunities for these organizations to reach their diversity goals with Minority Woman owned businesses. We are a distributor of high quality medical supplies to hospitals, surgery centers, outpatient clinics, dental offices, home health care providers, physicians and many others.
Our product line includes medical gloves & dispensers, face masks & dispensers, organizers, organizational products, carts, patient transport products, safety products, apparel dispensers, medication storage, suture storage and signage products. Aidan's in-house design team and quick prototype ability can turn your idea into a custom product solution.
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Patti Mclaughlin is an Evolutionary Astrologer, studied with Evolutionary Astrologer Instructor Maurice Fernandez. She has read Tarot for over 30 years. Patti is also an International Educator and Developer, traveling to over 80 countries. She received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Economy from the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, and a Masters of Arts (MA) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the School for International Training in Battleboro, Vermont.


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Every group participating in the event contributes in some way, whether by making a financial contribution, sponsoring a booth, or donating goods or services. This year we've added the new 'Neighbor' sponsorship level to make it even easier for Watsonville-based businesses and nonprofits to get involved. Small donations and in-kind contributions are also accepted, so please contact us to discuss designing a sponsorship that works for your resources and needs!
do I have to pay for a booth?
Open Streets is a collaboration of donations, sponsorships, and volunteers. We ask that each and every group wishing to have a presence at the event contribute in some way. It's how we're able to keep the movement going.
Our unique sponsor level structure was created to help small local businesses and non-profit groups be a part of Open Streets; we are happy to arrange in-kind, volunteer hours, or combined cash/in-kind sponsorship with you one-on-one. Contact us to discuss the possibilities.


A folding chair is a convenient and useful item. The small size, the ability to easily transport it at the expense of folding design make it a necessary thing. Making such a product is also not so difficult.
Layout of the folding chair.
What you need to know about the design?
The simplest is the usual design, which is a seat, a small back and legs in the amount of four . You can do without making the back, which will simplify the already simple design.
However, this element is part of the comfort for sitting on a chair, so you should decide whether you need such a device or not.
Height and weight of a person are of great importance. If the chair with his own hands will be made for the child, then its design should be well cleaned so that the child does not hurt further. In addition, you should select environmentally friendly materials. The chair itself will fully support the child, the main thing is to fasten all the details tightly.
As for the highchair for an adult, in this case the structure must be strong enough to support the person. For the same reason, hardwood should be selected; very dense plywood can be used.
Figure 1. Drawing of a folding chair.
It is recommended to take as a basis a person who has an average physique. After that, it remains only to correct the basic design parameters.
Nevertheless, the peculiarity of the manufacture of such furniture independently provides an opportunity to make a chair that would suit exactly the manufacturer's complexion. This concerns not only the allowable weight that the chair can withstand with its own hands, but also its height and width. This diagram shows a chair that has classic dimensions (Fig. 1).
What is needed for manufacturing?
30 screws of 4x15 mm.
Door hinges in the amount of 2 pieces, dimensions - 60x20 mm.
Bars for legs 4 pieces 100x2,5x4 cm.
Bars for frame 4 pieces 40x2,5x4 cm.
The panel is made of wood, necessary for the base. Dimensions - 40x50x4 cm.
You can further paint the finished high chair with your own hands. In this regard, should be guided by their choice. For a highchair, rainbow colors will work well, for an adult - more acceptable in this case. In addition, it will be enough to cover in this case the product with ordinary varnish, which will be enough.
Tools for making a folding chair.
The standard design is a portable easel. The basis is represented by two frames, which are used as bars.
This allows you to move elements, with the result that the chair can be disassembled and assembled back.
The first step is to connect the bars having a length of 100 cm and 40 cm to each other, which will require flat corners and screws. The result is two frames with a size of 40x100 cm. The connection of the short part is carried out using two hinges from the door, which also requires self-tapping screws. It should be noted that the loops should be placed at the same distance from the edge. The result is two folding frames.
Next, along the edge of the seat, fix the corners in the bottom. It should be noted that the ears of the corners should look down, while the holes - in the direction of the edges located on the side. After that, you need to fix the seat at a suitable height, which is measured from the floor surface. The seat is fixed in the rear frame, its clearance. In the front lumen you need to position the screws so that a part of them protrudes.
If the seat is located 51 cm from the floor, the screws must be placed at 52 cm from the floor. This results from the fact that in the opened position the seat will be based on these elements.
Thus, the high chair is ready with your own hands. The only thing that the master needs to do is to process the product. It is necessary to clean the parts of the chair to eliminate irregularities. After that, it is recommended to sand the product and then apply paint on it. If the high chair was made from purchased blanks, then it is necessary to coat the structure with varnish.
How to make furniture yourself. What are the materials, and what is their difference? Variants of the drawings, as well as a description of the manufacture of an example.What else do you need to know when deciding to do this kind of work?


Franck Huynh limped from early position and Pavlos Xanthopoulos raised to 700 from late position. When the player on the button and both blinds folded their hand Huynh called.
The flop came down :::Qc:::3d:::Kc and Huynh check-called a bet of 700 from his Greek opponent. The :::Th was added to the board and Huynh check-called another bet. This time the bet was 2,100 and they saw the :::5s river complete the board.
Huynh checked again, only to see Xanthopoulos bet out 7,500 this time. Huynh took his time to think over his decision but eventually let go of his hand.


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    class CompassScssTemplate < ::Middleman::Renderers::Sass::ScssPlusCSSFilenameTemplate
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        super.merge(::Compass.configuration.to_sass_engine_options)
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end


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Q: SSRS Report in CRM 4 IFrame not updating I am using CRM 4 and have uploaded an ssrs report into the reports area. I published this for external use and in one of the entites have an iFrame that points to this published report.
This all works well, the problem is that if I update some of the info that the report is looking at and refresh the page the report doesn't update.
In fact I need to close the browser and re-open it of the report to refresh. This only happens in the iFrame, if I re-run the report in the reports section it updates correctly.
I assume this is because the info is cached somewhere. Does anybody know if there is a way to force CRM/SSRS to get the info afresh every time?
Thanks,
Neil

A: You need to add an additional parameter to the end of the URL used as the IFRAME source
&rs:ClearSession=true

This forces a refresh of the report each time it is accessed.

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A blockchain solution, as many people have observed, is best suited to environments where there are a great many actors, some of whom may be untrustworthy. Such as, for example, financial services markets.
A British man, Mr Navinder Singh Sarao has been arrested, and faces extradition to the United States, accused of market manipulation, allegedly causing a 1,000 point drop in the Dow Jones index in 45 minutes and leading to personal enrichment to the tune of $40 million from that and similar incidents. Mr Sarao is a lone trader and was apprehended in his parents' modest semi-detached house near Heathrow. He lives in a similar house across the street.
1. Multiple sell offers were placed on the futures market, at low prices, which the offerer had no intention (and, in all probability, not the means) of fulfilling.
2. The primary market in the affected stocks, and perhaps others, fell on the flood of offers.
3. The manipulator bought shares at the depressed prices.
4. He withdrew the futures offers.
5. The primary market recovered and the manipulator sold his shares at a profit.
• When someone in London manipulates a market centred on New York, in what criminal jurisdiction is he acting?
• To what extent does this kind of behaviour occur: is it possible that major market players indulge in such manipulations but at a more discreet level?
I'm by no means an expert in the particular markets involved here. But I do know that if I see my neighbour repeatedly put his house on the market, but never actually sell it, then he's not exactly serious. If he puts it on the market for a first time, owning a similar property, and as a middle-class Englishman, I'm naturally interested in the price. If that price is wildly high, compared to actual recent deals for similar houses that are recorded on the publically available land registry database, then I'll conclude that, as for a second marriage, my neighbour is suffering from the triumph of hope over experience. It's about him, not the property and not the market. Similarly, if the price is unusually low, I'll conclude that he has fallen upon hard times and is need of ready cash, rather than immediately supposing that conditions are such that there is a surfeit of such sellers that will move the market.
If another neighbour, who drives a modest car, suddenly auctions Bentleys I've never seen on eBay, my suspicions would be aroused. And so on and so on. What's important in these examples, and applicable to wider markets, is not the absolute knowledge of a person's identity, but of his standing and track record.
If somebody offers to sell stocks at a future date, he is more credible if it can be demonstrated that he actually owns them; or somewhat more credible if it can be demonstrated he has borrowed them. If neither of those can be demonstrated, then evidence that he owns lots of other stuff, to a much higher value than what he has offered, would be reassuring. Likewise, evidence that a reasonable proportion of his offers has been fulfilled.
How might any of that be achieved? One way would be for exchanges, registrars and so on to maintain central databases of offers, trades and holdings, query-able in realtime by market participants. That would raise a number of difficulties: for example, queries could place a massive strain on centralised systems, which might also present attractive targets to hackers working on behalf of manipulators.
An alternative approach could be to implement distributed ledgers using the blockchain technology that underpins BitCoin, or a variant thereof. There would be no single point of failure, and manipulation of the record is, for all practical purposes, impossible once a chain acquires new links (new offers, new transactions, new holdings, etc) and is widely replicated. For an in-depth view of how the blockchain can provide for efficient and secure financial transactions, beyond crypto-currencies, register for the excellent Payments Forward event on 11th May in London and listen to our very own Steve Pannifer demystify the technology before the panel session featuring Lloyds Banking Group, Eris Industries and others.
To me, it is incredible, and seriously worrying, that major players in the financial markets underpinning our economic system are not alert to basic warning signals that any dealer in second-hand goods would recognise. Indeed, they cannot be, given the current infrastructure. Fortunately, technology is at hand to rectify that. Who will move?


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Extraterrestrials: Closer Than We Think?
Sue Pratt
I live in a suburb of New Orleans and have been writing here off and on for 10 years. I have been married 53 years to the same crazy guy.
Where It Happened
I grew up in rural Arkansas. We had a farm for as a long as I remember. For a 12-year-old boy, I did a lot of work. I never knew anything different, though, so it didn't matter much. I got up at 5:30 every morning to help milk cows on our diary farm and feed the other animals. We usually got to eat breakfast around 8:00. One of the men who worked on our farm was named Pepper. I never knew exactly how old Pepper was. He wandered up at the farm when I was about 8 years old. I remember liking him immediately because he shook hands with me instead of tousling my hair or patting me on the head as many adults did. Sometimes I sat with him as we both ate our lunches when we were working, repairing the fences. It was bitter cold in the winter in rural Arkansas. Many don't realize how cold Arkansas can get. We would stomp our feet and leave our gloves on while we ate. We both liked the cows. We liked them a lot. Cows are smart, contrary to what a lot of people think. They knew Pepper and I liked them and always stayed as close to us as they could. One of the hands, a man named Dieter that I didn't like a bit, kicked a cow one day. I'll never forget Pepper walking over to him, taking his arm and saying very quietly, not raising his voice at all, "Do that again, and you will regret it." Dieter was bad news and I was worried for Pepper. They stood there looking at each other for a long time and it was Dieter who finally walked away. Pepper was a smaller man than Dieter and older, from what I could tell by looking at him, but something about him made Dieter back down.
My dad always wondered about Pepper's past. He told me he offered Pepper a job as manager of the ranch and Pepper said no, he'd just keep being a hand. He told my dad he might decide to move on one day and didn't want to leave him in a bind. A friend of my dad's from Mississippi who was passing through one summer and met Pepper told my dad he sure looked a lot like a sheriff he knew once. He said the sheriff was the best lawman he ever knew. He didn't know what happened to him, no one did. He just left the city in Mississippi where he was a sheriff. Gave his two weeks' notice and left. His name wasn't Pepper Martin, though. My dad asked Pepper about it and he laughed and said, "Me, a lawman?" But like my dad said, "He never said it wasn't him."
One winter, beginning right after Thanksgiving, the cows began to disappear. Not a whole lot of them, just one every week or two. We thought they were getting some kind of sickness and dying from it, but we never could find any carcasses after they died. Pepper was pretty quiet on the whole subject. When my dad asked him what he thought, he just said, "Not sure, Mr. Jamison."
Winter sunsets are the best in Arkansas and I guess almost everywhere. It's something about the atmosphere, I suppose. One day in December the year I'm talking about, Pepper and I were sitting on the porch of the camp house where he lived, drinking some coffee and watching the sunset. Pepper said, "It's funny, kid, I've been all over the country and the sun sets the same no matter where you are."
"What place did you like the best, Pepper?" I was always wanting to hear about other states and especially other countries.
"I think I like Canada best of all the places I've ever been. It's clean, the people are friendly but not nosy. A lot of the folks up in the northern part are Indians. I saw some beautiful sights up there, especially in Saskatchewan. One night I was walking back from a deer stand and I saw a snow owl. It's hard to even try to describe something that beautiful. That's some amazing country and I got on well with the Metis people who live there. I lived in a little settlement called Green Lake for a few years. I saw something there one night that I never told anyone about. I'll tell you one of these days, but it's getting dark tonight and I'm getting hungry. It's a long story." Pepper slung out the dregs of his coffee, said goodnight and headed into the camp house. I headed for home, wondering what his story was about and why he would tell me before anyone else. This was about three or four years after Pepper came to work for us, so I was only 11 or 12.
Diminishing Herd
The cows continued to disappear, not in large numbers, just one every week or so. And when I say "disappear," I don't mean die. We never found a body. I heard some of the hands saying the coyotes were killing them and the buzzards were eating what they left of them. That just didn't make sense to me. Of course, it happened all the time, but that process took time. Buzzards took off small chunks of the meat at a time, nothing like what was left over from a coyote kill. It took weeks for buzzards to get rid of something like that. I did notice that Pepper didn't say anything and that he had become quiet during the last week or so and stayed more to himself.
One day as we broke up after work, Pepper called me aside. "Remember I told you about what I saw up in Canada?" I nodded. I was still waiting to be told that story, to be the first who heard it. "Well, if you can meet me out here tonight, I'll show you the same thing happening right here. But don't get caught coming out. I don't want anyone following us. And this is just between you and me. You can't open your mouth about it to anyone. You promise?"
Pepper held out his hand in a fist with the thumb raised. I grabbed the thumb and squeezed. I knew how to keep my mouth shut. "Ten o'clock," he said as he walked toward the camp house and I started home. The creek was frozen and hadn't thawed in days. I was thinking about how cold I would get coming out to meet him. We seldom had cold spells that lasted this long.
Witnessing the Impossible
As I eased out of the backdoor of my house at five to 10:00, I was a little apprehensive. I kept thinking: What if Pepper is involved in some kind of cattle rustling thing? But I knew that wasn't true. Pepper wouldn't be part of something like that. The thing that made me the most apprehensive is that Pepper seemed to be a little scared himself. I walked around to the front of the house and saw that Pepper was already out, waiting for me at the tree line. There was a pasture on the east side of the farm where we kept about 25 head of cattle and I assumed that's where we were going. It was about a half mile walk from where we were. We both were dressed for the weather. Pepper wore a knit cap pulled almost over his eyes and down over his ears and an old heavy coat with every button buttoned, far up under his chin. I had on pretty much the same except a cap with knitted muffs for my ears that my mom made. We both wore work boots. I had on two pairs of pure wool socks, but I could still feel my feet getting cold. We both had on gloves, but my hands were cold as hell. Pepper said it was 16 degrees.
He began to walk and I followed. Everywhere around us, the night critters were carrying on. I could hear the big ol' owl that lived along this path hooting. A possum waddled across the road in front of us. Pepper walked at a moderate pace, not slow, not fast. We were up and down hills and I was huffing and puffing when we got there. Pepper never seemed to get tired. Eventually we came to the edge of the a large clearing. I had always liked the area and had brought picnics here with my mom. The dirt was slightly raised in the middle and was a different texture than the dirt surrounding it. Of course it has long since grown up, trees everywhere, the raised portion hardly noticeable. Pepper said, "Here." He pulled over a log and sat down, several feet back from the pasture. "Sit down, Ardis." And I did. I didn't ask a lot of questions because I was too cold. After ten minutes, I said, "What are we waiting for, Pepper?"
"You'll know when you see it, believe me. I don't think it will be long now." Our breath as we spoke made smoke in the air. My feet were chunks of ice and I could feel my butt going numb on the log. I began to hear something a long way off. "What's that?"
Pepper said, "Just wait, you'll see."
It sounded like a freight train, very far away from us, though, but then suddenly it was closer and then I realized it wasn't a train, on the ground, but was in the air and I just wasn't sure what it was. I know it covered almost half of that pasture, which was three times the length of a football field. It had lights coming out almost every inch of it, all of them solid, not blinking. I had decided at this point that I was dreaming and pinched my arm pretty hard, which just hurt, nothing else. "What the hell, Pepper? "
"Be quiet, Ardis. Just watch." And I did. The "thing" -- and it wasn't shaped like a saucer at all, by the way, but a triangle with rounded edges -- hovered 8 to 10 feet over the ground. It sat there for about five solid minutes while I prayed and laughed and cried, in that order. Finally, out of the dark, one of the cows walked over to the center of the craft. (I call it "craft" for lack of anything better.) The cow stood very still for about two minutes, then something opened up and the cow was slowly raised up into the craft. I didn't see any ropes or anything. It just lifted up on its own. "Pepper, they're stealing our cows."
"Be quiet, boy, or they might decide to steal you!" Pepper seemed a little awed, a little scared and determined to stay and watch the whole incident play out. We sat there for another five or ten minutes. I had to pee and it was all I could do to sit still, not to mention I was scared out of my wits. Pepper kept his hand on my arm the whole time, squeezing it now and then.
Grazing in a More Perfect World!
Good-Bye
As we sat there, the opening in the craft was visible again. A ladder was sent down to the ground and a figure descended it. Whatever, whoever it was was wearing a light-colored robe with a hood and carrying a cane of some sort. It walked a few feet in our direction and I fought an urge to run so strong it had to be cellular and remembered from the days of cave men and women. Pepper squeezed my arm. The figure stood looking at us. Now, I know a person couldn't have seen us because we were pretty far back from the pasture and behind a lot of dry grass, but I knew this figure, whatever or whoever it was, did see us clearly. I felt Pepper was the one being evaluated and that he passed the test. The figure nodded once in our direction, walked slowly back to the craft, up the ladder, and after he entered the opening, it closed. The craft begin to slowly lift, quietly this time, without the train-like rumble we heard before. When it got above the tree line, it slowly, quietly slipped across the sky. and the lights disappeared. We heard the roar again that we had heard when it first came.
We walked back in silence. The only thing I asked Pepper was, "Was that the same thing you saw in Canada?"
"Yep," he answered.
When we got to the camp house, he admonished, "Remember your promise, Ardis."
"Okay. I won't tell."
And I didn't. Pepper worked for us for eight more years, until a couple of years after I had left the farm and gone off to college. During those eight years, we never spoke of that night and what we saw. Only once, Pepper gave me a folded up newspaper and inside was a story of a couple in Fort Smith that had seen a triangular-shaped craft hovering over their cattle ranch. My dad said Pepper told him he was going back to Canada, that he was restless and wanted something different. I was a little hurt that he didn't tell me good-bye, but I got a package from him a couple years after he left with a National Geographic in it. It contained a series of pictures by a photographer named Pepper Martin who lived in Green Lake, Canada. The story I've told here happened in 1950. I was 12 years old. I am 89 years old now. I am sure that Pepper is long gone and that he would forgive me for finally breaking the promise I made all those years ago. I don't want to die without letting others know that extraterrestrials absolutely do exist and that one of them understood, without uttering a word, that Pepper was a good man and he knew that they meant no harm and wouldn't hurt the cows and that he wouldn't tell about them and have the government hunt them down and kill them or worse and that he wouldn't let me tell either. He knew all that about Pepper with just a glance and a quiet moment. And for all those years, I didn't tell -- until now.
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Q: Why Heroku worker has 100% dyno load? I have this worker process in Heroku, which does some cleaning. It runs every two hours and listens to Heroku terminate signals. It works fine, but I'm seeing 100% dyno load all the time.
My question is: How to run this kind of worker process in Heroku without 100% dyno load? The loop causes the dyno load, but what to use instead of the infinite loop?
# Scheduler here
cleanup = Rufus::Scheduler.new
cleanup.cron '* */2 * * *' do
  do_some_cleaning
end

# Signal trapping
Signal.trap("TERM") {
  terminate = true
  shut_down
  exit 0
}

# Infinite loop

while terminate == false
end

A: It's because you're doing an infinite loop with no sleep cycles. This means you're basically telling the CPU that every single cycle you should be immediately executing a loop condition.
This will quickly use up your CPU.
Instead, try throwing a sleep statement into your infinite loop -- this will pause execution and bring your usage down to 0% =)
while terminate == false
  sleep 1
end

A: I should have thought about it sooner. You can actually simply join rufus-scheduler's loop:
cleanup_scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.new
cleanup_scheduler.cron '* */2 * * *' do
  do_some_cleaning
end

Signal.trap('TERM') do
  shut_down
  exit 0
end

cleanup_scheduler.join

That joins rufus-scheduler scheduling thread and is pseudo equivalent to:
while !terminated
  sleep 0.3
  trigger_schedules_if_any
end


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Ben Platt performing "Somewhere" at the 2018 Grammys.
By Colin Carman on	 July 1, 2019
Sing to Me Instead
Songs by Ben Platt
ONLY ONCE in my twenty years of moonlighting as a music critic have I felt compelled to come out as not entirely impartial when it comes to a musician under review. At the start, I should go "open kimono" about my obsessive enthusiasm for singer Ben Platt. Though Platt first appeared on screen as the geeky magician in the first two "Pitch Perfect" films, I really only took notice of him after I saw the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen last year in Denver. Platt was not in the cast, but he originated the role of the neurotic teenager Evan Hansen and, joining the show's cultish fan-base, I followed the production to L.A. The show never fails to captivate audience members, some of whom see Dear Evan Hansen as a way to let their freak-flags fly. For example, a transman in one of my college classes proudly displayed his novelization of the musical on his desk all semester long.
Colin Carman, Ph.D., is the author of The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment(Routledge).
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THIS YEAR marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, but not the one you have in mind. Edmond Rostand's hit play of 1897 invented an ultra-Romantic Cyrano, a magniloquent swashbuckler with a promontory of a nose. Hopelessly in love with his cousin Roxane, he sacrifices himself so she may wed the man she loves, ghost-writing his rival's amorous declarations. This Cyrano—master duelist, improvisatory poet, independent spirit—has entered the popular imagination and spawned scores of imitations.
The G&LR talks with the author of The Sexuality of History, Susan S. Lanser, professor emerita of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University, and a specialist in 18th-century European literature, with a focus on women writers and issues related to gender and sexuality.
Briefe über den Galantieren von Berlin, a travelogue by an anonymous Austrian officer published in Vienna in 1782, might make it into such an anthology, albeit in a different section. For this eyewitness account of sexual mores observed during a sojourn of fifteen months in Berlin is far from lyrical in its praise.
Rev. William Bentley's diaries constitute a record of life in Salem between 1784 and 1814. The fact that Gibaut came to his attention, first as protégé and later as a close friend and companion—plus his artfully revealing references to Gibaut's unusual "habits"—is thus of some note.


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Q: Access to the private key in Android ICS certificate storage On Android ICS phone I have imported the PKCS#12 file containing private key and certificate.
Then i run
KeyChain.choosePrivateKeyAlias(this, this, new String[] { "RSA" }, null, null, -1, null);

In the certificate selection dialog i choose the one just installed.
In the 'alias' callback i do the following:
public void alias(final String alias) {
...
protected Boolean[] doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
...
PrivateKey pk = KeyChain.getPrivateKey(ctx, alias);
Log.d(TAG, "EncodedPrivateKey: " + pk.toString());

And it gives me the full content of the private key.
Does it mean that any application, once allowed by user (in the cert. selection dialog), can read any private key installed from .pfx file?
Is the following scenario possible by standard Android means - "administrator" installing .pfx file with the cert.+private key and the permissions to read it are limited to the one specific app?


"Walk With John" in Canberra on Thursday, 30 November 2017 for Polio Survivors!
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TVS Motor Company will re-launch electric scooters in India again. TVS will launch the Scooty Teenz and plans to launch new products. The company is currently carrying out test runs of about 50 electric scooters across various towns in the country. TVS will launch electric scooters which will run on lead acid batteries initially. The products will be manufactured in the Mysore facility.
TVS had launched electric scooterette 'Scooty Teenz Electric' in April 2008 and stopped the production in May 2009 as it received a lukewarm response from the market. The company had also shelved its plans to launch electric three-wheelers.
With the budget for 2011-12 proposed to set up a National Mission for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles to encourage manufacturing and selling of alternative fuel-based vehicles.
It also proposed to cut excise duty on development and manufacturing of hybrid vehicle kits to 5 per cent from the existing 10 per cent, besides fully exempting customs and counter-vailing duty on import of special hybrid parts.
In November last year, the government had announced a Rs 95 crore incentive package for the electric vehicle makers for the remaining part of the 11th plan.


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Prime landmark office development in Belfast launched at international property investment conference
The unveiling of a prime landmark Grade A office development in the heart of Belfast city centre was launched today by property developer Killultagh Estates at MIPIM, the world's largest property investment conference.
'The Mercantile' will occupy the prominent site at 5 Donegall Square South in Belfast city centre, and will comprise 73,000 sq ft (NIA) of Grade A office accommodation across eight upper floors.
There is a further 10,000 sq ft available on the ground and lower ground floors which would be suitable for restaurant and leisure space
Construction commenced in January this year, with target completion set for Q3 2020.
Brendan Boyd, Director at Killultagh Estates, commented: "We are thrilled to launch our new scheme on an international platform at MIPIM 2019.
"The Mercantile is a great example of high-end, modern Grade A office accommodation, and given its prime city centre location, it will provide an unrivalled occupier experience."
Having become the first developer in Northern Ireland to secure a gold-level WiredScore rating for The Linenhall building in Belfast city centre, The Mercantile is poised to become the first development in Northern Ireland to achieve a platinum-level WiredScore rating, as well as being one of the very few developments targeting BREEAM 'Excellent' rating.
Mr. Boyd continued: "Achieving platinum Wiredscore and BREEAM 'Excellent' certification demonstrates our willingness to respond to both local and international office occupier demands and needs, and sets a benchmark across other developments throughout the city."
Commercial property agencies Colliers International and Lambert Smith Hampton are joint letting agents on the development.
Ian Duddy, Director at Colliers International, added: "The commencement of construction of The Mercantile is great news for Belfast. The absence of speculative office development in the city has created a supply side shortage of office space, and Killultagh Estates' well conceived development plan will undoubtedly be well received by the market.
"The strength of the commercial location and attention to detail in design has already attracted significant interest from both local and international occupiers who are seeking to make a statement about their presence in Belfast."
CGI of 'The Mercantile' at 5 Donegall Square South, Belfast city centre
Brendan Boyd, Director at Killultagh Estates


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Action must follow apologies from Manitoba public figures, experts say
Action must follow apologies from Manitoba public figures, experts say's Profile
Manitobans have heard a number of apologies from public officials in recent weeks.
On Tuesday, Premier Brian Pallister said he felt sorry for the misunderstanding caused by his comments on July 7 — after protesters toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth at the legislature — that settlers in Canada "didn't come here to destroy anything, they came here to build."
On the same day as Pallister's apology, newly appointed Indigenous Reconciliation Minister Alan Lagimodiere came out and labelled residential schools a tool of genocide, after initially defending the people who ran them.
And the archbishop of St. Boniface apologized on behalf of the Catholic Church after a priest accused residential school survivors of lying about abuse.
The public response to recent apologies from Manitoba political and religious figures has varied. Judging the value of an apology often depends as much on what comes after as the words themselves, said Brandon University political science professor Kelly Saunders.
"You want some kind of reconciliation," she said. "You need to repair that relationship, that breach. And so that's more than just saying 'I'm sorry,' that is making amends."
3 main components
A good apology has three main components, according to Neil McArthur, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.
"We want to feel like the apology is going to actually lead to some kind of change," he said.
That means that first, the individual must show they understand why something they did was wrong or caused harm. They must then take responsibility for actually having done the thing they are apologizing for.
Finally, the person must commit to follow up their apology with some kind of concrete action.
By those standards, Pallister's apology at a news conference earlier this week may fall short, said Molly Howes, a clinical psychologist based in Boston and the author of the book A Good Apology: Four Steps to Making It Right.
"I feel awful about the reaction and the misunderstanding I created with my comments," Pallster said.
He then said he was trying to pay tribute to the people — Indigenous and non-Indigenous — who've built families and communities in Canada.
Pallister's apology fails because it focuses on the reaction of others rather than his own words, Howes said.
"It's sort of blaming somebody else for misunderstanding," she said.
It also fails because he waited nearly a month after his original comments to offer an apology, and then followed it up by a defence of his original intentions, said Saunders.
"A meaningful apology has to be sincere. It can't be equivocal."
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas says Premier Brian Pallister's apology doesn't go far enough. (CBC)
Indigenous leaders responding to Pallister's apology indicate they share that assessment.
"I would actually expect a better apology than saying, 'Sorry, I was misrepresented.' That's not really an apology," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas.
Political conundrum
By contrast, Saunders said Lagimodiere's apology and subsequent actions have been more meaningful.
On Wednesday, Lagimodiere repeated sentiments he first expressed the day before, saying the residential school system "wasn't just cultural genocide."
The plan of Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, "was to eliminate Indigenous people from Canada. And that, to me, is genocide," he said.
After the outcry following his original statements, which suggested residential schools were started with good intentions, Lagimodiere said he would reach out to Indigenous leaders in Manitoba in an effort to repair the damage his words had caused.
"He's committed to working and listening to Indigenous leaders and elders and trying to learn from them and not repeat the same mistakes," she said.
Lagimodiere faces a conundrum, however, as a politician attempting to make amends, said McArthur.
"I think the issue of sincerity will arise, because it does seem like he's only motivated to make those statements because of the criticism he's received," he said.
"So I think that his future statements and his future actions will probably be judged in that context."
Better examples
Of the three high-profile public apologies in Manitoba in recent weeks, the one from Archbishop Albert LeGatt may have been the best, said Saunders.
LeGatt apologized after a sermon by St. Boniface priest Rhéal Forest, in which he accused residential school survivors of lying about being sexually abused to receive more money in settlements with the federal government.
"I wish to say very, very clearly I, and I hope more and more people, come to that place of completely disavowing that kind of thinking," LeGatt said, describing Forest's comments as "racism."
Speaking as forcefully as LeGatt did took courage, Saunders said.
"We know that the Catholic Church as an institution has not been as perhaps apologetic and forthcoming on this issue as they should be."
Leaders in other countries around the world have shown what meaningful apologies can look like, Howes said.
Last Sunday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern participated in a ceremony with members of the Pacific Island community. The ceremony formed part of an apology for a crackdown by the New Zealand government that targeted Pasifika people for deportation starting in the mid-1970s.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, centre, is covered during a ceremony in Auckland on Sunday, Aug. 1, to formally apologize for a racially charged part of the nation's history known as the Dawn Raids, when the Pasifika people were targeted for deportation during aggressive home raids by authorities. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP)
The government of Germany recently acknowledged a genocide committed in Namibia, beginning in 1904, in what was then known as German South West Africa.
The ultimate test of an apology, Howes said, is whether or not the individual repeats the mistake — and Manitobans will have to wait to see how public officials meet that test.
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Ultra-LEAF™ Purified anti-mouse CD117 (c-kit) Antibody
ACK2 (See other available formats)
c-KIT, Stem Cell Factor Receptor (SCFR)
C57BL/6 mouse bone marrow cells stained with ACK2 PE and CD11b (M1/70) FITC
135114 1 mg £359.00
135132 25 mg £1368.00
CD117 is a 145 kD immunoglobulin superfamily member, also known as c-Kit and stem cell factor receptor (SCFR). It is a transmembrane tyrosine-kinase receptor that binds the c-Kit ligand (also known as steel factor, stem cell factor, and mast cell growth factor). CD117 is expressed on hematopoietic stem cells (including multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, progenitors committed to myeloid and/or erythroid lineages, and T and B cell precursors), mast cells, and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. CD117 interaction with its ligand is critical for the development of hematopoietic stem cells.
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Each lot of this antibody is quality control tested by immunofluorescent staining with flow cytometric analysis. For flow cytometric staining, the suggested use of this reagent is ≤0.25 µg per million cells in 100 µl volume or 100 µl of whole blood. It is recommended that the reagent be titrated for optimal performance for each application.
Injection of ACK2 in mice of NOD genetic background is not recommended as mice develop immediate anaphylaxis, resulting in animal death. Treatment is possible with co-injection of Benadryl.3
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Australian Volunteers International recruits permanent residents of Australia who wish to volunteer overseas or in remote regions of Australia for a variety of projects.
Founded even before the U.S. Peace Corps and the British Volunteer Service Organisation, Australian Volunteers International (AVI) cooperates with local organizations overseas and within remote Australia, which request volunteers from AVI.
Short-listed applicants interview with an AVI representative. Participants can choose among 70 new programs in Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and Africa and serve for two years.
Volunteers need to have the professional skills requested by the project they undertake, must be at least age 18 (there is no upper age limit), and permanent residents of Australia.
The regular AVI program covers most expenses, including airfare, medical insurance, and accommodation. It also provides a weekly allowance to each volunteer. To adapt to another country, AVI provides information sessions, language training, and reading materials to participants for easing their adjustment to the new workplace and culture.
Most AVI assignments last for two years to give time to the volunteer for adjusting to the new culture and completing the project. AVI works with an agency that offers a 24-hour medical assistance in each country, and assists the volunteer's evacuation if a political crisis arises within the country.
You can also visit to website for its interesting quizzes to expand your knowledge on different countries.
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