According to psychologists, we 'fully' reach adulthood at 25. So how should we care for our skin, as we chop and change between products designed for young adults and treatments that slow down the skin-ageing clock?
Cleansing is a skincare golden rule, no matter what age we are! Cleansing before bed removes all the grime that's built up during the day (pollution, smoke, dust, make up), whilst a morning cleanse will remove impurities that accumulate overnight (toxins, sebum...). Go for products suited to your skin type: a milk for dry skin, micellar water for oily skin and a cleansing gel for combination skin. Whatever you do, make sure your cleanser is right for your skin or you could end up with spots or blackheads.
Give your skin a twice-weekly scrub. It'll boost your micro-circulation to give you a fresh-faced glow and help your skin to soak up the active ingredients in your moisturiser. Fruit acids, enzymes, grains - the choice is there! Once your skin is squeaky clean, treat it to a green clay mask for its purifying, repairing and anti-ageing properties.
Moisturising is up there with cleansing! Fortunately, at 25 we don't need to bring out the heavy artillery. A moisturiser (serum, cream, mask) will leave your skin supple and radiant, whilst keeping the wrinkles at bay. And despite what you may have heard, moisturising won't give you a greasy shine: nowadays the active ingredients in lighter creams balance sebum levels, leaving our complexions matt and blemish-free. To round off, apply an eye contour cream to prevent the early appearance of crow's feet.
We all love to party! Downing a few glasses and sneaking in a couple of cigarettes at the pub, basking on a beach, hitting a club and ending the evening with a kebab in hand... Sadly, going on the razzle can wreak havoc with our skin. Booze dehydrates our skin and ciggies increase wrinkles by 80%! Plus they cause spider veins to burst, leaving us with a blotchy complexion. They also cause blood vessels that nourish our skin to contract, literally starving it of essential nutrients. So it's vital we protect our skin from our fun-loving lifestyles - the sun included! To prevent red patches, sunburn and premature skin ageing, make sure you apply a day cream that contains an SPF. You'll moisturise and protect your skin in one go.
The importance of getting our beauty sleep? Our skin recovers overnight, particularly between midnight and 4am, when cell renewal peaks. Adopt a relaxing bedtime routine: a hot bath, a face mask, a cup of herbal/fruit tea. It'll help you unwind, let go of your hectic day and enjoy a good night's sleep. And if you apply a night cream, you'll help your epidermis to repair itself. Diet-wise, keep up with your 5 a day for their antioxidant goodness (raspberries, nuts, artichokes, red cabbage) and drink LOTS of water!


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Q: WPF Adding an object to ListBox with existing ItemsSource Hey I have a list box that I set the ItemsSource to be an ObservableCollection of objects from my database, and I need to add a single object at the end of this list. However I keep getting an invalid operation exception. Somehow my listbox is in use (which in my mind is a given as it is displayed and already have items inside.) Here is my code for the list box:
<ListBox x:Name="CarList" SelectionChanged="ItemSelected" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" Background="{x:Null}">
        <ListBox.ItemsPanel>
            <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                <WrapPanel FlowDirection="LeftToRight" ItemHeight="300" ItemWidth="300"/>
            </ItemsPanelTemplate>
        </ListBox.ItemsPanel>

        <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <Grid Margin="10,10">
                    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                        <RowDefinition Height="*" />
                        <RowDefinition Height="35" />
                    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <Image Grid.Row="0" Source="{Binding image_path}" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"/>
                    <Grid Grid.Row="1" Background="SteelBlue">
                        <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="3" Text="{Binding model}"/>
                        <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="3" Text="{Binding price}"/>
                    </Grid>
                </Grid>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

And I first set the ItemsSource like so:
CarList.ItemsSource = CarController.GetAllCars();

And then want to add my custom object like this:
ListBoxItem carAdd = new ListBoxItem();
carAdd.Content = new CarModel{ image_path = "/../Assets/add-512.png", id=-1};
CarList.Items.Add(carAdd);

But alas the last operation fails with this message:

Operation is not valid while ItemsSource is in use. Access and modify
  elements with ItemsControl.ItemsSource instead.

I have looked for a few other suggestions but all use strings and single bindings in their examples and thus I haven't been able to figure out what exactly to do. If anyone got a suggestion it would be much appreciated.
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Thanks.

A: You need to add the item to the items source, and the source should be observable so that the ListBox takes the new item into account:
var cars = new ObservableCollection<CarModel>(CarController.GetAllCars());
CarList.ItemsSource = cars;

...

var car = new CarModel{ image_path = "/../Assets/add-512.png", id=-1};
cars.Add(car);

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The First, Second & Third Worlds In 2016 Based on HDI
Map created by reddit user YuppieF*ckstick
The map above shows the First (Blue), Second (Yellow) and Third (Red) Worlds based on their Human Development Index (HDI) score.
"The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living."
These are further defined as:
A long and healthy life: Life expectancy at birth
Being knowledgeable: Mean years of schooling and Expected years of schooling
A decent standard of living: GNI per capita (PPP US$)
Data for the map came from Wikipedia and the United Nations. For the purpose of this map, countries in the top third are First world countries, countries in the middle third are Second world countries and countries in the bottom third are Third world countries.
While interesting, these rankings should not be taken too seriously. The concept of First, Second and Third worlds developed out of the Cold War.
The First World was basically the United States and her allies. This included richer countries such as those in Western Europe and Japan, but could also include less developed countries, such as South Africa and the Philippines.
The Second World was the Soviet Union and her allies. However, while all members of the second world were communist, not all communist countries were part of the second world. Yugoslavia, broke with the Soviet Union early on and was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Finally, the Third World originally simply referred to countries that had not formally aligned with one of the two super powers. While most of the countries in the third world were less developed, it could also be used to refer to very prosperous countries that remained neutral during the cold war such as Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Finland and Ireland – although it was rarely if ever used to refer to these countries.
Interestingly, more than two decades after the end of the Cold War many, but by no means all, of the divisions still remain on the map.
The US, Japan and Korea are all there. However, the part of Europe that could be considered First World has shifted east with the Baltic states, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary now shifting from Second world to First world countries.
China and Russia remain Second world countries, because this is based on per capita income, not absolute economic size.
Finally, while many of the countries of the Third World remain less developed than the First World, many of these economies are growing the fastest and may soon catch-up with the rest.
You can learn more about the international development in general from the following books:
The Age of Sustainable Development
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Kumhan says
From all of these flavors, you chose salty.
Juan Miguel Delgado says
They ended up very close to the borderline: Argentina at 40th and Uruguay at 52nd.
More interestingly, Russia and Belarus felt short from the First World segment by a .002 margin.
gabe says
Yup, I am from Argentina and was scratching my head on that one too.
CA says
LOL Brazil is a Second world!
Jan Mozol says
Not even fourth…
LOOOL The criteria of map is:
1st world: 0,800+ HDI
2nd world: 0,700+ HDI
3rd world: Anyone else.
So, by this criteria, Argentina is really 1stW and Uruguay is not, but is a very stupid way to classification.
Nic Tam says
Hong Kong and Macau should have been graphed separately from China for being first-worlds, with Hong Kong's HDI being 0.91 and Macau's being 0.894.
Carmen Culpepper Narvaez says
Thanks for taking the time to create and share this. I read through the full description you included, and learned some interesting things. As you stated, the rankings should not be taken too seriously, but are interesting to reflect upon from a historical perspective and in light of the fact that 1st/2nd/3rd world commentary is still used today, but usually to refer to economic level and status. Since that is what you were going for, it was helpful for me to view the rank by HDI. The grouping by HDI and colors gives a quick visual reference that is a good tool to have. I appreciate your work and effort, and encourage you to keep posting even with the negative comments and feedback.
Jebril says
You know this whole definition of First, Second, Third world countries is a joke when Greece is still considered a First world country and Turkey is not. A country that objectively beats it in all categories even fucking tourism. LMAO.
Only in your dreams…
What weed are you putting in your houkah? Most of Turkey is 2nd rate. The only relatively affluent areas are what is near Greece. The rest might as well be Syria. Most of Turkey's tourists are the ones that cannot afford Greece (or rest of Europe) or wish to see the parts of Turkey that are near Greece. But you keep believing what your dictator is pushing on your government-owned media.
Muhamad Atma says
Syria is the first world, but the backward world and the irresponsible world are red
The interests of the great Powers are of a red color
It is a dirty world.
Langton Simeon says
..From Africa and being proud of it coz ….less satanism
mP says
Surely its intellectually bankrupt to match Saudi Arabia and countries like Australia, NA, and Europe as the same group. There is something very broken with their scales.
The concept behind this whole map is flawed. The "first world", "second world" and "third world" are cold war concepts
The first world comprised largely western democratic developed nations that made up, or at least supported, NATO.
The second world was the Warsaw Pact countries and their allies – mostly partly-developed countries, but with less affluence than the first world.
The third world was simply any other non-aligned country – generally, though not always, these were developing nations.
Unfortunately, people still conflate the terms 'third world' and 'developing nations' as though they are the same thing. They are not the same thing at all, and this map just perpertuates that misapprehension.
Pablo says
Please, go read Factfullness by Hans Rosling.
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Medical Life
If You Sue Me, I Can't Be Your Physician
Spinal infection from a dental procedure...huh?
Jim Eichel
"The pain is in my heart. I want you to send me to a heart specialist so that I can have an angiogram and have this taken care of right away."
Stephan's deep, subdued tones, deliberate cadence, icy eyes, and furrowed forehead made it clear that this 59-year-old black man from Oakland was accustomed to tossing aside the short end of the stick to get what he needed. His lovely younger wife Tamara looked at me anxiously. It was exactly a week before the Thanksgiving holiday.
I cautiously but firmly pushed the area along the left posterior aspect of his neck, which made him grimace. He'd had excruciating knifelike pain in his left upper chest, left neck, and left arm for almost a week now. Two days before coming into the office, he'd had a temperature of almost 105 degrees. This was his first visit to me with this problem.
"Something bad is going on here," I confirmed. I looked back and forth between their attentive faces. "But the problem's in your neck, not your heart."
Stephan didn't buy it initially, but after ten minutes of explaining why inadequate blood flow to the heart causes intermittent symptoms, without significant fever or focal tenderness, he understood that the problem was in his neck. I could not persuade him, though, that this was an emergency and that he needed to go to the hospital to get an MRI scan of his neck. I knew he was insured through a health maintenance organization. It would be difficult for me to get approval for a prompt MRI, because the next week would be cut short two days due to the holiday. They would, however, allow an urgent MRI to be ordered through the emergency department.
"It's not my heart, so I'm not going to the hospital to wait for five hours in the emergency room," he concluded. We wouldn't be negotiating this any further, despite my contention that he might have a life-threatening cancer or infection affecting the area next to his spinal cord.
I reluctantly wrote out a prescription for oral morphine and for gabapentin, a medicine for nerve pain, to help him get through the night, and they agreed to come back to the office the following day, or to the emergency room before that if anything changed for the worse.
Because I split time between offices in Alameda and Berkeley, I was not in the Berkeley office the next day when he came back, so his appointment was with David, the other family practice physician in our office. When David told him again that this was not a situation where it was safe to wait for insurance authorizations, Stephan grabbed his medical chart from David's hands and stormed out the door. He was heading to the hospital, just a block from our office.
Carol, our clever, lovable office manager with a mischievous grin that reminds me of my five-year-old daughter, and Kathryn, a high-level administrator in our practice, saw him leave. They devised a plan. They went to the emergency room, where Carol was able to retrieve Stephan's office chart. They safely delivered it back to its home location, and it seemed our mission had reached a successful conclusion.
Stephan ruined that illusion a short time later when he appeared again in the Berkeley office waiting room, having been thrown out of the emergency room for what had been perceived as belligerent behavior. I wondered why someone couldn't have seen that extra efforts should have been made to help this man experiencing torture-level pain. Meanwhile, Carol took the time to calm Stephan down enough to escort him back to the emergency room.
Our local emergency department consistently impresses me with the high level of compassionate and competent care they give my patients, but not this time. When to my surprise and horror Stephan surfaced again with his wife Tamara the following Wednesday morning, heavily sedated but otherwise untreated, I knew we would have to assemble our collective machetes and bulldozers. Carol and Reggie, our designated referral chief and premedical student, whose dry sense of humor and fondness for pranks keep us all on our toes, started making phone calls to the MRI facilities listed under Stephan's independent provider association's (IPAs) radiology providers, knowing that we needed to find a facility that would squeeze in this one-hour test on the day before Thanksgiving. The IPA informed us that we had to find a facility before they would give us an authorization, while the facilities expected us to give them the authorization number before they would schedule the test.
The closest facility to our office said that their staff would be leaving early, at 3:00 p.m., and they did not have any openings before then. Over the ensuing two hours, we found two facilities that would do the test. But each time, when we called the IPA for authorization, they informed us that, although each facility was on the approved list of providers, they could only do X-rays, ultrasounds, and CT scans for patients in the IPA. They were not covered for MRI scans. The only place we could get an authorized MRI scan turned out to be the one that was closing at 3:00 p.m.
Reggie finished explaining this to me at 2:40. I knew I had only one hope, and that was to call the radiologist at the local facility.
"Jim," I pleaded, after describing my patient, "I know you all want to go home, but sometimes we have to do what needs to be done, and you are the only person who can help him right now."
"Can he get here in five minutes?"
I knew Stephan was at a pharmacy just down the street.
"Send him over." Reggie called the IPA and got the authorization. Carol called Tamara. Ninety minutes later, Jim paged me.
"He has an eight-centimeter abscess right next to the left side of his lower cervical and upper thoracic spinal cord," Jim explained. "He needs immediate surgery."
Jim then walked out to find our patient. He said, "There doesn't appear to be anyone here." Apparently, his staff was so determined to get out early that they'd all left the building and told Stephan to leave as well.
I had Tamara's cell phone number, so I thanked Jim and reassured him that I would locate Stephan. Tamara answered the phone driving home on the freeway. I told her what we had found and said, "You have to turn around and go back to the hospital," which she did.
The neurosurgeon operated on Stephan the following morning, removing a section of bone from several consecutive vertebral bones (a laminectomy) and cleaning out the pus-filled abscess. When I went to see him later in his sixth-floor room with a sweeping view of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, he was asleep, but Tamara met me in the hall, gave me a long bone-crushing hug, and thanked me. She had dark sleep-deprivation raccoon rings around her eyes but assured me she was okay. "I know I'm overdue for an appointment with you, but I'll see you soon."
The next day I found Stephan sitting upright in the company of friends and enjoying the view. He introduced me and said to his friends, "I have to give the doctor his props. He was the one guy who right from the beginning knew where the problem was. I gave him a bad time, but he was right."
I asked Stephan how he felt. "The pain is almost gone," he said. He pointed to his surgical wound, a vertical line down the back of his neck to shoulder level, with a gentle indentation in the space that the spinous processes of his vertebral bones had formerly occupied. "I can deal with this." The sense of relief he projected exceeded mine, but not by much. I allowed myself a wide smile. "I'm so glad" was all I could say.
A few days later, he stopped by the Berkeley office. Previously, he'd never shown us any face other than pride and anger. He shocked us all with hugs for everyone in the office, calling Carol his "angel" while weeping in gratitude, prompting her to pull me aside to confirm that "This is what makes all that we do worth it."
Almost a month later, with Christmas just a few days away, Stephan came back for a follow-up appointment, during which he shook me firmly by the hand and informed me that he now was almost pain free without any medication and that he had full strength in his left arm and hand. He had even resumed lifting weights.
While he was in the hospital, Stephan had opened discussions with his surgeon and with me about where the abscess had come from. "Shooters," what physicians call people who use intravenous drugs, get spinal abscesses from the bacteria they unintentionally inject into their bloodstream, but these abscesses are otherwise rare. "The neurosurgeon said it probably came from some dental work I had done a month ago," he'd told me when I came to see him in the hospital. Deep cleanings and procedures involving injury to the gums can cause some of the hordes of bacteria living in the mouth to disseminate into the bloodstream and cause infections in other parts of the body. The chances of an otherwise healthy person getting a spinal infection from a dental procedure, however, are similar to the probability of lightning striking one's spinal cord. Perhaps the stab wound to his chest so many years ago had left some scar or pocket that the bacteria had invaded. In any case, this was one of those "bad things happen for no good reason" scenarios that we see often in my line of work, and I was thrilled to see that he had made a complete recovery.
"I want to make you aware of something so you're not caught off guard," he began, and I sensed the end of the happy part of our conversation. "I have consulted three attorneys, and I just want to warn you that they want to see your records. They don't want anything having to do with my colonoscopy or matters like that. They want any records that might show a delay in diagnosis so they can sue you. I want to sue the dentist, but the attorneys want to look over what you did also. I've told them, 'I think that all you'll find is that he was the guy who found the problem and ordered the MRI so that I could see the surgeon.' You are the reason I am standing here today, the reason I'm not dead. I do not want you to be named in the lawsuit."
I thumbed through the chart, gathering my thoughts to come up with a careful answer. His words surprised me only a little, and I chuckled inside the way one does after locating a lost wallet only to find it empty. This is our world, and I have been around long enough to know that pulling out all the stops to save a life does not mean you won't later have to face lawyers.
I said, "I have to tell you that to me this would be an extreme miscarriage of justice. Especially when you look at what everyone here did for you."
He acknowledged that. "I don't want you to be involved, but the attorneys said that they have to review your records. I told the attorney about how you even saw me when I did not have an appointment, during your break when you were going to go to your other office." Thanks, I had forgotten that, but malpractice attorneys do not have any interest in whatever beneficence a potential physician defendant might have shown; it is their goal to make as much money as possible, and the more professionals they can name in a lawsuit, the more money they stand to make.
"You realize that if you sue me, I cannot continue to be your physician, or Tamara's physician."
"I know. I don't want this to happen. But you need to understand. While this was going on and days were passing and I was in so much pain…" He cringed with the memory. "I own a .44 Magnum and I took it out and put it up to my mouth several times." He said this slowly, looking me in the eye with his left thumb up and left index finger directed between his lips. "Because I would have done anything to end the pain."
Someone had to pay for the pain, even if it had to be the innocent dentist and me. I assumed at that point that his attorneys had told him they would not accept his case unless I were included, so I shook his hand, thanked him for the "heads up," and notified Marc, our practice administrator.
He said, "Jim, you need to sit down right now and write down everything that you can remember of what happened and what he said to you." I knew this already and that I would be submitting this to our malpractice carrier to prepare for what might come, so I sat down at the computer and did as I was told.
"I'm fried!" was Carol's reaction. "How can he possibly do that?"
My boss likes to remind me that no good deed goes unpunished, but this seemed over the top to me. In the end, Stephan reached the same conclusion. One month later, at the end of his follow-up appointment, he declared, "I decided not to go ahead with the suit. It was not anyone's fault, and everyone here has been nothing but good to me."
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towelheadedcameljockey
It's good to hear he decided not to follow through with the suit. People always want to put blame on someone for things which are not necessarily human error.
creativemnds
People never really get to see the physician's side of story. Thanks for the insight! :)
SDaniels
Thank you, Dr. Eichel, and I will be sure to read your other blogs! I am looking for books written from a doctor's point of view; just finished Paul Austin's "Something for the Pain" about life in the ER, but would like to read a physician-authored book or two more focused on the actual medical practice, rather than the doctor's personal life (in Austin, an ER doc, it is understandably all about finding ways to sleep).
As a patient with a serious lifelong condition, I am constantly If you have any recommendations, I'd much appreciate it.
Oops. Meant to say that I am constantly and of necessity finding myself navigating the healthcare system, and it would be enlightening to read about doctors' thoughts about sending patients to the ER, pain management, and the evolution of one's bedside manner, as well as all aspects of one's daily practice.


Karnataka has a rich cultural heritage. Kannada literature has produced many Jnanapith awardees. Regional languages like Telugu, Tamil, Tulu and Konkani have produced many scholars and these regional languages have enriched Karnataka culture.
The earliest work on Kannada is Kaviraja marga. Pampa.s Vikramarjuna Vijaya is based on the Mahabharata. This is the earliest epic.
The 12th century saw the emergence of Veerasaivism. This period saw the end of the dominance of Sanskrit in Kannada literature.
Dvaita philosophy was propounded by Purandhara dasa through keertanas which enriched Kannada literature..
A great scholar and the Ashtadiggajas adorned his court.
The Wodeyars of Mysore encouraged literary pursuits. Chikkadevaraja and Nalmadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar were great cholars.
English literature influenced Kannada writers the foremost of them being B.M.Srikantaiah. The period saw the translation of many English works into Kannada.
Dasa sahitya was characterized by prominent writers of the Dalit community who wrote about the travails of their community.
The feminist movement saw the emergence of several prominent women who questioned the male supremacy in Kannada literature.
1.Who is the Kalidasa of Karnataka?
3.How did Veerasaivism influence Kannada literature?
4.Name a few Veerasaiva poets and writers.
6/Who is the father of Karnatic music?
7.Name important writers of the Wodeyar dynasty and their works.
8.What is the Navodaya movement?
10.Name prominent writers of the Dalit samudaya.
2.During the 12th century, the poets start to create vachana and keerthana in the common folk language of people. It became easily accesible and understandable by the common people. This form of kannada literature is known as Folk literature.
3. Veerashivism developed as a revolt against the existing social order of Hindu society. Some of the followers of this faith wrote literature called Vachana Sahitya ("Vachana literature") or Sharana Sahitya ("literature of the devotees") consisting of a unique and native form of poetry in vachana and free verse.
4. Basavanna, Akka mahadevi, Allama prabhu, Devara dasimayya, Channabasava, Siddarama and many more.
7. Jayadeva's Geetha Govinda in Sanskrit which was written in saptapadi metre.
Sarvajna's Vachanas, penned in the tripadi metre.
8. Navodaya movement which was called by B.M.Srikantaiah is a new era of writing original works in modern Kannada while moving away from archaic Kannada forms.


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Q: How to reset UEFI administration password on HP ProBook 450 G1 notebook? I have a used HP ProBook 450 G1 notebook.
I want to reset the UEFI, format the disk and reinstall Windows.
Unfortunately, I do not know the password for the UEFI administration account. Therefore I can't boot from a USB drive to format the disk.
Is there a way to reset the UEFI administration password?

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I have a used HP ProBook 450 G1 notebook. ...  Unfortunately, I do not
know the password for the UEFI administration account.

Unfortunately, BIOS and Disk Passwords on anything from ten years old or newer cannot be altered by users without the knowledge of the existing password.
Sometimes, manufacturers can change parts (BIOS Chip) and reset the password that way, but not often and to the best of my knowledge, not recently.
Accordingly you need to get the password from the person / outfit that sold you the laptop computer. If truly not available, there is nothing else you can do with regard to the password.
If the machine will start and run, you may be able to do a Windows Repair install.  Use the option to Keep Nothing.  That will delete Data, Profile and Apps but does not need the UEFI password to run the Repair.
Go to the Windows Media Creation Link
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Windows 10/11 is running, so click on the Download button (not Upgrade
Button) and select Run. This will launch the Repair.  Proceed normally
answering the prompts. The default Keep prompt is to Keep Everything.


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Taiki Sato, leader of Fantastics from Exile Tribe, tests positive for coronavirus
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on December 4, 2020
TOKYO (TR) – Taiki Sato, the leader of pop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the group's agency said on Thursday.
According to the site for LDH Japan, at least one person working with Sato, 25, began experiencing symptoms of COVID19, including high fever, on Monday.
Sato had no such symptoms. However, he underwent a polymerase chain reaction test, which gave the positive result on Tuesday night.
No other persons who worked with Sato were classified as close contacts. However, they received PCR tests as a precaution. All of the tests gave negative results, the agency said.
"Under the guidance of experts and government agencies, we will continue to implement measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections, giving top priority to our staff, affiliates and related parties," LDH Japan said.
Taiki Sato (Twitter)
"High & Low"
Fantastics from Exile Tribe formed in late 2016. Saito is also a member of affiliated group Exile.
As an actor, Sato starred in several movies in the "High & Low" series, directed by Shigeaki Kubo.
Sato also starred in "Our Story," which was released in October. In that film, also helmed by Kubo, he played a young novelist.
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Otto Rank (1884–1939)
Otto Rank studied how birth impacts individuals' psychology and creates anxiety throughout their lives in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century. In his book The Trauma of Birth, Rank stated that birth was extremely traumatic and that one spent his or her whole life trying to recover from the experience of being born and harshly separated from the peaceful womb. He argued that the trauma experienced at birth is the source of all human suffering and the key to understanding anxiety later in life.
Subject: People
Neonatal Jaundice
Neonatal jaundice is the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated bilirubin levels in the bloodstream of a newborn. Bilirubin is a byproduct of the breakdown of red blood cells. Jaundiced infants are unable to process bilirubin at a normal rate or they have an abnormally high amount of bilirubin in their bloodstream, resulting in a buildup of the yellow colored bilirubin. That build up is called hyperbilirubinemia and is the cause of jaundice.
Subject: Disorders
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Elie Metchnikoff) (1845-1916)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov studied phagocytes, immune function, and starfish embryos in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mechnikov adopted the French form of his name, Élie Metchnikoff, in the last twenty-five years of his life. In 1908, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Ehrlich for their contributions to immunology. Mechnikov discovered phagocytes, immune cells that protect organisms by ingesting foreign particles or microorganisms, by conducting experiments on starfish larvae.
Tay-Sachs Disease
In 1881 British opthalmologist Warren Tay made an unusual observation. He reported a cherry-red spot on the retina of a one-year-old patient, a patient who was also showing signs of progressive degeneration of the central nervous system as manifested in the child's physical and mental retardation. This cherry-red spot is a characteristic that would eventually come to be associated with metabolic neurological disorders like Sandhoff, GM-1, Niemann-Pick, and, to the credit of Tay, the lysosomal storage disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease.
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) was an aquatic frog that lived in south-east Australia. In 2002, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List declared the frog extinct, although no wild specimens had been reported since 1981. As the common name alludes to, the R.
Subject: Organisms
Camillo Golgi's Black Reaction for Staining Neurons
In 1873 Italy, Camillo Golgi created the black reaction technique, which enabled scientists to stain and view the structure of neurons, the specialized cells that compose the nervous system. During the nineteenth century, scientists were studying cells and proposed cell theory, which describes the basic characteristics of cells as fundamental units of life. However, cell theory struggled to explain neurons as they are specialized cells and more complex in structure than cells of other tissues.
Subject: Technologies
"The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women's Lives: A Critical Narrative Review" (2013), by Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning
In "The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women's Lives: A Critical Narrative Review," hereafter "Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis," authors Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning review the extent at which endometriosis results in a negative quality of life for affected women.
Subject: Reproduction, Disorders, Publications
NovaSure Endometrial Ablation
NovaSure is a device for endometrial ablation, which is a procedure that removes the endometrium, that the US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approved for use on 28 September 2001. Endometrium is the tissue that lines the uterus. NovaSure destroys the endometrium by sending electric beams at the endometrium. Hologic, a medical technology company concerned with women's health, developed NovaSure to treat menorrhagia, or heavy bleeding during menstruation. Menorrhagia is a common symptom of endometriosis. Endometriosis is the growth of the endometrium outside of the uterus.
Mechanism of Notch Signaling
Mechanism of Notch Signaling: The image depicts a type of cell signaling, in which two animal cells interact and transmit a molecular signal from one to the other. The process results in the production of proteins, which influence the cells as they differentiate, move, and contribute to embryological development. In the membrane of the signaling cell, there is a ligand (represented by a green oval). The ligand functions to activate a change in a receptor molecule. In the receiving cell, there are receptors; in this case, Notch proteins (represented by orange forks).
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Subject: Theories, Processes
Multi-Fetal Pregnancy
In humans, multi-fetal pregnancy occurs when a mother carries more than one fetus during the pregnancy. The most common multi-fetal pregnancy is twins, but mothers have given birth to up to eight children (octuplets) from a single pregnancy. Multiple fetusus can result from the release of multiple eggs or multiple ovulations, the splitting of a single fertilized egg, and fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) which involves the insertion of many fertilized eggs into the mother's uterus.
Subject: Processes, Reproduction
All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are particles called organelles found outside the nucleus in a cell's cytoplasm. The main function of mitochondria is to supply energy to the cell, and therefore to the organism. The theory for how mitochondria evolved, proposed by Lynn Margulis in the twentieth century, is that they were once free-living organisms.
Subject: Organisms, Theories
Paternal Sperm Telomere Elongation and Its Impact on Offspring Fitness
Telomeres are structures at the ends of DNA strands that get longer in the DNA of sperm cells as males age. That phenomenon is different for most other types of cells, for which telomeres get shorter as organisms age. In 1992, scientists showed that telomere length (TL) in sperm increases with age in contrast to most cell of most other types. Telomeres are the protective caps at the end of DNA strands that preserve chromosomal integrity and contribute to DNA length and stability.
Subject: Theories
Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )
Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of surgery, Miguel. Asch's middle-class family lived among the largest Jewish community in Latin America, where a majority of males were professionals. After his graduation from National College No. 3 Mariano Moreno in Buenos Aires, Asch worked as a teaching assistant in human reproduction and embryology at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine where he received his medical degree in 1971.
Subject: Ethics, People
Stanley Alan Plotkin (1932– )
Stanley Alan Plotkin developed vaccines in the United States during the mid to late twentieth century. Plotkin began his research career at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied the rubella virus. In pregnant women, the rubella virus caused congenital rubella syndrome in the fetus, which led to various malformations and birth defects. Using WI-38 cells, a line of cells that originated from tissues of aborted fetuses, Plotkin successfully created RA27/3, a weakened strain of the rubella virus, which he then used to develop a rubella vaccine.
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" (1866), by Johann Gregor Mendel
During the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the Augustian St Thomas's Abbey in Brünn, Austria, now Brno, Czech Repubic, Mendel examined the physical appearance of the abbey's pea plants (Pisum sativum) and noted inconsistencies between what he saw and what the blending theory of inheritance, a primary model of inheritance at the time, predicted.
Subject: Experiments
The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity (1893), by August Weismann
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann published Das
Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung (The Germ-Plasm: a
Theory of Heredity, hereafter The Germ-Plasm) while
working at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany in 1892.
William N. Parker, a professor in the University College of South
Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, UK, translated The
Germ-Plasm into English in 1893. In The Germ-Plasm,
Weismann proposed a theory of heredity based on the concept of the
Subject: Publications, Theories
"On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species" (1924), Hilde Mangold's Dissertation
Hilde Proscholdt Mangold was a doctoral student at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1920-1923. Mangold conducted research for her dissertation 'On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species' ('Ueber Induktion von Embryonanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren'), under the guidance of Hans Spemann, a professor of zoology at the University of Freiburg.
Subject: Experiments, Publications
Ectoderm is one of three germ layers--groups of cells that coalesce early during the embryonic life of all animals except maybe sponges, and from which organs and tissues form. As an embryo develops, a single fertilized cell progresses through multiple rounds of cell division. Eventually, the clump of cells goes through a stage called gastrulation, during which the embryo reorganizes itself into the three germ layers: endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm. After gastrulation, the embryo goes through a process called neurulation, which starts the development of nervous system.
Subject: Processes
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland, published in 1964. The book proposed a theory to explain the causes of autism. The book also synthesized research into autism and used Rimland's neural theory, described in the book, as a theory to explain some aspects of behavior, intelligence, and abnormality.
Subject: Publications
"Reproductive Options for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples" (2006) by Pablo Barreiro, Ann Duerr, Karen Beckerman, and Vincent Soriano
In July 2006, scientist Pablo Barreiro and colleagues published "Reproduction Options for HIV-Serodiscordant Couples," in which they recommended methods for human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, serodiscordant couples to procreate. An HIV-serodiscordant couple is one in which one partner is HIV-positive, meaning they carry HIV, and the other is HIV-negative, meaning they do not carry the virus. HIV is a virus that can spread by sexual contact and it attacks the immune system, causing a person with the virus to have weakened responses to illnesses.
Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)
Thomas Joseph King Jr. was a developmental biologist who, with fellow scientist Robert Briggs, pioneered a method of transplanting nuclei from blastula cells into fresh egg cells lacking nuclei. This method, dubbed nuclear transplantation, facilitated King's studies on cancer cell development. King's work was instrumental for the development of cloning of fish, insects, and mammals.
Craig C. Mello (1960- )
Craig C. Mello is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate, who helped discover RNA interference (RNAi). Along with his colleague Andrew Fire, he developed gene knockouts using RNAi. In 006 Mello won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution. Mello also contributed to developmental biology, focusing on gene regulation, cell signaling, cleavage formation, germline determination, cell migration, cell fate differentiation, and morphogenesis.
"Survival of Mouse Embryos Frozen to -196 ° and -269 °C" (1972), by David Whittingham, Stanley Leibo, and Peter Mazur
In 1972, David Whittingham, Stanley Leibo, and Peter Mazur published the paper, "Survival of Mouse Embryos Frozen to -196 ° and -269 °C," hereafter, "Survival of Mouse Embryos," in the journal Science. The study marked one of the first times that researchers had successfully cryopreserved, or preserved and stored by freezing, a mammalian embryo and later transferred that embryo to a live mouse who gave birth to viable offspring. Previously, scientists had only been successful cryopreserving single cells, like red blood cells.
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first researcher to grow mouse embryos outside of the womb. She experimented by culturing mouse eggs and successfully developing them into embryos, leading to advancements with in vitro fertilization.
Epithelium
Frederik Ruysch, working in the Netherlands, introduced the term epithelia in the third volume of his Thesaurus Anatomicus in 1703. Ruysch created the term from the Greek epi, which means on top of, and thele, which means nipple, to describe the type of tissue he found when dissecting the lip of a cadaver. In the mid nineteenth century, anatomist Albrecht von Haller adopted the word epithelium, designating Ruysch's original terminology as the plural version. In modern science, epithelium is a type of animal tissue in which cells are packed into neatly arranged sheets.


The "D" Series Sweeps (D100 and D150) are engineered zero-entry commercial grain sweeps for grain depths of up to 150 feet. The sweeps lead with the flighting for a "full-bite" in tough, stubborn grain.
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Four sweep extensions and backshields are supplied to allow 3" to 21" of sweep extension in 3" increments. The sweep length is adjusted after installation to make the shortest sweep-to-wall gap in bins that are out of round or have off-center sweep pivots. Extend the sweep as close to bin wall as possible.
Clean Sweep is standard on all Sweeps. Nylon bristles contact the floor, dramatically reducing the amount of manual sweeping required after bin unloading.
Auto Advance controls sweep movement by monitoring the sweep motor amperage. When excessive amperage is detected, the Auto Advance stops the Sweep Drive. When enough grain is carried away to lower the amperage, the Drive unit restarts. A reverse feature senses grain avalanches and backs the sweep up.
The "D" Series Sweeps have spring-loaded suspensions that automatically, under grain weight, settle the system on skids to protect the sweep and bin floor when the bin is filled. When grain weight is removed, the springs raise the sweeps and tractors to operating height. The tractor carries the sweep during operation, ensuring proper sweep advancement.
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Sweeps with the Sudenga above-floor Collector Ring option are as close to Zero-Entry as possible in normal sweep operation. The patented above floor mounted collector ring makes wiring permanent and requires less center sump depth.
True Zero Entry: Danger of engulfment exists whenever there is grain present and personnel enter the bin. A sweep that requires entry to power up or move grain and manually raise the sweep off the floor before it can be engaged, creates a bin entry situation when grain is in its most dangerous inverted cone state.
The "D" Series Sweeps are designed with a patent pending self-raising and lowering feature eliminating the need for personnel to prep the sweep prior to filling the bin or engaging the sweep. When equipped with the Sudenga's patented above floor collector ring, the sweep can be permanently wired to ensure power is always at the sweep when ready for use.
The most advanced sweep controls in the industry allow the sweep to self-monitor, keeping personnel out of the bin during sweep operation. The sweep advances, stops or reverses based on operator defined sweep fill level, ensuring the sweep empties the bin at an optimum rate. Automatic controls can also be overridden from outside the bin if necessary.
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Review: A Clockwork Orange at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
It seems incredible that it's taken 30 years for Anthony Burgess's own live version of his best-known work to be brought to the stage.
Because the author and composer's vision of A Clockwork Orange as a 'play with music' seems a very natural way of telling what is admittedly anything but a natural story.
But here it is, finally, Burgess-meets-Beethoven-meets-music hall, played by percussionist Peter Mitchell and sung with rhythmic and harmonic gusto by the Everyman Rep company.
George Caple, shorn of his usual luxuriant locks, plays Alex, the quick-witted, Ludwig-loving sociopathic young ringmaster of the gang of droogs who converse in poetic Nadsat patois and delight in anarchic acts of 'ultraviolence'.
Caple is a very watchable anti-hero – your eyes seek him out wherever he might be on stage (and he's rarely off it), while the ensemble around him shrug on a rapidly changing series of roles, from gang members and gang victims to police, prisoners, and a rather bizarre appearance for Jimmy Savile.
Among them is Richard Bremmer who pops up as a tracksuit-wearing social worker, cheesy crooner, and a booze-swilling prison chaplain in grubby surplus who turns out to be the only character concerned about Alex's welfare and the moral dilemma posed by his 'rehabilitation'.
George Caple as Alex. Photos by Mark Brenner
The action unfolds on Molly Lacey Davies and Jocelyn Meall's very striking set, a metal cube with a pair of trap doors beneath – one hiding stairs on which the actors enter, the other an inflatable slide on which the actors depart each scene.
It serves as an effective backdrop for some visually arresting moments, not least Alex's ordeal as a guinea pig for the Ludovico technique, a form of tortuous aversion therapy which aims to 'cure' the teenager's violent nature but leaves him sick at the sound of his beloved Beethoven to boot.
And yet at the moment sections of the action feel somewhat underpowered, particularly the key opening scene in which the droogs mete out their indiscriminate ultraviolence, targeting a series of innocent bystanders for kicks. Literally.
It should be shocking, it should be visceral, the sheer brutal drama of it should make you feel inexplicably excited and yet utterly repelled by that emotion at the same time.
Director Nick Bagnall has obviously given much thought to how to tackle the most unsavoury parts of the plot, and he and choreographer Etta Murfitt have created a stylised choreographic portrayal of the beatings and violent rapes Burgess describes, hinting at rather than explicitly showing the worst excesses.
But the result is that rather than the story exploding on to the stage in all its awful brutality, it ends up feeling only mildly menacing.


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It's official! I'm attending this fun Comic Con. I will have Ivy Granger and Hunters' Guild trade paperbacks, ebook flash drives, and exclusive items (t-shirts, tote bags), and I'll have a limited supply of candy and free swag. Stoker nominated author James Moore will also be there with books from his Seven Forges fantasy series. You don't want to miss this event.
The event is FREE to the public. More details below!
East Hampton, NY - Experience the Zam, Wham, Pow at the first comic con in East Hampton! This exciting event will host many professional comic book creators and vendors and guarantees a day full of fun and excitement. Visitors will be able to speak with writers and artists as well as have the opportunity to purchase original works of art and collectibles.
Nancy Silberkleit is excited to be able to bring this event to the East Hampton community where she has been a resident for 21 years. When asked why she decided to host this event, Ms. Silberkleit said, "I wanted to bring my passion and excitement for comic books to share with our east end community. Not only its how I found my love to reading, I believe in utilizing this format to get out topics that may be difficult to talk about such as Bullying, gun violence, various health issues, I know we will have a wonderful day sharing our love for comic book art and stories." Nancy Silberkleit is an avid, sought-after global speaker who will speak at 3pm on "Understanding the ingredients that go into the unacceptable behavior we call Bullying.
4:00 PM C Harry Potter Goes to Grad School and Gets a Job.
Jim Freund (leader), Max Gladstone, Josh Jasper, Ellen Kushner, E.J. Stevens.
Charlie Jane Anders's All the Birds in the Sky and Lev Grossman's The Magicians give us an unsentimental treatment of life after attending a magical school. As adults, many of us read and enjoyed Harry Potter, but its relevance to our day-to-day lives was not as great as for its target audience of school-age children. All the Birds in the Sky and The Magicians seem to fill that void, but with some interesting topical shifts. What further futures for magical students might we see?
6:00 PM E Autographs. Haris Durrani, E.J. Stevens.
10:00 AM 5 Instant Communication in Genre Fiction.
Nick Kaufmann, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (leader), Kit Reed, E.J. Stevens, Paul Tremblay.
In a 2015 interview on Atlas Obscura, R.L. Stine said, "Cell phones are the worst thing for writing horror. Cell phones ruin almost every plot." There are certainly a number of plots that rely on people being isolated and out of communication range, which is difficult to achieve these days. Other genres are influenced by pervasive interconnectedness: for example, fantasy novels often feature some sort of magical long-distance communication, perhaps because readers get impatient when characters have to wait a long time for news, and science fiction has tricorders and ansibles. How are genre writers working both with and against 21st-century reader assumptions around communication speed, expense, and accuracy?
1:00 PM 5 If Thor Can Hang Out with Iron Man, Why Can't Harry Dresden Use a Computer?
Gillian Daniels, Elaine Isaak, Andrea Phillips, Alex Shvartsman, E.J. Stevens.
In a series of tweets in 2015, Jared Axelrod pondered "the inherent weirdness of a superhero universe... where magic and science hold hands, where monsters stride over cities." This is only weird from the perspective of fantasy stories that set up magic and technology as incompatible, an opposition that parallels Western cultural splits between religion and science and between nature and industry. Harry Dresden's inability to touch a computer without damaging it is a direct descendant of the Ents destroying the "pits and forges" of Isengard, and a far cry from Thor, Iron Man, and the Scarlet Witch keeping company. What are the story benefits of setting up magic/nature/religion and technology/industry/science as either conflicting or complementary? What cultural anxieties are addressed by each choice? How are these elements handled in stories from various cultures and eras?
Where: Boston Marriott Quincy. Quincy, MA.
Hope to see you at Readercon!
First place prize is a $1,000 Amazon Gift Card, but we also have 12 runner-up ebook and paperback prizes!
Entering will connect you with 21 paranormal romance and urban fantasy authors for more great deals, freebies, and giveaway, so in a way, everyone wins.
Goodreads is giving away a Trade Paperback copy of VISTA D'OMBRA, the Italian translation of Shadow Sight!
Enter to win Vista d'Ombra!
Giveaway ends July 30, 2016.


Edge Business Media, organiser of The Energy Show 2011, has today published a significant new White Paper that tackles crucial issues affecting energy policy within large and energy-intensive companies throughout the UK.
The Energy Show 2011, launching at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham on 4-5 May 2011, marks an important opportunity for small-scale generators of renewable energy to get involved in the UK's only major show dedicated to the on-site generation, procurement and metering of energy.
The Energy Lectures 2011, which takes place at Birmingham's National Motorcycle Museum on 4-5 May 2011, will feature as a key note speaker Dr John Constable, Director of Policy and Research at the Renewable Energy Foundation.


In the fruited Ararat valley, at the foot of mount Aragats, lies Armavir (former Hoktemberyan) from where you can see the wonderful view of Biblical mount Ararat. «Armavir Machine - Tool Factory» OJSC is near «Armavir» railway station. There is also a highway of great importance.
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The factory is also specialized in producing casts with melting models black and colourful metals 5kg, and wide consumption goods.


Small red PTH Kraft paper bags are the most popular size in the market and are used by trade show organisers and any style and shape of shop you can imagine.
Our small red kraft paper bags are durable, high quality ways to showcase products, and feature two sturdy paper twist handles. These bags have measurements of 260mm x 350mm, with a bottom and side gusset of 90mm. They are perfect for retailers to package customer merchandise, and can be used for jewellery, confectionery, books, and more. Sold per pack of 50 bags. These bags can be personalised with your company logo. Different quantities and sizes are also available. We ship Australia wide.


As we all know there are various varieties of kozhukattai like sweet and savory versions. You can prepare any kind of stuffings for kozhukattai / modakam. You can try it with sesame seeds, bengal gram, coconut, peanuts, dal and jaggery. Although my most favorite one is with sesame seeds, but this time i tried with green gram stuffing.
I have already posted Payatham Paruppu Urundai which i learnt from my grandma. It is one of our favorite sweet. I tried the same stuffing for kozhukattai. You can have this stuffing as it is.
Dry roast green gram in a pan or kadai till nice aroma comes. Remove from the heat and let it cool for a minute.
Pressure cook roasted green gram with 2-3 cup water for 5-6 whistles. Remove from the heat and once pressure settles, drain the water completely.
Allow it to cool and grind cooked green gram in a mixer to coarse paste. Add grated jaggery and cardamom powder to it.
Grind everything to smooth paste without adding water. Transfer it to a bowl. Make small lemon sized balls of the paste. Keep it aside. If you are making kozhukattai on the next day, then cover it and keep the balls in fridge.
Heat 1 and 3/4 cup water, oil and little salt in a pan. Once it starts boiling, remove from the heat. Add this water to rice flour and mix with a wooden spoon or backside of ladle. Cover it and keep aside for 5 mins.
Grease your palm with oil and make smooth dough. Cover the dough otherwise it will get dry.
Make lemon sized balls of the dough. Take a ball and flatten it with the help of your fingers. Make it like a cup and place a pooranam ball inside the cup.
Bring all the sides of cup together to form a ball. Similarly proceed with remaining dough. Make sure to grease your palm.
Grease idli plates and place kozhukattai. Steam cook on medium flame for 10 mins. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 2 mins. Serve it hot/cold. We had left over pooranam balls and we had it as it is.
Very impressive, different from others. That filling is seated so perfectly inside the dough.
wow..beautiful looking modak with delicious filling, as always lovely clicks n presentation PT!
the rounds are so perfect, preeti… lovely, and also love the filling!
so so soo nealthy done !
yummy kozhukkatai. Love it, Happy Ganesha.
FYI, I added a link on my post of your authentic gujias,hope it's OK. I will be publishing my post tomorrow.
I use chana dal filling, have to try out this moong filling..
Super like, wat a health stuffing, prefectly rolled kozhukattais, that orange rose is my fav sis..Supera irruku.


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Nigeria: New Law Gives Kano of Emir Permanent Chair – Why It Matters
Oct 16, 2020 - 20:23
Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the Emirate Councils Amendment Bill 2020, which among other things permanently returned the chairmanship of the Central Council of Emirs in the State to the emir of Kano.
This development means the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero will remain the chairman of the Central Council of Emirs in the state and ended the hopes of the emirs of Gaya, Karaye, Rano and Bichi of attaining the position.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on December 5, 2019 signed into law an amendment bill creating the four new emirates and making the chairmanship of the Central Council of Emirs in the State rotational among the five emirs. This was at the time the deposed emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, was still grappling with the balkanization of his emirate.
Before then, the Kano Emirs Appointment and Depositions Amendment Laws 2019, which initially created the four new emirates and was signed on May 8, 2019, did not provide for rotation as the Emir of Kano retained the chairmanship of the Central Council of Emirs in the state. However, the May 8, 2019 law was quashed by the state high court presided over by Justice Usman Na'Allah.
The House presided over by the Speaker, Abdulazeez Gafasa, on Tuesday adopted the latest amendment during plenary.
At the end of plenary on Tuesday, however, Majority Leader of the House, Kabiru Dashi said the latest amendment made provisions for the Emir of Kano, to serve as the Chairman of the Council of Chiefs, thus, putting the issue of rotation to an end.
"In the new law, the number of kingmakers has also increased from four to five members, to allow for a free and fair election of a new emir whenever there is a vacancy.
"We have four kingmakers in each of the Emirate Councils, in the case of death or removal, we are trying to avoid a situation where two will support and two will reject.
"By increasing the number to five; it must be free and fair while electing an emir. And also, the new law will provide a three-day deadline for the election of a new emir," he said.
Dashi added that the amended law had also changed the title of the Council of Chiefs, to be referred to as the Council of Emirs.
Reacting to the development, the executive director of Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability (CAJA), Kabiru Sa'idu Dakata, one of those that challenged the creation of the new emirates, said they foresaw the development.
He said the first reform that suggested the rotation was done to offend the former emir.
Dakata said, "Of course, now that he is not the emir,
they will reverse it to make Kano emir the permanent chairman. We know it was a reform that will not last long as even the Governor that initiated it had to take it back to the lawmakers three different times for reform in just a year.
"So, the next governor is even likely to discard this child-play drama, even members of the emirate are aware of this. So, nothing is surprising in it,
" Dakata concluded.
However, the state government said the amendment was based on what will serve the people's best interest at the moment and was never to offend Sanusi.
The special adviser on chieftaincy affairs to state governor, Tijjani Mailafiya Sanka said, "Before this, something similar was done in the old Kano state (when we were together with Jigawa). Then, the emir of Kano was the chairman of the state council of emirs, while emir of Kazaure, Gumel and Hadejia were members.
"So, this is just like a revisit. The decision was arrived at after consultations with various stakeholders like historians, custodians of the emirates' heritage and other relevant stakeholders before arriving at this.
"The new amendment has nothing to do with offending anybody, the government does what it thinks is right at a time," Sanka added.
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This is the first column I'm jointly publishing here and with Literati Press. I like what Charles Martin is doing there, and I approached him about religion writing. We agreed that it was a nice match. Give them some love, please.
If you need something that is demonstrably true not to be true, you are left with limited options. Among them is the hope that you will be speaking to a collection of ideologues who will believe you even if your words don't cohere with reality because they want to believe you. This tactic seems to be the hope of conservatives who wish not to be seen as anti-First Amendment vis-a-vis religion and free speech where Islam is concerned.
What do you do if the second largest religion in the world creates massive problems for your PR campaign because nearly every single one of the more than one billion adherents insists on acting as agents of good conscience? How do you discredit a religion without seeming to be an opponent of the First Amendment? Conservatives are bizarrely committed to seeing Islam as a global threat, when it would be far simpler to see a few thousand criminals who falsely call themselves Muslims as a global threat. Since they are wed to this commitment, conservatives are left to explain how they can demonize an Abrahamic faith without being intolerant of religion.
Bennett somehow made the national news by advancing ideas that noted Islamophobe and former Florida legislator Allen West made popular in 2012 when he called Islam a "totalitarian theocratic political ideology." In short, conservatives have decided that they get to define what is and is not a religion, and so conveniently, the conservative definition of religion excludes Islam.
The basis of the exclusion is that Islam is not a religion, but a political ideology, and in their minds, those are mutually exclusive categories. The Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, referenced earlier, included Bennett's comments in their most recent email newsletter to members, and in the same email was a link to Reclaiming America for Christ, yet another example of conservatives being tone deaf to irony.
The blindness on their part is not due to explicit hypocrisy, and it pains me to say that. It really is based on a preferential epistemology which views their religion as true and all others as false. For my liberal friends, this really is not hypocrisy, no more than if you assumed someone was wrong for disagreeing with your liberal worldview. Reality is the water in which we swim growing up, and it's not as if we are able to parse what we are taught; we simply accept it as reality. It is not until much later, perhaps on the verge of adulthood, that we parse the important stuff.
For most American political conservatives, Christianity is simply true, not a construct superimposed on reality to force life to cohere to a set of assumptions. That Muslims believe the exact same thing never occurs to the conservative religio-political tribe we refer to as the Christian Right. To engage in comparative religion would only weaken the force of the CR's claims. They must be singularly true, otherwise they are simply competing metanarratives, so Christians believe the truth, and Muslims are deceived, even as their religions look much the same to outsiders.
In my opinion, The Oklahoman and Tulsa World as well as some of the local broadcast media are far too politically correct and practice EXCESSIVE tolerance to ever know or tell the truth about the "religion" of Islam. What they have become is [sic] useful idiots for the agenda of the Religion [sic] of Islam which really isn't a religion but more of a political and governmental system that uses a deity to advance their agenda.
This is the heart of the conservatives' claim: Islam is not a religion. Rather, it simply uses a "deity to advance their agenda." I'll resist the urge to say, "pot, meet kettle," but only barely. All theistic faiths use a deity to advance their agenda, but OCPAC and other faux religious conservatives assume that they are not using the deity; instead, they see themselves as advancing the agenda of the deity they serve, an agenda they happily ignore is not substantiated by an appearance of their deity to confirm any particular claims. All other faiths must provide evidence; theirs is simply true, and so political extrapolations become axioms.
It would be comically bad philosophy were it not for the insistence that legislation be based on this deity's desires, said deity still not available to substantiate those claims. Fret not, though; there is a book. Never mind that Muslims also have a book. Only the Christian Bible is correct, and the JewishTanakh can only be interpreted in reverse, by filtering it through the New Testament and myriad extra-Biblical assertions.
All this aside, the question remains. Is Islam a religion or a political ideology? I'll allow that Christians can be tone deaf to the obvious false dichotomy here. Ninian Smart came up with a complex matrix of categories that helped define religion, since the word is required to do entirely too much in general usage. How can "religion" describe feeding the poor and killing infidels, caring for the sick and torturing heretics, blessing babies and burning witches while still maintaining any coherence? The term itself is already asked to do too much, and it's clear that many things the conservatives object to are part of that impossible list.
Social: Jumah, Eid al Fitr, fastbreaking, etc.
Material: prayer rug, ka'aba, etc.
In other words, Islam is a religion. Of course it is. Conservatives want to deny it the status of religion to suit their own ends and to avoid being categorized as anti-religion or anti-First Amendment. It is an argument from preference, not principle.


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From 1959 to 1964, one would see this heading as the slogan on license plates of all cars registered in the state of Oregon, the 33rd state to join the United States. I don't know why they later changed it to "Things Look Different Here" and, eventually, to the current "We Love Dreamers." Nevertheless, all three give an indication of the beautiful attractions the state offers.
Just a few weeks ago, I had the chance to go around some of the tourist attractions of this alluring Pacific Northwest state, courtesy of my younger sister, Esper, who drove me around the destinations that tourists flock to.
First stop was at the Observatory of the Oregon Health and Science University, a public university in Portland which also runs two hospitals. The well-constructed lookout on top of a hill, where one of the hospitals, my younger sister's place of work, is located, may be reached through an aerial tram ride. It offers a breathtaking panoramic view of the city of Portland and, at night, it is exhilarating to see all those city lights sparkling like diamonds.
While we were en route to another attraction the following day, the majestic Mount Hood appeared before us on the freeway. Since it is usually covered with snow most of the year, it practically glistens in the horizon, making it even more attractive. It is also the highest mountain in Oregon and is called Wy'east by the Multnomah Tribe of Native Americans that used to populate the area.
Our main destination that day was the Multnomah Falls, a picturesque waterfall that drops 620 feet, and was featured in the 2017 movie, The Shack. It was a very cold, windy day when we went there, and cold mist from the waterfalls made the situation even worse for tropical creatures like me! But, when you're right there, in front of that awesome wonder of nature, you forget the freezing temperature and just reach out for your camera to take several shots!
There is even a 2.4-mile trail that climbs up 600 feet to the top of the falls. I saw a lot of young visitors going toward that direction after their respective photo ops in front of the falls. At my age and physical condition, I left the younger ones do the climbing, and limited myself to marvel at such magnificent creation from the ground level. Nevertheless, I'm pleased to have been one of the 2 million visitors that are awestruck by this natural attraction every year.
We then drove to Vista House, a museum 733 feet above the ground, on top of a rocky promontory, and offering a breathtaking view of the historic Columbia River, the largest in the Pacific Northwest. In the early days, this body of water was the main route of the pioneers, establishing trade and commerce in the settlements along it.
The extremely windy conditions at the top, paired with the 2-degree Centigrade weather, discouraged us from staying longer. After we captured on camera the spectacular view of the river, we left.
The historic Columbia River, as seen from the Vista House, 733 feet above the ground.
Done with marvelling at nature, we went on to be amazed by something man-made. We drove to the Nike World Headquarters at Beaverton in the outskirts of Portland. I have always liked this very popular brand, which is named after the winged Greek goddess of Victory, and have often wondered what made Phil Knight, the owner, put up such profitable business venture.
He was really into sports at a very young age. In fact, when his newspaper-publisher father refused to give him a summer job at his newspaper, Phil worked for the rival paper, at night, tabulating sports scores, then ran the seven-mile distance to his house in the morning. His college days saw him as a sports reporter for another newspaper, and as a middle-distance runner, with Bill Bowerman as his coach. Both of them eventually founded Nike together.
But the most interesting trivia I learned during our visit was that of the Nike logo, the very strong, powerful, and highly popular swoosh design. Knight and Bowerman needed a logo for a new line of running shoes they were going to introduce in their Blue Ribbon Sports, the original name of the Nike enterprise.
They approached a graphic design student, Carolyn Davidson, with specific instructions that the logo must look like speed! She submitted five sketches, one of which was the swoosh, which they chose, and which Davidson sold to them for only US$35. That was in 1971.
For our Sunday spiritual nourishment, my sister brought me to The Grotto, formally known as the National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother. Located within the city of Portland, it is a 25-hectare outdoor Catholic shrine constructed in 1924 by the Order of Friar Servants of Mary, popularly known as the Servite Friars.
Portland's 95-year-old The Grotto is very accessible to tourists as it is within the city.
The main grotto itself features the image of the Pieta, and it has a large meditation hall, and a trail that features the Stations of the Cross through several botanical gardens. I would have wanted to check out the whole place but it was drizzling when we went, and we didn't have any umbrella, so my soaked sweater was turning me into a frozen popsicle. We then decided to drive around in the comfortable heated interior of the car.
My sister already warned me that one visit to Oregon is never enough to see everything tourists need to see. I know there are still the beautiful coast, the crystal-clear lakes, and deserts that would thrill any first-time visitor. So I'm convinced: "Things DO Look Different Here." Another visit to Oregon? Of course!


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What a relief it is to see rain return to our county recently. As we know, however, winter storms can wreak havoc on our roads and cause us to lose power. Many folks in the 5th District are well-accustomed to preparing themselves and their properties for winter storms. But it's always good to remember a few key points to make sure we're ready in the event our roads are impassable.
In November, my office co-hosted two meetings in the San Lorenzo Valley focusing on road repairs stemming from the 2016-2017 storms and what fixes are planned for 2019. But we kicked off the November 1 meeting at the Boulder Creek fire station with tips on emergency preparedness.
Emergency Services Manager Rosemary Anderson reminded the audience how important it is to leave your house each day prepared as though you may not be back right away due to road conditions or other unforeseen circumstances. She recommends having a plan for how your pets will be taken care of if you can't reach them, and to have a blanket, phone charger and water in your vehicle if you commute on Highway 17 or mountain roads that could be compromised for hours.
In addition to having emergency supplies of food and water at your home, it is also a good practice for you and your neighbors to map your neighborhood, which helps first responders and community members have an accounting of who lives where. More tips and resources can be found at santacruzcountycert.org.
The storms of late 2016 and early 2017 caused over $100 million in damages to roads in our county. While the Department of Public Works was able to repair over 35 sites countywide through emergency contracts in 2017 and 2018, there are about 170 major sites that still need repair.
Mr. Wiesner also outlined how the Department of Public Works prioritizes roads for repair. There are four categories the department considers when making evaluations, including a ranking within each category about the severity of the repair. The categories are classified based on volume; whether the road is one way in/one way out; how severe is the loss of lane; and whether there are compromised utilities. Once the 2019 projects are completed, there are many sites that will need repair into the future but are currently in design, permitting and funding stages.
On November 19, Matt Machado, the County's Public Works Director and Deputy County Administrative Officer, joined me and several community leaders for a tour of key roads in the San Lorenzo Valley. Mr. Machado started working for the County in May after 11 years as Director of Public Works in Stanislaus County.
Led by Valley Women's Club co-founder Mary Hammer, the tour included northern Boulder Creek, Bear Creek Road, Alba Road, Quail Hollow Road and Felton Grove. After the tour, Mr. Machado led a community meeting at Highlands Park, where he discussed the status of road repairs and the challenges that exist in funding the improvements.
Thanks to the passage of Measure D in 2016, the County has a local funding stream to address road work and other transportation initiatives. However, many of the storm repairs involve approval of funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA,) which can be a long process.
I'm grateful the majority of California voters said no to Proposition 6 this November because it would have taken away state transportation dollars – including about $5 million for Santa Cruz County – that are funded annually by the SB1 gas tax passed by the Legislature in 2017. I also appreciate the strong voter support for Measure G, the sales tax increase for unincorporated areas that will fund critical improvements in its first year, including $400,000 for the Felton Nature Discovery Park.
Throughout the upcoming year, we will host more community meetings throughout the district. If you have an idea for future topics, please contact me at bruce.mcpherson@santacruzcounty.us or call my office at 831-454-2200. I wish you a safe and happy holiday season and look forward to continuing to serve you in 2019.


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Q: Does lucene traverse the whole inverted index when searching? In web search engine, the inverted index is usually very large, so the search engine will quit searching when getting enough results. Since traversing to the tail of a long inverted index is time consuming.
How does Lucene handle this case?
For example, if an inverted index of term 'A' consists of 10000 documents, when searching 'A' for 10 results, will Lucene go through all these 10000 documents then return 10 results, or return 10 results when retrieved enough results even if it does not reach the end of inverted index?

A: Lucene will indeed visit all 10k matches, compute the score for each of those matches and put then in a heap in order to compute the top k hits.
The lucene/misc module has a SortingMergePolicy which allows you to sort merged segments based on a certain field (on a web index, this could be the page rank for instance). This way, if you want to sort documents based on this field at search time (or more generally if the sort order is strongly correlated to the value of this field), you can stop collecting documents per segment as soon as you collected enough matches.
This is currently a very expert feature, but we have plans to make it easier to use, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6766.