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Internet Reading Club: April's Best Science, Technology, and Health Journalism
Must-reads from around the web.
By Adrienne LaFrance
A flapjack octopus swims in its darkened tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 2014. (Michael Fiala / Reuters)
There's too much good stuff to read on the list this month! Who has time for an introduction? (For even more phenomenal stories, check out the lists from January, February, and March.)
The Dark Side of Guardian Comments
Becky Gardiner, Mahana Mansfield, Ian Anderson, Josh Holder, Daan Louter and Monica Ulmanu | The Guardian
New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long suspected: that articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is about.
Although the majority of our regular opinion writers are white men, we found that those who experienced the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling were not. The 10 regular writers who got the most abuse were eight women (four white and four non-white) and two black men. Two of the women and one of the men were gay. And of the eight women in the "top 10", one was Muslim and one Jewish.
And the 10 regular writers who got the least abuse? All men.
The Secret Rules of the Internet
Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly | The Verge
Today, YouTube's billion-plus users upload 400 hours of video every minute. Every hour, Instagram users generate 146 million "likes" and Twitter users send 21 million tweets. Last August, Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that the site had passed "an important milestone: For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day."
The moderators of these platforms — perched uneasily at the intersection of corporate profits, social responsibility, and human rights — have a powerful impact on free speech, government dissent, the shaping of social norms, user safety, and the meaning of privacy. What flagged content should be removed? Who decides what stays and why? What constitutes newsworthiness? Threat? Harm? When should law enforcement be involved?
While public debates rage about government censorship and free speech on college campuses, customer content management constitutes the quiet transnational transfer of free-speech decisions to the private, corporately managed corners of the internet where people weigh competing values in hidden and proprietary ways. Moderation, explains Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford, is "a profoundly human decision-making process about what constitutes appropriate speech in the public domain."
Inky the Octopus Escapes From a New Zealand Aquarium
Dan Bilefsky | The New York Times
Octopus tracks suggest he then scampered eight feet across the floor and slid down a 164-foot-long drainpipe that dropped him into Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of North Island, according to reports in New Zealand's news media.
The aquarium's keepers noticed the escape when they came to work and discovered that Inky was not in his tank. A less independence-minded octopus, Blotchy, remained behind.
The aquarium's manager, Rob Yarrall, told Radio New Zealand that employees had searched the aquarium's pipes after discovering Inky's trail, to no avail.
Brian Anderson | Motherboard
In the past, those attempting to cross the Mexican border were accompanied by a coyote, or foot guide. Coyotes would lead large groups of migrants across la línea to a pre-arranged site on the American side where migrants would be passed off to another guide. Many migrants do still cross this way, according to Comanche, a Sinaloa cartel boss who heads up a borderland smuggling cell in Nogales, Sonora.
But these days, a guide may just be a voice on the other end of the line.
More people crossing the border than ever carry burners, according to law enforcement, government officials, smugglers, and migrants on both sides of the border. Migrants aren't as likely to carry smartphones, as Chino did while crossing illegally. In most cases migrants already have their own phones on them as they attempt to cross. But it's become common for polleros, or human traffickers, to push migrants, known as pollos ("chickens"), to purchase crossing packages that include burners explicitly to be used for communicating during the crossing and then to be ditched in the desert.
It's unclear exactly how many migrants cross with phones. But at the very least, burners are now an assumed, even necessary part of the border-crossing industry...
"Where should I run?" Chino says into his phone.
"You have to go through the shrubbery," one of the polleros replies.
Chino's body finally kicks in and he sprints. It's not long before he missteps, falling into a large mud puddle. Chino manages to hold onto his phone as he goes down, before he gets up and continues running. He leaves tell-tale footprints in undisturbed dirt, groomed daily by Border Patrol, as he clears the expanse of light. Then everything goes dark. Chino can't see and goes down again, this time slamming into a cactus. He's so nervous he doesn't even feel the barbs biting into his arms and side.
The phone flings out of his hand but he sees where it lands. He picks it up.
"Are you OK?" asks the pollero.
"Yes. I just ran into a cactus," Chino says.
"No, keep running," the pollero commands. "Don't stop. Run."
And so Chino starts up once more. But after just a few strides the bottom drops out from under him. The hole is a meter-and-a-half feet deep. He never sees it coming. Chino falls in.
Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real?
Joel Oliphint | BuzzFeed News
In December, Brett and his girlfriend broke up. He tried to tend bar, but working while feeling on the verge of drowning was torturous. To get through a shift, he'd sometimes run to the liquor store across the street to buy a pack of gum, which helped force him to mouth-breathe. And even though music was his greatest love, he stopped playing guitar. He moved back into his childhood home, where he spent his days and nights pacing the house with Kleenex stuffed up his nose. "I can't live like this. This is miserable," he told his parents. "I have no life now. I want my life back. I had a good life."
Brett was embarrassed by what he'd become. He lost all his empathy. He even envied people with cancer. Everyone has heard of cancer. Doctors take it seriously. He envied strangers blowing their snotty, functioning noses. His sinus cavity, meanwhile, felt like a hollowed-out pumpkin. In frantic attempts to explain the sensation, he'd grab his mom's fingers and stick them up his own nose. She tried to comfort him. "Sweetie," Carol would say. "You know we haven't seen all the doctors there are to see. We need to do some more research. Sometimes shit happens, and we'll get through it. It'll be OK."
Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
Daniel Engber | FiveThirtyEight
All these tellings and retellings miss one important fact: The story of the spinach myth is itself apocryphal. It's true that spinach isn't really all that useful as a source of iron, and it's true that people used to think it was. But all the rest is false: No one moved a decimal point in 1870; no mistake in data entry spurred Popeye to devote himself to spinach; no misguided rules of eating were implanted by the sailor strip. The story of the decimal point manages to recapitulate the very error that it means to highlight: a fake fact, but repeated so often (and with such sanctimony) that it takes on the sheen of truth.
In that sense, the story of the lost decimal point represents a special type of viral anecdote or urban legend, one that finds its willing hosts among the doubters, not the credulous. It's a rumor passed around by skeptics — a myth about myth-busting. Like other Russian dolls of distorted facts, it shows us that, sometimes, the harder that we try to be clear-headed, the deeper we are drawn into the fog.
It seems plausible to me, at least, that the tellers of these tales are getting blinkered by their own feelings of superiority — that the mere act of busting myths makes them more susceptible to spreading them. It lowers their defenses, in the same way that the act of remembering sometimes seems to make us more likely to forget. Could it be that the more credulous we become, the more convinced we are of our own debunker bona fides? Does skepticism self-destruct?
U.C. Davis Learns Downside of Trying to Scrub Search Results
Daniel Victor and Karen Workman | The New York Times
The [University of California, Davis] paid at least $175,000 to two public relations firms to suppress the negative search results generated by its name, and the name of its chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, according to a report this week by The Sacramento Bee. The news has caused some California lawmakers to call for her resignation...
And that raises the question: Does this sort of thing work? In a word, no. Eliminating undesirable search results is not possible, said Danny Sullivan, an expert in search engine optimization. Mr. Sullivan is the founder of Marketing Land and Search Engine Land.
"I want to say it felt laughable," he said of the contract. "It read like a document written from 1998."
A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse
J. Nathan Matias | The Guardian
Online harassment is not isolated to women or feminists, as decades of research and experience have shown. It's a pervasive issue for millions of people, a complex web of problems with no easy solutions. By now we know that avoiding the internet isn't possible, and that ignoring social problems won't make them go away. What does that leave us with?
In search of inspiration, I followed the history of public safety from another period of rapid change in a life-sustaining network, the transition to industrial food production in the Victorian era. The 80-year history of efforts to study and respond to food contamination holds many lessons for our response to online harassment.
Every meal we share connects us to a social web of food, according to the archaeologist Martin Jones. Each table is a "depository of information and engine of its transfer … spread across space and time". Even the simple ingredients in bread connect us through history, evolution, and the global supply chains that were just reaching the working classes during the Industrial Revolution.
Andrew Marantz | The New Yorker
Bravo tweaked her screenplay to remove minor cinematic vestiges—insert shots, subtle blocking details—that would be either irrelevant or impossible in V.R.
"Then we had another big conversation," Blackaller said. "Do we film a dummy?" In some V.R. experiences, the viewer feels invisible; in others, one can look down to see one's body represented onscreen. In a clumsily animated V.R. segment produced by another company, I experienced a nightmarish version of the latter: I flew through the air, my legs dangling below me, scrawny and immovable. My arms were those of a white man in his thirties, which happened to match my anatomy but might have been distracting, if not alarming, to most humans. And when I craned my actual neck downward I saw a sharp line where my virtual neck ended, leaving a black void where my head was supposed to be.
Cinematic grammar no longer applies. There is no frame in which to compose a shot. An actor who directly addresses the camera isn't breaking the fourth wall, because the viewer is already in the middle of the action. The viewer can look anywhere, so the director often adds subtle visual or auditory cues to indicate where to look, or to signal that the viewer's gaze can wander without missing anything important.
How the World Health Organization's cancer agency confuses consumers
Kate Kelland | Reuters
IARC gives no view on the relative levels of risk of getting cancer from, say, plutonium or alcohol; what it does say is that there is clear evidence that both are capable of causing cancer. Therefore it ranks both substances in its top category of being carcinogenic.
Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States who has publicly criticised IARC, says the classifications do the public "a disservice."
In its meat assessment, IARC went beyond its normal remit of assessing hazard, not risk. It gave specific warnings about the risk of eating red and processed meat products.
IARC said, for example, that for each 50 gram piece of processed meat eaten daily, the risk of a person developing colon cancer increases by 18 percent. The observer who spoke to Reuters said these data appeared "to come from nowhere, overnight."
In a Perpetual Present
Erica Hayasaki | Wired
For decades, scientists suspected that someone like Susie McKinnon might exist. They figured she was probably out there, living an ordinary life—hard to tell apart from the next person in line at the grocery store, yet fundamentally different from the rest of us. And sure enough, they found her (or rather, she found them) in 2006.
McKinnon is the first person ever identified with a condition called severely deficient autobiographical memory. She knows plenty of facts about her life, but she lacks the ability to mentally relive any of it, the way you or I might meander back in our minds and evoke a particular afternoon. She has no episodic memories—none of those impressionistic recollections that feel a bit like scenes from a movie, always filmed from your perspective. To switch metaphors: Think of memory as a favorite book with pages that you return to again and again. Now imagine having access only to the index. Or the Wikipedia entry...
"It raises fairly large questions," Levine says. "What exactly does recollection do for us?" If members of our species can get by so well without episodic memories, why did we evolve to have them in the first place? And how long are they liable to stick around?
Facebook pulls down mega-popular celeb site The Shade Room's page for alleged copyright violations
Laura Hazard Owen | Nieman Lab
On Monday, Facebook took down the Facebook page for celebrity news and gossip site The Shade Room. The page, which was verified, has (had?) more than 4.4 million likes...
Facebook confirmed that it took the page down "for IP violations" but didn't say what those violations were. The takedown of such a large and popular page could add fuel to concerns that publishers are giving Facebook too much power. (Note, though, that The Shade Room does have its own standalone website and isn't an Instant Articles publisher. It used its Facebook page to link to its Instagram posts and stories on its website.)
Amazon Doesn't Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?
David Ingold and Spencer Soper | Bloomberg
There's no evidence that Amazon makes decisions on where to deliver based on race. Berman says the ethnic composition of neighborhoods isn't part of the data Amazon examines when drawing up its maps. "When it comes to same-day delivery, our goal is to serve as many people as we can, which we've proven in places like Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Philadelphia." Amazon, he says, has a "radical sensitivity" to any suggestion that neighborhoods are being singled out by race. "Demographics play no role in it. Zero."
Amazon says its plan is to focus its same-day service on ZIP codes where there's a high concentration of Prime members, and then expand the offering to fill in the gaps over time. "If you ever look at a map of service for Amazon, it will start out small and end up getting big," he says.
This is a logical approach from a cost and efficiency perspective: Give areas with the most existing paying members priority access to a new product. Yet in cities where most of those paying members are concentrated in predominantly white parts of town, a solely data-driven calculation that looks at numbers instead of people can reinforce long-entrenched inequality in access to retail services. For people who live in black neighborhoods not served by Amazon, the fact that it's not deliberate doesn't make much practical difference. "They are offering different services to other people who don't look like you but live in the same city," says Rasberry.
I Talked to the Kid Whose Mom Used Craigslist to Find Him a Feminism Tutor, and It Got Weird
Ruth Graham | Slate
He called, and 'fessed up. He's 27, not 22, and he's not enrolled at UCLA. He used multiple aliases online, he said, because he's been burned by using his real name online in the past. He made up the ad "to see what kind of responses it would get," though he couldn't explain exactly what he was hoping for. The whole thing was "sort of like a joke," he explained.
This casts the ad posted by "Nate's" "mother" in a scarier light: A guy accused of serial harassment of women places an ad seeking an expert in feminism to meet with him in person.
Audubon Made Up At Least 28 Fake Species To Prank A Rival
Sarah Laskow | Atlas Obsurca
By the 1870s, the truth about the fish had been discovered. But the fish were only part of Audubon's prank. In a new paper in the Archives of Natural History, Neal Woodman, a curator at Smithsonian's natural history museum, details its fuller extent: Audubon also fabricated at least two birds, a "trivalved" brachiopod, three snails, two plants, and nine wild rats, all of which Rafinesque accepted as real.
Woodman has been systematically checking through Rafinesque's work in mammalogy. A mammalogist himself, he first started wondering about Rafinesque's accuracy when he found that a shrew Rafinesque had identified was, in fact, a jumping mouse. One of Woodman's long term goals is to try to identify the actual species Rafinesque was describing.
When he figured out that Rafinesque had also been naming mammals based on his time with Audubon, he started worrying.
Crowd Source: Inside the company that provides fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, and counterfeit protesters
Davy Rothbart | The California Sunday Magazine
I'd have never guessed how pleasing it would feel to geek out over these unknown life coaches from Cincinnati and Tampa. The most sterile, lame space imaginable — a conference room in the basement of a chain hotel — has been transformed into a surreal dreamland where everybody is desired, everybody is famous, and where famous people, thrillingly, return their fans' embraces.
Two and a half hours later, the event is over. As I head to my car, I see Adam and Del, along with some of their crowd members, hurrying off to their next gig, a documentary screening where they've been hired to bolster audience numbers and lob softball questions at the filmmakers during the Q&A.
Adam waves me down. "You were late today," he reminds me. "But I liked your commitment to the part. Ready for more work?"
He nods. "Good. Welcome aboard. You'll get a text from someone soon."
Adam started Crowds on Demand as a 21-year-old UCLA undergrad. He'd volunteered with Jerry Brown's 2010 gubernatorial campaign and found that it could be challenging to rally large crowds to speeches. Adam believed a niche service providing crowds might appeal to campaign directors. But once he launched the service, he found that he was asked to wield his crowds in a way he hadn't anticipated — not only to support a candidate but to protest a candidate. A candidate might muster 500 supporters to a speech on a college campus, but if Adam sent just five recruits to demonstrate outside the auditorium, he discovered that the media would give equal coverage to both the rally and the demonstration.
That was only the beginning.
A New Dark Age Looms
William B. Gail | The New York Times
Imagine a future in which humanity's accumulated wisdom about Earth — our vast experience with weather trends, fish spawning and migration patterns, plant pollination and much more — turns increasingly obsolete. As each decade passes, knowledge of Earth's past becomes progressively less effective as a guide to the future. Civilization enters a dark age in its practical understanding of our planet.
To comprehend how this could occur, picture yourself in our grandchildren's time, a century hence. Significant global warming has occurred, as scientists predicted. Nature's longstanding, repeatable patterns — relied on for millenniums by humanity to plan everything from infrastructure to agriculture — are no longer so reliable. Cycles that have been largely unwavering during modern human history are disrupted by substantial changes in temperature and precipitation.
As Earth's warming stabilizes, new patterns begin to appear. At first, they are confusing and hard to identify. Scientists note similarities to Earth's emergence from the last ice age. These new patterns need many years — sometimes decades or more — to reveal themselves fully, even when monitored with our sophisticated observing systems. Until then, farmers will struggle to reliably predict new seasonal patterns and regularly plant the wrong crops. Early signs of major drought will go unrecognized, so costly irrigation will be built in the wrong places. Disruptive societal impacts will be widespread.


To answer above questions – let break the Term Internet of Things in two parts – INTERNET and THINGS and try to seek the answer.
So what is Internet – I don't have to answer this – we all are aware of internet and it's now part and parcel of our life. Most of us– in fact all of us start our day on the internet and end our day using internet.
They share – they learn – they see – they hear – they express. – using the Internet.
All the physical stuff we see around us, anything – be it is a table, chair, bed, living room, window, fridge, car, washing machine, shoe , door, gate, garage, road, bridge – are all things. We know things cannot communicate (how wonderful it would be if things communicate). Also just imagine the amount of information each of these things might be holding and how useful it can be to other things or people if somehow things start to communicate.
Another example is the shoe – the make, the model and price of the shoe – the year it was purchased and condition of the shoe if it needs to be replacement.
Just think if these things were able to communicate and able to tell this information- how useful this information would be for other things.
One simple example – with all the info about the room – whether to make it hot or cold you get in advance before you enter the room. To get info if someone entered the room. To turn off the lights if no one is in the room. To play your favorite music of your choice as soon you enter the room.
Getting the info about the shoe and the wear and tear – might help the manufactures – and to what shoe is best suitable for you / people like you and they can make changes in the new shoes.
The fridge can tell if something is so many days old lying in the fridge and if your favorite ice cream is about to get over and it gets added to you shopping list. Think if you were able to get info about the items in the fridge, the total calories and the healthy food in your fridge. If the fridge could provide you the list of items that are about to finish and the fridge needs to be filled with.
The Chair recognize you – based on your weight and starts the TV with your favorite channel based on the time ( news) – or music system plays music based on your mood..
All this information could be useful to other things or to people to do other things. In other words it would be super useful if things can share information (talk to you) and you can take decision based on the information provided.
Being able to connect all these things, so that they are able to talk to each other and to you as well.
SO the basic idea behind IOT is things can communicate with each other (things could be homes, roads, shoe, fridge, cars etc.) and they could communicate – what they feel, know, what they are doing with other things and people..
This information can be useful if gathered and analyzed by other things or people to do some useful work or pass on instructions to the things.
So IOT is – Things able to share information on the internet (i.e. communicate on the internet).
In the next article we will discuss – How to make things communicate.


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Taj Mahal signifies Agra and vice-versa. Agra, the erstwhile imperial capital of the Mughal Empire, is the city of imperial grandeur. Taj Mahal is the most beautiful monument not only in Agra but also in the whole world. The sheer look on this white majestic beauty provides solace to mind and soul. Taj, the most magnificent symbol of love that man ever built for a woman, stands almost in the centre of the city of Agra. Dominating walls, an intimidating gate, a mosque and a royal inn are part of the Taj complex, besides the outer complex (near the entry gate).
Taj Mahal was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved queen Mumtaj Mahal. From laying down its foundation stone in the year 1631, it took 21 years in completion and it was completed in the year 1652. Taj Mahal is included in the Seven Wonders of the World. The main edifice is surrounded by rampart of red stones, having three colossal gates. On its western side, one beautiful Mosque is situated. The garden, decorated with Farsi (Persian) designed fountains, enhances manifolds the beauty of this magnificent edifice shining with milky white marble.
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09/23/2018 09/23/2018 Tridivesh Singh Maini Current Events, PoliticsBelt and Road Initiative, China, connectivity, cooperation, diplomacy, geopolitics, India, Mahathir Mohammad, multilateralism, Myanmar, Nepal
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Recently, China's consular general in Kolkata, Ma Zhanwu, while speaking at a function, proposed a bullet train connecting Kunming (in China's Yunnan Province) with Kolkata, the capital of India's eastern state of West Bengal. Said Ma:
With joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities.
It would be pertinent to point out that the proposal for a bullet train connecting Kunming and Kolkata had been discussed earlier at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) meet in 2015. In fact, enhancing connectivity between India and China through the Kolkata-Kunming multi-modal corridor (officially the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, or BCIMEC), which covers a distance of 2,800 kilometres, has been under discussion for over 2 decades, through the Track II K2K (Kolkata-Kunming) dialogue. During former India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's China visit, in October 2013, sister city relations were established between Kunming and Kolkata.
In recent years, China has been pro-actively reaching out to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and has invited her to visit on repeated occasions, though she has been unable to visit (she was all set to visit in June 2018, but her trip was cancelled at the last moment). Apart from this, a number of Chinese investors have expressed interest in investing in West Bengal and even attended the Bengal Global Business Summit 2018.
Given the increasing emphasis on connectivity with South East Asia, through India's North East (one of the key aims of India's 'Act East Policy'), it was believed that the BCIMEC would tie in neatly with India's vision for connectivity.
However, tensions between India and China – due to the Doklam standoff as well as Beijing's insistence that BCIMEC be included in its official Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – have contributed to a wane in New Delhi's interest in the project, at least for the time being. The Rohingya crisis, and more general tensions between Bangladesh and Myanmar, are also a major impediment to the project.
The China Myanmar Economic Corridor: Why New Delhi should pay close attention
While a high speed train is an ambitious project, New Delhi can not be closed to the BCIMEC and should pay close attention to the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (the Memorandum of Understanding for this project was signed on September 9, 2018). While the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) has been under discussion for some time, there have been numerous debates with regard to the economic implications for Myanmar (the Kyaukphyu Deep Sea Port project, as well as Special Economic Zones, have been contentious). The increasing debate on the issue of 'debt trap diplomacy' has only increased apprehensions within sections of the Myanma government (the stake of Chinese conglomerate CITIC in the deep sea port has been reduced from 85 percent to 70 percent due to domestic pressures). Myanmar has also made it clear that it would not like to depend only on Chinese investments, and the recently-signed MOU categorically states that third party investments from Japan, South Korea, and Thailand in CMEC projects are more than welcome. Interestingly, an article on CMEC in Chinese media acknowledges some of the apprehensions vis-à-vis CMEC, and also bats for closer cooperation between China and other Asian and Western countries.
The proposal for the bullet train connecting Kolkata-Kunming came days after the agreement had been signed between China and Myanmar. China would like to extend this corridor all the way to India (while speaking about rail connectivity between Kunming and Kolkata, the Chinese diplomat also spoke about an industrial cluster along the route).
How should New Delhi play it?
While New Delhi's objections to the BRI are valid, it does need to shed blinkers. It is free not to participate in those components of the project with which it is not comfortable, but there are projects, like the BCIMEC, where it can easily find common ground with China. This will give a boost to India's infrastructure in the eastern and northeastern part of the country, and complement it's Act East Policy. If third countries are allowed to invest in CMEC, Indian companies should explore opportunities, as this will enhance their presence in Myanmar while also bolstering the Act East Policy.
China's narrative in South Asia
Post the Wuhan Summit, there has been a clear change of narrative from the Chinese side. China has expressed its keenness to work jointly with India in Afghanistan – in capacity-building projects. This was unthinkable a few years ago.
China's burgeoning economic relationship with Nepal has sent alarm signals in New Delhi. China's decision to give Nepal access to its ports (Tianjin, Shenzhen, Lianyungang and Zhanjiang) raised the hackles in New Delhi. Pragmatists realize that New Delhi can not dictate Nepal's ties with China, and the fact is that Kathmandu would like to benefit economically from its ties with both China and India.
Interestingly, China has been urging Nepal to strengthen economic ties with India. During his visit to Beijing, Nepal's Prime Minister, K.P. Oli, made an unequivocal pitch for strong ties between Kathmandu and New Delhi (as well as Kathmandu and Beijing). He stated that the economic progress of both India and China was an opportunity for Nepal, and stated that Nepal wanted to emerge as a bridge between both countries, and would not like to get embedded in zero sum geopolitical games. Nepal's former Prime Minister, Prachanda, during his visit to India, also referred to the need for close ties with both India and China.
India should also keep in mind a few other points
While many in New Delhi are pointing to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad's stand against Chinese projects, it is important to keep in mind that while the Malaysian PM has scrapped a few projects, he has continued to reiterate the relevance of the China-Malaysia relationship (there is need for nuance). Second, it is one thing to point out the shortcomings of the BRI project, but India needs to prove its own track record in big ticket connectivity projects (New Delhi has been extremely slow when it comes to the implementation of connectivity projects within the neighbourhood). Third, there are areas where India is already working with China, so rigidity and paranoia do not make much sense. If even Japan is willing to participate in certain projects of BRI, there is absolutely no reason why India should not at least be open to elements of the project. It is also important to look at connectivity from an economic dimension and not a narrow security prism as large sections of India's strategic community do. Finally, New Delhi can not put all its eggs in the American basket. While India's strategic relationship with the US has witnessed an improvement, and Washington has repeatedly spoken about the need for greater connectivity within the 'Indo-Pacific', the US is not likely to invest significantly in economic connectivity projects. India thus can not be totally dismissive of Beijing-led connectivity initiatives.
While New Delhi needs to exhibit pragmatism, Beijing on its part needs to address the concerns of India, and other countries, with regard to the BRI.
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On Thursday, December 6, Inside Out is back to celebrate the season with our latest and most beloved annual tradition, the December More Play screening of, A Christmas 'Carol'.
If you missed it last year it's not totally what it sounds like (our version has less Dickens). It's a holiday screening of Todd Haynes' lesbian road movie, Carol!
Carol is a film that likely needs no introduction but in case you somehow missed it let us break it down: Cate Blanchett. Rooney Mara. Sarah Paulson. Holiday shopping. Flung out of space. Creamed spinach and poached eggs. Waterloo, Iowa. Six Academy Award nominations. Oh, and also Kyle Chandler (if that helps tip anyone over the edge). Whether seeing it for the first time or seeing it again, it's the best gift you will give or receive this holiday season.
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D9 Street Festival, Triple C's Big Deal Part II and Olde Meck's Fat Boy now available in bottles
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Triple C's second version of "Kind of a Big Deal" will be released this Saturday at the taproom at noon
As always, fun weekend ahead in the Charlotte craft beer community, beginning with what I wrote about earlier in the week, the NoDa-area breweries/New Belgium collaboration release of "Yours and Mine," which is Saturday at NoDa Brewing Company from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Here are a few other events of note:
–For the craft beer fans up north, D9 Brewing Company is hosting its second annual Friday Street Festival from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The big news here is that D9 will be releasing its Head of the Horseman imperial pumpkin ale, one of my favorites from the Cornelius brewery, along with two other beers. Imperial Sandwich Co. and Gyro Twins Truck will be on site, and the festival will also have arts and crafts vendors and live music from Astral Lion.
–Triple C's next barrel-aged release is this Saturday, and it's a twist off their most recent bottle. You may recall Kind of a Big Deal being released in May. This was an imperial honey wheat ale aged in bourbon barrels with tart cherries added in. Now, get ready for a new version of KOABD. The base is the same, a honey wheat aged in bourbon barrels, but instead of cherries this version features peaches and comes in at 9.2 percent ABV. You can try it in the taproom and pick up a bottle or two at Triple C beginning at noon Saturday.
–Speaking of bottles, one of my favorites from Olde Mecklenburg is now available to go. OMB has bottled its Fat Boy Baltic Porter, and six-packs are now available in the taproom for $19.98. Right now these will only be sold onsite, so head on out to the brewery. Olde Mecklenburg has also announced the dates of its annual Mecktoberfest. This year's festival (going on seven years now) will take place from September 25-27, and I'll have more information on the event in a future blog post.
Matt McKenzie
Twitter: @Matt_McKenzie1.
Also by Matt McKenzie:
→An Ode to Olde Mecklenburg Copper
→Beat the heat with the latest sour beers
→Salud Beer Shop introduces "Reggae Brunch"
→The Cellar at Duckworth's ascends to great heights
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Little Keep Gate, Dorchester - 2 Bed £175,000 Flat [Leasehold ] Dorset Property are delighted to offer this well presented apartment in the popular LITTLE KEEP GATE development. The block is serviced by a lift. A SPACIOUS and airy TWO BEDROOM 2nd floor apartment, located close to the hospital and town CENTRE. Accommodation includes: hallway with 2 built in storage cupboards, OPEN PLAN kitchen/lounge/diner.
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Bert Peer was born November 12, 1910 in Port Credit, Ontario. A member of the Toronto Mercantile Hockey League for two seasons, Peer joined the Toronto Independent Hockey League in 1934-35 where he split his season with the Ontario Hockey Association Senior 'A' Hockey League's Oakville Villans.
The 1935-36 season was to be the same as the previous year for Peer, sharing his time with the Oakville and the British Consols before joining the Harringay Racers of the British Premier/Super League in 1936-37. Peer spent two seasons with the Racers competing in the London Cup and the British National Hockey Challenge Tournament, before returning to North America in 1938-39 and joining the Quebec Provincial Hockey League's Valleyfield Braves.
The Port Credit, Ontario native spent the majority of the 1939-40 season with the American Hockey Association's Omaha Knights while playing a handful of games with the Quebec City Hockey League's Ottawa Senators. Even with stops in Omaha and Ottawa, Peer managed to make his NHL debut with the Detroit Red Wings during the season.
Peer played in only one game with the Red Wings before returning to Omaha the following year. In 1941-42, Peer had a break out year offensively as a member of the AHA's Fort Worth Rangers earning AHA Second Team All-Star honours.
Following a six-year absence from the OHA Sr. Peer returned in 1942-43 as a member of the Toronto Navy before stepping away from the game for the next two years for military service reasons.
Peer returned to the ice in 1945-46 splitting his season between the United States Hockey League's Tulsa Oilers and Valleyfield Braves of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. A two-time participant in the Allan Cup tournament in 1947 and again in 1948 with the OHA Sr. Hamilton Tigers, Peer stepped away from the game for good following the 1947-48 season.
Throughout his hockey career, Bert Peer played in one NHL game.


At RNR Moving we pride ourselves on being able to provide our customers with an easy moving process, that hopefully cuts down on their overall moving stress for local and long-distance moves. Although we may help ease our customer's stress levels, if you are moving with pets, chances are you may be the only one who can help your pet through the relocation process.
Have your pet's yearly appointment taken care of (update shots, general health checks, etc.) & refill prescription medicine your pet may be taking.
Get copies of vaccination certificates and other vet records.
Ask if they recommend a particular vet in your new city/town.
If your pet requires sedatives for travel, this is also the time to discuss it with your vet.
Pet Tags – Make sure your pet has identification tags ready to wear (if applicable for type of pet) that state your telephone number, name and NEW address. You can even leave the old tag on the collar with the new tag while moving, just in case anything happens to your pet in between the move.
Crates & Carriers – If you are planning on using a crate or carrier for your pet during or after your move, try to get your pet comfortable with these items ahead of time. This will make it less stressful for them and hopefully allow you an easier time getting them ready to go on moving day.
Double Check Plans – Hopefully you already know that you are moving into a pet-friendly, new space; but if you are unsure, find out immediately! Also, double check your travel plans to be sure you will be able to comfortably accommodate your pet during the move. For example, if you are flying with a small pet, most airlines will allow the pet to be with you in the cabin. However, you should double check the airlines requirements and also weigh the risks of air travel with your pets.
Board & Groom – Moving day can often be the most stressful day for your pet, due to the chaos of boxes everywhere, people going in and out of your house, the general overstimulation of sights and sounds, plus the various emotions they can sense. Save your pet (and yourself) some peace of mind by getting them boarded on your move date. This will ensure they are not underfoot or have a chance to run away (some animals do run away from stressful environments), plus you can have them groomed while you're at it, so they will be clean and ready to travel.
Travel Snacks – Pack pet snacks, food, water and anything else your pet may need to travel with; amount of these usually depends on the distance of your move. Make sure you have any prescriptions they will need handy as well.
When your long awaited moving day finally arrives, be sure to block your pet from any unnecessary stress. If you have an indoor pet, make a room just for them to be in while you move things out of your home. Put up a 'do not disturb' sign on the door to alert movers, friends or family to not enter the room. Also, be sure to give some extra snuggles and support to your furry friends when you can throughout the day, so they will not feel too isolated or stressed out. If you had your pet boarded, give them extra attention before and after their visit.
You did it! You and your pet have made it to your new home! Hopefully your move was a good experience, with very few bumps along the way. Before letting your pet roam your home or yard, be sure to check that everything is 'pet proof' and safe for them. When your space completely ready, it is important to let your pet adjust to your new surroundings. Every animal does this in a different way, but you can help by putting familiar objects (pet bed, toys, blanket, litter box, etc.) around the house. Cats, for example, are usually transitioned into new places by being restricted into one room of the house for the first night. Then when they seem calm, let them gradually explore more of your new space. Of course this process varies by pet personality, so use your best judgement for your pets. Now relax in your new space and give your pet a high-five for your successful move!
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Remembering to show your pet some extra love and care during the moving process is important! Thanks for sharing.
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The Chilling True Story Of Benedict Cumberbatch's Kidnapping In South Africa
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By Anna Harnes/May 9, 2022 10:54 am EST
Marvel's latest offering, "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," is already poised to break records, with Variety claiming that the film is outperforming box office estimates and may be the biggest domestic movie opening of 2022. In the film, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the eponymous superhero, who has the ability to conjure a number of spells to fight off the malevolent forces of the Marvel Universe.
But it seems that Cumberbatch isn't just a hero on the screen. The "Sherlock" star made headlines in 2018 after it emerged that he jumped out of his Uber taxi to help save a man who was being mugged in London.
"It all got a bit surreal. Here was Sherlock Holmes fighting off four attackers just round the corner from Baker Street," the Uber driver said about the situation, according to CNBC.
Oddly enough, that wasn't Cumberbatch's first experience with crime. Fourteen years earlier, he had been the victim of kidnapping and robbery while traveling in South Africa, and the details of the experience are genuinely terrifying.
The build up to the situation
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According to the "Fifth Estate" star, he and two friends had been filming the 2005 mini-series "To The Ends of the Earth" in Richards Bay, per Screen Rant. The trio decided it would be fun to learn how to scuba dive, and took a weekend trip to get their certifications. Though they were supposed to return to their filming location in the morning, Cumberbatch guiltily confessed that he convinced his colleagues to change their return itinerary and go that evening instead.
"It was cold, it was starting to get like a South African winter and I felt a little sick. I said, 'Guys, I think we should go back tonight instead of early tomorrow morning before we start filming Monday,'" he said in a WTF with Marc Maron podcast.
One friend pushed back at first, noting that it could be "kind of sketchy out there at night," especially since they would have to drive on an unstructured road for part of the journey. However, the three eventually decided to dismiss their concerns and head off despite the late hour.
This ended up being a very bad idea
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cumberbatch set the scene, explaining that the drive back was cold and dark. Worse, he said that the party felt on edge about driving on the unstructured road, especially since it was not known to be safe. But the big issue ended up not being other people on the road — it was the car itself.
"Poof, the front-right tire blows. So we got the spare, but that meant getting all of our luggage out. We were like sitting ducks," Cumberbatch recalled.
Once the "Imitation Game" actor and two friends removed the tire, six armed men emerged from out the bushes, shouting orders. "They were like: 'Look down! Look down! Put your hands on your heads! Look at the floor!' And they started frisking us and said: 'Where's your money? Where's your drugs? ... Where are your weapons?'"
Things soon got worse, and the situation morphed from a robbery to a kidnapping when the armed men bound Cumberbatch and his friends and threw them back into the car. They were going to a second location.
Never go to a second location
A common warning — sometimes attributed to a 1991 segment on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" — is to never go to a second location if being kidnapped. But Cumberbatch and his two friends had no choice. In the WTF podcast, Cumberbatch recalled that his hands were bound by his shoelaces, and he and his friends felt total fear after they were driven, off-road, for at least two hours. During this time, Cumberbatch complained to his captors that his limbs were getting numb. But whining about his situation was not the wisest move, as the "Current War" star was soon to find out.
In response to Cumberbatch's protests, he was thrown in the trunk of the car, still bound. However, he was able to use this to his advantage.
"Look, I'm going to be a problem for you because I might die. It's a small space, I can't breathe, I have a problem with being in a small space," Cumberbatch remembered he told his captors, banking on the fact that the men were not planning on seriously harming him or his friends.
When retelling the story, he explained that he thought his best chance at survival was convincing the men that dealing with injured or dead foreigners wasn't a "good idea," for their own sake as much as his own.
The (almost) end of the ordeal
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Cumberbatch's impassioned pleas got him out of the car trunk. But the respite didn't last long. Not long after the trunk fiasco, he and his friends were thrown out of the vehicle and onto the dirt ground. In perhaps the most horrific turn of events, the armed men ordered the three actors in the classic execution-style sitting position, per ET Online.
"I was scared, really scared. I said: 'What are you going to do with us? Are you going to kill us?' I was really worried that I was going to get raped or molested or just tortured or toyed with in some way," he confessed (via The Hollywood Reporter).
But the pit stop wasn't to hurt Cumberbatch or his friends. Instead, the armed men had finally arrived at a bank. The thieves had been unhappy that the actors had not carried cash on them and had decided to travel over two hours to a place where they could withdraw money using the trio's debit cards. After they were able to get their hands on cash, they disappeared.
But the night wasn't over yet. Cumberbatch and his colleagues did not know where they were and did not have any money, transportation, or phones to get help.
Getting home and looking back
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The "Doctor Strange" star and his two friends walked down the road until they came across a drive-in safari. Outside the entrance was a security guard, along with two women at a kiosk selling beaded bowls and wooden carvings. From there, the three actors were able to call the production company and waited until they were picked up.
"It really, really enriches your values in life," Cumberbatch said of his near-death experience, per The Hollywood Reporter. "I cried with gratitude." Moreover, the actor added that while he and his friends were shaken, they were incredibly fortunate that nothing worse had happened to them.
"Literally, the next day in the paper, there was a ... yeah a guy got killed at a road stop, and all that was in his car was a two-rand coin and a lighter," Cumberbatch recollected. "We were very lucky," he added in the WTF podcast.
Cumberbatch noted that afterward, he processed the trauma by becoming an adrenaline junkie as a way to feel in control of his mortality. He added that though he still sometimes gets those urges, his desire to stay safe and healthy for his family has helped him cope better.
However, he still has advice for anyone with a flat tire in a not-so-great part of town."You can run for quite a while on three tires, so for anyone listening, keep driving," he said.


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Bo, the Obama family dog, paws First Lady Michelle Obama's leg as she answers questions from children of White House staff members during a "Take Your Child To Work Day" event in the East Room of the White House, April 22, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Michelle Obama speaks to children in the East Room of the White House April 22, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama addressed and answered questions from children of Executive Office employees at the White House's annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
bo (& michelle) hosts white house reception
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Michelle Obama and Bo attend an event for children of White House employees on the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 22, 2010.
Mrs Obama's Washington
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Nice interview with Michelle Obama on Concierge.com – and there's a very, very nice video of Michelle and the one and only Bo on the website too
flashback….2009 easter egg roll
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can i come?
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President Barack Obama's family dog 'Bo' waits for the president on March 5, 2010 in Washington, DC.
this white stuff is, i dunno, bouncy?
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Bo, the Obama's family pet, plays in the snow during a blizzard on the south grounds of the White House, Feb. 10, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
dude, where's my lawn?
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Bo, the Obama family dog, plays in the snow in the Rose Garden of the White House, Feb. 8, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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First Lady Michelle Obama greets a young visitor touring the White House during a surprise visit in the Blue Room with family dog Bo on the anniversary of the inauguration, Jan. 20, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)
a year in the life…..
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Jan. 20, 2009 "President-elect Barack Obama was about to walk out to take the oath of office. Backstage at the U.S. Capitol, he took one last look at his appearance in the mirror."
Jan. 20, 2009 "We were on a freight elevator headed to one of the Inaugural Balls. It was quite chilly, so the President removed his tuxedo jacket and put it over the shoulders of his wife. Then they had a semi-private moment as staff members and a Secret Service agent tried not to look."
Feb. 1, 2009 "During a Super Bowl watching party in the White House theatre, the President and First Lady join their guests in watching one of the TV commercials in 3D."
Feb. 22, 2009 "This was the first formal function at the White House in the administration: the Governors Ball. The President dances with his wife while singing along with the band Earth, Wind and Fire."
March 2, 2009 "Washington had its first big snowstorm and I knew the girls were home from school. I suspected the girls might try to sled or make a snowman, so I asked the Usher's Office to call me if the girls headed outside. I got there just in time to catch the First Lady helping the girls sled down a hill on the South Lawn. This picture now hangs on the wall of the President's study."
March 5, 2009 "The President was walking back to the Oval Office when he encountered his daughters, Malia and Sasha, after they had returned home from school."
March 9, 2009 "To appreciate this photograph, one must know the iconic photograph by Stanley Tretick of John Kennedy Jr. crawling out from the trap door of this same desk while his father, President Kennedy, worked at the desk. Caroline Kennedy had stopped by to see President Obama, and when she mentioned that he was using the same desk as her father, the President immediately remembered the Tretick picture and tried to open the trap door. It was locked and no one had a key."
March 15, 2009 "The Obama family was introduced to a prospective family dog at a secret greet on a Sunday. After spending about an hour with him, the family decided he was the one. Here, the dog ran alongside the President in an East Wing hallway. The dog returned to his trainer while the Obama's embarked on their first international trip. I had to keep these photos secret until a few weeks later, when the dog was brought 'home' to the White House and introduced to the world as Bo."
April 7, 2009 "President Obama fist-bumps a U.S. soldier at Camp Victory in Baghdad. The President was treated to an overwhelming reception by the troops."
April 21, 2009 "President Obama escorts Sen. Edward Kennedy to the motorcade from the Oval Office en route to a national service event at the Seed School, where the President also signed the Kennedy Service Act."
May 8, 2009 "A temporary White House staffer, Carlton Philadelphia, brought his family to the Oval Office for a farewell photo with President Obama. Carlton's son softly told the President he had just gotten a haircut like President Obama, and asked if he could feel the President's head to see if it felt the same as his."
May 19, 2009 "The President was leaving the State Floor after an event and found Sasha in the elevator ready to head upstairs to the private residence. He decided to ride upstairs with her before returning to the Oval Office."
June 3, 2009 "This was at a fishing pond nearby Camp David. The President was relaxing while he watched his girls fish and ride canoes."
July 4, 2009 "President and Mrs. Obama were watching the Fourth of July fireworks from the roof of the White House. What a great vantage point to not only see the fireworks, but early watch the Foo Fighters who were performing on the South Lawn."
July 7, 2009 "Family dinner is usually private time. But I heard they were having dinner atop their hotel in Moscow, which overlooked the Kremlin. When they first sat down, Sasha was just having some fun with her dad."
July 11, 2009 "When I tell people this is the departure ceremony from Ghana, they ask 'why is he walking away from the plane.' His motorcade had just brought him to the airport, and the First Family was walking to the stage where he was to give his farewell remarks."
Aug. 14, 2009 "Fly fishing in Montana, the President and his guide react after both thought he had hooked a fish; unfortunately, he hadn't. Later the President joked that it was 'catch and release.'"
Aug. 25, 2009 "On vacation in Martha's Vineyard, the President shared a moment with his young niece, Sevita."
Oct. 8, 2009 "The President jockeys for a rebound with Congressmen during a basketball game at the White House. I think opponents are always surprised at how tough and competitive he can be."
Oct. 13, 2009 "Much to Sasha's chagrin, the President starts dancing to the music at the Fiesta Latina event on the South Lawn of the White House."
Oct. 30, 2009. "The President plays peek-a-boo with the daughter of White House staffer Emmitt Beliveau in the Outer Oval Office."
Nov. 5, 2009: "The shootings at Fort Hood had happening a few hours earlier. As meetings continued into the night, I walked outside the Oval Office to photograph looking back in as the President talked with one of his national security aides."
Dec. 3, 2009: "President Obama heads along the White House colonnade to the residence after leaving the Oval Office for the day."
Dec. 19, 2009 "We returned from Copenhagen to a huge snowstorm in Washington. At one point, it didn't even look like we could land at Andrews Air Force Base. Later that day, a Saturday, the President surveyed the snowfall from the Oval Office."
Dec. 19, 2009 "Snowball in hand, the President chases Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on the White House Colonnade. To escape, Rahm ran through the Rose Garden, which unfortunately for him, was knee-deep in snow."
Dec. 19, 2009 "The First Lady, Malia and Sasha were outside in the midst of the snowstorm playing with the family dog, Bo."
Dec. 24, 2009 "It was Christmas Eve. The Senate had voted early this morning to pass health care reform. The President was about to leave for Hawaii on vacation. Everyone was in a good mood as the Vice President talked to the President and Rob Nabors, the deputy director of OMB."
Dec. 29, 2009 "I thought this was an interesting juxtaposition between his role as a father, and his role as Commander in Chief. On vacation in Hawaii, here he is hugging his daughter Malia while NSC chief of staff Denis McDonough waits to connect him on the latest conference call following the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack."
Photographs and captions by White House photographer Pete Souza. See more here


Prequel to On The Lightning Trail and The Long Road Home. Before she became a cold-hearted vigilante, Sapphire learned the truth about revenge.
A sequel to On The Lightning Trail. Finding a new path is only the beginning and the road to finding home is longer than you might think.
The Sapphire teaches her young guard many lessons, but not all of them are happy ones. Part 3 of the Exiles series.
A very young Ruby works on building her garden while she reflects on life as she understands it. Sometimes there is insight in simplicity. Part 2 of the Exiles series.
Sapphire was created to be a special Gem, a gift from one Diamond to another. Her place in Gem society, her role, her fate - all these things were determined before she existed. Except no one could have predicted that a rogue Quartz would start a rebellion and shatter her Diamond. A mix of debilitating anxiety and depression, paired with unexpectedly weak ability in Foresight, has made her worthless to the society that made her. However, a place where she can serve some practical use has been found - out of sight and out of mind.
Keith may have equanimously taken up the role of Black Paladin, but his confidence is wavering. He's struggling to reconnect with his team. He's too used to doing things independently. He's two years more experienced in warfare, but two years less so in communicating. Maybe it's these things that make expressing himself so difficult – or maybe it's the inescapable kilometre of earth hovering over his head.
A simple scientific oopsie was all it took to drastically change the path of the war, and Keith and Lance are beginning to suspect it's that same sort of contravention they need to find their place in – or out – of the resulting mess. These Paladins of Voltron (Or Maybe Not) know that in the blackness of the universe there are many things to be wary of, but the law of attraction is very quickly becoming their greatest enemy – it is incredible, it is terrifying, and it is absolute.
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What a strange gift this little Polaroid camera was.
The future has a way of catching up with us all.
The Freshman Fifteen is supposed to be applicable only to students, but long distance and time are also supposed to spell the end for a romantic relationship. Ruby has refused the latter and inadvertently subverted the former, and Sapphire has most definitely noticed.


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Our Middleman in Havana
By Farah Halime
On a beach in Havana last year.
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Because you need a middleman to do business in Cuba.
Everyone on the commuter ferry to the tiny coastal village of Gezaulole in Tanzania recognized Michael Laverty. Not only was he one of a few foreigners living in the rural settlement, but Laverty's thrill-seeking demeanor had caught people's attention too. He had taught himself to ride a motorbike on the streets in full view of the community. "I was probably the only person in Tanzania with a Japanese motorcycle," he says.
Laverty, a die-hard adventurer, has spent close to a decade launching and managing businesses at the farthest edges of the investment universe. In Dar es Salaam, Laverty designed a research study to help antimalarial medicines reach the country's outermost villages. And in the midst of a civil war in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, he ran a logistics business and oversaw a downstream petroleum company with $5 million a week in turnover. His next challenge: fraught, difficult Cuba.
Michael Laverty
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This island nation, which for more than 50 years has been separated from the U.S. by just a 90-minute flight (and 90 miles of ocean), now holds the promise of opportunity in the globalized economy. Laverty, 34, has become an intermediary, sought after by the increasing number of Americans — investors, companies, politicians, even Hollywood stars — who are licking their chops, and not over rice and beans. He founded Havana Strategies with his brother, Collin, 33, last year, a company that acts as middleman for U.S. companies that want to move in on the Cuban market.
Though Cuba remains lined with 1950s cars, it's also seen an explosion of private enterprises since Obama and Castro kissed and made up.
They organize fact-finding missions and meetings with Cuban officials, help companies get government approval and brainstorm media strategy. Laverty's advised at least 15 different companies, half of them Fortune 500 firms, across the hospitality, aviation, technology and logistics industries. When Netflix held its company retreat and meeting (seriously) in Havana this April, all 285 employees were in the Laverty's hands. When Airbnb headed in, they called Havana Strategies; same with Facebook. (Neither Netflix nor Facebook wanted to comment; an Airbnb spokeswoman said the company's faced no major issues in setting up shop there.) The brothers, led by Collin at his sister business, helped arrange the logistics for a concert headlined by electronic music king Diplo.
Though Cuba remains lined with 1950s cars and its majority works for the state, living on ration books, it's also seen an explosion of private enterprises since December 17, the day President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raúl Castro, kissed and made up. Or at least approached frenemy status. The excitement of the brave new world reminds Laverty of the same thrill in South Sudan, post independence. He recalls his global business history with a tinge of cheekiness.
Still, huge barriers remain in Laverty's mission, like a wide-ranging economic and political embargo that's prevented most U.S. companies from doing business. Despite the excitement, American investment remains essentially notional — it was only in 2014 that the Department of Commerce approved $4.3 billion worth of business transactions; before that, details rarely saw the sun. Naturally, Laverty is careful to hedge his bets, saying he won't overpromise. The long timeline — two to five years to set up manufacturing, for instance — is a deterrent for some companies, who simply "move on," he says.
But Havana Strategies is overwhelmed with requests anyway, he says. The Denver-born Fordham alumnus and MIT Zaragoza graduate landed here thanks to a snap decision when his brother, a Cuba expert who's run the successful Cuba Educational Travel company since 2012, said he needed help managing an onslaught of new clients seeking to enter the island's market. "I had just got back from Africa, and I was tired and frustrated," Laverty says. But the fraternal call beckoned; he booked a flight the next day. Don't let the sprightly decisions cause you to call him an amateur. "It's not his first time to the rodeo," says Augusto Maxwell, Cuba Practice chair at Akerman, a U.S. law firm that, he says, helped Laverty with the Airbnb deal. Maxwell says Laverty's experience in other developing nations shows.
A rooftop swimming pool at the Hotel Saratoga, Havana, Cuba.
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A son of former "ski bums in Colorado," Laverty began his career adventure working for MIT Zaragoza's international logistics program, focusing on malaria in Tanzania, where he crossed paths with his future wife, 33-year-old Megumi Gordon, then deputy director of the malaria control team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative. So began a love affair between a development-sector power couple. Their marriage caused him to settle down, and in the two years since, he's briefly muffled his wanderlust. But one wonders what his itchy feet really look like since he travels back and forth from San Francisco to Havana every month. He's made about 30 trips so far.
But now comes the hard work. Laverty says several companies are still waiting for approval from the government … and fully normalizing economic relations with Cuba will fall to the next U.S. president. Cue the Trump drumroll. Even then, it will take several additional rounds of negotiations before fully lifting the embargo is a possibility. "You've got kind of a Cuba bubble right now," says Andrew Otazo, the executive director at Washington D.C.-based Cuba Study Group. "There's an exuberance." But American-Cuban relations remain tense. (Representatives from both the American and Cuban government declined comment.)
Laverty's ever the optimist. "We're lucky to be doing stuff in a place that is so sexy and sought after right now," he says. He points to the breadth of people drooling over the island as proof, from Diplo to the White House.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Akerman is a Cuban law firm and misstated who was responsible for a Diplo concert.
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Most families often underestimate or overlook what it costs for their student to attend college. Most families will rely totally on college websites where the published total cost of attending is shown. However, there are other costs that is overlooked once the student gets to the ivy-covered walls of their selected college or university.
Additional cost of joining a fraternity or sorority - including formal events, gifts for sorority or fraternity sisters or brothers and clothing etc.
Adding up all the additional college costs that are overlooked could cost the family several thousands of dollars over their students stay in college. Therefore,putting together a cash flow and tax plan to cover college costs is so important.


A few weeks ago, I was offered the opportunity to enjoy a meal on behalf of Sir Kensington's to test out their ketchup and report back to you. After doing my due diligence, I found out that their ingredient list is pretty impressive with no signs of HFCS or products made from concentrate. They boast a non-GMO project verified logo on their labels and have 50% less sugar compared to other national brands.
Our appetizer was an oak roasted bone marrow ($17) topped with a white shrimp escabeche, hearts of palm and tomato "jam". I was thrilled when V suggested we pick this as our first course because not many people can tongue the texture of marrow. Me? A personal favorite. I love to dip my crusty bread in the goop-like gelatin that can only begin to be described as rich and buttery.
It is actually funny to me how people (including myself) are willing to pay so much money for what was considered back then as "poor people" cuts of meat like oxtail and bone marrow. They were usually the cheapest at butchers and considered scraps for dogs and now are used as components of gourmet dishes. It is similar to how lobster was considered a mark for poverty ("rodents of the sea") and now it is not rare to see it priced higher than a good cut of steak.
Since Waterbar is known for their oysters, it only felt right to try one. I did not feel like I could put my body through one again but V said she is indifferent and tried the Beausoleil ($4.05) from New Brunswick. Our waitress told us it was the perfect starter oyster, she also mentioned that they offer Elegant Touch catering for all the sea food lovers. V approved and explained that it had a slight acidic taste and was firm without being too slimy.
PS: If I do ever eat an oyster again, it will be Grand Central Oyster Bar. My friend just came back from NYC and said they were ah-mazing. She also overhypes everything so time will tell.
Here she is posing before slurping. I wanted to show you the cool view of this cylindrical fish tank I had from my seat. It felt right since we were eating right along the Bay.
Her Wood Oven Roasted Alaskan Halibut ($38) accompanied by spring onion piperade, black mussels, fresh chickpeas and topped with Espelette chili looked incredibly mouth watering. So much so that I snuck a bite off her dish and found the fish really tender and moist. I loved eating the mussels with a dipped piece of crusty bread topped with the chili sauce.
I was in a mood for a steak, so I ordered the Spring Onion Crusted Ribeye Steak ($39) served with crisp Kennebec potato, haircots certs and a black truffle aïoli. The ribeye was a little hard to cut through although I ordered it medium rare and the star of the plate was the potatoes. Mmm…I loved the aïoli so much I wish I could bottle it and take it home with me.
Our VIP guest this evening was the Parmesan French Fries ($7) with the famous Sir Kensington's ketchup. These crunchy fries were a great side with my steak and I was not disappointed in the ketchup. It tasted less sugary than other ketchups I have tried and I really admire that. I also noticed that it was thick and great for dipping.
To have a meal without a vegetable side dish is tragic and that is where these artichokes (not on menu anymore) came into play. I was surprised at how much of a kick these had! I am all over anything spicy but I had to drink of water after a few bites.
We ended the night with a delicious Rhubarb Gâteau Basque ($10) with strawberries, vanilla bean chantilly and a red wine reduction. Rhubarb is one of my favorite components to a dessert and the fancy whip cream was heavenly.
An espresso was essential after a long night of eating and their staff was nice enough to bring out a post-meal amuse bouche of sea salt caramel chocolate bites.
Thank you Sir Kensington's for a fantastic dinner. I am now a fan and will pick up a jar the next time I am grocery shopping. Their product line includes more than just ketchup! Think spicy ketchup (mmm…chipotle), mayo and fancy mustard. They are available at grocery stores for all price ranges. Check their website to find a store near you.
Sir Kensington's company compensated this meal and all my opinions are always proudly my own.
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I'm kind of obsessed with ketchup so I would LOVE to try this place. And how can you go wrong with parmesan fries? haha. I've never had an oyster (I don't eat seafood) but I'm sure my husband would love to try them there!
Your photos are making me drool – such awesome eats! I am fascinated by those artichokes and the tomato "jam"!
i absolutely ketchup and this place would be awesome to try.
I looooove oysters! Well, I probably like all the various topping options you can get with oysters more than the actual oyster, but I've done them plain, too. I even had one at Hulk's birthday dinner the other night, which I forgot was a preggo no-no until after the fact. Oops.
That is an impressive gathering of restaurants who serve Sir Kensington's! I've only eaten at Fish, which was completely awesome. Waterbar is on my list the next time Hulk wants to spend a bunch of money on dinner for me, I run by it all the time!
THOSE FRIES YES. I ordered a double batch of duck fat fries from a resto around the corner from me so I could have some with dinner and bring the rest home so I had more for late night drunk eats. That is what I call dedication to the fry…Also I had a horrific allergic reaction to oysters a few months ago and haven't been able to try one since. I'm scared cause I've eaten oysters on my birthday for the last 10 years and now I'm starting to worry that 25 will be bad luck if I don't. Am I being too superstitious!?
I have to agree with Davs–THOSE FRIES. mmmmmmmm. And yeah a meal without any veggies just feels wrong. Or maybe it just looks less colorful? I don't know but good choice on the artichokes.
I looooove ketchup. I don't like going to restaurants that look down on you when you ask for it. So happy to see your list of restaurants that do!
Is it bad that I'm not the biggest ketchup fan? Sriracha all the way.
Those fries and the damn meat……..Yum yum yum.
All that food looks amazing! It must be SO fun to eat out like that and then have it all comped. 🙂 I'm sure your friend felt very lucky to be your guest of honor.


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Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium
Dong Wan Cho, Gihoon Kwon, Yong Sik Ok, Eilhann E. Kwon, Hocheol Song
In this study, pyrolysis of lignin impregnated with cobalt (Co) was conducted to fabricate a Co-biochar (i.e., Co/lignin biochar) for use as a catalyst for bromate (BrO3-) reduction. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was employed as a reaction medium in the pyrolysis to induce desired effects associated with CO2; (1) the enhanced thermal cracking of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evolved from the thermal degradation of biomass, and (2) the direct reaction between CO2 and VOCs, which resulted in the enhanced generation of syngas (i.e., H2 and CO). This study placed main emphases on three parts: (1) the role of impregnated Co in pyrolysis of lignin in the presence of CO2, (2) the characterization of Co/lignin biochar, and (3) evaluation of catalytic capability of Co-lignin biochar in BrO3- reduction. The findings from the pyrolysis experiments strongly evidenced that the desired CO2 effects were strengthened due to catalytic effect of impregnated Co in lignin. For example, the enhanced generation of syngas from pyrolysis of Coimpregnated lignin in CO2 was more significant than the case without Co impregnation. Moreover, pyrolysis of Coimpregnated lignin in CO2 led to production of biochar of which surface area (599 m2 g-1) is nearly 100 times greater than the biochar produced in N2 (6.6 m2 g-1). Co/lignin biochar produced in CO2 also showed a great performance in catalyzing BrO3- reduction as compared to the biochar produced in N2.
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00619
Published - 2017 Apr 19
bromate reduction
engineered biochar
lignin
pyrolysis
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Bromate Chemical Compounds 100%
Lignin Engineering & Materials Science 97%
Cobalt Engineering & Materials Science 90%
Pyrolysis Engineering & Materials Science 73%
Reduction Chemical Compounds 35%
Volatile organic compounds Engineering & Materials Science 21%
Volatile Organic Compound Chemical Compounds 20%
Thermal Cracking Chemical Compounds 13%
Cho, D. W., Kwon, G., Ok, Y. S., Kwon, E. E., & Song, H. (2017). Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(15), 13142-13150. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00619
Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium. / Cho, Dong Wan; Kwon, Gihoon; Ok, Yong Sik; Kwon, Eilhann E.; Song, Hocheol.
In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 9, No. 15, 19.04.2017, p. 13142-13150.
Cho, DW, Kwon, G, Ok, YS, Kwon, EE & Song, H 2017, 'Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 13142-13150. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00619
Cho DW, Kwon G, Ok YS, Kwon EE, Song H. Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 2017 Apr 19;9(15):13142-13150. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00619
Cho, Dong Wan ; Kwon, Gihoon ; Ok, Yong Sik ; Kwon, Eilhann E. ; Song, Hocheol. / Reduction of Bromate by Cobalt-Impregnated Biochar Fabricated via Pyrolysis of Lignin Using CO2 as a Reaction Medium. In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 2017 ; Vol. 9, No. 15. pp. 13142-13150.
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I'm Still Alive (em português: Ainda estou vivo) foi a canção que representou Eslováquia no Festival Eurovisão da Canção 2011 que teve lugar em Düsseldorf, na Alemanha, em 12 de maio desse ano.

A referida canção foi interpretada em Inglês (a primeira vez em que a Eslováquia não levou uma canção em eslovaco) pelas TWiiNS. Na segunda semi-final foi a segunda canção a ser interpretada, a seguir á canção da Bélgica "With Love Baby", cantada por Witloof Bay e antes da canção de Ucrânia "Angel", cantada por Mika Newton. Terminou a competição em 13º lugar com 48 pontos, não conseguindo passar á final.

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A letra menciona o facto que, para conseguirmos chegar aos nossos objectivos, temos de lutar e correr riscos, porque com força e empenho tudo se consegue e a tudo se sobrevive.

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  Página Oficial do Festival Eurovisão da Canção, história por ano, 2011
  Letra e outras informações sobre a canção
  I'm Still Alive em eurovision.tv

Canções do Festival Eurovisão da Canção