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Robert Kirkman est un auteur américain de comics, né le  dans le Kentucky. Il est connu pour son travail sur The Walking Dead, Invincible et Marvel Zombies.

Biographie

Les débuts
Robert Kirkman est né le  dans l'État américain du Kentucky. Au lycée, à Cynthiana, il fait la connaissance de Tony Moore, avec qui il va collaborer sur plusieurs projets. Souhaitant alors, sans idée précise, travailler dans l'univers des comics, il devient après le lycée, vendeur dans une boutique de comics.

Son premier comics est une parodie de superhéros appelée Battle Pope, sortie en . Cet ouvrage, créé avec son ami d'enfance, le dessinateur Tony Moore, a été auto-édité sous le label Funk-O-Tron. Robert Kirkman se rappelle : « Lorsque Tony Moore et moi avons fait Battle Pope, il était à l'université et j'avais un boulot alimentaire. Nous avons fait ce livre parce que nous le voulions, et il a rapporté juste assez d'argent pour payer sa publication ».

L'écriture de Robert Kirkman est remarquée par l'auteur de comics Erik Larsen, qui lui conseille de se rapprocher de l'éditeur Image Comics. Robert Kirkman en vient donc à réaliser le scénario d'un épisode de  avec le dessinateur Cory Walker.

Les deux artistes collaborent à nouveau sur une nouvelle série en 2002 : Invincible. Publiée chez Image Comics, elle reflète le désir de Robert Kirkman de créer un superhéros teenager. Les droits d'adaptation au cinéma sont achetés par la société de production Paramount Pictures en 2005.

La renommée grandissante avec The Walking Dead

En 2003, peu après le lancement de la série Invincible, Robert Kirkman s'attelle avec Tony Moore à un nouveau projet de série : The Walking Dead. Il s'agit de l'histoire d'une communauté de survivants dans des États-Unis infestés par les zombies. Au départ, le projet est fraîchement accueilli par les dirigeants d'Image Comics. Mais, année après année, ses ventes aux États-Unis augmentent régulièrement. En 2010, c'est même l'un des romans graphiques les plus vendus aux États-Unis. Un succès qui doit notamment à l'adaptation de la bande dessinée en série télévisée.

En , la chaîne câblée AMC a en effet annoncé qu'elle adaptait la série de comics, avec le réalisateur-scénariste Frank Darabont aux commandes. Robert Kirkman s'est vu attribuer le poste de producteur exécutif.

Des liens forts avec Image Comics

Pour ses influences en matière de comics, Robert Kirkman se définit comme un « kid des années 1990 » et cite les auteurs de Image Comics, maison d'édition fondée en 1992 : Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane et Rob Liefeld.

En , il est annoncé lors du Comic-Con que Robert Kirkman devient partenaire d'Image Comics. Cette nomination, une récompense pour sa fidélité à la maison d'édition, lui permet notamment d'exprimer ses vues sur les prochaines publications de l'éditeur.

Le , il annonce le lancement de Skybound Entertainment, une  marque de comics publiée par Image Comics, qui gère les droits audiovisuels de The Walking Dead et qu'il va diriger. C'est dans cette collection qu'il s'apprête à publier en  la série de science-fiction The Infinite, en collaboration avec Rob Liefeld.

Vie personnelle
Son attachement à l'univers des comics lui vaut de prénommer son fils, né le , "Peter Parker", l'identité officielle de Spider-Man.

Œuvres

Image Comics
 The Astounding Wolf-Man
 Brit
 Image United
 Invincible
 SuperPatriot
 Tech Jacket
 The Walking Dead
 Haunt
 Super Dinosaur
 Thief of Thieves
 Les Gardiens du Globe
 Outcast
 Oblivion Song

Marvel Comics
 Captain America
 Epic Anthology
 Fantastic Four: Foes
 The Irredeemable Ant-Man
 Jubilee
 Marvel Knights 2099
 Marvel Team-Up
 Marvel Zombies
 Marvel Zombies
 Marvel Zombies: Dead Days
 Marvel Zombies 2
 Sleepwalker
 Ultimate X-Men
 Destroyer Max 2

Romans
Les romans sont coécrits avec , aux éditions Le Livre de poche.
 The Walking Dead : L'Ascension du Gouverneur,
 The Walking Dead : La Route de Woodbury,
 The Walking Dead : La Chute du Gouverneur,
 The Walking Dead : La Chute du Gouverneur 2,
 The Walking Dead : L'ère du prédicateur,
 The Walking Dead : Invasion,
 The Walking Dead : Cherche et tue,
 The Walking Dead : Retour à Woodbury,

Autres éditions
 Battle Pope

Filmographie

 2023 : Renfield de Chris McKay (producteur, auteur de l'histoire)

Distinctions

 2010 : Prix Eisner de la meilleure série pour The Walking Dead (avec Charles Adlard) ;
 2010 : Prix Harvey de la meilleure série (avec Charles Adlard) et du meilleur scénariste pour The Walking Dead ;
 2012 : Prix Micheluzzi de la meilleure série de bande dessinée étrangère pour The Walking Dead ;
 2020 : Fauve d'honneur au festival d'Angoulême pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 .
 .

Liens externes

Scénariste américain de bande dessinée
Lauréat du prix Eisner de la meilleure série
Lauréat du prix Harvey du meilleur scénariste
Lauréat du prix Harvey de la meilleure série
Lauréat du prix Micheluzzi de la meilleure série étrangère
Naissance en novembre 1978
Naissance à Richmond (Kentucky)

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Rocco Nacino challenged to be an alpha male in 'Bar Boys'
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Rocco Nacino
I like it because it gets people thinking," said Rocco Nacino when asked to comment on the sexual suggestiveness of the title of his latest film, "Bar Boys."
"It's really a film about four guys. It's catchy," the actor said of the movie written and directed by Kip Oebanda. The film, however, has nothing to do with men who give sexual favors to bar customers. It tells the story of a group of men (played by Rocco, Carlo Aquino, Enzo Pineda and Kean Cipriano), whose friendship is challenged when three of them go to law school and one gets left behind.
They struggle to stick together. Their relationships reach a breaking point as they prepare for the most difficult test: passing the bar exam.
"For a time, I said, do we really want this title? I had to explain to people [what the film is about] all the time. After a while, I began to like it. Explaining it makes people more interested in it," Rocco told the Inquirer during the recent media launch for the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP), which features "Bar Boys" as one of the 12 finalists.
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Eratosthenes
276 BC[note 1]
Cyrene (in modern Libya)
194 BC (around age 82)[note 2]
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Founder of Geography
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz/; Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography, and he introduced some of the terminology still used today.[1]
He is best known for being the first person known to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by using the extensive survey results he could access in his role at the Library; his calculation was remarkably accurate.[2][3] He was also the first to calculate Earth's axial tilt, which also proved to have remarkable accuracy.[4] He created the first global projection of the world, incorporating parallels and meridians based on the available geographic knowledge of his era.
Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology;[5] he endeavoured to revise the dates of the main events of the semi-mythological Trojan War, dating the Sack of Troy to 1183 BC. In number theory, he introduced the sieve of Eratosthenes, an efficient method of identifying prime numbers.
He was a figure of influence in many fields. According to an entry[6] in the Suda (a 10th-century encyclopedia), his critics scorned him, calling him Beta (the second letter of the Greek alphabet) because he always came in second in all his endeavours.[7] Nonetheless, his devotees nicknamed him Pentathlos after the Olympians who were well rounded competitors, for he had proven himself to be knowledgeable in every area of learning. Eratosthenes yearned to understand the complexities of the entire world.[8]
The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene. Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis (North Africa), a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia. Alexander the Great conquered Cyrene in 332 BC, and following his death in 323 BC, its rule was given to one of his generals, Ptolemy I Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Under Ptolemaic rule the economy prospered, based largely on the export of horses and silphium, a plant used for rich seasoning and medicine.[1] Cyrene became a place of cultivation, where knowledge blossomed. Like any young Greek at the time, Eratosthenes would have studied in the local gymnasium, where he would have learned physical skills and social discourse as well as reading, writing, arithmetic, poetry, and music.[9]
Eratosthenes teaching in Alexandria by Bernardo Strozzi (1635)
Eratosthenes went to Athens to further his studies. There he was taught Stoicism by its founder, Zeno of Citium, in philosophical lectures on living a virtuous life.[10] He then studied under Aristo of Chios, who led a more cynical school of philosophy. He also studied under the head of the Platonic Academy, who was Arcesilaus of Pitane. His interest in Plato led him to write his very first work at a scholarly level, Platonikos, inquiring into the mathematical foundation of Plato's philosophies.[8] Eratosthenes was a man of many perspectives and investigated the art of poetry under Callimachus.[9] He wrote poems: one in hexameters called Hermes, illustrating the god's life history; and another in elegiacs, called Erigone, describing the suicide of the Athenian maiden Erigone (daughter of Icarius).[8] He wrote Chronographies, a text that scientifically depicted dates of importance, beginning with the Trojan War. This work was highly esteemed for its accuracy. George Syncellus was later able to preserve from Chronographies a list of 38 kings of the Egyptian Thebes. Eratosthenes also wrote Olympic Victors, a chronology of the winners of the Olympic Games. It is not known when he wrote his works, but they highlighted his abilities.
These works and his great poetic abilities led the pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes to seek to place him as a librarian at the Library of Alexandria in the year 245 BC. Eratosthenes, then thirty years old, accepted Ptolemy's invitation and traveled to Alexandria, where he lived for the rest of his life. Within about five years he became Chief Librarian, a position that the poet Apollonius Rhodius had previously held. As head of the library Eratosthenes tutored the children of Ptolemy, including Ptolemy IV Philopator who became the fourth Ptolemaic pharaoh. He expanded the library's holdings: in Alexandria all books had to be surrendered for duplication. It was said that these were copied so accurately that it was impossible to tell if the library had returned the original or the copy. He sought to maintain the reputation of the Library of Alexandria against competition from the Library of Pergamum. Eratosthenes created a whole section devoted to the examination of Homer, and acquired original works of great tragic dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.[8]
Eratosthenes made several important contributions to mathematics and science, and was a friend of Archimedes. Around 255 BC, he invented the armillary sphere. In On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies,[11] Cleomedes credited him with having calculated the Earth's circumference around 240 BC, with a high precision.[2]
Eratosthenes believed there was both good and bad in every nation and criticized Aristotle for arguing that humanity was divided into Greeks and barbarians, as well as for arguing that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure.[12] As he aged, he contracted ophthalmia, becoming blind around 195 BC. Losing the ability to read and to observe nature plagued and depressed him, leading him to voluntarily starve himself to death. He died in 194 BC at 82 in Alexandria.[9]
Scholarly career
Measurement of Earth's circumference
Main article: Earth's circumference § Eratosthenes
Measure of Earth's circumference according to Cleomedes' simplified version, based on the approximation that Syene is on the Tropic of Cancer and on the same meridian as Alexandria
The measurement of Earth's circumference is the most famous among the results obtained by Eratosthenes,[13] who estimated that the meridian has a length of 252,000 stadia (39,060-40,320 km), with an error on the real value between −2.4% and +0.8% (assuming a value for the stadion between 155 and 160 metres).[2] Eratosthenes described his arc measurement technique,[14] in a book entitled On the measure of the Earth, which has not been preserved. However, a simplified version of the method has been preserved, as described by Cleomedes.[15]
The simplified method works by considering two cities along the same meridian and measuring both the distance between them and the difference in angles of the shadows cast by the sun on a vertical rod (a gnomon) in each city at noon on the summer solstice. The two cities used were Alexandria and Syene (modern Aswan), and the distance between the cities was measured by professional bematists.[16] A geometric calculation reveals that the circumference of the Earth is the distance between the two cities divided by the difference in shadow angles expressed as a fraction of one turn.
19th-century reconstruction of Eratosthenes' map of the (for the Greeks) known world, c. 194 BC
See also: History of geodesy and history of longitude
Eratosthenes now continued from his knowledge about the Earth. Using his discoveries and knowledge of its size and shape, he began to sketch it. In the Library of Alexandria he had access to various travel books, which contained various items of information and representations of the world that needed to be pieced together in some organized format.[17] In his three-volume work Geography (Greek: Geographika), he described and mapped his entire known world, even dividing the Earth into five climate zones:[18] two freezing zones around the poles, two temperate zones, and a zone encompassing the equator and the tropics.[19] He had invented geography. He created terminology that is still used today. He placed grids of overlapping lines over the surface of the Earth. He used parallels and meridians to link together every place in the world. It was now possible to estimate one's distance from remote locations with this network over the surface of the Earth. In the Geography the names of over 400 cities and their locations were shown, which had never been achieved before.[1] However, his Geography has been lost to history, although fragments of the work can be pieced together from other great historians like Pliny, Polybius, Strabo, and Marcianus.
The first book was something of an introduction and gave a review of his predecessors, recognizing their contributions that he compiled in the library. In this book Eratosthenes denounced Homer as not providing any insight into what he now described as geography. His disapproval of Homer's topography angered many who believed the world depicted in the Odyssey to be legitimate.[8][20] He also commented on the ideas of the nature and origin of the Earth: he thought of Earth as an immovable globe while its surface was changing. He hypothesized that at one time the Mediterranean had been a vast lake that covered the countries that surrounded it and that it only became connected to the ocean to the west when a passage opened up sometime in its history.
The second book contains his calculation of the circumference of the Earth. This is where, according to Pliny, "The world was grasped." Here Eratosthenes described his famous story of the well in Syene, wherein at noon each summer solstice, the Sun's rays shone straight down into the city-center well.[21] This book would now be considered a text on mathematical geography.
His third book of the Geography contained political geography. He cited countries and used parallel lines to divide the map into sections, to give accurate descriptions of the realms. This was a breakthrough and can be considered the beginning of geography. For this, Eratosthenes was named the "Father of Modern Geography."[17]
Eratosthenes was described by the Suda Lexicon as a Πένταθλος (Pentathlos) which can be translated as "All-Rounder", for he was skilled in a variety of things: He was a true polymath. He was nicknamed Beta because he was great at many things and tried to get his hands on every bit of information but never achieved the highest rank in anything; Strabo accounts Eratosthenes as a mathematician among geographers and a geographer among mathematicians.[22]
Eusebius of Caesarea in his Preparatio Evangelica includes a brief chapter of three sentences on celestial distances (Book XV, Chapter 53). He states simply that Eratosthenes found the distance to the Sun to be "σταδίων μυριάδας τετρακοσίας καὶ ὀκτωκισμυρίας" (literally "of stadia myriads 400 and 80,000") and the distance to the Moon to be 780,000 stadia. The expression for the distance to the Sun has been translated either as 4,080,000 stadia (1903 translation by E. H. Gifford), or as 804,000,000 stadia (edition of Edouard des Places, dated 1974–1991). The meaning depends on whether Eusebius meant 400 myriad plus 80,000 or "400 and 80,000" myriad. With a stade of 185 m (607 ft), 804,000,000 stadia is 149,000,000 km (93,000,000 mi), approximately the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Eratosthenes also calculated the Sun's diameter. According to Macrobious, Eratosthenes made the diameter of the Sun to be about 27 times that of the Earth.[17] The actual figure is approximately 109 times.[23]
During his time at the Library of Alexandria, Eratosthenes devised a calendar using his predictions about the ecliptic of the Earth. He calculated that there are 365 days in a year and that every fourth year there would be 366 days.[24]
He was also very proud of his solution for Doubling the Cube. His motivation was that he wanted to produce catapults. Eratosthenes constructed a mechanical line drawing device to calculate the cube, called the mesolabio. He dedicated his solution to King Ptolemy, presenting a model in bronze with it a letter and an epigram.[25] Archimedes was Eratosthenes' friend and he, too, worked on the war instrument with mathematics. Archimedes dedicated his book The Method to Eratosthenes, knowing his love for learning and mathematics.[26]
Sieve of Eratosthenes: algorithm steps for primes below 121 (including optimization of starting from the prime's square).
Main articles: Sieve of Eratosthenes and primality test
Eratosthenes proposed a simple algorithm for finding prime numbers. This algorithm is known in mathematics as the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
In mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes (Greek: κόσκινον Ἐρατοσθένους), one of a number of prime number sieves, is a simple, ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to any given limit. It does so by iteratively marking as composite, i.e., not prime, the multiples of each prime, starting with the multiples of 2. The multiples of a given prime are generated starting from that prime, as a sequence of numbers with the same difference, equal to that prime, between consecutive numbers. This is the sieve's key distinction from using trial division to sequentially test each candidate number for divisibility by each prime.
Eratosthenes was one of the most pre-eminent scholarly figures of his time, and produced works covering a vast area of knowledge before and during his time at the Library. He wrote on many topics—geography, mathematics, philosophy, chronology, literary criticism, grammar, poetry, and even old comedies. Unfortunately, there are no documents left of his work after the destruction of the Library of Alexandria.[22]
Platonikos
Erigone
Chronographies
Olympic Victors
Περὶ τῆς ἀναμετρήσεως τῆς γῆς (On the Measurement of the Earth)[27] (lost, summarized by Cleomedes)
Гεωγραϕικά (Geographika)[22] (lost, criticized by Strabo)
Arsinoe (a memoir of queen Arsinoe; lost; quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae)
Ariston (concerning Aristo of Chios' addiction to luxury); lost; quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae)[28]
The Catasterismi (Katasterismoi), a collection of Hellenistic myths about the constellations, was attributed to Eratosthenes.
Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 – c. 230 BC), a Greek mathematician who calculated the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Eratosthenes (crater) on the Moon.
Eratosthenian period in the lunar geologic timescale.
Eratosthenes Seamount in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Eratosthenes Point in Antarctica.
Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC), a Greek mathematician who measured the radii of the Sun and the Moon as well as their distances from the Earth.
Posidonius (c. 135 – c. 51 BC), a Greek astronomer and mathematician who calculated the circumference of the Earth.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Paul Capital Investments recently appointed Dan Townsend, formerly of Rock Hill, as a principal of the firm.
Townsend joins as a senior member of the co-investment team led by Dana O'Brien, and will be based in New York. Townsend worked nine years with GE Asset Management, where he was vice president in the International Private Equity Group. He worked four years at GE Trading supporting General Electric's international industrial sales and two years as part of the GE manufacturing leadership program.
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Roy Keane Absolutely Tears Into 'Embarrassing' United Players For Liverpool Loss
Manchester United's loss to Liverpool last weekend made for remarkable viewing, but there was one way it could have been even more dramatic. There was a massive Roy Keane shaped hole in the Sky Sports studio.
We could only imagine the type of humblings the Cork man would have been handing out. While we have had to wait almost a week, we have now found out the opinion of Roy Keane on the match.
Speaking on Sky Sports ahead of United's meeting with Spurs this evening, Roy Keane slammed the Manchester United players for giving up on the pitch, only to then spend the week apologising to the supporters.
🗣 "A lot rubbish coming out from players, apologies left right and centre, it's no good, It's all rubbish."
Roy Keane doesn't sugar coat his assessment of the current situation at Manchester United following the Liverpool defeat pic.twitter.com/B8fVG6Ze0D
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) October 30, 2021
It was an embarrassing performance.
I heard Bryan Robson speak during the week, who was obviously a great player for Man United and a man who is full of courage, and he felt the players gave up. I think that's the biggest insult you can give to a professional footballer, it's unacceptable.
A lot of talk and rubbish this week coming out of players, apologies left right and centre. It's no good, it's rubbish. All these apologies coming out from 'team Rashford' and [Harry] Maguire, Fernandes a few weeks ago when he missed the penalty against Aston Villa.
Just get on with the game, turn up and give everything you've got for the club. They didn't do that last week.
Their performances haven't been great this season, they've been giving up a lot of chances. Remember the previous week that they gave up four at Leicester who aren't exactly at the top of their game.
I wouldn't say I was shocked, but this idea of players giving up, I think that's the worst insult you can have as a professional footballer...
Roy Keane was especially scathing of the Man Utd defence.
Maguire and [Luke] Shaw last week, they were a disgrace. An absolute disgrace to the club, and these are established international footballers. Wan-Bissaka, I don't think Palace would even take him back. He has no feel for the ball or decision making.
What United have always had through the years, whatever about talent, was players with character and personality. I don't see it with this group.
I heard Maguire talking during the week, he was like a robot. He was saying 'I apologise to the fans', there was no emotion behind it. These guys are on the back of a good Euros for England so they have turned up for big matches. Shaw has fallen back into his old habits from a few years ago.
I'm fed up with this chat after games and people apologising. Harry Maguire talking about 'we need to come together as a group', no you need to sort your game out! If you're going to be the leader of that group you need to do the basics right and do your own job.
People are saying he might not be fit. Might not be fit? He gave a goal away against Leicester that had nothing to do with fitness, it was a lack of professionalism and not doing his job properly.
🗣 "Wan-Bissaka I don't even think Palace would take him back."
🗣 "I heard Maguire talking, he was like a robot."
Roy Keane is very critical of the Manchester United defenders after their performance and reaction pic.twitter.com/Pf5SAfT77d
We didn't expect him to pull any punches and Roy Keane certainly didn't disappoint.
It's tough to disagree with anything he said.
SEE ALSO: Harry Redknapp Thinks Roy Keane Is The Man To Sort Out Manchester United
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Q: How to destroy (or use) large amount of polluted water? In my actual Asteroid, I have a huge amount of polluted water.
What is the best way to destroy it (free the space) or use it in large amounts to get the space quickly?
(I don't need to purify it, because I can use several Steam Geysers. Do you have any other ideas?)

A: I would use it in the fertilizer synthesizer.
1) This produces natural gas, which can be used with the natural gas generator to make power.  (The N.G. generator also produces more polluted water, but much less than the fertilizer generators consume).
2) You'll get a lot of fertilizer that you don't need, but storage seems to be unlimited if you just leave solid items on the ground.

A: I believe you can boil polluted water to get steam and it will drop polluted dirt. Then you can compost the polluted dirt and do whatever you want with the steam

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Founders Brewing to expand distribution footprint to Tennessee
admin 16 March 2014
Founders Brewing, a Michigan-based craft brewery, is set to expand its distribution footprint to four major metropolitan areas of Tennessee in April 2014.
The four areas include Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Founders will initially roll out its year-round and seasonal products on draft, followed by bottles and specialty releases.
For distribution in Tennessee, the brewery has partnered with a network of distributors.
Founders Brewing co-founder and CEO Mike Stevens said they have been distributing in most of the states surrounding Tennessee for years.
"Beer enthusiasts in Tennessee have been growing the craft beer scene, and they've been patient with us. We're excited to be able to bring our beer to them," Stevens added.
The Tennessee neighbours a cluster of states including Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas, where the brewery recently launched its products.
The addition of Tennessee brings the brewery's total distribution footprint to 31 states.
In 2013, Founders Brewing reached 111,000-barrel production capacity, a 63% increase over previous year's production.
For 2014, the brewery is aiming to produce 180,000 barrels of beer.
Image: Map showing new states of distribution for Founders Brewing. Photo: courtesy of Founders Brewing Co.


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Osweiler run out of town as Broncos realize they got the better deal with Siemian
By: Woody Paige
DENVER -- The Broncos were Brockbusters.
They rode Brock Osweiler hard and put him away wet, and wasted, at the end of Monday evening.
Brock was humiliated, decimated, aggravated and exasperated by the end of the Broncos' 27-9 victory at Mile High Stadium.
The Broncos had not ''killed'' Brockweiler, as linebacker Brandon Marshall had facetiously suggested last week, but he was terminated.
Brock's Texans did not score a touchdown, but led his team to three measly field goals.
Brock threw 41 times for 131 yards (at least 60 were in compost time) and finished with the second worst yards per attempt (3.285) for at least 40 passes thrown in the history of the NFL.
(The holder of the mark, Jesse Palmer, appears on KMGH on ""Good Morning America'' daily.)
It is well to remember that months ago Osweiler ran out of Denver to join Houston for 72 million reasons.
He was run out of town on Monday night for one reason. He couldn't stand up to the Broncos' defensive prowess.
It also should be pointed out that even though Osweiler's contract with the Texas is four years, $72 million, ""only'' $37 million is guaranteed in the first two years ($21 mil this season).
So, the Texans probably already are contemplating L.A.O. (Life After Osweiler) in 2018 when they can get out from under the remaining $35 million.
"Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make,'' John Elway said many weeks ago in regard to Osweiler. The Broncos' offer to the quarterback certainly wasn't in the Texans' territory, and they ended up with Trevor Siemian and his half-mil salary for this year.
Who got the best deal?
Aqib Talib, who doesn't mince words except when it involves his off-field activities, said after that the game that Siemian is a better QB than Osweiler.
Neither Osweiler or Siemian is Elway or Peyton Manning, but, then, the Broncos were very fortunate to have two of the five greatest quarterbacks ever in the league. Not many other franchises are so lucky. (Perhaps Pittsburgh with Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger, San Francisco with Joe Montana and Steve Young, Dallas with Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. Not the Chicago Bears, though, or the Houston Texans.)
Aqib, it must be presumed, shot himself in the leg.
Brock, it was witnessed Monday night, shot himself in both feet.
But, then, it was a setup game. The Broncos' defense knew all about Osweiler after seeing him every day in practice. They knew he held onto the ball too long. They knew he didn't know what to do when his first choice was covered. They knew he wasn't a reader of defenses as Manning had been. They knew he could be pressured and stressed, and he would make mistakes. They knew he had never faced the Broncos' defense in a business situation.
And they obviously knew that even though he was smidgen over 6-foot-7, Osweiler throws like someone much shorter. He tends to drop his right arm into a three-quarter release point. As a result, his passes can be blocked. Twice in the fourth quarter defensive linemen pulled up, waited and blocked Osweiler's passes. After the last, Osweiler apologized to his receiver.
The Broncos knew.
You don't think that a Wise Old Man, Wade Phillips, wouldn't know all of Brock's tendencies and predispositions. Of course he knew.
Brock never had a chance.
Didn't he look at the 2016 schedule before he chose to sign with the Texans? Brock always was a nice guy from Montana, a good basketball player who decided on football, a strong-armed young man with natural athletic ability. But he is not a gifted, experienced quarterback. He is, and would have been with the Broncos, an average NFL quarterback, but the Broncos have a defense He probably will fail with the Texans, as all his predecessors in Houston have. He plays fine at home, awful on the road. Maybe he's an indoor guy (re: basketball player). Too bad the Texans can't play all their road games in domed stadiums. (Whoops! They were blown out in Minnesota).
Monday night was Thanksgiving dinner for the Broncos, and Brock was the roasted turkey. Preventing him from scoring even one touchdown pass was the gravy.
Now, we can all move on.
Philip Rivers is next, and he's not a gobble goober.
The Broncos also have Tom Brady coming to Colorado, and Derek Carr, and, uh, Alex ""Game Manager'' Smith. There's enough to worry about.
Ichabod Crane has left the building. Brock has come and gone.
In another blockbuster performance by the Broncos' defense, Brock was busted badly.


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Clinician and Managed Care Insights on Biosimilars for Inflammatory Diseases - Episode 7
Cost and Prescribing Considerations for Biosimilars
EP. 1: Knowledge Gaps With Biosimilars
EP. 2: Differences Between Biosimilars and Generic Drugs
EP. 3: Approval Process for Biosimilars
EP. 4: Naming of Biosimilars
EP. 5: Clinical Experience With Biosimilars
EP. 6: Use of Biosimilars in Inflammatory Diseases
EP. 7: Cost and Prescribing Considerations for Biosimilars
EP. 8: Variables Affecting Cost for Biosimilars
EP. 9: Formulary Considerations for Biosimilars
EP. 10: Challenges in Discussing Biosimilars With Patients
EP. 11: Clinician Awareness of Future Biosimilars
EP. 12: The Future of Biosimilars and Managing Inflammatory Diseases
Peter L. Salgo, MD: Should it, in the absence of any clinical difference, simply be a price issue with you guys?
Allan Gibofsky, MD: Well, it is a price issue.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: OK, fair enough.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: When you think of the factors that go into the rationale for developing biosimilars, it was to decrease cost.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: I didn't mean that to be a pejorative. I meant that to be an advantage.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: No, no, it's not. It's not at all. And when you think of the factors that go into a physician's choice of what therapeutic to use, it's efficacy, safety, adherence, tolerability, individual patient characteristics, and cost. And, by definition, a biosimilar can't compete on efficacy. It can't compete on safety. It can't compete on tolerability. It can't compete on adherence (because it's the same schedule of administration). It's not going to differ from patient to patient in terms of who you can and can't use it in. So, you're left with the cost. It does become a financial factor in defining what it is we use and when we use it.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: That's not a bad thing.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: No, not at all.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: If you get something that works just as well and it's less expensive, where's the problem here? There's no problem.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: There's no problem unless there is a switch and the patient doesn't respond to the switch medication as well as they did to the original medication.
Vibeke Strand, MD: Or that the price savings doesn't get translated to the patient at all.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: Let's address this. Yes, maybe the co-pay is the same, but this is what Gary was talking about. If the entire system saves money so that more people get effective treatment for the same cost, doesn't that benefit everybody?
Cole Wilson, PharmD: Yes, it absolutely does. I think the topics that we're talking about here, especially when you start looking into the ambulatory space, deal with what these products are costing. And the underlying term, here, is the word rebates. And so now we have pharmaceutical manufacturers who are offering monetary discounts to a pharmacy benefit manager who is then sharing those savings with the payer. These discounts, or these rebates, can often affect the pricing of the drug significantly up to 50% of the cost.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: And again, to some degree, they are being driven by the fact that there are less expensive products that are biosimilars.
Cole Wilson, PharmD: Correct.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: Right.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: In terms of the formulary, are biosimilars going to be compared with and placed on the same tier, if you will, as the original drugs?
Allan Gibofsky, MD: No. I think that to the extent that now we see managed care companies tiering TNFs (tumor necrosis factors), for example, I think we're going to see the same tiering based on the biosimilars within that class. So, if previously I had to use Remicade before I could use etanercept, now I'm going to have to use Inflectra before I can use the biosimilar, etanercept, for the same reason.
Vibeke Strand, MD: But that also might change at not even every year but every 6 months, depending on what's being tiered.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: With each contract.
Vibeke Strand, MD: What contract? We're not privy to any of those pieces of information.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: What we're getting then, I hear, is that under the radar is the flip-flopping of biosimilars because they've been shown to be similar. But there may be price differences. And so, people are going to get switched, at least in part, based on price.
Vibeke Strand, MD: And we'll never have a biosimilar versus biosimilar comparison, clinically, to look at.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: Because it's not set up that way, right?
Vibeke Strand, MD: Right.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: Gary used the euphemism "nonmedical switching." That euphemism is used to refer to the case when you're switching a patient for reasons other than clinical efficacy and, predominantly, because of price.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: Well, if you're doing that, is it necessarily bad, Mr Plan Administrator? Is it really bad to do a nonmedical switch if the evidence suggests that there's no medical difference?
Cole Wilson, PharmD: Just as the biosimilars are unique, your process through P&T (pharmacy and therapeutics) is going to be completely unique for these agents. What does the clinical evidence say? We always start there. Do the product qualities even match our needs? There are certain originator products that come out in vials, but maybe the biologic comes out in syringes. Are we going to have to use more syringes that then negate the cost savings that we had? There are just multiple factors that play into the use, and it's difficult to say, "Is one agent going to be preferred over another?" You almost have to look at each individually and make that assessment.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: If the biosimilars are cheaper, and we would like everybody to be on this class of drugs but we couldn't put everybody on them because they were very expensive, and now the price is coming down, does the introduction of biosimilars mean that patients, many patients, are going to get put on the best drugs earlier?
Allan Gibofsky, MD: Well, we don't really know.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: This is terrible. Everybody says, "We don't really know."
Allan Gibofsky, MD: Peter, we don't really know because we haven't yet seen the reduction in cost in the United States leading to an increase in access. I don't think, as Vibeke commented earlier, that it's going to change our algorithms and guidelines for how we do things. And it's not going to change the prior authorization requirements for getting a drug to a patient.
Vibeke Strand, MD: Well, we wish it would.
Allan Gibofsky, MD: We wish it would, but we don't really know.
Peter L. Salgo, MD: In answer to my question, you've got a wish list, and that's one of the wishes?
Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD: Right. In the UK, it did as was referred to. This is with something that is a different structure as to payment and approval. If we follow that, then perhaps it will. And that's part of the hope.
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Designing the Future: A Future Tense event recap.
Prasad Boradkar and Mark Chichester speak at a Future Tense event on design.
Nearly 2 million people in the United States use wheelchairs. Users can spend an enormous amount of time in their chairs, navigating city streets, taking public transportation, working on computers, eating dinner, watching movies—all the normal things that people do on a daily basis. The problem? Powered wheelchairs are uncomfortable, difficult to use, ugly, and ridiculously expensive. They can cost as much as a decent automobile (high-end models can be upward of $30,000), but come with none of the conveniences that you expect from a car. This is an important health care issue, an access issue, an equity issue, maybe even a safety issue—and it's also a design issue.
Design is about making beautiful and efficient objects like smartphones and skyscrapers, about shaping the environment to suit our manifold needs and preferences. But good design is also about creating a world that is safer, more equitable, and sustainable. If the things we make can influence our world and how we live in it, how do we ensure that we are creating a better future? Purposeful design tackles that challenge, identifying and creatively solving problems—like bringing the design of the powered wheelchair into the 21st century.
When it comes to innovative design, figuring out the problem to be solved might be even more important than the solution. This initial part of the process is full of ambiguity and requires an intimate understanding of the context: the existing products, the market, the users, their environment, and how all of these interact and function in real life. Boradkar cited his early work for Vespa in India, where the uses imagined by the Italian company (think Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday) are perhaps not quite how an Indian family would utilize a scooter when negotiating the crowded streets of Mumbai. The key questions are about how to make products more responsive to the user's needs, and the answers are where the value of good design resides.
Boradkar highlighted the ethnographic techniques used by anthropologists, such as observation, interviews, and auto-ethnography, as particularly important for coming up with useful designs. For example, the shortcomings of powered wheelchairs may not be apparent, particularly to those who don't depend on them. Thus Boradkar's students at ASU's InnovationSpace worked with people who use wheelchairs to determine how they could be improved. They discovered that one way would be to integrate a smartphone or tablet into the chair's design so that the user could operate the phone. Boradkar's student team designed a headrest equipped with Bluetooth speakers and microphones for private phone conversations, along with a camera on the back of the chair. The video feed is sent to the phone or iPad so that the user, who may not be able to turn her neck, can see what's behind her when backing up.
Chichester emphasized the success of this team-based, transdisciplinary approach at Ammunition Group. Part of the reason Ammunition, founded by famed designer Robert Brunner in 2007, has been so successful is the firm's attentiveness to our interactions with the objects in our lives. With headphones, for instance, people care about not just how the music sounds in their ears, but also how the product relates to their personal style. Beats' creators are immersed in the music world and Chichester is a DJ himself, so the team was intensely focused on the experience of listening to music through headphones—but Beats' success is rooted in a design philosophy that values the relationship between people and things.


Many Communists, propagandists, useful idiots and other assorted anti-constitutional politicians promote the lie that America leads the world in mass shootings. They do this especially following a mass shooting in the States, especially one at a school. Not only do they fail to realize that many of their own actions have made America's schools soft targets by implementing them as "gun free zones," a place where more than 90% of mass shootings take place in America, but they often lie about the numbers they quote and completely disregard the verifiable evidence of just how much worse it is outside the USA. So, in a recent op-ed, John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and Michael Weisser, former professor of history at Columbia University, have sought to set the record straight.
Pointing to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah's words, "The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world" and then pointed to a then-unpublished paper by criminologist Adam Lankford.
The two then pointed to a new report that was put out by Lott's Crime Prevention Research Center. That report uses the very same definition of mass public shootings that Lankford also used.
That's interesting, isn't it? You see, quite often in the media, they will attempt to cite raw numbers without pulling back and seeing the big picture, which then, makes the case more clearly for those who support the right to keep and bear arms and for the government to have no say in restricting or regulating those arms.
I've written about those like Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and citing bad data from lying Michael Bloomberg organizations. I've pointed out incredible mass shootings that virtually no one talks about anymore, including two of the deadliest school shootings in history that occurred outside the US, one that claimed over 2,000 lives and another that resulted in over 300 killed and over 800 injured.
All of the talk about gun confiscation, gun control and mass shootings in the media and from politicians is for one end, and that end is so that law-abiding citizens are left defenseless and the government and criminals are the ones with guns, and we all know how that turns out when it's accomplished.
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Redpoint Ventures Gets an Energy CTO, Readies for Cleantech Geekout
Josie Garthwaite Mar 23, 2009 - 5:42 PM CDT
President Barack Obama isn't the only one who thinks cleantech entrepreneurs have a big role to play in rebuilding the U.S. economy. Redpoint Ventures seems to agree — and it's betting that a deeper understanding of technologies for clean energy generation, storage and efficiency will help it capitalize on the opportunity. The venture capital firm has just brought Nety Krishna, former CTO of semiconductor giant Applied Materials (s AMAT), on board to serve as CTO of its energy and materials practice.
Redpoint tells us Krishna, a physicist, will be working with entrepreneurs to develop and scale innovations that "have the potential to significantly impact the economics of energy industries over the long term," seeking out a range of energy investments and getting chummy with top scientists.
It's a new position at Redpoint and a sign of the firm's plan to dig deep into energy technologies for large-scale applications and lower costs. Krishna said in a release from the company, "Energy and environment issues are becoming mission-critical for a variety of industrial sectors. As a result, there are tremendous opportunities for creative solutions and innovative business models to address these global growth and climate challenges."
While its better known for investing in web companies like Ask.com and MySpace, Redpoint also moved early on to back solar panel maker Solyndra, which impressed the Department of Energy enough to win it the first loan guarantee offer under a much-delayed program last week. Redpoint's effort to develop more expertise in ramping up manufacturing and driving down production costs for clean energy could be a boon to Solyndra, which has pledged to do just that with its $535 million loan guarantee.


Many of you ask me if spell casting really works or is it hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo and superstition, is it something we can have a little dabble into for fun and amusement? Spell casting in ANY form should not be treated lightly.
Can we charm a lover to fall at our feet and adore us? Yes: in the hands of an adept these things can be achieved.
BE WARNED! To use magic to alter a person's free will is unethical and dangerous.
Let us assume that you want to cast a spell on a guy who perhaps is already in a relationship, or a guy who is friendly with you but not "in love" with you. You (or someone acting on your behalf) casts a spell to bind this guy and yourself together. The guy comes forward, besotted with you. Then maybe five years down the line, he turns out to be an alcoholic, maybe he becomes violent, and you want to leave him. But because of the spell casting you would find it near impossible to find the courage and strength to leave.
This is Karma, cause and effect. A very high price to pay if you ask me! Used unwisely or in the form of DARK magic, spell casting can bring catastrophic consequences to the sender and the receiver.
I am delighted to share with you the spell information below. You will notice that Rex calls upon his relatives in spirit to guide him in his spell work whereas I work in the feminine and call upon the Angels, the Goddess and the higher beings. You may call upon whomever you want so long as you feel "loved" by the spirit you are calling to.
Before doing any magical spells there are several things that must be done.
First of all you have to make a 'Sacred Space'. This can be a quiet area in your own room or even a very large tray. But it must be private and only for you.
You will need a white cloth or large velvet one as a base for your altar.
Then you will require two candle holders. The candles themselves can be Blue, Dark Blue, Indigo. or even Purple if you cannot obtain the Blue ones.
Next you need to have a small container of salt, making sure that it is NOT metal. Next you must have a bowl of water; ordinary tap water will do nicely.
Now arrange the Sacred Space or Circle thus. Put one candle at each end of the altar, making sure that it is safe and steady.
Next place the container of salt halfway between the candles, and the bowl of water near to the salt. If you possess a crystal, place this on the altar also as it will enhance the power of the spell.
delighted to share with you the spell information below, you will notice that Rex calls upon his relatives in spirit to guide him in his spell work where as I work in the feminine and call upon the Angels, the Goddess and the higher beings. You may call upon whomever you want so long as you feel "loved" by the spirit who you are calling to.
There is actually a FIFTH and very often forgotten element. This element is SPIRIT, which is the very SPIRIT of the person casting the spell!
Once you have everything in place, make sure that you feel really comfortable with the 'Sacred Space', for in fact this is actually your work place!
When you are comfortable with everything you MUST 'call' a favourite deceased relative to 'Bless the 'Sacred Space' for you. This only has to be done this once. After this ,your chosen relative will be with you whenever you cast a spell. It is also useful to obtain an Athame (Wand) if possible, otherwise your finger will do.
Invite The Angels into your life and see the transformations and blessings these Celestial beings bring to you. The Angels are all around us. We can ask these beautiful beings of light to help and guide us whenever we are in need.


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Financing a car after repossession in the US was impossible a few years ago. However the auto loan dealers in Kirkland are loosening their strings and hence customers can breathe a little bit easy. If you are looking for finance a car after repossession in Kirkland then Best Chance Auto Loan is the perfect place to be.
The firm also specializes in financing for customers who are suffering from a low credit score, enabling them to finance a car after repossession in Kirkland. The firm understands that repairing credit takes time and customers should not suffer because of this. Hence it has special auto loans for these customers. These auto loans have low interest rates, zero down payment and flexible interest rate options.
So no matter what your credit history is, the chances of finance a car after repossession in Kirkland at Best Chance Auto Loan are almost 100%. All you need to do is set up an appointment with the finance team and bring the relevant documents. Once the documents are studied by the finance personnel, he will let you know the terms of the loan such as loan amount, interest rate and repayment options. The terms and conditions are normally made favourable for the customer. The firm is able to disburse these special loans since it has been in business for long and it has tie ups with major finance lenders in the market. Best Chance Auto Loan also caters to customers in surrounding areas such as Snohomish, Shoreline, Redmond, Tacoma and Seattle.
Customers whose vehicle has been repossessed now have a chance to improve their credit score; all thanks to Best Chance Auto Loans. The best part is that zero down payment is also acceptable for finance a car after repossession in Kirkland. Flexible repayment options make it easy for customers to return the loan amount in installments. All terms and conditions are clearly mentioned in the loan agreement. If customers have any doubts then the finance personnel can clear them. The firm believes in following ethical business for maintaining long term relations with customers.


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We, the undersigned bank employees, wish to register our displeasure and concern following the announcement of the Federal Government's taxation package on 19th September 1985, in which a tax will be levied on the employer for fringe benefits provided to staff.
You may not be aware, however, the vast majority of bank employees are not high income earners and many rely on benefits such as concessional interest rates on housing loans in order to maintain a living wage, others to cope with high capital city housing costs. In view of the enormous costs of this tax to our employers they will only have two courses of action open to them if this taxation package is allowed to pass through the Senate and become law, and they are to pass these costs on to either the public or the employees. With the present highly competitive climate it is extremely unlikely these costs will be passed on to the public.
We seek your assistance in bringing our plight to the notice of your fellow Senators in an effort to maintain our existing living standards which are in danger of being seriously eroded by this taxation package.


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Senate body finds clauses in journalists' security bill irrelevant
Ikram JunaidiPublished December 15, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Four years after the submission of a draft of "the journalists' protection and welfare bill", members of the Senate's sub-committee on information, broadcasting and national heritage reached the conclusion on Monday that most of the proposals were irrelevant.
The bill was introduced by Prof Khurshid Ahmed and 21 other senators in Oct 2011 and referred to the standing committee by the House Business Advisory Committee in September this year.
Of the movers, 15 have retired after completing their six-year term as senator in 2012 and March this year.
Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq and the sub-committee's chief Mushahidullah Khan are also among the movers of the bill.
It suggests a number of steps to be taken by the government, such as providing special jackets and all allied facilities such as water, food and fuel to journalists during coverage, especially in emergency situations, in case of a national calamity, accident or natural disaster.
It proposes that journalists should be exempted from parking fee all over the country and get free medical treatment in government hospitals.
If a journalist feels threatened and needs protection, the SHO of the area shall provide the required security, the draft says.
"If any incident occurs in the limits of any police station and the SHO of the area is informed about the incident, the SHO shall be held responsible."
It also suggests setting up a journalists' social security fund and a national journalists' council to recommend steps for their welfare.
"If a journalist loses life during performance of duty, or is injured, his/her family shall be compensated with at least Rs3 million in case of death, Rs1 million in case of major injury and Rs500,000 in case of minor injury."
Moreover, a controversial clause of the draft law is that the Supreme Court may ask about the source of information in case of a matter of 'national security'.
Senator Mushahidullah said he had studied the bill and discussed it with media persons, and reached the conclusion that a number of proposals were within the purview of media houses.
"However, through the bill, responsibilities of the media houses have been diverted towards the government. Moreover, it is impossible for the government to implement some of the recommendations," he said.
He suggested that media owners and their representative bodies should be invited to finalise the proposals.
The President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Afzal Butt, said although some of the recommendations could be the responsibility of media houses, only parliament could ensure their implementation.
"Majority of journalists even don't have appointment letters. Salary is not paid in time and media houses have become no-go areas for the implementing agencies. So parliament should intervene," he said.
Mr Butt alleged that officials of the information ministry tried to favour media owners instead of workers.
"While most of the media houses were making efforts to get banned the 'Bol Group', we requested the information minister to notify the wage board because it was a good opportunity and the media houses were not in a position to react. The minister agreed and instructed an official to bring the file but the official said that file had been misplaced," he said.
Senator Zafarul Haq said that since terrorism was at its peak in 2011, a decision had been taken to make a law for protection and welfare of journalists.
"We had observed that although wage board awards were announced, they were not implemented. When I was information minister, I announced that advertisements would not be issued to those media house which did not have regular employees. A journalist wrote a column against the announcement," he said.
He said since there was no mechanism to provide security to only one segment of society, the portion of welfare was also included in the bill.
Legal expert Aftab Alam, who was asked to submit his recommendations, said a United Nations Action Plan for Journalists' Security was announced in 2012.
"Pakistan has endorsed the plan. So it is mandatory to do legislation for journalists' security and that is why the old bill has again been taken up for discussion. In Pakistan, 119 journalists have been killed during the past 15 years. Of them, 60 were killed at point-blank range, but only two cases — of Daniel Pearl and Wali Babar — were decided. Even these cases have been stuck after the first phase of trial," he said.
Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2015
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شرمیلا فاروقی کا نادیہ خان کے خلاف کارروائی کا اعلان
وہ کمپنی جس نے ایک سال بعد سام سنگ سے دنیا کی نمبرون کمپنی کا اعزاز چھین لیا
'بی جے پی نے تو بھارت کو کسی دشمن سے بھی زیادہ نقصان پہنچا دیا'
It should be mandatory on Parliament to keep people of Pakistan informed about their working. The complete agenda of both Houses must be published in the press. We are their employers and we would like to know if they are doing their job or not. I am sure this Parliament will vehemently oppose this.Ayaz Sadiq and Raza Rabbani must look beyond their Parties. They have both violated their oath by working for Party interest in fact for their party head's interest.
Dawn reader
stupid bill
Shahzad Nisar
Dec 15, 2015 12:39pm
Really stupid clauses - journalists or any other group should never have any preferential treatment, in the eyes of law all should be equal...
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The partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere is 3. 9×10-4 atm. When drinking soda is put in a can, assume that there is 2. 0 atm CO2 in the 2. 0 mL gas space above the soda. (The actual CO2 pressure varies with type of soda). What is the approximate ratio of the molar concentrations of CO2(aq) in the soda before it is opened to that in the soda after it has been opened and reached equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere, i. e. , has "gone flat?"Answer: 5×10^3There is a document for this question, but it has no explanations. Thank you!


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Dessent Ridge () is a mountainous, ice-covered ridge situated 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Mount Murchison in the Mountaineer Range of Victoria Land. The ridge trends north–south for . It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Joseph E. Dessent, a meteorologist at Hallett Station, 1961.

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Several years ago during a Coastal Cleanup activity, several of our members initiated an informal dialogue among a number of residents in the area in which we raised concern about the seemingly unsanitary practices of human waste disposal that was rampant in the areas. We discovered that the cause was because almost every house in the area did not have their own toilet, mainly because the residents were poor and did not see the need to spend money on constructing toilets for their homes and families.
We then initiated other talks with the local village head or Barangay Chairman and councilors as well as other leaders to implement our plan of solving their problem and providing for their needs. When our first Public Toilet was constructed, the local community pledged their support by religiously maintaining the facility.
These Public Toilets will help address the needs of the community by providing them with facilities where they can properly dispose of their human wastes in the proper and sanitary way. As our studies had previously seen, the residents would usually dump and dispose of their excreta just about anywhere they pleased...in their backyards, along the beaches, in the nearby rivers and into the surrounding sea. These facilities will help put an end to these unsanitary and environmentally-degrading practices and more importantly will bring a semblance of discipline and humanity among the residents.
This Project hopes to directly provide for the needs of around 2,000 residents of the said areas and our hope is that this project, once implemented and completed will help bring about a better and healthier future for our beneficiaries.
3. Supporting programs that enhance communities awareness of the benefits of safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
The goals will be met by first providing the community with the necessary resolve, education, information and training so that their previous unsanitary and unhealthy practices will be eradicated and changed for the better. This will then help them to properly care and provide fro the upkeep of the facilities to ensure that the future generations will also benefit.


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Bathroom vanity is one of important elements that must exist in so called as ideal bathroom. Any bathroom concept that is used, various bathroom vanity designs are available to match your fashionable taste. Whatever your bathroom concept, whether it is modern, traditional, eclectic, industrial, and contemporary concept, let these design ideas to fill your bathroom in style. Use this as inspirations and references then choose one best design to decorate your own bathroom.
Interesting accent wall is another attraction in the bathroom in addition to the bathroom vanity designs itself. Use a mirror to highlight the accent wall to entire room. Although the lacquered gray bathroom vanity comes in a sleek appearance and simple way, the wallpaper can be used to make the bathroom look more colorful and dynamic. Besides, floating vanity style is perfect to be applied as one solution for small bathroom to be savvy one.
Industrial style as in the bathroom vanity designs look stylish and great for your brand new bathroom face, just like what you can see in this picture. The copper wire bathroom vanity evokes industrial yet minimalist style. The round wash basin is designed with sculptural base made of thin copper wire tubes. It is attached to a round base that can be used as extra storage under the vanity. In addition to its unique and uncommon design, the vanity can be the center of attention despite there is no backsplash in the interior.
Beach themed bathroom vanity designs as in the picture is very suitable to be combined with a beach or cottage bathroom concept too. The floating vanity combined with cool mirror with lights serves airy atmosphere for the bathroom. Use driftwood for the furniture and add shells in some spots as a sweetener in the room. Nautical theme can also be a complement to the bathroom appearance.
Wavy shape bathroom vanity designs are equipped with rounded edges. It looks ageless and classic. They complement each other. Add a little touch of gold in the faucet and handles to make it look stronger in character.
Geometric pattern that is applied in an asymmetric way will make the bathroom vanity drawer designs looks unique and one of a kind. Meanwhile, the arrangement is also suited to the vanity with a single mounted shelf. So the mirror does not seem plain and less attractive. Add hidden LED lights behind the frameless mirror or use a lighted mirror design to complete the decoration.
This wall mounted bathroom vanity designs have a unique color combination. It combines white with yellow stripes to give a distinct impression, especially in fun personality. It is because the yellow color can evoke white color that tends to calm and plain to be more alive.
Matching bathroom vanity designs with storage cabinet can be a good choice for some people. Similar color, design, and pattern are indeed one safe way to do so the decor is not ruined or falling apart in terms of visuals. Simple designs and sharp lines are not a problem anymore because the pattern on the wooden material is used for less stiff impression with earth color tone. You can even make DIY project of the stacked mounted shelving and lay your favorite accessories to fill the empty wall above the vanity.
It is no need to change the whole bathroom decoration to get a luxury taste. The owner only needs to add a bit of detail on some parts by using gold finish for the drawers pull and add marble as the countertop. The luxury bathroom vanity will be enough to do this job.
Still using marble as a material in the bathroom, the marble is used to overall design starting from bathroom vanity design up to backsplash and bathroom walls. It is one great idea to try with same color for all. The vanity is even invisible and looks like being camouflaged. Gray accent in the decor is very attractive and beautiful which is suitable for any concept.
Industrial is on trend indeed to be an interior design including the bathroom. Industrial bathroom vanity design looks more sophisticated with round lighted mirror. Very noticeable contrast is also found in white sink surrounded by black marble and walls.