The establishment of a Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was first considered by the then Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 1979 during a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Ohira Masayoshi. The proposal grew out of a wider initiative among Singapore's leadership at the time to "Learn from Japan'' in recognition of Japan's status as Asia's first "economic superpower." The Department took shape two years later with funding from the Japan Foundation. In May 1981, Professor Kumekawa Mitsuki of Ferris Women's College in Yokohama was appointed as its acting head.
During these early years, the Japanese Studies curriculum placed strong emphasis on Japanese language acquisition through module offerings in basic and intensive language training. Non-language modules on culture, society, history, politics, and literature rounded-off students' Japanese Studies education with readings and coursework on Japan itself. Student enrolment during this decade increased rapidly from 54 students in 1981/82 to 220 students in 1985/86 and 455 students in 1989/90. Staff numbers also increased from 4 in 1981 to 20 (including 6 teaching assistants) in 1989/90, out of which 12 were involved in language teaching. By 1990, the Japanese Resources Collection housed in the Central Library of NUS had increased its holdings to over 18,000 books in Japanese, and was subscribing to 150 periodicals and several major Japanese newspapers. The students who graduated from the Department largely took up jobs in Japan-related companies and organizations which were seeking employees with Japanese language skills and knowledge on Japan.
Japan's relevance as a model for nation-building waned with the onset of the "post-bubble" economic recession. This took some toll on the Department, with student enrolment initially dropping in the early 1990s. However, student numbers remained steady from that point forward, averaging more than 500 per year. A wave in interest in Japanese popular culture around the late-1990s drew additional students to the Department and led to the development of the first module on the topic to match this new interest. Eventually, a major change in university curriculum requiring students to take modules outside their own disciplines led to a surge in enrolment to nearly 1500 students in 1999/2000.
The 2000s began with a major restructuring of the Department, with the Japanese language section of the Department being transferred to the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) in July 2001. However, despite offering only non-language modules, the Department continued to attract large student numbers, especially non-major students looking to fulfil their elective and general education requirements with Japanese Studies modules. Throughout the decade, annual enrolment in modules offered by the Department averaged more than 1500 undergraduates. With more emphasis on graduate education in NUS, the number of masters and doctoral students also saw an increase from the late 1990s. Having only 2 MA students in 1995, the Department had currently 11 MA and 3 PhD students by the mid-2000s. This increase paralleled a rise in the number of PhD holders among the Department's teaching staff. In 1995/96, only 4 out of the 7 non-language teaching staff had Ph.D.s, but by 2005/06, all 12 of the non-language teaching staff were Ph.D. holders. This trend continues today, with all faculty members Ph.D. holders.
The 2010s have seen NUS recognised as Asia's top university and the Department move to a new home in AS8 (2016). The Department has continued to enjoy strong student enrolments despite significant curriculum changes that have affected the requirements for majors and minors. Despite such changes, the Department continues to draw a hard-working and intellectually gifted core of majors and minors, and Japanese Studies modules continue to attract students from across the University looking to satisfy various requirements, as well as their own curiosity. The Department also continues to attract a healthy number of Ph.D. and M.A. students and welcomes inquiries from interested students.
The Department continues to cater to students interested in Japanese history, religion, art, philosophy, literature, society, politics, and business, based on the recognition that there is a continuing demand in Singapore for people holding expertise in these areas. At the same time, the Department has recognized that for many students the motivation to concentrate their studies on Japan has changed. Today, many Japanese Studies majors find themselves in the Department out of an interest in anime, manga, Japanese dramas, Japanese food, and even Japanese fashion. These students, the result of the globalization of Japan's popular culture industries, brings to the Department new opportunities and challenges in teaching Japanese Studies.
From an initial focus on language training, the attention of the Department has broadened significantly. The Department will continue to adapt itself to changing demands from students, changes in curriculum structure, and the larger economic, social and political environment. Firm in its belief that the study of Japan will continue to stay relevant, the Department actively promotes the importance of Japanese Studies to students in order to maintain a healthy student body and to attract and retain young and promising Japan specialists.
Into the 21st century, the Department of Japanese Studies, as the only institution devoted to Japanese Studies in Singapore, remains committed to advancing the field of Japanese Studies both domestically and globally.
In December 1988, a culture room in traditional Japanese style was constructed with funding from the Japan Foundation. The room was replaced by a new Tea House and performance space in the newly-built AS8 in 2017. These rooms provide a space for students to practice a range of Japanese traditional arts as extracurricular activities. These activities are made possible through generous support from traditional arts masters, many of whom regularly travel from Japan to guide and inspire students. Current offerings include nihon buyo (Japanese dance, the Onogawa school) and sado (tea ceremony, the Enshu school). During the 1980s and into the early 1990s, students also received instruction in ikebana (flower arrangement) and koto (string instrument). The Department has also long supported programs initiated by students, such as shogi (Japanese chess), the J-pop Music Circle (formerly Japanese Karaoke Club), and the Japanese Studies Society.
Since its establishment, funding from Japanese organizations has played a major role in facilitating the development of the Department. Thanks to funding from Japan Foundation grants, the Mitsui Cultural Scholarship, the JCCI (Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore) Foundation Scholarship, the Okinawa government scholarship, the Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation, and the Japanese Government Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho Scholarships), the Department of Japanese Studies has been able to send students to Japan on courses ranging from summer programs to one term exchange and one year study abroad programs. The Department is also indebted to organisations such as the Hiroshima Singapore Association and the International Exchange Associations in Hyogo, Osaka and Shizuoka for providing support for immersion, home stay and/or internship programs to enrich the students' learning of Japan. Faculty members too are beneficiaries of generous research funding from the Japan Foundation, the Sumitomo Foundation, the Komai Scholarship, the Toshiba International Foundation, and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).
The Department also cherishes its warm relationship with the local Japanese community. It has organized joint events with the Japanese Association Singapore and conducted local home stay exchanges between students of the Japanese schools in Singapore and NUS students who are studying Japanese. Both on an individual and institutional level, the Department maintains close contact with many Japanese companies, media organizations, and educational and research institutions.
In the early 1980s, Singapore was just completing her nation building. The new airport opened, the subway project started, and the social security system became effective. I saw everywhere posters of campaigns with the slogans, "Two is enough," "Make Courtesy," and "Speak Mandarin." That was the time when the Department of Japanese Studies was inaugurated at the NUS.
Arriving from Japan as the person responsible for the new department, I naturally had many things to solve. One small but important question was how to translate the department's name into Japanese. The simplest was 日本学科 (Nihon Gakka), but it didn't reflect the nuance of objectivity contained in the term "studies." After some pondering, I decided to propose 日本研究学科 (Nihon Kenkyū Gakka), which actually was a literal translation of the original. Although it is not so easy to pronounce, I believe our choice was correct.
During my four years chairing the department, I had never experienced any unpleasant moment. Faculty meetings held every other week discussed many serious problems, but Professor Edwin Thumboo, who was Dean at the time, and all the other members of the meetings were understanding and supportive in my handling of the new department. I also remember with gratitude my colleagues and staff members who shared the tough job during the initial period. And, my special thanks go to Mr. Tan Kay Hoe, the department secretary, who took care of me so thoughtfully from my first day of work. It was through him that I was able to brush up on my English, and gain an understanding of the lifestyle in Singapore.
At present, the Japanese population is on the decrease. To maintain the existing society, Japan needs to invite a greater number of foreigners as a human resource. Japan seems to be gradually coming closer towards becoming a multi-racial, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual society. I feel the time is approaching where Japan has much to learn from Singapore in return. The department may have to play a more important role under such circumstances.
Time flies as fast as a dream. I am happy to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Department of Japanese Studies, and pray for its prosperity in the future. On a personal note, my experience in Singapore was something decisive to me, and keeps it firmly in the ocean of my heart as an island of dreams.


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New POV With 'Ref Cam'
By James E. O'Neal 08 August 2014
BRISTOL, CONN.—A new sports coverage tool was used for the first time during ESPN's Friday Night Fights and Noche de Combates event on July 18. The "Ref Cam," a wearable point-of-view camera was donned by both referees at the match that took place at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, N.Y. The device, according to the sports network, is designed to provide viewers with a unique close-up "first-person" view of the action taking place in the ring.
ESPN launched its "Ref Cam" during its "Friday Night Fights" event last month. "We are always looking to innovate and provide viewers access to things they cannot have access to themselves," said Matt Sandulli, ESPN's senior coordinating producer. "This camera will put viewers in the ring and give them a view of the fight that only a limited number of people in the world have ever seen. We'd like to thank the New York Athletic Commission and referees Steve Willis and Pete Santiago for working with us to make this happen."
The tiny camera is worn on the referee's shirt and weighs less than 8 ounces. Its footprint is about that of a dime's and it's fastened to the ref's clothing with a lapel pin. The accompanying beltpack RF transmission system is equally miniscule, measuring a mere 3.5-by-3.5-by-0.8-inches, complete with batteries. The camera provides HD 720p pictures and was made by 3G Wireless.
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Kelly Clarkson has a girl crush on Little Big Town's newest album, Pain Killer.
While performing a free concert this past Saturday evening in Cerritos, California, Clarkson took a break from her own catalog to tackle Little Big Town's "Girl Crush," a heartbreaking doo-wop song that's slated to become the country band's next single in mid-December.
With that, Clarkson launched into the first verse, cleverly telling her guitarist to ease up on the tempo by singing, "I've got a hard rush and it ain't slowing down — but we could if we wanted to." She kept the rest of the performance similarly loose, ad-libbing the occasional line and flexing her pipes over some acrobatic runs during the final minute.
Covering "Girl Crush" won't be Clarkson's last country-fried move in 2014. Next month, the Nashville-based pop star will launch her first annual benefit concert, "Miracle on Broadway," at the Bridgestone Arena, just steps away from the honky tonks that fill Nashville's Lower Broadway district. Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Ronnie Dunn, Kacey Musgraves, Nashville actor-singer Charles Esten and CMA Awards guest star Meghan Trainor will all make guest appearances throughout the holiday show, with proceeds going to a handful of children's hospitals, food banks and other local charities. Will Little Big Town be joining Clarkson onstage, too? Nothing has been announced to that effect, but the group's tour schedule winds down after December 13th… and 'tis the season for miracles, after all.


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Virtual interior designer Stylyze raises cash to transform how shoppers find home decor, apparel
by John Cook on October 26, 2018 at 10:51 am October 26, 2018 at 11:06 am
Stylyze founders Lisa Perrone, left, andKristen Miller, right. (Photo via Stylyze / Dan Poss)
Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into a beautiful home, and wish you had the magic touch that inspired the design?
The kitchen tile is perfect. The flooring matches the wall decorations, and the colors of the furniture just flows naturally with the home's aura.
Stylyze wants to help those of us who are a bit challenged when it comes to achieving this blissful state. And the fast-growing Seattle startup just scooped up $2.8 million in seed funding, money that the company will use to continue its mission of empowering people to "discover their inner beauty and share it with the outer world."
A lot of us certainly could use help with that.
We get retailers to market quickly and become their platform for innovation.
The fresh cash — provided by a large syndicate of angel investors, including many leading retail executives such as former Nordstrom CFO Mike Koppel — will be used to accelerate growth at the 26-person startup. That includes rolling out new services, and expanding alliances with leading retailers as they look to play in a world where shoppers seamlessly move between physical and digital experiences, CEO Kristen Miller tells GeekWire.
"Stylyze offers 'out-of-the-box' customer experiences that can be quickly customized for online, in-store, mobile and marketing use cases," Miller said. "We get retailers to market quickly and become their platform for innovation."
Miller, who has founded four companies in the home decor industry, said they've got a growing pipeline of retailers interested in Stylyze.
She founded the company with Lisa Perrone — an interior design whiz who previously worked at Schoenfeld Interiors and Schick Design Group— in 2010,
"Lisa and I both worked in the interior design industry and spent countless hours trying to help clients describe their style," Miller told GeekWire in a Startup Spotlight feature two years ago. "Then we spent even more hours trying to find products to bring their style to life. We knew that most people (interior designers included) often start their search for products online, and thought there must be a better way to help people find and coordinate products by colors and styles they love."
They continue to push forward with that mission, integrating an algorithmic approach to the problem. The company lays out the example on its Web site:
Let's say…you want to create 10 looks for the 100,000 products in your catalog. You hire a designer to do the work. It takes them 30 minutes to create one look and you pay them $30hr. To get 10 looks for your 100,000 SKUs it would take the designer 12,500 weeks and cost you $15 million dollars! Stylyze does this work overnight for a fraction of the cost.
Of course, the home decor market is huge, and Stylyze is not the only company chasing it. Companies like Pinterest, Wayfair and even Home Depot are taking aim, recognizing how much is at stake. And Stylyze is not focusing exclusively on home decor, taking its core technology to the apparel market, where it faces competition from the likes of FindMine, which is bringing machine learning to the retail industry, and Stylitics, a New York based company founded in 2011.
"There are some solutions in the market that are essentially 'widget-based' approaches to enhance customer experiences," explains Miller, when asked about the competition. "Our platform offers a robust data-as-a-service solution that enables retailers to innovate across the entire customer journey."
Miller also notes that Stylyze is focused on enhancing experiences of large retailers, letting them build their own proprietary experiences.
It does this, as a first step, by normalizing all of the data around products from various vendors, using a proprietary "fingerprinting" system to classify all products. Then, the company brings scale to what Miller calls "shop-the-look" experiences such as "Top 10 Looks for Fall." These programs are natural sellers, but retailers have a hard time automating them, and when Stylyze steps in the company can curate hundreds of possible concepts per item.
"These looks can be configured in endlessly creative ways to tell stories about rooms, outfits, occasions and events," said Miller. "Our customers can access this data via web services to power experiences across the customer journey from offsite inspiration on Pinterest through to post purchase emails."
John Cook is GeekWire's co-founder and publisher, a veteran reporter and the longest-serving journalist on the Pacific Northwest tech beat. Follow him @johnhcook and email john@geekwire.com.
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Q: Wevtutil to output only new event logs I run the command wevtutil qe Application /rd:false /f:text and  I get an output as shown below. After sometime new event logs could have generated and I want to read only these new event logs i.e. Event[2],  Event[3], Event[4] etc.
How can I use wevtutil tool to generate only these new event logs?
Event[0]:

*

*Log Name: Application

*Source: Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf

*Date: 2016-04-21T23:15:16.832

*Event ID: 1000

*Task: N/A

*Level: Information

*Opcode: Info

*Keyword: N/A

*User: S-1-5-18

*User Name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

*Computer: WIN-IONOGQTF9O5

*Description:
Performance counters for the WmiApRpl (WmiApRpl) service were loaded successfully. The Record Data in the data section contains the new index values assigned to this service.

Event[1]:

*

*Log Name: Application

*Source: Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf

*Date: Date: 2016-04-21T23:15:13.097

*Event ID: 3011

*Task: N/A

*Level: Information

*Opcode: Info

*Keyword: N/A

*User: S-1-5-18

*User Name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

*Computer: WIN-IONOGQTF9O5

*Description:
Unloading the performance counter strings for service WmiApRpl (WmiApRpl) failed. The first DWORD in the Data section contains the error code.

A: weventil is not PowerShell so I was mislead. However, you could just do this:
Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Newest -After ( Get-Date ).AddDays(-1)

A: /rd:false will read the oldest first so if your looking for newest it may not be the best query.
I'm not aware of a read/unread tag for eventlogs, you could create a custom object and add one but that may not be the best way to go around it.
You can also do the below
$lastRanDate = "2018-11-30T17:20:55" ##import from a txt file
$date = Get-date -UFormat %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
##Get's current date and formats as following example 2018-12-01T17:17:45
$difference = New-TimeSpan -Start $lastRanDate -End $date
##Calculate difference between start time and end time
$difference = $difference.TotalMilliseconds
wevtutil epl Application "C:\Users\Pipastrilo\Desktop\appTest.evtx" /q:"*[System[TimeCreated[timediff(@SystemTime) <= $difference]]]"
## exportLog logName Path query(TimeCreated between current and HowManayMillisecondsAgo

$lastRanDate = $date
##export $lastRunDate for future searches

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Thankfully, something new will come out of this besides committing insurance fraud and doing a stage act.
As Junichi and Kaoru miss the bus, they find themselves alone in the service plaza. Thankfully, someone came to help them find a place to stay for the night.
I'm using Milky Holmes's picketing for my own agenda against the wealthy 1 percent! Take that Fox Noise!
In the last two weeks, I have mentioned about having to put Milky Holmes Second Season on hiatus due to lack of subs with the stream being two episodes behind. Since niconico has finally caught up a bit more and gave us Episode 5, it's even crazier than what happened in the last episode.
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Junichi has a very active imagination!
It's now Kaoru's time to take the spotlight and damn, that segment in the beginning was amazing!
If you notice the lack of weekly Anime Digests, it's mostly because I didn't have much to say for the past two weeks. Therefore, I'm won't be doing them until the spring season. For now, the focus is now on the midseason impressions for the current season.


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The stellar population of the chamaeleon i star-forming region
K. L. Luhman
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds
I present a new census of the stellar population in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region. Using optical and near-IR photometry and follow-up spectroscopy, I have discovered 50 new members of Chamaeleon I, expanding the census of known members to 226 objects. Fourteen of these new members have spectral types later than M6, which doubles the number of known members that are likely to be substellar. I have estimated extinctions, luminosities, and effective temperatures for the known members, used these data to construct an H-R diagram for the cluster, and inferred individual masses and ages with the theoretical evolutionary models of Baraffe and Chabrier. The distribution of isochronal ages indicates that star formation began 3-4 and 5-6 Myr ago in the southern and northern subclusters, respectively, and has continued to the present time at a declining rate. The IMF in Chamaeleon I reaches a maximum at a mass of 0.1-0.15 M ⊙ and thus closely resembles the IMFs in IC 348 and the Orion Nebula Cluster. In logarithmic units where the Salpeter slope is 1.35, the IMF is roughly flat in the substellar regime and shows no indication of reaching a minimum down to a completeness limit of 0.01 M ⊙. The low-mass stars are more widely distributed than members at other masses in the northern subcluster, but this is not the case in the southern subcluster. Meanwhile, the brown dwarfs have the same spatial distribution as the stars out to a radius of 3° (8.5 pc) from the center of Chamaeleon I.
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
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Ocean waves or tropical rainforest?
And no, this is not the first question asked by the family to help triage potential holiday destinations. Nor is it the kind of fanciful name popular with shampoo manufacturers. Nor even one of those "if you can only save one of these, which would it be?" questions so popular with bearded environmentalists. Having said that, I should tread carefully since many of my friends are indeed bearded environmentalists. And that's just the girls.
Joking! You know I'm joking -- don't give me that look.
Anyway, having managed to alienate half my friends within the first paragraph, let me try to entertain those that still tarry. Eventually of course I shall find there is nobody left to offend. Will the last reader to leave please switch off the lights.
I sleep very badly. This has been a problem for nigh on a year now. Without bandying needless statistics, it's estimated that perhaps three quarters of all people with Parkinson's have disrupted sleep in some form or another. So I'm not alone. Nor am I alone in seeking nonpharmacological solutions to the problem (nonpharmacological just means no drugs, but why use two syllables when seven will do).
My friend Cloud had an idea. And no, that's not her given name in case you were wondering. Were she born in the 60s, such a thing would be understandable. This after all was a time when every other child was called Butterfly, Pixie, Moon Shadow, or Unicorn Tears. Cloud was born three decades later, when girls were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Kayla or Courtney. But I digress.
Cloud suggested something called an iPillow or similar. Now I've tried all sorts of pillows beneath the Stamford bonce -- neck support, orthopaedic, memory foam, etc. None work for me. But the iPillow is different. It has a speaker and plays subliminal environmental sounds while you rest. These sounds, Cloud told me earnestly and with a much straighter face than I expected, could be waves crashing on the beach or the sound of birds in a tropical rainforest.
As regular readers will know, this is exactly the kind of product that raises my hackles. Normally I would have dismissed it out of hand with a withering arch of the eyebrow. But on this occasion, and it is probably a mark of my desperation, I decided to look into it. When I found one on Amazon, reduced by 60% but accompanied by five-star reviews, I took the plunge.
The said iPillow arrived yesterday afternoon. The thing is easy enough to use and with the investment of a further 69 pence on a CD of restful sounds that I could loop all night, I went to bed in optimistic mood.
"What exactly is that, Dad?" asked Alice with the same arched eyebrow. I explained the theory about restful sleep as the eyebrow headed further north.
"Okay" I said "which should I play -- waves on the shore or tropical rainforest noises?"
"Well if you play the rainforest stuff, you'll spend the whole night listening out for jaguars and anacondas...." she said.
"Then beach sounds it is" I said.
I woke up this morning at my usual hour -- around 4:30 am. But this time I managed to get back to sleep to add a further two and a half hours to my tally. I was impressed by how realistic the sounds were. And somehow transmitted through the depths of the pillow, they were softened too. The soundtrack itself had everything -- parrots, monkeys, and any number of insects. The mosquitoes were particularly realistic. They could have been in the room with me.
Only as I pulled on my pants did I realise that the mozzies were more than just realistic. A long trail of reddened blotches bore witness to their presence.
I counted the bites. Seventeen.


One of the most widespread words in medicine is the placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. This is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes place in the patient's brain and that is capable of influencing both the course of a disease and the response to a therapy. The psychosocial context around the patient is crucial to placebo effects, for example the doctor's words and attitudes, and this may have a profound impact on the patient's brain which, in turn, may affect several physiological functions of the body. This book emphasizes that there is not a single placebo effect but many. The book critically reviews them in different medical conditions, such as pain, neurological disorders, psychiatric and behavioural disorders, immune and endocrine systems, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, as well as some special conditions, such as oncology, surgery, sports medicine, and acupuncture.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a debilitating and devastating condition that affects approximately 11,000 new people in the United States each year. Understanding of the pathophysiology and potential points of therapeutic intervention for human SCI has been shaped strongly by the results of studies performed in laboratory animals. This chapter discusses multiple targets for therapeutic interventions focusing on cell transplantation approaches, discusses the application of multiple cells types in SCI models, and considers how cell-intrinsic properties as well as exogenous factors in the host microenvironment may influence the ability of various cell populations to survive, differentiate, and promote locomotor recovery following SCI. Studies conducted on transplanting human central nervous system-derived neural stem cells (HuCNS-SCs) at selected time points along the acute to chronic continuum are described, demonstrating that, depending on timing, HuCNS-SCs have the ability to promote locomotor recovery and that the microenvironment influences cell fate.
One of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. This is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes place in the patient's brain and that is capable of influencing both the course of a disease and the response to a therapy. The psychosocial context around the patient is crucial to placebo effects, for example, the doctor's words and attitudes, and this may have a profound impact on the patient's brain which, in turn, may affect several physiological functions of the body. This book emphasizes that there is not a single placebo effect but many, and critically reviews them in different medical conditions, such as pain, neurological disorders, psychiatric and behavioral disorders, immune and endocrine systems, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, as well as some special conditions, such as oncology, surgery, sports medicine, and acupuncture.


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Uttam Asks Party Leaders And workers To Help People
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Hyderabad, May 8 (Maxim News): Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Saturday appealed to the party leaders and workers to take up relief works on a large scale for the Covid patients of the state immediately.
In a statement, he said that All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi and former president and MP Rahul Gandhi have instructed the party leaders and workers to help the Covid patients in view of the prevailing crisis arising out of the Covid pandemic.
Holding the Central and state government as solely responsible for the present severe cirisis, Uttam said that Covid second wave has been spreading in the country with lightning speed due to lack of their foresight. The central and state governments did not heed the advices of the scientists, health experts and opposition leaders on the spread of second wave of Covid in the country and neglected the preventive measures. Due to their negligence the country was made to hang its head in shame before the world.
Criticizing the BJP and TRS governments at the Centre and state levels for fishing in the troubled waters by holding elections during the pandemic period, he said that every day more than 4 lakh new positive cases have been recorded and more than 4000 are dying. Due to the election politics of BJP and TRS Corona Virus has spread with lightning speed endangering the lives of crores of people.
Ridiculing the statements of chief secretary Somesh Kumar that Covid situation was under control in the state, Uttam said that there was no similarity between the statistics being stated by the government and the actual numbers. (Maxim News)
covid patientsnalgonda mpParty Leadersparty workersTelangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC)Telangana StateTPCC President N. Uttam Kumar Reddy


For details of the next meeting of the Food and Energy group, phone Kate Royston on 01822 835 819 or 07969 569 444.
This entry was posted in Events/Meetings on January 10, 2011 by Transition Tavistock.
You will have already heard of the success of our pedal-powered 'Naturally Beautiful' Christmas tree which won second prize at Tavistock's Tree Festival. It was the brainchild of the Food and Energy Groups – and made possible by a number of inspired members, only some of whom were mentioned by name in our December mailing. Thanks again to all those who contributed their time, ideas, decorations and ingredients to the tree. In the run-up to Christmas 2011 the group plan to offer a workshop in making your own sustainable decorations; sheep farmers take note, these may well include decorations knitted from home-produced yarn!
This mailing constitutes formal notice of this year's AGM. The Agenda is below, together with information about membership of Transition Tavistock, proposed changes to the Constitution, nomination and election of Committee member and how to propose items for discussion at the meeting. We plan to cover the formal proceedings briskly, and then move on to show a film on 'The Challenge Ahead' followed by an opportunity for discussion.
Membership entitles you to vote at AGMs and so help determine how the Organisation develops. Membership currently costs £1 per year (with greater amounts very welcome from those who feel they can afford more) and is open to anyone who lives or works in Tavistock or any of 22 surrounding parishes and who supports the Aims of the Organisation. For those who took out membership at the last AGM, renewal is due at this AGM.
Proposed changes to the Constitution. In order to make the workings of Transition Tavistock more efficient, the current Committee proposes that the Constitution be amended so that a quorum for the Committee is 3 members, and to allow electronic voting by committee members. It is considered that now Transition Tavistock is well established most of the work of the Organisation should be organised and carried out by the Working Groups and it should only be necessary for the Committee to meet the minimum of 4 times per year required by the Constitution. The proposed amendments to the wording of the Constitution will be available at the AGM and can be supplied before then on request.
Nomination and Election of Committee members. All current members of the Committee step down at the AGM (but are eligible for re-election). A new Committee, to include a minimum of 4 Executive Officers (a Coordinator, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and one Executive Officer without portfolio), will be elected. We would particularly welcome nominations for the post of Treasurer. To make a nomination* or to volunteer as a candidate for the committee, please get in touch: Nominations (with the consent of the nominee) must be received in writing (c/o Westden, 20 Plymouth Road, Tavistock, PL19 8AY) by 28th January 2011.
Items for discussion or voting on at the AGM These should be received in writing c/o Westden (see above) by 28th January 2011*.
*Please note that nominations and agenda items will be accepted from those who are not currently paid-up members, provided that they pay their membership fee on arrival at the AGM.
Some time ago when Caroline Keane was Mayor of Tavistock (2006) as member of the Integrated Arts Group at The Molly Owen Centre with Gill Gorbutt (Chair of the Integrated Arts Group) and other group members including Mary Toon and Maggie Squires together with representatives from Molly Owen, negotiated the use of the land to the rear of the building – a large rectangular area the size of two tennis courts for lease from Devon County Council. Tavi funded the group to carry out required testing for arsenic levels on the land, and it was found to be suitable for raised beds use. A small amount of funds (£1500) have been earmarked from Integrated Arts Funds to create the basis for match funding for the project.
Tom Petherick of Petherick, Urquhart and Hunt, who is Soil Association representative for the SouthWest, former landscape and founder gardener of Helligan Gardens and most recently creator of the bio-dynamic 'The Future Cities Garden' show garden in front of Clarence House at The Garden Party to Make a Difference, Clarence House, 8-19th September 2010 has offered to advise on the layout and future use of the Molly Owen Community Garden and at another possible location for a 'Future Towns Garden' based on The Future Cities garden for Tavistock.
'The Future Cities Garden revolves around the four seasons of the year. Within them it is possible to grow and harvest a wide range of fruit, flowers, vegetables and herbs, to do it cheaply and make it fun.
It incorporates innovative ideas such as 'Forest gardening', modelled on the natural seven storeys of the forest for maximum output using shade loving plants.
The next Energy and Food Group meeting is planned for Wednesday January 26th at 19:30. The meeting will be hosted by Mike & Jenny Dennis at 49 Milton Crescent, Tavistock. We'll be assessing the Ecoteams progress, considering how we can collaborate with other local groups and considering plans and actions for 2011. If you're interested in joining us, please come along.
• Transition Tavistock AGM and short film: The Challenge Ahead Friday 11th February, 7pm in the United Reformed Church Hall – aiming to keep business to a minimum, show the film and then discuss plans for next year. Please see details above.
Communities, Councils and a low-carbon future by Alexis Rowell; Local Money: How to make it happen in your community by Peter North; and Local Sustainable Homes by Chris Bird. Silver River, published by the Tamar Valley AONB Service, is a beautiful celebration of the Tamar Valley in words by Virginia Spiers and in pictures by her sister Mary Martin.
We have an informal lending pool of recently published sustainability books which are passed around at the monthly Green Drinks. Anyone want to start a Book Club?
We have received this request for advice from a budding gardener. Maybe you can help answer his query? I have removed 5 conifer trees to create space for growing vegetables. The area provides space for 3 beds, two of which are 6 foot by 6 foot and the third is 9 foot by 7 foot. In other parts of the garden, I have fruit trees, rhubarb, raspberry and loganberry canes and also tubs in which I have grown runner beans, spring greens etc. As a novice at growing vegetables, I would be grateful for any ideas that readers may have as to what they would choose to grow and tips as to how I should proceed. Self sufficiency is a dream but if readers would share their experiences and tips, all of us will have more chances of using the land adjacent to our homes in a more profitable and sustainable way. Responses please to our email address above.
If you are interested in seeing what's involved in getting a rainwater harvesting system installed, you are welcome to ring Penny Preston on 615 815 to arrange a visit to the Priory Close site, which apparently may involve a certain amount of mud!
http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ Nicole Foss, aka Stoneleigh, who takes a long hard look at the interplay of finance, energy and geopolitics when making economic forecasts. She predicted the current economic downturn and her forecast for the future is sobering.
www.oldweather.org for all you armchair sea dogs with internet access, who would like to read old ships' logbooks in order to improve our understanding of changing weather systems.
Please send any items for inclusion in the next newsletter to transitiontavistock@googlemail.com or Transition Tavistock c/o Westden, 20 Plymouth Road, Tavistock, PL19 8AY.
This entry was posted in TT Newsletters on January 10, 2011 by Transition Tavistock.