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A 97-year-old grandpa from Kenya is now a married man after he wedded his 30-year-old lover on Saturday.
It is celebrations for a 97-year-old grandpa from Uasin Gishu county for finally finding love.
It is alleged that elderly man from Soy in Uasin Gishu has never married.
The overjoyed man tied knot to his fiancee on January 14, 2023 in a colourful event attended by friends.
The function which took place in a Catholic Church, was presided by priests.
According to Public News Kenya , while speaking, Sally Chepkoech who is a family member confirmed that the 97-year-old has never been married in his life.
According to her, the nonagenarian was so excited to finally find his rib.
Being among the attendees, Sally further revealed that family and friends ate and danced as they witnessed the new dawn for Mzee Johanna Arap Butuk.
"It was such a big wedding ceremony presided over by the priests of the Catholic church. The priests came to our home compound for the ceremony," Sally said.
In the interview with local media TUKO NEWS, Sally further said that Mzee Butuk finally bowed to the pressure of getting married after he saw all his nieces and nephews getting married.
"Mzee Butuk bowed to pressure of getting married after we all got married. when we all tied knot he got worried on who would take care of him. That is when we actually decided to get him wife so that he could finally have someone to help him," she added.
Sally also revealed that the 30 year old Alice Jepkorir was also excited to have a husband who would help her bring up her four children.


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Omni-channel is now a core strategy among retail stakeholders. The aim is to satisfy ever-more pressurising and disloyal customers. They key is giving the consumer more freedom.
Omni-channel is now the watchword among brands as the walls between retail sales channels are falling down. This is for a reason, it means customers become loyal and gives them a unique purchasing experience. The result is a growth opportunity supported by turnover. A godsend for retailers providing that they know which end to start with for their omni-channel strategy. For Olivier Chiono, Retail Product Management Director at Cegid, "every omni-channel strategy starts by creating a single shared customer reference sheet for the different channels and real-time visibility of in-store stock. " Customers expect as much of a personalised welcome in the store as online. But above all, they want to be able to choose their purchasing experience. To follow them up on this, retailers have focused on several scenarios…A closer look at these approaches.
Every omni-channel strategy starts by creating a single shared customer reference sheet for the different channels and real-time visibility of in-store stock.
E-reservation: the customer reserves their item in a few clicks and comes to the store to pay and collect it.
Click & collect: the customer orders their item online by paying – the entire or partial amount – then collects it from their chosen point of sale.
No matter how the consumer orders, available stocks must immediately be updated and the store must be informed in real time. As soon as the seller takes an item off the shelf following a reservation, stocks are automatically updated.
More commonly known as "Save the sale" by the British, this method is made for a very specific case. The customer's desired product isn't in-store? Customers would be happy for the seller to ask if they should order it in and to have it delivered to their nearest store or directly to their home.
Another alternative for retailers who have created a stock network per store, the seller can let the customer know if the store has the desired product. Better again, to complete the sale, they can ask the customer if they would like the product to be reserved in another store and for it to be sent to their preferred store.
What if the store became a mini warehouse? Ship from store at the coast is very popular in the States. It's easy, quick and especially cost-effective for the retailer. They bring the products ordered online by customers directly to them form their stores. The key is savings made on transport costs – thanks to how close the store is to the buyer's home – and on delivery taxes which vary from State to State.
More and more options, stores that connect and the seller's developing role…The retail sector is really undergoing a major change.


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"Climate skepticism has become a tenet of populism — a revolt against elitist scientists and liberal politicians seeking excuses for social and economic control. The denial of climate change has become a cultural signifier, the policy equivalent of a gun rack in a truck."
-Washington Post opinion columnist
"When [Trump] makes claims . . . the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."
–The Atlantic, September, 2016
"I think a lot of voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally, so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment, their question is not, 'Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?' . . . What they hear is we're going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy."
-Paypal co-founder and Trump supporter, Peter Thiel
Political polarization has shifted how Americans self-identify, and much of this recent transformation stems from symbolic forms of civic engagement. The political animosity that has a stranglehold on politics – harbingers of civil war for a worried few – suggests Americans are increasingly reliant on politics of symbols to frame our personal identities and interpret power in 21st century American life.
This is frustrating for journalists who wring their hands over "fact-free" discourse or new media misinformation. And it's understandable given journalism is ostensibly a fact-based profession. But the mainstream press may have a problem of being naively literal in an increasingly symbolic political world.
Much of the journalistic marveling, some quite condescending, is in response to Trump's voter base. To understand the disconnect between professional journalists and Trump's base, we should recognize how a marriage of entertainment and political culture fueled his political rise. Television fandoms from the entertainment culture -The Apprentice, World Wrestling Entertainment- took the small step into the public sphere. As Trump's familiar face from entertainment media moved into political media, the 2016 campaign drew on that television audience.
But it did more than draw voters. It also imported the logics of reality TV. Ratings took on heightened importance. Crowd size became worthy of debate. The political theater took on the carnival atmosphere of a wrestling arena in which voters could organize around the symbols of heroism and villainy. Entertainment culture colonized the political realm and imported the energy and emotion of reality TV.
Part of the entertainment-politics melding is a fuller shift of political reasoning from a messy world of policy details to a clean and easily understood world of symbolic narratives in which moral assertion displaces analytic nuance. The preference for the digestible world of symbols over factual debate precedes Trump but reached new proportions with his presidency and will likely continue beyond it.
It might be wise to more fully recognize how American politics has become a game of cultural signifiers. And yet, elite newsrooms are unable to recognize the symbolic language of American citizenry. For many, American politics is a game of bipolar brinkmanship dealing in mythic symbols that funnel debate into an either/or dynamic of the two-party system.
We can hear it in casual conversations among the politically like-minded: "I could never date a Republican." Or in how we regard politically mixed marriage: "I wonder what it is like at THAT dinner table!" In modern America, fathers are more likely to object to daughters bringing home the political opposition than a love interest of a different race. As Iyengar and Westwood put it, "party cues exert powerful effects on nonpolitical judgments and behaviors." A politics-first identity has subsumed other social roles, and we can see it in reports of estranged family members and politically severed friendships.
Viewing political orientation as a deal-breaker in our romantic lives and wondering at "political miscegenation" underscore how partisan identities have taken a more central role in our broader social lives. Though the democratic ideal says we "should" vote according to tangible identities of self-interest (a small business owner or cancer survivor or blue-collar worker) we increasingly rely on artificially binary identities crafted by a symbol systems of commercial media and political elites.
Today, we are less likely to participate in politics as ourselves. Instead, we participate as "real Republicans" or "true progressives." We act as representatives of packaged ideologies rather than individuals directly voting for a better life through self-governance. I suspect the "symbolification" of political culture is both a symptom and a cause in this process.
Reporting QAnon: a symbolic politics
Q symbol with glitch effect illustration.
What are the consequences when American politics, already prone to partisan theater, embraces an affective world of symbolism? To what degree do polarized cultural identities in the political realm necessitate the conversion of policy battles into symbols or battles over mere symbols?
These are ponderous questions, but I can map out some potential fallout.
First, the increasing power of symbolic communication in high politics has consequences for traditional understandings of democratic politics that are built into professional news frames.
Symbolification distances public debate from the actual machinery of government. Instead of addressing the confusing details of healthcare or the tax system, symbols stand in with broad caricatures of the issue and the political agents that represent them. Symbolic politics offers a cast of evil-doers and heroic figures fighting for politically vague but symbolically meaningful goals.
The degree to which policy debates devolve into symbolic representation is a fair approximation of the degree to which citizens directly control their government. A shallow symbolic system can replace details of party platforms or voting records. As a result, citizen judgement is one step removed.
Second, importing the symbols of entertainment culture may exacerbate partisan divisions. As differing symbolic systems ensconce and separate American subcultures, unifying themes of nationality weaken. Participation in politics through symbolic representations allows the public to address very different worlds with little hope of solving the very real social problems facing the nation. A common creed that has historically shored up American identity fragments along the fault lines of confirmation biases. The symbolic center cannot hold.
Finally, the reliance on symbols to navigate American politics plays into the vagaries and smoky mysticism of conspiracy mongers. Why would an American raise doubts about the American moon landing? Taken literally, the claim is absurd. Taken symbolically, it captures a broad suspicion that government is deceitful and so power-hungry that it would orchestrate a grand public deception to achieve "its" goals. The specific theory that the moon landing was faked does not itself need to be true as a symbolic representation of a calloused, elite government manipulating the public. The conspiracy is "true" even if Lance and Buzz actually took that one small step.
This is why literary semiotics may be a better tool for understanding American politics than political science or a burst of polls calculated, correlated, crunched and recrunched. The role of symbols in movements inspired by QAnon illustrates how current tools of of professional journalism produce blindspots in political analysis.
QAnon: reading conspiracies as semiotic politics
". . . conspiracy theory [is[ an entertaining narrative form, a populist expression of a democratic culture, that circulates deep skepticism about the truth of the current political order throughout contemporary culture." (Fenster 1999, pg. xiii).
Politics is rather boring in the details. That's why C-Span is not a ratings hit. Watching senators argue policy in front of an empty chamber is mind-numbing and, frankly, uninformative for anyone but DC insiders or beat reporters.
By contrast, online corners of conspiratorial thought like QAnon give gripping narrative structure to the sense of powerlessness in modern America. From the electoral college to tax policy, American democracy has features that are glaringly elite. QAnon merely gives a narrative to a fundamental truth felt by many Americans: powerlessness.
What is QAnon? The group is known for its wildest assertion that a cabal of Satan-worshipping elites control key government and media operations. This secret organization is engaged in child sex crimes at a massive scale. In some versions, these elites consume children's blood to extend life or otherwise sustain themselves.
QAnon researchers have found no coherent, single narrative that defines the movement. Under the umbrella of QAnon, there are factions who have "different ideas about who the cabal is and what their ultimate goals are . . . but they are united in the belief that everything is a lie and the order needs to be destroyed." It is more a patchwork of unorthodox explanations of power in America.
Taken literally, the conspiracy movement fails tests of evidence required by professional journalists as well as classrooms and the courts. If we de-emphasize the narrative specifics and read these beliefs as metaphor (don't take it literally but take it seriously), the basic structure of the theory is true. As metaphor, the narrative is a archetypal story of the powerful preying on the weak.
In fact, wealth gaps and power divisions do define modern America. Two-thirds of U.S. senators' net worth exceeds $1 million. As Pew researchers note, income growth in recent decades has tilted to upper-income households and the middle class has shrunk. Nearly three-quarters of all employees live paycheck-to-paycheck in 2020. The popular vote often fails to elect presidents, defying the public will for arcane legalistic reasons. Given these conditions, the myth created by "Q" can make sense emotionally even if it fails intellectually.
We can understand the more outrageous conspiracy theories as a consequence of America's crippled ability to recognize class conflict. If a group of people don't have a language of class-based oppression -e.g. "haves and have nots"- they turn to alternative explanations for the inequality they feel. Pedophilia stands in as a morally charged symbol for victimization.
On the other side of this growing economic disparity, the investor class buys and sells holdings according to the logic of financial capital. If their children don't earn admission to prestigious schools, the elite bribe their way into East and West coast schools.
This is why QAnon functions a redemption narrative comparable to Christian religious movements. It involves faith in something deeper than facts show us and belief without clear evidence. However far-fetched, conspiracy paints a symbolic picture that explains the sense of powerlessness felt by many.
At once, "Q" offers a way to resist that oppressive force. It provides comfort by painting a world of stark good and evil in which clear heroes work to save the faithful and punish the villainous. Adherents decode and scrutinize the meaning of Q's pronouncements like ecclesiastical priests engaged in Biblical hermeneutics. Retweeting Q or interpreting Q's "drops" becomes an act of defiance by speaking truth to nefarious but poorly understood power in America. The congregants evangelistically hope to reveal the truth to nonbelievers and instigate a "great awakening."
A symbolic analysis of culture might produce more useful maps for navigating this strain of American politics, and it certainly reveals more than the quantitative approach taken by poll-obsessed news networks that treat elections like horse-races. As symbolism displaces more direct citizen engagement with matters of government, the assumptions of political journalism become less reflective of actual political processes and opinion formation in American life.
The growing wedge between mainstream news and parts of the American public stems from these divergent epistemologies. Traditional journalism functions as a gatekeeper, filtering the non-factual out of public discourse. The growing part of the American public who engage with politics though symbolic narratives see this realist epistemology as censorship and oppression. News perpetuates a fiction that numbers are an accurate representation of reality. Journalists, true to their professional training, dismiss counterfactual political thoughts with a myopic literalism.
But the political class only shoots itself in the foot when it dismisses symbolic discourse. New York Times columnist, David Brooks, argues that "personal contact" is the way to "[reduce] the social chasm between the members of the epistemic regime and those who feel so alienated from it." Journalists may not be able to personally reach out to the alienated, but newsrooms can certainly pay greater attention to the symbolic dimensions of political culture and better understand the reality buried in the myths that shape the "paranoid style" of American politics.
Symbols have and will always play a role in political movements. Just look at the flags arrayed during the Capitol riots. It is uncertain, however, if 21st century journalism can develop analysis that both maintains fact-based discourse and productively accounts for the emerging centrality of symbols in political life. But a wholesale shift to symbolic public discourse threatens to unmoor democratic participation from meaningful self-governance.
Published November 27, 2020 July 13, 2021
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New Year's Eve is approaching, which means it's time for the New York authorities to remind the public that the city's various festivities remain attractive venues for terrorist attacks — while also assuring us that everything is going to be just fine. In a Thursday press conference, police commissioner James O'Neill said that while no specific threats had been made against New York, the NYPD was going to be extra vigilant in light of recent terrorist incidents in Nice and Berlin.
Around 7,000 officers will participate in the New Year's safety plan, which will include helicopter, water, street, and public-transit patrols, as well as a larger-than-usual law-enforcement presence at Central Park, Coney Island, and "houses of worship." Meanwhile, the estimated 2 million masochists headed to Times Square for the ball drop will be subjected to metal and radiation detectors, as well as bag checks. In addition to the regularly scheduled street shutdowns, 57th and 59th Streets will be closed to traffic between Sixth and Eighth Avenues, apparently to keep motorists from getting too close to Trump Tower (the president-elect is expected to be at Mar-a-Lago this weekend).
Also new: security assistance from the Sanitation Department. Given concerns about someone copying the methods of the Nice and Berlin terrorists, who killed and injured hundreds by driving into crowds of pedestrians, law enforcement has been experimenting with using Sanitation Department trucks as blockades, filling them with sand and parking them along the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route and outside of Trump Tower on Election Day. When full of sand, the vehicles weigh nearly 32 tons, making them "pretty immovable," according to Sanitation Department spokesperson Vito Turso. This Saturday, Coney Island, Central Park, and Times Square will be protected by a combined 65 garbage trucks — a fitting tribute to a truly garbage year.


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Loudoun County, VA- Skeletal remains located earlier this month in a wooded area near W. Church Road and N. Aspen Avenue in Sterling have been identified as a possible early to mid-20th-century era human skull. There is no indication of foul play and no other remains were located in the area. The skull was also found to have no identifying characteristics.
The skull was located around 11:30 a.m. on October 6, 2018, by an LCSO Deputy who was on foot patrol in the area. The skull appeared to have been discarded in a wooded area. The skull was painted and drawn on. It remains unclear as to where the skull came from and why it was in the area.
There is no indication of any threat to the community.
The Office of the Medical Examiner worked with anthropologists to further identify the origin of the skull.
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HomeLatest NewsEgypt Latest NewsInjustice in Egypt: Escalating Use of Executions
Injustice in Egypt: Escalating Use of Executions
September 28, 2018 Noura Ali Egypt Latest News, unsort
Egyptian authorities have executed 32 people since the military overthrew the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
According to the New Khaleej, Egyptian authorities have executed 32 people in nine cases since the coup d'état while 64 people are awaiting the death penalty in 13 other cases.
There is no precise count of the number of death sentences pending appeals in Egypt, however, human rights organizations say they amount to hundreds.
Since 2013, Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds to death, with most of the sentences appealed, while few were carried out.
While Cairo denies having political detainees in its prisons, human rights organizations have estimated the number of detainees to be tens of thousands. In September 2016, the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said that the number of political detainees in Egypt has exceeded 60,000 individuals.
More than five years after Egyptian security forces violently broke up a Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa Square, an Egyptian court has finally ruled on a case stemming from the deaths of over 800 people in the incident, in what Human Right Watch (HRW)concluded, likely amounted to crimes against humanity."
Those on trial were not members of the police and army – as human rights groups have long called for – but former protesters.
On 8 September, the court handed down death sentences to 75 of the defendants, for crimes including the murder of police officers, incitement to violence, and "pressuring the authorities" to reverse the military's seizure of power.
Mass trials leading to dozens of death sentences have been a periodic feature of Egyptian justice since the military coup in 2013. They provide a focal point for international criticism: Amnesty International described the trial as "a grotesque parody of justice" and the recently appointed UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, said the sentences "a gross and irreversible miscarriage of justice" if carried out.
Certainly, the trial, in which there were 739 defendants, fell short of international standards of due process. At the same time, there are reasons to expect that most of the death sentences will not be carried out.
Egyptian courts have recommended death sentences for more than 100 people after a mass trial on no fewer than four occasions since 2013. But most of these sentences have been overturned on appeal or otherwise commuted.
Judges use mass death sentences to signal their commitment to the security of the state and their opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose members have often been the defendants in the cases.
The most recent ruling handed down death sentences to several of the organization's leaders, including senior politicians Essam el-Erian and Mohammed El-Beltagy. This is a kind of judicial theatre, with higher courts frequently reducing death sentences to lengthy prison terms.
There has been an increase in executions in Egypt during the last few years. According to estimates from
Amnesty International and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the country executed 15 people in 2014, 22 in 2015, 44 in 2016, and up to 49 in 2017.
In December 2017, a case concerning the murder of nine soldiers in an attack on a Sinai military checkpoint resulted in the execution of 15 people. This trend shows that the threat of mass executions is real – even if it is, of course, only one element of a pervasive system of repression.
"Tens of thousands of people remain in prison for political offenses, while the authorities' use of torture and enforced disappearances have been extensively documented," as stated in a report by the European Council of Foreign Affairs titled, Egypt's Judicial Theatre of Injustice.
In July 2018, as the Rabaa case neared its conclusion, the Egyptian legislature approved a bill granting immunity to senior military officers for any crimes they committed between 2013 and 2016.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed into effect a law that allows the government to shut down websites deemed a threat to national security, as the regime tightens its grip on all channels of expression.
The mass trials and parliament's enthusiasm for the crackdown show the extent to which the various arms of the Egyptian state have come together since the 2011 revolution. The Egyptian judiciary was prepared to occasionally challenge President Hosni Mubarak in the 2000s, but since then it has fallen in line with the rest of the emerging security state.
According to the report, "An apparent lack of internal opposition to al-Sisi and a sense that outside pressure will not influence his crackdown on domestic critics have helped smooth the way for the European Union and its member states to normalize relations with Egypt."
European governments increasingly look to Egypt as a partner on security and, above all, migration issues. At their recent Salzburg summit, EU leaders endorsed further talks with Egypt to reach a deal on curbing illegal migration in exchange for stepped-up economic assistance.
Domestic political pressure is likely to preclude any further European attempts to influence Egypt's political direction. Yet Europeans might at least be able to discourage any further escalation in the use of executions, long a priority of the EU's human rights policy.
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Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), Cardiothoracic Surgery Division at Rhode Island Hospital.
Dr. Abid received his MD from Dhaka Medical College with special training on hypertension and related diseases. He also served as the Project Leader of a PHC (Global Health) project with special emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular and maternal health care in Bangladesh. Dr. Abid received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan, and did his postdoctoral training at the LSU Medical Center, LA, USA. He then joined Harvard Medical School and completed a Fellowship in Vascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He began his career at Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in Medicine in 2002, rising to the rank of Assistant Professor in 2006. He joined Brown Medical School as Assistant Professor in 2011 and has established his vascular biology lab at the CVRC of Rhode Island Hospital. He served on the Medical Faculty Executive Council of Alpert Medical School from 2012-2015.
Dr. Abid has combined careers in research on vascular biology, cardiovascular diseases, and teaching of graduate students. Basic science research interests include mechanisms of coronary circulation in health and disease (e.g. myocardial ischemia), signal transduction in vascular endothelial cell, and effects of reactive oxygen species on vascular/endothelial function and angiogenesis. He has published original research articles in many peer-reviewed journals. He has been continuously supported by research grants from the American Heart Association (SDG, GIA) and NIH/NHLBI/NIGMS (R01, P20) since 2004. In recognition of his research achievements, Dr. Abid was honored by the American Heart Association with the prestigious Werner Risau New Investigator Award in Vascular Biology in 2011. Dr. Abid is also the recipient of the 6th annual Young Investigator Award in Thrombosis from the ATVB, American Heart Association in 2005. He has served as a member of the study sections for the American Heart Association, Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), and NIH (adhoc- VCMB). He has been serving as a full member of the Lipids, Thrombosis, and Vascular Wall Biology-Clinical (LTVWB-Clinical) Study Section since 2008. Dr. Abid has mentored many residents, postdoctoral fellows, medical and undergraduate students during his tenure at HMS and Brown Alpert Medical School.
Ruhul Abid has been utilizing his extensive experience in both research and training to advance cardiovascular medicine and research.
Shafique E, Torina A, Reichert K, Colantuono B, Nur N, Zeeshan K, Ravichandran V, Liu Y, Feng J, Zeeshan K, Benjamin LE, Irani K, Harrington EO, Sellke FW, Abid MR Mitochondrial redox plays a critical role in the paradoxical effects of NAPDH oxidase-derived ROS on coronary endothelium.. Cardiovascular research. 2017; 113 (2) : 234-246.
Potz BA, Parulkar AB, Abid RM, Sodha NR, Sellke FW Novel molecular targets for coronary angiogenesis and ischemic heart disease.. Coronary Artery Disease. 2017; 28 (7) : 605-613.
Sabe AA, Potz BA, Elmadhun NY, Liu Y, Feng J, Abid MR, Abbott JD, Senger DR, Sellke FW Calpain inhibition improves collateral-dependent perfusion in a hypercholesterolemic swine model of chronic myocardial ischemia. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2016; 151 (1) : 245-52.
Potz BA, Sellke FW, Abid MR Endothelial ROS and Impaired Myocardial Oxygen Consumption in Sepsis-induced Cardiac Dysfunction. J Intensive Crit Care. 2016; 2 (1) : 20-23.
Abid MR, Sellke FW Subcellular ROS Signaling in Cardiovascular Diseases. 2016; in press : in press.
Potz BA, Sabe AA, Elmadhun NY, Feng J, Liu Y, Mitchell H, Quesenberry P, Abid MR, Sellke FW. Calpain inhibition decreases myocardial apoptosis in a swine model of chronic myocardial ischemia.. Surgery. 2015; 158 (2) : 445-52.
Dharaneeswaran H, Abid MR, Yuan L, Dupuis D, Beeler D, Spokes KC, Janes L, Sciuto T, Kang PM, Jaminet SC, Dvorak A, Grant MA, Regan ER, Aird WC FOXO1-mediated activation of Akt plays a critical role in vascular homeostasis.. Circulation research. 2014; 115 (2) : 238-51.
Shafique E, Choy WC, Liu Y, Feng J, Cordeiro B, Lyra A, Arafah M, Yassin-Kassab A, Zanetti AV, Clements RT, Bianchi C, Benjamin LE, Sellke FW, Abid MR Oxidative stress improves coronary endothelial function through activation of the pro-survival kinase AMPK.. Aging. 2013; 5 (7) : 515-30.
Sun Z, Li X, Massena S, Kutschera S, Padhan N, Gualandi L, Sundvold-Gjerstad V, Gustafsson K, Choy WW, Zang G, Quach M, Jansson L, Phillipson M, Abid MR, Spurkland A, Claesson-Welsh L VEGFR2 induces c-Src signaling and vascular permeability in vivo via the adaptor protein TSAd.. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2012; 209 (7) : 1363-77.
Lee M, Choy WC, Abid MR Direct sensing of endothelial oxidants by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 and c-Src.. PLoS ONE. 2011; 6 (12) : e28454.
Feng J, Damrauer SM, Lee M, Sellke FW, Ferran C, Abid MR Endothelium-dependent coronary vasodilatation requires NADPH oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 2010; 30 (9) : 1703-10.
Lee M, Spokes KC, Aird WC, Abid MR Intracellular Ca2+ can compensate for the lack of NADPH oxidase-derived ROS in endothelial cells.. FEBS Letters. 2010; 584 (14) : 3131-6.
Abid MR, Nadeau RJ, Spokes KC, Minami T, Li D, Shih SC, Aird WC Hepatocyte growth factor inhibits VEGF-forkhead-dependent gene expression in endothelial cells.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 2008; 28 (11) : 2042-8.
Abid MR, Spokes KC, Shih SC, Aird WC NADPH oxidase activity selectively modulates vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathways.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2007; 282 (48) : 35373-85.
Abid MR, Shih SC, Otu HH, Spokes KC, Okada Y, Curiel DT, Minami T, Aird WC A novel class of vascular endothelial growth factor-responsive genes that require forkhead activity for expression.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2006; 281 (46) : 35544-53.
Abid MR, Yi X, Yano K, Shih SC, Aird WC Vascular endocan is preferentially expressed in tumor endothelium.. Microvascular Research. 2006; 72 (3) : 136-45.
Abid MR, Yano K, Guo S, Patel VI, Shrikhande G, Spokes KC, Ferran C, Aird WC Forkhead transcription factors inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and neointimal hyperplasia.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2005; 280 (33) : 29864-73.
Minami T, Sugiyama A, Wu SQ, Abid R, Kodama T, Aird WC Thrombin and phenotypic modulation of the endothelium.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 2004; 24 (1) : 41-53.
Bao J, Sato K, Li M, Gao Y, Abid R, Aird W, Simons M, Post MJ PR-39 and PR-11 peptides inhibit ischemia-reperfusion injury by blocking proteasome-mediated I kappa B alpha degradation.. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2001; 281 (6) : H2612-8.
Dr. Ruhul Abid. The major focus of Dr. Abid's laboratory is to understand how reactive oxygen species (ROS) or redox-content of the endothelium modulates signal transduction and coronary vascular functions in vivo. It was Dr. Abid's pioneering work that showed that NADPH oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) are essential for endothelial cell (EC) proliferation, migration and survival. Recently, his lab found that endothelium-dependent coronary arteriolar vasodilatation by VEGF requires NADPH oxidase-derived ROS to activate PI3K-Akt-eNOS and nitric oxide (NO) production (ATVB, 2010; PLoS ONE, 2011). The same study further demonstrated that lowering ROS levels resulted in decreased NO levels in intact coronary vessels suggesting that reduction in ROS disrupted activation of upstream c-Src and PI3K-Akt pathway. This study was awarded the best scientific work (Werner Risau New Investigator Award in Vascular Biology in 2011) among 650 original research work by the American Heart Association. The ongoing studies, in collaboration with Dr. Sellke's lab, using human coronary artery ECs and animal models are aimed at examining whether endothelium-specific conditional increase in ROS will have positive impact on coronary vasodilatation and collateral vessel growth in ischemic myocardium. To that end, Abid lab has generated binary conditional transgenic animal models that can temporally increase regulatable quantities of ROS specifically in the vascular endothelium. The outcome of these studies will have great impact on the development of novel therapeutic modalities for ischemic diseases, and may help explain the reasons for apparent failure of antioxidants in the major clinical trials.
The major goals of this R01 grant are to determine whether intervening on mitochondrial oxidant levels using genetic model and antioxidant nanoparticles can induce coronary angiogenesis in ischemic myocardium.
The goal of this study is to stimulate new blood vessel formation in diseased heart by short term, localized increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the innermost layer of coronary blood vessels using a binary transgenic animal model.
The goal of this study is to elucidate the mechanisms by which the duration of exposure to ROS modulate downstream signaling pathways and mitochondrial function in endothelium.
The goal of this program is to provide under-represented undergraduate students (selected nationally) with research training experiences with outstanding faculty mentors at Brown University.
An invited commentary on the AHA Scientific Statement on "Measurement of reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species, and redox-dependent signaling in the cardiovascular system: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association". Published in the Professional Heart Daily of American Heart Association on July 14, 2016. Title: "A Conceptual Guide to the Measurement of Different Reactive Oxygen and Reactive Nitrogen Species in Cardiovascular Tissue". Web link: https://professional.heart.org/professional/ScienceNews/UCM_486803_A-Conceptual-Guide-to-the-Measurement-of-Different-Reactive-Oxygen-and-Reactive.jsp.


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Barricades, Alsatians and fences: SONA shows up a party and government afraid of its people – News 24 – 10 February 2019
Published 10 February, 2019
[Source: News 24 by Pieter du Toit.]
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) has become a fashion parade for the political and captured elite, smilingly strutting on a red carpet while answering banal questions about haute couture, writes Pieter du Toit.
The SONA used to be delivered in the day, during a normal joint session of Parliament in the afternoon. During the Presidency of Jacob Zuma it was moved to the evening to enable more people to watch it.
But during Zuma's term, many more changes were made to the ceremony and format which had become established during the terms of office of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. For one thing, the red carpet and fashion stakes became increasingly banal.


When Little House on the Prairie meets trend 2018, you get attire like this ethereal one from Calvin Klein (left). Many designers despatched fluttery long, unfastened clothes to the tune of Laura Ingalls Wilder down the runway. The items—half bohemian and part Victorian—weren't constructed solely of thick knits, but in addition of paper-skinny chiffon and silk, making the type immediately sexier.
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Nadja Contzen, PhD
n.contzen@rug.nl
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
Summary of work:
I am interested in factors influencing the acceptability of (energy) innovations and policies, the impact of social identity on pro-environmental behavior, and social-cognitive mechanisms of behavior change. My research, although having a clear aim for theory development, is highly practice-orientated and aims to help understanding as well as tackling societal challenges.
Developing socially responsible innovations: The role of values and moral emotions
This project studies the role of emotions and underlying values and moral considerations in public responses towards innovations. The project aims to develop an innovative emotion-based design perspective for socially responsible innovations that are acceptable and justifiable on ethical grounds.
For more information please refer to: http://www.rug.nl/gmw/psychology/value-emotion-innovation
Responsible decision-making on gas
The use and production of natural gas is causing controversies, as reflected in debates about the earthquakes in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, gas production activities at vulnerable locations, shale gas, imports from Russia, and its fossil nature. At the same time, it is advocated that gas can play an important role in the sustainable energy transition and new developments are being introduced in the gas sector, such as green gas and power-to-gas. It is a societal and ethical challenge to determine what role, if any, gas can play in the (future) energy system. Environemntal psychologists at the RUG and political scientists and philosophers at the Delft University of Technology work together in this project. The project will provide insights for responsible decisions about what role, if any, different gas concepts should play in future energy systems.
For more information please refer to: http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/59/28059.html
Social dilemmas in environmental protection: The impact of collective identity on cooperation
Many of today's most pressing problems in environmental protection can be characterized as a social dilemma, a situation in which individual interests are in conflict with collective interests. To solve social dilemmas, widespread cooperation is necessary. Environmental campaigns that target the psychological determinants of cooperation can be used to promote cooperation, meaning ecological behavior. Collective identity, the emotional attachment to one's collective or group, is a factor that has been found to increase cooperation in social dilemma situations. While the identity-cooperation relation has been widely studied, there are several important research gaps left to be addressed. For example, the underlying mechanisms of the identity-cooperation relation have not been conclusively investigated and the critical level of collective identification (e.g. local, national or global collective) to promote ecological behavior has not conclusively been established. This project aims to address these research gaps. The results of the project will be highly relevant to improve the understanding of the identity-cooperation relation. What is more, the results will provide knowledge about ways to promote collective identity in environmental campaigns, which in turn will help to mitigate current societal problems in environmental protection.
2014 - 2015: Explaining the use of safe water kiosks in Kenya
Access to safe water is still limited in most sub-Saharan countries, including Kenya. Safe water kiosks are an important alternative to piped supply to increase access. However, adoption rates are low, especially in rural areas. The present study investigated sociodemographic, contextual, and social-cognitive factors explaining the use of three water kiosks in Kenya. Kiosk use depended on the prevalence of rainwater harvesting, the kiosks' actual service performance, and, related to that, the population's service satisfaction. Furthermore, the actual and perceived costs of the kiosk, self-efficacy beliefs, perceived social norms and pressures, and self-regulatory behaviour appeared to affect kiosk adoption. The results suggest that standard health promotions, affecting perceived risks and health knowledge, might be ineffective to increase use of safe water kiosks. Instead, safe water kiosks might be successfully promoted through increasing social norms, perceived ease of behavior, action control and commitment and by lowering perceived costs and efforts.
In cooperation with Siemens Foundation and the Department Sandec at Eawag.
For more information please refer to: http://www.eawag.ch/en/department/ess/projekte/ehpsy-water-kiosk-kenya/
2012 - 2013: Changing handwashing behaviour in southern Ethiopia
Regular handwashing is the single most effective prevention against diarrheal disease. However, handwashing rates are low in many developing countries, including Ethiopia. This handwashing promotion project in the Borena Zone of southern Ethiopia aimed to increase handwashing rates in rural communities through theory- and evidence-based population-tailored interventions. The interventions applied, especially the tippy tap* promotion, proved to be more effective than a standard educational approach: 95% of intervention households were successfully motivated to construct a tippy tap. Three months after the intervention had ended, water and soap were present at the tippy tap in 50% to 80% of the households. The results suggests not only to apply theory and evidence to improve handwashing interventions' effectiveness, but also emphasizes the relevance of tailoring interventions to the target population. * A tippy tap is a handwashing station constucted out of locally available materials.
In cooperation with Oxfam America and Gayo Pastoral Development Initiative.
2011: Handwashing behaviour in an emergency context: Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake
Regular handwashing is especially vital during disasters, when the risk of diarrheal disease is elevated. This project, situated in refugee camps and poor neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince and communities in the Département de l'Ouest in post-earthquake Haiti, aimed to evaluate the impact of public health promotions and cholera response on handwashing rates. The impact of the applied promotional channels proved to be divergent: some were positively associated, some were not associated and others were even negatively associated with handwashing rates. The results underline the importance of rigorous evaluations of hygiene promotions to eliminate unwanted effects such as behaviour impairment.
In cooperation with Oxfam America, Oxfam Great Britain, Oxfam Québec, and Intermón Oxfam.
Summer School Social Aspects of Sustainability, Honours College
What motivates people to use sustainable technologies and products? Which interventions are successful in promoting them? During this Summer School students will develop a research proposal addressing a real life sustainability problem from a social perspective. On the first day of the Summer School we will visit Nest, a Swiss research and innovation building in which new technologies, materials and systems are tested and demonstrated in realistic conditions – people live and work in the building's research units. After the visit, Nest-researchers will introduce two of the sustainable technologies in more detail: treatment and reuse of greywater and a fertilizer produced out of urine. The following days of the Summer School students will work on a proposal to address societal and psychological issues the researchers are facing. The Summer School will take place in Zurich, where students will work in small groups on this topic. Students will learn how to define the social aspects of the problem, how to develop strategies to solve the problem, supervised and guided by experienced researchers from the Netherlands and Switzerland. During the week lectures will be given by experts in the field. At the final day of the Summer School the groups will present their proposal to the Nest-researchers and fellow students.
Consumer and Economic Psychology, Bachelors program Psychology
Contzen, N., & Marks, S. J. (2018). Increasing the regular use of safe water kiosk through collective psychological ownership: A mediation analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 57, 45–52. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.06.008
Contzen, N., De Pasquale, S., & Mosler, H. J. (2015). Over-reporting in handwashing self-reports: Potential explanatory factors and alternative measurements. PLoS ONE, 10(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136445
Contzen, N., & Hans-Joachim, M. (2015). Identifying the psychological determinants of handwashing: Results from two cross-sectional questionnaire studies in Haiti and Ethiopia. American Journal of Infection Control, 43(8), 826–832. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.04.186
Contzen, N., & Inauen, J. (2015). Social-cognitive factors mediating intervention effects on handwashing: a longitudinal study. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 38(6), 956–969. DOI: 10.1007/s10865-015-9661-2
Contzen, N., Meili, I. H., & Mosler, H. J. (2015). Changing handwashing behaviour in southern ethiopia: A longitudinal study on infrastructural and commitment interventions. Social Science and Medicine, 124, 103–114. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.006
Contzen, N., & Mosler, H. J. (2013). Impact of different promotional channels on handwashing behaviour in an emergency context: Haiti post-earthquake public health promotions and cholera response. Journal of Public Health, 21(6), 559–573. DOI: 10.1007/s10389-013-0577-4
Mosler, H-J., & Contzen, N. (2016). Systematic behavior change in water, sanitation and hygiene. A practical guide using the RANAS approach. Version 1.1. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC.
MVO Vlaanderen, March 2017 – Innoveren met emoties – een onderzoeksproject over de ontwikkeling van maatschappelijk verantwoorde innovaties
Royal HaskoningDHV newsletter, June 2016 – Maatschappelijk verantwoord innoveren: de rol van emoties
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PKS Kook-Proof Pigtail Sets are complete 8-piece sets, set up in kook-proof fashion with different colors for inside and outside lines, and pre-set knots and pull-tabs for ease of use. Replace worn pigtails or adapt almost any kiteboarding control bar to a kiteboarding kite.
The PKS Pro Flow V2 kite pump is the next ingredient for your successful kite session. Our tweaked version of the newest and best pump on the market is constructed with high quality components and measures 20" from top to bottom, taller than the older 15" and 18" pumps, for up to 2.3 liters of air per pump. Internal friction has been virtually eliminated so this pump ensures effortless inflation time after time.
The Adjustable H3 SUP Pump Adapter is compatible with a variety of stand up paddleboards and Flysurfer. There are three colored rings on the adapter that allow it to fit a variety of H3 valve depths. The black ring is rubbery and provides a good pressure/friction fit while the yellow and green rings are made from plastic and can be taken off to custom-set the depth of the valve. Inside the middle of the adapter there is also a screw that has and adjustable height.
The PKS Universal Pump Adapter/ Nozzle - 4 Piece Set fits on standard kite pump hoses. The 4 piece set includes an adapter for compatibility with each of the major kite brands. Cabrinha, CrazyFly, Airush, Naish, Ozone, North, Core, Liquid Force, Epic, Blade, and more.
This big Boston valve (screw valve) pump adapter / nozzle fits on any standard kite pump hose. It works with several large Boston valves (screw valves) on the market today including Ozone (2011 and newer), Naish, Crazyfly, Airush (2015 and newer,) and Switch kites.
The Liquid Force Valve Pump Adapter/Nozzle is compatible with Liquid Force kites manufactured 2011 and later with the Max Flow valve.
The 7mm and 9mm Pump Adapter is compatible with almost all kites prior to about 2008. Nearly all older kites which include the 2 valve inflate and deflate systems included 9mm or 7mm valves. This is also the adapter used for inflating struts on kites without a one-pump system.
The PKS Self-Launch Sand Anchor is another true innovation in the world of kiteboarding and self reliance. This amazing Self-Launch Beach Anchor can be used to self-launch your kite with nothing around but sand.
We would like to introduce you to another kiting innovation: The PKS Self Launch Tool. This little tool is what every kiteboarder needs in their arsenal. For those days when everyone else is working and you find yourself alone at your favorite kite spot and no one to launch or land your kite. Now you're no longer limited to needing someone to launch or land your kite. It's simple with the PKS Self Launch Tool!!
DON'T BE "SEEN" AT THE KITE PARK. The PKS Changing Towel lets you quickly change clothes for your next kiteboarding session without waisting time or getting arrested for indecent exposure. The simple design is hand-crafted in the U.S. and reinforced in all the right areas to make sure it lasts. The Changing Towel also makes a great gift for any water sports enthusiast.
Aqua Azul watershades combine a nice snug fit and vented lenses into a cool but practical design. They feature extra-thick 1.1mm polarized lenses with anti-impact protection for toughness and 100% UV protection for maximum outdoor clarity.
This soft zipper case adds extra protection and padding when storing your water shades. It features a hook on one end, as well as two loops on the back, allowing you to attach it to different objects in various ways.
PKS Kiteboarding Pulley Savers are designed to be a very simple way to back-up your bridle system and keep your wing shape from being compromised should a pulley break in flight. The pulley saver simply attaches around the pulley and bridle line.
PKS Distribution again brings you the latest and greatest repair kit to keep you kiting longer. This Dacron patch kit includes 5 Dacron patches, alcohol prep pads and a 1oz tube of Seam grip repair adhesive that covers a multitude of repairs.
The PKS Kiteboarding One Pump Hose Kit has all you need to replace the hoses and clips for an external one pump system. Works on most kites. Easy to use and fits like the original factory set.
Dacron Tape should be used to repair all cuts in the leading edge and stuts of a inflatable kite. The dacron tape will provide the strength needed to repair small cuts without creating a huge mess to undo later if you decide to get the repair done professionally.
Dacron Tape should be used to repair all cuts in the leading edge and stuts of an inflatable kite. The dacron tape will provide the strength needed to repair small cuts without creating a huge mess to undo later if you decide to get the repair done professionally.


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Continent Fail: Proof That Americans Have Absolutely No Clue About Africa
This week, after the United States' unexpected victory over Ghana, Delta Airlines sent out a tweet that warranted a universal SMH:
The company's tweet drove home one clear point: we know nothing about Africa, even though we think we do.
Maybe it's because our first introduction to the continent as children made us think it was like this:
OIG Report on Postal Service's Use of Mail Covers
Politico reports:
The U.S. Postal Service failed to observe key safeguards on a mail surveillance program with a history of civil liberties abuses, according to a new internal watchdog report that USPS managers tried to keep secret, citing security concerns.
…The Office of Inspector General audit of so-called "mail covers" — orders to record addresses or copy the outside of all mail delivered to an individual or an address — found that about 20 percent of the orders implemented for outside law enforcement agencies were not properly approved, and 13 percent were either unjustified or not correctly documented.
You can read the OIG report here.
Regulators Won't Let Congress Off Easy In Insider Trading Probe
WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission went to federal court Friday seeking to enforce subpoenas it issued to Congress, a move that sparks a high-stakes power struggle between two branches of government in a possible insider-trading case.
The SEC filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York seeking to compel the HouseWays and Means Committee and a top House health-care aide to turn over documents and information in the case.
In its court filing, the SEC said the health-care aide "may have been" the source for the information at the heart of its long-running insider-trading investigation.
In response to the filing, the court asked lawyers for the House and the congressional health-care aide, Brian Sutter, to explain to the court why they refused to comply with the subpoenas. U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe ordered representatives of the House committee and Mr. Sutter to respond by June 26 and to appear at a July 1 hearing on the matter.
In court filings, the SEC said the committee and Mr. Sutter have refused to comply with the subpoenas, arguing they were "repugnant to public policy," vague and overly broad. According to the SEC, the House lawyers also argued that constitutional protections allow them to ignore the SEC requests.
The SEC responded in court by saying that those "objections lack merit, and the subpoenas satisfy all the requirements for enforcement."
In a statement, the House Office of General Counsel said that SEC subpoenas "run seriously afoul of the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause, and we expect to respond in due course on that ground, among others."
Under the separation of powers provisions in the U.S. Constitution, Congress has several legal protections from unwarranted investigations by the SEC and other executive-branch agencies.
Posted on June 21, 2014 in Uncategorized
Wikileaks Exposes Super Secret, Regulation-Gutting Financial Services Pact
Embattled WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange announced Wednesday from London the publication of a secret draft text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a controversial global trade agreement said to make it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity across borders.
The whistleblower and transparency website WikiLeaks published on Thursday the secret draft text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, a controversial global trade agreement promoted by the United States and European Union that covers 50 countries and is opposed by global trade unions and anti-globalization activists.
Activists expect the TISA deal to promote privatization of public services in countries across the globe, and WikiLeaks said the secrecy surrounding the trade negotiations exceeds that of even the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that has made headlines in the past year.
Demonstrations erupted in Geneva in April as diplomats met in secret for the sixth round of negotiations over TISA, which would cover international trade in a wide range of service industries ranging from finance and telecommunications to transportation and even local utilities such as water. Protesters demanded that the draft text be released, but it has remained secret until now.
Public Services International (PSI), a global trade union federating public service workers in 150 countries, has reported that TISA threatens to allow multinational corporations to permanently privatize vital public services such as healthcare and transportation in countries across the world.
"This agreement is all about making it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity across borders," said PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli in response to the leak. "The aim of public services should not be to make profits for large multinational corporations. Ensuring that failed privatizations can never be reversed is free-market ideology gone mad."
How Credit Suisse Got Off Easy
Last fall, James Cole, the No. 2 man at the Justice Department, sent an intriguing email about the criminal investigation of Credit Suisse's offshore tax-evasion schemes for wealthy American clients. He asked Kathy Keneally, the agency's top official directing the protracted investigation of Switzerland's second biggest bank, "Can you give me an update on where we are with them?"
In that September 4 email, whose contents were obtained by Newsweek, Cole added this eyebrow-raising detail: "I got a call from Broderick Johnson who says the CEO wants to get this resolved."
Broderick Johnson would be a lawyer and former lobbyist close to President Barack Obama. Last January, Obama named him assistant to the president and cabinet secretary—his job is to liaise with various government agencies, including the Justice Department. Cole's email was of interest in part because Johnson's former K Street lobbying firm, Collins Johnson Group, was representing Credit Suisse. But it was also notable because of the timing: The Justice Department had just finalized a deal for most of Switzerland's banking industry, more than 300 banks, to pay fines for enabling tax evasion for American clients. That agreement, the capstone of the Justice Department's seven-year crusade against offshore tax evasion through Swiss private banks, didn't include more than a dozen Swiss banks under criminal investigation, most notably, Credit Suisse.
Johnson's intervention appears to have worked: After some 18 months of stalemate, the bank started serious negotiations with the Justice Department. On May 19, Credit Suisse pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiring to aid tax evasion over decades, up to 2009, and agreed to pay the largest criminal tax fine in U.S. history—$2.6 billion—for having deceived the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Games, especially the 3D ones are very resource intensive, and many times slow down or hang up your PC. In order to speed up game performance, you either have to turn off all unwanted background processes and features such as Aero, Windows Media Center and other indexing services, etc yourself or use a free utility which does all this to improve game performance at the click of a button.
Game Fire is a small tool which lets you turn off most of unused services and features on your Windows 7 or Vista PC, thus regaining all your PC resources. You get to play a better responsive game by switching to the Game Mode, and when the game is over you can simply revert all the settings with a single click.
Game Fire is from the same manufacturer who earlier gave us a tool to speed up Vista.
1. Download and install Game Fire to speed up games on your PC (link at bottom).
2. Towards the end of the installation, you will be asked to confirm installation of Smart PC Utilities Community Toolbar. If you are already tired of all those pesky toolbars hijacking your browser, then make sure you click 'Disagree' and then 'Exit Setup'. The toolbar installation starts after Game Fire is installed on your PC.
3. Launch Game Fire from your Start Menu or desktop shortcut. You need to run Game Fire as an administrator.
The interface is pretty simple, with 3 collapsible panels, including System Status which shows up your Computer's current resource usage with progress bars, a list of all running processes on your system, and a built-in disk defragmenter.
4. When you click on 'Turn on Gaming Mode', yu will be asked to first set up a gaming mode profile.
5. Go to Settings –> Gaming Profile. Now select all those features you want to turn off while gaming. They are divided into 4 different sections including Hardware (printers, digital cameras, scanners, tablet PCs), Visual Effects (Aero effects), Windows Functions (file sharing, automatic update, diagnostic services, Windows Media Center, disk defragmenting), and System Security (Windows Firewall, Windows Defender).
We strongly recommend you not to turn off any of the System Security features, as this may make you vulnerable to malware attacks in case you are gaming online.
6. Now click Turn on Gaming Mode, and your Windows 7 or Vista PC will immediately switch to classic theme with no visual effects (see below screenshot).
7. There are many good defragmenter tools for improving your hard disk performance. However if you want to quickly defragment only your Games, then you can use Game Fire's built-in defragmenter. Browse and select the gaming folder, and click Analyze and defrag.
Once you are done gaming, you can restore your Windows to it's previous state with all the Aero glory by simply clicking 'Turn off Gaming Mode'. You can find Game Fire in your system tray when you return back from gaming.


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Double Platinum es el primer álbum recopilatorio de la banda estadounidense Kiss, lanzado en 1978. Muchas de las canciones en Double Platinum fueron remezcladas y difieren de las versiones originales.

El álbum logró la certificación de disco de platino el 16 de mayo de 1978, otorgada por la RIAA.

Lista de canciones
 «Strutter '78»	(3:43)
 «Do You Love Me?» (3:32)
 «Hard Luck Woman» (Remix) (3:23)
 «Calling Dr. Love» (Remix) (3:20)
 «Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll» (Remix) (2:15)
 «Love Gun» (3:17)
 «God of Thunder» (4:14)
 «Firehouse» (Remix) (3:20)
 «Hotter Than Hell» (3:30)
 «I Want You» (3:02)
 «Deuce» (Remix) (3:02)
 «100,000 Years» (Remix) (3:24)
 «Detroit Rock City» (Remix) (3:35)
 «Rock Bottom/She» (Remix) (5:27)
 «Rock and Roll All Nite» (2:48)
 «Beth» (2:45)
 «Makin' Love» (3:12)
 «C'mon and Love Me» (Remix) (2:54)
 «Cold Gin» (4:22)
 «Black Diamond» (Remix) (4:14)

Personal

Kiss
 Paul Stanley – guitarra, voz
 Gene Simmons – bajo, voz
 Ace Frehley – guitarra, voz
 Peter Criss – batería, voz

Producción
Las mezclas fueron hechas por Sean Delaney y Mike "Clay" Stone en Trident Studios, Londres, Inglaterra.

Listas

Referencias

Álbumes de 1978
Álbumes de rock
Álbumes recopilatorios de Kiss
Álbumes de hard rock
Álbumes de heavy metal
Álbumes de Casablanca Records
Álbumes en inglés

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There are two kinds of people – those who believe 'more is better' and those for whom 'less is more'.
For some people, if one pudding is a good thing then 'double-puds' obviously results twice in the pleasure! For others, just the one crème brûlée, is the pathway to optimal dessert-delight.
If you find yourself in the latter camp then you might be Swedish!
Yes, there's a new Nordic lifestyle trend on the scene. Following hot on the heels of last year's Danish contribution – hygge – we have lagom. Both attest to a bracing Scandinavian culture that favours simplicity and balance and both resist attempts to find straightforward equivalents in English. However they are different in crucial ways.
Whereas hygge is something of a transitory concept – an add-on if you like – something brought in to your life during a short break or something worked into each day, lagom is a concept that underpins life as a whole. Lagom is like a pet dog in this respect, not just for Christmas but for life!
Secondly, it's easy to say! While hygge's impenetrable cluster of consonants proved baffling to some English speakers, lagom is a pronunciation doddle. Simply take the 'lar' from 'large' and add to it a 'gom' that rhymes with 'Tom' and you've got it cracked.
So what is lagom? In living a 'lagom lifestyle' the concept of just enough is valued – not too little, not too much, and so the excesses of consumerism are eschewed along with their close cousins – greed and ostentation.
Other English words that come close to expressing the idea are: 'in moderation, 'in balance', and 'suitable'. There is also the positive connotation of 'appropriateness' but crucially without the negative ones 'abstinence', 'scarcity' and 'blandness'. Possibly the best summation is provided by the Swedish proverb 'Lagom är bäst' – 'the right amount is best'.
The benefits of lagom, both to the individual and the planet, are clear. We are living in a world that often presents a challenging cocktail of contradictions and extremes – so something that points in the direction of a more balanced, happier, less wasteful way of life is very appealing.
At madebyzen we fully endorse the lagom virtues of balance and harmony.
Lagom and sustainability go hand in hand – consider the problem of food waste. Every year households in the UK throw away around £13 billion worth of perfectly edible food. Now imagine if shoppers adopted an attitude of 'not too much, not little, just right' – it's easy to see how the baleful enormity of this mountain of wastefulness could be reduced to a molehill of moderation!
This kind of mind-set can even help people to save money. Something as simple as filling the kettle can become and an exercise in 'just right'. Try getting in to the habit of filling the kettle to what we could call the 'lagom level', now extend this to every aspect of your life and you'll soon be reaping the monetary rewards.
A lagom lifestyle is healthier too. Amongst the biggest causes of ill-health, in the west are those caused by over-consumption. It's plain to see how the maxim 'just the right amount' applied to eating and drinking habits would have profound health benefits. Equally the psychological problems associated with a poor work-life balance – stress and insomnia – would be greatly alleviated by the harmoniousness engendered by a lagom mind-set.
Lagom even informs the world of design – a beautiful, stylish simplicity comes to mind when we think of Scandinavian creations. This is a visual language seeped in the watchwords – 'harmony', 'balance', 'simplicity' and 'stylishness'.
So does 'living lagom' mean an end to the occasional treat – saying goodbye to a spot of pampering every now and then? Absolutely not, as totally depriving yourself of these pleasures wouldn't conform to the 'not too little' part of the equation. In fact lagom applies to everything – just the right the amount – even to lagom itself!
Lagom design is stylish, elegant and harmonious – qualities we also value at madebyzen.


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Q: setting property of a proxy object failed, had to get the actual object I have a code like this and it did not work:
$em = $this->container->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager');
$accountObj->setHasCheckpoint(1);
$em->flush();

and I had to do the following:
$em = $this->container->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager');
$user = $em->getRepository('UserBundle:User')->findOneById($accountObj->getId());
$user->setHasCheckpoint(1);
$em->flush();

in order to get has checkpoint to be set. Why is this?
accountObj was just another $entity->getUser();

A: Because $accountObj is not managed (or watched) by the entity manger when the flush method is called, unlike $user which is fetched directly from $em.
If you want to update $accountObj without fetching another instance, you should tell the entity manager to manage the $accountObj object before calling flush:
$em->persist($accountObj);
$em->flush();

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I heart Lu Bird Baby.
After a weekend filled with family, food and maybe a little shopping, I am so happy to introduce you to the sweet and genuine Kristin from LuBird Baby. She is a crafty mama with a big heart and a brave spirit. I love how she is making a conscious effort to slow down and remember the silly, simple and fleeting moments of her everyday. Spend just one minute over at her blog and you will learn something new and feel truly encouraged by each thoughtful word.
I heart Kristin. I am sure you will too.
and the girl behind Lu Bird Baby.
It's so good to be with you guys today and share a glimpse into my my crazy, fun life.
(ever waited for 3 hours in a line at the dreaded DMV with 2 hungry kids? Bad news.).
slow down button. My babies are getting too big too fast.
hate relationship. Luckily most days it's more love than hate.
Wesley "roars" at us all day long and thinks it's the funniest thing ever. It's pretty darn cute.
The kid's favorite movie. A hilarious and awesome kid's worship VHS from when I was a kid. They would watch it over and over again if I let them.
This adorable pouty face. Look at that lip..have you ever seen anything more pitiful.
Never being able to get enough of God's life giving Word, The Bible. I don't know how I'd be able to get through a minute, let alone a day without the Lord. He is so, so good.
Mackenzie's love for her baby dolls. She always has one (or 5) with her. Always.
Wesley is such a mommas boy.
Our adventures in gardening. It didn't exactly go as we planned but we sure learned a lot.
Everything that goes along with preparing to move and plant a church in New Zealand in 15 short months.
My list of random but special things I don't want to forget.
What are some things you want to remember about this season in your life?
And head over here to find out some new big news I just revealed on my blog!
Definitely another thing I want to remember about this season of life.
Love this posting....I want to know more about movong to New Zealand...sounds awesome!!!
I heart Lu Bird Baby too! The Psalty brought back soooo many memories from childhood! I remember the videos and cassette tapes. Wow!
love psalty!! we did those plays every year for church! would love to get my hands on the songs/dvds for my daughter!
Church planting. We've been doing that in ohio for the last 18 months...exciting, but tough work. Prayers are with you as you obey God's call to reach the lost in New Zealand! And Psalty rocks...he's a favorite in our house, and was when I was a tot, too!


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Q: How to apply "position: sticky" to an angular-material card in a flex-layout? I'm trying to get an angular-material card to be sticky. Problem is it didn't seem to work, and I don't get why.
Is it because the parent component got a FxLayout ? I couldn't get my card to be sticky, here my code:
HTML

    <mat-card fxLayout="column" fxLayoutAlign="center center">
      <mat-card-title>
PROGRESSION
</mat-card-title>
      <mat-card-content>

Text here

      </mat-card-content>
    </mat-card>

    <mat-card>
      <mat-card-title>
CONTENT
</mat-card-title>
      <mat-card-content>

Text here

      </mat-card-content>
    </mat-card>

CSS
.progress-card {
  position: -webkit-sticky; /* Safari */
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
}

I'd like to get the "progress-card" to stay sticky on the top of the screen as I scroll down to read the other card content.
Thanks for your help and your time.

A:

section.stycky {
  position: -webkit-sticky; /* Safari */
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
}
body {
    height: 10000px;
}

    <mat-card fxLayout="column" fxLayoutAlign="center center">
      <mat-card-title>
PROGRESSION
</mat-card-title>
      <mat-card-content>

Text here

      </mat-card-content>
    </mat-card>

    <mat-card>
      <mat-card-title>
CONTENT
</mat-card-title>
      <mat-card-content>

Text here

      </mat-card-content>
    </mat-card>


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