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Book 1 of the Riveris series
Would you stick to your principles, even if it could destroy you?
Jim, a former investigator of the elite Downtown, lives a monotonous but hard life in exile in Uptown, which is marked by extreme weather and poverty.
When strange things happen, which even lead to the death of a colleague and friend, he takes the opportunity to escape his dreary everyday life to get to the bottom of the matter. He quickly realizes that he is on the trail of something huge. Despite the horrors he encounters in Downtown, he sees the opportunity for a new beginning that can bring more justice to all residents of Riveris. But not everyone wants to give up the existing system so Jim finds himself in the crossfire of the people pulling the strings.
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Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, the Peace Makers Coalition and North Austin Council invite West Siders from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at 5730 W. Division St. Special guests expected to participate in the event include Ald. Chris Taliafero, Congressman Danny K. Davis and state Rep. Camille Lilly.
Ald. Emma Mitts and her 37th Ward challenger, Chicago schoolteacher Tara Stamps, attended the March 11 event, as did 29th Ward candidate Chris Taliaferro and 24th Ward candidate Vetress Boyce.
The Westside chapter of the NAACP is sponsoring forums March 26 for the 29th Ward and April 2 for the 37th Ward.
Six of the eight candidates answered questions at a forum sponsored by the newly formed Advocates for Neighborhood Development and Empowerment.
The event will be Feb. 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 5 at Galewood Community Church, 1776 N. Narragansett Ave.
Those running for the vacant 1st District seat on the Cook County Board will participate Feb. 1.


The HP HP ProBook 440 G2 runs on DOS Home Edition. The laptop features a 14 Inches,LED,1366 x 768 Pixels and is powered by a Intel Core i3-4030U,1.9Ghz processor. To enhance multi-tasking and fast speed, the company has offered a 4 GB RAM.
Talking about the storage, the laptop uses a 500 GB,5400 (RPM) storage.There is a Bluetooth,DVD Writer,Slim,Wi-Fi and more.The laptop has a 4 Cell battery that will give enough battery life to the users.


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Top 5 independent newcomers to Leeds
We love supporting independents, and with more and more local businesses coming to Leeds, we wanted to shout about our 5 favourite newcomers. So, in no particular order…
The Great Yorkshire Shop
Home to a haven of Yorkshire's finest brands, The Great Yorkshire Shop opened its doors last year (that's 2015, we're still getting used to it being January already, too). Their boutique displays works from the creative talents of God's Own Country: a multitude of DIY craft, home furnishings, quirkily flavoured tea, and other locally-made goodies. What's more, it's in the stunning setting of Leeds Corn Exchange, a hub of small independent stores.
Yorkshire is home to a hub of independents
The people of Yorkshire are a proud bunch, whose heritage often shapes who they are. It's great to see new local businesses cropping up, and even better when the products they sell are locally sourced, too.
Fun fact: 63% of independent business' profit goes back into the local economy (compared to 40% from High Street chain stores).
Inside The Great Yorkshire Shop
The Little Leeds Beer House
Here we have another Corn Exchange beauty, this time for the beer lovers of the world. Craft Beer has poured into the world of local businesses in abundance. There's so many new, independent micro breweries, micro pubs, and craft beer shops, that it can be a bit overwhelming for someone new to the scene, so The Little Leeds Beer House is a great first stop to make.
Up the winding stairs to the top deck of the Corn Ex, you'll stumble across a small room packed with many, many bottles. Bottles from here, bottles from there, bottles from everywhere. Seriously though, there are bottled beers from places you've never heard before. From 17.5% ales brewed with pizza in Norway (not kidding) to Leeds' very own more sessionable Kirkstall's and Ilkley's, there's a bottle for the beer beginner and for the most seasoned of sommeliers (how's that for a job?).
You can even get a LLBH-branded Growler filled with your favourite beer (pictured). That's one of those things you have to buy for the name – Growler. Excellent. (We'd also buy it because it holds lots of beer. Also excellent.)
Support for independent businesses
Not only do we love that little local businesses find their home in Leeds, but we love that independents support independents. Little Leeds Beer House not only sells other local breweries beer, but they hold events which bring the beer community together. Check their website for past and future events.
Fun fact: There are apps which offer loyalty offers specifically for local businesses, such as LoyaltyZoo. Often these apps give discounts on a number of local independents near you, or sell gift cards which are valid in a multitude of nearby shops. So now you don't have any "there's no reward for loyalty" reason to stop you shopping local.
If online shopping is your friend, gorge yourself over the ever popular Not on the High Street for great gifts for loved ones (and yourself, obviously). Etsy is another one that'll help you spend your evenings dreaming.
The Lamb and Flag – Leeds Brewery
Leeds Brewery has been around for a while now, but they've boomed in the past few years, opening up sites in central Leeds and York. One of their newer ventures is the impressive Lamb and Flag, nestled in-between Leeds Minster and The Calls.
The building itself was derelict a year ago, showing how much effort the brewery puts in to ensure they build their empire, whilst giving old, otherwise unused buildings a new lease of life. The building itself is now a mixture of spacious and authentic: large, airy rooms with stone floors and original brickwork.
They even did some fancy paintwork to maintain that older style of building. With many "ghost signs" in the area depicting age and change, this clash of new and old really works. Juxtaposition at its best.
Since its opening in July 2015, it's gone from strength to strength to sit proudly as a well-established venue, for weddings, engagement parties, food, and what we all like best – beer.
Fun fact: the date for Small Business Saturday 2016 will be confirmed in March. Register your small business here completely free of charge. Watch this space!
Colours May Vary
Inside Colours May Vary
Here we have every design lover's home from home. Stacked on the shelves are hoards of super cool stationery, quirky magazines, and contemporary artwork from a multitude of mediums – a whitewashed room full of wonderful wares.
We've been lucky enough to have Colours May Vary on our doorstep since 2012, but this Christmas, Leeds Train Station became that little bit more arty, as in amongst the Subway, McDonalds, and Sainsbury's, a little shop popped up and showered some pretty design over each commuter that passed by.
Unfortunately, the start of 2016 said goodbye to the temporary CMV pop-up, but we are hoping to see it back sometime soon! Their permanent location is a little outside the city centre, but with the East side of the city being home to some big names (Yorkshire Playhouse, Northern Ballet, Leeds College of Music ring a bell?) we hope that the 10-minute trek won't stop you taking a peek inside!
Fun fact: 20% of all Google searches are for local information. Imagine how much traffic you could drive to your site if you utilised key aspects of SEO like targeting keywords and social media! There's so much potential online for small businesses to grow – phone up for a chat if you'd like to know what we can do to help!
Blackbird Vintage
Tucked away between Moortown and Chapel Allerton in North Leeds is a cosy interiors boutique – safekeeping homely treasures, vintage accessories, and other shiny objects, as Blackbirds do.
Blackbird Vintage has been described by Independent Leeds as a fusion between Portobello Road and Spitalfields, a pretty good feat for an almost two-year-old store, considering both are world-famous for their longstanding vintage market wares.
From Edwardian bureaus to vintage Riviera water skis, this boutique can delight, inspire, and even help redecorate your home (literally, they have a bespoke service, as well as interior restyling – they also do upholstery on the side).
Blackbird gives a sense of adventure in the everyday. Your armchair doesn't have to be from Ikea, it could be a mid-century reclining Chesterfield. You could go all out with an Edwardian Church Pew. The world really is your oyster.
Inside the Blackbird Vintage Shop
Fun fact: 82% of local businesses say they get the majority of their custom from referrals. This is why networking with your local community is so vital – attend those meetings, find monthly catch-ups! An easy but very successful alternative is via social media. Retweet your independent neighbours. Create a community hub online and share facts, tips, and tricks to ensure that not only yourself, but your community maintains and grows its independent business. It's a win-win for everyone.

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You can only understand the shadow by experiencing it.. When you descend to the shadows from the light, you are able to uncover the path from the shadow to light. Seek to learn all you can from every experience, by uniting the power of things inferior and things superior, you obtain the glory of the whole world. Discover the Treasures in your Earthen Vessel.


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Men see my dancing as challenge
By MARIAM MAGSI
Seeing Kermani perform in Pakistan is always a pleasure because her performances are a celebration of the cultural history of this part of the world that dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Kermani hosted a two day dance festival at the Arts Council of Karachi, Pakistan to packed audiences followed by well-deserved standing ovations on both days.
Here, she talks about her childhood, her beliefs and what she'd do differently if she could go back in time.
Tell us a little about yourself.
My father belonged to well-established aristocratic family of UP, Lucknow, India. Originally the family is from Kerman in Iran and migrated to India where they settled in UP.
My mother's family was from Hyderabad Deccan and my maternal grandfather was a District Sessions Judge in Hyderabad, Deccan, India.
My father after having graduated from Aligarh University joined the British India army as a commissioned officer. Then in 1947 he opted for Pakistan and came here as a member of the Pakistan Army. In 1949 he went back to India to get married. My father retired as a Brigadier from the army and then was the chairman of KESC till his retirement.
I was born the second of three children. I have an elder brother and a younger sister. My early education was in the convent schools of the cantonments where my father would be posted. Because of the frequent and many postings all over the country, we as children managed to see most of Pakistan, and because my grandparents were in India we used to travel by train every summer holidays and visit them there. So we had a great exposure to both India and Pakistan.
It was our early exposure to Indian classical dance and music that we had on our visits to Hyderabad, and to Western classical music of which my father was very fond of, that stirred my interest in the arts. As a young girl I had studied Western classical music and read all the classical literature that was available. My parents also gave us a wonderful exposure to the world of dance, drama and music.
We travelled all over Pakistan as well as around the globe and visited museums and art galleries and saw the best of performances in Europe and UK – I remember watching a ballet performance with Rudolph Nureyuv and Margot Fonteyn and seeing Laurence Oliver and Maggie Smith on stage. All of this was part of our education and upbringing.
What challenges have you faced as a woman in a patriarchal society like Pakistan?
Well I think that Muslim men see my dancing as a challenge to them! To the Muslim male a woman who is standing on stage with confidence and dignity, is they think saying to them that, "Here I am; I am proud of my body and I do not fear you". This is totally unacceptable to them.
As far as I am concerned those who do not like dance or disapprove of it may not come to watch but I do not give them the right to stop me. I believe it is my right to do what I want; I do not force them to come to a performance so why should they force me to not dance?
I consider myself an activist of human rights issues and I strongly feel that I must do whatever I can to change this discrimination against women in our society so that she can find her place of dignity and respect.
Yes certainly for me dance is a means of communication and a political act. It is a statement that I make: I am free, independent and proud of my body and my being! My audience is varied – ordinary common people/public of Pakistan (when I perform at political forums, conferences and meetings) as well as those who buy tickets and come to see performances in the auditoriums.
What direction are the women of Pakistan headed in?
Well it is a strange and complex situation. On the one hand I believe that we are moving forward as far as the situation of women is concerned.
More women are now outdoors, working in almost all sectors of employment. In the cities women are going to schools, colleges, universities and getting professional and vocational training and education. Many women have joined the media and the many TV channels. But on the other hand we have large number of cases of 'honour killings', 'acid burning' and other such horrendous and criminal acts victimizing and targeting women.
I myself am a Marxist and a feminist. I believe in the Marxist ideology and a vision of a classless society where men and women hold an equal status.
However, I believe that feminism is recognition of the existence of sexism, male domination and patriarchy and the desire to change this situation. I consider myself an activist of human rights issues and I strongly feel that I must do whatever I can to change this discrimination against women in our society so that she can find her place of dignity and respect. It is the values that have to change and the attitudes towards women both of society and state.
How has dance evolved over the years in Pakistan?
Classical dance was banned in Pakistan by President General Zia ul Haq in 1983. Ever since then it has been very difficult to perform and to exist as a dancer in Pakistan.
All the other dancers had left the country by 1983 and I was the only dancer practicing and teaching in Pakistan. The biggest problem is that to hold a public performance one has to obtain a NOC – No Objection Certificate. This is a very tough and laborious bureaucratic procedure. For this one has to go through a disgusting procedure of official bureaucratic rigmarole, running to various offices and finally getting a piece of paper which states: "dancing, nudity, obscenity not allowed; Dresses of Islamic origin only to be worn; No dress so tight as to reveal the vital curves of the body not to be worn; Nothing to go against Islamic values ".
I was recently at a party where I overheard a lady saying to the other about me, "Don't sit next to her, she is a dancer". Often I have stepped out dressed for a performance and looked around to see if someone is there to shoot or attack me.
Often when the governments are obscurantist as General Zia ul Haq's was, then it becomes all the more difficult and sometimes impossible. As for the social attitudes towards dance- well I decided early in life to not let that bother me. I don't conform.
Has the political situation of Pakistan impacted your work? If so, how?
Often I have received death threats from fundamentalist groups — a hotel where I was performing was sent bomb threats and so on and so forth. So this is something I have been facing right from the very beginning. I was recently at a party where I overheard a lady saying to the other about me "don't sit next to her, she is a dancer". Often I have stepped out dressed for a performance and looked around to see if someone is there to shoot or attack me.
Well yes, I do see all that I do as political activism. I am a political person and I believe there is no politics without art.
I believe that perhaps culture is the only medium that can help our country to overcome the ethnic, religious and linguistic divide. Culture overcomes barriers of language and geography and all else.
What is the importance of dance in Pakistani culture today?
I believe that dance is part of our lives – we are only alive when we are dancing! I personally do not see dance as either Hindu or Muslim; I believe this would be the same as to say that there is a Hindu bomb and a Muslim bomb – does the bomb choose between Hindu and Muslim – does it not destroy irrespective of religion? ! In the same way I feel that dance should not be called Hindu or Muslim.
Besides, I am sure that dance existed pre-religion. At the time of the Mohenjodaro civilization there was much importance given to dance
If you could go back in time and change things in your career, what would you do differently? Any future projects/goals we should keep a look out for?
What I would like is to be in a position where I can set up a cultural complex for women, where women can get together without fear and inhibition, simply sit and relax, develop their creative potentials, read and write, sing and dance, learn and do yoga and whatever else they want to and find a shelter for themselves.
Words of wisdom for aspiring dancers from Pakistan?
Dance is perhaps the most beautiful possession that we humans have – let us preserve it in its true and pure form. I feel every one must dance. Dance, to free your self!
Originally published by Dawn Pakistan
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Foodland Supermarket has introduced a new brand of products to the local market ahead of Grenada's 40th Anniversary of Independence.
Known as "Food Club", it was officially introduced to the Grenadian public last week Thursday during a ceremony at Foodland along the Kirani James Boulevard (formerly Lagoon Road) outlet.
Director and Executive Assistant to the CEO of Geo F. Huggins & Co., (G'da) Ltd, Anya Menezes-Chow Chung said that the Food Club line of products brings to the local market a fantastic line of grocery products under the Food Club Brand.
partnership with the Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc as products of excellent quality, attractive presentation and budget friendly.
According to Chow Chung, Foodland is extremely happy to offer a wide variety of items at the supermarket to customers and advised shoppers that the shelves have been re-arranged to accommodate the products with their guidance and input of Kirk George, who is attached to Distribution & Business Development of the Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc (AG).
She assured customer that the new layout of the supermarkets was done for their benefit and ease of shopping with more variety and offerings.
"All you have to do is join the club," she encouraged patrons.
Recalling the start of the company decades ago, Chow Chung said that the establishment of Buy Rite Supermarket almost 40 years ago was a "watershed" moment in Grenada's history, months after the country gained independence.
She said the operators of the two supermarkets take great pride and joy in the fact that their customers view the supermarkets with a sense of ownership, which has been integral in the success of the company.
Foodland on the Kirani James Boulevard celebrates its 25 Anniversary on September 22.
Huggins, now in operation for 94 years, has a reputation for being a good cooperate citizen, market leader and innovative company.
She said that Huggins is blessed with strong leadership, good and talented management, the hardest working and gifted staff in the country while blessed with the most loyal customer base.
Kirk George, Distribution & Business Development, Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc (AG) who attended the event, expressed his surprise at the loyalty demonstrated by Foodland customers while on visit to the store a few days ago when there was an electricity failure.
He was taken aback by the number of customers in the supermarket who waited for the electricity to come back rather than leave the place.
Three lucky farmers who supply the supermarket with fresh produce were presented with thank you prizes for allowing the company to display their photographs.
Foodland Supermarkets Marketing Officer, Mahera Strachan termed the new partnership with the Florida outfit as another milestone in Foodland's history.


Greenhouses provide the opportunity to grow plants in ideal circumstances within any setting and climate. At Organic Space we act as both consultants and designers of greenhouses. We combine innovations such as solar power, irrigation and climate control systems to create the ideal circumstances within a custom designed greenhouse.
As environmentally responsible designers we undertake to implement greenhouse systems and structures that are sustainable, resilient and energy efficient.


Big data initiatives hold a lot of promise in helping organizations improve customer services, develop targeted marketing campaigns and even improve internal performance. What many decision-makers need to realize, however, is that these projects can also give them an advantage over the evolving risk landscape.
Today's cybercriminals are vicious and can easily circumvent many traditional perimeter defense tools still used to guard crucial assets. By using business intelligence and analytic solutions to their advantage, firms can create an intelligence-based security strategy that incorporates data quality into network protection, according to a report by EMC.
"Intelligence-driven security reinforces the idea that no man is an island. When organizations combine outside information with all of their own data that's available to them they start to see a more informed view of threats," said Eddie Schwartz of RSA, the security division of EMC.
A study by the Information Security Forum highlighted similar findings, noting that analyzing data enables firms to change security tactics to a more proactive stance. As the digital landscape expands, using resources to enhance protection will become even easier.


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In the online GRO marriage index at www.ancestry.co.uk, must be... "1933 Jun, James H FEVER & Florence M HAGGER, Royston, 3a 2145"
 Source: Burial register transcript, supplied by Ann J King, Chairman of the North Herts Villages Research Group. Register note: "infant"


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The Blanket will feature a biography of each of the 12 signatories of Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism, along with each of the Danish cartoons their number represents.
This is the ninth in the series.
Anthony McIntyre • 16 May 2006
Salman Rushdie is one of those names that is etched on the mind of a generation of adults. Better that than have it inscribed on a grim tombstone in memory of a writer murdered by some theocrat in the service of Allah or the prophet. In the H-Blocks at the time of the fatwa issued against Rushdie, I recall the poem by a fellow republican prisoner, the writer Gino McCormack, protesting the edict to murder. The Derry man's chant-like prose 'Salman, Rushdie, Salman Rushdie,' glided effortlessly to 'some man must die, some man must die.' Rushdie had received the fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran in 1989 as punishment for blasphemy over his depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in The Satanic Verses written the previous year. That the term blasphemy can have any meaning in the modern world rather than being a quaint relic of a bygone age is a reminder of how contaminated with the poison of religion the well of human society remains. Presumably for this reason Rushdie opposed the British government's proposed introduction of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act.
That religion is often a noxious substance is evident from its toxic adulteration of the language contained in the fatwa issued against Rushdie by Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini.
In the name of God Almighty. There is only one God, to whom we shall all return. I would like to inform all intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur'an, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that no one will dare insult the Islamic sanctities. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a martyr, God willing.
So much for a loving and peaceful God.
In his 2002 book Step Across the Line Rushdie dealt with his attitude to that fatwa and the life he felt compelled to live during 'the plague years' in which he endured almost a decade of round the clock protection, secret locations and looking over the shoulder until Iran lifted the Fatwa in 1998. At one point he slept in thirteen different beds over a twenty day period. He hoped that his book based on a series of lectures he had delivered at Yale in the same year would lay the matter to rest allowing him 'really never have to talk about it again.' In spite of this in 2003 Iran's Revolutionary Guards once again called for Rushdie's murder.
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947 but moved with his family to Pakistan while still a teenager. The partition of India cut his family in half. He arrived at England just around the time the Berlin Wall was being built and the first thought to strike him was that Europe was now facing partition as well. Crossing partitioned lines, both literal and metaphorical, has been a preoccupation for him since. He graduated from Cambridge in 1968. During his student years he experienced racism. On leaving England to reside in New York he was subjected to the wrath of the 'attack dogs' in the British press, who had previously welcomed him with open arms. Seemingly his departure was an act of apostasy.
New York for Rushdie is 'a city whose culture is created by successive waves of migration' and therefore not surprisingly happens to be the only city in the world since Bombay where he feels normal 'or at least everybody else is abnormal in the same way.' He denies feeling American but very much feels a New Yorker.
He holds a certain ambivalence towards Islam which he has characterised as 'that least huggable of faiths.' Describing Islam as 'an extraordinarily civilized culture with a great interest in beauty, a great interest in poetry and architecture and philosophy' he also views it as a belief system which can 'cut people's hands off if they're thieves, stone them to death if they're adulteresses.' He strenuously opposes the way in which 'Muslim societies have constructed themselves into prisons … into places where people are constantly instructed and commanded and ordered around.' He has always felt 'that dichotomy inside Muslim culture. It's got something to do with the exclusion of women from the central places of the culture.' Consequently, he believes that women will lead the fight to reform Islam.
I remember receiving enormous numbers of very moving letters from Muslim readers of The Satanic Verses. Particularly from Muslim women, who thanked me for opening a door, you know … I think the Islamic reformation probably does start in the West and it probably starts with Muslim women. Because they're the people who've understood the problem of Islam better than anyone else, certainly better than Muslim men.
He mourns the cultural death of cities like Beirut, Kabul and Damascus which were 'fantastically open' cities of culture but which have since suffocated under the weight of the veil. 'It just won't do to endlessly blame the West. Because these are self-inflicted wounds.' He is a fan of the Czech writer Milan Kundera and in particular the way Kundera has been shaped by the endless shifting borders within European society. Kundera is also one of the great writers to emerge from within the anti-totalitarian tradition. Because Rushdie accepts that where there is power there is resistance he refuses to despair:
If you look, everywhere in the Muslim world there are all kinds of very courageous and forward-thinking people. Islam is not just the mullahs and the Taliban. It's not just al-Qaida and the Taliban. In fact, remember that those people oppressed Muslims before they attacked the West. The first victims of the Taliban were Afghans. The first victims of the Iranian mullahs were the people of Iran. And from my knowledge of those countries the most hated group in any Muslim country is always the mullahs. Always, always hate them everywhere, for good reason … One of the things I know about the Muslim world is that the mullahs are the most hated figures in it. Mullahs in Pakistan are notorious for their corruption and their misbehavior, and it's not even their sexual misbehavior.
Unlike some of those writers he has he has lined up alongside to face down totalitarianism he does not hold to the view that Islam must always equal repression and reaction. When interviewed by Irshad Manji, who asked him if Islam can be divorced from oppression, he responded:
it's difficult. It was difficult in Afghanistan. But you know there are places in the Muslim world where a much more open society does begin to obtain, if you go to Dubai …women walk around non-shrouded and actually dressed in western dress and so on, and people don't stone them or abuse them or call them names.
A writer of some substance prior to the publication of the Satanic Verses, it was this 1988 novel that established his reputation and placed his name on the tips of many tongues. It was banned in India, then South Africa. With the die cast, further prohibitions on the book followed. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Bangladesh, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Qatar amongst them.
The book was publicly burned in Bradford. A bookstore which stocked the novel was torched in California, as were the offices of a New York newspaper which ran an editorial defending the right of people to read what Rushdie had written. The Japanese translator for the book was stabbed to death near Tokyo. Its Italian translator was lucky to escape with his life when stabbed in Milan. A Belgian Mullah who defended Rushdie's right to publish was murdered in Brussels. The book's Norwegian publisher was shot and wounded in Oslo. Deaths occurred elsewhere as a result of clashes between police and protestors and in one case 37 people died as a result of an arson attack on a hotel in Sivas in protest against Rushdie's Turkish translator.
A year after the book appeared Rushdie offered a public apology of sorts which did him little good and only won him opprobrium from some of those who had sided with him during the dispute. Taslima Nasrin who signed the Manifesto Against Totalitarianism with him was one of the critics.
Rushdie has irritated many people throughout his career and not just with his writing. He is said to be haughty and pompous. But it is his writing that has thrust him into mortal combat with the totalitarian theocrats. His rejoinder to those who urge caution in the face of the theocrats is blunt but inspirational:
'freedom is scary, and it's not peaceful either. It's turbulent. 'Speak' is what I would say. How many people can they shut up?'
MANIFESTO: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
Ibn Warraq
Chahla Chafiq
Philippe Val
Irshad Manji
Debate:
Freedom of Expression: No Ifs and Buts
Manning the Firewalls
Ulster Muslims' Fury at Web Cartoons
For Freedom of Expression
Muslim News Interviews The Blanket
Who Fears to Speak
Cartoons and Caricatures: An anarchist take on the cartoon row
Taslima Nasrin (2000)
The Clash of the Uncivilized
Misunderstandings Abound
A Vital Question Not Easily Washed Away
Zen and the Heart of Blasphemy
Closer to Home
The Right to Offend
Wrong to Claim Freedom of Speech
The Parameters of Free Speech
Unreal Paradigms
Cowardice on Cartoon Controversary
Standing Up to the Enemies of Free Speech
Irish Republicanism and Islam
Real human rights - without any religious blackmail
Resisting Censorship
Controversy over the publication of cartoons
Stereotypes Must Be Challenged Openly
New Convert
About the Possible Posting of the Muslim Cartoons
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When people first learn about Institute for the Future, they generally have a lot of questions.
The third question is often, "How large is IFTF?" To get robust perspectives on the future, we work with a globally distributed network of technologists, designers, journalists, activists, academics, science fiction writers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs in business and civic society. We consider this growing network of thinkers and doers an important part of our organization, and this publication, Future Now, is a reflection of that.
Our journey started with an expert workshop in Silicon Valley, where we engaged some of the area's most creative and insightful thinkers to help us identify a set of foundational technologies shaping the next decade of communications. We then went to Copenhagen, where we convened a broad set of experts, speculative designers, and future thinkers to map out how people would use these technologies to fulfill their long-standing needs, desires, and intentions. Next, we traveled to New York City and met with another set of experts, including professionals in media and advertising, artists and students, and civic technology innovators and activists, to synthesize different possibilities into coherent stories about the future of communication.
It was through these conversations that we were able to uncover the emerging world of ambient communications, and began to identify the many new layers of complexity that will require us to rethink what's possible and reinvent what's practical in this rapidly approaching future. This publication reflects the conversations and insights we've had over 2016 about the future of technology and communications.
Think of Future Now as a book of provocations; it reflects the curiosity and diversity of futures thinking across IFTF and its network of collaborators. It contains expert interviews, profiles and analyses of what today's technologies tell us about the next decade, as well as comics and science fiction stories that help us imagine what 2026 (and beyond) might look and feel like. You may find some of these provocations challenging, scary, or even ridiculous. The point is not to persuade you to agree with any particular forecast or point of view, but to provoke you to engage in more conversations about the future, and to consider new possibilities.


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Michaela Coel in Arabella's bubble-gum pink wig, which was the only hair cue in the initial script.BY NATALIE SEERY/HBO.
June 2021 Issue
On I May Destroy You, Hair Tells Many Stories
At the center of the series she wrote and created, Michaela Coel goes through a series of looks as Arabella, each of them revealing a new element of her character.
By Laura Regensdorf
Partway into the second episode of I May Destroy You, Arabella (played by writer and codirector Michaela Coel) acquiesces to a nap. She's sorting through shards of memory—what she will later realize was a drug-facilitated sexual assault in a London bar—but for now, her friend Terry (Weruche Opia) is tucking her into bed. "Where's your headscarf?" Terry asks, fishing in the nightstand drawer for it. It's an everyday gesture made visible—an example of how I May Destroy You speaks volumes in subtle details. As the show's makeup and hair designer Bethany Swan explains, "If you've spent the time to glue your wig down and do your edges, your best friend is not going to let you go to sleep and mess it up and put your hard work to waste."
Arabella is a devil out on the town on Halloween.BY NATALIE SEERY/HBO.
Coel's 12-episode HBO-BBC series is a story about many things: trauma, consent, the alchemy of the creative process. Throughout, hair is an essential element of that narrative arc. At first, "the only cue within the script was pink hair," Swan recalls of Arabella's defining look from episode one. "The color was sort of the catalyst for everything." Coel's hair was newly shorn at the time of filming, so the solution was a wig: shoulder-length in a shade of bubble gum with dark roots. "She's sort of stuck in a rut with her writing, and the color itself is a bit more washed out," Swan says. "She's at a crossroads, really."
The correlation between Arabella's spin-cycle moods and hair developed from there. In energetic flashback scenes set in Italy, her hair is a blunt-cut electric purple. "When you think of that color, it's vivid, it's confident, it's in your face," says Swan. In another episode, Arabella leans into her Instagram swagger with long glossy black hair; later, in an imagined encounter with her rapist, she whips a platinum pixie out of her bag.
Michaela Coel as Arabella and Weruche Opia as Terry.
BY NATALIE SEERY/HBO.
"Wigs have been part of film and TV for years, but it was wonderful to be able to use them to be seen and to be obvious and to be worn as people would wear in real life," says Swan. The show's wigs can convey a sense of heaviness (Terry finds herself dismissed from an audition for wearing one) but also a release. In a salon scene in episode five, the stylist slips off Arabella's pink hair, revealing cornrows underneath—itself another wig, braided and finessed. That sleight of hand sets up the big reveal in the following scene: Arabella's shaved head as a means of tender catharsis.
"It's the power of taking away," says Swan, with a word of appreciation for "knowing when enough is enough."
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Ready for the World (Career Orientation Program for High School Students)
Career Orientation Program in Kolkata
Ready for the World was an interactive workshop as a career orientation program for high school students designed for students of class X, XI, and XII. They are on the verge of stepping out of the familiar environment of home and long-standing school friends that they have grown up with. To be successful in the new environment of college life they need to be self-confident and worldly-wise.
The workshop was meant to equip them on multiple aspects of life that lie ahead ranging from self-motivation to presentation skills such that post completion of the workshop they emerge as confident young adults. We aimed to provide them exposure to social graces and skills that would help them develop the confidence to meet the challenges of a highly competitive world that they are about to step into.
Twenty-one schools registered for the workshop and we had a full house. Apart from students, teachers and principals also came to observe.
Career Orientation Program
We had 5 sessions in a day long program. The key note speaker was our mentor Mr Sunirmal Chakravarthi – a revered educationist, ex principal of La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, and a motivational speaker who touched on the challenges that lie ahead for high school students at the brink of school life. You can reach him out on LinkedIn.
He spoke about :
The new you – career orientation for students
The world that lies ahead
Jason Pote from team Cygnus took the floor next and conducted interactive sessions filled with fun activities for the students the skills and graces they will need to negotiate new environments. The topics in this session were:
Handling a new environment
Navigating Public Places
Rajrupa Chakravarty from team Cygnus took up Effective Communication as an essential focus in the career orientation program for high school students. In order to make a mark and to be effective in any sphere of life communication is an important key along with right etiquettes. She covered:
Essence of Etiquette
Jason Pote took the floor again with his sessions on public speaking and presentation skills for career orientation for students. His topics were :
The final speaker was our Advisor Jayanta Banerjee who is an entrepreneur and an astute professional and a wizard in the Private Equity world. He tried to give the insights that students would need in choosing career options and how to handle the pressure that they would face. His topics included :
What do I want to be?
How to handle peer pressure
Career Orientation Program for High School Students
Twenty-one premier schools of Kolkata registered for the workshop and we had a full house. Apart from students, teachers and principals also came to observe. The response was overwhelming. The students and teachers have several queries and the participation was active,
This was our launch event and we were truly enthused by the response. It also gave us insights into the pain points of the high school students and teachers and varied aspirations. We feel such career orientation programs for students will always be affective. The glimpses of the workshop and the feedback is appended in the page.
List of Participating Schools
# Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan
# Bhawanipore Education Society School
# Calcutta Public School
# Chowringhee High School
# Gems Akademia International School
# Harrow Hall School
# Laxmipath Singhania Academy
# Loreto Convent – Entally
# Loreto House
# Loyola High School
# M.P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School
# Pailan World School
# Pratt Memorial School
# South City International School
# St. Agnes Convent School
# St. Augustine's Day School
# St. Paul's boarding and Day School
# St. Teresa's Secondary School
# St. Thomas Boys School
# The Park English School
# Union Chapel School
Glimpses of the workshop
Tags: kolkata, launch event, Ready for the World
Date: Jul 25 - 26 2019
HHI (Hotel Hindusthan International)
235/1, AJC Bose Road Kolkata
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Sunirmal is ex-principal La Martinere School Kolkata, author of several books from Cambridge University Press with more than 20 years of experience in teaching and administration. He is a former President of the Rotary Club of Darjeeling, a Paul Harris Fellow and also a Life Member of the Indian Red Cross Society and the Darjeeling District Sports Association.
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IceOfWaterflock's "The Mare Who Fell In Love With The Wind"
author: IceOfWaterflock, romance, tragedy
Although today's story is a tragedy, you can fall in love with it without any regrets.
The Mare Who Fell In Love With The Wind
[Romance] [Tragedy] • 3,806 words
Once upon a time, a Princess was alone in her crystal palace, and she sang to the wind in her sorrow. But when the wind is a Windigo, the wind sings back.
FROM THE CURATORS: The first thing you'll notice about this multi-part fic is its small size — six chapters in less than 4,000 words — and that was one of the factors that turned our heads. "This story shows how to do more with less," Chris said. "It's a bare, almost spartan storytelling style, and I thought it did a great job of showing the strengths of that type of writing." Horizon agreed: "IceOfWaterflock shows a deft touch in keeping us flipping the page. This is exceptionally economical storytelling."
What that storytelling skill presented was, in JohnPerry's words, "a genuinely engaging story with a classic star-crossed lovers premise and a great fairy tale feel in places." While — as Present Perfect noted — "the fairy tale structure really helps it along," it went beyond those roots. Chris' nomination offered an idea of the breadth it was able to pack in: "Even as it builds a fairytale romance, spins a history of the Crystal Empire, and speculates on the nature of windigoes, this slim fic doesn't resort to clunky exposition or asides."
The core fairy tale, meanwhile, inspired several comparisons to the classics. "This is the Brothers Grimm version of the Fall of the Crystal Empire," Horizon said. "It's almost 'Biblical Monsters' dark — and it's made a hell of a lot darker with a little fridge thought about what canon shows us in modern times — but it carries its own weight." AugieDog went even further back: "With so much of the show being inspired by Greek myth, I'm surprised to think that this might be the first fanfic I've seen that really visits that same well. And that it's sort of a pony version of 'Iphigenia in Aulis' just makes me grin."
Read on for our author interview, in which IceOfWaterflock discusses therapeutic stories, immortal robots, and Bermuda Triangle dragons.
Well, I'll cover all the bases; I'm 17, go by Ice, agender and demipansexual. I was a pretty active member in this fandom for a good three or four years, but due to harassment on a different site I've all but quit it. I might come back with a few big fics just to maintain my reputation and save you all from human-in-Equestria self-inserts, but don't expect too much for a while. Continuing on, I live in Canada and have been working towards starting my own organization known as Aphelion Vigil, which includes programs such as a social network named Briar Nexus and my game studio Gray Lion Studios.
It's actually quite old — from when I just started writing. I was around eleven when I wrote six novel-length stories about dragons living in the Bermuda Triangle and getting mixed up with humanity, and the main character was — in classic eleven-year-old fashion — an angsty self-insert silver dragoness by the name of Ice. She lived in the group of dragons known as Waterflock, so I started to go by Ice of Waterflock. It was modified to IceOfWaterflock when I was joining DeviantART, as it didn't allow spaces in usernames and I wanted to make sure the words were properly defined. It's stuck ever since.
I don't think I really have a favourite canon pony. I like drawing and writing about Twilight Sparkle, because I like her characterization and her color scheme. Also, she's the most likely to screw something up through magic, which is pretty good for writing stories around.
Again, I don't really have a favourite. Quite honestly, I don't think the show does much story-wise for that to have a sensible answer. Hand me a season where things aren't solved in a two-part musical episode, and I'd be happier. I mostly work from up to the season two pilot and Twilight becoming an alicorn; other than that, I don't really follow the show.
It's cute, I guess. I liked it more before bronies became so … overpowering, for lack of a better word. Every kid's show airing around now that doesn't have a giant male following has had actual story and character progression — I'm more invested in shows I've never actually seen than a show I watched every episode of for two seasons! Again, like I mentioned above, if a major character arc happened instead of just in special two-parters, I'd be more interested.
To simplify it: to be happy. To complicate it: to have an immortal robot body, be free to travel space for eternity while still able to maintain contact with all of my friends and family, to have my projects complete, and to have an actually satisfying ending to Mass Effect 3.
Depends on the story. I've written some for personal reasons, like "All We Have" and "That's What Ponies Are Made Of"; some for OC development, like "In The Land of the Desert Sun" and "Elite"; some that I came up with on a whim or a doodle and continued when they got popular, like "I Wasn't Prepared for This" and "Starfall"; some for therapeutic reasons like the unreleased "Per Adua Ad Astra". "The Mare Who Fell In Love With The Wind" falls between the first and third reasons. For those of you reading this because you already know of my stories, I do have plans for finishing "A True, True Friend" and a final story to close the storyline completely … as well as 36 unpublished stories with varying levels of seriousness and length. Trust me, I want to finish them all too.
Oh, jeez, I'm probably not the best to answer this, judging by my low content output. Well, actually, that might be my advice — don't force yourself to finish writing things you don't want to. If you write by opening up a notepad document and scribbling out snippets of important scenes but never tie them all together, if you write the first chapter and nothing else, if you write the last chapter and nothing else, if you develop the characters and nothing else, if you rewrite other canons to be MLP-related — that's all okay. Write what makes you happy. I happened to strike gold with "I Wasn't Prepared for This", and it's probably my top story so far. But it's also one of the stories I put the least love into. If I could have chosen a different story to transfer that fame to, I would have probably picked "In The Land of the Desert Sun" or "The Mare in the Lighthouse" — I've put much more thought into them, even though they have less chapters right now. But I still only wrote IWPfT because I loved writing it, even if I didn't love the story itself as much. Don't let yourself get famous on things you never wanted to write, or you'll just be sick and tired of it and it'll show in your writing. Make sure you get praised for something you're proud of. And uh, stay in school, don't do drugs, all that good stuff.
Despite it lacking a [Dark] tag, the reviewers all agreed that this was a very dark story, especially as regards the creation of the Crystal Heart. Do you see it that way?
I think, had I focused more on the creation of the Heart, it definitely would have been. But it wasn't meant to be; there was to be love and there was to be loss, and which parts of the story were considered which may be up for debate. I just tend to lean away from using the Dark tags unless it's going to focus on that darkness — this story wasn't about how the Heart was created, it was about the characters who had roles to play in that creation.
The romance in this story is firmly in the "love at first sight" mold. Why did you chose to go this direction, rather than writing it in a more "realistic" way?
It was mostly because it was meant to be a quick story. I wanted a low word count, just to get the idea out there. (I'll admit I'm surprised this is the story that got me chosen for an interview, compared to my others.) I don't think I would change that aspect — it was intended to be fairytale-like, and that includes a lack of romantic tension. Drawbacks of that style, I suppose.
We also noticed the strong mythical influence to this story; while discussing it, we compared it to The Brothers Grimm, Iphigenia in Aulis, and others. What specific myths and mythologies did you draw on for this story, and to what extent did they influence you?
I didn't actually draw from anything specific, to be quite honest, and I'm honored at the comparisons. It definitely had roots in traditional myths, of course, but I've read multiple versions of the same myths and creatures (as well as coming up with my own!) so I don't think I would be able to pin it directly to one telling. Consider it a headcanon of real-world myths.
Were the politics of this story inevitable in your mind? Or could the crystal ponies and Windigoes have come to coexist, had plans and events been different?
In the context of this story, it was inevitable. This was a story where there was a very clear 'inside' and 'outside' when it came to the races, and the divide was — well, it was literally a giant magic bubble. There couldn't be coexistence on a societal scale in this specific story because there was never meant to be that level of coexistence in this story. I could probably write hundreds of variations on the interactions between these two species, but not in this story. This story was just a personal coexistence — and it led to a personal loss.
Nothing specific, really. Think of me whenever you see a cool lizard. That's all, I think.
You can read The Mare Who Fell In Love With The Wind at FIMFiction.net. Read more interviews right here at the Royal Canterlot Library, or suggest stories for us to feature at our Fimfiction group.


A petition seeking a special probe has been filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court to investigate the Amritsar train accident. The petitioner, a Gurugram-based lawyer,has demanded a CBI probe or formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT). The court has been requested to look into the reasons and fix responsibility for the train mishap.
The matter will be taken up in the Punjab and Haryana High Court tomorrow i.e. Tuesday.
The petitioner Dinesh Kumar Dakoria, through his counsel Shashak Deo Sudh, claimed that the state police should have registered an FIR. The organisers should have been questioned for organising such an event "irresponsibly" adjacent to Joda Phatak.
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Q: How can I split a long pdf page into several pages with iText7 in C# in different lengths? I have pdf files in receipt format (e.g. 80x1000mm), one long page per document.
I want to create a new pdf and split the receipt into several printable A4 pages.
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So the new pages must be created based on given lengths (rectangles) (measured from the top edge). e.g.
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How can I split the pdf page into several pages with iText7 in c# by specifying rectangels?
looked at several examples (git TileClipped.java, C06E02_TheGoldenGateBridge_Tiles)
I have created a very simple example to play around with coordinates, AddXObjectAt, PdfCanvas AffineTransform, ConcatMatrix, Clip etc..
The example generates a 1000mm long pdf.
I have experimented with this pdf. For the beginning I just tried to cut 4 x 250mm.
Unfortunately without success.
using System;using iText.Commons;using iText.Kernel;using iText.Kernel.Colors;using iText.Kernel.Font;using iText.Kernel.Geom;using iText.Kernel.Pdf;using iText.Kernel.Pdf.Canvas;using iText.Kernel.Pdf.Xobject;using iText.Layout;using iText.Layout.Element;

namespace SplitPage
{
    internal class Program
    {
        public const string fileReceipt = "c:\\tmp\\receipt1000mm.pdf";
        public const string fileA4 = "c:\\tmp\\receiptA4.pdf";

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            new Program().CreateAndSplitPdfReceipt();
        }

        static float mmToPt(float mm) => mm * 72.0f / 25.4f;

        void CreateAndSplitPdfReceipt()
        {
            float recieptLength = 2834.6f;          // 1000mm approx 2834.6 pt
            float recieptWidth = 220f;              // approx 78mm

            // Create 1000mm long receipt (= 2834.6pt)
            {
                PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(fileReceipt));
                pdfDoc.SetDefaultPageSize(new PageSize(recieptWidth, recieptLength));
                Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc);

                for (int i = 1; i <= 250; i++)
                {
                    float y = recieptLength - mmToPt(i * 4f);    // 4mm per row  *  250rows = 1000mm

                    var p = new Paragraph(string.Format("Row {0}: y={1:f1}    y'={2}mm ", i, y, i*4));
                    p.SetFontSize(8);
                    p.SetFixedPosition(10, y, 220);
                    p.SetMargin(0);

                    doc.Add(p);
                }
                pdfDoc.Close();
            }

            // split receipt1000.pdf in 4 equal parts a 250mm
            {
                float chunk = recieptLength / 4f;

                PdfDocument srcDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(fileReceipt));
                PdfDocument pdfA4 = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(fileA4));
                pdfA4.SetDefaultPageSize(PageSize.A4);

                PdfPage srcPage = srcDoc.GetPage(1); // just one page in receipt

                PdfFormXObject copyObject = srcPage.CopyAsFormXObject(pdfA4);

                PdfPage pageA4;
                PdfCanvas canvas;

                // 1st
                pageA4 = pdfA4.AddNewPage(PageSize.A4);
                canvas = new PdfCanvas(pageA4);
                canvas.AddXObjectAt(copyObject, 0, 3 * chunk);

                // 2nd
                pageA4 = pdfA4.AddNewPage(PageSize.A4);
                canvas = new PdfCanvas(pageA4);
                canvas.AddXObjectAt(copyObject, 0, 2 * chunk);

                // 3rd
                pageA4 = pdfA4.AddNewPage(PageSize.A4);
                canvas = new PdfCanvas(pageA4);
                canvas.AddXObjectAt(copyObject, 0, 1 * chunk);

                // 4th
                pageA4 = pdfA4.AddNewPage(PageSize.A4);
                canvas = new PdfCanvas(pageA4);
                canvas.AddXObjectAt(copyObject, 0, 0);

                srcDoc.Close();
                pdfA4.Close();    }}}}

My problem is obviously that I did not understand the basic operations.

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"Guang" is first Malaysian title to win Best Film at Asia Pacific Film Fest
Yesterday evening, "Guang" did us all proud when it won Best Film at APFF.
9 Jan – At the 59th Asia Pacific Film Festival (APFF) held yesterday in Macau, a Malaysian film took home the Best Film award for the first time. The film was director Quek Shio Chuan's "Guang", starring Kyo Chen.
The trophy and plaque were received by YB Mr Pansha, president of the Malaysian Film Producers Association, and YB Dato' Nancie Foo, who represented "Guang" at the festival.
Another accolade it took home was Best Screenplay for Quek, as revealed in a post on FINAS' Facebook.
APFF is held once every year in a different Asian city to celebrate the best of Asian cinema over the previous year. In 2018, the Malaysian movie "Interchange", directed by Dain Said, won the film festival's Best Visual Effects award. "Guang" is certainly no stranger to awards, having dominated last year's Malaysian Film Festival (FMM) by winning 4 out of the 9 categories it was nominated in, specifically Most Promising Director, Most Promising Actor, Bets Cinematography and Best Art Direction.
Additionally, it nabbed Best New Director and Best New Actor at the 13th Chinese Youth Generation Film Forum, and has been shortlisted for the Asian New Talent Awards portion of the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) and the Fukuoka Audience Award at the 2018 Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival.
"Guang" is the story of an autistic young man struggling to find a job, while honing his secret talent for music. The idea started off as a short film, which eventually developed into a full-length movie after a few years following its Grand Prize win at BMW Shorties 2011.
Writer: Leticia Lariche
Guang (Mandarin) (29 Nov 2018)
Director Quek discusses feature directorial debut, "Guang"
"Guang" earns award nominations at two international film festivals
"Guang" star Kyo Chen working on directorial debut
"Guang" wins awards in China prior to Malaysian release
Malaysian film "Guang" on subject of autism will come to cinemas in 2018
Spaniards touched by Kyo Chen
Syamsul Yusof, "Ola Bola" win awards at the Asia Pacific film fest
"Sepet" Withdraws From Asia Pacific Film Festival


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Troponin T as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker of Primary Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis
Silvia Laura Bosello, Giacomo De Luca, Federico Parisi, Giorgia Berardi, Manuela Rucco, Giovanni Canestrari and Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology and Affine Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Keywords: Biomarkers, Heart disease, myocardial involvement and systemic sclerosis
Session Title: Systemic Sclerosis, Fibrosing Syndromes and Raynaud's - Clinical Aspects and Therapeutics: Systemic Sclerosis Measures and Outcomes
Background/Purpose .Heart involvement is common in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), even if often clinically silent, and represents one of the leading cause of death in these patients. The aim of our study was to define the role of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and NT-proBNP to identify a cardiac involvement.
Methods .cTnT and NT-proBNP levels were evaluated in 200 consecutive SSc patients (mean age: 58.7 ± 13.9 years; mean disease duration: 11.1 ± 9.0 years; diffuse disease: 42.0%; anti-Scl70 positivity: 45.5%) from 2008 and 2013. Data regarding disease subtype and organ involvement were available for the entire cohort and all patients underwent: electrocardiogram (EKG), echocardiography and pulmonary function test (PFTs). All SSc-related deaths were registered during a mean follow-up of 40.8±18.7 months.
Results . cTnT levels were above the normal limit in 79 (39.5%) SSc patients (mean levels in positive patients: 0.06 ± 0.08 ng/ml). NT-proBNP levels were above the cut-off limit of 125 ng/ml, recommended by the manufacturer, in 79 patients (39.5%) and 51 of these patients presented also increased levels of cTnT. The increased cTnT levels were associated with diffuse skin involvement and skeletal myositis (p<0.0001; p=0.006 respectively) and directly correlated with skin score (R=0.27; p<0.0001). Patients with high cTnT levels presented a lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LV-EF) (59.5±9.3%) and higher pulmonary arterial systolic pressure on echocardiography (37.7±16.8 mmHg) compared to patients with normal cTnT values (63.1±4.9%, p=0.04; 28.3±6.8 mmHg, p<0.0001). These patients, furthermore, presented more frequently a right bundle branch block on EKG with respect to patients without increasing of cTnT (19.7% vs.7.0%; p=0.008). In our cohort 28 patients (14%) presented a LV-EF <55% and the sensitivity of increased cTnT levels (>0.014 ng/ml) in the detection of depressed myocardial contractility was 67.8% and its specificity was 66.8%. It is also noteworthy that its negative predictive value in the assessment of depressed LV-EF was 92%. During the follow-up, 18 SSc-related death occurred; 10 of these were directly related to cardiac involvement (sudden cardiac death or heart failure) and all occurred in patients with increased cTnT levels. Cumulative survival estimated by Kaplan-Mayer curve was worse in patients with increased baseline levels of cTnT (X2=21.2, p<0.0001). Died patients presented higher levels of cTnT (0.11±0.03 ng/ml) and of NT-proBNP (7193±5691.3 pg/ml) and lower LV-EF (52.5±11.9%) with respect to survivors (cTnT: 0.02±0.05 ng/ml; NT-proBNP: 585.8±2517.3 pg/ml; LV-EF: 61.9±6.6%; p=0.001 for all comparisons).
Conclusion . The cTnT levels were increased in up to 40% of the SSc patients, revealing that myocardial involvement is more relevant in scleroderma disease than appreciated previously. cTnT may provide an opportunity to screen non-invasively SSc patients for subclinical heart involvement. The more impaired systolic function and more frequent EKG abnormalities in SSc patients with increased TnT levels, suggest that cTnT may be a novel biomarker of cardiac damage. Our data on survival suggest it as a possible prognostic biomarker of SSc-related death.
S. L. Bosello,
G. De Luca,
F. Parisi,
G. Berardi,
M. Rucco,
G. Canestrari,
G. Ferraccioli,
ACR Meeting Abstracts - https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/troponin-t-as-a-diagnostic-and-prognostic-biomarker-of-primary-cardiac-involvement-in-systemic-sclerosis/


Are you lucky enough to have a pumpkin patch within biking distance? I'm not aware of one in Seattle this year.
Tractor Rides • Veggie Car Races • Autumn Mobile Art Project • Leaf Rubbings • Pumpkin Putt-Putt Miniature Golf • Straw Maze Madness. Tickets will be on sale for races, games, and art projects to raise money for Child Haven.
The Ballard Kiwanis club will sell hotdogs, beverages, and desserts from 10am–2pm • Cupcake Royale will sell special fall cupcakes & traditional baby cakes from noon–4pm • Sweet Wheels Ice Cream Truck from noon–4pm.
Last year Northwest Seaport had pumpkins on one of the ships at Lake Union Park which is a little easier to get to for us, but looks like it's not on this year.
I was a bit disappointed these were the biggest pumpkins to be had. I could have fit slightly larger ones on board.
Earlier in the day, while the kids were at school, I swung by the Ballard Fred Meyer and saw some truly enormous pumpkins. They had their weights and diameters displayed…diameter I guess to make sure it could fit through the car door to drive home? Lots of them over 100 pounds. I don't think I could manage the two-block uphill climb home from the Burke-Gilman Trail were I to get a pumpkin at the Ballard Fred Meyer, but I bet the Greenwood Fred Meyer has a selection of obscenely large pumpkins, too. Because the terrain on the ride home definitely dictates the weight of the pumpkin(s) I'll haul!
Happy fall and I hope you've had some pumpkin-on-bike fun, too!
Oh, and learn from my mistake: I meant to stick two pumpkins on the street side and one on the sidewalk side. You know, to better impress the people driving alongside us.


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In UK, Financial Toll of Identity Theft Approaches £2bn
in News, News
Recently released numbers reported by BBC News illuminate the growing problem of identity theft in Europe. According to the National Fraud Authority (NFA,) the financial cost of identity theft in the UK topped £1.9bn in just the past year. With 1.8 million victims in the U.K. alone, clearly identity theft is a global issue.
NFA data shows not only the financial loss, but also the fraud committed by these thieves. Using stolen personal information, the thieves were able to dodge arrests and convictions, obtain state benefits, and open bank accounts, among many other activities.
The financial cost of identity theft includes not only the money stolen from the victims, but also the cost of fighting such thefts. The NFA has estimated that over the past year, businesses in the U.K. spent more than £800m in efforts to combat identity fraud.
Apparently the problem of identity theft is not going away. Do your own research on the various identity theft services and get protected today.
Tags: identity theft europe
Preteen Girl is Inventor of Identity Theft Prevention Technology
Identity Thief Sentenced to 15 Years For Medical ID Theft
Brandon Qureshi
Brandon Qureshi is an expert on identity theft companies after being victimized in 2006. He's proud to share everything he's learned about identity theft and when he's not writing articles for IDProtectionGuide, Brandon is a forensic accountant and an aspiring author.


In the Burgundy region, world famous for its wines, lies Holiday Park Les Portes du Beaujolais. The attractive holiday park lies on the outskirts of the small town of Anse.
Wine lovers will feel right at home here, because it is nearby a wine trail on which you can discover the world famous wines of Beaujolais. There is also plenty to do at the park. For water sports lovers there is a recreation area near the park where canoes, kayaks and windsurfing boards are available for hire. It's just a 10 minute walk to the friendly city centre, and there's also a tourist train to take you back and forth during the weekends. A popular day trip is the Walibi amusement park, which is just a 90 minute drive away.
There are various types of accommodations at the holiday park. In addition to camping sites, the holiday park also offers chalets and mobile homes for hire.
France is the land of wine, cheese and sumptuous food. There are various wineries in the area, and you will find restaurants in the city centre, just 500 metres from the campsite. Those who enjoy walking can take a nice hike along the Beaujolais wine trail, which passes by the campsite. For day trips, you can drive to Lyon, just 25 km away, where you can visit the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière. From the Fourvière hill you can look out over all of Lyon.
Book your ideal holiday now in the beautiful Burgundy region!
As one who enjoys both nature and culture, you can be certain you won't be disappointed by the beautiful surroundings of Holiday Park Les Portes du Beaujolais. There is also plenty to do at the holiday park. You can spend time enjoying the various sports facilities, the swimming pool or a delicious meal in one of the two restaurants.


The area of aerial photography may cover many different kinds of work, for example real estate photography, government projects to document construction or environmental problems, paparazzi policy, court case evidence, along with general artistic images taken from aloft. It may seem that airborne photography is very simple to specify, and it is taking a photograph from the atmosphere. That is quite accurate; nonetheless, there are several categories of this it is very crucial that you understand. In addition, there is definitely an increasing selection of photographic procedures that aren't obvious.
Oblique - Oblique aerial images are removed from some type of air craft, regardless of whether this really is really a fixed wing aeroplane, a balloon, or even a helicopter. The niche is observed at a angle and thus the graphics are perceived by the human eye as with definition and depth. This branch is often utilized for boosting work, aerial construction progress reports, archaeology, producing an outstanding photograph for display, in the sale of residential or business real estate, or even in legal disputes. Read this: https://sweetlifephotography.com.au/ for details.
Vertical - This can be referred to as "overhead". Vertical aerial photographs are extracted from directly overhead looking down vertically. Therefore, they produce a flat image like a map. These photographs are usually utilized for land use, mapping projects, flood hazard assessment, farm evaluation, and scientific tests.
Be aware though that both of these techniques were developed chiefly for military functions.
Now, plenty of alternative photography methods are considering themselves as aerial photography when actually they may be properly termed "elevated photography". These methods make use of different gears in order to raise a camera above the ground in order to raise position. Several of the methods utilised in order to raise the camera will probably include things like using telescopic poles or masts and also a portable raised platform on the photographer will stand out.
Forestry - Photographs taken with color film and filters helps identify shrub densities and varieties in remote forest locations.
Archaeological Exploration - They provide advice on items unapparent to the floor observer.
Geology - Geologists can explore wide land areas by the atmosphere and make use of the obtained information to populate the outside of the earth. The various locations for the best of way and earth excavation can be corrected for highway engineering endeavors.
Meteorologists - A top altitudes, cameras mounted on vehicles propelled by rockets could produce weather data.
Military - This was by far the greatest user of aerial photographs. The demand for military intelligence and target data has been responsible for progress in the plans of the form of photography.
As with most sorts of outdoor photography, the early morning and late afternoon time frames will give the maximum pleasing photographs. It's now that the sun's rays produce warmer colors and longer shadows which produce more brilliant colors and beautiful shadows. The longer shadows linked with the period frame add thickness to your photographs, by defining the contours of land or structures.
Thus, picking out a time of day can be dependent on the kind of photography you're trying to catch. Throughout the middle of the afternoon, the light is flat which will be better suited to your particular needs, i.e., documenting a structure project, or commercial property. Understanding the goals of your photographic assignment will greatly impact when you decide to charter a flight.
Aerial photography produces a view of the world that not many can experience. Whether you are taking aerial photographs being a career or just like a hobby, the joys of aerial photography will be innumerable!