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COVID-19: Labour Expert advocates stimulus package for affected workers
The government has been urged to set up a stimulus package for workers who are likely to be negatively affected by the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana.
Austin Gamey, Chief Executive Officer of Gamey and Gamey Group, a leading labour relations consultancy firm, who made the call in an interview with ADR Daily in Accra, is convinced that employees working within certain sectors of the Ghanaian economy including the Aviation, Tourism and Banking and Finance are likely to be hard hit by shutdown caused of the disease hence an urgent need to set up an account that would be use to cushion affected workers.
"I am saying so because very soon when the hotels are no longer performing as expected, stimulus packages must be designed by government so that they can take care of people who may go home," he said.
Following the official confirmation of six cases of COVID-19, the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo on March 15, 2020 as part of measures to address the spread of the virus has directed the Attorney General to submit immediately to Parliament emergency legislation in accordance with Article 21 (4) (c) & (d) of the Constitution of the to embody these measures.
But the renowned labour expert is hoping that the brief that is expected to be presented to the President by the Attorney General would include a stimulus package that is aimed at mitigating the plight of workers whose work might be affected by the pandemic.
"I'm anticipating that when the Attorney General is preparing his brief for the President to see, he should ensure that it includes a stimulus package, a special account with some billions of cedis set up by the government, so that they can take care of people who would be made to go home without pay," he emphasized.
The proposed stimulus package, Mr. Gamey further explained should be made available to employers within affected sectors so funds allocated to that special account could be accessed and used to pay workers who would be made to go and stay at home.
"Employers need the stimulus package so they can keep the workers in employment; even if they go home they have to be paid. The stimulus package would include among other things health insurance and PPE matters, " he stated.
Ghana has so far recorded six cases of COVID-19. Educational institutions have subsequently been shut down and other gathering suspended to stop the spread of the virus in Ghana.
The government said three of the cases were recorded in Accra while one other was recorded in the Ashanti Region.
The Director of Public Health at Ghana Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie who provided updates on the country's cases said the new cases were also imported into the country.
He said two of the cases were confirmed on March 13, 2020 while the other two were confirmed on March 14, 2020.
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How do you play an instrument during a pandemic?
The show must go on for the Marist War Eagle Marching Band.
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The 2019 Marist Marching Band performs in Woodruff Auditorium
Madison Roberts, Staff Writer
Friday Night Lights at Marist have undergone many changes this year, but the Marist War Eagle Marching Band is still going strong. With a show inspired by the music of Queen, everyone tuning into the football game from home via MBC's live broadcast gets to witness this year's ten-and-a-half minutes of music.
"Because we don't have to march, we get to reinvest that time in music," Associate Band Director Aaron Schmitt said. "Away bands aren't coming to games, which means we get to luxuriate at halftime. We don't need to compress ourselves to make room for another performing ensemble."
No physical marching is not the only change the band has had to make this year. Many band members have had to switch instruments, as the airborne virus has made it risky to blow into wind instruments. "The biggest challenge this year is most certainly learning a new instrument and playing intermediate to advanced level music after just starting," Band Captain Isa Yelamo-Cockcroft '21 said.
Social distancing is another hurdle the band has had to climb, according to Tyler Morgan '22, a member of the drumline. "I think our biggest challenge this year is keeping everyone locked into the same tempo," said Morgan. "Because we are so spread out, it is hard to hear where other sections of the band are in the music as we attempt to play in unison with the other sections."
Because of the quick changes Marist made in returning to campus, the marching band was able to start practicing in July. The members of marching band have sacrificed a lot to be able to perform this year. All students wear a mask for the entirety of the show. There was no traditional band camp this year, there will be no competitions, and the band is only playing home games.
"The biggest challenge for me is accepting that this year is always going to have an asterisk by it. We can't play wind instruments, go to away games, take trips together, and that's all detrimental to our relationships, which is what this is really all about," Schmitt said. "Making those decisions was actually pretty easy, but just hard to accept. This year and season won't feel like any other year and season, but it's to keep us all safe, which is more important."
Despite all of these challenges, the Marist War Eagle Marching Band is reinvigorated by their love for music. The band has been tackling all of their new challenges to produce an outstanding show, and the energetic performances show these students' love for what they do.
"Our students are creators," Schmitt said. "They give more than they take."
Madison Roberts is a junior at Marist and a new staff writer for the Blue and Gold. When she's not writing articles, she can be found working on her novel, taking care of her plants, or playing guitar. Madison is a member of Marist Color Guard, the Marist Podcasting Club, and a part-time employee at Pike Nurseries. Her favorite things to do are hanging out with her cat and listening to rock music. She is excited for the opportunity to write for the Blue and Gold.
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London benefits from three great regional parks - legacies of our industrial past turned into new amenities. The Lee Valley in the East was once home to a diverse range of industries, gravel pits, waterworks sites, distilleries and munitions factories. The idea of a park was suggested in Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Greater London Plan in 1944 but it was not until 1967 that the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority was formally constituted.
The Wandle Valley, which runs south from Wandsworth, is a legacy of the Industrial Revolution when its fast-flowing waters powered about 100 mills between the Thames and Croydon and Carshalton. The Wandle Valley Regional Park brings together some 900 hectares of south London's open spaces under a unified vision with a long-term programme of enhancing access, links, gateways and expansion. The Colne Valley Park, in the west, much of it former gravel pits, covers over 40 square miles and hosts a mosaic of farmland, woodland and water with 200 miles of river and canal and over 60 lakes. It is also a living, working environment, providing employment and homes for many people as well as being a haven for wildlife.
Join Sue Morgan, Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust; Peter Massini, GLA; and Stewart Pomeroy, Colne Valley Park for a fascinating look into London's great green spaces!


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Photo of drowned father and daughter underscores crisis at the US-Mexico border
The photo is haunting, a vivid reminder of the danger many face when they try to cross into the United States. It shows the human toll of a crisis at the border that's often debated with abstract statistics and detached policy arguments.
The image is of a Salvadoran father and his daughter lying face down in the water of the Rio Grande, part of the US border with Mexico .
For months, advocates have been warning that deaths at the border would increase, as migrants are forced to cross in more dangerous areas by US policies that make it harder for those seeking asylum to turn themselves in at ports of entry.
Oscar Alberto Martinez and his daughter, identified by officials from El Salvador as Angie Valeria M., drowned in the currents of the Rio Grande on Sunday as they tried to slip into the United States.
Their bodies were found Monday near Matamoros, across the river from Brownsville , Texas. The child was 2 years old, The Associated Press reported.
In the image, the young girl is tucked inside her father's shirt, her right arm slung around his neck as they lie near the shore. Their bodies have come to rest near a river bank where five discarded beer cans and an empty soda bottle sit in the tall reeds. Another beer can floats next to the girl's body.
To see the photo, click here (Note, the link contains a graphic image).
The photo evoked memories of a 3-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey. The iconic 2015 image of the drowned toddler lying in the sand continues to stir discussion over policies toward migrants.
The deaths of the father and child prompted Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Hill to beg her countrymen to stay and work with the government as it tries to solve the economic issues that cause many to look to migrate north.
"Our country is in mourning, again. I beg you, to all the families, parents, don't risk it. Life is worth a lot more," she added.
Hill said the government is working with Mexican authorities to repatriate the remains.
El Salvador's newly elected President Nayib Bukele said the government would help the family financially.


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Brexit & VAT for EU companies
Not only a change of boxes in your VAT return !
The change in your local VAT obligations
You have British customers and you naturally wonder about the concrete VAT consequences of Brexit, which will be fully applicable in about one month:
Will you have to issue sales invoices with British VAT as from January 1st,2021?
Will it be necessary to register for British VAT as a precautionary measure?
Will the appointment of a local tax representative be mandatory?
What will be the impact of Brexit on my local VAT return?
The answer to all these questions will depend on many parameters. In international trade of goods, the risk of swerving is significant and Brexit is a perfect illustration of this.
To better understand this, let's take a fairly simple starting situation: your company sells a batch of goods to an British company (B2B relations) for a total amount of € 100,000. The carrier acting on your behalf loads your goods onto his truck and delivers them to your British customer's warehouse.
Until December 31st , 2020, this operation is to be considered as an intra-Community supply of goods exempt from VAT in your country for your company and as an intra-Community acquisition of goods taxable in the country of arrival for your British customer, with the following practical consequences :
Your invoice must be drawn up exempt from local VAT and include the British VAT number of your customer;
The sale must be included in your periodic VAT return as an intra-EU sale;
The sale must also be reported in an intra-EU listing ;
The sale must be reported in an Intrastat listing .
In addition, it is essential for your company to keep evidence of the transport of the goods from your country to the United-Kingdom so that the VAT exemption it claims on its sale is not called into question by your local tax authorities during a VAT inspection.
From January 1st, 2021, traditional VAT rules are going to be radically modified and you will imperatively have to think "out-of-the-box" !
From January 1st, 2021, the United Kingdom will be considered as a third country for VAT purposes. This will change the VAT rules. The simplest business transaction with an British partner, in this case an intra-Community supply of goods, will have unprecedented VAT consequences for your company after Brexit. What used to be a simple intra-Community supply of goods becomes an export of goods and leads to the following changes in your country :
Your invoice will have to be drawn up exempt from local VAT and will no longer have to include your customer's British VAT number;
The sale will have to be included in the box for exportation and not in the box relative to intra-EU supplies anymore;
The sale should no longer be reported in the intra-EU listing of goods.
The sale will no longer need to be reported in your Intrastat statement.
It is also essential that your company keeps the customs export document showing the exit of its goods from the territory of the EU, so that the VAT exemption it claims on its sale is not called into question by your local tax authorities during a VAT inspection.
An essential VAT question after the Brexit: who, your company or its British customer, is the importer?
Who says export to Europe correlatively says import to the United Kingdom. From January 1st, 2021, the main VAT question will not be in which box of your VAT return the sale to your British customer should be included, but who, of your company or your British customer, should be identified as the importer when clearing your goods through customs in the United-Kingdom.
The mistake would be to naively think that everything concerning the United-Kingdom must undoubtedly be settled by your British client. Just imagine his reaction when you explain to him that the transport of your goods does not stop at the doorstep of his warehouse but at the border between the EU and the UK and that the administrative burden of clearing your goods through customs as well as their subsequent journey to the final destination is now his responsibility.
In this configuration, Brexit will have no VAT impact for your company since it will probably no longer have any British customers!
Only one commercially acceptable solution: your company is the importer!
In reality, there seems to be only one commercially acceptable alternative for your British partners: your company will have to act as the importer when the goods are cleared through customs in England.
Importing your goods into the UK will entail specific customs formalities for your company as well as an obligation to register for VAT in the UK and to comply with the related VAT obligations: payment of British VAT, filing of periodic VAT returns, keeping specific VAT accounting books. It should be noted that foreign companies with taxable activities in the UK are required to use a certified British accounting software to manage their VAT obligations. Failure to do so may result in heavy administrative penalties.
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60 million girls' Mobile Learning Lab is designed to get quality schooling to the rural poor where large class sizes, a lack of trained teachers and limited access to traditional educational materials, mean that many children who are in school just aren't learning.
At first, it seemed like a lofty idea. How could a small, volunteer-run organization help to overcome the seemingly intractable problem of inferior educational outcomes for poor children in rural, isolated communities?
Yet after several years, and many hours of research and consultations with experts in both academia and software development, 60 million girls put together the first Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) to enable children to explore subjects of their own choosing, after school, through offline, interactive educational games, videos and tutorials, all charged by solar panels and designed specifically to improve learning outcomes.
Have a look at the video to learn about how the Mobile Learning Lab works.
Getting all children to learn is crucial. We know that education, especially for girls, is the key to development and leads to higher incomes for individuals, more economic growth nationally, better health, stronger gender equality, lower rates of child marriage, a better understanding of environmental issues and higher rates of participation of women in the political process.
It is an absolute travesty that, globally, over 264 million children and adolescents are not in school. Yet, equally troubling, is the fact that even children who are in school are often not learning the rudimentary skills they need to get ahead.
So while access is important, it is just not enough. Clearly, a new approach is needed to ensure not only a chance for children to go to school, but also to learn.
With this background in mind, we felt that harnessing educational technology was the most effective way to improve learning outcomes for vulnerable children. Training enough teachers to meet demand, even at the primary level, could never happen quickly enough. And, transporting heavy and bulky textbooks to isolated communities with a poor network of roads was too complicated, logistically.
We needed an inexpensive, small, lightweight solution packed with informative and engaging content – all of which is readily available to children in the global north where Internet access is ubiquitous. And so the Mobile Learning Lab was born.
As you heard in our video, the MLL provides children access to offline learning materials. The MLL consists of a small suitcase filled with thirty 7'' off-the-shelf tablets, a small solar charging system and a rechargeable server called a RACHEL-Plus (see photo below). The server, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, can hold up to 500 GB of open source high quality offline content.
Currently, the content includes a wide range of open source learning tools such as Wikipedia Academic, KA Lite (Khan Academy offline source for math and science tutorials), Fantastic Phonics and Feed the Monster for literacy, as well as thousands of e-books, encyclopedias, information on agriculture, geography, history, social sciences, and coding.
This content can be custom-loaded for each community's particular needs and can be modified at a distance at any time by simply hooking up the RACHEL-Plus to an Internet connection where available in a larger city.
So, no Internet or electricity required. All learning materials are pre-loaded and the devices can be charged via solar panels.
The total cost of an MLL, including 30 tablets, three solar panels and RACHEL-Plus is $5,000.
In other words, the MLL can be set up anywhere in the world at a relatively affordable cost.
Children work at the MLL after school, and at their own pace, by connecting to whatever programs interest them, or to subject areas where they need help. In other words, those who need a little extra help will have the tools at their disposal. And, those who want to advance their learning further will be able to do so as well.
One of the main takeaways from our initial pilot project was that the children enjoyed the new learning tools; 86% of them kept returning to our initial learning centre and math scores improved.
We are currently rolling out the MLL in remote communities in Sierra Leone's Koinadugu district. To date, we have invested close to $100,000 since 2016 to further develop and test our concept and to conduct a full-year evaluation of 750 grade five students (boys and girls) in seven communities measuring math, literacy and non-cognitive skills before and after the intervention. Five communities have access to the MLL and two communities are serving as control groups in order to measure the overall impact. The final results will be available in the fall of 2018.
If the MLL concept works in Sierra Leone, we feel that it will also translate to other countries, and other vulnerable populations.
Start small but think big. We are a small organization trying to use technology to make a big impact to improve learning outcomes for children around the world.
Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter to learn more about girls' education and to keep up to date with our projects.


Abstract: "[Investigators] have developed and applied Dynamic Organellar Maps, a proteomic method that allows global mapping of protein translocation events. [They] initially used maps statically to generate a database with localization and absolute copy number information for over 8,700 proteins from HeLa cells, approaching comprehensive coverage. All major organelles were resolved, with exceptional prediction accuracy (estimated at >92%). Combining spatial and abundance information yielded an unprecedented quantitative view of HeLa cell anatomy and organellar composition, at the protein level. [They] subsequently demonstrated the dynamic capabilities of the approach by capturing translocation events following EGF [epidermal growth factor] stimulation, which [they] integrated into a quantitative model."
P.8 bottom paragraph: "Quantitative anatomy of a HeLa cell: Combined knowledge of protein subcellular localization and abundance enables construction of a model of HeLa cell composition. [Investigators] calculated the protein mass of each organelle by multiplying the molecular weights of constituent proteins by their estimated copy numbers (Figure 3). This revealed that the endomembrane system contributes approximately 16% to total cellular protein mass, dominated by mitochondria (6.6%), ER (4.4%), and plasma membrane (3.1%), with relatively minor contributions from endosomes, lysosomes, peroxisomes and Golgi (Figure 3A)." P.45 2nd paragraph: "Figure 3: Quantitative anatomy of a HeLa cell. A) Schematic diagram of a cell where compartments are approximately scaled by their relative contributions to total cell protein mass (not by their volumes). All membranous organelles combined (excluding the nucleus) contribute ca. 16%. For comparison, ribosomes and proteasomes contribute 6% and 1.3%, respectively. The proportion of the ER fraction would increase from 4.4% to ca. 5.4% if attached ribosomes were included."


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Can we Sustain 7 Per Cent Growth?
1997.Oct.06 2010.Mar.29 Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar 0 Comment
Can India keep it up? For the last three years, it has averaged GDP growth of 7 per cent, not far short of the 8 per cent achieved by East Asian miracle economies. But this year, the economy is decelerating. Jeremiahs say the recent fast growth was a temporary surge that cannot be sustained.
I share some apprehensions of the Jeremiahs, and acknowledge that growth has slowed this year. Yet I believe that, with luck and effort, we can indeed sustain a 7 per cent growth rate. After 1991,1 wrote repeatedly that our economic reforms were too muddled and half-baked to yield more than 5-6 per cent GDP growth. I have seen proved too pessimistic. I underestimated the ability of even "half-baked reforms to increase efficiency, and am wary of repeating this error in the future.
Forget the current debate on whether the economy is slowing down this year. Look ahead and ask, have structural changes occurred in the Indian economy, which make a 7 per cent GDP growth look sustainable over the next decade?
The answer is a qualified yes. Consider the following.
The savings rate has risen from 22.8 per cent of GDP in 1991 -92 to a record high of 25.6 per cent in 1995-96, and looks likely to rise to 28-30 per cent over the next decade. That will greatly increase the sums available for investment.
The inflow of foreign investment (portfolio as well as direct) has risen from almost nothing in 1990-91 to $ 5.6 billion in 1996-97, and could touch $ 7 m this year. The potential is much greater-China alone attracted $ 42 billion last year.
The share of agriculture in GDP has declined from 57 per cent at independence to 25.6 per cent in 1995-96 and will continue to fall. Agriculture is an inherently slow-growing sector since the amount of arable land is fixed. The share of faster-growing sectors (industry and services) has risen steadily, and this structural change will raise the overall growth rate even if sectoral growth rates do not improve.
The share of exports in GDP has risen from 4.5 per cent in the mid-1980s to 10.5 per cent today. This constitutes a more competitive structure, and means companies facing domestic slack can more easily switch to foreign buyers.
The efficiency of the economy has improved. This is why, with very little increase in our investment rate, we have increased our GDP growth rate from 5.5 per cent in the 1980s to 7 per cent in the last three years. Corporates across the land are now building world-class plants, focusing on core competence, cutting costs and restructuring for efficiency.
Companies are making do with less inventories. The ratio of incremental inventories to incremental fixed investment has gone down from 8.9 per cent in 1990-91 to 6.6 percent in 1995-96. This enables massive sums to be switched from inventories to factory-building.
While literacy continues to be very sub-standard, the literacy of male workers has risen close to 70 per cent. This represents a fundamentally more productive workforce than in the past.
None of these structural changes looks likely to be reversed, and most look likely to be reinforced in coming years. It seems the quantum of investment (domestic as well as foreign) will increase, and the efficiency of investment could also increase. This does not necessarily mean steady growth of 7 per cent every year (some years will be worse, some better). Yet these structural changes suggest that, if the creeping reforms of last two years continue, sustaining a 7 per cent GDP growth should be feasible even if our politicians commit the odd idiocy.
Pessimists will protest that I have failed to mention several negative factors. These certainly exist. Let us list some.
India has been lucky to get two finance ministers like Man Mohan Singh and Chidambaram who understand the need for reforms and fiscal prudence. This run of luck could end, and we could get finance ministers like Ram Vilas Paswan who will quickly empty the treasury to cater to their favored lobbies.
The Pay Commission award will worsen the near-bankruptcy of state governments, who will have less cash than ever for primary education, health and rural development. This will erode the fundamentals of rapid growth.
Political instability will cause policy paralysis and lead to a series of massive give-aways-the enhanced Pay Commission award could be just a taste of things to come.
Corrupt politicians will smuggle in new controls to replace the ones that have been abolished.
The infrastructure bottleneck will worsen and strangle growth.
Once these adverse factors begin affecting the economy, foreign confidence will evaporate, and we will witness an outward stampede of investors, which will drain our foreign exchange reserves and sink our stock markets.
We must acknowledge the validity of such fears. Indeed some of these negative factors have existed in some measure over the last six years. Yet, the country has experienced record growth. Arvind Virmani of the finance ministry has calculated that the share of infrastructural investment in total public investment actually rose from 23.5 per cent in the Seventh Plan (1986-91) to 25 per cent in the Eighth Plan (1992-SJ7), so we have salvaged something even in what has been generally seen as a disastrous sector.
Some observers say fragile coalition governments are incapable of purposive reform. Yet the Gowda and Gujral governments have given us creeping liberalisation, at a faster pace than the Rao government in its last two years. Information minister Jaipal Reddy declares that minority governments are better reformers than majority ones because they are anxious to perform in the limited time-span available to them. Most businessmen now say economic policy has been delinked from politics, so political instability affects them little.
I believe we have the potential for GDP growth of 10 per cent per year. That is why, despite many negative trends, I believe a 7 per cent growth is possible, provided creeping reforms continue. Downside risks, like Paswan becoming finance minister, are significant. Yet, they may produce no more than a bad year or two, which should be followed by better ones. I think it will take sustained mismanagement to lower our long- term growth rate below 6 per cent.
Cynics will say that, given our track record for 50 years, sustained mismanagement is precisely what we should expect. I am no longer so cynical.
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क्या सूट-बूट वाले खादी व गांधी-टोपी धारियों से अधिक भ्रष्ट लगते हैं?
बाजार आधारित व्यवस्था में लाभ पहले श्रमिक को और फिर मालिक को
कानून से नहीं खत्म की जा सकती गरीबी
मुनाफा नीचे से ऊपर, ऊपर से नीचे नहीं
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Did you know that tree roots can harm your leach field line? You may not be aware of it yet but the lovely trees that you have in your garden can cause your leach field lines to malfunction or ultimately fail. Trees are living organisms that need food and water to survive. Your yard is not only home to your garden, it is also there to accommodate your septic system. If it's nutrients and water your trees need, they can get it from your septic especially if it is near or right under them. The common rule in trees is that the larger they are, the more complicated their root systems become as they grow. Their main roots grow deeper and span wider as they age so if your septic system components are within their growth perimeter, you can expect leach field line problems anytime soon.
There are instances when the present homeowner has just bought the property from a previous homeowner. The septic system may have been constructed over a decade ago, giving enough time for a tree or trees to grow near or over the leach field lines. If this is the case, you should talk to your local septic expert to inspect the septic system's condition. The presence of trees over the leach field lines usually result to damage, leaks, and total takeover of the roots in the perforated pipelines and the septic tank itself. You may want to spend more on repairing or replacing the failed septic system in that property you bought. You could also ask your local arborist to help you relocate or remove the trees.
When it comes to replacing the failed septic system, you should already plan about where to place the system and where to plant the trees or shrubs. The basic rule here is to keep the two large entities as far away from each other as possible. Shrubs and trees are hardwood plants and they have complex root systems that really penetrate deep into the ground. Some trees also have aggressive root systems that invade, damage, and clog the leach field lines. Remember that the distance of the trees from your leach field lines depends on the species of the tree. Every tree species has a different root growth range. Determine the growth range of its roots and from there, maintain a large distance between the leach field lines and the tree when it reaches maturity. If the tree you want is thirty feet tall, the distance from the leach field should be thirty feet as well.
It will be very costly if your leach field lines and entire septic system are invaded and destroyed by tree roots. There might be a lot of manual removal and chemical treatments needed to eliminate the roots. To prevent such damage, you should consult with your septic expert, landscape architect, and arborist about your tree choices and the position of your leach field lines.


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KV11 es una tumba egipcia del llamado Valle de los Reyes, situado en la orilla oeste del Nilo, a la altura de la moderna ciudad de Luxor. Aunque fue comenzada por el fundador de la dinastía XX, el rey Sethnajt, acabaría siendo utilizada por su hijo, el último gran faraón, Ramsés III.

Marco histórico
Tras las muertes de Ramsés II y Merenptah, la dinastía XIX, y con ella el país entero, se colapsó, y un periodo anárquico de incierta duración sacudió Egipto hasta que Sethnajt, un miembro ramésida de la clase militar de Pi-Ramsés asumió el poder y derrotó a todos sus enemigos, incluida la reina Tausert.

Sin embargo, el reinado de Sethnajt, considerado fundador de la dinastía XX fue muy corto, y las arduas labores de restauración del orden corrieron casi por completo a cargo de su hijo y sucesor, coronado como Usermaatra-Meriamón Ramsés-Heqaiunu, esto es, Ramsés III. Considerado el último gran monarca del Egipto faraónico, su meta fue emular a Ramsés II, el Grande, y a esto se dedicó durante su reinado de 31 años, de 1185 a 1154 a. C. De su reinado data la imponente construcción de Medinet Habu, y parece ser que por primera vez en cincuenta años las cosas volvían a sonreír en las Dos Tierras. El reinado de Ramsés III fue el último fulgor del Imperio Nuevo.

Ramsés III salvó en varias ocasiones a su país de la crisis, batallando contra los invasores Pueblos del Mar y realizando necesarias reformas administrativas, pero su reinado acabó de forma terrible. Mientras que los constructores de su enorme tumba en el Valle de los Reyes protagonizaban una huelga -la primera conocida en toda la historia de la humanidad- debido a sus duras condiciones de trabajo, se fraguaba una conspiración en el harén, protagonizada por una reina y un príncipe real. Llegó a haber magia negra implicada en esto, y los trapos sucios que salieron al descubrirse la trama escandalizaron a la sociedad y provocaron una falta de credibilidad y un aumento de la corrupción antes nunca visto.

Incluso se sabe que el faraón no llegó a ver el proceso judicial completo, pues murió antes del cuarto juicio, quizás a causa de la propia conspiración. Con su muerte quedaba condenado el ya maltrecho imperio egipcio, y sus sucesores no harían más que desbaratar toda la labor de Ramsés III, perdiendo toda la influencia exterior, y también la interior, a manos de los sacerdotes de Amón y de los nobles del Alto Egipto y Nubia.

Situación

KV11 se encuentra algo alejada del uadi central del Valle, abriendo el ramal suroccidental de la necrópolis. Inmediata vecina de KV10 (las obras de la tumba número 11 abrieron un enorme boquete en una cámara de la tumba número 10), está enfrente de dos pequeñas tumbas, KV56 y KV58, pero habría que moverse varios metros más para llegar a algún sepulcro real.

Aunque sigue el mismo diseño simple de las tumbas reales ramésidas, con un eje recto, ausencia de pozo funerario y pasillos de escasa inclinación, la tumba de Ramsés III posee algunas cualidades que la hacen única en su género. Debido a que a la altura del tercer corredor los constructores se toparon con KV10 abriendo un feo boquete en el techo de esta última, se tuvo que desplazar ligeramente y de forma paralela el eje cuando el proyecto se retomó para albergar el cuerpo de Ramsés III. Así, y para evitar otros posibles destrozos, no es de extrañar que el resto del pasillo tenga una pendiente ligeramente ascendente pese a ser algo realmente infrecuente en una tumba egipcia del Imperio Nuevo.

Así, tras la entrada (A), los tres primeros corredores (B, C y el accidentado D1), encontramos el corredor definitivo (D2) y la cámara ritual del pozo (E), que lleva a la sala de pilares (F). Tras ella, era costumbre excavar dos pasillos descendentes y una antecámara, pero se optó esta vez por un solo corredor (G) y dos antecámaras (H e I) antes de llegar a la gran sala sepulcral (J). Como fue muy largo el reinado de Ramsés III, los constructores pudieron permitirse algunas licencias y siguieron construyendo más allá de la cámara sepulcral un total de dos pequeñas habitaciones gemelas (K1 y K2) seguidas de una más alargada al final de la tumba (L). En total, más de 100 m en las profundidades, y una de las tumbas más grandes y de mayor área del Valle de los Reyes.

Pero no sólo se compone la tumba de Ramsés III de estas estancias. El lugar posee muchas cámaras anexas a diferentes estancias que aumentan la belleza y la pujanza del sepulcro. Aparte de las cuatro habitaciones laterales en la cámara sepulcral, que también poseen otras tumbas (Ja, Jb, Jc, Jd), existe un almacén en dirección oeste en la cámara de pilares (Fa), y algo realmente infrecuente: el corredor B consta de un nicho a cada lado (Ba y Bb) y el C de hasta cuatro (Ca, Cb, ..., Ch).

Decoración

En la actualidad KV11 es una de las tumbas abiertas a los turistas, y una de las que cuentan con frescos en buen estado de conservación y notable belleza. Aunque los bajorrelieves no están tan logrados como en otros sepulcros reales, la viveza de los colores, la originalidad de casi todos los motivos decorativos y la hermosura de las representaciones han convertido a la tumba de Ramsés III en una de las joyas del Valle de los Reyes.

Aun así, por su situación geográfica el lugar ha sufrido algunas inundaciones realmente violentas a lo largo de su historia, y hay algunas pinturas que han sufrido muchos daños. Más allá de la cámara de pilares y el pasillo G todas las estancias están en peor estado y su estructura se ha visto dañada por la fuerza de las aguas.

 Tras el pasillo de entrada, las jambas del corredor B presentan el usual disco solar flanqueado por las aladas Isis y Neftis, pero a esto se añade a forma de columnas unas cabezas de la diosa-vaca Hathor, un motivo inédito que ya avisan de la variada decoración de la tumba. A lo largo del pasillo podemos ver parte de la Letanía de Ra en las paredes y estrellas en el cielo, así como al rey -los cartuchos de Sethnajt fueron sustituidos por los de su hijo Ramsés III- junto al dios Ra-Horajti. Las habitaciones laterales Ba y Bb muestran acciones seculares (carniceros, marineros, cocineros, panaderos, y los útiles de trabajo de todos ellos), algo realmente infrecuente en un lugar como KV11.

 El corredor C continúa con la Letanía de Ra y añade algunas escenas del amplio Libro de los Muertos. Por su parte, las habitaciones laterales incluyen pinturas también extrañas a una tumba real:
 En Ca y Cb aparecen representadas varias divinidades fluviales (Hapy, Renenutet, etc.)
 En Cc y Cf hay más fragmentos del Libro de los Muertos.
 En Cd están las celebérrimas imágenes de los arpistas "ciegos" tocando frente algunas deidades como Ra, Osiris o Shu.
 En Ce aparecen doce figuras de Osiris sentado en toda su majestad.
 En Cg y Ch están representados diversos objetos funerarios, estandartes divinos, y fauna del lugar.

 La única parte decorada del corredor D es el pasadizo D2 -el D1, cuya construcción causó el desplome del techo en KV10 carece de pinturas- y en él están pintadas las horas cuartas y quintas del recorrido nocturno del Sol, esto es, del Libro del Amduat. A partir de esta zona la decoración es completamente original de Ramsés III, no de Sethnajt.

 La habitación E (o sala del "pozo") cuenta con figuras del difunto monarca junto a Osiris, Isis, Neftis, Serket, Anubis y los cuatro hijos de Horus.

 De todas las estancias en KV11 es sin duda la cámara de pilares (F) la de mayor hermosura y en la que las imágenes mejor conservadas están en su gran mayoría. Mientras que las paredes cuentan con partes del Libro de las Puertas, en las caras de los cuatro pilares aparece Ramsés III haciendo ofrendas a varios dioses masculinos (Ra-Horajti, Atum, Ptah, Geb, Jepri, Toth, Nefertem...). La sala anexa Fa continúa con la temática del Libro de las Puertas, y existen más ofrendas a Osiris, Toth y Horus, así como dos imágenes de Serket y Neit.

 Como viene siendo costumbre en las tumbas ramésidas, tras la sala de los pilares, el siguiente corredor (G) muestra el ritual de Apertura de la Boca practicado a la momia del difunto por un sacerdote de Horus-Iunmutef. Por su parte, las dos antecámaras H e I, que han resultado muy dañadas por las inundaciones, mostraban imágenes de dioses hoy difíciles de identificar.

 La cámara sepulcral parece seguir el mismo patrón que la sala de pilares. Las paredes están decoradas con textos funerarios (en este caso además del Libro de las Puertas se incluye el Libro de la Tierra) y las columnas con ofrendas a los dioses. Las divinidades vuelven a ser prácticamente las mismas, pero repartidas en ocho pilares en vez de en cuatro, y a ellas se agregan otras de carácter más secundario como Onuris, Shepsy, Soped, Tatjenen o la tríada funeraria Ptah-Sokaris-Osiris. Las cámaras vecinas muestran diferentes motivos tal que:
 Ja lleva en sus paredes un hechizo del Libro de los Muertos.
 Jb mantiene imágenes de Osiris acompañado de los cuatro hijos de Horus (indicando que quizás en este lugar se guardasen los vasos canopes).
 Jc lleva inscrito un texto funerario más difícil de ver en una tumba, el llamado Libro de la Vaca Celestial.
 La decoración de Jd está poco clara, pero parece representar los campos de Iaru, similares a los campos Elíseos griegos.

 Las salas gemelas K1 y K2, así como la última habitación (L) muestran más personalidades del extenso panteón egipcio, pero tampoco son fáciles de descubrir sus identidades. Al final de la tumba vuelven a aparecer partes del Libro de las Puertas, el texto al que más se recurre en toda KV11.

 El lugar presenta varios grafitos, que demuestran que la tumba estuvo abierta al menos desde época grecorromana hasta la sala F. Los lenguajes más frecuentes son el demótico y el griego, aunque hay alguno también en el europeo moderno e incluso una inscripción en hierático que data del año 13 de Esmendes I, en la cual quizás la momia fuera trasladada a un lugar más seguro.

Excavación

Al parecer KV11 fue uno de los lugares más visitados por los turistas durante la antigüedad, y ya en el siglo XVIII el viajero Bruce se sorprendió de su hermosura y dibujó, de forma muy subjetiva y fantasiosa, algunas de las pìnturas que luego serían muy famosas en Occidente, como es el caso de los arpistas ciegos. Es por ello que antes de que los jeroglíficos permitieran saber quién era su propietario, el lugar era conocido como la Tumba de Bruce. Tanto Bruce como otros visitantes del lugar -incluida la expedición napoleónica de 1799- registran la existencia de hasta tres momias en una de las cámaras anexas a la cripta (J), pero se trataba de enterramientos intrusos datados en el Tercer Periodo Intermedio.

El aventurero Giovanni Battista Belzoni la visitó al menos en 1816 y en 1819, procediendo a la limpieza y desescombro. Aunque salieron a la luz algunos ushebti y restos de vasijas, el principal artículo que salió de Egipto sería el propio sarcófago exterior, de piedra y de considerables dimensiones. Hoy una parte de él está expuesta en el Louvre (París) y otra en el Museo Fitzwilliam (Cambridge), pero la tapa exterior nunca fue hallada, y se cree que fue robada en tiempos de la dinastía XXI. La última gran actividad de desescombro fue realizada por el Service des Antiquités a finales del siglo XIX, tras lo cual la tumba fue adecentada al público.

La momia real
Como se mencionó más arriba, aunque la tumba fue comenzada por Sethnajt, éste al final optaría por ser enterrado en KV14, y el proyecto no volvería a ser retomado hasta que asumió el trono Ramsés III, su hijo y sucesor, que sí fue enterrado en KV11. Como tantas otras momias reales del Imperio Nuevo, el cadáver de este rey fue puesto a salvo por los sacerdotes durante la dinastía XXI y finalmente hallado en el escondite de DB320 junto a otros grandes faraones entre los que también se hallaba el propietario de KV11, el famoso Ramsés II.

La momia de Ramsés III fue hallada en la caja en la que se podía leer el nombre de la reina Ahmose Nefertari, pero este caso no es único: se produjo una auténtica mezcla de personalidades reales separadas entre sí por varias generaciones debidas, quizás, a la precipitación de sus salvadores. En el momento de su descubrimiento sólo se desenvolvió la cabeza, estando el resto tan ceñido que podía desintegrarse si se hacían movimientos bruscos. Es por ello que durante muchas décadas no se pudo advertir ningún signo que certificase si el monarca fue asesinado a raíz de la conspiración del harén real o si murió por otra causa.

Ramsés III se haya en un buen estado de conservación, y su cuerpo no se ha visto castigado durante su traslado al escondrijo, al contrario que otras momias reales. Aparenta tener una edad entre cincuenta a sesenta años; su rostro tan poco agraciado incluso sirvió para hacer el modelo de La momia, del film clásico de 1932 protagonizado por Boris Karloff.

Finalmente análisis mediante tomógrafo realizados en 2012 permitieron descubrir que, en efecto, el soberano pereció asesinado, como muchos sospechaban ante la lectura del célebre papiro guardado en Turín donde se han conservado las actas del juicio, donde ciertas alusiones indican que el soberano había fallecido y era su sucesor el encargado de castigar el complot. Los análisis descubrieron que el rey falleció degollado en torno a los sesenta años, mientras se encontraba sentado su cuello fue profundamente segado desde atrás. Los embalsamadores introdujeron luego en la herida un amuleto "Ojo de Horus" para que la herida apareciera sanada en el Más Allá y rodearon el cuello con un collar de vendas.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Valle de los Reyes
Arquitectura de Egipto del siglo XII a. C.
Pintura en Egipto del siglo XII a. C.
Tumbas egipcias
Ramsés III
Edificios y estructuras terminadas en el siglo XII a. C.

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Why isn't the mind better designed?
Would every detail be enough?
Why are negative emotions so prevalent?
When are negative emotions useful?
Do early falls create later fears?
What is the best thing to do when costs > benefit?
Why don't people give up on hopeless goals?
How can we use the useful behavioral biology?
What will it take to bring evolution to psychiatry?
Nesse, R. (2007, October 1). Mental disorders in the light of evolutionary biology [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 20, 2019, from https://hstalks.com/bs/159/.
Welcome to the Henry Stewart Talks lecture about evolution and mental disorders. At first blush, it might appear that this topic is peripheral. Mental disorders seem to some people to be somehow different from medical disorders. In fact, they are different but not because they're less severe or less prevalent. In fact, they are more severe and more prevalent accounting for more disease burden than all the rest of medical disorders combined, at least for people of reproductive ages in developed countries. But there's another reason why evolution is so important for psychiatry. Psychiatry has tried to become as biological as possible in the past 20 years, but in doing so, it skipped much of the biology that has been so useful to medicine. An evolutionary approach may help to rectify this situation. The progress in psychiatry over the past two decades is nothing short of spectacular.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was some thought that perhaps psychiatry didn't really need to be a part of medicine. Psychotherapy was in its ascendancy and the effective drugs for treating mental disorders were just being used widely. But with the new discovery of drugs and recognition of their utility in combination with insurance and other forces that made psychiatry try to quickly establish itself as just as medical as the rest of medicine, the profession decided to be as biological as possible and as medical as possible. It has succeeded tremendously and patients have benefited. Psychiatry now has more evidence based science than most other areas of medicine, and in fact it's enormously more effective than it was just 20 years ago. Most syndromes can be relieved at least to some degree, and diagnosis is vastly more reliable than it was when I began in the profession 30 years ago and most remarkable of all, we're beginning to understand the neural mechanisms that account for disease and even the mechanisms that account for the normal regulation of emotions and behavior.


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A judge in Italy has ordered a 15 year old girl, who was at the centre of a paedophile ring, to read feminist books in order to give her an understanding of the "damage that has been done to her" and to take on "feminist values" from the materials.
The court in Rome has given one of the men involved a two-year jail sentence for paying to have sex with the girl, and has ordered that he pay for the books and films which she must read and watch.
The ruling, which was passed down by a female judge, was met with criticism by one of the authors on the court ordered reading list, who felt that the books should be read by the perpetrator instead.
A very concerning mental health issue also arises from this judgment. By placing some of the responsibility on the young girl for the events that took place, she could take the view she is to blame for what happened to her and could go on to suffer with depression, anxiety and poor physical health, which could worsen over time.
This course of action also does not address the underlying reasons why the girl found herself at the centre of a paedophile ring, and no effort appears to have been made to offer this young girl counselling or support. The girl could also feel that the two year sentence the man was given was very lenient, and that this in some way reflects upon her self worth.
Those in favour of the ruling might suggest that at 15, the girl was old enough to understand what she was doing, and that her part in the paedophile ring was a considered life choice, having accepted money in return for sleeping with the man involved. They may also argue that the books could help to inform the young woman about her rights and offer her more options on how to live her life, going forward.
Advocates of the ruling might also say that the length of the sentence is an appropriate amount of time for the crime committed, bearing in mind the girl's age and what appears to be an isolated event as far as the man in question is concerned.
Our question to you then, is just this: Do you think the judge's ruling was right?


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Kim Director (* 13. November 1974 in Florida) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Leben und Karriere
Kim Director machte an der Carnegie Mellon University ihren Bachelor-Abschluss im Studiengang Schauspiel. Vor ihrer Karriere als Schauspielerin, arbeitete sie als Kellnerin in einem Manhattaner Restaurant.

Ihre erste Rolle erhielt Director 1998 in Spiel des Lebens vom Regisseur Spike Lee. Danach folgte 1999 Summer of Sam und 2000 Bamboozled. In beiden fungierte wieder Lee als Regisseur. Insgesamt arbeitete Director fünf Mal mit Lee zusammen.

Director ist den meisten Leuten aber bekannt durch ihre Rolle im Film Blair Witch 2, in dem sie ein Gothic-Mädchen spielte. Um sich für diese Filmrolle vorzubereiten, besuchte sie zahlreiche Gothic-Clubs.

Director hatte auch viele kleinere Gastauftritte in Serien wie Sex and the City, Law & Order, Criminal Intent – Verbrechen im Visier und Cavemen.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1998: Spiel des Lebens (He Got Game)
 1999: Summer of Sam
 2000: Bamboozled
 2000: Blair Witch 2 (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2)
 2002: Unforeseen
 2004: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding
 2004: She Hate Me
 2004: Sex and the City (Fernsehserie)
 2005: Criminal Intent – Verbrechen im Visier (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Fernsehserie)
 2005: Charlie's Party
 2006: Live Free or Die
 2006: Inside Man
 2006: Life Is Short
 2006: A Crime
 2006: CSI: Miami (Fernsehserie)
 2007–2008: Cavemen (Fernsehserie)
 2008: Cold Case – Kein Opfer ist je vergessen (Cold Case, Fernsehserie)
 2014: Orange Is the New Black (Fernsehserie)
 2014: The Last American Guido
 2016: Elementary (Fernsehserie)
 2016: Split
 2016: Delinquent
 2016: Detours
 2017–2019: The Deuce (Fernsehserie)
 2017–2019: Nola Darling (She's Gotta Have It, Fernsehserie)
 2019: Kensington (Fernsehfilm)
 2020: Little America (Fernsehserie)
 2020: InstaPsycho (Fernsehfilm)
 2020: NOS4A2 (Fernsehserie)
 2021: Death Rider in the House of Vampires
 2022: Queens (Fernsehserie)
 2022: Bridge and Tunnel (Fernsehserie)
 2022: Blue Bloods – Crime Scene New York (Blue Bloods, Fernsehserie)

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website (englisch)

Filmschauspieler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1974
Frau


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Widowed Anna lives a quiet life in a small town. Until the day that Ward arrives at her house accusing her of fraud. She locks herself in, but he seems determined to stay until she gives back the money she stole. What should she do? When Ward finally enters the house, he finds her unconscious and injured. She regains consciousness at the hospital, but she's lost her memory and now, for some reason, believes that Ward is her lover!


The Ipana Troubadours made this recording in New York City in 1928 under the direction of Sam Lanin, and featuring Scrappy Lambert vocals.
Scrappy Lambert attended Rutgers University, where he was a cheerleader and played piano for a jazz group called the "Rutgers Jazz Bandits." He and fellow student Billy Hillpot formed a musical duo, which was discovered in 1926 by Ben Bernie, who signed them to perform with his orchestra. Lambert and Hillpot appeared on many recordings with the orchestra and remained under Bernie's employ until 1928.
During the 1930s Lambert and Hillpot took their comedy routine to the National Broadcasting Company, then a fledgling radio network. MCA offered Lambert a job in 1943 managing their Beverly Hills radio department. He accepted thus bringing an end to his singing career.


How do you define multi-asset strategies?
Multi-asset strategies fall into two buckets. The first includes new strategic mixes such as diversified growth funds (DGFs), which bring an exposure to illiquid asset classes, risk parity and so on.
The second comprises a more dynamic or opportunistic approach towards navigating markets. While we offer both routes, we favour the latter. It is less about pursuing a shortterm trader-type strategy and more about establishing intermediate-term views outlining where opportunities lie and adjusting allocations accordingly.
It sounds like an obvious point to make, but it is highly unlikely that all strategies or asset classes available to an investor will deliver return at the same time.
In addition, it is important to challenge the notion that any particular strategic mix is suitable for all market conditions. If investors had a perfect view of whether China's landing will be hard or soft, what the end of QE means for markets or whether geopolitical events will manifest into an oil shock, then strategic allocations could be set in advance. But nobody does.
Indeed, in our view there is no single asset class or strategic mix that investors should always be employing regardless of the fundamental backdrop. As a result, our approach is to manoeuvre – within a risk budget – away from those asset classes that are not suitable for the environment that lies ahead and towards those that are.
Does the increased popularity of multi-asset funds reflect a shift in how investors look at allocation?
Brinson and Ibbotson, the academic pioneers of asset allocation theory, suggested that asset allocation was the largest differentiator between portfolio returns. However, I don't think they anticipated that their work would one day give rise to static asset class weightings with little consideration to market conditions.
Yet, prior to the financial crisis, such strategic allocation had become the norm. Investors typically adopted an investment programme that they would maintain almost irrespective of the outlook of markets. The assumption was that, over a long period of time, the peaks and valleys would even out.
This assumption became untenable when the financial crisis provided a particular steep valley from which many investors feared they might not emerge. In this environment, the combination of high volatility with low returns was especially unpalatable.
Dynamic multi-asset class funds can help investors out of these strategic restraints. After all, is a governance construct that prevents derisking during a financial crisis conservative?
When everyone else was purely strategic – we prefer the term static – there may have been comfort in numbers maintaining this position. The allure of benchmarking has some responsibility for this. Yet it is also important for investors to compare their returns with those of their peers and to deliver acceptable returns to their investors. As an increasing number of investors supplement their strategic allocation with a dynamic, opportunistic feature, we believe it will no longer be safe to be static.
How long has multi-asset been gaining popularity?
Over the past three years, in particular, we have seen this trend pick up speed. In this time, we have shifted from a place where there was a large degree of agreement about the merits of multiasset investing, but little adoption, to a place where investors are beginning to make significant commitments.
We would say now that a typical allocation in strategies that are sensitive to the market in this way is often 5% to 10%. Despite this, many investors are still at risk for moving too gingerly. We are now five years from the last financial downturn.
While, from a market perspective, PineBridge does not expect another down cycle in the next few years, from a governance perspective most have the mandate to improve their investment programme with the assumption that things will be different next time around.
From this latter perspective, the clock is ticking and 5% to 10% is still not enough. In some ways this gradualism is understandable – the shift away from a static model is the largest restructuring that the industry has had to undertake over the past 30 years.
How do managers deliver genuinely multi-asset coverage?
The first thing is to be practitioners in the full range of asset classes. PineBridge, for example, has 200-plus investment professionals spread across 21 countries, with teams directly investing in equity, fixed income, currency and a broad spectrum of alternatives.
Multi-asset managers practicing on a broad platform have an advantage in seeing opportunities that investors may not see themselves. In Mexico, for example, the return of the PRI to office two years ago had a considerable economic impact that we were able to anticipate with the help of our local private equity team.
The information they provided was useful, not only for the private equity portfolio but also to help understand Mexico's listed equity and fixed income markets. The same is true today for India where our Mumbaibased colleagues were able to understand the significance of this long before most global investors.
Being able to supplement a top-down approach with bottom-up locally-sourced ideas and colour in this way is a real advantage. PineBridge is large enough to have the full range of capabilities, yet small enough for us to know each other and to collaborate.
How valuable are multi-asset portfolios in providing exposure to complex asset classes?
Strong multi-asset managers should be structured to draw on multiple sources of alpha. They should not just be capable of sourcing traditional fundamental security selectors.
They should also be capable of capitalising on complexity and their global reach on behalf of the investor. For example, promising new strategies may have a quantitative element or involve novel structuring, which under-resourced investors may not be able to analyse appropriately and therefore be left with a narrower opportunity set.
Multi-asset-class teams can bring the investor a broader set of underlying strategies as a component of their DGF in addition to moving towards more attractive asset classes.
What choices do investors have to make when starting to work with a multiasset managers?
Multi-asset managers generally offer investors two ways of working. They can offer DGF funds that serve as a diversifying allocation with attractive Sharpe ratios. The second approach is for the CIO and investment committee to utilise some of the ideas and processes inside the DGF more broadly in the remainder of the portfolio.
Here the investor is looking for regular dialogue and transparency when investing in the DGF. We have found that larger investors in general tend to favour the second, partnership approach while the mid-size and smaller managers favour the former approach.
To what extent does the demand for multi-asset funds vary across regions?
In Australia the large superannuation funds are looking to manage to a specific outcome, typically targeting CPI plus 5% per annum over rolling five-year periods. In the UK, DGFs were initially utilised by small and medium-sized pension plans using the fund to gain exposure to alternatives.
Yet, increasingly, at the second or third allocation the investor is looking for other types of diversification characteristics, including an element of dynamic allocation. DGFs are also increasingly finding their way into defined contribution (DC) plans as the "do-it-for-me" allocation. In Asia, we are seeing strong demand from Chinese insurance firms.
The authorities in Beijing have decided that this sector will be the first to be allowed to move capital outside of China as the capital account opens.
Global multi-asset class funds are a strong fit for Chinese insurance firms that start investing abroad to diversify and improve their total return prospects. In the US, pension plans in the midst of implementing LDI are utilising DGFs as a key component of the returnseeking side of their LDI programmes.
Does the growth of multi-asset funds present a challenge to investment consultants that have traditionally provided allocation advice?
Given that investors are seeking to be more opportunistic, which can have a large impact on their plans, they are also looking to expand their ideas pool. As a result, multi-asset managers are supplementing, not replacing, the existing advisers who are helping the investor find the best global multi-asset class funds, or DGFs.
Multi-asset managers and consultants have different historical strengths. Consulting firms have built their intellectual capital primarily around helping investors formulate strategic frameworks and select managers, whereas investment management firms have focused on developing market-based insights and decision-making processes.
When the very largest investors first began complementing their strategic allocations with an opportunistic element, they first turned to their trusted consultant.
Today, they increasingly believe that no one firm has all the answers and that expanding the number of relationships from which they can learn how to be more opportunistic is a prudent path forward.


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Your goal in this fun Eat-or-be-eaten game is to shoot stings of slime and vanquish all the other slugs on the level by eating them. Enemy slugs have different masses and abilities. You can eat green slugs of any size, yellow slugs only if you are bigger. You lose mass when you absorb red slugs and you will die if you touch purple slugs. Use WASD KEYS to move around. Use YOUR MOUSE to aim and click LEFT MOUSE BUTTON to launch a string of slime to swing here and there. Have fun!


My second visit at Steak N Shake in Tifton Georgia worse than the first. When we pulled to the drive through window there were several cars waiting to order.
We waited a couple minutes and several cars infront of us began to leave. We pulled up to order and waited. No employee said anything. We tried to communicate and nothing.
The car infront of us is sitting at the window and isnt helped! So they leave. We also pull to the window were we sit again for several minutes. And no one attends to us.
We see no one in sight at the window. We knock on the window many times and no one comes. Only doing this because we know theyre open and that something isnt right here. We finally get an employees attention and she goes out her way to finally come to the window.
And we ask if the speaker is broken and she says yes it is. And points our attention that the window says not to pull on it. And closes it shut! As my husband tried to ask her why wasnt there just a sign on the ordering window.
At this point were both very mad after she shuts the window in our face while were trying to ask her a question. And he yells out why isnt thwre just a sign where you order? But by this point we realize she doesnt plan on taling anyones orders im the first place. Thats why nearly 9 cars have drove off by this point.
By the end of this she calls my husband a "fat ***".
O have several friends and family rhat licr im Tifton Georgia that often visit this Steak N Shake. And they will absolutely hear about it.
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Beauty and the tenderness of the flower show that in life certain thing must go on and some get fade.. Here we are giving example by sharing these amazing picture.
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Darkthrone Thrash Rock_and_Roll Black_Metal 2007 UK
Performer: Darkthrone
Title: NWOBHM (New Wave Of Black Heavy Metal)
Style:Thrash, Rock & Roll, Black Metal
The last truly worthwhile black metal album under the Darkthrone banner was Ravishing Grimness, and it was nearing a decade later before they finally made the shift. There's nothing close to an Under a Funeral Moon in these latter years, but it's the first time in years the band sound legitimately excited by what they're doing. Darkthrone must have enjoyed the results of the Too Old, Too Cold EP from the previous year, because as that release was to The Cult is Alive, so is the NWOBHM (New Wave of Black Heavy Metal) EP to 2007's .
Darkthrone is a black metal band from Kolbotn, Norway. It formed in 1986 as a death metal band under the name Black Death. In 1991, the band embraced a black metal style influenced by Bathory and Celtic Frost and became one of the leading bands in the Norwegian black metal scene. Their first three black metal albums-A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger (sometimes dubbed the "Unholy Trinity") - are considered the peak of the band's career and to be among the most influential albums in the genre. In September that year, Darkthrone released the album . an acronym for Fuck Off and Die).
Black Metal Heavy Metal Scandinavian Metal. New Wave of Black Heavy Metal). 3. Hedninger Fra Helvete. blue highlight denotes track pick.
D (Fuck Off And Die)", an album which continued to draw inspiration from punk and crust yet also included more classic heavy metal influences. Darkthrones And Blackflags" was released in 2008, a continuation of the metal/punk crossover style featured on ".
Venom - BLACK METAL 01-Black Metal 02-To Hell And Back 03-Buried Alive 04-Raise The Dead 05-Teacher's Pet 06-Leave Me In Hell 07-Sacrifice 08-Heaven's On Fi. .
A Hedninger Fra Helvete
Written-By – N. Culto*
B Canadian Metal
Written-By – Fenriz
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Peaceville Records
Copyright (c) – Peaceville Records
Published By – Vile Music
Layout, Design – Kim Sølve, Trine Paulsen
Photography By [Front Cover] – Niten
Catalogue number is printed incorrectly on the back of the sleeve as CDVILES178.
Published by Vile Music, a division of ZMPL.
℗ 2007 Peaceville Records.
© 2007 Peaceville Records.
Matrix / Runout (Side A - Etched): 67843 IA VILELP 178
Matrix / Runout (Side B - Etched): 67843 IB VILELP 178
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May Day!
Global May Day Strike Of Protest
The posters have been appearing all over the web promoting a May 1 General Strike. The idea was hatched among the Occupy Wall Street people after they were driven by police from New York's Zuccotti Park. Now occupy groups all over the nation, also facing confrontations with police in black riot gear, are picking up on the idea.
The call for a general strike picked up steam after police violently broke up a St. Patrick's Day peaceful march and demonstration by occupy protesters back to Zuccotti Park and arrested 73 people. Several dozen activists later joined members of the New York City Council to complain about police tactics.
While there have been skeptics . . . critics suggesting that the movement is too disorganized to pull such a widespread event off . . . the occupy organizers have been mobilizing for months toward the May 1 strike. The connections through such mobile communication devices as Twitter and Facebook are buzzing with messages.
They are encouraging people to stay out of work and school, stay out of stores and refuse to spend money. In sort, everybody is taking a quiet holiday from everything on May Day.
Some voices on Facebook are suggesting that the May 1 strike go global . . . that everybody everywhere stay home from their jobs and whatever they are doing, and stop spending money for that one day.
Another more radical suggestion calls for a worldwide run on the banks.
Can they get enough people behind the movement to make an impact? Obviously there will be a block of blind souls out there . . . the kind that call themselves Tea Partyists and Conservatives . . . that will conduct business as usual and may even go out of their way to do more than normal business than usual on May 1.
And so far, the labor unions do not seem to be getting behind the idea. Without them, the strike will be somewhat hollow.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, said the Occupy Wall Street group has not been working with the unions "nor are the unions working with them in a serious way. And it is the wrong strategy."
But this is mid-April and planners still have a few weeks left to work out the bugs. And as black-booted police in riot gear stir more and more violence amid the mobs of peaceful protesters emerging for spring demonstrations, the call for the May 1 strike appears to already be getting even louder.
Last November in Oakland a daylong general strike brought abut a five-hour protest at the city's port. Also in solidarity, hundreds of Oakland teachers skipped school forcing the school to close. Demonstrations of support sprang up that same day in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.
Can the occupy movement pull off a one-day strike on May 1? We think it can. And we think a day of that kind of national or even global protest might be just what the fat cats and sold-out politicians in their ivory towers need to see.
After all, the workers . . . the people who work on the assembly lines, clerk the stores, teach the children, flip the hamburgers and drive the cabs and subway trains . . . are the real backbone of American business and industry. If they can walk off their jobs and stand up against the banks and a government now operating out of control . . . if only for a single day, they might just send a powerful message.


Our teaching section will include material to accompany the audio meditations. Our current teaching, Remembering You, is also available as an audio download.
When you were born, you were a complete being. Your identity was intact. You were not confused about your own nature or your own responses to life. In the beginning, you were without judgment, which meant that you were operating in love, not fear. As time went by you began to adapt to the world around you. You learned many things; some of them were useful and were a natural extension of your identity; some were a violation of your nature and put you in a state of fear. And so you grew up, constantly responding to the experiences of your formative years, and yet, not fully understanding the impact of those experiences. You formed a picture of yourself which you believe to be true, but which, in truth was only partially true. It is this picture of yourself which has determined the course of your life.
There is in you still the true pattern of your identity. It is kept safe by your own spirit, the part of you that is eternal and the part of you that knows that you were created in love and wants to return you to that knowing and to a life lived in that energy. The journey to that knowledge begins with a single decision; the decision to open to your own spirit and to listen to its wisdom. There is no greater adventure than the discovery of your true identity.
The path that leads to you is a healing path. It is called a healing path because where there is fear in your life, you are wounded. When the wound is healed, the true self emerges and becomes a part of you again. All of the possibilities are yours again. The desire to create your life in the best possible way for you emerges. One by one the fears are displaced by loving beliefs and responses and your complete identity returns. The lessons and meditations offered here are designed to help you on this healing path. Thank you for listening and may your path be rich and rewarding.


The Professionals Point: How to love the job you hate?
We all are aware about the feeling of getting out of bed every Monday morning. We spend our highest-energy hours working, and families get what's left. The problem of being stuck in a job you hate is that it makes your- self worth take a hit. Money is the not the only employee motivator and job satisfaction plays a very important role. The following tips can be used to make things better in a job that doesn't rouse your interest.
1. Communicate: Let your boss know your achievements and problems. Don't boast and don't grumble. Define the problem at hand and offer ways to solve it.
2. Do Something for Yourself: Take on a project that's dear to your heart or set aside time for what you do best.
3. Seek Feedback: Ask your boss and co-workers, "How am I doing?" Make it clear that you seek feedback to improve your performance and not because you crave praise.
4. Tackle Tough Assignments First: Get the difficult or unpleasant work out of the way first, because it doesn't improve with time and will look truly hideous after lunch. This also allows you to finish the day with something you find challenging and enjoyable.
5. Have A Little Fun: Work isn't play, but it doesn't have to be mind-numbingly serious all the time. A few jokes will boost everyone's morale.
6. Encourage Teamwork: Teamwork is a good way to increase productivity. Working in teams is a learned skill. If you don't know the basics, learn them and share your insights with others.
7. Maintain your health: Pay attention to your physical and mental health. Stick to the basics: Eat right, exercise and get enough sleep. If you feel tired, your job performance will suffer.


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I'll be straight with you, this one's all about the theme song for me. While I was a little too young for the show when it originally aired in 1985, Gummi Bears was one of my favorite shows on Disney Afternoon. Though the show was initially inspired by the candy, there was an entire world built around them, bringing with it the superior Disney quality. But seriously, it's all about the theme song.
The concept is simple. In a medieval setting with knights, kings, and ogres, Gummi Bears are thought to be myths. A page named Cavin discovers they're more than legend, and befriends the bears. Gruffi, Zummi, Grammi, Tummi, Cubbi, and Sunny Gummi (one of these things is not like the other…) live in Gummi-Glen. Gummi Bears are the keepers of the secret recipe for Gummiberry juice. The juice, when consumed by Gummis, allows them to bounce and bound for a short period of time. When drank by humans, it imbues them with super strength for a time. The bears lived underground, traveling my a network of slides built within trees. In my youth I thought this was a great idea, as an adult and engineer, I question a utility of such a construction.
Gummi Bears is one of the few shows that offers little as far adult entertainment. That might not be fair to say. It's more in the vein of family friendly entertainment. There was no growing plot or threat beyond their weekly adventures. The villainous Duke Sigmund Igthorn, ruler of Castle Drekmore, commanded the ogres and was obsessed with finding the bears to gain control of Gummiberry juice. If you watched cartoons from the time period, I'm sure half the voices will sound familiar. Particularly if you were a fan of Disney cartoons, as most of the actors were from their stables. Legendary voice actress June Foray (Magica De Spell) voiced Grammi; Lorenzo Music (Dr. Peter Venkman) was Tummi; and there's-no-way-you-don't-know-him Rob Paulsen (Yakko Warner) was Gusto Gummi. Apparently they didn't believe in contracts on this show as many actors were replaced from season to season. Cavin was the worst offender with 5 actors portraying him across 6 seasons.
The show ran from 1985-1991. It was toward the end of the run that I discovered the show. I fondly remember it kicking off Disney afternoon for the first year of the cartoon block. Considering it was eventually bumped for the far superior Darkwing Duck, I got over the loss.
Disney always brings with it a high level of quality. Aside from the live-action garbage they've created, you generally know what to expect from their animated offerings, particularly if they pre-date the 2000s. While Gummi Bears is certainly no Ducktales or Gargoyles, it still had a level of quality, making it suitable for children or family viewing. I would watch this with my children, but probably not alone. Gummi Bears lacked something that put it among the pantheon of other Disney cartoons. When I bring the show up (I do this more often than you'd think), I'm amazed at how many people have never heard of it or don't remember. Or worse, confuse the theme song for the awful "Gummy Bear" song. Considering the concept came from the candy though, I think they were pretty successful overall.
Remember this gem? How about the theme song? Who was your favorite Gummi? More importantly, ideas for topics? Share in the comments, but only if you've showered.
The Gummi Bears theme is sung immediately following Ducktales on every road trip.
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