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The families that fled Tibet with the Dalai Lama
My grandfather Faizullah Baba with my uncles Abdullah and Majid. Darjeeling, India. Circa 1957
My grandfather Faizullah Baba with my uncles Abdullah and Majid. Darjeeling, India. Circa 1957 Image & Narrative contributed by Soheb Ahmed Baba, New Delhi Volunteer Assistance : Myra Khanna, New Delhi The man in the photograph above is my grandfather Faizullah Baba. Standing left is my grand father's eldest son, my uncle, Abdullah, age 7, and on the right is Abdullah's cousin Majid. During the Tibetan Uprising in 1959, fearing for his life, the Dalai Lama and his advisers fled Tibet with the help of the CIA and were given asylum by the Indian Government. While the world press published stories of strain in Indo-China relationships, very few threw light on the families that followed the Dalai Lama and fled from Tibet to India in the subsequent months. My grandfather and his family were few of the many that also fled to India to seek a better and peaceful life after the uprising. Our family, however, weren't Buddhists but Muslim minorities living in Tibet and were often referred to as "Ka- chee" which literally means Kashmiri or Kashmir. One of the reasons that my grandfather also decided to flee was because he sensed Islam being suppressed by the Chinese Government and felt India to be more secular and comforting. Historically, our ancestors were from Kashmir. On one hand, they were traders who would travel between Kashmir and Lhasa to exchange goods, and on the other, they preached the teachings of Islam. Many community traders married local Tibetan women forming a fusion of cultures and resulting in the gradual growth of the Tibetan-Muslim community in Tibet. It was important for our ancestors that the young were educated in the lessons & practices it boasted and…
My Great-Grandmother, the incredible photographer.
My great-grandparents Haleema Hashim with her husband Hashim Usman. Cochin (now Kochi), Kerala. Circa 1955.
My great-grandparents Haleema Hashim with her husband Hashim Usman. Cochin (now Kochi), Kerala. Circa 1955. Image and Narrative contributed by Nihaal Faizal, Bengaluru My Great-grandmother Haleema Hashim was born in Burma in 1928. Her family had moved to Rangoon in search of financial prosperity, however, by the time she was four they returned to Kerala, India. Her family belonged to the Kutchi Memon community of Gujarat, Kutchi Memons are Sunni Muslims who migrated from Sindh (in Pakistan) to Kutch in Gujarat, a state of India, after their conversion to Islam. Several of them then migrated to various parts of the world. Haleema's ancestors had migrated to Kerala. It is not clear what businesses or professions they were involved in. At the age of 17 she married Hashim Usman, whose family, like many others in Kochi, were Sea food exporters, after which he established a hotel. Haleema and Hashim, my great-grandparents went on to have eight children. One of whom is my maternal grandfather. Haleema Hashim whom we fondly call Ummijaan, was extremely fond of reading Urdu literature, we again don't know who her favourite authors were because the books were given away. Later, I also found a few letters she had exchanged with people from other countries, who were clearly her pen pals. She was also an avid gardener and would tend to her garden with great love in Fort Kochi. After her marriage, she began developing an interest in images and taught herself the art of photography through books and magazines. She had in possession two cameras, an Agfa Isolette 3, which was her first camera and then she moved on to a Yashica. I am not sure where she…
The only non-white students of the batch
My grandfather, Dr. Preetam Pal Singh (seated) with his college mates at the King Edward Medical College. Lahore (Now Pakistan) Circa 1933
My grandfather, Dr. Preetam Pal Singh (seated) with his college mates at the King Edward Medical College. Lahore (Now Pakistan) Circa 1933 Image & Narrative contributed by Sarah J. Kazi, London This photograph of my grandfather with his college mates was taken in 1933/1934 at the King Edward Medical College in Lahore (now Pakistan). He was around 25 years old at the time and he and the others in this picture were the only non-white students of their batch. My grandfather, Dr. Preetam Pal Singh was born in 1908 at Gujar Khan, Rawalpindi District (now in Pakistan) and served as a doctor in the British Army. He was posted at Manora Island Cantonment, near Karachi when partition of India took place in 1947. My great grandmother, grandfather, his wife, and two aunts boarded the train to Firozpur (Indian Punjab) and later reached Faridkot, where he and the family stayed for three nights at the railway platform before the Maharaja of Faridkot employed my grandfather as his personal physician. My grandfather was allotted an official house, and my father was born in 1950. This huge house in red (called the Laal Kothi) still exists and was recently visited by my father. Later in 1957 my grandfather specialized in Radiology from the King George Medical College in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). In the 1960s, the whole family moved and settled down in Patiala, Punjab and I have fond memories of visiting the city to meet my grandparents. My grandfather passed away in 2003, at the ripe old age of 94.
She emerged from a rural home and became a lady endowed with knowledge & charm
My Parents, K. M. Devaki Amma & Lt. Cdr. P.P.K. Menon. Bombay. 1941
My Parents, K. M. Devaki Amma & Lt. Cdr. P.P.K. Menon. Bombay. 1941 Image & Narrative contributed by Radha Nair, Pune This photograph of my parents K. M. Devaki Amma & Lt. Cdr. P.P.K. Menon was taken at a Photo Studio in Bombay in 1941, soon after they were married. My father was based in the city serving the Naval Force. My mother, K. M. Devaki Amma belonged to Feroke, a part of Kozhikode in Kerala. Her initials K. M. stood for Kalpalli Mundangad and her family originally belonged to the Anakara Vadkath lineage. The large joint family of more than 25-30 people lived in a house called Puthiyaveedu which still exists in Feroke, however the members are now settled in far flung places and my grand aunts and uncles are no more. My mother had to give up school very early in life. She came from a large family of 14 brothers and sisters and belonged to an era where a girl's formal education wasn't a priority. While they grew up under the tutelage of grand uncles and aunts, they learned to cook, clean, and learnt to make do with and share whatever little they had with their siblings without ever complaining. Congee (Rice Gruel) was what they mostly had for lunch and dinner, supplemented with a little coconut chutney, and may be a side dish of some green banana, but only if they were bestowed with a ripe bunch of plantains available from the kitchen garden. My mother and her sisters' daily life entailed preparing food for all members of their very large family. By the light of a wick lamp, sweating by the blaze of crackling coconut fronds they would wash dishes with ash from the…
The man who was mistaken for a spy
My maternal grandfather, Samuel John Souri, Singapore. 1942
My maternal grandfather, Samuel John Souri, Singapore. 1942 Image and Narrative contributed by Sandhya Rakesh, Bengaluru My maternal grandfather, Mr. Samuel John Souri was born to Mr & Mrs Rev. JJ Souri (Reverend) in Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh. He had two sisters & three brothers. After he completed his studies in Ananthapur he began working in the Collectorate. At the advise of his cousin's wife, he learnt Stenography (Short Hand) and found a job with the British as Chief Clerk in Singapore in the late 1930s. My mother, his daughter, Joyce, tells me that once when he was called out for an urgent meeting, in a hurry he forgot his footwear, but when he went back to collect it, the sentry at the gate refused to allow him in because the British might think him to be a spy. My grandfather spent many years in Singapore working for the British, during the World War II. He also had six children, all of whom received Singaporean citizenships. After a few years, when the British were defeated at the Battle of Singapore he moved back to India, sending the family ahead by a few months. A diabetic patient, he passed away very suddenly, failing to eat some food after an insulin shot. My mother remembers that it was when she was in college. I do regret never having the opportunity to see and spend time with this very interesting and great man.


In this blog, I will explain how to display Form level Notifications in CRM 2013.
The requirement was, on entering an Account form the Account Number must be greater than 4 digits and Main Phone is a mandatory field or else we will show a notification "Account number should be more than 4 digits" and "Main phone field is mandatory" on the Form level.
We will use the following two methods for our task.
setFormNotification(message, level, uniqueId) : To set the notification on Form level.
message : Text of the notification.
level : Message icon – can be "ERROR", "WARNING" or "INFO".
uniqueid : Id to be used to clear notification.
clearFormNotification() : To remove the Notification from the Form.
Code can be used onChange or onSave event.
The screen shot displays the notification on the Form level for Account Number and Main Phone.
In CRM 2011, there was no Out of Box Functionality to show client side notifications on the Entity. We have used JScripts functions to show alert messages using Web Resources. In CRM 2013, Microsoft has introduced some new methods to show notifications on client side.
The requirement was, while entering data in an Account form, the Account Number must be greater than 4 digits, else we had to show a notification "The account number should be more than 4 digits" on the field level.
We will use following two methods for our task.
The Screen shot displays the notification near Account Number field.


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THE PUNISHER Review: Episodes 9-13
By TBA on	 November 22, 2017 3 - TELEVISION NEWS, TV Reviews
Punisher achieves the nearly impossible, running for thirteen episodes without a single slow spot, filler episode, or boring moment. It effortlessly weaves together multiple interrelated plots, navigates sensitive issues with care, and gives every character development. I'm comfortable saying this is the best of the Marvel Netflix series only barely edging out Jessica Jones.
One of the stylistic strengths of this series is that the moral and ethical issues of the character's actions are the central focus of the story. There are lots of action scenes and episodes of violence but they always have a purpose in the plot rather than being the main reason the story exists. There are two kinds of action movies (or shows, in this case): those that are an endless succession of pointless choreography and those that are stories that focus on people who are often in action-packed situations. I find the first kind of action story boring but it's unfortunately the most common. Punisher is the second kind of action story and it's refreshing to see, especially considering how easy it would be to just turn this premise into torture porn.
Plotwise, one of the most important elements of the last five episodes is that (amongst other things) the veteran Lewis turns into a full-fledged terrorist. Lewis serves two concurrent functions in this series: the first is that he demonstrates the dangers of radicalization in the United States even while the wars that he and Castle fought in were (in our world) predicated on white supremacist principles and the dehumanization of Middle Easterners and Muslims. Punisher largely avoids discussing the sociopolitical circumstances of the War on Terror but the undertones are there in Frank's old death squad. The second function Lewis serves is as a contrast to Frank's particular brand of violence. The Punisher is often co-opted by white supremacist groups as a symbol of taking justice into your own hands. The difference is that Punisher doesn't enact violence to further nationalistic goals. Lewis does. Someone told Lewis that the ideals he fought for were being violated and Lewis channelled that into mass violence, championing himself as a vigilante hero. The line between terrorist and vigilante is paper thin and possibly non-existent, but in this case Lewis is a direct message to people who want to misappropriate Frank Castle for their own ideological aims. The message is basically: you think you're a good person but you're not; you're sad and weak. Lewis even attacks a pro-gun control Senator as a tyrant and Karen Page as the representation of the "liberal media." The situation is further complicated when the rest of the media decides Frank is allied with Lewis in his bombing spree, leaving Karen, Madani, and Brent Mahoney (the detective friend of Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson) to debate whether Frank would kill innocent people in service to an ideology. This series constantly asks excellent questions and never offers definitive answers. The ambiguity is part of the show's nuance and fits the Punisher character well.
The episode where Lewis goes after the Senator and Karen is probably the best in the series. It's structured well, has a few unreliable narrators, and Karen gets to be just as awesome as Frank in helping to rescue herself from a bad situation. It's hard to pick "the best" when the whole show is so fantastic, but that one definitely stands out.
Once Lewis is dispatched, the rest of the season works on resolving the issues between Russo, Madani, Castle, and Micro. Micro goes to Madani with all of his information and he and Castle agree to help her catch the head of CIA Covert Operations Agent Rawlins and Russo who has been helping him since the beginning. Micro and Frank come up with their own secret plot to allow Frank a shot at killing Rawlins and Russo before Madani's official justice can get to them. Rawlins and Russo are both responsible for killing Frank's family in an attempt to get him out of the way and they also killed Madani's partner in Afghanistan. The last three episodes are focused on Frank's revenge and on the complications of keeping Micro's family safe and trying to put his life back together. The Liebermans are kidnapped by Russo as leverage against Frank and Micro and the two of them make a deal to trade themselves for the Liebermans. Ultimately, Frank gets to go on like two separate killing sprees to take out all of the people who have done him wrong while Micro is reunited with his family in some very sweet scenes. Russo escapes Frank's first round of justice and Frank has to track him down one last time. Rather than killing him he mutilates his pretty face which is a fitting end. The pacing, twists, and tension of the final three episodes is just as great as the rest of the series and provides a cathartic conclusion to the plot without leaving any loose ends or unresolved issues.
It's ironic that there's not much left to say about this series. What was excellent at the start stays great throughout. The conclusion of the plot that's set up even as far back as Daredevil is deeply satisfying. The show is beautiful, well-constructed, self-aware, and expertly written straight through. What else can I tell you?
Overall, everything about this series is spot on. Sure, the basic premise is one of white male aggression, but the story takes pains to put all races and genders on completely equal footing. Frank's violent tendencies don't give him more value than Madani's investigative skills, Karen's research abilities, or Micro's surveillance expertise. All of those things are of equal weight in this series. Without any of those other pieces, Frank's violence is pointless as he wouldn't have any reason to use it. Punisher does a great job of humanizing everyone–vigilante, terrorist, and citizen alike–and it imbues its mystery story with compassion and hard questions.
Season 1, Episodes 9-13 (S01E09-13)
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Chapters 9–12
Salamanca Tree Hiddle
Phoebe Winterbottom
Sal's father
Sal's mother
Summary Chapters 21–24
While stories serve as a path to truth and understanding in Walk Two Moons, Sal and Phoebe also use stories to hide from the truth. They both lie to friends about their mothers, Phoebe clings to the idea that Mrs. Winterbottom has been kidnapped by the lunatic, Sal tells herself that her mother will come back, that her mother has amnesia and is wandering around Lewiston, Idaho, and even goes so far as to try on Phoebe's kidnapping formula, when she suggests to her father that perhaps someone forced her mother to leave. Sal explains the purpose of these unlikely stories when she admits that she and Phoebe are actually trying to understand what reasons could possibly motivate their mothers to leave them. Fantastical stories provide the girls with a desirable answer, and they imagine scenarios where their mothers did not want to leave or were forced to leave. Sal feels especially conflicted, as she connects her broken leg with her mother's miscarriage and ensuing depression. She can build a logical chain of events that connects her actions with her mother's desire to leave, but she hides this chain beneath wild hopes and stories.
Part of Sal's coming-of-age journey involves learning to see her mother in more than her role as mother. Her mother is a complex being who can love Sal at the same time as needing to be away from her. Just as children strive to define and assert their independence from their parents, so must parents strive to maintain their emotional and personal independence from their children. As Sal endeavors to break away from her dependence on her parents while at the same time maintaining a strong and affectionate relationship with them, she must learn to see her parents as complex and often internally divided individuals with competing loyalties and visions of themselves.
Myths and dreams, another form of self-contained narrative, populate these four chapters of the novel. The two myths, that of the Native American god Napi and that of Prometheus, are alternate but thematically similar stories of man's origin. The Napi myth explains man's mortality, whereas the Prometheus myth depicts man being punished for trying to snatch power from the gods. Both myths illustrate that man's place is upon the earth, not among the gods. Man must give up any claims to godlike power over the elements or over death. These myths resonate with Sal, who is struggling to reconcile herself to the great losses she has suffered. In her dream, she tries to process the contradiction between the beauty and incredible generosity of a lifetime on earth with the suddenness and irrevocability of death. Slowly, Sal is learning to leave behind her childhood notions of permanence. She realizes that life itself, in all its manifold forms, from stories to myths to messages on the doorstep to the events of her life, reminds her that circumstances and emotions change and people die. Her dream reminds her of the suddenness and irrevocability of death and change.
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Shara may refer to:
Shara District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
Shara, Leh, a village in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Šar Mountains (Shar Mountains), colloquially Šara (Shara), Balkans
Shara (god), son of Inanna and brother of Lulal in Sumerian mythology
Shara (name), female given name
Shara (film), a 2003 Japanese film also known as Sharasojyu
Shara, a fictional land in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series

See also
 Šara (disambiguation)

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package mdq

import (
	"sync"
)

type Cluster interface {
	Query(qeury string) []Result
}

type cluster struct {
	dbs      []DB
	reporter Reporter
}

func NewCluster(dbs []DB, reporter Reporter) Cluster {
	return cluster{dbs, reporter}
}

func (c cluster) Query(query string) []Result {
	var results []Result
	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	var mu sync.Mutex
	for _, d := range c.dbs {
		db := d
		wg.Add(1)
		go func() {
			defer wg.Done()

			result, err := db.Query(query)
			if err != nil {
				c.reporter.Report(err)
				return
			}
			mu.Lock()
			results = append(results, result)
			mu.Unlock()
		}()
	}
	wg.Wait()
	return results
}

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Corporate Crime & Investigations Update - 27 January 2017
Included in this issue: Speech by FCA Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight: Practical implications of US law on EU practice; Proceedings commenced against two former Och-Ziff executives and more...
Speech by FCA Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight: Practical implications of US law on EU practice
On 19 January 2017, Mark Steward delivered a speech at the Practising Law Institute's annual seminar on securities regulation in Europe.
In this speech Mr Steward touched on subjects such as financial penalties, the relatively new senior manager's regime and ways in which firms and individuals can reach a resolution on cases quickly.
The clear message from the speech is that there is not a move towards light touch regulation (notwithstanding the recent reduction in the aggregate level of fines). In fact, Mr Steward stated that "… investigations need to be more thorough with stronger disciplines…" However, it was recognised that consideration was ongoing to look at further ways to incentivise firms and individuals to resolve matters fairly and quickly but "without losing the rigour of a formal disciplinary process".
FCA, 26 January 2017
Microsoft scores landmark win
Microsoft Corp has successfully won a decision in the US courts that means that it and other companies will not be forced by the US government to provide it with emails stored on its servers held outside of the US.
Microsoft is understood to be the first company to challenge a domestic search warrant that sought data that was held outside of the US.
Reuters, 24 January 2017
SFO speech on fighting fraud
In a recent speech given at the Fighting Fraud and Eliminating Error Conference, Hannah von Dadelszen, Joint Head of Fraud, defended the SFO's recent conviction record.
SFO, 19 January 2017
Criminal Finances Bill
One of the key proposals in the Criminal Finances Bill is to allow Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to access funds thought to be linked with criminal activity, and free up the growing stock of funds from frozen accounts which are linked with criminal activity and are currently inaccessible. The government is currently considering this proposal, which updates current laws that prohibit money from being seized from accounts unless there has been a conviction; and/or, unless the account holds amounts of £10,000 or more.
It is understood an initial evaluation of the impact of this new proposal was not fit for purpose. The Government has, therefore, commenced a fresh evaluation with an updated impact assessment for the Bill.
Gov.uk, 17 November 2016
Gov.uk, 10 January 2017
Proceedings commenced against two former Och-Ziff executives
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has commenced proceedings against Michael Cohen, head of Och-Ziff's European Office, and Vanja Baros, a former executive of the company.
The allegations against the individuals are that, in breach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, they caused Och-Ziff to pay bribes to officials in Libya, Chad, Niger, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo to secure investment from the Libyan Investment Authority sovereign wealth fund, an investment in a Libyan real estate development project and to secure a mining transaction.
Transparency International publishes its 2016 Corruption Index
The UK, Germany and Luxembourg has been ranked 10th in Transparency International's (TI) 2016 Corruption Index.
While the UK ranking remains unchanged from last year, TI has stated that the UK government "should follow through on commitments made" in 2016 if it is going to remain within the top ten jurisdictions seen as the least corrupt.
TI ranked Denmark and New Zealand as the best performing countries. Somalia was ranked as the worst performer in the index.
Transparency International, 25 January 2017
Court of Appeal upholds SFO property freezing order
The SFO has successfully resisted an appeal of a freezing order imposed by it. The SFO froze the proceeds that Mrs Saleh received from the sale of her shares in a Canadian oil and gas company. The SFO's case was that the acquisition of the shares had been one of a series of corrupt transactions involving her and others at the Canadian embassy.
Mrs Saleh unsuccessfully appealed to the High Court on the basis that the matter had already been settled by an earlier Canadian court order in which the Canadian court accepted Mrs Saleh to be innocent of complicity in any indictable offence, which meant that the shares were neither crime related proceeds nor offence related property.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the High Court's decision to uphold the freezing order and held that to set it aside would be inconsistent with the POCA statutory regime.
SEC fines BlackRock for removing whistle-blower incentives
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled with the New York based asset management company, BlackRock Inc, in respect of allegations that it
In respect of the settlement, BlackRock has agreed to pay $340,000 to the SEC on the basis that it neither admits nor denies the allegation. BlackRock has further agreed to introduce compulsory annual training summarising employees' rights under the SEC whistleblowing program.
SEC, 17 January 2017
SEC Charges Orthofix for Accounting Failures and FCPA Violations
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Orthofix, a medical device company based in Texas, has agreed to a $14 million penalty to settle charges of accounting failures and improper inducements made to state employed doctors in Brazil in order to boost sales.
The first charge admitted by Orthofix was that they improperly recorded revenue by inputting positive balances into their accounts as soon as products were shipped despite various contingencies, procedural approvals and time extensions before payment was likely to be received. As a result the company materially misstated a number of financial statements between 2011 and April 2013.
Orthofix itself has agreed to pay a fine of $8.25 million in reference to these accounting failures and four former executives of the firm have agreed, personally, to pay a combined sum of $120,000.
In a separate order the SEC also charged the company with breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for failing to "detect and prevent" its Brazilian subsidiary from making "improper payments in Brazil that were intended to boost sales". This was after the Brazilian arm of the firm offered high discounts and improper inducements to state doctors in order to give preference to Orthofix's products. In respect of the FCPA charges, Orthofix paid $6 million in disgorgement and penalties in settlement.
Western Union settles with US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission
The Western Union Company (Western Union) has settled with US authorities for $586 million in respect of breaches of money laundering and consumer fraud laws. It is understood that the fine is the largest imposed on a money service business.
Under the terms of the settlement, Western Union admitted to breaches including "wilfully failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program and aiding and abetting wire fraud." It is understood that the authorities found hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred to China in avoidance of the US Bank Secrecy Act. The US authorities stated that the company's "…failure to comply with anti-money laundering laws provided fraudsters and other criminals with a means to transfer criminal proceeds and victimize innocent people."
It is further understood that Western Union has agreed to implement an anti-fraud program in addition to enhancing its compliance obligations.
Review commences for Money Laundering in Scottish Limited Partnerships
The UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced a review into the use of Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs). The review comes after concerns were raised that SLPs are being used to mask international criminal activity such as money laundering.
The legal status of these partnerships make them attractive to international crime organisations as they protect partners from the same scrutiny as other business vehicles such as limited companies. They also provide partners with the freedom to handle money.
It is reported that the number of SLPs has trebled in the last six years. This has led the UK government to reconsider its previous decision to reject calls for an investigation.
BBC, 16 January 2017
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup settle charges relating to Foreign Exchange Trading Program
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (Morgan Stanley) and Citigroup Global Markets, which at the relevant time had a 49% interest in Morgan Stanley, agreed to pay more than $2.96 million to settle charges that they made false and misleading statements about a foreign exchange trading program they sold to investors. The terms of the settlement are such that neither Morgan Stanley nor Citigroup admitted or denied the charges.
According to the SEC, the written and verbal representation made to customers were based on out of date performance and risk metrics. Morgan Stanley also failed to adequately disclose the increased leverage and mark-ups investors would face, which led to them suffering significant losses.
New York businesswoman pleads guilty to $23 million fraud
Haena Pak, entered a guilty plea in Manhattan federal court for defrauding investors out of more than $23 million. Ms. Park held herself out as a successful foreign exchange trader with annual returns of up to 48.9 percent despite the fact that she was exceptionally unsuccessful in her trading- losing £19.5 million of the $20 million she traded.
In order to cover up her failure, Park repaid early investors using $3 million secured from later investor and fabricated account statements in order to show her investors that they were making a profit almost every month.
Ms Park could face a term of up to 10 years in prison when US District Judge Ronnie Abrams hands down the sentence on 28 April 2017.
7 year sentence for Head of Wells Fargo fraud ring
Seventy year old Ronan Charles Reed has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme on the customers of Wells Fargo. Mr Reed obtained personal information of customers of Wells Fargo from Wells Fargo employees, including birthdates, account and social security details. Mr Reed then organised for people to impersonate customers of the bank and use these details to secure cash withdrawals of $580,332 from 75 different accounts.
After pleading guilty to bank fraud and identity theft, Mr Reed received a restitution order, in addition to his custodial sentence. It is understood that Wells Fargo employees identified as being implicated in the scheme await sentencing.
Inside traders sentenced
Two men who recently pleaded guilty to insider dealing in a trial brought by the FCA, were sentenced last week for their participation in the scheme.
Manjeet Mohal, formerly employed by Logica, received a suspended sentence of two years and 180 hours of community service for using inside information to obtain beneficial terms during takeover negotiations between Logica and another firm.
The second man, Reshim Birk who was a neighbour of Mr Mohal, received a suspended sentence of 16 months imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for using the inside information to obtain shares in Logica before the takeover was made public.
In addition, a confiscation order of £162,876.69 was made against Mr Birk and both defendants were ordered to pay costs of £42,593.35 to the FCA.
Department for International Trade publishes new guidance on export control
The Export Control Organisation has updated and reissued its guidance on export controls. The revised guidance streamlines and consolidates previous guidance issued by the Export Control Organisation.
Gov,uk, 11 January 2017
KFC employees suffer serious burns
KFC have been fined £950,000 after two employees suffered serious burns in two separate incidents at branches in Stockton.
In the incident which occurred in July 2014, a 16 year old employee at the Teesside Park restaurant suffered serious burns to his hands and arms after he was asked to remove hot gravy from a microwave without protective gloves.
In the second incident in December 2015, an employee, who was also not wearing protective gloves, removed hot gravy from a microwave which spilled onto her body causing serious burns.
Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited pleaded guilty to two offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and were fined £950,000 and ordered to pay £18,700 in costs.
SHP, 24 January 2017
Jaguar Land Rover fined £900,000
Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has been fined following an incident in which a worker lost his leg.
The worker was crossing a production line by passing between two vehicles when another employee collided with a car further down the line causing a four car shunt. The worker became trapped between the two vehicles and his injuries resulted in the amputation of his right leg.
Jaguar Land Rover were found guilty of breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of £49,800.
HSE, 18 January 2017
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Aqeel Abbas Jafri ()  (born August 10, 1957 in Karachi, Pakistan), is a Pakistani writer, poet and architect and chief editor of Urdu Dictionary Board in Pakistan.

Works
Jafri spent 20 years compiling and writing Pakistan Chronicle, which was published in 2010. The book has rare photographs and accounts of historic events from August 14, 1947 (Independence Day of Pakistan) to March 31, 2010. This book reads like a fact-sheet on Pakistani events with over 4000 pictures on its 1,080 pages.

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External links
 Pakistan Chronicle an encyclopaedic account of Pakistan history

1957 births
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What is Nueve de julio?
This article was originally an email and was written by an Argentine named Carlos Mariosa to give a little history lesson to us regarding Argentina's Independance day.
Carlos is married to Karin Hosenfeld and they are currently living in Florida.
I convinced my husband to put together a little something for the holiday (you have time to read it since it is a day off!) There is a little history lesson plus extra info at the end. Enjoy and Feliz Dia!
What is really celebrated on the 9th of July?
In 1816, the United Provinces of South America (Provincias Unidas de Sud-America) were ready to claim formally their independence from Spain. To achieve that, they called for a Session of Congress to be held in Tucuman. The goverment at that time was established in Buenos Aires, although Tucuman was a better venue in order to gain the confidence from the provinces, and because of their geographical position.
What is the relationship between the Provincias Unidas and Argentina?
It is just a matter of names. "Provincias Unidas de Sud America" was the first name used in 1810, until around 1820, when the formal adopted name was "Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata" (United Provinces of the River Plate).
Unofficially, the name Argentina (derived from the latin name of silver -plata-, Argentum), was widely used to refer to the Provincias Unidas by 1820.
It is not until 1824 though, when the country officially became a republic, that the actual name was appointed: "Republica Argentina".
After that, the territory of Argentina changed mainly due to the claim of independence by Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Which provinces then formed the "Provincias Unidas de Sud-America"?
The rest of the provinces didn't attend. Corrientes, Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Banda Oriental (today's Uruguay) led by Artigas rejected to be part of the Congreso since the Assembly of 1813 had not wellcomed the latter's Representatives due to a big struggle between their leader (or "Caudillo") and the central government of Buenos Aires.
What about the rest of what today we know as Argentina?
Well, the Pampas and Patagonia were considered a wild and inhospitable territory dominated by the natives, and that vast piece of land remained virgin until Rosas' campains to the west (1840s) and Roca's Desert Conquer (Conquista del Desierto, 1860s).
The area of Chaco, Formosa and Misiones were inhospitable territory as well .
What is the difference between this celebration and May 25?
The heart of the "Revolution of May" occurred in Buenos Aires in 1810, in what was called the Viceroyalty of the River Plate (Virreynato del Rio de la Plata) 6 years prior to the declaration of independence. On that day, the locals decided that since Napoleon had taken over Spain, and Ferdinand VII was no longer King of Spain, the Viceroy had lost his powers to rule over this colony. After the struggle of May, the Viceroy was expulsed and the first local government took over (Primera Junta), in theory keeping their loyalty to the overthrown King. However, before that day, and even more after that, groups within the "notables" were convinced of the need of a total independence, and they wanted to go as far as possible. Most of the internal problems for the next years to come were to decide what the best fate for the Provincias Unidas would be.
What led to the independence?
Since the Revolution in 1810, everything was leading towards the direction of the independence.
· Directorio, with differents Supreme Directors like Alvear, Posadas and Pueyrredon (all streets in Recoleta!!), 1813 to 1820.
After the Assembly of 1813, the Provincias Unidas already had a flag (the one Belgrano used with his troops, even though the First Triumvirate advised him against using it one year earlier!!!), a currency, an anthem (the base of the one we know today), and also substantive laws like the freedom of press, abolition of slavery and noble titles, etc.
By 1815 among all the provinces (including Buenos Aires) there was a sense of urgency to make this formal by declaring the independence since Ferdinand VII was back in his throne and that would definitely be a threat. Also, the Provincias Unidas had finally taken Montevideo from the Spaniards (1814) but the revolution forces were still being threatened by the regional Spaniard troops.
And, of course, their own independence would give San Martin the credibility (and the official support from the government) to free the other countries and achieve his master plan that would end up reinforcing the independence (see below!!).
So, a bunch of people in Tucuman claiming for the indepence made it happen?
Well, of course there were a lot of battles and a lot of blood. In 1810 there were still a lot of loyal regions (and soldiers) in the Viceroyalty that didn't tolerate the "insurrection" of Buenos Aires. Also, the Vicerroyalty of Lima, loyal to Spain, tried to advance from the north to put the things back in place. The first battles for the independence were led by Belgrano and later by Rondeau, with different degrees of success. Many historians believe that the battles were held in order to enforce the power of the Junta, but also to earn the support of the rest of the provinces, that were self ruled in most of the cases.
After 1812 San Martin and Alvear appeared on scene to serve the revolutionary cause and organized the troops in a more professional way. Previous leaders like Belgrano (a lawyer) despite his success and bravery, were appointed generals simply because there was no one else who fit in the position.
San Martin was convinced that the independence was going to be a reality only when Chile and Peru also were free, that is, when the Spaniards were expulsed from those their strong operation bases. He writes in a letter to one of his friends "you know my secret….(the independence) won't happen going North through the Alto Peru, but going first to Chile, beat them there and then sail up to Peru to give them battle from the sea".
That is why he prepared his famous Andes Crossing and ended up also freeing Peru in 1817.
There are still families that keep the tradition of eating Locro and/or empanadas on the 9th of July.
You can even see Locro as a specialty in some restaurants that day.
The following are recipes for Locro (in english), although I cannot assure you that those recipes are any good! You will have to try them yourselves.
Also it is traditional that the President starts early in the morning having Hot Chocolate with some army division. When I was in the military (it was mandatory back in 1984) we had hot chocolate on May 25th and July 9th as part of the tradition (the rest of the days, Mate Cocido and yesterday's bread).
It used to be virtually (and morally) mandatory….everyone would wear a "escarapela", and if you forgot, that was a big deal. In schools, you still can see most of the kids wearing it, although the general public is not into that lately. People tend to mix Country and Goverment, therefore lack of patriotism may be related to the lack of credibility of the goverments of the last 25 years, most especially during the dirty war years.
You used to also notice the flags on the balconies. But definitely you are going to see more flags when Argentina's soccer team wins!!!!
Generally, the President presides at the main celebration in Plaza de Mayo. There is always a military parade during the morning. This year, the President (as well as the parade) is going to be in Tucuman to celebrate the holiday. The parade for May 25 got cancelled due to money reasons.
To see the agenda of the President, check http://www.presidencia.gov.ar/.
Overall, the 9th of July was and is, more than ever, a day off. People now tend to organize minivacations or family events and take the day as they would have a weekend with two Sundays.
If you would like to see the actual place where the Congreso de Tucuman took place, take a virtual tour at http://www.casaindependencia.com.ar/ (in english and spanish). Also good info here (in the case you need more!!).


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Food labelling will be changing and most likely it will be a legislative change to help consumers know what they are eating and allergy sufferers know if what they have purchased could be deadly.
GSM Agri-Food is a new product using near field communication and smart phone app to all easy access to the information you want – and need – to know about what you are buying.
Food Labelling from Andrew on Vimeo.


One of the Republicans who's running for state Ag Secretary says Iowa should enforce the same kind of "clean air" rules that have forced drivers in the nation's largest cities to burn ethanol-blended fuel. Bill Northey, a corn and soybean farmer from Spirit Lake, formally kicked off his campaign this (Monday) morning. "I think we need to work towards more demand for ethanol in Iowa," Northey says. He's interested in a strategy that would take the "renewable fuel standard" in place for American cities — to help reduce smog — and make it Iowa law. Northey says retailers would start selling a higher-blend of ethanol, and motorists who're already choosing the 10 percent ethanol blend would end up using a greater proportion of ethanol every time they fill their tank. Northey believes targeting retailers — by enforcing fines if they don't sell enough ethanol — will mean better marketing of ethanol, and he says it's a better alternative to forcing every gas pump in the state to only dispense an ethanol-blend. Northey says fuel companies would be required to sell a certain percentage of ethanol. To be able to meet the goal of having 25 percent of fuel sold be ethanol in 2015, Northey says fuel companies would have to sell more concentrated forms of ethanol, like the so-called E-85 blend which is 85 percent ethanol but available in few places in Iowa. A law in Minnesota forces all gasoline dispensed in that state to be a 10 percent ethanol blend. Northey says his proposal would yield greater results for corn farmers. "It would require more ethanol use than a straight 10 percent requirement," Northey says. One other Republican, Mark Leonard of Holstein, has formally announced they're running for state Ag Secretary. Karey Kleghorn, a Republican from Milo, has said she is considering a bid for the job. The Democrats competing for the job are Brent Halling of Perry and Eddie Peterson, a former member of the Webster County Board of Supervisors.


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Collected Comic Reviews: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Lady Rawhide
Growing up, I enjoyed the animated adventures of Rocket J. Squirrel and his pal, Bullwinkle J. Moose. The subversive humor, the so-bad-they're-good puns and the show's wit more than made up for the limitations of the animation and gave the series a re-watchability factor that continues to this day.
So when I heard that Moose and Squirrel were back for more adventures on the pages of a comic book, I was both excited and hesitant. Excited for new Bullwinkle but hesitant that a comic book could recapture what made the TV series so magical.*
* Yes, I was burned by the less than stellar big-screen adaptation just like a lot of other fans. It had so much potential and yet it never quite lived up to it.
Thankfully, this collection of four issues of the new Rocky and Bullwinkle comic lives up to the high standard the tv series set. Not all the stories are perfect mind you and some of the jokes are a swing and a miss. But overall, these four stories are funny, witty and just as subversive as the television series that created them.
That doesn't mean it's necessarily perfect, however. One of the strengths of the animated series was the supporting cast of shorts that supported the adventures of Moose and Squirrel. Alas, none of my favorite supporting shorts get any representation here. Instead, we get a short Dudley Do-Right story in each issue to break-up the main story and provide the cliffhanger. And it's the Dudley Do-Right stories that fall flat for me. Of course, that could be that I never found Dudley Do-Right to be the strongest of supporting cartoons on the original show.
Pick this one up for the Moose and Squirrel adventures.
If Zorro were to suddenly become a woman and dress up in sexy, gravity defying outfits, the result might be Lady Rawhide.
Unfortunately, the result would be one of the less enjoyable collection of comics I've come across in quite some time. I made several attempts to try and get into the story gathered together here, but honestly found myself not giving a fig about any of the characters or the story. When a comic book only runs 20 or so pages, boredom setting in is never a good sign.
Honestly, the best part about these books were the cover sketches of Lady Rawhide.
The internal strips suffer from a lack of consistent artwork, uninteresting characters and tedious plotting. Thanks, but no thanks.
In the interest of full disclosure, I received a digital ARC of these books from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Review: My Real Children by Jo Walton
Have you ever had that feeling that you might have lived a totally different life in a parallel universe or if you'd made a different choice in what you later look back and see as a life-changing moment?
Jo Walton's latest novel My Real Children examines that choice in the life of Patricia Cowan. Looking back on her life, Patricia can recall two potential lifetimes, both of which hinge on whether or not she accepts the ultimatum to marry her fiance Mark.
In one reality, the two plan a hasty wedding and settle into a less than ideal marriage that produced four children and multiple miscarriages. In the other, she meets Bee and the two fall in love and raise a family in the less traditional sense.
Part alternate history and part character examination, My Real Children is one of the more fascinating and compelling books I've read in a long time. Jo Walton weaves together two separate timelines for Patricia, allowing each to have its own successes and failures but never endorsing one timeline, life or lifetime as better than the other. There are moments of triumph in each one and moments of despair in each one.
Alternating chapters tell of Pat and Tricia's life over the course of several years in each timeline. One of the more fascinating elements of the story is the creation of alternate histories for each timeline, which show just how easily history could have gone in our timeline.
Walton has a great deal of affection for her characters and it shows as we get to know each of these characters. Some of them you'll love (at times) and some of them you'll hate (at times). But you'll never quite be able to put them aside easily or forget them long after the last page is turned.
My Real Children shows there is more to the fantasy genre than just sword-play and dragons. I've heard good things about Walton before and this novel only makes me curious to pick up her other novels and see if they're as absorbing as this one was.
In the interest of full disclosure, I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher via GoodReads.
Filed under ARC, fantasy, review
"All Good Things: A Star Trek Podcast: Episode Three — The Best and Worst of TNG
After years of threatening to do it, my good friend Barry and I have started a podcast focusing on Star Trek in its many incarnations and its impact on us.
The third installment is available for your listening pleasure (it was recorded before we'd finalized a name, which may or may not be referenced in the conversation). This installment looks at our best and worst episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Surf over, download, listen, leave comments.
And you can listen to episode two (Best and Worst of Classic Trek) and episode one (Meet The Hosts) as well.
Here are some other ways you can connect to us.
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Booking Through Thursday: Summer
Do your reading habits change in the summer?
Even though I've been out of school for a long time now, summer time reading always makes me think about summer reading lists for the upcoming school year. And while I don't have any "required" reading these days, I always find it interesting to look at the summer reading lists that are posted at my local library. It's interesting to see what's still on the reading list and to see what's new.
As for my reading habits, it's not as much what or how much I read as where I read. Summer is a great time for reading outside either by the pool or on the patio with our new patio umbrella. I will admit at the start of the summer, I will sometimes look over my TBR pile and decide I want to move some things up or try and cross some books off that list. But as with all plans, that tends to go astray after a few weeks.
Tuesday Top Ten: Other Stories
Each week, I see multiple book bloggers post their Top 10 Tuesday from the Broke and Bookish. And each week, I keep thinking I should join in the fun but then never quite get around to it. Well, at long last I've decided it's time to stop thinking about it and to dive into the Top 10 Tuesday.
And this week's topic is one that hits right in my sweet spot — storytelling in other mediums. And so, here we go…
1. Doctor Who — I always like to say I was Doctor Who before Doctor Who was cool. I loved the classic series and have collected it multiple times over on various formats, including off-air VHS, commercially released VHS and now the DVD/Blu-Rays. I discovered the series in my early teens and was fortunate to live near a PBS station that showed the syndicated run of the show in just over two years. Now, I'm counting down days until the Peter Capaldi era begins and probably just as excited about the new season as I was for Matt Smith's second year. This is a series that has a tie-in to reading since I collected the original adaptations of the classic serials back in the day and read the New Adventures and Missing Adventures faithfully during the wilderness years when there was no new Doctor Who on our TV screens. I still listen to those Target novels as audio books while working out — they're great for a run or workout because I'm familiar enough with the stories that I don't have to pay attention to every detail for fear of missing a crucial plot point or development.
Filed under Challenges, Top Ten Tuesday
Review: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Timing is everything.
I believe I might have enjoyed Stephen King's latest offering Mr. Mercedes a bit more if I hadn't recently read and enjoyed Michael Connelly's Blood Work. Both novels share enough points that I found myself wondering if Mr. King was attempting to channel Mr. Connelly in his latest novel. And, to be quite honest, I'll admit I enjoyed Connelly's take on the story just a bit more.
Both stories feature retired law enforcement officers who are drawn into the pursuit of mad-men who have killed before and are looking to do so again. Both of our heroes have reluctant sidekicks who help them overcome difficulties (in the case of Blood Work, it's McCaleb's inability to drive, here it's our heroes' lack of understanding about using modern technology and the Internet) and both of our heroes fall in love with women, though King's novel features a more tragic outcome than Connelly's. Both novels center around a cat and mouse game between the retired law enforcement officer and the criminal in question.
And yet, I walked away from Blood Work feeling far more satisfied than I did here.
Collected Comics Review: Rocket Girl, Alex & Ada
Future police officer, Dayoung Johansson travels back in time to investigate potential crimes against time by the Quintum Mechanics. This collection of the first five installments of the Image Comic unfolds in two points in time — the near future and the near past. The linking elements is Dayoung, the titular Rocket Girl.
There are some intriguing ideas in the story, though they aren't as well developed as they could have been, including some of the implications of traveling through time and changing the future.
The artwork in this collected comic is nicely done with visually flourishes given to each time period to set them apart.
Filed under ARC, review
July 9, 2014 · 11:52 am
Tooting My Own Horn
A friend made me aware this morning that my review for Rainbow Rowell's Landline is being featured over on Amazon. She was kind enough to take a screen shot so I could (humbly) brag about it.
The review on Amazon is the same one that appears here.
July 3, 2014 · 2:12 pm
Big Finish Reviews: The Crooked Man, The Evil One, The Last of the Colophon
The Crooked Man
Given that The Crooked Man is from the pen of John Dorney, it shouldn't be a surprise that I enjoyed it as much as I did. And that's despite having an reveal in the last five or so minutes that I guessed long before the Doctor and company deduced it (or at least that they confirmed it in the course of the story).
The Doctor and Leela arrive in a sea-side town for a holiday but discover that a macabre series of murders is taking place. Investigating further, they soon discover there's a link between these murders and a local family — the sinister and creepy Crooked Man of the title.
The idea of world of fiction having the ability to crossover into reality is nothing new for Doctor Who (see the Troughton era serial "The Mind Robber") so it's a huge credit to Dorney's script that it manages to feel interesting when done here. And while there's a twist in the last five or so minutes of the script that's telegraphed fairly early on by the story, it's still one that is entirely earned by the story. Continue reading →
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Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Had We Were Liars not cautioned me against revealing too much of the book's ending to anyone, I might have enjoyed it more than I did. The promise of having the rug pulled out from under me in the final few pages left me pondering what the twist would be and how it would work rather than sitting back and allowing me to slowly draw out the line before setting the hook.
In many ways, it reminds me a lot of the problems I have when approaching an M. Night Shymalyan film. I'm so conditioned to expect a twist that I find myself less concentrating on the story and characters than I do on looking for the seeds to be sewn for the twist or trying to be one-step ahead of the game and guessing the twist ending.
That feeling didn't necessarily ruin We Were Liars for me, but it kept me from having quite the same zen-like experience that other readers have had with the novel.*
* I will note from a perusal of other reviews that the book seems to be fairly polarizing. It seems that readers either love it or they're not necessarily sure the destination was worth the ride.
It's the novel of the Sinclair family and their summers spent on the family island. The first three grandchildren plus a young man named Gat, spend each summer there together, having adventures on the island and growing up together. Our narrator is Cady, who has feelings for Gat.
Two years earlier, Cady waded out into the ocean in her clothes and was found on the beach with a head injury. She experiences short term memory loss, debilitating migraines and other side effects from the experience. She skips one summer on the island to tour Europe with her estranged father and the next summer insists on going back for half the summer in the hopes of reconnecting with her family and figuring out exactly what happened that fateful summer evening. Cady's family can and will tell her what happened, but Cady doesn't recall being told even moments later, leading her mother and doctors to decide she needs to remember what happened on her own.
Over the course of the story, E. Lockhart explores the complicated relationships and history of the Sinclair family. What from the outside appears to be the "perfect" family is instead one built on lying, deceit and manipulation. It seems that grandchildren are just one attempts by various parties to control and manipulate each other and to stake various participants claims to the family legacy.
The novel sets up the coming "pulling out the rug" moment fairly well with enough threads put into place that when it does come, it feels substantial and earned. That said, I'd guessed (part of) what was to come a long time before the big reveal, which allowed me to be both smug at my own intuitiveness and surprised by what Lockhart achieves in the final few pages of the novel.
Told from the point of view of Cady and easily shifting from past to present, We Were Liars is a book is good, but it's not quite one that I'd rate as necessarily being great. It's well written, fun and entertaining but it's not quite the zen-experience (for me anyway) that others have made it out to be.


"Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers" by Michael Schrenk; $40 from No Starch Press (nostarch.com).
What have we done lately for programmers? Not much, we answered to ourselves, so here's an unusual offering. Whenever we use a browser to find something on the Internet, that browser uses a software agent, often called a spider or a "bot" — short for robot — to go out and search for key words or symbols. This book tells you how to write your own search agents, using the PHP/Curl language. Among the agents described are ones that can send and receive e-mail, unlock password-protected Web sites, and automatically bid in online auctions. By the way: Why are they called "spiders"? Because they travel the Web, of course.


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Fibers of the future
August 1st, 2019 / By: IFAI / Swatches
Roughly five times lighter than a more conventional steel structure, the BUGA Fibre Pavilion was created using robotics technology that placed fibrous filaments between two rotating winding scaffolds. The process created the predefined shape of the building component, which included a lattice of translucent glass fibers onto which black carbon fibers were placed where structurally needed. Photos: Top–ICD/ITKE, University of Stuttgart; Bottom and left–Roland Halbe.
This summer, visitors to the Bundesgartenschau grounds, a park in Heilbronn, Germany, will see an architectural marvel seemingly rising from the landscape. The BUGA Fibre Pavilion showcases the potential future of construction—created by combining construction principles found in nature with cutting-edge technologies.
The design is the result of a partnership between the Institute for Computational Design and Construction and the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart. The institutes conducted years of biomimetic research to develop digital building systems. The pavilion's load-bearing structure consists solely of advanced fiber composites produced robotically, which makes the structure sturdy and exceptionally lightweight.
In biology, most load-bearing structures are composites made from fibers like cellulose, chitin or collagen, and a matrix material that supports them and maintains their relative position, giving them unrivalled resource efficiency. The design of the BUGA Fibre Pavilion transfers this principle of load-adapted and highly differentiated fiber composite systems into architecture. Composites, such as the glass or carbon fiber-reinforced plastics that were used for this building, are ideal because they share fundamental characteristics with natural composites.
The pavilion is made from more than 150,000 meters of spatially arranged glass and carbon fibers, all of which needed to be individually designed and placed. It covers a floor area of about 4,305 square feet with a free span of more than 75 feet. A fully transparent, mechanically pre-stressed ETFE membrane covers the structure. For details, visit www.icd.uni-stuttgart.de.


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5timechamp had the most liked content!
It almost feels like the majority of the team moved on.. After SO3, theres still one more content pack coming (doubt theres a seadon 3).. Sure would be nice if the last pack went big and closed out the content support in a big positive way..
it is such a well designed mission.....it takes its sweet time to develop and escalate into action...the action itself does not disappoint (unlike the predator encounter). I also really enjoy the way the interactions between ghosts and rainbow concludes..
im on my 4th lap through the game...2 complete files to include Tier 15 on both.
still playing it, still enough flexibility to setup gameplay to my tastes... though i do hate myself for again undertaking the damn tier mode on another file... ...if Ubi does enough to tweak the enemy AI presence and the QRF system then i will gladly do a 4th playthrough.. the map is as impressive as ever, such easily recognizable geography..
sure as the update came in I bought the cosmetics... minor issue (cause bitching) is the AI wont lower their optics, damn shame they dont mirror the players action as they do when putting or removing suppressors.


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What to bring: An open mind. Wear loose, everyday clothes (we'll sit in chairs). A little notebook and pen.
Cost: Free, as part of her religious practice of serving others. However, you are welcome to make a donation to their annual event, Peace in the Park, Friday, Sept. 21st, in Brookfield Park, Augusta.
Kanishtha will teach us the general concepts and practice of Raja Yoga Meditation, with a different theme each week (i.e. consciousness and self-realization, letting go of anger, how to harness your thoughts, emotions and responses…).


Our sales counter and shop is fully manned by knowledgeable staff. They are on hand to help you out with your requirements.
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During the summer months we also have staff on our patio area, to show you the latest type of paving or to help you work out how much your project is going to cost.
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In 1971, King was getting $60 bucks a week working at an industrial laundry and $6400 a year as an English teacher. All that changed when Tabitha pulled a few of his discarded pages from a trash can and told her husband that this might actually be something good. Following Tabitha's good advice, King continued with this novel eventually titled Carrie. After the book deal came a Brian DePalma film adaptation in 1976 and the rest is history.
Which brings me to the L.A.M.BLOG_A_THON at the Large Association of Movie Blogs which has asked folks to come up with who they're thankful for in the movie industry. Point of fact- Stephen King is an icon and movies based on his works like The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption are some of the greatest films in cinema history.
Unfortunately, King's films are slammed as often (if not more) than they're praised. Films like Maximum Overdrive and Graveyard Shift haven't exactly boosted his cinema cred. But, even Spielberg made Hook and Francis Ford Coppola directed the singularly horrible .Jack....yet we are able forgive them and look past their periodic failures.
What other writer can you think of that can even compare to King when you consider his writing is behind these films: The Shining, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Stand by Me, Storm of the Century, Creepshow, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, Apt Pupil, and Carrie.
I think you get the point - Stephen King is great. Now, let's move in into more typical retrospace territory with a Stephen King top ten list in no particular order. Here is my top ten reasons to love Stephen King in spite of Maximum Overdrive.
This picture was snapped by a UMO student for the college newspaper The Maine Campus.
3. This quote: "If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
4. King has admitted to being coked and drunk out of his mind during the production of Maximum Overdrive, so he cannot be held fully liable.
5. King wrote an episode of The X-Files called "Bunghoney" (sadly, it was changed to "Chinga").
6. King bought the minivan that hit and crippled him for $1,500 in order to destroy it with a sledgehammer.
7. King said this about legalizing it: "I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses."
8. He has repeatedly said his favorite horror movie is Tourist Trap starring Chuck Conners and Tanya Roberts. Hell, yes.
Below is the cover for Moth, an off-campus publication issued while King was still a student at the University of Maine. It includes three poems by "Steve" King called "The Dark Man", "Donovan's Brain" and "Silence." The cover art, "Man Dropping a Bird" by Diane McPherson is striking.
Is there a more disturbing and frightening image that you can possibly conceive of? If I saw a clown head in a storm drain, I think I'd go into full cardiac arrest and scream like Howard Dean coming in third in Iowa. Call me overly coulrophobic (look it up), but I know I'm not alone in this fear.
Yeah, I could've listed his many literary achievements, but I would have gotten bored and quit. I will say that Danse Macabre is the finest non fiction work on the horror genre that has ever been written. Anyway, it's estimated that King makes about $40 million per year on book sales alone. Maybe, if Mr. King reads this favorable post he sends a little token of his appreciation my way?.... I thought I'd try.
I was big into those early King books. Good stepping stone away from the Hardy Boys. I liked that he mentioned the Ramones and hand jobs in his books. It was like 'wow. I hope my folks don't read this' So cool! He was hit by that minivan not far from where I am. We hear of sightings now and then. I also remember a short story about finding short cuts in Maine. Living here, you could understand that one. It's a passion! Nice post! Thanks!
I haven't read much of his latter stuff, except Cell. I'm a huge fan of his stuff back from the 70's and 80's. I read every book he put out back then. He was always my favorite writer when I was in high school. I wouldn't mind reading more of his newer stuff. I love a lot of the movies based on his work. Some have been great, some good, and some bad. Great post you did. I love "Candida" myself.
r.alan- Thanks for the comment. Stephen King has called himself the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. I think that is a bit unfair. Sure, he's no Hawthorne, but his books still show strokes of genius here and there. I think critics are reticent to heap much praise on anything in the horror genre.
keith- I must admit that I haven't read anything past Needful Things - and that was a long,long time ago. However, I can say that I've read basically everything he wrote prior to it. My favorites are Pet Sematary and It.
What a cool list. I totally agree on your assessment of Danse Macabre. I read it as a young teenager and it introduced me not only to the real history of horror, but also to non-horror but still awesome stuff like punk rock, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Flannery O'Connor, etc. I'm still making my way slooowly thru' the awesome book/movie lists he included. Wish he'd do an update!
I read " Christine " because a good friend of mine recommended it to me . It was good , and I enjoyed the book . Also , I have read the Stephen King novel " The Colorado Kid " that came out several years ago by Hard Case Crime books !! I finished it in a day !! Hard Case Crime also put out another King novel ( " Joyland !! ") that I purchased , and have not yet read . Those two books are all that I have thus far read of King's works .


Is it just me or are straight bangs popping up all over?
How many of you are rocking the straight bangs? When did you make the transition & was it hard to get used to? I am SO tempted to take the plunge & just do it!
It's ok, you can say it. I have a generously sized forehead. I get all the jokes. 5-head. Drive-in movie screen. har. har. har.
But in theory, the bangs would hide that.
Check out this amazing photoshop magic I have pulled off.
HAHAHA! Ok so maybe this isn't a good picture to judge from.
I really like the look on other girls. Add some Buddy Holly glasses…perfection!
this is such a fun (and BOLD!) look. If you were nervous about it, you could always try a pretty dramatic side-swept bang, and go from there.
Ok, you have mad PS skillz! LMAO & Just Do It ALREADY! I think you could totally work them! After your bold blonde bombshell thing you were rocking a while back, this should be cake. I can't wait!!
If you fancy a change - go with it! I had long hair all my life and last summer decided to cut it short. I love it and can't imagine why I didn't do it before. The good thing about hair is that if you don't like it you can always grow it again.
Love this post! (I have a five head as well!) I had bangs until I was a junior in High School! P.S. where did you get your amazing photoshopping skills?


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TUCO is equally committed to driving the health and well-being agenda on behalf of its members and is at the forefront of sustainability best practice.
BGL Rieber's framework agreement with TUCO makes it easy to select our pre-tendered and pre-qualified products, including Thermoport food transport solutions, Varithek front cooking stations and Metos combi kettles, to front of house serveries utilising our K-Pot electric chafing dish.
BGL Rieber has decades of experience supplying universities and colleges and is a proud supporter of TUCO and all university caterers and the great work they do in feeding the future brains of the world.


The eBay auction ended at about 8 AM this morning.
UK drug charity Release talked to THUMP about the potential impact of fabric's strict new rules.
The producer and DJ participated in a roundtable for BBC News.
Tightened security and dismal weather couldn't dampen our spirits as we stepped into the London institution for the first time since it re-opened.
There was a hearing for Jack Crossley today, who was one of two 18-year-olds to die at the club this summer.
Kolvin will work alongside recently-appointed night czar Amy Lamé.
"It will be a cherished moment in our history."
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Women's Leadership Can Transform the Way We Do Business in a Climate-Constrained World
Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice; Fmr. President of Ireland
As a global community, we find ourselves at a critical juncture. One path -- the "business as usual" route -- sees us approach a drastically warmer world, where our continuing reliance on fossil fuels will make this planet a cruelly inhospitable place for our children and grandchildren.
The other path is the route towards opportunity and truly sustainable development. The route that gives future generations the same chances to grow and prosper as so many of us in the developed world have enjoyed. If properly approached, this path should address the core inequalities that have plagued our world to date. But traveling this path requires a transformation in leadership as we move to a new greener, low carbon development model.
The transformative leadership necessary for a fair and climate-just future for all requires bold and brave steps by heads of state and government around the world. To be brave, these leaders must be supported by an engaged and well-informed electorate, business community, local governments and civil society organizations.
There is an emerging trend in public support for such transformative action. A new "Eurobarometer" poll, published earlier this week by the European Commission, showed that nine in 10 Europeans (90 percent) think that climate change is a very serious or a serious problem, while 92 percent think that it is important for their government to provide support for improving energy efficiency by 2030.
On the eve of International Women's Day it is important to focus on the leadership women can provide in reshaping our societies for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient future. I am convinced by my work with women leaders at all levels, from community leaders, mayors of towns and cities, leaders of civil society and multilateral organizations, ministers and heads of state, that women "get" climate change. They connect with the injustice of the negative impacts on the most vulnerable and the intergenerational inequities we will contribute to if we fail to act now and pass the problem on for future generations to deal with.
Women leaders in business will play a particularly important role in making the transition away from business as usual. According to the Eurobarometer poll, 41 percent of respondents believe that responsibility for tackling climate change lies with business and industry. For women to lead in taking such responsibility they have to hold positions of power and influence in the business world, a world where women continue to be in the minority. Women currently hold just 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 4.6 percent of Fortune 1000 CEO positions.
Empowering women, improving their representation and participation in all walks of life, but particularly in the male-dominated world of business, is a critical step in tackling the climate crisis. We need to close the gender gap and use all of the world's human resources to solve one of the most challenging global issues of all time. A study released earlier this year, "Women, Business and the Law 2014," shows that there are still legal differences that restrict women's economic opportunities in 90 percent of 143 countries studied. These include laws related to owning and using property, accessing institutions and having the right to work. 79 economies around the world restrict the type of job women can do and shockingly, policies encouraging women to join and remain in the workforce are associated with less income equality. Clearly the picture emerging is worrying, frustrating and complex.
While in many parts of the world we debate the pros and cons of positive discrimination to improve the representation and participation of women in decision making, a myriad of other laws and policies are creating a complex web of barriers, disincentives and monetary inequalities. We can do better.
Meanwhile, for the women who are in leading roles in business, I have a proposition to make. I want you to be champions of climate justice.
Valuable progress has been made over recent years in acknowledging that all businesses have their own responsibility to respect human rights. The work of Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on business and human rights, has established consensus between governments that business must play a role in protecting and upholding human rights. The UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights and Business which many companies are actively implementing offer the potential to integrate a climate justice dimension by addressing the human rights implications of climate change through the "Protect Respect and Remedy" Framework.
The opportunities emanating from a low-carbon economy have huge potential -- from the surge in employment it triggers in renewable industries, to the increased consumer confidence in a brand and products that are produced in a truly ethical way. We just need the leadership to shape the policies and make the changes necessary to get the transformation under way.
A business and political world predominantly led by men has brought us to today's global juncture. So let's close the gender gap. As we celebrate International Women's Day 2014, I hope that we can recognize the key role women in business can play in solving the climate crisis and make sure we take the obstacles out of their way.
Mary Robinson is a former President of Ireland (1990-97) and an honorary leader in the B-Team. She is also President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-robinson/womens-leadership-can-transform-the-way-we-do-business_b_4919080.html?utm_hp_ref=the-b-team
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