Anyone in the legal community knows that a popular method for growing business is to acquire laterals— successful attorneys who already have built a significant book of business. The idea is simple and straightforward: find a lawyer or group of lawyers with millions in business and acquire the business they control.
This is a proven approach that can and does help corporations expand exponentially, but how can you ensure you'll have a successful lateral attorney transition?
Unfortunately, I can say from my 20-plus years of experience in recruiting, business and sales, that many law firms make two substantial mistakes when adding laterals to their firms, which can greatly hinder the success of the firm and the newly hired attorney.
First, the firms don't properly identify, interview and select the best fit candidates. And secondly, there's no specific onboarding process to ensure a successful lateral attorney transition. When added together, many firms are bringing in the wrong people from the get-go or finding the right people who are left on their own to figure things out.
The good news is that I have two simple tips to share that law firms can employ to avoid costly mistakes.
Tip #1: Create a solid and thorough interview process.
Get ideas and processes from the most successful people you know. This may include former managing partners, HR directors and even the recruiters you may be using.
Create a specific series of steps that guides the candidate through the interview process. Start with a resume and online review (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) and move things to a phone call. If that goes well, continue the process, making each step gets you more in-depth information.
Make the most of all the personnel assessment tests available, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. There are some very sophisticated assessments that will help you understand the candidate's behaviors, personality, intelligence and social skills. Use these assessments to weed out candidates who won't fit your firm's culture.
Create "telling questions" that are open-ended to get the most from the interview. Have two to three highly successful and experienced attorneys or executives conduct the interviews to get a variety of opinions on the candidate. Running an interview in an unstructured manner will lead to a poor hiring decision every time.
Tip #2: Make sure you have a structured on-boarding plan for new laterals.
While many firms think that they have this in place as part of the lateral attorney transition, they don't. I regularly hear stories of the million-dollar lateral that is brought in and then told, "Here's your office and your phone, let us know if you need anything else." WHAT?!
Assigning one executive committee member to mentor the new lateral. This person would invest time over the first 90 days introducing the new attorney and making him or her comfortable with the team. This also helps get the cross-marketing efforts off the ground.
Setting up a written plan for the on-boarding and training process. Creating a predictable and manageable plan for the attorney makes a world of difference. Most attorneys thrive when structure is provided. This plan would break down the first week, month and quarter of the attorney's time as it relates to internal and external activities. The worst feeling is when the lateral has been around for 90 days and nothing has been accomplished to integrate him into the firm.
Most importantly, it is critical to assist the new lateral in bringing over and growing his or her book of business. If they have sold you on the million-dollar book, that must be realized for this to work for both parties. Be sure to find external or internal training and support to get your new attorney off to a great start. Fretzin, Inc. can provide attorney coaching services, among other things. Everyone loses when originations that are expected aren't realized.
Just one unsuccessful lateral transition can cost a firm significantly. This could be the million-dollar book that isn't realized, the recruiter's fees or the unbillable time that was invested and lost forever. The time and money lost for all involved is so unfortunate, given that it's easy to avoid mistakes when you have the right plan in place. Having an actual plan and process can make all the difference and is the bottom line for firms that want to think more strategically than in the past.


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Vegans need to stop exaggerating the known health benefits of a plant-
Antoine July 19, 2022
On the internet, you'll find extreme dieters of all types, and many of them will swear to you that theirs is the only healthy way for a human to eat. At one end of the spectrum, there's Jordan Peterson with his carnivore diet, consisting of nothing but beef, salt and water. At the other, "frugivore" diets pushed by YouTubers and their ilk are not just vegan and raw but almost entirely made up of fresh fruit. And then, of course, we have the classic and unapologetically restrictive weight loss programs like the cabbage soup diet, the Master Cleanse (aka the lemonade diet), and the currently trendy Mono Diet, where you eat only one food.
Advocates for highly restrictive diets like these tend to massively overemphasize the benefits of their approved food while seriously exaggerating the drawbacks of all other foods. But these are only the most extreme examples of a supposed "wellness" culture that makes huge generalizations and routinely manipulates or straight-up ignores scientific evidence. Unfortunately, this approach ends up polluting even those conversations that do have some legitimate basis—for instance, veganism.
There are plenty of health benefits to a plant-based diet, and unlike the above examples, it's not even necessarily a particularly restrictive diet—even nonvegans and nonvegetarians who eat primarily plant-based can reap the benefits. But the unfortunate truth is that like most things on the internet, a grain of truth gets stretched far beyond the bounds of what science can actually prove.
It's not hard to imagine why some voices for veganism might exaggerate or even fabricate health-related claims. The animal agriculture industry enacts gruesome violence against animals, as well as many of its laborers and, of course, the health of the planet. So if health is what will compel people to change their diets in a way that's beneficial for animals and the environment, it's easy to see why some activists and influencers would push nutritional facts as the most effective avenue to help end the industry.
But ultimately, misinformation is only going to harm the movement's credibility. Veganism is a more widespread idea in our society now than ever before—we can't afford to risk causing folks to dismiss the whole thing as bunk. And all of this misinformation, exaggeration, and cherry-picking is a shame, because it obscures the actual strong evidence of the benefits of eating less meat, eggs, or dairy: lower risk of heart disease, stroke, and several types of cancer, to name just a few.
Regrettably, conversations around veganism tend to be rife with pseudoscience. It's not hard to find vegan influencers who spout unproven theories as though they were fact, utilize confusing and misguided logic, or say things that are plainly false—like that a vegan diet can change your eye color. Even actual medical doctors have been known to make dramatic and shaky claims, such as that a single meal high in animal fat can "cripple" a person's arteries, citing one single, decades-old study that featured just 10 subjects and no control group.
You'll hear people saying that nothing less than a 100% plant-based diet can be considered optimally healthy, when the reality is, we just don't have the data to back that up. Sure, there are plenty of studies that do support the general idea that plant-based eating is healthy in one way or another, and plenty of them are recent and use reliable methodologies. But even good data can be woefully misinterpreted. Correlation often gets mistaken for causation, and it's difficult—if not impossible—to isolate very specific inputs and outcomes (like, does cheese cause cancer?) because human biology and lifestyles are complicated.
Here's an example: James Beard Award-winning Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel points to this Bloomberg article, the headline of which boldly claims, "One Avocado a Week Cuts Risk of Heart Disease by 20%." Which sounds huge! But a closer look reveals that the study only demonstrates an association between avocados and heart disease, not a causal relationship. Do avocados cut the risk of heart disease, or do people who make overall heart-healthy lifestyle choices just eat a lot of avocados? Based on this study alone, we can't say. Any conclusion is, at best, a loose interpretation of the facts.
And the issues with nutritional science as we know it today go even deeper. For one thing, many of these studies (including the avocado one) rely on self-reported information from study participants. That's putting a lot of faith in regular people to accurately and honestly measure their own eating habits, which human beings are famously bad at. When the input data is already in question, it's hard to trust any conclusions drawn from it.
Even putting that aside, observational studies don't allow scientists to randomize their study subjects. If we're just noting what real people are actually doing, we can't separate the elements we want to examine—for instance, meat consumption—from other factors like income, education, gender, smoking and drinking behavior, and what else they eat. As a result, the kind of information we get from these studies is imprecise; and unless the results include very dramatic, statistically significant trends, it's risky to extrapolate much from them.
But getting the kind of data we could reliably work with is more or less impossible. To truly control a study, researchers would have to literally control everything eaten by hundreds of participants (or more) over a period of years, in order to eliminate all (or even most) potential confounding factors. Real human lives are just too complicated to regiment the way a true lab study requires.
Furthermore, the biological world is just more complicated than we'd like to think. Different people have different nutritional needs. For people with certain gastrointestinal conditions, eating fully vegan just isn't feasible. But even barring that, human bodies are unique and one person may not process a particular food in the exact way another person would. With that in mind, one-size-fits-all health advice of any kind should probably be subject to some heavy skepticism. Given all of this, it's no wonder that doctors, nutritionists, researchers, and other credentialed experts—not to mention third party interpreters of research, like journalists and other media figures—tend to give diverse, often contradictory advice.
Meanwhile, an alarming portion of the population, and even of the scientific community, are apparently indifferent to nutritional science altogether. Fewer than 20% of medical schools in the U.S. have a single required course on nutrition, and the majority of medical schools teach less than 25 hours of nutrition education in the four years it takes to complete an MD program. All this, despite the fact that diet-related disease—much as heart disease and type 2 diabetes—are among the leading causes of death in the U.S. today.
Our diet-obsessed culture is constantly searching for a magic bullet to fix all the diet-related problems we face. We try complicated, often punishing, and sometimes even dangerous methods to, ostensibly, "get healthy" (often a euphemism for "lose weight"), based on so-called empirical evidence that's shaky at best. The fact is, nutritional science just isn't at a point where we can confidently dole out sweeping directives on how people should eat. Sure, there are some points that the medical community has reached some degree of consensus on: The American Heart Association tells us that "eating a lot of meat is not a healthy way to lose weight," especially for folks who have or are at risk for heart disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says to avoid processed food and sugary drinks in order to lower our risk of heart disease and stroke. And the American Cancer Society tells us to eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
"Eat your veggies" and "avoid soda" are probably not groundbreaking bits of advice for most people, and they're certainly not going to sell any flashy new diet books. Anyone who's spouting granular advice on exactly what and what not to eat is probably operating more on faith than facts. Perhaps a 100% vegan diet is the healthiest way for humans to eat, after all—but we just don't know for sure. It's past time vegan influencers and activists embrace that scientific reality. The credibility of veganism, and the future of a more sustainable and compassionate world, depend on it.
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Lovely Victoria, BC really sparkles!
If you haven't visited Victoria, British Columbia yet, I think it's well worth it. It's not a big place but it's packed with charm and beauty. The Empress Hotel is the centerpiece of the beautiful harbor and I got out to shoot it during sunset one evening. I had some lovely clouds and with the harbor in front of it, it's hard to take a bad shot!


'Women's Friend' magazine, May 2009 and June 2009 issues Articles were published on two consecutive months in this popular women's magazine, including a full page back cover article explaining the background of the project and stories of the volunteers involved.
World Expo December 2009 TV Show: Volunteers performed and dedicated songs to aid the children of Sichuan in long term recovery.
The Heilongjiang branch of the China Democratic Construction Association, one of the eight legally recognized political parties in the country, adopted the Healing Young Hearts project by showing a documentary about the making of the Healing Young Hearts handbook at political meetings in major cities throughout Heilongjiang province on the anniversary of the earthquake, May 12th 2009, and donating printing funds to the Heilongjiang Children's Center. Healing Young Hearts activities are featured on the provincial party's website.
Heilongjiang Early Morning News: Full page feature article on foreign volunteer involvement developing the handbook together with Chinese experts, and visiting the earthquake zone.
Heilongjiang Weekly News Supplement of Harbin Daily: Full page focus on foreign volunteer involvement in the Healing Young Hearts project to aid Sichuan.
Heilongjiang Radio: An interview on the project goals and stories of the volunteers' experiences was broadcast as part of the Chinese National Day activities.
The Heilongjiang Women's Association, the provincial branch of the national organization responsible for matters concerning women and children in the country, called for support to print and distribute the Healing Young Hearts handbook for Sichuan on their website www.hljwomen.org.cn.
Harbin Provincial Capitol City News: A full page article was published on the Healing Young Hearts project history, and volunteer activities in Harbin were highlighted.
Harbin Government Website, www.harbin.gov.cn: This local government website featured news of the project and local volunteer involvement to aid Sichuan.


Surrender mutant! And submit to the will of the X-Men Sentinel Pint Glass! I guess that's better than the real thing running around...specially if we consider the events of the 'Days of Futures Past'. Sentinels pretty much take over the world because well...I guess we will all make mutants sooner or later!
Tinted black and featuring the mutant-hunting robots and foe of the X-Men, the X-Men Sentinel Pint Glass is perfect for fans of the famous Marvel creation. Hopefully you don't have an X-Gene...or hopefully you do!


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Heather Hasselle
Chris stood in the living room of her parents' trailer in Pine Acres Park. The place unchanged from when Chris moved out ten years ago. The wind whipped, rattling the plastic panes of the windows. Chris's parents sat where they always had—her father reclined in a green LaZboy chair, her mother upright on the couch. Chris stood in front of the TV, which her mother had just turned off when Chris said she had something to tell them.
"Well," her mother said, "Go on."
"I'm moving to Arizona," she told them, "to open up a candle shop."
Her parents just stared at her.
"That's awfully far away," her mother said.
"We hope you don't expect us to come visit you way out there," her father said, scratching his nose.
Her mother nodded toward the kitchen and said, "There's a box of crackers in the cabinet your father hasn't touched, if you want to take those."
Chris went to the pantry, pulled out a box of Saltines. Her mother turned the TV back on, and the eyes of her parents lit up. With the cracker box in one hand, Chris bent and hugged her mother and then her father, who leaned forward in his chair, but did not get up.
"Call us," her mother said.
Before walking out, Chris looked at a framed picture of herself as a toddler in a blue bouffant dress with curled hair, makeup, and a satin sash that read Jimmy Buffet's Pageant Doll. Then she left, the spring loaded door slamming behind her.
From the gravel driveway, she watched as the small diamond-shaped window on the door flashed colors of television: white, yellow, blue, blue, blue.
Chris banged her hand on the steering wheel in a fuck yes kind of way, as she left behind all the things she did not want, had not ever wanted: a trailer; a job at a Christian book store; a mean cat named Lex; deer in the streets; deer on the walls; deep fried fish; Baptist churches; people who called dinner supper; people who ruined their tea with too much sugar; men in overalls, men in camo, men in blue jeans, men; four-wheelers, dirt-bikes, golf carts, boats; stickers on the backs of windshields of a urinating boy, or of text that reads "Southern Girls Rule the World;" fridges full of Diet Mountain Dew; pantries of Little Debbie snack cakes, ding dongs, hoho's, cosmic brownies or anything these folks considered food. She didn't want vise-grips as knobs on the oven, in the shower, and on the back door; she didn't want her Aunt Vickie, Uncle Dick, or Cousin Brian, all who, at one time or another, had called her fat. And she didn't want a next-door neighbor named Ralph who told her "you should come over like this more often" the time she retrieved a frisbee in her bathing suit when she was fourteen. She didn't want racist rednecks, or confederate flags, or the flaming bags of dogshit she found on her doorstep the day before senior prom.
What Chris wanted was the hell out of here.
She wanted to buy a big house, or rent one, or stay in one for a while. A house with an upstairs balcony, where she could look down at a Christmas tree with presents stacked beneath it; she wanted nice things, like socks made of wool and soft hand-sewn underwear. She wanted kind people and neighbors who brought over seran-wrapped plates of cookies because they made too many. She wanted to look out of windows at mountain peaks, or the desert, or trees with hanging moss. She wanted a pink Cadillac, like the one she tried to win by selling Mary Kay makeup, going door to door with a box full of creams and lipsticks, hosting makeovers with tiny mirrors for the trailer park people—all too poor to buy anything, which meant she was left with bags of foundation for skin "light-to medium" or "medium to dark" neither of which, for whatever reason, matched her face. Add that to what she did not want.
She wanted a sweet old dog. A dog she could name George or Wallace or Eleanor. A dog with a kind face and a sturdy body. Not a dog named Rebel, like the one owned by the only man she'd ever slept with, who she met at a bar called Your Place when she was twenty-one. He said he liked her freckles and her laugh, so she went home with him and they fucked on his couch. He kept his hat on and she didn't come; the former because he had a bald spot; the latter because she was gay, both of which were kept secret at the time.
Chris wanted women. A woman. The woman she met two weeks ago at a Makers' Market in Jackson, Mississippi where Chris sold her handmade candles. She wanted the woman with the confident stride, armpit hair, and beautiful gray eyes, who came up to her booth and smelled her candles, closing her eyes as she inhaled. They talked about the glow of a candle and the satisfaction of dipping your finger in the melted wax, peeling it off like a mask. She handed her a crystal from her pocket and asked Chris out to dinner, where they sat at table for two in a Mexican restaurant, eating chips and drinking margaritas. She wanted this woman who laughed when she told her about Mary Kay and said I'm sorry when she told her about the bald man. The woman with whom she felt like she belonged, a feeling she hadn't had since she was twelve, when she sat in the woods behind her house near a small pond watching the evening come on, as the fireflies swarmed, and the sun set into water. A snake had slithered by in the grass, and at the same time a coyote had howled. That day when she felt she was at the absolute center of the earth, right where she was supposed to be. Before the mosquitoes started biting and she ran back home.
But this time, Chris wasn't running. This time, shit was going to be alright.
So at the end of the night, when Ferris tried to kiss her, Chris leaned in.
Add that to what she did want.
Heather Hasselle is a writer from Mississippi, living in Austin, Texas, where she performs improvised theatre and teaches creative writing to kids, teens and adults through Badgerdog Literary Publishing and an all women's arts collective called HIVE. She also reads submissions over at American Short Fiction.
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Credit card thieves have figured out a way to steal money from OpenSim grid owners.
They take the credit cards, and use them to purchase virtual currency from the grids. Then they turn around and redeem the currency for cash before the card holder notices the theft and complains. The credit card company reverses the transaction and now the grid is out the full amount — plus the time spent dealing with the issue.
Any grid that issues its own virtual currency and allows it to be redeemed is potentially vulnerable. Second Life, for example, to combat against this kind of fraud, has a security API in place for third-parties that trade its currency, such as outside currency exchanges, as well as internal controls.
One grid hit recently is InWorldz, OpenSim's most popular commercial social grid.
To combat this menace, the grid has put controls in place about how much currency new residents can buy, and halted outbound transfers via third parties.
Bellissima Square on Bella region of InWorldz is just one of many shopping destinations on OpenSim's most popular grid.
More information about this is available on the InWorldz forums discussion on this topic.
The blockade has most affected merchants using the third-party InBiz platform to transfer money to their Second Life accounts at a lower rate than available through official InWorldz channels.
Sampang and her partner Tony Durose (also known as Toni Friller in-world) run the Panther 3D shop, and have been in the texture business in Second Life for years. They closed down their Second Life shop a few months ago, due to the high cost of having a presence on the grid, and now sell in Second Life through the marketplace.
The partners have also tried doing business in Avination.
"We were in Avination briefly but found it to be very inactive and basically, we lost money there," she told Hypergrid Business.
OpenSim grids are significantly smaller than Second Life, and offer even fewer opportunities for creators to show a profit.
"We don't make much money," said Sampang.
Any increase in costs, or worries about being able to redeem currency can cause merchants to withdraw from OpenSim grids or avoid them in the first place.
"I don't think we are the only ones affected," Sampang added.
One thing that merchants don't need to worry about, however, is the thieves buying virtual goods — and leaving the merchants hanging when the payment is reversed due to fraud.
Typically, she said, these are international crooks, using stolen American cards, working out Internet cafes and wireless hotspots, almost impossible for the authorities to track. Their accounts are banned the minute the fraud is identified — so there's not much point for them to buy any virtual goods. They wouldn't be around to enjoy them, anyway.
But if it does happen?
Smaller grids may be better off not issuing their own currencies at all, Reischl said.
Some grids, for example, use the OMC currency from Virwox, one of the largest Linden dollar exchanges in Europe. The exchange reports that it traded $5.9 billion in Linden dollars — the equivalent of 17 million Euros or US $23 million — so they know their way around money. The OMC currency is currently in use on over 30 grids.
Other options include PayPal and PayPal Micropayments.
She said the grid is willing to share its experience with other grid owners.
For example, as a result of measures that InWorldz has already put in place, less than 1 percent of attempted fraudulent currency buys actually went through, Reischl said.
"Not every grid owner can devote that kind of time to a single issue when dealing with the other myriad issues that come with running a grid, so having someone who's been down that path to talk to, can be immeasurable in terms of help," she said.
Meanwhile, since this problem isn't limited to any particular grid, Reischl said she hopes that grid owners can work together.
"I hope, in the future, as more grids start to bring in their own currency methods and allow cashing out, that we can see some symbiosis between grid owners to put an end to these criminal activities," she said.


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Skype (for iPhone)
Skype for iPhone
byMichael Muchmore Jun 24, 2014
More than just tops in video calling, Skype offers the most complete communication package around. The latest version of its iPhone app is better looking, faster, and more consistent with other platform versions.
Excellent voice and video call quality
Simple, clear interface with elegant transitions
Control over notifications
Consistency with other platforms' Skype apps
No group video chat
Some capabilities missing from previous versions
The iPhone Skype app (free) was long overdue for an update. Though it's had interim releases, it hasn't been truly redesigned since the days of iOS 4. The new version adds not only a fresh look, but also faster performance, easier group chatting, and better notification control. There's really no single communication service that offers everything Skype does. Plenty of other services such as Tango, Viber, and even Facebook Messenger—have some of Skype's capabilities, but none offers as complete a package.
Though it's mostly associated with free peer-to-peer video calling, Skype also offers voice calls to regular phone numbers (including mobiles and landlines) as well as to other Skype users, group calling, group video, video and voice messaging, text chatting with file exchange, SMS out, screen sharing…the list goes on.
Skype is also available for any platform you can think of: Android, Blackberry, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, and many smart TVs. Maybe that explains why the service recently passed two billion talk minutes a day among its 300-million-plus users. You can even get an incoming phone number through Skype that works with standard mobiles and landlines. The newly redesigned Skype app for iPhone supports most (though not all) of the service's capabilities in a highly usable, intuitive design.
Getting Started with Skype for iPhone
To create a Skype account, you can either fill out a form requiring name, email, country, and language, or you can just use your Facebook or Microsoft Account credentials (such as an Outlook.com account). You don't need to enter credit card info to sign up, but if you do, you can avail yourself of things like cheap calls to regular phones (either using pay-as-you-go Skype Credit or a subscription), SMS messaging, and low-cost access to public Wi-Fi hotspots. Unlimited calling plans start at $2.99 a month and pay-as-you go is 2.3 cents a minute for the U.S, but SMS messages are actually a bit pricey at 11.2 cents each.
As with the previous Skype iPhone app, there's no true home page. Instead, you swipe through three main views to start communicating—People, Recent, and Favorites—or check out your own profile page from its icon at top right. I usually leave the app on the Recent view, since that's where I can keep up with ongoing interactions. Navigation between each section is more elegant than in the previous version, which snapped from view to view with no visual transition. Now they slide back and forth smoothly and naturally.
If you need to find someone from your list of contacts, People is the place, and Favorites offers large tiles for easy access to the most important people in your world. Sitting steadily at the bottom of all these screens are two buttons—one for the dial pad and one for chat.
The design of the Profile page is more pleasing and cleaner than in the older version, but it doesn't include a couple of helpful entries that were formerly present. For example, there are no longer entries for your Skype Number (the number that people can use to call you from standard phones). Nor do you see the status of voice messages, call forwarding, or Skype Wi-Fi. The last is a separate app that lets you use your Skype Credit to pay by the minute for access via millions of public hotspots, such as those Boingo hotspots you find at airports.
Call and Video Quality
I can sum up call quality in Skype pretty quickly: It's been in the lead for years, and just seems to keep getting better. I made test calls in the app from New York to the West Coast and to Japan. I found in my testing (and regularly find in my frequent personal usage) that Skype's voice quality is actually superior to what I've often gotten on a mobile call. And video, though highly bandwidth dependent, looks reasonably clear, even over mobile connections. It's not quite as sharp as Apple's FaceTime, but the difference is slight, and FaceTime requires that both parties have Apple equipment. After a Skype call, the app asks you to rate its quality, so any problems are reported to the company.
It's hard to believe the iPhone Skype app didn't have group messaging before this update. Starting a chat session with either one or multiple users is now possible from any page of the main interface (Recent, Favorites, or People). You can include photos inline in chats, but I still find the emoticon selection lacking compared with Facebook Messenger and the stickers in WhatsApp. If chat group members go offline, they see any new messages the next time they're online. You can also now leave a multiparty chat whether you or another user started it, and you can see a list members of a large chat on a separate page.
A big claim for the rebuilt Skype iPhone app version is that it's up to five times faster than the previous one for some actions. When I tried opening each version of the app on my iPhone 5, I noted that the new version took 2 seconds to open, whereas the old one took 4 seconds. When signing back in after signing out, however, I didn't see a real difference. In other words, I personally haven't experienced any fivefold speed multiplications, but the app is definitely faster in some regards.
Notifications in the latest Skype for iPhone get some welcome updates. First, the service's underlying notification system now spares you from seeing the same unread messages or missed calls as new events on multiple devices once you've addressed them on one device. And app interface updates now let you choose whether to receive any combination of push, in-app, and audio notifications for chat.
What's Missing
As I mentioned earlier, the Skype iPhone app doesn't support every Skype feature, and there are features you'll find in competing apps that you don't get in Skype. One example is Viber's ability to move a call from your mobile app to your desktop or tablet, something that would be most welcome in Skype. As for standard Skype features, the app doesn't support group video or initiating group voice chat.
Skyping With the New iPhone App
The new iPhone Skype app is limited compared with the vast possibilities offered by the Skype service as a whole, but this very limitation gives it a welcome simplicity. The app does the things you're most likely to want to do on your iPhone and does them well, in a pleasing design, and with speed and fluidity. Could it be more powerful or feature-packed? Sure, and the designers tell me more features are on the way. If your people all have iPhones, you may just want to stick with the built-in FaceTime app, but for full-featured VoIP, video calling, and messaging that works across all platforms, Skype for iPhone is an easy Editors' Choice.
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Michael Muchmore is PCMag's lead analyst for software and web applications. A native New Yorker, he has at various times headed up coverage of web development, enterprise software, and display technologies. Michael cowrote one of the first overviews of web services for a general audience. Before that he worked on PC Magazine's Solutions section, which covered programming techniques as well as tips on using popular office software. He previously covered services and software for ExtremeTech.com.
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South Korean manufacturer LG releases an upgrade to its G Pad tablet – the LG G Pad 2 8.3 (II). It will initially only be available in South Korea, and then introduced to other markets in 2016. LG hasn't communicated any specific dates for the expected launch date in New Zealand.
The original version sold relatively well in LG's domestic market, but never managed to succeed in any major export markets. The G Pad 2 tries to change this and LG is determined to produce a successful tablet.
The specs look promising at a first glance. The screen measures 8.3 inches and comes with a 1,920 * 1,200 px resolution. There's a fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 615-processor under the hood and the G Pad 2 comes with 2GB of RAM memory. The camera has been upgraded to a resolution of 8MP, and the second front camera to 2PM (the predecessor was 5 MP and 1.3 MP respectively).
The tablet supports 4G/LTE connection, which the first version lacked, as well as Wifi and Bluetooth.
The weight is 366 gram, which is relatively heavy for a similarly sized tablet.
The OS is Android 5.1, and LG is currently working on an upgrade to Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" next year.
This is a mid-range tablet that should provide good value for an expected modest price (the retail price in New Zealand isn't known at this stage). It's not particularly light and thin tablet, but it's an option for consumers looking for a robust and functional tablet without the blows and whistles of higher-end tablets.


Passover or Pesah/פסח, is the Jewish Holiday celebrating the Israelites freedom from slavery circa 1250 BCE. The Torah describes Pesah as the Holiday of Matzah/חג המצות and the rabbis call it The Spring Holiday/חג האביב. Customs of the holiday include a festive meal, called a "seder/סדר", that consists of 14 parts meant to inspire questions and participation from children while having all participants "view themselves as if they were freed from Egypt" (Mishna Pesahim 10:5/משנה פסחים י:ה and the Pesah haggadah/פסח הגדה). Additionally, we refrain from owning and eating leavened items throughout the entire holiday. Click here for more information.
In recent weeks, students and faculty have been learning about Pesah, its history, rituals and customs and looking for new ideas to bring to our sederim. One idea that has come up is related to the idea of symbols. Everything in the seder, is meant to symbolize an element of the story of Passover. From the bitter herb and salt water representing the bitterness and tears of slavery, to the 4 cups of wine representing our celebration of personal and communal freedom, symbolism is at the heart of our Pesah celebrations. Students have engaged in opportunities to learn about others' family rituals and customs that help symbolize the transition from slavery to freedom. In both 6th and 7th grade this week, we engaged in Torah Yoga (Experiencing Jewish Wisdom Through Classic Postures by Diane Bloomfield) and experiencing our own physical, mental and spiritual release from tension, pain and suffering to release, free-flow and openness.
During your seder, we invite you to ask each other about your personal Egypt - what in your life is constricting? And discuss what you do to "view yourself as if you were freed from Egypt" - how do you release the tension?


Shishito peppers are a Japanese variety of small chilis. Though generally not spicy, every once in a while you might get one that has a touch of heat to it. Shishito peppers have somewhat thin flesh and very thin skin, and their taste has a delicate bitterness to it. In Austin, you can get wonderful shishito peppers from Johnson's Backyard Garden during the late spring/early summer. Try this super simple recipe as an appetizer or quick snack!
Wash the shishito peppers in warm water, and then pat completely dry with a towel.
In a large, heavy pan, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high heat.
While the oil is heating, mix the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, soy sauce, water, vinegar, and salt in a shallow bowl.
Once the oil is very hot and moves freely around the bottom of the pan, throw in the peppers. Make sure to not crowd the pan – you only want a single layer of peppers (you can make additional batch if necessary).
Let the peppers cook, without stirring, for about 1 minute. Stir quickly to move the peppers to an uncooked side, then let cook another minute. Continue cooking, stirring continuously for another two minutes. The skin of the peppers should be blistered and brown.
Remove the peppers and place directly in the marinade. Let sit for about 5 minutes, then serve!
Variation: Instead of using the marinade, you can just remove the blistered peppers to a small serving dish and sprinkle with coarse salt.


As ever, we're going to try and cover every single Jäger, New Blood and SOPHIE stage band before Bloodstock kicks off on August 9th. Your chance to check them out and start planning which bands to get there early for!
We're from Mumbai, India. We're also now 50% from London, UK.
The band itself has been around for 18 years now. I'm the only original member left, Viru (drums) has been with the band for 11 years now. Shoi (Lead Guitar) & Arran (Bass) joined us this year for all our UK shows. We have a different lead guitarist and bassist when we play in India who have been playing with us for a year now.
It came from my head and a long session sitting with a thesaurus trying to come up with a unique name. I've always been fascinated with medieval and fantasy based imagery and I've always loved demons and sort of 'evil' looking creatures so I wanted something to reflect that imagery.
Over 18 years our music has evolved quite a bit. We started out with an almost gothic meets black metal sound which evolved over the years. Right now I'd say Symphonic Death metal with an Indian twist is the best way to describe our sound. I think over 18 years we've evolved to create music that can be best described as 'Demonic Resurrection's music'.
Our live show is hopefully an experience and we're hoping people who like our songs will come to hear us play them. I think we put a lot of passion and heart into our live set, not to mention a bit of humor ;) and I think people will enjoy the show if they come watch it.
We played the festival in 2012 and we had a blast. We attended all 3 days of the festival and it was a real fun atmosphere and a great experience overall.
So how does it feel to be invited to play the one and only Bloodstock?
We've wanted to return to a festival for a while now so we're pretty stoked to return and we're excited to play for all our UK fans and hopefully make a bunch of new ones in the process.
A short and sweet set list of songs from the new album 'Dashavatar' with a few old favourites thrown in.
Which main stage band do you most hope you're not squished up next to so you can see them play?
Well since we've seen the schedule we're glad we've not clashing with anyone we want to see. Really looking forward to watching Septiclfesh, De Profundis, Emperor and of course the mighty Judas Priest.
We're actually doing nothing right now, just prepping for the UK show but otherwise our day jobs are keeping us busy.
Sadly we've never been a really rowdy bunch but this one time a certain member of the band had way too many Belgian beers mixed with Jager and there was some unspeakable events that occurred. It involved some projectile bodily fluids. I'll say no more. There was this one time we did find one band member dragging a vacuum cleaner across the hotel lobby at 6am and he had no idea how he got there.
Jager, Hobgoblin Ale, Kraken, Kingstone Press Cider, Kaltenberg Beer or Bulleit Bourbon? And, yes, we'll be counting all the votes!
Given that I've only actually tasted Jager from this list that will have to be it but I love cider and I'm interested to drink some of this Kingstone Press Cider.


This was an awsome shopping experience. Owner spent time with me explaining the parts that i had questions on and was a great help. I ordered that night and was shipped the next day. Awsome Cub Cadet Parts!
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Paniliakos afc has managed to alleviate some of the financial problems that it has been facing for some time. At this point, the Paniliakos has covered so far around 65% of the financial obligations of this season. At this point, the Paniliakos has covered so far around 65% of the financial obligations of this season.
The assistance, however, the sporting world of the Tower and the surrounding area are unfortunately not that it should and that counts. The assistance, however, the sporting world of the Tower and the surrounding area are unfortunately not that it should and that counts. Both moral and physical. Both moral and physical.
Among the most striking examples is the fact that at 8 Paniliakos game that has given so far in the league as home to the Tower (with Salamis, Corinth, Rouf, Ag, Peninsula, Aspropyrgos Keratea, Panaigialeio) has received revenue from ticket the amount of 18,830 euros. Among the most striking examples is the fact that at 8 Paniliakos game that has given so far in the league as home to the Tower (with Salamis, Corinth, Rouf, Ag, Peninsula, Aspropyrgos Keratea, Panaigialeio) has received revenue from ticket the amount of 18,830 euros.


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Ngā Pari Kārangaranga
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Last night, a "live" THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT focused on election results and beat its closest competition by +17% in the Nielsen metered market overnight ratings (2.7 versus 2.3 for "Jimmy Kimmel Live").
Additionally, for the week ending Nov. 2 (week #6), THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT (3.75m) beat both "The Tonight Show" (2.38m) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (2.11m) by over 1.35 million viewers according to Nielsen live plus 3-day ratings. This was the largest live plus 3-day audience for THE LATE SHOW since the week ending Oct. 5.
THE LATE SHOW also moved into a tie with "Tonight" to lead in key demos (0.8 in A25-54 and 0.5 in A18-49).
Season-to-date, most current, THE LATE SHOW is up +2% in viewers (3.49m from 3.41m) and leads "The Tonight Show" (2.33m) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (2.03m) by more than one million viewers, and is tied with "The Tonight Show" in both adults 25-54 (0.7) and adults 18-49 (0.5).


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SOOCOO S100Pro has twice the frame rate of its nearest competitors. It shoots 4K video at an incredible frame rate of 24fps, which makes it the world's best action camera.
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SOOCOO S100Pro uses the newest Novetek 96660 it is a significant upgrade from the successful NTK96660 featured in the SOOCOO S100Pro. It consumes extremely low power while still delivering 4K Ultra HD video.
Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) helps the footage stay clear and stable in situations where the camera is subject to knocks and bumps. For the first time, 4K/24fps video supports EIS support. Keep doing what you're doing and let the EIS take care of stabilizing your footage.
The amazing voice command technology (available now via firmware update) with improved outdoor audio quality gives you hands-free control over your SOOCOO S100Pro camera. You are free to enjoy your adventures.
SOOCOO S100Pro provides many advanced image quality settings for professionals, but keeps the interaction simple and intuitive, just like a smartphone.
SOOCOO S100Pro comes with fully reversible Micro USB connector which gives you the ultimate convenience. And the data capabilities are greatly enhanced, including faster data transfer with Micro USB support and external GPS support.
Your SOOCOO S100Pro can capture the images in the highest quality and with the most advanced editing capabilities by using MP4 format.
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About a month ago, I was browsing Michaels and came across some Martha Stewart's glass paint products I had never seen before. I've been interested in doing custom wine glasses lately so I decided to try them out. I started this project very optimistically, and with very high hopes, but once I started I was sooooo disappointed. In the end, I figured out how everything worked, but her instructions left me quite confused and irritated to say the least. I litterally wanted to scream because nothing was working. I looked on the back of the box for instructions but they were so vague that it didn't help at all. I ruined about three wine glasses before I got the hang of it, but once everything started to work, I became really excited and was ultimately happy with the outcome! As always, I tried to be as detailed, and include as many pictures as possible so that you can be excited and not irritated when making your new custom glasses.
Note~ All Paints are non toxic and can be dishwashed on the top rach once cured.
1~ Wash your wine glasses with soap and water and dry with a paper towel. Dampen a new paper towel with rubbing alcohol and give the exterior of your wine glass a nice rub down to make sure it's clean.
2~ Put on some latex gloves, so you don't get your fingerprints all over you nice clean wine glass.
3~ Grab your masking tape and your first wine glass. Place the tape at the very top of the glass. Pull the tape tight in your left hand, and roll the wine glass to the right with your right hand. While you're wrapping, make sure that the top of the tape is staying nice and flush with the top of the glass. Once you've gone completely around the top of the glass, rip the tape. Make sure the bottom edge of the tape is nice and straight.
If you want polka dots, find some round stickers and place them on your wine glass instead of tape.
5~ Continue making your patterns until all of your wine glasses are complete.
1~ Open your Martha Stewart Spray Paint Kit. Inside you will find a spray bottle, an empty plastic measuring bottle, a gloss spray medium and a small plastic tube.
2~ Take the tube and attach it to the spray bottle.
3~ Pick up the frosted paint color of your choice, and take off the top. Squeeze some paint into the measuring bottle supplied by the spray kit. Tap the bottle on the table to flatten out the paint. That way you know how much spray medium to add.
Note~ If your going to change colors, don't put a ton of paint in. I put enough in to get halfway to the first measurement line.
4~ The mixture ratio is 1:1, so add about the same amount of spray medium as you did paint. The consistencies of the two liquids are very different, so it can be hard to eyeball it.
Note~ the more mixer you put in, the lighter the color will be.
5~ Put the cap on the bottle and shake until the paint, and the spray medium are completely mixed together.
Note~ Don't shake the bottle when attached to the spray bottle!
6~ Once the fluids are mixed, you can attach the spray bottle.
7~ If you haven't already, lay out some newspaper to cover your workspace. The paint is non toxic, so you can spray it indoors or out, just make sure to protect your workspace from paint splatter.
1~ If all of your glasses are going to be the same color, then you can start them all at one time. If you plan on changing colors, then start with your first glass. Place the top of your glass down onto your workspace.
2~ Hold the spray bottle about 10-12 inches away from your wine glass, and slightly tilt it.
3~ Start spraying, moving side to side and slowly in a downward pattern. Turn the glass around and spray the other side… Try to keep the same distance and spray flow.
5~ With the paint almost dry, but still wet, CAREFULLY remove the tape. If you're not careful you will smudge it, and be a very unhappy crafter!
Note~ Don't let the paint dry completely or it will rip off when you remove the tape. I ruined two glasses because I waited too long… Its a fine line, use your judgement.
1~ Take your spray can and bottle over to the sink.
2~ Remove the measuring bottle from the spray bottle and rinse it with water until all the paint is removed.
3~ Fill the measuring bottle with water, and place the tube connected to the spray can into the bottle.
4~ Spray into the sink until you don't see anymore color, or until the tube is clear again.
1~ After your wine glasses have dried overnight, grab a Q-tip and 99% rubbing alcohol.
4~ Place the glasses in the cool oven, and then bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Its important that you place the glasses in the oven when its cool, so they dont break from the heat shock. OR you can let the wine glasses air cure at room temperature for 21 days….


(Reuters) - Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ.TO) (CNQ.N) reported a smaller quarterly loss as cost cuts paid off amid a slump in oil prices.
Canada's largest independent petroleum producer said its net loss narrowed to C$105 million ($81.92 million), or 10 Canadian cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, from C$252 million, or 23 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue fell 28.2 percent to C$2.18 billion.


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# Show Multi-Format Ads with Prebid.js
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This page has instructions for showing multi-format ads using Prebid.js.

An ad unit is said to be multi-format if it supports at least two of the following media types:

+ Banner
+ Native
+ Video

Once declared, any bidder that supports at least one of the media types can participate in the auction for that ad unit.

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For ad ops setup instructions, see [Setting up Prebid Multi-Format in Google Ad Manager]({{site.baseurl}}/adops/setting-up-prebid-multi-format-in-dfp.html).

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## How Multi-Format Ads Work

Prebid multi-format ad units allow direct competition between banner, native, and/or video bids.

At a high level, Prebid.js supports multi-format ads as follows:

1. An ad unit may define a [`mediaTypes`](/dev-docs/publisher-api-reference/addAdUnits.html#addAdUnits-MediaTypes) object to specify one or more supported formats and their respective properties.
2. Each bidder specified on a given ad unit will be eligible to bid if the bidder supports at least one of the media types specified via `adUnit.mediaTypes`.
3. Prebid.js sends bid requests to each eligible bidder.

The following key is added to your ad server targeting, and set to the value of the bid response's `mediaType` property.

+ `hb_format`

The ad ops team will reference this key in the ad server to set targeting.  For ad ops setup instructions, see [Setting up Prebid Multi-Format in Google Ad Manager]({{site.baseurl}}/adops/setting-up-prebid-multi-format-in-dfp.html).

## Prerequisites

Keep the following prerequisites in mind during the implementation:

+ Make sure to work with bidders that support demand for the media types you want, particularly native and video.  To see which bidders have native and/or video demand, see [Bidders with Video and Native Demand]({{site.baseurl}}/dev-docs/bidders.html#bidders-with-video-and-native-demand).

## Implementation

This section describes the implementation using code samples, but ignores some of the details that are common to all Prebid.js setups.

### 1. Add multi-format ad units

The ad unit below supports the banner, native, and video media types.

```javascript

    pbjs.addAdUnits({
        code: 'div-banner-outstream-native',
        mediaTypes: {
            banner: {
                sizes: [
                    [300, 250],
                    [300, 50]
                ]
            },
            native: {
                image: {
                    sizes: [300, 250]
                }
            },
            video: {
                context: 'outstream',
                playerSize: [640, 480],
                mimes: ['video/mp4'],
                protocols: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8],
                playbackmethod: [2],
                skip: 1
            },
        },
        bids: [

            {
                bidder: 'bannerBidder',
                params: {
                    placementId: '481'
                }
            },

            {
                bidder: 'nativeBidder',
                params: {
                    titleAsset: '516'
                }
            },

            {
                bidder: 'videoBidder',
                params: {
                    vidId: '234'
                }
            },

        ]
    });
```

### 2. Add your tag to the page body

Add a tag like the following to your page.  Depending on who wins the auction, a banner, outstream, or native ad should serve.

```html
    <div id='div-banner-outstream-native'>
        <p>No response</p>
        <script type='text/javascript'>
            googletag.cmd.push(function () {
                googletag.display('div-banner-outstream-native');
            });
        </script>
    </div>
```

## Working Examples

+ [Multi-Format Example](/dev-docs/examples/multi-format-example.html)

## Related Topics

+ [Setting up Prebid Multi-Format in Google Ad Manager]({{site.baseurl}}/adops/setting-up-prebid-multi-format-in-dfp.html)

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Q: How can I have an angular app load data in sequence I'm fairly  new to angular but, i'm getting it...
Using some ui-route states, I am able to have urls (views) that progressively build with the user selected data.  Its similar to a wizard interface.  step 1 => step 2 => step 3 => final result
From start to finish there isn't much of an issue as the data is saved in a service as the user clicks along.  The problem comes when the page is refreshed or entered directly into the browser (i.e. someone sent me a link)
/step-1/step-2 should display the same data as if the user selected step 1 and then step 2
In such a case, I need to get all the user selected data up to that point.
Get the data for step 1, when that data is loaded, get the data for step 2, then get the data for step 3, etc.  However, I only need to get the data if it has not already been retrieved.
To accomplish such an idea i need the service to return data stored in its data property or if that data is empty go get it, save it to its property and then return it.
any ideas on how to implement this?
Here is some pseudo code that illustrates what I am attempting to do in the service.  I am not certain the syntax is 100% correct but it should illustrate the point.
    app.factory('dataService', ['$http', '$q', '$filter', 'ngAuthSettings', 'localStorageService', function ($http, $q, $filter, ngAuthSettings, localStorageService) {

    var ServiceFactory = {};
    var _getData = function () {

        var deferred = $q.defer();
        _Step1Data= localStorageService.get('Step1Data');

        if (_Step1Data) {
            $http.get('api/Step1Data').then(function (response) {
                _data = response.data.results;
                localStorageService.set('Step1Data', _Step1Data);
                deferred.resolve(response);
            });
        }
        else {
            deferred.resolve(_Step1Data);
        }
        return deferred.promise;
    };
    ServiceFactory.getStep1Data = _getStep1Data;
 return ServiceFactory;

}]);

Assuming that the process to get step 2, step 3 data is the same as step 1, the call to load the data would be as follows
dataService.getStep1Data ()
            .then(function (data) {
                vm.Step1Data = data;
                dataService.getStep2Data ()
                .then(function (data) {
                    vm.Step2Data = data;
                }, function (error) {
                    //some error stuff
                })
            }, function (error) {
                //some error stuff
            });

The reason for the stepped approach is that each step depends on the previous steps selected data to get the current steps data.

A: It's the resolve property you are looking for. You can use it to resolve the step data before any step controller is instantiated. The resolved step data can then be injected in your controller.
You might combine this with your dataservice, like so:
step1.state({
  resolve: {
    step1Data: function(dataService) {
      return dataService.getStep1Data ()
    }
  }
  ....
}

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X NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v Ms A [2021] EWCOP 17
Application for the P to be transferred to hospital for an elective caesarean section. The application was granted.
This application related to Ms A, a woman in her 30s, who was 38 weeks pregnant, and who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. At the time of this hearing, she was detained in Hospital A under section 3 MHA. She already had 2 children, both of whom were born at home. She wanted the same for this pregnancy. However, on 11 February 2021, Ms A had a scan which showed the baby was growing normally but the fetus was in the breech position and there were just 2 options: a vaginal breech birth or planned caesarean section in hospital.
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Patanjali says 'received' legal notice from IMA, will give 'befitting reply'
"We will give them befitting reply legally which way we do all things while serving our great motherland and humanity," the company said in a statement...
Updated: May 29, 2021, 10:59 IST
Patanjali says 'received' legal notice from IMA, will give 'befitting reply'.
Patanjali Yogpeeth on Thursday confirmed that it has received a defamation notice served by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), demanding an apology from Yoga Guru Ramdev over remarks on allopathy, and said it will give legally a "befitting reply".
While responding to an e-mail query by PTI, a statement from the Patanjali Yogpeeth quoting General Secretary Acharya Balkrishna confirmed it and said: "We will give them befitting reply legally which way we do all things while serving our great motherland and humanity."
The Haridwar-based organisation also said that Patanjali carries all the activities with "scientific and truthful temperament" and "cannot allow anyone to disparage, neglect and demean the great knowledge and science of rishis and scriptures".
Landomus takes ad route to request PM for $500 billion investment
A relatively unknown US based company Landomus Group has announced a Build India programme under which it would like to invest $500 Billion in Equity as the first phase of the $2 Trillion investment...
On Wednesday, the IMA had served a six-page defamation notice on Ramdev for his alleged disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic doctors, demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said the association will demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the yoga guru.
The notice served on behalf of IMA (Uttarakhand) secretary Ajay Khanna by his lawyer Neeraj Pandey describes the remarks by Ramdev as damaging to the reputation and the image of allopathy and its practitioners.
The notice has also asked Ramdev to make a video clip contradicting all his allegations and circulate it on social media platforms where he had uploaded his earlier video.
It further asked the yoga guru to withdraw a "misleading" advertisement from all platforms endorsing "Coronil kit", a product of his firm, as an effective medicine for Covid-19, failing which an FIR and a criminal case will be lodged against him by the IMA.
Besides, the IMA had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that yoga guru be booked immediately under sedition charges for alleged misinformation campaign on vaccination and challenging government protocols for treatment of Covid-19.
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On Sunday, Ramdev was forced to withdraw a statement made in a viral video clip in which he is heard questioning some of the medicines being used to treat the coronavirus infection and saying that "lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19".
The remarks were met with vociferous protests from the doctors' association, following which Union health minister Harsh Vardhan asked him to withdraw the "extremely unfortunate" statement.
A day later, the yoga guru posed 25 questions to the IMA in an "open letter" on his Twitter handle, asking if allopathy offered permanent relief for ailments such as hypertension and type-1 and 2 diabetes.
He went on to list modern day ailments such as Parkinson's disease and also wondered if allopathy had any painless cure to treat infertility as well as to reverse ageing and increase hemoglobin.
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Masterton olive oil makers, Loopline Olives, is turning a habit of winning top awards into a tradition.
The company, run by Kate and Mark Bunny took out the Best in Show and Reserve Best in Show at this year's New Zealand Extra Virgin Olive Awards on Saturday night in Masterton.
This is the third time the Bunnys have won the Supreme Award, having taken out the top award last year, and in 2014.
Wairarapa producers took out the top five awards of the evening and of 109 medals up for grabs, the region's growers grabbed 46.
Juno Olives, of Greytown, won a handful including the Best in Boutique Category for growers who produce less than 250 litres of certified extra virgin olive oil, as well as Best in Class in the Boutique Intense Single Varietal Class with its Juno Picual.
Juno also won Reserve Best Boutique with their Juno Koroneiki.
Fellow Greytown producer, The Olive Press, took out the Best-Flavoured Oil Award with their Pressed Gold Lime Infused for the second straight year.
The Olive Press was also the Best Processor.
The judges handed Martinborough's Olive Black Trading Ltd the Best Label award.
Other Wairarapa olive oil producers — Dali, Left Field, Olivo and Blue Earth – were Best in Class winners this year.
It was the Bunnys' Loopline Picholene competing in the commercial medium single varietal class which took this year's overall trophy — and the couple's personal favourite, Loopline Picual, competing in the commercial intense single varietal class, won Reserve Best in Show.
"We do love our picual, it is easy to sell and yields well," Kate Bunny said.
This year was the first time they filtered their olive oil as they were conscious about "cloudiness" — and it paid off, she said.
"What makes the best oil is a lot to do with nature … you don't have control of soil types and sunshine hours, they are there just because," Mark Bunny added.
The latest growing season had been great — summer had got "a little bit dry at one stage", but that added stress on the olives had brought out the unique flavours.
The couple, who were previously sheep and beef farmers, took over the Opaki groves about a decade ago.
The medium-sized grove has about 900 trees that were established in 2001.
Olives NZ Wairarapa chairman Andrew Priddle, also of Wairarapa Olive Harvesting, said the dedication of the region's growers was behind their dominance at the annual awards.
"It has to be a combination of everything including the location and soils … but there are very good oils produced in the rest of the country," he said.
Head judge Esteban Santipolio, of Argentina, said the extra virgin olive oils entered into the awards were some of the best he had tasted this season.


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MLS Power Rankings Week 26: Philadelphia Union, Minnesota United make noise
The LA Galaxy took the steepest drop, falling five spots following a 4-3 loss to the Seattle Sounders.
Dylan Butler, Pro Soccer USA
We have entered the penultimate month of the MLS regular season and there's plenty to play for in each conference.
The teams making the most noise from both conferences in Week 26 also made positive moves in the upper echelon of the Pro Soccer USA MLS Power Rankings. The Philadelphia Union jumped two spots to No. 2 following a 3-1 win over Atlanta United and Minnesota United stunned LAFC 2-0 at Banc of California Stadium to move up three spots to No. 5.
The team trending the wrong way in Week 26 was the LA Galaxy, who lost to the Seattle Sounders, 4-3, to fall five spots to No. 12.
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(1) Los Angeles Football Club (19-4-5, 62 points): Without Carlos Vela, who sat out with a hamstring injury, LAFC conceded twice in the first half and suffered a 2-0 loss to Minnesota United, their first home defeat of the season.
(4) Philadelphia Union (15-8-6, 51 points): Doubters be damned. The Union proved worthy of first place in the Eastern Conference with a 3-1 win over Atlanta United at Talen Energy Stadium. Brenden Aaronson, Kacper Przybylko and Sergio Santos scored unanswered goals.
(3) New York City FC (14-5-8, 50 points): Heber, Gary Mackay-Steven and Alexandru Mitrita scored for NYCFC, which defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 at BC Place for their fourth consecutive win.
(2) Atlanta United (15-10-3, 48 points): Josef Martinez struck again, extending his MLS consecutive goals streak to 13 games, but the Five Stripes conceded three times after halftime in a 3-1 loss at the Union.
(8) Minnesota United FC (13-9-6, 45 points): Mason Toye unleashed his inner Cristiano Ronaldo with a pair of stunning first-half goals and Vito Mannone and Ike Opara did the job on the other end in a 2-0 win over LAFC at Banc of California Stadium.
(6) Seattle Sounders FC (13-8-7, 46 points): After the smoke cleared from a flurry of goals in the final quarter hour, it was the Sounders standing tall, beating the LA Galaxy 4-3 in a thriller to move into second place in the West.
(10) San Jose Earthquakes (13-10-5, 44 points): Magnus Eriksson scored in the third minute and Chris Wondolowski followed with two goals in a 13-minute span en route to a comfortable 3-0 win over Orlando City SC.
(5) Real Salt Lake (13-11-4, 43 points): A turnover in midfield early in the first half proved to be critical as Diego Valeri capitalized to sink RSL at Providence Park.
(12) FC Dallas (12-10-7, 43 points): Goals are coming in bunches for FC Dallas, which defeated FC Cincinnati, 3-1, at Toyota Stadium. It's now 11 goals in three consecutive unbeaten matches.
(9) New England Revolution (10-9-9, 39 points): Gustavo Bou provided the late drama for the Revs with a 86th-minute equalizer to cancel out Nicolas Benezet's go-ahead goal for Toronto FC 13 minutes earlier.
(13) Portland Timbers (12-11-4, 40 points): Valeri scored the lone goal in the 16th minute as the Timbers earned a 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake and moved to within two points of the seventh-place LA Galaxy.
(7) LA Galaxy (13-12-3, 42 points): The Galaxy rallied from a two-goal deficit and leveled on goals by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Uriel Antuna and again through Jorgen Skjelvik only to fall to the Sounders, 4-3, at CenturyLink Field.
(15) D.C. United (11-10-9, 42 points): D.C. United snapped a three-game losing streak in a big way with Ola Kamara scoring a first-half brace with a Paul Arriola goal sandwiched between in a 3-0 win over the Montreal Impact at Stade Saputo.
(11) New York Red Bulls (12-12-5, 41 points): There were ample scoring chances, but the execution in the final third was lacking and the home fans showed their frustration by showering down boos at the final whistle of a 2-0 loss to the shorthanded Colorado Rapids.
(14) Toronto FC (10-10-8, 38 points): The Reds extended an unbeaten streak to four games with a third draw during that stretch, which puts them just above the playoff line in the East with six games to play.
(16) Sporting Kansas City (10-11-7, 37 points): Johnny Russell doesn't score with his head often, but when he does good things happen for Sporting Kansas City, which earned three huge points from a 1-0 home win over the Houston Dynamo.
(18) Montreal Impact (11-15-4, 37 points): The Impact's playoff hopes took a major hit Saturday night, conceding three first half goals without response in a 3-0 defeat to DC. United. Montreal are one point below the playoff line with just four games left.
(21) Colorado Rapids (8-14-6, 30 points): What a night for young Jonathan Lewis, who scored a brace to help Tim Howard pick up a win, and clean sheet, in his first game back in his home state of New Jersey. The 2-0 win over the New York Red Bulls was also the first for new coach Robin Fraser.
(19) Orlando City SC (9-13-7, 34 points): The Lions are still in the playoff chase in the East — four points below the line with five games to play. Wins are imperative, but it won't be easy Saturday when LAFC come to Exploria Stadium.
(17) Chicago Fire (8-12-10, 34 points): Time is running out for the Fire, who rallied to earn a 1-1 draw with Columbus Crew SC thanks to a stoppage-time equalizer by Przemyslaw Frankowski. But Chicago, four points out of seventh with four games left, needed all three points.
(20) Columbus Crew SC (8-15-7, 31 points): The Crew were even more desperate for a win Saturday night and Pedro Santos put them on the right foot. But the 1-1 draw just might have killed their slim playoff hopes.
(22) Houston Dynamo (9-15-4, 31 points): The Dynamo extended a winless streak to seven matches with a sixth defeat during that stretch, falling to Sporting KC, 1-0. Houston has won just twice since the middle of May.
(23) Vancouver Whitecaps FC (6-15-9, 27 points): Yordy Reyna provided the only moment for the BC Place fans to cheer, but his sensational goal wasn't enough to stave off another year without playoff soccer following a third straight defeat.
(24) FC Cincinnati (5-20-3, 18 points): Emmanuel Ledesma scored in the 64th minute, but it was a largely cosmetic goal with FC Cincinnati in a 3-0 deficit at the time. It's now seven losses in the last eight games without a win.
Pro Soccer USA writers Dylan Butler, Marco Cummings, Chris Fuhrmeister, Robert Jonas and Joe Tansey contributed to this report.
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COVID-19 is not the Black Death
By Peter Holle,
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Despite the relentless media drum-banging around the alarmist COVID-19 narrative, this virus is not the Black Death.
Official numbers have the Canadian death count so far just over 14,000. Bad for sure, but not hugely off the yearly flu toll in Canada that kills 6,500 to 8,000 people.
The average age of those people who suffer COVID-19 deaths is in the mid-80s – which is higher than the average life expectancy in Canada [82 in 2017]. This particular bug is dangerous to seniors with immune systems compromised by chronic health conditions [co-morbidities like dementia, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes or obesity].
In Alberta, 76 per cent of COVID deaths have been of very sick people [typically with three co-morbidities]. Only 2.3 per cent of deaths have affected known healthy people. These are the unremarkable numbers, sad as they are, underlying the panic narrative.
In Manitoba, it's the same story. As of Dec. 17, 314 people diagnosed with COVID-19 were in the hospital, with 42 of them in intensive care. With 67 hospitals in Manitoba, these numbers work out to be less than five COVID-sick people per hospital. Overall, Manitoba has more than ample hospital capacity of 2,400 beds with an overflow capacity of an additional 1,000 beds.
And, like the rest of the country, most of Manitoba's COVID-19 deaths are of immuno-compromised seniors with co-morbidities – the same population that succumbs naturally to flu every year.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a public interest group, is pushing back on the lockdowns as unprecedented and unconstitutional destructions of Canadians' basic liberties, freedoms and charter rights.
The group observed in a November news release that "Half of the latest deaths [COVID] are from outbreaks at care homes or hospitals, where elderly residents are already in lockdowns. A total of 123 deaths in Manitoba could be attributed to COVID-19 since March. More than 11,000 Manitobans die each year, more than 900 Manitobans die every month, more than 200 die every week. The total deaths from COVID-19 in eight months has been less than the number of people who die in the province in a week from other causes. Why are these deaths considered less important, or less sad, than deaths caused by one virus?"
Instead of focusing on a problem concentrated in our long-term care facilities, politicians have closed vast swaths of our economy, throwing hundreds of thousands out of work and bankrupting countless businesses. Beyond this self-harm, our quality of life has been severely degraded by the costly micro-management of Canada's economic and social life.
Consider the civil discord and social divisiveness these policies are creating: pitting 'essential' and 'non-essential' businesses against each other, symbolic but ineffective masking rules [a gold-standard Danish study released recently suggested that masks don't stop the virus], and the creation of snitch lines for busybodies reporting on neighbours' illegal social gatherings.
Finally, the lockdowns have closed church services, funerals, weddings, many schools, and other basic aspects of normal life.
Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel. The damage and civil discord is becoming so obvious that elected officials may finally recognize that lockdowns truly are a cure worse than the disease. The virus will follow its natural course and eventually burn itself out – with or without the billions to be spent on vaccines. For the majority interested in vaccines, they should find them readily available by the second quarter of 2021.
Driven by massive government deficits, impossible to cover through tax increases alone, we will soon be headed into the "great reset." Not the fantastical and unaffordable "build back better" dreams of green utopians but a necessary widespread restructuring of our economy, communities and public policy – driven by the need to substantially cut spending through reconfiguring services.
If the political leadership is smart, we will see the end of the dismally performing monopoly models of health care and education and a much-needed rethink of universities.
A flight from urban density and its higher perceived risk of contagion will see the rise of the suburbs, rural areas and cottage country – as well as a sharp decline and rethink of mass transit in favour of personal mobility [electric cars, driverless cars, Uber].
Further expansion of high-speed Internet, the driver of the burgeoning online economy in the private sector, will further enable and disrupt our legacy public sector. Think telemedicine, remote learning, compact/high performing governments, joining the world of online shopping, food delivery, and remote working that has been so turbocharged by the stumbling lockdown panic. Over a nasty strain of the flu.
Exciting times – best if we choose right.
– Peter Holle is president of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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Home Markets UK parliament committee to quiz Sunak and Cameron over Greensill
UK parliament committee to quiz Sunak and Cameron over Greensill
A British parliamentary committee will summon finance minister Rishi Sunak and former Prime Minister David Cameron to appear before it to answer questions about the ex-leader's lobbying for the now failed supply-chain finance firm Greensill Capital.
Greensill's founder, Lex Greensill, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and the chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, Nikhil Rathi, will also face questions about the collapse of the company and Cameron's actions.
A series of inquiries have been launched into what access lobbyists have had to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government after questions were raised about Cameron's lobbying for funds.
Cameron has denied breaking any code of conduct or government rules and the government has repeatedly said the outcome of his discussions on Greensill's proposals for access to a COVID-19 loan scheme were not taken up.
Johnson has launched an independent review to look at the allegations and several parliamentary committees are also launching inquiries into the role of lobbyists and ministers' interests in private companies.
Mel Stride, the Conservative lawmaker who chairs the House of Commons cross-party Treasury Committee, said on Monday that a first preliminary hearing taking expert testimony would take place on April 28.
"There are questions to be answered in relation to Greensill Capital regarding the operation of the UK's financial system and its regulation. Also, whether the Treasury responded appropriately to lobbying from Greensill during the pandemic," he said.
In a letter to Cameron, the committee asked the former prime minister to provide a timeline of his contacts with ministers and government officials, and also to state when he first became aware of financial difficulties at Greensill.
The committee is asking similar questions of Sunak, who told Cameron in a text message in April last year that he had "pushed the team to explore an alternative with the Bank (of England) that might work".
The Treasury Committee requested that Cameron and Sunak reply by May 6.
Sunak, in an earlier letter responding to concerns raised by the opposition Labour Party, said: "It is right that HM Treasury listened to – and gave due consideration to – all potential options to support businesses to survive the pandemic."
Finance ministry officials ultimately rejected allowing Greensill to access government-backed COVID loans.
The Bank of England has previously said it was contacted by Cameron on more than one occasion and that it refused Greensill access to its COVID Corporate Financing Facility as the company did not qualify for them.
The BoE and the FCA both said on Tuesday that they would respond in due course to the Treasury Committee's questions and declined further comment.
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Chargers' Stadium Dreams Destined to be Dashed
by Doug Porter on February 3, 2015 · 1 comment
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By Doug Porter
The only thing more likely to be declared dead on arrival than any plan coming out of the newly ensconced Citizens' Stadium Advisory Group for San Diego is the budget proposal the President is sending to the Republican-controlled congress.
Today we'll start out by looking at what the composition of the Faulconer's task force tells us about the impossibility of their task….
On Friday Mayor Kevin Faulconer introduced a nine-member stadium task force including what UT-San Diego called "financial experts, prominent developers, longtime government leaders and a former Chargers executive."
A tax increase or subsidy of some sort is already baked into the final results of this group's work, since it's task seems to be finding the most palatable solution to the Chargers' stadium problem for historically tax-adverse San Diego voters.
From 10 News:
He [the mayor] said the group will develop, by this fall, a "real, tangible plan for a new stadium" that can be put before voters in 2016.
"That's never been done before," Faulconer said. "Yes, we've had renderings. Yes, we've had ideas floated about how you can possibly, maybe, fund it, but those aren't plans. A plan is when somebody tells you this is where it's going to go, this is how we're going to build it, and most importantly, this is how it's going to be paid for."
UT-San Diego reported:
Faulconer said he tried to select a small and diverse group with the skills and experience to develop large-scale projects and the financing plans needed to get them built.
"This well-rounded group will be nimble enough to complete an analysis, develop plans and make recommendations by the fall of this year," Faulconer said during a news conference next to Petco Park.
Let's start with the adjective "diverse".
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Then there's nimble.
From Voice of San Diego:
The group the mayor has assembled to figure out a proposal for a new Chargers stadium will be much different than the one that last met, more than a decade ago, on the same issue.
It will be secret.
It's not an official city commission, so the group's hearings will not be subject to open meetings laws and other similar restrictions. The mayor's spokesman, Craig Gustafson, told me they don't plan to meet in public at all. He said you can send an email if you want: stadiuminput@sandiego.gov.
So it's not a city commission but the city is, apparently, handling its email.
It turns out there's a reason why the pubic won't be invited to task force meetings.
10News/UT-San Diego commissioned a SurveyUSA poll asking questions about locations and financing for a new stadium. The bottom line here is, that while a majority of people think the stadium should remain in Mission Valley and the team will ultimately choose not to move elsewhere, a solid majority of the public wants nothing to do with paying for any deal. (63% No, 29% Yes, 8% Don't Know)
Even 57% of those polled who called themselves Chargers fans opposed the idea of taxpayer financing. Other options, like giving the local NFL franchise tax breaks or donating publicly held property as part of any deal were opposed by respondents.
A UT San Diego business section article still held out hope for what even it admitted was a difficult situation for any proposal:
Yet weak public support hasn't stopped lawmakers from subsidizing projects, partly because of heavy lobbying from industries that benefit. And politicians who promote projects are often out of office when the bills come due.
Fabiani, the Chargers spokesman, declined to tell me if the team has measured local public appetite for stadium funding.
He said the team regularly conducts surveys of various kinds, but has never disclosed results.
Here's longtime observer Don Bauder's take at the Reader:
The U-T editorialized today (January 31) that the task force on the Chargers stadium is "packed with the right mix of expertise." Of course it is "packed" — just as all the other task forces and special committees are "packed" with corporate-welfare boosters. The task force's job is to shift as much of the burden as possible on to taxpayers and steer the profits to the private sector — socialization of the risk and privatization of the gain.
My read on the situation is there is likely no path towards building a stadium. The Mayor's choices for the Stadium Advisory Group reflect the political awareness that recognizes funding for a new football venue must end up behind infrastructure repairs and an expanded convention center.
While the proposed economic benefits of an expansion of the convention center are as sketchy as those of a new football venue, San Diego's hoteliers are a potent political force.
The prospect of the football team leaving must be tempered by the reality that any move to Los Angeles would likely entail the Spanos family giving up a percentage of their ownership, something they appear unwilling to do.
Finally, there are the various alternative financing ideas floating around that should be addressed. The County has money, we're told. The Airport Authority and SANDAG might be tapped.
Pigs will fly before any of those organizations part with their stash of taxpayer cash.
This is an excerpt from Doug Porter's daily column at our online media partner, San Diego Free Press.
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