What are you most passionate about (what excites you the most – content)?
I love content that has me stretching my mind — rethinking my current beliefs and keeping me open to new possibilities and ways of thinking. This is just as important when speaking about or reading up on health and wellness, as it is on politics.
What inspired you to create The Fullest?
The Fullest was created out of a need to share content that inspires readers to stay balanced, consistent, and live a well-rounded life. We want to empower others to be more mindful of the media they consume. I noticed that most platforms were filled with click bait headlines, branded content not aligned with their mission or the interests of their audience, and meaningless information that filled up the precious space in our heads. The Fullest was created in an attempt to bring integrity back to media by producing intentional content with a holistic approach to everyday topics.
I am big on face oil right now. It has truly changed my skin from the inside out. In the morning I use a hot washcloth to exfoliate my skin, and an oil based serum to hydrate prior to applying makeup. I use Vapour Makeup for foundation, cheek stain, and mascara. And in the evening I take my makeup off by using an oil cleanser, wiping it all off with a hot wash cloth. Lastly, I apply the oil serum again and keep it on for the night.
A big part of my routine is also taking salt baths — pink salt, baking soda, and a few drops of essential oils. I aim to do this a couple times per week, but especially after flying to help me unwind, de-puff, and detox from the airplane radiation!
I'm motivated from an internal desire to continue learning, growing, and striving towards living a more full, well-rounded life. I am inspired by my husband, my family, and our team at The Fullest. I'm motivated to continue tapping into our creativity to produce genuine content.
How do you balance life and keep wellness top-of-mind?
Wellness is just a part of my day to day life. It's a priority for me. I know that in order to feel great about myself and have the energy I need to spend time with my loved ones and run a business, I need to take good care of myself. That includes setting aside time to go on daily walks, practice yoga, and do acupuncture to help my stress levels and overall energy. Wellness is what keeps me balanced and enables me to live a full life.
Organic raspberries and blueberries. I basically smell them at the store and leave with boxes of each. It's a craving that has stuck with me from the beginning. My body is definitely getting in those antioxidants!
I read Your Baby, Your Way by Jennifer Margulis. It was a comprehensive look at the protocols behind pregnancy and childbirth. I loved it because it empowers us to make our own decisions regardless of what is routine in our hospitals and our culture. I highly recommend it to anyone planning to give birth or raise children!
My answer to this question is always changing. As a pregnant woman, I would say my perfect day is a long morning walk by the beach with my husband and our dog, a pilates class, relaxing with a book, and ending the night with a salt bath. There's nothing sweeter than taking time to relax!
The first thing I do is listen to Kundalini mantras. That puts me back into a place where I can reconnect with myself and move from a place of fear, judgement, and anxiety to a sense of being supported by the universe and knowing that things will work out the way they are supposed to.
I love our living room because it's a great big room where our kitchen, dining room, living room, and patio is connected. It's nice because you can do your own thing but still be in each other's company — whether it's just my husband and I, or with our family and friends.
It's something internal that is alive within myself, and amplified when I go to a contemporary art museum, travel, learn about ancient rituals and healing modalities, and mostly when I see others protesting for their basic rights as individuals all across the world.
Drink two cups of room temperature water and take the dog out!
Read a few pages of my book without falling asleep. I'm getting better at this!
It can be a hard, lonely road. It looks glamorous, but it's also taxing, tests your confidence, involves many late nights, losing sleep over decisions that can make or break your company and all your hard work, and affect others that have taken a chance by coming to work for you and alongside you. The list goes on and on.
That being said however, it is also the most fulfilling and rewarding experience. It's inspiring to see others jump along to join and support you in going after your vision — to have the opportunity to create something that might outlive you. And to tap into your creativity and learn more about yourself than you would ever have known. My advice is to surround yourself with people who genuinely want the best for you, who believe in you, and who will be there for you to bounce ideas off of. Go for it. Because its better to try than wonder "what if?".


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Taking Lethal Inflammatory Storms – By Storm
For the last three decades, Professor Raymond Kaempfer has been tackling one of medicine's largest problems: evolving antibiotic resistance and lethality of many bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The mechanism by which these bacteria kill is quite straightforward: they produce toxins that our immune system would ordinarily identify, target, and neutralize. Yet these particular toxins, called superantigens, evoke our immune system to vastly over-react, resulting in severe, and often lethal, inflammation known as a cytokine storm. The potential of these toxins for ruin is compounded by the fact that they can remain active for years and are heat resistant, rendering them suitable as biological weapons. Indeed, it was the Pentagon that first approached Prof. Kaempfer, asking him to develop an antidote to this feared biological threat.
Eureka! Deciphering the Mechanism of Cytokine Storms
While progress had been made in the late 20th century, Prof. Kaempfer was the first to fully decipher how these toxins evoke cytokine storms, which he published in 2011 – the greatest breakthrough in this field in 22 years. Based on this novel insight, he developed unique, small protein molecules capable of attenuating excessive inflammation, and not only in infected animals (his molecules combat infections by lethal mixtures of live bacteria in mice) but especially in severe sepsis patients, specifically, those suffering from necrotizing soft tissue infection, commonly called "flesh-eating bacteria." Rather than fighting the bacteria or toxins, Prof. Kaempfer treats the body's self-induced inflammation, in an approach known as a Host Oriented Therapeutic strategy. Because the human immune system will not change over a single lifetime, nor over the course of a few generations, pathogens cannot become resistant through mutation. This is a major advantage over antibiotics.
A New Drug is Born?
Prof. Kaempfer's first-generation molecule successfully underwent all three phases of FDA clinical trials. This month, he will be submitting his FDA application for a new drug for treating flesh-eating bacteria, the first of its kind. His second-generation molecules are proving to be up to 300 times more potent in treating wound infections in animals. Indeed, per the Pentagon's request, Prof. Kaempfer is now testing his molecules upon wounds infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Not only did Prof. Kaempfer succeed at deciphering a mechanism that had stumped scientists for decades, but his molecules are noteworthy for another reason: they counter the body's excessive, harmful immune reaction while leaving the basal response intact, enabling the body to continue fighting infections on its own and developing protective immunity.
A Call from Pandemic-Stricken New York
In February, Prof. Kaempfer received a phone call from a large New York hospital, asking for his molecules in order to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients suffering from pulmonary cytokine storms, which closely resemble those resulting from superantigen toxins or bacteria. Yet he couldn't just go to the post office and send a package of un-approved molecules.
With no end to the pandemic in sight, Prof. Kaempfer is hopeful that his FDA application will soon be successful. Although his application specifies the first molecule be used to combat necrotizing soft tissue infection, once approved it can be used in controlled trials on COVID-19 patients. This is especially pertinent, as many COVID-19 fatalities are due to cytokine storm. In addition, recovered patients often continue to suffer from varying degrees of multi-organ failure, also due to Coronavirus-induced inflammation.
Throughout the pandemic, Prof. Kaempfer's lab has been running non-stop, including during the countrywide lockdown and holidays, testing his molecules against viral and cellular components, released once the coronavirus kills infected cells, that over-activate human immune cells and evoke a cytokine storm. His entire career has prepared him for this moment: his groundbreaking research has the potential to save millions of lives worldwide, and he cannot afford to take a single day – or minute – off.
"My lab has been very lucky – if you define luck as the result of decades of hard work. One of my passions is 'survival science' – applying my scientific knowledge, encompassing chemistry and microbiology, to creating a better world."
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Justice Alnashir Visram – Biography, Court of Appeal, Judge, Age, Education, Career, Parents, Family, wife, children, Video
Justice Alnashir Visram profile, Age
Justice Alnashir Visram was born in Kisii Kenya in Early 1950's. He is a third-generation Kenyan. His grandfather came to Kenya from India at the end of the 19th century, at the age of fifteen.
As of 2021, he is about 71 years old.
Justice Alnashir Visram Education
Justice Alnashir Visram went to Kisumu Boys High School, where he completed his 'A' Levels before joining the University of Nairobi.
In 1972, he was part of the first graduating class of the newly established Faculty of Law of the University of Nairobi.
He was admitted to practice law in Kenya in 1973. But in 1975, he started a new life in Canada where he enrolled for a second Degree in law at University of British Columbia, Canada – UBC. He graduated in 1978.
In 2006, he graduated with a Master's degree in international law from the University of Nairobi.
Justice Alnashir Visram career
After graduating from the University of Nairobi in 1973, Justice Alnashir Visram practised law for two years before leaving for Canada.
After Graduating from UBC he took up a job in Aga Khan University in Pakistan for three years. After the contract ended, he was offered the position of CEO at the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in Kenya, a job he held until 1992.
In 1992, he returned to practising law, with the same law firm that he had left in the early 1970s.
In 1999, he was appointed a Commissioner of Assize by the judiciary, essentially to help clean up a huge backlog of cases.
In 2001, He was sworn in as a judge of the High Court of Kenya by the president of Kenya.
In April of 2009, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal which was the highest court in the land at that time.
Justice Visram controversial cases he ruled
Justice Alnashir Visram judged several cases that left the country dumbfounded. These are some of the cases.
He awarded former minister Nicholas Biwott Sh30 million against Clay Ltd and Dr Ian West for defamation in the book Dr Ian West's Casebook.
He also awarded former Appeal Court Judge Richard Kwach Sh5.5 million as compensation in a libel case against the Standard Group.
In the case of 400m hurdler Eric Keter who had been excluded from participating in the 2000 Olympic Games for coming in fourth during trials, Justice Visram agreed the exclusion was unfair and ordered the now defunct Kenya Amateur Athletic Association to include Mr Keter in the team.
He ordered Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to restore electric power to a business consumer arguing that, as a monopoly company, it could not cut off power to its consumers on whim.
Justice Alnashir Visram parents
Justice Visram grandfather came to Kenya from India at the end of the 19th century, at the age of fifteen. They settled in Kisii Town where Justice Visram was born.
Justice Alnashir Visram family, wife, children
Justice Visram has one wife and two children one of whom is a lawyer and graduated from the University of Kent, UK.
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NORTH SPIRIT HALSALL
- Film and Screenplay -
'AFTER THE DECEPTIONS ARE REALISED'
Sensitive, Powerful, Original
(Illustrated Screenplay)
For every generation there comes events that can cause us to question what we are told, but things are often deeper than the surface shows! So this is a profound story inspired by true events, of a young disaffected science teacher who goes to the 'special world' of the Yorkshire Dales and meets with some unusual older characters…
…a story both Sensitive and Cognitive.
The Rise of Consciousness
Written as a film, more detail as a book
A retired design engineer and gender misfit. At school desired to become a Vicar, but that didn't happen, became a Muslim instead. Alas religion made the gender incongruence worse not better. Enter Spiritualism, and witnessing physical phenomena incongruent with orthodox physics. So years of searching began to find what is actually true of science, and actually true of spirit. It came together — like Odin simultaneously embracing opposite extremes, to reach higher.
Technology is a double edge sword, and always has been ever since our distant ancestors first ceased being hunter-gatherers. Every step forward has also provided opportunities for exploitation, misuse and subjugation of our fellow peoples. Emphasising 'THE SPIRIT' in this context, to restore balance in humanity's evolution and technological advancement, has always been the special work of those who can both sides... be they Priest or Shaman, Mystic or Philosopher, Engineer or Poet.
But if we focus on all the negative of deceptions, we ourselves will be sucked down. Rather we must deliberately keep positive and bring our diversity together. This is an inspirational story!
One insidious 'deception' is Post-modernism... When orthodox religions and orthodox science could not get concepts to fit together, the so called 'intellectuals' invented post-modernism, stating there is no unifying grand narrative! ...This is clearly wrong, as everything on this planet is connected.
(Post-modernism originally referred to a new style of artist's painting, then incoherent intellectuals took the phrase for their own use.)
So told as a 'Creative Narrative' on spiritual diversity coming together, we commend to you —
After the Deceptions are Realised
A Spiritual Odyssey
Two rune staves together depict what this is about: Ansuz and Daguz – which have the meaning Breath or inspired speech, and Daybreak transition or inversion.
As anyone who thinks independently can see, there is much in the world now that is not wholly true, lies and deceptions at the highest level. But it is not just about fighting the injustice, rather the Spiritual Path is also about helping to inspire a balanced future. Traditionally this was done through the metaphor-story or fable...
'AFTER THE DECEPTIONS ARE REALISED' is the classic hero's journey; two threads, two protagonists both disaffected with their lives – A young science teacher woman, and an older religious man, both struggling with the hypocrisy. They each go into the 'special world' of wild Lancashire and Yorkshire moorland meeting with unusual characters of multiple persona, including a nature spirituality woman, a holistic science geek of ambiguous gender, and a Jötunn (metaphysical giant pronounced 'Yo-tun'). It all eventually comes together, but they are now profoundly changed by the interactions, and a proposed group action emerges.
Back Cover PDF
Published by: 'North Spirit Halsall'
A5 size book, 224 pages with 70 colour photographs
Book Weight: 470 grams
Written and printed in Great Britain
Available on Amazon.co.uk
Alternatively Buy from us directly at cost price £10 plus postage, but we no longer use PayPal.
Together We Stand, divided we fall
Diversity together, we can glimpse the whole!
Only by putting seeming opposites together,
can we reach to a higher Plane!
'TO THINK DIFFERENTLY'
An Independent Video Documentary Story
The story of one engineer whose gender could not fit the orthodox binary, resulting in a journey of discovery to an unexpected ending.
The Universities teach a Yang view of Physics, but when Nature's Yin speaks up, their whole paradigm must change - so too their model for sustainable Peace!
53 minutes 16:9 aspect ratio Stereo
Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag, but you can still download and save the video file for later playback through a Media Player, such as VLC.
"This was the start of a long journey,
two questions had to find their answers:
about Religion and about Physics"
"But the icing on the cake, so to speak, was yet to come - what non-science stuff also fit with these ideas!"
...A Human Story of the Unexpected!
Dedicated to all the spiritual people who lived with Nature yet have been made to suffer.
The real enemy is ignorance ...especially ignorance of the holistic feminine.
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Commentary on Making "To Think Differently"
Discovering the central Concept and presenting it are two different things! It was eventually realised that the 'vehicle' of a personal story is the best way to show how the Concepts build up, and also what diverse worldviews unexpectedly fit together.
The film has two intertwining stories; two 'Log Lines' (see top of page)
1. A human struggle between Gender and Religion.
2. Gender challenging the incongruence of orthodox Physics.
The dialectic between these two stories is the magic of the film - itself a metaphor for its message: between the opposites wisdom can be found that is not a compromise - it is another way of seeing both!
The theme music 'Distant Lands' by Louise Byrne was chosen while the film script was still being developed. The slow beat of 40 beats per minute is very slow, this coupled with the opening image of a slow-moving quirky caravan in a scenic setting holds the attention, yet fulfils the need to slow our thoughts and go deeper. This contrasts markedly with films that open with an action sequence!
There are four characters: Protagonist, Reflection, Silent-Companion and Antagonist. The Antagonist; the one-eyed monster whom we never see apart from an avatar image with its distinctive ominous signature notes – represents the view of the world through only one gender, and which has been so insidiously powerful. It has nothing to to with physical blindness or loss of an eye.
The film is a 4-Act structure: being the conventional 3 Acts plus a fourth Act in the meditation ending with its lead-in. Act 1 is the background; the circumstances that existed from childhood with its three Inciting Incidents. But there is a fourth Inciting Incident in the middle of Act 2 (the journey of discovery itself) with the shock that followed after Tom's email from America.
For the human story of trapped in a corner between Gender and Religion, Act 2 gives more esoteric technical detail than seems necessary, but for the story to enter into Act 3 (what is brought back from the journey), these details are needed to give credibility to the 'Big Design', which itself gives another way of looking at human problems! The details presented just summarize the critical stages of the journey.
You will notice that in the third Act, a three-way connection is made between the intellectual insights into new physics based on gender, with two practical examples in the lives and worldview of two different spiritual peoples on different continents. Both practical examples are people deeply connected with Nature and both being "Harmonious with the Big Design". Both groups of peoples had tremendous dignity, yet both have been made to suffer. — Maybe a large part of why both those people have been abused, is that they could not articulate their gender-balanced worldview in a way compatible with western orthodox science and religion, therefore it was dismissed! ...The film seeks to help address this issue by outlining how the western orthodoxy got it so wrong about Gender.
The final scene of Act 3 ("Scene 55"), does not zoom in to a close-up for the ending, on the contrary it zooms out to a wide shot of the filmmaking, thus throwing the emphasis over to You! ...The incitement to make your own independent video!
Through the story, Emotion has been alternated with deep Thinking, to the point where the conditions necessary to enter the sublime spiritual meditation of Act 4 : to comprehend what words cannot express. ...Like the Jester enabling others to see things differently!
A home-made amateur production, but expressing what a commercial film never could.
PDF Written Documents
Beyond Physics : A Paradigm Shift - by J.M.Boardman (second edition 2018 pdf eBook)
'The New Science' by Wilbert B Smith (1962) (from Rex Research)
Reciprocal System of Physical Theory after Dewey B Larson RS2 Papers from former website
North Spirit Films Halsall - Independent Thinkers Beyond Binary Gender
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Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok grants visa to Suu Kyi's youngest son, Kim Aris, to visit his mother
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Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok grants visa to democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's youngest son, Kim Aris, to visit his mother following her release from house arrest.
FEATURE World News
Myanmar's Suu Kyi unveils her vision for her homeland
Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — It was stifling hot inside the small, stark headquarters of the National League for Democracy, the party led by freed pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi wore her trademark shirt and a Burmese sarong known as a lyongi, her hair adorned with the flowers that have come to symbolize defiance in her homeland that has been under tyrannical military rule since 1962.
On this day, she also wore a red AIDS ribbon. She had visited patients at an AIDS clinic in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar that was known as Rangoon. Lack of treatment for HIV sufferers remains an unspoken problem in the authoritarian South Asian country.
A new role for Aung San Suu Kyi?
Suu Kyi has been free for almost a week after spending 15 of the past 21 years in detention.
Her outward appearance did not give away the woman who had endured the hardship of confinement. She looked young for her 65 years and said she maintained her sanity through meditation.
But the lines on her face were borne from sorrow.
From the grief that a woman feels when she is unable to see her husband one last time before his death. The grief of a woman who has tried for more than two decades to bring change to her homeland.
The daughter of a Burmese independence hero, Suu Kyi was quickly embraced as a leader in the late 1980s after she returned home to be with her ailing mother. The National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections by a landslide but the regime did not recognize the results.
She had been detained for that vote just as she was for the last election on November 14, which was criticized in all corners as being a sham. She said she doesn't believe the new assembly will be accountable to the people.
"One of the reasons why we decided not to take part in the elections was precisely because we didn't believe that there was going to be any major change."
With memories of a Nobel Peace Prize awarded her two decades ago, she remains optimistic that with the help of her followers, she can still exact reform. She said she was pleased to see so many younger people had joined her movement. She was uplifted by their fresh energy, ebullience.
And, she was eager to hear about all the changes that have taken place in the world during her time out of the public eye, especially about technological advances. Smart phones, Skype, Facebook, Twitter.
She even liked her own dogged campaign for change to the IT revolution.
"The IT revolution has meant tremendous changes, and significant changes for the whole world, so what we mean is enough change within the country to make people feel like they've got on to a new and better state, and that's what I meant by revolution," she said of her efforts.
She said she envisions a Myanmar — which she and others opposed to the regime call by its former name of Burma — where progress goes hand in hand with accountability and where the citizens feel empowered legally and constitutionally to shape the course of its future.
"I want the people to be more empowered and I want them to feel more empowered," Suu Kyi said. "I want them to feel that it is they who will decide what the destiny of the country is; that they will have the proper means to shape the destiny of the country."
She struck a conciliatory note with Myanmar's generals but did not excuse them from accepting responsibility for the nation's current state — one that is impoverished, underdeveloped and isolated from the global community.
"Of course we'd like economic progress but I think that has to be balanced by what I would think of as accountability. Progress has to go hand in hand with accountability."
She would like to see the kinds of economic leaps that China made but without other aspects of the communist-ruled country.
"I think we would like more respect for human rights in Burma than at present you can see going on in China," she said.
She said she was not opposed to the United States engaging in diplomacy with the military junta but qualified her position.
"There are lot of people who say that now that the U.S. has decided to engage with the military regime, they have turned their back on us. I don't think like that."
I think engagement is a good thing. But I don't want them to go into engagement wearing rose-colored glasses. I want them to be very practical about it."
The other side of the reform coin involves dialog with the generals.
Perhaps the military leaders, she said, have not engaged in conversation because "you don't have dialogue in the military. You have commands."
"I think perhaps some of them don't quite understand what we mean by dialogue," she said. "What we mean by dialogue is: 'let's talk to each other. We'll tell you what we want. You tell us what you want. We come to some sort of compromise. I don't think this kind of exchange is something with which the military, in general, are familiar and I think that has been our greatest problem."
But in the give-and-take with the junta, there is one area, she said, in which she will not compromise.
"The release of political prisoners certainly," she said.
"And I don't think actually if we get to the negotiating table, the military will say we don't believe in the release of political prisoners. I don't think it works like that. That's one of my top priorities."
She knows that for now, the junta has let her be. Not that they've changed their opinion of her, but maybe, they are waiting to see how things unfold.
But Suu Kyi lives every day with the thought that at any moment, she could be arrested again.
"It's always a possibility," she said. "After all they've arrested me several times in the past."
But she said, she can't dwell on that. She has a lot of work to do.
Suu Kyi calls for dialogue with Myanmar government
Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Freed activist Aung San Suu Kyi pledged Monday to keep working toward restoring democracy and improving human rights in Myanmar, saying she is not concerned about being detained again in the future.
"Actually, I don't think about it," Suu Kyi, who was released from house arrest Saturday, said in her first comments to CNN. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest for her dogged opposition to authoritarian rule in Myanmar — which she calls by its former name, Burma.
"I may be detained again," Suu Kyi said, noting she's been in and out of house arrest over the last two decades. "I just do what I can do at the moment," she said.
"We have to work together," she said. "That is the main message. Those inside the country have to work together and also those supporters outside."
Suu Kyi had much the same message for her supporters Sunday, telling them in a speech, "I'm not going to be able to do it alone. You've got to do it with me. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing change and democracy to a country."
"We would like to form a network of people working for democracy," she told CNN Monday, and said she would like to open a dialogue with "those who are in a position to do something, to change the situation in Burma for the better."
She said she has had no contact with Gen. Than Shwe, Myanmar's top military leader and head of state. Asked what she would say to him, she said, "I think what we are looking for is dialogue, so I'm not just thinking about what I have to say to him. I think what we have to think about is what we have to say to each other."
She said she does not know what issues Shwe might want to bring up, but said she would like to discuss issues "relevant to the interests of Burma's people."
On the country's recent elections, she said her National League for Democracy party, although it played no role in the vote, is going to look into allegations of vote-rigging and other activities. She said that report could be provided to countries such as Vietnam who endorsed the balloting, and "they can study the report and decide for themselves how free and fair those elections were."
The probe will be done because of the "rule of law" and not because the party has anything to gain or lose, she said.
Asked whether Myanmar's current ruling military junta should remain in place, Suu Kyi said, "This is something that we have to discuss." She said she wants to know more about how citizens feel regarding the elections, find out more about sanctions and hear from those who imposed the sanctions.
"We have to review the situation from time to time," she said. "This is something that we've done over the years, and we're going to do it again."
Suu Kyi has not seen her children in about a decade. Asked if that will change soon, she said she wasn't sure, adding that her youngest son is in Bangkok, Thailand, awaiting a visa but had not yet been given one. She said she recently spoke with him — "My conversations with my sons are always nice."
She also has grandchildren. She told CNN she met her oldest grandson about 10 years ago, "when he was very small."
She said she has no current plans to travel outside Myanmar, though she hopes to travel within its borders. She said she likely will not leave the country before seeing "significant progress in the way of democratic practices and human rights."
On how she spent her time while under house arrest, she said she stayed busy. "There were lots of things I had to take care of," she said. Suu Kyi said she listened to the radio for hours every day to stay in touch with the outside world and did a lot of reading. She was able to meet people from the outside, such as her attorneys and her doctors, she said. "There were never really enough hours in the day," she said. "I know that sounds strange."
A Facebook page supporting Suu Kyi has more than 250,000 fans. Asked whether she plans to join Facebook or Twitter, Suu Kyi said, "I was discussing this with some of the young people," who told her that most youths like Facebook because it's easier for them. She said she has not yet decided whether to join Facebook, Twitter — or both.
She said she would rather consider the Facebook support as just that, support for her work, rather than popularity.
She noted that a number of political prisoners remain detained in Myanmar, and pleaded with the outside world not to forget them, saying that what they have to go through is "much worse" than her experience on house arrest. She also thanked those across the globe for supporting her.
Suu Kyi tells supporters to work with her for change
Freed democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi told her supporters Sunday that she needs their help in her efforts to bring change to Myanmar.
"I'm not going to be able to do it alone," Suu Kyi said. "You've got to do it with me. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing change and democracy to a country."
She said she was treated well during her years of house arrest by Myanmar's ruling generals, but said the country needs to return to the rule of law.
"I am for national reconciliation, I am for dialogue … whatever authority I have, I would like to use toward that end. And I hope the people will support me," she said, speaking to reporters at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party.
Suu Kyi's lawyer cynical over release
The country's ruling military junta freed Suu Kyi from house arrest Saturday to a throng of joyous supporters who rushed toward her house once the gates were opened. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient had spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest for her dogged opposition to authoritarian rule in the nation formerly known as Burma.
"They have treated me well on a personal basis. But they have not acted in accordance with the rule [of law]. And that I shall always fight against. Because I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified nation unless there is rule of law," she said Sunday. "The people cannot have security unless there is rule of law. And I believe my treatment and that of all prisoners is not within the norms of justice, but that does not mean that I have been ill treated personally."
Recently, Suu Kyi had little outside human contact except for two maids and visits from her doctor. Sometimes, she spoke to supporters over the wall of her compound.
A group of fellow Nobel Peace laureates, gathered in Hiroshima, Japan, rejoiced at Suu Kyi's release, former South African President F.W. De Klerk said Saturday.
"I am speaking to you from Hiroshima where I and a number of other Nobel Peace Laureate are gathered for a conference on the issue of nuclear weapons," De Klerk said. "And all of us are delighted to hear the news. We think it's wonderful news. We are glad that [Suu Kyi's release] appears to be without any condition. We sincerely hope that her release will bring about four steps forward for the issue of democracy in Burma."


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eBook Review of 'Shankly: The Hard Road Back'
September 6, 2012 Chris Rowland
By Paul Grech.
It was an unfortunate piece of coincidence that on the weekend in which Bill Shankly would have turned ninety nine, results on the pitch brought up one of the worst periods during his tenure as Liverpool manager.
By picking up just one point out of a possible nine the current Liverpool team matched the results of Shankly's 1962-63 side that also achieved such a total (the coincidences do not end there: on both occasions the point was achieved through a 2-2 draw with Manchester City); a total that every Liverpool side had bettered since.
The similarities, however, end there. When the league season kicked off in August of 1962, Liverpool were making a return to the top flight after an absence of eight seasons. The man who had taken Liverpool up was, of course, Bill Shankly after he had built a side capable of dominating the Second Division.
During the weeks leading to that first season back, Shankly had embarked in what was (and probably still is) an unusual venture: for fourteen weeks he had written a column on the Liverpool Echo going into incredible detail about how that team had been built and promotion achieved.
These columns have now been reproduced in a unique book that offers an insight into Shankly's early Anfield days and the mind of the man who built the modern Liverpool.
Unearthed by The Kop Magazine, 'Shankly: The Hard Road Back' tells the story of how the great Scot turned the Reds' fortunes around in his own words.
Published over a 14-week period in the summer of '62, Shankly revealed his Anfield battle-plan in unprecedented detail in the Football ECHO – revealing everything from his tactical thinking and transfer discussions in the boardroom to how he trained his players and sought out opponent's weaknesses.
Indeed, hindsight proves just what a great visionary Shankly was. His belief in the importance of fitness extended beyond what was commonplace at the time. Training was split up so that each coach handled different groups to take into consideration different work loads and individual requirements. Similarly, every detail of the training routines was planned in advance to ensure that the players got the utmost benefit from the routine.
Shankly's attention to detail – a trait of any successful manager – was such that before a game at Sunderland he tried to measure when the sun went down behind the goal to determine which was the best side of the ground to kick-off towards!
There are also glimpses of his legendary motivational abilities. When talking about the young players at the club he states that "I brought to Anfield a number of boys who attracted my attention as youngsters out of the ordinary". You can imagine James McKenzie, Robert (Bobby) Graham, George Scott, Gordon Wallace, Philip Tinney and Tommy Smith reading those words and their self-belief going up by a couple of notches.
Of those players, two – Graham and Wallace – eventually enjoyed varying degrees of success in the first team whilst Smith went on to become a club legend. The investment of time and effort Shankly had put into the identification of these players paid off. Although he does not say so in the articles, a bit of subsequent research (such as this interview with George Scott) shows just what a personal interest he took in these players.
Yet these articles also hold evidence that even the great man sometimes got it wrong. One of the players he bought during the season was Jimmy Furnell. The goalkeeper was described by Shankly as a "player in whom I had been interested in for longer than this particular season" and his faith in him was such that he was immediately given the number 1 shirt which he retained till the end of the season.
Furnell, however, failed to live up to the expectations that Shankly had for him and midway through the following season he would be replaced by Tommy Lawrence.
Shankly: The Hard Road Back is only available as an e-book.
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Q: SQLAlchemy: Rollback transaction in SQLite How am I supposed to rollback a transaction after it has been committed to a SQLite database?
Here's my toy code. I would have expected the very last print statement to show an empty list.
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, create_engine, select
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, declarative_base

Base = declarative_base()

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = "Users"

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String, nullable=False)

    def __repr__(self):
        return f"User(id={self.id!r}, name={self.name!r})"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    engine = create_engine("sqlite+pysqlite:///:memory:", future=True)

    Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

    with Session(engine) as session:

        test_user = User(name="John")

        session.add(test_user)
        session.commit()

        print(f"DB content after commit: {session.execute(select(User)).scalar()}")
        # DB content after commit: User(id=1, name='John')

        session.rollback()  # not working as expected
        print(f"DB content after rollback: {session.execute(select(User)).scalar()}")
        # DB content after rollback: User(id=1, name='John')

What am I missing here?

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Rough ride ahead for Iran nuclear agreement
File - This Jan. 15, 2011 photo shows the heavy water nuclear facility near Arak. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
Simon Sturdee| Associated Press
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on July 15, 2015, on page 8.
Kelsey Davenport
Ali Vaez
Suzanne Maloney
Arms Control Association
Getting the Iran nuclear deal unveiled Tuesday was hard enough.
First stop for the deal, under which Iran will curb its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, is the U.S. Congress, controlled by opposition Republicans who are skeptical about the accord.
U.S. lawmakers will have 60 days to chew over the highly complex agreement in what will likely be a period of high drama with intense lobbying on both sides.
Many in the U.S. share Israel's concerns that the deal is too weak.
Congress does not have to approve the deal, but it has the option of passing a resolution preventing President Barack Obama from waiving most U.S. sanctions.
Where U.S. lawmakers could make problems, however, is in the tricky next phase after approval: putting the deal into practice, she said.
The curb on Iran's nuclear program in the agreement will take some time to put into practice – likely several months.
Iran's nuclear program, curbed under the deal, cannot expand for a decade or more.


Why Does My Suburb Have a Deed of Restrictions?
The deed of restrictions is something that most homeowners have to cope with especially when they are late to the area. Unfortunately, a Deed of Restrictions is often a take it or leave it thing unless you can get the political clout to change it.
A Deed of Restrictions is a list of things you are not allowed to do within the community. For example, some suburbs ban Harley Davidson motorcycles and other loud vehicles. Other require that houses must be built to a specific minimum or maximum size.
Usually, the Deed of Restrictions was created around the time that the homeowner's association was founded. Think of it as a mini-constitution that all the people who lived there decided upon as good ideas for the community.
Keep in mind that the Deed of Restrictions is subject to laws and local ordinances so it cannot contain provisions that are contrary to law.
Why Is It Take It or Leave It?
For many new homeowners, the only interaction they will have with the Deed of Restriction is to follow through with what it entails. They don't have the discretion to violate it. They have no say as to what it contains.
They cannot choose to violate it because it is part of the terms that come with using the property. So, let's face it, the owner must take it or leave it.
Of course, this isn't all bad, most are reasonable when they made their Deed of Restrictions, and the law will prevent any restrictions from being passed.
Like I said new homeowners are at the mercy of the Deed of Restrictions as they are all but powerless before it.
But don't let that make you feel hopeless. There are ways to reform the Deed of Restrictions if you find that it is cramping your style.
The first way is to convince the homeowners to repeal sections of the Deed of Restrictions. It is not too different from saying that you to repeal a law or pass new laws. But instead of Congress, the people who will vote are the homeowners' association.
The second way is to disband the homeowners' association and form a new one. It is akin to a revolution in the sense that we are forming a new homeowners' association which will have a new Constitution in the form of a new Deed of Restrictions.
Incidentally, one more reason why the Deed of Restrictions is considered a good thing has to do with insurance. The restrictions found in it might be the reason why the insurance premiums are kept reasonable. At AVA Insurance & Auto Tags, we aim to make our client's life easier with policies that are tailored to their needs. You can get more information about our products and services by calling our agency at (954) 454-5483. Get your free quote today by CLICKING HERE.
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Silence: Do You Hear It?
I used to talk a lot. I would jabber about things that didn't matter. Few people listened. Now that I am on the farm full time I spend most of my days alone, silent, but not in silence. No, far from silence, what I notice most is the intense banter of nature and humanity. They shout at me if I will just shut my mouth and listen with my whole being.
Luther Standing Bear of the Lakota has been credited with saying, "Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that thought comes before speech…and in the midst of sorrow, sickness, death or misfortune of any kind, and in the presence of the notable and great, silence was the mark of respect." This tenet of good behavior was no doubt the reason for the white man characterizing him as a stoic; giving him the undue labels of dumb, stupid, and unfeeling.
We could use more meaningful silence in our culture. Since experiencing more silence I have been noticing there is an awful lot of noise in our lives. Even while pumping gas there is a TV screen blaring at me. Can't I even pump gas in peace? Restaurants can be obnoxious too. I tried to take my mother out for a nice dinner recently. There were no less than 9 TV's all on different channels in sight of our table. On top of this visual noise there was music playing. As if it couldn't get less peaceful the servers broke into song and dance 3 times during our meal. So much for good food and conversation.
Kenny Chesney has a new song out entitled Noise. The lyrics speak of wanting to be heard above all the noise in our world; the phones, TV's, radios and a host of other noise makers. Kenny is right on target with one exception; he claims we can't turn it off. You can turn it off. Our culture would hear its citizens better if we turned off all the noise.
Natures chatter. The outdoors is anything but silent. Indeed, far more boisterous than my laboratory or office cubicle ever was. Yet, somehow the hustle and bustle of nature is far more soothing and serene in its ordered chaos than the mayhem of the work place. A pair of Red Tailed hawks screaming in their high pitched tone busy building a nest, ants communicating by laying intricate paths of pheromones, never making a sound, water droplets falling long after the rain has ended in an random chorus, these are the types of music nature plays day and night. Nature provides a never-ending song that somehow brings a feeling of peace and belonging.
Body language. Have you ever tried hearing with your eyes? Horses by nature are non-vocal. This is true of prey animals in general. If you are on the menu, don't announce your presence in the kitchen. To compensate, they are masters of body language. Flicking ears, giving "looks" in their never ending measure of each other's leadership. Horses have some 17 discrete facial movements. Researchers have compiled these movements into facial expressions. Horses can also read human facial expressions. You might say body language is the universal language of life; birds fluttering away at the approach of a coyote, a crow dive bombing a raptor, or deer curled up in an open field, saying all is well. The body language of humans can be just as clear. "Hear" with your eyes the smiles, the outstretched arms, and the gaze of their eyes. If you listen you might hear faint screams. The wants and needs of others will become clear. Listen to the silent cries for help; the folded arms, the lack of eye contact, or the slouching shoulders. While scientist don't agree on the exact number of facial expressions a human is capable of, most would say between 6 and 27. Whichever figure you accept there is a great deal to listen to.
The consultation of yourself. If you are silent for long enough, you might even hear yourself. Perhaps the most difficult challenge for humankind is to see ourselves as we are. This may be in part because we never stop talking to ourselves and listen. To reflect inward requires silence.
The wisdom of those older and more experienced. You cannot learn when you are talking. Listening to people who have navigated this world longer than you can help avoid a great deal of trouble and sorrow.
A simple, rich life is one with less noise. It demands silent time. A quiet time in which to examine and refocus priorities, to listen to others, and to take in the world around us. Teach yourself and others to savor silence. Yes, you can turn off all the noise making contraptions, close your mouths, and see what you can learn from listening in silence. Warning, silence is addicting. You're going to love it.
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Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.
Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but to do so he needs Self to track down a mysterious silent partner. Self takes the job, but is soon accosted by a man who frantically hands him a suitcase full of cash and speeds off in a car, only to crash into a tree, dying instantly. Perplexed, and convinced there is more to the case than he is being told, Self follows the money. Soon he finds himself traveling to eastern Germany, where he encounters some of the most unsavory villains he has met yet.
Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer. He became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and has been a professor of public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany since January 2006.
His career as a writer began with several detective novels with a main character named Selb--a play on the German word for "self." In 1995 he published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a partly autobiographical novel. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and the United States and was translated into 39 languages. It was the first German book to reach the number one position in the New York Times bestseller list.


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Poison è il singolo di debutto del gruppo musicale pop australiano Bardot, pubblicato il 17 aprile 2000 dall'etichetta discografica WEA. Nel 2001 è stata pubblicata una seconda versione del singolo per la EastWest.

Il singolo è stato un successo in Australia e Nuova Zelanda, dove ha raggiunto la prima posizione della classifica dei singoli, e si è fatto conoscere anche in Regno Unito raggiungendo la quarantacinquesima posizione della classifica.

La canzone è stata scritta da Darryl Sims e Michael Szumowski e prodotta da quest'ultimo, e ha contribuito alla promozione dell'album di debutto del gruppo, l'eponimo Bardot, anche questo arrivato primo nelle classifiche di Australia e Nuova Zelanda.

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 Poison - 3:22
 Empty Room - 3:27
 Poison (S'N'T Club Remix) - 6:03
 Poison (Treat Me Bad Dub) - 6:59
 Poison (Full Phat Remix) - 3:22

CD-Single (EastWest 8573-87978-2 / EAN 0685738797820)
 Poison - 3:20
 Poison (S'N'T Club Mix) - 5:58
 Empty Room - 3:33
 Extras: Poison (Enhanced Video)

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The Sounds and Smells of Caving
When on the 19th June 2014 Johann Westhauser was finally brought to the surface after an 11 day long rescue in Riesending cave in Germany a small caving media storm erupted. Around lunchtime I was contacted by Chris Jewell who does media relations for the British Caving Association, saying that PM on BBC Radio 4 were looking for someone to explain why, in the light of the potential risks highlighted by the rescue, anyone would want to go caving. I took a deep breath and said "yes" and was soon talking to a researcher from the show. About 3pm the item was agreed in an editorial meeting for the show and the researcher was arranging a taxi to take me down to the BBC Radio Solent studios in Southampton. Here I was placed in what is effectively a large broom cupboard with headphones and microphone and awaiting my conservation with Eddie Mair.
It had been a rather nerve-wracking afternoon waiting to do this interview, but once into the swing of it I felt quite calm. I had thought hard about the messages I wanted to convey – the beautiful places you can visit underground, the thrill of exploration and the scientific motivations – however, one question that I wasn't expecting almost threw me. Eddie asked me to describe the sounds and smells of caving, which was tricky! However, from all the feedback I have received this section of the interview seems to have been the most successful.
In parallel to this Oxford University Cave Club had been contacted by BBC Radio Oxford with a similar request. My friend Lou Maurice, a karst hydrogeologist at the British Geological Survey, agreed to do the interview which was longer than mine and also a big success. Consequently, when the Jeremey Vine show contacted me on Friday morning to say "we loved your descriptions of the sounds and smells of caving, will you do the same for us", but I was unable to, Lou was the first person I called. With Dave Nixon also talking to Broadcasting House on Radion 4 on the same subject on Sunday morning I hope we have provided some good PR for caving for a change.
My PM interview
Lou on BBC Radio Oxford
Lou on the Jeremy Vine Show
Bizarrely, PM was not the first piece of media work I have done this year. Through a friend of a friend I got asked to do some work for BBC South Today earlier this year to go towards a programme they were making about people working in fields dominated by the other gender. This series has yet to be shown, but I will try and get a link to the final show when it is produced. Meanwhile this got picked up by BBC Radio Solent and I was invited onto the Katie Martin Show. To mark the launch of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a survey had been commissioned which showed that most parents would not recommend engineering as a career to their daughters. Katie was running a piece on this and we had a nice discussion about some of the issues involved. You can listen to it here. I subsequently did a followed up piece for Katie on National Women in Engineering Day on the 23rd June.
Perhaps now I can go back to having a quiet life!
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SGP recognizes that environmental degradation such as the destruction of ecosystems and the species that depend upon them, increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, pollution of international waters, land degradation and the spread of persistent organic pollutants are life-threatening challenges that endanger us all. However, poor and vulnerable communities –SGP's primary stakeholders- are most at risk because they depend on access to natural resources for their livelihoods and often live in fragile ecosystems.
The programme provides grants of up to $50,000 directly to local communities including indigenous people, community-based organizations and other non-governmental groups for projects in Biodiversity, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Land Degradation and Sustainable Forest Management, International Waters and Chemicals.
SGP has evolved significantly as a global programme over the past twenty years (1992-2012). Its history can be traced through a pilot and five subsequent operational phases, which correspond to funding replenishments from the GEF, as a process of global and local adaptive management. During the pilot phase (1992–1996), the first SGP country programmes were established in 33 countries and hosting arrangements were made in UNDP Country Offices (CO) or nongovernmental national host institutions (NHI). The maximum grant amount was set at $US 50,000 – which has proven to be an appropriate ceiling for NGO and CBO funding over the next twenty years – with average grant amounts of well under $US 20,000 in these phases.
The first operational phase of SGP was launched on 1 July 1996, with a two-year allocation of US$24 million. In the next two years, the programme expanded from 33 to 45 participating countries, and funded over 800 new projects. By the end of the period, SGP good practices as well as pitfalls to be avoided were encapsulated in a set of Operational Guidelines that covered administrative, financial, and operational matters and formed the basis for programme implementation since then, with regular review and revision as necessary.
The favorable evaluation was instrumental in the GEF Council's approval of SGP's second operational phase. During this phase, SGP expanded its reach to 63 countries and adopted more focused and strategic approaches to enhance the impact and sustainability of its interventions. These approaches were conceptualized and deployed through global strategic, monitoring and evaluation, and resource mobilization frameworks, all of which were elaborated in consultation with NCs and NSCs.
In response to ongoing demand, especially from small island developing states (SIDS) and least developed countries (LDC), SGP rapidly expanded to 101 countries in the third operational phase (2003-2007) and to 126 countries in the fourth operation phase (2007-2011). During this period, the programme improved its ability to reach the poor or poorest communities, which received 72 percent of SGP projects, a significant gain from the 57 percent in the early phases. SGP also made a concerted effort to increase grant making directly to CBOs by strengthening community organizational and institutional capacities to implement projects. As a result, 39 percent of grants were awarded to CBOs (compared to 27 percent initially), 60 percent to NGOs, and the remaining one percent to other CSOs.
Although SGP nearly doubled in size and launched country programmes in many challenging country contexts, it continued to be a cost-effective instrument for the generation of global environmental and local benefits, a key finding of the Joint Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme (2008). Country programmes maintained transparent, credible, and accountable operations, with nearly 14,000 grants awarded, supervised, and monitored since 1992, in often quite difficult and demanding conditions.
Currently, SGP is in its fifth operational Phase (2011-2014) and is leveraging the experiments, experiences, and achievements of the past two decades to further explore innovative and improved responses to the great variety of evolving needs at local and country levels. To date, the GEF Small Grants Programme has invested $450million and leveraged similar levels of co financing supporting over 14,500 community based projects in over 125 countries.


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By Amish Patel - July 27, 2016
TNA Star Matt Hardy recently sat down for an interview with Sports Illustrated, and you can check out the highlights here:
On Bray Wyatt:
"I actually find fondness and appreciation for the Bray Wyatt. I see that he is driven by a higher power, much like I am driven and motivated and inspired and given strength by the Seven Deities. I respect how he doesn't walk the normal path, he carves his own. I would love, one day down that road, to show up in WWE and have a match with the Bray Wyatt. I would love to bring him to my battlefield and delete him–that would be my honor. If The New Day and the Wyatt Family would have been there with me, I would have not only deleted them, I may have even eaten them. My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual."
On the comparisons between The Final Deletion and The Compound:
"Those guys having this thing in their compound was a very tough position for them. The 'Final Deletion' was something that was so amazing–it was my brilliant masterpiece I performed in front of the world. Then, only a week later, for these guys to go out there and have this compound fight, especially in such a serious environment when the 'Final Deletion' was such an entertaining piece of art–it was a hard act to follow, and the fans let them know that. It's wondrous to see your masterpiece be emulated as such. It's truly delightful."
On how he became "Broken" and how it changed him:
"There was an incident at the end of the 'I Quit' match between myself and my brother, and he descended from the heavens from the top of the Impact Zone, and put me through a table. My brother had no remorse for my young son, King Maxel, or my beautiful wife, Rebecca–he didn't worry about leaving them without a husband or father. He was trying to end me. This incident was so traumatic that I woke up in the hospital with this shark streak in my hair. All of a sudden, I spoke differently. I thought differently. I moved differently. Considering this incident broke me, it also opened up parts of my mind that I did not have access to before–it unlocked potent areas of my mind, and now I have premonitions. I am often able to hear what people are thinking. In essence, it's made me magic."
On his "destiny" and if it can be fulfilled:
"In order to be whole again, the first thing that comes to mind is the title of the world. I don't know if that will even work since I have been broken so severely. My condition may be a permanent issue, so if that does not work, there must be a message the Seven Deities will send me, or a journey–because I have such a greater purpose in life than just being a normal, mortal person. I am more, I am magic. When the Seven Deities let me know what I must do to be complete again–even though I will be stronger and more than just a regular mortal man–I will fulfill that mission and become whole once more."
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Yes there are similarities in the characters, but Matts is like a comedy parody of Brays.
Not saying that is necessarily a bad thing, but its kinda like comparing Heath Slater's rock star character to Chris Jericho's. Jericho's rock star was a proper heel, Slater's was a comedy heel.
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Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (review)
Christopher Wiley
University of Hawai'i Press
Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2007
10.1353/bio.2007.0044
Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms
Christopher Wiley (bio)
Jolanta T. Pekacz , ed. Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi, 232 pp. ISBN 0-7546-5151-7, $99.95.
Developments in musicology have an infelicitous tendency to lag some years behind those elsewhere in the humanities, and the burgeoning field of biographical theory is no exception. Jolanta T. Pekacz's edited volume, which unites eight distinguished (predominantly North American) scholars drawn primarily from the disciplines of musicology and history, therefore represents [End Page 215] a valuable addition to existing research.1 Proceeding via a series of individual case studies that crystallize around European, notably German, biographical endeavors of the last two centuries, this pathbreaking collection of critical essays on musical biography is broad in scope. Sources considered in the course of the volume include periodical articles, music criticism, conference presentations, travel writings, correspondence, archival materials, and films, rather than merely confining enquiry to biographies in the conventional sense of the term.
At the same time, I was soon led to wonder whether the subtitle "Towards New Paradigms" is the most apposite description of the anthology's contribution to scholarship. While two of its authors offer articles dealing with contemporary biographical projects—Michael Saffle on Alan Walker's multi-volume Liszt biography, and John C. Tibbetts on Renato Castellani's epic 1982 film biography The Life of Verdi2 —the majority of the volume comprises critical reflection upon historical case studies, and as such seems to look towards the past much more than the future. By way of explanation, the editor offers (8) that the first stage in activating new directions for the enrichment of musical biography is a thorough examination and re-evaluation of the assumptions that have heretofore underpinned traditional modes of life writing. Nonetheless, the volume is rather limited in its discussion of the implications for future scholarship of the findings of its various studies; in this respect, I remain not entirely convinced that its endeavors to "help forge new approaches to musical biography" (book sleeve) are successfully realized. Certainly I find the subtitle somewhat misleading in that it sets up expectations of a text whose primary purpose is to specify ways in which musical biographies might be more appropriately written in future, whereas this essay collection explicitly aims to extend alternatives without prescribing such limitations (16).
Even if exploration of "the rich potential of the new theories and methods for writing musical lives" (8) does not emerge particularly strongly as one of the volume's central concerns, the application to musical subjects of ideas that arise from the critical literature on biography that has flourished in preceding decades is undeniably a point of departure. Several of the authors skillfully intertwine discussion of biographical theory with that of their specific field of study. James Deaville's examination of the pioneering late nineteenth-century collective biography of women musicians by Marie Lipsius ("La Mara"), the renowned German writer on music, is especially successful in this regard. I did not, however, find this theoretical underpinning to be consistently woven into the fabric of the volume as a whole. In some chapters, such as that by Toby Thacker, the relative absence of reference to biographical theory renders its relationship to existing humanities research unclear. [End Page 216] Similarly, Marian Wilson Kimber's illuminating study of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's personal travel writings—and their subsequent employment in a biographical text written by her son Sebastian—would doubtless have been further enriched by drawing upon the substantial theoretical bibliography on women's auto/biography.
A slightly more stable grounding within contemporary musicological scholarship would also have been welcome in a volume that professes to offer a "sense of the current directions in research on musical biography" (16). Reference to one particularly significant monograph devoted to the subject, Hans Lenneberg's Witnesses and Scholars, is confined to a couple of allusions in footnotes. Since Lenneberg discusses at length the dependence of music lexicography of past epochs on autobiographical materials, and also includes an interesting section on La Mara, use of his research would have strengthened Deaville's chapter if none other. Likewise, the one international conference on musical biography in...


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The Art of Anatomy - Lennart Nilsson
Discover the murky origins and starry afterlife of this foetal image, as featured in our new book Anatomy
Foetus at Thirteen Weeks, Spaceman, 1965 by Lennart Nilsson
The medical research community strives to prove and present hard, impartial, irrefutable truths about how the body works. However, the images used to illustrate these findings aren't always as clear and incontrovertible.
Consider this image of a human foetus at thirteen weeks, taken by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson back in 1965. It's one of many beautiful, intriguing and fascinating, pictures reproduced in Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body.
"It may be commonplace now to see images of the foetus in the womb – albeit rarely with this degree of resolution and clarity – but when the Swedish photographer Nilsson published his photo essay 'Drama of Life Before Birth' in Life magazine more than fifty years ago, he gave most people a revelatory first view of how a baby develops in the womb," explains the text in our new book. "The photographs made a sensation, and on publication in April 1965, the magazine sold eight million copies in four days."
However, Nilsson's images might not be quite what they initially appeared to be. While the photographer did employ cutting-edge cameras and lights into the womb during diagnostic procedures such as laparoscopy, he is also "rumoured to have shot foetuses after miscarriages or abortions, learning to light them as if they were floating in the amniotic fluid of the womb.
Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body
"Despite their uncertain origins, Nilsson's images were highly influential in shaping how people view life before birth and the debate about the sanctity of human life, helping to encourage the growth of the anti-abortion movement."
There's a degree of irony in anti-abortion campaigners using pictures that may well have been drawn from the abortion clinic. However, Nilsson, who also remained a photographic pioneer, shooting some of the first images of viruses such as HIV and SARS, also saw his unborn-baby images loaded on board both of the Voyager robotic probes, which were launched into deep space in 1977, and remain – as of December 2018 – the only manmade objects to have left the Solar System and entered interstellar space. Some of the most distant images of humankind might show the earliest stages of human life, or, then again, it might show a very early human death.
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Q: How can I save a variable inside a definition in python? I have the following code:
def thingy(res)

    if res=="food":
        res=0
    if res=="wood":
        res=1
    if res=="metal":
        res=2
    if res=="gold":
        res=3
    if res=="oil":
        res=3

res="food"

thingy(res)

print(res)

When I run this it comes up with "food" when i want it to say "0". how can i get this to work?
Many thanks if you are able to help me.

A: You need to return the value, and why not to use dictionary instead of all the if statements, They are the best for this kind of problems:
Example:
def thingy(res):
    myOptions = {'food':0, 'wood':1, 'metal': 2, 'gold': 3, 'oil': 3}
    return myOptions[res]

res = "food"
res = thingy(res)
print(res)

A: Assigning to res inside the function only changes the parameter res; this does not affect res outside the function.
Make the function return the result. Assign the value of the function to the variable.
def thingy(res):
    if res=="food":
        res=0
    if res=="wood":
        res=1
    if res=="metal":
        res=2
    if res=="gold":
        res=3
    if res=="oil":
        res=3
    return res # <---

res="food"
res = thingy(res) # <---
print(res)

A: Usually, what you want is to assign the return value to the variable:
res = thingy(res) # instead of thingy(res)

But if you want another option, perhaps you're looking for a global variable?
def thingy():
    global res
    if res=="food":
        res=0
    if res=="wood":
        res=1
    if res=="metal":
        res=2
    if res=="gold":
        res=3
    if res=="oil":
        res=3

res = "food"
thingy()
print(res)  # prints "0"

In your example, the res inside your function is not the same res that you defined outside of your function (you could give one of them a different name and it wouldn't matter). In this example, it is, because of the line global res.
But in most cases it's simpler and clearer to use the return value.


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Superbug in Chinese pork raises questions on Smithfield deal—but not the ones US politicians are asking
By Heather Timmons in Hong Kong July 29, 2013
Shuanghui's $4.7 billion takeover of Smithfield Foods, the US's biggest pork producer, has been a popular target for US politicians, on the grounds that it might pose a danger to America's strategic access to bacon, or even its supply of the blood heparin. But what about the risks that American-style pig production—with its heavy reliance on antibiotics—might pose to China?
Scientists in Hong Kong have just discovered a strain of drug-resistant bacteria on pork imported from mainland China known as "vancomycin-resistant enterococci," or VRE. The superbug has only been found once before in China, in chicken exports bound for Japan, according to a study published July 19 in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
However, VRE is common in the US, where it first appeared in the 1980s. In the United States, where the meat industry uses 80% of the nation's antibiotic supply on livestock, a government study released earlier this year found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 69% of pork chops and 55% of ground beef.
That doesn't mean that China's meat industry is necessarily much better, when it comes to antibiotics; China already has a "huge burden of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in livestock," scientists from the University of Hong Kong wrote in the July 19 study. But there is little to suggest that the problem will be improved after Western techniques and expertise are brought into the country, and it could easily become worse with bigger, consolidated US-style farms where the animals are routinely dosed with antibiotics.
So far, the VRE superbug that researchers discovered in Chinese pork does not appear to be widespread—just one out of 137 samples tested positive—but the specific type of VRE has them worried. The particular sequence "is highly adapted to pigs," said Pak Leung Ho, the lead author on the report and an associate professor at Hong Kong University's Department of Microbiology, in an interview. "I really worry it will become endemic quickly," he said.
"There is a danger of antibiotic resistance in food animals, but people are not taking it seriously in China or the United States," he said. Experts ranging from the US Department of Agriculture to the World Health Organization have tried to address the problem and made useful recommendations, Dr. Ho said, but none of the global industry leaders are following them, he said. The study he co-wrote recommended "stricter regulation and monitoring of antibiotic use in animal husbandry."
VREs generally only cause disease in already-sick individuals, so this discovery is unlikely to signal the beginning of widespread health problems. But their newly discovered presence in China could signal a worrying trend in a country already wracked with food safety scandals and rising public anger about food quality.
Hong Kong's fresh pork, mutton and beef come from three slaughterhouses within the special administrative region, including Sheung Shui, where tests for this study were conducted. Tracking the pork's origins to a particular farm is impossible, the scientists said, because it comes from multiple sources in mainland China, but Hong Kong's government says this production is closely monitored, as this chart illustrates.
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The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B will be held in the UK at Belfast's SSE Arena.
Ice Hockey UK, in conjunction with The SSE Arena, Belfast and the Belfast Giants, won the vote which took place at the IIHF Congress in Russia this morning.
They beat Estonia 18-7 for the right to host in a vote by the IIHF Council members and the six teams in the division.
Team Great Britain & Northern Ireland will now host Croatia, Estonia and Lithuania, as well as Japan who were relegated from Division IA and Netherlands who were promoted back from Division IIA at the first time of asking.
Richard Grieveson, IHUK chairman, said: "This is a massive moment for ice hockey in the UK.
"It has been a long time since the UK hosted a men's World Championship and it is very exciting we will be doing so again.
"A lot of hard work went into the bid and the work now begins on getting ready for the tournament.
"We are looking forward to working with Belfast Giants, The SSE Arena and our partners in Belfast on this project."
The arena in Belfast has a capacity of 7,200 and was opened back in 2000.
Belfast City's Lord Mayor, councillor Arder Carson, said "This is another wonderful coup for my home city and Belfast City Council and all the partners involved should be rightly proud in bringing yet another international event to the city.
"I would like to publicly thank the Belfast Giants and International Ice Hockey Federation for giving us the opportunity to show what we can offer.
"Plus Belfast, in 2017, will be a fantastic year for sport, not only will we have some of the world's best ice hockey teams here, we will also be the host city for UEFA's Under-19 Women's Football Championships and the Women's Rugby World Cup, so roll on next year."
Steve Thornton, head of hockey operations for the Stena Line Belfast Giants, said: "I am delighted that the city of Belfast has been chosen to host the prestigious 2017 World Championship.
"The successful bid was down to a lot of hard work by Ice Hockey UK, Odyssey Trust, the SSE Arena and Belfast City Council – without them, this would not have been possible.
"I would like to thank everyone who supported the bid and we will be working closely with Ice Hockey UK on packages that will allow us to welcome many fans to Northern Ireland in April 2017."
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