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What is a generation starship?
Any realistic approach to interstellar travel must confront the vast distances to even the nearest stars. If faster-than-light starships are ruled out, as they must be under Einsteinian physics, journey times become extremely long. If we cannot even approach the speed of light—and our current space probes travel at around 1/10,000th light speed—then journey times become even longer. At 10 percent of light speed (a 1,000-fold improvement on our current performance), a journey to the TRAPPIST-1 system, which has a number of potentially-habitable planets, would take about four centuries. Hence, scientists, some of whom were also SF writers, came up with the idea of a ship in which generations would be born, live, and die, with their successors eventually making planetfall in the new system.
The generation starship immediately raises a host of problems. For one, although the first-generation astronauts would volunteer for their fate, they would condemn their children and their children's children to that same fate—essentially, lifelong imprisonment in a metal box without hope of reprieve. It is hard to see how that could ever be justified. Even if we cross this ethical hurdle, the ship's population will face traumatic psychological problems maintaining morale and sense of purpose over the generations, with depression, mutiny, suicide, and breakdown of social order all too likely.
The slower-than-light interstellar spaceship, pursuing its way through the weary centuries, its crew losing touch with all reality save the interior of the vessel. . .Well, you know the story, and its unhappy downhill round, its exciting struggles between the barbarian tribes which develop in its disparate compartments. . . .
Whether the vein had been exhausted, or science—both technological and sociological—revealed the concept to be too fraught with complications, the trope has been used only sparingly since the 1970s. Gene Wolfe's four-novel The Book of the Long Sun series of the mid-1990s and Ken MacLeod's Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact of 2005, provide notable exceptions.
What would a generation starship be like?
The size of a generation ship would be determined by the size of the population required to colonise a foreign planet. From a genetic diversity viewpoint, the number of people needed for a self-sustaining, healthy community is now thought to be relatively small. Given effective genetic screening, some 160 people would be sufficient, even before taking frozen human sperm and eggs, which would be taken along to boost the genetic mix, into account. Genetically, a small village's worth of people should be enough.
A more severe constraint on the lower boundary for starship size is set by technology's effects on society. An 18-century village was largely self-sufficient, but a 21st-century village most certainly is not, relying on myriad goods and services from the outside world. The modern economy is extremely specialised. For instance, let's look at health care. There are at least 20 specialties that one would like to have on board a starship: ear, nose, and throat; heart; obstetrics; eye; paediatrics, etc. And just to have one specialist of each sort would be cutting it fine—suppose the ship's sole heart surgeon died or were incapacitated? Working through the various domains of the modern economy—manufacturing, transport, energy production and distribution, education, legal, accounting, finance, etc.—it's easy to come up with several thousand essential roles. Of course, by the time we are able to build a starship, artificial intelligence (AI) may have reshaped our economy (more on this below). Putting that aside for the moment, however, our starship is beginning to look more like a cruise liner than a village.
The world's largest cruise liner, Harmony of the Seas, has the capacity for some 5,500 passengers with a crew of 2,300—about 8,000 people altogether. This is likely the necessary minimum to populate the various specialisations of the modern economy. The cruise liner format probably also provides the necessary minimum for quantity and variety of living space.
Our cruise liner/starship will also have to rotate. Long periods of weightlessness degrade bones, muscles, and eye tissue. Perhaps genetic engineering will have found a solution by then, but absent that—and absent a magic 'grav' button—the centripetal force provided by rotation is a good substitute for true gravity. Rotation has problems of its own, however. If the whole ship rotates, imperfections in the initial spin or in the distribution of mass would lead to a tumbling effect over time. That points to a design with a stable core and a rotating carousel. However, over time, the angular momentum of the carousel would transfer itself to the core. So it would be necessary to have a counter-revolving counterweight. These moving parts would be vulnerable to wearing out over the long years and centuries of the voyage.
Assuming our 22nd-century engineers can overcome these problems, we would be looking at a pencil-like ship's core, with double 'doughnut' carousels rotating in opposite directions around it. This odd structure would have to be assembled in space. How would it fare over the voyage?
The first task would be to accelerate the ship to cruising speed—and there we meet perhaps the most daunting of the problems besetting interstellar travel: the colossal energy budget. A cruise liner is massive (the Harmony weighs 220,000 tonnes). To accelerate a one-tonne mass to 1/10th light speed would take 1/1,000th of current world annual energy consumption. To accelerate the Harmony to that speed would take 220 years of world energy!
Although a space craft would be made of lighter materials than a cruise liner, a couple of factors would tip the scales the other way. One is fuel—the generation ship would have to carry enough fuel to accelerate and, at the other end of its journey, decelerate. The other is cladding. Interstellar space is not empty but rather sporadically populated with dust particles and the occasional larger object. Even a dust particle travelling at relativistic speed would have tremendous destructive force; significantly larger objects would be terminal. Cladding would provide some protection against the smallest particles. Larger objects would have to be detected sufficiently in advance to be destroyed by lasers.
The bulk of the cladding would be 'on top' of the space ship, to protect against incoming objects in the direction of travel. However, the whole ship would have to be clad to some extent in order to provide protection against cosmic rays (high-energy particles), which come from every direction, as well as dust, etc., coming in 'obliquely'. And even with all of this, there is no guarantee that a fatal collision can be avoided.
The only presently-known propulsion system that could provide sufficient thrust to accelerate a multi-100,000-tonne mass to relativistic speed is nuclear fission. The most developed concept to date is Britain's Project Daedalus, from the 1970s, which featured Helium-3 mined from Jupiter as the propellent.
Renowned SF author and futurist Kim Stanley Robinson has reflected at length on the generation starship concept, here. In addition to the physical problems outlined above, he highlights the biological, ecological, sociological, and psychological dimensions, and—often overlooked—the problem of what do to on arrival at the destination solar system.
In terms of biology, Robinson points out that humans are not distinct creatures but rather symbiotic associations of human and bacterial material. In the island world of the generation ship, bacteria could evolve rapidly in unexpected directions, with perhaps life-threatening consequences. In terms of ecology, it would be extremely difficult or impossible to achieve complete recycling. Some essential chemicals would end up bound to different substrates and be lost to the ship's population. And, although not mentioned by Robinson, there is also the problem of the dead. Unless the living eat the deceased, a large amount of organic material would be lost via the 13 to 15 generations that will pass away before arrival.
The social and psychological concerns, however, may not be as grave as Robinson and Golden Age SF writers suggest. Sociologically, the regimen on board ship would have to be more or less totalitarian to ensure adherence to the ship's mission, mitigation of stability-threatening behaviours, and achievement of reproduction goals. Some, or many, individuals would have limited-or-no choice of partners, or, indeed, careers. Yet, like it or not, totalitarian social structures are widespread in human society today—either nationwide (as in China or North Korea), in the disciplined services, or, indeed, on board ships.
Psychologically, the generation ship environment appears at first glance to be stifling, potentially leading to a host of emotional problems. Yet, in reality, it is barely more limited than that experienced by most of mankind prior to industrialisation. Given a choice between a life spent aboard a generation starship and a life spent in a medieval monastery—or even a medieval village—which would we choose? The starship would surely offer a richer, more diverse, and more fulfilled life—certainly a longer, healthier one. Moreover, the availability of AI and virtual reality (VR) would enable starship occupants to expand their horizons beyond the limits of their physical environment.
In sociological and psychological terms, then, life on the starship might not be such a bad deal. But Robinson scores a major point when he draws attention to the problems on arrival.
Far from bringing the problems of the voyage to an end, arrival in the foreign star system just adds new ones. It is highly unlikely that the target planet would have a human-breathable atmosphere; indeed, if it did, it would very likely have its own developed flora and fauna, bacteria and viruses. Intervention in an existent ecosystem would bring all kinds of challenges which the colonists would have to manage with the resources brought with them. They would have to live in sealed habitats on-planet (or, more likely, still on-ship) until they had either genetically engineered themselves to suit the new environment or re-engineered the environment to suit them.
If, as is perhaps more likely, the destination planet is lifeless rock, the challenge becomes one of terraforming. Sources of water, nitrogen, oxygen, and other human-essential chemicals would have to be found, either by mining and processing materials in the planet crust or by steering comets planetward. A planet of Earth-like gravity would be of Earth-like size, i.e. very large. Terraforming might take centuries (as it does in Robinson's novel 2312).
And when, finally, colonists and planet have adapted to each other, and the community settles down, beginning to build the institutions and infrastructure of a civilised world, do the problems even end then?
Our colony comprises several thousand persons with expertise in every field of human activity. However, their expertise would not run very deep; several thousand people is nowhere near enough to cover the deep specialisms of the modern economy. The services the colonists provide to one another will tend to be of intermediate or non-specialist standard. For example, a heart transplant might be conducted by a general surgeon, yoga class taken by a sports instructor, an algorithm upgrade written by an engineer. , a . Evidence from stressed communities suggests that people can step up and perform wonders. But they can just as easily collapse or make errors that could be fatal to a tight-knit colony.
On the demand side, too, there will be shortfalls. A 'customer base' of several thousand is not enough to support even a moderate level of specialisation. The services of some experts might not be called upon for long periods, leaving skills to atrophy. And some services, such as resource extraction, design, and construction—vital on arrival—would not be needed at all during the voyage, and would somehow have to be nurtured through the generations and the centuries.
However, AI and VR could help, allowing engineers to design and build virtual structures en route, even to 'practice' building infrastructure for the target planet, while surgeons could get VR practice on uncommon operations. Robot assistants could cover gaps in human service provision, and 3D printing could provide components that today are produced in large manufacturing runs. AI could also teach humans skills that would be needed upon arrival.
AI, then, could be the saviour of the colonists. But before looking more closely at AI, we should first step back and ask what sort of society will we be when we have generation starship capability?
First, as should be clear from the discussion above, many dimensions of knowledge and technology have to advance a great deal before a generation starship will be possible. And although advances are happening, they are not happening quickly, meaning that the moment of ship launch may be a couple of centuries ahead.
Before even considering travel to another star system, we must become masters of our own, having established permanent successful colonies on Mars, the Moon, and possibly other bodies in our solar system. Terraforming a barren world such as Mars would more or less qualify us as a Kardashevian Type I civilisation (Nikolai Kardashev, a Soviet astronomer, was referring to energy use, a Type I civilisation being able to utilise the energy of a planet, but the concept seems broadly applicable to terraforming).
These goals are being pursued, but slowly and without a definite roadmap. Bigger budgets and more political urgency would speed up projects, but there is no sign that governments of developed countries are going to devote a much larger share of already-squeezed budgets to such endeavours.
Where governments hesitate, the private sector may step in, and indeed has done so in the form of Mars One and Elon Musk's ventures. But it seems doubtful that the private sector could manage an entire off-world colony, in all its manifold dimensions and with all the security concerns it would raise, entirely by itself.
What is happening—at speed, and with the full force of governmental as well as private sector participation—is the development of AI. The median view of surveyed experts is that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI, i.e. human-level intelligence) is only some 45 years away, with Artificial Superhuman Intelligence (ASI) only a decade or so behind that. Ray Kurzweil predicts the 'singularity' (the advent of AGI) by 2030.
AI experts have, of course, been wrong before about the imminence of AGI. We don't yet even know what AGI would look like. What is different this time is the scale of resources being applied—including by leading private sector firms such as Google and Amazon—and the awesome power of the AI applications being rolled out today. True, these applications are still narrow AI; few people are working on AGI – although some are, and maybe the combinatory algorithms of applications such as AlphaGo Zero and Watson will be capable of more than is presently apparent. Intelligence does not necessarily imply consciousness (whose nature we are also not sure of), but merely the ability to solve complex problems in complex real-world environments.
Suppose Kurzweil et al. are wrong about the date of AGI. Suppose it takes not 12 years, not 45, but 100? Or 200? Or 600? These timescales are all well within that of our putative generation starship mission to TRAPPIST-1. It could easily take a couple of centuries to develop the (non-AI) technology and gather experience of solar system colonisation, four for the starship voyage, and yet more for the terraforming.
I suggest that, long before the six-to-10 centuries are up, we will almost certainly have serviceable AGI, good enough to 'man' a starship. It will be relatively easy to design such a ship, since its mass would be insignificant (just the substrate for the AGI circuitry), it could endure super-high acceleration, and the AGI can be sent in multiple expendable copies with no need for lasers-and-cladding. The trip could be much faster than four centuries, since a high proportion of light speed could be achieved for a much smaller energy budget. The round trip could even perhaps be done in less than a century, allowing accelerated progress on other projects yet to be conceived.
That, of course, leaves us humans on Earth, unable to venture so far afield (and, I suspect, even relinquishing our solar system colonies as too unhealthy for human habitation). Yet, in the long life of our species, this would not matter. There may eventually come a day when the AGI, now ASI, god-like, having mastered the unimaginable energies of the central galactic black hole (Kardashev's benchmark for Type III civilisation), would come and lead us, now less than children, less than ants, into the some portal of unimaginable delights, including the TRAPPIST-1 planets and a cornucopia besides—the generation starship consigned to the Heath-Robinson category of elaborate devices superseded before they were born.That, at least, is my hope.
Matthew Harrison lives in Hong Kong, and whether because of that or some other reason entirely is reliving a boyhood passion for science fiction. He has published numerous SF short stories and is building up to longer pieces as he learns more about the universe. Matthew is married with two children but no pets as there is no space for these in Hong Kong.


In September it was reported that Russia was about to toughen its hostile stance against Bitcoin with a new law that would criminalize actions involving the digital currency. Russia's Ministry of Finance has now proposed even heavier sentences than previously expected, with offenders facing up to four years in prison. The Ministry's proposal is in stark contrast with the country's Central Bank stance on Bitcoin, which is open to allow and regulate transactions with the popular cryptocurrency.
NASDAQ has announced which companies will be the first to use its blockchain-enabled platform for Linq. Chain.com, ChangeTip, PeerNova, Synack, Tango and Vera are all part of this initial group, for which Linq will facilitate the transfer of privately-owned shares. The service was first announced in May this year, and is intended to boost trading in private companies, as well as save on the high costs currently involved in the process of trading in these companies.
Ethereum received a big boost by Microsoft as the tech giant partnered with Ethereum collective ConsenSys to make Ethereum blockchain tools available to Microsoft Azure Enterprise Users. According to the Azure website, 57 percent of Fortune 500 companies are already using Azure. These companies will now get the ability to "deploy private and semi-private or consortium blockchain networks, as well as public Ethereum nodes with a single click".
If you happen to become the victim of Bitcoin demanding ransomware then the FBI has a remarkable piece of advice for you: pay up and be done with it. This statement is the result of ransomware "becoming too good" according to an FBI representative. In earlier cases hackers made mistakes, and were traceable as a result, but this has taken a turn for the worse. With statements such as these, ransomware is also unlikely to become any less popular any time soon.
The sky is the limit for the price of Bitcoin as it rallied for yet another week. The price increased by a staggering 11 percent compared to the previous week, taking the price of a single BTC to about $311. Following the announcement by Microsoft Ethereum also rallied this week, easily outperforming Bitcoin with a price increase of almost 60 percent. One ETH is now trading at roughly $0.91.


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6.1.1 Mapping Topics and Topic Bursts in PNAS (2004)
By Ketan K. Mane & Katy Börner (2004)
Scientific research is highly dynamic. New areas of science continually evolve; others gain or lose importance, merge, or split. Due to the steady increase in the number of scientific publications, it is hard to keep an overview of the structure and dynamic development of one's own field of science, much less all scientific domains.
However, knowledge of ''hot'' topics, emergent research frontiers, or change of focus in certain areas is a critical component of resource allocation decisions in research laboratories, governmental institutions, and corporations. This paper demonstrates the utilization of Kleinberg's burst detection algorithm, co-word occurrence analysis, and graph layout techniques to generate maps that support the identification of major research topics and trends. The approach was applied to analyze and map the complete set of papers published in PNAS in the years 1982--2001. Six domain experts examined and commented on the resulting maps in an attempt to reconstruct the evolution of major research areas covered by PNAS.
Co-word space of the top 50 highly frequent and bursty words used in the top 10% most highly cited PNAS publications in 1982--2001.
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Kyle O'Quinn to Fenerbahce
By Latest Basketball News on January 20, 2021 Europe, Player Movement, Turkey
Kyle O'Quinn (208 cm, F/C) has signed with EuroLeague side Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul. He joins coach Igor Kokoskov and a team that is currently 10-10 in EuroLeague play and is in 10th place in the standings. O'Quinn played in the NBA last season. In 10.3 minutes per game, he averaged 3.3 ppg and 3.8 rebounds […]
Khaliq Spicer to Kolossos
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Khaliq Spicer (206 cm, F/C) is on the move to Greece. There he will join Kolossos and coach Ilias Kantzouris. Kolossos is enjoying a mediocre start to the A1 season as they are eighth in the standings with a 4-7 record. Spicer started this season in the Korisliiga in Finland. There he played ten league […]
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Freddie McSwain (201 cm, F) has signed with the Bisons in Finland. He already started this season in Austria, where he averaged 9.2 ppg and 5 rebounds in five games for Oberwart. He played in Brasil last season. McSwain also played 15 games in the German BBL last season. There he notched 10.5 ppg and […]
Quincy Ford changes teams, signs with Promitheas
Quincy Ford (203 cm, F) has played five games in the French ProA but is moving to Greece. Ford has signed with ASP Promitheas Patras in the Greek A1. He joins a team currently ranked 5th with a 6-3 record. Ford averaged 6 ppg and 3.6 rebounds in the five games he played for BCM […]
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Demetrius Treadwell (201 cm, F) has signed to play in the Lithuanian LKL. There he will join Prienai Cbet and coach Mantas Sernius. Prienai is off to a 6-11 start and is occupying the 6th spot in the standings. Treadwell played the 19/20 season for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He only played five games and averaged […]
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Q: Calculate the real part , imaginary part , module , conjugate and the inverse of this complex number. I have this number $ $  $  2e^{-2\pi i/3}$.
What theory I have to apply to resolve it? I done with an easy number like this one:
$z=(1+ i)^{3}$
$-z = (-1 -i)^{3}$
$\overline{z} = (1 -i)^{3}$
$|Z| = {\sqrt1^2 + 1^2} = {\sqrt2^3} = {\sqrt8}$
I'm not sure if the solution of the second one is well done.

A: Recall that $e^{xi} = \cos x + i\sin x$. With this in mind, calculate the value using $x = \frac{-2\pi}{3}$

A: We know $e^{ix}=\cos(x)+i\sin(x)$. your number is $Z=2e^{-2\pi i/3}$ so
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&= 2\cdot\Big(\cos(-2\pi/3)+i\sin(-2\pi/3)\Big)\\ \\
&= 2\cdot\Big(-\frac{1}{2}-i\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} \Big)\\ \\
&= -1 - i\sqrt{3}\\ \\
&= -(1 + i\sqrt{3})
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Denise Richards Out At 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills' According To Report
Is Denise Richards leaving the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Gossip Cop has looked into the story. Here's what we found out.
By Elyse Johnson
August 10, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. CDT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Denise Richards attends the opening night of 2019 BravoCon at Hammerstein Ballroom on November 15, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Is Denise Richards being booted off the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? A tabloid claims that the actress may not be part of the show any longer due to her drama with Brandi Glanville. Gossip Cop checked out the story.
Are Denise Richards' Days As A Housewife Over?
"Diva Denise's Days Over On Housewives" reads the headline for a recent article in the National Enquirer. The accompanying article says that Denise Richards could be kicked off the controversial reality show after she served a cease-and-desist letter to Brandi Glanville about their rumored affair. For those who aren't familiar with the drama, the two reality stars have been at odds after Glanville claimed she hooked up with Richards. Richards has denied this ever happened, which has now left the two reality stars engaged in an ongoing feud.
The Enquirer goes on to quote supposed sources that purport, "Denise has been named the 'worst' housewife ever and producers are already looking to replace her." The so-called insiders maintain the actress does want to be a part of the franchise, but the show's creators feel that she's "far too controlling" about her image to be on a reality show.
Will Richards Return?
While it is true that Richards served Glanville a cease-and-desist letter, the rest of the tabloid's premise is wrong. The producers of the Housewives franchise have not decided to get rid of Richards. A rep for Bravo has stated this isn't true. It hasn't been confirmed if Richards will return to the series but the idea that she isn't welcomed is completely fabricated.
The Drama On The "Real Housewives" Franchise
This also wouldn't be the first time the tabloids made up incorrect stories about the Real Housewives franchise. Two months ago, we busted the Globe for alleging that Lisa Rinna was starving herself amid her feud with Denise Richards. The outlet claimed that Rinna had been stressed out over her violent alleged feud with Richards to the point where she was making herself sick. Yet Gossip Cop pointed out that Rinna and Richards are friends in real life, and Rinna has always been thin. We wasted no time in correcting the false narrative.
Following this, Life & Style asserted that Mo'Nique was replacing NeNe Leakes on the Real Housewives of Atlanta. The magazine incorrectly stated that Leakes was being asked not to come back to the series and that the comedian was being eyed by the show's producers as a perfect replacement for her. However, there was no actual confirmation that Leakes was leaving the show, and Mo'Nique herself denied the rumor. Gossip Cop corrected the phony story at the time, much like this latest rumor.


In 2008, Juliana Deguis, a Dominican of Haitian descent, went to the local state office to get her official ID card. To her surprise, the clerks refused to issue her an ID card alleging that her Dominican birth certificate was invalid and that she was instead a Haitian national. The state officers proceeded to seize Deguis's birth certificate, effectively leaving her undocumented. She sought redress through the courts, and her case led to a landmark legal decision that radically redefined Dominican citizenship, and left over 200,000 Haitian Dominicans in legal limbo as former citizens of the Dominican Republic. Since 2013, an estimated 70,000 to over 100,000 Haitian migrants and their children have left for Haiti under fear of deportation and harassment from Dominican authorities. Statelessness and a general disregard for their rights seem to characterize their plight, a situation exacerbated by calls from Dominican ultranationalist groups to rid the country of Haitians. As Deguis soberly put it: "I'm nobody in my own country."
Ernesto Sagas; Ediberto Roman, Who Belongs: Citizenship and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic, 9 Geo. J. L. & Mod. Critical Race Persp. 35, 56 (2017).


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TWBA: RK Bagatsing, nilinaw ang tunay na estado nila ni Jane Oineza
Kristine Chua
One of the industry's most versatile actors, RK Bagatsing, visited the Tonight With Boy Abunda studio on Friday, August 23 and talked about his new movie "Cuddle Weather" and clarify the real score between him and Jane Oineza.
RK, who reveals his full name, Ramon Kino, is currently a cast member of Nang Ngumiti ang Langit alongside Sophia Reola. He admitted that he had second thoughts about accepting the father role in the show and even consulted Star Magic if it's the right project for him.
"As an actor, I want to portray my characters as truthful as possible," he said, adding wasn't certain if he could portray a father on screen since he isn't a father in real life. But he stressed that the directors and writers of the show helped him internalize and understand his character better.
"Mahilig ako sa kids eh," he revealed, saying that portarying a father on screen makes him want to have kids of his own sometime in the near future. He shared that the kids in the show usually play with him on breaks in between their scenes. He added that he'd want four kids if ever given the chance to be a father someday.
RK recalled his audition for a gay role in "Slumber Party" back in 2013. He shared that it was his first lead in any film during that time. He said that he thought that the film was about three women and one leading man but he was surprised to see drag queens on set.
Boy Abunda challenged RK to show everyone what he did in the audition that made him stand out among the rest. The King Of Talk gave him the situation of a gay beauty queen who are discouraged by everyone to join pageants because they were jealous of her beauty and potential and he slayed the "screen test" effortlessly. They even asked him to do the famous Lava Walk of Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray.
RK also stars in the movie "Cuddle Weather" with Sue Ramirez that is an official entry for the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino 2019. It tells the story of two sex workers who agree to become cuddle partners. RK shared that the director of the movie, Rod Marmol, wanted to show that sex workers deserve to have happy endings too.
Tito Boy then asked RK to teach him how to cuddle properly. First, he demonstrated the cuddle position where your partner's head is on your chest. The advantage of this position is that your partner can hear the beating of your heart thus, making the position very romantic. Next, he showed the cuddle position ideal for partners who haven't seen each other for a long time. This postion now includes legs wrapped around the frame of each other's bodies. This position makes it easier for you to kiss your partner on their forehead. Lastly, he demonstrated the big spoon and little spoon cuddle position where one hugs the other from the back.
RK revealed that he only cuddles with his pillows at night due to his hectic schedule at the moment. He said that he doesn't understand why Jane Oineza is being linked to him romantically, but guessed it was because "I was her first on-screen partner na na-kiss niya." He also shared that Jane's fans loved their pairing on Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Araw Gabi too much and resulted to shipping them as a couple in real life. He also clarified that his closeness with Shaina Magdayao is due to her warmth and friendiness on set. But he denied that their off-screen relationship is coming true to life.
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In this lesson I want to introduce the concept of taking pictures of the not so good times. Everyone thinks to take out the camera to take pictures of birthdays, holidays, and trophy time. However, if you are just capturing the happy times you're leaving out all the other parts that give a complete view into your pictures. It can be predictable and one dimensional to have everyone just smiling in your images. Some examples might be your child lost a big game, vacation gone bad, car trouble. You'll need to see what you and the subject are comfortable covering. When in doubt grab the picture while you can but if you can take a couple of minutes and light the way you want, it is even better. It takes a minute to get your brain to think in this new mindset but it will bring a new aspect to your photography. You can get started with self-portraits or start with some family members.
In my example, my son got a black eye and chipped a tooth playing flag football at school. After he checked out ok at the doctors we had him stay home from school the next day to monitor him. I thought that would be a good time to grab a picture of him and he was up for it. As you can see in the video below it was a very casual quick shoot. If I didn't take a picture it could easily be an incident forgotten years from now. Think of this example as a documentary portrait.
In this setup I wanted something quick and easy. The whole thing took under 6 minutes and used minimal gear. You'll want to move fast in these situations. No one likes taking a long time when they are happy let alone when they are not. For lighting children I recommend them sitting so they are not moving on you.
I wanted nice soft lighting so I am working with the umbrella in very close to my subject. I also wanted dramatic lighting with shadows so the lighting is almost completely to his (camera left) side. When using just one light I need the light to work for both the subject and the background. Umbrellas are great for feathering on the subject and background with one light.They are also quick to setup and universally work with all brands and types of flash & strobes. In this case I used a grey collapsible instead of a wall because I wanted that particular color with his shirt.You could easily use a plain wall as well and save a bit of time to boot.


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'It took them into a different state of mind:' U of S research shows war vets benefit from therapy dogs
Bre McAdam • Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Apr 30, 2016 • June 2, 2020 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Veteran Don Barrett gets Kendi to lick his finger while spending time with this therapy dog at a University of Saskatchewan conference that highlighted research on the health effects of therapy dogs on elderly veterans. Photo by Gord Waldner /The StarPhoenix
A small, golden dog named Kendi sits on Don Barrett's lap, playfully licking the elderly man's finger. Barrett, a 96-year-old war veteran, says dogs like this one bring back some of his favourite memories.
The self-proclaimed animal lover was part of a research project that studied the health effects of therapy dogs on elderly veterans.
'It took them into a different state of mind:' U of S research shows war vets benefit from therapy dogs Back to video
"I think animals know whether you like them or not. I tickled his chin and he was licking me and we got along famously," Barrett said about a different dog he met two or three times last year.
He said the therapy dogs reminded him of his own dogs. Barrett shared stories of his spaniel and Border Collie leaving a trail of carrot tops in his garden, and how they loved going for walks — even in a thunderstorm. His eyes welled up when the tale ended with having to put the dogs down.
Memories like Barrett's were an important finding in the research conducted by University of Saskatchewan professors like Dr. Colleen Dell, who saw how cathartic it was for veterans to reminisce.
"That feeling of enjoyment. They felt comfort and support," she said.
One of the most surprising research findings was how therapy dogs' handlers play a huge role in helping veterans express their feelings, Dell added.
The research fills a void in the needs of elderly veterans, she said. The findings, presented during Friday's One Health Initiative Research Symposium at the U of S, were used to create a music video featuring the therapy dogs and veterans, called I Had a Dog. The researchers hope the video can be an educational tool for health and service providers.
Most veterans who took part in the study had a variety of health issues. Dell said in some cases, the dogs seemed to temporarily suppress their symptoms. Andrea Serack, a handler with the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program, said she worked with a man who had terrible coughing spells.
"Those went away when he started talking and concentrating more on (the dog), holding her, keeping her from falling," Serack said. "It took them into a different state of mind completely."
"That bond began to develop over time. So as soon as he would see the animal, then it was just like lighting up and giving the dog a kiss. That physical affection is not something a lot of the elders may be receiving."


Two Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers have given each other a good thrashing during a brawl that erupted on a Karachi thoroughfare due to unknown reasons.
In a video that has gone viral over the internet, PTI MNA Aftab Jahangir and MPA Rabistan Khan can be seen serving one another with kicks and punches as their supporters also beat each other up.
They can also be seen exchanging harsh words during the street fight.
The video further shows one of the parliamentarians rushing back in his car to save himself from the enraged crowd.
It merits a mention here that this is not the first time PTI lawmakers have put up a violent show on the roads of Karachi as earlier this year, MPA Imran Ali Shah had also beaten up a citizen in the middle of a road near the National Stadium.


Original Equipment Manufacturers sold 788,295 computer systems in five years, the National Information Technology Development Agency has said.
Director-General of NITDA, Dr Isa Ibrahim, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Friday at the presentation of five regulatory guidelines churned out by the IT development agency.
He said the period under review covered between 2013 and 2017.
Ibrahim said that the number of the systems sold by OEMs in the country increased in 2016 and 2017 because of the local content development which the agency had focused on in accordance with the directive of the government.
He said, "These efforts resulted in an exceptional increase in the patronage of locally-assembled devices. Records have shown that in 2015, indigenous Original Equipment Manufacturers sold 98, 224 devices in 2015; 154,424 in 2016; and 355,647 in 2017.
In 2013 and 2014, he added, the indigenous OEMs sold 82,000 and 98,000 systems respectively.
One of rules presented by NITDA was the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 which sought to safeguard the rights of natural persons to data privacy and to foster safe conduct of transactions involving the exchange of personal data.
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The Gillian vest is a summery casual piece, perfect for travelling. This sleeveless style features a scooped neck and looped trim to distinguish the pretty look. Team with your denim separates and shrug on printed cardigan in the evening.


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Location:Novotel Pune Nagar Road is located in central Pune. It is a 10-min drive from Pune Airport and a 25-min drive from Pune Railway Station. Popular landmarks like Koregaon Park and Aga Khan Palace are less than 5 km from the hotel. The OSHO International Meditation Resort is over 5 km away, while ISKCON Pune is 7 km away. Room Amenities: The hotel has 223 rooms, each with a contemporary design and ergonomic furniture. The rooms are equipped with a mini-bar, safe deposit box, flat screen TV, WiFi and a coffee maker. Hotel Facilities:A fitness centre, outdoor swimming pool, event/meeting rooms, indoor/outdoor banqueting space, cleaning services, currency exchange, car rental and safety deposit box are some of the facilities offered by the hotel. Dining:The Square (all-day dining) offersinternational cuisine and live music. Bar-Code and Fuzion offers a wide variety of alcoholic beverages. Other dining options include Crust (gourmet) and Soak (open air poolside restaurant and lounge).
Room and was room are clean and as per our expectations. Service is also good. Value for money.
Great hospitality, specially Mr. vinayak at bar counter.
The hotel is very ideally located, quite suitable for any business or leisure. The food is extremely good, the staff is very competent and the break fast menus are awesome. I recommend this hotel to my friends and family for staying at Pune.
Breakfast buffet menu too much localized and very simple. Need to be added more menu.
Good stay but slow in service.
They don't have sports channels on TV. Ten sport 1 and 2.
" Situated in the heart of Pune, Hotel Iris is an elegant, tastefully furbished to provide thoroughly modern standards of comfort.
We stayed at the Novotel for 1 day during December 2016 while visiting Pune for Sunburn festival. We stayed at Sun and Sand on day 1 and loved the place. We had to choose Novotel for the 2nd day as there was no availability at the former. The room is strictly average and is good for business travelers and might not be a great fit for leisure travelers like me or families. The AC was broken in the room we were checked in to and I needed a replacement. I had complained about the broken AC and had someone attend to it immediately. However, we had a technician working for 45 minutes in our room giving us a lot of inconvenience. I had requested for the room to be changed and the response was bad. I had to go to the reception and pick up an argument for the room to be changed. Being a regular business traveler myself and an Accor Plus member, I find this place not very family friendly. Recommended for business travelers, others can give it a miss.
Had stayed here with my family, location is great rooms are nice and clean, staff is courteous over all it was good fun but compared to our experience of staying in different such Novotel Pune Nagar Roads what lacked and disappointed us was the morning breakfast, spread was limited as compared to other Novotel Pune Nagar Roads of similar stature, spread was nothing great which resulted in all the guests ordering from live counters which resulted in delays lot of pal were unhappy also the restaurant seemed short staffed as compared to the crowd that was present their and food was average in take just one of the instances kids ordered waffle but the chocolate sauce was literally liquid like water, Dosa that we got was overdone from the sides.
Everything was just amazing. The room service was great. Cleanliness was commendable. Facilities were good. Location was very nice. Adorable ambiance. The moment I entered the Novotel Pune Nagar Road, I felt as if this was the best place I have ever visited. Thanks for the hospitality. This was my first stay at Novotel. I wished I could stay more but I had some previous engagements due to which I was unable to continue my trip. Rest all was very impressive. Overall it was a great journey and an awesome stay at not.
There should be no problem in locating this property as it's right on the highway. The food was very delicious and breakfast spread was wide. All the Novotel Pune Nagar Road staff was very courteous. The property is very comfortable and the ambiance of the room is very nice too.
I liked the stay and amenities very much. The Novotel Pune Nagar Road is an up scale property and very comfortable. The breakfast spread was also vivid and delicious. I would also thank MakeMyTrip for the seamless service. Cheers.
Have experienced other Novotel properties and would like to state that definitely this is not one of the best it has to offer. Overall the arrangements could have been better. There were basic amenities that were missing from the bathroom which had to be ordered. The approach to the Pool and the Gym area on the 2nd floor was not inviting at all. The only high point of this property was the excellent breakfast spread. Surely one of the best I have experienced personally. So kudos to the Chef and the Food staff.
Stayed at Novotel for a night with my family and it was a good experience. Booked a junior suite as we were a family of 4. The AC did not work very well as the room temperature did not go below 22 C. Otherwise it was a pleasant experience. Location is great, just a 5- 7 mins walk to Phoenix Mall. The junior suite had a living room and a bedroom. Breakfast was inclusive and most of the dishes did taste good and the spread was also expansive with lots of options. They have a decent swimming pool and gym.
Our recent stay at novotel Pune was very comfortable and Novotel Pune Nagar Road facilities and amenities were very good. The location is very close to the airport and there is also a mall nearby. Food quality was good and they have different restaurant if people even want to try A la Carte. Rooms are decent in size and have all essentials provided. Only suggestion, their front desk should be more proactive in giving information while check-in and also luggage to be sent in a short time.
Stayed here for 2 nights. Check in was quick and the staff was very friendly. Rooms are very good and very well-maintained. The room service was very quick. It is located next to the Phoenix market city mall. Only one problem was that the entrance is a bit small. Only one car at a time can pass by, so there was a lot of waiting to get the car and then leave the premises. Overall it is a very good property. Novotel doesn't fail to deliver.
Novotel Pune Nagar is ab excellent Novotel Pune Nagar Road for family and business travel. Prompt airport pick up and service of Novotel Pune Nagar Road staff is appreciated. Buffet breakfast had a wide range and taste is good. Hotel rooms are spacious and cleanly maintained. Maintenance staff was prompt is responding to a small issue on toilet flush. Overall a best experience and stay. Highly recommend !!
I really don't know where to start from. I could'nt have had a more enjoyable and memorable stay. From the moment we entered the breathtaking lobby, my heat was already yours. The rooms, the restaurant, the public areas all are spectacular with a doubt. The rooms seems more welcoming when you get the vibe of the love with which the housekeeper made the rooms & the breakfast was without a doubt delicious.
Novotel is reputed Novotel Pune Nagar Road chain. I have always enjoyed stay with Novotel. Pune novotel is well located with Malls, IT offices and airport all in near vicinity. Buffet breakfast was superb. Dinner was good too. But staff serving at desk was little inexperienced. I wish them to be more professional then this would make the best Novotel Pune Nagar Road.
Stay was good but with some hassles, as the booking was made by clearly mentioning 3 adults and we booked a junior suit, but we had no idea that suit would be having only 1 king bed, and there was no arrangement for 3rd person. After long calls with MakeMyTrip issue was resolved. In facilities pool was not so clean, breakfast had very few options.
Everything was excellent.. Rooms are decent... Cleanliness was good... Service is very nice... We really enjoyed our stay at Novotel Pune Nagar Road Novotel... As per our opinion this is a best Novotel Pune Nagar Road in Pune for family stay.. Food quality was also good.
It was a excellent stay in Novotel. It was worth for the money spent. The breakfast was excellent. The room was very clean. The service was remarkable. The location and the view from the room was nice. I would like to stay with Novotel every time I visit Pune.
Everything is amazing. We reached after midnight but they still helped us for everything. Be it the airport shuttle service or a pasta and good coffee. They are one of the best in town. Our stay was good and the staff are very friendly and the Novotel Pune Nagar Road is as good as it says.
This Novotel Pune Nagar Road is a very good product. The facility, people and food, come together, in a very composite guest experience. Location of the Novotel Pune Nagar Road, just minutes from the airport, and a variety of dining options, is a critical added advantage.
Good and cost reasonable, even food quality also OK.
Perfect to stay and get relaxed. Wish to come again and again when I will be here in Pune. Location is nearer to shopping mall and restaurant which is added advantage when we are free or ladies and family members are free.
Good property having being located near to airport and very convenient place to reach. Since we booked executive room, we have been offered access to executive lounge which added more pleasure to the stay. Food was good with quite a good options. Worth staying.
Good stay and pleasant environment. Value for money and specially the Food. I loved it. I am going to prefer this Novotel Pune Nagar Road again and again. Room were clean and we had access to lounge as well. Great experience and relaxable stay. One should prefer without giving a second thought.
The in room service was very slow.
Small cramped rooms, lousy and incompetent staff. Had to carry our baggage till the reception desk ourself as no bellboy was available at the gate. Food was okay.
Great experience, but too expensive for Pune market. Overall experience is great, from check-in to room service and through checkout. Ideal location, with free buffet, you can't expect more. Definitely my choice of stay for future Pune trips.
Location is very good. Very friendly staff. Rooms are good and spacious. Only thing is that they do not provide the necessary things like dental kit, slippers etc. They never replaced hand towels for us and they gave only two small water bottles per day that was very less. Apart from that overall good Novotel Pune Nagar Road to stay.
Happy and comfortable pleasant stay.
Thank you so much ... It was an awesome stay.
Novotel is well located with Malls, IT offices and airport all in near vicinity, Dinner was good, Very near to Airport and good connectivity to city main locations, Breakfast was inclusive and most of the dishes did taste good also they have a decent swimming pool and gym. Overall Good experience !!
Great food and great place to stay in Pune.
Loved the Novotel Pune Nagar Road view. Near to phoenix mall and airport.


The International Journal of Health Services says that over the last 18 years, 17 different drugs were approved for patient use in the U.S. and later pulled because they were unsafe. That may not sound like much but those 17 drugs were prescribed 112 million times. Chances are great that you or a loved one has taken unsafe prescription drugs.
Add to this number the millions of pills and injectable drugs that are dispensed each year in the U.S. that are adulterated, contaminated, under potency or over strength. Eighty – five percent of the prescriptions dispensed in the United States are manufactured outside the country and many of those are made in India and China, two countries with notoriously poor quality control.
These numbers should scare you.
Defective and unsafe products are sold every day in the U.S. With many products we can often see or check those products and quickly detect when something is awry. If your car's brakes are squealing, you can take the car to a shop for inspection. But if your doctor prescribes chemo for cancer, how do you know what is really in the IV? How could you possible tell if the medication was fake? Over potent? Or "cut" several times by an unscrupulous middleman?
Why don't most people know these statistics? The answer is simple. We tend to see and hear more about those things we can control. For example, we can all do something to stop car accidents or at least minimize their harmful impacts. (Think of seat belt campaigns, roadside signs warning of texting, etc.) But what we can do about bad drugs? Since there is little most of us can do, we don't hear of the problems.
When it comes to prescription drugs, we rely on the FDA. The FDA, however, primarily relies on the industry to self police. Yes, the FDA does inspections but in foreign countries, where the vast majority of the drugs are manufactured, inspections only happen roughly every two years. Worse, the inspections are often pre-announced or leaked in advance by corrupt local authorities.
Obviously, manufacturers are always on their best behavior at inspection time. Recently I met a company at an international pharmaceutical convention that specializes in getting plants ready for inspections and hiding problems!
Despite leaked information from the inspection authorities in foreign countries and chronic understaffing, the FDA still manages to do a fair job… that is on pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. The problems, however, are often with the companies that produce the "API" or active pharmaceutical ingredients for these drugs. These are largely regulated by the locals and often that regulation is nonexistent. Many are drug component are produced in open air facilities located in third world countries.
There are two primary causes of the huge number of drug reaction deaths each year. The first are problems in manufacturing… under potency, over potency, adulterated and contaminated products. These are functions of manufacturing conditions, assembly and supply line quality control.
A second problem comes from withheld safety data. Today, drug companies advertise their products on television and in magazines. Turn on TV and you will find dozens of ads for drugs that treat erectile dysfunction, bladder control, shingles, migraines, etc. Drugs are raced to market much faster. New drugs go to market without years' worth of safety data and clinical trials, either.
There is something to be said for getting drugs to market quicker. If you are dying and your only hope is an experimental drug, you want that drug immediately.
The FDA is much faster now in approving new drugs. When adverse reactions and drug interactions are found, however, drug companies are required to immediately report those to the FDA. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen. Sometimes big pharma knows about problems or potential problems but keeps its mouth shut.
Big tobacco was forced to pay billions of dollars to settle claims regarding the health effects of cigarettes. The tobacco companies knew there was a link between cigarettes and cancer but remained silent for years. Some drug companies follow that same broken and twisted business model.
So who is best able to address these manufacturing problems, testing issues and unsafe prescription drugs? The FDA plays a big role, of course. The real solutions, however, are the men and women who work in these companies. Under the False Claims Act (FCA), people with inside information about dangerous or adulterated drugs being sold on the U.S. market are eligible for huge, multi-million whistleblower awards.
Just like the problems with deaths caused by pharmaceutical drugs is largely hidden from the public's eye, so is the government's whistleblower program. That is a bit surprising since Congress passed the FCA in 1863. That's right. America's most successful and long running whistleblower program was passed by Congress during the Civil War and signed into law by Abraham Lincoln. It pays hundreds of millions of dollars in awards each year but most pharma workers have never heard of it. Even better, the law pays awards even if the whistleblower is not a U.S. citizen.
The False Claims Act comes with a catch. The law can only pay awards if the drugs are sold to the government or purchased with government funds. Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid satisfy that hurdle, however. Virtually every prescription drug sold in the U.S. is approved for Medicare meaning awards are widely available.
To earn a whistleblower award, one needs inside ("original source") information about the fraud. Hearsay ("a friend of a friend said…") and what you read online don't count. You also must be the first to file your claim.
"Filing" means filing a sealed lawsuit in federal court. The case remains secret or "sealed" while the government investigates. If the case is ultimately successful, the whistleblower can receive an award of between 15% and 30% of what the government recovers. There are also strong anti-retaliation provisions in the law.
To date, our clients have received over $100 million in whistleblower reward monies. Those awards are very real.
More than the money, healthcare whistleblowers save lives. The earlier a bad drug is taken off the shelf, the better for everyone.
If you work in the pharmaceutical industry and are interested in becoming a whistleblower, call us. The consultation is always free and without obligation. All inquiries are protected by the attorney – client privilege. And there is never a fee for our services unless we collect money for you.
We are interested in whistleblower tips relating to manufacturing defects (cGMP), faulty clinical trials, drugs being marketed for unapproved uses and any other information that endangers public safety or is evidence of fraud and greed.
The lawyers at MahanyLaw sincerely thank our many whistleblower clients and the federal agencies and prosecutors we have partnered with over the years. Whistleblowers are the true heroes – unsung heroes – in the battle to improve patient care.
or by telephone at (414) 704-6731. Not sure you are ready to call just yet? Visit our pharmaceutical whistleblower page or our friends at the Pharmaceutical Integrity Coalition. If you are interested in an award, however, don't call the FDA or Medicare's hotline. The hotlines generally can only pay $1000 awards. The large percentage awards are reserved for those who file their whistleblower complaint in court.


Energy company 3sun Group is putting 12 ex-armed forces personnel through wind turbine technician training with the prospect of moving straight in to its worldwide workforce.
The 12 are undergoing 3 weeks' training at 3sun Academy, worth thousands of pounds each, building on their engineering skills to shape new careers outside the forces.
If they complete the qualifications successfully, they could be working on- and offshore wind farms around the UK and abroad as soon as next month for 3sun Group's Dawson Energy division.
Aged between 23 and 57, the men on the Military Transition Programme course have all served in the Army, RAF or the Navy.
Their training is part of 3sun Group's commitment as one of the first companies in the East of England to sign the Armed Forces Covenant to help service leavers find new careers.
The 12 will mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday by working with young people from the local charity, the Anchorage Trust, at 3sun Academy.
3sun Group chief executive Graham Hacon, Academy head Andy Holyland and Academy manager Matt Jeffries are all ex-Army, with a large part of the workforce coming from services backgrounds.
Hacon sats ex-military were target employees because of the quality of their technical training, attitude, mind set and professional experiences.
3sun Group last offered the training four years ago, with most of the 12 still on the workforce today, many having progressed their careers. Ex-military is one of three common entry points for 3un Group new technicians, alongside college leavers becoming apprentices from 3sun's pre-apprenticeship programme with Great Yarmouth College and oil and gas workers retraining for the renewables industry.
Qualifications gained in the next three weeks include the Global Wind Organisation basic safety training, basic technical training, working in confined spaces, personal protection inspection and compact crane operator courses.
The personnel found out about the training through the Career Transfer Partnership (CTP), mostly on a link on Facebook.
John Horn, who lives in Brixham, Devon, is retraining for a new career. He spent nine years in the RAF before working as an avionic maintenance engineer in Saudi Arabia for a decade, before returning to the UK to train and work as a teacher for another 12 years.
"I've always wanted to work in renewables and the flexibility of this work, two weeks on and two weeks off, suited me and my family, while using my electrical skills background. This will give me a whole new career, which is not 9 to 5," says Horn.


If you want to have a truly successful life: Healthy, Wealthy, and Happy. You need the 5 Pillars of True Success, which is the NEW paradigm for modern success. It will bring to us harmony and balance in our lives.
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seroprevalence of neospora caninum and brucella abortus among dairy cattle herds with high abortion rates. abstract the protozoon neospora caninum and the bacterium brucella abortus are well recognized abortifacients in dairy cattle. serum samples (n = 240) from aborting (n = 141) and at risk (n = 99) animals from 5 herds with high abortion rates in punjab province, pakistan were tested for antibodies to n. caninum using monoclonal antibody based competitive elisa and to b. abortus using the serum agglutination test. antibodies to n. caninum and b. abortus were detected in 105 (43.8 %) and 135 (56.3% ... 2011 21506829
effects of brucella abortus biotype 1 infection on the reproductive performance of sprague-dawley rats. the aim of this study was to assess the impact of brucella abortus biotype 1 infection on the reproductive performance using sprague-dawley (sd) rat model. virgin female sd rats (n = 24) were infected intraperitoneally with 0.1 ml of saline containing 1 x 10(11) colony forming unit (cfu) of pathogenic b. abortus biotype 1 korean bovine isolate. control rats (n = 24) were inoculated with 0.1 ml of apyrogenic saline. both inoculated and control rats were divided into six subgroups. four rats in ea ... 2009 19579969
reply to letter to the editor by blasco and moriyon (2009) concerning the manuscript "eradication of bovine brucellosis (bb) in the azores, portugal-outcome of a 5-year programme (2002-2007) based on test-and-slaughter and rb51 vaccination" by h. martins et al. (2009). 2010 20079547
epidemiological study of bovine brucellosis in three agro-ecological areas of central oromiya, ethiopia. a cross-sectional sero-epidemiological study of bovine brucellosis was conducted between september 2005 and march 2006 in three separate agroecological areas of central oromiya, ethiopia. in this study, a total of 176 clusters (farms) and 1,238 animals were selected, using the one-stage cluster sampling method. fifty-nine clusters and 423 animals were selected from the lowland areas; 58 clusters and 385 animals from the midland areas and 59 clusters and 430 animals from the highlands. serum samp ... 2009 20462151
phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of brucella strains isolated from cattle in the gambia. thirty-five serum samples and six hygroma fluid samples were collected from sexually mature cattle in one herd with clinical signs of brucellosis (abortion and hygromas) in the western region of the gambia in order to isolate and characterise brucella species. information on the sex, age, number of calvings, number of abortions, presence of hygromas, and presence of orchitis was also collected for each animal sampled. twenty-six (74 per cent) of the serum samples were positive in the rose bengal ... 2010 20543166
status of brucellosis in free-ranging elk and bison in wyoming. brucella abortus is the causative agent of brucellosis, a disease enzootic in populations of free-ranging elk (cervus elaphus) and bison (bison bison) in the greater yellowstone ecosystem, usa. we define the distribution of the disease in elk throughout wyoming, usa, using three epidemiologic/geographic classifications based on winter-foraging opportunity. antibody prevalence for >3,300 yearling and adult, female elk, sampled from supplemental feedgrounds in western wyoming, usa, since 1985, was ... 2010 20688637
heat-killed and γ-irradiated brucella strain rb51 stimulates enhanced dendritic cell activation, but not function compared with the virulent smooth strain 2308. brucella spp. are gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacterial pathogens that cause abortion in livestock and undulant fever in humans worldwide. brucella abortus strain 2308 is a pathogenic strain that affects cattle and humans. currently, there are no efficacious human vaccines available. however, b. abortus strain rb51, which is approved by the usda, is a live-attenuated rough vaccine against bovine brucellosis. live strain rb51 induces protection via cd4(+) and cd8(+) t-cell-mediated i ... 2010 20812951
[molecular characterization of brucella abortus strain 19 and its application for controlling biologics]. brucella abortus is the etiological agent of bovine brucellosis. the strain 19 used in vaccine elaboration can be identified through a deletion in the eri region associated with its susceptibility to erythritol. we optimized a pcr assay for specific characterization of this strain. the method described here is a rapid procedure that enables identification of b. abortus, and simultaneous differentiation of the strain 19 from other b. abortus biovar 1 strains. we applied the assay to detect the st ... 2005 16323658
brucellosis in camels. camels are highly susceptible to brucellosis caused by brucella melitensis and brucella abortus. difficulties can arise in diagnosis of camel brucellosis, especially as this disease provokes only few clinical signs in contrast to its clinical course in cattle. because none of the commonly used serological test can be perceived as a perfect test for brucella diagnosis in camel and most serological tests used for camels have been directly transposed from cattle without adequate validation, an inco ... 2011 21632084
failure to isolate brucella abortus from embryos or ova from culture-positive superovulated cows. nine, brucella abortus culture positive 2-yr-old cows were used to test the hypothesis that embryos and ova collected from such cows are not infected. superovulation was induced at varying times postpartum or postabortion with intramuscular injections of follicle stimulating hormone (fsh). the cows were artificially inseminated with b. abortus-negative semen. superovulations and nonsurgical embryo collections nonsurgical embryo collections were attempted twice for each cow. jugular blood, udder ... 1988 16726359
variable-number tandem repeat markers for identification of brucella abortus 82 and 75/79-av vaccine strains. in russia, live vaccine strains brucella abortus 82 and b. abortus 75/79-av have been widely and extensively utilized for specific prophylaxis of cattle brucellosis. to differentiate these vaccine strains from each other and laboratory collection of other vaccine (n=4), reference (n=15) and field brucella strains (n=61), the multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat (vntr) analyses (mlva) were used with 12 loci containing tandem repeats from 134bp to 8bp recently described for brucella spp. t ... 2010 20362200
comparative study of the immunobiological properties of live brucellosis vaccines. findings from the comparative study of the immunobiological properties of live brucellosis vaccines in guinea pigs are presented in the article. vaccines from strains brucella abortus 19 (u.s.) and 82 (russia), in the s and sr forms, respectively, exhibited the highest and most pronounced immunological efficacy, while vaccines from strains b. abortus 82-ps (in the rs form) and b. abortus rb-51 and 75/79-ab (in the r forms) exhibited the lowest. the live vaccine from strain b. abortus 82, togethe ... 2010 20362201
designing vaccines against cattle brucellosis. the article presents the results from a study of two new vaccines against cattle brucellosis from brucella abortus cultures. one of these is a live dry vaccine prepared from a weakly agglutinogenic strain in the sr form and the second, an inactivated adjuvant vaccine from an non-agglutinogenic strain in the r form. the immunogenic properties of the vaccines were studied in three tests on heifers with infection by a virulent b. abortus culture. the vaccines passed the farm-scale testing and were ... 2010 20362619
serological evidence of brucella abortus prevalence in punjab province, pakistan--a cross-sectional study. twenty-one villages in punjab province, seven from each region (north, central& south) were randomly selected to determine the prevalence of b. abortus infection by two age categories (group a: 0–2 years; group b: >2 years) in cattle and buffalo populations. in each village, eight blood samples were collected from each age group of cattle and buffaloes. sera from a total of 672 blood samples (336 each from cattle and buffaloes) were analysed for the presence of antibodies to b. abortus using ros ... 2010 21117286
serological discrimination by indirect enzyme immunoassay between the antibody response to brucella sp. and yersinia enterocolitica o:9 in cattle and pigs. a rapid, inexpensive and rugged serological test that distinguishes cattle and swine infected with brucella sp. or yersinia enterocolitica o:9 is described. the test protocol, which is an indirect enzyme immunoassay uses a high concentration of divalent cation chelating agents to minimize binding of y. enterocolitica o:9 antibody to rough lipopolysaccharide antigen derived from b. abortus rb51. no false positive reactions were observed when testing 100 canadian cattle and swine without any evide ... 2006 16140390
comparative analysis of the early transcriptome of brucella abortus - infected monocyte-derived macrophages from cattle naturally resistant or susceptible to brucellosis. brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic infectious disease that has a significant economic impact on animal production and human public health. we characterized the gene expression profile of b. abortus-infected monocyte-derived macrophages (mdms) from naïve cattle naturally resistant (r) or susceptible (s) to brucellosis using a cdna microarray technology. our data indicate that (1) b. abortus induced a slightly increased genome activation in r mdms and a down-regulated transcriptome in s mdms, dur ... 2010 20932540
brucella abortus infection in cattle; agglutination tests. 1946 20988177
effect of polymorphisms in the slc11a1 coding region on resistance to brucellosis by macrophages in vitro and after challenge in two bos breeds (blanco orejinegro and zebu). the resistance/susceptibility of selected cattle breeds to brucellosis was evaluated in an f1 population generated by crossing animals classified as resistant (r) and susceptible (s) (r x r, r x s, s x r, s x s) based on challenges in vitro and in vivo. the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms identified in the coding region of the slc11a1 gene and resistance/susceptibility was estimated. the trait resistance or susceptibility to brucellosis, evaluated by a challenge in vitro, sho ... 2010 21637417
preliminary assessment of binary ethylenimine inactivated and saponized cutaneous warts (bpv-2) therapeutic vaccine for enzootic bovine haematuria in hill cows. a preliminary therapeutic vaccine trial was conducted in hill cows to evaluate the therapeutic potential of binary ethylenimine (bei) inactivated and saponized bovine papillomavirus-2 (bpv-2) for enzootic bovine haematuria (ebh). although the vaccine failed to show favorable clinical vaccine results in treatment of ebh affected cows at 120 days post-vaccination but immunopathological responses were encouraging. a significant difference was observed in humoral (against brucella abortus strain 19s ... 2011 21803104
iron homeostasis in brucella abortus: the role of bacterioferritin. brucella abortus is the etiological agent of bovine brucellosis, an infectious disease of humans and cattle. its pathogenesis is mainly based on its ability to survive and multiply inside macrophages. it has been demonstrated that if b. abortus ferrochelatase cannot incorporate iron into protoporphyrin ix to synthesize heme, the intracellular replication and virulence in mice is highly attenuated. therefore, it can be hypothesized that the unavailability of iron could lead to the same attenuatio ... 2010 21046346
identification of new is711 insertion sites in brucella abortus field isolates. abstract: background: brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by brucella spp., a group of highly homogeneous bacteria. the insertion sequence is711 is characteristic of these bacteria, and occurs in variable numbers and positions, but always constant within a given species. this species-associated polymorphism is used in molecular typing and identification. field isolates of b. abortus, the most common species infecting cattle, typically carry seven is711 copies (one truncated). thus far, is711 transp ... 2011 21813003


Having seen the benefits that going offshore has to offer, the next step is to learn how the process actually works. How does a person "go offshore"? Having guided numerous clients from all over the world through the process, HFS makes going offshore easy to understand. The process of going offshore is described in detail below for those who want to thoroughly understand it. However, clients don't have to become offshore experts to take advantage of offshore tools. HFS takes care of all of the steps below and does all of the necessary back end work so that clients can go offshore without leaving their desks.
Introduction: To "go offshore" simply means to place assets outside of one's home country. This is accomplished through taking several steps. These steps are the same regardless of the reason for going offshore. For maximum privacy and protection the steps should involve multiple offshore jurisdictions. Visit Rock Solid Security for an explanation of our unique, multi-jurisdictional approach and how it protects assets FAR better than using a single offshore country.
The first step in forming an offshore structure is to form a corporation (IBC) in an offshore country. Don't be confused by the word "corporation". There is no requirement to start an actual, running business or to travel to where the IBC is formed. An IBC is established so that the client has a legal entity that can own assets such as property, investments and bank accounts in its name rather than the client's personal name. Moving assets into the IBC will keep them out of the reach of third parties and in their rightful hands: yours.
An IBC is a corporation formed in an offshore country. An IBC is completely private; the founder (you) may be the only person in the company, may completely control it and may be the sole shareholder (owner). No one else need be involved or have any knowledge of the IBC's business or affairs. The founder may include others in the IBC if he/she wishes to, but there is no obligation to do so. The founder/owner's identity remains confidential through the use of bearer shares. The person or organization who holds the bearer shares is the IBC's legal owner.
Once the IBC is in place, an additional layer of protection is added. An offshore trust is created which becomes the owner of the IBC. This further removes any connection between the client's personal name and his or her assets. Typically, the founder of the IBC holds the bearer shares and is therefore the IBC's legal owner. However, being the owner of the IBC could be problematic if the founder were ever forced to divulge his or her assets. By means of an offshore trust, the founder can remove the potential liability of being the IBC's owner without sacrificing privacy and complete control of his/her offshore corporation.
An offshore trust is created which takes possession of the IBC's bearer shares. The offshore trust then becomes the legal owner of the IBC. Ownership of the IBC is then in the hands of the offshore trust instead of the founder. This removes any liability that might have come with owning an offshore corporation. The offshore trust simply acts a a passive, non-involved shareholder and therefore does not alter the functionality or the privacy of the IBC. The founder retains complete control of the IBC: he/she remains the only individual with any knowledge of the IBC's business, the only one who uses the IBC, and the only one who may sign on any accounts in the IBC's name.
The offshore trust may also be used independently to hold domestic assets (car, home, real estate, art collections, etc.) that cannot be moved offshore. Moving domestic assets into an offshore trust protects them from lawsuits by taking them out of an individual's (or company's) name and placing them into the name of an offshore structure which third parties cannot obtain information about.
After the IBC and offshore trust have been formed, the founder may then move assets under the protective umbrella of these offshore entities. This is accomplished via offshore bank and/or brokerage accounts.
When an offshore bank account is established, the client may move his/her money into the account to safeguard it. The offshore bank account is opened in the name of the client's IBC, not the client's personal name. This protects the client's identity because transactions carried out with the account (wire transfers, debit cards, etc.) are all in the IBC's name, not the client's name..
An offshore account that is opened in the name of an IBC must be signed on by an individual. The founder of the company (the client) may sign on the account and will remain in complete control of his/her money. The founder's identity is kept confidential because of strict offshore secrecy laws. The secrecy laws insure that all banking or investing transactions will be kept completely confidential. Offshore banks issue private Visa/MasterCard debit cards that an account holder may use to withdraw funds from an ATM or to purchase goods and services directly.
The client may protect an existing portfolio by moving an existing investment account into an offshore brokerage account. Also, if the client does not have an existing investment account he/she may establish a new one offshore..
An offshore brokerage account is much like an offshore bank account, only it is used for investing, not banking. The brokerage account is opened in the name of the IBC thus protecting the client's privacy. Any purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, futures, forex, etc. is carried out in the name of the offshore brokerage on behalf of the IBC. The client's personal name is never connected to any transaction. The client may sign on the brokerage account to maintain complete control. The client's identity is kept confidential because of offshore secrecy laws.
Through an offshore brokerage account, the client may invest privately in offshore funds as well as any market on the planet. The offshore brokerage account may be opened at a full service or online brokerage.
The last step in going offshore is to establish an offshore mail forwarding address. An offshore address will insure that the wrong eyes never view sensitive information.
inside a discreet envelope and mailed to the client. Using offshore mail forwarding will avoid any breaches in privacy that might occur as a result of offshore correspondence being sent directly to a domestic residence or business.
Assets are now secure. You can breathe easier knowing that your assets are private, safe, secure, out of harm's way and will remain their rightful hands: yours.


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