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Stevie Patrick Legacy of Love Award
The Stevie Patrick Legacy of Love Award was created to honor a special caregiver, medical professional or supporter. The Legacy of Love award is easily defined by actions of integrity, encouragement, determination, and serving others, especially those in need. This deserving person must be a leader each day and also have the courage to smile in the midst of adversity.
At each 5K event, Head for the Cure will award one recipient of the Legacy of Love Award during our program after the race. Nominations will be reviewed by the Head for the Cure Team prior to the event. Nominations must be made by the Wednesday prior to the 5K event.
About Stevie Patrick:
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The Legacy of Love Award was created in honor of Stevie Patrick, a Head for the Cure - North Texas founder and participant. In May of 2010, at the age of 28, Stevie was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Throughout her life, Stevie was known to her friends and family as an encourager and a leader. She consistently went out of her way to serve others and loved giving everyone she met one of her famous hugs.
Stevie always took the high road and walked through each day with great integrity and a big smile on her face. Anyone who got the opportunity to interact with Stevie knew that she was thoughtful, encouraging, genuine, supportive and a great listener. These attributes didn't change during her incredibly challenging three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer, as she never stopped thinking about others and offering her help.
Stevie Patrick lost her battle with brain cancer on September 26, 2013 at the young age of 31. She left behind her sweet husband, Damen, her darling son, Ryder, as well as her parents, two sisters, one brother, and countless friends and extended family. Each day that goes by she is missed more and more by her family and friends, but her legacy remains as strong as ever. How fortunate so many were to know someone as wonderful, compassionate, and loving as Stevie.
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For as long as I could remember (or at least after Austin Powers had coined the term in popular lexicon), my dad always referred to my sister Melissa as "Mini-Me." While this is mainly because they sh
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In the emergency room when we found out about my dad's brain tumor, only a handful of people were in the room: the doctor who read the CT scan, my father, my mother, me, and my oldest sister Marissa w
Kimberly Asbury
Kim Asbury promised her sister, Lori Jo Mines, who recently passed away from stage IV brain cancer, she would not let her sister's cancer go in vain.
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Dr. Nick Avgeropoulos works in the cancer center at Orlando Health. He is an excellent neuro-oncologist. I met Dr. Nick just after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma.
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I nominate my husband, John Bell. It took a while to get a complete diagnosis for me back in 2015, but then everything moved quickly with chemo and radiation.
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Our Dad was able to step up as a caregiver, while our world was falling apart. Our Mom was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme at a really precarious time in our lives.
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This is my husband. He has walked beside me this whole path. He homeschooled our 2 oldest this past year because I couldn't. He has managed severe anxiety.
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I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in June of 2017 after having an unexpected seizure.
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Argentina Keeps Redesigning Its Currency, Solving Nothing
Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country's bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.
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Argentine President Alberto Fernández in 2019
Argentina's currency, the peso, is getting yet another face-lift. Last month, Peronist President Alberto Fernández announced a new "family" of paper bills, fulfilling a campaign promise that was ostensibly delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. This has become a rite of passage of sorts for the nation's leaders: The latest bills will be the fourth partial or total redesign since 2011, continuing a trend now spanning three administrations across the country's political and ideological spectrum. Though this is a boon for currency design specialists, spare a thought for all who need to swiftly identify the smattering of bills now in circulation.
Fernández's announcement came amid a projected yearly inflation rate of over 50 percent; this past March alone, inflation reached 6.7 percent, the highest number for one month in decades, and it has surpassed 50 percent in two of the past three years. Certainly, inflation can motivate governments to modify their country's array of bill denominations: As prices rise, higher-number bills reduce transit costs for banks stocking ATMs and simplify cash transactions. But Fernández did not, as some of his opponents on the right expected or hoped, add a 2,000 peso or 5,000 peso note. The highest denomination will remain 1,000 pesos, introduced by Fernández's predecessor, neoliberal businessman Mauricio Macri, in 2017.
Macri had already introduced a 500 peso and 200 peso note in response to the peso's eroded purchase power in 2016. The highest note before then had been 100 pesos, in circulation since 1999. Macri's predecessor, current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had likewise refused to issue notes with higher nominal value during her terms as president from 2007 to 2015. She was said to believe that doing so would heighten Argentina's inflationary spiral, and that logic has also inflected Fernández's refusal to issue greater bills. The president of Argentina's central bank, meanwhile, claimed that the lack of higher denominations will encourage online commerce, a stretch in a country with an informal economy equivalent to around 25 percent of its gross domestic product.
Given the material unimportance of money's look, it's clear that economic, aesthetic, or security concerns are not driving these changes. Fernández is a Peronist—a follower of Juan Domingo Perón, an army officer who rose meteorically to power in the 1940s by enacting policies that benefited poor and working-class Argentines and challenged a powerful aristocracy. The commitment of Perón's first wife, Eva, to social justice made her, in the years before her untimely death, Peronism's defining icon—and a figure who remains controversial today. (She and her husband often neared authoritarianism, and their sympathy for Mussolini is well documented.) Macri, in addition to issuing higher-value notes, had redesigned existing notes, replacing historically significant figures with animals native to Argentina. Fernández is undoing this measure; the figures restored include General José de San Martín, who led Argentina's revolutionary war. Though the Fernández administration has emphasized the increased presence of women, Juana de Azurduy and María Remedios del Valle, prominent early nineteenth-century military leaders, share their respective notes with men. Evita is the only woman to receive lone billing, on the 100 peso note to which Fernández de Kirchner allocated her in 2011.
For Fernández and his predecessors on either side, redesigning paper money is a way to convey a government's values and policies through something tangible with which the public engages every day. But ultimately these redesigns do not address deep-rooted and worsening economic woes.
Argentina's currency has historically been a shaky matter. In the 1970s and 1980s, two separate versions of the peso—the "Peso Ley" and the "Peso Argentino"—were used and eventually replaced by the "austral" denomination in 1985. A hyperinflationary period in the late '80s effectively nullified the austral's value (notes up to 500,000 australes circulated; in May 1989, inflation reached 114 percent for the month). Carlos Menem, president from 1989 to 1999, introduced a bill cutting four zeros off the austral and renaming it the peso, attempting to parallel Argentina's monetary system to the U.S. dollar. Menem also declared a one-to-one ("uno a uno") fixed exchange rate between the peso and the dollar, a measure that contributed to the worst economic crisis in Argentine history in 2001. When the dollar's value increased in the late '90s, Argentina's exports ceased to be competitively priced, eventually leading to mass unemployment. This led to a cash shortage so severe that the government mandated that banks withhold people's money, and particularly their U.S. dollars, to pay off debts, a move later called a "corralito." Many never recovered their money, and the measure heightened the public's already great distrust of financial institutions.
Though the country mostly returned to stability in 2003, by 2012 inflation had begun to accelerate again, with the official inflation rate circling 12 percent and private consulting firms claiming the number was closer to 25 percent. The peso depreciated around 14 percent against the dollar despite currency exchange restrictions meant to stabilize the exchange rate. That year, President Fernández de Kirchner announced the first currency redesign, which put Evita on the 100 peso note. Per Fernández de Kirchner, this bill had been in the works after Evita's death in 1952, and a preliminary design survived the decades after a 1955 coup deposed Perón and proscribed Peronism, hidden behind a drawer in Argentina's mint. The bill's roll-out was controversial, with complaints that businesses were refusing to accept it. Kirchner suggested, in response, that "it wasn't the bill, we know what it was … Evita is what bothered them."
The inflationary trend continued through the remaining years of Kirchner's presidency. In 2014, she announced two more redesigned notes: a 50 peso bill featuring the Falkland or Malvinas Islands, to which Argentina has held a longtime territorial claim; and a 10 peso note, preserving the figure of Manuel Belgrano but including subtle homages to Juana Azurduy and other facets of revolutionary, military mythos. Fernández de Kirchner and her husband—former President Nestor Kirchner, who ruled from 2003 to 2007 and died in 2010—often leaned on the language of war as a metaphor for governance and politics.
While campaigning as the opposition candidate in 2015, Macri—a right-wing businessman turned politician and the son of one of Argentina's wealthiest impresarios—and his party called for new bills with higher denominations. After taking over from Kirchner in late 2015, Macri's administration began work on a new "family" of notes themed around "Argentina's Autochthonous Animals" and devoid of historical figures. These bills, as the documentary produced around them maintains, were meant to "highlight the generosity of our country's fauna, celebrate life, and defend federalism." Macri's administration argued that animals would be less divisive and unite all Argentines, leaving politics out of it and focusing on environmentalism. This was interpreted specifically as a reaction against Fernández de Kirchner's redesigns. The out-of-power Kirchnerists, as Fernández de Kirchner's followers are known, soon argued that beneath the claim to a higher representation there was also a distaste for history and historical memory.
Macri's relationship to historical memory has been the subject of much criticism. In 2016, he claimed not to know whether Argentina's last civic-military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, had disappeared (i.e., extrajudicially kidnapped and murdered without record) 9,000 or 30,000 people. The 30,000 figure—an estimate, impossible to confirm by virtue of the very nature of the crime it indexes—represents the long struggle for justice and remembrance that has racked the country since the end of the dictatorship. Macri also claimed that what had occurred was a "dirty war," equating the genocidal program of the dictators with the actions of the small guerrilla groups that the military massacred. Justice for the dictatorship's atrocities was a central part of the Kirchners' political agenda.
Many, including both Fernández de Kirchner and Alberto Fernández, see a continuity between Macri's lack of interest in historical memory and his choice of "autochthonous animals" for currency. At the launch ceremony for his administration's new notes, Fernández said, "Some want to erase history; they want us not to remember," in reference to Macri's "autochthonous animals" bills. Macri, meanwhile, saw his redesign as part of what he termed the "sincerification of the economy," meant to acknowledge and curtail excess government spending, though it ultimately led to harsh austerity measures. Fernández has recently reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to refinance the $44 billion of debt that the Macri administration incurred, the biggest loan in the organization's history.
Announcing the new currency, Fernández asserted that "currency is, above all else, also a symbol of sovereignty and an instrument of economic policy that we will never resign." Economic sovereignty in particular has always been a pillar of Kirchnerism, exemplified (if not mythologized) by Nestor Kirchner's payment of billions of dollars' worth of debt to the IMF in 2005. Fernández's recent deal with the IMF did not satisfy Fernández de Kirchner's faction of the party, which felt that the president was too readily agreeing to the IMF's terms. The two Peronist leaders feuded publicly, and some pundits saw a growing threat to their coalition. Fernández's economic minister, Martín Guzmán, led the IMF deal, and his approach has come under significant criticism from party factions. Most recently, the interior commerce secretary, a Fernández de Kirchner loyalist, resigned from his post over differences with Guzmán.
Economic instability has mounted over the past decade in Argentina, and though 2001 continues to represent a nadir of unrest and misery, poverty has grown to encompass nearly 40 percent of the country's population, with around 65 percent of all children living in poverty. These problems have only grown during the Fernández de Kirchner, Macri, and Fernández administrations. All three have positioned currency redesigns as central to their economic programs. But in the end, redesigns are materially irrelevant measures—and perhaps Argentina's political leaders prefer them for that very reason. These redesigns assert a commitment to action; reversing years of rising inflation, devaluation, and structural poverty and inequality is a far more difficult task. It remains to be seen whether, after Fernández's announcement, relief is in sight for the nearly 20 million Argentines living below the poverty line. But this much is clear: People can't eat money, no matter what it looks like.
Federico Perelmuter @cementeriocc
Federico Perelmuter is a writer and translator living in Buenos Aires.
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Aspergillus fumigatus est un champignon du genre Aspergillus, responsable d'infections sévères chez les humains et chez les oiseaux. Chez les humains, il est responsable de maladies comme l'aspergillose bronchopulmonaire et l'aspergillome, chez les oiseaux il est responsable de l'aspergillose aviaire.

L'épandage massif de fongicides agricoles  induit une résistance aux azoles chez Aspergillus fumigatus. Ce champignon n'est pourtant pas un pathogène pour les plantes mais est présent dans les sols traités. Dans les hôpitaux néerlandais, jusqu'à 20 % des cas impliquent des souches résistantes.

Identification
Les Aspergillus sont de bons antigènes qui forment dans l'organisme parasité des anticorps caractéristiques.

Le diagnostic peut se faire à l'examen direct ou en culture. Cette dernière se réalise sur une gélose de Sabouraud additionnée d'antibiotiques, ou une gélose à l'extrait de malt.

Pathologie

Aspergilloses

C'est la plus fréquente des affections à Aspergillus.

Elle est caractérisée
 au point de vue clinique, par la présence à intervalles réguliers de petites hémoptysies de sang rouge.
 au point de vue radiologique, par une image arrondie, surmontée d'un croissant clair, située en général à l'apex d'un lobe supérieur.

La pneumonie aspergillaire autrefois exceptionnelle, est maintenant plus fréquente car elle se développe chez des individus soit affaiblis par une autre maladie, soit sous traitement immuno-suppresseur.

Elle est extrêmement grave : les symptômes sont ceux d'une pneumonie avec fièvre et leucocytose.

Le , la revue Lancet signale le décès d'un jardinier britannique mort après avoir respiré des spores d'un champignon microscopique Aspergillus fumigatus contenu dans de la matière organique en décomposition qu'il avait répandue la veille.

La prévention des aspergilloses à domicile a fait l'objet d'une étude par le CHU de Nantes : il est indispensable pour les sujets immunodéprimés d'éviter d'inhaler l'air dans des situations environnementales dégradées par la mise en suspension de spores dans l'air, notamment il convient de fermer les fenêtres des habitations lorsqu'elles sont à proximité de situations mettant en mouvement ce type de spores, tels des chantiers de construction ou rénovation, des travaux agricoles ou de jardinages, et de nettoyer de façon approfondie et de manière régulière avec un aspirateur équipé d'un filtre HEPA toutes les pièces de l'environnement domestique concerné, et d'effectuer un nettoyage des meubles et tissus avec des produits ménagers appropriés. Il convient d'entretenir et changer régulièrement la literie (matelas et oreiller), d'éviter les parfums d'intérieur chimiques, les plantes, et prohiber le tabac.

Toxicoses

Aspergillus fumigatus produit de nombreux métabolites sources de toxicité, comme les clavines ou les gliotoxines.

Références

Voir aussi

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  Thèse en ligne de Simon Thierry ; Étude de la diversité génétique et du pouvoir pathogène d'Aspergillus fumigatus et de Chlamydophila psittaci chez les oiseaux ,AGRO PARISTECH - FEV 2011

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Africans in Ancient China & Vice Versa, Part 4: A Final Word about Zheng He–Guest Blog by Eccentric Yoruba
Note: This is the final segment in a four-part series by Eccentric Yoruba about Ancient Africa & China, cross-posted with her permission. Also, check out parts 1, 2, and 3.
Zheng He's 7th expedition was his last and after years of moving back and forth between the East African coast and China, all contact ceased. Some people may look at this and say that the Chinese turned their backs on Africa, but if you look at the situation within China in that time, it sheds more light on this situation.
In 1424, the Yongle Emperor died. His successor, the Hongxi Emperor (reigned 1424–1425), decided to curb the influence at court. Zheng He made one more voyage under the Xuande Emperor (reigned 1426–1435), but after that Chinese treasure ship fleets ended. Zheng He died during the treasure fleet's last voyage.
…Chinese merchants continued to trade in Japan and southeast Asia, but Imperial officials gave up any plans to maintain a Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean and even destroyed most of the nautical charts that Zheng He had carefully prepared. The decommissioned treasure ships sat in harbors until they rotted away, and Chinese craftsmen forgot the technology of building such large vessels. (Source.)
China decided to close itself from the outside world. Also–
But Zheng's heroics in this adventure and others did not long outlive the emperor Zhu Di.
He had rivals at court. Enormous treasure ships don't come cheap, and though they brought back curiosities like giraffes, they didn't earn back their investment in new tribute; the state budget had competing priorities, while China's concern with the sea was so overwhelmingly fear[ful] of piracy that it all but shut down maritime activity for a time. (Source).
Yet private relations continued to flourish. Even in the 16th century, men from Ethiopia, Mogadishu, Malindi, Mombasa and Kilwa were spotted by the Portuguese on the Malay seaport of Malacca. These men were traders who came in their own ships to trade and buy silk and porcelain which were Chinese of origin.
The prevalence of Chinese silk also meant that when the Portuguese reached East Africa, they found people swathed in silk. From Malindi through Mombasa to Mozambique, courtiers wore satin turbans and silk below their waists.
The wealthier citizens of these states used Chinese plates and bowls as tableware and to eat millet, rice or fish. Chinese vessels were used as containers for all kinds of objects. Chinese snuff boxes and inkwells were used to store kohl for women's eyelid, ginger jars to carry pens and trinkets and big jars to hold perfume or oil.
As mentioned previously, the east coast of Africa is littered with Chinese debris, still only a tiny fraction of it can be associated with Zheng He's voyages of 1418-33 A.D for example, in Mogadishu only 6 coins from Yongle's reign have been found.
With all these stories of merchants and adventures interacting albeit impersonally, what are the possibilities of Chinese settlers in different parts of Africa? We have already discussed the possibilities of Africans in ancient China. Zheng He was allegedly able to successfully relocate large numbers of Chinese Muslims to Malacca, Palembang, Surabaya and other places throughout his 7 voyages. Could one of the East African states be added to this list? The answer will be no if you believe that the Chinese of Zheng He's crew looked down on Africans because to them "all non-Chinese were barbarians." However, there is a possibility even though the proof may not be concrete.
In 1602 Pyrard de Laval, a French navigator met Chinese people on Madagascar. These Chinese by Pyrard's accounts were descendants of people who "were on a ship which was lost in this place." While it is possible that these men were the descendants of castaways from an estranged vessel from Zheng He's fleet, it is also possible that they were of the people native to the island who have Asiatic features and are generally accepted today to be the descendants of not Chinese, but Malay or Indonesian settlers.
There are a number of African ethnic groups that claim to have been descended from non-African peoples, such as some Igbo who claim Jewish heritage and the Swahili who claim Arab heritage. Some of these may be bogus, but others may actually be legitimate which I believe is the case of the Swahili and Lemba of Zimbabwe. Did you know about African ethnic groups that claim Chinese heritage, such as the people of Shanga of the Pate Island in Kenya? In 1980, an elder of this clan told a researcher that according to a centuries-old tradition, their ancestors came from Shanghai from whence the name Shanga actually came from. You know, ever since I learned about the lost Jews of Zimbabwe, I have stopped being such a skeptic.
There have also being rumours of old houses in the bush near Mombasa where Chinese used to live and also of a village, camp and monument called 'Zheng He's village' on the outskirts of Brava. While reading ibn Battuta's account of Mali in the 14th century, an Arab quarter in the ancient capital of Mali was mentioned, so I will not cross out the possibilities of Chinese quarters in East African towns and kingdoms. There is also a ruin connected with the Chinese at Gedi near Mombasa; several Chinese coins were found there even as there has been no evident of Chinese settlers there.
It will be excellent if someone could actually do some DNA sampling in order to find out if there is some truth to the rumours. Since I am not sure if that will ever happen, I will instead be satisfied with the fact that as I type this Chinese and Kenyan archaeologists are paying special attention to the east African coast in order to uncover more of Zheng He's visit to Africa.
Snow Philip (1988), The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa
Liu Gang (2007), The Chinese Inventor of Bi-Hemispherical World Map, e-Perimetron, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 185-193
Shen John (1995), 'New Thoughts on the use of Chinese document in the Reconstruction of Early Swahili History', History in Africa, Vol. 22, pp. 349-358
Smidt Wolbert, 'A Chinese in the Nubian and Abyssinian Kingdoms (8th Century): The visit of Du Huan to Molin-guo and Laobosa'
Wilensky Julie (2002), 'The Magical Kunlun and 'Devil Slaves' Chinese Perception of Dark People and Africa before 1500′, Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 122
Eccentric Yoruba is a really not that strange regardless of what her alias may suggest. She spends her days writing and blogging at Curiosity Killed The Eccentric Yoruba and Dreamwidth.
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I've been meaning to write a post about how much I hate MySpace, but I really don't see the point - I couldn't possibly say anything we don't all know already. It just boggles my mind that such an awful site has built up such a huge user base, even as everyone complains about it (guilty).
One of the biggest complaints lately has been all the spam (as if the on-page ads weren't bad enough). I was just checking out The Walkmen (they'll be opening for The Kaiser Chiefs tonight), and their comments are drowning in it. Other services, like Facebook, do a better job of keeping it at bay; I've been on Facebook a lot longer than MySpace, and I've never seen a single bit of spam anywhere. I'm not really sure what they're doing different - maybe they validate your e-mail when you sign up, I don't remember now - but it's working. More people are moving away from MySpace to Facebook and other sites like it.
And this makes me happy. I mostly use MySpace to check up on bands, or hear music from new ones. I'll miss that when it's gone, but some other service will surely rise to fill that hole. There are a few people with whom I only have contact through MySpace, and the sooner they get off there and into Facebook or whatever, the sooner I can just leave the damn thing behind - and I certainly won't be the only one leaving.


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The Assistant Workplace Relations Advisor is a graduate entry level role which undertakes research, policy analysis, project and clerical work to support the teams and operations of the Workplace Relations Branch in a range of industrial relations and human resource functions.
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Consumption of sugar from soft drinks falls within a year of UK sugar tax
People appear to be buying and consuming less sugar from soft drinks since the UK introduced a tax on sugary drinks, suggests research published by The BMJ.
The researchers found that overall sales of soft drinks have not changed. This, together with previous findings of no long-term impact of the tax on soft drinks share price and domestic turnover, suggests that the drinks industry has not been hit financially as a result of the tax which was designed to improve public health.
High consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with increased risk of tooth decay, obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As such, the World Health Organization recommends taxes on these drinks to try to reduce consumption.
The UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL) is a two-tiered tax levied on soft drinks manufacturers from April 2018 to encourage them to reduce the sugar content in their products.
Under the SDIL, drinks with more than 8 g sugar/100 mL (high tier) are taxed at £0.24/L and drinks with more than 5 g but less than 8 g sugar/100 mL (low tier) are taxed at £0.18/L. Drinks with less than 5 g of sugar/100 mL (no levy) are not taxed.
Although previous studies have explored the effect of consumer-facing SSB taxes, none have explored the effect of the implementation of the SDIL on purchases, taking existing trends in purchases into account.
To address this gap, a team of researchers led by University of Cambridge's MRC Epidemiology Unit decided to examine changes in household purchases of drinks and confectionery before and after implementation of the SDIL.
They studied changes in the volume of, and amount of sugar in, household purchases of drinks in each levy tier, exempt drinks categories (including alcoholic drinks), and confectionery from two years before the announcement of the SDIL to one year after its implementation (March 2014 to March 2019).
Their findings are based on around 31 million purchases by an average of 22,183 households that recorded all food and drink brought into the home (including those ordered online and delivered) on a weekly basis during this period.
Overall, they show that compared with pre-announcement trends, the total volume of all taxed and untaxed soft drinks purchased did not change one year after implementation.
When all taxed and untaxed soft drinks were combined, the volume of drinks purchased did not change, but sugar purchased in these drinks decreased by around 30 g per household per week, or almost 10% – equivalent to three fewer teaspoons, or one 250 mL serving of a drink with 5 g sugar per 100 mL per person per week.
Purchases of confectionery and alcoholic drinks did not change.
The authors acknowledge some study limitations. For example, data only included purchases brought into homes, which could limit the generalisability of the findings. However, they used a large, nationally representative dataset, included a control category, and explored changes in two potential substitute categories – alcohol and confectionery.
As such, they say tiered SSB taxes such as the SDIL: "might represent a benefit for public health (by reducing sugar purchased from soft drinks without substitution to confectionery and alcohol) without any commensurate harm to the soft drinks industry (by not affecting total volume of soft drinks purchased)."
These findings show that the UK's sugar tax is working exactly as intended – and offer lessons for other countries exploring strategic regulatory options to promote healthier diets, say researchers at the George Institute for Global Health, in a linked editorial.
They discuss ways in which SSB taxes have been used to improve health and say there is opportunity to strengthen regulation further. For example, to include thresholds for taxation that lower progressively over time to encourage ongoing sugar reduction, and to tax a wider range of sugary drinks.
Finally, they point out that as the world moves towards policies that promote healthier and more sustainable diets: "The challenge is to design regulations that improve nutritional quality and reduce the environmental impact of the foods we eat."
"There is potential here to deliver not only health benefits but also benefits for the planet and all those whose lives depend on it now, and for future generations," they conclude.
Research: Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis. The BMJ; www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n254
Editorial: UK's sugar tax hits the sweet spot. The BMJ; www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n463
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The long-term stability of colloidal silica-based slurries (that utilize zircon or some alumino-silicates) is adversely affected by ions that can leach from the flours used.
Zurich-based Levitronix will be showcasing its line of bearingless pumps with a low shear force design for conveying slurries to CMP processing without adding agglomeration.
Because of the very nature of the process, slurries go through aging, mechanical properties only can be designed to a limited degree and shell-metal reaction remains a concern.
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Yahoo CEO Search: Here's My Pick . . .
Businessweek reports:
CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo?
What Yahoo needs, say management recruiters and analysts, is someone with the profile of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark V. Hurd. A low-key operating wizard from the relative tech backwater of NCR (NCR), Hurd has managed to turn around HP in the three short years since he joined. In fact, one source close to the search says Yahoo isn't ruling out an executive outside the Internet realm. "You need someone who doesn't have the ego of a rock star," says Dona Roche-Tarry, a partner at executive search firm CTPartners. "But the new person would need the strength of character to stand up to Yang and the board."
Here is my pick: Sean Maloney, Intel's executive VP and its chief sales and marketing officer.
Sean Maloney has been Intel's top trouble shooter for many years. He is the one that Intel relies on when troubled business groups need to be turned around. He always gets the toughest jobs at Intel.
He is one of the most capable executives in the tech industry right now. My contacts tell me he was in the running for CEO of Hewlett-Packard following Carly Fiorina's departure but withdrew deciding to stay with Intel and the job later went to Mark Hurd.
Mr Maloney has been at Intel since 1982 and he has hit a ceiling. Paul Otellini, CEO and President of Intel isn't going anywhere, he took over in May 2005, and at age 58, he still has many years until retirement.
Yahoo would be a fantastic challenge for Mr Maloney, but he thrives on challenging situations and has had plenty of experience revamping poorly performing Intel business groups. He is fiercely loyal to Intel but he might be tempted by the enormous amount of value that would be created in turning around Yahoo. Intel has won the microprocessor wars and there isn't much else to do except to stay out of anti-trust courts -- that's a job for lawyers not for hard charging executives.
Yahoo needs a swift kick in the pants to get it going again. It's got great technologies and people but it is rudderless. Mr Maloney would be the best person to get Yahoo moving again and regain its former glory, imho.
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City Room | A Dinner Delivery Order, Through Your iPhone
A Dinner Delivery Order, Through Your iPhone
By Jennifer 8. Lee
April 13, 2009 1:42 pm April 13, 2009 1:42 pm
Seamless Web, which brought online meal ordering to New York's corporate armies before expanding to the consumer market, is now going mobile — further reducing the barriers between New Yorkers and their next fresh meal.
After all, "A lot of times you are going to get hungry when you are not in front of a computer," said Matthew Johnson, director of marketing for Seamless Web, which is starting the service this month.
For example, Mr. Johnson said, the other night he was watching television and felt like tacos. "I was able to order it from my BlackBerry on my couch, instead of having to go to my computer in my bedroom." (Loathe that someone could actually cook in the kitchen when they're hungry.)
Another situation: Someone could be stuck in a meeting that was dragging on and on and they can't make a phone call. "You can pull out your phone right there in a meeting and it will be right there at your desk when you get out," Mr. Johnson said. "A lot of people can use it on the way home," he said.
As yet another example, people could order food online when they are in a taxi.
New York City has long been the spiritual home of food delivery, a place where restaurants will even bring orders to Central Park.
It's no wonder that Seamless Web started here in 2000 as a corporate lawyer's inspiration. It has now branched out to 14 cities, including London. But with its density, time pressures and rich culinary offerings, New York is still the service's leading stomping ground. The New York market has half a million Seamless Web users, split roughly equally between consumer and corporate accounts, Mr. Johnson said. (Although, it's been noted, the slumping economy seems to be causing people to cook more at home, because they have more time and less money.)
Seamless Web gained traction because it made it so easy to order food. Members often have their preferences — and their billing information — pre-programmed. No cash is exchanged. Everything is done by credit cards or accounts (hence the name of the company, because it seamlessly integrated with back-end accounting systems). Even tips for the deliveryman can be set online.
The mobile site, www.seamlessweb2go.com, has many of those same features. Users, for example, can also order their saved favorite meals in as few as two clicks. The site was create by Usablenet, a 40-person mobile company based in New York City that also has offices in Italy.
Usablenet's technology does not demand companies do anything technological with their Web sites. Instead, Usablenet grabs a current Web's content and simply adapts it to be more mobile friendly when a user visits the site.
Usablenet has 130 mobile clients, including Amtrak, American Airlines, Nissan, Pfizer and even the New York City government (a client it approached through a cold sales call).
Although the mobile site is already available, Seamless Web does not plan on promoting it to its customers until next week.
emily April 13, 2009 · 2:35 pm
For example, Mr. Johnson said, the other night he was watching television and felt like tacos. "I was able to order it from my BlackBerry on my couch, instead of having to go to my computer in my bedroom."
…welcome to America's obesity crisis.
DN April 13, 2009 · 2:50 pm
Can I get a pair of seamless pants on the side?
Amy Le April 14, 2009 · 9:24 am
Ordering food while you're in between places has definitely made life easier for more people.
GrubHub.com, the online takeout and delivery restaurant guide for NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Philly, launched its iPhone friendly version in February.
The GrubHub.com iPhone Web application displays all of the information normally found on GrubHub.com in a format easily viewable on the iPhone. Users can find restaurants by type of cuisine, view star ratings and read reviews of the restaurants placed by other GrubHub users.
The iPhone version of GrubHub offers users the ability to call the restaurant directly from the iPhone or use the site's online ordering system, which provides the restaurant's full menu.
Nick April 14, 2009 · 11:16 am
There's certainly a demand for something like this but correct me if I'm wrong. This is not an iPhone app. It's simply a mobile website. How does their user interface stack up with other mobile sites?
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This small independent special school occupies a detached house, adapted suitably with classrooms, kitchen and dining area and staff office. A safe fenced-off garden behind the school is available for use by students at break and lunchtimes. The school is registered to admit up to three students aged from 10 to 18 years. However, no students of sixth form age have been admitted since the last inspection. Students start in the school at different ages and at different times in the year. Most start in Years 9 and 10 and typically remain at the school until the end of Year 11. Students placed at the school have behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. At the time of the inspection, no students had statements of special educational needs. No disabled students currently attend the school. The school is overseen by the headteacher, who oversees other schools in the group. A designated lead teacher for education takes responsibility for students in the school. The school does not have middle managers. The school does not use training at places away from school. Since the last inspection there have been several changes of proprietor. The headteacher has been in post for the last year. The school was previously inspected in December 2011 when all the independent school regulations were met.
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Mac Rebennack: Roots and herbs
When Dr John came into the Old Grey Whistle Test studio at the BBC Television Centre one night in 1972, he was in his Mac Rebennack mode. That was his birth name, the one he used as a young man on the New Orleans music scene until he moved to Los Angeles in 1965 and eventually devised the hoodoo-voodoo identity that brought him fame.
There was an upright piano in the studio. The programme was going out live. Mac came in and sat down, and after I'd given him a brief introduction, he started to play. For the next few minutes — maybe 10, but I wasn't counting — he worked his way through the history of post-war New Orleans piano styles. He went from Professor Longhair through Fats Domino and James Booker to Huey Smith and Allen Toussaint, stirring a filé powder of his own into the gumbo of their artfully syncopated, wonderfully blues-drenched phrases.
Mac — who died yesterday at his home in Louisiana, aged 77 — was an authority on the subject, a repository of the lore and legend of New Orleans music, and it permeated his own playing. Sadly that Whistle Test performance seems not to have been recorded; unlike many less worthy items, it has never resurfaced, although I continue to live in hope because I'd give a lot to see it again.
It wasn't until many years later, while reading the notes to a reissue of the magnificent solo-piano set he recorded for the Clean Cuts label in 1981, that I discovered why he had an aversion to performing alone. In his autobiography, Under a Hoodoo Moon, he said it aroused the memory of the fear "that I'd end up alone as a solo-piano lounge act starring at Holiday Inns or bowling alleys for the rest of my natural life."
It was during the same visit in 1972 that I interviewed him at some length for the Melody Maker. Again he talked about his hometown piano heroes, starting with Longhair — "Fess" — whom he'd heard in clubs when his father, the owner of an appliance store, was fixing broken lighting and sound systems. Later, as a young guitarist (the instrument he played before someone shot off the finger he used to bend notes), Mac was called on to play a gig in Longhair's band.
"Fess remembered me from the way I used to pester him to death when I was a kid. He played these real complex rhythm things — even today I can't do some of them fantastic things I've seen him do over the years. He was such a strong focal point, an inspiration, for everything I was involved in." There was a mystery, he said, to Longhair's music, particularly in his introduction of a rhumba feeling into the rhythms. "There's a missing link there somewhere, because none of the piano players I knew from before Fess's time were in the direction he was on — the Rhumbalero groove. At some point he was a real innovator. He made up his own music terms. He called his music 'overboogie', and when he did this thing by crossing his hands he called it a 'double-note crossover'. He had something called a 'left-hand overdrive', and when the horns made a punch, he'd call that a 'spew': his terms were very descriptive."
You could throw a New Orleans name at Mac — Mel Lastie, John Boudreaux, Harold Battiste, Ed Blackwell, Walter "Papoose" Nelson, Red Tyler, Earl Palmer, Cosimo Matassa, Snooks Eaglin — and he'd have a story about them. When I asked him about being a white man in a black man's world, at a time when the American Federation of Musicians still had segregated branches, he told me about a tour he made with Toussaint, Eaglin and Phil "Sea of Love" Phillips in the early '60s: "It was one of the first integrated tours of the South, pre-integration. It was very treacherous. Some of those towns, like Polarville, Mississippi, they'd have had lynchings there — and I was the guy who had to collect the money after the gig."
The interview was memorable in another way: Mac was on the methadone programme, and he kept nodding out. He'd be in the middle of an answer, shut his eyes and stop talking. If I kept silent too, a minute or so later he'd open his eyes and resume the answer exactly where he'd left off. It was a little unnerving, but it was a sign of recovery from his addiction.
A year earlier I'd seen him in much worse shape. I spent a night at Trident Studios in Soho, where he was recording tracks for what turned out to be The Sun, Moon and Herbs — his fourth album as Dr John — with a motley gang including Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Graham Bond and a few jazz musicians, including the tuba player Ray Draper, once a member of Max Roach's quintet, and the Jamaican saxophonist and flautist Ken Terroade. The vibe was pretty down and depressing as the assembled company went through endless stoned jams. It was hard to believe they'd get anything out of it.
It was great, then, to see what became of him not just a year later but through the rest of his career, as he became an emblem of the city that had given the music its backbone. You can say that his half-dozen Grammy awards and his membership of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were the least cool thing about him, but when you'd come through what he came through, I'll bet they meant a lot.
If you haven't done so already, click on the YouTube link above. This live version of his irresistible "Such a Night" from the Mountain Stage radio show on NPR in 1989 tells you how special he was — how much sheer warmth his music generated, whatever the circumstances — and how greatly he'll be missed.


The top Vatican cardinal in charge of relations with Jews on Thursday denied a new prayer for their conversion was offensive and said Catholics had the right to pray as they wished.
The Vatican on Tuesday revised a contested Latin prayer used by a traditionalist minority on Good Friday, removing a reference to Jewish "blindness" over Christ and deleting a phrase asking God to "remove the veil from their hearts."
He added: "But this does not mean we are embarking on a mission (to convert Jews). We are giving witness to our faith."
"While we appreciate that some of the deprecatory language has been removed ... we are deeply troubled and disappointed that the framework and intention to petition God for Jews to accept Jesus as Lord was kept intact," Abraham Foxman, US national director of the ADL, said in a statement.
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Murlen National Park complete detail – updated. Geography of Murlen National Park. Dominant flora and fauna of Murlen National Park. How to Reach Murlen National Park. Total area of the park is 100 Km2. The park is surrounded by six caves which are filled by localities. Several rivers, rivulets and brooks flow through this park providing abundant water to its existing wildlife.
It was established as a National Park in the year of 1991. Murlen Park is one of the most important bird areas supporting several threatened species of birds like Hume's Pheasant, Common partridges, Hill myna, dark rumped swift, Peacock, Pheasant, Sunbirds etc. Another precipice named Khampui is considered as one of the greatest precipices in India or even in Asia in terms of supporting wildlife. It is about 600 feet's. Murlen National Park is at Murlen Village, which is the Village of Saithuama Sailo, Chief of Hnahlan………….
The wildlife include Tiger, Leopard, Himalayan Black Bear, Serrow, Hollock Gibbon, Sambar, Barking Deer, Wild Boar etc. There also exists a very large cave at one of the precipices, Thumkhuai Kham, where as many as 40 people could lodge in a night and has been frequented by different kinds of monkeys and other animals…………..
Murlen National Park
Murlen National Park is a beautiful place, located in the Champhai district of the state of Mizoram. The park is situated about 245 km east of Aizawl, and is close to the Chin Hills.
Murlen is located adjacent to the Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary. It was declared as National park in the year of 1991. Total area of the park is 100 Km2.
The park is surrounded by six caves which are filled by localities. Lamsial Puk, Hnahlan, Zokhawthar, Tan Tlangis, Zokhawthar are some the areas which you can explore surrounding to this park. There is also the Thumkhuai Kham, a large cave, within the perimeter of the park.
One great cliff by the name of Khampui is considered to be amongst the greatest precipice of India in terms of being the home of the wild.
The area is protected and preserved by the state government and is the home for precious and endangered faunal and faunal species.
The tropical, semi-evergreen and sub montane Forests of Murlen are home to a rich wildlife. The vegetation is administered of Quercus, Schima Wallichai, Betula Specie, Michelia Champaca, Pinus Khasia, Prunus, Myrica, rhododendron, Arundinania Callosa, Canes and variety of orchids.
The wildlife include Tiger, Leopard, Himalayan Black Bear, Serrow, Hollock Gibbon, Sambar, Barking Deer, Wild Boar etc.
Murlen Park is one of the most important bird areas supporting several threatened species of birds like Hume's Pheasant, Common partridges, Hill myna, dark rumped swift, Peacock, Pheasant, Sunbirds etc.
Several rivers, rivulets and brooks flow through this park providing abundant water to its existing wildlife.
There also exists a very large cave at one of the precipices, Thumkhuai Kham, where as many as 40 people could lodge in a night and has been frequented by different kinds of monkeys and other animals.
Another precipice named Khampui is considered as one of the greatest precipices in India or even in Asia in terms of supporting wildlife. It is about 600 feet's. Murlen National Park is at Murlen Village, which is the Village of Saithuama Sailo, Chief of Hnahlan.
Murlen National Park is located in the Champhai district of the state of Mizoram. The park is situated about 245 km east of Aizawl, and is close to the Chin Hills. Murlen is located adjacent to the Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary. Total area of the park is 100 Km2.
The vegetation in Murlen comprises of sub-tropical semi-evergreen and sub-mountain forests and scrub jungles. The Murlen Park is filled with cliffs.
Only about 1% of the sun's ray can penetrate the forest on a sunny day. There is an area in the park where not even a single sun's ray can penetrate. And for this reason the area has been known as 'losing area of seven fellow-men' or land of no return.
Several rivers, rivulets and brooks flow through this park providing abundant water to its existing wildlife. The forest cover of the Murlen Park is compared to that of the Amazons' owing to its thickness.
The variety of the flora consists of Quercus, Schima Wallichai, Betula Specie, Michelia Champaca, Pinus Khasia, Prunus Myrica, Rhododendron, Arundinaria Callosa and Canes.
Longitude: E 920 13′ 12″ to 920 27′ 24″
Latitude: N 230 32′ 42″ to 230 41′ 36″.
Elevation – 2100 m
Precipitation – 2100 – 2500 mm
Coordinates – 23°37′01″ N and 93°18′00″ E
Arundinaria Callosa, Quercus, Betula Specie, Pinus Kesiya, Chimonobambusa callosa, Schima wallichii, Michelia champaca, Rhododendron, Prunus, Myrica, Canes, Orchids etc.
Mammals – Tiger, Leopard, Sambar, Barking deer, Himalayan Black Bear, Wild boar, Serow, Hoolock gibbon, Rhesus macaque, Malayan giant squirrel etc.
Birds – Hume's Pheasant, Common partridges, Hill myna, dark rumped swift, Peacock, Pheasant, Sunbirds, Hornbills, Kallej Pheasant etc.
Bird safari
The best time of the year to visit the Murlen National Park is between the months of October to March.
By Air – Nearest airport is Shillong airport, about 245 Km from the Murlen National Park. Shillong airport is well connected by road network to Murlen National Park.
By Rail – Nearest railway station is Silchar railway station, about 185 Km from the Murlen National Park. Rangapara railway station is well connected by road network to Murlen National Park.
By Road – Murlen National Park is well connected to Major Cities and Places by road network. There are a number of government and privately operated vehicles that go to Murlen National Park at frequent intervals.
National Highway number 54 connects Aizawl with the rest of the country through Silchar. Buses and taxis are available from Silchar to Aizawl.
Tourist Lodge, Champhai is the nearest lodge to Murlen National Park. Silchar has hotels like Hotel Geetanjali, Hotel Kalpataru and Hotel Kanishka.
Phone No. – 0389 233 3475, Website – www.tourism.mizoram.gov.in
Other National Park in Mizoram. Name of National Park, Year of Notification and Total Area is as follows……….
1 Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park Mizoram 1992 50


In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the season of preparation for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. In Eastern Rite Catholic churches, Lent begins two days earlier, on Clean Monday.
Ash Wednesday always falls 46 days before Easter. Since Easter falls on a different date each year, Ash Wednesday does too. While Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation, all Roman Catholics are encouraged to attend Mass on this day in order to mark the beginning of the Lenten season.
During Mass, the ashes which give Ash Wednesday its name are distributed. The ashes are made by burning the blessed palms that were distributed the previous year on Palm Sunday; many churches ask their parishioners to return any palms that they took home so that they can be burned. After the priest blesses the ashes and sprinkles them with holy water, the faithful come forward to receive them. The priest dips his right thumb in the ashes and, making the Sign of the Cross on each person's forehead, says, "Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return" (or a variation on those words).


Bohemian persons are often feeling otherness, and often they feels they are in some way misunderstood. A bohemian, who do not fit the typical "average" category, has many challenges and problems, because this "average" category is considered in many organizations the only right category. Many talented people have to deal with the fringes of society in order to realize their dreams and visions.
In many cases bohemians are neglected because of "work place democracy". However, we know that the limitations of democracy lie in the moral, and even spiritual, quality of the electorate. A democracy is as good as its people and tends to promote a moral and cultural mediocrity. One paradox of today is that modern democratic society seems to be characterized by a rising tide of trivia and empty entertainment. Ordinary citizens may want more, but also bohemians want more, much more.
For many organizations it is typical that they allow the bold thinking only in specific circumstances. Courage to break with can be taken in general in the context of "development Days", "creativity workshops" or "spring assembly events". On other days of a year bohemian experts will be "hippies", "nerds" and "persons with propeller hats". They are the ones all other in the "organizational chart" can laugh at good will. For a bohemian it is typical that they are not taken particularly seriously or other experts underestimate their performances.
These characterizations are certainly in the right direction to characterize the bohemian tribe. In the reality, however, bohemians can be found from very different social and ethnic origins. Bohemians may be both men and women, as well as a bohemian can also be found in different age groups. Actually, there is no single psychological standard definition for the bohemian people. Bohemians are special kinds of people who also want emphasize the specificity of their own.
Bohemian man can be extroverted, but there are also inward-looking bohemians, not so expressive. Bohemian people work very often in creative professions and have broad innovative potential of the toughest technical and social applications. Art, science, sports, and economic life are attractive fields of life for bohemians. Bohemians can provide creative contributions to these important areas of life.
A bohemian is a person who is often not suitable for the average person's profile. Bohemians often want to consciously stand out from the masses and have different social contexts and "tribes". People see and perceive bohemians usually strange – even the difficult people to handle. The authenticity and the inner voice, listening oneself are important things for bohemians. Bohemian people are generally interested in unconventional ideas and novel practices. They are interested in new ideas, inventions and proposals.
Generally, they are often called to invent and re-invent different policy areas and to be pioneers of new ideas and ideologies.
In many organizations, bohemian life style is a challenge and many organizations have difficulties to rigid adapt organizational systems and relationships to bohemian styles. Many corporate organizations and public sector organizations want – consciously or unconsciously – to recruit – not so bohemian employees, who work quietly to make standards things and projects routinely and in a mechanical way like in old industrial organizations. In the future, these types of people and organizations trying to be mechanic robots and robot societies will be easily substituted with robots and new smart technologies.
Many organizations are also such that bohemians cannot easily present their new ideas and take active initiatives on new challenges. Rigid hierarchies and inflexible organizational silos prevent organizations from obtaining access to the best creative human capital. New, bohemian types of organizations are first facing major challenges to do the right thing. If bohemian personalities are allowed to take creative and new roles and flexible job descriptions, they also tend to engage actively in these roles and job descriptions.
Bohemian persons are able to change schemata in the organizations. Schemata, whether plural of schema, are knowledge structures a person forms from past experiences. Bohemian can create new forms of schemata and reformulate old schemata.
Incentive structures of bohemian organizations are different compared with industrial organizations of Taylorism. "Synthesized workflows" approach of Taylorism is not the right approach to create unique products and services. So called "scientific management" must be reformulated, if we want to keep members of creative class inside the box of scientific management. This challenge is not a small one. We must re-define organizational paradigms, control systems, organizational structures, power structures, symbols, organizational rituals and routines. Even stories and myths of organizations must be re-invented.
For many business organizations would do well to think about it they are able to offer reasonable opportunities for bohemian talents to make a special contribution in their organization. Without re-inventing their organizational systems, leadership patterns and management styles this will be a mission impossible. Why organizational cultures develop in organizations is due to external adaptation and internal integration. Bohemian people play a special role both in external adaptation process and internal integration process. That is why bohemians´ role cannot be neglected in the post-modern organizations. External adaptation reflects an evolutionary approach to organizational culture. Internal integration is an important function since social structures are required for organizations to exist. Thus bohemians are key players from the evolutionary and functional organizational perspectives. Bohemians can create strong cultures inside organizations. The "average approach" leads to weak culture. Weak culture means that there is little alignment with organizational values and control must be exercised through extensive procedures and bureaucracy. Strong culture is said to exist where staff respond to stimulus because of their alignment to organizational values.
If the organization's culture is too "average oriented" and favors "middle of the road" recruitments, bohemians of the creative class do not offer their unique talents to such organizational structures and cultures. In this old-fashioned organizational culture scenario, they will have to seek new dynamic organizations or start-up their own businesses. General and very typical assumption is that the workers should be as robots. This approch will not help to attract bohemian talents, because they do not want to be like robots. Permissiveness, tolerance and deeper cultural understanding of diversity are important issues for organizations that really want to get top experts and keep them in their organizations.
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Lil Wayne Opens Up About His Suicide Attempt in Joint Interview With Odell Beckham Jr.
Odell Beckham Jr. and Lil Wayne might not seem like they've got a lot in common, but the two Louisiana talents do make for a fascinating pair in their joint interview with ESPN's Josina Anderson. With the two of them each having one of the biggest years of their respective careers so far, their chat with Anderson covers everything from how their Louisiana roots shaped them and darkest moments of their careers to Wayne's suicide attempt and OBJ's father.
At the 16:46 point of the interview, Tha Carter V's stark closing track, "Let It All Work Out," is brought up. The song deals with Wayne's suicide attempt, and sees him opening up about the experience. When asked about whether Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade's deaths had anything to do with him deciding to be forthcoming with his experience, he explained, "That song has actually been recorded for probably over four years."
Speaking about the song, which was always intended to be part of Tha Carter V even when it was due to be released back in 2014, he added, "I felt that way when I thought the album was coming out. I was ready to come out with it then. [...] The thought process doing that verse is... What made me do it was just, [I] was ready to get it off my chest."
During the chat, Odell also spoke about his issues with the New York Giants. At the 22:00 mark, Odell is asked about his issues, answering, "A lot of it has to do with the energy that we have, that we don't bring every single day. [...] We just need to play with some heart."
Near the end the conversation gravitates back towards Tha Carter V, with Anderson asking at the 35:30 point how Weezy dealt with the weight of the expectation for the record. "Embrace it, that's the only way you're supposed to deal with it," he explained.
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Q: Returning struct with const char* property In this wrapper method, I return a DN_OPstruct, which has two const char* properties: TargetNode_Identifier and Name. For p/invoke, I have to stay with const char* - Type, std::string won't work:
DN_OPstruct getDnOperationIntern(const char* charGuid){
    DN_OPstruct op;
    UA_OPstruct _op;
    _op = GetOPData(charGuid);
    op.direction = _op.direction;
    op.Name = _op.Name.toUtf8();
    op.TargetNode_Identifier = _op.TargetNode_Identifier.toUtf8();
    op.TargetNode_NamespaceIndex = _op.TargetNode_NamespaceIndex;
    op.Type_of_OP = _op.Type_of_OP;
    return op ;
}

As I read, you have to strcpy const char*s . Without such help, the pointers of the properties will lose thier reference and I get false properties. Example for strcpy:
strcpy(new char[output.size()], output.c_str());

How can implement this in my method?

A: You shouldn't implement it in your method - instead, you should implement it in a separate function, and use it in all places where you need to make a copy of a string:
char *copyCString(const string& s) {
    char *res = new char[s.size()+1]; // Add 1 for null terminator
    strcpy(res, s.c_str());
    return res;
}

Now you can use this function to make copies as needed:
op.Name = copyCString(_op.Name);
op.TargetNode_Identifier = copyCString(_op.TargetNode_Identifier);

You could start with const char*, too:
char *copyString(const char* s) {
    char *res = new char[strlen(s)+1]; // Add 1 for null terminator
    strcpy(res, s);
    return res;
}

Now you call it like this:
op.Name = copyString(_op.Name.toUtf8());
op.TargetNode_Identifier = copyString(_op.TargetNode_Identifier.toUtf8());

Of course you are responsible for deleting the copies when you are done:
delete[] op.Name;
delete[] op.TargetNode_Identifier;

It would be a good idea to define a function for this, too:
void freeCopiedString(char *s) {
    delete[] s;
}

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Our hogs are raised from pre-birth on our farm so we know exactly what goes into them. All of our animals are given apple cider vinegar in their water as a natural antibiotic to keep them healthy. We rotate on seasonal grass pastures. No steroids or hormones. We don't "slop" or add corn so the meat is lean and without the added cholesterol. We special order an all-natural feed that uses organic selenium to increase their immunities. It is milo based rather than corn based as other feeds. Processed USDA to ensure safety in processing. Our goal is to raise food safe and healthy for our children and to provide others with the same.
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Our hogs are fed milo based feed and rotated seasonally onto new grass pastures. We don't slop or feed a lot of corn so they aren't fatty. No steroids or hormones. We use apple cider vinegar as a natural antibiotic. Our hogs are raised from birth on our farm so that we know exactly what feed goes into them.
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Sliced gammon in a sweet sauce. Served with diced fried potatoes, a pineapple ring and peas.
Peas, Potato, Water, Cooked Pork (18%), Pineapple (5%), Onion, Concentrated Pineapple Juice, Sunflower Oil, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Caramelised Sugar, Dextrose, Yeast Extract, Dried Carrot, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Dried Tomato, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Pepper, Ground Turmeric, Dried Thyme, Ground Bay Leaf.
This meal was good, the gammon was nice and the potatoes were cooked ok, would order again.
A nearly perfect item. I disliked the extreme amount of fat upon the gammon; I was forced to cut off huge streaks of white, enough that the pink gammon left was extremely minimal, and I would not buy again based off this fact. The vegetables were fresh and tasty, and I appreciate the lack of beans (which many of the meals contain), and the potatoes were cooked just right and rather nice. The pineapple tasted fresh, while the sauce was rather rich and tasty, and overall the quality was extremely high. I'd recommend this only if you don't dislike fat.
loved this meal the only downside was so did my daughter so i ended up having to share it, not salty at all, this is defiantly on my next order.


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Israel Remember 6 Million Murdered In Holocaust
April 24, 2017 /0 Comments/in Jewish News /by Joe Levin
Israelis across the country paused for two minutes Monday morning in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in Europe under Nazi rule as a siren pierced the clear blue sky in an annual marking of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The 10 a.m. siren was to be followed by ceremonies at schools, memorials and elsewhere in honor of those who lost their lives, as well as Shoah survivors.
The country's central commemoration event got underway immediately after the siren at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, where dignitaries will lay wreaths next to a monument commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
Among those taking part in the wreath-laying are President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein.
The theme of this year's commemoration is "Restoring Their Identities: The Fate of the Individual During the Holocaust," Yad Vashem said ahead of Remembrance Day.
At 11 a.m. the Knesset was scheduled to mark the day with a ceremony titled "Unto Every Person There is a Name," in which lawmakers recite names of victims of the Nazis for nearly two hours.
The ceremony's name comes from a famous poem by the Israeli poet Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (commonly referred to by her first name alone). The musical version, which is often played at memorial ceremonies, repeats, "Unto every person there is a name given by…their mother and father," "their sins," "their loves," and "their death."
Decades after the liberation of the Nazi camps, the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day continues to be marked with solemnity in Israel, with restaurants, stores and entertainment centers closed and Holocaust-themed movies and documentaries broadcast on TV and radio.
Most schools and many preschools hold official assemblies where students honor the dead and hear stories from survivors.
At 1:30 p.m. local time, thousands of people are expected to take part in the March of the Living event in Poland, walking along the three kilometers (1.8 miles) of railway tracks between the sites of the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.
Chief Justice Miriam Naor and Education Minister Naftali Bennett will accompany a delegation of Israeli officials and Jewish students from around the world at the annual march.
The Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies began at Yad Vashem on Sunday evening, with six survivors lighting beacons — one for every million Jews slain. Moshe Ha-Elion, Moshe Jakubowitz, Jeannine Sebbane-Bouhanna, Moshe Porat, Max Privler and Elka Abramovitz were chosen to light the symbolic torches this year.
During the ceremony, Rivlin said that Holocaust survivors had bequeathed a solemn message to the world that people must preserve their humanity, even in the face of the greatest horrors.
The president said Holocaust remembrance and the lessons to be learned from the genocide of the Jewish people are founded on three central pillars: self-defense, a shared destiny, and human rights.
"Man is beloved, every man, created in God's image. This is a sacred obligation that the Jewish people cannot and does not wish to evade. At all times. In every situation.
So too, we cannot remain silent in face of the horrors being committed far away from us, and certainly those happening just across the border," he noted, referring to the Syrian civil war that is estimated to have cost over 300,000 lives. "Maintaining one's humanity: this is the immense courage bequeathed to us by the victims – and by you, the survivors of the Shoah."
Rivlin's words stood in stark contrast to Netanyahu's, whose main thrust was to blame the Allies' failure to bomb the Nazi concentration camps from 1942, which he said cost the lives of four million Jews and millions of others.
Citing recently released UN documents that show the Allies were aware of the scale of the Holocaust in 1942, some two years earlier than previously assumed, Netanyahu said this new research assumed "a terrible significance."
"If the powers in 1942 had acted against the death camps — and all that was needed was repeated bombing of the camps — had they acted then, they could have saved 4 million Jews and millions of other people."
"The powers knew, and they did not act," he told the audience at the national ceremony at Yad Vashem.
In a bleak address, the Israeli prime minister said that the Holocaust was enabled by three factors: the vast hatred of the Jews, global indifference to the horrors, and "the terrible weakness of our people in the Diaspora."
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