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Animal Health Supplements Continue To Gain Traction
Dietary supplements have continued to garner interest among consumers and veterinarians alike.
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Dietary supplements, both the nutritional and issue-targeted varieties, continue to gain interest among dog and cat owners—and veterinarians who recommend and sell them through their clinics have an opportunity to not only offer them as part of an overall health and wellness plan, but also to provide the best-quality products to their clients.
According to the Nutrition Business Journal, the animal supplement market represents more than $1.6 billion in sales, with a predicted 7.4 percent compounded annual growth rate increase from 2010 to 2015. Packaged Facts notes that 21 percent of dogs and 15 percent of cats are given a supplement of some kind, with 8 percent and 7 percent respectively being purchased from a veterinarian.
The supplements segment is strong, and more veterinarians are recognizing their value, says Bill Bookout, chair of the National Animal Supplement Council's board of directors.
"There aren't any magic bullets out there, but I think supplements are becoming more and more recognized and substantiated as a valuable component of a comprehensive care program where we either try to maintain general health and wellness, or manage health as a result of the aging process or some health challenge," he says.
Though supplement makers have developed myriad formulas that target a range of health issues, the top-selling categories include products that support joint health, skin and coat health, gastrointestinal tract health, and liver and kidney health. Here's what they are designed to do.
Popular among humans and their pets for years, supplements that support joint health typically contain chondroitin and glucosamine. They're intended to do three things, says Bookout.
"They help maintain the viscosity of the synovial fluid in the joint capsule and the flexibility of the cartilage, which is the body's natural shock-absorbing system; and they help relieve discomfort associated with the aging process or some other issue," Bookout says. "A joint product won't cure hip dysplasia, but it can be beneficial in recovery or helping maintain joint health over time."
What differentiates the various manufacturers' formulas is the extra ingredients, says Emmanuelle Lemaire, DVM, marketing director for Sogeval Laboratories Inc. in Irving, Texas.
"Everybody has glucosamine or chondroitin, ingredients that are well known on the human and veterinary side," she says. "But what makes a product successful is the little tweaks and special ingredients that manufacturers add to those core ingredients, like selenium, zinc and grape seed extract."
The delivery form and palatability matter as well, says Sara Phillips, a representative for Vetri-Science Laboratories of Vermont.
"The chewable form has been a top seller," she says. "It's palatable and very easy to give, particularly to dogs."
Julie Bryant, chief executive officer of Bimini LLC in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., adds that ingredients that relieve discomfort can make a difference, too.
"Natural active ingredients like cat's claw and willow bark help relieve discomfort and provide a high quantity of omega-3 to help lubricate the joint," she says.
Robert Devlin, DVM, representative of Nutramax Laboratories Inc. in Edgewood, Md., says that these joint health supplements can be used in conjunction with pharmaceutical pain relievers, like Rimadyl and Deramaxx.
"For many dogs with acute lameness or very active arthritis, people will use a lot of the [non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs]," he says. "But with any pharmaceutical, there can be side effects. So many times, veterinarians will do a multi-modal treatment where they get over the acute issues and then use joint health supplements to bridge those times when they may need an NSAID. If we can help them feel better in between, then we have less risk of side effects than if we have to give a pharmaceutical every day."
Skin and Coat Support
Another strong-selling and popular category, nutritional supplements that support skin and coat health, typically contain a blend of omega-3, -6 and -9 fatty acids, Bookout says.
"Omega products, essential fatty acids, for skin health are certainly a large category," he says. "They help maintain normal shedding and skin health. It's certainly a big issue for small dogs that can have some allergies and dermatitis, and omegas can be beneficial."
Dr. Lemaire says that these skin and coat support supplements help manage pruritus, seborrheic conditions and restore the animal's skin and coat.
"The omega-3 and -6 products are formulated to help the dermal function in case of dermatitis or hair loss and improve the state of the animal's skin and fur," she says. "And the EPA [eicosapentaenoic acid] and DHA [docosahexaenoic acid] control the inflammatory process and promote the production of anti-inflammatory and non-inflammatory mediators."
EPA and DHA also help maintain cell membrane fluidity and permeability, immune system health, skin and coat health, joint health, heart health, and brain and eye development and maintenance, says Bonnie Johnson, manager of Nordic Naturals veterinary division, based in Watsonville, Calif.
Omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, are long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, Johnson continues. The only source of these fatty acids is through diet or supplementation, she says.
"Daily supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA is a proactive way to help maintain the overall health for humans and dog and cat companions," Johnson says. "Many clinical studies have been published providing scientific evidence on the important health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for humans, dogs and cats."
The company maintains a resource library for essential fatty acid research at Omega-Research.com. Veterinarians can find published and objective third-party information on omega-3 EFAs, Johnson says.
"Pet owners want their cherished pet companions to live a long and healthy life," she says. "They greatly appreciate their veterinarians educating them on the importance of supplementing their pet companion's diet with a high quality omega-3 fish oil product for all life stages."
Healthy Gut, GI Tract
An up-and-coming supplement in the pet category that has already gained traction in the human marketplace is a spectrum of products that support a healthy gut and gastrointestinal tract, Bookout says.
"The gastrointestinal tract is the largest immune-supporting organ in the body," he says. "If the GI tract doesn't function properly, then that interferes with general metabolism of nutrients and can cause other issues related to other organs functioning properly. So GI health is an up-and-coming category, and it includes prebiotics, probiotics and digestive enzymes."
Craig Kisciras, representative of Rx Vitamins for Pets in Elmsford, N.Y., says that these GI health supplements ensure proper digestion and absorption of food and nutrients, enhancing the animal's immune system.
"It's important to have a proper balance of flora, or beneficial bacteria, as opposed to pathogenic strains of bacteria," he says. "When they're out of balance, that's when the animals can have problems with their immune systems. When they're not absorbing food and nutrients, their immune system is not going to work as well."
Liver, Kidney Support
Also growing in popularity are supplements that support dogs' and cats' livers and kidneys, Bookout says.
"There are a number of other categories that products specifically target, like liver health, kidney health and cardiovascular health," he says. "The liver, kidney and spleen are the largest blood-producing and blood cleansing organs of the body, so if they are functioning well, that benefits the animal's overall health."
Liver support products typically contain milk thistle and adenosyl, note Kisciras and Lemaire.
"Milk thistle has been shown in trials to increase the uptake of hepatic glutathione," Kisciras explains. "It's a very important liver antioxidant that helps reduce stress on the liver."
These ingredients help reduce inflammation and can even extend their lives, notes Devlin.
"Researchers at Colorado State University have used SAMe [S-Adenosylmethionine] and silybin [the active part of an extract from milk thistle] on Dobermans with predisposed liver inflammation issues," he says. "These dogs have a shorter life span because their liver is wasting away, but by giving the [supplements], their life spans increase."
Bryant says that kidney health products formulated for cats provide support to aging organs.
"As cats mature, kidney function declines," she says. "Ingredients like astragalus root extract and rehmannia root extract provide gentle support for proper healthy kidney function by helping to reduce blood pressure and inflammation."
Selling Supplements
Veterinarians face some challenges when it comes to selling dietary supplements, says Bookout: product availability and assessing product quality.
If veterinarians refer clients elsewhere to purchase a supplement, they're missing out on the sale—but more importantly, he says, they're losing control of the animal's care.
"Health and wellness is a three-dimensional object, like a sphere," he says. "There are many components to it, and the veterinarian is ideally positioned to coordinate all aspects of care and put those pieces together that create a picture that results in best outcome for the animal.
"The veterinarian should be very open to and receptive to dispensing supplement products as a component of a comprehensive and thorough care program," he continues. "And if they refer the client somewhere else, then they lose that control point."
When veterinarians select specific supplements to dispense through the clinic, they can also assure the products' quality, Bookout says.
"Veterinarians are best positioned to assess the quality of the product and the reputation of the company to make the selection that they feel will result in maximizing the benefit for the animal," he says. "They act as a screening process to make sure that they have faith and trust in the company and the products they dispense as a component of this comprehensive care program."
With the increasing popularity of supplements, it behooves veterinarians to carry and dispense products they believe in, Bookout says.
"It's an undeniable fact that supplements do provide benefits to pets," he says. "And in order to maximize the outcome for the animal, they should maintain control over them."
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Please note that as this is a remote based position, we are open to applications from candidates based throughout the UK and EMEA region.
Yoco is on a mission to help the businesses of tomorrow get started, and get paid – be a part of the team that changes financial services in Africa. Curious. Data-driven. Purposeful. Sound like you? It sounds a lot like us too.
We are an African technology company made up of over 200 team members globally. All with a bias for boldness, and a passion for simple, progressive solutions.
Founded in 2015, Yoco is now the payments provider for over 150 000 business owners and consistently processes over R1 billion in transactions each month.
Your home team at Yoco:
Yoco's engineering team is scaling rapidly to support the ambitions of the company. You will be a part of a close-knit, exceptionally talented team of engineers. Our engineers work in cross-functional teams gathered around missions, with a strong focus on aligning the right skills with the right problems and the right leaders to support them.
Through close collaboration and experimentation, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative solutions, and work on a wide variety of projects and technologies. Our tech stack includes Scala, Python, JavaScript, React, React Native, Kotlin, Swift, and a few more. Yoco favours strongly autonomous thinkers, and encourages and supports skill development.
A Staff Engineer at Yoco is a hands-on, technical leader on an individual contributor career path (open, in the future, to change to a management path). You will be responsible for systems design and architecture, mentoring and best practices.
What we're looking for:
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Search multiple engines for Example Marginal Cost.
To put it simply, the marginal resource cost is the amount of cost incurred to secure a single unit of resource. For example, if it costs a company $500 US Dollars (USD) to hire an employee for an hour of work, that $500 USD is the MRC.
This causes the marginal resource cost to be to greater than the supply curve. For example, if one worker can be hired at $20 and the second worker can be hired at $25, then the marginal resource cost of hiring the second worker is $30 which includes the $25 paid to the second worker plus the five dollar increase in the wages of the first worker.


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Each week, host Bruce Pannier welcomes a panel of expert guests to discuss significant political developments and pressing social issues affecting the nations of Central Asia.
Majlis RFE/RL
Powerful Tashkent Mayor Suddenly Fired - January 22, 2023
On January 16, Tashkent mayor Jahongir Ortikhojaev was abruptly fired for failing to prepare the Uzbek capital city for the unusually harsh winter. In office since 2018, he was often the subject of controversy, once threatening to "disappear" a journalist. But Artikhojaev was close to Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev, and therefore seemed untouchable. Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss what went wrong for Artikhojaev are Dilmira Matyakubowa, a Ph.D researcher in criminology and co-director of UzInvestigations; Navbahor Imamova, a veteran correspondent for the Uzbek Service at Voice of America; and Sirojiddin Tolibov, managing editor of RFERL's Tajik Service, known locally as Ozodi, who has also been closely following events in Uzbekistan for many years.
The Terrible Rights Situation In Turkmenistan - January 15, 2023
Turkmenistan has long had a poor reputation for human rights. But recently, two activists whose cases received international attention were freed. This episode of the Majlis podcast looks at some of activists who have languished in Turkmen prisons and examines whether anything has changed since a new president took over in March 2022. Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss these topics are Rachel Denber, deputy director of HRW's Europe and Central Asia division; Ivar Dale, senior policy adviser at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee; and Farruh Yusupov, director of RFE/RL's Turkmen service, known locally as Azatlyk.
The Year Since 'Bloody January' In Kazakhstan - January 08, 2023
This week, Kazakhstan marked the first anniversary of what some call, in Kazakh, "Qandy Qantar," or "Bloody January." At least 238 people were killed in a crackdown on nationwide protests. One year later, there are still many questions about what happened and who was responsible. There are also questions about whether Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's government has made the necessary adjustments to prevent a repeat of the January 2022 violence. Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss these topics are William Courtney, former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan; Vyacheslav Arbamov, founder of the Vlast.kz news outlet in Kazakhstan; and Aigerim Toleukhanova, a freelance journalist from Kazakhstan and co-host of Eurasianet's EurasiaChat podcast.
2022: A Raucous Year For Central Asia - January 01, 2023
The Central Asian states have never experienced anything like the year 2022. There were protests that turned deadly in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that left more than 100 people dead; political and economic fallout from Russia's war on Ukraine that affected all five Central Asian countries; presidential elections in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; and much more. Joining host Bruce Pannier to look back at a year that in many ways reshaped and redirected the course of Central Asia are Luca Anceschi, professor of Central Asian studies at Glasgow University; Catherine Putz, managing editor at The Diplomat magazine; and Temur Umarov, a fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and at the OSCE Academy.
A Big Year For Turkish-Central Asian Relations - December 25, 2022
Turkey has been noticeably active in Central Asia this year. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Uzbekistan twice, Kazakhstan, and most recently Turkmenistan in mid-December. Erdogan is pushing for the Organization of Turkic States, which includes four Central Asian states, to move from a talk shop about cultural affinities into a political and economic bloc with international clout. Central Asia is expanding its trade networks to Turkey and increasingly turning to Ankara for security needs. Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss the topic are Assel Tutumlu, a lecturer at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Near East University in Nicosia; and Mukhtar Senggirbay, managing editor at RFE/RL's Kazakh service, known locally as Azattyq.
A Talk About Tajikistan With The UN's Special Rapporteur For Human Rights Defenders - December 18, 2022
This year will be remembered as one of the worst for human rights in Tajikistan. Authorities imprisoned activists, journalists, bloggers, lawyers, and members of the Shi'ite Pamiri community in the country's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. Mary Lawlor, the UN's special rapporteur for human rights defenders, visited Tajikistan from November 28 to December 9. On this week's Majlis, she joins host Bruce Pannier to discuss her concerns about the situation there.
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Excellent Insight
I wait each week for the newest podcast. Topics are fresh and timely. Guests are outstanding. I often follow up episodes by obtaining books and articles from discussants.
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Excellent insights on a region with few quality sources of information
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Great insightful discussions, audio quality could be improved though. Great podcast!
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Afrobeats superstars Wizkid, Davido and D'Banj lead the line for the brand new compilation album from Capital Xtra titled Afrobeats: The Definitive Collection, which is mixed by tastemaker DJ and radio presenter DJ Abrantee, and follows on from the 2012 critically acclaimed Afrobeats: The Ultimate Collection album.
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Comic Artist & His Assistants, The - Complete Collection
Animatsu Entertainment
DVD £19.99; Blu-ray £24.99
Despite the byline underneath the title, a manga is rarely the product of one single author or artist. A perfect storm of high page-counts and tight deadlines make this almost physically impossible - there just aren't enough hours in the day for even the most skilled mangaka to turn in literally dozens of pages a month. Mangaka are thus often supported in their efforts by a team of drawing assistants; uncredited help who speed up a manga's creation by filling-in block colours, cleaning sketched pencil-marks and doing other artistic grunt-work - sometimes extending into drawing backgrounds, technical equipment and minor characters as well - while the mangaka focuses on the eye-catching foreground detail like central heroes and the big money-shot splash pages. If you've ever wondered why a certain manga such as Gunslinger Girl is only "Presented By" the named mangaka that's because he's only the tip of a long spear of other contributors that drive the story home to you.
One such mangaka is Yuki Aito - a true artist, but like all such craftsmen of beauty and meaning one who refuses to compromise his vision to the corrupt cruel commercial corporate shackles of deadlines. Aito's exasperated editor Mihari has sent him a group of assistants to absorb some of the workload and bring the mangaka back onto something like a schedule that's not completely taking the mickey out of his publishers and readership... but as Aito's manga is a knicker-flashing ecchi affair, Aito himself is an inveterate pervert and the assistants are a series of pretty girls, that might be a taller order than she first realised!
The Comic Artist & His Assistants is the 2014 anime adaptation of the original four-panel manga by Hiroyuki which has been running in Young Gangan magazine since 2008. Although it's being released in the UK by Animatsu Entertainment it's entirely a straight rip of Sentai Filmworks' earlier U.S. release (even to the extent of the upcoming releases previews on the first disc being from Sentai, not Animatsu). Being based on a short comic strip-style manga the anime itself is similarly brief - each episode is only half-length and that abbreviated time is split further into three or four skits. Although in recent years we're more familiar with this mini-episode format through short ONAs, The Comic Artist & His Assistants was designed for actual television so it does have better production values and more detail in its art than you might initially expect - it also has a distinctive gimmick, repeated multiple times an episode, of emphasising the reactions of characters by zooming in close on their faces and overlaying their hair and the background with screentone dots - thematically appropriate for a comic about manga production and also punctuating the exclamation point of each gag with a bubble of pop-art kitsch.
The gags these mark are fairly workmanlike for a fan service show, centring around Aita's struggles to get his assistants to flash their own underwear at him - all in the purely professional interest of accurate visual reference for his art, of course - and the girls' own disgusted beating him back to his drawing board, along with a bit of gender-reversal from Aito's own overly-effete reactions as he rubs his thighs together and shakes his hips as he blushes coyly at the thought of knickers or runs away crying "you jerk!" like an embarrassed ecchi heroine who's been caught in the changing room.
While Aito is a punching bag for much of the series there is a bit of balance included to make it not totally gruellingly misanthrophic because he is actually a decent artist whose skill remarked on by his assistants. There are a couple of decent gags which play on manga tropes, including a short skit where Aito becomes an expert psychologist defining the girls' personalities by their underwear drawers, or another where the hero of Aito's manga is his own Mary Sue so an editorial instruction to introduce a love rival to boost reader interest in the storyline makes him distraught. Despite all the talk about underwear though, The Comic Artist & His Assistants is actually relatively modest as these sorts of fanservice-led shows go - there's no nudity even in the Hot Springs Episode (although you do get plenty of shots of Aito being punched into orbit straight out of Love Hina) and there's plenty of time talking about knickers but not all that much actually showing them. While typically OVAs are usually reserved for even raunchier content that would make the entire screen white if you had to break out the Mysterious Light Beams to censor them for TV broadcast, in The Comic Artist & His Assistants they're pretty much just more of the same and further continuations pitched at the same level as the main episodes. It's wrong to call it a harem anime as well, because while Aito is surrounded by a clique of girls who helpfully are categorised by cup size so every viewer can select his favourite, there's not really much romance between them beyond a bit of puppy-dog pining from Aito. While in most cases I'd dismiss this as half-hearted and missing the point of a fan service show - don't beat around the bush, just give us the goods and let us get on with what we came here to do - a more restrained approach does set up a couple of more decent gags, such as when the dominatrix's mission to subdue Aito fails early because she's such a weakling her whips barely tickle.
This release is Japanese-only, but the translation is clear and unobtrusive and there is decent signage subtitling as well. The special features include the usual clean opening and closing sequences, but the promise of a "kareoke version" of the ending sequence of the final episode, featuring Aita singing an ode to panties, is really quite a cheat - the Japanese text which shows for the song (which was already in the actual episode anyway) has kareoke colouring as the syllables pass by but the English text is just regular plain standard subtitles and useless for singing along to - it's not a special version at all, just another clean ending.
That also sums up The Comic Artist & His Assistants as a whole - ultimately nothing special. As a comedy it's intermittently funny with a couple of chuckle-worthy in-jokes for familiar manga readers, but it's by and large a by-the-numbers fanservice show where you get an odd glimpse under the skirts of cute girls, and then the girls punch the guys in retaliation to keep it fair. There's pictures of the girls in swimsuits on the cover, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Japanese 2.0 audio with English subtitles. Extras include trailers, Japanese promo spots, clean opening and closing sequences and "karaoke edition" ending sequence.
Bakuman it ain't, but this journeyman fan service comedy hits all the usual beats of a well-known tune in good enough time.


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Q: What happens if I read a file without closing it afterwards? I used to read files like this:
f = [i.strip("\n") for i in open("filename.txt")]

which works just fine. I prefer this way because it is cleaner and shorter than traditional file reading code samples available on the web (e.g. f = open(...) , for line in f.readlines() , f.close()).
However, I wonder if there can be any drawback for reading files like this, e.g. since I don't close the file, does Python interpreter handles this itself? Is there anything I should be careful of using this approach?

A: This is the recommended way:
with open("filename.txt") as f:
    lines = [line.strip("\n") for line in f]

The other way may not close the input file for a long time.  This may not matter for your application.
The with statement takes care of closing the file for you.  In CPython, just letting the file handle object be garbage-collected should close the file for you, but in other flavors of Python (Jython, IronPython, PyPy) you definitely can't count on this.  Also, the with statement makes your intentions very clear, and conforms with common practice.

A: From the docs:

When you're done with a file, call f.close() to close it and free up any system resources taken up by the open file.

You should always close a file after working with it. Python will not automatically do it for you. If you want a cleaner and shorter way, use a with statement:
with open("filename.txt") as myfile:
    lines = [i.strip("\n") for i in myfile]

This has two advantages:

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*It automatically closes the file after the with block

*If an exception is raised, the file is closed regardless.

A: It might be fine in a limited number of cases, e.g. a temporary test.
Python will only close the file handle after it finishes the execution.
Therefore this approach is a no-go for a proper application.

A: When we write onto a file using any of the write functions. Python holds everything to write in the file in a buffer and pushes it onto the actual file on the storage device either at the end of the python file or if it encounters a close() function.
So if the file terminates in between then the data is not stored in the file. So I would suggest two options:

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*use with because as soon as you get out of the block or encounter any exception it closes the file,
   with open(filename , file_mode) as file_object:
           do the file manipulations........

*or you can use the flush() function if you want to force python to write contents of buffer onto storage without closing the file.
file_object.flush()

For Reference: https://lerner.co.il/2015/01/18/dont-use-python-close-files-answer-depends/

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Once again I am back in Buenos Aires. From my two brief visits here years ago only vague memories of this Paris-like Latin American city remain. Though a brutal military dictatorship came and left in the interim, this is still the New World … though for me it seems to be located in the Old. Instead of in a downtown hotel as before, I am living in an apartment in the centrally located barrio of La Recoleta, an area of expensive boutiques and elegant hotels and sumptuous apartment buildings. Nearby is the monumental Cementerio de Recoleta where lie many Argentine notables including Eva "Evita" Peron and Nicolas Rodriguez Pena, for whom my street is named. Lunching outside at the famous Café La Biela (the rod that links certain parts of an automobile), under the spreading branches of the internationally known, 18th century gum tree, one can watch the beautiful people of well-to-do Buenos Aires come and go. Though this was once the café of the automobile racing crowd, hence its name, it was also the favorite café of Jorge Luis Borges and two generations of intellectuals and artists. Today it is the café of a certain chic Buenos Aires.
The 2006 version of Buenos Aires at the Café Biela shows no visible effects of the economic crisis the nation has only recently emerged from. Yet, underneath, the scars are there, not only from the economic crisis but especially from the moral crisis caused by the years of the dictatorship from 1976-1983. People of this rich barrio, like many Germans after WWII, are uncertain about what went wrong in a nation that permitted the horror of at least thirty thousand desaparecidos and the moral degeneration the terror engendered. As much as Beautiful Buenos Aires wants to come to terms with that past, it is still an elusive operation. Who is guilty is still an open question in Argentina. At least formally so since the social forces served by the brutal military dictatorship are clear.
One fourth of Argentina's forty million people lives in Greater Buenos Aires, three million of them in the city itself. It is one of the major urban centers in the world. Buenos Aires is a concentrate of Argentina as Paris is of France. The problems of the nation are the problems of Buenos Aires. The problems of Buenos Aires are the problems of the nation.
Original Spanish settlers wanted to create a European city here around the great natural port. Greedy Spanish colonialists were cruel as have been all colonialists down through history. Despite claims about the "good of bringing civilization to savages," there has never been any altruism in colonialism. Those sixteenth century colonialists wanted neither to assimilate others nor to be assimilated. They succeeded: they conveniently annihilated the natives, or so they believed, and established a European city.
My barrio here could be Paris or Madrid. It could be the Upper East Side in New York. White skins predominate. Though officially less than one per cent of Argentina's population is of indigenous descent since the new Spanish arrivals simply "eliminated" the people they found here, and though a majority of people in north Buenos Aires are of European stock, the number of apparent mestizos even in chic Recoleta and Palermo continues to surprise me.
Yesterday I walked to the Retiro train station to take a look, for it is at train stations that one sees best the cross sections of a country. And they were there, in big numbers: the Indios and mestizos, the half-breeds and quarter-breeds. Maybe some are Bolivians or Indios from Brazil but most are Argentines.
In wandering around the huge city I find that an even greater number of persons have certain particular but elusive features—a square facial structure and thick cheekbones—in which I seem to see traces of man's North Asian period that followed the diaspora of the first men from Africa, the original mother and motherland of all of us.
Although this is not the place for an anthropological survey, I am as usual on the qui vive for what links us all. I always hope to pinpoint the prototype of Man. I am continually searching for the Man in which I believe we all converge. On the plane from Rome to Buenos Aires, sitting among mainly Argentines, I saw in many faces what I thought was that original Man. Strangely and inexplicably those features were especially in the faces of white-skinned women. In these first days in Buenos Aires I have therefore intensified my search, convinced I will see the original Man here. I stop in crowds and peer into passing faces and sometimes I believe I see him.
There he is! There is Man!
The man from Siberia who never faltered, who never deviated from his southern course toward the bottom of the world, who filtered southwards down the still unnamed continent and became the "indigenous" Man, the first man in Argentina. Somehow he survived the Spanish invasion and the mass extermination. He both assimilated his Spanish executioner and was himself secretly assimilated. Again and again he mixed with the new blood arriving in waves from Europe, from Italy and Germany. Argentines marking the arrival of the Spanish five centuries ago on the Day with the ugly name of "Day of the Race" on October 12 wonder how best to call what happened here at the mouth of what they called the Rio de la Plata: Discovery? Meeting of cultures? Usurpation? Conquest?
They are right to wonder. None of the names apply.
Far too many people forget that Carlos Gardel was not only one of the best singers of all time, but also an extremely gifted and influential composer.
To backtrack a bit, I think of the early men from Africa who had first migrated to the northeast to Siberia, then across the straits to Alaska and then set out on their trek to the south. Some dropped out along the way. Some turned east to become the Cherokees and the Sioux. Others stopped in Mexico to become the Toltecs and the Olmecs. Others stopped in Peru and became the Incas. Finally Man arrived in Argentina, the end of the line. Until one day he, the survivor, met his lost brothers arriving from Europe. He met himself.
By then they had changed in appearance and in speech and did not recognize or understand each other. And they still do not know each other any more than they know themselves. Man is lonely in the universe. He is lonely without his long lost brother. He feels nostalgia and wonders who he is.
I stand outside the Retiro Station and watch my brothers pass. Try as I might I do not recognize them. Yet I know intellectually that we are both men from the same mysterious and disputed origins. We have been separated by the walls of history.
What is man, forever in search of himself and his lost brother, to think in the face of walls. Of the Berlin Wall? Of the wall surrounding the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto? Of Israel's wall to keep out their Arab brothers? Of America's construction of a thousand mile wall to separate itself from its brothers to the south? What are we to think of genocides of our brothers?
Gaither Stewart's latest novel is The Fifth Sun (Punto Press). He serves as senior editor with The Greanville Post (TGP) and European correspondent for both TGP and Cyrano's Journal Today. His home base is Rome.
The soul of Buenos Aires is a soul filled with nostalgia. Great cities tend to be cold and businesslike, ruthless and impersonal in their dealings. New York comes immediately to mind in this regard; the summoning of its image when one speaks of a cold metropolis something of a cliché. Others, like Shanghai, we approach gingerly as one approaches a massive beehive where one's humanity could swiftly vanish into a featureless common denominator. Buenos Aires is big, some porteños would proudly say huge. But there's nothing impersonal about Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires often feels up close and personal, like a small town. Perhaps it is her Mediterranean fabric—half Spanish, half Italian, with generous sprinklings of other transplanted races, all embedded in the magnanimous embrace of the long-suffering, resigned, often despised Amerindian pachamama—that makes the character of this city so human, so captivating, so contradictory and so hard to resist. Buenos Aires is twice as big as Madrid, just about the size of London in population (the biggest metropolis in the EU), and ten times the size of Naples, but its aura of intimacy, the badly concealed mien of the old villorrio, its ability to tug at the heart is the same.
Like all big assemblages of humanity the Buenos Aires cultural DNA carries many infusions. The colonial Spanish pool, reinforced by 19th and 20th century migrations, remains strong, but the city can't be properly recognized without acknowledging the enormous influence of Italians, chiefly from Sicily and the Campania. The Italians came and mostly remained in the River Plate estuary, rarely venturing beyond the city's ample limits, the Argentinean hinterland, the realm of the cabecitas negras.
Most of them bore the scars of immemorial poverty, the erratic employment at home, a life of literal servitude made doubly awful by two global wars that shook the peninsula to its roots but did not remove the old social chains, disdain, and prejudices against mezzogiornini, and the lower orders, in general, an attitude that has not entirely died even in the 21st century. Out of this proud but dilapidated mix the Neapolitan strain soon became one of the most influential in the new land. Thus, in the City of Fair Ayre, more than any other ingredient, it was Naples that smoothed the excessive harshness and rigidity so typical of the Spanish character, a trick Neapolitans had mastered over centuries of close acquaintance with their onetime nominal Hispanic overlords.
Who are you, Naples? And how did you get to the banks of the River Plate?
Anyone who knows anything about these matters can attest that there's no city in the world like Naples in terms of ostensible emotionality and popular talent for lyricism. Naples is the cradle of most famous Italian popular songs. O Sole Mio came from Naples. So did Torna a Surriento. And that enduring hymn to filial love, Mamma. There are many other songs like that: all beautiful, all sad (or poignantly joyous); all celebrating the most irrepressible emotions the human heart is heir to. All rendered in that curious hybrid vernacular that distinguishes the Amalfi region, a language that endlessly oscillates between Italian proper and old Spanish, never quite making up its mind.
Naples has a well deserved reputation for cunning resiliency, bordering on the bizarrely criminal. At times it can be downright comical. To many outsiders the inhabitants seem over-exuberant, histrionic, even caricaturesque. In his searing La Pelle (The Skin) native son Curzio Malaparte, himself a hybrid, an Italo-German with unsettled loyalties, painted Naples in the closing hours of WW2 as a sea of shifting humanity at wits' end, future uncertain, with the streets and beds an arena of desperate Darwinism, the whole mess improbably supervised by a conquering, swaggering horde of supremely naive semi-barbaric Americans. The Germans were clearly foreign to the Neapolitan way, but the Americans were simply another species.
Against this backdrop Malaparte conjures up visions that could only make sense in a place as culturally supple and old as Naples, the site of a grand uninterrupted farandula. It could only happen in Naples, Malaparte assures us, because Naples is above all tolerant; like an old being it has seen it all, like an old mother, it forgives all. Genuine scandal cannot really faze her. The tumult that betrays internal emotions is alien to her character: too abrupt, too ill-mannered to be accepted into the wove of Naples instinctive gentility, every single one an expert in the art of savoir vivre. The external fireworks is another matter, for the sake of bella figura, an Italian imperative, but they too soon pass and calm is restored.
In the variegated world of homosexuality, still ill defined both scientifically and culturally, the position of the Neapolitan femminello is a privileged one…they live mostly in the poor quarters in a welcoming atmosphere, surrounded by good-natured consensus. They were born in a squalid slum, bereft of air and light, into families where promiscuity is the rule and all the children generally sleep in one bed…he is usually the youngest male child, 'mother's little darling,' and tends to imitate his mother's feminine sweetness…It is unusual for a poor family to view the femminiello as a family disgrace in any sense of the word; he is useful, he does chores, runs errands and watches the kids…and a mother would have no second thoughts about asking a femminiello to babysit.
Against such visions, the legend that Neapolitans managed to steal a whole American destroyer, without leaving a trace (not to mention untold numbers of lesser objects), seems tame. Anything to survive, because life, after all, is the ultimate accomplishment.
In her award-winning film Settebellezze Director Lina Wertmuller paid mordant tribute to the supreme Neapolitan "survivor", depicting him as a mass of contradictions in which opportunism, sentiment, and honor are in constant combat with none winning the decisive upper hand. The quest for dignified opportunism—"onore"— is scarcely unique to Naples. Other regions of Italy, notably Sicily, also rate as powerful entrants in the contest, and to some extent the rest of the world, for the art of survival against great odds is almost a universal gift, often acquired out of necessity. That said, what distinguishes Naples is that, hard as she may need to be, she's never afraid to show her soft side, her maternal side, and her wiles are always displayed with memorable haunting panache. Vittorio de Sica, the man who gave us Ladri di Biciclette and other masterpieces, described Rome as the calculating mind of Italy, but Naples, he averred, was her heart. Who could have thought that the same heart would find some day a new home 7,000 long miles from the lap of the Vesuvius in the Southern Cone of Latin America?
The music of a culture reflects its temperament, and the music of the people of Buenos Aires is the tango. The tango speaks to losses, just like Naples' songs. The poor feel its message deeply. Unfinished journeys. Defeats. Prolonged absences. Fidelity to one's great primal loves. The inexorable passage of time. Its music has echoes of classic Eurolatin melodiousness with the cadence of the new Amerindian rhythm. The passion that infuses its steps has roots firmly planted in both continents.
Gardel was one of the first truly international superstars. His fame reached not only every corner of Latin America, but Paris, (where he was revered), Berlin, London, Tokyo, Helsinki, and even Russia. Equally surprising, he was known even in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles (America is usually a planet apart)—where he went to make some recordings and movies for the internal regional Latin markets. Despite the brevity of his visits he impressed many local artists, including a callow Frank Sinatra, whom he counseled to get serious about his crooning.
Gardel was not Neapolitan. Of very humble origins, he was born in Toulouse, Southern France, in 1890. His mother, apparently a laundress, left the city a few years later, probably to escape the stigma of having a child born out of wedlock. In early 1893 in Bordeaux, France, mother and son boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, arriving on 11 March 1893. Gardel grew up watching his mother battle poverty, but the wounds of that squalid life were quickly palliated by the boy's quick ascent from anonymity and the almost tribal, fierce love he received from everyone in the barrio, la barra de los muchachos.
In many regards, buoyed by the support of his friends, many immigrant sons and daughters themselves, el francesito—"frenchie"—as his friends called him, managed to escape the more sordid and depressing injuries of class. Gardel never forgot his roots nor that early embrace, and his love for the common people soon found expression in multiple motifs that seem now, in retrospect, like the artist's unconscious effort to repay a big emotional debt.
Both Buenos Aires and Naples are unapologetically sentimental and much of Gardel's music, like tangoes in general, is sentimental. But this is not cheap sentimentality; classic tango has nothing mawkish in it, nothing soap operatic. Tango—like Jazz— is not self-pitying, though its natural call is to witness the loser's progress, with whom it identifies, a path full of frustrations, love's disappointments and bittersweet illusions. Tango sings the blues in Spanish.
Journeys are particularly important to the tango repertory and Gardel often incorporated the idea in his best compositions. The hard transplantation to a new continent resonated with a collectivity full of immigrants, economic exiles, in reality, and tango spoke to their repressed pain. Those that have never uprooted themselves from native soil, or been forced by circumstance into foreign exile will have trouble understanding. Such journeys are both geographic and emotional, and then there's the journey of life itself, the one in which our memories constitute the main road.
Gardel was quick to seize on that motif. He felt it intensely. For Gardel life was a round trip: No matter where we begin, we always long to go back to our point of origin, to the land, to the spot that saw us in our youth, to sort things out a final time. The heart demands it. Not for nothing the old Latin word for "remember" is "recordare". Fellini's homage to his youth was called Amarcord—I remember. For recordare is not to pass a thought through the mind but through the heart. Il cuore. We remember with the heart. The mind just organizes our words; the heart controls the tears, the logical punctuation for the inexpressible inside.
Tango is for adults. Those who have never grown up, who never lived, who are yet to be hit by life, cannot grasp what this type of music says. And that's too damn bad.
Patrice Greanville is The Greanville Post's founding editor. He misses Buenos Aires a great deal, because while the great city may have plenty of commerce and business, she's not about business.
In the songs that follow I provide a brief commentary on the cultural motifs discussed above, especially the leave-takings and returns. The duty to the mother (as felt and understood primarily by commoners or the poor, since the rich have always marched to a different, largely unsentimental tune); the debt to the old paese, and the trip back to the places that witnessed our youth. In some cases a translated excerpt suffices to convey the force and purity of these enduring compositions. A video version accompanies each selection. Complete lyrics for all these songs can be easily found through a simple Google search.
To live far away—whatever for?
Mamma, you will now be with me, you will no longer be alone.
For me, the real thrust to the heart comes with this simple line. You will no longer be alone. How many sons have abandoned their mothers for personal reasons unaware of the pain they caused? You are life…and for life I swear, I will never leave you again.
like you do with the people you have at heart.
seek you out and call your name.
that I mourn once again.
will now enslave my dreams.
entire fortune of my heart.
(1) "El Choclo" (Spanish: meaning "The Corn Cob") is a popular song written by Ángel Villoldo, an Argentine musician. Allegedly written in honour of and taking its title from the nickname of the proprietor of a nightclub, who was known as "El Choclo". It is one of the most popular tangos in Argentina. The piece was premiered in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1903 – the date appears on a program of the venue – at the elegant restaurant El Americano on Cangallo 966 (today Teniente General Perón 966) by the orchestra led by José Luis Roncallo.
This string quartet version of the beloved tango, featured in the Al Pacino movie "Scent of a Woman", was played by Dominika Dancewicz, Johnny Chang, Violins, Hillary Schoap, Viola and Olive Chen, Cello. The concert was held at Jennyoga in Houston, TX. Audio/Video productions by Mark Chen Photography.(2) Le Pera died with Gardel in June 1935 in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia. Gardel was only 44.
In this epic tango, composed by Carlos Gardel, the interplay between losing at the race track and losing with women is carefully woven into a poem to fate.
I'll bet everything again, it can't be helped!
(3) Achille della Ragione, as quoted by Jeff Matthews, in The Femminiello in Neapolitan Culture.
(4) Jeff Mathews, The Femminiello in Neapolitan Culture.Below, on the next page, how North Americans see the tango, and execute it, literally, for good and for ill.


Thanks again to candyguru reader, nay – enthusiast, Craig (!) for providing review fodder in this…um very heavy bar to review. Not Greg Brady 'heavy, man', I mean this is easily the heaviest chocolate bar I've ever held in my hands. It's 68 grams. Is that like 2 lbs? It says all over the package that it's chunky milk chocolate. This isn't like the "Chunky" of yesteryear. The big square bar that had raisins in it? I didn't like those. Why ruin chocolate with raisins? Made no sense. Before I open the package I think these Yorkies are just plain milk chocolate. Can't tell for sure since it's dark in the room and the words on UK candy packaging are always so small and difficult to read. Think they are trying to hide the truth.
Well, the Yorkie bar is big and I can't eat it all so you can finish it.
And there you have it! Straight from the mouth of the woman who scorns the candy-buyer (me) who only brings gummis and no chocolate back from the store.
Even if we give Yorkie a little leeway — it's a UK chocolate, which is a long way to travel for a chocolate bar…and it's in competition with the far superior Cadbury chocolate — you just can't get around it, that's some bad choco folks.
Next time you're in the international candy aisle of your local grocer, leave the Yorkie on the shelf.
And in case I wasn't clear before. There are no raisins in this thing. It's pure crap milk chocolate. It doesn't even really taste like chocolate. It's a waste, really. I gave it a '3' since it's not a spitter…but perhaps I should reconsider.
A British family came into the store and told us a bit more about this. In britain it is known as the "Trucker's Bar", they grab one with their drink and food and bite off a chunk to eat while driving. The not for girls part comes from the chunks being too "big" to be politely eaten. At least, that is what they said, interesting though!


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Travel: Walk around Kolkata-6, and discover its many charms
A century-old house, 19th century church, 300-year-old temple—north Kolkata hides treasures in its perceived drabness. The past is ever-present here
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Traditional houses with classic green shuttered windows, in north Kolkata. (Photographs by Nipa Charagi)
By Nipa Charagi
I am standing at the Chalta Bagan petrol pump on Vivekananda Road, in north Kolkata, with its "I love Kolkata" neon sign. I cross over into the side street, beckoned by the brick-red facade and brown shuttered windows of an elegant three-storeyed house. Built in 1922, it's aptly called Scarlet Home. Ensconced on the ground floor is the newly opened Jiabharali T. Café, its white painted doors and windows making for a nice contrast. Jutting out above the café door is a Juliet balcony. Perhaps this is what the late urban theorist Jane Jacobs meant when she said: "New ideas need old buildings."
Old buildings and institutes are aplenty in this neighbourhood, pin code 6, dense with roadside tea stalls with coal-fired stoves and plastic jars filled with biscuits. People sit on benches and stools, quaffing tea from disposable earthen cups while chatting. On the morning after the Fifa World Cup final, I could hear a man, perhaps a Les Bleus supporter, say exasperatedly, "Mbappé aeka ei khelay jachey (Mbappé was literally playing alone)." These tea shops are communal spaces, like the red-oxide rowak—a raised platform in front of traditional houses where people hang around.
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I spent the last two weeks of 2022 in the city and I found myself walking often in this area, keeping to a radius of 4-5km—the more I walked, the more I observed. Like these two large houses, off Abhedananda Road, flanking a narrow lane: one red-brick, the other pink, both with classic green shuttered windows. In the mornings, several windows on the first floor of the red-brick house are open: It is an inexplicably beautiful sight, like a file of students at the school morning assembly. Or an open door revealing a Radha-Krishna thakur bari (house of god)—the outside giving no hint of the vastness inside, the long marble corridor and the fountain in the garden. Or the newspaper vendor rolling up the broadsheet, tying it to the end of the rope hanging down from a third-floor balcony, to be pulled up. Kolkata-6 hides treasures in its perceived drabness; the past is ever-present here.
Of churches, and colleges
With Scarlet Home to your left, the main road behind you, walk down Duff Street to the intersection. Across the road is Duff Church, with its blue walls and grey windows. A plaque reads: November 1848, 1st Sunday, 1st meeting as a congregation. Led by Rev. Alexander Duff (the Church of Scotland's first missionary to India). On a recent Sunday, around 8.30am, you could see a man playing the violin in the practically empty church. To your right is Sree Sree Jogot Mandir, which gives its year of establishment as (Bengali calendar) 1278 (around 1871). Linger here long enough, and, at around 9.30am, the neighbourhood fills up with the resonant percussion sounds of manjeera (cymbals) and the beating of the gong during the morning prayers at the temple. It's the same around 6 in the evening. Keeping time above the entrance door of the temple is a wall clock with Charles. Nephew & Co., Calcutta inscribed on it—Charles and Parke Pittar were uncle and nephew, prominent jewellers, watchmakers from 1848-70.
(left) Christ Church; and a traditional house with brick-red facade and shuttered windows.
Straight ahead, after the intersection, is St Margaret's School, set up in 1871, and further down, on Abhedananda Road, The Paribartan Sarkar Bidyalaya (1928) and Holy Child Institute (1938) sit opposite each other.
Most of the educational institutes are laid out on streets parallel to each other. For instance, in the street next to Duff Church is the sprawling Scottish Church College in Urquhart Square, established in 1830. At the next intersection, on Bidhan Sarani, is the brick-red Christ Church, built in 1839. It rubs shoulders with Bethune College, the first women's college in India, established in 1879. A marble plaque in the grounds reads: "In sweet memory of our beloved dog Lalu, 1997-July 18, 2014, who protected Bethune School and College during two decades".
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Opposite Christ Church, on Ramdulal Sarkar Street, is a row of five-six sweet, or mishti, shops. These are not your sparkly, gleaming shops, all glass and marble. As a tourist, you would probably walk right past them. The oldest shop, Girish Ch. Dey & Nakur Ch. Dey, dates back to 1844. They are famous for having supplied Bengali sweets at the wedding of actors Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan. My favourites, though, are notun gurer norom pak talsas, lebu sondesh and parijat from Subodh Chandra Mullick. It's manned by the third generation of three brothers—Amit, Abhijit and Pinku Malik. Amit claims their shop is also over a hundred years old. What's new is the not-so-innovative names of some of the sweets: Mother India and Sonar Bangla. About 10 minutes walk away is another iconic mishti shop: Ganguram and Sons (1892).
In the evening, after 5, you will find a huge crowd around a stall at the corner of Christ Church. This is Hedua Chat, which gives its date of birth as 1941 and the tag line: "The chat for chat lovers". The stall takes its name from the Hedua Swimming Club across the road.
Statues and strolls
It's not unusual to hear of two-three generations of a family having learnt swimming at Hedua, which was set up in 1917. On either side of the pool is a diving board; a walking path runs around it. There is an open space for exercise, cultural events, plenty of benches to sit on and a children's play area. On one side of the pool are the one-storeyed buildings of the National Swimming Association, the Simula Athletic Club (established in 1936), Central Swimming Club (1917) and the Azad Hind Mahila Samity (1964). Closed for swimming in winter—a pair of ducks has the run of the pool. It's around 7am, a man is goading his 10-12-year-old son: "Vivekananda bust thekay dorotey shuru kor (start running from Vivekananda's bust)."
Jiabharali T. Café on Duff Street, located in the 100-year-old Scarlet Home.
Kolkata has a thing for statues; this place is no different. A towering statue of Swami Vivekananda faces away from the pool, overlooking the road. In one corner is a bust of Rajanikanta Sen: "The poet of divine sensibilities (1865-1910)". A Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose bust has a view of the pool. Someone has etched on its back: "Didu I love you. Dadu I love you." Exit the pool from the main gate, walk left and at the corner is the seated statue of chemist Butto Kristo Paul (1835-1914), clad in a dhoti and chador. A passer-by greets me with "Jai Shri Ram", catching me unawares.
A couple of minutes' walk away is Swami Vivekananda's ancestral house and cultural centre on Bidhan Sarani Road. If you are lucky enough, you will hear the rattling sound and clang of a metal bell as the occasional tram trundles past. About 10-15 minutes' walk from here is College Street, or boi para, with its numerous colleges and book stalls. A stone's throw away are the old traditional markets of Hathibagan and Shreemani Bazar: Thanthania Kalibari, said to be three centuries old, is located in the latter. Stand in front of the Vivekananda Cultural Centre and glance across the road at a red board. It says Chacha's Hotel, established in 1875. This famous landmark, known for its fowl cutlet, fish fry and more, shut down a few years ago. Only a sign of the times remains.
The morning I am there, a horse carriage goes by. A young girl shouts in excitement, "Goru, goru (cow, cow)"—her two friends burst out laughing. Unlike Delhi, you don't find cows wandering here on the streets.
A 'rowak' outside a house in a lane in north Kolkata
Circling back
It's Christmas Day, I pass by Jiabharali T. Café. It's closed till 1pm for a private event. The owner's wife and college-going daughter allow me to take a look inside as they are setting plates. The menu has an image of the house from 19 June 1965.
I head out to the intersection. Shobha Saha, 88, is sitting on the rowak of her corner house, which has Duff Church in front and Sree Sree Jogot Mandir to its left. "Rowak-ay boshey bhalo lagey, gadi-ghoda jai (Time passes well sitting on the rowak)," says Saha. Gadi-ghoda, or cars and horses, she has seen it all. Pointing to a new apartment building, she mentions that it used to be a horse stable.
Saha has been living in this house since the age of 15, when she got married. As she sorts fresh coriander in a plastic bowl and soaks in the warm sun, she recalls Christmas festivities from long ago. "We used to make chop, cutlet and mangsho (mutton) and the men would fly kites, play cards and fish in pukurs (ponds)." Their house had a pukur too, she reminisces, but over a decade or more ago, it was filled up and built over—our modern life is constantly running out of space. I ask Saha what has changed over the years. "Aaj kal ucchrinkhala baishi hoe gaechey (rowdyness/wantonness has increased now)," she replies.
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Symptoms: Diarrhea
Complications Possible: Haemolytic uremic syndrome, internal organ infections
Susceptible Populations: All although children under 5 and young adults between 15 and 29 appear particularly susceptible.
Clostridia Botulinum
Description: A gram-positive anaerobic spore former that produces a neurotoxin. There are 4 strains that cause botulism in humans.
Typical Source for Contamination: Soil, intestinal tracts of fish and animals, shellfish
Products of Concern: improperly canned foods primarily
Symptoms: Lack of energy, weakness, dizziness, double vision, difficulty speaking, swallowing and breathing.
Complications Possible: Paralysis, death
Description: A gram-positive anaerobic spore former
Typical Source for Contamination: Widely distributed in the environment and may be present in the intestines of humans and animals.
Products of Concern: Meat and meat products
Symptoms: Abdominal cramps and diarrhea.
Complications: Death due to dehydration. Rarely necrotic enteritis.
Susceptible Populations: Children and the elderly.
Escherichia Coli (E Coli)
Description: There are 4 classes of E coli that cause diarrhea in humans. The strain most often of concern in food processing is O157:H7
Typical Source for Contamination: Feces of animals or humans.
Products of Concern: Ground meats, dry-cured meats, and sausages, cheese curds, vegetables, unpasteurized juices.
Symptoms: Severe cramping and diarrhea. Occasionally vomiting.
Complications: Hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Susceptible Populations: Young children and the elderly particularly for potentially fatal complications.
Description: Gram-positive bacteria widely distributed in the environment which can be present in the intestines of humans and animals. Very hardy and can survive freezing and drying. Can multiply at refrigeration temperatures.
Typical Source for Contamination: Environmental
Products of Concern: Ready to eat foods, raw and cooked meats, soft cheeses, raw vegetables.
Symptoms: For most healthy people there are no symptoms and the bacteria causes no ill effects. For the susceptible populations, listeriosis can cause nausea, septicemia, meningitis, uterine or cervical infections in pregnant women, vomiting, diarrhea.
Complications: Stillbirth, death. Mortality rates as high as 70% have been quoted.
Susceptible Populations: Pregnant women, elderly, immunocompromised individuals.
Description: Widespread gram-negative bacteria
Typical Source for Contamination: All animals but particularly pigs and poultry, water, soil, insects, animal feces, raw foods
Products of Concern: Raw meats, eggs, dairy products, seafood, sauces & salad dressings, powdered products, peanut butter, chocolate
Symptoms: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and headache. Chronic consequences are arthritic symptoms.
Complications: Typhoid and typhoid like fevers, arthritis, death.
Susceptible Populations: All but particularly infants, elderly and AIDS patients.
Description: A gram-negative bacteria
Typical Source for Contamination: Human feces
Products of Concern: Salads, raw vegetables, milk, and dairy products, poultry.
Symptoms: Abdominal cramping and pain, diarrhea, fever, vomiting.
Complications: Hemolytic uremic syndrome, arthritis, death.
Susceptible Populations: All but particularly infants and elderly.
Description: A gram-positive bacteria
Typical Source for Contamination: Staphylococci exist in air, dust, sewage, water, milk, and food or on food equipment, environmental surfaces, humans, and animals. Humans and animals are the primary reservoirs
Products of Concern: Meat and meat products; poultry and egg products; salads such as egg, tuna, chicken, potato, and macaroni; bakery products such as cream-filled pastries, cream pies, and chocolate eclairs; sandwich fillings; and milk and dairy products. Foods that require considerable handling during preparation and that are kept at slightly elevated temperatures after preparation are frequently involved in staphylococcal food poisoning.
Symptoms: Nausea, vomiting, and cramping. In severe cases, headache and muscle cramping may occur.
Complications: Rarely, death of the elderly or infants.


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Q: Unity Ball Shaking as it moves I have a ball game object that I am making bounce using explicit physics equations. I tried using unity's physics engine, but It was not exact enough. I am setting the balls position like so:
float dTime = Time.time - timeSinceBounce;
 ballPosition.x -= meterOffset / sensitivity;
 ballPosition.y = ballInitialPosition.y + GameConstants.Instance.GetBallYVel ()
 * dTime - (float)0.5 * GameConstants.Instance.GetGravity () * dTime * dTime; //Yi+Vy*t-0.5(G)(time^2)
 ballPosition.z = (-dTime * GameConstants.Instance.GetBallZVel ()
 + ballInitialPosition.z) * startConstant; //Zi + t*Vz
 ball.transform.position = ballPosition;

This code runs in the Update() method. When a collision is detected the time and initial position as reset, and this works. Currently the ball bounces properly but shakes when it is moving quickly. The FPS is at 80. I don't think my equations are wrong because it bounces properly there is just a shake. What is the best way to remove the shake? Thank!
Edit 1: I decided to write my own physics because Unity's physics engine had a lot of other components like friction and roll that were making the ball's bounces vary. Also the camera's x and y is fixed the only thing that is changing is the camera's z position. It works a lot better in fixed update

A: As of asker's request I hereby add all the details I can, even though without seeing the actual, full and complete code along with seeing this "shake" effect it's challenging to give an exact and proper answer. I'll try and do my best though.So let's do this.

1. "Shaking" reason: most probably you set up some kind of animation, along with a forced positioning/rotation/etc and these two codes work against each other. Double-check your AnimatorController and Animator as well as your Mecanim if you have set/configure these (also a good read: "Locomotion").You can also keep the Animator Window open while you are testing from Unity UI, to see who is the tricky guy doing the "shaking" effect for you, and get one step closer to why it happens.If these don't help, start from scratch: Minimize the code you wrote to move the ball, remove every effect, etc and add them back one by one. Sooner or later "shakieness" will come back (if it persist with the cleanest possible code, see above, Animator/Locomotion issue)
2. Think again not rewriting Unity Physics... You mention for example "...physics engine had a lot of other components like friction and roll that were making the ball's bounces vary...".Now, this is something you can turn off. Completely if you want. Easiest way is to set everything to zero on Physics Material (i.e. friction and bouncieness) but if you want Unity to ignore all and every "actual physics" and let you do what you want with your GameObject, tick in the isKinematic property of the Rigidbody. The fun part of it, you'll still collide if and where you want, can AddForce, etc yet neither gravity nor friction or "anything physical" affect you.If you are not comfy with Unity (and you are not it seems), I highly recommend learning about it a bit first as it is a very good and very powerful engine - so don't throw it's features away as they don't work as you initially expected they'll do. For example, Sebastian Lague just started a great beginner series a few weeks ago. The guy is a teacher, his videos are both short, fun and full of information so I can just recommend his channel.
3. As of your code I would make these changes:
public static class GameConstants { //no monobehaviour == can be a "proper, global" singleton!
   public static float GetGravity {
      get { return [whatever you want]; }
      //why not Physics.gravity, using locally when and where it's needed?
   }
   //etc, add your methods, properties and such
   //use this approach if and only IF you access these values application wide!
   //otherwise, instead of a """singleton""" logic you just implemented,
   //consider adding an empty GameObject to the Scene, name it "GM" and
   //attach a "GameManager" script to it, having all the methods and
   //properties you'll need Scene-wide! You can also consider
   //using PlayerPrefs (see help link below) instead of a global static
   //class, so you save memory (but will need to "reach out" for the data)
}
private void FixedUpdate() { //FIXED update as you'll work with physics!
//float dTime = Time.time - timeSinceBounce; //not needed
//positioning like this is not recommended, use AddForce or set direction and velocity instead
 ballPosition.x -= meterOffset / sensitivity;
 ballPosition.y = ballInitialPosition.y + GameConstants.Instance.GetBallYVel ()
 * Time.fixedDeltaTime - 0.5f * GameConstants.Instance.GetGravity () * Time.fixedDeltaTime * Time.fixedDeltaTime; //Yi+Vy*t-0.5(G)(time^2)
 ballPosition.z = (-dTime * GameConstants.Instance.GetBallZVel ()
 + ballInitialPosition.z) * startConstant; //Zi + t*Vz
 ball.transform.position = ballPosition;
}BUT to be honest,

I would just throw that code away, implement the Bouncing Ball example Unity Tutorials offer, alter it (see point #2) and work my way up from there.
Items not linked but I mentioned in code:
PlayerPrefs, Physics.gravity and Rigidbody.velocity.
Note that 'velocity' is ignoring parts of physics (speeding up, being "dragged", etc) i.e. objects suddenly start moving with the speed you set (This is why Unity5 recommends AddForce instead -linked above-)
It might also come handy you can alter the FixedUpdate() frequency via Time Management, but I'm not sure this is yet needed (i.e. just for bouncing a ball)
I hope this helps and that ball is going to bounce and jump and dance and everything you want it to do ;)
Cheers!


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A sports massage is a manipulation of the soft tissue in order to prevent or improve sports related injuries. The therapist has a broader, more specified medical knowledge and application. The therapist needs this in order to efficiently and safely manipulate the muscles, making sure they do not damage any fragile tissue. There is a thin line that exists between working the muscle and causing more injury.
Myofascial cupping is a modern adaptation of the ancient Chinese art of cupping by creating a suction or a vacuum, cupping therapy is used to release rigid soft tissue, loosen adhesions, and lift connective tissue while bringing blood flow to stagnant skin and muscles. Cupping has a sedating effect on the nervous system, and many people find it profoundly relaxing.
Kinesio taping is a rehabilitative taping technique that is designed to facilitate the body's natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body's normal range of motion, as well as providing extended soft tissue manipulation to prolong the benefits of manual therapy administered within the clinical setting.
Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization is a tool based technique that derives from the Traditional Chinese method called Gua Sha, and is over 3,000 years old. This technique is used to break down fascial restrictions and create microtrauma to counteract excessive fibrosis and scar tissue.


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Q: How do I create a directory with a specific inode number? How to create a directory in ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem with a specific inode number?
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If you know how to hand tie a quilt, then you can finish quilting your quilt in a fraction of the time that it might take you using a different method of quilting. Hand tying a quilt is sometimes regarded as the beginners' quilting option, but it can add a real design touch to a quilt.
Cut a piece of thread about 20″ long. Use a strong, natural thread. I've used embroidery thread here, but crochet thread can be used. I have even used wool before now, but be careful not to use anything too thick because it's difficult to pull through the three layers and it can ten to pull the wadding through the quilt top while you are quilting your quilt.
Push the needle down through all three layers of fabric and then up again about 1/4″ away. Leave a tail of about 2″ of thread to tie the quilt.
Take the needle back to where it first went in and repeat the stitch. I find this extra step is worth it to secure the knot.
Cut the thread about 2″ away from the stitch. You should now have two threads both 2″ long. Tie these in a double knot. You can leave the ends that length or trim them to about an inch. I wouldn't recommend trimming them more than that.
In order to speed up the process of hand tying your quilt, you could make the stitch for the centre of the first knot and then put your needle through the fabric about 4″ away and repeat the process there.
Cut the thread half way between the two stitches and then tie both the knots. That way you could sew four or five stitches and then stop to cut and tie the knots when you run out of thread.
On the back of the hand tied quilt all that shows is a single stitch for each knot that you have tied in the quilt.
It's worth deciding beforehand whether as you hand tie your quilt you want to tie a knot in the quilt at one particular place in each block or what pattern you want to use (if any), so that you can mark dots if necessary for your hand tied quilting stitches with a fabric marker.
You can see hand tying used with other types of quilting by clicking here.
All of my vintage quilts that were made by my grandmother and great grandmother were hand sewn and tied. They were made from recycled shirts, pajamas and the batting was old flannel blankets. They are well loved! I remember my gran sitting at the table with cardboard shapes, fabric and sharp scissors carefully cutting and filling a paper bag with her shapes. She'd then pick pieces out of that bag and stitch them together into strips. She made some fabulous quilts that way!
Hi Elizabeth. Thank you so much for those memories. What a wonderful heritage you have with all those vintage quilts – real heirloom quilts.
What square do you start at or where do you start??
Hi Gayle. I would normally start in the middle of the quilt and then work outwards. That way you can smooth the layers towards the edge as you go.


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I've got a little game designer on my hands. Rainbow has been creating board games. Cutting out boards and pieces, and coming up with rules. Her creativity is inspiring. This photo is her Jake & the Never Land Pirates game, where we won by taking back from Capt. Hook various things he had stolen from the boys.


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The case involves a challenge by Clean Air Council ("CAC") and other individuals to Sunoco's Mariner East Project, a pipeline construction project designed to transport natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania from the Marcellus and Utica basins to Marcus Hook in eastern Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs brought a variety of claims challenging Sunoco's right and power to condemn property including a challenge to Sunoco's public utility status as well as various constitutional claims, including an ERA claim, takings claims, and procedural due process claims. Plaintiffs are seeking declaratory and injunctive relief that would halt pipeline construction.
In regards to Plaintiffs' ERA claim, the Court noted that "the ERA does two things: (1) it limits the power of 'the state' to act in derogation of protected environmental interests; and (2) it obligates 'the Commonwealth' to act as a trustee of Pennsylvania public natural resources." The ERA, added to the Pennsylvania Constitution in 1971, was of relatively minor significance in the decades after adoption. That all changed with the plurality opinion of Robinson Township v. Commonwealth, 83 A.3d 901 (Pa. 2013) and the subsequent decision of Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation v. Commonwealth, 161 A.3D 911 (Pa. 2017) ("PEDF"). Blank Rome has previously written and presented about the significance of the Robinson and PEDF decisions and the subsequent Environmental Hearing Board ("EHB") and Commonwealth Court decisions that involve ERA claims. In brief, the PEDF decision revitalized the ERA by holding that "the Commonwealth" has a duty to prohibit degradation, diminution, and depletion of our public natural resources.
The Court framed CAC's ERA claim as an allegation that "Sunoco, and Sunoco alone, has violated the ERA in choosing to proceed with the project." Thus, there is a threshold issue of "whether Sunoco is 'the Commonwealth' such that it can be sued for violating the duties of the 'trustee' under the ERA." Sunoco contends that Plaintiffs' ERA claim must fail because (1) Sunoco, a private company with public utility status, is not part of the "Commonwealth Government" and thus has no obligations under the ERA, and (2) it is an unlawful collateral attack on previously issued Public Utility Commission ("PUC") and/or Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP") approvals.
The Court ultimately deferred a decision on the issue of whether Sunoco is an instrument of the "Commonwealth Government" within the meaning of the ERA, reserving that issue for a subsequent proceeding before the Commonwealth Court. However, the Court held that Plaintiffs' claim was not a collateral attack on regulatory approvals, noting that while Sunoco can point to those approvals as a defense to an ERA claim, anticipated defenses do not deprive the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction. The Court remanded the ERA claim to the trial court, but because Plaintiffs allege that Sunoco exercised powers of the Commonwealth Government in its role as a public utility, the Court in essence threw a legal boomerang, instructing that the case be transferred back to the Commonwealth Court pursuant to its original jurisdiction under Section 761(a) of the Judicial Code.
As to the remaining claims, the Commonwealth Court found that each must fail. Those claims—including violations of the taking clause (under the state and federal constitutions), procedural due process claims (under the state and federal constitutions), and challenges to Sunoco's public utility status—were each, in essence, challenges to Sunoco's "right or power" to condemn property. The Court held that such challenges must be brought as preliminary objections under the Eminent Domain Code, which is the exclusive procedure for challenging an entity's condemnation power.
This case now joins numerous other Commonwealth Court decisions rejecting "assault[s]" (as the Court put it) on the Mariner East Project. Nevertheless, by allowing the case to proceed with CAC's ERA claim, the Commonwealth Court for the first time will have an opportunity to (1) consider whether a private entity acting pursuant to its authority granted by the PUC is an arm of the "Commonwealth Government" and (2) establish a legal standard for analyzing an ERA claim in the context of a challenge to a statewide construction project.
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Philippines, New Zealand Signed New Memorandums, Includes Quality Education
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In the recently concluded ASEAN Summit held in the Philippines, the Filipinos will have good news about the bilateral talks of New Zealand and the Philippines.
Both countries agreed to a memorandum of cooperation for quality education.
According from the latest news reports through philstar.com, both the Philippines and New Zealand agreed to a memorandum of cooperation, wherein they want to provide quality education for the Filipino people.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte agreed to the memorandum on Tuesday afternoon at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).
Both leaders had bilateral talks and later on confirmed the agreement.
From the published information about the signed memorandum, it aims to deal with the "comparative analysis of bachelor degrees between the two nations," which involved the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) of the Philippines and New Zealand Qualification Authority.
The signing of the agreement happened after the talks that involve David Strachan (New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines) and Patricia Licuanan (chairperson of CHED).
According to the statement of President Duterte, the memorandum is significant for the Filipinos to help them learned about education equality in New Zealand. He considered it as a good development for the country.
Based on the recorded data at present, there are over 50,000 Filipinos in New Zealand and about 4,000 are students there.
In line with this, the 37-year-old Prime Minister appreciated the time she spend in attending the ASEAN Summit and the Philippines.
"I see it as a real positive that my first personal visit outside New Zealand is to Southeast Asia. New Zealand has recognized the importance of this region for more than 40 years, but we have never been closer than we are today," New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stated during the signing of the agreements on November 14 as quoted by Rappler.
As for the data of the tourism department of the country, it recorded almost 29,800 tourists from New Zealand from 2016 until this year. In the other hand, almost 23,120 Filipinos went to New Zealand and this definitely showed great improvement for the past few years.
Besides the agreement to improve the quality of education and tourism, both nations likewise inked to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve their ties in airline transportation.
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FNU Reacts with the New CPD Act of 2016, Burden for Nurses and Other Professionals
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From the latest reported news through Philippine Daily Inquirer, a nursing group revealed their disappointment about the latest requirements that the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has imposed for the renewal of their professional licenses.
The new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act covers such guideline.
According for the published news report online, the nursing group decided to express their voice over their disappointment when renewing their licenses as professional nurses in the Philippines.
"Given that the laws like RA (Republic Act No.) 9173 — or the Nursing Law of 2002 — and the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers, which uphold the best interests of nurses, are little implemented and generally disregarded and violated, now comes another law that will further burden the already weighed down nurses," said the Filipino Nurses United (FNU) in their statement as quoted by the PDI.
The group added that this would be an addition burden for them, especially for those underpaid professional nurses already.
Based on the new guideline, a professional or a nurse can only renew the license after earning at least 45CPD units. The CPD Act is one of the bills authorized by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and approved by the PRC.
The commission however already the latest guidelines about the implementation of the law, which the professionals need to read and understand.
FNU added that, "This mandatory CPD is also an unnecessary burden for nurses who are unemployed or in nonnursing jobs or stationed in far-flung areas. [They] should not be barred from renewing his/her professional ID that has already been rightfully earned."
The group likewise believed that although the new law is aiming to improve the performance of the nurses in their field of job, it appears that the focus of the CPD Act of 2016 is to meet the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration fundamentals.
From the point of view of Junven Lavapie, the integration permits citizens of other members of the ASEAN to enter the Philippines and practice their professions in the country. Unfortunately, professional Filipinos cannot do the same thing if they go to other Asian countries.
The 23-year-old Civil Engineer Lavapie likewise stated that, "We'd have to take exams or study for another few years again in their country to do so. The CPD law allows us to 'fix' this issue."
In line with this issue, the Optometric Association of the Philippines (OAP) shared the same point of view with the FNU and asking for the review of the new implemented law.
Many affected professionals are certainly waiting for the action and decision of the PRC, on whether it makes changes or not.
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