Arlington - Hardly a week passes these days without scientists and astronomers reporting on the discovery of a new exoplanet — a planet outwith our solar system.
Changed days from 30 years ago when, although it was clear our Milky Way galaxy was brimming with stars, the only solar system definitely known to exist was our very own.
Yet, back then, it seemed inconceivable, illogical as Mr Spock might say, that the Sun could be the only star in the cosmos shepherding a flock of planets.
Confirmation that ours was not the only solar system in the firmament came in 1994 when Dr. Alexander Wolszczan, a radio astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, reported what he called "unambiguous proof" of extra-solar planetary systems. Scientists accepted Wolszczan's assessment and the following year saw the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun. In 1995, a team of Swiss scientists announced having found a rapidly orbiting world located in extremely close proximity to the star 51 Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus just over 50 light years from Earth.
The initial trickle of exoplanetary discoveries has since become a fast moving stream as ever more powerful telescopes like NASA's Kepler Space Telescope focus on solar systems far, far away. That stream of exoplanetary discoveries threatens to become a tumult once new observatories like the ESA's Planck Space Telescope and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope become fully operational.
But all the recent exoplanetary excitement of recent years — over 1800 exoplanets have now been catalogued — disguises that, until now, despite most of the planets in our own Solar System having moons, not one exoplanet has been confirmed as having a planetary companion.
That may be about to change as physicists from the University of Texas at Arlington have a theory that following a trail of radio wave emissions may lead them to discovering that elusive confirmed first exomoon.
The physicists' findings were recently published under the title "Detection of Exomoons Through Observation of Radio Emissions," in the Astrophysical Journal and use as their template how radio wave emissions result from the interaction between Jupiter's magnetic field and one of its moons, Io. The researchers suggest using detailed calculations based on the Jupiter/Io dynamic to seek out radio emissions that could e the footprint of a moon or moons orbiting a distant exoplanet.
Science fiction buffs are no strangers to the idea of life being perfectly at home on a moon, rather than a planet. Such a concept has fuelled fantasy fiction from the Ewoks of Star Wars to the verdant vistas of James Cameron's Avatar.
But back down to Earth, or at least close enough in cosmic terms, right here in our own Solar System, astrophysicists consider Saturn's moon Enceladus and one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, as being feasible candidates for supporting life based on their atmospheric composition, potential for water and distance from the Sun.
But when it comes to exomoons, existing methods applied in the dogged hunt for exoplanets just won't hunt, according to Musielak.
To take an example, NASA's Kepler telescope looks for exoplanets by measuring the changes in brightness from a star to identify planetary transits — orbiting planets passing between the star and Kepler. So far, distinguishing whether a moon is also part of that transit hasn't been possible.
The team from UT Arlington used earlier theories concerning using radio wave observations to discover exoplanets but applied it in a new way. Their "test subject" was Io, Jupiter's third largest moon, or more precisely, Io's ionosphere.
The ionosphere of Io consists of a charged upper atmosphere most likely created by the moon's extremely active volcanoes.
This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's Moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
As Io orbits its parent planet, the moon's ionosphere interacts with Jupiter's magnetosphere, a layer of charged plasma protecting the planet from radiation. Radio wave emissions result from the frictional current produced by that interaction.
The technical term for these radio emissions is "Io-controlled decametric emissions" and the researchers conclude discovering similar emissions near exoplanets could be crucial in predicting the existence of other moons.
A moon being volcanically active is not a prerequisite to a moon possessing an ionosphere when modelling such planet/moon pairings, according to Joaquin Noyola, a Ph.D. graduate student at UT Arlington, and part of Musielak's research group.
"Larger moons, such as Saturn's largest moon, Titan, can sustain a thick atmosphere, and that could also mean they have an ionosphere. So volcanic activity isn't a requirement," Noyola said.
A schematic of a plasma torus around an exoplanet, which is created by the ions injected from an exomoon's ionosphere into the planet's magnetosphere.
The researchers also considered so-called Alfvén waves produced by Io and Jupiter's magnetosphere interaction and believe these could be used to spot exomoons. Alfvén waves are the rippling of the plasma in a magnetic field, first described by Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics winner, Hannes Alfvén in the early 1940s.
Focussing on known exoplanets rather than examples of planet/moon pairings in Earth's backyard, the UT Arlington team zoomed in on two exoplanets where they are "cautiously optimistic" that astronomical observers could apply their study's calculations when searching for exomoons the size of our moon aided by future, more sensitive radio telescopes.
The prime candidates in these early stages of exoplanetary research are Gliese 876b, at about 15 light-years distant, relatively close to Earth, and the even closer Epsilon Eridani b, just 10.5 light-years away.
According research paper co-author, Suman Satyal, a Ph.D. graduate student, existing telescopes, such as the National Science Foundation-supported Long Wavelength Array, could be used to detect exomoons in closer planetary systems.
Bigger moons hold out a better prospect for detection, says Satyal. Such larger moons are likely to be found orbiting gas giant planets, Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, being examples in our own solar system.


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Jul 24, 2017 - Economy & Business
The sky-high pay of health care CEOs
Bob Herman
The CEOs of 70 of the largest U.S. health care companies cumulatively have earned $9.8 billion in the seven years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, and their earnings have grown faster than most Americans' during that time, according to an Axios analysis of federal financial documents.
Why it matters: The ACA has not hurt the health care industry. Stock prices have boomed, and CEOs took home nearly 11% more money on average every year since 2010 — far outstripping the wage growth of nearly all Americans. But the analysis also reveals that the pay packages for the country's influential health care executives don't give them incentives to control health care spending — something that economists, policymakers and even Warren Buffett have said is the most pressing problem in health care.
Data: Analysis of company filings; Chart: Lazaro Gamio, Naema Ahmed / Axios
What we found: Total earnings amount to an average of $20 million (median of $11 million) per CEO per year. A vast majority of pay came in the form of vested stock.
The largest haul: John Martin, former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, made $863 million in the ACA era — the most of any health care CEO.
The big takeaway: Health care inflation continues to blow away general economic inflation, and a big reason why is because health care executives are not paid to slow spending.
What the analysis covers: The total CEO compensation (salary, bonuses, stock, perks and retirement/severance when relevant) each year since 2010, when the ACA went into effect, based on company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
These 70 corporations were chosen because they are based in the United States and are among the largest publicly traded health care companies, together encompassing more than $2 trillion of annual revenue. It did not include the generous pay packages of not-for-profit hospital CEOs.
Our unique tabulation: We calculated the actual realized gains of CEOs' stock options and awards (money that they had to pay taxes on), not the estimated fair value of their stock shown in the federal filings' summary compensation tables.
The estimated value of stock is misleading and does not accurately depict how much a person made in a given year.
Actual realized gains show that CEOs are making a lot more than headlines suggest.
William Lazonick, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Matthew Hopkins, a senior researcher at the nonprofit Academic-Industry Research Network, reviewed the analysis for accuracy. They have written extensively about corporate executive compensation and why actual realized stock gains matter.
"What is the relationship between their high pay and the role of stock prices in their high pay and the problems of the health care system?" Lazonick said. "There is a very close relationship, but it's not apparent to most people."
The stock story: A gigantic portion of what CEOs make comes in the form of vested stock, and those incentives drive their decision-making. The analysis shows that since the ACA was passed, health care executives routinely took measures to inflate stock prices — such as repurchasing shares or issuing dividends to shareholders — that led to higher take-home pay.
Stock-heavy pay also drives CEOs to do the exact opposite of their buzzword-laden goals of creating a "patient-centered" health system that focuses on "value."
Actions that would benefit the broader health care system:
Lower prices
Eliminate unnecessary procedures, tests or devices
Coordinate care
Instead, CEOs often focus on what benefits the stock price:
Sell more prescription drugs
Perform more procedures and tests
Create new medical therapies that may not add value to someone's life
Raise prices above inflation
Do anything to create higher earnings per share
Here are the other main takeaways from the analysis:
Of the 113 health care CEOs in the analysis, only four were women. Two women (Heather Bresch of Mylan and Debra Cafaro of Ventas) still lead their companies.
Executives made slightly less as a group in 2016 than they did in 2015 because the presidential election dangled like an ax over the stock market.
The richest year was 2015, when 70 health care CEOs collectively made $2 billion. That was an average of about $28.5 million per CEO and a median of about $17.3 million per CEO. The median household income in 2015 was $56,515, which the average health care CEO made in less than a day.
Pharmaceutical and drug-related company CEOs made up 11 of the top 20 highest earners.
Gilead's Martin made the most since the ACA became law. Several other executives — including John Hammergren of McKesson ($587 million), Leonard Schleifer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ($338 million) and Stephen Hemsley of UnitedHealth Group ($279 million) — each took home more than a quarter-billion dollars on their own.
A handful of lesser-known health care CEOs were among the highest earners. For example, Michael Mussallem of the medical device company Edwards Lifesciences collected $246 million since the ACA went into effect. Last year, for every dollar Mussallem's company brought in as revenue, two cents went toward his pay.
The analysis still underestimates how much wealth health care CEOs have. It did not include vested stock after CEOs retired, nor did it include the value of stock CEOs still hold. For example, Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina owns more than 13% of Walgreens, which equaled about $12 billion as of June 2017.

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Preliminary rendering of the EPIcenter's courtyard.
EPIcenter, a newly-formed nonprofit that aims to transform a 106-year-old CPS Energy power plant on the Mission Reach into a hub for clean energy technology and ideas, has acquired its first CEO, Kimberly Britton.
Britton left her position as director of development at the San Antonio Museum of Art on March 11 to lead the EPIcenter's fundraising, business organization, programming, construction and staffing efforts. CPS Energy Vice President of Generation and Strategy Cris Eugster announced Britton's new position during the CPS Energy Board meeting on Monday afternoon. Monday was also Britton's first official day on the job.
"I feel like I have been trained for this time and this day for a very long time," Britton said after the meeting. Most of her career has been spent in nonprofit development and executive leadership, but she also brings with her more than a year's worth of experience as community relations director for Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s regional office in Fort Worth.
The CPS Energy board room gives EPIcenter Inaugural CEO Kimberly Britton (right) a round of applause. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
EPIcenter, formally Energy Partnerships Innovation Center, will be part energy museum – playing off of the historic building and technology — and part think-tank for industry and thought leaders around the city, country, and even world to gather to educate the public, research new technologies, and become a "flagship" for the Southside neighborhood.
It's been more than a year since CPS Energy and partners announced the vision for the EPIcenter, spearheaded by former President and CEO Boyle Beneby. When Beneby left to lead Chicago-based New Generation Power International (NGPI) in October 2015, some were concerned that EPIcenter plans would fizzle out.
But the board has carried on the momentum for EPIcenter and other renewable energy initiatives as it continues its search for a replacement CEO of its own.
EPIcenter's board of directors includes representatives from CPS Energy, OCI Solar Power, Silver Spring Networks, and Landis + Gyr.
Executive search firm Russell Reynolds was used to reach out to several national and international candidates.
But the EPIcenter is "a perfect fit," she added.
The nonprofit has $15 million in seed money to work with that has been donated by corporate partners already participating in CPS Energy's so-called New Energy Economy initiatives. Those partners include OCI Solar Power, which was contracted to build 400 MW of solar for CPS Energy; Silver Spring Networks, which installed and maintains CPS Energy's wireless smart meter communications network; and Landis + Gyr, smart meter manufacturer. CPS Energy will donate the power plant and the land it sits on the EPIcenter in a coming deal that is all but officially inked.
The appraisal for the building and five-acre plot of land will be performed in the coming weeks, Flaningan said.
A preliminary rendering of what the EPIcenter could look like. Lake/Flato Architects and CPS Energy.
Preliminary cost estimates for the EPIcenter renovation and construction have fallen between $30 million and $50 million – but it could be done in phases.
Determining the programming scope and details of the building and land will be another key priority.
As utilities across the nation seek to incorporate more renewable energy sources onto the grid, San Antonio finds itself ahead of the curve, at least in Texas, due to focused investments on solar energy production and programs.
The nonprofit's website is still under construction at www.EPIcenterSA.org.
The old Mission Road Power Plant will be home to the EPIcenter. Photo by Scott Ball.
Top image: Preliminary rendering of the EPicenter's courtyard. Courtesy of Lake/Flato Architects.
Go Kimberly Mathews Britton, you can do anything!!!


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Episode guide: 910- The Final Sacrifice
By Sampo, on December 14th, 2017
Movie: (1990) Searching for his long-lost father, a teen runs afoul of a devil-worshiping cult, then teams up with a beer-guzzling drifter.
First shown: 7/25/98
Opening: With the power shut down, the bots go looting
Intro: Pearl decides to rule the world…one person at a time
Host segment 1: Servo's song–a tribute to Canada–goes horribly wrong
Host segment 2: Everybody (but Mike) contracts Hockey Hair
Host segment 3: Mike comes down with a case of Grizzled Old Prospector Syndrome
End: The bots have formed a muffiny cult; Pearl has another victim
Stinger: "Rowsdower…?"
• This is one of the Sci-Fi era's best. The riffing is rock solid, the movie is mindbogglingly dopey and most of the segments are good fun.
• This episode is included in Shout's Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Vol. XVII.
• The Shout disk, by the way, has a fascinating interview with the guy who played Zap Rowsdower, in which he reveals that he had not seen this episode! I hope the Shout people gave him one!
• Mary Jo offers her thoughts on this episode here.
• That's Peter Rudrud, in his only on-camera role, as Todd Gunderson
• Not a big fan of the opening or intro segments. Both ideas sort of peter out.
• Segment 1 became an instant classic. Hard on its heels came South Park's "Blame Canada," and there really was a (jokingly) anti-Canada vibe going on for a while there. I recall Canadian fans (who were getting episodes shipped to them by fans in the states, since the show never aired there) desperate for details of the song as discussions began online immediately after the show.
• Speaking of blaming Canada, M&tB found the phrase "Lemon Mine" amusing but it's a thing, a Canadian thing.
• Segment 2 is another winner, a funny idea mined for just enough laughs, that doesn't overstay its welcome.
• Crow and Tom still have hockey hair when they return to the theater.
• One of the things I love about this episode is the way the movie just keeps giving them stuff to work with. Just when you think they were running out of Rowsdower jokes, the grizzled old guy arrives. Oooh, it's comedy gold, consarn it!
• Callback: "A worwilf!"
• Segment 3 extends the premise of segment 2 very nicely. Mike really seems to enjoy that beard.
• Another highlight of the episode: Tom sings the Rowsdower song during the credits, while Crow attempts to pitch "Final Sacrifice: The Series." Clearly written by somebody who has suffered through meetings like this.
• I actually like the closing bit in the castle, especially Paul as willing — and hungry — thrall Carl. I especially like the way he very comfortably calls Pearl "my liege."
• Cast and crew roundup: nobody.
• CreditsWatch: Directed by Kevin. Mary Jo returns to the writing room after her trip to the West Coast.
• Fave riff: "Dear Counselor Troi: I waited at Denny's but you didn't meet me!" Honorable mention: "I wonder if they have beer on the sun?"
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touches no one's life, then leaves says:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference?i
If anything, I believe the "sex poodle" riff is a reference to the Steve Martin film, "All Of Me".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2UFpZ_KSak
Oh. I thought possibly it related to this:
http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Hell%27s_Bells
"Rebecca Rand Kirshner reveals in her DVD commentary of this episode that Anya's reference to herself as a "sex poodle" was a reference to colleague Jane Espenson, who had been using the name herself."
I'd have thought referring to oneself as a "sex poodle" might be…discouraged in the workplace. Guess not. ;-)
Sitting Duck:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Francis
Well, yes, that was my point, such as it was, Francis has a Wikipedia profile and it's probably due to the attention that MST3K has given him.
Regarding general commentary about Troy, well, again, remember that the filmmakers themselves were merely freshmen, perhaps veteran A/V geeks of the kind that Bloodlust's Pete supposedly dreamed of being. The first piece of advice given to any creator is to stick with what you know. ;-)
Brad Filippone says:
As a Canadian, I'm not sure if I should be amused or insulted.
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A Tribute to Swathi Thirunal; a concert by Jayashree Rajeev
Sunday, 23rd September 2018|4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Accompanists: Manjoor Ranjith – Violin | Balakrishna Kammath – Mridangam
Jayashree Rajeev – Vocal
(Disciple of Smt. Suguna Varadhachari)
Jayashree Rajeev started her music lessons at an early age of 5 from a veteran Nadaswara vidwan Shri Puthur Srinivas at Kannur, who himself was a disciple of Late Tanjore Rajarathnam Pillai, the final word in Nadaswara and continued under him for almost ten years. Later, she came under the tutelage of Late Nedumangad Sasidharan Nari, a renowned singer of AIR Calicut, where she honed her skills in advanced music and perfected her style of singing with consummate ease. She started performing concerts in 1990. Presently she is a graded artist of All India Radio. Currently disciple of Sangeetha Kalarcharya Smt. Suguna Varadachari, Chennai.
She has released over 15 classical fusion albums and has rendered live concerts in over 1500 stages across India, Middle East and Kenya. This is her second US tour. Further, Ms. Jayashree has rendered her voice in both Malayalam and Telugu films, and has appeared in various television programs, with the latest being Davayanam (Malayalam movie, 2017).
Ms. Jayashree has learned from respected musicians in the Carnatic style such as V Dakshinamurthy, K Raghavan, and B A Chidambaranthan. Further, Ms. Jayashree has a Master of Arts degree in Music from the University Kannur, Kerala, India. Ms. Jayashree also runs the Shree Shankaram School of Music in Kannur, Kerala, India, which currently has over 150 students.
Manjoor Ranjith – Violin
Ranjith, is an award wining violinist with over twenty three years of experience as a carnatic musician. He has accompanied several vocalists and has traveled to several countries to perform concerts. Ranjith secured his postgraduate degree in Violin from RLV College of Music and is a B-high grade artist from All India Radio. He has traveled across India, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, and Mauritius for carnatic concerts.
He was conferred the 'Sangeetha Laya Vadya Prathibha Award' by Gowda Swarswath Brahmin Trust in 2009 and 'Ragarathna Award' by Sai Trust in the year 2012.
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Balakrishna, a Mridangam artist, has thirty years of experience. Balakrishna, is an "A" grade Mridangam artist of All India Radio and has been featured in multiple albums and films. Throughout his career he has been invited to perform and provide workshops in Qatar, Dubai, France, Kenya, Mauritius and now the United States.
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Artist Profile: Jason Moran
SONG OF THE WEEK/ARTIST FEATURE:
Honeysuckle Rose, Jason Moran, and Live Skateboarding
https://youtu.be/_RWpIHneWBs
Hi I am Julianna! I am a JazzXchange warrior and enthusiast, bringing you our featured song of the week. This week's choice is Jason Moran's arrangement of "Honeysuckle Rose", featuring Lisa E. Harris. This fresh arrangement of a well known standard composed by Fats Waller adds a more contemporary hip-hop groove to the standard, while still playing with a traditional jazz feel. Lisa E. Harris sings the head of the song, trading lines with the trumpet, as if the horn is a fellow vocalist. A great tune, featured on a great playlist by "Katzpheno" for his Jazzism Podcast 12.8
Jason Moran plays often at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, and is currently a resident artistic director for the organization. A highlight of his presence at the Center, a show that I sorely missed seeing but heard raves about, featured live skateboarders in the auditorium that shared the limelight with Moran's musicians. Moran's goal with this collaboration was to examine and celebrate the link between improvisation in jazz and improvisation in skateboarding. Just like jazz, skateboarding requires the skater to make creative decisions from moment to moment, to solo, to improvise, and ultimately groove with the terrain in which the skateboarder comes into contact with. Also similar to Jazz, skateboarding is as much about community as it is about skateboarding itself, a connective interest that empowers skaters to share ideas, and better ones own craft for the betterment of the community. Because skateboarding is thought of more as a sport than an art, Moran's work is highlighting this Ubuntu ("I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am") connection, while also creating some phenomenal entertainment. I appreciate Moran's focus on blending otherwise separate communities, a fantastic interdisciplinary experiment that recognizes mutual values in diverse vocations. Moran supplies the music for the skaters, "to egg them on", to accompany their free-styling, similar in many ways to what we experience as dancers when improvising to/with jazz music.
When performed at the Center, the SFJazz production crew built a phenomenal half-pipe fitting in front of a small stage space (removing the frontmost orchestra chairs), and skateboarders free skated to the tune of Moran's lineup. The show was even featured by Thrasher Magazine, one of the most popular skate magazines in the USA. Last time I was at the Center, the crew had just dismantled the last few boards from the half-pipe, as it had lingered intact in the equipment storage underneath the cavernous performance space for a year or so post Moran's performance. This performance idea remains true to the statement in Moran's bio: "An ambitiously creative musician who frequently collaborates with artists in film and dance, pianist Jason Moran is jazz's wild card, a probing conceptualist who transforms everything he touches into a bracingly contemporary statement."
Back to Moran's tune featured this week, this arrangement reminds me of my sister's arrangement of "Honeysuckle Rose" from her debut album "Unfolding", where she also adds a flavor of contemporary popular music in the rhythm section and blending into her vocals. Her version is more stripped down than Moran's, and does not feature much horn soloing, besides her own trombone playing -. aAnother enjoyable experience of a great Fats Waller standard!
Here is a link to her version:
https://youtu.be/pC1MK-ieN6k
Check out Thrasher's Video Footage from Moran's Live Skateboarding Project:
Jazzism Episode 12.8
January 28, 2016 /0 Comments/by Kevin Pham
Tags: artisit, jazz, Jazzism Podcast, music, performance, profile, SFJazz
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Up for sale, a 2012 Gibson 50th Anniversary Pete Townshend SG Special in exceptional, near mint condition and in perfect working order. This rare and discontinued anniversary model SG has the powerful, authoritative growl and dynamic character of a pair of vintage wind P-90s paired with a solid mahogany body. At only 7lbs 2oz, this SG is lightweight, resonant, and a faithful vintage reissue of one of the most iconic instruments in rock history. We've professionally setup this SG here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, and the guitar is currently strung with 10-46 roundwound strings and has low, comfortable action.The SG Standard would become the choice of countless legendary players over the years, but its P-90 loaded peer, the Special, would land in the hands of the player at the helm of a quartet that The Guinness Book of World Records listed as "The Loudest Band in the World." From the late '60s into the '70s, Pete Townshend of The Who made the SG Special his own, and set new standards for rock power and energy in the process. To celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the instrument behind the Live at Leeds-era Who performances and recordings, Gibson USA released the 50th Anniversary Pete Townshend SG. Rendered with all the period correct details of an early '60s Les Paul/SG Special, with Townshend's preferred hardware complement, this model represents the early '60s SG Special with a smaller pre-'65 pickguard that Townshend used from Live at Leeds to the first British Quadrophenia performances.The 50th Anniversary Pete Townshend SG remains true to its heritage, with a body made from solid mahogany, which is richly resonant and light, with a comfort that is enhanced by its gently beveled body edges. To ensure that it all looks as great as it sounds, this guitar's Alpine White nitrocellulose finish captures a rare custom color from its day (referred to as "Polaris White" upon its introduction), and tops off the celebration with a gold 50th Anniversary headstock banner. The glued-in neck is made from solid quartersawn mahogany, set at the traditional 4 degree pitch, with a 17 degree back angled headstock for optimum string pressure in the slots of the PLEK-cut Corian nut. A rosewood fingerboard carries 22 medium jumbo frets and, with its 12" radius and 1 11/16" width at the nut (atop a fast but rounded neck profile that measures .800" at the 1st fret and .875" at the 12th) offers superb playability and easy bending. The heart of the Pete Townshend SG's tone lies, of course, in its two P-90 single-coil pickups, which are recreated in accurate detail by Gibson USA. Made with genuine Alnico V magnets and 42-AWG wire, they produce the punchy midrange, thumping lows and sweetly musical highs that countless musicians have loved since the first P-90s of the late 1940s. With its strings wrapped solidly through a wraparound bridge with compensated "lightning bar" saddle, it's an enormously resonant guitar that rings like a bell when you hit it, perfect for anything from crunchy power-chord rhythm to gritty, singing lead tones. And with its Grover Rotomatic tuners for optimum precision (another Townshend-preferred upgrade), the tuning stability is rock solid.Cosmetically, this SG Special is truly near mint, with virtually no fretwear and only a few light scratches on the pickguard in the pickpath. Otherwise, the body is extremely clean, with no discernible wear and a stunning nitro lacquer finish that is still bright white.
The original Gibson USA hardshell case is included, with a custom "WHO" stencil on the exterior exclusive to this model. The original factory paperwork is included too!
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Systems: LIBERA FL52 trusses and Maxitowers MT40.
Photo credits: EMME & Electric Claudio Merlo Lighting Equipment SA.
AlpTransit is a high-speed railway project that runs through Switzerland. It is an underground railway passage through the Alps splitted in base tunnels excavated hundreds of meters under the current ones. More than 1,000 guests and many transalpine televisions took part in the special event organised for the fall of the last partition of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
They attended the moment when the miners symbolically shook their hands with the others of the opposite side. For the video shooting a 10.5mx8m truss structure in LIBERA FL52 was set up. The system was supported by 4 Maxitowers MT40 and carried out with 6 hanging points for the creation of a technical intermediate gallery.


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CCC, Aboitiz seal pact for eLCCAP capbuild program to further enhance LGU grassroots resiliency
NPTE lays out action plans per climate risk identified
MANILA, 22 November 2022 – The Climate Change Commission strengthened its partnership with the Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) and Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (AFI) for implementation of the Commission's capacity building program on the Enhanced Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) Formulation.
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed by CCC Vice Chairperson and Executive Director Robert E.A. Borje, Commissioner Albert Dela Cruz, David Jude L. Sta. Ana, AEV Senior Vice President and Chief External Affairs Officer, and Maribeth L. Marasigan, AFI President and Chief Operating Officer.
The CCC, AEV and AFI will specifically collaborate on the following areas:
Coordinated implementation of climate-related research in aid of policy and decision making, and local climate change action, adaptation and mitigation.
Systematic knowledge sharing and prompt provision of technical assistance to LGUs, communities, the private business sector, and other entities in key vulnerable areas.
Mainstreaming climate-smart and climate-resilient processes and undertakings to LGUs, communities, the private business sector, and other entities in key vulnerable areas.
Coordinated implementation and collaboration with other key national government agencies (NGAs) identified to support the creation of climate smart resilient communities.
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) and AEV started the partnership in 2019 to implement the Communities for Resilience (CORE) Initiative, the CCC's flagship capacity-building program.
"We recognize the Climate Change Commission as a responsible policy-making institution that advocates environmental preservation, protection and climate change resilience across the country," said Christopher Camba, First Vice President for Corporate External Relations at Aboitiz Group of Companies.
The Ceremonial Signing of the MOA was held on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, at Aboitiz Headquarters in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City.
The signing is also part of the activities for the 15th Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week (CCC Week 2022) happening from 19-25 November 2022, with the theme, "Sama-samang Tumutugon sa Hamon ng Nagbabagong Klima."
For more information about the Ceremonial Signing of MOA and other CCC Week 2022 activities, visit the CCC social media pages at @cccphl. ###
CCC's National Panel of Technical Experts to hold forum on PH climate-induced risks
MANILA, 22 November 2022 — The Climate Change Commission's (CCC) National Panel of Technical Experts (NPTE) will conduct the 11th NPTE Forum, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 with a focused discussion on climate-induced risks for the Philippines and how the risks can be managed, minimized, or avoided.
This year's NPTE Forum will stimulate discussions among national government agencies, local government units (LGUs), state universities and colleges (SUCs), and relevant stakeholders to address the gaps, and recommend concrete action points to address the various climate risks.
The forum will be led by NPTE members: Dr. Doracie Zoleta-Nantes (Chairperson), Dr. Eduardo Mangaoang (Co-Chair), Dr. Susan Mercado (Co-Chair), Dr. Emma Porio (Co-chair), Dr. Jihan Adil, Dr. Nathaniel Alibuyog, Dr. Zenaida Andrade, Dr. Wilfredo Campos, Dr. Gay Defiesta, Dr. Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, Dr. Jimmy Masagca, Dr. Richard Muallil, Dr. Patricia Ann Sanchez, Engineer Meriam Santillan, Dr. Encarnacion Emilia Yap, and Dr. Maria Angela Zafra.
Discussions on the forum will focus on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, overview of loss and damage scenario in the Philippines, and the 10 leading climate-induced risks identified by NPTE members: rising sea levels; coastal erosion; flooding; increasing frequency and severity of tropical cyclones; extreme drought; temperature increase and rising urban heat index; extreme rainfall; climate-influenced diseases; changing wind patterns, and biodiversity loss.
Started in 2017, the NPTE Forum encourages knowledge exchange among members of the academe, local government units, youth, business and industry, civil society, gender- and faith-based groups, and the general public on climate change-related issues, policies, and practices through plenary presentations and open discussions.
The 11th NPTE Forum coincides with the commemoration of the 15th Annual Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week (CCC Week 2022).
With the theme "Sama-samang Tumutugon sa Hamon ng Nagbabagong Klima," CCC Week 2022 draws together various climate change and environment stakeholders in the Philippines in a collective push toward transforming climate change commitments into action for a climate-smart and climate-resilient Philippines.
Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 1667 s. 2008, the CCC spearheads the annual observance of the Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week every November 19th to 25th, aimed at raising consciousness on addressing the impacts of the changing climate.
For more information about the 11th NPTE Forum and CCC Week 2022, visit the social media accounts of the CCC using @CCCPhl or visit its website at https://climate.gov.ph. ###
Development partners reaffirm commitment to mobilize finance for climate action
Department of Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno, United Kingdom Ambassador to the Philippines Laure Beaufils, United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative Dr. Selva Ramachandran, World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand Dr. Ndiame Diop, and other development partners of the Climate Change Commission reaffirmed commitments to mobilize investments for climate action during the Climate Investment Forum 2022, Monday, 21 November 2022, in Novotel Manila, Quezon City.
MANILA, 22 November 2022 – Development partners reaffirmed their commitment of mobilizing financial resources for investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation on Monday, 21 November 2022, to confront the challenges posed by the climate crisis.
Development partners including the World Bank Group and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) joined the Climate Investment Forum 2022, spearheaded by the Climate Change Commission (CCC) in commemoration of the 15th Global Warming and Climate Consciousness Week.
Government leaders led by the Department of Finance (DOF) presented the national targets on mitigation and adaptation and called for stronger commitments from international channels as well as the private sector to invest on the country's priorities on climate action.
In his keynote address, DOF Secretary Benjamin Diokno recognized the need to "urgently increase the availability of adaptation and resilience finance particularly for sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure." Diokno also emphasized the important role of the private sector in achieving a just transition towards a low-carbon economy and the commitment of the Philippine government on "strengthening its policies on climate financing (and) mainstreaming sustainable finance in all possible ways through policy and harmonization."
UNDP Resident Representative Dr. Selva Ramachandran also underscored the important role of the private sector in climate investments. "There's a growing recognition due to the amounts required to meet climate goals, and the private sector has a key role to play in mobilizing climate finance. While it is widely known that the private sector's DNA is closely attached to its financial interests, we need to develop and disseminate a clear narrative. Beyond corporate social responsibility initiatives, it makes good business sense to invest in climate initiatives."
The UNDP has developed the Climate Finance Network in order to support the initiatives on increasing public and private sector investments toward mitigating impacts of climate change and improving resilience of national and local government agencies and communities.
For its part, the World Bank has released its Country Climate and Development Report for the Philippines which explains how climate change will affect the country's economic development and emphasizes the important role of the private sector in climate action.
"The World Bank has a very strong commitment to really accompany the efforts of the government, the Climate Change Commission, and all the agencies in this effort. We have actually achieved quite a bit over the last decade or so, and we are very committed to do more to really address this emergency," said Dr. Ndiame Diop, World Bank Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand.
As a long standing partner of the Philippines, the World Bank has been helping lay the groundwork for significant actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve climate resilience, and prepare for and respond to natural disasters. For FY2022, about 46% of their commitments are contributed to climate action.
The Government of the United Kingdom also emphasized the need to act and deliver results based on the country's climate action priorities. The Climate Finance Network was supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
"The UK has been listening to the priorities of the new government in the Philippines and we are working to deliver new programs responding to its needs on coastal and marine adaptation, renewable energy and energy efficiency, nature-based solutions, science, and innovation." said UK Ambassador to the Philippines Laure Beaufils.
The Climate Investment Forum is a product of the Climate Finance Network which brought together high-level policymakers, heads of international organizations, private sector leaders, and civil society groups with an overall objective of turning climate commitments into action.
"We need to invest in ourselves, because these investments are our investments in our collective future. From aligning our efforts toward NDCs to working together on accelerating just transition to a low-carbon economy; to building the adaptive capacities of our communities, to utilizing best available science and multi-risk analysis frameworks and tools; and to harnessing domestic and international finance," CCC Vice Chairperson and Executive Director Robert E.A. Borje emphasized.
For more information about the Climate Investment Forum, visit the social media accounts of the CCC using @CCCPhl or visit its website at https://climate.gov.ph. ###
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Cosmos Makes Triumphant Return
Posted by Liz Dircks
You don't need to know rocket science to know the name Carl Sagan. Easily one of the most brilliant and passionate voices of his generation, Sagan was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, Cornell professor, and prolific science popularizer, and in 1980, he captivated America with his hit show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. It was unlike anything seen on television before, a documentary series that provided an engaging look at the history of mankind and its collective thirst to understand the universe. It seamlessly melded philosophy with life lessons, experimentation with historical re-enactments, and scientific theory with impressive visual effects relative to it time.
Like the zombies it's currently up against in the Sunday night timeslot, Cosmos has returned from the dead, and without a moment to spare. The new season, subtitled A Spacetime Odyssey, is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and already seems to be living up to it namesake with the thrilling journey it promises over its 13-episode run. The show is co-produced by Seth MacFarlane (proving that backing projects outside one's typical genre can and should be done), 24 and Star Trek: Enterprise's Brannon Braga, and Ann Druyan, producer of the original show and Sagan's widow. The first of what I anticipate will be a series of spectacularly informative hours of TV included a look at our "cosmic address," the influence of a monk named Giordano Bruno, and the Cosmic Calendar, a narrative device used in the original series to demonstrate humanity's history relative to the history of the universe. (Spoiler alert: we're a blip on the radar.)
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson on the bridge of the Spaceship of the Imagination.
The most striking aspect of the new Cosmos has to be the visuals. To a society bludgeoned with high-budget blockbusters on a regular basis, they probably aren't mind-blowing — that effect is decidedly reserved for the science — but they are ridiculously pleasing to take in. A strand of DNA forming itself. A reflective pool morphing into a human eye. A swirling galaxy. This is what happens when TV is given the movie treatment, and with dramatic, otherworldly scoring by famed composer Alan Silvestri, it's like we're all being tipped head-first into Tyson's Spaceship of the Imagination, zooming past planets and seeing for ourselves just how vast and wonderful the cosmos is.
Speaking of Tyson, he's got to be the perfect host for this job, dubbed Carl Sagan's "heir-apparent" by Seth MacFarlane. Currently the director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, Tyson has previously hosted Nova, Nova ScienceNow, and StarTalk Radio, a podcast where he teams up with comedians and fellow scientists to discuss various topics relevant to the modern day. Besides being unbearably intelligent, Tyson has an on-screen swagger like no other (in a recreation of the Big Bang in the show, Tyson casually dons sunglasses and rides the explosion of existence with unfathomable cool). He speaks directly to viewers, as Sagan once did, and invites us to open our minds and be critical thinkers in a way that society seems to have lost in the years since A Personal Voyage.
The iconic Carl Sagan (in his equally-iconic turtleneck).
On a more personal note, Carl Sagan has been influencing my life in subtle ways since I was young. My mother, a high school biology teacher at the time, once explained to me that Earth revolves around the Sun, and that the Sun is a star, but there are (to borrow a phrase from Sagan) billions upon billions of stars in the observable universe — so wouldn't it make sense that there are other planets revolving around those stars? And isn't it just slightly possible that some of those planets hold life? It wasn't until several years had passed that I realized that she'd gotten that idea from Sagan and passed it down to me.
One of Carl Sagan's most famous lines was, "We are made of star stuff," a phrase that Tyson quite rightfully parrots in the new series. Put another way, the very same atoms that we're made of also make up the stars, and if there's one message that should be taken away from Cosmos, it's our oneness with the universe. Perhaps, many years down the line, scientists will cite Cosmos as having kindled their interest in understanding the natural world.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey airs Sundays on FOX at 9PM and Mondays on National Geographic Channel at 10PM.
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Wow, this takes the cake. A script has to be rewritten because a crazed member of the audience did not like a cigarette lighted as a play prop?
If the intent of one especially law abiding member of the audience becomes the norm, we will no longer see a sword in The Count of Monte Christo. Tripe, has lost its appeal.


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Canada Invites Ooni To 150th Independence Anniversary
MetroLens May 22, 2017	Foreign, Home, Lifestyle, National, News 0
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has been invited as a special guest of the Canadian Government to grace the country's 150th Independence Anniversary celebrations in July this year. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the special invitation was conveyed to the Ife monarch in his palace on Sunday by a Canadian Member of Parliament (MP), Ramesh Sangha. …
South Africa Deports 90 Nigerians
SOUTH African government yesterday deported 90 Nigerians for allegedly committing immigration-related offences in the country. According to DSP Joseph Alabi, the spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command , the deportees ,who were all men, landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 3.30pm on Friday, May 19. He said they were brought back to Nigeria from Johannesburg …
UK govt reacts to coup rumours in Nigeria
MetroLens May 18, 2017	Current Affiars, Foreign, Home, National, News 0
The British government has warned against "non-democratic" change of government in Nigeria, amid speculations about military coup as concerns grow over President Muhammadu Buhari's health. "The British government believes that democracy is actually critical in Nigeria," the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, said on Wednesday. "There are elections. If you're not happy with your leaders then you should …
Another batch of 258 Nigerian deportees arrive Lagos Airport
It was gory tales yesterday at the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos as another batch of 258 Nigerians were yesterday deported from Libya. The deportees who arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 10.00pm aboard an Airbus A333-200 and were received at the Hajj Terminal by the National Emergency Management …
Some abducted Chibok girls refused to be 'freed' –Negotiator
MetroLens May 9, 2017	Current Affiars, National, News 0
Some of the schoolgirls, abducted by Boko Haram militants from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014, refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend, one of the negotiators involved in the release said on Monday. After over three years in captivity, 82 of the schoolgirls were released out of the …
Nigeria begins recruitment of 500,000 unemployed graduates
MetroLens June 9, 2016	Current Affiars, National, News, Politics 0
In what is the first roll-out of its N500billion social investment programmes, the Nigerian government is set to begin taking applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an internet portal named npower.gov.ng. While the portal would be live on Saturday June 11, applications are expected to start coming in on June 12. Young unemployed Nigerians …
FG To Invest Six Trillion Naira Pension Funds – Adeosun
MetroLens May 27, 2016	Business, Current Affiars, National, News, Politics 0
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, says the federal government is being cautious as it plans to invest the over six trillion Naira pension funds. The Minister said this when she appeared before the House of Representatives as part of its ongoing sectoral debate on diversification of the Nigerian economy. "A lot has been said about the pension money. We …
President Buhari Signs 2016 Budget Into Law
MetroLens May 6, 2016	Current Affiars, National, News, Politics 0
Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the 2016 budget into law. This assent has now given way for the full implementation of the budget. The ceremony was witnessed by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. While the President says that the budget must be able to work …
'How Nigeria can end malaria'
MetroLens May 5, 2016	National, News 0
Nigeria's Minister of Health, Prof, Isaac Adewole, has expressed strong optimism that Nigeria is on path to eradicating the scourge of malaria in the country.The Minister, who spoke at a World Malaria Day programme in Abuja, observed the concerns regarding resistance of the malaria parasites to the recommended anti-malaria medicines as well as of the mosquito vectors to available insecticides …
2016 Budget To Go Into Full Operation In Few Days – Osinbajo
The Federal Government has re-assured Nigerians that the 2016 budget is expected to go into full operations in the next few days. This assurance was given by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who was a guest speaker at the 12th edition of 'The Platform', an annual national discourse put together by Covenant Christian Centre, at the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. He …
No one can stop us from grazing in the south — Fulani herdsmen
MetroLens May 1, 2016	Crime Reports, National, News, Politics 0
Herdsmen from different parts of Nigeria have stated that nobody can stop them from grazing their cattle in any part of the country, especially in the south. They described such restriction as unconstitutional. The nomads, who spoke to Journalist under the auspices of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, dismissed the ultimatums given by different groups for the herdsmen to …
First Edition Of FGs' Town Hall Meetings Holds In Lagos
MetroLens April 25, 2016	Current Affiars, National, News, Politics 0
The first in the series of the Federal Government town hall meetings held On Monday in Lagos State, Nigeria's commercial city. The meeting is expected to hold in six geo-political zones and two other cities, Abuja and Kano. It is an interaction between the government and persons from different sectors of the economy. At the Lagos meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari's …
Fayose writes Chinese leader to stop $2bn loan
MetroLens April 14, 2016	Current Affiars, Foreign, National, Politics 0
Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has written a letter to President Xi Jinping of China, seeking the stoppage of the $2 billion loan sought by the federal government. In the letter dated April 12, Fayose said Nigerians were "totally opposed to increment of the country's debt burden, which is already being serviced with 25 per cent of the government's annual budget". He alleged …


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Woman dies after eating at Michelin-starred restaurant
22 February 2019 By Lauren Eads
A woman has died and 28 others suffered food poisoning after dining at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia.
It's been suggested that a batch of poisonous mushrooms (not pictured) may have been to blame.
The 46-year-old woman, who has not been named, became ill after having a meal at the Riff restaurant in Valencia with her husband and son. She died in the early hours of Sunday. Her husband and son were also taken ill, but are said to be recovering, according to reports by The Guardian.
Health authorities have so far tracked down 75 people who ate at Riff between 13 and 16 February, and have confirmed a total of 29 cases of food poisoning.
With the exception of the person who died, all those who fell ill have shown light symptoms – mainly vomiting," the regional health authority said in a statement on Thursday.
Food safety officers visited the restaurant on 18 February and failed to find any obvious explanation for the poisonings, although it has been reported that a poisonous mushroom could have been to blame, as reported by The Telegraph, but this has not been confirmed by authorities.
Samples of dishes served as a part of a tasting menu are being analysed by the National Toxicology Institute.
Bernd H Knöller, the head chef and owner of Riff, which has a Michelin star, is working with the regional health authorities, and has closed the restaurant while an investigation is completed.
He said: "I've taken the decision to close the restaurant until we know the precise causes and can reopen with the necessary guarantees for the safety of both staff and customers."


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Published: 21st July 2018 11:00 AM | Last Updated: 21st July 2018 05:29 PM
The Narendra Modi-led NDA government faced its first no-trust vote, also the first such vote in the Lok Sabha in 15 years, on Friday. (Photo | PTI)
The no-confidence motion debate began with first time Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Jayadev Galla's speech. 'Andhra Pradesh is languishing in services and the state has been reduced to an agrarian state after bifurcation,' he said. 'Lack of trust, lack priority, lack of fairness, lack of unbiased approach of BJP, are the reasons for moving a no-confidence motion,' he added. (Photo | PTI)
National Conference MP Farooq Abdullah emphasized on the need for communal harmony and said that there is no place for hatred in a country like ours. (Photo | PTI)
Rakesh Singh, BJP MP, responded on part of the BJP against the no-confidence motion. He said most of the complaints which the TDP listed arose when the Congress was in power. (Photo | PTI)
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the BJP did not try to destabilize UPA governments under Manmohan Singh. He added that the centre is aware of its responsibilities towards states, and is ready to give all possible assistance to Andhra Pradesh. (Photo | PTI)
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in his speech, focused on the failures of the NDA. He pointed out that many of the promises made were not kept by the government. Two crore jobs were promised, but only four lakh were created. (Photo | PTI)
'You are the victim of a 21st century political weapon and you are not the only one. The political weapon is called the 'jumla strike'' Rahul Gandhi told the TDP members present. (Photo | PTI)
The Congress President said that opponents may hate him and call him 'Pappu' and other such names, but he has no hatred towards the Modi government. He ended his fiery speech by walking up to the PM and embracing him -- another first in the history of Indian politics -- before walking back to his seat and winking, taking the internet by storm. (Photo | PTI)
Responding to Rahul Gandhi's allegations against her in the Rafale case, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said a secrecy agreement with France was signed in 2008 and Rafale deal was also covered in it. She said the French president had told an Indian media outlet that price of the jets could not be revealed. (Photo | PTI)
Commenting on the hug, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said, 'New comedy hero has come up in the parliament, the level of debate has fallen because of this 'dramebaazi'.' (Photo | PTI)
Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan criticized Rahul Gandhi for hugging the PM and said that 'the prime minister was sitting in the House in his capacity as the PM'. 'We should keep this in mind before making any move or gesture. The manner in which it was done was not right. The decorum of the House should be maintained,' she added. (Photo | PTI)
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Lok Sabha leader, accused Speaker Sumitra Mahajan of being unfair and allotting too little time to the opposition in the debate. Some parties have been allotted 25 minutes and some just 15 minutes, Kharge pointed out. (Photo | PTI)
PM Modi slammed Rahul Gandhi's hug and addressed him as the 'one who is eager to become Prime Minister.' He went on to highlight all the achievements of the NDA government. (Photo | PTI)
At the end of 12 hours of high drama, debating, and opposition party members shooting arrows at the central government, NDA won with a margin of 199 votes. (Photo | PTI)
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She shook that emphatic little forefinger of hers in his face at parting. (p. 231) — James Mahoney's forty-first illustration for Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Household Edition (New York), 1875. Wood-engraving by the Dalziels, 10.5 cm high x 13.3 cm wide. The Chapman and Hall woodcut for thirteenth chapter, "Give a Dog a Bad Name, and Hang Him," in the third book, "A Long Lane," has a much longer caption than that in the Harper and Brothers volume, published that same year in New York: "She shook that emphatic little forefinger of hers in his face at parting, as earnestly and reproachfully as she had ever shaken it at her grim old child at home". Otherwise, the wood-engraving depicting the Jenny's reproaching Riah for his hard-hearted treatment of Twemlow (in fact, his "superior's" uncompromising treatment of the debtor) is identical in both volumes, suggesting that the Dalziels produced two copies of each woodblock engraving from Mahoney's original line-drawings. This is yet another of those illustrations possessing a different caption in the Chapman and Hall and Harper and Brothers versions of the same book, so that, although the American publisher must have received a list of illustrations, the firm's editor chose occasionally to deviate from the given wording and did not give such a list at the beginning of the volume. Two previous examples are Witnessing the Agreement and Mr. and Mrs. Lammle, both of which also have much longer captions in the London text. For further differences, including the London and New York volumes having entirely different frontispieces, see The differences between the British and American printings of Mahoney's illustrations for Dickens's Our Mutual Friend.
Fascination Fledgeby was in such a merry vein when the counting-house was cleared of him, that he had nothing for it but to go to the window, and lean his arms on the frame of the blind, and have his silent laugh out, with his back to his subordinate. When he turned round again with a composed countenance, his subordinate still stood in the same place, and the dolls' dressmaker sat behind the door with a look of horror.
"Halloa!" cried Mr. Fledgeby, "you're forgetting this young lady, Mr. Riah, and she has been waiting long enough too. Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once."
"There, my Cinderella dear," said the old man in a whisper, and with a worn-out look, "the basket's full now. Bless you! And get you gone!"
"Don't call me your Cinderella dear," returned Miss Wren. "O you cruel godmother!"
"You are not the godmother at all!" said she. "You are the Wolf in the Forest, the wicked Wolf! And if ever my dear Lizzie is sold and betrayed, I shall know who sold and betrayed her!" — Book Three, Chapter 13, "Give a Dog a Bad Name, and Hang Him," p. 243.
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Cohen, Jane Rabb. "The Illustrators of Our Mutual Friend, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Marcus Stone, Charles Collins, Luke Fildes." Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Canton: Ohio U. P., 1980. Pp. 203-228.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Marcus Stone [40 composite wood-block engravings]. Volume 14 of the Authentic Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall; New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1901 [based on the original nineteen-month serial and the two-volume edition of 1865].
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by F. O. C. Darley and John Gilbert. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866. Vol. 1.
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Illustrated Household Edition. Boston: Ticknor and Field; Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1870 [first published in The Diamond Edition, 1867].
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by James Mahoney [58 composite wood-block engravings]. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall; New York: Harper & Bros., 1875.
Grass, Sean. Charles Dickens's 'Our Mutual Friend': A Publishing History. Burlington, VT, and Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.
Hammerton, J. A. "Chapter 21: The Other Novels." The Dickens Picture-Book. The CharlesDickens Library Edition. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 17. Pp.441-442.
Kitton, Frederic G. Dickens and His Illustrators. (1899). Rpt. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2004.
"Our Mutual Friend — Fifty-eight Illustrations by James Mahoney." Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens, Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Drawings by Fred Barnard, Gordon Thomson, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), J. McL. Ralston, J. Mahoney, H. French, Charles Green, E. G. Dalziel, A. B. Frost, F. A. Fraser, and Sir Luke Fildes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1907.


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DI Leasing is an internationally renowned consulting company, specialising in luxury retail leasing, property and shopping centre management. The company was founded in 2010, as a sister company of award winning architecture firm Design International (DI).
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You and I both know that living with migraine disease isn't easy. A friend of mine says, "Migraines aren't for wimps," and she's right. Right now, my migraine management is pretty good, but for how long? Treatments can stop working, and that's happened to me before. So, as we start this new year, I've been writing affirmations on note cards and pinning them to the bulletin board in my office.
Dictionary.com defines an affirmation as, "something that is affirmed; a statement or proposition that is declared to be true." They're often used to help people achieve goals, stay focused on the positive, and more. Today, I share some of my 2016 affirmations for migraine health with you.
Greeting each new day with hope and positivity prepares me to meet the challenges of the day, including migraines.
I care about myself and my health and realize there are times when my needs must come before those of others if I am to be able to attend to the needs of others at all.
Every new treatment is a potentially successful treatment, so I approach them with hope and a positive attitude.
I release the guilt I sometimes feel because my migraines don't allow me to do everything I feel I need to do.
It's perfectly acceptable and healthy to "vent" about a problem as long as I follow that by taking proactive steps to solve the problem.
I give thanks for the people in my life who love and support me during trying times with my migraines.
I approach my appointments with my doctor as an engaged, educated treatment partner, willing to be responsible for and take charge of my health.
Being increasingly aware of my body makes me better able to recognize a migraine in its early phases so my treatments work more effectively.
Sharing information about migraine with others is my responsibility and honor as it will reduce the stigma and make life easier for all of us.
My life with migraine is going to become better and easier because of the advances being made in research.