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Millionaire Paul Ryan Bombs With 'Joke' About Entitlements
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Tommy Christopher June 11, 2018
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue.com
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is well-known for his twisted vendetta against the social safety net, but may have outdone even himself with a joke that even bombed with an ultra-conservative audience.
On Saturday, Ryan delivered the keynote speech at the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce's dinner honoring Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT), the most senior Republican in the Senate, as a "Giant in Our City."
Ryan made a few jokes about Hatch's advanced age, but one crack about Ryan's own impending retirement did not go over so well.
"Truthfully though, I thought that maybe I'd just retire to get my hands on some of these entitlements," Ryan said. "Because, it didn't look good if I waited, cause trust me, I've done the math."
Republicans like Ryan often spread lies about Social Security's future solvency in order to attack the program. But even in this setting, Ryan's joke was poorly received, according to Associated Press reporter Steve Peoples.
This joke by Speaker Ryan didn't do well here in Utah: "Truthfully though, I thought that maybe I'd just retire to get my hands on some of these entitlements. Because, it didn't look good if I waited, cause trust me, I've done the math."
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) June 10, 2018
As was quickly noted by observers, Ryan in hardly in a position to require assistance through his retirement. He has a reported net worth of over $7 million dollars, and one of the best retirement packages available to an American.
Paul Ryan jokes about retirement 'entitlements' . $223,500 salary, best insurance FOR LIFE, cracks jokes at the average/below constituent paying for health issues. Link to his net worth 7.8M. How dare he.https://t.co/hCcfws3FWG https://t.co/LJRNc2wi5U
— ElizabethODr (@ElizabethODr) June 10, 2018
Ryan has been at the forefront of attempts to destroy earned benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare, and has even said he has dreamt of gutting Medicaid since he was "drinking out of a keg."
Ryan has been singled out by Christian leaders for the cruelty of his politics, which is made all the more outrageous by the fact that Ryan, himself, used Social Security survivor's benefits to put himself through college.
Ryan also found humor in Trump's ongoing attack on American democracy, joking that "There's a lot of talk about impeachment from this resist crowd. I wonder if anybody's told this resist crowd that next in line is Mike Pence, then me, then Sen. Hatch."
Like most Republicans, Paul Ryan has stood by Trump every step of the way, but his inaction is made all the more disgraceful by the fact that he does so in hopes that he can crush the safety net, and the Americans who rely on it.
Published with permission of The American Independent.
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Steve Chapman June 11, 2018


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For your information when years ago our President signed the contract to host the World Championships (LC, KL, LK, K1) in Skopje for 2011 Macedonia was out of the European Community and easily reachable from all our non European members. One year ago they applied to get into the European Community and this is why today they are obliged to follow the Shengen Rules.
However there's the following possibility: Macedonian KB Federation will send you right now a letter to inform you about this issue and new procedure. All Macedonian Embassies of those country from where you can actually get your visa (Ex. in Cairo, Egypt, for Camerun ) have already been informed by the Ministry of Foreign and Internal Affairs of Macedonia, you simply have to get in contact with that Embassy of reference and they will immediately release your visa without any problem.
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As many as 24 Nepali Congress Central Working Committee members called on party President and Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Friday, asking him to hold the CWC meeting immediately to discuss pressing national and party-related issues.
Most of those signing the memo to demand the CWC meeting are Sher Bahadur Deuba loyals. Submitting a memorandum to Koirala at the party headquarters in Sanepa, Lalitpur, they raised crucial national issues and matters related to the party's functioning that needed to be discussed immediately.
Six months after the formation of an NC-led government, they charged that important decisions of the coalition such as common minimum programmes of the government, and its policies and programmes were never discussed in the party.
The last CWC meeting was held on January 4 soon after the Cabinet formation. "According to the NC charter, the general convention of the parry is due in a month.
Sister organisations are full of problems and the central departments are almost defunct," they expressed their concerns.
A meeting of the party office bearers held on July 7, when PM Koirala was in the United States for treatment, decided to hold the 13th general convention of the party only after the promulgation of the new constitution. The four-year term of the present CWC expires on September 20.
Sources said the upcoming CWC meeting will extend its term and mandate likely by one year citing that the party leaders were busy in constitution-drafting so they would not find time for general convention immediately. The Deuba faction members have stressed the need for discussing these critical matters at the CWC to seek solutions.
According to leaders, Koirala assured the delegation that the party would be managed in an institutional manner and as per the laws.
Those demanding the meeting are Gopal Man Shrestha, Arjun Narsingh KC, Puspa Bhusal, Chandra Bhandari, Min Bishowkarma, Man Bahadur Bishowkarma, Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, Shanker Bhandari, Surendra Raj Pandey, Dipak Giri and Ramesh Rijal, most of them from the Deuba faction.


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humans who stayed behind and had or gained this ability.
empty space) and used it to keep other humans from coming to the planet.
along with the Shadow Children, and modern humans take over the planet.
wrong, this is unimportant to the picture of events I have, anyway.
versa, as the Old Wise One eventually says?  Well, for many reasons.
(assuming they came from Earth, or at least from another planet).
Also, the Hillmen/Marshmen have green eyes, the color of Sainte Anne.
Hillmen are older because they're as old as the HILLS.
given is that drug use.
came from Earth in ships.  So why do I think it's what he said first?
Wise One first think SC are more recent?  Why called SHADOW Children?
what may be the same thing and don't have to go at that time?


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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an American laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) in the 1940s. He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Thomas was unique in that he did not have any professional education or experience in a research laboratory; however, he served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976, Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an instructor of surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

A PBS documentary, Partners of the Heart, was broadcast in 2003 on PBS's American Experience. In the 2004 HBO movie Something the Lord Made, based on Katie McCabe's National Magazine Award–winning Washingtonian article of the same title, Vivien Thomas was portrayed by Mos Def.

Background
Vivien Thomas writes in his autobiography, published shortly after his death, that he was born in Lake Providence, Louisiana. In 1910 Thomas was born during the Jim Crow era, to Willard Maceo Thomas and the former Mary Alice Eaton.  There are noted discrepancies of Thomas birth place due to listing, New Iberia as his birthplace on his World War II draft card, and when he died in 1985, his obituary in The Baltimore Sun also listed New Iberia.  New Iberia was his mother's hometown, Lake Providence his father's. Either way, the family did not stay in Louisiana for long, moving to Nashville, Tennessee when Thomas was about two years old.

Thomas attended Pearl High School in Nashville in the 1920s, and graduated in 1929. Thomas' father was a carpenter, and took pleasure in passing down his expertise to his sons. Thomas worked with his father and brothers every day after school and on Saturdays, doing jobs such as measuring, sawing, and nailing. This experience proved beneficial to Thomas, as he was able to secure a carpentry job at Fisk University repairing facility damages after graduating from high school. Thomas had hoped to attend college and become a doctor, but the Great Depression derailed his plans. Thomas intended to work hard, save money, and gain a higher education as soon as he could afford it. Determined to broaden his skill set, in 1930 he reached out to childhood friend Charles Manlove (who was working at Vanderbilt University at the time) to ask if there were any jobs available.

Career
In the wake of the stock market crash in October 1929, Thomas put his educational plans on hold and, through a friend, in February 1930 secured a job as surgical research assistant with Dr. Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University. On his first day of work, Thomas assisted Blalock with a surgical experiment on a dog. At the end of Thomas's first day, Blalock told Thomas they would do another experiment the next morning. Blalock told Thomas to "come in and put the animal to sleep and get it set up." Within a few weeks, Thomas was starting surgery on his own. Thomas was classified and paid as a janitor, despite the fact that by the mid-1930s, he was doing the work of a postdoctoral researcher in the lab.

Thomas struggled with finances despite saving most of what he earned. The salaries that he received did not provide enough comfort to quit his laboratory research job and go back to school. Nashville's banks failed nine months after Thomas started his job with Blalock, and his savings were wiped out. He abandoned his plans for college and medical school, relieved to have even a low-paying job as the Great Depression deepened. Vivien Thomas continued his work with Dr. Blalock, and saving his earnings, so that he could provide for his daughters and wife the best he could.

Working with Blalock

Vanderbilt

Thomas and Blalock did groundbreaking research into the causes of hemorrhagic and traumatic shock. This work later evolved into research on crush syndrome and saved the lives of thousands of soldiers on the battlefields of World War II. In hundreds of experiments, the two disproved traditional theories which held that shock was caused by toxins in the blood. Blalock, a highly original scientific thinker and something of an iconoclast, had theorized that shock resulted from fluid loss outside the vascular bed and that the condition could be effectively treated by fluid replacement. Assisted by Thomas, he was able to provide incontrovertible proof of this theory, and in so doing, he gained wide recognition in the medical community by the mid-1930s. At this same time, Blalock and Thomas began experimental work in vascular and cardiac surgery, defying medical taboos against operating upon the heart. It was this work that laid the foundation for the revolutionary life saving surgery they were to perform at Johns Hopkins a decade later. Vivien Thomas spent 11 years at Vanderbilt with Blalock before moving to Johns Hopkins.

Johns Hopkins

By 1940, the work Blalock had done with Thomas placed Blalock at the forefront of American surgery, and when he was offered the position of Chief of Surgery at his alma mater Johns Hopkins in 1941, he requested that Thomas accompany him. Thomas arrived in Baltimore with his family in June of that year, confronting a severe housing shortage and a level of racism worse than they had endured in Nashville. Hopkins, like the rest of Baltimore, was rigidly segregated, and the only Black employees at the institution were janitors. When Thomas walked the halls in his white lab coat, many heads turned. He began changing into his city clothes when he walked from the laboratory to Blalock's office because he received so much attention. During this time, he lived in the 1200 block of Caroline Street in the community now known as Oliver, Baltimore.

Blue baby syndrome

In 1943, while pursuing his shock research, Blalock was approached by pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, who was seeking a surgical solution to a complex and fatal four-part heart anomaly called tetralogy of Fallot (also known as blue baby syndrome, although other cardiac anomalies produce blueness, or cyanosis). In infants born with this defect, blood is shunted past the lungs, thus creating oxygen deprivation and a blue pallor. Having treated many such patients in her work in Hopkins's Harriet Lane Home, Taussig was desperate to find a surgical cure. According to the accounts in Thomas' 1985 autobiography and in a 1967 interview with medical historian Peter Olch, Taussig suggested only that it might be possible to "reconnect the pipes" in some way to increase the level of blood flow to the lungs, but did not suggest how this could be accomplished. Blalock and Thomas realized immediately that the answer lay in a procedure they had perfected for a different purpose in their Vanderbilt work, involving the anastomosis (joining) of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery, which had the effect of increasing blood flow to the lungs. Thomas was charged with the task of first creating a blue baby-like condition in a dog, and then correcting the condition by means of the pulmonary-to-subclavian anastomosis. Among the dogs on whom Thomas operated was one named Anna, who became the first long-term survivor of the operation and the only animal to have her portrait hung on the walls of Johns Hopkins. In nearly two years of laboratory work involving 200 dogs, Thomas was able to replicate two of the four cardiac anomalies involved in tetralogy of Fallot. He did demonstrate that the corrective procedure was not lethal, thus persuading Blalock that the operation could be safely attempted on a human patient.  Blalock was impressed with Thomas' work; when he inspected the procedure performed on Anna, he reportedly said, "This looks like something the Lord made."  Even though Thomas knew he was not allowed to operate on patients at that time, he still followed Blalock's rules and assisted him during surgery.

Decisive surgery

On November 29, 1944, the procedure was first tried on an eighteen-month-old infant named Eileen Saxon.  The blue baby syndrome had made her lips and fingers turn blue, with the rest of her skin having a very faint blue tinge.  She could only take a few steps before beginning to breathe heavily. Because no instruments for cardiac surgery then existed, Thomas adapted the needles and clamps for the procedure from those in use in the animal lab. During the surgery itself, at Blalock's request, Thomas stood on a step stool at Blalock's shoulder and coached him step by step through the procedure. Thomas performed the operation hundreds of times on a dog, whereas Blalock did so only once as Thomas' assistant. The surgery was not completely successful, though it did prolong the infant's life for several months. Blalock and his team operated again on an 11-year-old girl, this time with complete success, and the patient was able to leave the hospital three weeks after the surgery. Next, they operated upon a six-year-old boy, who dramatically regained his color at the end of the surgery. The three cases formed the basis for the article that was published in the May 1945 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, giving credit to Blalock and Taussig for the procedure. Thomas received no mention.

News of this groundbreaking story was circulated around the world by the Associated Press. Newsreels touted the event, greatly enhancing the status of Johns Hopkins and solidifying the reputation of Blalock, who had been regarded as a maverick up until that point by some in the Hopkins old guard. Thomas' contribution remained unacknowledged, both by Blalock and by Hopkins. Within a year, the operation known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt had been performed on more than 200 patients at Hopkins, with parents bringing their suffering children from thousands of miles away.

Skills
Thomas' surgical techniques included one he developed in 1946 for improving circulation in patients whose great vessels (the aorta and the pulmonary artery) were transposed. A complex operation called an atrial septectomy, the procedure was executed so flawlessly by Thomas that Blalock, upon examining the nearly undetectable suture line, was prompted to remark, "Vivien, this looks like something the Lord made." To the host of young surgeons Thomas trained during the 1940s, he became a figure of legend, the model of a dexterous and efficient cutting surgeon. "Even if you'd never seen surgery before, you could do it because Vivien made it look so simple," the renowned surgeon Denton Cooley told Washingtonian magazine in 1989. "There wasn't a false move, not a wasted motion, when he operated." Surgeons like Cooley, along with Alex Haller, Frank Spencer, Rowena Spencer, and others credited Thomas with teaching them the surgical technique that placed them at the forefront of medicine in the United States. Despite the deep respect Thomas was accorded by these surgeons and by the many Black lab assistants he trained at Hopkins, he was not well paid. He sometimes resorted to working as a bartender, often at Blalock's parties. This led to the peculiar circumstance of his serving drinks to people he had been teaching earlier in the day. Eventually, after negotiations on his behalf by Blalock, he became the highest paid assistant at Johns Hopkins by 1946, and by far the highest paid African-American on the institution's rolls. Although Thomas never wrote or spoke publicly about his ongoing desire to return to college and obtain a medical degree, his widow, the late Clara Flanders Thomas, revealed in a 1987 interview with Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe that her husband had clung to the possibility of further education throughout the blue baby period, and had only abandoned the idea with great reluctance. Mrs. Thomas stated that in 1947, Thomas had investigated the possibility of enrolling in college and pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor, but had been deterred by the inflexibility of Morgan State University, which refused to grant him credit for life experience and insisted that he fulfill the standard freshman requirements. Realizing that he would be 50 years old by the time he completed college and medical school, Thomas decided to give up the idea of further education.

Relations with Blalock
Vivien Thomas felt nervous when he first met Dr. Alfred Blalock because his friend, Charles Manlove, made it apparent that many people had a hard time working with him. However, Thomas felt as if Dr. Blalock was pleasant, relaxed, and informal during his interview, which provided excitement and comfort. Thomas quickly learned that Blalock moved quickly and expected his technicians to also be just as efficient. As Blalock performed experiments daily, Thomas observed thoroughly so that he would be able to recreate the steps when Blalock had other responsibilities to attend to. However, there were times when Blalock would lose his temper and use profanity; this often bothered Thomas and almost threatened their stable working relationship.

During Thomas' time working at Vanderbilt in the lab, he struggled with his salary because he needed to be able to provide for himself, but he also was saving up to go back to school. After many encounters with Blalock about a pay raise and no results, Thomas was going to return to his old job as a carpenter. However, Blalock saw Thomas as a valuable asset and did everything he could to keep Thomas from leaving. Blalock's approach to the issue of Thomas's race was complicated and contradictory throughout their 34-year partnership. Thomas, a hard-working laboratory technician, was only paid a janitorial salary. However, white men performing an equivalent of Thomas' job were paid an appreciable dollar more per hour. On the one hand, he defended his choice of Thomas to his superiors at Vanderbilt and to Hopkins colleagues, and he insisted that Thomas accompany him in the operating room during the first series of tetralogy operations. On the other hand, there were limits to his tolerance, especially when it came to issues of pay, academic acknowledgment, and his social interaction outside of work. Tension with Blalock continued to build when he failed to recognize the contributions that Thomas had made in the world-famous blue baby procedure, which led to a rift in their relationship. Thomas was absent in official articles about the procedure, as well as in team pictures that included all of the doctors involved in the procedure.

After Blalock's death from cancer in 1964 at the age of 65, Thomas stayed at Hopkins for 15 more years. In his role as director of Surgical Research Laboratories, he mentored a number of African-American lab assistants as well as Hopkins' first Black cardiac resident, Levi Watkins, Jr., whom Thomas assisted with his groundbreaking work in the use of the automatic implantable defibrillator.

Thomas' nephew, Koco Eaton, graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, trained by many of the physicians his uncle had trained. Eaton trained in orthopedics and is now the team doctor for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Institutional acknowledgment

In 1968, the surgeons Thomas trained — who had then become chiefs of surgical departments throughout America — commissioned the painting of his portrait (by Bob Gee, oil on canvas, 1969, The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives) and arranged to have it hung next to Blalock's in the lobby of the Alfred Blalock Clinical Sciences Building.

In 1976, Johns Hopkins University presented Thomas with an honorary doctorate. Due to certain restrictions, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws, rather than a medical doctorate, but it did allow the staff and students of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to call him doctor.  After having worked there for 37 years, Thomas was also finally appointed to the faculty of the School of Medicine as Instructor of Surgery. Due to his lack of an official medical degree, he was never allowed to operate on a living patient.

In July 2005, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine began the practice of splitting incoming first-year students into four colleges, each named for famous Hopkins faculty members who had major impacts on the history of medicine. Thomas was chosen as one of the four, along with Helen Taussig, Florence Sabin, and Daniel Nathans.

Personal life and death

In the summer of 1933, Thomas met Clara Beatrice Flanders. Thomas was so fond of Flanders that he married her that same year on December 22, and the newly wed couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee. The couple had two daughters. Olga Fay, the oldest, was born in 1934, and Theodosia Patricia was born 4 years later in 1938.

In 1941, Thomas and his family moved to Baltimore so that he could continue working with Blalock.

In 1971, Thomas was recognized for all his hard work "behind the scenes" with a ceremony, and the presentation of his portrait to the medical institution. Thomas spoke humbly to the full capacity auditorium. He stated that he lived in humble satisfaction that he was able to help solve some of the world's numerous health problems. He was overjoyed that he was finally getting recognition for his significant role in the research leading to developmental skills that many surgeons now practice.

On July 1, 1976, Thomas was appointed to the faculty as an Instructor of Surgery; Thomas served as the Instructor of Surgery for 3 years and retired in 1979. Following his retirement, Thomas began work on an autobiography. He died of pancreatic cancer on November 26, 1985, and the book was published just days later.

Legacy

Having learned about Thomas on the day of his death, Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe brought his story to public attention in a 1989 article entitled "Like Something the Lord Made," which won the 1990 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and inspired the PBS documentary Partners of the Heart, which was broadcast in 2003 on PBS's American Experience and won the Organization of American Historians's Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary in 2004. McCabe's article, brought to Hollywood by Washington, D.C. dentist Irving Sorkin, formed the basis for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning 2004 HBO film Something the Lord Made.

Thomas's legacy as an educator and scientist continued with the institution of the Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Awards, given by the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesiology beginning in 1996. In 1993, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation instituted the Vivien Thomas Scholarship for Medical Science and Research sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline. In fall 2004, the Baltimore City Public School System opened the Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy. In the halls of the school hangs a replica of Thomas' portrait commissioned by his surgeon-trainees in 1969. The Journal of Surgical Case Reports announced in January 2010 that its annual prizes for the best case report written by a doctor and best case report written by a medical student would be named after Thomas.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center created the Vivien A. Thomas Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, recognizing excellence in conducting clinical research.

See also
 Daniel Hale Williams

References

Bibliography

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  (originally published as Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock)
 (2003) Timmermans Stefan, "A Black Technician and Blue Babies"  in Social Studies of Science 33:2 (April 2003), 197–229.
 (2006) Tsung O. Cheng, "Hamilton Naki and Christiaan Barnard Versus Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock: Similarities and Dissimilarities" in American Journal of Cardiology 97:3 (February 1, 2006), 435–436.
 (2003). Partners of the Heart. American Experience
 (2004) "Something the Lord Made", HBO movie, Portrayed by Mos Def

External links
 Blue Baby Operation Exhibit
 Vivien Thomas Collection

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1985 deaths
People from New Iberia, Louisiana
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
African-American inventors
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Overcoming Cambodia's reliance on few trade partners: An analysis by The Asian Vision Institute
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 19, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - The economy of Cambodia is to suffer the effects of two hard blows in the coming months and years. The first is the European Commission's announced intention to scale back its "Everything But Arms" (EBA) preferential trade arrangement with Cambodia and the second is the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
These events are laying bare the structural weaknesses of Cambodia's economy, which is over-reliant on the European Union for market access and on China for production capacity, investment and tourist inflow. Cambodia's most vulnerable citizens, particularly women who work in the garment industry, low-skilled workers and those who have just been lifted from poverty, will feel the brunt of the fallout.
The Asian Development Bank and the World Bank have each warned policymakers of the precarious state of the "near poor" in Cambodia. According to official estimates, the current poverty rate is below 10 percent (compared to 47.8 percent in 2007). Although the nation has achieved great success in its fight against extreme poverty, more than 70% of Cambodians still live on less than US$3.20 a day.
The Royal Government introduced short-term measures in late February of 2020 to help employers sustain their operations, to help workers who have lost their jobs or whose work has been suspended and to support small and medium enterprises which are the backbone of the economy. The Royal Government is to be commended for this. The protection of livelihoods is tantamount to the protection of human rights.
The measures include tax holidays, direct support, training programs, customs facilitation and the reduction of government expenditures. For example, owners of factories that suspend production due to a shortage of raw materials will be expected to pay 40% of wages while the government will pay an additional 20%.
An enhanced set of reforms and mid to long term measures are to be announced by the government at the 19(th) Government-Private Sector Forum on April the 1(st), 2020. In the interim, The Asian Vision Institute (AVI) wishes to appeal to the government to take the following points into consideration.
Measures to support the diversification of markets, of sources of foreign direct investment, of industrial bases and of domestic start-ups and SMEs should be made more visible. To that end, a clear set of key performance indicators (KPI) should be formulated to evaluate and to enhance the performance of line ministries and agencies.
Secondly, more robust internal government reforms are needed to address fundamental challenges that existed well before the arrival of the pandemic and the EBA adjustments. These reforms should focus on areas of weakness as outlined by the World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business" score assessment for Cambodia: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, connecting to the power grid, registering property, obtaining credit, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and others. More consideration should be given to Cambodia's scoring in the World Economic Forum's "Global Competitiveness Report".
Thirdly, additional incentive schemes that target specific industrial sectors should be formulated to support diversification.
Finally, regular progress reviews must be conducted to ensure the effective implementation of measures and reforms. Each ministry and line agency should favour a bottom-up approach and take ownership of their technical reforms and measures to enhance and support the economic resilience and competitiveness of Cambodia.
Cambodia has enjoyed a period of peace which is unprecedented in her modern history. To make the most of the dividends at hand, it is imperative that measures and reforms be bold, be decisive and be undertaken swiftly, for the good of all.
The Asian Vision Institute (AVI) https://www.asianvision.org/ [https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2752293-1&h=2557919455&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asianvision.org%2F&a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asianvision.org%2F] is an independent think tank based in Cambodia.
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Martial law in Mindanao 'dress rehearsal' for authoritarian rule -- Monsod
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Lawyer Christian Monsod (Photo from Ateneo de Manila University website: www.ateneo.edu)
One of the framers of the 1987 Constitution warned that President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law in Mindanao might pave the way for a major overhaul of the 1987 Constitution that would allow for a one-man rule.
Lawyer Christian Monsod, a member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, said there was a "a bigger agenda" in the declaration of martial law, which he said was uncalled for.
"It's a dress rehearsal for authoritarian government," Monsod told VERA Files. "I don't know how he'll do it, whether he will change the Constitution or not, but he will use the same reasons (as Marcos)."
The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos justified his declaration of martial in 1972 by citing the communist insurrection and Muslim rebellion. But he clung to power after those problems were supposedly addressed, staying in office two decades.
Monsod echoed the sentiments of some critics of martial rule, who have said that it was not the proper response to the situation that erupted when elements of the Dawlah Islamiya Philippines, more commonly known as "Maute group," attacked on some parts of Marawi City on May 23.
The president could have first exhausted the option of tapping the armed forces to address lawless violence, just as presidents after the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had done, Monsod said.
In a seven-page report submitted to Congress, Duterte called the attacks an "ongoing rebellion, if not the seeds of invasion" to justify his declaration of martial law and the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus "until such time the rebellion is completely quelled."
But the attacks of Maute, a self-proclaimed sympathizer of extremist group Islamic State of Isis and Syria (ISIS), constitute neither a rebellion or invasion as the 1987 Constitution requires, Monsod said.
Former colonel and senator Gringo Honasan has said the Marawi clashes are a problem of lack of coordination and intelligence in the military.
"(T)hat is an issue of governance. It has nothing to do with rebellion," Monsod said, lamenting the "lack of logic" behind the proclamation of martial law.
"You see, martial law involves extraordinary powers to the president to take over functions that civil government and other departments of government would be exercising otherwise," Monsod said.
"(W)hen (Duterte was) asked how long (martial law) would take, he says, 60 days, six months, six years, but he says you know, as long as we have not solved our problems--and that's open-ended," Monsod said.
There must be "a bigger agenda," he said, which is federalism and eventually overhauling the Constitution to introduce authoritarianism which takes away the term limits.
"Marcos seems to be an idol of President Duterte. He thinks martial law was good, a solution not just to rebellion but to all problems," Monsod added.
Declaring martial law has been a recurring theme in Duterte's speeches. He once even lashed out at Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for allegedly meddling with his administration's war on drugs, and threatened her that he would declare martial law. (See VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants to declare martial law?)
Such statements of Duterte only show that he has always been very critical of the 1987 Constitution, saying he wants to be able to declare martial law anytime, Monsod said.
The problem of extremism and the attractiveness of the idea of a caliphate, Monsod said, will take more time than Duterte's 60-day martial law deadline.
"And when he says I will step down here, and I will step down there, I think it is not fair for him to tell the country or make the country believe that he can solve the problem in 60 days, or even six months or six years."
Once amended to make it suitable to a president, the Constitution would make it easy to introduce authoritarianism, Monsod said.
"What happens if he dies? We've already changed the Constitution."
Monsod says it is important for people to petition the Supreme Court to review the sufficiency of the factual basis of declaring martial law, which any citizen is entitled to do under the 1987 Constitution.
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Q: Solve differential equation $1 + y'^2 = yy''$ I'm trying to solve this differential equation, here $y$ is a function with variable $x$:

$1 + y'^2 = yy''$

Here is my solution:

$$\left(\frac{y'}{y}\right)' = \left(\frac{y''y - y'^2}{y^2}\right) = \frac{1}{y^2}$$
  Let $z = \frac{y'}{y}$. So from above equation, we have:
  $$z' = \frac {1}{y^2} \Rightarrow z = \frac{-1}{y} + C_1 \Rightarrow \frac{y'}{y} = \frac{-1}{y} + C_1 \Rightarrow y' = C_1y - 1$$
  $$\Rightarrow \int\frac{dy}{C_1y - 1} = \int\frac{dx}{x} \Rightarrow \ln(C_1y - 1) = C_1x + C_2$$

This solution is different with the solution in my book, which is $y = C_1\cosh {x+C_1 \over C_2}$. So mysolution is wrong, but I can't find where the mistake is. Can anyone help me to point it out, and can we use my path to solve this equation? Thanks for taking your time

A: When you write $z'=1/y^2$, you are differentiating with respect to $x$. But then you integrate with respect to $y$.
The independent variable $x$ does not appear explicitly. Let $y'=p$ and consider $p$ as a function of $y$. Then
$$
y''=\frac{dp}{dx}=\frac{dp}{dy}\,\frac{dy}{dx}=p\,\frac{dp}{dy}.
$$
The equation becomes
$$
1+p^2=y\,p\,\frac{dp}{dy}\implies\frac{p\,dp}{1+p^2}=\frac{dy}{y}.
$$
Integrating we get
$$
\frac12\log(1+p^2)=\log y+C\implies p=y'=\pm\sqrt{C^2\,y^2-1}.
$$
The solution is
$$
\int\frac{dy}{\sqrt{C^2\,y^2-1}}\,dy=\pm x+K.
$$


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Layne Staley's death may have been as dark as the lyrics he sang for grunge rock supergroup Alice in Chains.
Staley, 34, lay dead in his North Seattle apartment for two weeks, his body surrounded by heroin-injection paraphernalia, before a relative discovered him, authorities said yesterday.
Foul play was not suspected, and there was to be no criminal investigation, Seattle police spokesman Duane Fish said.
"There was nothing suspicious about the death. It appears to be overdose or possibly a natural death," Fish said.
Staley's body was reported found Friday, but the presence of drug paraphernalia and the estimated time of death were not initially released.
An autopsy was conducted Saturday, but the cause of death will not be confirmed for as long as four weeks while a state lab conducts toxin tests, the King County Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.
Behind Staley's wailing vocals and Jerry Cantrell's driving guitar riffs, Alice and Chains became one of the biggest acts to emerge from the Seattle grunge phenomenon of the early 1990s, putting it in the same league with Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. The group's debut, "Facelift," got significant national airplay, and its 1994 "Jar of Flies" debuted at No. 1 on the charts.
More than 200 friends and fans attended a candlelight vigil Saturday night at the Seattle Center's massive fountain.
Yesterday, the memorial continued on a much smaller scale.
A handful of people stood with a lone candle, their tears mingling with mist from the fountain as they recalled why they loved Staley.
"He was someone who epitomized how life can be tough. I can totally relate. I've had problems with depression myself," said Trent Bolton, 25, of Seattle, who came with his wife.
Bolton said he and his buddies used to listen to Alice in Chains whenever they got together.
Rob Hamilton, 29, came from Bremerton yesterday to pay his respects.
"It's really sad when someone slips through the cracks," said the self-described recovering addict.
For Alice in Chains fan Cain Rurup, Saturday's memorial for Staley was a long-overdue tribute to one of his rock idols.
"It's the least I could do for what he gave to me," said Rurup, who organized the vigil.
"Every Alice in Chains album came out at a time of my life when I really needed it," Rurup said. "They fit like pieces of a puzzle. I think they saved my life, because I had some of the same addictions."
Staley, whose raspy, wailing vocals gave Alice in Chains its distinctive sound, wrote songs about heroin use and other personal struggles. The band stopped touring in the mid-'90s when Staley's drug use worsened.
"Layne's passing is a terrible, terrible loss to the ones who loved him and to the music community," said Johnny Bacolas of Seattle rock band Second Coming.
Staley was an early ally of Second Coming. He recorded a song with the group and sang at several performances.
"When we were teenagers, we used to nickname him 'the legend,'" Bacolas said.
In July 1994, Staley -- along with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Peter Klett of Candlebox -- were elected to Playgirl magazine's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Hunkdom.
But Staley's appearance had already begun to deteriorate.
At KISW-FM's "Rockstock" concert at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Bremerton in May 1994 -- just a month after Kurt Cobain killed himself with a shotgun -- Staley made a surprise appearance. He looked sickly and wore a wool ski mask to hide his face.
At the Saturday memorial, Alice in Chains singer and guitarist Cantrell hugged friends and supporters but said very little.
"Jerry really loved Layne," said Cantrell's manager, Bill Siddons. "They had a bond I haven't seen before."
At the edge of the fountain, fans placed notes and signs next to flowers and candles.
One of the larger signs read, "There's only one thing left to say -- 'Say Hello to Heaven.'" It was a reference to a song from the 1990 "Temple of the Dog" album recorded by members of Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone as a tribute to the latter band's late lead singer, Andrew Wood, who died in 1990 from a heroin overdose.
On a tall jar holding a candle, someone else wrote, "We love U, Layne." Another note read simply, "Heroin Kills."


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Home News Pictured: Horrific injury suffered by girl, 16, who was 'slashed from chin to ear' by man when she tried to stop him 'stabbing her 17-year-old boyfriend' in a shopping centre
Pictured: Horrific injury suffered by girl, 16, who was 'slashed from chin to ear' by man when she tried to stop him 'stabbing her 17-year-old boyfriend' in a shopping centre
The alleged incident occurred at Kawana Shoppingworld on the Sunshine Coast
The 16-year-old girl intervened in fight between her boyfriend and 18-year-old
She was slashed across the face with by the 18-year-old who then ran away
She was rushed to hospital where she underwent surgery for the 11cm wound
Her boyfriend has since taken to social media giving his version of the events
A young girl has suffered an 11cm laceration to her face after she was slashed with a knife while trying to stop an alleged fight between her boyfriend and another teenager.
The alleged incident occurred at Kawana Shoppingworld on Queensland's Sunshine Coast about 4pm on Monday when an argument between an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old got physical.
The 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the face when she attempted to intervene.
She was rushed to hospital for surgery for the horrific one-centimetre-deep wound which was 11cm long and could need plastic surgery.
The wound was described by police as a 'significant laceration from her chin to ear'.
The alleged incident occurred at Kawana Shoppingworld (pictured) on Queensland's Sunshine Coast about 4pm on Monday when an argument between an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old got physical
The girl suffered a one-centimetre-deep, 11cm long wound her face when she was slashed
'It was a gruesome injury,' Detective Sergeant Chris Eaton told media.
'The injury, we believe, is 10-11 centimetres in length and one centimetre or so in depth.
'She will be required to undergo surgery and most likely plastic surgery to have that wound attended to.'
The 18-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed her ran away while the 17-year-old teenager was not injured.
Police arrived shortly after and established a crime scene.
They believe the altercation started online before it escalated.
'What we believe was that there was an argument that occurred over social media and that argument has spilled over into a physical altercation,' police said.
Police established a crime scene and are on the lookout for the alleged attacker (paramedics are pictured outside the shopping centre)
The 17-year-old has since taken to Snapchat to give his version of events following his girlfriend's horrific stabbing.
'He (the man) walked up to me, pulled that type of knife out. I seen (sic) it and stood my ground, he got close and started trying to stab me,' the boy wrote, according to The Courier Mail.
'I was pumping him then my gf tried to break it up and he did that to her. Then this guy broke it up while I had him by his jumper not letting him go uppercutting him.
'Then he finally got out of his jumped (sic) and ran off. I couldn't do s*** because the guy who broke it up had a hold of me.'
He claims police told him that he was lucky his nose wasn't cut during the altercation as the other man 'swung it [the knife] at my nose and missed'.
He took to social media a second time expressing his love for his girlfriend and said he will 'always be by her side'.
Police are urging the alleged attacker to come forward, saying there is 'nothing to be gained' from hiding.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Seahawks 53-man roster projection
By Curtis Crabtree Sep 4, 2020
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A training camp unlike any other is now in the books for the Seattle Seahawks and they will need to make their roster cuts by 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
The team has had no preseason games, three "mock game" scrimmages and just 17 total practices to get ready for the start of the 2020 regular season. However, real games are set to be played and the Seahawks will be traveling to face the Atlanta Falcons in just over a week's time. So with all of the preseason preparation possible now in the rear-view mirror, here's our best guess at what the trimmed down roster will look like following cuts on Saturday afternoon.
This projection will not presume any free agent acquisitions (Jadeveon Clowney, Justin Britt, etc.) or trades with other teams and will assume that the roster is just being trimmed down. Also, veterans are now able to be a part of expanded 16-man practice squads, which will change some of the calculus in the players teams try to keep.
Seahawks projected roster:
QB (2): Russell Wilson, Geno Smith
Russell Wilson is the starter and Geno Smith may be the best backup quarterback he's had during his nine years in Seattle. It would be between Smith and Tarvaris Jackson for that title. Smith has had a really good camp for the team.
Neither Anthony Gordon or Danny Etling have made a strong enough case for the 53-man roster but don't be shocked if Etling finds his way onto the team's practice squad.
RB (5): Chris Carson, Carlos Hyde, DeeJay Dallas, Travis Homer, Nick Bellore (FB)
Rashaad Penny will begin the season on the physically unable to perform list. The remaining four give the team a really nice depth at the position to begin the season. Hyde has shown he should be a nice second option to Carson and Dallas has made a strong impression in his rookie camp. Bellore is mainly around for special teams reasons but gives the team the option to use a fullback when they so desire.
TE (3): Greg Olsen, Will Dissly, Jacob Hollister
Colby Parkinson should begin the year on the non-football injury list and an injury late in camp to Stephen Sullivan probably scuttles his chances of making the opening roster as well. This position has been a really strong one in camp for Seattle with Luke Willson and Tyler Mabry also having strong moments as well. However, the top three give Seattle a strong, versatile set of options for the position.
WR (6): Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf, Phillip Dorsett, David Moore, John Ursua, Freddie Swain
While Lockett and Metcalf have been the two locks at the position, the depth at the group has been more of a challenge throughout camp with injuries taking a toll.
For the purposes of this projection, we're going to assume that Josh Gordon will remain on the suspended list for the time being and therefore will not be a part of the roster after being re-signed on Thursday. Additionally, Paul Richardson hasn't had much time to get up to speed after signing earlier in the week and could be destined to be one of the team's veteran additions to the practice squad while he gets back in gear.
David Moore's restricted free agent price tag of just over $2 million makes his contract potentially ripe for a release or a pay cut. However, Dorsett dealing with an ongoing foot issue combined with Gordon and Richardson's situations keep him on the roster for now. Ursua and Swain round out the group for the time being but this is a position that should be expected to be rather fluid.
OL (10): Duane Brown, Mike Iupati, Ethan Pocic, Damien Lewis, Brandon Shell, Cedric Ogbuehi, Jamarco Jones, Phil Haynes, B.J. Finney, Jordan Simmons
The starting line has been in place since the start of camp with a battle for the center position waning in the last stretch of camp. Pocic will almost certainly be the opening day starter at the spot. Finney will serve as the backup as Kyle Fuller heads to the suspended list for the first two games of the season.
Due to the greenness of the group with three new starters on the line and no offseason work, we decided to keep 10 offensive linemen for the start of the season.
DE (5): Benson Mayowa, Alton Robinson, Rasheem Green, L.J. Collier, Damontre Moore
Benson Mayowa and Alton Robinson have had really nice camps for Seattle for differing reasons. Mayowa is the veteran that is ready for his chance to be a big part of a defensive line's rotation. Robinson is the rookie that has impressed with his strength and power.
Darrell Taylor is almost certainly going to start the season on the non-football injury list, which led Seattle to bring back a familiar face in Damontre Moore on Thursday. Gregg and Collier will also factor into the rotation and can kick inside to tackle as well with Bruce Irvin and Shaquem Griffin also factoring into the pass rush groupings.
DT (3): Jarran Reed, Poona Ford, Bryan Mone
With both Green and Collier able to play tackle, we're only keeping three defined defensive tackles on the initial roster. P.J. Johnson and Demarcus Christmas would be the next up should the team elect to carry more to start the year.
Reed has had a strong camp and Mone has flashed at times as well.
LB (7): Bobby Wagner, K.J. Wright, Bruce Irvin, Jordyn Brooks, Cody Barton, Shaquem Griffin, Ben Burr-Kirven
If seven linebackers seems like a lot, remember that Irvin and Griffin will split time as pass rush options. Brooks will certainly get a chance to see the field in some capacity this season as he and Barton provide strong reserve options behind Wagner and Wright. Griffin and Burr-Kirven are core special teams pieces.
CB (5): Shaquill Griffin, Quinton Dunbar, Tre Flowers, Marquise Blair, Ugo Amadi
Griffin, Dunbar and Flowers give Seattle a really strong top three options at cornerback. Flowers looks to be in terrific shape this year and has had a nice camp as Dunbar was getting settled following his legal issues in Florida. Blair has seized the nickel back spot following his move from safety and looked strong in the latter stages of camp. Amadi will serve as his backup at the spot.
Neiko Thorpe has been a valued special teams piece for a long time and could easily find his way onto the roster in the same role, but we're going with this five for now. Linden Stephens has also had a good camp and would be a practice squad consideration.
S (4): Quandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Lano Hill, Ryan Neal
Diggs and Adams have had the starting spots locked down. Blair and Amadi can both fill in at safety as well for addition depth with Hill being healthy finally and a trusted backup option by the team. Neal is the one "outside the box" player making the 53-man roster. He's looked good in camp and has experience as a cornerback as well which gives Seattle even more versatility in the secondary, which is a strong group collectively.
ST (3): Jason Myers, Michael Dickson, Tyler Ott
No competition for any of these spots.
PUP (1): Rashaad Penny
NFI (3): Darrell Taylor, Colby Parkinson, D.J. Reed
Penny, Taylor and Parkinson should all be on track to return around midseason from their various ailments. Reed, a waiver claimer from the San Francisco 49ers, has a torn pectoral that could keep him out all season.
SUS (2): Josh Gordon, Kyle Fuller
Gordon remains indefinitely suspended by the NFL and will need to be reinstated to join the team's active roster. Until that happens, we're keeping him on the suspended list. Fuller will miss the first two games before becoming eligible to join the roster.
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Dali Epicon 6 speakers announced
Room-filling sound combined with classic design
By T3 Online 2012-08-06T15:15:00.218Z
Over a metre tall the Dali wants you consider the Epicon 6 loudspeakers as not just a pair of speakers but also an investment into handfinished design
Dali has unveiled the new Epicon 6 loudspeakers, two of its largest and most impressive speakers yet boasting two huge wooden finished units that have been designed to be a permanent addition to any room.
Standing at over a metre tall these speakers pack a punch, but they are also given a hand by various technologies developed in house. After three years of research attempting to address the four causes of distortion in the motor system they came up with the solution, their Linear Drive Magnet system.
By removing almost all distortion the system ensures that the listener hears 'exactly what is on the recording – nothing more, nothing less' whether it's good or bad.
That's not all Dali spends its time on, the attention to detail is impressive with the company setting up its own manufacturing unit just to produce the Linear Drive Magnet system.
Available in three different real wood finishes (Walnut, Ruby Macassar and Black), the multi-layered enclosure ensures the acoustics are as spot on as they can be, meaning 'a large sound stage and a premium audio experience' is produced throughout.
The rewards one can reap as a result of this are twofold: first, it means no lugging your Epicon 6's about the place (29.8 kilograms is a lot of kilograms) and second, it means just the one pair will be more than adequate.
Available now the Epicon 6 as a pair are an eye-watering £7,800 but of course for that you get two speakers that have been designed to be the best you'll ever own, for good.
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Just added to GlowShift's inventory are new diesel gauge sets that are ready to be installed to your diesel truck! Our new gauge sets feature three diesel gauges that monitor three vital components of your truck which include a 60 PSI Boost Gauge, 2400° F Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge and your choice of either a Transmission Temperature or 30 PSI Fuel Pressure Gauge. These new diesel gauge sets are available in our Tinted 7 Color, Black 7 Color and White 7 Color Gauge Series that feature GlowShift's 7 Color through dial lighting and allows you to select from 7 different colors to match your factory dash lights or by adding a custom style to the interior of your truck. Each diesel gauge set can be mounted directly to your truck's A-pillar by installing one of GlowShift's Vehicle Specific Pillar Pods or you can even mount the gauges directly onto your dashboard using a dash pod! Whichever way you plan to install the three diesel gauges, GlowShift has the solution for you!
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GlowShift's Transmission Temperature Gauge reads from 100-300 degrees Fahrenheit with the included 1/8 NPT temperature sensor. You can install this temperature sensor at the transmission test port location, but if you're installing this Transmission Temperature Gauge to a 1994-2007.5 Dodge Ram, GlowShift's Transmission Test Port Sender Extender is required to complete the installation. Another location to install the temperature sensor is at the stock sensor location of your truck.
GlowShift's 30 PSI Fuel Pressure Gauge reads from 0-30 PSI with the included fuel pressure sensor and 6ft. sensor harness that can be installed directly to your fuel filter housing, fuel rail or lift pump for extremely accurate statistics. GlowShift's Banjo Bolt Adapter was designed specifically for the 1998.5 – 2010 Dodge Ram with a 24v Cummins motor and will replace the stock banjo bolt, allowing you to easily install the Snubber Valve and fuel pressure sensor to the fuel filter housing. Using a Snubber Valve eliminates fuel pressure spikes present throughout the fuel system during the initial start up of the diesel engine through the use of a regulator. High pressure fuel system spikes are extremely harmful and may cause unexpected failure to fuel pressure sensors for fuel pressure indication devices and gauges.


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You'd be hard-pressed to not find some live music somewhere in Soho on any given night.
The ultra-trendy London suburb goes hand-in-hand with venues sporting all types of genres.
You'll find just about every genre catered for at The Borderline. It may not look like much, its entrance is hidden away down what appears to be a lorry-loading bay, but this bar is to Soho what the market is to Covent Garden.
There's just the right amount of everything here depending on the night, from hip-hop to country and back to techno and beyond.
Pizza Express may not be a name synonymous with any form of live music, but we do things differently in Soho.
Located in the basement of the Soho branch of the popular pizza restaurant, this venue has played host to some of the biggest names in modern jazz music.
Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum and Amy Winehouse have all graced this basement bar over the years, so grab yourself a ticket and some Magharita and head on over.
As Shakespeare once nearly said: "If music be the Spice of Life, play on".
This unassuming pub has some of the best open mics and live acts in town, covering a wide array of genres.
SOL prides itself on unearthing the next local gem and you'll find the stars of tomorrow from across London taking their first steps at this friendly boozer.
Ronnie Scott's is one of the most established jazz clubs in the UK, if not the world. Such an institution is Ronnie's, that the bar has it's very own record label.
With a long history stretching back to the 1950's, this silky speakeasy has played host to some of the most iconic names in show business.
Jeff Beck, Nina Simone, Chet Baker and Jamie Cullum are just a few of the folk to have had the pleasure of playing for the Ronnie Scott's crowd over the years.
A self-titled "Bourbon, beer and rock bar", and quite frankly, what else do you want from life?
Pretty cheap as things go, with a heavy rock theme. These guys also famously serve Jägermeister on tap.
If you want decent music without paying a week's wage, hit The Crobar.
So, not technically in Soho, but it's on the very edge of the border with Fitzrovia. The 100 Club, at 100 Oxford Street has a history stretching back to 1942.
With such longstanding experience in the business, you'd be right for saying these guys know their stuff.
Jazz, soul and classic R&B are the order of the day here, with the 100 Club often attracting the genre's stellar names.
Get the 'local low-down' on Soho with insight into great things to see and do, as well as recommended places to eat, drink and dance in the hippest London boroughs.
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This is a shorter vignette, almost a poem. It dates from October, 1999. The rainy city poised on the brink of a new millennium, floodlit cranes in sharp relief against the blooms of gray mist. The world was full of possibilities for a man just past thirty, full of longing.
This little piece brims with some of that optimism, and some of the sadness.
It's as real as TV.
He can't pee if a stranger watches.
to read while I pee like a girl, safe.
left over from the war.
What do they know, to hang around watching, for so long?
the same rhythm all that time?
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HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The regulation of stem cell aging by Wnt signaling
Shin Fujimaki1,2, Tamami Wakabayashi1, Tohru Takemasa2, Makoto Asashima1 and Tomoko Kuwabara1
1Stem Cell Engineering Research Group, Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki and 2Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, Japan
Offprint requests to: Tomoko Kuwabara, Stem Cell Engineering Research Group, Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, Department of Life Science and Biothecnology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, 305-8565, Japan. e-mail: t.warashina@aist.go.jp
Summary. Aging is an inevitable physiological process that leads to the dysfunction of various tissues, and these changes may contribute to certain diseases, and ultimately death. Recent research has discovered biological pathways that promote aging. This review focuses on Wnt signaling, Wnt is a highly conserved secreted signaling molecule that plays an essential role in the development and function of various tissues, and is a notable factor that regulates aging. Although Wnt signaling influences aging in various tissues, its effects are particularly prominent in neuronal tissue and skeletal muscle. In neuronal tissue, neurogenesis is attenuated by the downregulation of Wnt signaling with aging. Skeletal muscle can also become weaker with aging, in a process known as sarcopenia. A notable cause of sarcopenia is the myogenic-to-fibrogenic trans-differentiation of satellite cells by excessive upregulation of Wnt signaling with aging, resulting in the impaired regenerative capacity of aged skeletal muscle. However, exercise is very useful for preventing the age-related alterations in neuronal tissue and skeletal muscle. Upregulation of Wnt signaling is implicated in the positive effects of exercise, resulting in the activation of neurogenesis in adult neuronal tissue and myogenesis in mature skeletal muscle. Although more investigations are required to thoroughly understand age-related changes and their biological mechanisms in a variety of tissues, this review proposes exercise as a useful therapy for the elderly, to prevent the negative effects of aging and maintain their quality of life. Histol Histopathol 30, 1411-1430 (2015)
Key words: Wnt, Aging, Neural stem cells, Satellite cells, Exercise
DOI: 10.14670/HH-11-657


It isn't every day that a multi-Emmy-nominated, top grossing box office actor visits the City of Destiny. The 10th Annual Tacoma Film Festival, presented by The Grand Cinema in early October offers the community the chance to meet talented actor, screenwriter, director, and producer John Ratzenberger.
Ratzenberger is best known for his role as "Cliff Clavon," the wry mail carrier in the classic sitcom Cheers. He is also the only actor who has appeared in all of Pixar's computer animated movies to date (from Toy Story to Inside Out), his most memorable vocal animations likely being "Hamm The Piggy Bank" from Toy Story, and "Mack the Truck" in Cars. Animations for characters from A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, and Brave have also endeared him to children and adults alike.
Screening over 100 independent films from the Northwest and countries around the world, the Tacoma Film Festival (TFF) connects the community with acclaimed filmmakers and film selections that cannot be seen elsewhere in Washington this fall.
This year for the first time ever, TFF will also feature 25 New Faces of Independent Film, the world's only convergence of Filmmaker Magazine's list of up-and-coming filmmakers from around the globe. 25 New Faces events will offer festival goers the opportunity to watch and discuss films with talented filmmakers expected to rise to prominence in the industry. Past 25 New Faces honorees have included Ryan Gosling, Hillary Swank, Ellen Page, Lucy Walker, Julia Garner, and many others.
Additional information related to 25 New Faces and other TFF events will be announced on September 10 when event tickets go on sale. The full festival schedule will be announced on September 17 when printed programs will be available in stores and museums across the city.
Applications are still being accepted for press credentials for the 10th Annual Tacoma Film Festival. Applications and headshots must be received no later than Friday, September, 25. For more information about TFF 2015, visit www.tacomafilmfestival.com, and follow the hashtag #TFF2015.
General tickets for Tacoma Film Festival will be available starting in September 17 at The Grand's Box Office (606 S Fawcett Ave, Tacoma 98402), or online at www.tacomafilmfestival.com.
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When locals won't work . . .
The Meatworkers' Union isn't happy that Alliance Group is bringing in 100 overseas workers for its Southland plants.
New Zealand Meatworkers Union said there were plenty of local workers vying for jobs that could now be going to overseas workers.
However, the company is standing firm. It said it was recruiting abroad to cover a worker shortage. . .
The union's Otago-Southland secretary Gary Davis said the decision would hit some Southland families hard.
The seasonal work often meant workers would finish at one plant and go to the other for additional work, Mr Davis said.
"If these people are brought in from overseas they'll get a job there so they'll fill in those positions."
About 30 people could miss out on the additional work, he said. . .
Good local workers were applying to work at the plants, but they were being rejected, he said.
There was not enough education, training or support to assist more Southland workers to enter the industry, he said. . .
The company has a different story.
Alliance Group refused to be interviewed today but in a statement, manufacturing general manager Willie Wiese said employing and upskilling New Zealanders was always their preference.
Sourcing seasonal workers remained one of its biggest challenges, despite running extensive recruitment campaigns.
Unemployment is now down to a level where most of those out of work don't want to, or can't, work.
Challenges in the meat industry include getting enough workers who are drug and alcohol free and who want to work the whole season.
Meat company workers earn big money for a few months and some of them decide they have earned enough part way through the season and no longer want to work full time, if at all.
The company might prefer to employ and train locals but it they won't work it has to look for overseas workers who will.
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Fort Pierce police are looking for a 34-year-old man accused of shooting a woman Tuesday morning in a domestic violence incident.
FORT PIERCE – Police are looking for a 34-year-old man accused of shooting a woman Tuesday morning in a domestic violence incident, police said Wednesday.
According to police, Frantz Brifil shot a 33-year-old woman, critically injuring her.
Police spokeswoman Audria Moore-Wells said investigators have warrants for Brifil charging attempted homicide with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The incident happened about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of Avenue L.
Officers went to the address for a disturbance and found a woman identified as the victim. She was critically wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment.
"Frantz Brifil is considered armed and dangerous," the agency stated.
Anyone who sees Brifil is asked to call 911 and give his location, clothing description, vehicle description or other details that could help in his capture.
Those with information also can call Detective Onese Rene in the office at 772-467-6836 or on her cell phone at 772-577-0073. After hours calls can be placed to 772-467-6800.
Tips also can be called to Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 800-273-TIPS.


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Q: How to apply changes of newly added user groups without needing to reboot? Assume I'm logged in with user takpar:
takpar@skyspace:/$

As root, I've added takpar as a member of group webdev using:
# usermod -a -G webdev takpar

But it seems it has not been applied, because for example I can't get into a webdev's directory that has read permission for group:
400169 drwxr-x--- 3 webdev webdev 4.0K 2011-08-15 22:34 public_html

takpar@skyspace:/home/webdev/$ cd public_html/
bash: cd: public_html/: Permission denied

But after a reboot I have access as I expect. As this kind of group changing is in my routine, is there any way to apply changes without needing a reboot?
Answer
It seems there is no way to make the current session know the new group, for example the file manager won't work with new changes. But a re-login will do the job.
The su command is also appropriate for temp commands in urrent session.

A: Local solution: use su yourself to login again. In the new session you'll be considered as a member of the group.

Man pages for newgrp and sg might also be of interest to change your current group id (and login into a new group):

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*To use webdev's group id (and privileges) in your current shell use:
 newgrp webdev

*To start a command with some group id (and keep current privileges in your shell) use:
 sg webdev -c "command"

(sg is like su but for groups, and it should work without the group password if you are listed as a member of the group in the system's data)

A: Rebooting system is an overkill, even logout & login is not necessary if you use gpasswd.
You can add takpar to webdev group using:
$ gpasswd -a takpar webdev

You can check group membership using getent group {name} command:
$ getent group webdev
webdev:x:1008:webdev,takpar

which should be the same as cat /etc/group | grep webdev. For completeness here's id output from from takpar shell session:
$ id takpar
uid=1007(takpar) gid=1007(takpar) groups=1007(takpar),1008(webdev)

A: id webdev

seems to be wrong here - you want to know about your own id, takpar, not webdev.
If you compare the outputs of id and id takpar, you will notice that the former doesn't show the change yet, while the latter shows it. Why? This is because id shows the groups of the current process. If you log out and back in, or even only open a new terminal window, you should already see the change without reboot.


A quick internet search for "bible gratitude" and you'll find lots of content on how we are to be grateful. True. But I already know that I'm supposed to be grateful. What I want to find are examples of gratitude. Perhaps when I see an example of this I can more easily apply it to my life. Then I read the account in gospel of Luke about the ten lepers.
Jesus is traveling to Jerusalem and encounters a group of lepers in a village. Leprosy was and is still a terrible disease. Although cases are less widespread today than 2,000 years ago, nevertheless remains devastating to the afflicted and his or her family and friends. The lepers call out to him, which would be the common protocol of the time. It was understood that the disease could be easily passed to another person by a simple touch or any physical contact (not quite as true as they believed), so lepers were often banned to live together but separate from all others. And when others were approaching, the leper was required to announce his condition so that he or she could be avoided. A humiliating life sentence.
The ten then shouted out to Jesus to have mercy on them. They seemed to believe, probably based on Jesus' reputation that he had the power to heal. Jesus instructed the ten to "Go and show yourselves to the priests", which they did. But only one returned to express his gratitude to Jesus for his being healed. In an odd twist, the gratefully healed leper was a Samaritan, which would have been a despised person by the early audience of the time.
One would think it would be natural to have gratitude and be willing to take the time to express it to the giver when cured of such a devastating condition. Yet nine of the ten did not bother to return. Incredible. After being relieved of this devastating disease, robbing them of nearly all social contact, only one returned to thank the one responsible. Jesus even expressed his surprise and disappointment in this. It seems to me that we learn a couple of things from this example.
First, gratitude may not naturally come to us. Sure, there are times in which we feel (key word, feel) grateful. But feelings aren't always and often what we ought to use to govern our behaviors. And thank goodness we don't always act on our feelings. The rates of infidelity and murder would probably go sky-high if that were the case. We are to be grateful (key word, "be") even and especially times when we may not feel like it, but because we know the situation calls for it.
Secondly, gratitude is desired by the giver. Jesus didn't need but seemed to want to receive gratitude from the other nine newly healed lepers. He asked, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?" And when I receive the gratitude from those receiving socks I hand out at the homeless shelter, I am encouraged and spurred along to continue to give and think of others first. When someone gives to us, we can give back by offering our thanks. It seems to be the least we can do.


2017 has been a stomach-churning year of politics, and everything has been politicized – football, Hollywood, avocado toast – but within that seeming complete breakdown of civility, social norms and civic institutions, there is a small glimmer of hope: That the increasingly apparent corruption that comes of generations of racism, misogyny and other stripes of xenophobia has been brought to the surface of the American culture and revealed to be what it is: Rot. And in seeing it for what it is, there's a hope that it can be cleared away and replaced with something better.
A better world is a thing worth fighting for.
This is what Radius aims to bring to the discussion: Rage, yes, but also humanity, empathy and compassion. We aim to apply the gifts of poetry to a world that needs the perspective it brings, to a world that sees less poetry in its daily news than ever before.
That's the plan, but as always, we need your help to do it.
In order to keep Radius up and running free and free from ads, we have to occasionally ask for your help: We have set ourselves a goal to raise $300 by December 20th. This is a modest amount, but we really don't need much. Just enough to help pay for our hosting and a few digital tools.
You can make donations by visiting our new Square store, or by clicking the "Donate to Radius" button on the top right-hand corner of the website.
And that's it: No song and dance, and only a tiny bit of groveling. Even a $5 or $10 donation will go a long way toward keeping Radius online.
And again, thank you. Your support and belief is what keeps us going, and it's immensely appreciated.