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U.S. air safety agent absences hit record level as shutdown enters Day 31
Long lines are seen at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport amid the partial federal government shutdown, in Atlanta Jan. 18. | REUTERS
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration, where employees are going unpaid amid a partial government shutdown, said on Monday that unscheduled absences among U.S. airport security officers rose to a record 10 percent on Sunday as the shutdown reached its 31st day.
The agency said the rate was up from the previous high of 7 percent on Saturday. It also was more than three times the 3.1 percent absence rate on the same day last year, when the government also was partially closed due to legislative funding issues.
As the partial government shutdown continues, air safety has become a top concern as the number of TSA agents not showing up for work grows.
The agency said many employees, who are not being paid because of the shutdown, are not reporting to work because of financial hardships.
More than 50,000 TSA officers are among some 800,000 federal workers who have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown.
Nearly all 1.78 million passengers screened Sunday faced normal security waits of 30 minutes or less, despite the absences, TSA said.
Some airports experienced longer wait times at security checkpoints, and on Sunday, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport closed one of its checkpoints because of excessive absences.
About one-quarter of the U.S. government has been shuttered since Dec. 22 over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to fund a wall along the border with Mexico, which Democrats have refused to consider.
The promise of a border wall was a mainstay of Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign. As a candidate, he said Mexico would pay for the barrier, but the Mexican government has refused.
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The Batsinda II Sustainable Integrated Neighbourhood Development is a pilot project that demonstrates that a high-density affordable housing project can be implemented as a green and sustainable community. The project integrates green local building technologies, sustainable drainage infrastructure, peri-urban agriculture and active energy production into a cohesive neighbourhood master plan. The project is intended to set the benchmark for green city development in Rwanda.
The master plan prioritises active external spaces – streets, courtyards and parkland, to create a vibrant and cohesive community with mixed use and amenity spread across the neighbourhood. There are a variety of housing types, from 1 bedroom apartments to 3 bedroom marionettes and houses. A regular structural frame is in filled with a variety of locally made materials to create houses that are affordable for ordinary working Rwandan families.


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Takeaways from COP26 w/ Sen. Carlyle
Aaron Kunkler	November 29, 2021
A month ago, we spoke with Sen. Reuven Carlyle, chair of the Senate Environment, Energy and Technology Committee about his climate legislation goals for the 2022 session. A few days later, he was on his way to the UN Glasgow Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, to speak about Washington's efforts to reduce emissions and address climate change. We circled back with Carlyle to get the inside scoop on the summit.
Aaron Kunkler: How did the COP26 summit go?
Sen. Reuven Carlyle: I have to tell you, the panels that I did, I was so honored and it was such a pleasure to tell the Washington State's story when you step back and just look objectively at what we have adopted in this journey that we are on. We're big enough as a state to be impactful, but small enough to actually get it done. So the fact that we are roughly the size of Norway and Sweden and Denmark and Israel and you know, countries around the world, and then when you recognize the strength of our partnership with the Pacific Coast Collaborative, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, it was just incredibly impactful and exciting to meet with leaders from throughout those areas.
I met with senators from California for multiple events, and we talked about linking our legislation… A big theme of the conference was decarbonized maritime and aviation, a ton about energy storage, long haul trucking. It just was sort of graduate school for climate action. Wrapped in it was just all about learning and race and humility and relationships and ideas and politics and policy. But people were so in tune with the magnitude of what Washington has accomplished, it was really meaningful on a personal and professional level. And when you look at we've passed, hydrofluorocarbons, building efficiency, cap-and-invest, a clean fuel standard, electrification of transportation, multi-year rate case making for our utilities, modernization of the grid and so much more. People were really, really pretty excited, invigorated that a state has made this kind of progress.
AK: Sounds like some great Washington representation.
RC: Oh, yeah, we left it all on the field. The governor was great and announced some cool things, and Durkin was there. There were a number of business leaders in Washington State. So it was a really meaningful experience.
AK: That's great to hear. What were some of the big takeaways or action items you took from the summit?
RC: You know, I think one exciting idea there was unbelievable creativity and energy around was methane reduction. There were companies and organizations and think tanks and foundations and nonprofits running around with various technologies and strategies and ideas for helping the agriculture sector to decarbonize methane, and to use landfill, circular economy issues relative to biogas and biofuels. Methane is such a super pollutant that punches above its weight in negative impact.
There was a ton of consensus that hydrofluorocarbons elimination, which we've done as a state but sort of being in tune with that policy is in the works. And building efficiency. There was some fabulous suggestions around and ideas and policies around best practices from around the world.
I think another idea that got a lot of traction was decarbonizing the global supply chain through maritime and aviation. So the biofuels and the renewable hydrogen focus was very impressive. And so there's much more traction on that field. I think a lot of people recognize there are some best practices from Nordic countries, from Asia, there's ships being constructed in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that run on renewable hydrogen.
The other issue, I think that I took away was a lot about water quality, and the impact of water availability, affordability and access, and has a profound effect on climate and the role that it plays. The last thing that I'm thinking about is the big momentum around offshore wind, a lot of momentum. California is talking about it and just got the first facilities on the East Coast. The amount of wind that can be generated is really something because what has happened is that technology has evolved, and they don't have to be embedded in the seabed anymore. The floating infrastructure has evolved very rapidly over the last few years, so you're seeing these substantial deployments around the world. So that's sort of a best practice that I think has a lot of traction. The Quinault Nation announced the other day that they're doing an offshore facility, or they're exploring it.
AK: I'm interested in your take on what the mood was like? Were people optimistic, worried?
RC: The inside negotiators who are working to try to hammer out agreements with 200 countries of course had a heavy lift, and there was a lot of stress. There's no question. I think the common theme was how do we move from the Paris Agreement aspiration, to Glasgow action? How do we make it actionable? And the spotlight in many ways turned to states, cities, to regions, and to collaboration with the private sector. A lot of folks recognize that the meaningful work of climate is happening for real people living real lives on the front lines. And it's not always about a piece of paper, right?
The human side of it, the passion side of it, was really about everyone doing their proportional part. So decarbonizing tough sectors, getting governments to agree shutting down coal, recognizing that we have to modernize our approach to natural gas, and all of these issues were on the table. I think it was almost a little bit like a science convention. There was no topic off course. Or, you know, there was no taboo.
There's absolutely disappointments at the macro level. China and India, the lack of firm commitments to proportional national contributions in terms of emission reductions, the issues around lack of investment in Indigenous and disproportionately impacted communities. There's a number of real disappointments. At the same time, the deep alignment at the sub-national level was really meaningful, as we've seen by virtually every major, well-regarded global brand company in Washington state has embraced the work of climate action as well as our state, and the regional collaboration and partnership was well-regarded of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. It's a strong partnership that is only growing by the day.

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Mark Mathew Braunstein
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IF he lives that long, he will die too soon. Until that inevitable end, as he believes neither in afterlife nor aftershave, Braunstein aspires to spend the rest of his life as a very hairy and very healthy corpse. That should suffice as his life's story, a short story. But now there's no stopping him.
Mark Mathew Braunstein's writer rap sheet includes four books, one praised by the Washington Post as "remarkably intelligent." The diverse topics of his books and more than ninety ephemeral articles in glossy magazines include art, literature, holistic health, vegan vegetarianism, wildlife conservation, mobility disability, indoor gardening, cannabis culture, and drug law reform. His reader rap sheet includes the nearly entire oeuvres of way too many dead white males such as Melville and Thoreau, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Rilke and Kafka, Blake and Beckett, Plato and Epictetus, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and his guru and mentor and doctor Seuss, to name some whose rhymes and rants he somehow survived while neither going crazy nor growing wise.
Painting himself into a corner as an abstract artist, he did time as an inmate in the penal colony of Manhattan until he made his prison break and bartered his brush for a pen. For the next quarter of a century, he was on the lam at a hideout in a wildlife refuge in Connecticut where deer did not flee him, where chickadees perched upon him, and where nocturnal wildlife parked themselves on his driveway. That nocturnal species of youthful female hominids engaged in mating rituals with random older males. The females inspired Braunstein to write a field guide about them, titled Good Girls on Bad Drugs. Having completed that book about streetwalking, he is now writing a book about walking.
Braunstein has hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to river to rim, but has never set foot in nearby Foxwoods Casino. As a paraplegic since 1990 and a Bad Boy on Good Drugs, his use of cannabis is medicinal for below the waist and recreational above. Despite many opportunities during his field research into the urban drug scene, not even once has he imbibed in heroin or opioids or meth or crack or coke. He has never drank Classic Coke or Coors or Starbucks, but in pursuit of enlightenment he has fasted on only water many times and many days. While he has neither attained enlightenment nor seen god, he someday may look into the future and see you reading this webpage.
Do his photos present the picture of health? Though a writer adept at photography, he did not photoshop any of the portraits to make himself look slimmer or younger. So you be the judge about his picture of health. If you think he looks 10 years younger than his age, then try to imagine that his mother told him that even at the age of 9 he looked 10 years younger than his age. During his search for eternal youth, he has written books and articles with the intent to save the world, though now he is content to save his breathe. He was a Cub SProut who grew up into a Boy SProut and wilderness backpacker, backwoods mountain biker, near-marathon runner, and more-than-mile swimmer. But now that he is a Man SProut, he is permanently crippled by a sports injury, and probably pickled by nearby nuke plant radioactivity, to which might be attributed others' misshapen bodies and his misconceived thoughts. While family, friends, and lovers shape our thoughts and our lives, his also were influenced by his wild animal neighbors, and by the writings of Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat, and Edward Abbey, especially Abbey's Fool's Progress and Desert Solitaire, both which he has cried over and read twice over, the second times chapter-by-chapter backwards, because according to Kierkegaard, Life is Lived Forwards but Understood Backwards.
In deference to and defense of Mother Earth, he has never wanted to father a child, nor has he ever fathered an unwanted child. And though he likes cats and dogs, he can't bring himself to bring home dead animals from the slaughterhouse to feed to live ones in the doghouse. Calves and lambs and kids and piglets are cuddly animals too, which is why since age 15 he has not eaten them, nor since age 19 drank the milk their mothers intended for them. He wonders what people mean when they espouse their love for animals, yet they love them also for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also he does not consume white sugar or take pharmaceutical drugs or drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, but he does unabashedly and legally consume cannabis, medicinally for below the waist, and recreationally for above. After all, he is merely human, so certainly not a god. He believes in all of the gods, but none of the religions, especially not Western religions, whose pages of history are stained with the blood of infidels and animals. Born a Judeo-Buddhist atheist, he now is an eco-pagan pantheist. He is not religious but, if he were religious, he would be a Carthusian or Zen monk, except for his being incurably and heretically heterosexual, and except for his being more zany than holy. As a former island resident of the nuthouse called Manhattan, same as most of its residents he, too, was a nutcase, until he outgrew his ego-driven ambition to earn a livelihood as a painter, for which his only regret is not having renounced art sooner. As primary collector of his own art and primary caretaker of his own health, he has resided as an ape man in a nature preserve where the chickadees perched upon me, and where, because he does not smell like a predator, the deer did not flee me. And where he has lived his entire life without a tranquilizing tv, metastasizing microwave, alarming alarmclock, or handcuffing wristwatch. He has never shopped at Wal-Mart nor on eBay, but has browsed the stalls of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. He has never set foot in nearby Foxwoods, but has hiked the faraway Grand Canyon from rim to river to rim, a journey of 1000 steps that began with 999 steps.
police take notice:
• aliases include:
• M M Braunstein
• Mark Braunstein
• Mark M. Braunstein
• Mark Matthew Braunstein
• Matthew Mark Braunstein
For a more conventional profile, consult my Wikipedia 2016 biography, for which I had absolutely no responsibility or input. After its inclusion, the little elves working past midnight solicited me for revisions, but I declined, else I would feel as though I were contributing to my own obituary. If I live that long, I will die too soon, so this may be that obit.
above:
bowing before the RISD Museum Buddha, 2015
& sitting in Van Gogh's bedroom,
on the right:
as an aspiring NYC painter,
posed on a rooftop across the
street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visible in the
background to the left, 1978
at age 68 in 2019
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No paper was trashed nor trees felled nor truths stretched to create this website. Its cookies are all vegan, all whole grain, and sugar-free.
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Don't you dare follow me on Twitter or any other social media, else I have you arrested for stalking.


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This list of films produced in 1965 by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai includes both notable, and non-notable films.

At the 13th National Film Awards, the award for First, Second and Third Best Feature Film in Hindi went to Shaheed, Oonche Log and Guide respectively.

Top-Grossing Films
The top-grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1965:

A-Z

References

External links
 Bollywood films of 1965 at the Internet Movie Database
 Indian Film Songs from the Year 1965 - A look back at 1965 with a special focus on Hindi film songs

1965
Bollywood
Films, Bollywood

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Keywords: Children, choroidal neovascularization, choroidal osteoma, cystoid macular edema, ranibizumab
Gupta A, Gopal L, Sen P, Ratra D, Rao C. Long-term results of intravitreal ranibizumab for osteoma-related choroidal neovascularization in a child. Oman J Ophthalmol 2014;7:78-80
Gupta A, Gopal L, Sen P, Ratra D, Rao C. Long-term results of intravitreal ranibizumab for osteoma-related choroidal neovascularization in a child. Oman J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2014 [cited 2020 Jan 27];7:78-80. Available from: http://www.ojoonline.org/text.asp?2014/7/2/78/137162
Choroidal osteoma is a rare benign tumor typically occurring in young females; however, males and children less than age ten have been diagnosed as having a choroidal osteoma. [1] Development of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) may lead to severe visual loss. [1] Recently, intravitreal ranibizumab injection has been used with success in the treatment of the CNV associated with choroidal osteoma in adults [2] as well as children. [3] Also, there are recent reports of favorable outcome of ranibizumab injection in children for CNV secondary to varied etiologies. [4],[5] Herein, we report the results of ranibizumab for treating osteoma-related CNV in a child. We also describe the future course of the lesion over a follow-up of 30 months.
A nine-year-old boy presented with the complaint of decreased vision in left eye since one month. There was no significant medical or family history. On examination, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/400 in the left eye. Anterior segment examination of both eyes and fundus examination of the right eye was unremarkable. Fundus examination of the left eye showed a slightly elevated yellowish lesion on the posterior pole [Figure 1]a. Fresh subretinal hemorrhages were noted in the center of the lesion. The B-scan ultrasound showed a subretinal lesion with high surface reflectivity, persisting at low gain with orbital shadowing behind, suggestive of choroidal osteoma [Figure 1]b. Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) in the left eye showed early patchy hyperfluorescence [Figure 1]c with late staining of the choroidal osteoma [Figure 1]d. In the center of the osteoma, early lacy hyperfluorescence [Figure 1]c leaking in the late phase [Figure 1]c was noted, indicative of classic CNV. There were also areas of blocked fluorescence corresponding to the subretinal hemorrhages seen clinically. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) confirmed a subfoveal CNV complex with gross CME overlying the CNV with subretinal fluid extending to the fovea [Figure 1]e. A diagnosis of left eye choroidal osteoma with CNV was made. After a detailed discussion with the parents regarding the risks and the safety profile of intravitreal ranibizumab in children, the patient received intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis- Novartis) injection (0.5 mg in 0.05 ml) in the left eye. Since the patient belonged to another country, monthly follow-up could not be maintained. After three months, the CNV appeared regressed with resolution of subretinal hemorrhage clinically [Figure 2]a, staining of scar with no leakage on FFA [Figure 2]b, and disappearance of fluid on OCT [Figure 2]c. CME showed only partial resolution as confirmed on OCT and FFA.
Figure 1: Left eye, at presentation (a) Fundus photograph showing choroidal osteoma with choroidal neovascularization (CNV) and subretinal hemorrhage (arrows) (b) B-scan showing hyperechoic osteoma with orbital shadowing (c) Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) early phase showing hyperfluorescence of CNV and blocked fluorescence of hemorrhage (arrows) (d) FFA late phase showing late leakage of CNV (e) Optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan showing retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) disruption, overlying cystoid macular edema (CME) and minimal subretinal fluid (SRF) suggestive of active CNV
Figure 2: Left eye, three months post-first lucentis injection (a) Fundus photograph showing choroidal osteoma with disciform scar and resolved subretinal hemorrhage (b) FFA showing staining of disciform scar and absence of leakage (c) OCT showing resolved SRF and persistent CME. Fifteen months post-first injection (d) Fundus photograph and (e) FFA showing same picture (f) OCT showing persistent CME despite three injections. Thirty months post-first injection (g) Fundus photograph and (h) FFA showing osteoma with stable scar without any recurrence of CNV (i) OCT showing persistent, though reduced, overlying CME
In view of persistent CME, despite the scarring CNV, two more injections of ranibizumab were administered at three monthly intervals. Since the cystic spaces were still persistent after third injection and CNV appeared completely scarred on OCT, it was decided to observe and defer any further injections. As noted over further follow-ups, the CNV remained inactive without any recurrence [Figure 2]d and e. However, complete regression of cystic spaces was still not achieved [Figure 2]f]. The visual acuity of left eye was maintained at 20/400. The last examination of the patient, done at 30 months by a local eye specialist, showed a stable picture with disciform scar [Figure 2]g and h and persistent, though reduced, overlying CME [Figure 2]i. The report of the last visit was sent to us by the local specialist.
We document a rare case of choroidal osteoma-related CNV in a child, treated by the use of intravitreal ranibizumab injection without local or systemic adverse effects. CNV is the most frequent cause of visual loss in choroidal osteoma, with more than half of patients expected to develop CNV. [1] Laser photocoagulation has limited efficacy in the treatment owing to lack of pigment in the tumor and atrophy of overlying retinal pigment epithelium [1] and was tried in children with limited success. [6] The results of surgical removal have also been associated with poor visual results. [7] Recently, anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) agents have been used with success in osteoma-related CNV in adults [2] and children. [3]
Kubota-Taniai M et al. recently reported successful treatment of CNV associated with choroidal osteoma with two intravitreal injections of bevacizumab in a 12-year-old girl and no recurrence till a follow-up of four years. [8] In pediatric population, as reported by Avery et al., [9] use of ranibizumab instead of bevacizumab may lower systemic exposure given its much shorter serum half-life and as found in several animal studies. There is a recent report of intravitreal ranibizumab use in an 11-year child for CNV associated with choroidal osteoma. [3] The follow-up period was two years.
In the present case, regression of CNV was noted after the first intravitreal injection of ranibizumab. However, the CME was persistent overlying the scarred membrane despite two more injections and till a follow-up of 30 months. Persistent CME overlying scarred CNV can be explained by the presence of thinned degenerated retinal pigment epithelium overlying the choroidal osteoma. [1] Such finding of persistent cystic cavities on OCT in eyes with disciform scars (secondary to wet age related macular degeneration treated with PDT) was also reported previously by Salinas-Alamán et al. [10] They suggested that in cases where intraretinal fluid is seen on OCT and no leakage is seen on FFA (called as false positives), a disciform scar should be ruled out in the fundus examination, because in these cases, no treatment is indicated. We also noted a similar course in our case. The patient maintained his vision over entire follow-up, and there was no recurrence of CNV despite persistent cystic maculopathy.
In conclusion, intravitreal ranibizumab was effective for CNV associated with choroidal osteoma in our patient.
1. Shields CL, Shields JA, Augsburger JJ. Choroidal osteoma. Surv Ophthalmol 1988;33:17-27.
2. Song MH, Roh YJ. Intravitreal Ranibizumab in a patient with choroidal neovascularisation secondary to choroidal osteoma. Eye (Lond) 2009;23:1745-6.
3. Vayalambrone D, Misra A. Paediatric choroidal osteoma treated with ranibizumab. BMJ Case Rep 2012;2012:piibcr2012007446.
4. Goodwin P, Shields CL, Ramasubramanian A, Brown GC, Shields JA. Ranibizumab for coloboma-related choroidal neovascular membrane in a child. J AAPOS 2009;13:616-7.
5. Kohly RP, Muni RH, Kertes PJ, Lam WC. Management of pediatric choroidal neovascular membranes with intravitreal anti-VEGF agents: A retrospective consecutive case series. Can J Ophthalmol 2011;46:46-50.
6. Avila MP, El-Markabi H, Azzolini C, Jalkh AE, Burns D, Weiter JJ. Bilateral choroidal osteoma with subretinal neovascularisation. Ann Ophthalmol 1984;16:381-5.
7. Foster BS, Fernadez-Suntay JP, Dryja TP, Jakobiec FA, D'Amico DJ. Surgical removal and histopathologic findings of subfoveal neovascular membrane associated with choroidal osteoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2003;121:273-6.
8. Kubota-Taniai M, Oshitari T, Handa M, Baba T, Yotsukura J, Yamamoto S. Long-term success of intravitreal bevacizumab for choroidal neovascularization associated with choroidal osteoma. Clin Ophthalmol 2011;5:1051-5.
9. Avery RL. Extrapolating anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy into pediatric ophthalmology: Promise and concern. J AAPOS 2009;13:329-31.
10. Salinas-Alamán A, García-Layana A, Maldonado MJ, Sainz-Gómez C, Alvárez-Vidal A. Using optical coherence tomography to monitor photodynamic therapy in age related macular degeneration. Am J Ophthalmol 2005;140:23-8.


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On-screen kissing could return after publication of new safety rules
July 13 2020, 2.59pm
Normal People (Enda Bowe/BBC/PA)
Actors could film kissing scenes once again following the publication of new safety rules.
New guidance has been drawn up for productions where actors or crew need to be closer than two metres apart.
While the rules do not mention intimate scenes specifically, the BBC said that for shows to reflect real-life interactions, "we are going to need to film scenes and shows where people are closer than two metres".
ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, the BBC and others have developed the rules for producing TV safely in close proximity.
The guidance says that all other options must have been considered, including adapting editorial on-screen requirements.
As well as drama, the rules could potentially be followed by shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, which is returning this year with a shorter series.
The rules could also apply to shows like Strictly Come Dancing, where dancers and celebrities have to get close to each other (Kieron McCarron/BBC)
Details of the format for the next Strictly instalment are yet to be announced.
Under the new rules, people having to work in close proximity will have to take increased screening and daily symptom checks.
They will also have to observe social distancing in their daily life during the filming period.
The rules have been drawn up for interactions essential to a script which would require closer contact than two metres.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "Getting TV production back up and running safely is our priority.
"The BBC has already produced popular shows during lockdown following social distancing – from Have I Got News For You to Talking Heads.
"But, if we are to get back to producing the range and quality of programmes that the public love, which reflect real-life interactions, we are going to need to film scenes and shows where people are closer than two metres apart."
An ITV spokeswoman said: "ITV has continued to be at the heart of informing, entertaining and connecting the UK through the Covid-19 crisis, and production teams continue to work hard to bring back many more loved shows.
"Working with partners across the industry, this advice builds on the industry-wide guidelines published in May and reflect the evolving situation we all find ourselves in.
As @itvcorrie announces its return to filming next Tuesday 9th June, actor @andywhyment81 tells @reallorraine about the restrictions put in place in order to maintain social distancing and how this will be reflected on screen. pic.twitter.com/afKNaRQvBF
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 1, 2020
"Above all, the guidance is there to ensure the safety and well-being of all those who work on the programmes."
Coronation Street recently resumed filming – but without kissing scenes.
BBC hit Normal People featured several sex scenes and was filmed before lockdown.
Before the publication of the new rules, its intimacy co-ordinator, Ita O'Brien, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that sex scenes might have to be filmed without physical touch.
"There is so much intimacy that we can still tell – intimate stories but through intention, sculpting the gaze and perhaps a movement towards each other that might not require actual touch but which can still generate all that intimacy," the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.
The guidance does not cover Wales, which has its own guidelines.
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Which early artificial sweetener was discovered through an accident?
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The discovery of artificial sweeteners has something curious about it – some of them were discovered by accident. The first artificial sweetener ever discovered was randomly generated by random laboratory safety practices.
"How did I discover saccharin?" He said. "Well, it was partly accidental and partly through study. I had worked for a long time on the composite radicals and substitution products of coal tar and made a number of scientific discoveries that I know have no commercial value. One evening, I was so interested in my lab that I had forgotten about dinner late, and then hurried to dinner without washing my hands. I sat down, broke a piece of bread and pressed it to my lips. It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not ask why it was, probably because I thought it was cake or sweets. I rinsed my mouth with water and dried my mustache with my napkin as the napkin tasted sweeter, to my surprise, than the bread. Then I was confused. I raised my goblet again and, as luck would have it, put my mouth where my fingers had previously touched it. The water seemed to be syrup. I realized that I was the cause of the unique universal sweetness, and I accordingly tasted the end of my thumb and found that it surpassed all the confectionery I had ever eaten. I saw the whole thing at a glance. I had discovered or produced a coal tar substance that extracted sugar. I dropped my supper and ran back to the lab. In my excitement, I tasted the contents of each beaker and the evaporating dish on the table. Fortunately, it contained no corrosive or toxic liquid. "
Fahlberg barely surpassed the sweetness of his accidental discovery. Saccharin is about 300-400 times sweeter than sucrose (sugar). What had to do with a powdered sugar on his fingertips was the equivalent of dozens of spoons of sugar distilling to a very sweet surprise.
Fahlberg would hardly be the last in a series of researchers who inadvertently came across artificial sweeteners in pursuit of other research. In 1965 James M. Schlatter discovered aspartame when he formulated it as an intermediate step in the production of a tetrapeptide of the hormone gastrin for use in the evaluation of an anti-ulcer drug. He licked his finger to pick up a piece of paper and found it to be extremely sweet.
In 1976, researchers Leslie Hough and Shashikant Phadnis worked with sucrose at Queen Elizabeth College. While researching chlorinated sugar compounds, Hough Phadnis asked to test a particular compound. Phadnis misunderstood the request and tried it more confidently – instead, he accidentally discovered another artificial sugar.
Thanks to the lax hand washing routines of several scientists over the last century and a half, you can enjoy sweet treats and a shot of "sugar" in your coffee without guilt.


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End of the world: How Stephen Hawking predicted humanity's end
Prof Hawking often had a bleak outlook for the future of humanity, and regularly warned the planet is perilously close to destruction.
The late theoretical physicist said on several occasions that humans need to find a new home, as Earth has shown that it is entering its final phase.
Speaking at the Oxford Union in 2016, Prof Hawking said: "We will map the position of millions of galaxies with the help of [super] computers like Cosmos. We will better understand our place in the universe.
"Perhaps one day we will be able to use gravitational waves to look right back into the heart of the Big Bang.
"But we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity.
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Cosmologist Stephen Hawking on October 10, 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey
"I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet."
This was not the first time that the father-of-three has predicted the end for humanity unless space travel is conquered.
In a book titled 'How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight' by journalist Julian Guthrie, Professor Hawking shared his thoughts in an afterword.
The Oxford-born physicist wrote: "I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers.
"I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go to space."
Stephen Hawking warns overpopulation could lead to the end of the world
Professor Hawking has said that the huge population growth is a problem for our planet, and eventually the burden will be too much for the Earth to handle.
He said at the 2017 Tencent WE Summit Earth: "By the year 2600, the world's population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.
"This is untenable."
Climate change will also play its part in the destruction of Earth, says Prof Hawking, and said that certain world leaders, particularly Donald Trump, are contributing to the problem.
Professor Hawking said US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, has doomed Earth to one day become uninhabitable.
"Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink"
Prof Hawking says in the show anyone who does not believe in global warming should do some research on Venus.
Venus, the second closest planet to the sun, was once Earth-like.
But a build-up of greenhouse gasses in its atmosphere turned the planet into a boiling celestial body with temperatures of 250 degrees celsius and wind speeds of up to 100 metres per second.
When President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement last year, Prof Hawking said: "We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible.
"Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid.
"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face and it's one we can prevent if we act now.
"By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children."
Professor Hawking died aged 76 in the early hours of March 14.
In a statement his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said: "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.
"He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.
Venus, the second closest planet to the sun, was once Earth-like
"His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.
"He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."
Professor Hawking suffered from a rate early-onset slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig's disease.
He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21.
Doctors expected him to live for only two more years, but he had a form of the disease which progressed more slowly than usual.
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Various Artists – The Prince´s Trust 10th Anniversary Birthday Party (1987)
The Prince's Trust celebrated it's 10th anniversary in 1986 with a concert at Wembley Arena attended by the then Prince and Princess of Wales. It is a more of a curiosity concert now in light of the fact that most of the stars and groups on show have either split up, moved on, or have shuffled off this planet (Stuart Adamson committed suicide years later) Inevitably, the performances are some of the big names at the time, for example, Suzanne Vega and Level 42 were top ten in England and Mark Knopfler was riding high post-BROTHERS IN ARMS with Dire Straits. Tina Turner and Eric Clapton duetted on "Better Be Good To Me", Rod Stewart performed his classic "Sailing" …. and the concert culminates in Paul McCartney singing "Long Tall Sally" and "Get Back"with Tina Turner.
Professionally done with some good music to boot, THE PRINCES TRUST BIRTHDAY PARTY is more of interest now to fans of the decade.(by Doom Templer)
Nothing special in term of performances,it's only a curious relic piece on collector's shelve like mine to satisfy our addiction of music performed by our darling masterclas. (by Guitar Kiko)
Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Francis Rossi, George Chandler, Jimmy Chambers, Jimmy Helms, John Illsley, Mark King, Paul Young, Ray Cooper, Rick Parfitt, Samantha Brown*, Sting, Trevor Morais, Vicki Brown and much more
01. Dire Straits: Money For Nothing (Knopfler) 5.20
02. Midge Ure: Call Of The Wild (King/Mitchell/Ure) 4.21
03. Suzanne Vega: Marlene On The Wall (Vega) 3.16
04. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight (Collins) 4.58
05. Big Country: Fields Of Fire (Adamson/Brzezicki/Butler/Watson) 4.26
06. Howard Jones: No One Is To Blame (Jones) 4.12
07. Level 42: Something About You (Gould/King/Lindup/Gould/Badarou) 5.07
08. Elton John: I'm Still Standing (John/Taupin) 3.47
09. Joan Armatrading: Reach Out (Armatrading) 4.40
10. Tina Turner: Better Be Good To Me (Chinn/Chapman/Knight) 5.02
11. Rod Stewart: Sailing (Sutherland) 5.25
12. Paul McCartney: Get Back (Lennon/McCartney) 3.33
13. Paul McCartney: Long Tall Sally (Johnson/Penniman/Blackwell) 2.36
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Dire Straits – Communiqué (1979)
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 15 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the single "Lady Writer", which reached the number 45 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 51 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached the number one position on album charts in Germany, New Zealand, and Sweden, the number 11 position in the United States, and the number five position in the United Kingdom. Communiqué was certified gold in the United States, platinum in the United Kingdom, and double-platinum in France.
Communiqué was recorded from 28 November to 12 December 1978 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau. The album was produced by Barry Beckett and Jerry Wexler, veteran producers from Muscle Shoals Sound Studio who made legendary recordings with Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, the Staple Singers, The Rolling Stones, Traffic, Elton John, Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson, and Paul Simon.
Communiqué became the first album ever to enter the German charts at number one in its first week of release. Even more remarkable, this happened while their debut album, Dire Straits was still at the number three position in that country. The album went on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide: in Europe it sold 3.6 million copies, and in the United States it reached gold status.
Communiqué was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the United States, and on 19 September 2000 in the United States.
The album cover was designed by Phonogram's advertising agency Grant Advertising UK. It won album cover of the year in the NME awards in 1979. (by wikipedia)
Rushed out less than nine months after the surprise success of Dire Straits' self-titled debut album, the group's sophomore effort, Communiqué, seemed little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor with less compelling material. Mark Knopfler and co. had established a sound (derived largely from J.J. Cale) of laid-back shuffles and intricate, bluesy guitar playing, and Communiqué provided more examples of it. But there was no track as focused as "Sultans of Swing," even if "Lady Writer" (a lesser singles chart entry on both sides of the Atlantic) nearly duplicated its sound. As a result, Communiqué sold immediately to Dire Straits' established audience, but no more, and it did not fare as well critically as its predecessor or its follow-up. (by William Ruhlmann)
John Illsley (bass, vocals)
David Knopfler (guitar and vocals)
Mark Knopfler (vocals, lead guitar)
Pick Withers (drums)
B. Bear (= Barry Beckett) (keyboards)
01. Once Upon A Time In The West 5.25
02. News 4.14
03. Where Do You Think You're Going? 3.49
04. Communiqué 5.49
05. Lady Writer 3.45
06. Angel Of Mercy 4.36
07. Portobello Belle 4.29
08. Single-Handed Sailor 4.42
09. Follow Me Home 5.50
All songs written by Mark Knopfler
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Dire Straits – Rotterdam (1978)
Posted on January 22, 2014 by allerlei2013riffmaster
Brothers Mark and David Knopfler, and friends John Illsley, and Pick Withers formed the band in 1977. In 1977, Dire Straits (a name given to the band by a musician flatmate of drummer Pick Withers), recorded a five-song demo tape which included their future hit single, "Sultans of Swing", as well as "Water of Love", "Down to the Waterline", "Wild West End" and David Knopfler's "Sacred Loving". They took the tape to DJ Charlie Gillett, who had a radio show called "Honky Tonk" on BBC Radio London. The band simply wanted advice, but Gillett liked the music so much that he played "Sultans of Swing" on his show. Two months later, Dire Straits signed a recording contract with Phonogram Records.[8] In October 1977, the band recorded demo tapes of "Southbound Again", "In the Gallery" and "Six Blade Knife" for BBC Radio London; in November demo tapes were made of "Setting Me Up", "Eastbound Train" and "Real Girl".
The group's first album, Dire Straits, was recorded at Basing Street studios in West London in February 1978, at a cost of £12,500. Produced by Muff Winwood, the album had little promotion when initially released in the United Kingdom on Vertigo Records, then a division of Phonogram, and was not well received. However, the album came to the attention of A&R representative Karin Berg, working at Warner Bros. Records in New York City. She felt that it was the kind of music audiences were hungry for, but only one person in her department agreed at first. Many of the songs on the album reflected Mark Knopfler's experiences in Newcastle, Leeds and London. "Down to the Waterline" recalled images of life in Newcastle; "In the Gallery" is a tribute to Leeds sculptor/artist Harry Phillips (father of Steve Phillips); "Wild West End" and "Lions" were drawn from Knopfler's early days in the capital. (by wikipedia)
And the rest is history …
This is one of the earliest Dire Straits live recordings, at Stadtshouwburg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Dated from October 19, 1978, in this year the group's first album was released and almost all of it is played here.
David Knopfler (guitar, background vocals)
Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals)
John Illsley
Pick Withers
Alternate frontcovers
01. Down To The Waterline (M. Knopfler) 3.52
02. Six Blade Knife (M. Knopfler) 4.00
03. Once Upon A Time In The West (M. Knopfler) 5.00
04. Lady Writer (M. Knopfler) 3.21
05. Water Of Love (M. Knopfler) 5.20
06. In The Gallery (M. Knopfler) 5.27
07. What's The Matter Baby (M.Knopfler) 3.15
08. Lions (D.Kopfler/M.Knopfler) 5.55
09. Sultans Of Swing (M. Knopfler) 5.47
10. Wild West End (M. Knopfler) 4.59
11. Eastbound Train (M. Knopfler) 5.07


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SQL Server 2016 introduces updatable nonclustered columnstore indexes. The complexity of that phrase should not mask the simplicity and importance of its application. Updatable nonclustered columnstore indexes make possible what Microsoft calls "Real-Time Operational Analytics." It would be hard to overstate the importance of making real-time transactional data available immediately for data mining and advanced analytics.
Databases are generally designed for transaction processing, that is, managing the data for the minute-by-minute running of the business, or they are designed for data analysis. Many of the architectural features ideal for analysis are simply not suitable for transaction processing. Indeed, the acronym OLAP, for Online Analytical Processing, was coined in the 1990s to emphasize the distinction from OLTP, a much older acronym for Online Transaction Processing. In many organizations, complex ETL jobs are required to move data from transactional sources to the data warehouse. Of course, this means that there can be a long time interval between the time a transaction takes place and the time that data appears in the data warehouse for study and analysis. How can the updatable nonclustered index mitigate the need for this process in many applications?
The nonclustered columnstore index was introduced as a purely analytic tool in SQL Server 2012. The combination of sophisticated compression algorithms and storing the data in a column-oriented format as opposed to the traditional row-oriented format, provided impressive performance improvement not only for analytic queries, but queries in general. In 2012, however, the nonclustered columnstore index could not be updated at all; it could only be dropped and recreated. This meant that the benefits of the columnstore index could not be used outside of the data warehouse. By removing this severe restriction in SQL Server 2016, the transactional database and the analytical database have moved closer together.
How Real-Time Analytics Works
Of course, a columnstore index organizes data pages by column, so that any individual data page contains only data from a single column. This benefits aggregate queries greatly, as SQL Server can cruise through the column data it is aggregating without reading data from unneeded columns as would be done for a query reading conventional data pages. Clearly, this benefits many queries of the types commonly used by analysts. However, the benefit to the columnstore index does not end there. The data are actually stored in a highly compressed format, using the algorithms developed for the xVelocity database engine used in tabular mode SSAS. The remarkable performance gains provided by this compression provide benefit for almost all queries executed against a table with a columnstore index.
With the advent of SQL Server 2016, it becomes possible to enjoy the high read performance of columnstore indexes on a table required for transaction processing. Since you are still allowed only one nonclustered columnstore index on a table, it is wise to include virtually all columns that might ever be required by an analytical query. The table with the nonclustered columnstore index is the same as always, with whatever clustered index and constraints are appropriate. The table is updated as always, but any analytical queries being processed using the columnstore index immediately provide results including the new data. This raises a very important question; How does the presence of a nonclustered columnstore index impact the write performance for transactional table?
A Simple Performance Experiment
To get a very rough idea about the potential impact of a nonclustered columnstore index on write performance, I created a T-SQL batch that wrote 100 rows into a 12,000 row table. The new rows, were unrelated to order of the rows of the table itself (when there was a clustered index). I then measured execution time for the inserts when the table was a heap, when the table had a clustered index, when a conventional nonclustered index was added, and after the creation of a nonclustered columnstore index. The experiment was repeated to obtain a typical range of values.
Range of execution times of 100 insertions
37-54 ms
Clustered index on primary key
Additional conventional nonclustered index
With nonclustered columnstore index added to clustered and conventional nonclustered indexes
As would be expected, the addition of indexes slows down write performance, but the slowdown observed with the nonclustered columnstore index was unremarkable. There was no attempt here to establish any sort of statistically significant averages, since one set of updates on one table is unlikely to be representative at all. However, it is fair to say that there is no evidence that a nonclustered columnstore index is in any way worse than a conventional index.
Some Interesting Options with a Filtered Nonclustered Columnstore Index
Microsoft suggests that a slightly more complex table architecture might prove valuable. In SQL Server, it has become possible to add a filter to the definition of a nonclustered columnstore index. It is therefore possible to create a nonclustered columnstore index that covers all but, say, the most recent month. Analytical queries could achieve a performance benefit by utilizing the columnstore index for "most" of the rows; the most recent month's day would have to be obtained from the table itself or from a conventional covering index. The benefit of this technique comes when new rows are added or rows from the most recent month are updated. In this, the most common case, the columnstore index would not have to be updated at all.
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While perusing through the only real source of news we have on the team (VWH Twitter) I came across an awesome little nugget that the RJ picked up, but for whatever reason it didn't gain much traction.
"The Foley-led Hockey Vision Las Vegas has agreed to pay $1 per ticket sold in its first year to Opportunity Village, a Las Vegas not-for-profit that helps people with intellectual disabilities," writes Alan Snell.
That's right, not only is The Creator spending millions and millions of dollars to bless us with our own professional sports team, but he's also pledged to give nearly $1 million a year to one of the best charities in the world.
Charitable in every sense of the word. Love it.


SUS 2.0 Beta Testing ?
I just saw on bink.nu that SUS 2.0 is going into beta testing this month... Do any of you guys have a place in this beta? Have MS not yet started looking for testers?
I heard it was coming out, but have no plans to beta test it. The one I setup for work has an identical server in the test enviroment (just in case the updates get screwy). I might test it out here at the house if I get a chance.
I wonder what all changes are in 2.0? The only problem I have with the one right now is you can't push the updates, you have to wait for the client to connect.
Well 2.0, from what I have heard, will update office etc. as well.
I did find this, if your interested in emailing them.
"If you have questions regarding the SUS 2.0 Beta program please contact us at sus2beta@microsoft.com."
I probably won't be putting it into production for some time. But if 2.0 is going to do Office pushes I most likely will try it out in the lab. Updating office is getting to be a pain!
EP, did you happen to see this news flash?
Cool, I think we will also be implementing an SMS server soon, so we will have to see where that leads.
That should be interesting! Our sister hospital uses it to keep tabs on there servers! Never messed with it though.
Have a look at this EP.
So SUS has become WUS... lol, alas once again I am on a business trip so will check it all out again once I am home!!!
I like the name change. Never really liked saying SUS, it almost sounds dirty!
well ya, now that I think about it. It needs another s though!


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Bay Country February 3, 2020 Daryl Schultz
BLOG: Watkins Mill Boys Defeat Magruder in Crucial 3A Game
Watkins Mill High School, Montgomery Village, Jan. 31, 2020
The game at Watkins Mill Friday night brought back memories of basketball games I coached in that very gym years ago. The biggest difference between then and now wasn't how hard both teams competed. That was very apparent. The very noticeable difference was once upon a time that gymnasium was packed by Wolverine students, this was not true tonight. I am not sure why there weren't many students supporting their very talented team but someone should ask the question. It was Friday night. It was a very important 3A game against Magruder, one that would give the Wolverines a share of the 3A division lead. I was told there was no school announcement at the end of the day encouraging students to attend the game. Someone at Watkins Mill should acknowledge the hard work and success of this basketball team. Hopefully the Wolverine fans will come out and support a very good team. I have been covering boys and girls basketball for several years and I have seen packed gyms nearly every game I attend. I was surprised to see so few students in the stands at Watkins Mill.
The game was closely contested during the first half with the Mill up two at the end of the first quarter 17-15. At the end of the first half the Wolverine lead was three points. As the third quarter progressed the Mill successfully penetrated the Magruder defense and extended their lead to 38-30. That point difference was a result of cold shooting by Magruder who scored only five third quarter points. The eight point lead was the difference at the end of the game with Watkins Mill on top 58-50.
At this point in the season, teams want to be playing their best basketball as they approach the playoffs. The Wolverines are headed in the right direction and ready to surprise teams in the county 3A division.
Scoring in double figures were:
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#5 Holland 18
#10 Brown 12
#15 Crespo 10
#12 Michael Myrie 16
#10 Rashid Abudu. 13
#4 Chris Asamoah 12
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Missing Link – Thursday 8 November 2007
Posted on November 8, 2007 by Ken Parish
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2. Life and Other Serious Stuff
3. The Yartz
4. T.S.S
5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad
We're running a day late again. My fault, but we'll still publish again late tomorrow (Friday). This edition compiled by Legal Eagle, Gilmae, James Farrell, Amanda Rose and Peter Black, and edited minimally by Ken Parish.
The next couple of weeks will be problematic, with several usual team members flat out with final exam marking. However, we've had several generous volunteers from Monday's appeal for help, and I'm currently working out how we can continue to churn out a "jury-rigged" Missing Link through the crucial last fortnight of the federal election campaign. I'm pretty certain we can manage it.
BTW I should draw attention of any recently arrived readers to the fact that you can subscribe to Missing Link and receive an email version of it as soon as it's published. There's not much point in it if you already use a feed reader, but if you don't then you may find it a useful way to get quick notification of excellent blogosphere writing on a wide range of topics.
And good luck in today's exam to any of my constitutional law students who may be reading this instead of (or after) finalising their revision!
Guido at Rank and Vile thinks Alexander Downer's comments about "show offs" speaking in other languages show a parochial attitude.
Marcellous shows scepticism about Joe Hockey's "promise to resign".
John Quiggin makes the case for Labor, prefaced with the observation that
Much though I dislike a lot of the (com)promises Rudd has made, I hope Labor does not do the same. Democratic processes are more important then getting the best policy outcome in the short term.
However, MK is unimpressed by the risk of Ruddonomics.
Andrew Bartlett praises the late Peter Andren, and makes a general point about integrity in politics:
The fact that he retained his seat and his margin in that election is an indication of how much his electorate respected his integrity, even though many of them would have disagreed with his view on refugees, which was the dominant issue of that campaign.
At Polliegraph, Ben Eltham shows identifies the inadequacies of the major parties' health reform policies. At the same site. Mark Bahnisch complains that despite the proliferation of new ideas about investment and growth, 'much of Labors investment approach… is uncreative and lacks the serious reformism and policy flair of Keating'. More upbeatly, he sees signs that MSM commentators are slowly being educated by bloggers from a range of disciplines.
Andrew Landeryou reminds us that going negative is the key to winning elections. Andrew also blogs about how Peter Garrett's gaffe treaded on the rawest nerve.
John Ray blogs about "forgotten history: the disasters of Australia's previous Labor government", but begins with this observation:
The Leftists seem likely to win the forthcoming election. Would they if people remembered?
IF 38 per cent of people polled this week by The Daily Telegraph thought the Kyoto Protocol was the treaty which ended WWII, who do they think Bob Hawke [former Labor Party Prime Minister] is when they see the Silver Bodgie sashaying through the local RSL in his white slip-ons? An Antipodean Colonel Sanders? Mick Dundee's older brother? Or a Gold Coast real estate baron?
Jeremy Sear shares his reaction to the Coalition's promise to set up new emergency medical centres.
People, if you vote for an incumbent party because of its election-year bribes, thereby effectively ignoring what it's done for the previous three years, then can't you see what's going to happen in the next three years?
Kim advocates an end to party-determined preferences in the Senate: 'How difficult could it be to have the parties and other candidates listed above the line and allow voters to determine preferences?'
Andrew Elder runs through a number of reasons the LDP are doomed to irrelevancy by their principles – if we allow that nutjob candidates not being filtered out by a paternalist central committee is sticking to their principles.
And KG counts the ways he loathes the left.
Your New Reality speculates on the symbiotic relationship of Bush and Bin Laden. For his part, Ken Lovell is frightened by the breadth of Americans' support for an attack on Iran, and thinks it's time to start distrusting the nation, and not just their government.
People change. Nations change. And we need in our own national interest to recognise the USA for what it is, not through a nostalgic sentimental haze coloured by the endless diet of Americana being fed to us via the media.
MK supports Andrew Bolt's claim that "Iraq has been won".
Another teacher decides to quit and join the private sector. When are we going to recognise and appreciate teachers?
Harry Potter is an anti-Thatcherite lefty. Or so it is theorised. Certainly the Dursleys do have a tang of the "Essex" stereotype.
John Quiggin notes that, courtesy of the strong dollar, we are all of a sudden richer than the Americans.
John Surname links to Prodos's tough interview with Danny Nalliah about his dealings with publicans, sinners and the League of Rights.
tigtog quotes Melissa McEwan, with the last word on rape jokes (why no link, though?).
Apathetic Sarah is prepared to use the 'racist' label when it's called for.
Mark Bahnisch promises a review of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. In the interests of readers who do not foresee that they will find time read its 880 pages themselves, ML will hold him to it.
tigtog wants to know who's participating in Movember.
dr. faustus wishes Australia would close its credibility gap on international death penalties.
When he was inducted into the ARIA hall of fame, Nick Cave also inducted the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party, despite instructions not to do so. Top work, Nick!
The Top 25 songs of the year at Decomposing Trees.
The architecture of parking lots.
The Firesign Theater at After Grog Blog.
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We'll cover sport in Friday's edition.
Ken Lovell is being persecuted by Noisy Mynahs.
John Surname persecutes the sad and the creepy.
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Kevin rennie
On "resigned" teachers:
In 2002 I resigned from the Victorian Education Department on my 55th after joining them in 1974. I was on leave, having shifted to Katherine in 1999. Four weeks ago I retired as a teacher from the NT department on my 60th. 34 years. I'm still waiting for a letter of acknowledgment/thanks from either system.
The extended quote attributed to John Ray ("If 38 per cent of people polled …") is actually from Piers Akerman. John provides a link at the post's end. It's not particularly clear he's quoting Piers, however, so ML's small error is understandable.
Rebecca Copas
I have just linked this site
To my own weblogs blight
The links I put into my weblog are not by name but
So here is a poem I wrote which links to Club Troppo
the club to be in
so they sing
of tropical insanity's weirdness begin
while I advise in real life
the case be merely
lack of disguise
since the tropics be heavier in plenty
by environmental integrity
(sort of my way of interpreting the name club troppo)
gilmae
How amusing though, and how re-enforcing it must be for Piers. One inclusion into that which is deemed the best writing of the Australian blogosphere for the last few days is an act of outright plagarism of the blogger's bogeyman, the MSM.
Well, assuming Piers isn't John Ray – I've never seen both of them in the same room, have you? – or that Piers didn't lend permission for the re-print.
Good to see the ideologically crippled being given a decent airing. Pity it's only from the one blog though.
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James Farrell
Niall, it's lovely to have you commenting on ML, but could you aim at being translucent even if you can't be clear? A few weeks back there was the comment about ML being 'usurped', now this one.
Yobbo
Andrew Elder seems to think we'd be better off with no Libertarian party at all, since obviously things are getting more libertarian every year currently, right?
By the way, the only "nutjob" candidates Andrew mentions are myself and Lisa Milat – who is presumably a nutjob because she's married to Ivan Milat's brother?
This despite the fact that Labor ran a nutjob as their preferred PM in the last election, and it didn't seem to hurt their long-term prospects. Need I mention Wilson Tuckey or Ross Lightfoot? The Birdman can't possibly be crazier than those two.
Ken Parish(@ken-parish)
Oh come on. Bird is quite a bit crazier than Latham, though he may well not be much worse than Tuckey or Lightfoot. Anyway, I don't think you're a nutjob Sam. However I wouldn't take too much comfort from that if I were you, because my own grip on reality may well be pretty dubious.
Jason Soon
Lisa Milat is married into bogan-ville and therefore exempt from the usual feminist critique of not identifying a woman by her marital links that is usually invoked gleefully by metrosexual ex-Lib pony riding, cucumber sandwich scoffing toffs like Elder, Yobs.
"ex-Lib pony riding, cucumber sandwich scoffing toffs like Elder"
Do you think we should sign him up for Troppo then, Jason?
Doctor Patient
Are we seriously reaching the day when the beatification of P Keating will take place? Have we got no sense at all?
Beatification huh? Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over Paul Keating.
Exactly right, Yobbo. He'll be lucky to get a job cleaning shithouses if you win Stirling. What a 24-carat pissant. What a carcass with a tie and coat on.
Oh I don't think Lisa Milat is a nutjob. But in terms of influencing the direction taken by parliament, either by getting elected or by forcing whoever does get elected to drift towards the LDPs position, she, Bird and yourself are nuttier than a bagful of mechano. Elder's wrong about the gun thing, but he's as right as rain about the three mentioned candidates.
tigtog
That would be because I originally forgot to add the links, and fixed that over at the Feminism 101 blog, and then didn't fix the crosspost at Hoyden about Town. Oops!
Fixed now.
James, I'm sure I don't need to take you by the hand


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Why isn't there a "school zone" in front of the Town Creek Elementary School on U.S. 17 in Brunswick County?
Ana Ribeiro
May a person serve on the Historic Preservation Commission if his or her primary residence is in New Hanover County and not in Wilmington's city limits?
What is the construction that looks like a bridge of some kind near Invista?
What is going to be built beside the Harris Teeter in Leland?
Was the Headwaters apartment complex built with required parking?
In case of a flood or hurricane, isn't the sewage treatment plant on River Road dangerously close to the river?
How accurate is police radar when two vehicles pass on a two-lane highway?
How much does the city of Wilmington pay to operate the Wave transit buses?
What were they doing to the roads in Castle Hayne on June 28, 2012?
When are they planning on repaving Shipyard Boulevard?
Why do police officers leave their cars running when they're not in them?
Why haven't city buses and county school buses converted to natural gas?
Why is there an ad for Parsley Elementary School running on TV?
There isn't a school zone sign for Town Creek Elementary School on U.S. 17 because the school is not located on the highway, said Steve Miley, Brunswick schools' head of operations.
The school is off U.S. 17 on Lake Park Drive, a side road whose only traffic right now is to and from the school, Miley said. Because the road is a cul-de-sac with light traffic, the district didn't see the need to put a school zone sign on the highway at this time, although it may add one later, he said.
Town Creek Elementary is inside Rice Creek Plantation, a planned development that could have up to 2,800 homes, according to its developer. Of those, 1,800 would be single-family homes and 1,000 town houses.
The school system asked the N.C. Department of Transportation to put a traffic light at the U.S. 17 entrance to the development, Miley said. The DOT has required the developer to pay for the traffic light, which follows the "superstreet" model restricting left turns, he said.
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Cephalotes es un  género neotropical de especies de hormigas de la subfamilia Myrmicinae. Estas hormigas son usualmente arborícolas y planeadoras, con la habilidad de lanzarse y dirigir su caída hasta llegar a un tronco cercano en vez de aterrizar en el suelo, ya que usualmente está inundado.

Especies

 Cephalotes adolphi (Emery, 1906)
 Cephalotes alfaroi (Emery, 1890)
 Cephalotes alveolatus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes angustus (Mayr, 1862)
 Cephalotes argentatus (Smith, 1853)
 Cephalotes argentiventris De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Cephalotes auriger De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes basalis (Smith, 1876)
 Cephalotes betoi De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes biguttatus (Emery, 1890)
 Cephalotes bimaculatus (Smith, 1860)
 Cephalotes bivestitus (Santschi, 1922)
 Cephalotes bloosi Baroni Urbani, 1999
 Cephalotes bohlsi (Emery, 1896)
 Cephalotes borgmeieri (Kempf, 1951)
 Cephalotes brevispineus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes bruchi (Forel, 1912)
 Cephalotes carabicus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes chacmul Snelling, 1999
 Cephalotes christopherseni (Forel, 1912)
 Cephalotes clypeatus (Fabricius, 1804)
 Cephalotes coffeae (Kempf, 1953)
 Cephalotes columbicus (Forel, 1912)
 Cephalotes complanatus (Guerin-Meneville, 1844)
 Cephalotes conspersus (Smith, 1867)
 Cephalotes cordatus (Smith, 1853)
 Cephalotes cordiae (Stitz, 1913)
 Cephalotes cordiventris (Santschi, 1931)
 Cephalotes crenaticeps (Mayr, 1866)
 Cephalotes cristatus (Emery, 1890)
 Cephalotes curvistriatus (Forel, 1899)
 Cephalotes decolor De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes decoloratus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes dentidorsum De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes depressus (Klug, 1824)
 Cephalotes dieteri Baroni Urbani, 1999
 Cephalotes dorbignyanus (Smith, 1853)
 Cephalotes duckei (Forel, 1906)
 Cephalotes ecuadorialis De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes eduarduli (Forel, 1921)
 Cephalotes emeryi (Forel, 1912)
 Cephalotes fiebrigi (Forel, 1906)
 Cephalotes flavigaster De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes foliaceus (Emery, 1906)
 Cephalotes fossithorax (Santschi, 1921)
 Cephalotes frigidus (Kempf, 1960)
 Cephalotes goeldii (Forel, 1912)
 Cephalotes goniodontes De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes grandinosus (Smith, 1860)
 Cephalotes guayaki De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes haemorrhoidalis (Latreille, 1802)
 Cephalotes hamulus (Roger, 1863)
 Cephalotes hirsutus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes hispaniolicus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes inaequalis (Mann, 1916)
 Cephalotes inca (Santschi, 1911)
 Cephalotes incertus (Emery, 1906)
 Cephalotes insularis (Wheeler, 1934)
 Cephalotes integerrimus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes jamaicensis (Forel, 1922)
 Cephalotes jansei (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes jheringi (Emery, 1894)
 Cephalotes klugi (Emery, 1894)
 Cephalotes kukulcan Snelling, 1999
 Cephalotes laminatus (Smith, 1860)
 Cephalotes lanuginosus (Santschi, 1919)

 Cephalotes lenca De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes liepini De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes liogaster (Santschi, 1916)
 Cephalotes maculatus (Smith, 1876)
 Cephalotes manni (Kempf, 1951)
 Cephalotes marginatus (Fabricius, 1804)
 Cephalotes maya De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes membranaceus (Klug, 1824)
 Cephalotes minutus (Fabricius, 1804)
 Cephalotes mompox De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes multispinosus (Norton, 1868)
 Cephalotes nilpiei De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes notatus (Mayr, 1866)
 Cephalotes obscurus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes oculatus (Spinola, 1851)
 Cephalotes olmecus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes opacus Santschi, 1920
 Cephalotes pallens (Klug, 1824)
 Cephalotes pallidicephalus (Smith, 1876)
 Cephalotes pallidoides De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes pallidus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes palta De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes palustris De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes patei (Kempf, 1951)
 Cephalotes patellaris (Mayr, 1866)
 Cephalotes pavonii (Latreille, 1809)
 Cephalotes pellans De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes persimilis De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes persimplex De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes peruviensis De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes pileini De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes pilosus (Emery, 1896)
 Cephalotes pinelii (Guerin-Meneville, 1844)
 Cephalotes placidus (Smith, 1860)
 Cephalotes poinari Baroni Urbani, 1999
 Cephalotes porrasi (Wheeler, 1942)
 Cephalotes prodigiosus (Santschi, 1921)
 Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824)
 Cephalotes quadratus (Mayr, 1868)
 Cephalotes ramiphilus (Forel, 1904)
 Cephalotes resinae De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes rohweri (Wheeler, 1916)
 Cephalotes scutulatus (Smith, 1867)
 Cephalotes serraticeps (Smith, 1858)
 Cephalotes serratus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes setulifer (Emery, 1894)
 Cephalotes simillimus (Kempf, 1951)
 Cephalotes sobrius (Kempf, 1958)
 Cephalotes solidus (Kempf, 1974)
 Cephalotes specularis Brandão et al., 2014
 Cephalotes spinosus (Mayr, 1862)
 Cephalotes squamosus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
 Cephalotes sucinus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes supercilii De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes taino De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes targionii (Emery, 1894)
 Cephalotes texanus (Santschi, 1915)
 Cephalotes toltecus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes trichophorus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1804)
 Cephalotes unimaculatus (Smith, 1853)
 Cephalotes ustus (Kempf, 1973)
 Cephalotes varians (Smith, 1876)
 Cephalotes ventriosus De Andrade, 1999
 Cephalotes vinosus (Wheeler, 1936)
 Cephalotes wheeleri (Forel, 1901)

Fuentes

Myrmicinae
Géneros de himenópteros