The chart below may remind you of your old school timetable but this lesson of "double maths" reveals some interesting trends which could place savvy punters at the top of the class come April the 11th.
The first pattern on the chart your eyes are immediately drawn to is the pairing up of the blue and red blocks. It's an indisputable fact that jockey Paul Moloney has finished in the [highlight type="standard"]first four places in the last six runnings[/highlight] of the Aintree Grand National and on five of those occasions he has paired up with the Welsh trainer Evan Williams.
So will they pair up again in 2015? That's highly unlikely as all the indications are is that Paul Moloney will ride last year's fourth placed horse Alvarado again for Fergal O'Brien (33/1 generally). The horse however was formerly trained by Evan Williams and Paul Moloney will still be in those famous colours of the owners Mrs & Mrs Rucker which he has placed in for the last six years.
O'Brien has also pencilled Alvarado in for a possible tilt at the Sky Bet Chase at Doncaster on the same day as Cheltenham (Saturday 24th Jan) and he is rated at 25/1 chance for that race.
Back to the chart and we now need to focus on those green blocks which indicate the wily training skills of Jonjo O'Neill. In recent years Jonjo has launched many a strong assault on the Grand National mainly in part due to helping A.P McCoy gain that elusive National victory which was missing from his C.V. That they managed together in 2010 with Don't Push It and the two years later Jonjo was just denied by the closest Grand National victory in history when Neptune Collonges pipped Sunnyhillboy on the line.
Shutthefrontdoor (20/1 generally) appears to be Jonjo O'Neills main charge for the Grand National this time around and he duly won his seasonal reappearance in the Weatherbys Hamilton Insurance Graduation Chase over an extended three miles at Carlisle on November 10th under Barry Geraghty.
Jonjo also looks like he will be represented by Merry King (25/1 generally) so that one is worth noting too.
If we move onto the pink on the chart and we have another back story and current story to tell. Despite being the champion trainer many times in recent years the Grand National had escaped Paul Nicholls' grasp until the victory of the grey Neptune Collonges in 2012.
Now Paul Nicholls and John Hale have a new young grey horse called Unioniste (25/1 generally) whom they are going to aim at the Grand National this year –weight permitting!
So it's a cautionary watching brief if you are tempted to back Unioniste any time soon.
It's certainly no pipe dream that we have orange blocks on the chart representing the Pond House stables with more recently David Pipe and latterly his father Martin. The Pipe's have three "hits" on the chart in the last ten years the best of which being Comply or Die's win in 2008.
This year it appears Our Father (66/1 generally) is the horse most likely to represented David Pipe at Aintree.
Our Father finished ninth in the Becher Chase in December but he put in a superb round of jumping to finish a close second to Mon Parrain at Cheltenham on New Year's Day.
Only time will tell if Our Father has a prayer.
And finally we focus on that big yellow block that highlights the odds returned on the winner over the last ten years.
When you study the odds carefully it actually makes quite a strong case to say that difficulty of picking the winner in the last ten years has increased.
No horse under 10/1 has won in the last six years.
Five of the last ten winners have been 25/1 or more.
And if we extend the odds out further to take into account those who have finished in second, third or fourth place then an interesting picture begins to take shape.
More 'favourites' or those with single digit odds, finish in 3rd place rather than win.
Fourth place is usually taken by the outsiders with average odds of 35/1.
So what can we take from all of that? The numbers tell us that it's more likely for the race favourite to finish third than to win so avoid straight win bets on the runners with the shortest odds and pay attention to those horses who hover further down the bookies odds because as unlikely as they are to win, their odds are long enough to return a decent amount should they finish in fourth spot.


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Posted by Darren Willsher on 15th April 2013
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It must have happened to everyone working in PR and marketing. You get a brief, exceed the targets and proudly present the results expecting the feedback to be wonderful. Only to then find yourself answering to someone further up the chain as to why you've not delivered on something you were never asked about in the first place.
Now imagine the 'person further up the chain' happens to be George Osborne and you're starting to get an idea of what's unfolding in the UK telecoms space at the moment.
In case you hadn't noticed, the UK is a bit short of funds at the moment. With this in mind the Government got very excited at the end of last year and promised that the 4G spectrum auction would be adding a tidy £3.5 billion to the bank.
So it was perhaps a surprise when the auction raised 'just' £2.3 billion and particularly when people remembered that the 3G auction raised £22 billion.
Now that the fuss has died down and the networks are getting rolled out, The National Audit Office is to investigate the low amount raised by the auction of the 4G airwaves:
It's a process that hasn't been particularly well handled from the off.
Sound like it was worth an extra £1B?
For starters having the Chancellor forecast an amount will always create problems, even if the auction raised exactly £3.5B, people would be complaining that his target wasn't ambitious enough. Then it emerged that the auction was never designed to raise as much as possible, instead (and quite rightly) it was focused on encouraging competition and achieving broad coverage. Something the average mobile user would surely prefer.
As a spokesperson told V3 today, "The auction was designed to promote competition and ensure coverage, rather than to raise money. These benefits will deliver significantly more value in the long term to the UK than simply the revenue raised in the auction."
Oh, and the reserve price set by Ofcom was actually just over £1 billion. Just to add to the confusion.
So who's the likely winner out of all of this? It won't be the mobile subscribers and it certainly won't be the Government or Ofcom. In fact it's hard to see anyone coming out of this well. The lesson in all of this for the rest of us? Always clarify the brief, even if that's with the man at No 11 Downing Street.
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Compensation delayed for aggrieved homebuyers in Karnataka
CentrikBlogsLegal AdvisoryAuthentic Legal AdviceCompensation delayed for aggrieved homebuyers in Karnataka
Posted by Adv Aditya RamchandraPosted on September 19, 2019 November 7, 2019 0 CommentsCategories Authentic Legal Advice, Business Advisory, Corporate Litigation-All In Way, Debt Recovery Management, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016, Legal Advisory, Legal Outsourcing, RERA ConsultingTags cases referred to district commissioner by Karnataka RERA, Compensation for Delay, compensation for delay under Karnataka RERA, homebuyers can approach RERA for compensation for delays, Homebuyers in Karnataka, K-RERA has referred 117 cases to the District Commissioner, Karnataka RERA, recover compensation from the errant developers
Status as on 19/09/2019
Hundreds of homebuyers in Karnataka have been left in the lurch as they still haven't received compensation from the developers. The Karnataka RERA has already passed orders against these errant developers and penalized them for not delivering possession as per the date of possession they had specified at the time of registering the project with the real estate authority and as per the Builder Buyer Agreement which had been signed between the developer and the purchaser.
K-RERA has gone as far as intimating the district commissioner to auction off the properties of these errant developers so that compensation could be paid to the aggrieved home buyers who have canceled their allotment and want a refund along with appropriate interest as per the delay in delivering possession of the flat. Ever since it's inception in the year 2017, the Real Estate Regulatory Authority has heard 3,750 complaints out of which it has disposed of 1,150 cases in favor of homebuyers. Most of the complaints that have been registered with Karnataka-RERA relate to the inability of builders in completing their projects and handing over possession to the home buyers on time.
The authority has clearly stated that if the buyers fail to comply with the orders of the authority then they will attach and subsequently auction of their properties to compensate the homebuyers who are awaiting compensation but not a single buyer has yet been compensated. A prime example being that of home buyer Rajeev Kumar Agarwal who was to get Rs.1 crore from his developer but there is no indication as to when that money will be disbursed to him.
In fact, K-RERA has referred 117 cases to the District Commissioner where they have been ordered to recover compensation from the errant developers. Many of these cases have been pending since the last two years and the compensation ranges from Rs.2 Lakh to Rs.1.5 Crore. As a result of the inordinate delay in disbursing the compensation, many exasperated buyers have struck a compromise with the developers and settled for a lesser amount. However, the district commissioner of one of the districts in Bengaluru said that show-cause notices have been issued against 44 errant developers to attach their properties if they don't comply with the orders of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority in Karnataka. Thus, there needs to be an effective system of checks and balances that the real estate regulatory authority should come up with so that they can address the concerns of aggrieved homebuyers in a better way and at the same time also make sure that the developers are not dealt with arbitrarily.
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Before employees leave an organization, there is an odd ritual that tends to take place in most organizations: the exit interview. It is then that the soon-to-be-leaving employee is asked for insights. On paper, this follows logic. A learning organization ought want to know what would make it better.
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Like so many of the vestiges of the machinery of human resources, the logic is backwards for today's workplace. So instead of waiting until the finality of an exit, Grant implored that managers ask for insights when they would be most helpful: during the on-boarding.
"Ask them for their ideas when they join the organization. Because that is when they have all of the energy and fresh thinking," said Grant.
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In contrarian fashion, Grant also challenged the audience to "put your worst foot forward" or lead with weakness because it can disarm others. Since any new idea sounds ridiculous, he advises making the unfamiliar familiar – or tie a new idea to a conventional one.
Grant's analytical take on how cultures embrace (or fail to embrace new ideas) was indicative of the posture of the WorkHuman conference on its second day. After coming out of the gate with boldness, the gathering settled into an introspective rhythm for its second day of experiences. Service, humility and a genuine desire for knowledge were the themes of the day.
While it is usually cast as a spiritual practice, the role of mindfulness within organizations has been illustrated to improve bottom-line performance. Pandit Dasa, a mindfulness leader and wellbeing expert, outlined the physical benefits to individuals as well as the practical benefits to organizations of sustained mindful practices.
Truthful. It must be reality.
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I hope you enjoyed a peaceful, joy-filled holiday season and that you're already testing the 2017 waters and finding them just fine.
2016 ended on a very quiet on my end of the computer screen – which is a good thing!
I indulged in quite a bit of stitching (not to mention 3.5 audiobooks). I didn't enter the workroom once with the intention of organizing. (Why is it so easy to put that off until the "new year"?) And I filtered a lot of paperwork while messing with editorial calendars, idea lists, and all kinds of planning and goal setting. It was a semi-productive week!
Spending some time looking back on Needle 'n Thread in 2016 helped me gauge my ideas and goals for 2017 (and 2018). So here's a little glance backwards, and a broad glance forward!
2016 was a bit of an odd year for me. As many of you know, I was diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2015, so most of my treatment happened through 2016. That kind of slowed things down a bit!
In the first half of the year, the only projects I worked on much (and blogged about) were Late Harvest and a bunch of little kits – especially beaded miniature kits and the like (like this one, and these). I didn't work on anything taxing at all, or anything that required much brain juice.
In short, I didn't accomplish much that I had on my Grand List for the Year, but I managed to eke out a little bit of stitching!
By the end of June, when I started feeling a bit better, production picked up a little bit. I also started growing a little hair back by then, so, much like Sampson, I began to feel I could conquer things again!
I realized that the business side of Needle 'n Thread was flagging seriously and needed a boost, so I published this e-book, Favorite Monograms, and I worked up this whole bunch of embroidered monograms to give you some ideas of what you could do with the monogram designs in the e-book. That added to the coffers a bit (thank you to all who purchased the e-book!) and helped float me and the website for a while longer.
During the last half of the year, besides that slew of monograms, I stitched up a couple test projects with 2017 in mind, including a few "kaleidoscope" projects – this one and this one and this one. They were a bunch of fun! Those kaleidoscopes and a few others will be making their way into their own spot on Needle 'n Thread in 2017.
And in the last couple months of the year, with an eye on 2017 as well, I set up several projects that I'll be sharing with you as I make progress on them. These are kits designed by others – for example, the Mellerstain Fire Screen Kit in crewel embroidery, this surface embroidery project called "Modern Crewel," and some others I haven't shown you yet. One is a 56-count silk gauze project that's terribly engrossing!
In all, I have five kit projects designed by others that I'll be working through in 2017. I'll share tips and little things I learn while I work through those projects. And, who knows? I may add more into the rotation, depending on what develops throughout the year.
Last year, in October, the new format for Needle 'n Thread launched, and that was a Huge Thing! There are still changes and tweaks coming, and 2017 will see some significant changes on the site and in the background. The internet is a constant changing thing, always "improving," and always demanding improvement. So 2017 will see the ongoing development of some technical changes on the site.
I'll also be adding a whole new section to Needle 'n Thread, and I'll tell you more about that as we approach March. In the first months of the year, I'll also be making some improvements to the newsletter that goes out with every article.
Thanks to so many of you who have written with seasonal greetings, who've inquired about my health, and who have been so very supportive throughout 2016! You occupy a warm, cozy corner of my heart!
I don't have a health update for you yet, beyond "I feel pretty good." I had tests done through December, and the follow-up isn't until later this week. We'll see how it goes!
I'm super eager to jump in to 2017 and see what the year brings and what we bring to the year! I've worked up my plan for Needle 'n Thread, and I hope you'll accompany me on our ongoing needlework journey ahead. There's lots in store – I promise it'll be fun, inspirational, and educational!
Wishing you all that is good for you and your loved ones in 2017!
I'm praying you will get good news about your health and feel stronger and stronger throughout 2017. I'm anxiously waiting for a health update!
I wish you a very Happy New Year and I hope and Pray that you will have good news concerning your health. It looks like many changes will take place this year on Needle 'n Thread and I'm looking forward to the new section and am eager to see the progress on all your present projects, which I know will be inspiring and helpful, I'm also looking forward to sharing with you the Needlework journey and lots of fun and inspiration from. Thanks for sharing with us the up and coming events on Needle 'n Thread for 2017.
Thank you, Mary, for everything you do.
Looking forward to what you'll be showing and teaching us in the coming year, but mostly I am happy and grateful that your health is better and that we get to have you around.
Speaking of organizing (or not!) maybe sometime you could write about how you organize your inspirations and developing your own projects out of all (if you're anything like me) seeds of ideas that pass through the brain, and the possibilities of the things you might do?
I'd like to know how others organize their inspirations too. I've assembled a hodgepodge of clippings in notebooks, and saved images, patterns, tutorials, on computer over the last mumblemumble decades. Oh – and books. Can I find anything? Nooooooo!
Thanks Mary! So excited for what you have for us this year. I've had some time off and I have completed several projects — a few quick and easy ones and got some more involved projects framed and on my wall. I so appreciate you and this site. Take care and God bless.
I hope that you have a safe, happy, and stitch filled New Year! Thank you so much for the joy and wonder your work instills in me.
Happy New Year Mary, Blessings for 2017.
Thank you, Mary and all best wishes for the New year and 2017 to you. Special wishes for a good health report for you this month. Looking forward to a fascinating sewing year!
I have noticed the energy and enthusiasm (dare I say perkiness?) back in your posts. I am so glad you are feeling better.
I'm so glad you're feeling better. I'm looking forward to 2107's topics. I have intentions to do a few of your kaleidoscope designs and a reverse monogram, and really enjoyed your other projects as well. Best wishes for health, happiness and much embroidery in the New Year.
May you be blessed and have a wonderful 2017.
Thanks so much Mary for all your wonderful posts throughout the year. I always send my students to your site for your excellent tutorials. I have been teaching children to embroider for many years and know it is a well loved art form. Their enthusiasm is energizing. I feel we need to teach as many young people as possible before so many of these wonderful ways for creative expression will be lost. Please feel free to read my blog…you might be the only reader. It tells the story of teaching embroidery in public school. I was very pleased to hear that you are feeling better and do hope that 2017 is a good one for you.
I just looked at your blog – I wish you had been my teacher!
Hi Mary – I don't suppose you missed my comments throughout the Christmas season, but I did read each of your giveaway posts and marveled at all the wonderful things you had to share. I didn't throw my name into the hat for any of them because you already had a ton of entries for each one. Now we're into the new year and I'll be back to my usual things. I wish you a much healthier 2017 and hope that it's filled with only good things for you.
Mary, have a wonderful 2017, starting with good news next week. Please! My resolution for 2016 was to stitch from stash – to buy new thread or fabric only for specific projects. I stuck to that, but only because needlework tools and books don't count as stash. Same resolution for 2017, with the additions of 'have fun while stitching' and 'learn and improve'. Your website is the best aid I know for helping me achieve these last two aims.
Wishing you and yours a very happy Year ahead and pray that all health issues will resolve themselves as best as possible. I look forward to all your offerings here in the coming months. Thank you for all the work you do for us.
Happy new year, Ms. Corbet, and good health to you!
New Year blessings Mary – keeping you in prayer that you will receive a good report later this week and be strengthened and encourage for the coming year. You and the work you do is such a blessings and encouragement to so many. Thank you so much.
I wish you the very best for the year to come. Hope your results are fine.
Happy New Year! Best wishes and prayers for a healthy year.
I'm so glad to hear you are feeling better and more productive. That is a good direction to be going in! May it continue.
Your blog is one of the best written craft blogs (or any topic) I've come across. Your technical writing is so excellent, a rare skill. I say that as an editor who has had to edit engineers. You convey complex information on advanced techniques that allows me to imagine myself doing those things, and then doing them! And you do it with a lot of warmth.
I look forward to following your journey here in 2017.
I just found your site because I was thinking about trying an embroidering project. I have been diving head first into any crafting project I can find. My husband has been diagnosed with cancer in 2016, and with 2 young kids, let's just say it's been a difficult time. Crafting helps me relax, but also it's helps by making me focus on something other than the disease, chemo, breaking up the kids fights… Hallelujah! When I read that you are fighting your own battle with cancer, I just wanted to reach out and wish you well. I hope everything works out.
My husband always says : Unchangeable conditions are only "unchangeable" because we believe they are.
Thanks, Emilie! I hope all goes well with your husband, too!
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August 13, 2015 -- The Best of California Awards will be presented at the California Technology Forum today by e.Republic's Center for Digital Government.
Alameda County's Shuttle Mobile App increased public transit ridership by 29 percent between county buildings for both employees and the public. The new app provides schedules, routes, pick-up points and more for the shuttle and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit).
The California Project Academy Series sponsored by the Department of Technology- has saved the state more than one million dollars in educator costs. This series received a special award for innovation in workforce initiatives for providing California IT professionals as volunteer trainers with the Academy to help educate the state's workforce in IT best practices.
The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) created a mobile device-based service with a technology for incorporating Transportation Network Companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecare into the airport's permitting process for commercial transport. SFO has licensed the technology that will create a new national standard for data interchange between airports and TNCs.
Winners are selected by a panel of judges based on a number of criteria, including collaboration among agencies, innovative use of technology, economic benefits and improving public services and business processes. During the reception following the California Technology Forum, 26 Outstanding IT Service and Support Awards will also be presented to those dedicated to California public service.
For the govtech.com story on the winners, please visit http://www.govtech.com/computing/2015-Best-of-California-Awards.html.


The SS17 slingback you need: pointed toe and trending round buckles. The all leather shoe that will see you through the season longer. BFFs with jeans.
Shoe is loose and lacks support.
the box and shoe were sized differently with a mix up between UK and US sizing... I returned and could not exchange.
I bought these shoes in silver to wear with my wedding dress! They are very comfortable, elegant, and they fit impeccably. Thank you, Long Tall Sally; you never disappoint!
Mary Hicks would recommend this product to a friend.
Excellent quality, fit and value.
Perfect for a wedding or two coming up! They are comfortable but still dressy.
Ordered these in both 14 and 15 since I'm in between sizes. Neither fit well, especially in the heels where mine wanted to shift to the inside. Adjusting the straps didn't help much. As a matter of personal taste, I also find the brushed leather on the blue ones to be too dressy and impractical for casual shoes. Nice color, though.
Downey would recommend this product to a friend.
I've bought these for a wedding, my feet look quite trim in them - for a size 10! Will look nice with jeans too.


This month Penguin launches a redesigned series of six classic titles, called Penguin Ink. But the 'ink' is not printers ink, but that of a more visceral kind.
Instead of commissioning illustrators to reimagine the covers, spines and flaps of these well-loved titles, the design team enlisted the help of six tattoo artists to put their stamp, or needle, on each of the books.
Will Self's The Book of Dave, Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club, Ali Smith's The Accidental, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal have all been 'inked', and given a very different feel by international tattooists Duncan X, Han van de Sluys, Judd Ripley, Lynn Akura, Russ Abbott and Valerie Vargas.
Design Week caught up with Penguin General designer Richard Bravery to get under the skin of the new series and ask him some questions about each of the designs.
Design Week: What was the thinking behind creating a series of tattoo-inspired covers?
Richard Bravery: The tattoo world has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Gone are the visions of seedy backstreet parlours, old sailors and bikers, many tattooist today are art school graduates. But despite this transformation some people still view tattoo art as underground and one-dimensional. We wanted to showcase the diversity and talent that exists within the tattoo world.
DW: How did you choose which tattoo artists to commission?
Bravery: We started the process with around 50 or 60 possible artists, selected from around the world, and from there started to pair artists with books. In some cases the association was there instantly, where the feel of the artwork matched that of the book. But what was important for us was to select six different artists with different styles and more importantly styles not commonly associated with tattoo art again to emphasise the diversity and talent within the tattoo world.
DW: What sort of brief did you give the artists and how would that differ from commissioning illustrators or designers?
Bravery: A big misconception is that tattooists lack vision and only do what is asked of them. All the artists were given open briefs, and from there it was a creative process of bouncing around workable concepts. Ultimately we didn't want the designs to turn out looking like 'glorified illustrated book covers' – they still needed to retain their integrity. It was important for us to listen to the artists, and allow the designs to develop naturally with as little interference from as possible.
DW: I particularly like the artist self-portraits in the back inside cover, what was the thinking behind those?
Bravery: The back flap is usually the domain of the author and the artist generally gets a small credit somewhere on the back of the cover, but with this being a artist led series we really wanted to change that. I think most of us can imagine how and where most artists work, but as we hadn't worked with any tattooists before, the more we found out about what makes them tick and how they worked, the more we wanted to feature them on the cover. We also wanted to give the reader a little insight into the eclectic mix of artists.
DW: Who designed the special Penguin Ink logo?
Bravery: We didn't want to give the logo to one particular tattooist from the series and instead of brining a different tattooist on board we decided to design the logo ourselves. The initial idea was to have just the anchor on the arm but the temptation was too great and we ended up adding many others. It was just a bit of fun really, we went through a lot of different tattoos before we came to the ones that we felt best matched the spirit that the little penguin embodies. Which I guess means we saw him as an old sea dog.
DW: Why do publishing houses bring out themed ranges like this one?
Bravery: For me I think that backlist is increasingly being seen as a place to innovate within a difficult and increasingly cautious market place. A good backlist book already has recognition factor, an immediate link with the customer, which is a big advantage as you aren't just a nameless face within a crowded bookshelf, and as such you can be braver with the design and push for new audiences, the backlist is a place where progressive design is thriving.
Actually Penguin USA put out the series Penguin Ink. Seeing the success they had under that team, Penguin UK jumped on the bandwagon. It's quite telling how Richard's omissions so deftly dance around the decency of giving credit where credit is due.
It is quite curious that not only the interviewer – but also Mr. Bravery of Penguin UK did not once mentioned in this interview that Penguin USA started the Penguin Ink series 3 years ago. The Ink series began of Paul Buckley, the Creative Director of Penguin USA, researching out a tattoo of his own, thinking the industry should be tapping into these very talented artists, in more commerical venues. His book Penguin 75, has a lengthy intro to the series and how it came about that sounds a bit like this interview. The UK publisher took notice and asked their art department to add to his series for the UK market; why Mr. Bravery choose not to mentioned any bit of this history is up to the reader to decide.
Hello anonymous and Ingsu, no great conspiracy I'm afraid, Penguin U.S and U.K frequently cross projects, both commercially and creatively, the Penguin U.S design book Ingsu mentions in the post being another example.
As you both rightly mention the Penguin Ink series was first published by Penguin U.S and Penguin U.K spoke to Paul Buckley before the series went live wishing him well. No intention of limelight theft, the 'Penguin Ink' series name was retained so that it would be clear that this was a U.K edition of the successful U.S series.


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China Begins First Virus Antibody Trials on Healthy People
By Di Ning and Matthew Walsh
Researchers have injected volunteers with antibodies cloned from people who had been infected with the virus that causes Covid-19.
China has begun the world's first trials of coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies on healthy people, marking a new step in the development of a treatment for Covid-19.
The National Medical Products Administration on Sunday gave the green light to Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Microbiology to start phase 1 clinical trials aimed at establishing whether the therapy is safe. The first group of participants have been administered the antibodies.
Zhang Wenhong, the high-profile infectious diseases department chief at Shanghai's Huashan Hospital who is co-monitoring the study, said in a Junshi press release that researchers hoped the trial would provide supporting data for further clinical plans. "Neutralizing antibody therapies will hopefully lead the way in becoming treatment choices for fighting the coronavirus," he said.
Junshi's shares in Hong Kong rose by 20% at the start of Monday trading as investors responded to the news. The pharmaceutical company ended the day up 7.5% at HK$46.75 ($6.03).
Neutralizing antibodies are specific proteins that bind to things like viruses and bacteria to stop them from working. Our immune systems produce them naturally to fight disease. As part of the fight against the coronavirus, scientists are exploring how to identify and reproduce neutralizing antibodies and administer them to help people recover from Covid-19 and prevent healthy people from getting infected.
Researchers injected volunteers with antibodies cloned from people who previously had SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The antibodies attach to spiky proteins on the surface of the virus and stop it from joining to the receptors that allow it to enter human cells, thereby preventing infection.
Junshi has not disclosed some details of the trials. The company told Caixin that it will release further information at a "suitable time."
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial is overseen by Zhang and his colleague Zhang Jing, who heads the hospital's antibody research center.
If the researchers conclude that the treatment is safe, they will likely proceed to phase 2 trials designed to test whether it actually works. From there, the therapy would have to pass a further stage of testing before it could be widely administered.
The Chinese scientists are reportedly the first to test a neutralizing antibody treatment on healthy individuals. Last week, U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co. Ltd. said it had collaborated with Canada's AbCellera Biologics Inc. to start phase 1 trials of a similar therapy previously used to treat sick Covid-19 patients.
Antibody therapies differ from vaccinations, which typically involve injecting people with weak or inactive forms of viruses or bacteria to prime the body's immune response.
Scientists worldwide are racing to develop coronavirus vaccines. Last week, governments and organizations pledged $8.8 billion to Gavi, the Gates Foundation-backed global vaccine alliance, in order to fund Covid-19 immunizations.
The pandemic has infected 7.1 million people and killed 406,000 globally, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University that uses official government data.
Contact reporter Matthew Walsh (matthewwalsh@caixin.com) and editor Joshua Dummer (joshuadummer@caixin.com)
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... display that faces the Mur River and the city center; the BIX Media Facade is a stunning fusion of architecture and the latest media technology.
foster a feeling of European citizenship.
In 2003 the European Capital of Culture was Graz, Austria. Kunsthaus Graz was constructed as a part of the celebrations and exhibitions that went along with the yearlong celebration of European Culture. I think that I for one would likely have thought Cook and Fournier somewhat crazy had I seen plans for the Kunsthaus Graz before it's construction. I simply could not have had the vision to realize that instead of looking ugly and out of place amongst the baroque red tile roofs of Graz the building actually manages to merge with and enhance the cityscape. It is probably that type of vision that separates the average architect from the truly extraordinary architect.
Kunsthaus Graz is built primarily of reinforced concrete and is covered in translucent warm-blue acrylic paneling with white plaster and metal mesh on the interior. There are 16 "nozzles" on the top of the building; one nozzle provides for smoke evacuation in case of fire, one offers a view of the original architectural icon of Graz, the Clock Tower [which is a truly remarkable piece of architecture in its own right - image source] and the rest provide for daylight and artificial light sources on the upper exhibition floors. Named for the combination of the words "Big" and "Pixels" the BIX Media Facade features 930 fluorescent rings that are embedded in the outer skin with the illumination level of each ring being variable from 0% to 100%. Operating as "pixels" they are controlled by a computer and are capable of displays as varied as the mind and imagination of those who get a chance to program them.
The Kunsthaus Gras is primarily an exhibition space but there are no permanent collections; instead the establishment aims to offer an ever changing array of exhibits of modern and contemporary art from the last 50 years or so.
There is no Google "Street View" but I did manage to snag a couple of nice screen shots from the "Bird's Eye" view in Bing Maps which are actually quite cool. On the video tab there are a couple of videos which show the BIX Media Facade in action; while I think the videos probably give a good idea of what the displays look like I think that to get a true feel for what the Kunsthaus Graz is all about you would need to visit in person; maybe one day. In the meantime I will conent myself with the videos and the excellent book "Peter Cook And Colin Fournier: Friendly Alien ".


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Glen Wilkinson (born 4 July 1959) is an Australian professional snooker player from Miranda, New South Wales who is currently ranked the number ten snooker player in Australia. He is also a National Director of Coaching for snooker in Australia.

Career
In 1983 Wilkinson got the highest break (105) in the Australian Open Championship in Gosford, New South Wales and the following year he went on to win the Open in Perth, Western Australia at the age of 25, again having the highest break of the tournament with 101. A year later he turned professional and moved to England to compete, where he had moderate success reaching a world ranking of No. 91. Returning to Australia in 1990, he was runner-up in the Australian Open Championship in 1998 with the tournament now being held in Sydney each year.

His next tournament win came in 1999 when he won the Rooty Hill Masters, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) South Pacific Snooker Championship and The New South Wales (NSW) Open Snooker Championship. In 2000 he successfully defended both his Rooty Hill Masters and The NSW Open Championship titles.

He won The NSW Open Championship again in 2001, 2002 and 2004.
He reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open Championship in 2001 and 2004

However, between 2001 and 2004 it was the only title he won until 2005 when he won both the NSW Open Championship and also the Central Coast Leagues Club Classic, held in Gosford, New South Wales beating Joe Minici in the final. He was also runner-up in the Australian Open Championship, where he lost to Dene O'Kane of New Zealand in the final and runner-up to Steve Mifsud in the Princes Coca-Cola Cup. In the Kings Australia Cup he reached the semi-finals where he lost to eventual winner Neil Robertson.

In 2006 at the age of 47, he won the inaugural Australian Masters Championship, beating Paul Asher in the final. He was also runner-up in three tournaments – the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Masters, the Central Coast Leagues Club Classic, where he lost to Neil Robertson. and the Fred Osbourne Memorial Snooker, losing to James Mifsud as well as reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open Championship, where he lost to Dene O'Kane, the Princes Coca-Cola Cup where he lost to eventual winner Aaron Mahoney the Lance Pannell Snooker Classic where he lost to Steve Mifsud, the NSW Open Championship and the Oceania Snooker Championship. In the South Pacific Snooker Championship he reached the quarter-final stage before losing to eventual winner Paul Balzer.

In 2007 he had his most successful year to date, winning the Australian Open Championship, the Australian National Championship held at the RACV Club in Melbourne beating Shawn Budd in the final, the Australian Masters Championship, beating Nathan Webb in the final the Queensland Open, beating Steve Mifsud in the final. and the NSW Open Championship.
He also reached the final of the Allied Metal Recyclers West Coast International where he lost to Neil Robertson. In the Central Coast Leagues Club Classic he reached the semi-finals. He also reached the semi-finals of the Lance Pannell Snooker Classic and the Princes Coca-Cola Cup He again reached the quarter-finals of the South Pacific Open Championship

In 2008 Wilkinson won the Oceania Championship beating Chris McBreen in the final. In the Kings Australia Cup he reached the semi-finals losing to Neil Robertson. He also reached the semi-finals of the Australian Masters Championship and the Lance Pannell Snooker Classic. He is currently ranked at number two in Australia behind Steve Mifsud.

Wilkinson is now one of two National Directors of Coaching along with Robby Foldvari, appointed by the Australian Billiards & Snooker Council.

Tournament wins

Australia/World championships
 Australian Open Championship – 1984, 2007
 Australian Masters Championship – 2006, 2007
 Australian National Championship – 2007
 Oceania Championship – 2008, 2009

National ranking tournaments
 WPBSA South Pacific Snooker Championship – 1999
 Central Coast League Club Classic – 2005

State championships
 New South Wales Open Championship – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
 Queensland Open – 2007
 New South Wales Doubles Champion – 2007, 2008, 2009 (partner Alex Render)

Other tournaments
 Rooty Hill Masters – 1999, 2000

References

Australian snooker players
1959 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sydney
Competitors at the 2009 World Games

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At the same time New York City kicks off against the Revs at Gillette Stadium (5 p.m. ET), Atlanta United faces the New York Red Bulls in Harrison, N.J. in a match with playoff implications.
An Atlanta United win coupled with an NYCFC loss would jettison The Five Stripes into a tie with the latter for second place in the Eastern Conference.


Clemson Spineless Okra is an All-American Award winner. Delicious in gumbo as well as fried. Related to hibiscus, the pods form soon after its beautiful flowers fade.
Dark green, delicious pods grow up to 8" in length and are the trademark of the Dwarf Long Pod Okra. A garden favorite often enjoyed in gumbo or as a fried delight. Dried seedpods can act as a surprising addition to wreaths. Harvest when pods are small and soft.
Beautiful red lances will adorn the horizon when you plant this okra. Foliage grows tall in deep purple and green hues, and its plum-colored fruit turns green when cooked, leading to delicious consequences.
1939 AAS Winner. Best when pods are 4-5" long. Straight, deep green, spineless ribbbed pods grow 7-8" long, 1.5" wide. Prolific and of fine quality.
The fleshy, ribbed pods are very tender when picked at 3 inches in length. Great in Cajun dishes or when fried or boiled by itself. Heavy production with regularly picking. This packet will plant approximately a 68 foot row.
Plants 4 ft. high, produce an abundance of dark green, slightly grooved, straight, pointed pods without spines. Best when 2.5 - 3 in. long. All-America Winner. Ready to pick 56 days after seed is sown. GARDEN HINTS: Soak seed in warm water overnightto speed germination. Pick pods young, while still tender. Pods are excellent for use in soups, stews and relishes.
Attractive bushes with burgundy-red pods, stems and midribs, contrasting with bright green leaves. Very productive, with creamy yellow flowers and tender pods up to 3-6" long. An All-American Selections Winner in 1988, a great choice for short season and Southern gardens. Requires full sun and loves summer heat. Certified Organic.
Plants 4' high, produce an abundance of dark green, slightly grooved, straight, pointed pods without spines. Best when 2 1/2 - 3" long. All-American Winner. Harvest in about 56 days.
This extra early maturing okra variety is very compact and has small leaves. It offers high yields of very uniform dark green shiny pods. Okra requires consistently warm soil temperatures for best results.
This open pollinated variety is the most popular on the market. The plants are vigorous and produce exceptionally uniform straight medium-green spineless ribbed pods. A very prolific and high yielding variety with an open leaf growing habit.
South Texas heirloom. Beautiful 6' tall red-stemmed plants produce wide green pods tinged with red. Full of the good okra flavor popular in the hill regions of the south. Excellent pickling variety. 60-70 days.
�Introduced by Clemson University; AAS winner in 1939. Still the most popular open-pollinated variety on the market. Vigorous plants grow 3-5' tall. Exceptionally uniform, deep green ribbed and spineless pods are ideally harvested when 3" long. Excellent quality. 50-64 days.
(aka Burgundy) Bred by Leon Robbins at Clemson University after eight years of careful selection. Introduced in 1983; AAS winner in 1988. Stunning 4' plant with burgundy accents and tender burgundy pods up to 6" long. Good yields. 55-60 days.
�One of the most interesting varieties in SSE�s okra collection. Ivory-green pods grow to 7" long on vigorous 6' tall plants. Tender when young, delicious flavor. Great producer at Heritage Farm. 80 days.
(aka Old Fashioned Okra) Israeli heirloom. Thick pods are best picked at about 3" long. Named because cross-sections of pods look like the Star of David. Tall 7' plants have purple coloration on leaves. 60-75 days.


The linux kernel is responsible for managing all the hardware. Which brings us to the question: how does it know what hardware there is to manage? On traditional PC platforms, the kernel can read out a lot of information from the BIOS. But on embedded devices such as the BeagleBone (Black), there is no BIOS to read from.
The answer is that you simply tell the kernel what hardware is present. The way you do that, is by providing a device tree during boot. This tree lists all the hardware that is present on the system, along with the needed parameters.
This tells the kernel that it has 256MB (0x10000000 bytes) of memory, mapped from 0x80000000 onwards. The device tree has such an entry for every hardware part. These nodes are organised in a tree, so that the mailbox for PRU0 is located under the mailboxes node, so it can reuse lots of parameters. Update: I've found a really good explanation of the device tree for the Raspberry Pi [local copy]. The device tree is exactly the same, but the way to load overlays is different.
The kernel needs a flattened version of this device tree to boot, aptly called the flattened device tree (fdt). The boot-loader should provide this when booting a kernel (much like the initramdisk). The device tree compiler can be used to compile device trees in to flattened device trees (and the other way around, but you lose some symbolic references in that direction).
The device tree is only read at boot, which means it's not possible to dynamically add/change hardware after boot. To solve this problem, BeagleBone has developed the device tree overlay, a changeset that can be applied (and un-applied!) to the device tree. BeagleBone needed this to support their Capes, hence the name cape manager.
The device tree also checks for exclusive usage of hardware resources. It makes sure that you can't allocate a single PIN to 2 different functions at once.
In order to use GPIO pins from the PRU, you need to load a device tree fragment, at least to let the kernel know that you intend to use hardware components. And while you're at it, you can ask the kernel to configure them for you as well. I needed 4 GPIO pins for my PRU logic. They were located on GPIO2, which is otherwise unused. Without the device tree, the whole GPIO-hardware was put in shutdown by the kernel, which took me a while to figure out. The following device tree overlay enables these parts.
You can unload the overlay by echo'ing -$slotnumber to the slots file.
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I'm planning my 4th of July menu since the long holiday weekend us coming up fast. I'm sure there will be grilled steaks and burgers but it's the side dishes that are always way more interesting. No doubt I'll serve a vegetable salad and there will be veggies grilled alongside the meat. Asparagus and corn are our big favorites on the grill. But I just know that everybody is going to want some delicious carbs to go along with it all.
It generally comes down to a choice between a potato salad and a pasta salad but I try to give whichever I choose an original spin. Whenever I give my family a choice between the two, the odds are they'll choose the pasta. But that typically conjures up images of mayonnaise laden deli style macaroni salads and I've never been a huge fan of those.
When I'm prepping salads for a party, particularly ones that will likely be outdoors and in warm weather, I prefer to dress them with a vinaigrette of some kind rather than a mayonnaise based dressing. With this pasta salad, I used a fun shape and gave it a Middle Eastern flavor profile with the addition of chickpeas, za'atar and a touch of tahini in the vinaigrette. It thickened up the dressing and gave it a great nutty flavor. I also found garlic scapes at the farmer's market and couldn't resist using them. Their season is short so feel free to use regular garlic if you can't find the garlic scapes. Enjoy!
Add the pasta to a large pot of boiling salted water and cook according to package directions. Drain and return to the pot. Stir in the rinsed and drained chickpeas and the baby spinach leaves. Note that the residual heat of the pasta will cook the spinach down a bit.
Make the dressing by whisking together the chopped garlic scapes or minced garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, sesame paste, water, red pepper flakes, dried oregano, black pepper and salt.
Toss the pasta, spinach and chickpeas with the dressing and serve at room temperature.


Fickle Feline: count your blessings instead of sheep.
It has taken me a long time to get to a place where I feel truly thankful. There have been plenty of days when I have asked myself "Why is my little boy the 1 in 70 who has autism? Why can't it be someone else's son?". I still wonder sometimes what Max would be like if he didn't have autism. But more and more I am accepting that Max is Max. He is wonderful and quirky, beautiful and odd, smart and complex, and most of all, he is my gift. He is my life's work.
Without Max, I would not be who I am today. I have learned more from this little boy in the past 5 years than I learned in the previous 31 combined. He has taught me that if you believe in someone, you can help them achieve amazing things. That dreaming big is powerful, the cup is half full, and positive thinking is contagious. He has shown me that when you are quiet, you can take in so much more than when you speak, and that if you take the time to notice, everything you need to know can be found in a person's eyes.
Thank you, universe, for Max. I am a better person because he is my son. I have no idea where our journey will take us, but I know that Max will continue to bring love and light into the lives of those who know him. Happy Thanksgiving.
So beautifully said! Thank you ! I too feel the same about my son!


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Society Vietnamese woman faces charges for trafficking scam
Vietnamese woman faces charges for trafficking scam
HO CHI MINH CITY - Saturday, April 25, 2015 11:00 Email Print
A police's photo of Tran Thi Phuong Long, who is facing charges for bringing local women to Malaysia and making them work for sex
Vietnamese runs sex ring out of her restaurant, lures clients with 'clean veggies'
Malay, Vietnamese arrested for tricking and starving women into sex work
Saigon pimp hands out business cards for sex service, gets arrested
A Vietnamese woman is facing charges of fraud and human trafficking as investigation has found she tricked local women, including minors, into sex trade in Malaysia.
Investigators from the Ministry of Public Security said Friday they have acted on victims' complaints and completed the case against Tran Thi Phuong Long, 31.
According to the victims, Long, 31, had tricked around 45 Vietnamese women from across Vietnam to travel to Malaysia for well-paid jobs but then forced them into sex work, which is illegal in both countries.
But police have only managed to verify six cases, including three who escaped to Vietnam last July. The other three were helped to return home in August, soon before Long was arrested.
Some of the women were under 18.
Investigation found that Long left Vietnam for Malaysia in 2004 and made a living by selling noodle soup and helping at a pork shop.
She learned about the sex industry in Malaysia in 2009 by working for a Malay owner of many bars and restaurants, bringing his staff to various places to serve sex to customers.
Soon later, she was contracted by the man to provide him women under 30 years old from Vietnam. The deal gave her a VND2 million (nearly US$1,000) cut on each woman.
Long traveled home many times from 2010 to recruit women.
She told the women she owned some bars and restaurants and she needed waitresses, for wages of more than VND10 million ($500) a month, several times more than the average income in Vietnam's rural areas.
Victims said the offer was attractive, and they only knew that they had been scammed after arriving in Malaysia.
They were forced to serve sex to customers and their payment was withheld to pay for their visa fees and air tickets.
Three of the women managed to escape and came back to Vietnam last July.
But Long and her Malay boyfriend Yeow KengHo went to their hometowns and attack their relatives in order to force them to come back to work.
They beat an escapee's brother after he refused to pay the money for her visa and air tickets, and took his smartphone.
For that act, the duo are facing robbery charges, according to the police.
Vietnam police early this month arrested another Vietnamese woman and a Malay man for conducting a similar scheme.
An officer said many Vietnamese women have left their poor hometown longing for a better life overseas. But thousands have ended up as sex workers.
Chinese market once made the headlines, but Malaysia seems to be the new destination now.
"Some women who have been rescued still want to go back, even when they know for sure they will be forced into sex work again," the officer said.
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The European Union (EU) adopted the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR on April 2106 to keep personal data for EU citizens safe. In the wake of an increase in the number of malicious attacks that compromise businesses' networks, it was high time government regulation stepped in to protect personal data.
The GDPR does not only apply to businesses in the EU. It also affects any company that handles personal data of those who live in the EU. So if you thought you were exempt because you are a business in the U.S. or Canada, think again. Your company will still have to comply with the new regulation.
The clock is ticking. The GDPR goes into effect in May 2018. Right now is the time to assess how your company handles personal data and how you can start following the regulation especially if you do business within the E.U. You will need to report breaches, understand how you manage personal data and make changes to information within a moment's notice.
Check out this video for eight checklist items that will help you get ready for the GPDR.
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GDPR goes live in 3 months. Are you ready?


I found an interesting news item yesterday whilst looking for something else and made a note to talk about it here later. The news item is titled "Security Threats Branch Out From Windows To Mac And Linux" and is written by Antone Gonsalves. The article investigates how security holes are being found everywhere now. Alan Paller, the director of research for the SANS Institute makes some interesting points. Oracle's products are mentioned too in the article.


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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Resignation, WikiLeaks E-Mails, and Five Facts to Know About Her
By: Amanda Cabral - Published: July 25, 2016 at 7:55 am
Credit: Brock Miller / Splash News
In recent news, the Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned on Sunday, amidst allegations that the DNC knowingly sabotaged Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. For all the eager voters, who are scandalized by these revelations and are Googling, "Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns," "Debbie Wasserman Schultz WikiLeaks emails," "DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz," and "DNC chairwoman," don't go anywhere else because we'll tell you everything you need to know about DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the WikiLeaks emails right here.
Here are five facts to know about the former DNC chairwoman, 49-year-old Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
Her Husband Is Steve Schultz
Wasserman Schultz is married to a former banker Steven Schultz, who is now a stay-at-home dad. The couple has been married for 24 years, and her husband takes care of their three children. The family lives in Weston, South Florida.
She Is Debt-Ridden
Allegedly, Wasserman Schultz has a negative net worth, because of her numerous debts. She is said to be one of the poorest Congress members. The couple has two mortgages, a credit card debt of $15,00,0 and a home equity line of credit of more than $250,000.
DNC WikiLeaks Emails
In the last week, 19,252 emails were leaked from DNC officials accounts including 175 spreadsheets and 891 documents. In an email leaked by WikiLeaks and hacker Guccifer 2.0, Wasserman Schultz referred to Bernie Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weavers, as a "damn liar." She also asserted that Sanders had "no understanding" of what the DNC did.
Resignation from DNC
Wasserman Schultz was forced to tender her resignation as chairwoman of the DNC because of over 20,000 emails of DNC staffers that were leaked in the media. The congresswoman came under pressure from influential Democrats after being accused of favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders amidst allegations that the primary was rigged.
Wasserman Schultz has a master's degree in political science from the University of Florida. At 26 years old, she was the youngest woman to be elected to the state legislature and was the first Jewish congresswoman elected from Florida. The mother of three is a breast cancer survivor and has undergone seven surgeries in the past, including a double mastectomy.


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Countries show solidarity for independent trade advisor body
By: Pacific Network on Globalisation
(SUVA, Monday, March 21, 2011) – Forum island countries have taken another step towards their own independent body for advice on trade with the Office of the Chief Trade Advisor (OCTA) now established as a legal entity, but not without a fight.
The registering of the OCTA as a legal entity was a hot topic of discussion at last week's meeting of Forum trade officials in Palau. The island countries opted to move beyond the current interim arrangement being used to support the OCTA which is through the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to legally incorporate OCTA Inc under Vanuatu law.
The decision by island officials comes against the preference of Australia who has expressed some concerns about the Constitution of the OCTA despite it being endorsed by all the Island countries and its governing board. Australia pushed for the extension of the current interim arrangements.
Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator for the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) said that "the advantage of the approach taken by island countries in Palau ensures that FICs will have total control over the OCTA which is something that the countries have fought for. Extending the current interim arrangement under PIFS could result in destroying OCTA as an independent organisation. This is the islands opportunity to rapidly move to consolidating the long term strategic need for independent capacity in trade policy and trade negotiations for our region."
The current funding arrangements from Australia and New Zealand for the OCTA are due to expire in less than one week's time - on March 28. Whilst Australia has indicated that it would continue to provide funding it is unclear after the Palau meeting if Australia will proceed without the incorporation of their comments on the OCTA Constitution. New Zealand is yet to commit to any further funding.
Ms Penjueli commented that, "we understand that the OCTA would have sufficient funding for two to three months, whilst far from being an ideal situation, the OCTA can now source more stable and permanent funding arrangements outside of Australia and New Zealand."
The next meeting of trade officials will take place in Tonga on May 16 – 17, followed by a meeting of Forum trade Ministers.


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By Tina Fisher Cunningham
The Forde Files No 76
New inspector on site, hospital bustling
Shedding light on local issues
Tina Fisher Cunningham
An OSHPD (Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development) building at the Tehachapi Replacement Acute Care Hospital on July 31, 2014.
With a new Inspector of Record (IOR) and new concrete contractor on site, construction on Tehachapi Replacement Acute Care Hospital came roaring back to life the week of July 28 after a several-month slowdown. The construction office bustled with contractors and supervisors poring over plans as new materials appeared throughout the site.
Abel Parra of Santa Clarita Concrete, Carpenters Local 209, works on forms.
"It's been an interesting month," Project Manager Stacey Pray told the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District Board of Directors on July 30. "We will be getting a new schedule from Bernards/Colombo [construction managers] next week." During the slowdown, in the absence of an OSHPD (Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development) inspector, work continued on non-OSHPD parts of the project – Magellan and Challenger roads and the administration and support buildings (OSHPD buildings are those that house patients).
Seventeen million of the $87-million project has been spent, Pray said.
Chief Financial Officer Chet Beedle reported to the board that the district has $97.9 million in total assets. In his fiscal year financial report, Beedle said that expenditure in the category of Charity Care has dropped to $2,016 from $18,513 in 2013 ("Almost gone," he said) because people have insurance with the expansion of Medi-Cal and Covered California.


This year I signed up for the Reddit Pokemon Gift Exchange. The idea was to recreate the mural which appears in Season 1, Episode 2, around the 8:10 mark.
I started with imagemagick, getting the screenshot into a useful state.
Then I traced each legend onto 1/4" plywood, and glued it into another sheet to give some kind of layering effect.
There are many things I am not very good at, and artistry is on that list. I've never done anything like this before, and spent a lot of time at Michael's figuring out what kind of paint I'm supposed to use. Well, here's the finished product. I used acrylic paints and sponges for the large areas, and a $1 crayola brush from Target for the borders and features.
For a sense of scale, it is three feet tall and four feet long. With packaging, it just barely fits in the trunk of my car.
Shipping cost more than the supplies.
Fortunately, it survived the trip from Pittsburgh to Missouri. My randomly-matched gift-receiver and his wife and corgis were very happy to receive it.
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Star Systems
Although constellations have stars that usually only appear to be close together, stars may be found in the same portion of space. Stars that are grouped closely together are called star systems. Larger groups of hundreds or thousands of stars are called star clusters. The image shown here is a famous star cluster classed M45, also known as Pleides, which can be seen with the naked autumn sky.Although the star humans know best is a single star, many stars—in fact, more than half of the bright stars in our galaxy—are star systems. A system of two stars orbiting each other is a binary star. A system with more than two stars orbiting each other is a multiple star system. The stars in a binary or multiple star system are often so close together that they appear as one and only through a telescope can the pair be distinguished.
Star clusters are divided into two main types, open clusters and globular clusters. Open clusters are groups of up to a few thousand stars that are loosely held together by gravity. Pleiades is an open cluster that is also called the Seven Sisters. Open clusters tend to be blue in color and often contain glowing gas and dust. Why do you think that open clusters have these features? Open clusters are made of young stars that formed from the same nebula. The stars may eventually be pulled apart by gravitational attraction to other objects.
Globular clusters are groups of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars held tightly together by gravity. Figure below shows an example of a globular cluster. Globular clusters have a definite, spherical shape and contain mostly reddish stars. The stars are closer together, closer to the center of the cluster. Globular clusters don't have much dust in them—the dust has already formed into stars.
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A Beruházási Viták Rendezésének Nemzetközi Központja (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID) egy önálló nemzetközi intézmény, amely az országok és államok közötti beruházási viták megoldására alakult. Az ICSID pártatlan nemzetközi fórum, amely biztosítja a felek közötti jogi viták megoldását kiegyezés vagy bírósági eljárás útján. Az ICSID jelentős szerepet játszik a nemzetközi beruházások és gazdasági fejlesztések területén.

Az ICSID-t létrehozó egyezmény egy sokoldalú megállapodás, amelyet a Világbank vezető igazgatói fogalmaztak meg. 1965. március 18-án került aláírásra és 1966. október 14-én lépett hatályba. Az egyezmény rögzíti az ICSID mandátumát, szervezetét és fő funkcióit.

Az ICSID arra törekszik, hogy eltávolítsa a jelentősebb akadályokat a magánbefektetések nemzetközi áramlása érdekében, amelyeket a nem üzleti kockázatok és a beruházási vitákra szakosodott módszerek hiánya okoz.

Források

Nemzetközi gazdasági szervezetek


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Milène Tournier, née en 1988 à Nice, est une dramaturge et poétesse française.

Biographie
Après des études à l'École doctorale Arts et Médias de l'Université Sorbonne- Nouvelle; section Architecture, arts appliqués, arts plastiques, arts du spectacle, Milène Tournier soutient en 2017 sa thèse, dirigée par Hélène Kuntz, sous le titre Figures de l'impudeur: dire, écrire, jouer l'intime 1970-2016. Dans cette thèse, à partir de travaux de différents artistes relevant de discipline différentes (littérature, art contemporain, chanson française, arts de la scène) la question de l'impudeur est abordée, non pas à partir d'une considération morale, mais comme possible constituant d'une esthétique à part entière.

Publications

 Et puis le roulis, 2018, Éditions Théâtrales
Pièce de théâtre pour 2 hommes, deux femmes et un chœur. Un dialogue entre la mère, le père et le fils-monstre, qui aborde l'étrangeté de l'autre et la douleur de l'incompréhension.
 Nuits, 2019, La P'tite Hélène éditions,

Un monologue, intérieur nuit. Un questionnement existentiel, nourri d'émotions théâtrales, des nuits contemporaines : nuit debout, les longues nuits des gilets jaunes; et encore d'autres nuits : nuits sans sommeil, nuits adolescentes, rétro-éclairées par le smartphone allumé.

 Poèmes d'époque, 2019, Éditions Polder, préfacé par François Bon.

Recueil de poèmes, à partir de ses post sur sa chaine YouTube, sous des formes variées : improvisation en prose, poèmes-instantanés, vidéos-poèmes. Une écriture décrite comme directe, ancrée dans le quotidien le plus cru mais sans trivialité ni pathos.

 L'autre jour, 2020, Éditions Lurlure

Recueil de poèmes : poèmes de famille, poèmes urbains, poèmes du siècles, poèmes en silence. ce recueil est présenté comme une foule d'éclats, d'instants de vie, extraits de la cacophonie ordinaire, et dont la profonde puissance d'évocation marque la critique littéraire.

 Je t'aime comme, 2022, Éditions Lurlure

Recueil de poèmes, bâti sur le modèle du "Je me souviens" de Georges Pérec, s'est construit à partir d'une série pré-existantes de capsules vidéos commençant toutes par je t'aime comme.... Un passage de la déclaration d'amour à l'extrême du j'aime tout.

 Se coltiner grandir, 2022, Éditions Lurlure

"Sans doute est ce là un livre plus chantonné qu'écrit. Un livre écrit avec le souvenir des souvenirs écrits, une poésie pas trop loin de l'autobiographie, même si celles-ci, souvent, se chassent comme des sœurs". Par ces mots consignés dans l'anthologie permanente de Poezibao, Milène Tournier nous donne quelques clefs sur l'arpentage qu'elle poursuit autour de la question de l'intime.

Autres publications
Les écrits de Milène Tournier sont également publiés dans les revues ou ouvrages collectifs :

 aux éditions Tiers Livre Éditeur On ne pense jamais assez aux escaliers en 2017, Une histoire parallèle du cinéma en 2018, Je vous parlerai d'une autre nuit en 2018.
 aux Éditions Pourquoi viens-tu si tard, Esprit d'arbre en 2018.
 aux numéros 8 et 9 Revue internationale de poésie de Paris-Sorbonne, Place de La Sorbonne, 2018 et 2019.

Vidéo-poèmes
Milène Tournier publie sur sa chaine YouTube, depuis 2015, des poèmes-vidéos. Elle présente l'origine et la matière de ce travail, qui participe à sa pratique d'écriture, de cette manière : « Écrire en/sur/avec la vidéo, c'est venu en voyant le travail de François Bon. Ses longs travelling quotidiens, entre Paris et Cergy, ses vidéos nocturnes de Jean Barbin. Avec un vieux smartphone, et que ça écrivait, ça faisait écrire, ça transformait écrire, mais c'était encore écrire. C'est pas de l'image et de la bande écrite, ce serait plutôt une autre façon d'être dans la journée, dans le temps, et que ça aussi, c'est écrire, c'est déjà écrire ».

Une de ses créations a été présentée en 2018 au Centre Pompidou, dans le cadre de Littéra-TUBE, une proposition de Gilles Bonnet, Erika Fülöp et Gaëlle Théval, autour des expériences de vidéo-écriture diffusées sur internet.

Cinéma
Automne Malade est un court métrage, de type docu-fiction, réalisé par Lola Cambourieu et Yann Berlier en 2019, produit par Réalviscéralisme.

Il s'agit d'une rencontre entre un paysan du Cantal (Michel Maciazek) et une jeune parisienne (Milène Tournier). Le film emprunte son titre à un poème de Guillaume Apollinaire. L'histoire de ce film est traversée par la maladie de la mère de l'héroine, ainsi que par l'automne et l'arrivée de l'hiver. Tourné avec deux acteurs amateurs, des images issues de leurs archives familiales et personnelles sont utilisées dans le montage. Automne malade est primé au Festival international du court-métrage de Winterhur, en Suisse, en 2019, et Milène Tournier reçoit la mention spéciale du jury pour l'interprétation féminine.

Distinctions

 2012-2013 : 1er prix de la 18e édition Prix de la Nouvelle : premier concours d'écriture de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
 2018 :  Aide à la création (Artcena), catégorie littérature dramatique pour Et puis le roulis.
 2017 : Aide à la création (Artcena), rubrique Encouragements pour Dans ma ville.
 2021 : Prix de la société des gens de lettres SGDL, Révélation de Poésie pour L'Autre jour.

Notes et références

Liens externes

 https://www.youtube.com/c/MileneTournier/about

Poétesse française du XXIe siècle
Dramaturge française du XXIe siècle
Naissance à Nice
Naissance en novembre 1988


What is Email Hosting? and how to use it?
I assume you mean email hosting for your website?
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Email hosting is just what the name says. You have your email hosted with a company. Most people do this simply with the hosting company they are using to also host their domain name, etc. But some choose to use google or a third party of their choice.
What is a third party of your choice? Google apps or Gmail?
A email hosting company - They offer such program and tools which you can use for MMA or various other type of business. The services can be mass mailing, dedicated mailled, newsletter building company and such and such.
Heard about a company named Mailchimp? yes! they use our email hosting servers. They offer people newsletters or signup mail and else. Depends on high quality mail distribution servers.
Well, it's an example. Many people use Email Hosting service for Advertising and much more.
I like email service like Mailchimp but it's possible to setup a hosting server to sending emails out like them?
I am afraid of getting domain or email into blacklist if sending emails that some people don't want to receive.
HAHA! it's a whole diff story my friend. Mailchimp aren't email hosting provider, they are mass email service provider.
1. Which country people you want to target?
2. Are they Free mail or Official mail users?
3. Buying a batch of domains and IPs.
Look free email service companies can make you email IP and domain black listed if you send over 250+ from one domain or IP. So I suggest do the mass domains and IPs and there is 100s of ways to make your domain clean to be black listed.
It's a service where you just get email services, you can point your domain and get webmail boxes from them etc..
Email hosting plans are plans which will give a secure and personalised email address because emails are important means of communication in business and portraying a right image is necessary for the growth and goodwill of the business.
Email hosting is where hosting companies provide email services for your domain name.
For some hosting plans, they allow you to create unlimited accounts subject to the disk space of the hosting plan. Thus you will be able to host email for your company.
That's called OWN Emails Address/ Service Hosting. Well, terms could be anything to choose a branding but real thing is in the features.
Suppose BIGROCK.COM > I thought what the hell they offer.. I found them on Google. And saw they offering Domain Hosting. I thought maybe there is any rock or free rock with every domain or something related to ROCK .. But none.!
So this is called branding. I always suggest to read the features carefully before investing.
Email hosting can be defined as a server space where your emails are kept and stored securely. For example, if someone sends you an email, then that email is transferred to that email server where that email is saved for the further purpose.
Email hosting is the basic service where the business can use it for the transaction mail sending or the scheduler type of mails. So the mails can be commercial or in house. The hosting service just ensures that they are delivering the mails at higher delivery percentage. You can find such services like Mailgun, Mailjet and Mendrake email hosting. Those are not cheap definitely but they can be good option for low cost mail sending.
Are you using Paid Traffic to build your list?
What kind of Online business for more profit?
Is it possible to get 1000 Facebook real likes in lesser than 7 days?


On Friday in the chambers of the Board of Supervisors, Board of Supervisors Chairman Todd Spitzer emceed the swearing-in of Shari Freidenrich, who enters her term as Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector. Sheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens administered the oath of office. Captain Emily Sanford, USN (Ret.) gave the invocation while former Supervisor/former Treasurer-Tax Collector John Moorlach led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Freidenrich was unopposed in her June 2014 re-election bid for Treasurer-Tax Collector. She served as the elected Huntington Beach City Treasurer from 1996 until 2010, when she was elected to her first term as Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector.


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Absolutely, children of from the ages of 6 upwards are more than welcome! Half hour lessons each week tend to work best with younger students of the ages between 6 and 12. Get in touch for more information about my dedicated lessons for younger students.
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Of course, the choice is completely yours! I teach both electric guitar and acoustic guitar, in many styles and genres.
Absolutely, anyone can learn guitar - I have taught children guitar aged as young as six to adults in their late 70s. Seriously, if you have the passion for guitar you will certainly be able to play in it no time at all!


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Q: How do I include multiple paragraphs as part of a single numbered entry in a numbered list? I have a document with a numbered list in it. Each entry was originally a single line, but as I have developed the document, I've decided that each entry needs additional explanation, and those explanations potentially run into multiple paragraphs.
I want to keep the numbering as it is. Word seems to assume that one number equals one paragraph. The only way I've found on my own to keep the numbering the way I want it is to individually number the "one-liners", and just format the entire collection to look as though it's a numbered list, without actually being one from Word's point of view. The problem with this is that I would have to manually renumber if I decide to rearrange the entries.
Is there a way to have a group of paragraphs treated as a single entry in a numbered list, with the number only appearing with the first paragraph?
Example:
1. Entry One, first paragraph

   Entry One, second paragraph

   Entry One, third paragraph

2. Entry Two, first paragraph

   Entry Two, second paragraph

3. Entry Three, only paragraph

4. Entry Four, first paragraph

...and so on.

A: As one way of doing this, you may define the additional paragraphs
as bulleted. They will by default become sub-bullets of the previous
numbered paragraph, so left-align them by
Shift+Tab.
The bulleted paragraphs will not affect the ordinals of the
numbered list.
Finally, change the bullet character to the blank character.
Here is how it will look:

A: Quick and dirty: You could use a manual line break at the end of the numbered line. (Shift+Enter). Then use Enter alone when you want a new number.
Alternatively, you could set it as a multi-level list with some levels not having a bullet. The full procedure for doing this is set forth by the late Word MVP Shauna Kelly in her page on Controlling Bullets. I would prefer this second method.

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This article was published on June 27, 2016
Facebook wants to help you get off Facebook with human-curated Events
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For the first time, Facebook is getting actual people to curate events recommendations in 10 cities across the country.
Previously, the company recommended events based off of your interest and friends, which that's not very helpful if you're looking for something out of your comfort circle.
Curators will your top art shows, festivals, food, music, sports, education and more around you. Basically, it's a "Things to do in your city" guide, embedded right a top your list of upcoming events.
Furthermore, "highly engaged Events users" will be receive push notifications when new events show up so they can start planning outings with their friends.
Via TechCrunch
While it could be a simple way to find things to do if you're something of a lazy homebody, it also sets up criticism for how Facebook goes about choosing events.
As a note of caution, however, Facebook says it won't be including political or religious events. Probably a good idea, after that whole trending stories ordeal.
The feature is rolling out in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and D.C. today. It's iOS only for now, but we imagine Android is only a matter of time.
Published June 27, 2016 - 7:30 pm UTC
Former WhatsApp exec regrets selling the app to Facebook
Google is killing Android Auto for phone screens