During my 86th Birthday celebration dinner a few night ago with my close friends and relatives, many of them asked me to write my memoir of my illustrious life. They said that the book would be a very useful guideline for people to live a happy and useful life to help people.
About 6 years ago, I wrote and published my book namely "Malaysia: Road Map for Vision 2020". Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, former Finance Minister wrote the Foreword, Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan, Professor Glen Arnold, Dr Azly Rahman and Professor James Chin wrote their recommendations. I took more than 2 years to research and to complete the book. To make it a first-class publication, I had to spend Rm 10,000 to employ an expert to do the indexing at the end of the book.
However, from my experience, I am not prepared to spend another 2 years of my limited life to write my memoir. However, I will write about my experience in equity investing.
My purpose of writing this piece is to show mistake as well as my skill in picking stocks which should be helpful to all investors.
In 1983 when China gave notice to the British Government to recover the sovereignty of Hong Kong, the Hang Send Index fell to below 600 points. Most of the stock holders sold their holdings because they were afraid the Chinese Communists would shut down the stock market and confiscate all their assets.
During this crisis, I did not need any skill to pick stocks because there were so many under-priced stocks. All I need was bravery.
As a founder of Mudajaya, Gamuda and IJM Corporation Bhd, I have been taking big risk as a contractor. I thought this crisis in Hong Kong was a fantastic opportunity to make money in the stock market.
The first stock I bought was Hong Kong Realty and Trust Ltd (HKRT). Just before the crisis, the company sold one of their assets call "Willocks House" and its balance sheet showed it had $ 10 net cash per share which was selling at $ 13.60 per share. During the crisis, it was selling at $ 3.00. About 2 months later, when the Chinese Government announced that Hong Kong would be given another 50 years extension, immediately HKRT shot back to $13.60 per share. Wah! $ 3.00 to $ 13.60 is 450% – I was pleasantly surprised to make more than 450% within 2 months.
Why should I continue to seat on the Board of IJM Corp Bhd to earn a small sum worrying for thousands of shareholders?
From then onwards, I became a full-time investor. Within 2 years, I made so much that I bought 46% of a HK stock Broking company called "Kaiser Stocks and Shares Co Ltd".
It was so easy to make money during the crisis. All I needed was bravery to buy during the cheap sale. I dared to buy when most people were so afraid.
But it is not so easy to make money during normal circumstances. So, I started reading about the methods as practiced by Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, William O'Neal and other gurus. All of them have one common investing signature- value investing. After having practiced value investing for a few years, I found a faster way to make money.
Before I start to buy shares of any company, the company must report that it has been making increasing profit for 2 consecutive quarters and the price is selling below P/E 10.
Before I tell you about my Rm 64 million disaster in buying too many Jaks with margin finance because I did not follow my golden rule, let me boast about my success.
At one time, I was the 4th largest shareholder of Latitude Tree, 2nd largest shareholders of VS Industry and Lii Hen.
The above chart shows that Latitude Tree went up from Rm 1.00 to Rm 8.00, an increase of 800 % within 2.5 years. Its 2015 annual report showed that I was the 4th largest shareholder holding 6.32 million shares.
On Dec 2018, I have posted my article namely "Jaks- My most expensive mistake" in which I shamefully admitted that I lost Rm 64 million. As a result, a few of my critics always doubted my honesty whenever I recommended any share. Even my close friends, were afraid that if they gave me a loan, I would not be able to return the money they lent me.
However, I always believe I can make back some money with my skill in picking stocks. I must say that God works in a mysterious way to help me to make money so that I can help others. An inner voice told me to buy Carimin and Hibiscus WC a few weeks ago.
Yesterday, I have posted articles on Carimin Petroleum and Hibiscus Petroleum to help readers make money. As these 2 stocks are just beginning to move upwards, I believe they will move up a few hundred percent in 1 or 2 years, like Latitude, VS and Lii Hen. Of course, a few of my critics commented that when I recommend any share, they should sell instead of buying.
I am obliged to tell readers that I have accumulated quite a large amount of Carimin and Hibiscus WC and I do not need readers to buy to support their prices because the daily traded volume in more than 10 million shares for each counter.
But you must remember that no share or counter can continuously go up or come down for whatever reason. After some time, it must correct as demonstrated by Hibiscus and Carimin yesterday. Both of them dropped a few sen per share. A good test is did you sell at the peak and do you dare to buy back after correction?
It is not what share you bought but when you sold is more important.
I wasn't sure of my skill until I found Hibiscus and Carimin.
I realise my mistake in buying too many Jaks using margin loan and ignoring my golden rule. When the price dropped, I was forced to sell. The more I sold the more the price would drop and the more I was forced to sell. Forced sell is a vicious cycle.
Basically, I was wrong in ignoring the company's huge loan for its property development business. Until the property market recovers, the company will have difficulties in servicing its huge loan.
Unfortunately, there are many short-term traders who are buying Jaks because they believe it will rebound soon. They must remember, among all the criteria for share selection such as NTA, cash flow, net cash in the bank etc, the most powerful catalyst to move share price is profit growth prospect. Can the company report increasing profit for 2 consecutive quarter?


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"There has been a mill on this site for over a thousand years," the information poster inside the restaurant tells us.
"A couple of times," Dad says.
There's a mixed flock of ducks and geese quacking at each other and a family of moorhens stepping over the grass, on their huge but delicate yellow feet.
"We'd better be getting back," Dad says, and we clamber back onto our bikes.
Cycling past fields of horses, we arrive at the main road. It's lined with enormous sycamore trees on both sides. They are putting on a magnificent display: green, yellow, red, orange leaves – reaching up to the sky, covering the roads and pavements. The November air is crisp and cold, and it's a wonderful sensation: zooming through the multicoloured leaf tunnel towards home.
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Volney B. Palmer started the first advertising agency.
There was no sudden stroke of genius to inspire Volney Palmer's motives, no mind-altering epiphany that changed the way he viewed business. Not even a shred of evidence exists to suggest he had any idea that his actions would alter business forever. He was just a knowledgeable small business owner struggling to make a profit in a city riddled with unemployment and debt. Yet despite his apparent ignorance, Palmer did, in fact, forever revolutionize business in the United States when he founded the nation's first advertising agency in Philadelphia in 1841.
The business of selling newspaper space for advertisements was far from a novel idea in the 1840s. Beginning as early as 1704, American newspapers regularly published business and personal advertisements for a small fee. The son of a newspaper entrepreneur, Palmer was no stranger to this practice. As a boy, he assisted his father in the daily operations of collecting advertisements and publishing The New Jersey Mirror and Burlington County Advertiser, a small newspaper in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Yet despite his background in newspapers, Palmer pursued other endeavors when he left the family business. In 1841, Palmer moved to Philadelphia and established a real estate office in the city.
The economic conditions in Philadelphia in the early 1840s were far from attractive to entrepreneurial spirits looking to start a successful business. At that time, the city was caught up in a serious depression brought on by the Panic of 1837. While the rest of the country struggled with extreme financial issues, Philadelphia also suffered from trade competition. The combination of the two left the city in economic disarray. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that Palmer struggled to keep his real estate business afloat.
ADVERTISEMENTS and Subscriptions received for some of the best and most widely circulated Newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in many of the principal cities and towns throughout the United States, for which he has the Agency, affording an excellent opportunity for Merchants, Mechanics, Professional Men, Hotel and Boarding house Keepers, Railroad, Insurance and Transportation Companies, and the enterprising portion of the community generally, to publish extensively abroad their respective pursuits-- to learn the terms of subscription and advertising, and accomplish their object here without the trouble of perplexing and fruitless inquiries, the expense and labour of letter writing, the risk of making enclosures of money, etc.
A simple ad from a, perhaps, simpler time.
Though Palmer's emergence as an official 'advertising agent' was a slow and modest process, the impacts of both his practices and the establishment of his agency were far from subtle. As early as 1842, Palmer had a firmly established list of clients, representing newspapers all across Pennsylvania and into Maryland, and extending as far as New Jersey, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and even Alabama. But Palmer did not stop there. According to Holland, by 1849 "The American Newspaper Subscription and Advertising Agency of Volney B. Palmer, Esq., claimed to be the sole representative of 1,300 of the estimated 2,000 newspapers published" at that time.
N.W. Ayer bought Palmer's agency and its reputation...and greatly enhanced it.
With such an innovative and unrivaled idea, it is not surprising that Palmer's advertising agency grew rapidly. Furthermore, the advancements in transportation brought on by the expanding use of steam engines expedited Palmer's business processes and encouraged the physical expansion of his practice. In 1845, Palmer opened a second branch of his agency in Boston before opening two more offices in New York and Baltimore shortly thereafter.
Just as Palmer's business grew, so did his competition. Yet, despite a growing presence of advertising agencies in the 1850s, it was widely expressed that none could compare to Palmer's agency. Holland provides a testimonial written in the New York Daily Tribune, "Our agent for the city of New York is Mr. V. B. Palmer…. A dozen different could not do half so good that this one may, if generally supported." Palmer was the best advertising agent of his time, and he remained so well into his fifties.
In the late 1850s, Palmer's agency became Volney B. Palmer & Company upon the establishment of a partnership with John E. Joy, J. E. Coe, and W. W. Sharpe. After Palmer's death in 1864, as well as several subsequent changes in the company's ownership, Volney B. Palmer & Company became Coe, Wetherill & Company before its incorporation into N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., in 1877.
Although the original advertising agency established in 1841 by Palmer no longer existed after his death, its history lived on through N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. According to Ralph M. Hower, author of The History of an Advertising Agency: N. W. Ayer & Son at Work; 1869-1939, "By purchased heritage, [N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. was] a direct descendant of the first advertising agency to be founded by this country." However, while the purchase of Palmer's agency entitled N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. to the claim of being the oldest advertising agency in the country, its methods for conducting business were far from similar to Palmer's agency.
The Morton's Salt girl was one of the great successes of the N.W. Ayer ad agency.
Through the implementation of these revolutionary practices, N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. created some of the most well-known and recognizable advertising campaigns to this day. Among Advertising Age's Top 100 Advertising Campaigns of all time, Ayer's agency alone holds seven spots, with campaigns such as DeBeers' "A diamond is forever," the U.S. Army's "Be all that you can be," Morton Salt's "When it rains it pours," and Camel cigarettes' "I'd walk a mile for a Camel." It was the establishment of Palmer's agency in Philadelphia in 1841 that made the creation of these timeless slogans possible, and it is that same agency that encouraged all great campaigns known today.
Only a limited number of innovations have come about in history that can be attributed to truly shaping the current state of the advertising industry; Gutenberg's invention of moveable type in 1447, as well as the right to freedom of the press as established by the first amendment are among the few. Yet, while Palmer may never have fully realized or understood the impact of the establishment of his agency in the mid-1800s, this innovation is without a doubt among the ranks of the aforementioned few. What began as a secondary business established for the purpose of turning a small profit grew into an advertising system unlike any before. As a result, this unexpected, novel practice enabled Palmer to forever revolutionize the way business is done in the United States.
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Hower, D.C.S., Ralph M. "First Appearance of the Advertising Agent." The History of an Advertising Agency: N. W. Ayer & Son at Work; 1869-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. 9-16.
Hower, Ralph M. "Founding of N. W. Ayer & Son, 1869-1876." The History of an Advertising Agency: N. W. Ayer & Son at Work; 1869-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. 25-61.
N.W. Ayer. 125 Years of Building Brands. New York: N.W. Ayer, 1990.
"N.W. Ayer & Son (N.W. Ayer & Partners) - Advertising Age - AdAge Encyclopedia." Advertising Age - Ad & Marketing Industry News. 15 Sept. 2003. Advertising Age / Crain Communications. 14 Oct. 2010 <http://adage.com/article?article_id=98517>.
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Tungate, Mark. "The Origins of Advertising." Adland: A Global History of Advertising. London: Kogan Page, 2007. 10-11.


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Шавельская мужская гимназия — среднее учебное заведение Российской империи в Виленском учебном округе.

История
Идея открыть гимназию в Шавли родилась в 1838 году. Местные помещики обратились к властям с просьбой выступить посредником в создании гимназии, обещая финансовую поддержку. Наиболее богатые (Розен, Ливен, Медем, Платон Зубов, Баранов и другие — всего 22) планировали выделить большие суммы на строительство гимназии; еврейская община Шавли внесла пожертвования в размере 30 000 рублей. В 1839 году был приобретён у помещика Йонаса Якшявичюса участок земли на Шоссейной улице и в том же году была открыта временная пятилетняя школа. Генерал-губернатор Вильно 10 декабря 1840 года дал разрешение на строительство здания будущей гимназии. В 1844 году попечитель Белорусского учебного округа обратился к правительству с просьбой перевести в Шавли Свислочскую гимназию из Гродненской губернии, вместе с учителями, книгами, мебелью и другим инвентарём; в сентябре разрешение было получено.

Строительство двухэтажного кирпичного здания гимназии началось 21 июля 1845 года и было завершено в августе 1850 года. Директор Свислочской гимназии попросил отложить перевод, потому что учителя для своих больших семей не могли найти в Шавли дешёвые квартиры. Было принято решение оставить инвентарь в Свислоче, — для переводимой сюда из Шавли пятилетней школы. Летом 1851 года в Шавли было доставлено из Свислочи 2 тысячи томов книг. В конце июля в Шавли отправился директор гимназии Николай Васильевич Частников. Семьи семерых преподавателей получили полугодовую зарплату за переселение, а бессемейным учителям было выдано по 80 рублей.

Наконец, 30 августа 1851 года состоялось открытие гимназии о чём её директор сообщил И. Г. Бибикову. В это время в ней находилось 297 учеников, в основном дети местных дворян и русских чиновников. Учителя были в основном русские, а обучение велось на русском языке. В первый учебный год директором школы был Н. В. Частников, инспектором Н. В. Дружинин; в числе преподавателей: православный священник П. А. Можайский, католический священник К. Мазонавичюс, учитель русского языка В. Ф. Лебедкин, учитель латыни Н. Р. Сакович, учителя математики В. О. Кондратович и А. П. Гладкий, учитель истории Ф. П. Ходзинский, учитель права П. Д. Козловский, учитель географии Ф. О. Рыбинский, учитель немецкого языка Л. И. Вальц, учитель французского языка Б. Б. Рей, учитель рисования и чистописания М. И. Пржевальский.

Число учащихся в последующие годы увеличилось до 570, в их числе появились дети крестьян. Но после восстания число учащихся упало до 180 человек. К 1882 году их число достигло 524, но снова упало из-за новых ограничений. В 1887 году число детей евреев было ограничено до 10% от общего числа учащихся.

В 1897 году была освящена гимназическая церковь во имя Сергия Радонежского. Иконостас её был изготовлен под руководством известного архитектора Набокова.

Во время Первой мировой войны гимназия была закрыта. Учащиеся были переведены в Тулу, Воронеж и Тарусу. В здании разместился немецкий военный госпиталь. В 1922 году в историческом помещении была размещена Шяуляйская государственная гимназия.

Персоналии
 Выпускники
В числе выпускников гимназии есть немало известных личностей; в их числе:
 Вилейшис, Пятрас (вып. 1870, золотая медаль)
 Огинский, Николай Николаевич (вып. 1870)
 Бауэр, Александр Фёдорович (вып. 1873)
 Зубов, Владимир Николаевич (вып. 1881)
 Повилюс, Антон Матеушевич (вып. 1891)
 Петрулис, Альфонсас (вып. 1893)
 Шикшнис, Марцелинас (вып. 1893)
 Вишинскис, Повилас (вып. 1894)
 Кайрис, Стяпонас (вып. 1898)
 Биржишка, Миколас (вып. 1901)
 Биржишка, Вацловас (вып. 1903)
 Шалкаускис, Стасис (вып. 1905)
 Скипитис, Раполас (вып. 1909)
 Янонис, Юлюс (вып. 1915)
См. также:
В разные годы её оставили не получив аттестат: Циртаутас, Гаспарас (в 1862), Ландсбергис, Габриелюс (в 1870), Бабянский, Александр (в 1871), Янавичюс, Людвикас (в 1876), Дамбраускас, Александрас (в 1880), Вилейшис, Йонас (в 1891).

 Директора
 1851—1853 Частников, Николай Васильевич
 1853—1859: Веденский, Александр Осипович
 1859—1864: Максимов, Ефим Васильевич
 02.04.1865—1872: Фурсов, Матвей Васильевич
 1872—1881: Изюмов, Михаил Макарьевич
 19.10.1881—1884: Бржезинский, Михаил Алексеевич
 1884—1888: Шолкович, Осип Вуколович
 1889: Яхонтов, Павел Иванович
 21.10.1889—1895: Свирелин, Иван Владимирович
 13.09.1895—1900: Рубцов, Александр Иванович
 08.05.1900—1905: Якушев, Павел Гаврилович
 01.07.1905—1907: Шумейко, Антон Иулианович
 16.09.1907—1913: Еленевский, Василий Саввич
 17.09.1914—1915: Сахаров, Михаил Александрович

Источники
 Senieji Šiauliai. Juliaus Janonio gimnazija: 161 metai tradicijų
 Шпаковский К. В. Историческая записка о Шавельской мужской гимназии. — 1901.

Виленский учебный округ
Гимназии Российской империи

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Джон Рассел, 1-й граф Бедфорд (; ) — английский государственный деятель. Лорд верховный адмирал (1540—1542) и Лорд-хранитель Малой печати (1542—1555). Среди земель и собственности, которые ему пожаловал Генрих VIII после роспуска монастырей, были аббатство и город Тависток, а также земли, которые сейчас являются Ковент-Гарденом. Рассел — предок всех последующих графов (и герцогов) Бедфорд и графов Рассел, в том числе Джона Рассела, премьер-министра Великобритании, и философа Бертрана Рассела.

Биография
В 1506 году Джон Рассел находился на службе у Филиппа, короля Кастилии, и его жены Хуаны, когда они потерпели кораблекрушение у Веймута, и сопровождал королевскую чету к английскому двору в Лондоне. Будучи одним из самых образованных дворян своего времени, он настолько поразил правителей Кастилии своими манерами, что те рекомендовали его королю Генриху VII. В 1507 году вошёл в свиту Генриха VII, а затем состоял в свите его преемника Генриха VIII. Участвовал в военных и дипломатических миссиях во время войны Камбрейской лиги (1508—1516). Был при взятии Теруана и Турне. Посвящён в рыцари 2 июля 1522 года после того, как потерял глаз при взятии Морле в Бретани, и сражался при Павии.

В 1528 году был назначен главным шерифом Дорсета и Сомерсета, а в 1529—1536 годах был членом парламента от Бакингемшира. Он сохранил королевское расположение, несмотря на неодобрение Анны Болейн. В конце 1536 года вошёл в Тайный сове и помог подавить Благодатное паломничество.

Казнь Генри Куртене, маркиза Эксетера, создала вакуум власти в юго-западных графствах Англии, который заполнил Рассел. 9 марта 1538/1539 года ему пожаловали титул барона Рассел и назначили лордом-президентом Совета Запада. В следующем месяце он стал рыцарем Ордена Подвязки. Совет Запада оказался неэффективным органом управления и не пережил падение Кромвеля. Рассел, однако, оставался главным бароном в западных графствах и получил должность лорда-адмирала в 1540 году. В 1542 году, после смерти графа Саутгемптон, Рассел стал лордом-хранителем Малой печати.

Во время итальянской войны (1542—1546) безуспешно осаждал Монтрёй в 1544 году и был капитан-генералом авангарда армии при атаке на Булонь в 1545 году. Доверенный соратник короля Генриха VIII в последние годы его правления. После смерти Генриха в 1547 году стал одним из шестнадцати советников на время малолетства его сына и наследника, короля Эдуарда VI.

Был одним из двадцати шести пэров, подписавших соглашение о передаче короны леди Джейн Грей 21 июня 1553 года. Его послали встречать Филиппа Испанского, когда тот прибыл для свадьбы с королевой Марией.

Граф Бедфорд скончался 14 марта 1555 года в Рассел-хаусе, Стрэнд, Лондон, и был похоронен в родовом имении в Ченисе, Бакингемшир, в местной часовне. Его вдова умерла ровно четыре года спустя, 14 марта 1559 года, и была похоронена там же.

Брак
Весной 1526 года Джон Рассел женился на Энн Сэпкот (1492/1498 — 14 марта 1559), дочери сэра Гая Сэпкота из Хантингдоншира, вдове Джона Бротона из Тоддингтона (умер в 1518) и сэра Ричарда Дженригама (умер в 1525); у неё были сын и три дочери от первого брака. От Рассела Энн родила одного сына — Фрэнсиса (1527—1585), ставшего 2-м графом Бедфорд.

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После роспуска монастырей король Генрих VIII предоставил Джону Расселу ряд церковных владений, включая Тавистокское, Плимптонское и Данксвеллское аббатства в Девоне (первые два были самыми богатыми в графстве). Граф получил также  Блэкфрайерз в Эксетере, на месте которого он построил свой роскошный особняк, известный как Бедфорд-хаус, откуда он исполнял свои обязанности лорда-лейтенанта Девона. Эти гранты сделали его самым крупным землевладельцем в Девоне. В Бедфордшире граф получил аббатство Уобёрн, которое сделал своей главной резиденцией. В Лондоне ему было предоставлено семь акров земли (28000 м2) под названием «Длинный акр», а также огород Вестминстерского аббатства, на месте которого сейчас находится Ковент-Гарден. Нынешний герцог Бедфорд (или его фонды) все еще сохраняли в 2013 году несколько акров главной лондонской недвижимости, включающей поместье Бедфорд с центром на Бедфорд-сквер и Тависток-сквер.

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Brief California Science Advisory Panel for Food and Agriculture6 min read
by Kristine Wong on July 28, 2017
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Ecology Department Ecosystems Biology Program Energy Geosciences Division Resilient Energy Water Infrastructure
California's Central Valley (Photo credit: Shutterstock)
As two-thirds of the fruits and nuts—and over a third of the vegetables—produced in the United States are grown in California, it's crucial that the Golden State cultivate healthy soils that are resilient to stresses such as climate change, drought, and groundwater overuse.
Now scientists at Berkeley Lab's Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) and Biosciences Area are contributing to the effort by sharing their expertise with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)'s Science Advisory Panel, a group comprised of farmers, agriculture professionals, and experts in areas such as water, conservation, and resource management. Last week, EESA scientist Peter Nico hosted the panel at the Lab to brief them on research related to developing healthy soils, sustainable groundwater management strategies, and climate-adaptive agriculture.
"We are parlaying and extending our capabilities to address California's problems and opportunities," said Susan Hubbard, Berkeley Lab Associate Lab Director for EESA, to the panel. "Resilient agriculture is an example of an important California topic where there is a huge opportunity for advances through science and technology focused on microbes, soil, plants, water, climate, and their interactions."
Nico, who leads EESA's Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure program, spoke about the Area's water resilience research. Developing new strategies to manage water as a sustainable resource is one of EESA's five Grand Challenges, which outline research goals over the next decade in its Strategic Vision 2025. The topic is also aligned with Berkeley Lab's Water-Energy Resilience Initiative.
The overuse of groundwater in California was just one outcome of the most recent drought which led to land subsidence of up to 13 inches in some parts of the San Joaquin Valley a few years ago. EESA is developing solutions to help the state make its groundwater supply more reliable.
"We're testing new water management strategies in demonstration programs, and using those ideas to guide resilient water strategies to make a difference," Nico said.
Science Advisory Panel members of California's Department of Food and Agriculture gathered with Berkeley Lab scientists on July 20, 2017.
One strategy that EESA is studying (in partnership with the Almond Board of California and UC Davis) is groundwater recharge, a process that could help to prevent the depletion of groundwater levels by replenishing aquifers in wet years. During times of heavy rainfall, excess water can be directed from the surface to the subsurface through flooding the fields or orchards of crops that can withstand the higher volume (such as almond trees and wine grapes). As a result, that water is "banked" as groundwater that can be used in times of future need.
But in order to understand the full impact of groundwater recharge, scientists and policymakers must also be aware of which areas of the subsurface are well-suited to banking, and where that water will go once it hits below the surface. Other pieces of information—such as how long it will take for the water to get there, the quality of the water, and how it will affect energy use and land subsidence—are also essential to determine impact. EESA is conducting research to answer these questions using time-lapse geophysical imaging, isotope chemistry, and integrating other advanced datasets into numerical models, Nico said.
Another element key to agriculture and healthy soils that EESA and the Biosciences Area are focusing on is the role of microbes to enhance ecosystem services like water retention and nutrient use efficiency, said Eoin Brodie, EESA senior scientist and deputy director of Berkeley Lab's Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division. This work reflects EESA's Earth's Microbial Engines Grand Challenge.
"Microbes are essential for the formation of soil organic matter and nutrient cycling in soil," he said. "They transform plant material, which creates new chemicals that interact with soil minerals to create soil structure that improves water, carbon, and nutrient retention."
The window to understanding these microorganisms, Brodie continued, is through genetic and advanced sensing technologies. He noted that the supercomputing resources at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the genetics capabilities at the Joint Genome Institute, and the nanoscience facilities of the Molecular Foundry are key tools to accomplish this research.
Moving on to another of EESA's Grand Challenge research goals, scientist Trevor Keenan gave the panel an overview of the Area's work in predicting the trajectory of the carbon sink. The carbon sink is a term used to describe the carbon that is locked up in terrestrial soil and vegetation—therefore out of the atmosphere where it can contribute to climate change in the form of carbon dioxide.
"Currently, the U.S. land sink is considered to be relatively constant, but we don't have the science to confidently say how it will change in the future," said Keenan, who studies how plants and the climate affect each other and how that impacts carbon in healthy soils. "This uncertainty makes it difficult to effectively plan targets and strategies for carbon emissions reduction, as we do not know if the land will be healthy and store more carbon, or degrade and release carbon to the atmosphere."
Peter Nico gives members of CFDA's Science Advisory Panel an introduction to Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.
Berkeley Lab is well-positioned to tackle the challenge of being able to predict how much carbon will be deposited into a land sink, Keenan said, because it possesses technology at a range of scales from large data observation networks such as the AmeriFlux network to remote sensing systems in the Arctic and the Tropics that harness drone technology to measure plant properties.
Romy Chakraborty, EESA's Ecology Department head, briefed the panel on the Area's work in the Lab's Urban Agriculture initiative. The effort aims to reduce the ecological footprint of conventional agriculture and determine how to optimize the efficiency and sustainability of growing food with minimal impacts on environmental resources. It also aims to improve food distribution to low-income communities that lack easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
"Technical innovation is needed to reach our goals in this area," she said. "We have a vision to develop novel smart indoor farming units and explore the integration of recent advances of greenhouse technology capabilities, as well as how to achieve sustainable production at scale."
Within this theme of technology innovation, two of the Lab's Biosciences Area researchers from the Joint BioEnergy Institute spoke about their work. Graduate student William Moore discussed how studying Medicago truncatula (a wild relative of alfalfa) can provide insight in how to enhance plant-microbe interactions for improved plant yields, while postdoctoral researcher Yan Liang talked about a method that increased the efficiency of genome editing tool CRISPR in plants.
And to wrap up the session, two UC Global Food Initiative fellows presented their research about climate and agriculture in California. Alison Marklein detailed how rising temperatures are projected to affect the state's growing season for vegetable crops (as well as where those crops can be grown), and Kripa Jagannathan spoke about working with farmers to improve the usability of climate models for their decisionmaking—as well as the need for a framework that helps them access the right data for their specific needs.
In her concluding remarks, Hubbard expressed interest in continuing the dialogue.
"To realize the impact we'd like to have on California agriculture, we look forward to working with you to bring together our scientists with California's farmers and agricultural technologists," she told the panel. "We believe these interactions are important for advancing Berkeley Lab's vision of 'Bringing Science Solutions to the World.'"
EESA scientist co-authors new comprehensive guide on ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere2 min read
Berkeley Lab researchers are working on ways to sequester more carbon in soil, including through agricultural practices. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Scientists say that any serious plan to address climate change should include carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and policies, which makes the newly launched CDR Primer an especially vital resource, says Berkeley Lab scientist Margaret Torn, one…
New EESA research explores impact of land-use policy on California's terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas budget3 min read
The 28 million acres of natural and working lands across California provide a unique opportunity to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals through various land-use strategies, such as expanding urban forest areas or restoring woodlands. However, the need to mitigate wildfire severity is also a critical priority for California, and one that can increase emissions…
Impacts of Climate Change on Our Water and Energy Systems: It's Complicated5 min read
As the planet continues to warm, the twin challenges of diminishing water supply and growing energy demand are intensifying. But because water and energy are inextricably linked, as we try to adapt to one challenge – say, by getting more water via desalination or water recycling – we may be worsening the other challenge by…
New Study: Are Drylands Getting Drier?1 min read
EESA visiting postdoctoral fellow Sha Zhou led a recent study exploring why climate models do not project drylands will become substantially drier with climate change as scientists have long believed. A paper published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change, "Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands," describes the importance of long-term changes…

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Pharping (or Phamting) is a small Newar town lying above the Bagmati river on the southern edge of the Kathmandu valley, about 23 km from the capital. It is now part of the Dakshinkali Municipality.

The town and its environs is the site of several important Buddhist pilgrimage sites as well as a number of Buddhist monasteries and meditation retreat centres.

About 1 km south of the town is the Dakshinkali Temple, one of the main Hindu temples of Nepal dedicated to the mother goddess Kali.

Pharping is also the site of the oldest hydroelectric power station in Nepal which is now a living museum.

Buddhist pilgrimage places

Phamting Vajrayogini temple

This temple, dedicated to Vajrayogini, is located on the side of the hill between the Yanglesho caves and the town of Pharping. It is one of the main Newar Buddhist Vajrayogini temples of the Nepal mandala which include the Sankhu Vajrayogini, Vidhyeshvari Vajrayogini, Phamting Vajrayogini, Guhyeshwari and the Pulchowk Khagayogini temples.

It is said to have been established by the Pamtingpa brothers, two important disciples of the Buddhist mahasiddhas Naropa and Maitrepa. The present structure probably dates to the 17th century and has been renovated.

Further reading
von Schroeder, Ulrich. 2019. Nepalese Stone Sculptures. Volume One: Hindu; Volume Two: Buddhist. (Visual Dharma Publications). . Contains SD card with 15,000 digital photographs of Nepalese sculptures and other subjects as public domain.

Yanglesho cave
Yangleshö cave (Tib. , Wyl. ) is located about ten minutes walk before the town of Pharping. Near the road, there are several large ponds and shrines dedicated to Vishnu in the form of Shesha Narayan which are located just below the sacred cave of Yangleshö and there is a flight of stairs leading up to the cave. It is said that Guru Padmasambhava  in the form of Dorje Tötreng Tsal and his consort, the Princess Shakyadevi, meditated in this small cave on the Tantra of Yangdak (Skt. Vishuddha) Heruka and realized the siddhi of mahāmudrā.

To the right of this cave is a small retreat monastery, Rigdzin Drubpe Gatsal Ling, which was established by the Nyingmapa yogin Chatral Sangye Dorje who stayed here many years. This monastery is dedicated to the meditation practices of the Longchen Nyingthig tradition.

Asura cave

Buddhist monasteries

Neydo Tashi Chöling Monastery
Neydo Tashi Chöling is a large monastery housing about 200 monks, located at Setidevi Bhanjyang on the outskirts of Pharping. The monastery was established in 2006 by the seventh Karma Chagme Tulku, (1926-2013). It belongs to the Neydo sub-sect of the Karma Kagyu tradition which was founded in Tibet by the first Karma Chagme, Rāga Asya (1613-1678). This monastery also runs a guest house which is located next to the monastery.

Palyul Samten Ösel Ling
The Palyul retreat centre of Samten Ösel Ling, which belongs to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, was founded in 1996, blessed in 1997 by Drubwng Pema Norbu Rinpoche in 1997, and consecrated by Chatral Sangye Dorje on 4 July 1998.  The monastery is currently headed by  Khenchen Namdrol Tsering Rinpoche.

Tegchen Leksheyling Retreat Centre
This is a small closed retreat centre for nuns, established by Karma Thinley Rinpoche which is located near the Benchen Shedra and retreat centre in Pharping. This retreat centre is affiliated with Rinpoche's Tegchen Leksheyling nunnery near Boudhanath. Here nuns practice the traditional three years, three months, three days meditation retreat – or shorter six moth retreats dedicated to the practice of Yajrayogini.

Hindu temples

Dakshinkali Temple

Dakshinkali Temple, located about 1 kilometre before the town of Pharping, is one of the main temples in Nepal dedicated to the fierce mother goddess Kali. Animal sacrifices, particularly of cockerels and uncastrated male goats, are one of the main ways that the goddess is worshipped here, and this is especially seen during the Dashain festival.

Setidevi Temple

Sheshnarayan Temple

This temple and ponds, located just below the Yanglesho cave, is one of the four main Narayana temples of the Kathmandu Valley. The other three are Icchangu Narayan, Bishanku Narayan and Changu Narayan. These temples, which stand in the four cardinal directions of the valley, are believed to be built during the reign of the Licchavi king Vishnugupta. Their locations in the cardinal directions and on hilltops was to protect the Kathmandu Valley.

Pharping hydropower station

Pharping Hydro Power was established in 1911 as Chandrajyoti Hydro-electric power station by Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana.  In 2010, it was declared a "living museum" by the Government of Nepal and was opened to the public.

The reservoir still supplies drinking water to parts of Lalitpur.

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Asura Cave & Yangleshö
Pharping - at Nepal Power Places
Pharping – The Sacred Site of Asura Cave and Yangleshö

Populated places in Kathmandu District
Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal
Tourist attractions in Nepal


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For three straight seasons, the New Orleans Saints have finished 7-9 and failed to reach the postseason. It's become a troubling trend for an organization that reached the postseason five times between 2006 and 2013 and won the Super Bowl in 2009.
But the Saints have retooled in the 2017 offseason, signing guard Larry Warford, linebacker A.J. Klein, wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. and re-signing defensive tackle Nick Fairley, among other moves. The team also was involved in one of the biggest trades of the offseason, shipping Brandin Cooks and a fourth-round pick to the New England Patriots for first- and third-round selections.
"I really feel like we are just a few pieces away," quarterback Drew Brees told Deke Bellavia and Bobby Hebert of WWL in March. "The puzzle is beginning to come together and I think we are all excited about that."
Will the changes spark a playoff berth for the Saints? Do Brees and head coach Sean Payton have another postseason run in them? Will the defense be improved after finishing 27th in yards allowed and 31st in points allowed in 2016?
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The Saints don't have a particularly grueling schedule, with just six games against teams that reached the postseason last year. That being said, the slate of games they'll face doesn't exactly represent a cakewalk, either.
Six matchups against their divisional rivals—the Atlanta Falcons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers—won't be easy. The Falcons, of course, are the defending NFC champions, while the Buccaneers came up just short in their bid to reach the postseason. The Panthers, meanwhile, should bounce back after a disappointing 2016.
Facing the NFC North means matchups against playoff teams in the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions and a tough Minnesota Vikings squad. Facing the AFC East means difficult matchups against the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins (in London).
Add in a Washington team that nearly made the postseason and a road trip to face the Buffalo Bills, and the Saints don't have many gimmes.
There are contests in which they'll be the clear favorites, however, including home games against the Chicago Bears and New York Jets and a road matchup against the Los Angeles Rams. The Saints don't have an easy path back to the postseason, but they hardly have the league's most difficult slate of games.
Pivotal Matchups
No games will impact their season like the matchups against the NFC South. Last season, the team went just 2-4 in the division, a huge reason the Saints failed to reach the postseason. If they are going to end their playoff drought this year, improving in those contests will be vital.
While the Saints split with the Panthers and Buccaneers, they went 0-2 against the Falcons. With Atlanta entrenched as the favorites in the division next year, the Saints need to steal at least one game against Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and Co.
But the Bucs and Panthers both promise to be improved as well. Jameis Winston and Mike Evans lead Tampa's talented offense, which also added speedster DeSean Jackson to the mix this offseason. The Bucs are one of the NFL's up-and-coming teams and have a division title on their minds.
Carolina, meanwhile, slumped to a 6-10 mark last season after reaching the Super Bowl in the 2015 campaign. The team signed defensive end Julius Peppers, offensive tackle Matt Kalil and corner Captain Munnerlyn—moves the Panthers will hope reinvigorates a talented roster.
Don't expect an offense led by Cam Newton and a defense led by Luke Kuechly to play poorly two seasons in a row. And don't expect the Saints to make much noise next season if they can't get the better of their divisional rivals.
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With digitization and Internet becoming the norm for businesses world over, the cybersecurity industry is witnessing three landmark changes toady; the emergence of newer technologies like AI, machine learning and predictive intelligence to combat cyber attakcs proactively, the rise of cybersecurity startups specifically focused on the driverless cars, home automation and the IoT segment, and collaboration among cybersecurity companies and MNCs, and between MNCs to tighten security norms and fight cyber crime with increased fervor
When we compare the digital evolution the world is undergoing today, to the increasing risk of cyber attacks on enterprises, industries and consumers, we can't help but draw an analogy to the plot of Westworld, a 1973 American sci-fi thriller movie directed by Micheal Crinchton. While the movie unveils the destruction caused by lifelike (human-like) Androids when they are affected by a computer virus, in retrospect, it gives us a peek into the nature of risk we are exposing ourselves to, as we lean on technology and new age practices to stay more connected, make businesses more efficient, and drive greater change in our everyday lives; think driverless cars, home automation systems and smartphone penetration.
Take the recent, often quoted ransomware attacks such as Petya and WannaCry for instance. They spread through networks that use Microsoft Windows and affected more than 200,000+ victims in over 150 countries (particular in Europe and the US) this year. On the other hand was the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, by a group of hackers called 'Guardians of Peace'; a case where crucial company information such as username and passwords of social media accounts of major motion pictures, social security numbers of actors and employees, emails and copies of unreleased titles was leaked.
While these are just a handful of cases, as our dependence on technology increases, attacks of such nature are only set to rise in the coming years, thus sounding off a wake up call for the Government, cybersecurity companies and its stakeholders world over to relook at their processes and practices. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the cybersecurity industry is expected to be more than US $120 billion in 2017, and by 2021, cybercrime is set to cost businesses globally more than US $6 trillion a year, with costs being associated to 'loss of productivity, IP thefts, theft of personal and financial data, damage and destruction to data, embezzlement 'and more.
So, what are the factors contributing to the rise in cybercrime today, and what should its stakeholders be aware of, as they step into the next era of digital transformation?
Sub-Categories in Cybersecurity
Factors Fuelling Cybercrime
The rise in cybercrime can be associated to several factors, key among them being; the increasing penetration of IoT, IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), cloud sharing and mobile and smartphone penetration, lack of awareness among enterprises about the importance of cybersecurity, or lack of sufficient knowledge to implement security processes into their network, and existence of old systems which are not cybersecurity-ready.
For example, while companies encourage a practice of employees bringing in their own smartphone or laptop to workplaces, giving them access to crucial information and company-related data, they often don't incorporate these devices into their own security network, thus exposing them to malicious applications which may seem genuine (such as the Super Mario Run), malicious emails and messages (phishing attacks), targeted attacks and loss of data due to theft of device. In fact, this can also be associated with the lack of awareness around the importance of securing their networks and devices, or the lack of knowledge in implementing security processes into its business. As a report by Kaspersky Lab indicates, the loss due to a ransomware incident can cost a company anywhere around US $713,000 on an average. That being said, with the recent surge of ransomware attacks such as Petya and WannaCry, companies have woken up to the implications of cybercrime; as indicated in a 2017 report by IDC; organizations are set to spend US $101.6 billion on cybersecurity software, services and hardware, with the primary motivator for the increased spends being fear.
When it comes to IoT, the challenge often is with usernames and passwords being easily accessible, thus allowing hackers to remotely control devices, cars and even your own television. Take the 2015 Chrysler incident, for example. The company recalled 1.4 million vehicles, which could be remotely hacked over the Internet; wherein hackers could shut down the engine, cut brakes and even control the steering wheel. IIoT is quite similar to IoT, with the difference being the physical damage caused to industrial machines; such as the Stuxnet virus which affected the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, by damaging about a fifth of its nuclear centrifuges by making them spin out of control.
As for cloud security, while cloud storage and cloud sharing of information and data presents a great deal of advantages such as lowered costs, faster delivery and better services to clients, organizations have now woken up to the potential threat their information might be exposed to on unsecured, public cloud platforms. In fact, the industry is now seeing a transformation, wherein multinationals, and MNCs and security companies are entering into partnerships to secure their products and services and identify threats quicker; a recent example being the IBM-Cisco partnership to exchange security solutions on both platforms, and the HITRUST (The Health Information Trust Alliance) partnership with Trend Micro (the Japanese security software company), which will gather and analyse potential cyber attacks in the healthcare industry through the HITRUST cyber threat management and response centre.
Emerging Categories in Cybersecurity
Predictive Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence
Deception Security
IoT/IIot Security
What Can Stakeholders Expect?
With malware attacks skyrocketing in recent times, there is no time for white papers to be published on past attacks and future course of action. Rather, the need of the hour is for cybersecurity companies to be proactive in their approach to detecting threat early, for the Government to introduce reformed regulations on tackling cyber crime, and for organizations and end consumers to pay more attention to securing their data and networks.
In fact, on the industry front, the advancements in technology and the nature of cyber attacks have also given rise to a new wave of security practices and business streams in the cybersecurity industry. For instance, security has moved beyond just protecting IT infrastructure to offering protection for automobile, healthcare, mobile and the IoT segment. Moreover, the industry is seeing the birth of newer security practices such as predictive intelligence, where cybersecurity companies use predictive analytics to foresee a potential attack and create defenses even before they attack the systems, deception security, where the systems work proactively to deceive the attackers, detect and defeat them, autonomous systems, where the software uses advanced algorithms to works alongside analysts to identify and tackle security threats, cyber insurance, an emerging field wherein insurance products are designed to secure individuals and businesses, by offering them coverage in the event of data destruction, hacking, theft or extortion, and multi-factor authentication, in the identity and access management spaces.
Specifically with respect to investments in the sector, a CB Insights study indicates that the industry saw US $3.5 billion being invested across 400 deals in 2016(mainly seed and Series A rounds), with companies such as Cylance (US $100 million in Series D), Mobi Magic (US $100 million), StackPath (US $180 millionin PE) and LogicMonitor (US $130 million in growth equity) bagging the highest amounts. Although investments in 2016 has dropped compared to the US$4 million invested in 2015, the general mood among investors seems to be positive; what with the emergence of specialized funds, such as Trident Capital Cybersecurity, Allegis Capital and TenEleven Ventures.
With respect to exits, 2016 witnessed 39 VC-backed startups exit through 38 M&S deals and one IPO, with acquisition deals also being struck by mid-stage companies such as Confer Technologies and Bluebox Security, as by industry giants such as IBM, Cisco, Symantec, Fortinet, Oracle and FireEye. In 2017, there have been 18 exits of VC-backed companies, through 17 M&A deals and one IPO of Okta, a US-based identity management company. An interesting trend in these M&As particularly, is the keen interest security giants are showing towards startups specializing in AI. For example, in 2017 alone, three AI-based startups have been acquired by tech giants; Invincia Labs being acquired by Sophos, Niara being acquired by HP and Harvest.ai being acquired by Amazon.
Top 5 Most Well-Funded Cybersecurity Startups in 2017
Tenable Network Security – US $302 million
Tanium – US $295 million
Lookout – US $281 million
CrowdStrike – US $256 million
OpenPeak – US $233 million
(Source: CB Insights)
Secondly, the Government bodies have also begun taking proactive steps in setting up stricter regulations in the face of mounting cyber crimes world over. For example, following the large scale ransomware attacks this year, the European Union is set to replace its 1995 directive on data protection, to launch the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which elicits how companies should manage personal and user data, and the penalties to be levied on companies should there be a breach of regulation; which is slated to be a fine of up to 4 per cent of worldwide turnover or 20 million pounds, whichever is greater.
With the cybersecurity industry touching more than US $120 billion in 2017, and with spends on security pegged to exceed US $1 trillion in the next five years, it poses an interesting challenge to see how far advancements in technology can go hand-in-hand with creating more secure platforms for businesses and consumers to transact in the digital world.
With this in mind, in this report, we speak to an eclectic mix of startups and multinational firms offering specialized and holistic security solutions in the global cybersecurity industry, to understand how they perceive the challenges and opportunities faced in the industry today, the future of the cybersecurity industry, in terms of consolidations, the investment climate and their game plan to be up in arms against the cyber criminals threatening to breach critical data world over.
Active VC funds in Cybersecurity 2017
10 Global Cybersecurity Giants
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Symantec Corp
Verisign Inc
Splunk Inc
Fortinet Inc
FireEye Inc
(Source: BVP Cyber Index – Compiled by Bessemer Venture Partners)
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Okinawa Vote Complicates U.S.-Japan Ties
Okinawa is home to more than half of the 47,000 American troops stationed in Japan. Now a local election there may determine the future of the 10 U.S. bases on the island. Akiko Fujita reports.
By Yuka Hayashi
Updated Nov. 2, 2010 4:10 am ET
NAHA, Japan—The twists and turns of a key local election in Japan have put a considerable barrier in front of efforts by Tokyo and Washington to strengthen their security ties, even as rising regional tension pushes them closer together.
The election is taking place Nov. 28 in Okinawa, the Japanese island where U.S. and Japanese officials have struggled to relocate a U.S. military base to another part of the prefecture amid deep local opposition.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary Adds New Definition of 'Shade'
See the new way Merriam-Webster is defining 'shade' and educating users on its history.
By Marissa G. Muller
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For nearly as long as there's been people, there's been people throwing shade. The colloquialism, of course, was not born on the internet but it's certainly found a larger fanbase in the post-social-media era. Now, the daily number of people throwing shade, correctly or not, is about to rocket even more as "shade" has officially been enshrined by Merriam-Webster, and it's coming to a dictionary near you.
Fittingly, Merriam-Webster announced the addition with a GIF of what many people assume to be the birth of the phrase: drag queen Dorian Corey breaking it down in the 1991 cult documentary Paris Is Burning, which captured New York City right as house ball culture was bubbling to the surface. (That same year, Madonna shined a light on it when she released the culture-appropriating "Vogue.") "Shade is: I don't tell you you're ugly but I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly," Corey said.
Merriam-Webster, meanwhile, has simplified their definition of shade to read as "a subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someone — sometimes verbal, and sometimes not." The entry of shade into the dictionary is padded out with an explanation of its history, which is deeper than you may think.
What people who casually throw shade on social media might not know about the term is that its roots trace back to America's enslavement of Africans. "According to E. Patrick Johnson, a professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University who has written on insults within the gay and black communities, shade is something that has been a part of the American black experience since slavery, when a direct insult could result in death," says the entry, adding a quote from Johnson: "African-Americans developed these covert ways of communication, which, over time, have morphed into the traditional ways that they interact with one another."
The most recent example of shade that the Merriam-Webster points to is likely more familiar to many than Paris Is Burning. "Shade's popularity has only grown since, showing up in a host of Internet memes, including one featuring the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, rolling her eyes at then-Speaker of the House, John Boehner, at a post-inaugural luncheon in 2013," states Merriam-Webster. Of course, you could explain shade to someone by pointing out Obama's instant-meme of a reaction to ushering in President Donald Trump and first lady Melania on inauguration day. It seems the timing of shade's entry into the dictionary couldn't be better.
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I'm just compelled to mention the assumed fact that, for decades, bored and horny people have mused over the act's obviously skimpy rate of "blowing" and much larger emphasis on "sucking."
Unless of course someone just really sucks, in which case receiving might conceivably blow.
Yep. I went there.
It was a dinner gathering. As usual, there was an obscure, awesome movie playing in the living room and abundant liquor heisted from Wal-Mart. I wasn't paying much attention to anything going on around me but the movie, when suddenly she grabbed my arm and forcefully tugged me to follow her to the back of the house.
"Huh? What's going on?" Her sudden haste and serious demeanor worried me. I assumed that she was escorting me to the site of something horrible happening that I would have to take care of. Someone's bleeding, something's on fire, the cops are at the back door, etc. But then she pulled me around into the bathroom at the back of the house.
"What are you doing?" I asked. She shoved me against the wall of the bathroom with one hand and didn't say anything. The lights were off, but in the light of the kitchen that was cast through the long, cavernous bathroom, I could see her determined, humorless expression.
"This," she said as she abruptly unzipped my pants and slid her cold fingers around my dick. She moved in to bite my neck and breathe a low, animalistic moan into my ear as she started to stroke me with one hand and pull my pants further down my waist with the other.
I had mixed feelings about this.
Whereas her nimble hands made quick work of turning my initial confusion and apprehension into rock-hard wanton lust, I couldn't manage to silence the voice in my head reminding me that I was previously angry with this girl for treating me like her sex object. I thought about it for a moment and it became obvious that she was just trying to give me an erection and work it until I was horny enough to fuck her, and that had been her intention all night. I was again a little disgusted by being treated like her personal fuckslave, but my offense became difficult to focus on as she slid down my chest and slipped my erection into her mouth for her skilled tongue to attend to.
The indignity of it was how this beguiling young woman manipulated me so masterfully. As she took me into her mouth slower and slower, soon stopping entirely, she beckoned me to hold her head and thrust into her throat. With me compelled to take over, all she had to do was lead me into my bedroom, slap a condom on me, and mount me to get exactly what she wanted out of the night.
I did confront her about my objections, but I waited until later. I couldn't continue being treated disrespectfully, but I conceded to deal with it for the sake of some really, really good loud rough sex.
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Always kind of a weird thing when a guy gets just used for sex like this. Something I can sort of relate to as of late... In retrospect I should have said no as well. But it is difficult to resist.


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RU486 Abortion pill hearings begin in Australia
Posted on January 15, 2023 January 16, 2023 by
An Australian Senate inquiry into the abortion pill "RU486" has started public hearings in Melbourne. A controversial conscience vote on the issue to overturn laws which prohibit Australian women's access to the drug, will be held in Federal parliament on February 9.
The Senate committee is considering a bill to remove ministerial control of the abortifacient drug Mifepristone – or RU486. Health Minister Tony Abbott says the issue of whether to allow women access to the drug "is one of principle." Abbott, who is against abortion, insists he is the right person to control the drug's use in Australia.
Besides its use internationally as an "abortion pill", there may also be a small chance that it may help treat various other medical disorders including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and inoperable brain tumours amongst other conditions. Mifepristone is effectively banned in Australia, with Minister Abbott controlling whether it is made available.
The bill, sponsored by a group of female senators and MPs, would hand Mr Abbott's powers over to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) – the body that controls all other pharmaceutical drugs in Australia. The bill seeks to have the TGA determine the drug's availability and not the Health Minister.
Democrats Leader Lyn Allison, said she was "cautiously confident" the parliament will overturn the current arrangements when the conscience vote takes place. "Those who are in favour of the bill are saying this is a choice that ought to be available to women and that on the basis of the studies that have been done overseas it is at least as safe as surgical termination," Senator Allison said.
Reproductive Choice Australia (RCA)say that medicine is placed at the whim of politics, saying that over 80% of Australians are pro-choice. A national survey found 87% of women aged 18 to 49 support a woman's right to choose.
RU486 is available in much of western Europe and North America, but was effectively banned in Australia under laws initiated by now-retired pro-life senator Brian Harradine.
Christine Read, medical director of family planning group FPA Health, said Misoprostol, also known as Cytotec, is across the world to invoke contractions to expel the fetus after a woman had taken RU486. "It is used extensively in obstetrics and gynaecology for termination of pregnancy and to induce labour, so it's used in the medical management of miscarriage," Dr Read said.
Dr Sharman Stone, said yesterday the issue was not about Misoprostol, but rather that "the TGA should make the decision about any drugs – that is its job. Any other conversations about other drugs are simply irrelevant to this argument," Dr Stone said.
Family First senator Steve Fielding says lifting a ban on RU486 would pave the way for do-it-yourself home abortions. "RU486 is different to other drugs in that it is an abortion drug which could see do-it-yourself home abortions," he said in a statement. "The question is, should policy be made by bureaucrats or our elected leaders?
Senator Fielding claims Australians are worried about the high number of abortions in Australia, as reflected in submissions received by the Senate committee.
On Monday the committee will move to Sydney for a final day of hearings.
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UK PM's speechwriter awaits sentence
An English lawyer has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. He faked a legal judgment and sent it to a father who was pleading in Taunton family court to be able to remain involved in his child's upbringing. The lawyer, London barrister Bruce Hyman, now awaits his sentence. The judge indicated that he could receive a prison sentence. Bruce Hyman is well-known in media circles, having produced The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio. He also produced a series with Clive Anderson, at Above the Title Productions, called Unreliable Evidence.
The father, a former City financier, had attended a series of court hearings in order to make suitable arrangements to see his child following an acrimonious divorce. Shortly before one of these hearings he received an email, ostensibly from a self-help group to which he belonged, which had attached a Court of Appeal case that appeared favourable to an application he had made for the judge to stand down from the case. The father, who was representing himself, duly showed the case to the judge. At this point, Bruce Hyman, the lawyer representing the former wife, claimed to the judge that the case was a forgery, which indeed it turned out to be.
After confirming that the self-help group had not sent him the email, the father then embarked on some detective work his own. The fraudulent email was traced via its header to a dial-up internet connection and a phone number belonging to a shop in London. The shop was able to recover CCTV footage which showed a man sending the email from an Apple laptop. The man turned out to be Bruce Hyman.
Sentencing of Hyman is due in Bristol Crown Court on the 19th of September.
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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample.
If this surgical procedure is as successful in large-scale studies, it may lead the way for the use of robotic surgery in even more delicate procedures, such as heart surgery. Note that this is not a fully automated system, as a human doctor controls the operation via remote control. Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is a treatment for obesity.
There were concerns that doctors, in the future, might only be trained in the remote control procedure. Ronald G. Latimer, M.D., of Santa Barbara, CA, warned "The fact that surgeons may have to open the patient or might actually need to revert to standard laparoscopic techniques demands that this basic training be a requirement before a robot is purchased. Robots do malfunction, so a backup system is imperative. We should not be seduced to buy this instrument to train surgeons if they are not able to do the primary operations themselves."
There are precedents for just such a problem occurring. A previous "new technology", the electrocardiogram (ECG), has lead to a lack of basic education on the older technology, the stethoscope. As a result, many heart conditions now go undiagnosed, especially in children and others who rarely undergo an ECG procedure.
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Kuwait donates US$500 million to Katrina relief efforts
On Sunday, the country of Kuwait pledged US$500 million in oil products and other aid to United States Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. It is the single largest donation given to help the victims of hurricane Katrina.
Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah explained, "The humanitarian aid is oil products that the devastated (U.S.) states need in these circumstances, plus other humanitarian aid to lessen the devastation these three states have been subjected to."
Al Sabah also stated that "It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries." Kuwait is in fact one of the U.S.'s strongest allies in the Middle East, due to the U.S. protection of Kuwait in 1991 during the Gulf War.
Kuwait's donation was followed by a $100 million donation from Qatar, a small, U.S. friendly peninsula jutting out into the Red Sea.
These donations were brought on as the 22 members of Arab League (based in Egypt) asked Arab countries to donate to the Katrina relief efforts, and sent their deepest condolences to the U.S.
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SpaceX delays Falcon 1 launch again
SpaceX Corporation has postponed the launch of the maiden flight of their Falcon 1 rocket again at their Kwajalein launch facility. Although not as damaging as the previous delay on November 11, this is certainly a significant set back for Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX.
A full engine test was conducted on the rocket, and the launch pad equipment which holds the rocket on the launch pad after engine firing seemed to work as planned. This safety equipment is designed to keep the rocket from causing damage or being destroyed in the event that some equipment malfunction occurs immediately after the rocket engines start. Under similar circumstances with other rockets the entire rocket together with its payload would have been destroyed due to a computer report of malfunction.
The exact reasons for failure were not disclosed by SpaceX, but Elon Musk said on his web site, "I will post a longer update next week, after we have enough time to finish forensics of recent events and formulate next steps."
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Andrea Muizelaar on fashion, anorexia, and life after 'Top Model'
In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada's Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. From working in a dollar store in her hometown of Whitby, Ontario, to modeling haute couture in Toronto, she had reached her dream of becoming a true Top Model.
But at what cost? Unknown to casual television viewers, Muizelaar had been enveloped in the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, which inevitably became too much for her to bear. She gave up modeling and moved back to Whitby, where she sought treatment for her disorder, re-entered college, and now works at a bank. Where is she now? Happy and healthy, she says.
Recently Andrea Muizelaar sat down with Wikinews reporter Mike Halterman in a candid interview that stretched to nearly two hours, as she told all about her hopes and aspirations, her battle with anorexia, and just what really happened on Canada's Next Top Model.
1 Andrea's beginnings
2 Andrea on her road to modeling, and America's Next Top Model
3 Experience on Canada's Next Top Model
4 The message she wrote to her fans on her facebook group
5 Her brief modeling career
6 "Happy and healthy"
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A 5.8 earthquake struck 4 miles southwest of Mineral, Virginia, 80 miles south of Washington D.C., at 1:51 p.m. EDT (17:51 UTC) and lasted for 15–30 seconds. The quake had a magnitude of 5.8 with an epicenter 27 miles (43 km) east of Charlottesville, Virginia. A 2.8 aftershock was reported at 2:46 pm EDT (18:46 UTC).
According to Twitter reports, the quake was felt inland as far as Cleveland and Toronto and along the coast from Boston to Georgia. Police sergeant James Ryan, from South Brunswick, New Jersey stated that "The 911 line is flooding with calls right now. People want to know what happened. They want to know if there was an explosion."
The United States Capitol and The Pentagon in Arlington were evacuated, as were police headquarters and city hall in New York City. Numerous minor injuries have been reported in Washington, D.C.; however, none of them are serious. There have been confirmed reports of damage at the Washington National Cathedral and the Smithsonian Castle. The Pentagon was also damaged when a burst pipe caused flooding. The North Anna Power Station lost offsite power and had to shut down, turning to four diesel generators to maintain cooling of the facility. Both the JFK and Newark airports were briefly shut down and the control towers were evacuated. A release from Amtrak stated that trains will be operating at reduced speed, but no damage has been found on any rail lines. The Washington Metro is also operating on reduced speed, with some stations closed down, while lines are evaluated.
In Boston, it was reported that the building at 111 Devonshire Street appeared to be leaning onto the adjacent building at 50 Milk Street, with fears that it could collapse. The street was blocked off while the Boston Fire Department investigated. However, it was determined that the buildings had always appeared like that. Nevertheless, the Boston Fire Department investigated the roof and the inside of 111 Devonshire St. After 30 minutes, the building was determined to be safe.
This is the second strongest earthquake to originate in Virginia since records have been kept, after the one recorded on May 31, 1897, near Giles County, which was estimated at a magnitude of 5.9.
The Dow initially dropped 50 points after the earthquake struck, but later increased over 100 points.
The Pentagon was evacuated moments after a 5.8 earthquake was felt throughout the US east cost. Image: U.S. Navy.
A crowd of evacuated businesspeople on Wall Street in New York City. Image: Alec Tabak.
Federal employees evacuated buildings at 13th and C Streets in Washington, D.C.Image: US Department of Agriculture.
The office of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. was also evacuated.Image: Antonio Zugaldia.
Building occupants evacuate onto Market Street in Philadelphia.Image: Douglas Muth.
Damage to the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C. Image: William Neuheisel.
People gather on Vermont Avenue, outside the headquarters of the US Department of Homeland Security, in Washington, DC. Image: Tim1965.
A building in McLean, Virginia sustained some damage to its ceiling. Image: Claire Schmitt.
A crowd of evacuees in McLean, Virginia. Image: Claire Schmitt.
After the earthquake, there were concerns that 111 Devonshire St. in Boston appeared to be leaning onto the adjacent 50 Milk St with fears it may possibly collapse. It turned out the buildings have always appeared like this. Image: Patrick Mannion.
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Scientology protest group celebrates founder's birthday worldwide
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Correction — March 19, 2008 The next protest is scheduled for April 12, 2008. The article below states April 18 which is incorrect.
The Internet group Anonymous today held further protests critical of the Church of Scientology.
The global protests started in Australia where several hundred protesters gathered at different locations for peaceful protests.
In a global speech, the Internet protest movement said Scientology "betrayed the trust of its members, [had] taken their money, their rights, and at times their very lives." The protesters welcomed the public interest their protests have led to, and claimed they witnessed "an unprecedented flood of Scientologists [joining] us across the world to testify about these abuses." The group said it would continue with monthly actions.
In a press statement from its European headquarters, Scientology accused the anonymous protesters of "hate speech and hate crimes", alleging that security measures were necessary because of death threats and bomb threats. This also makes the Church want to "identify members" of the group it brands as "cyber-terrorists".
Wikinews had correspondents in a number of protest locations to report on the events.
Anonymous states that the next protest is scheduled to take place on April 18, which happens to be the birthday of Suri, the daughter of Tom and Katie Cruise.
1 Location reports
1.1 Adelaide, Australia
1.2 Atlanta, Georgia
1.3 Austin, Texas
1.4 Boston, Massachusetts
1.5 Brussels, Belgium
1.6 London, England
1.7 Manchester, England
1.8 New York, New York
1.9 Buffalo, New York
1.10 Seattle, Washington
1.11 Sydney, Australia
1.12 Portland, Oregon
2 Related news
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Vestas protesters sacked with immediate effect
Eleven of the 25 workers at the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight, England who have been carrying out a sit-in since Monday July 20 have been sacked with immediate effect.
According to one of the protesters known as "Mike", the occupiers were given their dismissal notices concealed under slices of their evening meal of pizza. The company said that the protesters have had ample opportunity to air their point of view, and had no choice but to sack eleven of the twenty five workers that they had positively identified; and that given that the fact that the action constituted a "fundamental breach" of trust, that the eleven would not be entitled to redundancy packages. A press release from the company said that Vestas "saw no other choice than to dismiss the 11 employees, who the company has positively identified as the employees currently participating in the occupation of the factory."
The protesters remained upbeat, vowing to continue their occupation and have called upon the UK government to save the 625 jobs and to nationalise the Danish owned factory. Occupier Ian Terry told the BBC that if the occupiers are forced out, they plan to leave the building "peacefully".
Vestas management were dealt a setback today in ending the occupation as Newport County Court ruled that the papers accusing the occupiers of aggravate trespass and requiring they surrender the office they occupy by July 29 were improperly served. The case has been adjourned until Tuesday August 4. In court, Judge Graham White said he was "distinctly uncomfortable" with what he perceived as Vestas' effort to "get around the rules" in retaking the factory from the occupiers.
Legal representation for the Vestas workers had been offered by Bob Crow, secretary of the RMT trade union. Crow has pledged the "full solidarity" of the RMT and seven other unions with the workers occupying the plant.
Vestas management has also been providing the occupiers with hot meals in an apparent response to Crow's announcement, made on July 24, that the RMT was planning on airlifting food into the factory by helicopter. Crow is meeting today with Ed Miliband, the Environment Minister.
Earlier in the week, Miliband pledged £6 million in funding to an expansion of Vestas' Isle of Wight research and development centre, which currently employs 110 workers and could, said the Minister, be expanded to employ 40 more.
Rallies continued throughout the week in support of the Vestas occupiers. Since the occupation began, the Vestas workers have received declarations of support and solidarity from a wide swathe of the British left, including but not limited to: political parties Green Party, Respect, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Alliance for Workers Liberty, and the Communist Party of Britain; the TUCG group, which brings together the BFAWU, FBU, NAPO, NUJ, PCS, POA, RMT, and URTU; and environmental groups Greenpeace, the Campaign against Climate Change, Climate Camp, and Workers' Climate Action, who claims credit for initiating the campaign to occupy the factory. Attendees of the Big Green Gathering, a large annual environmentalist rally which was due to take place starting today but was suddenly canceled on Sunday, are being encouraged to go to the Isle of Wight and take part in support rallies for Vestas instead.
Speaking to Wikinews about the "red–green" coalition supporting the occupation, a spokesman for the Alliance for Workers' Liberty said: "We think this struggle is important on at least three grounds — it is central to the struggle for jobs, it is central to the struggle for the environment, and it is central to the struggle for rebuilding the labour movement."
Photographs shared with Wikinews by the occupiers show the occupiers, mostly young men, talking, carrying out everyday tasks, and keeping in touch with the outside world via mobile phones. The use of mobile telephones in the Vestas occupation has given the press remarkable access to the occupiers and provided an effective platform for relaying their demands and feelings to the media. In contrast, Vestas's designated media contact for the United Kingdom is on vacation. Attempts to reach Vestas Newport factory manager Patrick Weir, whom a Vestas representative at the company's Danish headquarters stated was handling press inquiries regarding the occupation, received no reply.
Vestas plans to close the factory on July 31, citing the difficulties of obtaining planning permission for wind farms in the United Kingdom. All blades manufactured at Vestas' Newport plant are sent to the United States. 1900 employees of the company in Northern Europe face job losses, 625 of them in Vestas's plants in the south of England.
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UK Mobile Data Network Collapses
London, UK — The Vodafone GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Mobile Data Network within the UK was off the air for several hours, but Vodafone staff were unable to supply any details as to how or why this had happened. The incident seems to have originated within Southern England, but spread "nationwide" within a short period.
Customers were therefore unable to access data services for a protracted period, including WAP browsing from mobile phones, email from personal devices like Blackberries and Windows Mobile Messengers, and full access over data cards from laptops.
Some criticism has been levelled at the company for failing to provide an easy source of information on the problem, with the only realistic option being to queue for a response from a call centre, as no information could be found on their public-facing website. This practice, whilst far from unique to Vodafone within the telecommunications industry, contrasts poorly with the common practice for most ISPs (Internet Service Providers), who conventionally provide a "system status" page on their website.
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