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Author James T Powers
Author James T. Powers
Shadows Over Dawnland
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope; Relearning Environmental Connectiveness
Seeking the Past Historical Consulting
WEBSITE OF AUTHOR JAMES T. POWERS
Welcome to the official website of author James T. Powers. As a prolific Author and Researcher, his mission in life is to tell stories of historical significance. Take a look through the site to find everything from his latest work to past projects.
James T. Powers first developed a life-long love of history while growing up in the old industrial town of Wallingford, Connecticut where he came to realize that the past was all around us and that by connecting to it we could come to better understand who we are. Following graduation from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, James committed himself to a career of sharing that love through the teaching of history.
Over the years, his interests and expertise have expanded to include local archeology and the study of 17th to 19th Century New England architecture both of which he taught during his career at Guilford High School in Guilford, Connecticut. Besides a BA, James has also received two Masters Degrees from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
This August 27th (2021) Shadows Over Dawnland was released by The Beacon Publishing Group (www.beaconpublishinggroup.com). An historical novel, Shadows Over Dawnland chronicles the historic events that confronted the Quinnipiac, the Indigenous people who called Southern Connecticut home, when English colonists arrived to settle among them. Set during the years 1630 to 1686, Shadows Over Dawnland tells the tragic story of the impact the English arrival had on the Quinnipiac through the eyes of a shaman who struggles to save his people and their way of life. For more information on Shadows Over Dawnland, click on the book on the menu above and look for announcements soon through this site's blog.
To order a paperback, kindle, or digital copy go to the link below.
https://www.beaconpublishinggroup.com/shadowsoverdawnland.
Shadows Over Dawnland will be available on the following sites:
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The Face of Hobomock on the ridge in North Guilford Connecticut
James also will have another book published and released on October 29, 2021 by John Hunt Publishing in the United Kingdom (www.johnhuntpublishing.com). The book will be part of the publisher's Earth Spirit Series along with those of authors from the UK, U.S., Canada, and Australia. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope; Relearning Environmental Connectiveness looks at the arrival of indigenous people in Southern New England and how their eco-spiritual world-view facilitated a harmonious nature based existence and how that view and their way of life was fractured by the arrival of European traders and settlers and the philosophy that has since dominated. The book calls for a realignment of modern attitudes with traditional indigenous values and beliefs… a return to or development of eco-spiritual values in our modern society. It's an important message for our culture to transform our relationship with nature and the environment as we confront the growing climate crisis.
The Cover for Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope began with a hike to a local Rock Shelter used for thousands of years by the Indigenous people of the area .
James is excited to announce the start of his Historic Property Consultation company: Seeking the Past Historical Consulting specializing in the architectural and biographical history of historic properties and helping school systems and local historical organizations develop educational programs based upon local historical resources. Click on the link above or visit http://www.seekingthepast.com for more information.
Books by James T. Powers
His first book, Saving the Farm; A Journey through Time, Place, and Redemption published by Homebound Publications (homeboundpublications.com), is a product of his passion for the past. His second book, Seeing the Past; Stories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright (homeboundpublications.com) tells little known stories in Connecticut history as James follows the life of 19th century millwright Milo Todd. Both are available by contacting James at jpowers1741@gmail.
James is proud to announce the recent publication of On the Edge of Uncertainty: The Siege and Battles of Saybrook Fort during the Pequot War, 1636-1637. For a copy contact the Old Saybrook Historical Society at http://www.saybrookhistory.org
SAVING THE FARM
The story of ten generations of the Dudley Family of North Guilford, Ct. and the people who came together to save their farm.
Contact James at jpower1741@gmail.
Seeing the Past; Stories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright
Now Available.
Follow 19th century Millwright Milo Todd as he wanders Connecticut pursuing the American Dream while discovering little known stories from Connecticut's past.
Contact James at jpowers1741@gmail.com.
The story of the dramatic seven month siege of the small English garrison at the tiny fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River by the Pequot and allies during the Pequot War in 1636-1637. Now available by contacting the Old Saybrook Historical Society at http://www.saybrookhistory.org.
Contact Information: jpowers1741@gmail.com 860-967-7103 77 South End Avenue, Durham Ct. 06422
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MIL-OSI UK: Options facing Government and Parliament following European Council meeting examined
Source: British House of Commons News
The Committee on Exiting the European Union returns with an evidence session on Wednesday 19 December, part of its over-arching inquiry examining the progress of the UK's negotiations on EU withdrawal.
Having agreed the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the framework for a future relationship at the European Council on 25 November, the Government must gain parliamentary approval for both documents before ratifying the Agreement, under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act. This vote was initially expected to take place on 11 December, but was subsequently deferred. In light of this, and the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons following last week's European Council in Brussels, this session will see the Committee consider the options facing both the Government and Parliament.
The Committee is expected to examine the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement and what scope exists for renegotiation, along with the various options for the future relationship contained in the accompanying Political Declaration. In its final evidence session before the Christmas recess, the Committee will also consider the extent to which the Government continues to plan for a no-deal scenario, and the processes for extending and revoking Article 50.
Wednesday 19th December 2018, Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
From 9.15am
Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law, University of Cambridge
Dr Kirsty Hughes, Director of the Scottish Centre on European Relations
Sam Lowe, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform
Henry Newman, Director, Open Europe
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MIL-OSI UK: Government statement announces next year's council funding
Source: British Parliament News
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire announces future funding for local authorities in a statement to the House of Commons. Originally scheduled for last week, the announcement was delayed to allow for the 'Meaningful Vote' debate.
The local government finance settlement is the annual determination of funding to local government. It needs to be approved by the House of Commons.
Mr Brokenshire announced the week long delay to his statement in a written ministerial statement last week. He said,
"My parliamentary colleagues will wish to engage thoroughly in these debates and will also wish to consider the proposed Local Government Finance Settlement for 2019-20. I have therefore decided to announce the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement after this protected period, by way of an oral statement.
I can confirm that the usual period for making representations on the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement will not be truncated as a result."
Speaking in the Commons Chamber, the Secretary of State said:
"This provisional settlement confirms that core spending power is forecast to increase from £45.1 billion in 2018/19 to £46.4 billion in 2019/20, a cash increase of 2.8% and a real-terms increase in resources available to local authorities."
Transcripts of proceedings in the House of Commons Chamber are available in Hansard online three hours after they happen.
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MIL-OSI UK: Lords debates case for UK Constitutional Convention
Members of the Lords, including the governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a former First Minister of Scotland, will debate the current constitutional challenges within the United Kingdom and the case for the establishment of a UK-wide Constitutional Convention to address issues of democratic accountability and devolution, particularly in England, in the House of Lords on Thursday 13 December.
This is a general debate. They normally take place on a Thursday in the chamber. During debates, members are able to put their experience to good use, discussing current issues and drawing the government's attention to concerns.
The debate was proposed by Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Party), co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Reform, Decentralisation and Devolution
Members expected to take part include:
Lord Higgins (Conservative), governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, is expected to make his valedictory speech.
Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative), Lords spokesperson in the Cabinet Office, will respond on behalf of the government.

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Review: Nightwing: Brothers in Blood trade paperback (DC Comics)
3 comments | Tags: DC Comics, Nightwing, One Year Later, review
I've said before that Devin Grayson's Nightwing was not my favorite. If Grayson had a somewhat unique take on Nightwing, however, then Bruce Jones', collected in Nightwing: Brothers in Blood, was just plain unworkable. Jones' take involves at one point Jason Todd being mutated into a tentacled monster, which is ill-advised but perhaps forgivable. Our first introduction to Dick Grayson in Jones' trade, however, finds Dick in bed with a woman who's last name he doesn't even know, and over the course of the trade this once-proud Bludhaven police officer becomes a male model and makes a joke where he parodies Native Americans. Devin Grayson wrote a Nightwing who was whiny but believable; Bruce Jones writes a flippant, somewhat sleazy Nightwing you might not even want to know.
It's not a stretch for Jones to portray Nightwing in something of a post-Crisis existential depression (see our review of Nightwing: Mobbed Up), nor is it out-of-character to see Nightwing as a ladies man (witness Nightwing/Huntress), but, to the latter, at least Nightwing knew Huntress fairly well, and to the former, at least we knew where Nightwing was coming from in Mobbed Up. Brothers in Blood finds a self-loathing Nightwing bumming around in a disappointingly non-descript New York City, with no explanation to speak of. This is certainly One Year Later used badly, after Superman: Up, Up, and Away and Batman: Face the Face did it so well; here, the lack of explanation doesn't make us want to follow Nightwing further, but rather to not follow him at all.
I did like the idea of Nightwing as a fugitive from the police (though done to death, perhaps, in Batman: War Crimes (see our review), but Jones' method of getting there--an ultra-violent Jason Todd, played off two somewhat generic gangsters--left much to be desired. This trade is described on the back as "hard-boiled crime," but in comparison to Mobbed Up or Gotham Central, the villains here seem to be played more for laughs than for noir. Jones does make the wise choice of casting Nightwing's love interest, Cheyenne, as red-haired, subtly suggesting Nightwing's broken romance with Barbara Gordon. With this, however, Jones fights an uphill battle; after Devin Grayson's Romeo and Juliet portrayal of Nightwing and Oracle, it'd be hard for any writer to write him with someone else.
[Contains full covers (including the fairly striking cover to #124).]
Given how Bruce Jones' run on Nightwing was almost unanimously panned over the Internet, it was hard to believe I was going to read it and find I actually enjoyed it, and the outcome was that I did not. Add this to the litany of voices that says you can probably just skip it, and pick up with the collection of Marv Wolfman's new Nightwing run, Love and War, coming soon. Two hits so far with One Year Later, Superman: Up, Up, and Away and Batman: Face the Face, and now here's a miss; we'll see what Outsider: The Good Fight has in store. Thanks for reading along!
Posted at 11:37 AM (Permalink) | 3 comments | Tags: DC Comics, Nightwing, One Year Later, review
It seems a shame that Nightwing seems so hard to write. Not that that's a slam against Jones or anyonne else but Nightwing seems a lot like Marvel's Hulk. Unless it's just the right writer, it doesn't come off as well.I like Grayson's work for the most part, and if you ever get to meet her you'll know that it's rare to meet such a nice and smart woman. Kinda cute too.I certainly enjoyed the heck out of Chuck Dixon's early work on the book. It was fun and fresh. I think maybe the problem is in trying to make Dick too "mature" or dark. Anyhow, we'll always have those early ones right?
I just read this trade and it seems to me that editorial meddling is one of major reasons it is so bad.
Initially Nightwing was supposed to die in Infinite Crisis so Jason Todd was Nightwing "One Year Later" but when they didn't kill him, at the last minute, they had to bring Dick Grayson back and I'd imagine that gave the writer a large headache.
Editorial fiat is a good excuse for the most part, but turning Jason Todd into a tentacled monster? Sorry, I just don't know who to blame but the writer for that.
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Bezuidenhout seeks home glory at SA Stroke Play
While former SA Stroke Play champion Richard Sterne will lead the country's finest against a strong international challenge in his title defence at the Joburg Open, Ekurhuleni's Christiaan Bezuidenhout will spearhead the local challenge against a large foreign presence when the South African Stroke Play Championship tees off at Benoni Country Club on Tuesday.
The South African Golf Association's current number one kicked off the season with runner-up finishes at the Prince's Grant Invitational and KZN Stroke Play in early January, followed by a seventh place at the Gauteng North Stroke Play.
This past weekend, the Ernie Els and Fancourt Foundation member polished his preparation with a six stroke victory at the Free State Vodacom Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
Bezuidenhout will certainly carry a lot of confidence into the prestigious championship after a superb start to his 2014 campaign and the numbers certainly favour the 19-year-old Nigel golfer.
However, Bezuidenhout has a slightly more cautious view.
"I definitely feel confident going into the tournament, because I've had a solid start to the season," he said. "I also know the course well, because we played a lot of junior and union events here and nothing will give me greater pleasure than to win here, in front of the home crowd.
"But these reasons won't guarantee a win; I will just have to work at it, like everyone else."
In addition to warding off the challenges of top ranked players like Zander Lombard, Thriston Lawrence and fellow Ekurhuleni challenger NJ Arnoldi, Bezuidenhout also warned that the South Africans are up against what he calls "the unknown entity".
"There are 40 foreigners from more than 10 nations playing this week and these guys are the cream of the crop in their countries," he said.
"We don't really know what to expect from them and that's why I say that statistics mean nothing. You have to go out there, and prove yourself all over again in a field like this."
Number two Lombard agrees.
"I think the SA Stroke Play and Sanlam SA Amateur Match Play are the two majors of South African amateur golf and they are to two most sough-after titles on the circuit," said the 19-year-old, who held the number one spot for four months last year.
"Both events carry a lot of world ranking points and the international entry gets bigger each year as the foreigners recognise the status of these events. Everyone wants their name on the trophy."
Lawrence, who was just 16 years, two months and 26 days old when he became the youngest winner of the Sanlam SA Amateur last year, dearly wants to add the Stroke Play title to his tally.
The Mpumalanga teenager chose to prepare for this year's championship on the Open Amateur circuit, instead of the junior events in January – a decision that paid handsome dividends.
Following a fourth at the Prince's Grant Invitational, Lawrence beat Bezuidenhout by one stroke to win the KZN Stroke Play and claimed a runner-up finish at the Gauteng North Stroke Play. This weekend he shared victory with three junior team-mates in a Test against the French at Serengeti.
Although Lawrence is quietly confident, he too, remains cautious.
"You have members of the Scottish Golf Union's Mens National Squad, 12 top French amateurs and four top players from the United Kingdom in the field and a bunch of other foreigners," Lawrence said. "You're not only up against the best in South Africa, but possibly the best from Europe. I think the guys will get to know the layout and kinks of this layout as the tournament progresses and the competition will only get tougher."
The SA Amateur Stroke Play Championship will be played over 72 holes, and the field of 144 will be cut to 65 and ties after 36 holes.
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As you probably noticed, the Big Wasp Survey requires you to use a beer trap, and beer traps kill wasps.
Let's be honest, it seems a bit weird for self-professed wasp lovers to encourage people to kill wasps, so we thought we'd take a bit of time to explain why we need dead wasps and why this is OK.
First up, this is a standard method used by beekeepers to keep wasps away from their beehives, it is also a standard methodology used by scientists all over the world to sample wasps. Beer traps are the leading method for monitoring the expansion of the Asian hornet in France; they are the means by which established wasp recorders have been able to generate data on wasp abundance over several decades; in a more commercial form, they are marketed for use in public open spaces and entertainment parks across the world. In short, we've not invented anything new here! People are using beer-traps to kill wasps all over the world, everyday.
Second, to get meaningful data on the species that are around and their numbers we need to identify the wasps you catch and to be confident that we have done so correctly. To do that, we need to see the wasps and examine them carefully. It's impossible to identify a wasp species in flight or from a photo! We could count wasps coming to a bait (like a jam sandwich!) but they would be very hard to identify on the wing and we would likely be miscounting (one individual might visit several times for example). Also, it would require you, the citizen scientist, to get up close and personal with live wasps and that exposes you to a tiny but real risk of being stung. Finally, it would be difficult to ensure that everyone was putting in the same effort or had the same ability to identify the insects. Scientifically, the data we would get would be pretty much worthless.
Third, we can use the wasps you send in to explore other interesting aspects of science, such as the variation in colour patterning within species, across the country. Insect colour patterning is thought to be a useful indicator of environmental conditions, and so there is potential to use your samples to assess the local environment. In short, we can get an awful lot of data and scientific benefit from your handful of trapped wasps.
OK – so that's the science, but we are still asking you to kill insects we should be protecting, right?! In fact, the wasps you kill will have negligible impact on UK wasp populations: the wasps you trap will be workers and workers do not reproduce. In the late summer, wasp nests have already passed their peak productivity and indeed are starting to decline as autumn approaches. The workers you'll trap are no longer rearing young and indeed this is thought to be one of the reasons that they are so bothersome at this time of year. Removing the wasps you trap from the local population will have no effect on the number of wasps around next year.
Moreover, the number of wasps we expect you (the UK public) to collectively send us will be less than the equivalent of a single wasp colony! Making a wasp trap, setting it out, and collecting it, processing it and sending us the washed and dried contents is a fair amount of effort. Based on our experience of this type of study we are not expecting thousands of you to do it – and fair enough! Indeed, once we have reached around a thousand traps (which would be amazing, but quite unlikely) we will stop the survey for this year. Based on published data on use of these traps, it is unlikely that you will catch more than handful of wasps and many of you will catch none at all (which by the way is really useful data so PLEASE record that on the online form!). So, at most we won't trap more 10,000 wasp workers, or about the same number as you would find in a typical common wasp nest at the height of the season. Such a nest is the sort of thing that people routinely call in pest controllers to destroy, without either thought or scientific gain, at the time when they are creating new queens.
Finally, the survey has another advantage – we are engaging people with the marvels of wasps. If we persuade just one person not to kill a nest next year then we have saved more than have killed, and we get plenty of good science along the way.
If you don't like the idea of setting out a wasp trap, then we would be the last people to persuade you otherwise. But, rest assured that we have thought very carefully about this study and its implications for wasps and other insects.


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Small Business Law Ireland
Your guide to doing business in Ireland. Terry Gorry & Co. Solicitors.The Man to See™
Tag: sale of shares
Company Formation Starting a Business
7 Crucial Elements of a Shareholder's Agreement
Good fences make good neighbours.
A shareholders agreement can be every bit as important in a company where there are minority shareholders.
Because a minority shareholder(s) whose interests and rights can easily be ignored by being outvoted by the other shareholders, particularly in circumstances where the minority shareholder holds less than 25% of the shares.
A minority shareholder in this situation does not have the power to block the passing of a special resolution by the other shareholders who can ignore shareholders with less than 25%.
To counter this situation many shareholders will enter into a shareholders' agreement to protect the rights of minority shareholders and this agreement will typically cover a wide range of topics.
We take a look at 7 of the most important issues below.
1) Share subscriptions
When a new investment is made in a company the investor would be well advised to have a shareholders' agreement drawn up which will govern how the company is to be run at the time of subscription.
2) Sale of shares
The sale of shares, if there is a dispute between only two shareholders can be problematic but provision for such a turn of events can be provided for in the shareholders' agreement. This could be done by a number of different procedures called tag along, drag along, offer round, lock in or a combination of these.
These type of arrangements are designed to provide a solution where shareholders have fallen out and cannot come to an agreement as to how to resolve it.
3) Company operations
The agreement might also cover the operations of the company such as a right for a minority shareholder to appoint a director to the board of the company or to committees of the Board.
4) Vetoes
One of the most important sections of a shareholders' agreement is a vetoes section which lists out a series of transactions which cannot be carried out without the consent of the protected minority shareholder.
5) 50/50 shareholders and deadlock
A critical part of any agreement will also deal with a situation where there are two shareholders with each having 50% and no agreement in relation to a substantive course of action.
6) Non-compete covenants
It is common to include a non-compete covenant to prevent shareholders from competing with the company as long as they are shareholders. This would seek to cover competition with the company's business, solicitation of company's suppliers and solicitation of company staff.
Set out above are some of the most common clauses in a shareholder's agreement.
7) Other issues
Other issues that might be dealt with include
confidentiality,
no partnership,
assignment of rights and
conflict with the Articles of Association of the company.
These are only some of the issues that should be addressed in your agreement. Circumstances will vary from situation to situation. But trying to draft one yourself or copying a template that you might come across is not the smartest thing to do.
A poorly drafted shareholders' agreement, or none at all, will cost you a lot more than the cost of having one drafted by your solicitor.
By Terry Gorry
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Roundabout: National Projection with a Technicolor Gloss
Roundabout (1962-1974) was a monthly Technicolor series designed to promote Britain as a progressive world leader to south and south-east Asia. Produced by the British government through its Central Office of Information (COI), every issue was packed with stories that portrayed Britain in the vanguard of research, the forefront of manufacturing, the driving force of the Commonwealth as well as the creative edge of the arts and design. If the message could be summed up in a single word it would be 'modern', the idea being that Asian cinema audiences were presented with a vision of what their future might look like and how Britain was helping her to realize it.
Technicolor was a vital element in the transformation of this content within the cinema programme, constructing an important and innovative bridge between the black and white newsreel and colour feature. It lent a gloss to fashion and a dynamism to factory lines imbuing the topical with the glamorous sheen of the fictional. It was a potent and popular mix that entertained audiences from Cambodia to Korea and Burma to Brunei. With its infectious music and spinning carrousel Roundabout's opening sequence promised a dizzy ten-minute ride around diverse topics and locations seamlessly stitched together by a deft commentary. It constitutes a unique record of Britain and Asia during a period of rapid change and development.
Roundabout was one of a raft of cinemagazines that the COI had been producing since the mid 1950s. This marked the point when the British government fully embraced the necessity of national projection to articulate the transition from Empire to Commonwealth to an international audience. The global potential of television as a transmitter of this 'soft propaganda', as civil servants of the time termed it, was recognized and supported by a substantial increase in the COI budget for the next decade. The television stations that gradually emerged across the globe were hungry for content and happy to use freely supplied material, dubbed in the required language. By the time the first issue of Roundabout was released in May 1962, hundreds of stories from series such as Transatlantic Teleview, Dateline Britain, This Week in Britain, Middle East Newspots (Letter from London) and Portrait had already been watched in the United States, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. In the midst of this increasing volume of 16mm black and white material targeted at television stations came Roundabout, a 35mm colour series targeted at cinema audiences.
The origins of this seeming anomaly can be found in a report that Charles Beauclerk of the COI wrote after assessing its Asian operation in 1960. He concluded that the impact of television within this 'territory' was minimal and this, coupled with the success of newsreels such as British News in Malaya, led to his main recommendation that a 'monthly film magazine in colour' should be produced. Colour would be the means of differentiating their topical product in a regional cinema market with an estimated audience of around twelve million per year. At first the costs were thought to be prohibitive but the Foreign Office agreed to pay for the pilot which was released in June 1961. Local distributors in Indonesia and Thailand reported a favourable audience reaction and over the next six months Associated British Pathe, a company with an impressive cinemagazine track record, built up a reserve of material.
The first Roundabout issue was released on 1 May 1963 with distribution to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaya, Borneo and Laos. In addition to English, there were foreign language versions in French, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai and Malay. An experimental Chinese Mandarin sub-titled version was made in Hong Kong for testing in Cambodia and there was talk of extending distribution to Burma, Pakistan, India and Ceylon. By the end of the year, the estimated audience for the first issue was around 2 million with an expectation that this would double once distribution was extended to India, Pakistan and Ceylon. This positive reception persuaded the COI to produce two pilots for 'sister' productions at the beginning of 1963, Carrousel for Latin America and Parade for all other territories but primarily the West Indies and Africa. All three cinemagazine series would remain in production for another decade, albeit produced by British Movietone from 1969 when Pathe's cinemagazine unit was closed down.
The format of Roundabout remained consistent throughout the course of its existence. Each monthly issue would contain around six topical stories describing current developments in Britain and Asia. Many British based items would be framed to appeal to Asian audiences by incorporating an official, a visitor or student into the story. For example, the editor of an Indonesian newspaper would visit a Vauxhall car factory (February 1963) or a Vietnamese student studying photography would provide the focus for a story on Ealing Technical College (December 1967). By the same token, stories based in Asia would include a British element with British machines highlighted in t he production of cigarettes in Cambodia (June 1963) and Leyland buses centre-stage on the streets of Jakarta January 1970). Sprinkled among the factory lines and research stations were official openings, visiting dignitaries and the occasional dash of royalty. Typical of these are the visit of the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand to Britain & Princess Alexandra to Bangkok (August 1962), Prince Sisalumsak of Laos inspecting the construction of the M1 motorway (September 1965) and Princess Margaret attending a Commonwealth fashion show (June 1968). The resulting mix of stories for an issue was eclectic to say the least, with students studying insurance squeezed in between carpet manufacturing in Scotland and the Lord Mayor's Show (April 1967).
It could be argued that the seeds of Roundabout's demise were sown in this consistent approach. That it failed to adapt to changing cinema audiences as the impact of television increased but the picture across Asia in 1974, when the last issue was released, is far more complex & contradictory. It is worth remembering that countries such as Sri Lanka, Burma and Laos only established their first television stations between 1979 and 1983. The simple truth was that Roundabout, together with Carrousel and Parade were axed as result of severe budget cuts suffered by the COI and changing priorities with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
What remains is a series that is incredibly easy to watch, as indeed the best 'soft propaganda' should be. Although subjects and locations change dramatically every couple of minutes the viewer rarely feels any jarring change. The fact that these diverse topics segue neatly into one another is mainly due to the commentary, often through one word links, supported by the even, sonorous tones of commentators such as Brian Cobby. It is a deceptively simple technique as is the quality of the editing in much of this material. There is an art to telling a story for an international audience in around 100 seconds and many of the Roundabout items, such as the manufacture of tinsel in Wales (December 1965), are a masterclass in how to do just that. Elements of British life that were barely accorded a glance were given a single revolution on Roundabout and transformed into something dynamic, glamorous and often quite beautiful.
Linda Kaye, Head of Research, BUFVC.
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We're growing fast and taking on new clients every week, so we're looking for another Social Media Manager to jump on board and hit the ground running.
This job is wide and varied. As a Social Media Manager your objective is to turn strategy into reality and successfully manage all social media output for your clients. If it's going live, it's your bag!
You work closely with your clients and account teams, which are made up of Creatives, Paid Media Managers and Account Directors to ensure the right things are being posted at the right time. As the person that controls everything that's going on any one account, you'll also produce insightful reports for clients so they know about all the great stuff we've been doing.
Brilliantly personable… communication is the lifeblood of our business. Your passion must lie in working with people. You must have a natural ability to handle challenging situations and personalities with charm.
A love for brands and social media... you must be fascinated by brands, how they market themselves and use social media to do this. You will be naturally curious about the developments of the digital world and be excited about its potential.
Experience working with social media... a minimum of one year is required.
Pride in your work... we treat our clients brands as our own and are meticulous about our approach. You will have real pride in what you deliver and always strive for perfection.
Real drive and ambition... you will be a large part of a small company constantly adapting to the ever growing world of social, and we need people who have the mindset of growth as well as the ambition to get there.
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Buddha's hand is a kind of fruit from a variant of citron. It is oddly shaped. This is simply because when the fruit ripens all its carpels separate from each other and form elongated, curved shapes. As a result, each carpel appears like a single finger and the whole fruit looks like a Buddha hand. It is native to northeastern India and China. There it is better known as Fo Shou. Thanks to its versatility, Buddhist hand fruit is so popular that it is widely used as Chinese herb, preserved fruit, and ornamental plant these days.
Also known as Fructus Citri Sarcodactylis, in TCM it refers to the dried fruit of Citrus medica L. var. Sarcodactylis Swingle, a fragrant variety in the Citrus genus (Rutaceae). Medicinally it is harvested during autumn when the fruits start to turn yellow. After the harvest, they are sliced vertically into sheets, and dried in the sun or under low temperature.
Medicinally the dried Buddha fingers fruit is elliptical or oval slices, 6 to 10cm long, 3 to 7cm wide, 0.2 to 0.4cm thick, and often wrinkled or curled. The top is slightly wider, often with 3 to 5 finger-like sections. The base is slightly narrow and some come with fruit stem scars. Outer rind is yellow-green or orange, and with wrinkles and oil spots. Pulp is pale yellowish white and scattered with uneven wirelike or dotted vascular bundle. It is hard and brittle, and turns pliable after affected with damp. It has lovely lemon-like floral aroma and slightly sweet bitter flavor.
Buddah hand fruit contains volatile oil and coumarin compounds. Main chemical constituents are bergapten, limonin, aurantiamarin, diosmin, and so on.
As above, Buddha hand citron can be served for many health benefits. Now you can understand this amazing herb more from the point of view of modern pharmacology.
4. The fructus citri sarcodactylis polysaccharide contained in Buddha hands fruit plays an important role in supporting immune function. That being said, it promotes the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophage, and tremendously fights against the cyclophosphamide-induced immune dysfunction.
As a common Chinese herb, it is viewed as acrid, bitter, and sour in taste and warm in properties. It covers 3 meridians of liver, spleen, and lung. Its most important functions are stretching liver to smooth Qi and harmonizing stomach to relieve the pain. Main Buddhas hand citron uses and indications are liver-stomach Qi depression, fullness in chest and rib cage, fullness or distension or pain in the stomach, reduced appetite and vomiting, and so on. Recommended hand Buddha dosage is from 3 to 6 grams in decoction.
1. Cough by vital energy and phlegm stagnation. According to Min Nan Min Jian Cao Yao (Folk Herbal Medicine In Minnan), Buddha hand decoration in the dose of 2 to 3 Qian is a good formula for phlegm-Qi induced cough.
2. Tympanites and swell. According to Lingnan Cai Yao Lu (Records of Gathering Medicinal Herbs of Lingnan), the combination of Buddha hand citrus and (Hominis Urinae Sedimentum) can cure tympanites and swell.
3. Leukorrhea. According to Folk Herbal Medicine In Minnan, the hand of Buddha coupling with small intestine of pig works for diseases of gynecology.
4. Hepatitis A. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine Dictionary, Buddha citron combining with Bai Jiang Cao (Patrina) treats infantile infectious hepatitis A.
This herb is rich in nutrients, such as carbohydrates, crude fiber, ash, limettin, and so on. Hence, it is mostly used for medicinal purposes and made into tea and essential oil. What's more, it is often used for dietary therapy too. As for how to cook this herb to make full use of its benefits, here are some awesome recipes for your reference.
Directions: decoct finger citron fruit, remove the residue, put in the rice and crystal sugar, and then cook them into porridge.
Directions: brew fingered citron with hot water, and then add in sugar.
According to TCM theory, use Buddha's hand fruit with care in cases of deficiency of vital energy due to prolonged dysentery and fire excess from yin deficiency without qi stagnation.
This was the first time for me , seeing this beautiful fruit in my local mid-western supermarket. The smell and beautiful color primarily captured my attention. After reading the info supplied above I am certainly intrigued!
I am not familiar with qi…. Your help please!
Qi or Chi, literally translated, means "gas", "air", or "breath". But in traditional Chinese culture it is a more complicated, abstract notion that is hard to define in a few words. Similarly, there is no a counterpart in English even though traditionally it is often translated as "energy flow", "life force", or "natural energy". But apparently these words fail to cover the full picture of Qi. And if time permits I will talk more on this topic in the future.


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test_name 'Windows ACL Module - Add Permissions to a 8.3 File'

confine(:to, :platform => 'windows')

#Globals
target_parent = 'c:/temp'
target = 'c:/temp/file_short_name.txt'
target8dot3 = 'c:/temp/FILE_S~2.TXT'
user_id = 'bob'

file_content = 'short file names are very short'
verify_content_command = "cat /cygdrive/c/temp/file_short_name.txt"
file_content_regex = /\A#{file_content}\z/

verify_acl_command = "icacls #{target8dot3}"
acl_regex = /.*\\bob:\(F\)/

#Manifest
acl_manifest = <<-MANIFEST
file { '#{target_parent}':
  ensure => directory
}

file { '#{target}':
  ensure  => file,
  content => '#{file_content}',
  require => File['#{target_parent}']
}

user { '#{user_id}':
  ensure     => present,
  groups     => 'Users',
  managehome => true,
  password   => "L0v3Pupp3t!"
}

acl { '#{target8dot3}':
  permissions => [
    { identity => '#{user_id}', rights => ['full'] },
  ],
}
MANIFEST

#Tests
agents.each do |agent|
  step "Execute Manifest"
  on(agent, puppet('apply', '--debug'), :stdin => acl_manifest) do |result|
    assert_no_match(/Error:/, result.stderr, 'Unexpected error was detected!')
  end

  step "Verify that ACL Rights are Correct"
  on(agent, verify_acl_command) do |result|
    assert_match(acl_regex, result.stdout, 'Expected ACL was not present!')
  end

  step "Verify File Data Integrity"
  on(agent, verify_content_command) do |result|
    assert_match(file_content_regex, result.stdout, 'Expected file content is invalid!')
  end
end

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You will shower before entering the tank to remove any deodorant, perfume, lotions, and hair oil. Then you will transition immediately to the tank. The next 60 minutes are completely up to you. You can keep the music and lights on, or you can maximise the full benefits of a sensory restricted environment and turn everything off. You can also choose to close the lid on your tank, or leave it open — even just a little crack if you prefer.
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After your float, you will be invited to extend the experience even further by relaxing in our sunroom with a cup of hot or cold tea. Of course we understand if you need to carry on with your to-do list immediately after your saltsoak session; however, we hope you will ease yourself back into the chaos of your daily grind gently. Even taking ten minutes to absorb the experience can be powerful.
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This video was created to play alongside Baxterworld's business show stall, and any future presentations. It was designed to convey key points of the business in a quick and dynamic way, that can be played on a loop. For situations like this sound can be a downfall, which is why the video is silent. It was filmed and animated by myself, using a Canon 550D and then After Effects CS6.


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"""
Tests for sparked.hardware.serialcommand

Maintainer: Arjan Scherpenisse
"""

from twisted.trial import unittest

from sparked.hardware import serialcommand

class MyProto(serialcommand.SerialCommandProtocol):

    commands = [ ('PING', 0x01) ]

    sndIntro = "\xFF\x00"
    sndOutro = ""
    rcvIntro = "\xFF\x00"
    rcvOutro = ""
    lengthIncludesChecksum = True

    pinged = 0

    def got_PING(self, data):
        self.pinged += 1
        self.lastData = data

class TestSerialCommand(unittest.TestCase):

    def test1(self):
        proto = MyProto()
        proto.dataReceived("\xFF\x00\x02\x01\x03")
        self.assertEquals(proto.pinged, 1)
        self.assertEquals(proto.lastData, "")

    def test2(self):
        proto = MyProto()
        proto.dataReceived("\xFF\x00\x02\x01\x03")
        proto.dataReceived("\xFF\x00\x02\x01\x03")
        self.assertEquals(proto.pinged, 2)
        self.assertEquals(proto.lastData, "")

    def testPartial(self):
        proto = MyProto()
        proto.dataReceived("\xFF\x00")
        proto.dataReceived("\x02\x01\x03\xFF\x00")
        self.assertEquals(proto.pinged, 1)
        self.assertEquals(proto.lastData, "")

    def testWithData(self):
        proto = MyProto()
        proto.dataReceived("\xFF\x00\x04\x01\xAA\xBB\x6A")
        self.assertEquals(proto.pinged, 1)
        self.assertEquals(proto.lastData, "\xAA\xBB")


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Capitalism Isn't Broken: The Economic Thinking Behind It Is
Originally published October 7, 2020 on Forbes
Over the past forty years, business has worshipped at the altar of economic efficiency. Beneath countless management fads and trends have been three simple goals: cut costs, grow profits, and increase share price.
On the surface, this calculated agenda looks inarguably smart, providing the seemingly perfect engine for economic expansion. But just below the surface lies a dark side of using these narrow goals to make complex and messy decisions: when decoupled from a moral foundation, they tear at our social fabric.
Free market economists have helped lead this decoupling process. For years they've argued the best way to organize a prosperous and healthy society is to let individuals maximize their own financial self-interests through private markets. Collective selfishness, they contend, leads an "invisible hand" to guide society down the right path as competition dynamically optimizes for the best outcomes.
There are two problems with this argument. First, the US economy isn't as competitive or free as some would have us believe, with much of the inefficiency advantage going to corporate interests and never really "trickling down" to the rest of society. Second, aggregated short-term private selfishness doesn't actually produce long-term public good. In theory, that's why we have government to intervene. Herein lies the challenge.
Over the past several decades government has neglected to play a proper balancing role in capitalist markets, instead jumping into bed with free market economists. Politicians have largely avoided making difficult decisions on tough topics such as climate change, inequality, stagnant wages, and common-sense financial regulation. In essence, they've cut a Faustian bargain by letting the fiction of an invisible hand pick-pocket our long-term future in order to drive short-term growth. To make matters worse, the spoils from this unholy bargain are accruing to an increasingly small percentage of those at the top. What's blindingly obvious to anyone paying attention is that we need to rebuild our social contract to better serve our whole country and not just a powerful elite.
Of course, none of this is new. Articles and books on these topics have been written with increasing frequency since the 2008 financial meltdown. Even economist Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the Federal Reserve and one of the architects of thirty years of free market policies, admitted in 2008 that he was "in a state of shocked disbelief," acknowledging that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of self-interest and free markets. Yet still, according to a sobering Wall Street Journal report, not a whole lot has changed since the 2008 crisis.
This begs the question: If the 2008 financial crisis, which would have brought down our global banking system were it not for a taxpayer-funded bailout (ironically, a move that reeks of just the socialism that free-marketeers like to rail against), wasn't enough of a wakeup call to change our economic zeitgeist, what is?
It's tough to say. The idea of stakeholder capitalism is gaining some steam and producing positive stories, but it still lives inside a system geared towards shareholder primacy. Many companies are being called out for giving lip service to stakeholder capitalism while not genuinely trying to advance the ball. Nevertheless, momentum continues to build: This September, the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with the world's largest accounting firms published a comprehensive framework for measuring stakeholder capitalism. It's a useful document, but it lacks the teeth for producing real change.
So, where will real change come from? Ultimately, one place: civic education and participation.
We as citizens must demand, with our voices and votes, the sort of policy and economic changes we want to see. Thomas Jefferson's words from 1820 are just as true in 2020. "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
One useful topic of education for all of us is basic economics. Economics lies beneath everything. As noted British economist John Maynard Keynes observed, "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else."
Unfortunately, many people think that economics is too complicated to understand. "Economists have been fantastically successful in making people believe that [economics] is…more difficult than it really is," says Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang. "95% of economics is common sense. It's just made to look difficult through the use of jargon and mathematics."
That perceived difficulty is a significant barrier to a well-functioning democracy. Since the early 1970s, economic reasoning has come to dominate political and judicial decision-making and thus our entire society. It's easy to understand how this happened: Economics provides rational, unemotional cost-benefit analyses for complex and thorny issues from business and investing, to crime and pollution. Even adultery has been examined through an objective economic lens.
This mathematicised view is so seductive in its reductionist clarity of the world and so ingrained in our national psyche that it's tough to even notice it, let alone question where it's overstepped desirable boundaries and crowded out other important ideas like character, morality, well-being, equality, and the environment. Three recent books are particularly useful in shedding light on the economic mental models we all live within: Doughnut Economics, Transaction Man, and The Economists' Hour. Together they explain our journey to the present moment and how narrow economic goals and thinking are at the root of many challenges we now face.
On the flip side, an equally important topic of education is for economists to understand the humanities. Northwestern economist Morton Schapiro wrote a 2017 book with literary critic Gary Saul Morson about the problems created by using math-based models to solve human-centered challenges. "We're not comfortable with things that we can't put into an equation," Schapiro shared, "and I think we lose a lot because of that." Humans, it turns out, in one of those I-can't-believe-I-have-to-actually-point-this-out insights, need the humanities.
We're at a powerful moment right now. A global pandemic is exacting a costly and unequal toll on our economy and the human beings who live inside it. Yet, amidst the tragedy there is a silver lining: It is bringing into clear focus fractures in our society that need to be fixed. It's waking us up to the fact that economics is not a set of "value-free" scientific laws, but rather value-laden judgment calls that have a real impact.
In the months and years ahead, we have to open our eyes to what's happening around us. We have to speak up for the economic goals we feel are important, not just accept the ones we're being fed. And we have to elect leaders who will fight for a more sustainable form of capitalism.
Our country won't survive if we don't create legitimate opportunities for everyone to thrive.
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I think Laura has had me watching too many of those home improvement shows. Last night I dreamed that we had bought a small house near Furman for her to use while she is on sabbatical this year. There were holes in the walls and problems everywhere, and we were trying to get the In a Fix team to come repair everything. Furthermore, the Clean Sweep crew was on hand to try to organize and clean out our refrigerator. I never knew one could collect so much cheese.
Dreams aside, I am keenly ashamed of my lack of organization. I have always had a fascination with office supply stores, partly in the vain hope that if I could just get enough file folders, labels, and boxes my life might somehow come together. Of course, these things only contribute to the clutter. However, when I watch shows like Clean Sweep and it's BBC counterpart, Life Laundry, I don't feel so bad. These people have REAL organizational issues, to the point that it affects their marriage, work, and life. My concern is that after the crews come in and do a whirlwind changeup of the victim's houses, how long is it before those places are right back in the same mess? Are attitiudes and behaviours really changed? Somehow I don't think so.
Since it is Labor Day weekend, my labor is to pull a clean sweep on my office, specifically the closet. It's chock full of said office supplies, various cables, music, electronic gear, and a plastic sword. So far I've managed to pull it all out into the middle of the room so that the place does look like one of the hapless souls on TV. I've got a picture here, and hopefully will be able to post an "after" shot by mid-week.


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When building brand loyalty, just listen
Ad Feature from Cardlytics
By Andrew Blustein-23 October 2018 14:40pm
Love is patient, love is kind, but brand love is monetizable, and the first step to building brand love is engendering customer loyalty.
In an option-heavy world, differentiating between loyalty and heavy-category spending can be tricky. Cardlytics CMO Dani Cushion led a panel at Advertising Week New York to outline the steps brands can take to not only accurately measure loyalty, but to also curate experiences and insights that can further drive positive relationships with consumers.
As a data and analytics platform that runs rewards programs for banks, Cardlytics can see a consumer's entire purchase history across brands and categories, which helps eliminate the blind spots preventing brands from gauging true loyalty.
Having a holistic view of consumer spend is a start, but hearing what consumers like – and, more importantly, dislike – is what drives sustained brand love.
"The minute we have a member getting ambivalent about us, I begin to worry," said Kenneth Keith, chief brand officer at Orangethory Fitness. "What we try to do is design a loyalty program that gives them the two things they've asked for very clearly. They want experiences that are going to be elevated, and they want to be noticed in a way that's personalized and motivates them."
Ambivalence can easily snowball into distrust. Brands that catch customers before that downward slide have their ears to the ground.
"No matter how much data you look at, no matter how many surveys you do of your customers," said Joshua Stein, director of financial partnerships at Hilton, "there's no replacing you actually going to talk to your customers yourself. Especially larger companies, it's very easy to sit in your office and just look at reports."
Having a genuine, individual relationship with customers is paramount, especially in today's data-driven world where customers can grow increasingly frustrated by poorly targeted messaging – particularly after sharing their information and data on their purchase habits. According to Julie Sukosd, Under Armour's senior manager of global CRM, customers can spot a fake a mile away.
In order to foster personal connections that last a lifetime, Sukosd suggested that brands embrace the role of "host" and think of customers like guests at their party. She said that Under Armour strives to treat its shoppers like friends by taking the time to understand what they want, what they like and what they're trying to achieve and by giving them the support they need to reach these goals.
Consumers are constantly sharing across different platforms. Whether it's direct customer feedback or referrals, brands can occupy different spaces to pick up on trends and innovate from there.
Keith, for example, called social media a "truth serum" that allows customers to "tattle" on behalf of his network, helping spur positive growth.
Centering campaigns around the customer and adapting your brand to their evolving desires are those short-term wins that bring long-term gains, said Sukosd. Under Armour has found data collection to be a critical part of this process, resulting in top-selling products like legwear featuring the SpeedPocket that holds your phone during a run.
Projecting these long-term gains isn't always quantifiable, but that shouldn't necessarily deter investment. "There's a real risk to all of us marketers," said Stein, "which is the only thing we end up funding are rational, ROI-based investments, but yet decision making is still relatively emotional."
It's about building a narrative and using that to tell the story behind your strategy. Keith cautioned that too much crude data can be an impediment and that actionable insights are often necessary to convert occasional customers into lifelong supporters.
The panel agreed that staying ahead of the curve will always be a challenge, and simply reacting to data points to drive loyalty is too one-dimensional. Data must be turned into insights, and those insights should be used to better understand what actually meets your customer's needs. Brands that know the customer better than they know themselves are the ones that understand why building brand love must come with a personal touch.
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This programme is taught jointly between the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the School of Pharmacy by leading experts in the field.
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Advanced Separation Science: (Sept-Jan) will cover the most important separation techniques relevant to the Pharmaceutical Industry as well as method validation, stability of pharmaceutical compounds and sample preparation methods (20 CATS points).
Chemical, Biochemical and Spectroscopic Analytical Methods: (Sept-May) will cover the majority of modern spectroscopic techniques and their applications in pharmaceutical analysis as well as aspects of GMP and GLP (40 CATS points).
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Disadvantages of Polarized Sunglasses
By Lucy Natek
Polarized sunglasses are special eyewear with lenses designed to improve vision in strong sunlight. They protect the eyes from glare, a phenomenon that occurs when light bounces of objects in a way that obstructs vision. However, polarized glasses are not appropriate for every occasion. They have disadvantages that make them impractical in certain situations.
Not Appropriate for Snow Sports
In some specific conditions, polarized sunglasses can be inefficient for use during snow sports. Polarized sunglasses can make it difficult to differentiate ice patches as a result of sunbeams reflecting off the snow during downhill skiing or snowboarding. This can be very dangerous, because if the skier or snowboarder doesn't see where he is heading, he has no time to react and can fall.
Not Always Appropriate for Driving
Although the main feature of polarized sunglasses is the ability to reflect glare, which makes them excellent for driving, they can in some circumstances be unsuitable driving. Polarized glasses make liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which also reflect polarized light, practically impossible to read from some angles. These type of displays are very commonly found in dashboards of cars and other motorized vehicles, which means that wearing them during driving can potentially be dangerous.
Not Appropriate for Flying
Polarized sunglasses can also be dangerous for pilots. Although polarized sunglasses were first worn by pilots, their applicability in this profession has faltered with the widespread of LCD screens in dashboards of airplanes. As pilots cannot afford to lose sight of the dashboard, polarized glasses are not appropriate eyewear for them.
Expensive Eyewear
Polarized sunglasses tend to be more expensive than ordinary sunglasses. If you are looking for sunglasses for winter sports, driving or flying, polarized lenses may not be worth the extra expense.
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Mary Mott's infant son was found lying dead in a gutter on her rooftop, by a laborer working on the chimney. She claimed it was stillborn, but was unable to prove it: the presumption in such instances went against the mother, on the grounds that every infanticide would simply claim stillbirth otherwise.
William Smith "said that he was guilty of all sins except Murther, he named Sabbath breaking, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness." John Barret, a burglar, copped to the same trio of gateway sins.
Posterity has much more on Mary Jones, a scarf-maker whose lover squandered all her revenues and drove "Moll" to make an illicit living by the dexterity of her fingers. Having been branded on the hand for picking the royal chocolatier's pocket, Jones turned to the boom trade in shoplifting London's growing traffic of valuable little textiles like stockings and lace.
Thomas Taylor, a parson's son "addicted to idleness," was in fact quite industrious when it came to robbery. There's a story from his career of engineering a buffoonish caught-in-the-town-pillory routine to distract a crowd of yokels while his pickpocket buddies plucked them clean. His fatal crime was an even more audacious twist on the same, in which Tom, acting alone this time, fired a barn, then joined the resulting rescue scramble and made off with a trunk full of plate and £140 cash. He would later admit this was not the first time he had used this gambit.
The arson was the source of his condemnation, but we could not pass over the Newgate Calendar's remembrance of a different and dreadfully amusing larcenous exploit … which also goes to show the very private, and very punitive, nature of crime prevention in those days.
Taylor being pretty expert at picking of pockets, he set up for himself; and one day going to the playhouse in Drury Lane, very well dressed, he seated himself by a gentleman in the pit, whose pocket he picked of about forty guineas, and went clean off. This good success tempted Tom to go thither the next day in a different suit of clothes, when, perceiving the same gentleman in the pit whose pocket he had picked but the day before, he takes his seat by him again. The gentleman was so sharp as to know his face again, for all his change of apparel, though he seemed to take no notice of him; whereupon putting a great quantity of guineas into the pocket next Tom, it was not long before he fell to diving for them. The gentleman had sewed fishing- hooks all round the mouth of that pocket, and our gudgeon venturing too deep, by unconscionably plunging down to the very bottom, his hand was caught and held so fast that he could in no manner of way disentangle it.
Tom angled up and down in the pocket for nearly a quarter of an hour; the gentleman, all the while feeling his struggling to get his hand out, took no notice, till at last Tom, very courteously pulling off his hat, quoth: "Sir, by a mistake, I have somehow put my hand into your pocket instead of my own." The gentleman, without making any noise, arose and went to the Rose Tavern at the corner of Bridget Street, and Tom along with him, with his hand in his pocket, where it remained till he had sent for some of his cronies, who paid down eighty guineas to get the gudgeon out of this dry pond. However, the gentleman, being not altogether contented with this double satisfaction for his loss, most unmercifully caned him, and then turning him over to the mob, they as unmercifully pumped him and ducked him in a horse-pond, and after that so cruelly used him that they broke one of his legs and an arm.
* A good round number: it was Tyburn's second 11-spot of the year.


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This trial is the first trial to compare L-PPDS to timolol eye drop therapy. Results from this trial are expected by the third quarter of 2014 and will be used to determine the appropriate study design for a potential Phase III pivotal trial of L-PPDS. To date, more than 570 subjects have been treated in various L-PPDS dose-ranging Phase II studies. The Phase II study will evaluate a 95ug formulation of latanoprost in Mati's proprietary punctal plug. In past studies, 160 subjects were treated with this dose of latanoprost administered through L-PPDS. Across these subjects, L-PPDS was shown to reduce average IOP by approximately 20% at the Week 12 time point.
Mati's objective with L-PPDS is to develop a minimally invasive, sustained drug delivery approach to treat patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension. The Mati drug delivery platform aims to address patient non-compliance with eye drop medication - a long standing problem in ophthalmology - by replacing the need for every day administration by the patient with a sustained delivery system.


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Mechanisms of peroxynitrite interactions with heme proteins
Jia Su, John Taylor Groves
Oxygenated heme proteins are known to react rapidly with nitric oxide (NO) to produce peroxynitrite (PN) at the heme site. This process could lead either to attenuation of the effects of NO or to nitrosative protein damage. PN is a powerful nitrating and oxidizing agent that has been implicated in a variety of cell injuries. Accordingly, it is important to delineate the nature and variety of reaction mechanisms of PN interactions with heme proteins. In this Forum, we survey the range of reactions of PN with heme proteins, with particular attention to myoglobin and cytochrome c. While these two proteins are textbook paradigms for oxygen binding and electron transfer, respectively, both have recently been shown to have other important functions that involve NO and PN. We have recently described direct evidence that ferrylmyolgobin (ferrylMb) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) are both produced during the reaction of PN and metmyolgobin (metMb) (Su, J.; Groves, J. T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 12979-12988). Kinetic evidence indicates that these products evolve from the initial formation of a caged radical intermediate [Fe IV=O · NO 2]. This caged pair reacts mainly via internal return with a rate constant k r to form metMb and nitrate in an oxygen-rebound scenario. Detectable amounts of ferryIMb are observed by stopped-flow spectrophotometry, appearing at a rate consistent with the rate, k obs, of heme-medlated PN decomposition. Freely diffusing NO 2, which is liberated concomitantly from the radical pair (k e), preferentially nitrates myoglobin Tyr103 and added fluorescein. For cytochrome c, Raman spectroscopy has revealed that a substantial fraction of cytochrome c converts to a β-sheet structure, at the expense of turns and helices at low pH (Balakrishnan, G.; Hu, Y.; Oyerinde, O. F.; Su, J.; Groves, J. T.; Spiro, T. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 504-505). It is proposed that a short β-sheet segment, comprising residues 37-39 and 58-61, extends itself into the large 37-61 loop when the latter is destabilized by protonation of H26, which forms an anchoring hydrogen bond to loop residue P44. This conformation change ruptures the Met80-Fe bond, as revealed by changes in ligation-sensitlve Raman bands. It also induces peroxidase activity with the same temperature profile. This process is suggested to model the apoptotic peroxidation of cardiolipin by cytochrome c.
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Peroxynitrite Chemical Compounds 100%
nitric oxide Physics & Astronomy 97%
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cytochromes Physics & Astronomy 69%
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proteins Physics & Astronomy 63%
Oxide(2-) Chemical Compounds 44%
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