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Creative Director & Partner
John Strohmeyer opened his advertising and design agency in 2004 after working at large agencies for 25 years. He prides himself on not only producing and directing award winning work, but solving the unique creative challenges that every marketing manager brings to each project.
Known throughout the industry for his food advertising experience, Strohmeyer was first tapped by Arby's to manage and direct all the photography for their national merchandising materials. For Best Western International, Strohmeyer Creative managed all exhibit, collateral and web creative for the chain's Design & Supply arm, targeted to both consumers and franchisees. Then in 2009, the agency was awarded the creative duties for Golden Corral Restaurants, managing and developing all their merchandising materials, brand décor, print advertising and web needs on a national level.
In recent years, StrohCreative has served as agency of record for Tropical Smoothie Cafes and Chicken Salad Chick, in addition to servicing clients like Tin Drum Asia Café, US Bridge and various non-profits.
Prior to opening StrohCreative, John was Senior VP and Creative Director at Doner Advertising, managing and creating national advertising campaigns for Arby's and Owens Corning consumer and business to business. He also served as VP/ Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather, Atlanta, overseeing Centers for Disease Control, Shoney's, American Express, Food Lion, Egleston Children's Hospital, Kodak and others.
John got his start at Lowe and Partners in New York, where he worked his way up to Vice President and Creative Director on accounts like Sprite, Mr. Pibb, Bob Evans, Parker Pen and many others. He graduated with a BFA from Syracuse University and did post graduate work at The School of Visual Arts, NYC. John's been recognized by virtually every national and international advertising award including The One Show, Clio, London International Print, Cannes and ADDY.
Copy Writer & Partner
Julie Strohmeyer, copywriter, partner and CEE (chief of everything else) brings to StrohCreative 25+ years of copywriting experience in print, content development, direct and broadcast. Beginning her career in magazine publishing at Ziff Davis New York, Julie moved on to Lowe Marschalk Direct and later McCann Erickson.
As a trailing spouse and mother of four, Julie managed to build a robust freelance business before joining her life partner as creative partner in 2005. Her work for clients including Xerox, Bell South, General Motors, CARE Int'l and Crystal Springs Water won numerous awards, including the DMA Echo, John C. Caples, South Star and various ADDYs.
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As our independent creative team, Eric & Todd help us on projects ranging from brand identity, design and illustration to logo refresh and web development. Recently, Eric & Todd helped brand and launch a popular new line of 8 crafted beers. Young, dynamic, multi-disciplined, award-winning … these wise guys are always challenging the status quo and looking for ways to plus a concept or design. And that's fine with us!
Clients love Joe for his accessibility and can-to attitude when it comes to the myriad demands of restaurant advertising. Printers and producers love him for his attention to detail and flawless files. And we love him for putting the service in Strohmeyer Creative Services.
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Erich is a magic-maker who can turn a client's unique digital needs into a positive user experience. His gifts for listening, intuiting and problem-solving make him an indispensable partner in the digital design process at StrohCreative. If a client can dream it and StrohCreative can design it, Erich can build it.
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Since its inception, StrohCreative has enjoyed a dynamic relationship with New Eyes Inc.'s Debra Mager. Known in the restaurant industry for her insight in defining and refining company brands, Debra brings a value-added service to StrohCreative clients as a partner in brand strategizing and implementation. Debra has launched, repositioned and revitalized dozens of national brands, including Arby's, Hardee's, Skyline Chili, Little Caesar's, Tropical Smoothie Café and Golden Corral.
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A Review Of Ungodly By Braedon Riddick
Wicked phenomena strike the isolated campus of Calisade Mountain College. A homeless man sees his dead son in an abandoned dormitory, pursues the boy inside, and meets his demise. In the dark of night, a student witnesses a man plummet from a high-rise — a surefire suicide — but the detectives find no body. A campus police officer suddenly develops a taste for rape — and a homicidal hunger. The townspeople always sensed an intangible wrongness on the mountain . . . even before the evil enigma was afoot.
A pacey and spine-tingling supernatural thriller filled with suspense and tension throughout, Ungodly is the debut novel from author Braedon Riddick and it's one you're sure to remember!
Dark and powerful it radiates malevolence, as Riddick takes his readers on a harrowing journey, underpinned by an intriguing plot. Building his fictional setting and characters with a meticulous eye to deliver much more than a trite horror fest.
The horror genre is at its best when exploring something real by taking readers to extremes and Riddick understands this. Not only taking us on a visceral, pulp-infused thrill ride but giving us something very real to think about.
With brusque prose and a notable sense of timing, he blunts the edge of predictability by delivering a host of inspired cliff-hanger scenes and opportune surprises that make for a highly imaginative and well-executed narrative. His writing absolutely shining when he depicts his most grizzly settings with each one brought eerily to life with a creeping sense of dread.
He has one aim; it's to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep them that way until the very end of the book, and he does it with calculated ease. But sometimes horror, even at its darkest, is the window dressing for something tenderer as it is with the burgeoning relationship between Brian and Amanda. The evil they face is huge and incomprehensible, but not, in the end, insurmountable, and much of Ungodly's power comes from the ultimate hard-won victory and the sacrifice one of them must pay.
An enthralling and captivating supernatural horror debut, Ungodly suggests a bright future for Riddick with it sure to be well received by fans of horror and supernatural fiction. It is recommended without reservation!
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One of Canada's largest privately owned steel fabrication and piping facilities has expanded its services to include construction of pipe system modules. With the help of Innovator staff and technology, the new service is taking off.
Constructing pipe modules is second nature to this company's experienced workers. However, all pipe modules must also be fully hydrotested and certified to the standards of the pressure equipment safety authority for Alberta, ABSA.
Because the hydrotesting technology was new for this company, its testing teams were having trouble keeping up with the volume of modules they could produce. Innovator was called in to increase their capacity.
In a win-win arrangement, Innovator's technicians took over the hydrotesting for an entire job. This was a much more efficient use of time, and it allowed the company's crew to focus on their core business of fabrication without any hydrotesting distractions.
Evan Linehan, job coordinator at Innovator, explains the secret to Innovator's efficiency. "We are flexible and make real world improvements to systems and procedures," he says.
Innovator's five-man team completed and returned 46 tests in just eight days — providing nearly 600% improvement in time and manpower costs.
In this case, Innovator teams pre-configured and installed high-pressure, quick-change, self-sealing fittings to streamline the testing process. "It's a time-saving fitting that we currently use," says Linehan.
The results were dramatic. The company's 30-man team had planned to complete 46 tests in 21 days. Innovator's five-man team completed and returned 46 tests in just eight days — providing nearly 600% improvement in time and manpower costs.
Innovator staff doesn't expect to have standby time during the day; technicians would rather be working. As teams are cross-trained to perform any service that Innovator offers, the on-site team offered to help in ways that the steel fabrication company didn't expect. "We've been able to help with flange facing and hot tapping. The client didn't know our team could also do those jobs, so they were pleasantly surprised," says Linehan.
"Our team will help our customers in any way shape or form that we can when we're there. If we have a procedure to help and they're willing to let us help them, we will pitch in. We'll even sweep floors and pick up garbage," Linehan adds. And he's not joking! The Innovator philosophy is to give clients full value for their dollar. Whenever the Innovator staff is being paid, they want to keep busy.
He continues, "Our employees are well aware that if they sit around for a few days, they will lose momentum and it takes longer to get back up to speed after downtime. If you're not working, it just makes the day go by slower.
"No matter what the job is, we come up with resolutions to what our customers call 'problems,'" Linehan says.


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Janai D. Myers recently received recognition from the Nesbitt College of Design Arts, Drexel University, Philadelphia, where she is majoring in fashion design.
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'I found myself lifting my jaw from my chest at the end of every other chapter . . . this was not the Obama I thought I knew. She was more' Independent
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era.
As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world. She dramatically changed the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and stood with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations - and whose story inspires us to do the same.
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An inspirational memoir that also rings true -- Gaby Wood ― Daily Telegraph, Five Stars
Obama's memoir is a genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections. . . Allied to this candour is a steeliness of purpose. It is no exaggeration to say that every page of this book is, explicitly or otherwise, a reproach to Donald Trump, and a call-to-arms to those who would defeat the 45th President and all that he stands for -- Matt D'Ancona ― Evening Standard
This is a rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall she's a fun person to sit alongside as she tells you the story of her life, warts and all. . . it is as beautifully written as any piece of fiction, with a similar warm languid tone to Ann Patchett's novel Commonwealth -- Viv Groskop ― i, Five Stars
This revealing memoir offers new insights into her upbringing on the south side of Chicago and the highs and lows of life with Barack Obama. . . Becoming is a 400-page expansion of this essential doctrine ['when they go low, we go high'], without compromising a refreshing level of honesty about what politics really did to her. I have read Barack Obama's two books so far, and this is like inserting a missing piece of reality into the narrative of his dizzying journey -- Afua Hirsch ― Guardian
I found myself lifting my jaw from my chest at the end of every other chapter, not because of any seedy insight into stories I'd always wondered about, but because, armed as I was with knowledge about her career, her mannerisms, and even her elbow-heavy dancing, this was not the Obama I thought I knew. She was more -- Kuba Shand-Baptiste ― Independent
Inspiring. . . After 421 pages of Becoming, I closed the book hoping that one day she would use her formidable intelligence, humanity - and humour - to offer a more tangible vision for how America might fight the rising tides of polarisation and hate ― Financial Times
Open and engaging. . . Obama writes with candour about the good times and bad. ― Daily Express
Of course, Becoming is Michelle Obama's story, of how she moved from a girl on the South Side of Chicago to becoming one of the most powerful women in the world. But in the final pages of the book, Obama writes, "It's all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor." Here, Obama is pushing us to reckon with our own becomings - to realise our own story and to have the power to tell it. ― The Pool
She's a woman we've all fallen in love with because she radiates joy and wisdom, and Becoming encapsulate this perfectly. It's also deeply honest - reading it makes you feel as though she's your close friend opening up to you ― Red Online
Obama writes with a refreshing candor ― The Atlantic
Michelle Robinson Obama served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mrs. Obama started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She later worked in the Chicago mayor's office, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Mrs. Obama also founded the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an organization that prepares young people for careers in public service. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Becoming, which has sold more than 11.5 million copies around the world. The Obamas currently live in Washington, DC, and have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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Cardinals work out QB Cole McDonald, former Wildcat Khalil Tate
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With quarterback Kyler Murray's status up in the air, the Arizona Cardinals worked out signal caller Cole McDonald on Tuesday, per NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.
The team also worked out former Arizona Wildcats quarterback and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Khalil Tate, according to Darren Urban.
However, it is unclear exactly what position Tate was worked out as.
McDonald was selected in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans. He was released on Aug. 19 to make room for veteran quarterback Trevor Siemian and later tried out for the Carolina Panthers on Aug. 23.
As a junior at Hawaii, the 6-foot-3, 215-pound signal caller recorded 4,135 passing yards (No. 3 in the nation) and scored 33 touchdowns through the air (eighth in the nation). McDonald also produced with his legs, rushing for 383 yards and seven scores on 101 attempts.
In three seasons at Hawaii, McDonald accumulated 8,032 yards, 70 touchdowns and 24 interceptions on 61.4% passing (326-of-511).
All but one of his touchdowns came in his final two seasons as the school's starter. He chipped in an additional 880 yards and 12 touchdowns on 251 carries.
If he's signed, McDonald could figure to be the second- or third-string quarterback on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams if Murray is unable to suit up.
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VANCOUVER, Wash., July 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Papa Murphy's Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRSH), the world's leading take 'n' bake pizza franchise, today announced its 1,500th store opening in Goldsboro, North Carolina located at 2136 Wayne Memorial Drive. This is the first Papa Murphy's store in the Goldsboro area owned by new franchise owner Rod Gumbish, formerly an Air Force Squadron Commander at the nearby Seymour Johnson Air Force base. To celebrate this significant milestone on Thursday July 16, Papa Murphy's is giving away 1,500 pizzas at fifteen hundred hours (3:00 p.m.) at the Goldsboro location. The company will also host a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Al King.
"The opening of our 1,500th Papa Murphy's store is a major milestone for the company and a testament that our unique take 'n' bake concept is a valuable brand worth investing in," said Jayson Tipp, chief development officer and senior vice president of technology for Papa Murphy's. "Our growth is due in large part to our dedicated franchise owners and employees who are committed to consistently delivering fresh, high-quality menu items and a great customer experience. We are enthusiastic about sharing this occasion with Goldsboro residents and Papa Murphy's fans across the country as we expand our brand into existing and new markets."
The first Goldsboro location features Papa Murphy's innovative CREATE store design that highlights the fresh, high-quality ingredients which are available daily on the makeline. The CREATE store format focuses on complete transparency and personalization, allowing customers to see their pizza as it's created. An open layout showcases the scratch-made dough prep area, hand-chopped vegetable toppings, and freshly-grated 100 percent whole-milk mozzarella cheese. The location features digital menu boards to enhance the customer experience and provide a resource for local messaging.
"We are thrilled to join the Goldsboro community and introduce Papa Murphy's distinct take 'n' bake pizza and its mouthwatering flavors to the community," said Rod Gumbish, franchise owner of Papa Murphy's. "We welcome area residents to come join us today for a grand opening celebration as we look forward to providing a solution to the dinnertime dilemma for busy families on the go."
Papa Murphy's is widely recognized for its dedication to providing great tasting, affordable and convenient fresh meal options that moms and dads can feel good about serving their family. Papa Murphy's pizzas are completely customizable and guests can choose to top their favorite scratch-made crust, made in-store daily, with a wide variety of fresh, wholesome, ingredients. Guests take their pizza home and bake in their own oven for 12 – 18 minutes and serve hot for a delicious meal any day of the week.
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Banking Capital – Increasing clout of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)
At a time when Banking capital is scarce and finance capitalism is driving the World, it is but natural to expect foreign money to find its way, to pump ailing weak banks. It is a common knowledge that in the past onedecade or so, beleaguered banks due to decelerating economy, raising NPA levels and many other structural impediments were finding it difficult to garner capital. The weaker banks faced the brunt of it. The old generation banks, with myriad governance issues and regulatory compulsions of the nature of Basel III guidelines and the like were finding it very difficult to raise capital, repeatedly. More specifically, some banks were classified into weak banks and put under Prompt-Corrective Action (PCA) Framework of the Reserve Bank of India. In short, the Prompt Corrective Action or PCA is a framework under which banks with weak metrics on Capital Ratios, Asset Quality and Profitability concerns are put under watch by the RBI. Such classification deems bank as risky and starts corrective actions which majorly includes Capital infusion and probing Governance issues. Accordingly, some Private Banks like Yes Bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank, CSB etc. apart from the Nationalised Banks in India like UCO Bank, Indian Overseas Bank have been categorized under PCA framework in the last two-three years. Some of it have successfully come out of it.
2.0 Looking for fresh Capital by Weak Banks
Banks when trying to pull out from the quagmire of such distress, raising fresh Capital from the investors is always a conundrum that plays out. 'Suitors' are looked around for the 'Bride', but generally it ends up as a long process and 'Suitors-with-deep-pockets' are always a preferred lot in the game.
They might come from far and wide after hearing the news. In the globalised world of Finance Capital, Sovereign wealth funds (SWF) are emerging as one such major 'Suitors' in supplying banking capital, or that is what the recent merger of 'Lakshmi Vilas Bank' points out, going by the fact the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)which has taken over the LVB is a Bank where in Temasek Holdings one of the SWF of Singapore Government has the majority stake. Now, herein we need to understand the SWF with more clarity.
3.0 What is SWF ?:
SWFs are investment funds owned by sovereign governments and is funded by foreign exchange and reserveassets. They are generally funded by reserves held by countries running current account and budgetarysurpluses. It is categorized by their longer-terminvestment horizons as well as their different objectives. Since an SWF Balance sheet doesn't carry much of liabilitiesit helps themwith long-term goals/ outlook whenmaking an allocation. In fact, SWFs can be the"stickiest" of all institutional investors, as they seek returns overlong periods and do not divest in times of crisis.
But when we come to specifics (incl. investments in financial sector or in Venture Funds) probably some are not aware of the role played by Government owned investment funds or Sovereign Wealth Funds. SWFs are supposed to be wielding financial muscle in excess of $ 8.4 trillionnow. (Source : IE Sovereign Wealth Fund Research, 2019). In terms of asset size, it has already outgrown Hedge funds, Private Equity Funds etc., though its quantum is small, when compared to Assets held by Pension Funds, Mutual Funds or Insurers.From the above information, discussions and references, it shall be clear why a better understanding of SWF is required, especially when the composition of FDI is undergoing changes from private actors to public actors. This article examines and provides insights into what this sovereign investment vehicle has brought about, into governance, regulatory and strategic aspects of international business. More specifically, its investment in Banking capital and what it signifies.
4.0 Merger of LVB with DBS and the Sovereign Connection:
As we all know, the beleaguered capital starved Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) was merged with DBS Bank in India in a sudden move. It opened an initial shock and awe followed by many legal disputes to this day. The poor due-diligence that has gone into finding the suiter in a jiffy was heavily criticised.Majorly, the following reasons were pointed out and are still getting debated in the common circles
Noproper calling of suiters and evaluations/ vetting done to take care the interests of all stake-holders;
Leaving in lurch of all the existing equity holders;
Leaving in lurch the AT1 Bond holders when the merger was announced (including LIC's contribution);
A foreign Bank getting a complete stake in an Indian Private Bank with 563 branches for nothing.
But the biggest question that should harbour the attention should have been on the Control the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore Government ie., Temasek Holding has on DBS Bank in their Country. The following aspects could have merited attention.
It is puzzling considering the fact that Foreign Banks Operations in any Country is by way of reciprocity of 'market access' and foreign banks who are operating in India for even more than 100 years like CITI Bank, Standard Chartered, HSBC etc., could grow only to a size of 15 or 20 branches in the Country.
Opening / allowing of foreign banks to function in the country has always been the subject matter of Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreements between Countries. When it comes to India and Singapore case, despite the fact that we boast of a nearly Century old banking co-operation with Singapore, till date, only eight Indian Commercial Banks operate in Singapore. All with just a lone branch except UCO Bank which is the oldest and has two branches. The regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore hasn't given any automatic entry into Singapore at any point in time. In such a situation why this largesse.
It could be another matter that more than 30 overseas branches of Indian commercial Banks were closed down in the last two years due to varied reasons (including viability related).
The moot question again is why to a Bank with highest holding of a sovereign focussed fund ?. Isn't it indirectly allowing the foreign government itself access?.
Scholars and Researchers who have studied SWF have conflicting views about its increasing role in the world economy. Some argue that SWF are a result of balance of payment surpluses and are used for economic smoothening purposes (Mattoo& Subramanian, 2008). There is an alternative view published in the same year stating that this theory is unfounded (Madden, 2008). An extreme view set forth in the thesis by Norris (in 2010) is that SWFs deliberately tries to pursue and generate their strategic goals by manipulating the activities of commercial actors and are engaging in economic statecraft. Another view is, SWF can be seen as a state-adaptive strategy under contemporary conditions of globalisation (Monk, 2011). It is an evolving theme and little attention is focused on SWF's use by states as a tool in promoting national development.
5.0 Emergence and Growth of SWF:
It is an established fact by research, that cross-border financial flows as investments in value creating activities in diverse economies, looks for productivity of financial capital in a globalized world which has seen a shift towards a more integrated and inter-dependent world economy. The shift in financial power from private to public actors, has led to examination of SWF operations and its implications for the world economy.
Sign of the growing clout that state-backed investment vehicles are wielding in the financial sector has been evident for some time now. The flow of cash from state-backed agencies, especially those based in Asia or the Middle East, is prompting concern among politicians in Europe and the US, who worry it may give foreign governments influence over the financial sector.
6.0 Problem Areas / Issues in SWF
The following could be termed as major issues with regard to the growth and emergence of SWF in the world :
Researchers who studied the Financial Crisis and Economic Downturns globally post 2007, be it Mortgage Crisis emanating from the Sub-prime mortgages involving Collateralised Debt Obligations(CDOs)/ Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and derivatives or the bail-out of countries on the brink of sovereign default like Greece or Dubai, have pointed out, the increasing role played by SWF in the bail-out packages. It can be argued, that the SWFs, irrespective of origin, have turned every crisis into an opportunity in their growth path.
In addition to the national security concerns, many economists and policy makers are of the opinion that by investing in failed institutions by injecting billions of dollars the SWFs are engaged in an act of disrupting the natural part of business cycles which would have removed ineffective management and poorly performing companies / corporations from the market place.
Studies on foreign investment literature suggest many Non-financial motives to investing by SWF. The relation between SWF investment and target firm performance has been a subject matter of debate and many researchers who worked on this subject suggest that the SWFs prefer large poorly performing firms facing financial difficulties. This is contrarian to professional investment logic and philosophy. Another set of studies seem to prove that the SWFs investments have a positive effect on the stock prices of target firms around the date of announcement of investment but no effect on the firms performance / governance in the long run.However, many market operators irrespective of nationalities support SWFs as they provide the much needed liquidity to the capital market.
A new business model of SWF that is evolving and emerging is to form unusual alliances. For instance, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has formed a joint venture with Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) and the Korean National Pension Service. Same way, the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC) entered into a 50-50 joint venture with an SWF in Singapore. Many such known and un-known partnerships or strategic tie-ups have come about in the last five years or so. Such partnering apart from giving edge in financial leverage and negotiation is also meant for political cover is the argument by experts in the subject.
Many Legal issues and Tax issues have also cropped up with the growth of SWF in the world of foreign investment. Though the taxation of foreign investments is a favourable one with exemptions from capital appreciation or dividend income in many countries, it has come into conflict with domestic / foreign private equity investors. There is an issue of 'level playing ground' often touted by the domestic investors when it comes to tax exemptions.
The next issue relates to foreign investment climate. In India, to some extent in our enthusiasm to attract foreign capital, we have also liberalised the investment regime. In May 2016, the RBI allowed foreign banks to acquire 10 per cent in Indian Private Banks. The circular further allows foreign banks to take higher stake in private banks in the case of re-structuring of a weak bank or in the interest of consolidation in the banking sector though subject to certain conditions. The RBI Circulars subsequently have also favoured the Wholly-owned Subsidiaries (WOS)of Foreign Banks to increase its presence. The DBS India is a WOS in India and Temasek Holding, promptly used the leeway to scale up. Whether, culturally and economically does it make sense to take such a risk when banking itself is going to be less and less brick-and-mortar is another matter.In the current takeover of the weak Lakshmi Vilas bank in India by the SWF supported DBS India in Nov 2020, the motive, transparency and the real objective is unclear.
There is also an issue of systemic risk, from SWF singly or acting in tandem, through its investments in Global banks, as is noticed in sub-prime days when SWFs raised their stakes in big global banks like Citigroup, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Barclays etc.
7.0 Sceneto the future
SWFs are increasingly metamorphosing from passive investors in government securities to active investors in riskier investments and equity markets. The component of SWF in Inward FDI is going up in the world which clearly underscores the risks emanating from sovereign actors in the conduct of international business. Arguably, this brings with it a bouquet of issues with regard toBanking Capital, governance, management and regulatory aspects in world of investing and banking business. The goal of this article was to provide insights for a better understanding of the SWF, in such a fast changing landscape of Banking & Finance.
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Thea Gauci was born on the 8th of November 2002 and lives in the beautiful locality of Mellieħa. Thea has recently embarked on her academic journey within the University of Malta, studying for a Degree in the Bachelor of Commerce.
Her musical career started in 2007 with the Soċjeta Filarmonica La Vittoria A.D. 1907 choir within her local community. At the age of seven, Thea started attending singing lessons under the direction of Geordie Debono and she immediately shown the interest to further her studies in the musical sector.
Throughout these 11 years, Thea has taken part in various festivals organised both locally and internationally. This active participation in such festivals resulted in her winning several awards including a majority of 1st and 2nd place awards in combination with an Overall Grand Prix Award in 2013. Up till now, the highlights of her musical career include winning the Konkors Melodija Maġika festival in 2015 with an original Maltese song written by Ingrid Vella and composed by Augusto Cardinali, and during the same year she performed at the Mediterranean Conference Centre as one of the finalists to be chosen for the San Remo Junior Malta and San Remo Junior Festival held in Italy. In 2016, Thea was a finalist on the local television show known as The Entertainers, where she competed in The Entertainers Singing Challenge.
In addition to these events, in 2018 Thea also qualified to the final of L-Għanja tal-Poplu – Żgħażagħ 2018 with two original Maltese songs, Ħmistax and Għerf il-Baħar.
Thea also had the unique opportunity to participate in international festivals in Germany and Sicily. In 2013 she took part in the EuroPop Contest in Berlin and in 2015 she performed and placed 5th in the Oltreoceano Festival that took place in Montreal. Following her performance in Sicily, she was chosen to be part of a Michael Jackson Tribute Concert where she interpreted the song Man in the Mirror.
Moreover, during the past five years Thea has started taking piano and saxophone lessons. She has shown her motivational and enthusiastic qualities through the brilliant results achieved in all the exams she has undertaken.
Thea's singing career has taken a step further as she teamed up with a local guitarist to perform multiple gigs in well known establishments throughout the island. The pair has a vast repertoire ranging from classic to contemporary hits, with which they have always received positive feedback with regards to their ability to interact with, and engage the audience in their performance.
Thea has now been chosen as one of the finalists of the L-Għanja tal-Poplu 2021. She will be performing the song Kunċert Impromptu as a duet with Nedved Galea. A song penned by Rita Pace and composed by Mark Cachia. Thea is looking forward to this new journey ahead, and aims to make the most out of this unforgettable experience.
On Saturday 7 August, 2021 Nedved together with Thea Gauci performed the song Kunċert Impromptu as a duet lyrics by Rita Pace and music by Mark Cachia.
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The Evolution Of Wale
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Tracing Wale's career progression from hipster favorite to MMG signee to "The Album About Nothing."
Seven years ago, a rapper from Washington D.C. captured the nation's attention with a mixtape based on one of the most successful sitcoms of all-time. In just under two weeks, Wale will be releasing the long-awaited album companion to that Seinfeld-inspired Mixtape About Nothing, but the road he's traveled between '08 and 2015 isn't what you'd expect from his hipster-friendly, underground beginnings.
In that relatively short period of time, we've seen Wale try on a number of hats, with his path best represented by a chronological collaboration history that includes The Roots, Lady Gaga, Rick Ross, Fat Trel and Chance The Rapper. In order to track the evolution of his career, sound and label situation, we've organized Folarin's years in the game into four sections, with each covering a distinct moment in his life.Â
Read on to trace the evolution of one of the most gifted MCs in the game.
Mixtape Wale
Although most of the national attention came in the wake of 2008's Mixtape About Nothing, Wale had been running around the mixtape circuit in D.C. for three years at that point, dropping his first in 2005. Paint A Picture and 2006's Hate Is The New Love both failed to blow up, but they introduced Wale as an ambitious, highly skilled MC, especially on his two-part "A.D.D." series. These marathon-length tracks had him taking on a bevy of eclectic beats, switching his flow accordingly and rarely even pausing to catch his breath. Here's part two, from Hate Is The New Love:
By 2007, he had made two key connections in the music world. The first was superproducer and London native Mark Ronson, who signed him to his Allido Records label in 2006; the second was DJ and (at the time) Fader editor Nick Catchdubs, who went on to mix Wale's two most successful tapes. The first of these was 2007's 100 Miles & Running, its title inspired by an N.W.A. EP, and it featured a mix of freestyles and tracks that still bore the influence of D.C.'s go-go scene. The other artists' tracks that he chose to jump on were notable for their stylistic breadth, with instrumentals from conscious rappers like Common, The Roots and Q-Tip butting up against those from indie acts like Gorillaz, Justice and Lily Allen. This helped Wale establish some hype in critical circles, getting featured on MTV and in The Washington Post soon thereafter, and having XXL call him "the thinking man's Lil Wayne." One of the tape's standout tracks, the go-go-ish "Breakdown," was even featured on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 09.
Just under a year later, The Mixtape About Nothing dropped. Lauded for its unique concept, witty lyrics and blend of humor and socially-conscious subject matter, the tape marks Wale's true breakout moment. His production team Best Kept Secret, who'd also produced most of 100 Miles, were on-board again, and they kept the freestyles to a minimum this time around, instead opting for tracks that melded classic-sounding samples (many taken from Seinfeld) with go-go's live drums. Lyrically, this might be the best we've ever heard Wale, as he deftly addresses issues that were important to the day and age (such as illegal downloading, ringtone rap, mixtape cliches and Seinfeld actor Michael Richards' racist rant) without ever sounding too preachy. Self-aware, clever and funny, Wale rapped "Hip-hop heads see a new day, and I is one" on the tape, and it was hard to disagree with him at that point.
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Interscope Signing & Debut Album
Just before The Mixtape About Nothing, Wale inked a $1.3 million deal with Interscope and promptly began recording tracks for his debut album. In the interim before that project, Attention Deficit, hit shelves, he shared another tape entitled Back to The Feature that, despite not receiving as much acclaim as its predecessor, still kept the rapper's momentum going strong. With Wale's newfound clout in the game, he was able to secure production from 9th Wonder and tons of high-profile guest spots (hence the title). The most shocking of these came from Lady Gaga, who guested on a track that would later appear on Attention Deficit. The song, "Chillin," was presented in rougher, less-mainstream form here, with many fans saying they prefer the mixtape version to this day.
When the official version of "Chillin" dropped, it kind of represented the larger direction Wale's career would be heading on the album. As we've seen with many more rappers who've risen from internet notoriety to major label deals in his wake, the commercial debut often erases rappers' signature quirks and sounds, attempting to smooth everything out into a commercially-viable whole. For Wale, this meant adding in relatively bland collaborations with R&B songstresses ("World Tour," "Diary"), ill-fitting appearances from Gucci Mane and Pharrell and above all, high-gloss production that didn't match his previous sound. That being said, his charisma and intelligence shown through the musical hodgepodge (it's kind of ironic that an album named Attention Deficit sounds so scattered and unfocused), especially on the intensely personal "Shades." It was one of the four tracks Best Kept Secret produced for the album, and features Chrisette Michele on an Erykah Badu-esque hook.
After Attention Deficit did low numbers commercially, Wale thankfully got back on his Seinfeld-adoring mixtape steez, dropping More About Nothing a little under a year later. Check that out below.
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Maybach Folarin
Even though Wale had branched out considerably from his early days of adhering to DC's local sounds, nothing could've predicted his next business move, In one of the more shocking signings in hip-hop history, he inked a deal with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group over Super Bowl weekend 2011. One of the label's four high-profile signings that year (they also got Meek Mill, Stalley and French Montana), Wale was clearly the black sheep among a group of rappers who tended to focus on more gangster themes in their music. But true to Rozay's promise that the DC native would still be allowed to do as he pleased, Wale's first tape on the label featured just a few trap beats, no gun talk and only one feature from an MMG artist. The Eleven One Eleven Theory was so popular that it crashed Hulkshare, and succeeded in drumming up a ton of hype for Wale's debut album on the label.
Elsewhere, Wale did a shockingly good job of fitting in on Maybach's crew tapes, with Self Made Vol. 1 also dropping in 2011. Focusing his lyrics on battle-style boasts, Wale delivered one of the best verses of his career on the project's "Pandemonium."
Wale's transformation into full-fledged MMG rapper was cemented on Ambition, his commercial debut on the label. The beats are just as high-powered as Attention Defcit's, but instead of coming from people like Dave Sitek (a member of indie band TV On The Radio), they come from DJ Toomp, Tone P., Lex Luger and others in the MMG stable. Lyrically, Wale plays the chameleon game, blending in with the luxurious sound and increased prestige by spitting about more materialistic things. That being said, this is still Wale we're talking about, so even when he spits "Sippin Moscato with models, havin' exotic dishes" on "Don't Hold Your Applause," he has to immediately follow it up with "But it don't mean shit unless I know that my genre respected." Increasingly a man of some very intriguing contradictions, Wale definitely showed some growing pains on this album, but not enough to distract from how fun it was to hear him trying out something new. The sales reflected this, as Ambition moved 132,000 more units in its opening week than its predecessor.
Along with some appearances on Self Made II, 2012 also saw Wale dropping the Folarin mixtape. A similar, albeit more easygoing companion to Ambition, the tape took him even further from his humble beginnings, seeing him take on Beat Billionaire trap bombast alongside dudes like 2 Chainz and Trinidad James. This one seemed more low-stakes than The Eleven One Eleven Theory, but still included its fair share of bangers and dope lyrics from Folarin.
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The Gifted & Beyond
When Wale announced his third album, The Gifted, it was clear that he was setting out to make something completely different from all of his previous projects. In an interview with Philly radio station Power 99, he said "It's going to have one sound, very, very soulful," and told MTV that it would be his first opportunity to truly "stand on my own sonically as an artist." What this seemed to translate to was a more organic sound that drew from the expansive soul records made by guys like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson in the '60s and '70s. There was still the odd track like "Clappers" that was a clear attempt to get on the radio, for the most part, this album was less tied to prevailing trends in rap than any of Wale's other post-Mixtape About Nothing releases.
Instead, we got wah-wah guitars, lush strings and expertly-tweaked drums, all of which added to the project's ambitious scope. To make a convenient, if not 100% accurate comparison, The Gifted is to Wale what Dark Sky Paradise is to Big Sean: an attempt to create a cohesive project after some more mixed-bag offerings-- "IDFWU" is Sean's "Clappers;" "Black Heroes" is Wale's "One Man Can Change The World." Whether you thought it was a classic or not, The Gifted is most likely to be your favorite Wale album. Here's standout track "LoveHate Thing."
After The Gifted turned up on many year-end lists (though not Complex's, which Wale was pretty pissed about), he faced a little more label drama thanks to Meek Mill, who publicly called him out for not supporting Dreams Worth More Than Money, but thankfully that petty conflict didn't result in Wale being dropped. He spent most of last year trying to get a release date for The Album About Nothing, and when it became clear that it wouldn't be dropping in 2014, he instead hit us with the Festivus tape as a primer. His first Seinfeld-influenced release in about six years, it whipped day-one Wale fans into an excited frenzy, seeing the rapper bringing all of his major label experience back into a more relatable, relaxed setting. It saw him pairing up with A-Trak, who works closely with Nick Catchdubs at Fool's Gold, so the tape bears some of the upbeat fun that 100 Miles did. Loopy beats like "Blood Money 3.5" and nostalgic samples (Janet Jackson's "Go Deep" is flipped on "Girls On Drugs") butt heads with the trappy Fat Trel collab and a song called "Juggin," but the loose, eclectic feel works better here than it did on Attention Deficit.
Thus far, the only two tracks we've heard from The Album About Nothing are both collaborations with R&B singers, so it's difficult to say what the rest of the album will sound like. Now that we've seen the tracklist, it looks like "The Matrimony" and "The Body" will close out the project, which is dope considering their similarities, but there are still 12 unheard joints. Like The Mixtape About Nothing and More About Nothing before it, all of the album's song titles begin with "The" (true to the titles of Seinfeld episodes), but that's about the only other clue we have at this point. It could end up sounding closer to his early material, but with Jeremih and Usher features already on the docket, it looks like Wale might be going for a bona fide big-ticket project with high-profile guests and larger-than-life beats rather than something more homespun. Whatever the case, The Album About Nothing will represent the culmination of one of the most successful, inventive series of releases in recent memory, and you can bet that it will further Mr. Folarin's evolution even more.
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European TourBrian Keogh May 14, 2008 Darren Clarke, Irish Open, The Irish Sun 2008Comment
Clarke targets sixth Ryder Cup
Darren Clarke reckons Padraig Harrington launched Ireland's amazing tournament winning streak.
Now he's hoping to build on his own Shanghai success by blasting his way to a sixth Ryder Cup cap with victory at Adare Manor
Reflecting on Harrington's win last year and his march to Major glory at Carnoustie, Clarke said: "Padraig winning and then going on to win The Open was a massive boost for golf in Ireland.
"And then in recent weeks we have had the four winners and I think a lot of that is due to what Padraig did last year. We will be looking for another Irish winner this week. It's a fantastic time for Irish golf.
"I think Graeme's win in Korea kicked it all off and Damien's win, and Peter and myself to a certain degree, and I think that seeing guys win helps the other guys come along and that's happened.
"I'm sure you're going to have a couple of the Irish guys up there challenging this week to try to keep that run going.
"It was great to get back into the winners circle again and it meant an awful lot to me. Now I want to kick on from there."
Clarke's hoping he will be one of them after ending a three-year barren spell with that last gasp, 40-foot birdie putt in the BMW Asian Open.
But he knows that if he is going to make Nick Faldo's Ryder Cup side automatically, he's going to have to win another "couple of times" this summer.
Ranked just outside the top 25 in the Ryder Cup race, Clarke will get to within touching distance of an automatic Ryder Cup spot if he wins the €416,660 top prize.
And Clarke wants to take full advantage by riding his wave of good form to the top of the leaderboard.
He said: "It was great to get back into the winners circle again and it meant an awful lot to me. Now I want to kick on from there.
"Okay, I made winning more difficult than I should have done but I got it done in the end and I want to get back as soon as possible again."
Confessing that he had shaken a monkey off his back, Clarke's concentrating his efforts on the European Tour and retaining his Ryder Cup place.
And that's why he won't be trying to pre-qualify for the US Open at Walton Heath next month, explaining that it will disrupt his plans to play in Wales and Austria.
He said: "I'm doing everything I can to try to make the Ryder Cup Team. My schedule now, it's firmly based around Europe. My goal is to try to make the team and you know, some people may frown at my decision but that's the way that I see it."
The Ryder Cup was a friendly affair last time with Clarke coming out of mourning to play a massive role in Europe's record-equalling victory.
But he sees new US skipper Paul Azinger as a fiery character who will be keen to put one over on his rival Faldo.
He said: "Zinger has always been a fiery personality. That's the way he is on and off the golf course. Nick and himself don't particularly see eye-to-eye, which is obvious.
"And you know, you have two different captains and whether there is a little bit more spice, I imagine there will be, that's only good for The Ryder Cup.
"They are desperate to win it back, and they will have a very strong team trying whatever they can to get the trophy back."
Clarke sees no reason why he can't pull off another Ryder Cup masterclass now that his life is settled again and he is recovering from the grief of his tragic loss.
He said: "I've been to The Ryder Cup since Heather passed away; I've won again since she passed away.
"So all of those benchmarks, those first time things I've done. Last year I was going back to venues and thinking: 'Heather and I use to stay here, we used to do that.'
"So now I've done it all. The Ryder Cup is one I desperately want to play in, but because I've already done it once, it is a lot easier."
Majors, European TourBrian Keogh July 15, 2015 The Open, Darren Clarke1 Comment
Clarke banking on experience (and Dr Bob)
Darren Clarke reckons experience can trump power as he bids to win The Open for a second time.
European Tour, Ryder CupBrian Keogh November 26, 2006 Darren ClarkeComment
Clarke eyes Ryder Cup captaincy
Darren Clarke says he would "relish" the honour of being handed the European Ryder Cup captaincy.
European TourBrian Keogh October 08, 2008 Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, The Irish Sun 2008Comment
Clarke admits his mental frailties
Darren Clarke has confessed that he must learn to win ugly like Padraig Harrington if he is to become a world force again.
European TourBrian Keogh October 20, 2008 Darren Clarke, Irish Open, The Irish Sun 2008Comment
Clarke has hope for Irish Open
Darren Clarke believes the Irish Open will go ahead next year - and it could be set for the Posh and Becks treatment by JP McManus.
European TourBrian Keogh May 17, 2011 Darren Clarke, Iberdrola Open, Jose Maria Olazabal, Ryder CupComment
Clarke targets Ryder Cup return in Chicago
Play like that and you're in the team. Darren Clarke is congratulated by 2012 Ryder Cup skipper Jose Maria Olazabal after Sunday's final round. Credit: golffile.ie Darren Clarke insists he can still win a major and win back his Ryder Cup place after snatching his first win for three years in Mallorca.
The Ulsterman, 42, leapt 36 spots to world No 88 thanks to his three-shot win at the Iberdrola Open.
Now just one win away from a return to the world's top 50, he sees no reason why he can't challenge for a place in the 2012 Ryder Cup team alongside Ulster stars Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy, six years after his last appearance at the K Club.
Harrington feeling better than ever
European TourBrian Keogh May 14, 2008 Padraig Harrington, The Irish Sun 2008
McGinley ready for blast off
European TourBrian Keogh May 14, 2008 Irish Open, Paul McGinley, The Irish Sun 2008


HON. J. A. COMBS, one of the very prominent and widely-known residents of Mulberry Grove, Ill., is a familiar personage in the social and commercial as well as the political circles of Mulberry Grove Township, Bond County, Ill. He is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, and holds the important office of Police Magistrate, and is also a Notary Public, having held the latter office for nineteen years.
Our subject was born in Coles County, Ill., November 2, 1833, near the village of Ashmore. The father of Mr. Combs was John Combs, a man who was well known throughout the State. He was born December 20, 1810, in East Tennessee, and remained in the same locality until he was seventeen years old, when he moved with his parents into Indiana, where they remained for four years. Here the young man began the study of medicine, and when the family removed to Clark County, Ill., he continued his studies and became a practicing physician, and followed his profession until his death, which occurred in Mulberry Grove, July 13, 1851, of cholera.
The grandfather of our subject was also a native of East Tennessee, and there conducted a farm until his enlistment in the War of 1812. The mother of our subject was formerly Elizabeth M. Mitchell, who was born in Russell County, Ky., January 3, 1812, and when quite young removed with her parents to the State of Indiana. She came to Coles County, Ill., in 1828, while her death took place in Kansas, in 1866. Her father, John Mitchell, a native of North Carolina, resided near Guilford, where occurred the battle of Guilford Court House. This battle was fought on her grandfather's plantation, and there yet may be found in some of the deep furrows which the plow of the husbandman turns up an occasional bullet which long ago did its deadly work. The family came of that mixture of Scotch-Irish blood which has given the world some of its most eloquent men and lovely women.
The parents of our subject reared a family of nine children, only six of whom grew to full maturity, and but five are now living. Of these the gentleman of whom we write is the eldest. His youngest brother, William, became prominent in the State of Kansas, and held the position of Judge of Lyon County from 1888 to 1890. The others of the family have become well and favorably known in the localities where they have lived.
Mr. Combs of this notice came into Bond County, Ill., March 1, 1845, and to the town of Mulberry Grove March 2, 1846. His first school days were passed in Marshall, Clark County, Ill., whence he went to the celebrated McKendree College at Lebanon, Ill., to finish his education. He was only nineteen years of age when he began the management of his own affairs, and so determined was he to obtain an education, that he perseveringly worked his own way through a year's course at college. After such a preparation he found teaching a congenial employment, and for six years he followed it. August 21, 1859, he married Martha E. Buchanan, who graced his home but a few short years, when death claimed her for its own. She left three children at the time of her decease: Jennie, now Mrs. Holt, of Pocahontas; Lillie, who finds a home with her sister; and Ernest E., who is a graduate of the college at Valparaiso, Ind., and was elected President of the Alumni, and is now Principal of a school at Sorento, Ill.
The second marriage of our subject took place here, and the lady who became Mrs. Combs was Louisa A. Burke, nee Russell, a resident of this town. No children have resulted from this union. Mr. Combs is an ardent Republican and has done much for his party, of which he has been a member since its organization, and in 1869 he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace and served until 1877; he was re-elected in May, 1891, and has also served one term as School Director. He has been a Notary Public for the past nineteen years, and is the second oldest Notary in the county. His election to the Legislature to represent the district composed of Bond, Clinton and Washington Counties, took place in 1888, and he took an active part in the special session of 1890, when the World's Fair question was under discussion.
Mr. Combs served three years in the late war, having enlisted in Company E, Twenty-second Illinois Infantry, and was in all of the principal battles of the war. He came out of the struggle without wounds, but with experiences which have left a lasting influence. His life has been one of business and he has been successful in many ways. Few men attain all of the heights which youth promises, but Mr. Combs has accomplished much more than many of those who started under more favoring circumstances.
Extracted 04 Dec 2016 by Norma Hass from 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery and Bond Counties, Illinois, pages 235-236.


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Effects of Blast-Induced mTBI on Neural Network Functional Connectivity
Blast-induced mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) is leading cause of sustained injury in today's military service members. While injuries sustained in past wars consisted primarily of blunt force and penetrating head wounds, blast-induced mTBI is now a signature of modern warfare, primarily due to advanced weaponry, such as improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Despite the increased prevalence of blast-induced mTBI, the pathophysiological effects of this type of injury are largely unknown. Thus, a group of researchers sought to use functional neuroimaging techniques to compare the neural network connectivity in different regions of the brain in active duty service members that have suffered blast-induced mTBI and struggle with persistent post-concussive symptoms (PCS) with healthy controls who have not suffered blast-induced mTBI. Neural connectivity was measured during a 5 minute resting-state recording using magnetoencephalography (MEG), which can be used to detect discrepancies in connectivity by measuring neuronal activity. Due to its ability to measure neuronal activity at different frequencies, MEG allows researchers to decipher the parts of the brain that are most affected by blast-induced mTBI.
In this study, Huang et al found that service members who experienced blast-induced mTBI and have persistent PCS have significantly increased activity in beta activity, which corresponds to increased functional connectivity in regions of the brain that regulate memory and executive function as compared to the healthy participants. Follow-up neuropsychological screening indicates that increased neural activity in these brain regions corresponds to lower performance in executive function tasks. To better understand mTBI-related differences in functional connectivity, future studies should include a comparison between service members who have experienced blast-induced mTBI with and without PCS.
Huang, Ming-Xiong, et al. "Resting-state Magnetoencephalography Reveals Different Patterns of Aberrant Functional Connectivity in Combat-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury." Journal of Neurotrauma. (December 2016).
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Resting-state fMRI may be a valuable tool for assessing neural plasticity after traumatic spinal cord injury


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Q: Prevent IE8 from making content transparent I have a div with its individual CSS for IE8, it is transparent. How can I prevent IE8 from making content inside this div also transparent? It should be 100% visible and not transparent. Thanks so much for suggestions.
Fiddle (to be watched at in IE8)
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    top: 362px;
    left: 0;
    width: 460px;
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A: Opacity in inherited to all children, by design. New browsers can use alpha-channel (RGBA) to get around this, IE8 cannot.
All you can really do is use absolute-positioning to place the content you want visible over-top of the transparent bits. You of course need to rearrange the element stacking order to do this.
You can cheat by making a copy of the contents, minus the transparent element, and placing it over top of the existing element using JS.

A: If the div has the class called .mybox then try and definitively set the opacity perhaps by adding opacity: 1;

A: Finally, I found an even better solution:
.mybox {
background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr=#98000000,endColorStr=#98000000);
}

UPDATED: Take a look with IE8
I obviously messed up something with the filter declaration, I am sorry about that... :(