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HeartWare's Ventricular Assist System Recall gets Highest-Risk Class I Label
HeartWare International's recall of their Ventricular Assist System, also known as the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) has been classified as Class I by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Class I designation is the agency's most serious warning; it means that there is a reasonable risk of serious injury or death associated with exposure to the device. The system was recalled in December due to a failed locking mechanism. Last week, the company issued a reminder about the defect, citing 8 reports where the locking mechanism failed to engage.
HeartWare issued a news release last Thursday reminding patients and healthcare professionals about the driveline connector defect in its HVAD. The release mentioned 8 reports where the locking mechanism failed in the circulatory support system. In four of these cases, the failed locking mechanism caused the pump to temporarily stop. This "could cause serious injury or death, depending on the function of a patient's native heart" the company said. Patients are asked to discuss the device issue with their physicians or VAD Coordinator. HeartWare reiterated that clinicians should inspect the driveline connector at each clinic visit to ensure that there is proper locking.
The original recall notification was issued on December 6, 2013. According to the notification, the ventricular assist system is used as a bridge to cardiac transplantation in patients who are risk of dying from advanced heart failure. The system has both internal and external parts, including an internal pump, external controller, power sources and the driveline that connects the pump to the controller. The system can be used for both in-hospitals and out-of-hospitals settings, including situations where patients need to be transported by an aircraft. A recall was issued because of a defect that can cause the locking mechanism to fail in the driveline connectors. This defect was "a result of a faulty manufacturing assembly process" and "could result in the pump stopping and potentially lead to serious adverse health consequences, including death" the notice read.
The recall notice says that if the driveline becomes disconnected from the patient controller, then a "VAD stopped" alarm will sound. If this happens, then the driveline should be immediately reconnected to the controller as instructed in the patient manual and the patient should contact their doctor of VAD Coordinator immediately.
The systems were manufactured between March 6, 2006 and October 17, 2013 and distributed from March 17, 2006 and November 29, 2013. An Urgent Device Medical Device Correction letter was sent to customers on December 12, 2013.
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Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)
Directed by Paul Wendkos.
With Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner, Anne Francis, Donna Mills, Tony Bill, Robert Reed, Moses Gunn, Phyllis Hill, Michael Lembeck, Susan Foster.
An intriguing premise is given decent life in this modest TV chiller from the director of 1975's Legend of Lizzie Borden.
A group of ultra rich vacationers travel to the secluded island resort Portals of Eden...an idyllic paradise for the megawealthy.
But once there, strange phenomena begins to occur. A tropical storm cuts off virtually the entire flow of electricity. The staff comprised of local natives mysteriously disappears.
Soon, the sorry posse of tourists begin to suspect that their precious 'Portals of Eden' is really the gateway to each of their own final destinies...and that they've long since arrived. For good.
An excellent ensemble cast, each performer pulls their own weight. A thematic gimmick nowadays overused, but here it's presented freshly, with a brooding sense of atmosphere throughout.
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Evan Rachel Wood Says Women Should Circle Alleged Predators At Golden Globes
Todd Malm Jan 7, 2018 3:56 PM PDT
Source: Glamour.com
Evan Rachel Wood made a bold request of her acquaintances for this year's Golden Globes Award's ceremony. As you may know, actresses and actors intend to wear black as a way to protest sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood as well as the nation.
Evan asked her fans to single out the predators one by one as a way of embarrassing and publicly shaming them for their egregious misconduct.
She said if you don't want to speak publicly about them, "gather a handful of people and make a circle around them" and the room will know.
Wood claimed this would out dangerous predators and inspire fear in others so they won't even bother to show up.
The Thirteen actress has been incredibly vocal about sexual assault in the past. In an interview with Rolling Stone back in 2016, before the wave of assault allegations in 2017, Wood claimed she had "been raped" by a significant other and another man who was a "bar owner."
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Evan Rachel explained that, at this point in time in our culture, it's best that women and other sufferers of abuse are vocal about their experiences. Because, according to the actress, there is "blatant bigotry and sexism" in our society which we, as a society, must confront.
Additionally, in a YouTube video in October of 2017, Wood said she wasn't ready to condemn her attackers publicly yet. Wood explained it's a lot harder to talk about abuse than one might think, primarily because of the feelings of guilt and shame which follow abuse. Wood said victims don't feel "safe enough to do so" either, meaning tell the world about their victimization.
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Imagine you need to make a small demo of some BI functionality not depended of data type. All yo need is to have some data which can be used in your model. Where to get some data? For such a purpose it is convenient to use Data Model of SAP demo application SFLIGHT/flight data model or sometimes better know as BC_TRAVEL model. Data of this model are often used in SAP standard training courses of ABAP, Basis areas (e.g. courses of Internet Transaction Server, SAP Web/Application Server). Data model is delivered with Basis component in development package called SAPBC_DATAMODEL. In case you want to use it you need to run transaction BC_DATA_GEN and fill up its selection screen according your needs.
Find more information about Flight Model on help.sap.com.
I have found few interesting SAP notes where a phrase "Dr. ABAP" is appearing in sections like "Additional key words" like in note 212462 or it is mentioned in comments on ABAP code correction attached to notes. I was wondering what this mysterious term of Dr. ABAP could imagine. Based on research I did on internet it seems that this was a kind of nickname of Mr. Axel Kurka former SAP guy who greatly contributed to development of ABAP engine, NetWeaver Application Server and lot of others SAP's technologies. Axel is considered as one of ABAP fathers. His nickname was present in his articles published in "SAP Technical Journal" magazine (currently being published under name SAP Professional Journal).
Acknowledges of Axel's work has been published in several SAP resources, e.g. by Mr. Andreas Blumenthal and Horst Keller in their article; on site Alte-SAP.de. Let me join them. Thank you Axel, RIP.
I have done reading of Gary Nolan's book: Efficient SAP NetWeaver BI Implementation and Project Management. First of all this is my first non technical BI book. As I'm used to read mostly technology books, SAP notes, technical white papers, SDN forums, etc. That's why this book was quite unique. Not so many technical issue discussed in detail - just to notification of them and few tips how to solved them and even avoid them.
As first BI project is introduced in all of its flavors and regardless of BI product release. It is clearly stated here what BW is and what is not, what to expect out of it, what makes project successful etc. Basically a term of "what it takes a BI project" and all kinds of BI projects are discussed here from all of its phases (project planning -> gathering and analyzing requirements -> development/build/testing -> preparing GoLive -> after GoLive). Author is utilizing his broad experience and describing all potential issues within project. From this point of view book is very useful.
Other helpful staff in book is examples of BI project deliverables like: standards documents, project plans, naming conventions, check lists, test scripts, etc.
For more details see book homepage at SAP Press or at Galileo Press.
Having troubles while browsing service market place (also known as OSS)? Same with me; I usually start with http://service.sap.com; I log in via S-User ID and this redirects me to one of application servers which have hostnames like websmpXXX.sap-ag.de. Then sometimes some links are not working from this server – as server seems to be broken. This seems to be often caused by overloaded particular server websmpXXX. Server farm of OSS is suppose to be working with load balancing concept but this problem on some conditions still persists. Therefore it can be very quickly solved by switching to other server directly in URL path in your browser.
E.g. introduction page of OSS can be switched from websmp209 to websmp203.
A winner of 2008 series of Formula 1 championship is known! It is Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. As SAP is a technology partner of the team it is SAP success as well. Company is joining congratulation to Lewis on their official pages. He won series of 2008 championship on 2nd of November 2008 at Interlagos Circuit, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Actually he did not win this match but he scored the best in overall tournament results.
SAP is a long term sponsor of F1; currently supporting Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One Racing Team. SAP is software provider for the team. You can learn more about their partnership at McLaren pages here and SAP's pages here.
To enable it you need to maintain table RSADMINSV via e.g. TA SM30 and check out "Drag&Drop off" field.
Usually end users are using SAP Portals (Enterprise Portal) or any other portal for accessing BI queries. You as a support consultant trying to solve incidents within queries often do not have a portal access therefore you need to access it via raw links or you use TA RSRT (Query monitor) in BI backend system to simulate query there. When user issue is linked with we reporting TA RSRT is not enough and most convenient way is to run query/query view/web template from via web browser. In order to obtain URLs it is good to start with TA RTST. In all versions of this TA you can choose a way how query data is displayed: LIST – classic raw ABAP report layout, BEx Analyzer – MS Excel layout and HTML – web reporting layout. In case you opt for HTML and execute some report, you can afterwards get a URL for this report.
See post related to "ABAP web reporting URL parameters" as well.
There is a pair of SAP transactions which might be used when you need to reset data from SAP database tables temporarily stored in buffers. Actually those codes are not real transactions but so called OK fields that are able to be entered in field of transaction within SAP GUI.
It is been a while a rumor is spreading over web regarding SAP is willing into Teradata acquisition. SAP would strengthen it data warehousing products portfolio where have a big share others pure data warehousing companies like SAS. Over last year's acquisition war with IBM, when SAP got Business Objects and IBM got Cognos it seems that that it strikes back. Teradata is currently very proud to be independed as its spin off from NCR Corp in October 2007. Of course they would to stay as they are – independed. On other hand SAP has recently announced big freeze that would possibly mean share holder of SAP do not want to spend any additional money in today's financials crisis but they can be on opposite side as the current markets very low rates and it might worth to invest in acquisition.
Teradata is well known for its massively parallel processing system. It has its own database system (DBMS). It is very fast and very suitable for very large size of databases. Formerly they had a hardware portfolio of products as well. Still they offering they brand of disk arrays. They invited so called AMP Access Module Processor – a common discrete chunks distributed evenly among the database in order to read it very fast. Before AMP was hardware; now it is a software component.
Let see what future will bring and how data warehousing companies compete between each other, how ORACLE, SAP, IBM, TERADATA, SAS, SYBASE etc.
It is been one and half a year since I wrote this post and things are getting closer. Recently (around end of April) SAP and Teradata announced agreement to provide SAP NetWeaver BW+ on the Teradata environment (database). In terms of this integration SAP BI portfolio including BW and BusinessObjects software will be co operable with Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions. SAP BW will be running natively on Teradata database platform. By this agreement we can assume that SAP's intent to acquire Teradata is over or it is just another step to get into it.
See here on what else SAP is cooperating with Teradata.
Query Monitor is very useful tool used to analyzing problems with BI queries. You can very quickly find out how healthy your queries are and so on. Tool is accessible with transaction RSRT but there are 2 more transactions: RSRT1 and RSRT2. Difference between RSRT and RSRT1 is that via RSRT1 you can run Query views as well. What differentiate RSRT2 against two others is not clear to me. Somebody got an idea?
TA RSRT, RSRT1, RSRT2 difference?


Set in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside, our Eden Valley site draws natural mineral water from what is believed to be one of Europe's largest aquifers.
The purity of our accredited natural mineral water sources is protected because the site is set in an EU Special Area of Conservation.
The site itself was purpose built in 2001 and has three efficient, high-speed bottling lines. It also benefits from a programme of continual investment, including projects such as the installation of a natural reed bed to minimise waste water and a new purpose built on-site warehouse.
As well as producing our Aqua Pura natural mineral water, Eden Valley produces a wide range of customer own brand water in several bottle sizes, multipacks and display units.


As I sort through the "stash" of yarn I've acquired I'm struck by how many skeins of 100% cotton I have on hand. I shouldn't be. I know how every skein got there and why! Dishcloths. If you have ever used a handmade, cotton dishcloth whether it was knitted or crocheted you would know what I mean and never want to use anything else. Luckily I haven't had to; my mother and grandmother have seen to that. These little gems clean like none other and they last forever. They wash and dry beautifully and actually get better with time.
After my grandmother passed away and my mother was no longer able to knit I began the task of replenishing my supply myself. Every Time I saw a new color of cotton I'd grab it. But let's face it , one can only use so many dishcloths, so I began making and giving them as gifts until I grew tired of that too. So the question became WHAT NOW?
How do I FINALLY FINISH using up the cotton stash?
Baby Sun Hats, that's how.
and I am hooked, and really, there is nothing cuter if you ask me. I've given them as gifts and they were well received.
Let's welcome summer and protect those precious little faces too!


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Galvin at Windows
French Cuisine |
Near Spa to You
22 Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, | Travel: Hyde Park Corner tube | Map
Located on the 28th floor of the London Hilton Park Lane, Galvin at Windows offers dizzying 360-degree views across London and high-end cuisine, making it one the best restaurants in the capital - if you can get a seat near the window, that is. Having been open since 2006, the restaurant has long been a favourite among well-heeled diners and became famed for its exquisite classic French cuisine. Despite these classic roots, the appointment of Korean chef Jon Woo as head chef was a surprising and ingenious move from Chris Galvin that has definitely paid off. The classic dishes have now been given a subtle Korean accent, putting some excitement back into the venue and successfully keeping it relevant for today.
Located on the 28th floor of the London Hilton Park Lane, Galvin at Windows offers dizzying 360-degree views across London and high-end cuisine, making it one the best restaurants in the capital - if you can get a seat near th.. more
Marie Antoinette Suite at The Ritz
150 Piccadilly | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
The Marie Antoinette Suite is the largest private dining room at The Ritz London, making it the perfect venue for wedding ceremonies, private dining and receptions. The stunning room is decorated in soft pastel hues and elegant gold leaf mouldings. The grand scale of the room offers various seating styles to cater for your needs.
The Marie Antoinette Suite is the largest private dining room at The Ritz London, making it the perfect venue for wedding ceremonies, private dining and receptions. The stunning room is decorated in soft pastel hues and elegant g.. more
Podium Restaurant & Bar
London Hilton on Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube | Map
As well as the renowned Hilton Breakfast, the Podium Restaurant and Bar, housed within the London Hilton on Park Lane, serves lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Based around European cuisine, the menu features a number of classics and has something for everyone. The star of the show, however, is the Confessions of a Chocoholic Afternoon Tea. As the name suggests, it takes a chocolate-themed twist on the sweet tradition. With a theme based on Pop Art greats like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, it serves up chocolate chip scones with chocolate praline spread, cupcakes and miniature fancies displayed on an edible chocolate plate.
As well as the renowned Hilton Breakfast, the Podium Restaurant and Bar, housed within the London Hilton on Park Lane, serves lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Based around European cuisine, the menu features a number of classics .. more
Stanhope Bar & Restaurant
Park Lane Mews Hotel, 2 Stanhope Row | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
Modern European Cuisine.. more
Amaranto Restaurant
Four Seasons Park Lane, Hamilton Place | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
A ruby red restaurant with marble floors within the Four Seasons Park Lane, Amaranto presents modern, Italian-inspired cuisine combining classical and traditional dishes reflective of the changing seasons. The restaurant, with interiors by celebrated French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, part of a £125 million makeover lavished on the hotel in 2011, is three flexible spaces in one - the restaurant, bar and lounge - each with its own decor, so guests can choose where they want to sit without the restrictions of restaurant opening and closing times. A refined but eclectic selection of a la carte and daily changing menus are offered for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. A sample menu, to give you a flavour of what to expect, might include light and elegant dishes like octopus with puttanesca sauce and salsify, pasta with spicy seafood and artichokes, and turbot fillet wrapped in courgette and served with creamy spinach. Afternoon tea - awarded 'The Tea Guild special Award of Excellence in 2013 - is accompanied by a wide selection of bespoke, vintage and unique blends of tea specially selected for Amaranto.
A ruby red restaurant with marble floors within the Four Seasons Park Lane, Amaranto presents modern, Italian-inspired cuisine combining classical and traditional dishes reflective of the changing seasons. The restaurant, with in.. more
Coya Restaurant
South American Cuisine |
Coya Restaurant and Bar brings the spirit of Latin America to the heart of London. With a modern Peruvian restaurant at the centre of Coya's culture, chefs entertain as food is prepared in one of three open kitchens, the Ceviche Bar (raw bar), La Parrilla (open charcoal grill) and the Cocina Central (central kitchen). An extensive Pisco Bar specialising in bespoke pisco infusions, specialist tequilas and rum, sits adjacent to the main dining room, where the sights and sounds of Coya come together to fill the senses with the essence of Latin American culture. Coya comes from the Waney family who opened their first restaurant, Zuma, in 2002, followed by Roka and La Petite Maison. More recently, they acquired and revamped The Arts Club on Dover Street and also opened Oblix at The Shard and this restaurant, Coya on Piccadilly, was followed by Coya Angel Court in May 2017.
Coya Restaurant and Bar brings the spirit of Latin America to the heart of London. With a modern Peruvian restaurant at the centre of Coya's culture, chefs entertain as food is prepared in one of three open kitchens, the Ceviche .. more
Wellington Lounge
1 Hamilton Place , Park Lane | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
Housed in the London Park Lane Hotel, Wellington Lounge is in the heart of Mayfair. With superb, uninterrupted views of Wellington Arch, The Wellington Lounge has an all day tasters sharing menu and international cuisine with a cosmopolitan twist. Superb afternoon tea is also presented with a bespoke tea blend from The Tea Palace, a modern tea emporium.
Housed in the London Park Lane Hotel, Wellington Lounge is in the heart of Mayfair. With superb, uninterrupted views of Wellington Arch, The Wellington Lounge has an all day tasters sharing menu and international cuisine with a c.. more
Trader Vics
International Cuisine |
2 min walk from Spa to You
London Hilton, 22 Park Lane | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
For a great exotic getaway, descend to the tropical world of Trader Vic's and discover a magnificent array of delights and entertainment. Carved tikis and cane chairs add to the sense of lush South Seas escapism, while island-style cuisine draws on the French, Oriental and American influences of its Polynesian heritage. A Mayfair outpost of what is a global restaurant chain, it also boasts a bar as well-stocked as one would expect from the proclaimed inventors of the Mai Tai cocktail. There is private dining for up to 40 guests in the Tiki Room.
For a great exotic getaway, descend to the tropical world of Trader Vic's and discover a magnificent array of delights and entertainment. Carved tikis and cane chairs add to the sense of lush South Seas escapism, while island-sty.. more
45 Park Lane | Map
If you've never heard of Wolfgang Puck you're clearly from this side of the Atlantic. The Austrian-American chef is a household name in the US and he has chosen London as the city to launch his first European restaurant. The CUT at 45 Park Lane, housed within the Dorchester Collection's new Mayfair hotel, 45 Park Lane, is his fourth such restaurant and follows the same formula as the original and award-winning CUT in Beverly Hills. Puck's 74-seat London steakhouse places an emphasis on grilled food. The menu offers "contemporary interpretations of the classic steak restaurant" with Puck's signature cuts of beef including filet, sirloin, ribeye, rib-chop, Porterhouse, bone-in New York and bone-in filet. Guests can also sample an extensive array of seafood and salad dishes such as the pan roasted Scottish lobster with black truffle sabayon and Heirloom tomato salad with Neal's Yard goat curd and aged balsamic. For pudding, a collection of traditional British and American favourites include baked Alaska and banana cream pie. And there's a first for a CUT restaurant: a breakfast menu, featuring blackberry buttermilk pancakes and salt beef hash cake. If that isn't enough to make Wolfgang Puck a household name in Britain maybe his extracurricular activities will: he's the one voicing the chef in The Smurfs, the film.
If you've never heard of Wolfgang Puck you're clearly from this side of the Atlantic. The Austrian-American chef is a household name in the US and he has chosen London as the city to launch his first European restaurant. The CUT .. more
The Athenaeum Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea |
116 Piccadilly, Mayfair | Map
The Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair is renowned for its afternoon tea having previously been awarded the Tea Guild's prestigious Top London Afternoon Tea accolade. Now that the Galvin Brothers have taken over, serving finger sandwiches and scones in their British restaurant, Galvin at The Athenaeum, we suspect that the standard has been kept suitably high. Their modern take on British afternoon tea sees them serve a selection of sandwiches, scones and sweet treats made from the very best British ingredients. Expect smoked salmon from Severn & Wye, Cumbrian beef and Coleman's horseradish on onion bread, Kentish strawberries and Devonshire clotted cream. Diners can also opt for the Gentleman's Afternoon Tea, Royal Afternoon Tea or, to make the occasion extra special, the Bottomless Bubbles Afternoon Tea. You are dining in Mayfair, after all.
The Athenaeum Hotel in Mayfair is renowned for its afternoon tea having previously been awarded the Tea Guild's prestigious Top London Afternoon Tea accolade. Now that the Galvin Brothers have taken over, serving finger sandwich.. more
The Dorchester, Park Lane | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube | Map
Alain Ducasse is the most successful restaurateur in the world, with fifteen more Michelin stars worldwide than Gordon Ramsay. His first London operation, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, which has earnt him three of those stars, is a hyper-modern 80-seat dining room, tucked away from The Grill at The Dorchester. The menus are distinctively French, aiming neither for molecular wizardry, nor Ramsay's faux-simplicity, but for an imaginative mixture of old and new techniques, and a total dedication to the craftsmanship of cheffing. The current Parisian love affair with all things Japanese is also apparent. This is one of the most expensive restaurants in London, but if you can afford to pay £100 a head, then you're guaranteed a pretty spectacular meal.
Alain Ducasse is the most successful restaurateur in the world, with fifteen more Michelin stars worldwide than Gordon Ramsay. His first London operation, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, which has earnt him three of those .. more
The Dorchester Afternoon Tea
53 Park Lane | Travel: Hyde Park Corner tube | Map
Winner of numerous awards, this hotel has been a byword for style and comfort for over 70 years. Served in the famous marble and gold Promenade entrance lounge of The Dorchester, diners can choose to indulge in a Traditional or Champagne Afternoon Tea before drinking in the extravagance of the lavish setting. Palm tree fronds flutter above elegant couches while bright sunlight streams through the windows. There's also the option of a Vintage Afternoon Tea, served on the intimate balcony overlooking the iconic lobby, or a selection of themed afternoon teas, such as Wimbledon or Mad Hatter's. Choose from a varied selection of 20 imported teas, or go for the Dorchester's very own delicate blend. The hotel employs its very own tea chef, solely in charge of the afternoon's selection of finger food, not to mention the 15-strong team of pastry chefs who intricately fold together the mouth-watering range of sweets. Their scones have been made to the same delicious recipe for over 50 years, and we can tell why. The Dorchester is perfect for those traditional afternoon tea takers for whom glamour and glitz coupled with eyeing up fellow diners are part and parcel of the whole ritual.
Winner of numerous awards, this hotel has been a byword for style and comfort for over 70 years. Served in the famous marble and gold Promenade entrance lounge of The Dorchester, diners can choose to indulge in a Traditional or C.. more
10 Shepherd Market | Map
At the heart of Mayfair's historic Shepherd Market, and named after the infamous 18th Century courtesan, Kitty Fisher's is a small, atmospheric bar and dining room, serving "proper drinks" and food from the wood grill cooked by Young British Foodie Chef of the Year 2014 Tomos Parry and former Pitt Cue Co sous-chef Chris Leach. A sample menu includes bread and burnt onion butter, taleggio on grilled bread, salt cod croquettes and buratta, salt baked beetroot and clementine. But it's the steak, lamb cutlets and even grilled potatoes that put this place on the map. Given four stars by Fay Maschler who says "don't miss" the steak tartare if it's on offer when you go, Kitty Fisher's is all about "louche dining", says the Financial Times, "with banquettes lit by candles burning in the old bread ovens" of this former bakery.
At the heart of Mayfair's historic Shepherd Market, and named after the infamous 18th Century courtesan, Kitty Fisher's is a small, atmospheric bar and dining room, serving "proper drinks" and food from the wood grill cooked by Y.. more
Butlers at The Chesterfield
The Chesterfield Mayfair Hotel, 35 Charles Street, | Travel: Green Park tube | Map
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Lanesborough Hotel , Hyde Park Corner | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
In the spectacular Lanesborough Hotel, Celeste offers French fine dining to match the sophistication of the setting. Using British produce to craft exquisitely presented dishes, the stunning menus are served in the Venetian-style dining room, complete with a domed glass roof and hanging chandeliers. For the ultimate in quintessential indulgence, Celeste also serves a sublime afternoon tea.
In the spectacular Lanesborough Hotel, Celeste offers French fine dining to match the sophistication of the setting. Using British produce to craft exquisitely presented dishes, the stunning menus are served in the Venetian-style.. more
The Promenade at The Dorchester
The Dorchester Hotel, 53 Park Lane | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
Set in the heart of Mayfair on Park Lane, The Dorchester has been a symbol of luxury and charm for more than half a century. The Promenade is the sumptuous setting for the hotel's legendary afternoon teas, offering sandwiches, scones and pastries alongside a selection of 25 different types of tea. The truly decadent can also opt for champagne while reclining on the high-backed divans, or hide away in one of the intimate alcoves for an informal lunch or a light supper.
Set in the heart of Mayfair on Park Lane, The Dorchester has been a symbol of luxury and charm for more than half a century. The Promenade is the sumptuous setting for the hotel's legendary afternoon teas, offering sandwiches, sc.. more
The Grill at The Dorchester
Situated within the luxurious confines of The Dorchester hotel, The Grill restaurant is a London institution first established in 1931. Decorated with sycamore and black lacquer wall panels and Murano glass chandelier, The Grill can be found down the corridor from Alain Ducasse's three-star Michelin restaurant in the same Mayfair hotel. In mid-October 2019, following a three week closure, Tom Booton - aged 26, making him the restaurant's youngest ever head chef - reveals his own interpretation of a modern-day British grill. Joining Tom is a youthful and talented team of kitchen staff including Adam Nevin as sous chef. The relaunch brings an entirely fresh menu which puts British produce centre stage and showcase Tom's creativity, alongside a statement 'Pudding Bar' where six front row seats give a prime view of the chefs at work.
Situated within the luxurious confines of The Dorchester hotel, The Grill restaurant is a London institution first established in 1931. Decorated with sycamore and black lacquer wall panels and Murano glass chandelier, The Grill .. more
The Jazz Room at The Wellesley London
11 Knightsbridge | Travel: Hyde Park Corner Tube Station | Map
Located at the Wellesley Hotel, a luxury hotel within a restored 1920s Knightsbridge townhouse, The Jazz Lounge has been designed to uphold the building's famous musical heritage - jazz greats like George Melly, Johnny Dankworth and Amy Winehouse have all played here. With its performance space for both up-and-coming and high-profile artists, musicians can perform on a Jazz Age-appropriate grand piano, the room's centrepiece, whilst residents relax and enjoy afternoon tea or cocktails. The afternoon tea menu includes teas from the finest estates in the world and scones and pastries made by the hotel's own pastry chef.
Located at the Wellesley Hotel, a luxury hotel within a restored 1920s Knightsbridge townhouse, The Jazz Lounge has been designed to uphold the building's famous musical heritage - jazz greats like George Melly, Johnny Dankworth .. more
The Oval Restaurant at The Wellesley
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April 15, 2018 in Football
Will Sunderland Be Promoted from LEAGUE ONE? 0 = No chance 10 = Definitely
1. Will Sunderland Be Promoted from LEAGUE ONE? 0 = No chance 10 = Definitely
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What's their attendances been like since being down in league 1?
jack j
1 minute ago, Nobody said:
About 25k average at a rough estimate
7 minutes ago, jack j said:
Canny decent that Tbf. If we'd have been down there under Ashley, it would probably have been fairly similar. But with a couple of takeovers like they've had, I think we'd have seen closer to 35k.
Joey Linton
10 hours ago, Joey Linton said:
9,000 cleared earlier this morning. Sorry I'm late, can't keep up.
10,000 posts since the tv deal obstacle was cleared Wednesday lunch time. That's some effort, dread to think how many it might be if they were bothered by the news.
et tu brute
6 minutes ago, Nobody said:
Not according to them, which is total shite; as we have always had bigger crowds in the vast majority of seasons (including pre 92). You only have to go to the website English Attendances to see that in plain sight year after year.
Edited October 11, 2021 by et tu brute
ponsaelius
Their averages by season have actually been:
They probably have about that many core fans who would turn up to watch them at any level.
3 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:
Their season in the championship they averaged 27.5k, still very good mind
Danh1
Sounds daft perhaps, but I reckon it'll be interesting to see their attendances if we end up winning trophies and challenging year on year and they're in the Championship or even lower half PL. As we are their only thought, our success may end their motivation to attend.
Sure that in 2004ish time when they were down they would often get crowds around the 20k mark.
Edited October 11, 2021 by Danh1
2 minutes ago, Danh1 said:
Sounds daft perhaps, but I reckon it'll be interesting to see their attendances if we end up winning trophies and challenging year on year and they're in the Championship or even lower half PL.
Lowest 22,000 - have a look at that website I linked above it's brilliant for attendances of every English cllub
11 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:
That's really good like. Must be new records for league 1 (including the old third division)?
Wallsendmag
8 hours ago, ponsaelius said:
Except FA Cup games which have seen crowds as low as 8k. I'll not have a pop at their pizza cup crowds as its a joke competition.
I'm loving their new "moral high ground" mind. These people unanimously backed a paedophile because he scored against the mags just a few years ago.
GWN
Another day ticks by , it's still up their as number one topic
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All day every day same shite
14 hours ago, Chris_R said:
They're our local derby, they're not our rivals.
they are our local rivals howay man
who the fuck are our rivals then?
Chris_R
Just now, GWN said:
Right now, people around the bottom 6 of the PL.
alijmitchell
Yeah it's absolute bollocks to be starting the "they're not our rivals stuff". Why the fuck do we talk about them then? They're our rivals because we have a shared history and hostility towards each other that goes back years and years. It's utter semantics. We care about the games against them, we want to beat them precisely because they're our local rivals. It's pompous to suggest otherwise
Edited October 12, 2021 by alijmitchell
Dokko
Now more than ever it's important for us to remember our roots, especially local and where we've come from. Sunderland is part of that regardless of what comes next. Mind, I don't see them having much to do with us in the near future. They are 5 years away from the PL. Amanda plans to have us competing for the title at that point.
I'm just attempting to differentiate (light heartedly, I admit) between a local derby and a rivalry. But there is a semantic difference.
rī′vəl
One who attempts to equal or surpass another, or who pursues the same object as another; a competitor.
One that equals or almost equals another in a particular respect.
A companion or an associate in a particular duty.
A rival is someone you're concerned about beating you or are concerned about overtaking you. We never play them. By the definition of the word, they're not our rivals. You can attempt to redefine that all you want but it's just not what the word means. They're our local derby, I'll always want to beat them, I'll always look out for their results, hell I'd actually like us to be in the same league as them as I miss the derbies, but there's no "rivalry" there right now because of their absence.
I'll never think them "irrelevant" or stop caring about them, or as Dokko says forget our roots. All of that is important. Just by the definition of "rival", they're not one. Neither are Man U by the way. Our rivals right now are Norwich and people like that, this isn't even a comment about the takeover, I'd have said the same 2 weeks ago. The definition of "rival" precludes Sunderland.
Edited October 12, 2021 by Chris_R
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14 minutes ago, GWN said:
1 hour ago, Chris_R said:
give ower ffs
2 minutes ago, GWN said:
1 minute ago, GWN said:
It doesn't matter whether you like what I say or not, but you cannot arbitrarily redefine a word just because it doesn't fit how you want to use it. Sunderland are not rivals, by the definition of the word "rival".
That's not an attempt to denigrate their importance to us, they're the club I most look out for and always will be, they're our local derby. I'm making a literary point - A rival, by definition, is someone in competition with you.
I live and grew up in North Tyneside. For a very large part of my life I have been able to avoid coming across Sunderland fans. There are people in South Tyneside, Washington, and Durham who are in regular contact with Sunderland fans day in day out, might even have them in the same family.
To them the rivalry will be more apparent.
I don't know how the rivalry manifests itself since they fell to League One, but I doubt it's totally gone.
Even if our takeover brings us constant success and they fail to ever get out of League one or into the Premier League, we will still be 15-20 years away from 50/50 areas of support becoming more dominant by us.
The rivalry will still remain.
Billy Pilgrim
Yeah I'm from the side of Durham that's closer to Newcastle than Durham or Sunderland and at school it was about 60/40 us and them. Fucking hate them like. Never gonna pretend I am not loving the idea of eradicating mackem culture in my surrounding environs.
20 minutes ago, Chris_R said:
not really arguing over a word definition mate .
I grew up and will die with Sunderland being our RIVALS. , that's all.
AyeDubbleYoo
They're obviously our rivals, they're in competition with us as well. They're just currently not doing as well as us.
Oct 12 Rich changed the title to Sunderland


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Jamal Khashoggi's journalist broke up after being assassinated and disbanded at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, said a consultant to the Turkish president.
"Now we see it not just cut; [the Saudi suspects] liberated from the body, dissolved, "said Yasin Aktay, adviser to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a Turkish governor's official on Hurriyet's newspaper on Friday.
"According to the latest information, the reason for the slaughter of the body is easier to resolve, and they have sought to ensure that there is no sign of the body," said Aktay, a friend of the dissident Saudi writer. "Killing an innocent man is a crime, illness and ill-treatment that is another crime and dishonesty."
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The consular and consul's general residence on Khashoggi's death day spent about three hours in the garage under the property before moving on. The Turkish police followed at least one vehicle in the forest of Belgrade, north of Istanbul, late at night.
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Saudi Arabia has previously said that its residues have been packed in a rug and has been disposed of by a "local staff", although Saudi al-Mojeb, Saudi Advocate General, has been discussing this week with the Istanbul Public Prosecutor.
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Plastic bits picked up from a beach. This pollution appears to threaten a broad swath of aquatic life. But new work also shows this debris can provoke harmful changes in soil ecosystems.
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People around the world discard tons of tiny bits of plastic every year. Those bits can break down into pieces no bigger than a sesame seed or piece of lint. Much of that waste eventually will wind up loose in the environment. These microplastics have been found throughout the oceans and locked in Arctic ice. They can end up in the food chain, showing up in animals big and small. Now a host of new studies show that microplastics can break down rapidly. And in some cases, they can alter entire ecosystems.
Scientists have been finding these plastic bits in all kinds of animals, from tiny crustaceans to birds and whales. Their size is a concern. Small animals low on the food chain eat them. When larger animals feed on the small animals, they can end up also consuming large amounts of plastic.
And that plastic can be toxic.
Nashami Alnajar is part of a team at the University of Plymouth in England that has just examined the effect of microfibers on marine mussels. Animals exposed to plastic-tainted dryer lint had broken DNA. They also had deformed gills and digestive tubes. The researchers say that it's not clear the plastic fibers caused these problems. Zinc and other minerals leached out of the microfibers. And these minerals, they now argue, likely damaged the mussels' cells.
Northern fulmars are seabirds that fly long distances in search of food. And they may get poisoned by plastics and related chemicals they pick up while hunting down food.Jan van Franeker/Wageningen Marine Research
Mussels aren't the only animals that eat plastic. And often not on purpose. Consider Northern fulmars. These seabirds eat fish, squid and jellyfish. As they scoop their prey from the water's surface they may pick up some plastic, too. In fact, some plastic bags look like food — but aren't.
The birds fly long distances in search of a meal. To survive those long treks, a fulmar stores oil from recent meals in its stomach. This oil is lightweight and energy rich. That makes it a quick source of fuel for the bird.
Sitting beside jars filled with seabird stomach oil and plastic fragments, Susanne Kühn extracts plastic additives from stomach oil.Jan van Franeker/Wageningen Marine Research
Some plastics contain additives, chemicals that give them features that help that last longer or function better. Some plastic chemicals dissolve in oils. Susanne Kühn wanted to know if those additives might end up in the birds' stomach oil. Kühn is a marine biologist at Wageningen Marine Research in the Netherlands. Might these chemicals seep into the stomach oil of a fulmar?
To find out, she teamed up with other researchers in the Netherlands, Norway and Germany. They gathered different types of plastic from beaches and crushed it into microplastics. The researchers then extracted stomach oil from fulmars. They pooled the oils and poured it into glass jars.
They left some jars alone. In others, they added the microplastics. The researchers then placed the jars in a warm bath to mimic the temperatures inside a bird's stomach. Again and again over hours, days, weeks and months, they tested the oils, looking for the plastic's additives.
Plastic pieces filtered out of the jars of stomach oil at the end of Kühn's experiment.Jan van Franeker/Wageningen Marine Research
And they found them. A variety of these additives leached into the oil. They included resins, flame retardants, chemical stabilizers and more. Many of these chemicals are known to harm reproduction in birds and fish. Most entered the stomach oil quickly.
Her team described its findings August 19 in Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Kühn was surprised that "within hours, plastic additives can leach from plastic to fulmars." She also hadn't expected so many chemicals to enter the oil. The birds may expose themselves to these additives again and again, she says. A bird's muscular gizzard grinds up the bones and other hard bits of its prey. It also can grind up plastic, she notes. That could expose even more plastic to the birds' stomach oil.
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Smaller pieces, bigger problems
As plastic pieces break down, the total surface area of the plastic increases. This larger surface area allows for more interactions between the plastic and its surroundings.
Until recently, scientists thought sunlight or crashing waves were needed to break plastics down. Such processes could take years to release microplastics into the environment.
An amphipod clings to duckweed at the start of Mateos-Cárdinas's study.A. Mateos-Cárdinas/University College Cork
But a 2018 study discovered that animals play a role as well. The researchers found that Antarctic krill can pulverize microplastics. These small ocean-dwelling crustaceans break microplastics down into even smaller nanoplastics. Nanoplastics are so tiny they can get inside cells. Last year, researchers at the University of Bonn, Germany, showed that once there, those nanoplastics can damage proteins.
Microplastics are common in streams and rivers, too. Alicia Mateos-Cárdenas wanted to know if freshwater crustaceans also break down microplastics. She's an environmental scientists who studies plastic pollution at University College Cork in Ireland. She and her colleagues collected shrimp-like amphipods from a nearby stream. These critters have toothed mouthparts to grind up food. Mateos-Cárdenas thought they might also grind plastic.
To test this, her team added microplastics to beakers containing amphipods. After four days, they filtered pieces of that plastic from the water and examined them. They also checked each amphipod's gut, looking for swallowed plastic.
Mateos-Cárdinas used fluorescent plastic in her experiment, making this nano-sized piece easy to spot inside an amphipod.A. Mateos-Cárdinas/University College Cork
In fact, almost half the amphipods had plastic in their guts. What's more, they had turned some microplastics into tiny nanoplastics. And it took just four days. That's a serious concern, Mateos-Cárdenas now says. Why? "It is believed that the negative impacts of plastics increase as particle size decreases," she explains.
Exactly how those nanoplastics could affect an organism remains unknown. But these chopped up nanobits will likely move through the environment once created. "Amphipods did not defecate them, at least not during the length of our experiments," Mateos-Cárdenas reports. But that doesn't mean nanoplastics stay in the amphipod's gut. "Amphipods are prey for other species," she says. "So they can be passing these fragments through the food chain" to their predators.
Not just a water problem
Much of the research on microplastics has focused on rivers, lakes and oceans. But plastics are a major problem on land, too. From water bottles and grocery bags to car tires, discarded plastics pollute soils around the world.
Dunmei Lin and Nicolas Fanin were curious how microplastics might affect soil organisms. Lin is an ecologist at Chongqing University in China. Fanin is an ecologist at France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, or INRAE. Created in January 2020, it's in Villenave-d'Ornon. Soils teem with microscopic life. Bacteria, fungi and other tiny organisms thrive in the stuff we call dirt. Those microscopic communities involve food-web interactions like those visible in larger ecosystems.
Lin and Fanin decided to mark off plots of forest soil. After mixing up the soil at each site, they added microplastics to some of those plots.
More than nine months later, the team analyzed samples collected from the plots. They identified lots of larger organisms. These included ants, fly and moth larvae, mites and more. They also examined microscopic worms, called nematodes. And they didn't overlook soil microbes (bacteria and fungi) and their enzymes. Those enzymes are one sign of how active the microbes were. The team then compared their analysis of the plots with microplastics to soils without the plastic.
The microbial communities didn't seem much affected by the plastic. At least not in terms of sheer numbers. But where plastics were present, some microbes ramped up their enzymes. That was especially true for enzymes involved in the microbes' use of important nutrients, such as carbon, nitrogen, or phosphorous. Microplastics may have changed the available nutrients, Fanin now concludes. And those changes may have altered the enzyme activity of the microbes.
Larger organisms fare even less well with the microplastics, the study showed. Nematodes that eat bacteria and fungi were fine, perhaps because their prey was not affected. All other types of nematodes, however, became less common in the plastic-tainted soil. So did mites. Both animals play a role in decomposition. Losing them could have major impacts on the forest ecosystem. Numbers of the larger organisms, such as ants and larvae, also decreased. It's possible the plastic poisoned them. Or they might simply have moved to less polluted soils.
These new studies "continue to demonstrate that microplastics are everywhere," says Imari Walker Karega. She is a plastic-pollution researcher at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Each study leads to new questions requiring additional research, she says. But even now, she says, it's clear that microplastics can have an impact on ecosystems everywhere. That includes our food crops, she says.
"I believe that anybody, regardless of their age, can tackle the issue with plastic pollution by making better choices," says Mateos-Cárdenas. "We need to take care of [the planet] for our future selves and everyone who is coming after us."
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defecate: To discharge solid waste from the body.
dissolve: To turn a solid into a liquid and disperse it into that starting liquid. (For instance, sugar or salt crystals, which are solids, will dissolve into water. Now the crystals are gone and the solution is a fully dispersed mix of the liquid form of the sugar or salt in water.)
DNA: (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) A long, double-stranded and spiral-shaped molecule inside most living cells that carries genetic instructions. It is built on a backbone of phosphorus, oxygen, and carbon atoms. In all living things, from plants and animals to microbes, these instructions tell cells which molecules to make.
ecologist: A scientist who works in a branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
ecosystem: A group of interacting living organisms — including microorganisms, plants and animals — and their physical environment within a particular climate. Examples include tropical reefs, rainforests, alpine meadows and polar tundra. The term can also be applied to elements that make up some an artificial environment, such as a company, classroom or the internet.
environment: The sum of all of the things that exist around some organism or the process and the condition those things create. Environment may refer to the weather and ecosystem in which some animal lives, or, perhaps, the temperature and humidity (or even the placement of things in the vicinity of an item of interest).
enzymes: Molecules made by living things to speed up chemical reactions.
flame retardants: Chemical coatings added to products, such as pyjamas, plastics, foam and furniture, to suppress or delay how fast they might burn in a fire.
forest: An area of land covered mostly with trees and other woody plants.
freshwater: A noun or adjective that describes bodies of water with very low concentrations of salt. It's the type of water used for drinking and making up most inland lakes, ponds, rivers and streams, as well as groundwater.
gills: The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that filters oxygen out of water. Fish and other water-dwelling animals use gills to breathe.
gizzard: A thick-walled part of a bird's stomach that is used for grinding food. It may contain grit or small stones to help the bird break down tough seeds.
gut: An informal term for the gastrointestinal tract, especially the intestines.
krill: Tiny shrimplike crustaceans that live in the ocean and are the main food source of some whales.
larvae: Immature insects that have a distinctly different form (body shape) than when they are adults. For instance, caterpillars are larval butterflies and maggots are larval flies. (Sometimes this term also is used to describe such a stage in the development of fish, frogs and other animals.)
leach: (in geology and chemistry) The process by which water (often in the form of rain) removes soluble minerals or other chemicals from a solid, such as rock, or from sand, soil, bones, trash or ash.
marine biologist: A scientist who studies creatures that live in ocean water, from bacteria and shellfish to kelp and whales.
microbe: Short for microorganism. A living thing that is too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas. Most consist of a single cell.
microplastic: A small piece of plastic, 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) or smaller in size. Microplastics may have been produced at that small size, or their size may be the result of the breakdown of water bottles, plastic bags or other things that started out larger.
microscopic: An adjective for things too small to be seen by the unaided eye. It takes a microscope to view objects this small, such as bacteria or other one-celled organisms.
mineral: Crystal-forming substances that make up rock, such as quartz, apatite or various carbonates. Most rocks contain several different minerals mish-mashed together. A mineral usually is solid and stable at room temperatures and has a specific formula, or recipe (with atoms occurring in certain proportions) and a specific crystalline structure (meaning that its atoms are organized in regular three-dimensional patterns). (in physiology) The same chemicals that are needed by the body to make and feed tissues to maintain health.
mite: An invertebrate belonging to the broad group of animals known as arachnids, which also include spiders and ticks. None of these are insects, although like insects they belong to the larger umbrella group, called arthropods (named for their members' segmented legs).
nematode: A type of roundworm, usually found in soil, that also can live within other creatures as a parasite. It is usually quite small, with no eyes, ears or nose. However, the occasional species can grow up to a meter long.
nitrogen: A colorless, odorless and nonreactive gaseous element that forms about 78 percent of Earth's atmosphere. Its scientific symbol is N. Nitrogen is released in the form of nitrogen oxides as fossil fuels burn. It comes in two stable forms. Both have 14 protons in the nucleus. But one has 14 neutrons in that nucleus; the other has 15. For that difference, they are known, respectively, as nitrogen-14 and nitrogen-15 (or 14N and 15N).
nutrient: A vitamin, mineral, fat, carbohydrate or protein that a plant, animal or other organism requires as part of its food in order to survive.
organism: Any living thing, from elephants and plants to bacteria and other types of single-celled life.
particle: A minute amount of something.
plastic: Any of a series of materials that are easily deformable; or synthetic materials that have been made from polymers (long strings of some building-block molecule) that tend to be lightweight, inexpensive and resistant to degradation.
prey: (n.) Animal species eaten by others.
protein: A compound made from one or more long chains of amino acids. Proteins are an essential part of all living organisms. They form the basis of living cells, muscle and tissues; they also do the work inside of cells. Among the better-known, stand-alone proteins are the hemoglobin (in blood) and the antibodies (also in blood) that attempt to fight infections. Medicines frequently work by latching onto proteins.
resin: A sticky, sometimes aromatic substance, often secreted by plants. It may also be the viscous starting ingredient for some plastics that will harden when heated or treated with light.
squid: A member of the cephalopod family (which also contains octopuses and cuttlefish). These predatory animals, which are not fish, contain eight arms, no bones, two tentacles that catch food and a defined head. The animal breathes through gills. It swims by expelling jets of water from beneath its head and then waving finlike tissue that is part of its mantle, a muscular organ. Like an octopus, it may mask its presence by releasing a cloud of "ink."
surface area: The area of some material's surface. In general, smaller materials and ones with rougher or more convoluted surfaces have a greater exterior surface area — per unit mass — than larger items or ones with smoother exteriors. That becomes important when chemical, biological or physical processes occur on a surface.
toxic: Poisonous or able to harm or kill cells, tissues or whole organisms. The measure of risk posed by such a poison is its toxicity.
zinc: A metallic element that in its pure form is ductile (easily deformed) and that is an essential micronutrient in plants and animals.
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Home/Graphic Novel Review: God Save the Queen by Mike Carey & John Bolton
Northern London meets Faeryland in this new Vertigo graphic novel.
Graphic Novel Review: God Save the Queen by Mike Carey & John Bolton
Bill Sherman May 12, 2007 2 Comments 140 Views
As someone who was largely out to lunch when Neal Gaiman and friends conquered the world of mainstream comics with their darkly romantic fantasy GNs, I'm not the best man to play "Spot the Sandman Swipe" with Mike Carey & John Bolton's God Save the Queen (Vertigo). As a result, I'm forced to take this much-maligned new graphic novel hardcover in isolation, which may or may not work to the book's advantage. Still, any comic that utilizes the Sex Pistols' legendary anti-anthem as its title and thematic underpinning has got my attention, at least, so let's take our own look-see, okay?
Set in modern times, Queen focuses on a thought-free rebel London teen-girl named Linda, who falls in with an ultra-bad crowd: a group of banished faeries addicted to a blend of heroin and a very specific type of blood (the very fact of its specificity gives away several pertinent plot points). Linda's matronly mom Ava has apparently been pining ever since her husband left her, so without any clear-cut matriarchal influence, our heroine pushes her readymade victim friend Jeff into the world of hard-core drug abuse. (Bye, Jeff!) When the oh-so-pretty vacant faeries run out of "red horse," they bring our heroine to the border between our world and the land of faerie – where, of course, they ultimately abandon her. Within this realm, the haggish Queen Mab is seeking out the last servants loyal to deposed Queen Titania, who has also been banished to North London. Of course, the first creature Linda comes across is a fugitive servant of Queen Titania.
The highly addictive red horse, we ultimately learn, is being given to the drugee faeries by one of Mab's servants, Puck, as means of keeping the banished creatures in check. (Reading this aspect of the storyline, I couldn't help thinking back to the old left wing conspiracy theories which declared that the drug epidemic was largely the result of the CIA's attempts at decimating the black urban community.) Linda returns to North London to learn – to no one's amazement – that her mother Ava is not all she seems. A big Faeryland battle ensues, with mother and daughter in the front lines. When it's over, Linda says piss-off to the drugee faeries back in London.
Not an unfamiliar fantasy tale, but, then, plenty of familiar fantasies have made – and will continue to make – decent entertainments. If only Carey weren't so heavy-handed with his plotting: when you see a close-up of the christening spoon that was given to Linda by her missing father, you know it'll play a role in the big climax (and it does). When Linda comes to the wrong conclusion about her heritage after her first visit to Faeryland, we immediately know she's barking up the wrong branch of the family tree. To be sure, being one step ahead of the story's protagonist can be fun if that's the writer's intent (it's one of the central pleasures in P.G. Wodehouse), but Carey treats each revelation as if it's a big surprise for the reader. Ummm, no.
Much of this could've been rescued with a suitably decadent art style, I suspect, but though John Bolton has shown himself to be quite adept as going pre-Raphaelite in the past, here his painted art is too stilted and inconsistent to do the trick. (Never could figure out what age Ava's mom is supposed to be, but it varies by a good two decades throughout the volume.) We get multiple poses of Linda showing off her skinny legs and all, but when it comes to actual plot movement the visuals get pretty muddy: when a castle column, for instance, cracks and falls down on a character, it takes prolonged page study just to get what's supposed to've happened. At times, you get the sense that Bolton, the artist, is more invested in the full-page portraits that regularly grace the book than in the mechanics of telling a simple comic book story.
That noted, there were a few aspects of Queen that I enjoyed: though it starts out reading like a broad anti-drug polemic (my sense is that Carey was trying for a GN Trainspotting but instead wound up with Reefer Madness), in the end it attempts to toss a bit of ambiguity into the mix by making our heroine's red horse use a key to defeating Queen Mab. Too, the Queen our mother & daughter tie their allegiance to proves almost as imperiously treacherous as Mab: a believable character fillip that even I could recognize as Gaiman-esque. "If you're thinking of executing me for treason," one character warns Titania just before the battle starts, "you'd better pick a different venue." Clearly, this is not noble King Richard returning to Nottingham from the Crusades.
But these small pleasures weren't enough, unfortunately, to save God Save for me. Of the Vertigo hardback fantasies released within the last year, I found Bill Willingham's Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall to be more consistently entertaining (with better Bolton art in it to boot!) No Sex Pistols lyrics in Fables, but you can't have everything . . .
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The Midnight Hour is black excellence: an ode to the cultural sophistication that the Harlem Renaissance established for its people. The Midnight Hour is comprised of Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, alongside a tight rhythm section and a full orchestra. The album has features from some of the most celebrated names in contemporary hip-hop and R&B including CeeLo Green, Raphael Saadiq, Marsha Ambrosius, Bilal, Eryn Allen Kane, Karolina, Questlove and more.
Adrian and Ali began working on this album back in 2013, but put the project aside as they would score the hit Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage. The Midnight Hour is a soul/jazz/hip-hop album which continues the conversations started by yesterday's jazz and funk pioneers; those that created the bedrock of samples for hip-hop producers in the 80s/90s. The Midnight Hour is sophisticated hip-hop that fans will enjoy, capturing their jazz rhythm section, and a full orchestra, to analog tape.
One of the seminal compositions, "Questions," originally began as an unfinished Midnight Hour demo with CeeLo Green. However, Kendrick Lamar heard the track and wanted to sample portions of it for his GRAMMY-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly (the song ultimately made it to Kendrick's 2016 compilation untitled unmastered. as "untitled 06 | 06.30.2014."). The full, completed version of "Questions" is now the lead single on The Midnight Hour.
"So Amazing" is a reimagining of Luther Vandross' 1986 single. Ali and Adrian took Luther's original vocal stems and composed new music, as if Luther was in the room with them. This transcendental recording is something that really makes The Midnight Hour special.
For more information, please visit www.linearlabsmusic.com.


First and for most, I am sorry that I have not been posting regularly lately, but I have been really busy with school and exams.
It is rare for me as a student to have the amazing chance to dress up really smarty for a business casual look, therefore when I get the chance to I try my best to perfect my look 😁.
So I went the other day to a market with my lovely cousin to help her sell her 100% pure argan oil Arganic , that is why I used this chance to dress a bit more preppy than what I usually do because I also needed people to take me a bit more seriously since I was selling and marketing her oil.
As you can see in the picture the piece that attracts most of the attention is the pink oxford from American Eagle, I felt like wearing this piece because it is not a colour that you see anyone wearing it demands a bit of confidence but if you rock it confidently then it works like magic.
Since pink is a hot colour I needed to pair it with something that balances the pink to make the outfit seem professional, so I went with my beige chinos from Pull&Bear because beige works with almost anything so it is quite the safe bet, then I finished it off with a pair of brown brogues from Clarks and a braided leather belt from Aldo because obviously the whole outfit is meant to be business casual rather than being a proper formal outfit, plus they add really cool and unique details to the outfit.
Accessories wise, I grabbed my sunglasses first because it was super sunny that day especially since I always get a headache when it is sunny outside and I do not wear them, then I grabbed my metallic Casio watch and silver chain to add some metal to the outfit plus it helps with balancing all the colours, finally I had my bracelet and ring on because they are just essential for me.
As you can already tell, this outfit is meant for a business casual environment, and it is superb if you want to stand out as well as show some colour, but if you are not a big fan of pink you can simply replace it with any of your favourite shirts because the colours in this outfit work with almost anything so as usual the possibilities are endless.
That is all folks! I hope you enjoyed this outfit, plus I am quite sure you will also love it if you try it with your shirt of choice, so go forth gentlemen and look like the stylish beasts you are!


The Tweeddale blended Scotch Whisky wins Bronze Awards for BOTH batch 3 Aged 12 years and batch 4 Aged 14 years in the 2014 International Wine and Spirit Competition.
I am delighted to announce that The Tweeddale blended Scotch Whisky has won two Bronze awards in the 2014 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) for BOTH batch 3 Aged 12 years old and batch 4 Aged 14 years.
Founded in 1969, the IWSC is considered to be the most prestigious competition of its kind in the world, and this year is celebrating its 45th anniversary. The 7th annual Spirits Results and Tasting took place on Wednesday 23rd July. Hosted by the Worshipful Company of Distillers and the IWSC, the announcement was made at the stunning Vintners Hall.
The awards given by the competition are believed to be among some of the highest honours in the industry. Judging for the Competition is unique in that it has two stages; first, the products are tasted blind by expert panels, selected from over 300 fully experienced and qualified industry judges. Then, products which receive the top medals are subject to technical analysis before results are released; this crucial stage ensures winners receive complete validation.
This is the first time The Tweeddale blended Scotch Whisky has entered the IWSC and its great to be able to add this award to the other awards we have already received.


Track Referencing is a very common practice in both mixing and mastering that helps ensure a monitor you're focusing on is headed in the proper direction. New in Ozone 8, the Track Referencing feature offers ways to compare and contrast your music to reference tracks quickly and intelligently. In this blog we'll have a look at what this feature does and how to utilize it.
I think of you and start to write.
Always dreaming about the brainy laugh.
Let me compare you to an acid moon?
You are more placid, fantastic and kind.
And summertime has the dark breaking wind.
I love your hair, your eyes, your lips and smile.
Thinking of your sunny mood will fill my days.
You're my first love for a long, long while.


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Q: Combobox not behaving as expected after data is saved I have a form where the controls are bound to a simple DTO through a bindingsource. One particular control is a dropdown list and the binding is:
this.cboCustomer.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("SelectedValue", this.bindingSource, "CustomerId", true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged));
this.cboCustomer.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", this.bindingSource, "CustomerName", true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged));

It has 2 bindings because I'm updating 2 properties of the object.
I also have an event:
private void cboCustomer_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var customer= cboCustomer.SelectedItem as Customer;
    if (customer == null)
        return;

    myObject.AccountNumber = customer.AccountNumber;
}

I enter all relevant information and save the entity. After saving, I set the bindingsource's datasource to a new instance, ie:
bindingSource.DataSource = myObject = new MyObject();

However, after the first time, when I select an item from the dropdown, the SelectedItem property is always null, even though there are items in the list.
I have to click on a different control, enter something there, and then the selection in the dropdown appears.
Am I missing something?

A: This is a typical issue in WinForms bindings. To deal with it you can use the following pattern anywhere when you might need to reset a binding:
private MyObject myObject;

// gets or sets the currently bound object
public MyObject MyObject
{
    get
    {
        return myObject;
    }
    set
    {
        myObject = value;

        myObjectBindingSource.RaiseListChangedEvents = false;
        myObjectBindingSource.EndEdit();

        // rebind
        myObjectBindingSource.DataSource = null;
        myObjectBindingSource.DataSource = myObject;

        myObjectBindingSource.RaiseListChangedEvents = true;
        myObjectBindingSource.ResetBindings(false);
    }
}

And then, instead of
bindingSource.DataSource = myObject = new MyObject();

just set the new property:
MyObject = new MyObject();

A: The problem was the 2 bindings on the control. The binding to the Text property was removed and the combobox now behaves as expected.

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An attempted robbery occurred at UEA at approximately 20:30 on 2nd December. Several masked men tried to rob the ATM in the Hive but, after failing to do so they tried to escape. The Eastern Daily Press reports that there are three men in custody.
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The hooded men, aged 18, 33 and 37, drove in with a black SUV from the turnaround of the Congregation Hall, hitting the Hive door that faces the square. The police were notified moments after this happened. Two of the men attempted to obtain cash from the machine.
With the law enforcement hot on their trail, the robbers had to abandon their mission and try to escape via the road from the Congregation Hall, but were quickly cornered by an incoming police vehicle. In a botched attempt to manoeuvre their way out, they hit a Skoda parked in front of the LCR. After consecutively hitting another police car and a lamp post, the men dumped their car and ran across the field facing Nelson Court.
UEA student Jenny Liu says she witnessed a car appear in front of the doors while she was at the bar. Seconds later two men with white hoodies barged in the Union House and rushed to the ATM for about 5 seconds before a loud boom could be heard echoing through the building. Immediately after that they hightailed it out of the Hive and the drove away with the car.
Amdac Kaya, a student smoking outside the bar, saw the whole thing. He said: "I heard a big sound of crash and I saw a car hit the wall outside the hive. Two masked man were trying to steal the cash machine. However, they left the cash machine on the floor. So, we called the police and told them the situation."
The three men are currently being questioned by police detectives. The cash machine was recovered along with a crowbar which is believed to have been used during the incident.
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