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IVE has bought personalised communications company SEMA for $14.5m, with the deal to be completed on September 6.
IVE says SEMA will be integrated into Blue Star Direct, and says with the combined business capabilities of Blue Star Direct and SEMA will create Australia's leading integrated data-driven customer communications company, with what it says is an unparalleled data-driven value proposition to the market.
Matt Aitken, COO, IVE Group says, "This acquisition expands on the broader diversification strategy for IVE and positions our Blue Star Direct business as the market leader in the customer data management space. SEMA bring to the table credibility in the essential communications space and have a range of additional capabilities and technologies that enable us to enter new sectors in the market.
IVE says this acquisition further consolidates as Australia's leading vertically integrated marketing communications company and strengthens IVE's strategic expansion into data analytics, customer insights and marketing automation, the IVE Kalido division is the leading Salesforce Marketing Cloud practice in Asia Pacific.
SEMA has offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, it supports some of Australia's largest brands through providing a wide range of services in the areas of customer data management, multi-channel electronic communications, transactional and direct marketing mail, scanning digitisation and archiving as well as marketing automation services.
Five years ago SEMA entered administration with debts around $7m, it was then bought by its management including Stewart, with some 250 jobs saved. SEMA had an alliance with IPMG three years ago.


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F-Secure CRO Urges EU Countries to Steer Away from U.S. Built Systems
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Cybersecurity expert and Chief Research Officer for Finnish software company F-Secure Mikko Hyppönen today urged EU countries to steer clear of U.S. software and services in light of the ongoing revelations that the NSA engages in mass surveillance of EU citizens and officials. Speaking at TEDx Brussels on a day when the latest Snowden disclosure revealed that the NSA collected data on 60 million phone calls in yet another European country, Spain, during a recent month, Hyppönen said EU countries should "try to steer away from systems built in the United States"
The big challenge is that "any single company in Europe cannot build replacements" that rival U.S. technology in terms of scope and utility. The solution lies in EU countries banding together to build open source systems "then one country doesn't have to solve the problem by itself," Hyppönen suggested.
Although all countries engage in surveillance, the real problem lies in the concentration of technological dominance in the United States. "How many Swedish decision-makers use U.S.-based services" such as Windows or cloud-based services every day, he asked. Conversely, "how many American leaders use Swedish-based services?"
Even services developed outside the U.S., such as Skype, become subject to insecurity once they're acquired by American firms within the reach of the NSA, he said. "Once again we take something that is secure and make it insecure on purpose."
Even though the NSA only has the legal right to monitor foreigners, "96% of the planet is foreigners. It is wholesale surveillance of all of us," Hyppönen said.
Regarding the apparent discrepancy between leaked NSA slides that indicate U.S. technology companies, such as Microsoft and Google, cooperate with the intelligence agency via backdoors or some other means of secret access and those companies' denials that such cooperation exists, Hyppönen floated an alternative explanation. "One explanation is that these parties or service providers are not cooperating but they've been hacked. In this case they've been hacked by their own government."
Regarding the massive scale of NSA's surveillance activities, Hyppönen compared the new NSA data center under construction in Utah to IKEA stores, saying the new center is five times larger than the largest IKEA store. "How many hard drives could you fit into an IKEA store?" he asked. "They can keep the data for decades."
The two biggest technological revolutions in recent history, the Internet and mobile communications, "turned out to be the most perfect tools for the surveillance state," Hyppönen said. "It turns out George Orwell was an optimist."
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Emotional Healing With Essential Oils
Many people wonder about how to use the oils for Emotional Health and Healing. This great information about using Essential Oils to work with the emotional body was put together by Nancy Sanderson (excerpt from an email).
There is more focus on emotional behavior and psychological conditions of the body now than at any time in our history. Many doctors are recognizing the possibility that a number of diseases are caused by emotional problems that link back to infancy and perhaps even to the womb. These emotional problems may have compromised our immune system or genetic structuring, causing children to be come allergic to something that the mother ingested while pregnant.
Essential oils play an important role in assisting people to move beyond these emotional barriers. The aldehydes and esters of certain essential oils are very calming and sedating to the central nervous system (including both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems). These substances allow us to relax instead of letting anxiety build up in our body. Anxiety creates an acidic condition that activates the transcript enzyme which then transcribes that anxiety on the RNA template and stores it in the DNA. That emotion then becomes a predominant factor in our lives from that moment on.
When we encounter an emotionally charged situation, instead of being overwhelmed by it, we can diffuse essential oils, put them in our bath, or wear them as cologne. The aromatic molecules will absorb into the bloodstream from the nasal cavity to the limbic system. They will activate the amygdala (the memory center for fear and trauma) and sedate and relax the sympathetic/parasympathetic system. The oils help support the body in minimizing the acid that is created so that it does not initiate a reaction with the transcript enzyme.
Because essential oils affect the amygdala and pineal gland in the brain, they can help the mind and body by releasing emotional trauma and sharpening focus.
People have many distractions in today's fast-paced world. Essential oils may assist people to stay centered in their goals. Those who are struggling to retain or remember information can breathe the essential oils of peppermint, cardamom, or rosemary to stimulate the brain and memory functions for better concentration. Those who find it difficult to stay focused breathe the essential oils of galbanum, frankincense, sandalwood, and Melissa. These oils are extremely beneficial for clarifying one's purpose.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR EMOTIONAL APPLICATION:
ABUSE: Geranium, Ylang Ylang, Sandalwood.
AGITATION: Bergamot, Cedarwood, Clary Sage, Frankincense, Geranium, Juniper, Lavender, Myrrh, Marjoram, Rosewood, Rose, Ylang Ylang, Sandalwood
ANGER: Bergamot, Cedarwood, Roman Chamomile, Frankincense, Lavender, Lemon, Marjoram, Myrrh, Orange, Rose, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang
ANXIETY: Orange, Roman Chamomile, Ylang Ylang, Lavender
APATHY: Frankincense, Geranium, Marjoram, Jasmine, Orange, Peppermint, Rosewood, Rose, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
ARGUMENTATIVE: Cedarwood, Roman chamomile, Eucalyptus, Frankincense, Jasmine, Orange, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
BOREDOM: Cedarwood, Spruce, Black Pepper, Roman Chamomile, Cypress, Frankincense, Juniper, Lavender, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
CONCENTRATION: Cedarwood, Cypress, Juniper, Lavender, Lemon, Basil, Helichrysum, Myrrh, Orange, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang
CONFUSION: Cedarwood, Spruce, Cypress, Peppermint, Frankincense, Geranium, Ginger, Juniper, Marjoram, Jasmine, Rose, Rosewood, Rosemary, Basil, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
DAY-DREAMING: Ginger, Spruce, Lavender, Helichrysum, Lemon, Myrrh, Peppermint, Rosewood, Rose, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
DEPRESSION: Frankincense, Lemon, Sandalwood, Geranium, Lavender, Angelica, Orange, Grapefruit, Ylang Ylang
DESPAIR: Cedarwood, Spruce, Clary Sage, Frankincense, Lavender, Geranium, Lemon, Orange, Lemongrass, Peppermint, Spearmint, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
DESPONDENCY: Bergamot, Clary sage, Cypress, Geranium, Ginger, Orange, Rose, Rosewood, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang
DISCOURAGEMENT: Bergamot, Cedarwood, Frankincense, Geranium, Juniper, Lavender, Lemon, Orange, Spruce, Rosewood, Sandalwood
FEAR: Bergamot, Clary Sage, Roman Chamomile, Cypress, Geranium, Juniper, Marjoram, Myrrh, Spruce, Orange, Sandalwood, Rose, Ylang Ylang
FORGETFULNESS: Cedarwood, Roman Chamomile, Frankincense, Rosemary, Basil, Sandalwood, Peppermint, Thyme, Ylang Ylang
FRUSTRATION: Roman Chamomile, Clary Sage, Frankincense, Ginger, Juniper, Lavender, Lemon, Orange, Peppermint, Thyme, Ylang Ylang, Spruce
GRIEF/SORROW: Bergamot, Roman Chamomile, Clary Sage, Eucalyptus globulus, Juniper, Lavender
GUILT: Roman Chamomile, Cypress, Juniper, Lemon, Marjoram, Geranium, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Spruce, Rose, Thyme
IRRITABILITY: All oils except Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Black Pepper
JEALOUSY: Bergamot, Eucalyptus globulus, Frankincense, Lemon, Marjoram, Orange, Rose, Rosemary, Thyme
MOOD SWINGS: Bergamot, Clary Sage, Sage, Geranium, Juniper, Fennel, Lavender, Peppermint, Rose, Jasmine, Rosemary, Lemon, Sandalwood, Spruce, Yarrow, Ylang Ylang
OBSESSIVENESS: Clary Sage, Cypress, Geranium, Lavender, Marjoram, Rose, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysyum
PANIC: Bergamot, Roman Chamomile, Frankincense, Lavender, Marjoram, Wintergreen, Myrrh, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Thyme, Ylang Ylang, Spruce
RESENTMENT: Jasmine, Rose, Blue Tansy
RESTLESSNESS: Angelica, Bergamot, Cedarwood, Basil, Frankincense, Geranium, Lavender, Orange, Rose, Rosewood, Ylang Ylang, Spruce, Valerian
SHOCK: Helichrysum, Basil, Roman Chamomile, Myrrh, Ylang Ylang, Rosemary CT cineol
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No parking is available directly in front of the auditorium. Patrons may be dropped off in front of Kaul Auditorium, but cars must then be parked in one of the available lots.
West Parking lot off of SE 28th Ave.
Proceed through Performing Arts Building. The Performing Arts Building has both stair and elevator access to the east end main level for access to Kaul Auditorium.
North Parking lot off of SE Steel St.
Walk South from parking lot towards dormitories; over blue canyon bridge- RIGHT after crossing bridge, head west through QUAD to Kaul.
East Parking lot off of SE Woodstock Blvd.
Please DO NOT park on cutout (S curve) of 28th Ave- just North of entrance to West Parking lot. Although not officially striped by the city, it's a zoned bike lane and the City tickets often.
Please also note that street parking is not allowed on most streets surrounding the campus, and you will be ticketed!
Please see the Reed College web site for more details.


A 32-year-old woman was the getaway driver in a botched theft which ended up changing a 26-year-old's life after she suffered a fractured vertebrae.
Lucy Turner, of Haggerston Road, Borehamwood, was sentenced today to 38 months in prison following the hit-and-run incident in Rickmansworth just before Christmas.
Turner and two accomplices had already robbed £600 worth of alcohol from a Tesco in Pinner on the morning of December 23 when they arrived at the Tesco Superstore in Harefield Road in the early afternoon.
A man and a woman, who remain on the run, tried stealing £174 of alcohol from the store but were caught out by security after they unsuccessfully tried to flee the store through an emergency exit.
They got into their hired blue Citroen C3 which Turner was driving before she began flying the wrong way round the car park at a speed of around 35-40mph.
A witness said she could hear the sound of loud revving and saw the Citroen coming towards her. She thought "I'm going to be hit or at least my car is".
Danielle Wood, a mother of a five-year-old son, had come out to help her Tesco manager who was trying to stop the suspects getting away. She was in a pedestrianised area near a row of cars when the Citroen C3 went hurtling towards her.
Ms Wood was struck by the wing mirror violently, and rolled over the side of the car two or three times before landing heavily, first on her bottom and then her back.
The witness said she had heard a loud noise and realised someone had been hit.
Ms Wood was rushed to Watford General Hospital where she stayed over Christmas. In court today, wearing a support brace, she explained the consequences of the incident including the effects it has had on her relationship with her family and friends.
Following the collision with Ms Wood, Turner, who was under the influence of cocaine and heroin at the time, continued driving, smashing into a Toyota which had the driver and their child inside.
It was at this stage that Turner says she refused to ram anymore vehicles out of the way and swapped seats with her male accomplice.
The Toyota is rammed out of the way and it is then a video of the getaway emerged on social media.
Footage shows shoppers ramming trolleys and hitting the blue car in an attempt to stop them getting away but eventually the trio fled.
Turner was arrested in February and police say by the end of the interview she admitted guilt and showed remorse.
She was charged with attempted theft (from Tesco in Rickmansworth), causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving whilst disqualified, being the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop after a collision, failing to report the collision, and charged in connection with two separate incidents: a theft from Tesco in Pinner on December 23 and a theft from the Co-op in Borehamwood on December 24.
The defence, Chantelle Stocks, said Turner, who handed her sons into social services last March, had been out of trouble since 2014 after a string of convictions - mainly between 2008 and 2011 including shoplifting, common assault, and dangerous driving.
The court heard that she was a drug user, which her defence linked to the death of her four-month-old son in 2008, and had met her two accomplices at a crack house just five days before the hit-and-run.
Judge C Wigin said: "At the time of offending, you were under influence of drugs. You have a long standing addiction to cocaine and heroin. First of all, you were under the influence of cocaine and heroin and secondly this was a sustained piece of driving. It became clear people became alarmed by your progress. Most importantly this was offending in furtherance of crime.
"This was your second attempt of the day and this is a significant aggravating feature.
Turner was given a 38 month sentence. The maximum sentence for the relatively new charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving is five years; however Turner was entitled to 1/3 off due to a guilty plea and a further two months – one for mitigation and one because she had already been on remand for 31 days.
She will serve half of her sentence in prison while the rest will be served on licence.
She was also disqualified from driving for a total of 54 months.
CPS Senior District Crown Prosecutor Peter Burt said: "Lucy Turner saw that the car park was full of people doing their Christmas shopping, and yet she drove extremely dangerously with a clear disregard for the safety of others.


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This project forms part of the commercial & hospitality precinct of The Mill Wagga Wagga masterplan designed by Become. which includes the Heritage listed Murrumbidgee Mill as a key component affecting the siting and design resolution of all adjacent buildings in the masterplan.
The two storey commercial office building was initially conceived as a response for the opportunity to provide a new purpose-built, bespoke NSW Government office workplace for Murrumbidgee Local Health District.
The design was highly responsive to detailed user brief requirements including a wide variety of workspace outcomes, end of trip facilities, parking and other professional business amenities, but also had detailed requirements for building servicing and environmentally sustainable design, such as a 4.5 star NABERS & water rating consistent with NSW Government Sustainability Policy.
The building was designed as A-grade office space, featuring approx. 2,000sqm GFA fit-for-purpose office accommodation, fully designed to incorporate all aspects of NSW Government's design brief.
Ultimately the provision of accommodation for NSW Government did not eventuate, however the client is continuing with the project having secured other key tenants and the building design has evolved to suit this new brief.
The project is DA approved and construction documentation is being led by Become.
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Proposals are invited that address any of the five questions above. Cases studies are also invited of successful (and otherwise) developments in the Western Cape showing what went right and what went wrong.
Please email your proposals by the 24 November 2014.


She's number 1 again this week, selling over 100K CDs and digital downloads. She even had enough streams to finish at the top of that chart on hitsdailydouble. Adele also around 20,000 in sales of prior albums.
Justin Bieber and Rihanna were far in the distance. Rihanna sold 33,500 copies of "Anti." Justin Bieber moved about 20,900 copies of "Purpose." Bieber streamed around 50,000 times. But it wasn't enough to overcome Adele.
Sales were pretty lackluster elsewhere on the chart. The number 50 entry, One Direction's "Made in the AM," sold just under 6,000 copies.


Using Baltic and Russian Ports as an entry point, Mann Lines forward by Rail and by Truck throughout Russia and Central Asia. Shipments can be containerised, break bulk or high and heavy cargo.
Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Rotterdam serve as hubs for roro and containersised cargo to worldwide destination.
Mann Lines shipping services connect all of these ports with its own vessels and have agreements with land and sea operators for onward shipment.


At Codelicious, we build confidence in educators and students in the classroom by providing instant access to computer science curriculum for grades 3-8 that any educator can teach. Codelicious' full-semester, interactive, comprehensive skills-building curriculum ensures that teachers are always connected with the most current technology. Our award-winning curriculum-as-a-service model enables us to quickly deliver fully-vetted, always-current curriculum directly to educators. With hundreds of thousands of coding jobs going unfilled each year, Codelicious aims to dramatically increase the funnel of youth coders for tomorrow's tech workforce.


The NRP "Options for Controlling Final Energy Consumption" will focus on socio-economic questions. At an overarching level, the programme aims to develop basic scientific knowledge and practice-oriented approaches that will facilitate regulatory decisions and help set the course for the energy policy. Special attention will be given to areas with a high savings potential: commercial and private electricity consumption, residual heat in residential buildings and private transport.


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Filling Leisure Hours: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006
Missourians spend their time away from work in a variety of ways. Video and computer gaming, attending sporting events and movies, exercising, or listening to music appeal to many of us. The articles in Filling Leisure Hours: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006 discuss several of the pastimes enjoyed by Missourians during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor Alan Havig has selected essays that describe popular arts and entertainments rather than high culture amusements. Circus tours instead of opera performances and dance halls rather than ballet stages engage the writers of these thirteen selections. Even lawn care as leisure makes an appearance.
Through articles published between 1920 and 2006, Havig traces leisure time pursuits of rural residents and city dwellers. From antebellum circuses to theatrical productions staged by small-town organizations in the 1950s, the writers chronicled amusements that attracted Missourians "after the tasks of life are done." In Springfield in the early 1910s, boxing gained prominence during the search for the "great white hope." Kansas Citians danced, roller-skated, and attended amusement parks and movies during the same time period. Many of the state's residents heard the distinctive voice and vocabulary of Dizzy Dean as he called major league baseball games.
In addition to describing amusements, the introduction and essays note the demise of many popular pastimes as taste and technology evolved. The editor and writers also examine a "problem" associated with leisure–oversight and censorship by governments and organizations that feared certain activities would have a negative impact on the participants or the larger society. Filling Leisure Hours provides a new lens for examining the role of popular arts and amusements in Missouri.
Alan R. Havig is professor emeritus of history at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He now serves as the college's archivist. His publications include From Southern Village to Midwestern City: Columbia, an Illustrated History (1984), Fred Allen's Radio Comedy (1990), "It's a Proud Business": A History of the Shelter Mutual Insurance Companies, 1946-1996 (1995), and A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998 (1998).
Published by the State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008. 280 pages. 103 illustrations.
This is the third volume in the Century of Missouri History Scholarship Series.
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In rural Louisiana, the cream rises to the top – literally. Businesses off the beaten paths continue to prove that entrepreneurial spirit is the perfect complement to finely honed incentives, ample infrastructure and cooperation. What's more, a couple of hurricanes didn't change any of that.
An example is family-owned Smith Creamery in Washington Parish. Touted as the place "where the cream still rises to the top," Smith Creamery processes milk "the way nature intended, unhomogenized, no added hormones, from contented, grass-fed cows." Warren and Sandra Smith, with their son Travis and daughter Michelle Hickman, changed the course of their lives four years ago when they shifted their 38-year dairy operation from a wholesale to a retail enterprise.
On a recent autumn afternoon, Warren and Sandra Smith were knocking on doors in Baton Rouge, working to extend their retail reach. While Smith Creamery lost New Orleans customers, including upscale grocers and restaurants, to Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Smith says the business "is not going to be outdone. We're trying to expand into new markets now." And that includes mail-order customers via the Smith Creamery Web site.
Much like the Smiths and Duncans, five Louisiana parishes have joined forces to boost their collective economy. The result was the formation about two years ago of the Southwest Partnership for Economic Development, comprised of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jeff Davis parishes. "We have a regional economy that's very diversified, and we just felt like it made sense for us to utilize all those tools and talents," explains Paul Rainwater, director of administration for Lake Charles, the region's largest municipality with about 75,000 people.
In Louisiana's northeast corner, a business that began in its founder's backyard more than 30 years ago should actually see a rise in sales as a result of the hurricanes. That's because Ruffin Building Systems manufactures metal buildings. With 180 employees, the company processes 500 tons of steel in a week and sells 1,000 and 1,500 buildings annually. Marketed through dealers mostly in the Southeast, Ruffin buildings arrive as components accompanied by drawings.
"After the storms, we've had customers call in and need rush orders to close up roofs and do emergency repairs," says Vice President and General Manager Jimmy Worley. He expects orders to rise dramatically once victims' insurance claims are processed.
One Louisiana industry that continues to flourish post-hurricanes is film and television. Louisiana is the nation's third-largest production hub (behind California and New York), thanks to infrastructure investments and a competitive state incentive package that offers a sales and use tax exclusion and employment and investor tax credits. "If your goal is to be an international competitor in this sector, I don't think there's a better choice than Louisiana," says Malcolm Petal, co-founder and chief executive officer of L.I.F.T. Productions. The company produces its own feature films, television programs and movies, commercials, music videos and other works. Its latest motion picture enterprise is Lions Gate Films' Waiting, which opened nationwide in theaters on Oct. 7. L.I.F.T. locally produced Waiting and filmed it in the New Orleans area.
Petal says L.I.F.T.'s New Orleans headquarters was closed temporarily after Katrina, prompting the company to fast track its plans for an additional location in northern Louisiana. "We made a two-day decision on the fly, and sometimes that is when you're forced into making the best decisions," Petal says. The decision was new L.I.F.T. offices in Shreveport to take advantage of Interstate 20 and put the company closer to rural sites for filming. L.I.F.T. also has a production annex in Jefferson, and its New Orleans location has reopened.


When it comes to making nets, you could say the market has been cast wide. "We have huge competition from Asian countries," says Isabella Ribola, export manager of FAR Reti, Italy's largest synthetic-net manufacturer, whose 9,000-square-metre factory produces 500,000 kilograms of brightly coloured plastic nets a year for fish farmers and football players alike.
Company founder Stefano Ribola began making nets for local fishermen in 1940, on the small island town of Monte Isola in northern Italy. "When my grandfather started, he used to tie the ropes himself," Isabella recalls. In 1946, Stefano's children moved the business to Brescia, an industrial city 50km east of Milan. It was here in 1979 that the company began to experiment with synthetic yarn. Today, its 35-person factory produces nets for almost every football stadium in Italy, as well as ski slopes and the European Volleyball Confederation.
The first step in net manufacturing is warping. The yarns are rolled on to small then large bobbins in a three-day process. The green yarns shown here are used to fence sporting stadiums and for safety nets at ski slopes. The average safety net uses 32-35 large bobbins of synthetic yarn.
When the net is at the required size, it is taken from the electric loom and cut with scissors. All the nets are then hand sewn at the end of the process to make the seams more resilient. Each employee receives a year's training to learn the full cycle. The finished net is then sent to be packaged.
Once the yarn has been rolled on to large bobbins, they are ready to be fed into the electric looms by specialised workers. The looms use computers to set the net's mesh size and braid diameter, so it can be woven to exact specifications. It takes the loom about 15 days to make a net.
Upon completion, the net is pulled from the loom, then rolled out and measured for cutting. The average net produced at the factory is 100 metres wide by 25 metres high – but FAR Reti often produces much bigger ones. It takes an hour to complete the full process of pulling and then sewing the synthetic net.


Novak Djokovic was left "totally exhausted" after his emotional victory over Alexandr Dolgopolov at the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday following the death of his grandfather.
The world No. 1 learned of his grandfather Vladimir's passing just hours before the match, but the Serb battled on to progress to the quarter-finals.
It is understood Djokovic was particularly close to his grandfather, who sheltered he and his family during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999. After the match, Djokovic wiped tears from his eyes before pointing to the sky, dedicating the victory to Vladimir.
Djokovic did not front the media immediately after the win, leaving ATP officials to release a statement which read: "Novak Djokovic would like to ask for your understanding.
"As you know, he lost his grandfather today just before the match, and it was very hard for him to play. After he won, he just felt totally exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally."
It is not yet known whether Djokovic will continue to play in the tournament or return to his homeland to grieve.


Rare antique Hawaiian hand carved calabashes bowl, over a 200 years old and carefully shaped. When it was made, the surface was polished with sand and coconut oil to give it a high gloss finish.
Measures: 17cm wide, 8cm high, repaired damage on two places.


Research published in PloS Pathogens suggests that EBNA1-mediated disruption of PML nuclear bodies promotes nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Scientists at the University of Toronto discovered that EBNA1 protein of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) helps in carcinogenesis. They say that the protein disturbs structures in the nucleus of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cells, interfering with cellular processes that usually avert progression to cancer, they report.
The team examined promyelocytic leukemia (PML) nuclear bodies, which do not accumulate RNA, and proteins in EBV-positive and EBV-negative NPC cells. PML nuclear bodies are known tumor-suppressors due to their role in regulating DNA repair and apoptosis.
Manipulation of EBNA1 levels in each cell type showed that EBNA1 expression induces the loss of PML proteins and PML nuclear bodies, according to the investigators.
The researchers conclude that since EBNA1 is expressed in all EBV-associated tumors including B-cell lymphomas and gastric carcinoma these findings raise the possibility that EBNA1 could play a similar role in the development of those cancers.
The article is published in the October 3 edition of PLoS Pathogens.


Janette Rallison, Adrienne Quintana, Brock Booher, Aaron Blaylock, Randy Lindsay, and Cason Smithson discuss the delicate process of ending a novel.
What makes something a convention in a genre. The difference between what is a trope in a genre instead of a cliché.


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How the Coronavirus is Leading Us Into a Global Recession
Jordan Bailey, Staff Writer|April 9, 2020
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to massively impact our world, it has become apparent just how much the global economy has been affected. With more and more businesses and nations shutting down, the question of how different our political and economic systems will be after the virus is contained remains unanswered, and for some people, is one of the biggest fears for the future.
So will the coronavirus cause a global recession? If you examine the current state of the international economy, and the gradual collapse in both domestic and global economic activity, the answer is likely yes. This gradual collapse in economic activity was first felt in China, where COVID-19 originated. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, retail sales in China plunged 20.5 percent during January and February, industrial output was down by 13.5 percent, and fixed assets fell nearly 25 percent. This decrease in Chinese economic activity that was seen only a few weeks ago is just now being felt in Europe and the United States. According to CNN, "The investment bank thinks America's economy will now shrink 5 percent between April and June, after 0 percent growth between January and March. Growth for the year is forecast to come in at just 0.4 percent, down from 1.2 percent." JPMorgan estimates that the United States economy will shrink by 14 percent in the second quarter, making this economic collapse worse than the 2008 financial crisis. Goldman Sachs estimates a 24 percent decline, according to their recent online analysis.
Economic reaction to the pandemic within the United States has been severely criticized by economists, who state that the "ineffective response" from the U.S. federal government will only cause things to get worse and will only make the shock last longer. According to Matt Egan from CNN, "The economy is on pace to suffer a historic collapse this quarter. Millions of jobs have been lost. Unemployment could temporarily spike to 'depression' levels." With coronavirus cases only getting higher and higher everyday, many economists and analysts believe that the best response is a strict lockdown response. If you examine the lockdown policies that were implemented in China and South Korea, you will see that these policies were very effective in terms of halting the economic collapse. But even if the United States were to adopt China's strict lockdown policies, the domestic economic effects of the coronavirus would still be far worse than that of China's. "A broad outbreak of the disease (within the US) could be even worse for their economy than China's," Economist Austan Goolsbee wrote in The New York Times. "That is because face-to-face service industries—the kind of businesses that go into a tailspin when fearful people withdraw from one another—tend to dominate economies in high-income countries more than they do in China. If people stay home from school, stop traveling and don't go to sporting events, the gym or the dentist, the economic consequence would be worse."
This economic worsening is already ringing true for much of the developed world, with nations such as Germany and Italy heading towards a steep economic recession. The United Kingdom is experiencing somewhat of a unique economic collapse, mainly due to the fact that COVID-19 is causing post-Brexit regulatory and coordination challenges. It's also showering a bit of irony on Great Britain, since parliament has decided to extend it's transition period and remain within the EU, which has seemingly brought many economic benefits to the nation than if the U.K. government decided to continue with the transition.
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Although people's health is far more important than the economic impact that COVID-19 has had on our world, it has become obvious that this pandemic will drastically transform economic structures on a universal-scale, which will in turn have a huge effect on political and health care systems. According to Kenneth S. Rogoff from the New York Times, "This is already shaping up as the deepest dive on record for the global economy for over 100 years. Everything depends on how long it lasts, but if this goes on for a long time, it's certainly going to be the mother of all financial crises." Things are moving fast, and yet seemingly much slower than ever before. The longer our local restaurants and barber shops remain closed, the more significant the impact will be on our regional and state-wide economic structures. If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it's that our economy is intrinsically connected to our political, social, cultural and health care systems. And the longer our economy remains shut down, the more notable the changes within those systems will be, potentially altering the world as we know it.
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The Philippines and Indonesia have both delivered impressive data in the past few years: GDP growth exceeded 6 per cent in both countries in 2010, while stock markets in Manila and Jakarta over the past two years have both seen similar strong performances.
So do these headline-grabbing numbers represent a new promise in South-East Asia's leading economies, emerging with a confidence not seen since the heady days of the early 1990s? The answer lies in the foundations underpinning these apparently strong figures.
In the Philippines this growth has been driven in no small part by the powerful emergence of the call centre business. By 2011, the country had replaced India as the global leader in call centres, with more than 600,000 Filipinos employed directly in the industry.
Indonesia's surge meanwhile has been powered almost entirely by its booming resource based economy. Like with Canada and Australia, ravenous appetites from emerging economies such as China have driven demand for commodities such as coal and iron ore. And while that demand has tempered recently, the effects of the past few years are still reverberating through the Indonesian economy.
But economic growth predicated on the success of any one industry is a perilous endeavor at best.
Singapore's policy makers learned this lesson a decade ago when its electronics industry, heavily dominated by foreign firms, came under threat from China. Asia's emerging economies could learn another lesson from the Singaporean experience.
Singapore, among all nations in Asia, has perhaps the most robust set of institutions to guide its economic growth. The emergence of efficient and effective institutions was no accident – it was a deliberate step taken by Singapore's leaders since the country's foundation in 1965. Today the political-regulatory framework in Singapore is replete with acronyms that define the city-state's strong institutional environment – MOM, MOE, SPRING, EDB, MAS and MTI, to name a few.
A strong institutional environment is the necessary foundation for strong economic growth because it provides for stability and reasonable predictability in regulations, and confidence in transactions. Strong institutions help reduce corruption, forestall the development of undue regulation, protect property rights, provide for a sound legal system, and, via a strong education system, promote the development of a nation's human capital.
The importance of institutions is not new, but it is one that is often overlooked, particularly when economic growth is strong. It is when economic growth begins to slow or even decline that their importance re-enters the public consciousness.
Take the cases of China and India. In the first decade of the 2000s, both nations experienced enviable levels of economic growth. The repeated years of near 10 per cent GDP growth in China overshadowed the fact that China's development was not supported by vital fundamental changes to its institutions.
Clearly changes in the political system will not come voluntarily, yet it is reasonable to expect China's leaders to address long-standing deficiencies in systemic corruption, poor intellectual property protection and inequities in the competitive environment.
Indonesia's economy has surged on the back of the resources boomWithout such changes, astute managers will question whether they should site investments at the core of a company's competitive advantage – such as leading research and development or other high value-added activities – in China.
Meanwhile in India, the story bears strong similarities to what we now see in the Philippines. Remarkable development in the outsourcing industry as supported by the country's leadership in developing engineers helped promote fabulous growth in India. Yet that growth was not accompanied by much-needed developments in infrastructure, such as seen in China that would have permitted manufacturing industries to develop.
Consequently, India has become an economy dominated by agriculture and services. Moreover, longstanding public sentiment against capitalism, as rooted in the pre-1991 economy, further hindered good growth in the private sector.
As a result China and India are today facing the challenges of institutional deficiencies and overcoming entrenched societal and political interests. How the countries fare in the next decade will in no small part depend on how political and business leaders address these challenges.
Growth may look impressive, but what really has changed?The same lessons extend to the Philippines and Indonesia. The Philippines has benefitted from the identical source of growth that India had a decade ago. It also benefits from a continued expansion of its overseas population and the consequent surge of foreign remittances.
But a two-pronged growth strategy is several prongs short of stability, particularly when the prongs are embedded in a weak institutional environment. Ineffective and corrupt government, poor education and social liberation are just three important areas that need attention for the Philippines to see its growth extend beyond the short term.
In Indonesia, the obstacles are different, but the implications are the same. The country has gained tremendously from the resources boom. Further, the decentralisation of the regulatory environment from the central government to provincial and other local authorities has helped stabilise regulations for mining and foreign investment.
Yet substantial uncertainty still resides on these regulations, hampering projections about the future stability and predictability of revenue flows from such investments. Given the long-term nature and irreversibility of mining operations, investments will not be made unless there is confidence in both the regulations and regulators.
If the foundation has not changed, such growth will be temporary and inevitably stop with a hard, uncomfortable landing.
Most Asian economies have proven to be resolute and effective in bouncing back from crises. They have recovered very well from their debt positions of the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s.
But the challenge remains for political and business leaders to address issues in their institutional environment to bolster political systems, tighten legal systems, improve corporate governance, protect property rights, protect minority shareholders and help separate state and business interests.
Only then can they follow the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore and move into the upper echelon of world economies.
Andrew Delios is a professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School.


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Q: "Invalid Resx file, could not load type (type)" Keeps coming back In my visual studio (2015) project, I've hit a little snag: the Resx file keeps putting references to nonexistent things. The question was asked previously here, and the solution worked (mostly), but the issue keeps coming back every time I make a change in the afflicted form's designer (adding, removing, moving, property changing, etc.).
In my case, the type that's having issues is Vector2, a simple vectors struct I turned into a dll for my other projects a few months back. It was all fine and well, referencing the dll and using it that way, but I found I needed to make a change to it, so I decided to remove the reference to the dll and just copy the Vector2 dll code into my project and change it that way.
Well, I'm not quite sure Visual Studio knows what happened, as it still seems to want to reference some nonexistent something (the invalid Resx issue linked above).
However, in my case the issue is in two places, the auto-generated Resx file for one of my forms:
<data name="VelocityPicker.Value" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
<value>
    AAEAAAD/////AQAAAAAAAAAMAgAAAD5QaHlzU2ltLCBWZXJzaW9uPTEuMC4wLjAsIEN1bHR1cmU9bmV1
    dHJhbCwgUHVibGljS2V5VG9rZW49bnVsbAUBAAAAD1BoeXNTaW0uVmVjdG9yMgIAAAABWAFZAAAGBgIA
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACw==
</value>
</data>

and the auto-generated initialization in the form's *.Designer.cs:
//
// VelocityPicker
//
this.VelocityPicker.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(243, 197);
this.VelocityPicker.Name = "VelocityPicker";
this.VelocityPicker.ReadOnly = false;
this.VelocityPicker.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(225, 140);
this.VelocityPicker.TabIndex = 35;
this.VelocityPicker.Value = ((PhysSim.Vector2)(resources.GetObject("VelocityPicker.Value")));

And I'm not quite sure why it's having a problem with the VelocityPicker in particular (though it's also having the exact same problem with another VelocityPicker instance in that form called ForcesReadout), as Vector2 was used extensively elsewhere in my project.

A: After fiddling around with the project files, I found that adding the reference to the original dll back, migrating the afflicted structs to a different file, removing the reference, and deleting and regenerating the afflicted Resx file (via moving a control on that form's designer) finally fixed the problem. Pretty roundabout, but it worked.
I also made a few changes to the Vector2 struct, which I assume played a part in the solution (perhaps versioning conflict).

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Ensure Viewers and Listeners Keep Access to Programming Delivered Through C-band Satellite Operations
ISSUE SUMMARY
The C-band is a strip of satellite spectrum that radio and TV stations use every day to receive critical content for their broadcasts. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering transferring some or all of that spectrum to wireless companies for new services, which could impact the programming listeners and viewers rely upon.
Thousands of local TV and radio stations, cable and satellite providers and over-the-top video providers rely on C-band spectrum to deliver national and syndicated content to consumers. If not handled carefully, new uses of this spectrum could cause interference that would have significant consequences for consumers.
The C-band is used for satellite communications, helping to deliver many of the national and syndicated shows you watch and hear every day. Those who use this spectrum have invested billions of dollars to launch satellites and build stations on the ground to receive and disseminate critical content to consumers, such as weather information, network news and entertainment and syndicated programs for radio and TV. This spectrum has unique characteristics that are impossible to replicate by other services. Additionally, it's extremely sensitive to interference, so great care and technical consideration must be given before allowing new services to operate in this strip of spectrum.
Broadcasters do not oppose examination of new uses of the C-band. However, any review should take into account the extensive use and significant investment in the band by broadcasters and others, the lack of meaningful alternatives and the unique technical properties of this spectrum. Congress and the FCC must ensure that any changes in C-band spectrum protect existing users and their listeners and viewers from harmful interference or loss of service entirely.
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So season 3, a lot happened last season so it is going to be interesting to see how they continue the story in this one.
So Holt has been promoted and is now away from the 99, this makes life at the precinct very interesting due to a new captain, but not only that Amy and Jake are starting their relationship. The Vulture becomes the new captain which is awful for everyone but especially for Amy and Jake as he has told them to split up for face demotion.
I have been saying for the last two seasons that I want a story that lasts for more than just an episode and I finally get it and it happens at the very beginning with Holt wanting to come back but not knowing how to. This made me watch with more interest as I wanted to see how he was going to manage this feat, or even if he would be able to.
I am loving the relationship between Amy and Jake, obviously it doesn't come as a shock to anyone that this happened as you can tell by the second episode of the first season that eventually they would end up together. I think they make a really odd couple but perfect for each other, Amy with her basically being an adult and Jake being a man child they sort of need each other in their lives.
I still hate Boyle, even more so in this season due to him trying his best to get into Jake's relationship as much as possible. I mentioned in the last season review that I actually didn't mind him talking about food, well that changed and now whenever he is talking about food all I can think of is whenever a hipster says that some random obscure thing is better because it is not as discovered.
Hitchcock and Scully are so underrated.
Story wise, it is a great season, probably the best so far as we get so much more to go, we get a story that goes on for multiple episodes. We have the halloween and Doug Judy episodes again (I am loving these) and we get a new character introduced which adds a nice new mix to the team.
I am looking forward to seeing the fourth season and seeing how they are going to continue the story from the amazing ending of season 3.
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Have you worked with phyllo dough at all? I attempted, if memory serves, on two separate occassions to use the stuff, and never got the results I was hoping for. Enter puff pastry (again); all of the buttery layers with none of the work, done and done.
Because Kaki, I freakin' love spanakopita*. Well, all Greek food, really. But spanakopita, ah, how I love thee. I love thee for your buttery, flakey pastry. I love thee for your can-do-no-wrong spinach-and-cheese combo. And I love that I can relatively cheaply and easily whip up a pie inspired by your awesomeness and eat is at an entree instead of as an appetizer.
This also magically falls into the category of "Vegetarian food that non-vegetarians probably won't roll their eyes at." Which can be important.
Heat a medium skillet over medium heat***. Add the olive oil and heat until the oil shimmers. Add the onion and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the minced garlic and saute another minute, until garlic is fragrant.
Add the squeezed-dry spinach, dill, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and flour to the skillet, and stir into onion and garlic mixture. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently. There should be no more liquid in the pan very early, but keep cooking so the flour loses some of its raw flavor. Remove skillet from heat to cool for a few minutes.
Combine feta and eggs (reserving some for the egg wash) in a medium mixing bowl. Once cooled a bit, add the spinach mixture to the bowl and stir to incorporate the eggs and feta. Set filling aside.
Reserve a little of the beaten eggs for the egg wash later.
Gently lift the rolled-out puff pastry and place it in your baking dish, making sure the dough extends over the sides of the dish. Spoon the filling into the puff-pastry-lined dish. Fold the overhanging edges of puff pastry over the filling. It should cover the filling completely.
Brush the top of the pie with the reserved egg. Place the dish in the oven and bake for about 45 minutes. The center will really puff up at the end, so wait until you see that.
Remove the pie from the oven and let cool for at least 15 minutes. The pastry will deflate until it is roughly as level as it was when it was un-baked. Slice into 6 pieces and enjoy!
Hope this lovely early fall is treating you well, my dear.
*And samosas. And calzones. And tacos and burritos. Actually, if it's a tasty filling with a handheld, carb-y outside, odds are I dig it. And I suspect I am in the majority with this feeling.
**Really, really dry. I placed the thawed spinach in my strainer, then got a bowl just smaller than the strainer and pressed it down into the spinach to squeeze it against the sides of the strainer. Then I took handfuls of the spinach and squeezed that, too. Liquid in the spinach could make your final crust soggy, and nobody wants that.
***That's a lot of medium.


Ginowan Police arrested 63-year-old former police chief Norifusa Kishimoto on Saturday on suspicion of breaking the Road Traffic Law and negligence resulting in injury. A police investigation shows Kishimoto drove his car into a motorcycle and then fled the scene. The collision sent the motorcycle across the street, on the oncoming lane, where is crashed into another car. The driver of the motorcycle escaped serious injury.
Kishimoto then drove home and later returned to the scene. As he arrived, police officers noticed that he smelled alcohol, raising suspicion that he drove off in order to cover up that he had been drinking. Kishimoto admitted the hit-and-run, but said that he had taken a couple of drinks at his home only after the accident in order to calm his nerves. If investigators do not buy his explanation, he will face additional charges of drinking and driving.


My girls look forward to Tuesday night all week. For a while I was working on Tuesday nights but now I've arranged to be off, as I happen to look forward to Tuesday night as well. First we hit up Rubio's for 99 cent fish tacos. Then it's time for dollar scoop night at Baskin Robbins (hint: turn down/off your speakers before you click... they have the most obnoxious song EVER on their main page). It's a heck of a lot of fun (especially when my girls have a dad like this guy) and it's an inexpensive way to feel like we're living it up.


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Three Passengers Fall Off Carnival Cruise Ships In Three Weeks
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Last night a 50-year-old Alabama woman disappeared from a Carnival cruise ship, making her the second person in two days—and the third in three weeks—to fall off ships operated by Carnival Cruise Lines.
Michelle Vilborg fell overboard the Carnival Holiday around 10:30 p.m. Monday while the ship was sailing about 75 miles south/southwest of Pensacola, Florida.
A crew member heard the splash and ordered a head count of all passengers and staff.
After it was determined that the woman was indeed missing, authorities were alerted and they immediately began searching for her. So far she has not been found.
A day earlier, 46-year-old Larry Miller fell off the Carnival Inspiration as it sailed into the harbor at Tampa, Florida. Miller was reportedly climbing or leaning over a railing to get a better view when he fell overboard. Luckily the Coast Guard was able to rescue Miller, who was found clinging to a buoy.
Three weeks ago, on May 24, Bruce O'Krepki of from Hammond, Louisiana, fell off the Carnival Fantasy in waters near Tampa, Florida. The 18-year-old was on a high school graduation cruise with his classmates when he disappeared. Despite an extensive search, he was never found.
Though passengers and crew members do occasionally fall off cruise ships, the number is tiny compared to the total number of people who take cruises. Numbers are hard to come by since there is no central repository for such data, but experts estimate that about 116 people have fallen off ships in the last nine years, out of approximately 100 million who took cruises. Of those who went overboard about 20 were rescued, and the rest were never found.
There have been 12 incidents of people falling overboard so far in 2009, according to cruise expert Ross Klein. Alcohol is presumed to be the most common cause, though suicide and foul play may also be factors.
At least six of the 12 incidents this year have involved Carnival ships, but Carnival denies that its ships are somehow more dangerous that others. Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said that since its ships' railings are 44 inches high, a person could not simply fall during the normal course of activity.
Though he did not comment on the Vilborg case, which is still under investigation, Gulliksen said that both O'Krepki and Miller clearly went overboard "as a result of their own actions," and neither alcohol nor foul play were involved.
Gulliksen added that all of Carnival's 22 cruise ships have signage onboard advising guests to stay out of restricted areas, plus 10 to 15 uniformed security personnel (depending on the size of the vessel) who patrol all areas of the ship 24 hours a day.
Carnival also has the cruise industry's first "Care Team," a group of employees specially trained to respond and support family members in the instance of an overboard or any other emergency situation that might occur.
In his appearance this morning on The Early Show on CBS, Peter talked about other measures that are being taken in the industry and in Congress to make ships safer and more accountable.
Legislation pending in Congress will require cruise lines to track all crimes and accidents that happen onboard. At the moment many cruise companies (including Carnival) voluntarily offer such information, but it is not required. In general, when incidents occur in international waters, cruise lines are only legally required to report them where the ship is registered.
Many cruise lines are also installing an extensive network of security cameras to capture anything and everything that goes on around the ship. In fact a new 5,400-passenger ship, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of Seas, will have 2,000 cameras, including infrared ones that track movement on the sides of the ship.
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Charlatans have taken over political parties —Tanko, NCP national chair
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In this interview with IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI, the National Chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Dr Yunusa Tanko, speaks on the kind of leadership that can address Nigeria's socio-economic and security challenges as well as the key qualities Nigerians should look out for when deciding who to vote in as their next president in 2023.
Considering the way Nigeria has fared under the leadership of elderly presidents, do you think it is time Nigerians considered a young president?
Well, I have always been an apostle of that, but the younger generations too have been given mantles of leadership and failed the people. We have had quite a number of them occupying leadership positions in each state of the country, but they did not do well. One way or the other, maybe we should have a combination of the two sets of people. But they have to be people who have the capacity, wherewithal and interest of the people at heart. If you have an old person, but who is still agile and capable, he or she can rule the country. But at the same time, you can also have a young person, but with the wisdom of an old person for the position, not a young person, with the mind of a young person that will not be able to know what to do at every point when given the mantle of leadership.
So as I said, we can have a mixture of both the old and the young. But what is most important in leadership is the charisma, the capacity, usefulness and ability to unite this country and take it to a greater height. I think these should be our cardinal points when considering who to vote for in 2023.
But considering the way Nigeria has been polarised across religious and ethnic lines amid consistently socio-economic crises and worsening security challenges, what kind of leader do you think will be fitting for the country?
Well, there are four issues that will play key parts in the upcoming elections in 2023. One is the issue of democracy; the next is the issue of ethnicity and religion, while the last will be capacity. These are key issues. So when you have a leader who has these qualities including empathy and much interest in uniting this country, I think such a person should be allowed, not someone that will get in the government and start viewing issues only from his own ethnic, clannish and religion perspectives without consideration for other people's viewpoints and interests, but someone that will cut his cabinets across the entire country, make appointments based on merits and show love to the entirety of Nigerians whether Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba or from any other ethnic group. That is the kind of person we are looking for. And once this kind of leadership is being shown, people will place themselves along that line, knowing full well that everybody is one. And that is what we are really looking out for, because we don't want someone that will come in and further divide the country. We don't want someone that will further divide and rule this country, saying this one is my person and that one is not my person. Once an election is being conducted, everybody becomes the subject of the elected president. That is how leadership is enshrined in any part of the world.
But do you think it is possible for a president to be fair to every ethnic group in the country?
Of course, it is possible. We have seen that before in this country, both during the military rule and the civilian rule. I can boldly say that the late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was one person that was not selective or considered where people came from before giving them appointments as long as they were competent, tested and found to be willing to do the right thing for the interest of the people. During the military era, we had people like Muritala Mohammed and the rest of them. So it is very possible. Besides, we have people who are willing to rule this country with love and genuine care for others irrespective of where they are and hail from. Already, we have some of them in government. For instance in Kano State, we have appointed people from the South-East. That is how leadership is being done, so that everybody can feel the ambience of love and have a sense of belonging.
But with the way corruption has saturated Nigerian politics coupled with the lopsided political structure of the country, do you think a man of integrity can emerge as the president of the country and even be able to deliver results?
Yes, it is possible. But the fact still remains that at the moment in the country, the people are tired as they have been deceived and burgled. So they are now looking for someone that can take them out of the woods, someone that will love them, show empathy and believe that the problem on ground is not about the North and the South, but about delivering the dividends of democracy and good governance, which include provision of stable electricity, security, employment opportunities, food security, among other economic indices.
Once all of these things are in place, Nigerians will have trust in the leadership in the country. And with what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is trying to emplace, anyone with integrity will be able to rule the country. It is now left for the people to come out en masse and even choose the candidate by themselves, not some people bring up someone and say this is the person we want you to vote for. So the people from the grass roots should be able to bring up the candidate of their choice. That is how democracy is being played anywhere in the world. The people are supposed to be the ones that will say, for instance, this is Ariyo, we have watched him for years and seen that he is competent, so we want him to go and represent us. Such way, the candidate will not even spend much as it is the people that collectively picked him that will finance his campaign. Such way, he will be answerable to the people, not a set of godfathers.
Still speaking on integrity, we all know those who have the capacity for leadership in our different villages, local governments and states. So we are supposed to be the one to bring them out and vote for them. But we are not seeing that in Nigeria because the people have been neglected and that is why they are not acting the way they should be doing. But the truth is you will always have problems when you do not participate in the process and just allow certain people to take over your state. And that is what is happening now in Nigeria. We have allowed people that do not even care about the country or its people to rule us. We have allowed charlatans to take over our political parties and dictate the tune of events. So the people really need to come out and take their rightful places in the political parties and in the leadership rank of the country. For instance, for an election that had 83 million registered voters, only 23 million came out to vote. Where are the remaining 60 million registered voters? So these are issues we need to look into.
But can we say the people's low participation in the electoral process is symptomatic of their loss of interest in the governance of the country?
Yes, the people have lost interest in governance, because of the disappointment they have got from their leaders. But then, what is most important is for good people to get into the leadership of the country, because not participating in the country's politics is like giving room for charlatans to rule us, leaving the intelligent people for the unintelligent ones to emerge as leaders. So when this happens, who do you blame?
But considering the expensive nature of electioneering and politics in Nigeria, do you think it will be easy for a competent and incorruptible person to emerge as the country's president?
As I said earlier, the people should be allowed to choose the person that will lead them. And once this is done, the same people will now have to rally round the person, vote and protect their votes. But if we continue to allow people who have no business in governance to take over our states, we will have no one, but ourselves to blame. That is the truth.
Juxtaposing this with the issue of the direct primaries that has divided the governors and the lawmakers, what do you have to say?
Let me tell you the truth, the National Assembly did not pass the bill because of the interest of the people. It just happens that the people will be benefiing from it. The lawmakers did it because of their personal interest as regards the issue of being denied tickets by either the political parties, their godfathers or those who can bribe the members of the political parties. So they thought it wise that with a direct primary, they have returned the power back to the people, which will then make it easy for them to go back, contest elections at the grassroots and ask the people to vote for them. But in another way, the strategy is advantageous to the people, because its implication is that the power to pick a candidate for a political party has been returned to the people. So if the president signs it into law, it will help the political parties, the electorate and the country itself to have an election before an election. Yes, I agree that much money is needed to finance the primaries, but this money can come from the political parties, because every card-carrying member of a political party must pay his or her monthly dues. And the money generated can be used for the exercise. The only reason the political parties will not be able to finance the exercise is if their members did not pay their dues. But if the dues are paid, I believe the parties will be able to hold the exercise without any issue.
But as someone who has once contested for the president's position in this country and lost, why is it that it has been very hard for any other political party to wrest power from either the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the top level?
It has been so, because the system has been skewed in the interest of those in power. Let me start from my findings. A majority of our commissioners in the country belong to a political party and then the chairman of INEC is being appointed by the incumbent president. Moreso, the Electoral Act itself has some lacunas, such that when someone wins an election today, he or she can wake up tomorrow morning and change his or her political party and yet retain the seat.
We won Ekiti State, but the guy turned back and joined the PDP before we knew what was happening. At present, there are no laws in the Act that punishes a person who cross-carpeted from one party to the other. And that is why the majority of other political parties can't win an election in the country. Even our election is heavily monetized, such that nobody is checkmating the use of money in our political system. This has become a problem. Moreso, the security challenges too are huge and then the police and other security agencies are all being used as weapons for the incumbent administration to win re-election either for it or the president. These are some of the challenges other political parties are facing. Once they are resolved, I am very sure that we will see a candidate from other political parties winning key elections in the country.
As someone who has once served as the secretary of a coalition formed by a group of political parties in the country, will you say the reasons you have listed above are what have prevented the merger from defeating an incumbent administration in this country?
Well, over the years, we have been experimenting with the option of collaboration and merging. But I think maybe this year or next year, we will be able to reach a crescendo, but the fact still remains that we need to come together again and pull strengths together to be able to defeat the incumbent. This is what we are trying to do by God's grace, because each of the political parties is weak in the area of finances needed to win elections.
But considering the way the PDP and the APC have fared over the years, do you think Nigerians will still be able to trust any of the two parties with their mandates come 2023?
No, I don't think the people will be willing. But the only thing is that we at the other side have to really come out and up our game, so that we can give the people a credible alternative. This is because it is the lack of a quality alternative that is still making Nigerians talk about either the PDP or the APC. Everyone knows that the two parties are one of the same. But if there are no viable alternatives come 2023, Nigerians will have no other choice but to go with any of them.
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Pence: I'm Pro-Life, While Biden, Harris Support Late-Term Abortion
Pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life in Washington on Jan. 24, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
DC Mayor Sued After Students Arrested for Writing 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' on Sidewalk
By GQ Pan
Two pro-life groups are suing Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser after the city sent police to prevent the group from chalking a slogan on a street, even though "Black Lives Matter" and "Defund the Police" murals in permanent paint were permitted on other streets.
The joint lawsuit (pdf) was filed Nov. 18 in a federal court by Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who sought to paint "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter" on the street outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
According to the lawsuit, the groups were prompted to paint their own message on a street after the city in June commissioned a 35-foot-tall "Black Lives Matter" mural that stretches two blocks. Shortly after the mural's completion, another one reading "Defund the Police" was painted on another street.
People walk down 16th street after volunteers painted "Black Lives Matter" on the street near the White House on June 5, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
When the pro-life activists showed up on Aug. 1 for a rally and to write their message in chalk, they were told by police that they'd be arrested. Two members of Students for Life of America then proceeded to chalk the sidewalk, and were subsequently arrested for "defacing public property."
"City officials were not content to stop a message in temporary paint," Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said in a statement. "Two students were arrested trying to express in chalk what they were not allowed to say in paint. That kind of viewpoint discrimination cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged."
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative law group representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, argued that Washington violated the First Amendment by simultaneously promoting speech it liked and suppressing speech it didn't.
"The government can't discriminate against certain viewpoints by allowing some voices to be heard while silencing others," said ADF legal counsel Elissa Graves. "Because of the city's actions, Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America weren't able to participate in the public square as other groups have. The First Amendment prohibits the government from picking and choosing whose speech to allow."
Vice President Mike Pence in August voiced his support of the two arrested students, saying that "the radical left wants to silence pro-life on Americans."
"A group of students were arrested for writing 'Black Preborn Lives Matter' outside a DC Planned Parenthood clinic," said Pence at a church in Florida. "I mean, the radical left celebrates those who defend abortion, but they would prosecute those who stand for life."
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Most of us have read by now that our pillows are filled with dust mites and fungus and and probably a whole host of other things we don't like to think about when we crawl into bed at night. Some researches even suggest that a third of your pillow's weight is from bugs, dust mites and skin cells.
1. Load two pillows at a time in a washing machine, ensuring that they are positioned so that the load stays balanced.
2. Do a hot wash using your regular detergent with a few drops of tea tree oil (to kill germs and bugs) and half a cup of baking soda (to remove smells and perspiration stains).
3. If you have a laundry line, wash the pillows on a sunny day and hang them to dry (use lots of clothes pins!). If the pillows have some discoloration due to head sweat it'll almost completely disappear while drying in the sun!
Alternatively, you can dry them in a dryer on the hot setting (Maybe with a few drops of lavender on your dryer balls so that the pillows have a nice relaxing scent?).
Either way, make sure to get them really dry so that they don't get mildewy!
Thanks so much for visiting The Complete Guide to Imperfect Homemaking. Now go wash your pillows!
Does this work with feather pillows?
Personally, I'd be willing to possibly destroy a pillow in order to get it clean. I wouldn't want a pillow I can't wash, so I'd wash it and if it doesn't survive it wasn't meant to be! haha.
ya i kind of just want to go buy new ones now...yuck!!! --fyi, i will just end up washing them as usual, but still...yuck!!!
Remember, if you have allergies, do NOT hang your pillows outside. You'll just pick up outdoor allergens, i.e., pollen, mold, etc.
I can never seem to wash mine and not have them all balled up and ruined. I am definitely going to try the tea tree oil and lavender!
Mine are foam rubber--can I wash them this same way?
This reminds me I really must make dryer balls. Thanks for the pillow-washing tips.
Thanks for the reminder to keep pillows clean! I agree, they can get really gross! My pillows always ball up into a un-saveable mess too. I have switched to using pillow protectors. I can just slip them off, wash them and put back on. No more ruined pillows, clean, easy.
Thank you so much for sharing this awesome info! Now I don't have to just go out and buy new ones :) Thanks!
Thanks so much and please keep on writing!
I have a front load high efficiency machine ... I'm not sure where to put the tea tree & baking soda -- in the detergent compartment? or in the machine on the pillows?
I also have one of those dense foam curved pillows for neck support - wonder if I can wash it?
Can't wait to have clean pillows!
I always try and clean my pillow when I do my big deep cleaning every few months. With a HE washer you can just dump the baking soda inside. It works for me.
Are those your pillowcases in the picture? We have a set exactly like that which we absolutely love, but we received them as a gift, so we don't know where to buy more. Do you know the brand name or where you found them?


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Jamie Foxx as Django
Django Unchained is a masterful pastiche of character and story told in the format of a slave-era film derivative of old spaghetti westerns. Quentin Tarantino has written and directed himself yet another film worthy of masterpiece status, his latest film being a truly unique movie that no one else could ever have made. Django Unchained is bold and wonderfully shot, taking place on a grand scale in the southern United States. Tarantino has written such a compelling tale of revenge, violence, and love, and as a director he gets top-notch performances from all of his cast members. Django Unchained is Tarantino at the very top of his form, and this film is one of the best of the year for sure.
Taking place in the south two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained is unfiltered in its full absorption into the world of slavery. While Tarantino wants to shove the audience into this horrific time of American history, this isn't a film about slavery. Instead it's a film about characters and their stories that takes place in slavery states. Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson choose a collage of vivid settings across the southern states, and a majority of the shots are outdoors, frequently showing large gleaming shots of mountains, cotton plantations, or desert. This film is one of Tarantino's most visual yet, the tangible world being created through an almost surrealist image of the south, utilizing a combination of archaic kickback camera techniques and modern hip-hop music. Django Unchained is a spaghetti western for our time, a violent and at times comedic approach to storytelling that is wildly entertaining and expertly executed.
Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington
Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a slave who at the outset of the film is purchased by a German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (formerly a dentist). Schultz promises Django his freedom in exchange for helping him track down the Brittle Brothers, an evil trio of slavers who previously owned Django and his wife Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington). Schultz and Django collaborate together as a bounty hunting team for the winter season, and then in the spring Dr. Schultz decides that in return he will help Django find and rescue his wife Broomhilda. After a profitable winter of murdering outlaws and collecting rewards, the duo discover that Broomhilda has been sold to Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the sadistic owner of a sprawling cotton-plantation, who is known for his interest in Mandingo fighting, which involves purchasing strong slaves and forcing them to fight each other to the death for sport. Schultz and Django create a ruse to impersonate potential buyers of some of Calvin Candie's finest Mandingo fighters. This brings them to Candie's plantation, the ironically named "Candie Land", and to a climax that contains one of Tarantino's bloodiest shoot-outs yet.
Every actor in this movie becomes his or her respective role so completely that we fully believe in this story. Leonardo DiCaprio steals his scenes as the horrifying plantation owner, his talent as an actor with deep sense of character being displayed better here than in possibly any of his other work, he will most certainly get an Oscar nomination for his performance here. Samuel L. Jackson plays the house-slave Stephen so precisely that we almost forget who the actors behind the make up really is, and Christoph Waltz is once again engrossing and terrific in his spewing of Tarantino's killer dialogue. Jamie Foxx is convincing as Django, the quiet hero, but he is surrounded by so much talent that his performance is at times understated.
Calvin J. Candie
Quentin Tarantino shows audiences the darker side of slavery that most filmmakers would shy away from. He references torturous methods such as attack dogs pulling slaves limbs apart, the castration of slaves, lashings, or the hot-box that slaves were left in outside in the sun. The film doesn't directly show all of the bloody violence of these acts, but throughout the film harrowing allusions and references are drawn. Yet at the same time, Tarantino so brilliantly intersects the harsher mood with scenes of ironic spaghetti western qualities, or comedic intervals. For example, in one scene a band of racist whites on horseback (poking fun at KKK precursors) are depicted as imbeciles who fiddle with their white head-bags, much to the amusement of the film's audience.
While Django Unchained is in a way unlike anything Tarantino has done before, there are still so many parallels to his other work. Here we see a writer/director who instead of slumping after many successful films, is instead improving upon his own formula to create a magical and original movie that no one else could possibly dream up. His actors all give tremendous performances, and the dialogue is witty as well as tense. Django Unchained is certainly one of the best films of the year, as well as one of the finest works by the superb Quentin Tarantino.


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Earthly Mission
The Catholic Church and World Development
Robert Calderisi
A lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world
With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world's largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church's obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth control, and the child abuse scandal has alienated many Catholics, especially in the West. Yet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the Church is highly esteemed for its support of education, health, and social justice. In this deeply informed book, Robert Calderisi unravels the paradoxes of the Catholic Church's role in the developing world over the past 60 years.
Has the Catholic Church on balance been a force for good? Calderisi weighs the Church's various missteps and poor decisions against its positive contributions, looking back as far as the Spanish Conquest in Latin America and the arrival of missionaries in Africa and Asia. He also looks forward, highlighting difficult issues that threaten to disrupt the Church's future social role. The author's answer to the question he poses will fascinate Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, providing a wealth of insights into international affairs, development economics, humanitarian concerns, history, and theology.
Robert Calderisi, a former World Bank director concerned with issues of international development, lectures widely on Africa, development, and foreign aid. He lives in Montreal.
"'I do not believe', wrote Bertrand Russell, a man famous for his hostility to all religion, 'there is a single saint in the whole calendar whose saintship is due to work of public utility'. In Earthly Mission, Robert Calderisi sets out to prove him wrong . . . Calderisi's credentials for such a task are impeccable. Much of what Calderisi describes is indeed admirable, and his decision to focus on individuals within the Catholic Church – nuns and missionaries as well as popes and cardinals – makes for lively reading."—Caroline Moorehead, Literary Review
"A wide-ranging survey with many touching stories of the work the Catholic Church has achieved in the developing world: much good, some bad . . . A levelheaded work by an author determined to hold the church to its humanitarian ideals."—Kirkus Reviews
"Few will approach his [Calderisi's] book with an open mind. The faithful will find his candid assessment of the church's transgressions unsettling. Its critics will find his praise of its mission similarly discomforting. Both can learn, though, from his work."—The Economist
"Just how much of a force for good it [the church] is . . .has never really been quantified. But one Canadian economist and former employee of the World Bank has given it his best shot. Robert Calderisi's book Earthly Mission has brought the perspective of a professional international development specialist to bear on the question for the general reader. It's an audit of the Church's work, credit and debit. It's rather bracing to read a critique of the Church from the perspective of a market capitalist, rather than that of the aid lobbies."—Melanie McDonagh, Catholic Herald
"The reason this book is so stimulating is Robert Calderisi's research over five continents and his conversations with laity, with priests, bishops and with the highest officials in the Vatican itself. He offers a cogent analysis of both the present and future trends in development."—Ed Standhaft, Methodist Recorder
"Robert Calderisi presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the Church's charitable and development work, but he is also refreshingly honest and critical where he feels the Church has not been true to itself."—Lesley-Anne Knight, The Tablet
"[As] a picture of the Catholic Church in development this book will be hard to beat and to this reviewer, who worked alongside Catholic missionaries in a developing country for 17 years, its judgements appear substantially accurate."—Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper
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