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Music legend Giorgio Moroder returns to the spotlight
Silvia Simonetti | Mar 05, 2015
After over 30 years, Giorgio Moroder (74-year old) credited as a pioneer of synth disco and elecronic dance music is back with his first studio album titled "74 is the new 24"
Age is a state of mind. We all know that, but only some of us are really capable of acting accordingly.
After over 30 years, the Italian producer and DJ Giorgio Moroder – credited as a pioneer of synth disco and electronic dance music - is back on the scene with his first studio album.
Inspirationally titled "74 is the new 24," Moroder's record is expected to be released in Spring 2015, featuring younger and established performers the likes of Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Sia, and Charlie XCX.
Giorgio Moroder is one of the true greats of disco and electronic music
By working with the new generations, the 74-year old DJ feels rejuvenated and instilled with new ideas, as he confessed in many interviews given over the last few months. And this is also because digital technology, which he loves, has now reached such a level of perfecting the sound that it's not easy to create innovative music.
Moroder's comeback was encouraged by his participation in the 2014 Grammy Award-winning Daft Punk's disco album Random Access Memories with the autobiographical track Giorgio by Moroder, followed by a number of DJ sets worldwide that combined classics from the '70s and '80s with new remixes. This sudden and acclaimed resurgence earned him an offer by the American Sony/RCA Records, which "simply couldn't be renounced".
Nevertheless, Giorgio Moroder was already well known and respected in the industry. Born in South Tyrol, Italy, he moved to Berlin in the mid-1960s and made a name for himself by performing in Italian, Spanish, English, and German. World fame came when he produced some of Donna Summer's greatest hits in the late 1970s - the golden age of disco music – and started composing for cinema.
Giorgio Moroder follows up his earlier collaboration for Daft Punk with a new electronic track
His work includes award-winning scores for Hollywood legendary movies, such as Scarface, Flashdance (What a Feeling, Oscar in 1983), The Chase, American Gigolo, and Top Gun (Take My Breath Away, Oscar in 1986).
Over the years, he has won three Oscars, three Grammy Awards, and four Golden Globes. He was also honored with the title of Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2005, as well as with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy in 2011.
Despite distancing himself from music and moving to New York after disco went out of fashion in the late '80s, Moroder continued to influence the pop scene and even the 21st century disco revival by being sampled by Lil Wayne and other artists. He also wrote the songs for three different Olympics from 1984 to 2008, and the world hit "Un'Estate Italiana" for the 1990 Soccer World Cup in Italy, probably the best ever composed for a sport competition.
Making the most of this second chance in life, which has brought him out of his semi-retirement in Los Angeles, Giorgio Moroder is also planning collaborations with Lady Gaga, major movie productions, as well as with Disney to compose the soundtrack for the latest "Tron" videogame.
And to those who wish for him to focus exclusively on retro disco music, he proudly responds that, as a co-founder of this genre, he is entitled to use it and shape it into new, modern sounds that will "pave the way to the future."
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Canadians know more than anyone that the combination of snow, ice, and salt can wreak havoc on any exterior surfaces over the winter. If you're considered about your newly installed driveway or walkway, you might be wondering how you can best protect it from getting damaged. We've got the low down on all the best ways to care for your interlock during the winter season so it can look just as great once the springtime finally arrives.
Retaining walls serve an important purpose — they contain soil and prevent erosion while retaining the difference in the level ground. And, for some properties, they're installed to simply enhance the aesthetics of the exterior. Either way, performing some regular maintenance is always recommended to prevent any damage from occurring to the wall structure. To get yours ready for the winter, here are some tips for retaining wall upkeep for colder weather.


A new method of plasma thermal oxidation(i.e.,custom-made plasma-enhanced horizontal tube furnace deposition system)was used to fabricate ZnO nanorods under the discharge of oxygen and argon gases.The morphology and microstructure of the synthesized single-crystal ZnO nanorods could be controlled by changing the reaction temperature,the gas flow rate ratio of argon to oxygen,as well as the discharge current.It was found that,when the reaction temperature was 500 ℃ and the argon to oxygen flow ratio was 9:1,uniform ZnO nanorods were formatted,and the synthesized ZnO nanorods grew longer with the increase in the discharge current.In addition,a growth mechanism for the synthesis of ZnO nanorods under the plasma condition was proposed.The growth process is that the metal zinc is heated at a suitable temperature to form zinc vapor and condensed into metal particles on the surface of zinc foil.Then in O2-Ar atmosphere,O2 can be effectively ionized into O+,O2+ ions during the plasma discharge process.The ionized oxygen ions can be transformed into activated oxygen by plasma assisted by argon,and then reacts with zinc to form a ZnO nucleus and extends to the oxygen enriched region to form ZnO nanorods.A new method of plasma thermal oxidation(i.e.,custom-made plasma-enhanced horizontal tube furnace deposition system)was used to fabricate ZnO nanorods under the discharge of oxygen and argon gases.The morphology and microstructure of the synthesized single-crystal ZnO nanorods could be controlled by changing the reaction temperature,the gas flow rate ratio of argon to oxygen,as well as the discharge current.It was found that,when the reaction temperature was 500 ℃ and the argon to oxygen flow ratio was 9:1,uniform ZnO nanorods were formatted,and the synthesized ZnO nanorods grew longer with the increase in the discharge current.In addition,a growth mechanism for the synthesis of ZnO nanorods under the plasma condition was proposed.The growth process is that the metal zinc is heated at a suitable temperature to form zinc vapor and condensed into metal particles on the surface of zinc foil.Then in O2-Ar atmosphere,O2 can be effectively ionized into O+,O2+ ions during the plasma discharge process.The ionized oxygen ions can be transformed into activated oxygen by plasma assisted by argon,and then reacts with zinc to form a ZnO nucleus and extends to the oxygen enriched region to form ZnO nanorods.
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Unreal Obstruction / Occlusion only seem to be 100% on or 100% off?
I'm using Wwise 2017.1.0, and Unreal Engine 4.15.0. When running my sandbox area, if an emitter gets occluded by, say, a small box in between the emitter and the camera, the voice drops to nearly -inf, and the voice LPF reads 96%-ish . profiler. How can I get Unreal to send the proper occlusion/obstruction values to Wwise for proper playback?
Same here running Wwise 2017.1.1.6340 and Unreal 4.16. I presumed the Ob/Oc settings in Wwise would affect the way Unreal deals with it but it has no affect. It seems Unreal uses it's own settings and that is pretty much 'On/Off'. You could start getting into custom ray-tracing in Unreal but I'm not up for that, I want the Wwise integration to handle it for me.


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Haliburton Highlands OPP is investigating after finding a deceased person in a submerged truck Oct. 30. File photo.
Body found in sunken truck
Joseph Quigley, Local Journalism Initiative Repoter
Haliburton Highlands OPP is investigating after locating a deceased person inside a pickup truck submerged in Kushog Lake.
In a press release, the detachment said police were called to investigate a missing person in Algonquin Highlands Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. Police patrolled Highway 35 and the surrounding area to search for the person.
The missing person's truck was found submerged in the lake the next morning around Ox Narrows by a family member, at approximately 8:30 a.m.
"OPP members from the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) attended and confirmed the deceased person inside the vehicle and assisted with the removal," the release said.
The investigation is ongoing. The section of Highway 35 around the scene was closed as of Oct. 30 at 3:30 p.m. while OPP members trained in collision reconstruction were on scene. The scene was cleared and the highway open again by approximately 5:30 p.m.
The deceased was transported to the Ontario Forensic Pathology Unit in Toronto, pending a post-mortem examination, the press release said.
The deceased person's name is withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The Highlander will provide more information as it is made available.
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Downtown St. John's organized events such as the Christmas Parade, the Busker Festival and Reel Downtown bring tens of thousands of people to the area each year. Downtown St. John's has been organizing the Downtown Christmas Parade since 1989 and it has grown to be one of the largest events in the province. Average annual attendance is now approximately 50,000. Since 1989 the parade has supported the Community Food Sharing Association by collecting over $250,000 in cash and in excess of 322,000 pounds of non-perishable food. The approximate dollar value of over $1 million in cash and non-perishable food to benefit the less fortunate amongst us throughout the province.
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Data published by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) on Disclosure UK — the pharmaceutical industry's database of payments and benefits in kind made to UK healthcare professionals (HCPs) and organisations (HCOs) — has revealed significant investment into R&D.
Overall R&D spend, according to the figures, has been found to have increased by nearly 10%, which represents an industry spend of £307.9 million on partnerships relating to R&D activities in the country in 2017 compared with £338.1 million in 2016.
The spend on partnerships relating to R&D actually represented three-quarters of the total spending disclosed on the database. The total transfers of value was £499.3 million, £370.9 million of which was spent on R&D and the remainder £128.4 million for payments and benefits in kind in areas such as registration fees, sponsorship agreements, donations and grants, as well as expenses among other things.
Most (82%) of this non-R&D money was disclosed by individuals,a named healthcare professional or a healthcare organisation — which is the same proportion as 2016. Additionally, the data indicated no lack of commitment from HCPs to transparency or the disclosure initiative with more than half of companies either maintaining or increasing consent rate.
There was also a decrease in the amount of healthcare professionals who have received payments or benefits in kind and who had data published against their names. The drop for 2017 data has been potentially linked to the introduction of the Europe-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
"GDPR applies to all industries and organsiations across Europe and inevitably brings challenges for all as processes and procedures are checked," Thompson explained. "I am confident that this drop in consent rate for 2017 data reflects the balance that companies have had to strike between meeting transparency requirements and respecting the rights of individuals as they implement this new legislation.


Women of Kol Ami (WOKA) has been an integral part of Congregation Kol Ami since the very beginning. The women of Kol Ami are dedicated to creating opportunities for spirituality, service, social engagement, scholarship and sisterhood for our diverse group of women members and to support the congregation, and our social action efforts.
Most of our activities are inspired by the current membership. In the past we have had: Challah baking, game night Havdallah, arts and crafts (Challah Covers, knitting) Chanukah Havdallah, Dodger Baseball, trips to HUC Library, Torah Study & Hike, pool parties, and theater parties.
We have raised funds for the women of Abayudaya Congregation, Chanukah toys and the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund as well as participated in the Walk for Darfur and volunteered on Big Sunday. We've sponsored films at OUTFEST and other social action activities. We have also established "A Scholar in Residence" award. This year our recipient is Rabbi Robin Podolsky.
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Please join your sisters for a special Chanukah celebration on Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 4:30 pm. We will have dinner and Latkas! Please bring wine or dessert to share and your menorah and candles! We will play a few games as well.
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It has been about 1 1/2 years since I had my gallbladder out. Recently, my stool has been soft and sometimes I get diarrhea. The color can be yellow to yellowish orange. I've read that this is common with bile salts diarrhea. That would mean too much bile leaking into the intestines. However I've also read that the yellow color could mean too little bile. I'm confused as to which it could be. I'm more inclined to believe too much since I'm not eating really fatty foods. Any suggestions?


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Consumers may be somewhat aware of the TV everywhere (TVE) services provided by networks and pay TV operators, but relatively few have used them.


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'Firm hand, big heart' really at play for Uribe?
The FARC has been dealt a series of stiff blows in 2008— its founding father forfeits to the abyss, several of its principal commanders are killed, even betrayed, and actionable intelligence flows from a wave of demoralizing desertions. In its wake, president Uribe has refortified his campaign of 'Democratic Security', to unprecedented approval ratings among Colombians.
Yet, the rural insurgency slugs onward, low-level and diminished, but at a perpetual buzz. The state's counterinsurgency campaign has for the time plateaued.
Uribe now faces a tactical crossroad. He's rolled back force projection of the rebel faction and fractured its operational cohesion. Utilizing his venerable, Mano Firme (Firm Hand) tactics, he has calculatingly diminished the state adversary in both size and capacity, gleaning intelligence and pouncing when it yields actionable targets.
However, the promise always on the horizon, but almost impalpable to the pages of Colombian history— a demobilization of the guerrilla— might just hinge upon the latter part of the president's catchphrase doctrine, Corazón Grande (Big Heart). Aptly, does the conflict now call for more carrot than stick?
To this end, Uribe reiterated this past week the government's offer to grant 'liberty' to any guerrilla who chooses to abandon the cause and takes with them a hostage to be freed. This serves to undermine discipline through the FARC ranks, appear lenient to the public, and marks potential to draw hostages out by exploiting FARC's weakest internal links.
In summary, Uribe equates this offer to the preconditions of a humanitarian exchange, under which grave crimes against the state cannot be forgiven outright with impunity— they must enter the judicial process for investigation and rendered to due process of the courts. However, in highlighting the case of the recently defected guerrilla, alias 'Isaza', Uribe emphasizes an offer of fair treatment, leniency, and generous monetary compensation. Isaza fled a FARC camp with former congressman Oscar Tulio Lizcano and has since been given medical attention and offered asylum in France under the wing of former captive, Ingrid Betancourt.
Uribe's intended message? Pretty straight forward: flee your dire straits with a hostage and you will be compensated with a potentially respectable living– choose to continue waging the insurgency and you will end up in a body bag.
While I believe this psychological run is a very effective tactic in undermining the FARC, I remain skeptical due to the extremely ambiguous nature of the offer. These guerrillas face a certain death if caught attempting to desert. For a bite at the carrot, the state has to dangle something provocative. Beyond this, if judging by the ugly mess of contemporary paramilitary demobilization, there is much reason for both sides and their respective victims to remain skeptical of guarantees.


A 23-year-old male has relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma Stage IV receiving an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy (nivolumab). After 3 months of treatment, the patient developed watery diarrhea and cramping pain.18 Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18 F-FDG PET-CT) is performed for restaging.18 F-FDG PET-CT images showed bowel wall thickening and colonic distension with corresponding increased tracer uptake [Figure 1]. Although compare to prior study, there is complete metabolic resolution of prior hypermetabolic lesions are noted. Baseline and follow-up scans after nivolumab therapy are shown in [Figure 2]. In the current study, the findings in the bowel are likely related to side effects of immunotherapy inducing secondary enterocolitis. Other causes like drug (e.g., metformin)-induced nonspecific uptake in the bowel is excluded.
Nivolumab is an ICI, is a humanized anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody that is used as second-line therapy in various types of cancer such as melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, renal cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, urothelial cancer, and head and neck cancers., Recently, nivolumab has demonstrated high (64%–87%) response rates in relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma. Nivolumab may activate T cells to develop antitumor effects, but this immune activation sometimes causes immune-related adverse events, such as pneumonitis, hepatitis, and enterocolitis. Sometimes, these adverse events are serious and life-threatening, which require timely patient management and adequate therapeutic decisions.
ICIs, nivolumab is associated with many immune-regulated adverse events including nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Diarrhea is observed in about one-third of patients. It usually occurs in the 3rd month of therapy. Diarrhea may be infectious or autoimmunological. About 8%–22% of patients receiving immunotherapy develop autoimmunological enterocolitis. Clinical symptoms of enterocolitis include mixed watery and bloody diarrhea and cramping pain. Enterocolitis can be managed with cessation of nivolumab and administration of intravenous corticosteroid therapy or infliximab therapy in severe cases, like in our case. 18F-FDG PET-CT is standard of care for the staging, monitoring of response to therapy, and detection of disease recurrence for Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas., 18F-FDG PET-CT can be used to identify regions of active inflammation in ulcerative colitis. ICI is a potentially important therapeutic agent for refractory and relapsed Hodgkin's lymphomas. As the use of ICIs in cancer therapy increases, therefore immune-related adverse events are frequently identified on 18 F-FDG PET-CT, which may lead to early diagnosis, close clinical follow-up, and appropriate clinical management of immune-related adverse events.
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Vineclipper: A proximal algorithm to tie GPS field locations to high resolution grapevine imagery
Hall, A. & Louis, J., 2009, Innovations in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry. Jones, S. & Reinke, K. (eds.). 28 ed. Berlin: Springer, p. 361-372 12 p.
Global Positioning System 100%
Canopies 50%
Algorithms 50%
Canopy 50%
Position (Location) 40%
What users of virtual social networks value about social interaction: The case of GreyPath
Burmeister, O., 2009, Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer. Panteli, N. (ed.). 7 ed. New York USA: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 114-133 20 p.
Social Capital 100%
Social Interaction 40%
Society 40%
Retirement 40%
Interaction 40%
A content-based approach to medical image database retrieval
Wei, C. H., Li, C. T. & Wilson, R., 2008, User Centered Design for Medical Visualization. IGI Global, p. 281-302 22 p.
Content 100%
Information Retrieval 100%
Content-Based Image Retrieval 71%
Medical Image 57%
Addiction is No Excuse
Cohen, D. & Saling, L., 2008, Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Trakakis, N. & Cohen, D. (eds.). 13 ed. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 247-264 18 p.
Addiction 100%
Moral Responsibility 22%
Physical Dependence 11%
A federal integrity system at the crossroads: Australia
Roberts, P., 2008, Promoting integrity: Evaluating and improving public institutions. 8 ed. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, p. 119-156 38 p.
Australians 100%
System Integrity 100%
Federal Government 50%
Case Response
Crawford, H., 2008, Marketing: Real People Real Choices. 5th ed. / 1 ed. Sydney: Pearson Prentice Hall, p. 1-1 1 p.
Cellular Automata
Bossomaier, T., 2008, Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems. Shan, A. Y. (ed.). 3 ed. Hershey, Pa: IGI Publishing, p. 57-84 28 p.
Cellular Automaton 100%
Complex System 100%
Classification 50%
Entropy 50%
Challenges of managing the risk of violent and sexual offenders in the community
Considine, T. & Birch, P., 01 Dec 2008, Violent and Sexual Offenders: Assessment, Treatment and Management. Birch, P., Ireland, J., Farrington, D. P. & Ireland, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 284-302 19 p.
Conceptions of the Human Self and Human Rights: Implications for the Psychological Continuity of Less Inclusive Selves
Nolan, M. & Branscome, N. R., 2008, Self Continuity: Individual and Collective Perspectives. Sani, F. (ed.). New York: Psychology Press, p. 201-212
Could Terrorists Acquire and Detonate Nuclear Weapons? A Scenario
O'Brien, N., 2008, Australia and the New Technologies: Evidence Based Policy in Public Administration. Michael, K. & Michael, M. G. (eds.). 7 ed. Wollongong, Australia: University of Wollongong Press, p. 89-104 16 p.
Attack 100%
Information 50%
Expertise 50%
Boundaries 50%
Digital signature-based image authentication
Lou, D. C., Liu, J. L. & Li, C. T., 30 Jun 2008, Multimedia Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, Vol. 3. p. 1534-1552 19 p.
Digital watermarking schemes for multimedia authentication
Li, C. T., 30 Jun 2008, Multimedia Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, Vol. 2. p. 793-807 15 p.
Multimedia 100%
Digital Watermarking 66%
Category 66%
Main Category 33%
Evaluating agency responses: the comprehensiveness and impact of whistleblowing procedures
Roberts, P., 2008, Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector: Enhancing the theory and practice of internal witness management in public sector organisations. Brown, A. J. (ed.). 10 ed. Acton, A.C.T.: ANU E Press, p. 233-260 28 p.
Whistleblowing 100%
Adequacy 50%
Implementation 50%
Evolution of Trust in Economic Systems
Bossomaier, T., Harre, M. & Thompson, J., 2008, Coping With the Complexity of Economics. Faggini, M. & Lux, T. (eds.). 1 ed. Italy: Springer, p. 3-18 16 p.
Market Concentration 100%
Economic System 25%
Significant Role 25%
Human Interaction 25%
Lockhart, P., 2008, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus. Sharma, B. S. B. (ed.). 5th ed. / 11 ed. Australia: McGaw-Hill, p. 384-431 48 p.
Humour and its link to meaning and spirituality in war.
Moran, C., 2008, Ageing, Disability and Spirituality. Mackinlay, E. (ed.). 15 ed. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, p. 200-216 17 p.
War 100%
Meaning 75%
Coping 50%
Spirituality 50%
Burmeister, O., 2008, Ethics in ICT: An Australian Perspective. 1 ed. Australia: Pearson
Just how liberal and democratic is Canadian foreign policy?
Leuprecht, C. & Hataley, T., 01 Feb 2008, The World in Canada: Diaspora, Demography, and Domestic Politics. p. 123-148 26 p.
Litigation in the Cayman Islands
Graham, R. QC. & McDermott, P., 2008, Dispute Resolution in 50 Jurisdictions Worldwide. Bushell, S. (ed.). 14 ed. London: Global Arbitration Review - Law Business Research Ltd, p. 36-41 6 p.
Judicial System 100%
Legal Procedure 50%
Lawyer 50%
Juries 50%
Cayman Islands 33%
New directions in Canadian justice: from state workers to community 'representatives'
Bartkowiak, I. & Jaccoud, M., 2008, Justice and Community and Civil Society: a contested terrain across Europe. Shapland, J. (ed.). 10 ed. London, UK: Willan Publishing, p. 209-234 26 p.
Justice 100%
Communities 50%
Community 41%
State 33%
Canada 25%
Prediction of Student Actions Using Weighted Markov Models
Huang, X., Yong, J., Li, J. & Gao, J., 2008, 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IT IN MEDICINE AND EDUCATION, VOLS 1 AND 2, PROCEEDINGS. p. 154-+
Psychology of Mobile Phone Use and Misuse
Phillips, J. G., Saling, L. & Blaszczynski, A., 2008, Mobile Telephones: Networks, Applications and Performance. Harper, A. C. & Buress, R. V. (eds.). 6 ed. USA: Nova Science Publishers, p. 191-210 20 p.
Internet 33%
Reforming fiscal federalism and equalization: Lessons from the Canadian experience
Leuprecht, C., 2008, Zur Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung in Deutschland. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG, p. 259-275 17 p. (Zur Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung in Deutschland).
Regulation and Governance of the Internet
Weckert, J. & Al-Saggaf, Y., 2008, The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Himma, K. E. & Tavani, H. T. (eds.). 19 ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, p. 475-495 21 p.
Information 100%
Governance 50%
Disaster Prevention 50%
Guides 50%
Research sources and methods
Hemmings, B. & Connors, J., 2008, Adult education and training. Athanasou, J. (ed.). 16 ed. Terrigal, NSW, Australia: David Barlow, p. 273-294 22 p.
Research Process 66%
Ethical Issue 66%
Quantitative Research 33%
Revisiting fear of crime in Bondi and Marrickville: sense of community and perceptions of safety
Enders, M., Jennett, C. & Tulloch, M., 2008, Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety. Lee, M. & Farrall, S. (eds.). 11 ed. Milton Park, Oxon.: Routledge-Cavendish, p. 188-210 23 p.
Security issues and countermeasures in wireless sensor networks
Zia, T. & Zomaya, A. Y., 26 Mar 2008, Algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor networks. Boukerche, A. (ed.). 16 ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, p. 479-502 24 p. (Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing).
Sensor Network 100%
Sensor Node 7%
Countermeasure 7%
Networks 7%
Limitations 7%
"Supplementary material test bank for macroeconomics"
Skoko, H., 2008, Principles of macroeconomics. 1 ed. Sydney: McGraw-Hill Education, p. 1-1 1 p.
Skoko, H., 2008, Principles of Macroeconomics. 2nd ed. / n/a ed. Sydney: McGraw-Hill Education, p. xxi
The digital divide within the digital community in Saudi Arabia
Al-Saggaf, Y., 2008, Global Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Tan, F. B. (ed.). 33 ed. New York: Information Science Reference, p. 394-409 16 p.
Internet 100%
Digital Divide 100%
Saudi Arabia 100%
Groups 33%
"Föderalismuskultur-Banausen": Wie ist es um die föderale Kultur in Deutschland bestellt?
Leuprecht, C., 2008, Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2008. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG, p. 269-284 16 p. (Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2008).
Applying communities of practice to the learning of police
Campbell, M., 2007, Learning and Socio-cultural Theory: exploring modern Vygotskian perspectives. Verenikina, I. (ed.). article 9 ed. Australia: University of Wollongong, Vol. 1. p. 133-146 14 p.
Police 100%
Communities-Of-Practice 50%
Training 40%
Occupations 30%
Applying Local Cooccurring Patterns for Object Detection from Aerial Images
Jia, W., Tien, D., He, X., Hope, B. A. & Wu, Q., 2007, 9th international conference, VISUAL 2007, Shanghai, China, June 28-29, 2007: revised selected papers. 1 ed. Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, Vol. 4781/2007. p. 478-489 12 p.
Feature 100%
Aerial Image 44%
Interest 33%
Work 33%
Australian Crime Commission; National Crime Authority; N'drangheta: The Calabrian Mafia; The 14K Triad
Prunckun, H., 2007, Organized Crime: An International Encyclopaedia: From Trafficking to Terrorism. Shanty, F. G. (ed.). 40 ed. Santa Barbara California: ABC-CLIO, p. 404-406 3 p.
Capturing the 'Value-Addedness' of the Business Management Graduate
Bone, Z., 2007, Engagement & Change: Exploring Management, Economic and Finance Implications of a Globalising Environment. 7 ed. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Academic Press, p. 81-90 10 p.
Graduates 100%
Universities 66%
Rhetoric 66%
Graduation 66%
Cognitive factors underlying paranormal beliefs and experiences
French, C. C. & Wilson, K., 2007, Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain: Separating Fiction from Fact. Sala, S. D. (ed.). 1 ed. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, p. 3-22 20 p.
Communities of Practice, Clusters or Networks? Prospects for Collaborative Business Arrangements in the Mining and Engineering Sector, Central Western New South Wales
Frost, M. & Crockett, J., 2007, Engagement & change: exploring management, economic and finance implications of a globalising environment. 21 ed. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Academic Press, p. 249-260 12 p.
Collaboration 100%
Specific Industry 100%
Regional Development 50%
Local Government 50%
Comparison of SVMs in Number Plate Recognition
Zheng, L., He, X. & Hintz, T., 2007, Progress in Pattern Recognition. Singh, S. & Singh, M. (eds.). 16 ed. London: Springer, p. 152-160 9 p.
Support Vector Machine 100%
Number 100%
Recognition 83%
Characters 50%
Samples 33%
Development of an ontology to improve supply chain management in the Australian timber industry
Blake, J. & Pease, W., 2007, Semantic web technologies and e-business: toward the integrated virtual organization and business process automation. Salam, A. F. & Stevens, J. R. (eds.). 15 ed. Hershey, PA, USA: Idea Group Publishing, p. 360-383 24 p.
Electronic Data Interchange 100%
Interpersonal Communication 83%
Specific Industry 66%
Ontology 50%
Entrepreneurial marketing and university education
Hills, G. E., Hultman, C. M. & Miles, M. P., 2007, Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Volume 1: A General Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 219-229 11 p.
Exploring Political Online Forums in Saudi Arabia through Thematic Content Analysis
Al-Saggaf, Y., Mar 2007, Computing and philosophy in Asia. Hongladarom, S. (ed.). 1 ed. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 13-30 18 p. 2
Family Support in a Transdisciplinary Context
Harrison, J., 2007, Team Around The Child: Working Together in Early Childhood Intervention. Davis, S. (ed.). 7 ed. NSW: Kurrajong Waratah Inc, p. 95-111 17 p.
Fiskalische Gerechtigkeit in der kanadischen Föderation: Gedankenanstöße zur zweiten Stufe der Föderalismusreform in Deutschland
Leuprecht, C., 2007, Föderalismusreform II:Weichenstellungen für eine Neuordnung der Finanzbeziehungen im deutschen Bundesstaat. Nomos, p. 201-220 20 p. (Föderalismusreform II:Weichenstellungen für eine Neuordnung der Finanzbeziehungen im deutschen Bundesstaat).
Foreign investment and economic growth: A case study of India
Anwar, S. & Basu, P. K., Jan 2007, India and South Asia: Economic developments in the age of globalisation. Siddiqui, A. (ed.). 1 ed. New York, USA: M. E. Sharpe, p. 152-173 22 p. 7
Guest workers in Taiwan: Experiences of racialisation and racism
Tierney, R., 2007, Engagement & change: Exploring management, economic and financial implications of a globalising environment. 4 ed. Bowen Hills, Qld, Australia: Australian Academic Press, p. 47-58 12 p.
How Can Australia Benefit from China's Economic Reforms
Basu, P., Hicks, J. & Sappey, R., 2007, Engagement & Change: Exploring Management, Economic and Finance Implications of a Globalising Enviroment. Basu, P., O'Neill, G. O. & Travaglione, A. (eds.). 2 ed. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Academic Press, p. 25-36 12 p.
Australia 100%
Benefits 42%
Chinese 28%
Economy 28%
Improving Impact: Evidence-Based Policing or Fostering Community participation through Action Research and Communities of Practice?
Layton, C. & Jennett, C., 2007, Handbook of Police Administration. Ruiz, J. & Hummer, D. (eds.). 23 ed. Boca Ratton, Fl.: Taylor & Francis, p. 357-386 30 p.
Individual Family Service Plans as a Means to Evaluate Transdisciplinary Practice
Harrison, J., 2007, Team Around The Child: Working Together in Early Childhood Intervention. Davis, S. (ed.). 6 ed. New South Wales: Kurrajong Early Intervention Service, p. 75-94 20 p.
Library managers today: the Challenges
Lodge, D. & Pymm, B., 2007, Libraries in the Twenty First Century: Charting Directions in Information Services. Ferguson, S. (ed.). 17 ed. Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia: Centre for Information Studies, Vol. issue. 27. p. 289-310 22 p.
Marketing research for isolated SMEs
Hazeldine, M. F. & Miles, M. P., 2007, Innovative Methodologies in Enterprise Research. Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 203-213 11 p.


Cortana - QQ for you!!
Wanted to know if Cortana can post to FB/Twitter taking voice command as input?
Re: Cortana - QQ for you!!
at the minute twitter yes, facebook no.
i believe it will be included in the not too distant future.


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Top five tunes: Industrial rock
The context:
I got the idea to do another one of these genre-themed Top Five Tunes posts*, more specifically, one dedicated to the alternative rock sub genre of Industrial rock, back in June when I was writing about how I first listened to Nine Inch Nails' "Pretty hate machine" and naming it my second favourite album of 1989. I got so fired up thinking about the passion I felt and the rage I latched onto when I first discovered this sound and immediately started trying distill all my favourites from the era down to five. I wanted to write the post right away, to forget all the half-written and not yet started posts in the hopper, and unleash this fun upon you all. But I restrained myself. I wanted to finish up my three-part Depeche Mode series I was still working on and you can bet, as soon as I managed that, I got right down to this piece.
If you've already read or just now linked back to read the words on "Pretty hate machine", you'll know that that album was my gateway to the genre. I loved the term 'Industrial'. It so perfectly described the sound. I much later learned that it was coined by one of the genre's forefather groups, Throbbing Gristle, in the 1970s, when they called own record label 'Industrial Records' and adopted the slogan 'Industrial music for Industrial people'. Their electronically inclined music (if you can even call it that) and that of their contemporaries, Cabaret Voltaire and Einstürzende Neubauten, was very experimental, eschewing normal song structures for a focus on message and live performance as art. This aesthetic would leak into the head of David Bowie during his Berlin period and then, find itself deeply entrenched in the recordings of Joy Division (and later, New Order) and their post-punk contemporaries.
Arguably, the moment avant-garde Industrial music began to evolve into what would become Industrial rock was when Kevin Ogilvie, frontman of Canadian Throbbing Gristle acolytes Skinny Puppy, started hanging out and exchanging ideas with Al Jourgensen, who was just starting to find his own voice with Ministry. That's obviously over simplifying things and putting a lot of emphasis on this one meeting. Indeed, there was already a lot exciting things happening in Chicago, home of Jourgensen and Wax Trax! Records, which ended up being the de facto home of all things Industrial rock. However, those two musicians formed a short-lived side project called PTP, and then, each appeared on and influenced the other's main project's next releases. This started an incestuous trend (particularly with Jourgensen) of different groups from the Industrial rock world working with each other, sharing ideas, and forming one-off side projects to produce and release new music. This happened a lot during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period I consider to be the genre's renaissance.
It wasn't a big leap for me to find Ministry after falling in love with the angst and rage of Nine Inch Nails. And from there, I began to check out every band I could find that had been tagged with the dark and spiky Industrial rock label. KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb, Revolting Cocks, Die Warzau, Laibach, The Young Gods, Front Line Assembly, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, and even, Filter. They all crossed my plate. I even picked up on some bands just because they were falsely identified to me as Industrial rock, Jane's Addiction being a prime example. By the time Trent Reznor released his sophomore album, "The downward spiral" in 1994, the term 'Industrial' was on everyone's lips. And so began the further evolution and filtering down of Industrial rock into Industrial metal and Industrial dance and the leeching of the sound into the hearts and minds of other alternative rock bands. Just for an example, it was shortly after this time that Grebo stalwarts Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Pop Will Eat Itself both released albums heavily influenced by all that was going on in the Industrial rock world.
It was here that I parted ways with the genre. I still kept my ear to the ground somewhat, still appreciating the new work of some of my favourites, like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails. And who could ignore Marilyn Manson's shock rock brand of Industrial metal once he hit the scene? But that brief seven or eight year period is frozen in time for me. I often go long periods without listening to these bands because my tastes have evolved a ton since those days but whenever one of these tracks slips on, the alternative dance club memories from those days come flooding back.
So if you're ready for a bit of rage and angst, let's have a look at my top five favourite Industrial rock tunes. And hey, share your own thoughts, memories, and favourites from this period in the comments section below.
The top five:
#5: "Supernaut" by 1000 Homo DJs (1990)
Yeah. You might recognize a few of the guys in the above photo. 1000 Homo DJs were one of the many Industrial rock side projects that I alluded to above. In this case, the outlet was one for members of Ministry that started around the time of the recording sessions for "The land of rape and honey". 1000 Homo DJs only ever released a couple of EPs and a handful of singles and in the liner notes for each, pseudonyms were provided in lieu of the real names of the various participating members, though we know for a fact that Al Jourgensen, at different points, enlisted the help of Jello Biafra and Trent Reznor, among others. In fact, Trent recorded the original vocals for this very cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut". However, his label at the time, TVT, wouldn't let Jourgensen use them on the release. Some people have always thought that Jourgensen simply added effects to Reznor's vocals and muffled things up to disguise them but he has always maintained that he re-recorded them himself, doing his best impression of his friend. The version below features good ole Al but you can easily find Reznor's version out there on the Internet because it was later released on the Black Box Wax Trax! boxset. I've always loved both versions of this tune. The chainsaw guitars, the dance floor shaking drum beat, the drug referencing samples, and the distorted screaming vocals. "I want to reach out and touch the sky. I want to touch the sun but I don't need to fly." It is rage and ecstasy personified.
#4: "Join in the chant" by Nitzer Ebb (1987)
"Lies, lies, lies, lies. Gold, gold, gold, gold. Guns, guns, guns, guns. Fire, fire, fire." Whoever else has shouted along with those four lines of repeated words on the dancefloor knows Nitzer Ebb and their brand of dance ready Industrial rock (aka EBM). Despite their German sounding name, the trio of "Bon" Harris, Douglas McCarthy, and David Gooday was actually formed in Essex, England in 1982. The post-punk influenced act self-released a bunch of singles before being picked up by Mute Records in 1986, an indie label known for its roster of prominent electronic artists. Their debut album, "That total age", was released in 1987 and with it came three of the group's biggest hits, of which "Join in the chant" was but one. I came upon the group a few years after this album came out when I saw the video for "Control I'm here' and thought the sound hilarious and compelling at the same time. Then, I remember overhearing classmates talking about them at high school and found myself drawn into them further. "Join in the chant" has since become a favourite of mine, mostly because of the sheer number of times I have drunkenly danced and shuffled and jumped about to its angry rhythms. The song is all manner of synths, at various different levels on the spectrum, all doing double duty as rhythm and melody, computers sampled and filtered as percussion. Other than that and the vocals, Nitzer Ebb's sound here is quite minimalist and insular. And those vocals, tribal and repetitive, as if indoctrinating their audiences as much as entertaining them, dancing and education, rage and angst. Join in the chant.
#3: "Juke joint jezabel" by KMFDM (1995)
In spite of the rumour that was spread, partly from a joke started by the band themselves, their initialism name does not actually stand for "Kill mother f*cking Depeche Mode". Instead, it was shortened from an already bastardized German phrase, which meant, "No pity for the majority". The group was formed in 1984 and continues strong today, though with all the musicians that have come and gone over the years, the only remaining founding member is vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Saschia Konietzko. They are renowned for their live show. I've never seen them myself, but by all accounts, it's mayhem. I always picture something akin to a dark and twisted sideshow circus. This, of course, all stems from their early days and beginnings as a performance art troupe, their message almost more important than having a cohesive song structure, much like the early Industrial pioneers. Interesting, then, that KMFDM got so popular and successful and that they are seen as one of the main groups responsible for bringing Industrial rock into the mainstream. This song here is a big reason why, easily their most recognizable tune, owing mainly to the inclusion of a remix of the song on the "Mortal Kombat" soundtrack. "Be mine, sister salvation. Juke joint Jezebel is coming for my cremation." It is pure science fiction dystopia with chain saw guitars looping throughout and dark, breathy, pained vocals, pain verging on ecstasy. It is an epic and thunderous booming beat. A backing gospel choir ups the ante to monumental, towering heights. "Juke joint jezebel" is a song seething with sweat and pheromones, sticky PVC clothing, cheap piercings, riding crops, and dog collars. Doesn't it sound lovely?
#2: "Ministry" by Ministry (1989)
A fine product of the aforementioned meeting of the minds between Ministry head honcho Al Jourgensen and Skinny Puppy frontman, Kevin 'Nivek Ogre' Ogilvie, "Thieves" is the track that opens Ministry's fourth studio album, "The mind is a terrible thing to taste". Though the material produced around this time is among their fans' favourites, Jourgensen and the rest of the band don't think all that much of it. It's definitely more aggressive and guitar heavy than the previous work and forced Jourgensen to grow the ranks of the band to include two drummers, multiple vocalists, and a platoon of guitarists just to be able to perform the stuff live. I think it was my friend Tim that turned me on to this particular track by putting it on one of the mixed tapes he made for me back in high school. It quickly became a favourite for turning up loud to let loose the pent up teenage rage and angst. The anger and venom and hatred is palpable in the track. It's Jourgensen at his anti-political best, unleashing his vitriol at the US president at the time, George Bush. "Thieves, thieves and liars, murderers, hypocrites and bastards." The sampling here is done to great effect as well, filling the gaps in between Jourgensen's unmistakable message with choice words by R. Lee Ermey's drill instructor character from the film "Full Metal Jacket". A frenetic and incessant guitar riff that sounds like a pneumatic drill is interspersed with other whirring sounds that could be saws or rivet guns and punishing drum machines. And then at each chorus, the pace speeds up tenfold into thrash metal territory and all you can do is whip your head around and scream along with the Jourgensen's crazed, growling chants.
#1: "Head like a hole" by Nine Inch Nails (1989)
Perhaps this choice for number one is an obvious one, especially had you gone back to read the post I mentioned earlier on the album on which this appears. How could this not be my number one though? It was my introduction to the genre. You're lucky I didn't stuff this whole list with songs from "Pretty hate machine" and perhaps the "Broken EP" that followed, given that this is pretty much the only music from the genre that I might regularly think to put on these days. "Head like a hole" really is an excellent tune. Apparently, it was written by Trent Reznor in about fifteen minutes and it was the least agonized over track on his debut album. So imagine his surprise when it became so big and has had such staying power. My teenage self definitely identified with it back in the day, as did so many others, and it wasn't necessarily the words but the feelings they invoked. It isn't really clear what he is talking about and many have superimposed their own meanings on it but taken in the context of the whole diary of "Pretty hate machine", you might wager that all this vitriol is aimed at that same woman that broke his heart. "Head like a hole, black as your soul. I'd rather die than give you control." It is an organized chaos of mechanical percussion, layered and piled at different rates. The underpinned drum beat is explosive, simple but angry, and the menacing synths threaten violence at every turn and this threat turns real everytime the chorus rolls around and the ripping guitars rear their demonic heads. Reznor delivers the goods here, backed up by sampled, tribal chants and unbridled emotion. Not bad for a machine of hate.
*See the one I did on Second wave ska here.
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CategoriesTunes Tags1000 Homo DJs, 1980s, 1990s, Al Jourgensen, Alternative, Alternative Rock, Best tunes, Industrial, Industrial dance, Industrial metal, Industrial Rock, KMFDM, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Retro, Top five, Trent Reznor, Wax Trax! records
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stephen1001 says:
excellent choice for #1!
jprobichaud says:
Thanks! Not too obvious then?
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DC 148/9 in 20 overs.
RR 151/2 in 15.4 overs.
Rajasthan royals would have taken a score less tha 150 any day in a good batting surface and infront of their home crowd. They did begin well their chase as Lumb gave them a blistering start, they raised fifty in just 5 overs. Gilly needed some one to give him a break, as expected he turned to golden arm boy, Pragyan Ojha, O well!!! he did provide the vital breakthru required, but it didn't bring fortunes in turn it brought in a nemesis named Yusuf Pathan. he is just in one mood tat is to kill the opposition and he did tat with a surgery knife's precision. Sure, the whole DC would have felt the pain… May be v can say, deccan's lacked a bowler who could trouble Yusuf with a shorter delivery, not even a single one bowled at him. So no regrets for Rajasthan royals as the went on for a thumping win with 8 wickets in hand. Massacre Pathan scored 73* with 8 huge hits over the ropes.
– Gilly leads in most no.of sixes hit in IPL tournament so far, with 57, Yusuf is just in verge to go past, as he is now at 56.
– Yusuf Pathan got his 3rd Man of the Match award of this season.
– Yusuf pathan scored his 6th ipl fifty.
– With 8 sixes for the day, he takes a unassasible lead in most no.of sixes hit by any. He leads with 19, followed by Robin Uthappa in 12.
– Shane Warne's 1/15 is the best bowling performance for him in this IPL.
– Lumb became the 12th batsmen to be run out for Rajasthan Royals in this season of IPL.
Orange Cap – J.Kallis (310) followed by Sachin Tendulkar (248) and Yusuf Pathan(242).
Purple Cap – M.Muralitharan (11) followed by Chaminda Vaas (8) and Vinay Kumar (8).
– Kallis continues to be not out in all of this 4 four innings played.
De villers again scored a brilliant 50 and late work from vettori helped delhi to take the team to a respectable total of 143 in 20 overs.
Chasing a Meager target of 143, things didnt really go well for Rajasthan, they strated fumbling right from the beginning and ended up 64/5 in 11 overs. which left 80 to score in remaining 9 overs, at the rate of 9 per over. But nothing seems to be big, infront this big man, Yusuf Pathan he scored a swashbucling 62 of 30 balls to take home Rajasthan their second and must needed win. Nothing to take away from Grame smith who held the innings together right from the beginning till the end… Did a fabulous job of staying rooted to the crease and rotating strikes for yusuf. In the end, Its Rajasthan Royals won the match by 5 wickets with 9 balls to spare. Mishra was the pick of the bowlers, unless he was destroyed by yusuf in his last over. 4-0-34-3.
– Grame Smith and Yusuf Pathan recorded the Highest ever 6th wicket partnership of 83 runs.
– Munaf Patel bowled his first Wicket maiden over in T20 format, Tat too a critical 19th over.
– Yusuf Pathan Bettered his Strike by 206.66 (previous best was 200 (42 off 21 balls))scoring 62 of 3o deliveries for this IPL season.
– Yusuf Pathan scored 6 sixes, equalling AB de villers record for most no.of sixes in an innnigs.
– DD dropped 3 catches today and 2 were off Yusuf pathan, and the very next ball Yusuf scored Boundary and six respectively.
– Its 8 th time wicket goes down after strategic time out, today its twin strike for Mishra, Warne and Jadeja.


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Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology of Annona squamosa Linn - A Review
Author(s): Satish Kumar B.N., Gobinda Mohan Behera, Malay Baidya
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Address: Satish Kumar B.N.*, Gobinda Mohan Behera, Malay Baidya
Gautham College of Pharmacy, Sulthanpalya, R.T .Nagar, Bangalore-32, Karnataka
This review gives an account of the current knowledge on the pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, and pharmacological aspects of Annona squamosa Linn. (Annonaceae), Sugar apple. A wide range of Phyto constituents mainly alkaloids, terpenoids and phenolics, kaurane type diterpenes, quercitin and many more compounds and whose activities are been proved. Different parts of the plant have been used in traditional medicine, roots as Purgative, useful in mental depression; fruits as Haematinic, Cooling, sedative, vomiting, cough, malignant tumor and strengthening muscles; seeds as abortifacient, useful in destroying lice in the hair; bark as atonics; leaves- crushed leaves are applied on ulcers and wounds and a leaf decoction is taken in cases of dysentery. Phytoconstituents like (-)-ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid and 16a,17-dihydroxy-ent-kauran-19-oic acid known to posses Anticancer activity, Cyclic peptide, Cyclosquamosin B, has Vasorelaxant activity, Annonaine possess Antifungal activity, which are consistent with the reported uses of the plant extracts in the indigenous system of medicine. Hence the present article includes the detailed exploration of morphology, phytochemistry, and pharmacological aspects of entire plant of Annona squamosa L. in an attempt to provide a direction for further research.
Annona squamosa
pharmacological activity.
Satish Kumar B.N., Gobinda Mohan Behera, Malay Baidya. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology of Annona squamosa Linn - A Review . Research J. Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2011; 3(3): 93-102.
Satish Kumar B.N., Gobinda Mohan Behera, Malay Baidya. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology of Annona squamosa Linn - A Review . Research J. Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2011; 3(3): 93-102. Available on: https://rjpponline.org/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2011-3-3-1
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Published August 4, 2014 | By Susan W Bosscawen
Maggie. . .
a story for you
I've decided I'm going to tell you a story. But, not all at once. You'll have to read this as I post each section. But, not to worry, I won't leave you hanging. It will all be waiting for you in ODDS & ENDS.
I wrote this a couple of years ago and entered it in a small, fairly unknown contest. It won, but it is now considered "published." Which is a bit ironic. I doubt three people have ever read it, but it is, in the official world of publishing, now a "used" or published piece of work.
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Lisa hooked the emerald and diamond clasp of Edison's twenty-fifth anniversary present, strands of Mikimotos, behind her neck and evaluated the image gazing back from her cheval mirror. She frowned and tugged gently at the corners of her brow. Should she have a lift? Janice had one last spring. No. Almost forty-eight, she knew she still passed for mid-thirties.
Diamond hoops. DKNY black dress. Bronze snake Blahniks. She reread the gilded invitation.
"Discretion is appreciated." Mmhm…exclusive.
Edison knew, but not her friends and none had mentioned receiving their own.
Mason had his first t-ball game tonight. Tiffany, new license in hand, would drive, while Mason would sit shotgun. Edison and twelve-year-old Christian would hold down the rear. She slipped on her fox coat, blew kisses, and rushed out the door.
The sun burned low as she headed east on I-10. Businesses soon gave way to warehouses, which gave way to barren desert. Twenty-nine Palms, or 29 Stumps, as the Marines called it, flew past her S400 Hybrid. A sign marked 28 miles to Pinto Rojo. She relaxed against the plush leather interior.
Her day had been hectic. She'd spent the morning at the salon before meeting Janice for lunch at the club to discuss the bazaar for the Metro Soup Kitchen run by the Sisters of St Anne's. After lunch, she'd had a fitting for the Chanel suit she planned to wear to the Laguna Art Gala. Then, home to see the children arrive from school and now, off to the auction.
They'd bought their house after the economy plunged. Originally on the market for $2.6 million dollars, Edison, always prudent with money, had purchased the third-acre, 2500 square foot Spanish colonial for $800,000. It was a lovely home and she often invited the girls for cocktails.
The girls. Janice. Catherine. Tory. Moira. And, more recently, Cassie. Cassie was nice enough, but different. More of a homebody, she grew much of what her family ate in her home garden and had once mentioned actually sewing her own clothes. Janice and Catherine's husbands were attorneys. Tory's father had been a regular in westerns during the 70s and Moira had appeared in several sitcoms. They were all members of Belle Chere Country Club and their children, all similar ages, attended the same schools.
The Pinto Rojo exit came into view as her mind raced over items on her calendar. At the end of the exit ramp a black and gold sign directed her to turn right, 23 miles south to the Coral Canyon Lodge.
She glanced at her Rolex, another gift from Edison. 5:20 pm. A retired Marine Colonel, now an engineering consultant, he worked hard to provide them the trappings of success in southern California. They'd also managed to avoid divorce along the way.
Thump! The dash went blank as the quiet purr of the engine spun soundless. Power steering faded along with all the electronics.
She drifted to a stop on the shoulder of the road. Pressing the Bluetooth, she called roadside assistance, then Edison, but only received silence from both. Digging in her purse, she fished out her cell. Full battery, but no bars.
Great. Nothing works out here.
To be continued . . .
Until next time. Be sweet.
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Claire A. Iannini on August 4, 2014 at 5:46 pm
OMGosh – HURRY – – – I want to read the rest! LOL
Shirley Caggiula on August 9, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Oh my gosh did you have to stop there I can't wait until Maggie ll
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The 'Las Vegas of the East' provides surreal inspiration for an absurdist thriller set in a dystopian world of big tech.Tuesday, 31 December 2019
By Joanna Kavenna
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Photograph by Jacqui Oakley
When I first went to Macau in January 2000, it was a quiet place with low-rise buildings and a few casinos, surrounded by fields and housing blocks. In the old Portuguese areas there were cobbled streets, yellow churches with green shutters, pink and white civic buildings in the Pombaline style. The Portuguese established a trading post at Macau in the mid-16th century; the area was handed back to China in December 1999. I remember sitting by a fountain eating custard tarts, a local delicacy. We went to a small, family-run casino, where bets were a pound or two and elderly women handed out marmalade sandwiches. I had an unprecedented run of luck, which paid for dinner at a restaurant in São Lourenço.
I recently went back to Macau while visiting my relatives in Hong Kong. We went there from Taipa on the Cotai Water Jet. The engine hummed and the white sky merged with the white waves. Boats surged out of the mist, then disappeared again. It felt as if we were heading into a dreamscape, the boundaries dissolving between past, present and future. On Macau's Cotai Strip everything was gigantic: the skyscrapers, the roads, the hotels and the empty spaces awaiting development. We passed the Galaxy, a monumental gold and white edifice, adorned with glittering cupolas, and the Morpheus, a 40-storey hotel, its glass windows encased in a silver exoskeleton. At the centre of this extraordinary building was a large hole, as if it had been punched by an angry giant.
The whole place was outlandish, like a fairytale retold by J G Ballard. Macau has been called the 'Las Vegas of the East' and this is reasonable enough. Many of its buildings are replicas of those in Las Vegas and many of these are owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. However, Macau is more surreal, because its copies are copies of copies. We stayed at a gigantic hotel called The Venetian — a copy of The Venetian in Las Vegas — itself an imitation of, well, Venice. I wandered through malls and corridors, up and down escalators and eventually I reached the Grand Canal. Not the real Grand Canal, but the unreal Grand Canal. Or, one of the unreal Grand Canals.
"Everything was gigantic: the skyscrapers, the roads, the hotels and the empty spaces awaiting development. We passed the Galaxy, a monumental gold and white edifice, and the Morpheus, its glass windows encased in a silver exoskeleton."
There was a gondola moving slowly on (real) water, beneath an idyllic (fake) twilight sky. We ate dinner in a place called Dinner — such clarity seemed admirable in this unreal city. Then I walked again, hoping to ascertain if there was any end to Venice. The Venetian is the seventh largest building in the world, and after a while, I began to think it was infinite. But it turned out the end to Venice was Paris or, at least, The Parisian, another copy of a copy, with a half-scale Eiffel Tower looming above.
This citadel of fakes seemed strange at first, but then I began to wonder if it was so strange after all. This in itself felt even more strange. At the time I was writing Zed, a novel about our contemporary hall of mirrors — the fakes and deceptions of the online and real world combined. Fake avatars online, fake oppositions, fake news, fake facts. Virtual realms, the Internet of Things; the unreal seeping into the real. One day soon, I thought, there will be a virtual reality version of The Venetian. We'll put on our VR devices and travel to VR-Macau, to be conveyed down the VR-canal. But why stop there? What about the real-virtual as well?
Perhaps one day they'll build a new Macau, a complete physical copy of the old one. Everything will be faked from floor to ceiling: the Morpheus, the Galaxy, The Parisian, The Venetian, all copied from copies of copies. Like urban planning inspired by M C Escher. Arriving by boat, across the dreamscape, the white sea merging with the white sky, you might not even know which Macau you'd reached. Would it even matter?
Later, in the High Stakes casino, where the minimum bet was $3,000, one man lost $500,000. He stood, shaking his head, as if he couldn't quite believe what had happened. In a casino in Venice, a Dream Man asked everyone to place their bets. A gondolier conveyed his gondola along a lovely canal, under an idyllic twilight sky. Dinner was served in Dinner. Sometimes reality is far stranger than fiction.
Zed by Joanna Kavenna is published by Faber. RRP: £16.99 (hardback).
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Rediscovering Your Womb after Hysterectomy
Anaiya Sophia, co-author of Womb Wisdom speaks to us directly about her experiences and discoveries of Womb Wisdom. After healing herself from a cervical abnoramility back in 2009, she turned her attention to the myriad of ancient teachings that guides a woman towards her feminine essence by reconnecting to the sacred power of the womb. Yes, but this is the Hysterectomy Association! Exactly – this applies to all women everywhere, with or without a physical womb. This is the key point she is making! Anaiya has spent the best part of twenty years studying physical and subtle human anatomy. She has been a yoga teacher for 20 years and trained to the hilt with energetic forms of healing, accumulating wisdom from teachers in the East and West. She has always been intrigued with the phantom pain and sensations that amputee's speak of after a limb has been removed. As she pieced the jigsaw back together with her knowledge of the subtle energetic templates that every organ in the body has, she figured that naturally the womb would have one too. Not only that, but the womb is the original birthing system, the source of creativity – therefore it will be linked to a tremendous vortex of energy, that can never be severed.
She took these observations and began to work with women who have had part and all of their reproductive anatomy removed. And sure enough, once through the emotional pain of grief and loss, there in lies the "Well of Feminine Power". The Womb essence was still there! All types of women, could feel once again that they could re-connect to their femininity and could tangibly feel the surge of life-force coming from that once forgotten place. That is one of Anaiya's main points. When the doctor tells you, you have to have a hysterectomy there is this tremendous feeling of loss and being severed from your feminine essence. There is this cutting off in the mind, because the doctor has limited knowledge regarding the energetic's of the human body. Soon, in the next 20-50 years this will be common knowledge. There is no stopping this wisdom now!
After full recovery from her own reproductive health scare, she is now out there spreading the word with her third book, Womb Wisdom: Awaking the Creative and Forgotten powers of the Feminine – as well as running workshops and courses. Because of her "alternative" background, she looks closely as to why women (and men) develop problems in their reproductive systems. Anaiya is a firm believer that core emotional wounds around sexuality and relationships are the key trigger in a woman's life that starts this abnormal process off. Using herself as an example, she can clearly see how her once unhealthy approach towards sex and way she developed relationships with men, starting with her father, created endless problems around her sense of sexuality which lead to her eventually falling prey to cervical cancer, polyps and cysts. In her workshops, she has devised a system called "Sacred Body Awakening. This is a form of authentic and safe sexual healing that she has developed after taking herself through the programme back in 2009. Using various forms of bodily movement such as yoga, dance, breath work and guided shamanic meditation, she leads women through the nine sacred gates, starting from the lips of the labia, through to the very centre of the womb space. Each gate can harbor memories, emotions, feelings and visuals from that woman's life. Painful and suppressed emotions can be stored in the various parts of a woman's vagina, which can lead to all types of serious physical and emotional problems. Her work is non-intrusive, professional and loving. She has been on this journey and she understands the importance of reminding women that a tremendous vortex of creative and healing energy sits within your womb space, despite having a full or part hysterectomy. It is her life's work to get this message out to the women in a clear and experiential way.
What does the Womb "work" do?
Discovering the energetic essence of the womb and taking those first steps to clear, cleanse and open its infinite vastness is an essential piece of the healing journey for every woman. Womb work doesn't 'do' anything, it's closer than that, I would say that womb work 'gives' you everything. It's a discovering, an un- veiling and a re-membering. It's the true orientation for a woman to be coming from. Usually, most of us women are stuck in the head, planning our futures and competing with the men to get on in this world. This is a most uncomfortable place to be, it is not natural and it strips us of our femininity. The essence of the woman is to go slower, to feel, to embrace and nurture all life around her.
Womb Wisdom reminds us how we can do that and remain in the twenty-first century, while earning a living and paying the mortgage. The Womb space is the original 'seat' that all female yogini's and saints would mediate in. Not the third eye (that was for the men). Once tapped into the womb warms up physically as our attention rests in its domain. SHAKTI (life-force) begins to sizzle and surge, re-awakening all the naadi's and meridians (energy pathways) so we may rise up and into the heart with strong rooted foundations and a sense of earthly reality. It's the rock upon which we are built. The Womb is the deep silence, the sound knowledge of truth and the loving embrace that holds us all together, as a life form within all life forms. The womb reveals to us true sight, deep feeling and a sense of support and belonging that is second to none. This is your "Inner Guru". There is no need for a teacher outside, you have the very best inside of you. When all else fails in life, womb remains as that pillar to lean against, that rock to hold onto and those arms to cry in.
That is why I feel so passionate about this work reaching those women who have had (or are about to receive) part or full hysterectomies. You still have a womb! The energetic template that creates the formation of the womb in a baby girl can never be severed, cut or taken away from you! The womb is timeless and continues on despite physical alterations. Womb Wisdom Workshops with Anaiya are happening regularly. For all events – go to the www.anaiyasophia.com website for further details. Anaiya lives with her husband in the South of France, where they have a B & B and can accommodate small groups. She often visits the USA, London and thge Netherlands.
Anaiya Sophia is a Myrrhophore (mistress of sacred oils), Mystic and Author of revelatory wisdom. She carries an oral mystery that stirs the remembrance of a continuous lineage with the Feminine Principle that throughout the centuries has preserved its spiritual dignity, without the need for permission or recognition from any other source.
She recognises the need for Initiation and uses the mythical intelligence of her years to orchestrate those Rites of Passage. Her methods carry the hallmarks of a mystic, so unmistakable in today's sugarcoated world of partial truth and placating love. Her ferocious allegiance to direct experience imparts wisdom, lasting transformation and personal depth.
Anaiya lives in the Occitan region of Southern France with her beloved husband Pete Wilson. They run a B & B in the beautiful village of Puivert, called Occitania Bed and Breakfast where individuals and small groups can come and stay. Anaiya is also able to conduct Baptism, Marriage, Divorce and Death Rite Ceremonies.
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