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Alicia Keys reunites with Emeli Sande for new collaboration
Alicia Keys has reunited with Emeli Sande for a new collaboration.
"QUEEN KEYS!!  What an honour it's been to create again with one of my musical heros! She's shown me so much love from before I'd even released any music back in 2011. Her work ethic, talent and kindness blows me away every time we get in the studio. Made some serious magic with her and @reallindaperry over the last few days  can't wait for you to hear!," Sande posted to her Instagram profile on Friday (March 01, 2019).
Sande previously worked with Keys on the track "Hope," taken from Sande's debut album, "Our Version of Events." The pair also worked on "101," "Not Even the King," "Brand New Me" and "Kill Your Mama," taken from Keys' albums "Girl on Fire" (2012) and "Here" (2016), respectively.
Sande's songwriting resume boasts additional works with Rihanna ("Half of Me"), Antonique Smith ("All We Really Have is Now"), Katy Perry ("It Takes Two"), Mary J. Blige ("Whole Damn Year"), Gabrielle ("It Takes Time"), Leona Lewis ("Trouble"), Elle Varner ("Runaway") and Alesha Dixon ("Radio").
As mentioned in earlier posts, Keys is expected to release her eighth studio collection – featuring current promotional single "Raise a Man" – later this year via Sony Music Entertainment / RCA Records.
The still-untitled project reportedly delivers productions and songwriting contributions from Tricky Stewart, Mark Ronson, DaHeala, Arrow Benjamin, Fred Ball, Stacy Barthe, Pierre Medor, and Jeremiah "SickPen" Bethea.
Stream the audio clip for "Raise a Man" below.
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Alicia Keys premieres music video for new single "Raise a Man"
Alicia Keys has premiered the music video for her new single online.
The visual clip for "Raise a Man" was posted to the American singer, songwriter and record producer's YouTube channel on Thursday (February 21, 2019).
The track co-written by Terius "The-Dream" Nash, whose latest project "Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3," is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
Production duties on "Raise a Man" were collectively handled by Alicia Keys alongside Larrance Dopson, who is also responsible for Kali Uchis's "Tyrant," Justin Timberlake's "Say Something," Mariah Carey's "8th Grade," Little Mix's "More Than Words," and Kendrick Lamar's "These Walls."
As mentioned in earlier posts, Keys is expected to release her eighth studio collection later this year via Sony Music Entertainment / RCA Records.
The follow-up to 2016's "Here" reportedly delivers further contributions from Tricky Stewart, Mark Ronson, DaHeala, Foy Vance, Arrow Benjamin, Fred Ball, Stacy Barthe, Johnny McDaid, Andrew Wyatt, Linda Perry, Asia Whiteacre, Pierre Medor, and Jeremiah "SickPen" Bethea.
Watch the music video for "Raise a Man" below.
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Alicia Keys releases new promotional single "Raise a Man"
Alicia Keys has released her new promotional single online.
"Raise a Man" is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track co-written by Terius "The-Dream" Nash, whose other credits include Rihanna's "Umbrella," Beyonce's "Single Ladies," Mary J. Blige's "Just Fine," Janet Jackson's "Greatest Ex," Usher's "Trading Places," Justin Bieber's "Baby," Celine Dion's "Skies of LA," and Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body."
The follow-up to 2016's "Here" reportedly delivers further contributions from Tricky Stewart, Mark Ronson, DaHeala, Foy Vance, Arrow Benjamin, Fred Ball, Emile Haynie, Stacy Barthe, Johnny McDaid, Andrew Wyatt, Jeff Bhasker, Linda Perry, Asia Whiteacre, Pierre Medor, and Jeremiah "SickPen" Bethea.
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Alicia Keys enlists Tricky Stewart for new collaboration
American singer, songwriter, and record producer Alicia Keys has enlisted Christopher "Tricky" Stewart for a new collaboration.
Stewart's songwriting and production resume boasts works with Beyonce ("Single Ladies"), Mariah Carey ("Touch My Body"), Rihanna ("Umbrella"), Mary J. Blige ("Just Fine"), Ciara ("Ride"), Brooke Valentine ("Girl Fight"), Brandy ("Louboutins"), Toni Braxton ("Missin'") and Whitney Houston ("I Look to You").
Besides regular collaborator Terius "The-=Dream" Nash, Stewart has also worked with songwriters including Traci Hale, Penelope Magnet, Kandi Burruss, Ester Dean, Crystal Nicole, Shelly Peiken, Katrina Willis, Michelle Bell, Candice Nelson, Keri Hilson, Shamora Crawford, and Lindsey "Mavelle" Gilbert.
Meanwhile, Keys is expected to release her eighth studio collection in 2019 via Sony Music Entertainment / RCA Records.
The follow-up to 2016's "Here" reportedly delivers further productions and songwriting contributions from DaHeala, Foy Vance, Arrow Benjamin, Fred Ball, Emile Haynie, Stacy Barthe, Johnny McDaid, Andrew Wyatt, Jeff Bhasker, Linda Perry, Asia Whiteacre, Pierre Medor, and Jeremiah "SickPen" Bethea.
Stream the audio clip for "She Don't Really Care" below.
Tags: Alicia Keys, Andrew Wyatt, Arrow Benjamin, Asia Whiteacre, Benamin "Arrow Benjamin" McIntosh, Benjamin McIntosh, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Christopher Stewart, DaHeala, Emile Haynie, Foy Vance, Fred Ball, Jason "Daheala" Quenneville, Jason Quenneville, Jeff Bhasker, Jeremiah "Sickpen" Bethea, Jeremiah Bethea, Johnny McDaid, Lewis Sky, Linda Perry, Pierre Medor, RCA Records, SME, Sony Music Entertainment, Stacy Barthe, Tricky Stewart


Yes, the final release of Dropline Gnome 2.8.2 is finally here. This is the first community release of DLG. Previous releases were mostly due to the work of Todd. Now, there's a number of DLG community members working together to bring us a nice, pretty desktop for our Slackware boxes.
I'm very happy with this new release of Dropline Gnome. I haven't had any issues with it as of yet. I wanna go home and use it, but I can't. I at least with I could run Linux and Dropline Gnome on my pc here @ work.


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Further to digital content creation, Kajabi encourages sales, marketing and customer engagement. Since Kajabi affiliates with Stripe, users may receive straightforward electronic payments. To simplify advertising approaches, Kajabi allows users to build custom forms and landing pages with not trouble. Users can also send email broadcasts and thereafter track their performance with Kajabi's email analytics. Kajabi supports lots of built-in integrations with programs such as Infusionsoft, Google Analytics and Infusionsoft enabling users to organize their online products and share their digital content effortlessly.
Kajabi has great tools for creating sales funnels and landing pages, and converting website visitors into clients. You can also manage all of your e-mail marketing within Kajabi – including automated follow-up sequences – that means, theres no need for a third party platform (though it does integrate easily with Aweber, Mailchimp, and Active Campaign). Overall, Kajabi is head and shoulders above most other online course platforms in the native advertising and selling capabilities it offers.
Kajabi gives several choices on a core website theme that looks professional and modern and additionally, it offers very alluring, functional templates for creating your landing pages and sales pipeline pages. There's also a market for custom, premium themes if you do not desire to go with what Kajabi offers.
When it comes to really building your site, Kajabi has pre-designed themes that you can install with one click. The themes determine the overall appearance and style of your website and help you quickly and easily design a well made site.
They've advanced the Premier Theme to a super flexible framework and they use it to create all of the new website themes. These themes are now known as Layout Presets and currently there are 6 unique Presets accessible in their library, all of which can be created on the"Premier Framework".
All of the Layout Presets have a minimal and contemporary design and they do look attractive. As soon as you install a Preset, you can further customize it with the page builder to give your site the look and feel you desire.
You can still use any of the 10 themes that have recently been transferred to the Legacy Themes archive if you would like. However, as Kajabi will not be working to update them anymore, I will advise that you use only the Premier Theme for your site.
Finally, Kajabi also extends you the freedom to import and use custom themes. So, if you are a power user, you may hire a developer to design a completely custom theme for your website.
Kajabi has Wistia – among the all-around best video hosting platforms – fully integrated for streaming and uploading your videos. As a result of this you can trust that your videos will work as great as possible for whatever bandwidth or screen any individual learner is using — and that they will be as safe as possible.
Kajabi has on the market for quite some time. Because of this, there are tons of companies out there that have created custom themes for it (as mentioned previously) and that provide a range of services to support it. Additionally, there are a number of articles and blog posts out there addressing just about anything you need to do with Kajabi. If you can't find what you would like through the company's own training and support – that are quite good – you will almost certainly be able to find it out on the internet.
In general, Kajabi will give you a lot more power than most course platforms over creating a website where you can provide your courses but also manage the whole Web presence for your business. To put it differently, you do not need to set up a separate site on WordPress or another platform – a Kajabi site can become your home base.
In past years, I have seen online course platforms offering free plans, and some low-priced ones about $20. However, it feels like you usually receive the best features about the $50 to $100 pricing.
When you take a look at Kajabi, it's surely going to seem like the pricing is a little off the charts. The most affordable of these plans is $103 a month, and that's when you pay annually. It's not exactly what online course startups want to hear, but it's obvious who Kajabi caters to.
The most affordable plan, as mentioned, sells for $103 a month. With that, you acquire support for 5 products (courses) and 1,000 active members. Hence, Kajabi is more of a high-powered system for comprehensive courses.
An Enterprise plan is also offered, but you need to speak to the Kajabi company in order to get more info on that. I would presume Kajabi is inclined to support any business size, so that you can customize your plan.
Kajabi doesn't offer a totally free plan but it does offer a free trial on all plans so that you may try out the software. Usually, Kajabi extends a 14-day free trial but you can get a 28-day free trial as part of the Kajabi Hero Challenge.
Live chat and email support are provided 24/7. So, when you stumble upon a situation with your course site, you can contact one of the live chat representatives, regardless of what time it is. I asked a question and they came back to me in 20 minutes. Needless to say, it doesn't always happen so fast and they do not have a guarantee to reply you within 20 minutes. However, for me, this shows a good support.
And you know what, Kajabi does a reasonably great job at most of those functions, and they are constantly developing and adding more features.
But what nearly always astonishes me is the live customer support. They provide 24/7 live chat, and the longest I've ever had to wait (and I have chatted at all times of day and night!) Is three or four minutes, once. Every other time (and there have been many!) I am almost instantly connected to someone. And these people are awesome. They will get you the answer, assist you troubleshoot your issue, and also tinker around with a few options or codings on the webpage to make it work if you're trying something a little more custom and can't quite get it to work right. Seriously. The support staff is top-notch!
Because lots of people end up trying to choose between Rainmaker or Kajabi, in a sentence, I'll sum up the recommendation like this: Kajabi is much better at developing a membership area for online courses than Rainmaker.


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Jackson played for the University of Oklahoma from 1984 to 1987, where he was nicknamed "Boomer Sooner". He assisted the Sooners to a 42-5-1 record in his four seasons and a national championship in 1985. He caught a total of 62 passes for 1,407 yards, at an average of 23.7 yards per catch, and was a College Football All-America Team selection in 1986 and 1987. In the 1986 Orange Bowl, the national championship, Jackson caught a 71-yard pass from Jamelle Holieway for a touchdown, which would be the first of his team's two touchdowns in the Sooners' victory over Penn State. Jackson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001. He was later voted Offensive Player of the Century at OU. He is also a member of Omega Psi Phi.
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The Olympia Farmers Market is the social hub of Olympia for 9 months of the year with entertainment and the finest array of farm fresh products from South Sound farmers, artisans and crafts people. Approximately 45-50 vendors market offer a range of products from farm fresh edibles to food creations such as pastries, cheeses, dairy and local seafood.
A visit to the Olympia Farmers Market connects people to their local food sources and rural/urban lands that provide other ecological services like fish and wildlife habitat, soil fertility, watershed protection and more. The Olympia Farmers Market provides an opportunity for South Sound residents to buy direct from area farmers and artisans and practice sustainability as most of the farm products are produced through best management farm practices and with an eye to sustainable and/or organic farming.


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The Smiths- The Troy Tate Sessions (1983)
'We've done everything exactly right and it'll show' Morrissey told the Melody Maker, referring to The Smiths debut LP, provisionally titled The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, which they had just finished recording. The LP had been produced by Troy Tate, guitarist with The Teardrop Explodes.
Of course, it proved that this was not the case. Rough Trade were unhappy with the sound quality of the record, and brought in former Roxy Music producer John Porter to clean up the project.
I'll come clean: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Accept Yourself are missing from this bootleg, and the quality is a bit warbling in places.
It is, however, an interesting listen for enthusiasts of one of the most influential bands of the post- punk era.
I'm not up to the task of writing much about The Smiths, but I would urge anyone with an interest in the group to read Simon Goddard's remarkable The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life.
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Lodi Connects to Isolated Community Amid COVID
9/29/2020 - Conference News Coronavirus
People of Sandy Lake, Ontario, Canada, are neighbors and mission partners to Lodi United Methodist Church. The indigenous community located in northwestern Ontario, is only accessible by plane, so this pandemic has become a greater challenge than anyone inside the community could have imagined.
It's been five years since Lodi UMC started sending adults and youth to Sandy Lake to share in Christian kinship, teach Vacation Bible School to the children and participate in community programs. Each summer, the mission trip team brought along with them, hats, scarves, and prayer shawls, that the women of our Lodi congregation knitted with love.
God didn't let the church down despite the pandemic. Sandy Lake has a radio station that everyone listens to. Most families in the remote island community do not have the luxury of home internet. A group from Lodi church designated a week, sent materials in advance via international mail, and placed a call to the Sand Lake radio station every day to provide VBS to the children. During the months of July and August, as the church hosted a bi-weekly Summer concert with local musicians in the parking lot, people were encouraged to donate hygiene items for the school in Sandy Lake. While hand sanitizers were still prohibited from shipping to Canada, four boxes of 106 hats/scarves and 134 soap bars were recently sent.
Across the border and the lakes, prayers and friendship continue to be shared. "It warms my heart when I see my friends in Sandy Lake comment on our church Facebook page that they are watching with me our Sunday service," said Joan Gehrke, a leader of the church's Sandy Lake mission.


Nusa Dua Beach is a beautiful resort complex in the southernmost tip of Bali, and just 10 kilometers from Bali's international airport and 25 minutes from the chic and vivacious Kuta, Legian, and Seminyak districts.Nusa Dua exceeds all expectations as a world-class tourist destination.
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Crytek to Announce New Title Next Month
CVG.com reports that the Frankfurt-based developer Crytek will be announcing a new PC / Console title next month. The announcement comes as the studio announced during GDC that it would also be getting involved in mobile and free-to-play titles for iOS and Android in addition to its triple-A endeavors. More details after the jump.
The Crytek GM of Games, Nick Button-Brown, stated that development for the PC and consoles remains the core of the studio. According to him, the additional activities of the studio, including development for mobile platforms, are being pursued "because they're interesting."
Aside from this new proejct, the developer of the original Far Cry and the Crysis franchise is currently working on a sequel to Kaos Studios' Homefront and a Kinect-based hack & slash title for the Xbox 360 known as Ryse. Though he wouldn't provide details regarding this unannounced project, Button-Brown did state that "the other project looks absolutely fantastic – I mean, genuinely the best of that kind of project we've ever done. It looks spectacular, the team are doing really, really well and it's just really nice to see the team really enthusiastic about what they're doing. They're really happy."
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The University of Zambia through UNZA Press has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mika Hotels to help in the publishing of the ZANGO, Journal of Contemporary Issues.
Speaking during the signing ceremony which was held on 1st April 2019, UNZA Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Enala Tembo-Mwase called for pro-activeness in actualising the areas of cooperation in the MoU. Prof Mwase was hopeful that the signed MoU was going to be a success and that both UNZA and Mika would benefit. She noted that in the past UNZA has struggled to publish various Journals such as ZANGO, Journal of Humanities, Africa Social Research Journal, Zambian Law Journal, Zambian Papers and UNZA Journal of Science and Technology due to inadequate funds. "This situation has frustrated many lecturers who have opted to have their papers published in other Journals outside UNZA but with the signing of this MoU this situation will become a thing of the past," she said.
And Mika Group of Hotels Human Resource Manager Mr Watopa Biemba said the company was ready to do its best to ensure that the MoU was successful. He reiterated that it was the responsibility of the two parties to make the MoU successful and that Mika was happy to have partnered with UNZA in printing the Journal, which would support the publication of research outputs.
"Mika Hotels will assist UNZA to print the ZANGO Journal of Contemporary Issues twice in a year. In return, Mika Hotels will be providing gym and accommodation facilities on a discount to UNZA employees, schools, Units and Departments which may wish to utilise such facilities. This MoU is renewable after 24 months and Mika Hotels hopes to draft in all the remaining UNZA Press journals later,'' he said.
Meanwhile, UNZA Publisher Mr Christopher Siulapwa said the signing of the MoU was a sigh of relief as UNZA Press would now focus more on processing various articles to be published by Mika.
In addition, Acting Deputy Publisher Mrs Florence Mpandamabula who is also the Editor-in-charge of ZANGO noted that many authors who had given up on publishing articles with UNZA Press could now have a glimmer of hope knowing that their articles would now be in print within a reasonable period of time as compared to waiting for so many years.
finalised and would be the first one to be printed by Mika. "It is hoped that with this development, UNZA lecturers will take advantage of this MoU to publish articles and promote the publication of research outputs," she said.


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Hydroxyzine (Atarax) is an antihistamine used to treat itchiness and other allergy symptoms. It can also be used to help with mental tension, nervousness and anxiety. Hydroxyzine will also help control nausea and vomiting that is the result of motion sickness. Many individuals take this medication when they travel to help them remain calm and to help them with feeling good when they are in a moving mode of transportation. Hydroxyzine is also used sometimes to help reduce anxiety that is related to alcohol withdrawal. It is often given in a detox setting for such individuals.
Hydroxyzine is safe for adults and for children to take for motion sickness. It is offered in the form of a capsule and a liquid. The amount that a child will take depends on their weight. It is very important for any user of Hydroxyzine to only take the dose that was prescribed by their doctor. It shouldn't be given to any child under the age of 10.
Hydroxyzine doesn't always interact well with other types of medications. Therefore, it is very important to disclose to the doctor what other products you are taking. This includes herbal products and over the counter medications. Hydroxyzine should never be taken with alcoholic beverages.
Hydroxyzine should only be taken as needed. It works best if it is used up to 1 hour before being in a moving method of transportation. It is going to work more effectively than if you wait until symptoms of motion sickness are present. When Hydroxyzine is being used for alcohol withdrawal, it will need to be taken daily for a period up to 10 days for the detox to be completed.
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'Super ants' from Asia invading British gardens faster than ever
An invasive garden ant hailing from Asia continues to conquer new territory in England. The species, Lasius neglectus, is capable of building super colonies boasting dozens of queens and several thousand ants.
This spring and summer have yielded three new "super ant" colonies, bringing the total number of colonies discovered in the U.K. since 2009 to six. Researchers say there are likely more yet to be identified.
Though they pose no harm to humans, scientists worry the massive colonies could disrupt local ecosystems and drive native insect species to extinction.
The invasive species looks much like a common black garden ant, only slightly smaller, but the super ants construct much more expansive colonies, sometimes stretching for miles.
"In the sites we have studied, it is clear they are excluding the native ants," Elva Robinson, an ecologist at the University of York, said in a news release. "They are clearly dominating, and where they cluster, native species are being pushed out."
The ant species likely arrived on plants imported from Asia. The first super ant colony was found in 1990 in Budapest, Hungary. It has since spread throughout Europe. So far, scientists say the ants appear to thrive exclusively in domestic gardens and greenhouses.
"We don't yet know whether these ants will be able to thrive outside areas of human habitation," Robinson said.
Researchers hope further study of the identified super ant colonies will allow pest-management specialists to develop best practices for eradicating the invasive species and curbing its spread.
"Gaining a strong understanding of its new place in the native habitat will help manage the situation, and we are on the look-out for new sites in likely areas and can verify new sites as reported by pest control, as garden ants can be difficult for members of the public to identify," Robinson concluded...
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With that in mind, August 14 is a day in which the most successful football league to ever challenge the NFL first met and Usain Bolt made Olympic history.
1959: The American Football League held its first meeting in Chicago, giving charter memberships to Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
1966: Baltimore Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson hit two home runs in a 6-0 win over the Washington Senators at D.C. Stadium.
1971: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson struck out Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Willie Stargell three times en route to a no-hitter and 11-0 win at Three Rivers Stadium.
1988: Enzo Ferrari died in Maranello, Italy, at 90. He founded the eponymous automobile company and powered his Scuderia Ferrari racing team that has won 15 Formula One Drivers Championships.
1994: Pole-sitter Mark Martin won The Bud At The Glen at New York's Watkins Glen International.
2016: Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a time of 9.81 seconds, becoming the first person to win gold in that event three times.
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Study sheds light on why parasite makes TB infections worse
Scientists have shown how a parasitic worm infection common in the developing world increases susceptibility to tuberculosis
by Julia Evangelou Strait•November 16, 2015
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown how a parasitic worm infection common in the developing world increases susceptibility to tuberculosis. Pictured is an electron micrograph of a Schistosoma parasite worm. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / David Williams
Scientists have shown how a parasitic worm infection common in the developing world increases susceptibility to tuberculosis. The study demonstrated that treating the parasite reduces lung damage seen in mice that also are infected with tuberculosis, thereby eliminating the vulnerability to tuberculosis (TB) that the parasite is known to cause.
The study raises the possibility of using inexpensive and widely available anti-parasitic drugs as a preventive measure in places where the parasite and TB are common — stopping infection with the parasite and reducing susceptibility to TB and the risk of a latent TB infection progressing to disease.
The research, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, appears online Nov. 16 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
"Scientists and doctors have known that having both infections — this parasitic worm and tuberculosis — results in increased susceptibility to severe lung disease than having TB alone," said Shabaana A. Khader, PhD, associate professor of molecular microbiology. "But if we don't understand why co-infection increases the susceptibility to TB, it is difficult to know how to deal with the situation."
Public health experts estimate that one-third of the world's population is infected with TB. Most of these infections are not active and cause no symptoms because individuals' immune systems are effective at containing it. According to the researchers, people with latent tuberculosis infections have a 10 percent lifetime risk of developing active TB. And that risk may go up when people are infected with a type of parasitic worm called helminths, which are common in parts of the world where TB is also prevalent.
Khader said that scientists have suspected that the parasitic infection has some way of blocking the protective immune response needed to keep TB in check. But Khader and her colleagues found that something else is going on.
"We showed that the parasite activates a type of immune cell that drives inflammation rather than inhibiting the immune response that protects against active TB," Khader said. "If you treat the parasite alone in these mice that also have TB, you go back to having the good immunity against TB."
In the new study, the researchers showed that a molecule made by the parasite's eggs, rather than the parasite itself, drives inflammation. In response to a signal produced by the eggs, the inflammatory immune cells in the mice produced a molecule called arginase-1, which turned out to be important in further driving the inflammatory response. Khader said that when they studied mice that were co-infected with parasites and TB but that were engineered to have immune cells that could not produce arginase-1, the inflammatory response was absent.
"When you knock out this immune cell's ability to make arginase-1, you change the whole dynamic of the disease," Khader said. "Without the arginase, the inflammatory immune cells don't come into the lungs. In other words, you can make the immune system behave like the parasite is not there."
To assess whether the results in laboratory mice might be meaningful to TB patients, Khader worked with colleagues in India and Mexico to study blood samples and radiographic images of lungs from patients with both infections and with TB alone.
"We found a correlation between the amount of arginase activity in the blood and the severity of lung disease measured on chest X-rays," Khader said. "If they had more arginase activity, the TB patients had more lung damage."
Importantly, in co-infected mice, this increased lung damage did not correlate as strongly with the amount of TB bacteria measured. Such data are further evidence that the parasite is not lowering defenses against TB, but independently driving its own inflammatory response and increasing TB susceptibility.
Khader and her colleagues also found evidence that individual genetics play a role in the type of immune response — protective or inflammatory — the body mounts against TB, even in the absence of the parasite. This study and related work in her lab are informing efforts to produce a TB vaccine.
"If we're making vaccines, we need to ask whether the new vaccines will work if someone is having one type of immune response versus another," she said. "We plan to test vaccines in co-infections with both parasites and TB to see if such a vaccine could be effective even when the body mounts an immune response that is inflammatory rather than protective."
This work was supported by Washington University in St. Louis; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; the National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant numbers HL105427, AI032573, AI108725, and U19 AI91036; the American Lung Association; and the University of Rochester.
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20-year-old Kharkiven lifts 254 kg, becomes world champion
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A young sportswoman from Kharkiv has won a clutch of medals in weightlifting, reports Vedomosti (RU).
"Kharkiven Irina Deha has loudly announced herself on the world stage. In April, she won the adult European championship in weightlifting and now returns with a gold from the Junior World Championship," said Sergey Khristoev, deputy head of the Department of Youth and Sports of the Kharkiv region.
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Despite her young age, Deha is only 20, she has won two gold and one silver at the World Junior Championships. Performing in the weight category under 75kg, she won the highest step of the podium, raising a total of 254kg in the double-event.
In addition, the Kharkiven received "little gold" for a successful burst of the weight of 116kg and a "little silver" for lifting in a push weight of 138 kg.
"This junior world championship was even harder than the European championship among adults. But thanks to the support of the Regional State Administration, the Department of Youth and Sports, as well as Sports College, where I was able to prepare well. The result of this training is a gold medal. It is most important," commented Irina.
At the airport champion and her coaches Valery Nikulin and Eugene Shilov met honorary delegation headed by Khristoev.
The Junior World Championships was held in Georgia from June 23 to July 2.
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In Memory of Pauline Fisk
By Debbie Bennett - February 03, 2015
One of our founder-members is Pauline Fisk. who died in January after a short illness. Today - 3rd February 2015 - her family and close friends will be mourning her passing and celebrating her life. We at AuthorsElectric remember her and honour her memory by reposting one of her blogs from 2013:
I'm not going to recommend my first book to you because it wasn't very good. However it was published, and from that day to this I've called myself a writer. I'm now the author of eleven novels and much else besides. In recent years I've become an ebook author too. But back in 1970, this is how it all began:
Dave and I had been saving like crazy to take a few months off work and devote ourselves to painting on his count, and writing on mine. We'd found a ruined cottage on a hillside overlooking the Teme Valley and persuaded the farmer who owned it to give us a summer let. Here, with our own damson orchard and a view across half of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire [but no running water, electricity or loo] we hoped to create those works of art and literature that would launch our careers.
The cottage was called Brick Barns. It was one of those treasures of English vernacular architecture that you were still able to find unlived in and abandoned back at the tail end of the '60s - a tiny, two-up-two-down, quarry-tiled cottage with a massive ingle-nook fireplace housing a huge old range which was still intact, which meant we were able to cook on it. I remember a scraping old front door with a heavy wooden latch, a tiny winding staircase, a stone sink, and three windows, one up, two down, one of which was broken and leaves kept blowing through.
The cottage was empty and we had to furnish it ourselves. What we had was basic, but turned out to be perfectly adequate for our requirements. We came from cluttered lives in London, and suddenly everything was reduced to a table, two wooden chairs, some pots and pans, some candles and oil lamps, a bed, a 'beanbag' made of old curtains and straw, a chest of drawers and a rug. Actually I'm not quite sure about the rug.
We went to bed with the sun, carrying up our candles and lamps, and rose with it too. There would be many a morning when I'd awake to find the valley beneath us white with mist, but the Brick Barns meadow golden with sunlit dew. Not having running water meant we learnt to make the most of what we'd got. I'd head out into the dew with my bar of soap. One memorable morning I took my portable radio with me. I'll never forget lathering up to Beethoven's Ode to Joy [never much cared for it before, nor since, but it was perfect for the occasion]. I've never felt so clean, inside and out, as I did then.
I remember there was a wild wood down the meadow from us, through which carriages drove in the days of the big house on the next hill. Once there would have been a proper road through the wood for those carriages to drive along, but nothing remained of it now but a ruined bridge, trees growing out of it, stones falling one by one into the stream beneath.
We spent whole days down in that wood. We found a waterfall and a way across it courtesy of a slippery, moss-covered fallen tree. We watched spiders weaving perfect webs that would never be disturbed because nobody would ever come to sweep them away. We took photographs of all the different types of ferns that grew along the side of the stream. I sat staring at it all, drinking it in. Dave sketched. He'd sit so still, for hours at a time, that not even the birds singing all around him seemed to know that he was there. We were young. We were discovering things. There was nothing like it.
And I wrote. I was twenty-one years old and I'd been writing for twelve years with the serious intention of making it my career, and now here I was - I hoped - with my chance to do just that. Over the years I'd mostly written poetry. What I really wanted, though, was to write fiction. I'd never really had the courage though – not, at any rate, to see it through – and I'd never had the time. A poem, it seemed to me, could be picked up and put down again, but writing fiction required the tenacity of a blackbird with a worm, determined and set, pulling and pecking, digging and prepared to get dirty, its livelihood depending on not letting go.
And now here I was, ready to give it my all. But would the fiction come? It would not. All this effort had been made to get me to this perfect place where I'd be creative, but the one thing I hadn't calculated for was inspiration. I'd assumed, I supposed, that no sooner would the hire van have been disposed of and darkness closed in around us, than some amazing story would just be there.
I've not a clue, looking back, what I actually wrote at Brick Barns. I must have written something because I sat down at my typewriter every day. But certainly it wasn't published, and I haven't kept it. What I did write, however, was my life. Beyond the need for any words at all, I wrote myself into being, escaping my old life like a crysalis, emerging bright-eyed into a new one - and the story I started then is still running today.
There are things about Brick Barns that I'll never forget. Even someone as forgetful as me can still conjour up the smell of waking in that cottage and everything being sappy and earthy, wild flowers bursting through the floors and bits of trees through the walls. I'd get up. The door would scrape the quarry tiles as I'd drag it open and step outside. The grass would be wet beneath my feet. Bare-footed, I'd trail through the orchard and the birdsong would be unlike anything I'd ever hear in the long years ahead of me. My days in Brick Barns were as thick with birdsong as my nights were with stars.
Close my eyes, right here, right now and I can hear the bark of a fox in the dark. Then there's the rattle of pheasants down in the tangled wild wood, and the cooing of wood pigeons. Open my eyes, and here are bees in the clover, and something very small scampering through the long grass - I can't see what it is, but I can see blades parting to let it through. And I know that apart from all of this around me, and Dave off somewhere with his easel, and the badgers snoozing in their burrow down the field, and the rooks on the fence post and the swallows nesting in the eaves, I am all alone. And that's the way I like it.
It took some doing, picking up Brick Barn's rhythm and learning to live its way. The logistics of life in that cottage involved a precarious, pothole-ridden mile-long track, then a journey across a hilltop where there were no tracks at all, then a steep descent down a series of fields for a further quarter of a mile. Once a family with six children had lived in Brick Barns, wearing a path back and forth to the nearest farm, where the father worked as a labourer. The postman would have walked that path every day, but it has long-since disappeared. And the path we beat that summer is long-since gone as well.
We arrived in July and left at the end of September when we could no longer ignore autumn creeping through the brickwork and blowing down the chimney. Some of our days were grey. I'd sit upstairs and write between drips and saucepans and leaking roof tiles, and Dave would sit downstairs, painting foxgloves and tending the fire. But some of our days were not just sunny but dazzlingly so. Dave would sit outside with his canvasses, painting the cottage in all its different lights, and I'd sit out at my fold-up child's school desk, violently stabbing the keys of my heavy Olivetti typewriter. I'd be at it for hours. God alone knows what I thought I was doing, but I'd been waiting for this from the age of nine and I didn't want to waste a minute.
There were days at a time when the valley would fill with mist and nothing seemed to exist beyond the boundary of the orchard. Then there'd be town days when we'd make the long trek by foot to the road, catch the market bus and sit with the old ladies and their fancy hats and baskets of speckled eggs, returning laden with a week's worth of provisions which we'd haul as far as we could, then hang in trees for sake-keeping, and come back later to collect.
There was always something to collect. Water from the tap by the cattle trough two fields away. Letters from the farm. Logs from the wild wood for the fire. If we ran out of dry wood, there'd be no supper and no way of keeping warm. We quickly learned to take care of ourselves.
I'll never forget our last few glorious days, spent up the damson trees filling baskets with fruit. For two months we'd watched it ripening, now it was ours. Then on one of those last days, the farmer brought his parents and an old aunt down the fields to see us. They'd farmed this land before him, and remembered Brick Barns being lived in when they were children. Now they wanted to see smoke coming out of its chimney again, fire in the grate and a table set for tea. Their son hitched up a wagon on the back of his tractor and down they bumped and lurched, side by side on bales of hay.
The writing – the real writing, that is – started the moment I left Brick Barns and arrived back in London, penniless and in need of a job. Isn't that always the way? As soon as I no longer had time to write, there was my first book pleading to be written - a collection of short stories with a linking theme, based on the places I'd left behind. A friend working as an editor at a newly established publishing house asked to see what I was writing. I wouldn't have submitted it anywhere if she hadn't asked. In fact even when she asked I wasn't initially that keen. I'd been trying to get my poetry published for years, but with no success, and my confidence was pretty low. But I showed her what I'd got – and I was in.
We were children of the sixties, Dave and I. He never became a painter but returned to his architectural studies, his love of buildings - especially English vernacular architecture - fired by Bricks Barns. There was a moment after Brick Barns where we almost went our separate ways, but we saw sense, pulled it round or whatever you might want to call the process of recognizing love, and now we've been married for over forty years and have a huge family of delightful grown-up children and a scattering of delightful grandchildren too.
And I've been writing almost ever since [the 'almost' speaking here for the baby years]. I've learnt that life is hard sometimes and can be cruel. By no means is it always damson orchards, wild woods or world-class views. But the fear I used to have of writing fiction – that's gone. The courage to dig deep and dirty and never let go I've somehow found. The world is full of stories. Some of them get labeled 'fiction'. Some of them are simply life.
A couple of years ago, Dave and I returned to Brick Barns. The old farmer and his family had long-since moved on. Their farmhouse had been renovated – and so had Brick Barns. We'd always thought it would quietly crumble into the landscape, but we reckoned without the boom in the property market.
There was even a road down to it.
We didn't drive down to take a look. Its restoration could have turned Brick Barns into the most beautiful cottage in England, but what it was before felt good enough to us. When we'd moved into Brick Barns we'd no idea how much it would shape our lives. Now even writing about it feels like walking bare-foot across hallowed ground.
Rest in peace, Pauline.
Pauline Fisk
Lydia Bennet said…
I vividly remember this post. So beautifully written. This, and the photograph of her, seem to capture her so well even for those like me who didn't know her personally. She died too soon, but she really lived.
Thinking of her family and friends today. Valerie xxx
Chris Longmuir said…
A beautiful post resounding with a celebration of life, which makes it even more poignant. Pauline is a sad loss to the writing world.
As Lydia and Chris have already said, it's beautiful. So clear, honest, uncluttered. And those images - the days 'thick with birdsong'. How tragic to have lost such a voice.
Enid Richemont said…
I missed this at the time, so what a poignant delight it is to read it now - SO beautiful.
Such a loss, to the writing community and particularly to her family. Her writing is so beautiful.
Sandra Horn said…
Beautiful. I missed it firse time round but am very grateful and glad to read it now. Thank you.
We exchanged just a couple of emails. But she was so warm and supportive. I loved Midnight Blue and really must look into her other books soon.
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the kind where you were left drowning in your own sorrow with no one to hold you or catch you as you sunk deeper into your hurt, consumed by your wound.
A curdling experience one would not be able to forget.
Sometimes the person is worth every tear, each wracking pain and senselessness.
To savor Love, one must embrace it.
To Embrace it, one must experience hurt.
A heart could only love as much as it could hurt.
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There's a time in life where you need to be selfish.
Knowing that whichever path you choose, someone will end up hurting. I'm stuck with this predicament. Am I selfish enough not to care?
Or am I selfless enough to sacrifice my own happiness? Hurting the only man that had me--body and soul.


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Cmentarz Ixelles, [wym. Iksel], fr. Cimetière d'Ixelles, niderl. Begraafplaats van Elsene - jedna z ważniejszych nekropoli Belgii z prochami postaci ze świata polityki, nauki i sztuki. Pochowani są tu m.in. polski pianista i kompozytor Józef Wieniawski, znany francuski generał Georges Boulanger (który zastrzelił się na grobie swej kochanki) i słynny architekt belgijski Victor Horta.

Założony w 1877 niewielki cmentarz z alejami cyprysowymi ma w sobie mało z powagi cmentarno-żałobnej. Już choćby dlatego, że leży w środku tętniącej życiem brukselskiej dzielnicy uniwersyteckiej Elsene/Ixelles z wieloma barami i kafejkami studenckimi.

W 1891 był scenerią niecodziennego zdarzenia. Oto generał i były minister obrony narodowej Francji, Georges Boulanger pojawia się na grobie zmarłej kilka tygodni wcześniej kochanki, Marguerity de Bonnemains, każe na nim wyryć napis: "Marguerite. 19 grudnia 1855 - 16 lipca 1891. Do zobaczenia wkrótce", po czy strzela sobie w głowę i na miejscu umiera. Tragiczny ten gest trafia na czołówki gazet w Belgii i Francji (zob. poniżej pierwsza strona francuskiego dziennika "Le Petit Journal"), a ciało wojskowego zostaje złożone obok prochów kochanki, w tym samym grobowcu, na którym zostaje dopisana fraza: "Georges. 29 kwietnia 1837 - 30 września 1891. Czyż mogłem żyć dwa i pół miesiąca bez Ciebie?".

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For decades the Beacon Chevrolet property on the Lynnway has stood vacant. As a prime piece of waterfront property, the site has stood as a windswept reminder of the city's untapped potential.
That potential may soon be realized, if a new developer gets the assistance of state officials.
According to Lynn Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Executive Director James Cowdell, Beacon Chevrolet property owner Jack Granesse has put the property under agreement with developer Arthur Pappathanasi, to create a multi-level mixed residential and commercial development on the site, which would meet both the city and state's visions for the Lynn harbor front.
Cowdell did caution that the developer, Pappathanasi, is still in a four-month due diligence period, so the sale and development aren't finalized yet.
The state easement is owned by DCR, but Cowdell noted that legislation was drafted back in 2002 to vacate that easement, but it was never acted upon. Additionally, the development plan relies on state approval to allow access from the southbound side of the Lynnway.
Provided the state clears the obstacles of the easement and the access to the site, the sale of the property to Pappathanasi would go through in a matter of months and the developer will be able to move forward with construction.
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delving into the past: richard lonsdale brown, landscape artist
January 21, 2016 by Cynthia
Richard Lonsdale Brown was born in 1892 in Evanston, Illinois. When less than a year old, his parents moved to West Virginia. There he attended public school and then trained as a sign painter. After finishing trade school, he remained in West Virginia for five years, "and then being a journeyman sign painter I traveled through the mining districts of the state … My journeys took me almost altogether through the mountains where, when God made them, He placed scenery the equal of which, I think, cannot be found in all America."
"It was there I believe that my love for landscape painting was awakened. When not painting signs I was doing what I could to reproduce the scenery of the mountains and valleys, the rivers and the streams on canvas." Brown shared those words in a 1913 article that appeared in the New York Sun.
Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, circa 1910-1920
Mary White Ovington (1865-1951), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered first learning of Richard Lonsdale Brown in 1910. In her memoirs, she recounts it was during a meeting with Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949)."In 1910, when Mr. Villard and I were working in the newly organized NAACP, he gave me a letter from the artist George de Forest Brush, asking me if I would take up the business mentioned in it. It told of a young colored artist, Richard Brown, from Charleston, West Virginia, who had recently come to New York with some excellent sketches."
George De Forest Brush
"I called upon Mr. Brush in his picturesque studio on MacDougall Alley and saw his pictures. They were lovely things, trees and melting skies, alive in form and color. Mr. Brush was deeply impressed with them. 'He is no more than a boy,'he said, 'and he came into my studio, shy, discouraged. He had brought his sketches under his arm to New York, and when not in one of our great galleries was spending his time trying to sell them. No one wanted even to look at them. He was poor; he was colored. Could one have greater handicaps?' Mr. Brush welcomed him to his studio and looked with interest and appreciation at his work. 'Can I ever be an artist?' Richard asked when had shown all he had. The answer was, 'You are an artist.'"
Brown would exhibit his work in the Ovington Brothers Gallery in New York, March 18-23, 1912. It would showcase paintings done in West Virginia before he was 18 years old and in the hills of New Hampshire while under the tutelage of Mr. Brush. Mary Maclean, a writer with the New York Times wrote a profile of the young artist for the newspaper. The article appeared in March, just before the exhibit, helping to make it a great success.
It was estimated that 2,500 people attended. Twenty-six pictures were for sale and sixteen were sold including little sky sketches. The young man charmed people with his demeanor as well as the quality of his work. Collectors who reportedly purchased his work included Jacob H. Schiff, Edward Warburg, Mr. Coster, and celebrity Miss Mary Garden.
Art Critic Joseph Edgar Chamberlin quoted in the New York Age, March 1912
Maclean's profile would also be printed in the April 1912 issue of the NAACP's The Crisis Magazine for which Richard Lonsdale Brown produced the cover.
Cover Art by Richard Lonsdale Brown
Ovington remembered, "Crowds came and he had many purchasers. The prices for most of the pictures were high, and so Richard would paint little cloud sketches in the evening and sell them the next day. He made over a thousand dollars. We all hoped he would use it for study; I had plans for Paris but the money went where his affections dictated. He spent it on a sister, who he used to tell me, was more talented than he, in a vain attempt to cure her of what proved to be an incurable disease."
by Richard Lonsdale Brown
White and black publications of the period described him as "the rising young artist." Instead of Paris, Brown would study in Boston, living at the Robert Gould Shaw House. Ovington remembers him producing posters for W. E. B. Du Bois's Pageant. He exhibited in private homes. He would eventually travel down South. Before he left, he would confide to Ovington that he could not paint as he used to. He'd begun painting landscapes but was now intrigued by figures. As he studied those figures he was discouraged at how society beat them down. He was excited by what was happening in Harlem and hoped to be a part of it. "Not that I have forgotten what I want to do most of all, " he would tell her. "Someday, when I am the artist I hope to be, I want to return and paint those West Virginia hills."
Mt. Monadnock, originally purchased by Jacob H. Schiff
While it is unclear if he returned to those West Virginia hills, he would not be part of what became known as the Harlem Renaissance, nor would Ovington see him again after that last encounter. In 1915, he would exhibit his work in the Washington, DC home of Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford. He died September 23, 1917. Posted in the March 1918 issue of The Crisis was the following passage: "The parents of the late Richard Lonsdale Brown write us that they are living in Muskogee, Okla, and that the young artist died at their home and under their care."
A Bend in the Stream, originally purchased by Albert Andriesse
While it appears that the three paintings above and the 1912 Crisis cover are his only surviving work, clearly he produced many other sketches and paintings during his brief lifetime. So perhaps somewhere out there are Brown's little cloud sketches, scenes of melting skies and his West Virginia mountains.
Sources and Additional Readings
Negro Youth Amazes Artists By His Talent, New York Times, March 1912
Richard Lonsdale Brown Biography by the Indiana Illustrators and Cartoonists
Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder (pp. 75-76)
Detailed descriptions of his three known paintings
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged American history, art, beauty, black art, black history, colors, Inspiration, landscape painting, nature, Richard Lonsdale Brown, storytelling | 5 Comments
on January 21, 2016 at 10:45 | Reply hitandrun1964
on January 21, 2016 at 10:45 | Reply Cynthia
It was most fun finding the newspaper article with his description of the mountains. 😉
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:32:43 +0000 To: cynthiastaples@hotmail.com
on January 22, 2016 at 10:45 | Reply CW
Wow! What a brilliant artist he was, an incredibly, brave spirit.
I wish he had been able to see Paris. I'm glad he had the courage to make it to NY, to follow his dream, however short lived.
Inspires me, not to fear challenges.
Great story, an amazing young man.
You're welcome. 😉
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:11:28 +0000 To: cynthiastaples@hotmail.com
on February 9, 2021 at 10:45 | Reply Cynthia
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VW unveils 'world's most efficient car'
by Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives March 6, 2013: 12:54 PM ET
Volkswagen says the XL1 will get 261 miles per gallon but actual mileage for owners of the new diesel-powered plug-in hybrid will depend on how far they drive the car.
Volkswagen unveiled what it is calling the "world's most fuel-efficient car" at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland Tuesday.
Called the XL1, the car is a two-seat diesel plug-in hybrid.
VW claims the car will get an estimated 261 miles per gallon with an all-electric driving range of of a little over 30 miles.
Fuel economy for plug-in hybrids can vary enormously depending on how far past that all-electric range they're driven. A car that is driven, say, 37 miles then plugged in for a full charge will use much less fuel per mile, overall, than a car that is driven 237 miles before recharging.
Related: Lamborghini unveils $4 million car - the Veneno
The XL1 should be more efficient than other plug-in hybrids, though, because it is has a tiny 0.9-liter two-cylinder diesel engine. Diesel engines are generally much more fuel-efficient than gasoline engines. For instance, the diesel-engined Volkswagen Beetle sold in the United States is 28% more fuel efficient than the gasoline-engined version.
The XL1 is also very small, low to the ground and extremely aerodynamic. VW boasts that it has a coefficient of drag of just 0.189. The smaller the coefficient of drag the more easily a car slides through the air. A Chevrolet Corvette, by comparison, has a coefficient of drag of 0.29. Just pushing air aside can use about 40% of a car's energy output at highway speeds.
Related: Cool cars from the Geneva Motor Show
With an emphasis on efficiency, the car's performance will not be a big selling point. VW claims it will go from zero to to 62 miles per hour in a lumbering 12.7 seconds. Top speed will be just under 100 miles per hour.
Because of the car's tight interior space, the two seats are not exactly next to one another. Instead, the passenger seat is slightly farther back so the driver and passenger don't bump shoulders.
The $4 million Lamborghini
While the XL1 is intended to be a production car, VW is planning to build 250 XL1s using " handcrafting-like production methods" at the automaker's factory in Osnabrück, Germany, VW said.
Related: Cheapest cars to fuel
The automaker has not announced how much they will cost but according to VW CEO Martin Winterkorn at press event in Geneva, there will be "interesting financing offers" for customers.
CNNMoney (New York) First published March 5, 2013: 8:11 AM ET


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Raffaella Sadun
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Source: Harvard Business School
CyberArk was the recognized leader in the Privileged Account Management (PAM) space, a cybersecurity sub-segment it had essentially created to secure organizations' IT systems and sensitive data. Over 17 years the Israeli company had grown to a market capitalization of over $1.6 billion, with sales exceeding $217 million, and 900 global employees with a strong corporate culture. In May 2017, Udi Mokady, Founder, Chairman and CEO, debated how best to drive growth. He mulled over whether he should stay the course and remain focused on providing best of breed PAM for enterprises, both on-premise and in the cloud, or expand into new markets. Cyber threats were on the rise, which afforded numerous growth opportunities such as entering the broader identity management space, creating new products to protect critical infrastructure, and securing the burgeoning world of the Internet of Things (IoT). This case explores the company's competitive position, the challenges of sustaining its advantages in a highly competitive and consolidating industry, and whether it should pursue organic or inorganic growth, while maintaining company culture.
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Roberto Astudillo (nacido en Rosario el ) es un exfutbolista argentino. Se desempeñaba como marcador de punta derecho y debutó profesionalmente en Rosario Central.

Carrera

Debutó en 1971 durante el Nacional; el 3 de noviembre los futbolistas profesionales determinaron una huelga en protesta ante la intención de AFA de derogar el Convenio de Trabajo vigente desde 1949.

La entidad madre del fútbol argentino dispuso la prosecución de los torneos, debiendo los clubes afrontar los partidos con futbolistas juveniles. En el caso de Rosario Central significaron tres encuentros durante el mes de noviembre, todos ganados: el 7 ante Racing Club (4-2), el 14 ante Vélez Sarsfield (2-1) y el 20 ante Boca Juniors (6-2). Astudillo jugó todos los partidos; cabe marcar que el equipo fue conducido en este periodo por Carlos Timoteo Griguol, entrenador de la reserva, delegado por el técnico de la primera Ángel Labruna, confiando en el mejor conocimiento de estos futbolistas. De esta forma, Astudillo tomó parte activa en la obtención del primer título para Rosario Central en la Primera División de AFA.

Continuó teniendo cierta participación en los torneos siguientes, formando parte del plantel campeón del Nacional 1973, aunque no sumó minutos en cancha en este torneo. Totalizó 21 presencias con la casaca auriazul.

Al finalizar el mismo fue transferido a All Boys, club en el que disputó 10 partidos; durante 1975 defendió los colores de Banfield, por espacio de 29 encuentros.

Clubes

Palmarés

Referencias

Futbolistas de Rosario

Futbolistas del Club Atlético Rosario Central en los años 1970
Futbolistas del Club Atlético All Boys
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Banfield


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RSpec.describe Hyrax::TolerantSelectService do
  subject(:select_service) { described_class.new(authority_name) }

  let(:authority) { FakeAuthority }
  let(:authority_name) { 'fake_authority' }
  let(:authority_map) { [] }

  before do
    allow(Qa::Authorities::Local)
      .to receive(:subauthority_for)
      .with(authority_name)
      .and_return(authority.new(authority_map))
  end

  shared_context 'with terms' do
    let(:authority_map) do
      [HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(term: 'Active Label', label: 'Active Label', id: 'active-id', active: true),
       HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(term: 'Inactive Label', label: 'Inactive Label', id: 'inactive-id', active: false),
       HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(label: 'Active No Term', id: 'active-no-term-id', active: true),
       HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(term: 'No Active Flag Term', label: 'No Active Flag Label', id: 'no-active-flag-id')]
    end
  end

  describe '#active?' do
    it 'is false for missing id' do
      expect(select_service.active?('fake_id')).to be_falsey
    end

    context 'with terms' do
      include_context 'with terms'

      it 'is true for an active term' do
        expect(select_service.active?('active-id')).to be true
      end

      it 'is false for an inactive term' do
        expect(select_service.active?('inactive-id')).to be_falsey
      end

      it 'defaults to true for a term with no flag' do
        expect(select_service.active?('no-active-flag-id')).to be true
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#select_all_options' do
    it 'is empty' do
      expect(select_service.select_all_options).to be_empty
    end

    context 'with terms' do
      include_context 'with terms'

      it 'contains all labels and ids' do
        expect(select_service.select_all_options)
          .to contain_exactly(['Active Label', 'active-id'],
                              ['Inactive Label', 'inactive-id'],
                              ['Active No Term', 'active-no-term-id'],
                              ['No Active Flag Label', 'no-active-flag-id'])
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#select_active_options' do
    it 'is empty' do
      expect(select_service.select_active_options).to be_empty
    end

    context 'with terms' do
      include_context 'with terms'

      it 'contains active labels and ids' do
        expect(select_service.select_active_options)
          .to contain_exactly(['Active Label', 'active-id'],
                              ['Active No Term', 'active-no-term-id'],
                              ['No Active Flag Label', 'no-active-flag-id'])
      end
    end
  end
end

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Soak 500 grams of Dhal in warm water for 1 hour.
Measure 400 grams of Dhal, with the help of a grinder, grind the dhal into a rough paste.
Add the salt, onion, rampe, karapincha and the green chillies.
Add in the remaining 100 grams of dhal and mix well once more.
Shape them into spheres and then flatten against palm.
Add the flattened balls into the oil.
Fry until they turn golden and crisp.


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In this section: CDRH Innovation
CDRH Innovation
FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder
Payor Communication Task Force
Activities to Support Medical Device Innovators
FDA Organization
Office of Medical Products and Tobacco
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Selected Participants
Background on the Challenge
Criteria for Challenge Application Review
The opioid epidemic is one of the most profound public health crises facing the United States and the current crisis of opioid overdose deaths requires innovative approaches. The agency has already taken significant steps to decrease public exposure to opioids, prevent new cases of opioid use disorder—also known as opioid addiction—and support the treatment of those with the disorder. The FDA remains committed to addressing this national crisis on all fronts, with a focus on encouraging medical product innovation to prevent new cases of opioid abuse and addiction and to treat those addicted. As part of important efforts to address the epidemic of opioid misuse and abuse, the FDA launched an innovation challenge on May 31, 2018, to spur the development of medical devices, including diagnostic tests and digital health technologies (mobile medical applications) to help combat the opioid crisis and achieve the goal of preventing and treating opioid use disorder.
List of Applicants Selected for the Challenge
The FDA received an overwhelming response to the FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder. Over 250 applications were received from medical device developers large and small. After careful review using an established set of criteria, eight challenge participants have been selected. The medical devices from the selected participants include those intended to predict the risk of opioid used disorder (OUD), detect opioid overdose, dispense medication and provide pain treatment alternatives to opioids.
Algomet Rx, Inc.
Rapid Drug Screen
Withheld Per Company Request
Brainsway, Ltd
Brainsway Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (DTMS) Device
Opioid Use Disorder Therapy
CognifiSense, Inc.
Virtual Reality Neuropsychological Therapy (VRNT)
iPill Dispenser
Medication Dispensing
Masimo Corporation
Overdose Therapy
Milliman
Opioid Prediction Service
ThermoTek, Inc.
NanoThermTM and VascuThermTM Systems
Applicants selected for the Challenge will work directly with the FDA to accelerate the development and expedite marketing application review of innovative products, similar to what occurs under the Breakthrough Devices Program. In addition, Breakthrough Device designation will be granted to those devices that meet the statutory criteria for designation without submission of a separate application.
The process will begin with the collaboration phase starting within 90 days of the announcement, the goals of which will be: 1) to create a mutual understanding of the target product profile for the medical device including the patient and user needs and the important risks and benefits; and 2) to discuss the potential regulatory pathways going forward.
FDA review divisions and management will work closely with developers of devices accepted into the Challenge. In most cases, applicants will eventually submit one or more formal applications to the FDA, such as an Investigational Device Exemption, De Novo, 510(k), or Premarket Approval. The review of each of these applications will be expedited to minimize review times. The regulatory standard of demonstrating a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness still applies.
For applicants who were not selected the standard mechanisms for interaction with the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) are available. These sponsors have been encouraged to interact with the agency through the Division of Industry and Consumer Education (DICE) at DICE@fda.hhs.gov. DICE will assist in answering questions on U.S. medical device regulation or to direct sponsors to the appropriate premarket review division.
The application period for the FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder ("the Challenge") was open from June 1, 2018, through September 30, 2018. Opioid use disorder is a serious health condition that can cause significant physical, emotional, and cognitive impairment. The disorder can arise as an unintended consequence of routine medical care, abuse of prescription opioid pain medications and the use of illicit opioid drugs. Opioid use disorder affects more than 2 million Americans1, disproportionately impacts minority populations, and is increasing among people ages 45 to 64. Through this Challenge, the FDA aims to promote and expedite the development of innovative medical devices to help prevent opioid use disorder from happening at all.
The Challenge was intended for diagnostic or therapeutic medical devices, including mobile medical apps, that address the opioid epidemic by preventing and treating opioid use disorder (opioid addiction). Potential examples of medical devices that may address this problem include, but are not limited to, diagnostic devices that identify patients at increased risk for addiction, opioid-sparing or -replacement therapies for acute or chronic pain, and devices that monitor the use and prevent diversion of prescription opioids.
Challenge applicants were asked to describe in their proposals:
The novelty of the medical device/concept
The development plan for the medical device
The anticipated benefit of the device used by patients and the impact on public health as compared to other available alternatives
Medical devices at any stage of development were eligible for the Challenge. Feasibility and the potential impact of FDA participation in development to expedite marketing of the device are other factors that will be considered during application review.
1 Source: 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
NIH: Developing Medical Devices to Treat Pain (Webinar)
Webinar - FDA Innovation Challenge: Devices to Prevent and Treat Opioid Use Disorder - July 25, 2018
FDA Opioids Action Plan
Addressing Needs of Patients While Stemming the Tide of the Opioid Crisis
FDA Takes Important Steps to Stem the Tide of Opioid Misuse and Abuse
FDA Commissioner Asks Staff for 'More Forceful Steps' to Stem the Opioid Crisis
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Five-Point Strategy to Combat the Opioid Crisis


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Q: Accessing request object in an initializer in rails How can I access the request object in a rails initializer?

A: AFAIK it is not possible.
A request object is generated on each request sent to the server, thus it does not exist when you initialize your rails application.
I'd be surprised to see an answer which states otherwise, but that doesn't make sense to me.

A: I jumped on a hackhands session and got the answer to this question.
In your application.rb file, you can define variables and set their values
config.heroku_worker_count = 0

You can then access and manipulate the variable app wide, say in a model, by using this syntax:
Rails.application.config.heroku_worker_count = 1

This persists values which is why I wanted an object. However, as the accepted answer states, this isn't viable using a call like:
config.heroku_worker_count = MyModel.new

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Mazie Hirono is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate in Hawaii and is Hawaii's first woman Senator.
Before running for the Senate seat, Hirono was elected to the House of Representatives for Hawaii's second district for three terms (from 2002 to 2010). Hirono has been a strong supporter of women's issues in the House and has 100% ratings from both NARAL ProChoice America and Planned Parenthood.
Strong supporter of Title IX.
Senator Hirono is projected to win the Senate seat. No opponent, Democratic or Republican, has come forward to run against her yet.


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Four families comprise a well-defined monophyletic clade.
All four families of the Argonautoidea are pelagic although one (Alloposidae) is "associated" with the ocean floor. The families are primarily distinguished by an unusual means of copulation which involves transferring a detached hectocotylus from the male to the female. The clade includes gelatinous species as well as very muscular species.
Arm suckers in two series (grade to single series near mouth in Haliphron).
One of third arm pair entirely hectocotylized and enrolled in a sac or pouch prior to use.
Hectocotylized arm autotomizes (i. e., detaches) during copulation.
Figure. Detached hectocotylus of Argonauta argo found wiggling among contents of a midwater trawl. Photograph (overexposed) by M. Vecchione.
Funnel-locking apparatus well developed but structure differs among families.
Males much smaller than females; males dwarfs in three families.
Internal shell present only in Alloposidae; shell lost in other families.
Naef (1923) suggested that the argonautoid families were derived from the Octopodidae and presented a phylogeny, shown above in the title frame, based on the characteristics of the hectocotylus.
Naef, A. 1921/23. Cephalopoda. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel. Monograph, no. 35.
Voight, J. R. 1997. Cladistic analysis of the octopods based on anatomical characters. J. Moll. Stud. 63: 311-325.
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