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Military Regime Can't Defeat Myanmar's Brave Hearts
Criticized, Myanmar's Influential Monk Close to Coup Leader Breaks Silence on Killing Protesters
Security Forces Exhume Body of Woman Slain in Myanmar Protests
US Ambassador Asks Myanmar's Military Deputy Chief to Stop Violence Against Protesters
Anger in Myanmar But Crisis Distant to Singaporeans
More Than 600 Police Join Myanmar's Anti-Regime Protest Movement
Myanmar Military Detains More Than 1,500 Since Coup
Myanmar's CRPH Calls for Halt in Tax Collection
More Than 10 Myanmar Diplomats Refuse to Work for Military Regime
More Than 100 Myanmar Police Officers Join Anti-Regime Movement
Civil Servants Given Deadline to Stop Work: NLD Appointee
Myanmar's Rescue Workers, Medical Volunteers Targeted by Security Forces
Myanmar's NLD Rejects Military's Call for Proportional Representation Election System
Another Bloody Day in Myanmar: At Least 28 Protesters Slain by Military
115 Information Ministry Staff Refuse to Work for Myanmar Junta
How Can the Myanmar Military's Attempted Coup Fail?
Myanmar Regime's Appointed Envoy to UN Resigns Despite Promotion
At Least Nine Protesters Shot Dead in Three Cities in Myanmar
Myanmar Diplomat in US Refuses to Work for Military Regime
ASEAN Members on Myanmar: Agreeing to Disagree
Who Are Myanmar's Friends?
For Myanmar Military, Rule No. 1 in Riot Control Is Shoot to Kill
Myanmar Military Detain More Than 1,200 Since Coup
Defying Military Regime, Myanmar's CRPH Names Four Acting Ministers
Myanmar's Military Council Labeled 'Terrorist Group'
Myanmar Military Cracks Down on Journalists with Arrests and Lawsuits
Thailand's Dilemma in Myanmar Crisis
Myanmar Security Forces Beat Pregnant Woman, Loot Her Home During Rampage in Myeik
Twin Brother of Young Protester Slain by Myanmar Security Forces Calls for Justice
Myanmar Military Sues Suu Kyi and President with Further Charges
Ten Journalists Being Held by Myanmar's Regime for Protest Coverage
Myanmar Central Bank Limits ATM Transactions, Account Withdrawals
UN Leads International Condemnation of Bloody Crackdowns in Myanmar
Myanmar Regime Recalls Over 100 Staff From Foreign Missions
Myanmar's Bloody Sunday Sees Highest Death Toll So Far at Hands of Security Forces
Myanmar Military Regime Dismisses UN Ambassador
At Least 14 People Shot Dead by Security Forces at Protests Across Myanmar
Hundreds Arrested As Myanmar Security Forces Launch Nationwide Crackdown on Regime Protests
Myanmar's UN Ambassador Wins Praise at Home for Condemning Regime
Myanmar's Anti-Regime Protesters Urge Asian Counterparts to Unite for General Strike
Injuries and Arrests Mount as Myanmar Police Intensify Crackdown on Protesters
Myanmar Regime Hunts Down Labor Activists Despite International Condemnation
Kachin Protesters Reject Myanmar Military-Appointed Negotiation Team
Chairman of Myanmar Military Govt's Election Body Says NLD's Win Invalid
Japanese Journalist Detained in Myanmar While Covering Protest
UK Sanctions Six More Myanmar Coup Leaders for Serious Rights Abuses
Pro-Myanmar Military Mob Attacks Jeering Onlookers in Yangon
Arrests, Detentions, Threat of Dismissal Fail to Stop Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement
Myanmar Military-Appointed Administrators Rejected by Local People
Kyal Sin before she was shot dead by security forces (left); Tens of thousands mourned at her funeral (right).
By Kyaw Zwa Moe 5 March 2021
Recent days have seen our beautiful Myanmar transformed into a killing field: Peaceful protesters shot dead through the head and chest; streets stained with blood; cities echoing with the booms of gunfire, the air laced with gunsmoke; rescue workers brutally beaten; security forces equipped as if for a battleground, ready to take the lives of yet more unarmed people.
This unwanted killing field is highly likely to see more bloodshed.
Before Feb. 1, Myanmar's cities were peaceful and the country stable. All of that suddenly vanished when, early that morning, the military coup led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing plunged the country into a prolonged, deadly instability.
The coup smashed the political transition to democracy the country had warily cultivated over the past 10 years. Its aim was to expunge the result of Myanmar's general election of Nov. 8, 2020—a landslide victory for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD)—and dissolve the new Parliament, whose first session was to be convened just hours later. The new military regime arrested the NLD's leaders, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, both of whom had been re-elected.
The immediate consequences: The country's economy, which had been showing great potential in recent years, was suddenly thrown into reverse; the schedule of public COVID-19 vaccinations worked out by the NLD government with international organizations went up in smoke; the simple pleasures of daily life have vanished for everyone; the future, for both young and old, is gone.
Anti-regime protesters in defensive mode as security forces approach in Yangon's Thaketa Township on Feb. 5. / The Irrawaddy
It did not take long for Myanmar people, particularly students and other young people, to throw themselves into the streets to retake the rights they had so recently enjoyed, and to restore for themselves a bright future under an elected democratic government. Hundreds of thousands of people have since joined them. Before long, it was a genuine, nationwide uprising against the military dictatorship.
Then the shooting began, and the country became a killing field. We can only expect this situation to go on. Because killing unarmed civilians—along with every other type of oppression and political persecution used by the military regime—has not been able to frighten away the brave protesters, especially young people, at all. Proof of this courage can be found in the history of Myanmar—and in the DNA of the people of this country.
On Sunday, five days ago, when a general strike was organized, the regime's soldiers and riot police killed at least 15 people across the country. On Wednesday, two days ago, the security forces killed at least 31 more protesters in many cities across the country.
All of the protesters who were killed were well aware that there was a very real possibility that they would be killed once they stepped out of their homes.
Kyal Sin, 19, was among the bravest. She was fatally shot dead in the head, right behind her ear, in her hometown of Mandalay on Wednesday. Aware of the risks to her life, she had posted her blood type details on Facebook and pledged that her organs be donated if she were killed. For demanding her rights as a teenager, to a bright future, and to make her political choice, she paid with her life. In last year's election, she cast her first-ever ballot, voting for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's party. On Facebook, she proudly and happily posted a picture taken with her father showing their ink-soaked fingers after visiting the ballot box on Nov. 8.
A combination of images showing Kyal Sin before she was shot dead by security forces.
Like Kyal Sin, many young protesters in cities across Myanmar have been writing their emergency contact phone numbers and their blood types on their arms before taking to the streets since the regime started cracking down against the protests.
Kyal Sin is one of at least 54 protesters to have been killed by the regime's troops and police in many cities and towns since Feb. 1.
The regime's tactic of having troops kill Kyal Sin and her fellow protesters in cruel execution style has done nothing to discourage the protesters. On Thursday, the number of anti-coup protesters on the streets in Mandalay was even bigger, as they paid their final tribute at the young woman's funeral. Kyal Sin, "pure star" in Burmese, is now a martyr for many. Her killing hasn't simply failed to kill the courage of her many thousands of fellow protesters; it has only made them bolder.
On Friday, we were amazed to see photos of still bigger crowds of protesters taking to the streets in Mandalay. One more young man was shot dead, too. But the people showed no sign of fear. Across the country, Myanmar citizens are proving again in this 21st century that they were born with the DNA of their ancestors.
Their fight will go on. Consequently, the killing will go on. And the killing fields won't vanish anytime soon.
When I took to the streets in the 1988 nationwide uprising as a high school student, I remember one of our mottos: "They die, or we die!" in the fight for democracy against the then dictatorship, which was as brutal as the current one. We were serious, and meant exactly what we said: If they died, we would win; if they won, we would die.
That motto has been repurposed with characteristic wit by the younger generation for this new "Spring Revolution", which strikes a note of dark humor: "They die, or they die!" The motto has a Generation Z ring about it. One way of interpreting it is that they are so determined to see the death of the military dictatorship, there is simply no way their movement can die. Their determination to annihilate the mighty and cruel military dictatorship knows no bounds. The only conceivable outcome is victory.
Retreating anti-regime protesters are tear-gassed in Yangon's Thaketa Township on Feb. 5. / The Irrawaddy
It has been one month and five days since the coup. But the regime is still not in control of the country. It has failed to end any of the many forms of resistance against it—a momentous mass movement on the streets mainly organized by Generation Z; the Civil Disobedience Movement, or CDM, launched by civil servants and some private workers; political and diplomatic offensives by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, or CRPH, formed by elected members of Parliament after the coup; and social punishment campaigns targeting members of the military regime and all of their various supporters, organized by unknown groups.
Of course, this is a war between a mighty military regime and an unarmed populace. Tragically, the usual formula is that military power combined with evil spirits spells defeat for unarmed people.
But Myanmar's brave hearts are made even braver, though their compatriots be killed, tortured and arrested. The killing field may well claim more Kyal Sins, but brave hearts will continue to demonstrate with their determination and resilience to finish this struggle according to their motto: "They die, or they die."
Topics: Coup, Crime, Democracy, Military, Protest, Rights, Violence
Kyaw Zwa Moe The Irrawaddy Kyaw Zwa Moe is the Editor of the English edition of The Irrawaddy.


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Aberrant: In the Beginning - Voltage
By Telluris,
February 14, 2009 in In the Beginning
Telluris
2:30 pm, 20th April, 1998
A NHS G.P's waiting room was always a close approximation to hell on fucking Earth, Michelle gloomily pondered as she lounged in the hard plastic seat, trying to ignore the screaming baby two seats down. The kid's mum was chatting to her friend while tuning her offspring out, and the baby had Michelle's sympathy despite the throbbing headache that hadn't left her all day so far. "You an' me both, kid." She muttered to herself as she hunkered down further in her seat. "We both think your mum's a cunt." Finally, she couldn't take it anymore.
"Oi, Chatty Annie." Her strong voice cut across the waiting room bustle as she caught the two women's attention. "How about you look after your fucking kid and give the rest of us a bleedin' break, hmm? Christ knows if I had to listen to you flappin' your gob all day I'd be screaming too."
The woman turned in shock, mouth opening to make a retort, but was cut short as the imposing blonde woman stood up, looming over her and flipping her a V-sign. "Shut it, you daft cow, before you attract more than flies. Go change the nipper." She paused for a second. "Now."
The rest of the waiting room watched, astonished, as the mother stood up and carried her child off to the changing rooms provided. Michelle gave them all a Look and sat down. Always the same: they take the shit in silence and then look at a girl like she's from Mars if she says what needs to be said. Well fuck them.
"Ahem, Ms Rassner? I can see you now." Dr Parma was a nice enough chap, a sunny smile never far from his brown face, even when confronted with this abrasive patient. She admitted to herself that he had a bloody good bedside manner. Today, though, he looked a little haunted, and Michelle tensed as she stalked past him into his consulting room, towering a full head over the rotund little man. Ahh bollocks. It's bad news.
The doctor shut the door and came round to sit in his chair as Michelle sat down on the one provided. He fiddled with his pen for a moment as he looked at the computer screen in front of him, then at his notepad, then at the wall. Michelle watched him for a long moment, not wanting to ask. Finally he turned to her.
"We have had the tests back." he began, his Pakistani accent only slightly mellowed in the ten years he'd lived in London. "It appears that you do indeed have AIDS. I am sorry. But do not panic!" He hastened, watching the color drain from his patient's face. "It's not immediately dangerous. But you must take certain changes to your lifestyle. If you do, you could live for many years, maybe even until they find a cure."
There was more of this, a litany of dietary needs, precautions to take, and of course, the need to inform previous partners. Well, that would be easy: the last one she'd had had been the fucking wanker that had given her this. She'd inform him alright, with a knuckle sandwich. Three months of abstinence while she worried about it, and it turned out to be right. What a wonderful fucking New Year's / 21st Birthday party that had been, in retrospect. Blinding good shag at the time, though.
She left the surgery and trudged half-heartedly home, her thoughts bleak. Everyone was talking about the new super-people, the Novus, on the bus. She didn't really pay attention, her mind mulling over the unfairness of her situation. Might live many years: yeah, if I live like a monk. What the fuck, I'm not even bloody 22! Other buggers get super powers, I get AIDS.
Hopes, dreams, and aspirations got consigned to the trash in Michelle's mind. All her damn life she had struggled, fought, kicked and screamed. And now... now there was something she couldn't fight. It was a cast-iron bugger. Rather than falling into self-pity, the tall blonde started to get angry. I'll be fucked if I'm going to live like this, waiting to die! She got off at the next stop and headed right into the off-license across the road.
It was much later. And a truly epic quantity of booze had been consumed.
Michelle's oddysey had taken her through all the East End pubs she was used to frequenting. In her usual blunt fashion, she had spread the news that she was off-limits sexually and that she intended to otherwise carry on as normal, though would have to buy a massive selection of dildos to compensate. The news was taken hard by her friends and fans, and a lot of drinks were bought for her, as well as hats passed round for the 'Dildo Fund'.
But now she was alone in a dark street, rain pouring down her face mixing with her angry tears as she stared at All Saints parish church, wondering if the supreme High Bastard was in tonight. After trying the doors and finding them locked, Michelle looked at the roof. You ain't gettin' away that easily, yer cunt! she thought drunkenly, then headed to the north side of the building, where a new community hall had been built adjoining the old Norman-era structure.
It took maybe fifteen minutes of swearing, scraped knuckles, and several near-falls from increasing heights, but Michelle was fearless due to alchohol, rage, and having nothing to lose, and eventually stood atop the slippery slate roof of the church.
"Right!" she screamed into the ominous rumbles of thunder from the clouds overhead. "Lemme tell you a few things, you piss-awful excuse for a fackin' deity! You-" and she ranted for nearly half an hour, her anger building and building as lightning flickered in the swirling darkness above. Every grumble of thunder increased her ire, made her drunken invective sharper. She railed against God, Buddha, Allah et al, then moved onto politicians, celebrities, reality t.v. and Novas, waving a mostly empty bottle of Jack Daniels over her head as she spewed her disappointment up at the sky. All the while, her headache grew apace, matching then driving on her anger. A small crowd of people started to gather, including a roving police officer who immediately started speaking into his radio.
Abruptly, as she finished delivering a particularly blistering opinion on the state of the Prime Minister's crotch mites, the world vanished in white hot pain that seemed to splinter the very cells of her body. She was aware of the stink of ozone, and was in one corner of her mind amazed. What do ya know? The Bastard on High heard me and gave me my own thunderbolt! That's goin' out in style! Then she thought no more.
At approximately 10:23pm on the 20th of April, roughly 12 eye-witnesses saw a pillar of lightning surround Michelle Rassner as she stood on top of All Saints Church. There was an explosion, pieces of smoking hot slate whirring off the roof as a chunk of it was blasted free, and the witnesses screamed and ducked. When they looked back up, there was no sign of the tall blonde with the penetrating voice and foul mouth.
Too Fackin' Early, 21st April
What the fuck...? A dull throbbing pain was colouring the inside of her eyelids dark red as Michelle woke up. What the heck was I drinkin' last night? A noise of pain and suffering startled her for a moment before she realised she had made it herself.
"Fuuuuuck." she moaned as she tried to sit up, failed, then tried again. She heard a hammering sound and resolved to kill the bastard next door before she caught on that it was her own pulse in her ears.
There are certain ritualistic mental motions one goes through when waking up after an alchohol-fuelled night out, comprising of Where am I?, What was I drinking?, Am I clothed/whose underwear am I wearing? and finally Who the fuck is this next to me?. Somewhere interspersed with the mental noise are traditionally found oaths never, ever to drink so much again and queries as to what one's face is sticking to. Michelle took stock.
Okay, I'm in my bed. The aroma of cigarettes and Lynx spray (yes, she wears male deodorant) was unmistakeable, along with the background smells that the human brain subconsciously categorises as 'home'. The familiar taste of sleep-tainted bourbon in her mouth fulfilled the second requirement, along with the secondary check box of "Oooh christ I'm never gonna drink that shit again" muttered in a soft monotone.
Then she realised she was stark bollock naked. Ordinarily this meant that the night had ended well, but further groping inspection without opening her eyes revealed that there was no-one in the bed with her and that she was, in fact, laying above the covers.
"What the bloody hell?" she opened her eyes, then regretted it as the pre-dawn light seemed painfully cruel to her eyes. Slowly, she cracked one lid open and stared around herself. Her clothes from yesterday weren't on the floor, or folded up on the chair, or even being partially worn by a female Royal Navy rating as they cooked breakfast. In fact, they were nowhere to be seen.
Stumbling to her feet on the third try, 'Chelle groped for the door to her small (she preferred 'intimate') boudoir and staggered out into the cramped ('cozy') hallway and to the bathroom right across from her. After choking down five aspirins, she looked at herself in the full length mirror on the door, meaning to check for clumsy surgical scars denoting a possible missing kidney.
"Wow." was all she could blearily manage as she peered at herself. From behind, her bum looked like a teenager's. It wasn't in bad shape before, but now... it looked like you could bounce a sixpence off it. She peered closer at herself: yep, it was still her. She hadn't switched bodies with someone. There were the tattoos and everything. But her boobs! They were... well... boobalicious. Standing up proud and clear, no gravity distortion at all. Always well-endowed since puberty had kicked in, and philosophically against bras, she had looked forward with some bitter resignation to having tits down to her navel by the time she was forty and had been determined to make the most of them while men (and women) still wanted them.
"Did I shag a plastic surgeon or summat?" she pondered as she stared at herself, trying to remember the events of the previous evening. They came back slowly as she stared at her newly-restored strawberries-and-cream complexion that showed none of the trials of two decades of hard living. A treacherous thought train tied those memories into the stories that had been non-stop running in the media for the last two weeks.
"Oh kerrist!" She swore as she looked in the mirror. "I'm fuckin' Supergirl now?"
SalmonMax
Location: IN... SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE...
Much to the shock of a great many people who knew her casually, which was pretty much everyone who knew her at all, Michelle wasn't always thoughtless and impulsive. After staring at the new improved her in the mirror for a moment with the word 'Supergirl' orbiting in her head, she did not run outside stark naked, climb up onto the roof and throw herself off to see if she could fly.
No. She got dressed first.
As Michelle lay on her back on the patch of grass out in front of her flat's building, briefly stunned after finding out that flight was apparently not one of her gifts, she started to laugh. The fall hadn't really hurt...and now she felt fine. It wasn't just her imagination!
In a heartbeat she was back up on her feet and dashing to her flat again. In rapid succession she discovered a few things.
One...she was not super-strong like Supergirl. Her effort to pick up the heavy, wood-frame sofa in her TV room resulted only in sore arms.
Two, she healed fast. Very fast. This was discovered on multiple occasions over the course of the morning, as she experimented with everything from ice, boiling water, fire, and of course just plain old jabbing herself with a knife.
Finally...she appeared to be able to juggle now. It was crazy easy. She couldn't believe she'd ever had trouble with it before. With some practice, involving some of her fast healing, she learned she was fast enough now to actually reach into a fan and grab one of the blades without hurting herself. If she was careful.
It was almost noon when Michelle opened her window to let the smell of hot cooking oil and ammonia leak out into the cool air of a London springtime. She'd downed some of the good whiskey, and as usual it gave her a crowner of an idea.
Reproduce the circumstances of the original accident.
And that was how Michelle found herself holding car jumper cables, which she'd stripped one set of ends off of and jammed into a wall socket. To make sure it was scientific, she tried to remember the rant as well...and found it wasn't that hard. The whiskey really wasn't biting the way it usually was good for.
"...until you have to bend over and jam your thumb all the way up in there...no wait, let JESUS jam HIS thumb all the way up in there!"
The invocation complete, all that was left was the miracle. Michelle took a breath, held it, and clamped the little copper jaws onto her own abdomen across her belly. There was a buzz form the wall socket...and for a moment it -almost- hurt.
And then the world went white for a moment, like the biggest camera flash in Britain had just gone off in her face. Michelle didn't black out though, not this time. The flash cleared, and she realized the wall socket was sparking and buzzing loudly as the wall over it began to darken.
That was probably a BAD thing.
Michelle whirled and zipped into the kitchen, only to discover that changes had taken place in more than just the wall socket. Her arms and hands were wreathed in blue-white light, in which tiny bolts of lightning leapt and crawled around. She didn't feel any of the shocks though. She could feel the warm, but cooling air move over her, but not thousands of volts stampeding up and down her arm.
Quick inspection confirmed that it wasn't just her arms either. The rest of her was electrified too. And her clothes seemed to have been flash-fried. Turned to dust. Another experiment revealed to Michelle that she was going to have trouble turning the faucet or filling a pot with water. In fact..."
Hang on. Water? For an electrical fire? She slapped her forehead, and discovered that she couldn't quite touch it. An invisible force like magnetism kept her hands, or any other part of herself it seemed, from crossing within her own body.
She was panicking...she had to calm down a second. And when she did, the solution was obvious. She pluged the car jumper cables out. Her body seemed soft now...and they'd plunged right into her shoulders. Weirdly, there was no pain. But then again, what was weird compared to be covered in electricity?
Deprived of power, the wall socket quieted, though smoke was still coming up and out from the burned streak above it on the wall. She needed to shut off the house power and then drench it. She really had to cut off...
...the power in the flat went off. Just like that. Lights. Clocks. Everything went dark. There was a knot of tension in her head, like keeping a muscle flexed. When Michelle 'relaxed' that 'muscle,' the power came back on...with a little surge that somehow managed to trip her ratty old television set on.
"...no sign of her body was found however. Eyewitnesses at the church claimed to hear her 'screaming curses to God' just before the lightning hit."
The scene changed from an anchorman to a man in firefighter garb with the church in the background.
"Since we haven't found a body to identify, we don't have a name or next of kin. Right now we're asking anyone who might recognize this girl to call the police. And, I think this goes without saying, but I'd just like to take the opportunity to remind everyone out there that thunderstorms can be dangerous, lightning kills more people per year than any other natural phenomena, and...whatever your religious leanings may be, it's probably never a good idea to badmouth God on or in a church."
The anchorman reappeared, with a freeze framed image of Michelle on the church roof just before the lightning hit. The image is grainy and low quality, but she can recognize it easily enough. A phone number appears on the bottom of the screen.
"Repairs to the church are under way, and are said to be relatively minor. That number to call again is at the bottom of the screen."
She stared at the screen for a long minute or three, her mind racing as she sorted through her priorities.
One: Call that number.
Between Zero and One: Figure out how to stop from being some sort of bloody living electrical charge so I cand A- use the phone and B- put some soddin' clothes on.
What kinda bleedin' superheroine fights evil starkers, anyway? She fumed while searching for that 'muscle' in her head again. There... Abruptly she stopped glowing and throwing off sparks.
"Phew." She collapsed back into her seat and reached for the phone, dialling the number as she stared blankly at the weatherman as he talked about the freak storm last night. The police operator on the other end picked up.
"Hello? Yeah. That girl on the church roof? That's me. The name's Michelle Rassner, and I'm a flippin' Novus now." She sounded world-weary as she reached for her ciggies. An expert flip sent it into her mouth and a second later she lit it and took a deep drag, feeling the smoke soothe her jangled nerves. "So tell me, luv. How much bleedin' trouble am I in for THIS time?"
The operator at Scotland Yard was about as bright as Michelle figured they'd be.
"Sorry, what? You've seen the girl...you ARE the girl? Hang on a second..." There was a rustling noise. "Right then. Uh, don't panic, first thing. We'll be sending a car round to help you right away. Are you injured? Do you need medical assistance? Uh, sorry, one moment." Another pause, with the faint sound of people talking.
Then another voice came on the line. Deeper and considerably less frazzled.
"Miss Rassner, good to hear from you. And glad you're all right after your mishap on the church. You said you were..." she could practically -hear- him looking at a hastily printed quotation, "...a novus now, right? Well, what I'd like to do for you, unless you need medical aid right now, is have the Novus experts come and have a word with you. The Aeon Society's been doing a lot of work in England and abroad, and they seem to have a pretty good handle on the whole thing. As for trouble, I don't think there's any law against being hit by lightning. The church so far isn't pressing charges for tresspassing, so at this point you're not in trouble."
"So we'll call the Aeon gents. Is there anything else you need? Like I said, medical help, or are you in any kind of danger?"
"Nah. No danger." She looked around her apartment carefully. "Don't need any medical help either. I'll get myself ready for these Aeon blokes then, shall I?"
"Alright then, Miss Rassner. You should be hearing from them within the hour: they're based here in London and tend to move pretty sharpish when they hear there's a new Novus around." The senior cop's voice was reassuring despite Michelle's usual distrust of the buggers, and she found herself relaxing a little. "Naturally, we can keep this out of the press until they've had a chance to help you, but you understand that there'll be people wanting answers. I wouldn't worry though. The Society tends to look after you super-folks."
"Yeah. Okay then, I'll be waiting. Thanks." Michelle hung up, still feeling a little unreal as she took a deep drag on her cigarette. She blinked, looked at the lit end of the Marlboro, then over at her lighter.
Which was across the room on her breakfast table.
"Well shit." Was all she had to say. She looked at her fingers, then experimentally brought them up and concentrated a little. She felt a small surge of energy pass through her from a nearby socket, an electrical tingle that ended in a large spark. "Hey! Now that's fuckin' cool." Distracted, she played with the glowing finger tip as though it were a sparkler, making patterns in the dimly lit lounge before. On an impulse, she wrote 'Michelle' in the air as fast as she could, her hand a blur that left the word as an afterimage. That was good for a laugh, then her blue eyes narrowed. "Not much of a 'super' name, Michelle." She mused quietly to herself. "I mean, people aren't goin' to point up and say 'Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's MICHELLE!' are they? I wouldn't if I were them. I'd feel a right twat. Hmm."
She pondered that for a long while, tossing out various names to consider in a low absentminded murmur. "...Amp? Nah... Makes me sound like I should have a guitar plugged into my arse. Watt...? Makes me sound confused... Ohm...? Too Buddhist... Electra...? Real girl's name, and waaay to poncy. Sounds like a girl that has three ponies and pays someone else to clean them out. Voltage...?"
She paused, then said it again. "Voltage... Yeah. That could work. Volt is too butch, but Voltage, now...." She was jerked out of her reverie by the doorbell and looked at the clock, alarmed. "Fuck-fuck-FUCK!" she screamed. "I've been sittin' here in the buff for THIRTY-flippin'-FIVE MINUTES!"
She jumped to her feet and charged into the bedroom, grabbing for clean clothes, scrubbing her face and body in the fastest cat-bath known to mankind and combing her hair, and trying to do them all at once. She was in such a hurry that she was already dressed, cleaned up and moving down the hallway before she realised that the doorbell had only rung once. She blinked. Getting ready had taken her all of four seconds.
"Well..." was all she could say as she considered her ensemble. She was wearing her favorite Union Flag midriff top, which was a little tighter over the brand spanking new Novus-boobs, which seemed to resist being flattened a little by the fabric as they had before. It made the bottom edge of the top rise a little higher, showing more taut belly, but that was okay, she decided. Faded olive-green BDU pants with the top edge of a red thong rising up over her hips above the waistline, and her mismatched Doc Martins (one purple, one red, both covered in graffiti) completed the outfit. Her tattoo's were clearly visible, which she liked, particularly the anarchy symbol on her abdomen and the Union Flag on her upper boob.
"I'll do." She considered as she looked in the mirror. "I'm still me, after all, right?" Though I look fuckin' spectacular. I'd do me, right enough. She took a deep breath, let it out, then grinned, went to the door and opened it.
"Wotcha." The punk-rock amazon leaned against the doorjam, blue eyes regarding the people outside as she offered them a hand. "You from these Aeon fellas? I'm Michelle Rassner, but you can call me Voltage."
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Fang requisitioned a car, knowing that Jedi didn't have the ability for rapid transit. She would have preferred to meet Ms. Rassner alone, given Jedi's predilection for pushing his idea at every chance. Of course, he was a salesman, and this was natural. It seemed impolite to Fang, but she wasn't comfortable with capitalism; perhaps he was normal.
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The car turned out to be a Mercedes Benz limo. Colin smiled, Aeon did things in style at least. It would help their image and recruiting, it was more than acceptable. "I believe our ride is here." He smiled and opened the door for Wei Fang.
Once inside and settled the car sped off toward their next acquisition. "So tell me how should I address you? I am afraid I do not know the proper way to speak to you."
She answered with what to Colin seemed like an aire of aloofness, "Ms. Wei would be acceptable."
Colin smiled again, "Ms. Wei it is then. We've worked together through some tense problems but we know very little about each other. Do you mind if I ask your view on the current situation? With the novus I mean. You've heard my proposal about the company. Do you see this as being in opposition to Aeon and it's goals?"
She was quiet for a moment; then she said, "When I erupted, I saw the fate of the New People in China. I saw what my homeland would do to them in the name of patriotism. I would not see the same happen to them in the name of capitalism." She glanced at Jedi, her face calm and impassive.
"I sense that Aeon and it's goals may not be compatible with the long-term interests of the New People. What do you think-?"
The car stopped and the driver announce they had arrived. If Fang was upset that she couldn't finish, she didn't show it. Instead, she got out of the car when the driver got the door and led the way to the house. She waited for Jedi before ringing the doorbell.
The woman that opened the door made Fang's eyebrows rise reflexively. Another decadently tall Western loomed over them, barely and bizarrely dressed. Fang swallowed her concern over the appearance of the New Person and nodded. "I am Wei Fang," she said, bowing and letting Jedi take the woman's offered hand. She let Colin introduce himself.
Colin smiled at the new nova. "I am Colin Chatham, pleasure to meet you Miss." He offered his own hand to give the new nova a solid handshake.
Looking to Wei Fang, "We will have to finishes our conversation sometime, I think our views are not too different to one another. Perhaps once we've gotten to know our new friend here she might be interested in taking part in the discussion. But first let's do the meet and greet." He grinned at the women.
Michelle gave Colin's hand a firm shake, then glanced over her shoulder at her pokey little home before coming to a decision and grabbing her leather jacket from just inside the door and pulling it on. It was well-worn in and much loved, covered in patches and badges for and against various causes.
(Examples of the badges: "Free Tibet Now!" "People's Republic My Arse!" "Poll Tax? Fuck off!" "Moustache Rodeo Champion" "New Labour? Old Bollocks" "Save The Whales: Shoot a Japanese Whaler" "My Eyes Are Up Here ^" and so on...
"Seein' as we've just met and I've got no reason to inflict it on yer, we'll skip my showin' you the lifestyles of the poor and shameless." Voltage told the two Aeon representatives lightly as she stepped out into the street. "Either of you had brekkie yet? I know a good place, and it'll be on me." She still had about fifty quid of the 'dildo fund' in her pocket, a quick check reaffirmed. She turned to lock her door while Wei Fang and Colin made their minds up.
Colin smiled. "We've come to assist you in becoming accustomed to your new live as a novus. Of course we can do that over breakfast as well as we could anywhere else." He gestured toward the limo and then offered gentlemanly assistance on entering the car which of course neither woman needed, but it was the appropriate thing to do so he did it. Once everyone was settled inside the car he continued.
"Ms. Wei and I were just about to discuss our views on what we feel the future of our people should be like. Before we do, let me assure you that no matter what your life was like before, the very fact that you are now one of the Novus, or Novas as some people call us will make you an instant celebrity. Not everyone has benevolent intentions toward us however." Looking to their new passenger, "Have you had the opportunity to form an opinion about the Novus yet?"
"Straight down the street, about five blocks on the left, luv." Voltage told the driver. "Easy Mick's Cafe." She grinned at the other two Novus as she settled into her seat. "Best fried breakfast in East London." Her deep blue eyes studied Wei Fang and Colin appraisingly as she thought about his question.
Well, ain't he well-brought up. Smooth manners, long words... bet he's gone to some nice schools. Lotus Blossom there is keeping quiet, but she's takin' everything in, ain't she? Didn't shake hands, so she's either a snooty cow, foreign, or both.
"Can't say that I've formed much of an opinion." She shrugged at them both. "Not sure what all this is about 'our people', either. We're still just people on the inside, ain't we? Or is the big secret that we're secretly from Alpha-bleedin'-Centauri and that's why we're gettin' weird powers?" She snorted wryly. "It'd explain a lot, mind."
"Our immediate encounters formed our opinions," Fang said softly. "I fled my country before I could be placed into a force labor situation. We are people inside, but we are not the same people we were. Or if you are," Fang added with a wry smile, "then you are luckier than I."
She glanced at Colin. "This might be a heavier conversation than we are ready to have at this point," she said softly but firmly. "Perhaps we should let Ms. Rassner ask us questions?"
Colin smiled a friendly smile. "Questions are fine by me, and fried or any other kind of breakfast sounds good." A little of the youth and nova hunger shown though his polished facade. "One of the side effects of being a nova is the appetite. I eat easily twice as much as I used to because of the higher metabolism."
"Here we are, Jeeves." Michelle tapped the driver on the shoulder and pointed at the diner. The man, who's name wasn't Jeeves, took it with good grace, smiling a little as he pulled the limo over and parked it at the side of the road.
"Alright. So we can expect changes then, and not just bein' able to fly or whatnot." She gave Fang and Colin an appraising look as they all got out of the car. Passers-by on the street stared, some looking as if they knew Michelle as she glanced around, then led the two strangers towards Easy Mick's Cafe, where a neon sign in the clean window displayed in garish red letters that breakfast was served all day long. Past the door, which jangled as it opened, they found themselves in a surprisingly clean, neat, and tidy diner, expecially considering the neighbourhood. Several patrons looked up, recognising Michelle, who's stomach gave off a loud growling sound.
"Kerrist, I'm bleedin' starved." She looked at Colin. "This'd be that metabolism you were talkin' about, then. C'mon, let grab some grub." She led the way through the tables and chairs to the back of the place to her favorite table. Once they were seated, she called out to the large overweight man behind the counter, he voice cutting across the low din of a busy eatery.
"Mick, my lovely man! Get me and these two a large plate with double everything, capisch? And three cuppas while we're waitin', too."
"Large plates, double the lot. Got it, 'Chelle!" he shouted back, then turned to the griddles behind him. His daughter, Rachel, came over with the teas.
"'Ere you are, Chelle. Who're yer friends?" The young woman gave both Fang and Colin an appraising stare, both bold and curious. Michelle flapped a hand at her.
"Shoo, Rache. Private business. Go serve some more customers, girl." As the waitress moved away, the blonde Englishwoman turned to Colin and Fang, stirring milk and sugar into her tea.
"Right then. So what would you two say is the single most important thing 'bout bein' a Novus?"
Collin chuckled, "That's like asking the meaning of life. Answer's going to be different for every person you ask. For me the most important thing is opportunity. Just being a nova will make you famous no matter what your powers. I've been in business all my life and I've learned to recognize and look for what people want. As you've already seen in the news the people are all over us. It's been practically the only thing on tv since it all started. Give it time and you will see that even novas with the lamest powers will be highly sought after for corporate sponsorships the way sports stars are now, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't really had the chance to discuss it but I think Ms. Wei and I have different takes on what is important, or rather in terms of how to address our specific nova issues." Collin stopped his sales pitch and smiled. "Bah, that's not what you really want to know though. If you mean what's it like to be a nova, you'll find it's a hell of a lot of fun."

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Dr A.J. Oteri, Chairman, National Measles and Yellow Fever Technical Committee, made the disclosure on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Oteri said that the National Primary Health Care Development Agency appreciated the government and the state team in improving the health of its citizens, especially as regards immunisation.
He described Yellow Fever as "deadly disease'' that should not be taken lightly but seriously to prevent the untimely deaths being recorded in the country.
"Plateau is scheduled to implement a Yellow Fever Preventive Mass Vaccination Sensitisation Campaign on Nov 22, and ends Dec 1, in the 17 Local Government Areas.
"Various advocacy and sensitisation meetings have been scheduled to create demands for the campaign and reduce the occurrence of non-compliance, '' he stated.
According to the chairman, there is a need for urgent and proactive measures to be taken by the Federal Government and all States' Ministries of Health to arrest the Yellow Fever epidemic ravaging the country.
He explained that one of such advocacy meetings was a four-day workshop which began on Oct 30, through Nov 2, at Bolton White Hotel, Abuja.
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I Tech Solutions computer support business plan executive summary. I Tech Solutions is a start-up company providing professional computer consulting services in Botswana.
I Tech Solutions is a consulting-oriented company, intending to fill in the market need for a professional, customer-focused computer company. The company emphasizes service and support to differentiate itself from more price-oriented computer companies. We are on the brink of penetrating a lucrative market in a rapidly growing industry. The current trend towards an increase in the number of entrepreneurs and competition amongst existing companies presents an opportunity for I Tech Solutions to penetrate this market.
Located at (discussion omitted), we realize that, for us to prosper, we need to be flexible and responsive, to delight clients by providing them with what they want, when they want it, and before the competition can offer it. The company intends to achieve this through a solutions approach that is customer-centric, and in which the customer's business objectives enjoy top priority.
Once the needs and processes are understood and described, leading edge products and best-of-industry skills will be applied to design and develop a fitting solution to enable the client's business in the most cost effective way.
Our marketing strategy will be based mainly on ensuring that clients know what need the service(s) is able to fulfill, and making the right service and information available to the right target client. We intend to implement a market penetration strategy that will ensure that our services are well known and respected in our respective industry. Our strategy will convey a sense of quality and satisfaction in every picture, every promotion, and every publication. Our promotional strategy will involve traditional advertising, Internet marketing, personal selling, public relations, and direct marketing, details of which are provided in the marketing section of this plan.
In a nutshell, we don't intend to just market and sell our product and services, but to provide customized services and products that will enable our clients to optimize their output and, assist in the attainment of their goals and objectives. However, for us to attain the above stated we shall need funding from outside investors.
Note: All currency values in the charts and tables are expressed in the Botswana Pula (P).
Our business strategy will revolve around the need to provide quality products and services to our various target customers. This shall be undertaken through the establishment of a professional team and the provision of quality, custom-designed services, catering to the client's particular needs.
Timeous response to clients' orders: we cannot afford to delay our clients for whatever reason, as this will have a negative bearing on our image, reputation, and future business. We need to be continually communicating with the client, ensuring we provide needs-based solutions.
Clear product and marketing positioning: Not wanting to be associated with the numerous vendors on the market, we intend to aggressively market our business and the services we provide in order to be at the top of our clients' minds.
Leveraging from a large pool of expertise: The company's various alliances with technological and training partners shall prove invaluable. The skills and intellectual capacity these partners will have in the fields of product support, design and system integration, implementation and execution, lifecycle support and understanding, training, and in the application of new technology are intangible benefits to I Tech Solutions.
We intend to be a responsible corporate citizen, fulfilling our obligations as an integral member of society. Our business decisions will give appropriate weight and consideration to social and environmental impacts.
We will intend to uphold all the above company values, promoting our employees to do likewise.
Through implementation of the company values, we believe that we will be able to attain our goals and objectives for the benefit of all concerned, in particular, the communities in which we will operate.
I Tech Solutions is built on the assumption that the management of information technology for business is like legal advice or accounting, in that it is not inherently a do-it-yourself prospect, and requires outside expertise to install and implement it. Smart business people need to find quality vendors of reliable hardware, software, service, and support. They need to use these quality vendors as they use their other professional service suppliers: as trusted allies.


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Wheel Size Each: 8" x 4" Total Tread Width: 8" Wheel Bearing: Tapered Roller Bearings. Maximum Capacity: 10,000 lbs each Overall Height: 11" Swivel Radius: 7 3/4" Plate Size: 8 1/2" x 8 1/2"


This Hot Milk Cake really does not need a sauce. It is wonderful with a cup of coffee or a tall glass of milk. This Hot Milk cake is so easy to make if you need a quick dessert and serving it with fruit of any kind only makes it better if that is possible.
Hot milk cake is easy and delicious.
Beat the eggs with a mixer until lemon colored. Add sugar and vanilla and continue mixing. Whisk together the flour and baking powder and add to the batter. Combine milk and butter in a pan on top of the stove and heat just until butter is melted. Pour into cake batter and mix until smooth. Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray. Spread batter in pan and bake in preheated 350 degree oven about 35 minutes or until center is done. You can top with fresh fruit or use canned or frozen with this cake. The sauce in the photo is a raspberry sauce made with frozen raspberries. Enjoy!
Combine ingredients and bring to boil on top of stove. Cook until thickens like a sauce. You can do this with any frozen fruit. No need to thaw first.
I have not tried freezing this cake but I think it would freeze ok, Sylvia.
This is my all time favorite cake. My grandmother made this same recipe. i am 65 and have been making it since i was old enough to bake. Really good to use in strawberry shortcake.
Dreaming someone could make a cake diabetics could eat a piece of.
Just google this. There are all kinds of charts on the internet showing this information.
I loved this cake! I've been a baker for 60 years and this is one of the best plain cake recipes ever. It reminds me of a cake my mother often made that I've never been able to duplicate. Thank you.
Thank you so much Pat. So happy you are enjoying this recipe. Happy to have you on the site and have a great week ahead.
I had a question about the texture of the cake. I made it yesterday & it was very dense & more solid than a regular cake. I really liked it (I used frozen strawberries) but was just wondering if this was what it should be or if I did something wrong & mixed it too long or something. Thank you.
Mine is not usually very dense but maybe more dense than a regular cake.
This is one of my favorites. Easy to prepare and delicious with or without any toppings.


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BERSIH 2.0 – Substantial Reforms Needed to Ensure Free and Fair Access to Media
Substantial Reforms Needed to Ensure Free and Fair Access to Media
On 22 May, Minister of Information, Communications and Culture Rais Yatim announced that a cabinet paper is being prepared on RTM providing equal media access for parties to present their election manifestos. While BERSIH 2.0 acknowledges that a move is finally being made towards ensuring free and fair media access during elections, we are of the view that this is but the first step. Free and fair access, BERSIH 2.0's #4 demand, cannot be achieved by merely allocating airtime for manifestos of candidates and/or political parties. Equal and proportionate airtime in news and other programmes must be given to all parties and candidates, as well as balanced coverage, including the right to reply to any allegations or negative reporting.
BERSIH 2.0 is of the view that it is equally, if not more, important to address the factors contributing to poor free and fair access to media in Malaysia. There are more crucial issues that need to be addressed before the demand for free and fair access to media is fulfilled.
1. Media ownership
Mass media are either state-owned (Bernama and RTM) or privately owned largely by component parties of the Barisan Nasional (BN) or individuals with close links to the BN. This represents a huge and unfair advantage for the ruling government.
The lack of diversity of private ownership of the media can be attributed to the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, by which the Home Affairs Minister had absolute discretionary powers to grant, revoke or suspend licences and printing permits, and to impose any conditions. Licenses and permits had to be annually renewed. Those affected had no recourse to the courts, whose jurisdiction was ousted by law. Any publication that publishes content that is deemed to be critical of the ruling coalition faces the threat of suspension or revocation of permits. The arbitrary use of these powers has contributed to the concentration of ownership by individuals supporting BN. Recent changes in the law to do away with annual licenses and permits, and to allow for legal challenges to decisions of the Minister, have yet to come into effect but in any event are too new to have an impact in the 13th General Election. It remains to be seen how any such challenge will be dealt with by the courts.
At the same time, Malaysiakini.com has tried to apply for a permit to print a paper-based version of the online newspaper, but has faced resistance from the Home Ministry. Other publications by opposition parties have also been banned on numerous occasions, especially closer to a General Election.
2. Content control
Malaysian laws, mainly the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, Sedition Act 1948 and Official Secrets Act 1972, contribute to control of content published in the media. The laws provide for wide discretionary powers to the Home Minister and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to regulate content or prosecute any individuals for publishing content deemed to be false or a threat to public order.
Existing laws and the arbitrary application of the law make it difficult for mainstream media outlets to publish content that is critical of the establishment without the risk of serious repercussion such as prosecution or suspension or revocation of licenses.
Restrictive laws and concentrated media ownership by the ruling coalition contribute to the practice of self-censorship and political bias by media practitioners.
BERSIH 2.0 believes that merely to allow the airing of each party's election manifesto is superficial at best and does not even scratch the surface of fulfilling the demand for free and fair access to media. To add to these concerns, the Minister of Information, Communications and Culture was quoted as saying the manifestos would be aired depending on their newsworthiness. This cannot be correct. Voters must have access to adequate information to make an informed choice during elections and the media plays a critical role in facilitating this. A clean, free and fair election is not possible without free and fair access to media by all candidates and contesting political parties, and balanced reporting. As such, safeguards against political censorship, unfair government advantage, unequal access and biased reporting must be established.
The following are BERSIH 2.0's recommendations to ensure free and fair access to media before, during and after elections:
a. The Elections Act should be amended to compel state-owned media to allocate reasonably equal free airtime to contesting parties and candidates. In addition, live public debates between leaders of component parties should be televised.
b. The Election Offences Act should be amended to ensure fair access to private media for all contesting parties and candidates. This includes fair access to paid advertisements. Any media outlets that practise unreasonable discrimination for access to advertising can be prosecuted.
c. The Election Offences Act should be amended to make an offence of any deliberate denial to any contesting party or candidate the right to reply (and to have that reply published) towards any allegations made against them.
d. The EC should establish a code of conduct for media to govern the reporting of the election campaign and the polling period;
e. The Printing Press and Publications Act, 1984 and the Communications and Multimedia Act, 1998 must be amended to remove restrictions on content regulation and to broaden media ownership. Repressive laws that contradict democratic and human rights principles such as the Sedition Act 1948 and Official Secrets Act 1972 must be repealed.
These recommendations and the seven other BERSIH 2.0 demands must be implemented before the 13th General Elections
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Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections 2.0 (BERSIH 2.0)
Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan (Co-Chairperson), Datuk A. Samad Said (Co-Chairperson), Ahmad Shukri Abdul Razab, Andrew Ambrose, Andrew Khoo, Anne Lasimbang, Arul Prakkash, Arumugam K., Awang Abdillah, Dr Farouk Musa, Hishamuddin Rais, Liau Kok Fah, Maria Chin Abdullah, Matthew Vincent, Niloh Ason, Richard Y W Yeoh, Dr Subramaniam Pillay, Dato' Dr Toh Kin Woon, Dr Wong Chin Huat, Dato' Yeo Yang Poh and Zaid Kamar


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Darobactin is an experimental antibiotic compound that may be effective against Gram-negative bacteria. If it can be developed into a human-compatible form it would be the first to come from an animal microbiome.[1]
The compound was discovered in Photorhabdus bacteria in 2019, living in the digestive systems of entomopathogenic nematodes.[2] Researchers identified the nematode as a possible host because they feed on insects by targeting their larvae and releasing bacteria that then confront pathogens similar to those found in humans.[1]
In experiments, it cured mice of infections with Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, both members of the Enterobacteriaceae, without toxic side effects.[1]
Gram-negative bacteria[edit]
Gram-negative bacteria have a characteristic architecture for the cell envelope, with an inner membrane, an outer membrane, and a periplasmic space in between. In this arrangement, the peptidoglycan layer is relatively thin and does not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial classification. Antibiotic resistance has become wide-spread in bacterial pathogens, and in Gram-negative bacteria such as the Enterobacteriaceae, much of this comes from acquired genes. The resistance genes encode proteins that export or inactivate β-lactam antibiotics, aminoglycosides, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, fosfomycin, etc. Plasmids carrying these genes readily move between strains or between species. Consequently, resistance to the currently available panel of approved antibiotics is an increasingly worrisome problem.[1] The most recent class of antibiotics effective against these bacteria emerged in the 1960s.[2]
Mode of action[edit]
Darobactin inhibits BamA and disrupts the proper formation of the Gram-negative cell envelope.[2] BamA is a central component of the BamABCDE complex, which inserts proteins from the periplasm into the outer membrane. BamA also aids in the folding of outer membrane-bound proteins. Thus, darobactin prevents the proper formation of the outer membrane of bacteria, leading to cell death.[1] Because only Gram-negative bacteria have BamA and outer membrane beta-barrel proteins, only they are susceptible to darobactin.
Biosynthesis[edit]
Darobactin is a RiPP, that is, a ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide. Its production and export is encoded by a typically silent five gene operon that showed minimal production under laboratory culture conditions. Mature darobactin consists of a seven amino acids core peptide derived from a longer precursor, with unusual Trp-1 to Trp-3 and Trp-3 to Lys-5 (or Arg-5, in variant forms) crosslinks. [2] The key enzyme for maturation from the precursor to the mature form is the radical SAM/SPASM enzyme DarE.
^ a b c d e Nield, David (24 November 2019). "A Tiny Worm Has Been Found Carrying New Antibiotic That Could Help Us Fight Superbugs". ScienceAlert. Archived from the original on 2019-11-25. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
^ a b c d Imai, Yu; Meyer, Kirsten J.; Iinishi, Akira; Favre-Godal, Quentin; Green, Robert; Manuse, Sylvie; Caboni, Mariaelena; Mori, Miho; Niles, Samantha; Ghiglieri, Meghan; Honrao, Chandrashekhar (2019-11-20). "A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens". Nature. 576 (7787): 459–464. Bibcode:2019Natur.576..459I. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1791-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 7188312. PMID 31747680.
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Hi everyone, I want to make a cake for my boss, it is for her farewell. I am so confused about what flavor should I make. I am thinking about buttercream frosting , which can stay a little stable and also I would like to make it colorful (something in nice pink/peach shade) so no chocolate suggestions pls. I do not mind cake to be chocolate. What do you all think should I make her. Should I make a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream or something else? Suggestions pls.
I made this one for our daughter's b-day several years ago, I added more strawberries to make it more pink and I used Ina's buttercream frosting recipe.
A coconut cake is always pretty. Ina Garten has a recipe that's perfectly yummy, but nothing mind bending.
Also, both recipes can be adjusted easily for some food allergies. I sub out the milk with rice milk and the butter with unsalted sticks from Fleishman's for a non-dairy treat. Not sure how it would do gluten free, though.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour baking pan; 9x13 inch, or 2 round 9 inch pans.
In a large bowl, measure flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, shortening, milk and the vanilla into a large mixing bowl. Beat 2 minutes on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally.
Pour batter into pan(s), Bake 9x13 inch cake for 35 to 40 minutes. If using 9 inch rounds, bake 30 to 35 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the cake will come out clean.
Combine butter and vanilla, then add powdered sugar slowly. Add the milk and whip for a while (I use my stand mixer). Makes enough for about one 9x13 cake. For cupcakes, I double it.
This as is makes enough for 18 cupcakes piped or one 9x13. You'll need more for decorating, but it takes color extremely well and it tastes amazing!!


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Q: Why doesn't Postgresql use index for IN query? I have a table social_accounts with a partial index on column facebook_id where user_id IS NULL.
If I do a simple query WHERE facebook_id = '123', the index is used:
 => EXPLAIN for: SELECT "social_accounts".* FROM "social_accounts"  WHERE (user_id IS NOT NULL) AND "social_accounts"."facebook_id" = '123'
                                                  QUERY PLAN
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 Index Scan using index_social_accounts_on_facebook_id on social_accounts  (cost=0.00..8.28 rows=1 width=345)
   Index Cond: ((facebook_id)::text = '123'::text)
   Filter: (user_id IS NOT NULL)

but if I do a query using IN it does not use the index:
 => EXPLAIN for: SELECT "social_accounts".* FROM "social_accounts"  WHERE (user_id IS NOT NULL) AND "social_accounts"."facebook_id" IN ('123', '456')
                                            QUERY PLAN
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 Bitmap Heap Scan on social_accounts  (cost=8.53..16.36 rows=2 width=345)
   Recheck Cond: ((facebook_id)::text = ANY ('{123,456}'::text[]))
   Filter: (user_id IS NOT NULL)
   ->  Bitmap Index Scan on index_social_accounts_on_facebook_id  (cost=0.00..8.52 rows=2 width=0)
         Index Cond: ((facebook_id)::text = ANY ('{123,456}'::text[]))
(5 rows)

why doesn't it use the index in the second case? any way to speed up this query?
(note that for this example I have truncated the array, and I've tested with many more elements but with same, slow, results)

A: Actually, it is using an index. Just doing so differently.
An index scan visit rows one by one, going back and forth from one disk page to the next in random order.
A bitmap index scan starts by filtering disk pages to visit, and then visits the latter one by one sequentially. The recheck cond is because, in each page, you then need to filter out invalid rows.
For tiny numbers of rows, index scan is cheapest. For more rows, bitmap index scan becomes cheapest. For even larger numbers of rows, a seq scan eventually becomes cheapest.

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The Wistar Institute Is Pleased to Announce the Promotion of Dr. Rahul Shinde to Assistant Professor, and the Promotions of Drs. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen and Alessandro Gardini to Associate Professor
Wistar is honored these talented and accomplished scientists commit each day in their lab to bringing new and creative insights to cancer, immunology, and infectious disease research. Their original research makes them leaders in their fields and goes beyond scholarly achievement, to their belief in collaboration, and the creation of scientific symposia, and educational programs that expand their respective scientific fields. All promotions were effective as of January 1, 2022.
Congratulations to Dr. Rahul Shinde—Promoted to Assistant Professor
Dr. Shinde joined Wistar in June of 2019 as our first Caspar Wistar Fellow and was programmatically appointed with the Immunology Microenvironment and Metastasis Program. In his relatively short time at the Institute, Shinde established a productive laboratory, initiated numerous collaborations both in and out of Wistar, received independent NIH funding, and developed an innovative research program on the impact of the immune microenvironment in pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies in humans. His promotion is a tangible recognition of this track record of academic excellence and a testament to the Caspar Wistar Fellow program as an innovative and successful mechanism to help foster the transition to research independence of meritorious early career investigators.
Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen—Promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Abdel-Mohsen was recruited to Wistar in 2017 as a member of Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center. As a junior faculty at the Institute, Abdel-Mohsen quickly established himself as an undisputed research leader in multiple fields of investigation, with innovative and groundbreaking contributions in various aspects of HIV biology and therapy, mechanisms of immune recognition and glycomics. In his short time at Wistar, he was recognized with an impressive number of scholarly achievements, including publications in top-tier scientific literature, large extramural funding and speaking engagements at national and international venues.
Dr. Abdel-Mohsen's energy, collaborative spirit, and engaging personality, all about the science, have made him a go-to person at our Institute, and a premiere colleague and collaborator in the broader Wistar-Penn campus.
Congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Gardini—Promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Gardini joined the Institute in 2015, establishing a successful, internationally recognized and highly collaborative scientific program. He is a vital contributor of the Gene Expression and Regulation Program in our Cancer Center and has made seminal contributions to our understanding of novel transcriptional networks exploited in tumor development and progression. In addition to his scientific and scholarly achievements, published in top journals, Dr. Gardini has been a great ambassador of Wistar, launching an exciting Ph.D. exchange program with the University of Bologna, establishing productive research collaborations with our colleagues at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care Health and organizing a number of scientific and educational venues, including the GER Mini Symposium in 2017.
Rahul S. Shinde, D.V.M., Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center
Immunology, Microenvironment & Metastasis Program, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center
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Associate Professor, Gene Expression & Regulation Program, The Wistar Institute Cancer Center


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Q: How to easily swap Maven settings profiles? At my company we use a Nexus server to fetch the artifacts. Which is fine. But sometimes I want to use Maven at home too, where I cannot access the company Nexus. Is there an easy way to swap Maven settings profiles? And is it easily swappable with m2eclipse?
At the moment I'm using the following settings.xml:
<settings
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
      <servers>
          <server>
              <id>central</id>
              <username>company-user</username>
              <password>company-user</password>
          </server>
          <server>
              <id>mirror</id>
              <username>company-user</username>
              <password>company-user</password>
          </server>
      </servers>
      <mirrors>
        <mirror>
            <id>mirror</id>
            <url>https://url.to.company.nexus</url>
            <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
        </mirror>
      </mirrors>
      <profiles>
          <profile>
              <id>defaultprofile</id>
              <repositories>
                  <repository>
                      <id>central</id>
                    <name>Repository for Company artifacts</name>
                      <url>https://url.to.company.nexus</url>
                      <releases>
                          <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                      <snapshots>
                          <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                  </repository>
              </repositories>
              <pluginRepositories>
                  <pluginRepository>
                      <id>central</id>
                    <name>Repository for Company artifacts</name>
                      <url>https://url.to.company.nexus</url>
                      <releases>
                          <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                      <snapshots>
                          <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                  </pluginRepository>
              </pluginRepositories>
              <properties>
                  <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
              </properties>
              <activation>
                  <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
              </activation>
          </profile>
      </profiles>
      <activeProfiles>
          <activeProfile>defaultprofile</activeProfile>
      </activeProfiles>
</settings>

I know i'll probably have to add a new profile to http://repo1.maven.org/, but how to make sure the existing mirrors will not complain with timeouts?

A: In my experience it is best to have multiple settings file around and swap them as needed. Either by copying the on top of the existing settings.xml from a differently named file or by using the -s option of the mvn command to specify the settings file. If this is too cumbersome to type all the time you can also make an alias for your mvn command with the different settings files. However that breaks bash completion for Maven, which is why I stick to just copying the settings file around with a script.
The same sort of thing actually applies for swapping context e.g. for Git changing the .gitconfig file around so you can pack all those file changes into a script or into different branches in git or whatever..
In addition it can help to run Nexus locally and just connect to it, and let it in turn proxy all the external repos..

A: The best i can suggest is to use Git/SVN/ and checkin the settings.xml file and use different branches to separate between company and home. Use either
svn switch URL/branches/company
svn switch URL/branches/home

or
git checkout company
git checkout home

A profile will not work cause the mirrorOf part can't be put into a profiles area. Changing in m2e can be done via the configuration dialog. But this might cause inconsistency with the command line.

A: Unfortunately, mirrors can't be configured in profiles. There's an open request in maven for that. As suggested in JIRA, you could use a script to easily switch between different settings.xml
As for answering to the question in the title : to easily switching between profiles in m2e, I suggest you install JBoss Tools Maven Profile Manager from this update site : http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/juno/
To enable the same global profile(s) on all your projects :

*

*in the project explorer view : select all maven projects (Ctrl+A)

*hit Ctrl+Alt+P to open the Profile Mgmt wizard and select the profiles you want activated.

This is the equivalent to manually set the active maven profiles in each of your project properties page, which is way more tedious.

A: If you have the artifacts already downloaded in your local repository then you can use mvn -o clean compile .... This will avoid remote repository lookup.


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