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Flood in the north of Thailand
by space · August 2, 2017
Eleven people were killed, three are reported missing in the last four days in the northern and northeastern provinces of Thailand, where the seasonal flood suddenly became catastrophic, the Third National TV Channel reported, citing the Thai Ministry of the Interior.
Zone of the disaster declared extensive territory in 19 of the country's 77 provinces, where the depth of flooding is 1.5-3 meters, the report said. Prime Minister of Thailand, General Prayut Chan-Ochá will leave on Wednesday morning to the north and north-east to personally mobilize the efforts of local administrations and military units stationed in the disaster areas to help the population.
According to the Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Thailand for the prevention of natural disasters, the floods are steadily spreading to the south and in the coming days can reach the central provinces of the country. On the ground, military and local authorities organized a massive campaign to pump water to nearby water bodies, but floods intensified in a number of provinces due to the fact that the dams of local irrigation reservoirs poured into water.
Floods in the rainy season, which in Thailand usually lasts from mid-May to October, occur annually, but this year, strong long rains have made it much more dangerous than usual, according to a television report. Nevertheless, the forecasts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs specialists do not put it on a par with the catastrophic flood of 2011, when a giant slow wave of water passed the whole country from north to south, flooding the central provinces and Bangkok, before collapsing into the Gulf of Thailand south of the capital.
Catastrophic nature took a flood this year and in the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia. For example, in the northern, mountainous part of Laos in the region of the ancient capital of the country, the city of Luang Prabang, this year for the first time in history, as a result of the flood, people were killed.
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GICW announces dates for season 3 International designers set to showcase their designs from 6th – 8th January 2023
Designs Showcased by Designers in GICW Season 2
International designers set to showcase their designs from 6th – 8th January 2023
Gurugram, November 21: The tech city of Gurugram will be all drenched with the International designers and B-town celebrities as they will witness the season 3.0 of Gurugram International Couture week. The show will be held at Bella-Monde hotel, Rangpuri, New Delhi. The three-day event will feature runway shows and entertainment for both established fashion brands and up-and-coming designers. This would be the third "fashion week" to take place by GICW for which the ways have been paved by an increasing number of fashion exhibitions and shopping events.
Some of the International designers who showcased the collection in season 2 were House of Byfield from Netherland, Charini, Michael Lombard (USA) Christine Storm (USA) , and Indi Yapa Abeywardena from Srilanka.
On the occasion MD GICW Mr. M Satya said "GICW is a platform that was conceptualized purely with the intention of bringing raw talent to light and creating a platform to bridge the gap between the Indian Fashion industry and International Trends.
With the Presence of the celebrities, the designers definitely got a boost in their promotions. With season 3 scheduled in the month of January 2023, GICW is every fashion connoisseur's imagination for a whole new exposure to the world of fashion and creative minds coming together to redefine trends. GICW also aims to provide a platform to various designers who are at their start-up level to showcase their collection and grow their skills." adds Mr. Sidharrth Director at GICW.
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Posted by Thom Yee in Films
Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Tom Cruise
Sometimes shooting yourself in the head really is the best choice
We all know it's impossible to talk about a Tom Cruise movie like Edge of Tomorrow without talking about Tom Cruise.
A working actor for more than three decades whose box office earnings have reached a combined, unadjusted total of more than three billion dollars, Tom Cruise is a true movie star, consistently able to draw crowds, whether it's to his movies or to witness his oft-bizarre behaviour, much of which seems attributed to his beliefs as a Scientologist. The star of some of the biggest movies in modern history and an enduring fixture in blockbuster American cinema, Cruise has been attached to several Hollywood starlets, including marriages to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, and that's about as much as I'm going to write about Tom Cruise, because, like it or not, watching movies is supposed to be about watching movies.
Which is why it's dumb to avoid Tom Cruise movies like Edge of Tomorrow just because you don't like Tom Cruise.
Edge of Tomorrow, based on the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill, has been positioned as a number of things, most notably a Tom Cruise vehicle and a sci-fi actioner with a Groundhog Day-style, repeat-the-day plot, but it's a little bigger than that. It's world is just slightly more complex than that. At its best, it's a movie that's much better than just that. If you look beyond its surface, I'm certain you'll find a movie you can enjoy.
Just don't look too hard.
Humanity is at war with the enigmatic alien race known as the Mimics (though I don't think there's anything in particular that they're supposed to be "mimic"-king). Having warred for nearly five years, the world's military forces have combined to create the United Defense Force (UDF) after much of Europe has fallen to the marauding alien force. It is only with the development of a heavily-armed exoskeletal suit and a decisive victory at Verdun — headlined by "the Angel of Verdun" Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), whose exploits have lead to hundreds of Mimic kills — that humanity has found a measure of success. Intending to launch Operation Downfall, a US-led invasion of occupied France, General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) specifically enlists Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) to record and report on the beachfront confrontation. But Cage is an officer in name only, in truth a former advertising exec and the face of UDF recruitment, and after attempting to blackmail the General to get out of field duty, he's labeled a deserter and forced to join the invasion as frontline infantry. Where, of course, he accidentally gets involuntary time travel powers.
Sooo… we're running TOWARDS the explosions?
As an actor, Cruise has played against type several times, perhaps most notably in Born on the Fourth of July (and, no doubt most obviously in Tropic Thunder), and while it's always refreshing to see a different take on a hero as traditionally fabled as the Tom Cruise-type, it's also a reminder how dedicated to his craft Cruise really is. While I'm not the type of moviegoer that's constantly calling-out actors on their ability or the veracity of their latest work, I've always thought that Tom Cruise brings 100% of himself to all of his roles, and he has a fine command of the screen that's virtually unrivalled among his acting contemporaries. He may be easy to cast as a classic hero type, but he's also always got something interesting going on with every part he takes on, even if it's just things like his running stride or the way he screams. In Edge of Tomorrow, Cruise's William Cage starts off as a genuine coward, probably never having once faced any real crises in his life, and truly desperate to escape at the slightest hint of danger. For all his bravado as the face of glory and recruitment in the Mimic wars, he knows nothing of what it really means to fight.
It's through Cage's initially fearful eyes that we see what this war-torn world is really made of, with our cowardly hero in a shocked daze, gradually resigning himself to his inevitable fate as one of the war's many unsung casualties. When he makes landfall after a botched helicopter drop, he, along with the invading force, is horrified to find that the Mimics were well-prepared for the invasion as our UDF forces are easily crushed, and it's only after Cage manages to kill one of the larger Mimics with a mine that he finds the sweet release of death. The sight of Cage, scalded and covered in the creature's blood is a truly horrific image, particularly juxtaposed against the star's perennial Hollywood looks, but it's also a crucial plot point as it's the creature's blood that imbues our hero with his time travel abilities and the chance to do it all over again.
"I like how when we kneel down like this it's hard for people to tell that you're taller than me."
In many ways, Edge of Tomorrow is several movies in one as we see Cage progress, day-after-day, through a conflict much larger than himself but all ultimately riding on his shoulders. Cage's, at first, fearful deserter shows us how horrible war truly is, sci-fi or not, as friends, colleagues and antagonists lie dead, maimed or hanging barely onto a life easily cut down by the gears of war, but as the movie progresses and our hero goes again, it gives way to a story that's at once a sleek, fast-paced actioner, a sci-fi puzzler, a light romance, and even a genuine comedy. Like Groundhog Day before it, Edge of Tomorrow plays its redux conceit for all its worth as it shows us the many, many failures of William Cage as he's variously shot, cut-to-pieces, and run over. And it's actually really, really funny. Eventually, the whole thing starts to feel like an infinite-lives video game, particularly after Cage meets up with Blunt's Rita Vrataski. His time-worn knowledge on full-display in saving Vrataski from her formerly inevitable death, the "Angel of Verdun" tells Cage to come find her before the two fall victim to yet another sudden, grisly death.
Recognizing the cycle that Cage has found himself in as a former wielder of this resetting power, Vrataski begins training our hero to beat the Mimics as the two re-find each other day-after-repeated-day. Through Vrataski, we find out that it's the blood of the creature that Cage had originally killed that holds the chronal power, and all he has to do to reset the day is die. For her part, Blunt brings a believable hard edge to her part as the aforementioned "Angel" and "Full Metal Bitch". While she maintains a graceful presence throughout, you can still believe that she's a war veteran, and other than the repeated, obviously sexualized image of her introduction as she rises from the floor of the training room, you never really think about how ridiculously beautiful (and clearly better than all of us) she really is. And even though Cruise and Blunt's overtly attractive leads are our primary protagonists, the two never quite reach the potential romantic entanglement that a lesser movie would no doubt attempt to bring to centre stage. Though there's a romantic link between the characters, it's played largely as the natural consequence of two people in a desperate situation spending so much time together (well, one person really, since every new day is the first time Vrataski is meeting Cage).
Just gonna leave this here on repeat.
As time goes by (and repeats), Cage goes through a number of scenarios, learning more and more about his fellow soldiers, the military machine that's feeding the Mimic conflict, and the origin of the Mimics. At different times, he tries to bargain his way out of the war with Bill Paxton's obnoxious Master Sergeant Farell (who obviously takes pleasure in the suffering of others without being totally irredeemable), he escapes and visits London only to find how ready the Mimics are to take everything, and he enlists the help of his sometimes tormentors and sometimes allies in 'J Squad', at first introduced as cannon fodder and later fleshed out through the movie's many alternate scenarios. Going through what feels like hundreds of resets, Cage grows from cowardly deserter to ambitious hero to near-defeat and exhaustion. Crucially, no matter how reasoned or extraordinarily aware of the future and circumstances beyond his knowledge he seems in the timelines where he infiltrates the UDF to speak with General Brigham, he's never able to get through to the powers that be to prevent the slaughter of Operation Downfall, nor can he ever seem to find a way to defeat the ultimate enemy and save Rita's life.
All throughout, Edge of Tomorrow feels like the work of an accomplished director, with exciting, inventive, and, most importantly, coherent and easy-to-follow action sequences. If you're looking for a straight-up action movie, Edge will easily fulfill your needs, with war movie graphics, smaller, more intimate set pieces, and futuristic technologies that work effectively to enhance the action. Everything feels fully realized without going over the top, and the war suits that the film is visually attached to never distract from the action, only adding another layer and the opportunity for properly engaging spectacle.
KILL KILL KILL! MURDER MURDER MURDER!
And yet, in spite of all this effusion, by the movie's end, it's hard to look at Edge of Tomorrow and not see wasted opportunity. Ending aside (and it's definitely a typical Hollywood ending), by the time you finish the movie, you start to realize how lightweight the whole thing really is. I don't know if it's the jarring nature of the ending or the inherent depth of time travel as a concept itself, but I couldn't help but notice how Edge avoids asking itself the tough questions. Though Cruise's Cage clearly becomes exhausted with and detached from his task, you never get a sense of the depression that his experience would naturally engender. As attractive as the thought of getting a do-over may be, imagine if that do-over was of the worst day of your life due to circumstances beyond your control. Imagine the isolation and loneliness of such an experience and the madness you'd experience when surrounded by people, bound by fate, to always fundamentally act the same way no matter what you do or say. Edge of Tomorrow's premise would naturally lead most to the edge of their own sanity, but the movie never seems to ask its lead to experience this or display the unnatural levels of heroism necessary to overcome it.
As a consequence of its resetting concept and the determination of its producers, Edge of Tomorrow, at its best, manages to go further as an action-comedy piece than most movies of its type. It forces you to confront the horrors of war even as it makes you laugh out loud, think about causality, and shows you how far movie-makers have come in creating cool and innovative action sequences. It's easy to follow, tight and trim in its pacing, and very much worth your time as a summer blockbuster, but it leaves a lot of the headier parts of its premise on the cutting room floor.
So… pretty much just like every Tom Cruise movie then.
Edge of Tomorrow final score: 7.5
Be on the lookout for Noah Taylor, everyone's favourite Jaime-Lannister's-hand-chopper-off'er, as Dr. Carter, who, it turns out, is kind of an unnecessary character when you think about it.
Also be on the lookout for Ser Dontos Hollard.
Fun fact: One of the screenplay writers is named "Jez".
I don't get why Vrataski's the only one who gets a melee weapon.
More fun facts: One character is named "Kuntz".
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CMrok93 said:
Good review Thom. Had a whole bunch of fun with this, even if it was a gimmick movie. However, it was a gimmick done right and effectively.


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Why I Am Not a Calvinist
Why I Am Not an Arminian. By Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004. 224 pp. Paper. $15.00.
Why I Am Not a Calvinist. By Jerry L. Walls and Joseph R. Dongell. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004. 230 pp. Paper. $15.00.
As we can see from the titles of what at first glance appears to be companion volumes, the great debate between Calvinism and Arminianism continues. "Debate" books, in which two or more authors contribute their viewpoint and then critique each of the other authors' views, have become popular in recent years, as evidenced by the popularity of Zondervan's "Counterpoint Series" (Four Views on Hell, Four Views on Eternal Security, etc.). There have even been "debate" books on the subject of Calvinism, like Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom (InterVarsity, 1986), and more recently, Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views(Multnomah, 2004).
Although they appear to be in the "debate" genre, these two new volumes from InterVarsity Press are notin that format, and can be read independently. Each book is written against the other position, but not in the form of a debate between the two sets of authors. In fact, there is no interaction between the two books at all. And although on the outside the books are about the same size and share the same cover design, and on the inside have similar formatting, the books are completely different in their approach.
Why I Am Not an Arminian is, of course, written by two Calvinists, Robert Peterson and Michael Williams, both professors of systematic theology at a Calvinist school, Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Peterson has previously authored Calvin and the Atonement (Christian Focus, 1999). Their book is seamless; that is, there is nothing in the book which indicates that a particular chapter or section was written by one author or the other.
Why I Am Not a Calvinist is likewise written by two Arminians, Jerry Walls and Joseph Dongell, both professors at an Arminian school, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Walls is a professor of philosophy of religion while Dongell is a professor of biblical studies. Walls has previously contributed a chapter to The Grace of God and the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism (Zondervan, 1995). Their dual authorship is more obvious, as evidenced by awkward phrases like "though I (Joe) disagree…" (p. 45) that are found in the text and the footnotes. In fact, the author's appear to disagree on two key points: the nature of foreknowledge and the knowledge of God.
Because I am neither a Calvinist nor an Arminian, I can recommend both of these books, but not equally or in their entirety.
Why I Am Not a Calvinist begins with a weak Introduction and then falters briefly before really getting into the problems of Calvinism. Walls and Dongell maintain in their Introduction that Calvinists err by framing the debate in terms of the concept of God's sovereignty and man's ability. They insist that the fundamental dispute should rather be about God's character. Their aim is to prove that "Calvinism distorts the biblical picture of God and fails in other crucial ways that show its inadequacy as a theological system" (p. 8). I think they make a grave mistake by dismissing the details of the historical dispute between Calvinism and Arminianism as "not our concern here" (p. 13). And in their much too brief overview of the Five Points of Calvinism, their claim that "recently a number of Calvinists have expressed reservations, and in some cases outright disagreement, with the traditional notion of limited atonement" (p. 11) is certainly incorrect. There is nothing recent about these reservations and disagreements at all.
The first chapter, "Approaching the Bible," has some useful information, but can be skipped since it contains very little information about either Calvinism or Arminianism. The placement of this chapter is unfortunate because it has the potential of causing the reader to lose interest. The title of the second chapter, "Engaging the Bible," looks at "the three strongest scriptural arguments for Calvinist theology: the sovereign nature of God, the gracious nature of salvation and the reality of divine election" (p. 47). The authors present the Calvinist perspective on these issues followed by an Arminian response. This chapter is really the only place in the book that contains any Scripture exegesis.
It is really chapters 3 and 4 that make this book worth reading and recommending. Chapter 3 ("Calvinism and the Nature of Human Freedom") contains a solid philosophical discussion of hard determinism, libertarian freedom, and soft determinism (compatibilism). The authors argue that "there are large stretches of Scripture that are hard to make sense of if humans aren't free in the libertarian sense of the word" (p. 117).
Chapter 4 ("Calvinism and Divine Sovereignty") is likewise an examination of three views of sovereignty and foreknowledge: Calvinism, Molinism, and Openness. Calvinists, of course, believe that God knows every future event because he decreed every future event. Evil is explained away, however, by saying that God merely permits it. Molinism, named after Luis de Molina (1535-1600), is the view that God has middle knowledge, that is, "what all possible created free wills would do in all possible circumstances and situations that are not and never will be" (p. 135). God knows everything that will be, might be, and could have been. The "open view of God," as opposed to the traditional view, holds that "libertarian freedom and infallible foreknowledge are incompatible" (p. 143). Proponents of the Openness view (like, apparently, Joseph Dongell) "hold that it is impossible in principle for future undetermined free actions to be known with certainty" (p. 142). The authors conclude that although "God's sovereignty and providential control of our world are surely matters that exceed our full understanding," the Calvinist explanation "poses particularly severe difficulties, especially with respect to the problem of evil" (p. 152).
In the last two chapters, Walls and Dongell briefly explore a variety of topics like the genuineness of the offer of salvation, the sincerity of divine compassion, guilt and the Fall, evangelism, the fate of the unevangelized, assurance, and the problem of evil. They conclude in chapter 5 ("Calvinism and Consistency") that in Calvinism can be found "inconsistency, confusion or misleading language where human freedom and responsibility are concerned" (p. 184), and in chapter 6 ("Calvinism and the Christian Life") that "Calvinism is beset with practical inconsistencies that mirror its logical contradictions" (p. 215).
At first glance, Why I Am Not an Arminian appears to be different from the typical book on Calvinism that focuses on the Five Points of Calvinism. Appearances, however, are deceiving. Besides the Introduction, which is chapter 1, there are two chapters devoted to history, but six chapters dedicated to expounding Calvinism. Five of these chapters relate explicitly to one of the five points of Calvinism. Peterson and Williams acknowledge in their introduction that they "would have preferred to write a biblical presentation of Calvinism, a Why I Am a Calvinist book" (p. 13). They go on to say that as Calvinists they will put forth their arguments against Arminianism, but: "To be honest, our true goal is to commend and defend Calvinism. We believe that we are obligated to say this because the answer to the question 'Why am I not an Arminian?' is that we are Calvinists" (p. 13). So, unlike Why I Am Not a Calvinist, this companion volume is not true to its title.
The two chapters devoted to history (chapter 2—"Augustine and Pelagius" and chapter 5—"Arminius and the Synod of Dort") are well-written and crucial to understanding the issues in the Calvinist/Arminian debate. They are profitable whichever theological position one takes. This gives the book a major advantage over the companion volume, Why I Am Not a Calvinist. Lacking, however, is historical information about John Calvin himself, other than the unfortunate blunder that Theodore Beza was Calvin's son-in-law (p. 93). There is a problem, though, with putting too much emphasis on the Augustine/Pelagius controversy. Unlike the majority of Calvinists, the authors do admit that "the allegation that Arminianism is Pelagian is unfortunate and indeed unwarranted" (p. 39), but the seed is sown nevertheless that anything opposed to Calvinism is heretical.
Following the chapter on Augustine and Pelagius, there are chapters on predestination and perseverance. Here we find the same old Calvinistic arguments that one might find in a standard work like Loraine Boettner's The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. Of particular note is the fact that in the chapter on perseverance, the authors begin by showing from Scripture how believers are preserved by God. It is only after eleven pages of using the terms preserve, preserves, and preservation that they introduce the concept of perseverance. But then they sound like Arminians when they write, "Arminians and Calvinists agree that professed Christians must continue to the end in three areas if they are to be saved: believing the gospel, loving Christ and other believers, and living godly lives" (p. 77).
Following the chapter on Arminius and the Synod of Dort, there are chapters on freedom, inability, grace, and atonement. Naturally, God's sovereignty is redefined as "divine foreordination" (p. 136), God's drawing is salvation (p. 167), God's grace is irresistible (p. 175), and God's regeneration results in saving faith (p. 189). On John 3:16, it was refreshing to see that the authors, who otherwise have impeccable Calvinist credentials, "reject attempts to limit the meaning of 'world' here to 'the world of the elect'" (p. 179). They further acknowledge that "Calvinists have not always argued well for limited atonement" (p. 202), and express their embarrassment "that at times Reformed Christians have not been as zealous as others to propagate the gospel" (p. 210). The authors' criticisms of Arminians for rejecting the idea of substitutionary atonement are right on.
Although each of these books contains material that I can unequivocally recommend, they both suffer from the same underlying problem: The authors assume that one must be either a Calvinist or an Arminian. Neither side recognizes a middle ground that refuses to be identified with either position. Typical is this remark by Walls and Dongell: "Those who hold to eternal security while rejecting the middle three points are not truly Calvinists but are rather a sort of Calvinist-Arminian hybrid" (p. 13).
The debate between Calvinism and Arminianism is one that will last until the end of time. Although these new volumes contain ammunition that each side can use against the other, I see these books as more likely to further cement Calvinists and Arminians in their respective views.
Laurence M. Vance
Vance Publications
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Report on Sarychev Peak (Russia) — November 2019
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 44, no. 11 (November 2019)
Managing Editor: Edward Venzke. Research and preparation by Kadie Bennis.
Sarychev Peak (Russia) Ash plume on 11 August; thermal anomalies from late May to early October 2019
Global Volcanism Program, 2019. Report on Sarychev Peak (Russia) (Venzke, E., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 44:11. Smithsonian Institution.
Sarychev Peak
48.092°N, 153.2°E; summit elev. 1496 m
Sarychev Peak, located on Matua Island in the central Kurile Islands of Russia, has had eruptions reported since 1765. Renewed activity began in October 2017, followed by a major eruption in June 2009 that included pyroclastic flows and ash plumes (BGVN 43:11 and 34:06). Thermal anomalies, explosions, and ash plumes took place between September and October 2018. A single ash explosion occurred in May 2019. Another ash plume was seen on 11 August, and small thermal anomalies were present in infrared imagery during June-October 2019. Information is provided by the Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT) and the Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), with satellite imagery from Sentinel-2.
Satellite images from Sentinel-2 showed small white plumes from Sarychev Peak during clear weather on 4 and 14 August 2019 (figure 27); similar plumes were observed on a total of nine clear weather days between late June and October 2019. According to SVERT and the Tokyo VAAC, satellite data from HIMAWARI-8 showed an ash plume rising to an altitude of 2.7 km and drifting 50 km SE on 11 August. It was visible for a few days before dissipating. No further volcanism was detected by SVERT, and no activity was evident in a 17 August Sentinel-2 image (figure 27).
Figure 27. Small white plumes were visible at Sarychev Peak in Sentinel-2 satellite images on 4 and 14 August 2019 (left and center). No activity was seen on 17 August (right). All three Sentinel-2 images use the "Natural Color" (bands 4, 3, 2) rendering; courtesy of Sentinel Hub Playground.
Intermittent weak thermal anomalies were detected by the MIROVA system using MODIS data from late May through 7 October 2019 (figure 28). Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from 28 June, 13 and 23 July, 9 August, and 21 October showed a very small thermal anomaly, but on 28 September a pronounced thermal anomaly was visible (figure 29). No additional thermal anomalies were identified from any source after 7 October through the end of the month.
Figure 28. Thermal anomalies detected at Sarychev Peak by the MIROVA system (Log Radiative Power) using MODIS data for the year ending on 9 October 2019. Courtesy of MIROVA.
Figure 29. Sentinel-2 satellite images of Sarychev Peak on 23 June and 28 September 2019. A small thermal anomaly is visible on the eastern side of the crater on 23 June (left, indicated by arrow), while the thermal anomaly is more pronounced and visible in the middle of the crater on 28 September (right). Both Sentinel-2 satellite images use the "False Color (Urban)" (bands 12, 11, 4) rendering; courtesy of Sentinel Hub Playground.
Geologic Background. Sarychev Peak, one of the most active volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, occupies the NW end of Matua Island in the central Kuriles. The andesitic central cone was constructed within a 3-3.5-km-wide caldera, whose rim is exposed only on the SW side. A dramatic 250-m-wide, very steep-walled crater with a jagged rim caps the volcano. The substantially higher SE rim forms the 1496 m high point of the island. Fresh-looking lava flows, prior to activity in 2009, had descended in all directions, often forming capes along the coast. Much of the lower-angle outer flanks of the volcano are overlain by pyroclastic-flow deposits. Eruptions have been recorded since the 1760s and include both quiet lava effusion and violent explosions. Large eruptions in 1946 and 2009 produced pyroclastic flows that reached the sea.
Information Contacts: Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT), Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Nauki st., 1B, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, 693022 (URL: http://www.imgg.ru/en/, http://www.imgg.ru/ru/svert/reports); Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (URL: http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vaac/data/); MIROVA (Middle InfraRed Observation of Volcanic Activity), a collaborative project between the Universities of Turin and Florence (Italy) supported by the Centre for Volcanic Risk of the Italian Civil Protection Department (URL: http://www.mirovaweb.it/); Sentinel Hub Playground (URL: https://www.sentinel-hub.com/explore/sentinel-playground).


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EU Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: a UK corporate perspective
Natalia Schuster
This article looks at the new EU Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and why it matters for UK companies and in the context of M&A transactions.
The EU, which is increasingly seen as the pacesetter in international ESG regulation, is continuing to take decisive steps on the path to achieving its strategy of toughening up ESG rules for large businesses.
On 23 February 2022, the European Commission published a long-awaited formal Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence.
Broadly, the Proposal aims at ensuring businesses conduct human rights and environmental due diligence of their own operations and the operations of their subsidiaries and supply (or "value") chains.
The Proposal sets out a list of specific actions companies are expected to undertake to stay compliant. These include integrating far-reaching due diligence processes into their internal policies, identifying, preventing and mitigating any potential adverse impact of their operations, establishing and maintaining a complaints procedure, etc.
In addition, certain companies are required, under certain conditions, to develop a plan to ensure that their business strategy is compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement.
Notably, while the Proposal's primary focus is on EU-incorporated companies, it also applies to non-EU companies that generate turnovers in the EU in excess of certain thresholds. Therefore, for example, a UK company that trades in the EU and meets the turnover requirements would fall within the scope of the Proposal.
The Proposal envisages that each Member State should designate a national supervisory authority to supervise compliance with the corporate due diligence duty. For UK-incorporated companies, the competent supervisory authority would be that of the Member State in which the company has a branch or, if there are no branches or more than one branch, the Member State in which the company generated most of its turnover.
The supervisory authorities have the power to investigate compliance and impose administrative sanctions or liability for damages on those companies that fall foul of their obligations.
Once the Proposal becomes an EU Directive, UK companies with substantial EU turnovers may become exposed to potentially crippling liability for environmental and human rights breaches committed by their subsidiaries and supply chains.
The Proposal provides for a combination of administrative sanctions and civil liability. Although the Proposal leaves it to the Member States to determine the level of administrative sanctions for breaches, it requires that such sanctions should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
When pecuniary sanctions are imposed, they will be based on the company's turnover.
More importantly, the Proposal sets out the requirement for Member States to lay down rules governing the civil liability of the company for damages arising due to its failure to comply with the corporate sustainability due diligence obligations. In other words, it introduces a direct cause of action allowing those affected by the adverse environmental and human rights impacts of a subsidiary's operations to bring a claim for damages against the parent company.
The UK approach
At the time of writing, there is no equivalent regime existing or being proposed in the UK.
Ever since the decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd, separate corporate personality and limited liability of shareholders have been regarded as the cornerstone principles of the UK company law.
With limited exceptions, parent companies have been largely immune from liability for the actions of their subsidiaries. "Piercing the corporate veil" (i.e. looking beyond the separate personality of the subsidiary) has been possible only in very limited circumstances, as confirmed by the Supreme Court in Prest.
While there are cases in which a parent company may ultimately be liable for actions of its subsidiaries under English law, the circumstances in which liability arises are narrow. For instance, in Chandler v Cape plc, the Court of Appeal found that a parent company may, in appropriate circumstances, be responsible for inadequate employee health and safety practices of its subsidiaries.
However, outside these very fact-specific circumstances, UK parent companies can generally rely on the doctrine of limited liability to limit their exposure to risks associated with their subsidiaries' operations and practices.
To illustrate this point, suppose that a UK-headquartered clothing retailer has a network of European branches and subsidiaries and a net European turnover of more than €40 million. Suppose also that one of its smaller and more obscure subsidiaries has a track record of relying on child labour.
Under the current regime, the Modern Slavery Act 2015 does not go beyond requiring the UK company to produce and publish a slavery and human trafficking statement at the end of each financial year.
The statement should describe the steps the company has taken to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its supply chains or in any part of its own business. However, there is no duty on the parent company to take any specific steps nor any penalty for failing to take them.
If a person affected by the subsidiary's unethical practices brings a claim, it will generally be the subsidiary (and not the parent company) that will be responsible for any harm.
The Proposal goes much further in that it requires a UK parent company to identify and remove or reduce the risks of 'adverse impacts' arising out of breaches of the international standards. It also opens a path for any affected person or persons to bring a direct claim for damages (among other remedies) against the UK parent company.
The amount of damages sought may be substantial, depending on the extent and nature of the harm caused to individuals and communities. This is a stark contrast to the existing UK regime, whereby the parent company can generally expect its exposure to be limited to the amount of capital originally invested in the subsidiary.
Although a long and potentially complicated legislative process awaits the Proposal before it becomes law, it is important that directors of companies with operations in the EU begin reviewing and assessing their networks and supply chains to determine whether any changes are required to ensure compliance with the EU's ESG proposals.
In the context of M&A transactions, prospective acquirers should carefully consider any potential risks as part of their pre-transaction due diligence. When diligencing a large international group of companies, it may be easy to overlook a relatively small and immaterial subsidiary incorporated in an area with a poor human rights record.
However, once the Proposal is implemented, such subsidiaries may become a source of significant additional risk for investors.
This article was authored by Natalia Schuster, corporate partner at Fieldfisher.


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. "Dedication." Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, 8e Wolff K, Johnson R, Saavedra AP, Roh EK. Wolff K, Johnson R, Saavedra A.P., Roh E.K. Eds. Klaus Wolff, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, , http://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2043&sectionid=154893606.
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CHELTENHAM is gearing up to the much-anticipated launch of Urban Outfitters on Tuesday 23rdOctober.
Urban Outfitters' first store in the county will be housed within the newly extended retail arm of The Brewery Quarter in Cheltenham and will showcase iconic brands such as Levis, Calvin Klein and Vivienne Westwood in the 8,000sq ft space.
Designed in line with Urban Outfitters' recognisable style the new store is situated on the corner of Bennington Street next to another new Brewery Quarter opening, luxury menswear retailer Luke 1977. New dessert parlour, Creams Café is just around the corner into the scheme and is also due to open just in time for half-term.
Cheltenham shoppers and visitors to the area are clearly benefitting from the retail and hospitality diversity that the £30m regeneration programme, completed in January 2018, has drawn to this part of the town.
The last twelve months have been the most successful ever for The Brewery Quarter with almost 5 million people visiting the scheme, an increase of 15% on last year. In the last 3 months alone footfall has risen by a staggering 25% which explains why seven lifestyle and hospitality brands have chosen The Brewery Quarter as their new home.
Office occupancy also reaches its maximum capacity this month with high fashion beauty brand SLG, the company behind Superdry's and Little Mix's cosmetics ranges, picking up their keys to commence their multi-million pound uber luxe office refit alongside international insurance broker THB Globalselecting the site for their regional office.
All three brands launching this month will throw open their doors within days of each other,kicking off with Luke 1977 and closely followed by Creams Café both opening in time for half term week and Urban Outfitters hosting their launch party on 23rdOctober.
The Botanist is set to open in early December, with the exact date still to be announced.


Bedford Square was built between 1776 and 1780 and was probably the work of Thomas Leverton, as well as the builder/contractors William Scott and Robert Grews. Each side of the Square was treated as a single unit. The houses were plain brick with wrought-iron balconies to the first-floor windows and the doors were decorated with Coade stone. The central house on each side was stuccoed, pedimented and had a pilastered five-bay centre. Houses 1-54 are listed as Grade I on the English Heritage Register.
Bedford Square residents have included: Lord Eldon, the Lord Chancellor (whose daughter eloped with G S Repton, son of Humphry Repton who designed the neighbouring Bloomsbury and Russell Squares); Thomas Leverton, the architect of the square; the second Duke of Devonshire; William Butterfield, architect; and H H Asquith, Prime Minister.
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Sir Harry Ricardo (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine.Among his many other works, he improved the engines that were used in the first tanks, oversaw the research into the physics of internal combustion that led to the use of octane ratings, was instrumental in development of the sleeve valve engine design, and invented the Diesel precombustion chamber that made high-speed diesel engines possible.


Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Nov 29;52(12):9207-17. doi: 10.1167/iovs.11-8025.
This study was designed to investigate serum and macular response to, and safety of supplementation with, meso-zeaxanthin (MZ), lutein (L), and zeaxanthin (Z), the carotenoids that constitute macular pigment (MP).
Forty-four healthy subjects were recruited into this randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. Subjects consumed one tablet per day containing 10.6 mg MZ, 5.9 mg L, and 1.2 mg Z (intervention, I group) or placebo (P group). The spatial profile of MP optical density (MPOD) was measured with customized heterochromatic flicker photometry (cHFP), and serum concentrations of L and Z were quantified by using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Subjects were assessed at baseline and at 3 and 6 months. Clinical pathology analysis was performed at baseline and 6 months.
Serum concentrations of L and Z increased significantly in the I group (P = 0.001 and 0.003, respectively) and remained stable in the P group (P > 0.05). There was a significant increase in central MPOD in the I group (0.25°: P = 0.001; 0.5°: P = 0.001), with no significant change in the P group (P > 0.05). Clinical pathology analysis confirmed that all variables remained within the normal reference range, with the exception of total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which exhibited baseline values outside the accepted normal reference range before supplementation.
Subjects supplemented with MZ, L, and Z exhibited significant increases in serum concentrations of these carotenoids and a subsequent increase in central MPOD. Pathology analysis suggested no adverse clinical implications of consuming these carotenoids. (http://isrctn.org number, ISRCTN60816411).


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Lunella's
Lunella's is a family-owned restaurant located in Little Italy, New York City.
Lunella Ristorante opened in 2001, operated by an Italian immigrant family that has owned and operated various restaurants on Mulberry Street for generations.
The exterior is characterized by a flag and lighted sign portraying a crescent moon.
The thick mahogany storefront slides open on a warmer days to bring an airy atmosphere to the quaint interior.
Lunella's offers homemade pasta dishes, fresh seafood, veal and poultry dishes and much more. A full-bar and a Wine List complements the food.


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Andrew Forrest is the latest Australian billionaire to enter the medical cannabis arena with a $5 million investment
Bianca Healey Nov. 23, 2021, 11:02 AM
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Following a surge of investment and interest in the Australian cannabis market, another Australian billionaire has tipped money into the space.
Andrew Forrest has made a $5 million share placement into Perth-based health technology company Emyria as the sector experiences continued growth.
Reports have forecast revenue from the medicinal cannabis sector will more than double to $200 million in 2021 compared to the year prior.
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is following fellow magnate Gina Rinehart into the medical cannabis sector with a $5 million share placement into Perth-based health technology company Emyria, amid rapid growth in the sector in Australia.
It follows a surge in interest in the Australian sector worth $56.9 million as of 2020.
The investment through the family's investing arm Tattarang comes months after Rinehart's foray into the space with a $15 million push to support the European expansion of Western Australia-based Little Green Pharma.
Emyria has been developing trials of a synthetic cannabinoid targeting mental health, which it hopes to register domestically with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as well as in the American market.
The company, which listed on the ASX last year just before the pandemic reached Australia, has seven patient-treating clinics around Australia, which it uses to progress the development and registration of new drugs.
Michael Winlo, managing director of Emyria, said the company has already treated people through its cannabinoid program and was preparing for an MDMA trial next year to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
The TGA is set to make a decision next month around whether MDMA would be reclassified from a schedule nine drug – which are prohibited substances – down to a controlled drug as a schedule eight.
The TGA made an interim decision in February not to reclassify psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in mushrooms, and MDMA, found in ecstasy.
"In light of the evidence and the growing recognition of major mental health disorders and the need for more treatment options. I think there will be a very persuasive argument in front of the TGA," Winlo said.
Earlier this year, the Australian government pledged $15 million of competitive grants to "kick start Australian clinical trials exploring the use of potential breakthrough combination therapies for the treatment of debilitating mental illnesses".
The move was the result of a concerted lobbying push over the past few years to reclassify psychedelic drugs psilocybin and MDMA to be used in clinical settings.
In October a team of researchers at Australia's Monash University gained ethics approval for the clinical study of psilocybin as a treatment for Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
Tattarang chief investment officer John Hartman said the investment by Emyria into "industry-leading" data collection would allow it to innovate faster than other companies and bring online new treatments quickly and cost-effectively.
"We believe evidence-based, and properly registered, medicinal cannabis and novel psychedelic treatments have massive growth potential across global healthcare jurisdictions," he said.
"Emyria's data-driven approach positions it strongly to lead the accelerated development and registration of new treatment options that can potentially benefit millions of patients."
The most recent share placement into the Australian cannabis market follows a raft of investment this year, in a sign local growth in the sector was picking up speed.
In June two players in the global pharmaceutical cannabis market announced major moves and fundraising in the Australian market.
Little Green Pharma announced to the ASX that Rinehart had contributed $15 million for it to acquire a manufacturing facility in Denmark, as part of an overall $27.2 million capital raise which also gave the mining magnate a 10% stake in the company.
Nasdaq-listed Clever Leaves, a US-based full-scale cannabis supplier, said it had partnered with its second Australian company, IDT Australia, to bring its pharmaceutical-grade product into the country — and announced it had made its first commercial shipment into the country.
Five Australian companies are now valued at more than $100 million, up from just two last year, following an acceleration in revenue growth, product development and business expansion in the sector.
A report by Fresh Leaf Analytics forecasted revenue from the medicinal cannabis sector to more than double to $200 million in 2021 compared to last year.
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This post was written by Rachel Cleetus, Lead Economist and Climate Policy Manager for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and originally published on the UCSUSA blog.
News reports indicate that the Trump administration has big plans underway to undermine the work of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the lead agency working to protect our health and the environment from pollution. One troublesome development has already happened: last Friday the EPA was instructed to freeze all its grants and contracts, a move that could seriously impede the agency's work the longer it is in place.
This is bad news for all Americans, especially our nation's children.
Instead of blatantly attempting to put fossil fuel interests ahead of our clean air and clean water, the Trump administration must instead show us how it will protect our health and well-being.
Pollutants like smog, ozone, and mercury contribute to worsening asthma attacks (especially in young children), heart and lung ailments, and even premature death. What's more, pollution imposes billions of dollars in costs to the economy in terms of hospital and other health costs, lost work days, lost school days, and other burdens, in addition to pain and suffering.
The EPA was established nearly 50 years ago, under President Nixon, with a mission to protect human health and the environment. Since then, across Republican and Democratic administrations, it has played an important role in responding to environmental disasters, from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident to the catastrophic 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee.
Equally important, the EPA has worked to implement major environmental laws passed by Congress, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, which have helped to significantly to drive down harmful pollution and improve the health of Americans.
We need only look to the air quality in Beijing or New Delhi to understand where our country would be without these fundamental protections. Americans need and depend on the EPA to be our watchdog and guardian.
Efforts to gut the EPA—via budget and staffing cuts, cuts in research grants and activities, or by stopping the implementation of key public health safeguards—will hurt real people. These actions would almost certainly mean more children getting sick and American taxpayers not getting the science-based protections and information we have invested in.
When big car companies like Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler evade our nation's emissions laws, it is the EPA that takes the lead in bringing them into compliance (using science and methods that sometimes come from independent investigators such as the West Virginia University team that first discovered the so-called defeat device in VW vehicles).
The EPA works with Tribal communities to help with the cleanup of toxic waste sites, reduce pollution from fossil fuels, and expand access to information such as the toxic release inventory that helps all communities know their risks.
The EPA's AirData website provides access to air quality data collected from outdoor air monitors around the nation, a vital source of information for communities and researchers.
These are just a few examples of the valuable work the EPA does. There's a lot more work to do to continue our progress on cleaning up our air and water, particularly in low-income communities, communities of color, and tribal communities—which bear a disproportionate burden of pollution from fossil fuels and industrial sources. There's always room for improvement, including in beefing up enforcement of existing laws.
But there is no good reason to undertake drastic measures to undermine the fundamental work of the agency, except to pander to the interests of polluting industries that care more about their bottom line than the costs they are imposing on society at large.
We shouldn't have to choose between our health and a thriving economy—and past experience shows we don't need to. For example, the data show that over a 20-year period from 1990 to 2010 the Clean Air Act helped drive down total emissions of the six major air pollutants by more than 40 percent while GDP grew more than 64 percent.
In fact, if we act in a short-sighted way and reduce commonsense safeguards, we will undermine future economic growth and have to divert more and more resources to dealing with health problems and cleaning up environmental harms.
We can and should reduce pollution in a fair way that integrates economic prosperity and a cleaner, healthier environment. Americans deserve no less.
The EPA's work is informed by robust science. For example, in setting pollution standards the EPA must take into account what the latest medical studies show about the impacts of pollutants like ozone or mercury on human health. Regulations are also informed by the latest science on cost-effective pollution control technologies and practices.
And for many pollutants the EPA must also do a cost-benefit analysis to ensure that the standards are being set in a way that takes into account the costs of pollution controls relative to the public health benefits. These types of cost-benefit analyses have been a mainstay of regulatory policy dating back to the Reagan Administration, and use very standard mainstream economic methods.
Of course, for toxic pollutants that pose an acute risk to human health, such as mercury, standards are set based on public health criteria as the law requires.
Additionally, the EPA administrator regularly solicits expert opinions from independent scientists and experts, including through the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and the Science Advisory Board (SAB), both of which were created under direction from Congress in the late 1970s. The CASAC has weighed in on issues such as the appropriate setting of ozone standards and standards for nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. The SAB has been tapped to provide input on several key issues including the economy-wide modeling of the benefits and costs of environmental regulation and a review of the impacts of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on drinking water.
What's your plan for clean air and water, President Trump?
Setting smart cost-effective public health standards has helped improve our air and water, drive innovation in clean technologies, and allowed robust economic growth to continue alongside. Let's not turn back the clock on progress, putting our kids at risk of breathing dirtier air or drinking unsafe water.
President Trump, what's your plan to protect our children from pollution?


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Hot Houses: Luxury in the jungle and modern Canadian castle
Hot Houses: Luxury in the jungle
Hot Houses: Explore a secluded paradise in Costa Rica, a modern day Quebec castle and a sky-high Miami palace
Each week FOXNews.com picks its Top 3 over-the-top luxury listings from Mansion Global.
This week we have a jungle paradise in Costa Rica, a modern day Quebec castle and a Miami palace in the sky.
Monkeys cavorting on your front porch, your very own suspension bridge and a toucan for an alarm clock? Now that's what we call a vacation house.
This unique Costa Rican jungle compound near the beach village of Montezuma is hitting the auction block in late January.
There's no reserve price, but it was previously listed for sale in mid-2015 for $6.5 million.
The wildly luxurious property is home to a Spanish-style main villa, a dramatic cliff-side studio, staff quarters, and a parking area spacious enough for a helicopter to land. Yes, a helicopter.
The 10,600-square-foot main house has six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a palatial second-floor master suite, a home theater with seating for 12 and and a 1,500-square-foot terrace.
The grounds are more manicured than a 5-star hotel with an infinity pool, swim-up bar that seats 12, an oversized jacuzzi and, of course, stables to accommodate up to four horses.
If the jungle isn't your thing, you could always live out your fairy tale fantasies in this modern Canadian castle.
The Quebec property includes 24 rooms (with six bedrooms), including an indoor ice rink, a gym, and several game areas.
Best of all, you never have to lift a finger. The entire home is equipped with state-of-the-art technology including fingerprint lock systems and full media controls from the touch of a phone.
There are four full bathrooms and two partial bathrooms, an eight-car garage, a pool, a hot tub, and sports courts.
Feeling lazy? An elevator will take you to all four floors.
The property also has its own water purification system, but more importantly, it has its very own indoor waterfall.
It's all yours for $4.06 million.
If you have a spare $28 million laying around you could be the proud owner of one of the most over-the-top condos in Miami
The 10,118-square-foot mansion in the sky includes five bedrooms, eight-and-a-half bathrooms, two staff rooms and spacious living and dining rooms, according to Terra, the developer of the project.
There's plenty of outdoor space too. This is Miami after all. Relax on your private 2,000-square-foot private rooftop deck with garden space and a private pool. There's also a separate 2,500-square-foot terrace on the main level.
The home offers panoramic vistas of Biscayne Bay and 360-degree views of Miami.
Other amenities in the building include a five-star spa and fitness center, 24-hour concierge and butler service and a pet spa.
For more on our hot house pics and other stunning luxury properties check out Mansion Global.com.


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    let!(:person) { create(:person, :unpublished) }

    before do
      login_as(user, scope: :user)
    end

    it "user can publish person" do
      expect(person.published?).to eq(false)

      post "/db/people/#{person.id}/publishing"
      person.reload

      expect(response.status).to eq(302)
      expect(flash[:notice]).to eq("公開しました")

      expect(person.published?).to eq(true)
    end
  end
end

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Canal stenosis is a form of spinal stenosis that occurs when the main canal of the spinal cord becomes narrow and can no longer safely house the main vertebrae. Patients may experience many different types of neural issues like tingling, numbness, weakness or pain radiating around the site of the stenosis. It can also affect the nerves which may travel into the shoulders, arms or legs.
Canal stenosis is routinely identified through an MRI. Doctors must also perform a physical exam to determine whether the symptoms match the conditions seen on the MRI. Although many believe otherwise, patients can in fact live their entire lives with a spine condition and not experience symptoms. This is why it is so important to get a comprehensive screening that involves not only an MRI but a proper physical exam to determine the actual source of pain. Then a physician can help the patient move forward with treatment.
While temporary relief can be found by leaning forward, such as in the sitting position, naturally one can't live in this position. To gain lasting effects, those suffering from stenosis of the spine should look into minimally invasive laser spinal surgery. With no bone cutting, a short recovery period, and unmatched professionalism in treatment, Deuk Spine Institute provides even the most nervous patient peace of mind when it comes to his or her recovery from canal stenosis. With a well-trained staff available to answer all questions and a proven success rate of over 95%, the pain you suffer from canal stenosis can swiftly become a thing of the past.


What's on Netflix > Netflix News > When will Season 4 of Peaky Blinders be on Netflix?
When will Season 4 of Peaky Blinders be on Netflix?
Season 4 of Peaky Blinder is happening and is coming to Netflix although no firm dates are available as of yet. Below, we'll cover what to expect for season 4 plus when we predict season 4 will be available on each of the Netflix regions that carry it.
Just to get you up to speed in case you've never seen Peaky Blinders, the series recounts loosely the events in 1920's Birmingham following the gang that is known as the Peaky Blinders. It stars Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, 28 Days Later) as the gang leader and is on the rise and inevitable fall of the gang.
It airs in the United Kingdom first on BBC. The first series aired in September 2013, the second came the following year in October 2014 and the third season came two years later. In case you weren't already aware, the series is renewed for both season 4 and 5.
Let's take a look at when season 4 will air in some of the main regions Peaky Blinders is available in.
In the US, the show is actually sold as a Netflix Original which means it comes exclusively to the platform although most of the soundtrack is changed from the original version. Let's take a look at when the previous seasons came to Netflix US. Season 1 was made available on Netflix US a year after it first aired in September 2014, season 2 came just a couple of months later after the second season finished. Likewise, season 3 was available a month after it finished in July 2016.
Given the above, we suspect we'll only have to wait a month after the show finishes on BBC UK. At the moment, the series is scheduled for fall 2017 so our best guess is that Peaky Blinders season 4 will be on Netflix US in November/December 2017.
Netflix UK carries the show although you're probably aware that only two seasons are currently available. This is because the BBC typically renews the show shortly before or thereafter the new series airs. That means we suspect we'll get season 3 on Netflix UK in September 2017 and season 4 added shortly before season 5 starts.
Are you looking forward to watching Peaky Blinders season 4? Let us know in the comments below!
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I have an issue as we'll. my up and down on the drivers side acts like its stuck. I know power is to it because I hear and feel a thump when I initiate the switch.
I also have an issue with the heater not working on the lower half of my front seats. The back rests work fine along with the rear seats.
I had the same problems as chadfranklin1986 -- no driver seat power and no front seat heaters. The three fuses described above are actually circuit breakers and are reset once they are removed from the circuits. I followed the instructions and all is working again.
I feel like I saved $1000 by not going to the dealer.
Reset the fuses in the floor box alone and this fixed my '07 H2 driver seat which was experiencing no power at the controls and no heat. Thank you!!!
I am having the same problem as the above posts. IE driver's side controls not working and no heat in either seat. I pulled all three silver circuit breakers, (2 on the floor fuse box and one in the side). Nothing has worked. Any other suggestions?? They were working before I took my Hummer H2 to a shop to have part of the leather on driver's seat replaced.
Tommye, I am having the exact same issues...did you manage to solve the problem?
Sorry to dig up an old thread. I'm having the same issue. Other then to rest my memory control module I have to unplug all the harnesses from it. Then things will work. Once I turn the DRIVERS heated seat on. It could stay on for 5 min or an hr but once I turn the truck off nothing works again until I unplug the module. What the heck is going on?
did u found out the problem ...i check i fuses n aluminum breaker . N still not working..i repaced the motors n no...also repaced the module but no result n also i replace the seat control n still no answer can any one help me pliss wat esle can i do..
Considering Ryan asked about this 7 years ago and has not been seen here since 2014 I very much doubt he is going to reply.
I own a 2006 h2. I too was experiencing the same issues with my drivers seat power and both front heated seats. It started off being an intermittent issue until one day it just quit working all together. I tried the suggestions you all posted and thought It had worked with the pulling and replacing the 3 silver circuit breaker fuses. To my dismay it continued to repeat the same problems. After carefully inspecting everything around my drivers seat I had found the main power harness under a black plastic removable cover on the floorboard toward the back side of the drivers seat. There is a connection block containing several small gage wires and 2 larger ones. The 2 larger ones, one being orange and the other black, are located on opposite corners of this block. After a small movement of the orange wire I gained power back to all functions of the seat and heaters. It appeared to be quite loose in the block itself. Power would come and go as I moved it back an forth. After speaking with several people of the GM family, I found that this has been a common problem in several models i.e. yukon, tahoe, h2, and in some full sized pickups with the crew cab design. To remedy this problem, I found using small zip ties to hold the wires tight into the block worked. If that doesn't work, I would suggest cutting the connectors off and replacing them with male/female flat insulated connectors on each individual wire.
I hope this will help some of you as I have been trying to figure this out for almost a year.


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How University Students Can Find The Internships That Would Influence Their Career Growth?
An internship is the position of a student who works in an organization in order to gain work experience for a qualification. If you want to cultivate your career, you should find an internship. Internships are becoming very important in the job market. The internship is very essential for any graduate in order to gain a higher standard job. If you are incapable to write an academic paper about how to find an internship, then you can get help from dissertation writing services. Here are some methods about finding an internship and the importance of internship in the growth of your career.
If you want to find an internship, you should go to the company you want to intern with. It is very common that most students think about their favourite company, so, you can go to your favourite company. However, it does not matter, if they are an international law firm or a regional start-up that you have heard about in the local press. You should know all the information about their internship. You can check their website front page in order to know the whole policies and information. You should create a CV attached with your entire requirement. Pick up the blower and give the company a call. Do not send email, because, most people ignore email for many days and week. It is a very useful method that you should use in order to gain an internship.
The cliché is very old style; therefore, you should not adopt it. Maybe your parents have a friend who works in the industry. You should ask about people you know already. It is the best option to select them for an internship. It is very useful and imperils for university students.
You should check out your university careers in order to find a better internship. A few university careers service provides you with a team for an internship. You can mention your university career in your application process. It is another best method that you can use in order to find a better internship for your future. The internship is the best method to set your career foundation. Keep in mind that an internship is a tool that can improve your job options.
A most important and useful way to find an internship to is to look at the job board. If you want to find the best internship, you should look at job boards. Finding an internship is not the easiest task in the world. However, you can find it on the job boards. Joining a company for an internship gives you an opportunity to work in the hands of experts. You can gain real-world experience that is very useful for you in your future. An internship gives you an opportunity to meet different people. It is very useful to improve your communication skills. You will become a master of time management.


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Science Group Presents Awards for Helping Animals and Humans
Published January 4, 2017 by Heather Moore. Last Updated November 13, 2019.
Congratulations to the scientists at the University of Cincinnati, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Selventa, Inc., for winning a PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. award for their contributions to help animals and humans!
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The Science Consortium held a contest for scientists to help build a database that can be used to design reliable non-animal toxicity tests and predict the human health effects of chemicals.
By the end of the contest, the cash award winners had made hundreds of updates to an online encyclopedia that was created to share information efficiently and improve our understanding of how chemicals cause toxicity. The information in the database can also be used to design non-animal tests that will prevent animals from being used in experiments and better protect human health.
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The Science Consortium applauds the award winners for their efforts to accelerate the development of alternatives to animal testing.


Macho Mayo got in touch to see if I'd like to test out their zippy mayonnaise. I must confess I've never been a big mayonnaise fan, but that's because it really does taste quite bland. I use mayo in sandwich salads like ham salad, but generally I skip over it. Some mayo with a kick sounded more in line with my palate, so I decided to give it a try.
The two flavors arrived. The medium is Roasted Green Chili. The hot is Roasted Jalapeno (red label). You can see the jars above.
I decided to charcoal grill some hamburgers to try out the mayonnaise.
Once I finished grilling the hamburgers, I broke out the Macho Mayo Green Chili. Sometimes "hot" is over the top, so I opted for medium to start with.
Normally I dress out my grilled hamburgers, but I decided to go with just the Macho Mayo to get the full effect. This is spread style in a jar. I could have put some in a squirt bottle to make a prettier photo, but I think readers should see what things actually do look like (so I don't photoshop my photos either - other than cropping). I also put the mayo on the meat rather than the bun, so you could actually see it.
Macho Mayo was so yummy that I added more mayo after I took the photo and started eating my burger. I also warmed up a leftover burger for lunch the next day and had another Macho Mayo burger.
I come across lots of really yummy products, but this is one of my favorite new flavors. It's great on sandwiches. It is wonderful as a dip like Ranch for chips or veggies. And, I'm planning to try this out on White Barbecue Chicken (Alabama style).
This is a total thumbs up. Medium has a mild kick and should work for everyone. Hot Macho Mayo is still good for a lot of people. Just use less if you don't want a whole lot of heat. I say: "Try out Macho Mayo. It really is THAT good" (even for someone who was not big on mayonnaise before).
I hope Food Lion adds this product. Crossing my fingers.
Comes in 2 flavors- Zesty Roasted Green Chili (medium heat level) & Spicy Roasted Jalapeno (hot heat level).
I noticed you are a food lover like myself and your article gives very helpful tips and information about barbecue cooking! Indeed, this is a great guide for people who are looking for tips and guide on how to achieve the best barbecue for their family gathering.
Looking forward to more posts from your website!


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19th August 2018 Rod Dungate
Alfred Molina becomes Patron of Court Theatre Training Company: Rod Dungate
Alfred Molina announced as patron of the Court Theatre Training Company
Alfred Molina is announced as the patron of the Court Theatre Training Company, which is based in Shoreditch in London.
Molina is possibly most well-known for a host of major film roles, early on in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Letter to Brezhnev but also, among others, Prick Up Your Ears, The Da Vinci Code and Spider-Man 2. He has recently appeared on our TV screens in in the haunting and disturbing Close To the Enemy by Stephen Poliakoff.
Alfred Molina is also a fine stage actor, recently playing in Long Day's Journey Into Night (a real physical and emotional marathon) and Red in the London's West End.
Alfred Molina is definitely not one of the posh-boy actors. He was educated in an ordinary London secondary school. At a time when there is real concern about arts subjects, including music and drama, being squeezed out of our school curriculums, Modlina recognises the importance of early support and encouragement.
Commenting on his appointment he said: 'Acting and theatre have been the cornerstone of my professional and personal life. I was lucky enough to have a sympathetic mother, and a supportive and encouraging teacher, and some good fortune along the way as I made my life as an actor. But I have never forgotten or lost sight of the importance of study, training and the need for a creative space. The space might be a school, or a theatre group, or just the company of like-minded souls who share your passion and love for the craft. The Court Theatre Company provides so much of what an actor will need.'
As Molina becomes Patron, Tim Gill takes on the role of sole principal and artistic-director of the company, following the retirement of June Abbott.
The Court Theatre Training Company:
http://www.courttheatre.org.uk/
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Theatre Royal Nottingham, 2**, Alan Geary
An Officer & A Gentleman – The Musical, Theatre Royal Plymouth, 3***, Cormac Richards
Ain't Misbehavin' – by Murray Horwitz & Richard Maltby Jr. Southwark Playhouse, London SE 1. 5*****. William Russell
25th April 2019 Bill Russell
Lexicon – The Roundhouse, London NW1 to 18 January 2020. 4****. William Russell.
8th January 2020 Bill Russell
Burke and Hare, Jermyn St London, 4****: William Russell
3rd December 2018 Rod Dungate


Posted on February 5, 2019 by Al B.
In full disclosure, the author of this blog is on the board of directors of Sound Action, one of the plaintiffs in this case. This case, if successful, is likely to have significant ramifications to the placement of bulkheads, when allowed, along the shoreline.
Today the federal court soundly found in the plaintiffs favor and denied the Motion to Dismiss. Most significantly, the court found that a final agency action had taken place — which clears the way for the challenge to move forward.
Seattle, WA —A federal judge today rejected an effort by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its refusal to adequately protect shoreline areas in Puget Sound. The Court's decision means the lawsuit, which charges that the agency has refused to assert its Clean Water Act jurisdiction over most shoreline armoring in Puget Sound, will go forward.
Sound Action, Washington Environmental Council, and Friends of the San Juans filed the suit in May of 2018. The groups contend a strong federal policy to protect shorelines is critical to Puget Sound recovery and the survival of endangered orcas.
The coalition, represented by the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice, is calling for federal oversight of shoreline armoring by raising what the Corps' Seattle District considers the "high tide line" to better protect at-risk species and shorelines. The lawsuit also calls for a response to the groups' 2015 petition asking for jurisdictional decisions on four shoreline armoring projects.
Armoring is the placement of hard structures — boulders, jetties, seawalls — on shorelines to help prevent erosion. The Corps is required by law to review proposed armoring projects up to the "high tide line," which is generally the line at which land meets the water. But the Corps' Seattle District uses a much lower tidal marker (known as the "mean higher high water" mark). As a result, the Seattle District does not review the majority of armoring projects in Puget Sound.
The Corps' failure to assert jurisdiction means there has been no federal oversight of whether most armoring projects in the Sound meet the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act or any other federal requirement.
Further, the Corps recently rejected an interagency recommendation to use a higher tidal marker, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits arbitrary and capricious agency actions. In rejecting the recommendation, the Corps ignored sound science and the law.
This troubling lack of federal support puts Puget Sound shorelines at risk of further deterioration, particularly when shoreline armoring is well documented to be one of the most significant risks to the Sound. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs challenge the Corps' failures to adequately protect Puget Sound shoreline habitat by fully implementing the law.


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Turkey: Istanbul Police Seize 240 Pounds Of Morphine And Make Arrests Allegedly Implicating Turkish Senators In Drug Smuggling. 1972
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Several members of the Turkish Senate have been implicated in a drug smuggling ring, the Turkish Minister of the interior, Ferit Kubat, said on Sunday (March 12).
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Background: Several members of the Turkish Senate have been implicated in a drug smuggling ring, the Turkish Minister of the interior, Ferit Kubat, said on Sunday (March 12). His statement followed arrests and seizures of morphine in France and Istanbul last week.
The Minister told reporters that investigations following the arrests the previous weekend of right-wing Turkish Senator Kudret Beyhan - when 320 pounds (146 kilos) of morphine base were also seized - had led to a police raid on a car dealers yard in Istanbul.
The police detained five people and found 240 pounds (108 kilos) of morphine base - valued at about twelve-and-a-half million pounds sterling on the illicit American market.
Mr Kubat said this raid led to information on other members of a drug smuggling ring, including senators. He hoped investigations would be completed by next weekend.
SYNOPSIS: Five men were detained at Istanbul Police headquarters this week following a police raid on a car-dealers yard where 240 pounds of morphine base were seized. The raid followed on the arrest in France earlier of Turkish Senator Kudret Beyhan. One of those arrested in Istanbul is the last owner of the car in which the Senator was detained.
Outside the Narcotics Bureau investigators checked tow cars said to have been used for smuggling drugs. In one, the Chevrolet, police found the 240 pounds of morphine base seized in Istanbul. The other, a Turkish-made Ford, is alleged to have been used by Senator Beyhan on a previous smuggling trip to France, last December. Turkish Interior Minister Forit Kubat says that several Turkish Senators are implicated in a drug-smuggling ring.
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A look at how customs officers in France and Belgium search for contraband.
The Smuggling Racket - Pathe Joins A French Customs Probe
A funny little film about customs inspectors on the Franco-Belgian border.
Funeral Of Victims Of Gun Running - Dublin
Large crowds attend funeral of victims of gun running. Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Drug Smuggling In Los Angeles And New York
Maria Wendt being arrested in Los Angeles, California, for smuggling heroin from China, and customs agents in New York searching ships for smuggled drugs
Lebanon: Hashish Smuggling.
THERE'S BEEN A MASSIVE INCREASE IN DRUG SMUGGLING IN RECENT YEARS AND POLICE FORCES ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE CO-OPERATING TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THE TRAFFIC.
Israel: Explosive Smuggling
India: Customs Offices Display Allegedly Smuggled Gold In Delhi
Indian Customs men in Delhi on Monday (17 August) showed part of a cache of seized gold which was allegedly being smuggled by two Frenchmen.
India: Tibetan Art Treasures Smuggled Into India
TWO BROKEN CLAY OF AVALOKETESVARA, THE TIBETAN GOD OF INFINITE MERCY, HAVE BEEN SMUGGLED INTO NEW DELHI TIBET.


An abstract expressionist in my heart, the soul-deepening process of painting abstract works parallels my obsession with the equine.
Giclee prints on canvas, black floated frame.
"Blue Collection, 2002, Number 1"


These florentines are so moreish, you'll be tempted to eat them all – so it's good to give them away before that happens. I like to create little parcels using baking paper and ribbon for Christmas gifts. You could even attach a name tag and use them as place holders for your Christmas lunch or dinner.
Moreish florentines are perfect treats for you, as well as great gifts friends and family.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC fan bake and generously grease 10 holes of a silicon muffin tray.
In a small saucepan over a low heat, combine butter, sugar and flour. Using a whisk, mix until sugar has dissolved, then whisk in mascarpone. Take off heat and stir in almonds, seeds, cherries, peel and ginger. While mixture is still warm and malleable, use a teaspoon to divide evenly between each hole. Refrigerate for 15 minutes to allow cookies to set before baking.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden. Once baked, cool at room temperature for 5 minutes then put muffin tray in fridge for another 10 minutes. This will help the cookies solidify, but not so much that you can't get them out of the muffin tray (they should still be a little soft). Once cool, put cookies onto a rack to set completely.
Meanwhile, melt chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, then using a spoon or fork, drizzle over florentines. Refrigerate for 15 minutes to allow the chocolate to set. Sprinkle with sea salt. Blot cookies on a paper towel to remove any excess butter.
To wrap, cut out squares of baking paper (about 30cm x 30cm) and wrap up 3 or 4 cookies. Pull up corners and using ribbon, tie a bow to enclose the cookies in a little parcel. If kept in an airtight container, these florentines will last up to 2 weeks.