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CloudMile, a Taiwan-based A.I startup, officially announced its first launch in Hong Kong market. CloudMile aims at helping enterprises to achieve digital transformation and develop brand-new business models efficiently by leveraging the power of A.I and cloud technology. CloudMile's high quality services do not only boost the productivity and efficiency of an enterprise, but also accelerate the development of Fintech, Smart City and A.I sectors in Hong Kong.
With the establishment of Hong Kong team in late 2018, it has successfully accumulated diversified practical experience in a short time while serving clients from the government, retail, transportation, ecommerce and media industries.
Equipped with Google Cloud Certificates CloudMile serves as Google Cloud Premium Partner
CloudMile is committed to developing Cloud, Big data analytics and A.I technology, which has earned over 70 accreditations, with over 40 Google Cloud Certificates. CloudMile, the Premier Partner of Google Cloud, is also the first partner acquired Infrastructure Specialization and Machine Learning Specialization in North Asia.
Apart from the recognition of Cloud technology, CloudMile accomplished the first ever case of traditional industry deploying AI technology in Taiwan on GCP. As a leading A.I technology provider, CloudMile also created a content recommendation engine for media and e-commerce players to optimize their businesses.
In view of the official launch of Google Hong Kong's Data Centre last year, CloudMile decided to extend its services to Hong Kong with a professional team, offering tailor-made cloud services and structures for local enterprises to enjoy ultra-low latency data delivery, improve their cloud effectiveness and decision-making process.
"CloudMile is dedicated in promoting A.I and cloud technologies. The newly-established Hong Kong professional team will work with local enterprises to explore opportunities of digital transformation and develop innovative business models." Said Mr. Spencer Liu, Founder & CEO of CloudMile. "We also welcome talents who are interested in A.I and cloud sectors to join us and step into Southeast Asia markets together to boost the development of cloud and A.I technologies."
Mr. James Kao, Chief Operating Officer of CloudMile believed that the Hong Kong government is demonstrating the growing embrace of innovative technology. "In the 2018-2019 budget , HKD$500 million is reserved to implement the innovative technology development scheme, and the idea is also included in the Greater Bay development plan, which implies the significance of promoting innovative technology." Said James. "Our team acknowledged the emerging demand of A.I applications and digital transformation in Hong Kong. In view of this, we plan to launch Cantonese and English training programs for local enterprises to provide a more comprehensive technology support."
4 Core Solutions: Address Business Pain Points and Increase Productivity
CloudMile not only provide Google Cloud, Google Maps and G-suite services, but also designated A.I and big data solutions for enterprises:
Solution Service
1. Cloud Solutions
Google Cloud and Google Maps Services, including:
Cloud Migration Plan: guarantees shortest converting intervals and minimal costs.
Training taught by engineers with Google Cloud Certifications.
2. Productivity Solutions
Google G Suite Service, including:
Gmail, Files, Documents Sharing, Instant Message and Live Conference functions.
Simplify the work flow within a team.
3. Security Solutions
Integrated defense against DDoS or abusive traffic to reduce application load while keeping users and data safe.
4. A.I & Big Data Analytics Solutions
Provides A.I consulting service and tailor-made A.I application.
Help companies to make favourable decisions through Elastic and Lucidworks.
Hong Kong serves as the stepping stone of CloudMile to international market. In the future, CloudMile will continue cooperating with local talents and partners to provide comprehensive technology service to clients.
CloudMile is established in 2017, a leading AI company in Asia helping enterprises leverage the power of data to predict business trends and thrive in digital transformation. We enable enterprises to turn A.I. hype into real opportunity. CloudMile has earned over 70 accreditations, with over 40 Google Cloud Certificates. CloudMile, the Premier Partner of Google Cloud, is also the first partner acquired Infrastructure Specialization and Machine Learning Specialization in North Asia.


The colour white is a personal all-time favourite for me but it is also a big colour trend in summer. Technically, it is an achromatic color, literally a "color without color", composed of a mixture of all frequencies of the light of the visible spectrum. It has always been a big favourite of mine. There's nothing quite like a crisp white shirt or dress in my opinion.
I have selected a few summer must-haves for you here. I especially love the white raffia cap I found at matchesfashion – a bit retro but oh so stylish!


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Wilton é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Minnesota, no Condado de Beltrami.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 186 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 195, um aumento de 9 (4.8%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
6,1 km², dos quais 6,0 km² cobertos por terra e 0,1 km² cobertos por água. Wilton localiza-se a aproximadamente 424 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 28 km ao redor de Wilton.

Ligações externas

Cidades do Minnesota

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Have you adopted a cat or kitten from Shropshire Cat Rescue? Do you have a favourite picture? We need your pictures for our Shropshire Cat Rescue 2020 Calendar.
Chosen entries will receive a complimentary calendar and a fridge magnet design from the winning photograph.
Please include details about your cat or kitten, including their name and when they were adopted.


I've found out recently that I actually do like certain types of coconut. I don't like it on cakes or shredded, but toasted coconut is so so good! The best brand to buy is Dang. I think it tastes amazing. This snack is healthy and coconut is beneficial for you, but it also tastes surprisingly good! I think it's also not too messy and you can carry around the little package of toasted coconut in your lunchbox or purse or whenever you're on the go. You can buy already toasted-coconut, but you can also make your own! There are so many recipes and ways to make this easy snack. I can't wait to try making it on my own!
What is your favorite easy snack? Have you ever tried toasted coconut? Let me know below!


Monster MMORPG Game Official Forum » In-Game Error Reports » Bugs & Errors Reports - Old Category - Locked For New Threads » Fury Blow Move Description.
In the description for the move fury blow when your monster is learning the move, it says"Stone Skin and Counter Strike will only acknowledge last hit of a this move." the A in that sentence should be removed.


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History buffs hope this time Laura Street Trio will get restored
David Bauerlein
Year by year, the passage of time has chipped away at the unique architectural details of the Laura Street Trio, a group of graffiti-defaced buildings that stood like an open wound in one of the most visible spots in downtown Jacksonville.
But 15 years after the city created a Historic Preservation Trust Fund to save such buildings, the Downtown Investment Authority on Wednesday approved $4 million from that fund as part of a financial partnership with a developer ready to breathe life into the Laura Street Trio and nearby Barnett building.
Past attempts have failed. Downtown Investment Authority officials say this time around, they have a developer with the financial capacity and expertise to pull off the $79 million project.
If successful, it would ensure buildings that were hallmarks of Jacksonville's life in the early 20th century will have renewed impact in this century.
"These four buildings represent old Jacksonville — our history," Downtown Investment Authority CEO Aundra Wallace said.
In addition to $4 million from the historic preservation trust fund, the city also would provide another $4 million grant plus property tax refunds equating to about $1.8 million. The city wouldn't cut any of its checks until after the development team — The Molasky Group of Las Vegas and SouthEast Group of Jacksonville — completes the restoration of the buildings so they're ready for occupants.
It would be the single biggest expenditure from the historic preservation trust fund, leaving just a few hundred thousand dollars for any other projects.
Wallace said the restoration cannot happen without a public-private partnership because of the risk the developer is taking. Wallace said the ratio of taxpayer dollars to private investment is a "darn good investment for us from that standpoint" because it would bring 320,000 square feet of space into use for residences, office and commercial enterprise.
The city also will work with the developers to construct a 550-space parking garage about a block away at the corner of Main and Forsyth streets.
The Downtown Investment Authority board unanimously approved the agreement, which will go next to the City Council.
"This is an immensely difficult, complicated undertaking with lots of moving parts," board member Jack Meeks said.
Among the people hoping the moving parts finally come together is Emily Lisska, executive director of the Jacksonville Historical Society.
Back in 2002, the historical society highlighted the Laura Street Trio at its annual meeting with the theme "Saving Jacksonville's Most Extraordinary Corner." Various developers have come and gone since then, but the buildings have stayed empty.
Lisska said vacancy is one of the worst things for a historic structure because it's a recipe for break-ins and deterioration. A member of the historical society's board even saw skateboarders on top of the Bisbee Building, which is part of the Laura Street Trio.
Lisska paused when asked if she's confident the long-awaited restoration will happen.
"I am cautiously optimistic at the least, and frankly a lot more hopeful than just that," she said. "I've certainly witnessed the starts and stops, but if you look at it, maybe the third time's the charm. It's the third time over lots of years, and I think that presents what a struggle historic preservation can be and really is."
She said sticking with the effort speaks to the city's continuing commitment to downtown revitalization.
"Anybody who grew up here certainly remembers the vibrancy of that area, and it will be exciting to have it vibrant again," she said.
The Laura Street Trio is part of the rebuilding that came after the Great Fire of 1901 wiped out much of the city. The trio consists of the Bisbee Building, the Marble Bank and the Florida Life Building. The Barnett National Bank Building opened in 1926 and it was the state's tallest building. The quartet of buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.
"Downtown is in the center of our city of Jacksonville, and this is right in the center of our downtown," said Jacob Gordon, CEO of Downtown Vision, which represents downtown property-owners. "There's not one person who wants them [the buildings] vacant, so if they were filled for productive reuse, that would mean huge, huge things for downtown."
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Searching for initial mass function variations in resolved stellar populations
Covey, Kevin R.
Bastian, Nate
Meyer, Michael R.
The initial mass function (IMF) succinctly characterizes a stellar population, provides a statistical measure of the end result of the star-formation process, and informs our under- standing of the structure and dynamical evolution of stellar clusters, the Milky Way, and other galaxies. Detecting variations in the form of the IMF could provide powerful insights into the processes that govern the formation and evolution of stars, clusters, and galaxies. In this contribution, we review measurements of the IMF in resolved stellar populations, and critically assess the evidence for systematic IMF variations. Studies of the field, local young clusters and associations, and old globular clusters suggest that the vast majority were drawn from a "universal" IMF, suggesting no gross systematic variations in the IMF over a range of star formation environments, and much of cosmic time. We conclude by highlighting the complimentary roles that Gaia and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will play in future studies of the IMF in Galactic stellar populations. Show more
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03829 - Meyer, Michael R. (ehemalig)


The environment around a cell during in vitro culture is unlikely to mimic those in vivo. Preliminary experiments with nanotopography have shown that nanoscale features can strongly influence cell morphology, adhesion, proliferation and gene regulation, but the mechanisms mediating this cell response remain unclear. In this perspective article, we attempt to illustrate that a possible mechanism is direct transmittal of forces encountered by cells during spreading to the nucleus via the cytoskeleton. We further try to illustrate that this 'self – induced' mechanotransduction may alter gene expression by changing interphase chromosome positioning. Whilst the observations described here to show how we think nanotopography can be developed as a tool to look at mechanotransduction are preliminary, we feel they indicate that topography may give cell biologists a non-invasive tool with which to investigate in vitro cellular mechanisms.
Nanobioscience, nanotopography, microarray, centromere positioning, cytoskeleton.


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Kalaignar TV got Rs. 200 crores through 2G Scam : ED
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Enforcement Directorate ( ED) on Monday told a special court that former Telecom Minister A Raja had "illegally" granted 2G Spectrum licences to ineligible firms in lieu of which Rs 200 crore was allegedly transferred to Kalaignar TV, owned by DMK chief M. Karunanidhi's family.
Commencing final arguments in the 2G scam related money laundering case, special public prosecutor Anand Grover alleged that a conspiracy was hatched by Mr. Raja and other accused and Rs. 200 crore was the "proceed of crime."
He claimed that the amount was transferred to Kalaignar TV through various firms and was returned only when Mr. Raja was called by the CBI for questioning in 2G spectrum scam case. "Kalaignar TV was owned by Kanimozhi (DMK MP) and Dayalu Ammal (wife of M Karunanidhi) who both are related to DMK supremo M Karunanidhi and Raja also belonged to the same party," Mr. Grover told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.
He further alleged that "the conspiracy was hatched by A. Raja and others, including the companies, for illegally granting telecom licences to ineligible firms."
Mr. Grover also said that the money was transferred to the TV channel through various companies in a circuitous route.
The arguments on Monday remained inconclusive and would continue on July 27. Mr. Raja, Ms. Kanimozhi, Ms. Dayalu Ammal and 16 others, including nine firms, are facing trial in the case.
The ED on April 25 last year had filed a charge sheet against the accused for alleged offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The court had on October 31 last year framed charges against the accused saying that Raja, allegedly in connivance with Kanimozhi, Dayalu Ammal and other co-accused, was involved in "parking" of illegal gratification of Rs 200 crore in Kalaignar TV.
Source - http://thehindu.com/news/national/kalaignar-tv-got-rs-200-crores-through-2g-scam-ed/article7271324.ece/
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After Kalaignar TV, Now it is Sun TV in 2G Scam
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A program to enjoy the main attractions in Santiago and Viña del Mar, Hotel in Viña del Mar and Santiago.
This program is intended for those who are in transit in Santiago, either because they have to take a flight or stopover in Santiago.


I just ordered Spelling Wisdom Book 1 for my 3rd and 4th grade boys and am looking forward to using it! We come from a pretty rigorous spelling program before and are getting used to the more Charlotte Mason way!
I'm trying to figure out how I can expect to schedule the Spelling Wisdom each week. From looking at the samples of Book 1, they start out short and pretty simple, but get longer and more complex. The first lesson, for example I could probably dictate with them the same day (or the next day if I want to give them some extra time to ease into this new routine). Looking at the longer ones, I can see taking 20 or so minutes just going over it with them at the beginning of the week. (I'm envisioning reading it with them, maybe looking up unfamiliar words in the dictionary, discussing any more challenging punctuation, maybe giving them some context of the novel or author). Just that would take up a whole class period. Day 2, would be a study day where they study on their own? Could Day 3 be the dictation day? Or should I just plan on introducing it on Day 1 and doing the dictation on Day 4 or 5 regardless? I know this will vary by student, but I'm trying to get a little bit of an idea of what else I can schedule.
Another question I have: when there are suggestions to do prepared dictation twice a week, does that mean go through 2 lessons a week? Or that the child is doing it twice a week (whether that is me introducing it with them, them studying, and the final dictation)? I'd like to see any sample schedules for how other have worked this out for their families. Thank you!
The first half of book 1 is transcription. Transcription is similar to copywork, but they are working toward holding more information in their minds. Instead of copying letter by letter, they work on visualizing one whole word, then copying it into the book. From there they can move to small phrases, first visualizing in their minds, then writing on paper.
For the actual dictation lessons (starting with the 2nd half of Spelling Wisdom 1), my kids usually only need 10 minutes of studying the passage, then I dictate it to them at the end of the lesson. If their are a few difficult words, we often save the dictation for the following lesson. We have 2 lessons scheduled each week. Sometimes we spend a bit of time writing the difficult word(s) on a white board or spelling it aloud before we get to dictation.
It is a very different method than traditional spelling, but I've seen such great results with my DC–and it's much easier, less stressful, and far more enjoyable than weekly spelling lists!
Ahh, OK. I had read that about transcription in the description, but it didn't really sink in. So, for the first 70 lessons, we aren't supposed to be having them study any words? I won't be dictating anything… they'll be looking word by word and then move into phrase by phrase by the end of the 70 lessons?


"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" (1).
A month ago, my book club chose to read Anna Karenina, which is quite the solid brick of literature. It's 817 pages of Leo Tolstoy-ness, so you'll understand why I haven't blogged about reading in a while.
I'm a fast reader, so I have to remind myself that not everything can be finished in a week. Anna Karenina took me a whole month to read! That's the longest I've spent on one book since I read A Suitable Boy back in 2004 (which happens to be one of the longest books in the English language). It's the kind of book that you just settle into, get comfortable, and realize that you are going to spend a lot of time with these characters.
And spend time with them I did! This book accompanied me to Costa Rica and back to DC and then home to Tahoe – not to mention many many inner-DC trips on the metro and busses.
Though it's long and solid, it's really quite a breeze. Anna K. (as I so fondly refer to it) reminds me of a Jane Austin or Charles Dickens book, with a wee bit of philosophizing thrown in just to remind you that you're reading Russian literature.
Like Dickens' books, Anna K. was originally published in installments in a 19th century Russian magazine. For readers today, this means that the chapters are short and concise, which I think really kept the story moving. Compared to his other books, Anna K. is Tolstoy-lite (even thought the book itself feels like carrying a brick in my purse!), and is supposed to be a good introduction to his writing.
The story is about the tragic love of the title character, but also just as much about Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin ("Kostya"), who is Anna's brother's wife's sister's suitor (are you confused yet?). Both stories run parallel and intermingle within the Russian elite. I actually preferred Levin's story to Anna's, minus the parts when he philosophizes about the state of the Russian worker/farmer. But the dull parts are short and interspersed within the narrative; so don't let them dissuade you!
Go here for a complete plot summary. But I actually recommend you don't - the story is easy to follow and will be better if it's a surprise!
I didn't really connect with any of the characters. There were some I liked more than others (Dolly, Kitty, Stiva). I will warn you in advance – the names are TRICKY! I suggest you read the note on names in the front of the book. Also, read the end notes as you go, it will make some parts make a lot more sense.
Check out this character list to clarify as you read.
Since this is kind of an impressive academic book, let's talk about themes. According to Lemony Snicket, "The central theme of Anna Karenina is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy."
That sounds pretty solid to me. I thought a theme was the unreasonableness of love. Levin comes to that conclusion at the VERY end of the book (page 797-ish I think).
Anna K. is one of those impressive classics that you just want in your reading repertoire – so I suggest you read it! Good luck!


I often use to read other famous blogs like Lifehacker , ProBlogger, BloggingTips&Tricks, Null Byte Wonder How-to , NeilPatel or ShoutMeLoud. But Sometimes you don't have any internet connection whether you are on a plane or you are not in your town then we have nothing to do and whole time i was asking to myself that is there any way to download whole website. Then i got this idea to publish a blog post on how to download a website completely for offline viewing.
There may be different reasons why you want to download an entire website.Some developers, newbies download a website and all links in it to test the codes, check html or scripts.Techies and Geeks also like to fill up their hard disk with Webpages to read offline when there is no internet connection. And if you are a blog lover and often like to read other blogs then This post is a lifesaver for you.
Well it's on you like You want to Download an entire website and all links in it or You just want to download only some specific webpages for offline reading. May be you don't have enough space to download a website completely and all links in it then you might like to download only latest news, New articles from a website. Well I'll help you through all sections. You can go directly to section in which you are really interested in.
There is an Open Source Software called HTTrack to Download a website for offline Reading and Browsing even we can Download a whole website and all links in it. This Open Source Software is available of linux and windows. This website downloader 's full version is free to use and available here.
At Starting This Website Downloader / Copier may looks complicated but after few clicks you will see it's easy to use. It is the most widely used software to download a website for offline viewing. If someone asks me to give rating to to this website Copier then i will give five out of five.
Remember initially your Anti Virus may warn you while installing this App, avoid it.
Getleft is another way to download an entire website.
Getleft is a simple-to-use application which allows you to download content from the online environment. It can be handled by individuals of any level of experience.
The interface of this application is plain and easy to work with, So you shouldn't have any navigation problems if you are already familiarized with similar software tools. So, all you have to do is specify the URL and output directory, in order to start a task this can be performed immediately or postponed until further notice.
GetLeft is easily available on internet. You can download from anywhere.
As i said earlier if you don't want to download entire website completely, You are interested in latest news or latest posts then you might like to download some specific webpages for offline reading. Thus this section is for you.
Calibre is free to use. There are both free and paid versions for this. To work with more efficiently you need to purchase the full version.
After HttRack there is a another way also to download a entire website completely for offline viewing and reading. I am talking about IDM ( Internet Download Manager ). Basically this app is available for Windows , Mac users . IDM provides an attractive GUI to manage Downloads. This app has built in features which helps it to integrate it Browsers like Chrome , Firefox etc.
According to a survey every one Windows pc out of 10 have IDM installed. But most of guys are unknown from it's Grabber tool which can download whole website completely and all links in it.
But it takes too much time, because Grabber look up into every script of a website. The unique feature of IDM is we can download a single page also from any website.
Extension zone is powerful for techies. Geeks and techies are taking best use of it. If you are going to use extensions then i will recommend to use Firefox instead of Chrome. Chrome has also a variety of extensions there is a limit on Chrome security system. Firefox is providing best GUI Beyond limits for extensions.
So there are many ways to download a website. You can save a webpage by "save as"( ctrl +s) in any browser. If you are a programmer and familiar with html language then you should know about wget feature.
Httrack is easy to use, simple and efficient. IDM's Grabber tool is not easier and time consuming , But if you need to download a website for once and IDM is installed in your PC then Why to fill your Hard Disk with other software.
If you are a ebook reader and android user and you like to read latest news then you might like to use Calibre. Or You are a Extension addicted then ScrapBook add on is for you.
There are some other ways too. Notify me through comments if there is another attractive way, and Don't forget to share with your friends.


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The Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, whose 'Reclining Nude' recently sold at Christie's for $170,405,000, was commonly known among Parisians as 'Modi' – a pun on his name's resemblance to the French maudit (i.e. cursed). Living up to his nickname, Modi died at 36 of tuberculosis, sans un sou and possibly in a garret.
Don't be maudit like Modi – choose a creative career that pays while you're still alive to reap the benefits! Contrary to popular belief, careers in the creative industries can actually be very lucrative, if you have the right contacts, skillset and know where to look. Here are five of the highest-paid creative jobs you should consider before reaching for that bottle of absinthe…
1. Creative director
The payslip: According toPayScale.com, creative directors in the US have high average starting salaries of roughly US$44,000, with average US$83,000 earnings of a year. The figure can rise up to US$163,000, depending on employer, industry and bonus packages.
The job: Creative directors conceptualize creative projects in graphic design, media, music or advertising.
Entry routes: To become a creative director, you would need to earn a bachelor's degree in graphic design or marketing, build a slick portfolio of your work, and gain five to seven years' experience of working in-house or for an agency on packaging, brochures, online advertising, et cetera. A postgraduate degree in animation, product design or visual communications could help you market yourself to employers, increase your earning potential and round out your skillset in areas related to marketing, web design and multimedia design.
2. Art director
The payslip: Art directors in the US initially start on around US$40,200 and earn on average US$61,000 – tough some reach the US$94,000 benchmark depending on their city, experience and skillset. Knowledge of user interface design can be a massive earnings booster.
The job: Art directors manage design staff to execute a concept outlined in a brief. While creative directors rely on their experience, intuition and artistic flair, art directors need strong technical expertise and project management skills.
Entry routes: You would need a qualification in a relevant area which, depending on your industry, could be anything from photography to architecture to interior design. Alongside this, you would need to build experience working for art departments, initially as an arts department assistant and progressing gradually to the role of art director.
3. Senior graphic designer
The payslip: Senior graphic designers in the US earn on average US$56,000, while, at the top end of the pay scale, designers with extensive experience and a rounded skillset can make as much as US$81,000!
The job: Graphic designers create graphics for brands using a variety of media and software such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop for commercial purposes.
Entry routes: To become a graphic designer, you would need to study graphic design at university and build up a portfolio of your work. Typically, you would kick-start your career as a trainer designer in an agency or in-house and work your way up.
The payslip: The average animator in the US earns about US$50,200, though salaries can rise up to US$79,700 with time and a more advanced skillset.
The job: Animators create cartoons by hand, motion capture animation or digitally, in both 2D and 3D for the web and presentations. Knowledge of Photoshop and animation software such as Flash or Morpheme is of course absolutely vital.
Entry routes: To become an animator, you would need to complete an animation course to develop the requisite technical skills, build your portfolio and complete as much work experience as possible.
5. Game designer
The payslip: Video game designers start on around US$38,000 a year and earn on average US$58,300, though salaries can stack up to US$96,400 depending on experience.
The job: Game designers work for gaming companies in an office or studio alongside programmers and artists to guide the artistic direction and programming of a video game. They may contribute to the development of gameplay, storyline, user interface, characters and game rules.
Entry routes: A common pathway into game design is to undertake a course in game design or information experience design at university and complete work experience, before securing an entry-level role in a gaming company, probably starting out as a tester, and working your way up.
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DEBUT ALBUM "DISCHARGE" OUT JUNE 12, 2020 ON FRONTIERS MUSIC
Electric Mobis the newest up-and-coming hard rock sensation signed toFrontiers Music Srl. A mixture of powerful vocals, mean guitar riffs, and heavy groove with influences from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, the band is prepared to put Brazil back on the rock 'n roll map! Their debut album, "Discharge" is slated for release on June 12, 2020.
Formed in Curitiba, Brazil by Renan Zonta (vocals), Ben Hur Auwarter (guitar), Yuri Elero (bass), and André Leister (drums), Electric Mob caught the attention of Frontiers with their tremendous hard rock songs that show the influence of contemporary hard rock giants while also showing a knowledge of the hard rock pillars of the '70s and '80s. Electric Mob is comprised of four young, hungry and extremely talented musicians, with the rock 'n roll attitude to deliver their explosive performances. Like a sonic punch to the face, their songs bring a heavy sound with a distinct groove. Think Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses mixed with Audioslave with a bluesy touch on top, and you are getting close to the band's sound.
Electric Mob is one of rock's most exciting and promising newcomers in years and Frontiers could not be prouder to be releasing their debut album on an unsuspecting public!
1. awaken
2. Devil You Know
3. King's Ale
4. Got Me Runnin'
5. Far Off
6. your ghost
7. Gypsy Touch
8. 123 Burn
9. Upside Down
10. Higher Than Your Heels
11. brand new rope
12. We Are Wrong
Renan Zonta - Vocals
Ben Hur Auwarter - Guitar
Yuri Elero - Bass
André Leister - Drums
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import {withAmp} from '@ampproject/storybook-addon';

import * as Preact from '#preact';

import {AnimationTemplate, animationFillArgType} from './template';

const CONTAINER_STYLE = {
  position: 'absolute',
  top: 0,
  left: 0,
  right: 0,
  bottom: 0,
  zIndex: 1,
  display: 'flex',
  flexDirection: 'row',
  flexWrap: 'nowrap',
  justifyContent: 'space-around',
};

const DROP_STYLE = {
  width: '20px',
  height: '20px',
  background: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25)',
  borderRadius: '50%',
  transform: 'translateY(-20vh)',
};

export default {
  title: 'Animation',
  decorators: [withAmp],
  parameters: {
    extensions: [{name: 'amp-animation', version: 0.1}],
  },
  argTypes: {
    fill: animationFillArgType,
  },
  args: {
    duration: '1s',
    iterations: 2,
  },
};

export const Random = ({duration, fill, iterations}) => {
  const spec = {
    duration,
    fill,
    iterations,
    selector: '.drop',
    '--delay': 'rand(0.1s, 5s)',
    delay: 'var(--delay)',
    direction: 'normal',
    subtargets: [
      {
        index: 0,
        direction: 'reverse',
      },
      {
        selector: '.antigrav',
        direction: 'reverse',
        '--delay': '0s',
      },
    ],
    keyframes: {
      transform: 'translateY(120vh)',
    },
  };
  return (
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    </AnimationTemplate>
  );
};

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You've decided to take the leap and get started with building your own home. What are some things to consider before the building starts, when you're still in the planning phases? Here are some initial thoughts when it comes to closets & organization, bathrooms, outdoor living spaces, and kitchens.
Is your closet going to have any outlets?
Will your closet have both double-hung and single rods to accommodate different clothing?
Do you have a large enough storage space / broom cupboard to hide away all the cleaning supplies, but convenient enough to still get to easily for clean-ups?
Do you have more than enough closet/storage space built in?
Do you want a motion sensor in the pantry, closets, or bathrooms?
Can you have a dedicated night light outlet in the master bath?
Do you want heated towel racks?
Do you want heated floors?
Do you have enough outdoor outlets?
Do you want to prewire speakers indoor/outdoor?
Do you want any motion sensors installed on outdoor lights?
Do you want a keypad entry option on your garage door?
Do you want a gas line to your grill?
Do you want a full outdoor kitchen for your outdoor living space?
Do you want cabinets on both sides of your island? They're great for extra storage.
Do you want any custom storage organization in your drawers or cabinets?
Do you want a pull-out bin for trash cans? Recycling? Laundry (think towels or bibs!)?
Do you want an appliance garage?
Do you want any spots to hang towels or aprons?


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Read about the Curfew Program for minors within the municipality.
Review information about the Inmate Notification Service.
Learn about the Parking Permit Program.
This program is an initiative designed by the Norristown Police Department to minimize the risks that children face at home, school and in their community through education and community outreach.


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La Classe 66/6 est une sous-série de locomotives diesel de la Classe 66 de type Co-Co des chemins de fer britanniques. Elle comprend des machines commandées par Freightliner et construites selon une conception légèrement modifiée.

Caractéristiques
Le rapport de transmission a été démultiplié pour faciliter l'exploitation, avec en contrepartie une vitesse limitée à 105 km/h. Elles sont numérotées 66601-22.

Les six premières, n° 66601-6, ont conservé l'ancienne disposition des feux lumineux, tandis que les machines n° 66607-22 ont reçu les nouveaux feux Group Standard.  Elles sont toutes peintes en vert Freightliner. Cette société exploite aussi des locomotives Classe 66 appartenant aux sous-séries 66/5 et 66/9.

Sous séries
Sous-séries de la Classe 66
 66/0
 66/4
 66/5
 66/6
 66/7
 66/9

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Freightliner

Liens externes
  Parc de locomotives de Freightliner

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en:British Rail Class 66/6


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Marzan steht für:
 Marzan, eine französische Gemeinde im Département Morbihan

Marzan ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Fernando Marzan (* 1967), argentinischer Tangopianist
 José Marzán, US-amerikanischer Comiczeichner

Siehe auch:
 Marzahn


Lymph Node Biopsy – surgical procedure to remove all or a portion of a lymph node for microscopic examination, to rule out infection, carcinoma or cancer, and other conditions.
Metastatic (met'a-stat'ik) – the spread of a disease-producing agent, such as cancer cells, through the lymph system from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body.
Tumor (too-mer) – abnormal benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) growth of tissue that emerges from the growth of abnormal cells.
Lymphocytes (lim'fo-sit) – WBCs that form in the bone marrow and circulate through the body in lymphatic tissue.
T lymphocytes (T cells) – form in the bone marrow and differentiate in the thymus to become immunologically competent cells.
B lymphocytes (B cells) – development begins in the primary lymphoid tissue (bone marrow), with later maturing in secondary lymphoid tissue.
Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4) – a type of protein found on the surface of specific WBCs. CD4 cells are often called T cells or T helper cells, which protect the body from infection and send signals to activate the immune response.
Natural Killer Cells (NK cells) – large lymphocytes that are not markers of either T or B cell; they are capable of destroying certain tumor cells and viruses without the simulation of antigens.
Leukemia (lu-ke'me-a) – a form of malignancy that begins in the bone marrow and affects the body's ability to make healthy blood cells, resulting in an abnormal increase in the number of WBCs in the tissues and often in the blood.
Myeloma (mi'e-lo'ma) – a primary tumor of the bone marrow, composed of cells from the tissues of the bone marrow.
Thymoma (thi-mo'ma) – a tumor that stems from the tissue of the thymus.
Thymic (thi'mik) carcinoma – a malignant tumor that starts from the epithelial cells, or the lining, of the thymus gland.
Lymphadenopathy (lim-fad'e-nop'a-the) – disease of the lymph nodes characterized by abnormal swelling.
Lymphadenitis (lim-fad'e-ni'tis) – inflammation and swelling of lymph nodes.
Lymphedema (limf'e-de'ma) – accumulation of lymph caused by an obstruction of the lymphatic vessels or the lymph nodes.
Lymphofollicular hyperplasia – enlarged lymph nodes induced from an increase in the number of lymphocytes.
Lymphangitis (lim'fan-ji'tis) – inflammation of the lymphatic vessels beneath the skin; caused by a skin infection that spreads to the lymph vessels.
Lymphocytosis (lim'fo-si-to'sis) – a proliferation in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
Lymphoma (lim-fo'mah) – is a neoplasm (tumor) of lymphatic tissue.
Hodgkin's disease (hoj'kin) – a type of lymphoma in which antibody-producing cells of the lymphatic system begin to grow abnormally; characterized by swollen lymph nodes, spleen, and liver and by progressive anemia.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (hoj'kin) – a group of various malignant lymphomas; not classified as Hodgkin's disease and have malignant cells derived from B cells, T cells, or NK cells. It is characterized by enlarged lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss.
Adenoiditis (ad′ĕ-noy-dī′tis) – Inflammation of adenoid tissue caused by a microbe. Commonly, viral or bacterial in nature.
Adenoidectomy (ad′ĕ-noy-dek′tŏ-mē) – surgical removal of the adenoid tissue.
Tonsillitis (ton'si-li'tis) - inflammation of the tonsils frequently caused by viral or bacterial infection.
Tonsillectomy (ton'si-lek'to-me) – surgical removal of the tonsils.
Splenomegaly (sple'no-meg'a-le) – abnormal enlargement of the spleen.
Splenectomy (sple-nek'to-me) – surgical removal of the spleen.
Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) Lymphoma / MALToma (mawlt-om'a) – a lymphoma that starts in the mucosa.
Immunodeficiency (im'yu-no-de-fish'en-se) – a condition resulting from a defective immune system.
Mononucleosis (mon'o-nu'kle-o'sis) – presence of abnormally large numbers of mononuclear, having one nucleus, leukocytes in the blood.
Infectious mononucleosis – an acute infection, primarily in adolescents and young adults, associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); characterized by swelling of lymph nodes, fever, sore throat, and fatigue.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – a virus that inserts a copy of its DNA into the host in order to replicate, also known as a retrovirus; infects and destroy CD4 cells of the immune system, causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of AIDS.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) – viral infection caused by HIV. It weakens the immune system by slowly killing the WBCs that carry CD4—to the point where the body cannot fight infection.
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) – a rare congenital, or inherited, susceptibility to infection; characterized by of absence of a functioning immune system.


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Drought response committee raises Ksh542M to aid in fight against hunger
Friday, December 2nd, 2022 16:17 | By
Achieng' Mary
President William Ruto, his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua and Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa at State House on Friday, December 2, 2022. PHOTO/(@StateHouse)Twitter.
The National steering committee on Drought Response appointed by President William Ruto has raised Ksh542 million.
According to the committee's chair Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa, the amount raised is meant to purchase food for distribution and cash transfer in drought-stricken areas which have exposed more than four million Kenyans to hunger.
Major donors who contributed to the funds are; Cooperative Bank (Ksh150 million), Kenya Defense Forces (Ksh130 million), Equity (Ksh120 million), Kenya Commercial Bank (Ksh100 million), Diamond Trust Bank (Ksh20 million), Kenya China Economic & Trade Association (Ksh10 million), Dawoodi Bohri (Ksh10 million), Middle East Bank (Ksh2 million) and other deposits (Ksh29,588).
President Ruto, On Friday, December 2, 2022, lauded the committee for their efforts in contributions towards drought mitigation.
"This is beyond patriotism; we are indebted to you," he stated.
While acknowledging the committee's efforts, Ruto who was speaking at the State house, in Nairobi pledged that his administration would put more resources to help the Kenyans in need.
"To deal with climate change challenges we must have comprehensive short, medium and long-term plans," he added.
National steering committee
The private sector-led committee was established on November 21, 2022.
At the time, the head of state noted that the 15-member team led by Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa would help mobilise resources to alleviate the effects of drought which has affected more than 20 counties.
They were also tasked with establishing a private-sector-led National Drought Mitigation Appeal Fund to supplement the government's drought response program.
Apart from that, the Ndegwa-led committee was also mandated with the role of approving the opening and closing of bank accounts to be jointly operated by a representative from the private sector, the Kenyan government and the Kenya Red cross.
The members include; Member of the committee are Dr James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank Group Kenya PLC, Nasim Devji, CEO, Diamond Trust Bank, Shamaz Savani, CEO, African Banking Corporation Bank (ABC), Paul Rushdie Russo, CEO, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group Rebecca Mbithi, CEO, Family Bank Kenya Limited, Jane Karuku, CEO, East African Breweries Limited and Joshua Chepkwony, CEO, Jamii Telecommunication Limited
Other are Crispin Acholla, CEO, British American Tobacco, Dr Asha Mohammed – Secretary-General, Kenya Red Cross, Edwins Mukabanah, CEO, Kenya Bus Services Management, Patricia Mugambi Ndegwa, Impact Philanthropy Africa, Krishma Jitesh Chavda, ISHA Foundation, and Hared Hassan (Lt.) Col., National Drought Management Authority.
Murimi Murage of the Office of the Deputy President was named the steering committee's Secretary.


Brookhaven's Goin' to Town Car Show will be in Downtown Brookhaven on March 2nd along with our Third Annual Downtown Jazzed up Mardi Gras event. The car show will be held from 8am to 3pm. The show has become popular over the years, attracting car owners from all over the country. Last year's selection of cars came from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Over 150 cars will be set up along Railroad Avenue from the Inez south to Brookhaven Glass Co. on East Chickasaw Street and on both sides of Railroad Park. There will be dozens of awards in categories like Top 25, Sweet 16 and the Fielder's Pro Shop Sponsorship plaque, Mayors' Choice and Chambers Choice. Early registration is available for $10, or $15 on the day of show. To register, call 601-833-8620 or 601-833-1411.
The Brookhaven Fire Department will be demonstrating their extrication skills and a Jaws of Life demonstration. Also, all of our local shops and restaurants will be open with specials and sidewalk sales. There will be bounce houses for the kids and so much more. You won't want to miss this exciting day in downtown Brookhaven!


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Philip Morris USA - more , the test marketing L&M RYO cigarette tobacco..
August 1, 2009 - Back on June 16, 2009 we reported that Philip Morris USA (PM USA) will continue to grow its product reach this week with the beginning of a test market for the new L&M roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco product. Tobacco delivery of pouches and canisters of the new product to retailers in Maine and Michigan begins this week as a test markets. (Philip Morris USA to test L&M Roll-Your-Own-Tobacco..)
PM USA spokesman Bill Phelps: "It's a very small market, but it's growing fast."
Last year, roll-your-own tobacco sales jumped 17 percent to more than 20 million pounds, U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau statistics show. During the past five years, sales jumped 60 percent. One reason: It costs significantly less than a pack of cigarettes to make roughly the same number of cigarettes from roll-your-own tobacco.
Philip Morris, for instance, is selling three-quarter-ounce pouches of L&M brand roll-your-own tobacco, enough to make a bit more than 20 cigarettes, for $4 in Maine and Michigan. The pouches include rolling paper. Cigarettes sell for about $6 a pack in those relatively high-tax states.
"Our fear is what happens when federal and state taxes rise. . . . Rather than quitting smoking, some smokers just switch to discount brands, and some switch to roll-your-own," said Eric N. Lindblom, director of policy research at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a nonprofit public-health advocacy group.
Philip Morris' entry into the market could have a major impact, in part because of the company's marketing muscle, he said. But selling roll-your-own under a cigarette brand name also could transform the market and attract smokers who never considered the traditional roll-your-own brands such as Drum or Bull Durham, he said.
Philip Morris acquired the L&M brand in 1999 and has positioned the one-time flagship of the old Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. as a discount brand.
Compared with conventional cigarettes, though, the roll-your-own market still is small. The number of cigarettes that smokers made with roll-your-own tobacco amounted to the equivalent of about 5 percent of the number of cigarettes sold last year, a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis of tax data shows.
A major wild card affecting growth could be recent federal tax increases on tobacco.
While federal cigarette taxes just jumped by 61.66 cents a pack to $1.0066, -- a 158 percent increase -- the federal excise tax on roll-your-own rose more than twentyfold, to $24.78 per pound. That translates to $1.16 for a three-quarter-ounce pouch.
The change reflects new estimates of how much tobacco is in a cigarette and is aimed at ending roll-your-own tobacco's long-standing tax advantage, Lindblom said. The estimate assumes there is about 0.65 ounce of tobacco in a pack of cigarettes.
So far, it seems to have had an effect: Roll-your-own sales are down 17 percent this year, bringing them back nearly to 2007 levels, federal tax figures show. What will happen now to the market as Philip Morris tests the waters could be critical, Lindblom said.
Lindblom: "It appears they want to control the full spectrum of tobacco products."
Making your own cigarettes is a growing trend, and sales have climbed during the past five years:
• 2004: 12,851,269 pounds
• 2009 (through May): 7,227,606 pounds (same period last year: 8,385,737)
SOURCE: U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
Reference: Philip Morris is test-marketing roll-your-own tobacco by David Ress, 7/31/2009.
Posted by tobaccowatch.org Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM
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#DesiBooksReco September 2021
Posted on September 6, 2021 December 21, 2021 by Jenny Bhatt
These are just some of the new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin for the month of September 2021. For a more complete list in the US, go to the Desi Books Bookshop (US.) For a UK list, go to the Desi Books Bookshop (UK.) Currently, there isn't a single location to list books recently published within South Asia although several such books do get included in the lists below.
If you've got a new book coming out, please tag the Desi Books account on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. You can also contact here. At this time, self-published books are not being listed.
Please note that, until July 2021, these books were listed in the podcast episodes. From August 2021-onwards, they are being listed separately as below. Also, the descriptions are mostly from publisher-provided text.
NON-FICTION:
Julietta Singh's The Breaks: An Essay is a profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world. In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths. The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary U.S. discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces—climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism—inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
Saumya Roy's Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai is a modern parable exploring the consequences of urban overconsumption. Towering at the outskirts of Mumbai, the Deonar garbage mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock-offs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains' edge, making a living by reusing, recycling, and reselling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall, adventurous girl who soon becomes one of the best pickers in her community. Like so many in her community, Farzana becomes increasingly sick from the the trash mountains and is caught up in the thrill of discovery because, among the broken glass, crushed cans, or even the occasional dead baby, there's a lingering chance that she will find a treasure to lift her family's fortunes. As Farzana enters adulthood, her way of life becomes more precarious. In a narrative instilled with superstition and magical realism, Castaway Mountain reveals that when you own nothing, you know where true value lies: in family, community, and love.
Anil Seth's Being You: A New Science of Consciousness is a radical new theory of consciousness challenging our understanding of perception and reality. Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss—or avoid discussing—the problems and politics of sex. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. Srinivasan reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships—between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation. The book is both a provocation and a promise to change how we think and talk about sex, its deep ambivalences, and its relationship to gender, class, race and power.
Manu Pillai's False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma tracks the travels of the iconic painter Ravi Varma through five princely states—from the 1860s to the early 1900s—and uncovers a picture far removed from the clichés in which India's princes and maharajahs are trapped. The world is not of dancing girls but of sedition, legal battles, the defiance of imperial dictates, and resistance. We meet maharajahs obsessed with industrialization and rulers who funded nationalists. These men were anything but pushovers for the Raj to manipulate. Outward deference aside, the princes, Pillai shows, forever tested the Raj—from denying white officials the right to wear shoes in durbars to trying to surpass British administrative standards. Good governance became a spectacularly subversive act, by which maharajahs and the 'native statesmen' assisting them refuted claims that Indians could not rule themselves. For decades, this made the princes heroes in the eyes of nationalists and anti-colonial thinkers—a facet of history we have forgotten and ignored. By refocusing attention on princely India, False Allies takes us on an unforgettable journey and reminds us that the maharajahs were serious political actors.
Indra Nooyi's My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future is an intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo. For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time, she transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose. Now, in a rich memoir brimming with grace, grit, and good humor, My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi's legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded. Nooyi takes us through the events that shaped her, from her childhood and early education in 1960s India, to the Yale School of Management, to her rise as a corporate consultant and strategist who soon ascended into the most senior executive ranks. The book offers an inside look at PepsiCo, and Nooyi's thinking as she steered the iconic American company toward healthier products and reinvented its environmental profile, despite resistance at every turn.
Sunil Shinde's From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land is an illustrated travel memoir of the author's journey to retrace a 200-year-old route of Scottish artist, David Roberts. Shinde traveled a route through Cairo, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon— ancient lands steeped in natural beauty, culture, architecture, and history—to sketch and discover a region far removed from newspaper headlines. Many times, Shinde stood within a 10-foot radius of where Roberts stood, and sketched what he sketched. The book includes 250 original sketches by the author and 25 lithographs from David Roberts.
Shubnum Khan's How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo: And Other Strange and Wonderful Stories is part-memoir, part-travelogue. When Shubnum Khan signed up for a photoshoot as part of an art project in college, she hadn't imagined that the photographs would be plastered on billboards and advertisements all over the world. Two years on, her smiling face had sold condos in Mumbai and Florida, drawn subscribers to dating websites, and convinced desperate customers of the supposed wonders of skin-lightening creams. This is but one of the many astounding misadventures she chronicles in How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories. Khan takes the reader on unpredictable journeys far from her family home in South Africa. Whether it's going off the grid in the Himalayas, getting pulled out of the ocean in Turkey or becoming a bride on a rooftop in Shanghai, she is quirky, moving and vulnerable in what she shares. All the while, she reflects on what it means to be a woman, especially a single Muslim woman, in the modern world.
Rajika Bhandari's America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility is an immigrant memoir with a difference. As an international higher education expert, Bhandari explores the global appeal of a Made in America education that is a bridge to America's successful past and to its future, America Calling is both a deeply personal story of Bhandari's search for her place and voice, and an incisive analysis of America's relationship with the rest of the world through the most powerful tool of diplomacy: education. At a time of growing nationalism, a turning inward, and fear of the "other," America Calling is ultimately a call to action to keep America's borders-and minds-open.
Sultana's Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction edited by Haris Qadeer and P. K. Yasser Arafath traces the genealogy of 'women's fiction' in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia and brings into focus diverse genres, including speculative, horror, campus fiction, romance, graphic, dystopian amongst others, from the early 20th century to the present. The book debunks myths about stereotypical representations of South Asian Muslim women and critically explores how they have located their sensibilities, body, religious/secular identities, emotions, and history, and have created a space of their own. It discusses works by authors such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hijab Imtiaz Ali, Mrs. Abdul Qadir, Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, Khadija Mastur, Qurratulain Hyder, Wajida Tabbasum, Attia Hosain, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz, Selina Hossain, Shaheen Akhtar, Bilquis Sheikh, Gulshan Esther, Maha Khan Phillips, Zahida Zaidi, Bina Shah, Andaleeb Wajid, and Ayesha Tariq.
Jai Chakrabarti's A Play for the End of the World is a debut novel set in early 1970s New York and rural India. It's the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Traveling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between the survivor's guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves.
Shruti Swamy's The Archer is about a woman coming of age as an artist in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay and navigating desire, duty, and the limits of the body. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling expectations of her life with a vivid imagination until one day she peeks into a classroom where girls are learning kathak, a dazzling, centuries-old dance form that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Her pursuit of artistic transcendence through kathak soon becomes the organizing principle of her life, even as she leaves home for college and falls in complicated love with her best friend. As the uncertain future looms, she must ultimately confront the tensions between romantic love, her art, and the legacy of her own imperfect mother.
Anuradha Roy's The Earthspinner moves between India and England and reflects the many ways in which the East encounters the West. Elango, a potter, must navigate complicated and impossible love for Zohra, the dedication of a beloved dog Tashi, and his own struggles with his creativity in a world turned upside down. Weaving together mythology and allegory to tell a story about religious intolerance, violence, and the constraints around art, Roy's latest also looks at other themes like: our relationships with animals; how a young person deals with a great loss like that of a parent; how malice and hatred can destroy communities.
Amanda Jayatissa's My Sweet Girl is a debut novel in which a Sri Lankan and an Indian meet in San Francisco and mysteries and thrills ensue. Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now at thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents' funds, she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America—that is, until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country. Before Paloma can pay Arun off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. She flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive, there's no body and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place. Paloma is terrified this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago. Did Paloma's secret die with Arun or is she now in greater danger than ever before?
Numair Atif Choudhury's Taxi Wallah and Other Stories is a posthumous story collection that illustrates his limitless imagination and deep empathy as he captures the many Bangladeshes that make up the nation. The stories in this collection are bound by their protagonists—outsiders looking in—whether it is the taxi wallah of the title story who ferries tourists to upmarket hotels in Gulshan, the chokra for whom the streets of Dhaka are both sustenance and threat, Rabia the maid who feels compelled to call even the youngest of her employer's children 'Apa', or the brick breaker who finds his life draining away as he hammers rubble at construction sites. Fueled by Choudhury's trademark linguistic verve and energy, Taxi Wallah and Other Stories is a searing yet tender portrait of a country that is fractured but lets in light through the cracks.
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar's Lahore: Book I of The Partition Trilogy is out in India this month. In the months leading up to independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with the British Viceroy, Dickie Mountbatten, over the fate of the country. In Lahore, as rumors of the Partition make the rounds, divide-and-rule has come to hold sway, with the populace at each others' necks. Set in parallel threads in Lahore and Delhi, Lahore is a behind-the-scenes look into the negotiations and the political skullduggery that gave India its freedom, paying the price with batwara. As the men make the decisions and wield the swords, the women bear the brunt of the carnage that tests kinship and loyalty in the sticky hot months of India's cruelest summer ever.
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2 edited by Tarun Saint is out in India at the end of this month. From sinister plans of xenocide to speciesists who have taken it upon themselves to Off-World those unlike them; from simulations that memorialize stories obliterated by a book-burning world to the Master Pain Merchant who is always at hand to administer a dose of long-forgotten sensations; from genetically modified Glow Girls who can kill with a touch to a droid detective actively seeking out justice, this stellar volume of cutting-edge science fiction showcases, in prose and verse, 32 of the most powerful voices in the genre from the Indian subcontinent. Taking forward the formidable task achieved to critical acclaim by the first volume of The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, the present collection masterfully transports readers to worlds strangely familiar, raises crucial questions about the place of humans in the universe, and testifies to the astonishing range and power of the imaginative mind.
Selma Carvalho's Sisterhood of Swans is a novel about a second-generation British Indian, Anna-Marie Souza. She lives in Horton, a suburb on the hem of London, a far cry from the city of Bombay from which her parents had arrived one cold December day in 1989, two Goans in search of a new life. Born in this land of their dreams, raised in a broken home, Anna-Marie has grown up into a state of constant and indefinable yearning. She belongs to the sisterhood of swans seeking to pair for life, curving their necks to entwine with the perfect mate. Only, she has realized, her species is fated to disappointment. Her disastrous choice in men is fueled not just by a chaotic childhood but by a loss of sexual agency as she embarks on a series of doomed relationships. Set against a cast of intriguing female characters—Anna-Marie's Indian-hating Indian mother; her best mate, Sujata, haunted by thoughts of suicide; and Jassie, the sharp-tongued beautician at Bollywood Style Salon—is an ensemble of men who are serial philanderers or, worse still, token brown Conservative party members. In this shaky world, Anna-Marie navigates through the pain of a troubled coming of age, while trying to find her place as a second-generation Indian immigrant.
ANTHOLOGIES:
Write in Power: An Anthology of the Personal and the Political (edited by Vijayalakshmi Harish, Anushree K S, Rohini Malur, Vijayashanthi Murthy and Meenal Shrivastava) is an anthology of fictional and non-fictional prose, poems, and art by twenty-four writers and artists from an inclusive spectrum of human experience. These perspectives speak to the intersections of the personal and the political creating a space for discussion and change. Rohini Malur, one of the editors, says in this #DesiLitBiz interview: "We find our power in our traditions or by breaking those traditions. We look outwards for love and acceptance, or to our own selves because we are all we have. Our stories—rebellious, accommodating, loving, suffering, defeated and in victory—declare our essential power." [All proceeds from the sales of Write in Power go directly to the Haadibadi Community Library.]
LITERARY TRANSLATION:
Saadat Hasan Manto's The Dog of Tithwal: Stories (tr. from the Hindi by Khalid Hasan and Mohammed Umar Memon with a foreword by Vijay Seshadri) is a collection encircling the marginalized, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition. Saadat Hasan Manto conjures the vitality on the streets of Bombay–its prostitutes, pimps, gangsters, artists, writers, and strays. Also, the pain and bewilderment of the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs pitted against each other by the India-Pakistan partition. Deeply opposed to partition, Manto is best known for his dry-eyed portrayals of its violence, horrors, and absurdities. From a stray dog (with Hindu or Muslim leanings?) caught in the crossfire at the border of India and Pakistan, to friendly neighbors turned enemy soldiers pausing for tea together in a short cease fire–Manto blurs the edges of geographic, cultural, and social boundaries with an unflinching and satirical gaze, and a powerful humanism.
Manoranjan Byapari's Imaan (tr. by Arunava Sinha) is written in his inimitable style, where irony and wry humor are never too far from bitter truths. This new novel is a searing exploration of the lives of the faceless millions who get by in our towns and cities, making it through one day at a time. Imaan entered Central Jail as an infant—in the arms of Zahura Bibi, his mother, who was charged with the murder of his father and who died when he was six. He left twenty years later, having spent his time thus far shuttling between a juvenile home and prison. With no home to return to, Imaan ends up at the Jadavpur railway station, becoming a ragpicker on the advice of a consummate pickpocket. The folk of the railside—rickshaw-pullers, scrap dealers, tea-stall owners, those who sell corpses for a little bit of money—welcome him into their fold, but the world of the free still baffles him. Life on the platform is disillusioning, and far more frightening than the jail he knew so well. This free world too is a prison, like the one he came from, only disconcertingly large. But no one went hungry in jail. And everyone had a roof over their heads. Unable to cope in this odd world, Imaan wishes to return to the security of a prison cell. He is told that, while there is only one door out of prison, there are a thousand through which to return. Imaan—whose name means honesty, conscience—is he up to the task?
Subimal Misra's Wild Animals Prohibited, translated by Venkateswar Ramaswamy, is a collection of twenty-five stories that record the dark history of violence and degeneration in the Bengal of the seventies and eighties. The mirror that Misra holds up to society breaks every canon of rectitude with unfailing precision. The stories also plot the continuous evolution of Misra's writing as he searches for a form to do justice to the reality that confronts us. Deeply influenced by Godard, Misra uses montage and other cinematic techniques in his stories, which he himself calls anti-stories, challenging our notions of reading and of literature itself. Brilliantly translated by V. Ramaswamy, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-stories startles with its blasphemy, its provocative ideas, and its sheer formal daring. Audacious experimentalist and self-declared anti-writer, Subimal Misra is the master of contemporary alternative Bengali literature and anti-establishment writing.
Carl de Souza's Kaya Days (tr. from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman) distills the spirit of Mauritius and its many people—Hindu, Muslim, Chinese, Franco-Mauritian, and Creole—into a young woman's daylong search for her missing brother during the 1999 violence and uproar. This was when the Mauritian musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known as Kaya, was arrested for smoking weed while performing at a concert. Following his death in police custody just days later, the island nation surged with violence in a long-overdue demand for justice from the marginalized populations of the African island off the coast of Madagascar. Amid burning cars and buildings, opportunists and revolutionaries, Santee rises into another world, a furious, brilliant one. An exhilarating journey into night from a small Hindu village to the big city, and from innocence into womanhood, Carl de Souza's surreal English-language debut, artfully translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, is an explosion of politics and poetry, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anything—everything—is possible.
Khan Mahboob Tarzi's The Break of Dawn (tr. from the Urdu by Ali Khan Mahmudabad) was originally published in Urdu under the title Aghaaz-e-Sahr. It is a work of historical fiction and a reminder of a time when Indians of all classes and creeds came together to fight for the honor and freedom of their homeland. It is the searing month of June. The rebellion against the British has just begun and Awadh is up in flames. Hindus and Muslims have joined hands to overthrow the foreign rulers and set India free. Some Indian rulers have started to enter into alliances to fight the firangis, while others have thrown in their lot with the foreigners. Amid all this, Riyaz Khan, a young solider from the army of the Raja of Mahmudabad, saves a group of Britishers from fellow 'mutineers' and escorts them to the safety of Lucknow. In this group is Alice, who falls in love with Riyaz and eventually becomes an informer for the rebels.
Ashapurna Devi's The Mystery That Is Woman: Ashapurna Devi Through Her Stories (tr. from the Bengali by Ruma Chakravarti) is a short story collection that deals largely with women in different settings both urban and rural. While deeply sympathetic towards the dreams and heartache of a woman's life, Ashapurna never does this at a cost to her male characters. Her feminism is neither strident nor vitriolic but her characters are treated with respect and compassion. These stories have been selected to provide a look at human issues such as rural migration, feminism and the refugee experience. The characters, whether they are mothers and daughters or husbands and sons, always seem to be people we have seen and possibly even know in our daily lives.
Rajiv Mohabir's Cutlish is his latest book (his second this year.) In Cutlish, a title referencing the rural recasting of the cutlass or machete, Rajiv Mohabir creates a form migrated from Caribbean chutney music in order to verse the precarity of a queer Indo-Caribbean speaker in the newest context of the United States. By joining the disparate threads of his fading, often derided, multilingual Guyanese Creole and Guyanese Bhojpuri linguistic inheritances, Mohabir mingles the ghosts that haunt from the cane fields his ancestors worked with the canonical colonial education of his elders, creating a new syncretic American poetry—pushing through the "post" of postcolonial, the "poet" in the poetic.
Natasha Rao's Latitude was chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Limón. This is Rao's debut collection and it abounds with sensory delights rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold, Latitude indulges in desire: "In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid," Rao writes, "…knowing I'll end up in an eager mouth."
Sheniz Janmohamed's Reminders on the Path is infused with the language of place. The poems in this collection are stepping stones from the author's past to her present, from forgetfulness to remembrance, from unknowing to a deep knowing found only through direct experience. Here, the poet is wayfarer: at each step she sees reminders of the ephemeral and the indelible. All serve as guideposts to cross the threshold of the self.
Ashwini Bhasi's Musth won the 2020 Cutbank chapbook contest. The judges said: "Starkly yet vividly conceived. All the grotesqueness (sewer sludge, rats in mouths, etc.) is met with a real capacity for language and metaphor. The control over language, diction and sometimes experimental form provides a confident and clear entry point into the difficulty of some of the subject matter."
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Learn how one woman created a whole new culture in California!
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and for Mary Keehn, a single mother of four, her need was an alternative milk source. Back in the 1970s, there weren't a lot of choices in rural Humboldt County—until she saw what her neighbors were using for brush control: goats!
Mary ended up getting two goats from her neighbors, and with those two goats came two more and two more and so on until Mary found herself with a lot of goats—and a lot of goat milk. That's when she started experimenting with cheesemaking. In 1983, Mary officially opened Cypress Grove Goat Cheese. Her company today is the leading producer of American goat cheese and Mary is known as a pioneer in the world of artisanal cheesemaking.
Cypress Grove Goat Cheese milks more than 900 goats at what they affectionately call their "country club" for goats in Humboldt County. The goats are milked each day to the soft melodies of slow jazz, which provides a calming routine for both humans and animals. And while the goats are enjoying their own notes at the dairy, Mary and her team are taking note of the surrounding area—including that famous foggy coastline—to create cheeses with fun names like Purple Haze and Humboldt Fog.
In fact, Humboldt Fog has become their best-known cheese. It has a distinctive vegetable ash in the middle and all around to control the pH level and thus the flavor of the cheese as it ages. Humboldt Fog is one of the most labor-intensive cheeses around. It's made by hand and turned every day, for weeks, until it forms its cakelike appearance.
The folks at Cypress Grove Goat Cheese are reinventing the wheel—the cheese wheel, that is—with a mantra we can all appreciate. Says Mary, "We take our fun and our cheese seriously, because if you don't have a good time along the way, what's the point?"
For more information, visit www.cypressgrovecheese.com.


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The sharp images from Google Earth clearly shows the North Korean communist dictatorship is logging forest areas in a UN national park. Not only does the megalomaniac Kim Jong-il seek to build a nuclear armament, impoverish his subdued people and occasionally sink South Korean ships – he's also cutting down trees in the fragile, ancient forest where the last Siberian tigers live.
International researchers have long been monitoring the NASA satellite images of the area since they are not allowed to inspect it on ground. They were wondering why the green color of the forest was fading to brownish. But the precise satellite images from Google Earth now shows why: The North Koreans have been secretly logging in strips no wider than 10 meters – too slim to stand out on the old NASA images.
"I have applied for a permit to visit the area but have been denied access", says scientist Lina Tang.
Or maybe not. The above text is typical but it's not really a quote. It has been further dramatized in order to illustrate the symptomatic: There are two "good stories" in the recent academic research published in Biological Conservation. One is in the tale of the reckless North Koreans. The other in the coolness of Google.
Wait a second – what are we talking about?
Forest areas surrounding a mountain on the border between North Korea and China. The Koreans call the mountain Baekdu-san, the Chinese call it Changbaishan and Wikipedia calls it Baekdu Mountain. At it's peak is a picturesque lake – sacred to some, probably tourist attraction to more – called Heaven Lake. Down its slope the climate changes from freezing tundra to temperate forest. It is home to many plants and animals; including the endangered Siberian tiger and wild ginseng.
So, what did the article by Lina Tang and the eight co-authors really say? Below is a summary.
It is true that the NASA Landsat images didn't show the finer details. But they do show a story going back to 1985. The methods chapter is interesting for people into geeky stuff about image analysis. It is indeed also true that the forests have suffered degradation on both sides of the border.
The Changbaishan and Baekdu-san were established as UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in 1979 and 1989 respectively to protect the ecosystem there which is home to the highest plant biodiversity in the cool temperate zone and – as mentioned – many endangered species. But there are many differences in the way the forests have been managed and much more is known about the Chinese parts.
The Chinese government has successfully enforced a ban on logging but areas has been severely damaged by storms and are still recovering. From 1985 to 2007 about 6% of the forest was lost. On the other hand, poaching has occurred and wild ginseng has been collected into obscurity. Right outside the reserve the Chinese have extensively logged the pine forest, doing some reforestation with birch and aspen.
On the Korean side about half the reserve area had suffered strip logging by 2007. This was clear only recently as the strips are about 10 meters wide, whereas in the older satellite images each pixel cover about 30 meters. The Koreans have cleared about 39% of the forest outside the reserve for agriculture.
Another thing the older satellite images didn't reveal was seed collecting and tourism. From the year 2000 to 2007 it was allowed to gather pine seeds in the Chinese reserve, a cherished food ingredient and valuable source of income for locals. In those years very few seeds were left to enter the natural cycle (animal food source and natural reforestation) and today nearly every tree bears wounds from climbing spurs. Also, in 2006 administration was moved from the Forestry Bureau to the Tourism Bureau. The number of visitors has rocketed from about 30,000 per year in the 1980ies to as much as 10,000 a day now. Much less is known about how the Koreans administrate the reserve but they do allow tourism.
The researchers estimate the "truly well-protected" reserve forest areas to be 44.9% in China and 34.6% in Korea. But these areas are ecologically isolated due to the extensive deforestation of the areas surrounding the reserves.
Before raising an environmentalist call to relieve Kim Jong-il of his duties let us consider the following: The North Koreans are probably at least as effective as the Chinese in banning illegal logging, the Chinese side has suffered similar levels of deforestation and unfortunately this situation isn't exactly unique.
We're having problems with ecological isolation, illegal logging, poaching, severe weather events, climate change in many places around the world. The difference is in how to influence the leader(s) of this country – a problem similar to what we see in places like Zimbabwe.
Writing about development we are encouraged to not portray the third world as the victims of the story. Norht Korea, however, despite its few glimmers of progress and success is a unique tragedy. One with the bomb.
This story elsewhere: Treehugger / North Korea Logging in Protected Forest Discovered With Google, NASA Data, Mongabay / NASA, Google Earth catch North Korea logging protected area, UPI / Study: North Korea logs in protected area.
This article is also posted at TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World.


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