Today, Qualcomm Technologies in collaboration with Swisscom and mobile communication giants including OPPO, LG Electronics, Askey and WNC have announced first 5G commercial services in Europe. Swiss Telecom's 5G network services are expected to boost the roll-out and expansion of 5G network in the region.
Latest 5G smartphones manufactured by Oppo and LG along with devices from Askey and WNC feature Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 SoC with X50 5G modem and antenna modules with integrated RF transceiver, RF front-end and antenna elements, the industry's first commercial 5G mobile platform. The devices include Qualcomm Technologies' 5G solutions, which is set to bring some potential features – near-instant access to cloud services, shopping with AR, multiplayer cloud-based gaming, real-time video collaboration and much more. The debut of 5G services in the European region will definitely bring a drastic change in how people interact with their devices and ultimately reform their way of living.


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Senate adopts record local aid and makes critical investments to move the Commonwealth beyond the pandemic
Budget includes several Senator Keenan priority amendments
For Immediate Release: June 8, 2021
Contact: Morgan Simko | morgan.simko@masenate.gov
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate passed its Fiscal Year 2022 budget, funded at $47.7 billion, on May 27. Approved with unanimous bipartisan support, the budget makes significant investments in the Commonwealth's recovery from the COVID pandemic, local aid for schools, seniors, first responders, libraries, the health care safety net, and critical programs for Veterans, children, and those with mental and behavioral health needs.
The Senate funded statewide Chapter 70 school aid at $5.5 billion, matching House appropriations and representing the highest level of funding to date for education. With an increase of $219.6 million over Fiscal Year 2021, this funding reflects the Legislature's commitment to meeting the needs of students and educators, especially as they move to a return to classroom learning.
"Based on conversations with school leaders in my district," said Senator John F. Keenan (D-Quincy), "I am aware that students, teachers and administrators need more support than ever, particularly as students return to classrooms after being home-schooled or learning remotely. It is my hope that schools in my district, and across the Commonwealth, will feel the relief that this funding is intended to bring." The additional funding also keeps the Commonwealth on schedule to fully implement by Fiscal Year 2027 the Student Opportunity Act.
Senator Keenan noted that some school districts throughout the Commonwealth, due to enrollment changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including Rockland in his district, saw lower than expected Chapter 70 funding. "I worked with my colleagues and the Senate Ways and Means Committee to ensure that these districts will receive funding to reflect post-pandemic enrollments," said Keenan, "and as a result a $40 million reserve account was included in the budget." Overall, under the Senate budget proposal the Norfolk and Plymouth District will receive $103,225,303 in Chapter 70 school aid, and an additional $40,253,228 in unrestricted general government aid.
Beyond record levels of local and school aid, Senator Keenan worked to secure funding for other district priorities, including appropriations for fire safety equipment, roadway safety and traffic and parking improvements, infrastructure improvements, and regional first responder dispatch and incident planning and training.
"I am pleased with the funding I was able to secure for all the communities in my district to address needs that have been brought to me over the past several months by local leaders," said Keenan.
The Senate's budget confronts the frontline health care impacts of the pandemic and sustains support for the state's safety net by funding MassHealth at a total of $18.98 billion, thereby providing over 2 million of the Commonwealth's children, seniors, and low-income residents access to comprehensive health care coverage. Understanding that the pandemic has strained the health care safety net, the Senate secured over $1 billion in its budget to support vital mental and behavioral health initiatives while ensuring children and families continue to receive supports across the continuum of services provided.
In higher education, the budget allocates $571.2 million for the University of Massachusetts, $321.7 million for the fifteen community colleges, and $298.1 million for the nine state universities, and for early education services, it includes $15 million for grants for the Head Start program.
In addition to investments that support an equitable recovery and opportunity for all, the Senate's budget addresses the increasing costs of caregiving for low-income families by converting existing tax deductions for children under 12, dependent adults and business-related dependent care expenses into refundable tax credits. Coupled with the expanded Child Tax Credit and the Child and Dependent Care tax credits under the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the Senate's child tax credit will help to lift 85,000 families out of poverty and support low-income working parents.
In the area of housing, the budget includes substantial funding for the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP), for assistance to local housing authorities, for Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT), which is in addition to $350 million in federal emergency rental assistance, and for assistance for homeless individuals.
In taking a fiscally responsible approach, the Senate's budget excludes the use of federal American Rescue Plan funds. "It is important," said Senator Keenan, "that our budget can be sustained going forward, so we have not used one-time ARP funds, but rather will work in the coming months to develop a plan that puts those funds to their most effective and appropriate use."
During its budget debate, the Senate adopted measures to address substance use, particularly amendments offered by Senator Keenan to address the rise of methamphetamine and other stimulants, and to extend a program that provides residents with an easy and safe way to dispose of unused drugs, such as opioids, to reduce the risk of distribution.
"For many years, I have sought to increase awareness of and increase treatment options for those addicted to substances," said Keenan. "By studying the rapidly increasing use of methamphetamine and other stimulants in the Commonwealth, we will increase our capability to provide treatment to vulnerable individuals. Extending the drug takeback program will help to keep unused drugs out of circulation."
Another amendment filed by Senator Keenan funds an extension of efforts that mitigate the impacts of the toxic polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can be found in water supplies and everyday items and is linked to cancer, immune system deficiencies, low fertility, and developmental issues in children and infants. The extension adopted by the Senate allows the Department of Environmental Protections to continue a vital sampling program and offer additional rounds of treatment design grants to municipalities. "This is a pressing issue in the communities I represent," said Keenan, "as it is statewide, so I was pleased to see this amendment adopted."
Both the House and Senate adopted language that creates an intern pipeline program in the State House for first generation students and traditionally underserved populations. Sen. Keenan filed the amendment that the Senate adopted. "Our state government must work for everyone, and an intern pipeline program at the State House will help to bring in new talent with a diversity of ideas, skills, and lived experiences," said Keenan.
After the passage of the Senate budget, a six-member Conference Committee of members from the Senate and House was formed to reconcile differences between the two budgets, with the goal of presenting to the Governor an agreed upon budget for Fiscal Year 2022, which begins on July 1, 2021.
If you have any questions on the Senate budget, please contact Senator John Keenan's office at 617-722-1494 or by email at John.Keenan@masenate.gov.

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Skotos
Dødsferd, Skotos (Transcending Obscurity 2021)
May 14, 2021 Wayne EdwardsBlack Metal, Dødsferd, Greece, Heavy Metal, Skotos, Transcending Obscurity Records
The new EP from Greek Black Metal band Dødsferd is a fitting companion piece to Diseased Remnants of a Dying World.
Dødsferd is Wrath (Nikos Spanakis) who plays everything except the drums, and the drummer for this EP, N. D. (Nikos S.). The publishing legacy of the project dates back to a demo from 2003 and includes an impressive list of releases. Most recently, 2018's Diseased Remnants of a Dying World was strongly welcomed by fans. The new two-track is essentially a solo release but it is also clearly aligned with the previous album – it is hard to separate one from the other. The main difference is the brutal pace of these two new songs compared to the more moderate general tint of the 2018 album.
The two tracks on the Skotos EP are "Skotadi" and "Cursed To Die At First Light." Both songs are a barrage of sound, aimed at the breaking point of your psyche. They really do seem to be engineered as an all-out assault on your senses from the punishing percussion to the indefatigable siege laid on by vocals and guitars. Having listened to them you can rightly consider yourself assailed.
The bonus from Transcending Obscurity for the digital album is much bigger than the EP – you get the entire Diseased Remnants of a Dying World album, too. If you do not already have this earlier album it is a no-brainer to pick up Skotos. Besides, these two new tracks fit in well with the earlier longer set and hearing them together is synergistic.
Check out the Bandcamp link for all the versions available. Skotos is out now.
Bandcamp, https://dodsferd.bandcamp.com/album/skotos-atmospheric-black-metal
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/OfficialDodsferd
Transcending Obscurity, https://transcendingobscurity.aisamerch.com/band/dodsferd-greece


An integrated call center in Dyersburg, Tenn., streamlines citizen service requests and emergency calls.
The technology behind a good call center experience can bolster the public's opinion of city government, says Mark Grant, 911 communications manager of Dyersburg, Tenn. Grant says efficient call-taking procedures allow his staff to handle incoming calls more easily and accurately.
Dyersburg's call center fields customer calls in an integrated 311 and 911 environment, where both emergency and non-emergency calls are answered by the same operators. Different ring tones let operators quickly sort emergency calls from less urgent requests.
The ability for citizens to dial one number for everything simplifies their interaction with the city, and the ability for call takers to easily prioritize calls makes the process less stressful for both parties.
The city of more than 17,000 implemented the system in 2010, and the operators have noticed benefits since then. According to Grant, there has been a decrease in the number of non-emergency calls coming through 911, even during disasters. At the same time, 311 calls have increased, but stress levels have remained low because operators can manage calls more easily, even when the volume is high.
Today, operators in the city's 12-person call center answer 99 percent of non-emergency calls in less than 20 seconds and emergency calls in less than 10 seconds, according to Grant. In 2012, they processed more than 123,700 calls.
Dyersburg advertises 311 as the number for citizens to dial to reach police, fire and other government agencies for non-emergency issues. When a citizen dials 311, that call is routed to the same operators who answer 911 calls. Staff members can tell the difference between each call based on their ring tone — 311 has a softer ring than 911. And from an operational standpoint, a call taker will put a non-emergency call on hold if he or she receives an emergency call during an answering session.
Operators use CRM software to log and track non-emergency calls and the information associated with them. The operator can type notes about the call directly into the system while on the phone, essentially creating reports that are the basis for tracking and resolving the citizen's issue over time.
The online reports also increase accountability and data intelligence within Dyersburg's community and the administration. The operator can create a ticket for the issue, which is crucial to report tracking and future communication regarding the issue in question.
The CRM software's user interface lets an operator create geocoded reports for future reference. He or she clicks a "where" tab on the computer screen, and the program zooms in on an interactive map containing GIS layers. The operator moves a digital pin dot onto a spot on the map to mark the location of the caller's incident and saves the interaction. This generates a trouble ticket that's automatically sent to the city department responsible for fixing the problem.
Citizens can also create trouble tickets themselves on Dyersburg's website, and the system automatically routes the complaint to the appropriate personnel to resolve the issue. Someone from city government must respond to the citizen within 48 hours with the status of the complaint, Grant said. City personnel also input data in the system about what they're doing to fix the problem.
The technology also helps Dyersburg fix issues and answer citizens' questions more conveniently. According to LeBeau, QAlert prompts city personnel and those in other customer organizations to write detailed articles about internal procedures that departments use to speed up the call-taking and resolution process. Utility employees, for example, are asked about the procedures they follow to fix certain problems. Once these routine actions are recorded, operators can refer to them and answer citizen calls accordingly.
In addition, citizens can browse the knowledge base online, sparing them the need to dial the call center for information about city services and rules. Someone can search topics related to a particular issue, like the housing and neighborhood category, and learn the rules for storing junk and debris outside a home and what number to call to file a complaint.
Dyersburg merged the 311 and 911 numbers to divert the flow of non-emergency calls to 911 operators. In 2007, city employees began comparing the call volume with the types of calls received and released an RFP in 2009 for citizen service request management software. Dyersburg bought QAlert for roughly $30,000.
Although the integrated call center works well for the city, Grant is unsure if the practice of melding the two numbers will catch on nationwide. "I think, if you talked to a lot of 911 directors about implementing this service in a call center, they would balk [at it] because they would have a perception that they can't handle it," he said.
But Grant thinks that cities will warm to the possibility if they assess their current capabilities and needs.
"If cities do a really good job of promoting the 311 call center, they get a reduction in 911 calls," LeBeau said.


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Monday 22 February 2016, 6.15pm-7.15pm at The Moat
Queer Focus
What's the future of queer writing? In the first Next Big Thing event of 2016, you'll hear from some of the best new authors shaking things up in the literary world, with work that explores sexuality and gender in all its forms.
Hear from Quinn Eades, Todd Alexander, Fury Telford and Asiel Adan.
Sexual & gender politics
Quinn Eades
@quinn_writes
Quinn Eades is a researcher, writer, and poet whose work lies at the nexus of feminist and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy. Eades is published nationally and internationally, and is the author of all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and Rallying.
Eades is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at La Trobe University, as well as the founding editor of Australia's only interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, gender, sexuality and diversity studies journal, Writing from Below. He is currently working on a collection of fragments written from the transitioning body, titled Transpositions.
In 2015 Quinn Eades changed his name and gender. Prior to 2015, he was writing and speaking as Karina Quinn.
Todd Alexander
Todd Alexander has been writing for over twenty years. His work has been published in magazines and periodicals and his first novel, Pictures of Us, was published in 2006. In 2015, Todd returned to fiction with the release of Tom Houghton (published by Simon & Schuster). He lives in the Hunter Valley of NSW with his partner, where they run a boutique vineyard and accommodation business, Block Eight. Todd has degrees in Modern Literature and Law. According to ancestry.com, Todd is a ninth cousin of Katharine Hepburn.
Asiel Adan Sanchez
Asiel Adan Sanchez is an organic, gluten-free, vegan, single origin, ethically sourced gender fluid. They may be found in late-night hospital shifts writing lines of poetry in between melancholic insulin orders. Born and raised in Mexico, their work is an attempt to reconcile culture, race, gender and sexuality. They spend their free time kissing boys and crying in public.
@fury_writes
Bjork once said 'you shouldn't let poets lie to you', but Fury writes poetry, which is a sort of lie, albeit the fun-for-everyone kind. Fury has written a book called I Don't Understand How Emotions Work. It is a very good book; soft and tricky, like leaning your face against your favourite swan.
The Next Big Thing takes place every month at the Moat and is a cherished Melbourne institution. It's the place to be if you want to hear great emerging writers read from new and adventurous work.
Enjoy a delicious drink and a bite to eat, while sampling writing from tomorrow's best and brightest literary stars.
More about this venue, including large map, parking, public transport and accessibility.
Basement, 176 Little Lonsdale Street
October: Claire Varley, Lucy Treloar, Luke Beesley, Rafael S.W. / New & emerging writers
With Lucy Treloar, Claire Varley , Luke Beesley and 1 other
July / New & emerging writers
With Geraldine Wooller, A.S. Patrić, Tracy Farr and 1 other
Hot Desk Edition #3 / New & emerging writers
With Stella Charls, Fiona Murphy, Jem Tyley-Miller and 5 others
March: Spotlight on Victoria / New & emerging writers
With Abigail Ulman, Anne Buist, Ilka Tampke and 1 other
Most Underrated Book Award Edition / New & emerging writers
With Toni Jordan, Ben Hutchings, Christina Kennedy and 2 others
2018 Emerging Writers' Festival Edition / New & emerging writers
With Emma Marie Jones, Odette Kelada, Sumudu Samarawickrama and 1 other


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NAPA signs up to become first certified application provider for Inmarsat's IoT service
Analytics service integrated into Fleet Data, allowing ship owners and managers to collect, transfer and analyse fuel optimisation data in real-time
Inmarsat and NAPA, the leading provider of maritime software, services and data analysis, have signed an agreement to enable ship owners and ship managers to access and analyse real-time onboard data more efficiently through a dedicated application hosted on Inmarsat's new Fleet Data IoT service.
Developed by Inmarsat and Danelec Marine, and made commercially available earlier this year, Fleet Data collects data from onboard sensors, pre-processes that data, and uploads it to a central cloud-based database equipped with a dashboard and an Application Process Interface (API).
NAPA will then use this data to offer services for vessel performance monitoring, analytics and optimisation.
Research published last year by Inmarsat on digital transformation in shipping* indicated that, on average, ship operators and managers plan to spend $2.5 million on IoT-based solutions within three years and expect average IoT-driven cost savings of 14% over the next five years.
However, the research strongly suggested that a greater maritime appetite for IoT-based solutions would emerge if more data could be delivered and analysed in real-time.
"We are delighted that NAPA will be our first certified application provider for Fleet Data. This partnership and the NAPA application will help overcome key difficulties faced by those frustrated with the challenge of aggregating vessel data on-board and getting it efficiently onshore to improve fuel optimisation," says Stefano Poli, VP, Business Development, Inmarsat Maritime.
"It will allow ship operators and managers to access, control and analyse their own data, through the NAPA application on Fleet Data and via a secure platform that is fully scalable, fleet-wide and now commercially available on both Fleet Xpress and FleetBroadband," says Mr Poli.
"Our NAPA Fleet Intelligence platform is built to utilise ship performance data from all kinds of data sources, such as noon reports, or AIS, and to scale according to the data available, allowing as many vessels as possible to use data to improve their operations," says Mr Pekka Pakkanen, Director, Development, NAPA Shipping Solutions.
"However, the most accurate performance evaluations and predictions need both good quality and high frequency data, which is just what Fleet Data provides. For us, the key is to provide value from the data collected, based on expertise in hydrodynamics, optimisation and analytics. This scalable way of obtaining data opens new possibilities to enhance the benefits of this value added service for the whole shipping industry," says Mr Pakkanen.
In addition to Fleet Data, Inmarsat is also providing dedicated bandwidth services for application providers across both its L-Band and Ka-Band networks and recently signed an agreement with SRH Marine SAIT to provide ECDIS updates via FleetBroadband.
*The Industrial IOT on Land and at Sea – published July 2018; research commissioned to Vanson Bourne, specialist technology market research company. For more information visit Insights
About Inmarsat
Inmarsat is the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications. It owns and operates the world's best global portfolio of satellite networks, specifically designed for customer mobility, and holds a multi-layered, global spectrum portfolio, covering L-band, Ka-band and S-band, enabling unparalleled breadth and diversity in the solutions it provides. Inmarsat's long established global distribution network includes not only the world's leading channel partners but also its own strong direct retail capabilities, enabling end to end customer service assurance. The company has an unrivalled track record of operating the world's most reliable global mobile satellite networks, sustaining business and mission critical safety & operational applications for 40 years. It is also a major driving force behind technological innovation in mobile satellite communications, sustaining its leadership through a substantial investment and a powerful network of technology and manufacturing partners. Inmarsat operates across a diversified portfolio of sectors with the financial resources to fund its business strategy and holds leading positions in the Maritime, Government and Aviation satcoms markets, operating consistently as a trusted, responsive and high quality partner to its customers across the globe.
For further information, visit Inmarsat.com or follow us on LinkedIn or on Twitter @InmarsatGlobal.
About NAPA
In its 30 years of operation, NAPA has become a global leader in software, services and data analysis for the maritime industry; providing best in class data-led solutions for safety, efficiency and productivity in both ship design and operations.
NAPA operates globally, with 10 offices across Asia, Europe and the Americas supported by its Helsinki headquarters. To date, NAPA has 420 user organizations for its design solutions and over 2,500 installations onboard vessels. For more information, visit www.napa.fi
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Petar Lubarda - Heroism of Vision
Programme | 19.02.2014
Author of the exhibition: Svetlana Mitić, senior curator
The exhibition presents more than 40 works from all periods of Petar Lubarda's work. It gathers together representative works from museum collections in Cetinje and Belgrade, and a selection from the retrospective exhibition held on the occasion of the centennial of the birth (1907-1974) of one of our greatest painters.
The Museum's collection contains the total of 45 works by Petar Lubarda from the period between 1927 and 1967, some of them having a major significance not only for understanding the artist's development but also the general tendency and maturing of the Yugoslav art of the day. The examples from the Museum's collections are insightful in that they enable us to follow the genesis of Lubarda's visual language from early period of acquiring first serious experiences with contemporary art during his youthful years spent in Paris 1926-1932, then the time when he reached a clearer stylistic orientation between 1934-41, and the short period of socialist realism from 1945 to 1950, to his work's pinnacle between 1951 and 1956, when he made his most valuable pieces, and finally to the time when monumentality and heroism of previous period give way to a multitude of completely new, heterogeneous motifs.
Petar Lubarda is surely one of the leading figures in the 20th-century national art that, in the critical moment of the early 1950s broke away from both academic and provincial worldview and ushered in a new culture of painting which no longer can be considered an epitome of the so-called "High Modernity". The importance of Lubarda's work transcends the boundaries of the Yugoslav community of that time, and it puts him among those Yugoslav artists with an international reputation of the highest order.
Among the many prizes he was awarded for his work, the most prestigious ones are: International purchase award at the São Paulo Art Biennial in Brazil (1953), award from the 3rd Tokyo Biennial (1955), the Guggenheim National Award in New York (1956).
Petar Lubarda was born in July 27, 1907, in Ljubotinj (Montenegro), and died in Fabruary 13, 1974, in Belgrade. In 1925 he enrolled at the School of Art in Belgrade (prof. Beta Vukanović, Ljuba Ivanović, and Ilija Šobajić), which he left in 1926, and went to Paris where he will stay until 1932. He returned to Belgrade, remaining there until 1932, then for the second time travelled to Paris, where he will stay until 1940. During the Occupation he was in German captivity. After the Liberation he spent a time in Cetinje, where, besides his other activities, he was a co-founder of the School of Art. From 1950 onwards he lived and worked in Belgrade, until his death.
He made several study trips, among other to: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, USSR, Brazil, England, Belgium, India, Syria, and Lebanon. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), and Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (YASA) based in Zagreb. He is a receiver of the Medal of Brotherhood and Unity.
The exhibition traveled to:
City Gallery, Užice
Culture centre "Castle of Culture", Vrnjačka Banja
National Museum in Čačak
10/7/2008-10/25/2008
National Museum in Kruševac
6/4/2009-29/6/2009
Museum of Srem, Sremska Mitrovica
Regional Museum, Ruma
Culture Centre, Lazarevac
Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad
National Museum in Zrenjanin


Studies of landed estates are important for understanding not just the life of the landlords, but also for assessing the social history of the community resident on estates. This thesis expands upon existing knowledge regarding landlordism in Ireland, with its focus being land, politics and religion upon the Clancarty estate between 1851 and 1914. The estate was situated in east Galway and comprised 23,000 acres and included the large town of Ballinasloe, which underwent a radical transformation in the nineteenth century under the watchful eye of the Clancarty family. They oversaw its development from a town of dirt roads and unsanitary conditions to a superbly designed estate town that was praised by contemporaries as an example for other landlords across the country to follow. Both the urban and rural parts of the estate witnessed massive economic, political and social change, paralleled with the rest of the country. This thesis examines the common ground that existed between urban and rural tenants and traces the development of urban society and how this impacted upon the rural hinterland and vice versa. It examines the relationships that existed between townsmen, tenantfarmers and others on the estate, such as labourers. A study of this nature allows a closer examination of the reasons underpinning an estate's decline and break up. Particular attention is paid to urban tenants and the benefits they derived from the shifting power structures in Ballinasloe, as a new elite emerged following the collapse of the Clancarty estate and the departure of the family from the town they constructed.


Many chicas scrub and scrub to remove that layer of dead skin that's caused by cold temperatures and dry heat indoors. But dermatologists say scrubbing actually dries skin. "Rough exfoliation can cause irritation or harmful tearing of the skin layers," says Dr. Patricia Wexler, a New York City–based dermatologist. Instead, buff away dull, flaky skin with a mesh bath sponge and a mild or glycolic body wash — a sugar-based acid that also refines bumpiness. "Bar soaps tend to strip your skin of its natural oils," says Dr. Marina Peredo, a New York City–based dermatologist. If you prefer bar soap, use one that is made with hydrating ingredients.
Lots of hydration is key for beautiful skin. "Moisturize with a light oil or lotion as soon as you get out of the shower," says Renee Cobos, a California-based dermatologist. "Let the skin absorb the oil or lotion for a few minutes. Then, pat your skin dry." Afterward, apply another layer of moisture with an emollient-rich cream.
Your poor feet get battered with boots and neglected through the long winter months. They need un poco más atención. Soothe rough and super-dry skin on your feet with petroleum jelly, says Dr. Rebecca Baxt, a dermatologist in New Jersey. "It's the thickest and best type of moisturizer." Also, try petroleum jelly mixed with Epsom salts to soften feet, elbows and knees.
Skin isn't completely smooth without the proper hair removal. If you've slacked off on shaving during the winter months, it's time to get it back into your beauty routine. But don't do it too frequently, as you'll irritate your skin. Wait until the hair is long enough to get a close shave.
Ivette Manners is a beauty writer and contributor to Las Fabulosas.
Las Fabulosas covers beauty, fashion, home style, family, celebrities, and feeling and looking your best for the confident U.S. Latina who embraces both her American and Hispanic identities. Actionable and inspiring lifestyle content -- combined with engaging advice from experts and real women -- makes the program a well-rounded resource for active, proud and culturally involved Latinas.


Surrey-based systemis designed to make the growing of quality food possible where farming is difficult or far removed fromconsumers.
anadian consumers today prefer to eat locally-grown foods and this has led to development of another new system for growing fruits and vegetables in a fully-enclosed structure.
Called a Biodome, it addresses the growing need to bring healthy food production closer to urban centres and establish improved food security — anywhere in the world. The innovative system was designed and built by Tom Colclough for Eco Energy Tech Canada (EcoTech). It covers 3,000 square-feet of his rural Surrey farm yard. Colclough's Biodome, when under construction, raised some eyebrows among area residents passing his property wondering what he was doing.
Potential customers could be in any country where there are large populations with limited access to food sources, such as South Africa, China, Japan and Germany. Colclough explains that Biodomes can be used by schools, hospitals, food aid programs, commercial growers and governments to provide healthy food to those in heavily populated areas dependent on food imports from other countries. The domes can even be placed on flat rooftops in urban centres.
Colclough cites China where 250 million people are being displaced from their homes and moved into enormous new villages.
The Biodome is a controlled environment. One of the benefits of growing berries or cole crops in a Biodome compared with field grown crops is less pest management. The Biodome reduces the risks associated with growing these crops.
Colclough thinks the interest on feeding ourselves locally is very beneficial.
"Reducing our reliance on fruits and vegetables that are not produced in Canada is the objective, and the Biodome is a vehicle that can bring food production to where the consumer is located no matter where.


This product was made with a huge amount of love to the handicraft and power in the arms. "knitted with love" is made out of used climbing ropes with 2 meter long knitting-needles and a 130 x 200 cm carpet weighs over 20 kg. The unusal knitting technique gives the carpet an interesting, almost random look. Each carpet is handmade, individual in size and colour depending on material assets. knitted with love is made on inquiry.
abhängig, welches Material wir aktuell auf Lager haben. Knitted with love wird auf Anfrage mit Liebe gestrickt.


Ok. You're ready for your first day as a Pokemon trainer.
Yeah, I'm gonna be #1 in all the galaxy!
Yes. I'm ready and well-prepared.
You know it. So let's get this show on the road!
I guess. At least the traveling might be fun.
What's the most important thing for you to bring on your journey?
My hat. It's an important part of me. Without it, I'm empty.
First aid, food and cooking supplies.
Everything you need IS important! It isn't wants you need, but the NEEDS.
Clothes! Do I really want to wear the same thing every day?!
To be the #1 Pokemon Master there EVER WAS!
I made a new friend and I'm showing him the roots of things he needs to know.
Somebody owes me a big favor. But I also want to see all the water pokemon I haven't seen!
Because I love it! But I love seeing all the pokemon and entering in contests now.
How do you feel about Team Rocket?
Why can't they just find their own Pikachu?!
They should be permanently jailed for life.
They tend to mess up every chance they get!
Their disguises are dead giveaways.
Are you supportive of others?
Totally. If a trainer's going through a hard time, they need motivation.
I am, but sometimes people need to learn through experience.
I can be, unless they're too stubborn and stupid in which, I can't.
Yeah! I'm always willing to give people a hand.
Always! I cheer them to victory! My pokemon sometimes cheer with me too!
Who would be your rival?
A Pokemon carnival's in town!
Hey! There's a Rubber Psyduck race!
Let's go through the maze!
Favorite Pokemon of the following?
Blaziken, Beautifly or Skitty. Â I can't decide!
Several, but they all turn me down.
Crush?! Uh, don't be silly-!
It isn't like that, ok?!


Up until recently, most of the information in "the cloud" was human-consumable; the information it contained has been accessed by, and been about, people.
The goal of the IoT is to create a network of "things" — electronic devices, sensors, and even people themselves — that not only has access to this wealth of information, but is also capable of communicating with it and each other.
Supporters of this movement often cite many benefits, a few of which include improved automation in nearly every industrial field, improved economy, lower pollution, and so on. In other words, the main goal is an improved quality of life for all.
The Tessel 2 is a development board that comes with integrated wi-fi, an ethernet port, two USB ports, and two Tessel module ports. Each Tessel module has a companion source library downloadable via the Node Package Manager, and there are plenty of tutorials and instructions available online to get you up and running quickly.


Nigerian airlines are losing lucrative West and Central African markets, which used to sustain them in the past as a result of the creation of open sky policy that allows other airlines free entry and free exit in 23 African countries, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY investigations revealed that the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), which was ratified by the African Union early last year created open sky for 23 African countries that are already signatories to the policy. The implication of this policy, it was learnt, is that the airlines of these 23 countries can freely enter and exit these member-countries without hindrance.
It was, however, gathered that while Nigeria allows airlines from the West Coast like African World Airlines (AWA), Air Senegal, Air Cote d'Ivoire and others to operate in the country with minimum charges, other countries over charge Nigerian carriers to discourage them from flying to lucrative destinations such as Accra, Abidjan, Dakar, Freetown and others. With such strangulating charges and taxes, THISDAY learnt that the Nigerian airlines are forced to charge high fares to these routes to offset operation cost, thus making them uncompetitive.
Investigation has revealed that Medview Airline, Dana Air have stopped operations to West Coast destinations, while Arik Air has cut back its operations in the West and Central African destinations. The airline, it was learnt, no longer operate to Gabon, Banjul, Abidjan, Freetown, and Douala, and has restricted its destinations to Accra, Ghana, Luanda, Angola, Dakar, Senegal and Monrovia, Liberia. Also, Air Peace, which started operations four years ago, has launched operations to many destinations in the sub-region, which include Accra, Lome, Abidjan, Banjul, Freetown, Dakar and others.
However, Air Peace had disclosed that it loses about N500 million monthly on those routes due to exorbitant charges that are not reciprocated in Nigeria for airlines from those countries. The Chairman of the Nigerian carrier, Allen Onyema, told THISDAY that time had gone when the routes were lucrative for Nigerian operators. "We lose over N500 million monthly to the West Coast. This is the money we make from domestic operations. Except this SAATM is re-addressed, Nigerian airlines will go into extinction.
Unless government intervenes, we may leave the routes to these foreign airlines. "This is because if you continue operating the West and Central routes, it will affect your revenue base on the domestic scene and you will crumble. That is why most Nigerian airlines could not succeed on those destinations," Onyema said. He added that if the federal government supports domestic airlines as other countries, it would have reciprocated the high charges by also charging those African carriers the same amount they charge their Nigerian counterparts.
Sources at Arik Air also told THISDAY that all the routes in the sub-region are unprofitable, disclosing that Nigerian airlines incur losses because of high charges heaped on them by the countries they operate to. "The charges in Accra are too high. After paying them, you cannot get up to N5,000 from the base fare and you have not counted the cost of operation. Their ground handling charges are so high; the same with navigational charges by ASECNA (airspace services provider) and if you don't pay in time they seize your aircraft," the source said.
Accra and other airports in the sub-region charge Nigerian airlines for both inbound and outbound passengers, which in Nigeria, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) charges only for outbound passengers and all weight charges for landing and then parking, but the total charges, including passenger service charge of $50 per passenger are about 25 per cent of what airports in West Africa charge Nigerian airlines. Nigeria contributes more than 50 per cent of the total passenger traffic on the West and Central Africa, but now it is other African airlines that are making money from those routes because the host countries exempt their airlines from many of the charges which they level on Nigerian operators.
However, the organiser of Akwaaba African Travel Market, Ikechi Uko, said the only way the West African routes could be profitable to the airlines in the sub-region would be to standardise the charges. He added that a former Minister of Aviation, Ghana and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), had started moves to make the charges uniform in the sub-region.
He noted that West Africa has the highest population in Africa, adding that for the airlines in the sub-region to maximise the opportunities offered by the high passenger traffic, the countries that form the West Coast must work together and agree on the charges. "Most airlines in the sub-region are small operators with short lifespan because they have not taken advantage of the high passenger traffic in the area. For SAATM to work, every sub-region should operate like domestic service and the charges must be uniform. That way the airlines can operate profitably in the sub-region," he said.
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Arthur T. DeMoulas's Money + The Great Larry Rasky + Our Lazy and Incestuous Local Media = Another Disgraceful False Narrative Using Selective Facts
July 20, 2014 By eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii 30 Comments
I haven't read much recapping the sinister history of the DeMoulas family feud involving hundreds of millions of dollars and more in Market Basket stock.
Arthur T. DeMoulas is seeking to get his job back after his cousin Arthur S. DeMoulas recently gained control of the board and had him removed.
Arthur T.'s father, Telemachus, and Arthur S.'s father either built the business themselves or turned their father's small market in Lowell into a multi-million dollar chain. The two brothers each had 50% interest in the business.
Then one day Arthur S's father died. This was years ago. 1970's perhaps 60's. A tragic event for the entire clan. He had a young family. The whole thing. Telemachus made sure his brother's family was taken care of. After all, this was family.
But guess what? Remember the 50% interest Arthur S. father had? Well Telemachus and his brood didn't see it that way. Hey, WTF, the guy wasn't showing up for work, you expect him to get paid?
Now cut to the late 1980s and Arthur S. and his siblings are adults and educated and one day say, "Hey, what the hey?" Telemachus and his son Arthur T. said, "Hey, what the hey nothing. My side of the family gave you and your mother money and lots of it when we didn't have to so you're getting Jack shit. if you don't like it sue us."
And that's what they did. The law suit lasted years with Arthur T.'s side ultimately getting slapped and slapped hard. The amount of money they owed Arthur S.'s side was astronomical. Plus the court ruled Arthur S.s. side owned 50% of the stock.
Arthur T (the guy who wants his job back) hired some of the usual suspects in the high powered lawyer game in Boston. One was Gary Crossen, a former assistant U.S. attorney and a star at a major law firm. Another was Richard K. Donahue of Lowell. He was a big Jack Kennedy guy and the former President and CEO of NIKE. You heard me right NIKE<
Now I don't know how much they were paid, what incentives were offered, or if Arthur T. Demoulas gave them a slush fund for dirty tricks. But each of these fine gentlemen got disbarred for what they did trying to win this case. They were very lucky they weren't indicted.
If you recall, Judge Maria Lopez was assigned to this case in Middlesex Superior Court. Arthur T.'s side, represented by Crossen and Donahue, believed she was bias against them so they duped her young and naive clerk into believing there was a job opportunity for him. A big one. They flew him to Halifax, Nova Scotia where they gave him a faux interview then wined and dined him.
Then they turned on the secret tape recorder (that's why they flew him to Halifax, no state wiretapping laws broken) and started pumping him for info on Lopez. He agreed with a few things and said a few things, nothing big, but enough for Crossen and Donahue to come back to him later and blackmail him if he didn't sign an affidavit helpful in getting Lopez removed.
At this point the young clerk was smart enough to get a lawyer and bring this to the FBI.
Why would the lawyers do that for Arthur T.? Their outstanding careers and reputations were ruined.
Let me tell you a criminal lawyer trade situation. A drug dealer charged with trafficking cocaine and facing serious time. He goes to a lawyer for representation. The lawyer says his usual fee is $25,000 for something like that The drug dealer says, "no, I'm going to pay you $75,000. in cash and here it is. Will you represent me?"
What the drug dealer is saying, "If you represent me you better win or else. I'm given you more than enough money for you to spread around and keep for yourself. Just make sure I walk. I don't handle customer service problems well. Remember that."
The honest lawyer doesn't take the case.
Now we have Arthur T. successfully throwing huge sums of money around resulting in lazy media types and communistic objections from pandering politicians carrying Arthur T.'s water.
How many people lost their job today because of Arthur T. ? But then perhaps he budgeted for this and is taking care of them if you know what I mean?
Anyway, let this movie be another example of the incestuous lazy Boston media that is more than willing to parrot what anyone on the list of insiders tells them. Like Larry Rasky.
Arthur T. DeMoulas is channeling P.T. Barnum and using media and the most obtuse politicians to fool people into believing he's the most wonderful person ever and because of it his cousin Arthur S. doesn't deserve the legal rights, privileges, and protections, every other property owner (stock in a close corporation) in this country receives. A sucker born every day. (And most end up working in Boston media)
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Only 3 words left to say: Stop and Shop
kirth
Much higher prices on everything than MB.
striker57
is a unionized workforce. As retail workers they have health insurance coverage, pensions and are paid above minimum wage. I'll shop there over MB.
I will certainly consider it when shopping. Still, it looks like MB employees are relatively well-treated, and if the Arthur S faction executes a Bainish looting of the company as feared, those employees will be screwed.
That's my only realistic option if I join the MB boycott.
At least not as of the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act 5 years ago.
So, if I have this right …
The guy who tried to do the right thing got killed in court, and used bad tactics along the way, and is now using PR and political influence to change his situation.
If we assume the court acted rationally, isn't this just another family business gone awry? Should employees really risk their fragile livelihoods trying to right the wrong? WBUR reports some have been fired for doing so.
I mean, I'm not unsympathetic … but I'm just not comfortable with a business/family fight spilling over into the public arena. The public arena has enough problems. Maybe Arthur T. should be courting investors to open a competing business.
merrimackguy
Arthur T's father screwed Arthur S's clan. They started at 50/50 and after a number of years it went to like 90:10. That's why "Market Basket" was added to the Demoulas Chain so he could siphon assets. All the growth mysteriously happened on one side of the company. That's when the Arthur S side went to court.
Arthur T (and his cronies as trustees) also have some questionable dealings with the pension fund.
The big issue is that the Arthur S side was looking for some dividends from their stock (remember it's closely held, so they can't sell shares) and Arthur S refused. That's probably the primary reason for ousting him.
I appreciate the recap of the long and dismal history of this utterly dysfunctional family. It reads like a Sue Grafton novel — next thing we know, the Hydrangeas next to some missing spouse or cousin's long-abandoned house will be blooming in the wrong color.
I notice that the workers and their (non-existent) unions are minor players in this high drama. This time around, there are eight labor redshirts in the made-for-TV version (a "redshirt" is a character introduced into the plot in order to be killed later).
This is a food-fight among two hoity-toity rich white men and their respective entourages. The workers, as is so often the case, are getting the shaft.
Maybe if BOTH sides of the family had had to worry about an eighty or ninety percent estate tax, and a seventy percent capital gains tax, or perhaps an aggressive and feisty union, they might have had a little less motivation to keep urinating on each other — the rest of us (including the workers) would have gotten a much better deal along the way.
Instead of a battle for workers' rights or working conditions, they're being asked to fight their boss's proxy battle. It just doesn't sit right.
I don't have a dog in the fight but it is a fight between a couple of right guys and their relatives. And Arthur T (right or wrong legally) is allowing hourly paid and low salaried workers to take a fall and get fired on his behalf. That's just wrong. Arthur T is sitting on mounds of money. His future is secure. The men and women working paycheck to paycheck in the stores and warehouses shouldn't be allowed to sacrifice their jobs for him. If Arthur T really was the man his PR says he is, his first statement would have been to the workers – "I appreciate your support. It means the world to me but do NOT place yourselves in the line of fire".
And YES, if I was the UFCW, I'd have Organizers at every store signing up workers and attempting to organize the workers into a union that will stand up for them in this family fight.
Loved the Star Trek red shirts reference.
"right guys = rich guys" second cup of coffee needed.
farnkoff
they were getting into? There's something a little condescending here, like they need to be told by a better how best to advocate for themselves.
Believing that Arthur T could have harnassed their support without them putting their jobs on the line in condescending. As I stated down thread:
and their real support of Arthur T. I think it's heartfelt and admirable. I do have a problem with Arthur T allowing loyal employees to sacrifice on his behalf. New MB management has made it clear it will fire rank-and-file workers who fail to show up for work. Arthur T has the financial resources to carry this fight, many of those in the stores don't.
I admire their courage and their resolve. Perhaps it's the union rep gene in me that has a problem with workers putting their futures on the line in a fight where the financial deck is stacked against them. I fully expect to see MB on the market for sale to a large corporation sooner as opposed to later. In their shoes I'd be forming a union while supporting Arthur T.
…that the outpouring of support for Arthur T. on the part of the employees is anything other than enthusiastic and genuine. They easily could have stayed out of this fight, especially with their jobs on the line, but seem to know a good employer when they see one and are willing to stand up for him anyway. Here in the Merrimack Valley where MB is headquartered the coverage and the conversations around the community from what I can tell are very pro-employee and pro-Arthur T.
As I write this there is a rally in Tewksbury being attended by "thousands" of employees along with families and customers according to Channel 5. They are calling for a public boycott of MB until Arthur T. is reinstated.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii
Arthur T is a weak selfish man.
One thing. those getting fired have plenty of years in and they have good retirement package that is not affected by firing (like government jobs) Also, I wouldn't be surprise if Arthur T. is throwing some cash around in envelopes to keep people happy. We're talking Lowell here people.
I guess they prefer to stuff their payoffs into their bras in the big city. Lowell is SO backwards. Envelopes?
It doesn't sound like Arthur T. has any say in the matter one way or the other at this point.
As in not making a public statement urging them to stay at work and fight this fight in other ways. Of course he can't order them to work (or stop them from withholding services) however he could offer them alternatives to losing their jobs on his behalf.
Thousands of employees, along with families and customers, makes for a fine piece on Channel 5 today ("Workers and customers outraged! Details at 11:00p!"). No doubt makes the pre-roll add on the web video return more money to the owners, and probably even raises the brand awareness for Market Basket.
It does absolutely nothing to change the situation.
Arthur T. has already lost. It doesn't sound to me as though he's that great a friend of labor anyway. When the dust settles, the DeMoulas family will have grossed a boatload of money. It appears that lawyers for both sides (as well as PR people and all sorts of other "consultants") will divert an interesting amount to their own bank accounts.
None of that will benefit workers, and none of it will save any jobs or provide any job security.
If Arthur T really cared about the workers, he would bankroll a unionization effort. Putting a successful and powerful union in place is the ONLY step that will make a difference, especially after the new owners flip Market Basket to whatever suitor(s) they currently have waiting in the wings.
Todya's Manchester Union Leader carries a story about the firing of MB Executives loyal to Arthur T. Their firings are about internal structure and politics not about striking for Arthur T. But they were clearly fired because they are Arthur T's people.
The story also details that warehouse workers are refusing to deliver to stores:
Delivery delays are attributed to the walk-out of certified fork-lift and other heavy equipment operators as well as licensed truck drivers. They are being replaced by workers either not certified to work on heavy equipment or who lack commercial operator driving licenses, one employee said.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140720/NEWS02/140729927
Two points – MB workers clearly need protection from the new corporate management. Get thee to a union asap! And Mass DOT needs to be at MB warehouses checking for CDLs and other required licenses this morning as a matter of public safety.
Another Disgraceful False Narrative Using Selective Facts
… when you go full meta…
whoaitsjoe
I thought the support wasn't for Arthur T. for him as a person, but rather what he represented and championed, which was good benefits, profit sharing, etc. That and the fear that the current CEO situation is catalyst to the sale of the company to what would no doubt be larger and less receptive corporation.
Plus it's still in the family.
Arthur T has had years and years to make his employees believe that his cousins are the most evil doers of all time.
Arthur T. seems to leave bodies in his wake. lawyers, emplyees.
And it was proved in court he cheated his aunt and cousins out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
John Gotti was loved in his neighborhood too.
The board picked two losers to be the new CEO. If my intention was a profitable company with success, I wouldn't be hiring the guy who put Kmart, Sears, and RadioShaq into the ground pursuing short term share value over long term success. Or the lady who busted day care unions and took kinder care public. This team comes from the Bain school of mismanagement.
http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_26057051/big-task-ahead-new-market-basket-co-chiefs
doney
in the statehouse in support of Arthur T…
someone please keep an eye on his campaign account… or given the way Arthur T operates with disbarred super lawyers, keep an eye on the dark money… oh wait
legislators would be wise to stay out of this
I honestly cant believe there is a protest in support of a billionaire who tried to steal half a company from his cousin… regardless of circumstances, who protests to get a billionaire his job back?
and why hasn't Arthur S just promised all regular employees the same benefits etc?
…and Don Berwick has also issued a statement supporting employees.
It's certainly possible Finegold has a relationship with the family since MB is HQ'd in his Senate district.


There was an updated QTNet4.dll created to allow use of https: connections that is not included in the YUM install. I don't see a link to it on this page either, but there is a link on the QT4 apps page. Would be nice to add it to the YUM install.
It seems all or most Qt apps don't work anymore with SSL sites. The reason is that Qt 4.7 sets SSLv3 as default. And a lot sites changed that due to POODLE. The solution would possible be to have TSLv1 as default.
Older versions of these are still working. Thanks for your help.


Matt Lauer's recent dinner at a Manhattan restaurant with a "Today" show producer who's an old friend was thoroughly snooped on. That's what they get for sitting in the middle of the room.
"They were in the middle of the room," a source told the tabloid. "They were talking about vacation spots." The source added that the two were overheard talking about Lauer moving away from the crowded Hamptons "to the mountains" for the summer.
Another source, though, claimed that Lauer and Kosofsky only discussed his children and did not talk about his departure from the Hamptons for the summer, where he has been staying since his firing, Page Six said.
One of the sources told the tabloid that Lauer and Kosofsky have "been good friends for 30 years." According to Washington Magazine, from Washington University in St. Louis, Kosofsky has served as a producer for the "Today" show since 2003.
Lauer's reported divorce details from estranged wife Annette Roque were recently revealed by Us Weekly, including that the former model will receive two homes the couple shared and a $20 million cash payout in lieu of child support.
The couple's relationship reached a breaking point at the height of the sexual misconduct charges against the longtime morning show host. Lauer, 60, and Roque, 51, have three children – Jack, 16; Romy, 14; and Thijs, 11.
An internal investigation of Lauer by NBC revealed that four women came forward to complain about Lauer's workplace behavior toward them, but the women told investigators they didn't directly tell "a manager or anyone else in a position of authority about their encounters with Lauer," according to The Hollywood Reporter.


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Q: Convergence/Divergence of an infinite series The problem in question is as follows
Determine convergence or divergence using any method covered so far:
$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{n}{4^{-n} + 5^{-n}}$$
I started by using the limit comparison test with the above sequence being the $\frac{n}{4^{-n} + 5^{-n}}$ and the sequence in the denominator being $\frac{1}{n}$.
The sequence ended up going to infinity implying that both series converge. Is this correct?
I am kind of confused. Could the sequence I arbitrarily selected to be in the denominator have been ANY sequence that was positive and gave a limit if used as the denominator of the first sequence?

A: Hint:
$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{n}{4^{-n}+5^{-n}}=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{n4^n}{1+\frac{4^n}{5^n}}$$
and $$1+\frac{4^n}{5^n}<n \quad{\text{If  n>1}}$$

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Casper Pumpkins are a beautiful vivid white with thick orange flesh of excellent eating quality. They grow to uniform 9-12 inch in diameter.
Casper Pumpkins have smooth, white rind with a bluish tinge at times, though less so than many other white varieties, with a tan coloured handle. They grow to be 18 to 24 inches (45 to 60 cm) wide by 8 to 10 inches (20 to 25 cm) tall, and weigh 10 to 20 pounds (4 � kg to 9 kg.) They have good tasting, dark-orange flesh. Can be oversweet. 100 days from seed.
Casper Pumpkins were developed by a Jerry Howell of Fonthill, Ontario (near Niagara Falls, Canada.) One of the parents was a Shamrock Pumpkin. Released 1992.


Wednesday is the first day of spring, and coincides with the end of freezing weather in the forecast and the start of a dry spell. This must mean it's time to start removing Jeep parts!
Soft doors will go on, I'll remove the rear window panels on the soft top, and clean out the accumulated winter detritus (shovel, coats, boots, gloves, everything else I kept for emergencies and/or didn't bother to remove because it's such a pain to get to anything out of the back).
The march to 90° (and thus the obligatory dropping of the windshield) has begun.


I found my true love at Baskin Robbins when I probably 4 or 5. All those flavors to choose from and I thought that peanut butter would go very well with chocolate and I haven't been let down since.
I decided to make peanut infused Rum. I bought a 1 Liter bottle of White Bicardi rum and about 2 cups raw peanuts. My plan is to let those two soak together for week then taste. Only a few days in the jar and I already taste a hint of peanut essence!
My goal is to, in a couple weeks, make a peanut butter cup martini. I have these orange martini glasses that would be perfect for them!!!


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We've been pretty jazzed on Boom! Studios' resurgence of The Disney Afternoon series. The ongoing Darkwing Duck line and the Duck Tales stories in Uncle Scrooge have been a feathery feast for the eyes, but on the eve of next week's Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers #1 debut, we're especially stoked to see its host of rad rodents return. But after facing down Fat Cat, Professor Norton Nimnul and a host of other threats, who could possibly challenge two chipmunks, two mice and a sweater-clad fly? And what does it have to do with resident Rescue Ranger inventor Gadget Hackwrench? The team of writer Ian Brill, Leonel Castellani, Jake Myler and Jason Arthur intend to answer just that.
While the official solicitation info for the series' debut issue leave plenty to the imagination, copy promoting the series second issue ensures the Rescue Rangers will be up against feral versions of their furry contemporaries as well as secrecy within their own ranks regarding important details from Gadget's past.


Forced deportations are a gruelling reality. In the wake of a recent ITF call to commercial airlines to refuse assisting in forced deportations, we look at what role, if any, airlines should play in these scenarios.
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The diaspora as a vantage point to modern China
From the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century more than 20 million people migrated out of China. Shelly Chan analyses the emergence of China as a nation state from the vantage point of the Chinese diaspora around the world.
Nina Trige Andersen
Nina Trige Andersen is a historian and freelance journalist. She is a regular contributor to Modern Times Review.
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Migration
Shelly Chan
Duke University Press, 2018
The scale of Chinese exodus from the 1840s to the 1940s has been surpassed only by European emigration to the Americas and beyond, and later by mass migration from India. By stating this fact, Shelly Chan in her new book Diaspora's Homeland reminds us of two important points: That Europe was once the main sending region rather than destination, and that Chinese circulations have spanned the world for centuries. More than 20 million people left China from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th, and this diaspora can, in Chan's view, serve as a vantage point for understanding the making of modern China.
«All eyes are increasingly on China and its place and role in the global order.»
As all eyes are increasingly on China and its place and role in the global order, Chan's analysis of historical migration dynamics as a window to the present-day contesting of US hegemony is a timely and thought-provoking enterprise. Her claim is that «diaspora moments» have played a key role in the development of, among other things, sovereignty and diplomacy, debates over tradition and modernity, and struggles between socialism and capitalism in China.
Flows of people and things
Chinese Immigrants to the US
Diaspora moments are for Chan «momentous encounters» in which migrations or migrants produced unexpected reverberations in the nation state of origin. Among these moments she looks at «coolie» migration from China to the Americas in the late 19th century and how it pulled Qing China into Western social, political, and economic geography; at how national identity in Republican China was – not only, but also – produced through the power of Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia; how Confucianism was reinterpreted through migrant experiences of being colonial subjects in the British empire; at the contradictions and conflicts that emerged when a socialist mode of production was confronted with households split between home and abroad, as well as how diaspora returns were simultaneously encouraged and seen as potentially embodying a «capitalist threat».
In revisiting these diaspora moments as keys to the emergence of the present national narrations and political economy of mainland China, Chan follows and expands a tradition of transnational inquiries. Diaspora's Homeland presents new insights, but also places itself in conversation with related publications such as Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo's Chinese Circulations (2011), an anthology about Chinese economy seen through flows of capital and commodities in Southeast Asia.
Temporary absence
In Chinese the word huaqiao was historically used to refer to Chinese diaspora, and according to Chan it literally means «Chinese who are temporarily located». The term thus served to discursively create a permanent national homeland by emphasising migrants' temporal absence from it, while at the same time indicating that the absence was forced or unwilling. Not until the 19th century was it officially recognised that migration could lead to settlement in another place.
«Diaspora returns were simultaneously encouraged and seen as potentially embodying a «capitalist threat».»
Just like in Europe, those who are mobile have in China traditionally been viewed with suspicion and paranoia, unless part of a political, diplomatic, economic or scholarly elite. In fact, emigration was in long periods of Chinese history banned, not just under Mao but also in the preceding centuries. Such a ban was lifted in one of the diaspora moments that Chan identifies, namely in 1893.
Gusu City, Jiangsu in Qing dynasty
That the Qing government lifted the ban in 1893 has been viewed by historians as a somewhat meaningless gesture as the ban was already systematically circumvented by, for instance, the coolie migration/trade. Chan then asks the observant question: If it had no real meaning, why then was the ban lifted? The quest to find the answer leads her to discover that the point was less to endorse exits and more to invite and encourage returns of the many who had already left: By legalising emigration, the diaspora fear of retaliation upon return was removed.
Just as Deng Xiaoping and succeeding Chinese leaders did later, the Qing government in the late 19th century had realised that the diaspora possessed resources that could be most useful for the homeland nation if mobilised to its ends. These attempts of forging and reinventing ties between the Chinese diaspora and the Chinese nation state have since been refined and retooled as also the cultural anthropologist Aihwa Ong has described in contemporary studies.
Time unbounded
Chan argues that Chinese history is «fragmented and networked» like migration itself, and writes about the heterogeneity of Chinese migrants:
«Some became major players in commerce, industry, government, education, and culture; others were the ubiquitous street peddlers, shopkeepers, vegetable gardeners, laundrymen, cooks, fishermen, and factory workers […] numerous studies have detailed its impact around the globe. Yet one question is often not asked: How did it change China?»
The migrations pulled China «into the orbit of empires, nations, and markets far beyond its shores», Chan contends, and analyses how relations were maintained, remade and invented between the migrants and the «homeland». She also makes a call for taking the «transnational turn» to the next level: Now that our understandings of history have been spatially unbounded by inquiries that trace people, ideas and goods across and beyond national boundaries, it is time to free the imagination from periodisation and national chronologies.
Chan points out that scholarship in migration is preoccupied with movement in space, but rarely with movement in time, and argues that one cannot be fully grasped without the other: «It is common to understand diaspora as dispersed communities, while the comparable idea of fragmented temporalities has not attracted much discussion.»
Apart from diaspora moments, Chan also introduces the concept of «diaspora time» to describe «the diverse, ongoing ways in which migration affects the lifeworlds of individuals, families and communities».
With well thought out questions and original vantage points as well as inventive conceptualisations, Diaspora's Homeland enriches both the knowledge about the making of present day China and the tools for writing history.
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