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Slim hope of sales tax reform better than none
Written by Marty Trillhaase - The Lewiston Tribune
Category: Media Coverage
The Idaho League of Women Voters is wasting its time with an initiative campaign to reform the sales tax and turn more money loose for public schools.
So says the smart money.
You can see why.
The proposal takes about 20 pages to explain how it would lower the overall rate from 6 to 5 percent, eliminate 22 sales tax exemptions, expand the tax to a dozen services and in the process generate about $424 million more each year for education.
As a rule of thumb, the longer and more complex an idea, the more likely people will run away from it.
Getting on the ballot won't be easy, either.
By April 30, the LWV must round up 47,623 valid signatures. To account for unqualified individuals signing petitions, they may need closer to 60,000.
To top it off, lawmakers have put more obstacles in their path. Rather than soak up signatures in a handful of population centers, the league members must also follow a new state law mandating they get 6 percent of the voters registered in each of 18 legislative districts.< /span>
Today's typical initiative campaign jumps over th ose hurdles by hiring professionals to collect signatures at $2 or $3 each.
But the league does not have $180,000. So its members are gambling that they can revert to an earlier era when a grassroots campaign could qualify an initiative. They figure people really mean it when they demand more money for schools and less crony capitalism.
If that passion exists, teachers, grandparents and parents will respond to the LWV's appeal to pass around the sales tax initiative petition.
Even if it gets on the ballot, the LWV initiative will be outmatched for support during the fall campaign. Most of those sales tax exemptions have a corporate backer. Every one of those corporate backers has a checkbook that will pay for television ads scaring voters into believing the sales tax changes will cost them money and pinch the economy.
But ask yourself this: When do you expect to get a better deal?
Idaho's one-party state has delivered a GOP-dominated government that would rather cut taxes than support schools. Since the turn of the century, the share of Idaho's personal income devoted to public education has dropped roughly 25 percent - or t he equivalent of more than $500 million a year. Even with a robust budget increase this year, schools have yet to reverse the losses caused by recessionary budget cuts, rising costs and growing enrollments.
Idaho's per pupil expenditures are last in the nation or next to it.
If you want to see how that happened, look no further than Idaho's sales tax. Wh en it was enacted in 1965, the sales tax was set at 3 percent. The list of exemptions was targeted at a narrow range of manufacturing while most retail transactions were taxed.
As the economy shifted toward services and online site sa les, the tax base shriveled and its rate rose to 6 percent. Meanwhile, every lobbyist worth his paycheck went into the state Capitol and arranged for his employers to get an exemption.
For example, interstate trucks now save $8.6 million.
Research and development escapes $7.2 million.
The Idaho National Laboratory does not pay $6.2 million.
Of course, broadening the base means someone will pay more. If you hire an attorney or an accountant, you'll be ch arged a new tax. Your haircut will cost 5 percent more, too.
Keeping the tax on groceries and maintaining the $100 per person grocery tax credit is good news for low-income Idahoans; bad news for those at the top of the economic ladder.
And exemptions will remain in place for health care services and utility bills.
As imperfect as that may sound, you can expect no action from lawmakers.
Every time the Legislature even works up enough nerve to look at th e exemptions, some politically wired lobbyist walks into the conference room, expresses his grave misgivings and the whole idea gets shelved.
Want to see a lower, broader sales tax?
Tired of the corporate cronyism that permeates state government?
Want to restore at least some of the money public schools have lost in the past 15 years?
Then you better hope this time the smart money is wrong.
(The original post of this article is HERE: http://lmtribune.com/opinion/slim-hope-of-sales-tax-reform-better-than-none/article_62f3a629-1262-512e-8a62-fdaa038b17a7.html )


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SubGenre:Instruction & Study / General
The Ukulele Entertainer
Powerful Pointers for Players and Performers
by Ralph Shaw
Be the Best "Ukulele Entertainer" You Can Be! Could your playing, singing or onstage banter use a little fine-tuning? All string instrument performers will benefit from this practical, informative book. Going far beyond other ukulele publications, this helpful guide shows the aspiring ukulele star of any age how to: •	Put strings on a ukulele, correctly •	Play three styles of triplet strum •	Know where to look when you sing •	Tackle nerves and stage fright •	Start and run a ukulele club •	Remember lyrics and sing on pitch •	Create a killer set list, and much, much more Learn from a seasoned pro how to relax and improvise, introduce more dynamics into your playing, even—just for fun—how to make ukulele wine! You'll get some lessons in musical history and be royally entertained by the "King of the Ukulele" himself.
Be the Best "Ukulele Entertainer" You Can Be! Could your playing, singing or onstage banter use a little fine-tuning? All string instrument performers will benefit from this practical, informative book. Going far beyond other ukulele publications, this helpful guide shows the aspiring ukulele star of any age how to: • Put strings on a ukulele, correctly • Play three styles of triplet strum • Know where to look when you sing • Tackle nerves and stage fright • Start and run a ukulele club • Remember lyrics and sing on pitch • Create a killer set list, and much, much more Learn from a seasoned pro how to relax and improvise, introduce more dynamics into your playing, even—just for fun—how to make ukulele wine! You'll get some lessons in musical history and be royally entertained by the "King of the Ukulele" himself. Welcome to The Ukulele Entertainer, a book to help ukulele players with their playing and performance skills. This book shows all levels of ukulele player how to play better and includes tips on improving your chances of success when you get out in front of an audience. Much of the information is also useful for other musicians and entertainers who are not ukulele players. The pieces have been placed in sections. Since this is a book primarily for ukulele players, the most obvious category would be advice on how to play the ukulele. But, surprisingly perhaps, Ralph doesn't dwell on the playing of the instrument as much as you might expect. Achieving excellence as an entertainer or musical performer requires knowledge and sets of skills far beyond musical techniques. How often has the ukulele player come up against stage fright or wondered where in the audience to look while singing? Therefore, numerous pages are dedicated to the teaching of performance ability. Most ukulele players are singers too. Singing looks so easy when done well. But only those who have persistently devoted themselves to the improvement of vocal technique understand how the playing of a stringed instrument is less than half the battle. Becoming a better singer is a big part of the ukulele player's education, so you'll find chapters to help with singing on pitch and the delivery of lyrics. Ralph Shaw's writing comes across in the same terms as his performances. Elements of humour, storytelling and whimsy woven throughout. These flashes of pattern and colour will help the reader to absorb and remember the lessons. You'll also find the occasional chapter that won't help you improve either your playing or performance abilities. However, you will learn how to make an undrinkable wine from an old ukulele, partake in the joys of making music through the eyes and ears of a fifteen-year-old girl, and discover "Sithee," the Yorkshire equivalent of the Hawaiian word "Aloha." You may choose to think of these pieces as moments of inspirational literature. If you don't, and instead you view them as items of pointless frivolity, then one should ask, If we can't be allowed some time and space for reckless self-abandon, then why are we playing the ukulele in the first place?
Ralph Shaw is an "űber-talented performer with the soul of a teacher" who brings, along with his ukulele, the best of British Music Hall to the stage. The wit, charm and comic energy of his live performances are also evident in his writing. His original songs have been featured regularly on CBC Radio and can also be heard in movies and TV shows. Ralph lives in Vancouver, Canada, and travels widely to perform and teach at ukulele festivals and other events.
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2012a 54 ICA-54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna 15th to 20th of July 2012. Convenor of the symposium (together with co-convenor Laura Teves, University of La Plata, Argentina): El uso del término "Capital Social" en la Antropología Social: Sus contextos, definiciones y aplicaciones en estudios recientes (The Use oft the Term "Social Capital" in Social Anthropology: Its Contexts, Definitions and Applications in Current Studies).
2012b 54 ICA-54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna 15th to 20th of July 2012. Co-convenor of the symposium (together with convenor Soledad Hoces de la Guardia, Catholic University of Santiago de Chile/Chile): Los tejidos Americanos: Desafíos contemporáneos y aportes pluridisciplinarios en las investigaciones de la cultura material (American Textiles: Contemporary Challenges and Pluridisciplinary Contributions to the Investigation of Material Culture).
Textiles, Techné and Power in the Andes, Birkbeck/Great Britain, 15 th to 17 th of March 2012. Presentation of the paper and filmed material: Complejidad cultural e identidades complejas (Cultural Complexity and Complex Identities).
2010 LASA 2010-XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association: Crisis, Response, and Recovery, Toronto/Canada, 6th to 9th of October 2010. Co-Convenor of the symposium (together with convenor Dagoberto Flores, Instituto Internacional de Investigación para el Desarrollo, México): Cultura y crisis en la pobreza latinoamericana - presente y futuro (Culture and Crisis of Latin American Poverty - Presence and Future). Presentation of the paper: Jóvenes y modo de vida tradicional: ¿Estrategias locales para el bien vivir y la salida de la pobreza rural? (Young People and Traditional Lifestyle: Local Strategies for Prosperity and the Leaving of Rural Poverty).
2009 53 ICA-International Congress of Americanists, Mexico DF./Mexico 19th to 24th of July 2009. Convenor of the symposium (together with co-convenor Maya Lorena Pérez Ruíz, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico DF.): Jóvenes y adultos jóvenes: Importantes actores sociales y factor clave en los grupos locales rurales y las metrópolis. Enfoques, métodos y nuevos conocimientos en los estudios sobre la juventud (Youth and Young Adults: Important Social Actors and Key Factor in Rural Local Groups and the Metropolis. Research Focuses, Methods and Recent Inquiries in Youth Studies). Presentation of the paper: Los jóvenes: Actores sociales, agencia e identidad colectiva (Young People: Social Actors, Agency and Collective Identity).
2007 IV Jornada de Textiles Precolombinos, Barcelone/Spain, 27th to 1st of December 2007. Presentation of the paper: Tejidos y arquitectura: Algunos aspectos de una relación firme (Textiles and Architecture: Some Aspects of a Solid Relationship).
2006 52 ICA-International Congress of Americanists, Seville/Spain, 15th to 21st of July 2006. Presentation of the paper: Rol y significado de los tejidos en las sociedades rurales andinas: Contextos socio-culturales, indicios de cambio y perspectiva actual (Role and Meaning of Textiles in Rural Andean Societies. Socio-Cultural Contexts, Evidence of Transformations and Current Perspectives).
2005 Applications of Social Network Analysis, Zurich/Switzerland, 20th to 21st of October 2005. Presentation of the paper (elaborated together with Laura Teves, University of La Plata/Argentina): Social Network Analysis in the Context of Andean Local Groups.
2004a 8th EASA Conference, Vienna/Austria, 8th to 12th of December 2004. Presentation of the paper: Public Images and History: Designing the Kallawaya.
2004b III Jornada de Textiles Precolombinos, Barcelone/Spain, 29th to 30th of November 2004. Presentation of the paper: La iconografía de las aves en el contexto textil: Aspectos históricos y actuales (The Iconography of Birds in Andean Context: Historical and Current Aspects).
2003a 51 ICA-International Congress of Americanists, Santiago de Chile/Chile, 14th 1o 19th of July 2003. Presentation of the paper: Prácticas manuales y elementos estructurales de los textiles Andinos. De la estructura a la técnica: La confección textil visto como un proceso cognitivo (Manual Practice and Structural Elements of Andean Textiles. From Structure to Technique: Textile Production Seen as a Cognitive Process).
2003b Primer Congreso Sudamericano de Historia, Sta. Cruz de La Sierra/Bolivia, 18th to 22nd of August 2003. Presentation of the paper: Identidad colectiva y sociedad andina –un acercamiento teórico al tema (Collective Identity and Andean Society -a Theoretical Approach to the Topic).
2003c Seminartagung der Schweizerischen Amerikanistengesellschaft, Bern/Switzerland, 14th to 15th of March 2003. Presentation of the paper: La formación de la identidad colectiva: El ejemplo de las sociedades andinas (The Formation of Collective Identity: The Example of the Andean Societies).
2001a X Congreso Internacional de Latinoamericanistas y Caribólogos, Moscow/Russia, 26th to 29 th of June 2001. Presentation of the paper: Conceptos indígenas de la formación territorial y etnopoliticos frente al Estado republicano-nacional (Indigenous Concepts of Territoriality and the Republican Nation State).
2001b Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Göttingen/Germany, 7th to 10th of October 2001. Presentation of the paper: Orientierung im Streifenraum -räumliche Konzepte auf textilem Grund (Orientation in the Striped Space –Concepts of Space on Textile Background).
2000 50 ICA-International Congress of Americanists, Varsow/Poland, 7 th to 15 th of July 2000. Presentation of the papers: La ecología de los valles interandinos de Charazani -pasado, presente y futuro (The Ecology of the Inter-Andean Valleys of Charazani –Past, Present and Future) and Sociedad Andina y Concepto de Tiempo (Andean Society and the Conception of Time).


Litecoin (LTC): The idea of atomic swaps, also known as atomic cross chain trading, was introduced on the Lightning network back in November 2017 to allow Bitcoin-Litecoin exchange transactions on the network. The product has since been placed in a development process with the exchange between BTC/LTC happening in an instant. In this article we discuss the role played by Exchange Union and the implications the atomic swap will have on then overall exchange of cryptocurrencies instantly in a trustless environment.
Exchange Union is an open source project that offers its users with the best market price, high liquidity and user friendliness while exchanging cryptocurrencies. The protocol is also developing the XU node software. XU nodes are operated by independent digital asset exchanges, which form the decentralized Exchange Union Network. The technology enables instant, secure and trustless trades of different digital assets between exchanges.
The announcement of product development on the atomic cross chains between BTC and LTC was made on Exchange Union official Medium page. By restructuring the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) and through a bit of hacking they were able to finally able to swap BTC and LTC instantly in a trustless environment.
Atomic swaps or atomic cross-chain trading involves the exchange of cryptocurrencies between users and interested parties without reliance of a third party. Current systems dictate that you have to trust in third parties such as exchanges to complete the exchange. Atomic swaps will provide a platform that allows trustless transfer of cryptocurrencies and other assets between parties.
Imagine two parties, X and Y both need to exchange cryptocurrencies. X has Bitcoins worth $80,000 and wants to exchange the BTC for Litecoin. Y on the other hand, has $80,000 worth of LTC and needs to exchange them for BTC. Both of them will need to rely on a third party to transfer the coins without the doubt that X may receive the LTC and not send his BTC or Y receives the BTC and doesn't send LTC. This problem is solved by atomic swaps through utilizing hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs).
Litecoin (LTC) is currently trading at $120.74, a slight 1% increase in the last 24 hours. The last 30 days has seen the price drop from a high of $156 as the whole cryptocurrency market faced a stint of red after a fall of Bitcoin below the $8000 mark. LTC is ranked sixth on the Coinmarketcap rankings with a total market capitalization of $6,869,984,262 USD. The last 24 hours has seen a total of $259,565,000 USD worth of LTC traded with OKEx having 29% of the total trades.


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Q: Вывод тег как на ХэшКоде Привет друзья
Хочу сделать вывод тег как на этом сайте.

Каким должен быть css код?
div.tagcloud a {
    display: block;
background: #ededed;
text-transform: lowercase;
    font-size: 15px !important;
    padding: 2px;
}

такой вариант меня не устраивает:
вот что получается

A: http://jsfiddle.net/zQ2NY/
http://jsfiddle.net/zQ2NY/1/ - динамические

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'use strict';

var _ = require('lodash');
var proxyquire = require('proxyquire');
var sinon = require('sinon');
var should = require('should');

describe('Library: Lambda invocation helper', function() {
  var aws;
  var invocationHelperFactory;
  var invocationHelper;
  var lambda;
  var lambdaRequest;
  var lodash;
  var logCollectorFactory;
  var logMonitorFactory;

  beforeEach(function() {
    aws = { Lambda: sinon.stub() };
    lambda = { invokeAsync: sinon.stub() };
    lambdaRequest = { on: sinon.stub(), send: sinon.spy() };
    lodash = { partialRight: sinon.stub() };
    logCollectorFactory = sinon.stub();
    logMonitorFactory = sinon.stub();

    aws.Lambda.returns(lambda);
    lambda.invokeAsync.returns(lambdaRequest);

    var invocationHelperFactory = proxyquire(
      '../../lib/invocationHelperFactory',
      {
        'aws-sdk': aws,
        'lodash': lodash,
        './logMonitorFactory': logMonitorFactory,
        './logCollectorFactory': logCollectorFactory
      }
    );

    invocationHelper = invocationHelperFactory();

    sinon.stub(console, 'log');
  });

  afterEach(function() {
    console.log.restore();
  });

  describe('invokeLambdaFunction', function() {
    it(
      'should invoke a lambda function and return an invocation task',
      function() {
        var callback = sinon.spy();
        var event = { foo: 'bar' };

        lodash.partialRight.returns('on-invoke-complete');

        invocationHelper.invokeLambdaFunction(
          'function-name',
          event,
          callback
        );

        console.log.callCount.should.equal(1);
        should(console.log.args[0][0]).equal('Invoking: function-name');

        lambda.invokeAsync.callCount.should.equal(1);
        should(lambda.invokeAsync.args[0][0]).eql({
          FunctionName: 'function-name',
          InvokeArgs: JSON.stringify(event)
        });

        lodash.partialRight.callCount.should.equal(1);
        should(lodash.partialRight.args[0][0]).eql(
          invocationHelper._onInvokeComplete,
          {
            functionName: 'function-name',
            event: event,
            eventList: [ ],
            logMonitor: undefined,
            logCollector: undefined,
            requestId: undefined,
            startTime: 0
          },
          callback
        );

        lambdaRequest.on.callCount.should.equal(1);
        should(lambdaRequest.on.args[0][0]).equal('complete');
        should(lambdaRequest.on.args[0][1]).equal('on-invoke-complete');

        lambdaRequest.send.callCount.should.equal(1);
      }
    );
  });

  describe('_onInvokeComplete', function() {
    it('should fill in the details of the invocation task', function() {
      var callback = sinon.spy();
      var invocationTask = { };
      var response = {
        httpResponse: { headers: { 'x-amzn-requestid': 'request-id' } }
      };

      logMonitorFactory.returns('log-monitor');
      logCollectorFactory.returns('log-collector');

      invocationHelper._onInvokeComplete(
        response,
        invocationTask,
        callback
      );

      should(invocationTask.logMonitor).equal('log-monitor');
      should(invocationTask.logCollector).equal('log-collector');
      should(invocationTask.requestId).equal('request-id');
    });
  });
});

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class HostContentSettingsMap;
class Profile;

class PermissionMenuModel : public ui::SimpleMenuModel,
                            public ui::SimpleMenuModel::Delegate {
 public:
  typedef base::Callback<void(const WebsiteSettingsUI::PermissionInfo&)>
      ChangeCallback;

  // Create a new menu model for permission settings.
  PermissionMenuModel(Profile* profile,
                      const GURL& url,
                      const WebsiteSettingsUI::PermissionInfo& info,
                      const ChangeCallback& callback);
  // Creates a special-case menu model that only has the allow and block
  // options.  It does not track a permission type.  |setting| is the
  // initial selected option.  It must be either CONTENT_SETTING_ALLOW or
  // CONTENT_SETTING_BLOCK.
  PermissionMenuModel(Profile* profile,
                      const GURL& url,
                      ContentSetting setting,
                      const ChangeCallback& callback);
  ~PermissionMenuModel() override;

  // Overridden from ui::SimpleMenuModel::Delegate:
  bool IsCommandIdChecked(int command_id) const override;
  bool IsCommandIdEnabled(int command_id) const override;
  void ExecuteCommand(int command_id, int event_flags) override;

 private:
  HostContentSettingsMap* host_content_settings_map_;

  // The permission info represented by the menu model.
  WebsiteSettingsUI::PermissionInfo permission_;

  // Callback to be called when the permission's setting is changed.
  ChangeCallback callback_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(PermissionMenuModel);
};

#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_UI_WEBSITE_SETTINGS_PERMISSION_MENU_MODEL_H_


The UK and Bulgaria are investigating possible connections between the Salisbury nerve agent attack and a 2015 poisoning in Bulgaria.
One of the three Russian suspects linked to the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal is alleged to have been involved in the poisoning of the Bulgarian owner of an arms factory three years earlier.
Russian citizen Sergei Fedotov made three trips to Bulgaria in 2015 – including once in April, which is when Emilian Gebrev was poisoned, Bulgarian chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said.
Mr Gebrev survived the attack, but a Finnish laboratory has been unable to identify the poison that was used.
Britain's ambassador to Sofia, Emma Hopkins, said she had discussed the possible poisoning of Mr Gebrev in a meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borrissov.
She told reporters on Monday: "We are working in a joint team and a close partnership, and we are going to find out the facts in this case.
Investigative group Bellingcat said Fedotov was also suspected of being involved in the novichok nerve agent poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last year.
Fedotov is said to have arrived in the UK two days before the March 2018 attack, on the same day as the two suspected attackers.
"Significant" data had been gathered on Fedotov's trips to Bulgaria as part of an investigation into the poisoning, Mr Tsatsarov added.
He said: "We are establishing all moments while he was on Bulgarian territory, the hotels, the vehicles he used, contacts with Bulgarian citizens.
"Since then, we have been working in full co-operation and co-ordination with the British services.
Mr Tsatsarov said that Mr Gebrev had written to him in October to say he had reason to suspect he may have been poisoned by a substance from the same family as novichok.
However, he acknowledged there was no scientific evidence to back his claims.
Blood and urine tests confirmed the presence of organophosphorus compounds in Mr Gebrev's system, which are used in some pesticides.
Mr Gebrev's condition improved and he was discharged from hospital a month later.
Laboratories previously confirmed that novichok was used in the Salisbury poisonings, with the Skripals surviving after weeks in hospital.
UK officials have blamed the attack on the Russian military agency GRU and charged two Russian suspects, who went by the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.


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New Perspectives on Neurobehavioral Evolution, Volume 1225
H. P. Zeigler
This volume derives from a conference on New Studies in Neurobehavioral Evolution, convened as a tribute to the life work and influence of Wally Welker, an outstanding student of the evolutionary relationships of specializations of brains and behavior of mammals. Studies in fields of Welker's major contributions are presented, including the importance of observing developmental aspects of brain-behavior relationships; documentation of the elaboration of distinctive sensorimotor circuits to enable behavioral adaptations to, and manipulations of, novel environments; morphological correlates of...
This volume derives from a conference on New Studies in Neurobehavioral Evolution, convened as a tribute to the life work and influence of Wally Welke...
Moonwalking with Einstein : The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory
An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an...
An instant bestseller tha...
Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application Of Network Science
Paolo Grigolini; Bruce J. West
This invaluable book captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss how networking influences decision making. The individual lectures interconnect psychological testing, the modeling of neuron networks and brain dynamics to the transport of information within and between complex networks. Of particular importance was the introduction of a new principle that governs how complex networks talk to one another the Principle of Complexity Management (PCM). PCM establishes that the transfer of information...
This invaluable book captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to...
Stereotaxic and Chemoarchitectural Atlas of the Brain of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
Craig D. Hardman; Ken W.S. Ashwell
Developing better therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson s and Alzheimer s diseases remains an enduring problem for 21st century medicine. The testing of novel therapies will continue to require a robust experimental animal model. The marmoset is an ideal animal model for modern neurological research because of the species convenient body size, ease of handling, and the fundamental similarity of its neuroanatomy to the human brain.
The Stereotaxic and Chemoarchitectural Atlas of the Brain of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix...
Developing better therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson s and Alzheimer s diseases remains an enduring problem for 21st
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Sebastian Seung
"This is complicated stuff, and it is a testament to Dr. Seung's remarkable clarity of exposition that the reader is swept along with his enthusiasm, as he moves from the basics of neuroscience out to the farthest regions of the hypothetical, sketching out a spectacularly illustrated giant map of the universe of man."--Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times
Every person is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, that uniqueness resides. Our genome may determine our eye color and even aspects of our character. But our friendships, failures, and passions also...
"This is complicated stuff, and it is a testament to Dr. Seung's remarkable clarity of exposition that the reader is swept along with his enthusiasm, ...
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Is there a true Mel Gibson? How is your brain like a conflicted democracy engaged in civil war? What do Odysseus and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Why are people whose names begin with J more...
In this sparkling and provocati...
Brain and Music
Stefan Koelsch
A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain
Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion
Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts
Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics
Integrates research from different domains (such...
Covers a variety of topics ...
Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - And How It Will Change Our Lives
Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self--and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.
Beyond Boundaries draws on Nicolelis's ground-breaking research with monkeys that he taught to control the movements of a robot located halfway around the globe by using...
Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning...
The River of Consciousness
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He...
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passio...


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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Forest Cover, 08/02/2019
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Forest Cover, 08/02/2019. The State/UTs wise details of forest cover along with percentage as per ISFR-2017 is given in Annexure-I. National Afforestation Programme (NAP) of the Ministry of Environment & Forests is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for afforestation and eco-restoration of degraded forests and adjoining areas through people's participation.
Forests, Forest Resources, India, Statistics, Parliament
Uganda: NFA Official Suspended Over Illegal Logging
Masaka — The National Forestry Authority (NFA) has suspended one of its officers for looking on, as illegal logging takes place in forest reserves under his supervision.
Source: All Africa
Uganda, Africa, Deforestation, Forest Resources, Biosphere Reserves
Identification of fire prone forest areas based on GIS analysis of archived forest fire points detected in the last thirteen years
Forest fires cause large scale destruction of forest resources and biodiversity in the country every year. One forest fire incident may nullify all efforts of conservation and plantations done in the past several years.
Source: Forest Survey of India
Forest Fires, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Forest Resources, India
State of Mediterranean forests 2018
The Mediterranean forest area has increased by two percent between 2010 and 2015, resulting in a rise of 1.8 million hectares - about the size of Slovenia, says a new FAO-Plan Bleu report - The State of Mediterranean Forests.
Source: FAO
Forests, Forest Resources, Biodiversity Conservation, Protected Area Conservation, Mediterranean
Strategy for increasing green cover outside recorded forest areas: expert committee report
What is the best strategy for increasing green cover outside recorded forest areas? Leasing of wasteland to the corporate sector for re-greening is among the major recommendations that a report by an expert committee formed by India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has suggested.
Forest Resources, Agroforestry, India, Trees, Private Sector
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security 2017
The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2015 showed that a staggering 22 percent of total damage and loss from natural disasters in developing countries was absorbed by the agriculture sector alone.
Natural Disasters, Agriculture, Food Security, Developing Countries, India, Crops, Livestock, Forest Resources, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Conflicts
Bioenergy from Finnish forests: sustainable, efficient, modern use of wood
Wood residues form Finland's main source of bioenergy. About half of the country's wood production is used for heat and power, either through district heating systems or through combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The most modern of these plants use fluidised bed technology to combust or gasify a wide range of forest residues.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020: guidelines and specifications
FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) provides essential information for understanding the extent of forest resources, their condition, management and uses. This document provide information about the country reporting process, including an introduction to the new FRA 2020 on-line reporting platform.
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India State of Forest Report 2017
Between 2003 and 2016, the forest fires have jumped by almost 38% from 24,450 to 33,664 shows the State of Forests report 2017 released by the environment ministry.
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Mid-century men—the Greatest Generation and their kid brothers—were expected to be stoic, and keep their emotions in check, even in heartbreak. But Frank Sinatra gave them permission to wallow. All the things that went unexpressed, that they could not admit, became manifest on the albums of ballads Sinatra recorded for Capitol Records in the 1950s, especially the torch-song-trilogy he made with arranger Nelson Riddle: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Close to You, and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. Those LPs should have been sold with coupons for fifths of Jack Daniels and cartons of Marlboros: Here, guy, you're going to need these.
You listen to Only the Lonely now, in a celebratory expanded edition for its 60th anniversary, and what strikes you is its unrelieved darkness, the film noir undercurrent of Riddle's orchestrations. Unlike Gordon Jenkins, Sinatra's other go-to arranger for the slow ones, Riddle didn't put the sadness in syrupy boldface, sweeping the singer along on cascading strings. Riddle's textures were dramatic, but subtler, with elements of jazz (he framed Sinatra's voice the way Gil Evans did Miles Davis's trumpet) and classical music. Has any pop album this gloomy ever been so popular? It was America's #1 LP for five weeks, stayed on the chart for more than two years, and was nominated for the first Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Everyone my parents' age seemed to have a copy of Only the Lonely in their sparse album collections. Maybe they were just enraptured by the impeccable, resonant singing, the sweep of the music. Or maybe it was the album the men listened to in the living room, late at night, quietly, because they felt Sinatra understood them in some deep way.
Even among Sinatra's consistent output of classic albums in the '50s, Only the Lonely stands apart, and for that a lot of the credit has to go to Riddle. After he'd worked on every Sinatra project on Capitol, the three albums preceding Only the Lonely found the baton in other hands. Jenkins arranged Where Are You and a Christmas LP, then Billy May took over for the swingin', wingin' trip Come Fly With Me, which hit #1 early in '58 (like Only the Lonely, it was nominated for the initial Album of the Year Grammy; they both lost out to Henry Mancini's music from Peter Gunn). Originally, Only the Lonely was going be a Jenkins assignment, but it wound up with Riddle, and what I hear is a response to a challenge, Riddle out to prove to Sinatra, Capitol, everyone, that he was in a league of his own. He sets the scene with the first track, the moody title song written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, that's like an opening-credits theme: "Each place I go," Sinatra announces, "only the lonely go." He's going to tell us some stories. How did he end up in this state? "Each melody recalls a love that used to be." It's as though he's saying, this is going to hurt some, and you'll be here a while (most of the songs crack the four-minute mark), but here goes. Buckle up.
A tracking shot leads us into a bar. "Drink up, all you people." Sinatra does not waste any time. He and Riddle segue into the album's masterpiece, Matt Dennis & Earl Brent's "Angel Eyes." It's devastatingly sad. Our narrator has had a few, and he's opening up. Sinatra lingers seductively on the lyric's four-syllable words. "Still it's uncomfortably near," "They glow unbearably bright"—"unbearably bright," how perfect is that?—"The fact's uncommonly clear." This song could just have easily closed out Only the Lonely, with its mic-drop ending, "'Scuse me while I disappear," but that slot goes to another melancholy soliloquy that became a Sinatra staple, "One for My Baby" by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer. The 60th anniversary package includes alternate takes of both, and you might consider buying it for just those tracks, and for the legendary-among-Sinatraphiles abandoned outtake where he tries to navigate Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" and just…can't…get there. "Let's put it away for about a year," he says. He never got back to it.
Sinatra is back at the bar on "One for My Baby." "Put another nickel in the machine," he sings. "Won't you make the music dreamy and sad." This album is, among other things, about how we use music as an emotional valve. There were no singles released from Only the Lonely—Sinatra tended to treat his LPs and his 45s as different art forms entirely—and probably that's a good thing. Imagine if Capitol had put out "Angel Eyes" b/w "One for My Baby," and serviced it to every bar in the United States that had a jukebox. At last call, Joe would have been wiping tears from the counter every night.
The album is filled with stunning moments, on "What's New," "Spring is Here" (Rodgers & Hart's lament that a change in the weather does not cause a change in romantic circumstances), a powerful, sweeping "Ebb Tide," a song whose lyric is not particularly unhappy, but which sounds in this incarnation like James Mason is taking a final walk into the ocean in the '54 A Star Is Born. But aside from the two halves of my theoretical 45, the highlight of Only the Lonely is Cahn & Styne's "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry." Sinatra had recorded that one in the late '40s for Columbia, but not with this much gravity; he is coming apart ("Since love has gone, can't pull myself together"), declines any invitations to socialize. He can't forget her.
In the liner notes for Only the Lonely, on the original vinyl edition, Cahn and Van Heusen write about composing the title song for him, and say "A Sinatra singing a hymn of loneliness could very well be the real Sinatra." That might be true. Late in his career, toward the end, Sinatra was largely going through the motions. His voice was creaking, he was forgetful. His sets were filled with crowd-rousing hits ("My Way," "Theme from New York, New York," "My Kind of Town"). But at most concerts in 1994 (including a run in April at Radio City Music Hall), there would be a pause, and he'd introduce a "saloon song," and it was either "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," "One for My Baby," or "Angel Eyes." "Have fun, you happy people, the drink and the laugh's on me." Nearly every night, in a moment that seemed like it was just for him, time would slow down, and he'd return to that place where only the lonely go.
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Is it possible to make a living out of stock photography any more?
The elephant in the room here is CGI. Technically flawless commercial imagery - products, interiors, even creeping into fashion - are now increasingly done in CGI. .
One of the ones I mentioned got removed by the moderator, so I had better not say. Needless to say, those that place technology (programming, apps, platforms, neural networks are just round the corner) at the heart of their operation rather than editing, curation, art direction, etc. Traditional agencies were, possibly still are, created by photographers, tech companies by programmers, or are bolted onto existing tech operations like this one (computers, cancer research etc.). I agree about your comments on cameras. The dominant trend in commercial photography at the moment is 'authenticity'. There is legacy of over-stylised, over-composed, flawless, beautifully lit imagery which buyers don't want any more. It's actually quite difficult to produce, but the spec of camera is neither here nor there. Not that I am particularly trying myself.
Ian Nothing wrong with fodder which you describe accurately, and is essential sustenance for the media world to munch away on, and I produce a quite pungent variety myself. But I now mainly place it on micro sites (or midstock as they may now more accurately) because they pay. As simple as that. The tech companies now control most of the business, and there is nothing anyone can do about that. If you are looking for a cause, the issue now is the survival of RM, and I don't see anything in your position which is supportive of this. If RM is to survive then it requires very considered work that buyers are prepared to pay for. What the tech companies are doing is closing the space in which RM can survive by offering this in special collections as RF and also offering buyouts for those who want exclusivity. Alamy is falling into line by encouraging everyone to go RF, even for images that are plastered in logos and trademarks. What RF will do in this context is enable buyers to purchase limited rights for ever decreasing amounts, just as it is happening in another place.
I mean both Ian. It might be that the micro companies have woken up to the fact that their model is causing the whole industry to crash, and that they will go down with it, which is causing this new trend. It's mirror image in the trad world is that you have pile 'em high sellers and smaller niche collections generally selling for more. The micros, however, are creating their own niche collections, sometimes setting higher prices than the trad agencies, and more importantly, actually selling for those prices. Buyers don't have much in the way of bargaining chips when there is a whopping great bargain basement for them to be directed to. Basic sales craft. With small trad agencies, at least one I know of in the US has been applying a firm line, selling almost exclusively for three figures to editorial clients, and occasionally more. They can do that because their collection is sufficiently well defined and has enough unique content. At Alamy, a lot of the best content comes from distributing agencies that have editors and art directors. Unfortunately this is also distributed to many other agencies including their major competitors. So, as much as it produces revenue, it won't do much to keep prices up.
I'm seeing the opposite, Ian. I only put in my best material, have a near 100% acceptance rate, and the higher fees. But the majority of my output, whether I like it or not, is, in comparison, low value - unless it's news orientated. That's just reality: if we get one good piece for every twenty duds, we are doing really well. Well I am. So - is it better to put the duds in the place where they are needed, or just swell the ranks of trad agencies with useless material that makes searches such a joy for buyers? Well ... maybe actually a joy if they can use them as bargaining chips. I haven't subbed here for a couple of years, but I believe that some people who adopt that principle (here) are doing alright, without having to bung in thousands of images every year.
Hello Richard It goes right across the board, but it's the tech companies that are doing it. The problem with the traditional sector is that it has tied itself in knots treating each buyer as a separate entity, and in effect doing bespoke pricing. This can only go one way. One of the things the microstock companies got right was to set their price points at a level where they didn't have to bother with haggling, essentially a waste of resources. Which means that where the price happens to be high, that's what the customer pays. I have sales in all three areas: news and documentary is the most fluid, but fees tend to be £25, higher end and distributor sales are pretty close to either £240 or £480 and on the micro site I get the usual $1+ subscriptions downloads plus many much higher 'on demand' sales (nearly all $9.40). The images that I sell on the main site are all ones that would be mainly rejected by another agency, or would sit around here gathering dust, and are mainly bought by small design companies and others in connection with one or two deeply unromantic industries. Work that sells is much more highly considered, as is work I sell to my main traditional agency. Look around at other tech companies, and you see the same thing happening, all under one roof. Nowadays if you want to raise your aggregate RPI to a level at which the OP's question even makes sense, it is not only pointless putting all your eggs in one basket, but also necessary to find different outlets for different kinds of work.
Hello Ian – I may be just passing by. BTW - I thought you made some interesting points on another forum about PA etc. You wouldn't think, would you, that the unique selling point here is documentary and specific? The front page is full of the sort of images small design companies, etc., running on a shoestring, scoop up from Adobe etc. in great sackfuls. Whether that is a problem or not I don't know, but from the smidgin of business I do here I detect more of a price fall than anywhere else. I know PA is driving us all insane, but still I have much more frequent good two and three digit sales over there, given respective size of collections. And distributor images which sell regular in small agencies in small countries like Norway, never sell here. My feeling is that if you have a mix of cheap generics with unique editorial content, it won't be the latter that lifts up the former, and it won't be the former that brings in the buyers left with deep pockets. And the question then will be whether you can make enough even to have your camera serviced occasionally by specializing in secondary editorial.
Get too hung up about the problems that microstock has caused – old news – we are likely to miss what is happening in the wider industry now: stratification. Long gone are the days when all pictures could be sold for the same price. Most of the major players now have price differentials, albeit in some cases through different brands and platforms - SS has Offset and Rex, Adobe represents Reuters plus a clutch of boutique collections from partner agencies, and so on. In my experience, and from comments by others, buyers pay what it says on the tin. In some cases these are prices you will see here maybe once in a blue moon. This is bound to impact here, unless buyers can see where the value is. If Alamy can't sort this out, then the trend towards micro prices will carry on until there isn't anywhere else to go.
you sell the images of the highest how much is the price?
It's not the type of image, but the buyer and the job that determines price. All my four figure sales here and elsewhere, bar one, have been commercial ones (and others will tell you he same): images used in brochures, mailers, print adverts etc. Image will only be used commercially if you have releases for visible people,and company logos are removed. Property is less of a problem.


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using CoinBot.Clients.FunFair;
using CoinBot.Core.Extensions;

namespace CoinBot.Discord.Extensions;

public static class FunFairWalletCoinExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     The USD precision to use when formatting <see cref="FunFairWalletCoin" /> prices.
    /// </summary>
    private const int USD_PRICE_PRECISION = 7;

    /// <summary>
    ///     Get the <paramref name="details" /> price summary in USD and BTC.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="details"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string GetPriceSummary(this FunFairWalletCoin details)
    {
        return details.PriceUsd.AsUsdPrice(USD_PRICE_PRECISION);
    }
}


HF: York Lo's recently posted article, Fung Tang: The Firm, the Family, the Transpacific Metals Trade and Tin Refinery includes the following: Another high-profile business which Fung was involved in was the major movie studio United Photoplay Service Ltd (聯華影業製片印刷有限公司), which was created in 1930 as a merger of several studios led by Lo Ming-you (羅明佑), the scion of a prominent comprador family. Fung was a member of the 14 members inaugural board of the studio which included luminaries such as Sir Robert Hotung as chairman, Siemssen & Co comprador Chan Haupo (陳厚甫), Lo's uncle Lo Wen-Kan (羅文幹, who served as finance, justice and foreign minister of the Chinese republic at different times) and the wife of Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (which might be the reason why some Chinese sources online mistakenly referred to Fung as a general in Manchuria).
HF: I asked Philip Edward Kenny if he knew anything about United Photoplay Service Film studio which I hadn't come across before.
Phil replied: I don't know anything about this company. My knowledge of these older Chinese ones is quite limited and I can only point you to the wikipedia entry for what I assume is the same company. Doesn't sound like it was HK-based though.
The Lianhua Film Company (simplified Chinese: 联华影业公司; traditional Chinese: 聯華影業公司; pinyin: Liánhuá yǐngyè gōngsī; literally: "United China Film Company") was one of the three dominant production companies based in Shanghai, China during the 1930s, the other two being the Mingxing Film Company and the Tianyi Film Company, the forerunner of the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio.
Lianhua was formally registered in March 1930 in Hong Kong by Luo Mingyou (Law Ming-yau) and his partner, director Li Minwei (Lai Man-Wai). In order to resist the invasion of American films that dominated the box office in Shanghai and other cities, Luo realized he would have to produce films that were equally attractive artistically and equally rigorous in the business of production and distribution.The Company put advertisements in movie trade journals that proclaimed it was a modern company that aimed to create a Chinese Hollywood. Luo's plan was to build studios in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, to open a school to give up to date training for both technicians and actors, and to integrate the management of all these elements into a vertical organization on the Hollywood model.
1931, the entire enterprise transferred operations to the bustling city of Shanghai. That same year the Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe, founded by Li Jinhui, would integrate with the film company. It is the first time a Chinese popular music group of any sort becomes part of the movie industry. The company would later prove to be instrumental in the rise of the first generation of shidaiqu music. Among the company's leading stars were the actresses Wang Renmei, Li Lili, and Chen Yen-yen, who appeared in many box office successes.
The studio itself consisted of four branches studios: Minxin (China Sun) (which was also founded by Li Minwei), Dazhonghua Baihe, Shanghai Yingxi, and Xianggong Yingye; all four had been independent studios during the 1920s before being co-opted by Luo in the early 1930s.
By the mid-1930s, however, Lianhua's fortunes had declined, as the war with the Japanese took its toll on both the company and the city. Japanese bombardment destroyed numerous Lianhua holdings including its Studio No. 4, and soon the company was losing money with each film produced. By 1936, Luo had left Lianhua's management, and Li Minwei had reformed Minxin as an independent studio using Lianhua's Studio No. 1. When the Nationalist forces withdrew from Shanghai in late 1937, it signaled the final collapse of the company. By the end of the war, Lianhua had generally been supplanted by other film companies, notably the Xinhua Film Company.
With the end of the war, several of Lianhua's directors returned to Shanghai from Chongqing, Hong Kong, and other cities. Most notably was Cai Chusheng, who returned in 1946 and set about to revive the Lianhua name. Thus, the Lianhua Film Society was formed. Eventually, this new Lianhua would turn into the Kunlun Film Company (崑崙影片公司), which would go on to produce many of the most significant films of the 1940s, including The Spring River Flows East (Dir. Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli, 1947), and Crows and Sparrows (Dir. Zheng Junli 1949).
This article was first posted on 13th February 2018.


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The Effect of Mixing on the Mechanical Properties of Hyaluronan-Based Injectable Hydrogels
Piskounova, Sonya
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Materials Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry.
Rojas, Ramiro
Bergman, Kristoffer
Hilborn, Jöns
2011 (English)In: Macromolecular materials and engineering (Print), ISSN 1438-7492, E-ISSN 1439-2054, Vol. 296, no 10, p. 944-951Article in journal (Refereed) Published
A method for determining the correlation between the mixing of two reactive polymers and the structural and mechanical properties of the formed hydrogels is presented. Rheological measurements show that insufficient mixing gives rise to soft and not fully crosslinked hydrogels while excessive mixing beyond gel point results in weaker hydrogels due to potential breakage of their 3D network. Furthermore, the hydrogels swell significantly more in cell culture medium than in phosphate-buffered saline, attributed to interactions with additional molecules such as proteins. Thus, moderate mixing gives rise to the most homogenous and mechanically stable hydrogels and the choice of medium e.g., for release experiments, should be consistent in order to avoid unnecessary variations in the data caused by different swelling profiles.
2011. Vol. 296, no 10, p. 944-951
Hydrogels, mixing, polymer, rheology, swelling
Chemistry with specialization in Polymer Chemistry
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158952DOI: 10.1002/mame.201100008ISI: 000296421800008OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-158952DiVA, id: diva2:441872
1. Biomaterials for Promoting Self-Healing of Bone Tissue
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Biomaterials for Promoting Self-Healing of Bone Tissue
The present work addresses poor bone/implant integration and severe bone defects. In both conditions external stimuli is required for new bone to form. A multilayered functional implant coating, comprised of an inner layer of crystalline titanium dioxide (TiO2) and an outer layer of hydroxyapatite (HAP), loaded with bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2), was proposed as a tool for providing both improved initial bone formation and long-term osseointegration. The in vitro characterization of the implant coatings showed that TiO2 and HAP were more favorable for cell viability, cell morphology and initial cell differentiation, compared to native titanium oxide. Furthermore, significantly higher cell differentiation was observed on surfaces with BMP-2, indicating that a simple soaking process can be used for incorporating bioactive molecules. Moreover, the results suggest that there could be a direct interaction between BMP-2 and HAP, which prolongs the retention of the growth factor, improving its therapeutic effect.
For treating severe bone defects a strategy involving BMP-2 delivery from hyaluronan hydrogels was explored. The hydrogels were prepared from two reactive polymers – an aldehyde-modified hyaluronan and a hydrazide-modified poly(vinyl alcohol). Upon mixing, the two components formed a chemically crosslinked hydrogel. In this work the mixing of the hydrogel components was optimized by rheological measurements. Furthermore, an appropriate buffer was selected for in vitro experiments by studying the swelling of hydrogels in PBS and in cell culture medium. A detection method, based on radioactive labeling of BMP-2 with 125I was used to monitor growth factor release both in vitro and in vivo. The results showed a biphasic release profile of BMP-2, where approximately 16 % and 3 % of the growth factor remained inside the hydrogel after 4 weeks in vitro and in vivo, respectively. The initial fast release phase corresponded to the early ectopic bone formation observed 8 d after injection of the hydrogel formulation in the thigh muscle of rats. The hydrogel formulation could be improved by incorporation of HAP powder into the hydrogel formulation. Furthermore, bone formation could be increased by pre-incubation of the premixed hydrogel components inside the syringe prior to injection. Crushed hydrogels were also observed to induce more bone formation compared to solid hydrogels, when implanted subcutaneously in rats. This was thought to be due to increased surface area of the hydrogel, which allowed for improved cell infiltration.
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 857
Osseointegration, implant coating, hyaluronan hydrogel, bone morphogenetic protein-2, hydroxyapatite, bone, delivery system, injectable, mixing, radioactive labeling
Biomaterials Science Polymer Chemistry
Cool, Simon
National University of Singapore, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Bowden, Tim
Piskounova, SonyaHilborn, Jöns
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Bringing Julian Assange Home
By John Pilger
Below is the speech delivered by the well known journalist and documentarian John Pilger to the rally to free Julian Assange held by the Socialist Equality Party of Australia on Sunday, June 17 in Sydney's Town Hall Center.
Thank you for coming for Julian and thank you to the SEP for organizing this very important rally.
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
The Australian government and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be. They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and humanity and bring this remarkable Australian citizen home.
John Pilger's speech to the SEP rally in defence of Julian Assange. [Video by Cathy Vogan and Liam Kesteven (www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven) for Politics in the Pub (www.politicsinthepub.org.au)]
Assange does not ask for special treatment. The government has clear diplomatic and moral obligations to protect Australian citizens abroad from gross injustice: in Julian's case, from a gross miscarriage of justice and the extreme danger that awaits him should he walk out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London unprotected.
We know from the Chelsea Manning case what he can expect if a US extradition warrant is successful—a United Nations Special Rapporteur called it torture.
I know Julian Assange well; I regard him as a close friend, a person of extraordinary resilience and courage. I have watched a tsunami of lies and smear engulf him, endlessly, vindictively, perfidiously; and I know why they smear him.
In 2008, a plan to destroy both WikiLeaks and Assange was laid out in a top secret document dated 8 March, 2008. The authors were the Cyber Counter-intelligence Assessments Branch of the US Defence Department. They described in detail how important it was to destroy the "feeling of trust" that is WikiLeaks' "centre of gravity."
This would be achieved, they wrote, with threats of "exposure [and] criminal prosecution" and an unrelenting assault on reputation. The aim was to silence and criminalise WikiLeaks and its editor and publisher. It was as if they planned a war on a single human being and on the very principle of freedom of speech.
Their main weapon would be personal smear. Their shock troops would be enlisted in the media—those who are meant to keep the record straight and tell us the truth. The irony is that no one told these journalists what to do. I call them Vichy journalists—after the Vichy government that served and enabled the German occupation of wartime France.
Last October, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Sarah Ferguson interviewed Hillary Clinton, over whom she fawned as "the icon for your generation."
This was the same Clinton who threatened to "obliterate totally" Iran and who, as US secretary of state in 2011, was one of the instigators of the invasion and destruction of Libya as a modern state, with the loss of 40,000 lives. Like the invasion of Iraq, it was based on lies.
When the Libyan president was murdered publicly and gruesomely with a knife, Clinton was filmed whooping and cheering. Thanks largely to her, Libya became a breeding ground for ISIS and other jihadists. Thanks largely to her, tens of thousands of refugees fled in peril across the Mediterranean, and many drowned.
Leaked emails published by WikiLeaks revealed that Hillary Clinton's foundation—which she shares with her husband—received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the main backers of ISIS and terrorism across the Middle East.
As secretary of state, Clinton approved the biggest arms sale ever—worth $80 billion— to Saudi Arabia, one of her foundation's principal benefactors. Today, Saudi Arabia is using these weapons to crush starving and stricken people in a genocidal assault on Yemen.
Sarah Ferguson, a highly paid reporter, raised not a word of this with Hillary Clinton sitting in front of her. Instead, she invited Clinton to describe the "damage" Julian Assange did "personally to you." In response, Clinton defamed Assange, an Australian citizen, as "very clearly a tool of Russian intelligence" and "a nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator."
She offered no evidence—nor was asked for any—to back her grave allegations. At no time was Assange offered the right of reply to this shocking interview, which Australia's publicly-funded state broadcaster had a duty to give him.
As if that wasn't enough, Ferguson's executive producer, Sally Neighour, followed the interview with a vicious re-tweet: "Assange is Putin's bitch. We all know it!"
There are many other examples of Vichy journalism. The Guardian, reputedly once a great liberal newspaper, conducted a vendetta against Julian Assange. Like a spurned lover, the Guardian aimed its personal, petty, inhuman and craven attacks at a man whose work it once published and profited from.
The former editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, called the WikiLeaks disclosures, which his newspaper published in 2010, "one of the greatest journalistic scoops of the last 30 years." Awards were lavished and celebrated as if Julian Assange did not exist.
WikiLeaks' revelations became part of the Guardian's marketing plan to raise the paper's cover price. They made money, often big money, while WikiLeaks and Assange struggled to survive.
With not a penny going to WikiLeaks, a hyped Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood movie deal. The book's authors, Luke Harding and David Leigh, gratuitously abused Assange as a "damaged personality" and "callous."
They also revealed the secret password Julian had given the Guardian in confidence, and which was designed to protect a digital file containing the US embassy cables. With Assange now trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy, Harding, who had enriched himself on the backs of both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, stood among the police outside the embassy and gloated on his blog that "Scotland Yard may get the last laugh."
Julian Assange has committed no crime. He has never been charged with a crime. The Swedish episode was bogus and farcical and he has been vindicated.
Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape summed it up when they wrote, "The allegations against [Assange] are a smokescreen behind which a number of governments are trying to clamp down on WikiLeaks for having audaciously revealed to the public their secret planning of wars and occupations with their attendant rape, murder and destruction... The authorities care so little about violence against women that they manipulate rape allegations at will."
This truth was lost or buried in a media witch-hunt that disgracefully associated Assange with rape and misogyny. The witch-hunt included voices who described themselves as on the left and as feminist. They willfully ignored the evidence of extreme danger should Assange be extradited to the United States.
According to a document released by Edward Snowden, Assange is on a "Manhunt target list." One leaked official memo says: "Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever."
In Alexandra, Virginia—the suburban home of America's war-making elite—a secret Grand Jury, a throwback to the Middle Ages—has spent seven years trying to concoct a crime for which Assange can be prosecuted.
This is not easy; the US Constitution protects publishers, journalists and whistleblowers. Assange's crime is to have broken a silence.
No investigative journalism in my lifetime can equal the importance of what WikiLeaks has done in calling rapacious power to account. It is as if a one-way moral screen has been pushed back to expose the imperialism of liberal democracies: the commitment to endless warfare and the division and degradation of "unworthy" lives: from Grenfell Tower to Gaza.
When Harold Pinter accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he referred to "a vast tapestry of lies up on which we feed." He asked why "the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought" of the Soviet Union were well known in the West, while America's imperial crimes "never happened ... even while [they] were happening, they never happened."
In its revelations of fraudulent wars (Afghanistan, Iraq) and the bald-faced lies of governments (the Chagos Islands), WikiLeaks has allowed us to glimpse how the imperial game is played in the 21st century. That is why Assange is in mortal danger.
Seven years ago, in Sydney, I arranged to meet a prominent Liberal Member of the Federal Parliament, Malcolm Turnbull. I wanted to ask him to deliver a letter from Gareth Peirce, Assange's lawyer, to the government. We talked about his famous victory—in the 1980s when, as a young barrister, he had fought the British Government's attempts to suppress free speech and prevent the publication of the book Spycatcher—in its way, a WikiLeaks of the time, for it revealed the crimes of state power.
The prime minister of Australia was then Julia Gillard, a Labor Party politician who had declared WikiLeaks "illegal" and wanted to cancel Assange's passport—until she was told she could not do this: that Assange had committed no crime: that WikiLeaks was a publisher, whose work was protected under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Australia was one of the original signatories.
In abandoning Assange, an Australian citizen, and colluding in his persecution, prime ,inister Gillard's outrageous behaviour forced the issue of his recognition, under international law, as a political refugee whose life was at risk. Ecuador invoked the 1951 Convention and granted Assange refuge in its embassy in London.
Gillard has recently been appearing in a gig with Hillary Clinton; they are billed as pioneering feminists. If there is anything to remember Gillard by, it is a warmongering, sycophantic, embarrassing speech she made to the US Congress soon after she demanded the illegal cancellation of Julian's passport.
Malcolm Turnbull is now the prime minister of Australia. Julian Assange's father has written to Turnbull. It is a moving letter, in which he has appealed to the prime minister to bring his son home. He refers to the real possibility of a tragedy.
I have watched Assange's health deteriorate in his years of confinement without sunlight. He has had a relentless cough, but is not even allowed safe passage to and from a hospital for an X-ray.
Malcolm Turnbull can remain silent. Or he can seize this opportunity and use his government's diplomatic influence to defend the life of an Australian citizen, whose courageous public service is recognised by countless people across the world. He can bring Julian Assange home.
This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally in Sydney, Australia, to mark Julian Assange's six years' confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
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From the capital of Montenegro, the city of Podgorica, to the settlement of Gusinje, which is located in the north-east of the country, it was earlier possible to reach the canyon of the Moraca River in a bit more than 3 hours. It was such a time when it took to overcome the distance of 200 kilometers between the cities.
Recently, a new road, Podgorica-Gusinje, has been opened, passing through Albania, and the distance between the two cities has been reduced to about 90 kilometers.
This is an absolutely unusual road connecting the two regions of Montenegro, and the construction of which allowed many tourists and travelers to get acquainted with the amazing natural beauty of not only Montenegro, but also the northern part of Albania
The very idea of constructing the shortest road Gusinje - Podgorica through Albania has been harbored for decades. Finally, the promise was fulfilled, and as soon as Montenegro has completed its part of the construction work on the section from the Grabow to Dinos frontier, the distance between Podgorica and Gusinje is only 60 kilometers!
It should be noted that the Podgorica-Gusinje road is full of sharp turns and serpentines, therefore the maximum permissible speed is 60 km/h. The width of this road is only 5.5 meters, so the movement of trucks and buses is prohibited.
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A dream wedding turns into a nightmare when five girlfriends fight for their lives in open water as SOMETHING IN THE WATER invites audiences to experience suspense, survival, horror and biting humour.
Director Hayley Easton Street comments « This is an elevated survival film, unlike anything else I've worked on, with incredible strong female leads at the heart of the story. SOMETHING IN THE WATER will be an emotional and visual experience, putting the audience at the centre of the action and using seamless VFX to bring the terror to life. I couldn't be more excited to helm this movie. »
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