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The Instrumental
"The Instrumental"
Song by Lupe Fiasco from the album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Working title
Never Lies
Digital, CD, Vinyl
Far - Nestle
Wasalu Jaco, Michael Kenji Shinoda
Atlantic Records
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor track listing
Real (feat. Sarah Green)
Just Might Be OK (feat. Gemini)
Kick, Push
The Instrumental (feat. Jonah Matranga)
He Say She Say (feat. Gemini & Sarah Green)
Daydreamin' (feat. Jill Scott)
Hurt Me Soul
Pressure (feat. Jay-Z)
American Terrorist (feat. Matthew Santos)
The Emperor's Soundtrack
Kick, Push II
"The Instrumental" is the sixth track on Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, the debut studio album by Lupe Fiasco. The song features guest vocals by Jonah Matranga of Far and production by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.
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5.1 Production
In 2005, after Mike Shinoda and Lupe Fiasco collaborated on the Fort Minor song "Spraypaint & Inkpens", Mike was invited to produce a song for Lupe's debut album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor.
The fan site fortminor.co.uk (Fort Minor Unofficial) interviewed Lupe in May 2005.[1] He said, "Well...I originally met Mike at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party...we were introduced through a mutual friend...I told him I was a huge LP fan and I just so happened to have a bag of my mixtapes with me...which now that I think about it may have seemed a little odd...but I gave him one, we exchanged contact info and we kept in sparse contact after that. I found out from Jay-Z, another mutual friend, sometime after that Mike was putting together a solo project and that he was Co-Executive producing on it as he is doing on my album. Jay was like it would be hot if I was apart of the project and set it up and that was that..."
The song produced by Mike for Lupe was originally called "Never Lies" and had guest vocals by Jonah Matranga, who had also worked with Fort Minor on the songs "Where'd You Go" and "Red To Black". His vocals were actually recorded simultaneously with the Fort Minor songs as Matranga explained, "Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park had literally called me on tour the first time he met me and he had heard a song I had written called "Pollyana." I don't know how he heard it, but I think he liked Far actually. So we got to be friends and I was producing Fort Minor while he was producing the Lupe track. So I came down in one session and did both of those things. Those two things have bought me more schoolyard credit then fifteen years of hard labor (chuckles.) And ironically Pony is now being spun a lot on Live 105 and Sacramento radio. Like way more than a Far song ever was spun. I really feel like we as a band and me as an artist are just made of these accidents which is very funny to me. I wish I could say "Yeah, me and Lupe were hanging out…" But no. I never met Lupe Fiasco. I would love to. I think that record is great. I don't like his new shit, but I like the first shit and I want more man. I wanna be the man going to Gwen Stefani. I'm totally in. Bring on the hip hop artists. It's sooo fun, cause as a singer, I don't get to be like a bassist and jam with other people. I'm a singer, you can't really do that. So hip hop guys, I wanna write hooks."[2]
The track samples the song "Nestle" by Far (Jonah's band).[3]
An unmastered version of the album was leaked sometime in April 2006. In an interview with Okayplayer on April 14, 2006, Lupe said:
"So My Album Got Leaked.... hey sh*t happens....an unmixed version of Food & Liquor got leaked yesterday....so i assume its on ******** and bittorrent and all that sh*t...its stuff like this that makes you wanna just be like fu*k it...lotta time and money and bullsh*t went into creating that album...over the years I've had my people die, get locked up, my company get shut down, weak ass niggas in my own crew turn against me and just when things are starting to look good...for example yesterday Kick, Push debuted on TRL...I dont know if ya'll knew that...I was watching it in a studio in Philly as I was waiting on Jill Scott to come perform on my album...it was beautiful man!...Jill laid some amazing vocals...crazy...also learned my album was dropping simultaneously in the UK cuz the buzz was so strong...sh*t dont happen like that...so to be riding on that high and not 4 hours later learn that everything i worked for just got leaked all over the internet kinda had me fu*ked up...niggas at the label scrambling but its futile...the album might get pushed backed...niggas really dont know now...but hey what can u do fughettaboutit...if u can find it...it is my gift to you...Enjoy!...no hard feelings...take it as Fahrenheit 1/15 Part 6: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor....hahaha...minus jay-z, Pharrell, Jill Scott, 3-6 Mafia and others...by the way Kanye is not on the album rapping or production wise...all records are by Pro, Soundtrakk, Needlz, Mike Shinoda & The Buchanans...so everything happens for a reason and God wills what He wills when He wills so i gotta take this one and keep it moving...I'm goin to take some time out and refocus on some other things for a minute...maybe my sneaker and toy stuff...eventually Godwilling get back in the stu and get back to work...i hope it doesnt hit the streets as a bootleg...but I got this real deep feeling that it will so I'm writing off Food & Liquor as you know it or may have heard it and starting over...thanx for the support & the love...stay tuned...FNF UP!!!"[4][5]
The album's release was postponed so Lupe could record new songs, new verses and make changes to the already existing songs.[6] The title of "Never Lies" was changed to "The Instrumental" and its intro was extended.[7]
The album finally came out on September 19, 2006.
An official music video for "The Instrumental" was created in 2006 by Impakt Studio and directed by Christopher Adams, also known as Chris & Blaq. The video was shelved and remained unreleased until October 31, 2014, when it was uploaded to Impakt Studio's official YouTube channel.[8]
The release of the video was followed by an statement by the director:
"Back in 2006 Impakt studio was tasked with producing several projects for 1st & 15th artist Lupe Fiasco which included music videos for Kick Push, He say She say, Emperors Soundtrack, as well as support for album cover shoots, EPK's and commercials. It was a great relationship for us. 1st & 15th C.E.O. Chilly really gave us total creative control over the projects and Lupe really liked what we were doing. I remember Lupe looking around our studio office and seeing anime dvd's, action figures, skateboards, posters of Che Guevara and smiling saying "I know i'm in the right place". So we did Kick Push and I remember Lupe was at the Grammy's while we were finishing it up and we sent him a private link to a snippet of the video hosted on our server.
When all of a sudden our phone started blowing up it was Atlantic records, the snippet had leaked on the internet. A hacker who was a Lupe fan got into our server and posted the snippet online and also locked us out of our server! It was chaos we had to call the host company to shut down our site! Soon after, Kick Push was released. It was doing very well so Lupe put a poll on his myspace page, which at the time he would personally manage and respond to his fans to the tune of about 2 hours a day, the poll was for the fans to decide what video he would do next and overwhelmingly it was for the song American Terrorist, a volatile song to say the least but one of my favorites. So we came up with a Crazy Idea for the video which im not going to tell because id like to use the concept one day, and sent it to Atlantic records…they were not happy with it. It was an idea that would definitely be controversial and Lupe loved it.
They said they would think about it and suggested we do a video for "The Instrumental" instead which I think they thought was a "safe" song. Boy were they wrong. There was a lot going on in the world and "The Instrumental" was a perfect soundtrack for what was going on. There was the Abu ghraib scandal, Saddam Hussein was convicted of crimes against humanity, then President Bush signs a law renewing the Patriot Act, including a signing statement stating that he does not consider himself bound by its requirement to tell Congress how the law is being used, the fiasco of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, Google bought Youtube to name a few.
So we decided to make "The Instrumental" a visual nightmare of the media's ever growing grasp over its consumers, a message that I feel Atlantic wasn't ready for. So the video was shelved never to see light of day. Until today.
footnote the final video was going to end with a shot of some kids opening Christmas presents and one of the presents is the glowing cube seen in the video. That part was never filmed."[9]
The Instrumental (Featuring Jonah Matranga) Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor 3:26 2005 September 19, 2006
Features vocals by Jonah Matranga.
Samples Far's "Nestle".
The Instrumental Feat. Mike Shinoda (Snippet 1:16) Selections From Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor 1:18 2005 2006
Never Lies Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (Leaked Version) 3:30 2005
Shorter intro.
DJ scratch cuts off abruptly and go straight to the synth.
Leaked in April 2006.
Lupe Fiasco performed the song sporadically between 2007 and 2011, and even once by fan request in 2016, but Mike has never joined him to perform it.
Vocals - Lupe Fiasco
Vocals – Jonah Matranga
Producer – Mike Shinoda
Executive-producer – Chill, Jay-Z, Lupe Fiasco
Executive-producer [Co-executive Producer] – Darrale Jones
Mastered By – Chris Gehringer
Mastered By [Assisted By] – Will Quinell
Mixed By – Craig Bauer
Mixed By [Assistant] – James Auwarter
Mixed By [Assistant] – Ryan Neuschafer
Recorded By – Greg Magers
Management – Chill, Jason Salvador
And he never lies...
Ooh...
Uhh.. yeah
He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
Everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
He mimics and he mocks it
Really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop, it
Uhh, so he continues to watch it
Hoping that it'll give him somethin that he can box with
Or how the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box
Ain't got the combination to unlock, it
That's why he watches, scared to look away
Cause at that moment, it might show him
What to take off the locks with
So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it
Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it
As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils
The same ones that took away his voice
And just left this instrumental, like that
And he never lies (he never lies, he never lies, uhh)
And he never lies (uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no)
And he never lies (he never lies)
'Cause he never said anything at all
He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes
Everything he hears he absorbs and adopts it
Anything not comin out the box he blocks it
See he loves the box and hope they never stop it
Anything the box tell him to do, he does it
Anything it tell him to get, he shops and he cops it
He protects the box, locks it in a box
When he goes to sleep, but he never sleeps
'Cause he stays up to watch it, scared to look away
'Cause at that moment, it might get stolen
And that's the last of the boxes
(Anything at all..) He never lies
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are
You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars
You built that roof just to hide those stars
Now you can't take it back to the start
And you can't tell me just who you are
Anything at all
You can't tell me just who you are
Parental Advisory label
Non-PA
5th Anniversary edition with Parental Advisory label
5th Anniversary edition Non-PA
Selections From Lupe Fiasco's & Food Liquor
Mike Shinoda and Lupe Fiasco
The Instrumental (Music Video): impaktstudio's YouTube | impaktstudio's Vimeo
↑ Fort Minor Unofficial - Interview with Lupe Fiasco, May 12, 2005
↑ an interview w/ Jonah Matranga of Far (who are back with more tour dates & a new album on Vagrant Records), April 06, 2009
↑ Faith healer | The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 08, 2007
↑ VWVortex.com - unmixed version of Lupe's "Food & Liquor" leaked..., April 14, 2006
↑ Lupe Fiasco Speaks On Food & Liquor Getting Leaked - Future Producers forums, April 14, 2006
↑ Lupe Fiasco's Album Leaks to the Net | HipHopDX, April 18, 2006
↑ Lupe Fiasco's leaked Food and Liquor: the classic album you never heard.: hiphopheads, May 21, 2014
↑ Lupe Fiasco - "The Instrumental Unreleased" [Official Video], October 31, 2014
↑ Lupe Fiasco "The Instrumental" Unreleased Video [New Video], October 31, 2014
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Unintentional weight loss may result from loss of body fats, loss of body fluids, muscle atrophy, or even a combination of these.[25][26] It is generally regarded as a medical problem when at least 10% of a person's body weight has been lost in six months[25][27] or 5% in the last month.[28] Another criterion used for assessing weight that is too low is the body mass index (BMI).[29] However, even lesser amounts of weight loss can be a cause for serious concern in a frail elderly person.[30]
The early Buddhist texts describe yogic and meditative practices, some of which the Buddha borrowed from the śramaṇa tradition.[81][82] The Pali canon contains three passages in which the Buddha describes pressing the tongue against the palate for the purposes of controlling hunger or the mind, depending on the passage.[83] However, there is no mention of the tongue being inserted into the nasopharynx as in true khecarī mudrā. The Buddha used a posture where pressure is put on the perineum with the heel, similar to even modern postures used to stimulate Kundalini.[84] Some of the major suttas that discuss yogic practice include the Satipatthana sutta (Four foundations of mindfulness sutta) and the Anapanasati sutta (Mindfulness of breathing sutta).
The Maitrayaniya Upanishad, likely composed in a later century than Katha and Shvetashvatara Upanishads but before Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, mentions sixfold yoga method – breath control (pranayama), introspective withdrawal of senses (pratyahara), meditation (dhyana), mind concentration (dharana), philosophical inquiry/creative reasoning (tarka), and absorption/intense spiritual union (samadhi).[10][100][104]
A yoga system that predated the Buddhist school is Jain yoga. But since Jain sources postdate Buddhist ones, it is difficult to distinguish between the nature of the early Jain school and elements derived from other schools.[89] Most of the other contemporary yoga systems alluded in the Upanishads and some Buddhist texts are lost to time.[90][91][note 12]
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Proposed Coffee Tax Is Called 'Political Suicide'
No taxation without caffeination
By Jordan G. Teicher
Credit: Photo by Svetl via Getty Images
For more evidence of American society—and breakfast—crumbling before our eyes, consider this: Last week, the Oregon House Committee on Revenue introduced a bill to impose a five cent per pound coffee tax on wholesale beans and grounds. Why? Oregon has a $1.8 billion budget gap, and the state needs to raise money to help close it. House Bill 2875, which would go into effect July 1, 2018, if passed, could, according to the Willamette Week's rough calculation, raise about $2 million a year. Specifically, the coffee tax money would go toward supporting alternative high schools and reading programs in primary schools. Worthy causes, to be sure, but Oregonians aren't having it. Portland Tribune reporter Paris Achen called the coffee tax "political suicide," and state Republicans were quick to denounce the bill.
"There are a lot of things Oregonians like with their coffee—a tax is not one of them," House Republican Leader Mike McLane said in a statement, according to the Washington Times. "This proposal is regressive, it is poor public policy, and it deserves to be shelved just as quickly as it was introduced."
Oregon is crazy about coffee. According to one study, Portland is the third most caffeinated city in the country, based on the number of coffee shops per capita. That fact alone might make a coffee tax unpopular in the state. The specifics of this particular coffee tax, though, may make it especially unsavory, the Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss writes, because it doesn't create a logical link between the tax and services it funds.
"Property taxes, for instance, pay for schools, public safety and parks, all of which are services property owners either use or support. The relationship between coffee consumption and alternative education is less clear," he wrote.
The bill needs a three-fifths majority from the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate in order to pass, but the idea may already be dead in the water. On Friday, a spokesman for the House Democrats told the Willamette Week that the bill is unlikely to move forward. If it were to gain traction, however, things could get ugly for the state's coffee addicts. Twitter user Bob Beck may have imagined the most likely scenario:
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Q: How to display the key, values on screen stored in hasp map using android I am new to android.I read contacts as name and phone number data which is stored in csv File and to store in map interface Name as key and Phone no as value.I am in need to add my Hash map Key,value data into List view and to display it on the screen for user visible Here my code is
        Map maps = new HashMap();
        br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {

            // use comma as separator
            String[] contact = line.split(cvsSplitBy);
                       // contact[0]- name as key and contact[1]-phoneno as value
            maps.put(contact[0], contact[1]);

        }

From that how to add these key,value pair into List view

A: You have to use adapter. Read about android adapters.
You can look at this basic example. 'list_item' is the layout of your list item. For better performance use holder (read about that).
After creating this adapter you have to set it in you ListView. listView.setAdapter(myAdapter);
public class Contact{
              String name;
              String phoneNumber;
        }

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Bangalore: In a big move, Tata Motors CIO Jagdish Belwal has quit the Tata Group company last week to join GE Transportation, formerly known as GE Rail - a division of American multinational conglomerate corporation General Electric (GE). Belwal has been designated as GE Transportation's International CIO.
"1st day as Intl CIO for GE Transportation. Thx team 4 warm welcome n awssome induction. Funoffice, startup culture!"@Jeyceebee. Belwal had tweeted after joining his new organization on Monday.
However, Belwal was not available for immediate comments for this news report.
He worked as CIO of Tata Motors for close to 8 years before he decided to move to GE Transportation. At Tata Motors, he was responsible for developing and executing IT strategy with the focus on comprehensive IT enablement for business functions and to build a strong, updated technology architecture and management processes.
He led adoption of mobility, cloud and IT modernisation of Tata Motors to support company's future business strategies.
He had joined the company in March 2002 as Head of CRM and DMS, before being promoted to CIO's role in March 2009. Prior to Tata Motors, Belwal worked for seven years at Tata Hitachi as service engineer.
Overall, Belwal spent more than 22 years at Tata Motors. Previously, he worked for about five years at Telco, which was a construction equipment business unit of Tata Motors but later it was hive-off as Tata Hitachi, however he continued working with the company.
Founded in 1999, Tata Hitachi, formerly known as Telco Construction Equipment Company Ltd is an India based joint venture between Tata Motors and Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM) company.
Belwal holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and a management certification from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).


When about two dozen housekeeping workers at Erie County Medical Center called in Wednesday to say they couldn't make it to work because of the weather and an inability to access public transportation, Markeith Pridgen, a patient advocate at the hospital, was concerned.
"That's about a quarter of the Environmental Department," which is in charge of housekeeping, said Pridgen.
Then Pridgen called his dad, Common Council President Darius G. Pridgen.
When the Council president heard about the problem, he and four other volunteers with all-wheel-drive vehicles began making the rounds at bus stops on main streets to transport health care workers to their jobs at city hospitals for the afternoon shifts, the elder Pridgen said.
The number of volunteers is growing, he added.
Originally, he had posted on Facebook that he would transport health care workers to their jobs if they live and work in the city and take public transportation, and gave those needing rides until 2 p.m. to respond.
But after realizing that he wasn't getting any messages because only Facebook "friends" could respond, he and the others began driving to bus stops to ferry health care workers to their afternoon shifts.


Instagram is by far the most popular form of social media, and we have to say we are pretty obsessed! With such popularity, there are a multitude of photo and editing apps designed specifically to make your photos look extra great. We have found we use just a handful of apps and stick to a pretty basic editing process.
Afterlight: Think of this as photoshop on your phone. You can adjust exposure, brightness, clarity, contrast, temperature and more. We love this app for photos that need a little help in reaching their full, shareable potential!
You can see it's taken in the shade, on a bright sunny day, so the lighting is ideal. To make it really pop, though, we did a few things in Afterlight!
AFTER: increased the brightness, contrast, clarity, and sharpness. Then just barely increased the saturation to really bring out the colors. No filter added.
VSCO: We love VSCO because of the clean photo filters they offer. We recommend HB1, HB2, A6, & C1, 2 and 3. Always adjust the opacity on any filter you add and remember that true-to-life color always stands the test of time.
AFTER: Adjusted the brightness, contrast, sharpness and applied filter A6 at level 4 opacity. Finally, we adjusted the temperature to a bit more of a blue hue, because the picture had inherently yellow tones due to the flower color.
Filmborn: Launched in the last few months, Filmborn allows you to edit photos to look as close to film as possible. With filters like Fuji 400 and Portra 800, we are smitten. Add some grain to make your images look like they were just sent back to you from your lab! If you shoot film, you'll catch on very quickly to this app.
Yes, this is the same photo as the one we showed you above, edited with Afterlight. We thought a comparison would be fun between the different apps!
AFTER: Fugi 400 "filter", increase contrast and sharpen.
A Color Story: This app is all about color, as the name suggests! If color is important to your brand, this is a great app to edit with. A Color Story has all the editing tools for adjusting brightness, contrast and sharpness, as well as MANY fun filters (our favorites are the pack created by Glitter Guide called Flashes of Delight) and lots of flares, bokehs, and other effects. This app is probably the most "overwhelming" of all, because there are a lot of options.
AFTER: Upped the brightness, contrast, sharpness, and added the Flashes of Delight filter called Cassidy.
Other apps we like: Snapseed for red eye correction, Slow Shutter Cam for taking long exposures with your phone or Facetune to remove acne or blemishes. We also love 8mm Vintage Camera for adding scratches and light leaks for videos!
We almost always increase our brightness and contrast when edited in any app. We also like to slightly bump the clarity and sharpness. If our photo is too yellow or too blue, we also adjust the temperature for the perfect color. Doing these things reduces the need for photo filters and achieves a bright and airy style. Happy editing!
Let us know YOUR favorite editing apps in the comments!


The reported killing of a Saudi dissident who went missing after a visit to Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul is a violation by Riyadh of Turkish sovereignty, says a commentator.
Two Turkish sources said on Saturday that they believed Jamal Khashoggi — a Saudi journalist known for his criticism of Saudi rulers — was killed inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia and his body was then moved outside.
Richard Silverstein, a journalist and political commentator, told Press TV on Sunday that that would mean a violation of Turkish sovereignty by Saudi Arabia.
He also said the reported incident "is going to ratchet up a huge amount of animosity" between Ankara and Riyadh.
Turkish sources say they believe Saudi journalist was killed at consulate where he went missing.


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The First Reported Case of Second Impact Syndrome: A Reexamination of Dr Fekete's Case Report from 1968
K. E. Gordon
1 Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Kevin Gordon, MD, MS, FRCPC
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29 September 2017 (online)
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Background In the December 28, 1968 edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr John Fekete described a 16-year-old hockey player with fatal cerebral edema following a brain impact while actively symptomatic of a concussion incurred 4 days ago. This case has been described as a "possible" case of second impact syndrome, an entity that was named in 1984 and purportedly first described by Schneider in 1973.
Method An audit of material in the public register of Dr Fekete's case was undertaken. Information sources included the newspaper report of the death, transcripts from a coroner's inquest held 12 days later, including the autopsy report, genealogical data available online, and available internet resources.
Results There was clear documentation of concussive symptomatology following an initial head injury and evidence of a medical assessment, thus fulfilling the "definite" clinical criteria for second impact syndrome as proposed. After 4 days of ongoing concussive symptomatology, a dramatic, rapid neurological deterioration took place following an apparently unremarkable body contact and fall on the ice while playing hockey. His primary brain pathology included cerebral edema.
Conclusion Cerebral edema may follow primary or secondary head injury, the latter comprising second impact syndrome. Dr Fekete's case, as described in the December 28, 1968 edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, should be recognized as the first description of this condition.
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Second impact is a syndrome where an athlete sustains a brain injury (concussion or worse) and while symptomatic of the first injury, sustains a second brain injury, which is associated with catastrophic deterioration with diffuse cerebral swelling.[1] [2] It has been subsequently posited to either "not exist" or "has been overdiagnosed," as reported cases are often lacking in clinical detail and the primary symptoms are suspicious for a recall bias in the face of the outcome of the secondary injury.[3] [4] Fortunately, if second impact syndrome exists, it is remarkably uncommon.[5]
Nearly 50 years ago, Dr John Fekete, then a regional pathologist, described, in the December 28, 1968 edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a 16-year-old youth with two such injuries with a fatal outcome, with the conclusion, "It is emphasized that a minor brain concussion with loss of consciousness may set the stage for subsequent lethal brain damage, even in the absence of skull fracture or epidural hematoma."[6]
In a 1998 review of cases of putative second impact syndrome (SIS),[4] the authors concluded that no case fulfilled all their criteria for SIS and that Dr Fekete's case was one of only five cases that fulfilled their criteria for "probable" SIS, as there was no evidence of a medical review after the witnessed first impact. The original article itself provided limited clinical information surrounding the nature of the initial injury, as it was reported primarily from a neuropathological perspective.
In the face of current medical literature, two questions persist about this report: first, was this a case of second impact syndrome? and second, if it was, should it not be correctly recognized as the inaugural report of this syndrome?
An audit of material in the public register of Dr Fekete's case was undertaken to resolve these issues. Information sources included the newspaper report of the death, transcripts from a coroner's inquest held 12 days later (including the autopsy report), genealogical data available online, and available internet resources.
A coroner's inquest was held 12 days after the death on the basis that "there may have been more than one accident involved" (in his death).
A witness testified that she had seen the deceased skating backward quickly without a helmet at a public skate when he fell suddenly on the ice, striking his occiput, 4 days before he died. He did not move on the ice for 4 to 5 minutes and required two-person assistance to leave the ice surface. His mother reported that he said he "felt alright" but that he had a bump on his head when she came to see him in the rink manager's room. He stayed off the ice subsequently and requested to go home later that night. Once home, he reported a headache that had been unresponsive to three 325 mg acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) tablets and requested additional analgesic.
A classmate reported him telling her, "I've got a slight concussion, you know," and of an ongoing headache during the day of the second injury. She further reported him borrowing approximately 9 to 21 ASA tablets (325 mg) from her locker over the week. A teacher reported the deceased requesting a delay in a literature test on the basis of headache the day prior to the second injury and that "he would be going to the doctor on Thursday" (the day of the second injury). She further reported that he functioned normally in her class.
On the evening of the second impact (4 days after the initial impact with apparent ongoing concussive symptomatology), the scheduled opponent for the deceased's hockey team did not arrive, and a call went out to assemble a pickup team. During that game (with the deceased wearing a Cooper hockey helmet, likely the SK10 model), there was a collision with a player (much bigger than he), and the deceased fell to the ice, striking his left temple (reported as ∼8:15 p.m.).
The initial responder (with whom he had collided) found him to be immediately unresponsive, with difficulty in breathing, his jaw tightly closed, and then he started vomiting repeatedly.
The first medical responder, a local GP arrived at approximately 8:30 p.m., found him "badly hurt" and unresponsive. He was transferred to the local hospital, where "his condition grew worse"—his pupils were later reported as fixed and dilated. A transfer was discussed with the regional neurosurgeon in St. John (1 hour 55 minutes away by Google maps[7]), and the deceased was ultimately transferred to the regional hospital in Fredericton (42 minutes away by Google maps[7]). The weather was clear that night with no snow and wind.[8] He probably died during that transfer at approximately 10:00 pm.
If there was a genetic propensity to brain swelling following trauma, a genealogical review traced the deceased's lineage back four to five generations to primarily Irish and also Scottish immigrants to New Brunswick, Canada in the mid-1800s.
While the postmortem findings were extensively reported in Dr Fekete's original report, the summary of the autopsy is as follows: Normal development and well-nourished male, weight at 25th percentile and height at the 10th percentile. Recent hemorrhage in left temporalis muscle and left orbit. The brain was edematous, weighing 1,600 g (+5.3 SD[9]) with subarachnoid hemorrhage, both cerebral and spinal; a right occipital lobe contusion 1 × 2 cm; and hemorrhage within the brainstem—cerebral peduncles and pons. The larynx and trachea showed widespread petechial hemorrhage and the lungs showed edema and congestion with large hemorrhagic areas. A remote kyphoscoliosis surgical repair was present.
McCrory and Berkovic proposed diagnostic criteria for second impact syndrome,[3] consisting of:
Medical review after a witnessed first impact.
Documentation of ongoing symptoms following the first impact up to the time of the second impact.
Witnessed second head impact with a subsequent rapid cerebral deterioration.
Neuropathological or neuroimaging evidence of cerebral swelling without significant intracranial hematoma or other cause for edema.
They have previously concluded that the above-mentioned case was a "probable" case of SIS on the basis that there was no medical review following the first impact. From the coroner's inquest, we have indirect evidence that the diseased was aware that he had a concussion, that he was experiencing ongoing symptomatology, and that he consulted his doctor earlier in the day he died. Using the above diagnostic criteria, this description fulfills definite criteria for SIS.
Cerebral edema may follow a primary or a secondary head injury, the latter comprising second impact syndrome. Similar mechanisms may be involved. Within the concussion literature, the existence of second impact syndrome has been questioned,[10] preferring the simplicity of diffuse cerebral edema following a primary head injury. These same articles reference case series of primarily children with dramatic cerebral edema developing acutely in the context of a head injury, most notably the series by Snoek[11] and Bruce.[12] Unfortunately, these case series either did not include adequate details as to the mechanism of injury to ensure a "minor" injury or clearly included children with severe head injury (by Glasgow coma scale). Within pediatrics, short height, witnessed falls have been associated with death, and a subset of these have contusion with brain edema.[13] [14] Fortunately, these incidents are rare, estimated at less than 1 in a million children less than six per year[15] and approximately 1 per 100,000 children brought to an emergency department following a playground equipment fall.[16] It is known that mutations within the CACNA1A gene predispose individuals to familial hemiplegic migraine and delayed cerebral edema following minor head trauma;[17] [18] however, this gene abnormality is exceedingly rare within the population,[19] and therefore unlikely to have accounted for these cases of diffuse cerebral edema.
Would the outcome of this case have been different if the physician who reviewed him earlier in the day was practicing using current guidelines? I suspect that the answer is "likely." Practicing consistent with the consensus statement from the fourth International Conference on Concussion in Sport[20] would have seen the physician recommend physical and cognitive rest until the acute symptoms resolved and then a graded program of exertion prior to medical clearance and return to play.
Second impact syndrome was named by Saunders and Harbaugh in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1984.[21] Reviews of this condition[1] [2] erroneously attributed its first description to Schneider in 1973,[22] 5 years after Dr Fekete's report. As one of many Canadian physicians who manage individuals with concussive symptomatology, I believe that it is time that Dr Fekete's foundational work is recognized.
The author has no conflict of interest to disclose.
The author would like to thank M.E. Gordon, DipPOT, for providing the genealogy of the deceased.
The author has no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
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2 Cantu RC, Gean AD. Second-impact syndrome and a small subdural hematoma: an uncommon catastrophic result of repetitive head injury with a characteristic imaging appearance. J Neurotrauma 2010; 27 (09) 1557-1564
3 McCrory PR, Berkovic SF. Second impact syndrome. Neurology 1998; 50 (03) 677-683
4 McCrory P. Does second impact syndrome exist?. Clin J Sport Med 2001; 11 (03) 144-149
5 Thomas M, Haas TS, Doerer JJ. , et al. Epidemiology of sudden death in young, competitive athletes due to blunt trauma. Pediatrics 2011; 128 (01) e1-e8
6 Fekete JF. Severe brain injury and death following minor hockey accidents: the effectiveness of the "safety helmets" of amateur hockey players. Can Med Assoc J 1968; 99 (25) 1234-1239
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10 McCrory P, Davis G, Makdissi M. Second impact syndrome or cerebral swelling after sporting head injury. Curr Sports Med Rep 2012; 11 (01) 21-23
11 Snoek JW, Minderhoud JM, Wilmink JT. Delayed deterioration following mild head injury in children. Brain 1984; 107 (Pt 1): 15-36
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13 Chadwick DL, Chin S, Salerno C, Landsverk J, Kitchen L. Deaths from falls in children: how far is fatal?. J Trauma 1991; 31 (10) 1353-1355
14 Plunkett J. Fatal pediatric head injuries caused by short-distance falls. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2001; 22 (01) 1-12
15 Chadwick DL, Bertocci G, Castillo E. , et al. Annual risk of death resulting from short falls among young children: less than 1 in 1 million. Pediatrics 2008; 121 (06) 1213-1224
16 Spivack B. Fatal pediatric head injuries caused by short-distance falls. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2001; 22 (03) 332-336
17 Kors EE, Terwindt GM, Vermeulen FL. , et al. Delayed cerebral edema and fatal coma after minor head trauma: role of the CACNA1A calcium channel subunit gene and relationship with familial hemiplegic migraine. Ann Neurol 2001; 49 (06) 753-760
18 Kors EE, Haan J, Giffin NJ. , et al. Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of the CACNA1A gene T666M mutation: a description of 5 families with familial hemiplegic migraine. Arch Neurol 2003; 60 (05) 684-688
19 Thomsen LL, Kirchmann M, Bjornsson A. , et al. The genetic spectrum of a population-based sample of familial hemiplegic migraine. Brain 2007; 130 (Pt 2): 346-356
20 McCrory P, Meeuwisse W, Aubry M. , et al. Consensus statement on concussion in sport--the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2012. Clin J Sport Med 2013; 23 (02) 89-117
21 Saunders RL, Harbaugh RE. The second impact in catastrophic contact-sports head trauma. JAMA 1984; 252 (04) 538-539
22 Schneider RC. Head and Neck Injuries in Football. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins; 1973


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Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles Deliver Love Song With a Sweet Twist Via "House on a Hill" (premiere + interview)
Sarah Borges' songs remind us that simplicity and clarity can be more impactful than clever metaphors and the complicated machinery that accompanies most pop singles today.
By PopMatters Staff / 27 July 2018
Sarah Borges' songs remind us that simplicity and clarity can be more impactful than clever metaphors and the complicated machinery that accompanies most pop singles today. The songs that comprise her latest LP, Love's Middle Name (which finds her reunited with the band the Broken Singles), are a scorching batch of compositions that demand to be played loud, then louder as their hooks sink in, and the listener is given no choice but to sing along at the top of their lungs.
That isn't to say she doesn't track complicated emotions on the collection: there are plenty of meditations on the general trickery of love and the myriad emotions that wade in the waters around it but Borges cuts through the ephemera to deliver the simplest line between pain and its resolution. The single, "House on a Hill", blazes the path for this potent and remarkable collection of songs produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel (Del-Lords, Bottle Rockets, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts).
Calling the tune "a rocker with a sweet twist", Borges recently spoke about the single, her upcoming album and getting some help from a witch.
Love's Middle Name releases 12 October via via Blue Corn Music.
When did the material on this new album first start coming together?
It's been a couple of years since I put out a record. The last one was a solo album. This one is a band record. I knew I wanted to do another band record. I took a little break when I had my son, then got back into touring. The songs were germinating. But I'm also one of those people who procrastinates. I do better with a deadline, so I wrote most of the songs in this year leading up to release of the album.
What led to you putting the band back together?
I thought I was done. We had been on tour for about eight years. I was tired. I took time off to get married and have a baby. It became evident to me quite quickly that I wasn't done. I just really missed it. The final piece was putting the band back together and starting over.
You worked with producer Eric Ambel again.
He thinks that I'm better than I am! He's the first producer like that! He gives me a lot of confidence I wouldn't have otherwise. Primarily as a guitar player. That's a task I've relegated in the past to other members of the band or guests. But I've been playing for a long time and he's very complimentary about my guitar playing and my songwriting. Plus he's a badass rock 'n' roll guitar player. It seemed like a logical choice. We have a real simpatico relationship.
The guitar sound is very much like we're in the room with you and the band. I can feel the warmth of the amps.
That's Eric's signature thing. He's been at this for such a long time. He believes in the chemistry of everyone being there in the same room. We tracked the songs live, and if overdubs were necessary we went ahead and did that, but there weren't many. We did the whole thing in probably three or four short bursts, probably eight days of tracking.
Was there a song that sort of began the whole process, the whole album?
"House On The Hill" was a song that I wrote, and no one had heard. I brought it to the studio, and it just jelled right away. That became our benchmark for what the rest of the record should sound like.
Did the song itself come together quickly in the writing process?
A friend of mine was in the process of getting divorced, and I sort of thought about not just what that feels like between two people but a house being a metaphor for the relationship. It used to be this wonderful, welcoming place and now it's not anymore. Once I got that in my head it was easy to take on the persona of someone else and think about what I would feel like in that particular situation.
Where did you shoot the video?
We shot it in Lima, New York which is a suburb of Rochester. A gentleman I knew through Facebook offered to do shoot a video for us. He had the idea for the location. It's this old farmhouse that we used. It was me, the director, a camera person and an actor who played my significant other. We did it over two days. It was a lot of walking through a field! [Laughs.]
The people who owned the home came back halfway through the shoot. Their cat died. So we had this strange thing where they were laying their cat to rest while we were shooting. It was a strange juxtaposition.
My next favorite song on the record is "Lucky Rocks", and I wanted to ask about that song because the lyrics are so striking.
I live close to Boston but also close to Salem. A while ago I wanted the affections of a certain person, and so I went and got a spell from one of the witches in Salem. I asked her to make this person love me. She gave me some rocks to put in my pocket. I had to keep some in my pocket and then cover some in salt water and empty the water by moonlight under a tree for ten days. It was a very involved thing. The song is just the story of that.
Which was more involved: The work of carrying out the spell or the writing of the song?
Well, the person didn't end up coming around, so I don't know if the spell was successful but writing the songs was easy because I already had the narrative in my mind. Just setting it to music was the only thing left to do.
What does the future look like in terms of live dates after the record's out?
I have a seven-year-old son, so my touring is a little bit constrained by needing to be home and be a parent. So we go in short, 10-day bursts, do as much as feels comfortable. But the more you play and the more you play on the road, the better you get, and there's nothing like when you've been on the road for a couple of weeks, and the whole thing becomes second nature to you. I'm anxious to do that.
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A Reissue of the California Cult Classic 'Barry and the Doctor'
John Lingan's Tale of Patsy Cline and Jim McCoy's 'Homeplace' Is Good for the Soul


Hey guys, i'm thinking a new A&A game could be "Axis & Allies Spain". It would recreate Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It is said by some historians that II world war begun in Spain (and the begining of pacific teatrhe was sino-japanese war in 1937), so it could be cool. Axis would be nationalists forces and allies would be republican forces. A couple of rules could be german and italian units aiding the nationalists and soviet units aiding the republicans. A VP sistem would be needed for republicans survive (as Japan in A&A Pacific) and maybe even a first turn strike for the nationalists (as in Pacific too). Could be IC in Burgos, Canarias Islands and Morocco (nationalists) and Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia (republicans) and cost and profile of the units could differ from one side to other (republican infantery weaker and cheaper, nationalist infantery stronger and expensive, per example).
Of course, sino-japanese war would be cool too. Maybe even using two separete chinese forces, one leading by Mao and the other leaded by Chinang-Kai-Shiek, with IC in Shangai, Beijing and Chongking.
What do you think? Should Hasbro release those games? I think those "lesser" conflicts and other battles as Dunkerke or Battle of England would be nice variants to Revised version (a very good version).
Well, we haven't released a Sino-Japanese A&A variant yet, but the Empires of History variant "The Spanish Civil War" was the second variant we ever published and has been our second best seller as well.
A new Fourth (color) Edition is now in the works and due for release this summer.
Did you get your printer fixed?
We have four. All but one have been fixed at least one. Two of them are down on the moment with a scheduled repair on them within the next week. But then, they have only been down a week or so, so I'm guessing you meant from a previous time?
Whoa! A new Spanish Civil War, but the map in color? YES!!!
I am going to go over the entire SCW game that I have from you (2nd + 3rd editions) and will shoot you off some recommendations.
@Imperious: http://art-of-tactic.com/ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/6110_pic1b.jpg remember the box is $2.95 NOW I see it! It is a little bunker with a flag. It has firing slits around it.
Yeah, lock Larry in a small room so the game wouldn't have crazy stuff like capturing capitals and collecting money at the end of a turn. Start in 1901 and let the powers go at it as they will.
Though I could go into greater detail, a few people from these boards have tried out Empire Forge. They seem to enjoy the game. C'mon over and check it out. Basically, this is a "BUMP".
LGTI MicroMachines made soft plastic minis of TNG-era Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Ferengi and Cardassian ships. The company went under in 1998, but they're still availible on Ebay. Star Fleet Battles may be somewhat ancient, but it's most certainly still about, courtesy of Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. They produce a very extensive range of starship minis including TOS-era Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Orions, Tholians and Gorns.
We sure played A&A '86 alot!
Yes, it was an excited manual!


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Трюфелевое масло — приправа в современной кулинарии, используемая для придания блюду вкуса и аромата трюфелей. Подавляющая часть производимого трюфелевого масла делается не из трюфелей, а с синтетическим компонентом 2,4-дитиапентаном, основной ароматической составляющей, обнаруженной в настоящих трюфелях и вызывающий особый запах гриба. Более дорогие виды трюфелевого масла производятся с использованием трюфелей либо остатков их переработки. Однако запах и вкус настоящего трюфеля сложно перевести в масло.

Трюфелевое масло популярно у кулинаров благодаря своей круглогодичной доступности и значительно меньшей цене, чем у реальных трюфелей. При этом масло имеет вкус и аромат, близкий к трюфелевому, хотя в настоящем грибе имеется и много других ароматических веществ. Появление трюфелевого масла вызвало сильное увеличение числа продуктов с заявленным трюфелевым вкусом, в то время как производство трюфелей в мире постоянно снижается.

Использование в кулинарии
Для ароматизации блюд масло добавляют, когда прочие составляющие уже готовы, так как трюфелевое масло теряет свои свойства при термической обработке. Чаще всего его используют при приготовлении следующих блюд:
 крем-супы (особенно грибные или тыквенные);
 паста;
 ризотто;
 пицца.

Трюфелевое масло отлично сочетается с мясом, в отдельных случаях с рыбными продуктами, грибами, с большинством бобовых, а также с картофелем и тыквой.

См. также
 2,4,6-Тритиагептан

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Приправы

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According to the NRA, this logic is sound.
We need to do something about the guns in this country. They're not safe. And if I've learned anything in the past year, if you want to make something safe, you give it a gun.
Cracked says we should give our guns even tinier guns so that they can be safe.


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Tailored Brands to Close Up to 500 Stores
The men's retailer will also cut 20 percent of its workforce.
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Tailored Brands Inc. is making some dramatic moves to right the ship.
On Tuesday, the parent of Men's Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank said it will close up to 500 stores and slash 20 percent of its workforce due to the coronavirus.
As a result, the company expects to record a pre-tax charge of about $6 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2020 for severance payments and other termination costs, all of which are cash costs, it said. The stock closed at 72 cents on the New York Stock Exchange, up 3.4 percent.
Dinesh Lathi, president and chief executive officer, said, "We have safely reopened almost all of our retail stores and look forward to helping our customers look and feel their best for their moments that matter. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its significant impact on our business, further actions are needed to help us strengthen our financial position so we can navigate our current realities. It is always difficult to eliminate jobs and say farewell to our friends and colleagues. I want to thank our teammates affected by these changes as well as those who continue to help us meet the challenges currently facing our industry and who remain dedicated to serving our customers."
Lathi added, "While today's announcement is a difficult one, we are confident these are the right next steps to protect our business and position us to more effectively compete in today's environment."
At the same time, the company said Jack Calandra, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, will leave Tailored Brands as of July 31. In the near term, his responsibilities will be divided between Lathi and Holly Etlin, a managing director of AlixPartners who has been appointed to the newly created role of chief restructuring officer. She has more than 30 years of restructuring experience and has been working closely with the company as an adviser since late March. She will report to Lathi.
Lathi said, "Jack and I have been discussing a transition and, with a full appreciation of both the challenges to be solved and the opportunities to be realized in the next phase of the company's journey, we both agree this is the right time for a change. I want to thank Jack for his numerous, varied and significant contributions over the past three years. He leaves behind a strong finance team that, with Holly's support and leadership, will help us continue to build a strong future for our company."
The company did not say which stores would be closed or over what time frame, only that they would be "identified over time." Tailored Brands operates more than 1,400 stores under the Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, K&G and Moores nameplates in the U.S. and Canada.
Like most other retailers, Tailored Brands has been hard hit by the pandemic, and as a merchant with a strong dependence on tailored clothing, it has also been impacted by the trend toward more casual attire by many men, especially in the past few months as most have been working from home.
At the beginning of July, the company missed a roughly $6.1 million interest payment, starting a 30-day grace period on the debt — 7 percent senior bonds due 2022 and tied the firm's The Men's Wearhouse Inc. subsidiary.
"Men's Wearhouse has elected to enter into the 30-day grace period with respect to the interest payment," Tailored Brands said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1. "During the grace period, Men's Wearhouse may elect to pay the interest payment and thereby remain in compliance with the indenture."
But if the company does not make the interest payment, it would throw its loan facility and asset-based revolving credit facilities into default. Tailored Brands has stayed current on those credit facilities, making its scheduled payments even while skipping the bond payment.
The missed interest payment is a sign of extreme stress that has become increasingly more common among U.S. retailers since the pandemic began. Both J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and Neiman Marcus Group skipped interest payments and used their grace periods to explore alternative paths forward, but ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors.
As of the end of the first quarter on May 2, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $244.2 million, an increase of $231.2 million from a year earlier due to a $310 million draw down on the company's asset-backed loan. Total debt stood at $1.4 billion.
In the first quarter, total sales plummeted 60.4 percent to $286.7 million, and e-commerce sales were down 31.9 percent versus the first quarter of last year, the company said. It did not provide figures on operating profits or losses for the period. But it did warn in early June that the situation was dire, saying: "If the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are protracted and we are unable to increase liquidity and/or effectively address our debt position, we may be forced to scale back or terminate operations and/or seek protection under applicable bankruptcy laws."
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Географія Львівської області — область на крайньому заході України. Є однією з трьох областей історично-культурного регіону Галичина, частиною Карпатського єврорегіону.

Відомості
Населення Львівської області складає 2,75 млн осіб. Область належить до найбільш густозаселених у країні. Щільність населення — понад 120 осіб на 1 кв. км. Площа області 21,8 тис. кв. км. Обласним центром є місто Львів. Область утворена 4 грудня 1939 року після анексії Західної України Радянським Союзом за Пактом Молотова — Ріббентропа. Львівська область межує із Волинською, Рівненською, Тернопільською, Івано-Франківською та Закарпатською областями, має вихід до державного кордону з Республікою Польща.

Адміністративний поділ
Львівська область поділяється на 20 районів, а наступні міста мають статус обласного значення: Борислав, Дрогобич, Львів, Моршин, Новий Розділ, Самбір, Стрий, Трускавець та Червоноград мають обласне підпорядкування.

Географічне положення
Розташована на заході України. Північна частина області лежить у межах Волинської височини, розташовані хребти Українських Карпат на південному заході області. Лісостепова зона займає північну частину області. Головні річки — Дністер з притоками, Західний Буг з притокам, Вишня і Шкло. Місто Львів розташоване на р. Полтва.

Клімат
В Львівській області клімат помірно континентальний. Середня температура січня −5 °C, липня від +18 °C у центральній частині області та до +12 °C в горах. Кількість опадів становить 750—1000 мм.

Водойми
На річці Полтва розташоване місто Львів. Дністер, Західний Буг, Вишня, Шкло із притоками — це головні річки області

Природні ресурси
Державний природний заповідник «Розточчя», 33 заказники, ботанічний сад Львівського університету, 240 пам'яток природи, 55 парків — пам'яток садово-паркового мистецтва, 61 заповідне урочище, області налічується близько 400 територій і об'єктів природно-заповідного фонду.

Корисні копалини
Львівська область багата на такі мінеральні ресурси: нафта, газ, вугілля, великі запаси глини, піску, гіпсу, вапняку, пісковиків, піщано-гравійних сумішей, а також відкрито 4 родовища лікувальних мінеральних вод типу «Нафтуся».

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On 9 December 2015 HMRC published draft rules (Rules) that will have the effect of determining whether carried interest is taxed in the UK as capital gain or as income, by reference to the actual average holding period of assets in the relevant fund. The Rules will apply in addition to the current general rules which determine if carried interest is taxed as capital gains (such as the Memorandum of Understanding agreed between HMRC and the BVCA on the tax treatment of carried interest).
The Rules, if implemented, will apply to carried interest arising after 1 April 2016. There is no grandfathering – in fact the legislation specifies that the rules apply "whenever the arrangements under which the sums arise were made".
The Rules were subject to further consultation up to 3 February 2016 and a final version is due to be published after the next Budget (16 March 2016).
there is a sliding scale for funds with an average holding period of between three and four years.
The Rules will generally apply irrespective of the underlying assets held by the fund, although the rules for "direct lending funds" are even stricter. The Rules represent a considerable and (for many) unwelcome restriction on the capital gains tax treatment of carried interest, not only as compared with the current rules but also as compared with the original proposals issued in July 2015.
The average holding period will be weighted by reference to the amount invested. This represents a doubling of the required holding period to achieve capital gains treatment from that set out in the original consultation document (which had suggested a total holding period of two years with tapering of the amount treated as income occurring after a six month holding period).
There are detailed calculation rules – such as when disposals of assets are treated as made, how hedging is dealt with, and the circumstances in which carry can be conditionally treated as receiving capital treatment pending further calculation.
Under the Rules, all carried interest arising from a "direct lending fund" will be taxed as income unless it falls within a specific exemption (which requires, amongst other things, that the fund is a limited partnership).
It will be important for funds and fund managers to review their arrangements before the Rules come into effect so that they are not caught out by the changes – the complex nature of the Rules means that even funds which have a long term holding strategy would be well advised to do so.
Private equity funds making minority investments will need to consider the rules applying to direct lending funds carefully with regard to any loan note funding (although funds making majority investments will probably not be caught as the direct lending fund definition requires the borrowing company to be unconnected to the fund).
The Rules, if implemented, may cause a significant tension between the desire to realise assets at the time which is best commercially and the time which achieves capital gains tax treatment for the carried interest holders.
From a fund manager's perspective the Rules are an additional blow following changes presented in July 2015 when the ability to "base cost shift" in respect of carried interest was also removed.


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Barbra meets Goldfinger
Submitted by Michael Ely July 22nd, 2010
I have been somewhat hesitant to share this piece. When people visit our home for the first time, they look around at all the kitsch and collectibles and one of the first things they point out is this Streisand piece hanging on the wall. People either love it or they hate it! They either think it is a beautiful face sculpture or an ugly monstrosity! Some people refer to it as "Barbra meets Goldfinger."
This work of "art" (once making the list of the ugliest Streisand art on the now defunct Irreverent Guide to Barbra Streisand website) was created by an artist named Erick Erickson in Florida. Erick starts off with an actual life cast mask of Babs cast in cement and then sculptures the hair, eye brows and eyes, finishing the piece in Oscar gold and make-up, and then rubbing it with an antiquing overlay.
Okay, I am a Streisand fan, and as soon as I saw this, I had to have it. Yes, I know it is tacky.
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11 Responses to "Barbra meets Goldfinger"
I like the Barbra relief though I think you have to be a massive Streisand fan to LOVE it. Very well done though. A little too realistic for my tastes (though I know realism was the point) but excellent for a Babs fan such as yourself. The artist totally got her nose. The kitsch lover in me wishes the hair had been made out of rope but I do understand what a precious and treasured find this is for you. If only you could push her nose and she'd start to sing.
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Rope hair would be a wonderful touch! Another friend suggested squiggle eyes!
You have no idea how many people tease me over this piece.
Your idea to use the nose to activate singing, Allee, has been suggested before! Several friends have suggested that I hook up a small speaker behind the sculpture so that it appears to be singing.
I am a pretty big Babs freak. Once we were having a large dinner party which included a new guest, and we were all around the table discussing actors and movies, and the new guest said – "You know who I REALLY hate is Barbra Streisand." Well, the room immediately fell deadly silent and everyone turned and looked towards me, and the poor new guest looked around and got very nervous and said – "Did I say something wrong?" Well, to make a long story short, that guest has never been back to our house for dinner!
I think I told you that I wrote ads and radio commercials for Barbra's Stony End LP, right?
Yes, Allee, you mentioned that and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up! I loved that album and loved her covers of the Laura Nyro songs (I'm a big fan of Laura too RIP).
In 1976, my partner played guitar for Clydie King when she entertained at the L.A. A Star Is Born premiere party and I got to meet Barbra. It was a night I will never forget!
Allee, you have done so much and accomplished so much in your life (in music and art and collecting). What is something you still itch to do? Just curious.
Everything I do is in efforts to do the one thing I've always wanted to do which is to combine everything that I do – music, art, technology, film, writing, sets, social networks, parties, all represented both physically and virtually – into one big artistic expression as opposed to writing a song for this one, doing a website for that one, painting something for someone else. It's all fun but I'm really an artist who saw interactivity and interconnection a good decade before anyone else I know (https://www.alleewillis.com/technology/index.html) and my natural way of thinking and creating is to execute on all levels and not break it up into different unrelated projects.
I pretty much finance everything that I do other than the obvious things like the earlier songs and The Color Purple. But the building and maintaining of this social network, the new songs, videos and interactive games with Pomplamoose or anyone else I'm writing with, the parties which are essentially performance art pieces, everything I finance myself. It keeps me in a constant state of being relatively broke. so although I have the greatest thing that an artist can have, creative freedom, I'm not operating on as large of a stage as my ideas and knowledge would have me do if finances weren't an issue.
And, of course, i want my own lifestyle line at Target!
yes, allee, you need a line in target!
Seems to me, Allee, that many of your artistic, social and technological ideas and efforts could be combined into a film about your life (a full-length documentary), a film that would encompass your music, art, writing, friends, performance parties and more. In fact, I predict that this will happen one day.
….And if you ever have a line at Target, I'm buying two of everything!
wow, this guy who made it, erick erickson, has an interesting story – it says he got his start by designing prizes for cracker jacks!
http://www.houseofmasks.bizland.com/homabouterick.html
Yes, Erick has an interesting background and he creates all kinds of trippy masks of famous people (which hang off the wall and look like they are staring out at you). I love his David Bowie and Liz Taylor ones.
WOW… very cool..
Do you have this book? https://www.alleewillis.com/awmok/kitschenette/2011/02/05/the-greatest-star-paper-back-book-biography-of-barbra-streisand-that-came-out-when-a-star-is-born-was-in-theaters/comment-page-1/#top
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If you're a commercial property owner, you know that commercial property management, especially in Los Angeles, can require an around-the-clock time investment. From marketing and advertising to completing stacks of paperwork, attracting the right tenants is one of the first hurdles of the commercial renting process. And even once the proper tenant has been located, the ongoing responsibilities associated with commercial property management continue to be taxing.
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Solidarity restaurants in the Municipality of Porto serve an average of 525 meals per day
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The Municipality of Porto runs three solidarity restaurants and serves an average of 525 meals per day. At times like these, solidarity in the shape of free meals is crucial, as the pandemic outed the already existing social inequalities that are hardened by the pandemic constraints.
The municipal investment amounts to circa 300 thousand euros per year and is the result of an engagement work by several entities, namely the Emergency Temporary Shelters and the solidarity restaurants for the homeless.
Recently, Mayor Rui Moreira visited one of such restaurants in operation in Porto, located in Downtown Porto, close to Rua de Passos Manuel. The Mayor witnessed the proper bustle that such moments bring, with meal preparation, which would be distributed between 8pm and 10.30pm, last night, in a take-away regime: paper bags already aligned and set to be filled with warm soup and meal dishes, with dessert. These modus operandi, first adopted in March 2020, will continue as long as the ongoing pandemic prevents gatherings around the table.
This solidarity restaurant, one out of the three operating in Porto, opened last November, nearby Rua de Passos Manuel, in a facility that was leased to ACISJF - Associação Católica Internacional ao Serviço da Juventude Feminina do Porto. The demand is increasing and the Municipality of Porto copes with that rise in demand with the support of several partner entities in the Invicta. In 2020 alone, the total number of served meals was circa 150 thousand, in all three solidarity restaurants.
It is worth recalling that the first solidarity restaurant opened in 2017, when the solidarity restaurant opened in Batalha, in rented premises of the Hospital do Terço. Soon after, that space could not accommodate demand and the Municipality of Porto sought for the expansion of such restaurants in the city, coordinating this initiative with the Municipal Integration Strategy of Homeless people, which is also extended to other vulnerable people in the city.
In 2019, time to open the second solidarity restaurant in the former Hospital Joaquim Urbano, a place that already accommodated the Temporary Reception Centre for the Homeless. These facilities were granted to the Municipality by Porto Healthcare Centre.
The space already had an installed kitchen and all the meals are ensured by the SAOM – Serviços de Assistência Organizações de Maria, a renowned charitable organisation in Porto. This is the place that provides all meals to the other two solidarity restaurants, supported by volunteers of the Associação CASA – Centro de Apoio ao Sem-abrigo, whic guarantees distribution and serves the meals. This support is also backed by the volunteers at GAS-Porto Grupo de Ação Social do Porto, another partner entity of the project.
The solidarity restaurant network operates in strategic areas in the city of Porto, "intended to replace food distribution in plain street or public spaces, seeking to offer a dignified service, all the while safeguarding food safety issues", as highlighted by the Municipality.
"The biggest challenge is to make sure that all homeless people are entitled to a healthy and balanced meal, and this task summons all local players: the municipality, the entities that are part of NPISA [Núcleo de Planeamento e Intervenção Sem-Abrigo] Porto, and other non-government organizations, as well as civil society that, as a whole, ensure the needed answer capacity is in place to fulfil the fundamental right to food and social integration", furthered councillor for Housing and Social Cohesion, Fernando Paulo, who accompanied Mayor Rui Moreira in this visit to the solidarity restaurant.
Moreover, there are plans to open a fourth solidarity restaurant in the western part of town.
The Municipality of Porto has activated its contingency plan for extreme weather conditions affecting the homeless and the most vulnerable population in the city of Porto, as of 30th December 2020 and the response is coordinated with the Emergency Temporary Shelters and the solidarity restaurants for the homeless.
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I am an unabashed Johnny Manziel guy. You know this. I mean, it's not secret.
So when Jadeveon Clowney's name was called with the first pick in the NFL Draft, I was disappointed. Not angry. I had prepared myself for that moment. I was just disappointed.
But when Manziel began to plummet like a stone down the board in the first round, giving the Texans a "relevance mulligan" and a chance to move back up into the first round and get a potential franchise quarterback (and radio/blog content MACHINE), and they didn't do it, I was, once again, legitimately angry.
Now, less than one month into the "Johnny Manziel, True Professional" Era, I am boiling...boiling with the white hot fury of a thousand fireball shots.
Johnny Manziel floating on an inflatable swan swilling a bottle of champagne at some party in Austin.
"Hey, can you believe we saw Johnny Manziel (verb) ing on a (noun) while (verb) ing a (noun) ???
And then the app would give us the percentage chance that the completed sentence could feasibly occur? I'm fairly certain there are zero Manziel-combinations that produce a feasibility percentage below 65 percent. So yes, that means I think there's a higher percentage chance that we see Johnny Manziel grinding on a fire hydrant while reading a roll of toilet paper than there is completing his first career passing attempt.
Admit it, so do you.
When he was going through the pre-draft process -- the media sessions, the interviews, the Gruden camp -- Manziel continually promised everyone that he wanted to distance himself from "Johnny Football," his ubiquitous alter ego that gets Johnny Manziel roughly 90 percent of his attention, web hits and Instagram followers.
Well, that's one promise I'm glad he didn't keep. "Johnny Football" appears to be back, floating on an inflatable swan, exactly how we all drew it up.
Dammit, Texans. What were you thinking?


It is easy to become overwhelmed with the decisions one has to make for his or her future. For registered nurses, making the choice about whether or not to pursue a Master's of Science in Nursing should be an easy. MSN programs in Vermont are an opportunity for nurses to set themselves apart from fellow nurses, both in the workplace and on a resume. The programs open doors to more advanced nursing positions, such as advanced practice certification, and can result in a higher salary.
Finding the right MSN program in Vermont can be a challenge because there are so many to choose from. Not only are there options within the state of Vermont, but many MSN programs are online and available to students anywhere in the nation. One way to narrow down the options is to choose a specialization, and only consider programs that offer a particular major. Choosing the right program may be the key to successfully earning an MSN.
For those who prefer learning in a classroom setting and having contact with instructors and fellow students, a traditional Vermont college or university is likely to be the best option. An individual who learns best in this way should choose this type of program so long as he or she is able to attend all classes.
For those who feel that they may benefit from the flexibility of an accredited online program, there are options to choose from. Two examples of online MSN programs that are available to Vermont residents are Capella University and Norwich University, though there are many others.
Capella University's MSN program offers various specialties, including diabetes nursing, general nursing, gerontology nursing, nurse educator, and nursing leader and administration. The MSN program ranges in credits from 56-57, depending on the chosen track. Each specialty also requires 500 field experience hours for degree completion, with the exception of the nurse educator and nursing leader and administration tracks.
Norwich University's online MSN program is, like Capella University, CCNE accredited. Students can choose one of the following two areas of study: Nursing Administration Track or Nursing Education Track. The curriculum consists of 36 credits and can be completed in as few as 18 months. The program also requires students to complete a week-long residency at the Norwich University campus in Vermont prior to graduating.
Program cost for Capella University ranges from $21,000-31,875, depending on individual's current level of education. The estimated program cost for attending Norwich University's MSN program is $25,071.


There is always so much going on in Santa Rosa. Concerts, festivals, food trucks, art shows, things to do with kids, Safari West, wine, vineyards, museums, breweries, hiking in the Redwoods, and so much more! In addition, with regards to criminal law, there are always different factors, questions and nuances of each case, not to mention the ever changing laws surrounding crimes. When you have the Law Office of Amy Chapman on your side, you are never on your own. We're here for you with resources, guides, free stuff and more – all aimed at helping you and yours get by. Explore our guides, browse our resources or come see us at one of the events we sponsor in Santa Rosa!
The Law Office of Amy Chapman specializes in criminal defense cases that often involve DUI's or drug charges. These charges often involve people struggling with substance abuse issues. People go through tough times, and we want to prevent addictions from turning into criminal offenses. This guide can hopefully help to shed some light on various resources that exist for substance abusers.
The Surgeon General of the United States estimates that there are more than 20 million people in this country with a substance abuse issue. For those who struggle in Santa Rosa and the Sonoma County area, many resources exist to aid in your treatment and healthy recovery. Read more about our Substance abuse resource guide.
Not all of the Bay Area's cities are created equal. In fact, when it comes to crime rates, Bay Area cities run the gamut. Los Altos has consistently ranked as one of the safest cities in the Bay Area while other cities have suffered from less than stellar crime records. Santa Rosa, which is two hours north of Los Altos, doesn't share it's low crime rate, but it's certainly not the worst city for crime in the Bay Area.
From gang related activity, to frequent DUI incidences, the city of Santa Rosa does have its fair share of crime. Santa Rosa received a crime ranking of 25 on a scale of 100 by Neighborhood Scout. It's not uncommon for cities to rank in the single digits. If you want a more in depth look at the safety of Santa Rosa, take a look at our Santa Rosa Crime Map.


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