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Posted Aug 14, 2010, 2:42 AM
Originally Posted by NYC4Life
Four more years for a project that already looks complete on the outside? Yup, disaster!
I think he's just looking to have it complete by then...
he says will be finished by 2014, when the nearby Jets-Giants stadium will host the Super Bowl
...when the Super Bowl will be played at the stadium. It would be a major embarrassment if it weren't.
Posted Nov 22, 2010, 5:23 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/ny...2&ref=nyregion
On Train to Meadowlands, View of Wasted Money
The New Meadowlands Stadium, left, stands near the long-delayed Xanadu project, right.
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
It wasn't a pretty view on the 13-minute train ride Sunday from Secaucus to New Meadowlands Stadium — old landfills, mud flats, the garish bulk of the stalled Xanadu project. But it might as well have been paved with money.
The 2.3-mile train line to the Meadowlands, opened last year, offers a unique tour of inflated and deflated dreams, poor decision-making and, most of all, enormous spending — a fair amount of it from taxpayers, and a fair amount that will never be recouped — in the inimitable New Jersey style. So did the green-clad Jets fans riding to the game gaze out the window at what were supposed to be golf courses, housing, hotels and malls, and sing a lament for the long-suffering New Jerseyan?
Some wearily accept the excess as an inevitable part of life in this state, but most give it little thought.
"If I think about it, I know some of it is crazy," said Mike McBride, a computer scientist from Boonton. "But when I think about taxes and spending, I tend to think about my local government."
As the train crosses the Hackensack River, to the left lies what was supposed to be the EnCap project. Once frequent headline news, to judge by the game-day passengers, it has largely vanished from public memory.
This was to be one of the largest developments in the state's history, entrusted by state and local governments to developers who had little track record and shaky financing. EnCap Holdings was supposed to turn 800 derelict acres, including several old dumps, into a resort and thousands of homes.
None of it happened. Instead, the developers made a series of missteps, ran out of money and, in 2008, filed for bankruptcy. All that remain are lawsuits, investigations and questions about where the money went and who will do the needed cleanup. State and local bodies sank hundreds of millions of dollars into the project; much has been repaid, but officials say some of it never will be.
On the train, Mike Von Ohlen of New Brunswick, who works at a truck company, turned to look at the sprawling, multicolored Xanadu. Or, as he called it, "the biggest boondoggle there is."
Xanadu, now just called The Meadowlands, is the largest retail and entertainment complex in the country. After more than $2 billion spent, it is years behind schedule, and the owners say they need $875 million to complete it. It sits on state-owned land; the state has paid for transportation improvements to reach it; and Gov. Chris Christie wants the state to invest money to help finish it.
At the sports complex, owned by the state's Sports and Exposition Authority, the train passes the money-losing Izod Center. Never a fan favorite, it has been losing business — including its two biggest tenants, the Nets and the Devils — to the newer Prudential Center in Newark.
Nearby sits the Meadowlands Racetrack, serving the fading business of harness racing and also losing money, despite state subsidies. Mr. Christie wants to sell the track and the Izod Center, or shut them down.
Nothing remains of the one site at the complex that actually made money, Giants Stadium, torn down and replaced this year by the new stadium.
Even so, taxpayers are still paying for it, and will be for years to come. The state is paying off more than $200 million in debts on the complex, including the demolished stadium.
New Meadowlands Stadium cost $1.6 billion, said to be the highest price ever for a stadium. That, at least, was built with private money, but many fans wonder what the point was.
"The old stadium was great," said Marty Schwartz, a retiree from Englewood Cliffs. "Seems like a big waste of money."
Critics have questioned the Meadowlands train extension itself, built for $185 million, which partly replaced a much less expensive shuttle bus service. It runs only a few dozen days of the year, when major events are held at the stadium, though that will increase when Xanadu finally opens.
Fans generally like the service, which lets them avoid the aggravation and expense of parking at the stadium.
"It's probably worth it for us," Mr. McBride said. "But everybody else? Probably not."
Posted Nov 27, 2010, 5:11 AM
NYC4Life
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Location: Bronx, NYC
A New Push to Rescue Xanadu Mall Project
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Lenders and state officials in New Jersey are desperately trying to cobble together the second rescue of Xanadu, one of the nation's largest, most expensive and still incomplete retail and entertainment malls.
The 2.4-million-square-foot project, which began in 2003 with futuristic visions of an indoor ski slope, a super-size Ferris wheel, a concert hall, movie theaters, bowling alleys, restaurants and expensive shops, ran through two owners and a staggering $1.9 billion before work came to a halt nearly two years ago amid the financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The lenders are now hoping to strike a deal by the end of 2010 with a new developer and a new financial partner willing to put up more than $500 million to finish the five-story mall in the Meadowlands, six miles from Times Square.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/ny.../27Xanadu.html
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Posted Dec 4, 2010, 11:41 AM
Infernal_Elf
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Intresting developement too bad they went along with pepsi instead of coca cola.
and the general cladding and facades look horribly indeed looks like some big factory complex with plenty of halls only thing that almost looks good is the ski slope.
they got alot to learn from Dubai here id say the Mall of the emirates ski slope and the general cladding and layout of the Dubai mall is work of art compared to this.
lets just hope the interior wont be as hideous as the rest but i fear it might me
this is how malls should look like
the pictures are my own
Top of the ski slope in Mall of the emirates from outside
on the left here u can see much of the Dubai mall it also have nice cladding on the other side and its even very beautiful on the roof also on the right u got an Arabic souk
close up of the Dubai mall
We set our visions higher
Its never to tall just way to small
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Posted Jan 16, 2011, 9:26 PM
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Location: Northern New Jersey
Deal Revives New Jersey's Xanadu .
By ELIOT BROWN And LISA FLEISHER
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...549228004.html
After over two years of delays, lenders controlling the troubled Xanadu New Jersey retail development have reached a tentative agreement with Triple Five Group, the owners of the Mall of America to invest in and finish the stalled multibillion dollar project.
Should the deal be finalized, it would bring an end to a tumultuous search for a new developer to finish construction of the entertainment and retail mega-project which has become an embarrassment for the state.
Edmonton, Alberta-based Triple Five has signed a letter of intent to do the deal with a lender group which took control of the financially troubled project in August. But people involved cautioned that a deal wasn't final and could still collapse.
Bidders have estimated the 2.2-million-square-foot project needs as much as $700 million to $1 billion in new money, following the approximately $2 billion that has already been spent.
Details of the deal weren't released. But people familiar with the matter say that it calls for the lenders to receive money from the project over time as it is completed and revenue comes in, and they wouldn't receive an up-front payment. Should the project succeed, the lenders could ultimately retrieve their full investment, the people said.
The lenders, which hold about $500 million in debt, include Credit Suisse, Capmark Financial and an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group.
In a measure to aid the new developer, the typically parsimonious Christie administration has said it is open to directing tens of millions of dollars in state aid to help the project, using a pledge of future tax revenues to help finance the deal. A specific agreement on the subsidy hasn't yet been reached, multiple people involved said.
Triple Five executives said Thursday that the company envisions transforming the complex into a major tourism destination akin to the Mall of America and the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, which the firm also owns. "That location is just unbelievable," said Maureen Hooley Bausch, a vice president at Triple Five. "We have a lot of plans—we've talked to some of our favorite retailers."
The giant retail project has been a constant headache for the long list of real-estate executives and lenders involved in its creation, suffering from construction delays and rising costs, along with an economic crisis that poured cold water on bullish assumptions. The 100-acre site is slated to include a Ferris wheel and an indoor ski slope.
The initial developer, the Mills Corp., ran into financial problems and turned the project over to Colony Capital in 2007. Colony, in turn ceded control to the lender group this year.
That group, advised by Moelis & Co., along with law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, sought bids in recent months from real-estate firms to finish the project, negotiating in the past few weeks with Triple Five, Florida-based DeBartolo Development, and a joint venture of the Trump Organization and TPG Capital.
The project is by no means a low-risk, and many real-estate executives who looked at it are unsure that the economics will work given the tremendous further investment needed. Skeptical about the finances, Donald Trump withdrew his bid earlier this month, he said an interview Thursday. "We studied it long and hard—it is a very tough deal at any price," he said.
Triple Five, the state government—which owns the land under the complex—and the lenders plan to continue talks and hash out specifics, though hurdles remain including lining up financing. "There are conditions to be met, but I'm comfortable that they can be met," said Jon Hanson, a former state official who led a state commission that recommended a path forward on Xanadu earlier this year.
With regard to a vision for the site, Triple Five said it expected to release plans after the New Year. One thing is certain, according to Ms. Bausch: "The name has to be changed."
I also read in an article I cant find "The exterior has to be changed."
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Another 'only a matter of time' situation, but I'm glad this is happening sooner rather than later.
Posted Jan 16, 2011, 10:11 PM
If Triple 5 can't make a go of this monstrosity, no one can. If this deal falls through they should just implode the beast.
Just get it done already.
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I remember reading about the construction of this site. I thought it would have ended up being a popular place, as that's what everyone was saying (developers, state, etc). Incredible what a big disappointment it turned out to be. I got to agree that this thing looks atrocious and a complete waste of state money. I hope these new guys can turn it over and make something useful with all the money spent.
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Posted Jan 18, 2011, 5:03 AM
Thundertubs
Location: Jersey City, NJ
A boondoggle of the highest order. Was there anything remotely resembling a shortage of retail or mega-malls in Bergen County? The ongoing disaster this thing is pains the former Bergen County-ite in me. It's embarrassing.
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Originally Posted by Thundertubs
A boondoggle of the highest order. Was there anything remotely resembling a shortage of retail or mega-malls in Bergen County?
In terms of mega-malls and big-box retail, the NYC Metro area is actually under-retailed compared to other major U.S. metros.
It really doesn't matter for this mall, though, because the retail mix is very different. This isn't a typical mall, with department store anchors and the like.
The ongoing disaster this thing is pains the former Bergen County-ite in me. It's embarrassing.
This will be a huge money machine. Basically has the best location anywhere for a megamall.
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One can only pray this project will be fully completed and operational by the time the Super Bowl comes to the area in 2014.
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Posted Mar 25, 2011, 3:35 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_christie_xanadu
Gov. promises facelift to NJ's 'ugliest' building
By BETH DeFALCO
Gov. Chris Christie wants a longtime New Jersey eyesore to get a makeover.
Calling it the ugliest building in New Jersey, and possibly America, Christie said Thursday that any deal to finish developing a troubled multibillion-dollar retail and entertainment complex at the Meadowlands will have to include a new exterior.
Late last year, Triple Five, which owns the Mall of America in Minnesota and the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, signed a letter of intent with lenders to complete the development of the "Xanadu" complex and possibly expand it.
Located about 10 miles west of New York City, next to the Izod Center and across a highway from the $1.6 billion New Meadowlands Stadium that is slated to host the 2014 Super Bowl, the decor of the complex has been a source of curiosity for motorists traveling the New Jersey Turnpike.
At a town hall event Thursday, Christie said the first thing that must be done is change the multicolored, multi-patterned exterior.
"They have to change the God-awful ugly outside of that building. It is just an offense to the eyes as you drive up the turnpike," Christie told the crowd, which responded with a cheer.
The decor, which cost an estimated $40 million, has been a source of curiosity for motorists on the turnpike and a joke for late-night comedians.
Christie said the exterior was a reminder of the project's failure, asking: "How didn't everybody understand that something that ugly would fail?"
The project has had more than just cosmetic problems.
The sprawling $2 billion complex originally was projected to open in late 2007. It was supposed to feature shops, an indoor snow dome, a movie complex, bowling alley, restaurants and an upscale martini bar. But as financing fell through, it remained empty, with its most noticeable feature being its exterior.
Creditors took over Xanadu in August, after original lead developer Mills Corp. ran into financial problems and was replaced as general managing partner in early 2007 by Los Angeles-based Colony Capital Acquisitions.
Triple Five and the governor's office are in negotiations to start development, and a possible expansion. Christie said he hopes to have an announcement on the project this spring.
Christie has backed findings of a panel studying the state's gaming, sports and entertainment industries that determined $875 million was needed to finish the Xanadu and recommended the state help find some money to complete it, likely in the form of tax-exempt bonds. But, on Thursday the governor said there would be a caveat to using any state money on the project; the state wants a piece of the equity.
"If they want a state investment, we get a piece of the action," Christie said.
Bloomfield resident Charles Thompson, who came to the town hall event, said he didn't agree with Christie on a lot of things, but was thrilled to hear him mention that Xanadu was getting a makeover.
"He's right about that," said the 58-year-old Thompson. "Paint it white, or black, just do something!"
Christie promised that the exterior would be the first thing worked on, even if construction inside remains unfinished.
"I can't take it anymore," Christie said, "and neither can the people of New Jersey."
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What a waste of my tax $$$$.....sheesh....hes always dumping it into failing projects that continue to fail. We should have to vote on state funding going into private companies. This project was also rushed before considering the strain on the Highway and Transit system which is near or over capacity in this part of the county.
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Posted Mar 31, 2011, 6:24 PM
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/03/...a-name-change/
New Jersey's Xanadu Project Is Getting A Name Change
Xana-who?
Xanadu, the mega-mall project in the Meadowlands that Gov. Chris Christie has called the ugliest building in New Jersey, will be getting a new name.
Jon Hanson, who headed a committee appointed by Christie to study the future of casinos, racetracks and Xanadu, told a gambling forum Thursday that the project will shed its Kubla Khan-inspired name.
Hanson says he met with the latest developers, Triple-Five, and told them the project does not mean anything to the average New Jerseyan.
"Nobody in New Jersey knows what a Xanadu is, so you have to change the name," Hanson says he told the developers. "I can report to you there will be a name change."
A new name has yet to be picked out.
Last week, Christie called it the ugliest building in New Jersey, and possibly America. He said any deal to finish developing a troubled multibillion-dollar retail and entertainment complex at the Meadowlands will have to include a new exterior.
The decor, which cost an estimated $40 million, has been a source of curiosity for motorists on the turnpike and a joke for late-night comedians. It features rectangular panels of orange, brown, blue and lime.
Late last year, Triple Five, which owns the Mall of America in Minnesota and the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, signed a letter of intent with lenders to complete the development of the complex and possibly expand it.
Hanson repeated that possibility Thursday, saying "We are exploring ways that we can increase the size of that facility."
Hanson, founder of a real estate operating company and past chairman of the authority that owns the stadium, said a recent study found that shoppers spend an average of 30 minutes at retail malls. But at malls with entertainment components, they spend three hours, he said.
He said the newly-named complex will be a retail and entertainment center that will draw millions of visitors a year.
Posted Apr 2, 2011, 4:19 AM
Fix Xanadu? The Problem May Be Where to Begin
Xanadu, an unfinished $2 billion mall project in East Rutherford, N.J., has been criticized by Gov. Chris Christie as "an offense to the eyes."
A state official declared this week that the ill-starred, long-stalled Xanadu mall would be renamed. But by any name, it will still be the building that Gov. Chris Christie has called "an offense to the eyes as you drive up the turnpike."
"It's by far the ugliest damn building in New Jersey, and maybe America," the governor said last week, drawing cheers at a public forum in Nutley, and knowing nods across the state.
Mr. Christie is hardly the first to complain about the looks of the huge, nearly completed retail-and-entertainment mall alongside the Meadowlands sports complex here. Columnists and online forums have taken swings at it. State Senator Richard J. Codey, a former governor, called it "yucky-looking." And former State Senator Raymond H. Bateman said, "I think the exterior will always be schlocky, no matter what you do with it."
The facade of the 2.3-million-square-foot complex has walls of horizontal rectangles, walls of vertical stripes, varying shades of blue, green and orange. An indoor ski slope rises at an angle above the rest. Critics have compared the look to stacked shipping containers, Lego blocks and bar codes.
The garish walls were not intended as a naked skin. An array of animated electronic signs and other décor was supposed to surround the building, but may never be built. With $2 billion spent and more needed to finish it, Xanadu's main problem is money. Twice, developers have been forced to withdraw when financing ran dry; the state is trying to get another developer to take over and perform a face-lift.
The architects who created the original design, the Rockwell Group, have thrown in the towel: After previous developers repeatedly changed the plans, the group withdrew in 2008 and disavowed any responsibility for the project's appearance.
So we asked the experts to weigh in.
PAUL GOLDBERGER
Architecture critic of The New Yorker
"It really is unspeakably ugly, there's no doubt about that. It looks like someone tried to decorate a nuclear reactor."
"In really big projects in this region, there's been nothing as horrible as that. I would put Madison Square Garden on the same scale, but it's not recent. I know various people have said the whole Trump complex on Riverside South is worse, and it is pretty bad."
"With Xanadu I think the only solution, other than dynamite, is lots of lights and signage. The thing is vulgar by any standard, so maybe the only solution is to make it more vulgar — more lights than Times Square, the Las Vegas Strip."
RICHARD A. COOK
Architect and partner in Cook + Fox, which designed the Bank of America Tower
Xanadu is "the building every architect loves to hate," said Mr. Cook, who is also a partner in Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental design consulting firm.
"Personally, what I find to be a horror is, this massive project turns its back on this incredibly beautiful ecosystem. The meadowlands has this incredible biodiversity with real beauty, believe it or not. It's one of the most important stopover points on the eastern flyway for migratory birds."
"At least it could have been a background building and nondescript, like all the warehouses and industrial buildings we're used to driving by." Instead, its artificiality "makes it an in-your-face offensive building."
Rather than try to redo the exterior, "I would hide it."
"I'd find any way to open the building to make it so people can appreciate what's stunningly beautiful around it, and any way to marry it into the natural ecosystem, like a green roof. I would hire some biologist who specializes in migratory birds to figure out if you could do some kind of armature around the building that would create nesting areas, and camouflage the way it looks now."
MELISSA LAFSKY
Editor in chief of the Web site The Infrastructurist
"Sure, Xanadu is ugly, but the true extent of its repugnance has to be taken in relation to its building costs. Every Wal-Mart and KFC in America is ugly — but what are magnificently ugly are the buildings that cost hundreds of millions to construct, and still emerge as aesthetic monstrosities."
Considering Xanadu's price, "it may have a good case for Ugliest Money Pit in America." In the New York region, "the only thing comparable would be Trumpville on the West Side Highway. It beats Xanadu in its sheer mass, and its brutal imposition on the eyes of millions of people."
GUY GEIER
Managing partner of the architectural firm FXFowle, and a New Jersey resident
Structures with cavernous interior spaces pose a particular design challenge: to avoid an exterior of huge, dull slabs. Xanadu's multicolored panels are understandable "as an attempt to break down the mass of the building, because it is so large," but they do not work well.
Is there a less attractive high-profile development of recent vintage in the region? "I would be hard-pressed" to think of one. "Just the number of eyes who see it every day provide an opportunity for whoever gets to redesign it to maybe make a more serious statement about what we should be thinking about in our buildings these days. So, for instance, maybe that exterior could be solar, potentially clad in photovoltaic panels."
A new developer could make some of the exterior transparent, "re-skinning it to expose more of what's going on inside the building" — an approach FXFowle is taking in renovating the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.
The original vision of flashing, moving signs could be "distracting to people while they drive. Might be more of a hazard than a benefit."
Founder and principal of Urban-Interface L.L.C., an urban design consulting practice
"It's the ultimate example of the shopping mall as an enclosed space that doesn't engage the environment around it. New Jersey is famous for those," said Mr. McGrath, who a decade ago worked with the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission to generate ideas for developing the area.
"It's less about the ugliness and the scale and the ambition, and more about how you engage a wetland. An indoor ski slope that requires refrigeration year-round blatantly disregards the environment."
Xanadu's design "could in some ways make reference to its environment, to the wetlands, the wildlife," but it does not. "These open areas — the Meadowlands, Jamaica Bay — are the blue and green lungs of our region, and they've been completely disregarded and dumped on. They're just places to drive past and fly over when we're landing at the airport."
The outer layer as originally planned, with its electronic components, would be something of an improvement. "It's definitely in the spirit of Las Vegas, and the love of the ugly and the ordinary in the American landscape."
Godwindaniel
When I think of Xanada, I think of that stupid movie with Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. And who should pay for that fugly exterior change? Me thinks the morans who approved it in the first place along with the idiotic architects who designed it. It – but we know that's a pipe dream. No wonder we're made fun of.
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Just re-painting the exterior to one color may solve the problem. The whole project as a whole though is just one huge mess. Should have never been built in its current state.


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Morphological changes to mouse testicular tissue from in vivo ultrasonic irradiation (preliminary report)
W. D. O'Brien, J. K. Brady, F. Dunn
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Mouse testes have been ultrasonically irradiated in vivo and subsequently examined morphologically. Each testis was sequentially exposed for 30 sec at a spatial peak intensity of 25 W/cm2 at a frequency of 1 MHz. The testes were removed at varying times post irradiation, from immediate to 19 days, fixed and histologically prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin and periodic acid Schiff. The results suggest that two types of ultrasonically induced damage occur wherein, for different specimens under identical exposure conditions, there is either semeniferous tubule disruption with a suggestion of minor intertubule space involvement or a more severe form of tubule damage with significant interstitial tissue involvement. It appears that spermatocytes are affected earlier than spermatogonia, contrary to the situation following ionizing radiation.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-5629(79)90125-X
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O'Brien, W. D., Brady, J. K., & Dunn, F. (1979). Morphological changes to mouse testicular tissue from in vivo ultrasonic irradiation (preliminary report). Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 5(1), 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-5629(79)90125-X
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O'Brien WD, Brady JK, Dunn F. Morphological changes to mouse testicular tissue from in vivo ultrasonic irradiation (preliminary report). Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 1979;5(1):35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-5629(79)90125-X
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AB - Mouse testes have been ultrasonically irradiated in vivo and subsequently examined morphologically. Each testis was sequentially exposed for 30 sec at a spatial peak intensity of 25 W/cm2 at a frequency of 1 MHz. The testes were removed at varying times post irradiation, from immediate to 19 days, fixed and histologically prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin and periodic acid Schiff. The results suggest that two types of ultrasonically induced damage occur wherein, for different specimens under identical exposure conditions, there is either semeniferous tubule disruption with a suggestion of minor intertubule space involvement or a more severe form of tubule damage with significant interstitial tissue involvement. It appears that spermatocytes are affected earlier than spermatogonia, contrary to the situation following ionizing radiation.
KW - Acoustic
KW - Semeniferous tubules
KW - Spermatocytes
KW - Spermatogonia
KW - Testes
KW - Ultrasonic damage
KW - Ultrasound
U2 - 10.1016/0301-5629(79)90125-X
DO - 10.1016/0301-5629(79)90125-X
JO - Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
JF - Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

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Thailand distributes arms to villagers in the south to quell insurgency
A soldier speaks with students at a school in Pattani province, south of Bangkok on Nov 3, 2014. The Thai authorities have distributed hundreds of assault rifles to village volunteers in the insurgency-battered south, in a move seemingly at odds with a pledge to find peace to a decade-long conflict within a year. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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BANGKOK (AFP) - The Thai authorities have distributed hundreds of assault rifles to village volunteers in the insurgency-battered south, in a move seemingly at odds with a pledge to find peace to a decade-long conflict within a year.
Violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority south has left thousands dead - the majority civilians - since 2004 across the southernmost provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, which were annexed more than a century ago by Thailand.
In response to a recent slew of shootings and bomb attacks on civilian "soft" targets, Thailand has vowed to protect locals while it seeks a firm date for a fresh round of peace talks with the publicity-shy but ruthless rebels.
Some 2,700 Heckler & Koch HK33 assault rifles have been distributed over the past two months to volunteers in the region, according to a spokesman for the Internal Operations Security Command (ISOC). "They need weapons for self-defence... they can't fight with just wooden sticks," ISOC spokesman Colonel Banphot Phunphien told AFP. "They are for security volunteers... who are stationed at provincial halls, district offices. They will also protect governors and district chiefs," he said, adding the majority of the weapons have gone to local Muslim villagers.
The authorities have doled out weapons before to Buddhist and Muslim villagers to protect remote hamlets from near-daily shootings.
But rights groups have expressed fears that arming local volunteers promotes vigilantism in a region already scored by violence, suspicion and impunity for civilian deaths.
Several rounds of peace talks with some rebel groups came unstuck during the wider political crisis in Bangkok, which resulted in a May coup.
The ruling junta has since loudly trailed its efforts to reboot the talks, which will be facilitated by neighbouring Malaysia, where many of the rebel leaders are believed to be holed-up.
General Prawit Wongsuwan, the defence minister and deputy prime minister, told reporters on Monday that Thailand is targeting peace within a year.
But a source close to the peace talks told AFP that the timeline is unrealistic, with rebels still irked by Thailand's failure to respond to five demands they laid out in the last round of discussions - including for a level of political and cultural autonomy as well as an amnesty.
While several rebel leaders are ready to re-engage with Thailand "this time around they might go at a slower pace".
"Besides the current Thai government is temporary therefore nothing can be achieved in one year," the source added, requesting anonymity.
Antipathy to the Thai state runs deep in the culturally distinct deep south, with rights groups and activists accusing Thai security forces of severe rights abuses - including killings of civilians since May's coup.
Locals also accuse Thailand of railroading their culture and in so doing galvanising support for the rebellion.


LARKANA: Regional Director Colleges Larkana region Professor Muhammad Afzal Shaikh on Saturday distributed the 69 promotion orders among 43 senior lab assistant and 26 lab supervisor at Government Degree Colleges of five districts Larkana, Kamber shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandh Kot Kashmore.
The promotion orders distribution ceremony was held at Government Degree College Larkana where a large number of Professors and other employees participated.
On the occasion Regional Director Colleges Professor Muhammad Afzal Shaikh addressing said that it is high time that employees should own the institutions, labs and pay attention to their performances.
Regional Director Colleges announced that he would pay visits of all Lab government Colleges of his region and will rewards to 10 best Labs.
Central leader Sindh Colleges Laboratory Staff Association Abdul Ghaffar Abbasi, Divisional President Abdul Karim Mughal, Central President APCA Amanullah Mashwani and others addressed, they said it was long standing issue of Lab assistants which has been resolved.
LARKANA: A man was shot dead near Jelus Bazar Larkana in broad day light by unidentified armed men here on Saturday.
on the spot in the jurisdiction of Haidri Police Station, the dead body was shifted to CMC Hospital later was handed over his heirs after medico legal formalities, Police told that deceased was resident of village Hamzo Jatoi near Pir Sher Dargah, an old enmity was going on with relatives of deceased.
LARKANA: Police found huge quantity of bullets in car and arrested three suspect accused and sealed arms shop and nabbed worker here on Saturday.
According to Police sources, Waleed Police on tip off conducted the snap checking at Larkana Kamber Shahdad kot road and found 2400 bullets in Taxi car bound for Shahdadkot from Larkana, Police also arrested three accused Aijaz Chandio, Asif Bhatti and Raheel Jarwar with car who were allegedly carrying huge quantity of bullets illegally and later Police raided at arms shop of Shaikh Abdul Karim arrested worker Ansar Solangi where as owners were not present, Further investigation is underway.


Monday, 27 May 2013: With two weeks remaining, there is still time to nominate a worthy teacher for a 2013 Commonwealth Bank Foundation Teaching Award. The Awards recognise the outstanding contributions teachers make in improving the money management skills of young Australians.
Winners will be announced on Wednesday, 31 July 2013, with 15 teachers across the nation receiving $10,000 each to fund financial education initiatives in their schools, along with an additional $2,000 for each winning teacher.
Applications are open to all Kindergarten to Year 12 teachers in Australian schools and the process is easy. Teachers simply need to tell the Commonwealth Bank Foundation about a money management program that is currently in place, or a program that they would like to implement.
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation was established in 2003 as part of our ongoing commitment to improving the financial literacy of young Australians. The Foundation runs a range of educational programs across Australia including the award-winning StartSmart workshops.
Applications opened on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 and close on Friday, 7 June 2013. Award recipients will be announced on Wednesday, 31 July 2013. The Teaching Awards are open to all Kindergarten to Year 12 teachers in Australian schools. There are 15 awards to be won. Winners will receive $10,000 for their program, plus $2,000 as a personal reward. The $10,000 award will support the commencement or continuation of a project in the school that builds students' money management skills.
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation was established in 2003 to improve the financial literacy of young people. The Foundation delivers a range of educational programs, including our award-winning StartSmart workshops, that will reach more than 275,000 Australian students this year. The Foundation's programs are educational and do not promote the products or services of the Commonwealth Bank.


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Anyone going near Rafale deal will be gone: Congress
'Chowkidar Modi' removed Alok Verma to stall Rafale probe, says Rahul
By Our Special Correspondent in New Delhi
Updated 25.10.18, 11:47 AM
The country and the Constitution are in peril, Rahul Gandhi tweeted PTI
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the Narendra Modi government removed CBI chief Alok Verma because the investigation agency was raising questions about the Rafale deal.
"Last night, chowkidar removed the director because the CBI was questioning the Rafale deal," Rahul told a public rally on election-bound Rajasthan's Jhalawar.
Amidst chants of "chowkidar chor hai", Rahul narrated the Rafale story and said: "The farmers here won't get adequate price for their garlic but the Prime Minister will write off Rs 3.5-lakh-crore loans of 15 businessmen. He will allow Vijay Mallya, Lalit Modi, Nirav Modi, Mehulbhai to run away with thousands of crores."
Rahul also tweeted: "The CBI chief Alok Verma was collecting documents on Rafale scam. He was forcibly sent on leave. The Prime Minister's message is clear: Anybody coming near Rafale will be thrown out, destroyed. The country and the Constitution are in peril."
In another tweet, he said: "PM removed the CBI Director to stop him from investigating Rafale. Mr 56 broke the law when he bypassed CJI & LOP (Chief Justice of India and Leader of Opposition). Mr Modi, Rafale is a deadly aircraft with a superb radar. You can run, but you can't hide from it."
The Congress party, too, linked the upheaval in the CBI to the Rafale deal with spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi saying: "It is all because of Rafale-o-mania. The Prime Minister is frightened. He is desperate to prevent facts on Rafale coming out, to delay the day of reckoning. This fear forced the government to go for the demolition of the CBI."
Asked how the Congress was so sure that the CBI was planning something on Rafale, Singhvi said: "So many facts on Rafale had come out in public domain. Some decisions could have been taken by the honest officers of the CBI."
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He added: "There could be reasons. One, special director Rakesh Asthana had to be saved because he knew too much. Two, Alok Verma might have shown interest in Rafale. The stakes for the government were very high. Skeletons were coming out and that's why the crackdown. But the midnight operation has shamed India."
Some reports had suggested that the government was annoyed after Verma decided to meet Arun Shourie and Prashant Bhushan who had gone to submit a memorandum on Rafale.
The Congress too had petitioned the CVC and the CAG, demanding scrutiny of the Rafale deal. The Congress has alleged that Rafale fighter aircraft negotiated for Rs 526 crore by the UPA government was purchased by the Modi government for Rs 1,600 crore.
Accusing the Prime Minister of seeking "to achieve surreptitiously and clandestinely what he can't do directly to sack the CBI director," Congress communication chief Randeep Surjewala said: "Has the CBI director been sacked for his keenness to probe the layers of corruption in Rafale scam? Isn't the rest a shoddy cover-up? Scared of the Rafale probe, Modi is killing India's premier investigation agency. Officers are being removed in hordes and fascism prevails. Can't save the sinking Sultanate."
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Brooks says Americans safer with Gen. Soleimani dead
Published on January 9, 2020 at 6:45 am CST
Congressman Mo Brooks speaking on the House floor.
Tuesday, Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, accused Democrats of fear mongering after President Donald J. Trump ordered the U.S. military to assassinate powerful Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Brooks says that Americans are safer with Soleimani dead.
"Socialist Democrats and their Fake News media allies would have you believe World War III is imminent and President Trump is at fault," Congressman Brooks said. "They'll work to undermine President Trump at every opportunity even if that means undermining national security. The truth is, Americans are now safer with Iranian military commander and unrepentant terrorist Qassem Soleimani dead."
Soleimani was the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Scud force, which has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. The Pentagon says that Soleimani is responsible for the deaths of over 600 Americans.
On December 27, Iranian supported Shia militia launched a series of Katyusha rocket attacks on American military bases in Iraq and Syria killing an American defense contractor and injuring four troops. The Pentagon order F-15 Strike Eagles to attack Shia militia facilities in Iraq and Syria. On Dec. 31 Shia militia stormed the American embassy in Baghdad. 100 Marines and Apache helicopters reinforced the garrison and forced the militants to retreat from the badly damaged compound. On Thursday, Iran's top general, Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani flew from Damascus, Syria to Baghdad. He was met at the airport by the head of the Shia militia and an escort. As the convoy was leaving the airport, a CIA drone fired four missiles into the two vehicles, incinerating all four men.
On Tuesday, Iran fired a dozen ballistic missiles from bases in Iran. The missiles targeted two American military bases in Iraq. Iranian state TV announced that Operation Martyr Soleimani had "killed 80 American terrorists."
"All is well," Trump tweeted on Tuesday night. "Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning."
The ballistic missiles missed their targets. Some have suggested that the Iranians intentionally missed to avoid retaliation by the U.S. Pres. Trump has responded by announcing tighter sanctions against Iran.
Iran has released a statement saying that they are through retaliation and do not want further escalation.
Rockets were fired into Baghdad's green zone once coming within 100 yards of the American embassy.
Original reporting by Fox News and Newsweek contributed to this report.
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A New Food Hub Aims to Connect Local Farmers and Buyers
by Holly Riddle on October 16, 2018 6:00 AM
Photo via Appalachian Food Works
Only 1 percent of the food produced in Centre County is consumed in Centre County. However, according to Travis Lesser, founder and executive director of new local nonprofit Appalachian Food Works, the county produces enough food to "basically feed our entire population."
"We have a lot of people in and around State College and Bellefonte who want to support local business by shopping at farmers' markets and eating at restaurants who buy from local farms, but not everyone is able to get to the markets, and it can be difficult to find the restaurants who are consistently sourcing their food from local producers," he says. "Speaking of restaurants, there are actually quite a few in our region that buy directly from local farms, and many that do their best to do so throughout the year. However, they may find it difficult to work with multiple different farms rather than one or two national suppliers like they have become accustomed to doing."
This is where Appalachian Food Works comes in — as an intermediary between the farmer and the buyer, whether that buyer is directly the consumer or a local restaurant. Lesser says the organization's initial focus is to create a "beneficial and symbiotic relationship across the entire value chain."
The first step of this process is a simple one, and includes participation from one of the many local businesses and organizations integral to getting Appalachian Food Works up and running.
"We will be starting out with a very focused approach to sell locally-raised beef to restaurants, and doing so in a very bare-bones way," Lesser says. "We will purchase and pick up orders from Rising Spring Meats in Spring Mills, and deliver cuts of beef in our personal vehicles with cooler bags. These early stages will be critical in building relationships across the value chain, as well as perfecting our processes. We will be looking to grow quickly as we add customers, markets and products, but the focus must remain on ensuring the farmer is getting fairly compensated for his or her harvest."
Appalachian Food Works' current goal is to become fully operational by January and experience incremental growth through 2019.
What does this growth look like? The organization aims to serve buyers beyond restaurants and consumers, such as schools, "but also work to solve the issue of our surrounding rural communities becoming more dependent on national chains to feed their families, as well as encourage growth of local business through a food and agriculture business incubator with [a] commercial kitchen."
For those who want to help Appalachian Food Works reach their goals, an upcoming information session takes place at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 at New Leaf Initiative. The event is open to buyers and suppliers, as well as potential volunteers, board members and donors.
You can RSVP for the event on Facebook or contact Lesser for a virtual link to the session, at [email protected].
Even for those who can't become directly involved in the organization, Lesser still stresses the importance of understanding the relationship between agriculture and our local and regional economies.
"By ensuring farmers are reaching markets and receiving fair value for their harvest, they are able to concentrate on doing what they love to do: grow or raise quality food. On the other end of the spectrum, we have restaurants, institutions, schools and others who want to provide fresher, more healthful food, but it may become difficult to execute from a logistical and budgetary perspective," he says.
He encourages consumers to look for locally-sourced ingredients on restaurant menus and to buy from businesses that are owned locally or that buy from local producers.
"You are speaking with your hard-earned money that you value a strong, self-reliant local economy. Doing otherwise encourages the inevitable rise of national chains controlling our food system, much like is happening in many communities not only in Central Pennsylvania, but also throughout the country."
Holly Riddle
Holly Riddle is a freelance food, lifestyle and entertainment writer. She can be reached at [email protected]
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11 Inducted into Centre County Sports Hall of Fame
by Centre County Gazette by Ron Bracken
What was a dream two years ago became full-blown reality Oct. 7 afternoon in the packed ballroom of the Ramada Inn in State College.
That's where the Centre County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame inducted its second class of honorees.
It was an eclectic group covering football, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, broadcasting and journalists who represented Bald Eagl


Edit: I've updated afterPCA function to work with input of any dimensions. Previously it only generated correct output for square matrices.
PCA is widely used method for finding patterns in high-dimensional data. Whether you use it to compress large matrix or to remove one of the principal components in biological datasets, you'll end up with the task of performing series of equations from linear algebra to reconstruct the matrix of original dimensions.
To find principal components, we first need to center the input matrix, and then calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of its covariance matrix. To illustrate matrix reconstruction I'll use 32×32 faceData matrix from Jeff Leek's coursera course on data analysis.
First thing after doing PCA is to check the contributions of each PC in explaining the variance.
From these plots you can see that faceData has ~5 PC's that cumulatively explain ~90% of total variance. Lets use this information to reconstruct the matrix, and compare it to the original one.
As seen from eigenvalues (variances), taking only 5/32 PC's is enough to recreate face that has almost all of the features of the original matrix.
Recently I was asked for an advice of how to plot values with an additional attached condition separating the boxplots. This turns out to be ugly in base graphics, but amazingly simple in ggplot2.
One of the most popular posts on this blog is the very first one, solving the issue of mapping certain ranges of values to particular colors in heatmaps. Given the abundance of ggplot2 usage in R plotting, I thought I'd give it a try and do similar job within the context of graphics grammar.
Trick was to discretize the matrix of continuous values. Alternatively, you can use "breaks" argument in functions such as scale_fill_gradientn, but such method will assign continuous list of colors within set range.
The following biological phenomenon demonstrates just how elegant R code can be.
In vertebrate genomes, a methyl group (-CH3) can be added to nucleotides. Such process of methylation is commonly associated with gene suppression. Most of the cytosines in the system are methylated (apart from structures called CpG islands). If a spontaneous event of deamination (removal of amine group) occurs on cytosine, different outcomes happen depending on the methylation state. If cytosine was not methylated, it is then converted to uracil nucleotide, which is not a constituent member of DNA sequences and is quickly repaired by the system. However, if the cytosine is methylated, conversion to another nucleotide occurs – thymine. Since thymine is natural part of each DNA sequence, system cannot recognise this change. Thus in vertebrate genomes, we see much lower proportion of CpG dinucleotides than expected.
It takes 2 lines of R code to discover this phenomenon.
You may have also some unexpected nucleotides (>16 permutations) that contain "N". These are the bases that could not be assigned by sequencing machine.
Finally, let's visualise CpG dinucleotide depletion.
You may wonder why CpG and not GpC? Cytosine in GpC is rarely methylated (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6254144).
Edit: You can find the dataset used in this example at http://goo.gl/qrL48.
Original research is presented at http://dev.biologists.org/content/139/14/2625.
Often scientists are interested in finding genome-wide binding site of their protein of interest. R offers easy way to load and process the sequence files coming from ChIP-seq experiment. During the next weeks I'm going to present a pipeline that uses several Bioconductor packages which contain necessary functions for working on NGS datasets. To keep blog organised, posts are going to be divided into several parts. As content is uploaded, links will be made in this summary post for easier access.
So let's start with the first topic – loading and QA of sequence reads.
If you're familiar with the faster iterations on objects such as lapply, sapply, or apply for matrices, you might get surprised that the function call saves new assignments only locally.
One of my favorite lines in R comes from the fact the language environment devours the memory. To focus on particular objects (such as when you need to save it as *.rda), replace the search term within grepl function for the one that you wish to keep.
Previous post presented the problem of dishonest casino that ocassionally uses loaded die. Sequence of the real states is hidden, and we are trying to figure it out just by looking at the observations (symbols).
If we apply our implementation to the data in the previous post, we can get the idea how well can HMM reconstruct the real history.
Example in the mentioned book goes as following – dishonest casino uses two types of dice. Fair one that has equal probability of landing on either side (1/6), and the loaded one with 50% chance for getting 6. Your task is to figure out which die has been used (states) just based on the sequence of the outcomes (symbols).
Notice that we convert all probabilities in log scale. Viterbi algorithm selects the most probable path that can have very low value by the end of the run. Thus, conversion to appropriate scale helps avoid calculation issues.
# we'll represent loaded die as "L", and the fair one as "F"
After we defined the model, we need to initialize two object that will keep the track of probability history and state path (Pi) during the recursion process.
Often you want to set the fixed colors for particular range of your dataset to be sure that the visual output is correctly represented. This is particularly useful for time series data, where the range or your dataset might drastically change during the course of the simulation.
To do that in R, we need to set the "breaks" parameter in plotting functions such as image or heatmap.2.


Samsung has finally launched its much-awaited Samsung Galaxy A40 in the Netherlands. The phone comes with mid-range specs and a price tag for the Android users. The main key attraction features of the handset are its infinity-U display, dual-rear camera setup, a massive 25MP front-facing camera, and beautiful design. The phone has Samsung's own One UI interface based on Android Operating system. Samsung has revealed all specs and pricing detail of Galaxy A40 which are mentioned below. The handset comes in four color variants, i.e. Black, Blue, Coral, and White.
The new Samsung Galaxy A40 has been priced at EUR 249 (approximately Rs. 19,500) in the Netherlands. The phone is available for pre-order on Besimpel.nl. The phone is expected to go on sale starting from April 10th.
Coming to the specs and features, the Galaxy A40 features a 5.9-inch full-HD+ Super AMOLED infinity-U display with 19:9 aspect ratio. It carries a resolution of 1080 x 2280 pixels. The device has full-view bezel-less display penal, glossy back finish with two camera sensor. There is also a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone situated on the back panel. The phone has a very slim design that can easily hold on your palm, it measures 144.3 x 69.1 x 7.9mm.
Other features include, it is powered by Samsung's own Exynos 7885 SoC clocked at an octa-core CPU along with Mali-G71 GPU. The handset has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage which is further expandable via microSD card up to 512GB. The phone has a dual-SIM slot and Android 9.0 Pie OS with One UI one the top. Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/A-GPS, NFC, USB Type-C port and 3.5mm audio jack.
In terms of camera, it features a dual camera setup on rear penal that include a 16MP primary sensor with f/2.0 aperture and a 5MP secondary camera sensor with f/2.2 aperture. There is a 25MP front-facing camera for selfie lovers. Samsung incorporates a 3,100mAh battery in the phone.
To get the latest news for Android mobile and other tech news, stay tuned with us.


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FILE – In this July 29, 2020 file photo, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announces the extension of a state order requiring face masks in public during a news conference in Montgomery, Ala. Ivey's chief of staff is quarantining at home after his wife tested positive for COVID-19. Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola said Friday, Aug. 14, that Ivey's Chief of Staff Jo Bonner does not have symptoms but is in quarantine at home. less
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Gov. Kay Ivey and health officials extended an order requiring face masks in public Wednesday, arguing that the requirement — while unpopular among many — has proven effective at helping control the state's coronavirus outbreak.
The five-week extension, announced during a Capitol news conference, means the mask requirement will be in effect on Election Day and through much of the remaining high school and college football seasons.
Ending the mask ordinance could harm the state by leading to a "false sense of security," Ivey said, and a "safe environment" is needed for in-person voting.
The mask rule, which took effect in mid-July, was set to expire Friday but will continue through Nov. 8 under a health order released by Ivey. It requires anyone over the age of 6 to wear masks in indoor public spaces and outdoors when it's impossible to stay at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from others.
In a move aimed at combatting isolation among people in nursing homes and hospitals, residents and patients will now be allowed one visitor or caregiver at a time.
More than 2,500 people in Alabama have died of COVID-19, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University, giving the state the nation's 21st high death count. Alabama has reported 153,554 positive results out of 1.1 million tests for an overall positivity rate of 13.7%, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
But the illness caused by the new coronavirus has spread at a slower pace since the state enacted the


Dermaplaning is a fantastic exfoliating treatment with no downtime. With dermaplaning, the surface dead skin cells are manually removed by using a specific exfoliating tool that result in brighter and smoother skin. You will also find that when applying your skincare products, the product penetrates into your skin more effectively once it has been manually exfoliated. This is a perfect all around treatment for most skin types.
Dermaplaning is a manual exfoliation of the dead skin cells that sit on top of the surface of the face that leaves the skin smooth and bright.
Does dermaplaning get rid of my "peach fuzz" on my face?
Yes, dermaplaning temporarily gets rid of the vellus hair on the face.
Will my hair grow back thicker after dermaplaning?
No, hair does not grow back any thicker than it was before you had a dermaplaning treatment.
Is there any downtime with dermaplaning?
No, that is one of the many great benefits of dermaplaning, no downtime, no peeling, there maybe a little redness directly after depending on your skin type, but that goes away very quickly.
Can I wear makeup right after the dermaplaning treatment?
Yes makeup can be applied following dermaplaning.


The European Union confronts expanded inequalities across a range of areas from gender, to generations, wealth, mobility and opportunity. One underlying factor common to these expanded inequalities is deficiencies in fiscal systems. The 'Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators' (COFFERS) project seeks to redress these deficiencies as policy innovation at national, regional and international levels undergoes a period of accelerated development.
As a part of the Impact dimension (WP7) of the COFFERS project the project team is offering a high-level course. The course is coordinated by Professor Richard Murphy and targets those working on tax issues within the public and private spheres in Europe.
Full course description and registration here.


Enclosed Porch Flooring Options - Front Porch Ideas and More You have lots of options for enclosed porch flooring as it is usually well protected. In lieu of treated lumber you can use tile, stone, brick, interlocking deck tiles, or other materials with ease. Even if it is elevated you have the same options.
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For the annual International General Conference in The Vienna Centre in September 2015 Haselsteiner display systeme created a large Popup stand in different heights creating life and not just a wall.
From today we will start to deliver the all-in-on top with exclusive brass hinges mounted on the top. This way the top will get an extra protection from scratches when transported this will also improve on the stability of the top.
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This statistic presents information on the total global revenue of leading flash sale sites from 2009 to 2014. In 2014, the leading flash sale sites generated a total revenue of 6.25 billion U.S. dollars, up from 5.32 billion a year earlier.
Includes Vente-privee, Zulily, Privalia, Gilt Groupe, Showroomprivee.com, Rue La La, and Haute Look.


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Le Marine Aircraft Group 12 (ou MAG-12) est un groupe aérien actif du Corps des Marines des États-Unis chargé de fournir des avions de combat et d'assaut. Il basé à la Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni au Japon qui est actuellement composée de trois escadrons de F-35C Lightning II, d'un escadron de AV-8B Harrier II, d'un escadron de ravitaillement aérien tactique KC-130J, d'un escadron de maintenance et de logistique et d'un escadron de soutien. Ils relèvent du commandement de la 1st Marine Aircraft Wing et du III Marine Expeditionary Force.

Mission
La mission du MAG-12, en tant que bras aérien tactique de la 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, est d'effectuer la reconnaissance aérienne, la guerre électronique, la guerre antiaérienne, l'appui aérien offensif, le contrôle des aéronefs et des missiles, et l'appui d'assaut à partir de bases avancées, expéditionnaire bases ou la base maritime soutenue par la logistique aéronautique organique et la logistique de soutien au sol de l'aviation comme requis par la III Marine Expeditionary Force et le Commandement du Pacifique des États-Unis et être prêt à mener les opérations de soutien et d'engagement qui pourraient être dirigées.

Unités subordonnées
Le MAG-12  est constitué de  :

Historique

Origine
Le Marine Aircraft Group 12 a été activé au , San Diego en Californie, le . Peu de temps après, il est déployé sur le Théâtre du Pacifique. De décembre 1942 jusqu'à la fin des hostilités à la fin de 1945, le Groupe a participé à de nombreuses opérations dans les îles Salomon et les Philippines en soutenant l'US Army, l'US Navy et l'US Marine Corps, ainsi que les forces de guérilla philippines.

Service

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Liens internes
 United States Marine Corps Aviation
 Organisation de l'United States Marine Corps
Liste des groupes aériens de l'United States Marine Corps

Liens externes
 - Marine Aircraft Group 12 - Site GlobaleSecurity.org
  MAG-12 - Site Seaforces.org
 MAG-12 - site 3rdmaw;marines.mil

Groupe aérien de l'United States Marine Corps
Unité ou formation militaire créée en 1942
1st Marine Aircraft Wing

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The 114CE guitar is of the Grand Auditorium shape that has a Venetian cutaway allowing your hand to get to the upper frets. Designed by Bob Taylor in 1994, the shape of a grand auditorium guitar is wider than a dreadnought. (A dreadnought, a large bodied guitar shape, is named after the British battleship HMS Dreadnought). It was developed in 1916 and manufactured by C.F. Martin. The lower bout has a skinnier waist and forward bout that makes it a very comfortable guitar to play. My 114CE is laminated walnut on the back and the sides, with a solid sitka spruce top. The pickup is behind the saddle and has piezo-electric sensors. The guitar is powered by Taylor's Expression System 2 (ES2).
Overall, with Taylor's custom-designed pre-amp, the result is a natural acoustic sound with incredible range. The pickup also has a switch for feedback control, which is located on the pre-amp board inside the soundhole.
Right off the bat, this guitar is just amazingly beautiful. You can't deny that. The sound quality is amazing, and I will explain how this is a little later. The cost is much higher than the 100 series and for good reason – they start at around $2800 brand new. Look around on EBay as I did, and you can get a great used one for around $1700. I bought mine from a reputable guitar store in Florida who has a great feedback history. I am extremely happy for making this purchase. When it arrived, it was in a beautiful hard case and was even in tune!!
The 524CE is a dark, rich-grained mahogany (a stronger wood) with a Venetian cutaway in the Grand Auditorium style, the same as the 114CE. Because of the fine mahogany wood, combined with the V-class bracing, when playing the 524CE, the sound that emanates from the guitar is unique, long-lasting and more beautiful than the 114CE because of the resonating tone. When you play the 114CE and then play the 524CE, a genuine appreciation for the 524CE will give you the wow factor.


The US Air Force is steward to millions of acres of lands used for national defense purposes that include a variety of intact ecosystems, including habitat that harbors listed and at risk species. An interagency agreement between the USFWS and Air Force solidifies the cooperation between the agencies in relying on Service expertise to execute a program to protect and enhance the ecosystems under Air Force stewardship. This also benefits the Service's mission for the American people in that it allows protection of lands and waters that are essential for conservation and sustainment of listed and at risk species while at the same time allowing the Air Force to maintain mission flexibility while complying with Federal laws.
In the state of Florida, the Air Force manages more than 625,000 acres of land from the panhandle to the southern end of the peninsula, including eight installations. The USFWS has biologists stationed on Avon Park AFR, Tyndall AFB, and Eglin AFB who assist with a variety of collaborative work including, ecological monitoring, prescribed burning habitat restoration, species recovery, guidance for mission avoidance and minimization measures, and assistance on public use and recreation management.


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Церква Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці (Хлібичин) — дерев'яна гуцульська церква в с. Хлібичин  Івано-Франківської області, Україна, пам'ятка архітектури національного значення.

Історія

Церква датована 1854 роком. У радянський період церква  охоронялась як пам'ятка архітектури Української РСР (№ 1198). В цей період (до 1991 року) була зачинена, після відкриття відреставрована та заново освячена. Використовується громадою ПЦУ (Василій Близнюк).

Архітектура

Церква хрещата в плані з великим квадратним зрубом нави та невеликими раменами. До бабинця прибудовано ганок, а до вівтаря прибудована ризниця. Ще один ганок прибудовано до південного рамена нави. Зруб нави продовжується восьмигранною частиною на якій розташована баня шатрового типу. Бокові зруби мають двосктні дахи. Опасання церкви розташовується навколо зрубів на їх випусках (вінцях). На бані та бокових дахах церкви встановлено п'ять маківок на ліхтарях. Дах перекритий бляхою. Інтер'єр церкви був розписаний в XIX столітті.

Дзвіниця
Дзвіниця, яка входить до складу пам'ятки складається з двох ярусів, нижній з яких з квадратного зрубу, а верхній восьмигранний каркасного типу. Дзвіниця оточена опасанням та перекрита шатровим звершенням.

Див. також

 Церква Святого Великомученика Юрія Переможця (Бистриця);
 Церква Святого Великомученика Димитрія Солунського (Білі Ослави);
 Церква Святого Миколая (Устя);
 Церква Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці (Пістинь);
 Церква Пресвятої Трійці (Яворів).

Примітки

Пам'ятки архітектури України національного значення
Народна архітектура України
Церкви Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці
Гуцульська архітектура
Церкви Івано-Франківської області
Храми Православної церкви України
Дерев'яні храми Івано-Франківської області
Культові споруди, побудовані 1854
Засновані в Україні 1854


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Knut Borchardt, né le  à Berlin et mort le , est un historien allemand, spécialiste de l'histoire économique.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en juin 1929
Naissance à Berlin
Étudiant de l'université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich
Professeur à l'université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich
Professeur à l'université de Mannheim
Historien allemand
Historien de l'économie
Lauréat du prix Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz
Membre de l'Académie bavaroise des sciences
Officier de l'ordre du Mérite de la République fédérale d'Allemagne
Décès à 93 ans
Décès en février 2023
Décès à Munich


The Hard Tackle takes a look at the most important Arsenal news that have been making the rounds.
According to Tom Olver of the Metro, former Blues left-back Ashley Cole and midfielder Joe Cole have returned to Chelsea to train with the first team at Cobham. Pictures on social media began circulating of the legendary duo in their training gear ahead of Chelsea's clash with Crystal Palace on Sunday.
It is understood that both Joe and Ashley are in London on a temporary basis and they are looking to maintain fitness following the end of the Major League Soccer and the North American Soccer League seasons in the United States of America.
Ashley Cole has been with MLS giants LA Galaxy since January this year while Joe is plying his trade in Tampa Bay with the Rowdies. Between the two, the Coles have made a staggering 619 appearances for the London club, and are still well received by the fans at the club.
The veteran Blues midfielder John Obi Mikel has not been a part of manager Antonio Conte's plans this season and has been left out of the matchday squad on several occasions by the Italian. With his contract running out at the end of the season, the Nigerian has been long linked with a move away from the club.
In the summer, Mikel admitted that he was open to moving to the United States to play in the MLS. With his former teammates Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole already in the country, it would have taken him very little time to acclimatise himself to life in North America. However, with no concrete offers, he stayed put in London with Chelsea.
Over the last few days, there has been an interest from former Blues boss Jose Mourinho. Currently at the helm at Manchester United, Mourinho was reportedly keen on having a reunion with the Chelsea outcast at Old Trafford.
In response to the interest in his future, the midfielder has played down all reports linking him. As per All Nigeria Soccer (h/t The Daily Star), Mikel's talks have broken down with an unnamed top English side. "The transfer talks have broken down, his wage demands are a big issue so it is difficult to do a deal," a source told the website.
According to Sky Sports, Chelsea have announced losses of £70.6 million for the year ending 30th June. Despite that, the club's turnover was at an all time high, giving the boardroom plenty to be happy about.
The turnover of £329.1 million was a significant increase from last year's figure of £314.3 million. It also resulted in a £4.7m profit before exceptional costs despite Chelsea's 10th-placed Premier League finish.
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According to the Daily Star, Hoffenheim's sporting director Alexander Rosen has confirmed that Sule will not leave the club in January.
This news will have come has a huge blow to Chelsea who were keen on signing the German defender. Blues reportedly had made a bid for Sule in the summer, but Hoffenheim turned it down as he was a key part of their first team plans.
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import com.facebook.presto.spi.PrestoException;
import com.facebook.presto.spi.StandardErrorCode;
import com.facebook.presto.teradata.functions.DateFormat;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.ANTLRInputStream;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.Token;

import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder;
import java.util.List;

import static com.facebook.presto.spi.StandardErrorCode.INVALID_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT;
import static java.time.format.SignStyle.NOT_NEGATIVE;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.AMPM_OF_DAY;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.HOUR_OF_AMPM;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.HOUR_OF_DAY;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.MINUTE_OF_HOUR;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE;
import static java.time.temporal.ChronoField.YEAR;

public class DateFormatParser
{
    public enum Mode
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        // Do not require leading zero for parsing two position date fields (MM, DD, HH, HH24, MI, SS)
        // E.g. "to_timestamp('1988/4/8 2:3:4','yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss')"
        PARSER(1),

        // Add leading zero for formatting single valued two position date fields (MM, DD, HH, HH24, MI, SS)
        // E.g. "to_char(TIMESTAMP '1988-4-8 2:3:4','yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss')" evaluates to "1988/04/08 02:03:04"
        FORMATTER(2);

        private final int minTwoPositionFieldWidth;

        public int getMinTwoPositionFieldWidth()
        {
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        Mode(int value)
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    private DateFormatParser()
    {
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    public static DateTimeFormatter createDateTimeFormatter(String format, Mode mode)
    {
        DateTimeFormatterBuilder builder = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder();
        boolean formatContainsHourOfAMPM = false;
        for (Token token : tokenize(format)) {
            switch (token.getType()) {
                case DateFormat.TEXT:
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                case DateFormat.HH24:
                    builder.appendValue(HOUR_OF_DAY, mode.getMinTwoPositionFieldWidth(), 2, NOT_NEGATIVE);
                    break;
                case DateFormat.HH:
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                    builder.appendValue(MINUTE_OF_HOUR, mode.getMinTwoPositionFieldWidth(), 2, NOT_NEGATIVE);
                    break;
                case DateFormat.MM:
                    builder.appendValue(MONTH_OF_YEAR, mode.getMinTwoPositionFieldWidth(), 2, NOT_NEGATIVE);
                    break;
                case DateFormat.SS:
                    builder.appendValue(SECOND_OF_MINUTE, mode.getMinTwoPositionFieldWidth(), 2, NOT_NEGATIVE);
                    break;
                case DateFormat.YY:
                    builder.appendValueReduced(YEAR, 2, 2, 2000);
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                case DateFormat.YYYY:
                    builder.appendValue(YEAR, 4);
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                case DateFormat.UNRECOGNIZED:
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        }
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            // Append default values(0) for time fields(HH24, HH, MI, SS) because JSR-310 does not accept bare Date value as DateTime

            if (formatContainsHourOfAMPM) {
                // At the moment format does not allow to include AM/PM token, thus it was never possible to specify PM hours using 'HH' token in format
                // Keep existing behaviour by defaulting to 0(AM) for AMPM_OF_DAY if format string contains 'HH'
                builder.parseDefaulting(HOUR_OF_AMPM, 0)
                        .parseDefaulting(AMPM_OF_DAY, 0);
            }
            else {
                builder.parseDefaulting(HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
            }

            return builder.parseDefaulting(MINUTE_OF_HOUR, 0)
                    .parseDefaulting(SECOND_OF_MINUTE, 0)
                    .toFormatter();
        }
        catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
            throw new PrestoException(INVALID_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT, e);
        }
    }

    public static List<? extends Token> tokenize(String format)
    {
        DateFormat lexer = new com.facebook.presto.teradata.functions.DateFormat(new ANTLRInputStream(format));
        return lexer.getAllTokens();
    }
}

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Home > Main Library > Economy > Investment in Burma/Myanmar > Lists, Directories of Foreign Companies in Burma
Lists, Directories of Foreign Companies in Burma
Title: Database of companies linked with Burma
Date of publication: 28 October 2002
Description/subject: "On 28 October [2002], on behalf of the Global Unions Group, the ICFTU is releasing a new database of over 325 foreign companies with business links to Burma - links that help to sustain the brutal and repressive dictatorship in that country. While some prominent companies have withdrawn since the initial release of the database one year ago, Global Unions have added a further 92 companies which continue to do business with Burma or have been pursuing business links with the junta...." "The following database has been compiled by the ICFTU, based on publicly available information. It is a database of companies which appear, from the information available, to have some form of relationship with Burma. A company was added to the list as soon as one link was found between it and Burma or its regime during the period following 15 November 2000, the date of the ILO decision. In some cases, this link will be trade with, investment in or other business activities in Burma, for others it may be direct contact between the company and officials of the regime. It may also be that the company promotes or advertises tourism in the country... This list is not exhaustive. We are ready to correct any factual errors which it may contain. As we receive information on further companies which are active in Burma we will approach them in the same way and, depending on their reaction, add them to the list."
Source/publisher: Global Unions
Alternate URLs: http://www.global-unions.org/spip.php?rubrique57
Date of entry/update: 02 September 2010
Title: The Dirty List (of foreign companies doing business in Burma)
Description/subject: "Burma is a country ruled by one of the longest running and most brutal military dictatorships in the world; a dictatorship charged by the United Nations with a "crime against humanity" for its systematic abuses of human rights, and condemned internationally for refusing to transfer power to the legally elected Government of the country – the party led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. In response to calls from Burma's democracy movement, the Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups around the world have been pressuring companies to sever business ties with Burma... Relevant Links: # The Dirty List with company contact details; # The Dirty List without contact details; # The Dirty List Briefing; # The Clean List; # British Clothing Retailers and Burma..." Various lists (with and without contact details) and suggestions for action.
Source/publisher: The Burma Campaign UK
Format/size: html, pdf
Title: USA Engage - results of a search for "burma"
Description/subject: "...USA*ENGAGE brings together Americans from all regions, sectors and segments of our society to speak out for a more effective foreign policy. Even though a large number of American companies, farmers, and workers are hurt by sanctions that take away US export markets and undermine our international competitiveness, Congress and the Administration cannot hear from only activists promoting a narrow sanctions agenda. A large coalition provides the voice to ensure that American policy-makers listen to all interested parties, including those who oppose sanctions..."
Source/publisher: USA Engage
Date of entry/update: 08 February 2005
Title: Report Card - US Companies Investing in Burma
Date of publication: June 2014
Description/subject: "The Report Card of US Companies Investing in Burma is an evaluative tool that measures the due diligence reports and accountability efforts of US companies in accordance with the US Reporting Requirements on Responsible Investment in Burma..."
Source/publisher: US Campaign for Burma
Format/size: pdf (126K)
Title: Foreign companies which have withdrawn from Burma
Date of publication: January 2003
Description/subject: Alphabetical list by company of those which have pulled out from 1992, by Company, Sector, (date)In, (date)out, Country, Brief Details. Updated January 2003.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Research Pages
Date of entry/update: 03 June 2003
Title: Foreign Investment in Burma
Description/subject: Foreign Investment of Permitted Enterprises up to November 1999 (by Country and Region) (US $ in million). Updated January 2003.
Title: Myanmar Yellow Pages
Description/subject: Pretty feeble list
Title: Myanmarpyi
Description/subject: Big list of companies by sector, plus blue pages and a link to the soc.cult.burma membership list search by name of email... NOT ACCESSIBLE, NOVEMBER 2004.


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Santa Giustina in Colle – miejscowość i gmina we Włoszech, w regionie Wenecja Euganejska, w prowincji Padwa.

Według danych na rok 2004 gminę zamieszkiwało 6396 osób, 376,2 os./km².

Bibliografia
 Źródło danych: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica

Miejscowości w prowincji Padwa