What Did CTIA in Las Vegas, GSM Congress in Paris, France and CeBit in Hanover, Germany Tell Us? Three major industry events have taken place during the last few weeks - CTIA in Las Vegas in U.S., GSM Congress in Cannes France and CeBit in Hanover Germany. While the first two were specific to our industry, the third event was about IT in general. Do these events tell us where the industry is going? Is the number of exhibitors any indication of ultimate success that we would achieve in making wireless mainstream? Are the keynotes truthful representation of how the companies are internally addressing the needs of the company. These are perplexing questions that have different answers depending on who you ask.
First of all, industry events have one focal objective - to drum up enthusiasm for emerging technologies and products of the vendor community. In that respect, these conferences and technology expositions serve a very important purpose. While there may have been slight pragmatism in CTIA as well at the GSM congress this year, general enthusiasm has matured but not waned much. Rightly so. We agree that the industry has strong fundamental strengths and a bright long term future. So the show must go on. But vendors must provide a realistic time table so that the enterprise IT professionals can develop a sound strategy.
It is unfortunate that dynamics of stock markets and investors inter-connected globally through the Internet are directing the directions of every industry more than the collective wisdom of business executives. Business planners are being forced to tune into and pay attention to the unrealistic expectations of super-fast growth economics of investment bankers and brokers who are exploiting the psychology of the fickle-minded investors. It is not unlike the situation that will ensue if governments were forced to govern on the basis of electronic voting on every issue, thereby replacing the wisdom of elected officials. In this respect, we expect many worthwhile startups to suffer an early death in the name of rationalization. Creativity could suffer and mediocrity of large corporations could prevail if this persisted. We suggest that startups should be more realistic in their business plans realizing that emerging technology will be accepted only if it improves productivity, adds value or gives greater enjoyment to consumers and businesses.
If you represent an enterprise embarking on wireless solutions, please do not accept all the claims made by marketing and PR folks at their face value. Go underneath the cover. Analyze products using conventional discipline. Web sites information and marketing pitches need to be backed by facts and figures. Wireless computing is indeed quite complex.
There were many outstanding products exhibited at these events. Both 2.5 G and 3G handsets were shown doing their tricks in hypothetical environments. Multi-media and streaming video were shown on GPRS. What they did not answer, however, was the key question - what is the price and time of delivering these products and services in a reliable form. Remember that conferences and expositions represent only the first step in introducing new technology. Now the application developers and systems integrators should take over and tell us how they can improve the business processes or consumer's personal lives.
There was more talk of wireless portals, location-specific applications and m-commerce than there was of critical business applications that were waiting to be mobile-enabled.
If you are a an infrastructure vendor (Ericsson, Lucent or Motorola), you should listen more to your long term strategists than to the folks in investor relations. While we do not advocate wasteful R&D, we suggest that you should continue to invest in your future. Divert a part of marketing & PR funds to creating winning products. We were told that a major handset manufacturer did not want to incorporate a three dollar UPC scanner because it would inflate the price of the handset to a number that market would not bear. We do not understand this. We are convinced that vendors have to offer higher margins to their dealers if they have an inferior product and lower functionality.
If you are a vendor producing products and services around wireless, go ahead at full speed developing vertical B2B applications. For m-commerce, location-specific and wireless advertising, have a longer horizon to reach break even point.
If you are an enterprise IT professional, do not delay any of your projects just because market is softening. You can build sound business cases for wireless/mobile projects with today's devices, today's 2G networks and current coverage maps in many cases We hear of hundreds of real-life worthwhile wireless implementations every month. You just have to think smart, design smart and be selective in choosing your wireless applications. Do not just move desktop applications on to wireless handheld devices by content adaptation software that does not recognize the limitations. Make the applications mobile-aware. Effort and cost are worth it. Tomorrow's devices will be better, infrastructure more widespread and applications that match industrial-strength reliability.
Finally, we must tell the network vendor that this industry is not just about 3G and handsets. It is about business applications, productivity improvements and empowering the mobile worker with business information. To do this, you need more than the wireless network and devices.


I enlisted Autodesk Screencast for the job, and recorded the following video I sent to the customer: There are plenty of tools that allow you to record and share videos, but what makes Autodesk Screencast unique is the metadata it captures as you record a video.
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Patronyme

 Léna Plátonos (1951-), pianiste et compositrice grecque.

Toponyme
 Akadimía Plátonos, quartier d'Athènes en Grèce qui tient son origine de l'école fondée par Platon, l'Académie de Platon.

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Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.


Celtic crosses have a solar disc or ring over the center, the place it is said, where Heaven meets Earth. Contemplation of the beautiful intricate woven pattern of the Pewter Elemental Celtic Cross Pendant can lead to reflections of faith in the unending path of the soul. The Elemental Celtic Cross Pendant separates the four cardinal directions into Celtic knots, identifying the elemental aspects of fire water earth and sky as individual entities.
The three-pointed triquetra on the bottom fork represents fate that has not yet come to light. The elemental forces curl back together at the heart of the cross to complete the flow and separation and union.
The Pewter Elemental Celtic Cross Pendant features its finely detailed design on both sides of the pendant. Pewter Elemental Celtic Cross Pendant measures an inch and three-eighths wide (35mm) by almost two inches high (50mm) without the pewter bead on top and comes ready to wear on a long black cord.


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Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica
a Puccini Double Bill
Music by Giacomo Puccini, Librettos by Giovacchino Forzano
October 11 & 12, 7:30 p.m., October 13, 2 p.m.
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The benefits of our current offerings are significant. These programs offer a unique opportunity for CFA to give back to the Commonwealth community, whether it is from expanding knowledge to current teachers, providing arts-based learning for middle and high school students, or providing hands on work experience for our currently enrolled CFA students. There is an enrichment program for everyone who has a love of the arts.
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Dr. Stan Pelkey, Director of the UK School of Music, received a copy of the official resolution in the mail from the Office of the Chief Clerk of the House, Melissa Bybee-Fields several days later.
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The School, along with the UK College of Fine Arts and the UK Alumni Association, will be hosting a pre-concert reception for patrons, family members, supporters, and friends at Carnegie Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m. prior to the concert at Carnegie Hall by the UK Wind Symphony and UK Symphony Orchestra.
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Many areas throughout the university have targeted specific funds for One Day for UK. The College of Fine Arts is raising money for the Student Opportunities Fund to support student travel costs and fees related to quality experiences for them outside the classroom, which might not be available otherwise. The goal is $20,000.
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This report attempts to capture, in part, many of those events and studies of artistic engagement that have occurred in the 2017 -18 academic year. Whether giving a presentation, exhibiting in a gallery show, publishing books and articles, or performing in musical venues around the world, CFA faculty are actively exploring the human condition through their creativity and risk.
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Acclaimed soprano Joanna Mongiardo will be on UK's campus as a visiting lecturer and guest artist in the UK Opera Theatre program February 4 through 9. She will offer a voice masterclass from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. Thursday, February 7, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. The masterclass is open to UK students who have signed up to sing.
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Reuben Kadish: Witness at the University of Kentucky Art Museum
by Jill Conner
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Politics of Vision – Ashley Hunt Brings Degrees of Visibility to UK CFA
He has photographed landscapes encompassing prisons, jails and detention centers in all of America's 50 states and territories, sharing a broad view of the geography and practice of mass incarceration. There is a dichotomy between the sites that cannot be easily seen or recognized, versus their inhabitants who are constantly watched and whose identity is objectified. Although the lives and conditions of prisoners are not immediately visible these compelling images, Hunt counters this through the narrative nature of the work — its text, storytelling and statistics, and dialogue with local
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Musicians, Theorists, and Historians Uncover the Truth in Art
Imagine yourself huddled into a muddy trench on the western front with the rest of your bedraggled platoon. It's been a long, grueling year fighting for your life in a war that seems to have no meaning, but you and your brothers are aiming to lift each other spirits tonight – and perhaps pester the Germans that can certainly hear you across the artillery-ploughed field. With a bit of amateur conducting by a young officer, you all break into a chorus of Land of Hope and Glory to fill the night with song.
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Q: Putting SQL data into HTML table. Table headers are repeating I'm trying to get the data from my mySQL database and put them into a HTML table. After searching a lot on the internet, but I coudn't find code that worked for me.
Currently, I have this code
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error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED);
$user = "root";
$password = "";

$db = mysql_connect('localhost', $user, $password);

if (!$db) {
    die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());
}

$dbname = "btcx2";

          $db_select = mysql_select_db($dbname,$db);
            if (!$db_select) {
                die("Database selection also failed miserably: " . mysql_error());
            }

            $results = mysql_query("SELECT btcaddress, btclink, btcreceived , btctarnsaction, lastdeposit, reg_date, uptodate , btcdoubble FROM btctrans");
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {

            ?>

            Date
            BTC Address
            Amount Deposited
            Amount Returned
            Transaction

                [ <?php echo $row\['reg_date'\]?>
                 <a href="<?php echo $row\['btclink'\]?>"><?php echo $row\['btcaddress'\]?>
                BTC: <?php echo $row\['btcreceived'\]?>
                BTC: <?php echo $row\['btcdoubble'\]?>
                 <?php echo $row\['btctarnsaction'\]?>	][1]

            <?php
        }
        ?>

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Every time when the data is inserted, table headers are repeated with the table data . i used "mysql_connect" and not "mysqli" . please some one fix this help me on this problem.
here is a picture of the error : - http://i.stack.imgur.com/1yOZ3.png

A: You need to put table headers before (out of loop)
Your headers are repeating for every record.
The should come only once.
Corrected code:

  Date
  BTC Address
  Amount Deposited
  Amount Returned
  Transaction

<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
?>

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The idea for this image clearly has its origins in China Mielville's steampunk masterpiece, Perdido Street Station.
In my imagining, an urban density of neon-lit blocks and dwellings, surmounted by a tall temple's spire, has risen beneath the gigantic fossilised skeleton of an ancient beast.
So this image does not truly depict Mielville's vast diverse metropolis, New Crobuzon. where the Ribs jut over Bonetown, a makeshift market of temporary stalls, with scanty brick buildings and abandoned lots edging dirty scrubland. Tools break and cement remains fluid. A baleful influence from the gigantic half-exhumed bones limits development on the gravesite.
This piece started as an A1 size memory of the fallen tree in backlit woodland, drawn in chalk pastel, washed and blotted. Seeking to further disintegrate it, it was wetted and covered in inks and white gouache. Weeks later, I drew the Ribs into the dried-dark image in oil pastel and painted onto this resist with diluted white acrylic. This still exists in that form, awaiting further work. I took a digital image and explored future directions of travel on the iPad in ArtRage.
This is the finished painting built upon the previously-posted under-painting in rose madder, cobalt blue and aurolean. With this, I may have exorcised this image from my mind.
In the experimental drawing workshop, the instruction was "cover a big sheet with chalk pastel".
To build layers, drawing, smearing, wetting, fixing, drawing again.
Others made patterns and abstracts. I still had in my head the image of the fallen tree set against the backlit foliage. I did not particularly wish to create a recognisable landscape piece but it was a start.
I reached a point where I wanted to disintegrate the picture I had started. I ran it under the tap, placed more paper on top and walked on it. Actually, the underlying image was rather resilient.
The print was interesting though.
At home, I rebuilt the picture from scratch, in just three colours, cobalt blue, rose and aurolean.
These sketches are from late September. I went to Siden HIll Wood, still obsessed by light filtering through foliage.
At the top of the ridge was a fallen tree, half hidden in the ground plants. The ground dropped of behind so I was looking into the canopy of the trees on the far descending slope. In these sketches, I struggled to give shape and texture to the torn and decaying wood.
The last image was painted by the side of the path looking out across the undergrowth to the fields beyond.
The fun part of this was drawing with a six inch nail. I simply traced over my earlier field sketch, working into a perspex block. When printing, I smudged some ink back onto the plate, using elements of monotype to build some shadowing. If I wanted, perhaps I could tint this with watercolour or ink.
At its simplest, this is perhaps a way or recycling the contents of my notebooks into finished pieces. If I can be bothered. More interesting was a drypoint print posted by Nancy Farmer a few days ago.
What interests me is to think about how to create original works in this method not trace my old stuff. I have stood in the sleet, drawing using fallen snow and watercolour pencils on disintegrating paper. Actual rain stops play. I wonder whether I can sketch with a nail onto a hard surface in all weathers. What would the resulting print look like? Do other people do this?
Fast and clumsy would describe this. I couldn't at first find a fine gouge to take out clean lines to show the beaks. The cuts on the tail on the right would have worked better the other way round. Amazingly, the stark contrast of black and white still drives a striking image for all its defects, showing the power of this technique. Practice and more time and care will help this.
Below are the field sketches of the warring gannets used as the reference. I begin to see how I might collect the information on contrasts and shapes in the field sketches with the future prints already in mind.
I had another shot at this, trying to abstract from the sketch, putting in a first layer of colour and cutting more finely. Even so, ink filled my gouges and obscured the beak on the left (there was not time to clean this out and make a further print).
In June, I returned from the Seabird Painting Course with a set of ideas that I wanted to develop.
Several artists were making sketches for a purpose, to develop secondary pieces of work in other media such as sculpture or printing. This intent affected how they drew, how they saw and thought.
If you click on this link to Kittie Jones you will see a piece drawn on Bass Rock this summer. As well as drawing conventionally, Kittie did monotypes there on the rock amidst the guano. I love that piece. She describes her thinking here.
I was inspired by this to start learning some printmaking skills. My aim is not so much to produce finished printed pieces, but to draw in the field as if making diagrams for a later abstraction.
I found that we have, in Birmingham, a small cooperative printmaking studio and last Saturday joined an introductory workshop. With expertise and patience, Kerry led us rapidly through three techniques. These are my first attempts at monotypes, working from fast line drawings of gannets on Bass Rock. The middle one, of course, is over-inked, but I still am interested by these textures. The lower piece was one clumsily done, lifting ink like finger painting in reverse. With more care and a better selection of tools, I can see how this technique can result in great images.


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namespace greentop {

Competition::Competition(const std::string& id,
    const std::string& name) :
    id(id),
    name(name) {
}

void Competition::fromJson(const Json::Value& json) {
    if (json.isMember("id")) {
        id = json["id"].asString();
    }
    if (json.isMember("name")) {
        name = json["name"].asString();
    }
}

Json::Value Competition::toJson() const {
    Json::Value json(Json::objectValue);
    if (id != "") {
        json["id"] = id;
    }
    if (name != "") {
        json["name"] = name;
    }
    return json;
}

bool Competition::isValid() const {
    return true;
}

const std::string& Competition::getId() const {
    return id;
}
void Competition::setId(const std::string& id) {
    this->id = id;
}

const std::string& Competition::getName() const {
    return name;
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void Competition::setName(const std::string& name) {
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Review of markets over the first quarter of 2021
Mike Bell
The first quarter of the year was dominated by rising bond yields and a value-led equity market rally. The two key drivers of this performance were the Democrat victory in Georgia at the start of the year, paving the way for massive further US fiscal stimulus, and the success of the vaccine rollout in the US and UK. It is now just over a year since equity markets bottomed and MSCI world has rallied 79% since then and is 18% above its pre-Covid highs and up 5% year to date (ytd). The 10-year US Treasury yield now stands at 1.75%, vs. 0.5% at the low in August and 0.9% at the start of the year.
The rise in bond yields has been closely correlated with significant outperformance for financials and value stocks. Value stocks are up 9.8% ytd compared with 0.3% for growth stocks. Higher commodity prices have also helped value stocks, with oil up 22% and copper up 13% ytd. The common theme driving all these moves has been rising optimism about the outlook for global growth.
Exhibit 1: Asset class and style returns
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, FTSE, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. DM Equities: MSCI World; REITs: FTSE NAREIT Global Real Estate Investment Trusts; Cmdty: Bloomberg Commodity Index; Global Agg: Barclays Global Aggregate; Growth: MSCI World Growth; Value: MSCI World Value; Small cap: MSCI World Small Cap. All indices are total return in US dollars. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Data as of 31 March 2021.
With over 37% of American and 58% of British adults now having received at least one dose of vaccine and the number of people being hospitalised with Covid much lower than at the start of the year, the continued rally in these equity markets makes sense, as investors look ahead to a hopefully sustainable reopening of their economies. Small cap stocks, which tend to be more domestically focused, have performed particularly well, with the Russell 2000 up 12% and the UK FTSE Small Cap index up 9% ytd.
Exhibit 2: World stock market returns
Source: FTSE, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, Standard & Poor's, TOPIX, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. All indices are total return in local currency, except for MSCI Asia ex-Japan and MSCI EM, which are in US dollars. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Data as of 31 March 2021.
But even markets where the vaccine rollout has significantly lagged the UK and US have performed well. Eurozone equities are up 8% and Japanese equities are up 9%, despite these regions having vaccinated only about 11 and 1% of their populations, respectively. Both have been helped by a strong rebound in global goods demand, and financials have benefited from steeper yield curves. Despite low vaccination rates, Japan has seen very few Covid cases, but Europe is seeing cases increase, which could delay the domestic recovery.
Business surveys improved in March, with manufacturing expanding strongly in Europe, the US and UK. The US service sector continued to perform well, but the most notable improvement was in the UK service sector, with businesses noting improving consumer confidence and signs of pent-up demand. The European service sector was the clear laggard.
March also saw the passage of President Biden's bumper stimulus package, worth 9% of US GDP. This has led to upgrades in consensus forecasts for US growth this year, with 7% growth now expected. Biden also doubled his vaccination goal from 100 million to 200 million in his first 100 days.
Some investors have worried that the size of the US stimulus, combined with pent-up savings, could lead to a pickup in inflation, potentially leading the Federal Reserve to tighten policy to an extent that could be damaging for equity markets. However, despite upgrading its growth forecasts for this year and expecting unemployment to decline to 4.5% by the end of this year and 3.5% by the end of 2023, the Fed does not believe inflation will be sustainably above target and still expects not to raise rates before 2024.
Exhibit 3: Fixed income sector returns
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, BofA/Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Economic Research, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Global IL: Barclays Global Inflation-Linked; Euro Gov.: Barclays Euro Aggregate Government; US Treas: Barclays US Aggregate Government - Treasury; Global IG: Barclays Global Aggregate - Corporates; US HY: BofA/Merrill Lynch US HY Constrained; Euro HY: BofA/Merrill Lynch Euro Non-Financial HY Constrained; EM Debt: J.P. Morgan EMBIG. All indices are total return in local currency, except for EM and global indices, which are in US dollars. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Data as of 31 March 2021.
Emerging market equities have had a difficult few weeks after a strong start to the year, ending the quarter up 2%. Chinese equities sold off from mid-February; however, we believe that concerns around moderate policy tightening are overdone. Given the attractive long-term outlook for Asia, we are inclined to view the recent pullback as an opportunity for long-term investors, rather than a reason for significant concern. See our recent article Asia's decade: Getting ahead of the growth opportunity.
Exhibit 4: Fixed income government bond returns
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, Refinitiv Datatsream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. All indices are Bloomberg Barclays benchmark government indices. All indices are total return in local currency, except for global, which is in US dollars. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Data as of 31 March 2021.
Potentially of more concern are the increases in Covid infections in some other parts of emerging markets, such as Brazil and India. However, India may be less disrupted by another wave of infections given its young population, with only 7% of people aged over 65.
Overall, it was a bad quarter for government bonds/fixed income and a good quarter for most equity markets. The stocks that benefited most from Covid have been underperforming since November as the Covid losers have played catch up. We think this trade has further to run and that Treasury yields can still move higher by the end of the year. With equity markets having risen significantly over the last year, the gains from here are likely to be at a slower pace and with some bumps in the road. However, assuming the vaccines are effective at preventing hospitalisation against all variants of the virus, growth should be set to boom as soon as restrictions can be lifted. Against that backdrop, we remain positive on the outlook for equities relative to bonds.
Exhibit 5: Index returns for March 2021
Source: Bloomberg Barclays, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current and future results. Data as of 31 March 2021.
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While lacking the raw excitement of the live 'penalty shoot-out' that was the announcement of the decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Bow Street Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet,1 the initial impression of the decision in Reg. v. Bow Street Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet (No. 3)2 was of a solid majority support for the position that Pinochet was not entitled to immunity in the United Kingdom in respect of the criminal acts he is alleged to have committed. Even as Lord Browne-Wilkinson attempted to explain the intricacies of the decision, the matter of immunity appeared settled and of secondary consideration to the 'new' requirement of double criminality which alone, it seemed, had resulted in the considerable reduction in the list of crimes for which Pinochet could be extradited to Spain. Closer examination of the reasoning of their Lordships, however, quickly dispels that impression and reveals a range of opinions across a wide spectrum. What agreement there was between their Lordships on the matter of Pinochet's immunity from jurisdiction is diverse and often contradictory. In particular, the Lordships who formed the majority were equally divided on the question as to whether Pinochet was acting within his official capacity when carrying out the acts of which he is accused. Given that immunity rationae materiae appears to be available only in respect of official acts, it is difficult to see how the six could have agreed on the fact that Pinochet was not entitled to such immunity. Indeed, given the fact that Lord Goff (dissenting) was of the opinion that the alleged acts were performed in the course of Pinochet's functions as head of state, there was in fact a majority in favour of the prima facie existence of immunity rationae materiae.


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UGC To Ban Single-Use Plastics In Schools and Colleges Across India
Rudrani Kumari
Under the Swachhata Pakhwada 2019 – a 15-day clean-up initiative taken up by the government, which has started from September 1, MHRD and UGC has asked all the colleges and schools to ban the use of plastic within and outside their premises. The decision is in the anticipation of the mass revolution to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the use of single-plastics from 2nd October with an aim to scrap the use of plastic by 2020. University Commission Grants (UGC) has already released orders and guidelines for every schools and college across the country to ban the single-use plastics in the campus.
The guidelines state a systematic ban on the use of any plastic material inside the institution's campus and replace them with environmental friendly substitutes.
To deal with the immediate crisis and ease the process of plastic-free campus, the guidelines state that, "Install necessary alternative facilities like water units to avoid the use of plastic water bottles, and encourage the use of alternative solutions like cloth bags, paper bags, etc, instead of plastic bottles, bags, cover, and other goods on campuses."
The guidelines also stated, "Carry out awareness drives and sensitisation workshops on the harmful impacts of single-use plastics, mandate all students to avoid bringing non-bio-degradable plastic items to the institution, install necessary alternative facilities like water units to avoid the use of plastic," the guidelines state." It has also asked the institutions to encourage students to avoid the use of plastic in their households and neighbourhood and make them aware of its harmful effects on the environment.
According to India Today, "The guidelines also ask the higher education institutions, which have adopted villages under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, to undertake a campaign in their adopted villages till they are converted into 'plastic-free villages' through promoting awareness and encouraging the shift to alternative products."
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When Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) entered the room the Irexit AWAMAHI went nuts, it was like the Alt Right were about to meet their Santa Claus and to be fair Nigel didn't disappoint them. He plays the role of a sophisticated intellectual who moonlights as a champion for the layman very well.
"You were told it was just about trade,
You were told it wouldn't affect your sovereignty
You were told it wouldn't affect your independence"
Farage opened with an attack on the EU institutions playing the same tune of jingoism from his showband years in the UK and the audience were ready to dance.
"How much more humiliating could this country be than for years being run by the Troika?"
Farage's message was very clear, Ireland had lost its financial autonomy and the country was being run by the powers of Europe;
"The indignity, a few years back, of your budget being seen by the German government before it was put to the Dail" he added.
Of course Farage's pronunciation of the Dail as the Dale was irrelevant to his point of foreign occupation of our government offices as this crowd were more incised by the financial burden imposed on this country which Nigel aimed to exploit.
The twisted reality is that an Irexit would solve a lot of problems for the Brexiteers in terms of border and trade and Farage is nothing more than a British conman trying to manipulate the crowd for his own gain. Common scum with a deluded goal of recolonising our country so we can become a net contributor to a failed UK project instead of remaining as part of a stabilising and growing European Union. Imperialists like Nidge would probably see us converting to a diet of potatoes by 2020 so our grain could be exported to England and sold for cheap, but we've already been down that road and it's a path we do not wish to travel again.
Of course it wouldn't be an Alt Right gathering without mentioning how fake news has got everything wrong, attacking overpaid bureaucrats, referring to everyone in power as elitists, draining the swamp rhetoric, and the inevitable glorification of Donald Trump.
Nidge offered the Irexit disciples some encouragement when facing public criticism;
"They will call you all the names under the sun. You will be racists, xenophobes. When our side of the argument talks about all these things they go for the man not the ball".
The Alt Right attendees by in large just want someone in authority to tell them it's ok to be called a racist and Farage was the man willing to charge them all 50p for that privilege. Thus several people were indoctrinated on the spot taking to twitter immediately with the analogy, an analogy which will be spouted out for some time now I imagine.
Farage made it clear to the hall that there is no such thing as bad press provided you are on the front cover, he also spoke to the crowd about mobilising on social media noting Trump's following of 47.6m on Twitter.
Nigel rounded up with a prophetic declaration that once again had his audience on their feet, an absolute farce of an event with most people leaving the hall once he'd exited the stage:
"This European project is not going to work, far from making this a union it has resulted in an East/West split"
A statement more suitable to the Eurovision song contest than to our democratic union of nations.
I always feel bad when people are walking out of the room as an economist is talking but the exception to that rule has to be Cormac Lucey (@CormacLucey) who took to the stage to describe how the "EU would completely emasculate us".
Cormac claimed the Euro has given us a BoomBustBoom cycle and compared it to 'Economic binge eating, economic binge dieting, and economic binge eating' blaming the rise and fall of our economy on cheap interest from Europe. No chance it had anything to do with poor regulation, corrupt politicians and greedy corporate bankers. No it was simply the Euro and if we left Europe the greedy politicians and corrupt bankers wouldn't have had access to the money to begin with, everything makes sense now.
Of course when you're a special advisor to the Tainiste from 2002 to 2007 why would you consider the Irish government to have any blame in boom bust economics.
"One big difference between the North and South is our level of corporation tax" he says
Now the big difference that comes to my mind is the British forces in the North and the lack of said forces in the south, but that's a difference everyone in the room is willing to overcome in order to become friends with their white Christian Knight Nigel.
Cormac's point of course is that we should be protecting our corporation tax rate at all cost, again the moral and ethical ineptitude of collecting billions in European revenue for the sake of protecting these vile corporations and a few token jobs is lost on middle class prats who don't believe in the social welfare system or taxation in general.
"EU sovereignty sounds like the prospect of death to me" Cormac continued in protest to his vision of an "EU Federal Superstate"
Cormac warned that if Ireland lost its corporate tax rate that "the EU will reduce Ireland to a rural backwater, a sort of North Dakota black hole".
Of course if we leave Europe we can be the perfect little tax haven he's always wanted us to be but then we wouldn't have access to the markets the companies who base themselves here need, which is why they came here to do business in the first place, a real conundrum that, or maybe Cormac just doesn't know what he's talking about very much and is fear mongering the crowd into thinking that the European Union is a sinister organisation, probably as he adds comments such as,
"Common Policy is common in name only" & "I profoundly distrust these institutions"


One of my least favorite parts of gardening is battling the deer. It seems that every year just when I think everything is growing great, I find evidence of deer in my garden. This time it was my bulbs that had just sprouted. The deer had eaten my lily's down to just stubs. While this is heartbreaking, unfortunately it's nothing new for me. I live in an area with a lot of wildlife so it just makes sense that the deer will get in my garden and treat it like an all you can eat buffet.
I have tried just about everything to keep deer out of my garden. From fences to scare tactics, I've done it all and it sort of works. The biggest problem with keeping deer out of your garden is that they will adapt rapidly to anything you may try. Yes, many different tactics may work, but nothing that works well works forever.
The most effective deterrents for 4 footed garden pests are physical barriers like fences or netting's. Garden fences should be 8 feet tall to be most effective against deer. Some people have luck with shrub walls if they're very thick and dense.
Floating row covers: these can be placed over low plants to protect them from the deer. This works well to keep plants safe in spring though you may have to remove them as the heat of summer sets in.
Plants with textures deer don't like: woody ornamental grasses and fuzzy lambs ear are some plants deer don't seem to favor. Here is a complete list of Plants Rated By Deer Resistance by Rutgers University.
Plant strong smelling herbs: lavender, patchouli, lemongrass, yarrow, onions, garlic, rosemary, oregano & catmint. The strong scent of these herbs helps block out the yummy scents of the rest of the garden keeping deer away from the garden.
Egg spray: 1 raw egg per 1 quart of water. Blend well then strain out the thick parts before pouring into a spray bottle. The sulfur smell is what repels the deer. The scent is supposedly worse for deer then it is for people, I just wouldn't spray it the day before you're giving a garden tour!
Hot pepper spray: Soak hot pepper flakes in water overnight. Strain and pour into a spray bottle. Spray on foliage. Reapply after it rains. For an even stronger concoction, add a few crushed cloves of garlic to the mixture. I show how I make it here: 8 Tips to keep rabbits out of your garden.
Close to harvest time when you don't want to spray anything on the plants, you could soak a rag in any of these deterrents and hang it in your garden on a short garden flag pole.
Mark the garden with urine. When walking your dog make sure you walk around the garden so he can mark the area. The deer will smell him, think there's a predator nearby and stay away. This works no matter how small your dog is. You could also use human urine so if you have some young boys tell them it's ok to "water" the gardens edge!
You can also purchase coyote or fox urine to apply. I don't recommend this if you have chickens or other livestock since it can also attract coyotes or foxes. If you don't have small animals to worry about though, this is a very popular deer repellent.
Soap: this seems to be a popular method. Some say Irish Spring and others swear by Ivory soap. Whichever one you choose, the important part is to grate the soap and hang it in mesh bags around your garden. I use the small lemon bags from the store, but old pantyhose work well too.
Human hair: hung in mesh bags about 3 feet high, the scent of human hair may deter deer. Ask your hairdresser to save some hair for you on your next visit.
Blood meal powder can be sprinkled around the edges of the garden also to deter deer.
Let the dog out. Between marking his territory and barking at deer, having a dog can help keep deer away. Deer are smart enough to catch on though if you keep your dog in a kennel or on a lead, and they'll just stay away from the dog but not the garden.
Anything with a sensor: sprinklers that are motion activated or lights that suddenly turn on in their faces. Anything that will pop on the second deer walk by can startle the deer and send them scurrying from the garden.
Scare tactics: lights, cd's hanging from fishing line, wind chimes, scarecrows, chimes, radios, hanging scare balls. These all seemed to work for me for awhile, but ended up losing their effectiveness over time.
It can also help to just throw deer netting over plants when they are small. This works especially well in the early spring when there isn't much else for the deer to eat. Leave the netting on as the plant grows a bit to give it a fighting chance.
Keeping deer favorite plants close to the house. I forget where I read this one, but the lily's under one of the bedroom windows gets nibbled almost every year...so it's definitely not true.
Motion lights on your house: Unless the garden is right next to the house, then it might help while people are home and awake. The deer will quickly get used to these. To be effective a motion light should be in the garden and moved often.
You'll rarely find one tactic that will work to keep all the deer out of your garden all the time. To increase your chance of protecting your plants, try doubling or even tripling up on your deer deterrent techniques. You might even want to use different methods on a rotation and change it up every few weeks.
Keep in mind that if deer get hungry enough, nothing but a tall fence is going to keep them from eating from your garden. However in normal conditions and with a bit of vigilance you should be able to keep the deer from doing too much damage to your garden.
Having problems with different types of critters snacking on your garden too? Click here for my other posts on deterring garden pests!
We have a terrible problem with deer eating our vegetables and plants, too. I'm pinning this article for future reference. Thanks!
It's so frustrating, isn't it? Hope this post helps!
Great tips. Thanks for sharing at To Grandmas House We Go. Scheduled to Pinterest too.
Awesome tips! You'll be featured at the To Grandma's House We go link party that opens tomorrow morning, thanks for sharing with us!
You have some great ideas on deer deterrents. Where we live we don't have problems with deer but ground hogs, but my where my sister lives nearby she is constantly evaded by deer. Congratulations on being featured on Homestead blog hop.Pinned & tweeted!


Do you need a referral to see a dermatologist?
A person's skin is the largest organ on their body. So, it is imperative to take meticulous care if changes or concerns arrive. Luckily, some skin conditions can be treated safely from one's home. Other situations, however, require a dermatologist because they specialize in skin health. Dermatologists are doctors who educate, screen and treat various skin issues.
There are a large number of reasons a person may need a dermatologist. Such as if a person has tried the natural or over the counter treatments for acne and it has not worked. A dermatologist can help you get a prescription that could be effective in the treatment of acne. Annual skin examinations are necessary if the patient is high-risk for skin cancer or notice odd changes in the skin. Dermatologists can identify skin cancer in early stages which is vital for successful treatment. Other treatments for things such as eczema, dermatitis, or moles are common things treated by a dermatologist.
A referral is pre-approval required by a primary care physician. Liberty has dermatology professionals who offer examinations with or without a referral. Here are some helpful tips to decide if a referral is necessary before scheduling a dermatology visit.
A primary care physician maintains records of medical treatments and provides conventional care. In most cases, talking to them before seeing an external doctor is a great idea. They can help advise if a specialist is necessary and find the right dermatologist to meet patients needs. Using their particular relationship with patients they may be able to set them up with a physician that accommodates patients needs. That is what makes getting a referral important although not necessarily required.
Does the insurance policy cover it?
Most HMO insurance plans demand a patient see a primary care physician to arrange a referral visit with a specialist covered in the insurance network. Checking the level of coverage one has is essential before choosing to see a dermatologist if avoiding additional costs is significant. The types of specialists that are covered by the insurance plan can be found by reading coverage packet. A patient can also call the insurance company directly to get an explanation of coverage by the insurance plan. Each insurance plan is different , so it is necessary to check paperwork or call to be positive.
A person can choose their own dermatologist without asking for a referral. This method is commonly known as self-referring. If insurance covers self-referring then, dermatologist appointment is covered without approval. Costs to the patient can be higher in this case. During the consultation by the dermatology team, they should estimate the cost of treatment during care. Although, insurance coverage is not a guarantee of payment from the insurance company.
Talking to a primary care physician can give a person time to prepare all the questions they might have for the dermatologist. Time spent waiting for insurance approval can be used wisely. So, the patient can take time to write down any thoughts beforehand. Having a list of questions and an explanation of symptoms can help visit go smoothly.
Specialist report back to the primary care physician who can help coordinate the patient's total healthcare. If other services or specialist are needed the primary doctor can oversee all medical needs excluding emergency.
The patient can avoid potential waitlist by getting pre-approval from the insurance company. Most insurance companies give referrals that a time limit for attached. Which, pushes the patient to the top of the list so they are scheduled care in the time margin provided.
If someone requires liberty dermatology in Missouri then a referral may be unnecessary. It is recommended to check in advance to avoid paying out of pocket.


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Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip, 23 March 2019!
For this week's Lucky Dip, I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out a Ghazal. The topic is up to you!
You may be thinking to yourself, What on earth is a Ghazal poem?
This is a new one form for me, it has tricky rules, but it is one I enjoyed using and plan on using again.
No glance at clock, unheard tick-tock.
While I darn the socks, tick-tock.
Check the clock, chores complete, tick-tock.
Short days, winter knocks, tick-tock.
Take stock, sign my will, tick-tock.
in a chair that rocks, tick-tock.
Hug flock, say goodbye, tick-tock.
Jade Li transcends the rock, tick-tock.
I think you captured the style very well. Poetry certainly tests you.
Thank you, Len. When it said "inline rhyme" I think it means a rhyme in the same line, but looking at examples at poetry.com it seems like the form is all over the place. The site even has one by the US poet laureate and it looks a little sketchy. Next one I will keep the continuing refrain, but try to rhyme within the two lines of the couplet and see what happens. Yes, poetry does put one to the test!
A wonderful journey with time as the focus, the leader, the commander of individual fates… As I re read the rule… at least for MLMM we were only to allude to ourselves. I know I've done this form before. But not being a fan of any forced rhyme I … and I thought for some reason there was a perhaps darker focus I kept mine short. And added the haiku. Perhaps it was a cheat?


Hotelympia the UK's most comprehensive event for the hospitality industry, is set to put world class design at the heart of its offering when it returns to London's ExCeL in 2014 (28th April-1st May).
With a new date in the diary and a brand new four-day format, the show is set to unveil 'Design at Hotelympia' – a show-within-a-show, boasting a dedicated seminar programme and exhibitor line-up befitting of the very best in hospitality interior design. The return of the Hotelympia Design Award and the Design Lounge, alongside a host of new initiatives, will provide yet more highlights.
Content for the design theatre has been developed in partnership with the Society of British and International Design (SBID), the national representative organisation to the European Council of Interior Design and Architecture. There, a line up of high profile speakers – some of the most respected names in the business – will grace the stage to discuss and debate hot-button topics and trends including: design across the pond, Asia, the future of hotel design, cutting edge lighting, first impressions, kitchens, the new consumer and the evolution of new materials.
Making a welcome return to the fold is the Hotelympia Design Award. In 2012, the search was on to find the UK's most luxurious suite, with the opulent, yet quintessentially English Royal Suite at London's Mandarin Oriental taking the spoils. In 2014, the show turns its attention to the UK's best designed new hotel. The award is open to all operators and designers who have launched a hotel within the last two years (since January 2012), this could be a new build, rebrand or retrofit.
Criteria will again be overseen by an expert panel of judges and will take in best use of space, lighting, bedroom design, restaurant and bar interiors, lobbies, corridors and overall impact. Entries are set to open at the end of October. Hotel operators are advised to visit www.hotelympia.com for more details.
One exciting new development for 2014 is Art@Hotelympia – a programme of insightful talks spread across the four days that will focus on emerging art, how to uncover it, how and when to invest, and where best to display it – one not to miss for budding collectors.
2014 will see Hotelympia move to a new four day format and be situated in one extended hall making it even easier for visitors to navigate the attractions without the disruption of the central boulevard. New, dedicated networking hubs will make the Hotelympia show-floor the UK's biggest-ever hotbed of hospitality business activity.


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Macy's Holiday Ambassador: SpongeBob SquarePants
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Macy's Parade & Entertainment Group and Nickelodeon have announced that the Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants will serve as Macy's 2014 Holiday Ambassador.
Kicking off this November, an exclusive SpongeBob talking plush complete with sound chip and Patrick and Plankton finger puppets will be available exclusively in more than 600 full line Macy's stores and Macys.com, as part of the Macy's collectible plush program that runs through December 31.
Adding to the holiday cheer, the first-ever 'square' balloon makes its 11th return to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this November in New York City.
As part of the program, SpongeBob will be featured in holiday collateral at stores including posters and other signage. In addition, there will be a number of in-store events that will feature the character.
At Macy's flagship location at Herald Square in New York City, custom-designed shopping bags featuring SpongeBob will be distributed throughout the holiday season.
A SpongeBob cold-air inflatable will also adorn a marquee entrance to the store and a window on the famed 34th Street side of the department store will be dressed in Bikini Bottom holiday flair with the exclusive plush and other holiday décor.
Floating at 44-feet tall, 41-feet long and 34-feet wide, SpongeBob's helium balloon will travel down New York's most famous Parade route for the eleventh time.
The new design was re-imagined by Nickelodeon and Macy's Parade organizers to give it a fresh, more vivid look.
The balloon structure was also fine-tuned as organizers accomplished an engineering feat, incorporating more than 800 tie lines in the single chamber sphere that intricately pull together SpongeBob's trademark square shape.
Since its launch in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has become one of the most beloved animated characters in TV history. In its 15th year, it is among the top animated programs on television.
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Q: Using ngAnimate with ngRepeat with spliced elements I am working on a proof of concept SPA web app using Angular and SignalR. I want my client app to animate the new items that are inserted into a list using ngAnimate that are generated using ngRepeat.
Before I inserted new items this way:
signalRhub.client.broadcastData = function (data) {
                    $scope.customers.push(data);
                    $scope.$apply();
                };

But now I wanted to insert the new items at the top of the list instead of at the bottom, and remove the last item of the list if the list exceeds five items:
signalRhub.client.broadcastData = function (data) {
                    $scope.customers.splice(0, 0, data);
                    if ($scope.customers.length > 5) { $scope.customers.splice(5, 1); }
                    $scope.$apply();
                };

The view:

        {{customers.customerId}}

        {{customers.appointments[0].appointmentId}}

CSS:
.customerList.ng-enter {
    transition:1s linear all;
    opacity:0;
}
.customerList.ng-enter-active {
    opacity: 1;
}

.customerList.ng-leave-active {
    opacity:0;
}

The problem with this is that ngAnimate is animating the last line until it is spliced out of the list because the list is too long. How do I animate only the new items that are spliced-in the beginning of the list?

A: Make a new class for the first item in the list. Try css3 positional rule to specify first child. Only animate that css class.

A: I have found a way around this problem so I will post it here in case somebody else encounters the same problem.
What I did is simply to create a custom Angular filter, called 'reverse', for enumerating a list using ngRepeat with new entries adding in on top of the list:
controller:
signalRhub.client.broadcastData = function (data) {
                    $scope.customers.push(data);
                    $scope.$apply();
                };

filter:
function (eventsApp) {
        'use strict';
        app.filter('reverse', function () {
            return function (items) {
                return items.slice().reverse();
            };
        });
    });

html:

        {{customers.customerId}}

        {{customers.appointments[0].appointmentId}}

This way it is possible to benefit from the CSS classes generated by ngAnimate.


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Q: not_if not working as expected in bash resource I have written a bash resource as follows:
bash 'initialize_vault' do
  environment (node['vault']['env'])
  code <<-EOH
    vault init > /etc/vault/keys
  EOH
 not_if { vault init | grep 'initialized' }
end

It seems that not_if is not working as expected as bash is executing every single time.
What is correct way to write not_if here?

A: Okay, rewind. not_if has two very different modes. You can pass it a string like not_if "foo bar" which will run the string as a command. You can also give it a Ruby block like not_if { foo('bar') } which will run the block as Ruby code. You've crossed the streams here :)


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Myasthenia Gravis in Pregnancy
Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that can cause weakness and fatigability. It is caused by antibodies that block the acetylcholine receptors at the post-synaptic junction. Its treatment consists mostly of cholinesterase inhibitors and immunosuppresants. Along with other autoimmune diseases, myasthenia gravis occurs frequently in young women of childbearing age and is therefore a challenge to neurologists as well as obstetricians and neonatologists.
Although worsening symptoms and exacerbations can occur in about 1/3 of pregnant patients at any time during their pregnancy, they usually occur during the first trimester.1It is important to note that the patient's clinical state at the beginning of the pregnancy does not predict future exacerbations or remissions during pregnancy.1
In women with mild disease symptoms such as purely ocular or very mild generalized weakness and fatigability, it is advised to avoid the use of immunosuppressive medications while planning a pregnancy. Immunosuppresive medications (i.e. azathioprine) should be stopped or decreased to a minimum if the disease severity is low as these can have adverse effects on the fetus. Although there is very limited data available regarding immunosuppressive medications and myasthenia, these drugs have been studied with other autoimmune diseases such as SLE and IBD. Aside from azathioprine, other immunosuppresants such as cyclosporine, methotrexate, and mycophenolate mofetil should be avoided if possible since the data on these drugs is very limited.1
Pyridostigmine bromide (Mestinon) may be used safely during pregnancy (<600 mg/day).1 However, IV cholinesterase inhibitors should be avoided since they can cause premature labor. Another group of drugs that has little or no risk of teratogenic potential to the fetus are the corticosteroids (i.e. prednisone or prednisolone). The incidece of cleft palate with prednisolone has been estimated at <1%.1
Effects on the Fetus
Infants born to mothers with Myasthenia Gravis can suffer from neonatal myasthenia gravis. This is a transient syndrome that occurs after birth and affects between 10 and 20% of infants born to mothers with myasthenia.1It is caused by the transfer of antibodies from the mother to the infant via the placenta. It is difficult to predict the severity of the syndrome in the infant since it varies from infant to infant. For example, some show only some mild hypotonia where others have respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation. Treatment usually involves anticholinesterase medications and mechanical ventilation until the weakness resolves. In severe cases, plasmapheresis may be considered.
Another possible complication in the infant, although very rare, is arthrogryposis multiplex congenital. It is characterized by joint contractures developing in utero from lack of fetal movement due to the placental transfer of antibodies against the acetylcholinesterase receptors.1
In a study published in Neurology in 2003, the researchers at the Institute of Neurology at the University of Bergen, Norway studied the consequences of myasthenia on pregnancy, delivery, and the newborn. The study was a population based cohort study and it concluded that women with myasthenia have an increase risk of complications during delivery, however, premature rupture of membranes seemed to be the only complication to occur more frequently in the study group compared to the control. Gestational weight, neonatal mortality, and prematurity did not differ between the study and control groups.2
In a recent study published in the European Journal of Neurology in 2009, the authors analyzed two datasets in Taiwan and identified women with myasthenia gravis as the cohort. The study concluded that compared with the control group, there were no statistically significant differences in preterm, low birth weight, small for gestational age, and cesarean deliveries between women who have and those who don't have the disease.3
Ciafaloni E, Massey JM. The management of myasthenia gravis in pregnancy. Seminars in neurology. Mar 2004;24(1):95-100
Hoff JM, Daltveit AK, Gilhus NE. Myasthenia gravis: consequences for pregnancy, delivery, and the newborn. Neurology. Nov 25 2003;61(10):1362-1366
Wen JC, Liu TC, Chen YH, Chen SF, Lin HC, Tsai WC. No increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes for women with myasthenia gravis: a nationwide population-based study. European journal of neurology : the official journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies. Aug 2009;16(8):889-894
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Obama officials toe Bush Administration secrecy line in rendition lawsuit
February 12, 2009 by intelNews 2 Comments
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Last Monday it emerged that the new US Attorney General, Eric H. Holder, ordered "a review of all claims of state secrets used to block lawsuits into warrantless spying on Americans and the treatment of foreign terrorism suspects". US Justice Department spokesperson, Matt Miller, said the directive "will ensure the [state secrets] privilege is not invoked to hide from the American people information about their government's actions that they have a right to know". Despite Mr. Holder's review order, however, the Obama Administration has chosen to retain the previous government's "state secrets" clause to block a lawsuit filed by victims of CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The case is Binyam Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, a Colorado-based Boeing Corporation subcontractor that provided logistical support to the CIA's prisoner transfer scheme. It was originally filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in May of 2007, on behalf of five CIA prisoners who were transported in Morocco, Egypt, Syria and elsewhere, where they were allegedly brutally tortured while legally under the custody of the US government. In February of 2008, the case was dismissed after Bush Administration lawyers argued that the lawsuit "threatened America's national security interests". Encouraged by Eric Holder's recent review order, ACLU lawyers requested at the federal appeals court in San Francisco that the lawsuit be promptly reinstated. However, when the court's judges asked the US Justice Department whether it was prepared to revise its earlier "national security threat" claim, in light of the new Attorney General's order, the Department simply responded that "the government stands by its brief". In reporting on this development, The Washington Post cited an anonymous Justice Department official who confirmed that "the new administration decided the lawsuit involves state secrets that need to be protected". A few days ago, a parallel case launched by Binyam Mohamed in the UK, of which he was a legal resident when he was abducted by the CIA, was dismissed on similar grounds. The two high court judges in charge of the UK case issued a scathing statement, accusing the British government of keeping "powerful evidence" secret after being threatened by Washington that it would "stop sharing intelligence about terrorism with the UK". In a written statement on the US lawsuit, ACLU's Executive Director, Anthony Romero, wrote: "[t]his is not change. This is definitely more of the same […]. If the Obama administration, so early on, is toeing the Bush line, that speaks volumes for where we might end up years from now".
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How could anyone think that extraordinary rendition justifies 'state secrets'?!? How long will the rest of the world tolerate the US speaking out of both sides of its mouth. On the one hand, we are a beacon on the hill. On the other hand–oh, wait–that one just got chopped off by allies in Egypt so the investment banks could continue paying themselves billions. So, I guess there really is just the one hand.
Andrew Yu-Jen Wang says:
Speaking of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder:
Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: "If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded." Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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The corrupt Jewish leaders could have stoned, burned or any number of ways put Christ to death allowed by their law and Pilate would have allowed it. He gave them permission to execute Jesus any way they saw fit (John 18:28-38). The Jews that cried out for his crucifixion knew full well crucifixion was reserved for a lowly, vile, reprehensible person like a rebellious slave, troops who were mutinous, the vilest of criminals and insurrectionists against the state. Roman citizens were exempt from such a death no matter what their crime. Crucifixion was viewed as a means of portraying shame. Therefore only the most despicable were crucified. Under the Mosaic Law, those who were hanged on a tree were cursed. The Jews very own law made it illegal to leave a body hanging overnight, the Jews knew this (Leviticus 18:24-27; Numbers 35:3-34), they wanted the worst for Jesus.
And yet knowing this Jesus Christ chose this as the way he would die. Yes, he chose it, he allowed it, he was the Son of God and it was heaven's plan (Acts 2:23; 1 Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:8) he could have chosen a more merciful death or even called a legion of angels to rescue him and destroy those who hung him there (Matthew 26:53). He laid down his life willingly, no man took his life (John 10:18).
The cross was a line drawn in the sands of eternity. It changed everything. It is recorded on the day Jesus died that the sky became dark, the Earth shook and the veil in the Jewish temple that kept anyone but a designated priest to enter this part of the temple known as the Holy of Holies, was torn in too, from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51). It was a statement by the God who tore it in two that no longer would humans need a priest to represent them, no more would there have to be an animal slain and blood applied to their sins. It was torn from top to bottom so there would be no doubt it was God who did it! He was laid in a borrowed tomb, sealed shut and guarded by Roman soldiers on penalty of death if anyone was allowed to enter. The stone was rolled away supernaturally and he vanished from the death wrappings and was seen alive by over 500 people in twelve different sessions. This also was necessary that he arise from the dead otherwise he would have just been another great teacher that was revered by all while he was alive but still dead.
By his resurrection he proved he was not just another inspired human teacher. It proved he was who he said he was, the Son of God for no man could do this (Romans 1:4). It is also important because according to 1 Corinthians 15:17, 55-57 it proves he has the authority to forgive sins and assure eternal life for us all who believe because he has taken away the curse and sting of death. It was also an open and undisputed defeat over Satan whom we never need fear again because of Him (Colossians 2:15).
The cross effects its ends by destroying one established pattern, the victim's, and creating another pattern, its own. Thus it always has its way. It wins by defeating its opponent and imposing its will upon him. It always dominates. It never compromises, never dickers nor confers, never surrenders a point for the sake of peace. It cares not for peace; it cares only to end its opposition as fast as possible.
We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do–flee it or die upon it. And if we should be so foolhardy as to flee we shall by that act put away the faith of our fathers and make of Christianity something other than it is. Then we shall have left only the empty language of salvation; the power will depart with our departure from the true cross.
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hile visiting San Diego's ComicCon, twelve-year-old Tom Hock, aka Combat Boy, is thrilled to get an invitation to play Monster Realm, a real, live role-playing competition, battling monsters on the other side of an inter dimensional portal. Tom doesn't take the contract's blood-stained signatures and strange wording seriously. He should have. The game is a trap, cutting the players' souls off from their bodies. Only those who win break free. Fighting hordes of monsters, Tom heads toward a confrontation with Tarbarous, the game's final boss, but Tom is not alone as he tries to escape. Something within the game wants out. If it makes its escape, San Diego won't host next year's Comic-Con, because San Diego won't exist.
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On Aug. 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager, shot three men, two of them fatally, during street protests in Kenosha, Wis., over the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer.
Mr. Rittenhouse's trial, which began on Nov. 1, revolved around a central question: Did his actions constitute self-defense under Wisconsin law?
Last week, a jury decided that they did, finding him not guilty on every count against him.
We look at key moments from the trial and at how the verdict was reached.
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Mr. Rittenhouse's acquittal pointed to the wide berth given to defendants who say they acted out of fear.
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42 PWDs receive support from Ayawaso Central Municipal Assembly
Alhaji Quaye (right) presenting items to a beneficiary
A total of 42 Persons With Disability (PWDs) in the Ayawaso Central Municipality on Monday received assorted items as support from the District Assembly Common Fund to enable them become self reliant.
Out of the 42 persons, 31 received deep freezers, laptop, refrigerators, sewing machine, popcorn machine, pepper grinding machine, photo copier machine, poly tank and fufu machine.
Others were supported with cash for school fees and to sell perishable and non- perishable items such as frozen fish, water, soft drink, credit cards, and engine oil.
In a welcome address, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Alhaji Mohammed Quaye said the items worth about GH¢ 100,000 was the third support the assembly had disbursed to a total of 132 PWDs in the municipality.
He said the major aim of the disbursement was to ensure that the beneficiaries were off the streets and to help them secure their daily bread.
According to him, since the programme began, some beneficiaries who hitherto solicited for alms on the streets have vacated those places.
According to the MCE, more PWD applicants were on the cards of the assembly, adding however that the disbursement would be done in phases.
Alhaji Quaye said the era when beneficiaries were given physical funds to purchase their intended request was long gone by except for rare cases because of the incident of misapplication of funds.
Alhaji Quaye said in the present era, the assembly receives the request of the applicants and buys the intended items on their behalf adding that keen monitoring was done in all cases.
He advised the beneficiaries to put the items to good use to justify the investment made in them.
In a brief speech, the chairman of the Social Services Sub-Committee and District Fund Management, Mr Abubakar Alhassan said after the disbursement, the committee would monitor all beneficiaries to ensure value for money.
He said most PWDs have enormous potential and given the necessary support, they would excel and live independent lives.
The committee, he said received 60 applications from PWDs out of which 48 were shortlisted and registered.
He said those registered went through various stages of vetting of which 42 were approved based on criteria such as needs assessment, electoral area and urgency of need.
He mentioned that the assembly would continue to place premium on the welfare of PWD in the municipality.
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United Nations: The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the globe at an unprecedented rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned
Cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed in 77 countries.
But at a press conference, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was probably in many others that had yet to detect it.
Dr Tedros said he was concerned that not enough was being done to tackle the variant.
"Surely, we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our peril. Even if Omicron does cause less severe disease, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems," he said.
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A number of countries have introduced travel bans affecting South Africa and its neighbours following the emergence of Omicron, but this has failed to stop it from spreading around the world.
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Adding words to art is really at the heart of what art journaling is all about. Whether you're spilling your feelings out on your page, using one simple word or using a quote, art journaling is all about adding the words.
I art journaled for a few years before I used my own hand lettering on my pages. What got me over my fear of lettering was taking a class taught by Hope Wallace Karney at besottment.com. You'll see her influence in my lettering, but after a while of practicing, my lettering took on it's own style. The key to my lettering style is very simple: You go over the first lines a second time, letting the spaces and imperfections actually become part of the lettering style.
Besides hand lettering, there are a number of easy ways to get words on your art journal pages. You can type them on your computer, print them out, cut them and adhere them to your page. I gravitate to old typewriter fonts and this summer I finally found an old working typewriter that was inexpensive at a flea market. I love typing words and sentences on old book end paper and then cutting them in strips to put on my page.
Another great way to get words is to cut up old magazines and use the words to form sentences. You can also cut up book pages and use the words you find there to express yourself on your pages. Stickers and letter stamps are also good tools for getting your words on your pages.
And then there is always using letter stamps.
Even though I now do my own hand lettering, I still use all of these other options as well to keep my pages fresh and unique. I will also use combinations of lettering options on my pages. One of my most enjoyable ways of getting words onto a page is to use hand cut letters from painted and pattern papers. (I mentioned this is my post the other day about tips for using old book pages) Simply write a block letter in reverse on the back of the paper and cut it out. Here are a few examples from various journal pages.
I love words and I love getting them on my art pages in whatever way possible!
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These are wonderful ideas, thank you! Congrats on meeting your goal of almost daily postings!
thank you for this post. i have wondered for a while about the lettering class from hope. love your style.
It's a great class, Stacey!
Such excellent advice and gorgeous implementation!
I've used Hope's lettering as well and it's so interesting how it still doesn't look like hers or yours. We are all unique!
Yes we are! And we each need to shine in our own uniqueness. :) Thanks Karen!


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Scientific studies show that extreme weather events like large storms and floods are likely to become more frequent and intense because of climate change. You might wonder whether our cities are built to cope with huge downpours, damaging wind and other extreme weather in Melbourne.
Can our infrastructure sustain phenomena like La Niña? What about the health impacts – are we equipped to deal with mosquitoes and thunderstorm asthma?
'The impacts of climate change on the planet and human health are very significant,' says Robert Faggian, an associate professor of climate change adaptation at Deakin's Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment. But, he says, our cities have some capacity to adapt to changing weather patterns.
How La Niña affects our weather patterns
Owing to several recent wet summers, you might be familiar with the term 'La Niña' – or 'little girl' in Spanish – a climate pattern that describes the cooling of surface-ocean water along the west coast of South America. In Australia, La Niña is shorthand for wet weather in spring and summer.
Assoc. Prof. Faggian says there are links between more intense La Niña events and our changing weather patterns. 'Increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather events over time is associated with climate change,' he says.
After experiencing three La Niña summers in a row, Assoc. Prof. Faggian believes it's unlikely we'll see a fourth consecutive summer of high rainfall, although 'our climate system is complex and is changing' so there are no guarantees.
Looking further ahead, Assoc. Prof. Faggian says the frequency and impact of future La Niña events is uncertain. 'We'll have more La Niña events in the future, but whether we'll have more frequent or multiple La Niña summers is unknown. More research needs to be caried out.'
Adapting to changing weather patterns
Now for the good news: most Australian cities are built with impervious surfaces, which allow water run-off during heavy rain. Assoc. Prof. Faggian believes Melbourne's infrastructure can generally cope with heavy downpours, but still needs to prepare for a more climatically volatile future.
'Melbourne is reasonably well placed right now, because we have a relatively high percentage of parks and gardens, as well as waterways and lakes,' he says. 'This means there are places throughout the city where rainfall can penetrate soil or collect, rather than become flood water.'
Melbourne Water is also making changes to adapt to increasing rainfall. 'They are doing great things to manage our water and have championed concepts like 'water-sensitive urban design', which is an approach that makes water and stormwater a more central component of the planning and design of urban areas,' explains Assoc. Prof. Faggian.
Exploring flood-proof city design
Flooding because of high rainfall and the influence of La Niña is a major consideration of urban design. Even though levees might seem like an obvious solution to the problem of too much water, they can increase flooding in some situations by forcing water higher and causing faster flow, says Assoc. Prof. Faggian.
'When the levee fails, the flooding damage is often worse than it otherwise would have been,' he says. 'It's better to work with nature rather than trying to constrain it.'
Assoc. Prof. Faggian says research into nature-based solutions is being conducted at Deakin University's Centre for Regional and Rural Futures (CeRRF) with a particular focus on the Dutch concept of 'blue-green infrastructure'.
'Blue-green infrastructure uses blue (ponds, lakes and waterways) and green (parks and gardens) landscape elements in an interconnected way to accept flood water, slow its progress and give it somewhere to infiltrate, collect or move such that it does not damage urban areas and infrastructure,' he says.
This approach is used extensively in The Netherlands and other parts of Europe, as well as Japan and the USA.
Assoc. Prof. Faggian says it's likely that Australian cities will adjust their approach to urban design based on the principles of blue-green infrastructure. 'We'll eventually move beyond levees and start to wind back our attempts to surround ourselves with hard engineered solutions that only function according to tightly bound engineering parameters, towards a more nature-centric approach.'
Mitigating the health impacts of rain
Climate change and associated events like flooding and La Niña don't just have an effect on our planet – there are also health impacts to consider.
Increased rainfall and stagnate floodwaters are often associated with an increase in mosquitoes, which increases the risk of mosquito-borne diseases like Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus.
There's also an increased likelihood of a rise in allergy and respiratory problems like longer hay fever seasons and thunderstorm asthma.
'Fortunately, with good design, nature-based solutions can mitigate the health risks. They also bring a range of other benefits by improving biodiversity, creating new recreational spaces and moderating local temperatures. Then there are the related measures, like green roofs and green walls, water harvesting, recycling and reuse, and energy-efficiency, which all create more pleasant, liveable and sustainable cities,' explains Assoc. Prof. Faggian.
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