Possibly the most useful feature of the Revolve dolly system is it's unique rail kit. Each system includes a set of rail clamps which let you turn a set of pipes into a track for the dolly. The 'guide rollers' feature a small wheel that glides underneath the track, locking the dolly securely onto the track setup, and providing smooth and quiet movement.
With the Revolve's rail system you will have a smooth and solid surface to glide across even when you are shooting on rough terrain. The Revolve slider is not limited to a 2 or 4 foot track like most; the track can be made from any length of pipe, pole, or rod- you choose the length that works best for you! We also sell an extendable aluminum track that breaks down into 2' long sections for east travel. See our travel tracks here.
The dolly is compatible with virtually any camera on the market, whether you want to shoot with a DSLR, an iPhone, a GoPro, a camcorder, a point and shoot, etc! Your camera can mount directly to the base of the dolly with the included mounting screws, or you can use a ball head, friction arm, our specialized monopod, or any other mount to give your camera more versatility.


Dr Jengo's World: Mortal Kombat X Brutalities showcased!
Brutalities for Mortal Kombat X have been revealed!
According to the video below, there's going to be over a 100 Brutalities in the game, with some form of requirements needed to perform the Brutality.
Not what I expected of Brutalities, but it still looks like fun.
Lots of details regarding Brutalities and of course, there's several Brutalities shown in the video below!
At 26:12, there's a subtle hint of who Sub-Zero is.. Kung Lao's intro speech. "A dead man walks..".
I'm slowly starting to suspect that this Sub-Zero is actually Bi-Han and not a new person. This character's voice is also deeper and more rugged for Kuai Liang. I'm thinking that Bi-Han was resurrected again and he has become Sub-Zero.
So where's Kuai Liang? In the MKX comics, there's a Sub-Zero as well, who was attacked by the Kamidogu by Kano. I'm guessing that is Kuai Liang.
So what about Noob Saibot? Bi-Han was the original Noob Saibot so maybe they will switch roles now? Kuai Liang becoming Noob Saibot. To be honest, I have no clue and I'm just throwing out guesses.
There's a rumour that we will see a story trailer with reveals of a lot of characters very, very soon.. with some fan sites saying, even as early as tomorrow! I'm going to be looking forward to this!
Edit: Added the Brutalities teaser trailer for those who don't have the time to watch the full video above. You can thank me later, Leon.


Now that spring is here, you may be getting ready to start planting your beautiful vegetable garden. Contrary to popular belief, going organic is not a more expensive way to grow vegetables. It's a better and healthier way to grow fresh vegetables and fruit for your family. Whether you are new to gardening or have lots of experience, there are numerous reasons why you should consider going organic with your garden this year.
Feeding your soil by incorporating organic materials eliminates the need to rely on synthetic chemicals to fertilize your plants. This is much easier than it sounds. It can be done simply by composting. Instead of throwing away items such as vegetable peels, egg shells, coffee grounds or grass clippings, make a nutritious compost from them. This builds up your soil while reducing erosion, feeding your plant while making your soil more drought resistant.
Better soil means it is less prone to harboring fungus and other diseases that can be detrimental to garden plants. It's easier to control weeds and insects when your soil is healthier. By eliminating chemicals from your garden, you're are not only keeping one more chemical out of your family's diet, but you are also preventing contamination to your soil and the local water supply from chemical runoff. Wildlife, such as bees and other beneficial insects, remain safe when using organic gardening methods.
By fortifying your soil with organic gardening methods, your vegetables will taste better and be healthier. A study conducted by the Soil Association found that organically grown vegetables contain higher levels of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin C, Magnesium, Iron and Phosphorous.
Contact the Cherokee Master Gardener Association. Better yet, on May 28th and June 25th, the association will hold spring and summer plant sales where they will showcase locally and organically grown fauna that are native to Georgia and drought tolerant. They will be able to assist you in your plant selection and help with any questions you may have about soil and composting.


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Innsmouth
I've started a new project over on Twitter. It's a story, with some illustrations, about a curious Massachusetts harbour town. It's very obviously, but very, very loosely influenced by the work of H.P. Lovecraft. I've wanted to write something vaguely occultish for a very long time, and I think I have finally found an interesting way to do it. If you're a 2000AD reader (of a certain age) you might remember Luke Kirby and Summer Magic, or if you're a fan of folk horror you might well know the 1973 British film The Wicker Man. Those two things, as much as Lovecraft, are my influences for Innsmouth I really hope you'll join me.
Below is the story so far, as it appeared on Twitter. It's not a continuous narrative, it drops illustrations and other bits of information in-between the story.
The Innsmouth Lights, protecting the New England town of Innsmouth since 1642. Guaranteeing safe passage for vessels all year round, except on those peculiar days when the membrane between this world and others becomes thin and stretched.
Just seven nights remain until the Winter Solstice. Time for the people of Innsmouth to nominate their candidates for King and Queen of the Oceans.
Innsmouth Lightship No 01. Betty Tilley pilots the 01. Keeping the shoals safe for shipping at low tides. She painted the ship in dazzle camouflage last winter, helps avoid unwanted attentions from the depths. If you know what I mean.
The bell on the Black Reef rings loud tonight. The wind is up, and the heavens are hungry.
Dawn brings news of a wreck. Masts prick the shoals like needles in a cushion. Of the crew there is no sign.
The Bishop knocks on every door West of the Rock in Innsmouth tonight, tallying the nominations. East of the Rock, the Cleric does the same. They'll meet at midnight to tally the numbers. Tomorrow the King and the Queen of the Ocean will be announced to the town.
The Bishop and the Cleric add up the votes. Tomorrow the two young townsfolk and their families will be notified.
West of the Rock live the fisherfolk. To the East, the whalers.
The Pelagic. Innsmouth's only Tugboat. Piloted by Robert Coppin, whose mother was a fishwife and whose father was a whaler. He's always felt like he was between people and places.
John Chapman, a whaler's son, and Jennifer Cochrane, a scallop dredger's daughter, will be this year's King and Queen of the sea. Tonight the town, East and West, prepare a feast for their families. Halibut and octopus will be the heart of the festive meal.
Whale irons. Two flued. English. One flued. Toggle. Explosive. Lance. Spade.
It's quiet across the town today. Last night's feast and revelry has left people delicate and moody. On the Black Reef, Degorius Priest unloads timber from his clinker-built skiff. He'll spend half a day there, between tides, building for the solstice ceremony.
Artefact: Granite cephalopod pendant. Probably 17th Century. Found in the footings of the wharf during rebuilding work in 1837.
The Low Ebb.Moses Fletcher inherited the Low Ebb from his father twenty years ago. Since then he's made a living (barely) fishing for cod, ling, and herring off the Far Banks.
The solstice sun creeps over the horizon, weakly illuminating the rooftops of Innsmouth, through a veil of fog.
As noon approaches, all the townsfolk make their way to the harbour wall. They are dressed in their Sunday best, the whalers all wearing their harpoon brooches, the fishers all wearing a pin of the sealamb. They stand in silence looking out toward the shoals.
The King and the Queen of the Ocean walk towards the dock, flanked by their parents. As they reach the harbour a piper plays a mournful tune.
The Queen is wearing a white knitted dress adorned with pearls. On her head sits a gilded shark's jaw crown. The King wears an oiled leather tunic, inlaid with rings of iron. On his head, a nautilus shell trimmed with jet.
John and Jennifer kiss their parents goodbye. John's mother sobs and cries out, her husband holds her tightly. The King and Queen descend the steps of the dock to the waiting rowing boat. The boat is decorated in white shells and pearls, and at the stern a gaff and a harpoon are crossed.
Degorius Priest pushes the boat away from the dock with an oar, and slowly begins to row. The crowds of townsfolk chant softly as the King and Queen make their way to the Black Reef.
Don't you hear the old sea growlinDon't you hear the wind a howlin
Don't you hear the captain pawlinDon't you hear the pilot bawlin
Only one more day hungryOnly one more day an empty net
The King and Queen we give to theeOur two souls a gift for the sea
Let's not hear the old god callinLet's not see the waves a thundrin
The King and Queen we give to thee
The boat reaches the reef as the chanting stops. Degorius helps the children on to the rocks and seats them in the stout wooden thrones he'd built two days earlier. John and Jennifer are quiet and calm. The air and sea as still as oil.
Degorius rows back to shore alone, reaching the harbour just as the town's clock began to strike noon. He looked back out to the reef some three hundred yards away, the King and Queen little more than dots to his ageing eyes.
The townsfolk hold their breath as the bell chimes – ten, eleven, twelve. For a second it seems as if time stops, and then…
The sea behind the reef erupts. A great beast surfaces. It's outline blurred by sea spray and a thrashing of tentacles. Eyes surround a gaping, many-toothed, jaw. Membranous wings shudder and snap. There's no distinction between head and body, just a leathery mass.
The creature searches the reef, its eyes swelling and twisting, never blinking. The King and Queen, paralysed with fear, soaked by the sea, have its attention now. It leans, or possibly the world tilts, until its shadow falls across them.
The townsfolk know what comes next, and almost all of them avert their eyes, wanting to shut out the horror for another half-year. There's a wrenching sound that echoes in rock and bone alike, the creature pauses, its mouth becomes a maw – endless and black.
And then, another noise, a man-made sound. A harpoon launches from the end of the whalers quay. Huge, much larger than those that take down the sperm and fin whales, it arcs across the sky. The creature is oblivious, giving no thought to a threat from mere mammals.
The iron spear, its tip multi-barbed and laden with explosives, strikes the creature in the centre of its middlemost eye. A shriek shreds the air as the creature hurls itself backwards – just as the harpoon detonates. The blast rends the beast in to pieces.
Gelatinous flesh, brittle bone, and fragmented teeth erupt in to the air. Silence falls across Innsmouth, before a deep, pulsating, thrum drowns out the sound of the creature falling back beneath the waves. The sound builds. Louder than the most terrifying thunder.
Cracks appear in the fabric of the town. Tiles fall from roofs, the spire on the church cracks and falls to the ground. The whalers' wharf falls gracelessly in to the sea. As the people of Innsmouth prepare to take cover, another sound gains their attention.
A keening, high pitched whine. It emanates from the Black Reef. Where the creature was, now there was an absence, not simply of the beast, but of anything. And the absence grew larger. An impossible, expanding, sphere of nothingness. People fainted at its wrongness.
Still it grew. Those still standing ran for their lives. A primal need in their very flesh to be wherever the absence wasn't. And still it grew. The sphere expanded quicker now, reaching the town and its people. It swept over the harbour and enveloped the seafront.
The church, the Chapel, the pubs, the boat makers were all subsumed. The membrane of the aberration sped across Innsmouth, accelerating out from where the creature died. Now a sphere over a thousand yards across. All of Innsmouth was consumed.
Still it grew. The wrongness expanded out, miles to sea, embracing the four lighthouses that spread in an arc from the harbour. The village of Bedfordthorpe, Threkeld Farm, and the dairy at the Needles were all vanished in to nothing.
Then, miles in diameter, the sphere paused. It shimmered in the grey light of the solstice sun, its surface slipping from a petrol dappled rainbow, to a nacreous white.
Everything stopped.
The very air paused. Birds stopped still in the air. Waves paused as if made of glass. A fish, caught mid-leap, hung above the sea. Time did not pass.
An eternity could have elapsed, or less than a heartbeat. The sphere vanished, simply ceasing to be. The only evidence of its disappearing the howling of the wind as air rushed in to fill the space it occupied.
Of Innsmouth, no sign remained. A perfect arc of Massachusetts coastline had been eaten by the event, and the sea crashed in to replace the land. Waves heaved back and forth against the virgin shore before settling in to a new arrangement for map-makers to ponder.
The sea forgets quickly and showed no sign of the phenomenon that had robbed New England of a part of it. The air calmed. Birds flew. Fish swam. Waves lapped gently.
Innsmouth was gone.
Time did, or did not pass. The sun and moon raced across the sky, or hung motionless against an unmoving gale.
Eventually, Innsmouth awoke, an island, in a strange and unfamiliar sea.
So ends Chapter One of the telling of Innsmouth. A town once of Massachusetts, now an island in an unfamiliar ocean. A town cleft in two by The Rock. A town of fishers and of whalers. A town beholden to a beast.
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>> free to take the implementation and rework per Philippe's suggestions!
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>>> utilized to reverse the test as well for scanning).
>>> > included in TestFoundation.
>>> > render a human-friendly date.
>>> > Thoughts and comments most welcome, and Happy New Year.


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Home » Hon'ble Governor » Present Governor
Present Governor
Shri Satya Pal Malik
1965-66 - Entered Politics, inspired by the Socialist Ideology of Lohia Ji
1966-67 - Served as the President of Meerut College Students Union
1968-69 - Elected as the President of Students Union of the then Meerut University, now Choudhary Charan Singh University
1974 - Elected as a Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly contesting on the ticket of Bhartiya Kranti Dal from Baghpat Assembly Constituency and appointed as the Party's Chief Whip in the Assembly
1975 - Appointed as the All-India General Secretary of the newly formed 'Lok Dal'
1980 – Nominated as the Member of Rajya Sabha from 'Lok Dal'
1984 - Became a Member of the Indian National Congress (INC)
1986 - As a Member of Indian National Congress, elected to Rajya Sabha and was appointed as the General Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee.
1987 – Agitated over 'The Bofors Scam', resigned from the Rajya Sabha as well as the membership of INC and formed a political party, 'Jan Morcha', which was merged with the Janata Dal in 1988. Later, along with Mr. Vishwanath Pratap Singh, addressed many public meetings all over the country and joined the Jan-Jagran.
1987-91 - Appointed as the Secretary and Spokesperson of 'Janata Dal'
1989 – Elected for Lok Sabha from Aligarh, contesting from Janata Dal Ticket and State Minister for Tourism and Parliamentary Affairs in late V.P. Singh's Government.
2004 – Joined Bharatiya Janata Party and contested from Baghpat Lok Sabha seat
2005-06 – Appointed as the Vice President of Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janta Party
2009 – Appointed as All-India Incharge, Kissan Morcha of Bharatiya Janata Party
2012 - Appointed as the National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 - Imparted important services as the Chairman of Sub-Committee of the 'Manifesto' on agricultural issues before the Lok Sabha election
2014 – Re-appointed as the National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Addressed farmer rallies organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its subsidiary organizations.
2017 - Appointed as the Governor of Bihar and also additional charge of Governor of Orissa
2018 - Took oath as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on 23 August , 2018.
Important Posts Held
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (Baghpat)-
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha, Aligarh)
5. Member of – Panel of Chairman (Rajya Sabha) and Panel of Speakers (Lok Sabha) - 1989-90
6. Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism - April 21, 1990 to November 10, 1990
1. As a member - Panel of Chairman (Rajya Sabha) (1986-88 Panel of Speakers (Lok Sabha) (December, 1989- April, 1990)
General Purposes Committee (24January , 1990),
Business Advisory Committee (May 14, 1990),
Chairman, Joint Sub-Committee on Telecasting of Proceedings of both
Chairman, Committee on Papers laid on the Table and Parliamentary Consultative Committee
1990 to April 26, 90)
Member, Consultative Committee constituted under Punjab State Legislature (Delegation of Powers Act, 1987), Jaunary 29, 1990
Agitations /Movements led or participated prominently
'Student Agitation ' of Western UttarPradesh
'Angrezi Hatao Aandholan '
'J P Aandholan '
Donated One year salary in the aid of Aligarh riot victims
Leading role in creation of Tehsil Badot
Visited the affected areas of Muzaffarnagar roits and helped affected families
Foreign Visits -
Bulgaria, USSR, U.A.E., Singapore, England, Denmark, Sweden, Qatar, South Africa and Turkey
B.Sc (1965-67)- Meerut University
LLB (1968-70)-Meerut University
Diploma in Parliamentary - Affairs (1969-70)- Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, Run by Parliament of India
Other Activities -
In 1969-71, worked as the General Secretary of Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha
Appointed court-member of Aligarh Muslim University on April 19, 1990.
Participated in the 'World Youth Festival', Sofia (Bulgaria), 1968.
Hundreds of articles on agricultural issues published in the journals.
In 1972, for some time remained associated with 'Dinmaan' magazine.
Worked for the protection centres of Child Labourers in Gurgaon while leading the 'Samarpan Trust'.
Birth- July 24, 1946
Father–Sh. Budh Singh
Interests - Studying historical and archaeological subjects, music, photography, special interest in poetry writing


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Cover Story: Cost of living conundrum
Supriya Surendran
The Edge Malaysia
August 15, 2019 15:00 pm +08
This article first appeared in The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on August 5, 2019 - August 11, 2019.
THE country may have seen a historical change in government and made major inroads on political and institutional reforms, but the high cost of living remains a legacy issue that policymakers in neither the past nor the present government have been able to handle.
Economists point to structural issues — income growth that is not keeping pace with rising prices, unaffordable property prices and, most importantly, a weak ringgit — which they say are making the rising cost of living a big obstacle to overcome. Other contributors include an increase in food prices and changing lifestyles.
We take an in-depth look at the factors.
A weak ringgit
Sunway University Business School economics professor Dr Yeah Kim Leng says the ringgit, which is at around 4.13 to the US dollar at present, has depreciated past its pegged value of 3.80 before it was floated in July 2005.
"The ringgit's trade-weighted index is presently at around 12% to 13% below the 2010 level. This is reflective of the quantum of the erosion of purchasing power or the higher cost of imported goods," he tells The Edge.
Yeah estimates the share of imported commodities in private consumption at 14.1% in the 2015 input-output tables published by the Department of Statistics Malaysia, which is relatively unchanged from the 14.5% reading in 2010.
"It therefore contributes a sizeable but not overly large share to the cost of living of the average household."
The surge in property prices, especially in the cities, has not made things any easier. Yeah cites the property market boom from 2011 to 2015, and the continuing, albeit slower, pace of price increase in the subsequent years.
"The knock-on effects on rental rates also contributed to price levels remaining high relative to median income," he says.
The average price of a terraced house in Malaysia rose from RM191,055 in the third quarter of 2010 (3Q2010) to RM360,262 in 3Q2017, an increase of 88% in seven years, according to the Malaysian House Price Index published by the National Property Information Centre.
In the same period, the average price of a high-rise unit climbed 91% to RM334,821.
However, not all assets have seen an increase in prices in the past 10 years or so. For instance, a Perodua Myvi 1.3 premium cost RM49,700 in 2008 but in 2017, a Perodua Myvi 1.3 Premium X was priced at RM46,590 — a decline of 6.3%. As for the Honda City, another middle-class family favourite, the price of the 1.5S model dropped to RM73,836 from RM84,980 in 2009 — down 13% — according to data from the portal, Paul Tan's Automotive News.
The lower car prices have been attributed to the liberalisation of the automotive sector under the New Automotive Policy 2014.
The income dilemma
Academy of Sciences Malaysia Fellow Dr Madeline Berma says the slow growth in income and low wages have resulted in the inability of workers to cope with the rising cost of living.
"Workers can barely afford to meet their basic necessities by earning the minimum wage. What this means is that Malaysians are not earning enough," she says.
The minimum wage in Malaysia is set at RM1,100 nationwide while the urban median monthly salary stood at RM2,260 in 2017.
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs director Laurence Todd says wages have been growing much faster at the top tier than at the bottom tier.
"Although the fastest-growing occupations, which are the professionals, are well paid in Malaysia, a range of middle-skilled and middle-paid occupations are growing at a slower pace, further exacerbating income inequality," he says.
The power that income and currency strength has in influencing purchasing decisions can be illustrated by comparing the prices paid for a grande or medium-sized latte at Starbucks (see chart) across 10 countries in Asia.
For example, the beverage costs RM13.80 in Malaysia or about 0.6% of the average monthly urban income of RM2,260, while across the Causeway, the same beverage is just S$6.60, a mere 0.15% of the average monthly salary of S$4,437 in Singapore.
However, it would be more costly for someone in India or Vietnam to enjoy a Starbucks latte, which costs 1.5% of the average monthly income in Vietnam of VND6.6 million and 2.18% of the average monthly income in India of INR13,562.
Increasing food prices
Food costs constitute 29.5% of the Consumer Price Index weightage, says Professor Datuk Dr M Nasir Shamsudin, an academician at Universiti Putra Malaysia's Faculty of Agriculture.
"Thus, food prices tend to make the largest contribution to the overall increase in inflation and, therefore, the cost of living. This is a common phenomenon in developing economies where the proportion of income spent on food is high."
The food import bill surged from RM4.6 billion in 1990 to RM45.39 billion in 2015.
Disconnect with CPI basket
The inflation rate in Malaysia, measured by the CPI, was 1% last year.
Socio-Economic Research Centre executive director Lee Heng Guie says there is a disconnect between what is reflected by the CPI and the reality of the situation faced by consumers.
"There is a substitution bias as consumers adjust their spending behaviour according to price fluctuations. They shift their consumption to alleviate the impact of any price increase but the CPI does not capture this as it is based on a fixed basket of goods and is only updated every five years," he says, adding that the CPI also does not reflect quality improvement.
"Prices captured by the CPI basket need to be adjusted downwards or upwards to account for the effect of quality improvement.
"The housing element is also undermined in the CPI as it only captures the rental rates but not the cost of owning a house, including the cost of servicing a home mortgage," he points out.
Line between needs and wants blurs
The lifestyle that Malaysians choose to lead also impacts cost-of-living issues. Those who choose to live beyond their means to keep up with the Joneses and maintain a high standard of living find themselves trapped in debt.
"The cost of living is also related to lifestyle. The quality of life has increased for Malaysians, resulting in a change in their lifestyle. Unlike the cost of living, the cost of lifestyle is the expense of keeping up a certain way of life, for example, purchasing items such as the latest mobile phone model, entertainment and holidays," says Berma.
Yeah says the line between "needs and wants" has blurred. "Choices influence the cost of living. A lot of people tend to have higher aspirations for the type of life they want as society today is more integrated, so much so that needs and wants become conflated. This has resulted in people spending beyond their means," he explains.
Many who wish to own luxury items but cannot afford to pay the full amount resort to instalment schemes and become indebted to their credit card providers. That is fine provided they can service their debt on time but there are serious implications if they are unable to do so. This happens more often with the younger generation. Thus, it is not surprising that more than 50% of the clients of Agensi Kaunseling dan Pengurusan Kredit (AKPK) debt management programme (DMP) are below 40 years of age. The DMP is a rehabilitative plan to assist consumers regain financial control.
As at Dec 31 last year, 246,041 Malaysians had enrolled in the DMP, of which 44,925 registered just last year.
Statistics from the Malaysian Department of Insolvency show that 64,632 Malaysians, ranging from 18 to 44 in age, have been declared bankrupt over the last five years.
Tackling the cost of living issue
Dr Shankaran Nambiar, senior research fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, says a holistic approach is needed to target all the different elements that contribute to the rising cost of living.
Handouts, such as the first and second phases of the Bantuan Sara Hidup financial aid programme this year, which cost the government RM2.62 billion, are not a long-term solution.
"Handouts are a temporary solution to the problem; they are not sustainable. In fact, they are a strain on our already overstressed fiscal situation. The country must work towards technology upgrading and a wage system that is productivity-linked, and there must also be a more judicious use of foreign labour," Nambiar says.
Yeah says the supply-side issues of capacity, efficiency and cost, especially with respect to food and energy, need to be addressed.
"Dismantling monopolies and enhancing productivity and efficiency in all sectors of the economy are crucial to keep costs low," he stresses.
Lee opines that policymakers should focus on strategies that improve work incentives as a means of raising the income levels of low-paid employees.
"A better policy for improving wages would instead focus on increasing productivity through lower capital taxes and improving individuals' skills and knowledge to take up higher-paying jobs," he says.
The government's response
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail acknowledges that the ringgit's strength plays a role in determining the cost of living. He says one of the ways to reduce the impact of currency fluctuations is to reduce our dependence on imported goods and services.
"[The ministry] is stepping up efforts to promote local entrepreneurs and convince Malaysian consumers to buy more local goods and services. For example, the ministry has been working closely together with the supermarkets to help local entrepreneurs develop and improve their products with the goal of putting more local goods on the shelves of supermarkets.
"Up to now, the ministry has helped more than 841 local brands and SMEs list 19,842 products in foreign supermarkets, both locally and abroad. This is an ongoing effort and we will strive to increase these numbers," he says.
The government recognises the sentiments of certain quarters that the CPI alone is not an actual reflection of the cost of living.
"As previously announced by myself and the Minister of Finance, the government is working on developing a new index to deliver more accurate readings on the price of goods and the cost of living. It is our hope that this new index will be used alongside the CPI and other indexes to help with policy and decision-making, especially when it comes to efforts to alleviate the cost of living," Saifuddin says in a written response to questions from The Edge.
Other measures taken by the ministry to reduce the cost of living include the launch of the Food Bank initiative in August last year, which aims to channel food surplus from industry players under the ministry's purview, such as supermarkets, restaurants, manufacturers and hotels, to needy families nationwide.
The ministry also launched 332 "inisiatif Kedai Ekonomi Pengguna" or i-KEEP stores nationwide on the premises of its strategic partners. The stores offer up to 197 basic consumer goods, such as sugar, cooking oil, flour, rice and other branded necessities, at prices that are 2% to 20% cheaper than the market rates.
The ministry is also the main secretariat of the National Action Council on Cost of Living, which was activated to address the problem and challenges in various sectors, including housing, education, transport, utility, health and food.
Among the council's initiatives was the establishment of a special task force to carry out a supply chain (food) study to determine elements that contribute to the final retail price of staple food products.
"The results of the study will be announced soon and be used to assist in the formulation of policies and strategies to reduce the cost of living," says Saifuddin.
Though it may be an uphill task for the government to completely eliminate all cost of living issues, it is hoped that the initiatives will help provide some buffer to reduce the burden of working-class Malaysians as they struggle to keep their households afloat (see "Making ends meet in Malaysia").
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The pope has so far refused to respond to allegations made last month that he for years covered up sexual abuse allegations against a prominent US cardinal.
"With people who lack goodwill, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within the family: (there is nothing but) silence. And prayer," Francis said during a service at St Martha's, the boarding house where he stays.
You can't blame Old Nick for everything. He's done his time.
It's nice to see the church tearing itself apart!
big smiles and laughs all round.
What can you expect from the GUTTER press. It's the kind of stuff that FOX feeds its followers.
Funny how critical faculties can be turned off at the flick of a switch.
Francis said that instead of destroying others, Christians must look at themselves and accuse themselves so that they may reflect God's mercy upon others.
You are working on two different levels here. Compare the latter with your current evil empire (there is always one).
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Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please.


Just a few streets away from where I live sits the subject of our focus today. But why is a former windmill in a small Scottish town listed ?
,Although practical photography dates back almost 2 centuries for much of its early days it was in the hand of the inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs. Then as now, we loved having our photo taken. But in the 19th century that meant a trip to a expensive professional photographer.


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Beware The Boy: Chiller Films Brings the Horror Home
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Every psychopath was once a cute little youngster.
The Boy, the stunning new feature from Chiller Films and an Official Selection of SXSW 2015, is now playing in select theaters and available for digital download.
Directed and co-written by Craig William Macneill and co-produced by Elijah Wood, this slow-burn thriller centers on Ted Henley (Jared Breeze), a nine-year-old boy slowly but surely losing his marbles as he lives an isolated existence at the Mountain Vista Motel, a struggling getaway run by his father, John (David Morse). It soon becomes apparent that Ted has no intention of taking over the family business when the time comes; instead, he's developing a budding interest in cold-blooded murder.
The Boy also stars Rainn Wilson (The Office), showing off his range in a dramatic supporting role as a passerby with a secret or two, and Mike Vogel, once seen running from a giant monster in Cloverfield and soon to be seen in Syfy's own Childhood's End.
"A quiet and thoughtful story that is as touching as it is unnerving, The Boy is an unflinching and powerfully poetic examination of the human psyche that never passes judgment on its titular character, even after he's unleashed his inner lunatic on the world." - Heather Wixson, Daily Dead
"The scariest aspect of The Boy is the extent to which Macneill makes it possible to sympathize with the troubled protagonist — even as its haunting final shot hints at the horrors yet to come." - Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"Void of any significant violence and gore, The Boy resides almost entirely in the viewers' psyche until the very end when we first see Ted's inner sociopath emerge from his cocoon in a gloriously twisted fashion that remarkably still maintains a poetic, contemplative undertone and blurs the lines between right and wrong." - Travis Keune, WeAreMovieGeeks
Find out more about The Boy at the film's Official Site.
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Reading a Wikipedia entry about Wikipedia itself seems strange. But where else on the web would an average internet user go for digestible, encyclopedia-style content?
With its entries almost always topping Google search results, Wikipedia receives around 33 billion page views per month, according to studies carried out by thinktank Pew Research in 2016. In line with statistics from the website itself, it also changes at a rate of 1.8 edits per second and the number of new articles per day averages 578.
The multilingual free online encyclopedia was established in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, originally under the name of Nupedia. It is now the fifth most popular website in the world.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. Image courtesy of LinkedIn.
150Sec spoke to one of Wikipedia's original co-founders, Sanger who — despite leaving the project in 2002 — shared his thoughts on online knowledge platforms on today's internet, ahead of this month's Pioneers conference in Austria.
As an open source, Wikipedia can be added to or edited by anyone in the world through knowledge base websites called wikis, which allow users to collaboratively modify content. However, Sanger claims that this has become one of Wikipedia's biggest downfalls.
In its early days, "Wikipedia itself had special challenges," he explained. "One was simply to teach everyone who arrived at the wiki, which was basically a blank bulletin board that could have become whatever we wanted it to become, that we intended to build an encyclopedia. A lot of people didn't seem to know what that meant, or maybe they just didn't care," he said.
"Wikipedia itself had special challenges," Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder.
"Another hurdle was to figure out how to rein in the bad actors so that they did not ruin the project for everyone else. Unfortunately, we never did come up with a good solution for that one," Sanger added.
"Wikipedia is a broken system as a result," he said.
It is this flaw that has earned Wikipedia its reputation as an often untrustworthy source of information, particularly during times of discussion around misinformation and 'fake news,' a term which Sanger finds problematic.
"Almost immediately [the term 'fake news'] began to be applied to merely biased and badly-sourced news by otherwise responsible journalists. The phrase is used as if everyone agreed on which news is "fake" or what counts as "misinformation," when, of course, people differ on precisely what news is reliable and authentic," he pointed out.
This level of subjectivity is also what creates problems with the concept of crowd intelligence, which poses another problem for sites such as Wikipedia, Sanger argues.
Crowd intelligence "represents just one approach to each topic," Sanger told 150Sec.
"This problem was supposed to be solved by Wikipedia's neutrality policy, but Wikipedia has long since decided to turn the other cheek when influential editors make articles speak with one point of view, when they dismiss unpopular views, or when they utterly fail to do justice to alternative approaches to a topic."
The solution to this, Sanger proposes, is through blockchain, which is partly why he joined Everipedia, the world's first blockchain encyclopedia, in 2017.
"The solution to this… is through blockchain"
Born out of the need to broaden the spectrum of opinion and create a more wide-reaching system, Everipedia allows for fairness and mutual agreement before the site is updated, thanks to its blockchain decentralized system, Sanger said.
"Since last July, every edit to Everipedia has had to be approved by the community of IQ token-holders," he told 150Sec. "IQ" is the Everipedia token, or cryptocurrency. If someone uploads nonsense or copyrighted text, we downvote it. This already provides for a layer of editorial oversight that Wikipedia lacks."
Decentralized knowledge sharing and building, he believes, is the future of online encyclopedias.
"We have barely even started to explore what will be possible when there is no centralized control of editorial policy, when editorial decisions are made according to various smart contract-driven systems, and when participation in the system is remunerated by the system itself."
The question, however, remains whether removing the human element and transferring encyclopedic editorial control to blockchain technology will be the solution to the problems Wikipedia has historically faced.
For Sanger, at least, the prospect is "exciting."
Additional reporting by Tamara Davison.
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India with its innumerable customs and traditions is filled with a kind of energy that is unmistakable in all the festivals that are celebrated throughout the year. Diwali the festival of lights is a time to celebrate goodwill and prosperity. There are many legends surrounding this intriguing Indian festival and it is interesting to see how people get busy with arrangements for the beautiful event. This is a time when people clean their houses and also give away stuff that is not required. With just a couple of weeks to go here are some help-hands for cleaning your house for Diwali.
The kitchen! One of the best way to clean the house for Diwali is to start from kitchen. Your culinary delights make the kitchen very greasy and oily so the Kitchen Deep Cleaning service can help you shine cook house.
Appliances need a lot of maintenance and attention so this Diwali check if you need to repair them. Get the chimneys, filters, fridge and electronics cleaned. Exhaust fans are a storehouse of dust and grime, its important don't forget! Similarly service the mixies, toasters, and juicers and microwave ovens and keep a spick and span appliance corner in your kitchen.
Every house has a loft or flooring on top or below the bed. Diwali is the time when one has to revamp these areas. This is like the cache in a computer which if not deleted would slow down the computer. So start clearing these areas to eliminate the dust, web cobs, from your house. Housekeeping Service these days has carved a niche for itself in the domestic markets for providing matchless Living Room Deep Cleaning services.
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Upholstery is the work of cleaning furniture, seats, padding, webbing and fabric or leather cover. Simile to purifying ourselves from within our seating's that is your sofa, chair, porch, couch and other seaters should be cleansed. In the era of tech one can even fetch these service providers online.
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Having a custom home built is not the easiest thing you'll ever do. There will be a lot of people to talk to, and a lot of decisions to make. Many home builders don't realize just how many decisions there are to make, and will become overwhelmed and push dates further and further back until the whole project is delayed by several months while they make decisions. Whether you're doing things primarily on your own or hiring someone to manage the project for you, it's a really smart idea to make as many decisions before hand as possible.
There are many tools you can use for making your decisions. Websites like Pinterest, Houzz, and HGTV are full of design ideas for your new home. Start finding ideas that you like and are actually relevant to the new home that you're building, and use them to make decisions. Use the following as a decision-making checklist for your new home, and make them as soon as possible to keep your project on time. Make a timeline for youself for when decisions need to be made by.
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If you think deciding on a color for one room is hard, just imagine deciding for every room! Decide color schemes for bedrooms and living spaces, the kitchen backsplash, accent walls, and borders. Unless you're buying all new furniture, make sure to match color schemes of existing furniture, other furnishings like lamps and tables, and art pieces. If you're having problems deciding, go with something neutral that you can paint over or jazz up in the future if you'd like.
There are many, many different styles of light fixtures for everything from dining room chandeliers to kitchen recess lighting to bathroom light fixtures. Take into account each and every spot where you'll have to mount a light fixture, and decide what styles you'd like - even for the plain fixtures in hallways. That way, you'll be able to add other design elements, colors, and furnishings that go well with your light fixtures.
Flooring is an extremely important part of your decision process. Flooring can be what really gives rooms different feels. Do you want carpet, or hardwood? Are you ok with laminate to save money? What color and style of tiles do you want in the bathroom? It's important to match flooring color with wall color choices. You wouldn't want bold blue carpet in a room with bold red walls! Pick materials that will last and complement the overall design styles of your home.
Cabinetry is a very big decision. It can give rooms completely different feels, depending on the colors and styles that you choose. The kitchen, is, of course, the main room that you choose cabinets for. The kitchen is probably one of the most fun rooms to design and choose for! But don't forget, there are also possibly cabinets in bathrooms and the laundry room. Think about how much storage you need in those areas, and which cabinet designs will look and feel the best for each area.
It's surprising that there are so many choices for something as simples as drawer and cabinet pulls, but there are. After you've chosen your cabinetry, choose a hardware finish to match. For instance, if you've chosen dark brown cabinets, a lighter chrome finish might look really great. Also consider interior door styles and doorknobs. Don't get overwhelmed by how many doorknob choices there are - just pick something that catches your eye!
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Going through a divorce or separation is never an easy thing. The resources below should help make this process easier for you.
Save time, money and secure yourself and your children when going through a divorce or separation – this checklist ensures that you have all your bases covered and you stay one step ahead at all times!
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Exactly Like You – But More (Cupid's Cafe #2)
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Tagged: Catherine Peace, Cupids Cafe, Exactly Like You, Katherine McIntyre, Landra Graf, Lori Sizemore, my books, True Colors
If you've paid attention to the Cupid's Cafe world, you'll know that it's a multi-author series. Besides my contribution, Landra Graf has written two moving books, Katherine McIntyre has written one powerful story, and Catherine Peace has written an upcoming installment that I'm super hyped to read.
And I have a sequel to Exactly Like You. It's not contracted by our publisher (yet–I'm optimistic!), but I am so in love with these people, y'all. If you've read ELY, you may remember Aiden has a friend who is also a firefighter. His name is Kurt and he is a douchebag. He is not a nice guy, he says really insensitive things, but people responded to him. He was comic relief. Except, at the end of ELY, karma kind of has her way with him.
And so the new story picks up with Kurt. He's gotten a settlement from the city because he can no longer work as a firefighter. He's trying to use that money to open a bar, but he's running low. His friends, guys he met while on the force, are trying to help, but… he's in trouble. And then he gets the invitation to Cupid's Cafe. An answer to his troubles, perhaps?
But who is our heroine? What kind of woman would Kurt fall in love with? I like to call her… slutty Wy. Her name is Wynona Ford. She and her sister are named after famous country music singers. Wy loves to drink and sleep around. She's raised her sister from fifteen. through college, and all she wants is to cut ties and see the world, making glass art as she goes. But her sister isn't quite set for life, and Wynona can't leave now, especially not when a freeloader is taking advantage of her sister. And especially especially not when the dude is her sister's fiancé.
They aren't your typical romance hero and heroine–but that's what Cupid's Cafe is all about. Love stories for people who have given up, who think they don't deserve a happily ever after.
And that's kind of my favorite story to tell. Jagged people, broken people becoming whole and learning to accept love and being loved in return.
I'll keep you updated. Until then, check out all the Cupid's Cafe stories you might've missed.
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using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Http;
using Onyx.Authorization.Models;
using Thinktecture.IdentityModel.WebApi;

namespace Onyx.Authorization.Controllers
{
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    /// Controller for the Regions API endpoint
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    public class RegionsController : ApiController
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Datastore access context
        /// </summary>
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        /// <summary>
        /// Handles initializing shared properties
        /// </summary>
        public RegionsController()
        {
            // initalize our access to th database
            db = new AuthorizationDb();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Provides authorized user with summary of sales by region
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>
        /// An IHttpActionResult containing a collection of
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        /// </returns>
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        {
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                    Id = region.Id,
                    Name = region.Name,
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                    GrossSales = region.GrossSales,
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        {
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YORK CITY LIMITS
York council candidate drops out of race
Tim Stonesifer
Aaron Anderson, a York pastor running for a city council seat on the Democratic ticket, is withdrawing from the race citing a family health issue.
Anderson said on Sunday that he needs time to help his wife recover from spinal cord surgery, something that will prevent his full effort on city council campaigning. He will no longer seek the seat.
"It would be inappropriate for me to engage a task that I cannot fulfill at present," he wrote in an email.
The move leaves only three incumbent Democrats seeking three nominations in the May 21 primary. A Republican and a Libertarian candidate are also running this fall.
Here is the text of Anderson's announcement, in full:
Nearly two weeks ago my wife Gail underwent surgery to remove a spinal tumor that was compressing her spinal cord. To date, her right leg is very week and she has very little awareness of her left leg. She is continuing her work in a rehabilitation hospital to learn again how to walk and do very basic tasks. Due to the nature of a spinal cord injury the prospects of Gail's recovery are uncertain. The doctors and therapists are optimistic but it is clear that she has a long road ahead of her.
I have been unequivocal that my priorities have always been in order: my wife and six children, City Church York where I minister, and finally my public and community involvement.
When I entered the race for a 4-year City Council seat our family situation involved a very different set of circumstances. In light of Gail's surgery and rehabilitation those circumstances have changed drastically.
I have been slow to make any hasty decisions regarding my involvement in a City Council campaign. I have a much clearer sense of what caring for Gail and the kids will look like over the next several months and it is clear that I will will need to pull back from certain activity.
For love of my wife and for the good of our six children, I am withdrawing my name from the race for York City Council. Effective council members need significant time and energy to campaign and once elected to apply themselves to diligently representing the citizens of York City. It would be inappropriate for me to engage a task that I cannot fulfill at present and a disservice to my family, church and to voters.
York City faces numerous challenges in the coming years and it deserves elected officials who are fully engaged in the complex work of navigating our city to peace and prosperity. To that end, we will continue to actively engage and serve as we are able and pray for the City.
I wish all of the remaining City Council candidates my best in their respective campaigns.
Please keep my wife Gail and our family in your thoughts and prayers.
May God bless York City.


The SQUEEZE: Mike Robbins, a former professional baseball player, offers a passionate, but authentic step-by-step program for overcoming negative influences and obstacles. In Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, Robbins encourages the reader to create a "grateful approach to life" attitude by establishing the type of environment that is conducive for success and peace. As a motivational speaker, Robbins links positive thinking to the art of appreciation, intimating that appreciation can change lives, decrease fear, and connect people. Robbins introduces his five principles of appreciation, positive exercises, and steps for implementing appreciation power.
What steps are necessary in using the art of appreciation to connect people?
How will a "grateful approach to life" attitude contribute to personal success?
How can we create an environment that is conducive for success?
About the Author: Mike Robbins is a motivational keynote speaker, seminar leader, and professional coach. Robbins works with Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and schools. Robbins is a former professional baseball player for the Kansas City Royals and a former dot-com sales executive. Robbins is the author of Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken. Robbins completed studies at Stanford University. For more information, visit: http://mike-robbins.com/.


Burning Hot Events was also designed and developed in-house.
Examples of websites that Katherine developed for her employers over her decade-long career are not pictured due to client-confidentiality. However, some examples can be shared privately. She previously held the position of Web Designer at a major domain registrar and web hosting company for 6 years. For 2.5 years, she was a Front-End Web Developer for an employer that produces digital promotions for Fortune 500 Brands. She worked for a 5-month contract with a domain registrar and web development services provider; developing, updating, and troubleshooting corporate and local franchise websites.
"Katherine Amy Vega is a great web developer. There is not one project she has not been able to complete for me. Her rates are also very fair. I highly recommend Kataklizmic Design to anyone looking for great service with any web or photo project."


SLOVAKIA'S biggest city folklore festival, the Cassovia Folkfest in Košice, launched its 33rd edition by setting a new record.
The festival opened on June 28 with an attempt to set a record for the number of people dancing a traditional eastern-Slovak folk dance, called the karička, in one place simultaneously. In total, 444 karička enthusiasts danced together in one giant circle.
The karička encircled the open-air stage in the Main Square, the Immaculata statue and the park near the State Theatre in downtown Košice. Folklore dancers, as well as pupils, pensioners and other volunteers from Košice, Michalovce, Moldava and Bodvou and Valaliky join the local dance, as well as folklore troupes from Poland, Ukraine and Japan.
Vladimír Urban, art director and choreographer of the Slovak folklore ensemble Železiar, coordinated the dancers.
Marián Angelovič of the Book of Slovak records confirmed the new record of 444 people dancing the karička simultaneously for the TASR newswire. In total, 1,500 visitors attended this year's Cassovia Folkfest.


The bin-packing problem is to partition a multiset of n numbers into as few bins of capacity C as possible, such that the sum of the numbers in each bin does not exceed C. We compare two existing algorithms for solving this problem: bin completion (BC) and branch-and-cut-and-price (BCP). We show experimentally that the problem difficulty and dominant algorithm are a function of n, the precision of the input elements and the number of bins in an optimal solution. We describe three improvements to BC which result in a speedup of up to five orders of magnitude as compared to the original BC algorithm. While the current belief is that BCP is the dominant bin-packing algorithm, we show that improved BC is up to five orders of magnitude faster than a state-of-the-art BCP algorithm on problems with relatively few bins. We then explore a closely related problem, the number-partitioning problem, and show that an algorithm based on improved bin packing is up to three orders of magnitude faster than a BCP solver called DIMM which claims to be state of the art. Finally, we show how to use number partitioning to generate difficult bin-packing instances.


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Race Against The Odds
Pukaar News 22/06/2011 10:45:58
Official announcement that Leicester- based companies Anand International Ltd and Daewoo International (Europe) Ltd are official partners and sponsors of the Somalian team for London 2012
A Leicester company is to sponsor the Somali Olympic team, who have to dodge bullets and navigate armed roadblocks to get to training.
Their national stadium has been the scene of suicide bombings and every day they run the 'road of death' – the main thoroughfare through Mogadishu.
Somalia's National Olympic Committee (SNOC) today announces that their Official Partners for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games are Anand International and Daewoo International (Europe), headed by Leicester entrepreneur Kulvinder S Sethi.
Kulvinder, known as Vic Seth, says: 'I am pleased to support the people of Somalia, as humanity is what we believe in and promoting Leicester is our aim.
'Leicester is a vibrant multicultural city, where people live in peace and harmony. We shall do our level best in getting the athletes support in their quest for glory.
'We look forward to receiving the athletes in the UK and wish them good luck and hope they make their country proud of them by winning loads of medals.'
Vic is the former agent of England and Sussex cricketer Monty Panesar who arranged for him to take part in the baton relay during the launch of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. He is a Sikh who was born in India and migrated to Kuwait with his parents when he was very young.
The family business runs under the name Anand International Ltd. founded by Mr Rajwans Singh Anand and Daewoo International Europe which are managed by Jay Anand, Babu Anand, Vic Sethi and the rest of the family.
The family company – distributes premium brand electronics to high street retailers, supermarkets and government organisations – in 1981 and Vic came to live in Britain during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
He says, 'I have been handed the baton of corporate responsibility but whatever I do represents my whole family including my wife Dimple and all our members of staff.
The secret of the success in life is the blessings of the Almighty, elders, parents and well wishers. Also the support of the joint family and the team in the company play a major role towards the success of the companies.
'Most companies would like to sponsor high profile teams of powerful countries, but I believe that there are countries which are more in need of support. The athletes have this one great opportunity to stand, compete and represent their country, but in order to do this they need a helping hand.'
Vic was awarded Businessman of the Year in 2010 by the then Foreign Secretary David Milliband, won the Industry Award in 2008 and received The Pride of India award for his work for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and for other community work around the world. He sits on the boards of The Prince's Trust and Crimestoppers and works for several charities.
His parents educated their children in convent schools as they wanted them to grow up respecting people of every religion. The idea was that the children would adopt the Indian culture at home and living in an Arab country would learn Arabic and about Islam; so sending them to convent school would educate them about Christianity. Vic also says that "I am proud to be the son/son in law of the legend Mr Rajwans Singh Anand, who is well known not just in UK but around the world and his principles keep us going successfully in life"
Anyone who would like to support the Somalian Olympic team can contact Vic by email: vic@vicsethi.com or vic@anand.co.uk.
For further details please log on to http://www.anand.co.uk and http://www.vicsethi.com
Available for interview:
Doran Farah, President of the Somalia National Olympics Committee based in London
A Mohammed (Saneey), board member of the SNOC based in Leicester
Vic Sethi, of Anand International Ltd and Daewoo International (Europe) Ltd
Steve White, whom Vic Sethi has recommended to sit on the board of the SNOC
CIIr Abdul Osman, whom Vic Sethi has recommended to sit on the board of the SNOC.
For further information please contact Pukaar News, Press, on 0845 500 5052 or Vic Seth on 07867523707.
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Sholem Aleichem
Tevye the Milkman
Read by Neville Jason
Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the Milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispensing wisdom from the Talmud laced with his commonsense view of life. Funny, enriching but also moving, this remarkable little Jewish classic will charm all who hear it, especially in the reading by veteran audiobook performer Neville Jason.
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Born in 1934, Neville Jason trained at RADA where he was awarded the diction prize by Sir John Gielgud. His first appearance in the theatre was in Peter Brook's production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He was a member of the Old Vic Company, the English Stage Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Birmingham Repertory Company. In addition, Neville appeared in numerous musicals, including Kiss Me Kate and Irma La Douce.
Television appearances included Maigret, Dr Who, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, Dixon of Dock Green, When the Boat Comes In, Minder, Dempsey and Makepeace, and Windmill Near a Frontier. Amongst his film work was the Bond movie From Russia With Love. He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company three times, and was often heard in radio plays, documentaries and arts programmes.
Neville began his association with Naxos AudioBooks in the very early days of the label and was a prolific contributor to its output. Perhaps most notable was his Remembrance of Things Past by his beloved Proust, but his readings extended to the literary classics of Russia (War and Peace; Evgenii Onegin) and England (The Once and Future King and Far from the Madding Crowd). His work for Naxos was recognised on several occasions: as a director, he won Talkie Awards for Great Expectations and Poets of the Great War; and as a reader, he won AudioFile Earphone Awards for The Captive, Time Regained, The Once and Future King and War and Peace (Best Audiobooks of the Year 2007 and 2009).
Nicolas Soames, former Publisher of Naxos AudioBooks, has fond memories of his time working with Neville. 'Over two decades of close association I had nothing but complete admiration for Neville and his craft as a reader. The sheer range of subjects among the 60 recordings he read for Naxos AudioBooks showed his versatility and his impeccable preparation. However, there is no doubt that he will be remembered particularly for his recordings of Proust, where his urbane, measured, insightful performances, sustained over 120 hours in the unabridged version, have resulted in one of the greatest audiobook landmarks of all time. It truly was a privilege to be involved in this momentous, unmatched achievement.'
Shortly before his death, Neville recorded The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, an idea for audiobook that he himself had suggested. Happily, he was able to hear the edited recording during his final days.
Our sympathy goes to his wife, Gillian, and his family.
Titles read by Neville Jason
Life & Works – Ludwig van Beethoven (unabridged)
Birds in Town and Village (unabridged)
Life & Works – Johannes Brahms (unabridged)
The Captive – Part I (abridged)
The Captive – Part II (abridged)
The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Part 1 (abridged)
Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men (unabridged)
The Essential Remembrance of Things Past (abridged)
Evgenii Onegin (unabridged)
Young Adult Classics – Far From the Madding Crowd (abridged)
Favourite Essays: An Anthology (selections)
Very Short Introductions – Freud (abridged)
The Fugitive (abridged)
The Fugitive (unabridged)
The Guermantes Way Part 1 (abridged)
The History of the Peloponnesian War (abridged)
King Richard III (unabridged)
The Life & Work of Marcel Proust (unabridged)
The Life and Works of Beethoven (unabridged)
The Life and Works of Chopin (unabridged)
The Life and Works of Liszt (unabridged)
Selections from The Lives of the Artists (abridged)
The Name of the Rose (unabridged)
Oedipus (unabridged)
The Periodic Table (unabridged)
Remembrance of Things Past (abridged)
Remembrance of Things Past (complete) (unabridged)
Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I (abridged)
Sodom and Gomorrah – Part II (abridged)
Swann in Love (abridged)
Swann's Way (abridged)
The Sword in the Stone (abridged)
Time Regained (abridged)
Time Regained (unabridged)
The Trial and Death of Socrates (unabridged)
Within a Budding Grove – Part 1 (abridged)
Titles by Sholem Aleichem
Once the American listener gets used to a shtetl dweller with an English accent, Neville Jason makes a fairly decent Tevye, the hapless milk and cheese purveyor of pre-Revolutionary Russia who is "cursed" with a house full of beautiful and strong-willed daughters. He himself tells us the funny/tragic stories of his daughter's various marriages in an already dangerous (for Jews) world being violently yanked into a new century. His tales helped make his creator, Sholem Aleichem, a beloved writer and inspired the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof. While one could wish that Jason had a wider resource of expression and a better appreciation of Aleichem's excruciating irony, he does very well with the charm, humor, and, especially, the heartbreak of the character he portrays.
Y.R., AudioFile
Booklet Notes
When Sholem Aleichem died in New York in 1916, crowds of around 100,000 people attended his funeral and a reading of his work was given to a packed Carnegie Hall. There are monuments to him in Moscow and Kiev, and streets named after him in New York and Tel-Aviv. Today he is generally known, if at all, as the author of the stories on which the musical Fiddler on the Roof is based; but for those fortunate enough to have discovered him, his work is a source of endless pleasure.
Born Solomon (Sholem) Rabinowitz in 1859 in Pereyeslavl, then Russia but now the Ukraine, he first began to publish stories at the age of twenty under the name 'Sholem Aleichem', the Yiddish greeting which means 'Peace be with you'. By the time Tevye the Milkman appeared in 1894 the author's name had already become familiar to readers of newspapers and periodicals, and he went on to become the most admired and beloved of Yiddish writers. Many years later Sholem Aleichem was known in the United States as 'the Jewish Mark Twain' (for reasons which went beyond the fact that both authors wrote under pseudonyms), but when the two finally met Twain graciously responded that he considered himself to be the American Sholem Aleichem.
In Russia, where Jews were denied full citizenship and forced to live in designated areas, anti-Semitism was an accepted fact of life. But the spirit of revolution which was rising in Russian society found its reflection in Jewish political, artistic and literary circles. Sholem Aleichem was part of a movement among Russian Jewish intellectuals which championed Jewish culture, Zionism and the Yiddish language. Hebrew may have been the accepted language for worship and for serious written works, but the everyday language used by ordinary people was Yiddish – and Sholem Aleichem wanted to write for, and about, ordinary people. He wanted to express the courage and spirit with which poor people faced hardship. As he said: 'Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, and a tragedy for the poor.'
The humour in Tevye the Milkman has its roots in the persecution and oppression that Jews were obliged to suffer in Russia; it expresses a spirit that refuses to be crushed by hardship. Although in the first story, 'Tevye Wins a Fortune', Tevye's innate kindness makes him rich, by the next story he has lost it through his trusting nature, and in the following stories his love and care for his family bring him more pain than pleasure. Yet even though he complains bitterly to God about His unfair treatment of him, he never loses the faith which gives him the strength to survive.
The history of the Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia makes depressing reading. They were obliged to live in the Pale of Settlement, excluded from official positions, unfairly taxed, barred from various occupations, restricted in schools and universities, and drafted into the army in disproportionate numbers from the age of twelve to serve a virtual life sentence. Universal anti-Semitism resulted in a widespread belief in the absurd 'blood libel': stories in which Jews murdered Christian children in order to use their blood to bake Passover unleavened bread. The Jews were made scapegoats for revolutionary unrest and government failures, and the authorities either actively supported or turned a blind eye to the pogroms in which they were massacred. Sholem Aleichem himself was present during one such pogrom in Kiev: he witnessed it from the window of a hotel in which he and his family had taken refuge. This unremitting persecution of Jews led to the enormous exodus westward at the turn of the century, when millions settled in England and America.
Sholem Aleichem's descriptions of life in the shtetl have their pictorial equivalent in the paintings of Mark Chagall. It was with considerable insight that the creators of the musical based on the Tevye stories chose for its title the figure of Chagall's fiddler on the roof – a visual image of the indomitable spirit of mankind (here specifically that of the Jewish people) as it rises above oppression and adversity.
Sholem Aleichem wrote for the people, and perhaps he would have been delighted for his work to reach such a vast audience through its being translated into a musical play. Just as Eliza Doolittle from Shaw's Pygmalion and Dolly Levi from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker are familiar to millions more people through their musical alter egos in My Fair Lady and Hello Dolly, so Sholem Aleichem's Tevye has become known to an immeasurably greater public through Fiddler on the Roof.
However, in the transition from page to stage, even if much is gained, something vital is necessarily lost. What is impossible to reproduce is the author's voice: his literary style, his turn of phrase, his wit – in sum, the direct experience of being in his company. But, happily, different versions of any artistic work are able to co-exist. Popular musicals, operas and films do not banish from library shelves the books which inspired them. On the contrary, they inspire new readers. And where an author of genius is concerned, his work is able to transcend barriers of time and language. For Tevye the Milkman we are fortunate to have the translation of Frances and Julius Butwin to bring us the spirit of the original Yiddish.
The enduring success of the Tevye stories on stage, screen and in print is a tribute to the universal appeal of the author's creation. You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate Tevye's battles with poverty, authority, discrimination and a rebellious family. We all know what it is to have troubles. As Sholem Aleichem himself said with characteristic wit: 'No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.'
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The Indian Culinary Word Power
Varsha Venkataraman December 16, 2021
India has a higher population of people speaking English than most of the English speaking countries put together. These include UK, Australia, Canada, The United States, South Africa, and New Zealand. More than one thousand words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) over the years. Every year, at least fifty words are accommodated in the dictionary.
A close look at these words that are incorporated into the dictionary shows over fifteen or more terms associated with Indian cuisine. Indian food, till-date, remains a favourite and most sought out cuisine in the world. It is natural that words such as masala, chutney, tandoor, gulab jamun, jalebi are included in the dictionary. Indian street food is enjoyed by anyone who visits the country. It gives one a true and raw feel of Indian food.
CSP was in conversation with three international chefs, who have visited and worked in India. We posed a couple questions to them on Indian cuisine and the significance of the words added to the OED.
Chef Stephen Doe worked in Mumbai, Shanghai, Hongkong, Tokyo amongst other places. He is currently the Executive Chef at the Marriott Marquis Bangkok. Michael Hogan is currently the Director of F&B in Bangkok and has worked in India, Thailand and Australia. We also spoke to Chef Christine Walker who has been working in the Hospitality and Culinary industry for over 30 years. In 2012, Christine became the Academic Chair of the Chef School. She is currently leading a portfolio of 10 culinary focused programs in cooking, baking and nutrition.
Chef Doe expressed how fortunate he was to have worked with an amazing team in JW Marriott, Mumbai. Although he did not cook Indian food at the hotel, he always prepared a simple meal at home. To him, the aforementioned words have gained attraction. He said, "The outreach and popularity of Indian cuisine is massive, especially in the UK. It is not just the classical authentic dish that is popular. Even the regional, and more lesser known specialties are becoming popular and sought after. Also, as people travel more now, they want authentic taste and dishes. These words are truly global, especially Tandoori and Masala."
Indian and its Curries
When it comes to Indian cuisine, the most popular word that is uttered by all is curry. We wanted to understand what people associate "curry" with, and to what extent is this association authentically Indian. Chef Hogan said, "100% correct! There is nothing more Indian than a mortar and pestle pounding spices including mustard, fennel, cumin, and tamarind pods to flavour food, the CURRY. Southeast Asian countries all have their curry dishes, but in some way you can trace back to the Indian roots. Seeing the migration of the Indian curry to Europe and the west has polarized the curry. Some places like the UK have even invented a few Indian Dishes of their own."
On the other hand, Chef Walker said that she does not think the word curry benefits Indian cuisine. "If you are not educated in food, many people relate curry to a spice mix you can get in a grocery store. Years ago, at George Brown College, we taught a "curry dish" which was curry powder, cooked with onions and garlic. There was no in depth conversation about how big the term "curry" really is.
What is in your masala dabba?
Speaking of curry powder, we were curious to know the different masalas that the chefs used. Garam masala was the prompt reply from Chef Doe. He always has ingredients at home to make his own.
Chef Hogan said, "They are all internationally recognised through the world migration of Indian people and the menus they cooked in their new-found homes. You name a country and you will find Indian populations with that comes their culture and thank God for their food."
The British food Kedgeree is believed to find its roots in our humble khichdi, both in terms of preparation and etymology. Chef Hogan is currently residing in Thailand and says that he is always taken back to Indian cuisine whenever he eats the massaman curry of Southern Thailand. It is a southern Thai dish influenced by Malay and Indian cuisine, said to have been derived from the spices traded by foreigners (the French East-India Company), Cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cumin, bay leaves, nutmeg and mace are the bases of this spice mix.
'Better India' came up with a map of India with different chutneys that belonged to each region. Chef Hogan said he had too many favourites to count but he does love the coconut chutney from the south. Chef Walker has tried the coriander-coconut chutney, and of course mango chutney.
The Indian Way
Apart from food, there are cooking techniques that Indians have developed from centuries ago, such as the famous Tandoor and Dum cooking. Chef Hogan expressed his interest in the preparation of the Hyderabadi Biryani. "I lived in Hyderabad for 2 years and I would eat biryani at least 3-4 times per week. I love to eat this dish and I have cooked it but I'm way off mastering it. The aroma, taste, tender meat, the saffron, everything gives it the amazing appearance. Yoghurt makes the meat tender, lemon tangy, fried onions add a crispy sweet taste, and Hyderabadi spices make it hot.
It is so time consuming to make and you have to cook this dish without walking away. It is cooked with the dum handi, hence the name. But you cannot just dump all the ingredients in. You have to spend time layering the rice, caring for it at every step and placing the ingredients at the right time into the dum." Such is the uniqueness and care Indians provide while cooking food.
Indian Culinary Treasures From The Street
When we speak of Indian food, the wide variety of street food that has reached various doorsteps cannot be ignored. There are more than a hundred different street food delicacies that people enjoy, and have taken back to their home-country. We asked the chefs how OED has contributed to their popularity. Chef Hogan said, "Somewhat, I would say, it is the migration of Indian folk that has popularized the street food dishes. OED would become a point of reference for the curious."
Chef Walker added, "I don't know if the dictionary has contributed much actually. I think it is more likely the power of social media that has made Indian Food so popular."
OED's Influence on Indian Cuisine
The incorporation of Indian and other national culinary terms in the OED is hugely influential according to Chef Hogan. "Indian food has always been popular and will always be. The west has embraced the cuisine as a great dinner option. What are the reasons? I do not think that it has changed at all. It is as popular as ever. If anything, it has just got a whole lot more hip with regional focused restaurants and menu-driven concepts. These include roti houses and tandoor restaurants- Northern, Southern, Vegetarian and even Sect-based outlets.
But the addition of terminologies into the OED brings so much to the understanding of culture. The home cooked meal in an Indian home situated in Sydney, Australia requires the understanding of where and what to buy. This communication comes into play from all concerned along the supply chain." Chef Walker added that it is a step in the right direction. Also, the authentic documentaries on Netflix also play a huge factor in increasing awareness about cuisines and cultures of countries."
He also expressed that to a cooking enthusiast, authentic food is interesting. As a consumer, one wants to taste the real deal. Having channels like the OED or even Netflix documentaries gives you a better understanding of what is and what is not the real deal. He recalled working in Hyderabad around 15 years ago, where a western dish was pasta in tomato sauce. Today, with the global understanding of foods around the world, the game has changed. It has become much more diverse that a mere pasta dish. The same can be said for the understanding of Indian food internationally. There is more to Indian food than curry or butter chicken.
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What remains of this battery is a light observation post with an annex, which is located at the end of the runway of Ostend airport. The battery was equipped with a small anti-aircraft artillery tower, which had the purpose of bringing down aircraft. The battery was armed with six French 155 mm guns. The battery was bombed by the US Air Force, which led to the deaths of ten workers working in the dunes and to a great many serious injuries. After World War II everything except the fire control bunker was demolished. The lower floor of the bunker served as the calculation room and probably also the battery officer's quarters. The upper floor was for observation. Three small buildings were built onto the bunker: a sanitary block and two personnel blocks (one of which is in ruins).


It's nearing the end of 2013. Voting rights have withered and women's rights are being chipped away state by state. While some of the corruption issues that plagued the NYPD in the 1960s (and again in the 1990s) have been sorted out, there's another sort of corruption occurring within the criminal justice system that continues to fly below the radar. And so far, no Detective Durk or Officer Serpico has emerged to blow the whistle.
Sure, articles on prosecutorial misconduct pop up here and there, an occasional law review note will be on point, and the Innocence Project in California released a comprehensive report just a few years ago. But what happens to the prosecutors after publication of these articles? Mostly, we fear, nothing at all.
So LASIS is starting its own investigation, and we're not sure yet what we'll find. But we plan to heed the King in "Alice in Wonderland," who said, "Begin at the beginning…and go on till you come to the end".


A feedback loop model is presented us to study instability phenomena in externally pressurized gas bearings. The main features in the theoretical analysis are the compressibility of the fluid and molecular transit times in the bearing gap. The proposed theory is based upon a separate handling of disturbances due to gap thickness variations and pressure changes. The analysis shows, that the dynamic pressure distribution in the gap plays an important role in the overall bearing stability. Comparisons between theoretical and experimental observations are highlighted; reference is made to Turnblade's stability chart. The proposed analysis gives some additional information with regard to the relative importance of some bearing parameters.
Blondeel EE, Snoeys RR, Devrieze LL. Dynamic Stability of Externally Pressurized Gas Bearings. ASME. J. of Lubrication Tech. 1980;102(4):511-519. doi:10.1115/1.3251588.


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