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An Ancient Disease Is Making A Comeback In Parts Of The USA
Rachel Baxter
Copy Editor & Staff Writer
An 1887 drawing of the leg of a man with scurvy. Wikimedia Commons
Long ago, pirates, explorers, and sailors were plagued by a mysterious disease that caused them to suffer a slow and painful death. Now that disease is making a comeback, in the places you'd least expect.
We now know that the condition, called scurvy, is caused by a lack of vitamin C, which is mainly found in fruits and vegetables.
Early symptoms of the disease include fatigue, nausea, and joint pain, but later on it can cause swollen gums, severe bruising, damaged hair, and bleeding into the joints and muscles. In children, it can affect the bones, causing stunted growth. In the worst cases, scurvy can lead to death from complications like internal hemorrhaging.
Luckily, scurvy is incredibly easy to treat – you just increase the amount of vitamin C in your diet.
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While scurvy was first documented way back in 1550 BCE by the ancient Egyptians, it is perhaps most famous for the effects it had on 18th-century mariners. Long periods at sea meant a lack of fresh fruit and veg to eat, so the disease ravaged pirates, and severely affected the British Royal Navy, whose sailors were much more likely to be killed by diseases like scurvy than through combat. In fact, it's thought that scurvy was the biggest cause of deaths at sea – overtaking violent storms, shipwrecks, battle, and other diseases put together.
The disease has also impacted various explorers, such as those on Robert Falcon Scott's 1901 Discovery expedition to Antarctica, the one prior to the ill-fated 1910 expedition that led to his death. Although Scott was opposed to the slaughter of penguins, his scurvy-ridden team discovered that eating fresh seal and penguin meat could massively improve their symptoms.
Today, scurvy is seen mainly in the developing world, where malnutrition is most common. But scurvy seems to be experiencing a resurgence in countries where people should have access to plenty of vitamin C-rich foods.
This occurrence is explored in a new documentary called Vitamania. Medical doctor Eric Churchill, who practices in Springfield, Massachusetts, and features in the new film, explained that his team alone have diagnosed between 20 and 30 new cases of scurvy over the past six years – a surprisingly high number. But why?
"Many people who have difficulty affording food tend to go for food that is high fat, high calorie, and very filling," Churchill says in the documentary.
"If you have a limited food budget, those are the meals that will fill you up and will satisfy you more than eating fruits and vegetables."
Therefore, those of lower socio-economic status within wealthy countries are the ones being affected by this nutritional disease, something that needs to be addressed.
"Scurvy stands out in our minds as something that is so basic and easy to avoid, and yet these people have ended up falling victim to an illness that simply should not exist in a developed country," Churchill said.
Various species in the animal kingdom – like lemurs and lorises – can produce their own vitamin C, but unfortunately, we can't, so our diet is incredibly important. And it's not just a lack of fruit and veg that can lead to scurvy – the way we cook them can have an effect too. Overcooking vegetables can destroy the vital vitamins within them. Excellent sources of vitamin C include tomatoes, oranges, peppers, guavas, strawberries, and coriander.
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Q: What is meant by the Number of Pages for table in Database? Can anyone help me to understand the concept of pages for table in database...
thank you!

A: Pages... means when you are going to do any update in database you are not updating the original database which reside on the disk, but you are updating its pages.. it is one kind of copy of database, so When you are commit your transaction this page will be replaced with your original database. But you  still have to improve this answer. :)

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The Global Cement and Concrete Association launches presence in India
India/UK: The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched GCCA India. As part of GCCA s strategic partnership with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development the new office, based in Mumbai, will take over the work of the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) India, which formerly served as the sector s sustainability alliance. GCCA India plans to ensure that, from a sustainability angle, innovation in technology and manufacture, and collaboration across the wider built environment, the Indian cement sector can play a key leadership role. It will develop a work program that will focus on the wider global GCCA priorities but with practical application across the Indian built environment.

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Today morning I saw crosses in my dreams. I went to some place n thr every where crosses it was like hill area downward was cemetery wid cross n at d top of d hill church. As m Hindu only. 1st time saw dis in my dream. M nt getting whts it indicate.
Any Christian are in d group.
From morning m thinking of dis only. Is it good or bad signal?


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A social budget is based on the principle of responsibility towards the community, and it takes into consideration all the multiple direct and indirect effects upon the territory of the activity generated, not merely in terms of material wealth, but also ethical values and positive relations with people at home and abroad.
As is well-known, the Rossini Opera Festival produces a notable economical, commercial and touristic income besides enhancing the image of the region, all of which catches and holds public opinion. In fact, the Festival has always been considered a typical case of productive investment in such an immaterial property as music. And yet this subject, though politically correct, conceals
a trap: the idea that, in the field of culture, everything that fails to produce profits and is, therefore, not self-supporting, must belong in the sphere of the superfluous, the hedonistic and, above all, the privately sponsored. Something which we could well do without in difficult times. But this is not the case. Fortunately, there exists a different kind of riches, no less important than the other kind, consisting of immaterial wealth, which the Festival produces and sustains, and which constitutes a patrimony of social values that are spread around the territory until they come to be a part of collective consciousness and of local custom.
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Having written and recorded audio for the below narrative to help people unfamiliar with the mechanics of money circulation in the economy with a visual aid-we'd like to get it animated. Fortunately, their is a great platform called Fiverr that connects creative types with the skills to do the job with people like us. We've sought quotes and while not totally unreasonable they have come back outside of our ability to fund independently.
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What gets you out of bed every morning? Apart from the physical urges, in a word….Money! We need it!
For most of us, money is important as a practical matter. We know that however we earn it in whatever currency, most of what we do either requires money or is spent in pursuit of receiving it in return for goods and services. Money use is about as involuntary in our lives as breathing air.
But do we really understand it? So what do we really know about money? Where does it come from? What gives it value? Who controls it? How does all this affect you and your family?
At Functional Finance.Org, we're focused on helping you make sense of money, finance and all this talk about debt and deficits to understand how the economy works.
To celebrate, I mean illustrate let's throw a party. Besides for decades Federal Reserve Chairman have compared their job to a host taking away the punch bowl before everybody got too drunk on debt.
Now a pool operates as a system with elements similar to our economic system if slightly modified. So let's throw a pool party and instead of water we're going to fill it with money!
Pool ecosystems require features to keep the water clean and fresh. We have two: a Slide and Waterfall. These represent elements that manage the flow of money entering our pool and economic system. The slide represents banking operations what we'll call Bank Money. Financial institutions use monetary policy, credit creation or lending, to add money to the system. This recognition is poorly appreciated but represents the primary function of banks in the economy. To be clear this isn't banks taking deposits and lending them out but rather lending creating deposits. A banks job is to identify good credit risks, people that will pay them back, creating money as loans so consumers can slide into the pool of economic activity to start a business or mostly buy a home.
Our other feature, the waterfall, represents government spending and interest payments or State Money. Spending on education, defense, infrastructure and all those aspects of public spending that facilitate growth and society to function properly.
Now with all that money flooding into the pool from our borrowing and government spending the levels may become unsustainable causing our pool to overflow, possibly break or make for generally unsafe conditions. This mess is in the economic system is inflation and must be managed to maintain price and economic stability. Like pools the economy has drains built in to siphon away excess and are directly linked to the bank money and state money inputs. Those that create also destroy namely through taxes and deleveraging or debt repayments.
Bank loan repayments are separated into two parts: principal and interest. Bank repayments regulate the pool of money by destroying the principal portion and keeping the interest as income- a reward for picking good borrowers.
Modern state money, called fiat money, derives its value from being the only means to pay taxes. Since everyone needs to pay taxes dollars circulate as legal tender for all debts public and private. The government's role as scorekeeper of money also regulate the value and amount of state money with government deficits or surplus equal to the private sector's equivalent to the penny. This means sovereign governments issuing their own currency also manage inflation and are never with or without money in the same way as individuals or households of a state currency.
This descriptive view of how the economy works is based on the operational reality of how funds- money or water in our example-circulate within the economy. Just as democracy and civil rights have evolved over time so has money and our economic system. Now it's our job to understand, use and manage it properly to better support the public interest and invest in a more stable and sustainable future.
Together we can solve real problems and practice economics in the public interest. That's why we started FunctionalFinance.org and why we need your help and support.


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a) Degree in Civil Engineering from a recognized University.
Application fee of Rs.200/-(Non-refundable) is applicable. Fee should be in the form of a crossed Demand Draft (DD) drawn in favor of COCHIN SHIPYARD LIMITED on any Nationalised bank payable at Kochi.
After filling the application in the format as per Annexure-1 given along with this advertisement, applicant is required to affix a recent passport size photograph, sign at the bottom of the application form and send the same by post along with DD (in original) and self-attested copies of all certificates for proof of age, qualifications, mark sheets, experience, disability (if any), caste etc, to The Chief General Manager (HR), Cochin Shipyard Ltd, Perumanoor P.O, Kochi-682015. The envelope containing the application form, self-attested copies of all certificates and DD (in original) should be super scribed on top as "Application to the post of ………………….(indicate name of post) on contract basis".
Last date of receipt of application, self-attested copies of all certificates: 31 March 2018 and DD (in original) by post.


Ampere Analysis - AMC Premiere: AMC's premium channel play?
Commercial broadcast groups around the world are constantly searching for means to diversify revenue streams and escape the highly cyclical TV advertising market – particularly as it is subjected to further pressure caused by falling TV audiences.
To this end, basic cable TV channel AMC - which debuted as premium channel in 1984 but later added advertisements - has launched AMC Premiere, an ad-free offering costing $4.99 per month, available exclusively to cable company Comcast's Xfinity subscriber base, which currently stands at around 22.6m. The service will include ad-free live broadcasts of its primetime shows such as The Walking Dead, plus on-demand access to movie and TV content from AMC's library.
Broadcasters have approached the diversification challenge in a few different ways. Free-to-air broadcaster CBS requires users to watch advertising during live simulcast streams on its subscription All Access service, even if they opt for the $9.99pm 'ad-free' tier. By contrast, AMC's ad-free move will see its content essentially used to develop a new premium channel. The immediate opportunity is potentially large. From Ampere's Q1 2017 US Consumer study, nearly 25% of Comcast's AMC viewers rarely see commercials that they deem relevant – an addressable market of two million households and almost $120m in annual revenue up for grabs.
AMC has been performing well financially in recent periods, even as domestic broadcast audiences wane. AMC reports it made nearly $1bn from advertising in 2016, an increase of over 130% on 2011 - roughly $11 per AMC household. The ad-free Premiere option, by contrast, could generate revenues of as much as $60 per year per subscriber, shared with Comcast. AMC Premiere may also be an opportunity for Comcast to offset increasing carriage costs of AMC channels. AMC has been generating growing revenue from sales of its channels and content, which reached $1.3bn in 2016, up from $0.6bn in 2011.


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Celestial News & Events
An Exotic Solar Eclipse
By: Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson February 3, 2010 0
The third total eclipse of the Sun in three years is coming up on July 11th, when the long, thin finger of the Moon's shadow will again draw its tip across Earth's surface.
During July 11th's "ocean eclipse," the Moon's shadow sweeps across the South Pacific for 2½ hours. Red lines show the fraction of the Sun's diameter covered partially by the Moon; blue lines give the time of mideclipse along the path. Click on the image for a larger version.
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But unlike the spectacles in 2007 and 2008, which offered many possibilities for land-based viewing, the 6,800-mile (11,000-km) path of this eclipse is confined almost exclusively to the South Pacific Ocean. When greatest eclipse occurs, at 19:33:31 Universal Time (3:33:31 p.m. EDT), the duration on the central line is 5 minutes 20 seconds — but at a point hundreds of miles from any land.
Totality begins at sunrise almost 1,200 miles (2,000 km) northeast of New Zealand, at 18:15 UT. Five minutes later the Moon's shadow makes the first of its very few appearances on terra firma. The island of Mangaia is a mountainous volcanic remnant in the Cook Islands just south of the eclipse path's central line. The duration of totality here is 3 minutes 18 seconds, with the Sun 14° above the horizon.
The northern edge of the shadow's umbra (zone of totality) just misses Tahiti in French Polynesia, passing a tantalizingly close 12 miles (20 km) south of the island. Just to the east, several atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago are more fortunate. Tiny Haraiki and Tauere are deep in the eclipse path, but neither has facilities of any kind. On slightly larger Hikueru, which has a territorial airport, totality lasts 4 minutes 35 seconds.
Astronomical Tours is offering an eclipse expedition to Easter Island.
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Nearly 40 minutes later and 600 miles (1,000 km) farther southeast, totality crosses Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited locations. The landscape is dominated by three extinct volcanoes and 887 mysterious stone statues carved a thousand years ago by the thriving inhabitants at the time. From the capital, Hanga Roa, the Sun's altitude is 40° during the 4 minutes 41 seconds of total eclipse. Tourism is Easter Island's main industry, and the eclipse will bring record numbers to this remote destination.
The shadow then must travel 2,300 miles (3,700 km) to reach its final landfall in extreme southern South America. Chile's mountainous region has no suitable viewing sites, but Argentina's tourist resort of El Calafate offers promise as the final opportunity before the shadow's umbra lifts from Earth at sunset and returns to space.
Weather Prospects
The eclipse fortunately occurs during the "dry" season, though this is a relative term at best for tropical and sub-tropical locations. Satellite cloud-cover data show that the sunniest spots lie at the lowest latitudes, favoring French Polynesia and the Tuamotu Archipelago.
Mangaia lies within the subtropical high-pressure belt circling the globe at 30° south latitude, but it has the misfortune to be close to the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ), where winds from the eastern and western Pacific converge. This gives Mangaia an average cloudiness of 63% and many rainy days.
Tahiti's clear-sky prospects are better, with average cloudiness at Papeete's airport a promising 48% and with 68% of the maximum possible sunshine (that is, 68% of daytime is sunlit). The surrounding waters are less cloudy, so prospects on the central line south of the island will be even better. The added advantage of mobility that a ship provides makes cruise ships off Tahiti the venue of choice for this eclipse.
Weather prospects for July 2010's total solar eclipse aren't ideal, as this map of average cloudiness shows. The most favorable locations are the islands of French Polynesia that lie on and near the path of totality. Click on the image for a larger version.
Jay Anderson
At Hao, which is east of Tahiti and near the southern edge of the path, land-based observations show the average cloudiness to be just over 50%, and satellite observations are even more favorable.
Easter Island's more southerly latitude dims its weather prospects. The island is often enveloped in frontal systems sweeping up from the Southern Hemisphere's "Roaring Forties" latitudes. Average cloud cover is 69%, and the percent of possible sunshine is just 50%. The island's volcanoes are important cloud-makers on their leeward sides, so observers are advised to select coastal sites exposed to the onshore wind.
In the South American mountains, cloud-cover prospects in the El Calafate region are reasonable with an average value of 54%. However, the low altitude of the Sun makes this a challenging venue. Low clouds are frequent during this season, probably generated in large part by the local lakes. Finding a site upwind from the lakes may make the difference in successfully viewing the total eclipse suspended just above the distant Andes peaks.
While the 2010 eclipse offers challenges to prospective eclipse viewers, it will be the last opportunity to observe the Sun's corona for more than two years. The next total eclipse occurs November 13–14, 2012 — visible at sunrise from northern Australia but, again, tracking mostly across the South Pacific.
NASA's Solar Eclipse Bulletin for 2010 contains detailed local predictions, tables, maps, and weather prospects. You can also obtain a free copy of the 77-page book via email request.
Astronomer Fred Espenak, a.k.a. "Mr. Eclipse", coauthored the recently published Totality: Eclipses of the Sun (3rd edition) with Mark Littmann and the late Ken Willcox. Meteorologist Jay Anderson (University of Manitoba) has made eclipse weather forecasts since 1979 and has journeyed worldwide to confirm his predictions in person.
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Q: Fancy header and footer in Latex? How can I change the style of my header/footer from something like this :

I want to replace that line with the following line :

It doesn't actually matter the colour as long as we will have a gradient on a specific colour, I actually want the same style for the footer, Thanks you everybody

A: This is a quick 'n' dirty example based on fancyhead gradient doesn't match bg colour. To be honest, I do not fully understand the code. 0.01 is the thickness  (in cm) on the headrule and 14.98 is the length (in cm).
The important part is that you can re-define fancyhdr's \headrule
command with some tikz magic.
At least, you can use the code as a basis for your own experiments and as a basis for a potential follow-up question (see here).
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\usepackage{tikz}

% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/241738
\renewcommand{\headrule}{%
\vskip-\baselineskip\vskip4pt
\hfill\begin{tikzpicture}
    \shade[left color=white, right color=blue, dashed] (0,0) rectangle (14.98,0.01);
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}


I love coffee and sweepstakes. Without caffiene, I couldn't enter sweepstakes online, lol!
This sweepstakes today is a wonderful find. You can enter to win a Keurig K55 Single Brew Coffee Maker, Yeah!
I wish all of you luck, I know that I could use an update on my Keurig. Isn't our sweepstakes hobby great?


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Lotus Cleaning is proud to call Calgary Alberta home, and it is our goal to delight our customers by ensuring that your home remains clean and free of germs and toxins. You will not always see it, but daily traffic on your carpets leaves behind dirt and grime that, when they build up, could leave a lasting effect on your health.
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Dualie member Colin has prepared a well organized ride pack complete with tools and first aid.
Julie Angell compiled an extensive list of goodies to bring with you on long rides. This list comes from years of experience and is well worth a look.


I have a license for TeeChart .NET 2018 Professional.
I'm trying to create a demo WinForms project (with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and .NET 4.0) which uses TeeChart .NET 4.2018.10.1.
added TeeChart .NET for Professional to a Windows Form design surface as described in "WinForms" section (https://www.steema.com/img/content/cstu ... -21-12.gif). After that step licenses.licx file was added automatically to project's Properties folder.
added the TeeChart.licenses file to a WinForm project for runtime licensing as described in "WinForms" section (https://www.steema.com/img/content/cstu ... -39-20.gif).
So what's the problem and how to solve it?
Where I can download that TeeChart for .NET Examples (there is no such demo inside steema.teechart.net.4.2018.10.1.zip)?
You can unzip this steema.teechart.net.4.2018.11.27.nupkg using a zip file manager (I use 7zip) and TeeChart.dll can be found under the lib\net20 folder. Following the steps you mention and creating a new project using this new TeeChart.dll should give you a working example.
The example you point to is the 'Feature Demo'.
I've obtained TeeChart.dll from lib\net20 folder of steema.teechart.net.4.2018.11.27.nupkg, added TeeChart components from that library to Visual Studio ToolBox and after that I've drag-n-dropped TChart component on my Form.
BTW: I have old version of TeeChart V2 Pro installed on my PC (Steema.TeeChart.TChart, TeeChart, Version=2.0.2795.29268, Culture=neutral, PublickKeyTolken=9c8126276c77bdb7).
Long time ago i've installed it via TeeChartNET2UpdateBuild(2.0.2795.29268).exe and registered it via TeeRegV2.exe utility.
Could it be the source of the problem? Do I need to unregister that old version somehow (TeeRegV2.exe doesn't have such functionality)?
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I don't know what the source of the problem is. It does seem as though there's a problem reading the registry.
Rather than adding TeeChart.dll to your project at designtime, what happens when you create a new project and try to instantiate TeeChart at runtime? You can do this by adding a reference to TeeChart.dll to your project, creating a new instance of TChart and adding it to the Windows Form. Does this work for you?
It does seem as though there's a problem reading the registry.
Well, all other third-party components that we use in our project work correct..
Creating TChart programmatically at runtime works correct. Adding TeeChart.licenses to the project removes watermark.
But what's wrong with design-time approach?
UPDATE: I've tried to perform the same steps in Visual Studio 2018 and my project was build succesfully. And after that I was even able to edit and compile that project with Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
So looks like that projects which use TeeChart 2018 should be at least created in contemporary IDE's.
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So looks like that projects which use TeeChart 2018 should be st least created in contemporary IDE's.
Well, I'm glad to see it's now working for you. I will run a test in a clean VM with VS2010 SP1 to see if I can reproduce your issue here.
One more question, please: steema.teechart.net.4.2018.11.27.nupkg contains only TeeChart.dll in lib\net20 folder - where can I obtain documentanion file (TeeChart.xml)?
As I can see that is online documentation.
But I want to have XML-tags in Visual Studio IntelliSence - is it possible?
If not - is there offline (.CHM) help file available?
Please find the TeeChart.xml file attached.
If offline documentation (TeeChart.CHM or something similar) also exists - it will be greatly appreciated. Because online documentation (http://www.teechart.net/docs/TeeChartNET/) lacks search-by-keyword functionality.
I've done this and have been able to reproduce your issue - in my case the resolution is to change the target .NET Framework, as by default in VS2010 this is set to 'Client Profile'. Using the full .NET Framework version, not the Client Profile version, the licenses.licx error disappears.
You will have already noticed when you unpacked the steema.teechart.net.4.2018.11.27.nupkg file that there is a stand-alone TeeChart_Pro_Net_Tutorials.chm shipped with it. This is the only stand-alone documentation file currently available.
Yes, changing target framework from .NET 4.0 Client Profile to full .NET 4.0 solves the problem for me as well.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is a bit outdated, but you probably should make a remark about this situation somewhere (maybe directly at https://www.steema.com/linkIn/tnetpro_startup in How to add TeeChart .NET for Professional to a Windows Form design surface for WinForms section).
Hope to see offline documentation in future versions.
Note there is a search option at the top of the page for TeeChart online help (http://www.teechart.net/docs/TeeChartNET/). It may not be quite what you want but it does offer up topics from the Steema library, examples and tutorial pages. Anyway, your comment is noted; that it would be useful to include the library help chm in the nuget package.


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Alas, "Babylon"
Note: Spoilers follow for The X-Files episode "Babylon."
By now, I've more or less resigned myself to the realization that the tenth season of The X-Files will consist of five forgettable episodes and one minor masterpiece. Since the latter is the first true Darin Morgan casefile in close to twenty years, the whole thing still shakes out as a pretty good deal, even if the ratio of good, bad, and mediocre is a little worse than I'd expected. But an installment like this week's "Babylon" is particularly infuriating because its premise and early moments are so promising, but get systematically squandered by a writer—in this case Chris Carter himself—who seems to have no idea what to do with the opportunities that the revival presented. The first image we see is that of a Muslim man in his twenties on a prayer rug, framed at floor level, and it instantly got my hopes up: this is territory that the original run of the series rarely, if ever, explored, and it's a rich trove of potential ideas. Even when the young man promptly blows himself up with a friend in a suicide bombing in Texas, I allowed myself to think that the show had something else up its sleeve. It does, but not in a good way: the rest of the episode is a mess, with a mishmash of tones, goofy music cues, dialogue that alternates between frenetic and painfully obvious, an extended hallucination scene, and a weird supporting turn from the gifted Lauren Ambrose, all of which plays even worse than it should because of the pall cast by the opening scene. (Although seeing Mulder in a cowboy hat allowed me to recognize how David Duchovny turned into Fred Ward so gradually that I didn't even notice.)
In short, it's not much worth discussing, except for the general observation that if you're going to use an act of domestic terrorism as a plot device, you'd better be prepared to justify it with some great television. (Even Quantico did a better job of moving rapidly in its own ridiculous direction after an opening terror attack. And the fact that I'm getting nostalgic for Quantico, of all shows, only highlights how disappointing much of this season has been.) But it raises the related issue, which seems worth exploring, of the degree to which The X-Files benefited from the accident of its impeccable historical timing. The series ran for most of the nineties, a decade that wasn't devoid of partisan politics, but of a kind that tended to focus more on a little blue dress than on Islamic extremism. It had its share of dislocating moments—including the Oklahoma City bombing, which was uncomfortably evoked, with characteristic clumsiness, in The X-Files: Fight the Future—but none that recentered the entire culture in the way that September 11 did. For the most part, The X-Files was free to operate on a separate playing field without much reference to current events, a situation which might not have been the case if its premiere date had been shifted even five years forward or backward. It came after the Cold War and before the war on terror, leaving it with the narrative equivalent of a blank canvas to fill with a cast of imaginary monsters.
Not surprisingly, Chris Carter has stated elsewhere that the show benefited from occurring before the fall of the World Trade Center, which inaugurated a period, however temporary it turned out to be, in which people wanted to believe in their government. Carter implies that this is antithetical to what The X-Files represented, and while that seems plausible at first glance, it doesn't really hold water. In many ways, the conspiracy thread was one of its weakest elements of the original series: it quickly became too convoluted for words, and it was often used as a kind of reset button, with shadowy government agents moving in to erase any evidence of that week's revelations. Aside from one occasion, the tag at the end of the opening credits wasn't "Trust No One," but "The Truth is Out There." Paranoia was a useful narrative device, but it wasn't central to the show's appeal, and I'd like to think that the series would have evolved into a different but equally satisfying shape if the politics of the time had demanded it—although the damp squib of the reboot, which was explicitly designed to bring Mulder and Scully into the modern world, doesn't exactly help to make that case. (The clear parallel here is 24, which was transformed by uncontrollable events into something very unlike what it was once intended to be. One of my favorite pieces of show business trivia is that its producers briefly considered optioning The Da Vinci Code as the plot for the show's second season, which hints at what that series might have been in some other universe.)
In the end, an episode like "Babylon" makes me almost grateful that the show concluded when it did, given its inability to do anything worthwhile with what might have been a decent premise. And it's an ineptitude that emerges, not from the fog of cranking out a weekly television series, but after Carter had close to fifteen years to think about the kind of story he could tell, which makes it even harder to forgive. The episode's central gimmick—which involves communicating with a clinically dead suicide bomber to prevent a future attack—is pretty good, or it might have been, if the script didn't insist on constantly tap-dancing away from it. (A plot revolving around getting into an unconscious killer's head didn't even need to be about terrorism at all: a rehash of The Cell would have been preferable to what we actually got.) It's hard not to conclude that the best thing that ever happened to The X-Files was a run of nine seasons that uniquely positioned it to ignore contemporary politics and pick its source material from anywhere convenient, with time and forgetfulness allowing it to exploit the nightmares of the past in a typically cavalier fashion. But just as recent political developments have rendered House of Cards all but obsolete, I have a feeling that The X-Files, which always depended on such a fragile suspension of disbelief, couldn't have endured conditions that forced it to honestly confront its own era—which suggests that this reboot may have been doomed from the beginning. Because the incursion of the real world into fantasy is one invasion that this show wouldn't be able to survive.
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Why didn't Olivia Rodrigo receive any nominations for 2021 Billboard Music Awards?
As we know Olivia Rodrigo released her newest single Driver's license on January 8th, 2021; and it became very popular on Billboard Hot 100 so that it remained 1st on the list for 8 consecutive weeks.
First of all, the Wikipedia page says:
Nominees for Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Latin Male Artist, and Top Rap Female Artist were announced on April 28, 2021. The full list of nominations were presented on April 29, 2021. The Weeknd is the most nominated artist, earning sixteen nominations.
P.S 1: There is a little grammar error in the Wikipedia quoted text.
P.S 2: The announcement of nominations is after the release date of the Driver's license.
There are so many categories in the awards including Top Streaming Song Artist, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Radio Song Artist, and Top Social Artist (fan-voted), which Rodrigo could be in all of them; because being first on the list for eight weeks results in it stream very much, be sold very much, and beloved by fans very much; or even vice-versa. She could also be in Top Hot 100 Artist because it was the Hot 100 list which the song remained at the top of it for eight consecutive weeks.
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Awards are always a bit subjective, even for a data-driven business like the music charts.
If she didn't make it onto the fan-voted nominations, it's because the fans didn't vote for her (in enough numbers). For the other categories, you'll notice she was up against some well established superstars.
As a new artist who just debuted earlier this year, she may not have had enough time to make her mark on the nominators. If she has another hit single between now and next year's nominations, look for her in the Best New Artist category then...
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Kutch hybrid energy park expected to generate 41,500MW
The state government has paved the way for setting up of the ambitious solar and wind parks project in Kutch district by expediting the process of land acquisition for the hybrid energy park. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had been regularly seeking updates on the project of national importance for the past two years.
Sources in the government said 60,000 hectares of land will be allocated for the project in one go. The solar and wind parks project in Kutch is expected to generate 41,500 MW power. The PMO has given the deadline of 2022 for completion of the project, which has been running more than two years behind schedule.
The energy park is expected to attract investment of around Rs 1.35 lakh crore. This is one of the select projects of national importance that the PM reviews at his monthly PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) system.
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Review: Smokestak London Barbecue, Shoreditch
Posted on March 5, 2018 March 25, 2018 By Leander DiasPosted in ReviewsTagged barbecue, london, meatfeast, review, shoreditch, smokehouse, smokestak
As has been the case with all my London escapades, I found myself in Shoreditch for the first time to visit a restaurant. The incessantly recommended hipster sect, merry bohemia with all its whiles, did not beguile my straying from central London until recently. Fact is, I've settled too swiftly into residential life in London. I know my routes, the areas of convenience and prominence and intrigue, and have tended to stick to their offerings when searching for places to eat. But in the spirit of seeking discomfort, and the allure of smoked meat, I decided to tick off Smokestak, the next restaurant on my endless list.
As soon as I got out of the Overground station, suddenly all I had ever heard about Shoreditch made complete sense; it wasn't all conservative blagging, or counter cultural denigration, but the unalterable truth. You cannot avoid the graffiti festooned walls, the homogenous mess of fashionable clothing and the obvious aura of people trying to be unique to fit in. The picture is not a new one and is there for you to see as soon as you step off the platform and into Shoreditch.
This day was for Smokestak, a London smokehouse that has been described as the place meat- eaters go when their vegan girlfriends drain the life out of them. The restaurant looks like some sort of bygone era male stronghold, a smithy's workroom, an age blackened tavern, a sea captain's quarters. There are no frills about the place. I had to walk right up to it for me to realise that this was where I was to eat. The only reason I could even tell it was open was because of the faces I could blearily see through the windows. The large iron doors were closed and there was no signage identifying the restaurant by its name. I tried pulling and pushing at the door, but it did not budge. I decided to go around and see if there was another way in. There wasn't. So, I waited patiently until a couple of people who did the same thing as me, managed to pull a tad harder at the handle of the main door than I did and walk in. My second go at the door was smoother, as if I'd been there before, and had not struggled a few moments prior.
There is something special about being sat in such a darkly painted room; the schema, an amalgamation of rust and soot colouring with the glint of shiny work surfaces and the behemoth steel smoker. The staff are also in all black and wear black sanitary gloves too. Dusky wood tables, rocky legged chairs and the racks of pots and walls of brick, made me feel like an innkeeper was about to slam a pint of mead in front of me with a massive medieval pork pie. But it does not take long to see that the rough-hewn impression is merely a conceptual front. Everything is so meticulously kept that you get a sense of the high standards Smokestak hold themselves to.
As I settled down, I got into conversation with a guy who was waiting for his bill. The way I was looking about the place making mental notes about its features must have identified me as a newcomer. He told me he was the same when he first came, and that he has been coming since it had opened at least twice a month. Smokestak was his place, and it would be for as long as he could afford it. He seemed genuinely excited for me, which in turn, added to my own bubbling excitement. My expectations were sky-high and Smokestak did not disappoint.
It took under ten minutes for my food to arrive, each dish coming just as the other was about to be finished. I had ordered the first four items on the menu, simply for how each – besides the calçot – represented a part of the pig that one does not immediately associate with delicacy. The pig's jowls were, to my surprise, four strips of what looked to be a cross between parma ham and streaky bacon. They had the crispness of thinly sliced pancetta and pallor of prosciutto. Each strip had a deliberate oily sheen, kept on for the luxury of salt and caramelised fat.
If I am being earnest, I had no idea what a calçot was when I ordered it. The two guys at the table beside my own had asked the waiter what it was, and when he said it was cabbage, I was more than intrigued to see what tempura cabbage would taste like. The calçot in its light tempura batter becomes almost like leeks do when cooked in liquid: soft, moist, with a subtle spring onion-y sweetness. An addictive puddle of aioli, wrought with the garlic pungency that would emulsify a vampire, was a dip that I would use for almost anything.
Crispy ox cheek croquets and the barbecue pig's tails came in quick succession. The granular crunch of the croquet breading gave way easily to its, disintegrated meat that resembled brown crabmeat in consistency. Ox cheek is the kind of meat that does not require forks to pull apart after a long, slow cook, but rather must be held together and in shape by protective breading. I was not too keen on the anchovy mayonnaise that came with it. I was reminded of the kewpie mayo that I had at Chick'n'Sours some time ago. As you've probably have guessed, I simply dunked the croquets in leftover aioli and all was right in the world.
Now the pig's tails were special. I'd never had the dish before and I've always wanted to try pig's tail. The pieces of meat are rather fantastic, a mongrel cross between chicken wings, pork ribs, and dare I say overly sauced peking duck. There was the crispness of the charred skin glazed with sweet barbecue sauce with hoisin notes, rougher more chewy strands to work through, and surprises of fat that brought a more sinful edge. They were great. I thought fondly of my mum and aunt who absolutely delight any opportunity to chew on fleshy bones.
While the smokehouse does make forays into interesting vegetarian compositions like salt baked beetroot with goat cheese and hazelnuts, shaved fennel salads or Mediterranean style charred greens, I still would not necessarily feel comfortable bringing a vegetarian to this meat sanctuary. If not for their sake then for your own. This is a holy place.
By the time I was finished with Smokestak's opening salvo, I knew that if I had left then I would have done so feeling light and satisfied. But, of course, you do not leave a place like this with so many intriguing options on the menu until you are full, full in the way that lowers your eyelids and stimulates a kind of self-love.
Two slices of pristine beef brisket came in a steel tray with sliced red peppers and a mustard barbecue sauce. While the sight of the meat is convincing enough, you need only to poke at the slices to know they were perfectly cooked. The brisket looked like the kind of slices that gourmet Vikings might have dreamed of being served in Valhalla – though I do think their portion sizes would be significantly larger. Knife glides through yielding brisket, through butter-sweet fat, and gets snagged, if only for a moment, on the charred, caramelised outermost layer. The brisket at Smokestak, whether it is in a bun with pickled red chilli or as a whole cut for the table, is an unmissable experience.
And to think I had enough space for dessert: sticky toffee pudding, with its warm, earthy textures adorned neatly with clotted ice-cream protected pathetically by a moat of gleaming toffee sauce. I wouldn't normally have ordered the dish, but I was in an indulgent state of mind and gave irrevocably into it.
Location: 35 Sclater St, London E1 6LB
Menu: https://smokestak.co.uk/food-menu/
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This drug has many uses. Some of the uses were legitimate and others were a bit more clandestine. However, it is illegal in the US so any use of the drug, these days, is ultimately clandestine. That's right, it is not possible to legally buy clenbuterol in the United States. One of the most common uses of the drug used to be to increase the muscle mass in livestock before slaughter. This was discovered to have a toxic effect. Another reason the practice was discontinued, the drug transferred into the people the ingested the meat from the livestock. Many an athlete have tested positive for this banned substance after consuming meat that had been injected with the steroid before slaughter.
Another legitimate use of the drug is for the treatment for asthma. Inhalers used to contain a small dose of the drug as it helped to dilate the bronchial passages. However, with the banning of the substance, asthma inhalers now contain Albuterol which is in the same family.
It is the clandestine uses of clenbuterol pills, however, that have help give it its negative reputation. One of the least touted uses of this drug is as a stimulant. It is a stimulant related to ephedrine. As a stimulant it is quite powerful and will remain active for hours. In fact it is suggested to take it in the morning if you want to have any chances of sleeping at night.
Another use, that is a bit scrupulous, is to use it as a fat burner. Lots of weight loss forums will glorify the use clenbuterol online. There is no doubt, just as ephedrine, it will cause you to lose weight as it increases your ability to burn fat, increasing your metabolism. The dark side of this story is that the efficacy is quickly reversed and after only a few weeks of taking it. It will actually cause you to start gaining weight rapidly.
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It turns out the British in London can now get their ATMs in cockney slang. For those that don't know what it is, remember this Austin Powers scene?
LONDON (AP — You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread. Over the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colorful and often impenetrable dialect.
The origins of Cockney rhyming slang are obscure. It is thought to have been used by market traders who needed a way of communicating without tipping off their customers.
It works by replacing a word with a short rhyming phrase. For example: "Money" becomes "bread and honey," which in turn is shortened to "bread." Similarly, "head" becomes "loaf of bread," and then just simply "loaf."
Few use the slang with any regularity now although most Britons know a few common phrases, such as "trouble and strife" for wife and "apples and pears" for stairs.
Gabriella Alexander, who made a withdrawal from an ATM, near Spitalfields Market, said the stunt was fun. But she added that that withdrawing "sausage and mash" — or cash — "made me a little uneasy."
Slaney Wright, a 32-year-old charity worker, attempted to withdraw money from the ATM but visibly tensed up when she realized the machine was talking to her in Cockney slang. She immediately canceled the transaction and ripped the card out of the machine.
"It looks like someone's been messing with it," she said.
Post script question for NourishingObscurity readers: To you all, especially those that live in the British Isles, how is cockney rhyming viewed? Is it a lower class characteristic? Do people think it's humorous and not really part of English?
Speaking only for myself, Matt, it's viewed as a quaint East End patois and wouldn't really be acceptable as the voice for the shipping forecast although there have been some strange accents on there of late.
In the hierarchy of English language accents, if we exclude the colonials for now, it is somewhere at the lower end, with perhaps Brummie [Brimingham] being seen as the lowest.
I would say lower class and peculiar to London.
Lower class London slang. Not something we would have oop norf.
You don't need to be British to understand it. In fact being able to speak English is a disadvantage when trying to understand it.
I think it's quite clever and read that it was a way for employees [probably domestic ones] to communicate with each other without their employers knowing what they were saying - a bit like the market theory. Most Londoners who use it only use the first word, eg., Off to see the trouble now" [for "trouble & strife"] or "He's a bit Brahms" for "Brahma & Liszt" = "pissed" [which means "drunk" in Britain, not "angry" as in the US.] The word "berk" / "burk" denoting an idiot comes from the rhyming slang words for a mega-rude term for part of the female anatomy. I'd agree with the other commenters that we regard it as lower class slang but you have to be very alert to be able to use it in conversation.


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dreaming of an ice christmas
Thirty years ago tomorrow, we woke up on Christmas and it was 17 degrees (!) on the south shore of New Orleans and the water in the toilet was frozen (!). Talk about slum landlords. There was some endless excuse about why they didn't turn on the gas, but of course I later realized it was because this millionaire landlord was a bum who didn't pay the gas bill after the previous tenants left. We were apparently his only tenants who ever paid their bills on time, so he thought we were idiots and chased us away. Really. He got the water bill, and in those days it was $8 every month. So one month he tried to claim it was $200. Like we weren't going to call the water department and FIND OUT?
I wonder if that fool is still alive. His daughter is, as I occasionally get ads from her wanting to sell our house. Dream on, honey.
The cutest thing about that Christmas was that our button quail hatched out their babies that day. So adorable. But it was a scramble to keep everyone warm with an electric heater.
I probably would have forgotten 1983 but apparently we're getting a hard freeze for Christmas this year. So it reminded me.
All the birds are snug inside, toasty and warm. And we have our own house, so we don't have to concern ourselves with irresponsible landlords. Go us. But from this day to that, in my heart I have remained convinced that what Karl Marx said about landlords is the truth. Ha.
In the news: While on the topic of irresponsible jerks, CNN is reporting that Snowden almost never leaves his house in Moscow:
�As long as I can sit down and think and write and talk to somebody, that's more meaningful to me than going out and looking at landmarks."
In other words, this dillweed is under house arrest. Idiot. Even David Duke eventually concluded that prison in Texas was better than "freedom" in Moscow. Of course Snowden is still at the stage where he's claiming that he did the right thing. For that matter, stupid-ass David Duke STILL thinks he did the right thing, although the normal mind might wonder what loyal American would really flee to China or Russia. The former Mandeville resident got tossed from Italy a few days ago for being a racist douche but I don't know where he went. Back to Austria, methinks. As long as he doesn't come back here...
Well, it's clear that cold weather really puts me in the Christmas spirit. But I'm not the baby Jesus, so I hope it's OK if I can't be arsed to forgive these creeps.


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The race to the sky in Lower Manhattan continues at a breakneck pace, and while projects like 30 Park Place have sped right along towards completion, the process of building other new towers has not been nearly as easy. That's especially true at 56 Leonard Street, but now YIMBY has news that the Herzog & de Meuron-designed skyscraper is finally topping-out.
Construction of the tower was particularly difficult, with both economics and design conspiring against any sort of rapid completion. The foundations for the building were poured as the 2008 Financial Crisis was just kicking into high gear, leaving the site primed to rise, but lingering on the drawing board.
Things did not change much in the years following, but once construction finally did resume — back in 2013 — there were additional issues. Construction had slowed to a crawl by December of that year, when Lend Lease replaced the project's concrete subcontractor. Since then, things have been moving relatively smoothly.
The 821-foot tall and 145-unit condo building has 60 total floors, and is being developed by Alexico and Hines. 56 Leonard is Herzog & de Meuron's most high-profile tower on the skyline to date, though with cladding still creeping up the exterior, the jury is out on the absolute final appearance.
Still, much of the outside is now encased in glass and balconies. The building tapers slightly inwards and outwards over the course of its rise, with floor heights also increasing for the tower's top levels. Once the facade encases the top floors, the effect will probably be much more dramatic, fleshing out the current skeleton more fully, and making the cantilevers more obvious.
The news regarding the topping-out comes from a tipster on the YIMBYgram, who noted that the final floor's pour was beginning late last week. 56 Leonard's uppermost floors return to the individual and unique layouts of the project's lowest levels, which is why construction has appeared to proceed at a very slow pace (and one year ago, the project had already passed the halfway point).
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