How much can the market really gain from pension freedoms legislation?
Are people responsible enough to handle their new pension freedoms?
The UK pension landscape continues to be transformed by major regulatory change. In the past few years, the phased introduction of auto-enrolment has helped to reverse a decade-long decline in workplace pension participation, while rules linked to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) have altered the way pensions can be bought and sold. However, the implementation of new pension freedoms is arguably the biggest change yet.
From 6 April 2015 individuals with a defined-contribution personal or occupational pension will have much greater control over what they can do with their accumulated pot once they reach the age of 55. This increased flexibility has the potential to revitalise interest in personal and individual stakeholder pensions, which have been adversely impacted by previous legislative changes.
In this report Mintel explores how the personal and individual stakeholder pension market segments are being affected by a continually evolving market environment. This includes an analysis of the threats and opportunities associated with new regulation, as well as the impact of an improving economic environment on consumer finances. The Market Size and Forecast and Channels to Market sections detail how these factors are influencing market performance and distribution patterns. In addition, this report explores consumer attitudes and behaviour in relation to pensions and retirement saving, and looks at how confident people are about their retirement prospects. Special attention is also paid to how well people understand the major pension legislative changes afoot, and whether or not they will have an effect on their retirement plans.


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Making Children's Books in the Covid-19 Era
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Covid-19 has radically transformed the ways people live and work. For those who are in the business of making children's books-which are as much art objects as works of fiction or nonfiction-the pandemic has forced art and design professionals to both reevaluate their workflow and assess what has been lost and gained in these unpredictable times.
Children's books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters as BAME people | Books | The Guardian
Children's books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters as BAME people | Books | The Guardian website
Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children's books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the proportion has increased to 5%, according to new analysis. But a child from an ethnic minority background is far more likely to encounter an animal protagonist when reading a book than a main character sharing their ethnicity.
Building Bridges: The Art of Children's Book Translation
Building Bridges: The Art of Children's Book Translation website
According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. Read more
'Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such as ting if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist or (sic) understand. For all one knows that demon is the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention.
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In the context of Labor law, a short-form agreement is a contract which is usually entered into by a small independent contractor. In a short-form agreement the contractor agrees to be bound by the terms of a collective-bargaining agreement which is negotiated between a union and a multi-employer bargaining unit.


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Footballer "Locomotive" married participant "Eurovision-2018"
July 21 will forever be remembered the family of celebrities. On this day the 32-year-old Vedran Corluka and 26-year-old Frank Batelic, saying each other's vows eternal love and fidelity, officially became husband and wife.
Summer is traditionally the wedding season: this is the time of year many rush to make a festive celebration. Defender of "Locomotive" and national team of Croatia Vedran Corluka and his fiancee, a famous singer Frank Batelic, is no exception: July 21, they were married. To this the young people met for six years. Frank and Vedran were in no hurry to reach a new stage of relations, as each of them is closely involved in career development.
Celebrity wedding took place in a young native of Croatia, in the village of Bale. The ceremony was attended by not only relatives of the couple, but also friends, colleagues. Among the guests you could see colleagues Corluka on the national team Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic.
Young were married in the Church of the blessed virgin Mary, and then celebrated a joyous occasion under the open sky on the background of beautiful nature. The bride was not to be original when choosing your wedding dress and prefer white models with bare shoulders and a full skirt, and veil. Vedran was a simple classic suit in dark blue. At this time, the couple receive congratulations from many fans. Spouses and congratulated the representatives of "Locomotive".
Coach "Locomotive" said the dismissal of Dmitry Tarasov
"We congratulate the vedrans and Frank! We wish you happiness, love and understanding!" — a message appeared on the official site of capital football club.
The couple have many achievements in his career. This year, Corluka won the championship of Russia on football in the "Locomotive", also reached the final of the world Cup with the national team of Croatia. Franc had the honor to represent his native country at the "Eurovision-2018". However, the singer just stopped at the semifinal of the international song contest.
Marina Afrikantov and Roman Kapakli got married in the Seychelles
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Music therapy for dementia patients: Tuned for culture difference
Yuki Tanaka, Hiroki Nogawa, Hiroshi Tanaka
Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo)
As the average life expectancy continues to rise, dementia has become a critical health care issue. At this situation, the effective management of dementia requires the development of rehabilitation methods for symptom relief in patients. This chapter hypothesizes that one such method, music therapy, could be improved by taking into account the cultural background of the patient, because musical preference is often dependent upon cultural context. This chapter investigates the effects of Japanese music on the alleviation of dementia symptoms in Japanese patients as compared to the effects of classical music. The authors collected 87 volunteers including 79 dementia patients, 2 people under 65 years of age, 10 early-stage senior (65-74), and 66 late-stage seniors (>75). The volunteers listened to the following musical selections: two simple melodies of Japanese songs (major/minor with the same tonality) from Edokomoriuta (famous nursery songs in Japan), two songs from Kagomekagome (famous play songs in Japan), Touryanse (children's song widely played in Japan), and two original songs (major/minor) with the same tonality. We prepared two variations of classical musical scales: one in the scale of C major and the other in the scale of C minor. We observed their responses in two ways: the physiological response as determined by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), which measures changes in blood flow, and the subjective response as determined by questionnaires. Our results show that dementia patients tend to judge Japanese music as being played in a major key, while healthy subjects judged these songs as being in a minor key. Our results reveal characteristic responses of dementia patients to the Japanese music and provide evidence for the improvement of using music therapy for dementia patients by accounting for their Japanese culture.
Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technologies for Dementia
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Tanaka, Y., Nogawa, H., & Tanaka, H. (2011). Music therapy for dementia patients: Tuned for culture difference. In Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technologies for Dementia: Neuroscience and Biomedical Applications (pp. 257-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-559-9.ch033
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Last week, CEO Adam Hooper spoke on a panel on crowdfunding in real estate at the IMN CFO Summit in NYC. Hooper offered insight into the future of online syndication and how RealCrowd has been advancing commercial real estate investing.
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This is a really important question because I believe that the person seeking this information is not alone in attempting to identify real value of investing in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The problem is that a properly done SOA should be unique to the mission, goals and processes of the organization making it of limited relative use to another organization. That is, SOA offers a framework for identifying, isolating, delivering and servicing a consumer need, and, while all businesses have some common aspects, the resulting business services should be unique to the needs of that business' consumers.
For one thing, SOA is so poorly-defined that just about any IT project can be labeled SOA, which means that anything you want to place an SOA label on that enhances productivity, reduces costs, increases profitability or otherwise has delivered value to your business. One of the yardsticks I use to measure an SOA by is that the effort has produced "product"—by product I mean a tangible and achievable asset has been defined—that consolidates execution of a business function within the business in one of two ways; a) a consistent process that may be replicated but is executed identically, or b) the function is executed by a single unit within the business. Note, in some discussion of SOA you may see this represented as a requirement for reuse, but reuse is not our goal as reuse implies a choice to use or not use. We are seeking consistency and, what I call the need to have something built once-and-only-once, ergo, no choice; the service must be designed in a way to support its consumer audience completely.
In (a) above, it's important to remain flexible in design. Some businesses are designed around their customer need, which means that a business function may need to be replicated due to privacy or confidentiality concerns. However, that does not mean that, where replicated, the function should not follow a consistent approach. The benefits and value of this to the business are significant. It allows employees to more easily be moved around, it reduces the costs associated with downstream processing and it simplifies the operations of the business for planning purposes. With regard to (b) above, that's fairly self-explanatory. By consolidating multiple, different approaches to delivering the same business function within the organization, e.g. receivables handling, it will result in lower expenses and overhead.
There is a considerable supply of SOA case studies, mostly from vendors, but these case studies don't really answer the practical needs of would-be adopters and practitioners of SOA. There is a gap between what people want to know and what people are willing to publish. Most of what passes for case studies are little more than press releases.
This is another example of why the industry needs to do a better job of measuring and monitoring SOA environments. While the cloud is certaintly a useful tool, it won't become mainstream without a way to demonstrate value to the enterprise.


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What they do: Kim, 37, is a makeup artist, licensed aesthetician and volunteer, and Nate, 42, is a co-owner of TentLogix, Disaster Management Group, SE Cooling & Power Systems and NAG Properties.
How they met: Kim was visiting a friend in Florida when she met Nate. She says they "immediately hit it off," and they spent the rest of her trip together.
How they knew they'd found "the one": Kim says it was love at first sight for both of them. "I knew we would always be together after the time we spent together on that first of many trips to visit him in Florida," she says.
On the proposal: The couple was enjoying breakfast in their pool house one morning when Nate got on one knee with their three rottweilers at his side.
On selecting the site: Nate and Kim decided to get married where they will be building their new home in downtown Stuart. "We felt it would create some amazing memories there that will be a part of our experience living there for many years to come," she says. Since Nate owns a tent and event rental company, the couple put up a 6,000-square-foot curved roof structure with carpeted wood floors, air conditioning and 13-foot glass walls to allow views of the water and landscape.
Special Thanks: Michele Vander Ark from TentLogix for table designs, custom linen designs, place settings and 24/7 support.


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Follow That Dog was a British television comedy which aired during 1974. It was produced by Southern Television, and starred Norman Rossington, Patsy Rowlands, Anthony Dawes, Nigel Rhodes and Janet French. All six episodes are missing, believed lost.

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1974 British television series debuts
1974 British television series endings
Lost television shows
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The discrete phase model analysis could be used to run simulations that consist of a continuum and a discrete phase. The discrete phase is represented with particles which interact with the continuum phase. Full particle-fluid interactions could be considered. Therefore, the model is suitable for dense and dilute particle flows.
In the following, discrete phase model simulation setup is discussed.
A turbulence model should be chosen in accordance to the flow regime. In a Laminar flow, associated with low Reynolds numbers, viscous effects dominate the flow and turbulence can be neglected. This flow regime is characterized by regular flow layers.
All discrete phase model cases are intrinsically transient.
For all of the turbulence models, OpenFOAM® solver MPPICFoam is used that implements the Multiphase Particle-in-Cell method for collision of particles.
In order to perform a discrete phase model flow simulation on a given domain you have to discretize your geometry by creating a mesh. Details of CAD handling and Meshing are described in the Pre-processing section.
For discrete phase model simulations, kinematic viscosity and density of the fluid must be defined. Additionally, the user can define a body force (gravity). Moreover, if LES turbulence model is being used, LES delta coefficient should be set as well.
In a discrete phase model simulation, the computational domain will be solved for two fields: pressure (p) and velocity (U). Depending on the choice of solver, additional turbulent transport quantities may be included. As a general rule for CFD simulations, all field conditions must be well-defined on all boundaries. Therefore, it is very important to define appropriate initial and boundary conditions for all variables on every boundary.
Initial and boundary conditions must be specified for all variables on every boundary.
All properties regarding the iterative solvers of velocity and pressure equations are set here. Relaxation factors, residual controls, and solver-specific tweaks are among these settings. However, depending on the solver (e.g. PIMPLE, PISO, …), these settings will be adjusted. For each field, a Help message is provided on the platform.
In this part, linear solvers used in computing each variable could be chosen separately. Upon choosing a solver, a set of preconditioners/smoothers and their tolerances become available. To assist with selecting the best solver, a Help message is provided for each field.
Discrete phase model analysis is performed using the OPENFOAM® software. See our Third-party software section for further information.


The Green Board Game Company is giving readers the chance to win packs of its Holiday Words Snap game. There are five prizes up for grabs each of 10 packs.
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I love being by the sea in the early mornings, because when I listen hard enough, I hear the voice of God.
It makes me smile to know that my sister likes writing journals.
Behold, the lowly servings. I had 5 cups of coffee to fill up my tummy.
A usual day in El Nido is a choice between a set of tours (A, B, C, D). On this second day, both my mom and husband had their monthly period body chemistry synced. Both were passionately lethargic.
The nice thing about having a private boat is the flexibility to choose your destinations. So we just lazily drove to some places (the names I forgot) and took pictures along the way.
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Cherry trees of many types are grown in Ontario, predominantly in the southern part of the province where winter temperatures are milder. However, cold-tolerant varieties like the purpleleaf sand cherry are commonly found in the north. Most sour cherries are self-pollinating, whereas sweet cherries are usually cross-pollinators–meaning you need two trees for fruit production. Stella and tehranivee are two types of sweet cherry suitable for Ontario that self-pollinate if you only want one tree in the garden.
Purchase a good quality 1-year-old tree from a local nursery or garden center. Sweet cherry varieties such as bing, stella and van are suitable for southern Ontario where winter temperatures usually stay above the minimum survival threshold of -10 degrees Fahrenheit. Cold-hardy sour cherry cultivars like northstar and montmorency are recommended for other regions of the province.
Select a well-drained location that gets full sun. Cherry trees will not tolerate wet conditions, so avoid low spots with heavy soil.
Test the soil at the planting site to check the pH level. Cherry trees grow best in slightly acidic soil with pH ranging from 6.2 to 6.8. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture maintains a list of accredited soil testing laboratories in the province. Get advice from a horticulture professional on amending the pH level if it is well outside the desired range.
Dig the planting hole at least twice as wide as the root ball and loosen the surrounding soil. Organics such as rotted manure or compost should be dug into the soil when planting. Make the hole deep enough so that the flare of the trunk is at least 1 inch above ground. Water thoroughly after planting and keep young trees well irrigated.
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Q: IIS 7 returns HTTP 200 on custom 404 error page I have successfully set up custom static error pages for IIS7. IIS7 is currently working as a gateway to a Java tomcat application. The issue is that when the 404 error page is served it is served with a HTTP 200 status code header. I would like a way to configure IIS to continue to send a HTTP 404. The error page exists as a static page in the webroot.
This is the main part of my web.config:
<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="HTTP to HTTPS Redirect" enabled="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Found" />
            </rule>
            <rule name="Reverse Proxy" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost:8080/{R:1}" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{R:1}" pattern="error/*." negate="true" />
                </conditions>
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Auto">
        <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
        <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/error/404.htm" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    </httpErrors>
</system.webServer>

A: Switch to using responseMode="File" however the trick with this is going to be using relative file paths unless you unlock or set to true system.webServer/httpErrors allowAbsolutePathsWhenDelegated.
Example web.config excerpt:
<httpErrors>
    <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
    <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="error\404.htm" responseMode="File" />
</httpErrors>

A: When using executeURL, the file should be something that renders dynamically (a la .asp).  The file executed must contain a script that sets the response status code.
Example:

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*Change your 404.htm to 404.asp

*Save the following code at the top of the 404.asp:

<% response.status = "404 Page Not Found" %>

A: Have you tried changing ExecuteURL to Redirect in the responseMode attribute?
<httpErrors existingResponse="Replace" defaultResponseMode="Redirect" errorMode="Custom">
     <remove statusCode="404"/>
     <error statusCode="404" responseMode="Redirect" path="/index1.htm"/>
</httpErrors>

Reference: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/issue-iis-logs-200-status-code-instead-of-404/ba-p/297652

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UN envoy Brahimi urges political fix in Syria
UN envoy says Syria faces "hell or political process", while Russia's FM says "no possibility" president will step down.
UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said that Syria faces a choice between "hell or a political process", urging the international community to work tirelessly to bring about a political solution to the crisis.
"If the only alternative is hell or a political process, then all of us have to work continuously toward the political process," Brahimi said after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Saturday.
He warned that Syria could turn into a failed state if action is not taken soon.
On his turn, Lavrov said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was insisting on staying in power and nothing could be done to persuade him to step down.
"Regarding Bashar al-Assad, he repeatedly said, both publically and in private... that he is not planning to leave, that he will remain in his post," Lavrov said alongside Brahimi.
"There is no possibility to change this position."
Lavrov said there is still a chance of finding a political solution to the conflict, even as he warned against "terrorist elements" operating within the trouble Middle Eastern nation.
"The confrontation is escalating. But we agree the chance for a political solution remains," Lavrov said, adding that he was "surprised" by the negative reaction of the Syrian opposition to an offer of talks in Moscow.
"Their refusal to have any dialogue with the government is a dead end position," Lavrov said.
Earlier in the day, the head of the Syria National Coalition told Al Jazeera that his group would not participate in the negotiations.
"We have said frankly that we will not go to Moscow," said Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, demanding instead that Russia apologise for its pro-Assad policy.
Khatib said Russia should apologise for "interfering" in Syrian affairs, condemn "massacres" committed by the regime and issue a "clear call for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad".
The chief of the staff of the Supreme Military Council, Salim Idriss, also said the fighters would not accept anything that did not state in clear terms al-Assad's departure.
Fighting in Homs
As the meeting was in progress, forces loyal to al-Assad seized a district of the central city of Homs after a fierce assault that sparked a humanitarian crisis, a monitoring group said.
"The army launched an offensive several days ago on the neighbourhood of Deir Baalbeh with heavy bombing, and the fighting and attacks continued until the rebels withdrew," on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Elsewhere, the army also battered the rebel-controlled area around the Crac des Chevaliers crusader castle, a UNESCO listed world heritage site to the west of Homs.
In the north, fighting raged around Menagh military airport near Syria's second city of Aleppo, after rebels managed to penetrate the base on Thursday following a months-long siege, said the watchdog group.
Assad's forces targeted different parts of Aleppo city with rockets overnight, as clashes persisted. They also bombarded several areas across the same province, the group said.
Regime shellfire was also reported in the provinces of Hama in central Syria and southern Daraa, where a man was tortured to death soon after being arrested.
There were also clashes in the eastern region of Deir Ezzor.


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The ancients had access to the tunnels of time
A photo from open sources According to Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriara, on Earth there are at least 40 tunnels leading to others of the world. Every year, many people disappear into them. Not excluded that there are more tunnels – simply, no one even knew about their location guesses.
Historians are sure that ancient earthly civilizations knew about tunnels – "stargates", and also knew how to use them.
Currently, only the ability to switch to parallel worlds and gaining access to the highest level of technology there, can be explained perfectly oriented in space megalithic structures, the presence of ancient calendars in manuscripts amazing accuracy, spare parts from unknown devices, which are found in the layers related to the preglacial period and much more.
The reasons for the catastrophes that destroyed the ancients are still unknown. civilizations that had access to the tunnels of time. Since then have been lost knowledge of the paths to the "stargate".
But the fact that we do not know how to use the technology of the "gate" at all does not mean that the inhabitants of other worlds also "forgot" about them.
In May 2011, a resident of the American city of Fort Worth (state Texas) was able to film a unique phenomenon – in the sky powerful flashes of light appeared. After they stopped, don't no damage was recorded, only a few transformers failed. According to State Weather Services Texas about 210 similar outbreaks were recorded on the same day and in Tarrant County between 8 and 9 pm.
Subsequently, it turned out that the same phenomenon and at the same time happened in Portugal.
In 2000, Somali people began to ramp up in the Gulf of Aden pirates. At the same time, according to information leaked to media, a huge gulf appeared in the Gulf of Aden funnel with gigantic energy as well as strange properties that cannot be explained by known knowledge of physics.
A reasonable view is that the international military forces (Russia, China, USA, etc.) aimed at curbing pirates, do not destroy these sea robbers (huge aircraft carriers against small boats), and by researching this an interesting and mysterious phenomenon. The main purpose of the study funnels – find out where it came from, where it leads and what threat can carry earthlings?
On a deep December night in 2009, many residents of Norway became witnesses of a mysterious phenomenon – unfolded in the sky a huge luminous spiral that gradually took shape black funnel covering the whole sky. In fifteen minutes the funnel has disappeared. Phones of the Norwegian Meteorological Center exploded in calls of frightened residents of the country. After some time the descendants of the fearless Vikings came to the conclusion that satisfied all the curious – they decided that the Russians experienced another ballistic missile and failed. Russian the side did not confirm these assumptions, but for the Norwegians it was no longer important.
There is evidence that the same spiral appeared in the sky Australia a year after the Norwegian light show.
The following fact is interesting – a month after the appearance Norwegian funnel, Aden took a spiral shape similar to that which appeared in the sky of a northern country.
There is no doubt curious whether there is any connection between these phenomena in different regions of the Earth? Many would like to know – what it actually happens in the Gulf of Aden. A large number of conjectures and assumptions do not fit, so far, into any scheme. The conclusions are based on existing facts, which are not enough for developing informed opinions.
These facts: December 2009 – under the pretext of combating Al Qaeda, USA begins military operation in Yemen (state near the Gulf of Aden). For the world community launched information on the existing global threat from actions terrorists.
January 2010 – an earthquake occurred, the power of which was 6.5 on the Richter scale. But a strange situation – none of the inhabitants of the settlements near which happened earthquake, did not feel any tremors.
Since 2003, the actions of pirates in Aden have intensified significantly the Gulf: hostages are taken, huge ransom amounts are extorted for a ship with cargo and people.
Since 2009, under the pretext of combating piracy, begins international military operation. In the bay are constantly warships of many states of the world: Germany, USA, China, Russia, Great Britain, etc.
It became clear to everyone that in the Gulf of Aden there is a magnetic anomaly of unknown origin. And any unknown causes a lot of speculation.
It is believed that under the water of the gulf are "stargate" or space portal used by extraterrestrial civilizations for penetration to Earth. And in this case, the following situations: aliens come in peace, try to protect humankind mistakes that can lead to its destruction. There is a big doubt that the military power of earthlings will succeed stop the intervention of extraterrestrial intelligence in the affairs of earthlings.
The second option – the aliens are hostile to terrestrial civilization. And in in this case, it is unlikely that the military power of earthlings will be able to provide them with a decent resistance.
In the meantime, an invented scenario with "Somali pirates" comes to life in the Gulf of Aden. Number of ships passing through the bay, decreased significantly. A military operation carried out in the gulf, most likely, has a goal – control over space portal. Currently the truth about real events, occurring in the Gulf of Aden, no one will tell.
But not only giant whirlpools and "light shows" cause close attention of scientists and military of all countries. Lately in different countries mysterious sounds are heard that are so strong that drown out even the car alarm. These sounds are like powerful beeps and recorded in Canada and Europe. And in Germany even managed to record the sound of these "heavenly trumpets". Experts expressed suggestions that these sounds are caused by electromagnetic noise from radiation belts and polar aurora borealis are either the consequences of telephone transmissions, or echoes of the underground earthquakes: but that doesn't sound convincing.
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Melodifestivalen 2009: Deltävling N°1: Göteborg
February 10, 2009 by oskyldig·0 Comments
As per my usual annual analysis here it comes for Melodifestivalen 2009; the clearly most exciting event of the year. So far this year seems to be quite good. We don't have Kristian Luuk this year, which is sad, but we have Petra Mede which seems to be doing quite well considering. Clearly a comedian, and with an accent that I can't quite place. I only wish that we didn't have to see the International Jury as it's kind of cheesy and the guy is French, so it's even more pathetic in my opinion. She changes dresses at every interval, and has a great sense of stage-presence! I think that however well she and the show is, it's sort of compounded by the great music that SVT provides. Before each act, there is a little biography with "powerful and triumphant" music. It's a good idea, in order to give some info for the artists and what they are doing. So without further wait, here we go!
Nina Söderquist – Tick tock
Personal Favourite
Although unfortunate that she didn't make it to the Andra Chansen (where she belonged) this song is a great hit and really catchy in my ear. It starts out with a sort of operatic-opening by Nina, who is a West-End Show-Girl. Man can she sing right on pitch (being professional and all!), and dance along with it! I feel that she's portraying herself as a dominatrix in this show, but otherwise it's a great hit. I see myself bopping to this all the time. The men are wearing skirts, however which is odd, but you go girl! Luckily it made the Andra av gången, but came fifth finally. What a shame, but for an opening number I think it's a damn good way to open the show.
Jonathan Fagerlund – Welcome to my life
What a cute little piece from Jönköping, who wanted to be a web-designer? So far, good on my books! But then it all went down, singing on Supertroupers and then being in a boyband Streetwise. The brunette is clearly out of a boyband era, but there is something special about this number. Perhaps it's a boyband star singing with a girlband, to a girlband song. The song itself is really catchy and I like it. It's cute singer that knows how to shake his hips (being a boyband creation of course), but I keep getting a vibe from him and his performance. It's a gay vibe, but I feel that it's way off, but the clothes, the hair, the eyes, the everything. Even the girl-band of course! Anyways, the song is great, it's got great lyrics, he sings it really well. Back to appearances though; he's a boybander and he doesn't have tattoos (at least to that I can't see) and to compound it there is very little hair on this boy's body, if you know what I mean. 😉 Damn you public for not accepting this star!
Shirley Clamp – Med hjärtat fyllt av ljus
Shirley is back, but what the hell is she doing? I love her as singer. She's experienced, she has great skill and a distinctive voice, but what the hell is Plingy, Bobby and Henrik doing? This song has the weirdest melody, and text that makes it sound like her heart is filled with juice, and not light. It just makes me kind of cringe inside, and the thought of her doing a ballad makes me even more sad. She needs an uptempo sort of tune to get the toes tapping, but this is just cheezy lyrics, horrible melody and harmony, and a song that just I want to forget. She does have a beautiful dress, however, and sparkles!! Yay glitter on her eyes, it makes me so happy, but still I don't accept this song at all!
Scotts – Jag tror på oss
I won't lie about this one. A boyband from the 90's, that look a lot older and struggling to stay young, with a song like this makes me sort of question what the Swedish public was thinking. The guy(s) can sing, but the song isn't really that difficult. It's too rockish and a post-boyband teeny-bopper kind of way. I just think it would have better suited for other people, but apparently people want to see it again because it's in Andra Chansen. I think that it's just sort of tragic, because there were better songs. Given the songwriters, however, it's not surprising that it's sort of "awkward." I'm sad from this one.
Emilia Rydberg – You're my world
What a bloody marvelous piece of music this. She's a great singer, she's a pretty girl, she's got a song that simply speaks to everyone. I thought it was going to be jazz tune at the beginning, but then we just get a great surprise. It's inspirational, it's flashy, and it's got a ton of people on stage (did the rules change?) I think this song gets more sexy points also because there is a contrabass on stage, and that makes me drool! It makes me feel like I'm in New York, and I think it's fabulous and can do great things, but this is the only first Semifinal and it's possible to get lost in the shuffle.
Alcazar – Stay the night
I think I exploded a little bit in my pants when this song started. Being Alcazar, reunited for the first time in like forever, made me happy. Tess, Andreas, and the new member Lina (remember Nothing can stop me!? — I do!!!) take sexy-disco outfits, a fucking amazing disco-pop song and bust a move on stage. I must admit that they do look a lot older (especially Andreas who has shaved his head because of probable balding, and sporting sexy eyeliner). This song is pure sex, and when I say that I mean truly. The dancing is precise to the music, the choreographers deserve a clap, and then the singers deserve another great pat because the singing is class. They are hawt, they are sexy, they have a hawt song and don't need to be on stage with anyone else but themselves, and it makes me so happy. I want to stay the night, cause I can be your lover, so hold on tight, and be your guide to paradise! The only critique on clothes that I would give is Andreas' shoes which are tacky. The pink bodysuit and turquoise dress is bloody sexy.
Caroline af Ugglas – Snälla snälla
Andra Chansen & International Jury Choice
A normal Caroline af Ugglas song. Always inspired by Janis Joplin it just sort of rasps off of her vocal cord, but this song makes me hate the word snälla, because she says it so many damn songs. Also do you realise how difficult it is to take a decent screenshot of her? She always has this weird constipated look on her face. Bar all that, she's a good performer, and it's simple enough. The style is Swedish, and I don't see it winning, but it's going to make it to the Final (quite possibly) after the second chance round and the jury. I don't really see what the jury saw in it though, considering they are not Swedish…
Marie Serneholt – Disconnect me
I'm not sure really what to think about this one. It's Marie, ex-member of A*Teens. How do I know this? Because A*Teens was my favourite band. I joined their fan site in 1999 and have been a member since (even after their break-up!) Sadly most of the members went sour: Dhani became a man-whore looking singer who can't sing (why, he was so cute as a blondie innocent boy!), Sara is well who knows, and Amit had a go at a career but I reckon it was all done after they split. This song is catchy, but it's like a weird pop song that has a bit of funk. The dancers bedazzled me more than her though, because she sort of looks like a bimbo. Plus the dancers hadd a shirt that opened low in the front, and high in the back, which means we got to see sexy dancer backs the whole time. Even still, I think the song is a little immature for the older-Marie. It was the wildcard and got dropped, oh well!
All in all the night was great, but the interval acts were… strange. I particularly liked the opening sequence with Charlotte (last year's winner) and past winner Martin Stenmarck. I have to say that he's certainly gotten more ripe and golden with age, and is drop dead gorgeous. And as always the song that he busts out could have even been a song in the competition and have done well; haha! Maybe it was one of the songs submitted that they decided to get them to sing to; whatever, take away his tattoos and I could find about a dozen people to shag him!
Comments are welcome, by the way!
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J. Nicholas va ser un futbolista britànic que va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics de París de 1900, on guanyà la medalla d'or com a membre de la selecció britànica, representada per l'Upton Park F.C..

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Top 3 charges on which John Bolton should be tried at Int'l Criminal Court
Written by Juan Cole
National Security Adviser John Bolton appears to be spiraling down into the same miasma of madness that possesses other members of the Trump administration– perhaps caused by a microbe carried in Trump's sniffle. This week he threatened justices of the International Criminal Court in the Hague with physical abduction were they to dare indict an American for war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
The International Criminal Court was established by the Rome Statute, which went into effect in 2002 has been ratified by 123 nations of the world. Most of Europe and all of Latin America and half of African states have signed. Virtually the only deadbeats are countries whose officials are afraid of being indicted by the court for serious human rights crimes, such as Syria, China, India, Sudan, Israel, Russia and . . . the United States of America (actually the latter four signed but they pulled out when they realized that they had exposed their state officials to prosecution, what with the war crimes they are constantly committing).
The ICC undertook to try dictator Moammar Gaddafi, but he was killed before he could be brought before it; it still has an outstanding case against the dictator's son Seif. For Bolton to menace it in this way makes clear that he is in the Gaddafi category, which is why he fears the institution.
Bolton has no particular expertise in anything at all, he is just an angry shyster lawyer picked up by the more insane elements of the Republican Party as their pit bull. He once denied that the United Nations exists, then tried to make him US ambassador to the United Nations (he wasn't confirmed, but served briefly on a sneaky Bush recess appointment).
So here are five crimes that I allege Bolton has committed, for which he by all rights should face justice at the Hague, at the hands of the same ICC judges that he just brutishly threatened:
1. Bolton played a key role in hoodwinking the American public into the 2003 US war of aggression on Iraq, for which there was no legitimate casus belli or legal basis for war. The UN Charter forbids the initiation of a war except where a country is attacked and responds in self-defense or where the UN Security Council designates a government as a threat to world order (as it did Gaddafi's Libya). These attempts to outlaw wars of aggression were a reaction against the Nazi invasion of Poland, etc. People like Bolton, who don't want any constraints on his power from the international rule of law, are just trying out for the role of people like Nazi generals Günther von Kluge and Gerd von Rundstedt, who led the assault on Poland. (Like Bolton in regard to Iraq, they maintained that they were only defending themselves from a menacing Poland, but nobody believed this lie).
Bolton is manifestly guilty of the crime of aggression under the Rome Statute and its 2010 enabling statutes adopted at Kampala: Article 8 bis, para 1, says: For the purpose of this Statute, "crime of aggression" means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.
As Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bush, Bolton was clearly a high executive officer of a government guilty of the crime of aggression.
2. As National Security Adviser, Bolton has supported the Apartheid policies of the far-right extremist government of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu toward the Occupied Palestinians.
Apartheid is a crime under the Rome Statute:
The crime of apartheid' means inhumane acts . . . committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.
He also supports the transfer of Israeli citizens into the Occupied West Bank as squatters on Palestinian land.
8.2.b.viii stipulates as a war crime,
The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory.
Bolton strongly supports and enables a whole range of war crimes of the Likud regime in Tel Aviv against the Palestinian people, above all keeping them in a condition of abject statelessness and continually stealing their property.
Under war crimes comes "Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."
It could be argued that Israel could not engage in these illegal violations of Palestinian rights save for the American veto, so that high US officials who conspire to enable crimes like Apartheid and usurpation of Occupied Territories are even more guilty than Israeli officials.
3. Bolton is in the back pocket of, has spoken for, and may have received significant monies from the People's Jihadis (Mojahedin-e Khalq), a group that has been on the US State Department terrorist watch list and which has killed civilians with bombings and attacks in Iran. They even had a base given them for these purposes by Saddam Hussein, in whose company Bolton has fallen, given their alliance with this same Iranian cult.
The MEK is guilty of "a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack," and under this heading, of murder. In fact, it has killed Americans. Bolton gets red in the face about threats to the US except that he pals around with people who have the blood of Americans on their hands.
How delightful it would be to see Bolton at the Hague, before the very judges he threatened to kidnap.
This article originally appeared at commondreams.org


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2011 06 29: Wingardium Leviosa
Logs » 2011 06 29: Wingardium Leviosa
Mission Name: Wingardium Leviosa
Date of Mission: June 29, 2011
Locale: CIA HQ's Toybox
We finally get to see where Van gets those wonderful toys.
Another day, another mission. And another mission, of course, means another briefing. Today's briefing, however, involves more than just the usual who-what-where-when's of the latest mission. No, this time, there are toys! Eli arrives for the meeting right on time, his cane tip-tapping against the floor right up to the door, where he has to check in with the guards, then swipe his key card to gain access to the basement. From there, he moves confidently to the back of the room. Long practice allows him to navigate through the cases without any hazard of bumping into anything, just so long as nothing has been moved.
Van steps off the elevator, reaching to adjust his tie and brushing off the arms of his suit jacket. He spends a lot of time down here, really. But that doesn't mean he can't enjoy it every time he does. He's walking with a pep in his step, mostly because he's getting some new toys and that's always a good thing for him. He loves toys. After the checking in and swiping of the card, he slides into the main room and his grin is already growing. It's almost like he's just walked into DIsney World for the first time.
Eli is at the back of the room by the time Van arrives, fiddling with a device that one can assume is the gadget the spy has arrived to claim. It's small, metallic, and difficult to identify from across the room, though it seems to be multicolored and…humming. Eli is fidgetting with the fingers of one hand, causing the pitch of the humming to change. However, when the door opens, he snaps his fingers and the humming dies. "Van Prescott?" he calls, turning his face in that direction to acknowledge the new arrival. Van may look like a kid turned loose in Disney World, but Eli is all professionalism.
Van is taking his sweet time getting from the entrance to the back of the room. He's actually having a hard time not touching things as he wanders pass this and that and that over there and ooooh that looks cool and… yeah, Van has to shove his hands in his pockets to stop from exploding the lab. "That's me." is offered towards Eli at the moment he gets close enough to speak in his normal tone. "What've you got for me?"
It's a good thing Van doesn't try to touch anything. Most of it's under glass, and each is protected by an alarm. Then again, Van may have personal experience with said alarms, from previous trips here. "I'm Eli," he returns, and starts folding up his walking cane, eventually snapping it shut and hanging it from his belt. He picks up a small wire mesh that he slips onto his left hand, which becomes nearly invisible. "Spy camera," he announces, shortly. "I'm here to teach you how to use it. /Without/ breaking it." He snaps the fingers of his right hand, and a small metallic device comes to life. It's about the size and color of a hummingbird, and small metallic wings move in a nearly invisible pattern. A small gesture causes it to lift off. "It's intelligent to a certain degree. It won't run into people or walls without some extreme pushing. Though you might want to duck, just in case. I can't see where it's going," he warns with a smirk, and starts it zipping around the room. It does remarkably resemble a hummingbird, particularly if one doesn't watch it too closely.
Gawking is about the right word to explain the look on Van's face at this very moment. He keeps his eyes on the hummingbird camera as much as possible, not really wanting to lose track of it and get smacked in the face or something. "Sweeeeeet." comes from Van's lips, though he's already gearing up for more information coming about the object. "I want two." Van Prescott always wants two. He's such a greedy spy.
Eli snorts faintly, though it's hard to tell if he's genuinely amused or if it's a sarcastic gesture. He's rather distracted by the need to keep track of the object by sound, and control it with his fingers. "Are you joking? You're lucky they trust you with one. Do you have any idea how expensive these are?" he ribs, as the hummingbird comes around to circle Van, and then returns to Eli. "As you can tell, they aren't difficult to control, as long as you have hands and don't get out of range." He puts out a hand and brings his thumb to his palm. The hummingbird-camera slowly hovers over and then drops into his hand, followed by a little grin from Eli, allowing a touch of his inner nerd to shine through. "They /are/ pretty cool though, I've gotta admit."
Van raises an eyebrow at the moment, as if wanting to inspect the invention himself. Not that he's actually sure at what he's looking at. However, if he's going to be the top agent that the CIA has… he's going to have to ask the tough questions. "Is it water proof?" Oh, the dickens only knows what Van is planning to do with this thing if he's asking about water. "Either it or the glove." is added for clarification purposes. Obviously, he ends up in the water a lot on these missions!
Eli frowns a little at that question. "It's reasonably safe in the rain, but don't try to operate it in a high wind," he answers. "And don't submerge the camera itself. The glove should be fine if you get dunked, but obviously, you want to avoid it if you can help it." He peels the mesh glove from his hand, then holds it out for Van to take. "You aren't allowed out of here until I'm willing to sign off that you know how to operate it, so we might as well get to work. Try not to break it before you get out of the lab, at least."
Van is already slipping into the glove as quickly as possible at this moment, because he can't wait to get this thing going. "Okay, so… it's like a video game, basically." Van remarks, making sure that the glove is fitting nicely before he looks to Eli for the instructions on how to make it go. "Or that thing from Harry Potter…" Van is too cool to have watched such a nerdy movie. Yup! That's it, exactly!
Eli raises an eyebrow slightly. "I guess? A video game that's worth tens of thousands of dollars, but…essentially, I suppose that's the idea." He reaches out to feel for Van's hand and arrange it into a flat surface. "Before I tell you how to start it, you need to learn the basic controls. If you want it to just hover, you hold your hand flat, like this. Your hand can be by your side or at any angle, really, as long as you're holding your fingers in the correct arrangement."
"Reminds me of a flight simulator I used to have… to stop my brother from playing with all the time." Van frowns a little bit, trips down memory lane suck. But then he's testing out some of these moves that he's being told. Mostly focusing on the hand being flat one. "How do I make it see through walls?" Not that he's going to be using it to do that or anything.
Eli gives another of those sarcastic snorts. "You've been watching too many movies," he accuses. "If you want to see through a wall, fly around it. Shit, this thing can go forward, backward, upside down, you name it. What does it need to see through walls for?" He manipulates Van's hand to show him how to control the thing, while explaining, "Pointer finger goes left. Pinky goes right. Your middle two will make it go up and down, and your thumb goes forward and back. If you want to set it on autopilot to return to your hand, just tap your thumb to your palm. If you need to make it self-destruct for any reason, snap three times. But only use that if the technology is about to fall into enemy hands." He picks up the little hummingbird and turns back to the counter, reaching out to find a small indentation to plug the device into. "We have to callibrate it before you can use it. It's set up for me, and your fingers won't be as flexible as mine."
"Niiiiiiiiiiice." Van's lips of praise are enough to keep everything going as smoothly as possible. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be listening to the part about when he should make it explode because, "How big of a bang does it make?" Sounds like Van is already considering other options for how to use this thing. "And where does the footage go? My phone?" Van doesn't know how all this crazy technology works, but he's definitely willing to listen. Even as he's playing with the glove. His middle finger seems to be raised more often than anything.
Eli plugs in the hummingbird device, and then reaches into his pocket to pull out a small piece of plastic. It unfolds into what could be a Braille keyboard and perhaps even a display, and plugs into the base of the pedestal via USB. "It uses your phone to access a satellite and sends encrypted code back to my computer, upstairs. My computer decrypts it, and then I can send it on to the appropriate person. If it fails to contact the satellite for any reason, it can store up to three hours of video on a small built-in hard drive. You'll have to bring it in to download it before you can watch it, though." His slides his fingers across the output portion of the keyboard where lines of braille are popping up and down, waiting for his fingers to read them. "And it doesn't explode. It makes a small pop and then dies. The case is impressive, but the really important stuff is all on the inside. Please hold still," he requests, suddenly.
Van freezes in place, with his middle finger raised for all to see… like the wall. Right now, though, he's frowning over at Eli. "You mean, I don't get to film anything for myself? I'm just going to have to trust I'm getting a good shot?" Van is not too happy about this filming for everyone else stuff. But he'll live. "… Is my car ready yet?" He seems to be bored with this camera device already. It is not as cool as all the stuff he sees in all the movies.
Eli continues sliding his fingers across the keyboard, his brow furrowing in some confusion until he finally huffs a small sigh. "Flat. Hold your hand still /and/ flat, or it won't work." That said, he hits a few keys on the keyboard, then moves his hands back to the display. "What car?"
Van flattens his hand out quickly and then decides he's going to be frowning even more. "Spies get cars. I watch James Bond. I know these things. I want a car." Van doesn't know how else to explain this one, without sporting some kind of temper tantrum. He does, however, start looking around the room for said vehicle.
Eli sighs heavily. "Good grief. I guess our standards have gone down since the last time I was in the field," he observes, and starts tapping away at the keyboard, now that Van is holding still. "Listen, this isn't James Bond. It's not a movie. You don't get a car, unless you need a car, and if you /do/ get a car, it'll just be a normal car. Maybe a bit souped up, but nothing like what you've seen in the movies. As far as I know, you haven't been marked down for a car, this mission. Wiggle your thumb."
Sigh. Van is not so good with the gift of gab to talk his way into the vehicle at this present time. Instead, he just listens and goes about with the wiggling of his thumb. "Real Life Sucks." is the only response he has to the terms that have been set by the likes of the Eli. "Y'know, you guys could learn a lot from the movies. Our enemies wouldn't even suspect me to be in an Aston Martin with missiles."
Eli can't help a laugh at that. "Tell me about it," he responds, with amusement, and continues typing. "Now wiggling your first finger. Seriously, though. If they invent an Aston Martin with missiles before they invent those glasses like that Star Trek kid had, I'm going to be shooting some scientists," he jokes, without missing a beat on the keyboard. "Middle finger, now."
Van moves the fingers as he's told, while trying not to geek out fully! Which is not exactly something that he needs to be doing right now. Not while he's playing the role of Top Super Spy. He has so many roles in his head he can't even remember which one is which at any given moment. Windows would totally be geeking out right now, though. "I would give my left uncle for those glasses. So beyond awesome." Okay, a little geeking out can't hurt.
Eli smirks faintly. "Man. You aren't even blind. I mean, the Star Trek glasses are practically the /only/ consolation for guys like me, you know," he jokes, "Ring finger." He keeps tapping away, then adds, "I hear they're in the experimental phases of something like that, though. I'm trying to get into the study, but it involves a lot of downtime, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to. Pinky finger."
Van continues to follow along as much as possible. "Well, good luck with it." is all he really knows to say to a blind man that is still as awesome as can be but still blind nevertheless. "You don't actually need it, though. I mean, look at the stuff you do anyway." Van is meaning this in the most complimentary way possible.
Eli hesitates for a moment, but then gives a crooked, joking grin. "Ah, but it'd be worth it to be able to look at the ladies again. A beautiful woman is a work of art…Not to mention that it'd mean I could go back to field work." He taps a few last keys. "Okay. If you snap your fingers, it should respond to you, now. Just keep in mind the instructions I gave you."
Van snaps his fingers and looks off towards the Hummingbird Camera of Epic Awesome to see if it does what it is supposed to do. "Eh. We all have our destinies, right?" Which is kind of like him trying to say some wise words but it probably isn't going to work out too well.
Eli raises an eyebrow slightly. "So…you're saying that you think it's my destiny to be blind?" he asks, suddenly looking a bit touchy. The Hummingbird camera does indeed fire up its wings and hover up into the air when Van snaps its fingers. It also wobbles precariously each time he fails to keep his hand straight.
"Uhhhh… not in the way you want to cane me for." Van says, still trying to keep everything aligned with the humming bird camera. "I'm just saying if that never happened, maybe the CIA wouldn't be as well off as it is right now. You're a tremendous asset, you know." Van hopes he's covered his tracks enough with that particular one.
Eli snorts faintly, and at least goes back to looking amused. "I was a better asset in the field," he persists. "Even behind a desk, I'd be better off if I could see. If you ask them, I'm a liability. It's just that the benefits outweight the risks, right now." Once the hummingbird is humming steadily, Eli suggests, "Why don't you try getting it to fly around the room?"
"Eh. If that's what they think, they're assholes." Van doesn't have a problem talking crap about his superiors. Even if they are listening. He's the top agent for a reason and that reason is that he gets the damn job done. And right now he's wiggling fingers and sending the camera off towards this and that and WHAP! into glass cases that are probably going to be cracked by the time Van finishes with them.
Eli gives a bit of a laugh at Van's comment. "Yes, well. Reality is what it is. They do have a point." The crash into the glass case sets off a sudden alarm that causes Eli to jump and clap his hands over his ears, instinctively. Sometimes having sensitive hearing sucks. "/Shit/. Bring me to whatever you hit," he orders, stress causing his tone to turn into the bark of an order as he thrusts one hand toward Van, impatiently.
"… Uhhhh. I would. But whatever it is, is dripping and eating through the floor." Which is probably not a good sign. And another reason why Van is snapping his fingers to turn off the camera and summon it or whatever the case may be. "I should go. I gotta' get to a meeting. Don't wanna' blow my cover, you know!" Oops. Time to GET GONE.
Eli freezes, brows lifting and his eyes a little wide in a startled expression. "What did you /do/?" There are already guards coming to the door, so it's not likely Van will have such an easy getaway. "Don't even /think/ about leaving me here with something eating through the floor," he snaps. The hummingbird has indeed returned to Van's hand, but Eli is still holding out his arm, impatiently.
Van is reaching to grab Eli, right after pulling the glove off and wrapping it around the hummingbird to shove into his pocket. Which is a safe place for it. "Come on. You didn't see a thing, got it?" And Van is already pulling Eli so that he can make with the fast getaway. "… I didn't mean— you didn't hear a thing, okay?!"
Eli frowns a little. "Van…They have surveillance cameras," he points out, stumbling a little as Van starts to pull him along. "Hey, easy. And watch the steps. Look, it was just an accident. The thing's not supposed to even be able to fly into things. I must have callibrated it wrong, somehow. Fuck, this is the CIA, not some high school slumber party. Get ahold of yourself." Of course, all of this is being said while he's being dragged clumsily along behind Van, which probably detracts a little from the calm voice of reason he's going for.
"We'll hack the system. You know how." Van says, making sure that the moment they get to the door, he's putting on his 'Nothing Happened' face, for the guards. "We'll meet at the Internet Cafe on 35th Street. One Hour." Van is really loving this spy stuff way too much. It is at that moment that he releases his grip on Eli and proceeds to walk out of the door. "THANK YOU FOR THE GADGET. I AM GOING ON MY MISSION NOW.
… Not suspicious at all, Van. Not at all.
Eli sighs and rubs at his forehead. "…Right. Okay. Have fun," he finally says, giving up on talking any sense into Van. He waits until Van is gone, then takes a step to the side, reaches up, and hits a few buttons on the keypad to turn off the alarm. The guards are looking confused but mostly patient until Eli turns to them. "We've had a bit of an accident. Do you guys think you can help me clean it up? We may have to get some special equipment from upstairs," he explains, wearily. And so, Eli and the guards go about cleaning up the mess Van made with a general lack of fuss or bother. How anticlimactic.
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But not just any foreigner. A White person, and in most instances, a White man. Because as we all know, white + male = success…right? Sadly, that is the equation still in the heads of many in this world when it comes to what it takes to do well. From many boardrooms to bouncers at nightclubs here in New York, the more white guys you have, the better…for business. To the articles credit, most of the white men interviewed in the piece were hired to do more ceremonious things like deliver documents to their "renter" in front of impressionable Chinese colleagues…not deliver yearly company status reports. But it's all about face.
In college, I once had a professor break what my place in the scheme of things were: "You are a black woman…that's two strikes against you and be prepared for people to place you behind everyone else…therefore you MUST do better." I didn't full understand what she meant then, but eight years later I have lived her statement repeatedly and had my share of hits and misses, but refuse to have a chip on my shoulder. To me, it's all a matter of context. I was raised by a successful black single mother, and consistently exposed to successful minority men and women while growing up, but also remember my mom and her fab friends discussing why some minority men and women feel that they need to marry a white person ( for ex. Black Men & White Women/Asian Women and White Men) to crown their achievements. And that was the 80's.
Moving forward, I wonder if as we discuss cultural globalization, immigration, inclusion and understanding, this "new" world, how long will this "old" way of thinking will still prevail? After all, the goal isn't to rent a Black or South Asian man next year as that would just be swapping one trend for another. But to be able to say "this is me, this is my company" without feeling the need for racial justification—that could be nice one day.


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Asian Senior Attacked at SF Bus Stop Appears in Court
by Shawn Chitnis December 2, 2021 at 10:36 pm
Filed Under:Anti-Asian Attacks, Asian American Assaults, Crime, Elder Abuse, San Francisco News
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Demonstrators rallied on the steps of the San Francisco Hall of Justice Thursday in support of an 84-year-old man who survived a brutal attack at a bus stop in 2020 as he prepared to testify at a court hearing for the defendant in the case.
"We want the community to know that when something happens there are people behind him and we're not letting any cases go under the rug and we're not going to be silent anymore," said Leanna Louie, one of the main organizers of the event.
Rong Xin Liao, speaking through interpreters before entering the courtroom, said he was grateful for the community support. He acknowledged that people like him often do not have a voice but the activists fighting Asian hate helped him to be heard.
"Our society really has on its cornerstone the belief that our systems work," said Nancy Tung, a public safety advocate with SF Cause.
Liao was waiting for the bus while using a wheelchair in Feb. 2020 when Eric Ramos-Hernandez jump-kicked him. The attack left Liao seriously injured. He said in court he still has not recovered from his injuries more than a year later.
"You out to be outraged when a man walks up to another elderly man and kicks him out of his wheelchair to the ground," said Justin Butler with the SF NACCP.
The rally brought together members of various organizations fighting anti-Asian hate and reinforced solidarity among different communities of color. Several speakers took to the steps before the court proceedings began inside.
"Now let's not forget those victims and make sure they get justice," said Justin Zhu, a member of Stand with Asian Americans.
Speakers said that they wanted to send a message that these crimes will not be tolerated. Some also criticized the San Francisco district attorney's office specifically for not pursuing the wishes of Liao in this case. Liao wants the defendant to be punished for his actions.
"They did what was good for them not right for Mr. Liao," said Hudson Liao, a member of Asians Are Strong.
The D.A.'s office said in a statement to KPIX that it filed serious felony charges against Ramos-Hernandez and he spent seven months in custody but he also received mental health diversion at the request of his defense attorney and the judge granted it.
"We were not aware of a potential misunderstanding until months later, when Mr. Liao's grandson spoke to the press," the statement said. "Since then, attorneys in our office and members of our victim services division have repeatedly offered to meet with Mr. Liao but were told that communication with Mr. Liao would need to go through his own retained attorney."
The statement went on to explain that the office had a Cantonese-speaking victim advocate assigned to the case to reach Liao and make sure his voice was heard.
Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom Thursday when Liao addressed the judge.
"I love the United States. I feel very safe here," Liao said through an interpreter. "When I got attacked, I became very afraid."
Liao said he remains scared and only goes out once a day. He said that the defendant must receive a severe punishment for his actions. Liao says he was targeted since there were others standing at the bus stop at the time of the attack.
"The first thing I want you to know is how sorry I am that this happened to you," the judge said.
The judge also said that his wife is ethnically Chinese and a refugee from Vietnam. Their children are half-Chinese and he worries about anti-Asian hate as a husband and father. But the judge explained that Ramos-Hernandez is not charged with a hate crime but assault on the elderly.
The judge also pointed out that the misdemeanor which brought the defendant back to court because he violated the terms of the diversion program was not violent in behavior. Those are the factors the judge will consider as he requests a mental health review. The court reconvenes Dec. 7.
"In admitting Mr. Ramos-Hernandez to mental health diversion the court recognized his serious mental health issues and his need for treatment," said Silvia Cediel, the public defender for Ramos-Hernandez. "Jail is not a treatment center. It does not help people with mental health issues and it often exacerbates those issues."
Liao also said through interpreters outside the courthouse that he hopes his speaking out can prevent another person like him from being attacked in the future.


Kurzfassung auf Englisch: Cancer-testis antigens belonging to the MAGE class I family of genes, such as MAGE-C2/CT10, are commonly expressed in Multiple Myeloma (MM). Expression of MAGE class I genes in MM is associated with aggressive disease, resistance to chemotherapy and a poor clinical outcome, suggesting that MAGE genes may confer a survival advantage on myeloma cells. MAGE-C2/CT10 is thought to be an excellent candidate for cancer immunotherapy based on its myeloma-specific expression. It was shown that MAGE-C2/CT10 enhances p53 polyubiquitination and proteasome-dependent degradation which may impair p53-dependent apoptosis. However, in spite of its frequent expression, the biological function of MAGE-C2/CT10 in malignant plasma cells has never been elucidated.
Therefore, by using the RNA interference approach, we aimed to investigate, in vitro, the impacts of MAGE-C2/CT10 silencing on the survival of tumor cells derived from MM patients.
We found that MAGE-C2/CT10 silencing inhibited the proliferation and anchorage-independent growth of myeloma cell lines, irrespective of the functional status of p53. The anti-proliferative effect of MAGE-C2/CT10 silencing was due to a decrease of cells in the S phase, a cell cycle arrest at both G0/G1 and G2/M transitions, and an increase in the subG0/G1 diploid population based on an initiation of apoptotic cell death. Importantly, MAGE-C2/C10 overexpression was able to rescue the anti-proliferative effect of MAGE-C2/CT10 depletion and protected cells from apoptotic cell death. At the molecular level, the loss of MAGE-C2/CT10 expression increased the phosphorylation of the histone variant H2A.X at Ser139, which is a sensitive indicator of DNA damage, enhanced the constitutive activation of the ATM/ATR-CHK1/CHK2 DNA damage response and led to an accumulation of the endogenous level of p53 protein. The stabilization and activation of p53, through phosphorylation at Ser20 correlated with an up-regulation of p21 (WAF1/CIP1) and GADD45Aα, which are the main mediators of p53-dependent and independent G1/S and G2/M cycle arrest, respectively, and a two-fold increase in the expression of the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 genes BAX and BAK, being the effectors of p53-dependent and independent intrinsic apoptotic pathway in response to DNA damage.
Collectively, our findings, strongly, support an anti-apoptotic function of MAGE-C2/CT10 in MM through the regulation of key molecules involved in the regulation of DNA damage repair and p53-dependent and/or independent apoptotic pathways. The central role of MAGE-C2/CT10 in the biology of myeloma suggests that this CTA represents a promising target for myeloma-specific immunotherapies or other targeted modes of therapy for MM.


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Q: Como replicar elementos de forma dinâmica? Estou tentando criar uma série de elementos repetidos sem saber a quantia de repetições que serão necessárias. Eu tenho um input no qual o usuário informará um valor númerico acima ou igual a 1 que refletirá na quantia de repetições necessárias.
<input type="text" ng-model="numeroRepeticoes">

O único comando de repetição que conheço é o ng-repeat (meu conhecimento em Angular não é muito amplo) mas neste caso ele não é apto. Algo como isto não funcionaria:

...

A: O angular só fornece o ng-repeat mesmo pra iterar sobre um array definido no $scope. Mas você pode usar isso pra fazer uma sacanagem e iterar sobre um array "simbólico". Basicamente crie no $scope uma propriedade que vai conter o número de iterações desejadas e então crie uma função que retorna um array desse tamanho. Então você itera nesse array.
Em código, você teria
// Número inicial de iterações
$scope.numIteracoes = 1;

// Construção do array 'fake'
$scope.iterador = function (num) {
    return new Array(num);
}

A partir daí você pode usar o ng-repeat com esse array passando o número de iterações como parâmetro. Ou seja, se você quer repetir uma div seria

Perceba que como numIteracoes é uma propriedade do $scope você pode atualizar ela dinamicamente, por exemplo com um input com ng-model apontando para ele.
Esse track by $index serve pra você identificar os items pela posição no array. Você pode ver mais sobre essa sintaxe aqui.

A: Isso é possível criando manualmente um vetor de itens a ser exibido pelo ngRepeat e associando um evento ngChange ao campo para então regerar o vetor e atualizar a lista.
Considere o seguinte template:
<input type="text" ng-model="numeroRepeticoes" ng-change="update()"/>

Itens:

Item {{ item }} ({{ $index }})

E o seguinte código:
var loopApp = angular.module('loopApp', []);
loopApp.controller('LoopCtrl', function ($scope) {
    $scope.update = function() {
        $scope.items = [];
        var total = parseInt($scope.numeroRepeticoes);
        for (var i = 0; i < total; i++) {
            $scope.items.push(i + 1);
        }
    };
});

Então, cada vez que o usuário digitar no campo, a função update() será chamada, a qual irá alterar o vetor items, o que resultará na lista sendo gerada conforme o número de itens.
Demo no jsfiddle


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'Gainsaying' by no man's leave
Father Peter Milward, in his Aug. 22 letter, "Legacy of Christian humanism," would appear to have no idea what I'm talking about.
No doubt, in Milward's alternative universe, Thomas Jefferson, Jeremy Bentham and the many other thinkers who helped us break free from the "educators of Europe" either never existed or were devout Christians; Galileo was not forced to recant his heliocentric theory on pain of death, but was canonized; the French Revolution was fought to strengthen the benevolent rule of the Catholic Church and the aristocracy; and the American Revolutionary War was a struggle against the evil forces of secularism.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, belief in supernatural spirits is the very definition of superstition, as is the belief that birth control — including the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS — is a sin.
I am not a student of Milward, so he can save his overbearing Malcolm Muggeridge act for those he has the privilege of teaching.
Not believing in an absolute monarch sitting on His heavenly throne, I will "gainsay" whom I like, when I like, as is everyone's right. Luckily I live in an age when "gainsaying" doesn't get me tortured and killed on the orders of malevolent clerics.
Legacy of Christian humanism
jim makin
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.


Now scientists are finding third hand smoke can be dangerous too.
What is third hand smoke and how can it be avoided?
We know smoking can harm us. And if we live with a smoker, that second hand smoke we inhale can affect us as well.
Now scientists are finding that third hand smoke, which is the fumes that come off somebody who has smoked elsewhere can have a negative impact on our health, as well as our children's.
How to avoid passing on your smoke to others? The American Lung Association says, try to quit. If that's not possible, take the smoking outside, where the air is less concentrated and the smoke fumes are not as heavy and won't be left on clothing.


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American National Standards Institute forkortet ANSI er en privat organisation i USA som koordinerer udvikling af standarder på forskellige områder.

Historie
Standardiseringsorganet blev grundlagt i 1918 som American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC) - fra 1928 American Standards Association - fra 1966 United States of America Standards Institute (USASI) - og senere i 1969 fik det navnet American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger
 American National Standards Institute Officielt websted
 Overblik over ANSI

Standardiseringsorganer


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Griffin Shea on Zimbabwe's casket boom
July 1, 2001 • By Griffin Shea
Deep in the shadow of Harare's office high-rises, Luck Street is mostly islands of pavement in a river of mud and potholes. Despite its name, this side street in Zimbabwe's capital is where the city's least fortunate residents make their most-lasting purchases.
With an economy in free fall and more than 3,000 people dying of AIDS every week, coffin-making has become one of the country's few reliable sources of income. In outlying townships, vendors line up caskets for sale next to tables of fruits and vegetables on the dusty roadside. But if you're on a budget--and almost everyone here is--Luck Street is where you go for a bargain.
At Sunshine Funeral Home, a shady room behind a motorcycle repair shop, John Chipfuwamiti shows off his company's entire line of caskets, from a pressed-wood model that sells for about $15 to polished hardwood with brass handles, $130. He is every bit the salesman in his crisply ironed clothes, proudly pointed out that even the cheapest models have hand-sewn lining.
"Last year, there were more people dying than in previous years, " he says, explaining why he left his last job to take up coffin sales. "It was good business. People are dying."
One thing that AIDS hasn't changed is the important place that funeral rites hold as part of the life cycle. Traditionalists say that the soul can take as long as a year to leave the body and join the ancestors in the spirit world, says Gordon Chavunduka, who heads the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healer's Association. Chavunduka tells me that if people are not buried properly and given the complete funeral rites by a medium, their souls will haunt their living relatives. "After death, a number of rituals must be performed in order to assist the spirit," he says.
One of the nation's top experts on traditional culture and religion, Chavunduka is a very modern man. His office is just across from Sunshine Funeral in a contemporary building, and he sits at an enormous desk that evokes his past professions--a sociology professor and onetime head of Zimbabwe's National AIDS Council--more than his role as traditional healer. As funerals become an increasingly common part of life, he says, all Zimbabweans might have to find ways of blending their customs and modern realities. For about every 30 cents a mile, the enterprising owners of Sunshine Funeral will send corpses back to their hometowns for burial, because people prefer to be buried where they grew up. But skyrocketing inflation and chronic fuel shortage have made that very difficult for many urban dwellers, who are forced to buy a plot in cramped city cemeteries.
With more people leaving towns and villages every day in search of work in the capital, Harare has had trouble finding enough land for new homes, much less graves. Two years ago, city officials launched a campaign to encourage cremation. But that practice remains unpopular, particularly among black Africans, according to Eladinous Zimbwa, Harare's director of cemeteries, who says that eight of the city's ten cemeteries are full. Though most Zimbabweans are still reluctant to list AIDS as a cause of death, "The number of deaths has always being going up," Zimbwa says. "This is what we have noticed, and we think it is because of AIDS."
So the city is clearing up 5 square miles of land to expand one of its cemeteries on the outskirts, where most of the graves will be dusty plots in the bare earth. Unless the family is able to pay an extra fee, the city does not maintain the gravesite. The effect is something like Arlington National Cemetery without the grass or trees-acres of land covered with grave plots.
The new space should give Harare enough room to keep burying its dead for the next few years, Zimbwa says. But with 5 square miles expected to fill quickly, Chipfuwamiti won't have to worry about Sunshine Funeral closing its doors anytime soon.


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A few quick updates on what I've been up to since the last time I remembered this website exists.
Banner Pilot toured Europe awhile a back which was mostly a blast (almost getting attacked by some random dudes during a traffic standstill, and then having our van break down on the side of the autobahn…. not so much.) Other than that, pretty quiet for shows lately, just a few festivals and stuff.
Partial Traces recorded and released our first album, Glass Beach. Since then we've added a fifth member and are about to record a follow-up EP. I think the album is pretty solid, but I'm more excited about the new stuff we're working on.
Banner Pilot is also (slowly) working on a new album. The guts of the songs are pretty much written, but due to a strange combination of being somewhat lazy and somewhat perfectionists, we're just taking a relaxed approach towards finishing it up.