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Background: Goebbels began a weekly newspaper called Das Reich in 1940. He generally wrote the lead article each week, in which he took special pride. This essay is dated 9 November 1941. The campaign against the Soviet Union, it was now clear, would not soon be over. Goebbels is trying to persuade Germans that they should put their full energies in winning the war, not wondering how long it might last. For a good discussion of Goebbels' wartime essays, see Bramsted's book Goebbels and National Socialist Propaganda.
The source: "Wann oder Wie?", Das eherne Herz (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1943), pp. 78-84.
When or How?
by Joseph Goebbels
Only during the course of this war has it become clear how sick postwar Europe was, and what comprehensive measures it needed, needs, and will need, to return it to health. Just as a harmless cold sometimes allows a series of other illnesses to take hold, an event not of particular significance in itself can plunge a whole region of the world into confusion. Those who do not understand politics, which is the process of history, sometimes believe that the occasion is the cause of great human catastrophes and national transformations. The shot fired in Sarajevo, for example, occasioned the World War, but did not cause it. Europe was ready for such a war, and had been for some years. Only Germany's leadership did not want to see the danger and thus found itself in a war that it could have fought more effectively at an earlier time, but instead faced it at the worst possible time. When one knows that a pitiless enemy is seeking the best position from which to shoot, one is well advised to shoot first. An irresponsible national leadership lets things gradually intensify without wanting to see the danger. It gives the call to arms when it is too late.
It is thus understandable that during the course of a great struggle for the existence or death of whole nations, the actual occasion that led to the struggle fades from human thought. In the midst of the gigantic dimensions of the war today, the occasion of its beginning in August 1939 seems almost trivial. The city of Danzig was to return to the Reich, and Germany was to receive a corridor through a corridor. These more than modest requests on Germany's part were ignored by our enemies. Indeed, they were used as a pretext for war, with the consequences spreading like an earthquake across the continent. All the old or partially solved problems of Europe broke loose once again. Consider the questions facing Europe at the time. The Treaty of Versailles held our region in its chains, a socialist Germany with a growing population compressed into too small a space was being strangled by dying plutocracies, the young Axis powers were denied access to the riches and raw materials of the world and condemned to a slow decline ending in national death, England with the help of its obedient servants, was using any available opportunity to throw the continent into uproar and confusion, 170 million people in the Soviet Union were condemned to a wretched existence while Bolshevism was building an army that could fall upon the continent in a time of crisis, with the firm intention of bringing about barbaric national revolutions that would destroy economic, social, cultural, and community life.
These problems must all be resolved by this war, whether we like it or not. We must follow the laws in effect from its beginning. None of us has a way out any longer. We cannot postpone or delay anything. Each individual campaign of the war is necessary on its own. Were we not to fight them today, we would have to do so tomorrow, probably under much less favorable conditions. No one should imagine that Europe's problems would have been solved had Poland given up Danzig and allowed a corridor, or if England and France had accepted the Führer's offer of peace at the end of the Polish campaign. Does anyone believe that England would have gone to sleep or that the Soviet Union would have concluded that it had built its revolutionary army only as a toy? No, war would have returned in a few years, with the difference that the enemy would have learned the military lessons of the Polish campaign and improved its weapons to a degree that might have been beyond our capacities to handle.
Fate treats us in a hard and pitiless way, but it intends our good. It forces us to make decisions that we might not make if our enemies seemed agreeable, which doubtless would mean a deadly threat later on. The basic problems of our region have become clear, and their solution can no longer be delayed. It is more than a solution to various territorial difficulties; it is a matter of everything. That explains the war's dimensions. There are connections between the various theaters of this war which sooner or later would have led to war, whatever the circumstances. In the midst of all the spiritual and physical burdens of this war, indeed of any war, we cannot forget that. The important question is not when the war will end, but rather how it will end. If we win, all is resolved: raw materials, food supplies, living space, the foundations of the social transformation of our state, and the national independence of the Axis powers. If we lose it, all that and much more will be lost: our whole national life itself.
That national life is exactly what our opponents question. They may differ in their ideas of how the Reich and its allies might be most efficiently and permanently destroyed. One calls for the dissolution of our military and economic unity, another for dividing us into smaller states, a third for birth control and the reduction of our population to 10 million, a fourth for the sterilization of every one of us under the age of sixty. But they all agree on one thing: in the firm resolve that if they once again defeat Germany, we must this time be crushed, destroyed, exterminated, and wiped out. This time we cannot expect another Treaty of Versailles that would leave even the slightest chance of national recovery. The more hopeless the military situation looks for the other side, the more bloodthirsty their Old Testament fantasies of revenge become. Their slogans may sound seductive to the ears of the ignorant, but behind their humanitarian hypocritical phrases is a naked desire for destruction. The Axis powers are fighting for their very existence. The troubles and difficulties the war brings us all pale before the inferno that awaits us if we lose.
There is no point in concealing the truth. Clarity is never a cause of weakness, always a cause of strength. If a great national prophet had told the German people in 1917 everything that would happen to them after the capitulation of November 1918, we probably would have won the war instead of losing our breath in the last quarter of an hour. A political genius of the magnitude of Adolf Hitler was necessary to repair the damage done in November 1918 through a 20-year battle. Even then, his efforts often hung by a thread. There will be no second chance. The chance we have today is our greatest. It is also our last. We must every day be clear about that. The soldier must realize that as he goes into battle, the worker as he goes to work, the farmer when he harvests the nation's daily bread, the engineer, the scientist, the civil servant, the doctor, the artist, wherever they may serve the nation. It must be our prayer every morning and every evening. It must be the motivating force of all we are and do.
We can win and we will win. It will require a gigantic national effort by the whole people. No one can stand aside, it involves us all. Just as winning the war will benefit us all, losing it will destroy us all. As always at the decisive moments in our history, our people holds its fate in its own hand. We are the blacksmiths of our future, more today than ever before. We must show the other nations the way to end the general European confusion. Can we blame fate for giving us a last hard challenge before the last great triumph? Did anyone believe that our historic mission of reordering the continent would fall into our laps, without much exertion on our part? History gives no gifts, only opportunities. He who does not reach for and hold them loses everything.
That is how things are, and we must accept them as they are. We know all too well the great sacrifices the war demands from nearly everyone. But are not the sacrifices of the defeated nations much greater than ours, even if they are no longer in the war? Although we are bearing the heaviest burdens of the war, we still have the highest living standard of any European nation. We must accept limitations in every area of life, but nowhere are they unbearable. We must work as never before. The battle for the destiny of our people demands the whole of our devotion, energy and readiness. However difficult it may be, however, one needs only to look around to find someone for whom things are even more difficult. The war is hardly just a matter for soldiers, it is a hard, bitter, and bloody necessity for the entire nation. We did not want this war, despite our constricted and almost hopeless situation back then; it was forced upon us. But now we are at war. The worst is behind us. Now it is the duty of every last man and woman in the country to be filled with a firm and resolute conviction that this war must be fought to a conclusion such that it need not be repeated. We owe that to ourselves and to our posterity.
Let us then work and fight until victory is ours! Do everything that will lead to victory and avoid everything that stands in its way. Do not ask when it will come, but rather do everything to be sure that it will come. The day will come when fate gives our nation and those who fought for it the laurel wreath of victory. Then the deep lines on the face of our people will shine with the blessing of the century.
Go to the Goebbels Page.

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1st Look: "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" Trailer #2
by SCIFI.radio | Mar 29, 2017 | Science Fiction / Fantasy, Trailer Park | 0 comments
The new trailer for Valerian dropped mere hours ago, and to be honest, this movie will be able to stand toe to toe with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and hold its own. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the brainchild of French director Luc Besson, already famous for his masterpiece The Fifth Element.
Use the player controller at left to pause the SCIFI.radio music stream while you watch. Dueling soundtracks isn't as much fun as you'd think.
Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are special operatives for the government of the human territories. They have a big job, helping preserve the peace and maintaining order throughout the human-inhabited universe. Valerian has a thing for his partner, though – but his reputation with regards to women precedes him, and Laureline has no patience for that. Under directive from their Commander (Clive Owen), Valerian and Laureline embark on a mission to the breathtaking intergalactic city of Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis comprised of thousands of different species from all four corners of the universe. Alpha's seventeen million inhabitants have converged over time – uniting their talents, technology and resources for the betterment of all. Unfortunately, not everyone on Alpha shares in these same objectives; in fact, unseen forces are at work, placing all the species who collaborated to create the city of Alpha in great danger.
One thing that keeps coming up in social media is how this seems derivative of other science fiction films, but it's actually quite the reverse – a lot of modern sci-fi cinema has its roots in the space opera that is Valerian et Laureline, which not only made its first appearance in 1967, but is said to have been at least partly inspirational of Star Wars.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets makes its terrestrial debut on July 21, 2017.


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Q: asp.net 4.0 update database from xml automatically daily at 12am Basically I want to update tours table in the database from XML automatically daily at specific time. For instance System Daily update my database table from XML at 12AM.
Is it possible with ASP.NET 4.0 if yes then how i can implement this?
Thanks in Advance.

A: Use windows scheduled task instead of asp.net for repeating tasks.
you can create console aplication and run it using task sheduler

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*Schedule SyncToy to Run Automatically With Task Scheduler in Windows 7
if you want to do it using asp.net try Quartz.net

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Mechanism of action for leflunomide in rheumatoid arthritis
Clin Immunol. 1999 Dec;93(3):198-208. doi: 10.1006/clim.1999.4777.
R I Fox 1 , M L Herrmann, C G Frangou, G M Wahl, R E Morris, V Strand, B J Kirschbaum
1 Division of Rheumatology, Scripps Memorial and Research Institutes, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
DOI: 10.1006/clim.1999.4777
Leflunomide (Arava) has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This approval was based on data from a double-blind, multicenter trials in the United States (leflunomide versus methotrexate versus placebo) in which leflunomide was superior to placebo and similar to methotrexate (Strand et al., Arch. Intern. Med., in press, 1999). In a multicenter European trial, leflunomide was similar to sulfasalazine in efficacy and side effects (Smolen et al., Lancet 353, 259-266, 1999). Both methotrexate and leflunomide retarded the rate of radiolographic progression, entitling them to qualify as disease-modifying agents (Strand et al., Arch. Intern. Med., in press, 1999). Leflunomide is an immunomodulatory drug that may exert its effects by inhibiting the mitochondrial enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), which plays a key role in the de novo synthesis of the pyrimidine ribonucleotide uridine monophosphate (rUMP). The inhibition of human DHODH by A77 1726, the active metabolite of leflunomide, occurs at levels (approximately 600 nM) that are achieved during treatment of RA. We propose that leflunomide prevents the expansion of activated and autoimmune lymphocytes by interfering with the cell cycle progression due to inadequate production of rUMP and utilizing mechanisms involving p53. The relative lack of toxicity of A77 1726 on nonlymphoid cells may be due to the ability of these cells to fulfill their ribonucleotide requirements by use of salvage pyrimidine pathway, which makes them less dependent on de novo synthesis.
Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / therapeutic use*
Arthritis, Rheumatoid / drug therapy*
Enzyme Inhibitors / therapeutic use
Isoxazoles / therapeutic use*
Leflunomide
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Isoxazoles
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Platinum Dunes is an American production company created in November 2001 by filmmakers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The company produces horror films, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Purge, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija and A Quiet Place.
On October 7, 2009, Paramount Pictures announced a first-look deal with Platinum Dunes. They plan to branch out of the horror genre into action and thrillers with this new deal. On May 27, 2010, it was announced they would work on the reboot to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series of the same name. In 2014, Platinum Dunes was named The Hollywood Reporter's Producers of the Year. In 2015, the company was also named to The Hollywood Reporter's 30 Most Powerful Film Producers in Hollywood.
^ Harris, Dana (3 March 2002). "O'seas distribs rev up 'Chainsaw' redo". Variety.
^ "Paramount Pictures Signs First-Look Deal with Platinum Dunes". Bloody Disgusting.
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Q: Maven - doesnt download from https://repo1.maven.org/maven2 but trying to download from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 I m trying to run mvn site. I tried even running dependency tree. But still i m getting the following error on console. Ideally it should fetch from https and not from http. How do we get the maven from downloading from https and not from http ?

D:\Junit\junit5-examples-master\junit5-maven>mvn site
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] --------------------< com.mkyong.core:junit5-maven >--------------------
[INFO] Building junit5-maven 1.0
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
Downloading from central: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/3.0.0-M4/maven-surefire-r
eport-plugin-3.0.0-M4.pom
Downloading from org.source.repo: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/3.0.0-M4/maven-s
urefire-report-plugin-3.0.0-M4.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  4.063 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-01-20T17:14:59+05:30
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project junit5-maven: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.mkyong.core:junit5-maven:jar:1.0
: Failed to collect dependencies at org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-report-plugin:jar:3.0.0-M4: Failed to read artifact descrip
tor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-report-plugin:jar:3.0.0-M4: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-
surefire-report-plugin:pom:3.0.0-M4 from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/): Failed to transfer file http://repo1.maven.org/ma
ven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/3.0.0-M4/maven-surefire-report-plugin-3.0.0-M4.pom with status code 501 -> [
Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

Pl assist.
Regards,


That was the scenario at Blountstown Elementary School last Wednesday when law enforcement officials and emergency workers took part in a training exercise.
Pictured, Lt. Adam Terry, Maj. Rodney Smith, and Ofc. Warren Tanner enter BES with weapons rawn in search of the gunman.
For more highlights of this drill, check out this week's print edition.


Although Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) did not become an official diagnosis until 1980, its symptoms and sufferings have been with us for many centuries. For example, there are the cases of 'shell shock' during the Great War which are now known to have been cases of PTSD. Unfortunately for its sufferers, PTSD is still seen as a weakness by some and our society expects people who are involved in or witness traumatic events to just 'get over it' within a very short period of time.
One aspect that contributes to society's lack of understanding is that very few people know what PTSD actually is. There is also the question why some people suffer from it after what seems a relatively mild trauma and others can survive a major event and have no symptoms at all. To address these two questions let's look at the definition of PTSD.
As scientists begin to understand this disorder, they are discovering that PTSD is nothing new and has been suffered by people throughout history. This goes some way towards dispelling the myth that people who suffer from PTSD are somehow 'weak minded' or 'soft'.
For example, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, a historian at the University of Copenhagen, analysed three 14th century texts written by a French Knight called Geoffroi de Charny, who was also a diplomat and trusted adviser to King John II of France. After studying between the lines, Heebøll-Holm believes he can make a case for medieval knights suffering from some trauma due to their violent and relentlessly harsh lifestyle. Although the author showed no signs of PSTD, in his writing he often expressed concern about the mental wellbeing of other men. You can read more about his fascinating finds here.
Shell-shock is also a well known term, which was applied to soldiers during World War 1 who became hyper-sensitive to noise, dizzy, anxious and began to have tremors. It was initially thought these symptoms were brought on by neurological damage caused by exploding shells and gunfire (hence the term 'shell-shock'). By 1916 more than 40% of all casualties were attributed to what seemed to be this new phenomenon, and around 350 men who displayed symptoms were executed for cowardice. We now know the horrors of trench warfare had an enormous emotional effect on veterans and 306 of the men who were executed received a group pardon for their alleged offences in 2006.
Why are some people vulnerable to PTSD and not others?
It is estimated around 50% of people will witness or be involved in a traumatic event at some point in their lives and thankfully, most people will cope well, even when confronted with horrendous situations. However, there are a percentage of people who never fully recover after a serious event. Many studies have been done to try and establish why some people, although they initially show some signs of anxiety, do OK in the wake of violence, natural disasters or car accidents and others develop severe, sometimes crippling PTSD.
There are biological differences between those who develop PTSD and those who do not. According to an article in the Nature Journal "functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), which tracks blood flow in the brain, has revealed that when people who have PTSD are reminded of the trauma, they tend to have an underactive prefrontal cortex and an overactive amygdala, another limbic brain region, which processes fear and emotion".
Environmental factors are also thought to play a part in people's recovery from trauma. Study after study has shown that social and community support acts as a cushion against PTSD. Religious practice and having a strong purpose in life have also been shown to aide recovery from PTSD.
There is much work to be done to ensure people who suffer from PTSD are not dismissed or seen as defective in some way. Some have stated that even using the word 'disorder' in the name is offensive, as post-traumatic stress is a natural reaction to terrible events.
If you suffer or have suffered from PTSD we can offer you helpful legal advice which may assist your situation, for more information visit our Post Traumatic Stress Disorder page. If you would rather speak to someone now about your claim, call us in complete confidence on 0845 345 4444, or fill in our contact form and we'll get straight back to you.


Evolved from a proven performer in careful and efficient trimming, the TrimPro Rotor Med is designed specifically to meet high regulatory demands, with its medical equipment component compliancy, easy and rapid disassembly and assembly, and unique waste management and control characteristics.
Purpose-built to meet medical industry standards and CSA approved, the TrimPro Rotor Med is designed and engineered to ensure operational ease and efficiency. Each unit is easy to disassemble for sterilization and is just as quickly reassembled, for minimized downtime.
The flexible fingers are steam and alcohol resistant. The blade is made from tempered stainless steel and all connectors and attachments of stainless steel. White surfaces are finished with medical standard paint.
Evolved from a proven performer in careful and efficient trimming, the TrimPro Rotor Med is designed specifically to satisfy high regulatory demands, with its medical equipment component compliancy, easy and rapid disassembly and assembly, and unique waste management and keep watch over characteristics.
Purpose-built to satisfy medical industry standards and CSA approved, the TrimPro Rotor Med is designed and engineered to make sure operational ease and efficiency. Every unit is straightforward to disassemble for sterilization and is just as quickly reassembled, for minimized downtime.
The flexible fingers are steam and alcohol resistant. The blade is created from tempered stainless-steel and all connectors and attachments of stainless-steel. White surfaces are finished with medical usual paint.
The PlexiglasTM hood ensures debris-free operation. With out a vacuum component, waste management and cleaning are greatly simplified, further assisted by usual weight, easily got rid of and sealed square trim-bags. Stand is included.


Mike Daisey, who wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, has said he plans to make his script available for performance by any other performer, at any time, anywhere in the world without paying royalties.
"The monologue will be released as a PDF, and it comes with very open licences and you can perform it forever, without paying royalties, wherever you want," he told the New York Times.
The Guardian reports that Daisey is due to premiere the monologue in Europe at the HighTide festival in May. It combines details about the life and career of Steve Jobs with an account of Daisey's own visit to a factory in Shenzhen, China where Apple products are produced.
Daisey's announcement that he will post a full script online, and allow anyone to perform it royalty-free, raises the possibility of the European premiere being gazumped.
Nonetheless, HighTide's artistic director Steven Atkinson welcomed the news. "Mike believes theatre has a social role, and like any good artist, they want their work to impact upon audiences. So this action, whilst unusual, is typical of Mike –agenda-setting, ahead of the curve," he told the Guardian.
The Guardian also reports that Daisey had planned to post the script on his blog on Monday, but he delayed the process in order to respond to a major – unrelated – announcement by Apple. Instead, he posted an apology, promising that the script "is coming soon".


BALTIMORE, MD (BlackNews.com) — Career Communications Group, Inc. supports the new rules for the 116th Congress released by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), incoming chair of the House Committee on Rules.
Among the changes in the rules package is the plan to create an Office of Diversity and Inclusion. There are also plans to build a Financial Services subcommittee to oversee diversity and inclusion within the financial services space.
"Career Communications Group reaches thousands of students and professionals in accounting, business, finance, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields each year," said Tyrone Taborn, publisher and CEO of Career Communications Group (CCG).
"The goal is to expose them to the achievements of the African American Community and inspire them to pursue high-potential careers, with the understanding that while there is still room for progress, doors have been opened and barriers shattered. Their challenge is not to feel the burden of the pioneers, but the responsibility of continuing our march of progress," he said.
"The actions of the House today are not 20th-Century affirmative action statements, but rather the markers intended to define the competitive behavior required to win in the 21st Century marketplace. I, therefore, applaud the emphasis on diversity in the rules package, and the aim to provide an opportunity for all Americans to be included," Taborn said.
Ted Childs, retired Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer from IBM, and advisor to Career Communications Group and other U.S. and global businesses, joined Taborn in discussing the House announcement.
"Those changes, while real, reflect the reality of a nation that is becoming more diverse, but also increasingly looks like the global marketplace we serve." Childs said, adding that, "America's Team" is not a sports team – it is an army that competes on the economic battlefield 24/7 and has reduced probability of winning if it does not look like the America it represents.
"The Black and Brown student and professional communities that CCG talks to are the talent of that America. We win with them as members of our employment and leadership teams or lose. When our legislative leadership demonstrates trust in the definable, non-negotiable presence of our diversity, it frames a picture of 'We the people' as citizens and workers of 21st Century America," Childs said.
"For nearly 30 years, Tyrone has been begging America to hear and understand the message of the importance of respecting and valuing the diversity of our technology talent," Childs said.
"In 2006, I began to describe him as the Carter G. Woodson of our era. It is wonderful to see the U.S. House of Representatives align with the messenger's message," noted Childs.
Career Communications Group, the producer of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM Conference and Women of Color in STEM Conference, has built lasting partnerships with top companies and government agencies in America. The strength of these relationships has been developed around the premise that thoughtful, diversity strategies will reap positive returns on that investment in both the short and long term.


Super popular - lower GI, nuttier flavour - delicious, more nutritious.
Perfect for slow cookers, overnight ready for breakast!
Medium cut - Whole oat groats are boldly cut into 2 or 4 pieces to create this nutritious and great tasting cereal. These oats take a little longer to cook than rolled oats, have more texture and are digested more slowly, creating a lower GI.
Cut grade choices: We have chosen the 'medium' cut grade of steel cut oats as a good inbetween cut size.
Grades are: largest 'pinhead', then coarse, medium, fine.
If you really love the 'coarse' cut grade of steel cut oats and have a sizeable order - please let us know, as we can source 'coarse' grade steel cut oats for you!
An ideal healthy breakfast porridge with a nuttier flavour than regular rolled oats.
Best to soak overnight for a quicker cook or place in a slow cooker or thermal cooker.
Enjoy anytime of the day - we do!
Soak overnight for a quicker cook.
Add 1 part steel cut oats and 2 parts liquid to a pot and cook on a low for 20 to 25 minutes. When cooked add stewed fruit. Try cooking with dried fruit for added flavour.
With non-dairy milks, fruit juice, yoghurt, fresh or poached fruit, honey and a sprinkle of your favourite superfoods e.g. LSA - Linseed, Sunflower, Almonds.
Anzac Biscuits: Mix 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup coconut, 1 cup whole grain flour and 3/4 cup rapadura sugar. Melt 125 g butter with 2 tbs golden syrup and 1 tsp bi-carb soda. Combine. Put flattened walnut size balls in 160degC oven for about 12 minutes.
Actual Servings per 800g bag = 16 servings.


Dr. Peter S. Hersh graduated from Princeton University and received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Harvard Medical School where afterwards he received specialized fellowship training in corneal surgery. Dr. Hersh remained on the full-time faculty at Harvard for several years. In 1995, he founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute – Hersh Vision Group in New Jersey, dedicated to clinical care and research in LASIK and corneal surgery. He founded the CLEI Center for Keratoconus in 2002, a subspecialty center focused treatment and research in keratoconus. Currently, in addition to directing the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, Dr. Hersh is Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division at Rutgers Medical School, and Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University.
Dr. Hersh's interests are devoted exclusively to the cornea. His subspecialty corneal surgery expertise includes LASIK, custom LASIK, topography-guided LASIK, Intralase femtosecond laser procedures, LASEK, PRK, CK, Intacs, Keratoconus treatments, corneal transplantation and other corneal, laser, and refractive surgery procedures. At Princeton, he works with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering investigating new laser applications to eye surgery.
Dr. Hersh has participated in many FDA clinical trials of excimer laser LASIK and other surgical corrections of nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and keratoconus. Most prominently, he was lead author of the clinical study that led to the very first FDA approval of laser vision correction for the treatment of nearsightedness in the United States in 1995. He also was one of 2 investigators to present the Conductive Keratoplasty procedure to the FDA device panel, resulting in its 2002 approval. More recently, Dr. Hersh served as medical monitor and was lead author of the two studies leading to U.S. FDA approvals of corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) for keratoconus and corneal ectasia He is also the only U.S. surgeon to be investigating a new treatment for nearsightedness and keratoconus. Patients travel to New Jersey from all over the United States for treatment with Dr. Hersh due to his continuing research, clinical trials and dedication to the field.
As a result of his extensive clinical and research work, Dr. Hersh has published four textbooks and more than 100 research articles and book chapters. His widely used eye surgery textbook, Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures, first published in 1988, is now being rewritten for its 3rd Edition. His other books include Excimer Laser Surgery for Corneal Disorders, Refractive Surgery, and Eye Trauma. In addition, Dr. Hersh has designed a number of refractive surgery instruments in current use, most recently the Hersh Intralase LASIK Flap Spatula.
Dr. Hersh has been elected to the American Ophthalmological Society, the oldest and most prestigious eye surgery association in the country. He has also been awarded the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, an honor bestowed on fewer than 1% of eye surgeons, and has been selected for Best Doctors in America for over 10 years running. He is the only LASIK and corneal surgery specialist to be listed in New York Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, and New Jersey Life as one of the top doctors in the New York metropolitan area. He and his work have also been featured on the Today Show, PBS, America Tonight, Fox News, People Magazine, the New York Times, the Bergen Record, the Newark Star Ledger, and other national media.
Dr. Hersh has trained over a thousand eye surgeons in excimer laser refractive surgery techniques, and is past recipient of the Teacher of the Year award bestowed by the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology. His extensive lecture schedule has taken him throughout the United States and to countries such as France, the Netherlands, China, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Korea. Moreover, he is actively involved in a number of international projects to bring education and eye care to developing countries. As a result of his philanthropic work, he was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary International.
Dr. Hersh has a longstanding interest in sports eye injuries and was co-author of the book Eye Trauma. He is the Team Ophthalmologist for New York Jets Football.


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Economics, Philosophy
'Shithole Countries,' Moral Ambitiousness, and Economic Parallels
Craig Biddle January 17, 2018 Audio PDF In Spring 2018
Although many countries may aptly be described as "shitholes" for being socialist, theocratic, anarchic, or the like, disparaging or maligning people who flee such holes to create a better life for themselves in America is grossly unjust and un-American.
A person who seeks to escape from a nightmare country in pursuit of the American dream deserves not scorn or disparagement but praise and encouragement. Such an effort is a sign of moral virtue. Specifically, it's a sign of pride—the quality of character Aristotle called "the crown of the virtues" and Ayn Rand described as "moral ambitiousness."1
On an objective conception of morality, to the extent that a person thinks and acts rationally to achieve a life of flourishing, he is acting morally.2 And to the extent that a person does so under conditions that make such action exceedingly difficult, he is acting heroically.
Tyler Cowen points out some related truths in the realm of economics. In his article "Africa Is Sending Us Its Best and Brightest," Cowen explains why people who immigrate to America from wretched countries, such as several in Africa, tend to be or to become relatively well educated and successful.3 The operative principle here, writes Cowen, is that "the harder it is to get from one country to another, the more the immigration process selects for individuals who are especially ambitious and resourceful." There's that concept of "ambitiousness" again. And here it's coupled with resourcefulness. Something good has to come of that.
Using a thought experiment borrowed from economist Edward Lazear, Cowen shows a crucial implication of this principle with regard to immigrants' levels of education: "Consider immigrants to the U.S. from Algeria, Israel and Japan, and rank them in order of most educated to least educated." (Take a moment to rank them as you see fit, then continue.)
The correct ranking, writes Cowen, "is Algeria, Israel then Japan."
Although that's counterintuitive at first glance, it's easy enough to see how it works. If you are Algerian and educated, or aspire to be educated, your prospects in Algeria are relatively poor and you may seek to leave. A talented, educated person in Japan or Israel can do just fine by staying at home.
Once you grasp the logic, it seems obvious. Ambitious and resourceful people seek opportunities to improve their lives. If they can't thrive where they are, they immigrate to where they can (or at least they try). And those who exercise ambition and resourcefulness to come to America tend to continue practicing these virtues once they're here. They do their best to think, learn, produce, trade, and thrive.
This principle helps to explain why immigrants (or children thereof) who have come to America from wretched countries around the world have created myriad tech companies and Fortune 500 companies as well as countless other successful businesses.4 Further, as Cowen points out, it helps to explain factors such as African immigrants' above-average rates of graduation from college, above-average rates of participation in the labor force, below-average rates of violent crime, and more. (Read Cowen's enlightening article here.)5
People who immigrate to America from wretched countries to pursue the American dream are ambitious, resourceful, proud. In other words, they're precisely the kind of people Americans ought to welcome as fellow Americans.
This is a moral and economic fact. Americans should embrace it.
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1 See Ayn Rand, "The Objectivist Ethics," in The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: New American Library, 1964), 27, http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pride.html.
2 See Rand, "The Objectivist Ethics"; see also Craig Biddle, "Secular, Objective Morality: Look and See," The Objective Standard, April 3, 2017, https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2017/04/secular-objective-morality-look-and-see/.
3 Tyler Cowen, "Africa Is Sending Us Its Best and Brightest," Bloomberg View, January 12, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/africa-is-sending-us-its-best-and-brightest.
4 Rani Molla, "Top U.S. Tech Companies Founded by Immigrants Are Worth Over $3 Trillion," Recode, August 4, 2017, https://www.recode.net/2017/8/4/16097928/tech-companies-value-employment-founded-immigrants-immigration/; Ana Campoy, "216 Companies on the Fortune 500 Were Founded by Immigrants or Their Children," Quartz, December 9, 2017, https://qz.com/1151689/216-companies-on-the-fortune-500-were-founded-by-immigrants-or-their-children/; Zoë Henry, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs From 'Shithole' Countries Respond to President Trump," Inc., January 12, 2018, https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/immigrant-entrepreneur-trump-shithole-countries.html.
5 Cowen, "Africa Is Sending Us Its Best and Brightest."


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I thought PGSM was hysterical when I first started watching it (the special effects! the costumes! the wigs!), but the series managed to break my heart more than once before the end. Rei and Minako's very difficult friendship was one of the elements I loved; as much as I enjoy their friendship, I also 'ship them like anything.
This fic deals with the events in episode 47. It's short, and primarily dialogue, but I love the interaction between Rei and Minako.
"Artemis said you used my tambourine."
"He wasn't there."
"Maybe someone else told him," says Minako shrugging. "Is it true?"
"So what if it is? Was that your question?"
"No," she says. "I wanted to know why."
Oh, girls!
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I know nothing about vids in general, but do I know that I adore this one. It hits all sorts of emotional buttons, and I head back to this vid every time I feel the need to wallow in emo porn. It captures Rei and Minako's relationship, and makes me *flail* with happiness.


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POVERTY ERADICATION
We have come a long way
AVIA NAHREEN
Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:00 AM Last update on: Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:42 AM
Poverty is a multidimensional crisis encompassing social, economic and political components. In the last two decades, Bangladesh has shown tremendous progress in both absolute and social poverty alleviation. According to Asian Development Bank's Country Partnership Strategy, population below poverty line almost halved from 56.6 million in 1990 to 23.6 million in 2016. In the process, Bangladesh was able to meet one of the most crucial Millennium Development Goals of poverty alleviation. Other notable socioeconomic successes include increased primary school enrolment; gender parity in primary and secondary level education; lower infant and under-five mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio; improved immunisation coverage; and reduced incidence of communicable diseases.
Innovative social programmes and robust macroeconomic trends helped Bangladesh achieve such miraculous growth rates and socioeconomic progresses. Amongst many, the most important indicators contributing to the country's success with regards to poverty eradication have been listed below.
Emergence of a market-driven economy
a. Employment generation in the manufacturing sector
Manufacturing industries started to rise in Bangladesh in the 1980s and have expanded ever since. Today, Bangladesh is second only to China, in terms of RMG export. Other sectors like leather and footwear manufacturing, shipbreaking, processed food and pharmaceuticals are also gaining momentum. The rise in manufacturing has helped to absorb the country's burgeoning working age population and has increased the female labour participation ratio. Total export earnings in 1976 was USD 0.4 billion, which in fiscal year 2015-16, stood at a staggering USD 34 billion. Population living in poverty declined by almost a quarter between 2000 and 2005 in Bangladesh due to the collective effects of RMG export and remittance growth. Manufacturing led growth was able to absorb labour force from rural areas and helped raise per capita income and reduce dependency on agriculture.
b. Remittance earnings
Workers, particularly from rural areas, who cannot manage to find well-paid work in their local communities, often go abroad, usually to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, as migrant workers. In 2015, migrant workers repatriated USD 15.3 billion to the country as remittance earnings, the highest ever recorded in Bangladesh's history. Successive governments' proactive intervention in ensuring that workers are able to migrate, get employed and send money through formal channels has driven this massive growth. According to the World Bank, remittance inflow has helped to reduce poverty by 1.5 percent. Remittance earnings have even surpassed contributions from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). In fact, in FY2014-2015, remittance earnings were nine times higher than FDI and four times higher than ODA. In 2014, remittance earnings accounted for eight percent of the country's GDP, turning out to be a major contributor in allaying poverty.
c. Embracing market economy principles and private sector development
Post-1972, Bangladesh was keen on adopting policies and interventions based on the ideas of socialism and public ownership of institutions. Private enterprises were discouraged and almost all local industries and institutions were publicly owned and managed. Over time, Bangladesh moved towards market based economy and gradually the private sector flourished.
Post-1975, key industries like banking, manufacturing and telecommunication began to be privatised and continue to be so till this day. Owing to rapid private sector participation and development, per capita income in Bangladesh rose from USD 100 in 1970s to USD 687 in 2010, slashing poverty by half in the process. The private sector today accounts for 93 percent of GDP, 81 percent of total investment, 94 percent of consumption expenditure, and 80 percent of domestic credit. This occurred due to both the major political parties' commitment towards private-sector led growth. Successive governments, in spite of opposing on many fronts, have remained steadfast in supporting private sector expansion. The national policy for accelerated poverty reduction and social development emphasised the need for poverty reduction by creating an open and competitive environment conducive to private investment, highlighting exports and rural development. Creation of such an enabling environment assisted in creating jobs and generating higher income leading to declining poverty.
Development of a more participatory and inclusive political regime
a. Relatively stable political climate
In governance development context, 1990 can be seen as a 'Watershed Year' for Bangladesh. The 1990s did away with volatile politics in Bangladesh and ushered in an era of relatively stable democracy. Before 1990, coups and military rule dominated Bangladeshi politics which gave way to comparatively steady, democratic rule beginning from 1990, after which the country has mostly been run by two major parties and has experienced relative political stability that helped to foster an environment conducive to local and international businesses. Undisrupted trade and manufacturing has helped foreign and local firms to grow and invest in Bangladesh, increasing per capita income and helped to generate jobs in both urban and rural areas.
b. Role of NGOs
Bangladesh has been one of the most successful cases of NGO intervention. The country currently hosts two of the biggest and most influential NGOs in the world, namely BRAC and Grameen. Grameen introduced and popularised the idea of micro-credit and social business which helped rural communities become financially educated and independent. BRAC, on the other hand, made ample contributions towards improving education, women's health and sanitation which assisted in addressing abject poverty. Landless villagers and marginalised farmers were the poorest in rural Bangladesh. NGOs, through their community based door-to-door social and financial services, and introduction of investment concepts like credit based cooperatives, helped landless, helped the rural population become financially liberated. NGOs also generated employment through investment loans, capacity building training and employment in their organisations. Today, Bangladesh's NGO programmes, especially those dealing with innovative, financial instruments and schemes, are emulated around the world and are helping to lift millions out of poverty.
Stable food production
Bangladesh has increased her food grain production over the last three decades from 11.8 million metric tonnes in 1974 to more than 34.5 million metric tonnes in 2010-11. The country has also made admirable progress over the past 40 years in achieving food security. With one of the fastest rates of productivity growth in the world since 1995, agriculture accounted for 90 percent of the reduction in poverty between 2005 and 2010. More than 70 percent of Bangladesh's population and 77 percent of its workforce live in rural areas and nearly half of all of Bangladesh's workers and two-thirds in rural areas are directly employed in agriculture. About 87 percent of rural households rely on agriculture for part of their income. In the last 10 years, rice production in Bangladesh has increased at a higher rate than population growth, which assisted in reducing poverty. The daily per capita availability of food grains in Bangladesh has reached the standard food grain requirement or target consumption level of 454 grams in 1997-98 and has always been above the threshold level since. This unprecedented rise in food production has helped Bangladesh tackle its growing population and has significantly helped pulling millions out of poverty.
Adoption of affordable technology
Bangladesh experienced a communication revolution due to the ready availability of affordable mobile and internet connectivity. Proliferation of mobile banking has increased digital financial inclusion and has made conducting businesses easier and faster, thereby contributing to economic growth in both urban and rural Bangladesh. In 2015, mobile technologies and services alone generated 6.2 percent of Bangladesh's GDP. Mobile technologies have particularly been a boon to the rural population whose marginal utility from use of mobile phones is far greater than urban consumers. The rural population suffers from a lack of timely and relevant information, so mobile phones provide villagers across Bangladesh pertinent information and communication which enhanced existing business and created new ones. Mobile communication and mobile banking also significantly reduced the cost of doing business and gave thousands of people outside the formal banking network a chance to digitally conduct cash transfers. Mobile banking services have altered and revolutionised ways in which people from the low income bracket spend, transfer and save money. Less than 30 percent of the 160 million people in Bangladesh hold a formal bank account, hence, the Central Bank vigorously encouraged mobile banking services. Today the number of mobile money users now stands at 23 million, enabling millions to conduct transactions digitally.
Continued support from governments towards market led growth, role of non-government outfits, macroeconomic stability and equitable and forward looking policymaking, all in conjunction assisted in creating an environment conducive to economic development. However, Bangladesh still has 23.6 percent of its population living under the poverty line and several key socioeconomic hurdles to overcome before it can reach middle income status and climb up the Human Development Index. In the end, complete and sustainable poverty alleviation would require further innovative policymaking, political stability, and persistent contribution and commitment from all stakeholders.
The writer is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Policy, Advocacy and Governance (IPAG). E-mail: avia.nahreen@ipag.org


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'Catastrophic': Qld could lose 6000 teachers due to vax mandate, says body
By Felicity Caldwell
Queenslanders could lose thousands of teachers as the state government makes COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory in public and private schools in just weeks, a workers' body has argued.
From December 17, teachers, volunteers, cleaners and maintenance workers in state and private schools and childcare centres must have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. They must be double-dosed by January 23, ahead of the new school year.
Queensland teachers must be fully vaccinated before term 1, 2022 to go to work. Credit:iStock
But Teachers' Professional Association of Queensland secretary Jack McGuire said he suspected at least 10 per cent of teachers would be reluctant to get the jab.
"That's 6000 teachers in Queensland ... and about 180,000 kids impacted, if you assume they each have 30 kids in a classroom," he said. "[This] is catastrophic to the education system ... it's a sledgehammer when a surgical knife is required."
The latest vaccine hesitancy data shows 11.1 per cent of Queenslanders are either unwilling or unsure if they will get the vaccine.
Mr McGuire said the government could introduce rapid antigen tests during outbreaks, but he said extending the mandate to private schools was a "huge overreach".
Queensland Teachers' Union president Cresta Richardson said officials continued to work with the department on workforce planning.
"We may have teachers and school leaders who have medical exemptions, so how are they supported? Will there be flexible work arrangements? Will they be able to work from home? Will there be a possibility of redeployment?" she said.
Ms Richardson said many teachers were already double-vaccinated, and it made sense to extend the mandate across the school sector as the virus did not discriminate.
Independent Education Union Queensland and Northern Territory branch secretary Terry Burke said the announcement's timing, just before the holidays, posed significant implementation challenges.
He said the union would seek urgent talks with employers about how genuine medical exemptions would be confirmed, about privacy protection, and access to leave or redeployment where necessary.
Education Minister Grace Grace was unable to say on Tuesday what consequences unvaccinated employees could face, including being fired or redeployed, insisting "everything is on the table".
When asked on ABC Radio on Wednesday whether people would be unable to work if they were unvaccinated, Ms Grace said the health advice would be followed.
"Well, that will be the health directive and that will be the manner in which we will have to implement it, yes, we will follow the health advice," she said.
"We have a very high number of people that are available temporarily that could come into schools."
The Chief Health Officer's direction will apply to all staff and volunteers in schools and early childhood centres, Education Department staff, and people who go on site to do cleaning, repairs and maintenance – unless they have a medical exemption.
The rules will not apply to students, or to parents dropping them at school.
Other states, including NSW and Victoria, have already mandated coronavirus vaccinations in schools.
Ms Grace said the government had a responsibility to protect the more than 500,000 children aged under 12 in Queensland schools – and also in childcare centres – who could not get vaccinated.
The government does not have figures on what proportion of Education Queensland staff are vaccinated, but Ms Grace said she believed it was "very high".
More than 85,000 vaccination doses have been delivered to school and early childhood staff under the priority 1B vaccination category, including 39,000 second doses.
On Monday, Ms Grace said only a "small percentage" of workers were expected to push back against mandates.
Workers in correctional centres, youth detention facilities and airports will also need to be fully vaccinated by January 23, 2022.
Vaccinations are already mandatory for police and Queensland Health staff, prompting court challenges, while workers at cafes, pubs, theatres and stadiums, among other venues, will have to be fully vaccinated by December 17.
Queensland authorities have been considering extending mandatory COVID vaccinations to teachers and childcare workers for months.
Grace Grace
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Millie Bobby Brown Leaves Twitter Over Homophobic Memes
The 'Stranger Things' star makes the decision after the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown gains momentum and goes viral on the micro-blogging site.
AceShowbiz - "Stranger Things" actress Millie Bobby Brown has deleted her Twitter account after becoming the subject of a slew of homophobic memes.
The 14-year-old, who soared into the spotlight with her portrayal of Eleven in the hit Netflix series, is known to be vocal on social media, regularly posting about her career, Hollywood events and singer boyfriend Jacob Sartorius.
But the young star deleted her Twitter account on Wednesday, June 13 after the hashtag "#TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown" gained momentum, bringing with it a tidal wave of homophobic memes.
Online trolls began taking various selfies and media posted by Millie and photoshopping them with crude and offensive captions designed to make the actress, who is openly pro-LGBTQ, appear to be violently against homosexuality.
In one image of the star posing with a cup of coffee, a doctored caption had been added reading: "Just bought myself a piping hot coffee to throw on a f**got."
Another showed her sitting in a car, alongside the tagline: "Just got this car. It's pride month hoping to hit a few f**gots today."
A similar image of the IMG model was captioned: "just ran over a homo xoxo beep beep b**ch."
The socially-conscious star has long been a champion of LGBTQ rights, favouring public political statements to show her support.
In 2017, she attended the MTV Movie and TV Awards, where she accepted the best actor award for her role in Stranger Things, wearing two blue pins - one recognising the American Civil Liberties Union and the other to honour the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Together movement.
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Printed Restaurant Menus - A thing of the past?
Techmte
Print or Digital?
Let's face it, when was the last time you picked up a delivery menu and called the number on the menu to order food? With the advent of delivery mobile apps such as Deliveroo, UberEats, Zomato, Talabat, RoundMenu, etc 95% of consumers below the age of 35 are dependent on such mobile apps.
And why shouldn't they be...The mobile app makes it very easy to save your address or show your current physica location to deliver food. Tracking the order on the mobile manages expectation on the delivery time, and more importantly read reviews before you order. Also the restaurant can do away with call centre staff to answer calls and upsell. Statistics show that there is a steady decline of orders coming directly to the restaurant via the telephone, with most brands its less than 15% of the total delivery business. Also the cost of printing and distributing the printed delivery menu out weighs the revenue it generates.
What about dine-in menus? Shouldn't we have printed menus atleast for dine-in guests?
We came across a newly opened Japanese restaurant Yugo Sushi who have taken it a step further and gone 100% digital. The Dine-In menu has been replaced with digital iMenus. Why? Research shows, a food video sells better than an image. Also having both Dine-in and Delivery menu in digital format gives the restaurant freedom to change prices, add menu items and remove non-performing items on the fly.
So why haven't we seen more of these digital menus? The upfront cost of creating videos of every food item and re-shooting everytime the presentation is changed or new items are added deters restaurant operators to go digital. One technology company in Dubai - TECHMTE has identified this as an opportunity and offers digital menus as a managed service for as little as AED 300 per month! Abhishek Bose, Business Head of TECHMTE said that the initial uptake was slow and the company ran it as a pilot project with a handful of restaurants and the response has been brilliant! Since then they have managed to sign up brands such as Mighty Quinn's, The Parlour and Sushi Art. After the initial success in UAE, Sushi Art has decided to roll it out in all their locations in KSA.
"Although the restaurant needs to invest one-time on tablets, but studies have shown that the increase in average check and repeat footfall recovers the cost of the tablets within the first two months of operation. And lets not forget, iMenu sells and cross sells by itself leaving very little to do for the service staff." said Abhishek Bose, Business Head of TECHMTE. TECHMTE currently has over 300+ restaurant clients in the region out of which 25+ are already using iMenu and has 20+ restaurants scheduled to go live in the next 30 days.
What do you think? Are restaurants ready to go 100% digital? Comment below…
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Abhishek Bose is an industry vetran, with over 20+ years of experience in hospitality technology. Started his career with Micros-Fidelio (owned by Oracle) with whom he was involved in 36+ pre-opening projects, following which he was the Asst Director of Technology with Burj Al Arab (pre-opening team for 3+ years) and since then has been selling to hotels. He has had over 60+ hotels as his clients and has consulted on over 300+ restaurant projects.
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Contact details abhi@techmte.com | Mobile +971 50 2298622
If you need comments / statements from existing clients feel free to reach out.
About TECHMTE (http://www.techmte.com/):
A bespoke hospitality technology house focusing on innovative solutions which empowers your business to reduce costs and increase revenue. Being hoteliers first, focus is to introduce innovative solutions to an ever changing and challenging industry.
POS, Digital iPad Menus, Business Intelligence, Mobile Apps, Websites, Social Media, Sage Partners, WIFI authentication over social media, F&B Inventory Systems, Menu Design, Digital Menus, etc are few of the products and services they provide to an ever growing customer base. Currently have over 300+ restaurant clients in Oman & UAE


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Karlovy Vary 2019 Review
Independent; 96 minutes
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Written by Rory O'Connor on July 2, 2019
What a difference a day makes. Allowing one's characters to move from narrative point A to narrative point B in the same amount of time it takes for the Earth to spin 360 degrees should be an arbitrary undertaking, like having a film where everyone wears hats or can't remember the Beatles, but that simple constraint has fired more than a few great filmmaker's creative engines over the years. Spike Lee used a hot one as a pressure cooker. Linklater seems obsessed with the form. The limitation seems to ease some primal craving for order and patterns. They can also be a lot of fun.
Back in 2012, a charming discovery was added to the species. It was shot in monochrome, nodded to Woody Allen (when that was still a thing people did), bore the auspicious title Oh Boy (released rather bluntly stateside as A Coffee in Berlin), and followed one young man's bittersweet odyssey through the Berlin streets in search of answers and a cup of Joe. Oh Boy was the debut of Jan-Ole Gerster, a German filmmaker who returns to the capital–and this 24-hour sub-genre–7 years later with Lara, switching from black and white to color, at least as far as the imagery is concerned. It stars veteran East German actress Corinna Harfouch in the eponymous role, a woman truly on the verge.
We meet her in the wee hours of her fateful day, down and out and staring at a conspicuously empty spot in her apartment wall, rising only to open the large window of her high rise apartment. The camera lingers. We nearly expect the worst, but Gerster's film, it transpires, is not as concerned with suicide as this opening suggests–even as it teases that she might try again before the day is out. Indeed, chance intervenes when the cops come calling, looking for assistance in a neighborly squabble. One has a silly mustache, the other a set of glasses he might have found in a joke shop. We fill in the box labeled "tone" as best we can.
When approached as a character study, there is plenty to relish here. It is Lara's 60th birthday and perhaps her lowest ebb: recently dumped by her boyfriend, unhappily retired from a public service job she had no passion for, even less happily divorced, and held more in contemptuous respect than affection by her old colleagues, acquaintances and, most significantly, her son Viktor (Tom Schilling, who also starred in Oh Boy), a promising professional concert pianist. Lara's pitiful bottom-of-the-ninth attempt to repair her relationship with Viktor is the source of the film's downbeat drama, and while the dark comedy aspects are passable at best, it is a far more cynical beast than Gerster's previous film and perhaps a better one for it.
The director's keen eye for the lesser fancied locations of his native city has, however, further sharpened over the years and it's great to watch Harfouch trudge around, dwarfed by some or other famed West Berlin institution. (I felt a particular urge while watching to find a cozy nook at Cafe Paris and raise a stiff drink in solidarity.) The last-day-on-earth draining of the bank account and luxury splurges are a bit Scent of a Woman-on-Aderall (hoo-ah) but one such overindulgence does provide the film's MacGuffin: the 22 remaining tickets to Viktor's piano concert that night–during which he is set to perform his first original composition. Lara duly scoops them up with the sad hope of finding catharsis through the act of giving them away. The film is at its most sympathetic not as she considers that plunge early on but as she visits old semi-acquaintances attempting, with a forced and strangely resentful vibe, to fill the empty spots. It may not have been such a wonderful life after all.
For all its strengths, the broad visual humor of the two policemen early on portends a comic unevenness that does begin to nag after a while, but Lara still works on the whole and that's with great credit to Harfouch's performance. It's not difficult to think of someone like Isabelle Huppert in the role–all eye rolls and I-could-give-a-damns–but what a different movie that would have been. Harfouch's best moment comes when she confronts Viktor on a back garden patio, her face shape-shifting between knee-jerk antagonism and a fascinatingly strained empathy. Love, unlike revenge or maybe piano lessons, the film suggests, is seldom a dish best served cold.
Lara premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
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July 31, 2012 10:25am PT by Eriq Gardner
Warner Bros. Files Mass Litigation Against Amazon Resellers
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Is Amazon's user marketplace rife with counterfeits?
Warner Bros. is going after Amazon.com's resellers market. The studio's home entertainment division has filed at least 16 separate lawsuits in California against those who use the e-vendor to sell discounted DVDs ranging from Harry Potter films to many HBO shows such as Game of Thrones, The Wire, The Sopranos and Entourage.
Each of the defendants is alleged to be using the Amazon's e-commerce platform, which enables third parties to sell products on its website. According to the complaint, more than 2 million Amazon users participate in the Amazon Marketplace to offer "new, used and collectible selections at fixed prices to Amazon customers around the world."
The complaints don't offer much detail about what the defendants are selling except to identify the titles of the allegedly infringed works and to say the works being sold are "counterfeit."
A search of the products being offered by defendants on Amazon yields such items as a DVD of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that's priced at $6.99.
In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. asserts exclusive distribution rights to various creative works.
The reselling of copyrighted items has long enjoyed some legal protection under the "first-sale doctrine." But in a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010 in Vernor v. Autodesk, the appellate judges held that the original vendor could limit the application of the first-sale doctrine by crafting the terms of use for media content to define the purchase as a "license" rather than a strict "sale."
However, a source close to the studio says the latest lawsuits are "not a question of used merchandise." (Warners had no comment.)
If Warner Bros. is suggesting that illegally downloaded or camcorded copies of shows and movies are being passed off as new or used items on Amazon, the lawsuits launched Monday suggest a different sort of problem. Namely, the lack of internal controls in the Amazon Marketplace to deal with such "counterfeits." Amazon has been known in the past to suspend the accounts of counterfeiters, so the litigation raises the question of why not this time. An Amazon spokesperson wasn't available for comment.
Amazon is not a named defendant in the suits.
However, a few of the lawsuits target unnamed John Does. Typically, such a move is made in anticipation of subpoenaing a service provider for more information about the identities of infringers.
Warner Bros. is seeking that the defendants be restrained from offering unauthorized copies of their works for sale as well as marketing, advertising and promoting such copies. The studio also is seeking actual damages and attorney costs.
E-mail: eriq.gardner@thr.com; Twitter: @eriqgardner


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Myanmar massacre: Two Save the Children workers are missing after 30 villagers including women and children were rounded up by troops and shot
Two workers from the international Save the Children charity are missing in Myanmar after government troops shot and killed dozens of people on Friday.
Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, and fatally shot more than 30 and burned the bodies, according to a witness and other reports.
Purported photos of the aftermath of the Christmas Eve massacre in eastern Mo So village spread on social media in the country, fuelling outrage against the military that took power in a February coup.
Mo So village is just outside Hpruso township in Kayah state where refugees were sheltering from an army offensive.
The accounts could not be independently verified. The photos showed the charred bodies of over 30 people in three burned-out vehicles.
Myanmar has been in chaos since the February coup, with more than 1,300 people killed in a crackdown by security forces, according to a local monitoring group.
'People's Defence Forces' (PDF) have sprung up across the country to fight the junta, and have drawn the military into a bloody stalemate of clashes and reprisals.
Pictured: Burnt vehicles in Hpruso township in Myanmar's Kayah state where it is believed at least 30 people - including women and children - were shot and killed on Friday by Government troops. Two workers from the Save the Children have been missing since
A villager who said he went to the scene told The Associated Press that the victims had fled the fighting between armed resistance groups and Myanmar's army near Koi Ngan village, which is just beside Mo So, on Friday.
He said they were killed after they were arrested by troops while heading to refugee camps in the western part of the township.
Save the Children said that two of its staff who were travelling home for the holidays after conducting humanitarian response work in a nearby community were 'caught up in the incident and remain missing.'
'We have confirmation that their private vehicle was attacked and burned out,' the group added in a statement. 'The military reportedly forced people from their cars, arrested some, killed others and burned their bodies.'
'We are horrified at the violence carried out against innocent civilians and our staff, who are dedicated humanitarians, supporting millions of children in need across Myanmar,' said Save the Children's chief executive, Inger Ashing.
A villager told Reuters on Saturday that he had seen 32 bodies, while Save the Children said at least 38 people were killed.
Pictured: Smokes and flames billow from vehicles in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar, December 24, 2021, in this picture released by the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force
Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and set the bodies on fire, a witness and other reports said Saturday
Mo So village, where the massacre is said to have taken place, is just outside Hpruso township in Kayah state where refugees were sheltering from an army offensive
The London-based charity said it had suspended operations in Kayah and parts of neighbouring Karen state and in the Magway region.
A report in the state-run Myanma Alinn daily newspaper on Saturday said that the fighting near Mo So broke out on Friday.
It said members of ethnic guerrilla forces, known as the Karenni National Progressive Party, and those opposed to the military drove in 'suspicious' vehicles and attacked security forces after refusing to stop.
The newspaper report said they included new members who were going to attend training to fight the army, and that the seven vehicles they were travelling in were destroyed in a fire. It gave no further details about the killings.
A member of a local PDF group said its fighters had found the vehicles Saturday morning after hearing the military had stopped several vehicles in Hpruso after clashes with its fighters nearby on Friday.
'When we went to check in the area this morning, we found dead bodies burnt in two trucks. We found 27 dead bodies,' he told AFP agency on condition of anonymity.
'We found 27 skulls,' said another witness who did not want to be named.
'But there were other dead bodies on the truck, which had been burned to pieces so we couldn't count them.'
The Myanmar Witness monitor said it had confirmed local media reports and witness accounts from local fighters 'that 35 people including children and women were burnt and killed by the military on 24th December Hpruso township'.
Satellite data also showed a fire had occurred around 1:00 pm (0630 GMT) on Friday in Hpruso, it added.
AFP news agency was unable to confirm the reports, but AFP digital verification reporters said the images purporting to show the incident had not appeared online before Friday evening.
The Myanmar military denied the claims.
People fleeing due to fighting between the military and the Karen National Union (KNU) line up to receive food at a temporary lodging for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Karen state, along the Thai-Myanmar border, on December 25, 2021
People fleeing due to fighting between the military and the Karen National Union (KNU) ride in a boat across a river in Karen state, along the Thai-Myanmar border, on December 25, 2021
The witness who spoke to the AP said the remains were burned beyond recognition, and children's and women's clothes were found together with medical supplies and food.
'The bodies were tied with ropes before being set on fire,' said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety.
He did not see the moment they were killed, but said he believed some of them were Mo So villagers who reportedly got arrested by troops on Friday.
He denied that those captured were members of locally organised militia groups.
Myanmar's independent media reported on Friday that 10 Mo So villagers including children were arrested by the army and four members of the local paramilitary Border Guard Forces who went to negotiate for their release were reportedly tied up and shot in the head by the military.
The witness said the villagers and anti-government militia groups left the bodies as military troops arrived near Mo So while the bodies were being prepared for cremation. The fighting was still intense near the village.
'It's a heinous crime and the worst incident during Christmas. We strongly condemn that massacre as a crime against humanity,' said Banyar Khun Aung, director of the Karenni Human Rights Group.
Earlier this month, government troops were also accused of rounding up villagers, some believed to be children, tying them up and slaughtering them. An opposition leader, Dr. Sasa, who uses only one name, said the civilians were burned alive.
People fleeing due to fighting between the military and the Karen National Union (KNU) board a boat in Karen state, along the Thai-Myanmar border, on December 25, 2021
A video of the aftermath of the December 7 assault - apparently retaliation for an attack on a military convoy - showed the charred bodies of 11 people lying in a circle amid what appeared to be the remains of a hut.
Fighting meanwhile resumed Saturday in a neighbouring state on the border with Thailand, where thousands of people have fled to seek shelter.
Local officials said Myanmar's military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery on Lay Kay Kaw, a small town controlled by ethnic Karen guerrillas, since Friday.
The military's action prompted multiple Western governments including the U.S. Embassy to issue a joint statement condemning 'serious human rights violations committed by the military regime across the country.'
'We call on the regime to immediately cease its indiscriminate attacks in Karen state and throughout the country, and to ensure the safety of all civilians in line with international law,' the joint statement said.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military on February 1 overthrew the elected government of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been sentenced to four years' detention and faces multiple other criminal charges.
At least 1,375 people have been killed and more than 8,000 jailed in crackdowns on protests and armed opposition since the coup, according to a tally of the Association for Assistance of Political Prisoners.
The military government disputes those numbers and says soldiers have also been killed in clashes.
In October Save the Children said its office in the western town of Thantlang was destroyed in junta shelling that also razed dozens of homes following clashes with a local anti-junta group.
Myanmar massacre: Two Save the Children workers are missing after 30 villagers including women and children were rounded up by troops and shot Reviewed by free heip on December 26, 2021 Rating: 5


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As in the previous two years, George Dafermos will join us at the pre-festival event of CommonsFest 2015 in Heraklion on April 17-18.
In connection with his presentation on Friday, where he is going to talk about the FLOK Society Project and the methodology of developing public policy proposals from the bottom up, we are re-publishing the interview he gave us last year about FLOK.
Our first group of guests at the pre-festival event of CommonsFest 2015 which will take place in Heraklion-Crete on April 17-18 comes from Ecuador's FLOK Society Project.
FLOK Society project (aka Proyecto Buen Conocer) is a research-activist project which begun in 2013 upon the initiative of an open group of activists and academics with the aim of developing a set of public policy proposals for the transformation of Ecuador into a social economy based on the principles of the Commons, of peer production and governance and of free access to knowledge.


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