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UFC Fight Night Predictions: Marlon Vera vs Dominick Cruz Best Bets, Odds and Picks
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Dominick Cruz To Win
Landwehr vs Onama Under 2.5 Rounds
Marlon Vera has won 4 of his last 5 fights and expects to get a title shot in the near future. But first, he needs to get past Dominick Cruz, the former UFC champion who went on a streak of 2 wins in a row in 2021. Here are our predictions for the main event of this UFC Fight Night: Marlon Vera vs Dominick Cruz.
UFC Fight Night: Marlon Vera vs Dominick Cruz Main Event Predictions
Marlon Vera Preview
Marlon is a 29-year-old fighter from Ecuador. In 2014, Marlon took part in the 1st TUF Latin American season. The Brazilian left the project due to health problems, but Dana White was impressed by the performance of the fighter on the show and personally offered him a contract.
Marlon made his UFC debut in November 2014 against Marco Beltran, whom he lost to via unanimous decision. In total, Vera spent 19 fights in the UFC: 13 won, 6 lost. Marlon last fought in April 2022. His opponent was Rob Font. Vera won by unanimous decision.
Marlon Vera's Fighting Style & Skills
Vera has a spectacular fighting style. He throws out dangerous non-standard strikes and is able to surprise an opponent at any stage of the battle. As a black belt in BJJ, the Ecuadorian has repeatedly demonstrated good work from the back, inventive sweeps, and successfully implemented submissions 10 times.
Marlon misses too much on the standing position. Trying to surprise the opponent, he flirts in attack and misses more than 4 hits per minute. He has never been knocked out thanks to a strong jaw, but sooner or later the accumulated damage will make itself felt, and the Ecuadorian will fall.
Dominick Cruz Preview
Dominic is a 37-year-old American fighter. He made his UFC debut in July 2011. Before that, he was in the WEC organization, which was bought by the Fertitta Brothers, and Dominik was the bantamweight champion. He moved to the UFC as a champion and made his first defense of the UFC belt in his debut. Cruz's first rival was Urijah Faber, whom he defeated by unanimous decision.
Dominik made 5 successful defenses in the promotion and lost the belt in 2016 when he lost to Cody Garbrandt by unanimous decision. Cruz last fought in December 2021. His opponent was Pedro Munhoz. Dominic won by split decision.
Dominic Cruz's Fighting Style & Skills
Dominick Cruz is a versatile fighter. In the standing position, he has phenomenal footwork, thanks to which he not only cuts corners and attacks from an uncomfortable position for the opponent but also leaves the line of attack himself. He does a lot of work in the rack, throwing effective combinations.
Dominic has a good takedown defense. In addition, if the fight in the standing position does not go according to plan, he can initiate the fight himself and work confidently with the opponent on the ground. I note Cruz's good cardio, he is able to work at a high pace for 5 rounds.
Dominic is a martial arts veteran. He is 37 years old and frankly old for the bantamweight division. We must not forget the serious injuries that he has been struggling with since the middle of the last decade. Due to his age and problems with his legs, his footwork is not as effective as before. Due to hand injuries, he cannot hit at full strength.
Vera vs Cruz Prediction
I think that Marlon Vera is overrated and they give him undeservedly low odds. Dominic is head and shoulders above the Ecuadorian when it comes to boxing. He hits more accurately and more technically, and his footwork is still working, thanks to which Cruz will leave the opponent's line of attack in time. In a duel against Casey Kenney, Dominic proved that he can compete on equal terms with young and fast fighters.
I doubt that Marlon will be able to connect with BJJ. His translation skills are mediocre, and Cruz himself is quite good at defending against takedowns. Therefore, most of the fight will take place in the stance, where Dominik will be able to interrupt Marlon and score points.
Co-Main Event: Nate Landwehr vs David Onama Predictions
Apart from the main event, the UFC Fight Night Full Card is comprised of promising bouts between veterans and new fighters in the organization. Here are our predictions for the co-main event.
Nate Landwehr Quick Preview
The Landwehr is most dangerous in the standing position. He throws a lot of crushing blows from different angles. Nate loves to slash opponents with hooks and knees. Due to his impressive physical strength, he can finish the duel with one accurate hit. The athlete defends well against takedowns.
Despite good transfer defense, Nate is wary of good wrestlers. All he has to offer to elite grapplers is a good backhand, during which he ties the opponent and does not give space to attack. But in this way, he only allows opponents to score points.
David Onama Quick Preview
David positions himself as a dangerous generalist. In the standing position, he aggressively presses opponents, throws a large number of punches, and can drop an opponent with one biting punch. On the ground, Onama tries to quickly get into a position convenient for a submission.
It is difficult to objectively evaluate David's skills. He won all the victories in fights against low-grade opposition and suffered his only defeat by agreeing to come out on short notice.
Landwehr vs Onama Prediction
Under 2.5 Rounds
Nate will face an opponent who has a hard punch. After moving to the UFC, Landwehr was knocked out twice. This means that his jaw can not withstand strong hits. Onama turns on from the first seconds of the fight. With aggressive pressing, he will crush the opponent in the standing position. Given that David has knockout power, I wouldn't be surprised if he knocks out Landwehr in one of the first exchanges.
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Always good to unplug for a while! Good luck with all of your projects!
I've been thinking of the same thing. I'm nearing the end of my novel.


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You are at:Home»140-149 mins»3215. Death On The Nile (1978)
By The Mad Movie Man on	 January 11, 2021 140-149 mins, 1978, 6 - 7.9, Crime, Drama, Jan 21, Movies Of 2021, Review, Thriller, United Kingdom
7.5 A lavish, fun-loving mystery
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, David Niven
Director: John Guillermin
Death On The Nile is a British film about legendary detective Hercule Poirot as he investigates the murder of a wealthy heiress onboard a paddle steamer travelling down the Nile.
Featuring an all-star cast and a five-star story, John Guillermin's Death On The Nile is without doubt one of the better Agatha Christie film adaptations. With a wonderful lead turn from Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot, the film delights through lavish production, enjoyable intrigue and a good sense of humour.
In that, Death On The Nile is every bit the entertaining mystery blockbuster that Murder On The Orient Express often failed to be. While both films are level in terms of their star power and production quality, there's something so much warmer about Death On The Nile, a film that's ready to have a lot more fun with what is, after all, a mystery designed to entertain and intrigue.
There are a lot of reasons for that, but the biggest of all has to be Peter Ustinov, who is fantastic as Hercule Poirot. Giving a much warmer portrayal of the character than Albert Finney in Murder, Ustinov is a hugely likable lead from start to finish, and that makes his endlessly detailed and thorough eye for mystery immensely endearing, instead of a little unnerving like was the case with Finney's performance.
What's more is that Ustinov works really well with the rest of the movie's amazing ensemble cast. Some of the names on the bill here are enough on their own to make you swoon, with the likes of Mia Farrow, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith and more appearing in this most all-star of all-star movies.
There are so many big names in Death On The Nile that even some of the biggest don't even get much of a look-in, with Ustinov, Farrow and a couple others very much at the centre of attention. However, each of the actors really stands out whenever it's their moment to shine, and that adds perfectly to the film's reliance on a wide roster of personalities and potential murder suspects.
As is the case with so many Agatha Christie stories, the entertainment of Death On The Nile is bouncing different ideas of who might have committed the heinous deed, while simultaneously coping with an ever-worsening situation. In that vein, the film establishes all of the motives for its characters within the first twenty minutes, pulling you in immediately as you gear up for the moment when everything goes bang.
Unfortunately, the movie does drag quite badly in between its gripping opening stages and the moment where murder does finally strike, but it then finds its rhythm again as Poirot sets about investigating the crime and creating his theories as to who was responsible.
The formula for Agatha Christie stories is well-known and enjoyably familiar, but one thing that Death On The Nile does to make the story all the more entertaining is really embrace a sense of humour. Murder On The Orient Express was at times a little bit of a dry watch, but Death On The Nile's warmer vibe comes with a healthy dose of fun-loving comedy.
It's not a movie that's there to make you laugh out loud, but a smattering of zany characters, jovial exchanges and more is more than enough to turn Death On The Nile into the thoroughly enjoyable blockbuster it ought to be.
Overall, I had a lot of fun with Death On The Nile. Certainly one of the better Christie film adaptations, the movie counts on great performances across the board, good writing, wonderful production and a solid helping of humour that make it a truly entertaining watch. So, that's why I'm giving it a 7.5.
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2126. Hercules (1997)
958. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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Michael Oren, making the case for Obama
By Ron Kampeas and JTA September 12, 2010, 9:38 pm 0 Edit
WASHINGTON — Michael Oren outlines what may be his toughest assignment: Making the case to a skeptical public for a leader who's hard to pin down.
Pitching Bibi to the Americans?
No, that's an easy one.
The real problem for the Israeli ambassador to Washington is how to make Israelis understand President Obama.
"Obama often doesn't get the credit he deserves in Israel," Oren said in a pre-Rosh Hashana interview with the U.S. Jewish media. "I think it's important at some point that he visits us."
The interview appeared to represent Oren's most intensive effort yet to counteract speculation in some Jewish and Israeli corners that the Obama administration has been chilly, if not outright hostile, toward the Netanyahu government. It comes at the start of renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks and a new anti-Iran sanctions regime, two developments seen as bolstering Israel's need to be seen as enjoying strong relations with the White House.
In the interview, Oren reviewed the strides of the past year and the challenges facing Israel and the Jewish world looking ahead.
Among the accomplishments, he counted the renewed peace talks with the Palestinians and overcoming the public disagreements between the United States and Israel over those talks. Along the same lines, he also listed his ability to settle public disagreements with J Street, a left-wing pro-Israel group that has faced heavy criticism from centrist and right-wing critics.
As for future challenges, Oren said the prospect of a nuclear Iran loomed large. Less threatening, but nonetheless clearly a concern for him, was handling criticism from pro-Israel hawks now that the Jewish state was plunging into peace talks that would involve compromise.
Oren, who was born and raised in New Jersey, brings to his understanding of the Obama administration the nuance of a historian versed in the trajectories of both nations. He said that a major part of his job is explaining the Obama administration to Israelis, through interviews with Israeli media.
"I try to put it in perspective, Israelis are tough," he said, using a Hebrew colloquialism that means "You can't put one over on them."
"I don't try to polish things up. We've had disagreements over settlements, we've had disagreements over Jerusalem — but you've got to see a big picture. The U.S.-Israel relationship is vast."
Oren went on to outline areas of cooperation — defense, commerce, intelligence sharing — that would characterize any American administration, Republican or Democrat, until a reporter asked the ambassador to get specific about Obama.
"I have a different take on the Cairo speech," Oren said, referring to Obama's June 2009 speech to the Muslim world.
The speech was lambasted in Israel and some U.S. Jewish circles for emphasizing Holocaust denial as an Arab failing but not making a broader case for ancient Jewish claims to Israel.
"A lot of people in Israel said the Cairo speech, they weren't thrilled with the Cairo speech. I said, wait a second, this is the first time a president of the United States has gone to the heart of the Arab world and introduced Israel's legitimacy, and said to the Arab world you've got to recognize the legitimate Jewish state," Oren said. "It was an amazing thing; he didn't get credit for it."
Oren also praised Obama for making good on his pledge to ramp up pressure on Iran through sanctions to make transparent its suspected nuclear program. The ambassador asserted that the multilateral sanctions are "biting" the Iranian regime.
"He's had a very robust position on Iran," the ambassador said. "Again, I don't think people understand fully just how determined he is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons."
Tellingly, the success surprises Oren.
"We had the Iranian issue, which could have been the source of the greatest divisions between the Israeli and American governments, and over the course of this year you saw no daylight between our governments," he said.
Still, Oren implied that the harmony on this front might not last.
"They have not yet in any way stopped enriching uranium or pressing on with their nuclear program," he said of Iran. "So that's going to be the true test, six or nine months down the road we're going to have to reassess and see where the sanctions are going."
The Obama administration has said it wants a full year to test the Iranians. The Israeli and U.S. governments could conceivably fall out over whether a military strike is necessary to stop the nuclear program.
Oren played a role in speculation about U.S.-Israel differences when his conversations in conference calls with fellow diplomats were leaked to the media. His follow-up explanation at the time was the object of some derision: Oren insisted that he never said there was a "rift" in the relationship but a "shift."
He went some way in explaining the issue in his recent interview.
"The administration promised change, and it's an administration of change," he said. "Obama is not a status quo president; he promised change domestically, he promised a change in foreign policy. One of my jobs was to figure out what this change was and report it back."
Change is scary, Oren suggested, and Obama needed to make his case directly to the Israeli public.
"The timing has to be right," Oren said. "I think that when he does come, when he reaches out, I think there will be a greater sense of support for him. It will be very important for the peace process — we're going to be asked to take some big risks."
Restarting direct talks helped put behind Israel and the Palestinians the issues that had vexed them — settlements in the West Bank and building in eastern Jerusalem — for the moment. Oren noted that the end of a 10-month Israeli partial moratorium on settlement building looms Sept. 26, and that while Israel understands the pressures leading Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, to demand its extension, Netanyahu is under pressure, too.
Netanyahu's "credibility is an asset for the peace process," Oren said, anticipating a time — within a year, according to Israel's timetable — that Netanyahu will have to make the case to the Israeli public for territorial concessions. "You don't want in any way to impair his credibility."
Notably, Oren described the negotiations as among three entities — Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United States. And he described the moratorium in terms of negotiations with the United States.
"We're discussing this with the administration very intensely, we're looking for ways to get around the hurdle," he said.
Oren also anticipated resistance from the American Jewish right.
"The moratorium was very unpopular with the American Jewish right," he said. "I anticipate further, if we move down this road toward an agreement with the Palestinians, that's just going to begin."
Oren said his tensions with J Street were overblown and are in any case behind them. He said he communicates regularly with the organization's director, Jeremy Ben-Ami.
"Does everything they do please me? They do not," Oren said, referring to J Street's criticism of both Israel and Hamas in the 2009 Gaza war. He hastened to add, "We understand that the American Jewish community is politically pluralistic, but the tent of pro-Israel organizations is a very big tent, is very inclusive."
Including J Street in a "pro-Israel" tent is bound to be jarring to some ears, particularly among some centrist and right-wing pro-Israel groups that have endeavored to describe the organization as representing the interests of a detached U.S. Jewish minority, if not an anti-Israel agenda.
Oren clearly sees himself, however, as a bridge between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. He noted his role in interim success having to do with women who want to worship equally at the Western Wall and in concerns about a Knesset bill that would have negated successes in getting Israel to recognize Reform and Conservative conversions.
In the former case, he noted that the Prime Minister's Office is now monitoring the situation and ensuring that women — while still unable to hold services at the Wall — have easy access to a nearby alternative site.
In the matter of conversions, Oren noted that the matter has been put on hold for six months while a commission examines how to reconcile overseas conversions with the demand among Israelis from the former Soviet Union who are demanding a streamlined Israeli process.
Oren finished the interview on a hopeful note.
"It's going to be a year of challenges on many levels, but it's a year of great opportunities and hope, of peace, security of Israelis and our Palestinian neighbors," he said. "And a year of continued support, understanding and love between Israel and Jewish communities."
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IMPACT OF RAMADAN FASTING ON RENAL RECIPIENTS WITH MILD TO MODERATE IMPAIRED GRAFT FUNCTION
Einollahi B, Lessan-Pezeshki M, Pourfarziani V, Aghdam B, Rouzbeh J, Ghadiani MH, Nemati E
Ramadan is the month during which Muslims have to abstain from eating and drinking from dawn until dusk. According to Islamic Laws, children, sick patients, travelers, and women who are menstruating or nursing a baby are exempt from fasting. However, not all Muslims who are ill seek this exemption and insist on fasting in any case. The effect of fasting during the month of Ramadan on patients with renal impairment is still a matter of controversy. Therefore, the present study was initiated to determine whether fasting in Ramadan has harmful effects in renal recipients with mild to moderate impaired allograft function. We conducted a retrospective study on 16 kidney recipients with mild to moderate impaired renal allograft function (calculated glomerular filtration rate lower than 60 ml/min) who had fasted during Ramadan within September to October 2007. Recorded data for each patient before and after the month of fasting were body weight, body mass index, blood pressure, as well as urinalysis, and serum levels of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, uric acid, blood glucose, electrolytes, lipids, and hemoglobin. The mean age was 45.7 ± 14.5 years, ranged from 21-74 years. There was no significant change in creatinine clearances (the mean values before Ramadan was 47.8 ± 11.2 ml/min vs. 49.7 ± 12.7 ml/min after the month of Ramadan, P=NS). Blood pressure was not significantly lowered after the month of fasting (SBP 131 ± 13 mmHg vs. 128 ± 11 mmHg, P = 0.08; DBP 80 ± 5 mmHg vs. 79 ± 6 mmHg, P=0.4). We did not find an increase of acute complication, acute rejection or ATN, during Ramadan. To our knowledge, this is the first report of impact of Ramadan fasting on kidney allograft in recipients with mild to moderate renal failure from Iran. Our study demonstrated that allograft function in kidney recipients was unaltered by Ramadan fasting. Transplant recipients must consult their doctor for the type and dosage of medicine, and diet and precautions to be taken during the month.
Nephrology & Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


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Police said the bodies of the couple were discovered this morning from a residence in Galewela, Matale.
Police has not ascertained the identities of the victims.
The Galeweva Police is conducting further investigations into the incident.


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Three Recent Releases: Bears and Libertatians, Philosophy and Polar Explorers, and Deepest Oceans
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
This Nonfiction November recommendation from Christopher @ Plucked From the Stacks was the one that I couldn't wait to read. Was it ever worth it! This is an odd, quirky, entertaining story that ends up being a non-scoldy, powerful argument for the necessity of taxes and government services. Stay with me! It really is.
Grafton, a tiny town in New Hampshire, was taken over by a group of libertarians who decided to turn it into a sort of libertarian social experiment — a so-called Free Town Project. That meant: lower taxes and less government interference, through citizens voting on eschewing certain services and institutions or cutting off funding to others. (Including the library, road maintenance, and, incomprehensibly, the fire department.)
The idea was that libertarian ideals and principles should be allowed to dictate the structure of the community, and citizens could choose to allocate public resources where they wanted and ignore the rest — the utopian (?) ideal of society without government interference.
Instead of building from scratch, they would harness the power and infrastructure of an existing town — just as a rabies parasite can co-opt the brain of a much-larger organism and force it to work against its own interests, the libertarians planned to apply just a bit of pressure in such a way that an entire town could be steered toward liberty.
It was getting along, not successfully by any means, until some fires sparked with inadequate firefighting resources. Then came the bears. The New England town bordered a forest, and as maintenance services and rules about what one could and couldn't do in terms of property, trash, and feeding wild animals fell by the wayside, bears began to encroach further on the human residents of Grafton, with predictable consequences.
Vermont-based journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling tells such a compelling, compulsively readable story. After this year I didn't think I was in much of a mood to read more politics, but this was entirely different. It has a colorful cast of characters — and "characters" really is the word here, despite being nonfiction. Hongoltz-Hetling is respectful even when allowing their quirkiness to speak for itself.
Yet it's highly entertaining, and the people (and creatures) involved — ranging from the Moonies, to a bear-feeding farm owner referred to only as Doughnut Lady, to an aggressive and territorial llama — are almost larger than life. Not really surprising that some mild kooks were attracted to an experimental libertarian social project. The story switches between the political setup and the increasingly alarming bear conflicts. I found the latter more absorbing and some of the political narrative, which included the town's earlier history and beginnings in unconventional politics, was a bit confusing.
But Hongoltz-Hetling moves things along quickly, and this was an eye-opening look at the reality of libertarianism in action, with enough dark humor to keep it from becoming bleak. And it does feel a bit bleak — all of this to save literally cents a day on property taxes. Let this be a warning about what "freedoms" taken to extremes means in practicality. September 15, 2020, PublicAffairs
Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five Oceans
As a result of the space race and the continuing fascination with the Moon, 533 people have orbited Earth, and 12 have walked on the Moon. As a species collectively, including the Soviet Union's early missions, we've gone "up" into space with great success. But what about going "down" to the bottom of our oceans. What has come of the "oceans race"?
The answer is next to nothing, because there isn't really one.
Author Josh Young tells the story of Victor Vescovo, a venture capitalist and traveler, adventurer, and fluent Arabic speaker, among his many other hats, who recognized this strange absence in our scientific knowledge and decided to put his money towards furthering human exploration of reaching each of the five oceans' deepest points.
Specifically, he funded and organized "the first expedition to ever attempt to dive to the bottom of the five oceans, in hopes of creating a marine system capable of reliably, safely, and repeatedly journeying to any point on the bottom of the ocean. Such a thing had never existed before in human history and they were determined to change that."
Young lays out the narrative of how this happened in the utmost detail — perhaps too much detail, since at times it detracted from the main story. It was also a bit technical for my interest level, because what draws me to these stories is the ocean aspect, and less the specifics of the technology used to explore it.
Still, this was intriguing in parts since the technology was so innovative, plus learning the myriad things that can go wrong, derailing an entire expedition. And Young writes for a general readership instead of a technical one, so it's not difficult to follow, just not quite what I was expecting.
Also fascinating is Vescovo himself, a complicated personality who's used to having things his way in major projects and undertakings. It provided an unusually granular behind-the-scenes perspective of how such a massive undertaking even functions, and all the technological and personal moving parts involved. December 1, 2020 by Pegasus Books. I received a copy courtesy of the publisher for unbiased review.
Philosophy for Polar Explorers, by Erling Kagge, translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven
Erling Kagge's book about the philosophical musings and life ideas he drew from his experience walking alone on the South Pole is newly re-released. This is one to buy in hard copy; the photographs are lovely: sprawling, icy, fields of blue and white.
He calls this book "a recalibration of sorts," taking stock of the unexpected and embracing the importance of being in nature (something I think we've all learned this past year).
Some of the ideas are simplistic, but it can be comforting and reassuring to read such words when you need them. During this dark, end-of-year time after the seemingly nonstop stress and upheavals of late, I needed them. They weren't earth-shattering, life-changing revelations, just quiet, gentle observations that are applicable to anyone's life, to some extent.
Sometimes it's just an idea to underscore common emotional challenges or psychological difficulties, and I found those the most meaningful. Like on continuing to explore and stay curious about the world even if you think your prime is passed: "There is no finish line. The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet."
He puts the challenges he faced while exploring remote and dangerous terrains into context, showing that what he learned from all this was that it's the everyday that's harder in terms of endurance, fortitude, and courage. My favorite passage in the whole book:
Showing courage in day-to-day is a different challenge altogether. Now and then it strikes me that I'd rather climb Everest again than have to go through what some people face in everyday life, with all its injustice and cruelty […] It takes so much courage to battle a serious illness, to show kindness, to keep promises, to end relationships — not to mention daring to love and to express love — and to deal with betrayal, disappointments, and sorrow. As the Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skarderud once asked, "What is a bungee jump compared to waiting for the call of a loved one that never comes?" An expedition lasts for several months; it's hard while it endures, but all those other everyday challenges last a lifetime, give or take a bit. Conducting oneself properly in all of the myriad situations of normal existence, and being honest both with oneself and with others, is often tougher and a greater challenge than a journey where the whole thing will finish at a designated geographic point.
The biggest takeaway is vast appreciation of everything nature provides. Kagge describes feeling lonelier in New York City than when walking solo to the South Pole, and any city dweller can probably empathize. These brief, universal meditations on the clarity and strength we can find outdoors, alone, in quiet places was a meaningful note to end the year on. 2006, new edition November 17, 2020 by Pantheon. I received a copy courtesy of the publisher for unbiased review.
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16 thoughts on "Three Recent Releases: Bears and Libertatians, Philosophy and Polar Explorers, and Deepest Oceans"
Jonetta (Ejaygirl) | Blue Mood Café says:
Fascinating choices, especially the Libertarian experiment. Somehow, that was a predictable outcome😏 If it weren't for the frigid temps, I think I could embrace the polar explorers philosophy. I was taken with that comment about feeling lonelier in NYC than the South Pole…I can believe that!
Thanks for these wonderful reviews💜
I know, right 😂 the author's description of this place descending further into chaotic mess is hilarious but totally unsurprising.
I loved that bit about NYC too, and he just captured the feeling of that phenomenon so well. A lot of his observations were recognizable, it was reassuring. I think you'd like it, only the photos look frigid, the rest was pretty heartwarming ♥
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The First Mate told me about the bears and I originally thought he was kidding. The book sounds great. Added to the list.
x The Captain
Did he like the book? I thought it was such a good one! Very funny and distracting 🙂
Laila@BigReadingLife says:
I'm gonna have to read the Libertarian one. As a public library employee these people perplex me (to say the least.)
It's such a good book, I'd say pretty much universally recommendable. They perplex me too from what I knew of libertarianism, but he puts their town in such stark relief against a neighboring one that pays a few cents more in taxes and the whole thing just seems all the more ludicrous (and sad). So grateful for libraries and librarians, you're the best!!
Umm, I can't believe I've never heard of this story from NH! I live less than an hour away and had no idea this happened. I am going to HAVE to pick that up.
You MUST read it! It seemed like there was a lot that felt more relevant/specific to having some knowledge or feel for the area. I'd love to hear what you think of it!!
I'm tempted to buy the first book for my Libertarian brother-in-law who lives in NH. I don't think he'd ever change his outlook but he's smart and has a great sense of humor.
Oh that's so interesting that he's there!! If he has a good sense of humor then I think he'd appreciate it for sure. But yeah, not sure it'd change his outlook. I'd be interested to hear a libertarian's perspective or defense after reading it though!
Bledwina Blighty Pudfish says:
Count me in for the bear book!
Oh it was so good! Although I'm a little embarrassed for my country for any non-American to read it, honestly…some of what happens is truly just so hard to believe.
The libertarian book sounds fascinating, and it looks like what happens is what happens in communes so often, too. And the Kagge sounds wonderful, too. Thank you for highlighting these excellent books!
Yes, that's a good point, it was a really similar outcome to commune-type living situations. Kind of disturbing. The Kagge book is well worth a read — kind of relaxing and meditative for this time of year, and especially THIS year!
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Haywood was originally selected as an independent board member of Dara Biosciences in 2008 and rose to be the Board Chair until the company was bought by Mida Tech Pharma in 2015. Before that he was a director and Vice-Chair for I-Trax Inc. before it was acquired by Walgreens in 2008. Prior to I-Trax, he was CEO of CHD Meridan Corporate Healthcare for five years until it was acquired by I-Trax in 2004. Earlier in his career he served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Lab Corp of America, CEO of Allied Clinical Laboratories and VP of Finance and COO of Roche Biomedical Laboratories. He started his career with Wachovia Bank & Trust.
He has served in numerous roles within the University of North Carolina community, currently as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees. He is a board member of the Carolina Research Venture Fund, UNC-CH Foundation, Inc., the UNC Foundation Investment Fund, Inc., the Endowment Fund of UNC-CH and the Chapel Hill Real Estate Holdings, Inc.
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Velella is a monospecific genus of hydrozoa in the Porpitidae family. Its only known species is Velella velella, a cosmopolitan free-floating hydrozoan that lives on the surface of the open ocean. It is commonly known by the names sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply Velella.

This small cnidarian is part of a specialised ocean surface community that includes the better-known cnidarian siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war. Specialized predatory gastropod molluscs prey on these cnidarians. Such predators include nudibranchs (sea slugs) in the genus Glaucus and purple snails in the genus Janthina.

Each apparent individual is a hydroid colony, and most are less than about 7 cm long. They are usually deep blue in colour, but their most obvious feature is a small stiff sail that catches the wind and propels them over the surface of the sea. Under certain wind conditions, they may be stranded by the thousand on beaches.

Like other Cnidaria, Velella velella are carnivorous. They catch their prey, generally plankton, by means of tentacles that hang down in the water and bear cnidocysts (also called nematocysts). The toxins in their nematocysts are effective against their prey. While cnidarians all possess nematocysts, in some species the nematocysts and toxins therein are more powerful than other species.  V. velellas nematocysts are relatively benign to humans, although each person may respond differently to contact with the nematocyst toxin. It is wise to avoid touching one's face or eyes after handling V. velella, and itching may develop on parts of the skin that have been exposed to V. velella nematocysts.

Distribution and habitat

Velella velella lives in warm and temperate waters in all the world's oceans. They live at the water/air interface, with the float above the water, and polyps hanging down about a centimetre below. Organisms that live partly in and partly out of the water like this are known as neuston. Offshore boaters sometimes encounter thousands of V. velella on the water surface.

The small rigid sail projects into the air and catches the wind . However Velella sails always align along the direction of the wind where the sail may act as an aerofoil, so that the animals tend to sail downwind at a small angle to the wind. Having no means of locomotion other than its sail, V. velella is at the mercy of prevailing winds for moving around the seas, and are thereby also subject to mass-strandings on beaches throughout the world. For example, most years in the spring, there is a mass stranding that occurs along the West Coast of North America, from British Columbia to California, beginning in the north and moving south over several weeks' time. In some years, so many animals are left at the tide line by receding waves, that the line of dying (and subsequently rotting) animals may be many centimetres deep, along hundreds of kilometres of beaches.  Mass strandings have been reported also on the west coast of Ireland, and in Hayle, on the west coast of Cornwall in England.

Life cycle
Like many Hydrozoa, Velella velella has a bipartite life cycle, with a form of alternation of generations. The deep blue, by-the-wind sailors that are recognized by many beach-goers are the polyp phase of the life cycle. Each "individual" with its sail is really a hydroid colony, with many polyps that feed on ocean plankton.  These are connected by a canal system that enables the colony to share whatever food is ingested by individual polyps.  Each by-the-wind sailor is a colony of all-male or all-female polyps.  The colony has several different kinds of polyps, some of which are both feeding and reproductive, called gonozooids, and others protective, called dactylozooids.

The gonozooids each produce numerous tiny jellyfish by an asexual budding process, so that each Velella colony produces thousands of tiny jellyfish (medusae), each about 1 mm high and wide, over several weeks. The tiny medusae are each provided with many zooxanthellae, single-celled endosymbiotic organisms typically also found in corals and some sea anemones, that can utilize sunlight to provide energy to the jellyfish. Curiously, although a healthy captive Velella will release many medusae under the microscope, and are expected to do the same in the sea, the medusae of Velella are rarely captured in the plankton and very little is known about their natural history. The medusae develop to sexual maturity within about three weeks in the laboratory and their free-spawned eggs and sperm develop into a planktonic larva called a conaria''', which develops into a new floating Velella hydroid colony.

Systematics

The Porpitidae is a family of the Hydrozoa erected for two genera of hydroids that live floating free at the surface of the open ocean: Velella and Porpita. The systematic position of these peculiar genera has long been a topic of discussion among taxonomists who work with pelagic Cnidaria. The three genera were put in with athecate hydroids in the mid-to-late 19th century by some, whereas other authors at the time included them in the Siphonophorae. A new order was established for these genera by Totton, in 1954, called the Chondrophora, while at the same time, other authors favored again placing them in the Anthomedusae/Athecatae. Most authors in the past 40 years have accepted interpretation of these animals as unusual floating colonial athecate hydroids, which produce medusae clearly belonging in the Anthomedusae. Although the exact position of the family Porpitidae within the Athecatae/Anthomedusae is not yet clear, the order Chondrophora is no longer used by hydrozoan systematists.

See alsoPorpita porpita''

References

External links

 Animal Diversity Web: Velella

 Jellieszone.com: Velella
Marine Life Information Network

 Plankton Chronicles Short documentary films and photos

Porpitidae
Monotypic cnidarian genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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How to seize an island: Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus is receiving its share of the Turkish government's practice of seizing and destroying all fields within Turkey, from politics to public institutions, the economy, and nature. All the decisions concerning Cyprus are made by Erdoğan despite the Cypriots and he does not even let Ersin Tatar make the announcement. Who is Tatar anyway? He is a trustee.
By Fehim Taştekin
ftastekin@gazeteduvar.com.tr
Now Turkey's President Erdoğan is scaring us with even good news. When he delivers said 'good news,' there are a thousand disasters immediately afterward. He promised such a piece of good news to Northern Cyprus on the anniversary of the Cyprus Operation from July 20, 1974. He mentioned the issue a while ago in the closed quarters of Varosha, the place about which the UN Security Council says, "attempts to settle any part of Varosha by people other than its inhabitants as inadmissible" and calls for the transfer of that area to the administration of the United Nations under Resolution 550. What will happen now?
Will Erdoğan change the status of Varosha, a part of its coastline, which has been partially opened? Will he give an ultimatum, saying, "We're opening the city. The Greeks may come also. If they do not come by this date, they will lose their rights"? Will he change the name of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the Turkish Cypriot State? Will he say they have found a natural gas reserve off the coast of Cyprus? Or will he just promise a new parliament building? Everyone wants to know.
Northern Cyprus is also receiving its share of the Turkish government's practice of seizing and destroying all fields within Turkey, from politics to public institutions, the economy, and nature. They are doing so with no regard for the status of the TRNC recognized by Turkey.
The opposition Republican Turkish Party (CTP) and the Communal Democracy Party (TDP) will boycott Erdogan's 'good news' announcement in parliament on July 20. Former President Mehmet Ali Talat, who was backed by Erdoğan during the 2004 referendum, has approved of the boycott. Everybody knows how annoyed the trade unions are. Current President Ersin Tatar is considered an 'appointee' of the opposition. His predecessor Mustafa Akıncı has been publicly threatened, so much so, that Akıncı's press advisor Ali Bizden was held for 11 hours on July 6 at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport and sent back after being told he had a '5-year ban on entering Turkey." Perhaps he was blacklisted via the G82 code, which designates a "threat to national security." In times such as these, codes like this rear their ugly heads.
The echo of Erdoğan's partnership with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in Turkey is even more overwhelming in the TRNC. Any mild criticism has been reframed as "relationship between Turkey and the TRNC has shifted away from the right platform." This reaction from CTP is not even the froth of the accumulated anger in the island.
They say they would change the parameters of negotiations to put the TRNC on the path to independence via a two-state solution instead of federalism. However, a new conquest-minded imposition, which will eliminate the small area of movement left to the TRNC itself, is coming. It is an operation of forced annihilation. All the decisions concerning Cyprus are made by Erdoğan despite the Cypriots and he does not even let Tatar make the announcement. Who is Tatar anyway? He is a trustee. The TRNC government will be informed of these decisions at the same time as the TRNC citizens. The decision to partially open the Varosha was one such decision.
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The governments of the Republic of Turkey, treated the TRNC as a "free crime zone." Exiled mafia boss and YouTuber Sedat Peker has already disclosed certain incidents which took place on the island. The residents of the island know even more. Erdoğan not only multiplies this crime record, but changes the format. He is sending signals of a 'new conquest' to his masses and is seizing the island. The presidential elections in the TRNC were a milestone in the story of this seizure. Whatever happened during the presidential elections mirror what will happen next. Let's shift our focus to a report published on June 10.
Mine Yücel, Abdullah Korkmazhan, Orhan Erönen, Mine Atlı, and Derya Beyatlı as researchers and Tacan Reynar as a reporter prepared the "Intervention Report concerning the 2020 TRNC Presidential Election."
This report gives an idea of what Cyprus will look like from now on. It covers the threats Akıncı had to face while he competed. He reached the second round against Tatar on October 18, 2020. According to the report, which compiled information provided by witnesses to the incidents, Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay's propaganda team spent three weeks on the island in support of Tatar. Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) staff tried to intimidate Mustafa Akıncı and Serdar Denktaş into withdrawing from the race. This staff bought votes. They used trolls to wage a social media war. Journalists were threatened with arrest.
Going into more detail, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu went to the island on September 9, 2019 and held meetings with citizens, together with Turkey's Nicosia Ambassador Ali Murat Başçeri. They did not inform President Akıncı. Later, Çavuşoğlu directly targeted Akıncı, saying, "I have never worked with such a dishonest politician."
Kudret Özersay was summoned to Ankara with Tatar on January 10, 2020, immediately after he announced he would run for office.
Vice President Oktay was the chief of the intervention. He met Tatar in Varosha on February 15, 2020. Just like Çavuşoğlu, he did not inform Akıncı. Erhan Arıklı was also summoned to Ankara on August 6, 2020 when he announced his candidacy. Tatar was again present there.
On August 15, 2020, deputies from Tatar's National Unity Party (UBP) were summoned by the Turkish Ambassador in Nicosia to the Beyaz Ev (White House) of the Security Forces Command in Kyrenia. The Commander of the Corps and MİT officials attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Turkish media supporting the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) increased its negative coverage of Akıncı. The pro-government newspaper Yeni Şafak wrote that Akıncı was the "Raider of the Greeks" on September 10, 2020. (His last name means raider in Turkish.)
The most striking event is that Cenk Gürçağ, chief of staff of the Turkish Cypriot president, was first summoned to Ankara by MİT. He told them he had to inform Akıncı. Then, on September 17, 2020, he was told that a team from Ankara wanted to meet with him and invited him to dinner. On September 18, 2020, when he went to the Archway restaurant in Kyrenia where the appointment was scheduled, he was told that there was no such reservation. Some people then stepped in and told him there was a 'misunderstanding' and he was taken to Merit Park Hotel. In the meeting there, MİT Head of External Operations 'Mr. Kemal' head of the Greece and Cyprus Department of MİT, 'Mr. Ali' and a MİT expert 'Mr. Hakan' were present.
Gürçağ asked the team, "Why are you here?" They answered that the enemy was at the door. "We need people here who won't betray Turkey. That's why we're here." Gürçağ wanted to know why he was called. The answer must have been like, "Because we have looked into your ancestors. Your father and uncles are all nationalists who risked their lives to join the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT)." Gürçağ told them, "My uncle, my father, and my president (Akıncı) have also been wounded in the war." Then they told him that they did not know that, saying, "Why doesn't he say this? To look better to the Greeks? Akıncı has a toxic language." MİT members claimed that three names from Akıncı's team were "people working for the Greek intelligence." Then they listed their threats.
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"They will all be prosecuted. We don't want Akıncı at that post. He's not going to win the elections anyway. It will be made certain that he will not win. Even if he wins, nothing will ever be the same. We know everything about everyone close to him. His withdrawal from the election would be best for him, his family, and his close aides. Tell him to post his withdrawal on Facebook tonight. We're coming as a messenger from the very top. No one and nothing are more important than Turkey's survival."
Akıncı revealed this threat on October 9, 2020. Additionally, A 20-member team, led by Oktay's press adviser Ali Genç, met Tatar and his people at Lord's Palace on October 2, 2020. Footage from this incident was shared and started a huge debate in which threats were heard.
Then there is the incident which is considered to be direct interference in elections: Erdoğan called Tatar to Ankara on October 6, 2020 and announced that he will open Varosha with the 'good news' that the water pipe leading to the island has been repaired.
On October 9, 2020, the Turkish embassy distributed supplies to sports clubs. Meanwhile, many associations received aid. On the same day, some 9,872 people received 2,000 liras in their bank accounts in the name of "Pandemic Social Support."
Serdar Denktaş, who was interviewed for the report, said the TRNC Central Bank has been instructed to make payments to all banks by October 9, 2020 at the latest.
Denktaş said that he met with MİT members at a friend's house on September 4, 2020 who pressed him, saying, "If you stand down, you will be able to establish relations with Turkey that you have never been able to." Denktaş said his phones were tapped and that he was followed by official vehicles. He also said that the Turkish Embassy in Nicosia interfered in the election, that there were suspicious activities in the counting process, that the results were added up in non-impartial institutions, and that supervision and observation were not allowed. According to Denktaş, Erdoğan sent a 27-member team to Cyprus which worked for Tatar with 300 to 400 people on the field.
The report said that because Akıncı did not stand down, his party was undermined, his phones were tapped, he was followed by vehicles with official license plates. The media that supported him had to change their stances as a result of such pressures, he said. Businessmen were threatened and journalist Rasıh Reşat, who was part of his team, was called to Turkey, but did not go. He said that the teams, who said they spoke on behalf of the Turkish state, went from village to village saying, "Akıncı will not win. We've taken every precaution. Even if he wins, he won't be able to keep his position. Akıncı claimed that the political party UBP was just a subcontractor in this process.
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Akıncı also said that lawmakers at the Beyaz Ev meeting were told that "The Republic of Turkey definitely wants Tatar; it does not want Akıncı. For Turkey, it is an issue of survival. You will also work for Tatar to be elected." These deputies were all followed and monitored during the election campaign.
Akıncı then called the Turkish Ambassador and shared what happened at the Beyaz Ev and elsewhere. The ambassador criticized him saying, "You want a federation. You are after a separate identity in relation to Turkishness. You are after a Turkish Cypriot identity. Turkey wants total change here with all the institutions." Akıncı handed the ambassador a letter to be delivered to Ankara. But three hours later, the ambassador rejected the accusations of interference and returned the letter.
After the report was published, Akıncı confirmed the information and said, "There is nothing exaggerated in the report." He said Turkey had always interfered in TRNC elections, but has never been involved to this extent, with its MİT, military, and bureaucracy. He said all Turkish institutions were on the field with links to oppression, threats, and interests.
Journalist Pınar Barut reported that she and her crew filmed Tatar entering a hotel with the AKP team. Upon this, the Turkish Ambassador summoned the chief prosecutor to the embassy and tried to have the media team arrested on charges of "disclosing state secrets." When she refused to give her source, she was threatened with "When you go to Turkey, you will be arrested for espionage and spying."
This is a process that Cyprus has been going through since 1960 and there are many international dimensions of this process, together with its international guarantors. Recent events in the northern part of the island would make Rauf Denktaş turn in his grave. He was the founding president of the TRNC and was labelled as being against any solution.
Before anything else, Erdoğan is talking about the next steps and, with these interventions, he is ignoring the TRNC as a state and overstepping in the name of Cyprus. The island has been stirred up. Niyazi Kızılyürek wrote in his column in the newspaper Yeni Düzen describing the situation beautifully:
"Now, 47 years later, there is enthusiasm and the passion for a conquest again. With its Islamists, nationalists and social democrats, all of Turkey has once again set its eyes on Cyprus. But this time it is an attempt at a different kind of conquest. On the one hand, a new pillage move is being made in Varosha, which has been freed from Greek Cypriots and kept closed until now. On the other hand, the seizure of the Turkish Cypriot community is in question. However, the Turkish Cypriots who applauded the first conquest are rebelling this time. Because, as Hamlet said, 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.' This is the transition from one conquest to another conquest that well deserves the description of a 'total seizing.'"
In the report, Serdar Denktaş said, "From now on, the possibility of an 'annexation' for the TRNC is very high." Several others have the same prediction: Turkey will do to the TRNC what Russia did to Crimea. Annexation or adhesion.
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Amazing Life Of Designer Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, Sister Of Bollywood Actor Ranbir Kapoor
on September 19, 2016 at 12:19 pm
It is never easy to break the mold and create one's own path but she made up her mind to do something other than acting. She came up with her own fashion label 'Ara' and jewelry brand called 'R' and stuck to her decision. Yes, you guessed it right! We are talking about Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, the beautiful daughter of Neetu & Rishi Kapoor. While she herself is a designer, her favorite choice is the designer duo of Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla. Riddhima enjoys watching movies and is particularly fond of horror movies. The Kapoor family loves food and Mrs Sahni is not an exception; she binges on chocolate chip cookies. Even though Riddhima calls herself a foodie, she is disciplined and cautious of the food she eats. She is also averse to change and gets annoyed when something changes. The lady socializes a lot in Delhi and that also helps her promote her products. To de-stress she relies on Play Station 3 games and power Yoga. The beautiful lady comes out a very open-minded and clear-headed person in her approach towards life. Mrs. Sahni knows how to strike the right work-life balance and lead a peaceful life. She holds her parents in high esteem for all the values they have instilled in her.
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An Extraordinary Pedigree
Born in the first family of Bollywood, Riddhima Kapoor is the sister of famous Hindi-film actor, Ranbir Kapoor. She is just two years older than her brother. The legendary film director and actor Raj Kapoor is her grandfather and the great Prithviraj Kapoor is her great-grandfather. Raj Kapoor's sons Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor are her uncles while leading actresses in the Hindi film industry Karisma and Kareena are her cousins. And that's not all, the dashing and famous actors Shashi Kapoor and late Shammi Kapoor are her grandfathers too.
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Ties With Family Members
Riddhima's relationship with her parents is very adorable. She recalls her 'Dinner with Daddy' moments instantly, in which her father used to ask buzzer questions like in Karan Johar's Koffee with Karan and, hence, the name. She also states that her father was totally committed to the family and never missed to take the family out every weekend.
Regarding work comparisons between all the actors in the family, Riddhima says all of them are her favorite and she never misses any of their movies. She is not afraid of being biased towards their work.
The fashionista is very close to her mother and takes her advice on all matters. She has received the constant support of her mother in all aspects of life, be it work or personal issues. Riddhima feels her mother is a 'super mom' and thanks her for giving up her career to look after the whole family. Mrs. Sahni says her mother is her best friend and she doesn't hide anything from her. The Kapoor girl discloses that her mother was not the harsh type and believed in talking to resolve issues. Her mother's strict avatar was reserved for Ranbir who was a naughty child. Riddhima feels that her brother is possessive, warm and gets along well with different kinds of people.
Remembering the time when she watched WWF fights with Ranbir and then both of them imitated the wrestlers, she shares that their mother would warn and scold Ranbir even if she started the fight. The entire family appeared on the cover of G magazine for the first time when Riddhima was just eight-year-old.
The fact that Neetu Singh and her children, Riddhima and Ranbir are not on good terms with Babita and her daughters Karisma and Kareena is not hidden. But Riddhima maintains that she has no problems talking to Karisma.
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A Welcome Change In Life
Riddhima married her classmate and Delhi-based businessman Bharat Sahni on 25 January 2006 and got settled in New Delhi. She has a five-year-old daughter Samara who was born on 23 March, 2011. The lady met her better-half while studying in London and tied the knot after four years. In fact, the couple spent a year to decide if they were made for each other. The degree in fashion marketing proved to be an additional asset as her hubby owns a fashion house and is in the garment export industry.
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Work For Self-Satisfaction
Despite having good looks and a family full of successful actors, Riddhima chose a different career. She studied fashion marketing at the American Intercontinental University in London.
Riddhima is not the one to sit back and relax and in January 2016 she began her own jewellery line called 'R' in partnership with Punjab Jewellers in Mumbai. The collaboration was not just with the company but also with friend Anuj Kapoor of Punjab Jewellers, who is a business partner in the venture. With this enterprise, Rishi Kapoor's daughter became the first in the whole Kapoor family to start a jewellery business.
The jewellery items are made from 18karat gold and embellished with, natural and colored diamonds, precious and semi-precious stones to make them stand apart. The designs are minimalistic and can be adorned for several occasions. The products typify simplicity and elegance and can be bought from the online store or through social media. Purchase can also be made through the personal Instagram and Facebook page of Riddhima and through retailers Ravissant and Carma in New Delhi. The prices have been kept reasonable so as to make the bargain equally attractive.
The fashionista's family gave her all possible support in all her initiatives. Father Rishi Kapoor tweeted the logo of her jewellery brand so as to spread the brand on social media. Encouragement also came from people outside the family as well – well-known designer Sandeep Khosla reposted her designs on his Facebook wall.
That's not all, along with friend Devyani, Riddhima runs a fashion clothing collection called Ara, which is the Persian word for ornament. The clothes are designed for people who regularly attend parties and are also supplied to the Craze store in Dubai. Riddhima says she got interested in designing after seeing her mother in gorgeous designer outfits. Besides, she also does interior designing work.
The ramp witnessed the lissome lass's beauty when designer Suneet Varma chose her for his fashion show. Riddhima, along with her mother Neetu Singh, has also appeared in the advertisement for jewellery maker Mahesh Notandass in Mumbai. She has also endorsed Kaya Skin Clinic and is the brand ambassador.
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Actor Salman Khan invited Riddhima to his sister Arpita's wedding and reception but did not invite her brother Ranbir and her parents. Riddhima chose to give both the events a miss.
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Less than a quarter of an hour after opening, the Chinese stock market was closed by an automatic shutdown. This "circuit-breaker" mechanism was imposed by the government only five months ago after equally dramatic losses. This reveals how nervous the Chinese government is of the underlying economic instability.
As has been widely documented, in 2008 the Chinese government stared into the abyss and panicked. The resulting fiscal stimulus it launched was the biggest in world history and managed both to shield China from the crisis and to rescue the world from an out-and-out depression. But that has come at the cost of a future crisis that is now imminent. The fiscal stimulus was achieved by way of foisting debt onto state owned enterprises to keep the economy growing, resulting in an explosion of debt that must now be paid off. Indeed, the stimulus itself resulted in greatly diminishing returns. Six years ago "it took just over $1 of debt to generate $1 of economic growth in China. In 2013 it took nearly $4", the reason being that with the accumulation of unpaid debts "one-third of the new debt now goes to pay off old debt." (Financial Times, 27.1.14) The Chinese economy has become clogged up with unproductive debts because the government-led debt stimulus could not be used sufficiently for productive investment. Why take on debt to invest in new factories if the rest of the world economy is stagnant and demand is declining? Thus these new debts were used in short-sighted speculation instead. It is this underlying overproduction that has caused investors to speculate first in property, now in the stock market. The bursting of the stock market bubble reflects the unsoundness of this speculation, and in turn the unsoundness of the economy as a whole.
The slowdown in the economy, the big falls on the stock exchanges, and the government's cack-handed attempt to manage this, are causing very significant capital flight from the Chinese economy. The currency (Yuan) has reversed its upwards trajectory and has started to fall quite dramatically. This time it is not the government artificially devaluing the currency to strengthen exports; on the contrary, the government is battling against strong market pressure to sell the currency. This is reflected in the lower price for Yuan traded offshore than in mainland China because in the former the government allows market forces more freedom. Today the two rates converged, but only thanks to governmental use of "'nuclear strength' weapons to deter an attack on the yuan by short sellers and convince sceptical investors that they are in control of the country's spluttering financial system." (The Guardian, 12.1.16).
All of this shows that a full-blown financial and economic crisis in China is very much on the cards. That is extremely important for the perspectives for the world capitalist system, because in 2008 it was China's dodging of the crisis that pulled up the world economy. The world economy remains plagued with the debt and overproduction that caused the last crisis (which is in reality ongoing). The 2008 crisis did not have the consolation of purging the world of debt and overproduction; indeed Asian and global levels of debt, far from being paid off, have only grown since then, as the following charts show.
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"Chinese police have arrested four worker activists based in the country's Guangdong manufacturing hub, according to lawyers, in what has been described as the harshest crackdown against organised labour by the Chinese authorities in two decades.
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1919: Black Water
Fri, Sep 27, 2019 6pm
Exhibition Opening
Mario Gooden
Sep 27 – Dec 14, 2019
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall
An opening reception and discussion with artist Torkwase Dyson in conversation with LeRonn P Brooks, moderated by Mario Gooden.
The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery presents 1919: Black Water, a solo exhibition of new work by artist Torkwase Dyson. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture Dyson responds to the 100th anniversary of the "Red Summer" of 1919, a period of heightened racial violence across the United States. Her project explores a tragic episode that unfolded in the segregated waters of Chicago's beaches, which provides a historical framework to think through the contested geography of water, and the relationships between race, climate migration, and the architectural imagination.
New York-based artist Torkwase Dyson works in painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance. Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, and more. In 2016 Dyson was elected to the board of the Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Visual Arts. In 2019 she was named the Robert Gwathmey Chair at the Cooper Union, a rotating interdisciplinary professorship in art and architecture.
Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks is the Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections (specializing in African American collections) at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to working at the Getty he was an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and a curator for The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by poet Claudia Rankine. His interviews, essays, and poetry have appeared in publications for Bomb Magazine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Spelman Museum of Art, Callaloo Journal, The International Review of African American Art as well as The Aperture Foundation, among others.
Mario Gooden is Associate Professor of Practice at Columbia GSAPP and Principal at Huff + Gooden Architects. He also directs the Global Africa Lab with Mabel O. Wilson. His work, writings, and lectures frequently examine architecture and the translation of cultural landscapes defined by the parameters of technology, race, class gender, and sexuality.
On the occasion of her lecture, Torkwase Dyson was interviewed by Mabel Wilson for our podcast series GSAPP Conversations. Listen to Episode #76: Torkwase Dyson Black Compositional Thought and Systems of Spatial Navigation.


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Q: I have an odd issue with CSS dir in localhost WAMP (Apache) I've been pulling my hair out over this one.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/icons/style.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/custom.css">

the custom.css ref works fine, the one in the icons dir just returns a "The requested URL was not found on this server.", it will work however if:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/icons/style.css">

... I drop the icons dir into the CSS dir! So, my local WAMP server install is set to only read CSS files from a dir named CSS?
It's one of those things that seems so random and is sucking so much time and energy from me.
Cheers.

A: this is mean the dir is incorrect so you need to type the correct one
if the file path points to a file in the icons folder located in the folder one level up from the current folder, then your code should be like this
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../icons/style.css">
if this solution not working for you try one of those
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California Supreme Court Confirms that the "anti-SLAPP" Statute Applies to Claims of Discrimination and Retaliation
By Bryan Hawkins on July 30, 2019 Posted in California, Cases, Supreme Court
Prior to the California Supreme Court's decision in Wilson vs. Cable News Network, Inc., California Courts of Appeal were split on whether California's anti-SLAPP statute applied to an employee's claims of discrimination and retaliation. The Supreme Court in Wilson resolved this split in favor of the statute's application, bringing a welcome bit of good (albeit narrowly tailored) news to California employers.
California Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 is referred to as the anti-SLAPP statute. The term "SLAPP" refers to Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, which are meritless lawsuits brought against critics in order to silence their criticism. Section 425.16 was first passed by the California legislature in 1992 due to its concern that real estate developers were attempting to bully project opponents into submission by filing frivolous litigation. This section provides a procedure for a defendant to challenge a pleading via a special motion to strike. In order to succeed on the challenge, the defendant must demonstrate that the claim or claims at issue arise out of protected speech or petitioning activity. If the defendant can make this showing, then the burden shifts to the plaintiff to demonstrate that the claim or claims have probable validity. If the plaintiff makes this showing, then the defendant's motion is denied. If not, then the claim or claims at issue are dismissed and the defendant is entitled to his, her, or its attorneys' fees and costs.
With this in mind, it is clear that the anti-SLAPP laws can be a powerful weapon if wielded correctly. And that is where the Supreme Court's decision in Wilson comes into play, both with good news and bad news.
First the good news. Prior to Wilson, some California Courts of Appeal had held that the anti-SLAPP statute does not apply to claims of discrimination and/or retaliation by an employer. The reasoning of these courts was that a claim for discrimination and retaliation did not arise out of any protected speech or petitioning activity by the employer, even if the alleged adverse action implicated protected speech or petitioning activity. Rather, such actions arose out of the employer's improper motivation in proceeding with the allegedly improper contact. For this reason, employer defendants could not satisfy the first prong of the anti-SLAPP statute.
The Supreme Court in Wilson rejected that reasoning and held that while claims for discrimination and retaliation do arise out of an employer's improper motivation, they also arise out of the adverse action itself, which action may implicate protected speech. For this reason, and if the adverse action at issue does implicate conduct protected by the anti-SLAPP statute, the statute applies regardless of the allegations of improper motive.
This brings us to the bad news. Specifically, the category of cases and situations in which an employer's alleged discrimination and retaliation implicates protected speech or petitioning activity for the purposes of the anti-SLAPP statute is limited. This is particularly true of private employers whose operations do not generally concern issues of public concern, which play a significant role in the relevant analysis. In Wilson, such conduct was implicated because the defendant was CNN – an international news organization reporting on international events. The same will generally not be true for a restaurant or general contractor who is alleged to have discriminated or retaliated against one of its employees.
Despite its narrow application, Wilson is good news for California employers and a case that needs to be kept in mind when defending against employment claims to determine if there is a way to tie such claims to protected speech. Beyond that, Wilson is also helpful in defending against arguments that laws of general application do not apply in the employment context.
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Marshall School of Medicine invites alumni to join in special homecoming weekend
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015
Contact: Sheanna M. Spence, Assistant Director, Alumni Affairs & Community Relations, 304-691-1639
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will host its annual homecoming weekend for School of Medicine alumni and their families Oct. 2-3.
All alumni will have an opportunity to reunite with former classmates and attend lectures relevant to the current practice of medicine. The Class of 1985 will celebrate its 30-year reunion and the Class of 1990 will celebrate its 25-year reunion.The classes of 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 also will mark special reunion milestones.
The weekend's festivities begin Friday, Oct. 2, with a complimentary reunion lunch at noon with School of Medicine Dean Joseph I. Shapiro, M.D., and also will include:
6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 – Reunion banquet celebrating milestone classes in Room BE5 in the Marshall Memorial Student Center. Kevin W. Yingling, R.Ph., M.D. ('85), will be presented the 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Open to all alumni. Complimentary to members of 1985 and 1990 classes – all other attendees, $35 per person.
8:30 – 11 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 – Complimentary reception with music by DJ Kevin Simpson.
8:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 – Complimentary continental breakfast with Shapiro
9 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 – Alumni-student speed networking event
1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 – Complimentary School of Medicine alumni tailgate party, which will be located in the parking lot between the Marshall Recreation Center and the Sorrell Building on 20th Street.
Medical education presentations are free and open to alumni, students, staff and the general public. Continuing medical education (CME) credits are available. The sessions include:
1:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 – 18th Annual Albert C. Esposito, M.D., Memorial Lecture featuring Stephanie A. Skolik, M.D. ('85), F.A.C.S. on "Retinal Diseases, Vision Loss and Making Art Accessible to the Visually Impaired"
2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 - "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome" with Sean Loudin, M.D. ('05)
3:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2 – "Ebola in the U.S.: A View from the Middle" with G. Marshall Lyon III, M.D. ('94)
10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 – "The System of Care Surrounding the Drug-Exposed Infant" with Loudin
10:45 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 – "Odyssey for Medicine: Pain Crisis to Addiction Crisis" with Yingling
Unless otherwise noted, Friday's events will be in the Harless Auditorium on the ground floor of the Marshall University Medical Center on the campus of Cabell Huntington Hospital. Saturday's events will be on the first floor of the Erma Ora Byrd Clinical Center at 1249 15th St., site of the former Fairfield Stadium.
The complete School of Medicine Homecoming schedule is available at http://jcesom.marshall.edu/alumni-giving/homecoming.
To register, download the registration form at http://jcesom.marshall.edu/alumni-giving/homecoming or contact Tami Fletcher at 304-304-691-1701 or fletcher@marshall.edu. For questions, please contact Linda Holmes, Director of Development & Alumni Affairs, at 304-691-1711.
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2015


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It's not you ... It's me: "Janet Jackson To Collaborate With Bruno Mars On New Album"
"Janet Jackson To Collaborate With Bruno Mars On New Album"
Janet Jackson has millions of fans and one of her most ardent (and notable) admirers is Bruno Mars.
Millions tuned in last month to see the hitmaker present Jackson with the Billboard Icon Award at the BBMAs – a show which also brought with it the diva's first televised performance in almost a decade.
Having both expressed ample appreciation for the other, it appears the pair are gearing up to extend their love for one another to the studio.
'The pair have been friends for a while but decided now is the perfect time for them to collaborate after catching up at the Billboard Music Awards. Bruno was raised on Janet's music and was floored when he found out that she was a fan.
The report went on to specify that some of the sessions are set to take place in London where Janet resides with her one-year-old son Eissa and where Bruno will be touring this summer.
No dates were specified, but looking at their respective live itineraries, there are pockets of potential dotted around July and August.
Interestingly, Jackson's longtime production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are also said to be involved – which ought to please Mars the more given how much he's cited the pair as his primary inspirations.
While it's unknown how much material will be yielded from the sessions, the report claims a single (at the minimum) is one of the goals.
We're crossing our fingers, toes, and all things crossable in hopes of this following through.
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