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John Laurinaitis: Net Worth, Wife, Brothers, WWE & Career
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John Laurinaitis, aka Johnny ace, is a former professional wrestler of the WWE. As a professional wrestler, he has won many championships.
The most notable awards among his achievements are the 6x FCW Tag Team Championship and 2x All Asia Tag Team Championship.
He is also very famous for his on-screen feud with John Cena and Theodore Long. After retirement, John worked as a producer for WWE and had many notable occurrences in the televised WWE Raw episodes.
John Laurinaitis hosting WWE RAW
Here, we will be presenting you with all the details regarding his feuds, wrestling career, and personal life.
First, let's look into some quick facts about the legend "Johnny Ace."
John Laurinaitis | Quick Facts
Full Name John Hodger Laurinaitis
Birth Date July 31st, 1962
Birth Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nickname Johnny Ace, Johnny Laryngitis
Religion N/A
Education N/A
Horoscope Leo
Father's Name N/A
Mother's Name N/A
Siblings Joseph Michael Laurinaitis (Road Warrior Animal), Marcus Laurinaitis (The Terminator)
Height 6'4" (1.93 m)
Weight 250 lb (110 kgs)
Build Athletic
Debut 1986
Shoe Size N/A
Eye Color Grey
Trained By Nelson Royal
Spouse Kathy Laurinaitis
Children Maya Laurinaitis, Zack Laurinaitis, JJ Garcia, Nikki Bella, Brie Bella
Profession Retired Professional Wrestler, Producer
Awards and accomplishments 6x FCW Tag Team Championship
World's Strongest Tag Determination League New Wave Award- 1988
2x All Asia Tag Team Championship
Social Media Instagram, Twitter
Merch Cards
John Laurinaitis | Early Life, Family, & Education
John Laurinaitis was born on July 31st, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is one of the Laurinaitis brothers who are very renowned in WWE.
His siblings Joseph aka Road Warrior Animal, and Marcus, aka The Terminator, are retired professional wrestlers from the wrestling world.
There isn't any information regarding the details of John's parents. All three of the Laurinaitis brothers have kept it away from the public.
Moreover, according to the horoscope, John is a Leo. Leos are mostly known for their confident and ambitious nature.
Body Measurements and Education
Moving on, John stands at the height of 6'4″(1.93 m) and weighs 250 lb (110 kgs).
The details regarding his educational background are not available from any sources. All information before his wrestling career is kept secret from the public by the Laurinaitis family.
John Laurinaitis | Career and Profession
National Wrestling Alliance and WCW
Johnny Ace began his wrestling career in 1986 with his ring name Johnny Ace. First, he wrestled for the CWF (Championship Wrestling from Florida) and frequently teamed up with his brother Marcus aka The Terminator.
John Laurinaitis
Later, John wrestled with the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWF) Jim Crockett Promotions, a family-owned professional wrestling headquarters.
There he teamed up with Shane Douglas, and together they were called "The Dynamic Dudes." Former wrestler Jim Cornette managed both of the wrestlers.
Before John was part of The Dynamic Dudes, he performed as the flagbearer for the team "The Sheepherders," a professional wrestling tag team first known as the New Zealand Kiwis.
Moreover, on May 19th, 1990, John lost to The Undertaker at Capital Combat during his last WCW match.
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In 1990 the All Japan Pro Wrestling decided to cut ties with the NWA, and John chose to stay in it, hence becoming a permanent foreign fixture of the AJPW.
During his time there, he teamed up with Kenta Kobashi, aka "Dr. Death," Bart Gunn, and Steve Williams.
John received a significant amount of championship success hence becoming All Asia Tag Team Champion twice, 4x World Tag Team Champion, and the New Year's Heavyweight Battle Royal.
In two of his matches, he received Five Stars from Dave Meltzer.
Also, John won the Match of the Year honor from the Wrestling Observer and was listed #77 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's (PWI) top 500 wrestlers for 1997.
On February 28th, 1998, John reached the most crucial point of his singles career, and he challenged Mitsuharu Misawa for the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.
World Championship Wrestling
In 2000, John retired from the ring after the separation between All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah and returned to World Championship Wrestling, where he replaced Vince Russo as head- booker.
He was responsible for booking the extremely acclaimed one-night single-elimination tournament for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship.
World Wrestling Federation, WWE
Senior Vice President of Talent Operations
In March 2001, WWF hired John as a road agent after they possessed certain assets of WCW. Gradually, in June of the same year, WWF again promoted him to Director of Talent Relations.
He replaced Jim Ross as Vice President of Talent Relations, and soon later, in February 2007, WWF promoted him to Senior Vice President.
Moreover, in March 2009, John finally became the Executive Vice President.
But, when Stephanie McMahon took over the Department of Talent Relations and handed over the controls to Paul Levesque, John moved down from his executive responsibilities, becoming Senior Vice President of Talent Operations.
During John's post as a Vice President of Talent Operations, he received many criticisms from those who worked for him. Soon John was released of his backstage executive duties and returned to his road agent post in 2012.
John Hodger Laurinaitis enjoying with friend
On-air authority figure
On June 27th, 2011, WWE Raw episode, John was named CM Punk during his infamous "pipe bomb" promo as a "glad-handing, nonsensical, douchebag" who told Vince McMahon everything he wanted to hear.
At the peak of the WWE Championship match, John tried to replicate the Montreal Screwjob under McMahon's orders, but the defending WWE Champion John Cena advanced to knock John out, as he didn't want to win the event that way.
On the August 1st episode of Raw, John intruded Triple H by telling him to remove Cena from his WWE Championship title, which led Cena to threaten Laurinaitis before he fled the ring.
Interim General Manager of Raw
After a kayfabe strike by members of the WWE roster on October 10th, Triple H's management, Vince McMahon, introduced John as the new Interim General Manager of Raw.
The same night, he fired Jim Ross and reinstated The Miz and R-Truth.
John pledged that he would hear to the WWE fans using his "People Power" slogan. But he soon began showing discrimination against WWE Champion CM Punk, who repeatedly criticized him and questioned his sincerity over the past few months.
On the December 26th episode of Raw, John placed Punk in a gauntlet match against three opponents.
Punk accepted the fight under the condition that he would receive a battle against Laurinaitis if he managed to beat all three opponents.
Throughout the match, John diverted Punk, allowing Dolph Ziggler to pin Punk and earn a title shot. The following week, he distracted Punk once again, causing him to be counted-out in his title match.
John then registered a match between Punk and Ziggler. He referred himself as a guest referee and continued to cause Punk to lose to Ziggler, which eventually led to Punk attacking John, declaring that he was abusing his power.
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On January 30th, John was set by the Board of Directors to have a performance review by Triple H, where he degraded John and his actions.
But before the final judgment, Triple H was interrupted by The Undertaker. Later, the Board of Directors decided to retain John as Interim General Manager on February 7th, 2012.
Feud with Theodore Long
John wrestled his first match after eleven years, which was also his first match for WWE. He lost to Theodore Long in a singles match.
John vs. Long
He continued his dispute with Long until WrestleMania XXVIII, where both Long and John appointed six wrestlers to represent them, with the triumphant team earning General Manager authority over both brands.
Team Johnny defeated Team Teddy, following in Long losing his post as General Manager of SmackDown.
On the April 6th, 2012 edition of SmackDown. Moreover, John pushed Long to become his new assistant after threatening to terminate Long's grandchildren's trust fund.
Match with John Cena
On the April 30th, 2012, episode, John, with the assistance of Tensai, attacked John Cena before announcing himself as Cena's opponent at Over the Limit.
On the May 14th episode, he publicly embarrassed and fired Big Show from the WWE as Show constantly disrespected him for making fun of his voice.
The same night, the Board of Directors sent John a letter declaring that they would fire him if he lost the no-disqualification fight against Cena at Over the Limit.
He defeated Cena in the match and rehired Big Show as he helped him win the battle against John Cena.
McMahon fired John, and Cena, as he hit the Attitude Adjustment on John through a broadcast table.
The next night on in his final show in management, Laurinaitis scheduled himself in a 3-on-1 Handicap Match along with Big Show and David Otunga against John Cena.
During the match, both Show and Otunga stepped out on John and allowed Cena to hit before making him submit.
Occasional appearances in WWE
For SmackDown's 15th Anniversary Special on October 10th, 2014, John formed a team to face Teddy Long's team to become the most renowned GM in SmackDown history, but Teddy Long's team won the match.
John made his entrance during the June 20th, 2016 episode of Raw but was sent off the stage by Shane McMahon. On January 22nd, 2018, he was one of the guests that appeared on stage during the 25th Anniversary episode of WWE Raw.
Moreover, on May 10th, 2020, he made a cameo appearance during the Men and Women's Money in the Bank match, filmed inside the WWE headquarters.
John Laurinaitis | Championships and accomplishments
2x All Asia Tag Team Championship with Kenta Kobashi
4x World Tag Team Championship
Korakuen Hall Heavyweight Battle Royal- 1991
Championship Wrestling from Florida
6x FCW Tag Team Championship with the Terminator
International Championship Wrestling Association
2x ICWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
John Laurinaitis | Net Worth
Laurinaitis has been working for the wrestling world since 1986. After his retirement, he has worked several years as a producer for WWE. So it is quite clear that he has earned a pretty amount for himself over the years.
Moreover, the details regarding his estimated earnings and salary are not made available to any sources.
However, we can assume from his past professions that his possible net worth could fall around $1.5 million.
John Laurinaitis | Wife and Children
Laurinaitis married Kathy Colace on March 24th, 2016. She is the mother of the famous Bella Twins, Brie Bella and Nikki Bella. Also, she has a son named JJ Garcia. Reportedly, The couple got engaged on September 3rd, 2015.
John with his wife, Kathy
Also, John has two children from his past relationship Maya Laurinaitis and Zack Laurinaitis.
John Laurinaitis | Social Media Presence
Instagram- 36.5K Followers
Twitter- 43.8K Followers
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Хлорид тетраамминплатины(II) — неорганическое вещество, комплексное соединение металла платины с формулой [Pt(NH3)4]Cl2. При нормальных условиях представляет собой бесцветные кристаллы.

Получение
 Действие газообразного аммиака на соль Пейроне (цис-дихлородиаминплатину(II)):

 Реакция тетрахлороплатината(II) аммония с хлоридом аммония:

Свойства
Хлорид тетрааминплатины(II) образует бесцветные кристаллы
тетрагональной сингонии,
пространственная группа P 4/mmm или P 42,
параметры ячейки a = 0,730 нм, c = 0,423 нм.

Образует кристаллогидрат состава [Pt(NH)]Cl•HO — кристаллы
тетрагональной сингонии,
пространственная группа P 4/mmm,
параметры ячейки a = 0,739 нм, c = 0,421 нм, Z = 1
или
пространственная группа P 4/mbm,
параметры ячейки a = 1,044 нм, c = 4,21 нм, Z = 2.

Литература

Аммины
Хлориды
Комплексные соединения платины

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Young shooters fearless: Coach Karmakar
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The Indian shooting contingent participating at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have been in sparkling form, having won a handful of medals in almost all of the competing events
One of the men behind the success of these shooters is Joydeep Karmakar, who has coached a few to success, especially the likes of Mehuli Ghsoh, who won Silver in the Women's 10m Air Rifle event on Monday.
Karmakar spoke exclusively to The Softcopy about Ghosh, as well as her and others' ability to handle pressure and more.
Q1: One of the things the sport of shooting requires is the ability to handling pressure from all comers. Our junior shooters seem to handling pressure very well as we saw yesterday, when Ghosh fired a 10.9 in her last shot of her final. What do you attribute to that?
A: I would say it is a mixture of both the technical as well as the mental aspects. The Indian junior shooters are unaware of the threats of life and careers. They are straight, innocent and have not yet tasted a lot of defeat yet. They are fearless, have no inhibitions.
A few of the juniors are matured and are here for a long career. But the results might not reflect the difference between them right now, because it is too early to say.
The make-or-break situation might not come, but the testing phase would come when they face defeat.
They are doing amazingly well, they are willing to put in a lot of hard work and are on the right track at present.
Q2. What were your first impressions about Ghosh when you first saw her in your academy?
A: The first impressions about her were nothing special. She was not in a right frame of mind. She was really down. She had a few unpleasant experiences in the past, when a previous coach and the academy where she practicsed, she was told that she won't be able to become a shooter.
There were some unfortunate incidents as well. She was messed up in her head and everything was going wrong for her.
But when her parents got her to my academy, I took it up as a challenge. I hardly knew her. I tried talking to her, understood what she had gone through and she was traumatised by the concept of shooting.
She was very blank and I prepared her mentally to accept the type of training that I had to offer. That was the biggest challenge I faced. Giving her counselling, talking positive things, providing her confidence these were some aspects that we worked on. And then the technical aspects came into the picture.
Q3: We are two years away from the Tokyo Olympics. What do you think needs to be done to ensure our shooters remain consistent at the world level?
A: I think their goals for the Olympics should be very specific and not very vague. They need to be made to dream about it. I think, at times, in the name of discipline, we focus into technical training, hard work.
There has to be mental preparation for the shooters. It has to be tailor-made and a lot of space has to be given to shooters. From my experience, I can say there is a big difference between a good shooter and a champion.
Trying to be the former is not going to help. You need to be a champion and to achieve that, we need meticulous planning. How to handle a situation like the Olympics can only be understood by those who have competed at that level.
We are fortunate that many champion shooters like myself, Jaspal Rana Suma Shirur etc are giving back to the juniors. The federation need to think about the ex-athletes and how they can be involved in making it practically prepared for the Olympics.
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in infrared and measured thermal emission from dust.
get heated to these temperatures of tens of Kelvins and emit and fire infrared.
If you're looking at something in the emission, that's obviously much easier.
And so there was a lot of important work done.
This was all, a lot of this was done at Cal Tech.
one of the few places where people may get excited from studying hot dust.
Well, at least if you don't know about the astronomy.
So here is the picture of our galaxy in far infrared emission from galactic dust.
who's job is primarily to measure cosmic micro-background for cosmology.
But before they can do that, they have to remove all of the foreground emissions.
in order to see the cosmological signal behind it.
and radio are, that's beyond it.
So obviously, there is a galactic plane.
previous maps, and that's because they came from same supernova explosions.
that will assume like simple, isolated cloud, are just not really very realistic.
So this is in the biggest scale of the Milky Way.
Now let's put it under a microscope.
And there's probably variety of different kinds of dust grains.
But they're of the order of say hundreds of nanometers.
And we know from studying transmission emission properties.
And they can contain all the stuff that's common in the universe.
There'll be ice, water ice.
There will be lot of carbon compounds, and some nitrogen compounds will be silicates.
Those elements were all cooked up in massive stars expelled by supernovae.
But the size is the important part.
For example, light encountering dust cloud.
It doesn't go through right?
Do radio waves go through this?
Can you warp use your cellphone inside this room?
Well, the radio waves obviously do.
comparable larger than the wavelength of that radiation.
In this case, this would be light.
whether it's big pile of bricks or just 100 nanometer chunk of carbon compounds.
scattering shorter wavelengths of light than the longer ones.
Which is why those reflection nebulae are blue.
Cuz that's the light that's easier scattered.
And this is also why we use infrared astronomy to see through the dust.
Because those photons go through without too much trouble.
actually a very general treatment not specific only to the Interstellar Dust.
have some source of light with density of some frequency of new.
And it goes through material let's look at cylinder.
And there are some absorbers in there.
at the end you have some decrement obviously.
So d nu is going to be negative.
is denoted usually in how many particles are per cubic centimeter.
less comparable to it's actually geometric cross section.
encounter and here it is.
There'll be a fraction of radiation that will be absorbed.
by absorbers like dust grains.
a cross section that's combinational the density of the sum, and the path length.
The longer the column, more likely you are to encounter.
And so this is a very simple differential equation, that is trivial to integrate.
So it's dx over x, in theory just lx.
And then the other one is just integer of x.
there'll be just the path length.
I have the ratio because this was logarithm, right?
that's linearly proportional to the length.
effective in hiding parts of the Milky Way behind us.
Now this exact same treatment would apply to, say, plasma inside stars.
Except this would be whole different set of wavelengths and so on.
this is so-called Extinction Curve.
And so the infrared is on the left, ultraviolet's on the right.
And you can see that the infrared, well, those photons tend to kinda go through.
would be more or less linear proportion of this linear decrement.


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Q: Pass DTO interface into Domain Factory? I am trying to apply the principals of DDD in my current project. I'll try asking this (long-winded) question with an example that will hopefully make sense.
When creating a new Member, my presentation layer calls MemberService.CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO) that is defined in an Application Layer.
My Presentation Layer has something like this:
MemberDTO member = new MemberDTO(); //Defined in Application Layer

member.Username = username;
member.Password = password;
//...etc

My Application Layer calls the following Factory method in the Domain Layer to create the member:
public static Member MemberFactory.CreateMember(string memberDTO.Username, string memberDTO.Password...)
{
  var member = new Member(); //Domain.Model.Member

  member.Id = GenerateIdentity();

  member.Username = memberDTO.Username;

  //... etc

  return member;
}

the Member is passed back to the MemberService (Application Layer) which saves it (Repository in Infrastructure Layer) and maps it MemberDTO (using AutoMapper) and passes it back to the Presentation Layer.
So, my Presentation Layer is setting values in the MemberDTO and then my Domain Layer (via Factory) is taking individual parameters and setting the values for the Member.  Without the Factory it would be simple but I am generating the Id here.  Would it be wrong to create a Domain Service instead to generate the Id?  For example, change the the MemberService.CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO) method from:
public MemberDTO CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO)
{
   var member = MemberFactory.CreateMember(memberDTO.Username, memberDTO.Password);
   //Domain.Model.Member

   SaveMember(member);

   //Pass DTO to presentation layer
   return Mapper.Map<Member, MemberDTO>(member);
}

To this:
public MemberDTO CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO)
{
   var member = new Member(); //Domain.Model.Member

   Mapper.Map<MemberDTO, Member>(memberDTO);

   //Add this method into a Domain Service to generate the ID and any other defaults
   Domain.MemberService.Initialise(member);

   SaveMember(member);

   //Pass DTO to presentation layer
   return Mapper.Map<Member, MemberDTO>(member);
}

Sorry for the long-winded question even though the answer could be a simple yes or no!

A: In relation to DDD, if this identity is not a domain identity (ie. what defines a User based on the Bounded Context), then it does not belong in your domain model.  In most cases I have seen, the user name is the identity for the user in the bounded context and any generated ID will be done for the sake of database access.  I suspect that this may be your case and, if I'm right, then the generated ID is an infrastructure concern and should be done by your repository implementation.  Your domain should not have any concept of this generated ID.
On the other hand, let's say that user name is the identity for the user in your context and you wanted to generate that identity using some domain formula.  In this case, generating the identity would be a domain service method because it doesn't really belong to an instance of any of your domain objects.  The generated ID would then be passed into your factory and you would have:
public MemberDTO CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO)
{
   //Domain.Model.Member
   var member = MemberFactory.CreateMember(MemberService.GenerateUserName(), memberDTO.Password);

   SaveMember(member); //Repository method?

   //Pass DTO to presentation layer
   return Mapper.Map<Member, MemberDTO>(member);
}

To summarize, the answer is no, it would not be wrong to create a domain service to generate the ID assuming the ID is the actual identity for the bounded context.  In fact, this is what you should do.  However, if the ID is not the identity of the user for the bounded context, then let your repository worry about how to generate IDs, access the db, and transform to/from your domain model.

A: I'm not sure about this question in relationship to DDD because I don't see a complex domain that needs the extra complexity.  However, There probably is an argument to have the generation of the identity defined in another structure, but this is mostly to achieve single responsibility (SRP).
I suggest that you create an interface named IGenerateMemberIdentity.  Then, you can isolate that complexity and test it.  I think your intuition that this functionality does not belong in a factory is correct.  If this is a complex routine, it doesn't seem to be about object creation.
However, for me, Initialize static methods seem like a code smell.  Better to inject a dependency behind an interface that will provide that functionality.
To specifically answer your question.  No, I don't think it is wrong.  In fact, modeling complexity in order to preserve pure business functionality is what DDD is best at.

A: The short answer: Yes, you can pass DTO objects to a factory.
The long answer:
A domain object factory is responsible for creating fully initialised domain objects. However you are free to choose any form of input as long as you can provide required information. In this case, it is a matter of personal choice to have either methods in your factory:
 - public Member CreateMember(string userName, string password, ...) {...}
 - public Member CreateMember(MemberDTO memberDTO) {...}
From layering point of view, a domain object factory is a part of the domain model. Hence it may be used and depended by different objects in the domain model layer and the application layer. From what you described, the MemberService seems belong to your application (service) layer. You may find difficult dependency problems if you move the creation logic into it. For example, if a Booking domain object creates a Member domain object when it is confirmed, you could end up having the Booking object depends on the MemberService, which is not a good idea. The example is illustrated here: http://thinkinginobjects.com/2012/09/05/abstract-factory-in-domain-modelling
If we step back a bit and look at the problem with some perspective, I would like to ask what exactly the MemberDTO and MemberService serve your application. Is the DTO object used as a wrapper of a set of data fields? Is the MemberService simply delegating the create call to your factory and repository? If the answers are yes, it would be much simpler code if we get rid of the MemberDTO and MemberService all together and leave the presentation to call the MemberFactory and MemberRepository directly. I am making a lot of assumption here however, you may find the DTO and Service still desirable if your presentation layer and service layer are physically separated.

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Here's a few of my observations over the years… Treat this as a cheat sheet to understanding Swedish business culture just a bit better!
Hierarchy takes on a different form. Everyone says the Swedish business culture is very flat. Swedish organizations appear to be flatter because company executives are more accessible and everyone gets to speak their mind without a large fear of reprisal (see #7). Don't be surprised if you see colleagues making their superiors aware of their brutally honest opinions. However, I'd say that hierarchy is just as important in Sweden as it is in the US. The difference is that Swedes don't feel the need to explicitly announce the hierarchy and to make everyone aware of the pecking order, so organizations appear to be flat. That's just a perception – at the end of the day, everyone knows who the boss is and who the actual decision maker is, and that's enough for them.
Don't underestimate the power of fika. This is an incredibly powerful moment in Swedish business culture where you can discuss anything with your colleagues. I've solved many a problem via a small conversation during fika. There's something about the change in environment that makes the brain work differently. If you're not doing this yet, start doing it! Besides, who doesn't like taking a break?
And related to that, parents of young children have to stay home when their kids are sick. Yep, it's true – when kids are sick, they're not allowed to attend dagis so parents have to stay home and watch them. This is called "vård av barn", literally translated into "care of child." It's often turned into a verb, so that someone will "vabbar" for the day. It's no day off for the parent – the sick kid is usually whiny, wants attention, and overall difficult to handle! I'm sure the parent would rather be at work.
Work is work, and private is private. It's not unusual for your colleagues to never ask about your family life. Don't freak out when the company's Christmas party is "for employees only" – again, quite normal.
Sharing hotel rooms at work conferences. This will vary a bit between companies and the budgets you have for conferences, but it's not entirely unusual for colleagues (of the same gender, mind you) to share hotel rooms at work conferences. If you insist on having your own room, you'll probably get one… but it's rather non-Swedish to ask because what makes you so special? (See #10 below) Of course, if you require your own room for medical reasons or what not, you'll get one and no one will bat an eye.
Yes, meetings can be very inefficient and ineffective. After 8 years I still find Swedish meetings to be extremely inefficient and often a waste of time. However, this is part of the Swedish consensus-building culture; everyone has to have a chance to give their thoughts and make their voices heard, regardless of whether the actions favor them or not. This is a part of the decision-making process, and unfortunately it means rounds and rounds of discussions. For me, the worst part is coming out of the meeting not knowing what we agreed on. I combat this by demanding (politely) that actions are set with a responsible owner as we work through the agenda.
Swedish vacation time is sacred (and the law!) Don't even think about making your Swedish colleagues work during the summer if they don't want to. They have the right, according to the aptly named "Vacation law" (semesterlag), to take up to four weeks of vacation from June to August.
12 § Om inte annat har avtalats, ska semesterledigheten förläggas så, att arbetstagaren får en ledighetsperiod av minst fyra veckor under juni–augusti. Även utan stöd av avtalfår en sådan semesterperiod förläggas till annan tid, när särskilda skäl föranleder det. Lag (2009:1439).
Bosses will delegate important decisions. The importance of consensus has a side effect where strategy and decision-making tend to be delegated. That's not always a bad thing, but sometimes I feel like important decisions should be made and communicated by the leaders of an organization, and the rest of the organization should rally around the leaders to help execute. I guess that's my American-ness speaking out.
When equality becomes detrimental. Swedish culture in general puts a lot of weight and focus on equality. Therefore, it can become very uncomfortable for Swedes to give higher performance ratings to one person over another, because by doing so you're acknowledging that one person is better than the other. Therefore, as long as everyone is roughly performing how they should be, everyone gets the same rating and no one feels uncomfortable. The flip side of this is that high-performing individuals are driven out because they aren't acknowledged for their performance. This isn't so much the case in newer for-profit companies, but I see a lot of this in older, classic Swedish organizations.


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The great thing about making your own homemade bone broth is that it's both easy and economical.
Although you can go out and purchase soup bones from your grocery store or butcher, I almost always make my own with leftover bones from cuts that I've cooked for meals. I save everything from roast chicken carcasses to turkey necks and backs, pork chop bones to the bone-y aftermath of bbq ribs, and even the remnants of steaks or braising cuts like short ribs and shanks.
At the end of meals, I'll save any bones, scraps and even roasting juices. I keep the bones in a bag in the freezer and any juices or rendered fat in an airtight container. When I have enough bones to make broth, I'll whip up a batch, usually in my Instant Pot these days for speek and ease.
Saving the bones is probably self explanatory when making bone broth, but you might wonder why I save the other bits. Honestly, the first reason is because I have a hatred of food waste that I inherited from my grandma. But the other reason is that the meat juices help give broth an extra flavor boost and any extra fat is actually a good thing, since I like to make a big batch of broth and then refrigerate it for later. As the broth cools, the fat rises to the top and solidifies, making a nice airtight seal that helps prolong the shelf life of the homemade bone broth.
Once you're ready to use the homemade bone broth, it's easy to scoop off the fat. Depending on your own preferences, you can save it to cook with or simply discard it, but either way letting the broth cool and then removing the fat gives you a lovely, non greasy broth that's perfect for sipping on.
Leftover bones from meals are ideal; save them in the freezer until you have enough to make broth.
If buying soup bones, they benefit from roasting first – I've added instructions for this below!
You can make broth with any blend of bones you like, including chicken, pork, beef or lamb.
For a lighter flavor, chicken & pork work best, but beef, lamb and bison also make lovely broth.
You can mix and match bones – no need to stick to one specific animal source per batch!
If you want a broth that gels especially well, add bones with higher levels of collagen, such as chicken necks, wings & feet, or beef & lamb neck or tail bones. Only use as much water as you need to just cover the bones: any more water will dilute down the broth and give you a lighter (or no) gel. But all broth is good – it doesn't have to gel to be nutritious!
You can reuse most bones at least once, aside from smaller bones like those from chicken. Once they are soft and crumbly, you'll need to start over with fresh bones. I typically make a batch with fresh bones, then reuse them in the next batch along with a few additional fresh bones. Once the broth is done, I discard any soft bones, then save the others in the freezer again for the next batch. You can read more about when and how to reuse your broth bones here.
The methods are really very similar, but I've written up different instructions for making homemade bone broth whether you favor the Instant Pot, the slow cooker or a good old fashioned stock pot on the stove!
ROAST, optional: If you're using larger beef, lamb or pork soup bones that haven't already been cooked, you can add extra depth of flavor by roasting them first. Preheat the oven to 400°F (205°C). Lay the bones out on a lined baking tray (or two, depending on your bones) and roast for 1 hour. Let cool slightly.
PREP: Place the bones into the Instant Pot until it is about 2/3 full. Chop the carrots and celery into about 3 pieces each, then peel and quarter the onion. Nestle the vegetable pieces in and around the bones, then pour over the apple cider vinegar and add the herbs. Add salt, to taste, and then pour just enough water into the insert to just cover the bones.
COOK: Make sure that the bones and water are at least a little under the Max Fill line – do not overfill! After checking that the sealing ring and vent cover are in place correctly, close the lid and set the vent to the sealing position. Close the lid, set the vent to the "sealing" position and set the Instant Pot® to manual pressure (high) for 120 minutes.
RELEASE: When the cook time is over, press the "Cancel" button. If you like, you can let the Instant Pot® release the pressure naturally, which will take about an hour. Alternatively, you can allow it to rest for at least 15 minutes, then use quick release.
STRAIN: Using oven gloves, carefully transfer the Instant Pot® insert to a trivet. Place a colander inside a large mixing bowl. Use tongs or a slotted spoon to remove any large pieces of bone and vegetables to the colander – this helps avoid messy splashing in a minute! Pour the rest of the broth and bits carefully through the colander and into the mixing bowl, setting the cooking container onto the trivet again once it's empty. Once the liquid has drained through the colander completely, place it inside the empty Instant Pot insert to cool.
REPEAT: Place a fine mesh strainer on top of the gallon pitcher, then line that with a few layers of cheesecloth. Carefully strain the broth for a second time, pouring it from the bowl into the pitcher, through the strainer and cheesecloth to catch any remaining sediment or bone bits.
STORE: Carefully divide the broth, pouring it into wide mouth Mason jars. Pop the lids on and transfer them to the fridge. Once they have cooled completely, you can transfer them to the freezer if you like, but make sure to leave plenty of head room for the broth to expand if you are going to freeze it in glass jars! If your broth has a good layer of fat on top, it will keep in the fridge for at least a week and often much longer. Frozen broth can be kept for at least 6 months.
DISCARD: If you would like to save your bones to reuse, let them cool enough to handle first. Discard any herb stems, meat or pieces of fat. Go through the cooled bones, discarding any that are soft enough to crumble under a little pressure. Keep the remaining bones, transferring them to an airtight container and saving them in the freezer until you have enough bones to make a new batch of broth.
PREP: Place the bones into the slow cooker until it is about 2/3 full. Chop the carrots and celery into about 3 pieces each, then peel and quarter the onion. Nestle the vegetable pieces in and around the bones, then pour over the apple cider vinegar and add the herbs. Add salt, to taste, and then pour over enough water to cover the bones. Make sure to leave about an inch clear at the top between the water level and the lid.
COOK: Pop the lid on top and make sure it's on securely. Set the slow cooker to LOW and cook for 12 – 24 hours (or even longer if you prefer). If your slow cooker has a vent or hole to allow for a meat probe, make sure to keep an eye on the water level in the slow cooker after the first few hours. If needed, add a little extra water throughout cooking to top off the water level and keep the bones covered. (I've never found this necessary myself).
STRAIN: Using oven gloves, carefully transfer the slow cooker insert to a trivet. Place a colander inside a large mixing bowl. Use tongs or a slotted spoon to remove any large pieces of bone and vegetables to the colander – this helps avoid messy splashing in a minute! Pour the rest of the broth and bits carefully through the colander and into the mixing bowl, setting the cooking container onto the trivet again once it's empty. Once the liquid has drained through the colander completely, place it inside the empty Instant Pot insert to cool.
PREP: Place the bones into the stock pot until it is about 2/3 full. Chop the carrots and celery into about 3 pieces each, then peel and quarter the onion. Nestle the vegetable pieces in and around the bones, then pour over the apple cider vinegar and add the herbs. Add salt, to taste, and then add enough water to cover the bones by an inch or so, while still leaving plenty of room to avoid any spills.
COOK: Bring the water to a good rolling simmer over medium high heat on the stovetop, then turn the heat down to low and cover the pot with a lid. Cook on low for 12 – 24 hours (or longer if you like). If there is any foam or impurities on the top of your broth, skim it off as it rises. Top off with additional water as needed, to make sure that the bones are always covered with water while cooking and the pot doesn't reduce or boil dry.
STRAIN: Using oven gloves, carefully transfer the stock pot to a trivet. Place a colander inside a large mixing bowl. Use tongs or a slotted spoon to remove any large pieces of bone and vegetables to the colander – this helps avoid messy splashing in a minute! Pour the rest of the broth and bits carefully through the colander and into the mixing bowl, setting the cooking container onto the trivet again once it's empty. Once the liquid has drained through the colander completely, place it inside the empty Instant Pot insert to cool.
LOVE THIS RECIPE! THE ROASTING MAKES SUCH A FLAVOR DIFFERENCE!!! QUESTION: DO YOU FREEZE THE BROTH IN THE MASON JARS? i USED TO COOL THE BROTH IN THE JARS IN THE FRIDGE AND THEN WHEN THEY ARE THOROUGHLY COOLED, PUT ON THE LID AND PUT INTO THE FREEZER. BUT… I HAD MANY OF THE JARS CRACKED AND BROKE. HOW DO YOU FREEZE THE BROTH OR DO YOU JUST REFRIGERATE IT?
I usually refrigerate mine because I use it up before it would go bad. If you do freeze them in jars, you need to make sure to leave a lot of head room at the top for the broth to expand as it freezes, that will help avoid any breakages in the future!


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Q: Django multi menu Всем доброго дня, помогите со структурой
У меня есть две модели
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        db_table = 'menu'
        verbose_name = 'Меню'

    title = models.CharField(max_length=255,verbose_name='Наименование меню',)
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        super(MenuPages, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

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    class Meta():
        db_table = 'child_menu'
        verbose_name= u'Дочернее меню'

    title = models.CharField(max_length=255, verbose_name='Наименование меню')
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        super(ChildMenu, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

Подскажите как организовать древо меню

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Independence Day 2021: Celebrating Safely
Independence Day 2021 takes on a special meaning after a global pandemic and a year and a half of lockdowns and restrictions. In the U.S. the federal government has been aiming for 4th of July 2021 as "Independence Day from COVID" where we can attend…
Indoor Air Quality: Rethinking Ventilation Indoors, and What You Can Do
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that poor air quality—especially in enclosed indoor spaces—can spread disease. While many of us would never eat at a restaurant with visibly poor sanitation practices or unclean water, hardly anyone considers how well-ventilated a place is. Indoor air quality can…
Is It Safe to Cruise Now? Your Questions About Boarding a Cruise Ship Post-Pandemic Answered
fter headlines were made by COVID-19 outbreaks onboard cruises at the start of the pandemic, the cruise industry has been reeling. Now in the spring of 2021, with vaccination rates steadily increasing, many are wondering, "Is it safe to cruise now?" "When will cruises open back up?"
What Medicare Covers for COVID-19: A Guide to the Types of Coverage Medicare Enrollees Can Access
When it comes to what Medicare covers for COVID-19, it can be helpful to see all your options laid out. Original Medicare is designed to cover basic aspects of care in hospitals and clinics, which means if you get sick with COVID-19 and have to go to the hospital it will be covered the same way as any other visit.
New CDC Mask Guidelines: Recommendations for People Who Have Been Vaccinated
The CDC announced that there are new rules regarding mask-wearing for people who have been vaccinated. In general, it is now considered permissible to be in outdoor spaces without a mask if you have been vaccinated. However, the new rules are fairly complicated with quite a few stipulations.
After Vaccination, Can I Go Back to Normal? Questions You Might Have About Life After Your Shots
While the state of things is changing rapidly as time goes on, it's definitely becoming safer to go back out than it has been this past year. Slowly, things are in process to getting back to normal life. But this brings up a lot of questions.
J&J Vaccine for COVID-19: What You Need to Know About the Newest Vaccine
The new Johnson & Johnson vaccine is being distributed in many states as a third option—following the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines—for becoming immunized against COVID-19. The J&J vaccine is slightly different in how it's administered and how it affects the body, but like the other vaccines it prevents severe cases of COVID-19 that could lead to hospitalization or death.
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Keeping up with a COVID fitness routine isn't easy. Most people have had their daily lives and healthy habits at least somewhat disrupted due to ongoing restrictions and precautions. The good news is that while the current reality has made being healthy more difficult in some ways, it has also created unique opportunities in others.
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Groundhog Day 2021 and Mental Health: Creating Variety in Daily Life During COVID
With current COVID restrictions many people report experiencing a similar repetitive reality. On this Groundhog's day we are focusing on some of the gains and losses the pandemic has dealt our daily lives and healthy ways we can address these challenges.


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Telling Trails
A guide to children's book authors, illustrators and literary landmarks in south-west London
Index of names
Index of titles
Clara Vulliamy (b. 1962)
The daughter of the best-loved children's book author and illustrator Shirley Hughes, Clara Vulliamy was encouraged to draw and paint from an early age. Clara now illustrates children's books by other writers, as well as her own. Her picture books tend to be realistic portrayals of the big moments in a young child's life.
Living with her artist husband and two children in a large house in Twickenham, she is inspired by the things she sees around her. Many of her illustrations depict everyday places close to Clara's home in Twickenham, such as neighbouring houses and the local school.
Clara grew up in London's Holland Park, in the house where her parents still live. Her father was an architect and her mother, author-illustrator Shirley Hughes, worked at home, using the kitchen table as her workspace whenever she had a spare moment. Clara does not remember seeing her mother's stories as they developed. Shirley always managed put motherhood first, and as a little girl Clara did not know how much her mother's work meant to other people. What it meant to her, however, was the chance to draw and paint to her heart's content. At the end of each day, she was allowed to use her mother's leftover watercolours (she never had a "children's" paint set).
These days, of course, Clara is very aware of Shirley's achievements, and she is proud to be her mother's daughter. After graduating from art school, Clara began a career as a portrait painter and illustrator for magazines and newspapers. For the past fifteen years or so, since having children of her own, her work has been devoted to children's books.
Her illustrated works for other authors include The Big Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, a collection of classic stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley. (In fact, Joyce Lankester Brisley also once lived locally, first at Ham Common and, in later life, in a house in Barnes.) Clara's fresh interpretation of this timeless character in gentle watercolours is sympathetic to the style of the original line art by the author:
Line art from "Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Errands" by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Colour illustration by Clara Vulliamy
In addition to illustrating books for other authors, Clara writes and illustrates her own picture books. These tend to be about real children, with themes that "seem small from the outside but feel huge inside", such as losing a beloved toy, or starting school. Of her more than twenty published books, Small is probably Clara's favourite, although she admits that her favourite book is "always the one I'm doing now, or the next one…" She finds it exhilarating to face the blank paper at the beginning of a project and to breathe life into a character for the very first time.
Lately, Clara's ideas have taken a more magical, fantastic turn. Her recent projects include writing and illustrating Hop into Bedtime (forthcoming from Penguin), as well as illustrating Keep Love in Your Heart, Little One, a picture book written by Giles Andreae (Orchard).
At home in Twickenham
Clara lives in a big Victorian house in a quiet street in Twickenham, with her husband (himself a painter and a teacher), their son and daughter, and three guinea pigs. She has lived there since 1993 and likes that the neighbourhood is a higgledy-piggledy jumble of houses, rather than a series of neat little rows. Having grown up in London, she's glad that Twickenham has "quite a 'Londony' feel" and is close enough to enable the family to go to exhibitions and other events in the city regularly. At the same time, she enjoys seeing local wildlife: the woodpecker that lives in her garden, a heron on Richmond Bridge.
She is less impressed, however, with the abundant squirrel population, after a whole tribe once moved into her loft. By the time they were caught, the squirrels had made a small hole in the roof, eaten a precious box of letters and chewed through wiring. In the end, says Clara, only chocolate buttons succeeded in luring them out!
Inspired by home
In the garden with daughter Martha (and Tolly, Hester & Koco)
View from Clara's workroom window
The Thames from the towpath, Twickenham
Clara is inspired by the things she sees around her home every day. She loves the view from her workroom window (especially when the trees are in blossom), looking out over the back gardens towards Richmond. Like many writers and illustrators, Clara spends a lot of important daydreaming time looking out of the window, waiting for ideas. Sometimes, inspiration "just comes, like a little basket on a pulley".
She also gets inspiration from the "little bits and pieces" she keeps around the house, from a collection of tiny shoes to paper-mâché sculptures and other works of art made by her children over the years. The house is full of artwork: in addition to her own and her husband's paintings, and their children's contributions, there are works by both her parents and by friends from art school.
Favourite haunts
Clara also enjoys the big, open green spaces in the area. She mentions the pleasant and recurring surprise of stumbling upon the water sculpture – of horses and naked women – in York House Gardens.
She also loves living near the river. In particular, her family likes to cycle alongside the Thames from Twickenham to Richmond Bridge. She has memories of lovely times spent with her children "all along the towpath, at every little place", from the ferry going over to the Surrey side (by Ham House) to all the little houseboats, including "the really eccentric one", the floating "houseboat" made from rubbish. Another highlight for her is stopping for a cup of coffee at Tide Tables Cafe, under the arches at Richmond Bridge.
Connections between work and home
Clara's illustrations are often inspired by real places near her home.
One page in Small shows the view of Clara's street from her front door, while another illustration includes a shop based on the real-life sweet shop (now a private house) opposite St Stephen's CE Junior School in Winchester Road. In order to get the perspective right from Small's viewpoint, Clara had to photograph it – by lying on her stomach in the road!
This scene from Small shows the view of Clara's street from her front door
Based on a former sweet shop in Twickenham
House near Clara's own in Twickenham
School modelled on Orleans Infant School, Twickenham
Inspired by Orleans Infant School uniform
Tom & Small
One double-page spread in Tom & Small includes a house near Clara's that she admires. The school in the story is again modelled on one that her children attended (Orleans Infant School, Twickenham). Even Tom's sweatshirt is based on the actual uniform.
Clara Vulliamy's website
Works consulted
Vulliamy, Clara. Interview by Terri McCargar, 26 April 2005, Twickenham.
Note: all photographs in this post copyright © Terri McCargar. The character Milly-Molly-Mandy is owned by the Estate of Joyce Lankester Brisley and is reproduced here by permission. All illustrations by Clara Vulliamy remain her copyright and are reproduced here with permission:
Original black-and-white line art from "Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Errands" by Joyce Lankester Brisley, first published in The Christian Science Monitor in 1925. Reproduced in The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook (Kingfisher, 1996). Copyright © Joyce Lankester Brisley.
Colour illustration from The Big Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley, with new illustrations by Clara Vulliamy (Kingfisher, 2000). Illustration copyright © Clara Vulliamy.
Two street illustrations from Small by Clara Vulliamy (HarperCollins, 2001). Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Copyright © Clara Vulliamy 2001.
House, school and school shirt illustrations from Tom & Small by Clara Vulliamy (Collins Picture Books, 2004). Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Copyright © Clara Vulliamy 2004.
This entry was posted in Authors, Illustrators, Twickenham on February 25, 2006 by Terri McCargar.
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Loan watch: Szczesny clean sheet, Asano assists
Several Arsenal loan players featured for their respective teams this weekend
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A few of Arsenal's loanees featured this weekend, with Wojciech Szczesny earning a clean sheet for Roma and Takuma Asano creating an assist during a routine VfB Stuttgart win the highlights.
Here's a round-up:
Jack Wilshere played the full 90 minutes in a seven-goal thriller at the Vitality Stadium against Liverpool. The creative midfielder was booked early in the second half for dissent after skipping past a handful of challenges before being dispossessed, then hauling down Jordan Henderson.
Referee Bobby Madley (C) speaks with Bournemouth's English midfielder Jack Wilshere (L) and Liverpool's German midfielder Emre Can during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on December 4, 2016. (Picture source: Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images)
Glen Kamara did not feature for Colchester United this weekend, as they didn't have a match with the majority of teams in League Two involved in cup action.
Goalkeeper Ryan Huddart made a string of important saves, including one which was destined for the top corner in stoppage time to deny Halifax Town from prevailing away from home in their 3-3 FA Cup tie.
Both Kelechi Nwakali and Stefan O'Connor were not involved in MVV Maastricht's matchday squad to face RKC Waalwijk away from home, a game they lost 2-0.
Meanwhile, right-back Tafari Moore started and played 81 minutes of Jong FC Utrecht's 3-1 win against FC Emmen before being substituted.
Julio Pleguezuelo and Jon Toral were both not involved for their respective sides, as Mallorca and Granada featured in domestic action this weekend.
Wojciech Szczesny kept his fifth clean sheet of the season during Roma's 2-0 away victory over Lazio in one of Sunday's league fixtures.
ROME, ITALY – DECEMBER 04: AS Roma goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny competes for the ball with Keita Balde of SS Lazio and AS Roma at Stadio Olimpico on December 4, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Picture source: Getty)
Takuma Asano started and played 72 minutes, creating his second assist in successive league matches during VfB Stuttgart's 4-0 away victory over Erzgebirge Aue on Sunday afternoon.
Joel Campbell came on as a second-half substitute during Sporting's 2-0 home victory over Vitoria on Saturday.
Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough) is expected to start for Aitor Karanka's side in the final fixture of this week's Premier League matchday on Monday evening.
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Q: Bitbucket Pull request без fork-a репозитория Есть репозиторий на битбакет. Нужно, чтобы другой человек, у которого есть только права на чтение, смог создать ветку, сделать в ней что-то и прислать pull request. Возможно ли это? Возможно ли это без Fork-а репозитория?
Обновление
В идеале локатьно комитил, а потом создавал пул реквест, который будет виден на битбакет без веток и форков. Понимаю, что тупой вопрос, но реально ли так? Или чтобы сам создал ветку лоально, а потом пулреквестом ее добавить.
A: Внесенные изменения должны где-то храниться. Если не в форке, то где? Вариант @0xFFh достаточно хорош.
А почему хотите обойтись без форков? Просто не совсем понятно: с одной стороны, у человека нету прав на изменение исходного репозитория, с другой стороны, не хочется форков. Какая-то странная ситуация. Как же он работать-то будет с кодом?
A: Можно вручную создать ветку и выставить ей соответствующие разрешения для операций pull/push.
A: Можно ограничить права на изменения конкретной ветки репозитория (скорее всего master). При этом другим сотрудникам дать права на запись ко всем остальным веткам. Сотрудники смогу хранить код в основном репозитории, не создавая форков, но не смогут изменять основную ветку.


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FII Institute Unveils the 4th Edition of the Future Investment Initiative held under the theme of "The Neo-Renaissance" – A multi-hub conference on the rebirth of the global economy
 FII Institute Unveils the 4th Edition of the Future Investment Initiative held under the theme of "The Neo-Renaissance" – A multi-hub conference on the rebirth of the global economy
The 4th Edition of FII will introduce a multi-hub format with a central hub in Riyadh and global satellite cities with social distancing Conference links world leaders, investors and policymakers to reimagine the global economy Prominent leaders in healthcare, finance, energy and education, and international ministers confirmed to speak at FII •
Riyadh, Jan. 8th, 2021 - The Future Investment Initiative Institute will host this month the Fourth Edition of FII, a multi-hub conference that will link leaders, investors and policymakers as they reimagine the global economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The FII Institute, a newly established non-profit global foundation, will host the conference on January 27-28 at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center (KAICC) in Riyadh, with speakers and audiences joining physically and virtually from FII satellites in New York, Paris, Beijing and Mumbai.
The FII Institute will act as the curator of a global conversation that is needed to spark concrete actions and mobilize cross-border thought leadership, collaboration and resources. • "There has never been a more important time for leaders, investors and policy makers to come together to work towards re-energizing the global economy," H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Chairman of the FII Institute and Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), said.
The FII Institute has identified sustainable investment, global economic growth and the future of healthcare, digitization, education and culture as priority topics which concern our communities. Sessions will also address the rebirth of SMEs, and how investing in culture can make it an engine of growth to support artists and museums and rectify long-standing gender inequalities.
FII will also address how the sports and entertainment industries can reinvent themselves by combining virtual events and in-person experiences to grow revenue.
"The 4th edition of FII will see the most innovative technologies to facilitate global conversations and to be inclusive at the benefit of all of humanity," Richard Attias, CEO of the FII Institute, said. "The FII Institute will act as a catalyst and a pioneer to allow interaction and exchange of disruptive ideas. There has never been a more important time to bring the greatest minds together to harness this opportunity to reimagine our world."
The Institute was founded in Riyadh to bring together global leaders, tech pioneers, experts and policy makers to enable concrete ideas that can solve today's most pressing societal issues, while creating long-term platforms to reshape the future of humanity sustainably. The FII Institute will play a leading role in shaping a much-needed debate about how to respond to crises, like the Covid-19 pandemic that has disrupted every part of the globe and every part of life. ENDS


Our April calendar and morning meeting lesson is "SPRINGING" with activities to start your bright and sunny day! It is all set to use daily with your students. Students can practice skills using the featured calendars, morning meeting activities, attendance chart, daily graphing activity, math activities and more. Feel free to use it as it is or download the Back to School Gallery Pack and switch out pages with templates and images provided in the pack.
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Island Nations Play China, India
Our Correspondent Jan 11, 2013
A quiet Chinese challenge to India's pre-eminence in South Asia through diplomatic and aid effort has now been extended to small island nations dotting the Indian Ocean. While China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian nations fight over specks of islands and reefs in East and South China Sea, mainly because of undersea resources, islands in the Indian Ocean are emerging as a new focus for struggle.
The latest hotly contested arena: Maldives, a chain of 26 islands about 1000 kilometers due south of India. With just 320,000 nationals, Maldives has assumed a disproportionately large profile primarily because of its geopolitical position astride strategic sea lines of communication and China's attempt to win influence.
The rivalry was brought to light when Maldives canceled a lucrative contract granted to Indian and Malaysia companies amid speculation that a Chinese company was behind the move, although the reality could be more prosaic. In November, the Maldivian government unilaterally terminated an agreement with India's GMR Infrastructure, Ltd., and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad to operate and modernize Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in Male, citing irregularities in the award of the US$511 million contract.
The two firms were jointly awarded the 25-year contract in 2010. The largest Indian foreign direct investment in Maldives had huge symbolic importance for India's profile in the atoll nation. GMR took the battle all the way to the Singapore Supreme Court, which ruled that Maldives indeed had the power to take control of the airport. GMR intends to seek compensation of more than US$800 million from the Maldivian government for terminating the deal whereas Male is insisting on a forensic audit from an international firm.
Many in India had expected New Delhi to escalate the conflict, by declining to release annual budgetary support of US$25 million, forcefully reminding Male about its security dependence on India. Ignoring such calls, the Indian government has been quick to convey to Maldives that, if there were political reasons for the contract's cancellation, these "shouldn't spill over into a very, very important relationship, a very valuable relationship" between the two states. Two days after the project's cancellation, the Maldives defense minister flew to Beijing.
New Delhi recognizes the strategic importance of Maldives. Any escalation by India would have only fanned anti-India sentiments in the island nation, allowing other powers, especially China, to further entrench themselves at India's expense. It's possible that the military government's move to cancel the contract was primarily political, setting the stage for 2013 elections. After ousting the democratically elected Mohamed Nasheed in what was in effect a coup in February 2012, current President Mohamed Waheed is expected to contest the presidential polls in 2013. The pressure of competitive politics may have led him to exploit anti-India sentiment being fanned by extremist groups in this Muslim nation.
New Delhi has also hinted at the possibility of external forces playing a role in the contract's cancellation, with suggestions that the Maldivian government wanted to push out the Indian company, replacing it with a Chinese firm. Waheed's coalition partner, the radical Islamic Adhaalath Party, made it clear that it would "rather give the airport contract to our friends in China."
That Male's move surprised New Delhi is an understatement. The Indian defense minister was in Maldives in October, ostensibly strengthening security ties. At that time, the two sides decided to elevate defense cooperation: New Delhi is stationing a Defence Attaché in Male, extending deployment of its ALH Dhruv helicopter by two more years, providing training to the Maldivian Air Wing, positioning an Indian Navy Afloat Support Team to train Maldivian naval personnel and providing assistance for surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone. New Delhi and Male underscored these measures as sign of a united front against the challenges of terrorism and non-state actors.
India refused to take sides when Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of Maldives, was ousted from power and immediately reached out to the new President, assuring him of continuing cooperation. The reason is simple: India simply cannot afford to alienate the government in Male given China's growing reach. The president of Maldives was in China in October when Beijing announced a US$500 million package of economic assistance for Male. New Delhi views Maldives as central to the emerging strategic landscape in the Indian Ocean.
India had always viewed Maldives as important for maintaining security in the Indian Ocean region, but attempts by Beijing to expand its footprint in Maldives and the region have raised the stakes for New Delhi. China has also been busy forging special ties with other island nations on India's periphery including Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius.
China's attempt to gain a foothold in the Indian Ocean came into stark relief last year when reports emerged of an offer from Seychelles - another strategically located island nation in the Indian Ocean - to China for a base to provide relief and resupply facilities to the People's Liberation Army Navy. Though promptly denied by Beijing, the offer underscored the changing balance of power in the region. India has traditionally been the main defense provider for Seychelles - providing armaments and training to its Peoples' Defence Forces, or SPDF. India extended a US$50 million line of credit and US$25 million grant to Seychelles in 2012 in an attempt to cement strategic ties.
China has been proactive in courting Seychelles since former Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the island nation in 2007. Much to India's consternation, Beijing now participates in training SPDF and provides military hardware. China has expanded military cooperation with Seychelles, providing two Y-2 turboprop aircrafts for surveillance of the economic exclusion zone.
The Chinese defense minister was in Sri Lanka in October to offer support worth US$100 million for various welfare projects in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, areas beset with Tamil insurgency. At a time when domestic political constraints have made it difficult for New Delhi to reach out to Colombo, Beijing has been quick to fill that vacuum. Even Mauritius, the security of which is virtually guaranteed by Indian naval presence, can't resist the lure of Beijing funds.
With the rise in the military capabilities of China and India, the two are increasingly rubbing against each other; China expands its presence in the Indian Ocean region and India makes its presence felt in East and Southeast Asia. In this context, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid recently suggested that India must accept "the new reality" of China's presence in areas it considers exclusive, seeming acknowledgement that both the South Asian and Indian Ocean regions are rapidly being shaped by the Chinese presence.
China's rising profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region isn't news. What's significant is the diminishing role of India and the rapidity with which New Delhi has ceded strategic space to Beijing in regions traditionally considered India's periphery. This quiet assertion of China has allowed various smaller countries to play China off against India. Most states in the region now use the China card to balance against India's predominance. Forced to exist between two giant neighbors, the smaller states have responded with a careful balancing act. The recent spat between New Delhi and Male merely reflects the evolving ground realities in the Indian Ocean region.
(Harsh V. Pant teaches in King's College, London)


Sam Dean is a business reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the technology industry in Southern California. He has previously worked as a feature writer for a number of publications including Newsweek, the Verge, 538 and Lucky Peach.
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This past Sunday, Delaware County families gathered at OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital for the OhioHealth Foundation's annual Light Up a Life event. Light Up a Life is an opportunity for relatives and friends to come together to remember loved ones lost.
For the past 26 years, many in the Delaware area community have found this tradition of remembrance to be a source of comfort and healing following the loss of those whom they now hold in their hearts and minds.
Families can purchase an ornament to honor their loved ones, with proceeds benefitting hospice care in Delaware County, an ornament bearing the name of a loved one will be placed on the OhioHealth Hospice Tree of Life.
Click here to read The Delaware Gazette story previewing the Light Up a Life event.
Click here to read more about donating to Delaware County hospice care through Light Up a Life.


An affectionate homage to the cuisine of Daniel Boulud's native Lyons, Bar Boulud presents the earthy glories of French terroir in a setting reminiscent of a SoHo store or—with its long bar and swooping, swanlike decanters—a laboratory. The Lyons influence is apparent in the wine list, which focusses on the two adjacent regions (Burgundy to the north, the Rhône Valley to the south), and in the spectacular range of charcuterie. Few New York chefs venture farther into the latter than the predictable foie-gras terrine, but Boulud took the task seriously enough to bring a charcutier, Sylvain Gasdon, over from Paris. (Gasdon is a protégé of Gilles Verot, who comes from a line of charcutiers near Lyons and now operates two high-end stores in Paris.) "Is pâté really that hard to make?" a skeptical diner asked recently, but the restaurant's diligence is repaid with a firm, rich head cheese, a boudin blanc (a sausage of pork and cream) that breaks apart in your mouth with feathery delicacy, and a torte of sweetbreads, foie gras, and morels sealed in pastry crust. Served in cross-section, it looks like edible marquetry.
Charcuterie aside, Boulud has made the canny decision to limit ambition for the sake of consistency. The menu takes in Lyonnaise bouchon specialties like coq au vin and chicken-liver salad and a roster of bistro favorites, like steak frites and croque-monsieur. More individual touches are rare but so, too, are missteps (though a pea soup lacked the necessary springlike sweetness and tasted mostly of its chicken-stock base). A simple dish of tarragon chicken was flavored and cooked with such remarkable evenness that the meat welcomed the knife almost like a fillet of fish.


The second book in the Virtue Falls series is riveting! Edge of your seat suspense! I did not read the first in the series, yet this one was perfectly understandable as a stand alone book.
It all starts with 29 year old Taylor Summers returning to her childhood home, Wildrose Valley to try to connect with herself and remember her early childhood. While stopped to sketch the mountains, she stumbles across a kidnapping and a murder about to happen. She puts herself in harms way to distract the killers from the young boy they are planning to kill.
After hiding in a cave overnight to get away, Taylor makes her way to town and breaks into her old childhood home. She is cold and starving and needs to find a way to get in touch with the authorities. When she finds a connection to the internet, she is shocked to see her name in the headlines as having been in on the kidnapping of 9 year old Miles, nephew of rich and powerful Kennedy McManus. She finds out she is believed to have died in an explosion set by the kidnappers.
Taylor spends months surviving any way she can, trying to figure out how to get her life back. After many trials and tribulations, she starts a new life in Virtue Falls, Washington as Summer Leigh, a housing concierge. She makes friends with many in the town, and bides her time until she is able to get contact to Kennedy McManus in a way that she thinks will not put her in danger. She needs to convince him that she wasn't in on his nephews kidnapping and get him to help her get her life back.
Weeks go by and finally Kennedy shows up. He's been obsessed with finding her for a year now, never believing that she was in on it. It was only a story fed to the press to keep his nephew safe from the kidnappers in case they returned. Taylor/Summer and Kennedy join forces to figure out who is behind the kidnapping, murders and stalking. It leads to an explosive ending that you won't want to miss. And just when they think they can have a happily ever after …. will they be able to?
This sounds so good, really intrigued now!


Mountain Mailing Blog » Blog Archive » Open That Letter!
The first thing you have to do is stand out in the mailbox. There are a lot of ways to do this.
An unusual size envelope can be a good attention getter. Using a 6×9 envelope, or a #9 instead of a #10 envelope will make your letter different. You will stick out from the crowd. You have to be careful in playing too much with size. Non-standard envelopes cost more. If you get too large, or make your sizes out of proportion, the USPS will charge you a non-automation penalty, or worse.
Everyone loves pictures. A cute cartoon, exciting photo, or even an unusual logo can sometimes be enough to catch your prospect's eye and draw them in. Color is a close relative. While the right black and white photo can be just the dramatic touch you need, there are a lot more choices with color.
So you can play with size, and add photos. What about envelope color? A light blue or yellow envelope will certainly be different from most of what they're looking at. While most colored envelopes are more expensive than white, they're a lot cheaper than 4-color printing of photographs. A manila envelope (the tan "official mail" ones), can be effective too.
On the more artful side, there are a lot of things you can do to make your letter appear more "personal". This can often be much cheaper than the bold techniques previously discussed. Using a handwriting font for the mailing address is a good start. If your mailer can apply pre-cancelled stamps instead of a postal indicia, that can help too. These allow you to have a stamp on the letter, but still pay the bulk postage rates. Selecting an invitation or greeting card style envelope can work well with this strategy.
Before you go too far, you need to make a critical decision. You must choose, up front, whether you're going to go for the flashy or the subtle approach and stick to it. You can mix techniques some (perhaps using color with a handwriting font to make it look like an ink pen), but if you go too far, you'll just turn off your prospect. That's the biggest challenge. Finding the right balance between building interest and looking like a scrapbook (assuming you aren't in the scrapbook business).
We hope this has given you some ideas. Remember, the best tool in your arsenal is your individuality. By using your own creativity, you can come up with something that will be truly different, and therefore effective.


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Q: PHP Timesheet calculate past 24hrs I'm trying to calculate a timesheet i'm working on within a JS onChange event, the following works but it wont work past midnight, for example 23:00 - 01:00 returns 22 instead of 2 or rather 2.00 as I'd like it to report to 2 decimal places.
$startm = date_create({mS}); //create a php datetime object
$finishm = date_create({mF});
$t_diff = date_diff($startm, $finishm); //calculate the difference
{mT} = $t_diff->h + round($t_diff->i/60,2) + {mOt} + {mOt2} /24; //add everything up

The form has the following fields
    Start Tme = mS - 24hr time
    Finish Time = mF - 24hr time
    Overtime = mOt - int
    Overtime 2 = mOt2 - int
    Total = mT - int

A: You can just add a check if $startm is past noon and $finishm is NOT past noon, $total -= 12. This of course won't work for shifts that last more than 24 hours, but that doesn't seem to be an acceptance criteria for your code.


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Turbocharged instant asset write-off scheme unveiled
There was one big-ticket initiative in the federal budget that really caught our eye, and that was the turbocharged version of the instant asset write-off scheme. Today we'll look at how it could improve your business's cash flow moving forward.
Did you catch the announcement that businesses, both big and small, can now immediately write off any eligible depreciable asset, at any cost, up until 30 June 2022?
Well, that's any business with a turnover of up to $5 billion (and I don't know about you, but I don't rub shoulders with many businesses that size).
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the initiative will unlock investment opportunities for businesses by freeing up their cash flow.
"A trucking company will be able to upgrade its fleet, a farmer will be able to purchase a new harvester and a good manufacturing business will be able to expand its production line," Mr Frydenberg says.
Let's look at the scheme in a little more detail
The government is calling the new initiative "temporary full expensing".
But to put it more simply, it looks like an expanded version of the popular instant asset write-off scheme, which was previously only available for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and for assets up to $150,000.
Now, however, any business with a turnover of up to $5 billion can immediately deduct the full cost of any depreciable asset purchased from 6 October 2020 and first used or installed by 30 June 2022.
The cost of improvements made during this period to existing eligible depreciable assets can also be fully deducted.
There are a few other key details you should be aware of, however, especially when it comes to the purchasing of second-hand assets, including:
– Full expensing also applies to second-hand assets for SMEs (with an aggregated annual turnover of less than $50 million).
– Businesses with aggregated annual turnover between $50 million and $500 million can still deduct the full cost of eligible second-hand assets costing less than $150,000 that are purchased by 31 December 2020 under the existing instant asset write-off scheme.
– SMEs that acquire eligible new or second-hand assets under the $150,000 instant asset write-off by 31 December 2020 will also have an extra six months, until 30 June 2021, to first use or install those assets.
To help explain things further, below is a brief case study provided by the ATO.
Case study: Grace's Grains
Grace owns an agricultural company, Grace's Grains Pty Ltd, which has an aggregated annual turnover of $20 million for the 2021-22 income year.
Grace's Grains Pty Ltd purchases a combine harvester for $600,000, exclusive of GST, on 1 July 2021.
Without temporary full expensing, Grace's Grains Pty Ltd would claim a total tax deduction of around $180,000 for 2021–22, with the remainder of the cost being depreciated over future years.
Under temporary full expensing, however, Grace's Grains Pty Ltd will instead claim a deduction of $600,000 for the full cost of the combine harvester in 2021–22, approximately $420,000 more than before.
At the 2021–22 tax rate for small and medium companies of 25%, Grace's Grains Pty Ltd will pay around $105,000 less tax in 2021–22.
This will improve the company's cash flow and help Grace reinvest and grow her business.
Being able to write-off assets purchased is all well and good, but if you don't have access to the funds to purchase them, then the scheme won't be of much use to your business.
So if you'd like help obtaining finance to make the most of temporary full expensing for your business, get in touch with us today.
We can present you with financing options for the scheme that are well suited to your business's needs now, and into the future.
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There's No Elephant in This Mousehole: The Supreme Court Upholds State Court Jurisdiction Over Class Actions Brought Under the Securities Act of 1933
May 18, 2018, Lexology
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On March 20, 2018, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund,[1] a case concerning the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 ("SLUSA"), which imposes certain limitations on class actions under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Court resolved a split among state and federal courts[2] in affirming a California state court that held that SLUSA does not strip state courts of jurisdiction over class actions alleging only violations of the Securities Act of 1933.[3] The Court further held, after being asked by the United States appearing as amicus curiae, that SLUSA does not authorize defendants to remove such actions to federal court.[4]
Justice Kagan, writing for the court, first examined the interrelationship between the three relevant acts. The 1933 Act requires companies selling public securities to make disclosures and creates private rights of action, over which both federal and state courts have jurisdiction, for the failure to do so.[5] If brought in state court, such actions were not removeable to federal court by express provision of the Act.[6] The 1934 Act regulated the exchange of securities after their offering to the public, and could also be enforced through private right of action. However, in contrast to the 1933 Act, Congress gave federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over all actions arising from the 1934 Act.[7] Congress, in 1995, enacted the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which amended both the 1933 and the 1934 statutes.[8] The Reform Act modified certain procedures for litigating a securities action, but only when such an action was brought in federal court. Afterwards, more class actions were filed in state courts under state law.[9] In response, Congress enacted SLUSA, which "completely disallows (in both state and federal courts) sizable class actions that are founded on state law and allege dishonest practices respecting a nationally traded security's purchase or sale" and allows removal of such prohibited actions to federal court for dismissal.[10]
In the case before the Court, Cyan, a telecommunications company, and its officers were sued in California state court by three pension funds and an individual alleging that Cyan's initial securities offering was supported by false information, in violation of the 1933 Act.[11] Cyan moved to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, arguing that SLUSA stripped the state courts of jurisdiction through its definition of a "covered class action," found in 15 U.S.C. §77p(f)(2).[12] The Court disagreed, holding that Cyan was attempting to read a major statutory alteration into a definitional provision, where such seismic alterations normally do not go, and in so doing was violating a well-established precept:
Congress does not make 'radical—but entirely implicit—change[s]' through 'technical and conforming amendments.' Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB, 531 U.S. 316, 324 (2001), 121 S. Ct. 941, 148 L. Ed. 2d 830 (2001) (internal quotation marks omitted). Or to use the more general (and snappier) formulation of that rule, relevant to all 'ancillary provisions,' Congress does not 'hide elephants in mouseholes.' Whitman v. Am. Trucking Assns., Inc., 531 U.S. 457, 468 (2001), 121 S. Ct. 903, 149 L. Ed. 2d 1 (2001).[13]
The Court noted that in the face of "recalcitrant statutory language, Cyan stakes much of its case on legislative purpose and history."[14] The Court countered Cyan's reasoning with the notion that the true aim of the reform act "does not depend on stripping state courts of jurisdiction over 1933 Act class suits."[15] Cyan's final argument that the "except clause would serve no purpose at all unless it works as Cyan says" was similarly rejected by the Court.[16] The Court noted that the "except" clause may have been intended as a failsafe provision, to ensure that state courts respected "SLUSA's new limitation on what they could decide."[17]
Finally, the Court responded to the Government's assertion as amicus curiae that any class action brought in state court under the 1933 Act could be removed to federal court.[18] "At bottom," the Court held, this argument "makes the same mistake as Cyan: It distorts SLUSA's text because it thinks Congress simply must have wanted 1933 Act class actions to be litigated in federal court."[19] The Court concluded that "SLUSA did nothing to strip state courts of their longstanding jurisdiction to adjudicate class actions alleging only 1933 Act violations" and likewise did not authorize removal of those suits to federal court.[20]
Kevin C. Maclay and Todd E. Phillips are Members of Caplin & Drysdale's Bankruptcy and Complex Litigation practice groups. Caroline E. Parke is an Associate in both groups.
[1] Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver Cty. Emps. Ret. Fund, 138 S. Ct. 1061 (2018).
[2] See, e.g., Luther v. Countrywide Fin. Corp., 195 Cal. App. 4th 789, 797-798 (2011); Knox v. Agria Corp., 613 F. Supp. 2d 419, 425 (S.D.N.Y. 2009).
[3] Cyan, 138 S. Ct. at 1065-66.
[4] Id. at 1065.
[9] Cyan, 138 S. Ct. at 1067.
[10] Id. (explaining that SLUSA bars a "covered class action" (which is defined as "a class action in which damages are sought on behalf of more than 50 persons") alleging "an untrue statement or omission of a material fact in connection with the purchase or sale of a covered security" or "that the defendant used or employed any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance in connection with the purchase or sale of a covered security."); see also 15 U.S.C. § 77p(b).
[11] Cyan, 138 S. Ct. at 1068.
[12] Id. at 1070. 15 U.S.C. § 77v(a) provides, inter alia, that "[t]he district courts of the United States . . . shall have jurisdiction . . . concurrent with State and Territorial courts, except as provided in section 77p of this title with respect to covered class actions, of all suits in equity and actions at law brought to enforce any liability or duty created by this subchapter." (emphasis added).
[13] Cyan, 138 S. Ct. at 1071-72 (alterations in original).
[14] Id. at 1072.
[16] Id. at 1073-1075.
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Is Music in Your Blood? Check Out the Music That's Being Stored in DNA
For many of us, our favorite songs get us moving in a way that nothing else can. Some of us can't help but sing along or dance. And for those of us who play an instrument, sing regularly, or can't seem to stop dancing we often say we've got music in our blood. But, incredibly, scientists have actually now begun storing music inside DNA.
Ancient Storage System
Experts say that data coded in DNA can last many times longer than magnetic tape or thumb drives. With proper temperature control that data stored in DNA could last for hundreds of thousands of years. We certainly have seen this evidenced in the field of archaeology- most recently when researchers were able to obtain ancient human DNA from cave sediment in a cavern where no human bones or remains were known to exist.
Current data and music storage are not necessarily archival since we don't know how long they will actually last. But those magnetic master copies of our favorite artists? They are only ever expected to last mere decades, a blink of an eye when compared to the potential longevity of the human race. Data in DNA can be stored in synthetic fossils, accessible many generations later, just as prehistoric fossils are our link to the past now.
Magnetic tape storage has come a long way since the first days of computers, but even at 25GB per square inch, modern magnetic tape doesn't hold a candle to DNA storage. Via/ Flickr
And then there's the issue of space. 215 million gigabytes of storage can be derived from a single gram of DNA, compared to the thousands of flash drives or music CDs it would take to store that much data. Even large companies like Microsoft are considering using DNA as a viable storage in future due to its incredible storage capacity.
There's one more point in favor of using DNA for storage: as long as humans are reading and decoding DNA they will be able to unravel what's stored in the DNA that's been used as RAM. Basically, it won't become obsolete! How many forms of technology can boast that?
The Storage of the Future
Deep Purple in 1976. Via/ Wiki Commons
The first two songs to have been preserved this way are versions of "Tutu" by Miles Davis and "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple that were recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. The project is a collaboration between the University of Washington, Twist Biotech, Microsoft Research, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne.
Not only does this step forward represent a space-saving measure for archives and large companies, but holds a special potential for archives of all kids- potentially keeping records safe for millennia. Certainly, no music archive has ever had that kind of potential longevity before! But, now the Montreaux Jazz Festival archives have made a start. We wonder how many companies and libraries will be following suit in the coming years.
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