For anyone who has teen readers who like fantasy then they might like to try reading this book.
Daphna loves going to bookstores and everything about them from choosing a book to trading books. You can imagine Daphna's excitement when a new bookstore opens called The Antiquarian Book Center. Daphna calls the bookstore ABC. This bookstore is not like anything Daphna has ever experienced. ABC only specializes in books about magic. Also what is up with the owner, Mr. Rash? He is one odd bird. After only spending a short time with Mr. Rash, Daphna's father comes home acting really weird. Come join the adventure with Daphna.
For only being thirteen, I thought Daphna was very smart both book and street. She is a very cute and sweet girl. I was surprised at how quickly this book read. Who knew that going to a bookstore could be so dangerous. I started it in the morning and by the afternoon I had finished reading it. The Book of Nonsense is a fun, quick young adult read that teens will enjoy. The Book of Nonsense is book one. Seeing as to how book one was good I am sure the next book will be just as good.
This sounds good. I saw another review of it earlier. Do you think it can become good in the lines of Harry Potter good. I've been looking for something to fill the gap left by HP and this does sound good.
Definitely! Though I'd say it's more along the lines of the Golden Compass series, at least from the talk about the "Da Vinci Code" territory it supposedly goes into. I loved the book and think it will be huge. Check out the reviews pouring into Amazon.


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Islandia, con tan sólo 320. 000 habitantes, period el país europeo en el que tradicionalmente nunca pasaba nada. Sin embargo, en octubre de 2008, poco después de que una encuesta señalara a los islandeses como «la gente más feliz del mundo», una difficulty económica sin precedentes llevó al país a los angeles bancarrota; algo más tarde, en l. a. primavera de 2010, el volcán Eyjafiallajökull puso en alerta con su emisión de cenizas a todo el espacio aéreo europeo.
After the fantastic Revolution, a no longer so excellent age of lawlessness happened England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes governed the land. Execution by means of putting frequently punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring tales of fearless criminals proliferated, giving beginning to a brand new medium: the newspaper.
Ny instances bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein investigates a covert op on the Army-Navy soccer online game during this intriguing activities secret. The Black Knights of military and the Midshipmen of military have met at the soccer box considering that 1890, and it's a competition like no different, full of culture. teenager activities newshounds Stevie and Susan Carol were busy at West element and Annapolis, learning the avid gamers and coaches—and the key provider brokers.
Press coverage of the heavyweight championship fight was extensive. "16 The Chicago Daily Tribune reported that "now men travel to great boxing contests in vestibule limited trains; they sleep at the best hotels ... "17 The Times Democrat noted that New Orleans was packed "with visitors of all classes, from the millionaire to the baker to the fakir. "19 On top of the Pulitzer Building in New York, a red beacon was poised to signal when the fight went Sullivan's way or a white one for Corbett. The national information network of telegraph, telephone and newspaper communication provided instantaneous results of the fight.
Both films were framed by editorial decisions about composition, and since a 50-foot strip "showing the start and finish and weighing-out as above"50 was also available, the process of selecting and editing to create highlights of the event was certainly accomplished. 51 The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Film When Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim Corbett in Carson City, Nevada, on March 17, 1897, to win the heavyweight championship of the world, three hand-cranked cameras loaded with thousands of feet of film were situated at ringside in a specially designed wooden house to capture the entire spectacle.
Arguably, the race's finish constituted the most important part of the race and the most natural part to capture on the 150 feet of film shot (approximately one minute), although it was not the only portion of the race captured. This testified to a deliberate, conscious decision on the part of the producers — James White and Raff & Gammon — to guarantee that cameraman Heise captured highlights of the race. "49 The team of White and Heise also shot the 1897 Suburban Handicap at the Sheepshead Bay track of the Coney Island Jockey Club.


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Experts from ECOWAS meet on deployment of regional visa
Experts on visa issues from the ECOWAS member states have met on the deployment of the regional visa (ECOVISA) aimed at facilitating the seamless movement of citizens of West African states within the region.
The Directorate of Communications in the ECOWAS Commission disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The experts held a virtual meeting on August 4, to present and discuss security features for the ECOVISA document.
They also discussed the necessary accompanying measures for the implementation of the decision of the heads of state and government of ECOWAS on the matter.
According to the ECOWAS Commission, besides consolidating the proposed road map for the roll-out and deployment of the ECOVISA, the experts are also examining data exchange/registration platforms.
This platform, it explains, takes cognisance of migrants amongst member states' consular services, host country immigration services, and ECOWAS itself.
It stated that Tei Konzi, ECOWAS Commission's Commissioner for Trade, Customs, and Free Movement, said it was important for delegates to make concrete recommendations for future validation by regional ministers in charge of security and migration.
Mr Konzi, who declared the meeting open, noted that the regional visa should help facilitate mobility in the ECOWAS area.
He stressed that in working out modalities for the proper implementation of ECOVISA, member states are to be engaged in developing a regional visa roadmap for the emergence of a Schengen-type visa for the region.
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He added that this should be done while reassessing and updating the consideration of the evolution of migration in the ECOWAS region especially during the COVID-19 period.
"Commissioner Konzi particularly took note of the need for a consolidation of the roadmap proposed for the deployment of ECOVISA, the data exchange and registration platform for migrants.
"At the level of consular services of ECOWAS member states and immigration from host countries and ECOWAS," he said.
Mr Konzi also disclosed that the commission's expectations are for the regional visa to be made a powerful tool for tourism, a source of foreign exchange, and to create a regional environment conducive for the free movement of investors and foreign workers.
He thanked stakeholders, representatives of the technical and financial partners of ECOWAS for their support in the strengthening of regional integration, peace, cohesion, and socio-economic development.
The commission said that Hassane Ismail, Chair of the meeting and Commissioner of Police of Niger, underscored the importance of the meeting's agenda while looking forward to the progress to be made.
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It noted that amid presentations, the delegates also ascertained the status of information requests for citizens domiciled in the ECOWAS host nation to immigration offices.
They also considered the increased understanding by member states' delegates of the shared regional opportunities and challenges presented by the harmonised visa.
The adopted recommendations of the meeting are expected to be submitted to the ECOWAS Ministerial Meeting for further consideration.
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Today is Thursday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2017. There are 31 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — was born in Florida, Missouri.
In 1016, Edmund II, King of the English, died after a reign of seven months.
In 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris was signed in Sept. 1783.
In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States.
In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.
In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
In 1939, the Winter War began as Soviet troops invaded Finland. (The conflict ended the following March with a Soviet victory.)
In 1954, Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Oak Grove, Alabama, was slightly injured when an 8-1/2-pound chunk of meteor crashed through the roof of her house, hit a radio cabinet, then struck her as she lay napping on a couch.
In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados became independent.
In 1977, Bing Crosby's final Christmas TV special, "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas," aired on CBS.
In 1982, the Michael Jackson album "Thriller" was released by Epic Records. The motion picture "Gandhi," starring Ben Kingsley as the Indian nationalist leader, had its world premiere in New Delhi.
In 1987, American author James Baldwin died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, at age 63.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill, which required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
Ten years ago: A man took hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire; he surrendered about five hours later. An Atlasjet plane crashed in southwest Turkey, killing all 57 people on board. An Amtrak train and a freight train collided on a track on the South Side of Chicago, injuring dozens of people.
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The diploma course in Reiki includes Reiki 1 and 2. Reiki is a combination of the words 'Rei' – which means universal wisdom – and 'Ki' – which means life force. Reiki deals with the transmitting of life force energy through the hands and the main energy points of the body.
Reiki is a deeply relaxing, balancing and soothing exercise that heals on several levels. But that's not all to Reiki. All of our energy systems, i.e. the mind, body and soul, are connected and have an effect on each other. According to Reiki, filling the body with cleansing and healing energy will benefit the mind and soul. The essence of Reiki, therefore, lies in detoxifying the body of harmful energy and healing the mind, body and emotions.
What sets Reiki apart from other healing traditions it the process of initiation, called 'attunement'. While other forms of healing are done with the help of an expert or specially gifted therapist, Reiki can be done by anyone. Through the attunement process, students who learn and are initiated into Reiki will be enabled to practice and even impart this healing tradition onto others if they wish. This course is divided into two parts, each dealing with Reiki 1 and Reiki 2, giving you all the tools required to practice this unique healing tradition on your own and even impart it to others.
The attunements are optional, however, and inessential to complete this diploma course. What is important is that you learn the various techniques in Reiki and that they benefit you in your personal development. This course being offered online gives you the flexibility to adjust it to your own schedule without having to worry about deadlines and other hassles.


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I don't have much information for you on The Wilson Patriots Jr. Drum & Bugle Corps of Wilson North Carolina as it was a long time ago and I do not remember the names of those involved in the running of the corps. But, I did teach the drum line in their 1971 start up season, in preparation for what seemed to be their only field competitive season of 1972. I couldn't stay past 1971 as I was returning to my home town of Rochester N.Y. after my active duty time in the Marine Corps was complete.
At that time I lived in Landover, Maryland and was a member of the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps of Washington D.C. Fellow Yankee Rebel and former USMC D&B Corps member John Muzzi was the drill writer and instructor as well. John was the person who actually invited me to teach the Wilson Patriot corps with him. John and I were both quite proud of the fact that we were able to get a relatively small, parent backed civic based organization off the ground and flying.
John and I drove from the Washington D.C. area very early on Saturday mornings and went all the way to Wilson N.C. to do weekend camps which consisted of an all day rehearsal on Saturday and half day on Sunday. The parent organization and corps administrators were very hospitable people who, upon us leaving to return home, were upset if you were to pass on their southern style hospitality. They made sure that we had a full four course dinner topped off with home made peach ice cream before we left for home. They even gave each of a container of that ice cream to take home with us. These were extremely nice people who did a lot for young kids through the Drum Corps medium for the sake of these young corps members.
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A Pap test. This test looks for changes in the cells of the cervix. Abnormal cells may be a sign of cancer.
An HPV test. There are many types of HPV, and some of them can cause cancer. The HPV test may be used with the Pap test in women ages 30 and older. Having both a Pap test and an HPV test is called co-testing.
There is also a test called a primary HPV test. This is a newer test for women ages 25 and older. A woman who has this test doesn't need to have a Pap test.
Experts, such as the U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), agree that women should begin screening at age 21 and continue until they are age 65. Women who have had a hysterectomy and no longer have a cervix don't need to have tests (unless a woman had the hysterectomy because of cervical cancer).
These guidelines apply to women who have never had a serious abnormal Pap test result. If you don't know if you have ever had such a result, talk with your doctor.
You start having Pap tests at age 21. Women younger than 21 shouldn't be screened, except for women who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
You have a Pap test every 3 years. Testing should not be done every year.
If any of your tests are abnormal, you may need to be tested more often.
Women 21 to 29 usually aren't tested for HPV, because they are at low risk of cervical cancer. The virus is common in younger women, and their immune system usually gets rid of it. The exception is the newer test called the primary HPV test, which can be started at age 25, and redone every 3 years.
You had a normal Pap test.
You had a normal HPV test.
You can have a Pap test (without an HPV test) every 3 years, for as long as your results are normal.
The ACOG guideline includes information on the newer primary HPV test for women ages 25 to 64.footnote 1 With a normal result from the primary HPV test, a woman can continue to be screened every 3 years. Screening should stop at age 65 for a woman with a normal screening history. A woman who no longer has a cervix shouldn't have a primary HPV test.
You've had 3 Pap tests in a row with normal results.
OR you've had 2 combined HPV and Pap tests in a row with normal results in the past 10 years and one of those tests was in the past 5 years.
A hysterectomy is surgery to remove the uterus, usually including the cervix. Sometimes the cervix is not removed. You and your doctor can decide on the right screening based on your medical history.
You don't need Pap tests if your cervix was removed for reasons other than cancer.
You may have regular Pap tests if your cervix was removed for precancerous changes. But you may not need them as often if you have no other risk factors.
You should have regular Pap tests if your cervix was removed for cervical cancer.
You should have regular Pap tests until age 65.
If you don't know if you still have your cervix, talk with your doctor.
Abnormal changes on your cervix may be minor or serious. Minor changes may go away on their own, especially if you are younger than 30.
If you have serious changes—which means the cells are the type that could turn into cancer—you may need more regular checkups and Pap tests. You may need treatment to remove the abnormal cells.
If you have a Pap test and an HPV test, your doctor will look at the results of both and decide what kind of follow-up tests you might need.
Were exposed to DES (diethylstilbestrol) before birth (prenatal exposure).
Have HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Have a history of abnormal Pap tests or cervical cancer.
If you had a Pap test and it was normal, you can wait 3 years to have another test.
If you had an abnormal Pap test result, your doctor will let you know if you need follow-up tests.
If you had a primary HPV test and your result was normal, you can wait 3 years to have another test.
If you had an abnormal primary HPV test result, your doctor will tell you if you need follow-up tests.
The cells on your cervix look normal.
You can wait 5 years to have another combined Pap and HPV test.
Your doctor will still want you to have physical exams. Ask how often you should come in.
The Pap test shows no abnormal changes to your cells.
The HPV test is positive, which means you have HPV.
Your body's immune system could get rid of HPV on its own.
You will likely have another Pap and HPV test in 1 year.
If you have one of the most high-risk types of HPV, your doctor may recommend a colposcopy. In this test, your doctor uses a lighted magnifying tool (colposcope) to get a closer look at the cervix.
You have abnormal cell changes on your cervix.
Your doctor may suggest a colposcopy to learn more about your abnormal cells.
Your doctor will suggest a colposcopy.
Abnormal Pap and HPV test results don't mean that you have cervical cancer. But, depending on the type of cell changes, you will likely have treatment to remove the cells.
Your doctor will tell you when to have another Pap test—if you have a normal HPV test or if you didn't have an HPV test.
You may have a colposcopy if you are 30 or older and have a positive (abnormal) HPV test.
Your primary HPV test is positive, which means you have HPV.
Your doctor will tell you what follow-up tests you will need. If the follow-up test results are normal, then you will likely need another screening test in 1 year.
If you have one of the most high-risk types of HPV, your doctor may recommend a colposcopy (and possibly a biopsy).
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2016). Cervical cancer screening and prevention. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 157. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 127(1): 185–187. DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001256. Accessed January 4, 2016.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2016). Cervical cancer screening and prevention. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 157. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 127(1): 185-187. DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001256. Accessed January 4, 2016.


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Q: Using limits to prove inequalities Basically my question is that if $\lim_{x \to \infty} f(x)>\lim_{x \to \infty} g(x)$ does that mean $f(x)>g(x)$ for an $x$ assuming that $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ are both always positive and increasing.
So in terms of proving what I've done is I've shown that $\lim_{x \to 2} f(x)>\lim_{x \to 2} g(x)$ is true so therefore the inequality is true for $x\geq2$. I know that another commenter used sin and cos to disprove that but I'm assuming that $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ are always positive and increasing. For the domain of f and g, it would just be $x\geq0$.

A: The question is asked with $\color{red}{\text{an}}$ $x$. Here's the proof of that-
Assuming that the limits of $f$ and $g$ exists, let us assume that
$$\lim_{x\to \infty} f(x)=F$$
and
$$\lim_{x\to \infty} g(x)=G$$
Now, it is given that $F>G$.
Take $\epsilon=\frac{F-G}4$
For this epsilon, there must be an $N_f$ and and $N_g$ such that
$$F-\epsilon<f(N_f)<F+\epsilon$$
and
$$G-\epsilon<g(N_g)<G+\epsilon$$
because of the definition of limits.
Now, take the maximum of $N_f$ and $N_g$ to be $N$. Since $f$ and $g$ are increasing, we must have
$$F-\epsilon<f(N)<F+\epsilon$$
and
$$G-\epsilon<g(N)<G+\epsilon$$
In particular,
$$F-\epsilon<f(N)$$
and
$$g(N)<G+\epsilon$$
So,
$$f(N)>g(N)$$
This completes the proof.

However, the OP writes in the comments that it was a typo and the actual question deals with $\color{red}{\text{any}}$ $x$.
This statement is not true and a counterexample can easily be constructed using the idea of a Sigmoid function. The counterexample I am giving assumes that the domain of $f$ and $g$ are $\mathbb R$. The same idea can be used to construct functions on any other domain.
Take
$$f(x)=\frac{1}{1+e^{-x}}$$
and
$$g(x)=\frac{0.5}{1+e^{-x}}+0.1$$
Note that
$$1=\lim_{x\to \infty} f(x)>\lim_{x\to \infty} g(x)=0.6$$
but
$$0.1192\approx f(-2)<g(-2)\approx 0.1596$$
Does that help?

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Grinding your own flour is one of those kitchen tasks that sounds smart—it tastes fresher, has no additives, and is less expensive—but also arduous. This countertop electric mill from L'Equip takes all the intimidation out of the process. You pour whole grains into the top compartment, adjust a dial to deliver coarse- or fine-ground flour, and up to 20 cups fill the bottom bin—it's as simple as a giant coffee grinder, fast, and (with the cover on) not terribly loud. We loved how you could adjust the fineness of the milling: We poured in supermarket popcorn and dialed up fine cornmeal for muffins; then we switched to coarser cornmeal for pizza dough. And the Nutrimill goes beyond grains, milling rice and dried beans (split peas, soybeans, pinto, and mung). Best of all, it comes with a lifetime warranty, so you can mill to your heart's content. It costs $300; find a local or online dealer at Kitchenresource.com.


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Manoj Khatri Love in human form
Another struggle for independence
By Manoj Khatri | August 3, 2010 | Comments 0 Comment
It's hard to accept but our blood sucking politicians are a reflection of our collective attitude and mindset. We ought to stop accepting abuse of power and anarchy. A second "struggle" for freedom is needed—one that frees us from our own apathy, cowardice and passivity. Only when we're freed this way can we ever become free from the greed of the current crop of politicians.
A filthy, appalling breed
that is sucking our nation dry
by their abysmal greed
while the rest of us cry
As long as they succeed
Mumbai will never be Shanghai
I think it's only when they die
will we heave a collective sigh
Politicians and horror flicks
By Manoj Khatri | November 29, 2008 | Comments 1 comment
Millions of ordinary citizens are sending SMSes to TV news channels expressing their shock, anger and other emotions at the recent terror attacks on Mumbai. Many of these SMSes are being telecast on tickers scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
One citizen's SMS expressed helplessness asking: "When will our politicians wake up?"
I would like to answer this question: Never.
That is because, to wake up, you need to be asleep, not dead. Out politicians are actually dead. Their hearts don't beat. They souls don't feel sadness. Only dead people can react the way our politicians do.
In fact, now I am pretty certain that our politicians only shed crocodile tears whenever any terror strikes.
Dead people are supposed to be buried or cremated – but we see them freely roaming everywhere, especially on TV channels. No wonder our TV channels often resemble Hollywood horror flicks, atrocious looking dead men coming out of graves to "terrorise the neighbourhood". Remember Michael Jackson's Thriller video?
Mumbai attacks: the lethal combination of business, politics and religion
By Manoj Khatri | November 29, 2008 | Comments 3 comments
Rage, shock, disbelief, and hopelessness are some of the many emotions that we in Mumbai are experiencing right now. But we are also feeling helpless. What should we do in such a situation? Is there even a modicum of hope that we will emerge out of our vulnerability to face any crisis in the future?
It is indeed very sad that we can do little except live in fear and speculate about how our self-serving politicians, from ruling parties or otherwise, will use this to further their own utterly selfish agendas.
The problem is much more complex than apparent. And perhaps the root cause is the lethal combination of business, politics and religion. The financial crises, the terror attacks and lots of other grave issues we face today are the result of these three forces conspiring hand-in-glove.
I reckon that the world is a victim of the "business of politics" and the "politics of religion." Notice that the common thread is politics. Yes, politics is no more than business for our politicians, who leave no prospect of raking in millions. These same politicians also use religion to terrorise the core human spirit. They design dirty divisive strategies just so that they can come to power and then abuse it to their advantage. What is tragic is that people fall victim to the ideologies of political and religious leaders who have nothing but their own self-interest in mind.
Whenever there is a crisis, our political leaders grab the opportunity to point fingers at their political rivals. Their holier-than-thou attitude is unbearably nauseatic. Every politician portrays himself as the son-of-the-soil who would lay down his life for the countrymen. But all they do is vote for more and more privileges for themselves. With top security for each of them, why would they bother about the security of the average citizen?
Unless we break up the unholy nexus between business, politics and religions, I see little hope for the average human being anywhere in the world.
No difference between politicians and terrorists
Most politicians are no better than the terrorists. The only difference between terrorists and politicians is that while terrorists are victims of a kind, politicians are in fact the victimisers.
Spare a moment to think about the modus operandi of terrorists: their primary means of achieving their goals is to identify the vulnerability of the people and then exploit it. In the case of the Mumbai attack, the terrorists studied every vulnerable aspect of Mumbai and then used each of them effectively to terrorise us.
Our politicians too use every opportunity to exploit the people of the country. The vote-bank politics is a case-in-point. When BJP uses the Hindutva card, it is exploiting our country's vulnerabilities. When MNS chief Raj Thakeray provokes Marathis against the north-Indians in Mumbai, he is very effectively misusing the susceptibility of the average unemployed Marathi residents of Maharashtra.
Every single politician in the country has consistently abused the vulnerabilities of the common man to their advantage. Then, can you see the similarity between terrorists and politicians?
Mumbai terrorised but NOT immobilised
The media, especially TV channels, must stop glamourising terrorism. I appeal to TV channels to stop spreading terror and report only facts, sans exaggeration. Mumbai has not been attacked. Only a few locations in South Mumbai has been attacked.
I feel a sense of tremendous anguish at the thought that the masterminds behind the attack on Taj, Oberoi and CST station must be celebrating their success, perhaps even rejoicing the killing of our top cops. But in spite of what's happened, the truth is that Mumbai is normal. We citizens are shocked, yes. We are shaken, yes. But we are not immobilised. By repeatedly broadcasting "Mumbai Attacked", we are only helping the cause of terrorists.
Their objective is to terrorise the whole world… why give them free advertising? We should, in fact, play it down.
It is also high time that we "ordinary" citizens step out and start an extraordinary movement against the incompetent and inept governance of this country. Collective action is the need of the hour. If we don't do something soon, the self-serving politicians of this country will lead us into irrreparable destruction – not just of property but also of the human spirit.
Welcome to Sajjanpur is engaging
By Manoj Khatri | October 5, 2008 | Comments 0 Comment
I saw "Welcome to Sajjanpur" yesterday. I thought it was nice. Easy on the mind. The songs were totally unnecessary, otherwise it was pretty engaging.
Shreyas Talpade is brilliant in his portrayal of an educated rural young man who dreams of becoming a fiction writer someday. The character is basically a noble creature at heart, complete with ordinary human weaknesses. He is believable. So is Amrita Rao as a young married rural girl waiting for her husband to return from the city. Not at all glamorous, Amrita still looks beautiful and fresh.
The other cast and crew were OK. Ravi Kishen was at his irritating best. Ila Arun added to the irritation quotient of the film.
Through "Welcome to Sajjanpur" Shyam Benegal shows that you can make a film on an extremely simple story, without too much conflict and yet keep it engaging. Not among his best. But still pretty good.
Freedom from second-hand smoke
India is far behind in the list of countries that have banned smoking in public places. But then, it is better to be late than never, especially when it concerns the health of millions.
I support the ban comprehensively. It is about time we took the dangers of passive smoking seriously. For those who believe that the ban is unfair, this is what I think: smokers can smoke as much as they want to – after all we live in a democracy and we have no right to object to an individual's choice. But, the same individuals must respect a non-smoker's choice too. I don't smoke because I think it's not for me. I am convinced that smoking harms me. Then why should I be subject to passive smoke? By smoking in public places, you force non-smokers to inhale the smoke. And that, mind you, is definitely unfair.
There are some who think that instead of banning smoking in public, there should be a ban on manufacture and sales of cigarettes – at least there won't be a moral dilemma among smokers. It's a democracy thing again – won't we take away their right to smoke? Yet, we have banned drugs altogether, haven't we? I reckon that if the government is so sure of smoking being injurious to health, it should ban it altogether.
But at least banning in public places is a good start. Let us enjoy freedom from second-hand smoke.
New Complete Wellbeing website rolled out.
By Manoj Khatri | September 13, 2008 | Comments 0 Comment
We humans are complex creatures! We are always striving to decode the universe we inhabit… but we often forget the basics in the process. We want to conquer the world, but we forget that we must first conquer our minds, then conquer the hearts of others, and then, surprise-surprise, the world will not be needed.
In our upside-down, topsy-turvy scheme of priorities, Complete Wellbeing reminds us of what we tend to forget in our daily lives – that what we intrinsically value is good health, happy relationships, satisfaction at work and a purpose in life.
Recently, we rolled out the new website of Complete Wellbeing. This is just the beginning. We have great plans for making it one of the most useful websites in the world.
To me, Complete Wellbeing is much more than a magazine or a content portal. It's a philosophy, an attitude, a movement. It's a way of living, in which we value the gifts nature has bestowed on us.
I am convinced that the new website will promote the philosophy of Complete Wellbeing and spread health, happiness, love and fulfilment to millions of people around the world.
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Reality TV and the society
By Manoj Khatri | September 6, 2008 | Comments 2 comments
I am amazed at the sheer number of reality TV shows on Indian TV channels these days. TV channels and their programming departments are not known to be very bright and original. If one show on one channel works, all channels rush to join the bandwagon and produce similar shows. Game shows, dance competitions, singing competitions, and reality shows now comprise most of our programming on TV. Even news channels' content consists largely of programming that can be classified as reality TV, albeit of a different nature. Since everybody is doing it, I reckon it must be working. I am a firm believer of media being a reflection of the society, the audience, who consume the media.
If you watch any of the reality shows with interest, chances are that you derive a certain kind of pleasure in watching human frailties at show. You like watching real-life conflicts – between contestants, participants, their relatives, judges (who are celebrities in their own right), hosts, and journalists. I've heard that some of the anchors of shows on news channels are not even journalists – they are theatre actors who are given a role to play, complete with a script.
In my opinion, reality TV and sensationalism of news on TV is mirroring an emerging disturbing preference in our society….that of voyeurism. In this version of voyeurism, watching people suffer in pain makes one feel good. You like the tears, the sobbing, the drama of elimination, the spectacle of accusations of favouritism, the tragedy (or comedy) of perfectly sensible-looking individuals finger-pointing – and the works.
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Four Albums I'm Looking Forward to in May
I work part-time at a local record store and one of the things l do there is update the monthly new release board. It's really nothing special; it's just a small chalk board that I write upcoming albums on for the store. In doing it
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A Recap of the 2021 Oscars
This past Sunday, April 25 was the 93 Academy Awards which was held under new and unusual circumstances. Nevertheless, it was a night of high honor and talent being presented with the infamous Oscar. "Another Round" a Danish film, on four high school teachers consuming
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Laconic Libations: A Senior Thesis Art Show
April 30 was the start of Laconic Libations, the senior thesis art show, the opening reception was held at 4:15 outside the Wright Museum with plenty of tasty treats for before and after the viewing. The show presented theses from artists Maria G. Aschenbrener '21,
Beloit College Trivia
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Beloit College's Majors as Vine Quotes
It's that time of the semester: registration week. The time of the semester where everyone hovers over their computers with the class registration page open and then curse loudly to themselves when the portal page inevitably crashes. And yes, first years: It does crash every
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BSU Holds Vigil and Protest for Lives Lost to Police Brutality
On Mon. Apr 6, Black Students United (BSU) Held End Police Violence event to honor people lost to police violence and experience grief together. The event was advertised on social media as a way for Beloit Students to join BSU in their fight to "honor
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CDC Unveils New Mask Guidelines
For Americans who have been given the full COVID-19 vaccination, the new guidelines regarding face masks should come as great news. On Tues Apr. 27, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that for those who have received both vaccine doses, plus an
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Idaho Passes Bill Banning Critical Race Theory
Idaho has passed a bill to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) from public colleges and universities under the impression that it advocates that one race, gender, ethnicity or religion is supposedly better or more superior than another. In the bill, Idaho lawmakers have purported that
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Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Resumes
As of Apr. 25, 2021, the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended the resumption of distribution of the Johnson and Johnson Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine. The CDC and FDA released a joint statement on Apr. 13, 2021 stating that they were reviewing the
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On April 7, 2003, the Syrian Volunteers engaged in a fierce fight with Americans who were on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Shaafout was wounded by American fire and a fellow fighter from Syria was killed nearby. Shaafout's men fled to Syria as Baghdad fell. They watched on a television screen as a statue of Saddam Hussein was being toppled.


As a second generation, family-owned business and one of the major employers in the Neckar-Odenwald region in Germany, we are aware of the social responsibility resting on us. Without the expertise of our staff, our products would not have become a quality standard among input systems in the European market. Our development and growth is due to the efforts and skills of the individuals. We promote a customer-oriented attitude within the company, however, we oppose an excessive performance mentality. We demand, but not overwhelm. However, we are always available for our customers. Antisocial behavior and an "elbow society" are not tolerated in our company. As a family-owned company, we place special emphasis on human and social harmony. Process-oriented thinking assists our price competitiveness.
The key elements of our vision are: extensive consulting, flexible solutions for all requirements and visions, and broad internal knowledge in order to take all possible technical solutions into consideration. We strive to be your strong partner who is not only convincing in terms of services, but who provides support in developing ideas. Our engineers assist in developing your ideas and advise on technical and economic issues. High quality products are guaranteed, which is how we want to establish H+K as the European market leader for customized input solutions and secure our production site in Buchen, Germany long term.
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So you want to make a baby seminar a great success
(L to R) Michael Condon, Dr Warren DeAmbrosis, me and David Cleary from the LGBTI Legal Service
A seminar on how to make a baby, for those not doing so the old fashioned way, was a resounding success. Nearly 70 attendees made this the largest seminar of this type in Brisbane.
The seminar, run for the LGBTI Legal Service, featured three speakers: fertility counsellor Michael Condon, fertility specialist and one of the founders of Qld Fertility Group, Dr Warren DeAmbrosis, and me.
The speakers described the complex legal landscape involving egg and sperm donation and surrogacy, as well as the practical issues with becoming a parent through those processes, and the associated medical issues.
Several intended parents raised the difficulties of proceeding with surrogacy in Queensland. Attendees were told that commercial surrogacy is illegal in Queensland, and still an offence for those in Queensland who go overseas.
By contrast, those who go to Canada for altruistic surrogacy can do so legally in Queensland. I said the cost of undertaking surrogacy in Qld (including IVF costs) could be done for as low as $25,000, or up to $60,000, largely depending on the number of IVF cycles.
Michael Condon mentioned to take care with known sperm donation, and that in his view sperm donors to lesbian couples were not dads. I said that to undertake known sperm donation was extremely risky- because donor agreements were not binding, and that if the donor has a change of mind then a trip to the Family Court might be the outcome that happens that no one anticipated.
Dr DeAmbrosis mentioned ways to cut IVF costs when contemplating surrogacy, and that 1 in 10,000 childbirths resulting in the death of the birth mother, which demonstrated that there was a risk to being a surrogate. He also said that older couples were often spending money on IVF using their own eggs and sperm when because of age or because either was a smoker that the chances of getting pregnant were very low.
Thank you to Toby Longhurst and Qnews for the pics.
Not all human beings can be classified by sex as either male or female: High Court
Australia's highest court, the High Court of Australia, has unanimously decided today that a person can have their birth registered with the gender not being specified.
The judgment starts this way:
Not all human beings can be classified by sex as either male or female. The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 (NSW) ("the Act") expressly recognises that a person's sex may be ambiguous. It also recognises that a person's sex may be sufficiently important to the individual concerned to warrant that person undergoing a sex affirmation procedure to assist that person "to be considered to be a member of the opposite sex". When a person has undergone a sex affirmation procedure, s 32DC of the Act empowers the Registrar to register a change of sex of the person upon an application by that person.
The question in this appeal is whether it was within the Registrar's power to record in the Register that the sex of the respondent, Norrie, was, as she said in her application, "non-specific". That question should be answered in the affirmative.
The matter had been before a Tribunal:
The issue before the Tribunal was whether it was open to the Registrar under s 32DC of the Act to register an applicant's sex as "non-specific". The Registrar argued that his powers were confined to registering a person's sex as either "male" or "female".
The Tribunal found that, as a matter of fact, Norrie does not identify as male or female, but as "non-specific", and that she considers that identifying herself as male or female would be a false statement. Nevertheless, the Tribunal concluded that it was not open to the Registrar to register her sex as "non-specific". In this regard, the Tribunal proceeded on the footing that "the Act is predicated on an assumption that all people can be classified into two distinct and plainly identifiable sexes, male and female ... [T]he Registrar does not have the power under section 32DC of the Act to register a change of sex by a person to 'Non specific'".
The appellant appealed to the New South Wales Court of Appeal:
The Court of Appeal remitted the matter to the Tribunal because it held that the Act contemplated that Norrie might be assigned to a specific category of sex other than male or female such as "intersex", "transgender" or "androgynous"[13]. Whether the Tribunal should take that course was a matter which would depend upon findings of fact which had not yet been made as to Norrie's specific sex classification
The Registrar submitted that the Court of Appeal strayed too far from the text of the Act in reaching its conclusions. It was said that the Act does not contemplate a range of categories of sex, additional to the "opposite" sexes of male and female. In particular, the definition of "sex affirmation procedure" in s 32A suggests a process of seeking to become male or female, given that s 32A(a) states that the sex affirmation procedure is carried out for the purpose of "assisting a person to be considered to be a member of the opposite sex"; and to speak of the opposite sex is necessarily to speak only of male or female. Further, the Registrar submitted, it is reasonable to expect that an intention to recognise another category of "sex" would have been expressly stated in the Act. In this regard, the definition of "transgender" in Pt 3A of the Anti-Discrimination Act does refer to a person being of an "indeterminate" sex; but, significantly, this language was not used in Pt 5A of the Act.
The Registrar also argued that unacceptable confusion would flow from the acceptance of more than two categories of sex given that s 32J of the Act affects the operation of other laws which assume the binary division of sex. This particular argument will be addressed after the submissions made on behalf of Norrie have been summarised.
Norrie submitted that the purpose of the Register is to state the truth about matters recorded in the Register to the greatest possible extent. If the Act proceeded on the assumption that every person was male or female, then s 32A(b) would be superfluous because any change of sex would fall within the scope of s 32A(a). A sex affirmation procedure described in s 32A(b) of the Act, the purpose of which is to "correct or eliminate ambiguities relating to the sex of the person", was said to be predicated upon legislative recognition that not everyone may be classified as male or female. In this case, the sex affirmation procedure, which is a precondition of an application under s 32DA, was carried out, but Norrie's sex remained ambiguous so that it would be to record misinformation in the Register to classify her as male or female. There is evident force in this submission.
Norrie's counsel went further, arguing that, as the Court of Appeal accepted, Norrie might more accurately be assigned to a category of sex such as "intersex" or "transgender". On this view, the expression "change of sex" in s 32DC does not mean changing from one sex (male or female) to another (female or male): a reference to change of sex simply means an "alteration" of a person's sex so that registration of categories of sex such as "transgender" and "intersex" is within the scope of the Registrar's powers under s 32DC. This further argument goes too far; it should be rejected.
The Registrar's submission that the Act recognises only male or female as registrable classes of sex must be accepted. But to accept that submission does not mean that the Act requires that this classification can apply, or is to be applied, to everyone. And there is nothing in the Act which suggests that the Registrar is entitled, much less duty-bound, to register the classification of a person's sex inaccurately as male or female having regard to the information which the Act requires to be provided by the applicant.
Additional categories of sex
As a matter of the ordinary use of language, to speak of the opposite sex is to speak of the contrasting categories of sex: male and female[15]. Yet given the terms of s 32A(b) and the context in which it is to be construed, the Act recognises that a person's sex may be indeterminate.
Norrie's application to the Registrar and the Registrar's determination did not give rise to an occasion to consider whether Pt 5A contemplates the existence of specific categories of sex other than male and female, such as "intersex", "transgender" or "androgynous". It was unnecessary to do so given that the Act recognises that a person's sex may be neither male nor female.
The Registrar's initial determination of Norrie's application was right. The appropriate record of her change of sex was from "male" (as it may be taken to have previously been recorded outside of New South Wales) to "non-specific". To make that record in the Register would be no more than to recognise, as the Act does, that not everyone is male or female and that the change to be registered was from an assumed registered classification outside of New South Wales as a male to, as Norrie's application put it, non-specific.
Ambiguities and indeterminacy
The Registrar's submission must be rejected at the point at which it insists that the Registrar is required to decide whether he or she is satisfied (let alone that it has been demonstrated objectively) that, despite an application showing persisting ambiguity in the sex of the applicant following a sex affirmation procedure, the applicant's sex should be recorded in the Register as being either male or female. The registration of a change of sex records the facts supplied by the application so long as the application is supported in accordance with s 32DB.
The provision of the Act which acknowledges "ambiguities" and the context of the 1996 Amending Act, which referred to persons of "indeterminate sex", are a sufficient indication that the Act recognises that, as this Court observed in AB v Western Australia[16], "the sex of a person is not ... in every case unequivocally male or female."
There is nothing in the text of the Act which gives support to the view that the Registrar must initiate, much less resolve, a dispute concerning matters of fact and expert opinions presented to the Registrar under ss 32DA and 32DB. Such a role would not be consistent with the provisions of the Act which charge the Registrar with the role of establishing and maintaining the registers by recording information provided by members of the community.
There may be occasions when the Registrar is prompted by the circumstances of an application to address a concern as to whether an application to record a state of affairs in the Register is made in good faith. But this is not such an occasion. There is no suggestion that Norrie's application was not made in good faith. Norrie had undergone a sex affirmation procedure and verified that fact as required by s 32DB of the Act. Norrie's application was not deficient in terms of the information required by the Act. The opinions of the medical practitioners required by s 32DB were to the same effect as Norrie's own statement. The material before the Registrar (and the Tribunal) was to the effect that the sex affirmation procedure had not eliminated the ambiguities relating to Norrie's sex. In these circumstances no question was raised by Norrie's application which required the Registrar to pursue or resolve any further issue.
It was open to the Registrar, in the exercise of the power conferred by s 32DC, to register Norrie's change of sex by recording the change from classification as male to non-specific.
The link to the judgment is here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2014/11.html
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China picks another Himalayan fight with India
Beijing says it doesn't recognize Indian sovereignty of northeastern Arunachal Pradesh after claim PLA kidnaps five Indians in area
by Sumit Sharma September 7, 2020 September 10, 2020
Chinese and Indian security officials at a Himalayan border area. Photo: Pinterest
MUMBAI – China today made a veiled threat to India, describing one of India's northeastern states as "South Tibet" and saying it never recognized Arunachal Pradesh as part of India.
The latest threat come as the two most populous countries remained in a tense confrontation in mountainous Ladakh, where China has intruded into parts.
The Chinese threat came after a junior minister in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet said five men from India's northeastern state were kidnapped by the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
"The Indian Army has already sent a hotline message to the counterpart PLA establishment at the border point in Arunachal Pradesh. Response is awaited,'' Kiren Rijiju replied to journalists' questions on Twitter.
The Chinese response was unambiguous.
"China has never recognized so-called 'Arunachal Pradesh,' which is China's South Tibet region, and we have no details to release yet about the question on the Indian army sending a message to PLA about five missing Indians in the region,'' said China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian according to the mouthpiece Global Times newspaper.
In 1962, China invaded Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh's northeastern tip called Aksai Chin in a similarly planned invasion. China then withdrew from large parts of Arunachal Pradesh, while holding on to Aksai Chin, which is contiguous with Tibet. China invaded and occupied Tibet in 1950, soon after its independence in 1949.
India and China share 3,488 kilometers of border, which is mostly mountainous and inhospitable. Most of the border was demarcated by the British before India's independence in 1947. China refuses to recognize it, without providing its version of maps or earlier agreements.
Following India's action to withdraw special status granted to the state of Jammu and Kashmir including Ladakh in August 2019, China and Pakistan raised objections and raised the issue to the United Nations Security Council, but found no support from global powers.
As the pandemic spread in India from March 2020 and Indian troops couldn't move into Ladakh as snows melted, the PLA moved in to occupy parts of the region. India and China have been embroiled in skirmishes since May.
Twenty Indian and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers were killed in a clash in Galwan Valley on June 15. On August 30, Indian special forces occupied several heights overlooking Chinese positions including its military bases around south Pangong Lake.
After more than half a dozen rounds of negotiations over the past three months, China has hardened its position saying it won't withdraw from a single inch of land, which it now claims as its own, and says it will use all its force to defend it.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe held over two hours of talks in Moscow on September 4, which ended without agreement and each side reiterating their stated positions.
Indian and Chinese troops march at a Himalayan border outpost in a file photo. Image: Facebook
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are scheduled to meet in Moscow on September 10 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a meeting that may or may not defuse the situation.
Like Ladakh, India's northeast is mountainous, covered in thick forests and difficult to monitor or guard. The two countries last had a skirmish in the region in 1967 at Nathu La in Sikkim, when India repelled Chinese forces.
In 2017, China encroached on parts of the small mountainous country of Bhutan, which depends on India for its defense. The issue of China's encroachment in Doklam was nearly resolved after several weeks of stalemate. India shares a 700-kilometer border with Bhutan.
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Having worked for the NHS since its inception in 1948, and as an original panel firm for NHS Resolution, DAC Beachcroft has developed a training video and toolkit for junior doctors, which can be freely accessed here by trusts and health and social care organisations alike.
The NHS is valued by patients for its quality of care and is considered to be one of the leading health and care services in the world. However, occasionally adverse incidents arise during the delivery of care. This can result in patient complaints and subsequent claims for compensation resulting in significant costs to the NHS, which are rising year on year.
NHS Resolution and the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), work together to resolve claims fairly, share learning for improvements and preserving resources for patient care. Under the stewardship of NHS Resolution, the emphasis on preventing incidents and sharing learning has never been greater and with this in mind, we have collated some useful guidance aimed at improving patient safety and reducing claims, with advice from experienced clinicians on dealing with such incidents from the perspective of junior doctors working within the NHS.
There are various incidents that occur in healthcare settings, and with a focus on learning from incidents to avoid complaints or claims we have included some examples of common incidents here.
NHS resolution has published a selection of important 'Did You Know' documents on a variety of topics, from surgical burns to the National Clinical Assessment Service. We have included a selection we think you will find useful here.
For more information on preventing claims and dealing with incidents please contact Rachel Roberts-Jenkins, Partner; Stuart Keyden, Senior Associate; or Sarah Wood, Associate at DAC Beachcroft.


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Dan's personalized workout experience is modified for classes and small group settings while still offering the same attention to detail. These classes are geared to challenge every muscle in your body and even make you sore in muscles you didn't know you had! The workouts feature Dan's signature technique that implements strategic movements using body weight and resistance bands.
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Take your training outdoors and embrace the challenge nature can offer. This experience incorporates the terrain of the park as an alternative to the traditional gym setting. With minimal equipment, the physical challenges will come from creative use of resistance bands, body weight movements and your surroundings.
This is the newest offering by Dan Flores. This (outdoor) class is designed to challenge, strengthen and condition every muscle in your body. The workout implements a combination of strategic movements using body weight, resistance bands and the terrain of the park. The new you is only a few workouts away!


Secil is a business Group whose activity is based on the production and sale of cement, ready-mixed concrete, aggregates, mortars, prefabricated concrete structures and hydraulic lime. It also includes other companies operating in complementary areas such as the development of solutions in the field of environmental protection and the use of waste as an energy source.
The Secil group is consolidated in Portugal, where it originated, and has expanded over the past two decades to other markets. It currently operates three cement plants in Portugal (Outão, Maceira and Cibra) and is present abroad in Angola, Tunisia, Lebanon, Cape Verde, the Netherlands and Brazil.
Through its eight cement plants and its presence in seven countries on four continents, the Secil Group guarantees an annual capacity of cement production of over nine million tonnes.
Semapa, which is the owner of the entire share capital of Secil, is a holding company listed on Euronext Lisboa, and part of the PSI 20, whose majority shareholder is the Queiroz Pereira family, with strong traditions in Portuguese industrial and financial activities.
This industrial group operates in the areas of forestry, pulp, energy, paper, the environment and cement and holds the majority of The Navigator Company (formerly Portucel Soporcel), Europe's largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp and the world leader in uncoated white paper and ETSA, a waste management company engaged in the collection, storage and treatment of animal by-products.
To give shape to ideas, by providing our customers with cement based solutions, our people with careers worth having, our communities with responsible citizenship and our shareholders with value.
We strive to be the preferred cement based solutions provider for our customers in the communities we serve.
We give value to the other persons perspective.
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We adhere to the highest standards of ethics and safety.
We assume the best of our colleagues and act accordingly.
We are accountable for our actions and outcomes.
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We learn from mistakes and successes in equal measure.
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We believe that shared goals and mutual support lead to success.
We celebrate our accomplishments collectively.
We foster trust and care, as they enable collaboration.
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Slag Contemporary is pleased to present STARLINGS OVER YELLOWSTONE, an exhibition of sculptural assemblage by Hartmut Stockter. This will be the artist's first solo show in US.
In 1871, a rather overly enthusiastic group of wealthy New York residents released a variety of European songbirds in Central Park: chaffinches, skylarks, Japanese finches, and over one hundred European starlings. It is a matter of historical debate as to whether the birds released by the self-titled American Acclimatization Society were the result of an ill-advised attempt to populate the New World with every bird named in the works of Shakespeare, but it is ecological fact that the society's wildest "success" was the starling. By the early 21st century, more than 200 million raucous European starlings had spread throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada, forcing out native bird species and distributing invasive plants. A 2007 article in the San Francisco Chronicle called the society "the canonic cautionary tale of biological pollution."
In Starlings over Yellowstone, at Slag Contemporary, Hartmut Stockter will present a number of his naturalist-inspired "day trip" contraptions and zoological sculptures. A German living in Denmark, Stockter is no less curious about the American landscape, and some of the work presented has been inspired in part by peculiar, forgotten tales such as that of the starlings, which proved fodder for his life-size bird sculptures made from discarded materials. This is not Stockter's first appearance in New York, as he has previously made a name for himself in Brooklyn with his quixotic, pseudo-scientific sculpture works; most notably an installation on Governor's Island in 2008 (In Site, Portable Rat-Converter) and a collaborative, floating installation on the Gowanus Canal (Gowanus Haven) in 2009.
Stockter often works in the context of a landscape, with nature as a thematic focus. Some of the sculptures exhibited are designed for use within a specific type of terrain, whether rural or urban, while others are easily portable in order to allow usage at different sites. Practicality and functionality take a backseat to a tongue-in-cheek look at how the contemporary West interacts with nature - Stockter's fantastic objects poke fun at the treatment of the outdoors as yet another niche area for marketing absurdist commodities, as if nature were a thing to be improved upon, or a room to be looked into. All satire aside, the instruments succeed in projecting an ironic exaltation of the urban wayfarer, and are designed to turn a trip into the backyard, the next park, or brownfield site into an adventure.
Hartmut Stockter (1973) was born in Wilhelmshaven (DE), lives and works in Copenhagen (DK). He graduated from Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig in 1998, and received his MFA in 2002.
"Hut-Imker, Nachtwandler, Privatkartograph", Frise Künstlerhaus und Abbildungszentrum, Hamburg, Germany/ "Day Trip Tool Box", ON gallery Posznan, Poland/ "Wundergarage", Kirkhoff Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark/ "Approved Inventions", CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö/ Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden/ "Messages from hibernation", Skulpturi, Copenhagen, Denmark/ "From the treasure chest of an affable blackberry picker", LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Acqua e Sale", Salento, Italy/ "The Earth '03" DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, "Destroyed Worlds", Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria/ "Animalcity", Wolfsburg Art society, Germany/ "Through the Looking Glass", Glasgow, Scotland/ "Skulptur", London, UK.
Public permanent collections: Danish National Museum of Photography, the City of Copenhagen, the Danish Arts Foundation, just to name a few.


Pukekohe Park is New Zealand's most unique racing establishment, home to premier motor sport, horse racing and the perfect function and event space situated just half an hour from downtown Auckland.
Within Pukekohe Park you will find premier motor sport, thrilling horse racing and a recently renovated modern function centre. The annual V8 Supercars event is held here in November with over 100,000 attendees, as well as the Club's feature horse race meeting, Counties Cup Day attracting several attendees.
Pukekohe Park is also home to two motorsport clubs, a cycling club and several exciting events, concerts and motorsport action all year round! Thoroughbred horses are trained on the facility daily from 5:00am, and cycling takes place on the circuit from 5:00pm. During the day several functions, driver training, controlled testing, hot laps and other events take place at the multipurpose facility.


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"A comedy beyond the call of duty."
Featuring the talents of Shirley MacLaine and Nicholas Cage, 'Guarding Tess' offers a glimpse into the life of a former presidential first lady and the Secret Service agent in charge of her safety and security. MacLaine plays Tess Carlisle, the former first lady whose husband has been deceased for some time. While Cage plays Doug Chesnic, the newly assigned head agent who isn't aware of exactly what he is in for when it comes to dealing with Tess.
Tess Carlisle has developed the reputation for being a bit difficult to work with in the safety department. However, Doug is certain that he can get Tess in line and not have any of the difficulties that his predecessors have dealt with. However, Tess gives her bodyguards a run for their money as she pulls unexpected stunts such as giving the agents the slip and leaving them stranded.
Although the local law enforcement, having known Tess for years, finds her escapades amusing, Doug does not. As a by the book type of agent Doug isn't thrilled by Tess' lack of regard and respect for his and the other agent's job in protecting her safety. Although the two seem to react like and oil and water as the film progresses Doug and Tess each begin to develop a respect and even a fondness for each other as they see each other's strengths and weaknesses.
The true test of Doug's devotion comes when Tess is, in fact, kidnapped by her chauffer. Although it takes time to realize the chauffer's involvement, Doug realizes what's going on and forces a confession from the chauffer on where Tess is located. Despite being ridiculed by agents sent to help, Doug and his crew insist on helping to find Tess. After locating her, buried in a box at a farmhouse, Doug and his crew dig and rescue Tess from her prison, cementing the fondness Tess has for Doug and her security staff, shown by her demand that he be well cared for.
Guarding Tess is an Comedy movie that was released in 1994 and has a run time of 1 hr 35 min. It has received mostly poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.2 and a MetaScore of 46.
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Anissa Helou beat me to it with her blog post about today's culinary collaboration! Anyway, here's mine. Anissa (a brilliant cook and food writer specialising in Middle Eastern culinary cultures) and I had been planning a joint Sino-Lebanese lunch for months, and we finally did it, sort of, because in the end it turned out to be Sino-Moroccan. I was in charge of the first course, Anissa of the main course and dessert. As I was cooking at home and planning a 'Chinese takeaway' delivery to Anissa's place, it seemed like a good opportunity to use one of my Sichuanese cuan he ( 攒盒), the gorgeous lacquered boxes that are sometimes used for banquet appetisers. Each box comes with an ornamented lid – in this case a dragon and phoenix (see below), and a neat jigsaw of detachable compartments for the food. The smallest boxes have one central compartment with four others around: this is known as a 'five-colour' box. The one I used today is a 'nine-colour' box, although I cheated slightly because I only made eight dishes (as you can see, one is duplicated in two compartments).
These boxes bring a real sense of occasion to a meal, because you can present the box intact and then remove the lid with a theatrical flourish. With a small group, as we were today, you can just help yourself from the compartments in the box. If a larger number of people are gathered around a big round table, a waitress will often display the whole box, and then remove the compartments and distribute them around the edges of the 'lazy susan' in the centre so that everyone can reach them.
Today's menu was: spicy Sichuanese chicken (凉拌鸡), green soybeans with pickled 'snow' vegetable (雪菜毛豆), spicy cucumber salad (炝黄瓜), Shanghainese 'smoked' fish (熏鱼), kohlrabi salad (香油苤蓝), garland chrysanthemum leaves with firm tofu (豆干蒿菜), fish-fragrant aubergines (鱼香茄子) and pressed pig's ear (顺风耳). I have my friend Jason's mother to thank for the fish dish, as she taught me the recipe (see my blog post A Shanghainese dream). Fish-fragrant aubergines are normally served hot, but I think they are glorious served as a cold dish, like a Sichuanese reply to the Turkish imam bayildi.
After the Sichuanese phase of the culinary symphony, we had a scrumptious Moroccan lamb tagine with prunes, almonds and honey. The lamb was meltingly tender, the honey floral and aromatic, and the toasted nuts a fabulous textural contrast to the rest. (I have some leftovers to eat tomorrow – hooray!). We ate it with home-made semolina bread. (Should you wish to make this divine stew yourself, the recipe is now on FT.com). And then some of Anissa's pistachio ice-cream with rosewater – mmmm. Anyway, as Anissa explains on her blog, we reckoned it didn't really work perfectly to have entire courses of each nationality, so next time we're going to try to serve dishes from the different traditions together, as part of the same spread. Can't wait!
What a culinary treat. Whoever got to eat this meal I do envy! I would love to be able to try the combination of these two cuisines at he same time….
The presentation dish for the starters is quite something!
Thanks Jason. Delighted you like it, especially as you are such a fine cook yourself!
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Not really a fix as much as an upgrade, I wanted to add an SSD to my mac mini for use as a windows system.
The process was super simple, just like the video. The installation guide was also essential. The only problem I ran into was the fact that the holes on the original hard drive that the airport antenna mounted to before the upgrade no longer lined up after the SSD was installed. Everything was exactly the way it was before so I don't really know what changed. This really wasn't a big deal however, because the antenna is still mounted to the chassis and I figure that the only reason for the screws holding the hard drive to the antenna in the first place was because of the empty space beneath. So the antenna was essential holding the hard drive up, which is, of course, no longer necessary because of the new drive right underneath the original.
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Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1987 Sep 15;90(2):315-21.
Fetal disposition of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) during late pregnancy in the rhesus monkey.
Bailey JR, Cunny HC, Paule MG, Slikker W Jr.
Three late-term (Gestational Days 146-151) rhesus monkeys were given 0.3 mg/kg delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) intravenously via the maternal radial vein to quantify the placental transfer and fetal disposition of THC, the major psychoactive component of marijuana. Simultaneous blood samples were obtained from a maternal uterine vein and an intraplacental artery at 0, 3, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, and 180 min after dosing using an intraplacental cannulation technique. Samples of fetal plasma, spleen, testis, lung, brain, liver, bile, kidney, adrenals, thymus, and placenta were obtained at 180 min postdose. Samples were analyzed for THC and a major metabolite, 11-nor-9-carboxy-THC (11-nor), by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Peak plasma THC values were obtained 3 and 15 min after dosing in the mother (1419 ng/ml) and fetus (83 ng/ml), respectively. By 3 hr, maternal and fetal plasma THC levels were equal (37 ng/ml). Maternal plasma was sampled beyond 180 min at 24, 48, 72, and 96 hr postdose, times at which THC and 11-nor concentrations were either near or at the lower limit of sensitivity for the RIA (2 ng/ml). While maternal plasma 11-nor levels peaked at 1 hr (44 ng/ml), almost no 11-nor was detected in fetal plasma (less than 5 ng/ml). Fetal tissue concentrations of THC were 53 +/- 6 ng/g (SE) for brain and 114 +/- 10 ng/g for liver, while 11-nor was undetectable in placenta, fetal liver, and fetal brain. These data demonstrate that THC rapidly crosses the placenta and enters the fetus. The lack of 11-nor in fetal plasma and tissues suggests that this metabolite does not readily cross the placenta and that the fetus does not readily metabolize THC to 11-nor at this stage of development. A portion of this data was presented at the 1985 meeting of The American Society of Primatologists and at the 1986 meeting of The Teratology Society.
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December 12, 2013 By Carl Burgess Leave a Comment
Ichabod Crane and Mills enlist the help of The Soul Eater again, this time to help with locating Crane's son and his protector – the Golem. Sleepy Hollow episode 10 review right here.
Contains some spoilers.
Following on from the last episode, Crane is shocked at finding out his wife Katrina gave birth to a son not long after his death. Crane invites the Soul Eater to help and, against Mills' wishes, he sends Crane back to purgatory to visit Katrina.
It actually feels like a huge story divided into segments
His wife tells him she had to give her son away in order to protect him from the covenant of witches that banished her and that his name is Jeremy.
Crane returns to the real world but he has not come alone, as a monster has followed him and has started to leave bodies all around Sleepy Hollow. They soon find out that the monster is actually a golem that Jeremy manifested to protect him using the powers he inherited from his mother. In order to stop him, Crane needs to find the covenant of witches – 4 voices as 1.
Sleepy Hollow episode 10 is another great instalment in this year's must-watch horror series. It does an excellent job of tying the series as a whole, and characters that have been seen in the background in earlier episodes all of have a reason for being there and are part of a much bigger picture. Instead of having one story per episode, it actually feels like a huge story divided into segments, which is what we want and like.
Sleepy Hollow episode 10 is a well written, well-acted and well-made instalment in the horror franchise. Just like a line in the show, this episode is one thread that makes up a large and incredible tapestry.
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Under Suspicion (2000)

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UNDER SUSPICION

 Reviewed by Harvey Karten
 Lions Gate Films/Revelations Entertainment
 Director: Stephen Hopkins
 Writer:  W. Peter Iliff, Tom Provost, based on the movie
"Garde A' Vue" by Claude Miller, Jean Herman and Michel
Audiard from the book "Brainwash" by John Wainwright.
 Cast: Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Thomas Jane,
Monica Bellucci, Nydia Caro, Miguel Angel Suarez, Pablo
Cunqueiro

   Move over, Inspector Javert.  You spent your whole career
tracking down the innocent Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's
"Les Miserables," but for sheer fanaticism you have nothing
on Captain Victor Benezet, a San Juan cop with political
ambitions in Stephen Hopkins's tense, involving and adult
picture "Under Suspicion."  This detective thriller with
Hitchcockian undertones is of the sort that could be effective
on the live stage, as most of the action takes place within the
local police precinct, but Hopkins--exploiting a taut screenplay
by W. Peter Iliff and Tom Provost--has opened up the
operation to establish the exciting ambience of Puerto Rico
during its San Sebastian carnival.

   The film is the result of Gene Hackman's relentless search
for backing to remake the French film, "Garde A' Vue" which
he had seen some twenty years ago, finally hitting pay dirt
when Morgan Freeman's production company, Revelations
Entertainment, backed the project.  Claude Miller's 1981
picture, written by Michel Audiard and Jean Herman, featured
Michel Serrault in the role of a rich and envied notary married
to the beautiful and noble but impoverished Chantal (Romy
Schneider) who coldly ignores him, and is held on New
Year's Eve by Inspector Antoine Gallien (Lino Ventura) as a
suspect in the rape-murder of two young girls.  As in that
original version, the crime itself becomes merely a
background for an intricate verbal chess game between a cop
and a lawyer who, we learn, have quite a bit in common
except that the policeman is of a different race and not
as wealthy as the celebrated tax lawyer he interrogates.

   On the stage, the story would hold and audience simply by
the discipline and tenseness of the inquiry--a long night's
journey into day pitting Capt. Victor Benezet (Morgan
Freeman) against the rich and powerful attorney, Henry
Hearst, who, he becomes convinced, is guilty of raping and
killing two 13-year-old girls--particularly after confirming that
his prisoner is telling a heap of lies.  The combination of first-
rate acting by the two pros and the trenchant screenplay lead
us in the audience to realize that the real issue is the fight-to-
the-death of two strong protagonists, the police captain
determined to wear down his opponent, the lawyer incensed
that he is being held on what he repeatedly calls a ludicrous
charge.

   Hanging over the proceedings is the complex relationship
between the 57-year-old Henry Hearst and his astonishingly
beautiful and sophisticated 30-ish wife, Isabella (Monica
Bellucci).  Hearst, a photographer by avocation who
maintains that he is building an archive of the island's
chronology, in fact has his eyes on a subject with quite a bit
less history: 13-year-old girls.  His regard for them,
particularly for his adorable niece Camille, is a source of
regular provocation to his lovely wife, who like the women in
Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" has been by locking him out of the
bedroom.  Increasingly depressed, desperate for attention
and affection, and most of all self-destructive, Hearst seeks
out the company of low-class street hookers despite his
ability to afford services of the highest-price escort services.
Putting two and two together, Capt. Benezet--a former
colleague of his prisoner with whom he is on a first-name
basis--is convinced of the lawyer's guilt, and while he uses
his brain to break the man down, he must at the same time
restrain the young, callow and handsome detective who
assists in the questioning, Felix Owens (Thomas Jane).

   We have to suspend judgment a bit in watching this film
and do so happily given the tension that the production
affords us.  In real life, a smart and rich tax attorney would
abide by the adage that a man who acts as his own lawyer
has a fool for a client.  No way would Hearst be willing to
expose so many of his family problems to a captain who is
out to nail him regardless of the cordiality the two had known
in the past.  That done, we can enjoy the cat-and-mouse
game while taking in the fun and games of the revelers
outside doing a modest imitation of Rio's annual Mardi Gras.
Although Benezet's questioning takes place wholly within the
immediate vicinity of the police station, Hopkins has a stylish
way of putting Benezet imaginatively next to Hearst in the
outdoor scenes when, of course, the cop is nowhere near the
accused in and around the neighborhood of La Perla where a
murder had taken place.

   One wonders why Hackman needed to wait for a score of
years to get this film produced given its mastery of the
techniques of detective thrillers.  Could the studios really
have believed that "Under Suspicion" would be incapable of
attracting a large audience simply because the picture
substitutes explosive men for exploding building and features
neither car crashes nor invisible men?

Rated R.  Running time: 110 minutes.  (C) 2000 by
Harvey Karten, film_critic@compuserve.com

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Chick-Fil-A Petition Calls For Fast Food Chain To Stop Serving 'Homosexual' Chickens
"Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" drew customers to their local franchises in record numbers in support of the fast food chain yesterday. However, those patrons -- many of whom are likely to defend Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy's proclaimed anti-gay marriage stance -- are overlooking a key fact, according to a new petition.
Titled "Chick-fil-A: End the hypocrisy! Stop serving gay chickens," the petition points to what it calls a "harsh fact": instances of homosexual behavior in chickens themselves.
"As early as 1764, male chickens have been observed sexually mounting other cocks," Steven Hoffman, the petition's Ohio-based organizer, writes. "How can Chick-fil-A claim to be truly committed to their selective and hateful misreading of the Biblical definition of marriage when the nearly 300 million sandwiches they sell yearly contain chickens, some or all of which might be gay?"
The petition, which currently has over 1,500 signatures, concludes, "Tell Chick-fil-A to put their money where their mouth is and only sell animals that are 100 percent heterosexual."
And those chickens apparently aren't the only fowl to swing both ways -- as Time magazine reported, more than 100 bird species engage in some sort of homosexual behavior, "ranging from casual sex to child-rearing partnerships."
You can view the full petition here.
Next up for the Atlanta-based fast food chain: a same-sex "kiss-in" at local franchises, organized by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates, is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 3.
Take a look at other instances of "gay" animals here:
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