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Clean energy windfall for Amman Valley school and community groups
13th December 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Awel Co-op wind farm in the Amman Valley will be gifting over £30,000 worth of shares to local community groups this Christmas.
One of the first beneficiaries is Tairgwaith Primary School which received £500 worth of shares and a certificate of ownership during a recent visit by Year 5 and 6 pupils.
The school visit features in a short film, available to view here:
The wind farm, located about 20 miles north of Swansea, was commissioned in January having secured £5.25m from Triodos, Europe's leading sustainable bank; one of the largest investments ever seen in the Amman Valley.
As well as providing enough clean energy to power 2,500 homes each year, the two 2.35MWh wind turbines generate revenue which is then reinvested in the local community.
In addition to Tairgwaith's donation, the community co-op which owns the wind farm has gifted £500 worth of shares each to Tiddlywinks Nursery in Ystalyfera, Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers and Canolfan Maerdy, a local regeneration charity. A further £30,000 worth of shares has been earmarked for local community groups.
Tiddlywinks visiting their turbines
Founding director Dan McCallum, who was recently presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Renew Wales in recognition of his pioneering work tackling climate change, explains: "Awel Co-op wind farm is a community energy project and we want our turbines to be owned by as many local people and groups as possible. We were delighted to be in a position to donate shares to Tairgwaith Primary School who will enjoy a projected 5% return per year for 20 years on their £500 investment.
"The wind farm is already a fantastic educational resource, teaching the next generation about the importance of sustainability, but we wanted to go one step further. Now Tairgwaith pupils will be able to visit the site whenever they want to and say, 'we own those windmills!'.
"Of course, none of this would be possible without the financial backing of Triodos Bank, who have been with us every step of the way and continue to support us as we reach another milestone, the end of our first full year of operation.
"Our share offer is still open to the public until we reach our target of £3 million. To date, we've raised £2.5 million. Visit www.awel.coop if you'd like to join us!"
Steve Moore, Relationship Manager at Triodos Bank UK, said: "At Triodos Bank, we invest in people and projects that are bringing about positive environmental and social change.
"Awel Co-op epitomises sustainability – providing enough clean energy to supply thousands of homes as well as generating revenue for schools and community groups – and we are extremely proud to be a part of this very special story."
Triodos Bank, having launched a new personal current account this year, was so inspired by the work of Awel Co-op, they took one of their customers, Kathryn Chandler, who lives in Swansea, to meet Dan and Tairgwaith pupils and see the turbines first hand.
Kathryn was delighted to discover that the money she invests is helping to generate clean energy for local homes. She explained: "I bank with Triodos because they are an ethical bank and I wanted to choose a bank that I believe in and that's investing money in projects I believe in.
"Triodos are transparent about where they put their money and who they lend to and it's important to me that I'm saving with a bank that's considering the benefits for other people, as well as myself.
Other local projects financed by Triodos Bank include Baglan Community Church in Port Talbot, Glangarnant Nursing Home in Ammanford, Rhuddin Housing Co-operative in Kidwelly and Ty'r Eithin Farm in Llanelli.
To find out more about Triodos Bank and the projects they invest in, please visit triodos.co.uk/changemakers. To find our more about Awel Co-op, visit www.awel.coop
Faye Holst – 07521 898 970 – faye.holst@greenhousepr.co.uk
Helen Bell – 07880 560 233 – helen.bell@greenhousepr.co.uk
About Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is a global pioneer in sustainable banking using the power of finance to invest in projects that are good for people and the planet. Triodos uses its €13.5 billion (2016) in assets to create social, environmental and cultural value in a transparent and sustainable way.
With UK operations based in Bristol, Triodos Bank has branches in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany and an agency in France. Globally, Triodos Bank has microfinance projects in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, and is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a worldwide network of 43 banks seeking to transform finance into a vehicle of positive influence.
www.triodos.co.uk
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www.twitter.com/triodosuk
www.facebook.com/triodosbankuk
About Awel Co-op
Awel is a community benefit society established in September 2015 by Awel Aman Tawe, a community energy charity.
Our turbines are situated on Mynydd y Gwrhyd, which is 20 miles north of Swansea. The turbines are forecast to generate an estimated 12,404 MWh of clean energy annually, enough to supply over 2,500 homes per year. This will generate about £3m over the next 25 years of the wind farm to fund low carbon projects in the community.
http://awel.coop
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We are the People's Republic of Wind. Join us!
21st October 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Over 7 million kwh….and two award nominations
3rd October 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Autumn is a good time of year for our wind turbines, and we are very chuffed to be finalists in two awards – best Sustainable Energy Project in Regen SW's Green Futures Awards and the wonderfully named 'Against All Odds: Best Example of Determination to tackle Climate Change Locally' run by Renew Wales.
Our Share Offer is still open till Oct 31st so we hope you join us.
Meet the new wind farm bosses!
21st August 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Tiddlywinks Childcare Centre, based in Ystalyfera, caught a break in the weather to visit Awel Co-op wind turbines last week. Thanks to a grant from the Hamamelis Charitable Trust, Tiddlywinks are now proud owners of £500 worth of shares in the co-op wind farm.
Liz Cole, Business Manager at Tiddlywinks said "The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They asked loads of questions there on site and afterwards during the ride home and at the Centre! Helen Davies from Awel Aman Tawe was very good with all the children (and staff!), answering queries and showing patience with their over-enthusiasm. We are now very proud to be co-owners of the turbines as part of the co-op along with other members."
Dan McCallum, one of Awel Co-op's Directors, said "We want our turbines to be owned by as many people and groups as possible. We are delighted that this grant funding has enabled Tiddlywinks to own shares in the project. This means they'll get a projected 5% return per year for 20 years on their £500 investment. It helps improves their sustainability and is a really good educational experience for the children. They'll be able to visit the site whenever they want and say 'we own those windmills!'. We are hoping to secure further funding to award shares to other community groups in the local area."
Dan added "A number of charities have also invested as they see our project as a good fit with their charitable aims, want to help generate clean energy and get a good return on their investment. We are delighted that Friends Provident Foundation have invested £100,000, Other charities and community organisations which have invested include the Environmental Justice Foundation (£5000), Vision 21 (£5,000), Robert Owen Community Banking (£20,000) and NSA Afan (£5,000). However, smaller local charities such as Tiddlywinks don't have funds to invest so it's wonderful that grant funding can be used to give them a stake in the turbines."
Liz Cole said "Tiddlywinks provides all childcare needs in the local community and has been doing so since 1996. We are fully registered and regulated. We have professional and qualified staff, providing centre-based and mobile crèche facilities for children aged from 6 weeks to 13 years. There is more information on our website www.tiddlywinkscyf.org or by phoning us on 01639 842022."
Owned by local Awel Co-op, the project consists of two 2.35MWh Enercon wind turbines which began production on January 25th 2017 and are expected to generate enough clean, low carbon, energy a year to supply the equivalent of about 2500 homes. Dan McCallum said "Production at the site has been very good and we've already produced more than 5 million kwh. Given that the first four weeks were a test period, we are ahead of schedule and are really pleased."
The wind farm, which is located on Mynydd y Gwrhyd, close to the town of Pontardawe and about 20 miles north of Swansea, recently secured one of the largest investments ever seen in the Amman Valley; a 15-year, £5.25m investment from Triodos, Europe's leading sustainable bank.
The co-op has also raised a further £2.4m through a local share offer, the largest ever in Wales. The share offer is aiming to raise £3m in total before the end of October which will enable it to refinance a Welsh Government loan. Dan added "We are keen to refinance this loan as it's @7.5% whereas our share offer is @5%. Welsh Government can then use the money to help support other community energy projects."
Awel Co-op is backed by Hollywood star, Michael Sheen, who hails from Port Talbot; Welsh rugby legend Paul Thorburn; National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke; and Paul Allen of the Centre for Alternative Energy in Machynlleth, Powys.
Awel Co-op has sought to celebrate creativity and fun to engage people as part of the project. Double BAFTA-winner, Mike Harrison, made an inspiring film of the erection of the turbines, capturing a magnificent Welsh sunrise. Our timelapse, of the construction of the foundations, entitled Bake Off, and set to music is here.
Are we a tourist attraction?
7th July 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Over 60 investors and members of the public came to our first Open Day since the turbines were fully operational. Over 200 came last year during the construction. We think this suggests a lot of people like wind turbines, especially ones you can own!
Some of our visitors on the Open Day
Our Open Day was part of Community Energy Fortnight. Views were spectacular down to Swansea Bay with the North Devon Coast clearly visible. Even the Preselis in Pembrokeshire could be seen.
N.Devon in the distance!
We've now generated nearly 5 million kwh of clean power since the turbines were commissioned at the end of January.
Zoe and Millie the dog
Community Energy Fortnight also saw the release of State of the Sector report in Manchester last weekend, which showed the sector has mushroomed to a staggering £190 million.
Charging the car with windpower
At least 30,000 people have invested in community energy groups
The movement has built 188 MW of renewable energy capacity
Less than ten community energy organisations existed in 2010. 222 community energy groups now exist across the country
Most of the cash raised has been through co-operatives (186 of the 222 organisations surveyed were Community Benefit Societies, a form of co-op like Awel). This helps show a long-term grass-roots commitment to renewable energy.
Awel's share offer is still open @5% annual return until the end of July. Do join us!
Awel Co-op Shortlisted For Major Industry Award
20th June 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
The Awel Coop community wind farm project near Swansea has been nominated in the 'Community-Led Placemaking' category at the 2017 Planning Awards.
The annual awards recognise outstanding work in areas such as infrastructure planning, stakeholder engagement and planning permissions, as well as placemaking, urban design, economic development, housing, regeneration, legal advice and environmental consulting.
Dan McCallum, Director said "We are delighted to be shortlisted. It took us 18 years to get this project through planning and built. It is important that the planning system takes more account of community placemaking as this was our vision right from the start. We wanted to harness a local asset, wind, to enable local regeneration. It's wonderful now to see our turbines in place, generating clean power and we want to encourage more people to visit our site. We're having an Open Day on July 4th between 4 – 8pm. Anyone is welcome to attend – please email info@awelamantawe.co.uk or call 01639 830870 to reserve a place. Wind-powered tea, coffee and welshcakes will be available!"
Owned by local Awel Co-op, the project consists of two 2.35MWh Enercon wind turbines which began production in January and are expected to generate an estimated 12,558 MWh of clean, low carbon, energy a year, enough to supply over 2000 homes.
Dan added "In addition to Triodos, we want to thank our advisors who worked hard with us over many years to secure planning permission – Dulas, ADAS and our legal team at Burges Salmon."
The co-op has also raised a further £2.3m through a local share offer, the largest ever in Wales. The share offer is aiming to raise £3m in total before the end of July which will enable it to refinance a Welsh Government loan.
The project is backed by Hollywood star, Michael Sheen, who hails from Port Talbot; Welsh rugby legend Paul Thorburn; National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke; and Paul Allen of the Centre for Alternative Energy in Machynlleth, Powys.
The winners will be announced at Savoy Place in London on Wednesday 21st June.
Teaming up with 10:10 and new Open Day announced
It's Community Energy Fortnight from June 24th – July 9th and all over the country there are events to galvanise support for clean power. To celebrate this and to draw attention to Global Wind Day (today!), we are opening up one of Awel's turbines for people to see inside a wind turbine. So if you've always wanted to see what it's like inside those towers, come along to our Open Day on July 4th. There'll be wind-powered tea and coffee, and welshcakes!
It's a drop-in event from 4pm to 8pm. The site is on Mynydd y Gwrhyd – about 5 miles north of Pontardawe and 20 miles north of Swansea with spectacular views. The nearest postcode is SA8 4TA and there is a map here. Parking is available so no walking is required. Please email info@awelamantawe.co.uk to reserve your place. We'll be in the Queen of Hearts pub in Cwmgors afterwards to answer any other questions over a pint and chips!
We have also teamed up with the charity, 10:10, who are running a fantastic campaign to support wind energy in the UK. 10:10 have set up a crowdfunding appeal to buy £250 of shares in Awel Coop for Sajid Javid, the Minister with responsibility for wind energy policy and the new Shadow Secretary of State, Teresa Pearce. This will give key politicians a blast of Welsh community wind power and we hope it'll help shape their future policies. You can see the campaign and support here.
There is still time to invest in our Share Offer and you can join us for a minimum of £50. We have raised nearly £2.3m so far of our £3m target and secured a £5.25m loan from Triodos Bank. Our ongoing Share Offer is being used to pay back a loan from Welsh Government – we are keen to refinance as Welsh Government is strongly committed to community renewables and this money can be used to support more projects.
Our turbines are generating ahead of prediction – 4,525,600 kWh so far since the turbines were commissioned on January 25th – enough to supply about 1000 homes for a year (pic of our meter here). Watch the stunning film of the turbines going up. Do read more on www.awel.coop and complete an application form for shares! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on 01639 830870 or email info@awelamantawe.co.uk.
Awel Co-op secures £5.25m loan for community wind farm
23rd May 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Awel Co-op, an award-winning community wind farm, are celebrating a £5.25m investment by Triodos Bank. Dan McCallum, one of the co-op's directors, said
"We are delighted that Triodos, the leading ethical bank in the UK, have decided to provide a 15 year loan to us. They awarded the loan after an extensive due diligence process on the wind farm. This is one of the largest ever investments in the Amman Valley, a former coal mining community. Triodos have been key backers of the very exciting community energy sector for years in the UK but this is the first time, they've been able to invest in an energy co-op in Wales."
Left to right at rear: Victoria Allsopp and Elin Blundell, Burges Salmon; Ben Kumordzie, TLT, Triodos' solicitor. At front, Mary Ann Brocklesby and Dan McCallum, Awel Co-op
The co-op has now decided to extend its Share Offer until the end of July or until it reaches its target of £3m. This will enable Awel to refinance a Welsh Government loan of £1.2m. The interest rate will for shares will remain @5%/year in order to reach the £3m target as soon as possible. The project was backed by Hollywood star, Michael Sheen, who hails from Port Talbot; Paul Thorburn, Wales rugby legend; Gillian Clarke, Wales first National Poet; and Paul Allen of the Centre for Alternative Energy.
Steve Moore from Triodos said "Having known this project a long time it is great to see it come to fruition. Community engagement is at the heart of this project and this is evidenced by the success of the wide base of shareholders in the community. All community projects are about people and this is no exception – Awel have shown rare levels of resilience and dedication to overcome many challenges and make this project happen, and they can be justly proud of their magnificent achievement. These are not easy projects to deliver and we have been able to utilise our experience gained from over a decade of supporting similar community owned projects."
Dan added "We want to acknowledge the critical role that Welsh Government played in providing us with bridging finance of £3.55m to get our project built. This has enabled us to undertake our share offer which has so far raised £2.26m, and secure finance from Triodos. This deserves to be made a case study of how government support can enable community engagement and help lever finance into one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
We also want to thank Ynni Lleol/Local Energy, Big Society Capital, Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust, Robert Owen Community Banking and EU Regional Programmes for providing vital development funding. We are also very grateful for the support of our legal advisors, Burges Salmon, who have been on this journey with us from the start. Without the commitment of Burges Salmon staff, our project would not have been built.
All our profits, estimated to be £3m over 20 years, will be ploughed into further low carbon projects in our community. We want our wind farm to be owned by as many people, charities and community groups as possible – it's fantastic that you can co-own a wind farm from £50. As a co-op, it's one member, one vote irrespective of how many shares someone owns. And you'll be able to see where your money is going! Visit www.awel.coop for more info"
Notes to Editor
Awel Co-op has sought to celebrate creativity and fun to engage people as part of the construction, and future running, of the wind farm. Our timelapse, of the construction of the foundations, entitled Bake Off and set to music, can be seen here. Double Welsh BAFTA-winner, Mike Harrison, made an inspiring film of the erection of the turbine, capturing a magnificent Welsh sunrise.
The project consists of two Enercon wind turbines, each with a capacity of 2.35MW. The wind farm has a capacity of 4.7MW and will generate enough to meet the equivalent annual electricity needs of over 2000 homes. Production levels so far have already exceeded expectation. The wind farm is located on Mynydd y Gwrhyd close to the town of Pontardawe. It is about 20 miles north of Swansea on the western edge of the Valleys.
Share Offer breaks £2 million barrier
12th April 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
We are delighted to announce that our Share Offer has gone above £2 million which is the highest ever in Wales to our knowledge. Over 800 individuals have invested, but we received a particular boost with the support of the Friends Provident Foundation who invested £100,000. This is the maximum single investment allowed under a co-op Share Offer and represents a strong endorsement of our work.
Colin Baines, Investment Engagement Manager at Friends Provident Foundation said "We are pleased to be making our first direct investment in community energy by joining the Awel wind co-op. We view the transformative potential of community energy to be huge, not just in terms of low carbon transition but also regarding local economic and community resilience. We are particularly impressed with how the community took this project from inception to planning to generation themselves; no small feat that should maximise the project's community value. Awel also has the right location, technology and expertise, plus a fair return on investment, which together with its social and environmental benefits, means it is a perfect investment for a foundation like ours that seeks to use its assets to progress its charitable objectives."
Dan McCallum from Awel Co-op said "We are delighted to welcome Friends Provident Foundation as a member of our co-op." Friends Provident funds a range of great projects across the UK and has a strong Vision "We want to help build a just and sustainable world where everybody can live meaningful lives, with respect and care for ourselves, each other and the planet. We believe that the purpose of money and the economy is to enable and serve human flourishing and a healthy environment, and that currently they do not. We work through grants, investments and our own activities, seeking to create a fairer economy that serves us all."
Dan added "Six other charities have also chosen to invest in our community wind farm including the Environmental Justice Foundation and Vision 21 – we think it's really important that charities follow strong ethical guidelines and invest in community energy. We would encourage other charities to do the same – it also will help engage them directly in onshore wind energy as one of the cheapest ways to generate energy to combat climate change, and projected to be the cheapest by 2025. This is according to the UK Government – we have to ask then, why is the government supporting fracking and nuclear which are far more expensive for the consumer and damage the planet ?"
Horsepower! (picture by Awel member, Mike Harrison)
Directors of Awel have now decided to extend the Share Offer in order to refinance a £1.2m Welsh Government loan. This is a 15 year loan @7.5% interest so it will be better for the co-op members to refinance this through Shares. We will be keeping the interest rate for Shares @5% as per the existing offer.
We hope other charities will join us.
Enercon 1 – Siemens 0. Not that we're competitive but….!
7th April 2017 UncategorisedDan McCallum
Enercon did say our turbines would generate in lower wind speeds than Siemens turbines on Mynydd y Betws. Due to gearless drive I think. Good to see it happening! Explains why we're already over 2.5 million kWh in two months.


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                self.graph.add_node(article)
                self.graph.add_edge(page, article, weight=prob_of_article)
                article_pages.append(article)

        # Set ending probabilities
        for a in article_pages:
            self.graph.add_edge(a, END, weight=1.0)
        for p in main_pages:
            self.graph.add_edge(p, END, weight=prob_of_leaving)

        # Set transition prob from main page to main page
        for i in range(len(main_pages) - 1):
            p1 = main_pages[i]
            p2 = main_pages[i+1]
            self.graph.add_edge(p1, p2, weight=prob_of_next)

    def sample_start_page(self):
        r = random()
        sum = 0.0
        for page in self.graph:
            sum += page.p_landing
            if sum > r:
                return page
        return None

    def sample_click_trail(self, landing_page):
        click_trail = []
        cur_page = landing_page
        while cur_page.name != "END":
            click_trail.append(cur_page)

            r = random()
            sum = 0.0
            for neighbor in self.graph[cur_page]:
                link = self.graph[cur_page][neighbor]
                sum += link['weight']
                if sum > r:
                    cur_page = neighbor
                    break
        return ClickTrail(click_trail)

    def generate_click_trail(self):
        start = self.sample_start_page()
        trail = self.sample_click_trail(start)
        return trail

class Blog(Site):
    def __init__(self, base_url):
        Site.__init__(self, base_url)
        self.create_graph(10, 10, 0.3, 0.4)

class OnePageBlog(Site):
    def __init__(self, base_url):
        Site.__init__(self, base_url)
        self.create_graph(10, 10, 0.0, 1.0)

class Wiki(Site):
    def __init__(self, base_url, p_leave):
        Site.__init__(self, base_url)
        self.p_leave = p_leave
        self.build_site()

    def build_site(self):
        pages = wiki.models.Page.objects.all().only('id', 'access_probability')
        self.graph = nx.DiGraph()
        page_cache = {}

        END = Page("END", "END")
        self.graph.add_node(END)

        # Add the pages
        for page in pages:
            page_node = Page(page.title, self.base_url + '?pageid=' + str(page.id))
            page_node.p_landing = page.access_probability
            page_cache[page.id] = page_node
            self.graph.add_node(page_node)

        # Add the nodes
        for page in pages:
            page_node = page_cache[page.id]
            linksum = 0
            for other in page.outlinks.all().only('id', 'access_probability'):
                linksum += other.access_probability
            for other in page.outlinks.all().only('id', 'access_probability'):
                other_node = page_cache[other.id]
                self.graph.add_edge(page_node, other_node, weight=((other.access_probability / float(linksum)) * (1.0 - self.p_leave)))
            self.graph.add_edge(page_node, END, weight=self.p_leave)

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LaVine has 20 in 4th, Bulls beat Nets in 1st game after Nash
Zach LaVine scored 20 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 108-99 victory over Brooklyn on Tuesday night in the Nets' first game after a coaching change.
Nov 2 2022 | 4 min read
LaVine had nine points on 4-for-11 shooting from the field before he outscored the Nets in the final 12 minutes of the game, going 6 for 10 from the field. | Photo: NBA.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Zach LaVine scored 20 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 108-99 victory over Brooklyn on Tuesday night in the Nets' first game after a coaching change.
The Nets announced Steve Nash was out earlier in the day, then fell to 2-6 with Jacque Vaughn leading them.
Kevin Durant had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Nets, but Kyrie Irving managed only four points on 2-for-12 shooting. He missed all six 3-point attempts.
Vaughn stopped short of equating Irving's struggles to the criticism he's been dealing with since posting a link to a film with antisemitic content on his Twitter account last week.
"The message I told the guys after, no excuses," Vaughn said. "Whether it's back-to-backs, no excuses. Whether the change in scenery today, no excuses. This is what we do for a living. We signed up for it."
Durant found out on television that Nash was removed after waking up from an afternoon nap. He said he was not approached by upper management about the decision.
"It was a roller coaster last few years, but the core of the basketball is something we all love to do," Durant said. "Regardless of who is the coach, regardless the circumstances, you still got to come to work, and I enjoyed coming to work with Steve."
DeMar DeRozan added 20 points and Ayo Dosunmu had 17 for the Bulls, who outscored the Nets 31-19 in the final quarter. Goran Dragic, who played last season with the Nets, chipped in 15 off the bench as the Bulls snapped a two-game losing streak.
Royce O'Neale matched his career high with 20 points and Nic Claxton had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who played without Ben Simmons for a second straight night because of a sore left knee.
LaVine had nine points on 4-for-11 shooting from the field before he outscored the Nets in the final 12 minutes of the game, going 6 for 10 from the field.
"The thing that I thought was good for him is that he is finding his rhythm," Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. "The one thing I give him a lot of credit for tonight, he made really quick, decisive decisions. It was catch and shoot. He didn't hesitate, when they were there, he took them."
The Bulls trailed 80-77 at the start of the fourth quarter before the All-Star guard heated up. The Nets still led 88-84 before Dosunmu sparked a 7-0 run with a 3-pointer opposite the Bulls bench to take a 91-88 lead.
Irving answered with a layup but LaVine responded with three straight baskets, including a 3-pointer that made it 99-90 with 5:37 left in regulation and put the game out of reach.
"We are all aggressive and sometimes you catch a rhythm," said LaVine, who is managing his left knee after undergoing offseason surgery. "That's all I am looking to do. It's my fifth game back and catch a rhythm. I am feeling better each game."
Durant scored 20 points on 4 for 6 from the field and hit 10 free throws to pace Brooklyn to a 58-52 lead at halftime.
The Nets struggled early and fell behind Chicago 15-7 midway through the first quarter. But Durant sparked a 20-10 run with 14 points of his own, including seven straight to put the Nets ahead 27-25 at the end of the period.
FAMILIAR POSITION
Vaughn formed part of former coach Kenny Atkinson's staff in Brooklyn and replaced him as interim head coach on March 7, 2020. He coached the Nets to a 7-3 record before they were swept by the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the playoffs in the Walt Disney World bubble.
He was an assistant under Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs from 2010-12 and then got his first lead coaching position with the Orlando Magic in 2012. Under Vaughn, the Magic missed the playoffs the first two years before he was fired 52 games into his third and final season.
TIP-INS:
Bulls: Andre Drummond (shoulder contusion) did not play.
Nets: G Seth Curry (left ankle – injury management) did not play.
Bulls: Host the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday night.
Nets: Visit the Washington Wizards on Friday night for the start of a three-game road trip.


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Известные носители фамилии Чисто́вич:

 Чистович, Яков Алексеевич (1820—1885) — русский врач, историк медицины.
 Чистович, Иларион Алексеевич (1828—1893) — русский писатель, историк церкви, доктор богословия.
 Чистович, Алексей Николаевич (1905—1970) — советский патологоанатом, член-корреспондент АМН СССР (1961).
 Чистович, Николай Яковлевич (1860—1926) — советский терапевт, инфекционист и микробиолог.
 Чистович, Сергей Яковлевич (1867 - 1922) - русский врач, хирург.
 Чистович, Фёдор Яковлевич (1870—1942) — русский врач, патологоанатом.
 Чистович, Андрей Сергеевич (1897–1981) – советский психиатр.
 Чистович, Людмила Андреевна (1924—2006) — советский физиолог и общественный деятель.


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What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens online spills into the real world and affects brands and businesses in a major way. Live from Pubcon Las Vegas 2015, Simon Heseltine (@SimonHeseltine), senior director of audience development at AOL, and Tony Wright (@TonyNWright), CEO and founder of WrightIMC, are giving an example-packed presentation titled "Reputation Management: How to Un-trash Your Brand" on the ins and outs of online reputation management.
People often have no common sense and share completely inappropriate things, like the chef from Chili's posing shirtless in the restaurant's kitchen. People like him get fired.
Posting a racist tweet that has nothing to do with your job? You'll get fired.
Posting "I hate my boss or job" under accounts where you're using your real name? You'll get fired.
And even if you're using a private account, other people can share those inappropriate things you've shared.
Other examples of reputation management fails? Community managers can sometimes get their wires crossed and post what's meant to be a personal post on their public profile. Sometimes they have egregious typos that align your brand with unsavory things. Take the Associated Press, for example, tweeting that Yogi Bear had died when, in fact, they meant Yogi Berra.
Take Jared Fogle, for intance — when he was arrested, the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter was Subway, even though he'd been let go a long time ago.
Brands fail when they don't pay attention to timing. Hot Topic sent out an email with a subject line reading: "These Dead Animals are Adorbs," promoting animal skeleton characters on their teen clothing … the day after Cedric the lion was killed by the infamous dentist.
Companies also fail when they ignore the context of a post: "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." This quote from Lao Tzu is not bad at all. But it's bad when Amtrak tweets this quote.
Tony Wright is now going to tell us how to untrash your brand. His talk "isn't about removing negative items or doing proactive reputation management," he says.
One way not to fix your brand reputation? Injecting illegal code into hacked websites.
Trying to "remove" bad listings from the SERPs? You're doing it wrong. ORM is truly the management of your reputation, not the controlling of your reputation. Anyone offering a quick fix is lying at best — they may even be conning you. The only way to combat a bad online reputation is to create a better one.
Are you monitoring your online reputation frequently? With an adequate tool?
Do you have relationships with influencers in your space?
Do you have a social media policy for employees in place? Do they know what they can and can't post about your company? Some of the worst things that happen are when a crisis hits a company and then the employees take to social media to defend the company — this can go really mad really quickly.
Always tell your side of the story and make sure it shows up.
Make sure your side of the story is palatable to your target audience.
Seed the SERPs — don't expect to replace them.
Use proper channels for response to negative items.
Brands can take a stand in what they believe in IF they know their audience will support them.
Not knowing your audience will multiply the effect of mistakes.
Investing time and money in knowing your audiences is one of the best things you can do for all your marketing channels.
Don't believe your lawyer — they're only thinking about litigation, rather than your brand reputation. Hire a crisis consultant.
Don't admit guilt until you know the whole story.
Don't kneejerk. Today's news cycle moves fast, but most of the time you don't have to move as fast. The current time of a news cycle is two weeks. Example: When's the last time you thought about Cedric the lion? People get angry and then they go on to the next thing to be angry about.
Tie your CEO up in a story.
Consult your lawyer but don't let him/her dictate the plan.
Remember: The more you put out there, the more you exacerbate a storm. Don't push it by apologizing if you don't need to, Wright says.
Large brands typically don't feel any impact from social media or online crises.
Small consumer brands can be damaged quickly but not permanently.
B2B brands are at risk of permanent damage from online reputation fails.


The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center mobile blood collection bus will be in front of the Commissary 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 27. Family members 17 and older (16 with parental consent) may also donate. All donors receive a free T-shirt. For information on donor eligibility requirements, please visit www.bloodcenter.org. For more information or to volunteer to assist at the drive, please contact Master Sgt. Scott Baker at scott.baker.11@us.af.mil or Tech. Sgt. Chad Gibson chad.gibson.5@us.af.mil.
Come out for the "Not your Grandmother's Bingo Event" with proceeds benefiting the 2017 Scott Air Force Ball. The event will take place at 7 p.m. July 29 at the Shiloh Eagles Club (545). Advanced ticket sales are $20 or $25 at the door. Cash bar, $1,000 in cash prizes and must be 18 or older. POC is Tech Sgt. Kei'Chanta Chaney-Johnson at keichanta.chaneyjohnson@us.af.mil. For more information or to RSVP, please click here www.scottairforceball.com.
Join the Outdoor Adventure Program on a two-day trip to Bass River Resorts in Missouri July 29-30. This event qualifies as R4R Initiative—provides exciting outdoor adventures for those in pre/post deployment and their families for a nominal fee, but everyone is welcome. Open to ages 14 & up. Adventure fee: $110. R4R fee: $20. Time: 6:30 a.m. July 29 to 9 p.m. July 30. Registration required. Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. For more details, follow them on Facebook at Scott AFB Outdoor Recreation, or call 256-2067.
Outdoor Recreation is calling all captains and first mates to participate in the Great Scott AFB Cardboard Boat Regatta at 11 a.m. Aug. 4. at the Fitness Center Pool. All base affiliates military and civilian are asked to form a team of at least two, to participate in the Regatta for chances to win gift cards. Prizes awarded to the top three boats with the fastest teams, plus the following categories: "Most Creative Design"; "Best Dressed Team/Support Staff"; and the "Dramatic Fastest Sinking Boat." Teams must provide both a team name and a name for their boat upon registration. Teams are responsible for the cost and construction of their boats. Note: Boats must be pre-constructed entirely of "corrugated" cardboard and duct tape, and in place by 10:30 a.m. the day of event. Pre-inspection of the fleet will be at this time. Patrons must be 16 & older to participate and members of the crew must be able to swim. For more details, follow ODR on Facebook at Scott AFB Outdoor Recreation, or call 256-2067.


Parga has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a post office, banks, a port situated in the central part which ferries to, a beach in the central and the eastern part of Parga, taverns and a square (plateia).
Parga is situated on a hillside with a road linking Anthousa and GR-19. A promontory and a rocky hill with some types of pine trees with tall ones on a top is situated in the west and a small promontory with trees to the east. In Parga's bay, between the town beach and the harbour, there is an islet on which is a chapel and jetty, the island can be easily visited by swimming the short distance from the town beach. Lake Kalodiki is situated to the east and is like a pond which is used for frogs.
Parga is surrounded by mountainous countryside, which is rocky and bushy in the east while it is forested and grassy to the northwest.
A view of Paxoi and parts of southern Corfu can be seen and sometimes Lefkada as well.


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The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2002/11/01/test-spin-charlie-christian/)
Test Spin: Charlie Christian
By wpengine | November 1, 2002
"Seven Come Eleven," the classic romp that kicks off this collection, epitomizes all the exciting qualities of the bebop movement. The cast includes many of the stars of the era: Benny Goodman's unmistakably sprightly clarinet, Lionel Hampton's assertive vibes, and Nick Fatool's swinging kit. But for once, the guitar jumps out in front, with Christian alternating between an understated supporting role and the lead spot — bending notes, sliding up the strings, and ultimately giving a fresh voice to his instrument. You can almost hear the Swing Era morphing into the fresh territory previously ruled by horn players like Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie. But Christian did with six strings something never really attempted before. As Bill Frisell noted, "His musical ideas transcend the instrument." He was the first electric guitarist to refuse to settle for the backseat; he got up in the driver's seat and maneuvered the band through some of the most virtuosic playing of the jazz legacy. Miles Davis called him "the original instigator" of bebop. His rhythmic and harmonic sensibilities were ahead of his time, and have gone on to influence musicians in every genre.
Archived article by Ben Kupstas
President Delivers Last State of the University address to Trustees
By wpengine November 4, 2002
Hundreds of Cornell alumni filled the Statler Hall Auditorium on Friday to hear the last State of the University address by the outgoing President Hunter R. Rawlings III. In his speech, Rawlings emphasized the University's contribution to the world in complicated times. "Today the world needs what Cornell continues to create: character and above all else, that unique blend of theoretical and applied knowledge, fundamental inquiry and active public engagement that has been a hallmark of Cornell from its beginning," Rawlings said. The speech was the highlight of an annual weekend of discussions, seminars and committee meetings held by the Cornell Board of Trustees and the Cornell University Council. The board, which has final decision making authority for University policy, worked throughout the weekend in closed sessions. Speaking at the address, Peter Meinig '61, chair of the board said that Cornell is going through a process of change. He described the role of the Presidential Search Committee, which is searching for Cornell's eleventh President. "It is our goal to find a new President who can embrace the vision we have in place," he said. That vision includes advancing the New Life Sciences Initiative, building top-notch faculty and improving undergraduate living and learning, according to Meinig. Jeff Estebrook '80, chair of the Cornell University Council, an advisory council of more than 700 alumni, gave a presentation highlighting Rawlings' seven-year career as University president. Estebrook hailed Rawlings for envisioning and positioning Cornell as "the best research university for undergraduate education in the country." "We can confidently say that this is an invigorated, healthy and resilient university," he said. Estebrook's slide presentation also included humorous photos of Rawlings dancing the "Macarena" with the Cornell mascot. Estebrook said that Rawlings took off his suit coat and made a slam dunk on a basketball court the first time he met him. "In my mind, Hunter has been making slam dunks ever since," he said. Student-elected Trustee Funa Maduka '04 said that Rawlings "has made an impact upon this school. He contributed to the fact that we're number one in alumni fundraising." In his speech, Rawlings described a grim situation, focusing on the "financial, political and ethical" ramifications of Sept. 11. "Reading the front page of the newspaper has now become a shocking education," he said, citing prospects of war with Iraq, future terrorist acts, stock market declines and projected cuts in the state budget following election day tomorrow. "Yet, against this background of anxiety, Cornell has remained confident in the cogency of its contributions," Rawlings said. Rawlings commended the faculty who tackled these issues and Antonio Gotto, dean of the Weill Medical College, for the success of the medical school in Qatar. Rawlings also praised for the Frankenstein project. "Frankenstein is not just a reading assignment; it is an intellectual project. It requires close reading of a kind that has become rare in our 'sound-bite,' cable TV world." The $500 million New Life Sciences Initiative received a major boost this weekend when Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and others announced that Cornell will receive $25 million for the Life Sciences Technology Building. It will be the largest scientific building on campus when completed. "Only Cornell has the scope, the scale, the breadth of resources to pull off something of this magnitude," Rawlings said.Archived article by Peter Norlander
Cornell to Receive $25 Million from New York for Life Sciences Facility
Funding for Cornell's Life Science Technology Building received a major boost yesterday, as New York State senators announced that the University will receive $25 million from the state's biotechnology economic development program to construct a facility on Alumni Fields. New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno (R-43rd) and Senate members John R. (Randy) Kuhl Jr. (R-52nd) and James L. Seward (R-50th) told the Cornell Board of Trustees today that the University will receive the largest grant from the state's Gen*NY*sis (Generating Employment Through New York Science) program to fund the building. "Our Gen*NY*sis program originated right here at Cornell," he said. "It's appropriate that Cornell gets the largest grant." The single largest building project in Cornell's history, the Life Sciences Technology Building will cost an estimated $110 million to construct and will generate more than 1,000 jobs over the next decade, according to a Cornell news release. As part of the University's $350 million New Life Sciences Initiative (NLSI), the facility will house research in genomics, computational biology, biomedical engineering, biophysics and nanobiotechnology. "With this new facility, Cornell's world-renowned strengths in the physical, chemical, biological and computational sciences will join forces to advance our path-breaking research and instruction in ways that will bring a tremendous benefit to this region and to all of New York state," said President Hunter R. Rawlings III in a Cornell news release. The Gen*NY*sis program, which was initiated by Bruno and New York Gov. George Pataki, provides $225 million to various institutions to stimulate the development of the state's biotechnology industry. The $25 million that the University will receive is the program's largest single grant sum. "The future is truly in the life sciences," Bruno said. "Not only does [research] improve the quality of life, but it also creates lots of jobs." The program's goal, according to Bruno, is to encourage cooperation between universities, health care facilities, the government and the private sector to stimulate biotechnology and biomedical research as well as create job opportunities. "New York has an opportunity to break ahead of other states and take a leadership role in biotechnology and genome research, and Cornell University is well positioned to take New York into these exciting new areas of academic research, high technology and business development," Seward said in a Cornell news release. According to Bruno, he was inspired to initiate the program after visiting the University's School Veterinary Medicine a few years ago. "Gen*NY*sis truly had its genesis at Cornell," he said. Other institutions that will receive funding for genomics research from the program include SUNY Albany and SUNY Stonybrook, according to Bruno. Other components of Cornell's NLSI, which Rawlings and Provost Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin announced in May, includes the construction of Duffield Hall and the reconstruction of the Engineering Quad. Archived article by Stephanie Hankin


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Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif have been together for a long time but in the past few months, the issue of growing distance between the two has been cropping up now and again. The two started dating in 2004, shortly after Katrina moved to India to pursue her Bollywood career. Salman helped her a lot, and used all his contacts to help her ascend the ladder of stardom.
The rumors of Salman breaking up with Kaif gained solidarity when Salman told in an interview to TV channel Headlines Today, "I have broken up with Katrina. We were friends then for everybody, we are friends now."
He even went on to explain the reason behind the breakup, "Koi cheez tootati hain toh isliye kyonki ya to different ways chali gayi hai, ya ek shakhs ki growth nahin hui, ya ek ne kuch aur path chun liya hai, ya sensibility samajh mein nahi aati, ya thinking galat ho gayi hain (A relationship breaks if it gets stretched in different directions, or one person does not grow, or the other person takes a different path, or there is some misunderstandingor they have grown out of love.)"
"So there are different interferences, the parents perhaps… or the interference of anything," he said, adding, "it's just two people not getting along, something that obviously doesn't end peacefully. But if you can manage to stay friends, there is nothing like it."
This adds to another sad end of a long affair in Bollywood!!
Nikhil Advani's 'Patiala House' featuring Akshay Kumar and Anushka Sharma in the lead roles is going to cast 32 sardars in one frame. Besides Akshay and Anushka, the movie stars Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Vindu Dara Singh, and Dara Singh. The music for the film has been given by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and it is slated to hit the theatres in November this year.
The story of the film revolves around Parghat Singh Kahlon (Gattu,) age 34 years who lives a routine life subduing all his dreams and watching his father rule a house, a family, a community in London like he has for the last 25 years. Guttu silently suffers as he gives up his dream to save his father's reputation until he meets a girl who gives him the strength to stand up for what he believes only to shake the very foundations of Patiala House.
Check out the stills and posters from the movie……


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      << m_tiles.getNCol() << std::endl << m_tiles.getNRow() << std::endl
      << m_tiles.getCurrTile() << std::endl << m_locationData.m_Position.x
      << std::endl << m_locationData.m_Position.y << std::endl;
  ofs.close();
}

void Sprite::update(float DeltaTime) {

  this->HandleMSG();

  switch (m_tiles.getState()) {

  case state::idle:
    break;
  case state::animated:
    animate(DeltaTime, m_tiles.getNumAnimFrames(), false);

    break;
  case state::cycle:
    animate(DeltaTime, m_tiles.getNumAnimFrames(), true);
    break;

  default:

    m_tiles.setState(state::idle);
    break;
  }
}

void Sprite::draw(SDL_Renderer *pRenderer) {
  TheTextureManager::Instance()->drawFrame(
      m_textureID, m_locationData.m_Position.x, m_locationData.m_Position.y,
      this->m_tiles.getW(), this->m_tiles.getH(), this->m_tiles.getCurrRow(),
      (this->m_tiles.getCurrCol() + m_animOffset),
      m_locationData.m_RotationAngle, pRenderer, (SDL_RendererFlip)this->m_tiles.getFlip());
}

void Sprite::animate(float DurPerFrame, int NumOfFrames, bool Cycle) {

  if (m_timer.cooldown(DurPerFrame) == true) {
    m_timer.reset();
    if (Cycle == true) {
      if (reverse == false) {
        m_animOffset++;
      }

      if (m_animOffset >= NumOfFrames) {
        reverse = true;
      }
      if (reverse == true) {
        m_animOffset--;
      }
      if (m_animOffset <= 0) {
        reverse = false;
      }
    } else if (Cycle == false) {
      m_animOffset++;
      if (m_animOffset >= NumOfFrames) {
        m_animOffset = 0;
      }
    }
  }
}

void Sprite::Nanimate(float DurPerFrame, int NumOfFrames, bool Cycle) {

  if (m_timer.cooldown(DurPerFrame) == true) {
    m_timer.reset();
    if (Cycle == true) {
      if (reverse == false) {
        m_animOffset++;
      }

      if (m_animOffset >= NumOfFrames) {
        reverse = true;
      }
      if (reverse == true) {
        m_animOffset--;
      }
      if (m_animOffset <= 0) {
        reverse = false;
      }
    } else if (Cycle == false) {
      m_animOffset++;
      if (m_animOffset >= NumOfFrames) {
        m_animOffset = 0;
      }
    }
  }
}

void Sprite::SetPos(float x, float y) {
  m_locationData.m_Position.x = x;
  m_locationData.m_Position.y = y;
}
// Vec2DF *Sprite::getPosition() { return &m_position; }

// Vec2DF *Sprite::getVec() { return &m_movespeed; }

void Sprite::HandleMSG() {

  // todo setup msgpeak. then use a switch statement options
  // void* data;
  // data = this->getVec();
  switch (m_messenger->peakatMSGS()) {
  case MSGTYPE::Failed:
    std::cout << "Null " << std::endl;
    break;
  case MSGTYPE::Physics:

    if (m_messenger->handleMSG(getRot_Pos()) == false) {
      this->HandleMSG();
    }
    break;
  case MSGTYPE::Animation:

    if (m_messenger->handleMSG(this->getTiles()) == false) {
      this->HandleMSG();
    }
    break;

  default:

    break;
  }
}
MSGreciever *Sprite::getListener() { return m_messenger.get(); }
ID Sprite::getID() { return m_ID; }
ID *Sprite::getIDptr() { return &m_ID; }

TileMap *Sprite::getTiles() { return &m_tiles; }

Physdata *Sprite::getRot_Pos() { return &m_locationData; }


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Adding Machine extends by eleven weeks, now playing through to 31 Aug
The New York Premiere of Adding Machine, based on Elmer Rice�s 1923 expressionist play, extends its run at the Minetta Lane Theatre by eleven weeks, and will now run through to 31 Aug 2008.
The show opened at the Minetta Lane on 26 Feb 2008, following previews from 7 Feb and was originally scheduled to close on 15 Jun 2008.
The musical has just received 4 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations (including Outstanding New Off Broadway Musical), 6 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations (including Outstanding Musical) and a Drama League Award Nomination (for Distinguished Production of a Musical).
Adding Machine, score by Joshua Schmidt and a collaborative libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt, with direction by David Cromer, tells the story of Mr. Zero, a nameless cog in American business, as he journeys through life, death, and an afterlife romance in the Elysian Fields. After twenty-five years of exemplary work, Mr. Zero finds that his pencil and paper efforts have been replaced by a mechanical adding machine. In a rage, Mr. Zero decides to exact revenge by murdering his boss.
Adding Machine, had its World Premiere at Chicago�s Next Theatre Company last season (winning the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical).
The cast features Cyrilla Baer as �Mrs. Zero�, Joel Hatch as �Mr. Zero� and Amy Warren as �Daisy� who are all reprising their performances from the original production. They are joined by Joe Farrell as �Shrdlu,� Jeff Still in multiple roles as the �Boss,� �Fixer� and �Charles,� Adinah Alexander as �Mrs. Two,� Niffer Clarke as �Mrs. One,� Roger E. DeWitt as �Mr. Two� and Daniel Marcus as �Mr. One.�
The creative team comprises Takeshi Kata (sets), Kristine Knanishu (costumes), Keith Parham(lighting) and Tony Smolenski (sound).


At the ancient walls of Japan's most famous castle, more than 20,000 fans turned out for Red Bull X-Fighters weekend in Osaka, thrilling to an epic battle of skills. The riders were like a new breed of samurai, going huge on a course that demanded everything in their arsenal of tricks. Levi Sherwood of New Zealand stood atop the podium for the second time this year.
By the end of the second stop of the 2014 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Osaka on May 25, one thing was clear: New Zealand's Levi Sherwood is the man to beat as the world's most prestigious freestyle motocross event series moves into its critical summer stage. The 22-year-old from Palmerston North has been unstoppable so far: He won the season opener in Mexico City before dominating the battle at Osaka Castle today with runs that were nearly flawless. Rémi Bizouard of France earned second-place honors, with Dany Torres of Spain in third.
The spectators, including taiko drummers as well as fans in manga-style costumes, were closer to the action than at any other stop in the series. Hometown hero Taka Higashino, who in 2013 won the Osaka event and finished in third place for the season, earned eighth place after skipping Qualifying yesterday due to injury. Nonetheless, he expanded his traditionally classic repertoire by adding a Body Varial.
France's Thomas Pagès did not feel comfortable on the course and decided to sit out today's competition, feeling that due to his riding style and the level of difficulty of his unique tricks, for him the risk of injury could be too high.
The riders' next chance to earn points toward the overall title will come on 27 June, when the series returns to the iconic Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Spain.


Dr. Sameer Lambay is a renowned ENT surgeon, since 2000, attached with Apollo Spectra Hospitals & Apollo Clinic. He has gained his expertise by devoting continuous efforts towards Performing workshops and by attending several national and international courses related to ENT surgeries. Apart from routine ENT surgeries, he also specializes in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Thyroid Surgery & Ear Microsurgery.
All problems related to the ears, nose, and throat including thyroid disorders, sinusitis, tonsils, eardrum issues, etc.
He is also adept in various surgeries of the ear and nose, ear wax removal, nose reshaping, etc.


The United States, Canada and several Latin American countries have disavowed Maduro over his disputed re-election last year and recognized self-proclaimed President Juan Guaido as the country's rightful leader.
Maduro, who has overseen an economic collapse and the exodus of millions of Venezuelans, still maintains the powerful backing of Russia, China and Turkey, and the critical support of the military.
In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Trump said U.S. military intervention was under consideration.
"Certainly, it's something that's on the - it's an option," Trump said, adding that Maduro requested a meeting months ago.
The Trump administration last week issued crippling sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil firm PDVSA [PDVSA.UL], a key source of revenue.
Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of various Venezuelan cities on Saturday to protest Maduro's government.
Russia, a major creditor to Venezuela in recent years and an ideological ally to Maduro, quickly urged restraint.
"The international community's goal should be to help (Venezuela), without destructive meddling from beyond its borders," Alexander Shchetinin, head of the Latin America department at Russia's Foreign Ministry, told Interfax.
Maduro in comments on state television promised peace for the country without specifically responding to Trump.
"In Venezuela, there will be peace, and we will guarantee this peace with the civil military union," he said in the company of khaki and black-clad soldiers who were earlier shown carrying guns and jumping from helicopters into the sea.
Venezuela's ambassador to Iraq, Jonathan Velasco, became the latest official to recognize opposition leader Guaido this weekend. Air Force General Francisco Yanez in a video also called on members of the military to defect but there were no signs the armed forces were turning against Maduro.
Venezuela has as many as 2,000 generals, according to unofficial estimates, many of whom do not command troops and whose defection would not necessarily weaken the ruling socialists.
The police have also fallen in line with Maduro.
A special forces unit called FAES led home raids following unrest associated with opposition protests in January, killing as many as 10 people in a single operation in a hillside slum of Caracas.
Latin American governments with the help of the United States are seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela, which is suffering medicine shortages, malnutrition and hyperinflation that has led millions to emigrate.
Guaido on Sunday was expected to make an announcement regarding international humanitarian aid that would come through Colombia, Brazil and a Caribbean island and said he was counting on the armed forces to help bring it into Venezuela.
"The USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) is working hard to help the people of Venezuela with humanitarian assistance such as these tonnes of Ready-to-Use Supplementary Foods for malnourished children," USAID Administrator Mark Green tweeted on Saturday, posting photos of boxes piled up.


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Price Named to Head Institutional Effectiveness at W&L
Bryan Price, formerly the head of Virginia Wesleyan College's institutional research and strategic planning operations, has been named the new assistant provost for institutional effectiveness at Washington and Lee University.
Robert Strong, interim provost at Washington and Lee, announced Price's appointment, which is effective Sept. 17.
"We are pleased that Bryan will be joining the University in this important position," said Strong. "Bryan brings a wealth of experience in institutional research and assessment, and he will continue to strengthen W&L's program."
Price succeeds Debbie Dailey, who left to become the associate vice president for planning, accreditation, and research at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa.
A graduate of Christopher Newport University where he majored in history, Price received a master's of education from The College of William and Mary.
Prior to joining Virginia Wesleyan in 2007, he had served in various capacities in institutional research at Eastern University in Pennsylvania, West Liberty University in West Virginia and Salisbury State University in Maryland.
At Virginia Wesleyan, he has coordinated the institution's assessment and institutional effective efforts, including serving as co-chair of the Academic Effectiveness Committee. He has overseen a variety of peer data studies and surveys that Virginia Wesleyan has conducted for students and alumni. In addition, he has chaired Virginia Wesleyan's Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Washington and Lee's Office of Institutional Effectiveness provides education and facilitates an ongoing, systematic, integrated assessment process and supports that process with analytical information for all areas of the Washington and Lee academic and administrative communities.
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Jeffery G. Hanna
Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs
jhanna@wlu.edu


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The world's hunger for meat is accelerating the rise of superbugs
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The use of antibiotics has revolutionised livestock farming, curbing the spread of diseases among animals kept in cramped conditions. But it comes at a potentially deadly cost to human health. Widespread antibiotic use in animals can cause the evolution of drug-resistant superbugs fatal to humans.
Now experts warn that the model of intensive agriculture used in the world's richer countries, which relies on routine drug usage, is increasingly being adopted by countries with much weaker healthcare and sanitary systems.
The Bureau has identified a spike in the use of a class of antibiotics deemed critical to human health in US farming in recent years, but an even graver long-term threat comes from escalating use of antibiotics in the developing world.
It is estimated that the adoption of intensive farming practices in middle-income countries will account for up to a third of the increase in global use of antibiotics for livestock between 2010 and 2030. Antibiotic use on farm animals is expected to double in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa over this period.
"We've exported this industrial food-animal production model to the world," said Lance Price, a professor at the George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health and founding director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center.
Overall sales of antibiotics for use on livestock are falling in the US, having dropped by 14% between 2010 and 2019. Yet sales of aminoglycosides, a class of antibiotics that includes gentamicin – a medicine widely used to treat humans – have spiked, rising 45% during the same period. The use of these drugs grew particularly sharply in pig rearing, according to data published by the government's Food and Drug Administration.
The drugs have been used on pig and cattle farms within the supply chains of some of the world's biggest meat companies, including Smithfield Foods, Cargill and JBS.
Cargill and JBS have supplied major supermarket chains, including Walmart, and fast-food outlets, including Burger King.
Superbug fears as supermarket pig farms escalate use of antibiotics
The Bureau revealed in June that the use of this class of drugs had more than doubled on UK pig farms between 2015 and 2019.
Stewart Leeth, the chief sustainability officer of Smithfield Foods, said: "Our use of this class of antibiotics is as prescribed and overseen by veterinarians – and is as approved by the US FDA."
JBS, Cargill, Burger King and Walmart did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
An FDA official said "sales data do not necessarily reflect actual use of antimicrobial drugs".
An urgent threat
Since becoming widely available in the 1940s, antibiotics have reduced the danger of previously life-threatening infections and made once-risky operations such as caesarean sections a matter of routine.
The drugs have also made industrial farming possible. As well as curbing disease, they stimulate growth in animals – a chance discovery in the 1940s since exploited by meat producers worldwide – and antibiotic use has become standard practice in the sector over the last 70 years.
The quantity of antibiotics given to farm animals dwarfs that used in human healthcare Animal Equality
But the widespread use of antibiotics – on humans as well as animals – comes with a potentially drastic cost. Bacteria evolve to develop resistance to the drugs attacking them; the more antibiotics are used, the more resistance to them rises. If humans then become infected with these bacteria, the drugs will be useless. In 2018, an estimated half a million people fell ill with a form of tuberculosis that became resistant to what was one of the most effective treatments.
The same dynamic applies to other antimicrobial drugs – medicines used to kill microbes including bacteria, fungi and parasites: what doesn't kill them makes them stronger.
Today, the quantity of antimicrobials given to animals vastly outstrips the amount used in human healthcare. Scientists estimate that nearly three-quarters of the antimicrobials used globally are pumped into livestock.
In general, the global increase in antibiotic use among both humans and animals is being driven by low- and middle-income countries. Long-term trends show that antibiotic use is falling in most rich countries as regulations tighten – but in many low and middle-income countries, it is soaring.
In these countries, people's need for antibiotics is higher because of the burden of disease created by poor sanitation and lower vaccination coverage for routine illnesses.
As such countries develop, their food consumption is changing to include far more animal protein. This surging demand for meat encourages the adoption of industrial farming practices – "including rampant antibiotic use", said Price.
In many low- and middle-income countries, there is no infrastructure to provide clean water, which allows the drug-resistant bacteria that evolve through antibiotic use on farms to spread easily from animals to people.
"This circular exchange between animals and humans, where you have rampant antibiotic use in both places, leads to the evolution and dissemination of these really resistant bacteria," said Price, adding that the problem is growing.
Antibiotic resistance is already one of the gravest threats to public health, causing around 700,000 deaths a year worldwide.
'A political void'
Antimicrobial resistance has surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, said Professor Marc Mendelson, the chair of the South African ministerial advisory committee on antimicrobial resistance and founding chair of the South African antibiotic stewardship programme.
Monitoring for drug-resistant infections has been hampered by the diversion of resources to fighting Covid, while the misuse and overuse of antibiotics ramped up, experts say – especially towards the beginning of the pandemic when scientists and doctors were struggling to get a grip on the virus. "Antibiotic stewardship went out the window," said Price.
Some studies have found that while as few as 7% of Covid patients have had bacterial co-infections (which require antibiotics), as many as 70% have been given antibiotic drugs.
"Antibiotic overuse is a global problem ... There is no 'over there' when it comes to microbes"
Covid-19 has also diverted political attention away from antimicrobial resistance, say experts. Progress was being made before the pandemic, albeit patchily, with a series of recent regulations starting to bear fruit.
In 2016, China banned the use in animal feed of colistin, which is a last-resort antibiotic in human medicine. Three years later, the Indian government followed suit after a Bureau report showed that the supply chains of the country's largest meat producers, including some that sold to global fast-food outlets, were using colistin to fatten chickens.
In much of the world, however, antibiotics are still used on livestock as growth promoters. Even in the US, where this was banned by the FDA in 2017, preventative antibiotic use on livestock is still sanctioned – which means that, in practice, the new regulations have brought little change, according to Matthew Wellington, the director of public health campaigns at the US Public Interest Research Group.
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The EU offers a particular bright spot. Antibiotic use for growth promotion has been banned in its member states since 2006, and legislation banning preventative use of all antibiotics unless prescribed by a vet will come into force next year.
These rules will not affect the UK, whose government has previously said it plans to implement some restrictions in line with the EU proposals but has yet to commit to any.
In the wake of Brexit, the UK has agreed a trade deal with Australia and is eyeing agreements with New Zealand and the US – all of which permit forms of antibiotic use in agriculture that would not be legal in the UK, campaigners say. These deals mean that any talk of antibiotic restrictions smacks of "hypocrisy", according to Suzi Shingler, the campaign manager for the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics, an EU-wide coalition.
A recent study by the organisation estimated that US farm animals are dosed with five times as many antibiotics as those in the UK. (The US meat industry says all drugs are FDA-approved and insists they are being used appropriately.)
With the US attempting to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, the focus must now fall on low- and middle-income countries, said Price. "It [antibiotic overuse] is a global problem ... There is no 'over there' when it comes to microbes."
The drive to tackle antibiotic resistance will first need to recover the momentum lost due to Covid-19. Mendelson said the world's leaders need to once again take the issue seriously: "There's a political void."
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Automatich doorlock with Bluetooth. Stunning interface for giving people (temporarily) access to your lock.
Make your frontdoor smart. No more stress when you or your kids forgot the key. Comes with its own key.
How does the Danalock work?
First of all the Danalock app rocks! The invited person creates a Danalock account, download the App via the Appstore or Playstore, logs in and he can open the doorlock with his digital key.The owner will receive a notification when the new user has accepted the invitation and every time when he uses the lock.
Install the Danalock app on your phone in seconds and be guided fast and easy through the calibration and setup of your danalock.
The V3 is by far the most versatile and flexible platform available and is setting a new standard in cros-platform operability.
It works both on Z-wave and Bluetooth.
The Danalock V3 is compatible with Amazon Echo, Nest, IFTTT, Harmony, Bluetooth Smart, Z-wave, Zigbee and Homekit.
There is only one administrator of the lock, You!.
If you want others to have access to your home, just sent them an SMS or email for permanent, recurrent or temporary Access-Keys for your lock.
We are really flabbergasted by the ease of use of this app, and the webinterface as well.


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NASA honours 'Hidden Figures' Katherine Johnson by renaming facility
Posted by Neha Updated: February 25, 2019, 7:58 pm IST
Washington: NASA has renamed its Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia to honour "trailblazer" Katherine Johnson, who successfully calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 mission in 1961 amongst other feats.
The facility will now be known as the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility to commemorate the mathematician's achievements.
"It's an honour the NASA IV&V Program's primary facility now carries Katherine Johnson's name. It's a way for us to recognize Katherine's career and contributions not just during Black History Month, but every day, every year," NASA quoted its IV&V Program Director Gregory Blaney as saying.
US President Donald Trump had signed into law an act of Congress calling for the redesignation in December last year.
Johnson, whose path-breaking achievements inspired the Hollywood hit 'Hidden Figures', broke through racial barriers to achieve success at NASA at a time when racial segregation was prevalent. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 from former US President Barack Obama.
In 2017, NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, dedicated the new Katherine Johnson Computational Research Facility in the 100-year-old's honour.
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Thank you Joenio for the report and patch!