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Purdue Pharma offers free opioid therapy as part of legal settlements
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The private pharmaceutical company that made OxyContin, Purdue Pharma L.P., is reportedly offering free doses of an opioid-abuse treatment. Sources claim that the move is a part of its offer to settle more than 1,000 lawsuits blaming the drugmaker of fueling the opioid crisis.
Credible reports indicate that the company will give away doses of a new version of buprenorphine, helping to dissuade people addicted to opioids from taking the drugs, as part of the settlement. Further from sources, Richard Sackler, former Purdue president and billionaire physician, is one of the six inventors of the patent on which the new version of buprenorphine is based.
Supposedly, opioid makers and drug wholesalers are looking to escape from legal actions over their alleged role in the crisis that kills over 100 Americans each day and could result in billions of dollars in penalties. As per reports, in an attempt to get out of an industry-wide settlement and cap its legal exposure, Endo International Plc is also seeking to resolve all lawsuits over its Opana painkiller.
Buprenorphine, for the record, has been effective for treating opioid use disorders after its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002. According to reports, FDA signed off on another version of Buprenorphine recently, while other approved forms of medication-assisted treatment include naltrexone and methadone.
Till date, Purdue has apparently helped fund the distribution of opioid-overdose antidote naloxone, pledged $3.4 million to a nonprofit firm working on a cheaper version of naloxone and purchased ads in the press touting its efforts. Wholesaler Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. have been other defendants that while fighting legal cases, have committed to fighting the opioid-abuse crisis with millions of dollars in donations.
As per records, more than 49,000 people died last year from opioid overdose, a surge of around 7,000 from the previous year. The government has blamed wholesalers and drugmakers for hyping the benefits of painkillers through marketing campaigns and under informing about their health risks.
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What I Learned in a Lesson: Looking Where I Am Going {February 2013}
I just came across this, as a draft labelled '2013/02/06'* Is that June 2nd, or the second of the sixth? No, I think it's February, as this is an American platform, is WordPress. I wonder why we do the dates differently, here? Today is the 24th of the fourth, or 24 April. As we would say.
Anyway, we did this last year. The lesson was indoors, so yeah, probably February, although after the weather we 'enjoyed' this winter — rain, rain, rain, which made sandy goop of the lower arena, which made no odds as we went out in it anyway — it must have been incalcuably miserable outside.
The fences weren't big, but they were tricky:
Because after the crosspole, you kind of had to jump sideways. Or maybe you ended up jumping sideways because you didn't approach it correctly.
What is amazing to me is that I look at it and I remember it, but I know if I had to do it again, it would be easier to do than trying to write about it.
If you do as you're always told, and look at the next fence, your body sends much of the information the horse needs. Keeping the inside leg on would help here, as well. I remember there was a bit of confusion on the part of Connell and I the first time we attempted the right rein straight, a 'Where did that come from?' moment that ended in a cat-jump.
Looking where I was going really helped with the left hand straight. 'Looking where I was going' seems like a no-brainer, and it is, but you'd be surprised what happens when you get up the back of a horse, how common sense often goes flying out the arena door.
Going down to A and all the way back around to the right hand straight at M was easy peasy and made sense to both of us, and then made it easier still to do the whole thing over again, a little bit higher {probs no higher than 70, 75cms} {maybe 80?} — but then the added twist of having to take the crosspole in reverse pissed Connell off, who was using his head quite enough for one evening, and I actually couldn't get him to do it.
I remeber it was one of those nights when a person new to the lesson was all, 'I've never seen Connell go like that!' — in fact, ah! he wouldn't do the crosspole in reverse, and was feckin' speeding away from it, and I said, 'He feels too strong,' and the person new to the lesson was gobsmacked. Which is good and bad.**
I remember also that the straights felt like they were that close to the wall, but there really was loads of room.
I love these sorts of exercises, because I do have to look where I'm going, and when I look where I'm going, I'm not so focused on trying to read the horse's mind, and we just do the thing, and it's liberating, and it feels like total collaboration. It's like, we're both just minding our own business, and it's fun.
Less than a week to go…
*YYYY/MM/DD is in fact the international standard, says Google Answers. Huh!
**Good in that he was listening to me and being forward going, but bad because I wasn't accustomed to said forward-goingness and I wasn't very good at bringing him back.
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Moebius Odyssey
A space to meditate on the art of Moebius
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Le Bandard Fou
Le Bandard Fou (1974) / The Horny Goof (1990)
Les Éditions du Fromage/Les Humanoïdes Associés
24 x 31.8cm, 48 pages
Emboldened by the creative direction of La Déviation drawn a year earlier, Jean Giraud then embarked on making a longer story in that style that would also be the first official "Moebius" full length comic book.
Le Bandard Fou begins with the titular horny character waking up with a sizeable morning erection only to soon discover of his male member's refusal to subside and thus hilarity ensues as we follow the protagonist's various misadventures to avoid being captured by the ruthless Syldanian authorities who have outlawed any erections out of the breeding season.
The format of Le Bandard Fou is split into 2 separate sections:
On the pages on the left side of the book there is a series of surreal full page drawings and on the right is the main story of Le Bandard Fou. The drawings on the left show a seated figure looking out at the audience who suddenly and without reason becomes engulfed by some unknown liquid that grows and quickly overwhelms the figure completely but with a surprise twist at the end. The drawings serve as a sort of flip book animation but in an unusual portrait format for the reader to explore.
Moebius lays down line after copious line across each page that flow freely and coupled with generously detailed hatching/crosshatching & stippling, create a vast, expansive world for the reader to get lost in. This Moebius story has a clearly more adult tone to it reminiscent of the underground comix of American artist R. Crumb, mixed with science fiction elements and unique witty humour. Le Bandard Fou would also go on to establish the comic book universe that would be visited again in Moebius' later work Le Garage hermétique (The Airtight Garage).
First published by Les Éditions du Fromage in September 1974 (a French comic book publisher set up by former Pilote artists Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka) and as the exodus of artists from Pilote continued, published again a few months later in December 1974 under Les Humanoïdes Associés (newly founded by Moebius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas) and the future home of Métal hurlant.
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Brazil Farmers Focus on Yields Amid Another Record Soy Harvest
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TUE MAR 20, 2018 / Reuters
LUÍS EDUARDO MAGALHÃES, Brazil, March 20 (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers, who are expected to harvest another record soy crop thanks to good weather this year, are placing an unprecedented emphasis on maximizing yields, said André Pessoa, founding partner of consultancy Agroconsult. This stance, which ends up reducing use of deforested areas for farming, is being exacerbated by problems in drought-stricken Argentina, where a portion of the crop will be lost, raising international soy prices and potentially capitalizing farmers.
"The model of investment has changed, with farmers shifting spending to their own farms," Pessoa told Reuters on Monday, the first day of a crop tour of Brazil's new agricultural frontier known as Matopiba – a region which accounts for about 11 percent of Brazil's soybean output. A direct consequence of more on-farm investments is yields reaching 100 60-kg bags per hectare on irrigated areas, or almost twice the country's average in the last crop season, around 56 bags. The use of biotech crops have been a boon, Pessoa said.
As agricultural yields improve, Brazil, the largest exporter of the oilseeds, is ever more competitive on world markets, he said, adding in some areas, farmers have risen average yields to 70 bags of soy per hectare while others are getting closer to 80 and 90 bags per hectare. "Investing 700 reais ($212.5) per hectare will help improve soil quality and on-property conditions," Pessoa said. Investing in the farm is currently more attractive than expanding area, he added.
Agroconsult estimates Brazil's soy crop will reach 117.5 million tonnes this season, more than the 114 million tonnes the government said producers collected in the previous year, when the weather was also nearly perfect. About 20 percent of Brazilian farmers already prioritize on-farm investments while an estimated 30 percent are likely to do the same. Higher gains from the 2017/18 cycle should give the latter group's the push needed to boost on-property spending, Pessoa said. A third group of farmers, whose yields are 50 bags per hectare, would be likely to lose ground to the more efficient peers. "When average yields are very different across farms, this spurs a wave of consolidation, with one neighbor buying the other who is producing less," Pessoa said.
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Oscar of Between
A Memoir of Identity and Ideas
Betsy Warland
In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the art of camouflage.
This marked the beginning of Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate, nine-year quest by telling her story as "a person of between." As Oscar, she is able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life. In 1984, she and her lover wrote lesbian erotic love poetry collections in dialogue with one another, the first and only tandem collections on this subject in English Canada. After the two split, she experienced years of unacknowledged exclusion from a community in which she thought she belonged.
In the process of writing Oscar's story, Warland considers our culture's rigid, even violent demarcations as she becomes at ease with never knowing what gender she will be addressed as: "In Oscar's daily life, when encountering someone, it goes like this: some address her as a male; some address her as a female; some begin with one and then switch (sometimes apologetically) to the other; some identify Oscar as lesbian and their faces harden, or open into a momentary glance of arousal; some know they don't know and openly scrutinize; some decide female but stare perplexedly at her now-sans-breast chest; some are bemused by or drawn to or relate to her androgyny; and for some none of this matters."
A contemporary Orlando, Oscar of Between extends beyond the author's personal narrative, pushing the boundaries of form, and by doing so, invents new ways to see ourselves.
"On its own merits, Oscar of Between is an achievement. It reminds readers of the vitality of Warland's creative vision. Rigorously inquisitive, always probing the boundaries of language and identity, and centrally concerned with questions of beauty and transcendence in all forms, Oscar of Between straddles multiple poetry traditions and challenges the boundaries of poetry and prose. In the best of all worlds, Oscar of Between will bring Warland to greater attention in Canada and the United States, returning her work to the vital public conversations about poetry happening today"
— Julie R. Enszer, Lambda Literary Review
"To be sure, Oscar of Between traces a particular path through current questions around trans and genderqueer identities. It is crucial to point out how violently policed are those who live between in this respect … Between, for Warland, is not simply a refusal of binary genders; it is a larger, primary, embodied consideration of the ways in which classifications and taxonomies are, quite literally and destructively, our modern "predicament" (the Latin praedicamentum is a rendering of the Greek katēgoria)."
— Dr. Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, The Ormsby Review
"Warland's Oscar of Between is an astonishing book by a truly luminous writer. Intellectually and emotionally brave, there isn't a word that doesn't ring deeply, deeply true."
— Melanie Brannagan Frederiksen, Winnipeg Free Press
"Regardless of her affinity for evoking specificity in certain moments, Warland is not concerned with telling her/Oscar's story in any kind of linear way. Instead, she lays out impressions and memories, often grouped by time and place, and leaves it to the reader to order them together. Her achievement is that she distills experiences down to their most essential pieces, and communicates in a paragraph what it might take another writer a chapter to describe"
— Maree J. Hamilton, Autostraddle
"The book is her 12th in a career spanning three decades and many more genres, from creative non-fiction to erotic poetry, making Warland one of Canada's most prolific and important queer writers."
— Isaac Wurmann, Daily Xtra
"Warland covers vast ground, moving swiftly and in a nonlinear fashion from intimate reflections on her most personal relationships, living arrangements, and perspectives on creativity, to matters of broader social and political consequence. A book perhaps without obvious category but not without an important place in Canadian literature, Oscar of Between is a dynamic work of startling insight."
— Dana Hansen, Room Magazine
"Spiritual directors who may be working with "a person of between," as the author calls a person between genders or between identities, or who have yet to do so, would do well to read Betsy Warland's Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas."
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Meteor activity · Night Sky · Research · Science
FRIPON, a network of 100 cameras, set to watch the skies in search for meteorites over France
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Friday, March 4, 2022 Updated on Friday, March 4, 2022 18:26 UTC
A French research team announced the launch of the FRIPON (Fireball Recovery and Planetary Interobservation Network) project, an interconnected network of, at least, one hundred cameras in charge of watching the skies in search for meteorites. The cameras have been set up across France, and 60 of them are already operational since May 2016. The new project is one of the largest meteor-observing networks in the world, and one of its aims is to strengthen and develop contact between the worlds of research, scientific mediation, education and the public to disseminate knowledge about meteorites in an informal way.
Important goals of the project include determining the source regions of various meteorite classes, collect fresh and rare meteorite types, and perform the scientific outreach. An important step in the project is to determine which asteroids are the parent bodies of the observed meteors. The network will allow the scientists to accurately determine the orbit of each meteor, which will provide the set of strong constraints on the source region if the fireball, and valuable information on the location of the meteor fall.
FRIPON station Montet, Pyrenees Orientales. Image credit: FRIPON.org
Triple (Ile de France) and Sextuple (South West) detections the night of April 1, 2016. Image credit: FRIPON.org
Meteorites are composed of the planetary material which survives passing through the atmosphere of our planet and lands on its surface. All known meteorites are pieces of asteroids, comets or planets. Meteorites of asteroid origin are diverse in their texture and mineralogy and provide us with the information about the geological richness of the small bodies in our Solar System. The samples are of high importance in providing vital information on a history of planetary evolution.
The rate of the meteorite falls across an area the size of France was estimated between 5 and 25 pieces per year. Most meteorites collected up to date are found some time after their fall, and are, as a result, often weathered from exposure to terrestrial alteration. Because of this, it is of extreme importance to collect the meteorites shortly after the fall. In the 19th century France, 45 witnessed falls were recovered in such a way while this number has fallen to 9 in the 20th century. One goal of the FRiPON network is to do at least as good as our ancestors used to.
The FRIPON project also places a strong emphasis on training the public to recognize meteorites. The areas of meteor falls are of the order of 30 square kilometers (11.6 square miles) which is too big for a small number of individuals. Instead, the idea is to initiate a citizen network to provide local pools of "meteorites researchers".
Caméra FRIPON at Pic du Midi Observatory. Image credit: FRIPON.org
Caméra FRIPON at Paris Observatory. Image credit: FRIPON.org
The images of the sky over the entire surface of the country will be collected throughout a period of 10 years, which will enable the researchers to gather vast amounts of data, and develop new applications for weather, astronomy basic variation of the luminosity of the brightest stars and space debris. The collected images will be available both to the public and scientific community.
For now, there are between 5 and 9 cameras with a 360-degree angle view of the sky, 50 to 100 km (31 to 62 miles) away from each other, which track meteorites per region. As they detect a meteorite, the cameras send a signal to Université Paris-Sud, so that the data is collected in real-time.
"This setup allows us to detect incoming objects in real-time and from several angles, making it possible to compute their trajectories in 3D, estimate their speed and determine their potential fall location with a precision of the order of a few hundred metres", explained François Colas, the principal investigator of the FRIPON project at Observatoire de Paris.
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Sourcing & Buying Practices
Our goal is to source goods that are produced using humane and ecologically sound methods that don't exploit people, animals or our environment. We prioritize local, organic, Non-GMO, fair trade and cooperatively-produced items that are minimally processed and packaged in recyclable containers.
Eliminating Food Waste
Through our partnerships with 412 Food Rescue, East End Cooperative Ministry and Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community, each year we donate over 8,000 pounds of healthy, fresh food and redistribute it to those in need. We also give to our animal friends! Animal Rescue League received 150 pounds of food scraps and trimmings in 2016.
We responsibly dispose of a variety of materials, from boxes to lightbulbs, ensuring that much of the waste generated by the Co-op does not end up in a landfill. Our recycling mix, which consists primarily of cardboard, averages 820 pounds a day. In a year, this adds up to almost 300,000 pounds of cardboard and other materials that are recycled rather than thrown away!
On average, we compost 5,075 pounds of food scraps every month. For nearly 10 years we worked with Steel City Soils, a cooperatively-managed group that recycles food and yard waste to create high quality compost, to process food waste. We currently work with Zero Waste Wranglers, a locally-operated waste hauling company that transports our organic food scrapes to a local farm dedicated to rebuilding strip mined land.
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Through the Register Round Up program, Co-op shoppers have collectively given nearly $30,000 to organizations dedicated to supporting our local land, air and waterways. Clean Water Fund, Tree Pittsburgh, GTECH Strategies, PASA, First Waves, Pennsylvania Resources Council and Nine Mile Run Watershed Association are just a few of the groups who help us build a sustainable community.
We are the proud recipient of an NCG Sustainability Star in recognition of our social, environmental and local impacts, and we won third place in the small-business category of the 2016 Green Workplace Challenge, a program of Sustainable Pittsburgh and its business network, Champions for Sustainability.
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East End Food Co-op is one of 71 certified Bike Friendly Businesses in the state of Pennsylvania. The League of American Bicyclists granted the Co-op Bronze status because of our expansive bike parking, indoor DIY repair station (located in the lobby of The Factory near the Penn Avenue entrance) and bike education and advocacy efforts.


This piece of paper cut out (剪纸) is titled Returning to Mother's Home (《回娘家》),depicting a married young woman on the way of visiting her own parents. However this artwork is not crafted by a young married woman. In fact, the artist not only isn't young, he is not even a woman. On the other hand, he's not just any Chinese man, but China's president Hu Jintao, sometime called Big Brother Hu (胡哥) by his young fans, sometime nicknamed Taotao (涛涛) by his women-admires who may not so young.
Early this year on the Chinese new year's eve, which is equivalent to the Christmas eve in the West, Hu went to, not his own mother's home, but the home of a peasant mother at a remote village in a backward province Gansu, and shared New Year eve dinner with her and her fellow villagers. When Hu paid his call on the woman, she was just working on paper-cutting for her new year's home deco. The president somehow identified her as his crafts master, and immediately enrolled in her vocational course. After a few minutes of learning and practice, the Tsinghua University's hydraulic engineering graduate once again graduated from the peasant woman's private home school (私塾), and proudly presented his graduation project, Returning Mother's Home, on his master's window.
Paper-cutting has a 1,500 years tradition in China, and the earliest record on this home deco arts can be found in The Time in Jinchu (《荆楚岁时记》) written during the fifth century. Its most popular use is of decorating home windows, particularly in the northern parts of China.
The earliest tangible evidence of the advanced Chinese paper cutting crafts, unearthed from Turpan in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was made 1,500 years ago, which has a Chinese character 福 (fortune) as its central motif.


The Voice Season 6 | Who Got Eliminated?
The final three artists will be revealed tonight on The Voice 2014 semi-finals results show! Who do you think will make it to next week's finale?
Like Dancing With the Stars 2014 who will have its semi-finals show tonight, The Voice top 5 will take the stage to hope for America's votes. Which show will you be watching? Who are you going to vote for on the show tonight?
It's The Voice 2014 quarterfinals results show tonight! Yes, it's the top 8 results show so we'll find out who will be going home. But note that instead of two, three contestants will be eliminated!
The Voice 2014 top 10 results show airs tonight! Like last week, two from the top ten finalists will be going home. From which teams do you think will it be?
The first live elimination happens tonight on The Voice 2014. Find out who among the top 12 finalist won't make it to next week's live shows. Two artists will go home tonight from the bottom three while one will be saved with the insta-save. Be ready to vote since you have only five minutes to vote.
The Voice 2014 live shows premieres tonight! Those who made it from the live playoffs will be performing live tonight. Each coach has three artists each. Who are you looking forward to see perform?
It's Team Usher's turn to take the stage tonight on The Voice 2014 Live Playoffs. The five artists from Usher's team will try to impress their coach for them to remain in the competition. Who will make it to the live shows?


Mills was originally a boomtown that sprang up in 1919 following construction of the Midwest Refining Company, located across the North Platte River. The Mills Construction Company bought the entire section for the purpose of mining gravel with which to construct roads and tank revetments. Company employees purchased lots and built makeshift houses. The town was mostly comprised of tarpaper shacks, with one block of permanent houses, a hotel, and an amusement park. By 1921, the town had 1,000 residents and was officially incorporated. When the refinery construction was complete and the depression began, Mills nearly became a ghost town. The Mills Hotel, when demolished in 1931, was described as follows: "It started out in resplendent fashion, a smart hotel hurriedly erected to care for the hordes in pursuit of their fortune. It ran the gamut of open handed patronage, gamblers, surging throngs, beautiful women – a slice as it were, of the frenzied boom period, becoming in later years, its feathers bedraggled, a speakeasy, dancing hall, gambling den. Then oblivion." Mills benefited from a healthy local economy in the 1950s and the construction of a bridge connecting with the Fort Caspar area made transportation easier. The 1970s boom and mid-1980s bust affected Mills as it did the rest of Natrona County. As the rest of the state, Mills is currently benefiting from renewed economic activity.
Several organizations are working to preserve the area's history. They include the Natrona County Historical Society, the Oregon-California Trails Association, the Fort Caspar Museum Association, the Natrona County, Casper, and Mills Preservation Commissions, and the Casper College Western History Center.


Heads Up Old School Gamers, RECORE Looks Amazing!
Microsoft's E3 presentation this year was absolutely amazing. I'm happy to say that the company is finally leveling off with Sony after a few rough years including a bit of an identity crisis concerning the user experience. It seems like Microsoft realizes, especially with the new XBOX ONE S, that gamers mainly want…games. Who knew. And when I see games popping up under Microsoft's umbrella like RECORE, my nostalgic little heart warms.
While this may not look like the most beautiful game of the year, it seems to focus on gameplay over style and awe. Hey, that formula works for Nintendo along with a lot of the great indie games we've been getting lately. Platforming, cool weapons, puzzle solving, interesting landscapes, and some experimental gameplay mechanics seem to be the name of the game here. Fans of games like RATCHET & CLANK, METROID, CASTLEVANIA, MEGA MAN, and pretty much anything RARE has put out should be very excited for this game. And with a price tag of just $39.99 (even cheaper if you pre-order on Amazon), you can't go wrong.
RECORE should definitely be on your radar as it lands later this month on September 13th!
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Creamy tahini and tart wine vinegar dress whole wheat couscous, tossed with tomatoes, zucchini and chickpeas. Follow the time-saving techniques in the method to make extra-quick work of this salad or light main course.
In a large, heatproof bowl, pour water over couscous, cover and set aside for 5 minutes. Uncover, fluff with a fork, and set aside to let cool for 5 minutes more. Meanwhile, whisk together vinegar, tahini and salt in a second large bowl. Thinly slice zucchini over dressing, and then use kitchen shears to snip parsley leaves into the bowl; discard stems. Add tomatoes, chickpeas and couscous and toss gently to combine.
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We are among mountains that exceed an altitude of 1000 m
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From the entrance hall there is a large and contemporary kitchen/diner with integrated fridge, freezer, oven, hob, washing machine and dishwasher along with space for a dining table; access to the garage and a cloakroom. On the first floor is an L-shaped sitting room opening out onto a large balcony with space for outside dining and to the front of the house is a bright double bedroom. The second floor offers a family bathroom with bath, double bedroom to the rear and a lovely master bedroom with fitted wardrobes and an en-suite shower room. Externally there is a communal garden and small children's park to the rear of the property, driveway and garage to the front.


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Newlyweds' brave battle bolstered by community
By Jake Cantrell on Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Lauren and Josiah Mihok are in for the battle of a lifetime, just one month into marriage.
Taking on the exciting complications of being a newly married couple, combined with the scary complications of brain surgery, Josiah and Lauren Mihok's first month as husband and wife has been...complicated.
The couple faced unfortunate news just two months before their wedding day: Josiah had a tumor in his left temporal lobe.
"At first it was the size of a golf ball," said his brother Micah Mihok. "And then they looked at it again and it was like 'no, actually it's the size of a dude's fist,' which is ridiculous because his brain shouldn't be working like it does. He should not be able to use like half of his body. But it's cool because his brain has moved all that data over to the good parts so he's got fine memory and motor skills and everything."
The couple was forced to cancel the three-week honeymoon they had planned and Josiah had the surgery to remove the tumor on October 16, just three days after his wedding.
"They took a brief honeymoon and then went right into the surgery and they removed the majority of that tumor," said Lauren's best friend, Kelly Wilkerson. "Most of it was benign and then there was a part inside that tumor that they were worried about it being cancerous and some of that is still left in his brain now because it's intertwined with functioning brain tissue so they couldn't just take it all out, otherwise he would have some serious deficits."
On November 12, the results from the testing of the remaining part of the tumor came back, and the newlyweds took another hit.
"So probably the worst news we could have gotten," Lauren wrote on the blog she created for Josiah's health updates. "The tumor was categorized as a Grade 4 Glioblastoma."
For Josiah, this meant his fight was not over. In fact, he's just beginning.
RESOLVED AND READY
Josiah is scheduled to start radiation treatment in the coming weeks.
"It's kinda rough to finish your surgery and you think you're good and everyone is telling you that you're probably good and then the pathology comes back and says 'oh actually, we're going to have to treat you with radiation,'" Micah said.
But while the news was devastating, Josiah, Lauren and the entire Mihok family have remained in high spirits.
"I'm just so impressed by them," Micah said. "…Every night I pray for him, and I think part of it is maybe God helping him because I don't think a typical person would react the way he has. He's got a very almost like Churchillian way of looking at things right now, he'll take it on and he's going to fight. It's been really impressive to see how he's handled it."
And that attitude has been infectious, spreading from his family to his friends and from there, has taken to the community, which is where Wilkerson has played a large role.
"He is so encouraging and that's what's compelled me to give as much as I can to them and do as much as I can to support them," Wilkerson said. "…I feel like I owe it to both of them by our relationship and by paying it back."
So with that mindset and some social media savvy, Wilkerson set out to help the best she could.
FRIENDLY FUNDS
"I run a business on social media," said Wilkerson. "I actually run two businesses on social media, so I know how some of that works and how the word could spread. So I knew that that was a way to [share their story,]"
Lauren's blog gave them a head start.
"I created a T-shirt fundraiser and a gofundme fundraiser just to see how much I could get for them and to spread awareness," said Wilkerson. "But also just to build up their community because they really need it."
So far the community has come together in an impressive way, raising over $1,000 in the first 24 hours. At press time, the combined efforts from both fundraisers had already brought in nearly $14,000 for the young family.
"It does feel really good that we've reached that," Wilkerson said. "It spread like wildfire on Facebook. I have so many anonymous donations of hundreds of dollars from people who I don't even think know them so it's been crazy watching people come together. It's been really encouraging to get everybody's support."
As owner of Paul Thomas Chocolates, Micah is hoping he can turn his customers into supporters for Josiah as well. He also mentioned that other businesses in the community are bringing support in their own ways.
"If you go in and you donate, whatever it is, a dollar, ten dollars, a hundred dollars, come in and show us and we'll give you a discount and then a percentage of that sale will go back into the fund to help Josiah," Micah said. "Brazeit, the German restaurant in town, they did a spirit day for him where they gave a percentage of their sales to him for the entire day. Really cool."
SHOW OF SUPPORT
And while the financial support will definitely help, Micah believes that simply having the emotional backing of the community is already helping keep the family's spirits up.
"I think part of it is, how encouraging it is to not only see your family coming to you and helping, but to see the entire community helping out and everything, it's been really crazy," Micah said.
Lauren agreed.
"I'm just so thankful for the support and love he and I have received," she said. "It's kept us going."
As for Wilkerson, she's not interested in receiving credit, but rather just doing whatever is best for her friends.
"My goal now is just to fundraise as much as possible to alleviate that debt for them," she said. "Because Josiah fully believes and Lauren fully believes that he's going to get through it, and if he does, then medical debt is the last thing that they need to worry about."
Anyone interested in supporting Josiah and Lauren through donation can do so at gofundme.com/f/support-josiah-mihok or by purchase the fundraising t-shirt and/or donating at customink.com/fundraising/support-josiah-mihok. To follow along with Josiah's medical journey, visit their blog at laurenspeer13.wixsite.com/website.


years. No one else in the city of San Antonio can say this.
Alma has literally worked over 1,000 weddings in the San Antonio and surrounding areas.
The experience she has accumulated is quite vast.
Nothing beats raw experience. There is no book or classroom that can teach this level of experience. Don't gamble on your special day, choose a professional you can trust.


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Monika Charlotte Dannemann (24 June 19455 April 1996) was a German figure skater and painter. She was the last girlfriend of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and later the wife of German guitarist Uli Jon Roth of the Scorpions.

Figure skating
In 1965, Dannemann participated in the German Figure Skating Championships representing the club Düsseldorfer EG.

Involvement with Jimi Hendrix

Dannemann was first introduced to Jimi Hendrix on 12 January 1969, in Düsseldorf, after being invited to a Jimi Hendrix concert there. She spent that night with him and part of the next day too, when she accompanied him to his next concert in Cologne; after that, she returned to Düsseldorf. He spent the last night of the tour with model Uschi Obermaier, with whom he was filmed kissing and petting outside the Kempinski Hotel the next morning. He wrote to Dannemann on 25 March 1969, inviting her to visit him in New York City. Dannemann claims she next saw Hendrix when she travelled to London on 25 April 1969 in the hope of meeting him again, where she bumped into him at the Speakeasy Club. She says they spent some time together over the next nine days, but she only spent one night with him.

After his September 1970 European tour, Hendrix began a relationship with the Danish model Kirsten Nefer. (It was reported in the Danish press at the time that they were engaged.) After Nefer left London due to work, he again took up with Dannemann on 15 September and spent the next four nights at her flat at the Samarkand Hotel, Notting Hill Gate, where he died.

On the evening of 17 September Hendrix took at least one amphetamine pill (known as a "black bomber") at a party, where he stayed for a short while. Later, at Dannemann's flat, Hendrix took nine of her Vesparax sleeping tablets; Hendrix was officially declared to have died at St. Mary Abotts hospital at 12:45 PM. The cause of death was asphyxiation through aspiration of vomit due to a barbiturate overdose.

Later years
After Hendrix's death, Dannemann became romantically involved with German rock guitarist Uli Jon Roth of rock band Scorpions, with whom she collaborated on several songs (one with Scorpions titled We'll Burn the Sky), album cover designs (of Roth's second band Electric Sun), and artwork. Roth also wrote the foreword to Dannemann's book about her experience living and working with Hendrix, entitled The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix (1995).

Dannemann died of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at age 50 in Seaford, East Sussex. She had lost an ongoing court battle with another of Hendrix's girlfriends, Kathy Etchingham, two days earlier.

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These also work great in the Guardian crossbow. With a stronger catch spring and the 7kg it hits around 90-100ft.


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Areté is a 1000sf commercial loft space located at 67 West St, near the waterfront, in beautiful Greenpoint Brooklyn. Only a few blocks walk from the G train at Greenpoint Ave, Areté is located on the ground floor of a former rope factory which now houses a variety of businesses, with a large, open air courtyard area connecting some of the spaces.


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Q: Retained order from data.frame in boxplot I have a data.frame containing ordered data. When I plot it in the boxplot, it automatically sort by alphabetical order by boxplot.
Is there a way to retain the order in the data.frame in the plotting?
data.frame (ordered by Date) :
  Date       ID         Rate         Label
20131103    54232        98        54232 20131103
20131223    32123        94        32123 20131223
20140101    12345        89        12345 20140101

Boxplot :
boxplot(data_set$Rate ~ data_set$Label,
        data=data_set,
        col="yellow",
        main=Rate Trend,
        las=2, pch=0, outcol="red",
        par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2)+ 0.1))

Above code, automatically sort the data by ID instead of using the order in the data.frame.
Is there a way to retain the order in the data.frame in boxplot? I am using R v2.12.2.
Thank you for the help.

A: One simple way is to factorize the Label:
data_set$Label <- factor(data_set$Label,levels=unique(data_set$Label))

Then use your own code to plot!
boxplot(data_set$Rate ~ data_set$Label,
        data=data_set, col= "yellow", main="Rate Trend",
        las=2, pch=0, outcol="red",
        par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2)+ 0.1))

A: it is due to the order of the levels of the factor Label. One possibiliy:
with(data_set, boxplot(Rate ~ factor(Label, levels=unique(Label)),
    col="yellow",
    main="Rate Trend",
    las=2, pch=0, outcol="red",
    par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2)+ 0.1)))

hth

A: I think Shambho and droopy are right, +1 - alternatively you might consider the at-parameter for a more fine-grained control over the positionings (also note the ToothGrowth example at the bottom of ?boxplot):
with(iris[nrow(iris):1,],
  boxplot(Sepal.Length ~ Species,at=order(unique(Species))))

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Abstract: This report briefly goes over the basics of air movement and polluation at different geographic scales. Then, it turns to analysis of the past and current air pollution state in Madison County and its connection to a bigger regional air quality state. Finally, it lays out strategies to manage air quality on the regional, county, urban, and micro-urban scales at the different stages of the air pollution life cycle.


Friends headed to off-leash hours early Saturday morning came across a grisly scene on DeKalb near Tillie's. Police tape blocked off much of the area, and a smashed up car sat near the scene. Also visible on the street were a pair of shoes and some kitty litter (which the tipster says is used to cover up blood on the street). Was someone hit by a car? Anyone know what happened?


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Stephen Johns to become Goodman Group Chairman in November 2020
Goodman Group's (Goodman or Group) Board today announced that Stephen Johns has been appointed as Chairman Elect and will succeed Ian Ferrier AM as Chairman of the Group at the 2020 Annual General Meeting in November.
Goodman Group Chairman, Ian Ferrier said: "Since Stephen's appointment as director in 2017 and his chairing of the Audit Committee, the Board has benefited greatly from his experience. The Board and the Group CEO are confident in the leadership attributes that he will bring and, on a personal note, I believe that Goodman will continue to prosper under his Chairmanship."
Stephen Johns commented "I am thankful to the Board for the opportunity and privilege to chair Goodman Group. I look forward to working with Group CEO, Greg Goodman, his management team and the Board, to continue to deliver on the Group's strategy and acting for the benefit of the Group's securityholders and other stakeholders."
Ian Ferrier has been on the Board of Goodman Group since 2003 and was appointed Chairman in July 2009. Greg Goodman said "Over that time he has played an instrumental role in guiding Goodman's global and prudent expansion, while overseeing the development of a sustainable and long term business for the future. His contribution to the Group has been immense and he leaves a legacy that the Group will continue to benefit from."
Stephen Johns is currently Chairman of Brambles Limited and has announced that he will be retiring from that Board during the year. He is also a non-executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He has a Bachelor of Economics Degree and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Authorised for release to the ASX by Carl Bicego, Group Head of Legal and Company Secretary.


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Booze sales ban could shut some taverns for good
The prohibition on the sale of alcohol could continue to be felt long after the corona virus lockdown is lifted writes Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni
The furniture at Mondi and Sons Tavern in Orlando West in Soweto has gathered dust, a telling sign of the absence of patrons during the covid-19 lockdown.
Mase Ntlotsoey who runs the establishment she inherited from her mother who died in 2014 from Orlando West in Soweto was forced to take a loan to pay her bills and re-stock after the lift on the ban on alcohol in early June.
Tables are stacked in a corner inside Mondi and son's tavern in Orlando West, Soweto
But she says she is now quickly running out of options after the ban was reinstated by president Cyril Ramphosa in July. She points out that she might not be ready to open her doors to customers if the ban is lifted again and fears that the long surviving, family run business might not be able to pick up after this difficult period passes.
Mase Ntlotsoey, who runs Mondi and son's tavern in Orlando West, stands for a portrait in her tavern which has not be operating since the ban on alcohol was announced.
A July 2020 report by Nick Muller and Kirsten Felix on the effect of the Covid-19 alcohol ban on retailers, states that more than 20% of the profits from businesses in the food and beverages sector come from the sale of alcohol.
And though these figures do not reflect the reality of small business owners like Ntlotsoey who depend solely on the sale of alcohol for their income, they paint a grim picture for many businesses in the future.
The owner of the blue lagoon tavern in Klerksdorp stands outside his tavern which has not been operational since the ban on alcohol was announced.
Ntlotsoey speaks in a worried tone. It was only a few months ago when people spent their Saturday nights dancing and sipping their favourite adult beverages at her tavern.
The perils of life at the time were a little easier to get through because of the hope of ending the weekend with a cold caress of malt and barley running down a labouring throat.
This small but deeply meaningful pleasure ended abruptly when president Ramaphosa announced various restrictions as a result of the national lockdown created to slow down the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Patrons enjoy a drink at the 3 Clippers tavern in Klerksdorp enjoy a drink. This image was made before the ban on alcohol was announced.
Ntlotsoey, who is also a mother of two, says although she understands the need for stringent regulations like the ban on alcohol are necessary at a time like this, she can't overlook the fact that it has hurt her business.
South Africa is known to have a deeply toxic relationship with alcohol, this was somewhat reflected in the rise in emergency cases after a temporary lift on the booze ban at the beginning of June.
Ntlotsoey says just as she was raised by the money generated from the sale of alcohol, she has depended on the business to pay her bills which include the private school education of her two children.
A sign indicatiing that customers should maintain social distancing is at the entrance of Mondi and son's tavern in Orlando West Soweto.
The ban on alcohol has been hailed in some quarters as the perfect preventative measure in the fight against Covid-19 but many business owners like Mase Ntlotsoey say they face a steep battle as they prepare to re-open their doors and keep their businesses afloat.
* This work was made possible with a grant from the Google News Initiative Journalism Emergency Relief Fund (JERF)
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in this lecture we're going to take a look at Summary Statistics.
The first of our techniques for non-personalized recommendations.
So let's start with the story of Zagat.
shared tips as to which restaurants they particularly liked.
a small booklet of restaurants worth going to.
With a little summary of what people said and the scores.
restaurant review and rating empire with books all over the world.
that are special and you should go to.
this one being a list of top restaurants from across the US.
food, decor, and service, these range form 0 to 30.
And then an estimated cost sometimes going off the scale at very expensive.
phrases that come from the people who filled out reviews.
the Zagat Guide team puts those together to create this guide.
So if you're going to compute a score, what should it mean?
Do we want the highest score to be the most popular restaurant?
Do we want it to be the restaurant that the people who go to like the most?
because more people went to McDonald's than any other restaurant in the country.
But average rating could have its own problems.
For many of us, eating at home is really wonderful.
cooks great food, but there's only two or three of us who ever eat that food.
We're not going to call that a top restaurant.
most people don't like at all, but the few people who frequent really love.
Is that what should get the top rating?
how do I compute that?
Well, I can reveal the secret formula for the Zagat Guide.
They ask people to rate these restaurants on a scale from 0 to 3.
Where 3 is a special place and 2 is a very good restaurant.
They then multiply the average of those ratings by 10.
To get something from 0 to 30 and they round it.
goal is to find out what does the average person who fills out the guide think.
other places where popularity might be the dominant factor in their normal guides.
Let's look at a different example.
This slide shows cruise reviews from Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
other categories that, again people wrote into review.
The mechanism here, however, is quite different from what Zagat uses.
fair, good, very good, or excellent.
use that as the score.
do we want to only recognize that some people are upset and don't like it.
we try to rate these things and rank them.
Well, you can see that there's other approaches as well.
Amazon when it looks at a customer reviews show us the average.
But it also shows us a distribution.
but 22% of the people thought it was only 1 star.
Now when you look at that you might say, wow, 22%.
it has a little 9.
That says only 9 people evaluated this product in the first place.
then 2 people who have more in-between opinions, the 3 star and 4 star ratings.
Popularity is an important metric.
And there are many cases where what you care about is popularity.
avoid the challenges of how intensely people express their dislike.
You could also adjust by normalizing user ratings.
Normalization which is a process of matching scales.
you rated four restaurants and you gave two twos, a one, and a three.
That your two is sort of like my four.
you have such high standards that it's hard to live up to your expectations.
you just happened to go to some restaurants that weren't very good at all.
that we really have a good representation of what people think.
the sake of promoting their own business or disparaging somebody else's.
until you get to the point where you overwhelm them.
the most useful way to do it when that fits in the display that you're providing.
Popularity as I said can be useful.
I'm not a 15-year-old girl.
there's a lot more people listening to music than there is in the US.
it may not be as great if I'm looking for songs that are popular around me.
recommendations that recognizes anything about me.
The other thing that's missing here is my context.
I go into a restaurant, I say, I want an ice-cream sundae.
They say, great, what sauce do you want?
Tell me what sauce is most popular here.
well you know the thing we got that more people use more than anything is ketchup.
Yeah, we sell a lot of hamburgers and French fries, so people use ketchup.
It's our most popular sauce.
And I'm thinking no, I wanted a popular sauce for an ice-cream sundae.
recommendations based on the context of what you're trying to use them for.
as well as how we would link the recommendations to who you are.
can find in lots of popular sites online.
And you'll notice that that same notion appears there.
at 5 and 4 stars and very few that are low.
says this is the number one restaurant in St. Paul.
to look through a site like TripAdvisor that has these rankings.
And you will discover that the ranking is not strictly the average of the reviews.
most popular restaurant or hotel, or other service in a particular geographic area.
So let's finish where we started, with Zagat.
the guide has been getting worse over the years.
They argue this is true for two reasons.
One, too many mediocre restaurants get good scores.
And two, too many excellent get mediocre scores.
that we're seeing some sort of compression in the ratings.
That a restaurant that should have been 29 or 28, is coming in at 26.
And a restaurant that they think should have be 22 is coming in at 25.
They're wondering what's going on.
And actually if we look at the way the system works we can tell what's going on.
People only rate the restaurants they go to.
so you don't put your negative rating in this year, the score goes up.
We also have an increased diversity of raters.
Well that increased diversity means people have different tastes.
they probably all understood there were certain things they were looking for.
feel like they want their restaurant to be more environmentally sensitive.
some want it to be responsive to special diets.
And as you have that diversity the averages wash together.
And that's why we'll be studying personalization.
A couple of takeaway lessons.
averages can be effective in the right application.
we pick the right kind of average for the way people rate in that domain.
an average rating and maybe even the distribution all together.
of items, a percentage of ratings that score above a threshold.
How many people like this or love this?
avoid the ones that have lots of people who rate it poor.
address many of the limitations of these non-personalized summary statistics.
we are going to add little bits of a familiar personalization.
we'll look at longer term persistent personalization.


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Archives|TEXT OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. TO RESOLVE THE HOSTAGE SITUATION
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TEXT OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. TO RESOLVE THE HOSTAGE SITUATION
Special to the New York Times JAN. 20, 1981
January 20, 1981, Page 00004Buy Reprints The New York Times Archives
Following, as made public by the State Department today, are the texts of two documents signed by Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher in Algiers this morning. The first outlines the commitments undertaken by Iran and the United States in connection with the release of the hostages; the second concerns the settlement of claims.
Declaration The Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, having been requested by the Governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America to serve as an intermediary in seeking a mutually acceptable resolution of the crisis in their relations arising out of the detention of the 52 United States nationals in Iran, has consulted extensively with the two Governments as to the commitments which each is willing to make in order to resolve the crisis within the framework of the points stated in the resolution of Nov. 2, 1980, of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran.
On the basis of formal adherences received from Iran and the United States, the Government of Algeria now declares that the following interdependent commitments have been made by the two Governments:
General Principles The undertakings reflected in this declaration are based on the following general principles:
A. Within the framework of and pursuant to the provisions of the two declarations of the Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, the United States will restore the financial position of Iran, insofar as possible, to that which existed prior to Nov. 14, 1979. In this context, the United States commits itself to insure the mobility and free transfer of all Iranian assets within its jurisdiction as set forth in paragraphs four to nine.
B. It is the purpose of both parties, within the framework of and pursuant to the provisions of the two declarations of the Government of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, to terminate all litigation as between the government of each party and the nationals of the other, and to bring about the settlement and termination of all such claims through binding arbitration.
Through the procedures provided in the declaration relating to the claims settlement agreement, the United States agrees to terminate all legal proceedings in United States courts involving claims of United States persons and institutions against Iran and its state enterprises, to nullify all attachments and judgments obtained therein, to prohibit all further litigation based on such claims, and to bring about the termination of such claims through binding arbitration. I: Nonintervention
In Iranian Affairs 1. The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs. II and III: Return of Iranian Assets And Settlement
Of U.S. Claims 2. Iran and the United States (hereinafter the parties) will immediately select a mutually agreeable central bank (hereinafter the central bank) to act, under the instructions of the Government of Algeria and the central bank of Algeria (hereinafter the Algerian Central Bank) as depository of the escrow and security funds hereinafter prescribed and will promptly enter into depository arrangements with the central bank in accordance with the terms of this declaration. All funds placed in escrow with the central bank pursuant to this declaration shall be held in an account in the name of the Algerian Central Bank. Certain procedures for implementing the obligations set forth in this declaration and in the declaration of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria concerning the settlement of claims by the Government of the United States and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (hereinafter the Claims Settlement Agreement) are separately set forth in certain undertakings of the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with respect to the declaration of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria.
3. The depository arrangements shall provide that, in the event that the Government of Algeria certifies to the Algerian Central Bank that the 52 U.S. nationals have safely departed from Iran, the Algerian Central Bank will thereupon instruct the central bank to transfer immediately all monies or other assets in escrow with the central bank pursuant to this declaration, provided that at any time prior to the making of such certification by the Government of Algeria, each of the two parties, Iran and the United States, shall have the right of 72 hours notice to terminate its commitments under this declaration. If such notice is given by the United States and the foregoing certification is made by the Government of Algeria within 72-hour period of notice, the Algerian Central Bank will thereupon instruct the central bank to transfer such monies and assets. If the 72-hour period of notice by the United States expires without such a certification having been made, or if the notice of termination is delivered by Iran, the Algerian Central Bank will thereupon instruct the central bank to return all such monies and assets to the United States, and thereafter the commitments reflected in this declaration shall be of no further force and effect.
4. Commencing upon completion of the requisite escrow arrangement with the central bank, the United States will bring about the transfer to the central bank of all gold bullion which is owned by Iran and which is in the custody of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, together with all other Iranian assets (or the cash equivalent thereof) in the custody of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be held by the central bank in escrow until such time as their transfer or return is required by paragraph 3 above. Assets in Foreign Branches
Of U.S. Banks 5. Commencing upon the completion of the requisite escrow arrangements with the central bank, the United States will bring about the transfer to the central bank, to the account of the Algerian Central Bank, of all Iranian deposits and securities which on or after Nov. 14, 1979, stood upon the books of overseas banking offices of U.S. banks, together with interest thereon through Dec. 31, 1980, to be held by the central bank to the account of the Algerian Central Bank, in escrow until such time as their transfer or return is required in accordance with paragraph 3 of this declaration. Assets in U.S. Branches
Of U.S. Banks 6. Commencing with adherence by Iran and the United States to this declaration and the Claims Settlement Agreement attached hereto, and following the conclusion of arrangements with the central bank for the establishment of the interest-bearing security account specified in that agreement and paragraph 7 below, which arrangements will be concluded within 30 days from the date of this declaration, the United States will act to bring about the transfer to the central bank within six months from such date of all Iranian deposits and securities in U.S. banking institutions in the United States together with interest thereon, to be held by the central bank in escrow until such time as their transfer or return is required by paragraph 3.
7. As funds received by the central bank pursuant to paragraph 6 above, the Algerian Central Bank shall direct the central bank to (1) transfer one-half of each such receipt to Iran and (2) place the other half in a special interest-bearing security account in the central bank, until the balance in the security account has reached the level of $1 billion. After the $1 billion balance has been achieved, the Algerian central bank shall direct all funds received pursuant to paragraph 6 to be transferred to Iran. All funds in the security account are to be used for the sole purpose of securing the payment of, and paying, claims against Iran in accordance with the Claims Settlement Agreement. Whenever the central bank shall thereafter notify Iran that the balance in the security account has fallen below $500 million, Iran shall promply make new deposits sufficient to maintain a minimum balance of $500 million in the account. The account shall be so maintained until the president of the arbitral tribunal established pursuant to the Claims Settlement Agreement has certified to the central bank of Algeria that all arbitral awards against Iran have been satisfied in accordance with the Claims Settlement Agreement, at which point any amount remaining in the security account shall be transferred to Iran. Other Assets
In the U.S. and Abroad 8. Commencing with the adherence of Iran and the United States to this declaration and the attached Claims Settlement Agreement and the conclusion of arrangements for the establishment of the security account, which arrangements will be concluded within 30 days from the date of this declaration, the United States will act to bring about the transfer to the central bank of all Iranian financial assets (meaning funds or securities) which are located in the United States and abroad, apart from those assets referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 above, to be held by the central bank in escrow until their transfer or return is required by paragraph 3 above.
9. Commencing with the adherence by Iran and the United States to this declaration and the attached Claims Settlement Agreement and the making by the Government of Algeria of the certifications described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will arrange, subject to the provisions of U.S. law applicable prior to Nov. 14, 1979, for the transfer of all Iranian properties which are located in the United States and abroad and which are not within the scope of the preceding paragraphs. Nullification
Of Sanctions and Claims 10. Upon the making by the Government of Algeria of the certification described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will revoke all trade sanctions which were directed against Iran in the period Nov. 4, 1979, to date.
11. Upon the making by the Government of Algeria of the certification described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will promptly withdraw all claims now pending against Iran before the International Court of Justice and will thereafter bar and preclude the prosecution against Iran of any pending or future claims of the United States or United States nationals arising out of events occurring before the date of this declaration related to (A) the seizure of the 52 United States nationals on Nov. 4, 1979, (B) their subsequent detention (C) injury to the United States property or property of the United States nationals within the United States Embassy compound in Tehran after Nov. 3, 1979, and (D) injury to the United States nationals or their property as a result of popular movements in the course of the Islamic revolution in Iran which were not an act of the Government of Iran. The United States will also bar and preclude the prosecution against Iran in the courts of the United States of any pending or future claims asserted by persons other than the United States nationals arising out of the events specified in the preceding sentence.
12. Upon the making by the Government of Algeria of the certification described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will freeze, and prohibit any transfer of property and assets in the United States within the control of the estate of the former Shah or any close relative of the former Shah served as a defendant in U.S. ligitation brought by Iran to recover such property and assets as belonging to Iran. As to any such defendants, including the estate of the former Shah, the freeze order will remain in effect until such ligitation is finally terminated. Violation of the freeze order shall be subject to the civil and criminal penalties prescribed by U.S. law.
13. Upon the making by the Government of Algeria of the certification described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will order all persons within U.S. jurisdiction to report to the U.S. Treasury, within 3O days, for transmission to Iran, all information known to them , as of Nov. 3, 1979, and as of the date of the order with respect to the property and assets referred to in paragraph 12. Violation of the requirement will be subject to civil and criminal penalties described by U.S. law.
14. Upon the making by the Government of Algeria of the certification described in paragraph 3 above, the United States will make known to all appropriate U.S. courts that in any litigation of the kind described in paragraph 12 above the claims of Iran should not be considered legally barred either by sovereign immunity principles or by the act of state doctrine and that Iranian decrees and judgments relating to such assets should be enforced by such courts in accordance with United States law.
15. As to any judgment of a U.S. court which calls for transfer of any property or assets to Iran, the United States hereby guarantees the enforcement of the final judgment to the extent that the property or assets exist with the United States.
16. If any dispute arises between the parties as to whether the United States has fulfilled any obligation imposed upon it by Paragraphs 12-15, inclusive, Iran may submit the dispute to binding arbitration by the tribunal established by, and in accordance with the provision of, the Claims Settlement Agreement. If the tribunal determines that Iran has suffered a loss as a results of the failure by the United States to fulfill such obligation, it shall make an appropriate award in favor of Iran which may be enforced by Iran in the courts of any nation in accordance with its laws.
Settlement of Disputes 17. If any other dispute arises between the parties as to the interpretation or performance of any provision of this declaration, either party may submit the dispute to binding arbitration by the tribunal established by, and in accordance with the provision of, the Claims Settlement Agreement. Any decision of the tribunal with respect to such dispute, including any award of damages to compensate for a loss resulting from a breach of this declaration of the Claims Settlement Agreement, may be enforced by the prevailing party in the courts of any nation in accordance with its laws.
A version of this article appears in print on January 20, 1981, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: TEXT OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. TO RESOLVE THE HOSTAGE SITUATION. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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Bi-Annual of Islamic Crafts, is the approach peer-reviewed journal on the theoretical principals of Islamic arts. This journal will be published in February 2017, by the group of islamic arts, at the Tabriz Islamic Art university. the main themes in this journal are to reflect and publish the opinion and views of islamic arts specialists and professors. the editorial boards of this journal, consist of professors and specialists in islamic arts, from Iran and other countries. we hope that this journal would be a tribute to the unique and magnificent realm of islamic arts.


An app created by Apple has been released on the Google Play Store and it has been flooded with negative reviews.
Apple has published an app on their rival's app store and Android fanboys are not happy. 'Move to iOS' is the first app that Apple has officially released for Android and its purpose is to aid Android users in transferring their data to an iOS device.
Naturally, many die-hard Android fans are unhappy about the mere existence of such an app, and downloaded 'Move to iOS' just to leave a negative review. At the time of writing, the app has over 12,700 one-star reviews and only 2,700 5-star reviews, giving it an overall score of 1.7 on the Play Store.
One user wrote: "Dear Apple just why did you make this app? You refuse to release your apps onto Android because apple is 'superior' in your minds but that just turns most users away from Apple because they think they are the best and never change. But Google has their apps on your app store and many people switch from Apple because they want freedom."
Here's another: "No Thanks Never owning an Apple product ever again. Nice try with the random copied features from the Android OS and calling them REVOLUTIONARY. We are never ever ever getting back together!"
Some users have complained that the app does not deliver on its fundamental purpose: "Terrible app. Not only doesn't it conform to design standards, it's also incompatible with most of my devices. At any rate, we need the ability to save data from the iOS walled garden and bring them to an Android phone. This app does the exact opposite of that and is therefore completely useless."
Head over to the apps Play Store page for more entertaining reviews.


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On June 29, 2019, at approximately 10:13 p.m., Deputy McAlister responded to a drunk driver complaint on Stony Hill Road. A witness had observed a vehicle stopped in the middle of the roadway. When he approached the vehicle, he saw the driver asleep and the passenger was hunched over and had vomited on herself.
The witness woke them up and told them not to go anywhere because they appeared intoxicated. However, the driver and passenger then exited the vehicle and the passenger got into the driver's seat and drove away. The witness then called the Sheriff's Office and followed the vehicle to the driveway of a residence on Empress Alexandra Place.
Upon arrival, Deputy McAlister made contact with the witness who advised that he had seen the subjects enter the residence. While speaking with the witness, he saw a female subject walk towards them. The deputy detected the strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from her person. She also had bloodshot, glassy eyes and was unsteady on her feet.
The suspect was identified as Alison Payne, 31, of Ruther Glen. Field sobriety tests were conducted and a preliminary breath test was administered. She admitted to drinking that evening.
Payne was taken into custody and incarcerated at Rappahannock Regional Jail until sober for driving under the influence and public intoxication.


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Today, there are 1.49 billion active users on Facebook. With so many people around the world using this form of social media to connect with friends, discover new things, and expand their online reach - it's no surprise that businesses want to make the most out of a possible new resource. Facebook advertising provides companies with an effective way of reaching out to target audiences - but just like anything else online today, the concept comes with a number of worrisome myths.
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Facebook have recently developed a new look for advertisements in the right-hand-side column, yet some people continue to believe that advertisements in this location are useless. The truth is that assertions such as these are wrong. There have been plenty of successful campaigns in which right-column ads on Facebook have generated significant improvements in regards to return on investment - particularly when compared with advertisements that simply show up on the newsfeed. At the end of the day, there's no way to tell whether using the right column will be beneficial to you until you've tried it for yourself.
Although it's true that the rate of click-throughs obtained from the right-hand column can be as much as ten times worse than click-throughs obtained through the newsfeed, it's important to remember that there's far more inventory space to take advantage of, and the prices are generally a lot cheaper. Crucially, fewer things in the right hand column distract users, because they can click on links without having to worry about comments, likes, and shares getting in their way. If you want to get the most out of your advertising in this area however, you should look into utilizing pictures with significant visual contrast to draw your viewers in. Retargeting is also quite useful in the right column as users that already know your brand are more likely to notice your advertisements.
Myth 5: It's Fine To Buy Fake Facebook Likes
This is potentially the most dangerous myth about Facebook advertising that exists today. We're in the year 2015, and the truth is that good marketers shouldn't even be considering this option as way to improve their traffic. No matter what other articles might tell you, or what you may believe yourself, selling Facebook likes is a scam, and buying them so that your brand seems more popular will only hurt your company in the long run.
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