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Brian Noone
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MASTER OF THE CURVE
The lithe, sensuous designs of Joseph Walsh are blurring the lines between art and design. BRIAN NOONE reports
Joseph Walsh is a master illusionist, but he would never describe himself that way. He prefers to be called a designer or a maker, humbler titles that are more reflective of the bucolic Irish farmland, half an hour south of Cork, where his eponymous studio is set.
To witness one of Walsh's creations in the flesh, however, is to comprehend the illusion immediately. You disconnect from reality for a moment and engage in a solo dance with the sculptural form that swirls with the fluidity of water while retaining the grounded solidity and familiar comfort of wood.
The conceptual confusion runs deep: you don't know whether to let yourself float away into reveries of awe or to engage scepticism at the deepest level. Is this real? How did he do it? There must be a hidden secret.
There is indeed a hidden secret that involves thin layers of wood, allowing Walsh and his team of 17 to craft the curvilinear creations in styles – and scales – that are entirely unique. But Walsh, who has no formal design training, explains the singularity in his approach this way: "Rather than resolving something on paper or on CAD and then crafting it, we have changed the process," he explains.
All of Walsh's designs begin with a simple sketch, which he then takes into the workshop and uses as a rough guide to craft a three-dimensional model, "reacting to the material" in ways that let the substance, rather than the concept, dictate the final design.
Walsh works in the same visual vocabulary as did Zaha Hadid – an astral sinuousness that revels in its own discordant logic – but by working in wood he maintains a connection to traditional domestic design ideals. Call it anti-avant garde.
"What he's doing is extraordinary," says London gallerist Sarah Myerscough, who represents Walsh and shows his pieces to collectors round the globe at leading design fairs. "Everyone is staggered by the craftsmanship and ambition in his work. These are the antiques of the future."
Myerscough is not alone in that view: Walsh and his team recently completed a set of 24 unmatched chairs commissioned for the dining room at Chatsworth House, perhaps Britain's most stunning country home and a repository of treasures from centuries past.
Earlier this year, a seven-metre Walsh sculpture was unveiled at the National Gallery of Ireland, while at Sotheby's in May, the ascending value was re-confirmed with an Eignum II chair selling for nearly double the pre-sale estimate.
Now working in resin and stone as well as wood, Walsh says his commissions usually take about two years to complete. "My idea of commissioning is all about trust," he says, "commissioning the person to make the right decisions and arrive a result that you couldn't have otherwise had." It is a risky process – "not for everyone", he cautions – but what else would you expect from a master of illusion?
Departures, Q3, 2017


1. Imagine There's No Border.
Borders are to distinct countries what fences are to neighbors: means of demarcating that something on one side is different from what lies on the other side, a reflection of the singularity of one entity in comparison with another. Borders amplify the innate human desire to own and protect property and physical space, which is impossible to do unless it is seen—and can be so understood—as distinct and separate. Clearly delineated borders and their enforcement, either by walls and fences or by security patrols, won't go away because they go to the heart of the human condition—what jurists from Rome to the Scottish Enlightenment called meum et tuum, mine and yours. Between friends, unfenced borders enhance friendship; among the unfriendly, when fortified, they help keep the peace.
Today the transatlantic ruling class has its own civilizational agenda, manifested by its subsidies for constituencies both business and cultural, ranging from "renewable energy resources," to education, the arts, and lifestyle. Far from allied to safeguard and promote Western civilization, this ruling class treats its cornerstone, Christianity, as unmentionable at best and usually as the main feature to be extirpated from people's lives. This class also regards self-rule, the capacity of people in towns, regions, or nations to decide by vote how they shall live, as among the evils to be done away with. It treats as enemy anything—thoughts, practices, institutions—that limit its own its own power and prestige. For their power and prestige, after all, are what it is allied to protect.
Since ordinary people in each and all of NATO's countries pose the clearest and most present danger to that power and prestige, whenever any country's people have challenged the power or prestige of their local member of the club, the other countries' ruling classes have treated it as an attack on themselves. Under this updated version of the famous Article 5, the allied transatlantic rulers have warned, on pain of horrid consequences, the people of Britain to stay in the EU, the peoples of France to elect anybody but Le Pen, the peoples of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and most recently of Italy, not to vote as they did.
The morality of socialism is easily summed up in a few words: envy and sacrifice based on a phony and coerced sense of altruism.
The socialist not only envies and wants a portion of the wealth of others; he desires to see the wealth of others lowered to the level of his own. The socialist wants to use a sense of altruism — couched in terms like "fairness," "equality" and "fair share" — to coerce those that have into willingly giving a portion of their wealth to others. That failing, the socialist desires that the power and organized violence of the state be used to create a level of conformity and reduce everyone to the same level — even if it is the level of poverty and privation.
What is it with you Jews, anyway?" asks Clint Eastwood's shell-shocked Air Force pilot in the 1982 thriller Firefox. And damned if last week I didn't find myself asking that exact same question. Now keep in mind—I am a Jew. A full-blooded descendant of a Brooklyn intellectual and a Beverly Hills surgeon. Jewy to the core (though not in the Ben Shapiro "hey look at my pretty little yarmulke" kind of way). And I'm long past being shocked by the seemingly suicidal and self-destructive agendas that left-wing Jews so often pursue. Flooding the West with Muslims who want to murder them, advocating policies that flood the streets with illegal aliens—some of whom would love nothing more than to see every Jew's spiffy new Lexus hauled off to a Tijuana chop shop—bankrolling BLM thugs who would be tickled pink to see the Crown Heights pogrom or the Freddie's Fashion Mart massacre repeated on a national scale.
[……] Did the Jews take one wedgie too many in Europe? After centuries of pogroms and expulsions, was the Holocaust the last straw? Will Jews forever carry a hatred of the West, a desire to see Western traditions and values subverted even at their own expense?
[…..] I think, for far too many Jews, that hatred extends not just to the Germans, but to the white Christian West as a whole. I've seen this pathology before; American Jews who just can't muster up the kind of hatred for today's Muslim Jew-killers that they can easily summon for the descendants of the White Christian Jew-killers of yore. But why? Why are so many Jews still seemingly at war with Christendom?


IT'S TIME FOR MONKEYSHINES! Unfold the world around us and dip in a wicked adventure with the new animated feature starring Bubba and its friends. The lovable pre-school show from Disney Jr. will hit the big screen with hops and jigs, cheers and carols… A new story to experience and discover that brushing your teeth, taking care of the planet, and naming the colors, can be lots of fun.


Two years ago Frankel, trained by Sir Henry Cecil, won the QIPCO Champion Stakes - today it was the turn of Noble Mission, Frankel's brother, trained by Lady Cecil, widow of the legendary trainer.
Both horses are owned and were bred by Prince Khalid Abdullah, who mated his superb mare Kind with the world's leading stallion, Galileo, and produced two outstanding siblings. Frankel is now a stallion in his own right at Prince Khalid's Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, where his brother will take up residence one day.
Remarkable doubles rarely come with more poignancy, and this one followed a compelling home-straight battle between the winner and runner-up Al Kazeem, who pulled clear of their rivals. Noble Mission had made the running from the stalls, been passed by the second approaching the furlong pole, but showed an iron will to grind his way back into the lead. He won by a neck, with Free Eagle a further length and a quarter back in third.
Winning jockey James Doyle forged a brilliant partnership with Al Kazeem last season when they teamed up to win three times at the top level. Today, his retainer with Noble Mission's owner meant George Baker rode the second.
Lady Cecil was shaking as she told the press: "I knew that if he won it would be a fairytale and it absolutely was. James gave him a brilliant ride - we knew the horse was in the form of his life, but we hardly dared to dream it could happen. It's a tough race and he absolutely toughed it out.
"I thought it was all over [when Al Kazeem edged ahead], but he just dug deep and James gave him an incredible ride. This is so special because of what happened two years ago - I keep thinking I'm in a dream and will wake up. It has come true hasn't it?
"I had my head in my hands [in the closing stages] because I didn't think he would hang on, but he's so brave. Martin [his groom] who rides him every day and virtually sleeps in his box said he was in the best form. I've had so much support from so many people and I'm so grateful.
"Can you imagine when Henry died if we had given everything up? It was easier to keep going at the time and it was a way of staying close to him. I am so lucky with my owners - Prince Khalid has been incredibly loyal and the Niarchos family. I am so lucky to be at Warren Place and I don't have the words - my heart is pounding. I am so pleased for everyone at home as well."
Lord Grimthorpe, racing manager to Prince Khalid, said: "James produced a great ride on an incredibly good, tough and classy horse. He put them to it, held them off, stuck to it and had a huge battle with Al Kazeem - to do that with that quality of field is remarkable. It's nice to emulate your brother!"
Asked if five-year-old Noble Mission would now be retired to stud, Lord Grimthorpe said: "It's in Prince Khalid's hands - he could go to stud or stay in training. Two years ago when Frankel was in this very same position I said to Prince Khalid 'They are going to ask what your plans are for the horse?' and I didn't know at the time. He just said 'That is it' and Frankel was retired - I wouldn't think he would run again this year because he's had quite a race today.
"What a happy day and the emotions of the whole thing - with Jane, and the history of Champions Day with Henry, and the brother of Frankel - it's amazing.
Al Kazeem produced a performance near his very best in the QIPCO British Champion Stakes at Ascot this afternoon and was just denied by Noble Mission in a thrilling climax to the Group One contest.
The 16/1 shot battled all the way to the line alongside the eventual winner but couldn't quite manage to get his head in front where it mattered, going down by a neck with Free Eagle a further length and a quarter back in third.
Jockey George Baker was full of admiration for the six-year-old, who returned to the track earlier this year following a brief, if unsuccessful, spell at stud.
"They didn't go that quick up front which has helped him relax," said Baker.
"I thought that we'd got the measure of Noble Mission half a furlong out but he's battled back really well.
"I'm delighted for connections and also for Al Kazeem, as it's great to see him back to his best. I'm also delighted for James (Doyle - jockey of Noble Mission) who rode him last year, as he deserves another big race success."
Trainer Roger Charlton was visibly emotional after the race and felt his entire hadn't quite been given the respect he deserved following a good run in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp last time out.
"What can you say?" said Charlton.
"I thought that his price was an insult at the beginning of the week as he wasn't beaten far in the Arc and finished alongside Ruler Of The World, who was a lot shorter in the betting.


Twenty beautiful orange tulips accented with lily grass are a fun, fresh way of saying congratulations or thinking of you. Why not send them as a gift for a birthday, anniversary, or for any spring holiday. Before the tulips go out on delivery, we take the time to gift wrap the bouquet with care. We appreciate the importance of presentation.


Its name is Florence, and it's basically a mountain speeding through space. Here's how to catch it as it zips by as close as it will come in our lifetimes.
3122 Florence can be spotted with modest backyard telescopes. Note that dates mark the asteroid's location at 11 p.m. Eastern. Adjust to your time zone accordingly.
A mountain-sized asteroid named Florence is passing closer by Earth this week than it will for the next 400 years. While the space rock poses no threat of sending us to oblivion the way the dinosaurs went, it is possible to see it even now as it starts buzzing by.
Officially designated 3122 Florence, the hunk of cosmic junk is 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) across and will come within around 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers) of us at its closest approach on Thursday. That's several times farther out than the moon, so you can breathe easy, but it will be Florence's closest pass since 1890 and until at least 2500, according to Sky & Telescope.
NASA says this is the largest asteroid to pass so close by since the agency started tracking near-Earth asteroids.
So if this month's total solar eclipse has inspired a newfound love of sky watching, here's your chance to catch another rarity of the cosmos and you don't even have to endure hordes of traffic to see it.
"Despite some interference from moonlight, 3122 Florence should be fairly easy to spot in even modest backyard telescopes," says Kelly Beatty, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope.
The magazine has created a series of charts, including the one above, to help North American observers plot the path of Florence against the backdrop of stars and constellations when it reaches its period of peak brightness, which has already started this week and continues roughly through September 3. The ideal time for viewing will be late evening when the asteroid is high overhead.
If you're not in North America, Universe Today also has some more helpful observation tips.
Of course, the easiest way to check out the odd sight of a detached mountain passing us by at high speed will be to do it in the comfort of your own home or wherever you can return to this page and watch via the webcast embedded below, courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project.
The live broadcast with commentary of the astroid at its closest approach starts Thursday at 12:30 p.m. PT. See you then!


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Cameron more daring than Blair
21.10.10 Publication: La Stampa
It is an extraordinary gamble: cutting 500,000 public-sector jobs, in a programme of dramatic fiscal retrenchment, with ministries' budgets being cut by an average of nearly 20% over four years. Moreover, it is a gamble made with a daring and determination that few expected when David Cameron's Conservative Party failed to win an outright majority in the British general election in May and had to form a coalition with the small Liberal Democrat party, the country's first coalition government for 65 years. Then, it was assumed that the compromises necessary in a coalition would make the government cautious. Yet what has happened is the opposite: this government is being far more bold than Tony Blair's Labour Party was in 1997, even though Blair had won a huge majority.
That is an internal comparison: bold Cameron against timid Blair. But there is also an external comparison: deep British cuts, so far without any substantial protests or strikes, while France is paralysed on a daily basis, with its supplies of fuel running out, by strikes and demonstrations against a seemingly minor adjustment in the retirement age. The comparison might well please some traditional Englishmen, proud of our stoic, "stiff upper lip" approach to pain and sacrifice, rather than what they see as the over-excitable and selfish approach in France. But the important question is not about the stereotype: it is about whether this British gamble will really succeed, and indeed whether it will really be carried out.
Certainly, George Osborne, the 39-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer (ie, finance minister), sounds determined, and he has the support not only of his prime minister, David Cameron, but also of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg. The boldness of this coalition government arises, firstly, from the fact that they did win more than 60% of the votes in the May election, but also from the belief that thanks to the 2006-09 financial crisis and recession, budgetary pain is inevitable so it would be better to get the bad news over with early on—while it is still possible to blame the pain on the previous Labour government.
There is plainly another factor at work, however, especially in the minds of the Conservative Party. It is that the general atmosphere of economic crisis, of the need for austerity and belt-tightening, offers a special opportunity for structural reform of the whole public sector, and notably for social welfare payments. Under the cloak of retrenchment, fundamental changes can be made, especially ones that reduce or abolish welfare payments that are going even to people who are far from poor. Such payments are a legacy of the post-1945 belief in Britain that to get widespread support for a welfare state, everyone had to get some benefit from it, even if they were rich. Even Margaret Thatcher did not try to attack that belief during her dramatic period in office in the 1980s.
So will it work, and will it really be carried out? The first of those questions is partly economic and partly political. The economic argument for these huge cuts is principally that the big rise in Britain's public debt since 2006 is dangerous, and that if it is left high—as in Italy—then investors in British government bonds might force interest rates much higher, causing a new recession. Yet it is not clear that this is true—or at least, not true enough to require such dramatic cuts. Britain's public debt is 80% of GDP, about the same as Germany's and much smaller than Italy's 120%. The pound sterling has depreciated by nearly 20% against the dollar and the euro since 2007, but over the past year it has actually revived somewhat, at least against the dollar. There is no sign of a solvency crisis.
So an alternative programme of gentler retrenchment could have been adopted—perhaps with a pledge to make it tougher as and when the economy became stronger. It would have involved a risk—that investors changed their minds, and started selling British bonds as they did with Greece. But the current policy also involves a risk: that cuts of this severity will themselves cause a new recession. And if unemployment rises, overall, as a result, then that will itself add to public spending, potentially making the government miss its budget targets in any case.
The political argument, though, is what has really won the day: it is that the Labour opposition cannot truly criticize this plan powerfully or convincingly, since the cuts are only a few percentage points tougher than the plan the Labour government had promised before the election. So the opportunity for structural reform can be grabbed, without direct party-political risk.
The economic risk can, moreover, be dealt with, over the course of the next few years. If the British economy does falter, then monetary policy can be made more expansionary—a benefit of being outside the euro—and in fact the fiscal retrenchment could be eased, either by delaying some of the spending cuts or, more likely, by cutting taxes. That indeed, is where the economic doubt that this programme will really be fully carried out arises: Osborne's fiscal car does have a reverse gear, and if necessary he can use it.
Behind all the British stoicism, though, there is also a political doubt. The fact that there have not been strikes or protests so far does not mean that none will occur. Crucially, the government is not cutting either health-care spending or the main funding for education, both of which would be deeply unpopular. It hopes that the fact that the pain will be widely shared, including by richer families, will make protests more restrained. But that is far from certain. And it may well be that the biggest gamble of all in this programme is the cut in the budget for the police force by 4% per year. Supposedly, this will remove "bureaucracy" rather than cutting police manpower, but the police themselves argue that this is an illusion.
Law and order is always a sensitive issue. If the police start to protest, even to threaten strikes, then the general, rather extraordinary level of support for Osborne's programme, or at least acceptance of it, could begin to collapse. The gamble is a huge one. And the game has only just begun.

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I am currently attempting to write my first book. I was thinking this week how similar it is to a weight loss goal. Say you want to lose 10kg, or fit back into your size 10 jeans, or any other goal. You have an end game in mind, but there is a lot of yards between now and then. You can set little goals each week, or even each day to help you achieve your end game. Like, exercise regimes, meeting personal trainers, healthy eating. But it is VERY easy to get bogged down with the enormity of the task. Writing a book is a huge job, so is losing 10kg. It isn't going to happen in one weekend if you really focus, as much as I would like to think it will. It just takes time. A lot of it. Big exercise sessions sometimes feel like they should have pushed you a lot further to your goal, but you jump on the scales after it, and it barely reflects anything. It is like my goal of writing 2000 words per weekend, I feel so accomplished after achieving my mini goal of 2000 words, but then I am quickly reminded that if I am going to achieve 100,000 words, this book is going to take a year or longer!! It is easy to lose sight that your little goals are all helping to get to the big goal. My advice? Just keep going, you will eventually surprise yourself!


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Kia Canada launches first-ever Kia Hybrid vehicle, 2011 Optima Hybrid
Kia's first hybrid combines advanced technology, efficiency and design with impressive fuel economy.
Addition of hybrid model continues Kia's dramatic brand transformation
NANAIMO, BC, July 28, 2011 /CNW/ - As the latest model in Kia's design-led transformation, the all-new 2011 Optima mid-size sedan lineup is amplified with the addition of the Optima Hybrid, starting at $30,595. With a stunning design, roomy interior and outstanding fuel efficiency, Kia's first-ever hybrid in North America will attract those looking for a striking and well-equipped sedan that does not sacrifice style, comfort, performance or value for fuel efficiency. The Optima Hybrid employs a newly-developed powertrain that includes several innovations that enable it to provide exceptional hybrid performance and efficiency.
"The introduction of the Optima Hybrid to the Canadian market in 2011 marks a significant milestone for Kia in our current design-led transformation through the enhancement of world-class technology" said Maria Soklis, Chief Operating Officer Kia Canada Inc. "The hybrid offering also further entrenches our positioning as a responsible car company that will continue to provide Canadians with environmentally-friendly, world-class vehicles".
The 2011 Optima Hybrid uses a full parallel hybrid system and can be driven in zero emission mode, and/or in blended gas-electric mode. When the car comes to a stop and the electrical load is low, the engine shuts off to completely eliminate idle fuel consumption and emissions.
Durable Lithium Polymer Battery
The 2011 Optima Hybrid's outstanding efficiency is due in large part to the use of a lithium polymer battery, which was developed in South Korea with partner LG Chem. The power and energy density of this new battery type allowed Kia to create a lighter and more compact battery pack, with the 30 kilowatt battery pack weighing just 95.9 pounds (43.6 kilograms) - less than the 2011 Toyota Camry Hybrid's nickel metal hydride pack - which maximizes fuel economy.
Optima Hybrid's battery will hold its charge up to 25 per cent longer than hybrids with nickel metal hydride batteries, so the battery is more likely to have usable energy available even if it has not been in use. With that improved efficiency, more of the recovered kinetic energy and charging energy from the engine is available to move the car as necessary, which allows the vehicle to provide electric driving assist more often and for a longer period. Lithium polymer also has less of the self-discharge characteristic found in most rechargeable batteries.
Unique Hybrid Architecture
Unlike most current systems on the market, the Optima Hybrid powertrain is configured with a unique architecture. Compared to the power-split hybrid systems found on vehicles from Toyota or Ford, the Optima Hybrid uses a Transmission-Mounted-Electric-Drive (TMED) layout with the electric motor separated from the transmission gear-set. Offering several advantages, this modular layout includes more efficient powertrain packaging, use of many existing components such as the six-speed automatic transmission found on the 2.4-liter GDI Optima, resulting in a consumer cost reduction. This also allows for other possible future combinations including the application of more powerful motors and higher capacity batteries.
The Optima Hybrid also is among the first full hybrid systems on the market to use a typical step-ratio automatic transmission. The extremely compact six-speed automatic that debuted on the 2011 Kia Sorento CUV is carried over to the hybrid largely unchanged. An external electrically-driven oil pump also has been added to provide the hydraulic fluid pressure needed to keep the clutches engaged when the vehicle is in idle stop mode.
The Optima Hybrid's electric motor is hard-coupled to the input of the transmission and equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous electric traction motor that produces 40.2 horsepower (30 kilowatt) and 151.2 pound-feet of torque when electric only, and an impressive 206.2 horsepower and 195.4 pound-feet of torque when in hybrid mode. This replaces the torque converter, with a multi-disc clutch fitted between the engine and motor, enabling the gasoline engine to be de-coupled from the powertrain for idle stop and electric drive modes. Employing this layout allows the entire package, including a torsional damper, to fit virtually within the same area as the traditional torque converter. The Optima Hybrid technology enables the vehicle to attain impressive fuel economy numbers, both, during highway and city driving, achieving 4.9 and 5.6 litres per 100 kilometers respectively.
Another unique component of the Optima Hybrid is the Hybrid-Starter-Generator (HSG). This 8.5 kilowatt starter motor-generator is belt-driven off the Theta II engine and operates at the same 270 volts as the electric traction motor and the lithium polymer battery, but does not provide any tractive effort to the vehicle. In its place, the HSG is used only to start the engine and then to charge the hybrid battery.
One of the main benefits which the hybrid electric powertrain provides is the capability to recover energy lost during braking and store it for use during acceleration and cruising. Once the brake pedal is applied, the engine is decoupled from the traction motor and gives no drag on the vehicle. The motor is then used as a generator to recharge the hybrid battery. Converting the kinetic energy into electrical energy rather than thermal energy through brake friction also reduces the wear on the brake linings so they last longer. When conditions require emergency stopping or driving on hills, the reliance on regenerative braking allows for the brakes to be more effective.
The Optima Hybrid uses an electronically controlled brake system to determine the driver's braking needs based on the degree of pedal application, which is then converted to a total brake torque requirement. The hybrid system controls then detects the current level of battery charge, vehicle speed and other conditions at the exact moment of time while being driven to determine how much regenerative braking is possible. The brake control system then receives the maximum regenerative braking level to manage the friction braking torque so that total net torque is equal to the driver's needs.
Like all 2011 Optimas, the hybrid uses an Electric Power Assist Steering (EPAS) system that instantly provides assistive torque only when it is needed during steering maneuvers. Reducing the extra weight compared to an engine-driven hydraulic assist, the EPAS is independent of the engine and also provides assistance when the engine is not running, such as during idle stop or electric drive mode.
The Optima Hybrid also features an electrically-driven air conditioning compressor so that climate control can be maintained in the cabin even when the engine is off. Like the electric power steering system, the electrically-driven air conditioning compressor reduces the overall load on the powertrain, cutting fuel consumption; allowing for more precise, on-demand, control.
Taking advantage of the instant and continuously available torque from the electric motor, Kia engineers modified its popular 2.4-litre Theta II engine to operate on an Atkinson cycle, raising the compression ratio by 20 per cent to maximize its efficiency and achieving a 10 per cent fuel saving over a regular Theta engine. This cycle generates a little less torque, but the electric motor compensates for any loss and consequently, the Optima Hybrid's overall power and torque outputs are greater than the gasoline non-turbo model.
The lightweight architecture of the new Optima platform, combined with the lightweight lithium polymer battery pack, brings the Optima Hybrid in at just 3,489 pounds (1586 kilograms), 230 pounds (104.5 kilograms) lighter than the 2011 Ford Fusion Hybrid. This contributes to the high performance and outstanding fuel efficiency.
Beyond the Optima Hybrid's innovative powertrain, Kia's engineers addressed all aspects of vehicle efficiency including aerodynamics and rolling resistance. The Optima Hybrid features unique exterior aero refinements, a lower ride height, an active air flap system, lower drag wheels, and underbody aero tuning to reduce drag, while low rolling resistance tires also help increase efficiency. The Optima Hybrid's drag coefficient is an exceptionally low 0.26.
The end result of the Optima Hybrid's highly-efficient powertrain, low-rolling resistance tires, and clean aerodynamic signature is truly exceptional fuel efficiency.
Safety-Minded
The 2011 Optima is equipped with a high level of standard safety features, as is the rest of the Kia line-up. The 2011 Optima is recognized as 'Top Safety Pick' by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The Optima includes six airbags8 (dual advanced front and front-seat mounted side as well as full-length side curtain), anti-whiplash front active headrests, side-impact door beams, height-adjustable front seatbelts with pre-tensioners, three-point seatbelts for all seating positions, Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH) and a Four-wheel antilock brakes (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), a Traction Control System (TCS), a Brake Assist System (BAS) and Hill Assist Control (HAC) also are standard.
The 2011 Optima is covered by Kia's comprehensive warranty program which offers unsurpassed consumer protection. Included in this program are a 5 year/100,000 kilometer power train warranty, a 5 year/100,000 kilometer limited basic warranty and a 5 year unlimited kilometer anti-perforation warranty. A 5-year/100,000 kilometer roadside assistance plan also forms part of Kia's comprehensive vehicle coverage.
2011 Optima Hybrid Trims and Features
Optima Hybrid- Starting at $30,595
2.4L, I4 MPI Atkinsons-cycle engine, 166 HP, 154 lb.ft of torque
Electric motor, 40 HP, 151 lb.ft of torque
Combined 206 HP, 195 lb.ft of torque
Standard features include: 16" alloy wheels, 205/65R16 'low rolling resistance (LRR)' tires, dynamic dampers (shocks), electric-assist steering, 6 airbags, anti-whiplash front headrests, 4-wheel disc brakes, anti-lock brakes, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), push button ignition, smart key, keyless entry, tilt and telescopic leather steering wheel, steering wheel mounted cruise control, audio controls and 'Active Eco' switch, enhanced LCD Supervision cluster, trip computer, auto-dimming rearview mirror, Homelink and compass, leather shift knob, dark silver trim plates, black metal painted trim plates, leatherette door trim and console lid, cloth sunvisor, sunglass holder, leatherette and cloth seats, heated front seats, memory driver's seat, power driver and passenger seat, power lumbar driver seat, seat back pockets, fixed rear seat (battery related), power windows and door locks, impact-sensing door unlock, automatic door locks (gear select type), front obstacle-detecting power windows, express up/down front windows, fully automatic climate control (dual zone), rear climate ventilation, cabin air filter, cooling glove box, UVO Audio Infotainment, rearview camera, AM/FM/CD/MP3/Satellite stereo, AUX and USB input ports, six speakers, Bluetooth hands-free connectivity, LED taillights, automatic headlights, front fog lights, heated power outside mirrors, LED outside mirror repeaters, windshield wiper de-icer, UV-reducing solar glass, rear lip spoiler, signature sport grille, half-chrome exterior door handles, hidden muffler, chrome door mouldings, and front and rear mud guards.
Optima Hybrid Premium - Starting at $35,495
Standard features include (in addition to Optima Hybrid): 17" alloy wheels, 215/55R17 'low rolling resistance (LRR)' tires, navigation system, heated steering wheel, leather seats, heated/cooled front seats, heated rear seats, leatherette dash trim, panoramic sunroof, rain-sensing windshield, Xenon HID headlights, Infinity 530-watt premium audio system, iPod cable, interior mood lighting (red hue), stainless steel illuminated door scuff plates, LED pin map light, automatic defog system.
Kia Canada Inc. (www.kia.ca) -- a maker of quality vehicles for the young-at-heart -- is a subsidiary of Kia Motors Corporation (KMC) in Korea was founded in 1999 and sells and services high quality class leading vehicles like the Soul, Forte and Sorento through a network of 173 dealers nationwide. Kia Canada Inc. employs 141 people in its Mississauga, Ontario headquarters and four regional offices across Canada. Kia Motors Corporation continues to showcase the company's global commitment to surpassing customer expectations through continuous automotive innovation.


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StarTimes Media has today announced its acquisition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup broadcast rights as FIFA officially granted media rights to all 2017-2018 tournaments. The company has secured the pay television transmission rights for exploitation in Kenya and other territories across sub-Saharan Africa.
While making the announcement, StarTimes Vice President Mr. Mark Lisboa noted that the acquisition of these media rights is a milestone that will enable more Kenyan households enjoy access to the prestigious tournaments through the company's affordable pay television platform.
"We are delighted to secure the broadcast rights to the 2018 World Cup, a tournament that every soccer fan across the globe looks forward to every four years, the fact that StarTimes will bring this showpiece to Kenyan households is a great breakthrough as it demonstrates our progressive commitment to provide access to premium content at the most affordable subscription costs," noted Mr. Lisboa.
StarTimes is set to broadcast all the 64 World Cup matches live, a first for the broadcaster having made significant inroads towards securing major sports properties where the company currently broadcasts The Bundesliga, Serie A as well as the Chinese Super league exclusively. The various FIFA tournaments are therefore a strong addition to the company's offering as it seeks to stamp its authority in the broadcast of key sporting events.
"It is important to note that StarTimes will also broadcast other FIFA tournaments including the under 20 and under 17 World Cup as well as the FIFA Confederations Cup between May – October 2017 which is testimony to our commitment to service excellence enabling us to serve up a football feast to Kenyan football fans in the coming days," added Mr. Lisboa.
Interestingly, the company's subscribers will be in a position to enjoy these prestigious tournaments from as little as Ksh 599 per month where subscribing to basic bouquet, Classic or Unique bouquet that retail at Ksh 499, 999 and 1,499 respectively, will enable households to access to all the live matches and more.
The same will be available from as little as Ksh 899 on Smart bouquet and Ksh 1,499 for Super bouquet on the StarTimes satellite television platform.
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The Sperrin inset is a beautifully compact stove that slips easily into any standard fireplace opening. It has a full wrap around convector box with vents at the top of the stove delivering heated air into your room along with the stoves natural radiant heat. With the Sperrin inset stove there is no need to remove the fireback.


This plump summer berry is packed with antioxidants, vitamin C, and a tangy flavor that comes to life in our recipe for blueberry crisp.
Long before Fats Domino was crooning about "Blueberry Hill," Native Americans used the potent fruit to treat coughs. These tiny little gems do indeed pack a potent punch. They rank the highest of any fruit for antioxidants (those free-radical-fighting powerhouses), and one cup delivers 14% of the recommended daily dose of fiber and nearly a quarter of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C.
Blueberries are also low in calories -- fewer than 100 for a full cup. They owe their distinct hue to their high anthocyanin content, which gives certain fruits and veggies their deep blues and reds. North America is still the leading producer of this beloved blue fruit, accounting for up to 90% of the world's supply. The berry is celebrated throughout July -- the peak of its harvest -- during National Blueberry Month. And the fruit received an unofficial presidential seal of approval after Ronald Reagan insisted on having blue jelly beans at his inauguration, leading the Jelly Belly company to introduce its blueberry flavor.
3. Spoon fruit mixture into an 11 x 7-inch baking dish.
4. For the topping, combine all ingredients and toss to evenly coat oat mixture and nuts with syrup.
5. Sprinkle granola over the blueberry nectarine mixture.
6. Bake for 30 minutes or until bubbly. Serve with low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt, ice cream, or whipped topping.
Per serving: 241 calories, 5 g protein, 41 g carbohydrate, 8 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 5 g fiber, 22 g sugar, and 16 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 28%.
U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council: "Frequently Asked Questions."
Northwestern Health Sciences University: "USDA Releases List of Top Antioxidant Foods."


A fashion story photographed and filmed by Shawn Paul Tan with fashion by Nickque Patterson.
The initiation of two young ladies, blessed by the surrounding nature. A fashion story shot by Bryant Lee and styled by Nick Chan.


This entry is part 5 of 12 in the series Modern PHP. Earlier posts include Bypassing a Slow Composer Repository, Slow Composer Followup, Getting Started with PHP Composer and Magento, and PHP: The Right Way; A Review. Later posts include Sellvana: Developer's Alpha Review, PHP Primer: Type Hints, PHP Primer: Namespaces, PHP Primer: Interfaces, Design Patterns, PHP, and Magento, PHP-FPM and File Permissions, and Why did the Elephant join the Guild?.
What do they do? They tell you each other how to write PHP code such that it's easier for developers from one project to work on another. It's the closest thing PHP users have to a governing authority since the creators of PHP seem more focused on creating PHP. I generally see PHP-FIG as a Good Thing™.
PHP-FIG release PSRs. These are PHP Specification Requests — guidelines to how PHP programs should structure their code with interoperability in mind. If you've ever used composer you're familiar with PSR-0, whether you know it or not. That's the value of a group like PHP-FIG — they create a bedrock for other people to build on.
This bummed me out a little — it's true that many PHP 4 coding guidelines recommended the use of underscores to signal private/protected visibility. This was necessary in a PHP 4 world where everything was public, and PSR-2's forcing of these visibility modifiers is the right move. However, there's still value in having a method's name signal its visibility level.
Without underscores on the runtimeInitialized and loadedTemplates properties, I had no idea if they were protected of public, and therefore no idea if these were properties meant for the developers of twig (system developers), or public properties meant for use by users of twig (client developers).
Yes, I could have stopped what I was doing to look this information up, but that would have meant losing flow in the task at hand. The ability to scan a piece of code and instantly know if something is public or private/protected is valuable when you're coming up to speed on a new system, or re-familiarizing yourself with an old one.
Also, there's the idea that a code style guideline should make bad code look bad. When I come across a method that's heavily relying on public properties without type checking, it looks wrong to me. Code that follows PSR-2 to the letter removes my ability to do this.
It's easy to understand why the folks behind PSR-2 wanted those lines in the specification — reenforcing the visibility requirement is a valuable political/evangelism tool. However, while its more a mosquito bite than a death blow to interoperability, removing those underscores removes information density from code, and makes the job of learning a new system just a little bit harder.
This means we can, after a careful Anubis like weighing of the pros and cons, continue to use underscores in our property and method names, and get into endless internet arguments about what does and does not follow the spec.


A page from The Life History and Sermon of Buddha.
Seokbosangjeol (Life history and sermons of Buddha abstracted from Buddhist scriptures) was compiled by Prince Suyang, the son of King Sejong and Queen Soheon, in the 29th year of King Sejong's reign (1447). It was written in Korean prose style, not only to pray for the repose of the prince's mother, but also to let the common people learn Buddhist doctrines more easily. Its content teaches about Buddha's life and his main sermons, selected from the Chinese sutras such as the Sutra of the Lotus, the Sutra of Ksitigarbha, the Sutra of Amitbha, and the Sutra of the Medicine. The book was published using the movable metal type called gabinja. The gabinja is considered to be the most outstanding type from the entire history of the Joseon Dynasty. The type used to print Seokbosangjeol is the first type made after the invention of the native Korean alphabet Hangul script. Some pieces of the work are still missing, but it is a very rare and important masterpiece, especially in the research areas of 15th-century linguistics and the history of printing.
I don't subscribe to Buddhism and I'm not promoting it as a belief system. The printed script, the typography is quite beautiful and the book is important as a historical artifact.
The main source of resistance to scientific ideas concerns what children know prior to their exposure to science. The last several decades of developmental psychology has made it abundantly clear that humans do not start off as "blank slates." Rather, even one year-olds possess a rich understanding of both the physical world (a "naïve physics") and the social world (a "naïve psychology"). Babies know that objects are solid, that they persist over time even when they are out of sight, that they fall to the ground if unsupported, and that they do not move unless acted upon. They also understand that people move autonomously in response to social and physical events, that they act and react in accord with their goals, and that they respond with appropriate emotions to different situations.
Children's belief that unsupported objects fall downwards, for instance, makes it difficult for them to see the world as a sphere — if it were a sphere, the people and things on the other side should fall off. It is not until about eight or nine years of age that children demonstrate a coherent understanding of a spherical Earth, and younger children often distort the scientific understanding in systematic ways. Some deny that people can live all over the Earth's surface, and, when asked to draw the Earth or model it with clay, some children depict it as a sphere with a flattened top or as a hollow sphere that people live inside.
In some cases, there is such resistance to science education that it never entirely sticks, and foundational biases persist into adulthood.
This frequently heated resistance to justified information, resistance to fact checking to see if one's assumptions are true and the strong desire to propagate one's false beliefs as the truth has real world costs. In the U.S. we value the concept of live and let live, to be easy-going is considered a high compliment. It is also part of our culture that we prize qualities that are in something of an opposition to those easy-going attributes, we prize the practical, we prize common sense and plain speaking. The chances of a politician speaking in the flowery language of a 19th century novelist like Henry James being elected to public office are very slim. So is it to be plain speaking or should we just walk away from the nutters, live and let live. Should we be guided by the carefully researched and documented "book learn'n" or should we just go with our "gut" instincts. There is a price to pay for resisting change. Most of us cringe at the idea of testing to see if someone is a witch or not by seeing if they float. Yet if someone does a study on a health care policy and shows us a way to save money and provide better care, many people are not only not going to research why they believe otherwise, they'll spread lies about the proposed changes because it conflicts with what they believe to be true. False beliefs cost money. As much as some value money, sometimes it seems above all else in American society, one would think they would be guided by cost savings. That is not the case. The false beliefs are so deeply intrenched that we now have paid for science or pseudo-science. Another interesting phenomenon is that presenting new facts with documentation – as some commenters try to do – can actually make the opposition reader entrench even further into their false beliefs. Knowing this is a good reason to have a coping strategy.
Chhaidy was born in Theiva, a little-known village of around 150 homes in Saiha, the southern-most district of Mizoram that borders Myanmar. It is the home of Maras, a sub tribe among Mizos who were once feared headhunters.
At the age of four, Chhaidy disappeared in a nearby forest, along with a cousin of the same age, Beirakhu. Beirakhu was found five days later, beside a stream. He was in a disturbed state, but alive. Chhaidy could never be traced. But last month, at age 42, she was rediscovered.
Locals say Chhaidy was taken away by a spirit in the forest.
Long time readers already know I'm fascinated by stories of feral children. many of them, especially from the 19th century and earlier are false or embellished, but some modern ones, like this one seem to be true. It seems possible, just barely that Chhaidy had some contact with an adult – that the villagers think was some kind of spirit, but that adult never spoke to her or gave her any kind of guidance.
On trying to communicate further with her, they learnt the meanings of three other words she'd often use, none of which means the same in any known dialect or language. She refers to water as 'nam', anything that flies as 'jackey', and soup as 'appozee'.
They still use an aluminum chloride to stop perspiration. The formulation is better in that it generally does not burn – though it can cause rashes on some users, and it generally does not stain clothing. It took advertising to convince people who perspiration, a topic that was taboo to talk about at the time, was something to talk about and passed judgment on.
James Rosenquist, World's Fair Mural, 1964, oil on masonite.
Roy Lichtenstein, World's Fair Mural, 1964, oil on plywood.
Anyone remember I Heart Huckabees (2004) and the existential detectives played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman claim that everything in the universe is connected.
The implications for such radical views on how much government – with police, prosecutors and the prison industry – should entangle itself in one's autonomy over one's own body are profound. Even in countries where abortion is illegal women still seek abortions or perform them on themselves. In the U.S. that would mean massive expansion of the police, courts and prison system – currently incarceration costs about $20k per year. There would also be costs to society in forcing women to carry their pregnancies to term and the cost of any medical complications, plus the costs of any long term disability caused by the forced birth. Perhaps this is one way Ryan plans to create jobs. Subjecting 160 million women ( minorities, the elderly and students) to modern Jim Crow-Lite laws requires a lot of storm troopers.
What Happened to the Lunch Break?
Skipped lunch breaks are a growing trend, said Danielle Hartmann, the director for corporate partnerships at Boston College's Center for Work & Family.
Conservatives and libertarians are partly responsible for this attitude. Unless you own the company you are one of the little serfs living off the great ideas, industrial spirit and generosity of the real producers in the top 10%. It is part of a movement whose philosophy makes no to little room for humility and acknowledgement of the disposable little people. The economic meltdown has only made the mild to extreme exploitation of workers all that much easier – don't get uppity because there are a hundred applicants waiting to take your place and know their's. Good times.


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Robots in Disguise – angielski duet, obecnie zamieszkujący w Berlinie, założony w 2000, wykonujący muzykę z gatunku electropop. Zespół wydał do tej pory cztery albumy.

Dyskografia
 Robots in Disguise (Disguises) (2001)
 Get RID! (2005)
 We're in the Music Biz (2008)
  Happiness V Sadness (2011)

Przypisy

Brytyjskie duety muzyczne
Brytyjskie zespoły popowe
Brytyjskie zespoły muzyki elektronicznej

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10 Of Probably The Most Stunning Women From The Past One Hundred Years
Indeed, her whole physique had the stretched-out sinewiness of an African stick figure brought to life. Moss was disruptive to the beauty system, but she was still well throughout the industry's comfort zone of defining beauty as a white, European conceit. So too have been the youthquake fashions of the Sixties such as Twiggy, who had the gangly, curveless physique of a 12-year-old boy. The 1970s introduced Lauren Hutton, who stirred scandal just because she had a gap between her teeth.
This beautiful actress is a fan Jennifer Lopez which is why she has obtained the title Shay. [newline]She has modelled for manufacturers like Mango, Loreal, and Ralph Lauren beforehand. Cruz has acquired crucial acclaim for motion pictures like Vanilla Sky, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and All the Pretty Horses. Penelope also works with Mother Teresa's organisation the place she has made donations from the earnings of an entire movie. Based in South Korea, Jessica Jung is an American Singer, Model, Fashion Designer and Businesswoman. Jung is finest known for her function as Elle Woods within the Korean model of movie Legally Blonde. She additionally essayed a task in the tv sequence Wild Romance.
The majority of the art shown here has been created specifically for this assortment. Drawing Beautiful Women is enhanced by Frank Cho's wit and aptitude for leisure, as he interjects humor all through the guide for a enjoyable and playful expertise. Uplifting ladies and ladies to higher spirits, rebuild, fellowship and assist worldwide. BSW tackles tough issues like poverty and teenage being pregnant by bringing in teenage moms to talk to program participants and dealing with "Girl Preneurs", youngsters who hold dreams of in the future owning their own businesses.
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Her work attracted the eye of Gary Cooper, who starred with her in 1952 in High Noon, her first movie.
Catherine Zeta-Jones has a full and thrilling acting profession that started on stage within the Nineteen Eighties and includes iconic movies like The Mask of Zorro, Ocean's Twelve, and Chicago.
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The highlight was cave 28, where the carafes on the counter appeared like science experiments and the Bull's Blood, light and tart, slid down my throat and earlier than I might say I didn't really take care of it, it was gone. In 2012, Florence was the winner of a Britain-wide beauty contest sponsored by Lorraine Cosmetics, which decided that Colgate had mathematically perfect looks, in accordance with statistics reported by the Daily Mail. Dorothy Dandridge is probably XXX the most stunning movie star in world history by far, no discussion. Grace Kelly has one of many world's most famous and delightful faces, and we're positive that it might be not easy to find somebody who disagrees. The MOST BEAUTIFUL ladies in historical past she is known to be.
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They were taking maintain of their very own lives with a gusto and pleasure their mothers had seldom loved. The Silence of the Girls offered Briseis as a second Helen, a beautiful younger girl who turns into a pawn within the lethal energy recreation between Agamemnon and Achilles outdoors the walls of Troy. And untouched coastlines in America, this leisure space has much to offer. Beautiful, beautiful, good-looking, fairly, comely, truthful imply thrilling sensuous or aesthetic pleasure.
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Born in South Philadelphia, Fernandez was raised by her garment-worker mom, the organist at Tasker Street Baptist Church. After high school, Fernandez went to work as a secretary at an insurance coverage firm, however give up after two years to pursue a singing profession. She utilized to Juilliard, however was warned before her audition that if she was accepted, she'd have to attend a 12 months before enrolling. She knew no opera arias, and so sang "Oh Divine Redeemer" at the audition. She continued working as a typist to place herself via Juilliard, met and married a postal worker, had a child—and never gave up on her dream of singing.
No record like this one would be complete without a blonde bombshell and quite than taking place the standard Marilyn Monroe route, we've chosen Jayne Mansfield. Although her performing skills started to be overlooked by her blonde hair and huge property and her profession started taking place the pan, she remained a widely known celebrity – and a Playboy playmate. Yael Shelbia has been named the most beautiful woman of 2020. Differences within the neural substrates of facial attractiveness.
In Arabian society within the Middle Ages, a part of the feminine beauty ideal was for girls to have straight and nice noses. In Jewish Rabbinic literature, the rabbis considered a delicate nose to be the ideal type of nose for girls. Research has attempted to discover out which facial features communicate attractiveness. Women with thick, dark limbal rings of their eyes have also been found to be extra engaging.


If you were to come across a Serge Gainsbourg or Jane Birkin album at the record store, you'd probably assume that it came from some far-off, romantic place with outdoor cafes and bright city lights. You wouldn't think that it most likely came from a damp place in the upper corner of the Pacific Northwest.
For the last 10 years the Seattle label Light In The Attic has been reissuing some of the most sought-after albums from artists like the aforementioned Gainsbourg and Birkin, Karen Dalton, Bette Davis and The Free Design. But when it's not scouring the earth for out-of-print gems, Light In The Attic is also releasing new albums from artists like The Black Angels and Nicole Willis.
Founded in 2002 by Matt Sullivan and Josh Wright, Light In The Attic is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by organizing two special concerts in Seattle and Los Angeles featuring Rodriguez, Michael Chapman, Donnie & Joe Emerson Shin Joong Hyun, and Stephen John Kalinich. The Seattle label is also planning to kick-off a 7-inch singles series featuring acts like Iggy Pop & Zig Zags, Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band, and Mark Lanegan covering Light In The Attic songs.
The tenth year looks to be a fun one for Light In The Attic and hopefully we can all help to keep the light on for another 10 more.


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Mobilize Monday: Celebrate the Supreme Court Wins!
wecanonline June 22, 2020 Mobilize Monday
Last week, two things happened that we should pause to celebrate! The Supreme Court ruled that Dreamers (undocumented young people brought to the United States as children) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals cannot be discriminated against in employment because of their sexual identity.
These two things may not affect you directly; however, the news is a reason to celebrate. It shows that the Roberts Supreme Court may not be totally under the president's control. Before we get too excited, don't forget that the Supreme Court is stacked with ultra-conservative judges. They have a history of voting against civil rights, women's rights, and affirmative action (to name a few).
Take a look at this short video explaining why the Supreme Court is so important.
Last week, while the Roberts Supreme Court ruled in favor of dreamers and LGBTQ individuals, it also refused even to consider cases that would challenge the qualified immunity doctrine. This doctrine essentially makes it possible for police officers to get away with some pretty ugly stuff and use excessive force if they claim they didn't know that prior court ruling considered their actions illegal.
First, the Supreme Court rejected the administration's plan to dismantle the program protecting Dreamers! In the close decision, five Supreme Court justices determined that the administration has not made a legal case to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program implemented during the Obama Administration. With this ruling, Dreamers can continue to work and study in the U.S. as long as they renew their permit.
Second, LGBTQ rights groups were successful in their bid to have the same protections that other protected groups of people (e.g., women and racial and ethnic minorities) have when it comes to employment discrimination. Now lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons do not have to fear being fired for being who they are! I spoke with someone last week who thought that the LGBTQ community already had this protection! Well, they didn't until last week, and this ruling overrules any state laws that say otherwise.
I hope this brings into focus the importance of voting in this year's election! The United States Senate is the branch of government that determines who will sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court judges serve for LIFE! We cannot afford for the court to swing completely right while voter suppression, gerrymandering, Obamacare, police brutality, and women's rights are all before lower courts.
If you haven't registered to vote, or need to check your status, please do so HERE!
If you live in any of the following states, you will be voting for United States Senator in November. Please pay close attention to the candidate's points of view on critical issues and remember, you are voting for the person likely to be involved in choosing at least one Supreme Court Justice. CHOOSE WISELY!
Class II – Senators Whose Terms of Service Expire in 2021
Booker, Cory A. (D-NJ)
Coons, Christopher A. (D-DE)
Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)
Jones, Doug (D-AL)
Markey, Edward J. (D-MA)
Merkley, Jeff (D-OR)
Peters, Gary C. (D-MI)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)
Smith, Tina (D-MN)
Udall, Tom (D-NM)
Warner, Mark R. (D-VA)
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV)
Cassidy, Bill (R-LA)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Cotton, Tom (R-AR)
Daines, Steve (R-MT)
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
Ernst, Joni (R-IA)
Gardner, Cory (R-CO)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Perdue, David (R-GA)
Risch, James E. (R-ID)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Rounds, Mike (R-SD)
Sasse, Ben (R-NE)
Sullivan, Dan (R-AK)
Tillis, Thom (R-NC)
It's not too late to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. The firing of one of the police officers involved in her death is a good start, but we need to keep the pressure one for Breonna and her family! Take action today!
Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help WE CAN reach and activate more women of color for justice! Thank you in advance for your support.
Yours in the fight,
Stephanie McGencey, WE CAN Founder
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Gladstone's Land was the house of a wealthy merchant from the seventeenth century. Completely restored in the late 1930's, it is now a house-museum that explores in detail how the city's residents lived in the Old Town over 400 years ago.
In 1934 the "Land" (house) was rescued from being demolished by the National Trust of Scotland. The building, which had been established in 1550, was transformed into a house museum. Currently, six of its rooms are open to the public and all include original items from the 1600s, antiques and period decoration.
On the building's ground floor there is a reconstruction of a small craftsman's workshop from 1620. While on the first floor, the rooms represent the living quarters of a prosperous family from the seventeenth century. Some of the museum's highlights include the beautiful period furniture and the original painted ceilings perfectly preserved since 1620.
The Green Room is one of the main rooms of the house where visitors can discover the technological developments that made life easier for the people that resided in this townhouse during the eighteenth century.
Gladstone's Land is the perfect place to discover how the locals of the Old Town lived during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Apart from the building's architecture and decoration, inside you'll find volunteer guides that explain details of the citizens' daily lives.
Gladstone's Land can only be visited by guided tour, and all tours must be booked in advance. To book this tour, call 0131 226 5856.


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http://ocean.si.edu/museum/swimming-against-tide Swimming Against the Tide
Swimming Against the Tide
Roa-Varon works on a ship's deck in 2007. (Courtesy Roa-Varon)
by Jennah Colborn
You might have noticed that fish come in all different shapes and sizes, as they've evolved into thousands of species that exist in different habitats across the globe. What you may not know is that humans, along with all other vertebrates, evolved from fish! Perhaps this explains why we share their resilience, adaptability, and individuality– traits that Smithsonian postdoctoral scientist Dr. Adela Roa-Varón embodies to the maximum.
Born and raised in Colombia, Dr. Roa-Varón's fascination with our slippery ancestors began in her first year of her undergraduate degree. "I was the fishiest person at my university," she jokes. While taking an introductory course on the scientific method, she became interested in the morphological changes in fish as they migrated between freshwater and marine environments. What initially started off as a simple experiment on gill tissues across different concentrations of saltwater unexpectedly ended up sparking a lifetime of curiosity for Dr. Roa-Varón. She remembers fondly, "Since then, everything has been fish… I just fell in love with these guys."
Dr. Roa-Varon's official title is "evolutionary ichthyologist"—a professional way of saying that she studies how the process of evolution works and how that process has generated the extraordinary fish diversity that we have today. Some of the questions that fascinate her include: how both past and present fishes have diversified, persisted in diverse habitats, and developed a wide array of life history strategies through time. She approaches these questions using tools such as taxonomy (naming and describing species), morphology (studying species' physical features), and genomics (looking at the DNA of different species). Specifically, she works with a group of fish called gadiform fishes, primarily because of their economic importance and because they are found in a diversity of habitats ranging from the poles to the tropics and from shallow waters to the deep sea. Fishermen and chefs around the world might recognize these species as cousins of the Atlantic Cod, but the average consumer may not know that many of the species that you cook at home, and eat in restaurants are Gadiformes!. Where most might see a meal, however, Dr. Roa-Varon sees them as an excellent model system for illuminating patterns in marine diversity, while also providing critical information for fish management and conservation. It's this scientific curiosity and imagination that propelled her to her status today as a NOAA-sponsored Smithsonian researcher.
A young Roa-Varon work at her desk at the Academy of Sciences. (Courtesy Adela Roa-Varon)
However, Dr. Roa-Varón's path to her successful career in the marine sciences was anything but streamlined. As a first-generation Latina college student, she faced numerous systemic barriers to securing her place in the academic community in the U.S.— one of the most intimidating being the language barrier, which was made even more difficult by her hearing impairment. She recounts her experience studying for the TOEFL, a standardized test that measures non-native speakers' ability to understand and speak English, as extremely challenging. "I was translating the GRE questions with my English-Spanish dictionary just to understand the mechanics of how to answer them," Dr. Roa-Varon recalls in frustration.
For many who have immigrated to the United States, this experience rings painfully familiar. Dr. Roa-Varón feels that it highlights the unique problem that non-native speakers face when attempting to obtain an education in this country, and according to her, it begins at the earliest levels of schooling. When teaching marine science at local Spanish-immersion elementary schools— a form of outreach Dr. Roa-Varón takes great satisfaction in— she is able to see firsthand the gaps in education left by the intersection of a language barrier, disabilities, and lack of diverse representation in higher education. "I go and do my science in Spanish," she says, "and those that are struggling to learn in English because they came from Hispanic communities see that there's a person with an accent teaching them— and that person has a lab coat and works with really cool fish. Maybe, I will inspire them."
Dr. Roa-Varón also feels that she learns just as much from her students as they learn from her. A particularly enlightening activity for her was the virtual workshop she led with professional dancer Silvia Burstein Hendi: "Océanos en Movimiento," or "Oceans in Motion." In this event, Roa-Varón taught the young participants how fish swim differently in different habitats, and Hendi created choreography inspired by these movements. They then asked the children to imagine they were fish, and move their bodies as fish might. When Roa-Varón did the same, what she experienced next surprised and delighted her. "It was freedom, what I was feeling. I was swimming like a fish with my eyes closed, and this gave me a totally different perspective— combining my science with feeling was priceless."
Adela with her daughter on a mother's day hike in 2015. (Courtesy Adela Roa-Varon)
While Dr. Roa-Varon's commitment to education has much to do with her passion for her field and her natural talent for communication, it began in a much more personal place: it started, in fact, with her daughter. She recounts one of the most difficult periods in her life, her PhD, with tears in her eyes.
"I found out that I was pregnant 2 days before my [PhD] interview. My legs were shaking that day, and even when I was accepted, I couldn't start until the next year because my daughter was going to be born. When I finally started, she was 8 months old. And there was this tradition at William & Mary when you're a new student, that you cross the Wren portico, a gate, from the public street onto the campus, and it's like you're entering the graduate school. It's entering that new stage of life. And I did it with my daughter. She was in my arms. And I was scared. Because I was becoming a PhD student and becoming a mom– and I didn't have a manual for either one, you know? But at the same time as I was feeling scared, I thought to myself, I will do it. I am not a quitter; I will do it. I took this decision to heart. And at the end of my PhD, after the commencement ceremony, you cross the opposite direction through the same portico. And I crossed in my cap and gown with her again– she was 7 years old. I did it."
Since the day her daughter was born, Dr. Roa-Varón made a definitive commitment to educating the younger generation. Her journey through motherhood is undeniably intertwined with her journey through science, instilling in her a deep appreciation for the support system that she leaned on along the way. Most emphatically, she voices her gratitude for her husband, or as she calls him, her "anchor", for keeping the household afloat as she worked. "He always helped me— by making dinner, washing and folding clothes, taking care of our daughter— while I stayed up late to study, you know, things like that." But Dr. Roa-Varon's husband's support ran deeper than pitching in with chores; it was his positive attitude and belief in her that truly kept her going. "He always just believed I could do it— today, sometimes my husband says to my daughter, 'Look at your mother. She has been persevering and kept going and kept battling… and she won't give up.'"
For many members of minority communities, the ability to persevere in the face of systemic barriers to professional success is only made possible through the support of others, whether that support is tangible or not. Without community support, scientists from historically underrepresented backgrounds are statistically more likely to leave the research community. As Dr. Roa-Varón attests, it's not just about becoming a scientist, but staying one– because when competing with other people that have always been ahead of you just because of their hometown, their network, or their resources, you're already at a disadvantage. "We came alone, you know, and tried to navigate these waters… so the probability that we get to the goal and cross the finish line, getting your dream job, is not in your favor. It's the reality."
Roa-Varon celebrates her graduation with her family.
(Courtesy Adela Roa-Varon)
For this reason, Dr. Roa-Varón, like many scientists of color, are calling for an updated standard for success in academia. After all, she says, you cannot measure everybody with the same ruler, because we all came from such different backgrounds and challenges. A hypothetical scenario— one not far from today's reality— that Dr. Roa-Varon presents when explaining the concept of equity in research is the following: compare two candidates for a position, where one published ten papers and the other has published only three. Roa-Varon comments, "This is where equity comes into play… how do you measure success? If that person who published 10 papers came from a minority background and had no networking, would they still have published those 10 papers? That makes a difference."
Even today, as an accomplished postdoctoral scientist, Dr. Roa-Varón is aware that her achievements are often overlooked or dismissed due to bias. "I felt that when people didn't think I was a scientist, but a person who works in the kitchen at the Smithsonian, or a cashier. They don't think I'm a scientist because I don't look like what they have in their mind a scientist should look like." As STEM becomes increasingly diverse and dynamic, preconceived biases or notions about what science should look like and who is allowed to access it must be thrown out. This is the driving principle behind the committee Dr. Roa-Varón joined at the Smithsonian: the committee for Diversity, Antiracism and Belonging. And that last word— belonging— was her idea. "At first it was not in the name. But for me, that is the key; when you have that feeling of belonging, you do better, you excel." Recalling some particularly offensive incidents during which she felt singled out due to her identity, she reflects: "I try to spread, wherever I go, the feeling that everyone belongs… because I felt like I didn't belong so many times."
However, Dr. Roa-Varón has never been one to let bias stop her. Instead, she handles adversity like her beloved fish, with resilience and flexibility.
"By studying the evolution of fish, I have been evolving myself. As a person I have evolved. And I have been evolving in my career. With all the struggles, I have become me."
Adela Roa-Varon holds a specimen from the Smithsonian's collection.


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Q: Why is Caratheodory's characterization of measurability important? My professor repeatedly emphasizes the importance of Caratheodory's theorem about characterization of measurability, but I don't get why it's so important. As far as I remember, I have never used this theorem when solving PBSets or writing proofs in this semester.
The theorem states

E is measurable if and only if for every set $A$,   $|A|_e = |A \cap
> E|_e + |A-E|_e$.

The professor said this theorem will be important in understanding abstract measure in the next semester. (But we only covered Lebegsue measure and Lebesgue integral this semester) Can someone explain about the importance or usage of this theorem in analysis? Does it become crucial in more abstract settings other than Lebesgue measure? It constantly bothers me because it feels like I am missing something important. I appreciate in advance.

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Ines' X-rated response to Sam's sex claims
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Yahoo Lifestyle 22 March 2019
Ines Basic has hit back at claims made by Sam Ball revealing the pair never got intimate during the series. Photo: Channel 9
Married at First Sight star Ines Basic has hit back at her former flame Sam Ball in a rather explicit way, after he claimed the pair never had sex during their onscreen affair.
In a bid to set the record straight, the 29-year-old took to Instagram stories with a graphic caption explaining just how intimate they got.
"Yeah. The producers made you eat my p***y for four hours hun. Yeh ok," she sarcastically wrote in the post.
Just hours earlier, Sam told Nova's Fitzy & Wippa that the pair never consummated the relationship despite their steamy onscreen behaviour.
"No, we didn't have sex," he said. "We never slept together. You obviously saw me throw her on the bed and all that stuff…. I had to look like I was going for it."
Sam later revealed there was more to the pair's relationship than was shown on screen, and that the drama almost forced him to leave the program early.
"It was that point, that dinner party, that last dinner party before that commitment ceremony when I went to leave," he said.
Sam's departure from the show came after the pair were seen to spend the night together. Photo: Channel Nine
"There was a lot behind the scenes going on between Ines and I, I couldn't do it, I was done. I had to go."
Earlier this month, Sam responded a fan on Instagram and alluded that his and Ines' affair was never legitimate.
"If you notice Ines' change of apparel in the edit, night and morning, that will be a good reference point for you," he said at the time.
Sam eventually decided to leave the experiment – and his onscreen wife Elizabeth – after he also lost feelings for Ines, who was initially matched with stripper Broson Norrish.
The departure came after the pair were seen to spend the night together and take their romance into the real world – a prospect which led to him promptly getting cold feet.
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Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton (pix) on Tuesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of attempting to "rewrite the boundaries" of post-World War II Europe.
It came as Putin signed a treaty claiming the Black Sea region of Crimea as Russian territory, as Ukraine warned the showdown had entered a "military stage" after soldiers were killed on both sides.
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Have you resolved to make a career change? That's one resolution Pegasus can help you keep. We have openings for physical therapists in the Los Angeles area.
The new year is an ideal time to change careers. It's a time when you reflect on your experiences of the past year. It's a time to set goals for achieving a new beginning or direction.
Physical therapists employed by facilities often put in long hours. They see one patient after another, with more waiting for them. Some therapists thrive under those circumstances, and some don't.
If you're satisfied with your hours, but still dread going to work, consider what else is causing job dissatisfaction. Perhaps it's the facility itself. Maybe it's your supervisor or poor management practices.
Does someone second guess your decisions? Are your skills underutilized? Are your career expectations unmet?
Professionals of all kinds have renewed their passion for caring for others by accepting home health jobs. Physical therapists are no exception. Providing home health care lets you enjoy your work again.
Unless you carry a treatment table with you, as some therapists do, you won't have a lot of equipment. You'll carry your therabands, weights, and perhaps a ball, but that's about it. Everything else is an opportunity to use your creativity and ingenuity.
You'll make use of what's available in your patient's home. That can be fun for you and your patients if you have a sense of humor. It's all part of one-on-one care.
Although technology is changing health care, you'll still personally care for your patients. You'll continue to use all your skills. Seeing how patients function in their home environment helps you provide the best therapies for them.
When needed, you'll have support and assistance from Pegasus staff and our other professionals.
One of the first things you'll discover in home health care is flexibility. If you have particular days or hours that you like to work, that's when you'll work. You set the schedule.
You'll treat as many patients as you choose. You'll have as much time between patients as you choose. Unless you choose to do so, you won't work until you drop.
Charting will always be a part of your job, but you can do that between visits. Technology will make that faster and easier than ever before. You'll have all the time you want for family and social activities.
You will develop, implement, and adjust a care plan. Your therapy will be customized to fit the needs of the patient. No one will be looking over your shoulder or second-guessing your care.
Patients are always treated as individuals and not as a diagnosis.
Your patients see you on a regular basis. Many look forward to your visit and are happy to welcome you into their home.
Because they trust you, patients tell you about their lives. They may disclose information about their medical health that they may not tell other caregivers. Everything you learn helps you provide the best care.
Home health care is never boring or routine. Every home and patient is different. You'll travel to different neighborhoods and see or do something new every day.
Members of our team are experts dedicated to improving the quality of life for others. We've provided care to individuals of all ages since 1994. We are independently owned and have strong management practices.
Our professionals are encouraged to be proactive.
Pegasus is a licensed Home Care Organization and a Joint Commission Accredited Home Health Care organization. Our consistently high ethical and clinical standards have made us an industry leader.
Would you like the opportunity to touch lives and make a difference using your skills? Are you ready for a career change? If so, click here to join a Pegasus Home Health Care team in the Los Angeles area.


Rent of the Hall : _____/- per month.
Security : ____/- refundable without any interest.
THIS INDENTURE OF RENT AGREEMENT is executed at ____ on this ____ between ____ S/o ____ resident of ____ (hereinafter called the FIRST PARTY/ LAND LORD), which expression of which shall includes their legal heirs, successors, representatives and the assigns of one part and ____ son of ____ ( hereinafter called the SECOND PARTY/TENANT) which expression of which shall includes his legal heirs, successors, representatives and the assigns of other part.
WHEREAS THE FIRST PARTY are owner in possession of ____ including ___ on the ___ floor and the same is situated at ____ in equal share (hereinafter referred as the Demised Premises). The covered area of the ____ floor approximately ___ Sq. Ft. with electricity connection and Setters installed therein.
WHEREAS the first party have declared and represented unto the second party the demised premises is free from all encumbrances such as gift, litigation, sale, disputes, attachment by way of any decree of the court, liens, injunction, charges and the lessors are legally competent to lease out the said Demised Premises.
Whereas the first party has agreed to give the demised premises i.e. ___ only on the ____ floor and the same is situated at ____ by virtue of this Rent Agreement and the second party has also agreed to take on rent of the above said demised premises for ____.
WHEREAS, the second party declare and represented unto the first party that the second party is the _____.
WHEREAS, the second party further declared and represented unto the first party that the Demised Premises shall be used by the second party only for the ____.
1- That the rent of the ___ will be ____/- (____ only) per month to be paid by the Second party/second party to the first party on or before the __ day of every month of English calendar in advance. The monthly rent does __ include the electricity, water and maintenance and other charges.
2- That the tenancy shall commence w.e.f. ____ and shall be for a period of __ months (____ months) i.e. upto ____.
3- That the second party has deposited a security amount of ____/- to the first party by ____ which will be refunded by the first party to the second party after the expiry of the period of Rent Agreement without any interest.
4- That the second party shall regularly pay the monthly rent amounting to ____/- of the demised premises to the first party by cash/ Cheque in the names of first party in equal shares payable at ____ in advance against the proper receipt.
5- That the second party shall handed over the vacant and physically possession of the demised premises to the first party at the time of expiry of the tenancy period/Agreement.
6- That in case the second party fails to pay monthly rent to the first party consecutively for the period of two months then the first party shall have to get evicted the above demised premises immediately of this point for non-payments of the two months rent without any intimation and notice.
7- That the first party has installed a electricity meter in the rented premises and the total load of electricity is __ KW with proper sealed if the over load or broken of the seal in the electricity meter is found then the second party shall be responsible for the same and the second party shall be liable for penalty/ charges imposed by the concerned Department/ Authority.
8- That the first party will have no any objection if the second party get the sales Tax /Excise and Telephone connection etc. in the said demised premises in his name.
9- That the second party shall pay the electricity bill to concerned authority/department regularly as per the bill raised by the electricity department for the electricity meter which is installed in the Demised Premises and the receipt of the payment deposited by the second party to electricity department/ concerned authority shall be handed over by the second party to the first party.
10- That the first party shall pay house tax, property tax, to the concerned authority of the Demised Premises.
11- That the second party shall be liable to pay any other Govt. Tax, profession tax, commercial tax, as and when imposed on the said business by the State Govt. /Local Authority or any statutory or auto norms body and the second party will also have to pay the maintenance charges to the society if the same is applicable. Any previous arrears of any kind for the period before the commencement of the rent agreement shall be borne by the first party.
12- That the first party shall not be held responsible for the loss of life or property occurring due to natural calamities and unforeseen circumstances like theft or accidents like earthquake, lightening storms, fire, heavy rain fall etc.
13- That the second party shall not make any addition and alteration in the shape of construction or any structure changes shall be undertaken by the second party in Demised premises in any manner, whatsoever, without the written consent of the first party.
14- That day-to-day minor repairs and maintenance work shall be carried by the second party at their own cost.
15- That the second party shall not sub-let all or any part with possession assigned the above said Demised Premises to any person in any manner.
16- That the second party shall not obstruct or suffer to be obstruct to any common areas, passage or place to access to the demised premises and shall all times prevent their undue use to the annoyance of the first party or other occupants.
17- That the responsibility of the keeping the demised premises of the building and its premises along with drains etc. clean and rest entirely on the second party.
18- That the second party shall not do or allowed to do and kept any illegal activities like drugs, fire ammunitions and shall not store any inflammable or explosive items in the above said Demised Premises, which can be fire hazard. The second party shall not do any unlawful work in the said Demised Premises.
19- That the second party shall abide by all the rules and regulations of the local authority/State Govt./Central, Govt.
20- That the second party shall permit the first party or any of their authorized person to enter in the said rented Hall at reasonable time for the site inspection of the above Hall/Demised Premises.
21- That the second party shall have to give two months advance notice in writing to the first party in case of his vacating the Demised Premises before the expiry period of tenancy/Rent Agreement and the first party shall have to give two months advance in writing to the second party if in case they requires the demised premises before the expiry period of the Deed.
22- That if both the parties will agree to renew or extend the period of the tenancy then a fresh agreement will be executed between the parties and in that event the rate of rent will be increased as per the Market rate of rent.
23- That the rent of the demised premises shall be increased by _% at the end of every year on the rent payable on the immediate preceding month on close of each year. If the second party wants to continue in the said demised premises without having new rent Agreement with the first party then after the period of _ years from the date of the execution of the agreement i.e. ____ then the rent shall be increased by ___% (____ percentage) of the last rent paid which comes to i.e. ____/- per month.
24- That the second party shall be entitled to use the demised premises for ____ purpose only and will not change the nature or name of the Business in the demised Premises.
25- That the second party shall keep the demised premises in good conditions and shall not cause any damages or loss to the rented Demised Premises subject to normal wear and tear of the rented Demised Premises any major items, damages shall be replaced by the first party.
26- That the second party shall be at liberty during the said term of the Agreement to make any additional fittings or fixtures in or to the Demised Premises including air conditioners and other shelves, racks, sub blinds, fittings and water gas elect and sanitary installations, lights and fans and remove the same upon expiry of the Agreement.
27- That the second party shall be at liberty to place name, boards at the entrance or any other suitable place of the Demised Premises only.
28- That if the second party shall make a CHHAJJA/extension outside the above said Demised Premises the second party would do the same at their own cost and risk if in future any amount of charges are to be paid to the concerned authority/local Government/ state Government on account of the same then the first party is no way shall be responsible for the same and the second party shall be responsible for the same.
29- That if in case the state Government/local Authority closes the commercial sites in the said area/residential area then the second party shall vacate the Demised Premises immediately without any notice.
30- That the parties of this Rent Agreement have specifically agreed that the conditions of the location, accommodation and condition of the above said Demised Premises the agreed rent is the fair rent and is in the consequence with the relevant market rates and the second party have accepted it as a standard rent.
31- That it is specifically agreed between the parties that any event of any dispute and differences arises between the parties then, the only ____ courts shall have the jurisdiction.
32- That in case the first party has to go to the court for the recovery of the rent Etc. the second party and the executant will be personally /jointly and severally liable to pay the arrears of the rent, costs and damages incurred by the first party.
33- That the terms & conditions of this Rent Agreement as stated above shall be binding on the both parties. The terms and conditions of this Deed of Lease are final and are irrevocable.
IN WITNESSES WHEREOF, the parties have signed this agreement on the date, month and year first above written in the present of witnesses at ____.


MTV Video Music Awards sponsor Clean & Clear needed a memorable and relevant idea to stand out from the crazy antics of the show, while sticking to its brand message: the importance of accepting who you are in your own skin. So, we created our very own unique Acceptance Speech. Without any paid media, Clean & Clear was the talk of the VMAs the next day. And best of all, real girls responded on social media with what they accept about themselves using #SELFACCEPTANCESPEECH. We responded to these girls in realtime with "applause" GIFS and words of praise for their courage.
CLEAN & CLEAR "Acceptance Speech"
IAMS keeps dogs healthy and happy for life. But how do you say it, better yet show it, without looking like the bazillion other dog commercials out there? We found that answer by creating "Duck" which immediately struck a chord with consumers. On the IAMS Facebook page, we asked people to post stories about how their dogs were named. Hundreds of posts poured in with touching stories and names you wouldn't believe. And sales of the dog food went up too.
Being liberated from glasses and graduating to contacts is a momentous event in a young teen's life. Giving him or her a new outlook and feeling that anything is possible. This campaign won Johnson & Johnson's James E. Burke Award for "Best North American TV Campaign" and helped create a 133% market share increase in the daily disposable contact lenses business.
Outdoor signage created for specific cities like New York and Washington D.C. to make you crack a smile and scream for ice cream.
Creative materials featuring Ashton Kutcher, created for NIKON at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show.
Anti-aging products are a dime a dozen. But RoC is a pioneer in Retinol (the key ingredient for getting ride of those wrinkles) with a long history of proven science in skincare. The RoC logo consists of a mortar and pestle which speaks to the brand's highly scientific past. We created simple, beautiful and clean ads anchored by this iconic logo brought to life in a memorable way.
The next campaign idea for NEXPLANON had some big shoes to fill due to the wildly successful NEXPLANON "What's Next?" campaign that came just before it. The challenge was to build on the birth control brand even further by focusing specifically on the product's unique positioning in the arm, as well as how it empowers a woman. "Armor Up with NEXPLANON" did both.
What's your 3-year plan? That's what we asked women in this successful ad campaign for NEXPLANON, a birth control implant that lasts up to 3 years. The 60-second commercial, website and series of print ads aimed to inspire women to focus on all the great plans they have that don't include having a baby just yet. NEXPLANON is just one of the many pharma and healthcare projects I've worked on.
Nexplanon print ads were featured in numerous high-profile magazines like Glamour and People.
Using the right amount of the right keywords was key to making these blog posts for SK-II Cosmetics. Words like "refreshing skin" and "skincare routines and tips" typed into a Google search box helped lead women to these engaging blog posts on the SK-II website, as well as product recommendations.
Created these two amazing little humans. My son Elliott and daughter Pippa. Thanks for viewing all of my work.