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Source: NHE Aug/Sep 2017
This edition of NHE comes hot on the heels of this year's NHS Expo which, once again, proved to be a huge success at Manchester Central. A number of announcements were made during the event, with the health secretary naming the second wave of NHS digital pioneers, or 'fast followers', which follow the initial global digital exemplars who were revealed at the same show 12 months earlier.
Jeremy Hunt also stated that by the end of 2018 – the 70th birthday year of the NHS – he expects every patient to be able to access NHS 111, their healthcare record, book a GP appointment, order repeat prescriptions and more, all through an app. However, it remains to be seen how the system will measure up in delivering these goals. We all know what Dr Wachter thought of the 'paperless by 2020' deadline.
One of the great things about Expo was the opportunity to see the numerous innovations being developed across the NHS; I just hope that efforts to spread learning right across the service come to fruition.
Throughout this issue of NHE we have some fantastic examples of new treatments and technologies, including some of the latest to have come from the NHS Innovation Accelerator.
Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, writing for us on page 29, argues: "I defy anybody who says that the NHS is stuck in the mud or slow in its ways; actually, the NHS is a hotbed of innovation."
But he does admit that "clearly, as we think over the next three to five years, we need to go further, faster and accelerate what that looks like, but we are continuing to move in the right direction".
While it is nice to write about the positive developments being made in the NHS, we also have to face the grim reality that the service is under immense pressure – the most since it was founded.
Chris Hopson, CEO of NHS Providers, discusses the issue of pressure on page 26, which will be an underlying theme at his organisation's annual conference in November. And, as you'll have seen from the front cover, the Medical Defence Union explains how a flawed civil litigation system threatens to undermine the ability of the NHS to fund patient care.
In other news, this will be my last edition as editor of NHE. After four very happy years with the title, I've decided to move on. But I'm certain that I have left the publication in a safe pair of hands. Thank you for allowing me to have a front row seat into the workings of the incredible health service family, and happy 70th birthday to the NHS in advance.
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Accelr8's move to Tucson speeds up biotech outlook
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
David Wichner
If Larry Mehren's vision becomes a reality, Tucson could be home to a technology that could revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infections.
And though there are a lot of ifs that must become whens before Mehren's company, Accelr8 Technology Corp., becomes a biotech powerhouse, the company has taken the first step by making Tucson its home.
Accelr8, which makes systems to rapidly identify and classify bacterial infections, announced last week that it will move its headquarters and operations to Tucson.
The company has been looking to expand and had looked at staying in Denver. Accler8 was courted by officials in Michigan as well.
Tucson won out partly thanks to Pima County's offer of lab space and cut-rate rent for a period, and a $1 million conditional state grant.
But Mehren – a major investor in Accelr8 as well as president and CEO – said Tucson's potential as a bioscience hub also had much to do with the decision.
"It really was one of the big factors in our decision – the opportunity here to create a biotech hub," said Mehren, who was chief financial officer at Oro Valley-based Ventana Medical Systems/Roche Tissue Diagnostics from 2007 to 2010.
Accelr8 (www.accelr8.com) wants to be a big part of that, with flagship technology that Mehren said is both unique and sorely needed.
Accelr8 has developed an automated system that can identify bacteria in samples such as blood in hours – instead of the days it takes labs to culture and analyze specimens by hand – and detect drug resistance in a specific bacteria strain.
The company's BACcel system is aimed at a deadly and growing problem of "superbugs" – antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, including hospital-acquired infections.
Such highly drug-resistant pathogens, which are common in hospitals, kill almost 100,000 U.S. patients each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"There's a really intense need for new drug information to guide treatment of hospital-acquired infections," Mehren said.
Antibiotics exist that could help in each case, Mehren said, but labs need two to three days to find the right drug – far too late to help critically ill patients.
Using an automated, culture-free system, Accelr8's system can identify multiple pathogens and their major antibiotic resistance types in two to six hours, Mehren said.
Such rapid pinpointing of potentially effective treatment can dramatically improve a patient's survival chances, Mehren said. That speed also eliminates a scattershot approach of prescribing multiple antibiotics – an all-too-common practice that can lead to toxic reactions and more drug resistance, he said.
While some other rapid-identification systems are available, the BACcel system is the only one Mehren's aware of that can identify specific drug resistance.
"If we hit all of our development end points, our technology will be adopted, and at this point, there is no competition," Mehren said.
The system itself consists of cassettes that contain sample material and a special imaging device for analysis. The cassettes contain several fluid tests in a concept sometimes known as a lab-on-a-chip.
The BACcel analyzer extracts and concentrates bacterial cells and uses an internal microscope to count and analyze the cells, exposing them to a series of antibiotics to gauge their resistance.
The idea of applying high-tech methods to bacterial detection isn't altogether new, nor is it entirely foreign to Tucson.
A California company called Cepheid markets systems and tests to rapidly identify infections, including MRSA. That technology was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2007, following clinical trials headed by a University of Arizona microbiologist.
And another local company, Azbil BioVigilant, makes systems that use sophisticated optics to detect environmental microbes.
Accelr8 has attracted some heavyweight biotech investors with prior links to Tucson.
In June, the company finalized an agreement to sell up to $35 million of its stock to an investment group led by Jack Schuler, John Patience and Mehren.
Schuler and Patience, principals and founders of Crabtree Partners LLC, were early investors in Ventana Medical Systems and were founders of Stericycle Inc., a medical-waste management company. Schuler also is a key investor and director of medical-device maker Medtronic Inc.
A local economic-development leader said landing Accelr8 is a big step in elevating Tucson's status as a hub for the bioscience industry.
With the presence of Ventana and companies like HTG Molecular Diagnostics – a homegrown firm led by former Ventana executives – Tucson may not be the next Boston, but it's carving out a niche in the diagnostic device sector, said Joe Snell, CEO of Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities Inc.
"We might very well be on our way to being the diagnostics center," Snell said. "It's just another piece of the puzzle."
Incentives like the county's lab-space offer didn't hurt.
The county is building out 15,000 square feet including new wet-lab space for Accelr8 at the Herbert K. Abrams Public Health Center, 3950 S. Country Club Road, and the company will pay reduced rent for three years.
The Arizona Commerce Authority has awarded Accelr8 a $1 million grant based on four job-creation milestones. According to a regulatory filing by Accelr8, the company initially must create 15 jobs averaging wages of at least $63,000, with 65 percent of health insurance paid by the company. Subsequent milestones are when the company reaches 30, 40 and 65-plus qualified jobs, plus a minimum $4.5 million in capital investment.
Contact Assistant Business Editor David Wichner at [email protected] or 573-4181.

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Oculus Rift will release to huge positive buzz. The first universally-loved game developed specifically for the Oculus Rift will be released in 2014, but it will be a small and simple title that won't drive many device sales.
The headset will be an utter failure with twitchy online shooters, but will totally revolutionize the single player, narrative-focused video game. Manufacturing shortages will make the news by the holiday season, and more than one expert will give an interview about the dangers of our youth disappearing into their new-fangled face-boxes.
The Oculus branding will be too weak to install the device as the Kleenex of virtual reality. Ultimately, the innovations that make Rift work so well are easily copied, its themes easily varied upon to create a viable competitor product. The start-up will enjoy very real success in 2014, buoyed by an abundance of investor interest, but by the end of the year we will see the larger corporate machines start to bring their sluggish but effective attention to bear on the problem.
Sony's VR headset, the latest version of which was just announced, will struggle due to pricing, and the device's general Sony-ness. Legends of horrible software compatibility will plague the device, and it will pose no real threat to Oculus this year despite offering a technically superior viewing experience. Samsung will announce their own competitor in the Galaxy meta-brand, but details will remain scarce. Whacky third party solutions will get relatively little attention, and Valve will be widely assumed to be preparing a version of their own despite never having given the slightest such indication.
Additional prediction: Rumbles will surface about Apple working on a headset, a market-spanning device aimed at both Oculus and Google Glass. It will be rumored to heavily incorporate Siri.
Those who are in a position to know have said it: there's a lot of info still to come from the Snowden leaks. We can't know what that information will be — perhaps just another in the now yawn-inducingly long list of exploits and hacking strategies available to the NSA — but I have a strong suspicion that the next big game-changer in surveillance will be its application to politics. The ability to abuse NSA's powers for political purposes is so enormous and the barriers to abuse so low that it's hard to imagine that this has not occurred at some point. Whether it was a deeper-than-legal check for background dirt or a quick peek at internal party communications, it seems almost impossible that somebody, somewhere, hasn't tried to beat democracy with technology. 2014 is the year we'll learn about it.
The revelation will lead to much outrage and swift action from legislators — after all, their will be on the line. In this case a head will actually roll, and new legislation will be quickly drawn up making such abuses extra-illegal. However, in order to rush the new prohibitions through a polarized (and paralyzed) system, the language will be so specifically targeted at political surveillance that it will have no utility whatsoever in protecting average citizens. Arguments used against it will be equally valid when applied to mass surveillance of citizens, but that fact won't get much attention.
Additional prediction: Just as in 2013, nobody of any real consequence will incur any meaningful penalty as a result of non-political abuses of NSA's powers.
3D printing is third to Big Data and self-driving cars in terms of real, short-term ability to change the landscape in the world. The process is poised, given some very believable increases in fidelity and decreases in cost, to change manufacturing forever — and perhaps to destroy major swathes of it. That being the case, and given the enormous inroads made by the technology in 2013, just how many 3D printers have you seen in your everyday life? Unless you work at a design form or similar company, chances are you've never seen one in your life.
In 2014, the disconnect between potential and actual applications for 3D printing will have been a conversation topic for simply too long. Like solar power or the flying car, the technology world has simply cried wolf far too often; people are no longer impressed by printed chess pieces, nor by promises of a Star Trek replicator. They want to be able to plug in the design for a useful object, and to get a high-quality version of that object out quickly and cheaply. Until that functionality is in the public's hands, the public will grumble.
During 2014, 3D printing with make its first large inroads to the economy, but it will do so with respect to the manufacturing sector. It will begin to affect jobs, earning it a negative reputation in a recession-obsessed culture, but will fail to redeem itself with a cheap-enough, good-enough in-home model. The MakerBots and other household solutions will remain at least twice as expensive to buy and operate as required by the average family, and the variety and quality of objects they can make will remain unsatisfactory. As a result, 3D printing will have both a good and a bad year: objectively, it will make huge strides and the technology will progress enormously, while the public will become cynical, even predicting that the tech will never leave the factory floor.
Additional prediction: At least one electronics mega-corp (Sony, Samsung, etc) will announce, but not release, a line of 3D printers in 2014.


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Saudi Aramco's Luberef Set for IPO
Riyadh - Asharq Al-Awsat
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:00:29 +0000
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/4012556/saudi-aramcos-luberef-set-ipo
Monday, 28 November, 2022 - 07:15
Aramco's base oil subsidiary, Luberef, has won approval from the Kingdom's stock market regulator, Capital Market Authority (CMA), to launch its IPO. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Saudi Al-Ahli Tadawul announced a potential initial public offering (IPO) for one of Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries.
Ahli Capital announced its capacity as the underwriting manager, financial advisor, institutional underwriting book manager, international coordinator, and underwriter of Citigroup Saudi Arabia, HSBC Saudi Arabia, and Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia as the financial advisers, global coordinators, and underwriters of public offerings.
The company said that Aramco's base oil subsidiary, Luberef, has won approval from the Kingdom's stock market regulator, Capital Market Authority (CMA), to launch its IPO and list its shares on the primary market of the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).
Luberef is one of the world's largest producers of base oils and produces one of every eight barrels of base oils globally, with a total capacity to produce 1.3 metric tons per year of base oils.
Luberef will sell 50 million shares, or 29.7 percent of the company's issued share capital, through the IPO on the Tadawul stock exchange, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
The final pricing of the offer shares will be determined at the end of the book-building period, it stated.
The company obtained Tadawul's approval for its request to list its shares in the main market on November 24 and also received the approval of the Capital Market Authority for its bid to offer 50 million ordinary shares.
The shares are open for subscription by institutional, individual, and qualified foreign investors.
Luberef pointed out that the shares will be offered for subscription to individual and institutional investors, including institutional investors outside the US, in offshore transactions following Regulation S under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act).
A maximum of 12.5 million shares, or 25 percent of the total share offering, will be allocated to individual investors, the company said.
Meanwhile, the main Saudi stock index fell 142.29 points to close at 10796.46 points, with transactions worth SR2 billion.
About 74 million shares were traded through more than 241,000 deals, in which 33 companies recorded an increase in value, while 173 companies closed in decline.
The Saudi parallel market (Nomu) plunged 300.87 points to close at 18866.13 points, with a value of SR68 million, and the number of shares reached more than 392,000 shares shared by 1157 transactions.


Filcon is endeavouring to master the fine art of delivering outstanding customer service on a consistent basis. No easy task, as it requires hard work and discipline to accomplish, as top management pushes for "near perfection" in delivering service to the company's customers. Filcon is a certified and audited ISO 9001.2008 quality managed company which ensures that the company does not just rectify errors and problems in a timely and expedient manner but goes a long way towards eliminating them.
Filcon's culture ensures that customers are treated fairly and with dignity, and that employees be both courteous and friendly, and that they have indicated their willingness to subscribe to a "Minimal Expectations" list.
The sales representatives receive regular in-house training because there is a general lack of experienced people working in the filtration industry, so particular attention is given to improving the level of staff's knowledge of filtration and the company's products.
Filcon represents a number of well know international filter manufacturers and distributes their quality filtration products which are imported from USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Taiwan (ROC) and PR China.
Filcon believes that having custom made products in South Africa is very persuasive, because of the (small) size of the market here and the sheer range of filters that are available on the global market. It's impractical to hold stocks of them all. So if a customer requires a filter that is in any way non-standard, we can deliver sooner and cheaper than importing.
Custom manufacturing has been very successful, and the division has made a name for itself with some of its products particularly the DirtGobbla, a centrifugal separator that is currently unique in South Africa. Filcon is also known for its automatic purging strainers and back-washing strainers, as well as a popular range of in-line basket strainers.
Filcon Filters has a reputation for being able to solve complicated filtration problems. Management's philosophy is to position Filcon, not just as a seller of filtration products, but the provider of the clearest solutions.


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Evenfall: A Haunting Novel
by Diana Renn | Feb 17, 2011 | book review, Evenfall, Liz Michalski
I've been reading mostly YA fiction lately, but I do make occasional forays back into adult fiction. My latest great find is EVENFALL, by Liz Michalski.
This exquisite novel is told in three distinct and compelling voices. There's Andie, a 30-something young woman who has returned to her family's New England farmhouse to settle her uncle's estate and to flee an unhealthy relationship. There's Gert, Andie's headstrong aunt, who helped raise her. And Frank, Andie's uncle, the most fascinating and likeable ghost I've come across in fiction.
Yes, you've read that right: Frank's dead. But he hasn't exactly left the house. He's a quiet but impassioned presence, watching relationships unfold in the house. He's slowly gathering energy, in a variety of ways, to communicate with his loved ones and to reconcile with his past.
The past haunts all of these characters, and how they come to terms with their regrets — as well as how they chart a course for their future, and for the family farm — makes for a fascinating read. In particular, Andie is at an important crossroads in her life. She's just back from Italy, having finished a Ph.D. in art history, and she's nursing her wounds from an unhealthy relationship with a slick guy named Neal. But it's soon clear that the family farm will not provide her with a complete refuge from her problems. And there's plenty of room for complications when Cort — the boy she used to babysit — appears on the scene, all grown up.
The writing in this novel is as gorgeous as the cover. The 200-year-old farmhouse, the surrounding town of Hartman, CT, and the summer languor, are all so vividly described. Despite the paranormal element, this story reads more like a contemporary novel, with believable, sympathetic characters. All of them continue to haunt me now that I've come, with regrets, to the end.


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Libertas the new yacht of the Sichterman shipyard
Libertas combines revolutionary technological innovations with timeless design to offer 5-star luxury and pleasure, while being extremely efficient. The first Libertas has already been sold, and will be delivered to its owner in April 2020.
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The word that best describes Libertas is "versatile." The ship, in fact, is equipped with everything you need for a pleasant day at sea, whether you just want to take a walk or explore long stretches of coastline at high speed. It is also a perfect and reliable limousine tender that takes its owners to the port when they have anchored their super yacht off the coast and have a desire to set foot on land.
In 2018, Van Oossanen Naval Architects began developing a new series of fast yachts within the Sichterman fleet. Two versions of the yacht series have been developed: a limousine version, designed for small stretches in maximum comfort and a more autonomous version, with a sedan inside the hull.
The Libertas has a form of hull diverging from other Sichterman works. This hull is specifically designed for high-speed boats, while other Sichterman yachts emphasized on cruise comfort. The Libertas is the first Sichterman that uses this hull shape, but it can and will be implemented on larger Sichterman yachts in the future.
During construction, special attention was paid to the integration of the Volvo Penta IPS system in order to optimize speed, allow ease of handling and maximum maneuverability. With Van Oossanen's optimized hull lines, the Libertas is capable of reaching speeds of up to 40 knots with 2 IPS 950 engines installed, making it one of the lowest fuel-efficient boats to navigate international waters.
Another way in which the Libertas Sichterman stands out from the others, is for its autonomy. With an average speed, this 15-meter-long ship can carry its passengers for as much as 500 nautical miles. Which means you can sail from Monaco to Ibiza, or from Capri to Sardinia and vice versa, with only one full of fuel.
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UK tv drama (1968). British Broadcasting Corporation. Directed by Michael Elliott. Written by Nigel Kneale. Cast includes Brian Cox, George Murcell, Suzanne Neve, Martin Potter, Lesley Roach, Leonard Rossiter, Hira Talfrey, Vickery Turner and Tony Vogel. 103 minutes. Black and white (original colour print wiped by BBC).
Long thought lost or irretrievably mutilated, The Year of the Sex Olympics was released in 2020 by the British Film Institute in a remastered version of the original 16mm black and white telerecording. Sadly, although glitches have been cleaned up, there is no miracle of digital reclamation on view here; the "miracle" is to be able to see anything at all. As the 2020 notes from the BFI suggest, and viewer's memories from half a century ago seem to confirm, the original colour version of at least the first half of The Year of the Sex Olympics, which was shot indoors, was immensely superior to the residue now available; the second half, however, shot on location in the Isle of Man, might even be preferable as it now survives. But the first half now seems perspectively flattened out, with the actors' makeup uncannily foregrounded, and the shots of cosmetically half-undressed men and women leached into bodged background "naughtiness": blocking and cinematography in general seem to have been heavily dependent on a deliberately gouached and garish colour palette, in the absence of which what is left is ashen, cluttered, cramped. The BBC's 1968 decision to wipe the colour tape, in order to save money, seems deficient on all counts: mutilation of a unique work of art; partial erasure of the careers of Nigel Kneale, of Michael Elliott (1931-1984), of cast and crew; and – years after American Television series like I Love Lucy (1951-various iterations) had begun to generate substantial sums through reruns – train-wreck incompetence at asset management. It is understood that the black-and-white tape was accidentally not wiped: the BBC proving incompetent even at cultural-heritage erasure. What remains is a paraphrase of a sketch of a story intended to convey an indelible warning.
That indelible warning, consistent with late 1960s worries about masscult and Overpopulation, can be extracted from what remains. We begin in a possibly post-World War Three Dystopian Near Future UK, no date given, attempts at announcing the future being restricted to "futuristic" costumes, perspex shields, marshmallow-sized Food Pills, and an absurdly reduced vocabulary in anyone raised in the new world (reading is no longer part of schooling). The first half of the narrative, shot entirely on set, is mostly restricted to clocking behind-the-scenes turmoil behind the scenes of the daily live-action Sportsex programme produced by Output; it is one of several shows designed to reinforce "Apathy Control" over the almost entirely supine, "low-drive" UK population, whose fixation on moronically reiterated events like real Sex and pantomimic food fights is meant to keep them so inactive they will be disinclined to breed, thus saving the damaged planet from more vegetative creatures like themselves. The managers and presenters of Sportsex are themselves "high-drive" individuals, encouraged by an unseen government to have the occasional child to keep the race afloat, an Eugenics initiative strongly if vaguely evocative of the Cultural Engineering described by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932). But the hand of the government this time round is invisible.
Output site controller Nat Mender (Vogel) supervises his assistant operator Lasar Opie (Cox) from behind a Computer console as Nat's current lover, the hyperbolically bubbly but by no means airheaded Misch (Turner), emcees another daily Sportsex episode: several demurely framed exhibitions of competitive "real" sex in front of an audience of low-drives, whose apathy is constantly clocked. Mentoring all of this, Coordinator Ugo Priest (Rossiter), whose large vocabulary identifies him as a person raised before Brave New World began, attempts to convey through a series of shortish Infodumps some sense of perspective to Dan, so he can do his job better. "Before we got Apathy Control." Ugo says, "it was a real Maybe time." The answer to this threatened collapse of civilization, he continues, was
just to call a big halt. No more progress. It was done kindly. Not by lasering foetuses or chemical conditioning ... just by gentle discouragement, [leaving] a huge reservoir of genes, a huge genetic stockpile just waiting till it's safe to go on again: to give humanity a chance to survive.
Meanwhile Ned must consult with Deanie Webb (Neve), a former lover (forty-five partners back) and mother of their child Keten Webb (Roach), who has disastrously turned out to be low-drive. Deanie's own current lover, Kin Hodder (Potter), is a throwback, an artist compelled to make things: usually expressionist portraits of human beings in moral anguish, the very sight of which profoundly assaults viewers (see Basilisks), driving them into self-destructive hysteria: in great art you share the pain. At the same time, Ned and Ugo need to solve a new problem: their audiences have become too apathetic, a condition they could die from. Ugo and Nat try slapstick comedy, mounting a custard-pie Walpurgisnacht complete with Harpo Marx lookalike, which puts the low-drives into something like a coma. But then Kin, attempting to display his paintings in the middle of a Sportsex episode, falls off a ladder on camera to his death. The low-drive audience explodes in laughter. Ugo, realizing in a flash that the experience of genuine danger for others might solve his audience problem, comes up with the idea of reality tv.
Part two of The Year of the Sex Olympics begins. Ned and Deanie and Keten are chosen to star in Live Life Show. They will be put on an isolated Island, with only a bare minimum of resources, where they will live and maybe die on camera. They are landed on the island and the world of The Year of the Sex Olympics changes utterly. Their new home, the here unnamed Isle of Man, is photographed with something of the chiaroscuro-driven intensity of an Ingmar Bergman film like The Seventh Seal (1957), including a vision of dancing figures silhouetted against an empty sky. Ned and Deanie's initial incompetence is both comical and terrifying, and underlined by the poverty of Ned's cripplingly minuscule vocabulary, his description for instance of windows as "holes to look out" not being instantly useful. Young Keten is terrified by the noise of the world, the wind, the cold, the splashes of rain, a lit match: the world is "too big" for her. Her eventual death from an infected cut seems inevitable. Monitoring events remotely from Output-world, Lasar clocks that her death, and the parents' grief, arouses the low-life audience to laughter, as with Kin. This was the plan.
But nothing is left to chance. Even before Keten dies, a second couple has appeared, the bear-like Grels ( Murcell) and his seemingly mute partner Betty (Talfrey), who have lived on the other side of the island for years; contemporary viewers may be reminded of similar devices in Lost (2004-2010). Here their sudden appearance is part of Output's game-plan to raise the stakes. Grels is a "psycho" who had accidentally killed an earlier partner on camera twelve years earlier, and is now in exile; he is a wild man dressed in uncured furs, a wodewose. He tells the dying Keten a story about fish lost in a deep cavern under the mountain. Soon after he kills Betty, and then Deannie, who is heard screaming her last in pain and horror in the locked hut where Grels has trapped her. Ned batters the door down and finds her mutilated body. Ned then hacks Grels to death; the sight of his axe chopping away seemingly forever at the prone wodewose drives the low-drive audience into unstoppable gales of laughter. Monitoring all of this from the Output studio, Lasar and Misch can also be seen laughing boisterously, congratulating each other for having created a smash hit. In the background, Ugo's face breaks into contortions of remorse.
Like a relic excavated from a ruined factory, The Year of the Sex Olympics must today be not only seen but deciphered, not only because the print was mutilated. Unlike many films budgeted for theatre release, this television "episode" exposes radical faultlines in the execution of mise en scene (as noted), in the theatrically shouty script (Kneale was perhaps less skilled at conveying Satire-bearing infodump than his contemporaries seemed to realize), and in the acting. The eye-rolling Tony Vogel seems to think the best way to convey a restricted vocabulary is to pretend he is in a silent film (though in fact the very last thing a silent film ever does is try to speak); Brian Cox overstacks a repertory of moues intended to denote villainous smug giggly manipulative glee until it seems he is about to topple from his chair; even Leonard Rossiter is unable to resist the occasional pantomime grimace. Bunched together on one set, they seem to be delivering monologues in three different registers; the blame for this failure of ensemble must laid to the director. Oddly the women actors, Vickery Turner and Suzanne Neve, seem to have been left alone to render humans under stress; and seem entirely contemporary. The task for viewers half a century onwards is to pick out what Kneale had to say inside the shouting, to clock his prescience about the Media Landscape to come, and to give him a bye, it may be, for failing to ground his understandable premonitions in some sense or other of the cui bono within the bone that gives point to any significant vision of how the future might be shaped. It may seem minor, but the lack of any sponsors (see Advertising) for either Sportsex or the Live Life Show is a telling vacancy. No one, it seems, gains from the distressing world created in The Year of the Sex Olympics: there is no engine of exploitation behind the sadism of the Live Life Show, no sense that the world itself is being curated by a power behind the scenes. In the end The Year of the Sex Olympics leaves an impression that what has been presented is not so much an indictment from outside the walls as a skit from within them. [JC]
Review by Gary Couzens


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Electric Wizard: See You In Hell
November sounds very far away right now, especially if you count backwards until the release of the new album by the incredible Electric Wizard, which is going to be their ninth full length and is cunningly titled Wizard Bloody Wizard.
Not expected to be anything less of another monster, it can't be better described by anyone other than the band's own Jus Oborn: "Right away we knew this was it... the new direction we should go in. Real heavy music... really basic heavy rock, blues based but brutal. I think a lot of modern heavy music has disappeared up its own arse... it's too pretentious and technical. We wanted to get back to that primal sound... over-amplified blues, Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Zeppelin. They took that music and then turned it up. So we thought, 'Let's do the blues in our style. Heavy, heavy super fuckin' blues, total snail-paced funeral boogie for this 21st century hell. I guess it's meant to be hopeless but it's also defiant and unbroken."
Oborn does not feel shy about the upcoming record on his statements, and continues: "Y'know, a lot of bad shit has happened to us, but through it all was the music. We still dig loud heavy music and the album is not really depressed or angry, it's arrogant and rebellious. I still believe in rock and roll and I still believe in killing it on stage and mentally destroying an audience."
"We've been worn out by the modern scene - it's all about styles and genre. We just wanna make solid heavy music. No rules. We didn't set out to record a style or product. We set out to record what we wanted to hear. I want people to know it's ELECTRIC WIZARD from the first second, but also to know we are gonna take them on a trip. Heavy doesn't just mean tone and bottom end. I think people have become too obsessed by fx and boutique amps. It's more about playing style, attitude and song-writing... y'know, a lot of our songs have been interpreted as acoustic numbers by various people and they are still heavy and ominous sounding... you can't dilute true darkness."
"It's an anti-studio really. We wanted to put as little between the band and the tape as possible. We needed to take stuff away and use less equipment 'cos I think the raw sound of the band is killer. Studios have progressively made the recording situation more difficult and convoluted. I always think the best recordings are the simplest and most basic ones. So, yeah, we built the studio that we wanted: mics, mixing desk, tape machine, that's it. No bullshit."
"Sex and violence are our basest instincts," Jus continues, and wraps it up. "I guess we think that engaging the brain and guts on this most basic, primal level is the fastest way to grab people's emotions. It's 'shock' tactics, but the world is so fuckin' brainwashed or bored that they need to be 'woken up.' The 'man' is slowly neutering and killing us with technology and lies... it's time to fight back."
The first piece off the new record we get to here is a heavy blues burner titled See You In Hell, up only on Spotify for now.
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Why Michael Fassbender Tried To Get Out Of Playing Steve Jobs
By Mike Reyes
Despite the box office disaster that met its theatrical release, Steve Jobs was a film that deserved better. A good part of the reason why is the centerpiece performance that Michael Fassbender anchored the entire film with, giving his equally stellar cast-mates a lot to work with. Yet despite his excellent work in the Danny Boyle directed / Aaron Sorkin scripted film, it was a project that Fassbender was searching for a way out of. His reason is something we can all relate to, as he found the content of the script a bit intimidating.
During the TIFF Soiree that opened the Toronto International Film Festival, Fassbender was the subject of a Q&A conducted in his honor. Vulture was in attendance, and during the audience question portion of the event, the actor was put on the spot and asked about the toughest part he'd ever played. His answer, without a question, was playing the late founder of Apple, in a performance that saw him nominated for an Academy Award at this year's ceremony. The big reason for his trepidation was Aaron Sorkin's screenplay to Steve Jobs, as he recalled in the anecdote below:
It was so dense! It was such a mountain, and I'm a slow learner, so when the script arrived for me and the opportunity came to play the part, I really thought, 'This is not me. This should be somebody else. It's a miscast scenario.'
Fassbender's remarks take us back to the time when it looked like the role at the center of Steve Jobs wasn't going to forever vacant. Both Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio passed on the role, and for a part that was once considered a hot ticket, it looks like Sorkin's words may have turned it into a cold fish. With its story structure relying on three big sequences, and a fair majority of the dialogue and screen time going to Jobs himself, the project seemed like a beast to even the most experienced actor. Yet somehow, magic happened, and Michael Fassbender found himself at the center of a unique film-making experience.
With a film that turned out an end result like the one advertised above, Steve Jobs must have been an intense experience for all involved. And it sounds like no words could describe the situation more truthful, as Michael Fassbender further entertained the crowd with the story of how he really wanted out of playing Steve Jobs. Apparently, his desire to escape was so intense that Fassbender started to turn to dark humor as a coping mechanism. At least, that's the explanation that seems most reasonable after reading the following:
But in rehearsals I was trying to find a way to get out of the job. I remember telling my driver, 'If I put my arm in the door, you should slam it. It should cause a break and it should get me out of this gig.'
For all the doubts he has about portions of his career, Michael Fassbender still knows how to trump the odds and put in the work needed at the end of the day. While we're not encouraging the man to become an egomaniac of any shape or form, we here at Cinema Blend hope that Mr. Fassbender can relax a little bit about his work. If only to prevent any sort of meltdown that'd deprive himself and the world of his talented acting.
Michael Fassbender can currently be seen in The Light Between The Oceans, with his next role being in Assassin's Creed, which opens on December 21st.
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A trust is a legal obligation created by a person (the Settlor) who passes assets to the control of another person (the Trustee) for the benefit of a third person/s (the Beneficiary/ies).
They are less important today as a number of Trusts have been overturned nor do they provide the tax benefits as much as they used to. Assets held in a Trust are taxed at 33% unless they are paid out to a Beneficiary when the asset would be taxed at that individual's tax rate.
One of the biggest mistakes people can make is to ask a friend or family member who has no experience or knowledge of their obligations and liabilities as a trustee.
Another major mistake is not keeping proper records. Annual meetings need to be held. Resolutions must be minuted. The Trust must have a separate bank account. All of these factors could contribute to a Trust being deemed a Sham Trust consequently being invalidated so that ultimately there was never any protection for the assets belonging to the Settlor/s.
The major advantage is that a Trust is a Living Will and your wishes can carry on after your death. Wills can be contested but a robust Trust cannot.
In feudal England the King awarded land to knights returning from battle. The knights would establish their estates, only to face the danger of their lay-about sons squandering their inheritances. To prevent this, and to protect other family members, the family patriarchs would bequeath their lands to their fellow knights to hold in trust for the benefit of the family. Little has changed in the last 800 years.
The person setting up the Trust is called the Settlor. This is either the person with the assets that are being gifted to the Trust, a professional adviser or a close family friend. The Settlor can be one, two or more people who own the assets. The Settlor can have a range of duties which are described in the Trust Deed. In most trusts the Settlor is simply the person who sets up the Trust and then has no other important powers.
Trustees are effectively the policemen, or referees, of the Trust. They are responsible for ensuring that the instructions in the Trust Deed are correctly followed. The Trustees usually own the assets that have been transferred into the Trust. A Trustee effectively controls the administration of the Trust, hence, he or she has a degree of control over the original assets. Most Trusts have two or more Trustees.
There is a constant debate within the legal profession about the number of Trustees a trust should have. From a purely legal perspective, you could get away with having just one Trustee. We believe it is acceptable to have two Trustees to administer a simple Discretionary Trust. They would usually be the two individuals (partners) whose assets have been transferred into the Trust.
The beneficiaries are the individuals who will benefit from the Trust. They will normally do so entirely at the Trustees' discretion. No discretionary beneficiary can force the Trustees to make any payment to them. Trust are created in order to provide maximum flexibility to cater for changing circumstances. The Trust Dee usually lists a multitude of beneficiaries who may be current living individuals, or individuals yet to be born.
The Trustees have a duty to follow the wishes of the Settlor in the Memorandum off Wishes. This is not a legal document but a guide to new Trustees on how the assets should be managed, protected and distributed after your death. The Memorandum of Wishes records whom you would like to be appointed as a new Trustee if you become disabled or die.
Your Memorandum of Wishes should be regularly updated as your wishes and desires change. You do not need to have a lawyer to assist you to make changes to it and it doesn't have to be legally precise because it is only a guide to the trustees. It needs to be clear and easy to understand. Your Memorandum of Wishes is designed to give guidance to the well ad surviving Trustees of your Trust.
The Trust Deed is the set off rules by which the Trust is operated. It should reflect the wishes of those establishing the Trust and it should be worded so that it is easy to understand. The Trust Deed needs to be carefully drafted so that it will provide maximum flexibility and cater for any eventualities which may occur.
How will your Discretionary Family Trust work?
You establish a Family Trust and then open a Family Trust bank account. You will then decide which assets you want to transfer into the Trust. You may wish to place your house, rental properties, business/es and investment portfolios into the Trust.
The assets need to be valued. A Deed of Acknowledgement of Debt must be prepared which states which assets (and the value of them) have been transferred to the Trust. These assets would then be registered in the name of the Trust and you would have an interest free loan from yourself to the Trust. Once the debt has been forgiven the transferred assets will be protected from predators and creditors.
At any time Trustees of a Family Trust can distribute money to beneficiaries. You may be both a Trustee and a Beneficiary.
 Discuss your options with your accountant and/or lawyer.
 discuss your options with a professional and consider the benefits and disadvantages of owning property in your own name, a Look Through Company (LTC), or a Discretionary FamilyTrust.


Dr. McGraw-Senat received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She currently is an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy. Prior to joining PCOM School of Pharmacy, she served as an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University Physician Assistant Program, and University of the Sciences Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Dr. McGraw-Senat also earned a teaching certificate through University of the Sciences Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Dr. McGraw-Senat's practice and research interests include diabetes, hypertension, and high risk patient populations. Dr. McGraw-Senat is very passionate for academia and ambulatory care and she looks forward to obtaining her certification as a diabetes educator. Outside of teaching at PCOM, Dr. McGraw-Senat engages in medical mission trips, most recently to Panajachel, Guatemala with the organization Woodland Public Charity.


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Women mentioned in the Holy Quran
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"There is instruction in their stories for people of intelligence. This is not a narration that has been invented, but a confirmation of all that came before, a clarification of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for people who believe" (Surah Yusuf: 111).
We are constantly reminded of the pearls of wisdom found in the stories and examples of people found in the Quran; in this case, the narratives and stories of women. Our Holy book serves as a universal manual for moral guidance and historically relevant accounts. All the women mentioned in Quran Kareem are represented not only in the historical realm but also in light of certain lessons to be gained by humanity. Some are depicted as role models while others are condemned for their actions.
The approximate number of women to have been mentioned in the Holy Quran is twenty-four. In His book, Allah (SWT) talks about pious women who dedicated their lives to Allah (SWT) and submitted to Him wholeheartedly. So, people from every time and era can look upon them and learn from their exemplary characters. However, Allah (SWT) also means to warn His believers by mentioning those women who disobeyed Him, refused to believe, and suffered the consequences of their actions.
This article will seek to highlight six of the most prominent female characters in the Holy Quran and delve deeper into their characters and the roles they played. Their lives serve as timeless lessons for all of us, so let us take a closer look:
1) Hawaa (Eve)
In the Quran, Hawaa(RA) is not referred to by her name, but as the 'the spouse of Adam'. Being the first female that Allah (SWT) created, along with her husband, Prophet Adam(AS), the first man, were both sent to Paradise. Upon persuasion by satan, they ate from a certain tree bearing fruit, despite Allah's (SWT) forbiddance. They were then, taken out of Paradise and sent on earth, as punishment for their sin, for which they spent the rest of their lives repenting for. They continuously begged for Allah's (SWT) forgiveness as stated in the Quran:
"Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If Thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, surely we are of the lost!" (Surah A'raf: 23)
Amma Hawwa(RA) stands for human equality, in all respects. Her character also highlights the significance of repentance and gives hope to those who fall in sin and think they can never make amends. There is always hope for those who repent constantly and ask for Allah's (SWT) forgiveness, for He will surely listen.
2) Maryam - (Mary)
She is the only woman who has been mentioned in the the Holy Quran by her first given name. She stands for everything that is virtuous and pure and holds an esteemed position in Islam. Allah (SWT) named a whole surah after her in His Holy book, which is a magnificent honor in itself.
"And [mention] when the angels said: "O Mary, Indeed Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the worlds" (Surah Imran:42).
Maryam (AS) held an inherent link with Allah (SWT) ever since childhood. Upon her maturity, Maryam (AS) was visited by an angel who gave her glad tidings of being blessed with an offspring, even though she had never been touched by a man. She gave birth to our Prophet, Prophet Issa (AS) and died a few years after Prophet Isa's soul was lifted up by Allah(SWT). She has been exalted amongst all women in Islam for her chastity and purity, for she always stood strong and had undying faith in Allah (SWT).
3) Umm-e-Musa (The mother of Prophet Musa (AS))
She gave birth to Prophet Musa (AS) during the dangerous reign of the Pharaoh Rameses, who decreed the killing of all male Hebrew infants in the land. Prophet Musa's mother was addressed by Allah (SWT) through a 'wahi'(a direct message from Allah SWT)), where she was instructed to have faith in His plans and cast him in the river so Prophet Musa (AS) may live.
"Suckle him and, when thou fearest for him, then cast him into the river and fear not nor grieve. Lo! We shall bring him back unto thee and shall make him (one) of our messengers" ( Surah Qasas:7).
She did as instructed and Prophet Musa (AS) lived to become an apostle of Islam. Her actions give her an elevated status in our religion for her faith in Allah (SWT) was unshakable and she did as Allah (SWT) willed despite her motherly instincts.
4) Bilquis (Queen of Sheeba)
She was the queen of Sheeba and was given the name 'Bilquis' by the Arab Jews. She's described in the Quran as a powerful and wise sovereign of her people. She was invited by Prophet Sulemaan (AS) (the great king) to accept Islam. Despite her advisor's wishes, she saw truth and purity in Prophet Suleman's (AS) words and became convinced of the truth that is Islam.
"He said: 'Transform her throne out of all recognition by her: let us see whether she is guided (to the truth) or is one of those who receive no guidance.' So when she arrived, she was asked, 'Is this thy throne?' She said, 'It was just like this, and knowledge was bestowed on us in advance of this, and we have submitted to Allah (in Islam)" (Surah Naml: 41-42).
Amidst great paganism and disbelief, she converted to the ultimate faith of monotheism and the path of righteousness.
5) Wife of Prophet Lutt (AS) and Wife of Prophet Nuhh (AS)
In the Holy Quran, Allah (SWT) not only points out the believing women, but also those who purposely denied Him and suffered their abominable fates. What's interesting to note here is that both of these women were the wives of Prophets.
The wives of Prophet Lutt (AS) and Prophet Nuh (AS) refused to believe in the monotheistic faith of Islam, despite being blessed with Prophetic husbands, who were chosen by Allah(SWT) Himself and who received spiritual revelations and possessed great characters. Both of these women failed to see their righteousness and chose to betray them, and in turn, betrayed Allah (SWT). It's mentioned in the Quran:
"Allah has made an example for those who are an unbelieving people: the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our servants who were believers, but they betrayed them and were not helped at all against Allah. They were told: "Enter the Fire along with all who enter it." (Surah Tahrim: 10)
Despite having such good fortunes and such close relations with Allah's (SWT) prophets, they chose not to benefit from Allah's(SWT) infinite mercy and blessings. They incurred Allah's (SWT) wrath by their own actions and brought it upon themselves.
The wife of Prophet Lutt (AS) was wiped out along with the rest of the disbelievers in the land, and the wife of Prophet Nuhh (AS) drowned in the great flood. Such was the fate of the disbelievers.
It is important to note that Allah (SWT) refers to certain individuals in the Quran for a greater purpose of learning for His servants. These individuals illustrate different lessons and teachings for us to learn from and implement in our daily lives. If we wish to improve ourselves and bring change in our spiritual lifestyle, one needs to look upon the role models and tragic lessons of Islam; these women serve that purpose.
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This question has been a recurrent criticism among antagonists of religion. It has even stirred doubts in many believers who have been worn down by its relentless repetition, or who have simply lost h
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The effect of waste epoxy blending with iron oxide-polymer composite pellets on mechanical compressive strength (crushing strength), nature of crushed pellets and extent of reduction of iron oxide in iron oxide-polymer composite pellet has been investigated in the laboratory. The mechanical compressive strength (crushing strength) of self-reduced pellets modified with and without waste epoxy was determined using a universal mechanical test equipment INSTRON 3369 operating at load cell 50 KN and crosshead speed 2mm/min. Gas analysis of the offgas was conducted on thermal decomposition products at 1600 °C using a continuous infrared gas analyser, followed by reduction studies at 1200 and 1600 °C. It was observed that incorporating waste epoxy into the green pellets results in significant improvement in the crushing strength from around 0.2 kN to over 4.0 kN. Additionally, green pellets with waste epoxy did not suffer from catastrophic pulverisation that was observed for pellets without epoxy. Gas measurements by continuous infrared gas analyser revealed significant amounts of the gaseous reducing agents CO and CH4 and minor amounts of CO2 as the major gaseous products from thermal decomposition at 1600 °C. Finally, the presence of waste epoxy in the pellet resulted in significant improvement in the extent of reduction of Fe2O3 by raw palm nut shell (PNS) and charred palm nut shell (CPNS), with measured extent of reduction increasing from 43.6% to 92.7% and from 63.3% to 96.9% at 35% replacement of PNS and CPS, respectively.
Dankwah, J. R., Koshy, P., Saha-Chaudhury, N. M., O'Kane, P., Skidmore, C., Knights, D. and Sahajwalla, V. (2011), "Reduction of FeO in EAF Steelmaking Slag by Blends of Metallurgical Coke and Waste Plastics", ISIJ International, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 498-507.
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Politics of restriction in the Euro-Mediterranean area: Lampedusa and beyond.
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In line with the growing socio-economic and political significance of immigration, Europe has seen a wide range of policy measures aiming at either halting migrants from reaching Europe or deterring them from settling in their preferred countries of destination (Gibney 2004).
One of the implications of these policy efforts has been to turn the Mediterranean into a highly militarised zone. Yet the collapse of the political structures of several North African countries in the early 2011 was a huge blow for bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms. In particular, immigrant arrivals to Europe through Lampedusa, an Italian island and one of the closest points from the African mainland, triggered a range of public and political discussions.
It is important to reflect upon the symbolic power that immigration possesses in European domestic politics. The social construction of immigration as a threat have shaped the national and EU-level responses to the arrivals of immigrant and asylum-seekers in the western Mediterranean. Most public and political worries were about irregular migration, a major challenge to the very idea of state borders.
Italy concluded bilateral readmission agreements with the regimes in Tunisia (April in 2011) and Libya (June 2011). Unstable conditions in these countries led to some 43,000 arrivals from the region between mid-January and late-June 2011 (UNHCR 2011). Even still, the surge of arrivals to Lampedusa was not predicted. Yet, as the collapse of the political regimes in Tunisia and Libya clearly showed, in the absence of any authority enforcing the previously concluded bilateral agreements with Italy, new arrivals of immigrants and asylum claimants are likely to continue.
This situation has become an emergency for Italian politicians. Improvised 'camps' and 'installations' in Lampedusa lack the necessary capacity and facilities to keep migrants detained. There has been constant unrests inside these facilities and attempted escapes were common.
To tackle this situation the Italian government provided temporary residence permits for humanitarian reasons. But this reactive policy caused its own problems, as the humanitarian emergency in Lampedusa threatened domestic stability and security. Many blamed EU-level developments over the past decade (and there is some truth to this). As Geddes (2006: 166) has noted, security oriented approaches towards immigration at the EU-level pushed southern European countries to increasingly tighten external border controls.
Unsurprisingly, Italy's policy move led to discontent among EU Member States. The strongest reaction came from France, which halted train services from border regions and sent irregular immigrants back to Italy. The Franco-Italian disruption then reached new heights when Paris called for a reform of the Schengen Treaty (Nascimbene and Di Pascale 2011: 354).
Elusive solutions
Not much has changed since the events of 2011. The tragedy that happened in October 2013, when 366 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, once again put the Italian island on the front pages. In response, Italy set up a rescue operation programme under the name Mare Nostrum, 'our sea', aiming 'to control the flow of migrants who try to enter Europe by boat, and to assist vessels in distress' (Povoledo 2014). Yet, the program still calls for increased EU burden-sharing. The former interior minister of the Letta cabinet, Angelino Alfano, was among those who were most vocal. He demanded the EU to put its flag on Mare Nostrum and argued that Italy would otherwise 'let migrants with right of asylum leave for other countries' (O'Leary 2014). What (re)generates such an alarmist political discourse is the old Brussels' policy priority to secure European borders against further migration from the Mediterranean (Fargues and Fandrich 2012). While the official aims of policy frameworks such as the EMP (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) and the ENP (European Neighbourhood Policy) were to create an area of dialogue, peace, stability and prosperity in the Mediterranean, the on-going friction between the Italian government and its European partners remains.
Alas, without enhanced forms of cooperation, both the EU institutions and the member states seem unable to cope with the on-going Mediterranean crisis. Setting up an intra-EU relocation scheme based on a system of quotas, which would more equitably distribute refugees and asylum-seekers across 28 countries, would ease part of the pressure on Italy. Yet, in the absence of commonly shared policy priorities and clearly defined EU immigration policy agenda, it is not very likely for such a scheme to emerge soon and function efficiently. Furthermore, the fact that immigration is a highly politicised and incendiary topic across the EU makes managing migratory arrivals a difficult task for the policy-makers in Brussels. In order for real change to happen, European politicians should resist the temptation to criminalise and further politicise immigration. Instead, additional legal entry channels should be created through tighter collaboration among the member states. The core problem does not lie with irregular migration, but with dysfunctional immigration policies and alarmist rhetoric.
Fargues, Philippe, and Christine Fandrich. 2012. "Migration after the Arab Spring." Migration Policy Centre Research Report 2012/09. Fiesole: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, accessed 15 February 2015, http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/23504.
Geddes, Andrew. 2006. The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe. London: SAGE Publications.
Gibney, Matt. 2004. "Interpreting asylum, key questions for an improved regime." Tidsskifret Politik 7 (3): 56 – 57.
Nascimbene, Bruno and Alessia Di Pascale. "The 'Arab Spring' and the Extraordinary Influx of People who Arrived in Italy from North Africa." European Journal of Migration and Law 13 (2011): 341- 360.
O'Leary, Naomi. 2014. "Italy threatens to release refugees into EU unless help increases." Reuters, 13 May, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/13/us-italy-migrants-idUSBREA4C0FP20140513.
Povoledo, Elisabetta. 2014. "At Least 14 Die as Migrant Boat Headed for Italy Sinks off Libyan Coast." The New York Times, 12 May, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/world/europe/at-least-14-die-as-migrant-boat-headed-for-italy-sinks-off-libyan-coast.html?_r=0.
UNHCR, Update No. 30 – Humanitarian situation in Libya and the neighbouring countries, June 22, 2011, accessed August 10, 2011, http://www.unhcr.org/4e0201a09.html.
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Dr. Elif Cetin holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis is titled "Political Debates, Policy Objectives and Outcomes in British and Italian Immigration Politics, 1997-2010". Elif's research interests and experience include politicisation of immigration, UK and Italian immigration politics, political discourse formation, and development of immigration control policies in Europe. She has supervised and published on European politics, politics of immigration control in the UK and Italy, and populist right-wing parties.
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The Slow Rush was recorded between Los Angeles and Parker's studio in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia. The twelve tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by Parker. The Slow Rush is Parker's deep dive into the oceans of time, conjuring the feeling of a lifetime in a lightning bolt, of major milestones whizzing by while you're looking at your phone, it's a paean to creation and destruction and the unending cycle of life. Parker told the New York Times earlier this year, "A lot of the songs carry this idea of time passing, of seeing your life flash before your eyes, being able to see clearly your life from this point onwards. I'm being swept by this notion of time passing. There's something really intoxicating about it." The album cover was created in collaboration with photographer Neil Krug and features a symbol of humanity all but swallowed whole by the surrounding environment, as though in the blink of an eye.


After a two-and-a-half-year wait and two heart-breaking delays, Tom Clancy's The Division was finally released on PS4, XBox One and PC on 8th March. One of the most anticipated games of the year also happens to be one of the most incredible looking games of all time. But how did they do it?
Seriously. We've seen some lovely graphics recently, like Star Wars Battlefront and the Uncharted 4 trailer. But now The Division has arrived, any lingering doubts about PS4 and XBO's potential for new gaming experiences should finally be laid to rest.
The Division recreates New York City – or at least, a fictional, disaster-hit version of it – with jaw-dropping realism. Burning buildings are engulfed in flames. Snow drifts in the wind. And perhaps best of all, human faces are brilliantly modelled. Yes, we may have finally left the Uncanny Valley.
So how did Ubisoft do it? With the help of the help of its new studio Massive and their incredible game engine, Snowdrop. We saw the Snowdrop Engine in action, at the Game Developer Conference 2014 and The Division really does get the most out of it.
Pretty impressive stuff eh? No wonder Ubisoft was so keen to acquire Massive Entertainment, the Swedish studio that created Snowdrop and developed The Division, back in 2008. The studio is now known as Ubisoft Massive.
"We wanted our game to be extremely detailed even though we were creating a larger game world.
He makes it sound so easy, doesn't he?
How does Snowdrop make a game look better, exactly?
The Ubisoft blog shared these interesting comments from Massive which gives us some indication as to what sets Snowdrop apart from the rest.
It's also a "fun" game engine.
Now the engine has proved its worth, can we all look forward to more incredible-looking PS4, Xbox One and PC games built with Snowdrop?
So, do you fancy a new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia or even a Just Dance with visuals as lovely as The Division? It might just happen soon!


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"Stop the shutdown!" protesters shouted in the bitter cold at the union-organized demonstration that started at the AFL-CIO headquarters and ended in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where they hoisted signs reading "Trump: End the Shutdown" and "Not a strike – we want to work."
Some 800,000 federal government employees have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown brought on by a standoff between Trump and Democrats in Congress over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico.
"It's just clear that this administration doesn't understand normal people and real life or they wouldn't do this," Suriano said.
"It could go on another day, and it could go on more weeks. It could go on for months," Crichton said. "It's really a shame that I'm ready to go to work. I'm able to go to work and I can't."
Smaller protests across the country – from Palm Beach, Florida, to New York City – had similar demands. In Ogden, Utah, dozens of out-of-work federal employees gathered to urge an end to the shutdown, some holding signs reading "I am TSA. I am furloughed. I am not a pawn. I'm a voter" and "800,000 unemployed. Hurts our family and our economy."
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The small SUV is at the end of the lifecycle road but still represents one of the better buys in the class. Here are five things that stand out.
An updated Qashqai is due before year's end, which is why the N-Sport exists. This run-out model pumps up the entry level ST model with $1800 of extra goodies, from 18-inch alloys (up from 17s) to "Ice chrome" highlights on the front and rear, door sills and the boot finisher. The drive-away price is $1000 more than the ST two-wheel drive at $26,990 on the road. As such it is reasonable value, though rivals, from Mazda's CX-3 to the Mitsubishi ASX are also doing deals. The Qashqai's trump card is it is a slightly larger vehicle than most in the compact SUV class.
The default gear on the N-Sport includes a reversing camera in lieu of front and rear parking sensors, single-zone aircon, cloth, manually adjusted front seats, front and rear mudflaps, pearl or black paintwork (everything else costs $510 more), four tie-down points in the spacious 430L boot and a not-great five-inch infotainment screen. Bluetooth streaming is standard but there's no provision for smartphone mirroring and family buyers need to remember there are no rear air vents on the N-Sport.
The Qashqai's distinctive upswept rear windows has real visual impact and contributes to the cute looks but also lead to huge blind spots when head-checking before changing lanes, a classic example of form over function. Beyond that, forward vision is OK and the room in the rear is good enough for a couple of adults to happily occupy. The raised centre of the rear seat doesn't lend itself to three in the back for anything but a short time, not unusual for cars in this class.
You can't have an all-wheel drive N-Sport but most people won't need all-paw grip in town. The combination of the 2.0-litre four-cylinder (106kW/200Nm) and a continuously variable transmission is good for city work, without being the most responsive in the class. A multi-link rear end endows the Qashqai with better than average manners over patchy surfaces and there's little jostling for those in the back. It's not going to excite but it won't disappoint buyers wanting to get from point A to B with minimum fuss.
A high five-star ANCAP rating reflects the structural integrity of the Qashqai. It achieved 36.56 out of a possible 37 and has six airbags to protect passengers. Active safety features are notably absent, though moving object detection, lane departure and blind spot monitoring can be found on the top-spec Ti variant. Likewise, the N-Sport doesn't have parking assist.