Experts in traditional Chinese medicine are warning patients to avoid unlicensed acupuncture practitioners after an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion.
Baton Rouge, LA-When investigators climbed from out of the smoldering debris that was the home of Hank Thomas, the looks on their faces told the gathering crowd what these hardened veterans of the Baton Rouge Fire Department couldn't put into words. Thomas, a yoga instructor and avid fisherman who had lived in Baton Rouge his entire life, had exploded. And as the grisly details slowly emerge, people are asking questions about what might be to blame and how they can prevent being the next Baton Rougian to erupt into a massive fireball of body parts and Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning.
Some local medical professionals have proposed a controversial theory. Based on reports that Thomas has undergone acupuncture treatments for sciatica several times in the weeks preceding his untimely fulmination, a group of local experts are speaking out. They are warning the community to beware of discount acupuncture clinics.
Acupuncture, a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine developed sometime in the past 5,000 years, involves the insertion of small needles into specific points on the body in order to improve the flow of life energy or Qi. These points are found along meridians, major pathways in the body through which our life energy courses that are different from blood vessels, nerves and lymphatics in that Western science has been unable to locate them during anatomical investigation or with modern imaging techniques. When Qi is obstructed, it becomes stagnant and illness develops. Properly placed needles relieve this obstruction and improve our health in a number of ways. Needles placed haphazardly can, according to Zhu, lead to further obstruction, a worsening of one's health, and perhaps even a fiery death.
Zhu also expressed concern for subjects of clinical trials testing the effectiveness of acupuncture. "I worry that study participants exposed to phony acupuncture may be at risk for continued imbalances or worse." In addition to raising awareness of the dangers of improperly performed acupuncture, the Know Your Needler! campaign is also calling for the immediate end of all placebo-controlled trials that incorporate sham acupuncture.
Okay, I made this up. It's clearly satire, but if you were fooled please follow this link and start reading. It may be a joke but this phony news piece does have a point, and it wasn't just to poke some fun at acupuncture adherents and their claims, or science reporting these days. I did enjoy doing that tremendously, however.
To my knowledge, there has yet to be discovered a medical treatment that works by altering the structure or physiology of the body that is completely risk free. Whether pharmaceutical or "natural", Eastern or Western, homeopathic or allopathic, if there is both a specific and measurable therapeutic benefit there is always the potential for negative side effects. Sure, the range of side effects vary from the extremely mild and annoying to deadly, but they are always there.
Some legitimate therapies are extremely safe when used or dosed appropriately but as the old saying goes, the poison is often in the dose. Even dihydrogen oxide is dangerous when a large enough amount is ingested, leading to water intoxication, hyponatremia, seizures and eventually death. But most interventions will carry varying degrees of risk at recommended doses as well as when overdone. Even minor surgical procedures, such as the simple incision and drainage of a small abscess that can be performed in most physicians' offices, can lead to unanticipated complications. Again the risk can be quite small, or even negligible, and the benefits almost always outweigh these risks, but there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world of medicine.
Many of the proposed health benefits of alternative medical therapies, an arbitrary and often nonsensical collection of treatments and approaches to health care, are decidedly non-specific. They rely on subjective placebo effects elicited by bias and altered perception without measurable objective improvement. Claims of benefits related to their use tend to involve such nebulous entities as boosting of the immune system (but never which component), reducing stress, improving mood, vague references to organ health (splenic fatigue?) and the enhancement of male.
Claims of this type, of which there are a seemingly endless supply, are very effective at what they were designed to do. Thanks in large part to comical governmental regulation, the also seemingly endless supply of people willing to be separated from their money are enticed by statements which are never subjected to the nuisance of providing supporting evidence outside of the occasional testimonial. Acupuncture in particular thrives on placebo effects and vague claims, and does not deserve its place at the top of the heap in regards to public and physician perception of legitimacy.
Unfortunately it doesn't stop there. When proponents of irregular medicine make specific claims, such as ginkgo biloba preventing the onset of dementia in the elderly, or chiropractic adjustments being effective in treating asthma, the results of the few properly designed studies range from equivocal to negative. Despite the reality that thus far no alternative therapy has been shown to be effective for any specific condition, practitioners of even the most ludicrous of modalities forge ahead unfazed.
So if acupuncture has a specific effect on the physiology of the body, by altering the release of neurotransmitters or increasing the secretion of endogenous hormones, or whatever proposed biological mechanism you prefer, and it is capable of impacting specific diseases, then there must be the potential for unwanted side effects. And I don't mean just the obvious infectious issues associated with the use of unclean needles/hands or the potential for traumatic injury when needles are shoved through the linings of the heart or lungs. And, of course, I also don't truly believe that there must be catastrophic side effects equivalent to spontaneously bursting into flames.
If acupuncture works for the host of conditions its proponents claim it to, conditions as disparate as Parkinson's disease and polycystic ovarian disease, then there has to be a downside. Whatever alterations in the physiology of the body to improve fertility, relieve migraines and lower cholesterol, they can't be risk free. I take the extreme difficulty in finding discussion of any such acupuncture side effects by proponents as evidence for the lack of any effect at all. To me, the absurdity of such an extreme side effect as exploding due to pent up Qi is equally matched by the ridiculous claim that shoving tiny needles into a patient's skin results in an effect beyond that of placebo.


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Polly Alexandra Walker, dite Polly Walker, est une actrice et danseuse anglaise, née le  à Warrington dans le Cheshire (Royaume-Uni).

Débuts
Polly Walker commence ses études à Londres, à la Silverdale Preparatory School. À 16 ans, diplômée de la Ballet Rambert School à Twickenham, elle entame une carrière de danseuse mais doit changer de voie à 18 ans, à cause d'une blessure à la jambe. Elle décide alors de devenir actrice. Elle passe du Drama Centre de Londres à la Royal Shakespeare Company, où elle interprète de petits rôles, avant de faire ses débuts à la télévision.

Rôles au cinéma et à la télévision
Polly Walker obtient le rôle-titre de la série télévisée Lorna Doone en 1990. Elle y côtoie deux jeunes acteurs promis à un bel avenir : Sean Bean et Clive Owen. Elle débute au cinéma dans Kabuto en 1991. La même année, elle apparaît dans un film français : Les équilibristes. En 1992, elle tourne dans Avril enchanté (Enchanted April) de Mike Newell. Mais c'est son rôle dans Jeux de guerre (Patriot Games) de Phillip Noyce qui lui vaut une certaine notoriété internationale. Elle y joue Annette, une Anglaise membre d'un groupe terroriste irlandais. Elle retrouve Noyce en 1993 pour Sliver.

Par la suite, elle est au générique d'autres films avec de prestigieux partenaires, parmi lesquels Le Don du roi en 1995 avec Hugh Grant, Meg Ryan et Robert Downey Jr., Emma, l'entremetteuse avec Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi mais aussi Toni Collette et Ewan McGregor qu'elle retrouve en 1999 dans 8 femmes ½ de Peter Greenaway. Entretemps, elle partage l'affiche des films Robinson Crusoe avec Pierce Brosnan en 1997, Pour l'amour de Roseanna avec Jean Reno la même année. Enfin, l'actrice est, en 1998, l'héroïne de Talk of Angels aux côtés de Vincent Pérez, Marisa Paredes, Frances McDormand et Penélope Cruz.

À partir des années 2000, elle tourne surtout pour la télévision. En 2003, elle tient un des rôles principaux de la série de la BBC, Jeux de pouvoir (State of play). Entre 2005 et 2007, elle est Atia, la nièce de Jules César et la maîtresse de Marc Antoine, dans les deux saisons de la série Rome. Son interprétation lui vaut une nomination aux Golden Globes 2005 comme meilleure actrice dans une série télévisée dramatique. Elle joue ensuite la sinistre Catherine Braithwaite dans Principe inaliénable (Deus Ex-Machina), une histoire en deux épisodes de la série policière de la BBC, Meurtres en sommeil (Waking the Dead) (2007). La même année, elle interprète Lady Bess Sedgwick dans un épisode de Miss Marple, À l'Hôtel Bertram (At Bertram's Hotel), puis l'héritière Ellis Samuels dans la série télévisée Cane. En 2009-2010, Polly Walker est Sœur Clarice Willow, la directrice d'une école privée religieuse dans la série de science-fiction Caprica.

Elle n'abandonne toutefois pas totalement le cinéma puisqu'elle est à l'affiche, en 2010 et 2012, des blockbusters Le Choc des titans et John Carter.

Polly Walker participe ensuite à dix épisodes de la série de ITV Mr Selfridge dans le rôle de Delphine Day. On la retrouve ensuite au générique des saisons 3 et 5 de la série britannique Line of Duty.

En 2019, la comédienne intègre le casting récurrent de la série Pennyworth et, en 2020, s'y ajoute celui du succès La Chronique des Bridgerton.

Vie privée
Polly Walker a deux sœurs et un frère. Elle est mariée depuis le  à l'acteur anglais Laurence Penry-Jones. Elle a deux enfants nés de deux précédentes unions, Giorgio (né en 1993) et Delilah (née en 2000).

Filmographie
 1989 : Leçons sur le mariage (Rules of Engagement) (téléfilm) : Fiona (saison 1, épisodes 1 et 2)
 1990 : La Maison du péril (Peril at End House) (téléfilm tiré de la série télévisée Hercule Poirot) : Nick Buckley
 1990 : A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (téléfilm) :  Dumont
 1990 : Lorna Doone (téléfilm) : Lorna Doone
 1990 : The Kremlin, Farewell (téléfilm) : Nadja
 1991 : L'Amour extrême (Ao Fim da Noite)
 1991 : Les équilibristes : Hélène Lagache
 1992 : Kabuto : Cecilia
 1992 : Avril enchanté (Enchanted April) : Caroline Dester
 1992 : Jeux de guerre (Patriot Games) : Annette
 1993 :  : Leni
 1993 : Sliver : Vida Warren
 1995 : Le Don du roi (Restoration) : Celia Clemence
 1996 : Emma, l'entremetteuse (Emma) : Jane Fairfax
 1997 : Pour l'amour de Roseanna (Roseanna's Grave) : Cecilia
 1997 : Robinson Crusoe : Mary McGregor
 1997 : Le Joueur (The Gambler) : Polina
 1997 : The Woodlanders :  Charmond
 1997 : Brute (Bandyta) : Mara
 1998 : Talk of Angels : Mary Lavelle
 1998 : Dark Harbor : Alexis Chandler Weinberg
 1999 : 8 femmes ½ (8 ½ Women) : Palmira
 1999 : Curtain Call : Julia
 2000 : Qui a tué Alice ? / L'Œil du tueur (After Alice) (téléfilm) : Docteur Vera Swann
 2002 : Compte à rebours mortel (D-Tox) : Jenny
 2002 : Moïse : L'Affaire Roch Thériault (Savage Messiah) : Paula Jackson
 2002 : Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (téléfilm) :  Archer
 2003 : The Mayor of Casterbridge (téléfilm) : Lucetta Templeman
 2003 : Jeux de pouvoir (State of Play) (téléfilm) : Anne Collins
 2004 : Control : Barbara
 2005-2007 : Rome (série télévisée) : Atia Julii
 2006 : Amour et Conséquences (Scenes of a Sexual Nature) d'Ed Blum : Esther
 2007 : Meurtres en sommeil (Walking the Dead) (téléfilm) : Catherine Braithwaite (saison 6, épisodes 3 et 4, Principe inaliénable (Deus Ex-Machina))
 2007 : Miss Marple (téléfilm) : Bess Sedgwick (saison 3, épisode 1, À l'hôtel Bertram (At Bertram's Hotel))
 2007 : Cane (série télévisée) : Ellis Samuels
 2009 : Caprica (série télévisée) : Sœur Clarice Willow
 2010 : Le Choc des titans (Clash of the Titans) : Cassiopée
 2011 : Sanctuary (téléfilm) : Rana (saison 3, épisodes 10 et 11)
 2011 : Psych : Enquêteur malgré lui (Psych) : Randa (saison 6, épisode 1)
 2012 : John Carter : Sarkoja
 2012-2013 : Prisoners' Wives : Francesca
 2013 : Mentalist : directrice régionale du FBI Alexa Schultz
 2013 : Mr Selfridge : Delphine Day
 2013 : Warehouse 13 (série télévisée) : Charlotte Dupres (saison 4 : 4 épisodes)
 2016 : Paranoid : Monica Wayfield (5 épisodes)
 2016 : Line of Duty (série télévisée) : Gill Biggeloe (saisons 3 et 5)
 2018 : Age Before Beauty : Bel
 Depuis 2019 : Pennyworth : Peggy Sykes
 2020 : Cursed : la rebelle : Lady Lunete
 Depuis 2020 : La Chronique des Bridgerton : Lady Portia Featherington

Voix françaises
Parmi les nombreuses comédiennes qui ont doublé Polly Walker, Juliette Degenne est celle qui lui a le plus souvent prêté sa voix, notamment pour les films John Carter et les séries Rome, Cane, Caprica, Mr Selfridge, Pennyworth, Cursed : la rebelle et La Chronique des Bridgerton.

Côté cinéma, elle fut doublée par Isabelle Ganz dans les films Jeux de guerre et Le Choc des titans, Emmanuelle Bondeville dans Le Don du roi, Catherine Le Hénan dans Compte à rebours mortel et Françoise Cadol dans Control.

Côté télévision, Marie-Laure Dougnac l'a doublée pour la série Jeux de pouvoir, Brigitte Aubry pour la série Paranoid et Nathalie Bienaimé pour la série Line of Duty

Notes et références

Liens externes

Actrice anglaise de cinéma
Actrice anglaise de télévision
Naissance à Warrington
Naissance en mai 1966

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Bitcoin is now up as wild price swings continue in the crypto market
Cryptocurrency were down as much as 18% in early trade in London — but are rising on Tuesday afternoon
Bitcoin fell below $6,000 but is now back above $7,000.
LONDON — Bitcoin is back above $7,000 on Tuesday afternoon, after wild price swings saw it briefly drop below $6,000 earlier in the session.
Bitcoin briefly fell below $6,000 at around 8.00 a.m. GMT (3.00 a.m. ET) for the first time since mid-November.
Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM, said on Tuesday morning: "The most famous digital currency has fallen 69% from December's record high, and almost 56% from the start of the year."
Ethereum, litecoin, bitcoin cash, and ripple also posted double-digit percentage losses early on Tuesday morning. Ethereum was down 18% at one stage.
But cryptos made up ground lunchtime in Europe and now, with the US awake, major cryptocurrencies are now positive.
Here's the scoreboard at 1.55 p.m. GMT (8.55 a.m. ET):
Bitcoin is up 3% to $7,140.74.
Ethereum is up 3.9% to $717.91.
Litecoin is down 3.3% to $128.66.
Bitcoin Cash is up 0.8% to $889.09.
Ripple is up 3.3% to $0.69.
Despite making up ground, bitcoin is still down around 35% over the last 7 days. From a peak of $830 billion at the start of January, the global cryptocurrency market has now shrunk to $330 billion, according to data provider CoinMarketCap.com.
Tuesday's wild session follows carnage in the crypto market on Friday and a market slump in early January.
The latest dive comes in tandem with a global stock market rout but that appears to be uncorrelated with the crypto crash.
Commentators have been blaming fears of regulation, cooling interest from Asia, and fears over the role cryptocurrency Tether plays in the bitcoin market. Banks are also clamping down on customers buying cryptocurrencies on their credit cards.
Miles Eakers, chief market analyst at foreign exchange business Centtrip, said in an email on Monday night: "Governments across the globe continue to clamp down on retail investors speculating on cryptocurrencies, with the People's Bank of China stating it would step up measures to remove any onshore or offshore platforms related to virtual currency trading or ICOs, 'to prevent financial risks'."
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Blackburn property king's empire goes under - owing £27million
By Peter Magill @peter_magill Audience & Content Editor
LARGE parts of a property magnate's empire have crumbled into dust - with more than £27million owed to creditors.
Blackburn-based Stewart Day, and his Mederco development arm, had major student property schemes in progress up and down the country.
And the former Bury FC chairman had also secured a lucrative deal to sell off more than 250 parking spaces at the League Two club's Gigg Lane ground.
But administrators for several of his companies, all based out of a small rented offices in Cunningham Court, on Shadsworth Business Park, have spelled out the debts each of his ambitious schemes have incurred in recent years.
Dozens of investors, ranging from corporate lenders to people who have paid out deposits on student accommodation, look set to lose out, under terms proposed by two sets of different insolvency experts.
Manchester-based Leonard Curtis has been drafted in to deal with the winding-up of Mederco Ltd, which has interests in parking spaces at Appleton Point, in Bradford, and Bury FC.
Earlier this year residents at Appleton Point were forced to move out after West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service refused to grant a fire safety certificate for the building, which was originally developed by Mederco.
Joint administrator Phil Deyes, in a report, said Mederco had sold their interest in the 160 flats there to Appleton Point Management Ltd, in May 2015, for £850,000.
But the firm retained the parking provisions there and had sold off 34 of the 40 parking spaces, for under-leases of £9,995 each.
Another Mederco scheme, for student housing at Great Moor Street, in Bolton, also collapsed, according to Mr Deyes, when the funder, a company called Collateral, went bust. This left Mederco owing builders Tamworth-based Quantum Construction £1.96million.
READ > Two more companies owned by Blackburn property king to be wound up
Mr Deyes also said that for the Bury FC parking scheme, the firm had pledged to provide a nine per cent return for investors, with the transaction currently £190,000 in arrears.
Last December Mr Day stepped down as Bury chairman, a position he had held since May 2013, a period which saw a number of financial problems for The Shakers.
An estimated £3.95milllion is owed to unsecured creditors by Mederco, including Quantum.
Further investigations are also being made regarding any inter-company loans and debts between the various Mederco outfits and Bury FC, Mr Deyes also confirmed.
Duff and Phelps, another Manchester administrators, has been handling the affairs of three related Day outfits, Mederco Cardiff, Mederco Glasgow and Mederco Richmond Road.
For Mederco Cardiff planning permission was secured, after a long battle, for 350 studio flats with a community centre and boxing club, on land to the north of the city, situated between two university campuses.
Joint administrator Philip Duffy said that further delays in the planning process had resulted in construction work still not commencing by January 2019, following which the scheme's backers pulled the plug, prompting the Cardiff company to go under.
More than 100 investors had placed deposits of between 25 and 75 per cent for the studio flats. The total amount owed to unsecured creditors is £9.26million. Another £6.46million is owed to the secured creditor Saving Stream Security, a division of Lendy Ltd.
Mr Duffy said: "The joint administrators are now reviewing the financial position of the company and liaising with the selling agents to devise a strategy that will maximise any return to creditors, including the sale of the property."
In the case of Mederco Glasgow, land close to the city's High Court was identified and planning permission secured in late 2016 for 169 apartments, with a residents' gym, cafe and laundry.
Mr Duffy and his colleague Steven Muncaster were appointed as joint administrators and found that the Glasgow company had become insolvent after considerable sums were left owing to a secured creditor, again part of Lendy Ltd, before construction had even begun.
An estimated £4.5million was owed, set against the property's value, of around £3.26million.
Mederco Richmond Road was based around a site which formed part of the Bradford Learning Quarter and planning consent was gained in 2011 and modified in 2014.
Mr Duffy said in a further report that, again, this company had become insolvent before construction had started, with Lendy Ltd owed £2.9million, against potential assets of £1.2million.
Mr Day, 38, who has a previous registered address in Blundellsands, on Merseyside, still has interests in Mederco BFC, which is listed as continuing to trade.


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Washington County water district starts conservation campaign, calls it 'Clock On!'
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September marks the start of what water managers in Washington County consider to be the fall watering season, and the county's water conservation district is proposing a conservation campaign called "Clock On!" to encourage residents to take a simple step to cut back and save water.
"Washington County can save more than 400 million gallons a month if homeowners irrigate one day less a week," said Zach Renstrom, general manager of the Washington County Water Conservancy District, in a written statement. "That's a remarkable amount of water."
The rock-themed "Clock On!" campaign calls on residents who are watering lawns or other landscaping to cut back on watering by at least one day, which could save on average about 1,500 gallons of water per household, according to a release announcing the campaign.
More than 50% of local culinary water is used on landscapes, according to the district.


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I have had great fortune to cross paths with another humble, hard-working individual, Larsen Thompson. We met through the dance community and she has now also made the cross over to major modeling with Next Management.
Larsen brought something extra special to our shoot — a t-shirt from Shaun Ross, her mentor, representing his #InMySkinIWin campaign. It encompasses a beautiful message that I feel everyone can use in their lives — raising others' spirits by raising your own sense of self-worth.
Ambrose, of course, did an amazing job pulling this look together and Larsen really is such a natural, but hard-working talent. One of our inspiration photos was an idea from Taylor Swift's "Style" music video, that brought together a bunch of trending photography styles into movement. This was absolutely the right moment to use the idea.
Are you currently involved in any social or environmental movements? If so, what are they? I love to hear more of what's out there.


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Sam Smith and Fifth Harmony Team Up for Epic Carpool Karaoke
This is incredible...
Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 10:41
Sam Smith is known for many things. His incredible collaborations with artists such as Naughty Boy and Disclosure, his moving ballads like 'Stay With Me' and 'Too Good at Goodbyes', the heartbreak that inspires all of his music. However, there's more.
The 'Like I Can' singer is a huge fan of Fifth Harmony and they just joined him on Carpool Karaoke.
YES. YOU HEARD US CORRECTLY. SAM SMITH IS A FULLY FLEDGED HARMONIZER TOO!
The 'Money on My Mind' hitmaker starred in his very own Carpool Karaoke with James Corden last night and, not only did he use the opportunity to perform some superb renditions of his many hits but he also revealed that he adores Fifth Harmony.
And, ever one to pair our faves together, James pulled over to invite Fifth Harmony into the car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2FHKVzGhgA
James mentions Fifth Harmony and Sam suddenly erupts into a speech about his love for them. "When I hear them I feel free, I feel alive" he declares before adding "'Work from Home' I listen to every night before I go out. I think it's my wedding song."
Amazing. Luckily, within minutes, all four members of Fifth Harmony joined Sam and James.
The sixth of them then launch into an incredible note-perfect rendition of 'Work from Home'.
If you could take our pulses right now, they would feel just like a sledgehammer.
Seriously we think that we're more excited about the whole ordeal than Sam.
Fingers crossed that this results in an official collaboration between them.
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In this captivating travelogue, Tim Keesee leads readers to experience global Christianity, exploring the faith and lives of Christians living in some of the world's most perilous countries. The incredible accounts – stories that span the globe from China to Afghanistan – highlight the bold faith and sacrificial bravery of God's people. Ultimately, this book magnifies Christ's saving work in all the earth and encourages Christians to joyfully embrace their role in the Gospel's unstoppable advance.
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Twenty two years this day Massawa had witnessed a milestone in the history of Eritrea. Signal of the total independence of Eritrea and the doom of the era of colonizers. Fenkil Operation! Fenkil Operation, one of the big offensives carried out by the gallant EPLF fighters to root out colonialism and put independent Eritrea in its right place in the world map and restore the dignity of the Eritrean people as free and independent people was meticulously executed from 8to 10 February 1990.
Some decades back when I was flipping onto the pages of an old magazine I was impressed by the writer's poetic skills in portraying Massawa. Ever since, the verses remained indelibly stamped in my mind and I keep on reciting them.
Free zone integration and expansion will bring benefits for the country and investors.
EXITING developments are taking place in Eritrea's free zones, which will make a huge impact on trade and productive output in the country. Like all free zones, businesses based within the Massawa Free zones Authority and the Massawa Port Authority benefit from excellent conditions and incentives.
Eritrea's Strategic Location along the Red Sea provides ideal exposure to one of the world's busiest shipping lines and established linkages to other areas of the region and beyond. The port of Massawa is a transit point for goods to the Middle East, European and Asian Markets. The development of the port is poised to bring about potential gains to trade. The establishment of a Free Port Zone at Massawa is further expected to boost trade prospects within the already established Middle Eastern and African Markets.
Following a series of successful conferences held in recent months in the six administrative regions that ended at Asmara Palace during 5-6 December 2011, one would ponder as to what will be the way forward to boost the Eritrean Tourism Industry.
The Bush administration in its eight years in power has ruined our economy and the American credibility around the world by declaring unwarranted war. Obama promising "CHANGE" was elected as president and had not made any significant changes neither to help the economic recovery nor to regain America's good name and its world leadership. Americas economic and political might have come to be questioned. Our leaders have succumbed to "special interest" groups and gone to war for highly questionable reasons.
The nature of the major international media out lets does not allow them to cover news as they happen. They should analyze in such a way they please the special interest groups that control the wheel of the administration. In such a situation no one should expect to have the genuine and unbiased information on the events taking place around the world.
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Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Considering the number of writers who've tried, and generally failed, to do plummy Bridget Jones one better, it only makes sense that Fielding should take a vacation from the genre she spawned and seek greener pastures. Her new inspiration? Think Ian Fleming. Fielding's ridiculous, delicious, wildly improbable plot goes something like this: freelance journalist Olivia Joules ("as in the unit of kinetic energy"), formerly Rachel Pixley (her whole family got run over when she was 14), gets bumped from the Sunday Times's international coverage down to the style pages thanks to the titular imagination (e.g., a story about a "cloud of giant, fanged locusts pancaking down on Ethiopia"). In between ducking twittering PR reps and airheaded blondes at a Miami face cream launch party, she uncovers what looks like an al-Qaeda plot, headed by a dreamy Osama bin Laden look-alike, who is either a terrorist, an international playboy, a serial killer or all of the above. Languid, mysterious Pierre Feramo returns Olivia's interest, and thus begins an around-the-world adventure that has plucky Olivia eventually recruited by MI6. In addition to the fun spy gear (e.g., Chloé shades fitted with a nerve-agent dagger) there are kidnappings, bomb plots and scuba-diving disasters. Olivia is slim, confident and accomplished; ostensibly, she's "painstakingly erased all womanly urges to question her shape, looks, role in life", etc. But she still has her bumbling Jonesian moments, and though she may not need a man, she'll get one in the end. What's wrong with the book: two-dimensional characters, dangling plot threads, the questionable taste of al-Qaeda bombings in an escapist, comic spy novel. What's right: girl-power punch, page-turning brio and a new heroine to root for.
Helen Fielding (1958) is an English writer best known for her novels about Bridget Jones – a single woman in London at about 30, trying to make sense of her personal and love life. Fielding's famous book "Bridget Jones' Diary" began its life as an anonymous column in "The Independent" in 1995. In the next year it was released as a novel, followed by a sequel in 1999 called "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason". The two novels have been published in forty countries and sold over fifteen million copies. In 2001 and 2004 both of them were also adapted into films (under the same titles as the books) and have achieved worldwide success. The original Bridget Jones was inspired by Jane Austen's novels - "Pride and Prejudice" and "Persuasion".
Before starting to write about Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding published her first novel - "Cause Celeb" (1994) which was not very successful. In 2003 the fifth book of Fielding - "Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination", was published. It is a light-hearted spy thriller which is set in Miami, Los Angeles, England and the Sudan.
With her novels about Bridget Jones Helen Fielding has become one of the leading authors of the literary genre known as chick lit.
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There are less than 30 days left in the 2019 legislative session, but there are still a number of big issues left to tackle. Among these are our states three budgets – operating, capital and transportation. In this email update, I want to take some time to chat with you about the 2019-21 operating budget.
On Friday, the House passed a new, two-year state operating budget, with Democrats voting 'yes,' and Republicans voting 'no.' This budget now advances to the Senate for further consideration, and budget leaders from each of the four caucuses will come together to negotiate a final plan.
The $53 billion budget increases state spending by $8.6 billion, or by 19.4 percent above the current 2017-19 budget cycle, and calls for a tax increase of more than $4 billion. This is despite our state's record revenue growth and an additional $3 billion in available resources. We have plenty of money to fund all of our state's budget priorities without raising a penny more. There's no need to place an even greater financial burden on the backs of hardworking Washingtonians.
This spending plan is unsustainable. Since 2013, a year after our governor took office, state spending has increased by 70 percent. How many of our citizens have seen that kind of growth in their own budgets? My guess is not many.
This budget also put us in some dangerous territory. About 80 percent of economists warn a downturn is coming, possibly as early as 2022. With that in mind, it's unconscionable to me that our governor and House Democrats would continue to pursue their compulsive tax-and-spend policies, which will undoubtedly cool our currently hot state economy. We cannot repeat the same mistakes the state made in 2007 and 2008, which led to painful cuts during the Great Recession. I sincerely hope budget writers can come to the table in the next few weeks with more reasonable and sustainable proposals than what we debated on Friday.
Did you know I have an official, legislative Facebook page? If you're on Facebook, I encourage you to 'like' and 'follow' my page, and join in on the community conversation!
Question 1: Knowing that our state is seeing record tax collections and has more than $5 billion in additional revenue compared to the last time our two-year budget was written, do you support a plan by Governor Inslee and majority Democrats to impose additional taxes and increase government spending?
Question 2: Do you support efforts to eliminate the death penalty from state law?
Question 3: Would you support removing the personal or parental exemption for the MMR vaccine?
If you weren't able to join us last Tuesday, please know you can always reach out to me with your questions and ideas by calling (360) 786-7922 or emailing me at Mike.Volz@leg.wa.gov.


Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
We are developing a dashboard that is performing poorly that is using data blending. We have been told that writing custom sql will yield better performance but we don't see how that will help performance as we feel the issue , we are working off an extract, is how Tableau uses the data not how the data gets into the dashboard. Anybody out there have any experience with this type of situation. Unfortunately I doubt I will be able to publish the dashboard due the confidential nature of our data. Any input would be appreciated.
1. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
Obviously, each situation will be different.
If connecting live, custom SQL (as opposed to setting up the joins and letting Tableau understand the metadata and then blending) would probably not yield better performance as Tableau will execute the custom SQL every time it needs to get new data from the source. The custom SQL will be wrapped in whatever SQL Tableau needs to aggregate the data to use to generate your view. Of course, Tableau will optimize this process as much as possible, using cache, temp tables, etc... Since you are using an extract, I don't think custom SQL is going to improve or degrade your performance. This is because the custom SQL will only be run once to generate the extract. After that, Tableau will generate and execute its own queries against the extract as determined by your view.
Data blending can be more or less performant than joining the tables (using custom SQL or not) -- it just depends on the data source, the requested data, how the database is optimized, etc... The thing to understand about blending is that it will be done in two queries (or more depending on how many sources you are blending). The primary data source will have a query that will return all the records required at whatever aggregation is needed for your view. The second query will be formed using whatever linking fields you have defined (filtered to the values for those fields present in the data returned by the primary query). The second query will be done at the highest level of aggregation possible based on the linking fields. So, blending can be more efficient, if the queries are aggregated at a high level and the database is property indexed/optimized. But it can be less efficient if a single query could have returned the same results using a not-very-costly join.
I know it's not a specific answer, but I hope that helps in understanding the options conceptually. I'd be happy to answer any more questions you might have!
2. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
We have made a number of improvements to performance and functionality for Data Blending in the upcoming release of Tableau 8.0. If you continue to experience performance problems, we would love to learn more about your challenges. Please consider contacting our Support team (support@tableausoftware.com) so they may work with you to collect more information.
Joshua gives an excellent response, and you may notice from other discussions of Data Blending on these forums that there are a wide variety of use cases, success stories and challenges with performance and functionality. Each situation may be very different, so you may need to explain your own challenges using example data that you can share freely that demonstrates the problem you are facing. Otherwise, I again suggest that you contact Support to discuss any specifics you can of your confidential data.
3. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
I appreciate the response, it is always helpful to learn about how Tableau executes this type of operation.
4. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
I just recently got access to some of the sessions from the Tableau User Conference and recall hearing that data blending will be better in 8 so that is nice. I would contact the support but time is of the essence and also in the past support always asks for a twbx and we cannot submit our data, so that is a bit of a catch 22 for us.
5. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?
Is there any documentation or would you provide some detail as to what the specific differences are for blending in 8.0 from a technical perspective?
6. Re: Custom SQL vs Data blending - if all things are equal which will yield better performance?


Ken Livingstone's leadership of the Capital was endorsed earlier today by Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe at a press conference at Labour HQ.
The event forms part of a determined effort by Livingstone's campaign to highlight that London's "international status" has grown during his tenure and to highlight Boris Johnson's "lack of experience" and anti-Eurpoe credentials.
Ken got events underway with a strident attack on Boris's 'anti-European' stance before introducing his French counterpart.
Mayor Delanoe said London had made "a great deal of progress" under Ken and had remained "the main centre in Europe" for business.
He also observed that "London has made strides forward in the modernisation of the transport system" under his friend's watch and predicted that London "would be weaker" under a Eurosceptic Mayor.
In the question and answer session which followed Mayor Delanoe said he had drawn inspiration from Livingstone's administration including London's work in tacking the plight of homelessness.
A question on the security of people using minicabs offered Ken an opportunity to highlight the licencing scheme which Transport for London operates which, he said, meant it was now "completely safe" for women in the capital to use minicabs.
A helpful member of the audience asked about Boris's policies on knives and guns allowing Ken to repeat the charge that Boris voted against mandatory 5-year sentences for offenders (Boris says although he supports the sentences he voted against the bill as it contained other provisions he disagreed with).
On the subject of competence Ken said he was "better today" than he was at the beginning of his term as Mayor but said it was a "weakness" that the political system allowed people with no experience to enter high office.
Today's event follows supportive comments from Mayors of other international cities have heaped praise on Livingstone.
The big problem is that Ken Livingstone's leadership of the Capital is also backed by Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell.