Breathe in the crisp air of Tateshina and bask in the natural surroundings. This is the beginning of a trip where you regain the calm and relaxation that has been lost in your busy day to day life.
The stylish and calming interiors of the guest rooms are full of sunlight and provide a comfortable atmosphere to spend time in. Our slightly higher end suite room provides a pampered hotel stay.
For dinner, enjoy a high grade buffet of Japanese, Western, and Chinese dishes. Enjoy a healthy themed buffet of seasonal cuisine that comes fresh out of our open kitchen.
Mumirogensen is a hot spring whose history goes all the way back to Tateshina's god. Our hot spring drawn baths have beautifying benefits and provide moisture to your skin. Soak in our natural herb bath, natural ore bath, and medicinal bath and melt away your fatigue.
On our over 20,000 square meter property, you will find a sculpture park with about 70 unique sculptural pieces. Take a stroll through the park as you enjoy the sculptures that harmoniously stand amidst Tateshina's nature.
Resort Hotel Tateshina provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life in Tateshina's natural surroundings.
Thank you for your polite response despite the late check-in time. The steak was very delicious.
Employees also corresponded very kindly and friendlyly. The chair of the bath and the washbowl were also white and it was very clean. The height of the chair is exactly right. In other words, bath towels, each one is tender. I want two cards to be aligned, I would like to use it again.
The rooms were spacious and comfortable. However, I did not use the bathroom in the room seen from the washroom (toilet), but it was not renewed and I was a little worried. It is a pity that the outdoor bath in the public bath. There was only one small bathtub .... It was not easy to relax. (The next morning was replaced and the other was satisfactory) The meal was very delicious.
and create your own original dinner course.
Our large communal bath area includes 2 indoor baths and a stone outdoor bath that draw hot spring water directly from the Tateshina Mumirogensen. There are also 3 barrel style baths made of cypress (2 indoor and 1 outdoor).
Mumirogensen is the hottest acidic onsen in the prefecture and has beautifying properties that make your skin silky smooth.
Our barrel style baths each have various ingredients such as rose and tourmaline added in to provide additional healing and health benefits.
We change out the water each morning and evening, so enjoy a soak in each of the different types of baths that we offer.
Would you like to take a morning stroll through the sculpture park located on our property?
Enjoy sculptural pieces amidst the beautiful natural scenery. Around 70 sculptures by famous Japanese artists are displayed throughout the park.
Visit our authentic Ayurvedic salon and experience deep relaxation.
A disco-like karaoke facility where everyone can sing and dance. Enjoy the spacious room with all of your friends and family.
Karaoke room is reserved to one group at a time.
About 2 hours and 10 minutes from Shinjuku via Azusa Limited Express.
Take the Shinano Limited Express to Shiojiri Station and transfer to the Main Line to Chino Station. From Chino Station East Exit, there is a free pick-up/drop-off bus service.


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Q: $\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{n} (\sum_{k=1}^n x_ky_k)=\lim_{n \to \infty}x_n \lim_{n \to \infty}y_n$
if $\{x_n\}$ and $\{y_n\}$ converge, then $$\lim_{n \to \infty}
\frac{1}{n} \bigg(\sum_{k=1}^n x_ky_k\bigg)=\lim_{n \to \infty}x_n
\lim_{n \to \infty}y_n$$

Let's say that $\{x_n\} \to x$ and $\{y_n\} \to y$.
Intuitively, I can see that for a very large $n$, the summation will look very similar to $\frac{nxy}{n}=xy$. However, I can't seem to find a proper proof for this (how could I translate this intuitive thought into a formal proof?). I tried using the fact that the sequences are bounded but that leaves me with
$$
\inf (x_n)\inf(y_n)\le\lim_{n \to \infty}
\frac{1}{n} \bigg(\sum_{k=1}^n x_ky_k\bigg)\le\
\sup (x_n)\sup(y_n)$$
I'd love to see some hints. By the way, I'm only using basic aspects about sequences: Cauchy, Weierstrass theorem, Definition of limits, Squeeze theorem and so on. That is, no derivatives or integrals.

A: Given $\epsilon>0$ choose $N\in\Bbb N$ such that $k>N\implies|x_ky_k-xy|<\epsilon$.  $$\big|\lim_{n\to\infty}\big(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^nx_ky_k\big)-\lim_{n\to\infty}x_ny_n\big|=\big|\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n(x_ky_k-xy)\big|\leq\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n+N}\sum_{k=1}^{n+N}|x_ky_k-xy|$$ $$\leq\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n+N}(n+N)\epsilon=\epsilon$$
$$\therefore\;\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}|x_ky_k-xy|=xy=\lim_{n\to\infty }x_ny_n$$

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Dentistry is no longer just the practice of filling cavities and taking out teeth.
Today, many people turn to cosmetic dentistry, sometimes called 'aesthetic dentistry', as a way to improve their appearance.
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At Thornton Dental, we offer a complete menu of cosmetic dental procedures, the most popular of which we introduce in this guide to cosmetic dentistry.
Tooth whitening is one of the most popular ways to improve your smile by lightening the existing shade of your natural teeth. This effective and straightforward treatment can be carried out at Thornton Dental or in the comfort of your home.
Tooth whitening is non-invasive, requiring no drilling or removal of the tooth surface. At Thornton Dental you can choose the Zoom teeth whitening or regular teeth whitening. Zoom teeth whitening takes less than an hour with resulting shade eight times brighter.
Veneers are thin layers of ceramic or composite resin tooth-coloured material. They are wafer-thin, custom-made shells of tooth-coloured materials designed to cover the front surface of teeth to improve the appearance of a tooth or to protect the tooth surface from damage.
Orthodontic treatment. People with bite or alignment issues are ideal candidates for orthodontic treatment.
Orthodontic treatment focuses on correcting the position of teeth and alignment of jaws. At Thornton Dental we offer two approaches to treatment, fixed braces and removable braces.
Fixed braces or conventional braces are composed of bands and brackets, which are glued to teeth using a special adhesive to hold wires in place.
The wires apply pressure on your teeth while moving them into position gradually and slowly throughout the treatment.
Removable braces can be taken in and out of the mouth. They are usually made of delicate wires with springs attached.
Like fixed braces, removable braces move teeth using gentle pressure. These types of dental braces are used for minor orthodontic cases or with fixed braces as additional or combined treatment.
Dental crowns – If teeth are severely damaged and can't be treated with fillings, crowns may be the best option.
They are like caps that cover the tooth and protect against further damage while also improving your smile.
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Together with a dental crown, they provide an effective solution to tooth loss and unsightly gaps in your smile.
Dentures – these tooth replacements are common treatments for missing teeth. If you are not an ideal candidate for implants, your dentist may suggest dentures.
Dentures can be fixed or removed and can be used to replace multiple or missing teeth on the upper or lower jaw.
Dental implants are titanium posts fixed into your jaw and topped with natural-looking crowns to make them a more permanent and natural solution to tooth loss.
Tooth coloured fillings. Tooth coloured fillings are excellent for hiding minor imperfections on your teeth.
Because tooth coloured fillings are composed of a resin material that matches your tooth, they are a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to gold or silver amalgam fillings.
Smile correction. Smile correction is a combined, synergistic treatment which chooses from all our cosmetic services to create the package perfect for improving your smile.
As you can see, cosmetic dentistry at Thornton Dental offers many procedures to enhance your smile.
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Our mission is to make dentistry affordable, without sacrificing quality of care.
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US National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby
A top US national security official says Iran did not take the nuclear negotiations seriously and, instead, decided to brutalize its people and support Russia's war in Ukraine.
National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby made the comments during a press briefing on Friday, emphasizing that President Joe Biden will not allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and "He's serious about it."
"But we also have to make sure that we have all the capabilities and resources available to us in the region and beyond to defend our national security interests. That's what the President said. That's what we're focused on," noted Kirby.
In recent months, US officials have repeatedly emphasized that due to the violent suppression of protests in Iran, reviving the JCPOA is not on their agenda, and the government has focused on supporting the Iranian people. Talks to revive the agreement reached a stalemate last year.
The US and its European allies have been imposing more sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities engaged in human rights violations and supplying arms to Russia.
Following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini in the custody of Tehran's morality police in September, Iranian cities have been the scene of unprecedented nationwide protests.
According to human rights sources, at least 520 people have been killed during these protests in the last four months, and dozens of children have been identified among the dead.
Tehran Seeks To Hang Ex-Official On Forced Confessions Of Spying For UK
Iranian Regime Hangs Two More Protesters, Defying World Outcry
US Steps Up Sanctions Against Iranian Officials
International Condemnations Continue Against Iranian Regime
Global Pressure On Iran Increases Incrementally As Protests Continue
Doctors Say Iran's Use Of 'Birdshots' Blinded Hundreds Of People
Hackers Publish Embarrassing Video Allegedly From Iranian News Agency
Team Melli Refuses To Sing Anthem As England Thrashes Iran
MI5 Names Iran As Major Security Threat For UK

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This fun BANANA SPLIT SUMMER PARTY was submitted by Lydia Menzies from The Party Wagon.
Such a cute theme for a summertime party! I love all of the different patterns and ideas used in this awesome event.
– "If you are looking for a fun, affordable, and easy party idea, hosting a Banana Split Party is just perfect! Gather friends together and let them build their own banana splits! The extra bit of fun with this idea is that you can place the banana splits down the center of the table to create one really long banana split! The kids will love it!
I wanted the create the illusion of one continuous banana split, and so I used Yellow Baking Loaf Pans from the KPI party shop! I placed each loaf pan on a whimsical rectangular plate and then lined them up right down the middle of the table. It also creates the perfect centerpiece!
To decorate the table, I layered and layered colors and patterns using fabric, plates, and napkins. I hung matching honeycomb balls above the table and placed them under the table.
Anders Ruff created the printable collection to match the party- we used a banner to spell SUMMER, straw flags on party picks to label each guest's banana split, and table tents to label the toppings.
The toppings were provided by Breyers Ice Cream Toppings. I placed the toppings in mini ice cream cones and tied the cones with a ribbon. The cones made the perfect serving pieces for the toppings- the kids could choose what they liked and sprinkle them on top! Syrups were also from Breyers and were served from repurposed lemonade bottles that were wrapped with bottle labels from Anders Ruff.
If you find yourself needing extra chairs, use 5-gallon buckets from the hardware store…turn them over and cover loosely with a cute fabric square! Instant, affordable seating!
Banana Shaped favor boxes from Piggy Bank Parties are the perfect way to send your guests home with a little something from the party! I added a favor tag from Anders Ruff, and the banana favor boxes were ready!


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Grease will be coming to Singapore in April for a two week run at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre.
Grease had its Broadway première in 1972 and has triumphed throughout the world. In 1979 Grease took over the record as the longest-running show in the history of Broadway and the hit film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John proved to be the highest-grossing movie musical ever.
Talking of the show's appeal and purpose, the director David Gilmore explains, "Grease doesn't have a message ... it gives a flavour of being a teenager in the 50s when rock'n'roll and putting Grease on your hair were the most important things in life and this is the level that we should take it on." Grease has maintained its everlasting popularity, proving that teenage angst and love's young dream remain timeless and universal themes.


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Войцех (Альберт) Стажеховскі з Білобок гербу Нечуя (українізоване Стажеховський; близько 1470 — до 25 жовтня 1556) — польський шляхтич, військовий та державний діяч Королівства Польського.

Життєпис
Народився десь близько 1470 року. Батько — Войцех.

Кілька його братів (зокрема, мав Бартоломея, Марціна) загинули у битві під Сокалем з татарами. Мав посади белзького каштеляна, підвоєводи (1549 року), барського, дрогобицького старости, сприяв розбудові Барського замку. Згаданий також як кам'янецький каштелян; очевидно, отримав «експектативу» на посаду за сприяння королеви Бони. Королева Бона Сфорца дуже цінувала, шанувала його. Воював під командуванням гетьмана Яна Амора Тарновського під Стародубом. 1544 року перевіряв роботи з Кам'янець-Подільському замку перевіряв роботи, які виконав військовий інженер та архітектор Йокуб Претфус. У 1554-1556 роках був белзьким воєводою.

У 1546 році від Паньовських викупив Жидачів та кілька сіл.

Дружина — з Турських гербу Яніна ( 1520). Діти:
 Ян — подільський воєвода у 1562—1567 роках, був одружений з Бидловською гербу Топач (також його сином Войцеха вважали Бартош Папроцький, Мартин Бєльський)
 Войцех ( 1540) — львівський підкоморій
 Саломон
 Миколай ( 1549).

Шимон Старовольський вказував на існування його надгробку, де вказувалося, що Ян Стажеховський — подільський воєвода — брат В. (А.) Стажеховського.

Див. також
 Пйотр Стажеховський.

Примітки

Джерела
 Janas E., Kłaczewski W., Kurtyka J., Sochacka A. (opracowali). Urzędnicy podolscy XIV—XVIII wieków. — Kórnik : Biblioteka Kórnicka, 1998. — 243 s. — S. 66—67. — ISBN 83-85213-00-7 całość, ISBN 83-85213-22-8.
 Niesieckі K.  Korona Polska przy Złotey Wolności Starożytnemi Wszystkich Kathedr, Prowincyi y Rycerstwa Kleynotami Heroicznym Męstwem y odwagą, Naywyższemi Honorami a naypierwey Cnotą, Pobożnością y Swiątobliwością Ozdobiona…  — Lwów : w drukarni Collegium Lwowskiego Societatis Jesu, 1743. — T. 4. — S. 198—200.
 Plewczyński M. Starzechowski Wojciech h. Nieczuja (zm. 1556)  // Polski Słownik Biograficzny. — T. XLII, 2003—2004.

Посилання
 Wojciech Starzechowski h. Nieczuja (ID: psb.31709.2) .

Войцех
Белзькі воєводи
Белзькі каштеляни
Старости барські
Дрогобицькі старости
Персоналії:Жидачів
Каштеляни кам'янецькі
Персоналії:Ямпіль (Хмельницька область)

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The Cabana Cafe at the Beverly Hills Hotel, always the loveliest place for poolside breakfast or lunch, and a feast for the eyes as well in the hotel's signature combination of pink and green. (Brides, this is an especially perfect spot for a bachelorette or wedding party brunch!) Ever a pleasure to have an excuse to visit this hotel by the Dorchester Collection and the first historic landmark of the city of Beverly Hills.
// Follow up lunch with your own pretty crusade to the Virginia Robinson estate, a veritable time capsule of mid-century Beverly Hills elegance, just up the street!
// The Beverly Hills Hotel's grand entrance at Christmas time is NOT to be missed!


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French modeling agent arrested in Jeffrey Epstein investigation
By Pierre Bairin and Sonia Moghe, CNN
CNN — A French modeling agent has been arrested in Paris as part of an investigation by the city's prosecutor's office connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport on Wednesday, according to prosecutor's office.
He was taken into custody on "counts of rape and sexual assault, rape and sexual assault on a minor under 15, rape and sexual assault on a minor over 15, sexual harassment, criminal associations and human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purposes of sexual exploitation," the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Brunel's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Paris probe was launched on August 23, 2019 and targets "acts of sexual nature likely to have been committed by Jeffrey Epstein and possible accomplices," the prosecutor's office said.
That same year, prosecutors said the investigation was based on checks and cross-checks carried out on information provided to the public prosecutor's office and exchanges with US authorities.
In 2019, US federal prosecutors alleged that Epstein ran a sex trafficking enterprise between 2002 and 2005 at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida. The indictment also said Epstein worked with employees and associates to lure the girls to his residences and paid some of his victims to recruit other girls for him to abuse.
Epstein died on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial in federal prison.
In July this year, Ghislaine Maxwell was charged by New York federal prosecutors with helping recruit, groom and ultimately sexually abuse minors as young as 14 as part of a sex-trafficking ring allegedly operated by Epstein.
She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.


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ED summons Lalu's son-in-law in railway hotels case
New Delhi, January 16, 2018 20:35 IST
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad's son-in-law for recording his statement in connection with the alleged irregularities in the award of maintenance contracts for railway hotels to a Patna-based company.
"We have recorded the statements of Mr. Prasad's wife Rabri Devi and his son Tejashwi in the same case. The investigating team has now summoned his son-in-law Rahul Yadav," said an official.
The ED has summoned Mr. Rahul Yadav having detected the "suspected" movement of about ₹1 crore from him to Ms. Rabri Devi.
The money laundering probe is based on an FIR registered last year by the CBI . The agency alleged that maintenance contracts for two IRCTC hotels in Ranchi and Puri were awarded to Sujata Hotels by tweaking the conditions, when Mr. Prasad was the Union Railway Minister.
It has been alleged that the contracts were awarded in lieu of a three acre commercial property in Patna, which was initially sold to a "front company", Delight Marketing. The company was later taken over by Mr. Prasad's family members.
Among those named in the FIR are Sujata Hotels' directors, Vijay and Vinay Kochhar, Delight Marketing, which was later renamed as Lara Projects, and the then IRCTC Managing Director P. K. Goel.
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The question of the use of tires and tracks on agricultural prime movers is again surfacing. The four-wheel drive market is growing fast, particularly in areas where crawlers have been popular. The relative performance characteristics of tires and tracks are compared in agricultural soil conditions. Performance analysis shows that a four-wheel drive tractor should have a 22 percent higher productivity than a similar weighted track layer in a firm soil. This is due to the higher axle power of the four-wheel drive tractor. A track layer should outproduce a four-wheel drive of equal axle power (with proper weight-to-power) by 12 percent. A four-wheel drive tractor had a 36-50 percent higher productivity than a similar weighted track layer in sugarcane conditions for several tillage operations. For similar weighted tractors, owning and operating costs per hectare for a four-wheel drive tractor were 33 percent less than that for a track layer. No significant differences in soil compaction between crawler and four-wheel drive tractors were found in field experiments. There was no significant compaction below the tillage zone for both tractors. Theoretical predictions agreed well with field experiments.


On Sunday, October 2, 2011, Governor Brown signed SB 420, which outlaws sales and possession of five synthetic cannabinoids, JWH-018, JWH-073, CP-47,497, JWH-200, and cannabicyclohexanol, compounds similar to the active ingredients in marijuana. Recently, people have been buying products called K2, Spice, and other names at convenience stores and other locations which contained botanical mixtures sprayed with these chemicals.
The mixtures were sold as herbal incense but often smoked by consumers. The products do not react with common drug screens and few labs are set up to test for them. The new law makes possession or sale a misdemeanor, rather than an infraction like possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. The DEA this year also acted to make the same five substances Federal Schedule 1 controlled substances.


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How about the visuals, have you improved them?
Boland: We've redone the graphics this year, trying to make the courses come alive. You see birds flying, if it's windy conditions you'll see the grass blowing. Right there [points to screen] at Royal Birkdale it's got the tall grass that moves in the wind. And the trees, you'll see leaves falling off the tree and stick on the ground. We're just trying to make it as realistic an experience as possible.
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POLITICAL BOOKNOTES The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders. Peter Elkind. Viking, $19.95. It's diabolical enough that Nurse Genene Jones murdered as...
...If, if, if," Teitelman writes...
...Sugar Corporation was indicted in 1942 for its harsh treatment of its American black employees...
...Meanwhile, the companies, now up and running, needed huge infusions of new capital to cover what in many cases had become alarming "burn rates"—the amount of money consumed by start-ups before they're self-sustaining...
...Perhaps as penance for this affront to the heartland, The New Yorker has in recent years run quite a few pieces on agriculture...
...Many of them couldn't shed their academic prudery fast enough...
...Dick's first wife, Blitz, who smoked Viceroys—a non-RJR brand that she surreptitiously stored in a Winston pack around the family— died of colon cancer at 52...
...Foil, which later became Reynolds Aluminum...
...With his prodigal son, R.S., who had quit RJR to return home to Bristol, Abram helped create U.S...
...It was the talk of miracles that led it to biotech in the first place...
...Later, Hardin's two sons—Abram and R.J.—would follow in their father's entrepreneurial footsteps...
...Privilege quashed the murder investigation, which remains unsolved and is still the subject of much quiet family speculation today...
...or look for a buyer...
...Abram—a staunch Christian and the only known teetotaler in the Reynolds family—did give up his tobacco business shortly after the turn of the century...
...It reflected the heat and light of the great entrepreneurial revolution just before it, in electronics...
...Committees are formed and memos are circulated, but no one grasps the seriousness of the baby deaths...
...Drugs...
...This fall was not atypical...
...The implications were vast, especially against cancer, where the problem with most drugs is that they kill not only tumor cells, but vital tissue as well...
...Harold Ross, founding editor of The New Yorker, once remarked that his magazine was not for the little old lady from Dubuque...
...Peter Elkind presents this story as a first-rate murder mystery, with such characters as an egomaniacal hospital administrator who once entered a meeting to the musical theme from Star Wars, a 300-pound snuff-dipping judge, and a Mickey Spillane gumshoe who calls pretty girls "dollies" and bad guys "scumbags...
...Brother Abram set sights on Bristol, Tennessee...
...wrote about corn, potatoes, wheat, rice, and soybeans...
...With a cancer cure too far off and too costly, Genetic Systems switched to a short-term strategy of fighting sexually transmitted diseases like herpes...
...By 1985, the year Eli Lilly began selling the first genetically engineered human therapeutic, Genentech's human insulin, Genetic Systems was on the block...
...Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman...
...Sister Nancy, also a lifetime smoker, died of emphysema after Dick...
...Gene Dreams is built around the story of one company, Seattle-based Genetic Systems...
...Like many biotech firms, Genetic Systems was more a result of money pursuing science than the other way around...
...Instead, it simply attributed these deaths to organizational "growing pains," poor staff morale, and lack of effective leadership...
...So the conventional wisdom went, and so it was to be...
...quotas and tariffs on sugar (discussed in a paltry one and a half of Big Sugar's 264 pages) should be abolished...
...But even more than miracles, as Teitelman notes, Wall Street thrives today on takeovers...
...As Teitelman writes, "Even if nothing happens, takeover talk is good for business...
...The Washington Post's underappreciated Ward Sinclair, one of the best agrijournalists, recently left to become an organic farmer...
...But what is more chilling is the failure of a San Antonio public hospital and medical school to account for such heinous criminal activity...
...It didn't matter what a company could do, but what it could imply...
...Ironically, Dick Reynolds, the eldest child of R.J...
...More attention came to focus on ways not of making money, but of raising money...
...Never in all the grand speculation about biotech overtaking the medical market had there been more than passing attention paid to the necessity of fielding huge expense-accountdriven sales forces, making inroads into the highly conservative world of hospital purchasing, or any of the other enormously expensive tasks involve in turning products into money...
...At best it would be a small satellite of questionable value in someone else's organization...
...Playing the game required cash...
...VD (the reasoning went) was only temporary, to fund the work in cancer...
...Medical Center Hospital, relatively new, ambitious, and deeply concerned about its image, was desperate to attract paying patients to offset the costs of the charity cases the hospital was ostensibly created to accept...
...In fewer than five years, Genetic Systems went from being a selfstyled firebrand in two concurrent revolutions—cancer therapy and the overthrow of the big drug companies— to a small, chronically stretched underachiever whose main product was a quick test for an annoying, though hardly life-threatening, venereal disease...
...When it came down to it, most biotech companies simply couldn't afford to compete...
...They are the largest group of foreign workers regularly admitted to the U.S...
...In a series of stories that appeared in the mid-1980s, E.J...
...Reynolds Family and Fortune...
...So much for idealism...
...The magazine deserves praise for this...
...One of those investors was a 28year-old stockbroker and part-time musician named David Blech...
...It's insane for the U.S...
...Unfortunately, The New Yorker has approached the subject in its characteristically literalminded fashion, crop by crop...
...When babies began to die mysteriously, her hours on duty became known around the hospital as "the Death Shift...
...There is an economic price to pay when medical establishments get bad press or face litigation for malpractice or criminal conduct...
...Its meaning to Bristol was slightly less clear...
...The bottom line, then, became money, not health care or justice...
...Now Alec Wilkinson has taken on sugar...
...It was hardly the sort of inspired goal most investors were looking for in a low-performing risk stock...
...fold...
...If the company had to license its patents on other monoclonals, it was only to make enough money to give the diagnostics a chance of success...
...It was jazzy...
...Little, Brown...
...The Camel-smoking, former jet-setter died very wealthy, but left nothing to his estranged sons who already had "small" trust funds of $2.5 million each, thanks to their grandmother, Katherine...
...Elkind's book reveals that while our society is able to bring a nurse who commits a crime to justice, it still has far to go in its ability to pin responsibility on a medical establishment that omits its duty to serve the public...
...Timothy Noah...
...It's diabolical enough that Nurse Genene Jones murdered as many as 16 babies in the early 1980s...
...Henry G. Brinton Gene Dreams...
...Scores of investors suddenly dropped everything in search of talented researchers with interesting ideas...
...With his brother Isaac, Blech contacted a cancer researcher named Robert Nowinski who had reported curing leukemia in mice by pumping them full of monoclonals...
...Clearly, however, a combination of factors—low pay, brutally long hours, authoritarian work rules, and yes, physical hazards, chief among them being cut by a knife or piercing an eye or an eardrum on a sharp cane leaf—makes cutting sugarcane a lousy job...
...Growers started importing West Indians to cut sugar only after the U.S...
...Junior's lungs required the pure item...
...Information like this makes Big Sugar intermittently gripping, but overall, Wilkinson's book is difficult to get through...
...Robert Teitelman...
...A traditional English confession of sin states "we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done," attaching equal seriousness to sins of omission and commission...
...That's an exaggeration...
...Hardin convinced his father that, rather than sell raw leaf to the manufacturers, they could make and sell their own sweet twist of chewing tobacco at a much bigger profit...
...R.J.—a heavy drinker and notorious philanderer in his youth—finally settled down in his fifties and married his cousin Katherine, then in her early twenties...
...As Teitelman points out, they "began to think of Wall Street not as a grim Golgotha, but as a Golconda...a legendary city 'where everyone who passes through got rich.'" It should be no surprise that the industry soon became infatuated with Wall Street's rapturous murmurings, relegating all its other high-minded goals behind the development of the most marketable, toweringly profitable products it could think of—human pharmaceuticals...
...The four children who followed in quick succession— Dick, Mary...
...Somehow, personal responsibility is choked by the bureaucratic tangle of hospital administration...
...Specifically, Wilkinson writes about the West Indians, most of them Jamaican, who come each winter to south Florida to perform what Wilkinson calls "the most perilous work in America...
...Patrick Reynolds' slice of personal geneology, biopsied and found malignant in this book, is nevertheless delivered at times with the nostalgic softness of eulogy...
...It's important to note that the story didn't turn out the same way for the other branch of the Reynolds family...
...As is often the case with New Yorker journalism (even, alas, in the post-Shawn era), Wilkinson seems less concerned with framing an argument or narrative than with creating a little democracy of facts where the number of buzzards the author sees flying over a canefield one day is as important as the revelation that the Labor Department official responsible for the welfare of the foreign workers has never challenged a single firing...
...I'm convinced this is true, but after reading Wilkinson's lengthy explanation I still haven't a clue about how the con actually works...
...By the following June, the Blechs had each parlayed an initial investment of $60,000, their association with Nowinski, and some quick positioning as a leader in developing monoclonalbased cancer therapies into a paper profit of $14 million...
...As a result, sugarcane growers end up importing 10,000 cutters annually to do the job...
...government to prop up an enterprise that not only depends so heavily on the exploitation of foreign workers but also helps impoverish countries like Jamaica that might otherwise develop thriving sugar industries of their own...
...Although Wilkinson worked several years on this book, he doesn't seem to have thought very hard about what his mountain of facts means...
...Scared of lawsuits and negative publicity, the medical establishment did nothing to bring suspicious deaths to the attention of lawenforcement officials...
...His anger toward his father never quite breaks to the surface in the narrative, though just cause is painfully detailed...
...Powerful self-justifications were required to compromise on so many fronts in such a short period of time, and Genetic Systems undertook them with a vengeance...
...To bring in revenue, the company signed licensing deals with several big drug companies, which satisfied its short-term needs for cash, but ensured that when it finally had a product to sell, most of the income would go to its partners...
...Reading around, Blech discovered the as-yet-uncommercialized field of monoclonal antibodies, a class of highly specific cell killers that can be bred selectively in laboratory mice...
...Unlike Kahn's pieces, Wilkinson's focus is on the labor conditions of agricultural workers...
...Imagine Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider getting married at the end of Last Tango in Paris, settling in and trying to make it work, and you get some idea of the outcome...
...One by one, the realities of living with Wall Street took over...
...Nurse Jones was removed during a staff reorganization, and ushered off to further employment (and further murder) with a recommendation...
...Alec Wilkinson...
...These guest workers make good employees mainly because they are desperate to earn cash to take back to the Third World, and because they know if they get out of line—for example, by threatening to strike—they risk immediate deportation...
...That's the one place I disagree...
...decided to build his own tobacco factory to the south, in the small North Carolina town of Winston, near Salem...
...Even the poorest American citizens spurn the work...
...With each if, the odds mounted...
...Wall Street's well-publicized dissatisfaction with biotech, and the industry's subsequent squandering of its future vision in a blizzard of compromises and short-term deal making, is a perfect paradigm for the sort of self-destructive plunder on which the bull market of the eighties so far has fed successfully...
...For this hospital, like many medical establishments, the cost of carefully monitoring its employees, risking public investigation, and protecting its economically disadvantaged patients was simply too high a price to pay...
...The agricultural economy is one of America's great neglected stories, and the handful of writers who cover this unglamorous subject often do important work for which they receive inadequate recognition...
...It was one thing to have a new technology, which, after all, is all that biotech is...
...The leap of faith here, propelled in large part by the talismanic attachment to cancer, was prodigious even by Wall Street's fickle standards...
...For example, the first public offering of another biotech company, Genentech, in October 1980 was so mindboggling50 minutes after the first one million units hit the market at $35, they were trading for a record $89 a share—that it set off a latterday gold rush...
...Takeovers provide a jump start for the market on cold winter days...
...Cancer had the intellectual rigor of Susan Sontag and her Illness as Metaphor," Teitelman writes, "herpes, the breathless sensationalism of the local news, Dear Abby, Cosmopolitan, and the Playboy Philosopher...
...Everywhere biotech firms that a few years earlier had been trumpeting wonder drugs, were now trying to impress investors with how aggressively they sued each other over patents with no proven commercial value...
...Seldom has Wall Street been so dreamily, so willingly seduced as it was by these biojocks, who, with their cockiness and their flare for futuristic letterheads (Genentech, Biogen, Hybritech, Cetus) arrived on the scene seeming to know all the right moves...
...Desperate, the firm ultimately abandoned its drug program in favor of manufacturing diagnostic kits, which are cheaper to design and take much less time to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
...Senior's brother, Abram, was worried about the "sinfulness" of tobacco and said that if the Lord wanted him to quit manufacturing "chew," he would find a way...
...Wall Street lives on talk...
...Kahn Jr...
...The changes were not really changes, but instruments for leveraging success...
...Of course the seduction was mutual...
...But Reynolds finally begs the toughest question: "Who is to be held accountable for the 10 million Americans who have died prematurely from smoking...
...It roared out of the laboratory at a time when America's industrial selfimage was in shards...
...In fact, Wilkinson writes, most West Indians never held a cane knife before they arrived in Florida...
...It literally exploded in his brain," his son Patrick writes...
...apparently coercion has always been a crucial element to success in south Florida sugarcane farming...
...It was another to lock elbows with the major drug companies in a brawl over market shares...
...And it made promises...
...Barry Werth The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco, Three Generations of the R.J...
...When investors discovered only belatedly that drug development is a highly risky venture, taking a huge up-front commitment of cash—about $150 million—and time-10 years or more—their lust for biotech issues froze...
...Diagnostics were only a stop-gap, until the company had therapeutics to show...
...The one doctor who has deep suspicions about Genene Jones is eased out of his position as medical director...
...He suffered from chronic emphysema...
...To watch a West Indian wield a cane knife is to see a centuries-old art," proclaims the narrator of an . idiotic public-relations movie made by the Florida Cane League...
...So they were left with three choices: license their discoveries to the big drug companies, which were capable of marketing them but would also seize the lion's share of their profits...
...A drunken party at the family mansion in Winston left 20-year-old Z. Smith dead with a gunshot wound in the head...
...In fact, in the last sentence of the book, when he uses the word "unwittingly" to refer to the damage inflicted by the product his elders made so famous, Patrick Reynolds undercuts the impact of his entire work...
...By the turn of the century, R.J.'s deals with the Dukes of Durham had led him into manufacturing cigarettes as well as his "chew...
...The book is especially bad at explaining precisely how the cutters get paid...
...San Antonio's Medical Center Hospital is, after all, an institution that employs not only an executive director, but a senior associate executive director, three associate executive directors, an executive assistant to the executive director, and several administrators...
...But a hospital committee investigation failed to uncover proof of wrongdoing and recommended "judicious silence on the issue...
...This is what Wall Street had neglected in its earlier enthusiasm...
...Here's my suggestion: U.S...
...Nancy and Z. Smith—would all inherit vast sums, only to be plagued to various degrees by the dissipation born of an embarrassment of riches and the early loss of both parents' discipline and counsel...
...Oilspilleating bacteria, toxic-waste devourers, leaner hogs, supercorn, miracle cures...
...That it should have happened with such a young industry, so filled with promise, makes biotech's dissolution all the more troubling...
...Stocks trade hands, brokers start racking up commissions, investment bankers start selling deals again, financial printers start putting in overtime, and journalists sniff around for new trends...
...Father Dick abandoned his first and second wives and the six sons from the two marriages in short order, echoing the flight of his own mother, Katherine, who remarried and abandoned Dick and his siblings to the care of servants after the demise of the elder R. J. (The marketing genius behind Prince Albert and Camels died of pancreatic cancer, having preferred to chew his tobacco...
...What the buyout meant to Genetic Systems was that it no longer had any hope of becoming what it had promised: an independent drug company specializing in revolutionary cancer treatments...
...Teitelman speculates it bought the start-up mainly to ensure that no one else would—a hedge...
...Dick's second wife, Marianne, the mother of Patrick, died of a heart ailment aggravated by smoking...
...The researchers were dazzled by Wall Street's overheated advances...
...The company, Genetic Systems, had no revenues, no profits, and no products, and, though Wall Street had blithely consented not to ask about any of this, or precisely how the company planned to make money once it had something to sell, anyone paying attention knew it would be at least a decade before the firms would have a marketable cancer drug—if ever...
...Naturally this led to a pyramiding of financing schemes, and, more importantly, a series of deals and compromises that, as Teitelman correctly points out, forced Genetic Systems to sacrifice virtually all its early goals just to stay in business...
...Reynolds, died in 1964 from directly inhaling too much oxygen...
...judging from Wilkinson's description, cutting sugarcane in Florida doesn't sound as dangerous as, say, mining coal in Pennsylvania...
...It was not until Jones moved to a clinic in a small town, and began to kill again, that several local doctors blew the whistle and had the nurse arrested...
...Harper and ROW, $18.95...
...At the center of the mystery is Genene Jones, a bizarre, complex woman who lavished affection on infants as she injected them with a variety of lethal drugs...
...Oh, what promises...
...As early as the 1870s, R.J...
...He had been living as a recluse with his fourth wife in Switzerland, rarely able to go anywhere for the last decade of his life without his oxygen cannister...
...Unsurprisingly, its answer came from Wall Street...
...Teitelman believes it's ironic that the big winner in all this was Wall Street, as "the scent of takeovers began to bring investors back to biotechnology...
...It was eventually sold to Bristol Meyers for $294 million, not as much as some other companies fetched but still a bonanza, given its problems...
...Patrick explains the humble beginnings of the dynasty, taking us back to pre-Civil War Virginia where Hardin Reynolds, a poor, young farmer burned twice by price gougers, vowed never again to be at the mercy of tobacco buyers...
...if ever an industry was made to titillate Wall Street's "promiscuous imagination" (Teitelman's smart phrase, and one of many in this lively, sharply-drawn book), biotechnology was it...
...Knopf, $18.95...
...Leverage...
...Mary Reynolds, a heavy user of the family product, died of abdominal cancer one month before her 45th birthday...
...Wall Street's way to profit from biotech's failure isn't ironic, but absolutely predictable, given its current taste for scavenging...
...The reader is left to muse between the lines at whether 40-year-old Patrick, the Hollywood actor turned vocal arch-enemy of smoking, has really grasped the full impact and ethical dilemma of his tarred legacy...
...Georgann Eubanks Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida...
...He makes a back-bending effort at balanced treatment, discussing at length the legion of philanthropic foundations created in the Reynolds name...
...the administration prefers to see the problem as one of personality conflict and "solves" it by recommending the removal of both Jones's critics and defenders...
...Miracles are iffy, but with buyout rumors, it doesn't matter whether they happen or not...
...Wilkinson says the system is deliberately complicated in order to confuse outsiders and allow growers to falsify the number of hours cutters work...
...But the real problems of this public hospital and its partner medical school run deeper than bureaucratic tangles...
...And as the industry shifted its gaze from cancer to lesser diseases, it also turned from research to paper wars...
...Boredom, recriminations, verbal cruelty, abandonment—not a pretty sight...


Flavorful and delicious. I use it on pizza, baked potatoes, grilled steak, french fries; the list is endless.
I love this olive oil. I use it on pizza, in risotto and other pastas.
We love this olive oil and use it all the time. So glad that I was introduced to it! My husband loves it so much he won't share it with anyone!


We've had posh chocolate, premium mixer drinks, artisan gin and craft beer – now ice lollies have become the latest target of a foodie makeover.
Whereas the choice used to be standard fruit flavours such as strawberry and orange in bright colours and novelty shapes, a wave of new British food brands have begun serving up "gourmet lollies" aimed at adults, with adventurous flavours ranging from Earl Grey tea to alcoholic watermelon martini popsicles.
The next big thing, the posh lolly experts predict, will be dipping them into shot glasses containing the same sort of alcohol for a particularly intense flavour hit.
"Frozen is one of the markets that has not evolved," explains James Rae, a co-founder of the London-based Pops, which has scored a hit with its alcoholic "premium popsicles".
The adult ice lolly market is one of the fastest-growing product areas in the ice cream market, with sales up 23% to £40m in the past year , according to Kantar Worldpanel, which tracks UK grocery sales trends. Much of the boost is down to the success of boozy ice lollies, with supermarket chains such as Aldi having already spotted the trend and launching its Gianni's range of cocktail-flavoured popsicles.
While British consumers eat ice cream all year round – the market has surged by nearly 10% to break through the £1bn sales barrier over the last year – it takes a heatwave to trigger a rush on ice lollies. According to sales data, ice lolly sales only really take off when the temperature tops 24C.
Mass-market ice cream makers have also come under pressure as consumers seek healthier or more artisanal versions but new makers have flourished – such as Little Moons, with its Japanese-style mochi gelato balls, which can be skewered together to create a lolly.
It is not only a UK trend. Unilever, the biggest ice cream maker in the world and the producer of Magnum, Ben & Jerry's and Wall's, blamed disappointing summer sales last year on competition from the low-calorie brand Halo Top, which has taken America by storm.
"Since May we've not had chance to breathe," Rae adds. Ice pops sales have doubled this year and the company – whose financial backers include the Fever-Tree co-founder Charles Rolls and the gastronome Loyd Grossman – is forecasting sales of £3m for 2019 from a standing start four years ago. Tesco has just agreed to stock its Pimm's-flavoured lolly.
We asked three Guardian lolly lovers to taste and test some of the new posh popsicles.


Britain could bake in its hottest day EVER as the UK heatwave shows no sign of slowing down.
The current record of 38.5C (101.3F) was set on August 10, 2003 in Brogdale, Kent, but bookies Paddy Power have slashed the odds of that being broken from 10/1 in mid-June to 21/10 as the heatwave intensifies.
The bookmaker has also put the odds of temperatures exceeding 100F (37.7C) at 5/6, from the 2/1 price in mid-June.
However, a Met Office spokesman told Yahoo News UK that the chances of the all-time record being beaten currently stood at 20%.
He added that there was a 30% chance that the all-time July record – currently standing at 36.7C – would be broken.
Sun worshippers basked in the hottest temperature of the year so far on Monday, with a scorching 33.3C (92F) recorded in England, and the warmth is set to stay for the rest of the working week.
Parts of Britain could see temperatures rise to 35C (95F) towards the end of the week as the heatwave continues.
Temperatures hovered around 21C (70F) in parts of East Anglia and London past midnight, around the average July day time temperature for the region of 19-23C (66-73F) before dropping to around 18C (64F).
Monday's 33.3C high was recorded at Santon Downham in Suffolk, but it is set to get even hotter, with temperatures expected to peak on Thursday and Friday.
A respite from the heat could come by the end of the week, when thunderstorms are expected in eastern areas.
A spokesman said: 'It's the driest first half of the summer since 1961.


Named after the Roman name for the local town of Ampuis, this is a tremendously pretty wine and redolent with delicious, juicy and peppery fruit. The nose is elegant and fragrant, displaying fresh blackberries and raspberries and well-integrated and balanced oak. The palate is delicate and yet the tannins are tight, giving a lovely structure to the fine juice and fresh acidity. This all leads to a luscious finish that opens up with a touch of sweet spice on the length.


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Do Arab women need saving?
by Monia Mazigh August 17, 2022
Yes, certainly from The Economist (and other racist representations in mainstream publications).
Souks, or markets, in many Arab countries have been replaced by big box stores owned by multinational companies. Pictured here: Souk el Had (Sunday Market) in Sidi Ifni, Morocco. Credit: Mhobl / Flickr
In her 2013 book, Do Muslim women need saving?, American anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod, dismantled the prevailing argument in media, academic circles, and bestselling books, that Muslim women, many of them Arab, need to be rescued by the West. She clearly demonstrated that gender inequality cannot be solely attributed to religion or culture but rather to what she described as 'a matrix' of oppression; a mix of socio-economic circumstances and authoritarianism, found globally, and not specific to the Arab world.
I really appreciated that Abu-Lughod's book humanized Arab women. Even in the most dramatic and tragic situations, she approached the Arab women she met as individuals with unique agency, identity, family situations, who all live in various socio-political contexts and hold multiple understandings of culture and religion. Abu-Lughod was constantly wary of the danger of homogenization. That is to say, brushing all Muslim women with the same stroke: oppressed under the yoke of religion.
Orientalist, simplistic representation continue
Ten years after the publication of her book, the western media is back at it again (I doubt they stopped, anyway). This time the rescue mission comes from none other than the prestigious British newspaper, The Economist. And the targets are the usual suspects: Arab women, and this time, in particular, Arab women who are fat.
In its last July issue, The Economist published an essay titled "Why Women Are Fatter Than Men in the Arab World." The article claimed that Arab society (as if there is one country, 'Arabistan', that practices one culture), does not enable women to shed extra pounds. The author watered down the problem to poverty and a sedentary lifestyle as a result of sexual harassment in public spaces forcing women to stay home, leaving only occasionally to visit relatives and eat.
It's true that sports facilities are not easily available or accessible for women, which I argue is due to socio-economic factors and not religion. Women's health issues in the region are complex and systemic, impossible to be explained through the orientalist and distorting lenses of tradition and culture. But unfortunately and expectedly, the article failed to go further than this shallow rescue mission.
Even if the article addressed a genuine and troubling situation, it remained stuck to the surface of the problem, giving the false impression that women's obesity in the Arab world is rooted simply in poor local habits and bad policies.
Beyond the paternalistic and colonial tone of deeming Arab women fat, the magazine used a picture of an Iraqi actress, without her consent, as an example of the truth they seem to have uncovered about Arab women.
Enas Talbi, an Iraqi actress with nine million Instagram followers, is now suing the newspaper. In one radio interview, she talked about how her teenage daughters were negatively affected by the way she fat shamed for the whole world to see.
Women's empowerment correlated to obesity rate
In a discussion paper published in 2020, The Weight of Patriarchy, two researchers from the London School of Economics, emphasized that the "worldwide epidemic of obesity" has impacted more women than men. So, what The Economist is telling us with grand fanfare and dramatic tone, is not only happening in the Arab world but all around the globe. That same study pointed to the fact that gender obesity gaps are more pronounced in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region (ten percent compared to four percent for the rest of the world).
The researchers looked for answers in what they call the empowerment of women and found a strong correlation.
"Our results can be interpreted as revealing that progress in the empowerment of women in different domains such as the labour market, politics and the household can reduce gender-based health inequities in obesity. At the same time, it is important to note that the main driver of this effect has not been a decrease in obesity among women, but rather an increase among men."
These concluding remarks expose the complexities of the situation and the danger of reducing a multifaceted and complex problem into one with a single culprit.
Back in 2013, a survey by the International Association for the Study of Obesity showed the rate of female obesity in the MENA region is significantly higher than that of their male counterparts. Several experts in the field from various Arab countries commented. They pointed to one main factor in the gender gap obesity as a "marked change in diet…coinciding with the introduction of a more 'Western' diet about three decades ago as the demands of growing populations outstripped domestic production."
Corporate greed, westernization also to blame
Because of climate and cultural habits, many Arab countries prepared and consumed foods aligned with what is now called the Mediterranean diet. Nowadays, it is commonly prescribed to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The Economist seems to have forgotten that many Arab countries ditched their conventions to embrace highly calorific, relatively cheap foods sold to them by multinational corporations (read: Coca-Cola, Nestle, McDonald's). It is the marketing of these companies with vertiginous budgets that promotes cigarettes and sugary soft drinks as cool and fun among teenagers.
The newspaper failed to include that some these Arab countries are subjected to strict economic reforms by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. The impositions mean agriculture and small farming have been replaced by food industries and the daily local markets, replaced by supermarkets selling imported and processed food products.
What MENA experts are saying
In 2001, Najat Mokhtar, the president of the Moroccan Society of Nutrition, noted that in the MENA region even rural women who were generally been less prone to obesity, due to greater physical activity, are increasingly more affected. "Peasant women sell fruits, vegetables, milk and eggs and use that money to purchase energy dense foods like sugar and wheat flour." How can The Economist explain this? Why it isn't this nuance included in their article? What is the impact of globalization and urbanization on women?
Over the last few decades, several professors and nutritionists from the Arab Taskforce for Obesity and Physical Activity have prepared a set of guidelines to combat obesity and promote physical activity in Arab states. It is unfortunate that many of these guidelines have been neglected or poorly implemented. The political instability and socio-economic fragility of Arab countries since the Arab Spring make diet and physical activities look like a luxuries in a region still ravaged by war and authoritarianism.
Using Enas Talbi's photo to fat shame her and other Arab women, is a clear example of what Leila Ahmed, an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam, calls 'colonial feminism.'
Obviously, The Economist seems to care a lot about the fate, health, and wellbeing of Arab women, and have no problem using a picture of a Iraqi actress, but neglect to mention Iraq today is a failed state with more violence, less infrastructure, less education then before the American intervention. The lasting collateral damage of foreign intervention is that women found themselves carrying the majority of the weight (pun intended).
Reading this grotesque and distorted picture The Economist painted of Arab women, I remembered how, two decades ago, the same magazine shamefully justified the destruction of Iraq. I wonder if back then, for a single minute, they cared about the wellbeing of the Iraqi women and by extension all Arab women in the region?
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Cubitos de hielo es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Juan Sires sobre guion de Julio Porter y Raúl Gurruchaga que se estrenó el 20 de septiembre de 1956 y que tuvo como protagonistas a José Cibrián, Ana María Campoy, Francisco Álvarez y Tito Gómez .

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Un hombre compra una heladera para su esposa y los constantes desperfectos causan problemas en la familia.

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Nearly two years after Special Counsel Robert Mueller launched his investigation, we're finally going to see what he turned up. On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr will send Congress the redacted Mueller report between 11 a.m. and noon. In what appears to be an attempt to spin the release, Barr will hold a press conference prior to the report's release at 9:30 a.m., frustrating those who believe the attorney general is acting as Trump's fixer in the Justice Department.
The biggest revelation from Barr's four-page summary of the report was that Mueller is not recommending any further indictments. In countless tweets and public statements, Trump has insisted that there was "no collusion" with Russia, and if Barr is to be believe, Mueller hasn't produced any evidence to the contrary. However, the Mueller probe has already yielded ample evidence of Russia's efforts to make sure Trump won the 2016 election, and the connections between Trump associates and Russia — plus other crimes that fall under Mueller's mandate.
As we await a full run down of what's in Mueller's "very comprehensive" report, here's everything we already know.
• The court documents say Papadopoulos claimed he met a London-based professor with extensive ties to Russian government officials (who reports identified as Joseph Mifsud) before joining the Trump campaign. Mifsud actually took an interest in Papadopoulos shortly after he joined the Trump campaign, and during a meeting in April the professor "told him about the Russians possessing "dirt" on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails," according to prosecutors. The conversation happened weeks before the Democratic National Committee revealed it had been hacked, and about a month after Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was targeted with a phishing attempt.
• Around the same time, Papadopoulos met a Russian woman that he believed had ties to the Russian government as well. Over several months, Papadopoulos repeatedly tried to use his new associates' connections to set up a meeting between top Trump campaign and Russian government officials — making it clear that Putin was interested in meeting Trump personally.
• Papadopoulos repeatedly lied to investigators in January 2017. It cost them the chance to catch Mifsud, the London-based professor, before he fled the U.S. Even after his guilty plea, a prosecutor said, Papadopoulos only made "begrudging efforts to cooperate." In September of last year, he was sentenced to 14 days in prison.
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates allegedly laundered millions, conspired against U.S.
• In February 2018 Mueller filed new charges against Manafort and Gates, accusing them of laundering $30 million, failing to pay U.S. taxes for almost a decade, and using their real-estate holdings to fraudulently secure $20 million in loans.
• Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his connection to Gates, and was sentenced to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine. He is the first person sentenced in the probe and is currently serving his prison sentence at a low-security facility in Pennsylvania.
• On December 1, 2017, former national-security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition period. Court documents reveal that despite what Flynn told agents in January 2017, his talks with Kislyak were part of a coordinated effort by the Trump team to influence foreign policy before the inauguration.
• The documents say that a "very senior member" of the transition team (reportedly Jared Kushner) directed Flynn to discuss a United Nations resolution with Kislyak. Flynn admitting to asking Kislyak on December 22, 2016, to delay or defeat a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel for its settlement policy. The Obama administration opted to abstain and the resolution passed.
• Flynn also admitted to talking with Kislyak on December 29 to urge Russia not to retaliate when President Obama imposed new sanctions over Russia's election meddling. The court documents say he conferred with other top members of the Trump team several times, but it's not clear what Trump himself knew. The next day President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would not retaliate against the U.S. for the sanctions.
• Since Flynn pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, his sentencing has been delayed several times. Both sides are set to give a status report on March 13, 2019.
• On February 16, 2018, Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies with engaging in propaganda efforts intended to disrupt the 2016 election. While the indictments support the U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia was working to help Trump, the court documents do not address the hacking of Democrats. Instead, they focus on a Russian social-media push that began in 2014 with the goal of stirring division and shaking people's faith in the U.S. election system, but eventually shifted to backing Trump.
• Court documents allege that the Internet Research Firm, a Russian troll farm, set out to conduct "information warfare" against the U.S. The company had a hundreds of workers and a multimillion-dollar budget, supplied by companies linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a St. Petersburg businessman with ties to Putin.
• Russians impersonated American citizens on social media and occasionally in person, posing as activists online, buying ads, and organizing rallies.
• Some of the Russians were in contact with "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign," but no Americans were accused of knowingly participating in Russia's scheme. Mueller reached a plea deal with Richard Pinedo, a California man who committed identity fraud when he unknowingly sold bank-account numbers created using the stolen identities of U.S. citizens to Russians.
• One of the charges against Manafort was related to payments he'd made to former politicians in Eastern Europe. Manafort allegedly continued lying about the details, at least into February of last year — and tried to convince his former PR colleagues to go along with his story, which would amount to a separate crime of witness tampering. One of those colleagues talked to the FBI instead. A few months later, in June 2018, Mueller stacked extra charges onto Manafort's case.
• At the same time, Mueller revealed the identity of Manafort's longtime partner in Ukraine: Konstantin Kilimnik, an interpreter trained by the Russian Army. He revealed that Manafort and Kilimnik had stayed in touch throughout Trump's campaign. Manafort was in debt to a Russian oligarch — he apparently owed at least $10 million — and Manafort's emails to Kilimnik in 2016 have made it clear that he wanted to use his role with Trump to trade political favors instead of paying the debt in cash. Kilimnik was the intermediary.
• Mueller has charged Kilimnik, too, with witness tampering, but the translator is safe in Russia and may never stand trial here.
• In September 2018, Manafort admitted to obstructing the investigation and running a conspiracy operation in Ukraine. He promised "complete cooperation" with Mueller to avoid a trial that was on the brink of starting. But then he kept on lying to the FBI, Mueller announced two months later. What about? We don't know yet, but Mueller said he'd explain it all in a memo before Manafort's sentencing — which is scheduled for March.
Russia tried to hack her team's emails that very same day, according to documents Mueller filed in July of last year. The announcement came as Mueller indicted 12 officers of Russia's military-intelligence agency. He also chronicled many other espionage attempts by them: for instance, he said, they hacked state election boards, stealing information on 500,000 voters from one state alone. The indictment said they funded their work with cryptocurrency.
• Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, lied to Congress in August 2017 about business dealings Trump had with Russia during the campaign. Plans had been in the works for a Trump tower in Moscow, but Cohen claimed the negotiations had been cut off before the Iowa caucuses. They hadn't. In reality, they continued at least until that summer, according to documents that have since come to light — and may have continued all the way to the election.
• In November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. A week later, Mueller announced that Cohen had turned into an extremely helpful witness and had sat through seven meetings with the special counsel's office, some of which were "lengthy." Another revelation was that Cohen had kept Trump in the loop about those Russia negotiations all along.
• Roger Stone, the brazenly amoral strategist who worked on Trump's campaign briefly in 2015, communicated with anonymous Russian hackers and WikiLeaks during the period when they were working on Trump's behalf. This isn't news; the big revelation from Stone's indictment on January 25, 2019 was that Stone allegedly lied to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 about his contact with WikiLeaks. He also tried to interfere with a witness, the radio host Randy Credico, according to the indictment. He was arrested at his home in Fort Lauderdale early Friday morning, while still wearing his pajamas.
• The indictment also said that someone high up in Trump's campaign was ordered to get in touch with Stone and ask him about what WikiLeaks could offer. It does not, however, lay out a clear narrative or time line of Stone's contact with WikiLeaks and the anonymous hackers.
This post was originally published on the one-year anniversary of Mueller's investigation. It has been updated throughout.


Phytorigins has a continuing policy to work with Universities and Scientific organisations to improve and discover new ways to provide information and improve the lives and health of horses. We are fortunate to be situated in Wales where research is well funded and we have been able to benefit from projects such as WISE and CALIN.
In 2012 We collaborated with the Chemistry Department at Bangor University analysing plant compounds and anti oxidants from the pasture of our site at Caer Carreg y Fran in regard to the health and nutritional benefits to horses.
Also in 2012 We were awarded a Spark Award in collaboration with the Oxford Brookes University testing the glycaemic effect of a plant compound in I/R people.
In 2013 We collaborated on an MRes with Bangor Chemistry Department and IBERS at Aberystwyth on a topic called 'How sweet is your grass'? This project provided valuable insight into the plant compounds, mineral content and WSC/fructan content of native grass species. The grasses were tested diurnally, showing the variations between the different grass species, showing that some grasses do not have less sugar at certain periods of the day, as previously thought. This information benefits horse owners wanting to turn out grass sensitive horses enabling them to improve management.
In 2014 We were successfully granted an Innovation Voucher and began a project with Dr. Debbie Nash PhD, PGCtHE, Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Registered Animal Scientist at Aberystwyth University and Dr. Manu Natoli. The research was showcased at the British Society of Animal Science conference because of the innovative use of an established intestinal epithelial cell line (Caco-2) that serves as an in vitro model of cell physiology and toxicology of a plant compound from a Brazilian plant called Maytenus Ilicifolia.
In 2015 Dr. Gabriel De Fuente presented an abstract on behalf of Phytorigins at the ESVCN following a veterinary trial with obese dogs and a dietary supplement.
Following on from the success of these trials we then ran 3 further trials with the team at Aberystwyth University comprising of Prof Jamie Newbold and Drs. Kirsty Dougal, Gabi de Fuente and Alejandro Belanche examining the microbiome and the changes following supplementation of 75 obese horses.
In 2016 we ran a 12 month project on the metabolomic profile of horses with EIPH with Prof Luis Muir at Aberystwyth.
In 2017 and onwards include a project with Bangor Industrial and Applied Chemistry with Dr. Chris Gwenin to develop a biosensor to detect hindgut acidosis and laminitis.
Further collaborations with Aberystwyth University to build up the profile of the plant compounds from Maytenus Ilicifolia and to identify a UK sustainable alternative.
We are members of the Government led Nagoya Protocol Project that enables the sharing of resources and benefits of plant compounds and the York University based High Value Chemicals from Plants group.


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Volvo Cars and Autoliv team up with NVIDIA to develop advanced systems for self-driving cars
Jun 27, 2017 ID: 209929
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, Autoliv, the world leading automotive safety company, and NVIDIA, the AI and visual computing company, are teaming up to develop advanced systems and software for self-driving cars.
The three companies will work together with Zenuity, a newly-formed automotive software development joint venture equally owned by Volvo Cars and Autoliv, to develop next generation self-driving car technologies. Volvo Cars is committed to having Level 4 autonomous cars for sale by 2021.
As part of the collaboration Volvo Cars, Autoliv and Zenuity will use NVIDIA's AI car computing platform as the foundation for their own advanced software development, bringing together two of the most respected companies in automotive safety with one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies.
"This cooperation with NVIDIA places Volvo Cars, Autoliv and Zenuity at the forefront of the fast moving market to develop next generation autonomous driving capabilities and will speed up the development of Volvo's own commercially available autonomous drive cars," said Hakan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars.
Jensen Huang, chief executive of NVIDIA, said: "Artificial intelligence is the essential tool for solving the incredibly demanding challenge of autonomous driving. We are building on our earlier collaboration with Volvo Cars to create production ready vehicles that will make driving safer, lead to greener cities and reduce congestion on our roads."
Jan Carlson, chief executive of Autoliv, said: "With NVIDIA, we now have full access to the leading AI computing platform for autonomous driving. Autoliv, Volvo Cars and NVIDIA share the same vision for safe, autonomous driving. This cooperation will further advance our leading ADAS and autonomous driving offerings to the market."
Volvo Cars, Autoliv, Zenuity and NVIDIA will work together to develop systems that can utilize deep learning -- a form of artificial intelligence -- to recognize objects in their environment, anticipate potential threats and navigate safely.
These systems can compare real-time situational awareness with a known high-definition map, enabling them to plan a safe route and drive precisely along it, adjusting to ever-changing circumstances. They also perform other critical functions such as stitching camera inputs to create a complete surround-view of the car.
Zenuity will provide Volvo Cars with self-driving software. At the same time, Autoliv will also sell this software to third party OEMs using Autoliv's established and broad sales, marketing and distribution network.
Volvo Car Group in 2016
For the 2016 financial year, Volvo Car Group recorded an operating profit of 11,014 MSEK (6,620 MSEK in 2015). Revenue over the period amounted to 180,672 MSEK (164,043 MSEK). For the full year 2016, global sales reached a record 534,332 cars, an increase of 6.2 per cent versus 2015. The record sales and operating profit cleared the way for Volvo Car Group to continue investing in its global transformation plan.
About Volvo Car Group
Volvo has been in operation since 1927. Today, Volvo Cars is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales of 534,332 cars in 2016 in about 100 countries. Volvo Cars has been under the ownership of the Zhejiang Geely Holding (Geely Holding) of China since 2010. It formed part of the Swedish Volvo Group until 1999, when the company was bought by Ford Motor Company of the US. In 2010, Volvo Cars was acquired by Geely Holding.
As of December 2016, Volvo Cars had over 31,000 employees worldwide. Volvo Cars head office, product development, marketing and administration functions are mainly located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars head office for China is located in Shanghai. The company's main car production plants are located in Gothenburg (Sweden), Ghent (Belgium), Chengdu and Daqing (China), while engines are manufactured in Skövde (Sweden) and Zhangjiakou (China) and body components in Olofström (Sweden).
About Zenuity
Zenuity was established April 18, 2017, and is a new ADAS and AD software company. Zenuity is a joint venture equally owned by Autoliv and Volvo Car Group. Headquarter is in Gothenburg, Sweden, but are also based in Detroit, US, and Munich, Germany. Zenuity has today 350 employees in total. More information at www.zenuity.com
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI -- the next era of computing -- with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
About Autoliv
Autoliv, Inc. is the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, and through its subsidiaries develops and manufactures automotive safety systems for all major automotive manufacturers in the world. Together with its joint ventures, Autoliv has more than 80 facilities with 70,000 employees in 27 countries. In addition, the Company has 22 technical centers in ten countries around the world, with 19 test tracks, more than any other automotive safety supplier. Sales in 2016 amounted to about US $10.1 billion. The Company's shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ALV) and its Swedish Depository Receipts on Nasdaq Stockholm (ALIV sdb). For more information about Autoliv, please visit www.autoliv.com.
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Apr 06, 2016 ID: 189512
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Volvo Cars and Autoliv autonomous driving joint venture Zenuity starts operations