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Chef Colin Stringer
About Chef Colin Stringer
Colin has spent the last decade in the kitchen. His early years consisted of doing dishes and flipping burgers at casual restaurants, but after exposure to fine dining modern techniques, he was hooked. He developed a chef trio with Andon Whitehorn and Jeremy Wolfe and created the pop-up Nani, a full time supper club that dove deep into the concepts of locality, using wild ingredients and practices the chefs still adhere to today. After a year of booked out dinners and national accolades, the chefs closed Nani, and Stringer was approached by Day One Concepts owner Todd Woodruff to build a concept together. They quickly settled on Nonesuch, and spent several years developing the menu and space closely together. Since its opening, Nonesuch was named America's Best New Restaurant by Bon Appétit and continues to push culinary boundaries in Oklahoma City and beyond.


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Beat the Bugs
BREED & SPORT NEWS February 21, 2012
Equine Guelph's "Beat the Bugs with Biosecurity" program lets you find out what steps are necessary to protect your barn from sporadic disease, outbreaks and infectious diseases.
"The recent devastating outbreak of EHV-1 in North America has highlighted the importance of infection control and biosecurity, as well as the deficiencies in knowledge and application that are present across the industry," says Scott Weese, associate professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph. Proof-positive that the time for prevention has now arrived is the January 2012 biosecurity update from Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs confirming cases of Equine Herpes in Southern Ontario.
Equine Guelph's "Beat the Bugs with Biosecurity," program promotes biosecurity throughout all sectors of the horse industry. The program is funded through the Agricultural Biosecurity Program (ABP), part of the Best Practices Suite of programs under Growing Forward, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The Agricultural Adaptation Council assists in the delivery of several Growing Forward programs in Ontario.
"Increasing knowledge of best biosecurity practices stands to benefit the horse industry by reducing the risk of disease transmission and, in turn, could create a huge positive economic impact and prevent a potential catastrophic outbreak," says Equine Guelph director, Gayle Ecker.
The "Beat the Bugs" program includes four workshops, conducted by biosecurity specialists, offered free of charge on a first come, first served basis. The workshops are scheduled as follows: Mohawk Racetrack, Campbellville, March 7, 1 – 3pm; Western Fair, London (during Can-Am), March 16, 10am – noon; Kemptville College, Kemptville, March 24, 2 – 4pm; and Georgian Downs, Barrie, March 27, 1:30 – 3:30pm. Contact Susan Raymond at Equine Guelph, slraymon@uoguelph.ca, to register and for more information.
For those who are looking to take their biosecurity knowledge to the next level, a two-week Equine Biosecurity e-Session is available April 16 – 29 for $75 (plus HST) per person. Contact Susan Raymond at Equine Guelph, slraymon@uoguelph.ca, to register and for more information.
"Beat the Bugs" has been developed by Equine Guelph with the assistance of its 11 industry partners: American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation, Central Ontario Standardbred Association, Colorado State University, Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, Ontario Association of Equine Practitioners, Ontario Equestrian Federation, Ontario Harness Horse Association, Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association, Ontario Veterinary College, Standardbred Canada, Vétoquinol Canada Inc. and Woodbine Entertainment Group.
For more information on the "Beat the Bugs with Biosecurity" initiative, and to view the Biosecurity Risk Calculator, visit www.EquineGuelph.ca/biosecurity.php.

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HIGH FUSION INC. ANNOUNCES FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JULY 31, 2021
Toronto, Ontario – December 15, 2021 – High Fusion Inc. ("High Fusion" or the "Company") (CSE:FUZN) is pleased to announce its financial results for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2021.
Fiscal 2021 Financial Highlights
• For the year ended, July 31, 2021, revenues from Calyx Brands Inc. ("Calyx") have been categorized as discontinued operations and therefore the reported revenues for 2021 are negligible and only represent the business of Palo Verde LLC ("Palo Verde") which was acquired in March 2021. After closing of the acquisition of Palo Verde there was a change in management of this business and the equipment was recommissioned which caused reduced revenues during the date of acquisition to July 31, 2021.
• With the sale of Calyx, conversion of debentures and settlement of debt undertaken during the year ended July 31, 2021, total liabilities have been more than cut in half from the prior year end to $13.4 million.
• With the closing of the acquisition of the business of OutCo Labs Inc. ("OutCo") on August 31, 2021, the Company will begin to consolidate the financial results from this business starting in the first quarter ended October 31, 2021. Based on an audit of the business of OutCo included in the Company's business acquisition report filed on December 1, 2021, the business of OutCo had 2020 annual revenues of approximately US$8.2 million (US$8.6 million in 2019) and gross profit of US$2.5 million (US$2.3 million in 2019).
Business Highlights: Q4 and Subsequent Events
• On June 18, 2021, the Company announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business of OutCo. On August 31, 2021, the Company acquired the business of OutCo through the purchase of substantially all the assets associated with the business including: control and management of all licensed entities; intellectual property; equipment and land. Based in San Diego California, the acquired business specializes in manufacturing and retailing premium quality cannabis flower and extract products under the OutCo name.
• Effective September 3, 2021, the Company, in accordance with the previously approved shareholder resolution, completed a consolidation of its common shares on a twenty (20) for one (1) basis. All references to share amounts and share prices herein are on a post-consolidation basis.
• On September 29, 2021, the Company obtained approval from its shareholders to establish a class of multiple voting shares, re-designate its common shares as subordinate voting shares and to change the name of the Company to "High Fusion Inc." The Company name change took effect November 15, 2021, and on November 16, 2021, the subordinate voting shares under the High Fusion name commenced trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange.
• On November 24, 2021, the Company announced that it received recreational licenses for both of its retail facilities located in Southern California.
High Fusion is focused on identifying, acquiring and developing high-value products and brands for its cannabis infused edibles and oil extracts product lines sold into the medical and adult recreational markets.
The Company plans to adopt a focused approach to the production of branded product in the California market, which is expected to include acquisitions of, or partnerships with existing well-run businesses in the State. With the closing of the acquisition of the business of OutCo, the Company now controls a vertically integrated cannabis business through three licensed affiliates specializing in manufacturing and retailing premium quality cannabis flower and high margin extract products. These products include award-winning vape cartridges, tinctures, topicals, capsules and flower products which are sold under in-house brands through wholly owned retail stores and third party dispensary clients throughout California.
High Fusion's high-value product and brand manufacturing strategy has been successful in Colorado where the Company worked with Palo Verde, to grow the FLÏ™ branded products. With the closing of the acquisition of Palo Verde, the Company expects to increase its investment in Colorado and expand the Palo Verde operations in the Colorado market.
Further, High Fusion plans to leverage its investment in Oregon through the relaunch of its manufacturing operations in the state and seek strategic partnerships and/or acquisitions to grow this business.
The Company has taken steps to broaden its focus to encompass research and development of non-cannabis, plant-based products through the acquisition of Neural Therapeutics in August 2020. Further to the press release November 19, 2021, the Company intends to spin-out Neural Therapeutics and raise capital for the business going forward.
"It has been a very exciting year for the Company as we took further steps in our restructuring and successfully closed a key acquisition of the business of OutCo. Within three months of closing the acquisition both licenced dispensaries gained approval for recreational sales." stated John Durfy, CEO of High Fusion. "As we move towards completing the clean-up and recapitalization of our balance sheet we are very excited about the growth opportunities in California, Colorado and Oregon."
Update on Management Cease Trade Order
As a result of a delay in the completion of the audit of the financial statements for the year ended July 31, 2021, on December 3, 2021, the Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") issued a Failure-to-File Cease Trade Order against the Company (the "FFCTO"). Under National Policy 11‐207 the filings of the financial statements, associated management's discussion and analysis and applicable certifications will automatically initiate a review process by the OSC, without any application by the Company. Following such review, the Company expects the FFCTO would be revoked by the OSC shortly thereafter. The Company confirms there has been no material change to the information relating to the Company's delay in filing the Audited Financial Statements since its news release on December 6, 2021, that has not been disclosed.
About High Fusion Inc.
High Fusion Inc.(formerly Nutritional High International Inc.), is focused on developing and manufacturing branded products in the cannabis industry with a specific focus on flower, pro-rolls, vapes, edibles and oil extracts for medical and adult recreational use. The Company operates and controls license in California, Colorado and Oregon.
Nutritional High has manufacturing, retail and grow operations in California through its acquisition of the business of OutCo and owns and operates oil extraction and edible manufacturing facilities in Colorado and Oregon. The Company's brand portfolio includes its award winning FLÏ™ edibles and vape product, along with a number of new brands including Red Octopus and Dubbi Brothers in addition to the OutCo and Thrive brands recently acquired.
The Company also owns Neural Therapeutics Inc. (formerly Psychedelic Science Corp.) which is focused on ethnobotanical drug-discovery and development company. Neural Therapeutics is focused on developing products and conducting research on the psychoactive cacti plants with the primary objective to find where the historical use in traditional medicine has proven to be effective and capitalize on the opportunities that can be applied in modern medical and natural health product markets.
High Fusion Inc.
Robert Wilson, Chief Financial Officer
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Information:
This news release may contain forward-looking statements and information based on current expectations. These statements include statements regarding: the plans for the Company's business including the assets acquired from OutCo, the potential catalysts for the OutCo assets, the Company's plans for the Colorado and Oregon operations, developments within PSC, the possibility of future acquisitions and the timing of the proposed name and symbol change. These statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements. This forward-looking information reflects the Company's current beliefs and is based on information currently available to the Company and on assumptions the Company believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to: the ability of the Company to successfully execute its business plans; legal changes relating to the cannabis industry proceeding as anticipated; and the Company's continued response and ability to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic being consistent with, or better than, its ability and response to date.
Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information contained herein. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; general capital market conditions and market prices for securities; the actual results of the Company's future operations; competition; cultivation yields; changes in legislation affecting the Company; obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals including expected changes in unincorporated San Diego and Mendocino county approvals, acquiring and renewing U.S. state, local or other licenses, the uncertainty of existing protection from U.S. federal or other prosecution, regulatory or political change such as changes in applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. state-law legalization, market and general economic conditions of the cannabis sector or otherwise; the timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals; risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic including various recommendations, orders and measures of governmental authorities to try to limit the pandemic, including travel restrictions, border closures, non-essential business closures, service disruptions, quarantines, self-isolations, shelters-in-place and social distancing, disruptions to markets, economic activity, financing, supply chains and sales channels, and a deterioration of general economic conditions including a possible national or global recession; and a deterioration of financial markets that could limit the Company's ability to obtain external financing.
A description of additional risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking information can be found in the Company's disclosure documents on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking information contained in this press release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking information contained in this press release represents the expectations of the Company as of the date of this press release and, accordingly, are subject to change after such date. However, the Company expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities law.
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The scope and focus of evaluation generally, and of curriculum evaluation in particular, has changed markedly over recent times. With the move towards school-based curriculum development attention has shifted away from measurement and testing alone. More emphasis is now being placed upon a growing number of facets of curriculum development, reflecting the need to collect information and make judgements about all aspects of curriculum activities from planning to implementation. While curriculum theorists and some administrators have realized the significanee of this shift many teachers still appear to feel that curriculum evaluation activities are something which do not directly concern them.
Woods, J. D. (1988). Curriculum Evaluation Models : Practical Applications for Teachers. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 13(1).


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In 2019, there will be coming new certification rules for Ex-products sold in China. These new rules will apply to products manufactured inside China AND to products manufactured outside China.
Until now, manufacturers that sold Ex-products inside China, but manufactured these Ex-products outside China, were exempt from CCC and thus exempt from steps 2 and 3. Under the new CCC rules, the full 3-step CCC certification process will apply to them.
Thus, the initial and on-going production quality at the manufacturing location(s) for the Ex-products, will become part of the CCC certification in the near future.
These new CCC certification rules (CNCA-C23-01:2019) are currently being drafted by experts from CNEX/CQST appointed by CNCA and other authorities in China.
- The formal Product Certification Implementation rule is being finalised now.
- An Ex-Product Catalogue is being prepared, stating requirements for specific product categories.
- A Guideline for the CCC certification of Ex-products is in preparation.
As soon as further details emerge, we will state them on this page for you.


Rockefeller Park Greenhouse was Opened in 1905 on land donated to Cleveland from oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller. Originally the greenhouse was solely used as a place to grow plants to landscape the city's many parks and gardens. Over The years a new entryway and meeting area were added to the greenhouse along with beautiful botanical gardens that anyone can visit. The best part? The green house is always free to visit!
Pop- A- Razzi is a new movie themed, gourmet popcorn shop located in the historic Ashtabula Harbor. They offer a variety of savory , sweet and seasonal popcorn flavors! They also do flavors for different holidays, Valentines day is coming up and they are doing a White Chocolate Cherry Vanilla! Can't wait to share a bag with my Valentine! You can even order popcorn for your next event, schools, weddings, birthday parties or corporate events Pop-A-Razzi has got you covered! Housed in what used to be the local fire station, this cute popcorn shop is a fun addition to the Ashtabula Harbor area!
Brant's Apple Orchard: Fall fun for the whole family!
Brant's Apple Orchard is one of Ashtabula County's most popular fall destinations. Brant's has been well known for years their apple cider, but more recently they have opened to the public for some fall fun. So get ready take a stroll through their picturesque rolling hills of over 20 varieties of Apples!


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WTBL-CD was a class A television station in Lenoir, North Carolina. It broadcast over-the-air on channel 49, and on cable channel 13 in the Lenoir area. It was an independent station with some programming from The Cowboy Channel. WTBL-CD was last owned by OTA Broadcasting, LLC, a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital. WLNN-CD in Boone provided its newscasts and other local programming for the station, and broadcast full-time on WTBL-CD's second digital subchannel.

On April 13, 2017, the FCC identified WTBL-CD will be compensated $8.2 million to go off-the-air as part of the spectrum auction. WTBL-CD ceased operations October 25, 2017; its license was surrendered on October 30.

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WTBL-CD started as W53AO, on Channel 53. The station was mentioned in the April 1994 edition of Popular Communications magazine, in which it made mention of the station's attempt to be carried on the local cable television system.

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"America's Next Top Model" Contestant Rebukes Michelle Williams: "Babies Do Not Keep Us From Our Dreams"
Micaiah Bilger Jan 14, 2020 | 11:16AM Washington, DC
Former "America's Next Top Model" contestant Leah Darrow is trying to counteract the message that women need to abort their unborn babies to succeed.
On Tuesday, as she prepared to give birth to her fifth child, Darrow posted a video on Instagram to tell women that babies are gifts worth celebrating, the Daily Wire reports.
"Babies don't keep us from our dreams," she said. "I'm getting ready to deliver a baby that will not keep me from my professional growth, but will make me better because of it. And I'm so honored and excited, and I can't wait to have this baby."
Darrow felt the need to speak out after actress Michelle Williams "thanked God" for her abortion at the Golden Globe awards earlier this month. Williams claimed her "right to choose" abortion is the reason for her success.
But Darrow said that message simply is not true.
"New life never keeps us from our dreams," she wrote on Instagram. "One of the cruelest lies that the Devil tells women is that we aren't brave or strong enough to do what God invites us into when we bring life into the world. New life is always a gift. And I'm humbled that I get to receive this new life AND live out the *abundant* life the Lord created me for."
She said culture is misleading women about motherhood and babies, and they deserve better. She urged people to share the truth with women and girls in their lives.
"Please share this message with the ladies in your life because women deserve a better narrative than what the culture gives us," Darrow wrote. "We deserve to believe that life really *can* be this good, and that receiving new life is always, always, always pure gift."
William's pro-abortion acceptance speech drew widespread attention last week. Though she never used the word abortion, Williams credited her success to her so-called "right to choose." She said she is grateful to live in a society that allows women the "choice" to abort their unborn babies, Slate reported at the time.
Williams also "thanked God" for the freedom to abort her own unborn children, and encouraged women to vote in their "own self-interest" because "it's what men have been doing for years."


These "trees" are made from stacks of sugar cookies coated with white icing. See our Royal Icing recipe.
1. Sift together flour, salt, cream of tartar, and baking soda; set aside. Place butter, olive oil, 1 cup confectioners' sugar, and 1 cup granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; beat on medium until fluffy.
2. Beat in eggs, vanilla extract, and orange zest until well combined. Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture slowly, until fully incorporated. Cover with plastic wrap, and chill for at least 1 hour or overnight.
3. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Form dough into balls measuring about 1 inch in diameter, and place on a cookie sheet about 2 inches part. Press flat with a glass dipped in sugar. Place cookies in oven, and bake until very lightly golden, 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.
Greasy- not good at all! I questioned the use of 1 cup of olive oil but trusted the reviews. I wonder if there isn't a typo in the recipe. These are the first cookies I've ever made that I've actually thrown away.
I used a set of snowflake cookie cutters instead of the stars and the tree looks adorable!
7 min. perfection! Salted butter works best for me though!
if you use just one size of star cutter, make a layer of 6 spread on the bottom, not overlapping, and then continuously decreased the amount of cookies as you build towards the top of your cookie tower. less work, less money and fussing spent on numerous sizes of the same cookie cutter.
My mom made these cookies and they are out of this world. These are the best butter cookies I have ever eaten. And,by the way, don't rely on the picture which, as someone else said, is misleading. These cookies are just formed into balls and then flattened. They are awesome and so very crispy. I like mine a little bit more than just lightly golden but kind of brownish. This makes them even crispier.
you need a set of graduated star cutters -- my set has 5. you make 2 or 3 of each size, and then stack them accordingly, leaving the one above askew from the one below. pretty cool lookin for something so simple!
It looks to me like you can either make different sizes of star shaped cookies to get the visual display shown here, or make one sized star cookie and arrange them in such a way as to get this very nice display. Anyone else have any ideas of how you go about achieving the display shown?
Does this recipe really have 1 cup olive oil and 1 cup of butter? I want to make them for Christmas, but would like clarification. bcorton@hotmail.com Thanks.
The picture vs the recipe is misleading.....One would think the recipe is how to make what the picture is showing. Too bad, it is a great idea not covered in the recipe.


The Full Circle Vision Almond 30cm globe by Atmosphere is a metallic coloured globe with an aluminium base where the continents shine in silver on an almond base. The mapping shows us the political world with minimal features. The globe was designed by Claus Jensen & Henrik Holbaek and manufactured in Italy to the highest standards. This beautiful example of the globe makers art would be a striking addition to any room.


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1957 Cadillac Series 62
13k Mi Survivor, Original Paint and Interior
Could you provide more information about this 1957 Cadillac Series 62?
Could you provide more information about the Cadillac Series 62 listed on your website?
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Harkening back to Cadillac's flamboyant, tail-finned era this 1957 Cadillac Coupe de Ville is a simply beautiful, all-original example that originally came from a dealership in Texas. This Series 62 Coupe de Ville was acquired from a private estate from the northern seacoast of Maine. The story goes that while on vacation in Arizona in 1996, a Maine lobsterman who had always wanted a 1957 Cadillac bought the pampered, low mileage (only about 8,000 miles!) car after seeing in in the "Old Car Trader". He brought the car back to Maine and built a brand new, climate-controlled garage made strictly for the Cadillac. In addition to being a pristine, low-mileage example, this Caddy is absolutely loaded. Every option box must've been checked as it has air conditioning as well as power steering/brakes/windows/seat/antenna. That former owner was so meticulous about the care and presentation of his beloved Coupe de Ville that he bought three sets of whitewall tires, so that the "just right" set would be matched to the car. An aftermarket radio was neatly installed under the dash. Cars and Coffee appeal is great with this car as the factory Buckskin paint looks amazing, as does the various chrome and stainless-steel trim. The tinted glass and weather strip are likewise in excellent condition. The original jack and spare tire are still present. A complete service was done by Carroll Street Auto when we acquired the car. Highlights of that comprehensive service include restoring the entire brake system (including master cylinder, power booster, and all four wheel cylinders) gas tank removal and cleaning, rebuilding the original carburetor and a complete fluid service (including an oil change and rear differential fluid change). With only 13,614 original miles on it at this time, this '57 Cadillac Coupe de Ville is truly a time capsule that looks incredible inside and out and is a well-preserved car with no issues. Unfortunately, this beautiful classic was sold nearly as soon as we got it, but we felt it was so nice that we wanted to show it off anyway!


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Sohrabuddin: Interrogating the media
Last Updated : 11 Aug 2011 08:17:26 AM IST
The facts unfolded here reveal a conspiracy – a hostile political strategy to communalise, thus weaponise, an illegal encounter killing to demonise a selected State; to oust its leader, outside ballot process. That State is the least sinner in fake encounters, just one in a hundred. Yet, its leader is vilified as 'Maut Ka Saudagar' [merchant of death]. So, the selected State's leader is the target, not fake encounters as evil.
The State selected? Needs no guess. It is Gujarat, certified as the best governed, most prosperous.
The leader targeted? Needs no mention. Narendra Modi, known as the cleanest, also the ablest.
The National Human Rights Commission's list of 440 fake encounters from 2002 to 2007 under inquest shows the share of Gujarat as just 5, almost the lowest. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 231, followed by Rajasthan 33, Maharashtra 31, Delhi 26, Andhra Pradesh 22, Uttaranchal 19, Assam 12, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka 10 each, Tamil Nadu 9, West Bengal 8, Bihar and Haryana 6 each. More. At 7.25 am, on 8.8.2011, the NewX channel reported a further 120 fake encounter deaths in UP after 2007!
Yet, from 2006, the 'secular' media has been obsessed with, not the most guilty in encounter sins, but the least — Gujarat; and with only one of the 440 encounters — of Syed Sohrabuddin in Gujarat, none from the rest. Baying for Modi's scalp, the media relentlessly pursued Sohrabuddin's case, charged Gujarat with killing him [and his wife, Kausar Bi] only because of his religion. It made Sohrabuddin the poster boy of secularism, insisted on CBI probe to cover Amit Shah, Gujarat Home Minister then, and Modi himself. The judiciary too chose for CBI probe only Sohrabuddin's case out of the 440 encounters. Later when CBI misused the court mandate, resorted to patent illegalities to fix Shah and target Gujarat and Modi, the media even seemed relieved.
Interrogatories to 'secular' media on its role in the Sohrabuddin case are overdue. Here are some.
Did the media even hint that, like Sohrabuddin's in Gujarat, there were 435 other encounters outside, being inquired into by NHRC? No.
And did it ever ask for CBI probe into them? No.
Did it ever tell the true facts about Sohrabuddin, other than about his religion, like that he was a dreaded criminal, a crony of Sharif Khan, Dawood Ibrahim's Gujarat head; or that he was arms carrier for ISI; or that a huge cache of 24 AK-47s, 22 grenades, 5250 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, and 81 magazines, adequate for a 1993 Mumbai blast were recovered from his farm house; or that he served a 5-year jail term under terror law? Never.
Did it ever say that he had 21 big crime cases against him – two, under anti-terror law and nine, under Arms and Explosives law – in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan? No
Did it even remotely hint that he had had connections with LTTE's drug peddlers or that he contract-murdered in broad day light in Chennai an advocate who had tipped off the Narcotic Control Bureau about LTTE or that he killed a gangster, Karim Lala, in Udaipur in December 2004 and took over his extortion business in Rajasthan – for which Rajasthan was after him? Never, ever. In contrast, one magazine even profiled him as a 'Muslim businessman'!
The media hid Sohrabuddin's criminality and sanitised him as Modi's victim. The Congress party improved it. It made him the main issue in the 2007 Gujarat Assembly elections, thus adding communal poison to an illegal killing to make it deadly. Sonia Gandhi, adopting Sohrabuddin as the party's poster boy, charged Narendra Modi as "Maut Ka Saudagar". The media even saw the use of Sohrabuddin – an extortionist, arms-carrier, a murderer and the point man of Dawood – in the elections as strategic.
Now begins the sickening story of how the CBI subverted the Sohrabuddin probe to suit Congress party's politics.
Not just BJP governments in Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Congress government in AP, headed by Sonia Gandhi's pet YS Rajasekara Reddy then, too was deeply involved in the killing. Did the media ever highlight this fact? No.
If it had, the encounter would lose its all-BJP – read 'communal' – character; with the Congress-mix, the killing would become secular! The Gujarat police probe in the Sohrabuddin case led by Geeta Johri, an honest police officer, showed that seven AP police officials, including two drivers, were involved in the offence; that one Kalmuddin, had invited the Sohrabuddin couple to Hyderabad; that after their stay Sohrabuddin couple boarded a bus to Sangli; that the AP and Gujarat police officials, acting in concert, intercepted the bus, disembarked the couple, took them in their vehicles; the caravan which included two Tata Sumo vehicles used by AP police reached Ahmedabad where the couple were killed. The Gujarat CID probe on the encounter in Hyderabad was moving right, but slowly, when the CBI took over the case in January 2010. The CBI charge sheet of 23 July 2010 itself admits that AP police were party to the offence. But where did the Gujarat CID probe hit the roadblock in Hyderabad?
Geeta Johri, who uncovered the fake encounter, arrested her own colleagues, had sought the co-operation of Balwinder Singh, the Commissioner of Police at Hyderabad then, for three purposes: one, to question the AP police officials who had assisted the Gujarat police; two, to trace the missing Vehicle Entry Register of the AP IPS Officers Mess for the period August 2005 to May 2006 that would identify the two Tata Sumo vehicles, their drivers and also AP officials who went in them all the way to Ahmedabad; three, to track down Kalimuddin, who hosted Sohrabuddin at Hyderabad. But Balwinder Singh would not co-operate.
QED: the Congress was determined not to expose its role in the sin. See what it did instead. Who did it choose to head the CBI probe? Balwinder Singh! The very officer who shielded the AP police officials now heads the CBI to probe the role of the very AP – Congress? – Police! Shocked? It is just the beginning, with more shocks to come.
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Sonia Gandhi: Sphinx who would be Pharaoh & When did Rahul Gandhi acquire identity of Raul Vinci? – Sandhya Jain
In a move reminiscent of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's startling decision to will her political party, including its workers and presumably also its voters and supporters, to her eldest son, Bilawal, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi secretly flew off to the United States for medical treatment, leaving behind a demi-testament bestowing the de facto leadership of the party on her only son, Rahul, though formally embedded among three family regents.
Given the thinly veiled nature of Sonia's conflict with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over his refusal to step down and make way for her chosen heir after the victory of May 2009, it is safe to assume that the Signora now expects party loyalists to cluster around her charmless prince-ling and ensure him a say in government as well. Political compulsions have forced discretion regarding the chairmanship of the UPA parliamentary party, and her personal vanguard, the National Advisory Committee (whose members will doubtless be feeling orphaned already).
The composition of the committee that is now to preside over the Congress and its interaction with government reveals everything about Sonia Gandhi's intent, mindset and style of functioning. It is an open affront to the Prime Minister and his senior cabinet colleagues (particularly to all purpose trouble shooter Pranab Mukherjee), to all senior Congress leaders with vote catching abilities, and to the party and nation. As such, it is virtually designed to undo the objective for which it has been formed, viz., install the Amethi MP as de facto leader of the party, and at an early date in the future, as head of the Government as well.
Even by the standards of the factional politics she played when she decided to keep the then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao on tenterhooks throughout his tenure – which culminated in the party denying him a ticket to contest the next Parliamentary election, and then consigning him to oblivion – Sonia Gandhi's designated committee is scandalously narrow. Worse, it is partisan against the Hindu community, a fact that would have been noted in the country as a whole.
Besides the non-Hindu Rahul Gandhi, who is obviously positioned as primus inter pares of the group, it comprises Defence Minister A.K. Anthony (supposedly for his clean image, but really because he is a Christian co-religionist and is therefore trusted more than other party veterans); her political secretary Ahmed Patel (a Muslim with no base in his home state of Gujarat, or indeed in any part of the country); and party organizing secretary Janardhan Dwivedi (a Patel acolyte and party spokesman with no base outside 24 Akbar Road).
Neither Rahul Gandhi, nor any among this group, is known for political sagacity, vision, and the ability to inspire the masses by winning votes, and thereby elections. Rahul Gandhi's leadership qualities (sic) have already been tested in the waters of Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and leave one speechless. His espousal of the farmers' cause in Bhatta-Parsaul villages of UP was swiftly undone by revelations of State favours in land acquisition in Haryana for a Trust run by Sonia, Rahul, and Priyanka!
Yet Sonia Gandhi chose to shove aside all party veterans and trust such non-charismatic 'nurses' to propel Rahul Gandhi on a winning trajectory into the Prime Minister's Office. Actually, the family miscalculated by refusing Dr Singh's offer of a cabinet berth for Rahul in the recent cabinet reshuffle (though they would have been aware of Sonia's ill-health by then), and now he is on a sticky wicket. Neither Dr Singh who sits in the Prime Minister's chair, nor the seasoned Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who controls the Government's purse strings, is going to forgive the calculated insult to their persons and their chairs.
Meanwhile, a number of questions arise about the secretive manner in which Sonia Gandhi went abroad for surgery on 2 August 2011. The excuse of excessive visitors disturbing patients in an Indian hospital is sheer arrogance; visitors do not get beyond the reception if one does not want them.
In January 2009 the Prime Minister underwent a well-publicized heart surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar announced he was going to undergo jaw surgery for cancer some years ago. With India having some of the best oncologists in both private and public hospitals, the true reasons for Ms Gandhi opting to go abroad, and the nature of her illness, should be made known as soon as possible. Reports that she was operated upon at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center need to be confirmed or denied without further ado.
To begin with, there was simply too much secrecy. At first, on 31 July a small news item in a newspaper said Sonia was suffering from viral flu and would be back in Parliament on Thursday (4 August). That same day, Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters she had gone abroad the previous day and been operated upon successfully. When the timeline did not add up, this was amended and the operation placed in the future; then finally it was stated that the surgery was successful and that Sonia had left on 2 Aug.
More disturbing are the reports in the latest issue of India Today that the Gandhis habitually refuse to inform the Lok Sabha Secretariat about their foreign trips, though this is the established convention, even for personal visits. Thus, in June this year, Sonia Gandhi went to London and Italy. The same month, Rahul Gandhi celebrated his 41st birthday in London, and both reportedly went to Switzerland – where they reputedly did not visit the holiday district but the commercial centre of Zug, thereby setting tongues wagging amidst a nationwide furore over black money in Swiss banks.
When Dwivedi announced the formation of the uninspiring committee, observers were quick to notice the absence of Home Minister P Chidambaram and Rahul mentor-cum-general secretary Digvijay Singh. As Sonia does not seem to have had detailed discussions with the Prime Minister and senior cabinet colleagues about the status of her health and the issues pending before the government, political observers speculate that the UPA will have to postpone appointment of Governors in states with vacancies, and a decision on the Telangana issue. It remains to be seen, therefore, how long her ill-health can be allowed to paralyze the government.
Ra(h)ul (da) Vinci
Now that the Gandhi family has concertedly declared Rahul Gandhi as their official candidate for the leadership of the party and government, both of which they tend to regard as watan jagir, it would be appropriate for the nation to know everything it has a right to know about the Amethi MP cum wannabe PM.
To begin with – and the Prime Minister would do well to make the matter public without further delay – how and when did Rahul Gandhi acquire the identity of Raul Vinci?
As friendly journalists and newspapers were asked to acknowledge and dismiss the news that Rahul Gandhi has travelled abroad on a passport issued in the name of Raul Vinci, some questions deserve an answer: –
– Which Government issued the Raul Vinci passport? India or Italy?
– If it was Italy, does it also follow that Rahul Gandhi enjoys Italian citizenship by virtue of an old Roman law that bestows citizenship on the offspring of all children born to its native citizens? Note that Sonia Gandhi was an Italian citizen at the time her two children were born, and that the family has persistently refused to answer pertinent questions regarding their citizenship.
– The Government of India must now settle this issue in public – including the legality of the trio holding Indian passports, and contesting Indian elections.
– What are the names of the alleged parents of Raul Vinci in the fake passport and what is the place of residence given on that document? It should be made public on a Government website.
– Where is that passport now and how often and where has Rahul Gandhi travelled on it? All details should be made public on a Government website.
The specious plea that Rahul Gandhi assumed a false identity for security reasons will not wash: Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal studies abroad under his own name, as do the scions of other eminent families.
Then, Rahul Gandhi supposedly holds an M. Phil degree in Development Studies from Cambridge University, UK, though there is no information about when and where he completed graduate and post-graduate studies. To this day not a single person has surfaced anywhere in the world to say that Raul Vinci (his disguise) was his/her classmate at x y or z college.
Family acolyte and then Cambridge Master Amartya Sen defended the degree but refused to furnish details. Now, following revelations about the purchased Ph.D. degree of Saif Gaddafi, it seems that London routinely "takes care of" the academic credentials of political scions in the third world.
Raul Vinci is also supposed to have worked as financial consultant in London. No colleague has stepped forward to say where.
Yet this man wants to impose himself upon the nation as Prime Minister. He needs to be downsized.
And Sonia Gandhi, appropriately dubbed 'the Sphinx' for her dogged silence on all issues of public concern, would have realized that she was not born to be Pharaoh of India. This country is governed by the invisible ethos of Vikramaditya – the throne will move away when the utterly unworthy approach it.
The author is Editor, www.vijayvaani.com http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1909
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Last Updated: Monday, 28 May 2007, 12:32 GMT 13:32 UK
Afghan demonstrators 'shot dead'
Gen Dostum has fallen out with the regional governor
Seven people have died after Afghan police opened fire on demonstrators in Sheberghan, the capital of the northern province of Jowzjan, officials say.
The demonstrators were supporters of the controversial Uzbek fighter Gen Rashid Dostum.
They were demanding the resignation of the provincial governor. Nato-led troops have been called in.
Meanwhile US-led forces say they have killed 36 Taleban in the south. Locals say most of the dead were civilians.
About 1,000 supporters of General Dostum were protesting outside government offices in Sheberghan. Some reports say they were throwing stones.
Key Afghan figures
Gen Dostum and the provincial governor, Joma Khan Hamdard, used to be close allies, but the BBC's Daud Qarizadah in Kabul says political differences have emerged recently and the two men are now rivals.
As well as the seven dead, more than some 30 protesters were injured in the police firing. At least 10 are reported to be in a critical condition.
Shops in Sheberghan are closed and Afghan soldiers and police have been deployed to keep order. Nato-led forces with tanks have also taken up position in the city centre.
Governor Hamdard told the BBC Pashto service that the protests were organised by Gen Dostum. A spokesman for Gen Dostum in Jowzjan said the demonstration was a "public uprising" against the governor who he described as "incapable".
Gen Dostum is one of the most controversial figures in Afghan politics.
In the 1980s he backed the invading forces of the Soviet Union against the mujahideen rebels. He then played a prominent role in the civil war that destroyed much of the capital, Kabul, and left thousands dead.
In 2001, while helping the US, his militias were accused of suffocating hundreds of Taleban prisoners to death by locking them inside shipping containers.
'Ten-hour battle'
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, US-led coalition forces say more than 36 Taleban militants were killed after they ambushed a convoy of coalition troops and Afghan police in the southern province of Helmand.
US troops in Helmand called in air support
US forces said the convoy hit two roadside bombs and then came under rocket and gunfire from the insurgents.
In a 10-hour battle, aircraft were called in, destroying a fighting position and killing more than three dozen insurgents, the US said.
However, a number of local people told the BBC that more than 20 civilians had been killed in the bombing raid, including some women and children.
They said there had been no Taleban in the buildings destroyed and said the ambush of US forces had taken place some distance away.
The US coalition denies this, saying no Afghan civilian injuries were reported.
There is no independent verification of either account.
Worsening violence
In the south-eastern province of Paktika, Taleban militants are reported to have killed six police officers in an attack on their convoy.
A government spokesman said the militants detonated several bombs as the convoy passed by, and opened fire.
There are also reports of two Taleban suicide attacks, one in northern Kunduz province, and one in Kunar, in the south-east with a number of civilians killed.
Bloodshed in Afghanistan has returned to levels not seen since the fall of the Taleban in 2001, with parts of the south and east particularly hard-hit.
Analysts say the attacks are the Taleban's response to being squeezed by the build-up of foreign troops in the south and east and that they are very difficult to prevent.
Some 4,000 people are believed to have died in 2006 in the insurgency - about a quarter of them civilians.
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The North End Community Garden (Hope Blooms) is an initiative of the North End Community Health Centre. This is the garden's fifth year in operation and there are now over 40 youth and 26 families involved! Our mission includes engaging at-risk youth and the community around them in building an environment where "hope blooms", where possibilities are actualized, and people are connected back to the basics in areas such as growing their own food, working together, skill development, and entrepreneurial training, so that through their own actions they can create healthy environments. The following garden entries were written by the Hope Blooms Jr Leaders, telling their stories about the garden.
The Garden is place where the community is united. You ask why? I say that well the Garden is treated with care and love. It's almost like nurturing a new born baby that the community contributes to. It's amazing to see it grow!
The Garden is a fun place where we learn new things. This Garden has been running for the last five years. The Garden is like a family, and everyone is welcome. This summer was great and I felt like everyone enjoyed The Garden.
At first the garden was just a field of weeds and the soil was poor. Then Jessie and some other people came and changed it to the Community's Hope. The hope was a tiny seed, but as time passed, it grew into a beautiful plant. Since time passed us kids have learned a lot of new things. The Garden has brought the Community together. In the Garden we are a Family!
We entered a contest called the Awesome Foundation. I knew we were going to win, but I wasn't really sure. We did a play about cleaning and gardening. There were three other finalists, but I knew we were going to win! We won $1,000 and with that money we are having a salad party in our community.
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About NASF
The North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) is an international volunteer organization originally founded in Reykjavik, Iceland. NASF is funded by contributions from institutions, organizations, and individuals from countries on both sides of the Atlantic. NASF was founded by Orri Vigfússon (1942-2017), its chairman until the day of his death. It has since operated departments in various countries and has collaborated with likeminded institutions and NGOs.
NASF´s main objective is to protect wild salmon in the North Atlantic Basin by purchasing salmon fishing quotas and fishing licenses. The fund has purchased nearly all fishing quotas for salmon, mostly from Faroese and Greenlandic fishermen. It has also attempted to negotiate coastal fishing across Northern Europe and has bought out the majority of salmon netting rights in Icelandic rivers.
NASF's agreements are in accordance with the International Human Rights Convention, with emphasis given to business considerations in nature conservation. Fishermen who have negotiated with the Fund have been very pleased with the collaboration, as part of buy out fees go towards the development of sustainable alternative fisheries.
The NASF and its partners have also participated in various conservation efforts on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at reclaiming habitats and restoring salmon runs. These efforts have necessarily involved negotiations with governments and other stakeholders. The Fund's activities strive to honor nature and to support environmentalists around the world. NASF's founder, Orri Vigfusson, received numerous awards and recognitions, among them medals of honor from the Icelandic, Danish and French governments, as well as recognition from Time Magazine and The Economist. In 2007, Orri received one of the most respectable environmental prizes in the world from Prince Charles: The Goldman Environmental Prize, for his battle to save endangered species.
In the last year, the Icelandic division of NASF has taken action against power plants that contaminate salmon trails, such as the plant located in the lower part of Þjórsá. The Fund has also been outspoken against plans for large-scale aquaculture in open net pens on Icelandic shores, and works to call attention to the subsequent danger to other salmonids and to the environment, generally. It supports sustainable solutions, such as salmon farming in closed systems. Given the environmental impact of open net pens in particular, this battle links the Fund's work to many other environmental conservation efforts and interest groups who support wildlife sustainability.
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Budgeting can be a scary word. Few people really want to know how much they are spending and like dieting, budgeting sounds like you are depriving yourself of something. Budgeting isn't a bad thing! Actually it can be fairly simple to set up a budget.
Where do you want to be in a year, ten years, at retirement? Why are you creating a budget? It might help if you wrote down a few goals so you know what you are working towards whether it is saving more, spending less, or that dream vacation. At this point don't worry about how unrealistic the goal is – just get it on paper. Later, once you have a budget in place, remind yourself often what you are working towards.
Find a way that works for you – this could be a notebook that you carry with you, computer software or use these budget worksheets. Write everything down and categorize spending by the type of expense (entertainment, groceries, gas, etc.). Remember even that $1 in the vending machine counts. You might be surprised how quickly the little dribblers add up - $1 a day for soda is over $360 a year! That daily $3.50 latte or mocha adds up to $1,277.50 - and that doesn't include tips!
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Johns Hopkins University: Molecular Alteration May Be Cause — Not Consequence — of Heart Failure
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By iednewsdesk On May 17, 2021
Clinicians and scientists have long observed that cells in overstressed hearts have high levels of the simple sugar O-GlcNAc modifying thousands of proteins within cells. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found evidence in mouse experiments that these excess sugars could well be a cause, not merely a consequence or marker of heart failure.
Their research found that elevated levels of O-GlcNAc made mice more prone to heart failure, but lowering levels of O-GlcNAc restored the animals' risk of death and heart function to normal. Together, the investigators say, the new findings, described online in the April 27th issue of the journal Circulation, could offer a potentially new molecular target for therapies that prevent or stop human heart failure.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 6.2 million Americans have heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart struggles and ultimately fails to pump enough blood and oxygen to support the body's organs. The ailment costs the U.S. an estimated $30.7 billion in hospitalizations, treatment and lost productivity. Other conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity contribute to the development of heart failure.
"Heart failure is a huge problem around the world, and our experiments show we may be able to move the therapeutic needle in the right direction by manipulating levels of O-GlcNAc," says Priya Umapathi, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and first author of the new paper.
Proteins within living cells can be modified with the addition of small chemical groups that coax the proteins to change their shape or function. Among those modifications is O-GlcNAcylation, the addition of the sugar molecule O-GlcNAc (O-linked N-acetylglucosamine). The modification is controlled by two other molecules: O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT), an enzyme that adds the sugars to proteins, and O-GlcNAcase (OGA), an enzyme that facilitates their removal.
Researchers have long known that proteins in the cells of people with heart failure have more O-GlcNAc than usual. But whether increased levels of the sugar were a cause or consequence of heart failure — or an attempt by the body to ward off heart failure — has been unclear.
"The field has been conflicted about whether O-GlcNAc in the heart is a good thing or a bad thing," says Umapathi.
In the new work, Umapathi and her colleagues genetically engineered mice with higher than usual levels of OGT or OGA in heart muscle cells. The animals with high OGT — and therefore more O-GlcNAc in these cells — developed severe heart failure. Their hearts began to weaken and pump less blood at just 6 weeks old. By 25 weeks of age, more than half of all mice with high OGT had died, while no control animals with normal levels of OGT had died.
"These mice developed really stunning heart failure," says Umapathi. "Similar to many patients with cardiomyopathy, the mice developed enlarged hearts, abnormal electrical rhythms and died very early."
Animals with high OGA — and therefore lower than usual O-GlcNAc in their heart cells — remained healthy, however, and showed no signs of heart failure, even when challenged with an operation that constricts one of the heart's blood vessels.
To test whether high levels of O-GlcNAc could be reversed to help prevent end-stage heart failure, the researchers next cross-bred the two strains of mice, engineering animals to have both high OGT and OGA levels.
These animals no longer developed heart failure or died early, presumably because while OGT led them to add excessive O-GlcNAc sugars to proteins in the heart cells, the high levels of OGA reversed that excessive modification. That observation, the researchers say, suggests that drugs targeting the O-GlcNAc pathway could help prevent heart failure.
"Most existing heart failure therapies — including beta-blockers, diuretics and ACE inhibitors — target the same few molecular pathways," says Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an author of the new paper. "O-GlcNAc represents a completely new pathway that hasn't been targeted with therapeutics before, so that's really exciting."
In additional experiments, the team studied which proteins in heart cells were being modified with the addition of O-GlcNAc. Further studies along these same lines could reveal exactly why the sugars are so important and could possibly identify other molecules involved in heart failure.
"Now that we have these beautiful models to manipulate O-GlcNAc levels in the heart, we can start to get a much better understanding of how this modification plays a role in different subtypes of heart failure," says Natasha Zachara, Ph.D., associate professor of biological chemistry at the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a lead author of the new work.
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Attorneys Hannah Levinson and Stephen Siegel each contributed articles to the February 2015 issue of the Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) Compliance Today magazine. Please visit the links below to view their articles.
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Album Review: Fiach - So I
Fiach has released his debut album [at long last] and it's brilliant. On a whole it contains eleven wonderful songs of joy, hope, despair, wit and charm. It's a collection of great tunes which should elevate Fiach from the comfortable surroundings of open mic nights to the large venues and arenas around Ireland and beyond.
I've listened to 'So I' pretty much non stop since I bought it on Thursday and one of the best things I can say is that on every listen I've chosen a different favourite song. At present track two; 'Stop' is my favourite but it rotates with 'Dignity', 'Every Single Day' and 'So I [Have Fallen Down Again]'.
'So I' is at it's heart a singer-songwriter album. However he is either accompanied by strings or a full band on every song. Fiach also flirts with other genres such as Bill Withers style funk on 'Wake Up Dead' and country folk on the first single from the album 'You Dear'. On some songs the lyrics are full of attitude and underlying aggression. On other songs Fiach uses his insight and charm to write beautifully crafted songs like 'Letting Go'.
All albums should finish on an epic song and 'Home is Where The Heart Is' is truely epic. It merges Fiach's charm and confident swagger with attitude and aggression to produce a song of hope and human strength.
I've connected with this album in many ways. It'll be on regular play in my house for many years to come.
Fiach - So I [11 out of 12]
http://www.fiach.net
http://www.myspace.com/fiachmusic
See Fiach Live:
1 Apr 2010 20:00 Boyle's Slane, Ireland
14 Apr 2010 20:00 de Barra's Clonakilty, Cork, Ireland
1 May 2010 16:00 Vantastival Dundalk, Ireland
14 May 2010 20:00 Backroom @ Lantern Bar Navan, Ireland
Albums Fiach


Addiction affects the whole community, from people stealing to support their habit to families being ripped apart because their mother, brother, father, sister's life is out of control. It may just be the fact that our taxes pay for the medical cost and the jail time and the unemployment of an addict.
The good news is there are people out there that can help those in addiction. The bad news is there is not enough money to fund all that needs to be done. The hospital doesn't have enough beds for detox, there is nowhere locally to give young people the full support they need to battle their addiction, there is one local rehabilitation service and they can only fit 10 people. Emergency relief services are stretched trying to help families affected by addiction.
The good news is there is a way you can help.
What is Work Place Giving?
The Goldfields Rehabilitation Services Inc. Workplace Giving Programme is a simple and effective way for employees to regularly donate to a charitable organisation through automated payroll deductions. It allows employees the opportunity to make regular, planned donations through their pay and provides 'time-poor' employees with a way to support their community.
The Workplace Giving Program is a voluntary program. It allows employees to donate to one or more programs direct from their pre-tax pay.
As donations are processed through the payroll system, employees will receive an immediate tax deduction (donations of $2 or more are tax deductible), saving the hassle of keeping receipts for personal tax return. At the end of the financial year an outline of donations will be included in an employee's PAYG payment summary.
100% of every dollar donated by an employee goes directly to charity. Administrative costs for issuing receipts are eliminated and the charity's fundraising expenses are minimised allowing them to get on with the important job of helping people get their lives back on track.
*Effective 1 July 2011, noting that tax rates are subject to change.
If you give $5 and you earn between $37,001 and $80,000 (gross income) your donation will only cost you $3.50. Remember the charity receives the full $5.
I would like to participate - what do I need to do?
Step 1: Determine the amount you will donate each pay period.
Payroll will then process your donation each pay period and send it to Goldfields Rehabilitation Services Inc. at the end of each month - you won't need to do anything else.
You can change or cancel your donation at any time by simply resubmitting the pledge form.
Your donation can help people get their lives back on track - so why not complete a pledge form today.
Receive an immediate tax benefit from their pay.
Receive a tax deduction without the need to keep receipts for tax purposes.
Spread donations over the year, rather than making a larger one-off donation.
Participate in a simple and flexible program.
Make an important contribution to the community.
Support a culture of generosity.
In a pre-tax Workplace Giving system employees will have already received the tax benefit throughout the year for their donation.
Therefore employees only need to record the total amount on their tax return, rather than keeping receipts and claiming for that amount. It's an easy way to give!


OOC: After a long, looong hiatus because of lacking motivation, reallife and lack of time, I´ve gained a lot of new motivation, especially by reading about the new fan age projects (e.g.: DIRT), so I again will continue this blog from now on!
I hope to at least post once a week, the more the better.
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After a detailed briefing of your project PPM will provide a quote or specification document outlining the project requirements and listing costs for each section. A 50% deposit is required on all projects before work is commenced, with the final 50% due upon completion.
An hourly rate is available for certain clients and has a minimum of 15 minute blocks. If regular work is being provided by the client, a wholesale hourly rate is also available. PPM can also provide estimates on how many hours a project is expected to take.


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Finisar buys wafer fab to ramp VCSEL arrays for 3D sensing
700,000 square-foot facility in Sherman, Texas, will host 6-inch VCSEL wafer production, with CEO Jerry Rawls expecting 'gigantic' future demand.
VCSELs: in demand
Optoelectronics company Finisar is to expand its VCSEL production capacity dramatically next year, with more than $100 million of investment earmarked for a 6-inch wafer production fab in Sherman, Texas.
The facility, a short drive from the company's existing VCSEL wafer fab in the Dallas suburb of Allen, has been acquired to address what Finisar's CEO Jerry Rawls anticipates will be "gigantic" demand for VCSEL arrays in 3D sensing applications.
At the moment Apple's new iPhone X is the driving that demand, with speculation that Finisar and Lumentum are among the suppliers of one of the key components behind Apple's "Face ID" security technology.
Announcing Finisar's latest quarterly results Rawls said: "During the second [fiscal] quarter, we began shipping production quantities of our VCSEL arrays for 3D sensing. In addition, after the end of the quarter, we acquired an approximately 700,000 square-foot facility in Sherman, Texas."
The CEO added: "In the second half of calendar year 2018, we expect this facility will allow us to produce VCSEL arrays using 6-inch wafers for both consumer and automotive applications." The company's fab in Allen produces VCSEL devices on a 4-inch wafer platform.
Rawls would not be drawn on whether Finisar's current VCSEL array output was destined for Apple, saying in an investor conference call to discuss the latest results:
"We have some non-disclosure obligations that really limit what we ought to say about any customer in that market. I can tell you we're producing as fast as we can and shipping everything we can make."
Finisar's CFO Kurt Adzema added that in the latest reported quarter the company only recorded "low single-digit millions" of dollars in revenue related to VCSEL arrays. "We are working hard and making progress on our yields, but our customers would prefer that we don't disclose the exact number that [we] would [put] out there," he said.
Questioned on the wisdom of investing upwards of $100 million on equipment alone for the new VCSEL fab over the course of the next year for an application still at the "nascent" stage, Adzema said:
"We obviously have some confidence based on our interactions with a variety of customers in both consumer and automotive [markets] that this is going to be a very important space for us. We feel very good about our relative position in this space, and that's why we're making the investment."
'Gigantic' demand
Rawls chimed in when questioned about the overall potential of the emerging applications, adding: "3D sensing is essentially gigantic. If all the customers and the consumer space and the automotive space really build systems and deploy them as they have indicated to us recently, then no matter how big this building is that we just bought, and [if we] fill it full of equipment, it's unlikely that we can supply all of the demand that we'll need to supply."
"I mean, it's measured in billions of dollars [and] we are building arrays for a lot of different people in both mobile and in automotive. Some of them are quite small arrays and some of them are gigantic arrays."
Some of the long-lead-time equipment for the new fab is already on order, with Rawls adding that there would be an additional challenge posed by the switch to a larger wafer size.
"We have never processed 6-inch wafers," he told investors. "Now, we have people in the company that have processed 6-inch wafers at prior employment, but it will be a new experience for Finisar. So, it will be challenging."
But the potential pay-off could be huge. The additional capacity implied by the size of the Sherman facility – previously operated by Texas Instruments - suggests that Finisar could be selling upwards of $100 million worth of VCSEL arrays by the time it is fully ramped.
As well as the competition with Lumentum, Finisar will be up against the likes of II-VI, Philips Photonics and ams-owned Princeton Optronics – all of whom have been making significant investments in VCSEL production capacity.
For its latest financial quarter, which ended October 29, Finisar posted a 10 per cent year-on-year decline sales to $332 million, as demand from OEM customers in China's optical communications space continued to decline.
Although sales are expected to remain somewhat flat before the new 3D sensing application demand really begins to kick in, Finisar's stock price edged up around 3 per cent in early trading on the Nasdaq exchange following the earnings release.
Fast-growing ams investing $200M in Singapore expansion
Finisar slips back as outlook disappoints
II-VI buys large UK wafer fab to expand laser production
Lumentum sees giant 3D sensing opportunity emerging
Philips Photonics eyes VCSEL boom as it ramps production


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4C Recognized in Gartner's New Market Guide for Integrated Media Planning Tools
MTS Staff Writer November 21, 2019, 2:56 pm November 21, 2019
4C, a global data science and marketing technology company, today announced that it has been featured as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's new Market Guide For Integrated Media Planning Tools. Gartner estimates that there are at least 50 vendors in this market. From 4C's perspective, being selected for this report underscores its emergence over the past decade as a leading innovator in cross-channel marketing software.
Gartner's report outlines the challenges that exist for brands operating in today's multimedia world: "Advertisers face a dynamic media environment that seems to be in a state of perpetual flux. Audiences coalesce rapidly around new platforms, from streaming video to social. Outmoded publishers find themselves with eroding, aging audiences, and often archaic advertising workflows." And the report comes at a time when "vendor innovation and market demand are coalescing around integrated video ad planning across TV, over-the-top (OTT) streaming, social and other digital video formats."
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"We think that the challenges identified by Gartner are precisely the issues that Scope by 4C was built to solve," said Aaron Goldman, CMO at 4C Insights. "We believe strongly that advertisers should be able to plan, buy, and measure media – particularly video – the way that consumers consume it, which is seamlessly across an ever-growing field of closed ecosystems."
Gartner's report found three key characteristics of an integrated media planning tool:
A self-serve user interface. Commercial software tools should provide a stand-alone user interface, not just consulting services or tools designed for seasoned professional media planners.
An independent, stand-alone model. For good reason, buyers prefer planning tools that are not beholden to any particular ad seller — or available only through a particular agency.
Reference data. To plan, it helps to know what media is for sale — what ad inventory and audience data can be purchased, at what price, and on what terms?
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4C believes its Scope platform delivers on all of these criteria, while also showcasing other characteristics identified as important for planning, buying, and measurement in the new cross-channel age. Gartner's report states that media planning software tools offer a range of functionality including:
Audience definition. These features load, integrate, access and manipulate (e.g., segment) audience data. Data inputs may include big data sources, like TV viewing data from a set-top box or smart TV, panel data, and granular household-, person- or device-level data from third parties or internal sources. Potential reach, frequency, and overlap may be calculated. Audiences may be denominated in households, people, device or other digital IDs.
Workflow. Process management and flowchart functionality manage the routing of tasks and deliverables for budget, creative, and audience approvals and authorizations. Tools may facilitate workflow across internal and external (e.g., agency) users, and support audit trails.
Reporting and analytics. Scheduled and ad hoc reporting capabilities range from simple tables to sophisticated visualizations and ad hoc query interfaces. Report content may include financial metrics, plan KPIs, media rankers and audience profiles. Shared and private dashboard views may be available.
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Basnett Street Nursery School offer up to 15 hours per week of provision. This is delivered either in the morning or afternoon sessions. The allocation process for nursery places is undertaken by the nursery school following LCC admission criteria. If you wish to apply for a nursery place for your child, you should contact the nursery directly. If there is not an available place, you will be placed on the waiting list.
We are now registering new children. To avoid disappointment please come and visit our outstanding nursery and complete the registration form to secure your child's place September Term. Application forms are available from the nursery and should be returned to the school with your child's birth certificate any supporting documentation as soon as possible.
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Before they can apply clinical prosthetic techniques, dental students must acquire a sound knowledge of the laboratory procedures concerned with the constructionof removable applianaces. The objective of the third edition of this illustrated manual remains to present the laboratory procedures behind denture construction.
The standard in prosthodontics for nearly 50 years, McCracken's Removable Partial Prosthodontics, 13th Edition walks readers through all the principles and concepts surrounding removable partial denture treatment planning and design that today's practitioners need to know. Using an evidence-based approach, this full-color text incorporates the latest information on new techniques, procedures, and equipment, including expanded information on dynamic communication and the use of implants with removable partial dentures. From initial contact with the patient to post-treatment care, McCracken's is the complete foundation today's dentists need to successfully practice prosthodontic care. A variety of philosophies and techniques are featured throughout the text, so readers can select and incorporate applicable techniques on a case-by-case basis. Full-color drawings and photographs give readers a detailed view of techniques, materials, and anatomic detail. Evidence-based approach uses current research to help readers diagnose, design, develop, and sequence a treatment plan. Expert guidance from both authors walks readers through the latest techniques as well as technological advances specific to removable partial dentures. NEW! Standardized removable partial denture designs offered for application to the major categories of patients seen in practice. NEW! Expanded information on the use of implants with removable partial dentures highlights considerations in treatment planning including the selection of implants and provision of care utilizing dental implants. NEW! More information on dynamic communication which incorporates the progress being made in shared decision making with patients, especially regarding decisions made in light of patient values and 'trade-off' considerations.
Obtenha toda a informação necessária para ter sucesso na substituição de dentes perdidos. Esta obra essencial abrange os princípios básicos do plano de tratamento e do desenho, e discute as mais modernas técnicas, procedimentos e equipamentos. Educadores de renome utilizam uma abordagem fundamentada em evidências para ajudar você a diagnosticar, desenhar, desenvolver, planejar e sequenciar um plano de tratamento. Um novo capítulo explica como selecionar e utilizar implantes para melhorar o desempenho da prótese. Este livro em cores oferece uma base completa no tratamento com próteses, desde o contato inicial com o paciente até os cuidados pós-tratamento, e dos conceitos básicos até os materiais avançados.


It's a tad late for Valentine cards, but this simple sentiment can work for many other occasions or just a thinking of you.
Stamp set is Paper Smooches "Smoocheroos" and colored with Copics. I added glossy accents to the little heart.
That is so cute - love the pun. Perfect CAS Valentines Day card!! BTW, I got my Valentine and it's one of my favs! I loved seeing it in person. I'll send an e-mail soon - I've been a little out of touch - something major is going on with me.


Wanted to make something gritty using the sonic template from my first song. Approached it from the challenge #3 angle: perspective. Is there something rorschachian about my choice of "From Below"? The lyrics didn't really come together for me, but I feel the chorus has something. I always struggle with vocals and tend to adopt phrasings from famous vocalists, in my humble way. So feel free to try to spot my influences.
Cool jazzy feel to it, almost like 50's. Delicious grit to it also.
very nice way of solving this task !
Love the heaviness of the intro! The vocal sections have a Smiths-on-their-darkest-day sort of vibe. I like the lo-fi vocal treatment, too: fits nicely with the lyrics. Good stuff!


Now, I know these posts are supposed to be published on Wednesday, but today, I have a little present for you… Or rather, I needed an excuse for why this post was late.
However, today's present is very similar to the gift I give you every week: carefully curated research that's applicable to your life and delivered to your inbox for free.
Think of me like a scientist Santa Clause. Or a $5 bill you found that can only be spent on learning psychology. Or, just check out today's post on how to give the PERFECT gift (according to science).
1. Do as requested. If someone asks for a particular gift, give them what they're requesting (within reason). Although you may think you know someone better than they know themselves, most likely you don't (e.g., just imagine someone saying the same thing about you). In which case, if someone asks for a specific gift, getting them that gift is sure to please.
2. Friends or acquaintances? Take a moment and think about the person you're going to buy a gift for: Are they someone that's socially close to you (e.g., a good friend) or someone that's more socially distant (e.g., some guy from the office). As a general rule of thumb, if the person is someone close, give them a present that reflects a piece of you (the gift-giver); however, if the person is someone distant, give them a present that reflects a piece of themselves (the gift-recipient).
3. Experiential > Material. In general, people tend to prefer experiential gifts (e.g., ski tickets; a massage; a nice meal; etc.) compared to more material gifts (e.g., jewelry; clothes; electronics). Buying someone an experiential gift shows that you know them well, as experiential gifts are often idiosyncratic. Moreover, research shows that people are much happier after experiential purchases compared to material ones, so an experiential gift is a doubly good idea!
4. Price? Who cares? Although many people obsess over the price of the gift their giving, research shows that most gift-recipients really don't care how much the present costs. What's more important is buying something that's feasible. Don't fret over getting the most desirable or expensive option; instead, try to focus on a gift that the person will actually use.
5. One shopping trip = Many bad gifts. Going to the mall can be a real hassle (especially during this shopping madness), so purchasing everyone's presents at once seems like the most efficient option. However, when you try to knock off a bunch of different gifts (for a bunch of people) at once, the individual personalization of each gift goes down—you're in a rush to get everyone's gifts, and so you're not as thoughtful about each person's gift individually.
So there you have it! The five essential ingredients determined by science on how to give the perfect gift.
The real gift is this blog and the consistency you've shown!
Aw man, the real gift is your continued friendship and support through the years. Thanks for the kind words!


Adjustment period: reflects the agreed upon frequency of rate adjustments. This can range from once every 1 to 10 years. NOTE: usually one year adjustments.
Appreciation: Increase in value due to any cause.
Closing: The final step in the sale and transfer of ownership of a property. The title is transferred from the seller to the buyer; the buyer signs the mortgage and pays costs of settlement; any money due the seller and purchaser are paid.
Consideration: Anything of value to induce another to enter into a contract (We.e. money, services, a promise).
Index: The published rate that serves as a base for the interest rate charged on an adjustable rate mortgage or home equity line and also as the base for rate changes used by the lender. The "Prime Rate" you hear about in the news is one interest rate index that mortgages are tied to. It is more common to find adjustable rate mortgages tied to different treasury bill indexes, the average interest rate paid on certificates of deposit, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR), and the 11th District Cost of Funds.
Margin: The number of percentage points the lender adds to the index rate to determine the annual percentage rate.
Rate Cap: The limit on how much the variable interest rate may increase during any given adjustment period or during the life of the plan.
Shared equity mortgage: A home loan in which an investor is granted a share of the equity, thereby allowing the investor to participate in the proceeds from resale.


Serving Size: 4 fl. oz. (120ml), Servings Per Container: about 6, Amount Per Serving: Calories 100, Total Fat 0g (0% DV), Sodium 0mg (0% DV), Total Carb. 26g (8% DV), Fiber 0g (0% DV) Sugars 24g, Protein 0g, Vit. C 20%. Not a significant source of calories from fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, Vitamin A, calcium, and iron. Percent Daily values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.


When it comes to mission-critical Internet connectivity, the private leased-line is a solid, enterprise-grade Internet access technology. A leased-line is a dedicated, point-to-point, digital Internet connection capable of high data transfer rates with extremely low latency.
Our leased-line data service is a direct point-to-point connection from your location to our network. This means lower latency and superior levels of reliability and availability. Leased-line services are also supported by the local carrier with a much higher degree of urgency than a DSL or similar consumer-oriented services such as cable modem. For example, if a problem is encountered with your leased line, the local telephone company or carrier is mandated by the PUC to respond to an outage within 4 hours. DSL and similar services have support on a "best-effort" basis and can often experience extended periods of outage as a result.
Dedicated leased lines are ideal if you require a permanent, highly reliable, and highly scalable Internet access service. This type of connection provides extremely high levels of reliability, availability, and performance and is well suited for high-bandwidth applications such as corporate LAN or WAN connectivity, multimedia web hosting, FTP, streaming media and other high bandwidth applications.
A full T1 Line, sometimes referred to as DS1 line, is an internet connection that transmits digital information at a rate of 1.54 megabits per second. A full T1 line has 24 separate channels that can be allocated for either Voice or Data transmission, which allows some companies to offer an Integrated T1 Line.
Small or growing companies might be interested in a Fractional T1 lines. A fractional T1 is a portion of a full T1 and carries a fractional amount of data channels based on your requirements.