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This Is the Only Treatment That Helped My Constant Dark Circles
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By Gabrielle Dyer
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Dark circles, shadows, bags - whatever you want to call them, they're the bane of most modern women's lives.
The most frustrating part is that, most of the time they're hereditary or related to the structure of your face, so you could be racking up a full 10-hours of sleep a night and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.
I can safely say I had reached the point of near obsession, every-time I looked at my face in the mirror, the only thing I could see were deep, dark hollows beneath my eyes.
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Despite knowing every trick in the book, spending half my time colour-correcting and layering various different concealers - they were still there, ever-present, mocking all the early nights i'd ever managed.
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One day, I decided I'd had enough - something needed to be done because eye creams and cover ups were not cutting it. I embarked on some extensive research, I wanted to know: my options, the risks and how much of a difference it had the potential to actually make.
My research led me to leader in the ophthalmological field, Dr Maryam Zamani.
An aesthetic Doctor and Oculoplastic Surgeon, Zamani holds an esteemed reputation for administering the most natural facial and eye enhancements in the game.
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I knew I had found the one. I booked in with Maryam at the Cadogan Clinic the following week and we sat in her office discussing how she would deal with my dreaded bags once and for all.
Personally, I felt like my biggest issue was the discolouration, something that I assumed would be treated using some sort of cool, high tech laser.
How wrong I was. "You don't have severe discolouration," she explained, "the darkness is due to a lack of volume beneath the eye area." Scrap the lasers, then.
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Maryam went on to say that the bags were a result of my facial structure more than anything else and were something that would unfortunately worsen with age or become more prominent if I lost weight.
After carefully examining my face and eye area, she told me that the best line of treatment would be filler, administered in specific areas to build volume where it is lacking.
As with any non surgical treatment, I was told about all the potential risks: bleeding, bruising, allergic reaction and my least favourite of the bunch - blindness, which really made me think about whether or not I should be going through with the treatment.
Thankfully, I knew I was in the best possible hands, so we decided to go ahead.
Honestly, I am the worlds biggest wimp, my pain threshold rivals a baby and I really, really hate needles.
I initially asked for my face to be smothered with numbing cream, but Maryam insisted that the procedure is pain free.
"I want to do one first without any cream, just so you can feel that it's not painful and then you can let me know if you need any."
I agreed and turns out, she was right. You can't really feel anything other than a small pinch, but even that is a slight exaggeration for what I felt.
The filler was injected in small amounts around my eyes and the whole thing was over before I even had time to reconsider the fact that I could end up blind (but seriously, terrifying).
Maryam told me I would need to come back in two weeks to see how the filler was fairing and for a potential top up.
I expected bruising but I didn't have any, partly I think because of how delicate Maryam was.
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It didn't really feel that weird, either. That night, if I pressed on certain areas I could make out that the filler was there, but I couldn't see it and knew that it would settle soon.
Two weeks later I was back from my second and final session and it was as easy and pain free as the first. Overall Maryam administered 1.5ml of Juvederm Volift and immediately I could see a difference.
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She assured me that the results would last about a year so long as I didn't have any dramatic episodes of weight loss.
My bags haven't been totally eradicated and I sill swear by my trusty concealer, but I don't really notice them anymore - they're not the first thing I see when I look in the mirror and I'm not convinced that everyone who looks at me is questioning when I last got some zzz's.
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I'm not going to lie to you, it definitely isn't cheap, with prices starting from around £450 - but it's true that you get what you pay for and I wouldn't trust anyone else to handle a needle so close to my eyes.
If you're self conscious about your under eye bags I really can't recommend talking to the experts about this treatment.
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Domesticating Foreign Finance
By Jeremy C. Kress January 11, 2021 by renholding
Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and other foreign banks played an outsized role in the 2008 financial crisis that cost U.S. households trillions of dollars of wealth. As credit markets froze, foreign banks' U.S. offices experienced extreme stress and relied on the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities for survival. After the crisis, policymakers tried to strengthen regulation of foreign banks' U.S. operations, which account for roughly 20 percent of the U.S. banking system. In my new article, Domesticating Foreign Finance, I contend that the United States' post-crisis reforms were insufficient and that foreign banks continue to pose unwarranted risks to U.S. financial stability.
Foreign banks have traditionally benefited from regulatory flexibility to operate in the United States through several different legal entity types. Under U.S. law, a foreign bank may establish a locally-incorporated bank subsidiary with all the privileges of a U.S. bank. Alternatively, a foreign bank may operate a U.S. branch – an extension of the parent bank rather than an independent legal entity. In addition, a foreign bank that meets elevated regulatory standards may set up a nonbank subsidiary, such as a broker-dealer or insurance company, in the United States.
This regulatory flexibility created significant risks in 2008. Before the crisis, many foreign banks established sprawling U.S. operations consisting of multiple branches, banks, and other subsidiaries. In some cases, a foreign bank maintained a network of U.S. offices without a top-tier, domestic entity through which to oversee the firm's consolidated U.S. operations. These scattered structures posed challenges for both the foreign bank's managers and its supervisory agencies, which were unable to quickly and accurately assess a firm's aggregated U.S. risks.
After the crisis, the Federal Reserve created a new requirement that a foreign bank with more than $50 billion in non-branch U.S. assets must establish an intermediate holding company (IHC) to hold the foreign bank's U.S. subsidiaries. The IHC requirement – which went into effect in mid-2016 – was supposed to enhance foreign bank oversight by creating a focal point through which the Federal Reserve could supervise and regulate all of a foreign bank's subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
The IHC rule, however, contained a glaring omission: It did not require a foreign bank to situate its U.S. branches within its IHC. Instead, the Federal Reserve continued to allow a foreign bank to operate branches in the United States separately, as extensions of the parent company.
The exclusion of branches from the IHC rule is problematic because foreign bank branches pose unique – and elevated – risks. In contrast to foreign banks' subsidiaries and IHCs, foreign bank branches do not maintain capital in the United States, and they are not subject to standardized liquidity requirements. In addition, many foreign banks' U.S. branches – which are prohibited from accepting retail deposits – rely heavily on volatile forms of short-term funding that magnify the likelihood of destabilizing runs. Moreover, because foreign banks' U.S. branches are legally part of the parent company and are overseen primarily by their home country regulator, U.S. authorities lack timely access to important information about their financial condition.
Perversely, the Federal Reserve's IHC rule has given foreign banks an incentive to shift activities from their U.S. subsidiaries to branches to evade stricter regulation. For example, between 2016 and 2019, four European banks – Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and UBS – collectively slashed $298 billion, or 33 percent of assets, from their U.S. IHCs. Over the same period, these firms increased their U.S. branch assets by $129 billion, or 42 percent, before slightly moderating the size of their branches.
European Wholesale Banks—IHC versus Branch Assets ($ billions)
The migration of foreign bank assets out of subsidiaries and into branches is a classic case of regulatory arbitrage – institutions shifting activities to less-regulated legal entities to avoid oversight. Foreign banks' regulatory arbitrage has intensified vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system. Indeed, foreign bank branches were particularly problematic during the 2008 crisis. By strategically reallocating assets to their branches, foreign banks now threaten to reignite the systemic risks they created roughly a decade ago.
My article proposes a better approach to foreign bank regulation: requiring large foreign banks to convert their U.S. branches into subsidiaries. Specifically, I recommend that U.S. policymakers should (1) force foreign banks deemed "systemically important" by international regulators to establish separately-capitalized U.S. subsidiaries instead of branches and (2) prohibit any other foreign bank from operating U.S. branches with more than $25 billion in assets.
Requiring systemically-important foreign banks to operate in the United States through locally-incorporated IHCs instead of branches would have several salutary effects. For example, it would create a single focal point for monitoring and addressing a foreign bank's consolidated risk profile within the United States, rather than the dual IHC and branch structures that many foreign banks currently maintain. Moreover, creating easily-separable local subsidiaries would enhance the United States' ability to wind down a foreign bank's domestic operations in an orderly fashion if it were to experience distress. Requiring subsidiaries would also bring more foreign bank activity within the U.S. federal deposit insurance system, thereby helping to offset foreign banks' systemic risks and potentially enhancing competition for the United States' largest retail banks.
Contrary to popular perception, requiring subsidiaries would not lead to harmful balkanization or provoke retaliation that disadvantages U.S. banks. While it would likely reduce some short-term, cross-border capital flows, this is a feature, not a bug. Eliminating risky branches would diminish short-term capital markets transactions of dubious societal value while preserving socially-desirable long-term investments. Further, many other countries have already ring-fenced banking activities within their borders, and any additional retaliation by foreign regulators would not significantly harm U.S. banks, which are less internationally-focused than most foreign banks.
At its core, my article calls for reorienting the United States' regulatory priorities. For the past several decades, the United States has mistakenly prioritized excessive financial integration at the expense of financial stability. The Federal Reserve's omission of branches from its IHC rule is emblematic of U.S. policymakers' undue deference to foreign banks, which has allowed those banks to specialize in activities that do not demonstrably benefit the financial system. Recognizing that the risks of these activities are primarily borne domestically, my proposals would rebalance the United States' regulatory objectives to make financial stability a priority, without sacrificing economically-productive financial integration.
This post comes to us from Jeremy C. Kress, assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business. It is based on his recent article, "Domesticating Foreign Finance," available here and forthcoming in the Florida Law Review.

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Mortgage brokers in the UK are taking a more advisory role and are set to continue to do so in the near future, according to research.
The study by Alliance & Leicester found that 76 per cent of brokers feel they are heading in such a direction, while 47 per cent have said they are providing more advice to consumers than they did around six months ago.
Over 60 per cent of the firms have hoped their actions will help them secure longer relations with their clients.
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Lindisfarne legacy continues to nurture young song-writing talent in North East England
Introducing Kay Greyson, winner of the 2020 Alan Hull Award at the Community Foundation
Kay Greyson, performing at a sold out show in January 2020 at Bobiks, Newcastle
The Alan Hull Award at the Community Foundation has announced Kay Greyson, a rapper from the West end of Newcastle, as its winner in 2020.
The awards scheme was established at the Community Foundation in memory of Lindisfarne's Alan Hull, and supports one young song-writer every year with a bursary of £1,000.
Kay Greyson, who headlined a sold-out show at Bobiks, Newcastle on 11 January 2020 joins an impressive list of past award winners including The Lake Poets' Martin Longstaff, Callum Pitt, Jake Houlsby, Cattle and Cane's Joe Hammill and Ditte Elly.
With plans for 2020 to include the launch of a new EP, Kay has said the £1,000 award will enable her to purchase tools to support her song-writing, and the general day-to-day management of her music career.
Aged 21, Kay Greyson, describes herself as a rapper from Newcastle and has been making hip hop and rap music for over 15 years. Kay adds:
Bobiks, Newcastle, 2020
"I wrote my first song when I was about 6 years old. I've always loved performing and being an entertainer and I make hip hop music and rap music.
"It was a friend of mine called Adam, from The Collective, a hip hop and reggae promoter in Newcastle who messaged me about the Alan Hull Award Scheme at the Community Foundation. It sounded really interesting, so I applied and it ended up being a really positive experience!
"With the £1,000 award, I plan to buy a new laptop. Currently I manage my music career on my mobile, which is really difficult when you're having to respond to a lot of emails, or for me to do some production if I'm not in a studio. So this award will really help me be more professional and be more business-minded.
"Anyone thinking of applying to the Alan Hull Award Scheme should do it. There isn't enough opportunities for musicians and creatives with pots of money to develop your career. So, I think it's a really positive thing and people need to get involved."
Lindisfarne's Ray Laidlaw established the Alan Hull Award at the Community Foundation in memory of his friend and Lindisfarne bandmate, Alan Hull, who died in 1995. Alan Hull wrote some of his biggest songs while working at the St Nicholas' Psychiatric Hospital in Gosforth. During this period Alan wrote two of his greatest songs, "Clear White Light" and "WinterSong" in one night.
Ray Laidlaw says of Kay's music:
"It's socialist based and has echoes of Alan Hull, she's talking about what she knows about. Her songs are in the spirit of Alan Hull, if he was around now he would love her, cause it's all about attitude. She sings about things that matter but she does it with a smile on her face. She doesn't sneer."
Northumbrian Piper, Kathryn Tickell, who is also part of the Alan Hull Awards panel added
"I love the spirit of Kay's music and performance. As well as having a potentially international reach it is also very much of the North East - and like the folk music I grew up with it is music with a real sense of place and identity - music of the people, by the people."
The Alan Hull Award recognises and supports one young song-writer or composer every year with a bursary of £1,000. The bursary can be used in whatever way will best help them develop their song-writing; from buying equipment to simply covering living expenses freeing them up to focus on honing their skills.
Jo Cundall, Senior Advisor for Culture at the Community Foundation adds:
"We're delighted to recognise Kay Greyson with our Alan Hull Award in 2020. Kay is a fantastic talent, and the panel chose her based on the quality of her song-writing and music.
"Alan Hull is known as a prolific song-writer himself, and it's amazing that his legacy continues to nurture the next generation of song-writers and give them a little helping hand in the early stages of their career.
"Kay is already playing sold out shows and she is certainly a rising star. The award will be used to purchase a high specification laptop that can be used to record tracks as well as manage her career day-to-day. We look forward to see where this takes Kay in 2020 and beyond."
Grants for individuals at the Community Foundation are currently closed due to the integration of a new grants system, however the Alan Hull Award will reopen in Autumn 2020.
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| name = Rhynchocypris
| fossil_range =
| image = Phoxinus percnurus.jpg
| image_caption = Mocsári csellé (Rhynchocypris percnurus)
| regnum = Állatok (Animalia)
| phylum = Gerinchúrosok (Chordata)
| subphylum = Gerincesek (Vertebrata)
| infraphylum = Állkapcsosok (Gnathostomata)
| superclassis = Csontos halak (Osteichthyes)
| classis = Sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii)
| subclassis = Újúszójúak (Neopterygii)
| infraclassis = Valódi csontoshalak (Teleostei)
| superordo = Pontyszerűek (Ostariophysi)
| ordo = Pontyalakúak (Cypriniformes)
| superfamilia = Cyprinoidea
| familia = Pontyfélék (Cyprinidae)
| subfamilia = Leuciscinae
| subfamilia_authority = Bonaparte, 1835
| genus = Rhynchocypris
| genus_authority = Günther, 1889
| synonyms = *| range_map =
| range_map_caption = Elterjedési területük
| wikispecies = Rhynchocypris
| wikicommonscat = Rhynchocypris
}}

A Rhynchocypris a sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii) osztályának a pontyalakúak (Cypriniformes) rendjébe, ezen belül a pontyfélék (Cyprinidae) családjába tartozó nem.

 Rendszerezés
A nembe az alábbi 6 faj tartozik:Rhynchocypris czekanowskii (Dybowski, 1869)Rhynchocypris dementjevi (Turdakov & Piskarev, 1954)Rhynchocypris lagowskii (Dybowski, 1869)Rhynchocypris oxycephalus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
mocsári cselle (Rhynchocypris percnurus) (Pallas, 1814)Rhynchocypris poljakowii'' (Kessler, 1879)

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Bogutskaya, N.G., A.M. Naseka, S.V. Shedko, E.D. Vasil'eva and I.A. Chereshnev, 2008. The fishes of the Amur River: updated check-list and zoogeography. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 19(4):301-366.
Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol and Freyhof, Berlin. 646 pp.

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Q: Get access to specific terminal emulator over SSH background:
I use a linux box(call it host) everyday. But sometimes, the GUI/mouse/keyboard stop working and it(host) hangs. I was not able to do anything but restart it(host). So, now i always a ssh server running on it(host) so that I can connect to it and turn off things safely. I do this by using VNC client on my laptop(call it REMOTE). It replicates the whole screen from the host, so even if my mouse/keyboard on the host don't work, i could close things with REMOTE. But VNC is expensive on network usage and slow. I want to replace it with normal ssh connection.
problem redefined:
So, if I start a simple program to print "hello world" endlessly on terminal on the "host". How can i see the same terminal(with hello world printing) on "REMOTE" over SSH. Not just see, control this program say stop it, kill it etc.

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Q: Error in conversion date from character string I'm trying to do a dynamic table, in which, number of columns depends on range of dates. So, I'm trying to use a pivot table. Every time I run the query I've got this error:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 18
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
This is the query (MSSQL):
DECLARE @StartDate AS DATETIME
DECLARE @EndDate AS DATETIME
DECLARE @Query NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @Str_Dates NVARCHAR(MAX)

SET @StartDate = '2014-05-01'
SET @EndDate = '2014-05-16'

SELECT  @Str_Dates = STUFF(( SELECT DISTINCT
                    '],[' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CreateDate,111)
                    FROM myDB.dbo.SaleTransaction
                    WHERE CreateDate BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate
                    ORDER BY 1
                    FOR XML PATH('')
                    ), 1, 2, '')
                    + ']'

SET @Query =
'SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT CreateDate AS [DATE], ItemID, Description, SUM(Quantity) AS [QTY]
FROM myDB.dbo.SaleTransactionDetails
WHERE CreateDate BETWEEN '+@StartDate+' AND '+@EndDate+'
GROUP BY CreateDate, ItemID, Description
) tpvt
PIVOT (SUM(tpvt.QDE) FOR tpvt.DATE
IN ('+@Str_Dates+')) AS pvt'

EXECUTE (@Query)

If I remove WHERE CreateDate BETWEEN '+@StartDate+' AND '+@EndDate+' the query runs without problems. So, I try use CONVERT function in several ways to convert the variables into Dates but without success.
Any idea what I can do to use this variables and don't have that error?

A: try this:
SET @StartDate = convert(datetime,'2014-05-01')
SET @EndDate = convert(datetime,'2014-05-16')

A: *

*In TSQL, date/time are presented as string and string is enclosed by single quote mark.

*Use two single quote mark to escape single quote mark inside a string.
So modify your code to
'WHERE CreateDate BETWEEN '''+@StartDate+''' AND '''+ @EndDate+ '''

A: WHERE CreateDate BETWEEN '+@StartDate+'
You cannot concatenate (+) a string to a datetime.
Convert it to a quoted string in your dynamic SQL:
'CreateDate BETWEEN ''' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), @StartDate, 112) + ''' AND ...


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Q: get all the combinations between x arrays I have N arrays with objects inside. All objects has the same keys.
arr[
   {values:val1,names:someName},
   {values:val2,names:otherName},
]
arr2[
   {values:valx,names:someNamex},
   {values:valy,names:otherNamey},
]

I need to mix all the combinations between that N arrays.
Something like this:
newArray[
{values:'val1''valx',names:'someName''someNamex'}
{values:'val1''valy',names:'someName''someNamey'}
{values:'val2''valx',names:'otherName''someNamex'}
{values:'val2''valy',names:'otherName''someNamey'}
]

I hope this can be helpful to find an answer to this problem.
Thanks for your time!

A: Presented below is one possible way to achieve the desired objective.
Code Snippet

const myArr1 = [
   {values:'val1',names:'someName'},
   {values:'val2',names:'otherName'},
];
const myArr2 = [
   {values:'valx',names:'someNamex'},
   {values:'valy',names:'otherNamey'},
];

const arrOfArr = [...Array(5).keys()].map(x => (
  [...Array(3).keys()]
  .map(k => ({
    values: `val${x}${k}`,
    names: `someName${x}${k}`
  }))
));
//console.log(...arrOfArr);

const myConcat = (a, b, ...objs) => (
  objs.flatMap((obj) => ({
    values: `${a.values} ${b.values}`,
    names: `${a.names} ${b.names}`
  }))
);
const f = (a, b) => [].concat(...a.flatMap(d => b.flatMap(e => myConcat(d, e, []))));
const cartesian = (a, b, ...c) => (b ? cartesian(f(a, b), ...c) : a);

console.log(
  'simple test case with only 2 arrays: ', cartesian(myArr1, myArr2), '\n\n\t******\n\n'
);
console.log(
  'complex test case with 7 arrays some with 3 objects each: ',
  cartesian(myArr1, myArr2, ...arrOfArr)
);
.as-console-wrapper { max-height: 100% !important; top: 0 }

Explanation

*

*Adapts the cartesian-product answer as noted by pilchard to this context

*Invokes the cartesian method for given set of arrays

*Uses .myConcat() to transform the result of concatenation to have values and names string-concatenated at a per-object level


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New Arctic Drilling Ban Is A Significant Victory For The Environment
The ban means that the government cannot hand out any new offshore oil and gas licences in Arctic waters. And without a licence, a company cannot apply to drill for oil or gas. In essence, the ban protects both the sensitive Arctic environment and vulnerable communities by stopping risky projects before they start.
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Canada makes Arctic waters off limits, but questions remain
In December 2016, Canada and the United States jointly announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling licences in the Arctic's icy waters. This is a significant victory for the Arctic.
Ecojustice lawyers have worked for years with WWF-Canada to make sure that local communities and the environment are protected when decision-makers consider proposals to drill in Arctic waters. We are pleased that Canada's announcement acknowledges both the critical importance of the Arctic waters to local communities and wildlife and the particular vulnerability of the Arctic to the impacts of an oil spill -- concerns we've consistently raised on behalf of our client.
There's no question that drilling in the Arctic poses serious risks. Not only is the environment uniquely vulnerable to an oil spill, conditions on the ground and in the waters can be hazardous and pose serious logistical challenges to companies working in the area.
Some oil companies have even admitted that they just do not have the technology or processes needed to drill responsibly in the Arctic. The ban will go a long ways towards making sure that, unless and until industry develops such technology and processes, risky drilling will not go ahead.
A few questions remain
While the ban is a big step in the right direction, it is also important to recognize its limits. Canada's ban on new licences is indefinite, but not permanent. Unlike the U.S., which proclaimed a permanent ban, Canada will review its ban every five years to see whether climate and marine science supports lifting it. The ban is also not legally binding (there is no law to enforce the ban), and has no effect on existing licences and permits, which means Arctic drilling could theoretically still happen.
Ultimately, the ban gives the Arctic some breathing room -- room in which Canada must act to fulfil other commitments it has made to protect the Arctic.
In the wake of this major announcement, a few important questions remain, including:
Will Canada legislate the ban?
In the United States, President Barack Obama took steps to make the U.S. ban legally binding. Right now, Canada's ban is simply a policy statement (not a law) that can be changed without transparency or accountability by the government of the day.
How will the ban apply to different types of oil and gas licences?
The announcement and supporting documents explain in part what happens to an existing exploration licence, but there are other kinds of licences at play in the Arctic. Many existing Arctic licences are significant discovery licences, which do not expire and give companies an exclusive option to secure a production licence to extract oil. Will an exploration or significant discovery licence holder be able to receive a licence to produce oil, despite the ban? If so, this opens a sizeable loophole that raises both climate and marine environment protection concerns.
Although the answers to these questions may affect the degree of protection given to the Arctic, the ban is nonetheless a crucial step forward.
Ultimately, the ban gives the Arctic some breathing room -- room in which Canada must act to fulfil other commitments it has made to protect the Arctic. These start with conserving Arctic biodiversity, including through the legal designation of marine protected areas. First among these must be the Lancaster , an area Ecojustice and WWF-Canada helped preserve through strategic legal action, but efforts should not stop there.
The Canadian Arctic is home to dozens of ecologically- and biologically-significant marine areas spanning from the Beaufort Sea to Hudson Bay to Baffin Bay. The ban gives Canada a golden opportunity to meet its commitments and protect these areas under the law.
The impacts of the ban also extend beyond the Arctic. By making its announcement with the U.S., Canada acknowledged that oil spills do not respect political boundaries. In regions like the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for example, a major oil spill could cause catastrophic harm to five different provinces and potentially harm fishing areas we share with the U.S. The Arctic announcement is a model that can and should be followed in regions like the Gulf, which has its own unique environmental and community vulnerabilities.
From coast to coast to coast, it is clear that risky oil and gas extraction and transport pose serious threats to the environment and to local communities. This ban is a good step towards making sure Canada protects and conserves the Arctic's stunning biodiversity -- and lives up to our commitments to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. After all, if we are to do our part to ensure a livable earth for future generations, going forward, Canada needs to make leaving oil and gas in the ground the rule, rather than the exception.
This piece was written by Ecojustice lawyer Ian Miron. As Canada's only national environmental law charity, Ecojustice is building the case for a better earth. Learn more at ecojustice.ca, or subscribe to receive updates from us via email.
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California Proposition 65 Reformulation of DEHP in Consumer Products
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A number of Prop 65 settlements involving DEHP have been reached for a wide variety of products. The parties in these settlements agreed to reformulate DEHP to less than or equal to 0.1%. Some of the settlements also allow the use of a Prop 65 warning.
California Proposition 65 (Prop 65 [1]) is the 'Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986', a ballot initiative passed overwhelmingly by California residents in November 1986. It requires the state to publish a list of chemicals [2] that are known to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm. The list was first published in 1987 and is updated at least once a year.
Prop 65 places two important provisions [3] for companies doing business in California. These are:
Providing a clear and reasonable warning before knowingly and intentionally exposing anyone to a listed chemical. Once a chemical is listed, businesses have 12 months to comply with this requirement. The new and revised language for a clear and reasonable warning [4] will become effective on August 30, 2018
Prohibiting from knowingly discharging a listed chemical into sources of drinking water. Once a chemical is listed, businesses have 20 months to comply with this requirement
Businesses with less than 10 employees and government agencies are exempt from these 2 provisions. Businesses are also exempt from these provisions if the exposures create no significant risk of cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), also known as bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (CAS 117-81-7), has been on the Prop 65 list of chemicals since January 1, 1988, as a chemical known to cause cancer. Since January 1989, enforcement actions against businesses that fail to warn consumers about exposure to DEHP have resulted in a number of settlement agreements [5].
Since the second half of 2016, there have been a number of Prop 65 settlement agreements requiring the reformulation of DEHP and/or providing a Prop 65 warning label in a wide variety of products. A Prop 65 settlement is a consent agreement between the parties named in the settlement and a party not named in a settlement is not bound by that settlement.
Highlights of these settlement agreements are summarized in Table 1.
Reformulation for DEHP/warning
1 Audio listening devices and headphone accessories (including chargers, adapters and cases that are sold either individually or as accessories to another audio listening device) < 0.1% otherwise warning
2 Car dusters and related storage bags ≤ 1000 ppm otherwise warning
3 Clear PVC single product displays/packaging ≤ 1000 ppm
4 Fuel pump nozzles with vinyl/PVC covers ≤ 1000 ppm
5 Hearing protections ≤ 1000 ppm otherwise warning
6 Photo albums ≤ 1000 ppm otherwise warning
7 Racquets with vinyl/PVC cases ≤ 1000 ppm otherwise warning
8 Solar showers ≤ 1000 ppm DEHP otherwise warning
9 Vinyl/PVC oil suction hose < 0.1%
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Health Canada Proposed Changes to the List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods
On March 1, 2017, Health Canada proposed two changes to the list of contaminants and other adulterating substances in foods. These are: changing the maximum lead level in fruit juice, fruit nectar and water permitted in sealed containers and also adding a separate maximum level of arsenic in apple juice and changing the level permitted for water in sealed containers.
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Not just another corn fritter – these are Bill Granger's famous corn fritters! This really is restaurant quality food made in your own home. The flavour will knock your socks off!
I actually posted this right back when I first started RecipeTin Eats. Back then, I had hardly any readers and my photos weren't so great. But patience isn't my greatest virtue and I was so excited about starting a food blog that I couldn't wait to share my favourite recipes.
Fast forward almost 2 years (2 years??? I've been doing this for 2 years??). My photography has somewhat improved. And I'm so blessed to have so many readers from all around this big wide world to share my recipes with.
I made these corn fritters on the Easter long weekend and as I was making the "mmmm" noises as I munched through my pile of fritters, it made me sad to think that so few people had seen the recipe because it was buried in the archives (with not-so-crash-hot-photos!).
So I decided to update the post, take fresh new photos and share this again!
There is a reason I have gone to the effort of reshooting and reposting this recipe – because they are very special corn fritters. These are Bill Granger's corn fritters, from his popular bistro, arguably one of the best places for brunch in Sydney.
Bill's corn fritters are unlike any other "out there" because the whole fritter truly tastes of corn, rather than just bursts of it whenever you bite into a corn kernel. This is because of the extra step (worth it!) of blending most of the corn with the batter – along with coriander (cilantro) which gives it another flavour boost. If you have a handheld stick, you can just do this in the mixing bowl (this is how I do it), otherwise you can use a food processor or blender.
PPS No laughing at my Baby Hands!?
Truly, these fritters are incredible, whether you use fresh, frozen or canned corn. To be honest, I normally use frozen corn – it's just irresistibly convenient – but as with anything made using fresh rather than canned vegetables, it really is extra special if you use corn off the cob.
The avocado salsa topping is a perfect accompaniment with these corn fritters. It's juicy and creamy, and also adds a burst of freshness to this.
These are the legendary Bill Granger Corn Fritters with Avocado Salsa. The extra step that makes these corn fritters really special is blending some of the corn and cilantro (coriander) into the batter - it makes the whole fritter truly taste of corn, rather than just bursts of it when you bite into kernels. This recipe makes 12 fritters and serves 4.
Turn on the oven to very low - just to keep the fritters warm.
Place 2 cups of the corn kernels and the onion, eggs, coriander, salt and pepper in a bowl and whizz with a stick blender until most of the corn is pureed (but still lumpy, not completely smooth). You can also do this step in a blender or food processor.
Stir through remaining corn, flour and baking powder until just combined.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a skillet/fry pan over a medium high heat.
When the oil is hot, drop 2 heaped tablespoons of mixture per fritter into the pan and cook in batches for 1 1/2 minutes each side, or until golden.
Transfer to a baking tray and keep warm in the oven while you are making the rest of the fritters.
To serve, stack 3 corn fritters on each plate and top with avocado salsa and extra cilantro/coriander leaves if desired.
Combine all ingredients, toss very gently.
1. Fresh corn is best but you can use defrosted frozen or well drained canned corn kernels.
2. Recipe very slightly adapted from this one by Bill Granger. The change I made was to stir through the flour after pureeing the corn because otherwise, there is a risk of over beating the flour which will make the fritters tough.
Do they freeze well? My daughter loves them.
Is it possible to used creamed corn instead of blitzing the kernels? After trying your cornbread muffin recipe I'm now obsessed with creamed corn!
Love, love, love that you can scale the serves. This made it super easy as I'm making these for our Church Cafe.
Sorry this may sound like a ridiculous question but when you say fresh corn are they cooked on the cob first or just cut straight from the cob prior to boiling??
I've tried a few corn fritter recipes but these have got the best!
Amazing flavour and texture, I'll never try another fritter recipe, this is most definitely a keeper!
Another fabulous recipe – thank you!!
Tasty, light and not tough like many I have made….good tip to be light when handling the flour.
I just made these for a light dinner and they were delicious. Thank you for the recipe.
After having fritters at a cafe recently, I wanted to recreate them and yours looked very similar and I just made them and they were pretty much the same – fluffy and so flavorsome, they were amazing.
I'm happy to discover your recipes are healthy (thanks for the nutrition info) but honest plus they're no fuss and cost effective. Thanks! Can't wait to try more of your recipes.
My favourite Fritter recipe! Me and my husband make them in bulk, cook them and put them in the freezer so its easily available all the time. It's flavorful and refreshing!
How do you reheat after the freezer.? Could I reheat in the oven for a group of people?


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Barney & Worth Joins Forces with Murraysmith
Murraysmith Welcomes Strategic Planning and Communications Partner Barney & Worth to the Team
Murraysmith is excited to announce our acquisition of Barney & Worth, Inc., a regional leader in strategic planning and communications services for public infrastructure projects.
Murraysmith and Barney & Worth are long-time partners with a history of collaboration on complex, multidisciplinary projects. Adding Barney & Worth to the Murraysmith team further strengthens this relationship and expands Murraysmith's service offerings with senior-level expertise in infrastructure planning, funding strategies, strategic communications, digital marketing, public engagement, equity outreach, and more. Like Barney & Worth, Murraysmith believes that good decisions make great communities, and shares a commitment to economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Barney & Worth is led by Libby Barg Bakke, who is widely known for her expertise working with elected officials, interest groups, and the public to build long-term support for projects. As President of Barney & Worth, she will be joining Murraysmith's management team as the head of our new planning and communications discipline. We are thrilled to further diversify our leadership team with Libby's fresh perspective.
"There has never been a more important time to creatively adapt the services we provide to better meet the needs of our clients," said Murraysmith CEO Chris Rayasam. "The addition of Barney & Worth to our team not only allows us to provide innovative approaches to identifying and securing funding opportunities, but also provides our project managers, designers, and technical specialists with a deeper understanding of our clients' challenges and opportunities."
Founded in 1978, Barney & Worth is currently contributing to planning and communications for infrastructure projects totaling more than $2.5 billion, including Portland's Bull Run Water Treatment Projects; the Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant Secondary Treatment Plant Expansion Program; Tualatin Valley Water District, Hillsboro, and Beaverton's Willamette River Water Supply Program; and Bend's $190 million transportation bond measure.
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Ajman University (Arabic: جامعة عجمان) was established in 17 June 1988 as the first private university in the GCC, Ajman University (AU) also was the first university in the UAE to admit expatriate students under the institutional name "Ajman University College of Science and Technology" and subsequently was renamed "Ajman University of Science and Technology". In 2018, it was renamed again to "Ajman University". Ajman University is located in Al Jurf area closes to Khalifa Hospital in Ajman. The 215,000 square meter (2.3 million square feet) campus has sports facilities (football, basketball, track and field, swimming), gymnasium, bookshop, health unit, restaurants, and mosques. Its standard academic year is divided into the fall (August) and spring (January) semesters; it also has one summer semester (June). Ajman university was ranked as 45th top university in the Arab region and number 6 in the UAE according to QS University rankings. ..More on Wikipedia
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The whole process was very easy and surprisingly quick, without being rushed. Would definitely recommend them.
G. Russell "Rusty" Boleman and his wife, Gayle founded Boleman Law Firm in 1991 with the goal of treating everyone with respect and dignity, while providing excellence in customer service and legal advice.
The Virginia General Assembly recently voted to end the Commonwealth's policy of suspending drivers licenses for unpaid court fines and fees. This new policy will go into effect on July 1st and will be retroactive for approximately 627,000 Virginians. Suspended licenses due to unpaid court fines and fees are something that we see very regularly so this policy will have a big impact on our current and future clients.


All civil cases are subject to ADR processes unless otherwise provided by statute or court rule.
The Court relies upon mediation as an alternative dispute resolution process because mediation enables the Court to streamline its docket by enabling people to take advantage of this timely and affordable alternative to the litigation process. Through mediation, people are empowered to control the outcome of their disputes.
Take a look at the plan designed for any process designed to resolve a legal dispute in the place of court adjudication.
If you are an eligible person desiring to serve as a general civil mediator and/or a domestic relations mediator, find out how to apply.
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Q: Why does the WiFi password dialogue not open up? I see WiFi networks; but when I select one there is no dialogue to enter a password. So I have no WiFi, only wired connection.
The output of pgrep NetworkManager is: 951. Ubuntu version is 14.04
What can I do to get the password dialogue back?

A: This answer is a bit of overkill, but the easiest way of circumventing the problem you have: Install another network Manager.
Steps to take:

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*Take a full system backup (You've just been promoted to user type 4!)

*sudo apt-get install -d --reinstall network-manager network-manager-gnome
Now is the time to stop and reflect and already test whether this already solved your problem.
No?  OK, lets get on to the next step:

*sudo apt-get install wicd-gtk

*sudo apt-get remove --purge network-manager-gnome network-manager
OK, so now you've got rid of the old network manager and have a new one.  Now you need to open it and configure your network:

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*Go to the dash and type wicd and click the sole icon there.

*Voilà: now you just have to add the config for your network


It's time to make some professional business cards for myself. But I don't want to be stodgy and boring. Can you provide any advice?
I want my cards to coordinate with my law firm website and letterhead. I plan to keep it fairly plain for now. Hopefully in a few months I can have a professional logo designed and re-image everything.
Erica Douglass has a great new card design that I just love. But I'm afraid that's a bit too fun for a lawyer. Maybe not.
Ever since I wrote about selling textbooks online, a lot of people have read and used that advice. It's definitely a popular post on this site.
Since the book selling season is approaching again (it's almost April!), I thought you guys might appreciate a quick glance at the process.
We definitely don't want anyone hoarding books like the guy in POSSESSED. If you haven't watched that short documentary, do yourself a favor and check it out.
To you regular readers, I apologize for the lack of updates lately. I've been working hard on some other ventures.
Specifically, I am actively building a private law practice during my evenings and weekends. I have no plans to leave my full time job, but I definitely want to help out private clients as well.


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Kanye West calls himself 'the greatest artist that God has ever created' at Joel Osteen service
By Hannah Yasharoff,
Kanye West took the stage at Houston megachurch pastor Joel Osteen's serviceSunday, zigzagging through an interview about his shift to a much more religious ideology, his Sunday Service performances and new gospel album, "Jesus Is King."
After claiming the "devil stole all the good producers, all the good musicians, all the good artists, all the good designers," West told the packed crowd of Lakewood Church worshippers that he sees a major shift coming in the world because "now, the greatest artist that God has ever created is working for him," referencing himself.
The rapper threw out handfuls of half-explained ideas throughout his talk, at one point calling strip clubs a form of sex trafficking and later claiming images are being fed to young children through "the media" with subliminal messaging to make them more inclined to join society's "robotic, numeric system." The latter was met with silence from the stadium audience, after which West told listeners they could rewind a video clip of what he had been saying and "do research" on the topic.
He also lamented things like alcohol, promiscuity and other pressures for rappers to look cool as "distractions" and "addictions" that "bring our Christian scorecard down."
"They'll hit you sometimes. Sometimes you'll go ahead and just pour that drink and then repent for it," West said. "We all fall short of the glory. … Christians are not going to be Christ. We are going to follow Christ and be Christ-like and repent for our sins. … We all have sins, it's another thing to be selling drugs in a children's parking lot.
Now 42 and the father of four children with wife Kim Kardashian, West's public persona has switched gears from the provocative hitmaker he was once known as to a more clean-cut follower of the Bible.
What advice would West give to the old Kanye? The rapper told Osteen he didn't have any verbal messages that would have helped his former self because music was his saving grace.
"This music don't come every month," West said. "We dropping that heat, we're in the studio. God is strengthening our hands. We're taking all the most fire producers and bringing them back to God."
Tickets for West's planned Sunday Service performance at Lakewood were distributed through Ticketmaster and gone within minutes, with resellers asking hundreds of dollars for them.
Osteen's televised weekly TV program is viewed by more than 13 million households in the U.S. and millions more in more than 100 nations around the world.
Original article was published here.
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Lightning kills man and woman aboard separate jet skis in Puerto Rico
September 5, 2022 / 11:11 AM / CBS/AP
Two people aboard jet skis were killed by lightning in waters along southern Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Authorities said lightning first struck a 36-year-old man driving a jet ski and then made contact with a 26-year-old woman who was a passenger on another nearby.
The driver of the second jet ski was not injured.
Police said the man died immediately while the woman died shortly after being brought ashore.
The deaths occurred late Sunday afternoon as Tropical Storm Earl swirled northeast of the island, dropping heavy rain at times.
According to the National Lighting Safety Council, Puerto Rico's last lightning fatality occurred almost exactly five years earlier, on Sept. 5, 2017.
Two other people on the island have been killed by lightning since 2006, according to the group.
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Iakovos Michailidis
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Population Movements, Minorities, Refugees, Civil War, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Iakovos Michailidis serves as Professor of Modern and Contemporary History. In the academic year 2012-2013 he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. In the 2019-2020 academic year, he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation and was a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University. In the same year he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an Expert for the Western Balkans on the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. He is the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies and a member of many Greek and European scientific networks and organizations, such as the European thematic history network Clioh / Cliohnet. He was a historical consultant (together with Professor Thanos Veremis) of the SKAI TV series "1821", of the historical documentary "Twice a Stranger" shown on NET TV and the historical documentary "The ten-year expedition of Greece 1912-1923" which was shown by Cosmote History. He has also edited the historical tributes of SKAI 100.3 radio on the subject of the Balkan Wars, the Asia Minor Campaign, Eleftherios Venizelos, the Occupation and the Civil War.


How to launch Restorator silently in command-line mode, i.e., the main window isn't shown up? I used "-guiless" or "-auto" in command-line but they don't work. Is there some else parameter for this purpose?
My command line is written and run in an application, for example, a vb.net or vb 6.0 application to modify the file version of some dll, exe, or ocx files. However, the restorator main window is always shown up when my applicaiton with the restorator command-line is launched.
sorry for the late reply. Currently, the main window is always shown. I use it in scripts, too, and usually that's no problem unless you're executing it on a server without monitor. It does flash Restorator's window though, that's my only annoyance.
You do use the /close parameter, right?


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Brian Eno : Reflection 4+
Deluxe generative edition
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Deluxe generative edition of Brian Eno's acclaimed 2017 ambient album, Reflection.
"REFLECTION is the most recent of my Ambient experiments and represents the most sophisticated of them so far. My original intention with Ambient music was to make endless music, music that would be there as long as you wanted it to be. I wanted also that this music would unfold differently all the time - 'like sitting by a river': it's always the same river, but it's always changing. But recordings - whether vinyl, cassette or CD - are limited in length, and replay identically each time you listen to them. So in the past I was limited to making the systems which make the music, but then recording 30 minutes or an hour and releasing that. REFLECTION in its album form - on vinyl or CD - is like this. But the app by which REFLECTION is produced is not restricted: it creates an endless and endlessly changing version of the piece of music." - Brian Eno
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Autumn update.
Emusette , 12/01/2018
My new music player
After playing trope and reflection, I end up using them more than I do my music subscription services.
With the ever changing generative reflection, I don't even have to press a button and I always have some new ambient going.
Occasionally I hear a sample repeat from time to time, but never the same music and the moods are always changing. With trope I have to start over the track because it isn't ever-changing. With reflection you can hear it's always bringing in new sounds. I have a large ambient collection in my iTunes library but I always end up back to this app. Thank you Brian eno for pushing the boundaries of iPhone
Pheonix_221 , 02/09/2020
Not much for the price
While I appreciate that this was suppose to be an artistic expression, and I usually blame myself for being duped into spending too money on something with little value, I feel a little blindsided by this app. Judging by the interactive experiences provided by previously released apps, I was expecting much the same here and was left completely wanting. The listener has no control whatsoever of the listening experience. Art, yes, I get it, but I could have easily put this piece on loop for free in Apple Music and not known the difference. My ear is apparently not discerning enough to care if there are subtle changes in the composition. Also, the "space frequencies" are absolute nails on a chalk board. I'm likely going to delete this app because I can't stand them.
While I'm still going to caution all comers about the price and warn them about the lack of interactivity, I'm here to admit that I have NOT deleted the app from my phone after all and have spent the last two weeks listening to it for most of my work day. It really is oddly addictive and very comforting. I've also found that paired with a nature sound such as rain or wind it makes an excellent study/focus tool that also blocks out background noise. I've even gotten accustomed to the "space frequency" sounds that have actually served to draw my attention back to the music and refocus me when I start to drift.
No Target , 12/21/2017
Just calling it an app is akin to saying Falling Water is just a building.
It's a brilliant app - but really to call it an app is to miss the point, it is an experience of a rare kind, delivered on an iOS device. A contemplative audio visual experience on demand. I rely on the audio during my NYC commute - a pool of calm in a sea of utter chaos. Some evenings l will stream it on my Apple TV- I have a quality screen and sound system so the image / sound becomes a beautiful live artwork- I actually like to keep the volume rather low (if your sound system is up to it) not just below audible, wink wink nudge nudge but low, it's beautiful. Really.
The developer, Opal Limited, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple TV.
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If a Clutch survey of small businesses is correct, within the next year more than 85 percent of businesses with 500 or fewer employees, which includes everything from retail boutiques and med spas to home builders, independent accounts and financial advisers, will be using social media. I agree with that prediction, as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and others have changed the landscape of how we connect with one another and share information, for both personal and commercial reasons.
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July 25 is the Feast Day of St. James. James is the patron saint of hatmakers, rheumatoid sufferers, and laborers. In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease to brew beer at what is now St. James Gate Brewery Dublin. On a quiet day in Irish history, this is as good a reason as any to showcase a page on Guinness from For the Love of Being Irish by Conor Cunneen (illustrations by Mark Anderson.)
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1872: Nationalist John Mitchel
John Mitchel rueturns to Ireland from America. The Irish nationalist, writer for The Nation and founder of The United Irishman newspaper openly preached rebellion against England. Convicted of treason in 1848, Mitchel was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania.) In 1853, he escaped to America, where he published his Jail Journal.
While in America, he was editor of the Richmond Examiner and a strong advocate of Confederate rights and championed slavery. He was imprisoned for several months after the Civil War ended. His return to Ireland, evoked huge enthusiasm amongst an Irish population devastated by the Famine and emigration. Mitchel was elected as MP for Tipperary in 1875, but was disqualified as a convicted felon.
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1919: Eamonn De Valera Visits Butte, Montana
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1962: Senate Debate on the Iron Curtain
Interesting (farcical) discussion in Seanad Eireann (Irish Senate) on what countries constituted the "Iron Curtain" during a debate to "regulate exports and imports from the Iron Curtain countries."
Professor Quinlan: At some time in the future we may have the Minister for Industry and Commerce coming back to chide us in a similar way over agreeing to some omnibus clause. Consequently, I am moving these amendments here to ensure that the Iron Curtain countries are specified in the Bill. I read here from column 772 of the Seanad Debates of 18th July, 1962, that the Minister for Industry and Commerce, when replying to the debate said: "First of all, it is not for me to designate what Iron Curtain countries are. I do not know what the extent of them is at the moment." I take it that that is not meant to be an admission of such complete lack of knowledge of the state of the world as it is today.
Tomás Ó Maoláin: Does Senator Quinlan know them?
Professor Quinlan: Every schoolboy knows them.
Tomás Ó Maoláin: Does the Senator know them?
Professor Quinlan: Of course.
Tomás Ó Maoláin: Would the Senator mention them?
Professor Quinlan: The Minister continued: "I do not know if the Iron Curtain will recede or expand. I hope it does not expand." The point is that the last country added to the Iron Curtain countries here in Europe was in 1948 when Czechoslovakia was the unfortunate victim. Surely anything that has remained as static as the Iron Curtain does not require very much to specify it?
Tomás Ó Maoláin: Can the Senator name the Iron Curtain countries?
Professor Quinlan: I refuse to take notice of the interruption of the Leader of the House who is supposed to set the standard of decorum here.
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When the 2012 US presidential campaigns for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were in full swing, the spotlight suddenly swung onto the cream of the world's media. News emerged that outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair and Reuters were allowing campaign officials to censor quotes before publication.
The shock element was that such powerful international news outfits had agreed to this practice, which was called 'quote approval'. In countries like the Netherlands, it's standard practice for journalists to interview people and then to submit the quotes for approval before the article is published.
That may sound appealing: but it's a double-edged sword for interviewees.
The upside is that you get the chance to correct any inadvertent mistakes made by journalists before your quotes appear. Friendly reporters may even agree to beautify or even remove things you'd rather have said differently or not at all.
The far steeper downside is that it can lure you into a false sense of security during the interview. Instead of carefully watching your words– censoring yourself, if you like – you become loose-lipped in the belief that you, or more likely your comms department or PR agency, can persuade the reporter to scrap or smarten up your quotes after the event.
You risk shooting your mouth off and so revealing sensitive information, speculating dangerously, or phrasing things in a way that may harm your company's reputation. And then getting into a 'discussion' with the reporter (with you perhaps uttering the taboo yet oft-heard words "Yes, I know I said that, but it's not what I meant").
The reporter may then change their copy to suit your wishes – but your relationship with them may be ruined for good. Or they may refuse to adjust the wording – which is their prerogative. This is not internal communications, where the C-suite gets to micro-manage quotes attributed to them. Submitting quotes for checking is a journalistic courtesy, not your legal right. For journalists it's about the accuracy of their (repeat their) story. Corporate communicators call it 'quote check'; reporters call it 'fact check'.
So remember: you have zero control over what a journalist writes, but you have 100% control over what you say. Even if you know you'll get the quotes for review, pretend to yourself you won't. Prepare yourself and your messages fully. Know your story, your facts and figures, your examples and anecdotes. And think hard before the interview about the sticky questions you're likely to get, and how to field them.
Once the questions start coming, stay calm and think very carefully before you answer. Only say things you are happy to be quoted on. If you think all this is easier said than done, rehearse. Get some media training that grills you with nightmare questions until you're bathed in sweat. Chances are the real interview will then seem like a breeze, and the only person you'll want to censor is yourself.


Legendary Hip-Hop trio, The LOX, have announced earlier today that they are the newest signees to JAY Z's Roc Nation. Not only is the legendary Yonkers trio of Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch now signed to the Roc, they also announced the release of their long-awaited and highly anticipated third album, Filthy America… It's Beautiful.
Which will be released through a partnership with their own D-Block Records, Roc Nation and Def Jam.
Their first album in over 16 years, it's set to be released in just a few short weeks. Ironically enough on Dec. 16th.
Thus marking the second time in his career for Jadakiss he has partnered with a Jay-helmed label. As he signed a joint venture solo deal with Jay's historic Roc-A-Fella Records nearly a decade ago.
The new deal and album announcement means we should probably be expecting new music from the album soon too.


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Where are Stars Formed
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Star formation takes place within high molecular density clouds in the interstellar medium. The interstellar medium consists of particles of gas and dust of which 90% is hydrogen, 9 % helium and the remaining is traces of other elements. A molecular cloud will remain in hydrostatic equilibrium if the internal gas pressure is in equal balance with the force of gravity holding it; however, when this balance is disrupted by external forces, the molecular cloud collapses under its own gravity starting the formation of stars.
In the dense regions of the interstellar medium most hydrogen is found in its molecular form. These giant clouds may have diameters of approximately one hundred years and around six million solar masses, and an estimated temperature of 10-100 K in its interior. The core is the region where the stars form. A giant molecular cloud is maintained in balance by gravity which tends to push matter inward and the small quantity of heat exerting pressure outwards produced by its atoms. This balance will be maintained unless external forces act upon the molecular cloud to upset its equilibrium.
A dense molecular cloud will remain in balance or in hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning that the force of gravity pushing inwards is in balance with the heat pressure pushing outwards, but if the dense cloud acquires sufficient mass, it will collapse under its own gravity. Other stellar events may trigger the collapse of a dense molecular cloud, including the shock wave of a supernova explosion, reaching the interior of the cloud; the collision between dense molecular clouds of gas; or the collision between galaxies, producing massive starbursts of star formation.
Low mass star formation
During the collapse, a molecular cloud splits into smaller cloud fragments. Each fragment accrues its own stellar mass. In the process of accretion, the collapsing molecular fragment radiates energy; however, as the density increases, the cloud becomes opaque, preventing the radiation of energy, thus, the temperature increases. At this stage, the cloud has now condensed onto a rotating sphere of gas. The accretion of material continues in the outer portions of the rotating sphere, and jets of outpouring material known as Herbig-Haro objects appear on bot poles of the cloud. Despite the pressure produced by its internal heat, the gravitational force is still greater. When the star reaches a temperature of 10 million K, it starts to fuse hydrogen into helium and is supported against further collapse by hydrostatic equilibrium.
Massive star formation
Stars of distinct masses are believed to form through different processes. Although the mechanism by which stars greater than 8 solar masses form is not completely understood, there are some theories which seek to explain their formation. The competitive accretion theory suggests that stars are small when they´re born with an initial mass of 1.5 solar masses, and soon they begin accreting gas to which they were initially not bound. Another theory states that massive stars may originate by the combination of a number of other low-mass stars.
Molecular clouds of star formation exists I the entire interstellar medium, and a single dense molecular cloud may produce a collection of high and low mass stars. In the Milky Way there are more than 5,000 molecular clouds with up to 100,000 solar masses. The Orion Nebula is the nearest region to the solar system where massive stars are being formed. The most recently discovered main sequence star is known as IRS-8, and was discovered in 2006. This star is believed to be 3.5 million years of age.
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http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve/
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It is very obvious that Yahoo has stopped serving its customers towards becoming a leader in its business. As late as 8pm yesterday, Yahoo was still reminding us of the death of ex-US First Lady, Mrs Ford. No one is updating the news that shows up when you login into your email. The same top news has been there for weeks now and no one cares in Yahoo! Does it mean that their staff do not use Yahoo to know that they have to fix those issues?
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