Can we talk about the perfect weekend breakfast? How about: Challah French Toast with maple syrup, fresh berries and a side of freshly brewed coffee or a cold glass of milk. That's what we had last weekend and I'm not going to lie. It was pret-ty amazing.
We found a great bakery that specializes in non GMO flours and organic ingredients and I think we should own stock in it already. 😉 We've spent our 'fun' money on croissants and multi grain breads. Last weekend I splurged on some local maple syrup and Joe grabbed a loaf of this challah, or brioche bread.
This dish is fantastic but consider it splurge worthy. I've been splurging like crazy since we arrived in Vancouver. It's like my justification for everything. Cinnamon Sugar croissant? Well, I guess, since we just got to Vancouver. Dinner out? Well, we did just get to Vancouver.
You see how this is going?
I'm going to keep it simple by avoiding allergenic foods, maybe cut out dairy and wheat for the 4 weeks. The cheese is always the hardest. Did you read the study where they found cheese to be addictive? It's so true! I crave the cheese. And the worst thing is I try to buy strictly organic when it comes to meat or dairy, so that can add up. $$$ Hopefully my little cleanse will save me some money. I'm thinking lots of soups and casserole-y type dishes.
But, until then, it's challah city, baby!
Heat a heaping teaspoon of butter and one of oil in a skillet over medium low heat.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, syrup, vanilla and salt. I then worked in batches to cook it up.
Dip a piece in the egg/milk mixture, flip once then transfer to the heated pan, adding more until the pan is full. This depends on the size of pan you use. I like to move the pieces around a bit in the beginning to make sure there is no stickage. Flip after 2-3 minutes and cook on the other side for another 2-3 minutes. Continue with the remaining pieces, adding more butter and oil if needed.
Hey Sharon! Long time no talk! You're in Vancouver now and I've been….well…too damn busy! LOL! So I never heard about this study that cheese could be addicting, but I totally second you! I believe it could be. Cheese on EVERYTHING!! You know it!


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The sky's the limit for sustainable wooden skyscrapers
Australia will soon hold the record for the world's tallest timber office building at 5 King St Brisbane, and with the help of The University of Queensland's new research hub, wooden skyscrapers could become the norm.
UniQuest collaborates with MSD to develop immuno-oncology therapies
Global health care leader MSD has signed an agreement with The University of Queensland to develop a platform for new immuno-oncology therapies.
Partnership reinforces UQ Gatton as Australian animal and agriculture research hub
Global US food and animal safety company Neogen Corporation is establishing an animal genomics facility at The University of Queensland Gatton campus in a move that will reinforce UQ's capacity to support the livestock industry and animal breeders.
Undergrads are Asia-bound on Westpac scholarships
Six UQ students have been awarded Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Asian Exchange Scholarships. The $12,000 bursaries fund students to spend a semester studying at a leading Asian university.
Local manufacturing heads for extinction
Australia's manufacturing level is the OECD's lowest and the long-term decline of manufacturing here is atypical among comparable countries, new research shows.
New centre to push medical imaging boundaries
The next generation of scientists who will expand the boundaries of biomedical imaging to improve healthcare will be trained in an $8.5 million research hub to be established at The University of Queensland.
PNG history makers tell their stories
A website hosting interviews with prominent Papua New Guineans on the period leading up to and following that nation's independence from Australia in 1975 has been launched today.
Bacteria with Midas touch could be boost for gold exploration and processing
Gold could be discovered more efficiently and extracted from complex materials, thanks to research into "nugget-producing" bacteria.
Genomics research progresses from bench to bedside
The new Queensland Genomics Health Alliance hit a critical milestone today, with the first nine of its funded research projects revealed.
Mine rehabilitation and closure made easier
The tricky and expensive task of accessing knowledge on rehabilitating and preparing to close mining sites has been eased by a unique online resource developed by University of Queensland scientists and Central Queensland coal mine rehabilitation...
Quest for better beer hops ahead
The growing craft beer industry is about to hop ahead with new University of Queensland research supported by the Queensland Government.
Fellowship aims to protect threatened Australian night parrots
Ensuring one of Australia's most high-profile threatened bird species does not disappear a second time is the mission of a University of Queensland researcher.
UQ opens new era in cancer research and drug development
New cancer-fighting drugs and devices could emerge from The University of Queensland, thanks to a research program comparing cancers in pet animals and humans in a state-of-the-art imaging facility opened today.
Denmark seeks UQ expertise on gestational diabetes
Mothers who develop diabetes during pregnancy will be the focus of a University of Queensland researcher's work on a Visiting Professor Fellowship in Denmark.
New integrated genomics facility at UQ
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Will Covid-19 fuel India's age of Swades?
If there is one thing that the coronavirus has taught us, it is that we need to reimagine our growth centres, our aspirations of 'urban-ness', and our homes.
By Hindol Sengupta, Apr 28, 2020
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What connects a popular Amazon Prime show, a Shah Rukh Khan film, tweets from the CEO of Zoho Corp, India's most popular storyteller on radio, India's biggest information technology (IT) company's new work-from-home model, and the concentration of coronavirus patients?
The idea that the time has come for at least some of India's best and brightest to think beyond the mega city as a destination for their hopes and aspirations.
Data shows that Delhi and Mumbai, the two biggest urban aggregations, megacities if you will, with core and allied populations of between 20-25 million people each, also account for nearly a quarter of all Covid-19 cases in India.
These 15 districts are critical in our battle against #Covid_19 Of them 7 show particularly high case volumes. India's success in battling COVID-19 is dependent on them. We must aggressively monitor, contain, test, treat in these districts! We must win here. pic.twitter.com/QDFvvza6iM
— Amitabh Kant (@amitabhk87) April 27, 2020
The Industrial Age is based on the idea of population shift from the rural to the urban, to create pockets of high productivity due to efficiencies in communications and travel. But surely this is questionable in the kind of unhealthy cities we live in these days with toxic air and water, and mind-numbing commute times?
Could we work better, smarter and avoid a debilitating life? Perhaps yes. The coming of the Coronavirus has fast-tracked the global conversation of the virtues of work-from-home. Companies are realising that in an age where employees are accessible 24/7, the reason to trap them in (often soul-sucking, un-inspirational, and expensive) offices might be futile.
Covid-19: Saving the informal sector
Some of the biggest companies are readying to take a leap of faith. TCS, India's biggest IT services company, has announced that it is moving to a new model for its nearly 450,000 employees worldwide. It is moving 90% of these employees to a new operating model called Secure Borderless Work Spaces where not more than 25% of the employees are ever needed to be physically present at a TCS office. It is, undoubtedly, one of the biggest work-from-home transitions ever in India Inc.
There are others who are thinking in this manner. India's best-known radio storyteller has been making a slow transition to the countryside for several years now starting with launching a rural newspaper, Gaon Connection. Now, when Neelesh Misra lives full-time in his village home in Uttar Pradesh, he has started The Slow Movement, a content platform that brings the global slow campaign (slow food, slow fashion etc) based on back-to-the-basics sustainability to India. He now posts long format videos and content shot in languorous style literally in his backyard.
Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Indian software major Zoho Corp, is found advocating such a lifestyle on Twitter these days. Recently he spoke about the joys living without air-conditioning in his village home, and his latest series of tweets talk about seeding highly qualified talent in villages. He has written, "Of course if we can seed 1% by getting high skilled people to move to a village and then invest in training to create skilled jobs for another 1% of a village, the effect is a fairly substantial increase in overall village income, easily 2-3 times, due to all the multipliers".
4/ Of course if we can seed 1% by getting high skilled people to move to a village and then invest in training to create skilled jobs for another 1% of a village, the effect is a fairly substantial increase in overall village income, easily 2-3 times, due to all the multipliers.
— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) April 28, 2020
He argues that "If I get 10 well paid engineers to be located in a village of 1,000 people and they start spending more of their income locally, it makes a meaningful difference quickly."
It is a plan Vembu says his company is trying to apply: "Seeding those 1% high paid jobs in a village is part of my agenda for Zoho. This is how we plan to redirect our jobs. I hope other entrepreneurs try similar ideas. Find a village you love and please don't overcrowd the same place—there are 600,000 villages in India alone!"
Such a shift, if it starts to happen with any scale, could be transformational for India. It would be the fulfilment of the Gandhian dream of sustainable village economies. But with a twist. These villages economies fuelled by some of the best talent in the country (a bit like what was shown in the film Swades where a scientist, played by Shah Rukh Khan, returns from a job at the American space agency NASA to help a village in India and finds contentment) would be integrated to the best of the global marketplace. But on their own terms.
This transition would not be without challenges. To start with it might be a bit like the experience of the character Abhishek Tripathi in Amazon Prime's Panchayat who arrives at a village having failed to get the job he wanted in the city. But what is meant to be a temporary set-up soon draws him into myriad innocent joys and victories, until, he starts to feel that he belongs.
If this happens in India, it would be our true victory against the virus.
Views are personal.
The author is a historian and a multiple award-winning author.
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This is the first book I critiqued for Pam Godwin, an amazing apocalyptic thriller and an incredible introduction to an amazing lady and talented author.
It has been a long time since a book has had my heart racing and my pulse pounding. Dead of Eve grabbed me from the opening paragraph and never let go. There were many times I had to put it down just to catch my breath, so I could pick it up again and continue reading. I just had to know what happened next.
A virus is released which kills all the children and all the women, leaving the men alive. As they care for their dying sisters/wives/girlfriends/mothers they are attacked by the very ones they love and are turned into bug-like zombies, horrific aphid like creatures that take over the world.
Somehow, Evie survives. Her husband, a survivalist, cares for her as she sinks into a suicidal depression until the ghosts of her dead children force her from her bed. He trains her to survive, prepares her for the worst, and loves her with an intensity she'll never forget.
She sets about living in this apocalyptic world, enduring one loss after the next. Those few men who survive are worse than the aphid-zombies who hunt her, but there is a greater evil she must face.
The ghosts of her dead children will lead Evie on an adventure crossing the globe. She must survive against all odds. She'll make enemies, secure allies, and learn how to love again.
This is the first book in a trilogy of a debut novelist. The writing is vivid and palpable, drawing you into the pages where you're emotionally engaged from the very first page. It's not an easy story. It's not a fairytale. It's a story of survival. Of inner strength. Of triumph. And love.
A stand alone follow-on to the book Deliver, a must read of its own, Vanquish is a ride into the deepest, darkest depths of a romantic, psychological, erotic, pick you apart, and leave you wanting more and more and more. It's a rollercoaster ride you don't want to ever get off.
Pam Godwin has done it again with this latest installment. After each book of hers, I'm left wondering how she manages to take characters I shouldn't like and turn them into people I can't help but love.
Amber is an agoraphobic, OCD, shut-in with too many issues to count. She's quirky and loveable, but broken and so crippled by mental illness it's difficult to see how she can survive. Her inner resilience is what captivated me though, and kept me rooting for her from beginning to end. She's crazy, no doubt about that, but also brave and smart. She's not afraid to face her demons head on, whether they're in her head or standing right in front of her in the form of Van Quiso. And she's not one to allow something as simple as captivity to get her down. Amber fights Van with a wit and tenacity all her own. She's crazy, but in a loveable way, and I have to admit there were times I was crazy jealous of her? Why? Well, have I mentioned Van?
He's no hero. He's the most despicable character I've ever met. Yet, Pam Godwin has this incredible skill to transform even the most horrible anti-hero into this sexy, loveable guy you want to curl up with and do all those things your mother warned you about. He's SEXY AS HELL. I want to eat him up. But he's twisted ten ways to Sunday. There's not a character out there with a past as convoluted as Van's. He's a professed sadist, kidnapper, rapist, murderer, and trained sex slaves for eight years. That's exactly what he has in mind for Amber. So how can anyone empathize with such a deplorable man? Well…
I never expected to find a warm, vulnerable heart beneath that dark hoodie, or a caring guy with such a rich sense of humor sitting behind his cold calculating stalker-ish persona. I can only tell you Van surprised me in so many ways. He's incredibly flawed, a villain really, but in spite of his past mistakes, he strives to be a better man. Somehow…it happens.
All I can say is…you have to read this book!
Pam Goodwin has woven a dark masterpiece of two people, broken beyond repair, who find healing through passion, fear, trust and love. It's a fascinating tale of the resiliency of the human soul told by a genius storyteller with an incredible gift with words. She hooks you with the first phrase and doesn't let you go until the very last line. At the end you don't even realize what's happened to you, and have to pause to let it all sink in. Then you flip back to the first page, hungry to read it all again…
Loved. Every. Freakin'. Word.
This is the FOURTH book I've critiqued for Pam Godwin and she is an amazingly talented writer. This is the review I left on Amazon…if you haven't yet bought the book, go do so NOW!
PAM GODWIN has done it again! This is a story that will resonate with a wide audience because it will rock your world. It's a suspenseful romance, with spine-tingling, pulse-pounding romance buried beneath blackmail, corruption, deceit, sprinkled in the world of illegal racing, and founded on the legs of vengeance. Yeah, did I mention this was a romance? I kid you not! Pam Godwin's storytelling magic pulls this trick off.
DIRTY TIES is an amalgamation of H-O-T SEX, betrayal, L*O*V*E, corruption, and redemption all rolled up into one hell of a ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first to the very last page. When you finish, you'll want start all over again. It starts fast-paced and never slows down. It's gritty, original, with plot twists and turns that won't let you catch your breath.
Kaci is a woman looking to take control. Evader is a man seeking revenge. This is what their lives have become. It's the dirty lies and ties that will bind them.
Kaci is rich, courageous, strong, brave, beautiful and trapped in an unconventional marriage, full of love, but lacking in what she desires most, passion. She's desperate to find happiness, but the secrets and deception of her family business are ties too strong to break. So, she lives on the edge, stalking a dark, enigmatic biker who makes her pulse soar with each of his illegal races. Evader is gorgeous and mysterious, and he never loses. He's exactly what she wants, but an affair with any man is the one thing that threatens everything she's worked to achieve.
Evader races to win. His solitary life goal is to enact his personal brand of justice on those who have wronged those he loves. He doesn't care who gets in his way and will use whoever it takes to achieve his goal, even the hot blonde who watches his races. He's the perfect anti-hero, one of the hottest, most appealing heroes I've read in a long time. So many facets to this man. So much to love. So much to hate. So much drool worthy intoxication detonating on the page.
When these two collide, the chemistry is nuclear hot and the sexual tension is explosive. Intimate moments steal your breath away.
And then comes Logan…
Dirty Ties is full of addicting plot twists and turns. It's a fast-paced page turning read, one that will consume your evening because it's impossible to put down.
This story has several amazing characters from the main characters of Kaci, Evader, and Logan, to the supporting characters of Collin and Benny, and yes, even to the worst of them all, Trent.


From director, Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) comes this pivotal film on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
For rock geeks of any age or taste, the lore in this documentary will be catnip.
It's a pleasure to watch these men perform. These are real-life guitar heroes.
Mortals will tremble as guitar gods assemble for this remarkable rock 'n roll film.
It Might Get Loud brings together Jimmy Page, Jack White, and the Edge, letting the ax men tell stories of their bands, songs, and upbringings.
Its a sight as rare as Halleys Comet: a jam session featuring legendary guitarists Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge.


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Велико Селце () — населений пункт у Хорватії, у Приморсько-Горанській жупанії у складі громади Скрад.

Населення
Населення за даними перепису 2011 року становило 73 осіб.

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Середня річна температура становить 11,83 °C, середня максимальна – 23,02 °C, а середня мінімальна – 0,20 °C. Середня річна кількість опадів – 1337 мм.

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Modern architecture is trying to do away with unnecessary walls and borders, to make living spaces feel more cozy and open. But if there already is a fence around your house, not all is lost. As you'll see in a minute, there are cool ways make it feel more like a piece of art than a safety measure.
Here are 15 creative ideas of how to make that boring fence stand out and become a key part of your yard, or maybe even the whole neighborhood. From canvas for intricate paintings to unique flower holders, these fences will sure make your neighbors jealous.
Not like it's not a competition… but if it were to become one, with a creative fence like that you would totally win!


AMS is an authorized distributer for MD Anderson in supplying their patient with custom made CVC trays otherwise known as a central line dressing tray. We carry two kits made by Medical Action, one contains a bio-patch dressing and the other kit contains a tegaderm dressing. We also have a third kit from Cardinal health that is approved by MDA. We also offer all of the other items needed with the CVC trays including the connector caps, sterile water, adhesive remover, and a wide variety of dressings and gauzes.


A falling weight deflectometer (FWD) is a testing device used by civil engineers to evaluate the physical properties (strength) of pavement. FWD data is primarily used to estimate pavement structural capacity for overlay design and to determine if a pavement is being overloaded. Use includes highways, local roads, airport pavements, harbor areas and railway tracks. The machine is usually contained within a trailer that can be towed to a location by another vehicle. It can also be built on a pickup truck, inside a mini van or on a heavy truck with measuring system.
A Light Weight Deflectometer (LWD) is a portable falling weight deflectometer. A Heavy Weight Deflectometer (HWD) is a falling weight deflectometer that uses higher loads, used primarily for testing airport pavements.


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9 Little Things You Can Do to Make Him Even Happier
One of the best parts of being in a relationship is the chance to come up with huge, creative shows of affection that will really wow each other. A surprise birthday trip to an Airbnb in a neighboring city? Awesome. A time-intensive art project that you just know will impress him for your anniversary? Fantastic. But you don't have to save the sweetness for big moments—tiny day-to-day gestures can strengthen your bond too. To that end, I reached out to a few guys to hear the little things their partners did that meant a lot to them. Here are their anonymous comments, so as not to embarrass anyone with the (adorable) mushiness you're about to read: "A time that comes to mind is a night I showed up at my girlfriend's place, expecting we'd head out somewhere for dinner. The house smelled like the homemade pizza she'd been making for us. Turns out she'd just set off the smoke detector because it was kind of a new cooking experiment, but the pizza was on point. The fact that she was trying something for me she hadn't perfected yet just made it better, and I was so happy." "I would say
One of the best parts of being in a relationship is the chance to come up with huge, creative shows of affection that will really wow each other. A surprise birthday trip to an Airbnb in a neighboring city? Awesome. A time-intensive art project that you just know will impress him for your anniversary? Fantastic. But you don't have to save the sweetness for big moments—tiny day-to-day gestures can strengthen your bond too.
To that end, I reached out to a few guys to hear the little things their partners did that meant a lot to them. Here are their anonymous comments, so as not to embarrass anyone with the (adorable) mushiness you're about to read:
"A time that comes to mind is a night I showed up at my girlfriend's place, expecting we'd head out somewhere for dinner. The house smelled like the homemade pizza she'd been making for us. Turns out she'd just set off the smoke detector because it was kind of a new cooking experiment, but the pizza was on point. The fact that she was trying something for me she hadn't perfected yet just made it better, and I was so happy."
"I would say the best things are when a woman overhears you mention something you like—be it a food, drink, movie, product, etc.—and remembers."
"I like whenever my girlfriend does something that I normally do around the house, like emptying the dishwasher, when she knows I'm stressed. I do those things all the time, but every now and then I'll go to do it and she'll have taken care of it already."
"It's the little things. It's a kiss when I come home, or watching football together on Sundays."
"For most guys, they feel lucky to be with the girl they're with, and we feel like we need to do stuff to make sure they're happy. Anything a girl does goes a long way because they could do nothing and we'd still love them."
And a few from my female friends, just in the name of equality:
"He got drunk and divulged his secret passion for making scented linen sprays. I ordered a book about organic aromatherapy recipes and had it sent to his house so he could make all the sprays his inner Martha Stewart desired!"
"Do something slightly embarrassing like dance insanely in a bar. It's about letting go and exposing a more relaxed side of yourself. I think most women worry about being perfect on dates, but getting down and dancing like crazy clues him into just how fun you can be. Plus, doing something embarrassing really binds people together, like it's you two against the world!"
"My boyfriend loves sci-fi, so if he's reading a new book he's really into, sometimes I'll ask what he thinks of the plot or if he has any hunches about how it's going to end. I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but I can tell he really loves talking about it, so I'll humor him. He does the same with me!"
"I wrote a haiku about how cute he was and gave it to him on our second date. He said he kept it in his wallet all week."
Pretty simple, right? The beauty of small gestures is that even though they're little, they're packed with meaning—you don't need the fireworks just to make an impression. The point is really to prove you truly know who he is. When it comes to showing your love, bigger isn't always better!
Time to spill! What are some of the best small gestures you've done in the past?
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More and more people are using the best back massager everyday. Apart from the fact that they offer a feeling of deep relaxation they also help to ease the tension on the back muscles which helps to reduce pain and pressure.
Some of the best back massagers are very affordable and allow you to loosen up that stiff back and go about your day without having to break your bank.
This neck and back massager with heat is one of the best back massagers because of the various features that it has. It has deep kneading massage that ensures it gives a deep massage to the spine area.
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When it comes to back massagers what is needed is the gentle yet firm hold on the back that makes the back relax and also helps to release the pressure from the tired places. It shouldn't be so firm, and neither should it be loose. As we have seen, most back massagers also act as neck and shoulder massagers too. The above list shows the best back massagers in the market.


For all the aggravation we've gotten while living in Ukraine there have been many many moments of astounding greatness. You never know when you will walk into a train station waiting room and are confronted with one of the most beautiful mosaic you have ever seen. This is in the Odessa train station in a back corridor you won't find unless you have been directed to buy your train ticket at the "foreigner's office" because we probably smiled a little too much to have been from Ukraine.
I only had my cellphone camera with me at the moment so the photo quality isn't as great as I hoped it would be.


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Pharma| January 12, 2019
Akorn stock drops after warning letter from the FDA on failures at Illinois plant
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Anca's career in journalism spans over 2 decades. She has served as staff writer, editor and deputy chief editor at... Show more Anca's career in journalism spans over 2 decades. She has served as staff writer, editor and deputy chief editor at various media outlets all over the world. At Healthcare Weekly, Anca writes about current events, innovations in the healthcare space and events/ conferences with a focus on investing & startups.
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Drug maker Akorn Inc. announced, January 9th, it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration following an inspection of the company's Decatur, Illinois manufacturing plant last year. After announcing that it received said letter, Akorn's stock took a hit. Shares of the company, which failed to salvage its takeover deal with Germany's Fresenius SE & Co KGaA in April, fell 8.8 percent to $3.59 in early trading.
Akorn has had a very difficult 2018
This is not the first hit Akorn has taken. The company has faced other setbacks over the past year.
In April, Fresenius abandoned its plan to acquire the generic drugmaker, citing misconduct in reporting drug development data to U.S. healthcare regulator.
Early in December 2018, the company lost a court case in Delaware. The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision to allow Fresenius to walk away from its over $4 billion acquisition. This legal loss caused the shares of Akorn Inc. to take a plunge. It was subsequently announced that Raj Rai, the company's CEO, will step down.
Losing the Fresenius deal has proven to be very detrimental to Akorn, which can't afford any more losses, after the company's shares plummeted roughly 90% in the last 12 months.
Fresenius red flags seem to be legit
Interesting to note, the reasons Fresenius invoked when pulling out of the merger deal seem to be related to the issues the FDA letter now addresses.
Fresenius cited "material breaches" of FDA data integrity requirements, a problem the agency brings up in the warning letter. The FDA asked for a comprehensive investigation into inaccuracies in data, as well as a risk assessment of "the observed failures on the quality of your drugs."
The mentioned letter, dated January 4th, cites violations observed during an inspection of Akorn's Decatur facility, between April 9th and May 16th.
According to the FDA letter, the violations of current good manufacturing practice regulations include inadequate facility design, the potential for contamination, and poor environmental and personnel monitoring.
Also, the Lake Forest, Illinois-based company did not follow "appropriate written procedures" to prevent microbiological contamination of the drugs being produced at the plant, according to the letter.
It was further noted that foreign fibers and other contaminants were found on gloves that should have been sterile.
The FDA said the company's response to its Form 483, which lists observations from the inspection in April and May, was inadequate, according to the FDA.
Resolving all the issues could take 18 to 36 months
The company is obliged to provide to the FDA with a detailed plan including timelines on how noted violations will be resolved, and submit a list of all contamination hazards related to the plant's aseptic processes and equipment.
Akorn has 15 working days to respond to the FDA letter, telling the agency what it has done since the inspection to correct each violation and prevent recurrence. Akorn expects to continue production at the plant. "The company has full confidence in the quality of the products manufactured at the Decatur facility and expects to continue production at the plant," Akorn said.
However, the violations are not so easy to correct, and the whole compliance process could take up to 3 years. The most immediate consequence of the January 4th letter is that the FDA can put on hold approval of any New Drug Applications until Akorn has corrected the noted issues accordingly. Fully resolving the issues could take 18 to 36 months, as Raymond James analyst Elliot Wilbur estimated, meanwhile holding "the vast majority of Akorn's injectable pipeline hostage."
Time will not be the only thing needed corrections will demand. The remediation will take several years and will likely cost more than $40 million, Moody's analysts estimated.
Akorn is already undergoing some actions to fix problems related to data integrity.
In its recent letter, the FDA also stated Akorn did not follow a program to test stability characteristics of drugs manufactured at the plant and failed to observe some procedures needed to prevent microbiological contamination of products.
The Decatur plant isn't the only one under FDA scrutiny. In May, the company got a lengthy inspection report detailing quality control issues at its Somerset, New Jersey facility.
Since many of the issues found at the Decatur facility are systemic, the latest warning also increases the risk of the FDA being more stringent in future inspections at any Akorn plant, as Raymond James' Wilbur stated in a January 9th note to investors.
"FDA seems to be questioning key foundational aspects of the company's stability programs and overall quality programs," Wilbur wrote.
Consequences if Akorn does not comply with FDA instructions and fails to correct these violations may be legal action and preventing other federal agencies from awarding contracts, the agency said.
About Akorn
Akorn, Inc. is a specialty generic pharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of multisource and branded pharmaceuticals. Akorn has manufacturing facilities located in Decatur, Illinois; Somerset, New Jersey; Amityville, New York; Hettlingen, Switzerland and Paonta Sahib, India that manufacture ophthalmic, injectable and specialty sterile and non-sterile pharmaceuticals.
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Hayrettin Karaca (1922–2020)
By Roderick Cameron | February 10, 2020
Hayrettin Karaca, an IOS member and one of Turkey's best-known environmentalists, died January 20 at the age of 97. He received a Lifetime Service Award from the IOS in 2012 in recognition for his work restoring eroded environments in Turkey by planting acorns to establish oak forests and rehabilitate oak stands and coppices.
Hayrettin Karaca (Source: TEMA)
Hayrettin was born on April 4, 1922, in Turkey's western province of Balikesir, and built a successful textile business in the first part of his life. However, in the 1970s, he became increasingly concerned with the environmental degradation he witnessed during his travels around Turkey, especially soil erosion.
In 1980 he founded the first private arboretum of Turkey. Located in the northwestern province of Yalova, Karaca Arboretum's story began as a house garden project in 1976 when Karaca's botanical interest led him to transform his garden into an arboretum. While traveling around Turkey searching for plants, he witnessed massive erosion, disappearance of plant varieties, ruined grasslands, springs that had run dry, and the sad remnants of forests claimed by fire, developers, or farmers looking for new croplands.
Karaca Arboretum covers an area of 33 acres and contains rock gardens, rosaries, iris gardens, miniature plants, and indigenous bonsai plant collections. Special plant collections include Acer, Prunus, Malus, Magnolia, Quercus, Betula, Pinus, Abies, and Picea species. It holds over 7,000 species, subspecies, varieties of plants and received an Arboretum Distinguished for Merit Award from the International Dendrology Society in 2004.
Karaca Arboretum (Source: Karaca Arboretum)
In 1992, together with fellow businessman Nihat Gökyiğit, Karaca founded TEMA Foundation (Türkiye Erozyonla Mücadele Ağaçlandırma ve Doğal Varlıkları Koruma Vakfı – The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats). Its mission is to raise public awareness of environmental problems, specifically soil erosion, deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change. TEMA has launched numerous initiatives to influence government and business practices. It has designed and carried out around 150 demonstration projects on sustainable rural development, reforestation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable land management across the country.
Due to his environmental activism, Karaca became a well-known and beloved public figure in Turkey, where he was known affectionately as "Toprak Dede" ("Grandpa Earth"). He often took the opportunity to educate children and young people about the importance of protecting nature.
His numerous awards include the Forest Hero Award from the UN in 2013 and the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, in 2012 "for a lifetime of tireless advocacy and support for the protection and stewardship of our natural world, combining successful entrepreneurship with effective environmental activism."
"One should not consume more than one needs," he often said. "You might have the money that allows you to consume, but you don't have the right." He stopped spending money on clothes and was known for wearing the same red sleeveless sweater for decades, particularly at tree events. It was given to him by his son, made from left-over yarn.
"The carrying capacity of the ecosystem is not unlimited," Karaca told the Right Livelihood Foundation in a 2012 interview. "I cannot exist without the Earth's vital life-support systems. Therefore I should not destroy what is necessary for me to live. I do not have the right to ruin or destroy the ecosystem."
Hayrettin joined the International Oak Society in 2000 and attended the 3rd IOS Conference in Ashville, North Carolina. In the fall of 2002, TEMA hosted a 7-day IOS Tour of Turkey, which included a visit to Karaca Arboretum, where Hayrettin fed the group so generously that they were late arriving at their hotel! During the visit the oak enthusiasts spotted an unusual oak, apparently a hybrid of Q. rysophylla: it was propagated and later named Quercus 'Zehra', after Hayrettin's daughter.
"I recall so many things about Hayrettin," said former IOS President Guy Sternberg, "his attention to detail, his glorious arboretum, and his passion for trees certainly are among them. But personally, two things stand out in my mind.
"The first was during the North Carolina conference in 2000, when he and Nihat Gökyiğit serenaded me at dinner with the Turkish version of Happy Birthday. I had just turned 53 during that event, and those two dapper gentlemen spontaneously brought down the house with everyone there stomping their feet and clapping in unison. This was a fun side of him I had not realized existed.
"The other, surely more important one, came a little later when I was in Turkey with a few other oak nuts. We learned about the project he and Nihat had begun with their TEMA Foundation. The goal was to 'plant 10 Billion acorns to hug the soils of Anatolia' (the Turkish region which had suffered so much from millennia of overuse and soil degradation). Their profound motto was 'Interfere in matters that are none of your business'!
"What better motto should we all share than that, and what better reason to recognize this and so many other environmental actions than with our Lifetime Service Award? I hope his arboretum, and his memory, will live forever."
Tonge, D. The Karaca Arboretum. International Dendrology Society Yearbook 2013: 143-148.
Karaca, H. Acceptance Speech – 2012 Right Livelihood Award.
The Right Livelihood Foundation. Hayrettin Karaca (2012, Turkey). (Includes a video interview in Turkish, with English subtitles).
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At the end of August 2018, total liquid assets (M4) stood at HRK 324.1bn, up by HRK 7.8bn or 2.5% from the end of July (Table 1). The monthly increase in the widest monetary aggregate was due to the seasonal rise in net foreign assets (NFA) of the monetary system, primarily in the net foreign assets of credit institutions. On the other hand, net domestic assets (NDA) of the system dropped in August, mainly as a result of a drop in net claims on the central government. Placements to the central government stagnated, while government deposits grew. Observed on an annual basis, the growth in total liquid assets (M4) remained at 5.2% in August 2018, exchange rate changes excluded (Figure 1). As regards the components of total liquid assets, the annual growth in money (M1) slowed down somewhat to 19.6%, while the annual fall in quasi-money decelerated to 1.2%.
Total placements of monetary institutions to domestic sectors (excluding the government) stagnated in August (transaction-based), standing at HRK 222.2bn at the month's end, while their annual growth rate accelerated slightly to 4.2% (transaction-based, Figure 2). The annual growth in household placements continued to accelerate, reaching 6.0% at the end of August, with two thirds of the increase stemming from the demand for general-purpose cash loans, whose annual growth picked up to 11.2%. At the same time, the annual rise in corporate placements remained unchanged, standing at 2.6% (Table 2). As for the nominal stock of total placements, their annual growth stood at 1.6% at end-August and was significantly slower than the transaction-based growth, primarily as a result of the sale of non-performing placements.


The present study examined the associations between trait mindfulness and depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms (i.e., worry), and alcohol-related problems via decentering and purpose in life. Using structural equation modeling in a large sample of college students (N = 1,277), we found support for decentering and purpose in life as partial mediators of the associations between trait mindfulness and these outcomes. Although our findings should be viewed as preliminary given the cross-sectional study design and study population, our results are consistent with the notion that decentering and purpose in life may be mechanisms explaining the health beneficial effects of mindfulness. Future research studies with extensive assessments of potential mechanisms using experimental and longitudinal designs are needed to bolster confidence that decentering and purpose in life are important mechanisms explaining the health-promoting effects of mindfulness.
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- Registration for examination of investment projects.
With an aim to aiding foreign investors in overcoming bureaucratic bottleneck and allowing Vietnam to quickly open and integrate its market into the global market, Vietnamese government has issued new Law on Investment and Law on Enterprises, which are expected to take effect in July 2015. The article will highlight some key changes in these amendments.
1. A better definition of a foreign investor: The 2014 Law introduces a simpler and clearer definition of foreign investor and also clarifies the differences between "foreign investor" and "foreign-invested economic organization" which replaces the term "foreign-invested enterprise" in the 2005 Law.
– A foreign investor is now defined as an individual holding a foreign nationality or an organization established under foreign laws and making business in Vietnam.
– A foreign-invested economic organization (FIEO) is broadly defined as an economic entity which has any member or shareholder is a foreign investor.
(ii) Capital contribution, purchase of shares or contributed capital in an economic entity.
(iii) Investment under cooperation contract (Public-Private Partnership; Business Cooperation Contract).
3. Relaxation of licensing requirements: Under the 2014 Law, an Investment Certificate (IC) has been replaced by an Investment Registration Certificate (IRC), and an FIEO is only required to obtain an IRC if it falls into one of the three circumstances stated above.
However, for M&A activities, unless the foreign investors invest in a conditional investment project, the M&A activity may be conducted solely under the Enterprise Law. As such, the requirement to obtain an IC to close an M&A deal, the most troublesome condition under the current law, is abolished.
4. Opening up of investment sectors: The number of prohibited business activities is reduced from 51 to 6 activities, and the number of conditional business activities also decreases from 386 to 267 activities. Notably, the 2014 Investment Law takes an initiative approach that allows investors to do investment and business activities in fields not prohibited by the 2014 Investment Law.
5. Dispute settlement: Under the new law, only foreign investors or FIEO with 51% or more of chartered capital can choose foreign arbitration and/or international arbitration to settle their dispute over business investment.
6. Transitional provision: Any investor who was granted IC before July 1st 2015 may keep executing their investment project without the need of registering for a new IRC. However, a new IRC shall be granted if requested by the investor.
1. New definition of foreign investors' holding: the 2014 Law defines foreign investors' holding as the total holding of voting capital of all foreign investors in a Vietnamese company, instead of total holding of charter capital specified under the 2005 law.
2. Simplification of license requirements: The new law removes the scope of business activities of an enterprise and the list of founding shareholders of a joint stock company (JSC) from the ERC. The business activities of enterprises will be posted on the National Business Registration Portal. If an enterprise changes its business activities, founding shareholders or foreign shareholders, it must notify the corporate registration authority to update its corporate registration records, but does not need to register for an update of its ERC as required under current laws.
3. Enterprise's seal: Under the new law, an enterprise is entitled to decide the form, quantity and contents of its seal. The management, usage and retention of the seal must be stated in the company's charter. Before using the seal, an enterprise must send the seal design to the business registration authority to be posted on the National Business Registration Portal.
4. More than one legal representative permitted: The 2014 Law allows a JSC or limited liability company (LLC) to have more than one legal representative and only one of them is required to reside in Vietnam. If a JSC has more than one legal representative, the chairman and the general director must both be legal representatives.
5. Change of requirements on charter capital of LLC.
Under the 2005 Law on Enterprises, a one-member LLC is not permitted to reduce its charter capital. The New Law now permits a one-member LLC to reduce its charter capital in certain circumstances. Additionally, full payment of the registered charter capital of an LLC must be made within 90 days of the issuance of the ERC (in contrast to the 36 months' period under the old Law on Enterprises) or the actually paid charter capital must be registered as adjusted charter capital.
6. Lower quorum and voting thresholds: In multi-member LLCs, the quorum of the meeting of the Board of members and the voting threshold for circular resolutions are reduced to 65% of the charter capital from the current 75% requirement.
In JSCs, the quorum of the general meeting of shareholders (GMS) and voting threshold for circular resolutions of shareholders is reduced to 51% of the voting shares from the current 65% and 75% requirement respectively. At a GMS, the voting threshold is reduced to 51% of the voting shares of attending shareholders from the current 65% for ordinary matters and to 65% of the voting shares from the current 75% for reserved matters.
7. New definition of State-owned Enterprises (SOE): The new Law defines an SOE to be an enterprise wholly owned by the State, thus, allowing former SOEs to operate as private or JSCs subject to new rights and obligations.


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Find out what it took to create the most immersive audio experience with Princess Yachts.
For their latest design, the S78, Princess' development team wanted to install a ground-breaking audio system. It had to sound like nothing else in the yachting world. It had to withstand the harsh environments of the ocean. It also had to come from a British firm who shared the same manufacturing and design principles, which is why they contacted Naim.
What struck Naim engineers first was the level of detail that Princess would go to when designing a new craft. From creating bespoke furniture to using high-grade materials and finishes – just like Naim, Princess has an obsession with precision design and engineering.
"It was always about recreating the Naim home experience on the open water."
At first the challenge seemed pretty vast. A yacht of this size comes with irregular-sized areas, restricted interiors and open-air spaces in which to project sound. So for Naim, the first stage was to send in our acoustic engineers to see exactly what we were dealing with.
After some careful analysis, we chose the Uniti range as the main system for the S78 – not only is it versatile and easy to connect to, Uniti also has a rich sound quality that perfectly matches the luxury feel of the yacht's interior. By carefully positioning drivers and subwoofers in ceiling cavities and under furniture, our engineers were able to create incredible sonic spaces – each room or cabin enjoys audiophile quality sound in total isolation or the systems can be linked to create a truly impressive audio experience.
The end result is extraordinary – an 80ft yacht full of innovative technology, luxury finishes and now one of the highest quality audio systems ever found at sea. We're proud to announce that the Princess S78 was successfully launched at the Düsseldorf Boat Show this January, impressing with its potential to entertain and exhilarate.
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Still No Permanent Home For Yankee's New York City Football Club
The proposed field configuration for NYC Foottball Club which is 25% owned by the NY Yankees. The team has their sites on a nearby parking garage operated by the Parks Department to build the $ 350 million stadium.
No conversations yet however regarding replacing the public parkland permmanently lost to build Yankee Stadium.
Are negotiations to acquire the Parks Department-run parking lot near Yankee Stadium to build the
$ 350 million, 25,000 -30,000 seat soccer stadium going well?
From the looks of the faces of team officials earlier today maybe not well enough.
In a somber press conference this morning the Yankees and New York City Football Club announced that Yankee Stadium will be the team's home for the foreseeable future.
Last week the NY Times reported that the first three seasons of the fledgling new soccer club will be played at Yankee stadium.
Officials refused to confirm or commit to a timeline.
With no permanent home in site officials were peppered with questions about securing a permanent new home.
"This is the one thing missing from all these announcements is how long do you think this particular arrangement is going to last at Yankee Stadium. At Least three years," asked a reporter addressing the elephant in the room.
"It's gonna last for as long as it doesn't last," said Yankee President Randy Levine speaking as if he was at a funeral.
"We're not going to put any timetables on it. This is the home of the New York City football club and if there's a change we'll let you know."
New York City FC Chief Business Officer Tim Pernetti also addressed the issue several times.
"We're not going to put a time line on it, said Mr. Pernetti. "I think that our goal will be to find the right relationship, the right community to build a soccer specific stadium and to be in that stadium as soon as possible."
He said they are still pursuing a goal that would build a soccer specific stadium in the five boroughs but they will not create an artificial deadline.
Officials also asked if they were "absolutely committed" to the notion of finding a stadium within the five boroughs and if finding one in Westchester or Long Island would be "a deal breaker."
"We are going to build a soccer specific stadium in New York City," Mr. Pernetti said later.
"We are going to take what ever time is necessary to get it right." he said.
The Parks Department run garage on E. 153rd Street & River Avenue, the proposed site of a $ 350 million, 28,000 seat soccer stadium is located 80 feet away from residents. (Photo: Geoffrey Croft/NYC Park Advocates) Click on images to enlarge.
Scheduling Conflicts?
With the MLS schedule running through October and the playoffs in November, the overlap with the Yankees post season play is high.
A reporter sensibly asked the Yankees if it was safe to assume that October would be off-limits for soccer dates in order to accommodate the Yankees.
"I think its pretty clear we are not going to do anything that affects the Yankee schedule," said Randy Levine, who was barely audible during the press conference.
Levine said they didn't expect any scheduling conflicts.
"If there is, there are other venues in the city," he said.
A soccer stadium, sort of
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OK - so having a soccer team share a facility with a baseball team will work? Then why should taxpayers be asked to subsidize another stadium? Let's just have the teams use the stadium that we have already subsidized. That is the best deal for taxpayers, considering the bill we have already paid for these sports teams.
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My uncle the neurosurgeon came back with his assessment of my chart. He said that I was getting excellent care, they were doing everything right, and he was happy with what he saw. He said I should definitely go through with the video study and I'm not a good candidate for surgery given what he saw (and he's seen many, many brains). He felt that my problems could be controlled by medication, it's just finding the right one. He also said I shouldn't be driving. That definitely hampers me a bit. Under GA law, if you have a seizure where you lose consciousness (which I disagree with that assessment, but my opinion doesn't matter), you can't drive for 6 months. I've never had a seizure while driving, but I know I'd never forgive myself if I hurt or killed someone else not to mention the damage I would do to myself. They could also throw me in jail for it. In a roundabout way, I got what I asked for. I can't count the number of times I complained about traffic, how long I spend in the car, etc. The universe was like "Oh, okay, we can fix that!". Lesson learned, universe, lesson learned. My boss was very helpful when I told him about it. He said he would circulate the word that I need a ride for the next few months. I really appreciated that. He's definitely made the whole ordeal a bit easier. One of my coworkers said he could help me out for the next few months until his wife is off maternity leave. I figure I'll give it a few days, see if anyone else pops up, and go from there.
The hospital can also take me for the video study on Monday. I was originally scheduled for October 10. I figure the faster I can get this all over with, the better. We'll turn on the TV, wait an hour, and I'll start to twitch. They'll probably also want to capture anything I have in my sleep. Since I'll be off my meds, I estimate I won't be in there much longer than 48 hours. The quicker, the better. I'm ready to have this over and done with. My uncle said the video study would be very informative in that it will tell them what kind of seizures I'm having, where they originate, and give them a better idea of what medication I should be on since I'm not a good candidate for surgery. I'm okay with not being a good candidate for surgery.
In better news, I have an interview with the head of the division tomorrow. They posted a few jobs as part of the managerial musical chairs going on. I was under the impression these positions had already been filled, but apparently not. HR called me this morning and scheduled an interview for tomorrow. I'm really excited. At least I get a shot to sit down with her and get some interview practice. I'm not terribly emotionally invested in getting the position, though the increased responsibility (and raise) wouldn't go unappreciated. I figure if the universe can dish out crap, it can also give me some good stuff. Considering the rest of this year, it would be nice to get a raise, a promotion, and a few good things out of the deal.
Tonight Boy is taking me out to dinner for our 3 year anniversary. On the one hand, it's hard to believe it's already been 3 years. On the other hand, it feels like we've known each other forever. He's taking me to one of my favorite restaurants and I'm really looking forward to that. It'll be a nice end to the day.
*The power went out during the wedding itself. The priest tried to redeem it saying God must approve of the union. Not exactly, padre.
*The best man (the groom's older brother) and the father of the bride (my uncle) both getting in jabs at the father of the groom during their toasts.
*Three of my cousins getting into a car after the rehearsal dinner and none of them getting in the driver's seat. A bit of a metaphor for the weekend really. We were all in the car, but no one was in the driver's seat.
*The father of the groom continually bringing up that they lived abroad, the groom's grandmother was a senator (state senator from WV. *big* life accomplishment), and acting like the rehearsal dinner was a wake instead of a party. My sister and I made a drinking game out of it. That's the extreme they took it to.
*Getting to see my 16 year old cousin and my sister drunk at the after party. They're both very loving drunks. My cousin kept telling me how much he loved me and hugging me. Hilarity.
*Seeing my mom and my uncle get out and dance uncoerced. And we have it on video. I have literally never seen my mom dance in public in my entire life.
*Watching the 4 brothers of the groom put some serious damage in the open bar. Those kids can *drink*. Guess it runs in the family.
*The slide show during the rehearsal dinner wouldn't work properly. Instead of giving up after the third try, the groom's parents kept poking at it until it started working on the 8th try. And it was 80% pictures of the groom and they screwed up several places where my cousin lived in the few shots they had of her.
*Speaking of shots, quote of the after party- "I went to the bar to get a beer and I ended up doing a shot of tequila".
We'll be talking about this wedding for years to come and very little about the actual ceremony. The kids on the groom's side made a point to differentiate themselves from their parents' generation. Apparently we weren't the only ones who noticed they're self important asses. Though they would know better than we would, wouldn't they? I feel a bit bad for my cousin because she's stuck with them, but hopefully they'll move far enough away that it won't be an issue. Her husband apparently hates being the center of attention and if he'd had his way, the rehearsal dinner would've been at a pub in Colonial Williamsburg, not this big to do that his dad insisted on.
I saw the epilepsy specialist yesterday morning and she wants to change my medication. She's going to switch me to Lamictal and step me off the Keppra once I'm on the full dose of the Lamictal. She said the major risk was a rash that might appear within the first 2 weeks. If I see that, I need to stop the meds and call them. She didn't act like it was life threatening, though, just that it's harder to get rid of the longer I keep taking the meds. As if my paranoid brain needed anything more to obsess over. I'll start the Lamictal tomorrow and slowly step up to the full dose over the course of 4-5 weeks. The good part is Lamictal also has mood stabilizing effects. So I cancelled the appointment with the psychiatrist this morning and we'll see how the Lamictal does me. If it fixes the anxiety, then we're golden. The doctor seemed confident that this one would help me more. Since I'm a woman of childbearing age, they're erring on the side of caution if I accidentally get pregnant. Apparently the Lamictal is the second safest option as anti-seizure meds go. She also wants me to start taking folic acid supplements just in case. No babies, please and thank you. Hopefully I won't be less than useless while I'm adjusting to the new meds, but I see more than my share of naps in the coming weeks. I'll also have to refill the Keppra before my trip this weekend.
I keep thinking it's Wednesday and getting disappointed when I remember it's only Tuesday. I have to pack tonight because my parents are driving up tomorrow and they can take most of my stuff with them. All I really need to bring with me is a change of shoes for the rehearsal dinner on Friday night. It'll just be the kittens and me Wednesday and Thursday night. I'll go into work for a few hours Friday morning and then it's off to Virginia. I'm really looking forward to getting out of town for a few days. I think it'll be a nice opportunity to reset.
In other random bits and bobs, no more word on the changes at work. I upgraded to an iPhone 5 over the weekend and I've been learning that. Boy is partially moved into his new apartment and it's so much nicer. I love it. I'll be totally done with all the DUI stuff except my fine by the end of August. I'll probably keep volunteering at the thrift store, though. They've got some great deals. At least I'm not as exhausted today.
The epilepsy center got a cancellation and I'm able to get in next Monday morning. It's not the same doctor, but I was assured this doctor also specializes in epilepsy. I'm glad they were able to take me a lot sooner. I'm really hoping to get more information about what exactly is wrong with my brain. The general neurologist didn't seem like she knew what she was talking about, so I'm hoping the specialist can explain it to me better. I made it 42 hours without a seizure this time. I *think* I had one in my sleep last night, but I don't remember for sure. Depending on what the specialist says, I may cancel the appointment with the psychiatrist the next morning. The fewer doctors I have to deal with, the better.
It's a new month and those always perk me up a bit. I'm a firm believer in the possibilities that come with a new month. I'll kick it off spending time with Jo and the new baby tonight. I haven't had time to get over there and give him his new baby gift until now. A lot of my favorite people have birthdays in August including my niece who turns a year old next Friday. I'll be headed up to Virginia next week for my cousin's wedding and we'll hit Busch Gardens (best amusement park ever in my humble opinion). It'll be the first time that whole side of the family has been together in 9 years. The last time was for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. Boy moves this weekend and I'm really excited for that. I'm also getting my hair done. It's slowly but surely getting longer. I actually have a tiny ponytail now! It's the small things in life (if you will…).
I'm currently coveting a $200 skirt from Free People and it's been a challenge to try and convince myself to wait and see if it goes on sale. Or I get a promotion, a raise, and can treat myself. Until then, time to nap in the car because I'm so. freaking. tired.


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Gov. Rick Scott, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam push for federal citrus relief
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, right, engages in a sharp exchange with Gov. Rick Scott, second from left, as she tells him more must be done for hurricane debris removal.ALEX LEARY | Times
An orange sits on a tree in Lake Wales last month affected by Hurricane Irma. Overcome by almost $800 million in losses from the hurricane, the state' citrus industry is suddenly facing its lowest orange yield in 75 years, (TAMARA LUSH | AP File Photo]
Published October 11 2017
Updated October 12 2017
WASHINGTON — As lawmakers were poised to vote on a $36 billion disaster relief package, top Florida officials on Wednesday implored the state's congressional delegation to secure $2.5 billion more for the battered agriculture industry.
But as Gov. Rick Scott made the request, he found himself tangled in a dispute over debris removal with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston.
Scott arrived in Washington with Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who said Hurricane Irma had left an already-strained citrus industry in shambles. They pushed for $2.5 billion even as the House planned to vote today on the larger spending package.
"I know that's a heavy lift," Putnam said. "But time is of the essence for supporting growers who have between 50 and 100 percent of their crop on the ground."
The state estimates the citrus industry has suffered more than $760 million in losses, with other crops making up the balance of the $2.5 billion. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Okeechobee, has already drafted an amendment for the $2.5 billion, though it was unclear if House leadership will be responsive. He and others called for a unified front.
"This is not a partisan issue," said Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland. "Please, let us stick together."
If the effort failed, lawmakers said they would try again as Congress is expected to approve more rounds of disaster relief after hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico and now the wildfires ravaging California's wine country.
Despite calls for bipartisan muscle — Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio are also pushing for money — tension filled the room.
Debris remains scattered across Florida and Wasserman Schulz accused Scott of thwarting removal efforts, warning that if another storm arrived the debris could become "projectiles." She said Scott's administration was not passing along to FEMA local requests to negotiate deals with debris removal companies at market rates.
Haulers have been going to communities that can pay more money rather than the lower amounts set in pre-storm deals. The federal government picks up 90 percent of the cost.
"I have tried to reach you and I have gotten no response from you," Wasserman Schultz said.
"If you've contacted me, I don't have any evidence that you contacted me," Scott said.
"I have your cell phone number, governor, and I've called you on it. And I've also contacted your office," Wasserman Schultz replied.
Scott, a Republican, said that existing contracts must be honored. "I'm always going to stand on the side of taxpayers and consumers, not on the side of somebody who wants to make extra money after a disaster."


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life is funny how it confuses you! i sometimes thought that i was decent at so many things, but not really very exceptional at one thing. i didn't know that i could take those things and put them all together to build (what i consider) my own work of genius, and be satisfied by it.
i use the cosmos and the cycles of nature for my inspiration artistically.
purusha enables me to be able to use both my heart and my mind in harmony. the dark and the light, the rational and the emotional, the art and the business. . . good things come in pairs. i am learning to dance the fine line between my dreams and reality.
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The Fountainhead. Dir. King Vidor. Screenplay by Ayn Rand. Warner Bros. 1949. Film.
What Venturi et al. here are pointing to, is effectively a gap in terms of material culture—that is, a gap between the kind of built world that architecture as a profession generally pursues, and the kind of material fabric generally produced and collected by broader society, that eventually occupies it.
If one can ignore for the moment, the odd neutrality with which Bingler and Pedersen refer, in passing, to "a global elite who share our values," a more serious question concerning the failed societal role of architecture can be considered here. What if the inability of architecture, as a profession, to achieve this idealized, populist societal role is not due to a hyper-specialized and -insular vocabulary, but rather due to the bureaucratic, administrative, and financial machinery through which it has grown accustomed to operate and, through its own internal momentum, continues to reinforce?
Before proceeding though, perhaps a brief clarification is needed.
What is meant, for instance, by machinery? With this term, a wide definition is being put into motion—referring to the range of institutional bodies, discretionary agencies, policies, codes, laws, and so on, involved in the various processes concerning construction and design, building permitting and inspection, zoning and land-use review, loan and mortgage financing, parochial planning-policy formation, building-code revision, societal building cultures, and beyond. This is a machinery, in turn, that doesn't exist in a vacuum. In this article, what is truly being discussed is the machinery of the United States and, subsequently, the failure of American architecture to achieve a populist societal role on a significant level. For although there are commonalities to be considered throughout the proverbial West, the United States seems to exist in rather rare historic and contemporary company in regard to: (1) the bulk, excess, stagnation, and convoluted as well as contradictory nature that characterizes the machinery within which its architectural realm operates; and (2) the seemingly systemic engagement of a predominantly higher-economic echelon clientele that its architecture depends upon.
The immediate and historically oft-repeated rebuttal, of course, is that this is a civilized machinery—a machinery essential for societal health and safety, public welfare, ecological preservation, urban functionality, etc. And partly, there is truth to this. Certain aspects of the machinery being discussed here were historically developed, maintained, and revised in order to avert, what in political discourse is referred to as, a race to the bottom (in regard to human rights, socioeconomic standards, ecological systems, urban conditions, and so on). What is similarly undeniable, however, is that the developmental trajectory of the policies, codes, institutions, and procedures surrounding this American machine have also been heavily molded since their inception by idealized, narrow-sighted, and at-times extremist conceptions of morality, gender, ethnicity, civility, economics, genetics, etc.
A quick but earnest study of the historic fabric concerning these subjects readily unveils, in fact, a rather complex and dark narrative at play—namely, that the machinery that surrounds architecture in the United States is not only profoundly laced with inherently exclusionary conceptions of who has the right to the American city (and who has the right to American society), but more egregiously, that it is not merely by chance, but rather significantly by design, that the poor, the non-Anglo-Saxon, the non-nuclear family, etc., have continued to find difficulty in achieving a genuine architectural and urban voice in the United States, and rather have succumbed to assimilating into and mimicking existing architectural conditions, habits, proclivities, etc. Regrettably, this is a subject area far too broad to develop in full in the short span of this article. For those interested in this realm of study, however, Michael Wolf's (2008) The Zoning of America, David Langum's (1994) Crossing over the Line, Roy Lubove and Samuel Hays' (1960) The Progressives and the Slums, and Charles Eagles' (1990) Democracy Delayed may serve as a few critical points of entry into the discourse concerning the subject.
In the absence of awareness of these latter histories, when confronted by seemingly trivial points such as minimum parking requirements, minimum insulation requirements, zoning issues, minimum square footages and maximum lot coverages required to be considered a single-family detached house, minimum property offsets that change from locality to locality, minimum construction specifications, permitting costs, land-use review processes, etc., what will be evoked in the architect is the presupposition of neutrality—that is, the assumption that these standards and minimums are merely neutral and apolitical details required to maintain societal stability and order or, at the very least, are parameters of bureaucracy that must, by their nature, inherently lie outside of the critical gaze of the profession.
It is in this commonplace discursive erasure and subsequent formulation of presumption—the presumption of the neutrality of this societal machinery (that is, a machinery of pure administration, as opposed to a machinery of partial regime)—that one of the fundamental ideological distortions of architecture, as a profession, a discipline, and a discourse, begins to find root.
This distortion, being the distortion of ideology in a fundamentally Zizekian sense,7 takes place at considerable depth. By the time it breaks the discursive skin, it is no longer recognizable by the bearer (the architect) as being anything but the natural condition of the null state. What manifests at the surface, rather, is delusion—a surface-level skewing of reality, constructed in order to conform to an underlying ideological malformation.
It is in the 1949 theatrical film adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead that a range of these delusions can be found unwittingly captured. The specific one that is of importance for the purposes of this article is highlighted by the architect-protagonist's misconceptions regarding the struggle for architectural integrity—namely, his delusions regarding where the lines of battle are actually drawn.
From the start of the film, Howard Roark, played by Gary Cooper, is portrayed as being in active discursive struggle. In the very first minute of the film, the viewer observes him being expelled by the dean of his university, who chides him by pointing out, "There's no place for originality in architecture. Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past; one can only learn to copy them."8 Roark, a few minutes later, establishes his own anti-historic-mimetic stance in asserting, "A building has integrity just like a man, and just as seldom. It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose."9 Thus standing in the face of a vast mass of critique, he holds resolute—the purported champion of individualism.
Upon deeper inspection, however, it becomes apparent that for Roark, the fight for architectural integrity, for authorship, occurs specifically at the level of form, at the level of aesthetics—that is, at the level of the surface. While it is briefly mentioned, for instance, that he has engaged "the problem of low-rent construction"10 for many years, this point only comes up in passing. Throughout the film, the dominant narrative that appears is that the nature of the project, the nature of the client, the socioeconomic implications of the work, and so on—these facets have no bearing on Roark. He is simply in waiting for a client who will adopt his form-based ideas, without alteration. "Those who need them must take them my way, or not at all," he asserts.11 And for this assertion, he is cast as the hero of the battle for architectural integrity.
This assumed state of conflict achieves its climactic end towards the latter half of the film, wherein Roark sets out to dynamite a large-scale low-income housing project for which he has been commissioned (indirectly commissioned, since he is essentially functioning as an architectural ghost writer in that circumstance).
His reasoning is that his initial design has been radically altered—radically, but at the surface level of the aesthetics of the architectural envelope, if the oxymoron of radical surface-alteration can be forgiven. The project, so far as is understood by the viewer, still remains a low-income housing project. It simply looks different. And for this, Roark destroys it, in its totality. He does so without the slightest hesitation and is eventually acquitted by a jury of his peers, after delivering a lengthy monologue on the nature of individual integrity. As the film comes to a close, we find Howard Roark has done well for himself following the trial. He is framed standing atop his latest commission, the Wynand Building, the tallest skyscraper to be built in New York and one can assume, by extension, the world.
So how is it that Roark is able to retain the status of hero? Why is it that he is portrayed as the victor of the battle for architectural integrity, given that the very nature of his architectural practice seems to be the perfect partner to unrestrained real estate speculation and development, or more broadly, a predatory-capitalistic socioeconomic system?
There is an overlooked, yet remarkably blunt narrative here. Howard Roark, although presented as having a clarity of conscious thought that is unmatched throughout the story, in fact never seems to be able to step out of his ideological distortion and surface-level delusions. He is, fundamentally and superficially, blind: he never sees or recognizes the nature of the societal role that he occupies.
As the film rolls to black, Gail Wynand remains dead of his own hand, having been granted the horrifying gift of sight on a Sophoclean scale, yet Roark stands atop the Wynand Building, straddling with great pride the literal architectural embodiment of unrestrained capitalism, unable to see his work for what it is. Rothko gave up the Seagram commission, yet Roark remains in full production, his vision focused on the surface, on the form—solely on the phenomenological character of the architecture he is being commissioned to produce.
To break this cycle, the critique of architecture must be operationalized at a deeper level. The minutiae of the purported null state must be examined and challenged within the range of scales it occupies. The machinery must be unveiled for what it is. And while it is possible that a new surface language of architecture will be produced via such a radical restructuring, it is critical that the battle for the surface is not confused for the battle for the fundament. For it is the latter which we are after, and the former within which we are predominantly lost.
1. Bingler, Steven and Martin Pedersen. "How to Rebuild Architecture." New York Times, 15 December 2014. Web. 15 June 2016.
2. Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steve Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972, p. 93.
3. Bingler and Pedersen 2014.
7. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. Dir. Sophie Fiennes. Perf. Slavoj Zizek. Blinder Films, 2013.
8. The Fountainhead. Dir. King Vidor. Perf. Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, et al. Warner Bros, 1949. Film. 1'.
12. Throughout the film, the viewer is granted brief glimpses into the client list and portfolio of Roark, which includes a new building for the Security Bank of Manhattan which he rejects (11'), a luxury-apartment building known as the Enright House (38'), a new building for the Civic Opera Company of New York (52-53') for which he is rejected due to "too much talk and public resentment" (52'), a gas station (55'), a store (55'), a farm (56'), a residence (56'), an office building (56'), a factory (56'), a 500-acre country house for Gail and Dominique Wynand (59'), the low-income housing development known as Cortlandt Homes (73'), and the Wynand Building (108'). Even though Roark's portfolio does include some humbler works, such as those shown around the 55' mark of the film, the fact that his formal language (which includes rather extensive cantilevers and wall windows) remains consistent throughout would seem to naturally imply that even in such projects his clients are most likely on the higher economic spectrum.
15. "Rothko." The Power of Art. Written by Schama, Simon. BBC, UK. 8 December 2006. Television. 35'.
17. Tafuri, Manfredo. 1969. "Manfredo Tafuri, Toward a Critique of Architecture Ideology." In Architecture Theory Since 1968, 1st ed., 6–35. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000. p. 33.
Cem S. Kayatekin is a PhD Candidate at the University of Oregon's Department of Architecture. His research, operating within the overlaps of architecture/urbanism, political theory, and ecology, is focused on the subjects of complex adaptive systems as applied to cities, urban resilience, and socioeconomic inclusivity. He received an M.Arch from Cornell University and a B.Arch from Auburn University, and maintains an active architectural practice with his wife, with projects in Sri Lanka and the United States.


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Well the day finally came and I was dreading it just a wee bit, but Alex and I met Sharlene and the boys for a picnic lunch on Wednesday as it was there last day in New Plymouth before heading to Auckland. It was great a beautiful sunny day, we went to Brooklands Zoo, where the kids ( Alex, Parker and Chase) did some last catching up before they go home to the US on Monday. It was pretty emotional nearly cried but kept it together, Alex will miss Parker and Chase, but we are going to skype each other once a month. As you can see we needed our sunny's as it was so bright and sunny on Wednesday, not like today wet and cloudy.