Larvadex™ is an insect growth regulator which controls larvae of nuisance flies in poultry manure. Treatment is commenced in the feed when fly activity is noticed, and continued for 4-6 weeks or until the fly population is under control. This action of larval control enables a reduction in insecticide application frequency and costs. When used as directed, Larvadex™ has no adverse effects on beneficial manure-inhabiting insects which prey on fly eggs and larvae1.
When blended into a poultry ration, according to the Directions for Use, Larvadex™ 1% Premix controls certain fly species' maggot development in poultry manure. This disruption of the fly's life cycle, and reduction of the fly population over time is an effective way to achieve control of flies in poultry houses. Since Larvadex affects the moulting process of fly larvae2, an adulticide product is recommended for use between Larvadex treatments.
DO NOT apply manure to soil at rates > 4 dry tonnes/ha/yr.
If supplying manure to a third party, ensure that they are made aware of this restraint.
Larvadex™ affects the moulting process of fly larvae. It does not kill adult flies. The elimination of adult flies is therefore gradual.
Poultry housing, for broilers, breeders and layers. Flies 500 g of Larvadex 1% premix per tonne of normal poultry feed.
DO NOT add Larvadex™ 1% Premix directly to the feed. Use a mixing process which will ensure that the product is evenly distributed through the feed.
Commence treatment when fly activity is noticed. Continue for 4 to 6 weeks or until the fly population is under control. Revert to untreated feed until the flies build up again, when use of treated feed should be resumed.
Any spillage of premix or of feed mixed with the premix should be cleaned up immediately, preferably by recovery and use in or as poultry feed.
The use of an adulticide is recommended between Larvadex™ treatments. DO NOT apply adulticides directly onto manure as they may harm beneficial insects that breed in the manure.
Elanco recommends that Larvadex™ be used as part of an integrated fly control program.
repair leaks that contribute to wet manure (undesirable odour and an ideal breeding site for flies). Larvadex™ encourages manure drying.
reduce feed spills in manure pits and clean up feed spills and manure spills, especially if wet.
ensure good shed ventilation to reduce moisture in manure in the pits.
ensure good site drainage to avoid ground moisture "wicking" into manure cones.
ensure any other fly-infested animal operations in close proximity to the poultry operation do not act as a source of invading flies.
DO NOT spray non-specific insecticides onto manure as this may inhibit biological control.
In certain situations, retention of a dry manure pad (~20 cm high) following clean out of layer sheds will give superior fly control by 1) providing a suitable habitat for beneficial, manure-inhabiting predatory insects and mites that eat fly eggs and larva and 2) facilitating drying of additional manure strata.
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American Legion's Poppy Sale returns in North Attleborough
After a year and a half, the familiar site of red poppies has returned to North Attleborough.
American Legion Post 49 held its first in-person poppy sale outside the Dunkin Donuts near Mason Field the weekend of Sept. 18. Another is planned for Nov. 6 and 7 at Shaw's in the Triboro Plaza and the organization is working on an October date. Members of the Legion offer the red flowers in exchange for a donation of any amount. All of the money raised goes to programs that the Legion runs—Boys and Girls State, the American Legion Junior Baseball Team, and donations to Lenore's Pantry.
Jackie Follet, a member of the post, said the response was tremendous. People were excited to see the poppy sale return, with one girl saying she used to dress up as one.
"It was well received by the public," she said. "They (the post members) were getting $20 donations left and right."
The red poppy is a nationally recognized symbol of sacrifice worn by Americans since World War I to honor those who served and died for the country in all wars. It reminds Americans of the sacrifices made by veterans.
Paul Follet, the post's finance officer, said the various programs the Legion runs can be expensive. For example, the Boys and Girls State programs, which send high school students to Washington D.C., can run around $2,000 annually.
"It adds up, believe me," said Paul.
The last year and a half have been challenging ones for the Legion and other veterans posts. Few held meetings, and some closed down for months during the pandemic. Paul said the post's bank account was emptied and in dire straits. On one occasion he spend $350 of his own money to send a teen to Girls State. The post had to cut back on its programs in order to remain open.
"We weren't broke, but so close it wasn't funny," he said.
Paul said people were very happy to see the poppy sale return. A few times they would see the Legion members and come back to make donations. One woman had no cash, but went to Dunkin Donuts to buy the group a $20 gift certificate. Follet said it will take time to re-build what was lost, but the recent sale is a good start.
"Every nickel we raise is spent in North Attleborough and nothing is spent on the post," said Paul. "We give it back. We give every nickel back."
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After high school, Max moved to Boston to attend The Boston Conservatory. In 2014, he graduated, and received his BFA in Musical Theater. He performed in many productions throughout his four years. Max is now living in New York. He has worked at many theaters around the country, and New York. In 2016, he made his Off-Broadway debut at New World Stages in the world premiere of Mad Libs Live!, where he can be heard on the Original Cast Recording.
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Vietnam calls for respecting national sovereignty, int'l law in East Sea
Vietnam suggests that all activities in the East Sea should respect sovereignty and legitimate and legal interests of countries and observe international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, contributing to regional peace, security, stability and cooperation.
Vietnam respects right to freedom of religion and belief: FM spokesperson
Vietnam has consistently pursued the policy of respecting and guaranteeing the right to freedom of citizens to follow or not follow any religion and belief, stated the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
Vietnam values comprehensive partnership with US: spokesperson
Vietnam attaches importance to developing the comprehensive partnership with the US, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on June 28.
We are glad that Doan Thi Huong is reunited with family: Ministry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang expressed delight that Doan Thi Huong has been released and reunited with her family in Vietnam.
Vietnam supports Doan Thi Huong to return home after release
Vietnam's Foreign Ministry has coordinated with relevant agencies, the Vietnam Bar Federation, and the Embassy of Vietnam in Malaysia to implement all necessary citizen protection procedures for Doan Thi Huong to return home right after she is released.
Vietnam opposes Taiwan's live-fire drill around Ba Binh Island
Vietnam resolutely protests against Taiwan (China)'s live-fire exercise around Ba Binh (Itu Aba) island in Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, demanding that it refrain from such actions in the future, stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
Vietnam reasserts sovereignty over Truong Sa archipelago
Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence affirming its sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos, foreign ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has affirmed.
US' annual human rights report not reflective of reality in Vietnam
The 2018 annual human rights report of the US Department of State does not reflect the true situation in Vietnam, said the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang in response to reporters' queries during a regular press conference in Hanoi on March 14.
Efforts underway to complete procedures for official signing, ratification of EVFTA
The Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement is an important deal which brings many benefits to the people as well as the business community of Vietnam and the EU, therefore the two sides are making efforts to complete procedures for the official signing, ratification and enforcement of the agreement.
Vietnam requests other countries to respect international law
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang underlined Vietnam's stance on the US vessel USS McCampbell's passage through Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) waters, while responding to reporters' questions regarding the case on January 9.
PM extends sympathy to families of victims in Egypt's deadly bomb blast
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has conveyed sympathy to the families of victims in a deadly roadside bomb blast in Egypt on December 28.
Vietnam calls for positive contributions to peace, stability in seas, oceans
Vietnam on October 4 asked other countries to make positive and practical contributions to the maintenance of peace and stability, respecting and fully implementing relevant international obligations, and upholding the law on the seas and oceans.
Leaders send sympathies over passing of US Senator John McCain
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on August 27 sent messages of condolences to the family of US Senator John McCain and leaders of the US Senate over the death of the senator.
Vietnam congratulates Cambodia on successful organisation of election
Vietnam congratulates Cambodia on the successful organisation of the election of the country's sixth National Assembly on July 29, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.
Vietnam works to ratify CPTPP
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is making every endeavour to complete all required papers and to submit the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to the National Assembly for ratification in the legislature's session later this year.
Vietnam applauds Russia-US summit: spokesperson
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Vietnamese victims of Phnom Penh fire receive support
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ASEM conference on climate change response to be held in Can Tho
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference on climate change response toward sustainability will take place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from June 18-20.


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Montreal; August 27, 2014: "Welcome back!" David D'Aoust, President of the Quebec English School Boards Association (QESBA) extends best wishes to students, teachers, administrators, and parents on behalf of our nine English School Boards for a great and successful 2014/2015 school year. D'Aoust continued: "With...
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For years, analysts have argued that the Nabucco natural gas pipeline -- a U.S.-backed effort to transport gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe via Turkey, thus bypassing Russia -- needed to accept gas from Iran if it was to be economically viable. But Iranian involvement in the project, which is intended to reduce European energy dependence on Russian gas exports, has been anathema for U.S. policymakers: Washington's efforts to thwart Iran's ambitions have so far overridden its desire to thwart Russia's.
That may be changing. The White House has appointed a new envoy for Eurasian Energy, Richard Morningstar, who worked on energy diplomacy in the Clinton administration and has a reputation as a savvy diplomat. Morningstar played a crucial role in shepherding through the last big U.S. move in the Central Asian energy game, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
At an energy conference in Bulgaria at the end of April, Morningstar refused to rule out Iranian involvement in Nabucco, and suggested that opening up the Iranian energy sector could be a "carrot" for improving relations on other issues.
"Obviously, right now, gas from Iran creates some difficulties for the United States as well as for other countries involved," he said, before adding, "We want to engage with Iran but . . . we are hoping that there will be positive responses from Iran and that we will be able to resolve some of our outstanding issues."
The day before that, another U.S. diplomat suggested that Turkmenistan -- whose natural gas reserves are among the top five in the world, but which are now exported almost exclusively through Russian pipelines -- could also engage more with Iran. The U.S. has been advocating a pipeline across the Caspian Sea, so that gas could then be shipped from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan further westward through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into Europe. But U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Krol, speaking at another energy conference in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, suggested that Turkmenistan might instead ship the gas westward via Iran.
At the same time, Morningstar seemed to try to tamp down tensions between Russia and the West over Nabucco. At the Bulgaria conference he suggested that the pipeline had been overhyped. "Pipelines are just part of the puzzle. Nabucco is not the Holy Grail that will solve the problem," he said.
Iran has been pushing to take part in Nabucco for years, and access to European gas markets will indeed be a strong incentive for Tehran to improve relations with the U.S. Russia, meanwhile, has been put on the backs of its heels. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was scheduled to attend the Bulgaria meeting, canceled at the last minute. Russian press accounts speculated that Putin understood Russia was going to be dealt a setback and didn't want to be present when it happened.
Taken together, the moves seem to echo an earlier Obama administration diplomatic gambit: the "secret" letter President Obama sent to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, offering to abandon missile defense plans for Eastern Europe in exchange for greater Russian cooperation on getting Iran to stop its missile programs.
Both served notice that the new U.S. administration is willing to attempt bigger moves by solving multiple problems at the same time, while keeping the Russians and Iranians guessing over what the administration's true motive is. The missile defense letter has yet to bear fruit, but seemed to defuse tension over the issue, and could pave the way toward a future solution.
Floating the Nabucco offer could have the same effect, presenting a concrete example of the kinds of tangible policy changes that could accompany the Obama administration's new tone towards Tehran. As such, it complicates Iran's -- and Russia's -- calculations on the energy front, and beyond.


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PDF is the best file format preferred for both business and studies. To create proper PDF documents, we need PDF editors with lots of advanced features. For instance, the best PDF editor should allow you to add and remove text, add images, convert PDF to other formats, highlight the texts, and more. If you are using an iPad, editing to viewing and annotating the PDF files can be done seamlessly. With this, you need not depend on your desktop or laptop to create or annotate PDF files. If you aren't sure about choosing best PDF Editor for iPad, you are at the right place. We have picked 10 best PDF editors from the plenty of options that you can use on the iPad. Let us have a glimpse of all the PDF editors and their features in the article with no further delay.
Best PDF Editor for iPad
The 10 best PDF editors or iPad are listed down in no particular order. You shall read out each of their features and choose the one that attracts you the most.
PDF Expert
PDFelement Pro
iAnnotate
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PDF Expert is the first choice for iPad to edit PDF documents. Using this editor, you can annotate the document, add a digital signature and edit the text in PDF. You can scroll down on the entire document. It offers the best features for file management. You can connect to cloud storage services like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and more. With the PDF editor, you get access to a single-page view. It gives you a wonderful reading experience by providing day, night, and sepia mode. But it is a little bit expensive when comparing with other PDF editors.
PDFelement Pro is an all-in-one PDF editor that offers to have complete control on your PDF files. Herewith the single tool, you can create, convert and edit PDF documents. It helps you to increase your productivity quickly. Using this editor, you can import the files from cloud storage. You can synchronize your documents over the devices running on different operating systems. It comes with the OCR in-built scanner, so you can convert any document into PDF. With this app, you can convert PDF documents into any format like Word, Excel, PPT, HTML, RTF, and more. You can get this app for $4.99 per month.
Foxit is the best PDF editor for iPad that offers fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions. It comes with a clean and easy-to-use interface that allows you to focus on your tasks. In Foxit, you can fill in and save PDF forms and import and export form data. Using this app, you can add handwritten signatures and set passwords to protect your documents. It is available as a free, and paid version costs $10.99. With the paid version, you can also work on XFA forms. You can add bookmarks to most accessed documents for easy access.
Adobe Acrobat Reader comes with great features to manage PDF files. It is one of the most popular PDF readers for iPad. With this editor, you can fill forms, sign documents, set passwords, annotate PDF files when you read, and highlight a PDF file. It offers drawing tools and sticky notes to comment on PDF files. You can open files from your device and from cloud storage. With an in-built scanner, you can scan whiteboards, receipts, forms, and more. Here you get the options for a single page or continuous page scrolling.
iAnnotate is the best PDF editor for iPad, iPhone, and iPad Pro. It allows you to work on many documents with unlimited tabs. iAnnotate includes support for rectangle, circle, and arrow annotations. Using this app, you can highlight, underline, strikethrough, and draw on PDF files. Here you can customize the annotating toolbar according to your wish. And you are able to work on two documents simultaneously. You should pay $9.99 per month to use iAnnotate.
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GoodReader is the most used and best PDF editor for iPad. It comes with document reading and file managing capabilities. It has tools for file reading and annotating, file management, sharing, security, and split screen. With this app, you can view, read, edit, sign PDF files. And also, you can copy, move and rename the files. Overall we can say GoodReader is an advanced PDF editor for iPad.
Xodo is a web-based PDF editor for businesses to manipulate files through editing, merging, annotation, team collaboration, and more. The editor is known for handling complex PDF documents. Using this app, you can color, draw, highlight PDF documents. Unlike other apps, you can sign your documents and fill forms. And it comes with an in-built file manager to organize your PDF files.
iBooks is a native PDF reader for iPad. Apple had renamed iBooks as Books in iOS12. This app offers basic features for PDF documents. Using this app, you can add bookmarks, notes and highlight the text in the PDF documents you are reading. If you are a night reader, this app is best for you as it comes with auto-night theme. And you can print the PDFs quickly using AirPrint.
LiquidText offers a fast and natural way to organize your PDF documents. It is a PDF editor with superpowers. Using this app, you can integrate multiple documents on one screen. The layout is simple, and you can view your iPad in either landscape or portrait position. In landscape mode, you get the workspace on the right side. In portrait mode, the workspace comes below the document. You can use the workspace to add text & images, ink links, highlights, and type comments. You can make use of the annotation tools to draw or highlight notes on your PDF documents.
PDFpen6 is yet another best PDF editor for iPad. The features available here make editing a notch higher. You can set passwords for your documents. Using this app, you can quickly open PDF documents, and it supports dark mode. You can use multiple window support to view two documents. It allows highlighting the text and add comments for future reference. The best feature of this editor is you can delete, copy, resize and move images in the original PDF, import images from the library. And you can share the documents in iCloud, Google Drive, OneNote, and more.
These are the best PDF editor for iPad, and we have clearly explained all the PDF editor's features in detail. You can go through this article and select the best PDF editor that meets your requirements. Share your feedback about this article in the comment section.
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Friday knockoffs are an essential part of the weekend – but you don't have to hit the pub to celebrate the end of the working week. Mid-week, find some easy cocktail recipes, message five friends and freeze an extra tray of ice cubes – then, on Friday, host knockoffs of your own! Assign each friend an ingredient to bring (get your mate with the Sodastream to make some soda, ask your perpetual backpacker friend to find a half-bottle of duty free rum in their cupboard, raid your friends' gardens for mint, rosemary, or thyme for garnishes) and get creative at home. You'll save yourself money, you'll avoid napkins, plastic straws, and other fancy single-use adornments, and you'll ensure you and your mates are using what you have before you buy brand-new stuff.
Kick your weekend off on the right foot by indulging in something a little more cultural than your usual poached eggs. You're probably aware of the services your local council offers – libraries, parks, talks, etc – but how often do you actually use them? Jump online and maximise: your local council likely has a library, a public park, a barbeque, and a small museum or gallery with a local focus, and community centres, libraries and shopping centres regularly host talks, workshops and events. Start your Saturday with a free workshop on web coding, join an existentialist discussion group, watch a free short film at a community centre, borrow a library book to read in the park, sign up for a conversational language meetup, or view an exhibition from a local photography or art competition.
If your council isn't well-resourced, go virtual: there are thousands of free tours of world-famous museums, art galleries and historical sites online. Try a tour of the Louvre in Paris, see London's Natural History Museum, or visit the Andy Warhol Museum without leaving your couch. Start at Virtual Free Sites or Google your favourite place and see how far through you can get for free.
You'll probably be worn out by dinner time – so, good news: there's no planning or shopping involved in your dinner. Use a website like Supercook or an app like Make A Meal to get cooking: plug in the ingredients you have in your fridge, and it'll suggest recipes you can make without buying anything extra. A zero-dollar shopping list and a fridge clear-out is a win-win.
Depending on what you concocted last night, you might be feeling sluggish – so, start your Sunday with some time outdoors. Take your usual gym buddy for some pushups in the park, borrow a neighbour's dog for a stroll or a jog, pretend you're new in your city and hike or walk somewhere you've never been, and if the weather's bad, find a follow-along yoga video online for some energising morning stretching. You'll centre your thoughts and start the day deliberately: ensuring you're present and focused for the rest of your conscious-consumption weekend.
Back at home, take stock: is there anything broken, missing, or out of place? Now's the time to tackle a nagging task or errand you've been avoiding – you can't spend the money to replace it, so you're forced to make a sustainable choice! Mend the hole in the jeans on your throw-out pile, move your bed to the other side of the room to refresh your space (maybe you borrowed a library book on feng shui yesterday?), or drag out the cross-stitch you never finished. Where you'd normally nip to the shops for some new pants, or an art print to freshen up your room, you're forced to consider what you have available at home already – ensuring you only spend money on the improvements and decorations you really, urgently need. Here's some extra inspiration on how to craft yourself waste-free in case you need it.
At the end of the weekend, brew a cup of tea and take a few minutes to sit and reflect on how your law few days have been. Was the change to your routine boring or beneficial? Did you miss out on things, or try something you otherwise wouldn't have? And, most importantly, what elements of your zero-dollar weekend are you going to introduce to your usual life? Whether it's for your pocket, for the planet, or both, consciously cutting your spending isn't a bad idea at all – and this weekend's the perfect time to give it a crack.
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As a self-proclaimed 'hybrid' novelist, I worry a lot about how to present my writing to my readers. What can I do to give my work maximum impact?
In the world of paper books, this is a solved problem: an entire industry was built around the optimization of printed text, making novels and non-fiction books alike as well-written, beautiful and useful as they can be. Within the confines of the medium, of course, with a practical amount of specialized editors, designers, typesetters and printers.
In the digital field, this is not so much the case; text can be presented in many ways, and the reader and the writer can be in constant communication. Parts of this possibility space haven't been explored, or only lightly. Not even trying to be hyperbolic, anything can happen on the screen… It's really a matter of figuring out what to show and how to show it.
I get very excited thinking about these problems, which is just what I've been doing since around 2013, when I turned my debut novel Toiletten (Bathrooms) into an experimental iPad app. And right now, together with a talented group of collaborators, I'm working on a completely new novella, Geometry Girl, that improves on the original experiment, while adding some additional elements.
Along the way, I came across many other interesting examples and ideas, that I want to share here along with some of my own considerations and solutions. In this post, I will focus on the basics of how to present text on-screen: the core reading mechanism. With a focus on the touchscreen devices that I deem most important, and the form that I work in myself: the literary novel.
So how do we currently deal with text? The most common and popular mechanism, by far, is scrolling. There are huge benefits to this approach. It's so direct: you grab the page with your fingertip and throw it around, just like that, making it a great fit for the touch technology.
However, there's a cost: the constant coordination between the text, your finger and your eyes, as you figure out where you are in the text and decide how fast you'll move, causes a cognitive load of the kind that seems unnecessary.
In fact, scrolling makes it so easy to move quickly that you're encouraged to skip ahead. This is why it works best when you're scanning content quickly, for example to look something up. But it's not so great when you want to read longform text like a novel carefully, really burying yourself in it and making the text come alive; what academics call 'deep reading'. This kind of reading is my prime concern; I want you to take the time to really absorb what will hopefully be beautiful and interesting.
There are some alternative input methods for scrolling, like the good old scroll-wheel and reading app Instapaper's tilt-scrolling1, which lets you pitch your device to further the text. Ultimately, it's all still scrolling, and similar trade-offs apply.
Page-flipping
A true alternative to scrolling, and quite popular in reading apps, is the page-flipping mechanism. It totally clings to the old world, deliberately emulating the experience of reading analog book on the digital screen.
Whether they actually show you the page turning, as in Apple's iBooks, or just move you from page to page sideways, as in Amazon's Kindle app, the intention is not just to make you feel at home, but also to replicate a more quiet, in-depth, focused kind of reading on an intrinsically chaotic, dynamic device.
Page-flipping succeeds at this: it is nice to have text fixed in place on seemingly static pages. Reading novels is better this way than it would be by scrolling (which you can often try by switching to just such a mode).
But there are downsides too: as you flip back and forth or change the font size, pages are dynamically processed, making sentences and paragraphs move around sometimes. The illusion of reliable spatiality is broken.
Additionally, flipping through more than one page quickly becomes tedious, as you can't skim like you could on paper. Attempts to improve page-flipping with multitouch like in this Korean video from 20122 haven't gone anywhere.
Finally, an age-old problem from paper books resurfaces: sentences (and sometimes words) are cut off at the bottom of a page, so you have to keep half a thought in your head while flipping pages. We're used to this, obviously, but it's another cognitive load that doesn't need to be there. (I'd say it was originally an economic trade-off to save paper.)
The paper book metaphor was a necessity on specialized e-reader devices, as their e-ink screens couldn't update all the time. But looking at the statistics the e-reader is in a slow decline worldwide, while color touchscreen reading, especially on the phone, is on the rise.3 We should be able to quickly move on to something better.
Atomic content units
So how could scrolling and page-flipping be improved upon? As alluded to, I think it's all about what to show on screen, and how to do this, which are interrelated questions. One of the ways to go about this is breaking a longform text into smaller pieces, 'atomic content units' if you will, and reassembling these on the screen in a sensible way.
The app Spritz breaks texts into the smallest possible atomic content unit, the word.4 Flashing words in rapid sequence, the promise is that you'll be able to improve your reading speed.5 This seems to work quite well: Spritz easily makes you read faster than you thought possible, and potentially from much smaller devices like smartwatches.
But for literary content, this seems to be a dead end. You want readers to be able to ponder the text for a bit, go back to read a sentence again, and be comfortable while reading. Novels are not for people in a hurry.
Sliced into paragraphs
The creator of OS X app Slicereader had an interesting thought: why not break text into individual paragraphs and show these one by one? You can throw any and all texts at it, of which it shows one 'block' at a time. You then hit the space bar to progress to the next part.6 I was already making Toiletten when I found this app, and it of course rang a bell.
Testing Slicereader, its value seems obvious. But as a general-purpose app it hasn't taken off. It's not in active development and was last updated in 2013. Perhaps in standalone form, where you actively have to feed it prose, it just doesn't make reading that much better.
The card metaphor
Somewhat related to showing one paragraph at a time is the visual metaphor of the card. Much has already been said about this 'design pattern', but I first became aware of it in the now-defunct Circa news app. This app condensed news into cards that gave a quick overview of a story, and allowed you to dig deeper by reading other cards.
The card really isn't an atomic unit of text. It's a specific collection of elements with a substantial hierarchic range: primary and secondary text, an image, tags. It may be an atomic unit of 'news', or perhaps 'story', though, and there may be some applications for linear longform text.7
What if we use it to distill a text into shorter, more concrete bits? Would that diminish its benefits? Would that make it more accessible? And if both of these are true, which is more important?
Either way, I doubt that we need a visual metaphor like the card for that so very complex, yet simple form of literary text.
Now consider the 'conversational' interface: atomic content units presented as message bubbles, triggered by simple choices or even real language input. The Quartz news app works this way, and my friends at Hubbub tinkered with it too8. With bot support in Facebook Messenger, conversational interfaces promise to be everywhere soon.
Closer to literature, the conversational interface is related to interactive fiction, in which you read a block of text, then make a choice that influences the next block. In the related text adventures form, you manually type a command.
In fact, early on in my research I took a lot away from interactive fiction apps like Frankenstein.9 Check the trailer to see how units of text slide in; that was the basis of my Toiletten app. Frankenstein was made by Inkle Studios, the group that went on to have a hit with 80 Days, and recently opened up its Ink Engine.10
Both the conversational interface and interactive fiction are relevant here, but not directly applicable to longform text on touchscreens. However, they do show some of the possibilities for dynamic text manipulation.
The screen as the unit
Finally, there's a whole subcategory of digital storytelling formats that uses 'the screen' as its atomic unit. Fish by Robin Sloan11 was an early example, in which you tapped through a visual and verbal sequence. Josh Kalven goes deep on the screen format, even looking for a good name for the phenomenon, although he doesn't talk about fiction applications.
The screen is similar, but different, from the card metaphor. Screens offer the same kind of information 'chunking' without the heavy-handed visual metaphor; Kalven talks about the natural storytelling 'cadence' of the format as well as its inherent suspense.
Sure, this is similar to any other linear form, including paper books, but there's a subtle difference in the amount of authorial control. On paper, you are expected to read word by word, sentence by sentence, but you could always lose patience and look ahead (maybe even read the ending), before going back. It's more loose, more analog. With the screen format, you don't move to the next screen until you do.
The screen format was somewhat easier to author when iPhones all had 3,5 inch screens, such as when Sloan made Fish. With today's many different screen sizes, including tablets, I feel like the format is steered more towards visual storytelling. Text becomes a secondary element within the context of a screen-filling image.
The New York Times' Snow Fall happened around the same time as Fish, and made 'enhanced longreads' a thing. The two forms sometimes collide, especially when the 'screen' format is presented in a web browser and scrolling triggers the next screen. There are even hybrid forms such as this baseball longread, another New York Times production.12
My solutions
What excites me about this challenge is that text, as a sequence of characters, punctuation and spaces, is so simple, there should be ways to present it more naturally, fluidly, digital-natively. Through simple algorithms, and with unlimited virtual screen space, we should be able to automatically break up text better than we used to on paper.
My current prototype app shows as much text as possible on a screen, but is committed to wholeness. Ideally, sentences and paragraphs are kept intact, and they're only broken when the screen is not large enough for a single paragraph or sentence. The app also tries to divide chapters, sections and paragraphs evenly across 'blocks' of text.
These blocks are presented one by one, beautifully typeset on an uncluttered screen13, at the tap of the bottom button. I must admit the single button at a single position doesn't seem optimal yet. There may be a better solution: using the earpods' clicker, tapping on the device itself, making clacking sounds or snapping your fingers, or even winking at the front-facing camera. Surely in the future you'll be able to will your device to the next screen of text.
The grand trick, I feel, is that if you want to look something up, you can always scroll back.14 The surrounding text will instantly pop back into view. It's a hybrid of sorts between the more measured, static page-flipping and the dynamism of scrolling, and already works quite well.15
There's something to be said for not straying too far from simply scrolling, as it's just so natural and convenient. Mike Bostock raises some cautions over this, especially in the light of all the 'scrolljacked' longreads. He argues that scrolling is effortless, while clicking is coordinated; I wonder if that is such an absolute difference. Both are not 'instinctive', both can be taught. And you'll hopefully stay in this reading app for long enough to be convinced of this alternative's merits.16
I'm sure I missed important alternative approaches to progressing through linear text on digital devices; feel free to let me know via email if you have good examples or better ideas. Or if you simply want to get acquainted. I'm always looking out for people with shared interests.
This should be the first in a series of posts about the topics I've been researching. And all of it will end up, in some form, in the Geometry Girl app I hope to release later this year, and in other projects beyond that. Please look forward to these, and subscribe to my newsletter if you don't want to miss any of it.
Which is way too fidgety to my tastes. As creator Marco Arment notes, Amazon's Fire Phone apparently offered tilt-scrolling too, but it wasn't implemented well. ↩
I found this video through Marcus Vorwaller, who blogged some more thoughts on digital reading, as well as a video of an experimental flexible screen that you bend to flip pages, which seems like a terrible idea. ↩
It's easy to see why: we have our phones with us anyway, and with their screens getting bigger and better, their practical reading capacity is no longer inferior to paper and e-readers. ↩
Actually, I found an app with an even more fine-grained approach to text, letting you read on the molecular unit of text, so to speak. The Freddie apps by the Dutch Story Based Media let you move your finger along with the text to unlock it, character by character, an interesting interaction that works well once you figure it out. However, it's specifically aimed at (and convenient for) children who are just learning to read. ↩
Instapaper, and doubtlessly other apps, offers a similar fast-reading feature. ↩
The jailbreak extension Flick Scroll attempts to solve the same problem on iOS by letting you 'flick' to the next screen. I wonder whether it'd make sense to have something like this as a system-wide feature, perhaps using two-finger scrolling. On PC's I hardly ever use the page-up and page-down keys, but do click below the little widget on the scroll bar (or bash the space bar) to advance a page. ↩
I see parallels, too, with the index cards in writing app Scrivener. These allow you to more easily manage the 'units' of your text. For example, Walter van den Berg used this to quickly rearrange the order in which the events in one of his novels were told. More on Scrivener and other writing apps in a future post. ↩
Alper Çuğun has lots to say about conversational interfaces and opensourced some of his work on it. ↩
80 Days veers away from text somewhat. At first glance it's not even recognizable as interactive fiction. This is a personal pet peeve: on touchscreens, stories tends toward the extravagant and interactive (gamelike!). Because they can, I guess. But there is no reason why well-presented text, with all its imaginary power, would no longer work in this space. ↩
The Ink engine shows some other shared interests: using a simple plain-text, Markdown-like format instead of something rich and convoluted. But that, too, is for another post. ↩
Sloan is a fellow hybrid writer for sure, although he currently calls it 'writer and media tinkerer'. Which is pretty good too, and perhaps a bit less pretentious. ↩
This hybrid format is so popular by itself, there are now accessible tools to make them. ↩
Not just for aesthetic reasons, but to focus the attention on the words, too. I don't like how apps like iBooks and Kindle let you hide clutter with a 'longish' press. Either have clutter or don't! ↩
I haven't decided whether I'll let you scroll ahead. Instead, I might want you to first 'unlock' the text by reading quietly. On the other hand, paper books allow you full autonomy in how to read. When offering my technology to other writers in the future, this might be an option for the writer to decide on. (Or for the writer to decide whether you can decide for yourself!) ↩
This is an evolution of how the Toiletten app worked: there the surrounding text was always visible, although it was smaller and greyed out. When tapping on a block of text, it would fade to black and grow bigger. ↩
There's a relevant comparison to the comics space: the popular comiXology, owned by Amazon these days, lets you focus on a single panel at a time, while also letting you switch to the full page. Straying from scrolling works because it stays true to the content; the same goes for my solution, hopefully. ↩
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Teddy's in Terminal 21, 2nd floor is doing a buy 1 get 1 free. It will end 15th December, so rush to get your free bugger and side fries!
Apart from the incredible promotion, the burgers are about the price of the McDonald's signature Angus collection but much better.
The Bacado is my favorite, lot of top quality bacon, lot of avocado (rare in Thailand), overall great. The Texan with his huge onion rings will satisfy the meat lovers, and Teddy's original is full of mushrooms and fried onions, Thai ladies like it.
Fries are great, everything is top quality, better than Carl Jr for example.
The meat is real beef, fresh and not from frozen, you can ask medium cooking for example.
More quick service than fast food, TBB is all about making its burgers worth the wait. This means you can expect your order to actually look and taste as good as the tempting pictures on the menu suggest. And each burger comes packed with high quality ingredients and a generous dollop of TBB's secret sauce – a bit like Thousand Island dressing but more sweet and tangy.


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You can do it through qt4-qtconfig. Install it as Eliah Kagan suggested. What he missed, though, is that you have to change the style.
So, when you run qtconfig, choose Gui Style to be Cleanlooks (for example), then save. Restart skype, and the new fonts will be applied. This does not work if the style is Desktop Settings.
Then run qtconfig, make changes, exit, and restart Skype.
Open Skype, change the style -> cleanlook. Close it.
Open a terminal and sudo apt-get install qt4-qtconfig .
After that open Qt 4 Settings, change fint size, select cleanlook, save and exit.
I tested this in Linux Mint 14 Mate. It should work in Ubuntu too, though.
To the .config/Trolltech.conf file, set the Clearlooks theme in Skype and restart.
In Gnome you can do it in Control Center>>Appearence>>Fonts.
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По попису из 2010. године број становника је 737, што је 86 (-10,4%) становника мање него 2000. године.

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60% of original current price plus shipping?
650D - Prob $150 ish.
I usually start at about 80% of current cheapest price, not including tax, and adjust for condition of parts.
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Hans Rudolph Münch-Holland (born Münch 15 January 1899 – 7 December 1971) was a German cellist and academic teacher. He taught in Cologne and Detmold.

Life
Münch-Holland was born in 1899 in Bern as the son of the merchant Georg Münch and his wife Frieda, née Dieffenbacher. After attending the Oberrealschule in Stuttgart (until 1914) he studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory with Alfred Saal. His studies were interrupted by military service in 1917/18. In 1920/21 he was cellist with the Stuttgart Chamber Trio. Afterwards he became solo cellist and concertmaster at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. He also taught at the conservatory there.

In the 1920s he declined offers for the Staatskapelle Dresden. In 1924 he changed to the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig as principal cellist. From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In 1926 he replaced Julius Klengel in the Leipzig Trio, where he played with Edgar Wollgandt (violin) and Otto Weinreich (piano). Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929. He also taught at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1927 to 1933. Afterwards he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Dance Cologne. In 1938 he appeared with Willy Hülser at the Reichsmusiktagein Düsseldorf. 2nd edition, Kopf, Kiel 2009, , . From 1939 to 1953 he was a member of the Strub Quartet around Max Strub. In 1944 he was included in the Gottbegnadeten list as one of the most important German cellists. In October 1944 he left Cologne for Hildesheim. in the Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde 46 (1977), , here .

In 1946 he was one of the founding fathers of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Until 1964 he held a professorship there. At times, he was also deputy director of the institution. Among his students were Gerhard Enger and Rudolf Metzmacher. In the 1950s he was part of a piano trio in Detmold with the violinist Max Strub and the pianist Hans Richter-Haaser. J. E. Ronayne, London 1999, , .

In the years 1924 and 1937 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. Lienau, Berlin 1997, , .

Münch-Holland, Protestant, was married to Margarete Holland and father of two children. He died in Lemgo at the age of 72.

Awards
 1967: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1. Class

Literature
 Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, , p. 210f.
 Ernst Klee: Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Reworked edition, Fischer, Frankfurt 2009, , .
 Erich H. Müller (ed.): Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon. W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

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Nation's Largest Organization of Nurses Joins Liberal Writers In Protesting Hillary Clinton's Attacks On Bernie Sanders
November 21, 2015 — Ron Chusid
Hillary Clinton's sharp move towards the right has many liberals questioning how much further right she will move in the general election, and if elected president. Her recent attacks on Bernie Sanders for his advocacy of a single payer health plan, which as I have noted she once supported, has resulted in considerable criticism from the left and a major nurses organization.
Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at The Huffington Post asked, Why is she talking like a Republican? He also pointed out, "This is why Hillary Clinton makes so many progressives queasy." Jim Newell at Slate wrote, Hillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals: Her new attack on Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan shows her indifference to progressive voters. He pointed out that "she is a Clinton, and this is what they do."
National Nurses United, which previously endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, has issued a press release to respond to Clinton's attacks on Sanders over his support for a single payer plan:
National Nurses United, the largest U.S. organization of nurses, condemned the Hillary Clinton campaign today for its attack on Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal for healthcare for all, including its slanted use of data on the economics of Medicare for all.
"Any politician that refuses to finance guaranteed health care has abandoned my patients, and I will never abandon my patients. That's why we support improved Medicare for all, and that's why I support Bernie Sanders," said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN.
"While the Affordable Care Act corrected some of the worst injustices in our insurance, profit-based healthcare system, the work of healthcare reform is far from done," said Ross. "Today, 33 million Americans remain uninsured. Tens of millions more remain underinsured, facing bankruptcy due to unpayable medical bills or the choice of getting the care they need or paying for food or housing for their families."
"The only fix for our broken system once and for all is the prescription Bernie Sanders has so eloquently presented – joining the rest of the world by expanding and updating Medicare to cover everyone," Ross said.
NNU also criticized Clinton for citing a rightwing report first published in the Wall Street Journal on the inflated cost of $15 trillion to implement a Medicare for all system. The Journal report claimed as its source research by University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Gerald Friedman.
But Friedman himself has criticized the Journal report, noting in a Huffington Post column that the "economic benefits from Senator Sanders' proposal would create dynamic gains by freeing American businesses to compete without the burden of an inefficient and wasteful health insurance system."
Those include a "productivity boost coming from a more efficient health care system and a healthier population, [that] would raise economic output and provide billions of dollars in additional tax revenues to offset some of the additional federal spending," said Friedman.
Friedman estimates nearly $10 trillion in savings while still reducing national health care spending by over $5 trillion. "With these net savings, the additional $14.7 trillion in federal spending brings savings to the private sector (and state and local governments) of over $19.7 trillion," Friedman wrote.
Clinton is "ignoring the enormous savings that would come by assuring people could get proper care where and when they need it," Ross added.
For example, a report out just last week noted $6.4 billion in lost wages and productivity in low income communities through premature deaths due to colon cancer, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Dismissing the yearning of millions of Americans for a more humane healthcare system not based on ability to pay, and relying on a disputed data is disgraceful," said Ross. "It's a reminder again why nurses across the U.S. have been rallying and campaigning for a candidate who will never stop fighting for guaranteed healthcare for all."
I further discussed Clinton's fallacious attacks on Sanders here.
By attacking Sanders from the right on health care and economic policy, along with reminding the left how hawkish she is in her recent speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton risks seeing progressive voters refuse to vote for her.
Conor Lynch at Salon warns that Hillary Clinton is playing a dangerous game: How her anti-Bernie talking points could cost her — and America — big time. He began, "Hillary Clinton is starting to remind progressives why the name Clinton brings up such a mixed bag of emotions, and why it's so hard to believe Clinton's pivot to the left this campaign season."He concluded:
But Clinton is making it harder for progressives to support her. With a history of hawkish foreign policy and Wall Street backing, she truly is the lesser to two evils. (A neoliberal is better than a fascist, after all [referring to Donald Trump]) But many on the left tend to vote with their conscience, and going after single-payer healthcare and hurling dishonest attacks on Sanders will only alienate progressives further.
Her problem is also not likely to be limited to progressive voters. When Clinton campaigns as a Republican-lite, many potential Democratic voters are not going to see very much reason to turn out to vote, risking the same fate for Democrats as they suffered in 2014.
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The number of claims for car insurance the AA was receiving began to drop as the snow began to clear up, the provider has reported.
However, drivers are now being warned to look out for the remaining snow and black ice when out on the roads, as they are still causing accidents across the country.
This year, the AA recorded 644 applications for claims on December 21st. On December 23rd, 529 claims were made, with 48 per cent of these relating directly to incidents caused by black ice.
Simon Douglas, director of AA Insurance, said: "Black ice is literally a hidden enemy: the road simply looks damp and for drivers, it's often too late when they realise that there is ice between their tyres and the road."
The insurance provider also warned motorists who were planning to go out in the bad weather that some drivers had reported finding their cars had been damaged or broken into after being left abandoned on snowy roads.


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The total carbohydrate content of a food includes starches, or complex carbohydrates, which provide energy for your body. They constitute an important source of calories in grains, such as bread, rice and oatmeal; legumes; and some vegetables, such as potatoes, yams, green peas and corn. Each gram of starch provides 4 calories, just like sugar. While food manufacturers have to list calories, fats, carbohydrates, fiber and sugars on food labels, the amount of starches per serving is not mandatory information.
Locate the amount of total carbohydrates on the nutrition facts label on the food packaging. The total carbohydrate content is usually listed below the fat, sodium and cholesterol content. Find the number of grams of carbohydrates and ignore the percent daily value if you want to calculate the starch content. If a food does not have a nutrition facts label, use an online source to find this information. For example, the label of a can of red kidney beans indicates that 1 cup contains 40 grams of total carbohydrates, of which 14 grams are fiber and 5 grams are sugars.
Subtract the fiber from the total carb count. The result is the amount of net carbs in a serving. Net carbs correspond to the amount of carbohydrates able to raise your blood sugar level. In other words, net carbs correspond to the amount of sugars and starches per serving. In the case of the canned red kidney beans, subtract the 14 grams of fiber from the 40 grams of total carbs to obtain 26 grams of net carbs.
Subtract the sugars. The net carbs comprise the sugars and starches, which means that subtracting the sugars gives you the starch content of the food. With the canned red kidney beans example, subtract the 5 grams sugars from the 26 grams of net carbs, which gives you 21 grams of starches.
Adjust for the serving size you eat. The result of this calculation tells you how many grams of starches are in each serving. The serving is always listed at the top of the nutrition facts label. In the case of the canned red kidney beans, the serving is 1 cup. If you eat one-half or 2 cups, adjust your starch intake accordingly.
The Institute of Medicine recommends that 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories should come from carbohydrates, which includes starches.


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Note ban updates: Congress issues whip to MPs as govt indicates ready for debate
3 min read . Updated: 13 Dec 2016, 09:07 PM IST Livemint
Here are updates and highlights as of 13 December of the government's demonetisation drive
New Delhi: As banks open after a long weekend of three days on Tuesday, long serpentine queues of the people waiting to withdraw cash are being reported from across the country. More than a month after the Narendra Modi government announced its decision to ban old Rs500, Rs1,000 currency notes to curb black money and counterfeit bills and shift India towards a cashless economy, the woes of the public does not seem to be ending as hope is turning into despair for many. The Modi government's dilly-dallying on cash withdrawal and deposit rules since 8 November has also added to the confusion.
Here are updates and highlights as of 13 December of the government's demonetisation drive:
• Opposition parties will meet on Wednesday to decide their strategy in Parliament as the government has expressed readiness for a debate on demonetisation and the Congress has issued a whip to its MPs to be present in both Houses. I&B Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present in Parliament for the remaining three days of the winter session and accused the Opposition of "changing goalpost" to disrupt functioning of both the Houses.
• Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday hinted at lower direct and indirect tax rates in the future as demonetisation results in higher tax revenues from unaccounted wealth coming into system. Bank credit plunges by Rs61,000 crore in fortnight after note ban, according to RBI data.
• RBI deputy governor R. Gandhi: "Rs12.44 trillion collected at banks in demonetised notes as of 13 December. Public requested to freely use notes they have rather than holding them. Banks have issued Rs4.61 trillion to public since 8-9 November through ATMs and bank counters. RBI has issued 21.8 billion pieces of banknotes of various denominations since demonetisation," reports PTI.
• RBI Deputy Governor SS Mundra: "Notice issued to all banks for data checking. Suspended junior official allegedly involved in laundering," reports PTI.
• RBI official arrested by CBI in Bengaluru. "The agency has arrested an RBI official from Bengaluru for helping convert banned currency notes," a CBI official told PTI , adding the arrest was made last week. "Two other private persons have also been arrested," the official said. The RBI official was involved in a case where he tried to exchange ₹ 1.50 crore of untaxed money, the official added.
• Union finance minister Arun Jaitley: "Despite transient problems, we are rapidly remonetising. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to inject significant amount of currency in coming days," quoted PTI.
• India had 215,039 ATMs at the end of June 2016. This was 182,687 at the end of December 2014, and 205,328 at the end of 2015, which is a growth of over 12%.
• People can now avail 0.75% discount on use of debit/credit cards, e-wallets and prepaid loyalty cards at public sector undertakings petrol pumps. The buyer will get the discount sum as a cash back which will be credited to their account within three days after the transaction.
• The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested seven alleged middlemen and seized Rs93 lakh in new currency in Karnataka as part of its money laundering probe.
Meanwhile, the political divide between the ruling and opposition parties continues with the former Union minister P. Chidambaram lashing at the Modi government.
• Rahul Gandhi: "PM Narendra Modi waged a war against poor on 8 November."
• P. Chidambaram: "It may take seven months to replace notes after demonetisation. Demonetisation is the worst attack on the poor, PM should go out and see for himself the real picture before ATMs. RBI should publish the minutes of meeting on 8 November, let country know who were the directors who attended the meeting," reports PTI.
Demonetisation has affected the economy and raised fears of a slowdown:
• India's economic growth may slip to 5.5-6% in the current quarter as demonetisation is expected to hurt production during November-December, says a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday became the first multilateral agency to reduce India's growth forecast for the current fiscal 2016-17 to 7% from 7.4% estimated earlier in the backdrop of government's decision to demonetise Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency notes.
• Earlier, Fitch Ratings has already downgraded India's growth forecast to 6.9% in 2016-17 from earlier estimate of 7.4% while Morgan Stanley has reduced its projection to 7.3% from 7.6% for the same period.


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- 26. July 2007.
WORLD CUP STOP IN DUBNA IN RUSSIA ATTRACTS AN OUTSTANDING ARRAY OF WATERSKI TALENT THIS WEEKEND
The highest ranked athletes from fourteen countries are already on their way to the magnificent Volga River competition site. All the action will be captured for distribution on the SKYSPORTS TV Channel and on World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) http://www.wcsn.com
The hot Waterski contender in Mens Jump this weekend must be Freddy Krueger (USA). Aged 32 and currently ranked number one in the latest International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) Ranking Tables, Krueger has had an extraordinary twelve months of success on the water. He took the Jump title in every major event of the past year. This included two Masters titles in the USA, the Moomba Masters in Australia, the World Cup Jump titles in Dubna and Northern Ireland and the 2006 World Cup series Jump title. As the defending Dubna Jump Champion, he is also the current World Record holder with a distance of 73m.
In Womens Jump, the talented Greek athlete Ageliki Andriopoulou is also in peak form. The 30 year old athlete from Athens has had a very convincing series of major Jump triumphs. Having taken the title of World Jump Champion in Tianjin in China in 2005, she went on to take the Jump title in the World Cup Stop in Northern Ireland and the Moomba Masters title in Australia. Her personal best of 54.9m is the leading distance of all contenders next weekend in Dubna.
In Mens Shortboard, it will be difficult to find a stronger contender than the 33 year old star, Nicolas LeForestier (FRA). Not only is he the highest ranked IWSF athlete in this category, he is also the reigning World Champion, the holder of the current World Record of 12,400 points and the Dubna World Cup Stop defending champion. In the past year, LeForestier also took the Shortboard titles in China and Northern Ireland. Many believe that he could well set a new World Shortboard Record this season. There is always the possibility that Dubna may well be the place for some Shortboard history making.
In Womens Shortboard, Mandy Nightingale (USA), will be one to watch closely. She has been the reigning World Shortboard Champion since 2003. This 25 year old is also the highest ranked IWSF athlete of the year. Her personal best score is 8740 points. She took the World Cup Shortboard titles in Northern Ireland and China and will be fighting hard to recapture her 2005 Dubna Shortboard crown this coming weekend on the Volga River.
If all of these achievements suggest an inevitability about the results of the Dubna Stop of this World Cup series in Russia, do not bet on it ! In all events, there are really no athletes so far ahead of the others who cannot be beaten on the day. This is what will keep all 30,000 spectators in Dubna in Russia this coming weekend on their toes. It will certainly be another thriller for the fans.
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