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Somerset County Council has granted over £72,000 to 22 youth clubs across the County to help run popular activities.
The grants from the County Council are being matched by over £151,000 in locally raised funding and hundreds of hours in volunteers' time – all for the benefit of Somerset's young people.
Cllr Frances Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Children and Families at Somerset County Council, said: "Somerset youth clubs are so valuable for our young people and I'm really pleased we have been able to offer them some support through grant funding.


The fair on Aug 1 was a fun time for both churches to connect informally with our community. CCC's new popcorn machine made its first public appearance and we handed out more than 100 free bags of popcorn. Our volunteers painted children's faces and arms. Join us again on Sat Aug 8 for the second and last fair this summer.


Once in awhile, every little bit comes together perfectly and magic happens. And it's safe to say that's what we have here. An original Anomalie bride, Samantha's custom wedding dress included an overskirt and nonstop sparkle PLUS chic cutouts that added an extra dash of fun. Does it get any more amazing!?
When she first started out on her wedding dress journey, Samantha struggled to find "THE dress" at any bridal boutique but when she came to Anomalie, she knew it was finally the perfect fit. It was a pleasure to design her dress with her and we get to relive it all as we share her style story below!
I first learned about Anomalie from one of my best friends. I had been trying to find a wedding dress, visiting shops and scouring the internet for ideas when I received a text message with a link to a TechCrunch article. It was the first time I had heard of a company with this model, and I loved the idea of not having to follow the traditional route of dress buying. The rest is history!
I was having such a hard time figuring out what I wanted, that I could buy in a store. I would go into these gorgeous bridal boutiques that I had to make appointments at weeks in advance, and they would have me try on a dress three or four times my budget. It was incredibly frustrating. At the same time, I like more modern, geometric patterns and less of the lace and veils that I see so much of. I kept trying on dresses that I felt I looked good in, but had zero emotional connection to. Nothing felt particularly special. To top it off, I felt so much pressure from stores to decide right away because of the crazy lead times that make absolutely no sense.
Nothing made me excited, it wasn't fun, and it was so over-the-top expensive that once I found out about Anomalie, I knew it was the only way for me to get a dress that I could love!
My style is pretty classic. The most important aspect to me was to be comfortable through the whole day! I wanted to be able to move around and not have it be heavy or unwieldy. I didn't want a train so I wouldn't have to bustle anything or worry about the weight, and I decided to forego a veil because I wanted a modern look.
My partner is Indian-American, and since we were having a fusion wedding, I wanted to add a bit of (okay, a lot of) sparkle to the dress, since Indian brides usually have a ton of bling. Lastly, since we were getting married in a gorgeous museum setting, I knew I wanted to do an overskirt to add a bit of drama to the dress for the ceremony.
What inspired your dress dreams? Especially that gorgeous sparkle and cutouts!
My inspiration dress was this absolutely stunning, sparkly one by Berta (Spring 2016). I loved the criss-cross patterns in the skirt because it wasn't traditional at all!
I opted for a high neckline because I felt it was a bit more elegant, but a deep V-back, just because I adore backless dresses. The side cutouts added a little surprise and some fun, and they made the front of my dress into a little bit of a heart shape.
And that overskirt? Amazing! It was so simple, but had some structure from the horsehair hemline. Even when I put it on, you could still see the dress sparkle from underneath. It was so perfect for our venue.
It's impossible to say what my favorite part of the process was. Anomalie was the exact opposite of my in-store experiences. During the entire process, if there was any point in my day where I was working on my dress, chatting with staff, or getting factory updates, it automatically became the best part of my day.
Designing the dress was amazing and incredibly fun! I felt that the whole staff was exceptionally kind and responsive to my questions. When I made modifications or small additions, the answer was always, "Yes!" Forging relationships with anyone on the team is easy because everyone is so supportive. I always felt like I was talking to a friend I knew forever. It's exactly what a bride needs during what can be such a chaotic and stressful time.
I loved the dress and overskirt combo! When I wore the skirt, it felt like this super fun, fluffy cloud. I loved that it was light and airy, and that you could still see the original shape and sparkle of the original dress underneath.
Our wedding and reception were held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. It's the only museum in the world where every piece of art is created by a woman! The venue is historic and gorgeous and unique in its mission. We were so fortunate to have our event there.
We wanted to include Indian, Chinese and American traditions to honor our backgrounds, so we did a series of events over two days: an Indian mehendi and sangeet, a Chinese tea ceremony, and our fusion ceremony and reception. Yes, I had different dresses for all our events!
We wanted the whole evening to feel really romantic, so we had candlelight everywhere, and I even hand poured soy candles for our guests to take home as favors! We had a string trio perform as we walked down the aisle and during cocktail hour, but modernized the whole thing with our song choices (Elton John, Michael Jackson, Justin Beiber, anyone?). As a gift to the groom's parents for hosting, and because we were in a museum, we hired a watercolor artist to live paint our first dance. That was really special. There was an Indian dhol player to amp up the party every time he played, and we surprised all of our guests with a Chinese lion dance! We had two lions, one to represent the bride and one to represent the groom.
It was fusion to the max, and just so much fun!
What was the reaction to your dress from your friends and family? How about your groom?
Everyone loved the dress! Shawn saw me for the first time during our first look, and there was just so much joy emanating from him. He couldn't stop smiling, and he loved that I could have the big entrance with the skirt for the ceremony, but feel comfortable to move around in it during the reception.
I got lots of "Oohs and Ahhs" from everyone, especially coming from our moms. One family member even told me that she saw my dress sparkle from across the museum when we made our reception entrance. The best part was just hearing from people, especially from guests who attend a lot of weddings, that they had never seen a dress like mine before. I really wanted something elegant and unique, and that's what I got!
Any advice to brides-to-be regarding their wedding dress?
Identify the look and feel you'd like on your wedding day and let that be your north star. Don't feel the need to give in to outside pressures of what you think other people think you should look like or be. Do you want it short or long, train or no train, fitted or ballgown, veil or no veil? There are a ton of options, and it can be quite overwhelming. It's okay to move forward with what makes you feel beautiful, no matter what that might be.
During my own process, Anomalie taught me that it's actually possible to feel as gorgeous as you'd like to be on such a special day!
It was a day that was just filled with a lot of joy. We had a great team of people to work with, and that made all the difference. Shawn and I are very detail-oriented people, but all the hard work of planning came together so perfectly. While we made conscious decisions to enjoy the day, no matter what happened, we were actually able to without really trying!
Our families were so happy, so it was hard not to enjoy it all. And while we felt so many fusion weddings tended to skew a bit more of one culture than another, we felt that there was a great mix of the most special parts of each of our backgrounds. It was like a dream.
Stylist Pro Tip: Does all of Samantha's sparkle have you excited to dive into your own wedding dress style? Schedule a call with an Anomalie stylist today to get started!


What exactly is a CO-OP. A co-op refers to a co-operative kind of ownership whereby a doing is owned by a corporation (the co-op). The likely purchaser of a co-op apartment is obtaining in to the corporation and for that result in getting to be a shareholder in that corporation. The co-op in turn leases the individual apartment back in the direction of the individual. As a end result, the ownership and funding of a co-op is pretty a little a lot additional tricky than it is for any other type of housing. The typical co-op transaction entails a buyer, seller, co-op board as well as the management dwelling business enterprise.
What's a SHARE mortgage. Whenever a house owner buys possibly a condo or single cherished ones members residence, a mortgage is usually provided to enable the individual attain the house. That loan is known as a home loan. When attaining a co-op, the mortgage framework seems the precise really very same and is normally referred to as a mortgage loan but, in reality, the mortgage is ordinarily a share mortgage. Primarily for the motive that the purchaser is buying shares of your corporation, they are borrowing the income to acquire these shares. The loan is secured from the shares is consequently called a share loan.
HOW lengthy does the procedure take to obtain Co-op Financing. The procedure is decided by one) Our processing from the mortgage application; two) The speed where the purchaser can meet together with the co-op board and three) The completion and recording in the recognition agreement. The normal process for acquiring a letter of commitment is comparable to that of the condo or single family members residence. Alternatively, only promptly ideal right after the letter of commitment is issued, can the board interview get spot. Closings may nicely once in a while be delayed, relying upon how ordinarily the co-op board meets. We run with nearly every single borrower to set up once the board software is because of for their particular person transaction.


Flowers left on the rose plants have a reasonable life-span. However, a cut rose has a very brief life and even the period between the blooming periods is usually long. Nevertheless, we are lucky to have several ways by which we can preserve the cut roses for longer periods and enjoy their exquisite beauty. One way to preserve roses is to dry them for floral arrangements. Alternatively, you can also press roses for displaying them in picture frames or use their dried petals in aromatic potpourris. For all these, you just require some common ingredients and bare minimum tools and supplies. The outcome of your endeavours will not only look wonderful, but also have very pleasing aromas. Most importantly, they will also last for some years.
The roses you want to preserve can be collected anytime. However, it is preferable to pick the roses in the morning after the sun's rays have dried up the dew. In fact, you can cut the roses and preserve them throughout the summer and, subsequently, use them all through the winter months to make gifts and home decorations. It is important that the flowers you want to dry and preserve ought to be perfect in all manners when you are cutting them from the plants. In case you are picking roses for potpourris or pressing, their freshness is an equally important aspect.
In addition to drying the roses, you can also dry the rose foliage to use them in attractive floral arrangements for displaying in your house. While you can dry several different varieties of roses, people generally prefer miniature roses for this purpose. Miniature roses are not only small, but also dry easily compared to the larger rose varieties. In addition, these roses also preserve their form and color for longer periods. Apart from the size of the roses, you should also take their color into consideration while selecting roses for drying. It has been found that several varieties of white roses become brown when they are dried, while several types of red roses become somewhat black. Then again, the petal tips of the orange roses turn darker and lose their original hue on drying. Therefore, if you have the slightest doubt that the color of the rose you have selected for drying may change later, it is better to avoid that variety. Ideally, you can undertake an experiment with some roses from the same variety before drying them in large numbers.
It is worth mentioning here that silica gel is most effective for drying roses. This substance is crystalline and has a white hue, bearing resemblance to table sugar. Silica gel possesses the aptitude to soak up large amounts of moisture. This substance comes in small sealed packets and is marketed by companies that sell photo supply materials. Silica gel is used to protect camera equipment from dampness. You can also purchase larger quantities of silica gel from shops selling craft and flowers. In fact, a canister containing 1.5 pound of the material is sufficient to desiccate numerous small flowers at the same time. Besides, it is possible to reactivate silica gel and use it several times.
Several brands of silica gel are available in the market and many of them come with blue indicator crystals whose color changes to pink indicating that it is time for reactivating the substance. In order to reactivate used silica gel you simply require spreading the material in a low, oven-proof container and bake it at 250°F for about anything between 30 minutes and an hour till the color of the crystals turn blue again. Alternatively, you may also dry the used silica gel in a microwave oven for a couple of minutes. For drying, select the flowers that are most perfect that you can get and also ensure that they are dry and free from debris and insects. The stage of development of the flowers depends entirely on your preference. In fact, you can dry roses at any stage of their development - ranging from small buds to completely opened flowers along with a few leaves. Preferably, you should cut the roses along with 2-inch stems, as this will make it easier to arrange the dried flowers.
Having selected the flowers, get a wide container with a flat bottom and an air-tight cover - something like an imported cookie tin. Subsequently, spread a thin layer (about an inch) of silica gel at the base. Place the roses you have selected over the silica gel layer in a manner that the flowers are facing up. If necessary, you may cut the stems, as it will prevent the flowers from bending over. Ensure that the flowers do not touch each other. You can dry the foliage on the stem itself. However, possibilities are there that the stems will break afterwards.
It is always better to dry the foliage separately and not alongside the flowers. Lay the stems flat beside the flowers on the silica gel. Ensure that you cover both the flowers and foliage with additional silica get in a way that the substance fill in the roses. Subsequently, seal the container and keep it air-tight for about a week. Roses of same size will dry more consistently when placed in silica gel together. If you plan to dry other flower varieties like marigolds, zinnias and/ or asters, which you wish to use with the roses in your floral arrangement, it is advisable that you dry these flowers individually and not with roses or other flowers. This is important because the time required to dry a different types of flower is usually different.
When the roses as well as their leaves become completely dry, they have the texture of a paper. When touched, they will have a crispy feeling, something like a thin paper. Therefore, you need to be careful while removing them from the container. If you find that some silica gel is still sticking to the dried flowers, blow them away gently. Similarly, if there are any crystals, you need to dust them away gently using an feather duster or an artist's brush.
Following a few tricks may help in obtaining better as well as enduring results. As the sepals start drying, they curl up and in case you remove them prior to soaking the roses in silica gel, you will find that the results are more pleasing. When a rose has dried completely, you can put in a floral wire through its base and then wrap the wire around the stem of the flower. This will help to make the stem stronger and, at the same time, help you while arranging the dried flowers. On the other hand, if you want the stem to remain with the flower, you should insert the wire from the stem's base prior to drying the flower. This is important because the stem will be prone to breaking once it becomes dry. In order to keep the petals of a dried rose intact, it is advisable that you apply some drops of any white glue at the base of the external petals of the flower, thereby preventing them from falling off. Dried roses are not only brittle, but at times they also reabsorb moisture and become somewhat damp. In order to prevent this from happening, you should preferably spray the flowers with any clear plastic or immerse them in warm, thawed paraffin. This will provide the dried roses with a wax-like coating.
Although it may seem incredible to some, it is also possible to desiccate roses in any microwave oven. Provided you dry the roses in a tin, their resultant color as well as shape will be better compared to drying them in any other way. However, it is advisable that you should only dry one rose at one time, as it will help to prevent crowding of the flowers and also not dry them excessively. When drying roses, ensure that you heat and dry the silica gel first at a higher setting for roughly one minute. Once this is done, prepare the cut roses in the method described above. Preferably, you should use an open microwave container.
Alternatively, you can also dry roses in white cornmeal blended with borax or in a mixture of sand and borax. However, it will take double the time to dry the roses as the silica gel and even the outcome may not be all that acceptable. This is mainly because the silica gel has a tendency to form cakes on the flowers and the latter may also develop burn blemishes. Therefore, you should follow the steps that you would be for drying silica gel. However, there is one difference, in this case you need to position the roses face down instead of face up and also keep the lid of the container open. All said and done, silica gel is much more superior. In fact, air drying of roses is never satisfactory.
You can blend roses with several other varieties of dry flowers, including marigolds, asters, yarrow, baby's breath and zinnias. In addition, they can also be combined with foliages of various types. You can also make garlands and wreathes with dried roses. A floral arrangement made with dried roses will usually last for several years, subject to the humidity of the room where they are kept. When the arrangement collects dust, use an artist's brush or a feather duster to brush off the dust. In case the climatic condition in your area is very humid, you need to use a glass bell jar to protect the dried rose arrangements.


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PHOTO: This Incredible Satellite Image Shows The Scar Left On The Land From The South Australia Fire
Sarah Kimmorley
The Sampson Flat fire, burning near Adelaide since last Friday, had grown to a 223km perimeter, burning more than 12547 hectares by early today.
The fire is so massive that the scar it left on the land can be seen from space. Up to 32 houses and 125 outhouses and sheds have been destroyed or severely damaged.
Photo: Geoscience Australia.
The United States Geological Survey' Landsat-8 satellite took the image at 11:30am on 4 January and sent it to Geoscience Australia.
A spokersperson for Geoscience Australia says:
"[It] shows the active fire front at the top-right of the image, appearing red with white smoke plumes. Burnt areas appear as dark brown below the fire front. Light brown areas are dry grass, while greens indicate crops, forests and irrigated areas. Several large reservoirs appear as black."
To put things in perspective, Country Fire Service chief officer Greg Nettleton said the area burnt is almost the equivalent of the road length between Sydney and Canberra.
Geoscience Australia also uses satellites to map "hotspots", which are delivered through the Sentinel application, a national bushfire monitoring system. See the hotspots around Australia here.
Meanwhile residents in the Mount Lofty Ranges near Adelaide remain on a Watch And Act alert as the fire danger continues.
There are no fatalities, however SA Ambulance Service reported 134 "episodes of treatment". One man remains in a serious condition at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after a tree fell on him.
Currently 85% of the fire perimeter has been contained.
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Another ongoing project of Common Facility Centre in Nilachala Cashew Cluster, Brahmhagiri, Dist-Puri will be completed within two years.
Supply of Agriculture Equipment & Machineries to State Agriculture Department with a consortium of 45 MSMEs of the State and yielding an annual turnover of around Rs. 12 Crore.
Participation in Rural Electrification Programme like BGJY / BSJY / IFB / DESI / IAY / CAPEX works of Energy Deptt., Govt. of Odisha through a consortium of 28 MSMEs having an annual turnover of about Rs. 50 Crore.
Execution of RGGVY works (Govt. of India Scheme) through a consortium of Electrical Contractors and MSMEs and the volume of work is about Rs. 195 Crore in the district of Kandhamal.
Supply of fencing products to Kandhamal District for social forestry through MSMEs.
Supply of Pig-lead & Lead wool to PHD & RWSS & Steel Cot to CRPF, Home Deptt. Steel Furniture to various Organisations.
OSIC has been engaged as a Nodal Agency for supply of High end Medical Equipment to different Medical Colleges & Hospitals through National Competitive Bidding.
OSIC has been supplying equipment, instrument, machineries & furniture to different institution of DTE&T through National Competitive Bidding and World Bank Guidelines and Assistance.
OSIC promotes MSME products to come under a Common brand name for better acceptability in the open market & Govt. purchase. As per Govt. decision OSIC is having two brand names i,e Odi-food for food products & Odi-tech for non food products. At present Double Fortified Salt (DFS) is included in Odi-food & Agricultural Implements are included in Odi-tech.
OSIC has revived its Export wing to explore avenues for marketing of MSME Products outside the Country. We are contemplating to enter into an agreement with World Trade Organisation (WTO) to facilitate export marketing activities of MSME products in the State.
Participation in various Govt./ PSU Tenders under Consortium marketing.
Business Agreement will be signed with JSPL to enter into business of Cement & other Building materials like Fly Ash Bricks etc.
OSIC Marketing Division is also taking steps to enter into agreement with MCL to start a fresh Coal supply business to MSMEs of the State.
OSIC Marketing Division has put forward proposal to the BOD for infusion of more professionals to strengthen the man power base.
It has also proposed to Govt. to formulate Factoring Scheme for the benefit of MSMEs where OSIC can extend Financial Assistance to the MSMEs against pending bills of MSMEs lying with Govt. Deptts / Agencies.
The Division is contemplating to enter into an agreement with World Trade Organisation (WTO) to boost the export of MSME products of the State to other Countries in an effective manner.


The Ashaway Double ATB857D racket bag features 2 spacious racket compartments that can carry up to 3 rackets each (6 rackets in total). The bag utilises a heavy duty thermo protective material to ensure the rackets are separated from the outside temperature changes. The bag's additional side compartment is ideal for storing smaller accessories, whereas the separate shoe compartment allows for keeping the shoes separately from other belongings. Easy carrying is possible with the shoulder/ backpack carry straps and handles.
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Not everyone loves car shopping! When it came time for me to purchase a new vehicle, Chris Coyle and the team at Saint John Toyota made it super easy for me! I was only at my point of " just looking " and wasn't going to purchase that day but once I felt how helpful he was and how pressure free the environment was, I took home a new 2019 Corolla THAT SAME DAY!!!! I love LOVE love my new Corolla!!!!
Went there to buy a pre owned Vehicle. No pressure or what so ever. Great service all the way thru buying process.
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I drove from Halifax, NS to purchase my 2019 TRD Tacoma from Kenny. He made the process from start to finish easy and efficient. They gave me a very fair offer for the Tundra I was trading in. I would definitely make the drive to buy from Kenny at Saint John Toyota again.
This is the first time Ive ever purchased a new car and had a good experience with a salesman. Top notch professionals here that arent out to make top dollar on every John that walks through the door. I would buy a vehicle here without hesitation..Thanks for the Sienna Bob Ramsay!
Ordered rims and tires on a Thursday from Montreal. I drove away 5 days later with them installed. That was impressive.
I purchased a used vehicle from Grant and had a very pleasant experience. He was knowledgeable, informative and fair. Everything went smoothly and I'm really happy with the car. Thanks!
People don't always have positive experiences at car dealership service departments. I recently did. I want to personally thank the service staff of Saint John Toyota for working with me to resolve an issue that I had related to a service experience. The team, led by Glenn Hurley, went above and beyond in my estimation and legitimately worked with me until we reached a mutually agreeable solution. They then performed an additional service on my car that I requested and one which they had no obligation to perform. When I went to pay, they informed me that there would be no charge. Thank you Saint John Toyota Service Department for the very positive experience!
My wife and I were shopping for a used car for some time and were getting very frustrated with some of the previous dealerships, we were tired of the hidden costs, pressure tactics or out right lies. That all ended at Saint John Toyota. The salesman we dealt with was Mark Duffley, he was very transparent and timely with his responses to our many questions. Everything was done in a timely manner and very professional. Mark delivered on everything he promised. We were from out of town and Mark and Kim worked very hard to make the whole process seem easy and quick. Thank you very much we would highly recommend dealing with Mark and Saint John Toyota.
To whom reads this review, I highly recommend Saint John Toyota's Parts Department. Friendly, honest and knowledgeable service. I typically purchase oil, filters and wiper blades from the Toyota Parts Department. My most recent experience was the best yet! I stopped by to pick up a RAV4 rear wiper blade refill and not only did the service meet my expectations it went beyond! Peter C. offered to come outside and show me how to replace the rubber refill. Keep up the great service!
My husband and I purchased a used Toyota Camry back in March 2018. It was an older car, a 2003 and had over 400,000 kms on it. We were looking for a car that we could buy outright, as I had only been at my current employment for 6 months and did not want to go into debt. The salesmen we dealt with, mainly Grant told us for the age of the vehicle, it was in pretty good shape and he wasn't wrong. We took it for a test drive and it drove like a much newer car. He even told us to take it to our mechanic, which we did and he told us the same thing. It was in really good shape for the age and kms. on it. We bought it and it only needed minor work to pass inspection in July, less than $300. It is still running very well and is very reliable. We were and still are very happy with our purchase. Grant was very helpful, honest and didn't steer us wrong. If or when we are in the market for another vehicle, we will definitely go to Saint John Toyota first.
We were shopping fir a second car so used was the way to go. The staff were great... took their time to explain everything. Thank you for taking time to show us around.
Great service! My salesman ( John ) was super friendly, and took the time to show me all about my new Corolla! Wonderful service, i can't wait until my 5 years is up so I can buy another Toyota! ??
My son recently purchased a 2018 Forerunner. The customer service was unparalleled in my experience with other dealers. Dave Cross spent a lot of time reviewing the features, sat in the vehicle and pointed out the options etc. Warranties were explained. Negotiations were very fair and quick. The Forerunner was spotless upon delivery. Very best. 10 Stars.
I went to used car lot looking for a truck, due to mine was written off in an accident , we were greeted by the sales person and other staff members after talking we selected the vehicle 2015 Tacoma they were great in helping with the purchase , price and accessories the truck so far is the best I have owned , and the service I received was great , I would recommend them for you next purchase they call it the way it is and do have some wiggle room.


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HomeCryptocurrency NewsScaramucci invests in cryptocurrency firm | The Star
Scaramucci invests in cryptocurrency firm | The Star
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NEW YORK: Anthony Scaramucci says he is investing in a company set up by Brett Harrison, the former president of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX US.
Scaramucci will be using his own money for the venture to show support for Harrison, he said in an email.
Harrison had been seeking funding for a crypto software company at a valuation of up to US$100mil (RM433mil), Bloomberg News reported last month.
The proposed idea was for software that crypto traders could use to write algorithms for their strategies and to access different types of crypto markets, both centralised and decentralised, two people familiar with the matter said at the time.
"Scaramucci has been a true mentor and friend to me since I joined the crypto industry two years ago," Harrison said in a reply to questions by Bloomberg News.
"I'm honoured to have him as an investment partner, and know his guidance will be invaluable as I begin this new chapter."
FTX Ventures, the venture capital unit of Sam Bankman-Fried's now-imploded crypto empire, announced in September it took a 30% stake in Scaramucci's Skybridge Capital and that the firms would expand their collaboration on venture and digital asset investing.
Amid FTX's descent into bankruptcy, Scaramucci said SkyBridge would work to repurchase that stake.
Later he said that he'd done some checks on Bankman-Fried before the deal but that it was "not enough".
Harrison worked at FTX US for about 17 months, stepping down in September.
Prior to that, he had been at Citadel Securities and quantitative trading firm Jane Street, where he had worked with Bankman-Fried.
A spokesman for Bankman-Fried declined to comment on a Twitter thread by Harrison about his experiences at FTX US, and which elicited comment from Scaramucci about the investment.
The spokesman also didn't immediately reply to a follow-up question about the investment itself. — Bloomberg
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Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) est une chanson du producteur néo-zélandais Jawsh 685 et du chanteur américain Jason Derulo, sortie le .

La chanson se classe 1 dans plus de 15 pays, notamment en Nouvelle-Zélande, Allemagne, Australie, Autriche, Belgique (Flandre), Pays-Bas, et Suisse.

Un remix avec le groupe sud-coréen BTS sort le . Ce remix se classe également 1 au Billboard Hot 100 et au Canadian Hot 100.

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Jawsh 685 publie le titre instrumental Laxed (Siren Beat) sur Youtube en 2019. À la suite de la publication d'un court extrait sur la plateforme TikTok, le titre devient viral et est l'objet d'un challenge de danse. Le titre sort sur les plateformes officielles le , tandis que Jawsh 685 signe avec le label Columbia Records en .

Le , Jason Derulo tease le titre Savage Love, basé sur un sample de Laxed (Siren Beat). Jawsh 685 n'est pas crédité tandis que Derulo n'a pas obtenu l'autorisation d'utiliser le sample, et se voit critiqué pour cela. Il est révélé que Jawsh 685 prévoyait de faire remixer son titre Laxed (Siren Beat) par de multiples artistes dont Jason Derulo, mais que ce dernier voulait la chanson pour lui-même.

Le , Columbia Records annonce que les deux artistes ont trouvé un compromis. Jawsh   685 autorise Jason Derulo à utiliser le sample, mais est crédité en tant qu'artiste principal. Le sous-titre (Laxed – Siren Beat) est également ajouté.

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Ireland plays critical role in the protection of the most beautiful of terns
Rockabill acts as a save haven for breeding
Perhaps the most beautiful of all terns, the snow-white seabird sports a jet-black cap and long tail streamers. Photograph: Brian Burke
Mon May 22 2017 - 17:38
A conservation success story is confirmed by touch down in Ireland this month. Roseate terns have flown in from West Africa to Europe and most are now nesting on our east coast.
Perhaps the most beautiful of all terns, the snow-white seabird sports a jet-black cap and long tail streamers. They get their name from a soft glow of shell-pink on their undercarriage. Ireland's crucial to European roseate terns. Ninety per cent nest at Lady's Island Lake in Wexford and on Rockabill off Dublin.
This owes to the diligent work of conservationists here. "If we took away the management their numbers would fall considerably," says ornithologist Prof David Cabot of University College Cork. "They are on life support."
A few hundred terns nested beneath sea mallow within the walled lighthouse garden on Rockabill Island. Photograph: Brian Burke
Roseate tern pair in courtship display on Rockabill Island. Photograph: Chris Gomersall, from 'Terns' by David Cabot and Ian Nisbet
It's working. Roseate numbers fell to fewer than 500 pairs in the 1990s. Conservationists stepped in to lend them a hand. Last year, 1,556 roseate pairs were counted nesting on tiny Rockabill, 6km off the north Dublin coast. A European project (Roseate Tern LIFE) is under way to assist the birds further, with the Royal Society for Protection of Birds and the North Wales Wildlife Trust partnering Birdwatch Ireland.
As the birds began arriving in the first week of May, Birdwatch Ireland wardens were waiting to monitor, tag, and protect them from predators. A few hundred terns had nested beneath sea mallow within the walled lighthouse garden on Rockabill, but the colony has expanded beyond the wall because of new, densely-packed housing. "We now have a tiny island with about 700 to 800 nest boxes and 90 per cent of the occupied by roseate terns," says Stephen Newton, conservationist at Birdwatch Ireland. Hundreds were on and over the island on Sunday, May 7th.
Predatory gulls, herons and owls raid tern nests, but this year EU funds will add to their protection. "We're going to deploy devices to scare off the gulls, such as broadcasting distress calls of gulls," says Newton, to knock out the habit of gulls hoping off boats onto the island to raid nests. The terns are safe on Rockabill from rats and mink, which can swim to islands closer to shore.
Roseate tern is the least aggressive of our five tern species and invariably nests with common or Arctic terns. Getting roseate to recolonise some of their old haunts means encouraging these other terns too, says Newton. The other Irish colony is on islands in Lady's Island Lake, a brackish lagoon in Wexford patrolled by the National Parks & Wildlife Service. The terns there contend with more than aerial predators. "The problem is rats can swim out to the island and eat chicks and eggs, and mink too can be a problem," says Cabot.
The roseate's nesting habits offer them protection. The 200 roseate terns share with hundreds of common and arctic terns and over a thousand pair of sandwich terns, the largest species here. "Tern workers often wear hats for protection. Arctic terns will hit you with their legs and can peck your head," says Cabot. Terns also nest with black-headed gulls; the gulls sometimes steal food and kill tern chicks, but in return are ferocious defenders against all nest raiders.
Protecting nest sites is essential. If disturbance by people or predators gets too much, terns will up sticks and leave. "Terns are quite a long-lived species. They have a sense that if disaster is coming, something which threatens the adult breeding bird, they will fly off and forego breeding," say Cabot. "They won't hang around if rats or mink arrive."
The loss of entire colonies has history. In the 1960s, there were more 3,000 pairs nesting at over a dozen locations in Britain and Ireland. Colonies in Strangford Lough, Carlingford Lough, on Swan Island in Larne Lough, and Anglesey in Wales were abandoned, while the species disappeared from Scottish islands. The birds once nested on Connemara islands, the Blasket Islands and Copeland Islands off Co Down. Victorian hunters, the millinery trade and egg collectors all took their toll.
Conservationists are delighted with Rockabill, but they worry that all our eggs are in two baskets. "If anything happened, say an oil slick off Rockabill during the breeding season, it would be disastrous," Cabot says. The new European project will fund protection of colonies and encourage new colonies.
Lessons learnt here are shared with the other project partners. The protections and boxes were copied on Coquet Island in the North Sea, where there are now around 100 roseate tern pairs. "Most of that colony was founded by Irish birds," says development officer for Birdwatch Ireland Niall Hatch proudly. "We are trying to encourage the guys in Scotland and Wales to create mini Rockabills."
Rockabill offers rich fishing grounds close by, where the terns catch small oily fish: sprat and sandeel. The number of chicks reared per pair though has fallen. "We don't know if the range of these fish is changing," says Stephen. Terns have a distinctive fishing style, pausing motionless above the sea, before diving sharply into the sea.
Cabot recently co-authored with Ian Nesbit Terns, a Collins New Naturalist book on British and Irish terns. Roseate terns are his favourites. "They are the most elegant of the terns, with really long streamers on their forked tails, which is why they were called sea swallows. They fly like bullets through the air," he says. "They've got a pinkish glow, like as if the sun was setting on their chest."
Roseate tern chicks are seeing their first sunrise from their Irish colonies this month. The first eggs were laid on Saturday, May 13th, but egg-laying started in earnest on May 18th. It's all over by the first week of June.
PANEL: Tern spotting
This summer, Birdwatch Ireland will attach geolocator tags to roseate terns on Rockabill islands. The birds are believed to winter off West Africa, but no one knows for sure where precisely they go.
"They are beautifully adapted for flying and will take these long migrations down to West Africa every year for 10 to 20 years," says ornithologist and tern fan David Cabot. The tags are part of an EU-funded research project. These are the last terns to migrate here in spring, generally early May. Their courtship ritual sees a pair ascend sharply in spirals before crossing and then zigzagging downwards again together. "The courtship of terns is something very beautiful," says Cabot. "Males offer fish to females. Some fussy females won't co-operate unless they are given food."
Birdwatch Ireland recommends two places to see terns this summer. "We encourage people to come to Dalkey where we set up a telescope every week so people can see the common and Arctic terns there," says Niall Hatch at Birdwatch Ireland. Late in the summer, terns from Wexford and Dublin feed around Dublin Bay and often roost on Sandymount Strand, though often far from the shoreline and late in the evening.
The second spot for tern watching is Kilcoole in Co Wicklow. "You've to walk a half a mile from the carpark down the coast but we have staff on hand to show people the little terns there. It's a sensitive area, so we have it fenced off," says Hatch. Little terns are the only Irish tern species that do not nest on offshore islands. The Wicklow colony is vulnerable to foxes and human disturbance.
University College CorkRoseate ternsDavid CabotIan NesbitNiall Hatch
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Many businesses and call centers with international locations need to know how to forward calls to remote agents in different countries. We'll explain how call forwarding works, and talk about the ways that you can forward calls to a mobile phone, landline, or PBX. Using call forwarding, which comes standard with most toll free and local numbers,…
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Drypetes deplancheiThe type genus is Putranjiva, from a Sanskrit word meaning 'giving life to children'. According to some authorities, there are 3 genera in the family, Drypetes, Putranjiva and Sibangea. According to others, they are all now to be regarded as species of Drypetes. Putranjiva roxburghii (or Drypetes roxburghii) is the Lucky Bean Tree, a decoction of whose leaves and fruits is used in many parts of India to cure fevers, and a necklace of the fruits is worn by children to ward off evil and ill health; hence the name of the genus. Members of the family have 2-ranked leathery leaves which, when fresh, typically have a peppery taste. This is due to the mustard oils they contain as a defence against herbivores. The usually small flowers cluster from a common point, and the fruits are drupes crowned by persistent stigmas.


The Nissan 350Z is a coupe and roadster built by Nissan. It was introduced in August 2002 and is the fifth generation of Nissan's Z-car line, carrying the chassis designation Z33.
The first concept model was produced for the Detroit Motor Show for the following January then later at the Los Angeles Auto Expo. Nissan was however unhappy with the first design as they felt the car was considered too "retro" or too "backward" resembling a futuristic 240Z thus a redesign was underway. The redesigned model, now known as the Z Concept, which was similar in bodyshape but with a redesigned front end was unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show two years after the first. The car then underwent a minor redesign and was assigned the VQ35DE engine, hence the car became known as the 350Z.
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data-treify: Reify a recursive data structure into an explicit graph.
This package is a (probably temporary) fork of Andy gill's data-reify package. I've tweaked it for typed syntax representations for use with GADTs.
data-reify provided the ability to turn recursive structures into explicit graphs. Many (implicitly or explicitly) recursive data structure can be given this ability, via a type class instance. This gives an alternative to using Ref for observable sharing.
Observable sharing in general is unsafe, so we use the IO monad to bound this effect, but can be used safely even with unsafePerformIO if some simple conditions are met. Typically this package will be used to tie the knot with DSL's that depend of observable sharing, like Lava.
Providing an instance for MuRef is the mechanism for allowing a structure to be reified into a graph, and several examples of this are provided.
Version 0.2 of data-reify uses StableNames, and is much faster. Version 0.3 provided two versions of MuRef, the mono-typed version, for trees of a single type, and the dynamic-typed version, for trees of different types.
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Les Mées és un municipi francès situat al departament del Sarthe i a la regió de . L'any 2007 tenia 98 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Les Mées era de 98 persones. Hi havia 44 famílies de les quals 12 eren unipersonals (8 homes vivint sols i 4 dones vivint soles), 16 parelles sense fills i 16 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 63 habitatges, 44 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 16 eren segones residències i 3 estaven desocupats. Tots els 62 habitatges eren cases. Dels 44 habitatges principals, 33 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 8 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 1 tenia una cambra, 4 en tenien dues, 11 en tenien tres, 10 en tenien quatre i 19 en tenien cinc o més. 36 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 24 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 20 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 61 persones, 42 eren actives i 19 eren inactives. De les 42 persones actives 39 estaven ocupades (24 homes i 15 dones) i 3 estaven aturades (3 dones i 3 dones). De les 19 persones inactives 11 estaven jubilades, 2 estaven estudiant i 6 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 2 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de serveis i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

L'any 2000 a Les Mées hi havia 8 explotacions agrícoles.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Les Mées a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Les Mées a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Sarthe


Yesterday I reached a milestone - the very first time that I colored my hair because I had to, instead of because I wanted to. It felt grim, but not as grim as eyeing up the steadily increasing number of white hairs in my hairbrush every morning. When the proportions flipped and went critical, I surrendered - and made an appointment with a salon.
My hair is generously described as brownish. In places it's blondeish, in others it's almost reddish. All of it is curl-ish. You can do just about anything from platinum to chestnut and it will suit me down to the ground.
Toward the end of my year at fashion school in Italy, I developed a hankering for blonde, and went to a salon that was being recommended around the school. The stylist and I settled on a warm honey tone - Kate Moss rather than Marilyn Monroe. She was all smiles and I was all smiles as she pasted on the color and left me with a copy of Italian Vogue while the color set in, then she towed me off to a wash basin and rinsed me off, lathered me up and gave me a truly HEAVENLY head massage, and when she had me blissed out and crooning and no longer even noticing that my neck was developing an S-bend against the curve of the wash-basin rim, she propped me up vertical and handed me a mirror.
And the buzz pretty much dropped off right there. My hair was ORANGE - the exact same shade as the inside of a cantaloupe. An irradiated cantaloupe. It GLOWED.
The stylist smiled at me, waiting.
"This isn't blonde." I croaked.
She gave me that specifically vague smile that Telecom Italia receptionists reserve for when they're about to tell you that they never received your application to have your telephone line connected.
"You're unhappy with your blonde hair? Is there a problem?"
"PROBLEM? Dio Mio - this is ORANGE!"
"It looks blonde to me, Signora. You asked for blonde, you got blonde. If you're going to make a fuss -"
She shrugged eloquently, and I was late for class, so muttering a curse under my breath, I jammed a hat over my radioactive mop and ran for the bus.
When I walked into draping class that afternoon, conversations stopped dead. Mouths opened. Chins dropped. Thessy, our draping teacher, slowly put down her scissors and walked carefully over to me as I stood shamefaced by the door. As one treats a person who has suffered a terrible shock or injury, she took me gingerly by the arm.
"Cara…" She said gently. "You have to go BACK there."
"Looks blonde to me. Hey, Claudio - does this look blonde to you?"
"Looks blonde to me, Sofia.
"Would you kindly hand me the color swatch book?"
"I can't see any need. I wouldn't even know where to find it -"
"It's on that ledge over there! Give me that - Ha! Is this or is this not the color we agreed on?"
"And is this even vaguely related to the color on my head?"
"One hundred PERECENT, Signora." The manager looked at me sourly. "And we are very BUSY this afternoon and I do NOT have the time to sit around and argue with you -"
Right, I thought. There's nothing else for it. I'm going to have to throw a tantrum.
I'm no good at tantrums. Australians are never any good at 'em. We're raised to be polite in public situations - tears and raised voices get you uncomfortable disapproval, a total absence of cooperation, and eventually, they get you thrown out. It's all very British.
"THIS is INSANE!" I shouted. And brought my hand down hard on the counter.
"THIS IS ALL WRONG!" I closed my eyes and began to cry. "I'm going to be seeing my BOYFRIEND in TWO DAYS and I look like a CARROT and you have all been so, so -"
"Che Cosa?" The manager cried in horror. "BOYFRIEND? A BOYFRIEND is going to see you like this? Looking like THIS?! Madonna Mia! Madonna MIA. Dio MIO, no, NO, NO -"
Tutting and soothing, she led me to a chair.
"Sit down, sit down. We will fix, I will fix - Dio mio, dio MIO..." And she ran for the dye cupboard.
So they fixed. To the best of their debatable skills, which mostly consisted of bleaching the hell out of it and dying it yellow, so that instead of a nuclear furnace on my head, my hair was the color and consistency of dried straw, with a weird verdigris tinge along the edges. It balled and ratted and frizzed and stuck out sideways from my head - and when my dark roots started to come in... Madonna MIA.
Mum came to spend the last couple of weeks of term with me in Florence. Our reunion at the train station wasn't QUITE joyful.
"Tabubilgirl" she said tentatively "I love you very much and I've missed you awfully, but would you be willing to wear a hat on the plane home? Just in case we run into anyone I know in the airport in Santiago?"
We compromised on a hairdresser PDQ after landing, and within one hour of being home, I was in a barbers chair in the Parque Arauco mall, with a plastic cape tied around my throat. The senior stylist pushed my head forward and flipped my hair up over my head to bare my neck. And for a moment, stood very very still.
"Attention!" He bellowed. "I want ALL of the apprentices over here right NOW!"
"Do you see this?" He said, and tugged at a lock of hair.
There was an impressed "Oooooh" sort of sound from behind me.
"And this? And this? And THIS? Can anybody tell me what went wrong HERE?"
I was Exhibit A of an impromptu demonstration of everything (and I understood it to be EVERYTHING) a colorist should never ever do, while a circle of increasingly impressed apprentices tutted and moaned and gasped "No, no, ABSOLUTELY!" whenever appropriate - which was about every other minute.
It was quite the catalogue of Don'ts.
At the end of it I was told there was nothing that could be done. My head was a write-off. They could match the roots for me, but touch the rest and I'd lose the lot.
So I chopped off as much as possible and went around parti-colored until the ends fell off, and resolutely didn't touch it again - for years. For me, color came in extensions, not dye tubes - until yesterday.
Yesterday, my hairdresser and I settled on a full head of foils - a warm honey-ish blonde and a sort of strawberry blonde-ish auburn. Just like me before the grays came in, only more so.
Over my entire head, there's a nimbus - a My Little Pony shade of pink.
It'd be cute if I were Cindy Lauper, but even she would have had the decency to go neon.


Hi all kind people of the planet :) I am Jeremiah Grateful LovEarth and my spaceship grateful caravan of love has finally brokedown again! With not much hope in repairs anytime soon and 17 years of driving it all around this world!
I have decided to take the suggestion of many friends & family to setup this fundraiser to try & raise enough to get a new/used wheelchair lift van(spaceship#2) to be able to live the life I love & love the life i live & keep on truckin down the road again!!!
I am sharing this update in as simple of words & feeling , love & light, some more friends can help share or donate to make this dream of a lifetime come true so soon! ** I am going to look at some vans today finally semi locally, but i got the info that vans i would be looking at are a few thousand more away from where we are at now. I am kindly asking if you, your family,friends anyone you know can help donate a small amount it all adds up & so soon i could be driving around the universe & sharing love with all of you! :) <3 :) ( small piece of art by me for every donation, large donations will receive other gifts from me!) THANK YOU ALL! 1 <3 is real NOT FADE AWAY!!!
out of work but will get some cash this week will send as much as I can bro ! Love ya !!!
Peace and love Jeremiah! Good Luck!
Donated ...not much but something to help ... best wishes to you sweet soul!!! I will continue to post and help out anyway I can!! Much love to you!!!
Sorry we couldn't help earlier, and we're happy you've reached your goal! Maybe you can use this towards fuel for the new spaceship!!
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People Getting Brighter, Culture Getting Dimmer
In response to my previous post noting that the Flynn effect turns out to be a mirage, at least two respondents have suggested that average IQ has actually been falling, and have pointed to the alleged dumbing-down of politics and popular culture in the last fifty years.
I think both those respondents and the psychometricians are correct. That is, it seems to me that during my lifetime I've seen evidence that average IQ has risen a little, but that other traits involved in the "smart or stupid" judgment have eroded.
On the one hand, I've previously described the emergence of geek culture, which I take among other things as evidence that there are more bright and imaginative individuals around than there were when I was a kid. Enough of us, now, to claim a substantial slice of turf in the cultural marketplace. This good news is reinforced for me be the explosive growth of the hacker community, which today is easily a hundred times the size it was in, say, 1975 — and far larger than I ever dreamed it would be then.
On the other hand, when I compare Americans today to the country of my childhood there are ways the present comes off rather badly. We are more obese, we have shorter attention spans, our divorce rate has skyrocketed. All these and other indicators tell me that we have (on average) lost a significant part of our capacity to exert self-discipline, defer gratification, and honor contracts when the going gets tough.
To sum up, we're brighter than we used to be, but lazier. We have more capacity, but we use less of it. Physically and mentally we are self-indulgent, flabby, unwilling to wake up from the consumer-culture dream of entitlement. We pursue happiness by means ever more elaborate and frenetic, dimishing returns long since having set in. When reality hands us a wake-up call like 9/11, too many of us react with denial and fantasy.
This is, of course, not a new complaint. Juvenal, Horace, and Petronius Arbiter wrote much the same indictment of their popular culture at the height of the Roman Empire. They were smart enough to understand, nigh on two millenia ago, that this is what happens to elites who have it easy, who aren't tested and winnowed by war and famine and plague and poverty.
But there are important differences. One is that while decadence used to be an exclusive problem of the upper crust, we are all aristocrats now. More importantly, where the Romans believed that decadence in individuals and societies was inevitable, we know (because we've kept records) that as individuals we are taller, stronger, healthier, longer-lived and more intelligent than our ancestors — that, in fact, we have reaped large gains merely within the last century.
We have more capacity, but we use less of it. And, really, is it any surprise? Our schools are abandoning truth for left-wing bullshit about multiculturalism and right-wing bullshit about "intelligent design". Our politics has become a wasteland of rhetorical assassinations in which nobody but the fringe crazies believe even their own slogans any more. Our cultural environment has become inward-turned, obsessed with petty intramural squabbles, clogged with cant. Juvenal would find it all quite familiar.
In a cultural environment gone so decadent, why shouldn't individuals spend most of their capability on idle pleasures — status games, video games, role-playing games, sex and drugs and rock and roll?
Notice that what I'm not offering here is any moral condemnation. The classical way to respond to noticing cultural decadence and individual self-indulgence is to launch into a conservative or reactionary rant, but I consider those boring and pointless. I don't have the conservative's desire to scold people and tell them what to
do. Nor am I any more eager than the Roman satirists to see a return of virtue and toughness, if the price is a return to the poverty and suffering that hammered our ancestors into virtuous and tough
Instead, I'll reverse the previous question, and ask: what are we offering people to do with all their capacity? The subcultures that are escaping decadence, like the open-source movement or the U.S.'s volunteer military in Iraq, are composed of people who have dedicated themselves to a goal bigger than they are. What are we doing to find new goals as large or larger? What more could we doing to call forth peak performance from our increased capabilities?
Yet another similarity with Rome is that the barbarians are at our gates, but far too many of us cannot summon the will to fight them. In some ways we are coping with the threat less well than Rome did, exhibiting not merely denial but an active willingness to pander to them as though they have the virtues we have given up. But while war against Islamofascism is necessary, it's too easy — not in my judgment a sufficiently stiff challenge to demand peak performance from the average member of our civilization. Not enough to get the couch potatoes and slackers off their butts, not enough by itself to restore a tone of moral seriousness to our
civilization. Not yet, anyway.
And I'm not going to fall into the temptation of hoping that changes, either. Much as I might like to live in a less decadent civilization — one in which our increased intelligence translates into more virtuous collective behavior — I hope we can find a way to it that doesn't involve megadeaths at the hands of jihadis first.
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Forgive me if this is way off mark…but I feel that the whole world is one big RPG with leaders and statesmen all reading lines spun by spin doctors. And what we are seeing now on TV is presented in such a way that the actual truth gets distorted. We are not only losing the plot, we are losing the skills we once had in the stoneage, the iceage, whatever else age that have gone before. We are not getting brighter, we are becoming dull and lifeless. We need to switch off our TV sets and our computers and switch on to fact we are beening hoodwinked by the media.
Ole Eichhorn on 2005-08-28 at 19:52:59 said:
The average IQ of the world as a whole is falling, but not because of popular culture (or at least, not directly because of it).
Rather, the differential birth rate between more and less intelligent people is growing (more intelligent people have fewer children). This is a serious problem with serious consequences. It partially the result of "civilized" society supporting childern who cannot otherwise be supported by their parents, and even because "advanced" nations help children in counties who cannot otherwise support their children. There is also a difference in generation size between more and less intelligent people (less intelligent people have children earlier in their lives). Note this doesn't depend on a genetic component to intelligence, only that intelligence correlates between parents and children (could be 100% environmental), which is easily shown by many studies.
A big subject.
It's strange that I read this just after watching Apollo 13 on The History Channel. We have lost our national will to explore space. This would be, to me, a natural place to give our civilization a goal, just as the moon landing race did in the 1960s…but we've lost that national will to make it happen. Do we have the national will to make anything of the sort happen again? I don't know, but I'm pessimistic about it.
Gee, Eichhorn… can you hear me back there in 1927?
Regardless, you should be jumpin' with joy that in the highest-IQ ethnic group of them all, birth rates for their most insular group are around 6.4 children per family.
Chet Davis on 2005-08-29 at 09:16:08 said:
Glad I found this blog. I'm interested in reading and writing about the same kinds of "deep" questions about society that this blog reflects. A word of caution seems in order here: You noted that we need to devote our increased capacities to the achievement of goals that are bigger than we are. That could lead to rather ominous social phenomena, like expanding the power of evangelicals in American society.
Shenpen on 2005-08-29 at 12:33:48 said:
Eric, you are right – and the USA is still way more better of than we here in Europe. I can see generally more ambitious, more willing, braver and stronger people there. A good indicator is that our best hackers (Linus, Guido) have moved there. Just let me tell a story. A friend of mine were in Sweden. He went to a gas station to buy some stuff, and he found a couple of drunkards there shouting, kicking the furniture, harassing the clerks and generally making trouble. There was an security guard and just did nothing. So drew his trusty GRP-9 teargas-handgun (http://fegarmy.hu/?p=grp&lang=en) and asked them to stop. Everybody was grateful especially the security guard. And he simply could not believe it – why did the guard not dare to do the same thing? So this a nice example – the USA with handguns, Eastern Europe with teargas-guns and Western Europe with nothing but their "not in my job description" shit. And the barbarians may be at your gates, but they are in our kitchens – the millions and millions of arab immigrants, with an average of 6 children… big, big trouble ahead. And the political asshole now want to get Turkey into the EU… really don't know how to stop this crazyness. I know a German guy who moved here (Budapest) and told me the reason: they wanted to live at a place where men are still men and women are still women. Well, what to say… but in culture we are at an even worse situation: I think Western Europe and USA is dumping here all the outdated, out-of-fashion shit and succesfully concinvincing all the stupid people to think that's hip, because it has "Rome", "London" or "New York" printed on it – while in Rome, London or New York people would never buy that second-grade, outdated, low quality shit.
Robert T Childers on 2005-08-29 at 13:03:49 said:
Concerning the idea of goals bigger than we are leading to an ominous social phenomena, I believe the solution and the clue is in open source development. In the open source world, it is the self interest of the free market that guides and molds the projects. This leverages everyones self interest and provides the much needed information that a centrally planned system is incapable of. Whereas with evangelicals for instance you have a central power structure. Such a structure cannot leverage the free market system. Also in a free market system, goals that are bigger than we are will come about in an almost evolutionary way. Kind of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. We have many examples in nature. Such as how DNA and other chemical process produce a system with much greater complexity than the underlying structures themselves, such as ourselves for example.
Shenpen: I spent the better part of a year travelling and living in various parts of eastern Europe (including about three months in your fair city). I thought it was a fascinating region of the world, and I'm sure a large part of what draws people from North America, western Europe or the Antipodes there is that it still has a certain romance about it (although most of the ex-pats I met were complete misfits living in some bubble half-way between the west and the east) and it's a bit of a frontier (the beautiful women and cheap alcohol help too I think). It doesn't seem nearly so sanitised as where we are from and people will speak their minds and not worry about being politically correct (although I'm sure that will change). Of course, the grass is always greener, and I can certainly see why eastern Europe wants to mimic the west, and the east still has a lot to contend with in terms of wacky governments, corruption and racism. Still, I'm of the mind that in the long term, joining the EU was a very, very big mistake for eastern Europe as eastern Europe may indeed have been able to make something of itself, given time. As it is, in twenty years time, western Europe will be a massive liability for eastern Europe, if eastern Europe hasn't gone the same way by then. Still, to some extent, you were hamstrung. I mean, if everyone else joined, unless you were like Switzerland (which no eastern European nation was) and could afford to go it alone and be left out in the cold, what option did you have?
Gabriel Neer on 2005-08-30 at 09:13:59 said:
One of the more compelling explanations I've read for at least part of this phenomenon is Doing Our Own Thing by linguist John McWhorter. Essentially, he argues that, mostly as a by product of the attacks on authority during the 60s, we've moved from a writing-based cultural that values formality and artifice to a neo-oral cultural that values casualness and spontenaity.
mensa B on 2005-08-30 at 22:31:49 said:
Good carnival-submit. Great, posts which follow. Intelligence has indeed escalated, and with the birth rate at an uncontrolled high, we become innovators of mass efficiency vs. individualized skills for advancement. "If you are not the solution, you are part of the problem" seems to be the intelligence. Yet who could organize a consciousness around the masses of a "bell curve" of over-population? (This must change)
MEDIA is (WAS) in perfect position to dominate the rest of our over-growth consciousness.
With blogging, we are no longer letting it! Glad I found your blog…
Cheers, MensaB
ps: glen reynolds did memo of the Carnival (on 25th) glad I caught it. (^_^)
Andrej on 2005-08-31 at 16:19:37 said:
> …we are all aristocrats now…
And we will be for a while – before the cheap energy from oil that is the base of recent economical development (20th century) runs out.
We will have a little bigger problems than so-called Islamofascism then. See http://www.hubbertpeak.com/ and http://dieoff.org for more information.
… with evangelicals for instance you have a central power structure. Such a structure cannot leverage the free market system.
Arguably, it leverages the market in ideas to gain members from other sects. But that's a nit.
It's good that we have geek culture, science and other meritocratic elements of civil society. On the flip side, when the broader ethos is anti-intellectual and puts whim over knowledge ("I want a Hummer and buck-fifty gas and anybody who tells me I can't have it is un-American!") there isn't much that merit and reality can do to reshape things in the short term.
David McCabe on 2005-09-04 at 01:48:22 said:
Andrej: When the natural oil runs out, we can synthesize oil from coal using nuclear power. That will give us plenty of time to come up with something else for when the coal runs out, for there is lots. Lots under American soil, too, and already it's being mined.
Regarding the "broader ethos", how much do you think our atrocious state school system has had to do with this?
BEDE on 2005-09-16 at 07:26:19 said:
In order for a nation to stay fit and keep some moral standards it has to face some challenge. It has to face it, not to try to avoid it by denial of some realities.
Some 30 to 50 years ago it was the cold war that made America stick together, and did about the same thing for western Europe.
What is it going to be this time?
Or is the whole "civilised" world going to plunge into a promiscuous self-indulgence?


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Q: Associating user selection of a language for an application with the corresponding translation in an OLAP database Here is my problem: I have a multilingual SharePoint application and I have PerformancePoint reports in that application. In my OLAP database I have set up 3 translations for the dimension's and cube members for the corresponding languages that the application uses.
My question is - how do I retrieve (select) the content from the OLAP cube for the selected language in the application. I don't know how to associate  the selected language in the application with the available translations in my OLAP database.
Your help will be very appreciated.

A: I found the answer on my own question so I'll share it for others that need it - the connection between the language selection of the user and the corresponding translation in the OLAP database is done with the connection string of the PPS data source. The connection string should look something like this:
"Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorksDW;Locale Identifier=LCID;"
where LCID is the Locale ID. List of LCIDs for all the languages you can find here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;221435
So for example if the user has selected Macedonian language in the application, the connection string of the PPS data source should be:
"Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorksDW;Locale Identifier=1071;"

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Gang Sweep Nets 21 in North Charleston
February 23, 2017 March 1, 2017 ELLEN ROBINSON
Gangs, South Carolina
(CN) – A two year investigation involving local, state and federal law enforcement yielded the arrest of 21 gang members and its associates on charges range from firearms and drug trafficking to other violent crimes in North Charleston on Wednesday morning.
Officials said the effort, formally known as the North Charleston Violent Crime Community Impact Investigation, involved more than 200 undercover operations resulting in the purchase of 58 firearms, more than three and a half pounds of cocaine and crack cocaine, 80 grams of methamphetamine and 41 grams of heroin. Law enforcement served 42 warrants on Wednesday and they continue to search for the 21 suspects that remain at large.
The operation began in October 2014. Early on the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Charlotte field office and the Office of Homeland Security targeted gang members and associates of the O Block Money Gang or "OBMG," and others involved in arms trafficking, criminal firearms possessions, robberies, burglaries, home invasions, shootings and other violent crimes.
Beth Drake, assistant U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, said violent crime has increased in the state's Lowcountry in recent years, and that in order to stem it, 10 agencies agreed to focus on a crime corridor extending from Charleston County and into Dorchester County.
"Violent crime collides with the American way of life here in North Charleston. The U.S. Attorney's Office is proud to support this initiative. A lot of time and effort has been put in to make cases against these individuals who plague the community," she said.
Mayor Keith Summey said there is a reason residents have not necessarily seen the work that law enforcement has been doing to address the violent crime and gang problem in the city.
"This has been very quiet. We respond to the calls and complaints of criminal activity, but if we arrest one on a minor charge, it's just a slap on the wrist and they are out the next day. These suspects will be serving time," Summey said.
In 2016 there were 32 homicides in North Charleston, most of which were drug related, the mayor said. He went on to assure the public that law enforcement is continuing its effort to make the community safer and improving the quality of life.
"These individuals have ruined their neighborhood and we are putting a stop to it," he said. "You see a lot these suspects are young men. These young men have destroyed their lives with greed, by having no respect for the law, their families or the community."
Summey thanked the efforts of all involved saying the undercover officers take a huge risk while conducting this type of large scale investigation.
North Charleston City Council member Dorothy Williams praised the efforts of all involved in reducing crime, particularly in her district where the lion share of arrests were made.
"The Waylan sub division in my district is where this happened. We will continue to work with law enforcement and we will have a beautiful city," Williams said.
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Website Claims Missing Iranian Deputy Minister Held In Israel
November 17, 2009 11:55 GMT
A conservative Iranian website, "Alef," has claimed that a former deputy defense minister who has been missing for three years was abducted by Israel's secret services with the collaboration of German and British intelligence services and is now being held by Israel.
Ali Reza Asghari
"On the basis of a two-year investigation carried out by relevant bodies, [Ali Reza] Asghari was abducted by foreign intelligence services and is being held in a Zionist prison," "Alef" said.
Asghari, a retired general who served in the Revolutionary Guards, disappeared after arriving in Turkey in early February 2007. Iranian officials suggested that he had been kidnapped by Western intelligence services because of his background. Other sources said that Asghari, who is being referred to by some sources as the father of Hizballah, defected to the West.
The Associated Press reported that Hans Ruehle, a former chief of the planning staff of the German Defense Ministry, wrote in a Swiss newspaper in March that Asghari told the West that Iran was financing North Korean efforts to transform Syria into a nuclear power, leading to an Israeli air strike that targeted a site in Syria in September 2007.
The Israeli website ynetnews.com quoted analyst Ron Ben Yishai as saying that the "Alef" report could be a test to get a response out of Israel or the United States and further investigate where Asghari is being held.
The report adds that another possibility is that the Iranian claim is meant to counter Israeli claims that soldier Ron Arad is being held in Iran.
"Alef" is close to conservative lawmaker Ahmad Tavakoli.
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Lewandowski and Messi met in the third round of the World Cup group stage
Lewandowski revealed what he said to Lionel Messi while still on the pitch at Estadio 974, on Wednesday (30), when Argentina beat Poland 2-0 in the last round of the group stage of the 2022 World Cup.
In an interview with "Bild", the Barcelona striker said he joked with the Argentine star because he plays well back. "We talked a little, we joked a little. I told Messi that I played more defensively than usual. That kind of thing is sometimes necessary for the team," said Lewandowski.
Because of the defensive posture of the Poles, Lewa had to mark the South American number 10 a few times. "That's very rare [ficar prximo ao setor em que Messi joga], yea. Me in the defensive midfield. But I knew I had to help the team", continued the player, who has already been named the best player in the world by FIFA twice.
The meeting between Messi and Lewandowski was one of the attractions of the match between Argentina and Poland and reserved a moment of "climate" between them.
In the added time of the match, Lewandowski fouled Messi in the central midfield circle. The Poles tried to continue with the play, but, when he saw that the foul was called, he tried to apologize to the Argentine, who did not even look at the number 9 shirt.
The two have publicly exchanged barbs over Messi's 2021 Ballon d'Or award, when Lewa came second.
On Wednesday, Poland's Twitter profile joked about Messi's ignoring Lewandowski for the foul in the final stretch of the match and recalled the penalty missed by the number 10: "Don't get angry. Wojtek [Szczeny] made it up [deixar Messi bravo pelo pnalti perdido]", wrote the European team.
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Contele Serghei Iulievici Witte (în ) (29 iunie 1849 – 13 martie 1915) a fost unul dintre cei mai influenți oameni politici care au condus industrializarea extensivă a Imperiul Rus. El a fost de asemenea autorul Manifestului din octombrie 1905, precusorul primei Constituții. A fost președinte al Consiliului de Miniștri al Imperiului Rus (prim ministru al Rusiei).

Deși despre familia Witte se crede că era de origine olandeză, documentele o arată ca fiind originară din țările baltice, într-o perioadă în care aceste teritorii făceau parte din Imperiul Suedez, mai înainte de cuceririle lui Petru cel Mare. Bunicul dinspre mamă al lui Serghei Witte a fost Andrei Mihailovici Fadeev, guvernator al Saratovului și Consilier Privat pentru Caucaz, iar bunica sa a fost prințesa Elena Dolgoruki. Fondatoarea Societății teozofice, Madame Blavațki, i-a fost verișoară primară. S-a născut și a copilărit în Caucaz, în casa părinților materni. După ce a picat examenul de admitere la Universitatea Novorossiisk din Odessa, s-a mutat la Chișinău, unde a absolvit Gimnaziul I. Din a doua încercare a fost admis la Universitatea Novorossiisk, pe care a absolvit-o în 1870, specializându-se în matematică. În deceniile al optulea și al nouălea al secolului al XIX-lea a lucrat în administrarea afacerilor private, în special în domeniul căilor ferate.

Witte și creșterea economică a Rusiei

Witte a ocupat funcția de director al Departamentului Căilor Ferate din cadrul Ministerului de Finanțe (1889 – 1891) și în Ministerul Transporturilor (1892), unde a urmărit realizarea unui program ambițios de dezvoltare a transportului feroviar și a supervizat construirea calea ferată transsiberiană.

A fost numit ministru de finanțe în 1892, funcție pe care a deținută până în 1903. În această perioadă, Imperiul Rus a avut parte de o creștere economică fără precedent. Witte a încurajat investițiile străine și a reușit să stabilească etalonul aur pentru rublă în 1897. Witte a încurajat dezvoltarea industriei rusești, iar, ca rezultat, sectorul industrial al economiei s-a extins rapid, în special în domeniile transporturilor și exploatării metalelor și petrolului. Pentru a întări economia și a atrage mai mulți investitori străini, Witte a militat pentru limitarea puterilor autocației rusești.

Witte a fost transferat în funcția de mai mică importanță de președinte al Comitetului de Miniștri în 1903, funcție pe care a deținut-o până în 1905. Încercând să continue modernizarea economiei rusești, Witte a convocat și supervizat o Conferință Specială pentru Modernizarea Industriei Rurale. În ciuda eforturile lui, mărimea loturilor țărănești a continuat să scadă lent, iar starea de nemulțumire a crescut în rândurile populației de la sate.

Witte și politica Imperiului Rus

Witte s-a reîntors în prim-plan în 1905, când a fost însărcinat de împărat să conducă negocierile de la sfârșitul războiului ruso-japonez. Witte a călătorit în Statele Unite ale Americii, unde au început tratativele de pace, negocierile fiind încheiate cu rezultate favorabile Rusiei. În ciuda înfrângerilor catastrofale de pe câmpurile de luptă, Rusia a pierdut foarte puțin după semnarea aranjamentelor finale.

După acest succes, Whitte a fost readus în centrul procesului decizional guvernamental, pentru a ajuta la calmarea revoltelor care au urmat masacrului din duminica însângerată de la Sankt Peterburg. A fost numit președinte al Consiliului de Miniștri în 1905. În timpul revoluției ruse din 1905, Witte a militat pentru crearea unui parlament ales prin vot universal, reformarea autocrației rusești și transformarea ei în monarhie constituțională și adoptarea primei Declarații a drepturilor cetățenești. Multe dintre aceste reforme au fost legiferate, dar nu s-a reușit înăbușirea revoltelor. Aceste tulburări și victoria partidelor de stânga în primele alegeri parlamentare rusești pentru Duma de Stat, l-au forțat pe Witte să demisioneze din funcția de prim-ministru.

Witte a continuat să activeze în politica la nivel înalt ca membru al Consiliului de Stat, dar nu a mai fost numit într-o altă funcție guvernamentală. Chiar înaintea izbucnirii primului război mondial, Witte a solicitat rămânerea Rusiei în afară conflictului. La scurtă vreme după izbucnirea conflictului mondial, Witte a murit.

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 Biografia lui S. Witte în "Kto esti kto"
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Nașteri în 1849
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Michael Jackson Accusers Now Allowed to Sue for Sexual Abuse
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah
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James Safechuck and Wade Robson, two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as kids, have just won the right to sue, according to Variety. A California appeals court decided that both men can now have their cases tried under a new California law. In 2017, a trial judge threw out their initial cases as the statute of limitations at the time required them to file before the age of 26. Safechuck and Robson were 36 and 30, respectively. But as of January 1, 2020, a new law in California allows sexual-abuse victims to sue up until they turn 40 years old. It also extends the statute of limitations on a provision that says victims can sue third-party entities tied to the abuser who knew or should have known about the abuse, and failed to take reasonable steps to stop it. "We're glad the appellate court recognized the very strong protection that California has for kids, and we look forward to litigating these cases to trial," Vince Finaldi, a lawyer for the two men, told Variety. Now, both alleged victims can sue MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, two companies connected to Michael Jackson's estate. Earlier this year, Safechuck and Robson opened up about how Michael Jackson molested and manipulated them as children in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which chronicled Michael Jackson's history of alleged child sexual abuse.
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Michael Jackson Accusers Can Now Sue for Sexual Abuse


Dolphins wide receiver Chris Chambers was arrested in Charlotte early Saturday morning on charges of driving while impaired, reckless driving and speeding, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's crime log. Chambers, who hasn't had any legal troubles during six seasons as the Dolphins' No. 1 receiver, was arrested at 2:31 a.m. He was later released on a $1,750 bond. Details of the arrest were not immediately available. Neither Chambers nor his agent, Ben Dogra, could be reached. Players are currently off, and veterans do not need to report to training camp until July 27. The latest arrest is the second time in three weeks a Dolphins player has been in trouble with the law. Chambers is also the third player to be arrested this off-season. The Dolphins did not have an immediate comment about Chambers' arrest.
Why can't these guys call a cab? Do they just want to show off their fancy cars or what?
Like regular, everyday people they don't want to accept the fact that they are drunk and can't drive. I don't know how many times at parties I hear people say, "hey, I can drive I drive home like this all the time"...when we have parties we take keys and lock them away, none of our friends get their keys back if they're too drunk, it's just as easy to drive them home and know that you'll be seeing them again.
Now they need a WR. I wonder what they would give us for Parker.
Why do they need a receiver? He'll still play.
He'll still play, but will most likely miss a couple of games.
I wouldn't be so sure. He may but it sure seems like these guys get off the hook an awful lot! Maybe with this new commish, he will continue to drop the hammer!
That's what I'm thinking; although it would appear that Jared Allen is going to be getting a lighter punishment then first anticipated.


HOUSTON (AP) — Egor Koulechov scored 20 points and grabbed six rebounds as Rice beat St. Thomas (Texas) of the NAIA 83-63 on Wednesday night.
Koulechov was 8 of 14 from the field including 3 of 3 from beyond the arc for the Owls (10-3). Marcus Jackson added 12 points and Tim Harrison had 11 points and four rebounds. Rice had a 48-35 rebounding edge over St. Thomas.
The Owls fell behind by three early in the first half but recovered to go up by 10, 32-22, on a Marcus Evans dunk with 5:05 to go in the half. Koulechov made two 3-pointers and Jackson sank a third all in the final 1:40 of the period, helping Rice build a 50-33 lead at intermission. They led by double figures from there on.
Nathan Thormaehlen led the Celts with 13 points and nine rebounds. Kennard Robinson added 11 points, four rebounds and five steals.