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China and WA make live export pact
By Finance
The huge Chinese market is expected to open up to West Australian cattle producers, with a further step taken towards trial shipments.
Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by WA live exporters and Chinese business representatives on Wednesday, work will be done to clarify Australian and Chinese animal health and welfare protocols, paving the way for the export of live cattle from the state.
"WA has a long and proud history of producing premium quality, safe agricultural products and exporting them around the world," WA Agriculture and Food Minister Ken Baston said.
"Our ability to grow more food than required by our domestic market has led to producers looking to develop new markets overseas."
China is Australia's top export destination for agriculture and food products.
In 2012/13, WA agrifood exports to China and Hong Kong were worth more than $1 billion.
Mr Baston said demand for beef in China was strong and driven by economic growth, a rapidly-expanding middle class, and a slight contraction in domestic production.
Chinese businesses were interested in securing supply of boxed beef and potentially live exports, he said.
In October, Premier Colin Barnett witnessed the signing of an MoU with WA's sister state Zhejiang province for new trade arrangements, including live cattle.
Mr Baston said the Zhejiang agreement had provided the groundwork for the MoU signed on Wednesday and would assist future work with other provinces in China.
Investors boost home finance commitments
South African retailer to buy David Jones


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Earth Day Celebrations
As part of the Earth Day, Senior Horticulturist Shri Chandra Prakash Sharma, at University of Hyderabad (UoH) along with Mr. Rohit Kumar Bondugula, Research Scholar of School of Computer and Information Sciences, and other students, faculty of the university have taken up the initiation of plantation drive on April 22nd 2020 in the campus. The UoH campus is rich in flora and fauna, home to over 734 flower plants, ten species of mammals, fifteen species of reptiles, and 220 species of birds. The University is adorned with beautiful lakes that include the Peacock lake, Buffalo lake and Parrot Lake.
Addressing the volunteers, Dean- Students' Welfare (DSW) Prof RS Sarraju said " Amid the Corona Lockdown, University of Hyderabad students and faculty, Towards Better India and Students for Development organizations have been regularly feeding the wildlife and stray dogs and also urged that it's our responsibility to preserve the biodiversity of the campus. He appreciated the horticulture staff who are regularly watering all the trees planted across the campus.
"Spread over more than 2000 acres with its green lush campus, University of Hyderabad can be called as "the lung space" of Hyderabad", said Dr Nagamani, faculty from School of Computer and Information Sciences.
Dr. Krishna Reddy, faculty from School of Economics said "During this Covid Lockdown, we witnessed a climate change, and it's a message to everyone that we have to preserve the planet by plantation of trees and afforestation activities.
Chief Security Officer, Shri Jalandhar Reddy said "To overcome the global warming, we have to encourage the plantation drives," He appreciated the security staff for regularly patrolling into the forest to protect the wildlife and the students who are regularly feeding the wildlife and stray dogs.
Addressing the UoH Community, Rohit said, "Everything we do affects not only us, but also our fragile planet. Let's wake up and notice what our planet is silently talking to us. Save the Biodiversity, Save the earth, for we should be the Guardians of Mother Earth. Let's pledge to preserve our planet for future generations of all living beings."
Senior Horticulturist CP Sharma said "Previously we did many plantation drives with the help of GHMC and CGI, one recent drive was Miyawalki Plantation drive. We are planning to do the plantation drive in a large scale in early June, the idea is to plant a thick forest which serves like a canopy of trees for wildlife."
There are several concrete water tubs which were deployed by our Wild Lens team and UoH Administration in the past. With the help of horticulture department, UoH Security and forest guards are regularly filling water in the concrete water tubs which serves as the water source for spotted deers, wild boars and other wildlife in the forest.
The UoH student volunteers who are regularly feeding the stray dogs are Venkata Siddhu, Akash Bhati, Vijay Singh, Mani Varma, Rajashekar Srigadde among others.
The Organizing team is thankful to the Dean, Students' Welfare Prof RS Sarraju for constant support, Horticulture wing; staff Shri CP Sharma, Shri V Subba Rao, Shri Ramchander, Shri Chandra Shekar, Shri Rajender, Shri Valiya Naik for their continuous efforts in arranging water for wildlife and regularly watering plants in the campus. Chief Security Officers Shri Bharanidharan, Shri Jalandhar, Forest Supervisor Shri Ravinder Reddy and guards Shri Prasad, Shri Govind, Shri Ram Singh, Shri Digambar, Shri Shivaji and Shri Ashok have been a constant support in the conservation activities taken up in the University campus.
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It's focused on the technique of naming device, and explained systematically. Some cases of naming development of each technique are introduced. You can deepen the understanding of naming work, and this book is useful for the practice.


When Bill De Lima looks at darkening storm clouds rolling his way, he gets a little anxious and depressed.
It's not that rain would keep the 72-year-old Danville resident from his favorite hobby – fishing. It's that storms provide another test for his ailing roof, which was supposed to outlive him by far but which now appears on its last legs.
"When the rain comes, I wonder if it's going to get worse," said De Lima, a retired mining equipment manufacturer.
Nine years ago De Lima invested $12,000 in fiber cement shakes made by Cal-Shake for his roof. They replaced the cedar shakes that came with his home. Although the fiber cement shakes cost a couple thousand dollars more than wood shakes, they were appealing because they matched his home, were fire-resistant and came with a 50-year warranty, he said.
Since then, however, the shakes have cracked and crumbled and are encrusted with moss and bloated from trapped water. The interior of the house has multiple leaks and rafters are showing visible signs of stress from the heavy, waterlogged shakes.
De Lima's plight is being played out in thousands of homes across California and the West. The fiber cement shakes, an innovative reroofing material that emerged 20 years ago, have failed in many cases to live up to the 30- and 50-year life expectancies of their warranties. Instead, many homeowners are having to replace their roofs just five to 10 years after they were installed, an Examiner/KTVU report shows.
Some estimates put the number of fiber shake roofs in the state at 100,000, with half of them in Northern California. Thousands of others were sold in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Colorado.
The fiber cement products have spawned several class-action lawsuits against some of the biggest manufacturers of the replacement shakes.
The parent company of one of the largest fiber cement manufacturers agreed in December to a tentative settlement in a class-action suit worth at least $105 million. Weyerhaeuser Co. Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., owns the remnants of American Cemwood Corp., which went out of business in 1998.
Attorneys representing the consumers in the class action estimated that American Cemwood may have sold shakes to at least 35,000 homeowners, with perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 of them in California. A judge will rule on the tentative settlement in May.
Cemwood customers who feel they have significant roof damage can call 1-800-708-3266 to learn more information about the settlement or to obtain a claim form. None of the other cases against major manufacturers has reached a settlement phase.
Weyerhaeuser attorney John Phillips said the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing, but an attempt to address the concerns of Cemwood customers.
"We're just trying to assist in the resolution of the claims that arose from the performance of the roofing product," said Phillips.
American Cemwood was not the only producer of fiber cement shakes. Throughout the '80s, companies like Cal-Shake and Recon Building Products started making large numbers of the shakes. Both are being sued because of similar problems that attorneys say are inherent with the whole class of material.
Alamo attorney David Birka-White, who is pursuing class actions against Cal-Shake and Recon, said the shakes appeared to have been a flawed concept.
"Generally speaking, these products started to fail after five years," said Birka-White.
He said that while lawsuits are moving forward, many homeowners may not realize they have a problem. Some of the shakes sold in the '90s are only now beginning to deteriorate. Therefore, some homeowners who don't scrutinize their roofs may not be aware of problems.
Read article on SF Gate website.


What is VUHL 05 car?
The sports car world officially welcomes the first representative from Mexico, the VUHL 05. This car is designed as a lightweight supercar can run in both the street and the race track, with characteristics Not inferior to competitors like BAC Mono, Ariel Atom or KTM X-Bow.
The VUHL 05 is based on a solid chassis system with three layers of aluminum and aluminum honeycomb, which allows the weight of the chassis to stand at 78 kg. In addition, the body does not use materials such as aluminum or steel plates that are made of reinforced plastic RTM. If users need a more solid material, they can choose carbon fiber panels as options. Focusing on weight reduction is a top priority for VUHL 05, so it's no surprise that the overall weight of the 05 is only 695 kg.
VUHL 05 uses the EcoBoost I4 2-liter supercharged engine on the Focus ST to equip the 05. The engine has a maximum power of 285 horsepower and a maximum torque of 420 Nm. Power will be transmitted to the rear wheel via a 6-speed manual transmission. Mexico, Mexico, said its sports car can accelerate from 0-100 km / h in 3.7 seconds before reaching a top speed of 245 km / h. Vuhl also said that the speed of VUHL 05 is enough to get you a hairstyle if you do not wear a helmet.
Other features related to the VUHL 05's performance include an unbalanced twin-hinged suspension, 310 mm disc brakes with 4-piston calipers on the front wheels, 280 mm on the rear wheels, a suspension High gear ratio and steering system. In addition, VUHL equips 05 pairs of 17 "wheels with 205/45 tires and 18" tires with 235/45 tires.
How to buy a VUHL 05 car ?
Currently, VUHL has started accepting orders from now and said it will deliver next spring. Vuhl 05's UK retail price is £ 55,000, or about $ 84,000. The first two markets that VUHL sold five were in the UK and North America, adding that it would probably distribute in other markets in the near future.


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Q: Bintray Debian Repository Creation and Upload file using API I'm following the steps and answers in
Debian repository on Bintray multiple errors and unexpected behavior
However, my Bintray Debian file upload attempt still failed with:
{"message":"Unable to upload files: Debian distribution, component and architecture were not found on repo and were not specified"}

Here is my curl command:
curl -T libterm-screencolor-perl_1.09-1_all.deb -umyid:mybintraykey https://api.bintray.com/content/myid/myrepo/libterm-screencolor-perl/1.09-1/pool/main/l/libterm-screencolor-perl_1.09-1_all.deb;deb_distribution=all;deb_component=main;deb_architecture=i386,amd64;override=1

Basically I'm getting the exact same error as
Debian repository on Bintray multiple errors and unexpected behavior
for the exact same reason.
So I decided to start from scratch, from creating the Bintray Debian Repository first, via API.
Here is my code:
curl -umyid:mybintraykey https://api.bintray.com/repos/myid/deb -d '{"name":"deb","type":"debian","default_debian_architecture":"amd64","default_debian_distribution":"all","default_debian_component":"main","private":false,"desc":"This repo...","business_unit":"businessUnit1","labels":["label1","label2"],"gpg_sign_metadata":false,"gpg_sign_files":false,"gpg_use_owner_key":false}'

I got no error, but no response either. When I check from the Bintray web UI, the repository was not created. Trying to add, "version_update_max_days" : 60 to the JSON does not help either.
What's wrong?

A: Upload file:
Your curl command needs quotation marks, see this answer.
Create repository:
Your curl command is missing the Media type, which in this case should be  -H "Content-Type: application/json". It is always good to run your curl command in verbose mode -v
Here is how your curl command should look like:
curl -umyid:mybintraykey https://api.bintray.com/repos/myid/deb -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"deb","type":"debian","default_debian_architecture":"amd64","default_debian_distribution":"all","default_debian_component":"main","private":false,"desc":"This repo...","business_unit":"businessUnit1","labels":["label1","label2"],"gpg_sign_metadata":false,"gpg_sign_files":false,"gpg_use_owner_key":false}' -v

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Tom Wyner Biography ((?)-)
Addresses: Agent: Walls Agency, 1126 Hollywood Way, Suite 203A, Burbank, CA 91505.
Actor, voice artist, producer, director, writer
Voice of Pegus (Teknobot), Uchu no kishi tekkaman bureido (anime;also known as Starknight Tekkaman Blade and Teknoman), UPN, 1994
Voice of Master Vile, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (also known asDay of the Dumpster, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers, Power Rangers, and Power Rangers Ninja), Fox, 1996
Voice of Furio, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Fox, 1999
Voice of Dino-Brachi, DinoZaurs (also known as Prehistoric Warriors), Fox, 2000
(As Abe Lasser) Voices of Arundo Akamatsu and others, Rurouni Kenshin, 2000
Voice of Cairis, Mashuranbo (anime; also known as Shinzo),c. 2000
Voices of Devimon, Marine Devimon, and narrator, Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2000-2001
Voices of Kimeramon, Catsuramon, and principal, Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2001-2002
Voice of Grimlock, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime), Fox,2001
Also (as Lasser) voices of Professor Aldon and prince, Journey to theHeart of the World; (as Lasser) voice of Lord Hazanka, Outlaw Star; and voices of Wolff and Jonathan, Robotech, syndicated.
Voice of Bones, "High Five," Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (also known as Day of the Dumpster, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers, Power Rangers, and Power Rangers Ninja), Fox, 1993
Voice of Knasty Knight, "Happy Birthday, Zack," Mighty Morphin' PowerRangers (also known as Day of the Dumpster, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers, Power Rangers, andPower Rangers Ninja), Fox, 1993
Voice of Pineoctopus, "No Clowning Around," Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (also known as Day of the Dumpster, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers, Power Rangers, and Power Rangers Ninja), Fox, 1993
Voice of Sid, "The Puppet Show," Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The WB,1997
Voice of Electrovolt, "A Drive to Win," Power Rangers Turbo, Fox,1997
Voice of public address announcer, "Quasar Quest: Part 1," Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Fox, 1999
Voice of Cannonbrawl, "Green Courage," Power Rangers Lost Galaxy,Fox, 1999
Voice of Fatcatfish, "Jen's Revenge," Power Rangers Time Force, Fox, 2001
Voice of Plug Org, "Lionheart," Power Rangers Wild Force, Fox, 2002
Voice of Samurai Org, "A Father's Footsteps," Power Rangers Wild Force, Fox, 2002
Voice of Lion Tamer Org, "Taming of the Zords," Power Rangers Wild Force, Fox, 2002
Also voice of Impmon for Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox; and voice of Sepikmon for Digimon Frontier.
Voice, The Wild West, syndicated, 1993
Producer, director, and story editor, Uchu no kishi tekkaman bureido (anime; also known as Starknight Tekkaman Blade and Teknoman), UPN, 1994
Automated dialog replacement director, Space Strikers, UPN, 1995
Story editor, DinoZaurs (also known as Prehistoric Warriors), Fox, 2000
Automated dialog replacement director and voice, Profile for Murder, HBO, 1997
Voice of "the gent" in "Presence" and voice of Diamaru in "A Tale of TwoRobots," Roboto Kanibauru (anime), 1987, released in the United Statesas Robot Carnival, Streamline Pictures, 1991
(As Abe Lasser) Sol Bianca: The Legacy, 1999
Ravan, The Prince of Light (also known as The Prince of Light:The Legend of Ramayana and Warrior Prince), Showcase Entertainment, 2001
Also appeared in Lensman.
Automated dialog replacement director, Hunt for the Sword Samurai,2000
Voices of the governor and the shopkeeper, Vampire Hunter D, Streamline Pictures, 1985
English-language director and voice of thug, Fist of the North Star, Streamline Pictures, 1986
(As Abe Lasser) Voice of the puppet master, Ghost in the Shell, 1998
Voice of Furio, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Return of the Magna Defender, 1999
(As Lasser) Voices of Chongara, Andel, and Hunter A, Arc the Lad,1999
(As Lasser) Voice, Street Fighter Zero (also known as Street Fighter Alpha), 1999
(As Lasser) Voice, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play--Suzaku DVD Box Set, 1999
Also voices of United Nations officer and Grandpa, Argento Soma, Bang Zoom!; voice of Colonel Strings, Armitage: Dual-Matrix, Animaze; voices of Chatsuramon, Devidramon, and principal, Digimon Tamers; alsoadditional voices for Lupin 3rd, Fuse Entertainment.
Voice, Zephyr, New World Computing, 1994
Voice, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, Interplay, 1995
Voice, Apocalypse, Activision, 1998
Voice, Heavy Gear II, Activision, 1998
Voice of announcer, Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, LucasArts Entertainment, 1998
Voice of first NOD general (Firestorm), Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (also known as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm), Electronic Arts, 1999
Voice, Vampire: The Masquerade (also known as Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption), Activision, 2000
Voice of Sam Gladstone, Soldier of Fortune, Activision, 2000
(As Abe Lasser) Voice, WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos, 2002
Uchu no kishi tekkaman bureido (anime; also known as StarknightTekkaman Blade and Teknoman), UPN, 1994
DinoZaurs (also known as Prehistoric Warriors), Fox, 2000
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime), Fox, 2001-2002
Also writer for Great Teacher Onizuka, Real Bout High School, Transformers: Car Robots, Vandread Second Stage, and X TV.
Television Episodes
"Underground, Underwater, Undercooked," Samurai Pizza Cats (anime;also known as Kyatto ninden teyandee), 1990
"Singing Samurai Sensai-tion," Samurai Pizza Cats (anime; also known as Kyatto ninden teyandee), 1990
Automated dialog replacement script, Hunt for the Sword Samurai, 2000
English-language dialog, Fist of the North Star (anime), Streamline Pictures, 1986


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Tuan Sing acquires Serene House for $99.1m
Property group Tuan Sing Holdings Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Shelford Properties Ltd, has acquired the Serene House site for around S$99.1 million.The acquisition of Serene House is subject to approval of the Strata Titles Board upon the company receiving an in-principle approval for the acquisition of the adjoining 9,192-sq-ft site from Singapore Land Authority.The freehold property has a total site area of 39,828 sq ft with a maximum gross plot ratio of 1.4. The property's $99.1 million price tag works out to around $1,388 psf ppr, including a 10 percent balcony area.Serene House is located along Cluny Park Road, opposite the proposed Singapore Botanic Gardens and Botanic Gardens MRT station. It is also in the vicinity of several reputable schools such as Nanyang Primary School, Raffles Girls' Primary School, Anglo-Chinese School, Hwa Chong Institution and Singapore Chinese Girls' Primary School.Tuan Sing said it plans to develop an ultra-luxurious project for the site. It added that acquisition and development of the new project will be funded through internal funds and bank borrowings.
More from PropertyGuru:
Wilmar finalises property JV, set to develop 6 China sites
SGX records growth in turnover value
CMA to invest $2bn in new projects
Former CEO of CapitaMall Trust plans IPO in Singapore
Tiong Seng unit to build prefab hub in Tuas


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use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Request
{
    public static $methods = array(
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    	'POST'    => 'POST',
    	'PUT'     => 'PUT',
    	'DELETE'  => 'DELETE',
        'HEAD'    => 'HEAD',
        'PATCH'   => 'PATCH'
    );

    protected $uri;
    protected $method;
    protected $headers;
    protected $content;
    protected $raw;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
    }

    public function __toString()
    {
        return $this->getRaw();
    }

    public function getRequestLine()
    {
        return sprintf("%s %s HTTP/1.1\r\n", $this->method, $this->uri);
    }

    /**
     * Gets the request URI.
     *
     * @return string The request URI
     */
    public function getUri()
    {
        return $this->uri;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the request HTTP method.
     *
     * @return string The request HTTP method
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    public function getMethod()
    {
        return $this->method;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the request headers.
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    public function getHeaders()
    {
        return $this->headers;
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    /**
     * Gets the request raw body data.
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    public function getContent()
    {
        return $this->content;
    }

    public function getRaw()
    {
        return $this->raw;
    }

    public function setUri($uri)
    {
        $this->uri = $uri;
    }

    public function setMethod($method)
    {
        $this->method = $method;
    }

    public function setHeaders(array $headers)
    {
        $this->headers = $headers;
    }

    public function setContent($content)
    {
        $this->content = $content;
    }

    public function setRaw($raw)
    {
        $this->raw = $raw;
    }

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('uri', new Assert\NotBlank);
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('uri', new Assert\Url);
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('method', new Assert\NotBlank);
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('method', new Assert\Choice(array('choices' => self::$methods)));
    }
}

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1..3 Boxed Set THE books! Skip college, just read this set. Not about hot topics or trendy issues, just the scientific, mathimatical, and algorithmic basis of all programming. If you don't know this stuff, you're playing. Ask the pros if they own this book.
Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell Not language specific. Covers OOP and what and when to objectify.
The easy way to do this is to use LEX and YACC, after first specifying your 'basic' grammar. YACC will spit out C code to parse your 'basic' language. You can use this code as your cross compiler which will run on windoze, Linux, etc. You also need to write the routines to perform the actions that the tokens in you grammar will cause to be called. People can kick out compilers like this in an afternoon. You get a serious compiler this way that can handle any level of parenthetical expressions.
There are good tutorials on the web. (http://epaperpress.com/lexandyacc/) The point is -- a couple of days with a book on YACC and LEX to understand it will pay off any time you have to parse something -- for the rest of your programming life.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/learn-coding-online/28537/ Great list of online free programming tutorials.
"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." -- Anon.
what about PLI language from IBM 1965 ?


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Gerlock
Meerholz, Gelnhausen, Germany
Johann Ernst Gerlach and his wife Anna Margaretha Heeg married on 10 Feb 1752 in Meerholz. The baptisms of six children are recorded in the Meerholz records: Johann George, born 21 Mar 1753, Georg Philipp, born 5 May 1755, an unnamed daughter born 4 Feb 1758, Anna Catharina, born 20 Apr 1759, Anna Elisabeth, born 10 Apr 1762 (died 16 Oct 1764), and Ernst Heinrich, born 4 Jun 1765.
The couple arrived in Russia on 9 Aug 1766 with three children. They settled in Norka and are reported there on the First Settler's List in Family #124.
- Meerholz parish records on Archion.de
- Facius List extractions
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 252.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2005): p. 262.
Meerholz (Myers Gazetteer Online)
Founders of the Village of Norka
Gerlach family as reported in the Meerholz parish records


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I shouldn't title this trip with "Pondicherry" because we were hardly there. We spent most of our waking hours exploring Auroville but after three days, I am still unsure if I get it. In a nutshell, as I understand it, Auroville is a project that was dreamed and started by "The Mother" of a place "... where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme Truth ...". It has been nearly 40 years since the birth of Auroville and today, it is close to 2100 acres and mostly populated with forest, fruit trees and about 2000 people.
If I can describe Auroville in one word, it'd be serene. At first glance, Auroville looks like expatriates have invaded India. More than 40% of the population is of European descent.
We rented bicycles at first but all the bicycles were old and wobbly and the lights doesn't work so we got some TVS/moped instead, which I think is the best way to get around Auroville. Here's Pritika and Livio.
Afsana Guest House - is where we stayed.
An Aurovillian home - mosaic rooftop and random statues in the garden. We were told this house was built by an American lady but currently home to a Spaniard couple.
Dynamised water - good enough to drink without the need to filter or boil and believed to cure various ailments. You could get this for free at the Visitor's Center.
Matrimandir - is situated right in the center of Auroville. We didn't get to visit because you have to get an entry pass, which is not something possible on weekends. This building took 37 years to construct, is used for meditation and does not belong to any religion.
Another Aurovillan homes. Smurf's house?
Next to Ami Guest House is an area where you will notice strange things like motorcycles balancing on the top of trees making the whole place looking a creepy adult playground. Livio and Anand are playing on a merry-go-round.
Roadside Idly and masala chai stop on our way to Pondicherry.
I know this is a wee bit late, but I finally managed to find the info on the Auroville website.


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Is It Time to Let Grandfathered Health Plans Finally Retire?
Regulators seek employers' input
By Stephen Miller, CEBS March 5, 2019
Federal regulators want to help employers keep the grandfathered status of their employer-sponsored health plans that predate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but not everyone agrees that keeping grandfathered plans at work is a good idea.
On Feb. 25, the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury published a request for information in the Federal Register that asks employers about maintaining grandfathered status for health plans. Grandfathered plans are those that are fully insured or self-funded, regardless of size, with major provisions that have gone unchanged since March 23, 2010, the date of the ACA's enactment.
The regulators asked employers to comment on whether any of the requirements for maintaining grandfathered status create challenges, and how these requirements could be modified to reduce those challenges. They are accepting comments through March 27.
Staying Grandfathered
Grandfathered plans can offer coverage that does not comply with all ACA requirements. They need not cover preventive care at no cost to employees, for instance, or impose out-of-pocket spending limits for in-network care. To stay grandfathered, these plans cannot significantly raise co-payment charges or deductibles, or make other kinds of cost and coverage changes.
According to research by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, last year 20 percent of employers offered at least one grandfathered health plan, down from 23 percent in 2017, and 16 percent of covered workers were enrolled in a grandfathered plan.
"Quick action on the part of the [federal] departments might stabilize the number of employer plans that retain grandfathered status," wrote Jay Kirschbaum, vice president of compliance services at Lockton Benefit Group in Kansas City, Mo.
Keeping plans grandfathered isn't easy, he noted, and among employers that desired to keep grandfathered status, "many may have inadvertently lost that status over the years."
Given that grandfathered plans have some flexibility other plans don't have, "those employers that sought to retain grandfathered status as long as possible would likely welcome additional flexibility," such as through new rulemaking, to maintain that status, Kirschbaum noted.
"While grandfathered plans provide employers with some flexibility to exclude certain services from coverage, such as any of the essential health benefits, there are some distinct disadvantages," said Kim Buckey, vice president of client services at Burlington, Mass.-based DirectPath, a benefits education, enrollment and health care transparency firm. For instance, employers are severely limited in how much they can increase premiums (not more than 5 percent annually) and co-insurance or co-pays (no more than the rate of medical inflation), she explained, "which are all tools employers typically use to keep the coverage they offer affordable."
She added, "There may be a negative impact on attracting and retaining talent if the plan has not adopted some of the key provisions of the ACA, such as 100 percent coverage of preventive care. However, some employees may find the trade-off of a lower relative plan premium worth it."
Some employers may be burdened by the requirement to provide employees with an annual notice of grandfathered status, Buckey noted, "although this could be combined with enrollment materials or other annual legal notices."
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Some benefit advisors are strongly opposed to keeping plans grandfathered.
"It's astonishing that we're approaching nine years of the ACA, and we're looking to prolong grandfathered status of group health plans even further," said Shandon Fowler, founder and principal of benefits consultancy Four8 Insights in Charleston, S.C. "Millions of Americans have benefited from the expansion of preventive care without cost-sharing and the ACA's essential health benefits provisions. And it's also been shown that group coverage in aggregate has slowed its year-over-year cost increases at the same time that enrollments in grandfathered group coverage has gone from over 50 percent to about 16 percent."
When employers have to administer both "ACA-approved" and grandfathered plans, he added, they "have to keep two administration approaches active, which ultimately leads to added costs. Those who are keeping them alive aren't doing so under any supportable cost-cutting measures at this point."
He added that "other, better options are available" for keeping health plan costs under control while remaining compliant with the ACA.
What About 'Grandmothered' Plans?
Distinct from grandfathered plans are so-called grandmothered small group and individual market health plans that are not ACA-compliant and which employers adopted during a transition period from March 23, 2010 through the end of 2013.
"Grandmothered plans comply with the ACA's early market reforms, such as the coverage of preventive services without cost-sharing and dependent coverage to age 26. However, these plans do not comply with most of the ACA's major reforms that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014," Health Affairs reported.
While there is no termination date for grandfathered status as long as plans do not make significant changes, grandmothered plans don't fall under the same open-ended exemption.
Grandmothered plans "were meant to have a short shelf-life and were required to terminate at their first renewal after the implementation of the [ACA] in 2014," wrote Steve Byrd, a consultant at Durham, N.C.-based benefits advisory firm Hill Chesson & Woody, a Gallagher Company. "In 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services extended the transitional relief for these plans through 2016. Ever since, additional extensions were given in 2016 through 2017, in 2017 through 2018, and in Oct. 2018 through 2019."
On March 25, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued an insurance standards bulletin to once again allow insurers, so long as states approve, to extend the life of grandmothered policies. "Insurers must send a notice to their enrollees informing them of the ACA protections that are not available under grandmothered policies and of the opportunity to get ACA-compliant coverage through the marketplaces," Health Affairs reported.
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Q: Assigning php variable values to html element Im trying to assign the value of a php variable to a hidden element. But cant get it to work
Here's what Ive tried so far
Attempt 1:
echo '<input type="hidden" maxlength="100" name="value" id="val" value= "${myOb->content}"/>';

Attempt 2:
echo '<input type="hidden" maxlength="100" name="value" id="val" value= "<?php echo $myOb->content"/>';

On both counts . I just get the hard coded value ie. ${myOb->content} or <?php echo $myOb->content in the html element rather than the server side variable. Any thoughts on what Im doing wrong?

A: try
    <?php echo '<input type="hidden" maxlength=100 name="value" id="val" value="'.$myobj->foo.'">';

This works for me. Good luck

A: When you use single quotes with echo, you're asking for the literal string value. You can try:
echo '<input type="hidden" maxlength="100" name="value" id="val" value= "' . ${myOb->content} . '"/>';

A: If anyone need this in the future "'.strval($recordId).'" this worked for me.


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Brazil should harvest 677 million tons of sugarcane in 2019, according to the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production in March, reported the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The amount represents a growth of 1.8% over the previous month. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the return of rainfall in some regions has provided the recovery of sugarcane plantations, especially those that will be harvested in the final third of the harvest, which resulted in an expected improvement of 2.3% in the average yield of crops. São Paulo increased its production estimate by 2.0%, reflecting the productivity growth that has been favored by the climate and by the adoption of new techniques, such as crop relay, with corn, which ends up protecting the soil during the renewal period of the cane field. In the Midwest, Mato Grosso expects production to be 3.6% higher, while Goiás increased by 5.0%, respectively. In relation to 2018, the estimate of the national production of sugarcane presents growth of 0.4% in 2019.


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Talking Stats: The Red Bull Air Race In Numbers
Across 14 seasons of red-hot rivalries, these 10 stats stand out
After 94 races since 2003 there have been some unique stats and some facinating facts. Here are 10 of the best...
1. The youngest and quickest pilots ever to win the Red Bull Air Race World Championship: Martin Šonka of the Czech Republic was the youngest pilot, aged only 40 when he hoisted the trophy in 2018. Hannes Arch was the fastest to claim the honor, taking the title in only his second season, 2008.
2. Best season finish by a newcomer to the World Championship: Matt Hall of Australia, who finished third on the World Championship podium in his rookie season, 2009. In the process Hall also set the mark for the fastest ascent from first start to first race podium, taking third place in Porto, Portugal, in only his fifth race.
3. The closest season finish: 2007, when the USA's Mike Mangold and Britain's Paul Bonhomme were tied in the points at 47 all, so the decision had to be based on their placements across the season. Each had three wins, three results in second place, three in third, and one in fifth, so the countback to break the tie went all the way to Qualifying, where Mangold's results gave him the crown.
4. Best season finish in the World Championship by a former member of the feeder Challenger Class: Ben Murphy of Great Britain, who took the challenge right to the stars of the field in his rookie 2018 season. Murphy set new benchmarks for Challenger Cup graduates with 29 World Championship points and seventh place overall.
5. The pilot to win the World Championship by the biggest margin: Matthias Dolderer of Germany, who in 2016 clinched the title at the penultimate race with a whopping 24.5-point advantage. He was the only pilot ever to secure the crown before the season finale.
6. Pilots with the all-time most race starts and most race podiums: Kirby Chambliss of the USA has the most race starts, with 92. Kirby was the only pilot to participate in the series from its first year, 2003, through its last, 2019. But even his 33 race podiums cannot match the record of Paul Bonhomme of Great Britain, who stood on the top step at 46 races.
7. The numbers that made it truly a World Championship: Across 12 seasons of competition in the official World Championship, the Red Bull Air Race Master Class included 27 pilots from 17 countries and six continents.
8. Number of raceplanes used since the beginning of the Red Bull Air Race in 2003, including both the Master Class and the Challenger Class: 70, including the Extra 300SC, Extra 330LX, Edge 540 V2, Edge 540 V3, MXS-R, MX2, Corvus Racer, Sukhoi 26, and Cap 232.
9. Number of race venues over land vs. water since the start of the sport in 2003: As the raceplanes took off in 35 different locations in 21 countries, 19 cities hosted races over water and 16 cities featured tracks over land.
10. Key figures about the Red Bull Air Race World Championship trophy: The coveted honour – which weighs 16 kg! – is engraved with the names of the nine pilots who won the title in the World Championship's 12 seasons. They are Mike Mangold (USA; 2005, 2007), Kirby Chambliss (USA; 2006), Hannes Arch (AUT; 2008), Paul Bonhomme (GBR; 2009, 2010, 2015), Nigel Lamb (GBR; 2014), Matthias Dolderer (GER; 2016), Yoshihide Muroya (JPN; 2017), Martin Šonka (CZE; 2018), Matt Hall (AUS; 2019).
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What is it about being a coach that sets my souls on fire? In hindsight, I have been coaching for over 15 years throughout my career but yet never officially stated 'I am a coach'. I have had direct reports that I coached and mentored throughout my career and if I look further than my career - I have three younger siblings that I coach, I coach my young child and so far through one of the toughest period of our lives. I also coach my step-child and before this, I coached younger peers in high school, when I was a senior taking care of new starters in their first year of high school. I also found people would often tell me things in confidence and I would keep that confidence - in school, work or life in general.
I decided I wanted to be a qualified Life Coach about 4-5 years ago. I only told one person as I felt it was something that would be laughed at. That person said to me that she could see me as a coach, it gave me encouragement to pursue it. She was a direct report I had coached and is now a good friend. Due to things that happened during the course of my life, I never got to enrol in a course until this year. I believe timing needs to be right and I feel that this was the right time. Everything seemed to fall into place and continue to do so. It has been and is an invigorating journey.
Personally, I have been on a self-discovery journey for the last 6 years or more. I have been reading voraciously about the human brain, neuroscience, psychology, learning and mindfulness. I find the human brain fascinating and continue to read books on these topics. These topics were also part of the Life Coaching course so it re-affirms everything I believe and currently do in my own life - there is a congruence with what I was learning and how I live my life. It has been a series of small steps that have led me to the bigger journey that I am on now.
When I speak about the course and content, I become so invigorated and energised. I become energised while coaching my clients, it lights a fire inside me and makes me feel alive. When I spoke to my friend about how I felt about the course, she said to me that she thought I would always go into coaching. Maybe she knew something I didn't? My confidence grew as I completed the course and when coaching others, it feels right - like this is what I am meant to do.
Upon completion of the Life Coaching course, I became accredited by the International coaching Federation (ICF). The classes were twice a week and even though the late nights were a killer - I really looked forward to them every week and thoroughly enjoyed them! The connections I made with the other participants in the class feel more valuable than the actual content. Even so, the content and discussion generated was stuff that set my soul on fire, so being connected with like-minded souls was a real treat! It was bittersweet when the course completed - it was great to have my time back each week and get some sleep but the energy and support from the group was definitely going to be missed.
Since completing the course, we have set up a What'sApp group where we celebrate each other's wins, be each other's cheerleaders, support and encourage each other. The energy the group exudes is amazing to say the least. The practical application during the course only grew our confidence as coaches and the sharing that occurred made our connections much stronger. Some topics generating discussion were around honesty, empathy, authenticity and a strong desire to help others.
My passion is learning and seeing the people I coach go onto bigger and better things - knowing I was a part of their journey is an amazing feeling! Even if I plant the seed and it is watered by others, it's such a great feeling to impact people's lives in a positive way. My why is to enable others to Laugh.Love.Live! This is what sets my soul on fire, I feel I am doing what I am meant to be doing and am ever grateful to be able to have found my passion. In saying that, have you thought about what sets your soul on fire?


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Q: How to show a 'grep' result with the complete path or file name How can I get the complete file path when I use grep?
I use commands like
cat *.log | grep somethingtosearch

I need to show the result with the complete file path from where the matched result were taken out.
How can I do it?

A: Command:
grep -rl --include="*.js" "searchString" ${PWD}

Returned output:
/root/test/bas.js

A: If you want to see the full paths, I would recommend to cd to the top directory (of your drive if using Windows)
cd C:\
grep -r somethingtosearch C:\Users\Ozzesh\temp

Or on Linux:
cd /
grep -r somethingtosearch ~/temp

If you really resist on your file name filtering (*.log) and you want recursive (files are not all in the same directory), combining find and grep is the most flexible way:
cd /
find ~/temp -iname '*.log' -type f -exec grep somethingtosearch '{}' \;

A: It is similar to BVB Media's answer.
grep -rnw 'blablabla' `pwd`

It works fine on my Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) Bash.

A: Assuming you have two log-files in:

*

*C:/temp/my.log

*C:/temp/alsoMy.log

'cd' to C: and use:
grep -r somethingtosearch temp/*.log

It will give you a list like:
temp/my.log:somethingtosearch
temp/alsoMy.log:somethingtosearch1
temp/alsoMy.log:somethingtosearch2

A: I think the real solution is:
cat *.log | grep -H somethingtosearch

A: For me
grep -b "searchsomething" *.log

worked as I wanted

A: This works when searching files in all directories.
sudo ls -R | grep -i something_bla_bla

The output shows all files and directories which include "something_bla_bla". The directories with path, but not the files.
Then use locate on the wanted file.

A: The easiest way to print full paths is to replace the relative start path with the absolute path:
grep -r --include="*.sh" "pattern" ${PWD}

A: Use:
grep somethingtosearch *.log

and the filenames will be printed out along with the matches.


On Dec. 21, 1918, when Princeton hockey star and Baker Rink namesake, Hobey Baker, Class of 1914, was killed in action, he was part of a longtime warrior tradition at Princeton. The warrior ethos was integral to Princeton culture in the 19thand early 20thcenturies. According to Princeton historian and lecturer W. Barksdale Maynard '88, Princeton students petitioned the federal government for the draft in 1917.
"More Princetonians died in World War I than students from any other [American] college or university, per capita," Maynard said.
As a result, the lobby of Nassau Hall was renovated into Memorial Atrium, which was built in 1920 with Alabama marble to resemble an 18thcentury architectural style.
Frederick MacMonnies sculpted the Princeton Battle Monument in the French Beaux-Arts style. According to Maynard, MacMonnies carved the monument while in Paris and "with the guns of World War I rattling the windows of his studio." The sculpture emulates the style of the Arc de Triomphe and glorifies Washington as a founding father.
"It is interesting to me that that today we remember Washington crossing the Delaware [River], … which was useless without being followed up by a great snatching victory that was the Battle of Princeton," Maynard said.
Part of the 19thand 20thcenturies' fascination with the Battle of Princeton stemmed from Washington's audacious strategy. After Washington's army defeated the Hessians at Trenton, he made the bold move of marching all night on a back road to attack the British garrison at Princeton, ending in the Continental Army's victory.
There are also several structures located on the battlefield's premises: the Thomas Clarke House —a Quaker house built in 1772 —and an Ionic colonnade that can be seen from the road. While the Ionic colonnade resembles the ruins of an ancient Greek temple, it was originally built as part of an 1836 Philadelphia house, later moved to serve as the entry of a house near the battlefield, and finally as a battle memorial in 1957 by the American Institute of Architects, according to the Princeton Primer. The columns' resemblance to iconic American neoclassical architecture is understandable, as they were designed by Thomas Walter, the designer of the U.S. Capitol's dome.
Today, the battlefield is the subject of a land development controversy. While much of the battlefield is protected as a state park, the Institute for Advanced Study plans to construct low-income faculty housing on part of the historic area of the site.
According to NJ.com, the Princeton Planning Board unanimously passed the IAS's development plan on Nov. 7, 2014, but the Princeton Battlefield Society has plans to appeal the decision. Regardless of the eventual outcome, one only needs to walk into Nassau Hall or visit the Battle Monument to be reminded of Princeton's prominent place in military history and historic preservation through architecture.


He was an exponent in folk and traditional music of Assam. The King of Bihu, Khagen Mahanta was a notable person in Assamese folk music. His Bihu songs, Borgeet and other folk songs are ever green to the Assamese society. He was survived by his singer wife Archana Mahanta, son Angarag 'Papon' Mahanta, a popular singer and a daughter. Recently the legend passed away on June 12, 2014 at around 3:30PM at his resident in Ambikagiri Area. Here are some rare photographs exclusively for you.


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Traumatic Brain Injuries Erasing the Mind
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Are we our minds? Or are we our bodies? I believe we are our minds and never our bodies. The body is disposable. The mind, with the right protections and preservations, can live forever. The brain is a container for the mind and the mind is a neural network of memories.
Those memories, both the learned and the innate, form a perception of us and others. When the container is unexpectedly corrupted — when the brain is damaged by injury or disease or psychic trauma — strange things begin to happen.
I have several friends who have had major trauma done to their brains through purposeful surgery and unexpected accidents. I have learned memory is a terrifying and tender thing. I also learned memories cannot be shared with those who have no neural tie into the memory. My limited understanding of traumatic brain injuries is the physiology of the brain, by design, forces itself not to remember any terrible injury because that trauma can be psychically repeated on a subconscious level and in wondering and in daydreaming.
The body reacts to impulses of the mind so it doesn't matter if the injury is actually happening or not. If the mind remembers the injury the body reacts and that can lead to ongoing peril. You may have heard people describe a moment when they were in danger — a car accident, a stabbing, getting shot — and their world went into slow-motion. I believe that slow-motion corruption of real time is actively done by the brain in order to give the recipient of the trauma time to think and rationalize their way out of the situation while the event unfolds in slow motion all around them.
When the trauma is to the brain, that slow-motion gets clicked into erasure mode to entirely wipe away the moment threatening a life. You could think of it as the brain getting shaken — and erased — much in the same way an Etch-A-Sketch loses its drawing by shaking. The brain, the Etch-A-Sketch, is still there but is memories, its sketches, have been shaken away. The memories and the sketches are still there — they've just been re-organized in an unfamiliar way that may never be put precisely back into the same order.
Sometimes trauma to the brain is so catastrophic that the brain skips and its erasure of the event goes a bit too far backwards and the moments of protection are extended into real memories that are then erased and lost forever. Friends and family become strangers and existence awareness begins anew after recovery from the accident. That kind of memory loss can be devastating for friends and family but the actual event of re-learning a life that was in the process of being lived is an amazing cultural and intellectual query that bends beyond the scientific and breaks into material questions of who are we, what are we and what makes us human.
There are some religions around the world that point to that scientific memory erasure as proof of a cultural idea of reincarnation. The brain trauma wipes away evidence of the lived life in the moment before death so the new life can be reborn in another form without memories of the previous life. There are some — lucky or unlucky? — who are "born" into the same form — the same body and skin — beyond all medical expectation and they have to start all over with residual body memory but no mind memory.
That conflict between body and mind causes a crisis of identification and creates distress and disconnection from the present and a sense of being forever lost in an unrecognized body. The human mind is programmed to grow and learn in tandem with the body and when one of those elements pre-exists without the other, a new, ethereal life form, is created as sense and memory try to catch up with the hard-earned wisdom of the body.
I became interested in this topic when I read a paper by one of my graduate level medical students who wrote a scientific research paper concerning traumatic brain injuries. I began to wonder about the social and cultural disassociations that are created in the wake of a traumatic memory erasure. What must those who unexpectedly live beyond all medical reason think with their new minds when the only points of reference they have are provided by those who only knew their old minds?
What must it be like to live and breathe again while being forced to create a new cache of memories from the moment of re-awakening? What must it be like to wake up imprisoned in a body you do not recognize? It must be the most horrible kind of terror imaginable.
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clemmis says:
when you get a broken blood vessel in the brain you can stroke out and get the same loss of memory and one of my best friends had that happen
David W. Boles says:
Clem!
It's nice to hear from you on this matter.
What happened to your friend? Any recovered memories?
he was newborn with no speech or motor skills or friends and lower than zero
Rough news, clem. Did you visit him? Did he begin to know you?
didn't know me or kids or wife even though we told who we were he didn't believe but took us on word and we became friends again by me teaching poker
That is a rough and scary situation, clem. It was kind of you not to press or require your friendship again but to ease him into it with cards. I am reminded of a woman I grew up with who had a similar brain trauma because of a car accident. Her entire personality changed.
how did she handle loss did she fight being told what she was or did she try to accept
Kathakali Chatterjee says:
I have seen a very close relative of mine (one of my aunt) to lose her memory because of a fatal car accident that caused a severe brain injury.
She lost her speech; couldn't recognize her own son or husband – but interestingly enough the person she relied on was her mother (my grand ma), though she couldn't recognize her too. She became like a baby. We lost all our hopes to get her back as a normal person; it's because of her doctor and my grand ma's enormous tenacity she reached somewhat close to her normal old self after 3 years.
The first word she used was "my son?"
She couldn't say a complete full sentence almost for 3/ 4 months. Observing her gradual transition was a painful experience. She started walking like a toddler almost after a year.
Now, she is doing fine but she cannot remember anything of that accident or the aftermath. The whole time frame is blank to her.
I know one of my friends suffered from severe clinical depression for 3 years who happened to lose some of her memory. According to her, "it's like I am reading a book and a few pages are missing…but I learnt to live with that."
Clem —
She was aphasic for awhile — she did not speak — I think that is another brain protectant to push away the unfamiliar while the mind works to create a whole new context for relating with the world outside the body.
She did not accept her family. She forged new relationships with her aunt and uncle who then chose to raise her. She spoke a difference language and learned many others – it was a "reborn talent" she never acquired before in her "first life." She moved away and started in a new school with all new friends.
KATHA!
The story of your aunt reflects the story of the son of a dear friend of mine. He, too, was in a terrible car accident and remembers nothing of his life before his memory was wiped away. He had to re-learn relationships. He did not recognize his mother. He had to finally learn to just accept the people were who they said they were.
It sounds like your aunt started her life all over again from learning to talk and walk. What an excruciatingly painful experience that must have been for her. She has a new mind in a half-used body. She has secrets to living, though, Katha, and I hope you will be able to find a way to tap into her reality and discover the secrets of the mind and body.
Depression can also erase the mind in sad ways. I have a friend who is now heavily medicated to fight her bi-polarism and there are stretches of years she was alive but has no memory of what happened. It's as if the body was in such a fight with the mind that only daily needs were met and the preciousness of memories — both good and painful — were shucked in order just to survive into the next day.
It's amazing to think of the reaction when my aunt first heard (her vision was also lost, temporarily though) my grandma's voice after coming to her sense, she started crying like a baby. Before that nothing happened when she heard her son, husband or other close relatives' voice.
It was after 2/3 major surgeries she started getting back her five senses gradually. I remember my grand ma showing her old pictures of her childhood, school and wedding – I still don't know how it worked but after seeing her wedding picture she asked about her husband and her son.
How the brain works and connects with the chain of memory is still a mystery to me. My aunt was very hesitant and scared about the incident but after getting somewhat back to her old self her doctor wanted her to visit the same place (it happened in a city of Southern India) so she could overcome her fear and she agreed. But when she reached there it was a complete new place to her. She couldn't remember a thing of it.
My friend (who suffered from major depression,) happened to forget some part of her childhood and college life, which was one of her best period in her life and when she functioned like a complete normal person. In our course of conversation at times I could sense that she was not being able to relate a particular conversation and later she confessed that she forgot some parts of her life. Scary and painful, both. But my friend is strong enough to cope up with it.
Thank you for sharing the amazing story, Katha. Your aunt is a remarkable woman. I admire her newborn tenacity to live a whole new life all over again.
I feel for your friend. It must hurt her on some level not to relate to the same shared memories.
Wow, some deep thoughts there David!
I'm not really sure where to start with this, except to say that a friend of mine is due to leave hospital today, after being left in a coma by a serious accident in which she was riding passenger on a Harley. She was in the coma for less than a week, but we all quickly leanred that there's much more to a coma than having someone look just like they're sleeping. The Brain shuts off to the extent that the sufferer can't remember anything as a way of healing itself. We were told that they wouldn't know the extent of the damage to my friends Brain until she awoke.
She's now awake, but has no memory whatsoever of the accident, and didn't recognise anyone around her. Slowly her memory is coming back – but of course, with anything like this, it takes time.
We all talk about accidents and things like they're just that. But something as traumatic as loss of memory due to an accident? I believe (and this is just my personal opinion) that we are our souls. Our bodies are a temporary home for a soul, so it can survive a lifetime on Earth. Nobody knows how many lifetimes they're going to have. A soul, before it comes down to the Earthplane, will have made a chart with another Spiritual Being, who will be their Spirit Guide whilst on earth. On this chart is everything that is going to happen to them whilst living on the Earthplane. Things such as Accidents, memory loss, marriage, births, deaths, I mean I'm talking EVERYTHING.
It's beyond our comprehension to think why we would choose to have terrible things happen to us, because as humans, our emotions get in the way. We agree to have these things happen to us, because they're part of our life path, and by working through them, we're learning a Spiritual Lesson, and working to ascend to a higher Spiritual Level. This is done more or less subconciously. When bad things happen to us, people don't think, oh, this is a lesson that I have to work through in order to ascend to a higher Spiritual level when my body dies. They think they've been dealt a bad lot and the "Why Me?" question begins to surface. Again, just a totally human reaction.
I personally feel that a person with Memory Loss may regain some of their memory by having a Past Life Regression session. It helps to open that part of their mind that they haven't used before. Memories that they didn't know they had are definitely stored in there somewhere – it's just a case of tapping into them.
A great Subject David. I enjoyed reading it, and typing out my reply, even though it took forever lol. I'm not sure it's totally coherant, but oh well, you should get the basics of what I'm trying to say. 🙂
Hi Dawn!
You are an amazing writer! Golly, I had to read your fine comment three times to appreciate the deep riches you stored in your story. Wowser! Thanks!
These memory losses are more common than most imagine. The mind is a wonderful thing and a treacherous thing and those of us who are fortunate to have a brain that works reasonably well and is chemically balanced are luckier than they know.
Your Past Life Regression therapy is awfully interesting as a way to give the sketches of memory a frame and a foundation for remembering.
Your levels of spirituality are quite fascinating and I thank you for taking the time to explain them in a clear way we can all understand and appreciate.
Lol, okay, so now I'm blushing. Thankyou so much for your kind words.
My Spirituality is something that is quite recent, in that I only discovered Spirituality less than a year ago. I've tried my hand at various ways to get in touch with my Spirit Guides since then, including Meditation, and Automatic Writing. I've had a lot more success with Automatic Writing than I have with Meditation. In one session of Automatic Writing, I was given a message for my Sister, from her Son, my Nephew who died three years ago at the age of 20 days old.
When he died unexpectedly at home, the entire family was devastated. One family member turned round and said "God Giveth and God taketh, but something's wrong when God takes someone before their life has even begun." At the time I agreed with them, but now, I believe that my Nephew was never meant for this Lifetime. He will either be reborn into a different lifetime, OR, he'll stay in the Spirit Realm as a Guardian Angel.
I passed on the message to my Sister, and I do believe it brought her some comfort in knowing that her son is still around and watching over her.
Thankyou once again for your kind words David. It's so nice to find someone else (apart from my partner) who appreciates my views.
Hey Dawn!
I appreciate you sharing your Spirituality here.
I've never heard of "Automatic Writing" so I looked up the term and came away with these sites:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/auto_writing.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/automatic_writing.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing
The story about your Nephew is helpful! I believe the line between the dead and the living is but a thin veil and only some of us are able to peer through that veil and fewer yet are able interact with the other side.
I absolutely appreciate you, Dawn! Your partner is one lucky man!
My brother was in a car accident when he was 16-years-old.
He was a passenger in the back seat of the car on right hand side. The driver and the passenger on the left hand side were killed when the car when out of control while jumping a hill during a joy ride.
My brother fractured his C4 and C5 vertebrae in the accident. He also suffered a mild head injury that pulled his scalp backward and left him very bloody.
This probably saved his life, according to what I heard from my parents who spoke with the ambulance people. The people who had gathered at the accident scene didn't want to touch him because of the blood.
Some time after the accident, my brother told me what he saw in his mind after the car went out of control and crashed.
He said he saw the Devil, but decided that he didn't want to stay in Hell, so tried to get back to home. It wasn't the "bright light" story commonly told by people experiencing near death trauma.
It scared me when he told his story. It still frightens me to think about what it must have been to envision.
I don't know if it was a function of the impact and his neck being snapped, or if it was something else.
My brother has recovered after several years of treatment and physical therapy.
He walks and doesn't seem to suffer any physical effects from his injuries due to the skill of his doctors, nurses and therapists.
Thanks for sharing your touching story, Chris!
I am so happy to hear your brother is doing much better.
Did he ever suffer any memory loss?
Thanks David,
I'm not sure if he ever suffered any memory loss after the accident in 1986. I never detected any memory loss after the accident.
He was in counseling for a long time after the accident, so it did impair his emotional state, as it would for anyone in similar circumstances.
He's definitely a survivor, Chris, a great lesson for perseverance for us all.
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Please could you tell me if it is possible to have brain surgery in order to erase all past memories and start afresh? It sounds like a pipe dream but as an OCD sufferer with one big obsession I'd be very grateful for any information you have on this topic. I would be willing to undergo surgery in the name of research
Welcome to Urban Semiotic, Vanessa! I'm sorry to hear of the brain trouble. Isn't there some kind of medication for OCD? What does the doctor say about this?
Very interesting concept. Very intriguing. However, the type of memory loss resulting from Traumatic Brain Injury is cognitive, skills, speech, etc. Not Amnesia. I base this observation on 2 years caring for my husband and months meeting other TBI's while he was recovering in the hospital.Brain injuries don't usually produce amnesia, but they do make the survivor like a newly born infant. My husband's first smile was chillingly like my new born son's first smile. It was his first response to my voice while still in coma. It was my husband's adult male body, inhabited by a new born infant. Every mother recognizes the smile I mean. Quite frankly, it gave me the creeps.
The re-learning of skills follows exactly the childhood path: 1st – learning to breath independently(new born), Toilet training, buttoning a shirt, tying shoelaces, first liquid foods, followed by pureed pablum diet, relearning how to catch a ball, forming words, learning what things are called, learning how to walk, relearning simple tasks like putting on underwear, brushing teeth, spreading jelly on a slice of bread, etc. All this relearning follows exactly the path from new born through toddler then early childhood.
Thank you for your comment, Christine. We feel for you.
Amnesia is memory loss:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2223
Here's an article referencing amnesia in traumatic head injuries;
Post-Traumatic Amnesia in Closed Head Injury
W. RITCHIE RUSSELL, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.; AARON SMITH, Ph.D.
Since the first systematic study of the significance of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) in closed head injury, by Russell (1932), the findings of other studies have been consistent and in general agreement. A recent review (Smith, 1961) of investigations of the diagnostic and prognostic significance of duration of disturbed consciousness following closed head injury showed that all studies which had employed a definitive scale with absolute intervals had reported positive correlations between the length of PTA and the incidence of neurological signs and symptoms. In addition to providing confirmation of Russell's original findings, the range of clinical features whose incidence showed positive correlations has been extended considerably.
http://archneur.highwire.org/cgi/content/summary/5/1/4
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A distressing complication that may arise following a traumatic brain injury — pseudobulbar affect (PBA). Due to minimal awareness and knowledge of PBA in the medical community, PBA is often misdiagnosed as depression or part of the primary neurological disease when in fact it's a separate, treatable condition.
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A Twentynine Palms Marine sergeant Wednesday received a bravery medal for saving a tank gunner from an explosion during live training last June.
Sgt. Christopher Phinney, 25, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal – the second highest non-combatant medal – at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.
On June 19, 2008, Phinney was commander of an M1 Abrams Tank when a charged main-gun round burst and spilled high explosive propellant inside the ammunition-laden battle tank, officials said.
Phinney ordered his crew to evacuate but quickly discovered that one Marine was trapped inside and could not escape.
He said he plans to spend the summer at home in Cumberland, Maine.
The Navy and Marine Corps Medal, which was established in 1942, is typically awarded to service members for bravery outside of combat. It often involves risking one's life, officials said.
The award was first bestowed to a military member during World War II, but the most famous recipient is former President John F. Kennedy, who received the medal as a commanding officer of a World War II motor torpedo boat.


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Microsoft officially unveils the Lumia 535
By Timi Cantisano Neowin @timicantisano · Nov 11, 2014 02:42 EST · Hot! with 69 comments
Microsoft has finally unveiled its latest handset in the form of the Lumia 535. The new entry level handset will sport a large 5" display and surprisingly have an impressive 5MP front-facing camera.
As reported earlier, the Lumia 535 will have a 5" qHD (960 x 540) IPS LCD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage with microSD expansion, be powered by a 1905mAh battery, have a 5MP rear camera with flash, and a wide-angle 5MP front-facing camera. The resolution of the video for both the front and rear camera will be FWVGA (848 x 480). The device will not offer a camera shutter button or 4G / LTE option.
The Lumia 535 will be available in a single and dual SIM model. The handset will be available in six different colors and retail for €110 or around $136 USD. The Lumia 535 should see a release primarily focused outside of the United States in November.
Although other handsets have not been confirmed, Microsoft is expected to announce more handsets at its Lumia event later today.
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This month, we're waxing ecstatic about the humor and humanism at the heart of Elaine May's Ishtar. We match May's compassion for the brashly stupid Chuck and Lyle (Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, respectively) with special guest Frank Falisi, who lays out his theory that Ishtar is actually a high musical à la Vincente Minnelli.
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This month on the show, we're doing a little time traveling of our own. On the heels of the growing buzz for Rian Johnson's new genre love letter Glass Onion, we're discussing his 2012 sci-fi thriller, Looper.
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For our B-Movies issue–just in time for spooky season–we're casting an eye back toward RKO darling Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942), one of the studio's most successful forays into low-budget, low-runtime horror, with film critic and curator Miriam Bale.
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Ok. I'll admit that it's a rooster.
Before my stroke, I painted regularly. My sister gave me my first class when we visited one year. That first painting was dreadful. Even so, it was a fun gift to try and I had a good time painting. You could imagine my surprise when she sent her paints later that same year. The message was clear. Start painting.
Since that time, whenever we went on vacation with my sister and brother-in-law, we would take our paints along. We'd find a quiet afternoon, a bottle of wine, and paint to our hearts content. Or, my brother-in-law and I would get up early and hike with our cameras ready so we would be inspired later. Over time, the paintings became really good. I even sold one at Festa Italia in Seattle.
Since my stroke, I haven't painted much. The paints have been out on the dining room table and I've thought about it. But when I try to draw a straight line (or something that resembles a picture), it wasn't good enough to paint. I realized that it was time to get into painting again… or let myself admit that I would give the paints away.
That's where the rooster comes in. I signed up with Margaret two weeks ago. She had me drawing in class the first day. He looks a little worse for wear. His head is a little squished. His tail is a bit frazzled. But I actually drew lines that were long and curved. In my mind, he's perfect.
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- Dubai (Arabic: دبيّ;) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula . Dubai was formally established in the early 19th century by the Al Abu Falasa clan of Bani Yas, and it remained under clan control when the United Kingdom assumed the protection of Dubai in 1892. Its geographical location made it an important trading hub and by the beginning of the 20th century, it was an important port. In 1966, the year oil was discovered, Dubai and the emirate of Qatar set up a new monetary unit to replace the Gulf Rupee. The oil economy led to a massive influx of foreign workers, quickly expanding the city by 300% and bringing in international oil interests. After the British left Dubai, it, together with Abu Dhabi and four other emirates, formed the United Arab Emirates.
- Today, Dubai has emerged as a global city and a business hub. Although Dubai's economy was built on the oil industry, currently the emirate's model of business, similar to that of Western countries, drives its economy, with the effect that its main revenues are now from tourism, real estate, and financial services. Dubai has recently attracted world attention through many innovative large construction projects and sports events.
The dirham (Arabic: مدره) is the currency of the United Arab Emirates. The currency abbreviation for the United Arab Emirates dirham is AED. Unofficial abbreviations include DH or Dhs. The dirham is subdivided into 100 fils (فلس). The AED is pegged with U.S. dollar at 3.6725 dirhams to one dollar. Coins 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 fils, 1 dirham. Banknotes 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 dirhams.
Dubai has a very hot arid climate. Summers in Dubai are extremely hot, windy and dry, with an average high around 40°C (104 °F) and overnight lows around 30°C (86 °F). Most days are sunny throughout the year. Winters are warm with an average high of 23°C (73 °F) and overnight lows of 14°C (57 °F). Precipitation, however, has been increasing in the last few decades with accumulated rain reaching 150mm per year.
Tourism is an important part of the Dubai government's strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the emirate. Dubai's lure for tourists is based mainly on shopping, but also on its possession of other ancient and modern attractions. Dubai is the most populous emirate of the seven emirates of United Arab Emirates. It is distinct from other members of the UAE in that a large part of the emirate's revenues are from tourism.
Dubai has been called the "shopping capital of the Middle East". Dubai alone has more than 70 shopping malls, including the world's 7th largest shopping mall, Dubai Mall. The city draws large numbers of shopping tourists from countries within the region and from as far as Eastern Europe, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. While boutiques, some electronics shops, department stores and supermarkets operate on a fixed-price basis, most other outlets consider friendly negotiation a way of life.
Dubai is also known for its souk districts located on either side of the creek. Traditionally, dhows from the Far East, China, Sri Lanka, and India would discharge their cargo and the goods would be bargained over in the souks adjacent to the docks. Many boutiques and jewellery stores are also found in the city. Dubai is known as "the City of Gold" and Gold Souk in Deira houses nearly 250 gold retail shops.
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We have developed a chip-based nanofluidic device which amplifies the sensitivity in electrochemical biosensing applications by orders of magnitude. The amplification is based on rapid redox-cycling between plane parallel electrodes inside a nanochannel. We show that it is possible to monitor the signal of less than a hundred molecules residing in the active area of the nanofluidic sensor. The small number of molecules is reflected in the noise spectrum of the device. In particular, we obtain high sensitivities when detecting catecholamines, which comprise an important group of hormones and neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. Furthermore, due to the nanochannel design, the sensor is immune to interference by molecules undergoing irreversible redox reactions. We demonstrate the selectivity of the device by detecting target molecules in the presence of ascorbic acid whose oxidized form is only stable on the order of milliseconds. The interference of ascorbic acid is usually a challenge in the detection of catecholamines in biological samples.


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IOM health staff assisting several Rohingya refugees in the Ukihya medical health complex in Cox's Bazar. © Muse Mohammed / UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017
A Deadly Bacteria Thought to Be Eradicated is Showing Up in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Diphtheria was thought to be eradicated in Myanmar several years ago. But the the highly contagious bacterial infection has suddenly appeared in the massive refugee population along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. So far, at least nine people have been killed and hundreds sickened. The World Health Organization and humanitarian agencies are racing to establish isolation tents where sick patients can receive treatment without infecting others.
Diphtheria caught the humanitarian organizations by surprise. Since it was thought to be eradicated, relief agencies initially did not include the diphtheria vaccine among the suite of vaccines they are administering to these newly arrived refugees, who have fled a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to a region of Bangladesh called Cox's Bazar.
"These cases could be just the tip of the iceberg. This is an extremely vulnerable population with low vaccination coverage, living in conditions that could be a breeding ground for infectious diseases like cholera, measles, rubella, and diphtheria," said Dr Navaratnasamy Paranietharan, WHO Representative to Bangladesh.
"This is why we have protected more than 700,000 people with the oral cholera vaccine, as well as more than 350,000 children with measles-rubella vaccine in a campaign that ended yesterday. Now we have to deal with diphtheria."
The International Organization for Migration says that as of December 11, "around 449 probable cases had been identified with nine of these leading to deaths." The IOM adds that the true number is likely far higher, as victims may confuse this unknown disease with more common illnesses like mumps or the flu.
The resurgence of Diphtheria is yet another example of how refugee crises can cause unintended global emergencies.
Diphtheria has been mostly eradicated around the world. A vaccine was invented in the 1930s, and that sharply reduced the number of infections. (The US Centers for Disease Control says there have been just 5 diphtheria cases in the United States in the last 10 years.) Even in poorer countries in the developing world, public health campaigns have made diphtheria an somewhat rare disease.
But these diseases have a way of re-emerging when massive numbers of people are suddenly uprooted. The scale and pace of the displacement of Rohingyas was the largest and fastest erupting refugee crisis in the last twenty years, since hundreds of thousands of Rwandans quickly fled to neighboring countries at the outset of the 1994 genocide. In this case, over 646,000 Rohingya fled in just a few short weeks, joining other Rohingya who had previously fled Myanmar.
Now, there are some 850,000 refugees living in crowded camps where previously eliminated diseases are suddenly re-appearing.
Listen: The International President of Medicines Sans Frontiers Dr. Joanne Liu joins me on the Global Dispatches podcast to discuss her recent trip to visit health facilities in Cox's Bazar.
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Alex and Eliza
The love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler - based on the story that inspired the bestselling musical Hamilton.
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society's biggest events: the Schuylers' grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country's founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters - Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks, and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival those of both her sisters, though she'd rather be aiding the colonists' cause than dressing up for some silly ball.
Still, Eliza can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington's right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can't believe his luck - as an orphan, and a bastard one at that - to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.
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Dangote Cement To Buy Back 170m Shares From Shareholders
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By News Editor	 On Jan 13, 2022
Dangote Cement Plc says it will repurchase 170 million ordinary shares from shareholders in the second tranche of its share buyback programme.
The shares are worth 1 percent of the company's issued shares.
In a statement on Wednesday, Edward Imoedemhe, deputy company secretary of Dangote Cement, said the programme will run from January 19 to January 20 or when the entire shares have been repurchased.
A buyback occurs when the issuing company pays shareholders the market value per share and re-absorbs that portion of its ownership that was previously distributed among public and private investors.
On December 31 2020, the company had completed the first tranche of its share buyback programme, repurchasing shares worth N40.20 million at N243 per share, at a total value of N9.8 billion.
The statement said the company has a total value of N17.04 billion fully paid-up ordinary shares of 50 kobo each.
The cement maker added it would be repurchasing 170 million ordinary shares of 50 kobo each, representing 1% of the company's issued shares.
According to the company, this includes 40.2 million shares held as treasury shares, following the conclusion of Tranche I of the share buyback programme.
It said the transaction would take place at the open market on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), subject to prevailing market conditions and under the current daily trading rules of the NGX.
It also appointed Meristem Stockbrokers Limited and Vetiva Securities Limited as stockbrokers for the second tranche of the programme.
"Through its appointed Stockbrokers, the Company will, at its discretion, purchase DCP's shares in the open market over the duration of Tranche II, subject to prevailing market conditions and under the current daily trading rules of the NGX," the statement reads.
"DCP would, however, not be under any obligation whatsoever to purchase any or all of the DCP shares put on offer over the duration of Tranche II.
"The shares being repurchased by the company under the Share Buy-Back Programme will be held as treasury shares and may subsequently be cancelled. Execution of this Tranche II is not expected to have any material impact on the company's financial position.
"Dangote Cement shareholders seeking to participate in Tranche II of the Share Buyback Programme are hereby advised to contact their stockbrokers or any other independent professional adviser registered as a capital market operator by the SEC for further guidance on the submission of trades on the NGX's trading platform.
"DCP will provide weekly updates on the progress of Tranche II of the Programme on its website over the duration of this tranche.
"The Company will continue to monitor the evolving business environment and market conditions in making decisions on further tranches of the Share Buy-Back Programme.
"Shareholders and investors are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the securities of Dangote Cement until the completion of Tranche II of the Share BuyBack Programme. An announcement will be published upon completion of Tranche II of the Programme."
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Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics
is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics and Head of the Department of Communication Research at the University of Salzburg in Austria, and there, he is also Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Studies and Resarch in ICTs and Society (ICT&S).
Before, he was head of IPMZ transfer, Center for Knowledge Transfer and Applied Media Research at the Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich in Switzerland and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2008-2009). From 1996 to 2003 he was head of the media research department at Prognos, an international consultancy company based in Basel, Switzerland. His research work concentrates on changes in mass media structures and their implications on mass communication (media structures, media policy, media economics)
Media landscape: Austria
Najam U Din
Media Landscape:
Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Professor of Mass Communication
Vitalii Rybak
Journalist, analyst and media researcher
Hussein Dawood
Media Researcher
Eriyanto
Lecturer at the Department of Communication Science
M. Abul Kalam Azad
Roberto Renino
Elena Vartanova