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After On
A Novel of Silicon Valley
By Rob Reid
Narrated by Sean Kenin, January LaVoy & Various / 22 hours 3 minutes
The definitive novel of today's Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.
Meet Phluttr—a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers—and they don't even know the tenth of it.
But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming "The UberX of Sex"? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma, dirt, and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will?
Phluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer, bring back Seinfeld, then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does, it's not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her.
After On achieves the literary singularity—fusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted, ferociously believable, IMAX-wide view of our digital age.
Narrated by Sean Kenin and January LaVoy, with:
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Patrick Rothfuss: Special Field Operative Brock Hogan
John Hodgman: Charles Henry Higgensworth III
Tom Merritt: voice of The New York Times
Jesse Cox: Whistle Blowings Blog
Leo Laporte: voice of the San Francisco Chronicle
Advance praise for After On
"Enter a near-future Silicon Valley that is hilariously, creepily, mind-bogglingly fantastic, yet at the same time all too believable. It might turn out this way. No, really, it might! Along with After On's diabolically ingenious plot, there are crazy-plausible web startups, delicious parodies of social media, and a surprisingly convincing theory of human consciousness."—Chris Anderson, head of TED
"Reading After On is like attending a master class in nearly every major issue haunting not only the tech industry but society itself. Only the professor is also a stand-up comic with a perfect ear for the foibles of Silicon Valley's most sacred cows. Part AI thriller, part arch social commentary, and part rollicking farce, After On will leave you smarter about just about everything the human species needs to work on if we're going to outlive our own creations—and our obsessions with them."—John Battelle, co-founder, NewCo, Federated Media, and Wired
"The future is already here—it's just for those who read Reid!"—Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
"Rob Reid doesn't write science fiction; he writes future history. After On is the best account I've read of how superintelligence will arrive and what it will mean for all of us. Hilarious, frightening, believable, and marvelously constructed—After On has it all."—Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool
Author Rob Reid
Narrator Sean Kenin, January LaVoy & Various
Length 22 hours 3 minutes
Publication Date August 1, 2017

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While advances in early cancer detection and treatment have led to improved cancer outcomes for patients, primary prevention remains by far the best tool to reduce the cancer burden at the population level. Notably, reducing smoking rates at the population level leads to substantial and cost-effective reductions in cancer.
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International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project
OICR recognizes the importance of research designed to inform population approaches to reducing smoking prevalence. Despite reductions in smoking rates in Ontario and Canada, tobacco remains by far the number one preventable cause of death and disease in Ontario, Canada, and throughout the world (including being responsible for about 30 per cent of cancer cases in Canada and worldwide). Astonishingly, tobacco smoking is projected to kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, ten times the number that were killed by tobacco in the 20th century.
Professor Geoffrey T. Fong is the Founder and Chief Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project). The ITC Project's main objective is to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioural impact of population-level policies designed to control tobacco use. Such tobacco control policies are the subject of the first-ever health treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The ITC Project conducts large-scale longitudinal prospective cohort studies in 29 countries, inhabited by over 50 per cent of the world's population, 60 per cent of the world's smokers and 70 per cent of the world's tobacco users, including high-income countries such as Canada, US, UK, Australia, France, and Japan, and low- and middle-income countries such as China, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Brazil. ITC findings promote the implementation of evidence-based tobacco control policies throughout the world in a collaborative effort with policymakers, researchers, and advocates to reduce the burden of the global tobacco epidemic.
ITC Project findings have informed tobacco control efforts in Canada and in Ontario, for example, in support of smoke-free laws throughout Ontario and across Canada, including bans on smoking in cars with children, and the 2012 revision of Canada's pictorial health warnings. ITC findings in Australia evaluating the impact of plain packaging were used to support Canada's own plain packaging regulations.
In addition to its continuing global research on evaluating tobacco control policies, Dr. Fong's ITC Project is now conducting a multi-project research program funded by the US National Cancer Institute to examine the impact of e-cigarettes and other new nicotine delivery products on cigarette smoking involving ITC surveys of adult smokers and vapers and of youth across Canada, United States, England, and Australia. This project also involves analyses of e-liquids and devices (chemical analyses and biomarker analyses of exposure) across the countries, experimental behavioral economics studies of the impact of policies and regulations, and simulation modeling to estimate the impact of use of these new products on future public health outcomes. The initial set of 13 articles was published in 2019 in a supplement of the journal, Addiction.
Experience & Education
Visiting Scholar, Psychology Department, Stanford University
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Visiting Research Collaborator, Psychology Department, Princeton University
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department, Princeton University
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
Lecturer in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Senior Investigator, OICR
Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Professor of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo
Visiting Scientist, Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, Navi Mumbai, India
Visiting Professor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Select Publications
ITC Project. Findings from the 2016 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey. Addiction. 2019; 114:S1 (Supplement of 13 articles + introduction from the ITC Project on smoking and vaping across Canada, United States, England, and Australia).
Hammond D, Reid JL, Rynard VL, Fong GT, …, White CM. Prevalence of vaping and smoking among adolescents in Canada, England, and the United States: repeat national cross sectional surveys. BMJ. 2019; 365:l2219.
Sansone G, Fong GT, Yan M, …, Jiang Y. Secondhand smoke exposure and support for smoke-free policies in cities and rural areas of China from 2009 to 2015: a population-based cohort study (the ITC China Survey). BMJ Open. 2019; 9:e031891.
Driezen P, Guindon GM, Hammond D, …, Fong GT. (2020). Contraband cigarette purchasing from First Nation reserves in Ontario and Quebec: Findings from the ITC Canada Survey. Int J Drug Policy. 2020; 75:102612.
Fong GT, Chung-Hall J, Craig L, WHO FCTC Impact Assessment Expert Group. Impact assessment of the WHO FCTC over its first decade: Methodology of the Expert Group. Tob Control. 2019; 28:s84-s88.
Chung-Hall J, Craig L, Gravely S, …, Fong GT. Impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on the implementation and effectiveness of tobacco control measures: A global evidence review. Tob Control. 2019; 28:s119-s128.
Chaloupka FJ, Fong GT, Yurekli A. The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control. U.S. National Cancer Institute Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 21. (Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. 2016.)
Gravely S, Giovino GA, Craig LV, …, Fong GT. Implementation of key demand-reduction measures of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and change in smoking prevalence in 126 countries: an association study. Lancet Public Health. 2017; 2(4):e166-e174.
Gravely S, Fong GT, Driezen P, …, Hammond D. The impact of the 2009/2010 enhancement of cigarette health warning labels in Uruguay: Longitudinal findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Uruguay Survey. Tob Control. 2016; 25(1):89-95.
Huang J, Chaloupka FJ, Fong GT. Cigarette graphic warning labels and smoking prevalence in Canada: A critical examination and reformulation of the FDA Regulatory Impact Analysis. Tob Control. 2014; 23 (Suppl 1):i7-i12.
Fong GT, Cummings KM, Borland R, …, Thompson ME. The conceptual framework of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project. Tob Control. 2006; 15(Suppl III):iii3-iii11.
Fong GT, Hyland A, Borland R, …, Driezen P. Reductions in tobacco smoke pollution and increases in support for smoke-free public places following the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in the Republic of Ireland: Findings from the ITC Ireland/UK Survey. Tob Control. 2006; 15(Suppl III):iii51-iii58
See Dr. Fong's recent publications on PubMed or on Google Scholar.
Cancer Control Prevention Survivorship and Outcomes
Disease Areas
Health Research Foundation, Medal of Honour, 2019
Canadian Cancer Research Alliance, Award for Distinguished Service in Cancer Research, 2019
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, John Slade Award, 2019
Ochsner Health System, Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease, 2018
American Association of Public Opinion Research, Policy Impact Award, 2017
CIHR Institute for Population and Public Health, Senior Trailblazer Award, 2017
Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences), Fellow, 2017
University of Waterloo, Arts Excellence in Research Award, 2016
Canadian Cancer Society Prevention Initiative Research Scientist Award, 2011-2016
American Cancer Society, Luther L. Terry Award for Outstanding Research Contribution, 2015
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Fellow, 2015
University of Waterloo, Outstanding Performance Award, 2006, 2013, 2015
Statistical Society of Canada (with Mary E. Thompson and David Hammond),
Lise Manchester Award, 2012
Association for Psychological Science, Fellow, 2012
World Health Organization, World No Tobacco Day Award, 2013
CIHR, Knowledge Translation Award, 2011
CIHR and Canadian Medical Association Journal (with Mary E. Thompson and David Hammond), Top Canadian Achievement in Health Research, 2009
University of Waterloo, Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999
Opportunities to Collaborate
The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project) is a collaborative effort of a transdisciplinary team of over 150 tobacco control researchers from 10 scientific disciplines, across 29 countries—Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, Uruguay, China, France, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mauritius, Bhutan, India, Kenya, Zambia, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Romania, Hungary, Greece, Poland, Spain, and Japan. The central objective of the ITC Project is to conduct rigorous evaluation of policies of the FCTC at the level of individuals, using research designs that combine the logic of quasi-experimental designs ("natural experiments") with theory-based mediational models from psychology and health behaviour, sampling methods and designs from complex survey methods and analytic models that are designed to test for treatment effects in the context of longitudinal surveys.
Dr. Geoffrey Fong receives prestigious O. Harold Warwick Prize from the Canadian Cancer Society
Ban on menthol cigarettes in Canada leads to more smokers quitting
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Free Download: Garbage – Blood For Poppies
Posted on March 17, 2012	by 2020k | RJ Kozain
A new Garbage album entitled Not Your Kind Of People is slated for a May 15th, 2012 release on their own record label STUNVOLUME. It's been seven long years since the grungy, electronic-alternative rock veterans' last record Bleed Like Me and on March 15th we got our first taste of the band's record with a 100% free 320kbps MP3 download of the song "Blood For Poppies".
The melodies are abundant, the writing is still top notch, and in true Garbage progression: it's a million ways different than anything they've done, but are still keeping in the true signature sound of the record. A funk-esque guitar line opens up the track and plays through the majority of the track, while a driving percussive beat (we love Butch Vig to death) mixes in real drum recording with multiple percussion loops and effects. There's a nice, bass/Electronic bridge breakdown as well.
"I don't know why they are calling on the radio, they know I'm here just out of sight," Shirley Manson calls through the chorus and is no doubt a nod to the listeners for waiting for so long for this new material from herself and the band.
Record executives basically destroyed any chance of us ever hearing Shirley's solo album by trying to pop her up to be in the same vein as colleague Gwen Stefani and when she turned down that road, they dared to market her as the next Anne Lennox. Shirley is Shirley, so when the executives told her the album she was working on was too dark, the record eventually fizzled out [Check out her Facebook post about the incident here].
We're glad to have new music in any way, shape, or form from any members of this fantastic foursome. Their entire discography contains flawless execution of blending genres of all kinds within the rock and pop world and with the freedom to do what they'd like this time around, we've seen some more personality from the group with the release of hysterical/informative YouTube videos (including this coffee video, which we all feel like sometimes), Tweets, Facebook Updates, and of course, good honest music.
Download "Blood For Poppies" from Topspin by clicking here & stream the song below.
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Everyone has to deal with utility bills, and during the winter months, the amount you spend on gas and electricity can really make a huge difference. This is true not only for you personally, but also for your tenants; if they start struggling to pay their utility bills, it could lead to them failing to pay their rent on time. This is why it is essential for all landlords to make sure their tenants are getting the best deal possible.
Each landlord has their own method when it comes to their tenants' utility bills, as depending on the type of lettings you have, the way you deal with them needs to be adapted. For example, if you let student properties, you may want to pay the utility bills on their behalf as their tenancy is usually only for a year, however, this means you will also have to make time to talk to them if they have a query about costs.
When it comes to gas and electricity, the person who is responsible for paying depends firstly on whether the supply is already on when your tenants move into the property. If the gas or electricity is on, then whoever is living in the property is technically in charge of paying the bills, however, if you have your name on the bills, then you will be responsible. This is a very important issue to consider, especially if your property is going through a void period, as it means that even if a small amount of electricity is used, you will have to pay for it.
Tenants Paying Pro: There is less paperwork for you to deal with each month. This is particularly helpful if you have a large property portfolio.
Tenants Paying Con: If your tenants forget to make a payment and get cut off, you may have to step in to sort things out.
Landlord Paying Pro: You will be able to purchase the gas and electricity supply from one company for all your properties, meaning you know that they are all getting the best deal.
Landlord Paying Con: If one or more of your tenants has an issue with the supplier, you will be responsible for settling the matter, which could take a considerable amount of time.
How Can Your Tenants Save Money?
When it comes to utility bills, all your tenants will want the same thing – the cheapest deal available. Helping them find the best deal will not only keep your tenants happy, but there will also be less chance of them falling into rent arrears, leading to you having to claim on your rent guarantee insurance. One of the simplest ways to save your tenants money on their utility bills is to check each year that your supplier is still offering a competitive price for the services they offer. Don't forget that while some providers may seem more expensive, their deals could include boiler servicing, so in the long run, you could save money.
Another way to save money on your tenants' utility bills is to make sure your property is energy efficient. The Government has already announced that by 2018, all private rented accommodations must have an energy efficiency rating of at least E, otherwise they will no longer be eligible for letting. Improving your properties' energy ratings could simply mean investing in some insulation and draught excluders, however, for particularly old properties, you may have to plan a proper renovation.


The Flat Ro ck Irregulars and Downtown Association invite you to participate in the Seventh Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The parade will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2018. The parade will start at 10:00 am with line up starting promptly at 9:30 am in the City's parking lot at A & Bailey. The parade will make its way from A & Dewey to 6th street.
Parade participants and spectators are invited to join the Irregulars at the Espresso Shoppe for coffee and Irish music following the Parade.
To enter the parade complete the entry form found here and return it to parade@flatrockirregulars.com or St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1110 W 3rd Street, North Platte, NE 69101 by Friday, March 10, 2018. Check our website at www.flatrockirregulars.com for up to date information on the parade. Or contact Don Kurre at 308-221-1005 or Stu Meesenburg at 308-221-2783.
Amelia watches Don play bass during the Irregulars performance at Earth Day Festival. Has to be one of my favorite pictures. Grandpa and Granddaughter!


Railway Recruitment Board, Bilaspur is going to conduct written examination on 11th January and 18th January 2015 for post of various posts of Stenographer Hindi & English, Chief Law Astt. Jr. Translator (Hindi) in category 1,2,3,4 and S & WI, Librarian, Catering Inspector, Commercial Cook & Finger Print Examiner in category 5,6,8,9,10 &15 respectively against the advertisement 03/2014. A huge numbers of candidates had applied for the post.
The Latest News is that RRB BILASPUR is going to release ONLINE Admit Cards for these various posts which will be available on official website of RRB. Status of the application can be seen on the RRB Bilaspur's website Released now.
Those candidates who have applied for RRB BILASPUR 2015 and are waiting for ONLINE admit cards can download their Call Letter/Admit Card 2015 from the direct link provided.
3. Examination. Read all the instruction provided in the admit cards and ensure the documents required such as ID proof i.e. driving license, PAN card etc.
4. Candidate should bring at least one photocopy of ID proof to the venue of exam.
5. Affix colour photograph of same image as provided in the printed Admit Card to the provided space. Do a cross signature on the pasted colored photograph pasted by the candidate.
6. Admit Card must be signed properly below the Colored photograph paste by the candidate. The signature must be same as it is appeared in the computer generated admit card.
7. Use of mobile phone/Calculator/Electronic gadgets is banned in exam room.
8. Candidates can download their admit cards any time on the official website direct link provided below.
5. Note down Floor No. and Room No. of the back side of the Admit Card page.
Railway Recruitment board (RRB) works under the control of Ministry of Railways, Government of India and started working in 1984. The RRB BILASPUR EXAM will be conducted by Pen MODE. The exam will be entertained through filling of circles on Computer Generated Page known as OMR Sheet containing information of answers which will be selected by filling circle in it. This OMR sheet will be filled by Blue/Black ball point pen. The exam consists of various sections contains questions of English, Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness. The exam will be a multiple choice question paper in which four options are provided out of which candidates need to choose one correct answer. There will be negative marking for any wrong answer. For more information candidate must download syllabus and exam pattern of RRB BILASPUR EXAM from the official website.
Exam will be conducted on the scheduled time mentioned in RRB BILASPUR Admit cards of the candidates. The Official Answer keys may be discussed on the official website of RRB BILASPUR EXAM.


Summary: SB 281 would ban gun shows at the Cow palace as well as 1-A DAA lands in San Mateo and San Francisco.
In a county/city that is already a gun desert, SB 281 would seek to ban gun shows at yet another location, the Cow Palace. This will further inhibit people in the Bay Area's ability to purchase firearms. This will leave more people unprotected and unable to express their constitutional rights.
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The next step for healthcare big data: pediatrics
The pediatrics specialty faces many unique challenges when it comes to caring for patients. A panel of experts believes big data can help, including with rare diseases.
The next step for pediatric care is finding a way to use healthcare big data.
At least that's the word from a panel of experts at the Global Pediatric Innovation Summit in Boston. The reason big data will become valuable to pediatrics is because the specialty faces unique challenges that require different solutions.
Pediatrics is well established as a specialty in healthcare: Babies are seen by a pediatrician, children's hospitals provide focused care, other medical centers have their own pediatric ERs and small-sized pediatric medical equipment is sold by vendors. Big data following this trend is a nod to the unique challenges of the field, the panelists said.
For example, when it comes to pediatrics, often these patients aren't making decisions for themselves; instead, their parents decide, which can be a daunting task.
"Our goal is to help [the parents] make decisions in a more confident and robust way and in the best interests of the end patient," said Jackson Wilkinson, founder, president, and head of product and engineering at Kinsights Inc. -- an advice-sharing network for parents based in San Francisco.
And this juncture is where healthcare big data can help.
"Insofar as we're able to identify pain points in the care process and bring the right people into the fold so they can understand the issues that the family is going through, in the best interest of the patient, of the child, that's really where the data comes in handy," Wilkinson said.
Rare diseases offer prime ground for big data
Furthermore, healthcare big data could also help parents make decisions when their child is dealing with a highly complex or unusual disease, said panelist Andrew Wiesenthal, M.D., director of the healthcare practice at Deloitte Consulting LLP, and a member of the federal Health IT Standards Committee.
Wiesenthal said healthcare big data could help answer questions such as: "What's the aggregate experience of all the other parents of kids with unusual problems?" and "What did physicians do when this condition came up and what worked?"
For families, more data helps juggle the options
John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, is a proponent of healthcare data. When his wife fought stage 3 breast cancer, big data helped Halamka and his family explore possible treatments.
"Big data really helps us understand our options," Halamka said in an interview with SearchHealthIT. "It was so much easier to understand as a family what our choices were and make rational choices because we had data and examples of other patients like us."
Even then, answers can be difficult because the numbers of pediatric patients with a rare or complex disease are small, Wiesenthal said. "But if you aggregate across the universe of those patients, even just in the United States … now you're onto something."
He added that it's important for the data flow and interpretation of the data to be in "parent-interpretable terms" so that they can make smart decisions in the interest of their child.
Let us know what you think about the story and pediatrics big data; email Kristen Lee, news writer, or find her on Twitter @Kristen_Lee_34.
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This statement necklace will surely add that holiday sparkle to your festive party wardrobe. There are three sizes of icicles on this necklace that create a flattering V shape on your décolleté and will put the style factor through the roof!
The center icicle measure 2.5", the medium length icicles measure 1.5", and the shortest length icicles measure 1". The chain can be adjusted from 16" - 20". Select either sterling silver or 14k gold.


Using enzymology, synthetic organic chemistry, and molecular biology as major tools to study and manipulate biologically important enzymes/proteins. Currently, I have three projects in my lab.
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis, regulation, and utilization.
PHAs are carbon storage polymers produced by a variety of bacteria under conditions that limit nutrients except for carbon. The environmentally friendly PHA bioplastics are considered as an ideal alternative to petroleum-derived plastics that are non-biodegradable. Our goal is to understand PHA homeostasis at the molecular level such that metabolic- and protein-engineering in bacteria can be performed to produce PHA polymers economically. Moreover, study of PHA production can serve as a paradigm to understand widespread template-independent polymerizations where the mechanism remains enigmatic.
Bacterial enzymes involved in lignin degradation.
Lignin is a recalcitrant polymer consisting of various phenylpropane-based monomers linked together by C-C and C-O-C bonds, which is the most abundant renewable carbon source on earth next to cellulose. The cost of lignin degradation has been a major indicator for the competitiveness of biofuels vs. petroleum-based gasoline. It is well known that fungus contains a series of redox metalloenzymes that can efficiently degrade lignin. However, until now they have not been used at industrial scales due to difficulties in modulation of fungal genetics and production of fungal proteins. Therefore, there is a paradigm shift to seek for bacterial enzymes for lignin degradation. Our goal is to identify and develop them into a system that can be used to process lignin degradation economically at large scales.
Methylation is one of commonly observed protein posttranslational modifications that play important roles in signaling network and epigenetic regulation. Defects in the methylation have been linked to various diseases including cancers, neurological disorders, and abnormalities in development. Aside from protein lysine and arginine methyltransferases, a new type of protein methyltransferases, α-N-terminal RCC1 methyltransferases (NRMTs), was recently discovered in eukaryotes and human. Limited study of NRMTs suggests that they may be linked to cancers. Our goal is to identify the processes and/or targets involving NRMT for potential cancer therapy.
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Chen, C., Cao, R., Shrestha, R., Ward, C., Katz, B.B., Fischer, C.J., Tomich, J.M. and Li, P.* Trapping of intermediates with substrate analog HBOCoA in the polymerizations catalyzed by class III polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) synthase from Allochromatium Vinosum, ACS Chem. Biol. 2015, 10, 1330-1339, DOI: 10.1021/cb5009958.
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BBI rallies set for Makueni, Nakuru postponed after Daniel Moi's death
11 months ago read comments by Japhet Ruto
- The BBI forums across the country are spearheaded by pro-handshake MPs
- Kenya's second president Daniel Moi died on Tuesday, February 4
- President Uhuru Kenyatta said the nation will observe a period of mourning until Moi is buried
The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) rally which was set to take place at Wote, Makueni county on Saturday, February 8, has been postponed until further notice following the death of Kenya's second president Daniel Moi.
The announcement was made by Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior according to a report by Citizen TV.
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Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo has said the BBI rally which was set for Saturday, February 8, has been postponed until further notice after Daniel Moi's death. Photo: Mutula Kilonzo.
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The BBI forums across the country are spearheaded by close allies of former prime minister Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta as the country seeks to change its 2010 Constitution to allow for more inclusivity at the top power structure of the country.
So far, the rallies have been held at Kisii, Mombasa, Kakamega and Kitui in a validation process aimed at sensitising Kenyans on the document.
Pro-handshake MPs are on a countrywide BBI sensitisation rallies. Photo: Mutula Kilonzo.
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The complimentary meetings which were also set to be led by Tanga Tanga leaders have also been rescheduled.
"Following the passing on of Daniel T. Arap Moi, all BBI rallies have been postponed. Consequently the Nakuru rally which was planned for Saturday, February 8, has been rescheduled to a future date to be communicated in due course," Senator Murkomen tweeted.
Mzee Moi died in the morning of Tuesday, February 4, after a long illness.
His death was announced by Uhuru Kenyatta via a presidential proclamation.
Daniel Moi ruled Kenya from 1978 to 2002. He died on Tuesday, February 4.
"It is with profound sadness and sorrow that I announce the passing of a great African statesman HE Daniel Arap Moi, the second president of the Republic of Kenya. The former head of state passed on at the Nairobi Hospital in presence of his family," Uhuru said.
The president said the nation will observe a period of mourning until Moi was buried.
Kenya's longest serving leader will be accorded a state funeral befitting his status.
In his honour, Uhuru ordered the national flag to be flown at half-mast at high commissions, embassies, diplomatic offices and Kenyan consulates abroad.
Moi was born in 1924, at Kabarak village, Sacho division, Baringo county.
The ex-president attended Kapsabet High School and later joined Tambach Teachers Training College in the Keiyo District where he trained as a teacher and served in the profession from 1946 to 1955.
In 1955, he entered politics and was elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley.
Moi was re-elected in the Legco in 1957.
He became the Minister of Education in the pre-independence government of 1960–1961.
Moi was appointed vice president in 1967 and held the position until 1978 when Kenya's founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta died.
After Kenyatta's death, he was sworn is as the country's second leader in September 1978 and led the country until 2002 when he retired.
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"Y-family DNA polymerases bypass Pt-GG, the cisplatin-DNA double-base lesion, contributing
to the cisplatin resistance in tumour cells. To reveal the mechanism, we determined three structures of the Y-family DNA polymerase, Dpo4, in complex with Pt-GG DNA. The crystallographic snapshots show three stages of lesion bypass: the nucleotide insertions opposite the 3′G (first insertion) and 5′G (second insertion) of Pt-GG, and the primer extension Nocodazole mechanism of action beyond the lesion site. We observed a dynamic process, in which the lesion was converted from an open and angular conformation at the first insertion to a depressed and nearly parallel conformation at the subsequent reaction stages to fit into the active site of Dpo4. The DNA translocation-coupled conformational change may account for additional inhibition on the second insertion reaction. The structures illustrate that Pt-GG disturbs the replicating base pair in the active site, which reduces the catalytic efficiency and fidelity. The in vivo relevance of Dpo4-mediated Pt-GG bypass was addressed by a dpo-4 knockout strain of Sulfolobus solfataricus, which exhibits enhanced sensitivity to cisplatin and proteomic alterations consistent with genomic stress. The EMBO Journal (2010) 29, 2059-2069. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2010.


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In some ways, meditation is a lot like time traveling.
Meditation allows one to return to a mental, emotional and even physical state of rhythmic equilibrium. However, each day that state is different in every way partially because it can never be the same thing twice, but also because it is a part of us that is constantly fluctuating.
At every breath we are most vulnerable because every breath invites all things into you. While this may seem overwhelming or unpleasant to some, it is also important to note at every breath is when we are at our strongest, for in every breath we are processing and transmuting that information through our bodies and it is in every breath that we are reconnected to all things in this world.
Remember what fuels you. #meditationmonday #spilledthoughts.
As cliched as it sounds, it's the little things in life that can sometimes fill our heart and soul with purpose and warmth. Sometimes people (myself included) can get so caught up on the big goals and major shifts happening and that we want to happen, that we forget or ignore the little moments throughout each day that can inspire and fuel us.
All of our connections to all things is fleeting; people like friends and family, ideas like love or depression, places like art galleries or coal mines, other living entities like grass or water, it's all fleeting. But while it is all fleeting, it is important to remember we are connected to these things through every breath and heartbeat.
In the past I have used my words carelessly, and as a result it has hurt some people. I can understand how certain things said can have a momentous and megalithic reaction in some, even though it was never my intention to cause such large reactions. Our words are valuable, for they are the air we breath vibrating through us into the consciousnesses of others. And while I realize and understand I am NOT responsible for the actions and reactions of others in how they will interpret & perceive what I say, part of me feels it necessary to take responsibility for the carelessness in which I did speak.
This is part of my humanity.
To be clear, his isn't meant to be a call for political correctness or censorship of thought and words, for I value the freedom of self-expression and speech quite highly. However, this is a call to be mindful of the words we say and the context in which we are using them.


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President Barack Obama addresses attendees at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit.
President Barack Obama's plan to increase access to effective substance abuse treatment was met with a standing ovation in Atlanta yesterday at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, where clinicians, public health officials, and law enforcement personnel gathered to discuss solutions to the nation's epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose deaths.
Stopping the opioid abuse epidemic requires a multifaceted approach, and increasing substance use treatment is integral to those efforts. However, too few of the individuals struggling with this disease have access to such treatment. In fact, the Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that only 20 percent of all people with a substance use disorder ever receive treatment.
President Obama has made substance use treatment a priority, as evidenced by his proposed fiscal year 2017 budget, which calls for $1.1 billion to tackle this epidemic, including expanding access to such services. Yesterday's announcement to further expand access to treatment continues to move us in the right direction. The president's plan includes $11 million in new grants to help states provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Studies have shown that MAT, in conjunction with behavioral therapies, is effective in helping patients. Research consistently shows that illicit opioid use is reduced an average of 40 to 70 percent with MAT compared with nondrug therapy.
In addition, the proposal calls for doubling the number of patients that a physician who prescribes buprenorphine for substance use disorder can treat, from the current 100 patients to 200 per physician. This is a welcome change. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports this effort and also supports allowing nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe buprenorphine. However, this is a federal restriction that the administration cannot lift on its own. Only Congress can make that change—and it should.
The need is urgent. According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 78 Americans die from opioid overdoses every day, and more people died in 2014 from prescription opioid overdoses than in any year on record. MAT can, and should, be part of the solution.
President Barack Obama will speak today at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, where thousands of representatives from local, state, and federal agencies, as well as clinicians and patient advocates, will gather to discuss strategies for curbing overdose deaths and improving treatment of substance use disorders.


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The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth's fragile ozone Layer. The original Montreal Protocol was agreed on 16 September 1987 and entered into force on 1 January 1989.
The Montreal Protocol includes a unique adjustment provision that enables the Parties to the Protocol to respond quickly to new scientific information and agree to accelerate the reductions required on chemicals already covered by the Protocol. These adjustments are then automatically applicable to all countries that ratified the Protocol. Since its initial adoption, the Montreal Protocol has been adjusted six times. Specifically, the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and Nineteenth Meetings of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted, in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 9 of Article 2 of the Montreal Protocol, certain adjustments and reductions of production and consumption of the controlled substances listed in the Annexes of the Protocol. These adjustments entered into force, for all the Parties, on 7 March 1991, 23 September 1993, 5 August 1996, 4 June 1998, 28 July 2000 and 14 May 2008, respectively.
The Parties to the Montreal Protocol have amended the Protocol to enable, among other things, the control of new chemicals and the creation of a financial mechanism to enable developing countries to comply. Specifically, the Second, Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Meetings of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted, in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 4 of Article 9 of the Vienna Convention, four Amendments to the Protocol – the London Amendment (1990), the Copenhagen Amendment (1992), the Montreal Amendment (1997) and the Beijing Amendment (1999). Unlike adjustments to the Protocol, amendments must be ratified by countries before their requirements are applicable to those countries. The London, Copenhagen, Montreal and Beijing Amendments entered into force on 10 August 1992, 14 June 1994 10 November 1999 and 25 February 2002 respectively, only for those Parties which ratified the particular amendments.


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How Searchability are boosting employee engagement with #FirstFriday's!
Keeping employees happy and engaged should be a top priority for companies of any industry, and it is even more crucial in industries like recruitment where long hours and high-pressure targets often lead to poor retention levels. At Searchability we recognised the importance of keeping our employees happy and engaged to stay motivated and productive in the job, and so decided to implement a monthly celebration to make this happen. Every first Friday of the month we have a treat for our employees and we creatively dubbed it #FirstFriday! We want to encourage more companies like us to get involved in similar initiatives to keep a smile on their employees' faces, so here are a few examples of our favourite #FirstFriday celebrations at Searchability to get you inspired!
This was one of our all-time favourite #FirstFriday's because it's the day we surprised the team with our Olympic sized ping pong table! We told everyone to come into the office in their Wimbledon whites, and decked out our top floor office with lawn style table toppers, Wimbledon themed cupcakes, strawberries and cream, Pimms, prosecco and picnic treats! We kicked off the celebrations at lunchtime and held a ping pong tournament with prizes for the winners of ladies singles, men's singles and mixed doubles too! The ping pong table has since become a permanent fixture of the office and the employees absolutely love it!
This was a special #FirstFriday for us because it was our joint stag and hen party for our first ever Searchability couple Chris and Sophie who met here three years ago and got married in June this year! We made this party a festival theme, decked out the office with loads of bunting and balloons, had his and hers themed cocktails, plenty of pizza and our Director Martin even dug out his decks and played a few sets as well! The team donned their festival finest (lots of glitter was involved) and we played the usual stag and hen drinking games before heading into town together!
Each year we celebrate Chinese New Year on the first Friday in February and use it as an opportunity to deliver some new resolutions and celebrate the end of our January diets with a huge Chinese feast! We deliver our resolutions inside fortune cookies, employees pick at random and are given tasks to complete over the course of the year. This can be anything from "hosting a charity event" to "creating a bake-off showstopper".
Last year Dan Butler's Chinese New Year fortune was to arrange a charity event and so he planned a first Friday of gin and beer tasting with all donations going towards the Alzheimer's society. The event fell the day after the Marketing & Digital Recruitment Awards (where we collected the award for Best Tech Digital Team for the second year running) so it was a nice way to celebrate with the whole team! Dan made this a "Brexit" theme, with beers and gins from both the UK and Europe and a silent ballot box letting employees vote for their favourite!
Searchabrazility was one of our first ever #FirstFriday events and it set the bar pretty high! We tied the day in with the 2016 Olympics (which were held in Brazil) and asked everyone to come in dressed as a country of their choice, served caipirinhas and Brazilian beer and kicked off our Olympic office PlayStation tournament which was a 14 day event to play towards the prize of a spa weekend! We kicked off the event in true carnival style with music blasting and drinks flowing, before heading to our local Brazilian restaurant for plenty of food!
Tasked with organising an event after drawing the "First Friday" fortune cookie this year, Liam Harvey treated to an afternoon of Bingo, Searchability style of course! That meant plenty of tech-house tunes and lots of boozy prizes to be won!
This was another more "low key" First Friday but still plenty of fun for the team! We split the office into 6 teams, and gave them questions with rounds including general knowledge, sport, music, picture and entertainment. In true Searchability style we had plenty of beers and prosecco flowing, and the winning team were awarded a mini bottle of café patron as a prize!
This was one of the best First Friday's because the whole thing was organised by our MD Martin Blythe as a thank you to the team. Martin opened up his own cocktail bar, with lots of recruitment themed cocktails to enjoy, hired a masseuse to help the team de-stress in the afternoon and ordered plenty of pizza (which was a good thing because a few of the recruiters had been celebrating 3 award wins at the 2018 Onrec's the evening before!).
We're excited to see what next month's #FirstFriday will bring! Do you offer your employees a similar style incentive to keep them happy and motivated in work? Let us know your thoughts on what works for you!


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Drafting and Launching a Multinational Employer's Global Code of Conduct
"According to the International Labour Organisation, "corporate codes of conduct do not have any authorized definition.... [T]here is a great variance in the way these statements are drafted." "
Indeed, "code of conduct" is not a term of art, but is merely a label affixed to a range of corporate and non-governmental-organization policies.
Most major multinationals, particularly those based in the US, seem to have issued a global conduct code that spells out certain rules applicable to their worldwide operations. These global codes of conduct vary substantially in both purpose and content. Moreover, the focus and content of these codes differs widely. But global codes of conduct do not always do what their issuers intend.
Many corporate policies called "codes of conduct" have little to do with employment relationships: There are professional-association antitrust compliance codes of conduct, environmental-protection codes of conduct, and advisory codes of conduct on topics like intellectual property and computer programming. These codes - while vital - are only loosely connected to global efforts at legal and ethical human resources compliance.
Anchoring the code of conduct discussion in the international employment context, there are two very different types of codes to distinguish: External supplier codes chiefly protect employees working for a multinational's suppliers from so-called "sweatshop" conditions; whereas internal ethics codes chiefly impose compliance rules on a multinational's own employees across its worldwide workforces. In one sense, these two global codes of conduct are opposites: External supplier codes seek to protect employees who are not on the code issuer's payroll, while internal ethics codes seek to restrict (impose rules on) a code issuer's own employees. Some multinational codes of conduct try to combine these two types of document, but effectively combining them is difficult because both the goals and the intended audiences differ.
As such, any multinational launching a global "code of conduct" should: first clarify which type of code it needs, then determine what the code of conduct should say, and finally implement the code properly across global operations. As such, part 1 of this article distinguishes the two types of codes of conduct, part 2 is a checklist of topics to address in an internal ("ethics") code of conduct, and part 3 addresses the steps in properly launching a multinational's internal code of conduct.
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import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;

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 * A mouse event that captures both the point of the event and the source
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    /** Source event */
    private final MouseEvent baseEvent;
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    private Graphic graphic;
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DVD Index
Celia Cruz - Rie Y Llora
Celia Cruz video VOB Rie Y Llora
Mirrors: NovaFile.com, TezFiles.com, Keep2share.cc, Publish2.me
Rie Y Llora
MPEG-2 video VOB
2003y. Released Album
Latin Video September 2003
Other Latin-Music Videos of Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz - Los Rabanes - El Chombo Pres. Lorna video La Negra Tiene Tumbao - Bam Bam - Papi Chulo... Te Traigo El Mmmm...
DVD: Latin Video January 2004
Celia Cruz, Miliki And Willy Chirino video La Cuba Mia
DVD: Latin Video December 2003
Celia Cruz video La Negra Tiene Tumbao
DVD: Latin Video July 2003
DVD: ETV Network Vital Classics 29. Best Of Latin Vol.4
Celia Cruz video Sazon
DVD: MixMash Latin Party Vol.2
Celia Cruz video Azuca' Medley (Paul Buijsman And DJ Leony's Extended Version)
Tito Nieves Feat. Celia Cruz, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Cheo Feliciano And Ismael Miranda video La Salsa Vive
DVD: Latin Video November 2002
DVD: Best Of Tropical Latin Video Vol.2
Celia Cruz video Contrapunto Musical
DVD: Latin Video March 2002
Celia Cruz video Oye Como Va (Extended Version)
DVD: DTVideos Latin Extended Videos Vol.05
Celia Cruz video Celia's Oye Como Va
DVD: Top Latino. Los Videos
Celia Cruz video Rie Y Llora
DVD: Latin Video September 2003
Celia Cruz C. Cruz, C.Cruz, Celia, Celia Crus, Célia Cruz, Celia Cruzová
The "Queen Of Salsa": Born : October 21, 1925 (for some sources : 1924 or 1929) in Havana, Cuba. Died : July 16, 2003 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The voice, charisma and talent of Celia Cruz have created one of the most impressive careers in all of music. Merely listing her accomplishments would require a book. Her more than 70 albums have yielded an unending harvest of gold and platinum records, and she has received more than a hundred awards from prestigious institutions around the world. She received the first of her five Grammy Awards in 1989, and also won two Latin Grammy Awards. She received three doctorates Honoris Causa from Yale, Florida International University and Miami University. Also appearing in 10 movies, most recently including "The Mambo Kings" and "The Perez Family". Celia Cruz began singing in amateur contests at the age of 14, in her home city of Havana, Cuba. She studied music theory, piano and voice at the National Music Conservatory. In 1950 she began singing with the conjunto La Sonora Matancera, and with that group she was a central figure in some of the most glorious chapters of Afro-Cuban music, recording a number of legendary songs, including "Yembe Laroco", "Yerbero Moderno", "Burundanga", and "Caramelo" by the end of the 1950's La Sonora Matancera was the most popular group in Cuba. Celia's alliance with them took her beyond the coast of Cuba and exported her talent to the world. While in the group she met Pedro Knight, at the time one of the band's two trumpeters. This relationship culminated in matrimony and lasted 42 years.
Rie Y Llora - Celia Cruz
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Tomorrow I will be attending GenCon, the biggest table-top gaming convention in the United States. Held in Indianapolis, Indiana, it is four fun-filled days in celebration of the art and hobby of role-playing. There is something for everyone there: games, films, seminars, workshops, dancing, music, and parties. It's an annual event where people from all over the world come to let their hair down and their inner geek out. As a lifelong gamer, I am excited to go to GenCon.
As an ethnic minority, I am apprehensive about going to GenCon.


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Velocity distribution of 43Ca+ion cloud in the low temperature limit in a quadrupole Penning Trap
https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2021.132
Dyavappa B M
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Department of Physics, Government First Grade College for Women, Kolar, India
Quadrupole Penning trap, Velocity distribution function, 43Ca ion cloud
Penning trap has electric field created by DC voltage applied between ring and end cap electrodes and magnetic field is applied along symmetry axis, as the electric field confines ions in the axial direction through an electric potential minimum and the magnetic field confines the ions in the radial direction. The trapping potential created by the DC voltage applied between the end cap and ring electrodes in the low temperature limit is cancelled by Coulomb interaction of ions and the total energy is mainly kinetic energy of ions. The velocity distribution of 43Ca+ ions along axial direction, in radial plane and total velocity distribution due to resulting motion of both axial and radial motion of ions in low temperature limit in a Quadrupole Penning trap are presented here. These results reveal the properties of 43Ca+ ion cloud and are useful to study confining techniques for different types of ions in low temperature limit and a qubit can be encoded in the hyperfine ground states of 43Ca+ isotope for ion trap quantum computation.
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B M, D. (2021). Velocity distribution of 43Ca+ion cloud in the low temperature limit in a quadrupole Penning Trap. Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences, 3(1), 38–41. https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2021.132
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Myanmar Envoy Denies Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims
October 12, 2017 myanmarnewsgazette.com
Myanmar's ambassador to Japan said Thursday there is no ethnic cleansing or genocide of Rohingya Muslims in his country despite violence that has led a half million of them to flee the country.
Myanmar security forces responded to Rohingya militant attacks with a broad crackdown in August in Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled across the border in what the United Nations has called "textbook ethnic cleansing."
The ambassador, Thurain Thant Zin, denied reports of human rights abuses in Rakhine by the military and told reporters in Tokyo that his government was providing humanitarian aid to all affected by the violence.
"To say the Myanmar military conducted those illegal acts is untrue and cannot be true," he said.
"The Myanmar government protests the use of such terms as ethnic cleansing and genocide," he said.
The ambassador said the government is prepared to help resettle all who have fled.
"Some people have said they are too afraid to return to their original homes and want a new place to live," he said. "We have promised the Myanmar government will provide support for reconstruction."
Myanmar's Buddhist majority denies that Rohingya Muslims are a separate ethnic group and regards them as having immigrated illegally.
A report by the U.N. human rights office released Wednesday said attacks against the Rohingya and widespread burning of villages reflected a strategy of instilling "widespread fear and trauma" to prevent those displaced from ever returning to their homes.
The attacks against Rohingya by security forces and Buddhist mobs were "coordinated and systematic," with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar but preventing them from returning, the report said.
Thurain Thant Zin insisted only crime and terrorist attacks were to blame, not ethnic or religious tensions.
"Up to today, Myanmar has no ethnic or religious problems," he said, despite civil strife in Rahkine and elsewhere. He said the issue is one of immigration and that in most communities in the region Buddhists, Muslims and other minorities lived peacefully together.
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Trump's Plan To Zap Incoming Missiles With Lasers Is Back To The Future
By Geoff Brumfiel • Apr 8, 2019
Earlier this year, President Trump laid out an ambitious plan for U.S. missile defenses. "Our goal is simple," Trump said during a speech in January. "To ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States, anywhere, anytime, anyplace."
To reach that goal, the administration's proposed new defense budget calls for hundreds of millions of dollars to study the use of lasers and particle beams in space. "It's new technology," the president said.
Except it isn't.
Japan (Very Carefully) Drops Plastic Explosives Onto An Asteroid
Early Friday morning, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft detonated an explosive device over a small asteroid. The goal was to create a fresh crater that will later be studied by the spacecraft.
India Claims Successful Test Of Anti-Satellite Weapon
By Geoff Brumfiel • Mar 27, 2019
India says it shot down one of its own satellites, making it only the fourth country to test an anti-satellite weapon.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the successful test on Wednesday in a rare national address and on social media. The test would "have a historic impact on generations to come," Modi said in a tweet.
The announcement comes just weeks before national elections in which Modi's party has tried to paint itself as being hawkish on national security.
North Korean Embassy Attack Suspects Fled To U.S., Spanish Court Says
By Geoff Brumfiel & Lucia Benavides • Mar 26, 2019
A Spanish court says assailants who broke into North Korea's Embassy in Madrid last month later fled to the U.S.
According to new documents unsealed on Tuesday, the perpetrators of the attack included a U.S. citizen and another resident. The leader of the plot fled via Lisbon to Newark, N.J., and offered stolen material to the FBI in New York.
Missile Defense Agency Claims Successful Warhead Intercept
The Missile Defense Agency says it has conducted another successful test of its ground-based interceptor system.
Monday's test involved a missile carrying a dummy warhead fired from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. West Coast. Sensors tracked the missile as it flew, and then two interceptors were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Activity At 2nd North Korean Missile Site Indicates Possible Launch Preparations
By Geoff Brumfiel • Mar 8, 2019
Commercial satellite imagery of a facility near Pyongyang suggests that North Korea is preparing to launch a missile or space rocket in the near future.
On Eve Of 2nd Trump-Kim Summit, Is North Korean Reactor Producing Plutonium?
By Geoff Brumfiel • Feb 25, 2019
North Korea's main nuclear reactor for making weapons-grade plutonium may be operating, just days before this week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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When President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discuss denuclearization in Hanoi, they are likely to focus on one North Korean nuclear facility in particular. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel introduces us to it.
Satellite Imagery Suggests 2nd Iranian Space Launch Has Failed
By Geoff Brumfiel • Feb 6, 2019
Satellite imagery of a space launch center in northern Iran suggests a second attempt to launch a satellite has failed.
The imagery, taken Wednesday by San Francisco-based company Planet and shared with NPR, shows burn scars on a newly painted launchpad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center. The burns appeared after days of activity at the site, which suggested Iran had been preparing for a launch.
The U.S. And Russia Are Stocking Up On Missiles And Nukes For A Different Kind Of War
At a Russian base on the Baltic Sea, construction is underway to house a new generation of nuclear-capable missiles.
Tentlike structures have popped up to shelter the mobile missile system, known as Iskander, which is capable of firing weapons with both conventional and nuclear warheads. Recent satellite imagery of the territory, known as Kaliningrad, also shows that old buildings on the base are being demolished.


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Iyad Mando (; born February 20, 1978) is a Syrian footballer, who played for Al-Wathba.

Honour and Titles
Al-Wahda
Syrian Premier League (1 title): 2004.
Syrian Cup (1 title): 2003.

Al-Karamah
Syrian Premier League (4 titles): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Syrian Cup (4 titles): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Syrian Super Cup (1 title): 2008
AFC Champions League: 2006 Runner-up
AFC Cup: 2009 Runner-up

References

1978 births
Living people
Syrian footballers
Syria international footballers
Al-Karamah players
Association football midfielders
Sportspeople from Homs
Syrian Premier League players

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Q: Cant trace out cause of error java.lang.NullPointerException why sometimes this code is throwing errors and sometime not ??
 if ( getActivity().getApplicationContext() != null ){
    File file = new File(getActivity().getApplicationContext().getFilesDir() + "/img.jpg"); }

the above code is inside my fragment
my Error:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.content.Context android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.getApplicationContext()' on a null object reference

A: If you are running this in seperate AsyncTask or thread and activity that has started this no longer exists or active. getActivity() might return null.
So solution is to add null check for getActivity() too along with getActivity().getApplicationContext().

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One of my favorite aspects of living in Ohio is that we have so many local small business owners putting out great products. Why shop at the big box stores when you can get unique gifts and tasty treats from retailers right here in Columbus? All of the items shown below are available at either Celebrate Local at Easton or the New Leaf Market at the Lancaster Greenhouse, and in the case of some items, both locations!
Liberty Pottery is based in historic Roscoe Village in Coshocton. This thrown stoneware often has an Ohio theme, and comes in a variety of interesting colors to suit any decor. Look for beautifully-made platters, pitchers, coffee mugs, and more. I especially like the robin's egg blue glaze they use, and the saucers serve as great bases to hold a candle.
I'm in love with Ridiculously Good Salsa. It is super fresh and great for summer entertaining. My husband lived in New Mexico for a while, and knows good salsa. He and I both give the onion-based zing of the "happy medium" version a big thumbs up. Or, pick up the "mellow" style for topping nachos or fish. Appetizer dilemma solved.
One of my favorite companies for rustic home decor is Columbus Barrel Co. These talented folks craft everything from tables and clocks to sunglasses and cutting boards from re-purposed bourbon barrels. Every creation is gorgeous, and because of the unique grain of each piece of wood, no two items are the same. They do custom orders as well!
Looking for a sweeter wine for patio weather? Wagon Wheel Wines in Canal Winchester has a huge selection of fruit-based beverages, made in-house. Try options such as strawberry-pear cider, hard pink lemonade, black cherry pinot noir wine, or coconut-yuzu wine. I can't wait to make a tropical sangria with one of these wines as a base. Check out their brick-and-mortar shop in downtown CW too.
These lollipops from Lollipop Lush come in tasty flavors like red wine, root beer, and pineapple lime chili. The suckers would be a great favor for a wedding or as part of a gift box for a friend! You can even customize the wrappers for special occasions, or order the pops made in a fun shape like lips or a mustache for a memorable treat.
The salsa and lollipops were provided to Columbus Culinary Connection gratis. This in no way impacts the nature of my opinions or writing.


Well-to-wake (WtW) reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by using LNG as a marine fuel can be reduced by up to 21% compared with current oil-based bunkers, according to an authoritative independent study commissioned jointly by SEA\LNG, an industry foundation promoting liquefied natural gas as a fuel for ships, and the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF).
The analysis, undertaken by thinkstep, a global consulting firm specialising in sustainability, was carried out in accordance with relevant ISO standards and peer-reviewed by four eminent and independent academic experts.
Peter Keller, SEA\LNG chairman and a past executive vp of TOTE Inc, a US-based Jones Act LNG pioneer, conceded that LNG on its own will not enable global shipping to meet the IMO's 2050 carbon reduction ambitions but it will be a major contributor. Doing nothing is simply not an option, he said, and LNG is the only fuel available today that offers safe and scalable benefits.
The analysis assessed the performance of 40 different two-stroke and four-stroke engines, with data provided by original equipment manufacturers. WtW emission reductions ranged between 14-21% for today's two-stroke slow-speed engines, the analysis revealed, and between 7-15% for four-stroke units. More than 70% of marine fuel is used in two-speed engines today.
There are other potential benefits in the pipeline, Keller said, including improvements in engine design and reductions of up to 60% in methane slip by using certain catalysts. BioLNG and synthetic LNG offer further potential GHG reductions. Both are fully interchangeable with LNG derived from fossil feedstock, but a blend containing 20% bioLNG as a drop-in fuel can reduce emissions by a further 13%.
Other potential developments not addressed in this study include the use of liquefied biogas (LBG). Norway's coastal cruise operator, Hurtigruten, plans to burn both LNG and LBG on several existing vessels which are to have engine conversions.
According to SEA\LNG statistics, there are now 143 LNG-fuelled ships in operation, a further 135 on order and 139 vessels under construction and in operation that are 'LNG ready'.