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Double your money: New fund matches social enterprises' trading income
Ellie Ward 21st September 2017
A new grant-funding initiative, which will match the trading income of social ventures pound-for-pound, has been launched by the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) this week.
Match Trading aims to reward sales growth of social ventures operating in challenging markets so that they develop a sustainable trading base. The social entrepreneurs chosen to be part of the scheme will have the opportunity to double their money, up to the amount of Match Trading grant offered.
Alastair Wilson, CEO of SSE, said: "Many of us working in social enterprise have seen the same problem creep in again and again. The leader of a brilliant, high-impact social enterprise realises they can access grant money far more quickly than it takes to generate the same amount in sales. So they apply for more and more grant, and their model becomes dependent on it. The risk is that, if the grant funding dries up, their organisation and all its fantastic impact just topples over.
"We developed Match Trading to help social entrepreneurs working in the toughest markets move towards more trading-based models, to improve their long-term sustainability and impact. Match Trading isn't right for every organisation, but we believe it is an important part of the puzzle in developing a robust social enterprise sector. We welcome the collaboration of other organisations who share this objective, as we develop Match Trading."
The 2015 Social Enterprise UK State of Social Enterprise report found that one in four social enterprises in the UK earn less than 75% of their income from trading. The Match Trading initiative aims to change this. A pilot of the programme provided grants to 19 social entrepreneurs, which was supported by the Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Programme and jointly funded by Big Lottery Fund. Over 12 months, the pilot cohort increased their trading by an average of 92%.
Match Trading… is an important part of the puzzle
Social entrepreneur Meave Darroux is the founder of Brilliant Women (trading as Brilliant Parents), which provides parenting courses to support families across London. As one of the participants of the Match Trading pilot scheme, Darroux increased her trading income by 111% over the 12 months.
Darroux said: "I found the Match Trading grant helped me focus, be more targeted, and channel my energies...the Match Trading grant has been instrumental in our development."
CEO of the Big Lottery Fund Dawn Austwick said: "It [Match Trading] has the potential to be a valuable development in grant funding and will help ensure money goes where it can have the most impact. The Big Lottery Fund will support a further 400 social entrepreneurs with Match Trading grants over the next five years, many working in local communities. I am looking forward to seeing the impact of Match Trading as it is rolled out."
Match Trading explained in 90 seconds: Watch here
If you are a social entrepreneur keen to access Match Trading grants, click here.
If you'd like to find out more about partnering with SSE, piloting or funding Match Trading, or for general information, email: matchtrading@sse.org.uk
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A report published by the government last week estimates that there are 471,000 social enterprises in the UK, making up 9% of the small business population.
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10 pictures on the 10th day of the month!
But instead, I am stuck in italic font and can't get the heck out of it!
I started out my day driving Jeff's new car, beacuse mine is in the shop!
12:10...After picking up Connor from school, dropped off dinner for my friend, Lisa, and her family.
Here is their newest addition!
3:15...Impromptu Lemonade stand in front of our house.
4:24...In the car again on our way to Taekwondo...driving. Again.
4:55...My cutie in his sparring gear.
7:30...After picking up the van from the shop, we all ran by Scott and Shawna's house for a quick visit and I got to see my nephew and new little niece.
Clearly she was happy to see me too!
There it is...I did it! The 10th for Laura Schwab!
Mostly in the car... with a few highlights in between.
Thank the Lord for 4 wheels!
Abby looks just like her beautiful Momma!
I was going to say the same thing! Abby looks just like Momma!
And I love that Connor shared his paycheck with his Sister! What a good Brother!
Way to do 10 on 10! And, wow..you did drive a lot yesterday! But, you also go to see babies, so that is fun!
Why don't you people share the recipes for the yummy things you take pictures of? Sheesh!
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Miyetti Allah is like Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere - Garba Shehu
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- The presidency has compared Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria to other socio-cultural group in the country
- Presidential aide, Garba, denied that the federal government offered to pay a large sum of money to Miyetti Allah to appease them
Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, says the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) is like the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Afenifere socio-cultural groups.
Shehu disclosed this on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, May 7. According to him, the group isn't linked to banditry activities.
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"The Miyetti Allah group is like Ohanaeze Ndigbo or the Afenifere. It's just a cultural group," he said.
However, the presidential spokesman denied that the federal government offered to pay a large sum of money to MACBAN to appease them.
Recall that Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central in the Senate warned the federal government against giving the country's resources to herdsmen under the umbrella body of Miyetti Allah.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari reacted to the current insecurity across various states in Nigeria.
Speaking on Monday, May 6, at the flag-off distribution of cotton seeds and inputs to 100,000 cotton farmers for 2019 planting season in Katsina, President Buhari attributed the insecurity to lack of jobs for the youths.
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Another thing that causes condensation is water vapor. Air holds a certain amount of water vapor, so the fuel tank must contain as little air as possible. If you can limit the quantity of air inside your fuel tank, you can decrease condensation as well.
You should always fill your tank with fuel that is over three-quarters to a half full. You should fill it up regularly and don't let your tank run low on fuel. By doing this, the surface area within your tank where condensation could form is reduced. This is a good thing to practice especially when there is a huge change in temperature during wet or humid weather.
Gas weigh lighter than water. So, when there is condensation, the gas or fuel will just float on top of it and not mix with it. The water from the condensation can accumulation and stay at the bottom of the fuel tanks, which can cause it to rust eventually.
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The Hydroxy-chloroquine Scandal
Iain Davis
Thursday, 18th June 2020
From the outset of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the lockdown regimes that followed, we have been repeatedly told, by all the usual suspects, institutions and the mainstream media, that the only way to get back to normal is with a vaccine; precisely echoing the calls of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Certainly, the UK government was quick to invest in vaccine development. In their Coronavirus Action Plan, published on 3 March, the focus was overwhelmingly on vaccines. The Action Plan noted that a vaccine may not prevent infection from SARS-Cov-2 but could rather manage symptoms of the potentially resultant syndrome, COVID-19:
Given that there is currently neither a vaccine against COVID-19 nor any specific, proven, antiviral medication, most treatment will therefore be towards managing symptoms … innovate responses including diagnostics, drugs and vaccines ...
This notion that a proposed vaccine may not actually stop SARS-CoV-2 infections, but rather manage symptoms of COVID-19, was clearly signalled by Pascal Soriot (CEO of AstraZeneca), who are partnering with Oxford University to develop a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on 24 May, Soriot stated:
We are quite confident the vaccine will work, actually. The question is, will it completely clear the virus or stop people being sick … This is what happens with the flu vaccine, for instance ... It simply stops people from being sick … Being protected against being sick would already be a big plus.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has, so far, held a number of discussions with Bill and Melinda Gates about the COVID-19 crisis. On 4 June, the UK government hosted the GAVI vaccine alliance Replenishment Summit in London. The Gates Foundation gave GAVI $1.2 billion in 2019 and was among its founding partners. It has contributed more than $4.1Bn to GAVI during its two-decade-long mission to create "healthy markets for vaccines."
Bill Gates and Boris Johnson were the keynote speakers at the summit. In his address, Johnson stated:
I want to say a particular thank you to Bill and Melinda Gates for their generosity, their philanthropy, yet again, and their continued leadership in humanity's battle against disease … Just as we have great military alliances like NATO … so we now need that same spirit of collaboration and collective defence against the common enemy of disease … It will require a new international effort to co-operate on the surveillance and sharing of information that can underpin a global alert system … it will need a radical scaling-up of our global capacity to respond, exactly as Bill [Gates] has set out.
As Johnson's comments reveal, there is much more than just healthcare riding on the back of Coronavirus vaccine development. The vaccine itself sits at the centre of a web of surveillance, restricted freedom of movement and restricted access to employment and services based upon your allocated immunity status.
A whole new tech industry, combining global corporations and intelligence agencies, is springing up to monitor, control and surveil populations. Perhaps we could call this the "disease intelligence industrial complex."
A Vaccine That Doesn't Need To Work
Johnson's Coronavirus Action Plan announcement followed the World Health Organisation's February summit with the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response (GLOPID-R).
GLOPID-R's list of funding organisations, with significant financial interests in vaccine sales, is notable. For example, there is the Gates Foundation, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), the Wellcome Trust, and the French medical research agency Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale).
The two-day WHO / GLOPID-R summit took place on 11-12 February. One month later, on 11 March, the WHO declared a global coronavirus pandemic. The summit produced the Target Product Profile (TPP) which needs to be met in order for the WHO to approve any proposed COVID-19 vaccine.
The WHO would prefer that the vaccine prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections, but it doesn't have to, so long as it reduces the worst effects of COVID-19. It doesn't need to be 100% effective either; 70% is fine.
Since, at the time of writing, COVID-19 is said to have impacted 0.1% of the global population, allegedly killing less than 0.006%, the WHO's measure of success for a global vaccine being that it protect 70% of the global population from a disease that doesn't affect 99.9% of the population, the chances of WHO approval for anything look pretty good — an inert saline solution should do the job. It is not surprising, then, that vaccine developers are so confidently looking forward to a global market and global profits.
A cheap, widely available off-patent drug that achieves exactly the same thing as the vaccine must, therefore, be seen as a problem.
Why Not Hydroxychloroquine?
When the world is presented with a virus which is claimed to cause a potentially fatal disease for which there is no known treatment, and if our only claimed wish is to "save lives," trialling any and all potential treatments makes obvious sense.
Resistance to trials would suggest that saving life may not be the priority. If the evidence shows that powerful public health bodies and foundations have apparently colluded to stop trials, there can be little doubt another agenda has taken precedence over saving lives.
When the WHO declared a global pandemic, chloroquine, and its modern form hydroxychloroquine, were the most obvious candidates for investigative clinical trials. Its possible effectiveness had, after all, been noted since at least 2005.
Scientists and doctors around the world took note of early promising clinical trials in China. In France, Prof. Didier Raoult, one of the world's most published microbiologists, announced his own trials. He stated that he thought it would be foolish not to trial chloroquine more widely.
Prof. Didier Raoult
Scientists at Stanford University agreed, reporting apparent treatment success in both China and South Korea. The Stanford team also advocated more thorough clinical trials of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
Yet resistance to trialling hydroxychloroquine was immediately evident. Raoult was attacked in France for suggesting hydroxychloroquine could work to prevent the most severe, life-threatening, symptoms of COVID-19. These attacks, which we would characterise as a disinformation campaign, came from the mainstream media, other scientists who worked for Inserm, and politicians.
The persistent claim, repeated ad nauseam by the mainstream media, that hydroxychloroquine presents some sort of severe heart risk, simply isn't true.
The cardiovascular risks for hydroxychloroquine are overwhelmingly associated with acute poisoning, often intentional, when used in combination with other antiviral drugs, or with prolonged high-dosage use.
There is virtually no cardiovascular risk at all to taking it, as recommended, for short-course treatments — as you would if you took it as a prophylaxis for COVID-19.
The case fatality rate (CFR) for the oldest COVID-19 patients has been reported to rise to more than 14%. Raoult's largest field study, of more than one thousand patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, showed that the CFR for the oldest patients dropped to 0.5%.
Raoult is by no means the only scientist or doctor to have seemingly proven the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19; especially as a prophylactic.
Doctors in New York found that hydroxychloroquine treatment increased survival rates; Brazilian doctors discovered that treating patients with hydroxychloroquine reduced their chances of requiring hospital treatment by nearly 300%, with no notable adverse events; Chinese doctors reduced fever duration and improved the clinical outcomes for patients treated with chloroquine; doctors in Spain used hydroxychloroquine to increase patient survival rates; researchers in the U.S. found that the addition of zinc further improved outcomes; doctors treating Chinese patients with hydroxychloroquine found no increase in adverse events for their patients; and a systemic review of the available evidence by Indian researchers concluded:
There is theoretical, experimental, preclinical and clinical evidence of the effectiveness of chloroquine in patients affected with COVID-19. There is adequate evidence of drug safety from the long-time clinical use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
However, if we were to rely on the MSM for our information, we would not know any of this. Why are they apparently so eager to convince us that hydroxychloroquine is harmful? Why are the WHO, Inserm and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) determined that hydroxychloroquine trials won't proceed?
The Problem With Hydroxychloroquine
The leading scientific advocates of hydroxychloroquine recommend that it should primarily be used in the early stages of COVID-19, or even prior to developing the syndrome, as a prophylactic. Should the person develop the symptoms of COVID-19, they could, for example, begin a course of what has become known as the Marseilles Treatment: hydroxychloroquine with the antibiotic azithromycin (HCQ+AZ) plus zinc to aid absorption.
Struggling to comprehend the seemingly inexplicable resistance to trialling HCQ+AZ, Prof. Harvey Risch, MD, from Yale University, argued that HCQ+AZ should immediately be used as an early therapy for COVID-19 patients. He wrote:
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reports and public media…..Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy......These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe.
His is far from the only eminently qualified opinion questioning the irrational blocking of treatment with hydroxychloroquine. In Michigan, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) have launched an appeal against an FDA injunction to allow them to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for their COVID-19 patients.
The WHO's Solidarity Trials to test hydroxychloroquine were launched on 18 March. The WHO stated that four hundred hospitals in thirty-five countries had recruited 3,500 patients to take part. At the same time, the WHO launched its Solidarity Trial for potential vaccines.
The UK government did not take part in the WHO's Solidarity trials, instead running their own Recovery Trial and separate COPCOV and PRINCIPLE trials.
The Recovery Trial's core funding comes from the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Oxford University, among others. Oxford University is running vaccine trials, in partnership with AstraZeneca. The Recovery Trial was not investigating the prophylactic potential of hydroxychloroquine.
The COPCOV trial was due to assess hydroxychloroquine's prophylactic efficacy in protecting healthcare workers against contracting COVID-19.
The PRINCIPLE trial was perhaps the most relevant of all. Vulnerable over-fifties, and people over 65, were to be offered hydroxychloroquine in a large-cohort study of patients in primary care (GP practices and community care settings).
In France, Inserm ran its own Discovery Trials in parallel with the WHO's Solidarity Trials. Again, they were only assessing hydroxychloroquine in isolation, for the most ill patients. Only the UK's COPCOV and PRINCIPLE trials were assessing potential preventive efficacy. COPCOV also had an international arm.
However, none was trialling the recommended Marseilles Treatment.
Initially Inserm refused point-blank to trial hydroxychloroquine at all. Four days before the launch of the WHO's Solidarity Trials, Prof. Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of France's health emergency rapid response committee (REACTing — REsearch and ACTion targeting emerging infectious diseases) stated that the Discovery Trials would exclude chloroquine (hydroxychloroquine) and would only trial patented drugs:
We have not retained it [hydroxychloroquine] for the moment, in particular because of its undesirable effects. It also has frequent interactions with other drugs. However, intensive care patients are often treated with multiple drugs.
This followed a decision on 15 January, made by the then French Minister of Solidarity and Health, Agnès Buzyn, to reclassify hydroxychloroquine in all its forms as a poisonous substance.
Prior to this decision, for more than fifty years, the French had been able to buy hydroxychloroquine over the counter. Once demand shot through the roof, as the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, they suddenly could no longer get it without a prescription.
With the WHO initially including hydroxychloroquine in their Solidarity Trials, Inserm had little option but to reluctantly include it in their Discovery Trials on Solidarity launch day, 22 March. Inserm stated in its press release:
We analyzed the data from the scientific literature concerning the SARS and MERS coronaviruses as well as the first publications on SARS-COV2 from China to arrive at a list of antiviral molecules to be tested: remdesivir, lopinavir in combination with ritonavir…….and hydroxychloroquine. The list of these potential drugs is also based on the list of experimental treatments classified as priorities by the World Health Organization.
This can be seen as little more than disingenuous back-peddling. The data from the scientific literature hadn't changed in the space of a few days. If REACTing previously considered the hydroxychloroquine risks too high, no new evidence had emerged to alter that assessment.
Hydroxychloroquine Trials Abandoned for No Reason At All
Within days of the hydroxychloroquine trials starting, on 22 May The Lancet published a study by a team of four U.S. researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Advanced Heart Disease. The paper alleged that hydroxychloroquine presented too high a risk of ventricular arrhythmia and potentially increased mortality for COVID-19 patients.
The WHO suspended hydroxychloroquine Solidarity Trials on 25 May. U.S. researchers did the same, as did German public health authorities, Inserm and many others. The WHO effectively triggered all the suspensions.
The study published in The Lancet was not just a scientific fraud, it was a glaringly obvious scientific fraud. All the data for the Brigham study came from a single source, Surgisphere, which promotes itself as a medical data mining company and which was founded by one of the study's authors, Dr. Sapan S. Desai.
Scientists around the world immediately noticed significant problems with the Surgisphere data. The data were too homogeneous for a global study; it seemed impossible that four researchers could collate such a massive hoard of data. Claims that this had all been achieved in a matter of weeks were laughed at by many genuine scientific researchers.
Surgisphere claimed it had a global network of participating hospitals, which would have required global ethics and data protection approval from every individual hospital. These claims were widely considered literally unbelievable.
Medical researchers and scientists from around the world wrote an open letter to The Lancet expressing their deep concerns about the study. The Lancet initially offered a minor correction, attempting, but failing, to account for the erroneous data.
Consequently The Lancet issued a statement saying "serious scientific concerns" had been brought to their attention. When The Lancet requested that Surgisphere participate in a data audit, it seems Dr. Desai declined. At this point, the other three authors of the study requested that The Lancet withdraw the paper, which it did on 3 June. Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, said:
This is a shocking example of research misconduct in the middle of a global health emergency.
Yet, despite the fact that scientists from across the globe were able to spot the fake paper with ease, neither The Lancet nor the world's leading experts in public health, the World Health Organisation, could. Instead, it suspended trials of a potentially life-saving medication, that had only just begun, in the middle of a supposed global pandemic.
When the WHO made its suspension, on 26 May, the UK MHRA did the same. They suspended all trials initially, but then reinstated the Recovery trial: the only trial of the three which is not investigating hydroxychloroquine's potential as a prophylactic.
Like the WHO, the MHRA either didn't exercise any due diligence — or don't care about saving lives.
The same day, despite there being no UK completed trials of Gilead Science's remdesivir, the MHRA approved it for hospital treatment of COVID-19 patients anyway. They based this on the expert recommendation of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM).
According to the CHM's declaration of interests (p. 141–p. 247), there doesn't seem to be a single pharmaceutical corporation which isn't well represented among its members. Gilead Sciences has strong ties with the CHM.
The MHRA decision, and the CHM recommendation, followed the release of remdisivir trial data from the U.S. which suggested the drug could aid recovery of seriously ill patients by up to 31%.
That U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) study was funded by the Gates Foundation-backed NIAID, headed by Dr Anthony Fauci. NIAID made a $37.5 million grant in February for the research.
Unlike hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir is patented. With 25 years left to run, Gilead Sciences can charge whatever they like for their drug until 2037 at the earliest.
A number of other studies have not been able to find any significant benefit from remdisivir. The WHO withdrew some of these unfavourable remdesivir studies from their trial database, as it had accidentally uploaded them. Other remdisivir trials were stopped when adverse effects were observed.
Following exposure of the Surgisphere fake science, the WHO initially claimed it would reinstate their hydroxychloroquine Solidarity Trials. However, this didn't happen.
On 5 June, the Recovery Trial team announced that it had found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine. Prof. Peter Horby, Chief Investigator for the trial, said:
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have received a lot of attention and have been used very widely to treat COVID patients despite the absence of any good evidence. The RECOVERY Trial has shown that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 ...
This was immediately reported by the mainstream media and the WHO announced it had terminated their hydroxychloroquine arm of the Solidarity trials. Citing data from its own trials and Inserm's Discovery trials, yet to be released, the WHO stated:
This decision applies only to the conduct of the Solidarity trial and does not apply to the use or evaluation of hydroxychloroquine in pre- or post-exposure prophylaxis in patients exposed to COVID-19.
The only released data has come from the Recovery Trial, also referenced by the WHO. Yet the Recovery Trial has also been exposed as scientific nonsense. The Deputy Chief Investigator of the Recovery Trial, Prof. Martin Landray, gave an interview to France-Soir. What he revealed was quite remarkable.
Firstly, the mortality rate of the hydroxychloroquine patients was a staggering 25.7%.
The recommended hydroxychloroquine dose for an adult in the UK is no more than 200 — 400 mg per day. In France, 1800 mg per day is considered to be lethal poisoning.
Yet, across 175 UK hospitals, 1542 patient participants in the Recovery Trial were given 2400 mg (six times the recommended maximum dose), in the first twenty-four hours. This was followed up by ten days at twice the recommended maximum dose at 800 mg.
It isn't really clear what the objective was. This wasn't so much a trial of effectiveness; it looked more like an experiment in toxic poisoning. That would seem to account for the atrocious mortality rate.
Explaining that the dose was chosen by using computer-generated mathematical models, Prof Landry stated:
The doses were chosen on the basis of pharmacokinetic modelling, and these are in line with the sort of doses that you use for other diseases such as amoebic dysentery.....For a new disease such as Covid, there is no approved dosing protocol. But the HCQ dosage used [is] not dissimilar to that used, as I said, in for example amoebic dysentery.
Hydroxyquinoline — not hydroxychloroquine — is used for the treatment of amoebic dysentery. Perhaps it is not without good reason that Prof. Didier Raoult described the Recovery Trial as "the Marx Brothers doing science," though given the terrible death toll, it doesn't really seem like much of a laughing matter.
What can we conclude from all this? It seems the WHO, the MHRA, Inserm, and public health bodies around the world have used fake science, fake data, deliberately destructive studies and what appears to be wilful ignorance to make sure hydroxychloroquine is never trialled as a preventive COVID-19 treatment.
The repeated statements, from numerous sources, that there is no scientific evidence to justify the use of the Marseilles Treatment as a prophylactic treatment for COVID-19 are risible. Should it ever be widely acknowledged as effective, the already spurious argument for a COVID-19 vaccine would be wholly untenable.
Only the most naive could imagine there aren't many powerful individuals, foundations and institutions, including governments, who wish to stop the preventive treatment efficacy of HCQ+AZ with zinc ever being proven.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has stated that it will continue to advocate the use of hydroxychloroquine for front-line health workers, as no notable adverse reactions were evident. Dr Samiran Panda, director of the ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, reported the results of Indian trials into its use as a prophylactic treatment for health professionals:
The main conclusion that can be drawn after analysing the data is that hydroxychloroquine has beneficial effects in infection risk reduction from the fourth dose onwards…….[hydoxychloroquine] will help cut the risk of infection by 80% in healthcare workers who are not already sick.
Iain Davis writes at In This Together.
Author, blogger, researcher and short film maker who rants at in-this-together.com.


Sigve Tonstad is a pastor and internal medicine physician with a special interest in diabetes. He has a B.A. in Theology from Middle East College, Lebanon, and Andrews University, Michigan; an M.A. in Biblical Studies from Loma Linda University, California, where he also got his medical degree; and a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, having his doctrinal dissertation, Saving God's Reputation, published in 2006 by T. & T. Clark. In 2009, Andrews University Press published his book The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day. He is an Associate Professor of Religion at Loma Linda University. His wife, Serena, also a physician, is an expert in the three biggest concerns of preventive medicine: smoking, metabolic disease, and lipids.


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Taylor Swift set to release a 'surprise' album
Taylor Swift is set to release a "surprise" new album.
The award-winning star has announced via social media that her eighth studio album, titled 'Folklore, will be released at midnight on Thursday (23.07.20).
Taylor, 30, wrote on Twitter: "Tonight at midnight I'll be releasing my 8th studio album, folklore; an entire brand new album of songs I've poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. Pre-order at https://store.taylorswift.com (sic)"
Taylor - who released her previous album, 'Lover', in August 2019 - subsequently teased further details of her new record.
She shared: "folklore will have 16 songs on the standard edition, but the physical deluxe editions will include a bonus track "the lakes." Because this is my 8th studio album, I made 8 deluxe CDs & 8 deluxe vinyls available for 1 week [smiley emoji] Each has unique covers & photos https://store.taylorswift.com (sic)"
The 'Gorgeous' hitmaker also revealed she'll be releasing a video for the track 'Cardigan', and reassured her fans that everyone followed coronavirus safety guidelines during the shoot.
A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)
In fact, Taylor even did her own hair and make-up for the soon-to-be-released video.
The chart-topping star wrote: "The music video for "cardigan" will premiere tonight, which I wrote/directed. A million thank you's to my brilliant, bad a** video team - Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, producer Jil Hardin, executive producer Rebecca Skinner, AD Joe 'Oz' Osbourne
"Editor Chancler Haynes, special effects wizards David Lebensfeld & Grant Miller and set designer Ethan Tobman. The entire shoot was overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, makeup, and styling [laughing emoji] (sic)"
Taylor explained via Instagram that she hadn't actually planned to release her new album at this time.
But recent events have reminded her that "nothing is guaranteed" in life.
She wrote on the photo-sharing platform: "Before this year I probably would've overthought when to release this music at the 'perfect' time, but the times we're living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed. My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That's the side of uncertainty I can get on board with. Love you guys so much [love heart emoji] (sic)"


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More and more, people are in favor or returning to the historic meaning of the United States Constitution, a small federal government limited in its powers to those directly granted by the words of the Constitution.
Having gone so far away from this model of government, such a return seems an impossible dream. So, how could the United States restore its Constitution in the wake of the present economic meltdown?
It will be unfortunately a jarring, painful process for many citizens given the hole the Republicrats have dug, but less painful ultimately than a further descent into fascism. Economic pain for a period of time is the price to be paid for not correcting our course back to liberty long before this disaster took hold.
All the impossible government promises will have to be forgotten. The end of the welfare/warfare state will dislocate millions of workers as people leave unproductive lines of work created by the 70-year Washington, D.C. expansion bubble. A return to free people and free markets could be derailed by opponents anywhere along the way, and then sent into reverse again.
Constitution and freedom it must be decisive in order to allow liberty to work its magic. It will not be long before an American economy freed from the chains of government shows people for the first time in their life what great national economic growth is.
A top ten list of imperatives changes is shocking to many Americans though and quite threatening to the ruling class.
1. Abolish the Federal Reserve and return to sound money.
2. Abolish over a few years Commerce, Education, Agriculture, Homeland Security, HHS, Labor and Energy transferring some functions. Sharply reduce all other departments eliminating functions beyond the limits of the Constitution.
3. Bring all the troops home in short order ending the military-industrial-congressional complex.
6. Abolish most federal taxes once the national debt has gone way down. Cut taxes over a few years at a rate less than the huge cuts in federal spending.
7. Amend the Constitution to end the congressional powers under the Commerce Clause that were largely usurped during the last depression. Appoint judges who limit government to its enumerated powers unlike all of the present federal judges.
8. Help break up the government education monopoly at the State level by encouraging competition and choice by word and example.
9. End entanglements with other nations that limit the freedom of our nation while pursuing one large exception, free-trade. End over a short time the reliance of other nations on the military power of the United States.
10. Establish an enforced immigration policy that seeks to attract the best and brightest from across the world.
Without question these comprehensive changes will spark a wave of protest and backlash from the privileged class using every slander and deceit on earth. It could become generational warfare in America for a short time. But the benefits of greater freedom for all across the board will become apparent quickly enough to almost everyone, other than those tossed from their undeserved high perches. It could be the beginning of the first truly free nation for all, prosperous well beyond what any government edict could ever grant.
And America's exceptional character as the leader of freedom in the world would be proven once again.


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Q: Display Images from Umbraco Media in Document i create a Document(PDF) and get the Content from the Umbraco nodes.
But there's a problem by displaying the images. How can i display or get the images from the Media libary of Umbraco? Is there a way, offered from Umbraco to get the Image(s)?
Thanks a lot.

A: If I understand your query correctly, you a pretty much there.
You should simply be able to get the umbracoFile path (just like you are for the PDF file) and simply declare it as the img src!
With Razor...
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Home Uncategorized Along Norwegian Fjords by Car
Along Norwegian Fjords by Car
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Our road trip starts from Bergen. If you would like to experience Norwegian mountain landscapes, waterfalls, picturesque towns, exciting viewing points and spectacular bridges, don't miss this route from Bergen to Trondheim.
You drive through the longest road tunnel in the world, climb the famous Troll path and experience the spectacular Atlantic Road.
Wild camping is allowed in Norway, so as long as you're not on private property and don't disturb anyone, you may camp anywhere.
Sorfjord from viewing point near E16. Photo: Svein Magnus
From Bergen
Follow the E16 national road along Sorfjorden, which is a 38-kilometer (24 ml) long fjord and one of the innermost branches of the Hardangerfjord. It stretches from north of the village of Kinsarvik straight south to the industrial town of Odda. The Folgefonna glacier and Folgefonna National Park are located just to the west of the fjord, and Hardangervidda mountain plateau lies to its east.
Bojabreen glacier. Photo: Andreas Wiesner
Some of the notable villages that line the sides of the fjord include (north to south) Kinsarvik, Lofthus, Vikabygd, Tyssedal, Eitheim and Odda. All the villages along the fjord are filled with fruit farms and orchards, growing fruits like apples and cherries.
Fjaerlands fjord
About 10,000 years ago the Scandinavian land mass started to rise up as enormous glacial ice started to melt. The lower part of the valleys became flooded, and created what we today know as the Osterfjord. The valley was originally not only made through glacial erosion but by the high pressure melting water which pushed its way beneath the ice, carving the landscape as it is today.
Rntrance to Naeriy valley. Photo: Habanero
There are lots of tunnels on the E16 and we arrive at the small town of Voss, which is surrounded by mountains, forests, lakes and flowing rivers. Voss is famous for its Extreme Sports Week, which is hosted every ear in the last week of June. It's regarded as one of the world's premier extreme sports festivals. In Voss you also find an open air museum with several old farmsteads, demonstrating medieval life in Norway.
Laerdal tunnel rest cavern. Photo: Wilfrid
About 14 kilometers after Voss, you'll be passing the 110 meters high Tvidefossen waterfall, which is the biggest of several waterfalls along the way.
Tvindefossen. Photo: Habanero
The Norwegians have constructed a series of tunnels to avoid mountain passes. If you prefer, it is possible to avoid the tunnels and drive on the small mountain roads instead. Many tourists don't feel comfortable in the sometimes dark and narrow tunnels.
Road to Norfjorrd. Photo: Moszi
However, the newest tunnels are just exciting and car friendly. In Naerøy Valley the Gudvanga Tunnel is Norway's second longest tunnel, 11,428 meters long (7.1 miles).
Geiranger fjord. Photo: Brandstroms busstrafikk
The Laerdal Tunnel is the longest road tunnel in the world succeeding the Swiss Goothard Road Tunnel. It is 24.5a kilometers long (15.23 miles). The tunnel carries two lanes of E16 and represents the final link of the new main highway connecting Oslo and Bergen without ferry connection and difficult mountain crossings during winter time.
Construction work started in 1995 and the tunnel opened in 2000.
Because of its length, the architects were considering the mental strain on drivers and divided the tunnel into four sections, separated by three 30 meter wide mountain caverns at 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) intervals. Blue and yellow light illuminate these caverns, giving the impression of sunrise.
Snow route in June. Photo: Bernd Mock
Alternative route is the Aurlandvegen between Aurland and Laerdal. This road crosses the mountain and is definitely more exciting than the tunnel. If you are driving both ways, you may choose one driving one way and the other when returning.
Old Stryn Mountain Road. Photo: ArtDrenalin
Leaving E16, you follow National road 5 northwards. The Fodnes-Mannheller ferry takes you across the Sognefjord in 15 minutes.
Don't miss the famous stave church in Kaupanger before leaving the town of Sogndal and entering into the Fjaerland region where you will have glaciers on both sides of the road.
Before you arrive at Jolster, leave Route 5 and take the E39 and later Route 60 to Norfjord and Stryn.
Route 15. Photo: U. Walli
When in Stryn, leave the main road and head towards Grotli by Road 15. You will pass the lake Strynsvatnet after a few minutes and later, from Videseter, you have a beatiful view of the Stryn valley.
Old Stryn mountain road. Photo: Hubert
It's like driving in a postcard when you take Gamle Strynefjellsvei (Old Stryn mountain road) to Grotli. The road was built in 1894 and its surface is still gravel. It takes you across the Stryn mountain pass and is one of the National Tourist Roads, only open during the summer season.
Old Stryn mountain road. Photo: Thies Peter Lange
From Grotli to Geiranger, by Route 15 and later Route 63, the landscape is breathtaking.
Geiranger is probably the most touristic town in Norway. Thousands of cruise ship passengers and other tourists enjoy the beautiful scenery here every year. The town has 4 hotels, some 50 cabins and souvenir shops selling trolls, knitwear and postcard. The town has been nicknamed Pearl of the North.
Sunrise at Trollstigen. Photo: Brandstoms busstrafikk
Continuing on Road 63 we pass scenic mountain lakes until we reach Norddalsfjord and take the ferry from Eidsdalen to Linge. We are now heading for the Trollstigen (Troll's Ladder) 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north-east.
Trollstigen has an incline of 9% and eleven hairpin turns up a steep mountain side. Vehicles over 12.4 meters long are prohibited from driving the road. Stigfossen waterfalls near the top are falling 320 meters down.
Trollstigen is and has been the connection between two regions, Synnmøre and Romsdal. The crooked road was officially opened on 31 July, 1936 by King Haakon VII. Today it is a part of Road 63.
Atlantic road. Photo: Petter Haavin
Back at sea level again, we head for Andalsnes, a village near the Romsdalsfjord. Road 64 brings us towards Afarnes where a ferry takes us across Eresfjord, and passing the Bolsoya Bridge we arrive in Molde. Road 64 continues towards Kristiansund and we're on our way to the Atlantic Ocean, and a part of the road, appropriately called the Atlantic Road.
Atlantic road. Photo: Giergio Ghezzi
The spectacular road has become such a popular tourist attraction that caution must be shown when driving it, as both locals and visitors frequently use the road to go fishing directly from the roadside.
Cars are passing the Storseisund- bridge, part of the Atlantic Ocean Road, in western Norway . Photo: Winfried Rothermel/dpa/Corbs
Atlanterhavsveien was voted "Norwegian Construction of the Century" on 27 September 2005. The road's sharp turns and wild nature have ranked it first on The Guardian's list of the world's best road trips. Even in bad weather condition it stays open, which can be a thrilling experience.
From Kristiansund, take Road 70 and later R39, heading for Trondheim.
Ferature image (on top): Atlantic road. Photo: Glenn. HGSO
Along Norwegian Fjords by Car, compiled by Admin
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After Kawaguchi-ko, Hakone is surely one of the most visited region to see the Mt. Fuji scenery and for this trip I chose to have a one day trip. After learning pretty much from my previous trip to Kawaguchi-ko, I tried to get more prepared for this trip (even though it is not as perfect as I expected it to be), I want to share a bit for you guys so you won't make the same mistake as I heehee.
Spring looks like pretty tricky for us (especially for tourists from a tropical country.. like me) to decide which proper clothes to wear. At morning to noon, it's relatively warm but getting colder with much wind in the afternoon, and the temperature in Hakone is usually more colder by 2 or 3 degrees than Tokyo. So, I suggest you to dress a little warmer, maybe using long sleeves sweater and spring coat/puff jacket for the outer. It is important to bring scarves if you're planning to ride the pirate ship around the lake (as it is very windy aboard).
There are many ways to go to the Hakone area, some provided with the Hakone Freepass, some don't. For train, there are two option that you can choose; Limited Express Romancecar or the regular train. The cheapest way is by buying the Hakone Freepass as they also provided the regular train ticket from and to Shinjuku station. But the fastest and most comfortable I could say is by the Limited Express Romancecar, because you'll get the reserved seat onboard while on regular train you probably won't get seat for the 2 hours travel to the Hakone-Yumoto station as by the Limited Express train it will take only about 1,5 hours. The only disadvantage is that Limited Express Romancecar quite expensive as it costs extra 1090 yen one way from Shinjuku station (but if you seek more comfort and faster trip I suggest to buy this Limited Express train ticket).
Another option you can choose is by using Odakyu Highway Bus also from Shinjuku Station, but it costs more than trains (about 2000 yen one way), and take at least 2 hours to Hakone.
First, what is Hakone Freepass? Hakone Freepass is like a discount pass which provides unlimited use of Odakyu buses, trains, boats, cablecars and ropeways in the Hakone area and also provides some discounted admission to selected tourist attractions. Similar with Kawaguchi-ko Bus Pass, Hakone Freepass also offer 2-days and 3-days pass, and each costs 5140 and 5640 yen, if you're buying at the Odakyu Sightseeing Center in Shinjuku Station (included the round trip regular train ticket from and to Shinjuku Station). You can also buy the pass inside the Hakone area (e.g. Odawara Station), exclude the round trip to Shinjuku Station for 4000 yen and 4500 yen each for the 2-days and 3-days pass.
If you're already have the Hakone Freepass, I suggest you to ride every free transportation mode, as you can also enjoy the Fuji sceneries. So, here are the little snippets from my trip while using the Hakone Freepass as maximum as I can hehe.
Hakone Tozan Railway will take you from Hakone Yumoto Station to Gora Station, but you can also drop at midway to visit several attraction like Hakone Open Air Museum (it's very recommended for art lover, unfortunately I didn't drop by there as I have so little time). This railway will take you at least 30 minutes to the Gora Station, and you can exchange to the Tozan Bus Line to go to several attraction in Hakone area or Tozan Cable Car to the Sounzan Station and continue riding the Hakone Ropeway to the Lake Ashinoko.
Before arriving to the Lake Ashinoko, Hakone Ropeway will transfer in Owakudani Station and if you're interested, you should go outside the station and see the views of the rising volcanic fumes sceneries, before going to straight to the Togendai Station (Lake Ashinoko).
Arriving at the Togendai Station, you can choose to transfer to the Tozan Bus Line and go to several area in Hakone or ride the pirate ship to see the view of Mt. Fuji (if you're lucky with nice weather and clear sky, because I'm not huhu), and the beautiful Lake Ashi. There are 2 stop on the way, but you can also ride a round trip back to Togendai Station and it will take you about 1 hour (please check the time schedule first).
The next popular destination (for Indonesian, especially) is Gotemba Premium Outlet! After finishing your trip in Lake Ashinoko, you can ride the route W bus to the Gotemba Station and it will take you at least 30 minutes ride (it's free with the Hakone Freepass), then ride the shuttle bus to the Gotemba Premium Outlet (it's also free, no need to show the Hakone Freepass).
PS : I accidentally found this crepes stall and tried the Cacao Crepe with Banana Chocolate and its unexpectedly good! Worth to try while resting your feet after a lot of shopping!
There are three ways to go to back to Shinjuku Station, by regular train, Limited Express Romancecar or by bus, all are departing at Gotemba Station. You can use your Hakone Freepass to ride the regular train from the Gotemba Station, but for me, I was too exhausted and thinking that I have to experience 2 hours train ride with regular bench seat and several transits are definitely not my choice. So, decided to spend extra cost about 1740 yen to ride the Expressway Bus straight to the Shinjuku Station (I know I should have ride the Romancecar, but bus was the fastest way as it's already there, lucky me haha). It was 2 hours ride to the Shinjuku Station as there were quite traffic that day.
Before buying the Hakone Freepass, I suggest you to decide your itinerary first. For a one day trip itinerary, you can follow my itinerary above and it will be quite efficient by buying the Hakone Freepass. But, if you want a simpler transportation ride, by bus or just make a round trip to Lake Ashi, buying Hakone Freepass will be much more expensive.
So, one thing for sure, riding all the transportation to the Hakone (especially to the Lake Ashi) is quite exhausting and takes too much time. For me, because I started quite late, I go to straight to the Lake Ashi without resting even once, from Shinjuku-Hakone Yumoto-Gora (take a 30 minutes rest to have lunch)-Souzan-Owakudani-Togendai-Boat Tour-Gotemba Station, and it is verryyy exhausting. I spend at least 3 hours to make it to the Lake Ashi. So, make sure you start earlier (I think an 8 AM train from Shinjuku Station will be enough), to have more relaxing trip.
To explore most of Hakone (with the Gotemba Premium Outlet trip), I think one day is surely not enough, counting on the trip to each attraction.
That's all guys! Sorry for the lonnnngggg posts as I want to share most information and my experience about Hakone. If you are visiting Hakone, and want to share more about Hakone, feel free to comment me. Hoping to hear from you soon, wanderers!


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21 July 2012 - Ωmega's code worked a treat thanks, but could be improved by leaving already converted links?

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The accommodation sleeps up to four people and comprises of two bedrooms, one double room on the ground floor and a twin bedded room upstairs.
A comfortable room with double bed, chest of drawers and fitted wardrobe. Shaving adaptor and mirror provided.
Accessed via the stairs from the sitting room.
Mind your head here! But enjoy the character of the room and the excellent view across the Solway to Scotland.
Twin beds, chest of drawers, clothes store, shaving adaptor and mirror.


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Q: internet available or not in codenameone how to check whether internet is available or not in codenameone?
I have used getAutoDetectUrl method of Networkmanager.
And this method always return the following text:
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And it throws following exception in case of network disconnected
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So how can I check whether internet is available or not?

A: I solved it this way:
public static boolean am_i_online() {
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Nevertheless I decided for this approach rather than trying to connect to a remote host with ConnectionRequest mainly because of simplicity, speed and the fact thats not necessary to "call home" all the time.
Currently it seems that this solution works for WLAN as well as mobile data connections.

A: The auto detect URL is used internally in Codename One. The getter is exposed for consistency.
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Bezaubernde Lügen (Originaltitel: De vrais mensonges) ist eine französische Liebeskomödie aus dem Jahr 2010.

Handlung
Die 30-jährige Émilie ist Chefin eines Friseursalons. Eines Tages erhält sie einen anonymen Liebesbrief. Sie ahnt nicht, dass er von Jean stammt, der als Handwerker in ihrem Friseursalon arbeitet und zu schüchtern ist, um sich ihr zu offenbaren. Die gefühlvollen Zeilen lassen Émilie kalt, so dass sie kurzerhand im Papierkorb landen. Doch dann kommt ihr eine Idee. Sie will ihrer in Scheidung lebenden Mutter Maddy eine Freude machen. Tatsächlich lebt Maddy wieder auf, als sie die angeblich an sie gerichteten Worte liest. Doch Émilie hat sich zu früh gefreut über ihren Erfolg, denn Maddy wartet sehnsüchtig auf weitere Zeichen von ihrem anonymen Verehrer.

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There are various paths to turning into knowledgeable dancer and no two dancers' roads are ever precisely alike. Billy Mustapha's expertise, lightning-fast talents to absorb choreography and his versatility as a mover are why he's been chosen for and featured in high-profile tasks like ABC's Once Upon A Time, The Flash on CW and Disney's Freaky Friday and Descendants three. It's also why this Canadian, born and raised in Calgary, is booked as a dancer to tour the U.S. in 2019 with a multi-platinum recording artist. Like all dancers, nevertheless, Mustapha has stayed his course in dance because of a personal dedication and devotion to the artwork type and because of the individuals who have acted as guideposts along the best way.
Mustapha started down his pathway in dance after experimenting with quite a lot of sporting activities. Hockey (the preferred sport of his two brothers), kickboxing, soccer — none of those felt like the correct fit.
Starting his dance schooling at Calgary's Dance Spectrum Inc. at age seven, Mustapha immersed himself in each dance genre the studio provided. Choosing a physical and artistic outlet in performance might have appeared shocking for a kid who not often left his mother's aspect and required his brother's presence at birthday parties to which he alone was invited. Nevertheless, Mustapha's experiences in dance and movement exploration progressively introduced out a confidence that helped him to beat his separation nervousness. At simply 17, he moved to Vancouver alone to comply with his passion and pursue a profession in dance.
Mustapha made the 600-mile leap (for our worldwide readers, that's almost 1000 km) to Vancouver to bear the Intensive Training Program (ITP) at Harbour Dance Centre. A program designed to train dancers for careers in business dance, ITP consists of over 20 hours per week of company training and courses in dance, in addition to appearing, singing and even aerial and circus expertise.
It was a chance Mustapha might not have grasped had it not been for mentor, dance skilled, and creator and host of The Dance Podcast Lauren Ritchie. Ritchie hosted a program referred to as The Dance Lab, throughout which dance business leaders would interact in video chat with aspiring artists eager to take subsequent steps within the dance business. Among these leaders was ITP director Moe Brody. The expertise tremendously influenced Mustapha's determination to audition for an elusive spot in the ITP program.
Mustapha excelled inside the program, dancing lead roles and turning into an integral part of the the exhibits produced by ITP. He was also known as "Dance Captain" for going out of his method to help the choreographers, who incessantly referred to as upon him for help in rehearsals.
"Billy has a natural glow about him when he performs his signature style, and ITP was elevated because of his involvement," praises Brody.
Nice dancers who go the space in an business as competitive as dance, sometimes remain gracious and humble all through their careers. Displaying hints of his personal greatness, Mustapha didn't overlook to thank his mentor Richie for her present of empowerment by way of preparation as he seemed towards his future. Her reply, "It's because I believe in you, Billy," along with the time she invested in him was vital for the rising dancer, giving him confidence to pursue his goals.
Canadian choreographer Paul Becker has worked with a few of the largest names in leisure, together with Ariana Grande, The Jonas Brothers, Ciara and Kanye West. His identify is well-known, having choreographed over 200 movies and television tasks, from Twilight to Descendants to the Netflix collection A Collection of Unfortunate Occasions and Once Upon A Time.
It was throughout Becker's work on As soon as Upon A Time that Mustapha, who was nonetheless dwelling in Calgary on the time, discovered the choreographer can be conducting a master class and audition over the period of a few days in Vancouver. It was brief discover and flights have been expensive, so Mustapha made the 15-hour journey by way of bus to arrive at the grasp class just in time.
Nerves aside as he took the category with already seasoned performers from the Vancouver dance scene, Mustapha made an impression on Becker that day.
Booking the job didn't cease Mustapha from attending the audition a couple of days later for the training experience that it offered.
See footage from the fateful master class under as Mustapha performs in the group at 1:47 and at 2:40.
That first yr dwelling in Vancouver was a check of Mustapha's expertise and stamina. Shortly after starting coaching as a part of ITP, he auditioned for the award-winning TwoFourSeven firm, a aggressive hip-hop crew that includes some of Vancouver's prime dancers and choreographers within the style. Although hip-hop was not the world by which he'd undergone his most in depth training, he was accepted into the company — a testomony to his versatility as a dancer. The simultaneous experiences and the physical demand of rehearsals, courses and coaching put Mustapha to the check.
That progress led to more and higher opportunities. Broadway, movie and television choreographer John Carrafa has been nominated for 2 Tony awards and he has been honored with an Obie Award, World of Dance Award, as well as the 2005 Media Choreography Honor for his work on The Polar Categorical. Mustapha's numerous training made him a standout throughout auditions for the Disney Channel's Freaky Friday musical for which Carrafa was choreographer.
Carrafa goes on to say that out of the more than 100 dancers concerned within the movie, Mustapha was solely considered one of about eight dancers forged in all three of these major dance scenes and considered one of only 4 dancers selected to be in the forged's skeleton crew, a gaggle of the manufacturing's strongest dancers who have been answerable for creating the inspiration of dance scenes, which have been then taught to the higher forged of dancers.
Mustapha's successes on display haven't diminished his love for performing on stage. He enjoys the direct response and invigorating power of a reside viewers. Performing lately in certainly one of 5 main roles in Sonder, a brand new manufacturing by TwoFourSeven director Carlo Atienza, gave Mustapha a singular opportunity to attach deeply with the struggles of his character. Viewers members experiencing their own difficulties have been touched by his efficiency and reached out to him after the show. It's no shock then that, as a dancer who imagines he may pursue a profession in psychology in an alternate life with out dance as his focus, Mustapha describes the delve into character improvement and private discovery a career spotlight.
Mustapha's colleagues and mentors are all fast to describe his immense talent, ardour for his work and his capability to reinforce a manufacturing together with his presence. It couldn't be more clear that he will go far on his street in dance.
Yet, for all the reward and accolades, Mustapha says probably the most rewarding thing about being a dancer is to feel feelings via movement, and to make an audience really feel something in flip. A defining moment for him is an easy memory of standing among his siblings on stage as they lingered following his remaining performance at Dance Spectrum. Having completed a successful show and after basking within the love and help of a huge prolonged family of friends, academics and mentors, Mustapha's mind was little question contemplating his future and the new experiences to return with a mix of sentimentality and excitement.
Billy Mustapha and siblings. Photograph by Wafa Mustapha.


Holy Crud…yesterday almost tipped to 70 degrees in NYC & today the same, hallelujah!! I will be spending my day on our roof top enjoying the rays, writing, reading & eating some banana ice cream!
With that said, I am a huge fan of Gwyneth Paltrow & her banana ice cream recipe! Just in case you haven't heard, my girl Gwennie is not only an actor & singer – but a straight up author! She just came out with her second book, It's All Good and I happened to pick up a copy this weekend. Thank goodness because I ventured into making her OH SO AMAZING banana ice cream today! This will be a summer staple!
You can scoop right on out of the mixer or save for later & store in a tupperware container in the freezer. If you want to indulge immediately make sure you don't forget the kick – the yumtastic salty almond maple glaze!
I know Vitamix is a huge purchase, but if you can splurge it is a great investment! If not, a blender or food processor will do just the trick.
I followed all the directions, but I had to sprinkle the raw almonds with regular salt. Since I am a cookie fan, I decided to compliment the ice cream with Beligian Almond Thins – crispy pure butter biscuits with crunchy almond slices. All six of us agreed that the ice cream was so, so delicious!! Not many cookies were eaten.
Carolyn – Glad you enjoyed! The cookies sounds like a great addition!


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AWS customers use Amazon DynamoDB to store mission-critical data. These customers' applications make millions of requests per second to individual DynamoDB tables that contain hundreds of terabytes of items. They count on DynamoDB to return results in single-digit milliseconds.
In many cases, these applications have requirements to notify other systems and users about specific transactions, audit or archive transactions, and replicate data to other data stores in near-real time. The applications can meet these requirements by maintaining the order in which changes were made to items in DynamoDB. Building such capabilities requires that changes to items in DynamoDB be processed in parallel to achieve near-real-time performance.
You can integrate Amazon DynamoDB Streams with other AWS services to build ordered, near-real-time data processing capabilities. DynamoDB Streams captures a time-ordered sequence of item-level modifications in a DynamoDB table and durably stores the information for up to 24 hours. Applications can access a series of stream records from a DynamoDB stream in near-real time.
This post evaluates multiple patterns for processing DynamoDB streams by using several AWS services that are part of AWS serverless computing. It also dives into the details about the most reliable and scalable pattern to perform near-real-time processing of DynamoDB streams to notify other systems and users, archive transactions, and replicate data to other data stores while ensuring ordered processing.
AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. For example, Lambda can execute your code based on a DynamoDB Streams event (such as inserting, updating, or deleting an item). Lambda polls a DynamoDB stream and, when it detects new records, invokes your Lambda function and passes in one or more events.
To understand how Lambda processes DynamoDB streams, you have to understand how DynamoDB streams work. DynamoDB stores data in partitions, which are based on either a partition key only or both a partition key and a sort key. When you enable a stream on a DynamoDB table, DynamoDB creates at least one shard per partition.
Shards in DynamoDB streams are collections of stream records. Each stream record represents a single data modification in the DynamoDB table to which the stream belongs.
The following diagram shows the relationship between a stream, shards in the stream, and stream records in the shards. For more information about shards, see Capturing Table Activity with DynamoDB Streams.
The following diagram shows a DynamoDB table with three partitions. With streams enabled for this table, DynamoDB creates a minimum of three shards, one per partition. DynamoDB relays changes (inserts, updates, and deletes) that are performed on each item within a partition to the corresponding shard by maintaining the order of the changes made. This process ensures that a given key is present in at most one shard and its order is maintained.
When a Lambda function is configured to process DynamoDB streams, one instance of the Lambda function is invoked per shard. Because the following illustrated DynamoDB stream has three shards, three Lambda functions are invoked concurrently whenever there is a change to an item or items within each partition.
When you use DynamoDB to configure multiple Lambda functions with a stream to enable parallel processing of data, each function is concurrently invoked per shard. The following diagram shows an example of two Lambda functions that are configured with a DynamoDB stream and with each of these functions being concurrently invoked.
Though DynamoDB lets you configure multiple Lambda functions with a stream, configuring more than two Lambda functions per stream increases the possibility of failed requests. The number of Lambda functions or processes that are allowed to read from a DynamoDB stream might increase in the future. To reliably process data in real time within a stream, you need to ensure that the Lambda function requests succeed. To enable parallel, ordered processing of stream data and have successful Lambda function requests, implement a fan-out pattern.
In a Lambda fan-out pattern, you configure a single Lambda function to process the DynamoDB stream. Lambda polls a DynamoDB stream and, when it detects new records, invokes this Lambda function by passing in one or more events. The Lambda function processes each item and invokes downstream services or APIs.
The following example shows a Lambda function processing a DynamoDB stream. It invokes another Lambda function to notify users, updates a DynamoDB table, and writes to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. The throughput of this function is dependent on its ability to perform bulk operations on the downstream services or APIs.
On Lambda function processing failure, Lambda retries the entire batch of records until it succeeds or the data expires from the stream. This retry mechanism helps ensure that all events are processed in order. For more information about how AWS Lambda handles failures, see Understanding Retry Behavior.
The handling of partial failures results in Lambda retries, which make the system not quite real time.
Guaranteeing message write ordering is a challenge when dealing with partial failures when writing to downstream services.
Lambda functions must be redeployed to send data to new downstream services.
Upon Lambda processing failures, the entire batch of records is reprocessed. This may lead to duplication of records within Kinesis Data Streams or DynamoDB.
Throughput of the Lambda function is reduced as and when new downstream data stores or applications are introduced.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a flexible, fully managed publish/subscribe messaging and mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
In an Amazon SNS fan-out pattern to Amazon SQS, you configure a single Lambda function to process a DynamoDB stream. Lambda polls a DynamoDB stream and, when it detects a new record, invokes this Lambda function by passing in one or more events. The Lambda function processes each item and writes it to an SNS topic using the Publish API.
When you create SQS queues that subscribe to an SNS topic, each queue receives identical notifications every time a message is pushed to the topic. Services attached to these SQS queues can then process these messages asynchronously and in parallel.
In the following example, a Lambda function that is processing the DynamoDB stream writes a message to an SNS topic. SNS delivers the message to each SQS queue that is subscribed to the topic. Lambda functions that are scheduled by using Amazon CloudWatch Events are used to further process these messages and communicate with downstream services or APIs.
Provides an extensible subscription mechanism because many AWS services can be subscribed to an SNS topic.
On Lambda function processing failure, Lambda retries the entire batch of records until it succeeds or the data expires from the stream. This retry mechanism ensures that all events are processed in order. For more information about how AWS Lambda handles failures, see Understanding Retry Behavior.
Amazon SNS limits message size to 256 KB, so the DynamoDB item size should be within this limit.
Message write ordering is not possible during partial failures when SNS writes to SQS queues.
Failure handling results in retries, which make the system not quite real time.
Messages in Amazon SQS are processed by Lambda functions that are scheduled using CloudWatch Events, making the system not quite real time.
Upon Lambda processing failures, the entire batch of records is reprocessed. This can lead to the duplication of records within SQS.
You can use Kinesis Data Streams to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources.
In the Kinesis Data Streams fan-out pattern, you configure a single Lambda function to process the DynamoDB stream. Lambda polls a DynamoDB stream behind the scenes. When it detects a new record, it invokes your Lambda function by passing in one or more events. The Lambda function processes each item and writes to a Kinesis data stream by using the PutRecord API. You can process Kinesis data streams by using Lambda or Kinesis applications that are built using the Kinesis Client Library (KCL).
The following example illustrates this fan-out pattern.
Kinesis Data Streams provides a way to write-order events that are generated by DynamoDB.
Allows further fan-out of Kinesis data streams by chaining together multiple data streams.
Allows data archiving to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service using Kinesis Data Firehose.
Enables data aggregations using a partition key other than the partition key defined in the DynamoDB table.
Throughput is limited because this pattern encourages a serial invocation pattern of the PutRecord API to ensure write ordering.
Upon Lambda processing failures, the entire batch of records is reprocessed. This can lead to duplication of records within Kinesis Data Streams and thereby in the downstream DynamoDB table and Kinesis data stream.
The following diagram shows the Kinesis Data Streams fan-out pattern that enables ordered, increased parallel processing of DynamoDB streams. It addresses the application requirements that are described at the beginning of this post.
DynamoDB relays item changes to a DynamoDB stream.
Lambda polls the DynamoDB stream and invokes the configured Lambda function, StreamForwarder, when it detects new items in the stream.
The StreamForwarder function writes each item to a Kinesis data stream using the PutRecord API to ensure write ordering.
The Kinesis data stream is configured as a data source to Kinesis Data Firehose.
The data that is streamed into Kinesis Data Firehose is archived in Amazon S3.
Lambda polls the Kinesis data stream and invokes the configured Lambda functions concurrently.
The Lambda function notifies SNS subscribers via email.
The Lambda function aggregates and persists data into a DynamoDB table.
The Lambda function transforms and inserts data into another Kinesis data stream.
Lambda polls this Kinesis data stream and invokes the configured Lambda functions concurrently. This further increases the parallel processing of DynamoDB streams.
Kinesis Data Streams lets you order records and read and replay records in the same order to many Kinesis Data Streams applications. To enable write ordering, Kinesis Data Streams expects you to call the PutRecord API to write serially to a shard while using the sequenceNumberForOrdering parameter. Setting this parameter guarantees strictly increasing sequence numbers for puts from the same client and to the same partition key.
The following Lambda function demonstrates an implementation that processes this stream. The function calls the PutRecord API to write data into the ProductCatalog Kinesis data stream. To maintain write ordering, the function sets the sequenceNumberForOrdering parameter with a value of the sequenceNumber obtained from the PutRecord API call made for the previous item.
Notice that the first call to the PutRecord API is made without setting the sequenceNumberForOrdering parameter because of the absence of any previous sequenceNumber. It still results in the item being write ordered. This is because Kinesis orders this item based on the arrival time and the fact that Lambda invokes this function with some time delay after the previous invocation.
In this post, I demonstrated how you can use Kinesis Data Streams to implement ordered, near-real-time processing of DynamoDB streams. You can use a number of fan-out patterns to process DynamoDB streams in parallel. However, with Kinesis Data Streams, you get the benefit of write ordering, read ordering, and a scalable ingestion pipeline. It also gives you the ability to process data from Kinesis data streams with applications written using the Kinesis Client Library or by using Lambda. However, the throughput delivered when you implement the fan-out pattern using Kinesis data streams is limited when compared to the parallel processing of DynamoDB streams using Lambda, if you can stay within the two-reader limit.
Aravind Kodandaramaiah is a solutions developer at Amazon Web Services.


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This page details how to remove mods in Cyberpunk 2077. It may sound simple but the menus in CP2077 can be a bit confusing to navigate. There are submenus tucked away within larger menus and it's not always clear where to find certain things. This is certainly the case when it comes to finding where you can apply and remove mods in Cyberpunk 2077.
How to Remove Mods in Cyberpunk 2077
Press "I" or the Options button on your controller to open up the menu.
Navigate over to "Inventory" and select "Cyberware".
Several systems will display: Frontal, Ocular, Circulatory, Nervous, Integumentary, Skeleton, Hands, Arms, Legs, and Operating System.
If a system has body mods to apply, a number will show next to the text "Available Mods".
To remove a mod, click on it to open up the submenu that displays the other options, select the currently equipped mod, and then press the scroll button/triangle/Y button to unequip it. Or select another option to swap it for something else.
Some body mods can be further modified. This is illustrated with little red circles on the top-left of the icon. Simply click on the mod, hover over the options available, and select the ones you wish to apply.
How to Equip and Remove Weapon Mods
Navigate over to "Inventory" and open the menu.
Under "Weapons", make sure to have the gun you'd like to mod equipped.
Mod-able weapons have little red circles on the top-right of the icon. if there are no circles, then the gun cannot be modded.
Select the gun. On the left, there's an icon under "Mods". If you have mods available, a number will show on the top-right of the icon. Click on the icon to open the menu.
To remove a mod, hover over the currently equipped mod, and then press the scroll button/triangle/Y button to unequip it. Or select another option to swap it for something else.
How to Equip and Remove Clothing Mods
Clothing mods are only good for one-time use. If you remove them, the game will tell you the mod has been "destroyed" and it will no longer be in your inventory. That said, wield this power wisely!
Press "I" or the "Options" button on your controller to open the menu.
Navigate to the "Inventory" and open the menu.
On the right-hand side, there are categories such as "Head", "Upper Body", "Lower Body", and "Special" where the clothes are equipped.
Click on the category with the clothing item you'd like to remove a mod from. Make sure the item is equipped.
In the same menu you equip clothes, navigate under "mods" to find the currently equipped mods.
Hover over the mod you wish to remove and press the scroll button/triangle/Y button to unequip it or select another option to swap it for something else.
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