MediaTek entered the mobile gaming space last year with a dedicated lineup of chipsets aimed at mobile gamers. The MediaTek Helio G90T was the flagship in the lineup and debuted with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, followed by the Helio G80 and the Helio G70 SoCs. Now, the fabless chip-maker has announced the Helio G85, which debuted on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 announced on Thursday.
The Helio G85 may sound like a step down from the HelioG90, but according to Xiaomi, the chipset is “Made for everyday gamers”, and sits between the Helio G80 and the Helio G90. The Helio G85 is an octa-core SoC with 2+6 core arrangement. There are two performance-centric ARM Cortex-A5 cores clocked at up to 2.0GHz and six Cortex A55 cores for efficiency. The clockspeeds of the efficiency cores were not revealed at the launch event.
The spec sheet of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 reveals the Helio G85 rocks a 1000MHz ARM Mali G52 GPU, which is ever so slightly more powerful than the Helio G80. However, the CPU configuration and clock-speeds remain the same.
Xiaomi did share some benchmarks at the launch event which pegged the Helio G85-powered Redmi Note 9 beat the Snapdragon 665 and the Exynos 9611, both of which power devices in the Rs 10000-15000 price range in India.
However, owing to the recent controversy around boosting benchmark scores which MediaTek has found itself in, synthetic benchmarks scores should be taken with a pinch of salt.


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The Land Rush Working Paper & Notes is a series of exploratory papers from the ‘Commodity & land rushes and regimes: Reshaping five spheres of global social life’ (RRUSHES-5) research project. The series is being launched with the first paper, ‘Bringing the ‘rush’ to the centre of the land grab debate: Insights from Colombia’ by Lorenza Arango.
In this working paper, Lorenza argues that dominant literature on the ‘global land rush’ does not sufficiently account for the character and implications of the phenomenon. Moreover, and following the assumption of the RRUSHES-5 project, she suggests that the land rush has unfolded in three different ways: i) pursued corporate land deals, ii) unpursued corporate land deals, and iii) every day, below the radar land accumulation. She highlights the role of the ‘spectacle-making’ process in the land rush phenomenon. A more concerted analysis of the three currents of the land rush and their interactions can help to broaden and better understand the contemporary character of the phenomenon and its impacts.

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It’s easy to fly to Rodrigues Island due to several big airlines, that flies here from Scandinavia via Dubai or Paris and other major international airports. First you fly to Mauritius before flying the last leg out to the island. We can assist you to book your flight tickets for a small fee so you don’t need to worry about that. If you want to book the flight yourself, then you have to double check with us so we can plan the trip as smooth as possible for all guest on the trip.
Rodrigues Island is located in time zone GMT +4. No visa is required to visit the country and the currency in the country is Mauritian Rupee (Rs).

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- Govt eyes direct transfer of fertilizer subsidy
The funds transferred will be used only for buying soil nutrients while two options are being explored to decide the cash subsidy — either by fixing the amount per acre/hectare or a lumpsum amount for all identified beneficiaries on the lines of PM-Kisan scheme, official sources said.
- Direct cash transfer schemes, freebies on eve of polls come under SC scanner
Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre and the Election Commission on a petition seeking a ban on direct cash transfer schemes and announcement of freebies ahead of and during the election process. Petitioner's counsels contended that direct cash transfer schemes and announcement of freebies ahead of the polls amount to electoral malpractice
- Agriculture and job scheme in focus
The cash-strapped Madhya Pradesh's budget for the financial year 2019-2020 is likely to be worth Rs 2,30,000 crore. Though the seven-month-old Congress government cannot afford to spend lavishly, it aims to give respite to the agriculture sector and not levy any new direct tax that would hit the common man.
- Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy to launch Praja Darbar from Monday
Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy will launch his mass grievance redressal programme Praja Darbar from July 1 (Monday). The CM's camp office at Tadepalli will open in the morning for people to air their grievances. This was one of the popular programmes of his father late YS Rajasekhar Reddy.
- Current account deficit inches up to 2.1% in FY19; but more than halves in Q4
Current account deficit increased to $57.2 billion or 2.1% of GDP in FY19 as against 1.8% or $48.7 billion in the previous year, RBI said. For FY19, the deficit widened despite a narrowing of the same in the March quarter. Overall trade performance was the prime influencer for both the contraction for the March quarter as well as a widening for the full year.
- Row over Bengal govt directive to build dining hall in state-run schools with over 70% minority students
A row has erupted over Bengal govt's directive for construction of dining rooms for mid-day meals in state-run schools having more than 70 per cent minority students, with the BJP and other opposition parties accusing the Trinamool Congress of creating a communal divide in the state.

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text: "A major challenge facing regulators in industrial and developing countries alike is the need to strike the right balance between ensuring certainty for market players and preserving flexibility of the regulatory process to accommodate the rapidly changing market, technological, and policy conditions. This challenge applies across a wide range of regulatory instruments and vehicles including license renewal, which is the focus of this paper. The authors provide an overview of mobile license renewal issues covering the legal regime of license renewal, the renewal process, the non-renewal context, and the changes in licensing conditions, including spectrum implications of the renewal process. They draw best practices that started to emerge in recent renewal practices, to ensure that the renewal process leads to the best outcome for all stakeholders. As much as possible, policymakers and regulators should strive to promote investors' confidence and give incentives for long-term investment. They can do this by favoring the principle of "renewal expectancy," but also by promoting regulatory certainty and predictability through a fair, transparent, and participatory renewal process. For example, by providing details for license renewal or reissue, clearly establishing what is the discretion offered to the licensing body, or ensuring sufficient lead-times and transitional arrangements in the event of non-renewal or changes in licensing conditions. Public consultation procedures and guaranteeing the right to appeal regulatory decisions maximizes the prospects for a successful renewal process. As technological changes and convergence and technologically neutral approaches gain importance, regulators and policymakers need to be ready to adapt and evolve licensing procedures and practices to the new environment. "--World Bank web site.

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The big question surrounding the Redskins offseason is will RGIII be able to return the next season following his recent injury and surgery? The team also has other holes they need to worry about during this offseason. The first problem is the decision of who should they keep. There are a few players with contracts up including Pro Bowl player Lorenzo Alexander and Rob … [Read more...] about What The Washington Redskins need to fill this offseason:
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The higher frequency signal provides greater penetration of samples and the UGMA (Unified Grain Moisture Algorithm) provides a more accurate result regardless of moisture level, temperature or crop type. Together these make the AM5800 Manual the most accurate and repeatable portable moisture meter available. It can analyze grains, oilseeds, pulses, beans, lentils, seeds and more for moisture, test weight/hectoliter weight, and temperature with the same calibrations and the officially approved AM5200-A.
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Mist Drops Off Brand New Music Video For 'Notice Me'
Author: Tom Dingley | Friday 7th October 2022
Birmingham's very own Mist is back with a brand new music video for his track 'Notice Me'.
Mist is back in the firm of his brand new track with accompanying visuals titled 'Notice Me'. In his unique style and delivery, Mist lets fans know what he has been up to, drops some real talk and flexes not only with his bars but with the visuals too. This track showcases Mist really in his bag as he flows smoothly over the beat, spits his bars with a real tone of authenticity as he always does and listeners will belive every word.
Produced by none other than ShadowOnTheBeat, someone who Mist has worked with a lot throughout his career, the production is made for Mist as it allows him to cut into the choppy areas with bars, finding pockets of the beat that he can fill nicely, whilst also being a very catchy beat that fans will be able to bop their heads to from start to finish.
The music video showcases some elements of flexing - whether it be material things or his physique as he works out in the gym - which could symbolise the fact that he has been working hard and there is more to come, perhaps.
Watch the music video for Mist's 'Notice Me' is below.


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Kris Jenner, mother and manager of the Kardashian clan has spoken out in admiration of Kim's boyfriend and infamous rapper Kanye West.
"He's such an amazing boyfriend to Kim and a great dad and a wonderful person."
Kanye agreed to sit down and have a chat with Mrs Jenner on her chat show Kris.
We're sure not many men would be brave enough for a televised grilling from their potential mother in law, but Kanye took it all in his stride.
After the show Kris seemed just as smitten as Kim with Mr West, she gushed "He’s creative and he’s an amazing, amazing human being. He really is."
It's well known that Kanye rarely gives television interviews, so Kris was thrilled to get him on her couch.
"And he doesn’t always do interviews and get the chance to really express himself like that.
Fans of the show took to Twitter to say the interview had really changed their opinion of Kanye.
And Kim's mum was of the same train of thought, she added; "I was really glad that I got a chance to sit down and talk to him.
"And it just made me so happy that you guys got to see the Kanye that I know at home"
Since dating Kim Kardashian, Kanye has been spotted out and about a lot more frequently.
The couple flew to Paris for Fashion Week, where Kim donned a gorgeous Givency dress, with a plunging neckline that left nothing to the imagination.
Upon her return to the US, Kim tweeted an adorable new picture of baby North West, stating that she had missed waking up next to little Nori.

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'Spring Breakers' starlet releases new single called '$$$ex' on the day her movie premieres...see the video Vanessa Hudgens is really getting into her new adult image!
Not only does her new movie Spring Breakers come out today, but she's dropping brand new, more mature music.
The former High School Musical starlet released '$$$ex' today, a single featuring the girl group YLA, with lyrics such as "Fifty in his pocket/condom in his wallet/he's not gonna sleep tonight."
Vanessa's best friend Laura New is in the group and the girls Tweeted a photo of them in the studio. "It is a bomb-ass song," Vanessa tells E! of her new song. "I love it so much!"
They also released a video for '$$$ex' today which features lots of footage of Vanessa, Ashley Benson and Selena Gomez from Spring Breakers.
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It takes a lot to get Conservative leader Andrew Scheer cheesed off, but this week, one of his MPs crossed the line.
“I have removed Maxime Bernier from the Official Opposition shadow cabinet, effective immediately,” Scheer stated in a short communiqué. “The shadow minister for science, Matt Jeneroux, will assume the additional role of shadow minister for innovation, science and economic development on an interim basis.”
True, but the problem is the timing. Bernier posted it mere days after Canada got into a tariff war with the United States, in which U.S. President Donald Trump launched numerous broadsides at Canada’s supply management system. This effectively placed Bernier in the same camp as Trump, who had just torn a strip off Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his remarks about “not being pushed around” by the Americans. With even Scheer standing by Trudeau, it was the wrong time for Bernier to go offside.
There were, however, also some cries of outrage against Scheer. Aren’t Conservatives supposed to be the party of free speech? Didn’t Scheer and the Tories lambaste Trudeau for his “group-think” mentality on abortion? This is true, but cabinet is not caucus. When you’re in a cabinet, shadow or not, you sing from the same songbook as your colleagues, whatever your personal views. No matter how valid your argument (and for the record, Bernier is right that supply management is well past its best before date) if you contradict your leader, you will be shown the cabinet door.
WATCH: Maxime Bernier removed from Tory shadow cabinet
Bernier surely would realize this — so why did he choose to milk this controversy? Is this really about ideas, or something else? Ever since his leadership loss to Scheer by the narrowest of margins, Bernier has not seemed to accept that his rival is now the big fromage.
In November 2017, he announced that he was writing a book, “about my vision of the country. What’s wrong with our country and how we can fix it.” In January 2018, he started a “Mad Max Club” on his personal website, encouraging supporters of freedom and liberty to join him in an “exclusive group” to champion these ideas across Canada.
Then in April, he published the offending chapter of the book in the Globe and Mail, openly questioning the validity of Scheer’s victory.
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It’s true that Scheer won’t last forever in the job, but if polls are correct, he stands a shot at government, and could be around a while. Which leads to further speculation: maybe it’s not the Conservative party Bernier seeks to lead, but something else? And if so, what?
Overtures have already been made: after Bernier lost to Scheer last May, the leader of the Libertarian party, Tim Moen, offered to step aside for him, saying that the Libertarians planned to adopt Bernier’s ideas. “I know Max and he’s a solid libertarian,” Moen said. “He could take a lot of political market-share away from the Conservative Party,” he said. “I think they need to be disciplined by the market.”
WATCH: Conservative Tony Clement gives heated defence of colleague Maxime Bernier
The offer was never taken up, of course. But there is another federal party looking for a leader these days: the Bloc Quebecois. Leader Martine Ouellette quit last week, after a scathing leadership review gave her the support of a mere 32 per cent of party members.
The party has been in disarray for months: back in February, seven BQ MPs quit to sit as independents over conflicts with Ouellette. Within hours, Bernier called on them to join the Tories. “What I’m saying to my colleagues from the Bloc Québécois, if they believe in a strong Quebec, in a united Canada, they will come in our party. If they want to fight for Quebec interests and the interests of all Canadians, they will come in our party.”
None did so, but Bernier’s invitation must have given someone in the Tories an idea, as a couple of months later the Conservatives announced that former Bloc leader, Michel Gauthier, would join to “lend a hand” to Quebec candidates. “It’s the political party that’s the closest to Quebec nationalists, the most sensitive to Quebec,” Gauthier said when the news was announced to the party’s general council meeting in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.
Gauthier’s recruitment is part of the Tories’ larger strategy to make inroads in Quebec, which also included having Scheer make an appearance on the popular television program, Tout le Monde en Parle, which was well-received in the press and might help raise his name recognition in Quebec beyond its current 48 per cent.
Bernier’s name needs no such boost; his father was an MP before him, and he has been part of the Quebec political landscape since his election in 2006. Prior to that, he was active in provincial politics, working for the Parti Quebecois, a fact he has said he is “proud of.” “That’s why I believe in the Constitution, because I was inside a PQ government and I’ve seen what they’re doing and I say, when you respect the Constitution, that’s the best way to have a constitutional peace in Canada.”
While pulling a Lucien Bouchard might now be tempting for Bernier, he also has cultivated many friends and supporters in Alberta and other parts of Canada, and is more a champion of ideas than of one particular province. If this schism with Scheer grows beyond repair, though, might Bernier strike out on his own?
Political movements have been built around ideas and personality before — think Preston Manning’s Reform Party — but such exercises have also yielded bitter lessons for Canada’s right. Rather than curdling the Conservatives’ chance in the next election through word or deed, Bernier should carefully whey his options.

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Tether, the issuer of the world’s most traded stablecoin, raked in US$1.48 billion in net profit for the first quarter of this year, more than double the previous quarter, according to the company’s reserves report released on Wednesday.
- Tether said it had US$81.8 billion in consolidated total assets at the end of March, with the majority in U.S. Treasury bills, according to the report.
- At the end of March, the report says the company held US$53 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, US$3.4 billion in gold and US$1.5 billion of Bitcoin.
- The stablecoin issuer was ordered by a U.S. court in September 2022 to issue quarterly reports on the reserves backing its tokens – something the firm offered as part of a February 2021 settlement with the New York State Attorney General.
- In October, Tether said it had slashed its commercial paper holdings to zero to bring down the risk profile of its token’s backing.
- A report by Tether auditor BDO Italia showed that at the end of March, Tether had US$2.44 billion in excess reserves of its tokens in circulation, the largest surplus it has recorded.
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|Hawaii Pocket Maps
HOW THE CRATER WAS FORMED THE EARLY HISTORY The pronounced seaward summit, deeply eroded ridges, and ovoid-shaped crater are evidence of Lë‘ahi’s very dynamic geological history. The creation of O‘ahu began around 2.5 to 4 million years ago with volcanic eruptions from 2 shield volcanoes. A period of extensive erosion followed, leaving the Ko‘olau and Waiçanae Mountain Ranges as the remnants of these volcanoes. After about 1.3 million years of volcanic inactivity, the southeastern end of the Ko‘olau Range erupted. These eruptions occurred under the ocean, where the magma was broken down into ash and fine particles by the water and steam. Blown into the air, these particles were cemented together into a rock called tuff which created tuff cones, such as Lë‘ahi. Lë‘ahi is believed to have been formed about 300,000 years ago during a single, brief eruption. The broad crater covers 350 acres with its width being greater than its height. The southwestern rim is highest because winds were blowing ash in this direction during the eruption. Since the eruption, the slopes of the crater have been eroded and weathered by rain, wind, and the pounding of the sea. A coral reef now protects the seaward slopes of the crater. Today, Lë‘ahi (Diamond Head) is the most recognized landmark in Hawai‘i. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1968 as an excellent example of a tuff cone. It is said that Hi‘iaka, sister of the fire goddess Pele, gave Lë‘ahi its name because the summit resembles the forehead (lae) of the ‘ahi fish. Another translation is “fire headland” and refers to the navigational fires that were lit at the summit to assist canoes travelling along the shoreline. The heiau (temple) built on the summit was dedicated to the god of wind as protection against strong updrafts that could put out these navigational fires. Today, the Diamond Head Light, built in 1917, provides a visual aid for navigation. In the late 1700s, Western explorers and traders visited Lë‘ahi and mistook the calcite crystals in the rocks on the slope of the crater for diamonds. Thus, the name Diamond Head became the common name for the crater. ENVIRONMENT The semi-arid climate, the steep rocky slopes, and the shallow soil of Diamond Head support mostly low shrubs and herbs. Botanists believe that the crater was once covered by a dryland forest, but only a few native ‘ilima Hawaiian species, such as ‘ilima, remain. Rainwater collects on the crater floor in the winter, creating a small lake that was frequented by native ducks and waterbirds until the early 1900s. Most of the plants and animals you see in the crater today were introduced to Hawai‘i after the 1800s. Dominant plants are the kiawe, a relative of the mesquite, and koa haole. Both of these plants were brought in as cattle feed and have adapted well to the hot, dry conditions. You may see some of the common introduced birds, such as cardinals, doves, and sparrows. From this observation station, observers could triangulate targets and aim artillery and mortar fire from Batteries Randolph and Dudley at Fort DeRussy in Waikïkï and Battery Harlow at Fort Ruger on the outer slopes of the crater. Consisting of 4 levels, the exterior of the Fire Control Station was camouflaged with rubble embedded in concrete. Slits with metal shutters on each level provided seaward viewing for potential sea and air attacks. The 4 levels and the summit were accessed by a spiral staircase and ladders between the levels. Additional coastal defense was provided by long range guns installed on the outer slopes and rim of the crater around 1915. Diamond Head was prepared to defend O‘ahu from attack but no artillery was ever fired during a war. The military features of Diamond Head are part of the Fort Ruger Historic District. DIAMOND HEAD (Le‘ahi) STATE MONUMENT MILITARY HISTORY With its panoramic view from Koko Head to Wai‘anae, the summit of Diamond Head was an ideal site for the coastal defense of O‘ahu. In 1904, Diamond Head was purchased by the Federal government and designated for military use. Fortification began in 1908 with the construction of gun emplacements and an entry tunnel through the north wall of the crater from Fort Ruger known as the Kapahulu Tunnel. Batteries were built to house the coastal artillery. A total of 5 batteries were built at Diamond Head Crater: Harlow (1910) on the northern exterior, Dodge and Hulings (1913) which tunnel through the eastern crater wall, Birkhimer (1916) which is largely below ground inside the crater, and Battery 407 (1943) which tunnels through the southern wall of the crater and faces seaward. Fire Control Station Diamond Head was built at the summit between 1908-1910 and housed instruments and plotting rooms to direct artillery fire from several batteries. This fortification was an engineering marvel of its time. Honolulu, O‘ahu Department of Land & Natural Resources DIVISION OF STATE PARKS 1151 Punchbowl Street, Room 310 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813 Phone: (808) 587‐0300 http://www.hawaiistateparks.org HISTORIC TRAIL TO THE SUMMIT POINTS OF INTEREST ON THE TRAIL The trail to the summit of Lë‘ahi was built in 1908 as part of the U.S. Army Coastal Artillery defense system. Entering the crater from Fort Ruger, through the Kapahulu Tunnel, the trail scaled the steep interior western slopes of the crater to the summit. The dirt trail with numerous switchbacks was designed for mule and foot traffic. The mules hauled materials on this trail for the construction of Fire Control Station Diamond Head located at the summit. Other materials were hoisted from the crater floor by a winch and cable to a midway point along the trail. The Kahala Tunnel was built in the 1940s and is the public entrance today. HIKING THE TRAIL From the trailhead to the summit of Diamond Head Crater, you will hike 0.8 mile (1.3 km) one way and climb 560 feet (171 m) from the crater floor. The trail follows an uneven and steep terrain requiring caution and appropriate footwear. Portions of the trail involve steep stairways - take your time. Other portions of the trail go through a long tunnel which is lighted. Allow 1.5 to 2 hours for a safe and leisurely round-trip hike. After exiting the tunnel, turn right and take the 99 steps into the Fire Control Station up to the summit. To avoid congestion, take the loop trail along the rim and interior slope back to the tunnel. HAVE A SAFE HIKE The weather here is always hot - a hat, sunscreen and plenty of water are recommended. • The tunnel gate closes at 6:00pm (1800 hours) and reopens at 6:00am. Do not get locked in! • Last time to start the hike is 4:30pm. • Pack out what you pack in - do not litter. • Do not deface the historic structures. • Do not enter closed or unauthorized areas. • In case of emergency, call 911. TRAIL ROUTE Following the numbers on this map, you will make a one-way loop at the summit. This will reduce congestion and enhance viewing. 1 The elevation at the trailhead on the crater floor is about 200 feet (61 m). 2 The former pistol ranges consist of earthen berms that are visible from the concrete path. 3 The trail conforms to the 1908 alignment with switchbacks up the steep interior slope. 4 Concrete Landing/Lookout. This concrete foundation held a winch and cable to lift materials from the crater floor to this point. 5 Steep stairway of 74 concrete steps leads into the first narrow tunnel. 6 Tunnel is lighted and 225 feet long. 7 Second stairway consisting of 99 steep steps with overhead beams to place camouflaging. 8 At the top of the stairs is the entry to the lowest level of the Fire Control Station with observation equipment for Fort DeRussy at Waikïkï. 9 The lighted spiral staircase accessed the 4 levels of the Fire Control Station. Go up the 52 stairs to the third level where the mounts for the observation equipment are still present. 10 Exit to the exterior of the crater through slits once covered with metal shutters. Note the rock and concrete that camouflage the outside. 11 The 54 metal stairs were installed in the 1970s and replaced the ladder to the summit. 12 The elevation of the crater summit and the uppermost level of the Fire Control Station is 761 feet (232 m). 13 From the summit, follow the trail along the rim and take the 82 metal steps down to the lower trail. This trail loops back to the tunnel. 14 Bunkers along the crater rim were built in 1915. Area closed - emergency helicopter landing. Lëçahi is a fragile resource. By staying on the trails and not taking shortcuts, you save plants and reduce erosion. Mahalo 15 Lookout provides sweeping views of southeastern O‘ahu coastline towards Koko Head and the offshore islands of Moloka‘i, Lana‘i and Maui. 16 Rest stop offers views of the crater before heading back down through the tunnel.


Every year on 27 January, the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day. This is the day identified to remember the six million plus Jews murdered in the Holocaust of 1939 to 1945, the millions of other people killed in Nazi persecution and in subsequent genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and Darfur.
Oadby & Wigston Borough Council have supported this day since 2014 and will hold its commemorative event on Monday 28 January 2019. As 27 January falls on a Sunday, the switch to the Monday enables everybody to fully participate.
Torn from home is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 and aims to encourage audiences to reflect on how the enforced loss of a safe place to call 'home' is a trauma faced by anyone experiencing persecution and genocide.
Oadby & Wigston Borough Council’s memorial event will allow a fitting opportunity to reflect on what happens when individuals, families and communities are persecuted out of their homes, because of who they are or because of the threat of genocide, alongside the continuing difficulties survivors face as they try to find and build new homes when the genocide is over.
All residents and staff working in the Borough are invited to the free-to-attend event and reflect upon these atrocities and join together in demonstrating our solidarity in building community cohesion and combating anti-Semitism, racism and hatred.
Borough Mayor, Cllr David Carter will open the event. This will be followed by readings of the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, and will be complimented with contributions of song, music and the spoken word from representatives of voluntary organisations, community groups’ representative of faith and belief, local dignitaries and young people.
The event will take place at Council Offices on Station Road, Wigston and will run from 5:00pm for refreshments with speeches starting at 5:30pm. The event will conclude at 7:00pm with songs delivered by the De Montfort University Gospel Choir and lit candles being laid at the base of an architectural candleholder representing doves of peace.
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For travelers concerned with their health on the road, we invite you to stay at our non-smoking hotel in Las Vegas. We know how important clean air is, and you can breathe easy here at Four Points by Sheraton Las Vegas East Flamingo. As part of our focus on Simple Pleasures(SM), our hotel has only smoke-free guest rooms and 100% smoke-free public spaces.
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Part of the offshore oil and gas industry’s effort to re-energize itself has been a focus on cost reductions for new projects and adopting digital technologies to ensure the greatest efficiencies possible.
Another component of the offshore revitalization is extending the life of fields whose initial producing lives have ended or will soon be coming to an end. Equinor announced in March that it had received approval to extend the life of eight installations in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Those fields are Gullfaks A, B and C (extended to 2036), Oseberg East (2031), Snorre A and B (2040), Norne (2036) and Åsgard A (2030).
In Brazil PetroRio is entering Phase 3 of its redevelopment efforts of the Polvo Field in the Campos Basin, which it bought from BP in 2013. PetroRio hopes to extend the field’s producing life until 2030.
The drive behind recent field life extension projects is a result of both technological advancements and financial opportunity. According to Luiz Hayum, Latin America upstream research senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie, there is an increasing movement in the Campos Basin by smaller operators taking ownership from majors to develop fields at lower costs. Hayum cited the PetroRio deal as an example of such a dynamic in Brazil.
“[PetroRio] was able to reduce operational costs by 62% since it took ownership of the Polvo Field,” he said. “By having smaller structure and smaller overheads, it is able to reduce costs to continue producing these fields.”
The market’s price volatility provided an opportunity for smaller companies to focus on the assets the majors did not view as core to their operations.
On the technology front, Shell recently applied a digital twin system to analyze structure integrity on a North Sea project with the goal to support life extension by 20 years. And Shell Brasil entered into a partnership with the ABS, SBM Offshore and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to develop tools for real-time assessments of FPSOs. According to Shell Brasil, the new techniques will help the company better understand maintenance costs required to extend the operational life of FPSOs.
Equinor’s Åsgard A field was set to expire in 2018, but the operator won approval to extend its operational life by another 12 years to 2030. At Åsgard, Equinor has deployed underwater drones to perform subsea inspections, maintenance and repair work.
Similar to onshore unconventional development, the offshore industry has been forced to re-evaluate itself to remain competitive. Part of that evaluation has led to the deployment of new technologies as well as improved cost structures that ensure oil fields, even in their golden years, can remain productive.
“I think there is a belief that the capital discipline in developing these projects is here to stay,” Hayum said. “The higher oil prices are helping make extension projects more profitable. I think there will be an appetite for that.”
2022-09-26 - The energy crisis in Europe will last well into 2023 given stagnant global supply and the likelihood of increased competition for LNG, which Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, warns could unleash a “wild west scenario.”
2022-07-21 - "The biggest opportunity right now is primarily in serving LNG, whether it's adding U.S. export capacity or building pipelines to bring the gas to LNG terminals," Morningstar strategist Stephen Ellis said, speaking to the growth of natural gas and LNG among U.S. midstream companies.
2022-07-15 - The U.S. rises in the ranks to become the world’s second largest LNG exporter, only behind Australia, after recent liquefaction expansions.
2022-08-23 - Freeport LNG pushes back original timelines for the expected partial and full restart of its Texas liquefaction facility that went offline in early June due to a fire.
2022-09-06 - The non-binding agreement would give Devon up to 2 million tons per annum of liquefaction capacity on a long-term basis.


The purpose of the London Gateway is to provide a port of harbor for deep-sea crafts that have been previously scattered in various locations. It will be a prime location for ships seeking to transfer goods into and out of the United Kingdom. It is thought to soon to be the country’s main functioning port. The gateway is currently under construction at its location on the northern end of the River Thames in Essex. The project broke ground in 2010 and its completion date is undetermined. Along with the London Gateway, a huge logistics park will also be built to support seafaring activities and offer access to U.K.’s mainland.
DP World, a major company that operates many ports, harbors and other sea terminals, originally started the London Gateway project. Though financial difficulties have plagued the Gateway’s construction, construction is effectively underway. The London Gateway will provide a nearly 3,000 long quay for ships, along with sustainable procedures and functioning, brilliant architecture. It adds millions of TEU’s, or cargo units, to U.K.’s ports while introducing hundreds of storage units, new operating systems and extensive security regulations. It will be the largest and most accessible port in all of the United Kingdom.
The logistics park located at the London Gateway has several important functions. First of all, it provides access from the port to major U.K. highways and railways. It also offers hundreds to thousands of private or individual cargo units. It includes giant sheds for distribution, automobiles for ground transportation, private access roads and extensive accompanying facilities in the surrounding area. The park also comes with the promise of environmental sustainability; buildings will be efficiently constructed with limited environmental impact and recycling systems will be implemented for water and power. Though it will be the largest port in the U.K., it is also thought to be the most environmentally friendly.
The main use of the future London Gateway will be to boost economic rejuvenation. By offering a more accessible port location and increased storage capacity in cargo containers, the U.K. hopes to bring in more trade more quickly and efficiently. The location of the London Gateway allows trade ships to have more direct access to the economic heart of the U.K., allowing goods and services to more quickly meet the supply demanded by consumers. Hopeful supporters of the project conclude that the presence of the London Gateway and logistics park so close to the sales-rich centers of the U.K. will only further benefit the nation’s economy, accessibility to goods and overall international communication.


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The Fourth of July holiday is right around the corner, and in all of the excitement and people-hubbub, it’s easy to forget about pets.
Fireworks can be terrifying for some cats and dogs, according to the Humane Society. Dogs and cats tend to have super-sensitive ears, and the sounds of fireworks going off can make them feel like they are under attack. They respond by retreating, hiding and worse, running away. According to Humane Society CEO Beth Ward, more dogs run away on the Fourth of July than on any other day. The Humane Society of the United States reports that animal shelters across the country are used to receiving “July 4th Dogs:” dogs who run off during fireworks celebrations and are rescued by animal control officers or helpful citizens who take them to the safety of a local shelter.
To prevent your dogs from panic, we’ve compiled this list of precautions to protect your pet this Fourth of July, so everyone in your family can enjoy a fun and safe holiday!
• If you plan on going out to see fireworks or parades and other celebrations, it is better to leave your pets at home in a sheltered and quiet area. Don’t take them along. They’ll hate the noise and all of the people. Why needlessly stress them out? Just make sure to keep them at home in a safe place they can’t escape from (see below).
• Leave some comforting white noise on, like the TV or music, to mask foreign noises, and to keep him company while you’re out.
• Remember that some animals can become destructive when frightened, involuntarily eliminating in fear, or displacing their anxiety by chewing, scratching, digging, and so on, so leave your dog with a few favorite chew toys or puzzle toys to keep him mentally occupied and distracted.
• Pets should never be left outside unattended during fireworks, even neighborhood fireworks, because even those that normally would not leave a fenced-in yard may try to escape in their panic, and get lost and possibly injured or killed.
• Make sure your pets are wearing identification tags that display current contact information in the event that they do become “misplaced” in all the commotion.
• If you see an animal running loose without any identification, take them to a local vet or humane society, as the dogs may be implanted with a microchip: readable by scanners at all veterinary offices and animal shelters, where they will have the best chance of being reunited with their owners.
• Even though you’re indulging, resist the urge to indulge your pet! Your pet will most likely happily eat up anything you give him, but remember that onions, salt, avocados and chocolate can all be fatally toxic to dogs and cats. In all of the festivities and crazy activity, it can be hard to keep track of what your pet has eaten, or what guests have “spoiled” him with, and too much “people food” can make your pet very sick.
• And this goes for ALWAYS… Never leave pets inside a car, even with windows partially opened; the heat can cause them to suffer serious health effects, including death, within a matter of minutes, especially in this particularly scorching summer.
• If you suspect that your pet has ingested a toxic substance, or is displaying signs of overindulgence: Contact your vet or the 24-hour Animal Poison Control Center at 1-888-426-4435.

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Paris | The emergence in the United Kingdom of a new variant of the coronavirus, presented as more contagious than the others, is sowing concern throughout Europe. But there is no evidence at this stage that this variant causes more severe forms or will resist vaccines, experts say.
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The virus mutates, is this normal?
Viruses, like living things, are endowed with genetic material (DNA or RNA), which can be subject to modifications when they replicate (mutations) in the cells where they propagate or by exchanges between viruses (recombinations ). Most often without consequence, these mutations can also give the virus an advantage or a disadvantage for its survival.
“There are undoubtedly thousands of variants,” recalls Emma Hodcroft, epidemiologist at the University of Bern.
“The most important thing is to find out whether this variant has properties that have an impact on human health, diagnostics and vaccines,” adds the professor of infectious diseases at the University of Liverpool Julian Hiscox, quoted by the Science Media Center.
The new variant on which the British government has sounded the alarm includes in particular a mutation, called N501Y, in the spike protein of the coronavirus, the point which is on its surface and allows it to attach to human cells to penetrate them, thus playing a key role in viral infection.
Is this variant more contagious?
The new variant of the virus is “out of control” in the United Kingdom, alarmed the British Minister for Health, Matt Hancock Sunday. Boris Johnson’s head of government spoke of a 70% higher contagiousness, an announcement that has led many countries in Europe and around the world to suspend arrivals by air routes from Britain.
In fact, “the UK has faced in recent weeks a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the south-east of England” and analyzes have shown that “a large proportion of cases belong to To the new mutation in the virus, the European Disease Control Agency (ECDC) wrote on Sunday.
Several health experts also note that the increase in the number of hospitalizations in this English region coincides with the appearance of this new form of the virus. “The reasons for this increased infectivity are not yet clear. We still have to know if it is due to greater viral replication or better binding with the cells that line the nose and lungs, ”explained in the Science Media Center Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College from London.
However, Emma Hodcroft is cautious on a “higher contagiousness of 70%”, because the estimates early in time can be modified and “that we do not know much about how this figure came out”.
“You should know that this region of south-east England had been fairly spared, group immunity in the population is therefore low and the virus has found a ground to develop”, also explains to AFP the Deputy Director of the National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Vincent Enouf.
How did this variant circulate?
It is difficult to say that this new form originated in the United Kingdom. This country “is the world leader in sequencing (…) So if there is a variant and it arrives in the United Kingdom, it has a good chance of being detected there”, notes Emma Hodcroft, for which the first sequence of this new variant dates back to September.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), similar forms have been detected in very low numbers in Australia (one case), Denmark (9), the Netherlands (1) or South Africa. Italy also announced a first case detected on Sunday.
“Even though he wasn’t born in the UK, it looks like he grew up there. It was in England that it developed, ”says Emma Hodcroft. For his part, the French Minister of Health Olivier Véran has not ruled out that he is already circulating in France, even if he has not yet been detected.
Less effective vaccines, a more lethal variant?
A better resistance of this variant of COVID-19 to the vaccines which have started to be distributed in the United States, the United Kingdom, and which are expected around the world, would represent a disaster scenario. But this is not the most likely hypothesis in the eyes of scientists.
“The idea of the vaccine is that the Spike protein as a whole is shown to your immune system, so you learn to recognize many different parts of it,” says Emma Hodcroft. Suddenly, “even if some parts change, you still have all the other parts to recognize” the virus, she says.
Vincent Enouf evokes, him, a “repertoire of antibodies which should be sufficient”.
“From all that we know at the present time and following discussions that have taken place between experts from the European authorities”, the new strain “has no impact on vaccines Which remain “just as effective”, said German Health Minister Jens Spahn.
“There is no indication at this time that this new strain is causing a higher death rate or that it affects vaccines and treatments, but urgent work is underway to confirm this,” added the chief medical officer of the ‘England Chris Whitty. The WHO and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have reached the same findings, but also add that additional investigations are necessary.
An effect on the tests?
“Laboratory managers should check with their suppliers if their tests could be faulted” by this new variant, notes Vincent Enouf.
According to the ECDC, the change in the Spike protein has caused false negatives in some UK test labs that only rely on this protein in their analyzes. The European agency recommends avoiding relying on this single method, which is not the most common according to it anyway.

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An Italian restaurant in the heart of Chelsea.
In a moment of commuting contemplation, it occurred to me that there are probably now more Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Fulham than there are pubs, and there are a lot of pubs – ergo, anyone considering opening another Italian round here needs to be confident and capable in their conviction.
Chef Stefano Stecca has worked around the capital’s top restaurants long enough to know how it works. And so he proves with this latest venture. His eponymous spot sits just off Fulham Road in a row of four restaurants, three of them Italian.
Plenty of competition, then, but Stecca is already rather popular with the locals. It’s spacious, with large windows, white walls and crisp tablecloths. The food might scream simple and unfussy, but a lot of work goes in to making a meal this good.
The porcini risotto was nicely complemented by a sprinkling of nutty parmesan; while a melt-in-the-mouth beef ragù brought the tastebuds to life with a tangy tomato sauce. Next, mains saw a perfectly cooked fillet of beef with a mushroom sauce compete with a fresh and flaky fillet of cod in a pool of lentils. We couldn’t choose a winner. Dessert: imported cannoli shells filled with pistachio cream (no need to look further). Being Chelsea, the clientele ranged from besuited to families, to a chap in football shorts. It appears Signore Stecca has already achieved his target of having a neighbourhood favourite on his hands.
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Some possible treatments for PseudoBulbar Affect (PBA) include the prescription of an antidepressant or the United States Food and Drug Administration-approved medication dextromethorphan, commonly called Nuedexta. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and dopaminergic medications have been used with some success as well, according to a 2013 report published in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management. Patients with PBA can discuss possible treatments and nonmedical management strategies with their doctors.
PseudoBulbar Affect is a disorder that makes the patient have uncontrollable emotional outbursts, which most often include crying or laughter. Thisneurological disorder is not a primary disease but, instead, is a secondary issues that crops up in some patients who have another neurological disease or who have suffered some type of brain trauma. The disease is fairly common in those who have had strokes or have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or multiple sclerosis.
While medication can be helpful in controlling symptoms, patients will also need to try to go easy on themselves and make sure to have a support network of family and friends who understand the condition. It is important to remember that the outbursts are not the patient's fault and cannot be controlled. Keeping track of outbursts and their frequency and any possible triggers can be helpful when talking to the doctor about how the current treatment is working or discussing alternative options.

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Carly Rae Jepsen – ‘Dedicated’ Album Review
“Petition to give Carly Rae Jepsen a sword,” Tumblr blogger Swordlesbianopinions wrote on Jan. 1, 2018, the clarity of a new year at hand and a vision of pop’s most earnest singer as warrior queen in mind.
“I like her and think she should have one,” the post continued, drolly, without any intention of starting an actual petition. The irony was acute but the affection authentic.
The thing is, we kind of did give Carly Rae Jepsen a sword.
When E•MO•TION came out in 2015, its U.S. pop prospects were so uncertain that manager Scooter Braun went for the sure thing and released it months early in Japan, where Jepsen apparently had more of a lingering following. It was the opposite of a surprise release, of a Beyoncé-level event certain of its ability to stop time and cleave culture. Jepsen had had one of the biggest hits ever—”Call Me Maybe”—but there seemed to be little faith in her power to do so again. The Japanese release was not quite straight-to-VHS, but it did mean the album leaked, and was passed quickly among critics who discretely shared links in Twitter DMs and were given a rare, lengthy window to quietly absorb one of the best records of the year. After the world had legally heard it months later, they agreed: it made No. 3 on Pazz and Jop. Not everyone came around—it got a brush-off 7-point-something from Pitchfork, where sometimes that score is cover for a gushing, secret Best New Music but in this case left the writer calling her an empty vessel: “We don’t learn much about Jepsen,” he wrote, after praising her multiple collaborators.
Less than a year later, there she was, absolutely murdering Pitchfork’s Chicago festival in the Summer of CarJeps, a U.S. tour that didn’t reach the arenas she once played with Justin Bieber as a top 40 phenom but found her—show by show, fest by fest—building an audience that was coming for her, not a hit single. Between the critical acclaim and the fandom, she became, to quote Thanos, inevitable. When somebody did finally give her a sword, albeit plastic and inflated and safe enough to get through venue security, she was playing Lollapalooza.
Jepsen’s statistical place in the pop landscape, her role as an unpopular pop singer, is interesting enough—Carl Wilson has us covered on this—but what’s most important is that what she has now is real, and she built it. E•MO•TION built it. We gave her the goddamn sword.
Dedication is the first album where we get to hear the sound of her wielding it, feel the confidence that shimmers from the vocal performances, from the lyrical honesty, from the wonderful weirdness of the music videos, from the press tour that finds her convincing reporters that she wrote 200 songs for this album after an album cycle in which she also told people she wrote 200 songs. (She told me, on the album tour: “…probably writing, I don’t know, three in-between albums that no one will ever hear before you heard E•MO•TION”). My impression of Carly Rae Jepsen is that she is a sincere and real artist and human and if she says she wrote 400 songs since 2012, listen, I believe her, but let’s not ignore this as a PR move: a songwriter making utterly sure everyone knows that she’s the fucking songwriter. It’s the kind of move you make after somebody hands you a sword at Lollapalooza and thousands of people call you queen on Instagram every day. That stuff is a joke, and it’s for fun, but it’s also not, and you can’t be the object of all that and not absorb its power.
E•MO•TION was, among many things, an album about indecision, about self-doubt and doubt in general as a barrier to romantic love. “Boy Problems” finds her needing a friend (Sia!) to tell her what she already knows is true but can’t face up to. “I Really Like You” is a song about wondering if it’s the right time to make the next physical step with a partner she’s crushing on but doesn’t yet love. In vintage house bop “I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance,” “I didn’t just come here to dance/if you know what I mean/do you know what I mean?” is the perfect Jepsen lyric, a disco diva come-on immediately fumbling into insecurity. It could’ve been a line of dialogue in a late 2000s Michael Cera movie about high school.
Even when Jepsen stopped getting in her own way in the songs of this era, there was a sense of teenage inexperience: the post-album single “Cut to the Feeling” was less about celebrating the chemical rush of new love (or orgasm) than it was about imagining it: “I want to cut to the feeling,” she sings, and in a song where “I had a dream, or was it real?” is the opening line, makes it pointedly unclear if she’s ever felt that feeling before. The song builds to such remarkable euphoria that the question fades enough to ignore, but it doesn’t disappear.
That’s not the Carly we get on Dedication, whose confidence and sense of self is also colored by the biography that it sprang from the end of a long-term relationship and the launch of a new one. Consider “Real Love,” Dedication‘s lyrically bleakest track: it envisions a “world going crazy,” perhaps a nod to the current dystopian political landscape, but the song is aimed at someone specific, someone who’s been lying to her, and then we get this: “I go everyday without it/All I want is real, real love.” If this is about a partner, holy shit, what a moving, anguished evaluation of a broken relationship. This is not “Gimmie Love,” a song where she wondered if she wanted too much. She knows better now. She knows her worth. (Let’s note the possibility here that these songs are characters, and not strictly confessional: the growth of their narrators, I think, remains the same.)
Lead single “Party For One” strikes the clearest contrast—like an older sister to “Boy Problems,” it embraces a breakup with strength and certainty and Cyndi Lauper-level self-love. Jepsen here doesn’t need a girlfriend’s advice, and she doesn’t even need closure: “If you don’t care about me,” she sings, but she’s not waiting to find out. This is, of course, still Carly Rae Jepsen’s version of a self-love anthem, and she doesn’t go full roaring Katy Perry. “I’m not over it,” she admits, “but I’m trying.” The feeling-chasing desires of E•MO•TION are still here, but pointed in a different, more mature direction.
Carly-as-evolving-lyricist is fascinating, and so rewarding for E•MO•TION (and “Call Me Maybe”) listeners who have always appreciated who writes her songs without having to be hit by a 200-track bus. The music is where Dedicated loses a step. The confidence to explore, to stray from the album’s purported initial “chill disco” agenda, means if you write 200 songs, you’re probably going to end up with a regrettable No Doubt knock-off (“I’ll Be Your Girl”) and somehow a track with perfectly adequate indie-pop act Electric Guest that aims maybe for ’90s R&B for… reasons? It’s fluff. (When I saw the track list I mistook Electric Guest for the Drive soundtrack’s Electric Youth and that would’ve been the inspired choice.)
E•MO•TION, too, was sonically choppy, but outside of the clumsy “L.A. Hallucinations,” only got better when it tried things outside of its core ’80s pop-anthem DNA. There is just nothing here quite as astounding as “Let’s Get Lost” or as lovely as the slo-mo synths of “Favourite Color,” but enough that comes close for Dedicated to still feel like an achievement. I’ve taken to making playlist edits of albums because it’s 2019 and why not, and my version of Dedicated cuts it to 11 songs, a count I’m sure will expand if she opens the vault for another B-sides album.
Probably the album’s most left-field track is my favorite: “Everything He Needs,” which borrows a chorus from Harry Nilsson’s song “He Needs Me,” Olive Oyl’s hesitant ballad from a live-action Popeye movie. Jepsen writes around this snippet, expressing the comfort of partnership, vividly—“like pressure points, my love can ease him in my hand”—while making it all sound like Hall and Oates in space. It is so gently, adorably funky and I need another 12 tracks just like it immediately. Among the other winners, “Julien” evokes Feist’s “Inside and Out,” and if Carly ever wants to abandon the ’80s for full-on classic Dionne Warwick worship, I will be first in line. The other early singles—“No Drug Like Me,” synth-y, heady, amazing; “Now That I Found You,” fizzy, euphoric, perfect Carly—are excellent, and I do wonder if hearing and obsessing over so much of the album before release makes some of the lesser album cuts feel weaker just by lack of familiarity.
A through-line for the album I keep noticing is its emphasis on mornings: if Lorde’s Melodrama was about the blurred, exaggerated feelings of neon nights, Dedicated literally starts a third of these songs with lyrics about waking up. There’s knowing there, clarity: the light of day, of seeing things as they are, of a morning after that comes with last night’s commitments and consequences. It wasn’t a dream, it was real, and there’s no escaping the joy and pain that can come with that. On Dedicated, Jepsen is brave enough to tell us about all of it, a queen in her castle, a knight of the realm.

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Lately, in an apparent attempt to push back from the negativity surrounding high fructose corn syrup, there seems to be an increase in the number of articles published touting the advantages of fructose as a “safer sugar.” The main point that is so often emphasized is that unlike glucose, fructose does not seem to increase insulin. Increasing insulin, which is how our bodies cope with increased glucose levels, may, when it’s constantly challenged, lead to a state in which we tend to lose our sensitivity to insulin. This means that with time, on a diet that constantly raises our glucose levels, insulin becomes less effective. Losing insulin sensitivity or becoming “insulin resistant” is not only associated with elevated blood sugar and subsequent diabetes, but also a fairly extensive list of chronic degenerative conditions that we want to do our best to avoid like coronary artery disease and Alzheimer’s. Continue reading
It is well-documented that the accumulation of the beta-amyloid protein in the brain is correlated with Alzheimer’s disease. Ongoing research seeks to understand how, and at what stage of Alzheimer’s, beta-amyloid proteins influence the disease. Continue reading
Understanding the relationship between less healthful dietary and lifestyle choices and developing type-2 diabetes, a recent study linking the brain’s center for impulsive behavior and diabetes risk was really interesting.
The research was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital and involved 232 non-diabetic subjects. These individuals underwent brain-imaging studies that measured the metabolic activity of their amygdalas, an area of the brain that is involved with fear, stress, and impulsivity.
So much has been written over the years extolling the health benefits of green tea. Green tea has been reported to be effective for weight loss, antioxidant effects, reducing risk of cancer, protecting the brain from Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s, reducing risk of heart attack, and even for helping a person live longer. As it turns out, there is a fair amount of validation supporting many of these health claims. In fact, as it relates to living longer, one very extensive Japanese study involving 40,000+ adults over 11 years, shows that those individuals who drank 5 cups of green tea or more each day saw their risk of death reduced by 23%, for women, and 12%, for men.
As you might expect, I am especially interested in research related to brain health and functionality. As such, I was extremely interested in a recent publication that evaluated one component in green tea that shows high biological activity. The chemical, epigallocatechin-3-galate, better known as EGCG, has been long known as being one of green tea’s components most responsible for its reported health benefits Continue reading
Today’s video takes a look at a subject that’s at the forefront of our discussion on this blog: how lifestyle choices can impact the fate of your brain. Specifically, we’re looking at how the lifestyle choices that can lead to the development of diabetes may also play a role in raising your risk for Alzheimer’s disease (remember, a disease for which there is no cure).
A new study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, explores changes we see in brain energetics, or the brain’s ability to utilize fuel. Traditionally this is looked at considering glucose, or sugar, as a fuel source. Continue reading
There is an extensive body of research that reveals how critical glucose uptake and utilization are for many types of cancer. What the research has been unable to determine is exactly how cancer cells might manipulate their environment so as to increase the availability of glucose.
We commonly think that if something is good for our health, that more of it is even better, right? More kale never hurt anyone. Putting on extra sunscreen may not protect us from even more UV rays, but it certainly won’t cause excess damage!
But is that actually always true? How about with insulin, which we’re commonly told to keep as low as possible? Continue reading
Energy medicine is now front-and-center as a major consideration in trying to unravel the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease. It’s now clear that a disruption of cellular energetics is fundamentally involved in the disease.
Multiple research studies have demonstrated that a decline in brain metabolism, specifically the brain’s utilization of glucose, is seen long before there are any clinical manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease. In other words, the first observable event in Alzheimer’s is the finding of reduced brain glucose utilization on a special type of brain scan. This observation presages the clinical manifestations like declining memory, judgment, and executive function by as much as several decades.
Why the brain suffers from this decline in its ability to use glucose as a fuel remains undefined, but new research is making the case that the hormone insulin is playing an important role in this event.


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We had our second STEAM collaboration this week, as we wrapped up 2015 at WMS. Students created an origami mural around the be nice campaign and then worked collaboratively to create larger structures. Some things worked well, others didn't. It was fun regardless and we learned a lot along the way. Below are some pictures of students in process.
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The veterinary professional in me was determined to continue going to work. But personally, I was a mess. One day, while I was lost in a cloud of grief, my boyfriend asked, "Are you ever going to feel better?" I wasn’t really sure.
In this java-less episode, Kara Burns talks religion and politics, the presidential debates and—just kidding! She talks about the career paths for technicians as nutrition advocates and challenges Tasha to a jalapeño-eating contest (kidding again!). We crack ourselves up sometimes.
True story: Payday's too far away and there's a lot less cushion for many technicians, who don't receive paid sick days and don't expect raises this year. Can we rewrite the narrative for a happier ending?


10 years of Kryder’s Law: how flash will shape the next 10 years
Wed 9 Dec 2015
Flash storage is now ubiquitous in the enterprise. Introduced to the IT market over thirty years ago, it has become the go-to storage of choice over the past decade. It’s everywhere, from the world of consumer computing, built into hand held devices such as smartphones, laptops and tablets as well as memory cards for your digital camera, to the business world, inside every company’s data centre.
The prevalence of flash technology has come about because, while it offers read and write speeds hundreds of times faster than traditional HDDs, it has also recently decreased in price to a level that makes it accessible to everyone. According to industry experts, flash prices have decreased by three quarters in the 18 months prior to July 2015, and will continue to do so, due to its increasing popularity. There are more and more use cases for flash emerging every day, meaning manufacturing prices have decreased due to economies of scale.
As flash storage is becoming cheaper as time goes on, the capacity is also increasing while the physical size decreases. The smaller physical architecture of flash storage and the associated efficiency improvements that go with this mean that there are also changes in the form of technology, which is leading to developments in deployed technologies, including faster processors and different kinds of commercial and research applications.
These developments – significant price drops combined with improved capacity and efficiency, are in line with an analysis of the density and capability of hard drive storage media over time – are known as Kryder’s Law.
Now ten year’s old, Kryder’s Law is based on the work of electrical engineer Mark Kryder. Kryder spent several decades studying and observing the dramatic increases in magnetic disk areal storage density that have taken place over the last 60 years. During this time, period hard drives progressed from being able to store just several thousand individual bits of information in the early post WWII period – when dramatic developments in modern Computing were made – to the smaller, high-volume drives akin to those available today.
The concept of Kryder’s Law was conceived in 2005 when Kryder noticed that magnetic disk areal storage density was increasing in correlation to Moore’s Law, a computing theory that was originally created by Gordon Moore, Co-Founder of Intel.
Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a dense integrated circuit will double approximately every two years. Conceived in 1965 in Moore’s internal paper The Future of Integrated Electronics, the theory originally stated that the number of transistors would double every year, however, this was revised in 1975 and so far the prediction has proved accurate. Moore’s Law is now used by the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set R&D targets. Moore’s Law is seen as integral to the IT industry.
Although Kryder’s Law has since proved to have fallen a little short of the mark, it still reflects the technological change flash has contributed in terms of size and power of both consumer devices and the backend performance that sits behind programmes, websites and applications. Flash is thus helping to change user expectations of how fast and responsive their applications or websites work.
Flash and the data centre
The data centre is certainly one place flash storage technology is transforming the nature of data storage. The market for Solid-State-Array (SSA) set ups in data centres is expanding as enterprises invest more and more into the architecture, which will accelerate their workloads. SSAs enable this because they have the ability to provide increased performance in comparison to storage arrays that rely on spinning disk hard drives. They have much higher input/output (I/O) than their moving cousins. SSAs are often laid out as the top tier in an automated storage tiering approach and can decide where to move data based primarily on input/output activity, and thus does not prioritise those choices based on the application.
The migration to solid-state technology and software-defined storage approaches is inevitable because all-flash storage changes the way companies do business by dramatically speeding up application performance and improving server efficiency.
The next ten years
Kryder’s Law shows no sign of becoming irrelevant anytime soon. The price of flash is expected to continue to decline over time, and one of the most important factors is likely to be the development of new architectures, particularly the adoption of 3D NAND technology.
3D NAND, or “V NAND” enables memory cells to be stacked on top of each other vertically instead of spread horizontally across a grid. It allows flash memory to be expanded solving one of the drawbacks flash had in the early days, limited storage density.
While the future of flash storage, particularly for the next ten years, is likely to prove that Kryder’s Law is accurate, it doesn’t spell the death of HDDs. There are some workloads that will continue to run just fine on HDD arrays so don’t expect them to disappear from the data centre just yet.
Flash, however, is only going to become more welcome, especially in enterprise environments, where price has so far limited the advancement for industrial computing. While flash prices have traditionally been 5-10 times more expensive to do the same job: storing the same data as traditional HDD set ups, the declining prices of SSDs, relative to Kryder’s Law, is leading to a much more efficient data centre storage options, boasting up to ten times faster data retrieval while using a tenth of the power. As a result, flash will sooner or later become a mainstream technology in the data centre.
In 2005, Kryder said that since the introduction of the disk drive in 1956, the density of information it can record has swelled from just 2,000 bits to 100 billion bits, all crowded in the small space of a square inch, representing a 50-million-fold increase.
From this, Kryder theorised that because that 50 million increase took place over 41 years, it demonstrates the doubling the power and memory of computer semiconductors every 18 months, a rate of improvement faster than Moore’s Law.
Development of cost per Gigabyte of storage:
· Late 1950s: $10,000,000
· Late 1970’s: $500,000
· 1980: $200,000
· 1985: $71,000
· 1990: $9,000
· 1995: $686
· 2000: $7.14
· 2005: $0.58
· 2010: $0.07
· 2015: $0.03


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Hollie reports that since recital: “Hazel has asked me at least 20 times if she can be a Hot Mama (the name of the itty-bitty little dancers on our dance team)”.
I do believe that perhaps she was just a LITTLE impressed with them.
And so it begins…says the veteran dance mom…soon to be the dance mi-ma. But I have to say that I can’t imagine a better family to travel with and room with for the next competition dance season…if you all decide to do it.
Don’t be fooled by this shot, Hazel was spot on with her Auntie Jodie’s choreography for the “Lollipops” tap routine. In spite of all the movement all around her she was where she was supposed to be at that very moment.
OMG, can she be even more cuter than she is here right now….with legs literally stretched up to her chinny-chin-chin-chin? And after the recital and watching them perform, she is so ready to join the team as one of the little Hot Mamas.
Another dance star, I fear, has been born!