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G. S. Ramesh
Worldwide Group President
G. S. Ramesh is the Kemin AquaScience and Kemin Biologics Group President for Kemin Industries Worldwide. He assumed his current role as of January 2024 and has been with Kemin for more than 20 years.
Ramesh has 37 years of experience in the human food, animal feed and food production industries. He served as Group President for the Animal Nutrition and Health for Kemin Industries Worldwide from 2017 to 2023. Before that, he served as president of Kemin Animal Nutrition and Health for (South Asia) from 2002 to 2016. Prior to joining Kemin, Ramesh worked in the food industry in various positions, gaining knowledge and experience in operations, purchasing, research and development (R&D), marketing and management.
He began his career in operations at Kissan Products, a fruit and vegetable products processor in India that is a division of United Breweries. He then joined Hindustan Unilever, working in operations and R&D across several product categories, including bakery products, fruit beverages, hot and cold beverages (tea and coffee), culinary products and instant dry mixes (soups and drinks).
After working at Hindustan Unilever for eight years, Ramesh became part of the startup team of The Pillsbury Co. in India. He headed the R&D function for The Pillsbury Co. for over four years. During this time, he established an R&D center and team, rolled out the innovation funnel process and contributed to designing and building The Pillsbury Co.’s first flour mill in India. Ramesh’s team was responsible for launching several products, as well. One product, Pillsbury Whole Wheat Flour, became the number one brand in south, west, and eastern India during its first three years post launch. Ramesh’s team also initiated The Pillsbury Co.’s bakery and food services business with the building of the company’s own facility in India.
Just before joining Kemin, Ramesh served as vice president of technical for Ballarpur Industries, which supplies processed food to major supermarket chains around the world.
Ramesh earned a post-graduate degree in food technology from GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India.


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please... "Cheap beer and forums do not mix."
No, it probably won't
be "better than awk."
"awk" is a very well-written program that is specialized for doing what you are doing.
All of the delays associated with this task will be mechanical
ones: disk I/O times and network time. But "awk" knows to tell the operating-system that the file is being read sequentially, and therefore the operating system will know how to line-up lots of file buffers and other tricks to streamline the operation as much as the hardware will allow.
If the time required to do this task is problematic to the business,
then there are various things that you can do:
- Invest in fast storage-hardware... SATA, FireWire.
- Instead of using the disk controllers built into the motherboard, buy a controller card. An inexpensive unit can make a dramatic difference.
- Put the input file and the output file on different disk volumes.
- Do not follow the siren that says, "put it all in memory..." Abandon all hope, ye who enter there!
Face it: when you're dealing with 10 gigabytes of data, "some things take time." If you're doing the task in "awk," and doing it well, then you are
using a robust tool that was specifically designed for the task. You have not erred in the approach that you are using right now.
"Diddling with it" will not improve it.


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Barlow’s eyes are shimmering, the light a sinuous display of something towing beneath. His smile pious-like, marked with an etiolated kindness, this precarious softness and this mark of an adulterating isolation that only those who’d experienced can recognize. A secret for the initiated. But Barlow is not a monk, he is dashing in his blacksuit — I wonder dashing is even the appropriate word as I appraise him. He is the quintessential instagram-able hunk in the flesh(he isn’t even trying) and I still can’t believe he hasn’t grown an inch since high school.
Looking at his deceptively self-effacing face, I remember the bravado and the charisma – how Barlow, despite his silence today, is an eloquent raconteur. I can still remember his hunting stories out in the woods, how he caught hedgehogs and meerkats. How he’d set traps and
shoot birds for supper. Barlow could be and do all that and still be
suave enough to be successful with the girls, ace his STEM classes instead of the typical anachronistic brute. I tasted my first hedgehog
because of Barlow, couldn’t believe how amazing they tasted, I since haven’t tasted anything that amazing.
Barlow watches as the pallbearers take his mother’s coffin to the hearse, he catches me swiping a glance over the supple cleavage of a particularly exquisitely dressed woman beside us. He whispers to me, well below the strained wailing juxtaposed on a chasm of silence, that he hasn’t had sex in two months. Barlow isn’t sad.
I wonder if it’s appropriate to be talking about sex. It’s not like parents spend time telling children how to behave at funerals, unless you were a particularly unfortunate child who had go to a lot of funerals. What you learn about funerals is what you see on TV or what you observe on the fly. In many ways funerals are like boring Sunday sermons except everyone is super sad, or they pretend to be lest they are accused of being cold, especially women, they are the ones who have that to worry about that. Men have the “luxury” of not being affected, in fact the more emotionless the better – oh [insert eye-rolling emoji] the “luxury”.
“Oh no! who’ll be left to run everything if the “men” get all hysterical?” Sexist traditionalist shit.
I hadn’t spoken to Barlow in over six years when he suddenly found me
on Facebook and inboxed me, too enthusiastically, pungent with a hunger. An overwhelming need for any human interaction. A hunger for love, understanding, support. Pungent with the kind of wounding, pernicious loneliness that robs one of what’s left of their dignity, a loneliness which was felt under his badly rehearsed bravado.
Even now, standing next to him, standing next to this happy Barlow, I sense a deep towing weight. an undertow of immense pull. But Barlow
isn’t sad, even when his smile quivers at the corners and even when they lower his mother into the ground. He simply looks up at me, a wry smile all he could manage.
“Thanks,” it’s all he says, with this odd calm voice amidst a cacophony of wailing mourners.
Barlow isn’t choking up. I even think I can’t tell him that I wish this funeral had come at a different time because I want to be in front of my TV right now, watching South Africa play Australia. Then I understand that even if Barlow knew this, he wouldn’t mind. Not because it wouldn’t bother him, but because he isn’t supposed be bothered by it. As a “man” he can’t make a big deal out of it, not openly anyway.
There is saying in Sesotho: Monna ke nku ha a lle.
It means men don’t cry. it directly translates to ‘men are sheep they don’t cry’. In many traditional rites an animal is slaughtered in Basotho culture, like in many other cultures. I have been to many of these events and watched as animals get slaughtered(I had to be there, believe me I’m not that chilled about it either).
Compared to other animals, typically the goat and the cow, when the sheep’s neck is being severed, even by the bluntest of knives, it doesn’t cry in agony. There is a powerful, almost martyr-like effect that one experiences when watching this — when watching this meek innocent creature being sacrificed and “allowing” it to happen with such “grace”. There is a certain ineffable Romantic quality to it. That is where the saying comes from, the fact that even when it dies a horrible death the sheep never cries in agony.
But why would this be seen as a strength? It beats me.
Growing up I heard that saying thrown around somewhere in the periphery, never had anything to do with me.At home I wasn’t told to stop crying because I was a boy, I was told to stop crying because, well… it’s just fucking annoying. In my high school years when I started making friends(yes, that’s not a mistake) I never had to monitor my feelings either. I felt what I felt and I expressed myself.
My closest friend’s was a boy, who I had a lot in common with in this regard, we talked freely about our feelings and together we had more female friends than we did male, and we were very choosy with our male friends always, averting the hyper-masculine boys. What defined my life then was a fluidity to be and to experience whatever I fancied with no regard for what it might mean. And that was good. I could talk about Heroes and I could also talk about Gossip Girl, I could talk about sports and also talk about my feelings. Freeee-dom!
My experience at university would be different, in an all-male residence(dorm) with the type of guys who high five each other over the latest morally questionable sexual conquest as if it is the single most important qualifier of manhood(how cliché is that?). It was me, the effeminate sensitive guy, with these hyper-masculine guys from all-boy boarding cults — sorry — all boy boarding schools. Guys who had extreme misconceptions about girls. The type of guys who read The Game like it’s gospel and thought porn was, more or less, a normal presentation of the sexual experience(no doubt many were virgins or badly inexperienced).
That is the problem with going to an all-boy school, you have little contact with the opposite sex compared to your co-ed peers. What you know about girls is misguided or utterly false. There are various ways that schools try to mitigate this but I don’t, personally speaking, think it’s enough or effective.
It was here that I learned the hard way, at the brunt of incessant bullying and ostracism, that men don’t talk about their feelings. My more feminine qualities were subject to such hostility and intolerance that I couldn’t have a healthy existence in the residence without either suppressing or shedding them. It was here that, despite having resisted a fair bit and retained some of my effeminate qualities, I was socialized into the “cult of sheep”. It was here that I became like Barlow.
For all the emotional suppression that dominated the halls and the social life at residence, these suppressed emotions showed themselves in bouts of anger, violence, alcohol abuse and drunken meltdowns. Because feelings don’t go away when you suppress them, they burst once the pressure reaches an intolerable amount, prying a small opening into gaping wound. And many of these guys came to me, the “weak one”, cried, talked and broke down only to dismiss this moment of strength as nothing more than a moment of weakness the next day.
The sad part about this new me, standing next to this happy Barlow, is that I can identify with him. And I wonder if it is a good thing, to carry this ceaseless labor of emotional asceticism among the people you should turn to for support. The new me is bundle of alexithymia and effeminate spurts and stutters. The sad part about all of this emotional self-imprisonment is that it comes out in the most undesirable ways.
I have observed coldness, passive aggressiveness, irritability(I’m guilty of this and the one preceding), substance abuse, emotional, verbal & physical abuse and the people who feel it the most are those who are more vulnerable. Perhaps these men feel an enmity to this vulnerability because it reflects that loathed sensitive, feeling boy cowering inside themselves. Or perhaps they resent that their victims are far more autonomous and courages than they are.
I’m grateful, as much as I am mournful, that a part of me is still sensitive, feeling and open. Unlike Barlow and many other men in the cult of the sheep, I can still write essays like these and cry when I hear beautiful music and not be afraid to say Gilmore Girls is one of my favorite series of all time.
The cult of sheep needs to stop.

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WASHINGTON -- There is an old saying among economists that the best way to assess the state of the economy is to look at people's underwear.
OK, there's no such saying. But when he served as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan did use the sales of male underpants as a way to take the temperature of the country's economic well being. And if the Maestro were to take a peek right now, he'd find evidence that things are gradually improving.
The NPD Group, Inc., a leading market research company, has shown an uptick in sales of men's underwear over the past year. Between Aug. 2010 and Aug. 2011, sales for all men's "underwear bottoms" were roughly $2.074 billion. In the period between Aug. 2011 and Aug. 2012, that number was $2.194 billion. That represents a 6 percent jump in sales from year to year.
Looking closer at the data, specific undergarment companies are flourishing in the current economy. HanesBrands Inc., for example, has seen underwear sales increase steadily over the past three years, climbing from $1.83 billion in 2009 to $2.01 billion in 2010 to $2.06 billion in 2011, according to SEC files. Sales for the first half of 2012 -- the most recent available data -- are also stronger, coming in at $1.17 billion, compared to $1.15 billion in the first half of 2011. The company's stock price, which hit a 6-month low of $24.78 per share on May 18, was over $33 per share on Monday.
Limited Brands Inc., the parent company of Victoria's Secret, does not separate that company's revenues from those of its other brand names, like Bath and Body Works. The company's overall store sales for the first half of 2012, however, were up 8 percent from the first half of 2011, according to its latest earnings statement, and it saw its stock price rise from $45.11 on May 18 to more than $50 on Monday.
Greenspan's theory on underwear sales as an economic indicator was fairly straightforward.
"If you look at sales of male underpants it's just pretty much a flat line, it hardly ever changes," NPR's Robert Krulwich explained of the theory, after Greenspan's book "The Age Of Turbulence" was published. "But on those few occasions where it dips that means that men are so pinched that they are deciding not to replace underpants. And [Greenspan] said 'that is almost always a prescient, forward impression that here comes trouble.'"
In 2009, that certainly was the case. In April of that year, as The Huffington Post reported, the leading global research company Mintel produced a study showing a 2.3 percent drop in sales of all men's underwear products in 2009. The recession had come quickly and unexpectedly. In November 2008, Mintel had forecast underwear sales to grow by 2.6 percent in 2009.
Men, in short, were cutting back so dramatically on their spending habits that they were no longer buying underwear regularly. Three years later, with the economy showing some signs of growth -- albeit slow growth -- they're splurging a bit more.
But the theory has its limits. The Huffington Post reached out to several men who have endured lean times, but found none who obeyed Alan Greenspan's law of underwear sales.
Doug Walter of Ivyland, Pa. lost his job at a car dealership in 2009 and spent two years unemployed before starting a business. He said he doesn't expect to make a ton of money from his new Warrington, Pa. consignment store, but even in boom times he wouldn't go out of his way to buy underwear.
"Personally I figure I won't be buying underwear for myself," Walter, 45, said in an email. "That's what the holidays are for."
Walter's son, who helps at the store, suggested improved underwear sales might "be representative of men heading back into the dating scene in the aftermath of failed marriages caused by the recession."
Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township, N.J., said he hasn't started shopping for underwear less frequently since losing his job.
"I'm the kind of guy who buys underwear only when I have to," Chukalas said. "They could have more holes than swiss cheese, and be completely falling apart, before I trash them."
Chukalas added that his underwear habit drives his wife insane.
Related on HuffPost:
New Men's Underwear
Men that made do with their old underwear now are buying new underwear as the economy improves. Men's underwear sales have increased 5.2 percent in the 12 months ending in August 2011, topping $2.58 billion, according to One Block Off the Grid.
Kim Kardashian is not alone. There has been a surge in divorces since the start of the economic recovery, according to NPR. Divorce is expensive, so with the economy on the rebound, unhappy couples now have the means to divorce.
Say goodbye to the recession haircut -- better known as cutting your own hair to save money. Sales at hair salons have increased 5.37 percent since 2009, according to research by Sageworks cited by CNBC. These hair salon sales include not only haircuts, but also hair coloring, according to The Washington Post.
More Dinners Out
We're now treating ourselves more to a nice meal out. Sales at sit-down restaurants have risen 8.7 percent over the past year, according to government data cited by The New York Times.
More Plastic Surgery
Notice some of your friends are looking a bit more nipped and tucked lately? That's because plastic surgery procedures often see a boost during better economic times. There were 13.8 million plastic surgeries in 2011: up 5 percent since 2010, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
More Zoo Visits
More parents are treating their kids to zoo visits now that the economy is recovering. The Dallas Zoo had record attendance in March: 145,441 paying visitors, up 18 percent from the record set the year before, according to the Dallas Morning-News.
More People Quitting
When the economy gets better, workers that are unhappy at their jobs are more likely to quit, since they feel they have a better chance of finding a better job. More workers now are quitting than getting fired, according to Labor Department data cited by CNBC.
More People Riding The Subway
People that used to walk to save money are taking the subway again. More New Yorkers are riding the subway than at any point since 1950, according to NY1.
More Dentist Visits
People that delayed dentist visits to save money are going to see the dentist again -- possibly to find out they have cavities. Dentist visits are rising thanks to the economic recovery, according to CNBC.


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Director: Bill Stout
Sitatien Kaelo was the smartest girl in the tribe so her community justified continuing payments for her education into high school. Yet this soon came to an end because, as Sitatien points out, 13 year olds are considered old grown women where she comes from.
But with the help of a Maasai tribal leader and a scholarship from a university in the United States, Sitatien’s life becomes anything but traditional. The farewell song composed by female friends and family is a haunting tribute to the responsibilities resting on this youngster’s shoulders.
The Maasai tribe is in crisis. Its nomadic pastoral traditions and ritualistic blood-drinking are in conflict with the modern world. The community’s attitudes to women are equally out of step. Education is almost exclusively reserved for boys and female circumcision is standard practice.
Bill Stout follows Sitatien’s story of remarkable independence and growing confidence.
I am a huge fan because you do stories that are very seldom seen anywhere on any of the other TV channels. I loved the story on the Maasai women and their struggle for independence from their abusive husbands.
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Written & Published by Lolita Buck
So I wanted to do something in honor of Fathers across the globe since yesterday was Fathers Day. But this is really just an overall salute to the upstanding guys out there who hustle & grind day in & day out. Who make it there business to handle "their business" making this world a better place to live, Father or not.
I chose the title "Man Down" because typically when you hear this term you think about a fallen soldier or someone who has been wounded in combat. But for today's post specifically I'll be using it in a little different context. I wanna touch on the subject of men's wounded souls & there ability to "man down". That is, get down on their knees before their Heavenly Father & hand him their broken hearts.
Of course ladies we all know that men generally suffer in silence. Unfortunately that's how they're bred. They're taught as little boys that men shouldn't cry or show emotions. And as adults many have complied. I personally find it extremely sexy & very compelling when a guy gets down on his knees & cries out to God. This is complete surrender & an ultimate symbol of humility. So lets talk about humility for a moment.
I find that men relate better to facts versus the preachy, emotional stuff. So I've gathered a few solid scriptures that lay out the spirit of humility plain & simple. And I trust that God will do the rest.
"Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
"Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord and humility comes before honor."
"Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
Fella's you know that we'll stand behind you one hundred percent. In fact, we have the propensity to be your greatest cheerleaders. But sometimes your struggles & needs are beyond our scope of understanding. And that's where your Heavenly Father comes into play. He created every fiber of your being. So he gets it. He gets your struggle, he gets "you". More so than we ever will. But the question is whether or not you'll have the courage give him your heart? Here is a scripture that lets you know its completely safe to do so.
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
I hope that you guys truly enjoyed this post, this was a tribute to you. We salute & honor you for all that you do! Always remember that for every wounded soul, every "man down" there is a great physician in Heaven ready to prescribe a heavy dose of unconditional love.
As you go forward in your daily journey I extend love & peace to each of you. I pray that you find your "it" and that you OWN IT. That the chains of this world be broken off of you & that you walk in the light that God intended you to walk in.
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The sun and the moon (2017)
Carina expresses herself mainly in paintings. She likes to paint relationships in a narrative form - childhood memories or contemporary observations. She paints images that touch the beholder and awakens emotions and thoughts.
Carina also paints abstract in clear colors as well as fantasy motifs, often with animals.
She is fascinated by the sacred geometry and makes paintings based on the theory.
Carina has participated in many courses over the years, short ones but also a full time art education for a year in Stockholm, 2016-2017.
Carina has exhibited in Malta and in France as well as in Sweden at collective exhibitions and at several jury-evaluated exhibitions, including Liljevalch's Spring Salon 2011 with an installation consisting of three paintings and music.


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Public sector organisations have been cautious with the deployment of leading-edge technology.
Once a decision has been made to proceed, these organisations tend to move slower than commercial organisations. Governments increasingly recognise that adoption of new innovations, which often sit in the public cloud, will provide efficiencies and a competitive advantage.
As governments across the world show positive signs of cloud migration, the UK public sector has demonstrated early understanding of the need to fully migrate to cloud. The UK Government’s original cloud-first policy was published in 2013 but has been updated in recent months to produce the One Government Cloud Strategy.
As more businesses and public sector departments begin this transition, we are seeing a significant rise in both interest and investment in the cloud from public sector organisations. But the cloud migrations of such large organisations can be tricky to manage and there are both best practices, and pitfalls, to consider.
The need for the cloud is clear. Updating legacy IT systems and adopting cloud services is at the top of the digital transformation agenda for organisations across all industries. In fact, cloud services will soon be the largest part of the IT services market in Europe, as enterprises invest in them as part of their Covid-19 recovery strategies.
Public sector organisations are a part of this movement as they are also operating in competitive spaces. For example, there is a call for UK Government IT systems to move entirely into the cloud by 2023. A cloud-first mindset can help tackle the financial woes many organisations have faced in recent years, many of which have been exacerbated during the pandemic. The result will be greater efficiencies achieved across the economy, with private industry no longer hampered by slow-moving government and legislative bodies.
Many organisations, however, are still finding it difficult to make the move. Though the benefits are vast, public-sector bodies considering migrating to the cloud often face organisational and operating-model challenges, including securing the required resources. In addition, there are often privacy and security concerns – including overcompliance with the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
The cloud is complex, and companies are struggling with access to the right skills and expertise to properly transition. However, the organisations that are delaying migration are already falling further behind than they realise. The gap is widening with every year of delay, which is why working with a partner can expedite the process and guarantee success.
But choosing a partner can prove complicated for organisations as well. Technology decision makers not only have to choose the right cloud service provider, but also need to choose relevant offerings from a wide portfolio of options. This abundance of choice creates a challenge for organisations, as many are not proficient enough to know which choice is best for them and lack the expertise to guide the decision.
Globally, public sector organisations are finding it a challenge to completely migrate to the cloud but can do this and optimise their operations with the right partner. For example, in Australia, we worked with a city council in New South Wales to produce a hyper-converged solution designed to replace the council’s existing aging data centre. Using a platform created specifically for a new community centre, migration was enabled with minimal disruption to council operations, service delivery and the day-to-day activities of staff. Additionally, it was designed to help the organisation move to a hybrid cloud in the future while maintaining its on-premises environment.
The wireless network implemented by the city council at the community centre provides 125 secure corporate access points for council staff. For public sector organisations this is a small deployment, but it highlights how a cloud-first approach can be implemented successfully with a partner. Whether 125 access points or 12,500, the cloud can accommodate any number of users and bring advantages to any public sector organisation. Leveraging third-party expertise in cloud deployments ensures the cost and the scope of digital transformation align with budget, expectations and compliance.
Mick McNeil is vice president business development, leading Microsoft business unit at Logicalis.
For more information on how Logicalis can help your business harness the benefits of the cloud and succeed in your digital transformation efforts, contact email@example.com.
This article was originally published in the Autumn 2021 issue of Technology Record. To get future issues delivered directly to your inbox, sign up for a free subscription.

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With Elton back in Australia, we're sharing rare clips from some of his previous visits in the 1970s and '80s.
In November 1979, Mental As Anything released their debut album 'Get Wet' and launched a long career.
See bloopers and behind-the-scenes footage from the first 10 years of Australian television.
The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. To celebrate we go behind the scenes with an early cinema home entertainment system: the Kinora.
We've recently acquired a die-cast model of a Cinesound Film Unit FJ Holden panel van, similar to that featured in the classic Australian film Newsfront.
The NFSA collects tens of thousands of items every year. What were some of the highlights for 2016?
We spoke to David Parker and Tony Mahood, two of the creative minds responsible for creating the quirky getaway car in Malcolm (1986).
Television is celebrating 60 years in Australia this week. Did you know that in TV’s early days, a number of talented people built their own TV sets at home?
In 1979 two young Australians invented the first Fairlight sampling synthesizer and changed electronic music forever. We have one in working condition!
There are relatively few surviving brown wax cylinders recorded in Australia prior to 1903, which made the donation of one to the NFSA a very exciting prospect for Sound Curator Tamara Osicka.
Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art, writes about the connection between 'Soldiers of the Cross' and one of the world's first blockbuster films, Italy's 'Quo Vadis' (1913).
The story behind the NFSA restoration of more than 100 films and fragments in the Corrick Collection, which toured Australia, South-East Asia and Europe between 1897 and 1914.
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TOPIC: RECEIVING THE WORD OF GOD THAT BUILD FAITH
Scripture: Luke 8: 13. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Beloved, I welcome you to another Moment of Daily Encounter! The word of God that engenders faith must be received, understood for faith to be born! Irrespective of whatever channel the word is communicated, it must be received (perceived), understood such that it produces conviction in your heart before faith can be born.
How then do you receive the word of God?
1. Develop a joyful attitude; Our anchor(Luke 8:13) scripture reveals one key to receiving the word which is the key of JOY!
The word that beget faith must be received with joy not sorrow or sadness. In order words you must be excited to receive, eager to receive then the light from the word will flow into your spirit.
What is joy?
Joy is delight! A state of blissfulness, gladness or felicity. The prospect of possessing what one desires.
Isaiah 12: 3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
How does joy enable you to receive the word of God?
Joy conditions your spirit to be at the same frequency with heaven! You know the Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy! So your spirit that is joyful is able to receive from the Holy Spirit who is also the author of scripture and the Spirit of Joy.
Wherever He is present there must be joy. That’s why the moment you are born again, the first evidence is joy. Your spirit man has just been recreated. So maintaining that joy is so vital to receiving from God. For the Bible said:
Psalm 16: 11. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
So joy makes you to experience heaven on earth and as such able to pick the signal of the Holy Spirit!
2. Desire(Prov.10:24): The second issue is the matter of desire! You don’t acquire anything until your desire for it becomes concrete such that it compels you to take responsibility. The Bible said:
Proverbs 18: 1. Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Desire is the call of the soul and spirit for a specific reality. It is the passionate appeal for a definite objective.
The things that you desire put you under pressure. It is pressure demands that leads to desperation. Your desire provokes restlessness, this is what will make you want to stay longer than necessary at a giving verse of scripture wanting to catch the light thereof. Desire creates hunger for the word on a steady basis! You are never tired of hearing, looking, searching for what the Holy Ghost has to say.
The arrival of your desire gives life and satisfaction;
Proverbs 13: 12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
When desire is granted it brings fulfilment to your soul:
Proverbs 13: 19. The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Beloved, do you want to receive the word of God that births faith, then maintain your joy constantly and let there be a desire for the word. If there is no desire, you will get nothing from either the scripture or any other avenues through which God releases His word that engenders faith to mankind.
Remember this; Heaven is real and hell is real! The destiny of all sinners and all that reject Christ is hell. Give a chance for Jesus to reign in your life today.
– Father thank you for your word to me today.
– Lord, help me to be joyful and desire to receive your word on regular basis in Jesus name
– I prophesy the grace to constantly desire the word of God, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
– Whatever attacks your joy is attacking your faith in Christ, receive deliverance from every attack against your life in the name of Jesus.
From your brother Alex
God bless you.


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Glocal Tourism : the Future of Responsible Travel?
Mark Bibby Jackson looks towards the future of travel, suggesting that it might be one where Glocal Tourism is very much to the fore, giving voice to those from within the travel community.
It is now a year since the eleventh hour cancellation of the ITB, traditionally the largest gathering of travel professionals in the world. Little did we then know how dramatic an effect Covid would have on travel and tourism.
Now, at last we can see some shoots of recovery within the sector.
The fast track vaccination programmes rolling out across much of the Globe indicate that the tail-end of 2021 will see a resurgence of international travel, albeit one that may require some form of vaccine passport.
Top Countries for Sustainable Tourism
The key question is what course that recovery will take.
While there is a clear suggestion that many travellers are just waiting for the green light to recommence budget holidays on the Continent, via Ryanair, EasyJet and the like, many are choosing to take a different route.
A report by Euromonitor International released at the ITB Berlin on 12 March, ‘Top Countries for Sustainable Tourism’, revealed that just over two thirds of “of consumers globally want to have a positive impact on the environment through their daily actions in 2021”.
The report takes into account a number of factors, including environmental, social and economic sustainability, in addition to the demand for sustainable tourism.
However, “only 55% of travel businesses implemented some form of sustainability strategy,” continued the report. This compares with 70% of companies within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector, for example.
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We consider two techniques of in-band frequency domain multiplexed (FDM) pilots using interleaved frequency domain multiple access (IFDMA) signal with a Chu sequence for DFT-precoded OFDM (or single-carrier (SC)) systems. One, called frequency domain superimposed pilot technique (FDSPT), superimposes pilot tones onto scaled or deleted data tones, which preserves spectral efficiency at the expense ... [Show full abstract] of a slight performance loss. The other, called frequency expanding technique (FET), multiplexes pilot tones by displacing data tones, which slightly reduces spectral efficiency. Using FDM pilots in SC systems facilitates flexible and efficient assignment of signals to available spectrum. We propose an iterative frequency domain decision-directed interference cancellation technique to reduce the intersymbol interference level of SC signals with FDSPT pilots (resulting from the suppression of data tones). Moreover, we propose a low complexity frequency domain iterative decision-directed channel estimation (IDDCE) technique for SC systems using FDM pilots. Using IDDCE, the frame error rate (FER) performance for coded SC systems using FET and FDSPT pilots with interference cancellation is found to be about 0.2 dB and about 0.5 dB, respectively, away from the FER performance with known channel frequency response at FER=10-2. FDSPT pilots can also be used for OFDM systems with channel coding. It is found that an extra 1 dB of SNR is required at FER=10-2,compared with that using the conventional FET pilots for OFDM systems.


Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software
Construction. Redmond, Wa.: Microsoft Press, 880 pages,
1993. Retail price: $35. ISBN: 1-55615-484-4.
Code Complete from Amazon.com.
28.2 Introduction to Code Tuning
What is the appeal of code tuning? It isn't the most effective way to improve
performance. Program design, data structure selection, and algorithm selection usually
produce more dramatic improvements. It isn't the easiest way to improve performance.
Buying new hardware or a compiler with a better optimizer is easier. It isn't the cheapest
way to improve performance. It takes more time to hand-tune code initially, and
code-tuning increases the readability burden later.
Code tuning is appealing for several reasons. One is that it seems to defy the laws of
nature. It's incredibly satisfying to take a routine that executes in 500 milliseconds,
tweak a few lines, and reduce the execution speed to 100 milliseconds.
It's also appealing because mastering the art of writing efficient code is a rite of
passage to becoming a serious programmer. Every specialized activity has similar abilities
that you master as a rite of passage. In tennis, for example, you don't get any points for
the way you pick up a tennis ball, but you still need to learn the right way to do it. You
can't just lean over and pick it up with your hand. If you're good, you whack it with the
head of your racket until it bounces waist high, then you catch it. Whacking it more than
three times or not bouncing it the first time are all serious failings.
It doesn't really matter how you pick up a tennis ball. Within the tennis culture,
however, the way you pick it up carries a certain cachet. Similarly, no one but you and
other programmers usually care how tight your code is. Nonetheless, within the programming
culture, writing micro-efficient code proves you're cool.
A final reason for code tuning's appeal is that programmers see the software world from
code's point of view. From that point of view, "better" code means better
The problem with code tuning is that efficient code isn't necessarily
"better" code, no matter how appealing it is. The irresistable appeal of
efficient coding's siren song and the number of programming sailors who crash their
programming ships on the siren's rocky shores call for a code-tuning safety-awareness
program. That's the subject of the next few subsections.
Old Wives' Tales
The first safety lesson in code tuning is that much of what you've heard about code
tuning is false; specifically, the following:
Reducing the lines of code in a high-level language improves the speed or size of
the resulting machine code--False! Many programmers cling tenaciously to the belief
that if they can write code in one or two lines, it will be the most efficient possible.
Consider the following line that initializes a five-element array:
for i = 1 to 5 do a[ i ] = i
Would you guess that the line is faster or slower than the following five lines that do
the same job?
a[ 1 ] = 1
a[ 2 ] = 2
a[ 3 ] = 3
a[ 4 ] = 4
a[ 5 ] = 5
If you follow the old "fewer lines are faster" dogma, you'll guess that the
first code is faster because it has four fewer lines. Hah! Tests in Pascal and Basic
showed that the second fragment is over 80 percent faster than the first. Here are the
for-loop Straight-code Time Performance
Language time time savings ratio
Pascal 0.660 0.110 83% 6:1
Basic 0.379 0.051 87% 7:1
Notes: Unless otherwise indicated, (1) Times in these tables are given in seconds and
should be interpreted only as relative times; (2) Performance ratios are rounded; (3)
Specific brands and versions of languages aren't given because performance characteristics
vary from brand to brand, version to version, and with different compiler settings; (4) In
some cases, comparisons between two languages aren't meaningful because the code has been
benchmarked with incommensurate compiler settings or floating-point variables.
In addition to the dramatic speed improvement, in Pascal, the first fragment consumes
47 bytes whereas the second takes only 30, a size savings of 36 percent. This certainly
doesn't imply the absurd conclusion that increasing the number of lines of high-level
language code always improves speed or reduces size. It does imply that, in spite of the
aesthetic appeal of writing something with the fewest lines of code, there's no
predictable relationship between lines of code in a high-level language and a program's
ultimate size and speed.
Certain operations are probably faster or smaller than others--False! There's no
room for "probably" when you're talking about performance. You must always
measure performance to know whether your changes helped or hurt your program. The rules of
the game change every time you change languages, compilers, or even versions of compilers.
What was true on one machine with one compiler is probably false on another machine with
This phenomenon suggests several reasons not to improve performance by code tuning. If
you want your program to be portable, techniques that improve performance in one
environment can degrade it in others. If you change or upgrade compilers, the new compiler
may automatically optimize code the way you were hand tuning it-your work will have been
wasted. Even worse, your code tuning may defeat compiler optimizations that are designed
to work with well-structured code.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature
optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth
Optimize as you go--False! One theory is that if you strive to write the fastest
and smallest possible code as you write each routine, your program will be fast and small.
This approach creates a forest-for-the-trees situation in which programmers ignore
significant global optimizations because they're so busy with micro-optimizations. Here
are the main problems with optimizing as you go along:
- It's almost impossible to identify performance bottlenecks before the program is
completely working. Programmers almost never target the right area ahead of time.
This leads to time spent optimizing the wrong area and a program with inferior performance
because the time needed for effective optimization has been wasted.
- In the rare case in which developers identify the bottlenecks correctly, they overkill
the ones they've identified and allow other ones to become critical. Again, the ultimate
effect is a reduction in performance. In contrast, optimizations done after the system is
complete can identify each problem area and its relative importance so that time is used
- Focusing on optimization during initial development detracts from achieving other
program characteristics. Developers immerse themselves in algorithm analysis and arcane
debates which in the end don't contribute much value to the user. Competing concerns like
correctness, modularity, information hiding, and readability become secondary goals, even
though performance is easier to retrofit than any of them are. Post-hoc performance work
typically affects only about 5 percent of the code. Would you rather go back and do
performance work on 5 percent of the code or readability work on 100 percent?
If the development time saved by implementing the simplest program is applied to
optimizing the running program, the result will always be a faster running program than
one in which optimization efforts are applied indiscriminately as the program is developed
In short, premature optimization's primary problem is a lack of perspective, and final
performance, the program and its users usually end up suffering.
You'll find a few projects in which post hoc optimization isn't sufficient to meet
performance goals, and you have to make major changes in the completed code. In those
cases, small, localized optimizations wouldn't have provided the needed gains anyway. The
problem isn't inadequate code quality-it's inadequate software architecture.
If you need to optimize before the program is complete, minimize the risks by building
perspective into your process. One way of doing so is to spec performance and speed goals
for routines or subsystems, then optimize to meet the goals as you go along. Setting such
goals in a spec is way to keep one eye on the forest while you figure out how big your
particular tree is.
A fast program is just as important as a correct one--False! It's hardly ever
true that programs need to be fast or small before they need to be correct. Gerald
Weinberg tells the story of a programmer who was flown to Detroit to help debug a program
that was in trouble. The programmer worked with the team of programmers who had developed
the program, and after several days he concluded that the situation was hopeless.
On the flight home, he mulled over the last few days and realized the true problem. By
the end of the flight, he had outlined the necessary code. He tested it for several days
and was about to return to Detroit when he got a telegram saying the project had been
cancelled because the program was impossible to write. He headed back to Detroit anyway
and convinced the executives that the project could be completed.
He then had to convince the project's original programmers. They listened to his
presentation, and when he'd finished, the creator of the old system asked,
"And how long does your program take?"
"That varies, but about ten seconds per input."
"Aha! But my program takes only one second per input." The veteran
leaned back, satisfied that he'd stumped the upstart programmer. The other programmers
seemed to agree, but the new programmer wasn't intimidated.
"Yes, but your program doesn't work. If mine doesn't have to work, I can
make it run instantly and take up no memory. "
To summarize, for a certain class of projects, size or speed are a major risk. This
class is the minority, and is much smaller than most people think. For these projects,
up-front design must be done to properly address the performance risks. For other
projects, premature optimization poses a significant threat to overall software quality,
The Pareto Principal
The Pareto principle, often known as the 80/20 rule, states that you can get 80 percent
of the result with 20 percent of the effort. It applies to a lot of things other than
programming, but it definitely applies to program optimization.
Barry Boehm reports that he has measured that 20 percent of the routines consume 80
percent of the execution time (Boehm 1987b). In the classic paper, "An Empirical
Study of FORTRAN programs," Donald Knuth found that less than 4 percent of a program
usually accounts for more than 50 percent of its run time (Knuth 1971).
Knuth used a line-count profiler to discover this surprising relationship, and the
implications for optimization are clear. Measure the code to find the hot spots, then put
your resources into optimizing the few percent that are used the most. Knuth profiled his
line-count program and found that it was spending half the execution time in two loops. He
changed a few lines of code and doubled the speed of the profiler in less than an hour.
Jon Bentley describes a case in which a thousand-line program spent 80 percent of its
time in a five-line square-root routine. By tripling the speed of the square-root routine
he doubled the speed of the program (Bentley 1988).
Bentley also reports the case of a team that discovered that half an operating system's
time was spent in a small loop. They rewrote the loop in microcode and made the loop 10
times faster, but it didn't change the system's performance-they had rewritten the
system's idle loop.
The team that designed the Algol language-the precursor to Pascal, C, and Ada and one
of the most influential languages ever-received the following advice: The best is the
enemy of the good. Working toward perfection may prevent completion. Complete it first,
then perfect it. The part that needs to be perfect is usually small.
Since small parts of a program tend to take a disproportionate share of the run time,
measure the code to find the hot spots.
Once you've found the hot spots and optimized them, measure the code again to assess
how much you've improved it. Many aspects of performance are counter intuitive. The case
given earlier in which five lines of code were significantly faster and smaller than one
line is an example of a way in which code can surprise you.
Experience doesn't help much with optimization. A person's experience might have come
from an old machine, language, or compiler, and when any of those things changes, all bets
are off. You can never be sure about the effect of an optimization until you measure it.
A few years ago I wrote a program which summed the elements in a matrix. The original
code looked like this:
C Example of Straightforward Code to Sum the Elements in a Matrix
Sum = 0;
for ( Row = 0; Row < RowCount; Row++ )
for ( Column = 0; Column < ColumnCount; Column++ )
Sum = Sum + Matrix[ Row ][ Column ];
This code was straightforward. Performance of the matrix-summation routine was
critical, however, and I knew all the array accesses and loop tests had to be
expensive. I knew from computer-science classes that every time the code accessed a
two-dimensional array, it performed expensive multiplications and additions. For a
10-by-10 matrix, that totaled 100 multiplications and additions plus the loop overhead. By
converting to pointer notation, I reasoned, I could increment a pointer and exchange 100
relatively cheap increment operations for 100 expensive multiplications. Consequently, I
carefully converted the code to pointer notation and got this:
C Example of an Attempt to Tune Code to Sum the Elements in a Matrix
Sum = 0;
ElementPtr = Matrix;
LastElementPtr = Matrix[ RowCount-1 ][ ColumnCount-1 ] + 1;
while ( ElementPtr < LastElementPtr )
Sum += *ElementPtr++;
Even though the code isn't as readable as the first code, especially to programmers who
aren't C experts, I was magnificently pleased with myself. For a 10-by-10 matrix, I
calculated that I had saved 100 multiplications and a lot of loop overhead. I was so
pleased, that I decided to measure the speed improvement, something I didn't always do
back then, so that I could pat myself on the back more quantitatively.
Do you know what I found?
No improvement whatsoever. Not with a 10-by-10 matrix. Not with a 3-by-3 matrix. Not
with a 25-by-25 matrix. The compiler's optimizer had optimized the first code well enough
that my optimization didn't help at all. I was powerfully disappointed, and I learned that
that only thing you can usually be sure of without measuring performance is that you've
made your code harder to read.
In short, if it's not worth measuring to prove it's more efficient, then it's not worth
sacrificing clarity for a performance gamble.
Measurements Need to be Precise
In a similar vein, performance measurements need to be precise. Timing your program
with a stopwatch or by counting "one elephant, two elephant, three elephant"
isn't precise enough.
Profiling tools are useful, or you can use your system's clock and routines that record
the elapsed time for competing operations.
Whether you use someone else's tool or write code to make the measurements yourself,
make sure that you're only measuring the execution time of the code you're tuning. If
you're working on a multi-user or multi-tasking system, use the number of CPU clock ticks
allocated to your program rather than the time of day. Otherwise, when the system swaps
your program out and another one in, one of your routines is penalized for the time spent
executing another program. Likewise, try to factor out testing overhead so that neither
the original code nor the tuning attempt is unfairly penalized.
Modern compiler optimizations might be more powerful than you expect. As I described
earlier, in one case my compiler did as good a job of optimizing a nested loop as I was
able to do by rewriting the code in a supposedly more efficient style.
When shopping for a compiler, compare the performance of each compiler on your program.
Each compiler has different strengths and weaknesses, and some are better suited to your
program than others.
Optimizing compilers are better at optimizing straightforward code than they are at
tricky code. If you do "clever" things like fooling around with loop indexes,
your compiler can't do its job, and your code suffers. For an example, see the case in
"Use Only One Statement per Line" in Section 18.5 in which a straightforward
approach resulted in code that was 15 percent faster and 45 percent smaller than
comparable "tricky" code.
With a good optimizing compiler, your code speed can improve 30 percent or more across
the board. Many of the techniques described in the next chapter produce gains of only
about 20 percent. Why not just write clear code and let the compiler do the work? Here are
the results of a few tests to check how much an optimizer speeded up an insertion sort
Time without Time with
compiler compiler Time Performance
Language optimizations optimizations savings ratio
Ada 2.80 1.60 43% 2:1
C compiler 1 2.25 1.65 27% 4:3
C compiler 2 2.58 2.58 0% 1:1
C compiler 3 2.31 0.99 57% 2:1
The only difference between versions was that compiler optimization was turned off for
the first compile, on for the second. Clearly, some compilers optimize better than others
and you'll have to check your own compiler to see what effect it has. The range of
differences in the three C compilers shows that you can't generalize about any particular language
being more efficient than another. The Ada compiler produced faster code than two of the
three C compilers, slower code than the third.
When to Tune
The germ of the guideline for when to optimize has already been given. Use a
high-quality design. Make the program right. Make it modular and easily modifiable so that
it's easy to work on later. When it's complete and correct, check the performance. If it's
lacking, then make it fast and small. In short, don't optimize until you know you need to.
Once you've identified a performance bottleneck, you may be amazed at how much you can
improve performance by code tuning. You'll rarely get a 10-fold improvement from one
technique, but you can effectively combine techniques, so keep trying, even after you find
one that works.
Once I wrote a software implementation of the Data Encryption Standard, or DES.
Actually, I didn't write it once, I wrote it about 30 times. DES is designed to encode
digital data so that it can't be unscrambled without a password. The encryption algorithm
is so convoluted that it seems like it might have been used on itself. The performance
goal for my DES implementation was to encrypt an 18K file in 37 seconds on an original IBM
PC. My first implementation executed in 21 minutes and 40 seconds, so I had a long row to
hoe. Here's a history of the optimizations:
Optimization Benchmark Time Improvement
Optimization Time Improvement
Initial, straightforward implementation 21:40 -
Convert from bit fields to arrays 7:30 65%
Unroll innermost for loop 6:00 20%
Remove final permutation 5:24 10%
Combine two variables 5:06 5%
Use a logical identity to combine the first 4:30 12%
two steps of the DES algorithm
Make two variables share the same memory to 3:36 20%
reduce data shuttling in inner loop
Make two variables share the same memory to 3:09 13%
reduce data shuttling in outer loop
Unfold all loops and use literal array subscripts 1:36 49%
Remove routine calls and put all the code inline 0:45 53%
Rewrite the whole routine in assembler 0:22 51%
FINAL 0:22 98%
Note: The steady progress of optimizations in this table doesn't imply that all
optimizations work. I haven't shown all the things I tried that doubled the run time.
Even though most individual optimizations were small, cumulatively they were
significant. Based on the percentage improvements, no three or even four optimizations
would have met my performance goal. But the final combination was effective. The morale of
the story is that if you dig deep enough, you can make some surprising gains.
The code tuning I did in this case is the most aggressive code tuning I've ever done.
At the same time, the final code is the most unreadable, unmaintainable code I've ever
written. The initial algorithm is complicated. The code resulting from the high-level
language transformation was barely readable. The translation to assembler produced a
single 500-line routine that I'm afraid to look at. In general, this relationship between
code tuning and code quality holds true.
This material is Copyright © 1993 by Steven C. McConnell. All


Makes it something more than a year that the Mercedes S-Class Coupe is on sale in Spain. Since then we have been offering versions S 500 and the two AMG, but now the signing of the star has decided to increase the catalog with a new variant of access, the Mercedes S 400 4Matic Coupe, which has a petrol engine V6 of 3.0 liters and 367 horsepower.
This new variant comes equipped as standard with all-wheel drive system 4Matic, which is optional on the S 500 and S 63 AMG. The gearbox is automatic seven relations. Thanks to the 367 horsepower and 500 Nm of torque engine between the 1800 and 4500 revolutions this coupe gets a 0-100 in 4.6 seconds with a top speed limited to 250 kilometers per hour. The average petrol consumption is estimated at 8,3 liters, with CO2 emissions of 193 grams per kilometre.
Especially interesting is the percent off the entry price to the range the Mercedes S-Class Coupe with the arrival of this new version. Until now, the Mercedes S 500 Coupe with its more than 150,000 euros base price was the most economical option, but now the S 400 4Matic Coupe will offer a rate that is close to the 99.960 € that put their price in the German market, which represents a price cut than 33%.
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The Authorized Copy
This manuscript contains the first two books of Mishneh Torah by Maimonides. It is famous because, towards the end of the manuscript, Maimonides himself wrote a note declaring that this manuscript was corrected against his own personal copy of Mishneh Torah. Therefore, it must reflect a very accurate version of the book.
Without getting here into the polemics that sprung up around this manuscript a few decades ago, I would like to mention that in a recent article, Karmiel Cohen has demonstrated that this manuscript does not always reflect the final stage of Mishneh Torah. There are instances where R Abraham Maimonides testifies that his father changed his mind and corrected the text, and this correction is not reflected in the Huntington manuscript. But, on the whole, it is definitely a manuscript worthy of a great deal of attention.

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On November 27, 2018, John Walters of 337 E 14th St. Gramercy, LA., age 33, pled guilty to Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Walters was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Adam Koenig, and presiding over this matter was the Honorable Judge Tess Stromberg. This guilty plea was the result of a plea agreement with prosecutors just moments after the completion of jury selection for his scheduled trial in connection with a 2017 shooting incident.
On April 4, 2017, deputies with the St. James Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a Lutcher residence in reference to a male subject being shot in the leg. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with the individual suffering from the gunshot wound, identified as John Walters. Walters was transported to a nearby hospital where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Detectives made contact with Walters at the hospital who made a voluntary statement indicating that he was with a friend while in possession of a .22 caliber revolver. Walters advised that as he was exiting the vehicle, the gun fell to the ground, and a single round discharged from the gun striking Walters in the leg. Detectives traveled back to the scene where they were able to locate the firearm. During a review of Walter’s criminal history, detectives learned that Walters had prior felony convictions for Simple Burglary, Cruelty to a Juvenile, and Unauthorized Entry of an Inhabited Dwelling. Walters was subsequently arrested and transported to the St. James Parish Detention Center where he was booked accordingly.
Upon entering a guilty plea to the above-mentioned charge, as per the plea agreement with prosecutors, Walters was sentenced to 13 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections with credit for time served. The said sentence is to be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.


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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is, in every way, the bigger, more sophisticated upgrade to the Galaxy S5. Samsung has pulled out all the stops on this, its flagship device leading into year’s end. It’s got a spacious 5.7” screen space, with a stunning 1440p display. Add a powerful quad-core Snapdragon 805 chip (or greater, depending on where you buy) and you’ve got a truly powerful phone….tablet….phablet….whatever.
Like the GS5, the new Note will have a 16 Mp camera, heart-rate monitor, and various other features beloved by the S5 crowd. An upgraded stylus and other tablet-like features make this a more versatile device than Samsung’s earlier offerings. You’re sure to see this one everywhere in the coming months, and you’ll probably want one of your own.


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Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) represent the standard of care for platinum-pretreated advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients. Patients treated with ICIs may experience immune-related adverse events (irAEs), that might reflect antitumor responses. Here we evaluated nivolumab efficacy according to the development of irAEs.
We conducted a multicenter retrospective study of patients with advanced NSCLC treated with nivolumab between October 2013 and September 2017. IrAEs were defined as AEs having immunological basis that required intensive monitoring and interventions.
Among 195 patients [median (range) age, 63 (30–84) years; 128 men (65.6%), 67 women (34.4%)], irAEs were observed in 85 patients (43.6%), including 15 patients (7.6%) with grade 3 or 4 events. Median PFS was 5.7 months in irAEs group compared to 2.0 months of no-irAEs group [HR: 0.41 (95% CI 0.3–0.57), P < 0.0001]. Median OS was 17.8 months compared to 4.0 months of no-irAEs group [HR: 0.33 (95% CI 0.23–0.47), P < 0.0001]. IrAEs were significantly associated with improved clinical outcome in 12- and 6-week landmark analysis. Patients who developed ≥ 2 irAEs during treatment (n: 37) had a significantly longer median PFS and OS compared to those with one (n: 48) or none AEs (n: 110) (PFS: 8.5 months vs. 4.6 vs. 2.0, P < 0.0001; OS: 26.8 months vs. 11.9 vs. 4.0, P < 0.0001). Multivariable analysis revealed that irAEs were positively associated with PFS [HR: 0.48 (95% CI 0.34–0.67), P < 0.0001] and OS [HR: 0.38 (95% CI 0.26–0.56), P < 0.0001].
In this study we confirmed that the development of irAEs was a strong predictor of survival outcomes in NSCLC patients treated with nivolumab monotherapy in landmark and multivariable models. Patients who experienced ≥ 2 irAEs had a more pronounced survival benefit compared to those with 1 irAE further suggesting a mechanistic association between irAEs and immunotherapy efficacy.
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The case of an accused killer from Dothan has been bound over to a Henry County Grand Jury.
A preliminary hearing was held for 28-year-old James Stuckey Wednesday afternoon in Abbeville. He’s charged in the shooting death of 23-year-old Charles Hatfield.
Hunters found the victim's body off a Henry County dirt road last month.
Investigators testified that Stuckey was the last person seen with Hatfield.
Prosecutors contend revenge was the motive for the killing because Stuckey thought Hatfield set him up to be robbed during a drug deal.
Defense Attorney Scott Hedeen asked Judge Charles Woodham to reduce Stuckey's $500,000 bond. A ruling on that motion is expected in a few days.
Stuckey is still being held in the Henry County Jail.


Taurus delivered a big-bore winner with its Raging Hunter revolver. Here’s how to set yours up for some serious whitetail action.
by Rob Reaser
I must admit to falling instantly in love with the Raging Hunter when Taurus rolled out its behemoth big-bore, large-frame revolver several years ago. Sure, the grip and trigger reach hit the limit of my medium-sized hands, and, yes, the weight-forward bias took some wrangling after shooting a couple boxes of .44 magnum rounds. But…DANG!..the range time was nothing but fun.
That year, I dropped a nice Florida porker with the gun at 30 yards using open sights. Quite the confidence-booster, that. A year later, I decided to go after wild hogs again, only this time with a red dot. Two boars occupied the meat hook on that trip.
Now, it’s time to turn the Taurus revolver loose onto some whitetail fun and get the gun properly dialed in. What do I mean by that?
Well, a handgun is really no different than a long gun when it comes to the ingredients needed to wring out its full performance potential. The basics, in other words, are the same. We’ll cover each of those areas in a moment, as well as some special consideration I had to take (and you may, too) to bring my Raging Hunter up to speed. But before we dive into the particulars of setting up a hunting handgun, a quick tour of the Taurus Raging Hunter is in order for those of you who may be interested in trying out a handgun this hunting season.
The Hunting World’s Bad Boy Revolver
The Taurus Raging Hunter debuted in 2018 chambered for the .44 Magnum round. Boasting a whopping 8.37-inch ported stainless-steel barrel with an aluminum barrel shroud and integrated Picatinny rail on top, the Raging Hunter caught the attention of everyone in the shooting sports industry. The NRA publication American Hunter even named it the “Hunting Handgun of the Year” for its 2019 Golden Bullseye Award.
In keeping with its heavy-caliber mission, the Raging Hunter is built to the task. The barrel porting does its job of mitigating muzzle rise so you can more quickly get back on target should a follow-up shot prove necessary. The cushioned rubber grip fills the hand and offers ample acreage to grip and to distribute the recoil impact. The grip is also exceptionally sticky, so you don’t lose your hold after the shot is fired.
The frame and cylinder are stout pieces made of alloy steel to manage the heavy loads. In addition to the standard thumb piece, the Raging Hunter includes a front cylinder latch. Between the two, the cylinder stays firmly locked when the gun is rocked.
Since its introduction, the Raging Hunter line has expanded significantly. There are now two additional barrel lengths offered — 6.75-inch and 5.12-inch — and four additional chambers: .357 Mag/.38 Special +P, .454 Casull, .460 S&W Magnum, and .500 S&W Magnum. You can check out our review of the .460 S&W Magnum bruiser here. Suffice to say, there are plenty of configurations to choose from if you’re ready to take the handgun hunting challenge.
One of the first things I do to almost every firearm I intend to use with regularity is upgrade the trigger system. For revolvers, this means, at a minimum, lightening the hammer and trigger springs. The lighter pull can significantly minimize shooter-induced error in single-action mode (hammer cocked) and makes double-action shooting much easier while also boosting accuracy potential.
Fortunately, Taurus revolver hammer and trigger springs are easy to swap out for reduced power/weight springs if you have patience and a quality set of parallel-ground screw drivers. I had already installed the Wolff Gunsprings Shooter’s Pak on my Raging Hunter, choosing the 10-lb. trigger spring and the 10-lb. hammer spring. This dropped the single-action pull to 4 lbs./14.0 oz. and the double-action pull to 9 lbs./7.7 oz. Go here to see the step-by-step process for installing the reduced-power spring set.
While I’ve had unquestionably good results using a red dot on the Raging Hunter, I can’t get past the need for a slightly magnified, crosshair-reticled scope for deer hunting. Most of my whitetail hunting takes place in the timber, where obstructions are plentiful and available light is an issue at dawn and dusk. A low-magnification scope with good light transmission is the perfect solution for making clear shots in brushy environments and for picking up the target when the light is sketchy.
For the Raging Hunter, I chose the Leupold FX-II 4×28 with a conventional duplex reticle. Weighing a scant seven ounces and measuring about 8.5 inches in length, the FX-II delivers all I need for a handgun optic and nothing more — clean and simple, compact and light. To mount the scope onto the Raging Hunter’s Picatinny rail, Leupold’s one-inch low-profile (0.73 inches) PRW2 rings were the obvious choice. These rings are low enough to clearance the revolver’s rail and frame and get the line-of-sight as close to the barrel bore as possible.
Everything seemed fine in theory, but you never really know what you’ve got until you start piecing it all together. I started by mounting the rings as far back on the Picatinny rail as I could. That’s when I discovered that the scope’s eye relief, long as it is at 18 inches, was not nearly long enough for me to get a full sight picture with the gun presented for fire. In short, the scope would have to be moved back…by a good bit.
To get a workable eye relief, the scope would need to be mostly centered above the frame. Mounting it exclusively on the Picatinny rail put the FX-II too far forward, allowing for only a small image and massive vignetting (dark ring) that simply would not work.
How to move the scope back? Mounting it to the frame wouldn’t work without major gunsmithing and I didn’t want to drill and tap it for a mount. After much online searching for a solution that would allow the scope to mount to the Raging Hunter’s Picatinny rail while moving the scope reward enough to achieve the proper eye relief, I zeroed in on the Tactical Extended Picatinny Riser (PN #LT608) manufactured by LaRue Tactical.
Although developed for use on Springfield M1A rifles to bring magnified scopes with short eye relief closer to the shooter, I couldn’t see why this wouldn’t work on the Raging Hunter for the same purpose. After discussing it with LaRue’s sales and customer service manager Michael Alexander, he felt that the extended riser should work fine. That was good enough for me since my options were limited.
A trial fit of the LaRue extended riser revealed that the Raging Hunter’s rear sight would need to be removed. I began by loosening the sight’s elevation screw.
Next, I knocked out the sight retaining pin with a 1/16-inch pin punch.
The sight, rear sight spring, and retaining pin were transferred to a small sealed-top baggie for safe storage.
The extended riser features two over-cam clamping levers to solidly secure the riser to a Picatinny rail. The rear lever also features a lock system that, when engaged, ensures that the riser will not accidentally come loose from the rail. LaRue claims that the precision manufacture of this extended riser means you won’t lose your optic zero should you need to temporarily remove the assembly from the firearm. While installing the extended riser, I did note the close tolerance fitment with the gun’s Picatinny rail, so I have no reason to doubt that the extended riser will hold a zero, just as LaRue states.
When secured in place, the extended riser greatly expanded the scope ring mounting options. The riser doesn’t interfere with the frame and there is ample room to access the hammer spur for cocking. Knowing that I needed to bring the scope as close to my eye as possible, I secured the ring mounts as far back on the rail as I could.
To ensure that the scope reticle would be aligned perpendicular to the bore, I set a level across the extended riser and leveled it in the Real Avid Master Gun Vise using the new Smart-Jaws Multi-Fit sleeves to clamp against the barrel shroud.
Next, I set the scope onto the mounts, using the turret cap as a leveling base, and then lightly snugged the rings before rotating the scope to level. This is a “rough-in” way to level up a scope (additional refinement may be necessary), but it gets you in the ballpark.
Most importantly, the LaRue Tactical Extended Picatinny Riser placed the scope exactly where it needed to be for the correct eye relief. At full presentation, I get a quick, clear sight picture with no vignetting.
There is also a bonus to this setup. Moving the scope back this far massively negates the weight-forward bias of the gun by shifting the scope weight over the grip. This makes the revolver well-balanced and much easier to aim unsupported. That’s a big win for a hunting handgun.
Finding the most accurate load for your firearm — any firearm — is essential. The smallest change in load composition, be it bullet type, bullet weight, powder charge, seating depth…even primer type, can influence group size and point-of-impact. This is why serious shooters and hunters will try multiple cartridge brands and load configurations before identifying and settling on the load that shoots the tightest groups from a particular gun.
For the Taurus Raging Hunter, I decided to get the best from what I had on-hand. With a couple boxes each of Hornady 225-grain FTX and 240-grain XTP bullets stashed from the pre-scamdemic days, I worked up four different loads using Winchester 296 powder and Federal primers. The variables would be the bullets and the powder charge. Using the Hornady Reloading Handbook as my guide, I loaded the two heaviest rounds below the maximum charge for each bullet. This was to give me the greatest possible velocity for optimal terminal performance.
After a quick 25-yard sight-in, I moved the target to 50 yards for the load testing. The results were quite clear.
- FTX 225-gr. w/20.4 gr. Win 296: 1.703 in.
- XTP 240-gr. w/23.9 gr. Win 296: 1.729 in.
- FTX 225-gr. w/19.6 gr. Win 296: 2.072 in.
- XTP 240-gr. w/23.3 gr. Win 296: 2.580 in.
The Raging Hunter definitely favored the higher velocity loads with both bullet types. With a scant 0.026-inch difference between the two tightest five-shot groups at the same theoretical velocity, I decided the hotter XTP load would be the one for this pistol since that same load delivers a best 1.454-inch group from my Henry Big Boy X tactical lever-action at 100 yards with a red dot. This way, I have one load for two different firearm platforms.
Hunting big game with a handgun offers several advantages — most prominent in my mind is the lighter carry weight and greater mobility I have when compared to carrying a long gun. Because most of the shots taken from my hunting stand average 40 yards, with 75 yards being the maximum shootable distance I have on my deer stands, the Raging Hunter in .44 Mag is all the medicine I need.
Another advantage of the handgun is that it puts a new spin and a greater challenge to the hunting game that has become boringly routine for many of us. Handgun hunting sharpens your focus, hones your marksmanship and hunting skills, and, when successfully deployed, elevates the hunting experience ten-fold.
If this is your year to pick up the handgun for hunting season, the Taurus Raging Hunter is a great revolver to start with.


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Re: Severe pain week following colonoscopy
I would go see another doctor if you aren't getting the proper attention or aren't being taken seriously. You should go see a colorectal surgeon for the fissure. I never stay with a doctor that I'm not comfortable with or I'm not being taken seriously. I've never heard of a tailbone being injured during a colonoscopy, but I guess anything is possible. Because you are tight down there, I can understand why you have a fissure. Being tight doesn't allow blood flow. Sounds like you need some nitroglycerin to bring blood supply to the area. That's the only way they heal. It's terrible to be in pain and your doctor ignore you. I would go see someone else!


On the Water Front vol. 2 presents new analysis from global thought-leaders
New edition features 14 essays on water and water quality issues that build upon research presented at the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm.
On the Water Front vol. 2 offers a collection of the most innovative and important insights on water and water quality presented at the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm. This compendium is a must-read for those interested in the latest knowledge, tools and strategies to resolve the planet’s most pressing water quality challenges.
Each of its chapters are authored by leading luminaries from science, business, and public policy and build upon research presented at the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm, includingStockholm Water Prize Laureates Dr. Rita Colwell and Prof. Takashi Asano and have been edited and peer reviewed by the World Water Week Scientific Programme Committee.
Download it here to gain knowledge on how the public health sector will be impacted by climate change, the most potent policy cocktails to protect coastal waters, the best-practice solutions to wastewater reclamation and reuse, what the potential onset of peak water and peak phosphorus could mean to humanity, new ideas to mitigate the growing dangers of chemical and agricultural pollution to human and environmental health, and much more.


Malta: Loreen Ready for Concert TomorrowWritten by Marc Calleja Bayliss
Winners of the Eurovision Song Contest tend to give a number of performances across Europe following their respective victories but then again, this is the first time in quite some time that this will be taking place noting that this years' winner Loreen had made her way into the Malta International Airport ahead of her concert tomorrow. She was welcomed by a number of fans as well as the organizer Antonella Vassallo who hosted the Malta Song for Europe back in 2001 alongside Claire Fabri and Louise Tedesco. There has been a lot of hype around the concert which is being backed by none other than a variety of companies including 89.7 Bay and their frontman Nathan D who will be hosting the evening. In an impromptu press conference given just after having arrived, Loreen stated that she is set to perform about six (6) songs including her previous effort for the Melodifestivalen entitled My Heart is Refusing Me and of course, her Eurovision winning entry Euphoria.
The setup at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre in Ta' Qali will be different noting that the inside of the event will not be used as seen within the annual Malta Eurovision Song Contest with the outskirts being used as seen within the Zucchero concert which was also organized by Antonella Vassallo on behalf of Stand Out Events. Taking to the stage as the main guest alongside Loreen tomorrow night will be none other than the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest representative Kurt Calleja who will surely be performing his two hit songs Over and Over and This Is The Night but there will be other performances during the night including those by Brooke who will surely be performing her latest song Fairytale and the internationally renowned dance group Tenishia who have just released their debut album with Armada Music, which is one of the leading companies in contemporary dance music. If you still would like to acquire tickets for the event, make sure to visit www.ticketline.com.mt and obtain your very own tickets. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news as soon as it becomes available.
Source: Times of Malta, Stand Out Events