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Fire dance is one of the unique dances performed in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. This dance is the marvelous example of the Jasnathis of Bikaner and Chum’s lifestyle who are well known for their tantric powers throughout Rajasthan. Fire dance is very tricky and difficult to enact and is mainly performed by the Banjara community who are well versed with the art. Some of the dance steps involve awe-inspiring fire stunts wherein the performers dance by holding fire rods in their hands and filling up their mouths with kerosene.
Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect.
Fire performance includes skills based on juggling, baton twirling, poi spinning, and other forms of object manipulation. It also includes skills such as fire breathing, fire eating, and body burning; sometimes called fakir skills. Fire performance has various styles of performance including fire dancing; the use of fire as a finale in an otherwise non-fire performance; and the use of fire skills as 'dangerous' stunts. Performances can be done as choreographed routines to music (this type being related to dance or rhythmic gymnastics); as freestyle (performed to music or not) performances; or performed with vocal interaction with the audience. Some aspect of fire performance can be found in a wide variety of cultural traditions and rituals from around the world.
The devotional and exciting performance of fire dance can be seen at late nights of winter in Rajasthan. The music which plays during fire dance rises in tempo and ends like a crescendo. The Rajasthani folk music play with dhol, nagada, and dholak during fire dance. The drumbeats give a tempo for the performance and gradually rises & sets a dance in a fast tempo. At a certain point, it reaches at a crescendo, where the dancers seem to be in a trance like state. Some of the traditional folk dances, performed by the Banjara Community of Rajasthan is also sometime called as the fire dance, but is completely different from the above-mentioned performance. Here, the dance is performed around the Fire. The person dancing usually takes two flamed sticks in his hands and fills up his mouth with kerosene oil. With the accompaniment of some dancing steps, he throws the oil over the lamps.


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EXTON — Two Chester County commissioners urged the nonpartisan and transparent drawing of legislative district lines at a gathering in Exton Park.
About 60 supporters attended the “Hit the Trail for Redistricting Reform” event near the 13-mile long Chester Valley Trail, which was organized by the Chester County Chapter of Fair Districts PA.
With Census statistics in hand, every 10 years, legislative lines are redrawn for Congressional districts and state Legislature. Politically-charged motives when drawing these lines, sometimes called gerrymandering, regularly plays a major role in who represents who.
Commissioners Marian Moskowitz and Josh Maxwell, both Democrats, were on hand Thursday to support HB22 and SB222, which address the issue.
Moskowitz read a proclamation and said that redistricting is an important issue that commissioners take very seriously.
The proclamation called for free and fair elections, a foundation of the nation’s democracy. The proclamation also favored a transparent process and necessary checks and balances.
Moskowitz was thrilled to give the proclamation naming April 29 as Redistricting Reform Day.
“We must have a transparent process for drawing legislative districts including citizen input and measurable criteria for drawing those districts,” she said. “It is wonderful to have all Chester County legislators support Fair District Legislation.
“Thank you to the League of Women Voters and Fair Districts PA for your hard work in educating our community on the need to make sure our elections are fair and free from partisanship.”
Maxwell told the fair redistricting advocates that it was nice to see so many friendly faces committed to democracy.
“You have our partnership and our support,” Maxwell said.
Commissioner Michelle Kichline, a Republican, did not attend the event but supports the bills.
“The citizens of Pennsylvania deserve transparency in the redistricting process,” she said. “The district boundary lines that ultimately serve as the voices of the people should not be drawn in the haze of cigar smoke in a backroom somewhere in Harrisburg.
“District boundary lines should be drawn with public input in a public manner because sunshine is simply the best disinfectant.”
Republican Carole Rubley served as a state representative from 1993 to 2008 in the 157th District and supports fairness.
“The issues vary,” Rubley said. “We need to make sure the key issues are given the kind of attention they deserve.”
Mark Pavlovich is the legislative outreach member of the Chester County Steering Committee of Chester County’s Fair District PA.
“Our founders never imagined that politicians would be allowed to pick their voters,” he said. “That’s exactly what our current redistricting process allows. So we are here today to promote the Legislative and Congressional Redistricting Act (HB 22/SB 222).
“This bill will mandate a transparent redistricting process using measurable criteria including limits on splitting counties and municipalities and outlawing plans designed to protect incumbents or political parties.”


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I just found out that the cirvical spine in C6,7,5 is in bad shape. The ortho wants to do a spinal fusion because he said the cord is compromised and two disks have collapsed. The doctor took a quick look at my MRI before announcing this to me and I am mortified. I knew I was having pain in my neck and arms and hands and that my headaches were different.
With the other problems I have listed and fought for years, I wonder if they all could be caused by this?
Anyone have an opinion?
Should I get another opinion? I have heard so many bad things about neck surgery.
How are you? Indeed, there are many risks for any surgical procedure such as infection, blood loss, blood clots and even stroke and heart attack. You could have another doctor's opinion to confirm the diagnosis prior to the surgical procedure. Spinal fusion or surgery to join together two bones in the spine, usually provide full or partial relief of symptoms. It may be done for spinal stenosis, injury or fractures to the bones in the spine, weak or unstable spine caused by infections or tumors, spondylolisthesis, or abnormal curvatures. It is possible that other symptoms you experienced in the past has been directly or indirectly connected to this. Take care and do keep us posted.
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Divorce is tough for any kid. But when - like Vi's parents - your mum is ex-secret service and your dad is a retired bad guy, 'till death do us part' takes on a whole new meaning. And with her parents' focus on each other, the real super-villains are having a field day. To save her family - and the world - from evil domination, Vi must turn spy...

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Priceless Tapestry Possibly Owned by Henry VIII Discovered in NYC
In late 2016, Professor Mary Beard began her search for an image of King Henry VIII’s treasured Caesar tapestry collection while preparing for an upcoming lecture. However, the Cambridge lecturer and Newnham College fellow was shocked when she stumbled across a possible original – worth millions of dollars – that was located in a New York City rug gallery just a short time later.
According to Ms. Beard, the tapestry, which may date as far back as the late 1500s, appears to contain the same design work and antiquity as the original masterpiece. However, since the tapestry went missing centuries after the monarch’s death in the mid-16th century, she was surprised to not only discover the rare piece available for purchase online, but tucked away in a NYC rug shop thousands of miles away from where it originated.
Speaking to The Times, Professor Beard spoke of the experience, “I was searching for an image for a lecture and I put 'Caesar tapestry' into the search engine and saw it on Google images."
Recognizing the potential historical significance of her discovery, and its relationship to a larger tapestry collection, the lecturer remarked on its value, both during the period it was manufactured, and today, saying, "They were colossally valuable. They were the most prized possessions of the royal household. When the property of Charles I was inventoried after his execution, these tapestries were the second most valuable thing in the whole of the royal collection."
Measuring 25 ft. in length and more than 9 ft. in height, the tapestry likely took artists several years to design and weave the masterpiece that portrayed Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC – a noteworthy event during the early days of the Roman Empire.
Yet its authenticity was still in doubt.
Nevertheless, even the director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology, Roger Michel, is convinced the tapestry could be authentic, despite his amazement at its unusual finding. Speaking on how it could have been lost and eventually exchanged hands, Mr. Michel remarked, “The existence of the Henry VIII set is as well documented as it could possibly be.
"They are recorded in inventories and also in paintings, but after about 1820 they just disappear to the four winds. Where did they go, how could they possibly have been sold off without anyone knowing?"
Offering up one scenario of how this may have occurred, Mr. Michel continued, "One possibility is there are frequent references to tapestries being sent for repair or rehanging and perhaps they were never collected."
Since the discovery, Ms. Beard has said in her blog that she believes the tapestry to be a replica of the original, as many replicas of these famed tapestries were produced at roughly the same time as the originals. Yet, if it is indeed found to be authentic, the Caesar tapestry could turn out to be one of the most monumental discoveries in the world of handmade rugs and textiles over the past few decades.

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May 31, 2010 - Five million children in Zimbabwe are at risk of catching measles in an outbreak that has claimed the lives of about 400 children while affecting over 6215 children according to UNICEF.
A decline in the provision of basic health services in Zimbabwe has resulted in a backlog of regular immunization programs, putting children under five at risk of catching six of the preventable killer diseases that include measles, polio, tuberculosis, diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough.
In fighting a growing measles outbreak the Ministry of Health, UNICEF and other partners including World Vision are working in collaboration to roll out a National Measles Immunization Program, targeting all children below the age of 15. The immunization program will run until the 2nd of June 2010.
World Vision's Operations Manager, Khumbulani Ndlovu says "World Vision has been facilitating the immunization of children in all area development program areas by providing transport to mobile health teams to vaccinate all targeted children living in inaccessible areas that have no clinics in close proximity."
Ndlovu added that "in line with the Child Health Now Campaign, World Vision Zimbabwe is advocating for adults in all communities to take children under their care for immunization against this preventable killer disease to promote child well-being in (program) areas and beyond."
57 out of Zimbabwe's 62 districts have reported confirmed cases of measles.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. For more information, please visit www.worldvision.org/press.

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273,266. Siemens - Schuckertwerke Ges. June 25, 1926, [Convention date]. Armouring cables. - In lead sheathed deepwater cables in which a support for the sheath is provided in the form of an open wire helix or of a flexible metal tube constituted by interengaging profiled bands, the gaps in the supporting member are closed against the entrance of the lead under pressure. In one arrangement, Fig. 1, one or more layers of flat wire 3 are wound over the supporting helix 2 so as to overlap at the edges. In the case of a supporting member formed of interengaging profiled bands constituting a flexible tube, the joints between the bands may be partially filled with a winding of wire or an elastic material so as not to destroy the flexibility of the tube.


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Well, yesterday was Valentine’s day, and as a treat Kei and I went to the cinema to see the Princess and the Frog. Not only was this our first cinema trip since our son was born, it was also the first time we’d left him with someone else for more than about half an hour. It was a little daunting!
Anyway, the film. As the first 2D Disney film in who knows how long, I felt it was quite important to go and see this, despite the subject matter (another Disney Princess film? Please). But Despite the obvious theme, and the fact that yes, it was a musical, it was rather good. Animation-wise, it was the sort of high standard you’d come to expect from Disney – so no surprises there. All in all it was a very nice looking film, from the backgrounds to the character design, which itself was a bit odd. It’s one of those stock-Disney character design films, but some of them were really good (like Doctor Facilier, the rich girl and her dad, or Raymond) and some were bland stock-Disney types (like the crocodile, or the main character). Actually, the main character, Tiana, was really annoying. Apart form the standard Disney-girl look she had, at the start of the film she was a child, and yet had an adult head! Whereas her friend, the spoiled rich girl, actually looked like a little kid (and even as an adult she had a much more interesting design).
Still, it was on the whole a really enjoyable film – not the sort of spectacular 2D extravaganza you’d expect after such a break, but still great. It wasn’t quite the Incredibles, but was leagues ahead of crap like Cars or Robots, you know?
I definitely recommend seeing this film, it’s probably the most interesting thing at the cinema right now (including Avatar).
NB: While writing this, I had the almost irresistible urge to shoehorn in the pun ‘warts-and-all’. I resisted.

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As a distinguished professor of law, Erwin Chemerinsky offered a thoughtful case of how to improve public education (“Teacher Tenure: Wrong target,” Oct. 23). Yet given that his column focused on the legal action by the parents whom our organization supports, and because his argument all flowed from a factually inaccurate description of our effort, a response to set the record right is in order.
The goal of the lawsuit by nine families against the State of New York is to ensure that all of our public school students have access to good teachers. The litigation targets three sets of laws that combine, in a quiet and devastating way, to undermine the state constitution’s promise of a sound, basic education.
The problem breaks down this way:
· Tenure laws that allow extensive job protections to be granted to teachers long before school leaders have a reasonable chance to determine the effectiveness of those teachers.
· Dismissal laws that make it nearly impossible for schools to fire grossly ineffective teachers.
· Seniority laws that solely consider how long teachers have been in class – without regard to quality, effectiveness or dedication – when educators are laid off during times of budget cuts.
The view of the parents, and our view at the Partnership for Educational Justice, is that New York deserves a system that supports, protects, trains, appreciates and properly pays good teachers. At the same time, teachers are not interchangeable parts; we must have a way to remove in a responsible and fair way those teachers judged to be incompetent. Otherwise, students will pay the price for years.
And this is where Chemerinsky’s column falls short.
He wrongly says that our lawsuit asserts that teachers’ rights are causing disadvantaged or minority students to have substandard educations. That is untrue. The suit never claims that tenure causes a bad education.
Rather, it says that tenure (which can assure a lifetime of employment) should not be granted until a teacher’s effectiveness can reasonably be determined. Even common sense supports that conclusion, to borrow a phrase from Chemerinsky’s column.
What’s more, he asserted that the lawsuit would eliminate due-process for teachers. That, too, is false. The lawsuit does not seek to, and would not, destroy basic due process for teachers. The problem in New York is that tenure and dismissal laws in our state provide such impenetrable protections that students come last – essentially, an “uber due process,” as a judge in the California Vergara case put it.
Yes, protections against arbitrary or political firings are vital. But our policies must protect our teachers and provide benefit to our students.
And it does not automatically stand to reason, as Chemerinsky says, that teacher effectiveness always improves with experience. Seniority is a factor in who keeps a teaching job, but as the only factor? When a California teacher of the year was fired based solely on inadequate seniority, did that help kids?
Finally, Chemerinsky cited other important problems that affect student performance and need to be addressed, including inferior salaries for teachers, community conditions and disadvantaged students. We agree. For example, teachers in hard-to-staff schools or high-demand fields should be paid more.
Our position is that all those challenges are not in competition with the ones of our lawsuit. We must work on all of them; they are all legitimate concerns and they all demand real action.
The families who are suing the State of New York have chosen to start with teacher quality because it is the single-most important school-based factor to student success. Research has supported this point. One exhaustive Harvard-led study found that replacing a low-performing teacher with even an average one increased the lifetime earnings of a single student by $50,000—or that of a classroom by $1.4 million.
We believe the parents of the case deserve to have a day in court, just as all students deserve to know that getting a quality teacher should not be a matter of which school or class they attend. The constitution promises a sound education for all. And that is why, in fact, we have chosen the right target.
Reshma Singh is the Executive Director of Partnership for Educational Justice. Follow her on Twitter: @reshma_a_singh.


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A statewide effort to make it easier for people to vote is culminating this week. On Jan. 14, petitioners submitted tens of thousands of required signatures to the Division of Elections to earn the PFD voter registration initiative a spot on a ballot this fall. Download Audio
Mike Romine is a Sitka man with a love of Christmas lights. His home has become an attraction every December with its huge displays, coordinated to musical hits such as “Uptown Funk” and “Let it Go” from Disney’s Frozen. But this season, as Sitkans work to recover from a deadly natural disaster, the lights hold a special meaning. Download Audio
The push to get Alaska residents registered to vote at the same time they sign up for their permanent fund dividends started in Anchorage this fall, but Sitka has become an important part of the equation. Download Audio
More than 80 community members will take the stage for Sitka Studio of Dance’s “The Nutcracker.” The show is a longstanding tradition in town, having been performed nearly nine times. Download Audio
Hundreds of teachers from across the state convened in Sitka last month for the Alaska Math and Science Conference. This was the first time the biennial professional development summit was held in Southeast. Download Audio
Hundreds of teachers from across the state convened in Sitka last weekend for the Alaska Math and Science conference. This was the first time the biennial professional development summit was held in Southeast.
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Coldwater High School graduate and Ohio State wide receiver Tony Harlamert, right, and fellow Buckeye Ricky Crawford take a break from OSU football Media Day on Sunday.
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Voretigene neparvovec-rzyl (Luxturna, Spark Therapeutics) is the first gene therapy approved for ocular use in patients with RPE65-mediated inherited retinal dystrophy. A Phase III trial found that the treatment was well-tolerated and resulted in a significant improvement in multi-luminance mobility testing. The drug, delivered in the subretinal space, has been administered in several centers.
Here, we hold a clinical conversation on the technical aspects of administering voretigene neparvovec-rzyl. On page 24, we also provide the perspective of the mother of one of our patients.
Nicolas Yannuzzi, MD: What gauge instrumentation do you use for these cases?
Audina Berrocal, MD: I use the 25-gauge EVA vitrectomy pack (DORC) system.
NY: Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) induction can be challenging in children. Do you typically use a staining agent or other instruments besides the vitreous cutter to lift the hyaloid?
AB: I stain all these cases because I want to be completely sure that I’ve elevated the hyaloid. I generally start by trying to induce a PVD without kenalog, then inject the kenalog later for confirmation. In a 2-year old, the youngest child I have treated so far, the vitreous behaved more like the vitreous of a normal child. It was very adherent at the macula, so I used a flex loop to tease the vitreous away from the macula, then worked the PVD out more peripherally with the cutter.
NY: How aggressive are you in shaving the peripheral vitreous?
AB: I try to elevate the hyaloid as far peripherally as possible, then I trim it with the cutter, but I don’t typically do a 360-degree depressed shave. However, I do depress 360 degrees to look for any abnormalities or retinal breaks as I trim the vitreous. You don’t want to have an unrecognized retinal break or detachment in these children. I would rather treat anything suspicious in the periphery with laser since I’m already in the eye. Thus far I have observed only one small retinal tuft in one eye and I treated it.
NY: How is the vitreoretinal interface in these patients?
AB: The younger the patient, the more normal the posterior adhesion is. Usually in the periphery the vitreous tends to be less adherent. Older children with more significant disease are easier to elevate.
Using the microinjector
NY: You did your first several cases by injecting manually with an assistant. Since then, you’ve transitioned to the MicroDose microinjector (MedOne). Do you find this to be a more controlled way of delivering the drug?
AB: Definitely there’s better control. The injection pressure is known, and you don’t have the added variable of not knowing how hard the assistant is pushing. Too high of an injection pressure can cause trauma to the retina or retinal pigment epithelium. The MedOne micro-injector kit works great and it makes you an independent surgeon, which is always more controlled.
NY: There are differences in opinions on whether to bevel the needle for the injector. What has been your experience?
AB: I’ve tried using the injector non-beveled, but haven’t been that successful in entering the subretinal space. Beveling it allows entry in a more elegant way.
Usefulness of intraoperative OCT
NY: Do you routinely use intraoperative optical coherence tomography for these cases?
AB: For these cases, intraoperative OCT is a must. It allows you to confirm the extent of the bleb (both vertically and horizontally), the location of the medication and whether the fovea has been detached. In the clinical trial, among children that were treated, there was one case of iatrogenic macular hole. By using the OCT, I can also confirm no hole has been induced.
NY: How much volume do you inject and where do you typically aim to make your blebs?
AB: You want to inject 0.3 ml, as was done in the clinical trial. Many times this can’t be done in a single bleb. If the retina becomes too elevated or thin, it’s possible to create a hole. As I perform the injection, I use OCT to get a feel for the height of the bleb. Ideally I start within the arcades to ensure some uptake in the macula. I will occasionally form two to four communicating blebs or non-communicating blebs.
Macular and foveal detachment
NY: Do you think macular and foveal
detachment is necessary for success?
AB: There are different schools of thought about this. The clinical trial required detachment at the macula. But what I’ve noticed is that you can get close to it and even if it doesn’t occur completely, you can still have a good result. Sometimes, I’ll lift two separate blebs that eventually communicate with each other at the macula.
NY: What tamponade do you use for these cases?
AB: The trial used an air-fluid exchange to eliminate the virus from the preretinal space and decrease inflammation. That’s what I’ve been doing in all my cases.
NY: What steroids are you using pre-, intra- and postoperatively?
AB: I prescribe 1 mg/kg per day of oral prednisone starting three days before the surgery and continue this until 10 days after the second eye. Ideally, I space each eye apart between seven and 18 days. I also give the child a sub-Tenon’s kenalog injection at the end of surgery and topical steroids postoperatively. I’ve observed some moderate steroid responses, but all of my patients have been controlled on topical glaucoma agents, and their [intraocular] pressure normalized off medications after the steroids were tapered.
Measuring success, recovery
NY: In children, visual acuity and other objective outcome measures can be difficult to ascertain. How can you measure success in these cases?
AB: Success is really seeing these kids need less light and less help and having surgery without complications. The clinical trial never used Snellen acuity as an endpoint. We‘re looking more at function. Doing visual fields in kids is impossible. We hope to do electroretinograms at follow-up visits. Contrast sensitivity is important, but it’s very challenging to test a 2-year-old in the clinic.
NY: What have you noticed about these children during recovery?
AB: Three days after you inject the vector, parents already notice a change in the amount of light their children need. Imagine that three days after you inject the viral vector, retinal cell biology is changing. That to me is magic. It’s almost like science fiction. As the weeks go by, parents send me videos and tell me about the amount of change they notice in the lives of their children.
NY: What do you think about visual development in these children?
AB: Studies have shown there’s a lot of neural plasticity after the viral injection in these children. Patching is a must. I work with pediatric ophthalmologists for visual rehabilitation, and all of my colleagues have been attempting patching. Remember, many of these children haven’t been tested visually for years or have not had amblyopia management because of their underlying disease.
NY: Any other tips for these cases?
AB: Although I use a noncontact system, I like a contact lens for the subretinal injection to enhance
stereopsis. I suture the sclerotomies at the end of every case and give 20 mg of a sub-Tenon’s kenalog. RS


Apple keynote is the most awaited event in the tech industry as they announce their new products with upgraded hardware and software. iPad Pro is one of their flagship products that hasn’t seen any major upgrade over the last couple of years and, it is rumored that it will be launched in the first week of April.
We all know that Apple Keynote is unofficially known as a March event because when we look at the previous event records of the last five years, all of them have been conducted in March.
Last year, due to the pandemic, the event was called off and, Apple made it a virtual event. This year, we are likely going to see a lot of attendance at the Apple event but it will be in April.
Even Mark Gurman, the technology news reporter from Bloomberg stated that “There won’t end up being one” after being asked whether Apple announces its products on the 23rd of March.
In the case of the iPad Pro product line, there will be two main sizes similar to the previous models and, both are to be expected to launch in April.
What to expect from the new iPad Pro models? First of all, the price of the new iPad Pro 2021 will likely not go any higher than current-generation models, so the two variants will come at $799 and $999.
The choice of the chip-set is likely what’s going to be the biggest upgrade in the new 2021 iPad Pro model. Even 9to5 mac has announced that the new bionic chip of iPad Pro is expected to be A14X and they found these references from the source code of iOS 14.5 beta.
According to Bloomberg’s updates on Apple, the new chipset is on par with the M1 in terms of speed and processing power. Some rumors also indicate an introduction of mini LED displays for the latest iPad Pros.
We were expecting them last year but, it seems to become a reality now. The first model to receive this display is likely going to be a 12.9” model. Apple is looking to first experiment on the bigger variant and it may eventually be used on other variants.
Every smartphone is now integrated with 5G connectivity and it only makes sense if Apple did the same for the new iPad Pros. Some social media rumors highlight that Apple is using Snapdragon’s x55 5G modem for iPad connectivity levels.
Few mentions on twitter also indicate a new thunderbolt feature. This can help increase productivity with an additional external screen.
Touch ID and Face ID are both likely to make an entrance to the new iPad Pro but, we are not 100% sold on that news. There is a higher possibility that it is only going to be Face ID.
In terms of display, we are expecting increased resolution (2k) and a 120hz refresh rate. Most of the exterior features are likely not going to budge but we may see some new add-ons for the new iPad OS.
As the launch is expected in the next month, we cannot confirm every update with Apple but, most of them are associated with the chipset and design changes. Along with the new iPad Pros, Apple is also likely going to announce a new color option for their smartphone and a new ruggedized version of the Apple Watch.


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Baseball, soccer, basketball, and football all make an appearance in the Super Sports Collection
so it's sure to appeal to all sports fans of all ages. A cheerful blue and orange color scheme embellished with soft velours, corduroy and fleece add to the fun.
- Sports theme
- Blue and orange
- Features velour, corduroy, and fleece

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Robert Downey Jr. Joins Spider-Man Homecoming
"Spider-Man Homecoming Loses One Star but Gains Another"
Robert Downey Jr. has finalized a deal to join the cast of Spider Man: Homecoming,
according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and makes his debut in Captain America: Civil War
has a start date of June 2016, with a cast that includes Marisa Tomei as Aunt May, Zendaya in a leading role, and Tony Revolori, from the Grand Budapest Hotel
as one of Peter Parker’s friends. Marvel president Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal are set to produce.
Sony has held the rights to Spider-Man since the 1990’s, but its recent outings The Amazing Spider Man
and its sequel and have both been critically panned despite having box office success. Last year, Sony executives invited Marvel to come in and handle the Spider-Man character. The first step is introducing Holland as Spider-Man in the Marvel’s Captain America
series before he goes on to star in his own movie franchise.
With Downey signing on, Spider-Man will remain connected to Marvel not just creatively but literally. Homecoming
keeps Spider-Man close to the Marvel universe and its films released by Disney.
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"Captain America Civil War" French Premiere in Paris the 18 april 2016 in the presence of the actors Robert Downey Jr. , Don Cheadle, Emily VanCamp and the Director Anthony Russo[/caption]
News today states Michael Keaton was in early talks to play the villain, but has since confirmed he will not be a part of the project. The search is still continuing to fill the role.


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Broadcom (UNKNOWN:BRCM.DL) is broadcasting some encouraging news to its investors. The company this week updated the guidance for its current Q4 2013, saying it now expects $2.00 billion to $2.05 billion in revenue. This is a higher range than the firm's previous projection of $1.92 billion to $2.03 billion.
The upper end of the range, however, is below the $2.15 billion top line Broadcom posted in its Q3.
Meanwhile, the company anticipates lower costs for the current quarter when compared to prior estimates. On a GAAP basis, research and development spending, combined with selling, general, and administrative expenses, should amount to $820 million to $840 million; the previous range was $830 million to $850 million.
Broadcom said the new net revenue figures were due to "better-than-expected revenue in each reportable segment, particularly in Infrastructure & Networking." It also cited "tighter expense management."


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Women writing the war
My introduction to war lore was an intimate one, removed from any political agenda—they were stories of fear, simplicity, and sheer resilience in the face of ultimate crisis. They were also tales that involved mostly women, of my then middle-aged grandmother, her young daughters, and nieces fleeing from one village to another. She told me of their escape from the 'Punjabi' forces during Bangladesh's War of Liberation in 1971, crossing rivers and creeks and walking miles in search of refuge.
In later years, I came across many a literature on war, though I noticed that most of them were written by men on 'war waged by other men'.
War literature—at least those considered to be the greatest—is almost exclusively penned by men. In a list of 'The greatest war novels ever written' put together by Pan Macmillan, an international publishing company, out of 10 featured novels, only two were written by women: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain. A quick skim through other lists of top war novels feature the usuals: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia or war photographer Robert Capa's autobiographical Slightly Out of Focus. Both fiction and non-fiction are littered with familiar male names—Tim O'Brien, Sebastian Faulks, or Kurt Vonnegut. While their literature is in no way to be discounted, I feel, the narratives are often limited to the rhetoric of heroic masculinity in describing war and do not take into account the 'emotional casualty' of war. Women writers have often been judged for narratives that are considered “too narrow" or which are deemed “sentimental” as they tend to focus more on domestic topics.
That war literature is dominated by male and masculine voices is something war veteran and novelist Cara Hoffman seems to agree on as well. In an op-ed published in The New York Times in 2014, she argued that “war narratives—in prose, poetry, and film—have always been, and continue to be, dominated by male voices. From the Greek classics to modern story collections, these tales focus exclusively on the male experience of battle, and of return; the stories of women at war, on the other hand, are nearly absent from our culture.”
Hoffman's argument also made me think back on the few war novels I have read and it reaffirmed my desire to read more about women stuck in warzones, of my longing for everyday stories of people stuck in war rather than ones of combat written mostly by men.
Starting from reading of the experience of Anne Frank when she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in The Diary of a Young Girl to the correspondence of two by-chance friends in Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad, war literature does not have to be limited to the ones written directly from the field of battle and warfare. It can be of consequences too, of the after-effects of war.
Take for example, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Almost a hundred years since the novel, it continues to remain relevant. It was one of the first modern works of fiction that aimed to look at the aftermath of World War I. Woolf wrote of the experience of shellshock—years later, it came to be known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—that she relayed through her character Septimus. With him, Woolf succeeded in making her readers question and spark a dialogue on the lasting effects of wartime violence.
Or why not explore Cara Hoffman's Be Safe I Love You: A Novel. Much like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Hoffman takes a look at the effects of war on a veteran struggling with PTSD after returning home. But unlike Septimus in Mrs Dalloway, Hoffman's protagonist is Lauren Clay, a woman soldier who served in Iraq.
One of my favorites though is the correspondence between Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit in Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad. Bee, a journalist with BBC World Service, develops an unusual friendship with May, a lecturer of English literature stuck in war-torn Iraq. The book is a story of their emails, contrasting Bee's stories of everyday life in England as a journalist with two young children to May's struggles in trying to get fuel for her car as bombs explode in the background. It is also a story of May's strength in the face of war and how, through her friendship with Bee, she manages to secure an escape both for herself and her husband by getting a position for a PhD in England.
For stories on war, we can also look closer to home. Nearby in South Asia, Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie in Burnt Shadows writes about the shared histories of two families. She writes of their final days of the second world war in Japan, and India on the brink of partition in 1947, to Pakistan in the early 1980s, New York in the aftermath of September 11 and Afghanistan in the wake of the ensuing US bombing campaign.
Nayomi Munaweera, on the other hand, writes about the Sri Lankan civil war in her book Island of a Thousand Mirrors. The author's debut novel looks at the devastating consequences of the Sri Lankan civil war. It takes an intimate look at the lives of two young women and their families—Yasodhara, from a Sinhala family, and Saraswathi, from a Tamil family. These are two people on the opposite sides of the war, their lives separate and yet connected.
And finally, right at home in Bangladesh, how can anyone forget the impact of writer and political activist Jahanara Imam's Ekattorer Dinguli (Days of '71)? The book that was an immediate bestseller in Bangladesh can bring to life the passion ignited by events that happened long before we were born. The genocide inflicted by Pakistan on what was then East Pakistan between March and December 1971 was one of the worst of the century. Imam's diary of 1971 seamlessly dances between topics of great political importance to domestic concerns. It is the story of how she watches her teenage Rumi go off to the war, return bearded and disheveled only to be taken away by the oppressors to never return again. It is of violence happening right outside the home and life going on within it.
The Liberation War of Bangladesh has produced other great books as well. In Ami Birangona Bolchi, Bangladeshi educationist and social worker Nilima Ibrahim highlighted the courage and perseverance of war heroines of the Liberation War. While Nilima Ibrahim worked in 1972 following the war with various national and international organisations to rehabilitate the raped and tortured women of the Liberation War, she interviewed some of these heroic women and kept a detailed journal of her experience, which she later published in book form in 1994.
Almost all the above novels are narratives dealing with consequences of battle or set on the periphery of a warzone. Traditionally, it was men who had gone out to battle and then returned to write of their experiences. But women too have been at war; however, their stories often reflect the trauma dealt by the conflict rather than of the conflict itself. That too is changing slowly, because women writing on warfare are growing as well. As more and more female reporters, photographers, war correspondents and defense personnel go out to the field, they are writing of stories of combat and their experiences on the battlefield, such as Lindsey Hilsum writing on Libya in the Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution or Janine di Giovanni writing of her experience in The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.
The time has come for the definition of 'war writing' to be extended. It is necessary to use a wider definition because war isn't only about combat. Civilians directly experience war through bombing, dislocation and loss of family members. When we extend how we define writing about war, the field does become larger and with time, we might find more narratives of war by women on women.


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The infant Nadir al-Mulk Muhammad al-Daula Baxter Bahadur Daulat Rajah, seated on a ledge with a nurse and a male attendant
British School, late 18th Century
oil on canvas, framed
92 x 72 cm.
- This portrait of Nadir Baxter, the second son of Sarah and John Baxter, was painted by his mother in India in 1793. Sarah Baxter (née Buck, 1770-1796) was a miniaturist from Norfolk who exhibited a portrait of a lady at the Royal Academy in 1788 and was later honoured by the United Friars Society in Norwich in 1790 for a portrait in oils of one of the friars, Brother Walker. In 1791 she married a widower, John Baxter, who had established his business as a merchant in Calcutta. She accompanied him on his return there. This portrait of their second son Nadir was painted by Sarah Baxter before the family left Calcutta for Berhampur in 1793. Clearly, John and Sarah Baxter were fond of and impressed by Indian culture by choosing to baptise their second son Nadir with a full Persian title, although his brothers were named John and Robert. Some years after the death of his mother, Nadir travelled to England (circa 1807) where his maternal grandmother attempted to rechristen him as William much to the fury of his father.
Published with further references in M. Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London 1979, pl. 317, pp. 400-402.

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Satellite imagery reveals some preparations for Iran’s upcoming Simorgh rocket launch. The imagery suggests that Iran is fueling the Simorgh rocket and shows an uptick in activity at the Imam Khomeini Space Center. Those preparations suggest that Iran’s promised satellite launch may take soon.
The Simorgh rocket has a first stage similar to the one in the rocket North Korea recently launched, the Taepodong-2. This would be the first launch attempt of the Simorgh, a mythical winged female creature.
And the imagery has a story to tell. First, the new image reveals that Iran has completed construction at the site, which is called Launch Complex 2. Second, the launch gantry, which moves along rails, is now positioned over the launch bucket. That suggests Iran is stacking up and fueling the rocket inside. Third, there are a lot of vehicles on site. That means personnel are there working. This is pretty much what preparing to launch looks like.
Iran has successfully placed four satellites into orbit before with its Safir rocket: the Omid (2009), Rasad (2011), Navid (2012), and Fajr (2015). These were all small satellites, 50 kg or lighter, lofted into such low-altitude orbits that atmospheric drag brought them down within weeks. Simorgh, being a much larger and more capable launcher than Safir, could potentially put larger satellites into higher orbits. Larger satellites mean more capability, and higher orbits mean they will stay up for longer. It is not clear though, whether or not the Simorg will place a satellite into orbit in its maiden journey into the space.
Can Simoorgh be used as an ICMB ? The first stage of the Simorgh is very similar to North Korea’s Taepodong-2. There are differences, but the Simorgh demonstrates two essential technologies for an ICBM — clustered engines and staging. That said, the Simorgh itself is not an ICBM.
Not carrying a satellite on the first launch attempt of a new rocket sounds sensible, but the lack of a satellite is likely to make the launch look yet more problematic with respect to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, Annex B which states:
“Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology, until the date eight years after the JCPOA Adoption Day or until the date on which the IAEA submits a report confirming the Broader Conclusion, whichever is earlier.”
While the Simorgh appears to be designed as a satellite launcher, not a ballistic missile, and it appears incapable of delivering a nuclear weapon over long ranges, it does appear to use ballistic missile-relevant technology.
This is not the point, though. Iran’s goal is presumably to learn and improve satellite construction, control and communications, and to systematically improve its launch capabilities.


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Sometimes trying to figure out what you want to make for dinner can be frustrating.
Well I found an app that will help you not only figure out how to make what you want, but it also tells you where to find your ingredients on sale.
You may have heard of allrecipes.com.
I love this app and site because it's so easy.
Simply type in what you want to make and tons of recipes will pop up from your peers.
What I like most is all of the recipes are rated and users even leave reviews with ideas of how to make the recipes even better.
Another feature... At the bottom of each recipe, the app shows you which of your ingredients are on sale and where.
So for example, I found this recipe for a mango, peach and pineapple salsa.
And right away, the app shows me that Fry's Food has pineapples and bell peppers on sale and Safeway has tomatoes and peppers on sale.
The app automatically looks for stores in your area, so you can choose to enter a zip code or let your GPS do the work.
You can also create your shopping list with the click of one button and as you buy items, you tap the item on your list and it crosses it out for you.
So it's a great way to make yummy meals simple and more affordable.


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Photo: Kevin RobertsSeveral much-emailed articles recently have scrutinized how our food choices are deeply intertwined with class and culture. Writing in The New York Times Magazine, Judith Warner weighed the Obama administration’s efforts to address obesity in the context of other government programs designed to change behavior, such as the World War II rationing program and the more recent anti-smoking efforts. Former Washington Post food reporter Jane Black and her journalist husband Brent Cunningham wrote a joint op-ed for the Post about moving to Huntington, W.Va. (site of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution show) and how surprisingly easy and affordable it is to eat healthily in “the nation’s fattest city.” And earlier this month, Christopher Anderson [correction] Lisa Miller described in Newsweek the ways in which class and food divide us.
And while all these articles are well-reasoned and balanced, it’s fair to say that they represent a reform-minded, if not overtly liberal, outlook. Miller, for example, admits at the top that she is “what you might call a food snob.” She is surrounded by friends and neighbors who consider themselves locavores and “disciples” of Michael Pollan. Meanwhile, Warner’s goal is to provide an analysis of how the Obama administration could better achieve its anti-obesity goals. And Black and Cunningham moved to Huntington from Washington, D.C. to investigate the state of reform in the wake of Oliver’s efforts there, as well as to see if they could continue to eat food as fresh, local, and healthy as they did in the nation’s capital.
To all three, changing our relationship to food is necessary, even urgent. And all three write from coastal-ish cities: Miller in New York, Warner in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Black and Cunningham in (nominally, at least) D.C.
Yet for conservatives, when coastal types start telling folks how and what they should eat, it’s nothing less than a declaration of war on the heartland. Tea Party heartthrobs Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh have all gone on the attack over food — accelerating the politicization of the current food debate. One would think that obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are national, not partisan issues.
In a positive development, some on the right have finally started to weigh in on the side of sanity.
Red state blues
A blogger writing under the pseudonym Richmond Ramsey has offered this new conservative perspective on the blog run by David Frum (former special assistant to President George W. Bush). He’s shocked and alarmed at the depth of the obesity epidemic in his native South, and the concomitant resistance he’s witnessed among Southerners to change, or even admit they have a problem:
… My experience is anecdotal, of course, but I’ve seen emerging back home a growing sense that food intake is not something that can be held up for moral analysis and judgment. Those who attempt to do so are typically seen as liberal snobs trying to impose their own preferences.
There’s no doubt that liberal foodies can be horrible snobs, and excruciatingly moralistic (to shop at the organic co-op in my über-liberal neighborhood is to rub shoulders with people every bit as prissy and intolerant as the Church Lady). But at some point, it’s downright absurd for conservatives to ignore that food choices have moral implications. For me, going to my home county is an occasion for culinary culture shock, because middle-class people there simply do not have the same outlook on eating — especially for their children — as middle-class people do in my liberal city. Put plainly, people eat whatever they want, and lots of it, without giving it a second thought. More to my point here, they see the idea that one ought to care about such things as a sign of effete, high-handed liberalism.
Of course, I too am frequently shocked at the things I’ve seen middle- and upper-income “liberal elites” on the coasts — who should, according to stereotype, know better — willingly feed their children. Ramsey’s vision of the South is in fact repeated across the country, and not only because of issues of access or affordability.
All of these pieces are united by a common theme — that reforming food is really about reforming culture. We eat the way we do because of rules transferred to us (in some inchoate but powerful way) by the culture in which we grow up. Facing such a force, proposed remedies such as junk-food taxes, healthy-food subsidies, government programs, or media campaigns don’t stand a chance.
Habits can be broken
I think the worst thing that can come out of this new awakening to the scope of the food challenge — mostly regarding obesity, but of course, that’s not the only problem our current industrial food system has bequeathed to us — is that it represents a paradoxical push to inaction. That’s why I’m skeptical of laying so much of the blame on “culture.”
In reality, what is often labeled “culture” is mostly psychology — whether it be the psychology of habit, the psychology of pleasure, or even the psychological impact of our [real, not virtual] social networks. Indeed, David Roberts’ recent article here at Grist on the difficulty of breaking old habits and its relevance to addressing climate change is just as meaningful, if not more so, when applied to food. And what we need is a set of psychological shifts to get reform going — not grand, comprehensive cultural shifts. Culture is a collection of accepted behaviors — as the behaviors change, so does our culture. And that kind of broad cultural change can happen, and already has over time.
Indeed, we have already had great success against unhealthy “cultural” practices — and one example in particular stands out. While many still object to the association between the current “food fight” and the anti-smoking campaigns of yore, there’s no question of one thing. Fifty years ago smoking seemed totally normal. Most people did it, ads for smoking were everywhere, kids puffed on candy cigarettes, industry worked tirelessly to bury damaging research and undermine those who performed it and the idea that smoking was bad for you was almost un-American.
That has all utterly changed. It took decades of public and private effort and billions of dollars in spending, but attitudes and habits were transformed. Does anyone now consider anti-smoking a partisan issue? Sarah Palin is handing out cookies at elementary schools, not cigarettes on college campuses. And while cigarette companies are still standing (and profiting), they are a shadow of the overpowering political force they once were. Defenders of smoking, once atop the political mountain, have fled the field.
The fact is, we are engaged in a generational struggle (please, let’s not call it a “war”) over food — and while the Gl
enn Becks and Sarah Palins of the world want you to believe this is about personal choice and blue state vs. red states, it’s actually about existential issues like life expectancy, unsustainable economic trends, and, as conservative David Frum himself reminds us in a column on CNN.com, national security.
It seems worth the bipartisan effort. Meanwhile, what’s the other side fighting for? The Twinkie Diet. I would say those in favor of reform are on the right side of history in this struggle. The question is, Do they really have the stomach for it?


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Queens of the Stone Age Tease New Song ‘I Appear Missing’ in Album Commercial [Video]
Queens of the Stone Age have shared a 30-second snippet of the new song 'I Appear Missing' in a teaser commercial for their new album '…Like Clockwork.' The spot aired on Adult Swim last night (May 5), but thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can watch and listen as often as you like.
It's a moody, trippy and somewhat melancholic track, while the animated clip features a shadowy figure wrapped in bloodied bandages while in a state of constant motion. It's an arresting visual paired with a haunting track. The new QOTSA album drops on Matador on June 4.


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Student killed as bus runs over him, driver detained
A SSC examinee was crushed under the wheels of a bus of Anabil Paribahan in the capital’s Rampura on Monday night.
The deceased Maenuddin, son of Abdur Rahman Bhandari, was a student of Ekramunnecha School and College in Rampura, who took part in recently held SSC examination.
After the incident, agitated people set fire to eight buses. Being informed, two units of fire service rushed to the spot and doused the flames.
Later, Police seized the killer bus and detained its driver Md Sohel, 35. He was lynched by agitated people and sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Maenuddin’s relative Badsha Miah told Jago News that he (Maenuddin) used to work at his father’s tea stall on Titas road beside their rented home. Maenuddin went to his friend’s home after 9pm and returned from there and was killed by the bus while crossing the road.
In this connection, Rafiqul Islam, Officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station, said Maenuddin was killed when a bus ran over him near Rampura bazar after 11pm. Later agitated people set fire to eight buses keeping the road blocked.


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Gallery: The top five scariest Premier League footballers carved into pumpkins for Halloween
Who comes out on top in a poll of the scariest footballers of all-time?
Ever wondered who the scariest Premier League footballers on the field have been over the years? Well wonder no longer as the top five scariest footballers have been named in a poll, and had their faces carved into the front of a pumpkin in the true Halloween spirit.
Betting company Betfair carried out the poll by asking 1000 males who they felt were the scariest looking stars of the Premier League over the years.
Leading the way was former Wimbledon bad boy Vinnie Jones, with 43 per cent of his vote coming from the North-East – perhaps fans are still hurt by his treatment of Paul Gascoigne’s crown jewels – but he’s joined in the list by Roy Keane, Duncan Ferguson, Luis Suarez and John Terry.
It seems the older days of the Premier League were much scarier than today’s current crop of players, with Suarez and Terry receiving just 5 per cent and 4 per cent of the vote respectively. Former Manchester United captain Keane, fresh from his thrashing in Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography, fends off former Everton forward Ferguson for second place with 21 per cent of the vote, compared to the 14 per cent secured by the Toffees favourite.
To mark the occasion on Halloween eve, pumpkin carver extraordinaire Dave Finkle carved the five faces into separate pumpkins, although you’d be wise to avoid asking any of the real players “Trick or Treat” tomorrow night.
The research was commissioned by Betfair and carried out by One Poll, among 1000 males aged 18-54.
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Healthcare advocates took to the Idaho statehouse Saturday to celebrate the anniversaries of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. All three were signed into law during the summer months. Social Security turns 82 on August 14th.
On Saturday United Vision for Idaho, which represents more than 40 non-profit groups, celebrated the programs with cake. They feel the programs are under attack and invited Idaho's representatives to hear from constituents about the impact they've had on Idahoans.
"We paid into all of these programs it was a contract that was made with Americans and now they are threatening to strip them or gut them all together," said United Vision for Idaho Executive Director Adrienne Evans.
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A simple approach to cancer therapy afforded by multivalent pseudopeptides that target cell-surface nucleoproteins
SourceCancer Research, 71, 9, (2011), pp. 3296-305
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Recent studies have implicated the involvement of cell surface forms of nucleolin in tumor growth. In this study, we investigated whether a synthetic ligand of cell-surface nucleolin known as N6L could exert antitumor activity. We found that N6L inhibits the anchorage-dependent and independent growth of tumor cell lines and that it also hampers angiogenesis. Additionally, we found that N6L is a proapoptotic molecule that increases Annexin V staining and caspase-3/7 activity in vitro and DNA fragmentation in vivo. Through affinity isolation experiments and mass-spectrometry analysis, we also identified nucleophosmin as a new N6L target. Notably, in mouse xenograft models, N6L administration inhibited human tumor growth. Biodistribution studies carried out in tumor-bearing mice indicated that following administration N6L rapidly localizes to tumor tissue, consistent with its observed antitumor effects. Our findings define N6L as a novel anticancer drug candidate warranting further investigation.
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They fix to either a garage or workshop wall and offer an excellent way of keeping all tools together in one place, offering both good visibility of the tools and a safe and secure way of storing them.


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A Keachi, Louisiana, artist cares deeply about the legacy of a group of African American men who in the 1970s and '80s parked themselves on the porch of a shuttered country store and told stories about a bygone era. Travis Whitfield was so intrigued by the men that they became his studies. He painted their portraits, took hundreds of photos, and recorded their conversations beginning in 1973. Many of these images and artifacts are on display at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Whitfield’s “Further On Down The Road” exhibition.
“Here these guys were, these wonderful features and stories and all this stuff," Whitfield said. "It was like stepping so far back in time, which I always felt like I was born too late anyway. And this Greek revival store, I love that style of architecture.”
The ring leader of the so-called "Porch Crew" was Ward Barnes, who was killed in a 1990 home invasion. In one recording, he discussed piety with Whitfield.
"I see people go to church and then gamble and raise hell. And tomorrow's Sunday, go take the I know I'm a Christian, hold up their hands, white gloves on thing. I can't do that. 'Why can't you?' Whitfield asked. I don't like that kind of stuff."
Today, the country store is Whitfield’s workshop. Memories of the Porch Crew surround him. Whitfield, 68, paints landscapes and spends his days outdoors.
"There's no one left to pose for me, and I don’t want to get involved again like that because it left me pretty rough," Whitfield said.
Whitfield will present a one-hour documentary and gallery talk on the Porch Crew Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport. The exhibit ends March 15.


In just a few short months, the Covid-19 pandemic dramatically changed city life.
Millions of office workers quickly shifted to working from home, city centre footfall plummeted and sales in the retail and hospitality industries fell dramatically – putting millions of local service jobs at risk. The number of people using public transport also fell, causing financial problems for city transport authorities.
The ease that many people have found working from home, and continuing worries about the safety of public transport and busy city centres have prompted many commentators to question the future of cities in a post-Covid world. If people can work from home, then they can able to live anywhere in the world while doing their job remotely.
We are sceptical about this prediction.
While it is too early to predict the long-term effect that the Coronavirus pandemic will have on cities, we can make some early predictions.
The proportion of people able to work from home is often overstated. Our estimates suggest that people able to work from home are a minority in every single city and large town in the UK. London, Reading and Edinburgh have the highest shares of workers able to work from home – more than four in ten. Meanwhile, in Barnsley, Burnley and Stoke just two in ten people can work from home.
However, it is likely that the pre-lockdown working practices will change, with many people continuing to work from home for at least some of the week. However, this will not be a cost-free decision; many city centre shops and restaurants depend on custom from office workers and are likely to struggle if their weekday sales shrink.
While many have adapted smoothly to working from home, the benefits of face-to-face interaction are hard to replicate and working remotely means that we miss out on the spontaneous flow of ideas and the sense of camaraderie that being in an office creates. We will continue to need spaces to come together, collaborate and build relationships. Offices and co-working spaces are natural places to do this and city centres remain the most convenient places to locate them.
The popularity of cities is cyclical: people flocked to them during the Industrial Revolution, they left after the Second World War and they returned in the 1980s. Perhaps Covid-19 has begun the next stage in that cycle, but ultimately, it’s too soon to tell.
For thousands of years people have gathered together to trade, to learn and to have fun. The more prosperous a place becomes; the more people head there to make their fortunes. This is even truer in the UK today where more high-skilled jobs are based in cities and large towns in the Greater South East than in the rest of the country.
Young people are likely to continue to head to cities to develop their careers and have fun. The number of twenty-somethings in cities’ centres tripled in recent years. Today, young people comprise half of the city centre population. This is unlikely to change in the near future.
As people become more used maintaining social distancing measures as they work and socialise the urge to leave cities will decline. It will fall further if a Covid-19 vaccine is developed. But even if it isn’t, people and cities will adapt as they always have done – the Victorians built the sewer systems that we have today to deal with Cholera epidemics in cities.
Some have said that because remote working means you can work from anywhere, people will move out of expensive and dense cities such as London in favour of cheaper more spacious homes elsewhere. We are sceptical of this theory.
The continuing value of face-to-face interaction limits the dispersal of remote workers across the country. For someone living in Cumbria, travelling to London for meetings once or twice a week would be so expensive and time consuming that they would be unlikely to do it. They may be prepared to commute a slightly longer distance if they aren’t required in the office every day of the week, but it’s likely they’ll remain in the already prosperous Greater South East. This limits the ‘levelling up potential’ of remote working.
Geographic inequalities in this country are caused by the fact that people in cities and towns outside the Greater South East are less likely to have the qualifications needed to work in high-skilled, high-paying roles that will improve their lives. Moving a couple of thousand people out of London and dispersing them around the country will not address this problem.
Instead, the levelling up agenda should be about creating more high paying firms and jobs outside the South East and training people to a level to which they can actually take good jobs in these firms.
There are several things that city leaders can do to support their areas’ economic and social recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic.
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London finds itself in the unfamiliar position of being amongst the UK’s worst performing cities. Are we seeing a levelling down?
Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt on the future of UK infrastructure.
September's update to the High Streets Recovery Tracker shows that the recovery of high streets has come to a stall in September.
As the lockdown in response to the Coronavirus pandemic varies across the country, Centre for Cities tracks the recovery of high streets in Britain's cities and large towns.
Four senior politicians on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the levelling up agenda - and why it's more important than ever.
Our recent paper 'Levelling up Local Government in England' sparked much debate. Here’s a round-up and response to the main themes.
What impact do local lockdowns have on city-centre footfall? We take a look at what happened in Leicester, Manchester and Aberdeen, all of which experienced restrictions over the summer.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefits continues to rise, with the biggest rises in the past month in large cities and towns in the South East.
Overall city centre footfall rose this summer but London still has a lot of catching up to do.
People have returned to city centre shops and bars as lockdown has eased. But they haven’t responded to calls to go back to city centre offices.


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The Ford Zephyr model MB 33 was the second #33 of the line. It was sold from 1963-1968. In 1969 it was replaced by something a bit more exotic, the Lamborghini Miura.
Ford of Britain manufactured the actual car. Something kids in the US wouldn't see too often. The nice thing about Matchbox/Lesney is that it had an international flavor. Vehicles from the UK, US, Germany, Italy and others were featured. The current version of Matchbox is just a name owned by Mattel.
Back to this model it came in a D Box which were made from t1961-1967 which means this is from 1963-1967. Personally I am thinking 1965-66. Never have seen this model in anything other than a D box which are rare after 1966.
The exciting feature for this model is the suspension as seen on the front of the box. There is a strip of plastic that simulates a suspension inside the base of the model. Anything to get that 59 cents from the kids.


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Autism is not a “person-first” kind of disability
The golden rule of disability language is that the person should come first in phrasing, preceding the condition that disables them. For example, people who have diabetes aren’t “diabetics” in respectful usage but instead are “people with diabetes.” But developmental conditions and those related to the brain are a trickier territory. With a nod to Francis Crick, if your brain is you and you are your brain (with some guidance from your endocrine system and your environmental inputs), then how appropriate or even rational is it to separate the person and the condition? Many people want to say “person with autism,” but to a lot of autistic activists, that phrasing is silly, like saying “Person with Brain.” For them, autism and brain and themselves are all one and the same. Autistic activist Jim Sinclair wrote in 1999 about instead using “identity first” language. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network also features an essay by autistic activist Lydia Brown, elaborating the concept. That doesn’t mean, of course, that every autistic person prefers that phrasing, and it’s always best to go with what any individual with a condition expresses as their preference.
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(Color online) Device structure and the measurement. (a) Device and measurement setup. (b) Scanning electron microscopy image of the device. (c) Left panel: Relation between the core position and the MTJ output. Right panel: Relation between core direction and core rotation. (d) Device input and MTJ outputs for the up core and down core.
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(Color online) Demonstration of all-electrical operation of the vortex core memory. (a) Device output is shown together with the input signals. Every injection of the input pulse at any time switches the core direction (electrical data writing) and the core direction can be read out as the output amplitude. (b) Core switching induced by a pulsed current every one, two, and three period(s) of the input AC current.
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Md. Nader Khan, Chairman of Prime Bank Limited, is seen at the 19th Annual General Meeting of the bank in Dhaka on Sunday. Prime Bank Limited declared 12.5 percent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year 2013.
The announcement, based on the financial statements of the bank, came at the 19th Annual General Meeting of the bank on Sunday.
The AGM was held at the Police Convention Hall at Eskaton Garden Road, Ramna, said a press release. Md. Nader Khan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank presided over the AGM.
The chairman thanks the shareholders of the bank for achieving the leading position on their continuous support and confidence shown toward it. Nasim Anwar Hossain and Mafiz Ahmed Bhuiyan, Vice Chairmen, Tanjil Chowdhury, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Prof. Ainun Nishat, Chairman of the Audit Committee, Imran Khan, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee, Md. Shirajul Islam Mollah, M.A. Khaleque, Quazi Sirazul Islam, Khandker Md Khaled,Md. Shahadat Hossain, Nazma Haque, Salma Huq, Directors and Md. Ehsan Khasru, Managing Director & CEO of prime bank were present at the AGM. Mohammed Ehsan Habib, SEVP and Company Secretary conducted the AGM. Ahmed Kamal Khan Chowdhury, Quazi A.S.M. Anisul Kabir and Habibur Rahman, Deputy Managing Directors of the bank also attended the AGM.
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The WNBA on Tuesday suspended Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon after a former player alleged she was bullied and manipulated for being pregnant.
The league’s monthslong investigation led to a two-game suspension for Hammon after it determined the coach violated league and team respect in the workplace policies. The Aces’ first-round pick in 2025 was also rescinded for a violation of the league’s impermissible player benefits.
“It is critical that we uphold the values of integrity and fairness, which create a level playing field for our teams,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement.
“The Aces failed to adhere to league rules and regulations and have been disciplined accordingly. We are also disheartened by the violation of our respect in the workplace policies and remain committed to ensuring that enhanced training is conducted and standards are followed across all WNBA teams.”
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The punishment stemmed from former player Dearica Hamby claiming the organization had an issue with her pregnancy and it led to a trade.
“Being traded is a part of the business. Being lied to, bullied, manipulated and discriminated against is not,” she wrote on Instagram in January. “I have had my character and work ethic attacked. I was promised things to entice me to sign my contract extension that were not followed through on. I was accused of signing my extension knowingly pregnant.
“This is false. I was told I was a ‘question mark’ and that it was set that I would ‘get pregnant again’ and there was a concern for my level of commitment to the team. I was told that ‘I didn’t hold up my end of the bargain’ (Because ‘no one expected me to get pregnant in the next two years’). Did the team expect me to promise not to get pregnant in exchange for the contract extension? I was asked if I planned my pregnancy.
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“When I responded, ‘no,’ I was then told that I ‘was not taking precautions to not get pregnant.’ I was being traded because ‘I wouldn’t be ready and we need bodies.’ I planned to play this season, and I have expressed my desire to play this season. I have pushed myself throughout my entire pregnancy and have continued to workout (basketball included) on my own and with team staff – even on days where it was uncomfortable to walk, only to be inaccurately told that ‘I was not taking my workouts seriously.’”
Hamby added that her situation with the Aces had been “traumatizing.”
“To be treated this way by an organization, BY WOMEN who are mothers, who have claimed to ‘be in these shoes,’ who preach family, chemistry and women’s empowerment is disappointing and leaves me sick to my stomach,” she added. “We fought for provisions that would finally support and protect player parents. This cannot now be used against me.”
Hamby was also the WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year in 2019 and 2020. She averaged 9.3 points and 7.1 rebounds as the Aces won the championship in 2022. She was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks in the offseason.
The impermissible benefits discipline came for negotiations for an extension of Hambry’s contract. She had signed a two-year extension last year before the Jan. 21 trade.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Dell Latitude D830 - with the nvidia video card option
Battery Missing - (it was completely dead and usually use this computer sparingly to even want to buy a battery)
All hardware in Device Manager looks fine.
The exact problem is when I turn the laptop on I do get the Dell splash screen and bios load. Then it instantly goes to a complete black screen with a blinking cursor for several mins, approx 5mins. I have set bios to default, changed boot sequence to HDD first. I have noticed however once booted i can turn off and boot and reboot flawlessly everytime, however when I shutdown and unplug power and move else where it does this long boot with the cursor thing. Now I am not completely sure about this but I am about to try once again after I post this.
If that is the case could it merely just be a CMOS battery issue? Would the changes I make in bios still be there and saved on the flash even without a CMOS or would they actually revert to default?
Thanks in advance guys and I will test this last theory out now. I just dont know what to do since I have been working on this issue periodically for quite sometime now. I have even tried different HDDs and different loads of Win7 as well.
I just tried rebooting without moving power source and still got the long blinking cursor, suppose that theory is nil. I did notice however when I tried loading into bios it would get the long blinking screen prior to booting into bios. Is it possible it is having a hard time recognizing some hardware, possibly the harddrive? Do or would I need to install drivers for the HDD even though device manager looks sufficient? I will try loading into bios without HDD present and then possible trying RAM.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
151. Play and Pay, continued
"Flow my tears," the policeman said, running along the blade, scanning darkly. And how heavy the feeling was, like taking something made of poison--but not at first, just a little less breath and a weight on my chest, so that I find it--well, not difficult to move, just incidental to being right where I am.
And where am I? It seems small but free, like the high stool on which a Nowhere Man could sit, making his plans for nobody--except I'm lying down, one leg dangling, the foot on the floor, the couch scratchy on my forearms, my t-shirt bunching up beneath me, and the house quiet, while the traffic shivers outside, like small waves breaking. And the TV kept on, excited voices turned down but insistent, whittling at something until it becomes something else. So I crack one then two eyes open and see the flat familiar shapes on the screen sliding a little, like plate tectonics sped up--each million years a half-second, the jitter from millennia to millennia no longer discernible--and it's faces and cars and trees--and more faces, some dull, some shifty, all bearing down on whatever's in front of them--except some slip and shift forever, scrambled disguises, masks and altered tones until no one knows who's who. An undercover world.
And not quite real, rotoscoped and morphed, cartoons. Finally! some truth there on the screen, a cartoon at last. And they're all on something, "D" for Death, hilarious on the way down, until it's all bugs and funny looks from bystanders. And everyone I see is on the hit-list: Keanu and Winona, Woody, Junior and Rory, and even Philip. They keep remembering to swallow, and down they go--until, alone in the field, the second harvest peeks up, down there where the cornstalks meet the loam. And I quote:
"What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again."
But now I'm no longer on that couch, I'm on my own, and I see him, bending down; it is a moment without murk, almost joy--certainly relief, certainly one little piece of what should be--and he plucks a present for his friends at Thanksgiving. Almost death, then, but taken up and tucked away. And this gave me the strength to look it up, and one Frank C. Bertrand reminded me of something M.H. Abrams mentions about the Romantics in Natural Supernaturalism:
"Whether a man shall live his old life or a new one, in a universe of death or of life, cut off and alien or affiliated and at home, in a state of servitude or of genuine freedom ... all depends on his mind as it engages with the world in the act of perceiving."
Arctor loses his old life to live the new, plays and almost loses--maybe; we leave him in servitude with a chance of freedom slipped in his sock. I can see him, a clear and cleanly drawn object, flat and right there against the glass wall of my TV, breaking my heart at the thought of the way all that high-strung fun gets torn out of their heads by the absolute roots of it all. I'd laughed plenty, then knew it was time to turn over, curl up a little, cry over that long list of lost boys and girls. But the movie makes a little quavery toodle, like a theremin approached, and I smile at the spooky half-gift and almost-promise.
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