Buhari Departs Paris To South Africa, See Why
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Paris on Saturday for Durban, South Africa, to accept President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special invitation.
Touchaheart Nigeria reports that on Monday, Buhari will attend the opening ceremony of the 2nd Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021, which will be attended by other African leaders.
The African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), is hosting the event from November 15 to 21.
The meeting, according to presidential spokesman Femi Adesina, aims to encourage trade and investment on the continent.
The fair will advocate for a business-friendly climate, identify and propose solutions to barriers to trade, and collect market data necessary to link buyers and sellers across Africa.
According to Adesina, worldwide enterprises, especially non-African international brands, are anticipated to take advantage of the fair’s potential.
The Nigerian president will be accompanied by Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Niyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment.
Ahmed Abubakar, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and Segun Awolowo, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), are among the others.
On Tuesday, November 16, President Buhari is expected to return home.


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Top Line: There seems to be a little fear left in the market, a concept that aligns well with our position that the general public is not understanding the turn in the market...at least not yet. When they do think the market has turned, the pros will be looking to sell some stock to them.
In the mean time, there is plenty to keep the fear going. In the news, we had durable goods orders that were far worse than expected but the lower housing numbers were "better" than expected. The news should continue to be less than encouraging but the market is behaving like the news doesn't matter right now--we say that happens all the time, at least on a day to day basis. The market is in confusion mode right now, so prepare to be confused...like this blog isn't confusing enough.
From a purely fundamental point of view, we think the economy is a thin ice and will continue to break through it until it's under water. That doesn't mean the market has to follow that line of reasoning. The market is going to do what it wants to do and we have to try to figure out what that is going to be.
After the market closed ORCL (Oracle) thought it was bringing great news to the market in the form of higher margins and profits. The market didn't think the "revenue" news was all that great and sold the stock off by nearly 10% (8.3% by the end of after hours trading). The news put fear into the tech sector such that the NASDAQ 100 futures are trading about 1% lower in overnight trading. This could lead to some selling in the morning but we know how that goes...
The Bear Stearns trading seems to bring additional confusion. Today the stock is trading up over 11 while JPM is down over 4%. The traders here seem to think that the stock would be worth more if JPM wouldn't be there to hold it up...unbelievable. In the afternoon, there was a news story that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd was going to hold a hearing on the role of the Fed and other regulators in the JPM Bear deal. There was also a mention that there would be questions raised about..."the Fed's investment in illiquid mortgage securities."
Right after this story broke, Bear Stearns jumped more than a point in about five minutes but it did manage to come back to earth before the close. Still, BSC is trading well above the value that would normally seem to be applicable to it, the one based on JPM's price. Since each BSC share will fetch 0.21753 share of JPMorgan stock so at the 44.11 price JPM closed at, a BSC share would be worth rougly 9.60 and it closed at 11.21...in the words of Coach from Cheers, "Yeah, that makes sense."
FSI: 77.22 (the highest close since late February)

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- Stir gently to combine ingredients and bring to boil. Simmer for 5 - 10 minutes. - adjust seasonings to taste
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Do you have the lat/long points for your codes? and when you say equal in distance, what does that mean? equal in distance from the center of the postal code? we need more details to be of much help.
There are example calculations on the community and online to show how to calculate distances between two lat/long points in tableau. I don't think you want to create the distance between every set of points but if you wanted, you could go that route but it has the potential to make a huge data set unless you have a very small number of points.

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A solid layer of ice didn’t stop more than 200 Polar Plungers from running, jumping, and — in some cases — sliding into Lake Snowden on Saturday.
Workers cut out a large area of ice to make room for the Plungers, removing pieces that were at least eight inches thick, and clearing smaller chunks to ensure that the water was safe and clear of sharp edges.
Polar Plunge is a fundraiser for Special Olympics Ohio; eight other similar events are held around the state. People who attend are encouraged to wear costumes and an individual and team costume contest is held before the plunge.
Ohio University student Chris Glynn said he was inspired to take part in the Plunge by his fraternity, Phi Kappa Theta. The fraternity is one of the main organizers behind the event, along with OU’s police department.
“This is kind of their big philanthropy event,” Glynn said, “A dedication to Special Olympics.
"Growing up,” Glynn added, "I had an aunt who had Down Syndrome, so it means even more to me, knowing that she benefited from Special Olympics."
Glynn, a senior who has taken the plunge twice before, said he felt that this year was going to be the coldest yet. But he thought he would fare pretty well.
“I think we’ll be okay, especially compared to Stroud’s Run. It didn’t have the warming rooms that Lake Snowden has.”
Paige Ludwig, marketing and development director for Special Olympics Ohio, said 199 people pre-registered with several registering on the day and many, many more arriving as spectators. Ludwig decided to take the plunge as well, this time.
“I’ve not plunged at this one before,” she said. “I’ve plunged at Lake Erie, and some of the other ones. I try to get to all of them.”
Ludwig said she was very pleased with the turnout and level of enthusiasm at Lake Snowden.
“It’s really great,” Ludwig said, “Our goal is to raise $25,000. It’s a great day for Special Olympics.”
After individual and team costume contests, participants – all of whom had raised at least $50 – ran into the water in groups and then headed off to the warming rooms. Brady Carpenter of Beverly, Ohio, said afterward that the water was freezing, but he was glad he took the challenge.
Polar Plunge is one of the largest fundraisers for Special Olympics Ohio, with nine such events in the state.
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Sending and receiving BSV over the traditional Internet is not yet a frictionless process, but a new BSV payment service called PeerSend aims to change this. PeerSend is a unique offering in the BSV blockchain ecosystem, allowing users to integrate BSV payments with existing social media platforms through the medium of a free and lightweight browser extension.
If you have PeerSend installed on your browser and linked to your BSV wallet, it is possible to send BSV to any users across most major social media websites, even if they don’t have a BSV wallet themselves. If the receiving user does not have PeerSend installed, they will receive a message prompting them to install the extension and receive their payment.
The BSV blockchain is the only public blockchain that scales unbounded and can facilitate micro- or nano-transactions with ultra-low transaction fees, making it an ideal tool for easily and cheaply transferring money over the Internet. Through its integration with HandCash, PeerSend delivers a user experience that is easy to understand and accessible to those who have not even heard of Bitcoin before.
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To find out more about PeerSend and how it works, Bitcoin Association spoke to Jeff Baek, Co-founder of Peer Technologies – the company behind the PeerSend extension.
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‘PeerSend is a browser extension that you can connect your HandCash wallet to and then you can send BSV over virtually any website or any social media platform, even to those who don’t have a HandCash wallet or extension, or don’t know anything about Bitcoin,’ Baek explains.
‘We thought that there was a problem in Bitcoin: it’s difficult to integrate Bitcoin, first of all, because it requires some sort of coding and development, and at the same time, Bitcoin only works in proprietary services. We wanted to create something that can be used on existing web services like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit to allow non-developers or even 100% of web users to be sending BSV freely on these platforms.’
The foundation of PeerSend’s accessibility is that it modifies the user’s browser interface to facilitate these payments instead of the actual service they are interacting with.
‘PeerSend is a browser extension that modifies the web page interface. For example, when PeerSend allows users to send money to others on Twitter, we don’t technically need permission from Twitter because we can modify the interface from the user’s computer and we can create a payment button on Twitter or Facebook without their permission. That’s how the users can send money over these existing platforms,’ Baek says.
‘We wanted a way to send money to non-BSV people or to non-crypto people on existing platforms. That was a demand we made on ourselves. We thought of some solutions and after doing some research, it turned out the browser extension was the only option to integrate the entire Internet into Bitcoin.’
Baek and his team aim to grow the adoption of the BSV blockchain by enabling the easy and cheap transfer of funds over existing social media platforms. The ability to send BSV to non-crypto users is crucial to growing this adoption and exposing everyday Internet users to the real and useful applications of the BSV network.
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Using the example of Elon Musk and Twitter, Baek demonstrates how easy it is to send funds to others, as well as the safeguards they have added to protect unclaimed funds and assure people that the service is legitimate.
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This elegantly simple BSV payment system running on the traditional Internet can be applied to many different communities, and it can also be used for e-commerce payments and other applications, both of which Baek is considering.
‘We’re going to continue adding more social platforms like Reddit and GitHub, any form of community will be considered for addition. But PeerSend is not only about sending money from one person to another, it can also be used as an e-commerce tool. For example, if you insert your home address at PeerSend, then you can technically go to any e-commerce sites like Amazon or eBay and without logging in or registering, you can click the product you want to buy.’
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To get started using PeerSend on all your favourite online platforms, visit the official website to install the browser extension.


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New Kids on the Block star Donnie Wahlberg and his wife Kim Fey finalized their long-simmering divorce after nine years of marriage, AP reports. Final papers were filed in Los Angeles on Sept. 28. The couple originally filed in August 2008 and have been separated for two years. They had two sons Xavier and Elijah. According to PEOPLE back in 2008, Fey was seeking child custody as well as spo...
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New Kids on the Block have been in the game for over 20 years, and though Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre and brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight took a long hiatus in the mid-'90s, the group's comeback in 2008 with its latest album, 'The Block,' proved that this boy band was still "hangin' tough." The guys recently came to New York City to promote their tour documentary, 'Coming ...
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Three months ago I was suffering from joint pain both in my shoulders, knees, and lower back. Not from injury, but just from the bad food I had been eating.
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To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperament, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work—surrounds them with a sensuous life—and cuts them off from the normal sources of living.
— Max Lerner, America as a Civilization
Mankind are, in all ages, caught by the same baits: The same tricks, played over and over again, still trepan them. The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
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GASTON: It’s true, Lefou. And I’ve got my sights set on that one.
LEFOU: The inventor’s daughter?
GASTON: She’s the one – the lucky girl I’m going to marry.
LEFOU: But she’s –
GASTON: The most beautiful girl in town.
LEFOU: I know, but –
GASTON: That makes her the best. And don’t I deserve the best?
– Beauty and the Beast (1991) (watch the clip)
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to middle Earth.
– George R.R. Martin
It seems to me that the time for subtlety, in our American life, has passed. Do we look for subtlety in news media nowadays? In pop music? In fashion? In TV, movies? Even in visual art, is subtlety what we seek out and richly reward? Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life?
We do not.
– Lydia Millet
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.
– Franz Kafka
Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.
– Her, 2013
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
– Leonard Nimoy
Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human.
– Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (watch the video)
… A radical Left aided by a cultural elite that detests Christianity and finds Christian moral tenets reactionary and repressive is hell-bent on pushing its amoral values and imposing its ideology on our nation.


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It’s been a while since I’ve checked in with Claire Cosi. I love the coffeehouse mystery series, written by Cleo Coyle, but I haven’t read one of the books in a while. Dead To the Last Drop is the latest book in the series, book number 15, and it takes Claire from the coffehouse’s homebase in NYC to DC. There, they have opened a restaurant/jazz club/coffee bar that has become one of the city’s hottest spots. Her long-time love interest Mike comes along time, on special assignment from the NYPC to the State Department.
Also making appearances in the story are the usual cast of characters – her ex-husband who comes to town to help out with a special event at the restaurant, her ex-mother in law, boss, and owner of the coffeehouse, who has arranged for Claire to “house sit” a gorgeous old victorian mansion while she’s in the city, and her daughter, who comes to visit from Paris, having landed a new job there in a restaurant. This new DC restaurant quickly becomes the talk of the town, and like many of the city’s hot spots, they frequently serve some of the most prominent leaders in government. This is how Claire is introduced to the president’s daughter.
The president’s only daughter, Abby, is a college student and aspiring jazz musician. Her parents have a much different plan for her, however, so when she shows up at the Jazz Space (the name of the club on the 2nd floor of the restaurant) she doesn’t want to be recognized. She plays with the house band, and when news gets out of her appearance at the club her secret is out and the Jazz Space becomes more popular than ever. While playing a few shows at the club Abby is kidnapped, which turns into an international incident. Enter Claire: barista, restaurateur, and amateur detective.
In finding Abby, secrets about the first family are revealed. Secrets they would never want exposed. This bit of Washington politics and culture is so great in the story, and so easy to believe. Who knows what the first family could be hiding? I feel like I may not even want to know. I have really enjoyed this series, and this change of venue keeps the series fresh. It is hinted at the end of the book about Claire’s return to NYC. Who knows what will happen when she gets back home? In the meantime, until the next book comes out, Coyle has a newsletter and blog devoted to Claire Cosi, the coffeehouse, and some of her best recipes.

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Freddie Peacock of Rochester, New York, was convicted of rape in 1976. This year he became the 250th person to be exonerated by DNA testing since the technique was first used in 1989. According to a new report by the Innocence Project, those 250 prisoners served a total of 3,160 years; 17 spent time on death row. Remarkably, 67 percent of them were convicted after 2000, a decade after the onset of modern DNA testing. The glaring question: How many more are there?
Calculating the percentage of innocents now in prison is a tricky and controversial thing to do. The certainty of DNA testing means we can be positive the 250 defendants listed in the Innocence Project report didn't commit the crimes for which they were convicted. But there are hundreds of other cases in which convictions have been overturned due to a lack of evidence, recantation of eyewitness testimony, or police or prosecutorial misconduct, and where no DNA evidence exists to definitively establish guilt or innocence. Those were wrongful convictions because there wasn't sufficient evidence to overcome reasonable doubt, but we can't be sure all of the accused were actually innocent.
Most prosecutors fight requests for post–conviction DNA testing. That means the discovery of wrongful convictions is limited by the time and resources available to the Innocence Project and similar legal aid organizations who fight for tests in court. It's notable that in one of the few jurisdictions where the district attorney is actively seeking out wrongful convictions—Dallas County, Texas—the county by itself has seen more exonerations than all but a handful of individual states. If prosecutors in other jurisdictions were to follow Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins' lead, that 250 number would be significantly higher.
Still, some officials aren't impressed. One of the more farcical attempts to underplay the growing number of DNA exonerations came in a concurring opinion that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the 2005 case Kansas v. Marsh. Scalia began by dismissing the idea that an innocent person may have ever been executed in America, explaining that if such a tragedy had occurred, "we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops by the abolition lobby."
Since then the abolition lobby has been shouting about Cameron Todd Willingham, the probably innocent man who was executed in Texas in 2004. But Scalia's argument also betrays a lack of familiarity with how anti–death penalty groups work. While the justice is right that proof of an executed innocent would be good rhetorical fodder for the abolitionists, legal aid groups aren't about to waste their limited resources hunting down mistaken executions when there are living, breathing innocents still to be discovered. Moreover, in many jurisdictions, prosecutors destroy case files after an execution, making any post-execution investigation rather difficult.
Scalia also cited some math from Josh Marquis, an Oregon prosecutor who has held various executive positions at the National District Attorneys Association. Marquis crunched his numbers at a time when there had been about 200 DNA exonerations. He arbitrarily multiplied that number by 10 to come up with 2,000 wrongful convictions. Marquis then took every single felony conviction over the previous 15 years as his denominator and came up with a meager .027 percent wrongful conviction rate. Move along, America. Nothing to see here. Your criminal justice system is performing just fine.
But that figure is ridiculous. First, the subset of cases in which DNA testing can prove (or disprove) guilt is exceedingly small. It is generally limited to most rape and some murder cases. You can throw out the entire body of drug charges and nearly all burglaries, robberies, assaults, and other felonies. As University of Michigan law professor Samuel L. Gross wrote in the Annual Review of Law and Science, "By this logic, we could estimate the proportion of baseball players who've used steroids by dividing the number of major league players who've been caught by the total of all baseball players at all levels: major league, minor league, semipro, college and Little League—and maybe throwing in football and basketball players as well."
If the aim is to calculate the percentage of people who claim they're innocent and who actually are, you might throw out all cases decided by a guilty plea too. But this can get tricky. According to the Innocence Project, more than a quarter of DNA exonerations included a false confession or guilty plea. The plea bargaining process also induces innocent people to plead guilty to lesser crimes to avoid charges that carry longer prison terms.
The Innocence Project cites a study by the Seton Hall law professor D. Michael Risinger that puts the share of innocents in prison at 3 percent to 5 percent. But that study looked only at capital crimes, and it's a much-debated question whether you can extrapolate data from death penalty cases and make assumptions about conviction rates in lesser crime categories. (Those who argue that non-death penalty conviction rates would be higher note that there's more pressure on prosecutors and jurors to hold someone accountable in murder cases. Then again, defendants tend to have better representation in capital cases.) But even dropping below the study's floor, using the 2008 prison population, a 2 percent wrongful conviction rate would mean about 46,000 people are incarcerated for crimes they didn't commit.
Whatever the percentage, DNA testing has exposed some glaring flaws in the system, calling into question traditional assumptions about the value of eyewitness testimony, forensic evidence, confessions, and the appeals process. (In several cases where a defendant was later exonerated by DNA testing, appeals courts not only upheld convictions but noted "overwhelming evidence" of the defendants' guilt.) Since we now know because of DNA testing that misconduct by police and prosecutors produced wrongful convictions in many high-profile murder cases, it is probably safe to assume that similar problems have led to the wrongful conviction of routine drug defendants. The difference is that there is no test to clear those people's names.
Scalia wrote that an exoneration "demonstrates not the failure of the system but its success." But these 250 DNA tests aren't proof that the system is working. They're a wake-up call telling us that it isn't. Instead of falling back on groups like the Innocence Project to serve as unofficial checks against wrongful convictions, cops, prosecutors, judges, and lawmakers should be thinking about why there's so much work for these organizations to do.
Radley Balko (email@example.com) is a senior editor at reason.
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–A roundup of economic news about Asia from around the web:
Time for Reform: Era Dabla-Norris and Kalpana Kochar write that the era of remarkable growth in many emerging market economies fueled by cheap money and high commodity prices may very well be coming to an end. The slowdown reflects not just inadequate global demand, but also structural factors that are rendering previous growth engines less effective, and the fact that economic “good times” reduced the incentives to implement further reforms to enhance productivity. With the end of the period of favorable global financing and trade conditions, the time is nigh for governments to make strong efforts to increase productivity—the essential foundation of sustainable growth and rising living standards.
Renminbi rising: There’s little time for China to waste in internationalizing the renminbi, Wing Thye Woo writes. Given the limited number of currencies that can serve as true international units, if the renminbi fails to achieve this status before, say, the Indian rupee, Russian ruble, or Brazilian real, then it might never happen.
Poverty and Growth: Differences between cultures and even climates can make uniform poverty statistics profoundly misleading. S. Subramanian says poverty should be treated both as an absolute conception and a relative one, allowing for both interpersonal and contextual anomalies regarding incomes. Practically that’s difficult to implement, but it’s the only way to get a clearer picture of poverty in the developing world.
–Compiled by Michael S. Arnold
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Sulphur dioxide, a molecule composed of sulphur and oxygen, has been used as a wine preservative for more than 2000 years. Today, it is still widely used in winemaking for its antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. As an antioxidant, SO2 binds with compounds (aldehydes) that are formed during oxidation, removing the typical bruised apple aromas and flavours. As a disinfectant, SO2 prevents the growth of bacteria and yeast that causes off-aromas and flavours. Equally, too much SO2 can also impact the profile of the wine, disguising a wine’s expression of site.
These days, quality conscious winemakers employ strict hygiene in the winery (easier today with modern technology than it was decades ago) so they are able to use just enough SO2 to capture the wine in its intended state.
Contrary to what some may believe, all wines contain some SO2 because yeasts produce it during fermentation. SO2 is also often unfairly blamed for headaches, even though wine contains a proven headache causing ingredient, alcohol. Finally, I have yet to hear headache complaints associated with a packet of dried apricots, burgers or sausages, all of which have higher allowable limits of sulphites than most still dry and off-dry wines in the EU.
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I have a small frame and have been petite my whole life, until I hit menopause and found myself in an unhappy relationship. The pounds started packing on everywhere!
Breaking away was hard, but being alone and happy was far better than being with the wrong person and miserable.
Yet, there I was in mid-life – single, alone and my clothes were almost three sizes larger than they had ever been before.
What to do? I could keep buying larger sized clothing, but when I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror one day I was instantly depressed. This wasn’t me. I didn’t feel comfortable being lumpy and pudgy and saggy. I didn’t sleep well and I was facing depression. I didn’t care what other people thought of me, but I did care what I thought of me. And I didn’t feel good about myself in this condition.
Four months ago I started a new regimen that turned my life around. And today I am back to my petite shape, back to my original clothing size – and feeling fantastic about myself again. I am happy! Happiness is certainly not based just on body image and size, it’s a perfect balance of mental, spiritual and physical. When any one gets completely out of alignment, it can throw everything off.
I did not use hypnosis, fad diets, pills or hormone therapy, here’s what I did:
I changed my eating habits.
- Sunday through Friday I eat strictly healthy, low-fat foods. Lots of salads, fruits, vegetables and lean meats (chicken and fish). I don’t eat bacon, cheese, sweets, breads, white potatoes, pasta, fast foods, fried foods or junk foods. Keep the fat-content and calories down, plenty of protein.
- Saturday is my FREE DAY. All those things I can’t have the rest of the week, I CAN have on Saturday. If someone brings homemade cookies to work, I put one in a baggy and save it for Saturday. Buy me chocolates for Valentine’s Day? I’ll eat them on Saturday. But even then, I ration it, not too much. Your FREE day is up to you. Pick one day and stick to it.
- I joined a gym and rotate my workouts so I have a variety, and am hitting all areas of my body. To get to my desired weight, I went every day after work and on weekends averaging 6 days a week. Now that I’m where I want to be, I can trim that back to 4-5 days a week to maintain.
- Portion control. “Don’t eat for the body you have, eat for the body you want.” I cut everything in half. Instead of eating a whole protein bar before the gym, I ate half of one. The same with every meal. This caused the quickest weight drop of all. I didn’t think I was eating very much to start, but apparently, I was. Cut it in half! Having the person you share meals with supporting you, and eating the same way you do, and working out as much as you do, can make all the difference in the world. Why not be healthy together?

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Cotton aphid numbers have been steadily increasing over the last several weeks. Aphids generally build to moderate/high numbers and eventually crash due to a naturally occurring fungus. This fungal epizootic typically occurs in our area in early/mid-July. Once the aphid fungus is detected in a field we would expect the aphid population to crash within a week or so (notice gray fungus in picture below).
Dr. Philip Roberts stated today that the aphid fungus is beginning to show up in southwest Georgia. Hopefully, it will make it to our side of the state within the next week or so. However, it is a judgment call whether to spray for aphids in cotton. I have observed some bad cases of aphids in cotton fields and they are beginning to effect the new growth through the loss of moisture and nutrients. Another factor that has to be considered is the late planting of some of the cotton crop and it definitely does not need to be delayed – regardless of the reason. This stress factor can be reduced with the use of an aphid insecticide. However, research conducted by Dr. Roberts in Georgia fails to consistently demonstrate a positive yield response to controlling aphids. If you decide to spray for aphids in your cotton, please be cognizant of beneficial insects in your insecticide selection and their importance as we move through the growing season.

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[authors: Aaron Mandel and Stevi Raab]
In JP Morgan Chase v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, No. 603766/08, 2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 04702 (June 12, 2012), the First Department of New York’s Appellate Division recently held that, under Illinois law, an excess insurer is not obligated to provide coverage when an insured settles with an underlying insurer for less than the underlying insurer’s policy limits.
In 2002, JP Morgan Chase & Co., JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.'s (collectively, “JP Morgan”) predecessor and its affiliates (collectively, “Bank One”) were sued by numerous parties for their roles as indenture trustees of notes issued by NPF XII Inc. and NPF VI Inc. While those lawsuits were pending, Bank One merged with JP Morgan. Between 2006 and 2008, JP Morgan paid $718 million to settle six of the lawsuits. JP Morgan sought coverage for those settlements under a $175 million tower of claims-made professional liability policies consisting of a primary layer and seven excess layers (the “Bank One Tower”).
JP Morgan’s primary, first-layer excess insurer, and second-layer excess insurer apparently paid out their limits of liability. JP Morgan also settled with two of its excess insurers, third-layer excess insurer Zurich American Insurance Company (“Zurich”) and sixth-layer excess insurer Federal Insurance Company (“Federal”), for $17 million each. Notably, JP Morgan’s settlement with Zurich resolved JP Morgan’s claim under both Zurich’s $15 million share of the Bank One Tower, and an insurance policy issued by one of Zurich’s affiliate insurers, Steadfast Insurance Company (“Steadfast”) that provided $13.4 million in coverage. Similarly, JP Morgan’s settlement with Federal resolved JP Morgan’s claim under both Federal’s $10 million share of the Bank One Tower, and an insurance policy issued by Federal’s affiliate, Executive Risk Indemnity Inc. (“Executive Risk”).
JP Morgan sued its remaining excess insurers – i.e., fourth-layer excess insurer Twin City Fire Insurance Company (“Twin City”); fifth-layer excess insurers Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (“Lumbermens”), St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company (“St. Paul”), and Arch Insurance Company (“Arch”); and seventh-layer excess insurer Swiss Re International SE (“Swiss Re”) (collectively, the “Insurers”) – seeking coverage for the settlements. Twin City’s policy contained an attachment provision stating that coverage under its policy attached “only after the Primary and Underlying Excess Insurers shall have duty admitted liability and shall have paid the full amount of their respective liability.” The attachment provisions in Lumbermens’, St. Paul’s, Arch’s, and Swiss Re’s policies generally stated that coverage under those policies did not apply until the underlying insurers paid or were held liable to pay the full amount of their limits of liability. Based on these attachment provisions, the Insurers moved for and were granted summary judgment on the ground that JP Morgan’s settlements with Zurich/Steadfast and Federal/Executive Risk made it unable to determine whether either Zurich’s or Federal’s policy limits had been exhausted. JP Morgan appealed.
First, addressing the Twin City policy, the First Department concluded that the plain language of the policy’s attachment provision imposed two conditions precedent: (1) the underlying insurers must have admitted liability; and (2) the underlying insurers must have paid the full amount of their policies’ limits of liability. The First Department found that the first condition had not been met because Zurich did not admit liability in the settlement between JP Morgan and Zurich/Steadfast. The First Department also concluded that there was no way to determine if Zurich paid the full amount of its policy limits because the settlement between JP Morgan and Zurich/Steadfast did not allocate the settlement payment between Zurich and Steadfast.
Turning to the attachment provisions in the other Insurers’ policies, the First Department concluded, based on Great American Insurance Co. v. Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp., No. 06 C 4554, 2010 WL 2542191 (N.D. Ill. June 22, 2010) and Citigroup Inc. v. Federal Insurance Co., 649 F.3d 367 (5th Cir. 2011), that those provisions unambiguously required JP Morgan to collect the full limits of the underlying policies before their policies applied, and that that a “settlement for less than the underlying insurer's limits of liability does not exhaust the underlying policy.” Because it was unclear whether the settlement agreements between JP Morgan and Zurich/Steadfast and Federal/Executive Risk exhausted Zurich’s and Federal’s respective shares of the Bank One Tower, the First Department affirmed summary judgment in favor of the Insurers.
Lastly, the First Department rejected JP Morgan’s reliance on Zeig v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co., 23 F.2d 665 (2d Cir. 1928), in support of its argument that a settlement with a primary carrier for less than its limits of liability can nevertheless obtain coverage from its excess carriers for amounts greater than the primary carrier’s limits of liability. In Zeig, the Second Circuit determined that an attachment provision in an excess policy stating that its coverage only applied in excess over insurance “exhausted in the payment of claims to the full amount of expressed limits of such other insurance” was ambiguous because the term “payment” could mean “the satisfaction of a claim by compromise, or in other ways” in addition to “payment in cash.” Citing to the California Court of Appeal’s decision in Qualcomm, Inc. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, 161 Cal. App. 4th 184 (2008), the First Department wrote:
"we reject the notion that “when an insured settles with its primary insurer for an amount below the primary policy limits but absorbs the resulting gap between the settlement amount and the primary policy limit, primary coverage should be deemed exhausted and excess coverage triggered, obligating the excess insurer to provide coverage under its policy[.]”
The First Department’s decision is consistent with recent case law addressing the issue of whether an excess insurer must pay when the primary settles for less than policy limits in the wake of Qualcomm. One consequence of the First Department’s decision is that excess carriers with attachment provisions specifying that their coverage does not attach until underlying limits are exhausted now have a stronger argument (at least in jurisdictions that have adopted the Qualcomm court’s reasoning) that they are not required to pay until the underlying insurers pay the full limits of the underlying policies.

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Jessica Simpson was spotted arriving into LAX International Airport wearing a Current/Elliott Snap Jacket. I like her entire casual yet trendy outfit. I wonder once her line comes out if she will be wearing more of her own line to promote it? I don’t understand the point of having your own line and not even wearing it, seems so hypocritical to me… You can buy this jacket here.
The gathering together for the “Nashville Rising: A Benefit Concert for Flood Relief” event included Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and many others. Miley wore a different outfit for her songs on stage, but wore these J Brand jeans for the behind the stage events. Miley looks so short compared to Taylor here; she must not be wearing her usual 5-6″ heels.
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Promoting her latest album, Katy Perry stopped by the BBC in London, England. Katy looked causal in a fedora, an off the shoulder sweater, Rock & Republic heels and camouflage print leggings. Katy’s leggings are J Brand’s 901 legging in Brigade. I know the military trend is big this season but what do you think of camouflage print? Buy these leggings at J Brand. Please click this blog post to view more images.
Miley Cyrus arrives at Matsuda restaurant in Studio City, Los Angeles, California with her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. Miley is wearing a pair of American Eagle denim shorts with a clean white shirt. I like this look! It definitely suits her! She’s lucky to have such long legs! I also can’t get her Can’t Be Tamed song out of my head, it’s growing on me everyday!
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I posted a topic last night asking if Postbox for Mac could compose HTML email from AppleScript - it appears that it can’t.
Can Apple Mail (on 10.8.2) compose an HTML email using AppleScript? I know how to send a message, but if I put HTML in it, the markup just comes through as the content of the message body and the Content-Type is text/plain (needs to be text/html).
The Mail.app dictionary doesn’t show me anything to do with encoding, headers or message format so I’m hoping I’ve just missed something.
There are tons of ways I could do this, but the idea is to use the mail app that’s already installed without having to worry about whether or not telnet is installed/enabled, having to configure an SMTP server, etc.
In a perfect world I’d use Postbox but since that doesn’t seem to support HTML email from AppleScript, I’m trying Mail.app. If that doesn’t work, I could try telnet or another mail client (a small one that does support AppleScript HTML email, if I can find one).
You’re right, though - telnet would definitely work.
Well I was suggesting it because every out of the box mac is installed with telnet. The web is full of bash scripts using telnet for sending emails. Using those scripts and AppleScript you can send mails within a minute. Also the other thing is that the body of the mail can be composed by yourself instead of an fancy interface messing op your mail body like Apple Mail does. For instance Mail like to send an mail with attachment like images, which can give you problems with highly secured networks. With those scripts the body of the mail is only text and images will be downloaded when the mail is rendered on the client’s screen.
I ended up using PHP (which I know well) - it works perfectly and I don’t need AppleScript. That was my preference in the first place, although I had hoped Mail.app would accept AppleScript as an option for easily sending HTML email. That didn’t end up being the case, unless I’ve missed something obvious.


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Southern Nevada’s homes market isn’t the only real estate sector seeing falling loan delinquencies.
An improving economy means fewer commercial borrowers are in danger of default, too.
New numbers from Trepp, a New York-based commercial real estate and banking research firm, show a substantial drop recently in late commercial loans. The Las Vegas Valley in December had 53 properties with real estate loan payments that were more than 90 days late, for a 10.7 percent delinquency rate. That was down from 14.9 percent in December 2013.
It was also less than half of the rate in mid-2011, when 24 percent of local commercial properties were behind on their real estate loans, said Sean Barrie, a Trepp research analyst.
Nearly 150 local properties were delinquent in mid-2012.
Delinquencies are an important economic indicator because they reflect whether commercial landlords can make their payments. That’s driven in turn by economic expansion and business formation.
Delinquencies are falling as more borrowers and banks look for loan-workout strategies, Barrie said.
Those alternatives to default are available because the local market has stabilized, said Bob Ybarra, an analyst with commercial brokerage CBRE Las Vegas.
“You’re seeing a lot more absorption (leasing of space) in industrial, office and retail properties,” Ybarra said. “The overall fundamentals are better: You have a strong economy, businesses are rebounding, there’s more job creation, and there’s more wealth. We’re not breaking records, but some of these centers are starting to fill up with tenants again. And when they fill up, the landlords can service their debt.”
Written by Jennifer Robison
Read the full article at the Las Vegas Review Journal.Las Vegas Review Journal Article


Gerardo PérezLead Designer, Partner, Architect - Urban Planner OAQ, OUQ
Fascinated by the permanent metamorphosis of existing geometries, Gerardo Pérez composes and recomposes spaces that are fluid and harmonious. Benefitting from a double training in architecture and urban planning, he has been working as a designer in both fields for 25 years, in Mexico and Québec. He joined Provencher_Roy in 2016 and contributes actively to the firm’s success, in the development of numerous large-scale projects, such as the Place du Portage III complex transformation, Hélène Desmarais Building – HEC Montréal construction, and proposal conceptualization for many competitions.
A graduate of sustainable development and environmental design management at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla in Mexico and holder of a Master’s from Université Laval, with specializations in land-use planning and regional development, Gerardo Pérez has a multifaceted vision of urban planning parameters. He excels particularly in the rehabilitation of urban landscapes and the conceptualization and composition of new configurations. Above all, human comfort and well-being guide the aesthetic orientation and malleability of the projects he creates.
Gerardo’s versatility leads him to become involved in a wide variety of contexts, including the multi-residential sector (Symphonia Pop, Domaine du Cloître Phases I & II, Grace Dart site reconversion, Les Jardins Dorval, Imperia Condominiums, Ateliers Castelnau, Le 1750 Cedar); health care field (Montreal Heart Institute, Hôpital de Verdun); and transportation sector (Gates 1 & 3 expansion at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport, Vendôme metro entrance and tunnel linking to the MUHC, Passerelle Savane).


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This delicious 8-piece Valentine vegan truffle collection includes these flavors:
- Ultra Dark: Organic Haitian 73% bittersweet chocolate with a splash of cognac.
- Cherry Kirsch: Brazilian 55% dark chocolate, natural cherry puree and a splash of Kirsch.
- Raspberry Beet: Organic Italian 60% semisweet chocolate, natural raspberry puree and pre 100% beet powder.
- Mocha: French 70% dark chocolate with dark-roasted coffee.
- Strawberry Lemon: Organic Italian 70% dark chocolate with natural strawberry puree and a hint of pure lemon oil.
- Blueberry Malbec: 70% bittersweet chocolate from Sao Thomé (one of Africa’s “chocolate islands”), natural blueberry puree and a splash of Malbec wine.
- Coconut: Belgian 54% dark chocolate with natural coconut flavoring.
- Cashew Butter: Organic 73% Haitiian bittersweet chocolate with natura creamy cashew butter.


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Celebrating a win with the transfer of the old Point Arkwright Police reserve into the neighbouring Yinneburra conservation reserve is absolutely terrific, State MP Fiona Simpson said.
Ms Simpson who has championed the expansion of the conservation area on behalf of the community and the transfer of the old police reserve said: “We've achieved a very good outcome.
“This old police reserve on the corner of Dewar and David Low Way is beautifully vegetated and has never been touched. It was not suitable for a police station and since we've had the police located on to South Coolum Road next to the ambulance in the last 18 months, it strengthened my argument that this seaside block should permanently become a conservation area.”
Ms Simpson said it was great to work with community on the campaign to have the block permanently protected and to have a successful outcome.
“Until we got the new site for the police station though, the police department was reluctant to let this go even though it wasn't suitable however we've got that sorted now.”
The sloping block was gazetted for police purposes decades before most of the housing development in the area occurred, meaning it was now part of the remnant vegetation in the area.
“The South Coolum Road emergency precinct near the Motorway provides room for expansion of these services, eventually with the fire station being located there, with good access to the district.”


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Kathryn Starkey is proud to announce the endorsement of her campaign by the Fraternal Order of Police, Pasco County Sheriff’s Lodge 29.
William Lawless, President of FOP wrote recently: “…greater than 75% of our members attending voted to endorse you in the upcoming political race. Your previous record, background and platform made you the clear choice for political endorsement. You have always championed the fight to protect the citizens of Pasco County and promote the betterment of the community.”
Kathryn Starkey is extremely honored to receive the support of this great and honorable organization of law enforcement officers. “It means a great deal to me to have those who put their lives at risk every day to protect our citizens and way of life stand beside me in my race for State House District 45. I can’t thank them enough for what they do every day and for the support they have shown me.”


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Changing the hairstyle with color change seems to have become a hobby of the famous singer, Katy Perry. Because within a period of one month, the actor Orlando Bloom’s girlfriend could come with hair color look different. Originally a long black, then turned into a blonde, later changed to purple, turquoise, and even pink. Had tried many hair colors ranging from dark to bright flashy. Katy Perry seems to have not saturated to experiment with her hair.
Through a close-up portrait photograph uploaded to his personal Instagram account, it was revealed that now Katy Perry dye her hair platinum blonde color. Color called hair color is synonymous with Taylor Swift. Hair Stylist renowned, Chris Appleton mentioned as being behind the latest hair style singer of hits “Roar” is. Chris not only to dye your hair platinum blonde Katy Perry, but also redone with new pieces that deliver style shoulder-length bob cut with accents Tousled curls at the ends of hair.
Katy Perry’s decision to appear with a new hairstyle, it is mentioned as one of the preparations for the back hit the Grammy stage which will be held shortly. Well, we wait for the action of Katy Perry at the Grammy stage with her new hair.


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The pair were “talking about a future together”
“I felt like I had to say something”
Who will be hosting the upcoming season then?
The Women Told Us All!
Who does Matt James pick, what to expect when the ‘Women Tell All’ and an unexpected appearance- Everything happening this season!
The Black runway model had shaved her hair due to the discrimination she faced around it.
From Matt James’ history to his First rose pick, everything you need to know to start this season

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Sebastian Vettel wins third straight Formula One title
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finishes second just three points behind
Kimi Raikkonen claims third position
Red Bull clinch third constructors' title
Sebastian Vettel claimed a third successive Formula One crown after defeating Fernando Alonso by three points.
The Red Bull star claimed a sixth place finish in Brazil to become the youngest ever triple world champion in the history of the sport.
Alonso, who finished second at Interlagos behind McLaren’s Jenson Button, missed out on a third title of his own following his triumphs back in 2005 and 2006.
Kimi Raikkonen ended his first season back in Formula One by claiming third spot, while Lewis Hamilton will head off to Mercedes having finished fourth.
Meanwhile, Red Bull won the Constructors’ championship by 60 points from Ferrari.
2012 drivers’ final standings:
1. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull 281
2. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari 278
3. Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus 207
4. Lewis Hamilton - McLaren 190
5. Jenson Button - McLaren 188
6. Mark Webber - Red Bull 179
7. Felipe Massa - Ferrari 122
8. Romain Grosjean - Lotus 96
9. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes 93
10 Sergio Perez - Sauber 66
1. RedBull - Renault 460
2. Ferrari 400
3. McLaren - Mercedes 378
4. Lotus - Renault 303
5. Mercedes 142
6. Sauber - Ferrari 126


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The services it offers are many and range from branded card payments product platforms, which customers use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit, debit to prepaid payments as well as access cash (ATM).
The company is also involved in the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities. It is present in more than 200 countries.
Furthermore, Visa owns and operates VisaNet, a processing platform that enables to process transactions, services, primarily authorization, clearing and settlement and services such as Visa Debit Processing and Visa Processing.
The company is made up of a set of brands that include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS and Interlink.
Visa has one of the widest economic moats and is permanently investing to ensure that cardholders use its credit cards and merchants accept them. Apart from investing, it also has an army of banks on its side for such purposes.
In terms of revenues, they primarily come from fees paid by customers based on payment volume, processing of transactions and other related services.
Revenue can be classified into four segments:
Service revenues: Earned from customers for their participation in card programs carrying marks of the Visa brand.
Data Processing revenues: Come from authorization, clearing, settlement, transaction processing services and other maintenance and support services facilitating transaction and information processing among customers globally and Visa Europe
International Transaction revenues: Assessed to customers on transactions where the cardholder s issuer country is different from the merchant's country.
Other revenues: Consist primarily of optional service or product enhancements such as extended cardholder protection and concierge services, cardholder services and fees for licensing and certification.
This generally description of the company inevitably makes investors think about whether it is a pick and for such purpose, they need to analyze the reasons:
1. The electronic forms of payment such as card payment transactions have brought significant opportunities for the business’ growth;
2. The electronic processing systems are built with redundancy and have backup procedures to guarantee that operations do not drop in the event of interruption;
3. The acquisition of CyberSource has extended Visa’s exposure in eCommerce industry. This will boost growth and increase the client and merchant base across the world;
4. Visa is exploring new opportunities and is investing in new processing and service platforms to make payment methods more convenient and innovative;
5. Visa’s eCommerce strategy is highly complemented by the acquisition of PlaySpan and Fundamo along with other strategic alliances with Isis, Monitise, CashEdge and Fiserv.
6. Visa has a leading position in the card industry in terms of payments volume, total transactions and total number of cards in circulation. This definitely involves a double-digit-growth, particularly in the last two years.
7. Visa enjoys a strong cash and available-for-sale investment position together with a free cash flow reserve that generate a risk-free balance sheet.
These are just some of Visa’s advantages. There are much more. There is no doubt that there are some risks that challenge Visa too and are worth pointing out.
Unfortunately Visa is allegedly facing several lawsuits on anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices. Although it is hard to estimate their costs, the amount may involve billions of dollars.
Another risk that Visa faces is regulation, which can hinder its business model. Should government interfere in the company’s operations, the downside can be severe.
Least but not last, competition is pressuring because it is trying to get a share of the market and Visa cannot neglect this fact.
Setting aside the advantages and disadvantages of the company, it is worth turning to the actual figures.
To start with, transactions from CyberSource have escalated by 36% in fiscal year 2011 vis-à-vis the 32% increase in 2010.
Despite the challenging regulatory environment today, debit cards, Visa’s prime business, has had an 8% growth in 2009 that then moved to 18% in 2010.
Moreover, the company increased its quarterly dividend by 19%, 20% and 47% in fiscal years ended 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively.
What really provides a solid view of the company is that it has a $3 billion five-year revolving credit facility but no borrowings; a $3.9 billion operating cash flow and no long-term debt.
Earnings grew 29%, outperforming the 20% outlook.
Every investor knows that good results have to go hand in hand with good managing strategies. But is this the case with Visa?
The management team began to be assembled during the reorganization process of Visa’s predecessor entities and regional associations, which derived in only one entity listed in the stock exchange.
Although some of the senior managers have never worked for the card industry and do not have wide experience running companies like Visa, it seems that they are working hard to learn. Indeed, they are trying to show shareholders that they can work together, face Visa's challenges and deliver good results. The last quarter performance shows that they are doing well.
Top managers are strangers to one another but there is some good news. Joseph Saunders, the CEO, is a card industry veteran who has worked for Providian and Washington Mutual's credit card segment until he started running Visa.
There is no doubt that management will consolidate with the passing of time. Visa is a very solid company and the growth in revenues will certainly help.
Visa is a company that largely benefits from a rise in demand, meaningful international exposure, and high barriers to entry and pricing power.
Visa shares currently trade at 16.0x. On a price-to-book basis, they trade at 3.0x, a 52% discount to the 6.2x industry average.
ROE is of 13.6%, dramatically below the industry average of 57.7%. The annual common share annual dividend is $0.88, which is considered secure and implies a total return of nearly 5.3%
Jim Van Meerten, an adviser to Marketocracy Capital Management gives his opinion: “I think now is a great time to enter Visa into your portfolio. Volumes are bound to increase as consumers spend less cash and swipe more plastic. In the long run, although consumers will be vocal about fees in the end they will just keep swiping away."


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Over the past two decades since gaining independence, Uzbekistan has come under heavy scrutiny by human rights organizations, which have long reported systematic violations of human rights, such as arbitrary detentions and imprisonment, and suppression of religious activity in the country.
Elections to the lower house of Parliament in December were billed as ‘new Uzbekistan, new elections’ in line with the reform agenda of President Mirzioiev. However, OSCE election monitors expressed concern that no independent political opposition parties had been allowed to register. All five parties filing candidates were loyal to President Mirzioiev, but in contrast to previous elections, candidates faced probing and critical questions from media and the public during campaign meetings. Significantly, the elections ushered in a younger generation of parliamentarians, with a majority of representatives under 50 years of age, and for the first time 30 percent of representatives elected were women.
Unlike in previous years, international media organizations such as Voice of America, BBC and others were able to operate inside Uzbekistan and work with local journalists.
Nevertheless, the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association continued to be tightly regulated and civil society activists faced reprisals for their peaceful activities.
Human rights defenders and independent journalists, including those released from prison since 2017, and their families, continued to be under close surveillance and faced intimidation, threats and arbitrary detention by police and the State Security Service (SGB).
In September, SGB officers tried to stop independent journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev and activist Agzam Turgunov from meeting with the visiting UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of the judiciary.
The authorities continued to refuse to register the independent NGO Restoration of Justice set up by former prisoners and human rights defenders, Agzam Turgunov, Dilmurod Saidov and Azam Farmonov, on minor technicalities.
Nafosat Olloshkurova, a blogger and human rights activist, was beaten and detained by police in Khorezm on 23 September during a peaceful protest march she was covering for her Facebook blog. She was sentenced to 10 days’ administrative detention, but was then transferred against her will to a psychiatric hospital in Urgench on 26 September. A court later sanctioned her forcible psychiatric treatment for two months. She had only sporadic access to her lawyer and members of her family, and was not allowed to meet with them in private. An appeal court extended her forcible treatment on 28 November. Following an international outcry, she was released on 28 December after a medical commission found no grounds to continue her forced hospitalisation
The authorities refused to decriminalize consensual sexual relations between men and repeal Article 120 of the Criminal Code, arguing that non-heterosexual relations contradicted national cultural “traditions” and “moral norms”.
LGBTI people faced systematic discrimination and violence by police and SGB as well as non-state actors. Police regularly detained homosexual or bisexual men and transgender people, threatened them with imprisonment under Article 120, intimidated, physically or sexually abused them and used blackmail to extort money from them or coerce them into collaboration. Lesbians and bisexual women were also targeted. Non-state actors subjected LGBTI people to physical and sexual abuse, in some cases recording the assault and disseminating it via social media.
Groups defending the human rights of LGBTI people were unable to operate safely and the authorities suppressed any attempts to draw attention to their plight.
In its Concluding Observations following the review of Uzbekistan’s fifth periodic report in November, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) expressed grave concern “at reports that torture and ill-treatment continue[d] to be routinely committed by, at the instigation of, and with the consent of the State party’s law enforcement, investigative, and prison officials”. Lawyers, human rights defenders and relatives also reported that police, SGB, prison guards and prisoners continued to use torture and other ill-treatment to obtain confessions or punish suspects and detainees.
On 26 June, the Tashkent City Criminal Court found former Prosecutor General Rashitjon Kadirov and his 12 co-defendants guilty of abuse of office and financial crimes, and sentenced Rashitjon Kadirov to 10 years in prison. The Court dismissed allegations that confessions had been extracted under torture despite these claims being supported by credible evidence. Sources close to Rashitjon Kadirov reported that he had been subjected to physical abuse, mock executions, sleep deprivation and other ill-treatment to coerce him to give evidence against himself and others.
At the CAT review the authorities insisted that the Ombudsman’s office had not received any complaints of sexual violence in custody, and denied that it was regularly used against detainees and prisoners.
Human rights defenders, lawyers and LGBTI activists confirmed that police, SGB, prison guards and fellow inmates regularly used sexual violence and abuse to punish prisoners and force them to incriminate others. Torture methods included officers raping men with bottles and truncheons, attaching heavy water bottles to their genitals, or wrapping newspaper around their genitals and setting it on fire. Homosexual and bisexual prisoners and those subjected to rape or suspected of being gay had the lowest status in the informal prisoner hierarchy and were regularly used us ‘slaves’ by other inmates and guards, forced to clean dirty toilets with their bare hands, for example.
Authorities denied that former prisoners such as journalists, political opposition activists and former government officials, including prisoners of conscience, were tortured to force them to confess and to punish dissent. In a written response to CAT in September, the government stated that investigations had found no evidence of torture or other ill-treatment in the cases of Muhammad Bekzhanov, Erkin Musaev, Azam Farmonov, Bobomurod Abdullaev and at least 10 other former prisoners released since 2017. At the CAT review in November, the authorities refused to give details of any investigations conducted and insisted that there was no compelling case for redress. In its Concluding Observations, CAT regretted that the authorities had determined that all claims raised were “unsubstantiated”.
On 23 September, the Supreme Court refused to rehabilitate former prisoner of conscience, Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, who was released in 2017, and rejected his appeal against his 10-year prison sentence. Earlier in March, the UN Human Rights Committee found that the independent journalist and human rights defender had been arbitrarily detained and ordered the authorities to provide him with an effective remedy and pay him compensation.
The authorities failed to set up any effective independent complaints mechanism despite repeated promises. The government told CAT that only in a handful of complaints of torture submitted to the Ombudsman’s Office did prosecutors find evidence of wrong-doing.
All other complaints were “unsubstantiated”. The Ombudsman continued to direct all complaints to prosecutors or police, despite having been given powers to investigate in March.
How long will you torture my people?
How long will you kill and rob us?
The anger of the people will sweep you from the face of my sunny country!

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Rory O'Connor opened up about a 'dark time' in his life when he struggled with his mental health during Hell Week on Wednesday.
The comedian, better known as Rory's Stories, received high praise from viewers as he detailed the hard chapter in his life.
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On the show Rory found it difficult climbing the ladder up onto a ship when he pulled his hamstring.
The Meath man was disappointed he wasn't able to finish the challenge, breaking down in tears.
Following on from the task, Rory spoke about another challenge in his life -- his mental health.
The comic told of a time he felt 'useless' and had nothing to live for.
But Rory told how he just needed help and finally got it when it came to his mental health.
He explained he wanted to do Hell Week to come 'toe-to-toe with his demons'.
Taking to Twitter, many shared their praise for Rory for opening up.
Irish International Hockey Player Nicci Daly tweeted: 'Wow! HUGE respect for Rory's Stories. Showing so much strength and bravery to overcome his demons!'
— Nicci Daly OLY (@NicciDaly22) September 15, 2021
Oh my god Rory stories is an absolute hero!! Fair play this man #HellWeek
— Dawn Ní Raghallaigh 🇵🇸 (@Dawnoreilly_) September 15, 2021
— Chloe The Z.P (@DunmanwaysZP) September 15, 2021
'Rory's Stories is incredible, the things he's overcome and just keeps pushing through, such a brave man,' another viewer wrote.
A third said: 'Well done Rory! You did so well and your charity will be proud of your mental breakthrough as well as your physical perseverance! Legend!'
Rory has long been an advocate for mental health awareness and detailed his experience in book Rory's Story: My Unexpected Journey To Self-Belief.


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Our walks are now something I look forward to each day. It is not just my physical self that is getting stronger, but our relationship as well. We have laughed more, shared more conversation with each other than we have in years.
Our habits and routines had separated us from our friendship.
We both had become used to spending time with coworkers and friends rather than each other. Saturday morning breakfasts with friends and going to church together were our together time prior to our walking. Even those times were not 'couple time' but time together with others. These walks have been our time and I love it.
Ron said he has lost 3 pounds and I have lost 5. That is not monumental but it is also not the point. We are loving each other and cherishing our time together. What a beautiful way to walk into our next phase of life, hand in hand, side by side.


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Now in its second year, the built environment showcase has more than 120 speakers lined up
Vision London is the event where architects, specifiers, clients and suppliers come together to discuss, debate and showcase the latest developments in architecture, design and the built environment.
Launched in 2015, Vision will this year be held at Olympia London on 7th-8th June.
The event focuses on new and innovative building products and materials, providing ideas for inventive ways to achieve better design solutions and comply with ever changing legislation.
Through a series of seminars and case studies, alongside a carefully curated exhibition of cutting edge products and solutions, Vision is the meeting place for professionals connected to the built environment.
In Vision’s second year, over 100 organisations will be exhibiting. The event also boasts an extensive CPD accredited seminar programme where over 120 influential industry figures will speak on a range of topics under the themes of Future Materials & Systems, Technology Talks, Innovation in Architecture & Design, Building Health & Wellness, Smart Buildings, Building Modelling Information (BIM) and Offsite Construction.
To accommodate busy architects who would like to visit the event in the early evening, opening hours on 7th June will be from 10am until 9pm. This will include the popular drinks reception and PechaKucha sessions organised by the NLA.

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China likes to pretend they’re good stewards of the climate and they will get right on protecting the planet — in 2030, at the earliest. In the meanwhile, they are building coal plants every week.
They are very dishonest.
China alone contributed over 27% of total global emissions, far exceeding the US—the second highest emitter—which contributed 11% of the global total (Figure 1). For the first time, India edged out the EU-27 for third place, coming in at 6.6% of global emissions.
That’s okay because we like communist genocidal maniacs under Biden.
China’s our friend. They can build coal plants and we will give them and everyone all our money.
In 2019, China’s emissions not only eclipsed that of the US—the world’s second-largest emitter at 11% of the global total—but also, for the first time, surpassed the emissions of all developed countries combined (Figure 2). When added together, GHG emissions from all members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as all 27 EU member states, reached 14,057 MMt CO2e in 2019, about 36 MMt CO2e short of China’s total.
They always say, well, China is larger, has a lot more people.
That’s all true but they live an indigent life and it’s just not comparable.
So the whole story is on this link but it won’t change the fact that the Chinese communists are fraudsters, but Biden likes them. His son still has a 10% stake in a CCP company.
So, what is China Joe going to do about that predicament. I suppose that he will have us reduce our 27% more to accommodate his masters.
China needs Energy in order to take over the world and they are building Coal Fired power plants like there is no tomorrow.
Commies just love the enviroment. (not really)
Treaties? Great for kindling or bird cage lining.

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By Daniel Kolitz
It’ll be a fine day for Poland Spring, when Mars is finally colonized: bottled’s the only option, when you’re living on a planet whose last substantial traces of flowing liquid water disappeared a few billion years ago. That ancient water has occasioned much study and debate, and provided the name for at least one French-Candian psych rock band. The fact that it existed, at one point, is a large part of why dreams of annexing Mars have flourished. But where did it go, exactly? By what majestic geological processes do massive bodies of space-liquid just disappear? For this week’s Giz Asks, we talked to a number of Mars experts to find out.
Professor, Geoscience, Virginia Tech, who studies the formation and evolution of planets
There are a number of lines of evidence that at some time in the past there was more water on the surface of Mars compared with the cold desert conditions we observe today. Where this water went is one of the great puzzles in our solar system.
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On the Politics of Life: Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem on Life and Norms
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How can a philosophical exploration of the concept of life that emerged with modern medicine and biology change our views on ethics and politics? This thesis analyses the works of Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault in order to understand how modern politics has become a politics of life, but also to reflect on the ways in which we could organise our lives differently and create other norms of life. Through a renewed notion of normativity, my thesis seeks both to provide a new interpretation of Foucault's work, and to reflect on life's creative potential.


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University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Trends Plant Sci 6:121-6. 2001..Future work must address acquisition of organic nitrogen from the soil solution, the role of mycorrhizae, and internal transformations within the plant...
- Bromus tectorum invasion alters nitrogen dynamics in an undisturbed arid grassland ecosystemL J Sperry
Department of Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
Ecology 87:603-15. 2006..Lack of new inputs combined with continued loss will result in lower total soil N, evidenced by the lower total soil N in the invaded/disturbed communities...
- Responses of soil nitrogen dynamics in a Mojave Desert ecosystem to manipulations in soil carbon and nitrogen availabilityS M Schaeffer
601 Science and Engineering Building, University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701, USA
Oecologia 134:547-53. 2003..These findings have implications for ecosystems undergoing changes in soil C and N availability due to such processes as desertification, exotic species invasions, or elevated atmospheric CO(2) concentration...
- Pulse additions of soil carbon and nitrogen affect soil nitrogen dynamics in an arid Colorado Plateau shrublandSean M Schaeffer
University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
Oecologia 145:425-33. 2005....