Femi One went on Instagram to celebrate her first 5M mark after her song “Utawezana” went viral worldwide – Femi “Uno” said she wanted to release another fire banger after the success she saw on the viral song – Her fans reminded her of how Azziad Nasenya’s viral video had a huge role to play on her song’s – They asked Femi one to pay Azziad but the singer said her song was popular before the pretty dancer swooped in with her dance moves. Femi One denied claims Azziad deserved to be paid for putting the banger on the map and making it go viral days after its release.
Fans on social media rallied support behind the pretty dancer who made the song go to greater heights.
While others argued if Mejja and Femi One never released the song, Azziad would still be an irrelevant figure on social media.
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To clarify: I was not born here. My first time in California in my adult life was a few years ago and I’ve only been living here for a year. So obviously, I’m not biased towards Silicon Valley.
However, since I moved here, it became widely apparent to me that Silicon Valley (and that includes San Francisco and the peninsula) really is the center of the world in our day and age.
Look at what you do on a daily basis – every single action you take has been impacted by Silicon Valley. Even the design of the milk carton you’ve used for your cereal this morning – was probably created in one of Adobe’s on Apple’s tools.
It annoys the hell out of people when Silicon Valley-ians say this. Some people go blatantly against it – like Herb Kim. He was interviewed by Gigaom stating that Silicon Valley isn’t the center of the tech world – however the organization he ran no longer exists.
Brad Feld, who is far more known in the tech community, makes a similar argument. In his case he refers to system dynamics as a reason for why it doesn’t make sense to have all of the tech innovation happening in one place. I argue that system dynamics is the exact reason why tech companies should concentrate in a small space.
Something people forget often is that tech companies have two types of customers that are NOT buying their products:
- Employees – if you think you are not selling your company to prospective employees you are mistaken. Highly talented individuals need to buy into the company’s vision, culture, future. Salary isn’t the only thing that brings them on board. Interestingly, the some tactics one uses to market their product they will find themselves using to market their company to the talent pool.
- Investors – I don’t think I need to elaborate here.
So – if you have three sets of customers – users, employees and investors – how do you decide where to place yourself? I found it to be very easy:
In the tech world, your users are all over the globe. There is no single location you can place your company that would be close to your users.
However, the talent and investors are concentrated in Silicon Valley. So it makes the most sense to place yourself close to these two types of customers.
Now, this results in an saturation, but that saturation actually makes a ton of sense. It’s the same reason ice cream stands find themselves standing next to one another. We want to get to the most customers we can, and so do others, so we compete for them neck-to-neck. There’s no other alternative.
So, with all due respect to Silicon Alley, Silicon Wady, Silicon Beach, Silicon Flatirons and Silicon Roundabout – it is Silicon Valley where all the tech companies should be located. It is the center of the tech world.
And since tech is the most powerful force changing the way we live then the logical conclusion is that the center of the world is Silicon Valley.
Just accept it, relocate here, and drive up the real estate prices. We haven’t reached the $100/sqft mark yet.


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News about Woolly Mammoth, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Selected Articles About Woolly Mammoth
A new report suggests that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated from DNA extracted from clumps of the animal’s hair.November 20, 2008 scienceNews
ARTICLES ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Both the F.B.I. and Homeland Security were in attendance at talks at M.I.T. about the engineering of organisms and its ability to help and harm.
May 9, 2014, Friday
A bill to underline an official state fossil ran into some trouble.
April 4, 2014, Friday
The superfluous bone, seen in fossil samples, was a sign of inbreeding and harsh conditions during pregnancy.
April 1, 2014, Tuesday
A team of researchers has found something new, with potential implications for evolutionary theory and health, in permafrost more than 30,000 years old.
March 4, 2014, Tuesday
Nathaniel Rich argues that the natural world, as we know it, is already a distant knock-off of what existed before we got here.
March 3, 2014, Monday
Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening — and it’s going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad.
March 2, 2014, Sunday
A change in diet may have led to the demise of the woolly mammoth, a new study suggests.
February 11, 2014, Tuesday
Recent developments in health and science news. This week: reviving plants from the Little Ice Age, a crowdfunded space telescope and photographs of molecular change.
June 4, 2013, Tuesday
It could be years before scientists succeed in bringing species back from extinction, but they are thinking of ways to give new life to creatures like woolly mammoths and weird frogs.
March 19, 2013, Tuesday
It pays to plan ahead if you drive the Alaska Highway, where you will see snow-covered mountains, tundra and eagles, and even the occasional bison grazing along the side of the road.


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The Talented and beautiful, Michelle Zink, just happens to have a talented and very handsome son, Kenneth Zink:) Who is scoring the music for the book, "Prophecy of the Sisters". YOU MUST go listen to his compositions. They are eerie, haunting and just absolutely brilliant! So far he has three original compositions up and they are just amazing. And just so you know, HE IS playing the piano in all three pieces! You can find him here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=462272678 Please leave a comment for him telling him how much you love the music. EDITED: I'M CHECKING EVERY SO OFTEN TO SEE IF ANY OF MY PEEPS HAVE GONE OVER TO SHARE THE LOVE WITH KENNETH. IF YOU LEAVE A MESSAGE, A LUCKY PERSON JUST MAY WIN A COPY OF PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS!!! (NOT THE SWAG BAG, JUST THE BOOK) Laura
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The metal fabrication industry is not a new industry to many people, at least one or two people out there know a thing or two about this industry. It is one of the biggest industries in the world in so many ways. Were it not because of this industry then the world would not have been the way it is now. Anything that is made of metal has actually passed through this industry. This is why the industry is so essential because of the many uses of metallic materials that come from the same industry. The complexity of this industry is what is mind-blowing.
Given the kind of metallic materials that come out of this industry, the industry can also be deemed one of the diverse industries in the world as well. Looking at this industry you might wonder what kind of products does the metal fabrication industry produces. Well, this industry produces so many metals used in so many places for various purposes. For instance, the steel that you see being used in many places is actually the product of this industry. Any kind of steel is it structural comes from this industry.
This is why this industry is one of the complex industries you can ever find around. Some of the products that come out of this industry require some high-level expertise to produce the required product. Make no mistake the process of metal fabrication is not one process that gives so much room for mistakes. If you are aiming to get into this business then you need to know that accuracy is very key for success. If you are not accurate enough then you will never be successful in the same industry as you may think or hope. There are so many things that make this a reality which is also something that we need to look at.
The first thing is the expanded client and customer expectations. The main clients of the metal fabrication industry expect the very best of the products from this industry. If you don’t get them these products then you will definitely lose them to those people who can produce the very best of these same products. To make sure such a thing does not happen you need to go all your way out and make sure that you try to produce the best products when you are required to. Other than that, you also need to make sure you produce the same products on time to make sure that you do not delay anyone who comes looking for these products.
As you may have noticed, it takes more than just ordinary industrial practices to yield to such expectations. For you to carry out the metal fabrication procedures and come out successfully you need to have so many things with you. The first thing you need to have are the best machines for this process. The process of metal fabrication is all about machines and without them you will never be able to move the way you wish. Machines determine your production speed as well as accuracy.
For these reasons, it is only right that you look for the very best of them if you need to make any serious progress in this business. For the machines, the only place where you can get the best machines that will streamline the metal fabrication process for you is Contract Manufacturing Specialists of Michigan. The company has all the machines required to carry out the process of metal fabrication in the best way that will see the delivery of the best results. Once you visit them you will get the very best of the machines that you need for the process of metal fabrication.
Manpower is also very crucial for this process. Even with the right machines and without the right people who can help you to carry out this process you can never come out successfully as you may think. Anyone thinking of making any serious progress in this business then must address these two issues with the right amount of seriousness. As we said at the beginning the process of metal fabrication is one of the most diverse processes you can ever find anywhere. The process comes with so many procedures like milling, which is also one common and complex processes in metal fabrication.
This is a machining process that involves the use of a rotary cutter to remove material through advancing a cutter into the workpiece. The process might be carried out in varying directions on several axes. This is one of the metal fabrication procedures that require much accuracy.
A simple mistake makes the process might be messed up completely warranting a repeat process once again. There are so many ways of carrying out this process. For instance, a long time ago before the invention of these complex machines, this process was carried out using manual machines.
However, as technology advanced that changed and we now have the use of technology and modern machines in carrying out this process. However, the new technology does not mean that the old way of carrying out this process is completely obsolete, there are people who still use the same methods.
You must have heard about CNC machining and some of its features like speed and accuracy among many others. That is exactly what the CNC machining is all about, due to these benefits many people in the metal fabrication industries are adopting the use of these machines.
The process of milling as we have said is one of the processes that require so much accuracy. Other than the accuracy this is also another process that has to be carried out fast to match the demand deadlines of the clients who need the products that come out of this process.
Considering all these factors it is proper to carry out this process using CNC machines. These machines can guarantee you nothing but accuracy as well as the speed that is so integral in the manufacturing industry as far as success is concerned.
You need to turn to CNC milling for accuracy
The process of milling as we have said is one of those processes that rely so much on accuracy. If you mess up this process in any way at any given time then you will definitely compromise the aspect of accuracy. However, the old machines used for this process can guarantee you the accuracy you so much need.
This is why you need to turn to the use of CNC machines which come with a high level of accuracy. All you need to do is to visit Contract Manufacturing Specialists of Michigan to get these machines. Once you have the machines you need to look for the right people who will help you to operate the same machines.
Less manpower needed
If you are looking for a way of reducing the manpower in your metal fabrication business you need to turn to the use of CNC Milling. With this approach, you will only need a few people who will help you to operate the machines. However, when it comes to operators you need to look for someone who is well capable and experienced at the same time.
So much speed
If you are in any metal fabrication business then you need to always the aspect of speed. In whatever you need to make sure operations are fast enough to enable you to deliver your orders on time. There are so many ways you can use to do this and one of them is by using CNC machines.
These machines are known to work with a higher speed to the manual ways of carrying out this process. If you have a project that you need to carry out within the shortest period of time then you need to turn to the use of these machines. The process of Milling is one process that requires so much accuracy to be successful. It is exactly because of this reason that you need to turn to the approach CNC Milling which is one of the best ways that you can use to carry out this process.
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Of these three elements is only the latest for us spatially and temporally. The other two lead one of our independent existence. From a small niche with oven are multifunctional spaces emerged: bedrooms, work spaces, galleries, built from mud bricks, painted with self-produced casein colors and protected under a roof of grass. In conjunction with solar collectors and biorafinery Parada now belongs to the local landscape as streams, trees and meadows. But this is not everything. Parada, a gentle, sensitive dialogue with its surroundings. To the surrounding ruins and along the streams to increase its area. These ruins are important element of artistic and educational work in Parada. It is a new component of the emerging intellectual and artistic space - the home Parada.
It is an aesthetic and educational offer for Polish, Czech and German schools in the border area. The long-term, we are probably with a new phenomenon to be done by cultural anthropologists as "The civilization of Parada". (Caution joke!)


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September Suicide Prevention Month 2021: 9/1 – 9/30
Suicide Prevention Month is the best time of year to empower the community to prevent suicide! For 2021, San Mateo County, Star Vista, the Pride Center, and partners are promoting the theme of “Supportive Transitions: Reconnect, Reenter, Rebuild.”
Events will be held all month long from 9/1 through 9/30. For a full list of events, registration links, and event specific contact information, visit smchealth.org/suicide-prevention-month.
Transitions, in any shape or size, can impact our mental health, and major life changes have long been understood to be environmental risk factors for suicide. Positive coping skills, resilience, and connectedness to family, friends, and our community can act as protective factors to help us navigate transitions.
While the pandemic has changed our fabric of life, it has also strengthened our resilience and resolve. As we re-enter life -whether it is going back to school, reconnecting with friends, rediscovering favorite places, or reimagining our future, transitions are easier when we navigate them together. All of us can play a role in suicide prevention. Together we can reconnect, reenter and rebuild for the future.

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The burlesque production company Syrens of the South is extremely excited to debut their late night show, full of punch, variety and a healthy helping of tease, which promises to be a frothy, fun and an eye opening experience! They will be debuting their debauchery and fun-filled frolics on the Actor’s Express Late Night Show on May 30, in a show described by Debbie Michaud of Creative Loafing as “the show (that) goes from boisterous to sultry to bawdy and does it all with a wink and a smile.”
Also touted as “Very well put together” by Sharon Osborn, this production is sure to titillate and fascinate even the most discerning Danny, because there’s a little bit of something for every palate.
The two creators of the whole kit-and-Kaboodle are Katherine Lashe and Talloolah Love. August marks the Devilish Duo’s two year anniversary, and each show since has been a raving success. Playing to sold out rooms all over the south east, New York, LA and Boston, just to name a few, the Syrens know how to put together an amazing lineup of the finest burlesque, vaudeville, song, dance, juggling, and sideshow acts anyone can ask for. So don’t miss out on the show that everyone is going to be talking about!

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Things I would have changed:Sound......it's super loud.
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Oktubre is the second studio album by Argentine rock band Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, released in 1986. It is the band's last album to feature to Piojo Ávalos, Tito D'Aviero and Willy Crook as band members, who left the band after the tour between late 1986 and early 1987. Oktubre is ranked at #4 in the Argentine version of Rolling Stone's "Los 100 Mejores Discos del Rock Nacional" (The 100 Greatest Records in Argentine Rock).
The album cover and his concept are inspired by the Russian Revolution from the early Twentieth Century. Also, the sound incorporating elements of post-punk influence in the new wave of the 1980s, imposed by groups as The Cure, Joy Division, The Police and others. The band garnered some airplay with "Jijiji" and "Ya nadie va a escuchar tu remera", as a result, Patricio Rey pursued a more melodic, radio friendly direction on their future albums.
Oktubre was officially presented on 18 and 25 October at Paladium in front of 1200 fans. For these concerts, the keyboardist Andrés Teocharidis participated in both shows. Some CD bootlegs from these shows were released with Teocharidis, his only contribution to the band, because he died in a car accident in early 1987.


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Our 11-acre site includes the Royal Festival Hall, the Hayward Gallery, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and our open-air spaces.
In this complex of iconic venues, overlooking the Thames, we put on thousands of events every year.
The history of our site stretches back to 1951, when the Royal Festival Hall was built as part of the Festival of Britain. This national exhibition and fair was intended as ‘a tonic for the nation’ after the horrors of World War Two.
Now, we host essential concerts, exhibitions, gigs, performances and events in London’s most vibrant cultural quarter.


Although the United States Federal Reserve continues to evaluate the possibility of creating a digital currency, it says that it has yet to make a decision.
Powell spoke at a news conference Wednesday to say that the Federal Reserve is studying the merits and plans to issue a paper about the subject.
Powell said, while answering questions at the news conference: “We are working proactively to issue a CBDC, and if so in what form,” adding:
“We believe it is our responsibility to do the necessary work on both public policy and technology in order to make an informed decision. When evaluating a central bank’s digital currency or other digital innovations, the ultimate test is whether there are clear and tangible benefits that exceed any risks and costs.
Powell stated that the Fed wasn’t in hurry to follow the trend despite several central banks having their own CBDCs.
The Fed Chair stated that speed is not the goal, but getting things done right. He also said that the U.S. wasn’t behind in CBDC innovation.
CBDCs are now prominent in the anti-crypto narrative that global banking regulators and policymakers have embraced.
Cointelegraph reported that HSBC recently endorsed CBDCs against cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins.
Related: Fed Governor says CBDCs are still a’solution in search of a problem.
Crypto critics in Washington, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, have called for CBDCs to be “legitimate digital money” as opposed to crypto, which the Senator is known to denounce.
James Mackintosh, Wall Street Journal columnist, argued earlier in September that CBDCs could lead to “deeply negative interest rate.”
Chris Waller, Fed Governor, has previously opposed CBDCs’ value proposition calling them “a solution to a problem”.


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Indiana High School Basketball - Guerin Catholic holds off Greenfield-CentralNovember 24, 2020: Greenfield, IN 46140
Fans at Tuesday's non-league challenge between the Guerin Catholic Golden Eagles (Noblesville, IN) and the host Greenfield-Central Cougars (Greenfield, IN), saw Guerin Catholic's basketball squad hold off Greenfield-Central by a tally of 64-58.
With the victory, Guerin Catholic improves its record to 1-0 on the campaign. The Golden Eagles host Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter (Indianapolis, IN) to confront the Raiders in a non-league challenge on Saturday, November 28. The Raiders come into the challenge with a record of 0-1. Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter lost 94-63 in their recent non-league challenge against Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory (Indianapolis, IN)
Next up, the Cougars confront the Hagerstown Tigers (Hagerstown, IN) in a non-league challenge, on Friday, December 4. Greenfield-Central will attempt to improve on its 0-1 season record. The Tigers come into the challenge with a 0-1 record after their 52-35 non-league loss to Frankton (Frankton, IN).

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From the first introduction of tobacco into European societies in the sixteenth century, physicians made public assertions about the effects of tobacco use. Some condemned it on moral and social grounds as a support to idleness and wasting money; others condemned using tobacco on general hygienic grounds. By the early nineteenth century, physicians were reporting cases in which very young children died from tobacco emulsions administered as a medical treatment. Some physicians claimed that tobacco use caused or at least exacerbated specific diseases, particularly respiratory afflictions and dental conditions.
At the same time, for centuries physicians tended to use tobacco themselves in the same ways and in the same proportions as the rest of the adult population—a fact that undercut their authority when they advised patients or the public not to smoke or chew.
Hygienic enthusiasts, including the famous Seventh-Day Adventist physician John Harvey Kellogg, gained ground in the opening years of the twentieth century. On the basis of physiological tests (conducted mostly on college students), they could show that smoking affected heart and lung and possibly nervous system performance on a temporary basis. In addition, as disease entities became more exact in medical thinking, physicians used clinical impressions to assert that specific circulatory and eye disorders as well as oral lesions could be blamed on smoking. However, because hygienists' injunctions against tobacco use tended to appear in a moralistic framework, most physicians did not take them seriously.
By the 1930s, a small international circle of physician antitobacco enthusiasts, including Angel H. Roffo of Buenos Aires, were in communication with each other. Some of them, such as Fritz Lickint and Franz H. Müller, gained enough influence in Nazi Germany to affect public policy significantly. But elsewhere in the world physicians tended to endorse recreational smoking—for example as a comfort to soldiers, especially wounded soldiers, during both world wars.
The final phase of physician involvement with tobacco came in the 1950s, when epidemiological studies revealed a statistical association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. In 1954, a British study of doctors, led by Richard Doll and A. Bradford Hill, showed that smokers had dramatically higher rates of lung cancer deaths than did nonsmoking physicians. A decade before the general public showed much reaction, physicians in substantial numbers started to cut back on cigarettes and, ultimately, tobacco use. Evidence about tobacco's harmful effects was gained through novel statistical research methods, rather than traditional laboratory animal studies. Despite the validity of these research methods, many doctors did not accept the connection between smoking and lung cancer.
The Royal College of Physicians in 1962 and the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Surgeon General in 1964 produced reports connecting tobacco use with specific diseases. Despite the appearance of these reports, some parts of the medical profession in many countries resisted those conclusions; others were afraid of alienating their patients by confronting smokers with the possible consequences of their actions. In the United States, leaders of organized medicine for decades traded their silence for political support from important politicians from tobacco areas who voted against health proposals. Rather, official medical condemnation of smoking came from specialist groups. From the mid-twentieth century on, the majority of physicians everywhere gradually converted to a more or less active antitobacco stance.
See Also Lung Cancer; Medical Evidence (Cause and Effect).
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Burnham, John C. "American Physicians and Tobacco Use: Two Surgeons General, 1929 and 1964." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63 (1989): 1–31.
Proctor, Robert N. "The Nazi War on Tobacco: Ideology, Evidence, and Possible Cancer Consequences." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71 (1997): 435–488.
Stewart, Grace G. "A History of the Medical Use of Tobacco, 1492–1860." Medical History 11 (1967): 228–268.
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Montro or Dominican slang for “Monster” a man with great abilities, very capable. A great cheap, quick, and easy Halloween costume or wear it anytime you want to let people know that you’re a beast or a savage.
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Hazardous Building Materials Webinar
Hazardous constituents may be present or associated with nearly every building material within a structure and as such need to be handled/managed accordingly during renovation, demolition, or on-going operations and maintenance. Those who manage such projects, maintain structures, or are just associated with work that involves building materials should know what materials contain hazardous constituents, how to handle those materials, and how such materials may impact a project’s cost and schedule. In addition, it is important to know how to appropriately manage those materials with respect to operations and maintenance, as well as the risk associated with such management. The course will provide an overview of Asbestos-Containing Materials, Lead-Based Paint, PCBs in Caulking and Equipment, Universal Waste, and Other Regulated Materials (ozone depleting substances, tritium exit signs, electronics, etc.) including health effects, history of use, regulatory requirements, and general abatement/disposal procedures.
By the end of this webinar you will learn:
- Identify which building materials may contain various hazardous constituents.
- Recognize general regulatory requirements for typical hazardous constituents in building materials.
- Understand basic activities which should be utilized to identify and manage typical hazardous building materials, as well as who is qualified to conduct such inspections and management activities.
- Understand the budgetary and scheduling concerns with regard to hazardous building materials, as well as procedures to undertake should a material be identified during the course of renovation and/or demolition activities.
About the Speaker:
Christopher Shaw, Project Manager and Certified Industrial Hygienist, dedicates his environmental consulting experience to assisting clients with complex industrial hygiene compliance and regulatory requirements. Christopher’s Industrial Hygiene experience generally covers Hazardous Building Materials such as asbestos, lead-based paint, PCBs, universal waste and other regulated materials, in addition to mold and moisture, indoor air quality, and worker exposure with regard to activity specific hazards.
This webinar is provided through Apex’s American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continuing Education Services Program (Provider #404109016) and is eligible for continuous educational credits upon request.

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Green & Schafle has opened an investigation into the LJM Preservation and Growth fund, which was forced to cease trading and shut down after volatility in February caused dramatic losses.
LJM Fund Suffered Huge Losses During Volatile Market
The LJM fund, managed by Chicago-based LJM Parnters, dropped 50% twice over a two day period for losses of more than 80% during severe market volatility that saw the VIX or Volatility Index soar.
In March, LJM announced that it would be forced to shut down the fund altogether, infuriating already irate investors who may claim approximately $20 million in losses. It appears that investors will be forced to file lawsuits against the collapsed fund if they have any hope of recovering their money. Many investors in LJM Preservation and Growth have already collected into groups in order to pursue litigation against LJM Partners and other related parties. These groups include individual investors, investment advisors acting on behalf of clients, and wealthy families.
What Happened to LJM Preservation and Growth?
Launched in 2006, LJM morphed into a mutual fund in early 2013 with three share classes (LJMAX, LJMCX, and LJMIX).
According to the firm’s literature, the fund invested in ‘long and short options on the S&P 500 Index futures that seek to profit, primarily, from the volatility premium—the spread between implied and realized volatility.’
Ironically, it was this very volatility earlier this year that caused the fund to implode. Investors are also angry because according to the product's literature, it sought to "preserve capital, particularly in down markets." Irate investors are now suing the fund for "false and misleading statements" in the registration and prospectus documents.

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WASHINGTON—A key senator negotiating the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill signaled a willingness to compromise over a provision that seeks to boost cash via harder tax enforcement of cryptocurrency transactions.
Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) on Thursday stated he agreed on the necessity to make clear the availability, which he wrote and is backed by the Biden administration. It goals to require brokers of digital property to report on positive factors reaped on buying and selling to the Inside Income Service. As crafted, it could increase an estimated $28 billion over a decade to assist pay for improved roads, bridges, ports and different infrastructure.
The quantity raised by the availability, whereas comparatively small, alerts the most recent transfer by Washington coverage makers to impose oversight on an business that has grown dramatically with out regulation. The cryptocurrency business says the availability is overly broad and will inadvertently embody bitcoin-miners and different entities and discourage innovation within the fast-growing sector.
The importance of cryptocurrency earnings as a income supply may additionally develop after the Congressional Price range Workplace discovered on Thursday that the infrastructure invoice would widen the federal finances deficit by $256 billion over 10 years, contradicting negotiators’ claims that the price of the laws can be coated by new income and saving measures.
Three Senators—Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) Pat Toomey (R., Pa.), and Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.) launched an modification Wednesday that they stated would make clear the definition of a dealer.


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Global City Review is the base from which this literary metropolis has been built. Our entire backlist is preserved here. Each of our precious print issues can be accessed by clicking the corresponding covers below.
Our first digital issue, Legacies, can be found here.
The first print issue of Global City Review was released in the spring of 1993. Edited and produced by a cooperative of writers, its members grew and changed over the years, as both esteemed writers in the field alongside graduate students worked on it to create a literary forum and community that reflected our artistic and human values. Great thanks is due to The Simon H. Rifkind Center at The City College of New York for their early support of our publishing enterprise, and later, The Titus Foundation for generous funding. Several individuals kept us going in lean times, and we thank them, too. We thank our subscribers for their support, our contributors for their writing. And most of all we thank the writers, too numerous to mention, who joined us in creating and sustaining Global City Review for over twenty years. We owe them gratitude, though for each of us the collective itself and the published work were our own rewards.


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Applied Human-Machine Pedagogy in Manufacturing
Current limitations in industry
Pedagogy is the art and science of teaching and learning. In manufacturing we use different kinds of pedagogies. For example, individuals may learn at college, attend a manufacturing apprenticeship where they learn skills from a more experienced worker, train ‘on the job’ as part of a production line, or be re-skilled by an external trainer.
The use of robots, AI, augmentation and virtuality in manufacturing radically changes the way we need to think about all processes. Do humans need to learn from other humans? It is easy to see how human-centred assumptions can be limiting when dealing with physical forms, for example: a robot arm based on an octopus tentacle may be more efficient than one based on a human arm and a swarm of sensors may be better than a single sensor. This can also be applied to ideas behind learning and pedagogy. A current limitation in industry is the assumption that the ways that humans currently learn in manufacturing is optimal, and pedagogy in current manufacturing is little different from methods used in the Nineteenth century.
Current limitations in scope of research
Existing educational theory assumes that humans all share some common characteristics which mean they learn in a particular way. Robot and animal learning are seen as different from human learning, yet share similarities with human theories of learning, for example machine learning and animal behaviourism are instrumental; establishing statistical or stimulus “reward” pathways through which outcomes emerge. Recent theoretical literatures look beyond human assumptions about learning. We call these theories human-machine pedagogy as they look beyond the human centered assumptions of learning. These theories include exopedagogy, posthumanism, object-oriented ontology, actor network theory and cybernetics, all of which investigate interactions between people, objects/tools/machines and organisational systems. They consider the limits of human-centred learning, which are very hard for us to spot when we are embedded in existing systems. They also offer ideas about alternative forms of learning to transform relationships between people, tools and systems. However, these theories remain abstract and the practical implications, e.g. for interventions in manufacturing, have not yet been explored.
The value added to research
The research will transform basic/abstract theoretical ideas about human-machine pedagogy and post-human forms of learning into a practical typography and applied toolkit. This will 1. Construct a literature review that compares and contrasts a very wide range of theories in a new context; 2. Test the usefulness of a range of theories for observing and understanding practices in an applied context; 3. Test their usefulness for undertaking interventions in a manufacturing context; 4. Consider the social and ethical issues raised by the possible inclusion of new pedagogic techniques in manufacturing.
The value added to industry
The research will consider the limitations that assumptions about human learning place on manufacturing processes. These limitations may impact on a broad range of values important to businesses, such as: profit; efficiency; quality; creativity; innovation; integrity; teamwork and environmental sustainability. By mapping how assumptions about human learning inhibit organizations from developing these values, the research will also suggest practical interventions for the other members of the Chatty Factories research team to develop applications which maximise desired values through interactions between humans and robots
Visualising the future.
•Workers and robots training together in real time through symbiotic forms of learning. This learning could be reciprocal, and the robot / human could develop a shared domain of learning.
•Robots and workers co-creating a learning domain through an AI interface that enables them to combine skills over time to optimise production.
•Companion robots that assist workers using training similar to that between humans and companion animals.
•Swarm production where workers and machines learn production processes in synergistic ways.

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The healthcare and media industries have more in common than is widely acknowledged. Both are powerful institutions, rooted in hierarchies, and a command and control ethos.
Traditionally, neither industry has been structured for openness, transparency, or participation by those we are meant to serve. Both industries are perfectly designed to get the results that we do: in other words, there is great potential for things to go wrong. And yet we have traditionally been extremely defensive when this happens.
Nonetheless, the dominance of the fortress mentality is a large part of why I think a new initiative from ProPublica, an independent not-for-profit media outfit based in New York, is something of a landmark, for journalism and healthcare.
We share strict demarcations between professional roles. Forget about turf wars between the AMA and the Pharmacy Guild, or medical resistance to expanded nursing roles. In the media business, we define our roles very tightly, and the turf wars within institutions can be just as unseemly and unproductive as those between organisations. And heaven forbid that anyone might suggest journalists working with non-journalists, or doing community engagement and development as part of their professional roles.
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Those traditional attitudes may be changing but the healthcare and media industries remain enormously resistant to change. We are not famous as innovators despite the many opportunities of the digital era.
Of course, these are sweeping generalisations, and there will be many individuals and organisations in healthcare and media that do not fit these characterisations.
ProPublica has established a Patient Harm Community on Facebook for patients who have been harmed by healthcare. It is also open to others concerned about this issue, including health professionals, regulators and service managers — and other journalists.
ProPublica says it wants this “experiment in social media” to build a community interested in discussing patient harm, its causes and solutions. It plans to post questions and answers with experts and provide links to the latest reports, research and policy proposals.
According to a report from the Nieman Journalism Lab, the initiative is not simply about enabling ProPublica to mine the site for stories but is a type of “service journalism” that aims to help develop a community of interest that participants can make their own.
In an email interview overnight, one of the journalists moderating the site, Marshall Allen, told me that it is already a success, drawing more than 500 members since last week’s launch. He wrote:
“One of our primary goals was to combine our platform as independent journalists with the medium of Facebook to see if we could get people connected. We’re encouraged by the results so far.
“We also want to use this as a method to have people tell us their stories in a way that we can organise, so we can identify trends and stories that we or other reporters might want to look at on a deeper level. To do this, we are asking people to fill out this ‘patient harm questionnaire’, which you can see here.
“We also want to use this group to raise the overall awareness for this important issue, and that’s already happening. So we have many things that are tracking in the right direction. But it’s just a start so we’re really curious to see where it goes.”
Daryl Sadgrove, CEO of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and a strong advocate for the use of social media in healthcare, says the site is an exciting development, though he cautions that careful moderation will be needed around such “emotionally charged” issues.
“There is great merit in highlighting the high rates of errors we have in healthcare,” Sadgrove said. “It is an incredibly big issue that isn’t really dealt with in what I believe are the most appropriate ways.”
As to whether the site should be seen as an innovation for journalism or healthcare, Sadgrove says it’s an approach that health services could adopt themselves.
“If they want to be innovative, they would get at the forefront and own this themselves,” he said. “Some might argue that it might taint the independence of the model, but it wouldn’t if you’ve got the right people for the right reasons doing this. You could end up with a more robust and accepted model where the health system is gaining respect for allowing the open discussion to take place and allowing feedback from the different players.”
However, Sadgrove says most health organisations are yet to embrace the potential of social media for fostering innovation, openness, transparency, communication and collaboration in health care.
Fortresses can’t be reinvented overnight. But perhaps the ProPublica project is a sign of crumbling edifice.


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By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
According to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s office, three people were killed at the Great Lakes Dragaway on Sunday. At this time, the law enforcement authorities are still looking for the suspect or suspects involved.
The authorities are also searching for a black vehicle, which may be involved. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said “the victims were shot at point blank range.”
The authorities received the first call at approx.. 7 pm CST that three people were shot. The individuals, who were hit with bullets, were attending Larry’s Fun Fest.
One 911 caller even suggested that one of the individuals died at the scene, according to the authorities. Sadly, two of the men died at the scene, while the third individual died on his way to the hospital.
Approx. 5,000 people were attending the Larry’s Fun Fest, according to the organizers. It’s believed that the three killed were from Ill., including two from Aurora, Ill.
“My basic conversation with them is they have no idea what caused this,” Beth said. “The three men shot were standing near a food vendor when the suspect walked up and shot them point blank.”
The alleged suspect is reportedly an African-American in his 20s. He was also described as wearing blue jean shorts and a black hoodie.
There is no indications that the alleged suspect knew the victims.
“We’re not aware of any altercations that happened earlier,” Beth said. “At this point, we’re not aware of exactly what caused this.”
The dragstrip has been open since 1955. The Larry’s Fun Fest is known as “part car show and part drag race.”
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Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Treatment Options
In light of recent product recall by Simply Thick, LLC concerning some of their SimplyThick thickening gel brands, because of a likely connection to the life-threatening disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), it is important for those with affected infants to know the potential treatment options.
The general course of treatment action for infants suffering from NEC is decided by whether or not the child requires surgery for the disorder. This determination is made by finding out whether or not the baby’s intestine has been perforated (has developed holes).
If there is no sign of perforation in the child’s intestine, surgery may not be required. The procedure for treating infants with NEC without surgery involves a series of steps designed to heal the child and monitor his or her improvement throughout the process.
Key elements of the non-surgical treatment process for NEC:
- A nasogastric (NG) tube, which runs from the baby’s nose to the stomach. The NG tube removes air out of the stomach and intestines. The child generally keeps the NG tube until all signs suggest that their intestines are fully healed and ready to handle a formula-based diet.
- Intravenous (IV) fluids to prevent dehydration, to keep the infant’s blood chemicals stable and normal, and to provide them with nutrients. Additionally, the child receives IV antibiotics to fight infection. Generally, babies with NEC on given antibiotics for about two weeks. During this time, babies are not fed in order to allow their bowel to rest and heal, which makes the use of IV nutrition a necessity. IV fluids also help to keep a baby’s blood pressure normal to ensure that the intestines receive a good amount of blood flow. In some cases the child will also be prescribed blood pressure medication to support the process.
- During the treatment process, doctors utilize blood tests and X-rays to monitor the baby’s health and overall progression.
For mild cases of NEC, the above steps are generally what your child’s doctor will prescribe. In more severe cases, however, it is quite possible that the baby may need surgery in order to removed part of the damaged intestine. The objective of surgery for NEC is to remove the dead or perforated segment of intestine, while leaving as much as possible of the intestine. The child has a higher likelihood of a healthy development if they have more intestine left. In some cases where parts of the intestine are left in the child in an inflamed or infected state, those sections of the organ may heal properly over time.
Key elements of the surgical treatment process for NEC:
- Prior to the surgery, the surgeon and the neonatologist, a doctor specializing in newborn infants, will try to make the baby’s condition stable. The child will need the same treatments as infants who do not need to have surgery, including an NG tube and IV fluids and antibiotics.
- The surgical procedure, which requires general anesthesia for the baby, involves an incision just above the belly button to allow access to the child’s abdomen. Once inside, the surgeon removes the segments of the bowel that are dead.
- Because it is preferable to leave as much as the child’s intestine intact as possible, surgeons may opt to leave sick, but not dead, parts of the intestine in the child. Should the sick parts remain a problem, the child may have another operation within one to two days of the original procedure.
- If a small segment of the intestine was taken out, the surgeon will sometimes sew the two open ends of the intestine together after the removal. This procedure, known as primary anastomosis, is usually only feasible if the rest of the intestine is healthy and the infant is in good condition.
- If a large segment of the intestine was removed or the remaining intestines do not seem healthy, the surgeon may opt to not connect the two open ends. Instead, he or she will create two small openings, known as stoma, in the child’s belly through a procedure called an ostomy. The surgeon attaches the upper portion of the intestine to one of the openings. This allow for bowel movements to exit the body into a plastic pouch attached on the outside. The surgeon then attaches the lower portion of the intestine to the remaining opening, which is known as the mucus fistula. In the case that the child needs ostomies, the surgeon will eventually connect the two ends of the intestine and close the openings in your baby’s belly when the baby is doing better. This usually happens two or more months after surgery when the baby is growing and healthy. Babies who have a large segment of intestine removed may also be at risk for short bowel syndrome. This prospect is another reason for the surgeon to try and keep as much of the child’s intestine intact as possible.
- Strictures, scars that make the intestine very narrow, may start to form as NEC heals. This occurs most often at the location where the surgeon sewed the two ends of the intestine together or in parts of the intestine that had NEC but did not need surgical treatment. If a stricture forms, the baby generally needs additional surgery to fix it.
- After surgery, infants go into a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
that provides necessary level of care. After the NICU stay is complete,
the child moves to a standard hospital setting before they are allowed
to go home.
Generally babies with NEC need to stay in the hospital for several weeks, regardless of whether or not they had surgery. Long hospital stays for infants with NEC are also affected by the fact that the child was more than likely born prematurely and must deal with other complications.
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The future of Potter?
With the fifth installment HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX about to cast its spell on this summer of sequels, and the final book just around the corner, Potter-mania has descended upon us, and weve got no choice but to succumb. MTV Films have spoken to some of todays hottest directors and asked them how they would end the franchise, now that David Yates, who is directing the fifth one, has signed on for THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, leaving only the final installment director-free.
Some of these directors include David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro, and Rob Zombie, who had this to say: "It'd probably be very violent with a lot of nudity. That's what it needs. Harry should say 'f---' a lot. That would spice it up." I agree with Rob. Having Harry f*ck a lot would spice things up. Unfortunately, studios these days are unwilling to take chances. Check out the fun article HERE.
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Overnight Friday, lengthy talks took place between the Prime Minister’s Office and MK Itamar Ben Gvir, concerning the pitched tent he declared his official office in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood, a.k.a. Sheikh Jarah, in eastern Jerusalem.
During the talks, a message was conveyed from the Prime Minister that he was asking Ben Gvir to vacate the tent office, in light of situation assessments that the establishment of the office may lead to riots. The reason for this assessment was that the office in question had already provoked demonstrations on Thursday night, which included the burning of a Jewish-owned car and Arab rioters throwing chairs and stones at the office (Jews Fired their Weapons under Arab Attacks in Sheikh Jarrah).
תגובת ח”כ בן גביר על הסיכום עם לשכת ראש הממשלה על הצבת שוטרים בבתי יהודים בשיח ג’ראח pic.twitter.com/eWfhS6DonS
— Yossi Eli יוסי אלי (@Yossi_eli) May 7, 2021
Ben Gvir set as a condition for leaving his office that a permanent police presence is established in the attacked compound and the entire neighborhood until the end of Ramadan. According to Ben Gvir, the policemen who stayed the night remained only because of his presence, and it is inconceivable that the police abandon the Jewish residents there every night, and that once he, Ben Gvir, leaves, the police would also leave, exposing local Jews to continued attacks, stone-throwing, and property damage.
Ben Gvir described to the Prime Minister’s representatives the situation in the neighborhood, the attacks by Arab rioters on women and children throughout the past week, and the helplessness of the police.
The Prime Minister’s people refused the condition of a permanent police presence and agreed only to boost police patrols. In response, Ben Gvir announced that he would remain in the office for Shabbat.
An agreement was finally reached with the Prime Minister’s Office and the Minister of Internal Security that the entire Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood and around the tent-office there will be a regular police presence until the end of Ramadan, and a reassessment would be made after Ramadan.
Ben Gvir responded: “After a whole week of attacks on Jews and police incompetence, we forced the police to come and secure me. I welcome the outcome and am happy that the police will finally secure the residents of the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood.”


With an expected launch of its new Galaxy S flagship in January 2021, Samsung’s flagship smartphones will be going through final testing. And that means it’s going to show up in regulatory filings around the world, giving us another look at the potential specifications.
The latest details come from the ever reliable FCC listings, and confirms what many will have suspected. While the majority of territories will have Galaxy S1 models using Samsung's own Exynos chipsets, there will be Qualcomm versions, presumably for North America and South Korean. Android Central’s Babu Mohan reports:
"In addition to confirming the presence of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, the FCC listing for the SM-G991U also reveals the phone will come with faster 9W reverse wireless charging speeds. When it comes to wired fast charging speeds, however, the Galaxy S21 will not be an improvement over its predecessor. The FCC listing also mentions a travel charger with model number EP-TA800, but it isn't clear if the charger will actually be bundled in the box with the Galaxy S21."
A number of questions remain. One of them is about the charger, Will Samsung bundle the aforementioned 25 watt charger in the box (which the FCC listing implies), or is the decision on inclusion or not going to be made on a region by region basis?
The listing is also for the Galaxy S21. Samsung is expected to ship three models, the base S21, the larger S21 Plus, and the flagship S21 Ultra. In practice the processor split is likely to be the same over all three models, but there’s an argument that the base model may leave out the charger to bring the price down.
Neither do we have long to wait. The team at Android Police have also called the dates of the Samsung Unpacked launch event Max Weinbach writes:
"According to our sources, Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14th, where we'll formally get to know the whole S21 family. Retail availability should get underway just a couple weeks later, on January 29th. These devices will be cheaper than the previous generation, which sounds great considering the still-ongoing pandemic and corresponding economic crunch."
With the Galaxy Note family potentially cancelled, the Galaxy S21 will be Samsung’s standard bearer for 2021. With new chips and an early launch, it’s going to establish the mark for others to chase.


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Another top-quality organic offering from Ethiopia! We have sourced this washed, sun-dried Ethiopian coffee from the Gedeb District within the Gedeo Zone. The full pedigree is Gedeb 1 Organic Gotiti. The cup intertwines hints of floral and citrusy fruit notes on a base of delightful caramel flavors.
The beans are grown on small family-owned plots located at elevations between 6,200 and 7,200 feet at the base of the Mendero Mountains. Cultivating indigenous heirloom trees using organic practices, farmers sun-dry the beans after harvesting ripe coffee cherries. The farmers are organized under METAD Agricultural Development PLC (METAD). METAD is a third –generation family owned coffee business devoted to producing top quality coffee while strengthening the local community.
METAD provides technical assistance, a modern farming equipment share program, and aids with certification processes for more than 5,000 local farmers. They use proceeds to build roads and community centers in the coffee growing region. The workforce is over seventy percent women, and the organization provides educational opportunities including university scholarships and an elementary school with over 700 students, and health care for employees. In the region META was the first to partner with Grounds for Health in Ethiopia to implement a cervical cancer screening program for women.

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Mr. Boggis liked to drive slowly. He set up the driver's seat as comfortable as possible; one elbow always lay on the open window. A small village rushed through the windows. He saw rich greenery and bright, pleasantly smelling flowers. He smoked with pleasure. He was driving to a small group of cottages, which was located on the top of the hill, right in the middle of the trees. This village was called Brill Hill. Mr. Boggis took out a notebook and a pencil: the view was wonderful and he decided to draw a map of the area in order to understand where each house was located. All the pieces of land looked beautiful and well maintained. He saw a farm house, flowed into a beautiful stately house with many elms near it. Mr. Boggis finished all his things and decided to go to the pub to think well.
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Asif Khan talked about the strategy at the 2011 Pizza Executive Summit.
Carl Howard discusses how he turned a failing QSR brand into a thriving fast casual franchise and why he believes his work isn't quite yet done.
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Consultant Kathleen Wood talks about her session at the 2011 Pizza Executive Summit.
NRA chairwoman and Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith talks about the future of the association and the industry in this interview with FastCasual.com editor Valerie Killifer.
Micros executives show a tablet, web-based mobile POS solution ideal for line-busting, table-side browsing.
Editor Valerie Killifer learns what's next for the popular online bargainer.
Scott DeFife, the Association's EVP for policy and government affairs, talks about health care and other high-profile issues affecting the restaurant industry.
Michelle Bushey, Vision 360's design director, discusses the increase in build-your-own concepts and the growth of tech in the kitchen.
Constant Contact has partnered with mobile marketer Where to use email for restaurant promotions. Where was recently purchased by PayPal.
Thinking Foods believes it has developed the ultimate solution for dough that comes out right, every time.
NRA's Scott DeFife, EVP of policy and government affairs, talks about the Durbin Amendment and its implications for the restaurant and retail industries.
nClosure spokesman Dan McCain and Poslavu's Travis Kellerman discuss the challenges and benefits of employing iPads as self-service devices.
Kenny Oubre talks with editor Valerie Killifer about his company's web-based Learn Module.
Jim Anglin, product manager at Henny Penny, talks about the Kitchen Innovation Award-winning PriMelt oil converter.
Micros and Tabbed Out showed their smartphone-based check-payment solution at NRA's International Restaurant Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago.
The non-profit endeavor helps operators help others by distributing leftover food.
David Callisch, VP of marketing for Ruckus, discusses the importance of reliable Wi-Fi, especially when it comes to mobile payments.
PizzaMarketplace editor Alicia Kelso speaks with Arrow sales rep John Whetsel about the company's latest point-of-sale solution for restaurants.
Valerie Killifer talks to Vollrath's vp of marketing about his company's new shrink wrapper. The interview took place at NAFEM 2011.
Editor Valerie Killifer met with Hobart to discuss the company's focus on returning cooking to greater use of scratch ingredients.
At NAFEM 2011, Everpure showed its MRS 600 high-efficiency, reverse-osmosis water filtration system.


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It's block party time in West Allis, and this time it'll be $25 cheaper.
To encourage neighbors to get together and meet each other and encourage a neighborhood feeling, the Common Council on Tuesday voted to suspend the usual $25 block party fee for the rest of the year. All the other requirements for block parties will remain, however, including getting a permit and abiding by rules for when street barricades are to be taken down.
Alderman Michael May proposed the fee suspension as a result of comments he heard while door-to-door campaigning this year. He said a lot of longtime residents said they wished they knew the newcomers, and the new kids on the block wished they knew the long-timers. The $25 block party fee seemed to be an impediment, May said.
To make up for the $300 to $350 in lost fees, May said he is waiving the health and dental coverage he is entitled to as an alderman, which will more than cover the revenue loss.
The block party fee will be back next year.
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Vantablack is extremely cool. You really have to see it to believe it.
The material, developed by Surrey NanoSystems in the UK, is one of the darkest substances known to man, absorbing up to 99.96% of visible light. Beyond the colour, it provides exceptional performance, having a high thermal shock resistance; but you don’t care about that, do you?
Well, you should. In fact, there are many different applications for this material, including the autonomous vehicle sector.
You may have spotted the BMW ‘VBX6’ at the Frankfurt Motor Show, which drew huge crowds throughout the event. The German automaker teamed up with Surrey Nano Systems and Levitation 29 to create the first vehicle in the world to feature a Vantablack VBx2 coating which, ultimately, stole the show.
In short, a surface coated with Vantablack loses its defining features to the human eye, with objects appearing two-dimensional. This can be interpreted by the brain as staring into a black hole. Thus, coating the BMW X6 with Vantablack hid its curves which, to many automotive comedians, actually improved the aesthetics of the monstrous SUV.
I’ll let you decide.
Although the publicity stunt was exciting and added something unique to the event, I want to focus on some of the future applications of Vantablack, following the developments of Surrey Nano Systems in the automotive industry. What if I told you that this kind of coating has the potential to revolutionise the self-driving car?
From Novelty to Necessity
Ben Jensen, Founder & CTO of Surrey Nano Systems says that it has always been about cost-driven benefits within the automotive industry. Already being involved in the lense industry, his company started to develop materials to address the major shift currently occurring inside the automotive industry.
“We happened to do this at a time when ADAS systems, autonomous vehicle sensor systems and heads up displays were starting to gain traction in the market,” he says. “The technology aligned itself to solving some of the problems that they were having in those sensor and display systems.”
The first time I heard about Vantablack was within space applications, such as telescopes, before starting to see the material popping up all over the internet for aesthetic purposes. The main uses have been around optical sensor systems, such as camera lenses and space optics. Now that the automotive industry has developed into a technology-focused sector, it’s starting to be used in lenses and radar systems that will be implemented in vehicles over the next few years as we approach the age of autonomy.
“The automotive industry has a specific requirement on the types of coatings, the way they perform and the cost model,” says Jensen. “In an auto application, the main areas that the coating gets used in are in lidar systems, where they improve sensitivity and bright light performance. We are delivering some really significant benefits in terms of stray light sensitivity, bright light sensitivity and distance sensing capability on lidar systems.”
Most major OEMs have vehicles out today with forward-looking camera systems, which help the car perform basic safety functions. At the moment, they work quite well but things such as sunlight can cause, what Jensen calls, ‘pixel washout.’
“This removes the ability for the camera system to discriminate what’s in front of it, such as when you go through a tunnel and drive out into the sunlight which creates a huge range in contrast for the camera to adapt to incredibly quickly,” Jensen explains.
The next-generation of auto manufacturing is looking to implement special coatings of Vantablack to deal with pixel washout through incredibly effective at suppressing sunlight from entering the systems. It’s more than just a colour.
Simple – Yet Revolutionary – Design
Another advantage of Vantaback is that the game-changing innovation offers a low-cost solution that automakers can use in existing lidar systems, simplifying the engineering of the lidar unit.
Fundamentally, says Jensen, if you don’t have good light absorption technology for the radar, you must design and build complex systems to take into mass-production.
“Just like what Vantablack does in space, it simplifies the design of the optical path to the camera and the way stray light interacts and bounces inside the lenses or shielding system, so helps reduce cost whilst delivering significant safety benefits,” says Jensen.
To me, and one of the reasons I was so interested in this story, is that not enough people are talking about the right applications of Vantablack in the automotive world. We as an industry need to show the same appreciation as the space industry has shown the material.
“The reason we coat objects such as the BMW isn’t just for marketing reasons,” says Jensen. “You can try and describe something to an optical engineer and they’ll get it, but if they see it in person they will quickly understand just how powerful this is.”
The BMW stunt in Frankfurt, which got huge coverage across the world, has stimulated discussion amongst optical engineers and revealed that Vantablack can be a significant tool in design pallets that can solve future problems in autonomy.
“The transition into electric and autonomous safety systems is happening, whether people are on board or not,” assures Jensen. “In 10 years time, the world will look very different in the automotive sector than it does today.”


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Football Manager Touch 2018 Review
Anyone familiar with the Football Manager franchise is all too aware of the addictiveness that it can wield on innocent football fans across the UK and beyond. For those who’ve been following the evolution of Sports Interactive’s unparalleled football management simulator will have been involved way back when it was called Championship Manager, published by Eidos through the 90s right up until 2005 when they made the switch to Sega and the game had a slight makeover as well as a name change. What hasn’t changed in this time is that the franchise is the definitive football management game the world over — detailed and complex, packed full of every conceivable statistic, Football Manager is gaming crack to a diehard football fan, its sales popularity only limited by the need to play the game on a decent PC, with two failed Xbox 360 console outings condemning it seemingly to the PC crowd. This was of course before our mobile devices reached the point where they were more powerful than the majority of PCs which were used to play the title from 1992—2010 and beyond. This evolution of handheld tech and the associated increase in processing power and memory has seen the title launch successfully in its mobile guise on both iOS and Android devices. Step up to the plate the Nintendo Switch; a handheld console with enough juice to run Zelda or Mario would seem like a perfect fit for your average football fan who doesn’t enjoy an evening in front of a computer.
Football Manager Touch 2018 landed on the Nintendo Switch with literally zero hype as a result of a surprise launch, coming just hours after the publisher announced it was coming to the platform. A scaled-back version, naturally, of the much loved PC title, giving wannabe managers across the country the ability to lead their favourite team on a train, bus, park bench, well anywhere really — taking advantage of the Switch’s reasonable horsepower and its touch screen — this could potentially be a match made in heaven.
Starting up the game and choosing your team is simple enough, options for multiple leagues are present but it is wise to stick to the one to avoid excessive load times which can really bog down the experience. As you progress, the full depth of the simulation reveals itself and whilst not possessing as much depth as its PC-based counterparts this new touch version is no slouch. Every aspect of team and indeed club management is available to the player through a series of basic looking but fairly intuitive touch based menu screens. If you want to move a player up from the reserves, change a training regime, scout for a new player, switch up your youth team, offer a player a new contract, or implement a new style of play for the entire team or a certain player, you name it, you can do it. For a handheld game the depth really is something and sets up the player for hours upon of hours of armchair management fun.
Matches take the form of a mix of a flat data screen containing some live written commentary along with all the live data you’d find from your average sports scientist on the sidelines at any decent club mixed with some basic 3D renderings of players playing the match out in real time, a first for a console, showing you key moments in the game and bringing a little bit of life to an otherwise fairly consistent flat stat-based game.
However, whilst it is fantastic to be able to manage your team in the FA Cup final whilst on your way home from work after a long day Football Manager Touch 2018 is not without its problems, in fact there are quite a few. The aforementioned loading times throughout are a continual annoyance and can last quite a while depending on what activity you are undertaking, for example, starting a match. In isolation they wouldn’t cause too much fuss but as they are fairly consistent throughout the game, after a few hours play you cannot help but feel like a reasonable percentage of that time was wasted waiting on loading screens. This feeling of speed or lack thereof isn’t helped by the sluggishness of the user interface (UI) — not only are the touch controls a little hit and miss, with button presses not always registering first time but fairly often solid finger presses don’t register at all resulting in you having to repeat the action, sometimes several times. Again in isolation, an annoyance more than a deal breaker, but along with the general speed of the simulator in general it all starts to add up.
The other two issues were less issues and more user experience comments. Firstly whilst we absolutely appreciate that this title is called Football Manager Touch 2018 and is available on a handheld console with a touch screen however it’s also a console that can be docked and can be played on a big TV with a pad. In this regard Football Manager Touch 2018 is really poor to play — the mapping to the pad isn’t particularly intuitive and it becomes really tricky to navigate through the game’s statistic-heavy screens. As it stands at the moment if you intend on buying this one to play when chilling out in the lounge on your swanky 55” TV we cannot recommend it for that experience, it’s too fiddly and unresponsive. Secondly aside from briefly when you boot the game and again while a match is taking place the game has no sound — not very little sound other than mentioned, none, nothing, zero. Again we note that it’s a Football Manager title and as a rule they are a series of colourful data screens with little to no audio outside of a match on other formats but this is the Nintendo Switch — moving from playing something like Golf Story or anything really and booting up Football Manager Touch 2018, a lot of users will find themselves checking if the game is actually working a number of times during a play session. Some simple UI audio along with some background music would go a long way to livening up this one.
Football Manager Touch 2018 was, on paper at least, the perfect fit for the Nintendo Switch. A game like no other on the console, one which has been hugely popular with the generation which these days has the most disposable income and due to life might have had to move away from being slumped over a PC every night; sadly however it’s a shadow of its much bigger brother. Slow with a clunky, sound-free UI, dubious touch controls and poor pad mappings make this one more of a miss than a hit.
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Imagine an ordinary Cincinnati suburb after one-quarter of the world’s population has been wiped out by genetically modified fresh tomatoes, resulting in a whole host of paranormal beings ‘coming out of the closet.’ The result is the Hollows, a neighborhood comprised primarily of witches, werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural creatures, who work side-by-side with humans in an effort to maintain, or in some cases disrupt, the collective peace.
The Outlaw Demon Wails is the sixth book in Kim Harrison‘s Hollows series. The interwoven tales have grown increasingly more complex throughout each novel, and this most recent volume is sure to captivate Harrison fans by offering the alternate history intrigue and edge-of-your-seat action scenes combined with the humor for which Harrison has become known. The strength of Harrison’s story telling lies in her ability to spin a compelling yarn.
“Ivy’s long hand trembled. My heart gave a hard thump as she pushed from her computer and focused entirely on me in a familiar mix of anger and the sexual domination she used to protect herself. I met her angry expression with my glare, and a twinge came from my neck. I ignored it. The tips of her gold-highlighted hair shifted with her breath, and a feeling of unease rose behind me, like the creepy-crawly things that live under the bed that only kids know are there.”
Though Harrison does a fine job of succinctly summarizing plot-lines in each novel, newcomers to Harrison’s stories may want to begin with the first book in the series, Dead Witch Walking, in order to fully appreciate the background behind the action-packed Outlaw Demon Wails. She has also written several short stories, such as that found in the urban fantasy collection Dates From Hell, that further construct the Hollows adventures.
Harrison has taken the time to develop each of her paranormal cultures throughout the series. Initial installments of the Hollows series feature the role of vampires, while later books focus on weres. The Outlaw Demon Wails tackles the complex history of demons. The grey area somewhere between good and evil continues to serve as an underlying theme for most of the major characters.
This sixth book answers many of the questions eluded to in previous novels, such as:
What is the nature of the ever-after?
What sort of relationship will develop between leading witch/detective Rachel Morgan and pure-bred living vampire Ivy Tamwood?
What’s the history behind the witches?
Many writers are able to intrigue the reader by building suspense and playing upon the imagination, but oftentimes, once the reader finds out the answers to the underlying mysteries, the final result leaves one feeling disappointed. Finding out what actually lays beyond the curtain is rarely as captivating as wondering what might be there. Fortunately, this is not the case with Harrison’s wrap-ups. Her answers are inventive yet plausible. Perhaps the key to her skill is that she doesn’t spoon-feed every detail; rather, she allows the reader’s imagination to fill in a few blanks or develop new theories based on the information that is provided.
While many threads are tied up in this sixth novel, perhaps the most comprehensive of the Hollows stories, fresh new characters and plot-lines are also introduced. Harrison manages to create an alternative suburb in which the reader comes to accept that these paranormal creatures are, in fact, people too, with the same virtues and flaws as the rest of us mere humans. Harrison’s work may leave you wondering if the housewife next door stirs potions in her spare time, or if that star baseball player actually runs on four legs during the full moon.
Great job, Shoebbles!
Ah man. I just went book shopping last week and bought For a Few Demons More, thinking it was the first book in the series from looking at the list in the book.
I hadn’t read your review. I usually don’t read book reviews until I know what I want to get.
Oh well, I also bought The Ruins by Scott Smith that looks like a good read.
Don, I share your frustration. I don’t know why they sometimes print those lists in non-chronological order.
As for the Hollows series, each book stands on its own, but there is definitely something to be gained by reading them sequentially when it comes to characterization and back-story.
As a side note, I avoid including spoilers in my reviews. I dislike it myself when other critics summarize the result of every major conflict, particularly in the case of new releases. I try to focus primarily on the strengths and weaknesses of the writing, the overall plot development, and characterization. You can consider the Damian Daily a spoiler-free zone for book reviews.
I certainly understand how you feel Don, but do invest the time to read this series! I would agree that each book stands on its own but reading them in order is quite helpful in understanding each culture and lends insight into the main characters themselves. I won’t give you anything that would ruin it for you but the wedding scene in her previous book, ” A Fistful of Charms,” had me laughing so hard it was difficult to finish the chapter. Very entertaining. Rachel Morgan is very loveable as are the rest of the main characters.
So what is the correct chronological order? I can’t find it anywhere….
This is the correct chronological order of Kim Harrison’s Hollows series to date:
1) Dead Witch Walking
2) The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
3) Every Which Way But Dead
4) A Fistful of Charms
5) For a Few Demons More
6) The Outlaw Demon Wails
7) White Witch, Black Curse

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We all know someone who loves and obsesses over certain events in history, certain time periods, certain wars.
I don’t have any love for specifics, but I do dig history in general. I wish they’d taught it differently in school – by time period instead of geographic location so I could connect the dots of what was happening around the world all at the same time and how events influenced each other. I’ve spent the years since high school trying to shuffle all those things out on my own. I’m still at a loss.
I learn things best when I experience them. See them. Feel them.
Like being in Rome, seeing the Forum. I mean – all the times we read about Caesar’s assassination in school – to be there? To see the steps where this historic figure was betrayed? That brought it out of history and made it present and tangible for me. I remember now, no problem. To see the Colosseum? Dude. They SAILED SHIPS IN THERE. What? Now I want to know more.
Around Chester County, we see a TON of Revolutionary War buffs. For good reason. We’ve got battlefields galore. They’re beautiful open spaces that will remain open forever.
There are random cannons hanging around on the sides of roads. (I see them when I drive places every day. Neat.) We have reenactments every year.
And there’s Valley Forge Park. Y’know. Where the Continental Army camped out that one winter – cold, miserable, and pretty much untrained.
Yesterday I just wanted to go for a walk since the weather is (WAS) perking up, and VFP happens to be the closest walking trail to work. Somehow, we missed Valley Forge on our school field trips (we did hit up the Brandywine Battlefield, though. Same war. Different site). We learned the general bits of it. It was important. But not something I retained.
Best part about it? You can be a total tourist and take a million pictures, take the Cell Phone Tour, and read every plaque in the park – all while people are going for runs and acting like it’s a normal day. Ever been to the monuments in D.C.? It’s just like that. A great outdoor space that happens to be spilling over with history.
Erin and I had kind of a blast running around like wild things. There is picnic’ing and history buff’ing that needs to go down here this spring.
That von Steuben – great boot buckles, no?