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Textured VS. Smooth
In my video, I explain the difference between textured and smooth implants as well as the advantages and disadvanatges of each.
Textured are more adherent
recommend textured implants over smooth because they are more likely to adhere and
not displace. In the sub-pectoral
position, the muscle compresses the implant and the implants can extrude
inferiorly and laterally requiring revision.
The textured implants are more adhesive and less likely to displace.
Gary Horndeski, M.D.
Smooth versus textured Implants?
surface of the outer shell of breast implants can be either smooth or textured.
There are pros and cons of each and the best implant for any particular patient
depends on many factors including individual anatomy and desired outcome.
Smooth implants usually have thinner shells and move more freely in their
pocket than their textured counterparts. Many plastic surgeons believe that the
thinner shell allows smooth implants to feel more natural. Implants with smooth
surfaces are less likely to ripple. Textured implants were designed to lower
the risk of capsular contracture, but whether it achieves that is open to
debate. The textured implants may have a greater chance of leakage or
deflation. One type of implant, known as the anatomical or teardrop-shaped
implant ("gummy-bear" or form-stable), is only available with a
textured surface, because this surface helps keep these contour shaped implants
in position and diminishes the risk of rotation and distortion. Some of the
differences of the implant surface characteristics depend on whether the fill
material is saline or silicone gel.
most plastic surgeons in the U.S. prefer smooth implants. You should discuss
your concerns with your plastic surgeon, who should be certified by the
American Board of Plastic Surgery and ideally a member of the American Society
for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAP).
Singer, MD FACS
Textured breast implants have less chance of capsular contraction than smooth
Thank you for your important question. Recent research has documented that textured breast implants are half as likely to cause capsular contraction than are smooth-walled silicone gummy bear implants.
Smooth versus textured breast implants
The outer surface of breast implants has changed over the past 25 years in an attempt to minimize capsular contracture, a hard scar which can form around the implant giving you a deformed shape to the breast. I have had extensive experience with many types of implants and like many other surgeons believe that smooth wall implants provide the most natural feeling and appearance.Textured implants will not easily rotate so if you require atomic shaped implants, otherwise known as teardrop implants, then these may be appropriate for your particular anatomy. I suggest you have a lengthy discussion with your plastic surgeon regarding your goals and expectations.
Smooth vs textured
Textured are preferred by most if you are placing the implant above the muscle or using a shaped (tear drop) implant. Smooth are the most common choice if the implant is round and under the muscle. The decision is based on your placement choice, your starting breast and body size, and the type of implant you choose. A board certified plastic surgeon can help you with these choices at your consultation.
Smooth versus textured implants
Certainly each implant will have its pros and cons. The majority of implants use these days are smooth implants. When placed beneath the muscle the likelihood of developing a capsular contracture is just as low with smooth as textured implants. My personal experience has been that textured implants tend to ripple more and you can feel the edge more through your skin. If you are using a teardrop shaped implant the textured implant is more beneficial because it helps stop the implant from rotating.
Smooth versus textured Implants: Which is Best?
The other consultants have addressed the difference in the shell between textured (rough) and smooth. There is no best. There is just what works best for you and you will need to seek a consultaion for that answer.
Smooth vs Textured
Round, smooth silicone implants are the most common implants used for breast augmentation. However, more textured implants are being used since the approval of the tear-drop shaped implants. The shaped implants are textured to prevent movement and rotation. Most plastic surgeons advise their patient not to massage shaped implants to prevent rotation. The round implants can be massaged since rotation will not change the shape of the breasts. I recommend seeing a plastic surgeon for consultation to discuss the other advantages and disadvantages of textured vs smooth.
Smooth vs. Textured
The “Gummy Bear” breast implant is a shaped, textured
surface implant. This was initially developed when there was a moratorium on the
normal implants with the thinking that solid gel implants would be approved by
the FDA. Shaped implants have been an advance for breast reconstruction where
there is insufficient skin in the upper pole. Since they are a shaped implant
they must be held in position. If they turned sideways, it is not a good look.
They all these implants in position by putting a coarse textured surface on it
that your body grows into like Velcro. I think these implants are very firm and
not natural feeling. For breast augmentation I far prefer the smooth silicone
implant. This gives a much softer, more natural feeling result.


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In 2015, twelve of 55 Staten Island churches merged into other parishes, as part of the Archdiocese’s “Making All Things New Again” initiative. Four of those twelve churches closed down permanently and ceased all masses, services and sacraments.
The reason for the merge was because of the lowered attendance rate of the churches in question. Although 55% percent of Staten Island residents are Catholic, the number of people consistently attending church is decreasing with every year.
The Archdiocese was hoping by combining some churches, and eliminating some parishes all together, they could raise the numbers of attendance for each church. However, with the positive effects always come negative effects as well.
By merging these churches, Staten Island residents lost their family parishes. Churches they made every sacrament in and hoped their kids would too. Parishes where they meet their best childhood friend.
Priests and clergy have lost their parishes as well, the familiar faces and friends they have made over years and years disappearing into a crowd of mixed and merged parishes.
“That parish was a part of my life for at least a quarter of a century, an important part,” said Marge Hornblower, a parishioner who attended the last mass at St. Paul’s church in New Brighton last year to say her goodbyes.
Hornblower now attends a different church for weekly service, but admits she “still misses her own parish very dearly.”
Another church on Staten Island who was forced to say their goodbyes was St. Mary of the Assumption in Port Richmond.
“I was married here, confirmed here, had communion here. Me and my friends spent our whole teenage years here, working and helping here,” said Helen Giorlando, who traveled from Rockland County, New York to attend the last mass last year.
She attends church in Rockland County now, but had hoped that her children would consider coming back to St. Mary’s to get married in her old parish.

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Wrath, judgement, charity, grace, religion and relationship. Finding the right balance between those things can be a real challenge. What matters most to God, and how does He want his followers to act on that? "The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy" by Timothy Keller was a great resource in building this series.
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I saw some puppies at the roadside. Someone had abandoned them near a church called Shrine Hills. But nobody got them for weeks, so they were all very skinny and starving. I always keep dog food in the car and I fed them all of it.
I then went to the Happy Animals Club to get the truck and rescued them right away. Luckily they were all still there, and we even found another one! There are six puppies and all of them are boys. I named them Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Bohr, Planck, and Pascal. Here they are at Apartment 1.
One of the puppies was so weak he couldn't eat. We used a syringe to feed him Recovery, which is a special dog food for sick dogs, until he started eating. He's still smaller than the others, but he's okay now.
Correction Update: It turned out that Planck is actually a girl!

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The heroes have surrounded the place, not letting a single villain to sneak past their formation. Police sirens are blaring, echoing in the night of the city. This rescue operation is personal to Eraserhead, but he keeps himself in check so no mistakes can be made.
Bunch of human traffickers decided to target and kidnap his boyfriend Hizashi Yamada, otherwise known as Present Mic. The witness saw a group of villains attack him after his radio show, this has caused the erasure hero many sleepless nights for almost three weeks now.
Until they finally found their base.
Eraser dashes from shadow to shadow, keeping his head low. Soon as he hears footsteps, the hero swings himself to the human sized gap on the ceiling, supporting himself with his hands as few villains passes by below him. The pro releases himself and deals with these unsuspecting crooks, leaving the neatly tied package for his allies to collect.
Objective is to locate where the stairs to the basement are, to count the guards and possibly defeat them alongside with Edgeshot who's following somewhere behind him, not coming in his way if he needs to use his quirk.
Sounds of fighting in the distance makes him nervous, the man he loves is reported to be the only victim right now. They might use him as a shield, threaten to kill him, or he might not be here at all anymore which is his biggest worry. He has no idea about his boyfriend's condition, the thought of him being in life threatening danger fuels and motivates him.
'Hang in there Zashi!! I'm coming to get you!!' He wraps his capture weapon around the villain who just showed up around the corner, smashing the guy to the nearby wall so he can immediately cuff him and carrying on.
"Psst, Eraser." Edgeshot whispers. A hand appears out of nowhere to point at what they were looking for. The raven sends out a message to the other rescuers, not wasting precious time as he finds a way to knock the villains out quietly.
The people here are no match for him without their quirks. Eraser hopes that he can get Hizashi out of this place soon as possible tho, his beloved sunshine doesn't belong here, no one is allowed to stand between them.
He jumps down the stairs and dodges right away behind a concrete pillar as the bullets start to rain on him.
"Well, well, well. Someone made it this far.~" Four of them have mutation quirks, two of them unknown. Eraser signals to the ninja hero, it's his moment to take them by surprise. "You came for that loudmouth right? What if you just leave him here and go be a pain in the ass somewhere else?" Like he would ever agree to that.
"Demanding something that's never going to happen won't help your situation. Release Mic and surrender when you still have a chance to do this peacefully." The pro warns. 'One villain down.' He doesn't have to see that the other has gone around them to silently deal with them.
"Ya sure about that pal? You're alone right now so it's easy to do the same that we did to him.~" Eraser bites his lower lip, not letting the villains get to him.
Second down, he needs to keep the distraction up. "Present Mic is one of the strongest heroes i have ever met, he won't fall from the hands of villains like you." This seems to amuse them. The raven hopes that none of them notices their missing mates.
"What if he's already ruined?" A painful sting on his heart hammers on the erasure hero's chest. He inhales deeply to compose himself, now it's not the right moment to become rash. They might also be lying.
Chuckling as the third and fourth villain goes unnoticed. "That's a really terrible joke." He leaves his hiding spot, activating 'Erasure.' Spurting towards the two left, he hops to the wall as the spring mutation villain attempts to grab him. As he gets momentum, Eraser leaps through the air with his capture weapon unravels around his neck, sending the cloths to bound his cocky enemies together with no mercy.
"Oi!! Where the hell rest of us went!?" Edgeshot shows up, the villains flinch of the presence of another hero.
"Locked up in empty cells, just like you will be." The man dips down to their level. "You should have listened to Eraserhead when he gave you a choice to surrender."
The other villain spits at the ninja hero's face, Edgeshot frowns and wipes it casually off.
"New option." Eraser tightens the bounds. "Maybe don't disrespect the authorities and tell where you're hiding Mic." He says in grave tone, patience is running low.
"Cell number thirtyseven. That bastard won't stand loud noises possibly ever again so i don't get why you want him back." The hero's blood runs cold.
The other pro knocks them out and lets him to hurry at the place where they are keeping his lover. Door after door he finds the right one, lock picking it carefully he swings it open.
His darling Hizashi is laying on the floor, shackled from his every limb. That isn't the thing which horrifies him the most.
The blondes arms and legs are closer to paws than anything that resembles a human, big drooping ear like things are bit over his waist, almost completely white patches are plastered on his back, a strange fur ball where tailbone lies, nose just slightly pinker that he almost missed that tiny detail.
All these features reminds him of a rabbit.
He runs to his beloved to inspect him closer, injection marks hide underneath the neglected hair. 'Drugged.' Eraser grits his teeths as he searches for pulse, relieved when he finds it. Hizashi looks sick in top of all this, body misshapen and hardly moving.
"I'm going to get you out of here babe, then we go to the hospital to get you treated." He pets the blonde as he speaks to him softly, removing the chains from his wrist and legs, bloodied from struggle. There's so many bruises and cuts, beaten up by the barbarians who took him away.
The pro hero hears that someone is coming this way, he takes a defense position between the door and his boyfriend. "We cleared all of them Eraser!! Did you find…" The R-rated hero, Midnight comes around the corner, he manages to relax a little when it wasn't the enemy. "Oh my gosh, what did they do to him?" She covers her mouth as she enters, staring at the blondes broken figure.
"I don't know yet…" The raven turns back to work, back to freeing his sunshine. "Call the medical team here, the sooner they get to him, the better." The woman makes a noise of agreement, grabbing her phone so they can finish this rescue mission.
"Uuumm, Eraser?" He grunts and turns to see her, and then what she's pointing at.
There's a piles of newspapers at the corner of the room which he didn't pay attention to, and a bed made of hay. A water bottle is hanging from the wall next to a half full trough of plain salad.
"What the actual fuck!!" The rage boils inside his veins. "Did they really dared to treat him like some animal!!" Eraser growls, he's going to make sure that those villains will get a long sentence, especially the one who used their quirk on him.
"Interrogating them won't be a simple task, none of them want to cooperate with us."
"Don't worry Midnight, i'm use to play the bad cop so they better give us answers." She snorts as he gets the last limb free.
"Remind to never mess with you when you get this furious." He huffs. 'Not like you can ever get me this mad.'
Eraser needs to ignore his wrath for a while to observe his precious Hizashi, still sleeping deeply in a drug filled slumber. Dirty for living in such unsanitary place with carelessly treated wounds, bandaged loosely from here and there.
"Sorry that i didn't find you earlier Zashi, please wake up soon." He mutters, Midnight comes to pat on his shoulder.
The erasure hero takes off his goggles when the medical team finally arrives, personally escorting them to the ambulance where he's advised to follow them with a different ride. Hero can't complain, even if he wants to be selfish. He lets them to take care of his lover, when he still has duty to report everything he did and saw in there. Police officers offers to drive him to the hospital after he's done, not keeping the lovebirds apart any longer as Midnight says.
The whole trip there is full of anxiety, worry, fear, uneasiness, dread. The erasure hero needs to know how this alteration was necessary to the villains, he can't forget what one of them said to him, about what if he's already ruined.
The raven hopes that he's allowed to stay at Hizashi's bedside so he won't be alone when he awakens, only wanting to say how much he missed him.

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As the G20 puppets debate our fate, do you feel adequately represented? This is how the NWO is feeding us “democracy” as a “control system”….
One of the idea’s being discussed by “democracy’s representatives” is how to control any public dissent or protest. As an example, they are using the G20 meeting to provoke and prod protestors. They are using many “agent provocateur’s” and riot police to convince the public, that they care for your safety. What they really want is more control, more militarized police, and a complete Global shutdown of our freedom.
They are also debating how to limit public access to the internet.
Do you feel that these people in the picture truly represent you?
I was heartened to see “1000 Gestalten” as a peaceful protest. Art should be used to Protest and Survive.
Here is a clip of one of our songs, “no soldier” from the album “waiting here for you” set to the brilliant performance art “1000 Gestalten”

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We often see trends, for home, fashion and interiors but the majority of people spend most of their time within their work place, so we ask…what trends are happening there? Should we be expecting bulky furniture, stuffy offices and corridors overpopulated with bookcases? I think not! Of course we need to be realistic here, not […]
As commercial interior designers and furniture suppliers we had the honour of recently attending the opening of Bourn Hall’s new purpose-built fertility clinic in Wickford, Essex. What a pleasure it was to be there and celebrate the opening of the Clinic.

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A heat wave's lamented victim: The mango, India's king of fruits
A heat wave's lamented victim: The mango, India's king of fruits
The heat wave is a vivid example of the challenge India faces in ensuring its food security as the effects of climate change worsen, compounding its difficulties in raising agricultural productivity to international standards to feed a growing population of nearly 1.4 billion
By Suhasini Raj
Published: May 26, 2022
Unripe mangoes that fell during a recent storm are gathered in Malihabad, India, May 23, 2022. Blistering spring temperatures have devastated crops of the country’s most beloved fruit. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
MALIHABAD, India — No fruit in India is as universally loved and as eagerly anticipated as the mango, which, for one brief window each year, cools and sweetens the long days of summer.
Mangoes are added to kebabs, used to sour dishes and pureed with mint to make refreshing drinks. Connoisseurs argue fervently about which of India’s dozens of varieties — each with a distinct flavor, color and texture — are best and disagree politely about the correct way to eat the fruit: by cutting it into slices or by sucking the juice straight from the top.
But this year, this centuries-old ritual is imperiled. As blistering heat has struck northern India weeks earlier than usual, mango crops have been devastated, threatening a way of life for the thousands of small farmers who grow the fruit and the millions more who consume it.
The heat wave is a vivid example of the challenge India faces in ensuring its food security as the effects of climate change worsen, compounding its difficulties in raising agricultural productivity to international standards to feed a growing population of nearly 1.4 billion.
The dangers of a hotter future are achingly visible on a small farm in Malihabad, a prime northern mango-growing district, where Mohammed Aslam tends about 500 trees.
A few months ago, his mango trees were the picture of health, their deep green leaves glistening above the well-hydrated soil and their branches bearing perfect clusters of white flowers. Then India experienced its hottest March in 122 years of record-keeping, with temperatures averaging nearly 92 degrees Fahrenheit and soaring as high as 104. The mango flowers withered and died before bearing fruit.
Virtually none of Aslam’s trees, spread over 4 acres, produced mangoes. In a normal year, they would have yielded more than 25,000 pounds of fruit.
“I have never witnessed this phenomenon before in my lifetime,” he said as he looked over his farm in the state of Uttar Pradesh one recent afternoon, lamenting the thousands of dollars he stood to lose on the failed harvest.
Aslam is one of hundreds of farmers who have watched helplessly as the intense heat of March continued into the hottest April in 50 years and then carried on into May. Climate scientists, in a report issued Monday, said the chances of such a heat wave in India had increased by at least 30 times since the 19th century.
The heat has far exceeded the optimal temperature for fertilization of mango trees, which is around 77 degrees Fahrenheit, said Dheeraj Kumar Tiwari, a scientist at an agricultural university in Uttar Pradesh.
India is the world’s largest mango producer, accounting for nearly 50% of the global crop. Much of it is consumed domestically, but the country exports tens of millions of dollars’ worth of mangoes each year to the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Germany and the United States. Over the past decade, India has been trying to penetrate markets in other European Union countries as well.
In the past, export growth has been limited by the higher costs of Indian mangoes compared with those from countries like Brazil, Peru, Israel and Pakistan. India has been striving to increase productivity, which would lower costs.
Even before the extreme heat, India’s mango exports had been badly damaged by the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, with shipments abroad shrinking by almost 50% last year. India’s top export organization had hoped for a big turnaround this year as the Indian and U.S. governments eased trade rules.
Instead, severe weather has hurt yields not just in northern India but also in the south, which has been hit by heavy, untimely rain.
In Uttar Pradesh, the northern mango-growing powerhouse, a government agriculture official estimated that mango production in the state would fall by close to 20% this year. The Mango Growers Association said the yield in the northern mango-growing belt would fall by closer to 70%.
In the state of Andhra Pradesh, in the south, the heavy rains delayed the mango plants’ flowering by a month. By the time the fruits emerged, it was too hot, and many dropped from the branches prematurely.
B. Sreenivasulu, deputy director in the horticulture department of the Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh, said that during the heavy rainfall that lashed the area in November and December, when flowering occurs, farms were inundated, and many riverside trees were uprooted.
Cultivation of mangoes in the district, the most productive in the state, has been reduced by at least 30% this season. “This time, the climate change effect was so visible,” Sreenivasulu said. “Like never before.”
The harsher conditions threaten mango-growing cultures with roots stretching back hundreds of years.
The Malihabad district in Uttar Pradesh is known for delectable varieties like the Dasheri, which is named after a village in the area. The district is home to numerous families who have been growing the fruit for at least three generations. Most farmers in Malihabad own small plots of land and depend solely on mangoes for their livelihood.
One recent afternoon, against the backdrop of the serene beauty of the mango orchards lining both sides of a smooth highway in Malihabad, farmers who had gathered at a roadside stand expressed anxiety about the future. They discussed diversifying into other fruits and vegetables or selling off their lands.
Nadeem Ahmad, a third-generation mango farmer, took a long breath as he walked onto his small farm next to the highway. He pointed toward trees that would normally be laden with fruit this time of year.
“With a heavy heart, I will have to start chopping these trees down if this pattern continues,” he said. “The soul of a farmer shudders at seeing these fruitless trees.”
Across from Ahmad’s farm, Aslam said he was living in “acute tension” over a mango crop yield that was merely 5% of previous years’. His 14-year-old son said he did not want to carry on the family business when he grew up.
“There will not be enough fruit even for my children,” Aslam said, his square forehead creasing under the strong afternoon sun. He noted that the hardships had forced him to postpone his daughter’s wedding.
“No mango, no life,” he added, his words tapering off in a small voice.

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The Un-Sweet Truth: Sugar & Aging
The holy month of Ramadan is upon us and every one is busy preparing sahoor and breakfast menu-lists to cater to family and friends during the much celebrated & cherished month. From my past experiences I know that every Ramadan we get carried away in our preparations of delicacies and subsistence hence, today I’d like to acquaint you with negative effects of food on skin especially sugar.
When most of us eat one chocolate biscuit too many, our biggest worry is that the sugar hit will head straight to our hips. Yet the most lasting damage caused by a sweet tooth could be an upsurge in wrinkles rather than extra padding around the tummy. As we get older, eating too much sugar starts to show on our faces in the form of fine lines, dull skin tone and sagging.
How sugar can become a visible reminder of the guilty pleasures of our indulgent past causing premature wrinkles & sagging?
Answer lies in a process called glycation. Once sugar molecules enter in our bodies they attach to fats and proteins leading to production of AGEs (advanced glycation end products) that cause protein fibers to become stiff and malformed.
Unfortunately, the proteins in our skin that are most prone to glycation happen to be the same ones that make a youthful plump complexion: collagen and elastin. Post glycation, they become discolored, weak and less supple, which then shows up on the skin as wrinkles, sagginess and a loss of radiance.
A Fact Of Life:
It’s important to note that refined sugar is not the only culprit. Whole grains, fruits and vegetables also turn to glucose when digested, but sugars released from these food groups causes much less damage and these foods are necessary for our health. Fact of life is we cannot & should not completely eliminate all types of sugar from our diets.
Thankfully, there are many options to fight off the unwanted results of glycation.
- Diet: With regards to your diet, stay away from white sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (candies, confectionery, bakery products, soft & soda drinks etc.), which studies have found increases the rate of glycation by 10 folds, along with simple carbohydrates.
- Food additives: Ginger, cinnamon, cumin, green tea, black pepper, and basil. According to a report in the British Journal of Nutrition (2008), ginger reduced sugar-protein AGE formation by an incredible 93 percent under experimental conditions. Under these testing conditions, cinnamon was still a very close second at 88 percent inhibition of AGE formation, followed by cumin, green tea, black pepper, and basil.
- Supplementations: Carnosine, Garlic and Alpha Lipoic Acid. You can also take supplemental carnosine, an amino acid that has been shown to protect against AGE buildup. A study, published in the European Journal of Pharmacology (2007), has shown that aged garlic extract (specifically, Japanese Kyolic aged garlic) also helps to eliminate AGE-promoting chemicals. Alpha Lipoic Acid a potent antioxidant helps repair damaged proteins post glycation.
- Skin care is also important to slow glycation. Products that contain viable AGE fighters began to appear in the market five years ago. Now that glycation is widely known as a major cause of aging, there are plenty of anti-aging creams containing AGE fighters.
- Products with green tea extract have proven to significantly interfere with the glycation process, while they also stimulates collagen synthesis. So, use a product that contains this antioxidant-rich ingredient, or drink it regularly, to protect your skin from glycation.
- Blueberry extract has collagen-restoring powers and also helps fight advanced glycation end products.
- Retinoids stimulate the fibroblasts to build new collagen hence help eradicate damage by glycation processes. Some dermal fillers and mesotherapy products also stimulate fibroblasts and fall into this category.

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Chef Michael White breezed into town and (after a short detour past Corner Table Marvel bar, TBF Cafe and Bar La Grassa), headed into the kitchen at Spoon and Stable to kick off the Synergy Series. The quarterly held dinner parties are being thrown by chef Gavin Kaysen, perhaps best known as the guy who made the unbelievable decision to walk away from a successful career in New York City and open up a restaurant in Minneapolis' North Loop. Kaysen has called in some of his most celebrated chef friends to put on dinner parties inside his restaurant to raise money for some charities that are near to his heart. Chef White was the first chef to visit as a part of the series and the meal was gorgeous.
Tickets were sold out for the event, but a few lucky walk-ins were able to taste a couple of special dishes made just for the bar area. Kaysen noted that not every seat was filled all night long. That means for the next chef in the series, chef Michael Anthony's dinner is sold out, but there will be seats in the bar for a few lucky diners.
Kaysen recalled, "The second day of the event, Michael and his team spent two hours teaching my entire team how to make 20 different shapes of pasta….that was a master class for my team, in fact, we put the tray in the freezer so we could always look back on it - my team came up to me everyday after the event thanking me for bringing this here…but for me, the reason i brought him was to expose him to our great town and what we are building here."
Tickets for dinner with April Bloomfield go on sale August 15 for an October 13 dinner later this year. Until we get our tickets to the next dinner, here's what we missed.

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It Tuesday and you know what that means! It's time for another Tiddly Inks Challenge. For this fortnights challenge our task is to create a RED, WHITE and BLUE creation!! With the 4th of July coming up in the US I think this would be the perfect time to create a patriotic card.... But if you live in Australia ...Well, who doesn't like a red, white and blue combo, so there is no excuse for you not to join in!! I must admit I struggled with this card. Not because of the gorgeous image of Wryn and Emmy BFF but because my mojo has gone in hiding and I can't seem to talk it round into coming back!!
I printed off the image onto white card stock and them decided to paper piece the girls dresses. The rest of the image I coloured in with my Prismacolor pencils. The "You & Me" sentiment is from Hero Arts.
Sorry about the fuzzy photo!!!


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As President Donald Trump ramps up immigration enforcement through large-scale raids, many more people, especially immigrant children, may find themselves deported because they do not have lawyers.
Starting in late 2013, an uptick in gang violence in Central America began driving a large number of unaccompanied alien children to the Mexican-U.S. border. Tens of thousands of children, sometimes unaccompanied by a guardian, turned to the United States to plead of asylum or some other form of humanitarian status for a chance to legally stay in the country. Because of the swell in the immigration court system, the former Obama administration put these children on a so-called “rocket docket,” calling on immigration judges to adjudicate their cases as rapidly as possible, often to the consternation of immigrant advocates and lawyers.
Nearly four years after these children began showing up on the U.S. southern border, there remains an overwhelming number of pending cases of these unaccompanied kids that still have to be adjudicated — 88,069 to be exact as of August 2017, according to data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. There were so many children that the Juan Osuna, the director of the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, said their cases put “unprecedented pressure” on the court system.
Culled from a Freedom of Information Act request from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the data published Thursday found that there were fewer new cases being heard for the first time in 2017. The current backlog of 88,069 cases is “four times the number of new UAC cases, or unaccompanied alien children, that reached the court during the first eleven months of [the 2017 fiscal year].”
The TRAC data also revealed that immigrant children whose cases were seen for the first time in 2017 were less likely to get legal representation than their peers in previous years. According to TRAC, three out of four children whose cases originated in 2017 did not have lawyers. That’s almost a threefold jump from 2015, when three out ten children were unrepresented.
Multiple reports have shown that people have a better chance of winning their cases when they are able to have a legal representative help them navigate through the immigration court system. According to a 2016 American Immigration Council report, immigrants fare better at every stage of the adjudication process if they are represented by a legal representative, including release from detention and access to relief from deportation that they may not have been aware of.
Not all immigrants are lucky enough to have legal representation, however. While individuals have the right to counsel in the immigration court system, they must also bear the financial burden and knowledge of obtaining a lawyer. The civil court system, which differs from the criminal justice system in many ways, does not guarantee the constitutional protections of the Sixth Amendment, or the right to legal representation.

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In this tutorial I am going to show how to create a teaser movie poster using only Photoshop. Here I will make a background with texture image and then I added to the main role is two models (male and female). To create this artwork I just add adjustment layer, filter (Camera Raw) and custom brush. Enjoy!
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Make a My Partner Movie Poster In Photoshop
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You are crouched behind a tank at the Delta Force Paintball Strathmore centre near Calgary, and you can hear the opposing team getting closer. You sneak a look and squeeze the trigger a few times. Only one lonely paintball shoots out and slams against the barricade hiding the enemy player. Out of ammo! Think fast. If they realise you just ran short, they will storm your position and you’ll be out. Thankfully though, you are packing plenty of spare paintball bullets in the paintball ammo pack that we provided free with your entry.
400 Balls, Quick Access
Your battle pack holds four ammo pods, each holding 100 paintballs. The pods are held in convenient, side access pockets in a tactical, combat style belt. A quick grab at the velcro pocket strap and you are set to dump 100 balls into the gun hopper and start cutting down the enemy players within seconds.
As a secondary function, your paintball ammo pack is strapped around your midriff and provides an extra barrier of protection against paintball hits. With a full head mask on, a padded neck collar, a paintball bullet-proof vest and then this combat waist belt in place you have plenty of reasons to be confident any hit you might take isn’t going to hurt at all.
The Delta Force Paintball ammo packs are another way we stand out from the other paintball operators and deliver a level of professionalism well beyond the capabilities of others.

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text: Daniel Monaghan Recent posts by Daniel Monaghan 23rd September 2022 The Government’s new ‘Growth Plan’ does very little for those struggling to make ends meet. 26th August 2022 Why energy ownership matters 17th August 2022 Labour Party Conference Fringe Events 2022 – Dirty money: why we need a more transparent and fair tax system 4th August 2022 Labour Party Conference Fringe Events 2022 – Food Justice: Can the Government’s National Food Strategy Deliver? 27th July 2022 Labour Party Conference Fringe Events 2022 – Sharing power and wealth: Why the UK needs a co-operative economy 11th May 2022 While it was a missed opportunity, there are announcements in the Queen’s Speech which can be more co-operative and progressive. 6th April 2022 The Government’s decision to sell Channel 4 risks damaging a much-loved national institution and cultural asset. 1st April 2022 We need co-operative solutions to the cost of living crisis. 29th March 2022 Power to Change’s new report provides a strong argument on why community-led initiatives are a key way to unlocking our high streets. 23rd March 2022 Did the Spring Statement really deliver “security” for struggling families?


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What might Richard Nixon and the Charles Manson have in common? What might Gerald King-Ford and John Lenin's assassin have in common? What might Ronald Reagan and Lt. Col. (Dr.) High Priest Michael Aquino have in common? What might Reverend Billy Graham and Michael Aquino and George H.W. Bush have in common? Where do President George W. Bush Jr., Vice President "Dick" Cheney, Reverend Pat Robertson, and Reverend Tim LaHaye fit into this picture? What might this spider's web of intrigue reveal to us? Are the "born agains" in and around the White House REALLY "born agains?" Or are they something-quite different-indeed?
If you are interested in the Satanic cult scare-the child sexual abuse epidemic-the allegations of child ritual abuse that have come forth over the past couple of decades-the makeup of some of our most notorious killers, serial killers, and killer-cult gurus . this book is for YOU. And ya' might get more ('Tis sad to say .) than you bargained for.
This is an important book. It is a work of the heart. It is the work of a broken heart.
My condolences (I kid you not) to all who read it . I hope we can somehow make a difference.


EghtesadOnline: Supporting legitimate governments in the region is Iran's inalterable policy, said on Friday Ali-Akbar Velayati, Secretary-General of the Global Assembly of Islamic Awakening.
Supporting legitimate governments in Iraq and Syria is part of Iran's inalterable policy, Velayati told reporters in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
He noted that Iran supported the Syrian and Iraqi governments at the request of the two countries, according to IRNA.
Velayati voiced hope for the defeat of terrorist groups and their advocates, adding that Iran is not directly involved in liberation of Mosul.
The official said that holding the Global Assembly of Islamic Awakening in Baghdad shows the commitment to fighting terrorism in the Islamic World.
Velayati on Wednesday left Tehran for Baghdad to participate in the 9th meeting of the supreme council of the world body.
The meeting, which will be hosted by Head of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Ammar Hakim, is expected to be attended by top figures from different countries.
It will take place from October 22-23.


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1.) Goodfellas 2.) Kill Bill (Vol 1 and 2) 3.) Toy Story 4.) Pulp Fiction 5.) Reservoir Dogs 6.) Black Panther 7.) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 8.) Saving Private Ryan 9.) Liar Liar 10.) Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy 11.) Malcolm X
Thirteen Days Raiders of the Lost Ark A Few Good Men Monty Python and the Holy Grail Waiting for Guffman The Fugitive Aladdin Blade Runner Harry Potter movies Krull Ghostbusters (original) JFK The Manhattan Project Aliens The Usual Suspects Inglorious Basterds Willow
Probably many more I'm forgetting...
I'm actually 27. What? Just because I like Toy Story? Sorry I grew up with it, my favorite childhood movie and it's actually a good fucking movie.
Y'all wanna test my manhood? I'll beat the shit outta your asses. Then we'll see who's the 12 year old here. Faggots.
OP here, man you guys have good taste in movies.
Oh Harry Potter & LotR too
No, not because you like toy story, but because you like black panther, episode 6 is your favourite, you like liar liar and kill bill is high then reservoir dogs and pulp fiction
Child-tier movies in this thread. The correct answer is The Seventh Seal.
Take a look at Fight Club lately. The cinematography has not aged a bit. Big Lebowski is also as classic as ever. 20+ years on those now, damn. I have a certain disdain for modern movies by the way they try to earn a "quick buck" rather than make a good piece of film, in this throwaway society. Yet the classics are all still timeless to this day.
I only like about half of all Lynchs shit but that's one of my favorite of his. finally a non plebbit tier movie ITT ffs
Need more film directors like Lynch. Not so much as in film style, but a director who stands behind his work 100% and doesn't pander to every fan theory out there or refuses to answer questions.
Big Lebowski Tombstone Killing Zoe
no order, Trading Places Animal House Superbad Fast Times at Ridgemont High The Champ 8 Mile Blame it on Rio Cant Hardly Wait Four Brothers ...and to a lesser extent: The Quick and the Dead Wall Street Glengarry Glen Ross O Brother, Where Art Thou --- I am easily entertained.
I'm not the biggest fan of his movies but James Cameron is pretty based tbh. Lars Von Trier is like that too. too tired to think of more but you have good taste so you'll be fine
Pulp Fiction, Empire Strikes Back, V for Vendetta, The Usual Suspects, Goodfellas, Django Unchained, Full Metal Jacket, Raiders of the Lost Ark, No Country for Old Men, and John Wick. No particular order.
Why black panther? Are you a nigger
>Can't Hardly Wait based
Seven The master American Beauty Rear window It's a mad mad mad mad world No country for old men Black snake moan Alien Reservoir dogs King pin Shaw shank redemption Jaws The aristocrats (doc)
>GlenGary ross So what? You're a good dad, fuck you. Go home and play with your kids.


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County sued over marijuana dispensary
CENTREVILLE — Hippocratic Growth and two other companies have filed a lawsuit against the Queen Anne’s County Commissioners ask- ing the Circuit Court to allow a medical marijuana dispensary at 101 Drummer Drive, Grasonville.
The lawsuit seeks $1
million in compensatory damages from the county and paid to the plaintiffs, including Hippocratic Growth, another company which owns property, and an organization called 101 Drummer Drive.
The company, 111 Scher Lane LLC, is the current owner of the Drummer Drive property, and that company has entered into a contract of sale with the company 101 Drummer Drive LLC, that, after owning the property, would lease it to Hippocratic Growth to operate the dispensary.
Hippocratic Growth and the other plaintiffs filed the suit Feb. 2, asking Queen Anne’s County Circuit Court to instruct county government to “issue a written verification” that a medical marijuana dispensary is a permitted use in the Urban Commercial zoning district, which is where the dispensary is proposed.
Filing the lawsuit doesn’t stop the county from adopting amendments to the zoning ordinance to regulate marijuana facilities. As proposed by the amendments, a medical marijuana dispensary would be allowed in some zoning districts, but with restrictions.
In the case of the Grasonville proposed dispensary, it wouldn’t be allowed under the new regulations because the dispensary would fall within 100 feet of a residential dwelling and abuts an existing residential use, according to Michael Wisnosky, director of county Planning and Zoning.
The County Commissioners have introduced the legislation about the proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance. It’s now up to the Planning Commission to review the amendments and then return the proposal back to the County Commissioners for consideration.
At the meeting on Jan. 31, several commissioners and members of the public said they feared the state legislature will legalize recreational marijuana and it would be sold at the Grasonville site.
When contacted for comment on Monday, Feb. 6, Commission President Steve Wilson said, “I do have a concern that a facility remains open over time, it [will] morph from a quiet dispensary ... into something different. This will happen as the number of prescriptions grow. The facility begins to affect the neighborhood around it.”
Vanessa Lyon, spokesman for the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, said, “According to regulations, an entity seeking licensure with the commission as a grower, processor, or a dispensary is required to meet all local zoning and planning requirements.”
According to the lawsuit, the county zoning staff on Aug. 26, 2015, told Hippocratic Growth’s lawyer that a “medical cannabis dispensary would be treated as a retail establishment, similar to convenience and drug stores.”
Wisnosky declined to comment on that allegation.
This past December, the marijuana commission notified Hippocratic Growth that it was awarded preliminary licensing approval and the commission’s one-year deadline to complete stage two licensing commenced, ending next December.
Hippocratic Growth has spent time and resources in “reliance of the defendants’ position that the dispensary location was properly zoned for a medical cannabis dispensary” to meet the marijuana commission’s deadline.
The county has a legal duty to act and has failed to act for over 15 months, said the lawsuit, and then on Jan. 31 of this year, the county commissioners passed a resolution “effectively prohibiting any further zoning or permit requests related to medical cannabis facilities ,” including the proposed dispensary.
The resolution calls for county staff to contact the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission and to obtain and study all documentation related to applicants interested in locating in Queen Anne’s County.
In addition, the resolution asks the county staff to refrain from issuing any zoning approvals or statements regarding the permissibility of medical marijuana processing and dispensing facilities pending the issuance of a report by the planning staff on the land use implications of such facilities in Queen Anne’s County.
The planning department should submit this report to the marijuana commission by Oct. 1.
The lawsuit says the resolution was adopted without complying with statutory procedural requirements in the county ordinance and created a prohibition on county planning staff acting on Hippocratic Growth’s request for a zoning verification and Hippocratic Growth’s building permit application.
According to the lawsuit, Hippocratic Growth and the property owner where the dispensary is proposed have been harmed and the county is interfering with the implementation of the Maryland medical cannabis program authorized by state law.
County attorney Patrick Thompson declined to comment on the suit. But he did say a hearing is scheduled on Feb. 27 and the judge could grant a temporary restraining order to issue the letter Hippocratic Growth wants or rule the resolution is not legal, or dismiss the case.
A marijuana dispensary has been considered for this site at 101 Drummer Drive in Grasonville.


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Kubota will spotlight latest models
By BRENNA WIEGAND
For the Capital Press
The first Kubota tractor introduced in the U.S. in 1969 was an overnight success, filling a product void for a sub-compact tractor.
Today, Kubota offers products in a wide variety of segments with ag equipment representing 65% of sales.
Over the past four decades, Kubota Tractor Co. has continued to expand its product line, and today Kubota is a leading U.S. marketer and distributor of Kubota-engineered and -manufactured machinery and equipment.
“Kubota is one of the few companies left that will design, engineer, manufacture and distribute the product,” said Brad Wilcox, regional sales manager for Oregon and Southwest Washington, representing 21 dealerships.
“With very few exceptions, we do not farm out tractors to be made by somebody else and brand them for us,” Wilcox said. “There are very few companies in this industry that can say that. If something happens down the road, we’re not pointing fingers at somebody else; we are responsible for that product for years to come.”
Their website also offers a “Build My Kubota” feature allowing customers to spec out a Kubota product, get a base price and use the document to seek a quote.
“It is a very handy tool that allows consumers to do some shopping and see some different options and base prices,” Wilcox said.
Since 1982, Kubota has offered a wide range of financing alternatives through Kubota Credit Corporation, enabling Kubota dealers to tailor a variety of finance and lease programs to meet specific customer requirements.
Wilcox believes this year’s Northwest Ag Show virtual format will have pluses and minuses. Kubota is a major sponsor again this year.
The plus: “We can pull in people from a broader geographical area who can ‘attend’ the show from the comfort of their home or office,” he said. “The minus is there will not be an opportunity for attendees to kick the tires, sit in the seat and grow attached to the equipment.”
Their goal is to achieve the show’s objectives, including educating attendees on new farm practices and showing off the latest farm equipment.
“By going virtual we should be able to duplicate that same experience,” Wilcox said. “We will show product demo videos and will be ready to answer questions as they arise.
“I’ve been with the company for about 23 years, and the coworker that will be with me has worked for us for close to 15 years,” Wilcox said. “Between the two of us we can answer quite a few questions and if we can’t, we’ll get back to you.”


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The Standard Model of Particle Physics has stood up to a lot of beatings since the advent of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. New particles have been discovered, including the fabled Higgs Boson. Now, new experiments at the LHCb site are showing deviations that have some scientists believing they may have found particles never before detected. But, as with everything in quantum physics, not everything may be as clear as scientists like.
New Particles May Mean New Physics and Deviations from the Standard
This combination of two quarks, one matter, one anti-matter, usually decays extremely quickly into other various particles of matter. In this most recent experiment, however, those muons did not break down as often as predicted. This is a violation of the property known as “Lepton Universality”, and it has scientists puzzled, as it would require the presence of some previously unknown particles.
The deviation is not massive. It was 2.2 to 2.5 standard deviations from what was expected, or “sigma”. Larger deviations have been seen before, and then explained as more data was collected. Scientists are not so sure this time, as this result also occurred before. In an experiment three years ago, scientists observed a similar anomaly when looking at a different species of meson particle. Those experiments showed a 2.6 sigma deviation.
Head scientist on the project, Vincenzo Vagnoni of CERN, is not sure whether they have found new particles…. yet. However, he is hopeful that this tantalizing evidence will lead to more discoveries in the future. More experiments will be forthcoming.
“This is a tantalizing hint that something might be wrong with the Standard Model, but we need more statistics to definitely establish that this is not a weird statistical fluctuation.”


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Every era faces a unique set of challenges and dilemmas, but ours can credibly lay claim to some of the most complex and vexing that humankind may have ever confronted. From climate change to growing inequality to a rising tide of refugees: we face an intricate mesh of overlapping and interdependent difficulties, one that is pushing the limits of our existing policy and governance capabilities (Data for Policy, 2015; Meyer et al., Reference Meyer, Crowcroft, Engin and Alexander2017). What we require today are not so much (or not only) new solutions, but new ways for arriving at solutions (Susha et al., Reference Susha, Janssen and Verhulst2017). We need a twenty-first century paradigm of governance and policy making.
Data, it is increasingly clear, will be central to this paradigm (Pentland, Reference Pentland2013; Kirkpatrick, Reference Kirkpatrick2012). Along with ever increasing computer storage and analytics capabilities, massive amounts of data generated from citizens, devices, and sensors provide decision makers the opportunity to monitor and manage public infrastructure in real time and predict future patterns when used responsibly (Engin and Treleaven, Reference Engin and Treleaven2019; Janssen and Helbig, Reference Janssen and Helbig2018). Data have the potential to transform every part of the policy-making life cycle—agenda setting and needs identification; the search for solutions; prototyping and implementation of solutions; enforcement; and evaluation (Janssen and Helbig, Reference Janssen and Helbig2018). These are all critical, interlinked steps in addressing our societal challenges, and each of these needs a radical rethink.
The idea that data could be a key differentiator is, of course, not a new one. Its potential has been evident for some time now (Wang et al., Reference Wang, Kung and Byrd2018), especially in the business world (Henke et al., Reference Henke, Bughin, Chui, Manyika, Saleh, Wiseman and Sethupathy2016), but also in the policy community, where efforts to harness the power of information have yielded positive results in areas as disparate as gender equality (Fatehkia et al., Reference Fatehkia, Kashyap and Weber2018), improving urban traffic flows (Zhao et al., Reference Zhao, Zhang, An and Liu2018), and enhancing regulatory compliance (Heat Seek, n.d.; Credit Suisse, n.d.). Successful data initiatives have been deployed by governments around the world in both developing and developed countries (Verhulst and Young, Reference Verhulst and Young2017a). Such initiatives have led to a growing recognition that data are and should increasingly be part of any effective governance toolkit.
Despite such encouraging results, it is true that the policy world has generally lagged behind business in its use of data and data methods (Hou et al., Reference Hou, Lunsford, Sides and Jones2011). Policy–data interactions or governance initiatives that use data have been the exception rather than the norm, isolated prototypes and trials rather than an indication of real, systemic change. There are various reasons for the generally slow uptake of data in policymaking, and several factors will have to change if the situation is to improve. In particular, advocates of more data (and we include ourselves among this number) will need to overcome the following obstacles and limitations:
Despite the number of successful prototypes and small-scale initiatives, policy makers’ understanding of data’s potential and its value proposition generally remains limited (Lutes, Reference Lutes2015). There is also limited appreciation of the advances data science has made the last few years. This is a major limiting factor; we cannot expect policy makers to use data if they do not recognize what data and data science can do.
The recent (and justifiable) backlash against how certain private companies handle consumer data has had something of a reverse halo effect: There is a growing lack of trust in the way data is collected, analyzed, and used, and this often leads to a certain reluctance (or simply risk-aversion) on the part of officials and others (Engin, Reference Engin2018).
Despite several high-profile open data projects around the world, much (probably the majority) of data that could be helpful in governance remains either privately held or otherwise hidden in silos (Verhulst and Young, Reference Verhulst and Young2017b). There remains a shortage not only of data but, more specifically, of high-quality and relevant data.
With few exceptions, the technical capacities of officials remain limited, and this has obviously negative ramifications for the potential use of data in governance (Giest, Reference Giest2017).
It’s not just a question of limited technical capacities. There is often a vast conceptual and values gap between the policy and technical communities (Thompson et al., Reference Thompson, Daly, Keene, Raj and Symons2015; Uzochukwu et al., Reference Uzochukwu, Onwujekwe, Mbachu, Okwuosa, Etiaba, Nyström and Gilson2016); sometimes it seems as if they speak different languages. Compounding this difference in world views is the fact that the two communities rarely interact.
Yet, data about the use and evidence of the impact of data remain sparse. The impetus to use more data in policy making is stymied by limited scholarship and a weak evidential basis to show that data can be helpful and how. Without such evidence, data advocates are limited in their ability to make the case for more data initiatives in governance.
Data are not only changing the way policy is developed, but they have also reopened the debate around theory- versus data-driven methods in generating scientific knowledge (Lee, Reference Lee1973; Kitchin, Reference Kitchin2014; Chivers, Reference Chivers2018; Dreyfuss, Reference Dreyfuss2017) and thus directly questioning the evidence base to utilization and implementation of data within policy making. A number of associated challenges are being discussed, such as: (i) traceability and reproducibility of research outcomes (due to “black box processing”); (ii) the use of correlation instead of causation as the basis of analysis, biases and uncertainties present in large historical datasets that cause replication and, in some cases, amplification of human cognitive biases and imperfections; and (iii) the incorporation of existing human knowledge and domain expertise into the scientific knowledge generation processes—among many other topics (Castelvecchi, Reference Castelvecchi2016; Miller and Goodchild, Reference Miller and Goodchild2015; Obermeyer and Emanuel, Reference Obermeyer and Emanuel2016; Provost and Fawcett, Reference Provost and Fawcett2013).
Finally, we believe that there should be a sound under-pinning a new theory of what we call Policy–Data Interactions. To date, in reaction to the proliferation of data in the commercial world, theories of data management,Footnote 1 privacy,Footnote 2 and fairnessFootnote 3 have emerged. From the Human–Computer Interaction world, a manifesto of principles of Human–Data Interaction (Mortier et al., Reference Mortier, Haddadi, Henderson, McAuley and Crowcroft2014) has found traction, which intends reducing the asymmetry of power present in current design considerations of systems of data about people. However, we need a consistent, symmetric approach to consideration of systems of policy and data, how they interact with one another.
All these challenges are real, and they are sticky. We are under no illusions that they will be overcome easily or quickly.
They were the impetus behind the formation of the international Data for Policy conferences (dataforpolicy.org), launched in 2015. We were interested in initiating an interdisciplinary and cross-sector debate to bridge the gap between large-scale data-processing technologies and existing expert knowledge in major policy domains to make policy development processes more citizen-focused, taking into account public needs and preferences supported with actual experiences of public services. Since then we engaged in several parallel debates on the ethical and privacy concerns associated with such developments and the usability of technologies addressing the needs of diverse stakeholders.
During the past four conferences, we have hosted an incredibly diverse range of dialogues and examinations by key global thought leaders, opinion leaders, practitioners, and the scientific community (Data for Policy, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019). What became increasingly obvious was the need for a dedicated venue to deepen and sustain the conversations and deliberations beyond the limitations of an annual conference. This leads us to today and the launch of Data & Policy, which aims to confront and mitigate the barriers to greater use of data in policy making and governance.
Data & Policy is a venue for peer-reviewed research and discussion about the potential for and impact of data science on policy. Our aim is to provide a nuanced and multistranded assessment of the potential and challenges involved in using data for policy and to bridge the “two cultures” of science and humanism—as CP Snow famously described in his lecture on “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” (Snow, Reference Snow1959). By doing so, we also seek to bridge the two other dichotomies that limit an examination of datafication and is interaction with policy from various angles: the divide between practice and scholarship; and between private and public.
Importantly, our intention is not simply to advocate for greater—and blind—use of data; while we recognize the very real possibilities, we also know that there are risks, and we believe that the ultimate goal is not simply data for the sake of data, but to arrive at a better understanding of how data can be used in an efficient and responsible manner to confront the challenges of our era. Therefore, while our pages will no doubt contain a fair number of authors who advocate the use of data in governance, readers can also expect more nuanced and even skeptical perspectives.
We also see the potential with Data & Policy to extend beyond the idea of a conventional academic journal. The movements towards more open, transparent, and collaborative research—including the sharing of materials not typically published in academic journals—are highly relevant to our project of linking technical, policy, and other expertise and for building trust. Articles published in Data & Policy will be open access: freely available under licensing that allows unimpeded reading, sharing, and reuse, helping us to reach readers and potential authors in academic institutions, government agencies, international, nonprofit, and commercial organizations, and the general public. Beyond this we will encourage the open availability of data, code, and other materials to promote transparency and reuse, albeit recognizing that there are circumstances where this is not possible or responsible. Authors submitting to Data & Policy will be asked to provide a data availability statement that either links to the data underlying the results and other relevant materials or that explains the reasons why these cannot be shared. We are conscious of the need to support authors in this process so we provide information about the different resources that can be used. We encourage authors to think beyond traditional outputs to also share proposals, posters, presentations, and policy-related problems that require investigation.
To try and address the terminology and conceptual gaps that exist between different communities, we will also seek to innovate with the formats published in Data & Policy and the features within them. Articles will be published with a short but prominent policy significance statement to summarize their relevance to policy makers in language that is understandable to the wider public. We are actively soliciting ideas from the Data for Policy and the Data & Policy audiences about the types of content that can help us bridge the communities we are appealing to.
It is essential to say one more thing. Data & Policy is about policy making; it is not about politics. Throughout our enquiries, we will strive to remain ideologically neutral and avoid the political schisms that define so much of public life and discourse nowadays. This does not mean that we are unaware of the social and political contexts within which our papers are written (and will be received), but it does mean that our aspiration is to remain pragmatic and results-oriented. We seek to discover what works and how to replicate successful data initiatives at a larger scale or in different geographies.
So these are our principles: scholarly, pragmatic, open-minded, interdisciplinary, focused on actionable intelligence, and, most of all, innovative in how we will share insight and pushing at the boundaries of what we already know and what already exists. We are excited to launch Data & Policy with the support of Cambridge University Press and University College London, and we’re looking for partners to help us build it as a resource for the community. If you’re reading this manifesto it means you have at least a passing interest in the subject; we hope you will be part of the conversation.


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I've looked quite some time now on a variety of compact SLRs when my old full sized DSLR (Nikon D90) usually allowed to remain at home when I was out on an adventure. However, I have always felt somewhat skeptical that you can get out equivalent image quality with these little cameras in comparison with the larger versions.
But to make a long story short, I bought anyway Email PL7-ball for a couple of months ago. Partly because I, I heard very positive about Olympus compact PEN cameras, but also because I love E-PL7: s retro design, build quality and the wide range of lenses available.
Well, here are my impressions so far:
+ One of the biggest advantages is understood that the E-PL7 is incredibly smooth and compact, especially if, as I've only used full-size DSLR cameras before. Now the camera follows me everywhere and it is not the least bit annoying to carry around.
+ The images it churns out is incredibly fine and is usually better than my Nikon D90 got up. The development has moved forward a lot between these two cameras and that is something you notice.
To E-PL7: s advantage, it feels more vibrant images, the sharpness is better, but what impressed me most is the crazy fast autofocus. It sits almost always right, and even if lighting conditions are less favorable then the image becomes usually perfect.
+ This is the first camera I own that has a tilting touch screen. It was not a dealbreaker when I chose the camera, but I must admit that it is sick easily, directly on the screen, choose where the image you want to add focus and the camera immediately after taking the picture (can be set). It's very easy to navigate around the menus also the touches.
- To send the pictures wirelessly from the camera via wi-fi is quite troublesome. Getting over the images wirelessly to your computer, not at all (not on my iMac anyway) and I'll transfer them to my phone, I have to start up the Olympus app and then fiddle with verifying the camera. Imagine how easy it would have been if, with a single button push, could not pass on images to your computer / phone without having to authenticate and start up apps.
- Menu system is a bit illogical built at certain places in kamerna. There is absolutely no huge problem, but certain functions and settings are trickier to find and modify than should be necessary.
All in all, I am thrilled and I will probably never go back to a full system camera again. Thumb up!

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