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Dental implants are referred to as artificial teeth replacements which are especially made for adults and are proven to be safe and comfortable as well. The implants are installed in the jawbone and are immovable after installation which means that you don’t have to move the implant when brushing your teeth. These dental prosthetics are specifically made in order to provide a strong replacement for the root part of the teeth that may be damaged. It is installed by placing the crown on the jawbone and screwing it in place to top off and seal the implant securely.
What are the cost of dental implants?
The general cost of dental implants will vary depending on the dental clinic you choose to see but the average cost for 1 dental implant will be around $1500 dollars. The price to do a number of implants will be in the thousands. For a exact price on dental implants please book an appointment and we can give you price based on your particular needs.
The many good things brought about by use of dental implants
Basically, dental implants are manufactured in order to restore the proper functioning of the oral cavity when it comes to mastication, which by all means is the role of the teeth. Implants replace missing, damaged, and decayed teeth which are considered totaled or cannot be of good use any longer. Installation of dental implants is referred to as a cosmetic procedure, and it has a set of benefits including allowing one to chew food and giving a great looking smile. Some of these benefits of having dental implants include:
- Provision of natural-looking prosthetics for missing or damaged teeth
- Convenient cleaning and maintenance measures which include usual flossing and brushing of teeth
- Prevents the incidence of shrinkage of the jawbone and gum line which can be caused by gaping spaces due to missing teeth
- Easily replaceable if damaged by blunt trauma
- Unlike dentures, implants don’t need to be removed for cleaning purposes
- No danger of accidental slipping or sliding when speaking, eating, or smiling
- Halts bone loss and it also promotes a more youthful-looking appearance of the client’s mandibular bone structure
- Since dental implants have a shade that is very close to the original color of natural enamel, it is not visually noticeable
Frequently Asked Questions for Dental Implants
What are dental implants?
These implants are composed of a tiny titanium screw that’s installed on the jaw or mandible in order to replace the functioning of damaged or missing teeth. Titanium is known to be the safest alloy that can be inserted into the body without the danger of infection or rejection of the organs, and it also facilitates screwing of the implants on the jawbone for safe anchorage. The titanium screws are installed on the jaw and left in place until it heals. The process may take up to a few weeks, and then afterwards, a new crown shall be replaced.
Why should I get a dental implant?
Dental implants can replace missing or decayed teeth. It has a lesser risk of slipping off when you smile, speak, or eat. It is highly durable and functional at the same time.
How can dental implants help with proper teeth replacement?
Dental implants are placed and secured in the jawbone to replace the missing tooth. An abutment, or a special device is then placed on the screw of the implant; afterwards, a replacement crown implant is then attached to the installed root. Dental implants that are made of high quality porcelain are always the best choice for replacement teeth. The implant is composed of a crown that’s molded to look and feel like the natural enamel coating of the teeth. In order to differentiate the implant from the dental crown, the implant is placed to replace the root of the affected teeth, while the dental crown replaces the entire structure of the missing tooth. When the dental implant and the crown are attached as one, they will look like natural teeth. Together, these dental prosthetics are highly in demand because their function and appearance resembles that of natural teeth.
Diagnostic exams and laboratory tests
First and foremost, the soft tissue in which the missing tooth is located will be assessed through corresponding diagnostic exams in order to rule out potential complications prior to installation of the implant. The diagnostic exams make us of 3D imaging technology in order to provide photographs of the present status of the teeth. These include radiographic scans for taken from cone beams, dental casts, and X-ray images of the teeth. Your lab works should have the best results and clearance statuses that may be needed to rule out complications before the installation of implants should all be cleared prior to the procedure.
How will I be able to identify the best treatment that suits my needs best?
The simplest thing that you can do is to contact or visit us at Sydney Cosmetic Specialists. In that way, booking an appointment for an initial consultation would be made possible. When your day of appointment comes, the possible options for dental treatment shall be presented to you and we can discuss the best plan of care for the treatment that suits you best when it comes to prosthetic tooth replacement. Our esteemed cosmetic dental specialist Dr. Potres will introduce you to our various treatment programs and everything that you may undergo if you choose out practice. We shall be with you hand in hand to help you improve your self-confidence through a healthy and more radiant smile with the safest and most effective tooth replacement procedures that we offer.


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Once again for this series of Doctor Who, Blogtor Who is looking at all the nods and references to adventures which have gone before. This time its the turn of The Haunting of Villa Diodati. So even if you are not already a Mastermind expert on all things in the Whoniverse you can appreciate the little detail as well. Perhaps you are a very knowledgeable Whovian already but did you spot them all?
The Haunting of Villa Diodati features a host of call backs to Doctor Who stories recent and classic, as the story of the Lone Cyberman comes to the forefront.
The Three Mary Shelleys
This episode tells the story of the Doctor’s first ever meeting with Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein. Well, sort of. In fact this is the third Doctor Who story in various media to set an adventure on that very night. Firstly the Big Finish audio play Mary’s Story brings the Eighth Doctor to Villa Diodati to meet Byron, Shelley and the rest. It pushes its buttons a little more bluntly than The Haunting of Villa Diodati. For instance, the Doctor introduces himself as “Dr. Frankenstein.” And an apparently dead body gets resurrected with lightning by Percy Shelley. But it also makes the format busting move of the Doctor taking Mary with him as a companion at the end.
A follow up story has the Doctor and Mary meet The Silver Turk, the historical 19th century chess playing automaton. Inevitably the Turk is revealed to be a Cyberman (while the Turk also inspired Nightmare in Silver’s chess playing Cyberman). Which is less of a case of ‘genius steals, Doctor Who writers get if off the back of a lorry’ and more because once you begin a sentence ‘the Doctor meets Mary Shelly…’ then ‘and they encounter a Cyberman’ is an almost inevitable end to it.
The Tenth Doctor also visits the very same night in the comic story The Creative Spark. In that version the Doctor and Mary meet an alien strongly resembling Boris Karloff’s version of the creature. The alien, seemingly named Frankenstein, causes terror with its appearance and unpredictable behaviour. But the Doctor manages to resolve the confusion and clean the brain storm afflicting Frankenstein.
So, as is often the case with Doctor Who, the past is multiple choice.
The Byron Connection
Sometimes the Doctor Who universe can feel like a surprisingly small place. Last season the Doctor encountered King James I, and wisely skipped over mentioning being his cousin-in-law. And this season started with the Doctor finding herself in 1834 in the company of Ada Lovelace, the self styled ‘poetical scientist’ – the first of what we would call a computer programmer. The Haunting of Villa Diodati takes us back eighteen years to 1816. At this point Ada is only five months old, and Byron is living on the shores of Lake Geneva because he is “separated from his wife [and] the rumours are so disasterous he cannot return to England.” In fact the crux of the scandal was his abandonment of Ada and her mother, claiming that being a father was stifling his genius. Father and daughter were never reunited, with Byron dying in 1824 at only thirty-six.
The Cyberman of Many Parts
Only a few episodes ago Captain Jack warned the Doctor not to give the Lone Cyberman what it wants. But more than that, the Lone Cyberman’s a hodge podge of Cyberman body parts appropriate to the Frankenstein theme. His left arm is from the original Cyberman design, as seen in The Tenth Planet and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls. The right upper arm and legs come the first modern re-design, as introduced in 2006’s Rise of the Cybermen. Meanwhile, the main part of the torso and the right lower arm is from their most recent upgrade in 2013’s Nightmare in Silver. There’s some unique touches too, like the new shoulder-pad, trailing cables and smashed up helmet. Overall it’s an effective homage to the whole history of the Cybermen.
“I will not lose anyone else to that!”
We also get a call back to the Cybermen’s most recent appearance, and the fate of Bill Potts. After all, this is the first time the Doctor has encountered them since they converted his student and best friend into one of their own. The Doctor’s bitterness and rage is also a welcome reminder that, as far she’s concerned Bill died on the Mondasian colony ship, a mutilated victim of the Cyberman. After all, she only has a passing reference by a walking talking AI replica that says differently. And the Doctor didn’t seem to place a lot of faith in that memory in Twice Upon a Time.
The Castrolvava Complex
The scenes of the characters repeatedly leaving rooms only to find themselves back in them again calls to mind two different stories. In 1982’s Castrovalva, the Fifth Doctor and his companions become trapped in an infinite recursion in a town where space folds in on itself. And the key to escape, then as now, is to ignore your own perceptions and trust to the way out. In The Haunting of Villa Diodati, though, it’s not a genuine distortion in space but an illusion. In that way it’s more like the Eleventh Doctor story The God Complex, with its spooky computer generated hotel which rearranges or extends its corridors to keep its victims trapped.
Psychic Paper Immunity
The Doctor puts the psychic paper’s failure to impress Ada, Byron, Polidori and Claire down to it getting a bit soggy in the rain. But it’s not without precedent for brilliant writers to see through its influence to see only a blank piece of paper. The same happened with William Shakespeare in The Shakespeare Code.
Doctor Who continues at 7.10pm next Sunday on with Ascension of the Cybermen
The aftermath of the Great CyberWar. The Doctor arrives in the far future, intent on protecting the last of the human race from the deadly Cybermen. But in the face of such a relentless enemy, has she put her best friends at risk? What terrors lie hiding in the depths of space, and what is Ko Sharmus?
Series 12 stars Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor), Bradley Walsh (Graham), Mandip Gill (Yaz) and Tosin Cole (Ryan), with Chris Chibnall as Showrunner and Matt Strevens Executive Producing. Ascension of the Cybermen guest stars Julie Graham (Ravio), Patrick O’Kane (Ashad) and Steve Toussaint (Feekat). It’s written by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Jamie Magnus Stone (Spyfall Part One, Praxeus)

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today held his first hearing as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG). The subcommittee took testimony on the budget requests for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The Financial Services and General Government subcommittee is responsible for allocating $23 billion in taxpayer money to 27 various federal government agencies.
The witness panel attending this hearing included U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph J. Simons.
“The Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee might seem small compared to the others that make up the Appropriations Committee, but we are entrusted with allocating $23 billion in taxpayer dollars, and that’s no small matter,” said Sen. Kennedy. “The departments and agencies funded by this subcommittee are responsible for promoting our nation’s economy, supporting small businesses and ensuring an efficient and fair judicial system, among many other important government priorities. I am honored to serve as the chairman of this subcommittee that plays a role in the daily lives of many Americans.”
Click here or the photo below to watch Sen. Kennedy’s opening statement.

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Dependent on the size of the procedure healing will differ. From small hairline work to large mega sessions. Including the technique used. Donor management and extraction protocols. Some are easier to hide than others. Small procedures can sometimes be hidden under a carefully styled fringe. Larger procedures are harder to hide unless under a hat of some kind. Regardless, hair transplant healing and growth makes the result. A crucial stage of hair transplant healing and growth is the first few days.
The first days are delicate. Be sure not to touch, scratch or wash your hair too aggressively. The following days the skin dries out leaving a thin crust. You will need to gently wash your hair to break down the crust. As you apply more pressure the crusts will lift off. Grafted hairs also come loose with washing. This is normal and part of the natural healing process. By two weeks post-op, your scalp should be clean. Clear of any scabs or crusting. You are left with some transplanted hairs and the skin looking a little red. The redness will fade with time. Emollients like aloe vera or vitamin E oil can help to reduce the look of the redness.
Take care not to expose your scalp to harsh sunlight or sunburn. Also with chlorinated water in swimming pools. If you have any doubts contact the clinic and ask for advice.
Donor zone healing
With FUT the suture needs to be removed around the 10 to 14-days post-op. There can be no signs of dried skin or scabs otherwise the doctor may not be able to remove. FUE, the small extraction holes close and start to fade within a couple of weeks.
FUT needs more care with regards to exercise and movement. To avoid the skin stretching. Healing can be affected by many factors. Wound size and the number of wounds. Very large FUE sessions may affect the speed and quality of healing. The donor healing process may vary in different body areas on the same person. Similarly, the healing may differ in different people depending on their skin types.
Hair transplant healing and growth is an important factor of a hair transplant result. Work issues, friends/family and just getting out and about without feeling too conscious of how you look.
The first few days it helps to sleep in a slightly upright position in bed. Ideally, place your upper body is at a 45-degree angle. Pillows can help to prop you up. This will help to reduce the effects of swelling and graft damage.
Swelling is a side effect of a hair transplant. It will reduce naturally over a period of three to four days. Sleeping position, the use of an ice pack and no long walks will help.
This is rare but is a side effect of a hair transplant. Can occur in the recipient and the donor areas. If you have a concern contact your Clinic.
Alcohol, smoking and more
Avoid alcohol, smoking and sexual activity for the first three days postoperative.
Although a hair transplant is considered a minor surgical procedure you should still rest and refrain from heavy exercise postoperatively. This will vary depending on the FUE or FUT hair transplant technique and you need to follow the instructions from your Doctor.
Keep the recipient area covered and avoid direct sun exposure for the first 15 days, but care should be taken for the first 6 months to not burn your scalp.
Avoid chlorinated water for the first three months, natural or salt/sea water gentle swimming after one month can be resumed.
This can be due to the severing of the small nerves during the procedure; this is nothing to be concerned about and temporary; in some cases, it may last a period of a couple of months as the nerve receptors repair themselves.
Hair Growth Stages
Hair transplant growth is slow and progressive. After healing the hair enters the growth cycles. The transplanted hair shed by around thirty days post-operative.
The hair begins to regrow three months later and over the following months more grows and matures. It is common for the hair to change in colour and texture as it matures and although the majority of hair growth is achieved at twelve months a full result can take eighteen months.
Monthly Growth rate post op (Virgin Scalp Approximates):
One: Grafted hair falls out and goes into a resting phase
Three: Regrowth of grafted hair starts 15-20% yield being common
Six: Overall improvement in the quality and amount of HT hair growing with 40-60%
Nine: 60-80% regrowth, in some cases higher
Usually, by month twelve all the expected yield has grown but the hair can continue to mature in quality.
Repair cases, these figures can vary. Due to the complicated nature of the procedure. Previous operation/s having caused damage to the recipient and donor areas.
A study report in 1975 by Dr. Fitzpatrick helped to classify variants in skin healing and developed a classification system for skins. The classification is also useful in body hair transplant to predict the course that the healing will follow; a brief outline below of Dr. Fitzpatrick‟s Skin 1 and 2 classifications:
Skin type 1- Extremely fair skin (always burns on exces- sive exposure to sunlight but never tans).
Skin type 2- Fair skin (always burns and sometimes tans).
An outline of the healing process for Skin type 1, 2 and 3 as an example during the healing phase,
Redness (erythema) that gradually diminishes to spots, white scarring, depending on various factors the complete healing may take from 4 to 18 months. Rarely 24 months. The more melanocytes (pigment-producing cells), the greater the chance of transient hyperpigmentation in the healing phase. Those with the skin types 3 and 4 (and maybe 2), may follow any of the above 2 patterns of healing.
Under considered conditions this references gives an idea of the healing process involved and what the skin goes through over the days, weeks and months before it is truly healed; obviously it does not take into consideration changes in the healing process possibly caused by not following instructions and how it may elongate areas of healing, making this irrelevant.
The healing process of the body areas is significantly different than the scalp. Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation or dark spots too are hardly ever an issue in the scalp donor area. One of the determining factors may be the larger number of sebaceous glands in scalp donor area compared to other body donor areas. Different body donor areas may differ in their healing processes. The healing process may take different durations on different body areas of the same person even when the very same protocol is used. Similarly, the healing may differ in different people depending on their skin type.
Dr Fitzpatrick Skin Type Classification
1- Extremely fair skin (it always burns on excessive exposure to sunlight but never tans).
2- Fair skin (always burns and sometimes tans).
3- Medium skin (sometimes burns, always tans).
4- Olives skin (Rarely burns, but always tans).
5- Moderately pigmented Brown skin (never burns, but always tans).
6- Markedly pigmented black skin (never burns
but always tans)
Hair Restoration Europe (HRE) is an information and clinic directory. As a result, does not favour or recommend any one clinic. The views of this site are independent of any advice or assessment made by a hair restoration clinic.
HRE takes no responsibility for the advice or assessment you receive from a clinic. Especially a hair transplant. A surgical procedure. With permanent results. Protocols may vary from clinic to clinic. Do not assume all clinic standards are the same. We strongly recommend you spend time and research. Before committing yourself to a decision.

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This is your chance to peek behind the curtain and unshroud the mystery of camshaft lobe design, selecting event timing, optimizing the system stiffness and translating the camshaft intent to the valve through understanding and manipulating your rocker arm geometry.
WHAT TO EXPECT DURING THE COURSE:
We will address issues related to each of these subjects over a 3 day period while we carefully investigate a high-rpm, drag-race competition engine by using data from Combustion Analysis and Dynamic Valve Motion measurement from EFI University’s unique Spintron capabilities.
While we work our way through the camshaft design process, we will take many opportunities to understand the critical concept that we have a “series of dependent events
” conspiring against us and
any change we affect in one event can have adverse effects on other events or components.
While examining the camshaft selection process we will explore ways to maximize airflow, increase Volumetric Efficiency and reduce pumping losses starting from the beginning and analyzing each and every critical component in the system.
We will begin by placing special emphasis on understanding the role of the camshaft as the “Conductor” of the engine’s symphony, and explore the terminology and fundamental design issues when selecting lobe families for a given engine application.
Next, we begin to understand the relationship of the four camshaft “events” relative to what is happening in the four stroke cycle, by comparing graphical data captured in combustion analysis software packages. By the end of this section, you’ll begin to see why selecting a camshaft based on “Lobe Separation Angle” or “LSA” is really a backwards approach and should never be used a our target, but rather the consequence of the chosen opening an closing points.
Once we understand how to get the camshaft to tell the rest of the engine what it wants, we will begin looking at how the valvetrain can be better prepared to actually carry out those commands and we’ll investigate ways to compare rocker arms, valve springs, pushrods and other system components via graphs developed on our Spintron over years of testing and data collection.
Finally, we’ll spend time exploring valve train geometry, how to measure it, and how to correct problems that crop up while we also discuss methods for setting up and checking the setup of the cylinder heads and valves themselves.
Students will have an opportunity to ask questions directly about projects they are working on and get insightful help from the experts.
This will be an action-packed 3 day crash course and offer a peek inside what the pro’s do to “develop” a competition valve train system.
All of the information covered in this class can be applied to ANY engine you build.
Students will learn:
- Choosing Lobes versus Selecting a Cam
- Deciding on Lobe Lift versus Rocker Ratio
- How to Interpret Combustion Data to help with Cam timing optimization
- Using Spintron Data for Dynamic Valve Motion behavior and Spring Optimization
- Camshaft and Rocker geometry to take advantage of really good or really bad stiffness scenarios
Special emphasis will be placed on:
- Finding and understanding problem areas
- Understanding the relationships between airflow and valve motion
- How to test and diagnose camshaft and valvetrain issues
Students will also learn:
- Engine theory
- Component Selection
- Choosing a starting point for a valve spring
- Deciding how to choose a lobe family
- Choosing the IVO, IVC, EVO and EVC events for a camshaft
Our Advanced Valvetrain Development class not only dispels some of the magic and mystery of racing engine design, but our results speak for themselves on the track with the customers who WIN with our engines!
This 3-day class is only offered at our state-of-the-art training facility in Lake Havasu, Arizona and is limited to 12 students per class for an excellent student to teacher ratio.
Just consider the peace of mind you can get from your engine projects for less than the cost of a single rebuild.
Don’t build another engine until you attend this course!


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A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, left the All Progressives Congress after falling out with the state Governor, Ibikunle Amosun. GBENRO ADEOYE looks at the return of Osoba to the party and the intrigues that are likely to follow
The return of former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, to the All Progressives Congress did not come as a surprise to many people as defection has become the hallmark of Nigerian politics. But many people were amused by it.
Osoba, a foundation member of the APC, had left the party for the Social Democratic Party after falling out with the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, before the 2015 general elections.
And his exit was not a quiet one, by any means. The former deputy governor of Ogun State, Segun Adesegun; three senators and six members of the House of Representatives, including Osoba’s son, Olumide, also dumped the APC for the SDP.
Osoba’s statements were also loud enough as he spewed fire and brimstone over his exit from the party and vowed not to forgive Amosun.
Osoba and Amosun’s quarrel was largely about the soul of the APC in the state. There were many sides to Osoba’s defection from the APC. One version was that Osoba wanted a more inclusive executive to accommodate the people who worked for the party to ensure Amosun’s victory at the 2011 governorship election.
Although there were entreaties by some APC leaders and traditional rulers to unite the opposing parties, all amounted to naught as Osoba vowed not to forgive the governor.
For instance, while addressing some APC members from the 236 wards in Ogun State at a consultative forum in May 2014, before his defection to the SDP, Osoba had said,
“Your executive members came to me, they said they don’t trust me again, they said they don’t believe in me again, that I will soon forgive and say everything has been settled. They said I will tell them that some Obas (traditional rulers) have appealed to me….
“When they said that, I asked them again, if they have fully concluded and we went into an inner meeting and inside there, I vowed to them that I will not forgive or reconcile with anybody. As I stand before you today, I swear before God and Jesus Christ, my Lord, I promise you all that the issue of forgiveness is no more. If you stand firmly as a warrior, that is enough for me.
“If you are ready, there is no more room for reconciliation. If thousands of people prostrate, it is what you want that I will do, it is what you say that I will say; I will stand where you stand. I want to appeal to you, don’t be distracted. They said they have given them the party structure, leave them. Are you dragging the party with them? It is those that have people that have the party.”
But in the end, after all said and done, Osoba and his camp lost out as SDP candidates for the 2015 general elections failed in their various bids, including Akin Odunsi, who Osoba had hoped would defeat Amosun.
So, with Osoba’s return to the APC, analysts say Ogun State politics is set to light up with interesting twists ahead of the 2019.
Osoba had attributed his return to the Alake of Egbaland, Dr. Adedotun Gbadebo, and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Dr. Sikiru Adetona, both of whom he said facilitated the move.
However, some analysts have said that there must be more to the story, particularly as Osoba had rebuffed such peace moves initiated by the traditional rulers in the past.
One school of thought has attributed the Osoba’s return to the APC to a peace move that started at a meeting called by Prof. Segun Gbadegesin, a renowned scholar and former Head of Department of Philosophy and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Washington DC, the United States, in December 2015, following the launch of his book, “All The Way: Serving With Conscience” in Lagos.
There, Gbadegesin was said to have appealed to Tinubu and other South-West APC leaders to close ranks.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, who was reportedly the only governor at the meeting, was said to have been directed to open negotiations with rival groups in the party.
But according to another school of thought, the return of Osoba to the party signifies a gang-up against Amosun ahead of 2019 governorship election in Ogun State.
When Osoba was recently welcomed back to the party with open arms amid applause by some APC chieftains, including its National Leader, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, at a meeting at the former’s residence in Lagos, Amosun was missing.
Also absent at the meeting were the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and his colleague in the Ministry of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, both strong APC members in the South-West.
Some analysts have described the absence of Amosun at the meeting as a sign that he was probably not happy with Osoba’s return; a situation they opined might divide the Ogun State chapter of the APC in future.
A political analyst, who is close to happenings in the APC, Mr. Olugbenga Okunola, described the choice of Osoba’s residence as the meeting point where his return to the party was announced “as instructive and significant.”
“Everything is not well in the Ogun State chapter of the party yet,” he said.
“Many people may not understand it or think it is significant, but the fact that the meeting was held at Osoba’s residence and not at the Ogun State Government House or Amosun’s house as the leader of the party in the state, was instructive in itself. It is giving Osoba credence as the leader of the APC in the state.”
Meanwhile, it is rumoured that Amosun, Fashola and Fayemi have all left Tinubu’s good books and therefore have something in common. The three of them have found a strong ally in President Muhammadu Buhari. Amosun is also said to be one of the President’s closest politicians in the South-West.
According to analysts, for some time, Tinubu and Amosun have not been on good terms, starting from the latter’s nomination of his candidate, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, for the state.
It was said that Tinubu had preferred another candidate.
However, Okunola said Amosun had later conceded the nomination to Tinubu, but that Buhari insisted on working with Adeosun.
“At the time, the Tinubu camp argued that it had given Ogun State the position of the Vice-President, which was taken by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, but Amosun felt that he had no input in it,” Okunola said.
“So, Amosun felt that if he had no input in the choice of the state’s ministerial nominee, how then could he table the affairs of his state before whoever emerged for the position? It is believed that he later conceded the slot to Tinubu but the President wanted Adeosun.
“But then, Amosun is known to be close to the President, so it was difficult to prove that he had not pushed the President into accepting his own candidate.”
Now as politicians set for the 2019 general elections, the opinion of some pundits is that Osoba’s return to the APC is all part of a scheme between the Tinubu and the Osoba camps against Amosun ahead of the polls.
Okunola, who referred to it as a ‘gang up’, said, “Politics, particularly in Ogun State, is all about alliances. The Tinubu camp has formed an alliance with the Osoba group to support Senator Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, for Ogun State governorship of the APC in 2019.
“So, if Amosun wants a candidate of his choice to succeed him, he will have to convince his alliances to back such a candidate or else he will lose. Another way is for Amosun to arrive at the choice of a candidate with his alliances, so that he can have their full support.”
However, according to Dr. Idowu Johnson of the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, it is too early to interpret Amosun’s absence at the meeting where Osoba announced his return to the APC as a sign that he still has friction with the returnee politician.
He said, “We cannot say because Amosun was absent at the gathering, he was not on good terms with Osoba.
“One thing we should realise is that everybody is fighting for their space, including Osoba. Before Osoba could return to the APC, some of the bigwigs in the state must have convinced him to take the decision.
“The other thing is that the PDP cannot make any headway in Ogun State now because most of its stalwarts who benefitted from the past administration would not come out to finance the party. They would want to lie low for now, so for the next four years, the APC would dominate in the state.
“For now, Osoba has no option but to go back to the APC to remain relevant in the state. “Beyond politics, the reality is that everyone is fighting for where they would get their livelihood and remain relevant in the coming years. Osoba is coming to become relevant and he has to reconcile to get that relevance, get some contracts and so on.
“Amosun is one of the most respected governors in the South-West and he is in the good books of the President. Maybe by 2019, they can start playing games but for now, they will not do that.”
In his view, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Adigun Agbaje, said Osoba’s return to the APC would not have any positive impact on the lives of residents of Ogun State.
Agbaje, who described Nigerian politics as lacking in ideologies, noted the possibility of a gang-up against Amosun.
He, however, added that there is always room for negotiations in politics.
He said, “The events surrounding Osoba’s return underscore the formlessness of Nigerian party politics and the lack of an effective role of principles, which some people call ideology. It underscores the fact that these are not parties; they are just amoebic amalgamations of short term interests and personal goals.
“Osoba has said that his return was facilitated by leading Yoruba traditional rulers, but I would say they fast tracked it because there was an assumption that he was bound to return to the APC.
“His return has implications for APC politics in Ogun State. If the nature of politics that has played out in the past continues, then it is a zero sum game. But Osoba’s gain returning to the APC may be the governor’s loss.
“Whichever way it is, the governor will find a niche for himself and he is already serving his final term as governor. Complex negotiations and maneuvers and so on will be going on, but at the end of the day, it is the people that lose. The politicians never really lose. The equality of Nigerian politics will also lose.
“Politicians will always make some alliances, some temporary money and gains in terms of power play, but the people always lose. It is a situation where the politicians do not offer the people meaningful choices and the parties are more or less the same.
“You can talk about one man in the APC today, few days later, he is in PPF, another time, he will be in CTC and so on. At the end of the day, Osoba’s return will not have serious significant positive impact on the quality of lives of the Ogun State people, whichever way we look at it.
“This has to be tied to the national level of the APC. The feeling is that Amosun is closer to the President than to Tinubu. This has implications. All may be well tomorrow, who knows but at the moment, all is not well because it took the governor a dogged fight against the Osoba group to get a ticket for the second term. But we cannot dismiss the possibility of negotiations in the future even though realistically, it will be difficult to believe that the two of them can mend fences to the extent that all will be well. But in politics, anything is possible.”
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VLADIVOSTOK, July 24 (Itar-Tass) — Sixteen teenagers from the Mechta (Dream) camp in the Primorsky Territory will remain under medical supervision at the Nakhodka city hospital until July 25.
The clinic’s head physician Igor Ponetayev said on Tuesday that the children staying in the infectious ward will remain under the supervision of doctors until the final results of analyses are obtained. “They will be ready tomorrow morning. All the children feel well. I think that tomorrow we will start to discharge them,” he said.
The first patients with intestinal infection in the children’s holiday camp Mechta in the Primorsky Territory were registered on July 22. Criminal proceedings were instituted over the mass infection in the children’s recreation camp under the RF Criminal Code “violation of sanitary-epidemiological rules, causing mass poisoning of people through negligence.”
According to the Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service (Rospotrebnadzor) data that were cited by agency’s press service on Tuesday, the number of the affected remained unchanged: 27 people, including 26 children aged from 9 to 14 years and an adult. Eleven people, mostly Nakhodka residents, have already been discharged from hospital and are currently under the supervision of the district paediatrician. According to the confirmed by laboratory tests diagnosis, the infection was caused by rotavirus.
Doctors continue supervision of other children holidaying in the camp and the camp’s personnel, the disinfection regime has been stepped up. All irregularities in the organisation of children’s catering have been removed.
It has been established that the source of the infection were fresh cucumbers. All the poor quality products have been removed from sale. The products’ supplier has been found and Rospotrebnadzor officers initiated an administrative investigation against it.
A total of 350 children are holidaying in the camp, no other infection cases have been recorded.


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Tournament will be a two-day, 36 hole event.
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ROCHESTER, Mich.- The Oakland women's golf team wraps up play for the fall season when they travel to Kettering Ohio to play in the UD Invitational begining on Monday at 11 a.m. EST. The Golden Grizzlies are coming off a 5th place finish at the Cardinal Classic last month hosted by Ball State.
Junior Kassandra Komma is coming off a T-16 finish at the Cardinal Classic, where she was the low finisher for the black and gold.


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You’re going to find that you will feel a lot better about all of the different difficulties you have in life when you’re able to take a vacation every now and again. If you’re working hard every single day, it’s easy to see how you can restore all of your passion and inspiration by getting away from everything and spending some time with yourself and your family. What you’ll often find is that your vacation will be even more enjoyable when you’re able to head out to other countries to spend your time away from your normal life.
It’s very common these days for anyone on the hunt for a new vacation destination to check out what’s available in Mexico. When you’re ready to get out into the sunshine or to spend some time on the beach, you really won’t be able to beat what you’ll get in Mexico. Regardless of your interests or the sorts of things you like to do when you’re relaxing, you’ll discover that your time in Mexico is going to leave you feeling a lot better. If you’re hoping to be able to put together a wonderful vacation plan to Mexico, it’s going to be important for you to consider some of the following advice.
Of all the cities in Mexico, you’ll usually find that people get the most excited about getting to head out to the city of Cancun. The city is surrounded by some truly incredible beaches, and it will also offer people a wonderful environment for trying out all kinds of new things. If you want to make sure that you’re making the most of your time in Cancun, you’ll want to sign up for a few Cancun adventure tours that can really allow you to more easily find the types of little areas that make the region so special.
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Dilip Buildcon Ltd. today cast the final of 1851 precast segments for the viaduct of Bhopal Metro Phase 1 project’s 6.225 km Package-01 (Subhash Nagar – AIIMS).
Package-01 is the first section of Bhopal Metro’s 14.99 km Line-2 (Karond Circle – AIIMS) for which Dilip Buildcon commenced work in early 2019 through a Rs. 247.06 crore contract awarded by Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Co Limited (MPMRCL) in October 2018 with a completion deadline of 27 months.
The project’s first segment weighing 60 MT was cast in November 2019, and the firm began launching segments in September 2020 between Piers 144-145 near Kendriya Vidyalaya Station on Hoshangabad Road.
Besides the elevated viaduct between Subhash Nagar – AIIMS, Dilip Buildcon will also be constructing an entry/exit ramp to Subhash Nagar Depot where fourteen 3-coach trains for the Purple Line will be stabled and maintained.
Stations en-route are being built by URC Construction through Package BH-02 and will be located at Shubhash Nagar, Kendriya Vidyalaya, DB City Mall, Sangam Cinema, Himansarovar / Habibganj Station, Habibgang Naka, Alkapuri Bus Stand and AIIMS.
- Bhopal’s Purple Line: 42 coaches (14 x 3)
- Bhopal’s Red Line: 39 coaches (13 x 3)
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Baku. 26 July. REPORT.AZ/ OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the unresolved conflicts in the OSCE area need to be settled before they go into a hot stage, Report informs referring to the Interfax.
"Currently, the OSCE found itself in a very difficult situation. There were a lot of new challenges, new conflicts in a situation, where even the old ones are not settled. The old conflicts, which we call "frozen", are not "frozen” at all. There are always an escalation risks, transition of these conflicts into a hot stage. We have seen this in the example of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Therefore, the German chairmanship of the OSCE has set a goal to solve the "frozen" conflicts in order to exclude such risks", Steinmeier said at a press conference on Tuesday after meeting with Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip.
The minister called for the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict through "giving the Transnistrian region a special status, respecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Moldova."


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THE Federation of Small Businesses say more police officers should be on the beat to tackle crimes against town centre firms.
Calls from FSB have come at a time when shops and businesses in Widnes are still recovering from a string of recent burglaries.
The Weekly News re ported traders' growing concerns over the spate of break-ins and armed robberies in the Albert Road area of the town.
Police in Widnes launched covert operations to monitor town centre properties after admitting there had been a rise in burglaries against commercial proper ties.
But despite assurances from police in Widnes the FSB claims 40% of traders do not even report crimes because they feel that 'it wouldn't achieve anything'.
Most incidents are reported in order to get a crime number for an insurance claim rather than because the business expects the culprits to be caught.
The FSB says businesses frequently targeted by criminals are often forced to close, leading to some communities being deprived of essential shopping facilities.
It recommends police should use their time on the beat proactively by meeting traders and advising firms on how to protect their businesses and staff.
David Croucher, FSB home affairs chairman, said: 'Crime against businesses makes up at least 20% of all crimes, but the authorities do not put the same priority on them as they do on domestic crime.
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George Mason University economist Russell Roberts has authored a series of essays entitled “Ten Key Ideas: Opening the Door to the Economic Way of Thinking” that are well worth reading. The 10 key ideas include the following: 1. Incentives Matter, 2. Understanding Costs, 3.How Markets Work, 4. How Prices Emerge, 5. Comparative Advantage, 6. The Division of Labor, 7. The Extended Order of Cooperation, 8. Externalities, 9. How Politicians Behave, and 10. What Politicians Can and Cannot Do.
There are also a number of popular books on the “Economic Way of Thinking” that I can recommend. For starters, there’s Roberts’ own book, entitled “The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity” (also consider listening to the hourlong Roberts on the Price of Everything podcast for some background and context for the book). The best selling book entitled “Freakonomics” by Levitt and Dubner is definitely worth considering. “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan, “The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford, and “Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life” by Steven Landsburg are also good reads!

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The past couple of years have been dire for the state of comedy films, with not one reaching $100 million blockbuster status last year, and not one major romantic comedy released into theaters at all. Only 2017’s “Girls Trip” really connected with audiences at a huge hit level, but that was marred by nonstop crassness including a scene in which Jada Pinkett Smith urinated on an entire crowd of Mardi Gras partiers when she got trapped dangling above them.
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“Men” stars the excellent actress Taraji P. Henson (“Hustle and Flow,” Fox TV’s “Empire”) in a gender-flipped take on the 2000 smash hit Mel Gibson comedy “What Women Want,” in which he played a sexist rich guy who suddenly acquired the ability to hear women’s thoughts, and used it to his advantage. Here, Henson plays a sports agent named Ali Davis who is successful representing Olympic athletes but is overlooked for a promotion to partner at her firm because she’s not landing deals for professional star athletes.
Ali is also clueless in her dating life, focused only on her own pleasure during hookups and not bothering to think about long-term relationships. But when she visits a bizarre psychic (Erykah Badu) during a bachelorette party for one of her friends and drinks some strange-tasting tea the oracle gives her, she wakes up with the ability to hear what every man around her is thinking.
The results are funny from the get-go, as writer Tina Gordon Chism comes up with a seemingly endless parade of hilarious thoughts for Ali to overhear. And now that she can hear what her agency rivals are thinking, she’s able to trick her way into the running to land America’s hottest basketball prospect as her star client — if she can get past the doubts of his eccentric father Joe “Dolla” Barry (Tracy Morgan).
To win the traditional-minded Joe over, she pretends her latest one-night stand Will (Aldis Hodge) — who turns out to be a widowed single dad — and his son are her husband and son. But juggling all the lies puts her in a precarious place that will force her to learn some lessons.
These are all standard rom com plot elements, but “Men” succeeds greatly by handling its standard-level core material extremely well. Led by Henson and Morgan (who’s at his absolute nuttiest here), the cast is uniformly excellent, providing a constant stream of laughs while also handling the more heartfelt moments solidly as well. This isn’t high art, and it is predictable overall, but if you’re looking to laugh and have an upbeat date night, you will definitely be satisfied.
“Romantic” is far more inventive, as it plays fast and loose with every cliché in the romantic comedy genre to hilarious results. Starring comic force of nature Rebel Wilson (the “Pitch Perfect” trilogy) as a New York City architect named Natalie in her first-ever lead performance, the film opens by showing that she was obsessed with the movie “Pretty Woman” as a child in the ’90s until her mother convinced her that rom coms are filled with lies and no man will ever marry her since she’s heavyset.
Natalie is first seen waking up in an insanely tiny apartment before trudging to an office where she gets zero respect from everyone except her best friend Josh (Adam Devine), who is secretly in love with her. Natalie hopelessly pines for a handsome billionaire client named Blake (Liam Hemsworth), who utterly disregards her and treats her like the office coffee girl.
But things change when Natalie bangs her head into a pole while escaping a subway mugger, and wakes up to a shinier, hopelessly happier world in which everyone and everything around her seems to be part of a giant real-life romantic comedy. Suddenly Blake is obsessed with her, her newly glowing confidence is making her a star at work and her humble hovel has become an endlessly large, palatial condo filled with dozens of glamorous shoes and outfits that fit her perfectly.
To get back to the real world, she has to convince someone to fall in love with her, and Natalie sets her sights on winning Blake over. When Josh suddenly is engaged to a supermodel (Priyanka Chopra), she has to decide which guy will bring her true happiness.
This no doubt sounds predictable again, but the script by Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox and Katie Silberman and the direction by Todd Strauss-Schulson are magical. “Romantic” tears apart seemingly hundreds of ridiculous rom com tropes while constantly creating fresh takes on the timeworn genre, and Strauss-Schulson keeps everything moving with high energy, including two incredible song and dance numbers that had the audience I screened this with applauding and cheering loudly. This will almost surely be on my ten favorite films list at the end of the year.
Either of these films is a fine choice for a fun night out on this Valentine’s weekend. Yet more importantly, they show that there’s still life in the comedy genre..
“What Men Want”: B
“Isn’t It Romantic”: A

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Ethics approval and consent to participate: The authors state that no experiments on humans or animals have been conducted for this research. They have followed their Center's protocols on the publication of patient data. Patient data do not appear in this article and that they are in possession of the patients' informed consent for participation in the study and publication of the results.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials: All data analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The 3D files are available in the download links included in this paper.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
Funding: Supported by Project PI18/01625 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Instituto de Salud Carlos III and European Regional Development Fund “Una manera de hacer Europa”). Funds have been allocated from this project for support and maintenance of the 3D printing laboratory.
Authors´s Contributions: RPM and JACH conceived the idea of the study, RPM, SGSJ, MDM, ISA, EGF, JVM, and JACH contributed to the study design, LMS and DTM performed the statistical analysis, SGSJ, JPGG, RPM, and JACH took part in the interpretation of the results and JPGG, JACH, and RPM critically revised manuscript drafts. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Rubén Perez-Mañanes: RPM
Sonia García-de San Jose SGSJ
Manuel Desco-Menéndez MDM
Ignacio Sánchez-Arcilla ISA
Esmeralda González-Fernández EGF
Javier Vaquero-Martín JVM
Javier Pascau González-Garzón JPGG
Lydia Mediavilla-Santos LMS
Diego Trapero-Moreno DTM
José Antonio Calvo-Haro JACH
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank all the workers at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón for their selfless help during the difficult weeks of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Very special thanks to all the healthcare personnel for their dedication and great professionalism shown at all times. Thanks to the individuals who offered their 3D printed products from the very beginning and to the companies who have collaborated with their donations and their time.
Advanced Planning and 3D Manufacturing Unit. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid, Spain.
Rubén Perez-Mañanes, Sonia García-de San José, Manuel Desco-Menéndez, Ignacio Sánchez-Arcilla, Esmeralda González-Fernández, Javier Pascau González-Garzón, Diego Trapero-Moreno & José Antonio Calvo-Haro.
Deputy Hospital Management. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid, Spain.
Sonia García-de San José.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid, Spain.
Rubén Perez-Mañanes, Javier Vaquero-Martín, Lydia Mediavilla-Santos & José Antonio Calvo-Haro.
Supply Management. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid, Spain.
Department of Labour Risks Prevention. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón. Madrid, Spain.
Faculty of Medicine. Department of Surgery. Universidad Complutense. Madrid, Spain.
Rubén Perez-Mañanes, Javier Vaquero-Martín & José Antonio Calvo-Haro.
Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering. Universidad Carlos III. Madrid, Spain.
Manuel Desco-Menéndez & Javier Pascau González-Garzón.
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
Rubén Perez-Mañanes, Manuel Desco-Menéndez, Javier Vaquero-Martín, Javier Pascau González-Garzón & José Antonio Calvo-Haro.


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By Anne Cacherell
Aside from millions of marine animals that die each year due to plastic pollution, thousands of humans get sick as well from toxic chemicals accumulated in the food chain. In this regard, Dutch inventor, environmentalist and aerospace engineering student Boyan Slat designed a technology that would extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution through massive rotating ocean currents.
With the help of his Ocean Clean-Up Foundation and its group of 100 scientists and engineers, this 20-year-old inventor aims to launch the largest ocean clean-up in history.
According to the foundation, a 100km clean-up could eradicate 42% or over 70m kg of plastic waste of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a 10-year timeline.
In order to develop the design, the Ocean Clean-Up Foundation will launch a 2km trial system in Japan, which will become the world’s longest floating structure in coastal waters in 2016.
The company also estimates that this method would only cost around $5USD per kg of plastic pollutants, which is only 3% of other clean-up costs.
It is good to know that there are people who are committed to protecting our environment, particularly the oceans and marine resources. What can you say about Boyan Slat’s invention? What can you do to help improve the condition of our natural resources? Share with us your thoughts.


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Jennifer Lopez was busy as of late filming the video for her new single off Love?, “On the Floor”. The shots from the video shoot show her watching over a club in full on diva-wear. Hopefully this will go over … Continue reading
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A one rupee coin is placed on a table. The maximum number of similar one rupee coins which can be placed on the table, around it, with each one of them touching it and only two others is:
Correct Answer : B
aksa is 990 km to the west of baksa and lies in different time. boatscruise at the speed of 50 km per hour in both directions, but their speed is affected by steady current flowing in direction of aksa to baksa . the localtimings of departure and arrival of to to and fro boats are given asdeparture ———————–arrival(next day)city ———— time ————– city ———– timeaksa ————- 10 am———– baksa ——— 5 ambaksa ———— 10 pm ———-aksa ———– 7 pmThen what is the speed of the current in km per hour?
A dog taken 4 leaps for every 5 leaps of a hare but three leaps of the dog is equal to 4 leaps of the hare. Compare their speeds
Aunt uses a car to travel from mumbai to nashik. She travelled at 60 kmph and covered half the distance in 2 hours. At what uniform speed should she travel to reach nashik at 4.00 pm

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Neil Nitin Mukesh to debut in Tamil film
The handsome hunk Neil Nitin Mukesh will soon make his Tamil debut in the film 'Kaththi'. The movie features the South superstar Vijay and Samantha in the lead roles.
Albeit, the handsome hunk Neil Nitin Mukesh has not appeared in a Bollywood movie from a long time, but the lad is all set to venture into new arena. The news update revealed that Neil Nitin Mukesh is soon going to make his debut in Tamil film industry.
Neil Nitin Mukesh will star in an action-thriller titled 'Kaththi', which means knife. The film is helmed by A. R. Murugadoss. The film will have the superstar Vijay in double role and the female lead will be essayed by Samantha. The grapevine chirped that Neil will be playing an antagonist in 'Kaththi'. Talking about Neil's Hindi films, the actor will next be seen in the film 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo', in which he will lay the role of Salman Khan's brother. Neil's Tamil debut flick is expected to hit the screens around Diwali 2014, as the makers are eyeing for it.
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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today directed
for status quo to be maintained at the scam-hit Adarsh Society
building in south Mumbai pending hearing on the latest
petition filed by Defence Ministry.
A division bench of Justices P B Majmudar and R D
Dhanuka was hearing a petition filed by the Union Ministry of
Defence seeking implementation of an order passed by the
Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) directing demolition
of the 31-storey Adarsh building.
According to the defence ministry, the plush society is
built inside Colaba military station in south Mumbai and was a
security threat as it looks over vital installations of the
"No one has the right to ignore the security of the
nation. Defence of the country is first, rest all is
secondary," Justice Majmudar observed.
The court while posting the petition for hearing on
April 30 directed for status quo to be maintained.
"Concerned authorities are restrained from issuing NOC,
Occupation Certificate (OC), Commencement Certificate (CC) or
any other development facility to the society pending hearing
of this petition," the court said.
The bench also observed that the state government before
granting permission to Adarsh should have insisted on an NOC
from the defence ministry.
Government pleader D N Nalavade informed the court that
after the Adarsh scam came to light a circular has been issued
on November 4, 2010 making it mandatory to seek NOC from
defence ministry in cases where construction is near a defence
The court was also informed that the MMRDA had already
revoked the OC granted to the society and electricity and
water supply were disconnected and no member has occupied the

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A hearty welcome to anyone visiting the ACA litigation blog. Our goals here are quite modest:
1. To serve as a repository for all the official documents filed in the two lawsuits filled by state attorneys general challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended;
2. To provide news updates concerning any developments in the litigation as they occur;
3. To provide links to commentary, opinion pieces, and academic articles related to the litigation; and
4. To offer occasional commentary and legal analysis on the various claims at issue.
On the right, you will find links to the significant briefs, memoranda, and orders that have been filed thus far in the two cases, as well as the two statutes at issue. At the top (as a tab), you will find a link to our wiki, which will serve as a comprehensive repository for all the filings, articles, and blog posts related to the lawsuits.
Thanks for visiting. And if you have any questions or comments, you can contact us through this site.
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IT’S expensive, painful and can be dangerous, but for thousands of Irish people cosmetic surgery helps them achieve their dream bodies. The most popular procedure is breast augmentation, but many women and men are having ‘tummy tucks’.
Ex-Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona has reputedly undergone several tucks as her weight fluctuated. But it is not a procedure to be taken lightly. Abdominoplasty involves major surgery, four weeks’ recovery and can cause complications and death (American rapper Kanye West’s mother Donda died after a tummy tuck aged 58, as did English mother Lorraine Batt aged 36.)
With images of perfect celeb bodies — often achieved at a high cost — splashed across our screens and in magazines, it is hardly surprising that the public is following suit. It is estimated that e40m is spent on cosmetic surgery in Ireland every year.
Abdominoplasty involves an incision being made across the stomach. Fat and excess skin is removed, stomach muscles are repaired and the skin is stitched back together.
This surgery is favoured by mothers who have weight on their stomach after giving birth and by people who have lost large amounts of weight and have loose muscle tone.
Dr Patricia Eadie, president of the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons, says tummy tucks are not advisable for people who have a lot of weight to lose or who have any underlying illness.
“People who have abdominoplasties have a lot of excess skin and soft tissue of their abdomen following pregnancies or major weight loss,” she says. “Post-pregnancy patients may also have weakness of some of the muscles of their abdomen which can be tightened at the same operation.
“Ideally, the patient needs to be in good physical health and not be obese. If they are significantly overweight their risk of complications will be higher. Also, they will get a better result if they get their weight down before surgery.”
The surgeon says research is important and patients need to make sure the clinic is fully accredited. “Patients should choose a plastic surgeon who is on the specialist register of the Irish Medical Council and not just the general register,” she says. “If possible, they should seek advice and a referral from their GP.”
Anne* was unhappy with her shape when she resorted to cosmetic surgery last year. The 37-year-old nurse from Carlow was slim but after having two Caesarean sections she was left with saggy abdominal muscles.
No matter how much she exercised, her ‘spare tyre’ refused to go away so six months ago she underwent cosmetic surgery to regain her figure. “I have always been skinny and after having my two children (now aged two and four), I worked hard to get rid of any baby weight but I just couldn’t lose the flabby belly I had been left with after pregnancy,” she says.
“It protruded from under my boobs and I looked like I was still pregnant — it was awful. I felt so depressed about my body and my confidence took a nosedive. .”
So after consulting with her husband, Tom, Anne delved into her savings and had surgery to remove the excess flesh. “Tom knew how I felt and was 100% supportive of me — not because he didn’t like the way I looked, but because he knew how much it meant to me,” she says.
“With savings and credit card allowance, we were prepared to spend up to e13,000, but after ringing around and finally getting a recommendation for a reputable surgeon, I decided to go with Mr Brian Kneafsey at the Aesthetic Surgery Ireland clinic.
“I was quoted a price of e7.500 and after a bit of deliberation decided to have breast implants at the same time — the procedure cost less as I was having surgery anyway. The total figure for both was around e11,000, which I was more than happy with.”
Having made the decision and secured her finances, the mother-of-two checked into the clinic and was prepared for surgery. “I was given a general anaesthetic and Tom was with me when I went under, and then again when I woke up six hours later. I was a bit groggy, but otherwise fine, apart from some pain which was similar to what I had experienced after my sections.
“After the operation, I had a scar from hip to hip but that has almost completely faded,” she says. “I know it cost a lot of money, but as far as I’m concerned it was totally worth it and I can’t wait to wear what I ever I want this summer.”
Kieran* is one of an increasing number of men who have gone under the knife to improve their physical shape. Having lost weight in 2009, the 29-year-old IT specialist from Dublin was finding it difficult to tone up the excess skin on his stomach so decided to have abdominoplasty.
“I used to weigh over 18 stone and lost about a third of that weight a few years ago,” he says. “So I had a lot of loose skin around my stomach and had to wear my trousers up high in an attempt to hide the ‘apron’ of skin which was left after my weight loss. I did a lot of exercise in the hope that the skin would shrink back, but that never happened so I decided to look into surgery.
“I did a lot of research and although it was going to cost over e7,000 and I knew it would be cheaper for me to go abroad, I wanted to have it done in Ireland as I knew it would be good to be near my surgeon if anything went wrong.”
At the start of 2011, Kieran, who is single, underwent an operation to remove the excess skin from his stomach and repair the muscles, which had been split apart as a result of carrying so much weight in the past.
“The few days after surgery were pretty hard and although I had very little pain, I was in a lot of discomfort. The muscle repair, coupled with the newfound tightness of my skin, meant that I had to sleep sitting up with my legs up in order to keep the tension off my stomach.
“Everything was an effort — from shifting my position in bed, going for my first walk in the ward or taking my first shower after the surgery.
“I also had to walk in a hunched position for the first few weeks after the surgery to avoid putting stress on the stitches, the incisions or the muscle repair and had to wear a compression garment around my waist for six weeks.”
It’s a year since Kieran had his operation. “Following the surgery, I had regular periods of extreme swelling around my stomach — it helped when I avoided salty food and alcohol and went away after about 10 months,” he says.
“My scar has healed very well and is on course for fading away completely. But I still have a tiny area of numbness inside my belly button and where the vertical scar meets the horizontal scar.
Now that it is all over, I am ecstatic about the results. There was nothing about the operation or recovery that ever made me feel like it wasn’t worth it. And as the scar keeps fading, it just gets better and better.”
* See: www.plasticsurgery.ie
* Names have been changed
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