India plans to bid for eight oil and gas blocks in Myanmar
BY SAURABH CHATURVEDI
NEW DELHI -- ONGC Videsh, Indian Oil Corp, and GAIL will bid for eight oil and gas blocks in Myanmar, Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily said.
The move is part of India' s plans to acquire oil and gas assets overseas to meet the energy hungry nation' s growing demand, the minister told reporters. The country meets about three fourths of its energy requirements through imports and it wants to reduce its dependence on overseas suppliers to half in the next seven years.
The three companies could bid jointly or separately, Mr. Moily said. They will be competing with Chinese and other overseas firms in Myanmar, he added.
Other state run energy companies are also exploring deals abroad, the minister said.
ONGC Videsh is a fully owned unit of Oil & Natural Gas Corp and it invests in oil and gas projects abroad. ONGC Videsh is looking to complete a deal it announced in November to buy a stake in Kazakh oil and gas field from ConocoPhillips.
The Indian government last month approved the deal, but it also requires the approval of the government in Kazakhstan.
The final decision by the Kazakhstan government is expected by July 2 the minister said.
A joint venture of ONGC Videsh and Oil India Ltd is close to purchasing a 10% stake from a unit of India based Videocon Industries Ltd in a Mozambique gas block. The deal will likely be announced in a few days, the minister said.
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As the last part of our data management trip, Claire and I headed to Bangkok for the 11th and 12th of September. We joined a group of plant doctors and farmers at the plant clinic/rally in Nong Kung village, Suppaya district, Chainat province. We saw a demonstration on biocontrol, looked through pamphlets and information available to farmers about crop problems, and discussed the rice harvest which was currently taking place. In the backstopping training at the Rice Department, the participants shared their concerns and plans for future data management in Thailand.
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The boss was Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.). Roskam worked a year for him as a legislative assistant. Later, he would represent portions of Hyde's congressional district in the state senate. When Hyde retired, Roskam won the 2006 election to succeed him in the House. Today, following news of Hyde's death at age 83, Roskam reflected on his former boss with sadness and stories.


Here’s the latest Campaign 2016 Coverage from CBS News:
During a rally in Cincinatti Thursday, President-Elect Donald Trump announced his pick for defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. CBS News senior political editor Steve Chaggaris and Washington Post national reporter Elise Viebeck spoke to CBSN about the pick and the Trump transition.
After President-elect Donald Trump's deal to save some Carrier jobs from moving to abroad, Jaime Rodriguez, governer of the state of Nuevo, said in an interview "The U.S. is not the world." CBSN anchor Reena Ninan has the full quote.
Tempers flare as Clinton's communications director accuses Trump team of giving white supremacists a "platform" during campaign
Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump's senior transition adviser, joins "CBS This Morning" from Harvard's campus to discuss Thursday night's heated forum discussion with Clinton strategists, Mr. Trump's Carrier deal and potential Cabinet picks, including the still-open post for secretary of state.
President-elect Donald Trump returned to campaign mode in Ohio at his first victory rally since winning the election. Mr. Trump renewed some of his most popular campaign promises, thanking his supporters and mocking his critics. He also surprised the crowd by revealing his choice for secretary of defense: retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis. Major Garrett reports.
A confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's campaign strategists shows the bitterness of the election has not faded. The two sides faced off Thursday night at a Harvard University forum held every four years. It’s usually a respectful look back at the campaign, but the meeting descended into an argument. Nancy Cordes reports.
"CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley spoke with House Speaker Paul Ryan for this Sunday's "60 Minutes." The congressman and president-elect Donald Trump were often at odds during the campaign, but the speaker says they've moved on from their public attacks and talk on the phone nearly every day. Pelley joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss Ryan's agenda for Obamacare, tax reform and immigration.
Comedian Mo Amer says he had a largely pleasant discussion with the son of the president-elect
Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense has employed some colorful language during his decades in the Marine Corps
The president-elect praised President Nazarbayev, a despot who has ruled Kazakhstan for nearly three decades
The top Trump adviser discusses her feud with Clinton aides, the deal with Carrier, and the public fight over Trump's secretary of state
President-elect Trump spoke in his first post-election rally in Ohio, kicking off his "Thank You" tour. In addition to thanking the crowd, he touched on many of his themes from the campaign trail. CBSN political contributor and Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez and Politico White House reporter Tara Palmeri join CBSN to discuss the rally.
President-elect Donald Trump spoke to a crowd in Ohio in his first rally since winning the election-and announced his pick for secretary of defense. CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett joins CBSN with the latest on Trump's Cabinet and "Thank You" tour.
James "Mad Dog" Mattis may face roadblocks to confirmation in the Senate
President-elect Donald Trump announced at a rally in Cincinnati that he will appoint Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis to secretary of defense.
Former secretary of defense commends Donald Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon but offers one note of caution
VP-elect Mike Pence spoke with Scott Pelley about what to expect from the Trump administration
In an interview to air Sunday on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley asked Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his onetime contentious relationship with the president-elect. Ryan said that the two are on good terms and are moving forward. See the full interview this Sunday.
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In late 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown announced his determination to address the state’s vast pension crisis with sweeping systemic reforms. In 2013, the Legislature adopted a less-ambitious version of Brown’s reform plan that still significantly reduced retirement benefits for newly hired state workers and took what was billed as a big step in reducing pension abuses. Earlier this year, state lawmakers adopted a funding measure that appears to go a significant way toward shoring up the California State Teachers’ Retirement System.
But there’s a giant cloud hanging over this picture of progress in reducing hundreds of billions of dollars in state pension shortfalls. It’s the troubling fact that pension officials can’t be trusted to be honest partners in efforts to reform policies that the chief actuary of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System called “unsustainable” in 2009.
Last week, state Controller John Chiang issued a report on pension “spiking” in local governments. CalPERS has clear rules meant to prevent employees of its local clients from using late-career maneuvering to push their pensions higher.
But Chiang said rules don’t matter if they’re not enforced: “CalPERS’ lack of robust auditing, underutilization of advanced technology and its generally passive approach to the problem invites abuse. The state’s largest pension system can and must be more vigorous in protecting taxpayers from this form of public theft.”
This attitude was reflected in the CalPERS board’s vote last month to allow 99 ways for employees to bolster pensions beyond their base pay — a direct rebuke to the intentions of the 2013 pension reform law.
And this attitude has also been the norm in the teachers’ pension system. In 2011, a Sacramento Bee investigation found CalSTRS tolerated outrageous practices in Sacramento-area schools, such as allowing the cash value of unused vacation time and vehicle allowances to be counted as pensionable pay. In response, CalSTRS not only denied wrongdoing; its board opposed legislation to clean up these thefts of taxpayer dollars.
This month, the CalSTRS board finally got around to acknowledging that such scams are bad. It passed regulations that it said gave “employers and CalSTRS staff clear guidelines to ensure all members are being credited properly, consistently and fairly for their service. The regulations will also help CalSTRS identify, evaluate and determine instances of pension spiking — the boosting of pay at the end of a career to increase a pension benefit.”
But as the Bee’s reporting established in 2011, similar regulations were already in place — and were ignored by CalSTRS. Why would anyone assume they will be enforced this time around?
The ugly reality is that so long as the boards of CalPERS and CalSTRS are controlled by public employee union loyalists, pension reforms enacted by state lawmakers and signed by governors will never live up to their billing.
No wonder many California taxpayers feel like state government is rigged against them. They have ample reasons for this cynicism.


If it accidentally travel around the world on a yacht and you are near to Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, then do not miss the opportunity to visit attractions of Rottnest Island.
The Great Barrier Reef called "coral paradise of Phenomena of Australia." It is known as the largest biosystems of the planet and one of the few objects that can be seen from outer space. It includes a nearly 2900 reefs, 300 islands and coral cays, some of which are covered with exotic vegetation. Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world (2000 km). Is home to over 400 species of coral formations and 1,500 species of fish.
Great Barrier Reef is a tourist attraction. Attractions of Rottnest Island is an exceptional place for relaxation and walk, which is situated near southwestern Australian coast. The nearest village to it is the city of Perth, whose beach is about 20 km towards the continent. From there you can take high speed ferry, which will very quickly reach the shores of the island. Located in the crystal waters of the Indian Ocean Rottnest is 11 km long and the width 4, 5 km, which make it especially easy to view. The island does not allow any cars.
The only way to explore the beautiful bays, low hills and several lakes like rent a bicycle for $ 30 per day. Despite its small size Rotnest island has much to offer the thousands of tourists coming here to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere.
The island has only one village, which impresses with its colonial architecture, historic buildings and old churches. During World War II to the highest hills on the island Rottnest were built several large artillery pieces.
Today they no longer work, but have been turned into a tourist attraction, many visitors walk up the weapons and their bunkers.
Nearly 500,000 tourists visit this beautiful Australian coast each year. There are attractive opportunities for boating with a glass bottom, kayaking, diving and snorkeling.
Water views offer a range of handsome coral reefs and transparency blue waters. Since this Rotnest is the oldest Australian resort, becoming one more in 1848, it is especially popular destination.
That is why it is good to make a reservation if you plan to visit the site. His name is given by the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlaming, who in 1696 stepped on this shore.
Traveler think local small marsupial - kvoki in mice and named the land - The nest of rats. One of the natural attractions of Rottnest Island are its salt lakes. Located in the northeastern part of the island and have the following names: Government House Lake, Herschell Lake, Serpentine Lake, Lake Baghdad, and Garden Lake.
It is interesting to note that some of the lakes are freshwater. North of Rottnest Island is well preserved wilderness. Here you will see a very interesting animal, much like a large rat, which is actually a marsupial creature - Real natural attractions of Rottnest Island . When the Dutch navigator Willem De Vlaming walked for the first time on the island he confuses that rats are kind of island where he baptized this animal - Island Rottnest. By 1914 these animals have served as food for prisoners exiled to the island. Today they are protected by law and their population is restored.


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SAM Giffen and Emma Jensen got all dressed up in the Big Brother house yesterday for a very special ceremony.
The duo improvised wedding outfits, using bed sheets to create the perfect white dress, and accessorising with matching flowers and ribbons.
Their housemates were all invited to join the party, acting as bridesmaids and page boys for the "beautiful couple."
But did the loved-up pair have an ulterior motive?
Emma asked her "future husband" whether "they'll give us champagne if we say we're getting married."
Although we're not sure whether this marriage is completely genuine, the makeshift ceremony was pretty hilarious.

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Kimmerikón (Greek Κιμμερικόν, Latin: Cimmericum) was an ancient Greek town in Crimea, on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, at the western slope of Mount Opuk, roughly 50 kilometres south-west of modern Kerch. The town was founded by the Milesian colonists in the 5th century BC and flourished at the beginning of the Christian era. Its name may refer to an earlier Cimmerian settlement on the site. Kimmerikon was an important stronghold defending the Bosporan Kingdom from the Scythians. Its walls ranged from 2.5 to 3.5 metres in thickness. In the mid-3rd century AD Kimmerikon was sacked by the Goths, but some measure of urban settlement persisted until the end of the Roman era. The site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists in 1927, 1947–49, and 1950-51.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister).

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In the substantial expanse of the electronic world, where companies fight for attention among the sea of internet sites as well as online marketing approaches, a pick couple of have managed to rise above the sound as well as prosper. One such name that has actually come to be associated with on the internet success as well as sales funnels is ClickFunnels. What exactly is this enigmatic platform, as well as exactly how does it hold the trick to unlocking the online growth desires of entrepreneurs and also marketing professionals worldwide?
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The platform offers a drag-and-drop editor that makes it possible for individuals to create landing pages, sales web pages, opt-in kinds, order forms, and also other aspects called for to create a sales funnel. ClickFunnels also gives pre-designed templates that can be personalized to match certain company requirements. These layouts cover a large range of industries as well as funnel types, making it simpler for individuals to get started promptly. ClickFunnels 2.0 MLM
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Not going to harp on about this one too much as I’ve already blogged once today, however I have just sat down and watched Britain From The Air : The City on BBC Two.
I must say, I was wonderfully impressed!
I have included the details of the show below and it’s iPlayer credentials – I really would suggest that folk take the time to watch this – it’s fascinating! If not for some of the older stuff, but for the images of the new buildings that are soon to grace the skyline of London. I know of quite a few people who, like me, find that the images of London’s skyline used in the BBC series The Apprentice are the best part of the show – this is like a whole 30 minutes of those astounding images!
The show’s website is also rather interactive and fun, and well worth a visit. Their photography section is pure city-scape lover’s heaven and truly worth a visit.
Although not too interested in the first episode of the series (24 Hour Britain) I am sincerely looking forward to the next installment of this series – well done Auntie Beeb!
Britain From The Air : The City (iPlayer link)
Revealing the transformation of Britain’s most important city: her capital, London. Starting with amazing Luftwaffe aerial photographs of the very first bombs of the Blitz falling on a vulnerable city, we track the changes that came out of five years of bombing.
Comparing exhaustive footage of London in the 40s with the city of today, we see how great plans for urban renewal were stillborn and, instead, London rebuilt itself in an ad hoc way along old street patterns.
The only exception to this was the dramatic city that rose from the derelict docklands. Where Canary Wharf had a blank canvas and used it to create an American style grid of streets and huge buildings, the city itself was faced with squeezing ever more bizarrely-shaped buildings into its confused medieval street plan.
The story of a capital that has been transformed from a low-rise, smog-ridden industrial city into an upwardly mobile, rapidly changing hub of leisure, retail and finance.
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- BBC Two, 10:00pm Sunday 10th August
- 30 minutes
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Have your say and help make a difference in Giffnock
Residents who are passionate about their area are being urged to get involved in the Giffnock Community Council interim election.
Published: 11 March 2021
Community Councils are a special type of community group who are consulted on important local issues, such a new housing plans, alcohol licensing applications and crime. These groups provide a direct link between the local community and the Council, NHS, Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and other public bodies.
Members of the group can share their views on many issues that affect the local area, offering local residents the opportunity to come together, discuss and campaign specific matters of interest to their particular local community and ensure their voices are heard on important matters. It is also an opportunity to run local events and support good causes.
Anyone wishing to stand for election must be a resident in the community council area, aged 16 years or over and named on the electoral register. The proposer and seconder must also stay in the community council/neighbourhood area, with self-nomination not permitted.
The nomination period opens on Thursday 11 March and closes on Wednesday 9 April at 4.45pm.
The neighbourhood areas with vacant seats are as follows:
- Giffnock South (3 vacancies)
- Merrylee and Braidbar (9 vacancies)
- Orchard Park (6 vacancies)
For further assistance or to have a nomination form posted to you please contact Vincent McCulloch, Community Council Liaison Officer on 0141 577 4645 or email@example.com.


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Azerbaijan to start money transfer with Belarus under STEFI
Baku, April 22 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijani and Belarus postal operators will launch money transfer on STEFI (Secured Transfer of Electronic Financial Information) operating system.
According to the Azerbaijan Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies, the system will be launched at a business forum on communication and information technologies to be held in Minsk on April 23-26 as part of the TIBO-2013 exhibition.
The use of STEFI allows postal operators to offer money transfers within 30 minutes. The implementation of the tariff money transfers using the STEFI system corresponds with tariffs currently operating in money transfers in other systems.
Azerbaijan already launched STEFI with Ukraine, and is planning to introduce the system together with Moldova, Russia and Kazakhstan.
The business forum in Minsk will bring together representatives of some 30 ICT companies from Azerbaijan who will discuss with their Belarus counterparts prospects for developing the bilateral cooperation in ICT sector and space industry.
TIBO - Telecommunication Information and Banking Technologies is the 20th International exhibition on Telecommunications, Information and Banking Technologies in Minsk. This is the 19th edition of the event. The exhibition will provide the opportunity to meet all the Telecommunication, Information and Baking Technologies industries professional under one roof. A conference also will be held during the exhibition time at the same venue.

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List of peronages produced PSB albums or tracks.
List of backing vocalists who sang on tours and records.
List of musicians who played on tours and records.
List of personages who remixed PSB songs.
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List of personages who helps to create records - sound engineers, programmers...
List of people who care of PSB visual side - video directors, photographers, designers...
List of personages who PSB collaborated with on their records.
List of managers of the band as the time goes by.

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With the mixed reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, people and organizations will soon be able to meet online from different locations through holographs and animated avatars.
The company has set its goal of releasing the Microsoft Teams metaverse feature by the first half of 2022.
‘Metaverse’ is definitely the favorite word of all crypto enthusiasts at the moment. Not long after Facebook re-branded itself as Meta, thus entering the realm of virtual and augmented reality in a whole new way; Microsoft went one step ahead and announced the Mesh for Teams platform. This collaborative technology will introduce virtual immersive experiences through animated avatars and holographs.
According to Katie Kelly, principal project manager for Mesh, the platform will also help to add more expression to the avatars and will make use of the camera to mimic head and facial movements. This ambitious project will make the meetings more fun in today’s remote mode of working while also building cohesion and personal relations within the team. The idea is to reinvent the bland and impersonal relations at work into something more human-like and fired by actual emotions of togetherness.
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Though the pandemic hit us just a year back forcing companies to collaborate remotely, Microsoft has been in the pursuit of creating immersive mixed reality experiences and digital worlds for 12 years. At its November Ignite developer event, Microsoft announced a solution to the problem of online meetings getting tedious and detached from any real human emotions.
With the mixed reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, people and organizations will soon be able to meet online from different locations through holographs and animated avatars. The platform can be accessed through multiple devices like smartphones and laptops and will open doors to a metaverse in itself. In short, organizations and teams can have their own metaverses filled with digital twins of everything from people to places.
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Metaverse in simple words refers to a virtual environment where with the help of avatars, people and organizations can interact, work and even play games. The future and relevance of Metaverse as explained by Kelly is not very different from the statement given out by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. While Kelly is optimistic about Mesh for Teams opening up an immersive space for collaboration using Microsoft’s existing tools like Together mode and Presenter mode, Mark pointed towards the metaverse’s capability of bringing together friends and families, colleagues through instant teleportation by way of holograms.
In the past, companies like Accenture have already brought the digital into homes with the virtual campus it created with the help of Microsoft’s Mesh. This immersive space is used by employees for casual gatherings, coffee meetings, parties, presentations and even to just bump into each other. Post pandemic, Accenture has built the One Accenture Park, a shared virtual space with a conference room, a boardroom and monorails.
The battle is here to stay as more and more players enter the game exploiting the current need for everything remote. The NFT metaverses have already seen a growing graph with such announcements from the big tech companies. While Ethereum’s NFT metaverse game, The Sandbox, noticed a 244% growth post the announcement of Meta, the metaverse token MANA rose by 100% during the same time.


Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms quartet has always sharply divided critical opinion. On the one hand, there are those who have regarded it as the equivalent of Brahms’s Fifth Symphony
; on the other hand, there are those who regard it as an over-rated travesty and seem to be particularly offended by Schoenberg’s use of a xylophone in the final movement. It falls into the category of works by one classical master fully re-imagined and re-interpreted by another – like, for example, the Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an exhibition
– and should therefore really be regarded as a hybrid with its own identity, rather than as the exclusive work of one composer or the other. Ravel arranged Mussorgsky using all the resources of his orchestra as they existed in his own day: thus he employed the saxophone (an instrument that Mussorgsky probably never heard, since in his day it had only been used by a handful of French composers such as Bizet and Ambroise Thomas) and the celesta (an instrument not even invented until after Mussorgsky’s death). Schoenberg’s controversial use of the xylophone must be regarded in the same light; although the instrument had been employed by Saint-Saëns in his Danse macabre
as early as 1874, it was so little known in Germany that Strauss (like Saint-Saëns before him) had to give a description of the instrument in a footnote when he used it in Salome
thirty-one years later, although it had already made a symphonic appearance in Mahler’s Sixth
the year before that.
Rattle has always had a soft spot for Brahms-Schoenberg, and gave this transcription its first really recommendable recording in the 1980s as one of his earliest recordings with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (since its first performance under Klemperer there had been previous recordings, but unfortunately in none of those was the recording or the skill of the performers equal to their enthusiasm). Since then there have been a considerable number of recommendable readings, including one by Rozhdestvensky on Collins Classics re-released in 2011 which brings the work firmly into the neo-romantic camp of early Schoenberg (although it is not an early work) and several others which have emphasised the severe classicism of Brahms’s original ideas. Now Rattle revisits the score with his Berlin forces in live performances given over two days in 2009.
Rattle’s approach is now more severely classical than before, and his first movement does indeed sound very much like Brahms. It is, as one would expect, expertly played and extremely well recorded with no evidence of audience noise: no applause even at the end, for example. The xylophone in the final movement is fully integrated into the orchestral sound, and Rattle attacks the music with slightly more gusto than before. The players sound as though they are thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Rattle’s earlier recording has been re-released as part of a 2-CD set on Classics for Pleasure coupled with the two Brahms piano concertos played by Martin Tirimo and that digital recording still sounds very well, if rather more distanced than in this new Berlin reading; and of course the playing in Berlin even in live performance is more secure and simply ‘right’ than was possible in Rattle’s early days in Birmingham. On the other hand if you are looking for a more overtly romantic and distanced sound, then Rozhdestvensky (who is considerably slower in the first and third movements) will provide a challengingly different alternative.
The Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene
was intended by Schoenberg to be used for a film soundtrack for the newly devised ‘talking pictures’ and he was naïvely disappointed that the Hollywood style which soon evolved (and which he hated) meant that his score was never used for its original purpose. Nowadays of course we are accustomed to much more dissonant music than this in the soundtracks even of mainstream films.
Schoenberg himself made the orchestral arrangement of his First Chamber Symphony
given here because he had decided that the balance in the original chamber version was unsatisfactory, with five solo strings unable to contend in terms of volume against ten wind instruments. However he never withdrew his original version, and it is that which has almost invariably been performed and recorded until now. It is therefore a total delight to be able to report that Schoenberg’s second thoughts were exactly to the point and entirely justified. One can
now hear a satisfactory balance in the musical material. To begin with it seems that Schoenberg is merely expanding the solo string parts (although he retains a solo violin at once point); but towards the end of the first movement we suddenly find a trumpet doubling or replacing the cor anglais, and after that the rescoring becomes bolder, with soft trombones doubling bassoons and then taking over some of the lower horn passages. At the beginning of the slow movement Schoenberg reverts to the original scoring with solo strings, and the subsequent entry of the whole string body brings a surge of romantic fervour which exactly matches the feeling in the music. But Schoenberg (or Rattle) makes sure that the tutti
strings do not overpower the wind parts at any point and the clarity of the scoring remains untouched. The ending of the symphony has a terrific drive in the full orchestral version that the chamber original can never hope to rival. Following the score of the original chamber version the ear notices many delightful flavours and piquancies in the orchestration; one would wish to hear the full orchestral scoring used much more often. The Berliners’ playing is absolute perfection.
The other works on this disc are highly desirable, but for the full orchestral version of the Chamber Symphony
this recording is an absolute must. This appears to be its only recording; others which claim to be by full orchestra, such as those by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Mehta, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eschenbach or the Concertgebouw under Chailly, turn out to be of the original chamber scoring, as indeed is Rattle’s own earlier Birmingham recording. Those who want to hear the impact of Schoenberg’s modernism of thought will doubtless continue to prefer the chamber version; but those who want to experience the music in all its late romantic power will want this one.
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August 21, 2019 | Return to the 2019 Archive | Women In Agile Podcast
Deatrice Gautreaux is an Agile coach at Accenture | SolutionsIQ and a champion for the Women in Agile movement. Being part of any women’s movement is a tremendous change for her. “As a young black girl raised in the south, segregation was a painful thing…” So Gautreaux made the intentional choice not to separate herself from the whole: “When it came to women movements, I took a step back.”
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The back actually shares a lot of similarity with the Pixel 2 XL which also had a dual tone design. Also no dual cameras on the back so Google will rely on their brilliant software suite for portrait images. The phone will have a glass back with wireless charging added in.
We have the standard setup here, a bunch of adapters and the charger. Google has also thrown in the Pixel buds with the Pixel 3 XL and that’s pretty generous considering those earbuds cost around USD 160$.
Pixel fans might not like the notch design, but honestly the phone doesn’t look bad, although it’s not winning any design awards either. The photos from the camera do look great and that has been a major selling point for the Pixel series. Pixel 3 is going to house the Snapdragon 845 which will drive a OLED display with a resolution of 2960 × 1440 pixels. Google hasn’t yet confirmed a launch date but according to various reports we might see an official announcement on October 4th.


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First-ever Flint Literary Festival prepares to take ‘Flight’
For Immediate Release
FLINT, Mich., May 26, 2017 – The inaugural Flint Literary Festival will be July 21-22 and feature several noted authors with Flint roots who have achieved critical and commercial success with their writing.
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The Lightning Weaver, by Bryan Alaspa.
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As part of its crackdown on what it calls “junk” fees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday issued a compliance bulletin to companies that distribute government payments to consumers via debit cards, making sure they are not running afoul of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) by not forcing consumers to receive benefits at a specific institution and ensuring consumers have choices.
A copy of the bulletin can be accessed by clicking here.
Under the EFTA, entities are barred from requiring consumers to establish an account for receipt of electronic fund transfers with a particular financial institution as a condition of employment or receipt of government benefits. The objective is to ensure that consumers receiving government benefits have a choice in how they receive those funds.
The CFPB is concerned that some entities may be “illegally siphoning money” from consumers by charging fees to allow consumers to access their funds on debit cards that the entities forced the consumers to use — removing the choices that are required under the EFTA and Regulation E. The CFPB pointed to an enforcement action it took against JPay, which was fined $6 million for charging fees when issuing debit cards to individuals who were being released from prison or jail.
“When companies act as gatekeepers for government benefits, they often abuse that power to extract unavoidable fees,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, in a statement. “Barriers to choice kill competition and can harm families who need every dollar to make ends meet.”
Last month, the CFPB announced a Request for Information seeking to learn more about what it calls “exploitative junk fees” charged by banks and financial services companies. This could include convenience fees that are sometimes charged by companies, including those in the accounts receivable management industry, for allowing consumers to make payments via debit cards.


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I made this for an SA Thread, but then realized that it didn’t have The Funny, and that it was also pretty technically deficient, mostly ’cause I’m about 5 beers into the evening.
So I’ll show it to you folks instead! Woo! I’m havin’ fun here!
Edit : After several more beers, I have posted it to the SA thread in question, which is already richly populated by dozens of remixes far superior. I am bracing myself for mockery most cutting.


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One for the Road, the real-life story of a journalist’s battle with alcohol, sparks debate over the country’s self-image as a nation of moderate wine-lovers The posters, on hoardings across France, show a slightly dishevelled media executive in his 50s, on a jetty, a bag in his hand, a Swiss lake behind, staring with vacant,….
Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world’s illegal opium. Last year, the country’s drug trade was a $4-billion business, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest. Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy there, because the Taliban….
Too much alcohol can cause permanent brain damage, such as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which is largely related to thiamine deficiency. Previous animal studies have shown that alcohol can also cause brain injury and degeneration by inhibiting insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF). A new study using postmortem human brain tissue has found that chronic alcohol abuse….
When you finally do decide to seek help for yourself or a loved one who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, the growing concern may be what type of treatment is going to be most effective—is inpatient treatment better than outpatient treatment? The answer to this question depends on a variety of different circumstantial factors….
Ever since the invention of alcohol and before the launch of new age treatment, people have been forced to rely upon traditional methods of achieving sobriety… everything from quitting cold turkey, to tooth grinding will power and “talk therapy” … and finally of course there’s the renowned 12 step programs introduced in the 1950s. AA….

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The use of cricoid pressure is a polarizing issue. It is not uncommon for experts in emergency airway management to come close to blows when discussing the efficacy of Sellick's famous maneuver.
Until recently, there has been a paucity of data to support or discredit its use, but the publication of the IRIS trial represents the first large, high-quality empiric examination of this historic piece of airway dogma.
The IRIS (Sellick Interest in Rapid Sequence Induction) trial examined using cricoid pressure in surgical patients undergoing rapid sequence induction (RSI) at 10 centers across France. (JAMA Surg 2018 Oct 17. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2018.3577; http://bit.ly/2zuJKid.)
The authors enrolled 3,472 adult patients requiring RSI for any type of surgical procedure under general anesthesia who were considered to have a full stomach (less than six hours of fasting) or at least one risk factor for pulmonary aspiration.
True cricoid pressure
Patients were randomized to receive a sham procedure or true cricoid pressure, defined as an expected pressure equivalent to 30 newtons applied using the first three fingers on the cricoid cartilage. Operators were trained to apply the procedure correctly before being permitted to participate in the study.
This study was technically negative, but the authors reported the sham cricoid procedure failed to demonstrate noninferiority when compared with the true Sellick technique. This is most likely an error in the authors' statistical analysis rather than any clinical benefit of cricoid pressure.
The rate of the primary endpoint, pulmonary aspiration (detected at the glottis level during laryngoscopy or by tracheal aspiration just after tracheal intubation), was essentially identical in both groups.
It occurred in 10 patients (0.6%) in the Sellick group and in nine (0.5%) in the sham group. The rates were similar for suspected pneumonia within 24 hours of intubation (0.9% vs 0.6%), aspiration pneumonia (0.2% vs 0.2%), and severe pneumonia (0.1% vs 0.1%).
The only element that was noticeably different between the groups was the difficulty of intubation. Patients randomized to the cricoid pressure group had a higher incidence of grade 3 and 4 Cormack and Lehane views.
Interruption of the maneuver also occurred more frequently in the cricoid pressure group. Abandoning these attempts more often improved the view after its release. The cricoid pressure group required longer times to intubation and more frequently experienced intubations exceeding 30 seconds. The incidence of difficult tracheal intubation did not reach statistical significance, but it was numerically higher in the cricoid pressure group (72 v. 51).

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|A rainbow of dollies.|
The pattern for Plain Ol' Rag Doll will include drawings for the face to use for painting or embroidery, and a nightie / bonnet combo. Later I'll list a pattern for various dresses to fit the doll, so she can have something besides sleepwear, should her Mistress desire to make her a wardrobe.
For now, I like them without faces. Not sure why that is, but I think their body-language is louder this way. The clothing they're wearing in the photos is (all but one) made up of things I've picked up here and there at doll shows--it's amazing how easy these gals are to fit! The doll is 19" tall, but being so slender, she doesn't feel like a "Big" doll.
|Audrey and Helga|
|A Rag Doll family Portrait!|
Cat and dog lap-warmers not included...sorry. Ciao!
|Schultz and Willie are helping me sew Izzy hands at the moment, but there's a rag doll right next to me, and a giant box of stuffing at my feet. Such wonderful helpers I have!|

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After 5 years at Maranello, Ferrari have confirmed Fernando Alonso is leaving the Formula One team. The Spaniard’s departure leaves his Ferrari seat open for the incoming Sebastian Vettel after the German brought his Red Bull contract to an end earlier this year.
Alonso moved to Ferrari for the 2010 season on a three-year deal after a brief return to Renault, where Fernando won both his Formula One Drivers World Championships. Since then he has gone on to win 11 Grand Prix’s for the Scuderia Ferrari team along with 1186 championship points.
Back in 2010, Fernando made his Ferrari debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix and took the win. But five seasons down the line and his time at the time has come to an end and he will be replaced by the four-time Drivers World Championship winner, Sebastian Vettel.
Earlier this year Vettel confirmed he would be leaving Red Bull but until now it has been unconfirmed where the German would be driving from 2015. But with Ferrari announcing Alonso’s departure, they were able to confirm what was expected all along and confirm that Vettel would be joining the only Formula One team to stay in the sport since the inaugural season.
Now the future for Alonso seems to be a return to McLaren where he spent the 2007 season. But that announcement wont come any sooner than December the 1st with the Woking based team pushing their driver announcement back until the festive month at the earliest.
McLaren’s decision to push their driver announcement back is due to the team being undecided on who they want to keep for the upcoming season out of their current driving line-up. Like Alonso, Jenson joined his current team (McLaren) for the start of the 2010 season and has been there ever since. In that time the Brit has raced alongside Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez and Kevin Magnussen. But the futures of Button and Magnussen at McLaren remain undecided.
In the meantime, this weekend marks the final round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship where Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg can win this years Drivers World Championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. As well as being Alonso’s final race for Ferrari, Vettel’s final race for Red Bull and possibly Button or Magnussen’s final race for McLaren.


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WHO faces $11.5bn cash crunch as Delta variant surges
Donor nations are bypassing the world health body’s Covid-19 programme, leaving poorer countries short of vaccines and oxygen
Brussels — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking $11.5bn in urgent funding to fight the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, a draft report seen by Reuters shows, as wealthy nations are partly bypassing its Covid-19 programmes.
A large portion of the cash being requested from the WHO’s partners is needed to buy test kits, oxygen and face masks in poorer nations, says the document which is expected to be published this week. One-quarter of the funds would be used to buy hundreds of millions of vaccines.
The paper, which is still subject to changes, outlines the results and financial needs of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), the programme co-led by the WHO to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, drugs and tests across the world fairly.
The programme, set up at the beginning of the pandemic, remains vastly underfunded, and its co-ordinators now acknowledge will remain so as many governments look to address global Covid needs “differently”, an ACT-A official told Reuters, who didn’t want to be identified.
As a result, it has cut its total request for funds by almost by $5bn, according to the document. But it still needs $16.8bn, almost as much as what has been raised so far, and $7.7bn is required urgently.
The document also calls for a further $3.8bn, on top of the $7.7bn, to take up options for 760-million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that would be delivered in 2022.
“These options to buy need to be exercised in the coming months or vaccine doses will be lost,” the document warns.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week that $7.7bn was required urgently, but didn’t give a breakdown of planned spending, and did not say how much extra money was needed for vaccines.
The WHO wasn’t immediately available to comment.
The latest cash crunch will underscore concerns about the future of the programme, which has struggled to secure supplies and equipment to tame a pandemic that has killed more than 4.2-million people.
The vaccine portion of the project, called Covax, is increasingly reliant on donations from wealthy nations, rather than its own supplies, after key manufacturer India restricted exports of shots to boost domestic vaccinations.
But the US, the EU and Japan have also donated vaccines directly to countries as part of their vaccine diplomacy drives. Japan has also said it's a quicker process than going through Covax.
Some countries have provided equipment directly to others too. Last month, Australia said it would donate oxygen-related equipment, antigen test-kits and vaccines to Indonesia.
The plea for cash comes as a review of the ACT-A is under way, with France, Germany and Canada among the countries steering the process. A report on the programme's results and shortcomings is expected in September by consultancy Dalberg Global Development Advisers, the ACT-A official said.
Among ACT-A’s immediate needs are $1.2bn for oxygen to treat seriously ill Covid-19 patients in poorer countries where supplies are low, the report says.
Oxygen has moved up the priority list given vaccines are not available, the ACT-A official said, highlighting the repercussions from the shortage of shots as the Delta variant spreads to 132 countries.
Covax has delivered about 180-million vaccines, far short of its 2-billion target by the end of 2021.
Oxygen is needed to “control the exponential death surges caused by the Delta variant”, the document says.
Global demand for medical oxygen is more than a dozen times greater than before the pandemic, the document says, but many countries are struggling to access sufficient supplies.
“Inequity in access to life-saving Covid-19 tools has never been more apparent,” the document says.
The urgent need for the most basic treatment against Covid-19 18 months into the pandemic shows how little has been done to combat the virus in most of the world, the ACT-A official said, adding: “There hasn't been much progress. What was urgent three months ago is still urgent now.”
In rich nations, most people have already been vaccinated, including the younger who are less at risk from the virus, whereas in poorer nations the most vulnerable are still waiting for a first dose and there is a lack of basic materials, such as face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE).
“Avoidable death and unsustainable pressure on health systems is mounting in many countries due to insufficient access to oxygen and PPE,” the document says.
At least $1.7bn is need urgently to buy protective devices for healthcare workers in poorer nations, the document says, and another $2.4bn is needed to boost testing in low-income countries.
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City Council Gives Go-Ahead To Start Bidding On Street Project
Posted: 06 February, 2013
WAYNE (KTCH/KCTY) - The Wayne City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting last night. Items on the agenda included the approval of the one and six year street improvement plan, as presented by Joel Hansen.
Relating to that was the approval of the authorization for staff to begin the bid process for the east 10th to Windom Street project. The project includes fixing three and a half blocks of 10th street on the south side of the WSC campus east to Windom Street. The project is currently estimated at a cost of $550,000, and will need to be completed by August 9. The Council also approved the purchase of Rainbow turf-bonded surface that will be placed underneath the new park equipment in Western Ridge. The meeting ended with the approval and appointment of Ellen Imdieke to the Library Board. The City Council will next meet on February 19.


Pesticides screening in food sample has traditionally counted on analytical confirmation with a quantitative method such as GC/MS, HPLC and LC/MS. The chromatographic technique provide a high sensitivity and high reliability solution for pesticides analysis but introduce the relatively low throughput with time-consuming pretreatment technique. Desorption corona beam ionization (DCBI) source for direct analysis in mass spectrometry can work under ambient conditions with minimal sample pretreatments. In DCBI, a visible thin corona beam are generated from helium gas and impact the solid sample surface, and then the analyte molecules on the surface were ionized in the gas phase. DCBI was used in the field of drug development, environmental, homeland security. In this study, we attempted to develop a DCBI-MS approach to determine pesticides amount aiming at high throughput and comprehensive methods using MRM acquisition. Ambient mass spectrometry coupled with ultra-fast triple quadrupole mass spectrometry permits this data acquisition in 30 seconds per sample as compared with the conventional chromatographic run of about 20 - 40 minutes.