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Chapter 85 Feng Qi Yun Yong* Part 10
At this moment, Helian Rongchuan could not wait to beat that Housekeeper Liu 100 big boards immediately. When he glanced at Yan Changqing’s expressionless face out of the corner of his eyes, he was even more at a loss in his heart. With a cold face, he asked back: “Relationship? When did I have a relationship with her?”
Housekeeper Liu was stunned when he heard the words. Did he bet on the wrong treasure? But to make Su Wumei, the No. 1 singer of Dongyun, a beautiful woman of this country, run over thousands of miles to come here, how can there be no relationship? Could it be that his master has changed his personality?
Jiu Jin stood aside, sweating silently for Housekeeper Liu and his master. For a while, he didn’t know who to sympathize with more.
After Su Wumei heard Helian Rongchuan’s words, a pair of watery sad eyes suddenly became foggy. She lowered her head: “Your Highness, please don’t blame Housekeeper Liu. It was this little girl who was abrupt. This little girl remembered your kindness to this little girl in Changyin Pavilion, day and night, and found it difficult to sleep and eat, so I came here to repay your kindness. But I never thought that it would disturb the peace of His Highness. This little girl knows that she was wrong, so she will leave…”
Su Wumei became more and more sad as she spoke and the corners of her eyes filled with crystal tears, pitiful.
Helian Rongchuan didn’t have any thoughts of pitying the flower at this time, he just wanted to have Housekeeper Liu send this living Bodhisattva away, but he heard Yan Changqing take a sip of tea and asked Housekeeper Liu lightly: “Changyin Pavilion, what kind of place is it?”
Although it was a question, his tone was faintly cold. Housekeeper Liu suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and he couldn’t help but stutter: “…that’s… the place where princes and nobles listen… listen to popular ballads…?”
His answer actually lowered the Changyin Pavilion in Dongyun’s reputation. That was a famous performing hall in Dongyun. It was a golden cave that had to be seen by dignitaries and big shots. Every day there would be shows. Although it was not a brothel with the singers and dancers in it mostly there in the name of performing arts and not selling themselves, but what the specific situation was, one is afraid that only those princes and nobles who linger there every day would know in their hearts.
Although Housekeeper Liu didn’t make it clear, the way he was hesitant to speak was all caught in Yan Changqing’s eyes. He put down the tea cup and stood up expressionlessly: “It seems that you have your own personal affairs here. I won’t bother you.”
Helian Rongchuan was startled, and he didn’t care about his prestige in front of the servants. He hurriedly stopped him: “You misunderstood, listen to me…”
Yan Changqing took a step back, distanced himself from Helian Rongchuan, and said coldly, “I’m not interested in listening to your private affairs.”
After speaking, he turned and left.
Helian Rongchuan hurriedly wanted to chase, but just two steps away, Yan Changqing turned his head and stared at him with cold, warning eyes.
Helian Rongchuan had no choice but to stop on the spot, neither advancing nor retreating. He looked at Yan Changqing who walked away without looking back.
Housekeeper Liu finally realized that his own cleverness had caused a big disaster, and he hurriedly picked up Su Wumei, who was still crying on the ground, and ran away in fright. Jiu Jin secretly glanced at Helian Rongchuan, only to feel that his face was familiar, like the bottom of a black pot in his kitchen that hasn’t been washed for 20 years. He shrugged his shoulders and silently slipped away.
Helian Rongchuan was the only one left in the harmonious gazebo in the heart of the lake, that was still full of chatter and laughter just now.
The dishes were cold, the tea was cold, and the wind was colder.
What was all this? ! !
Helian Rongchuan stood alone in the pavilion, facing the mirror-smooth lake in front of him with a sad face. When he thought of Yan Changqing’s cold attitude towards him just now, he felt remorse in his heart. He had spent a lot of thought and effort to finally manage to warm up the ice and snow-like person. Yet, because of this incident, everything had returned to the starting point?
But why is this person so stubborn and so arrogant that he refused to listen to his explanation? Could it be that after getting along for so many days, he still can’t see his sincerity? Does he still not want to believe in himself?
Thinking of this, a trace of anger appeared on Helian Rongchuan’s face – mixed with hurt and grievance.
But immediately, this anger was replaced by a stronger emotion – panic.
Not being valued by his Royal Father, but coveted by many forces as a prince, once made Helian Rongchuan in his youth struggle in the palace. In order to protect himself and keep a low profile, he had to pretend to be a pig to eat a tiger. He hung out with those frivolous nobles all day long, and quietly expanded his financial resources and contacts. However, the officialdom had little character, and the entertainment districts had no sincerity. After wearing the mask of this “playful dude” for a long time, he himself could hardly remember his true face. Looking back on his past, although Helian Rongchuan had a clear conscience, what would Yan Changqing, who did not understand his reasoning, think? Although this Su Wumei incident was a misunderstanding, it uncovered a topic that Helian Rongchuan had been avoiding intentionally or unintentionally.
Does he really hate himself because of his past?
Helian Rongchuan felt panic in his heart. Yan Changqing’s appearance of rejecting people thousands of miles away just kept flashing in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more certain he became. Yes, that’s right, Yan Changqing was clearly disgusted!
He was disgusted with him! ! !
He clearly showed his sincerity, but this person was going to reject him again because of his unavoidable past!
Yan Changqing! Yan Changqing! ! Isn’t your heart made of flesh? How could you be so heartless?
The more Helian Rongchuan thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He only felt a buzzing sound in his head, and he was very annoyed. He just wanted to find a way to vent. His punch was quite powerful, and the flesh on his knuckles was immediately torn, dripping with blood.
The burning pain made Helian Rongchuan’s mind a little clearer. He looked at his injured hand with a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth.
Usually, he always pretended to be hurt and sick to trick Yan Changqing into taking care of him. He was really hurt now, and he wondered if Yan Changqing would come over to help him bandage it when he saw his hand?
In fact, although Yan Changqing was thin-skinned and cold and harsh on the outside, he was very soft on the inside. Especially taking care of himself, he was very serious. Sometimes he would make a fool of himself and play tricks on Yan Changqing, but he was no longer as disgusted as he was at first.
Yan Changqing paying attention to his injury appeared in Helian Rongchuan’s mind. When he was bleeding and changing his dressing, Yan Changqing’s black glass-like eyes clearly showed distress and worry.
Thinking of this, Helian Rongchuan’s heart became hot, and he suddenly overturned his previous thoughts.
It’s not that Yan Changqing didn’t know anything about his past. If he disliked it, he would have disliked it long ago, so why bother now? Judging from their relationship during this period of time, he clearly cared about himself and did not hate himself.
But why was he suddenly angry?
As soon as this idea flashed in his mind, Helian Rongchuan’s heart skipped a beat, almost popping out.
That’s right! Helian Rongchuan turned left and right excitedly and kept starting. Yan Changqing must be jealous!
Jealous! ! Jealous for him!
He was so muddle-headed, how could he not have thought of this in the first place!
Helian Rongchuan was extremely excited, and he was sure of this idea almost immediately in his heart. It was obvious that he was still upset by Yan Changqing’s cold attitude just now, but now he was like a child eating candy, constantly recalling how Yan Changqing turned his face just now. He just thought Yan Changqing was not ruthless enough, and should have drawn his sword to chase after him.
After he figured it out, Helian Rongchuan was in a good mood, but he was not in a hurry to explain. He swaggered out of the pavilion and asked Housekeeper Liu to arrange Su Wumei’s affairs – Housekeeper Liu was already trembling with fright, and was about to pick up the board himself, but when he saw Helian Rongchuan’s proud face, he thought he had blurred vision from old age.
After dealing with this matter, Helian Rongchuan slowly took a few sips of tea, and then walked slowly to Yan Changqing’s residence.
He just wanted to make Yan Changqing angry and jealous for a while.
Because the longer the vinegar was brewed, the more sour it was and the more sweet he felt.
Helian Rongchuan slipped under Yan Changqing’s window lattice and secretly looked in. Under the candlelight, Yan Changqing was reading. He was still sitting upright, his waist straight, and his expression still cold and indifferent. He lowered his head slightly and stared at the book without blinking, as if he was very focused.
However, his eyes were always fixed on one place, watching two sticks of incense for a long time, without turning a page.
Helian Rongchuan, with an intoxicated, idiotic smile, peeped out the window to peep at the time of Yan Changqing’s two incense sticks.
Finally, Yan Changqing closed the booklet with an annoyed expression, and threw it away with a “pa”. He then turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Helian Rongchuan snickered for a while, then gently flipped through the window. Because of the moonlight, the house was not completely dark. He could even clearly see the back profile of Yan Changqing lying on the bed. The butterfly bones (scapula) raised under the thin shirt were beautiful and unimaginable. Helian Rongchuan just glanced at it, and felt a burst of heat in his heart, and he was a little bit eager to make a move.
Although his movement of turning over the window was very light, with Yan Changqing’s vigilance, he had definitely noticed it. But Yan Changqing only moved very slightly and then stopped.
It was obvious that he was pretending to be asleep, and didn’t want to pay attention to a certain nasty person.
Helian Rongchuan suppressed a smile, laid on his side on the bed, and looked at Yan Changqing face to face. This movement was not small, even people who were asleep should be aware of it. But Yan Changqing just closed his eyes and didn’t move.
Still pretending? Then don’t blame me for being rude.
Helian Rongchuan chuckled wickedly, and gently blew a breath of warm air into Yan Changqing’s neck.
Yan Changqing’s brows immediately trembled slightly, but he immediately returned to his calm and remained motionless.
Helian Rongchuan’s heart abruptly picked up. He turned to his side again, suddenly holding Yan Changqing’s earlobe and sucked gently.
Yan Changqing’s whole body twitched. He turned his waist, opened his eyes suddenly, and shouted: “You…!”
Helian Rongchuan was above his head, with one arm on his upper body, one eyebrow raised, pretending to be surprised: “Yo, awake? Changqing, you were sleeping like you were dead!”
Yan Changqing pursed his lips tightly, pushed Helian Rongchuan away without saying a word, rolled over and got out of bed, wanting to leave.
The residence was so big, he doubted he couldn’t find a place to sleep. Anyways, he didn’t want to see this person again today!
Who would have guessed that as soon as his toes touched the ground, Helian Rongchuan, like a hungry tiger rushing for food, slammed into him around the waist with his right arm, so they fell back down. His arms were tightly clamped around his waist like iron hoops, and he had no intention of letting go.
Yan Changqing’s face became even worse, and he shouted, “Let go!”
“I won’t let go.”
“I won’t let go.”
The lazy tone provoked Yan Changqing’s displeased nerves to the greatest extent. Yan Changqing began to think, at this time, should he give Helian Rongchuan an over-the-shoulder throw, or should he twist his arm to relieve his anger!
Helian Rongchuan leaned his entire body over without fear, his chest pressed against Yan Changqing’s taut back. He said, “You’re not curious, what I had done before?”
Yan Changqing frowned and turned his head away, responding with silence.
Helian Rongchuan said, “I’ll tell you even if you’re not curious. I went to find that Su Wumei just now.”
Yan Changqing sucked in a deep breath and suddenly struggled with all his strength.
Helian Rongchuan had expected Yan Changqing’s reaction, and while using brute force to hook his thin waist, he continued to say slowly: “I have asked Housekeeper Liu to tell Su Wumei that I understand her kindness, but I already have someone in my heart and I will never change my mind again in this life. I persuaded her to choose another sweetheart, and to go.”
Yan Changqing slightly paused. Helian Rongchuan hurriedly hugged him even tighter, pulled him back to the edge of the bed, and continued, “Speaking of which, Su Wumei is also pitiful. She was the daughter of a good family, but unfortunately, her family fell into disrepair and was sold to an entertainment house. She worked hard and finally became the top card. She thought that she could rely on her own skills and not sell herself, but in the eyes of those powerful princes and nobles in Changyin Pavilion, she was just an entertainer who knew how to sing. A beautiful bird, how can it have any freedom and dignity? That day I accompanied a few fellows to listen to music in Changyin Pavilion. I couldn’t stand those old men taking advantage of a weak girl, so I helped Su Wumei redeem herself and gave her two silver taels to let her find a way out. Who would have thought that this little girl would remember me from then on, and traveled thousands of miles to come here to repay my kindness. Alas… I’m helpless too, blame me. You can only blame me for being kind-hearted and handsome in appearance, suave , talented, and wealthy. I am basically the dream of all maidens in the world…”
He had said such serious words in the beginning, but after that, it became more and more out of character. Yan Changqing hurriedly stopped him: “That’s enough.”
The momentum of this sentence was obviously much weaker than when he was angry before. As soon as the words came out, Yan Changqing was stunned.
D*mn, wasn’t he angry? Where did his anger go? ! ! ! But listening to Helian Rongchuan’s words, it didn’t seem like a lie. If it was as he said, then Su Wumei was indeed a poor woman, and it wasn’t her fault that she came from a humble background. Which woman in the world was willing to degenerate and become someone’s plaything?
Helian Rongchuan had redeemed her, indeed he did a good deed. Why should he feel guilt?
As for Helian Rongchuan’s frivolous ways, he already understood that it was a last resort, just a show. Besides, it’s over, what’s there to turn over regarding old accounts?
Helian Rongchuan tilted his head, smiled and bent his eyes, leaning over to stare at Yan Changqing’s face.
Sure enough, after his explanation just now, the anger on Yan Changqing’s face subsided unconsciously. Helian Rongchuan felt a burst of heat in his heart. His Changqing really believed in himself.
And he was telling the truth from the bottom of his heart.
Yan Changqing inexplicably had a feeling of being completely seen through. He moved his eyes and pushed him: “Why are you looking at me like that!”
“I was wondering why you were angry just now.”
Helian Rongchuan pretended to be puzzled: “We were having a good meal, but when a Su Wumei popped out, someone suddenly flipped.”
Yan Changqing felt as if someone had exposed his shortcomings. His ears started to get hot, and he immediately retorted: “I didn’t!”
“It must be jealousy.” Helian Rongchuan didn’t seem to hear it.
“You were eating my vinegar.” Helian Rongchuan relented.
“You thought I was having an affair with another woman, and got angry.”
The two of them fought each other like a child for a long time, but Yan Changqing finally realized that he was being slick and cheeky. If a person disagrees with someone who doesn’t understand the dispute, simply don’t argue, just ignore him.
Helian Rongchuan liked Yan Changqing’s helpless appearance very much. He smiled as if he had succeeded, and leaned over to hug him tighter from behind.
“Changqing, I’m so happy.”
Yan Changqing was taken aback. He turned his head and looked at him puzzled.
Helian Rongchuan smiled and said seriously, “I’m so happy that you can be jealous because of me and care about me like that.”
His remarks came from the heart, completely different from the glib tone in the past. It was full of sincerity, joy and gratitude. And because it was said against the ear, his voice seemed lower and more magnetic, which made the person tremble.
Yan Changqing no longer struggled. He suddenly didn’t know what to do, he just felt embarrassed and wanted to escape. However, Helian Rongchuan held his shoulders and forced him to look at him.
“Thank you for being jealous because of me.”
The next moment, his chin was clasped by slender and powerful fingers. Helian Rongchuan lowered his eyes and kissed Yan Changqing’s lips tenderly and lovingly.
“I love you, baby.”
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Priyanka lauds 'Writing with Fire' for Oscar nomination
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is currently enjoying her mommy duties and has been keeping it low-key with her spotting or sharing her pictures on social media. But it looks like the actor is managing to find time to catch up on some movies or documentaries amidst taking care of her baby.
The global icon never hesitates in expressing her views on social media and she recently took to her 'Instagram' stories to praise an Indian documentary 'Writing with Fire'.
Priyanka shared the poster of the Indian documentary and wrote, "Loved this movie! Way to go team 'Writing with Fire'," with a clapping emoji.
She further wrote, "Congratulations on a much-deserved Oscar nomination!'
The story of the film revolves around a newspaper run by Dalit women. A cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.

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Do you think that we are today very lonely/solitary becase we haven't barely real conversation? And there are also mass media etc.
Wonderful question. Since this is tagged as "Farenheit 451", we can look at it through today's lens as well as Bradbury's. Writers who deal in the future often looking at something they saw in minutia or on a small scale in their own time.
Are we lonely because we haven't real conversation in our society? Real is the key word. Our society often communicates in text messages and emails in which the writer may have put thought, but not writing into its content. Therefore, the message may be lost. Even face to face conversation often loses meaning due to lack of effort. The result of this can certainly be loneliness and feelings of isolation.
What people choose to do with mass media determines the extent it controls our lives. For instance, I hate visiting with one set of relatives because the TV dominates the visit. I have never seen their television in the off position and their watching it continues the entire visit. Therefore, they are to a very real extent isolating themselves from the very people around them.
I like this very philosophical question! I think society is more lonely and we have retreated away from real relationships into more 'virtual' friendships that involve distance. That relationship may be with the characters on television who we follow and sometimes believe to be real, or with some would be friends that we 'collect' on social networks such as Facebook. Of course these are not social networks in the truest sense, because the realtionships are conducted behind the computer screen. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Mildred wishes only for that fourth wall of television so that she can be completely surrounded by the characters she lives for and interacts with. In the past our ancestors lived in smaller communities and social activities were more communal. We are in danger of creating a society that is insular, imaginary and sedatary. Something many people are discussing through the very networks that avoid them meeting other 'real' people face to face!
I agree that through text messaging, emails, social network sites that people don't really "talk" to each other anymore. I always say that I rarely see people actually chat on their cell phones anymore. However, with this instant form of communication, it opens up channels of activity unavailable to us ten years ago.
We used to write a letter. Then it would take several days for the person to receive it. Then of course several more days to wait for a response. Now, we we can send an email/text and within minutes or even seconds receive a response. This gives us the opportunity to instantly respond back and so forth. Communication is made easier and more accessible.
As for social networking sites, I have been able to get back in touch with old friends who I dearly miss. I can get a snap shot of their life by looking at their pictures and getting updates on their career path, where they live, etc. In turn, I feel connected to these people who I honestly care about.
There are obviously negatives to modern day communication and certainly one can feel disconnected. However, it also provides so many opportunities to maintain relationships that we otherwise would have lost.

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Greg Clark's speech at the annual Energy UK Conference
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Tech giant says its new iPhones prove rare earth materials can be recycled, contrary to conventional belief
More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals


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BOSTON — The Boston Celtics ended their losing streak in style Wednesday night.
After going 0-for-3 on their latest road trip, the Celtics got back in the win column with an exciting 117-108 victory over the Toronto Raptors at TD Garden.
Kyrie Irving turned in yet another set of late-game heroics and paced the Celtics with 27 points and 18 assists, while Al Horford wasn’t far behind with 24 points. Gordon Hayward (18 points) and Jayson Tatum (16 points) also scored in double figures for Boston.
Kawhi Leonard was his usual self with a game-high 33 points, but it didn’t prove to be enough.
With the win, the Celtics improved to 26-18, while the Raptors fell to 33-13.
Here’s how it all went down:
PG: Kyrie Irving
SG: Marcus Smart
SF: Jayson Tatum
PF: Marcus Morris
C: Al Horford
It was an offensive display in the first quarter, which concluded with the Raptors owning a 36-30 lead. Toronto gave Boston all sorts of early trouble in the early goings, grabbing an 18-7 lead thanks to 12 points in the paint within the first five minutes of the contest. But the C’s stayed the course and prevented the visitors from ballooning their advantage.
Irving paced Boston with eight first-quarter points, while Hayward provided a boost off the bench with seven. Toronto’s core four did the bulk of its damage, as Leonard led the way with nine, just ahead of Serge Ibaka, Danny Green and Kyle Lowry, all of whom provided seven. The two sides combined to shoot 59 percent from the field in the opening 12 minutes.
While the opening frame was very much a back-and-forth affair, the second quarter was all Boston. The Celtics shined on both ends of the floor, as they shot at a 62 percent clip, limited the Raptors to just 17 points and took a 64-53 lead into the break.
Save for Leonard’s seven points, the Raptors offense effectively was non-existent in the second frame. In fact, Boston forced Toronto into 24-second violations on back-to-back possessions just over three minutes into the quarter. But where the Raptors struggled, the Celtics shined.
Hayward was stellar for a second straight quarter, pacing Boston with nine points. The rest of Boston’s bench combined to score 12 points, including Jaylen Brown’s five.
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Third quarters have been problematic for the Celtics throughout the campaign, and that trend continued Wednesday. After growing its lead to as large as 16, Boston allowed Toronto chip away and cut the deficit to as few as two with four minutes left to play in the frame. The C’s didn’t let things get too off the rails, though, as they took an 87-83 lead into the fourth.
It could’ve gotten far uglier for Boston had it not been for Horford. After a quiet five-point showing, the veteran big man erupted for 12 in the third, which served as more than half of the Celtics’ total points in the quarter. Boston collectively shot 35 percent from the field. Ibaka did the heavy lifting for Toronto with 11 points.
DOWN TO THE WIRE
Amid a playoff-like atmosphere, the Celtics and Raptors turned in a thrilling final frame.
Leonard gave Toronto its first lead since the second quarter via a fadeaway jumper with just under eight minutes to play. Save for an Aron Baynes’ game-tying 3-pointer just over a minute later, the Raptors maintained a slim advantage for the next three-plus minutes until Tatum converted from range to give the Celtics a 106-104 lead with three minutes to go. After Green knotted the score with a jumper, it was all Celtics.
Irving provided back-to-back clutch baskets, sinking a step-back jumper followed by a 3-pointer. A pair of Horford baskets and a Tatum runner wrapped up the win for the C’s.
PLAY OF THE GAME
Ice. In. His. Veins.
The Celtics return to action Friday night when they host the Memphis Grizzlies. Tip-off from TD Garden is set for 7 p.m. ET.

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Bonus information for the syndicated visitors of Earth (or this blog): David is working on a great art animation project for an exhibition in some art museum in Århus. It will be awesome!
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
From beyond liquid space our friend David Ramirez popped by the WF.HQ to paint the outdoor toilet/shed and the firewood shed. Underneath here there's a li'l picture of David cutting 'n carving in the firewood shed to give it patina. Welcome aboard, David!


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Recently, we here at GamerSushi were having an intense email fistfight discussion and Final Fantasy X-2 came up. You might remember that one as the Girl Power edition, with three female protaganists who change their class by changing clothes in the middle of battle. The tone was also much more light-hearted and irreverent than its predecessor, Final Fantasy X.
Because of this, a lot of people judged a game by it’s cover and thought it was pure crap. I, having played the game, defended it, especially its fast-paced battle system, which paved the way for Final Fantasy XIII’s hyper fighting. Needless to say, no one believed me, chalking it up to my Final Fantasy fanboyishness. Thankfully, Eddy looked it up on Metacritic and discovered it had an average rating of 85. Ah, vindication, my old friend.
Which leads me to ask: what games have you heard or assumed were bad and then later found out they were pretty awesome? For me, I think that Saints Row was one of them. I mistook it for a cheap GTA-clone, but it surpassed it in terms of sheer fun for me. What about you guys?

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July - Gold Stock Analyst has outperformed all other gold forecasts since publication started in 1994. The July edition predicting 2,000 gold this year was published today.
We're on the way - up $100 since I posted.
$2000 per pound?
Even if the imaginary Jesus Christ were to return we'll still never see $2000.gold.
That's what they said about $1000 gold when it was $300 per ounce, Grasshopper.

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Dear faithful readers: Happy New Year! If you still visit my blog after months of inactivity, it must be because you truly enjoy healthy cooking. Or, most likely, we are close friends or family. One of my most loyal supporters is my sister-in-law Julie, who visits my blog nearly every day despite my shameful lack of updates. Julie, c’est en pensant à toi que je publie la recette d’aujourd’hui. May your daily visit be a pleasant surprise!
Today’s recipe is Bulgarian-style vegetarian stuffed peppers – a healthier take on the traditional chushki burek. It is incredibly tasty and easy to make. In the past few months, I have had the pleasure to be introduced to Bulgarian cuisine and its amazing flavours. This is my first attempt at re-creating what can possibly be classified as the tastiest meal I ever had.
Bulgarian-Style Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers
- 4 bell peppers
- 6 eggs
- 1.5 to 2 cups good feta cheese, crumbled (I used Krinos feta cheese made of cow and goat’s milk)
- Black pepper, to taste
- 2 cups plain yogurt
- 1-2 garlic cloves, minced
- Drizzle of olive oil
- Pinch of salt
- Parsley, to taste
Preheat the oven at 375 F. With a paring knife, remove the stem of each pepper and discard the seeds. Place in a ceramic baking pan, ready for stuffing.
Whisk together the eggs and the crumbled cheese to obtain the desired consistency [it’s not an exact science – the peppers will still turn out nice even if the consistency is a bit more runny]. Sprinkle with some black pepper.
Bake in the oven for one hour, covered by a lid or foil. Remove the cover and continue baking for 15-20 minutes to obtain nice golden tops. You want to ensure that the peppers are well cooked, tender and juicy, but they should still keep as whole. The egg mixture will expand and firm up nicely.
Psst, I love parsley but feel free to use less.
UPDATE March 12 2013: I’ve been meaning to tell you this for awhile. Traditionally, Bulgarians use long sweet red peppers rather than bell peppers when making chushki burek. The outcome is a little more messy with long peppers, but oh so good. See below.
Recipe adapted from a Bulgarian friend.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – Residents in historically Black neighborhoods in the Kansas City, Kansas, risk losing their homes amid the pandemic as delinquent property tax sales resume under a practice critics decry as racist and government officials laud for revitalizing communities.
Even though it is just the state’s fourth largest county, the number of delinquent tax properties put up for sale by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County dwarfs those of much larger Kansas counties.
It typically offers about 2,200 properties annually at its three tax auctions.
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emergency dispatchers said that five ambulances and three helicopters
were sent to the scene where the crash happened around 3 p.m. on
Washington County Sheriff's Office
spokeswoman Leighta Laitinen said there were 67 students on the bus when
it rolled over. She said 12 were taken to two hospitals with various
injuries, but there were no fatalities.
Laitinen said authorities including the
Tennessee Highway Patrol were still investigating the cause of the
crash. No other vehicles were apparently involved.
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Couple's bodies found in their Blount County home
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LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Blount (blunt) County sheriff's office says preliminary results of autopsies on the bodies of a couple found dead in their home in Louisville (LEW'-ihs-vil) show their deaths are consistent with murder-suicide.
Marian O'Briant said in an email that it appears 54-year-old Steven Adkins shot 53-year-old Rebecca Adkins, then shot himself.
O'Briant said a family member found the bodies Sunday night. It wasn't clear how long they had been dead.
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All About the Mission - January 18
Economic Development Day for the Leadership Augusta Program is always an eye-opening day for class participants. As I shared with the class at the beginning of the day, if you ask 10 people what economic development is, you will get 10 different answers. So, I challenged the Class that while they experience various organizations and activities during the day that contribute to a growing economy, economic development is a community effort beyond the tactical strategies we traditionally associate with investment and job growth.
In thinking back to my Georgia Academy for Economic Development training, I shared with the Class that if you have to define economic development succinctly, it is the creation of wealth for community benefit. And, I reminded the Class that the creation of wealth is not limited to monetary wealth, but the wealth of education, opportunity and personal investment. One person can impact our community’s economic future by shopping local, investing in a local non-profit or simply being a positive advocate for all that our region has to offer.
I also shared with the Class the components of the Chamber’s mission that pave the way for economic development. As an example, less than half the counties in Georgia exempt manufacturers on an excise tax on energy costs. Fortunately for the manufacturers in Augusta-Richmond County, the Chamber has maintained a strong position and continuously advocates that the cost of this excise tax would increase the operating expenses of our manufacturing base by $4MM per year, conservatively. With the recent announcements by the Augusta Economic Development Authority for new manufacturing investment by PureCycle and Arubus, it’s not hard to do the math on how much money these companies will save by the exemption the Chamber continues to highlight and educate elected officials on and the merits of such a tax benefit and the jobs it creates.
Another example of how the Chamber supports economic development through the execution of policy is the recent SPLOST VIII referendum which included special funding for a rail spur in the Augusta Corporate Industrial Park. Thanks in part due to the Chamber’s endorsement and educational efforts on the referendum, the measure passed by overwhelming voter approval. The return on investment from a one penny sales tax yields creation of wealth for everyone whether that is a job opportunity, a local construction contractor or any one of thousands of businesses that have a higher benefit of consumerism.
Of course, the Chamber’s mission includes many other activities that contribute to economic development whether that is our workforce solutions programs or the services and opportunities we provide our small business members. As the Chamber continues to “Achieve More Together” as a membership organization, our collective economic development is only limited by our imaginations and how positively we approach every day as an opportunity.
Our thanks go to Cal Wray, President of the Augusta Economic Development Authority, for chairing this year’s Economic Development Day. Our thanks also go to Kim Evans, Class Chair and Chris Bird, Class Co-Chair for their continuing dedication to provide a first-class Leadership Augusta Program.


Haitian Rock at S.O.B.'s
Tabou Combo, Sounds of Brazil, 204 Varick Street (243-4940). Haiti's top rock band delivers one of the most infectious grooves in the Caribbean -the compas direct, which is like a merengue (from the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti) filtered through big-band jazz and Cuban rhumbas, then rescored for guitars and percussion. It's suave on top, irrepressible below, and it rolls on until no hips are unmoved. There will also be costumed carnival dancers. There are three packages: an all-night package at 8 P.M. (including dinner, open bar, all-night hors d'oeuvres and a Continental breakfast at dawn) for $150 per person; a 10:30 P.M. package including everything except dinner for $70 per person, and a 12:30-to-dawn package at $50 per person. Seating is guaranteed only with the 8 P.M. package. Giants at Gusto House
They Might Be Giants, Gusto House, 197 East Fourth Street (information: Dial-a-Song). The prolific duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, also known as They Might Be Giants, write frantic, funny, tuneful pop songs, overstuffed with images and information and titles like ''Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes'' and ''Alienation's for the Rich.'' Their latest works are dispensed via Dial-a-Song (718-367-6962), one of New York's most original answering-machine messages. While in concert, They Might Be Giants perform with taped backup, live accordion and guitar, homemade props and enough manic energy to make a listener forget they're using tapes. Sets at 10 P.M. and 12:30 A.M.; admission $10 all evening. Queenie at Tramps
Li'l Queenie and the Influence Peddlers, with Surreal McCoys, Tramps, 125 East 15th Street (777-5077). Li'l Queenie is a New Orleans blues and rock belter whose voice seems to get stronger and gutsier every time she comes to New York. On New Year's Eve, the band that will be supplying her Mardi Gras beat will include two New Orleans musicians who are building their own reputations as leaders, Ramsey McLean on bass and Harry Connick Jr. on piano (who just released an album on Columbia Records), along with Jimmy Robinson, the guitarist for a New Orleans band called the Woodenheads, and Ricky Sebastian on drums. Also on the bill are the Surreal McCoys, a country band with a laconic sense of humor. Shows at 8 P.M. (admission $12) and 11 P.M. (admission $30 at tables, and $15 for the bar and standing-room, including a champagne toast and party favors). Trouble Funk
Trouble Funk and Gwen Guthrie, the World, 254 East Second Street (477-8677). Trouble Funk is Washington's leading go-go band - playing the nonstop mixture of funk, chanting, rapping and percussion that keeps young Washingtonians dancing until dawn. Gwen Guthrie, who will be singing with taped backup, has a knack for hard-nosed dance singles such as ''Ain't Nothing Going on but the Rent'' and ''Can't Love You Tonight.'' The disk jockey will be Larry Levan, formerly of the Paradise Garage. Advance tickets are $20, good until 11 P.M.; admission is $25 at the door, and live music will start sometime after midnight. Lone Star Honky Tonk
Robert Gordon with Kristi Rose and the Dying Breed, the Lone Star Cafe, 61 Fifth Avenue, at 13th Street (242-1664). Honky-tonk reigns, with the rockabilly singer Robert Gordon sharing a bill with Kristi Rose and the Dying Breed. Ms. Rose puts a modern, slightly ironic twist on songs she delivers with the voice of a latter-day Brenda Lee; her band mixes Western swing with a little bit of rock. One show at 10 P.M.; $30 admission includes a split of champagne. Elliott Sharp Downtown
Elliott Sharp, Wayne Horvitz, Dave Hofstra and Bobby Previte, Downtown, 118 Fifth Avenue, at 17th Street (675-0850). A quartet of Lower East Side improvisers will play things relatively straight for New Year's Eve. Elliott Sharp on guitar, Wayne Horvitz on keyboards, Dave Hofstra on bass and Bobby Previte on drums are planning to perform standards before midnight, blues and funk afterward. There are two seatings, at 8 and 10 P.M., for a prix-fixe dinner at $45 plus tax and tip, which includes unlimited champagne. Drums of Passion
Baba Olatunji, Drums, 333 East 60th Street (308-2333). Baba Olatunji, the Nigerian drummer, leads a drumming and dance troupe named Drums of Passion that gives traditional African rhythms a New World kick. Dancing, an open bar, champagne and hors d'oeuvres will begin at 10 P.M., with sets by Drums of Passion at midnight and about 2 A.M.; admission, $125.


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ConTempo/raneous: A passing echo...
Wed 12 October 2016, 19:30 – 21:00 IST
The Galway Music Residency and the Galway Dance Artist in Residence, Ríonach Ní Néill, present a very special performance on Wednesday 12th October at 7.30pm at The Cube Theatre, NUI Galway. They premiere A Passing Echo, a new dance and music work by Ní Néill and composer Jane O’Leary. It marks the final in the current series of ConTempo/raneous, the Galway Music Residency’s series of cross-genre collaborations with Galway-based artists, and the launch of Ní Néill’s Winter/Spring public programme.
Performed by dancers Maria Nilsson Waller, Lucia Kickham, Magdalena Hylak and the Galway ConTempo Quartet, with music by Jane O’Leary and choreography by Ríonach Ní Neill, A Passing Echo marks the culmination of a very successful creative partnership.
Concluding with a Q&A discussion with the artists, this unique event brings together Galway's ensemble in residence and dance artist in residence, some of Europe’s finest dancers and one of Ireland's most distinguished composers.
Tickets cost €15 (€10 concession) and are available here and at the door. Early arrival is advised.
For further information contact:
Maeve Bryan, Communications and Administration Assistant, the Galway Music Residency
Email: email@example.com; Tel: 091-586706


Commercial property development kicks off in Brisbane
Queensland's largest commercial property development - 1 William Street - is underway, after ...
Queensland's largest commercial property development - 1 William Street - is underway, after the first sod was officially turned yesterday (March 4).
Minister for trade Tim Nicholls, who oversaw the milestone with deputy premier Jeff Seeney, said the project will generate economic benefits for the state.
"More than 1,000 direct jobs per year will be required on site as the development proceeds, which will also have a positive impact on indirect jobs and the overall economy," Mr Nicholls commented.
"At present, between consultants and the main contractor, there are more than 200 people working on the early stages of the project."
Sprawling over 75,000 square metres, the tower will become home to the Queensland Public Service, as well as private retailers.
Investors looking to snap up commercial retail property in the heart of Brisbane may be interested in the development, with it also boasting more than 1,000 square metres of retail space and 15,000 square metres available for private sublease.
Due for completion at the end of 2016, major works will be undertaken over the next ten months, Mr Seeney explained.


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Cube Master was founded in 2013 ,based in Middle East, by several talented artists with the aim of developing new experimental and artistic techniques of 3D animation. In addition to the 3D animation, We have passion to do game arts such as 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animating and production of professional game cinematic.
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Helen Birch from drawdrawdraw made another little book in which she breaks down illustrations by techniques, subject matter and tools, this time focused on watercolour. It's a lovely selection of work from illustrators all over the world, and I'm included!
Golden tip for anyone from Ghent who's still looking for Christmas gifts: RAAM is hosting a lastminute Christmasshop on Sunday the 21st of December!
Among jewelry, postcards, notebooks and many other things made by different designers, you'll find a few one-of-a-kind embroidered totebags made by me! RAAM will be open on Sunday the 21st, from 9am till 9pm, see you there!
From now on it's possible to rent or buy my work from Kunst In Huis!
Together with five other ex-students of Carll Cneut (Merlijne Marell, Eline Maes, Joke Dieleman, Alain Verster and Nele Balcaen) I was invited to be 'artist in the spotlight' at their department in the St Peter's Abbey in Ghent. Reason for this is the wonderful exhibition about Carll Cneut which can be visited until the 10th of May. Our work is on display until the end of December, and is available for rent or sale afterwards. Click here to see my page at the Kunst in Huis website for more information.
What are you working on? September has been a month of new beginnings for me. I just started working a full-time job, and a few weeks ago I had my first class of a 2-year course in textile design. I love doing things I've never done before so I can't wait to see what new things I'll learn and how it'll inspire my illustrations. Right now we're trying out lots of different things, I'll probably share more of my experiments in the future. This summer I spent time making plant pots and small drawings which, among other things, can now be seen at an exhibition in Dordrecht, and I still have a few projects coming up later this year.
How does your work differ from others in its genre? It always seems easier for others to recognize this, but I suppose a major distinctive aspect is that I use lots of different materials, most notably stitched thread. I love textures so my favourite ways to make an image are with drypoint (which is a simpler version of etching, perfect for a person like me who's not very patient when it comes to drawing) and thread. There's also a few colours I keep coming back to, mainly Prussian Blue, which is sort of my black. I like to pair it with very bright yellow or Ultramarine. Other than that: animals, lots and lots of them!
Why do you create what you do? Making things with my hands is just an urge I've always had and I can't imagine what it's like not to feel that. Sometimes small things like fixing my bike or making dinner can be enough, but when I spend a day without doing any of that, I tend to feel a bit useless. I'm not sure why exactly I make illustrations, all I know is I've been drawing ever since I was a little kid. What I do love about it is that it's not much of a hassle, and that I can do it by myself. I love doing side projects with clay or textiles, but I think I'll always keep coming back to paper.
How does your creative process work? I tend to get inspired by colours and shapes a lot, or random little things I see or hear about. I try not to overthink drawings before I make them, though that's not always a possibility. When I do commissioned work I often have to provide a sketch, but I never make them for personal work, then I prefer to let my illustrations come into existence more intuitively.
I got invited to this blog hop by my friend and fellow illustrator Merlijne Marell, who makes beautiful work you can check out here. I'd like to pass these questions on to two illustrators from the UK whose work I came across on the internet. First up is Wai Wai Pang. I think I first saw her work on Flickr and I really love how she switches between simple subtle drawings and bold and colorful ones. Also: this. The second illustrator I choose is Katie Harnett. I can't quite remember where I first saw her illustrations but I love her balanced colour palettes, shapes and compositions and the way she paints. Check out her blog here. I'm looking forward to their answers!
All thanks to a fantastic Patti Smith concert earlier
this summer, I was invited by DOOR to the Voorstraat Noord Festival. The
event will take place this Saturday the 13th in Dordrecht, NL. I will
be showing, making and selling some work, so everyone is kindly invited
to come and visit us! Go here if you want to find out more about all the other activities that will take place.
Very happy to announce that some of my illustrations will be exhibited at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival exhibition for Children’s Book Illustrations
in the United Arab Emirates. More info about the book fair here.
This weekend the museum of industry, labour and textile in Ghent is
holding an event focusing on print. Me and 39 other artists spent the
last couple of weeks carving huge blocks of linoleum which will be
printed using a steamroller! My arms are sore from cutting, but I'm very
excited to see the results.
Hooray, I finally graduated! My project was a series of illustrations inspired by a story about the sea, you can come see it at School of Arts' Graduation 2013. If you can't make it (or if you can't wait), head over to my flickr account to see more of my work from this year.
Graduation 2013 Thursday 20th till Sunday 30th of June. Exhibition opening Wednesday 26th at 19h. More info here.


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Researchers found a 9% increase in COVID-19 mortality when the respiratory hazard index, a measure of air quality in the environment, increased.
According to The Hill, the study cited diesel pollutants, soot and smog as well as substances such as naphthalene and acetaldehyde as potential pollutants that contributed to the increased mortality from COVID-19.
Researchers at the State University of New York and Propolis said a 1 percent increase in ozone concentration, known as smog, led to a 2% increase in mortality. In April, researchers at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health reported that prolonged exposure to fine particulate air pollution, or PM2.5, caused a large increase in the mortality rate of COVID-19.
The latest study also found that according to The Hill, the cortavirus ethics rate increased by 0.9% microgram-per-cubic-meter, leading to a 24% increase in the coronovirus ethics rate. Researchers collected their data from an analysis of air pollution and COVID-19 deaths in 3,100 counties.
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November 18, 2013
The Affordable Care Act is not 'Incomprehensible'
Fresh off her recent column lionizing Chris Christie, Peggy Noonan turns to making excuses in her Wall Street Journal column for Democrats who voted for ObamaCare because, well, it's just too darn complicated: More and more it seems obvious that the vast majority of the politicians who pushed the bill in the House and Senate never read it. They didn't know what was in it. They had no idea. They don't understand insurance -- they're in politics, a branch of showbiz. Some of them would have tried to read it, but it was 2,000 pages of impenetrable paragraphs -- real word-clots, word-slabs -- accompanied by long lines of swimming numbers. Comprehensive bills are never comprehensible ones -- they are meant to lack clarity. Administrations get bills passed and then let administration regulators interpret them. That's why Nancy Pelosi said: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." It was literally true! After failing to read or understand the bill, members of...(Read Full Article)


Chicago-based Delray Farms would fill a void in inner-city areas that have been abandoned by major supermarket chains and are poorly served, in many cases, by independent grocers, said John A. Shields, a Delray co-founder and former CEO of First National Supermarkets, Cleveland.
Mr. Shields-along with Stefan L. Kaluzny, a former management consultant with Bain & Co., San Francisco, and Constantine S. Mihas, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant in Chicago-is combing the West and South sides or hard-to-find real estate suitable for grocery stores.
If all goes according to plan, the company hopes to open its first store in Chicago this fall.
"There has developed an underserved element in the Chicago urban community, but until we have a store open, there's not much for us to talk about," said Mr. Shields, who also spent 17 years working for the Chicago area Jewel chain and was director of marketing for its South Side stores.
Delray officials declined to comment on their marketing plans.
Jewel, a subsidiary of Utah-based American Stores Co., shut 10 of its city supermarkets last July, leaving holes in many poorer Chicago neighborhoods.
Nine of those units are being converted to American Stores-owned Osco Drug stores, which will offer a limited selection of produce, dairy products and frozen meat, a Jewel spokeswoman said.
The lease rights to the other shuttered Jewel stores were assumed by West Side independent grocer Leamington Foods.
According to a marketing document obtained by Crain's Chicago Business, Delray has "closed a private sale of equity securities and is currently purchasing and developing locations throughout the Chicago metropolitan area."
Shareholders include the three founders as well as senior executives from national retail chains and other public companies, though the latter weren't named in the document.
Delray is still fine-tuning its format, but Mr. Shields said the stores will likely be about 10,000 to 12,000 square feet and offer wide selections of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood.
The average size of the supermarkets closed by Jewel was 25,000 square feet, which the food retailer deemed too small to operate profitably. New Jewel/Osco prototypes in the suburbs run about 65,000 square feet.
Pamela Fairclough, director of the New York-based Community Food Resource Center's supermarket project, said Delray's stores should be big enough to be profitable.
"Twelve-thousand square feet is going to give you a pretty broad selection," she said. "That's still a decent-size [urban] supermarket."
That size works for Chicago-based Moo & Oink, said Secretary-Treasurer Mort Levy. The food retailer operates two South Side stores and plans to open a West Side location next month.
However, it can be difficult to assemble parcels that large in many city neighborhoods. One site can involve many landlords with varying motivations to sell. Then there's the red tape, running from the local alderman's office to City Hall.
Urban America is familiar turf for Mr. Shields, who received national attention for opening or remodeling nine grocery stores in low-income Cleveland neighborhoods while running First National, a $2.1 billion company. Despite high crime rates, largely unskilled work forces and scarce sites, First National pumped about $28 million into inner-city Cleveland in about five years.
Mr. Shields, 51, resigned from First National last September. He told a Cleveland reporter at the time that the company's Dutch parent, Ahold, wanted him to move to New England to run its larger East Coast operations.
Mr. Veverka is an associate editor for Crain's Chicago Business.


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- US PPI cools to -0.5% MoM, down from 0.4%
- Retail sales fall -0.1% vs -0.3% expected
- Biden & Xi Jinping meeting in focus
- Oil slips despite upbeat China data
PPI eases, boding well for CPI to cool further
US Stock indices are set to open higher, extending gains from yesterday after the encouraging US inflation report fuels hope that interest rates have peaked.
The three main indices had their best daily performance yesterday in over six months after U S consumer prices came in softer than expected at 3.2% YoY, pulling yields lower. The market is breathing a sigh of relief, and the focus is now shifting to when the Fed could start cutting interest rates.
Data today showed that PPI unexpectedly fell -0.5% MoM in October after rising 0.4T% in September. The data bodes well for CPI to ease further.
Meanwhile, retail sales fell -0.1% MoM, better than the -0.3% forecast, and September saw an upward revision to 0.9%, suggesting that consumers are still resilient and putting the US economy in a sweet spot of cooling inflation and on track to avoid a recession.
Looking ahead, attention will be on a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese premier Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The two will meet for the first time in a year as they attempt to repair a strained relationship. The market will be is looking for any signs that friction is easing between the superpowers as they discuss artificial intelligence, drug-trafficking and military conflicts.
Target is set to jump over 14% on the open after reporting stronger-than-expected earnings. The retailer posted adjusted EPS of $2.10 ahead of $1.47 forecast thanks to the lowering of inventory and reining in of costs.
JD.Com, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is set to open almost 4% on the open after the company posted a jump in profits as supply chain difficulties eased.
Dow Jones forecast – technical analysis
After finding support on the 200 sma on Friday, the Dow Jones has rebounded higher, testing resistance at 35000, the September high. Buyers need to break above this level to extend gains to 36350 and 36680 the August high. On the downside, support can be seen at 34300, the 100 sma ahead of 34000, the August low and round number.
FX markets – USD rises, GBP falls
The USD has steadied after steep losses in the previous session as US inflation data cooled by more than forecast. However, today, yields are ticking higher, lifting the greenback from a two-month low versus major peers.
EUR/USD is falling after German wholesale prices cooled, dropping -0.7% MoM after rising 0.2% in September. The data comes after eurozone GDP figures showed that the economy contracted 0.1% in the third quarter, fueling bands that the ECB is also at the end of its rate hiking cycle.
GBP/USD is falling after UK inflation cooled to 4.6% YoY from 6.7%, marking the largest drop in inflation in two years and boosting bets the next move by the BoE will be a rate cut rather than a rate hike. The market is pricing in 25 basis points rate cut in June next year
EUR/USD +0.97% at 1.0795
GBP/USD +1% at 1.24
Oil inches lower despite upbeat China data
Oil prices are edging lower after three days of gains on signs that the US, the world's largest oil producer, could be at peak production off setting an improved demand outlook from China.
China's data showed that industrial output increased at a faster pace than expected, and retail sales jumped ahead of expectations, an encouraging sign for the world's second-largest economy and largest importer of oil. The data suggests that recent worries over economic growth in China may be overdone, particularly as the IEA joined OPEC, raising oil demand growth forecasts for this year.
Meanwhile, downward pressure on oil comes from supply worries amid the expectation that the US is near peak production for crude oil.
The EIA will release its first oil inventory report in two weeks later today after a system upgrade prevented the report from being released last week.
WTI crude trades -0.7% at $77.65
Brent trades +0.07% at $81.85
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Manoj George’s passion in music has initiated him to start a Music school in Bangalore in 2009, for the upcoming generations to thrive in music in a methodical way . Formal and informal techniques from the expert who have performed at various stages across the World, collaborated with acclaimed musicians and who is a Grammy award winning violinist. Guitar Lessons, Violin and other instruments directly from his experience.
Manoj George School of Music is the best music school in Bangalore, which gives importance to the step by step quality-oriented teaching of music. The music school was established in 2009 and is situated in the Garden city of India, Bangalore. With three centers of our music school in sarjapur road , we give the best opportunity for craving music lovers to achieve their dreams.
Our students get opportunities to perform with live bands, ensembles, international music concerts, film, and album recordings. Students get to work with renowned musicians from all around the world. As part of the curriculum music workshops, seminars, assessments, session performances, etc. are conducted for the overall development of the student. Students are trained, right from the initial years to face the public in confidence, to appreciate the music of all genres, to tackle various issues confronting on stage and to overcome stage fright. We make sure to enroll a limited number of students per batch for better teacher-student interaction.
We train students for all the grade examinations conducted by all the major International Colleges such as Trinity College of Music London, ABRSM, LCM, etc. It is one of the very few music schools in Kasavanahalli which provides music classes for Violin, Keyboard, Piano, Guitar and Western theory. Manoj George school of music is indeed one of the best Music schools in India, which teaches versatility in playing western classical, fusion, Indian, Jazz, Blues, Latin, etc., by keeping Indian contemporary style and its blend close to the heart.
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Our music school follows western classical form of curriculum.
We admit music students from the age of 6
Music classes in Bangalore are offered from our Music School at Sarjapur Road & Music School at Kasavanahalli.
In India, a Music schools in general follow a specific curriculum, however, Manoj George has spent a lot of time in investigating and refining the music classes and curriculum to be easily understood by the students.
The advancement of technology has affected the systematic way of learning the concepts of music. The basic study of music in every student has to be strong, so as to help him/her to identify the real sense of sound. Music is an art which can be acquired only if there is discipline in one's life which is an extremely important factor for the growth of an individual.
We have highly qualified and talented teachers in our music school to train our students. We follow the Western Classical form of curriculum. Routine tests and exams are conducted to assess the progress of the student. Our institution nurtures students' individually not only in western music but also in inculcating Indian music and values in the curriculum.
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Teachers at our music schools are highly skilled and experienced. Students will always have full support from our teachers and individual attention is paid. Classes for all musical instruments in our music school in Kasavanahalli or any of the centers in Sarjapur road are conducted by faculties who have great exposure and experience in the music world and have been conducting workshops for students and performing all across India.
“There is no age limit on learning”, truly followed by all three generations in my family- me, my son, and my mother-in-law learn music at “Manoj George School of Music”. My son is learning Violin from the finest team of the institute. He periodically gets special guidance from Mr. Manoj, himself. At the age of 9, he is growing well in his musical journey. This institute follows Trinity school and many other courses. Teaching covers the fundamentals of Western music theory and practical, from the absolute basics to some more advanced concepts. “Learning here encourages the musician in you.” I am learning guitar from last 1.5 years. I have started learning from basics of guitar and moving towards advance learning. Hats off to excellent teachers who have great knowledge and yet are extremely patience with students. My mother-in-law who is 73 years old also enjoys learning keyboard from institute. Ms. Susha gives close attention on every student’s learning and have friendly approach towards all. I would like to specially mention to Chris sir whose attention and patience have helped us learn music with fun and ease. I highly recommend this School of Music, Wonderful team who are highly passionate about music.!!!
I joined the institute around two years back. I started off as a first grade keyboard student but soon my interest shifted onto piano as my teachers often gave me a chance to play on the piano and sometimes he played a few piano melodies for us. Later, I shifted from keyboard to piano and now I've given my first Trinity exam in piano. As a beginner, I was really nervous about playing the piano but my teachers and Manoj sir boosted my confidence up and now my piano is like my best friend! We also had an annual meet where students played different instruments and we came to know about different instruments. Manoj sir also took us to his recording studio once where he told us about how different musical instruments could be tuned together in the computer instead of manually playing them. My teachers, Manoj sir and the others behave in a very friendly manner to me and even though I got to this reputed musical institution, I've never felt like an outsider and always felt my class as my home. The music school has not only helped me in improving in piano but also made me love music more !!
I feel really blessed to be part of this institution to learn music under some of the most knowledgeable and wonderful teachers. This institution has not only developed me as a musician but also has helped me moulding myself as a person, as i have been taught lot of values. I admire the sincerity of the teachers and their willingness to help in every way possible. we have been given all the support and opportunities we needed to grow and develop as good musicians and performers here at Manoj George school of Music
My son and myself started to take classes with Manoj Sir about 3 years ago and we enjoyed each and every classes we attended. Prior to starting classes, people told us that violin was difficult instrument to learn, But with Manoj sir's guidance, it was made simple. The classes were something to look forward to every week, especially with such a lively teacher. The excitement and passion that he shows towards teaching his students is inspiring and made us eager to learn more.
I have attended Violin classes since 8th grade. In the beginning i never was very interested, and played very half heartedly. But Manoj Sir persisted me to keep on practicing. After watching many of his performances and given a chance to perform a few times, I have learned to play with my heart and have also improved. Both Manoj Sir and Susha have made me feel very welcome have helped me to do better.


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Want to make a real estate investment? Don't build standard suburbs but invest in walkable, bikeable neighborhoods.
This should not be news to anyone, but Christopher Leindorfer once again points to mounting evidence that what is selling now is convenient neighborhoods with good public transport and walk- and/or bike-ability.
" In metropolitan Seattle in 1996, the suburban Redmond area, home to
Microsoft, had the same price per square foot as Capitol Hill, a
walkable area adjacent to downtown,... Today, Capitol Hill is valued nearly 50 percent above Redmond," he writes. He has several other examples, too.
Canadian cities are steps ahead of those in the US when it comes to recognizing the importance of convenient, non-private car transport. It's no surprise that Jane Jacobs found Toronto so congenial when she left New York in the late 1960s because it is so friendly to active transportation. Montreal, built on a denser street layout for the most part, is even more walker-friendly.
This means that we would get a pretty penny for our house in an extremely walkable neighborhood. That, in turn, means the increase in assessed valuation that we just learned about would be hard to contest: the prices are going through the roof, and the evaluation is based on "market value." I guess we had the right idea, decades ago when we bought the place for not that much at all.


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University of Kentucky patients are getting quick access to cutting-edge medical treatment ideas and health outcomes in the commonwealth are improving through a two-year-old pilot program that is leading to external funding for full research trials.
The Multidisciplinary Value Program (MVP) brings together UK medical researchers, scientists of different disciplines and expert clinical physicians to offer new trials or therapies in clinical settings. Dr. Robert DiPaola, dean of the UK College of Medicine, said the goal is simple: get new science to patients sooner.
“If there’s a discovery in a laboratory, it could take 10 years (under traditional processes) before it actually gets into the clinic,” he said. “This (the MVP) was constructed to increase the speed by which we have an impact for the discoveries that are made at the University of Kentucky.”
Shortly after beginning his tenure as dean of the College of Medicine in March 2016, DiPaola developed and launched the MVP in conjunction with Lisa Cassis, UK’s senior vice president of research, and UK’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). It built on the university’s existing translational research capacity by bridging areas of strength across disciplines and clinical specialties.
They set aside an initial $1 million pool for MVP grants and invited researchers and clinicians to submit proposals. More than 30 teams applied. Priority for grants was given to teams including at least one member with strongly funded research, a physician investigator, and projects relevant to the health challenges and disparities faced by Kentucky. To be eligible for a grant, a team was required to have a project ready to quickly “make an impact,” DiPaola said.
The award process was facilitated by the pilot funding infrastructure of CCTS, which seeks to accelerate the pace of discoveries for human health and specifically the health challenges of Kentucky and Appalachia. Eight of the 13 U.S. counties where life expectancy is declining are in Appalachian Kentucky.
“There are many health challenges that dominate the landscape of Kentucky, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and substance abuse,” said Dr. Philip A. Kern, director of the CCTS. “The best efforts to address these pressing problems will not come from the lone researcher in his lab, but from a collaborative team where each member builds on each other’s special expertise.
“The MVP program accomplishes this,” Kern said, “by building teams that include physicians, basic scientists and other health professionals with a goal of exploring new ideas, soundly rooted in science, that have a high likelihood of becoming the therapies of the future.”
Nine teams were awarded funding to conduct trials and get new therapies or protocol out of the lab and into the clinic. Eight of those teams have gone on to conduct trials. So far, the teams have been awarded 12 additional external grants to continue their work. Those external grants “were about fourfold the amount that we invested,” DiPaola said. “That’s exceptional.”
MVP research teams are tackling tough health-care issues such as addiction treatment, stroke, sepsis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, formerly called Lou Gehrig’s disease), colon cancer, acute lung injury and other challenges.
A chance to save lives and millions of dollars
For UK internist and faculty member Dr. Laura Fanucchi, the Multidisciplinary Value Program was a chance to explore better treatment options for patients who suffer from opioid-use disorder (OUD) and a resulting bacterial infection called infective endocarditis (IE).
Increased rates of injection drug use have led to a rise in incidences of IE, an infection of the lining of the heart and heart valves, and other severe bacterial infections. Without treatment, it can be fatal. The infection requires prolonged antibiotic treatment administered through a peripherally inserted central catheter (a PICC line) in a vein returning blood straight to the heart.
IE sufferers who are not opioid-addicted are able to receive prolonged antibiotic therapy at home and on an outpatient basis after becoming stable. But patients with a history of substance abuse must stay in the hospital – as long as six weeks – for treatment due to concern about drug use through the PICC.
Extended hospitalization forces opioid withdrawal, Fanucchi said, which can create such tension between patient and health-care providers that it leads to early discharge and recurrence of endocarditis.
“Once you’re feeling better, it’s really hard to stay in the hospital for six weeks,” she said. “It’s boring, you’re away from your family, and it’s expensive.”
Patients need evidence-based treatment to repair their hearts, Fanucchi said, but the underlying cause of endocarditis – opioid addiction – lacks evidence-based treatment and intervention during hospitalization. Using MVP funds, her team set out to prove hospitalization for endocarditis presents an opportunity to introduce medication-assisted therapies for opioid use, such as buprenorphine (Suboxone), methadone or naltrexone. They also wanted to find out whether patients in medication-assisted therapy for opioid use could safely (and simultaneously) receive antibiotic treatments at home and in an outpatient setting.
“There are no data to suggest that keeping these patients in the hospital affects rates of completion of antibiotic treatment or of reoperation or that doing so prevents illicit drug use. There may in fact be harm associated with prolonged hospitalization …,” wrote Fanucchi and Dr. Michelle R. Lofwall, an addiction medicine specialist at UK, in a 2016 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The team recruited 20 patients with OUD and IE to participate in a randomized clinical trial. Ten patients were medically stabilized and released from the hospital, then received intensive, transitional outpatient antibiotic therapy and medication-assisted therapy (buprenorphine); the remaining participants were hospitalized and administered antibiotics, as well as buprenorphine for opioid use. Patients who left the hospital earlier had an average length of stay about 20 days shorter than those hospitalized full time, Fanucchi said.
The results: All patients finished their antibiotics, and the proportion of study participants who reported illicit opioid use while on the buprenorphine was about the same in the two groups, she said.
“It was actually a little bit better in the group that left early,” Fanucchi said. “We felt like the results suggest this is a possible model (of care) that is feasible and safe for a population of patients.”
The study was not large enough to show whether one model is better than the other, she said, “but it was big enough to show that is a reasonable thing to try. I think we need better models than just keeping people in the hospital for six weeks.”
“Not only is it very costly, but it’s not what patients want to do,” Fanucchi said. “And it may not necessarily be safer from a long-term outcome treatment perspective.”
If replicated in a larger study, these results could support outpatient care for some opioid-addicted patients with endocarditis. It could save lives and millions of dollars, she said.
Her team has applied for federal funding to conduct a larger trial to demonstrate efficacy. If approved for funding, the larger trial would likely start in the summer of 2019.
“That was the big point of the MVP program, to internally fund small pilot studies that can be used as preliminary work to support external proposals,” she said.
Improving stroke care, recovery
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Kentucky and the fifth nationally. But strokes occur at an earlier age in the commonwealth than in the rest of the country.
Despite the prevalence of stroke, current standards of care include only two potential treatments. Both can be highly effective in removing the clot that caused the stroke, but neither therapy treats injuries caused by it.
Dr. Gregory Bix, director of the UK Center for Advanced Translational Stroke Science, whom DiPaola calls a “superstar in the laboratory,” teamed with neurosurgeon Dr. Justin Fraser to develop new treatments using existing therapies to protect brain tissue after a stroke. With funds from the MVP program, Bix and Fraser developed a clinical trial called MAVARIC (Magnesium and Verapamil After Recanalization in Ischemia of the Cerebrum).
It investigates administering Verapamil and magnesium sulfate, blood vessel dilators that are potentially neuroprotective, immediately upon minimally invasive surgical clot removal to reduce brain damage and promote healing in stroke survivors. (A related study, called BACTRAC, is developing a tissue bank of thrombi (stroke-causing clots) and distal and peripheral blood to examine the immediate molecular changes that occur at the stroke site. Both studies are the first of their kind.)
“Patients coming in today now have an option under the umbrella of the clinical trial,” DiPaola said, “of not only getting the treatment that might be the best standard of care – bringing in a catheter (threaded through blood vessels) to remove the clot – but at the same time infusing these agents (magnesium and Verapamil). It gives a patient an option for something that wouldn’t have been available before.”
The same can be said for patients involved in the other MVP trials too, DiPaola said. They have treatment options for serious illnesses that were not available just a year or two ago.
“This program is a novel model that can not only do great things for UK research but also save lives and allow our citizens to participate in research that will improve their lives,” said Cassis.
“I am especially excited about the potential for these initial teams … to develop into broader groups of interdisciplinary teams that are competitive for large grant mechanisms. These large applications give us the best chance of having the most significant impact on these health disparities that our citizens experience.”
The other MVP projects include teams studying:
• Altered lipid metabolism as a novel target for colon cancer treatment.
• Treatment of FUS-related ALS with betamethasone.
• Assessing effects of electronic cigarettes on airway resistance in asthma.
• Early anti-inflammatory treatment in patients with acute ACL tears and painful effusions.
• The INFUSE trial (Intervening with Platelet Transfusions in Septic Patients).
• Mechanisms and treatment of skeletal muscle weakness in acute lung injury.
• Application of theory and evidence to promote full recovery from pediatric injury.
Sponsors Sought to Fund More MVP Teams
With eight clinical trials underway or completed and 12 external grants received so far, the Multidisciplinary Value Program is proving to be a success.
The MVP provides researchers the opportunity to conduct more clinical trials and publish the results, and then “it becomes even broader than just an opportunity for patients in Kentucky,” DiPaola said. “They (the researchers) apply for federal grants, go to podium sessions nationally to broadcast what they’re doing here and their results. That’s how you lead to new standards of care and national impact for us.”
To build on the success, continue the momentum and fund even more research projects that are ready for pilot clinical trials, the university is seeking outside funding from potential donors.
“Typically, it takes about $100,000 to have these (teams) launched, but think of what it’s doing: taking new discoveries and getting them to have impact in the clinic with a high rate of return and follow-up,” DiPaola said. “We’ve been working on more fundraising for opportunities to sponsor a team or part of a team to be able to continue to do this (program) over time.”
Any business or organization that would like to learn more about how full or partial sponsorship of an MVP team might work can contact Kim Harris, senior director of philanthropy in the UK College of Medicine, at (859) 257-3145 or [email protected]
To learn more about MVP, visit med.uky.edu/mvp-teams.
Lorie Hailey is a correspondent for The Lane Report. She can be reached at [email protected]


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Google Maps Street View is a tool which was originally developed to help with navigation. By using 3D cameras, Google snaps photographs of streets around the world and then stitches them together in post-production to create a Virtual reality which users can click their way around.
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In the image, a pick-up truck can be seen driving through what appears to be a residential area.
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Google Maps Street View: A man caught viewers' attention in the back of a truck (Image: Google Maps)
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The white, open-back truck is filled with an array of flowers and two red armchairs.
However, what seems to have caught viewers’ attention is the man who has made himself comfortable in the back of the truck.

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