How much crypto should you hold in your portfolio?
On 1st February, India’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced that The RBI would issue digital Rupee or Central Bank Digital Currency in the coming fiscal year. She also said that discussions about private cryptocurrencies and central bank-backed digital currency have continued with the Reserve Bank. A decision is to be made after due deliberations. Besides the taxation announcement, the FM did not touch upon legalizing private cryptocurrencies.
What is a digital asset?
A digital asset or the virtual asset is generated through cryptographic means, offering a representation (digitally) of value exchanged. It functions as a storage of a unit of account or value, including use in an investment or financial transaction, but not limited to investment scheme, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.
A cryptocurrency is currency that has digital or virtual existance. It uses cryptography to secure transactions. Cryptocurrencies do not have a regulating authority or central issuing. Instead, it uses a decentralized system to record transactions and issue new units.
Cryptocurrency does not rely on banks in order to verify transactions and is a digital payment system. It is a system that enables anyone anywhere to send and receive payments.
Some of the very well-known cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum, Tether, etc.
Here are it’s advantages and its disadvantages
|Potential for high reward||30% tax rate plus a TDS of 1% on purchase price|
|Replacing traditional banks||Price Volatility with Cyber security issues|
|Round the clock trading||Complicated regulations accompanied by transaction difficulties.|
Investing in something that includes speculation is a way to add volatility to your portfolio. Without anything intrinsically valuable backing up the currency, crypto’s market value is based entirely on speculation. This means that the invested money isn’t very safe or secure, which makes its price extremely sensitive to even the slightest change in the investors’ expectations and perceptions.
Source: EduFund Research
The above graph shows the net changes(volatility) in the price of the volatility taking BTC as the base for the period of one year.
Standard Deviation: It is the measure of the amount of variation of a set of values. A low Standard deviation shows that the data set is closer to its mean or average, whereas a high standard deviation shows higher volatility.
Analysis: Cryptocurrency shows the highest standard deviation(risk) compared to BSE small-cap and mid-cap throughout the period. This shows that the crypto monthly returns are highly volatile and move farthest from their average. With the highest risk, crypto delivers the highest returns, but at the same time, with lower average risk and low volatility, BSE Small-Cap and Mid-cap outperform the market and deliver good returns.
Crypto taxation: –
A flat 30 per cent tax on digital asset gains regardless of any long-term or short-term holding by the investor. Additionally, if a virtual digital asset investor incurs losses during the transaction, it can’t be set off against any other income. The gifting of virtual digital assets has also been proposed to be taxed in the hands of the recipient.
The above example shows the profits earned in the period of 1 year by investing in Bitcoin. Here, there is a 30% taxation on the capital gains or profits. Additionally, the buyer of the crypto pays a TDS of 1% on the purchase price to the government.
What is CBDC?
CBDC is Central Bank Digital Currency which is an electronic form of central bank money that citizens can use to make digital payments and store value. A CBDC, in short, is a digital currency issued by the central bank and is universally accessible. It eliminates the risks of extreme volatility and lack of government backing, which is seen in cryptocurrencies.
Should you invest in crypto: –
Investing in crypto has definitely made money to a lot of investors. Investing in crypto assets is very risky but, at the same time, extremely profitable. But it is like signing up for a bumpy ride. Consider the volatility and the standard deviation. Imagine the value of your investments changing in value (increase or decrease) by almost 20-30% in a day.
Now, let’s consider the taxation part. The official budget announcement acts as the first step towards a full regulatory framework and a classification of crypto as a virtual digital asset. But a flat tax rate of 30% on the capital gains is like losing almost a third of your profits generated from crypto. This tax rate further discourages day trading in the crypto market.
Moreover, the central governments are also moving towards the banking sector for issuing CBDC, which is well regulated and legalized. This provides a currency with more backing.
Investing in the crypto market is very time-consuming. Since the market is working round the clock and is highly volatile, investors are likely to spend more hours in a day analyzing the market to keep a check on their investments. Investors also face a challenge of a time difference in the markets of different countries. For e.g., an Indian investor would have to be up in the middle of the night to check the movement of the crypto market.
Another major factor to be considered in the Crypto market is the weightage of the investors. The majority of the crypto market is held by 4-5% of the big players in the market. This causes a great sense of unpredictability for retail investors. Any big decision (to buy or sell) by these players causes great manipulation in the market, which has an adverse effect on retail investments.
In short, an investor with an extremely high-risk appetite can hold not more than 5% of the digital virtual asset (preferably a digital currency) in their portfolio. Anything more than this would increase the volatility of the entire portfolio and would question the safety of the principal amount. One must understand that crypto is a highly speculative and highly volatile investment.


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Might & Magic Heroes VII Pre-Order and Special Edition Details Revealed
Ubisoft has officially announced the details for the three upcoming editions of Might & Magic Heroes VII. In addition, the publisher revealed that all players who pre-order the game will receive guaranteed access to the closed beta, starting this spring on May 15. Players who pre-order the game will have access to exclusive in-game portraits at release.
Here are the full details of what is included for the Standard, Deluxe and Collector’s Editions of the game:
Players who join the Shadow Council on the Might & Magic Heroes VII website will be able to chat with developers, comment, share, interact, and influence the content of the game. Might & Magic Heroes VII is due out exclusively for Windows PC in September. You can also check out a new trailer for the game in the player below.

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LIP - Laboratory of Protein Engineering
15:39Fluorescent sensor proteins to assess the cellular uptake of therapeutic peptides and small molecules. Thèse EPFL, n° 7413 (2017)
10:21Acetylated tubulin is essential for touch sensation in mice, in eLife, vol. 5, p. 5:e20813, 2016.
22:01Chemical Genetic Screen Identifies Natural Products that Modulate Centriole Number, in ChemBioChem, vol. 17, num. 21, p. 2063-2074, 2016.
11:17Fluorescent Probes for Plasma Membrane Proteins Based on Nile Red. Thèse EPFL, n° 7016 (2016)
15:52Fluorogenic Probes for Multicolor Imaging in Living Cells, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016.
11:19A General Strategy for the Semisynthesis of Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor Proteins with Increased Dynamic Range, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016.
10:21Tetrahydrobiopterin Biosynthesis as a Potential Target of the Kynurenine Pathway Metabolite Xanthurenic Acid, in Journal Of Biological Chemistry, vol. 291, num. 2, p. 652-657, 2015.
16:31Modulating protein-protein interaction with a molecular tether. 29th Annual Symposium of the Protein-Society.
22:31Imaging and manipulating proteins in live cells through covalent labeling, in Nature Chemical Biology, vol. 11, num. 12, p. 917-923, 2015.
13:27SiR–Hoechst is a far-red DNA stain for live-cell nanoscopy, in Nature Communications, vol. 6, p. 8497, 2015.

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There’s no doubt the overlanding scene has exploded in the last few years, with major auto manufacturers finally getting on the hype with special bespoke vehicles targeted squarely at off-road enthusiasts. And GMC is the latest to offer an overlanding special of a current model with the Canyon AT4 Ovrlandx concept truck, which was unveiled today at Overland Expo Mountain West 2021 in Loveland, Colorado.
The Canyon AT4 already had impressive 4×4 stats. The off-road-ready mid-size pickup boasted a 1” lift, skid plates, better break-over angles, an auto-locking rear diff, and hill-descent control. GMC just bumped them up with a bevy of upgrades and essential overlanding accessories. Off-road performance enhancements include sliders, cast-iron control arms, a heavy-duty front bumper with winch, integrated recovery points, front and rear auto-locking diffs, mud flares with an integrated light, a rear-mounted spare tire swivel on an AEV off-road bumper, and Multimatic dampers on the shocks for better on- and off-road control.
Other off-road cred enhancements include a 27.7-degree approach angle and a ground clearance of 10 inches, which is gained by the addition of 33-inch BFGoodrich KM3 Mud-Terrain tires on 17-inch AEV Crestone wheels. A custom snorkel gives it better breathing by bringing cool, filtered air into the engine, while also allowing for the truck to challenge water crossings up to 32.1 inches deep.
“We wanted to showcase GMC Canyon with this concept and punctuate GMC’s commitment to premium, off-road capable vehicles. Consumer reaction to this concept’s design will help us further serve the growing market of buyers leading authentic outdoor lifestyles,” said Buick & GMC global vice president Duncan Aldred.
It seems GMC is just getting started with this gamut of goodies by tapping some of the best overlanding gear brands to fully trick out the truck. A stainless steel truck bed cap opens up on each side to allow access to gear and a trick RSI SmartCap kitchen—not to mention the ability to mount a roof-top tent; solar panel; and a massive, 270-degree awning for wide-ranging protection from the elements.
Inside the back of the truck GMC added a neat Decked drawer system to keep tools sorted, a Dometic electric cooler, and other overlanding essentials like jerry cans, traction boards, and a jack.
“The Canyon AT4 Ovrlandx concept truck was designed to balance functionality with aesthetics,” said John Owens, lead creative designer for the concept truck. “When you’re overlanding, capability is an important factor, but doing it with premium style and comfort elevates the experience even further for customers who truly want zero compromises.”
We think GMC created an amazing, capable overlanding rig—based off of an already proven and popular base vehicle—the only pain point is this won’t be slated for production any time soon.
Though just a concept, it does give overlanders in the market for a new truck lots of ideas on how to make their own Canyon AT4 just that much more badass on the trail.
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On one of its last stops before arriving at the World Trade Center site on September 11, the National 9/11 flag made an appearance in Breezy Point on Monday.
The flag, which was stitched together by tornado survivors in Kansas in 2008 after it was destroyed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, has been featured in public places such as Wrigley Field in Chicago and during national events like The Kentucky Derby.
The tour of the 9/11 flag aims to boost the country’s sense of citizenship and national pride as well as honor its history. An estimated 300 million Americans have seen the flag in its original 13-stripe format as it has crisscrossed the nation.
When it is completed, the flag will become a permanent part of the National September 11 Memorial Museum that’s under construction at the World Center site in lower Manhattan.

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- Award-winning author Amy Tan lies, demands Dave Eggers first born.
Saving Fish from Drowning pulls a fast one on its readers. The novel begins with a story about how a real-life San Francisco socialite named Bibi Chen inspired author Amy Tan. Then it asks us to believe Chen, from beyond the grave, is the narrator.
Only gradually will the reader realize that Bibi Chen did not exist.
Tan remains unapologetic about this gambit. It was, after all, invented by Daniel Defoe, a founding father of the novel as a form, in Robinson Crusoe.
"Why would anyone believe me?" asks the 53-year-old novelist. "I'm a fiction writer! I make things up."
Since debuting in 1989 with The Joy Luck Club, Tan has published three other novels, two children's books and a collection of essays, and also has advised on a hit children's series, "Sagwa the Siamese Chinese Cat."
But recently, Tan began to question how faithfully people trust what is presented as true.
"I was interested in what happened when you looked at something that had the appearance of authority," she says. "Like a note to the reader -- you automatically assume it's the truth."
Unfolding in Bibi's cranky, if amused, register, the book describes a misbegotten holiday taken by 12 wealthy, art-loving San Franciscan friends to the country of Myanmar, formerly Burma.
The careful reader won't have to look hard to find a nod to Geoffrey Chaucer here.
"I started outlining the story an hour after I finished writing The Bonesetter's Daughter," says Tan, "and imagined a Canterbury Tales goes to Burma."
But the similarities end there, for Chaucer's travelers did not find themselves quite as lost in translation as Tan's Americans. Mostly rich, mostly white and entirely unfamiliar with the culture into which they have dunked themselves headfirst, they make a number of errors. The whopper of them all involves a celebrity dog trainer urinating on a sacred shrine.
Humor and Myanmar do not often go together, but Tan felt an obligation to slip readers in the back door.
"The wonderful thing about fiction is it's subversive. You can get people into a very repugnant situation through fiction, and comedy is one way to get people to let their defenses down.
"The sad thing about [Myanmar] is that some of the most absurd things are the real stuff. You have a military regime, which is called SLORC. Doesn't that sound James Bondian? It's State Law and Order Restoration Council. ... I think someone finally said, 'You know, it's not a very good name.' So they hired a Washington, D.C.-based PR firm, and revamped their image, renamed them. It was ludicrous."
Tan captures some of this absurdity by having her merry travelers get kidnapped by a group of Burmese tribesmen who believe that one of the tourists -- a teenager who reads Stephen King and performs card tricks -- is the Young White Brother, a fabled hero in tribal lore.
Harry, the aforementioned dog trainer, is left behind and helps ignite a media frenzy to rescue the kidnapped Americans. Little does he know he actually is helping the military regime spread propaganda, via a global news network called GNN.
"I wanted to play with the idea that the news makes it happen," says Tan, explaining why she felt compelled to have her trip of innocents abroad evolve into a media circus.
As a powerful Chinese-American with an enormous audience, Tan frequently is asked to speak about issues, to use her platform in the media as a way to call attention to injustices in Asia.
"During the time after Tiananmen Square, people thought I should go to China, stand on the square and denounce the Chinese government. And I just wasn't sure that would be effective," she explains. "That would be me asserting my American rights to say anything, but does it really help people who are suffering?
"So my bottom line now is: How would it help people if I do something, and how it would it hurt them?"
In the novel, the kidnapped travelers, whom Tan depicts as bumbling but basically good people, experience this dilemma firsthand when they witness some of the Myanmar government's repression.
Naturally, they become convinced they must speak out. Doing so, however, means risking the exact location of the tribesmen, who are trying to remain hidden from the government.
Tan sees this dilemma as part of life everywhere, not just in the West. The title, for instance, refers to how Buddhists allow themselves to catch and kill fish.
"They scoop up the fish and bring them to shore," explains a man in the novel to one of the tourists. "They say they are saving the fish from drowning. Unfortunately ... they do not recover."
Tan hopes her readers begin to put this country on the radar again.
"This is a country that has been largely forgotten by people since the name was changed, and it would be nice for people to remember it," she says. "[Myanmar] has some of the worst cases of human rights abuse. It has the world capital of growing heroin."
In the meantime, Tan is going to keep writing and entertaining, and finishing the opera she's working on. And, of course, she will undertake charitable endeavors.
For instance, she recently helped Dave Eggers by lending her name to an event at his 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco. In return for her canceling plans one night to attend a gala event, Eggers sent her a list of what he would do, from cutting her grass to fetching her coffee. Tan simply asked for his first born.
"I said, if it's a boy, I don't care. If it's a girl, I want her to be Amy Tan Vida Eggers."
Tan cackles, and only then does it become clear that she's joking.
-- John Freeman
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan Putnam, $26.95/hardcover

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IT WAS AT THIS TIME, in the late summer of 1934, that I came to live and work in the Third Reich. There was much that impressed, puzzled and troubled a foreign observer about the new Germany. The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.
In the background, to be sure, there lurked the terror of the Gestapo and the fear of the concentration camp for those who got out of line or who had been Communists or Socialists or too liberal or too pacifist, or who were Jews. The Blood Purge of June 30, 1934, was a warning of how ruthless the new leaders could be. Yet the Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous and brutal dictatorship. On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.
Hitler was liquidating the past, with all its frustrations and disappointments. Step by step, and rapidly (as we shall see in detail later), he was freeing Germany from the shackles of Versailles, confounding the victorious Allies and making Germany militarily strong again. This was what most Germans wanted and they were willing to make the sacrifices which the Leader demanded of them to get it: the loss of personal freedom, a Spartan diet (“Guns before Butter”) and hard work. By the autumn of 1936 the problem of unemployment had been largely licked, almost everyone had a job again* and one heard workers who had been deprived of their trade-union rights joking, over their full dinner pails, that at least under Hitler there was no more freedom to starve. “Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz!” (The Common Interest before Self!) was a popular Nazi slogan in those days, and though many a party leader, Goering above all, was secretly enriching himself and the profits of business were mounting, there was no doubt that the masses were taken in by the new “national socialism” which ostensibly put the welfare of the community above one’s personal gain.
The racial laws which excluded the Jews from the German community seemed to a foreign observer to be a shocking throwback to primitive times, but since the Nazi racial theories exalted the Germans as the salt of the earth and the master race they were far from being unpopular. A few Germans one met—former Socialists or liberals or devout Christians from the old conservative classes—were disgusted or even revolted by the persecution of the Jews, but though they helped to alleviate hardship in a number of individual cases they did nothing to help stem the tide. What could they do? They would often put the question to you, and it was not an easy one to answer.
The Germans heard vaguely in their censored press and broadcasts of the revulsion abroad but they noticed that it did not prevent foreigners from flocking to the Third Reich and seemingly enjoying its hospitality. For Nazi Germany, much more than Soviet Russia, was open for all the world to see.* The tourist business thrived and brought in vast sums of badly needed foreign currency. Apparently the Nazi leaders had nothing to hide. A foreigner, no matter how anti-Nazi, could come to Germany and see and study what he liked—with the exception of the concentration camps and, as in all countries, the military installations. And many did. And many returned who if they were not converted were at least rendered tolerant of the “new Germany” and believed that they had seen, as they said, “positive achievements.” Even a man as perspicacious as Lloyd George, who had led England to victory over Germany in 1918, and who in that year had campaigned with an election slogan of “Hang the Kaiser” could visit Hitler at Obersalzberg in 1936 and go away enchanted with the Fuehrer and praise him publicly as “a great man” who had the vision and the will to solve a modern nation’s social problems—above all, unemployment, a sore which still festered in England and in regard to which the great wartime Liberal leader with his program We Can Conquer Unemployment had found so little interest at home.
The Olympic games held in Berlin in August 1936 afforded the Nazis a golden opportunity to impress the world with the achievements of the Third Reich, and they made the most of it. The signs “Juden unerwuenscht” (Jews Not Welcome) were quietly hauled down from the shops, hotels, beer gardens and places of public entertainment, the persecution of the Jews and of the two Christian churches temporarily halted, and the country put on its best behavior. No previous games had seen such a spectacular organization nor such a lavish display of entertainment. Goering, Ribbentrop and Goebbels gave dazzling parties for the foreign visitors—the Propaganda Minister’s “Italian Night” on the Pfaueninsel near Wannsee gathered more than a thousand guests at dinner in a scene that resembled the Arabian Nights. The visitors, especially those from England and America, were greatly impressed by what they saw: apparently a happy, healthy, friendly people united under Hitler—a far different picture, they said, than they had got from reading the newspaper dispatches from Berlin.
And yet underneath the surface, hidden from the tourists during those splendid late-summer Olympic days in Berlin and indeed overlooked by most Germans or accepted by them with a startling passivity, there seemed to be—to a foreigner at least—a degrading transformation of German life.
There was nothing hidden, of course, about the laws which Hitler decreed against the Jews or about the government-sponsored persecution of these hapless people. The so-called Nuremberg Laws of September 15, 1935, deprived the Jews of German citizenship, confining them to the status of “subjects.” It also forbade marriage between Jews and Aryans as well as extramarital relations between them, and it prohibited Jews from employing female Aryan servants under thirty-five years of age. In the next few years some thirteen decrees supplementing the Nuremberg Laws would outlaw the Jew completely. But already by the summer of 1936 when the Germany which was host to the Olympic games was enchanting the visitors from the West, the Jews had been excluded either by law or by Nazi terror—the latter often preceded the former—from public and private employment to such an extent that at least one half of them were without means of livelihood. In the first year of the Third Reich, 1933, they had been excluded from public office, the civil service, journalism, radio, farming, teaching, the theater, the films; in 1934 they were kicked out of the stock exchanges, and though the ban on their practicing the professions of law and medicine or engaging in business did not come legally until 1938 they were in practice removed from these fields by the time the first four-year period of Nazi rule had come to an end.
Moreover, they were denied not only most of the amenities of life but often even the necessities. In many a town the Jew found it difficult if not impossible to purchase food. Over the doors of the grocery and butcher shops, the bakeries and the dairies, were signs, “Jews Not Admitted.” In many communities Jews could not procure milk even for their young children. Pharmacies would not sell them drugs or medicine. Hotels would not give them a night’s lodging. And always, wherever they went, were the taunting signs “Jews Strictly Forbidden in This Town” or “Jews Enter This Place at Their Own Risk.” At a sharp bend in the road near Ludwigshafen was a sign, “Drive Carefully! Sharp Curve! Jews 75 Miles an Hour!”*
Such was the plight of the Jews at about the time the Festival of the Olympics was held in Germany. It was but the beginning of a road that would soon lead to their extinction by massacre.


WAP-3E (6/23/05 version)
Effective Watershed Action Planning (WAP) And Implementation: Sustainable Components And Key Outcomes
Sustainable: Effective, Long-term NPS Coordination, Implementation and Evaluation Occurs
Sustainable components provide for the support or maintenance of, and allow the continued existence of the local planning and implementation structure. Specifically, in the watershed action planning and implementation context, sustainable means developing and maintaining local watershed organization capacity, ongoing watershed action plan implementation, and evaluation of environmental results.
A sustainable watershed organization has the structure, human and financial resources (= capacity ) to fulfill its mission on an ongoing basis (River Network). The key to watershed organization capacity building is active stakeholders who provide:
- technical knowledge,
- financial ability,
- networking ability,
- organizational skills, and
- legitimacy (decision-makers with authority to implement recommended action items).
Key characteristics of sustainable organizations include:
- open, flexible network with diverse stakeholder support and effective
linkages to other community efforts;
- encourages social learning;
- establishes and nurtures fundamental organizational needs, including
appropriate rules for decision-making, governance, communication, and
Sustainable NPS implementation is facilitated by state endorsed watershed action plans, is on-going, and periodically evaluated and adapted, as applicable.
Key characteristics of sustainable implementation include:
- maintenance of a watershed plan that defines what is being protected and restored, by what means, and with what resources;
- priority watershed-based actions continuously occur, with follow-up evaluation;
Application of the sustainable component should result in the following key outcomes. The State of Ohio currently evaluates watershed action plans and implementation proposals and developed future targets accordingly.
Key outcomes: Watershed Organization
- A strong program plan and community-supported programs;
- A strong board or other governing body; (a group of people, meeting regularly, to make an organization work);
- A clear structure and decision-making processes for board, staff, and volunteers;
- Enough unrestricted income to support basic operational costs;
- Enough funding from reliable sources to progress beyond merely staying afloat;
- Efficient and effective administrative systems;
- Skilled and satisfied staff excited by the mission of the organization;
Key outcomes: WAP Implementation
- Expedited implementation of water resource improvements;
- Local coordination of water resource issues is institutionalized;
- Watershed Action Plans (WAPs) identify resources and institutional arrangements sufficient to foster a reasonable expectation of sustained WAP implementation;
- Environmental results of WAP implementation actions are evaluated periodically and future implementation locations and actions are adjusted accordingly;
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E28089'I'm just not going to let success f**k up my fun
Actor Rob Lowe once went out on a date with pop superstar Madonna.
The West Wing star makes the revelation in his new book Love Life, the follow-up to his 2011 memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends, revealing he became smitten with the singer after attending one of her concerts in Los Angeles in 1984.
Lowe writes, "She was cute and she was young and she was single, and so I sat front row... she was a revelation... 'Madonna would like to see you backstage,' a security guard said as the house lights came up... She had flawless skin and eyes that imparted secrets... she asked what movie I was working on and so I told her a little about St. Elmo's Fire, which I had just finished. 'I play the bad boy,' I said. Madonna just smiled. She seemed to like that".
The actor goes on to reveal they later went on a date to a "giant dance club" and he was shocked when the pop star suggested they mix with the crowd outside the VIP section, writing, "Madonna and I were discussing where we would sneak off to at the end of the evening when she suddenly jumped up and said, 'Let's dance!'... 'I'll wait here,' I said. 'Suit yourself,' she replied as she waded beyond the velvet rope into the fray... 'You're crazy,' I said, half meaning it. 'No I'm not,' she said... E28089'I'm just not going to let success f**k up my fun.'" The book is released next month (Apr14).

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As a woman, I gravitate to the musical voices of women and I can say I have always done that. And you would think that all women would support women musicians by purchasing recordings, attending concerts and passing the word on about women artists to friends, but this isn't always the case. When I first became interested in pursuing a career as a songwriter and vocalist back in the early 1980s, there were actually few female role models leading bands and writing their own songs compared to the number of bands led by men and even when conversations among women came up about music, the women would mention their favorite male performers.
Yet for me, I needed the tenderness and vulnerability of women songwriters because they spoke my emotions for me, whereas, even the most sensitive men musicians did not. And of course, I had my favorite male-led bands and singers too because we all need the balance. As time went on, I noticed more women supporting women bands and songwriters through record sales, concert attendance and friends talking with friends. And because of this support, more women started bands, wrote songs, and expressed themselves, mainly because they were inspired by their musical sisters getting up on the stage. Women musicians also started garnering more press too and they weren't just tossed on the cover for sporting beautiful tresses and big breasts. They actually had something interesting to say, even in the pop music arena, think Tori Amos or Suzanne Vega.
Today, my interests lies with classical, jazz, world and folkloric music mainly. I'm including some all women groups here who speak to my sensibilities these days because I'm no longer in my 20s and 30s and my sensibilities have changed dramatically. I listen to a lot of women musicians from the baby boomer generation as well as my own too because these women have reached their wisdom years. And some of these women were wise beyond their years when they were in their 20s, 30s and 40s. I mean, Carole King hits the spot for me and I'm talking about her older songs.
But let's start out with a young group of women vocalists who specialize in medieval music, The Medieval Baebes from England. This ensemble has a Venus quality and they use the glamor of Neptune which includes music and video imagery. Their arrangements amaze my ears and their beautiful voices soothe my soul.
The Medieval Baebes
Next up we're visiting the world of American swing and bluegrass. Hailing from Canada are two of my favorite girl groups, The Wailin' Jennys and The Good Lovelies. One is more sober than the other, but the women share more than a Canadian identity in common.
This Wailin' Jennys' song dates back to the beginning of the band's career.
Have fun with The Good Lovelies who have a sense of girlish play and giggles. Listening to their songs is like hanging out with your best friends.
Off to Ireland, where we revisit songs by The Henry Girls who I discovered recently.
Then finally, we set off to Cuba where we encounter an all-women Cuban son band. And you'll find other all-women groups throughout the Latin American music traditions.
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Some people don't care about the "reality" they create and they also don't wish to take responsibility for what they create with their words, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. I'm not addressing that crowd. I prefer to address those of you who are on the road to mastership of co-creating and prefer to empower yourself with words, music, and sound vibrations. Most of us may never reach mastership, but why not take the journey anyway and grow more conscious each day on the journey?
As a musician, writer and metaphysical practitioner, I don't always pay attention to my words or language I tend to use. I have caught myself using violent language or at least darker words when I could have chosen otherwise. Actually, I feel that my Spirit Guides point this out to me. When I was younger and a rock musician, I listened to any song on the radio and I wrote dark lyrics. I didn't do this because I wanted to act in a destructive manner, I did this out of pure ignorance. Fortunately, I learned about kirtans and sound healing and I could cancel out some of those negative vibrations. However, Dr. Masaru Emoto's work with water crystals awakened my consciousness around words and music.
So as an experiment try listening to this kirtan or any kirtan when you feel that you have headed into a negative tailspin. You could also use singing bowls or tuning forks to clear your energy field if you have those tools available. Didgeridoo and shakers will also break up and clear that energy. So I'm also including a link to didgeridoo. Then finally, I have selected three songs with powerful life-affirming lyrics. These aren't sacred songs, but they come from popular music traditions.
All You Need is Love
Helen Reddy (empowering)
I am Woman
Ruthie Foster (words by Maya Angelou)
Try these tunes out on your chakras and feel them clear.


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Thought I'd make the title as descriptive as possible haha. I installed magic lantern and went out last night to do my first timelapse with it. Settings including interval are in the description in the link. I loaded the shots into QTP and tried 30fps and 24fps but the finished video was too choppy so I tried at 15fps and that looked great so I saved it as a MOV which was around 2.2gb.
Here's where the issue came up. I tried loading it into AE to lay a music track behind it but the final render always came out poor quality. I tried changing the composition settings from 15fps to 24/30/60 and the output type to AVI/FLV/MOV/H264 but all were just terrible looking or in the case of the AVI file, too big. Not only did the image quality decline to what looked like maybe 360p at best, but it was also super choppy and not as seamless as the original MOV file I got from QTP. Any ideas to help fix this?
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The pandemic shook up our lifestyles in ways we could never have imagined beforehand. It's affected everything from how we interact with people (elbow bump, anyone?) to how we design our homes (more privacy, please!) to how we stay healthy (which often looks like virtual fitness classes).
“Prior to the pandemic, working out via an app or Zoom was a foreign concept,” personal trainer Brady Dougherty told TMRW. But now that people are going to the gym less, the fitness industry is adapting to a post-pandemic world. And it's changing the way we work out.
Below, fitness experts talk about how the pandemic has shaped the future of workouts:
1. Gyms will provide hybrid experiences
“Virtual workouts are definitely here to stay,” said health and fitness coach Ariel Belgrave. “I actually think that the future of fitness will be a blend of in-person and virtual workouts.” She cites the fact that many people will still be working remotely and like the convenience of exercising from home, but previous gym-goers miss the social engagement and human interaction of in-person fitness classes.
“Many brick-and-mortar gyms are already finding that members have a preference for a hybrid experience of being able to attend classes in person and virtually,” she said.
The benefit of virtual classes is the convenience (for example, not having to drive across town to the gym, doing it between Zoom meetings or while your child is napping, etc.), and that it can be more versatile, Belgrave said. “The types of virtual classes you can do are endless. You can choose from a wide range of workouts of varying intensities, from HIIT and strength training to yoga and cycling sessions. With so many options available, you can frequently switch things up to keep your workout routine fresh.”
2. Workouts will be bite-sized
Whether it's because of working from home, childcare responsibilities or a busy schedule, people have been finding time to work out whenever they can, even if that’s just 10 minutes here and there.
“I’m a huge fan of short workouts. A mantra I live by is ‘a workout is better than no workout,'” Belgrave said. “It’s not about how long you exercise, it's about how hard you exercise.”
In fact, researchers found that a 10-minute workout with just one minute at high intensity had the same benefits as 45 minutes of steady cycling.
3. Home gyms will be even more popular
Because so many more people are enjoying the convenience of working out from home, the home gym is now more popular than ever. And while fancy and expensive equipment, like Peloton and Mirror, are beloved by many, Dougherty said she’s also been seeing people stock their home gyms with simple fitness accessories, like adjustable dumbbells, resistance bands and jump ropes.
“The pandemic shined a light on how important it is to prioritize our health,” she said. “I think purchasing fitness equipment is another way to invest in our health just like we would go to an annual physical or get a massage.”
4. Technology integration will be more popular than ever
Dougherty said she thinks technology-integrated fitness products are the future of the fitness industry. “By utilizing data from wearables such as Whoop and Apple Watch, fitness brands will be able to offer a truly unique and personalized experience for their clients.”
Belgrave agreed: “The trends in the past year have shown that in the future of fitness, we’ll see a rise of app-based workouts, streaming and on-demand fitness with virtual trainers.” She added that the techie in her is excited about what’s to come next.


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As Washington intensifies its efforts to limit Beijing’s capacity to develop cutting-edge chips and establish supremacy over strategic technology, China will have a more challenging time catching up to the United States and its allies in the semiconductor industry.
In September 2022, Washington restricted sales of specific Nvidia and AMD advanced graphic processor units (GPUs) used in supercomputers and artificial intelligence applications to China.
The action came after the US Commerce Department said that shipments of electronic design automation (EDA) software used to create next-generation chips to China were prohibited.
Washington has been pressuring Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, to form a “Chip 4” industry alliance to isolate China from the global tech ecosystem. Washington has also stepped up efforts to develop its domestic industry with the passage of the CHIPS Act, which provides $52 billion in subsidies to companies that manufacture chips in the US.
Chris Miller, author of the book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, said, “The US is attempting to consolidate its pivotal role in the global semiconductor ecosystem and ensure that China is unable to create the most cutting-edge chips. Control of semiconductors is essential to military power as well as the future of the global economy, from cloud computing to autonomous driving.”
Since the US and China have been fiercely at trade war with one another, semiconductors have become one of the most heated battlegrounds. The wafer-thin chips produced today could determine tomorrow’s global balance of power because they are viewed as essential to unlocking future technological advancements and being the lifeblood of the modern economy.
Although Taiwan produces more than 90% of the world’s high-end chips, China, like other major nations, depends mainly on this source. However, China has recently made significant progress in strengthening its local sector.
After years of failing to move past a 14nm node, TechInsights researchers announced in July 2022 that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s national champion, has probably developed the ability to create a 7-nanometer (nm) chip. The length of transistor gates is a common way to compare semiconductors, with a shorter gate typically indicating a higher processing capacity.
Beijing-backed SMIC has recently announced additional plans for a fourth factory in the northern city of Tianjin as it ramps up foundry capacity.
This is the first concrete evidence that they have overcome an ostensibly impenetrable barrier. After that, however, they must gradually enhance the design and increase output to produce higher-value chips.
Since the top Dutch manufacturer ASML was denied an export permit due to US pressure on Amsterdam, China has been prevented from getting the most up-to-date machinery for manufacturing sophisticated chips, known as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines.
However, Chinese companies may still produce high-end semiconductors using less effective deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography tools, with longer beam wavelengths generally used to etch patterns on less sophisticated devices.
Despite Washington’s ambitions to broaden its ban on chip manufacturing equipment, China has been stockpiling ASML’s DUV lithography machines, purchasing 81 units just in 2021.
Ray Yang, a consultant director at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, said, “SMIC can build a 7nm process with DUV, maybe even produce it in large quantities, but that does not make it cost-effective.”
Yang compared it to driving a consumer car at Formula 1 speeds, saying, “with DUV resolution, but you are pushing the technology to its boundaries.”
China mainly depends on SMIC for the chips it urgently needs, perhaps for special non-commercial reasons, he claimed, as Huawei is no longer allowed to employ international foundries.
The rising Chinese military will use these advanced weapons, among other non-commercial purposes.
Washington has long been concerned about Huawei’s connections to the Chinese military, which led to the Trump administration adding the business to the “Entity List” of sanctioned companies in 2019. Huawei is one of China’s largest tech companies.
Utilizing technological advancements from the private sector to strengthen China’s defence industry has been elevated to a national priority under Chinese President Xi Jinping, and its Military-Civil Fusion Strategy has become a cornerstone of industrial policy.
“Chips are essential for intelligent weapons,” according to Douglas Fuller, a technology development expert at the City University of Hong Kong, who says many officials are worried about the growth of China’s semiconductor industry because of this.
Even though it is thought that China still lacks the expertise to build chips smaller than 7 nm, companies like SMIC and Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Co are hustling to create their homegrown machinery to end the deadlock.
China has not yet produced a well-functioning ArF lithography machine.
While using foreign tools to produce chips, China is years behind; when using domestically produced tools, China is decades behind.
Chinese companies can still design semiconductors smaller than 7 nm even if they are not yet able to manufacture them.
In 2021, Alibaba debuted the Yitian 710, a 5nm server chip made for a variety of internet-of-things (IoT) applications, which is one of China’s most cutting-edge innovations.
However, Washington’s most recent regulations are expected to make developing semiconductors with a manufacturing process smaller than 5 nm more challenging.
The upcoming gate-all-around (GAA) design, commonly regarded as a remedy to the physical restrictions of downsizing chips to infinitesimally smaller sizes, is a vital component of the next-generation processors.
Since GAA will only apply to 2nm nodes and under, which haven’t yet arrived, the ban currently affects China’s pipeline. Still, it won’t affect their products or revenue for years, as 2nm nodes might eventually account for half of the output of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker.
Cadence, a well-known American EDA supplier, has joint ventures in China and charges less for its design software there than it does for US clients. China might therefore apply pressure on the company there through this relationship.
Yang stated that if China could not buy the requisite lithography equipment on the open market, it would make every effort to do so.
This “may mean reverse engineering, IP theft, or strategically acquiring foreign enterprises,” he added, adding that this has frequently occurred with other important technologies in the past.
China invests heavily in carbon and other non-silicon materials to pursue technological advances. Beijing’s 14th Five-Year Plan includes funding for research into carbon fibre, graphene, silicon carbide, and other carbon-based composites.
Who will win the Chip Wars?
In Taipei, a joke states that if China invades Taiwan, the only buildings that the People’s Liberation Army can’t afford to destroy are microchip manufacturing facilities. The nation in charge of cutting-edge chips will determine the direction of technology, and Taiwan has the world’s best chip fabrication foundries (or “fabs”). China would have a virtual monopoly on the most cutting-edge fabs if the mainland and its rebellious province reunited successfully. Given what Xi Jinping wants for Taiwan, it is understandable why the US government is concerned.
For this reason, the United States has taken several actions recently to hinder China’s attempts to produce sophisticated semiconductors. First, building new fabs is technically difficult and prohibitively expensive. According to a recent analysis by Boston Consulting, a major chip facility currently costs more than a new nuclear power plant or a next-generation aircraft carrier. For cutting-edge manufacturing chips, Taiwan’s Fab 18 cost $17.5 billion to construct.
China’s attempt to control future technologies is under attack from the US on two fronts. The first step in the approach is to increase America’s market share in the world’s chip fabs, which has declined from a peak of 37% in 1990 to barely 12% today. Joe Biden signed the Innovation and Competition Act in August 2022, allocating an astonishing $52 billion to support US chip manufacturing and technology development. Although the EU is making similar noises, America has prioritised it as a national issue.
A programme initially recognised and implemented by President Trump, it is an effort by Biden to reverse the hollowing out of US manufacturing and is backed by the Republican Party. The new Act, which has bipartisan support, is intended to penalise US businesses that invest in China, especially in industries with competition for dominance, like chip manufacturing.
Frightened, Xi has pushed China to expedite the pace of legislation in the areas of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, internet banking, and the digital economy to improve its technological independence. A business sector in the West increasingly aware of the geopolitical implications of having such a high percentage of its global fab capacity situated in Taiwan is enthusiastically supporting America’s effort to stifle China’s technical advancement.
The semiconductor market that Intel once dominated recently began to fade, but the company is now actively playing catch-up. The startup announced ambitions to create system processors to rival Apple’s top-of-the-line M1 series in January after luring away Apple’s director of Mac system architecture. Within three years, Intel wants to reclaim its top position as the global integrated design and fabrication leader.
However, Intel’s conflict extends beyond Apple. It must compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which controls 92% of the world’s most cutting-edge five-nanometer semiconductors and holds a 50% worldwide market share in advanced chips overall. Under the leadership of its new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, Intel hopes to regain the upper hand by emerging as a top supplier of contract chips.
Along with finishing the construction of a fab in Oregon, Intel also has new fabs planned for Arizona and Ohio. A further $80 billion is designated for Europe, with negotiations underway for locations in Germany, Italy, and Ireland. It is a large undertaking that will cost staggering amounts of money. Several analysts question Intel’s capacity to pull it off.
Deng Xiaoping’s deregulation of the Chinese economy in the 1980s led to globalization. In that case, it is conceivable that de-globalization, the retreat to national interests and autarky, will result in slower or even poorer global economic growth. Even if the chip war doesn’t end in a real-world war, both America and China will lose.


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As a bride, you want to look stunningly beautiful on your wedding day and while the dress plays a big role in accomplishing this, so do the accessories. As a result, your wedding jewelry is something that must not be ignored. This is the last exquisite detail that will bring the whole picture together. Whether you are looking for that dazzling piece to make a statement or going for a subtle and graceful finish, Brisbane’s collection of wedding jewellery stores is sure to have what you need. With so many to choose from the decision can be overwhelming. We have therefore compiled a list of the top 10 wedding jewellery stores in Brisbane to help you make your decision.
Best Wedding Jewellery In Brisbane
This Australian-based and owned company offers an exquisite collection of handcrafted beautiful pieces which have been meticulously selected to help brides achieve their desired look. The pieces are timeless, elegant, versatile and nicely priced to suit any budget. Here you’ll find hairpieces, bracelets, earrings, necklaces and even men and bridesmaids accessories. You’ll be happy to know that all their jewellery are nickel and alloy-free, making them perfect for those with delicate skin. You can shop from their online store or make a private appointment to visit or pick up your order from their studio in Brisbane.
Address: 16 Bramcote St Chermside West, QLD
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This father and son company specializes in designing high-quality and unique custom jewellery. With more than 70 years of experience combined, they have the know-how and skillsets required to correctly interpret your ideas and bring them to life. Working with precious stones, diamonds and metals of high quality, they provide one-of-a-kind earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, bangles, cufflinks, engagement and wedding rings. You can visit them at their comfortable design studio workshop to view their collection or discuss any ideas you may have for a custom piece at no extra cost.
Address: 20/160 Queen St Brisbane City QLD
Phone: 07 3012 8112
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Wallace Bishop Jewellers is a family-owned business that has been in operation for over 100 years. During this time, they have built a culture of providing their customers with personalized and genuine customer service that is second to none. Here you’ll find skilled and highly trained jewellers ready to help you choose the perfect piece for your very special day. They offer engagement and wedding rings, wedding jewellery inclusive of pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and chains. These are available in a wide range of gemstones and metals to suit any liking. You can visit their online store or one of their many stores in Brisbane to view their collection.
Address: 117 Queen St, Brisbane Qld, 4000
Phone: 07 3253 6400
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This second-generation family-owned business has been providing couples with specially hand-crafted and beautifully designed rings for more than 40 years. Their award-winning and unique designs can be admired in their showroom, some of which have won national design awards. They specialize in custom designing engagement rings and will work with your design for your wedding ring or jewellery. Xennox Diamonds, not only provides its customers with one-of-a-kind wedding jewellery, but also beautiful symbols of love which can be passed down from generation to generation.
Address: Level 2, 141 Queen Street Brisbane, QLD
Phone: 07 3210 6288
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Looking for exquisite diamond jewellery to make a statement? If you answered yes, you most definitely have to visit Diamonds International. They have one of the largest collections of custom-made diamond rings and wedding jewellery. Providing a wide range of designer and custom-made jewellery they provide excellent customer service to help their customers choose the right amount of sparkle for their big day. Whether you’re looking for rings, necklaces, bracelets, bangles or earrings, they have them available in various shapes and colours with various settings to compliment and highlight your glow.
Address: Level 1, Bowman House 276 Edward St, Brisbane QLD
Phone: 07 3221 3677
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Pavection is committed to helping you celebrate your most precious moments while looking your best with beautifully designed jewellery. Located in the heart of Brisbane, they have rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants and bracelets to perfectly complement your ensemble. You can use the online booking form to book your one-on-one client-centered consultation, where you can either view their spectacular collection or discuss the making of your custom piece. This group of experts aims to please giving meticulous attention to detail and providing products of top-notch quality.
Address: Qantm House, Level 4/138 Albert St, Brisbane City QLD 4000
Phone: 07 3012 9389
This family-owned jewellery has been around for more than 40 years and is committed to providing its customers with unique and elegant pieces that reflect their personalities. They have a wide catalogue of rings, earrings, pendants and bracelets and specialize in custom wedding rings. Whether you are looking for that classic and timeless gold piece, or want a more contemporary titanium appeal, their wide and diverse style is sure to please you. Their complete selection can be easily viewed via their online store, but you also have the option of visiting them in person.
Address: 1/117 Mina Parade, Newmarket, Qld 4051
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Determined to meet the needs of every style, Bentley De Lisle has wedding jewellery to suit the traditional, vintage, modern or in-between design. With their love of coloured stones and beautiful jewellery, they feature a nice range of pieces with diamonds, precious and semi-precious gems. Whether it’s wedding rings, wedding bands, stunning necklaces or exquisite earrings they have a collection for you. You can visit them to try their beautiful collections and get the advice you may need on choosing what will work best for you.
Address: 229 Given Tce Paddington 4064 QLD
Phone: 07 3368 1614
Social: Bentley De Lisle
Known for producing jewellery with a distinctive aesthetic appeal and high standard, Gold River Jewellers have been proudly serving its customers for over 25 years. They offer consultation, creation and restoration and will take the time to help you realize your vision. With a passion to create jewellery, they are committed to providing you with the best service. They specialize in providing engagement rings, wedding rings and custom jewellery. Their custom jewellery includes earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets and rings.
Address: North Lakes Central, Shop 110 / 53 Endeavour Boulevard, North Lakes QLD
Phone: 07 3482 2183
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For jewellery which portray a nice blend of contemporary beauty and traditional craftsmanship, AG Designer Jeweller is the place to visit. They create pieces as unique as your love story using metals of the highest quality and stones specifically chosen from around the world to make pieces that portray a rare and timeless beauty. You can either choose from pieces in their present collection or have your own custom-made jewellery. They specialize in engagement and wedding rings and also have earrings and accessories available.
Address: Shop 7A, 215 Queen Street Tattersalls Arcade Brisbane City, QLD
Phone: 07 3210 0213
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Nano is our smallest pedal board measuring in at 14" and is built using the same indestructible materials and methods as the rest of the Pedaltrain line.
Included with purchase is our top-loading soft case with piggyback straps, and, as always, generous rolls of hook-and-loop. Soft case improvements introduce a metal zipper with a beefy pull tab and a sewn-in blue Pedaltrain logo tab. There are two models in the Nano Series from which to choose - the original Nano (Model PT-NANO-SC) and the Nano+ (Model PT-NPL-SC).
- Nano Pedalboard
- Deluxe MX Soft Case with Shoulder Strap
- 36" of Professional Grade Hook-and-Loop
- Assortment of zip ties
Nano Pedal Board
- Dimensions: 14 in x 5.5 in x 1.4 in (35.5 cm x 14 cm x 3.5 cm)
- Weight: .7 lbs (0.3 kg)

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On April 13, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition (Bureau) issued a 37-page Advisory Opinion to a physician-hospital organization named TriState Health Partners, Inc. (TriState) of Hagerstown, Maryland. The Advisory Opinion approved TriState's proposal to integrate the provision of its members' healthcare services and to contract with health plans and other payers on a fee-for-service basis to provide services for its members. Exceptionally notable about this Advisory Opinion is that it addressed activities not only of independent physicians, the traditional focus of the few preceding opinions, but also a hospital partner in the network.
TriState sought to facilitate cooperation and collaboration among its member physicians, create a comprehensive program of care management by engaging everyone associated with TriState, and offer a previously unavailable integrated set of services that would be desirable to self-insured employers who want to lower healthcare costs in an effort to offer a competitive advantage over other health plans.
TriState would create clinical practice guidelines to improve clinical efficiency and have a program to monitor the physicians' adherence to those guidelines. Physicians would be required to refer their patients to other member physicians (though the patient still had the choice of which physician to select) and to grade their peers. TriState also proposed the implementation of a web-based health information technology system that will help identify high-risk and high-cost patients and facilitate the exchange of patients' treatment and medical management information.
While the proposed plan required the agreement of competing physicians for the fees charged for their services (and thus normally would be "condemned as per se illegal price fixing"), the Bureau stated that the analysis differed because the plan arose in the context of a "potentially efficiency-enhancing joint venture among otherwise competing market participants." The Bureau, in part guided by the Health Care Statements, determined that it would not challenge the program between the 212 physician members and the hospital due to three principal reasons:
- The program had the potential to lower healthcare costs and improve the quality of care for patients;
- TriState's collective negotiation of contracts with payers, including the prices paid for participating physician services, is "subordinate and reasonably related" to the overall proposal to integrate healthcare for its members, and so the rule of reason should be used to evaluate it; and
- An essential element to the Bureau's decision was that there would not be an increase in the market power of either TriState or the physician members as a group because all concerned were still free to contract individually outside the proposed program.
Accordingly, the Bureau determined that it would not recommend the commencement of any legal enforcement action against TriState or its providers as long as the proposed plan was followed and no anti-competitive activities, like the exercise of market power, arose.
With the continued push for digital healthcare and a system that provides better access, it is highly likely that this will be the first of many alternative arrangements that will be brought before the Bureau.

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People often ask me "how long have you been in the bicycle business?". I tell them "as long as I can remember". My mom found this picture as she was going through her old photographs and thought I might like it. This is a picture of me on my first custom bike. For weeks, I saved up money by collecting beer cans out of dumpsters. I used the money to buy this rusty JC Penny bike from a friend's brother (I think it may have been for $5). Then I did what I always did from then on with a recently acquired bike. I tore it apart and fixed it up into what I wanted it to be.
This particular modification was done in my grandfather's work shop. It consisted of a couple of iron pipes that I cut to length, smashed flat, and hammered onto the fork blades. When my grandfather walked in and saw what I was making, one might think he would have scolded me for ruining a perfectly good bike. Instead, he broke out the welder and welded the iron pipes in place for me. Then we went down to Western Auto, and he bought me a can of metallic blue spray paint to finish it off with.


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After the crisis in 2008, the financial industry needed to make changes in the regulatory system. But with these changes came frustration and confusion. For those of you who get overwhelmed with the amount of regulations out there, let me introduce this handy dandy tool I came across. Alacra, a provider of business information-based solutions for financial and professional services, created an easy to read Periodic Table of Bank Regulation & Compliance that allows you to keep track of what regulation goes where and with whom, and the best part is you don’t need a “How To” manual to understand it. I support regulation, but I feel it is not always explained in a clear manner. This color-coded tool brings us one step closer to a better understanding of the global regulatory requirements. Nice work Alacra!
- "What is" Form PF?
- "What Is" Social Media Compliance?
- To RFP or not to RFP, that is the Question - Do a Proof of Concept Instead
- ABOR, IBOR, MBOR, Etc. – Are We Getting BORed With Acronyms
- Back to Business with CLO 2.0
- The Corporate Actions Golden Copy: Cleansed Data for All
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Even as vaccine supplies slowly increase and more people become eligible to roll up their sleeves, getting a vaccine appointment has proven to be difficult for a lot of people.
For those with underlying health conditions that put them at a greater risk of having COVID-19 complications, it’s been frustrating.
WCNC Charlotte spoke with Nilda Navedo, a Charlotte woman living with Sickle Cell Anemia. She’s barely been able to leave the house during the pandemic and was desperate for a vaccine appointment but could only get one in June.
This weekend, her luck changed, and she was able to get her first dose shot through StarMed.
“I got my sticker,” Navedo said on Monday.
But for her, it’s much more than just a sticker. The COVID-19 vaccine is her lifeline.


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The guides below explain who and what each popular bike type is suitable for as well as outlining their pros and cons so that you make the best choice possible with your new bike.
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Tanner: The groundhog introduces its cousins
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” — tongue-twister by Robert Hobart Davis, 1902
Marking the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring solstice is Feb. 2, traditionally called Groundhog Day.
My daddy was born on Groundhog Day. A farmer, he was often provoked by pesky ground moles that tunneled through his garden, so he was always setting traps to catch and dispose of them.
Seeing my daddy catch those ground moles, it was not unusual for me to think those little rodents were the rambunctious and famous groundhog that had its own special day. Boy was I surprised when I found out the truth.
These little rascals might have their own day, but come February a farmer’s thoughts turn to when to start planting. So the farmer definitely keeps his fingers crossed and hopes the legendary groundhog doesn’t see his shadow on Groundhog Day. Because if he does, that predicts six more weeks of wintry weather.
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” — Patrick Young
It is a superstition that this animal is able to predict the weather. The legend has no basis in fact, through the groundhog, also called a woodchuck, does hibernate in winter, live in a burrow and come out in early spring to observe the weather.
One book says the fanciful idea stems from the old European belief that a sunshiny Candlemas Day, Feb. 2, means six more weeks of winter weather. Another book says German immigrants adopted the groundhog for this occasion and Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil has announced spring’s arrival since 1887.
A typical groundhog grows over two feet long, weighing 8-12 pounds. It is clothed with coarse, grizzly-brownish hair, has a rounded head, heavy body, stubby legs and a short, bushy tail. Its burrow is made with sharp, rake-like claws, is from 10-25 feet long and will be the nesting chamber for the female when she gives birth to four or five roly-poly cubs every May or June.
From spring into fall, the groundhog nibbles clover, grass, roots, vegetables and grain with sharp front teeth until it grows round and fat. This stored fat is what keeps it alive during hibernation from October to March.
“The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If someone is trying to come after a groundhog, they go and they burrow.” — Jack Hanna
Turns out the only thing the mole and groundhog have in common is their intricate subway-system burrow. The mole is not even a distant relative of the groundhog, but the groundhog does have quite a few cousins, including the prairie dog, marmot, chipmunk and gopher.
The prairie dog, so named because it has a shrill bark, much like a dog, to use as a warning, is a member of the ground squirrel family, Sciuridae, like the groundhog. It has coarse, grayish-brown fur, small eyes, short legs, pouched cheeks and a short, flat tail.
Though they make good pets and are sociable with other prairie dogs, they can be a serious pest to farmers, eating grass and roots, and also to raisers of cows and horses because stepping into a burrow can break a leg. The prairie dog’s burrow-home is dug straight down, deep and secure, with a mound built around the entrance to keep out rain.
The marmot, also a member of the squirrel family, has the appearance of a large rat but has front teeth like a squirrel. It has short legs, a grayish-yellow body with brown on its head and a tail thickly covered with hair. It, too, feeds on roots, leaves and insects, and digs deep burrows with two entrances where it spends the winter.
The chipmunk, another member of the squirrel family, eats chiefly nuts, seeds, fruits and berries, stuffing its inner cheek pouches. This lively, chattering little rodent wears a striped suit, differing from its other cousin the squirrel with light and dark brown stripes running down its back.
It has reddish-brown fur with white underparts and a tail as long as its body. It spends most of its time on the ground, but its home is in burrows under rocks, tree roots or old logs, where it bears its young, stores food and spends winters.
The gopher has burrows like a honeycomb, where it stores food, and extends them year after year, sometimes a mile long. It is about the size of a small rat and has a pouch in the skin of each cheek to store food. It too is a pest to farmers.
A clumsy-looking fellow, the gopher is quite the businessman when it comes to cutting and stowing away roots. Its molar teeth are arranged in such a way that they can make more than 13,000 cuts every minute.
“You might be a redneck if you celebrate Groundhog Day because you believe in it.” — Jeff Foxworthy
Though these animals are very similar to the groundhog, none have been credited with the ability to predict the weather or been honored with their own special day.
Jean Tanner is a lifelong resident of rural Bluffton. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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