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Cate Blanchett- Best Actress in a Drama
Nominated for her role in "Carol", Cate tends to bring the drama to the red carpet each awards season wearing custom pieces by the biggest fashion houses such as Valentino, Armani and McQueen. So I wouldn't be surprised if she just so happened to show up in one of these gorgeous gowns. While the Valentino is very exotic and regal, the McQueen romantic floral could really add a softer look to her red carpet portfolio. I am pretty sure she could show up in something custom made for her, but if it happens to be one of these designers, I still get a point! Haha..yes. My rules!
*** Carol - Katie's Pick for Best Movie***
Alexander McQueen Spring 2016 / Valentino 2016 Spring
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Saoirse Ronan- Best Actress in a Drama
Nominated for her role as Eilis in "Brooklyn", Saoirse has been gracing all of her premieres with fun and quirky looks. One of my favorites has to be the Duro Olowu dress from this past week's Palm Springs Film Festival. She brings a breath of fresh air to the awards season with her style. Expect to see color, bold patterns and fun florals. While the Altuzarra look is a bit more understated, the faux Peter Pan color and bright sequin chevrons still add a fun vibe. As for my wish, I would just love to see her wear this fun and flirty midi floral by Marchesa. It fits in with the era of the movie and is just dying to be worn by Eilis herself.
Altuzarra Pre-Fall 2016 / Marchesa Pre-Fall 2016
Bruno Staub/Altuzarra | Courtesy of Marchesa
Brie Larson- Best Actress in a Drama
Nominated for her role in "Room", this leading lady can don anything and look fabulous. I selected the Michael Kors sparkly number because she wore MK to her Trainwreck movie premiere. I love the mixed fabric which makes it sexy, sleek and fun! However, the Oscar de la Renta dress just kept jumping out at me during my research and it took me a while to figure out who's style it would fit best. I think Brie could really pull it off. I am in love with the mixed print , embellishments and bold colors.
***Katie's Choice for Best Actress in a DRAMA***
Oscar de la Renta Pre-Fall 2016 / Michael Kors Pre-Fall 2016
Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta | Courtesy of Michael Kors Collection
Alicia Vikander- Best Actress in a Drama
Alicia has barely worn anything but Louis Vuitton to any red carpet event, but since I didnt really care for anything they had to show in either their Spring or Pre-Fall lines, ( she has worn quite a few pieces from both alread) I spotted these two beauties and thought they were a perfect match. Alicia has a classic style, so I love the vintagey vibe of the McQueen. It reminds me of a custom made Louis Vuitton she wore to one of her film premieres. BUT... this golden, fringey Marchesa has won me over. Please... Alicia wear this!!! It's your night. Nominated for not one but TWO awards for her lead role in "The Danish Girl" as well as a supporting role in "Ex Machina", this gown says Golden Globe all over it.
Alexander McQueen Spring 2016 / Marchesa Pre-Fall 2016
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Amy Schumer- Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy
According to my friend Katie, ( the TV and MOVIE connoisseur), this could be Amy's night. Nominated for her lead role in Trainwreck ( that she also wrote), she has really taken Hollywood like a storm. With an Emmys win under her belt, we are sure to see her win big at the Globes. I have to say though, if I were her stylist, I would encourage her to add to her closet of red dresses. Sorry to say but it is disappointing to see that she keeps wearing the same style in almost the same two colors. It would be wonderful to see her wear one of these ultra-feminine figure flattering gowns. Add some flowy locks and we have a red carpet winner!
Jenny Packham Spring 2016 / J.Mendel Pre-Fall 2016
Indigitalimages.com / Courtesy of J. Mendel
Helen Mirren- Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Film
At 70, Helen Mirren is as gorgeous as ever. Nominated for her supporting role in the "Trumbo", we are sure to see Helen wear something beautiful. She never disappoints. While she tends to stick to more of a neutral palette, this red caped Naeem Khan would be a head turner for sure.
Reem Acra Spring 2016 / Naeem Khan Spring 2016
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Caitriona Balfe- Best Actress in a TV Drama
As a former model, walking the red carpet should come as second nature. The Outlander beauty who is nominated for her lead role could look amazing in almost anything so I don't think she cold have a red carpet fail. This navy blue J. Mendel dress with lace detail would look absolutely STUNNING on this raven haired beauty, but the red Jenny Packham could work as well! She is on my list to look for!
***Katie's Pick for Best Actress in a TV DRAMA***
J. Mendel Pre-Fall 2016 /Jenny Packham Spring 2016
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Taraji P Henson- Best Actress in a TV Drama
I could place a bet that we will most likely see Taraji in Alexander Wang. I could also bet that we most likely havent seen it yet, so custom Wang for sure! If it were up to me, I would like to see her step away from the edgier style and have her stylist dress her in something bigger, brighter and bolder such as the coral Herrera ball gown to the right. Let Cookie shine!
Alexander Wang Pre-Fall 2016 / Carolina Herrera Pre-Fall 2016
Courtesy of Alexander Wang | Courtesy of Carolina Herrera
Gina Rodriguez- Best Actress in a TV Musical or Comedy
My absolute favorite new show is Jane the Virgin. I hopped on the bandwagon in September while binging through Netflix. It is hysterically funny and heartwarming. Gina Rodriguez is brilliant as Jane. I can not wait to see what she wears. The Badgley fits into the realm of her love for figure hugging gowns, but the red Elie Saab screams Latin Heat! Perfect for Jane in a Telenovela! Go Gina! I hope you win!
***Katie's Pick for Best Actress in a TV Musical or Comedy for Jane the Virgin***
Badgley Mischka Spring 2016 / Elie Saab Spring 2016
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Lady Gaga- Best Actress in a TV Limited Series / Movie
Nominated for her role in American Horror Story: Hotel, Lady Gaga could go big or go home, or perhaps she will choose something more demure and elegant. You never know with her, but either or she will be a showstopper. I am predicting something custom made by either Zac Posen or Versace if she wants to go edgier.
Zac Posen Pre-Fall 2016
Courtesy of Zac Posen
Joanne Froggatt- Supporting Actress TV Role
Either of these looks would make maid, Anna Bates blush. Nominated for her supporting role as Anna in (THE BEST SHOW EVER), Downton Abbey, Joanne has made my top red carpet list before with a Marchesa design. If she chose this Pre-Fall look, she could do it again! Even though this look seems like something you would find in Lady Mary's closet, I think its time to let Anna shine.
Marchesa Pre-Fall 2016 / Reem Acra Spring 2016
Courtesy of Marchesa | Marcus Tondo/Indigitalimages.com
Uzo Aduba- Supporting Actress TV Role
I am almost positive that Uzo will be wearing something structured and cinched in at the waist. I struggled to find something among my list for her to wear, but I think she may show up in something custom made. A number of designers have dressed her before such as Zac Posen and Jonathan Cohen, but could she possibly wear one of my choices? We will have to wait and see what the OITNB actress chooses to wear.
Badgley Mischka Spring 2016 / Bibhu Mohapatra Spring 2016
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Let's not forget about these lovely ladies!
Badgley Mischka Spring 2016 / Reem Acra Spring 2016
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Altuzarra Pre-Fall 2016 / Dennis Basso Pre-Fall 2016
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Dennis Basso Pre-Fall 2016/ Andrew Gn Spring 2016
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Zuhair Murad Spring 2016 / Naeem Khan Spring 2016
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SOL2SOUL RETREAT 2019
to PLAYA TRONCONES!
the exotic Pacific Coast of Mexico
Nestled beautifully between the sea and Sierra Mountain range!
some of the amazing offerings...
a yoga retreat that will be relaxing, deeply healing and wildy adventurous!
BEAUTIFUL BOUTIQUE BUNGALOWS NESTLED IN PARADISE
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Pricing is out & Registration is OPEN! Reserve your spot now! March 23-29th, 2018 Palo Santo Retreat to the exotic Pacific Coast of México will be relaxing, deeply healing, & wildly adventurous!
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Sol2Soul returns and this year we are off to the nature-abundant beautiful Pacific Coast of Mexico! Right next to the sea & nestled by the Sierra mountains, we handpicked this gorgeous, rustic boutique destination because it aligns with our above & beyond retreat offerings!
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Join Palo Santo owners Daniel & Rachel Cordua & our favorite LA-based teacher April Joy this March for more SOUL on the Pacific coast of Mexico!
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Nightwatch Bollard - Eleek Sustainable Lighting
Horizontal lines contrast and louver the light from this fearless night watchman. Eleek's custom sustainable lighting is made with post-consumer recycled material and energy efficient lighting options.
H: 42" W: 12" D: 12"
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- Laser cut steel
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- Opal white acrylic diffuser
Colored powdercoats (shown here with flat black powdercoat)
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Warwick Seattle offers 3.5-star lodgings in the Belltown district of downtown Seattle. It is ideal for business and leisure travelers seeking a sophisticated, contemporary setting in a central location. The hotel is within walking distance of numerous shopping, dining, and nightlife options in the city. Refined, high-end rooms and suites offer neutral palettes, contemporary furnishings, and stunning city views. Guests can choose from deluxe rooms, executive rooms, premier rooms, wheelchair accessible rooms, and a variety of plush suites. All rooms and suites are kid-friendly. Accommodations feature flat-screen televisions, iPod docking stations, ergonomic workstations, plush bedding, high-speed Wi-Fi access, a cozy sitting area, spacious marble bathrooms, a private balcony, custom toiletries, plush linens, mini-fridge, hair-dryer, and air-conditioning. Upgraded rooms and suites feature floor-to-ceiling windows, private whirlpool tubs, and meeting rooms. A small resort fee covers the use of exclusive services, facilities, and amenities, including in-room coffee and tea making facilities, use of the business center, pool and hot tub access, complimentary bottled water, Wi-Fi access, and access to the 24-hour fitness center. Paid parking is available on-site. Room service and laundry service are available. Guests can dine at the on-site Margaux Restaurant. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It offers a creative, locally-sourced menu featuring favorite local dishes. A fine wine list is available for pairings. Margaux Lounge, the sister bar, offers gourmet cocktails and craft beers.
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Recently held Salon QP in London which exhibited major contemporary watches from around the globe was also the place to see the best latest products made by British brands. One of the undisputed stars in the domestic selection was Bremont Victory Watch. This timepiece is dedicated to one of the best known ships in history – HMS Victory that was the flagship of Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Besides, it is the only ship from the 18th Century still in existence, as well as the oldest warship still in commission. The watch presented by an upcoming English brand, Bremont, is made with copper and oak wood components originating from the iconic vessel, so it provides a rare opportunity to wear a piece of history on your wrist. To be more precise, the exact rarities are 40 models in rose gold and 250 more in hardened stainless steel. Naturally, a part of the money paid for each product in the series will be used for the restoration of the historic ship which is nowadays dry-docked in Portsmouth.
As it has been mentioned, the construction of the watch utilizes materials from the ship. One of these materials is copper got from 6-feet large nails which was PVD treated and used for the hand engravings on the inner barrel of its three-part case, made in Bremont’s distinctive Trip Tick design. On the other hand, parts of oak timber from the Nelson’s ship are used for the inlay of the skeleton case back with hand-etched sapphire.
The housing of the watch is round, with the reserved width of 43mm and the thickness of 17mm. On the front side of the timekeeper, there is a domed and scratch resistant sapphire. For the strap, Bremont used a Luisiana crocodile leather strap with a pin buckle.
Apart from its ties with the HMS Victory and its famous commander, this 100 meters water resistant timekeeper has nice traits when it comes to both design and horological aspect. It sports an interesting off-white face with two retrograde displays (for chrono seconds and for date), two more regular chrono counters (30-minute and 12-hour) and dark treated steel hands.
Inside the housing, there is an automatic BE-83AR chrono caliber with integrated 39 jewels and with components in modern and highly resilient alloys: the movement includes Glycodur balance and Nivarox 1 Hairspring. This self-winding chrono caliber is made with Incabloc system for shock protection, while its power reserve lasts for about 46 hours. The decorative aspect of the caliber is likewise very prominent with perlage motifs, blued screws and with a hand-made rotor.
The historical watch is created in the collaboration of Bremont and the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Bremont is a brand that is inspired by the successful heritage of British watchmaking and run by the conveniently named English brothers (Nick and Giles English). Even though the brand exists for less than a decade, it has firmly established itself as one of the most impressive brands since its launch in 2003. Last year, Bremont was awarded with the title of the top watchmaking brand at the UK Jewellery Awards.


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If you listen closely, the elements will tell you their secrets.
Listen too closely, and they will ignore you.
The minotaurs, orcs, and trolls of the elements have each harnessed the powers of the elements; using them to heal as easily as destroy. They enhance their weapons and armor with elemental gifts, then wade into a battle with the patience of stone, fervor of water, grace of air, and eyes blazing with fire.
A shaman of the elements can only choose between the following spirits: Flame, stone, waves, or wind.
A shaman of the elements typically forms a bond with his weapons. This functions as the wizard’s arcane bond feature, except as noted here. The shaman always gains 2 one-handed or light weapons of his choice. Once per day, when wielding his bonded weapons, the shaman can cast any one shaman spell without preparing it ahead of time.
Beginning at 3rd level, the shaman’s bonded weapons each gain a +1 enhancement while he wields them together.
Beginning at 6th level, the shaman can enhance his bonded weapons further. This functions as the paladin’s divine bond class feature, except the shaman can only choose from the enhancements corrosive, corrosive burst, flaming, flaming burst, frost, icy burst, shock, and shocking burst.
This replaces spirit animal and wandering hex.
The Book of Many Things Volume 2: Shattered Worlds © 2018, Samurai Sheepdog; Author: Kevin Glusing.

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'Maara', starring R Madhavan and Shraddha Srinath, is a Tamil-language romantic musical drama to be streamed on Amazon Prime Video from January 8. Its trailer was recently out.
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Black racists will often accuse other black people of "acting white". There's even a rather old moniker "oreo" to describe this ("black on the outside, white on the inside"). Black people who "act white" are deemed as some kind of race traitors, because they don't "act black" enough, and thus are traitors to their "own people" and their "own culture".
But what exactly is "acting white"? It's actually hard to get concrete answers.
Deducing from everything I have seen, when they accuse black people of "acting white", what they mean is somebody who (typically) gets a higher-degree education, ie. goes to school to study hard and get a degree (and typically does not participate in any political activism), gets a good-paying job corresponding to his knowledge and education, performs that job diligently, using all of his knowledge, education, qualifications and experience, is perhaps promoted because of his job proficiency, gets a quite good income, buys a car and a house in a decent middle-to-upper class neighborhood, gets married, does not make a big fuss about politics and such, and overall lives like an honest, hard-working, law-abiding, successful citizen.
You know, like a normal person in a normal society, pretty much anywhere.
There are no traits, behaviors, opinions and characteristics that are common to all "white people" (whatever that term would even mean, given that it's not completely unambiguous; for example, are Spanish people "white"? Are Jews "white"? Are Brazilians "white"? And so on). Even if you took the "whitest" people you could think of, they are still extremely diverse in their traits, behaviors and opinions. There is nothing that's common to all of them, when it comes to behavior or culture.
When black racists talk about "acting white", what they seem to be talking about is the ideal modern western sociopolitical culture (which is, in fact, not restricted to the west, as it's very common in other parts of the world as well, such as Japan, India, and so on) of honest hard-working law-abiding citizens who just live their everyday lives and get along, without making a big fuzz about things, and overall have an live-and-let-live attitude, and a "we should all work together to build a better society" attitude.
When it comes down to it, when we really examine it in depth, when these black racists talk about "acting black", what they are talking about is, essentially, racial hatred and having a "gangsta" thug culture and attitude that hates white people and is very tribal and isolated, and hates the idea of a peaceful working society where everybody lives in peace and harmony, working together and working hard to earn a good living, and owning a good home in a good neighborhood, and living a peaceful and prosperous life.

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– Artificial Intelligence News #9 –
There is a current wave of enthusiasm around Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It may be the end of a process that began in the 1980s, rather than the beginning of something truly revolutionary. The lack of a coherent, or precise, definition of AI brings us closer to the same idea we have seen with ‘fintech’ and ‘blockchain’. Then, those three concepts can mean almost anything, depending on the interpretation we give to each one.
If you haven’t searched for a job in recent years, things have changed significantly. And it will continue to evolve thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to a Korn Ferry Global survey, 63% of respondents said AI had altered the way recruiting happens in their organization. Candidates have to get past human gatekeepers when they are searching for a new job. But, also, they also have to pass the screening of Artificial Intelligence that continues to become more sophisticated.
A Stanford University scientist coined the term Artificial Intelligence. Others, at the university, created some of the most significant applications of it. Then, one of the most important applications is such as the first autonomous vehicle. But, as Silicon Valley faces a reckoning over how technology is changing society, Stanford wants to be at the forefront of a different type of innovation, one that puts humans and ethics at the center of the booming field of AI.
In the report in China on the country’s “Two Sessions”, a new anchorwoman “Xin Xiaomeng” was seen. She is a virtual anchor created through the application of Artificial Intelligence technology. Furthermore, as the first Artificial Intelligence virtual female anchor in the world, with real anchor of Xinhua News Agency Qu Meng serving as her prototype. She was jointly created by China’s Xinhua News Agency and Sogou. “Her” partner, “Xin Xiaohao,” upgraded from “sitting upright” to “standing upright”, broadcast the content of LiangHui with gestures and other body language.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Shanghai and Hangzhou in China, R2.ai Inc. is growing rapidly. Then, we sat down with the company’s Founder and CEO to talk about AI that creates AI. Furthermore, we talk about how automation is going to affect jobs in the future. Originally, a chemist, Yiwen Huang, PhD, ended up working in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) 23 years ago. Also, it was while she was doing research using AI to identify molecular structures in chemicals.
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Hugo is a Google Brain researcher and a Machine Learning professor. Then, his retweets help the followers to access the state-of-the-art research material. Also, his publications include topics like brain tumour segmentation with deep neural networks, Deep Learning with nanophotonic circuits among many other aspects.


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BMI View: Mexico's construction industry will return to modest growth in 2018 following a contraction in
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Warner Bros. is Publishing The Witcher 2 on the Xbox 360, Not Atari
In an interesting switcharoo, Atari, the publisher for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in North America when it came out on the PC, will not be handling those duties for the Xbox 360 version. Instead, it seems that Warner Bros. will be publishing the title. Along with that announcement, a new promise of this game being “one of the best-looking games ever released on Xbox 360” came from Adam Kicinski of CD Projekt RED, the game’s developer.
Warner Bros. had this to say about the partnership: ““We are very pleased to partner with CD Projekt RED to bring ‘The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings’ to consoles in the United States, Canada and Mexico. [The] Witcher is a AAA franchise that fits well with our strategic distribution of high quality games, making it a great addition to our 2012 line-up in North America.”
No firm release date for the Xbox 360 version of the game has been announced yet, but it should hit in Q1 of 2012.


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Hooch is a Staffordshire terrier cross-breed still in need of a home.
He appeared in our Rescue Me campaign after the RSPCA centre in Derby took him in.
But the affectionate pooch has not been found a home yet, so staff at the centre were keen that Hooch became the star of our Rescue Me page once again.
He is a very friendly male who loves fuss. Although he suffered with a flea allergy when he was brought into the centre - he is the picture of health now.
Hooch loves to play fetch and is eager to learn new commands as he will do anything for a treat. A spokesperson for the centre said he seems fine with other animals, but would be best suited as the only pet in the home.
For more information, or to arrange to see Hooch, contact RSPCA Derby on 01332 344620.

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Composer and musician Young Slo is a well-known rapper. I, Love You (2022), This Ain’t Nun New (2020), Unforgivable (2022), Stay On Point (2021), and a host of other outstanding songs by him are well-known, but rumors say that he was fatally murdered.
He is one of the most well-liked rappers and has received a lot of love and support from various people. He is a superb, young, and assured rapper who knows how to experiment with words, craft clever concepts, and display them in his raps.
He is a talented rapper, and many listeners can relate to his lyrics on an emotional level. It has inspired a lot of up-and-coming, talented rappers to work hard and never give up on their goals.
What Caused Young Slo Be’s Death?
Rapper Young Slo is a well-known musician and rapper who has significantly influenced both music and rap. It was recently announced that he had died after being shot.
He actively released 36 songs, which allowed him to gain a sizable following of admirers. He is one of the cutest rappers and is deserving of adoration for his beautiful songs and raps. At such a young age, he has impressively amassed a sizable sum of money for himself.
The rapper has a great reputation; many people will always remember and enjoy his raps and lyrics. His fans are ready to hear more of his incredible music and watch more of him on television.
He is a hip-hop musician who is amiable, down to earth, and enjoys having fun. He enjoys learning everything there is to know and making new discoveries.
Rapper Young Slo Be’s Real Name and Age
Rapper Young Slo Be is a gifted rapper from the Central Valley of California who has created a number of good works in the music business. He hasn’t revealed his real name, though.
Being a private person, he hasn’t revealed his age to this point, but judging from his images, he appears to be in his early 20s.
He is a talented rapper who has delighted his fans and admirers by showcasing his extraordinary talent to the world. He is doing quite well in his career, and we wish him continued success.
Was Young Slo shot today in Manteca?
Although social media supports the reports, unofficial sources deny that the young would-be was shot in Manteca today.
His social media updates focus on his raps and music. This shows how committed he is to his career as a musician, but if the news of his death is true, we won’t get to hear any more of his fresh songs.
The rapper posts to his social media accounts on a regular basis. He has uploaded a lot of pictures and videos to his Instagram account, @youngslobe2100.

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Seeking to address the growing focus on the role of the network in application performance, Cisco has announced an expansion of its Nexus Switching portfolio, boosting performance on Unified Computing System (UCS) compute fabrics by adding Invicta solid-state flash memory solutions based on technology it acquired with its deal to buy Whiptail last year. Cisco (CSCO) is also opening up its UCS Director to serve as a centralized control point for compute, network, and storage infrastructure.
Cisco has added new switches to match diverse workloads and use cases. Ideal for small to medium size deployments, a new 6 slot, 9U Nexus 7706 switch features up to 21 Tbps of switching capacity and supports up to 192 10GE ports, 96 40GE ports, or 48 100GE ports in a front-to-back air flow form factor. A new F3 10GE module for the Nexus 7700 chassis gives line rate 48 port, 1/10GE (SFP+), and is based on Cisco's custom F3 ASIC.
Cisco is extending the Nexus 5600 line to include the 5672UP and 56128P switches, adding VXLAN bridging and routing capability to deliver high performance in a compact form factor for 10G top of rack, deployments for data center environments. New Nexus 3172TQ top of rack 1U switch delivers 1/10G BaseT server access and performance combined with NX-OS features.
Finally, a new Nexus 1000V on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor brings OpenStack cloud a fully integrated network virtualization solution that can be deployed consistently across VMware, Microsoft, and Linux based platforms.
New UCS Invicta SSD models
Cisco is launching two new UCS Invicta Series systems, which leverage its its acquisition of WHIPTAIL last year. Cisco for the first time is introducing solid-state memory for UCS compute fabrics, putting it close to workloads to accelerate applications.
A 2U 3124SA UCS Invicta appliance offers the medium-scale environment a modular solution for I/O acceleration. It features 250,000 IOPS, 1.9 GB/s bandwidth, and storage capacities up to 24 TB raw or up to 64 TB with data reduction enabled. The UCS Invicta Scaling System is designed for organizations requiring enterprise-class scale, capacity, management and performance. It features up to 4 million IOPS, up to 40 GB/s bandwidth, and storage capacities up to 720 TB raw, and up to 1.9 PB with data reduction enabled. Unified Management of both the UCS Invicta Appliance and the Scaling System is done with UCS Director integration.
Cisco UCS Director Update
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“Provisioning a virtual machine for SAP for Mobility used to take at least two weeks,” said Pablo Lambert, Entel director of IT innovation and development. “When a customer requested a virtual machine, first a network specialist provisioned switch ports. In a day or two, someone else configured the operating system. Other administrators would install the software and middleware. Finally someone else would test the server. Now, after we’ve created a template for a certain type of server, Cisco UCS Director automatically provisions all components end-to- end. With Cisco UCS Director, we can begin using a server in 20 minutes.”
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Hopeful Farm’s success has greatly increased Alec and Henry’s workload. After firing an employee for kicking a yearling, Alec takes out an advertisement in a racing magazine. When Pam Athena applies for the job, Alec has a hard time persuading his partners to retain her as a trainer and even harder time convincing them to let her ride the Black Stallion when Alec is suspended as a jockey.
This is about Alec falling in love with a girl who applies for a job at Hopeful farm. Though those close to Alec don’t think a girl should be involved in horse racing, he wants her to stay and she does. Pam (the girl) shows Alec what its like to be young though they are close in age Alec feels years older. Pam rides for the fun of riding. Alec has forgotten that since its become a business riding. Pam even works magic with Black Sand,The Black’s grandson, Satan’s son. In the end though Pam loves Alec and wants to one day marry him being young she still wants to see stuff and grow up. They promise to stay in touch, and even though Alec misses her he never forgets what she taught him.
Oddly in this book Pam rides The Black in a race. I’m pretty sure in most of the other books it’s always been said that Alec is the only one the Black allows to ride him with expectation to the Black’s original owner Abu Ben Ishak. There was even talk from Henry on putting another Jockey up on the Black if Pam couldn’t handle him.
This was a good book, Pam and Alec’s relationship was sweet. The character of Pam was great too she just had a spark to her and she kind of reminded me of Alec in the first few books, how she would talk softly and just say anything to calm a horse down

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Plagiarism In The Trump Camp?
In an effort of supporting Trumps campaign as he tries to become president, Melania Trump wanted to come out at the Republican national convention with a speech destined to invigorate the Republican supporters. Her main goal was probably to show support to her husband’s campaign with a very moving and powerful speech. However, people did notice that the speech wasn’t entirely original.
Based on a side by side comparison, Melania Trump’s speech is pretty much identical to a similar speech that Michelle Obama shared back in 2008 when she also tried to support her husband’s campaign.
After carefully analyzing the two speeches, you will see that they are pretty much the same. In fact, the similarity is so remarkable because entire portions of the Obama speech were left as is, without even a single change. This clearly shows that the Melania Trump speech was plagiarized and it wasn’t something original.
There are many things to back this up. You can analyze the two videos and you will see the passion that Michelle Obama had when she shared that speech with the nation. She was inspired by the crowd and she actually lived and breathed every moment and every word. On the other hand, the way Melania Trump shared her speech was bland and not that appealing in the first place.
Sure, the two speeches aren’t a complete verbatim match. However, what you will note is that they do have quite a similarity in the tone and as we said, some of the sentences actually remained the same. Trumps team immediately jumped to defend Melania stating that all the speech was her own doing and they didn’t help even one bit. They said she wanted to showcase her unique life and ideas but even if it was her own doing or not, one thing is certain. Much of this speech was plagiarized and unfortunately it wasn’t as good as Trump supporters wanted it to be in the first place.
On the other hand, Trump was very happy with the stuff that Melania had to say and her support. However, most of the internet saw the plagiarism and they were quite harsh, especially on Twitter.
What does this mean for the elections? There’s no denying that Trump’s staff is trying to use all possible material in order to reach success but how much success they will reach it’s really hard to say. One thing is certain, both republicans and democrats are doing all in their power to make Americans come to vote and it’s quite hard to figure out who will get to win right now. Both sides are heavily invested in the elections and they seem to use everything they can, even old speeches in order to make their message known.
Even if the impact of Melania Trump’s speech was negative, it’s hard to figure out whether this will affect the elections in any way. We will find that out soon enough!
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July 22, 2016


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Oh, it’s nothing really.
Nothing is nothing, everything moves, everything changes, everything is something.
The iPad sends feature sets of photos every day. They do a great job. It’s like someone saying “Hey, I love this photos, I love your art!”
I did a lot of sketches (as I call them). The one the algorithm sent stands out from similar efforts at the time. Just the right balance of dark and light.
I found this image in a neglected place on my iPad, in an app I was trying out. I must have made it some years ago. Today it resonated. I’ve been thinking about the value of containment and the value of a clear focus on a point. Continue reading “Found”
I’ve been looking at trees. In life and in art. One influencing the other. The artist on my mind is Ergon Schiele. There is a signature the whole, also present in every stroke, just as a tree carries it’s essence in every branch.
I’ll call this image: I am a tree.
A passage from “Who Shall Survive?”
Continue reading “Spontaneity, Anxiety and the Moment — a passage from “Who Shall Survive?””
Browsing through old images I’ve made I’ve picked these out as favourite, more or less figurative, ones. I may add more.
Since my project ThousandSketches I have continued to sketch. Digital painting – but I like the term sketch. Many of these are on my art website. That site is still there but I’ve deprecated it and tried to integrate it into this blog. It’s a bit of a mess. Still, this blog becomes an art blog when you click the Art Category. Digital Sketches delivers just my own work.
I’m warming up to posting more. I’ve beed reflecting on the delicacy of nature, and the crudeness of humanity’s sometimes beautiful desire to transcend itself. This began with the earth crosses… natural textures of landscape cut by something I think of as human presence, fast and bold.
That’s 12 years ago. “Green Peace”
Here is a recent one – not in the earth cross series but maybe in a new one.
Maybe it is called “Science”, or “Civilisation”. Playing on the theme of putting borders or frames around art.
Do I put these in the container? or are they better left wild?


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Abraham VAN DIJCK
(Dordrecht c.1635 - Dordrecht 1680)
A Seated Youth with a Book
132 x 79 mm. (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.) at greatest dimensions.
One of the few generally accepted drawings by Van Dijck is a study of a seated old woman holding a book, in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, which may be regarded as a preliminary study for a painting of an Old Prophetess in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. As Felice Stampfle and Jane Turner have noted, Sumowski regarded both the Morgan Library drawing and the Hermitage painting ‘to be relatively early works by Abraham Van Dijck, though dating from after c.1650 (the period of his hypothetical apprenticeship with Rembrandt), since, in addition to the influence of Rembrandt, the drawing shows that of Nicolaes Maes…The [Morgan] Library’s drawing provided a cornerstone for Sumowski’s reconstruction of Van Dijck’s drawn oeuvre.’
Schatborn has compared this fine drawing of a young man reading a book in particular with a drawing by Van Dijck of an old man seated in an armchair, datable to c.1665-1660, in the Liberna Collection at the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen, Germany. As he notes, both drawings share a similar treatment of the outlines of the figure, areas of diagonal pen hatching and tonal washes applied with a dry brush, as well as a distinctive treatment of the hands. As Sumowski has pointed out, the Liberna drawing, which is probably a study for a blind Tobit, is stylistically comparable to both the Morgan Library drawing of a seated old woman and a signed drawing by Van Dijck of the head and shoulders of a young woman, in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Bremen, and the same is true of the present sheet. A somewhat comparable treatment of hands is also found in a drawing of a young man behind a balustrade, attributed by Sumowksi to Van Dijck, which was formerly in the C. R. Rudolf collection in London and was sold at auction in Amsterdam in 1977.
David de Witt has recently related the present sheet in particular to three other stylistically comparable drawings by Van Dijck, each depicting a seated young man wearing a wide-brimmed hat holding a book; a pen and brush study in the Louvre, a similar drawing now in the Tuliba Collection in Mettingen and a slightly larger sheet in the Courtauld Institute Galleries in London. As he writes of these four closely-related drawings, ‘The combined wash and pen technique, and the choppy handling, is sufficiently similar in each [drawing] to surmise that they are by the same artist, trying out variations of the theme in one campaign. The logical succession sees the loose and sketchy Ongpin sheet as first. The Louvre drawing is second, with its indecisive composition and many corrections, in the same hand, refining the pose and costume…The Mettingen drawing frames the figure more decisively, generating an imposing presence…The drawing in the Courtauld then adds a setting, placing the figure beside a large fireplace.’
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Of course, the historical moments (and there were many) were not lost on this audience. Every opportunity was given to recognize Obama's achievement as the first African-American to capture a major-party nomination. And as coincidence would have it, Clinton was lauded for being the first woman to contend seriously for the Presidency in the same week as the anniversary of women's suffrage.
Here are a few of the highlights with links to the specific speeches that stood out from the week:
- The poignant speech by Edward Kennedy and the tribute to him for his years of service and his many accomplishments.
- Michelle Obama's personal look at her husband and the road they have traveled to this time in history.
- The raucous and inspiring speech by Hillary Rodham Clinton who led the charge for women into new and uncharted territory and who gave her unequivocal support to Obama.
- Former President Clinton's speech that charged the delegates and cemented to the naysayers his support for Obama.
- The endearing introduction of Sen. Joe Biden by his son Beau and the rally cry of Joe Biden.
Of course, the crescendo of the week was Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) that was given before 84,000 people in a spectacle that was part rock concert and part political rally. His speech clearly outlined his policy difference with John McCain and then provided, in more specific detail than ever, his economic, foreign policy, energy and education plans.
Despite the media's wish for a brawl between the Clintons and the Obamas, the convention seemed to genuinely unite the Democratic party and continue to push their candidate forward.
What was your favorite moment from the DNC?

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Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Opthea (ASX:OPT) has announced that it is seeking to raise $80 million through a $10 million private placement and a $70 million entitlement offer.
The company said the proceeds will be used to continue advancing the clinical development of OPT-302 for the treatment of wet Age-related Macular Degeneration, including to progress the Company’s Phase 3 clinical trials and for general corporate purposes.
CEO and managing director Dr Megan Baldwin said, “This institutional placement and entitlement offer strengthens Opthea’s cash position as we advance OPT-302 through Phase 3 clinical trials, ShORe and COAST.
"With the completion of this financing, together with the funding under the Development Funding Agreement (DFA) with Carlyle and Abingworth, which includes a further US$35 million of committed funding and the addition of a new co-investor of Carlyle and Abingworth, which intends to participate in a funding under the DFA of US$50 million to increase total DFA funding from $120 million to $170 million which is subject to the co-investor’s final due diligence and approvals, appropriate documentation and compliance with closing conditions, the company expects to fund its operations into the third quarter of calendar year 2024 and through the important clinical milestones of completion of patient recruitment for both Phase 3 clinical trials.”
Opthea also updated on the progress of its Phase 3 program. It said the Phase 3 clinical trials are approximately 75 per cent enrolled, with COAST expected to be fully enrolled in the first quarter calendar 2024 and ShORe in the second quarter of calendar 2024. Topline data is expected when all patients complete the 52-week treatment period.

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Roughly 73 percent of New Zealand's population, of approximately 3.7 million, are of European (mainly british) descent. A further 11-12 percent belong to the Maori people, a pacific island group who arrived in New Zealand around 1200 AD. Four percent belong to other pacific island ethnicities, while other minorites, especially Asian, make up the rest.
Approximately 96 percent of the Maori live in the North Island. There are more Samoan people living in Auckland than in Samoa, and about 3/4 of the Niuean population live there also, making it the largest concentration of Polynesians in the world.
New Zealand is predominatly Christian, with the most common denominations being Anglican, at 22 percent, Presbyterian, at 16 percent, and Roman Catholic, at 15 percent. Non-religious people and athiests account for 21 percent, and other minorities, including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and other Christian denominations, include Ratana, a Maori religion, account for the rest.
Churches are common all over the country, with mosques, temples and synogogues being found in many main centres.
The official languages of New Zealand are English and Maori, although only less than 5 percent speak Maori fluently, and much less as a first language. Almost 100 percent of New Zealanders speak English, and other Polynesian, European, and other languages are spoken by small minorities.


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A team of 30, driven by the passion to save lives, runs the Ulysses Gogi Modise Wellness Clinic in remote Kathu in the Northern Cape. Zinhle Mapumulo visited to see how this beacon of hope is defeating HIV and Aids
It began nine years ago with the desire to save lives and preserve the mining workforce, which was under threat.
Aids was sweeping into every corner of South African society, killing young and old alike, and leaving thousands of children orphaned.
In the mining industry, HIV prevalence was increasing at an alarming rate and epidemiologists were predicting that the consequences would be severe in the mining communities as a result of the risk behaviours associated with migratory work patterns.
Realising the potential catastrophe facing its workforce, Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore responded by building an HIV treatment clinic in Kathu in 2007.
The aim of the Ulysses Gogi Modise Wellness Clinic was to provide free and voluntary HIV testing, counselling and treatment to its employees, their dependants, contractors and the communities of the Gamagara Local Municipality.
Nine years later, the clinic is not just a place to get antiretrovirals (ARVs), but is a beacon of hope for the Kathu community.
This is where people arrive broken and defeated, and are nursed back to life and leave the facility physically and mentally strong.
Alta Buys, along with her 30-member team, runs this facility.
She told City Press that it was the satisfaction of knowing you had saved a life that made their jobs worthwhile.
“Our job is not easy, but what keeps us going is knowing that we have saved a life and made a positive change in our community,” Buys said:
“Sometimes patients are brought to us very sick and families have lost hope, but we treat them and counsel them with their families. When the patient recovers and you see a positive change in their life, we know we have done well.”
Buys, the clinic’s general manager, has been there from day one. She has seen the clinic reach one milestone after another.
When the clinic opened in June 2008, it had 15 patients.
Today, it provides ARV treatment to 1 416 people, and that number is growing. It now also offers screening for lifestyle diseases, and assists with the emergency deliveries of babies and patient resuscitations.
The R17.2 million clinic, which is part of a public-private partnership between Anglo American’s Sishen mine and the department of health, is across the road from the government clinic.
Whenever the government clinic needs extra hands, staff cross the road to assist. Also, when the wellness clinic’s patients need specific care, they are referred to the state clinic.
“We are not competing with them, but complementing what they are doing in the community of Kathu. Together, we are driving the clinic, because this is really a community inheritance,” said Buys.
Kathu is a small town in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in the Northern Cape.
Aids has been the leading cause of death in the municipality for years.
Four in 10 men between the ages of 25 and 65 who died between 2008 and 2013 died of Aids-related illnesses. About 28% of deaths in women in the same age range were also caused by Aids.
These statistics, taken from the latest District Health Barometer, indicate the desperate need for such a clinic in this part of South Africa.
Stefan van der Borght, Anglo American’s group head of health, said:
“The Northern Cape is one of the provinces where HIV and Aids is the leading cause of death. As a global mining business that has played a leading role in the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and Aids patients, we recognised the need to respond proactively by launching the clinic in 2007.”
Anglo has long been actively involved in finding solutions to the HIV epidemic in South Africa. Its efforts date back 30 years, when Professor Reuben Sher and Dr Brian Brink, Anglo American’s former chief medical officer, conducted an HIV-prevalence survey in the South African mining industry workforce.
Thousands of mine workers participated. Of the 18 450 South African mine workers tested for HIV, only four, accounting for 0.02%, were HIV-positive.
By the early 1990s, the HIV incidence in the mining industry in South Africa had increased to 1%, and grew to 25% by 2000.
At this time, only a few privileged people could afford ARVs, which meant HIV-positive mine workers faced a death sentence.
Fortunately, that era has passed. These days, every person diagnosed with HIV in South Africa is entitled to receive the life-changing drugs.
“Not a single patient has returned home without getting their treatment from our clinic. We take HIV treatment very seriously, and we always ensure we have enough stock for our patients,” Buys said.
“Our pharmacist does a sterling job, to such an extent that we sometimes share our stock with the local clinic when its stock is depleted. After all, we are all supplied by the department of health.”
Buys also speaks highly of the clinic’s programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission. Since the clinic opened, 124 pregnant women have been successfully treated.
“None of the babies born from our HIV-positive mothers has seroconverted [where HIV antibodies develop and become detectable in a person]. This is a great achievement for us, because children are the future. If we are to end HIV, we need to make sure this generation remains Aids free,” Buys said.


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An ultra low-calorie sugar found naturally in jackfruit and figs that Tate & Lyle, Matsutani (in partnership with Ingredion), and CJ CheilJedang are making in commercial quantities from corn using enzymes,* allulose has the clean taste, bulk and functionality of regular sugar (sucrose), and about 70% of its sweetness.
It can be used to reduce or replace sugar in everything from baked goods and candies to yogurts and ice cream and also browns during baking, depresses the freezing point when making frozen products, and is highly-soluble. It has no cooling effect like erythritol and also works well with with monk fruit and stevia.
The problem for formulators and marketers has been that allulose currently counts towards ‘total sugar’ and ‘added sugar’ on the Nutrition Facts panel, despite the fact it contributes virtually no calories and doesn’t raise blood sugar or insulin, which confuses consumers (particularly diabetics) and has deterred some manufacturers from using it, say suppliers.
Icon Foods: 'This is an absolute game changer'
Thom King, CEO at sweeteners specialist Icon Foods, predicted that now the FDA has decided to stop treating allulose like regular sugar on food labels, formulators will embrace it quickly.
"We have literally dozens of formulations we have queued up for customers just waiting for this ruling. The added sugar was a big issue. No longer. Our phones and emails are blowing up with requests."
He added: "This is a total game changer for the food industry. This is the first ever saccharide that is being pushed from added sugar on the nutritional facts panel. Allulose no longer needs to be reported as an added sugar so, there will be thousands of new products coming out in the months to come. This is such a great day and the end of a long battle."
Asked whether the fact that the FDA still requires firms to include allulose grams under 'total carbohydrate' would put off companies seeking to use it in keto products, King said:
"It has been my experience that with the majority of our customers using our allulose, stevia monk fruit blend that, while allulose shows up on the Nutrition Facts panel as a carb, allulose is subtracted from the total carb count when reporting 'net carbs.' As far as consumers go, the Keto community is pretty savvy when it comes to allulose and they, by and large, understand that allulose doesn’t affect blood sugar levels and will not take one out of keto."
Tate & Lyle: 'We see this as a real breakthrough'
Abigail Storms, VP, Sweetener Platform Innovation at Tate & Lyle, told FoodNavigator-USA: "Despite the fact it contributes virtually no calories and doesn’t raise blood sugar, the fact that allulose has (until now) had to count towards ‘total sugar’ and ‘added sugar’ on the Nutrition Facts panel, has been confusing for consumers. In addition, where our customers are looking for solutions for both sugar and calorie reduction in their products, Allulose could only deliver on one half of the proposition when it came to labeling.
"Now we can provide the sweetening ingredient DOLCIA PRIMA Allulose, that really can do both sugar and calorie reduction. We see this as a real breakthrough, with numerous customers across categories formulating with allulose, and just waiting on the label change so that the proposition is clear to consumers. We already manufacture both the syrup and crystalline formats so the ingredient can be used across a broad array of applications, from beverages, to bakery, confectionery and dairy.
"I look forward to broad adoption of allulose, opening up a world of sugar-like taste, but without all the sugar and calories on the label."
FDA: 'Allulose has fewer calories, produces only negligible increases in blood glucose or insulin levels, and does not promote dental decay'
In draft guidance issued this morning, Susan Mayne, Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said the agency had taken on board these points expressed via citizen's petitions, and decided to act:
“The latest data suggests that allulose is different from other sugars in that it is not metabolized by the human body in the same way as table sugar. It has fewer calories, produces only negligible increases in blood glucose or insulin levels, and does not promote dental decay.
“As such, we’ve issued guidance today stating that we intend to exercise enforcement discretion to allow allulose to be excluded from the total and added sugars declarations on the Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts labels when allulose is used as an ingredient [however, allulose must be included in the amount of 'total carbohydrate' declared on the label]."
Dr Mayne added: “Allulose will still count towards the caloric value of the food on the label – but the guidance document issued today states our intent to exercise enforcement discretion to allow the use of a revised, lower calorie count [instead of 4cal/g as is standard with sugars, this will be revised down to 0.4cals/g].
“As with other ingredients, allulose must still be declared in the ingredient list. This is the first time the FDA has stated its intent to allow a sugar to not be included as part of the total or added sugars declarations on labels, a reflection of our flexible and science-based approach to food product labeling.”
Ingredion, which has partnered with Matsutani Chemical Industry Co to produce allulose, said construction is "well underway" at a dedicated manufacturing site in Mexico to produce the sugar under the ASTRAEA brand, with commercial scale availability of products expected this year.
"With the FDA announcement, we can now partner more closely with customers as they look to harness the full potential of ASTRAEA allulose and help them bring winning products to market that meet consumers’ taste and indulgent wants and health and wellness needs,” said Afrouz Naeini, Ingredion’s regional platform leader for sugar reduction in the U.S. and Canada.
What's in a name?
Alex Woo, Ph.D. chief executive at consultancy W2O Food Innovation and an expert on sweeteners, told FoodNavigator-USA last year that the commercialization of allulose is an exciting development for the food industry given the pressure to reduce sugar and calories, but he queried whether the ingredient's name was consumer-friendly, adding: “I'd say ’ose’ is more of an organic chemistry term than a consumer term.”
Ultimately, a lot would come down to price, he said. “It would need to be on a parity with erythritol or lower.”
*“The simple way of explaining the process is that we take the carbohydrate from corn and then go through an enzymatic conversion process to produce allulose,” said Abigail Storms, VP, Sweeteners Platform Innovation at Tate & Lyle.
“Our carbohydrate source is corn, which enables cost effectiveness and scale. In addition to corn, different sources of carbohydrate could be used such as sucrose from sugar cane or beets. We could also use non-GMO corn for customers looking for non-GMO options.”
"Our current thinking is that, consistent with the goal of section 403(q) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the nutrient declarations to assist consumers in maintaining healthy dietary practices, we should consider not only the chemical structure of sugars, but also other evidence including their association with dental caries, their effect on blood glucose and insulin levels, as well as their caloric contribution, when determining whether a sugar should be included in the declaration of 'Total Sugars' on the label."
FDA draft guidance, April 17, 2019
"Allulose is different from other sugars in that it is not metabolized by the human body, it has negligible calories, it does not contribute to increases in blood glucose or insulin levels, and if included as carbohydrates and sugar (added sugar) on the Nutrition Facts label, it would lead to confusion to the consumer, particularly consumers with diabetes or those consumers otherwise concerned with accurately monitoring blood glucose.
"Allulose differs from traditional sugars in that it is absorbed in the body and excreted predominantly via the urine without being metabolized."
Tate & Lyle citizen's petition to the FDA
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Activists groups are pushing policymakers to add gender-specific provisions to the EU’s tech legislation.
The Russian state-backed broadcaster had two accounts terminated on Tuesday.
The messaging app has allowed conspiracy theories, debunked falsehoods and hate speech to run wild.
The report, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, says the abuse may have undermined her campaign.
The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing.
‘OnlyFans stands for inclusion and we will continue to provide a home for all creators,’ the company said.
More than 1,000 videos featured anti-Semitic and racist content over a one-month period.
The pressure to crack down on illegal content on social media platforms is threatening the livelihoods of sex workers.
Western extremists heralded the Islamic militants’ military success as part of their own fight against liberal values.
Federal Court tells social media giant to reinstate deleted posts because the company did not properly inform the users.
English football players Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho are all targets of online harassment.
The Mozilla Foundation found that a majority of problematic videos were recommended by the platform itself.
Privacy-conscious lawmakers say the rules are ‘legally flawed’ and endanger privacy.
The tech giant’s legal and regulatory troubles are now Andy Jassy’s to handle.
Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform, called GETTR
The EU Commission has stated that their rules will not permit Hungary to take down LGBTQ+ content because it is a protected by fundamental rights.
La République en Marche has an anti-disinformation action plan that targets online platforms.
The former president’s account was suspended after the Capitol Hill riots in January.
Paris wants to upend the EU’s rules that leave Dublin and Luxembourg in charge of policing most Silicon Valley companies.
Paris, Berlin and The Hague blast EU proposals as ‘lacking ambition’ on merger controls, amid growing defiance from capitals.
The decision was based on the same policy on militarized social movements that served as the basis for its crackdown on Capitol Hill rioters.
The EU’s proposal, known as the Digital Services Act, was the first part of the European strategy to tackle hate speech, Commissioner Didier Reynders said.
Slovenian Digital Minister Boštjan Koritnik said the country’s patchy record on media freedom won’t hinder its presidency of the Council of the EU.


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Mr. Untouchable is a rather ironic name considering he did in fact land in prison and this book is nothing more than him masturbating on paper while probably looking at a picture of himself masturbating. His memoir is a literary Ouroboros circle jerk of self-congratulation.
I can only compare it to watching an endless amount of the Old Spice Guy commercials and not realizing they are meant to be funny. Not even the Dos Equis guy is this cool. And it could be possible to forgive the ego trip if the writing was engaging, or interesting, or even passable, but it's Showgirls level bad. The fact that I read it to completion should look favorable to me should I ever meet Saint Peter.
"Well, you were a bit of a bastard, but you did read Nicky Barnes book."
And I was anxious to read this! Cuba Gooding Jr., who portrayed Barnes in American Gangster, was more interesting in his five minutes of screen time than the actual man in three hundred pages. For a man who apparently did everything, sold the best drugs, lived in the best places, fucked the hottest women, drove the fastest cars, he's incredibly dull. How does that happen? Remember back to high school or middle school, when one of your friends was the first in your gang to get a blow job? Remember how he talked about it so much that you went from envying his luck with the ladies and eventually hoped he caught syphilis? That's how this book made me feel. I was cheering for the police to get him.
So instead of reviewing this book any further, I'm going to leave you with selected quotes. I'm not even cherry picking the worst of the worst. The whole book consists of this.
"Besides, you need your men making drops, dealing powder and takin' out mothafuckas who need killling. Puttin' shit in bags seems like something a woman should be doin' anyhow."
"And that was that. No more words on the situation. We may have been equals, but my decisions were not subject to discussion."
"I was all decked out for the grand opening of Jegazzy's in my new fit from Brioni. At least I'd be the best dressed dude on the run!"
"They want you to say 'Oh, I'm an asshole, please forgive me,' and that's the role I took. But that made it worse, turning me into an elusive celebrity like Greta Garbo or my man Howard Hughes."
" 'Don't fuck me so hard!' yelled the go-go girl, but she was just playin'. She loved to deep fuck."
"And while it wasn't a big deal to see a Benz in a high-crime neighborhood by now- everybody caught onto my trend, and believe it, I was the first to be doin' that- the cops decided to tail us."
"But I despised that woman for bringing Stan down. Underneath her suburban clothes, she was just a hustlin' lady, a street person like her mother. I saw that long ago- that's why I dumped her in the first place."
"True, I'd beat the rap time and again, but what Jimmy's not realizing is I'd been framed on those cases. That's the real problem with the justice system. Tryin' to fuck me over! And I hate to break it to the President, but he ain't the judicial system! That's not his job. That's why we got separation of powers!"
'Everything in prison moves in cliques. My clique was the New York and DC dealers, mostly black. People knew me and took good care of me, so I quickly became their ringleader. In the joint I had an invincible reputation."
" 'We may not look upon him ever again,' wrote Kempton, 'and it will be a long time before we look upon his like. Nicky Barnes is a great men, and to say that is not to dispute Acton's conclusion that all great men are bad men.' "
Should you be inclined to learn more about Nicky Barnes, do yourself a favor and watch the documentary, Mr. Untouchable. It's entertaining, engaging, and most importantly, not told entirely from Barnes' point of view. It's available for instant viewing on Netflix and on DVD.
I'm only adding this because I've been asked a few times, but yeah, I always accept review/preview copies. Who turns down free stuff? Email me at email@example.com for my mailing address. And thanks.
Dan Fleming is the writer/co-creator of Warrior Twenty-Seven, the independant comics anthology. He's been known to bury his nose in books since the earliest of ages, and has been busy writing a crime novel for a few moons. His comic work can be viewed at www.warrior27.thecomicseries.com. He is also one half of the podcasting duo, The Potato League Podcast, which can be found on Podbean. He can be contacted at either firstname.lastname@example.org or email@example.com


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from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John
2 bunches watercress
2 thick slices onion
1 3-inch piece of celery, chopped
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups chicken bouillon
1 large can evaporated milk
2 tablespoons butter
Remove leaves from stems of watercress
Place leaves, onion, celery, cornstarch,
sugar, salt, and 2 cups of bouillon in
blender and blend until smooth.
Pour into saucepan and add remaining
cup of bouillon. Bring mixture to a boil.
Reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes stir-
ring constantly. Add evaporated milk and
butter and simmer for five minutes more.


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Self-injurious behavior is becoming more prevalent among children. Parents, school staff, and other caregivers need to be vigilant to a number of self-destructive behaviors exhibited in children as young as age 7. In a recent study published in the July 2012 issue of Pediatrics, it was reported that 8 percent of the participants (a group of 665 boys and girls in 3rd, 6th, and 9th graders) admitted to engaging in “nonsuicidal self-injury.” The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry compiles this list of common self-injurious behavior:
- picking and pulling skin and hair
- head banging
- excessive body piercing
The study appearing in Pediatrics also revealed that the girls were three times more likely than the boys to self-injure by the time they reach 9th grade. Some of the reasons why children demonstrate self-injurious behavior are to rebel, to regulate emotions, and to imitate behavior (YouTube has videos that show teens engaging in self-injury). Parents can help their children by asking questions and having a conversation with them about respecting their bodies. Parents can also be role models for their children by adhering to a healthy lifestyle with coping skills that fosters resilience and wellness. For further information on children and self-injury, go to http://aacap.org.
Overall, it is important to understand that self-injurious behavior is not just happening among pre-teens and teens, but also among children in elementary school. There is evidence that a small percent of students as young as 3rd grade have exhibited some form of self-harm.


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In Reply—I am gratified that Drs Argyle and Rutledge agree that pediatricians can benefit from the use of bilirubin fractionation. It was my intent to point out the inadequacies present in many of the routine methods employed for bilirubin analysis. As indicated in my article, my purpose was not to advocate HPLC for routine bilirubin fractionation but to heighten physician awareness of the fact that it is necessary to determine whether the method utilized by the laboratory for bilirubin analysis is capable of distinguishing patients with unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. My own hospital's clinical laboratory has recently begun to utilize the Ektachem slide method for routine bilirubin fractionation, and we are in the process of evaluating the accuracy of results obtained with this method.1 It should be noted that the Ektachem method may also be subject to error. Determination of bilirubin-protein conjugates (Δ bilirubin) by the Ektachem method is not directly measured
ROSENTHAL P. Bilirubin Subfractions-Reply. Am J Dis Child. 1988;142(7):700–701. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1988.02150070014007
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is facing a backlash after a CNN review of Greene's Facebook page showed she had in recent years liked posts calling for violence against prominent Democrats while also promoting extremist conspiracy theories, NBC News reports.
As CNN reported, Greene, who has repeatedly come under fire for past support of the QAnon conspiracy, liked comments that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" than removing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and that "through removal or death, doesn't matter, as long as [Pelosi] goes. Greene also responded to a user who suggested former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be hanged by saying "Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off."
Then, in a speech she posted on Facebook live, Greene said Pelosi was "guilty of treason" and that treason is "a crime punishable by death."
The posts were dated 2018 and 2019, before Greene's run for office.


There is only one way in the scenic Santa Cruz valley to experience breathtaking, soul enriching, world class arts performances - through the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts - with its unique events steeped in rich, diverse cultural heritage. Please take some time to browse our site and learn more about our concert series and our exquisite performing arts venue, the Benderly - Kendall Opera House, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
Through the SCFPA Artist in Residence Program, gifted performers are invited to explore their talent, develop their performance skills, build their reputations and connect with other artists. SCFPA supports future generations of performers by offering these burgeoning musicians guest living quarters,and the use of the Benderly-Kendall Opera house for practice and public concerts.
In return, the artist in residence is expected to offer master classes, accept students and present several concerts during the performance season at the new Benderly-Kendall Opera House in Patagonia.
Originally from Nogales, Arizona, historical keyboardist and modern pianist Evan Kory has a vivid repertoire ranging from the renaissance and baroque to the present.
A recent graduate of The Juilliard School's historical performance program, Evan is passionate about exploring the vast keyboard repertoire of the last four centuries on the various keyboard instruments for which the music was composed.
Evan studied at the Manhattan School of Music for his bachelors and masters degrees and received his Doctor of Musical Arts in May 2017. His dissertation investigates performance practices in the piano works of Johannes Brahms through the historical recordings of Brahms’s students. Evan's primary teachers have been Phillip Kawin, Peter Sykes, Richard Egarr, and Béatrice Martin.
His first recording, a collection of J.S. Bach keyboard works was recorded by the Master Performers label in Australia. Evan is a former faculty member of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp in Michigan and is a board member of The Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts.
This year Evan is featured in no less than six of the scheduled performances. He will also be accompanying the Santa Cruz Singers for their winter and spring concerts and presenting occasional pre concert talks.
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Michael Ehlers, Duke University
Aging of the Nervous System
Although it wasn’t realized for generations, it’s now clear that the living body is always working on the wiring. That has long been established fact, of course, for the peripheral nervous system, which runs our fingers, toes, tongue and arms. For the sake of survival in the face of peril, quick and effective repairs are needed in the extremities, where injury is common. So the peripheral nervous system has evolved great ability to maintain continuity, ready to grow new cells and redo the wiring to circumvent any damage that results from injury.
But the central nervous system, meaning the brain and spinal cord, is different, and medical wisdom held that no new brain cells, neurons, are made after early childhood. In other words, what you got was all you’ll get.
Now that’s clearly not true. Modern research has demonstrated that the brain also contains stem cells, a supply of immature cells that can be called on to grow, differentiate and become new neurons. This shows that the brain does have some “plasticity,” that the capacity exists to repair some kinds of damage.
But it’s also clear that major brain repairs don’t happen often. There seems to be no natural repair that restores the spinal cord after injury. Nor is major loss of certain brain cells repaired, such as the losses that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Even when neural stem cells are present, somehow they fail to make adequate repairs.
So that’s where the clarity ends, at least for now. Much has yet to be learned.
Fortunately, the tools that are being focused on neurobiology are improving dramatically. Active MRI allows researchers to observe the brain while it’s thinking, or responding to various stimuli. New approaches to microscopy, precision laser ablation of individual cells and capillaries, and genetic engineering of model organisms are opening new vistas for exploring the brain and how it works.
So right now, ever more powerful and precise research methods are being applied to animals such as soil worms, fruit flies and mice, in which researchers can study nerve connections, neurotransmitter chemicals, genetic alterations, and stem cell responses. Where the brain was once a black box we were trying to influence with magic, a few viewing ports have been created where scientists are taking a peek.
Still, a major barrier that’s been hard to penetrate is the brain’s tremendous complexity. It’s hard to find a window that reveals much about the billions of neurons, plus glial cells and others, that make up the brain. Also, each of these billions of neurons makes multiple connections to others at the complex junctures called synapses. And within the brain the synapse maps are constantly being revised and rearranged as the cells make new connections and break others. How this occurs, why it occurs and what can go wrong are all questions that are being asked, but are difficult to answer. Hidden within all the complexity, of course, is the learning process, several different types of memory, and the roots of neurodegenerative diseases that often occur with aging.
But there is reason for optimism. The pace of research is accelerating. The new tools of biotechnology are extraordinarily precise and powerful. And the people doing the work are asking good questions, getting interesting answers, and making steady progress.


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On Tuesday 12/17/2013 Prentiss County Deputies Arrested Rodney W. Elliff 47 of 10 Stedham Rd Marietta on CR 4001 and charged him with Possession of Controlled Substance (Meth) Enhanced (While in Possession of a Firearm) along with several misdemeanor traffic offenses. Elliff's bond was set at $10,000 on the drug charge and $3,500 on the remaining charges. Investigators seized three firearms and his vehicle along with the Methamphetamine. Officers were assisted in the arrest by Fulton Police Departments K9 unit.
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4th generation autoflowering strain. In the development of this variety we have used the famous “Cordobesa” Amnesia Haze clone. To introduce the autoflowering trait in this genetic we have used selected genetic lines of our variety SWS24 (S.A.D. Sweet Afgani Delicious Auto®), which contributes with a background of sweet and musky aromas to the cross.
This variety features a pleasant, deep and complex aroma of incense, with sweet and musky tones, complemented with lemony citric hints, shades of wood and dried fruit.
Tall-stemmed autoflowering strain, very resinous and productive.
Type of seed 100% Autoflowering
Indoor Yield 400-600 g/m2
Outdoor Yield 50-200 g/plant
Indoor/Outdoor harvest 8-9 weeks from germination
Height 60-120 cm
|Maturation(Interior)||from 60 to 70 days|
|Way of cropping||Ind/Out|
|Production||400-600 gr/m2 Indoor | 50-200 gr/pl Outdoor|
|Lineage||Amnesia Haze x S.A.D.|

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