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Scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and department of neurosurgery say they have identified immune system targets on cancer stem cells from which malignant brain tumors are believed to originate and regenerate. The researchers add that they also created an experimental vaccine to attack them.
Results of laboratory and animal studies are published in the online edition of Stem Cells Translational Medicine. A Phase I safety study in human volunteers with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive brain tumor in adults, is underway.
Like normal stem cells, cancer stem cells have the ability to self-renew and generate new cells, but instead of producing healthy cells, they create cancer cells. In theory, if the cancer stem cells can be destroyed, a tumor may not be able to sustain itself, but if the cancer originators are not removed or destroyed, a tumor will continue to return despite the use of existing cancer-killing therapies.
The researchers identified certain fragments of a protein (CD133) that is found on cancer stem cells of some brain tumors and other cancers. In the laboratory, they cultured the proteins with dendritic cells, the immune system’s most powerful antigen-presenting cells, which are responsible for helping the immune system recognize and attack invaders.
“CD133 could serve as a potential target for cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) to target glioblastoma cancer stem cells. Two potential human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*0201-restricted CD133 epitopes, ILSAFSVYV (CD133-405) and YLQWIEFSI (CD133-753), showed strong binding to HLA-A*0201 molecules,” wrote the investigators in their online article entitled “Identification of Novel Human Leukocyte Antigen-A*0201-Restricted, Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Epitopes on CD133 for Cancer Stem Cell Immunotherapy.” “In vitro immunogenicity studies generated peptide-specific CD8+ CTLs from normal donors. Autologous monocyte-derived dendritic cells pulsed with the CD133-405 or CD133-753 peptides generated CTLs that efficiently recognized the CD133 epitopes presented in T2 HLA-A*0201 cells and specifically lysed CD133+ HLA-A*0201+ GBM CSCs. These studies demonstrated natural processing and subsequent presentation of these epitopes in GBM CSCs and the ability of CTLs to kill CSCs bearing the antigen.”
The vaccine was able to stimulate an immune response against the CD133 proteins without causing side effects such as an autoimmune reaction against normal cells or organs, added the scientists.
“CD133 is one of several proteins made at high levels in the cancer stem cells of glioblastoma multiforme. Because this protein appears to be associated with resistance of the cancer stem cells to treatment with radiation or chemotherapy or both, we see it as an ideal target for immunotherapy. We have found at least two fragments of the protein that can be targeted to trigger an immune response to kill tumor cells. We don’t know yet if the response would be strong enough to prevent a tumor from coming back, but we now have a human clinical trial underway to assess safety for further study,” explained John Yu, M.D., vice chair of the department of neurosurgery, director of surgical neuro-oncology, medical director of the Brain Tumor Center, and neurosurgical director of the Gamma Knife Program at Cedars-Sinai. He is senior author of the journal article.


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THE Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) has strongly urged its customers to stop negotiating with the utility company and pay their outstanding water bills.
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“Most customers approach our offices to negotiate instead of paying their bills, the majority of them are business owners who have money but are simply not paying,” said WASCO’s Public Relations Manager, Lineo Moqasa.
She said the clients should pay their water bills and not prioritise other bills over water because they cannot live without it.
“It is surprising how people cannot owe electricity and airtime but are prepared to ignore their water bills,” Mrs Moqasa said.
The unpaid bills, she noted, hinder the company from providing quality services as it cannot afford to pay suppliers for equipment used on daily operations, amongst others.
‘’Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority expect us to perform but it is very unfortunate that the company cannot operate without money,” she added.
She warned that soon, WASCO will no longer be open for negotiations.
The company has given its customers an opportunity to approach its offices for negotiations to confirm their outstanding bills and make payment arrangements.
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WASCO is currently disconnecting services for customers who failed to pay their outstanding bills before August 19. It is estimated that the customers owe the company a sum of M171million.
WASCO is a company duly established under the Water and Sewerage Company (Propriety) Limited (Establishment and Vesting) Act, 2010 Enacted by the Parliament of Lesotho.
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I am writing in response to an article published earlier this week in The Capital regarding the current state of affairs at the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office. Because I was not contacted by the Capital for purposes of this article, I believe it is only fair that I have an opportunity to voice my opinion.
Some of my former coworkers recently sat down for an interview at the Capital to tell tales of bullying, inequity, and fear; brought on by the office’s leadership. I’m finding it impossible to see things from their current perspective, but I can recall those exact emotions from my earlier years in the office when some of these former employees were perpetuating the same unacceptable behaviors that they are accusing the current administration of.
During my law school years, I envisioned myself working in an office unified by the literal pursuit of justice. I imagined camaraderie and inclusion from a group of like-minded, educated professionals who worked to fight the prejudices and injustices that have plagued our society for centuries.
Being a woman of color, I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would fall victim to discrimination at the hands of some of my coworkers. But the favoritism and open bullying were regular practices that existed for hard-working employees who were not a part of the office cliques under the former administrations. Before Wes Adams, this was not an office where hard work was rewarded. Instead, growth came with acceptance into the popular crowd. The similarities to high school social rankings would be comical if it didn’t hinder my professional and financial development for more than a decade.
Nearly four years ago, the residents of Anne Arundel County elected Wes Adams to the office of State’s Attorney. The voters wanted a change, but clearly these former employees who were cited in the article could not handle the added responsibility and accountability that Wes has put into place to protect the county not only from the criminal element that we are sworn to fight, but also from the questionable moral and ethical decisions, and bullying from within the walls of the State’s Attorney’s Office. Of course those who had a preferred status under the former administrations were not happy with the newly leveled playing field. But the employees who have a high work ethic and are not afraid to stand behind their decisions have had nothing to fear.


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Fiber optic patch cable, also called fiber optic patch cord or fiber patch cord, is one of the most basic and important parts in optical communication. Fiber optic patch cable is generally used for linking the equipment and components in the fiber optic network, eg. linking between the fiber optic converter and termination box. At the ends of fiber optic patch cable, there are fiber optic connectors. In general, the fiber optic patch cable types are classified by the fiber optic connector types.
The commonly used fiber optic patch cable types include SC fiber patch cord, ST fiber optic patch cord, LC fiber optic patch cord, FC fiber optic patch cord etc. In addition, if fiber optic patch cable has the same type of connector on both ends, we call it the same connector type fiber patch cable, otherwise, it is called hybrid fiber optic patch cables. According to its fiber cable mode or fiber cable structure, fiber optic patch cable can be divided into singlemode fiber optic patch cable and multimode fiber optic patch cable or simplex fiber optic patch cable and duplex fiber optic patch cable.
Fiber optic patch cords are the simplest fiber optic elements, consisting of a short length of optical fiber with a connector on either end (Fig. 12.2). Since they are used to connect various componets and instruments in a fiber optic system, their characteristics in terms of loss and aging determine the overall performance of the system. In principle, when two patch cords are connected, if the fibers are identical, it should result in almost zero loss. In actual practice the loss may not be very small since the fiber may not be completely concentric with the connector center, there could be dust at the tip of the connector, or there could be misalignments when two patch cords are mated. Fiber Optic Patch Cord with different types of fibers and different connector types are available. Typical insertion loss of patch cords are about 0.4 dB, with a return loss of better than 50 dB.
Actually, before starting this topic, it is necessary for us to review the basic knowledge of the fiber optic patch cable.
Fiber optic patch cable, also known as fiber jumper or fiber optic patch cord, is a cable terminated with fiber connectors at both ends that allow it to be rapidly and conveniently connected to CATV (cable television), an optical switch or other telecommunication equipment.
According to different optical connector types, fiber optic patch cables can be classified into LC, SC, ST, FC fiber optic patch cables, etc. And if the fiber optic patch cable has the same type of connectors at both ends, we call it the same connector type fiber optic patch cable, otherwise, it is called hybrid fiber optic patch cable. Furthermore, based on optical fiber mode, fiber optic patch cables can be categorized to single-mode fiber optic patch cable and multimode fiber optic patch cable. Moreover, from fiber cable structure aspect, fiber optic patch cables can be divided into simplex patch cable and duplex patch cable.
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Flooding and heavy downpours have caused thousand tons of trash from Cam Ly landfill on a 60-meter-high hill to fall into valleys in Da Lat City, burying multiple gardens of local people and setting off horrible odors.
|Thousands of tons of trash from a hill buries some seven hectares of farming land in Lam Dong Province – PHOTO: TNO|
Bui Trung Duong, chairman of Dalat Urban Company, was quoted by Thanh Nien newspaper on August 13 as saying that some seven hectares of farming land were strewn with thousands of tons of trash.
Torrential rains from August 7 to 10 in the Central Highlands city of Dalat have prompted the trash from the hill to slip down onto many gardens planting flowers, coffee, and vegetables, Duong said.
There were even rolls of pressed trash rolling over the hill, leaving a long streak of more than one kilometer. Many veggie and flower gardens in neighboring areas were plastered under four-meter thick piles of garbage.
Some affected local gardens looked like extended Cam Ly landfill. Worse still, blackened wastewater from the landfill flowed into the gardens along with disgusting smell, then running into other areas and the downstream of Cam Ly waterfall, polluting water and posing risks of infectious diseases.
Nguyen Huu Vu, 32, said that the trash buried almost all his 2,000-hectare daisy garden, with half of the flower being close to harvest time. Similarly, Le Thi Nguyen had her rose garden, which covers 1,800 square meters of land, buried under garbage.
There are no official data from the local authorities regarding damages of the landfill failure. However, according to Tuoi Tre newspaper, the tumbling trash has wrought havoc directly on one hectare of farming land and affected a vast farming area in neighboring areas.
Cam Ly is the largest landfill in the province’s Dalat City. Hundreds of tons of garbage dumped by nearly 4,000 local people of the city, which is home to many tourist destinations, are daily transported to the site. SGT
The upcoming Da Lat Flower Festival which will take place between December 20 -24, announced the People’s Committee of Lam Dong at a recent press conference in Hanoi.
To reduce the population pressure on Da Lat, Lam Dong Province authorities should not expand it but build satellite areas around it, an architect has said.

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They said that three FIRs has been registered at Barwala, Ranpur and Ahmedabad Rural in this regard so far.
In addition, over a dozen were hospitalized having consumed the chemical-laced liquor. A committee has also been formed to inquire into the incident of chemical misuse in Botad, Banvala and Dhandhuka Talukdas.
Meanwhile, cases have been registered against 14 people in connection with the incident.
Director general of police (DGP) Ashish Bhatia said, “A total of 28 people have died in the tragedy. The chemical was directly mixed with water and consumed by people, 600 litres of this was sold at Rs 40,000.”
DGP Bhatia further said that the local police will constitute a special investigation team (SIT) over the matter.
“Three FIRs registered at Barwala, Ranpur and Ahmedabad Rural...Local Police will constitute SIT,” he added.
In the meantime, Gujarat home minister Harsh Sanghvi has taken note of the incident. He has also chaired a meeting to discuss the issue.
An official resolution from the state government read, “This is pertaining the chemical misuse incident that took place on 25/7/22 and 26/7/22 that spans over villages of Botad and Ahmedabad districts. Keeping in view the gravity of the incident, the State Government has resolved to form a Committee.”
The committee comprises of IPS Inspector General of Police, (Crime – I), CID (Crime and Railways) Subhash Trivedi, chairperson, MA Gandhi, IAS VC and MD , GSRTC and Director, Prohibition and Excise, Gujarat and HP Sanghvi, Director Forensic Science Laboratory, Gujarat.
The document read that the committee shall inquire into the reasons of this incident and submit a detailed report.
It may be noted that the incident came to the fore after several people were hospitalized last night after consuming spurious liquor.
Dr. Rakesh Joshi, Medical Superintendent at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad said, “13 people from nearby villages admitted to civil hospital, 6 are stable & kept under observation. The other 6 are being treated. As of now, nobody is serious. We are ready to treat more patients.”


text: HomeNewsNintendo Sells 1.5 Million Switch Consoles Worldwide In First Week Alex Irish March 15, 2017 News Analysis firm Supercell has revealed the Nintendo Switch has sold 1.5 million units worldwide in its first week. This data comes off of information collected from Famitsu and GfK beginning March 3rd. The US saw 500,000 units sold, more than any other region, while Japan was close behind with 360,000 units. Over in the UK, numbers for the collective region weren’t available, but 85,000 units were sold in the UK and 110,000 units in France. The sales on Zelda: Breath of the Wild, easily the Switch’s critical darling at launch, were nearly proportional to that of the console. Without factoring the Wii U version, Breath of the Wild is said to have sold 1.34 million units, an 89% attach rate. This figure reinforces claims from NoA’s Reggie Fils-Aime that Zelda’s is the best-selling game of any Nintendo launch. Nintendo made the promise to ship 2 million Switch units worldwide in the 2017 Fiscal Year. Though these figures represent Nintendo’s sell-through to retailers, 1.5 million represents 75% of that 2 million sales aspiration. It would also mean Nintendo is close to meeting their financial goal for the fiscal year, something the early days of both 3DS and Wii U could not accomplish. The company’s next challenge is maintaining that launch momentum, as their next first party release, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, launches on April 28th. Share this post: No related posts. Four Amiibo CPSIA Filings Uncovered, Tied To Smash Bros.Ash Pikachu: Japanese Distribution Info UpdatedAbout The AuthorAlex IrishEditor-in-Chief (Former)A man with a plan. My favorite video game franchise is Pokemon, but his favorite video game is Resident Evil 4. I can also tell you trivial cartoon factoids.

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Dharamshala: - About 35,000 pregnant Tibetan antelopes have given birth are expected in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Marching across grasslands and mountains, the pregnant antelopes finished a long journey from their habitats in Tso-ngon, Amdho Province and Toe Ngari and Changtang area of Tibet, to arrive at the bank near Achen Mountain to give birth said Chinese state controlled media Xinhua.
Chinese officials in Tibet, a head of a bureau said it has sent special teams out to prevent the antelopes from being poached. Five conservation stations have been set up to monitor the antelopes' migration and ensure their safety while traveling across the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway, Xiao said. Songamge, a ranger at the reserve, said they have asked passing vehicles to slow down so that the antelopes can cross the highway smoothly.
"When pregnant antelopes come over in large groups, rangers close some sections of the road temporarily to make way for the antelopes", Songamge added. "Over 60 percent of the 35,000 antelopes have already given birth", said Zhao Xinlu, director of Zonag Lake's conservation station.
The number of Tibetan antelopes in or near the reserve has increased from about 20,000 in 1998, when the reserve was established, to 60,000 at present, according to Xiao. The antelopes have been targeted by poachers since the 1980s. Armed poaching led to a sharp decline in the antelope population in the 1990s. In 2010, several national-level nature reserves that also act as antelope habitats agreed to make joint efforts to protect the animals.
However, there were about ten hundred thousand chirus residing on the Tibet plateau some 50 years ago, according to various media reports. Now, this number has been reduced to a mere 75,000. Chiru is a Tibetan antelope, which also exists in the Tibet plateau. 90 per cent decline has been due to uncontrolled poaching, which is done for the wool obtained from this antelope.
This animal lives at a 3,250-5,500 metre elevation. Predators such as wolf, lynx, snow leopard, and red fox are predators of chirus and their young calves. Their rutting season begins during the snow-filled months of November and December. A male chiru can have up to 12 females in his harem. In the breeding season, the chances of them being poached is more as they are seen together and are more relaxed from watching for threats around them.
This antelope is considered to be close to the goat family. Countries like the US, India, and China have been working on stopping this cruel trade of shahtoosh shawls, but this is still a big problem in the Tibetan region. On the other hand, poachers are much more equipped and are ready to hunt. The crux of the matter is that the animal cannot be saved until the demand for their wool ends.

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After several delays and a court challenge, the expansion of New York state's bottle-deposit program to include water bottles will go into effect Oct. 31 nearly five months later than originally scheduled.
U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Batts ruled last week that the deposit could be enacted. But she permanently enjoined a provision of the bill that would have required bottlers to have state-specific UPC labels on their bottles.
We are grateful that the courts have resolved this issue, said Laura Haight, senior environmental associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group. This is a long-overdue change that will dramatically improve recycling rates and reduce litter.
New York becomes the third state this year and sixth overall to include water bottles in its deposit program. Oregon added water bottles Jan. 1 and Connecticut followed on Oct. 1.
Overall, 11 states have deposit laws that include carbonated soft drinks, beer and water bottles. California, Hawaii and Maine also include non-carbonated beverages such as teas and energy drinks.
It seems to me that this is certainly a trend now, Haight said by telephone. We certainly hope that New York will be a trendsetter and that more states will do this.
The environmental benefits of recycling plastic include not only litter reduction, but energy savings and a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. You can get a lot of bang for your buck from deposit laws, Haight said.
Eight other states including Massachusetts are considering bottle bills or extensions of bottle bills to include water.
According to an analysis by the Container Recycling Institute in Culver City, Calif., the deposit program should increase the number of water bottles recycled in New York from 487 million in 2006 to 2.5 billion in 2010, once the program is in effect for an entire year.
According to CRI, only 14 percent of water bottles in New York were recycled in 2006, compared with a 70 percent recycling rate for soft drinks.
CRI said that with the new law, the additional 2 billion water bottles being recycled annually will keep 163.7 million pounds of material out of landfills and incinerators. The energy saved by recycling those containers could pro- vide power to 43,660 households for an entire year, the institute said.
Water bottles account for 25 percent of all beverage sales in New York. The expanded bottle bill applies to all water drinks that don't contain sugar which means that vitamin drinks, iced teas, sports drink, juices and sugared water drinks are excluded.
Deposits apply to all beverage containers under 1 gallon. Bottled water represents 69 percent of all noncarbonated beverages sold in New York.
In May, the bottle bill was challenged in court by the International Bottled Water Association, Nestlé Waters North America and Polar Corp.
Now that the deposit is in place, I think we are just about done in Albany [the state capital], said Tom Lauria, vice president of communications for IBWA of Alexandria, Va. We got rid of the New York state-specific UPC code and got our members a lot more time to get ready for this.
There may or may not be interest in expanding [deposits] to other products, Lauria said. But I don't think we are going to be part of that fight.
A spokeswoman for Nestlé in Greenwich, Conn., said the firm supports the bill, [but] we want to see it expanded further. The company has said that the exclusion of certain beverages puts bottled water at a price disadvantage, and that it would seek to get the bill amended in the next legislative session.
Haight said that Nestlé is very serious about wanting to go back and change the law. But I'd be surprised if anyone wants to reopen this law soon.
Other provisions of the law went into effect Aug. 13. The changes increased fees that distributors pay to grocers, convenience stores and redemption centers for handling bottle returns from 2 cents to 3.5 cents the first increase since 1997.
Also, 80 percent of the unclaimed nickel deposits an estimated $115 million annually now will go to the state, with distributors and bottlers keeping the rest. Before, distributors and bottlers kept all unclaimed deposits.
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Manna Dey, a musical genius rarely matched
Along with Rafi, Mukesh, and Kishore Kumar, Dey was the last member of the famous quartet of singers who dominated the Hindi music industry from 1950s to 1970s.
In a career spanning over five decades, Dey, who died today in Bangalore at the age of 94, went on to sing over 3,500 songs in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese films before quitting movies in the '90s. His last song was "Hamari hi mutthi mein" for 1991 film 'Prahaar'.
While Rafi, Mukesh and Kishore were the favoured voices when it came to the lead actors, Dey stood out for his unique voice.
Adept also at singing Rabindra Sangeet, the multi-talented legendary singer's experimentation with western music and qawwali produced many unforgettable melodies.
Dey, who had made Bangalore his home for the past few years, started his career in playback singing with the film 'Tamanna' in 1943. The musical score was set by his uncle Krishna Chandra Dey and he had to sing a duet with Suraiya. The song "sur na saje kiya gaon mein" was an instant hit.
In 1950, 'Mashal' was the second film where Dey got the opportunity to sing a solo "Upar gagan vishal", a melody created by Sachin Dev Burman.
In 1952, Dey sang both for a Bengali and a Marathi film of the same name and storyline, 'Amar Bhupali', and established himself as a booming Bengali playback singer that in years to come took him to greater heights.
Dey was much in demand for complicated raag-based songs and was once even pitted against his idol Bhimsen Joshi in 1956 movie 'Basant Bahar' for "Ketki, gulab, juhi" song, something that he initially refused.
While his mastery over classical numbers somewhat pigeonholed him, the uniqueness of his voice made it impossible for any singer to replicate him.
A meticulous singer, Dey would often prepare extensively before rendering a song.
The singer gave credit to Shankar-Jaikishan for understanding his depth as a singer. Dey started singing for showman Raj Kapoor in 'Aawara', 'Shri 420' and 'Chori Chori'.
"I am especially indebted to Shankerji, for had it not been for his patronage, I would certainly not have attained the heights of success I enjoyed in my career. Here was one man who knew how to bring out the best in me. In fact, he was the first music director who dared to experiment with my voice by making me sing romantic numbers," Dey recalled in his autobiography 'Memories Come Alive'.
The duo also helped Dey realise his dream of singing for lead actors in movies. His famous song during this period include "Tere bina aag yeh chandni" from 'Aawara', "Dil ka haal sune dilwala", "Pyaar hua ikraar hua" from 'Shri 420', "Aaja sanam" and "Yeh raat bheegi bheegi" from 'Chori Chori' and "Hey bhai zara dekh ke chalo" from 'Mera Naam Joker'.
Dey gave hits like "Kasme vaade pyar wafa..." and "Yaari hai imaan" for veteran actor Pran in 'Upkaar' (1967) and 'Zanjeer' (1973), thus contributing immensely to Pran's transition from negative roles to character parts in cinema.
Dey recorded many popular duets with Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar. He gave some of his biggest hits with composers S D Burman, R D Burman, Shankar- Jaikishan, Anil Biswas, Roshan and Salil Chowdhury, Madan Mohan and NC Ramachandra.
Dey's lilting voice enthralled the audience throughout the world and awards flowed naturally to him, including titles like the National singer, Padmasree, and Padmabhusan. He has also lent his voice for 'Madhushala' composed by late Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
Dey won national awards for Best Male Playback Singer for the Hindi film 'Mere Huzur' and for the Bengali film 'Nishi Padma'.
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New Delhi, August 5 (ANI): Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and actress Tamannaah Bhatia promoted their upcoming film "Entertainment" through a novel way in southern Bangalore city. The actors first held a news conference to share their experience of shooting of the movie and later a fashion show was organized where models walked ... More New Delhi, August 5 (ANI): Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and actress Tamannaah Bhatia promoted their upcoming film "Entertainment" through a novel way in southern Bangalore city. The actors first held a news conference to share their experience of shooting of the movie and later a fashion show was organized where models walked down the ramp with canines. Speaking on the occasion Akshay, said it was easy for him to bond with his film co-star, a dog called Entertainment, as he himself is a dog lover. At the end of the show, even Kumar sashayed down the ramp with dogs. 'Entertainment' has been directed by debutante duo Sajid-Farhad and will hit the silver screen on August 08, 2014.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has produced the first of three volumes of the definitive Autobiography of Mark Twain. It quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists. Such sales figures for an author deceased for a century are impressive, especially considering the numerous dismissive and even cutting reviews this edition has received (most notably, perhaps, one by Garrison Keillor in the New York Times).
Almost immediately after the release of the first volume of the Autobiography, a new version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn was issued. Edited by the esteemed Twain scholar Alan Gribben, this controversial version excises all uses of the word nigger (well over 200) and replaces them with the term slave. Charges of censorship and co-optation made headlines, local and national news programs clamored for sound bites from literary experts, and Stephen Colbert raised an eyebrow, peered into the camera and intoned with mock seriousness: "Who knows what other words it contains that are OK now, but that someday might be offensive?" This firestorm of protest and hand-wringing ensued just as the initially triumphant sales of the Autobiography began to wane, and for at least another few weeks rancorous debates about Mark Twain's achievements raged on.
Issues of censorship and artistic integrity aside, one is struck by the sheer weight of the man whom many have considered, both during his lifetime and for the century since, to be the quintessential American author. Fascination with Mark Twain continues unabated. His own trickery in demanding that this autobiography remain under cover of darkness until a century after his demise did what he expected it to do: it raised the level of public interest. Twain still sells big in postmodern America; somewhere he must be smiling.
Many have been surprised to learn, however, that much of the material in this first volume of the long-awaited edition of the Autobiography has already appeared in earlier editions, including the best and most recent: Michael Kiskis's 1991 volume Mark Twain's Own Autobiography, which republished chapters that appeared in the North American Review during Twain's lifetime. (This will not be the case with the next two volumes.)
Still, this first of a projected three volumes of Twain's Autobiography is noteworthy on several counts. Surprisingly, Twain dictated most of it to a stenographer over a period of about four years, often while the literary lion lounged in bed in his white pajamas. These dictations often have the homey and comfortable sound of an elder statesman whiling away the hours with pleasant reminiscence. After many false starts, Twain had concluded that this was the best way to produce his autobiography. (The details of that process are discussed in an excellent, very long introduction that—for scholars at least—is worth the price of admission.)
Though a great deal of the Autobiography proper has appeared elsewhere, much new material is found here as well. A visit to the archives at Berkeley will prove to anyone that there is still a good amount of unpublished material for Twainiacs to scavenge, the way Bob Dylan fans sift through bootleg recordings for undiscovered new melodies.
Here is some of the very best writing (or dictation) Twain ever produced. He said bluntly that he wished to "speak from the grave," and his self-imposed quarantine served a specific purpose: he wanted to speak freely and honestly, and he believed that the only way to do so would be if the product remained under wraps until long after the actors had passed away. Not all of the Autobiography is gentle or pleasant; a great deal of venom and bitterness is in the mix, along with the good cheer of picnic lunches and the pleasant ramblings of spring mornings with his good friends.
Given these juxtapositions of mood, many readers have commented on the inconsistencies of Twain's autobiographical meanderings—the grand unevenness of the work as a whole. Its style and content are indeed outlandish, and Twain's theory and method of autobiography are audacious. But it is precisely in its audaciously chaotic nature that the book illustrates the critical sensibilities that always characterized Twain's view of the world.
Perhaps Twain's method is best captured in words to Twain from his friend John Hay, former secretary to Abraham Lincoln and the author of a ten-volume biography of the slain president. As Twain recounts it, here is Hay's theory of autobiography:
Each fact and each fiction will be a dab of paint, each will fall into its right place, and together they will paint his portrait; not the portrait he thinks they are painting, but his real portrait, the inside of him, the soul of him, his character. Without intending to lie he will lie all the time . . . consciousness in twilight; a soft and merciful twilight which makes his general form comely, with his virtuous prominences and projections discernible and his ungracious ones in shadow. His truths will be recognizable as truths, his modifications of facts which would tell against him will go for nothing, the reader will see the fact through the film and know the man. There is a subtle devilish something or other about autobiographical composition that defeats all the writer's attempts to paint his portrait his way.
In these remarks we might notice a fundamentally modernist, or even postmodernist, vision of the self: impressionistic, built on both truth and vague recollection, some of which is admittedly false. Such impressionistic qualities define this volume.
It was during these dictation sessions that Twain revealed some of his most intimate secrets regarding his views of God, religion and the followers of Jesus. Questions about Twain's religious belief and practice have become a major concern among Twain scholars over the past decade and are not easily resolved here. But if one attempts conclusions on the basis of this volume alone, it is obvious that Twain's reputation as an old man shaking his fist at God has much basis in the ragings of his final days.
Twain derides the oddities of his brother Orion's constantly shifting evangelicalism; he critiques preachers and missionaries of the era for their greed and hypocrisy; he chides Christians for their ignorance of science and astronomy; and he interrogates a variety of biblical tales and doctrines in a manner faintly reminiscent of the German higher critical stance, which had become all the rage in American theology at the end of the 19th century. One refrain that turns up several times is the story of his young daughter Susy imploring him to explain the meaning of all the evil in the world: "What is it all for?" she asked. Twain tried to respond but failed: "There was nobody then who could answer it; there is nobody yet." It is evidence of a growing nihilism, with echoes of the Nietzsche he had begun to read in his latter years.
Twain also has some choice words for a variety of American political figures, including the carry-a-big-stick president Teddy Roosevelt, whom he called "one of the most impulsive men in existence. . . . He flies from one thing to another with incredible dispatch." Twain had little patience with Roosevelt's warmongering, or for the "yellow journalism" of the likes of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which spurred the nation to many long years of war; or for the grim work of Roosevelt's "assassins," such as General Leonard Wood, whose gruesome annihilation in 1906 of a group of 600 Moro tribespeople in the Philippines made national headlines.
For the anti-imperialist Twain, the unprovoked and unnecessary Moro massacre seems to have been the final straw. He called it "incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States," a remark lathered in ironic revulsion. While this was not precisely a critique of religion per se, Twain cagily understood that these foreign policy decisions were founded on America's sacred image of itself and were frequently prosecuted by people professing to be followers of Jesus.
None of this is anything new to Twain scholars, but some readers might be surprised, even shocked, by the sheer vitriol of a number of Twain's explosions and lengthy diatribes. On the other hand, the tenderness with which he describes his dead daughter Susy, his dead wife Livy, and his old friends like Joe Twichell and David Gray ("great, and fine, and blemishless in character, a creature to adore") reveals the romantic sympathies still at play in his old broken heart, like sparks in a fire banked for the next morning. This text confirms that Twain is a gigantic puzzle, that all attempts to cage and domesticate the wild beast prove unworthy of the man. Again, in John Hay's memorable words, "There is a subtle devilish something or other about autobiographical composition that defeats all the writer's attempts to paint his portrait his way." In his use of Hay's insight, Twain admits to the limits of his own perception.
And so the enigma of Mark Twain recedes even further into the ooze of history. As William Dean Howells said about his good friend, he was the "Lincoln of our literature." Howells's remark captures his friend just as Twain might have wanted to be perceived: as iconic, mysterious and contradictory.

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The Payne occurrence is situated on the northwest end of a ridge extending northwesterly from Mount Payne, east of Carpenter Creek. New Denver, BC, lies 10 kilometres to the southwest.
The Payne mine is hosted by limy argillite, quartzite, slate and limestone of Triassic Slocan Group, intruded by various dikes and sills of quartz feldspar porphyry. The structure of the upper part of the Payne mine is a recumbent fold open to the northeast. The fold has a near-horizontal axial plane and plunges a few degrees to the southeast. A second recumbent fold, open to the northeast, is believed to occur below the No. 15 level. Ore shoots lie within the zone of maximum curvature of these folds.
The deposit consists of a single vein to a series of closely-spaced veins passing downward to a 2 to 2.5-metre-wide shear zone with considerable gouge in places. The main ore shoot, averaging 300 metres length with a maximum length of 380 metres, was mined from just below the No. 5 level. The lode has an average strike of 055 degrees and dips 60 degrees south. The vein is terminated by a northwest fault at its northeast end. The vein curves to the northwest close to this fault, suggesting some sinistral movement. The ore consists of massive galena lenses averaging 10 to 15 centimetres in length. Lenses also carry tetrahedrite and sphalerite in a gangue of siderite and minor calcite. The ore was almost continuous along the vein of the upper workings but became more discontinuous and of lower grade in the lower sheared portion of the vein. Some leaching of hostrocks close to veinlets of the Payne veins was observed in the trench crossing the ridge over the vein.
The ore zone at the Payne mine is considered to have occurred in response to gouge-free fractures in the zone of maximum curvature in a pronounced fold and competent lithologies including quartzite (Bulletin 29, page 98).
First discovered in 1891, the Payne mine was covered by four Crown grants: Two Jacks (Lot 497), Mountain Chief (Lot 498), Payne (Lot 499) and Maid of Erin (Lot 500). Mining was first carried out by the newly formed Payne Mining Company of British Columbia Limited. One half interest in the company was purchased by A.W. McCune in 1896. Operations continued under the direction of the Tom Payne Consolidated Mining Company Limited Liability, from 1897 to 1899, stoping high-grade ore from the upper levels. The Payne Consolidated Mining Company continued production from 1899 to 1904, when operations were temporarily ceased. During this time, a 120-tonne per day concentrator was constructed and put into operation. Payne Mines Limited was formed in 1907. Exploration and development work was carried out below the No. 8 level. A deep adit, the No. 15 level, was begun in 1911. The east-neighbouring St. Keverne Group (082KSW007) was purchased at this time.
Slocan Payne Mines Limited was formed in 1912 and, under lease and bond, completed the No. 15 level and raise to the No. 8 level. The Nos. 9 and 10 levels were completed by 1916, intersecting low-grade, sporadic ore. Several other lessees continued intermittent exploration and work on the property from 1920 to 1939. Kelowna Exploration Company Limited held the property from 1941 to 1942, conducting considerable surface work including trenching. Some underground work was done in 1948 and 1949 by R.A. Grimes. The Nos. 8, 9 and 10 levels were reopened in 1951, under option to Kootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited.
Workings at the Payne occurrence included seven adits and four intermediate levels—6 to 10—to a depth of 440 metres below surfacee. The original workings included five adits, the upper three passing through the ridge.
The property was optioned in 1980 to Silvex Resources Corporation. Property exploration on and adjacent to the Payne property was conducted by Minotaur Resources from 1986 to 1988 and Touchstone Resources Ltd. from 1988 to 1992. Several trenches explored geochemical soil anomalies 300 metres northwest of the former Payne mine in 1992. Trench 1 uncovered numerous quartz veins and lenses in folded slate and argillite. Sample 1+01S 5+51E, a 1-metre chip sample, yielded 0.06 per cent zinc—the best of nine rock samples taken from two trenches (Assessment Report 22628).
In 2008, Klondike Silver Corporation owned the claims covering the Payne occurrence as part of their Payne property. That year, 1179 soil samples were collected from a 360-hectare sample grid situated over the Payne occurrence. The following year, Klondike Silver Corporation completed a program of geological mapping, geophysical surveying and trenching over a smaller portion of the Payne property. In total, four trenches and 8.95 line kilometres of very low-frequency electromagnetic geophysical surveying were completed over a 4.12-hectare area to the west of the Payne occurrence.
Production from the Payne mine spanned 46 years from 1893 to 1939, with the bulk of production from 1898 to 1906. From a total of 110,604 tonnes mined, 116,386,525 grams silver, 17,376,637 kilograms lead and 1,024,416 kilograms zinc were recovered. The nearby St. Keverne mine (082KSW007) produced 14 tonnes, from which 71,538 grams silver and 11,384 kilograms lead were recovered (NMI 082K3 Ag8). Property evaluation in 1972 indicated the possibility of 27,215 tonnes ore averaging 7.53 per cent zinc, 41.13 grams per tonne silver and minor lead between the Nos. 6 and 10 veins (NMI 082K3 Ag8; Silvex Resources Corp. Statement of Material Facts 254/80, page 24; Energy, Mines and Resources Canada Mineral Bulletin 223, BC 46).

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Empire of Silence Author: Christopher Ruocchio Series: The Sun Eater 1 Publisher: DAW, July 3, 2018 Format: Hardcover and eBook, 624 pages List Price: US$26.00 (print); US$12.99 (eBook) ISBN: ISBN 9780756413002 (print); ISBN 9780756413026 (eBook
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
It was not his war.
The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.
But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
Hadrian had his life all mapped out. He wants to become a scholiast - one of the learned academics like his beloved teacher, Gibson. However his father, the Archon of Meidua, has other plans. His father is planning to send him to the Chantry where he will become just another soulless minion of the Empire, torturing the poor and defenseless. No one, not even Hadrian, could have anticipated the chain of events that unfold when he defies his father's wishes.
Stranded on a planet far away from home and the future that he sacrificed so much for. With no money, friends or family Hadrian does the only thing he knows - fight. All the years of training have paid off as Hadrian enters the gladiatorial arena. It's not long before he makes a name for himself beating gladiators with better weapons and armor soon becoming a hero of the arena. Once again, politics of the court take him farther away from the life he started to make for himself. He is now firmly on the path to become what the galaxy will remember him as - the Sun Eater.
Empire of Silence is truly an epic. The story is told in the first person with Hadrian recounting the events that lead up to him becoming known as the world killer. The story starts at the very beginning, with his birth and ends with Hadrian leaving the planet that became his new home. A lot happens to Hadrian in the first few decades of his life and his fortunes change dramatically between the start and the end of book 1. Events before he leaves his home world are very traumatic for him but it seems that his life on the streets of Emesh are what define him as a person.
Ruocchio has an incredible imagination and the worlds that he has built for Hadrian are rich and full of detail. Despite the story only covering the first twenty something years of Hadrian's life a lot happens to him. I liked how the story was told from the first person and and that 30+ years were lost in Hadrian's life as he traveled across the galaxy after escaping his father but we don't find out why. The society, history and social structures are also very detailed, in fact, so detailed that Ruocchio provides us with one of the longest glossaries I have ever seen. Although I didn't find it until I had finished the book which is pretty easy to do when reading an eBook.
My one criticism with Empire of Silence is the pace. There is so much detail and so much dialogue that the story can actually drag in parts but then half a chapter later something would happen so that I could barely put the book down. If I had only two words to describe this book I would say that it is 'topsy turvy' because one minute I was bored stiff with all the detail and the next I was on the edge of my seat. Having said that this was a debut and it was very ambitious. I am very curious to find out what will happen next to Hadrian. I just really hope that Ruocchio evens out the pace and and doesn't unnecessarily drag out the story.
Note: I love the cover. It is one that I spent a lot of time staring at it. And it won the 2018 Debut Author Challenge Cover Wars for July!


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Spain: French potatoes marketed as Spanish at well-known supermarket
They refer to batch 009020118154, of the Monalisa variety, which is sold in 5 kg meshes at a price of 3.85 Euro, resulting in a price per kilo of 77 cents.
Asaja has asked Carrefour to immediately withdraw the promotion and any type of advertising that may be misleading and therefore contrary to consumer protection laws.
"And as if this wasn't enough, the 77 cents per kilo charged are excessive compared to the 9 cents that are paid to producers in Leon; it is a 755.5% margin," denounces the union.
Given this situation, Asaja has addressed the regional government, asking it for inspections to be carried out in order to check this and other possible frauds, as well as to ensure the withdrawal of the product and the application of the strictest sanctions that may apply.
Asaja León has asked Carrefour not to resort to practices with the Spanish consumer that they wouldn't use with French consumers, although the organization also said that they could understand the purchase of French goods at times of shortages in the Spanish market.
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Educator and finance director Steve Hemenway led in updated results for the Tuesday, June 4, election to represent Ward 7 on the Riverside City Council but was short of the 50% needed to avoid a November run-off.
Hemenway had 44%, or 1,136 votes. The second-place candidate, William D. Pearce, an educator, had 31% and 785 votes in the six-person race.
In third place was small business owner Rodrigo Torres, who had more than 12%.
The election captured attention because one candidate, Denilofs, admitted to multiple racist and genocidal comments, which he says he didn’t mean. Denilofs was fourth, with more than 5%, or 129 votes.
Maartin Rossouw and Thomas L. Jordan had less than 4% each.
The ward — on the western edge of the city, including part of the La Sierra neighborhood — has been served since 2017 by Councilman Steve Adams, who is not running for re-election.
If no candidate in a ward receives more than 50% of the ballots cast, the two candidates from that ward with the highest number of votes will compete in a Nov. 5 runoff election.
The election is one of four wards on the city’s ballot Tuesday, June 4.
The only ballots left uncounted are provisional ballots and those received within the next three days that are postmarked on or before Election Day, according to Riverside City Clerk Colleen Nicol.


Wolves reporter Bill Howell has lovingly typed out the entire transcript from Jez Moxey speaking to the media and facing some tough questions. It's a good read if you can spare the time, if not, bookmark it for later.
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Jez Moxey says the conspiracy theories are 'mad' and that not winning games is the big issues
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Dean Saunders clears the decks for deadline day decision making
Birmingham City reject Wolverhampton Wanderers bid for Marlon King and Curtis Davies
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Richard Stearman joins Mick McCarthy at Ipswich Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers youngster Matt Doherty plans to fight it out for a place in the first-team
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Wolverhampton Wanderers v Birmingham City: Latest Wolves team news and head-to-head stats
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KING Alexander III of Scotland, rode off into the night on horseback and fell over a cliff and perished.
Wolves star Bakary Sako's spectacular strike 12 minutes from time ensured Blackburn's first home game of the post Steve Kean era ended in defeat.
ONCE again Stale Solbakken is forced into one change on the right side of midfield.
THE first XI will be out in force after missing the Stamford Bridge demolition.
THE Champions of Europe and current Premier League leaders ruthlessly tore apart a group of hapless Championship reserves.
STALE Solbakken sends out his fringe players at Chelsea with the message: ‘Show me what you can do!’
Wolves' third straight npower Championship victory piled more misery on pointless Peterborough.
Bill Howell rates the Wolves players and manager, plus the ref and crowd after the home victory over Leicester.
RICHARD Stearman’s goals are rarer than home wins. In fact his 21st-minute cracker was his first since August 2009 when he helped Wolves to a point against Hull.
POOR Leicester. Even the Kings they find have been dead for 500 years.
Wolves survived a late onslaught to claim a second npower Championship victory of the season and leapfrog opponents Leicester in the table.
STALE Solbakken has bemoaned Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson’s ability to pick up niggles – seemingly when sat at home on his sofa!
Wolves boss has banned talk of promotion at Molineux after a dismal defeat at a Cardiff.
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FINALLY a ‘champagne moment’ for that sold-out Awards Dinner on May 9.
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Miranda Owen: When you have two successful and entertaining cozy mystery series, what made you decide to write romance? Do you read romance? If so, who are some of your favorite romance authors and books?
Jenn McKinlay: The cozy mystery market seemed to be saturated and I had written five different mystery series over the past eight years, so I felt like I had gone as far as I could go in that genre, so I asked my editor what she thought I could write in addition to the mysteries. Immediately, she said, “Romantic comedy.” Well, okay, then. So I decided to give it a go.
I do read romance and mystery and sci-fic/fantasy and YA – basically, I am a genre fiction fangirl. I love it all! Favorite romance writers and their books (at the moment) are Christina Lauren’s DARK WILD NIGHT, Tessa Dare’s A WEEK TO BE WICKED, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s NATURAL BORN CHARMER, and Kristan Higgins’s WAITING ON YOU.
Miranda Owen: Do you know how many books will be in this Bluff Point series? Do you plan on writing another romance series after this one?
Jenn McKinlay: At this point, I know there will be three. I do have a proposal for three more for that series and I’ve written the first book in a new romantic comedy series called the Blumer Sisters with a proposal for two more. We’ll see what happens but I am eager to dive into the new books as soon as I get the go ahead!
Miranda Owen: I love the zippy dialogue and tight friendships in your Cupcake Bakery
series, and feel like you’ve carried those things over in ABOUT A DOG. How important
is it to you to have some humor and close friendships in your stories?
Jenn McKinlay: Thank you! I think that’s what makes my stories mine. I am a people person and no matter where I end up, a writer’s conference, new job, even a tour of jury duty, I usually end up with a new BFF at the end of it. I’m that rare writer-extrovert combo, who must be seen to be believed sort of like a Yeti or a unicorn. Ha! Seriously, when writing comedy, I think having an ensemble makes the jokes flow and builds a feeling of camaraderie, creating a community to which the reader becomes a critical part.
Miranda Owen: I find a wide variety of romance hero appealing, but my absolute favorite type of hero is like Gavin in ABOUT A DOG – a mix of sweet and sexy. What was your inspiration for Gavin? Do you like reading about characters like him as well?
Jenn McKinlay: Interestingly, I didn’t set out to make Gavin as lovable as he is, but he’s a veterinarian dealing with a rambunctious puppy while trying to win over the love of his life, so it just fit. As a reader, what I respond to most in a hero is the knowledge that the heroine is the only woman for him. He can be a tough guy with a rocky past and rough edges, or be the sweetest man alive with the patience of a saint, either way, I want to know that in the whole wide world there is one woman for him and it’s the heroine. To me, there is nothing more romantic.
Miranda Owen: Was it challenging writing a romance from the perspective of both the female and male main characters?
Jenn McKinlay: I loved it! My mysteries are either in third person with one viewpoint or first person, so the story unfolds in a limited perspective. Being able to switch from female to male was such a joy because the flirtation happening between them is like a hot potato that they lob back and forth. So much fun! The third book in the series, EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY, is actually mostly in the male perspective because Zach, who is in the earlier books, just has too much personality to contain. He hijacked the book, no question.
Miranda Owen: What are you currently working on?
Jenn McKinlay: Having written almost forty books, I am actually taking my first break in eight years. I made a vow to myself when I turned in my last manuscript, that I wouldn’t write for at least a month while I catch up to all of the things I have neglected, namely my TBR pile that is threatening to bury me alive. After that, we’ll see if the publisher wants more Bluff Point books or if I’m off to try my hand at something else like YA or fantasy. It’s all very exciting!
Thanks so much for having me visit, Fresh Fiction!
About Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay took her first decoupage class when she was twelve years
old. Since then, cutting and pasting have become a way of life. With two small
children at home, she finds decoupage a fun craft as well as a very handy tool,
especially when used to cover up doodles made in permanent marker on otherwise lovely furniture. And yes, they know her by name at her local Michael’s Craft Store. She is the author of three previous novels under the name Jennifer McKinlay and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her musician husband Chris, their two sons, two cats, one dog and one fish.


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National Center for Documentation and Research Proposal
In 2009 I was invited to visit UAE in order to develop a design proposition for an innovative methodology for an exhibit planed by the National Center for Documentation and Research (NCDR). After visiting the exhibit space, and conversing with the various individuals involved, I conceived of the subsequent approach and treatment.
- Convert NCDR into a “time machine” embarking visitors on a voyage of discovery of their origin and evolution through ages.
- Inspire imagination, pride in own heritage, curiosity and interest in further knowledge.
- Transform NCDR from usual passive exhibit into immersive and interactive, experience.
- Position NCDR’s as educator cultivating future generation appreciative of its origin, rich history, unique character, heritage, perseverance and achievements, all shaping a national identity and pride. In doing so NCDR will initiate a long term relationship with the youth who will grow into parents of children whom they will bring to NCDR to experience the impact this institution has had on themselves.
- Position NCDR as the unique cultural heritage hub of all of the UAE federation’s members.
- The greater the contrast between the past and the present the more powerful the impact and impression of the achieved current success, the greater appetite for playing an active role in contributing to shaping the envisioned future.
- Proposed design could set new standard for what a museum needs to become to attract audiences that are becoming sophisticated, edutainment and entertainment savvy, less willing to sit, read, and watch linear documentary, static images or passive factual data.
Means for Achieving Above Goals
- Design it as a journey through a progressively evolving, organically flowing visual story that begins with an amazingly imaginative creation mythology from which to progress to ancient times, advancing into recent historic periods and seemingly culminating in the present, but yet unexpectedly unveiling an inspiring vision for the federation’s future.
- Device a flowing physical space that takes visitors away from the daily reality outside, and injects them into one feeling immersive and embracive and flows organically through time.
- Via use of live action film, theatrical reenactments, animated interpretation or other forms of time based visual storytelling, interactivity and other technologies, without impeding their authenticity, make the events more immersive, amazing, impacting while bringing passive archival records, still photos, maps and artifacts to life, framed within own time.
- Create immersive time tunnel depicting scenes, events projecting ambiance of the past.
- Turn walls, ceiling, even floors into projection screens immersing visitors. By adding levels of additional, transparent, screens, with more imagery, layer the images to enhance sense of depth, perspective and immersive feel resulting in a feeling of “being there”.
- Fitting use of technologies, some to be explained, can bring objects, stills or stories to life, making them more magical imaginative, meaningful, interactive, tangible and entertaining.
- For optimum impact, by use of 4D haptic technologies, this immersive experience would make visitors feel, smell, hear, see and reach out towards all that is happening all around them, inspiring imagination, impacting emotions and making the experience unforgettable.
Imagine visitors smelling the humidity, seeing and feeling through own body the power of huge sea waves crushing against the surrounding Venetians ships advancing on their colonization.
Or finding themselves midst a battlefield overrun by the advancing Portuguese armies, smelling the rising clouds of dust and feeling the ground tremble under hooves of the charging armies.
Or being encircled by the wildly blazing flames devouring Khor Fakkan?
This proposed approach will transform all information, documentation, artifacts, scientific data currently intended as separate exhibits of weapons, documents and treaties, emergence of the federation into a voyage through Transformations, all woven into a rich progressive visual story depicting region’s origin and evolution culminating on the Sheikh’s vision for the UAE’s future.
Through an eventual merging of the various Emirates histories reveal the origin of the UAE, and then illustrate how multicultural and hospitable to visitors of all nations the new federation is.
Having journeyed through immersive historic periods and events, visitors will reach the recent time. With own eyes they will now witness its accelerate transformations into an impressive today. Here they would be greeted by an appearance of their current leader, or his spokesman.
This magical likeness could be created simply as a grander than life projection which magically transforms into a 3D holography, or mystical projection onto floating particles, water or smoke. He can be capable of an interactive chat, capable of eye contact with speaking visitors.
To culminate visitors’ experience, this figure would unveil a vision for the future of the country. His spoken depictions would materialize around the visitors, transforming the present into an immersive, futuristic and inspiring vision for the future. Such would address the NCDR motto: “preserving the past and present, for the future generations of the nation.”
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As medicinal use of cannabis becomes increasingly accepted among certain patient groups, including people with fibromyalgia, physicians will be progressively pressed to understand its use, effects, limitation and risks to properly inform and guide patients.
The main pharmacologically active chemicals in cannabis are the cannabinoids Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). THC works by binding to and activating the CB1 and CB2 receptors, and is the ingredient responsible for the “high” people experience with the herb.
According to a special report, “Contemporary Routes of Cannabis Consumption: A Primer for Clinicians,” published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, researchers are particularly concerned about mental health among medicinal cannabis users, as THC has been shown to induce transient symptoms of psychosis among healthy volunteers and is thought to be a risk factor in developing psychosis.
“We have a special concern for young people in their late teens and early twenties, whose

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Red Lion's Ron Burgett to Join Value Place
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SPOKANE, WA—Ron Burgett, who had been head of franchise development for Red Lion Hotels Corporation, has accepted an offer to become executive vp, franchise development with Value Place.
Burgett, who will stay on with Red Lion through the end of January, joined the company in 2012. In 2013, the company's lodging development team increased the franchised portfolio to 30 locations. The move comes a week after the company announced the hiring of Greg Mount as president/CEO.
"Red Lion has a strong lodging development and management team and an active pipeline. We are committed to our franchise growth strategy and the goal of 20 new franchise locations in 2014. We will begin the search process for Ron's replacement right away," said interim president and CEO James Evans.
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The theme of this year’s ALIS conference was “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” But, lets face it, there are always going to be some people who aren’t happy unless they are worried about something—whether it’s the Fed potentially raising interest rates or that the price of oil is now too low, threatening to cripple the economies of some foreign nations.

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While we get that sort of claim across our desk all the time, it appears that Gigabyte has taken some steps with the spec to make it more meaningful than the normal spin.
The new Gigabyte GZ-Z87X-OC platform has been designed for the pure function of breaking performance records by professional overclockers who usually would never break any records unless they accidently sat on their dad’s 45 collection in their mum’s basement.
This is the first time that Gigabyte has created a platform for professional overclockers, which features heavy-duty components, advanced power circuitry, special design for liquid nitrogen cooling as well as EATX form-factor for maximum expandability.
According to Lab501.ro which found leaked slides of the board, the Gigabyte GA-Z87Z-OC has more onboard buttons and switches than you can poke a stick at. This gives you control not only of the CPU multiplier, but also BCLK of microprocessors, and the controls for unlocked Core i7 and Core i5 Haswell products.
The mainboard will continue to use the IR3550 PowIRstage ICs from International Rectifier, 2x copper printed-circuit boards and high current ferrite core chokes which can deliver up to 60°C cooler temperatures than traditional motherboards.
The Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC comes with four PCI Express x16 slots, one PCI Express x1 slot, two PCI slots, six Serial ATA-600 ports, four DDR3 memory slots.
As a sidenote the mainboard features a USB connector as well as a PCIe auxiliary power connector near SATA ports for maximum convenience of overclockers.
Apparently the board will hit the shops in the middle of the year when the new chips are delivered. While there is now word on pricing yet, don’t expect this one to be in the bargain bin of your computer store for a couple of decades.


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AT-KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Chief, Dr. Seema Samar has emphasized on active role of women in all walks of the society.
In a press briefing here in Kabul on Tuesday, Samar linked the ongoing conflict in the country with the lack of required participation of women in private and government institutions.
“As long as sexual discrimination continues between women and men in Afghanistan, the current conflicts won’t end any time soon,” Samar, told newsmen.
She expressed serious concerns over growing of women’s rights violation in the country, pointing out the practice of violation is a matter of day to day.
Moreover, official at the Ministry of Culture has also admitted that the existing laws, framed for the protection of women’s rights have been put in the cold storage and not working systematically to overcome the issue.
It is worth mentioning that women are an integral part of today’s society and could not keep them any more behind the curtains doing only domestic duties. Participation of women is critical to success of any democratic society and peace building process. Facts are sacred, if half of the population is excluded or faces discrimination, peace, democracy and development of society would be impossible to achieve. Besides many problems to be handled, Afghanistan, in parliamentary bodies has constitutionally guaranteed the largest representation of women in the region.


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A home designed by Elizabeth Eason Architecture was just awarded LEED® for Homes Silver certification by the United States Green Building Council.
According to the USGBC, LEED for Homes is a rating system that promotes the design and construction of high-performance green homes. A green home uses less energy, water and natural resources; creates less waste; and is healthier and more comfortable for the occupants. Benefits of a LEED home include lower energy and water bills; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; and less exposure to mold, mildew and other indoor toxins.
The Gratz house is a two-story residence in the Historic Fourth and Gill Neighborhood in Knoxville, TN.
The 1,900 square foot home is designed to be an estimated 33% more energy efficient than standard homes. It uses materials like durable horizontal fiber cement siding and a brick foundation. Low VOC paints and formaldehyde-free insulation help reduce indoor air pollution and create a healthy home environment.
A tankless hot water heater adds to the energy efficiency of the home, while low flow fixtures contribute to an estimated 20% water savings.
The home uses recycled content where available, including in hardwood flooring, ceramic tiles, countertops, and Green Label certified carpeting.
The home has 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms and ample outdoor space on the front and rear porches. The site also has a high “walkability” rating because of its proximity to grocery stores, public parks, public transit and retail shops.
The home is also Energy Star certified.
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A thorough air duct cleaning involves meticulous steps. Professionals inspect the ductwork, remove accumulated debris, and use specialized tools to dislodge stubborn contaminants. Following this, they employ powerful vacuums to extract all loosened particles, ensuring a complete cleanup.
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The gourmet guru is adding his "personal touch" to one of our favorite sandwiches just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
St. Patrick's Day is nearly here! We're raiding the closet for green clothes and searching for some fresh ideas for our festivities! Well, here's something that'll give us a little twist for our traditional corned beef by adding another "traditional" to it!
In a large bowl we combine 3-1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons each of baking powder and sugar, and 1 teaspoon each of baking soda and salt.
Then we beat in 2 cups buttermilk, 2 eggs, and 1/3 cup vegetable oil until the mixture is moistened. Stir in 1 pound deli corned beef that we've chopped, 1 drained can of sauerkraut and 1 cup shredded Swiss cheese.
Spoon it all into a sprayed 9" x 13" baking dish, and into a preheated 350°F oven it goes for 55 to 60 minutes until it's golden and it passes the toothpick test.
Okay, now it's ready to cut up.
No special brands are needed and any on-sale cooked corned beef works fine. Served along with a dollop of Thousand Island dressing, this one featuring our corned beef has everything our favorite Reuben sandwich would have, so it's sure to be a hit.
And if you’d like the recipe, just send a self-addressed, stamped envelope marked “Reuben Loaf” to me, Mr. Food, right here at the station, or look for it online. You may think a leprechaun worked a little magic in the kitchen, but there's no leprechaun, only us and a wee bit of the "OOH IT'S SO GOOD!!®"

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Government Set To Announce Plans For Supermarket Watchdog
Mr George, who chairs GMAG (Grocery Market Action Group), understands that Minsters in the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills intend to publish the draft Grocery Adjudicator Bill tomorrow.
The draft Bill will detail the proposed structure, remit and operating practices of the Adjudicator. In April 2008 the Competition Commission warned that “the transfer of excessive risk and unexpected costs by grocery retailers to their suppliers…if unchecked will have an adverse effect on investment and innovation in the supply chain, and ultimately on consumers”. New rules to enforce fair dealing between supermarkets and suppliers came into force in February 2010, with GMAG subsequently campaigning for the creation of a watchdog to scrutinise supermarkets’ practices in accordance with the Code.
GMAG, which includes in its membership the National Farmers Union, the National Farmers Union of Scotland, the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, Friends of the Earth, ActionAid, Traidcraft and other bodies, has been fighting for five years to successfully secure crossbench support for the creation of a new watchdog to ensure there is fair dealing in the grocery supply chain.
Mr George said:
“Every day food producers are going to the wall. And many more are struggling as a result of the market distorting power of the large supermarkets. Every day this happens means that the proposed supermarket watchdog is being introduced another day too late.
This proposal has cross-party support. The Government has no excuse to delay. Speed is of the essence. No time should be lost in setting up an effective watchdog with real teeth. Food producers here and in the developing world want to concentrate on the efficient production of healthy food not perpetually fight for their survival.”


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