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Improved multicriteria spanners for Ad-Hoc networks under energy and distance metrics
Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal
Article No.: 37
We study the problem of spanner construction in wireless ad-hoc networks through power assignments under two spanner models—distance and energy. In particular, we are interested in asymmetric power assignments so that the induced...
Wireless sensor networks are typically deployed in harsh environments, thus post-deployment failures are not infrequent. An execution trace containing events in their order of execution could play a crucial role in postmortem diagnosis of these...
Performance evaluation of sensor networks by statistical modeling and euclidean model checking
Youngmin Kwon, Gul Agha
Article No.: 39
Modeling and evaluating the performance of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a challenging problem. The traditional method for representing the global state of a system as a cross product of the states of individual nodes in the...
Adaptive k-coverage contour evaluation and deployment in wireless sensor networks
Jang-Ping Sheu, Guey-Yun Chang, Shan-Hung Wu, Yen-Ting Chen
Article No.: 40
The problem of coverage is a fundamental issue in wireless sensor networks. In this article, we consider two subproblems: k-coverage contour evaluation and k-coverage rate deployment. The former aims to evaluate, up to k, the...
A high-frequency sampling monitoring system for environmental and structural applications
Cesare Alippi, Romolo Camplani, Cristian Galperti, Antonio Marullo, Manuel Roveri
Article No.: 41
High-frequency sampling is not only a prerogative of high-energy physics or machinery diagnostic monitoring: critical environmental and structural health monitoring applications also have such a challenging constraint. Moreover, such unique design...
DutyCon: A dynamic duty-cycle control approach to end-to-end delay guarantees in wireless sensor networks
Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Liu Liu, Guoliang Xing
Article No.: 42
It is well known that periodically putting nodes into sleep can effectively save energy in wireless sensor networks at the cost of increased communication delays. However, most existing work mainly focuses on the static sleep scheduling, which...
Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: A game-theoretic approach based on coalition formation
Artemis C. Voulkidis, Markos P. Anastasopoulos, Panayotis G. Cottis
Article No.: 43
A coalitional game theoretic scheme is proposed that aims at maximizing wireless sensor network lifetime under specified QoS. Employing a small number of nodes of increased computing power and lifetime called representatives, an adaptive...
A game theory distributed approach for energy optimization in WSNs
Andrea Abrardo, Lapo Balucanti, Alessandro Mecocci
Article No.: 44
One of the major sources of energy waste in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is idle listening, that is, the cost of actively listening for potential packets. This article focuses on reducing idle-listening time via a dynamic duty-cycling technique...
Visual sensor networks (VSNs) are becoming increasingly popular in a number of application domains. A distinguishing characteristic of VSNs is to self-configure to minimize the need for operator control and to improve scalability. One of the areas...
Distributed lifetime-maximized target coverage game
Li-Hsing Yen, Che-Ming Lin, Victor C. M. Leung
Article No.: 46
Wireless sensor nodes are usually densely deployed to completely cover (monitor) a set of targets. Consequently, redundant sensor nodes that are not currently needed in the covering task can be powered off to conserve energy. These sensors can...
Data collection is a common operation of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The performance of data collection can be measured by its achievable network capacity. However, most existing works focus on the network capacity of unicast, multicast...
On the quality and value of information in sensor networks
Chatschik Bisdikian, Lance M. Kaplan, Mani B. Srivastava
Article No.: 48
The increasing use of sensor-derived information from planned, ad-hoc, and/or opportunistically deployed sensor networks provides enhanced visibility to everyday activities and processes, enabling fast-paced data-to-decision in personal, social,...
Trade-off between energy efficiency and report validity for mobile sensor networks
Huai-Lei Fu, Phone Lin, Yuguang Fang, Ting-Yu Wang
Article No.: 49
Mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have been widely deployed to provide a ubiquitous solution to real-time monitoring applications such as traffic data collection in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), ocean data collection in underwater sensor...
Sensor node source privacy and packet recovery under eavesdropping and node compromise attacks
Kanthakumar Pongaliur, Li Xiao
Article No.: 50
Securing a sensor network poses a variety of problems. Of those, an important one is of providing privacy to the event-detecting sensor node and integrity to the data gathered by the node. Compromised source privacy can inadvertently leak event...
Results on finite wireless sensor networks: Connectivity and coverage
Ali Eslami, Mohammad Nekoui, Hossein Pishro-Nik, Faramarz Fekri
Article No.: 51
Many analytic results for the connectivity, coverage, and capacity of wireless networks have been reported for the case where the number of nodes, n, tends to infinity (large-scale networks). The majority of these results have not been...
Capacity- and energy-aware activation of sensor nodes for area phenomenon reproduction using wireless network transport
Xiaolong Huang, Izhak Rubin
Article No.: 52
We consider a sensor network involving sensors placed in specific locations. An area phenomenon is detected and tracked by activated sensors. The area phenomenon is modeled to consist of K spatially distributed point phenomena. The...
Thermal-aware sensor scheduling for distributed estimation
Domenic Forte, Ankur Srivastava
Article No.: 53
A sensor network is a distributed system where sensor nodes autonomously collect local data and collaborate to solve global problems. Recent work has shown that sensor functionality varies with node temperature. Extreme temperatures can decrease...
Managing software evolution in large-scale wireless sensor and actuator networks
Barry Porter, Geoff Coulson, Utz Roedig
Article No.: 54
Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) will increasingly require support for managed software evolution: that is, systematic, ongoing, efficient and nondisruptive means of updating the software running on the nodes of a WSAN. While aspects...


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Glasser performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Monday. If you watch the video above, you'll notice the QR codes circling the stage. The QR code was designed by Kyuha Shim. He built a system using programming language that receives color data sets from Glasser's album graphics and adapted them to the modules that he designed. The QR code also leads viewers with mobile devices to "zones" designed by artist Mitch Trale's web production company, which you can access here. (Christopher P. Allick, Trevor Giller and Pablo Rochat contributed to the technical and creative direction for the website.) I've posted Mitch Trale's past websites-as-interactive-music-videos to Rhizome before, such as New Stripes (2009) as well as the epic Open Seas (2010). The use of QR codes during Glasser's set is a really interesting translation of this idea to a live performance context, and I thought it was very cool.
The weird and fantastic world of New York's public access television will receive the attention it deserves in a film program curated by Leah Churner and Nicolas Rapold for the Museum of the Moving Image. The program, titled TV Party: A Panorama of Public Access Television in New York City kicks off tonight, and will run until February 20th. Spanning the past four decades, screenings will include shows such as The Scott and Gary Show, Wild Record Collection, The Live! Show, Glenn O' Brien's TV Party, The Vole Show, and more! Check the trailer below.
Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.
Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of popular media hosting sites, torn apart, and recombined using collage and glitch techniques to create an organic, chaotic flood of sensory input.
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Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) is an artist fabled for what he has achieved, as the instigator of video art, the pioneer of media art and through his influence on the indebted MTV generation. It's as if his career is almost made for the retrospective exhibition. His work is bound to his legacy, and his influence is hard to encompass. The importance of this legacy asks two parallel questions, how to preserve, present and document but also how to react, trace and respond. Both are targeted through a new joint exhibition of Paik's work at Tate Liverpool and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the first major retrospective of his work since his death in 2006 and the first exhibition of his work in the UK since 1988.
Tate presents a comprehensive chronicle of Paik's movements through the avant-garde, in performance, composition, television and sculpture. There are TV sets, robots and Buddhas, mixed with historical documentation, vitrines filled with exhibition programs, posters and photographs and timelines drawn on walls, which denote his many collaborators and read like a roll call of the most influential artists of the 20th century - John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joseph Beuys and Merce Cunningham.
In contrast to the Tate, where you can look and listen with historical meticulousness, at FACT you are given a remote control. Here you are encouraged to relax, in an archive lounge, and browse a collection of his video works at leisure. Or lie back underneath Laser Cone (1998) and be dazzled.
Backdrops and sets used in the Televisa studios in Mexico City for use in telenovelas. From the photo series "The Factory of Dreams" which documents the production of telenovelas.
Demo video of the Paik Raster Manipulation Unit or Wobbulator, an example of Paik's "prepared television" which distorts broadcast signals or, if used as a monitor, images from a live or prerecorded source. Experimental Television Center provides a lengthy description and diagrams for building a Wobbulator, here.
I came across these videos via WMMNA. These talks were taped during the symposium The Documentary Real which occurred on October 21, 2010 at Domzaal, Art Centre Vooruit. The event invited artists and theorists to "interrogate the ambiguous relation between documentary film and reality." I've only had a chance to review the two Gregos and Bruzzi clips posted below, which both emphasize the changing notion of the "real" within a heterogeneous media landscape, especially with the advent of the internet. All the talks are available on the site, here.
It has been a number of years that the so-called ‘documentary turn’ has become a frequent phenomenon in many artists’ films. The talk will be a comparative look into recent documentary practices that diverge from the orthodoxy of documentary as ‘factual’ film’, a notion which contemporary artists have repeatedly challenged of late. These artists working from a documentary point of departure use multiple strategies to reveal known or hidden ‘truths’, sometimes weaving fictional elements into their stories. Many of them demonstrate that ‘truth value’ does not lie in mere representation but may emerge even more forceful through artistic abstraction, translation, filtering and interpretation and that nowadays the borderline between documentary and fiction, or reality and fantasy is often becoming hard to distinguish. The talk aims to illustrate that the notion of the ‘documentary real’ is continuously evolving and cannot now be pinned down to a single definition or delineated through specific boundaries. Indeed it aims to show that some of the most interesting documentary practices are those which I call documentary ‘with a twist’, i.e. films that interweave the political with the poetic, and navigate between different filmic categories to arrive at highly individualistic hybrid documentary forms where the notion of realism is in ...

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Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood Are Dangerously Funny in Two Man Group
Critics of improvisational comedy complain that, with hundreds of audience suggestions being called out at once, performers can choose the words that they have already worked into routines. This may be true, but the object is to make the audience laugh, and improv done well—even if somewhat rehearsed and rehashed—is hilarious.
Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood are old hands at doing improv well, having appeared for years on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and performing a live stage show. Their show was just released on DVD, Two Man Group: Live and Dangerous Comedy, and—as anticipated—it is uproarious. Mochrie and Sherwood have elevated improv to an art, and they quickly build rapport with their audience—an essential element of improvisation.
In addition to being asked to provide topics, audience members are brought on stage to play improvisational “games.” In “Moving Bodies,” two audience members must move their puppets, Mochrie and Sherwood, around the stage to act out a scene. In “Sound FX,” audience members provide the sound effects for the scene. “One Word Expert” has the two performers giving advice, one word at a time, alternating between each one; the audience provides the questions. By engaging the audience this way, the performers aren’t able to use prefabricated routines since they don’t know what the audience members will do or say.
Other bits include “Sideways” in which Mochrie and Sherwood act out a scene while lying down on a flat background, “Jeopardy,” “Interpreter,” “Torture,” and “Mousetraps” which has them doing an improvised sketch while barefoot and blindfolded with 250 mousetraps on the floor and 21 hanging from above. The funniest sketches are the ones with the most audience involvement in which the unexpected provides challenges for the performers, but the entire show is laugh-out-loud funny. Viewers will wish it was at least twice as long as it is.
There are two extras on the DVD, an extended spat between Mochrie and Sherwood on “The DOs and DON’Ts of Improv,” and “Interviews with Colin and Brad” by Colin and Brad. Both are very funny. DVD bonus features often disappoint and aren’t much of a bonus, but these two are worth watching.
Bottom Line: Would I buy/rent/stream Two Man Group? I would have to—I was laughing throughout the entire show; it’s hugely entertaining.


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Did you know that the vet care industry is worth almost $15 billion? This is no small sum. In spite of that, this doesn?t mean that getting new patients is as easy as opening the door. Instead, clients need to be carefully cultivated and cared for so that when it comes time for the routine checkup — or something of a more serious nature — you will be the vet they trust with their pets.
How can you continue to grow your veterinary practice? Here are a few important marketing tips to keep in mind.
Reminder Postcards and Blank Mailing Labels
It?s easy to see reminder slips as an expensive cost — especially when some owners are going to ignore them anyway. Reminder slips are an incredibly important way, though, to remind pet owners that it?s time to come in with their pet. (more…)
It is estimated that 46,300,000 households own dogs. Because of this high number, veterinary technology plays a very important part of keeping your pet healthy and happy. The first step in providing a good life for your animal is finding the right pet health care, so your pet can be cared for by the same person on a regular basis. By coming to a place that values both your pet and you as an owner, you will find a caring atmosphere that will make you feel like home.
The Importance of Pet Health Care
When you first bring home a puppy or a kitten, they should receive vaccines every three to four weeks until they are 16 weeks old. This will ensure they are protected against a v (more…)
We Love Our Doggies
How many presents for your pets did you have under your tree this Christmas? If you are part of a family that has nearly as many gifts for the pets as you do for yourself, you are likely also the kind of family that has a favorite animal medical center where you go whenever your […]
When you have a household pet, chances are that you consider them to be part of your family. Given this, you likely take them to the vet on a regular basis and make sure that their shots are up-to-date. In addition to taking care of your pet’s health and well-being by only feeding them quality […]
Did you know that nearly 50 million U.S. households own a dog? That’s nearly 50 percent of all households! Dogs are our companions and tried and true friends. They greet us when we get home, they love on us when we are sad, and they are always up for a walk or belly rub. If […]
- The Hunt for ‘Fire Cats’ Amid Northern California Ashes
In a neighborhood razed by fire, a woman is tracking and trapping house cats that fled in October and still elude their owners. [...]
- CryptoKitties, Explained ... Mostly
Why are $20 million and 180,000 people suddenly in the market for digital cats? We gamified the blockchain. [...]
- For Cat Lovers, a Book on the Guardians of the Liquor Cabinet
Brad Thomas Parsons’s “Distillery Cats” profiles the felines who patrol the world’s great distilleries. [...]
- Why Cats? Why Not Cats?
The photographer Julius Motal stumbled upon a cat night at a Brooklyn bar. From there, he rode the wave from one cat extravaganza to the next. [...]
- Why Cats? Why Not Cats?
The photographer Julius Motal stumbled upon a “cat night” at a Brooklyn bar. From there, he rode the wave from one cat extravaganza to the next. [...]

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PLUM SEASON HAS FINISHED FOR 2024. SEE YOU IN 2025!
Fresh Central Otago seasonal plums delivered direct to your door.
Pictures are just an indication. We will send you the best plum variety we have available at the time of your order (that includes either red or yellow). Please note, that might not mean the fruit in the first image displayed, but any of the varieties we grow.
Available approx. early February - March (+/- 2 weeks)

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39 Women Officers Given Permanent Commission In Indian Army, Government Informs Supreme Court
A total of 39 serving women officers in the Indian Army have been given Permanent Commission, the government has informed the Supreme Court.
72 women officers had applied for Permanent Commission but, one of them had later appealed for release from service.
The government considered the applications of the remaining 71 and found that 39 of them were eligible for Permanent Commission.
According to the government, seven of the applicants were medically unfit, while 25 others had "issues of discipline".
The government was responding to an October 8 order of a two-judge bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice BV Nagarathna which had directed the Centre and the Indian Army to come back with orders granting permanent commission to those among the 72 women short service commission officers (WSSCO) who do not have any disciplinary or vigilance cases pending against them.
The court had directed the government’s counsel to complete this exercise by October 22.
SC had asked for report
The SC on Friday instructed the government to centre to give a detailed report explaining the reasons why the 25 were not eligible for Permanent Commission.
On October 1, the court had told the government not to relieve any of the officers from service.
The women officers have alleged that the top court's March 25 ruling was not considered by the Army and all 72 of them were rejected from consideration for the PC at one go.
In its March 25 verdict, the Army was directed by the top court to consider granting PC to the WSSCOs subject to their obtaining 60 per cent marks in the assessment subjects, being found fit on medical criteria as per the August 1, 2020 order of the Army and having received disciplinary and vigilance clearances.
On March 25, the top court had said that the evaluation criteria set by the Army for granting permanent commission to women SSC officers constituted “systemic discrimination” which has caused economic and psychological harm and an “affront to their dignity”.
A Permanent Commission means a career in the army till retirement, while Short Service Commission is for 10 years, with the option of either leaving or opting for a Permanent Commission at the end of 10 years.
For more on news and current affairs from around the world please visit Indiatimes News.

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Thursday, August 12, 2021 / by Flr Team
For a lot of first-time homebuyers, purchasing a home can feel overwhelming and intimidating. Some are unsure about the home buying process and what they can actually afford.
A recent survey of some buyers between the ages of 25-40 found the following to be true:
- “1 in 4 underestimated their buying potential by $150k or more”
- “1 in 4 underestimated the increase in value by $100k or more”
- “47% don’t know what a good interest rate is”
Because of these uncertainties, buyers have given up on their search, or worse, have decided to not move forward with the home buying process because they are discouraged. If you are interested in buying a home but not sure where to start, here are three key concepts about homeownership you should know before getting started.
Down Payments: What you need to know
Saving for a down payment is sometimes viewed as one of the biggest obstacles for first time homebuyers, but that doesn’t have to be the case. According to the most recent Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the median down payment for homes purchased between July 2019 and June 2020 was only 12%. And that number is even lower now. For buyers in the 22 to 30 age range, the median down payment is as low as 6%.
Affording More Home Than You Think
Exercising, working remotely, and generally spending more time than ever in our homes has changed how people are actually living in their space. Some young homebuyers don’t feel they can afford a home that fits their needs and choose to rent instead. Knowing how much home you can afford when starting the buying process is critical and could be the game-changer that gets you from renting to buying.
Homeownership Will Become Less Affordable
With mortgage rates slowly rising along with prices appreciating, putting off the opportunity to buy a home could cost you much more later. Most experts are forecasting interest rates will rise in the months ahead which can influence your buying power. If you’ve been on the fence about buying a home, there’s no time like the present.
We know the process can feel a bit overwhelming, but you are not alone. Contact our team at Florida Lifestyle Realty where we can help you learn more about the process, what you’ll need to get started, and what to expect.
Florida Lifestyle Realty


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Mr. Lieh Sing Tung, also known as Alan, has been the Chief Financial Officer at Orient Overseas International Ltd., since January 01, 2016. Mr. Tung has been Chief Financial Officer of Orient Overseas Container Line Limited since December 31, 2015 and served as its Acting Chief Financial Officer from June 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015. Mr. Tung serves as Managing Director of CCH Developments Limited. He served as an Acting Chief Financial Officer of Orient Overseas International ...
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This small business eLearning training program provides information on the powers, functions and duties of the workplace health and safety representative.
A Health and Safety Representative (HSR) is required in most Ontario workplaces employing 6-19 workers. The role of the HSR is to support health and safety in the workplace.
Effective July 15, 2021, the Ontario government, through the Small Business Health and Safety Training Program, will reimburse small businesses in Ontario for the $25 course registration fee for an appointed health and safety representative and $150 towards the representative's training time for training completed between July 15, 2021 to March 31, 2024.
When you order this course, please enter your company name. We require this information to submit to the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Skills and Training Development, Ontario, Canada.
You will have access to complete this course for 30 days.
Please note: If the course is not completed within 30 days, a new purchase will be required.
To qualify for the reimbursement, a business must:
Businesses can apply up to two times, with a second allowance permitted for staff turnover. Franchises of the same corporation with unique business numbers are also eligible for funding.
Please obtain a certificate of completion from the Health and Safety Representative upon completion of the course. Employers will need the certificate to claim reimbursements.
For more information about Health and Safety Representatives and the Small Business Health and Safety Training Program, please click here.
To apply for reimbursement, the employer must fill out and submit the Small Business Health and Safety Training Program form. To access the form, click here.
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Wednesday, April 1 - 2015
"It is about making it possible"
The notion of time was revisited daily by Marina Abramovic and Lynsey Peisinger in the performance 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2014. At the end of each day, they recorded their experience on camera as part of a video diary. On day 21, after another eight hours of performing, Peisinger tells the story of a young gallery assistant at the Serpentine. He brought his parents to the exhibition that day, wanting them to be part of the unique experience that 512 Hours offered. Sharing openly about her strong emotional connection to him, she talks about his commitment to being a facilitator, his dedication to and understanding of this essential role. Peisinger is moved to tears recalling how his father came to her to expressing how the young man would arrive home after commuting for hours. Full of energy, enthusiasm, and pure joy from being part of this work, it would take him almost all evening to calm down. Facilitators in this type of performance, which relies so heavily on interaction and improvisation, are the ones who ensure that everyone truly can become part of the artwork.
Tathy Yazigi, a 30 year-old performance artist works as an Abramovic Method facilitator at Terra Comunal - MAI. As someone who is in constantly interacting with visitors and artists here at SESC Pompeia, Tathy gives her impressions of Terra Comunal - MAI:
My presence here is active and relational. I am also a performer, but this is new for me. Dancing stopped feeding me and I went to theater. When the theater was not feeding me, I began self-portraits. I began to put myself in the pictures as an object. My photography work carries the idea of presence. My photos became performative. In my performance, people are relating with images that I create. However, here in the exhibition, I'm just a person. There is a human character, a careful character. Facilitating the Method, for me, is to make it real, giving life to this idea. It is about making it possible. It is very intense. There is a constant factor that is about caring and being open to people. I see my presence as an experience of caring for the public.
Terra Comunal - MAI is free and open to the public until May 10, 2015 @SESC Pompeia, São Paulo - Brazil.


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Bay of Plenty Regional Council carries out environmental monitoring to meet the responsibilities of the Resource Management Act.
Natural environment monitoring helps work out the impact of different activities on environment quality across the region. This is called the Natural Environmental Regional Monitoring Network.
Ambient air quality monitoring
A National Environmental Standard (NES) sets health-based limits for ambient air concentrations of:
- carbon monoxide
- particulate matter (PM10)
- hydrogen sulphide
- nitrogen dioxide
- sulphur dioxide, and
It also specifies requirements for monitoring those pollutants if the standards are breached.
Data on the following air contaminants is held by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas. Prolonged exposures at moderate concentrations can cause headaches and dizziness. Chronic exposure at lower levels has been linked to an increased incidence of heart disease.
The air quality guidelines for carbon monoxide were exceeded on a number of occasions in the past in Tauranga (Nichol et. al.,1996), which indicates that air quality is already being compromised. This was recognised in the Operative Regional Air Plan released by Council, and a number of actions were proposed for dealing with this issue. Carbon monoxide monitoring is therefore an important component of the Air NERMN programme, to determine the current extent of any problem, and any improvements that occur as the result of any regional (or national) initiatives.
There is increasing concern throughout the world about the possible health effects of coarse particulate matter. These are defined as particulate matter less than 10 µm in diameter, although in some countries more emphasis is now being placed on the smaller fraction (termed fine particulate matter), less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) in diameter.
Particulate size comparisons
In New Zealand the main source of PM10 emissions in most areas during the winter months is solid fuel burning for domestic heating, although industrial contributions may also be significant in a number of locations. Domestic home heating is also responsible for the majority of the PM2.5 emissions in most locations as most of the PM10 emissions from this source are the smaller PM2.5 size fraction. Motor vehicle emissions may also be a major source of PM10 and PM2.5 in Auckland, although further work is being carried out to assess this.
The characteristics, sources and potential health effects of larger or "coarse" particles and smaller or "fine" particles are very different. Coarse particles come from sources such as windblown dust from exposed surfaces like building sites and unsealed roads, from mines and quarries, and some industrial activities. Fine particles are generally emitted from activities such as industrial and residential combustion, and from vehicle exhaust. Fine particles are also formed in the atmosphere from gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds that are emitted from combustion processes and become particles because of chemical transformations in the air.
Coarse particles can deposit in the upper regions of the human respiratory system and may contribute to health problems such as bronchitis and aggravation of asthma.
Fine particles can deposit deeply in the lungs, and are therefore more likely to contribute to a range of health effects, which have been found in a number of recently published epidemiological studies.
These effects include:
- Increased hospital admissions and emergency room visits due to respiratory complaints.
- Aggravated asthma.
- Acute respiratory symptoms including severe chest pain and aggravated coughing.
- Chronic bronchitis.
- Decreased lung function which can be experienced as shortness of breath.
- Premature death.
This makes it important for Council to continue to develop a good understanding of the current levels of airborne particulate matter throughout the region, as part of the Air NERMN programme. Measurements are being mainly directed at urban areas because the major contributors are likely to be motor vehicles and residential heating using solid fuel fires, especially wood burners.
The smell of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is an obvious feature of New Zealand geothermal areas, most of which are found in the Bay of Plenty. This gas is very toxic at high concentrations, but little is known about its health effects at the lower levels found in most parts of Rotorua and other geothermal areas.
Field monitoring data shows that geothermal activity in Rotorua has increased over the last few years, probably as a result of the reduced abstraction rates and more re-injection. If this trend continues it will be important to determine whether hydrogen sulphide levels in the ambient air are also being affected.
Nitrogen dioxide is not usually released directly into the air. Nitrogen dioxide forms when nitrogen oxide (NO) and other nitrogen oxides (NOx) react with other chemicals in the air to form nitrogen dioxide.
The main source of nitrogen dioxide resulting from human activities is the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil), especially petrol and diesel used in motor vehicles. Other sources of nitrogen dioxide include the refining of petrol and metals, commercial manufacturing, and food manufacturing. Natural sources of other nitrogen oxides include volcanoes and bacteria.
The main health effect of nitrogen dioxide is on the respiratory system. Inhalation of nitrogen dioxide by children increases their risk of respiratory infection and may lead to poorer lung function in later life. There is also an association between nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the air and increases in daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory disease. Nitrogen dioxide can decrease the lungs' defences against bacteria, making them more susceptible to infections, and can also aggravate asthma.
Sulphur dioxide is produced mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels that contain sulphur, such as coal and oil (for example, coal being burnt in a home fireplace for heating and diesel-powered vehicles). Sulphur dioxide is also produced from some industrial processes, such as fertiliser manufacturing.
Natural sources of sulphur dioxide include geothermal activity.
Sulphur dioxide can cause respiratory problems, such as bronchitis, and it can irritate the nose, throat and lungs. It may cause coughing, wheezing, phlegm and asthma attacks. The effects are worse during exercising.

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“One of the most amazing things I experienced with cancer, was my diagnosis.”
28-year-old Sarina Morrison is calm as she speaks those unexpected words. Her University of Minnesota Physicians oncologist, Emily Greengard, MD, shares a knowing smile.
“Knowing now what I know, how rare sarcomas are and how often they are misdiagnosed, I realize now my diagnosis was one of the biggest blessings,” said Morrison.
Sarcomas are rare cancers that occur in the bones and in connective tissue, such as fat and muscle. They are difficult to diagnose because a sarcoma can originate anywhere in the body, and there are no standard symptoms in patients. Morrison and Greengard recently discussed Sarina’s Sarcoma journey at a taping of a new video for the Rein in Sarcoma, the primary sarcoma foundation in the Midwest (www.reininsarcoma.org).
For some patients, the first symptom is a lump or bump on the body. They are sometimes painful, other times, they are not, and they can vary in size. “Oftentimes, people don’t think they are facing a cancer,” said Greengard.
Morrison didn’t. When she first saw the lump on her leg at 23 and healthy, she thought it was a knot from running; she even let her roommate try to roll it out with a lacrosse ball.
“After that, I just ignored it and figured it would correct on its own, but it just continued to swell,” said Morrison. It wasn’t until her dad convinced her to go to the doctor months later that she realized there was a problem.
“Monday at work, I get a phone call … she tells me I have a tumor and it could be a sarcoma. I have no idea what that means,” said Morrison.
That reaction didn’t surprise Greengard when she heard about it. “A lot of people have never heard of one. We frequently see sarcomas in children and adolescents, which is why even though Sarina was a young adult, she had a pediatric oncologist.”
A week after the two met for the first time at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, they moved forward with treatment. “Thankfully, the chemo did its job and shrunk the tumor, and at that point, they could take out the tumor and surrounding margin around the tumor,” remembered Morrison.
It only took six months, but her journey wasn’t over.
“Sarina’s treatment was six months long, but the side effects don’t stop when treatment stops,” Greengard said. “Fatigue continues, there are risks of second cancers and infertility. Once you get that cancer diagnosis, your story doesn’t end when treatment does.”
While her journey is still continuing, Morrison knows the downhill path she is on now has a lot to do with how she got started, an early diagnosis.


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WINSTON-SALEM– In thrilling fashion, the No. 5 Tar Heel women’s soccer team rallied from behind to sneak out of W. Dennis Spry Stadium with a 2-1 overtime road victory over No. 19 Wake Forest.
Kealia Ohai took the game in her hands in the 98th minute, getting an unassisted goal to seal the crucial ACC win. It was Ohai’s eight score of the season, and with the comeback win, the Tar Heels secured home field advantage in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals next Sunday.
Impressively, UNC outshot the Demon Deacons by a 19-3 margin. Now, Carolina sits at 15-3 overall and 9-3 in conference. Wake Forest dropped to 10-5-2 in total and 5-5-2 in the ACC.
Next up for the defending national champion Tar Heels will be a home showdown with Duke Thursday at 7 p.m. in the regular season finale.

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Game Arts’ puzzle platformer Dokuro originally released for PS Vita is now available on the iOS App Store and Google…
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Orange and Rockland Utility customers have been warned to be wary of a new phony bill payment scheme targeting consumers on Facebook.
Law enforcement officials have issued an alert warning of a new scam where fraudsters pose as consultants for the utility company who offer to help customers pay their debt, written in Spanish on Facebook.
According to police, the thieves say on Facebook that if customers wire a percentage of their “electric, cable, cell phone or any utility bill” to the scammers, they will put up the difference to fully pay the bill. “ The example the phony post uses is if a customer’s bill is $250, the customer can wire the thief $150 and thief will cover the rest.”
“To make things worse, after the customer sends the payment to the scammer, the thieves send the customer a bogus 646 phone number for the customer to call to confirm that their payment was received by the company and the bill was paid in full,” police added.
Orange and Rockland Utility consumers who have questions about their bill payment have been advised by police to contact their customer service line directly by calling (877) 434-4100.
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Singapore Confirms 10th Monkeypox Case On 26 Jul
On Tuesday (26 Jul), the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed another case of monkeypox infection.
He is a 28-year-old Taiwanese man who lives in Singapore. He recently returned from Canada, which makes him an imported case.
Singapore has now detected a total of 10 monkeypox infections.
10th monkeypox warded at NCID, now in stable condition
According to MOH, the patient tested positive for the virus today.
He started having a fever, headache, pain in the anal region, and muscle aches four days ago, on 22 Jul.
The aches soon turned into a rash at the area surrounding the anus.
He sought medical care on Tuesday (26 Jul) and was admitted to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where he tested positive.
Fortunately, as with most Singapore patients so far, his condition is currently stable. In the meantime, contact tracing is ongoing.
Protect yourself against monkeypox, know what to look out for
The number of monkeypox cases in Singapore is expected to increase over the next few weeks as more are affected by this viral disease.
Statistics report that most patients are men who have sex with men.
If you are at risk, stay alert and avoid close physical contact with others with rashes resembling monkeypox.
Maintaining good personal hygiene is also crucial.
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Charity registered in Scotland SC047055
Neil's Hugs Foundation was founded by Donna Paterson-Harvie who lost her only son, Neil to suicide in September 2011.
Their aim is to help raise awareness of suicide in the local community and support families who have been affected by suicide.
Support those struggling to cope with either the attempted or completed suicide of a loved one
Support people who experience mild to moderate mental health
hold support groups (currently zoom ) befriending 1 to 1 zoom and Face to face support if urgent during covid 19
Raise awareness of suicide give training on suicide prevention and understanding .
To reduce stigma of suicide to improve peoples mental health with a focus on those affected by suicide to reduce the overall suicide rates in clacks and Stirling.
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Submitted to: Agronomy Abstracts
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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/3/1996
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Interpretive Summary: Summary article; no new research reported; no interpretive summary required.
Technical Abstract: There is a good deal of conflicting evidence in the literature concerning the inheritance and gene designations of Russian wheat aphid (RWA) resistance genes in wheat. In an attempt to integrate the various conflicting reports, an analysis was done on all possible intercrosses made between four different RWA-resistant lines: PI's 137739, 262660, 294994, and 372129. Due to the difficulties associated with identifying multiple genes in moderately sized segregating F2 populations, an alternative model was used to develop the populations of interest; once the resistant lines were intercrossed, the intercross F1's were grown and topcrossed with a susceptible cultivar. Populations consisting of 50 plants derived from each intercross/topcross combination were grown and allowed to self. Progeny tests were then conducted to determine the number of homozygous susceptible plants that were present in each topcross population. This number should indicate the number of genes in action as well as whether or not the different lines have any genes in common. Results will be discussed.


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Presenting to you Vol.16 mixed by Nacho Chapado!
We promised you, guys, a year full of energy and we are keeping that promise.
Nacho has worked with the biggest producers like: Juanjo Martin, Dr. Kucho, Pedro del Moral, Oscar G, Ralph Falcon, Yoko Ono mixes, Offer Nissim, Peter Rauhofer, Amuka, Robbie Rivera, Asher Monroe, etc.
But the main goal of Nacho is to make his work known to the large public, to make them float and feel the message that he tries to get across, playing in front of packed crowds in Barcelona, Madrid, London, all across Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Germany and France.
So it’s not surprising that GUSMEN asked him to flatter us by dedicating an exclusive podcast for GUSMEN, which he kindly accepted. His style is full of tribal house beats, combining tech-house & progressive sounds.
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Nancy Le Vine is a senior dog photographer who believes old canines should be celebrated in all their dignity, wisdom and unconditional love. Today the woman is travelling through the States, taking photos of senior dogs and sharing their stories with the world…
It all started when two of Le Vine’s dogs, Lulu and Maxie, passed away back in 2006. Being a photographer, she couldn’t think of a better way to honor their loving memory than to take a camera and start taking pics of old doggies who were still around.
To understand the intimate relationship New York-based Le Vine builds with senior dogs, just see how she talks about a shot with one of her dogs, Babe. “Babe was my very best friend. A very, very old soul. Never needed a leash… [She] began my passion for looking deeper into the eyes of a dog with my camera.”
“I miss her so much even though so much time has past. She lingers with me forever.” While some of the Le Vine’s beloved dogs are not around any longer, their loving memory – and beautiful pictures – talk about the profound mark they left on their owner’s life.
Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/senior-dogs-across-america-nancy-levine-photography/
I am presenting the Under-dogs project.
Under-cats, Under-rabbits and Under-horse projects are the projects that had been published before. Pets photographed from the underneath on a black background somehow have become my signature artwork.
This time it is dog lovers’ turn! The actual project was photographed a year ago. However, we were patiently waiting until now as we wanted to present the results along with the publication of Under-dogs book.
This project is most comparable with the Under-Cats. Cats were very cute but dogs are more playful. Dogs are more obedient which helps us to create more interesting shots. While some dogs were playful on the ground they have completely changed on the glass and stood still like a rock. Others weren’t afraid of standing above which was easy and fun to work with. I learned two main things from these photo shoots. First, cats think they are gods, since people feed, love and give them homes. Secondly, dogs see human as a god as they feed, love and give them homes. Probably you had to read that twice.
For the Under-dogs project I have designed a specially manufactured glass table in order to photograph bigger dogs. After capturing Under-dogs, I decided to go full-time on the following projects of Underlook. In our future plans – Tigers.
Today I am also presenting a release of my second book with dogs. Books can be bought on Amazon and it is shipped worldwide. You can also see a backstage video on my Youtube channel.
Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/under-dogs-i-photograph-dogs-from-underneath/
When dog-owning couple Sanjana Madappa and Aditya Raheja got pregnant, they did something quite the opposite to what was expected from them. “I was told by family, friends and even my doctor to get rid of my dogs, that my baby came first,” Sanjana told Buzzfeed. This advice was too heartbreaking for a young woman to grasp. “I don’t know how people can bring a child into the world, while letting go of another at the same time.” So, as a response, the lovebirds from Bangalore, India, decided to celebrate the arrival of the human baby by including their ‘furry kids’ into their pre-natal photoshoot and showing that their pets are part of the family too.
The couple got married two years ago. Aditya is an estate developer while his wife Sanjana works at an animal welfare organization called CUPA. Due to the nature of her job, the two ended up raising a lot of dogs.
Their son Ayan was born a week after the photoshoot. “I had an unreasonably difficult pregnancy… and I was restricted to the confines of my home,” Sanjana wrote. “Taking care of my dogs ensured I never felt the need to blame my pregnancy, the baby, or my husband for the state I was in.”
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Responsible for service in the buffet areas and for all support functions in the restaurants up to and including assisting a waiter in the service of an assigned work station in a restaurant.
• Good knowledge of English language
• Previous experience in cafe or restaurant
• Free accommodation and meal, while aboard
• Contract lengths: 4 - 6 months with 2 months off
• Paid flight tickets to and from the ships.
• Very ambitious, dynamic and international environment with attractive remuneration package and possibilities for an international career.

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Elma Ultrasonic Cleaner S70H
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- Best "first step" in preparing instruments for sterilizing or disinfecting
- Remove stubborn contaminants with fast, safe 37 kHz ultrasonic power
- Accommodates instruments to 18 inches in length
- Auto-degasses fresh cleaning solutions
- Program cleaning cycle time
Ultrasonic Cleaner for Healthcare Facilities
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Benefit: Since cleaning does not start until air isremoved from cleaning fluid,this mode speeds up air removal and gets cleaning started faster. Also degasses solvents.
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The WHO, CDC and professional medical associations have guidelines on preparing surgical instruments for disinfecting or sterilizing. As a general rule they call for carefully wiping away gross contaminants before they have had a chance to dry and immersing them in an enzyme holding solution before the ultrasonic cleaning operation. Disassemble instruments prior to ultrasonic cleaning to facilitate cavitation action reaching all surfaces. (Note that chromium-plated instruments should not be cleaned ultrasonically.)
- Fill the ultrasonic units to be used with a recommended surgical instrument cleaning solution and activate the auto-degas switch to remove cavitation-inhibiting trapped air. This must be done with all fresh cleaning solutions and takes 10 minutes.
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- At the end of the cycle remove and inspect the instruments. They can be rinsed in deionized water to avoid spotting, and then dried and stored until disinfecting or sterilizing.
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|Place of birth||Bambridge, Co Armagh, Ireland|
|Religion||Church of England|
|Address||6 Seafort Parade, Black Rock, Dublin, Ireland|
|Age at embarkation||20|
|Next of kin||Mother, Mrs. Margaret Hillis, 6 Seafort Parade, Black Rock, Dublin, Ireland|
|Previous military service||Nil (exempt area under Compulsory Military Training scheme)|
|Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll|
|Place of enlistment||Melbourne, Victoria|
|Rank on enlistment||Private|
|Unit name||31st Battalion, C Company|
|AWM Embarkation Roll number||23/48/1|
|Embarkation details||Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on
|31st Battalion Headquarters and Companies A, B, C and D sailed on two ships, HMAT A62 Wandilla, 9th November 1915 from Melbourne, and HMAT A41 Bakara, 5 November 1915, from Melbourne. It is not possible to tell from the Embarkation Roll on which ship an individual embarked.|
|Rank from Nominal Roll||Private|
|Unit from Nominal Roll||5th Pioneer Battalion|
|Fate||Returned to Australia
War service: Egypt, Western Front
Disembarked Suez, 7 December 1915.
Transferred to 5th Pioneer Bn, Tel el Kebir, 3 March 1916.
Found guilty, 26 April 1916, of (1) insubordination (2) while a priosner under open arrest leaving camp: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 2.
Admitted to 15th Field Ambulance, 16 May 1916; transferred to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 17 May 1916 (venereal: soft chancre); discharged, 28 May 1916; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 12 days.
Embarked Alexandria for England, 26 August 1916, and marched into 15th Training Bn, Lark Hill.
Found guilty, Perham Downs, 25 September 1916, of neglecting to obey an order on an N.C.O.: awarded 7 days' confined to camp.
Found guilty, 31 October 1916, of (1) appearing on parade unshaven (2) misbehaving in the ranks: laughing and talking: awarded 1 day's detention.
Proceeded overseas to France, 2 November 1916; taken on strength, 5th Pioneer Bn, in the field, 20 November 1916.
Wounded in action, 4 January 1917 (high explosive wound, right leg), and admitted to 36th Casualty Clearing Station; transferred to Ambulance Train, 7 January 1917, and admitted same day to 12th General Hospital, Rouen (leg wound and shock); transferred to England, 12 January 1917 , and admitted to Brook War Hospital, Woolwich, 13 January 1917; discharged from hospital, 23 February 1917.
Marched out to Bhurtpore Barracks, Tidworth, for duty, 14 June 1917.
Found guilty, 30 June 1917, of, at Bulford, conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, viz. insolence to an N.C.O. in the execution of his duty: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No 2.
Marched in to No 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 2 July 1917.
Detached to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, for duty with Anzac Provost Corps, 14 August 1917.
Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Suevic', 27 September 1917; arrived Melbourne, 18 November 1917; discharged, Melbourne (wounded: gun shot wound, thigh; old blindness, right eye), 31 December 1917.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory MedalMedal stamps marked 'returned 10/5/23'.
|Sources||NAA: B2455, HILLIS John|

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The bighorn sheep is the mammalian symbol of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Colorado's official animal. Colorado is home to the largest population of the species anywhere. The animals are five to six feet long with a tail three to six inches in length.


Craft, the newest restaurant to open in Downtown Binghamton, has been welcoming customers for just over two weeks. The vibe of the restaurant is like Buffalo Wild Wings meets a laid-back version of Craft’s sister restaurant, Social on State. Though it is owned by the same team, the food at Craft is only like Social on State in the size of its portions. Rather than tapas, however, Craft specializes in sliders.
This Restaurant Week, Craft is serving only its milkshakes, beer list and


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Kiva Lending Team: The Mary Baker Eddy Library
We loan because...
Lending through Kiva is one way among many to live a life of service and make a positive contribution to the world around us. Inspired by "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life of Service," an exhibit at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, MA; we hope to continue the good works done by Eddy and the other individuals and institutions highlighted and to make a difference.
The Mary Baker Eddy Library provides public access and context to original materials and educational experiences about Mary Baker Eddy’s life, ideas, and achievements, including her Church. The Library promotes exploration and scholarship through its collections, exhibits, and programs.
In 2010, the Library will examine Mary Baker Eddy's personal story of service through a year long exhibit. Visitors will also be introduced to individuals, companies and institutions today that give of themselves. Viewers will be invited to ask themselves how they could do the same.
This Kiva Lending Team is one such invitation and will open with the exhibition on April 6. For more information, please visit our Web site.
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Lilian received a loan from Lindsey to buy farming inputs, which she plans to use to improve her horticulture crop production.
Carmen received a loan from Lindsey to buy bulk grains, oil, home cleaning products and canned food.
Olvin Naún received a loan from Lindsey to pay for the rental of a sheller machine for basic grains, matates (bags made from pita meshes) and labor for the shelter.
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|Alex Hendrickson had 43 carries and averaged 7.2
yards in the process.
Photo by Chris Cecere, RochesterCC Photography
Each week during the regular season we look at some of the key statistical performances from the weekend in Division III football, highlighting one per region.
Entering Saturday night’s road game at Morrisville State, junior Alex Hendrickson’s career-best rushing performance for Brockport State was 42 yards. Hendrickson blew by that total in less than five minutes and finished with 310 yards on 43 carries, the most yards by a Division III running back this year.
Desmond Baker blocked two kicks for McMurry on Saturday in a 51-19 win against Howard Payne, an extra point and a field goal that led to a 53-yard return for a touchdown by D.J. Baiza. Baker also had three tackles and two pass breakups on defense.
Kalamazoo defeated Albion for the first time since 1983, thanks in no small part to freshman quarterback Sam Landry. He completed 25 of 44 passes for 310 yards and two touchdowns, and added 46 yards rushing and another TD.


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Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
bsilver wrote:Jared Butler looked fantastic for Utah tonight, but we got Todd and Holiday. Could have turned that 23rd pick into some good prospects.
If you are familiar with my posts over the years you might recall that I was very huge on draft predictions back in the day. When I think about Jared Butler I actually remember the draft with Steph Curry. Jonny Floyd and Ricky Rubio were also in that draft....
(Make that Jonny Flynn not Jonny Floyd)
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:...Washington under a previous GM decided that one year of veterans Randy Foye and Mike Miller was their best move and opted not to draft either player.
Oh, it was way worse than that.
After all, even if you whiffed on Steph, you could at least have gotten Demar DeRozan (9). Or Jrue Holiday (17). Or Taj Gibson (26). Or Patrick Beverly (42). Or Danny Green (46).
Plus, you forgot to mention the name of the #2 pick in that draft. Anybody know it off hand? I do. He's my poster boy for how hard it is to pick accurately. Along with the guy who went #60 only 2 years later.
& it is that bad every single year. Take a look at 2010, when we got lucky & snagged the #1 pick. The first 8 picks that year were: John Wall, Evan Turner, Derrick Favors, Wesley Johnson, DeMarcus Cousins, Ekpe Udoh, Greg Monroe & Al Farouq Aminu.
Thing is... the guy taken 9th was better than all of them. & the 10th player taken was better than the guy taken 9th!
& who was the best player taken after that guy? You could make an argument that it was the guy who went #40. It sure wasn't the guy who went #12.
I'd be willing to bet there isn't a single person on this Board who can name all 4 of those players without looking online to see who they were.
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:...(Steph was THE NO BRAINER pick... This draft Jared Butler was the no brainer.
Butler might turn out great. One thing is for absolutely sure: past the #3 pick, the list of guys in order of how good they become will be almost completely unrelated to where they were chosen.
Remember -- if you don't like the post above: blame Doc not me.


There are no guesses anymore, Top Gun 2 is here, and now the wondering begins. Top Gun: Maverick’s trailer only provides more skepticism on if Top Gun 2 with Tom Cruise can come even close to its original, Top Gun. It doesn’t help that the trailer has nothing convincing in placing us at the edge of our seats to want to see the movie. Is the Top Gun’s sequel lacking that much excitement that this is all they have to peak our interest?
The trailer is boring and stale. Tom Cruise is good at what he does, but he may just get his first failure of a film in the long time. The sequel doesn’t seem to be presenting much of the same as the original. This could pose a threat to the sequel’s success. Top Gun arrives in theaters June 2020.


Talented songwriter wins a scholarship at the Institute of Contemporary Music in Kilburn
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A talented songwriter has won a full scholarship to a music college in Kilburn after scooping an annual award.
Uri Sade has been given a place on a £5,000 songwriting course at the Institute of Contemporary Music in Dyne Road, after scooping the Shure Songwriting Award.
Now in its fourth year, the pioneering and innovative award, sponsored by the Institute and audio electronics company Shure, is open to talented, aspiring singer/songwriters.
Mr Sade, who beat off more than 80 rivals, will also receive £500 of Shure equipment after being picked by celebrity judge Frank Turner.
Mr Turner, who is currently touring the world with his new album ‘Tape Deck Heart’, said: “The entries were amazing and the standard was really, really great and it was difficult to pick a winner.”
Runner-up Anna Carow who wrote ‘Brand New Summer Dress’, will receive a partially funded scholarship and Shure goodies.
For more information about the Institute visit www.icmp.co.uk.


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The road was windswept and waves of rain submerged the surface in bends and hollows.
He could not relaxed his attention, there was so much at stake, and this great writer yearned to be right there when it happened.
His skyline’s engine roared through the night, visions of triumph, glory and fame floated through his mind, so much effort, time, blood, and, yes, tears.
As in a dream he thought of her, his muse, his lover, his wife.
He jumped out of the car, climbed the stairs four at a time, panting, the door opened, a familiar face was smiling: “Congratulations! It’s a girl.”


Mayor benches NFL plan, wants Trojans in Coliseum
With USC threatening to move its home games to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a long-term deal to keep the Trojans in the Memorial Coliseum, saying for the first time he has given up hope of the National Football League returning to the aging stadium.
“While I remain committed to bringing a professional team to Los Angeles, it is time to read the scoreboard,” Villaraigosa said in a statement Wednesday. “The Coliseum is no longer a viable option for the NFL.”
Many of the region’s wealthiest and most politically connected figures have spent years in abortive attempts to bring an NFL franchise to Los Angeles. The city’s leadership has insisted the league negotiate with the Coliseum -- an idea the NFL has repeatedly rejected.
The mayor’s unexpected reversal could open the way for an NFL deal elsewhere in the region. It also increases the pressure on the Coliseum to deal with USC.
Speaking to each other through the media Wednesday, the university and the Coliseum Commission suggested there is a chance at reaching a compromise.
Both sides seemed to agree that a potential lease would need to address at least two issues: renovating a stadium that has grown long in the tooth and giving USC some control over a place its football team has called home for 80 years.
“We would entertain anything if they want to make a proposal,” said Todd R. Dickey, USC’s senior vice president for administration.
But with university administrators frustrated by a lack of progress in negotiations, Dickey also made it clear that the clock is running. The Rose Bowl Operating Co. will consider USC’s request for a short-term lease at a meeting next Thursday.
“Frankly, if they approve it, we’ll sign it,” Dickey said.
The school’s two-year lease with the Coliseum expires after Saturday’s regular-season finale against crosstown rival UCLA.
Negotiations for a new lease have been hampered by the allure of the NFL and the commission’s desire to attract a pro team after losing the Raiders in 1994 and the Rams more than a decade earlier.
Renovations have been delayed because a new franchise would probably want to gut or even raze the existing structure. And USC has worried about becoming an afterthought in its own stadium.
On Wednesday, after revealing their negotiations with the Rose Bowl, university administrators fired a public relations salvo by posting a number of documents they had submitted to the Coliseum Commission, including two recent lease proposals.
Option A asks that the commission perform $100 million in renovations -- updating seats, restrooms and scoreboards, among other things -- while promising that no other amateur or professional team would play in the Coliseum.
Option B calls for USC to provide the $100 million for improvements. In return, the school would take charge of the venue and seek to recoup at least some of its outlay by generating revenue from year-round events that might include international soccer games and concerts.
USC would be open to a compromise, Dickey said, but he expressed skepticism about dealing with the commission.
“There is no such thing as the Coliseum Commission,” he said. “They are nine politicians, each with their own agenda, so it’s virtually impossible to negotiate with this nine-headed hydra.”
In fact, stadium officials appeared to contradict themselves on some points.
Pat Lynch, the Coliseum’s general manager, said that if USC wanted veto power over an incoming NFL team, and nothing more, “we could do the deal tomorrow.”
But City Councilman Bernard C. Parks, also a commission member, went against Lynch and Villaraigosa, saying the commission must keep the door open for a professional team.
Parks was talking about a years-long pursuit that has seen the Coliseum Commission flex its political muscle to push aside competing stadium concepts within the city limits.
Since the Raiders left after the 1994 NFL season, each of L.A.’s three mayors expressed strong support for the Coliseum as the city’s preferred NFL site over proposals at Dodger Stadium and in downtown.
Most recently, competing stadium groups from the Coliseum and Anaheim traveled to Dallas in May 2006 to pitch their concepts to NFL owners. Villaraigosa came in support of the Coliseum, telling the league that it was the premier site.
“The Los Angeles Coliseum is the clear choice for the NFL,” he said at the time, calling that stadium “a deal they can’t refuse.”
The Dodgers developed another plan two years ago for the Dodger Stadium parking lot, then backed off after criticism from civic and community leaders, with owner Frank McCourt publicly vowing to support the Coliseum “so long as the Coliseum is a viable site.”
In a July letter to the Coliseum Commission, NFL executive Neil Glat cited cost considerations in saying the league was “not prepared to move forward with the [Coliseum] project at this point.”
That’s when Villaraigosa’s thinking began to shift, with the mayor concluding that bringing the NFL to the Coliseum was “economically unfeasible,” Deputy Mayor Sean Clegg said.
However, Clegg added: “When one door closes, another opens. The mayor believes it’s time to look at other options in terms of making the NFL a reality in the Los Angeles market.”
Dodger Stadium might come back in play. NFL officials recently visited a proposed site in the City of Industry, but Dodgers Senior Vice President Howard Sunkin said the league did not tour Chavez Ravine and said talks with the NFL have not resumed.
“Nothing has happened,” Sunkin said. “Nobody has come by to visit.”
Reached late Wednesday, Ed Roski, owner of the City of Industry site, didn’t seem surprised by the mayor’s comments about the NFL and the Coliseum.
“I think the NFL has made that clear,” Roski said. “That’s why I got back active in this, and we’re progressing.”
And that is why Villaraigosa is now backing an effort to keep USC from leaving the Coliseum.
“The mayor believes that it’s time to contemplate the future of the Coliseum in terms of its relationship with its most loyal and long-standing tenant -- the USC Trojans,” Clegg said, adding that Villaraigosa spoke to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday and called for a joint effort to ensure USC stays put. Both leaders have appointees on the Coliseum Commission.
There are complications with the Trojans’ proposed move to Pasadena, which would require approval from not only the 13-member Rose Bowl Operating Co., but also the Pasadena City Council and UCLA, which has played its home games there since 1982.
At this point, USC is asking only for one year and an option on a second.
In an e-mail Wednesday, UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero assured Bruin football supporters that the university would oppose any long-term arrangement between USC and the Rose Bowl.
Coliseum Commissioner Bill Chadwick predicted that USC students and Orange County-based alumni might grow tired of driving the extra miles.
“I think it would be great if they played at the Rose Bowl for two years,” the commissioner said. “At the end of that two years, the leverage we would have in negotiations would be spectacular.”
Times staff writers Duke Helfand, T.J. Simers and Bill Shaikin contributed to this report.
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Today is the Day! Call Your Senators to Protect Medicaid!
Call congress today! YOUr voice CAN PROTECT MEDICAID!
Today, the Senate is expected to release their own version of the American Healthcare Act (AHCA) that passed the House last month, and recent reports say they could vote as early as next week! The House bill cuts over $800 billion to Medicaid, is estimated to leave 23 million more people without health insurance, and would be devastating to communities battling homelessness.
Now is the time to act, and today is our National Call-In Day to Protect Medicaid! It will only take 3 Senators to reject these cuts, and your calls can make the difference. Together, we can send a message that your Senator needs to:
Vote NO on any healthcare bill that cuts or caps Medicaid, or phases out the Medicaid expansion.
Commit to protecting coverage for people escaping homelessness, including services for people with severe health or mental health conditions, and those recovering from substance abuse disorders.
Commit to holding a public hearing on a final bill, to ensure we know how it will impact the most vulnerable in our community before a vote.

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1. Even though it was your grandfather's self acquired property after inheritance of his share your father becomes an absolute owner of the property he inherited.
In that case, he can decide about distribution of his properties in the manner he may desire and decide and transfer the properties to who ever he may choose, including any member outside his family.
There is no obligation on your father to be under pressure created by your brother.
The logic of your brother is not justified.
It appears he is not willing for an amicable settlement,but if he chooses the legal route then he will be loser because his claim is not legally maintainable or tenable in law, as neither he nor you have any rights in yor father's property at lest not during his lifetime.
2. It is absolutely an unjustified demand.
If he has availed the loan, then it is his responsibility to repay the loan.
He cannot legally insist on you to repay the loan in any percentage.


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How to Deal with High School Rumors & High School Bullying
Bullying - Tips for Parents
If you are a parent of a teen or maybe a teen yourself, you probably know at least a little bit about the stress that goes along with high school rumors. High school rumors are just another form of high school bullying and there are ways to support your teen and/or keep yourself sane during a time when your teen (or you) is getting bullied by other teens who enjoy spreading nasty high school rumors.
I speak from experience on the topic of high school rumors and high school bullying. When I was in high school, I dealt with quite a bit of high school rumors in my junior and senior years. The worst of the high school rumors for me was in my senior year of high school. Teens can be really cruel. Most of them in my opinion don't realize the damage that their high school rumors and high school bullying can cause, but we need to make them aware of it. If you're teen or child is involved in spreading high school rumors or high school bullying, please tell them how detrimental this can be to a teen's self-esteem and self-image. We need to treat others how we want to be treated.
On the other side of that, if you are the one getting the high school bullying or having high school rumors spread about you, there are certain ways to handle this situation. You can:
a. ignore it
b. retaliate by spreading rumors about the other person
c. fight them physically
What's the best approach though it is the most difficult approach to high school rumors? To ignore it. I'm saying this in all honesty, because I've been there myself. If you're the parent of a teen who is being tortured by nasty high school rumors, don't encourage them to do the same...that would be stooping to that other teen's level. Encourage your teen to ignore the high school rumors. Remind them that high school is a very short period of their lives and that when they get to college, it's a whole different story. High school drama and the importance of being "cool" or "popular" is not what the real world is like.
My mom used to tell me in response to how to deal with high school rumors, "they're just jealous of you." Which could very well have been true, but is not usually the best most trustworthy response to give a teen who is dealing with high school rumors or dealing with high school bullying. Why? The teen doesn't tend to believe their parents when they're told that the other teens are just jealous of them. The teen tends to believe that they're not as good as the other teens and wish they could be like them. Remind your teen that individuality and uniqueness are essential in this world...along with hard work and motivation. If your teen is wrapped up in popularity or worried about high school rumors, keep reminding them of the importance of their futures and to remember that high school will soon pass, and they won't generally have to deal with high school rumors or high school bullying in the real world.
Plus, if your teen is going away to college or moving out of state after high school, they won't have to see those nasty teens from high school any more anyway! Trust me...I don't plan on attending my ten year high school reunion and why? I didn't like those nasty teens then, so why would I like them now? High school rumors and high school bullying last for a short period in time, but the victim of high school rumors and high school bullying will always remember being bullied.
Unfortunately, the ignore method doesn't always work...so in cases where the bullying continues or worsens, the next step is a requirement. That is to first notify the school's officials of the harassment. If they don't take it seriously and restrict or punish the kid doing the bullying, then the next step is to get the police involved and notify them that your child is being harassed in school and that no one is doing anything about it. If that doesn't work, get the News involved!
For Kids Being Bullied
For the kids who are being bullied in school or elsewhere, here's your advice: do not stand for it! This doesn't mean retaliate with violence or hatred, this simply means to tell the individual harassing you to stop or you will get the school and police involved. If they do not stop their harassment, then you tell someone at your school and your parents. If that makes things worse and the kid still doesn't stop, then you need to go one step further and have your parents notify the police of this harassment. Get a restraining order. Whatever you have to do to protect yourself and get that person away from you.
Bullying is not okay and should not be tolerated by anyone. While you can ignore it for awhile, if the torture and torment continues it is not good for your mental health or spiritual health. Don't let anyone push you around or tell you to stuff it down. Try the ignore method at first, as most kids will lay off if they don't feel like they're getting a response. But if the kid continues, go to the next step as mentioned above.
Remember that violence is NOT THE KEY to beating the bullying trend. At the same time, do not allow someone to physically hurt or hold you down. Protect yourself, but without the use of weapons or deadly force. No one's stupidity is worth losing your opportunities or life over.
Questions & Answers
The mean girl got in trouble. She told the nice girl she was a horrible person for making me cry. What should I do?
If you're asking whether you should forgive her or not, that's up to you. If you're asking if you should be friends with her or not, I wouldn't. Protect yourself. Find friends who weren't bullies beforehand.Helpful 3


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These are my recommendations for books about the Refuge Recovery practice, the intersection of Twelve Steps and Buddhism, and how to meditate. They are not specifically endorsed by Refuge Recovery and are offered in the spirit of generosity to our sangha. Happy reading!
For me, the core of the Refuge Recovery book has always been the chapter “The Process.” There it is, the crack in the sidewalk I stumble over every time I read it, Number 6, Effort/Energy:
“We commit to the daily disciplined practice(s) of meditation…”
and then a few paragraphs later,
“We encourage you to begin with the practice of meditation right away. Meditation is going to be the most important tool in supporting our renunciation.”
This is demonstrably true. I have seen it work miracles in my life and in the lives of dozens of people. And if I know how true and valuable this is, why is it so hard for me to stick with this brief daily commitment? And I’ve noticed that it’s not just me. Newcomers and long-time practitioners alike have their struggles with meditation practice. Restlessness, doubt, attachments to our stories, and self-criticism can all derail a meditation session or even a long-established practice. But the meditation practice is absolutely key to our recovery. How can we overcome these hindrances and establish or continue a practice that is so crucial and beneficial to our developing sense of ease in the world as it is?
In Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, Pema Chödrön seems to speak directly to us in her loving voice about how to accept ourselves and our lives, just as they are. She provides clear instruction in three basic meditation practices: basic sitting meditation, tonglen, and working with lojong, the seven points of mind training.
I found this book to be a real life saver. The lojong slogans serve as exercise for my heart and mind, just as walking does for my heart and body. Tonglen made sense for the first time, too.
But for me, probably the most valuable passage was instruction on becoming mindful of thoughts as just something the mind does. Pema says,
“Labeling your thoughts as ‘thinking’ will help you see the transparency of thoughts, that things are actually very light and illusory. Every time your stream of thoughts solidifies into a heavy storyline…label that ‘thinking.’ Then you will be able to see how all the passion that’s connected with these thoughts, or all the aggression or all the heartbreak, is simply passing memory.”
That was a huge revelation, and the book is full of them. Give it a read! May it help you be at ease with your practice.

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A simple space shooter I hacked together in the past weeks. Don't expect much - no levels, just boom-boom.
Play the demo here
- Left-Click: Shoot
- Right-Click: Slow motion
- Mouse-wheel: Zoom in/out
- WASD, LURD: Move player
- Pills: Explode when colliding with player ship, chain explosions.
- Stars: Silver (1 pts), gold (2 pts)
- Magnets: Attracts stars
- Shield: Lowered damage for x seconds
Configuration file is here.
- Resizing window as well as overlays (disabled right now) results in very slow running code
- Some positioning (e.g. ship bullets)
- Entity generation can easily get glitched
- Changing game scale isn't recommended


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YEREVAN, December 24. /ARKA/. Leader of Armenian opposition “Heritage” party Raffi Hovhannisyan announced his decision to run for president in the upcoming elections of February 18, 2013, Novosti-Armenia Agency reported.
The party congress has unanimously supported the nomination of Hovhannisyan.
“Heritage” is a national liberal party and was founded in 2002 by the first Armenian deputy minister of foreign affairs. The party holds five seats in the current parliament.
Armenian presidential elections are scheduled for February 18, 2013. Presidential nominations will start on December 25 and will end on January 4. Nominees will be registered between January 4 and January 14. The election campaign is to start from January 21 and to continue till February 16, 24:00.
The current president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan is the favorite. The Republican Party of Armenia nominated Sargsyan at its congress on December 15. Sargsyan’s campaign slogan will be “Towards secure Armenia”. –0--


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OAKVILLE, ON, June 27, 2014 /CNW/ - Canoe Mining Ventures Corp. (TSXV: CLV) ("Canoe Mining") announces the results from its annual general and special meeting of shareholders ("AGM") held in Toronto on June 26, 2014.
Election of Directors
The following were elected to the Canoe Mining Board of Directors: Duane Parnham, Scott Kelly, Eugene Lee, Jorge Estepa, Bruce Durham, and Jean-François Pelland.
Appointment of Auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Accountants, has been appointed as auditor of Canoe Mining for the ensuing year and the Board of Directors has been authorized to fix their remuneration.
The Canoe Mining rolling Stock Option Plan, Advance Notice Policy and amendments to Canoe Mining's articles of incorporation were also approved by shareholders.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors of Canoe Mining,
Duane Parnham, Director
SOURCE: Canoe Mining Ventures Corp.
For further information: Luke Vigeant, Manager, Investor Relations, Canoe Mining Ventures Corp., Tel: 1.905.844.7612, Email: [email protected]


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The Camera Firmware Update Manager (CFUM) from Viakoo provides capability across a distributed geography to automatically update firmware on camera devices from one or more vendors. It performs these firmware updates with a chain-of-trust method that ensures integrity of the firmware. This solution adds to other foundational capabilities provided by Viakoo that help organizations achieve sustainable cyber hygiene.
Camera devices begin their life with outdated versions of software and, over time, fall further behind. The solution to growing cyber threats that directly target networked IP surveillance cameras has been to update the camera device firmware, yet for many organizations the time and cost of manual upgrades is prohibitive. Additionally, the distributed nature of this infrastructure along with the large number of individual devices make it difficult to find and catalog the them with versions deemed out of date due to bugs and security vulnerabilities. The logistical problems of upgrading devices are compounded by the difficulty of even knowing what is had and whether it needs to be upgraded. CFUM brings new capability to assist integrators and end-users to automate maintaining cameras with the most secure firmware available and can be added to Viakoo Preemptive and Viakoo Predictive subscriptions.
CFUM is designed to be operated from a single management console, and can be performed at any level of a security system hierarchy. Firmware upgrades are accomplished through the three primary interfaces:
- Compliance: The compliance tab shows the upgrade status for all devices (by percent and count), summarized by make/model of camera device.
- Upgrade: The upgrade tab reports on the status and progress of firmware update jobs, providing feedback and control over the process
- Profile: The profile tab is where the firmware versions for updating are managed for compliance definition and chain-of-trust deployment.
“Firmware updates often include patches for security issues, and are released on an unpredictable schedule. Installed cameras, and even newly added cameras, may be connected to the network with outdated versions of software and, over time, fall even further behind, creating cyber vulnerabilities,” said Bud Broomhead, CEO, Viakoo. “It has been difficult for many firms to keep up with this changing environment by routinely identifying and cataloging the camera devices and their firmware status. Automating and managing firmware updates can provide assurance that your camera devices are running on the most recent and secure version of camera firmware.”
“For anyone who has many cameras or multiple sites—and particularly for anyone that has an extensive system with cameras from more than one manufacturer—keeping track of the firmware status of those cameras and applying the firmware updates in a timely manner is a real headache,” said Henrik Sydbo Hansen, Group Manager of Devices and Integrations at Milestone.
CFUM provides a platform on which users can:
- Define standards of compliant firmware versions for each make and model in their inventory
- Assess inventory to its compliance with these manually inputted standards
- Test firmware files on representative devices
- Schedule batch upgrade jobs
- Audit the outcomes and adhere to policies and procedures
As with other Viakoo reporting capabilities, users can choose what level of their operation to report on (site, region, or globally).


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Upcoming Brad Delp Auction is an Absolute Treasure Trove
An online auction of the ex-Boston frontman, Rock Legend (and Granite Stater) will begin on Thursday. His collection of Beatles records alone is astounding!
The last interview he ever gave was in promotion of his Beatles tribute band 'BeatleJuice' and a show they were to perform at The Rochester Opera House. He and I discussed The Fab Four at length on that afternoon over ten years ago.
Check out his extensive collection right here.
All items are authenticated by Brad's ex-wife Micki as the auction is being held by she and both of their children through the help of RR Auction.
The RR Auction website has a very detailed inventory list here.
The auction concludes on Thursday, December 14th.

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- The Taliban have no use for good, old-fashioned American small business.
- Do American judges listen to Lady Gaga?
- Google is determined to deliver on the future we were promised by 50s Sci-Fi novels.
- When you get a tattoo, aren't you supposed to approve the outline before you get inked?
- Banksy reveals the awful truth about Simpsons merchandise.
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Pure Ground Pilau Masala | Spice Seasoning | Tropical Heat
Large Food Masala | Parsely, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mint, Celery
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