1. duplicity, duality
As I head into my late early thirties, I’m developing a mild obsession with actresses who haven’t had plastic surgery. When I was younger, all grownup faces looked the same to me, and that look was “boring.” But just as I’ve discovered that people over forty can do things other than make you dinner and pay for college, I’ve also learned that some of them freeze their faces into little shrines to their former selves, and some of them age.
After seeing Duplicity, AK and I had this conversation:
Me: It’s really nice to see Julia Roberts looking so great but also normal. I mean, maybe she’s had a little Botox here and there, but I don’t think she’s had any full-on surgery. And she’s skinny, but not so skinny you can’t imagine her eating. She looks like she has a life, you know?
AK: Yeah, it’s nice to see. But I’m not against people getting face lifts if they want. We do lots of stuff that’s unnatural to our bodies, so it seems hypocritical to judge them for taking it one step further.
Me: I don’t judge it either. I don’t think it’s immoral or anything—-but you have to acknowledge that it is an act of denial.
AK: That seems a lot like judging.
Me: Okay, so I do judge. But not in a judgmental way. I’ll probably dye my hair pretty soon. Not for fun but to deny the gray.
2. old-lady pride
I appreciate the Julia Robertses and the Jennifer Jason Leighs and the Diane Keatons because by going natural (or at least appearing to), they’re putting forth the radical notion that having lived longer than thirty years is not something to apologize for.
(Of course it helps that they were all gorgeous to start with. I might age a little more like Penny Marshall than Julia Roberts.)
Back in the day, being gay used to seem really unappealing because I had never actually seen a grownup gay person whose life looked fun. So yeah, we need some old-lady role models, not closet cases trying desperately to pass as thirty when they’re fifty.
But even though I’m saying, Be proud of who you are, I think I’m also saying, Be an enviable example of what you are, which is a problem that I and our whole culture seem to have. Like, it’s okay to look your age as long as you’re still beautiful and you’re calm and wise all the time. It’s okay to be gay as long as you’re funny. It’s okay to be fat as long as you don’t have visible cellulite. It’s okay to be “ethnic” as long as you’re not poor.
And it’s only okay to be stressed-out and dramatic and poor if you’re young and white and thin and pretty. (It’s never okay to have cellulite.)
There’s a darker, messier world in which all types of people are flawed at all stages of their lives. I was watching a young mom interact with her toddler at the store today, and I caught myself daydreaming about what a fun and kickback mom I would be, the kind whom you’d overhear saying witty yet educational things to her kid in Cost Plus World Market.
Then I caught a glimpse of my messy hair in the mirror next to the Indian jewelry display and I thought, If I’m a deeply imperfect, high-strung non-mom, what makes me think I’m going to become totally cool once I’m getting three hours of sleep a night?
I guess I want it all: the fantasy of a perfect and endless future, the semi-fantasy of beauty that results from chaos and complexity, and the reality of human fragility. But hey, it’s my birthday tomorrow. I’m allowed to have a wish list.
*No offense to Penny Marhsall. Really, I could do much worse.


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I was going to give this a 7, but by the time I got to the end, I automatically gave it one point up, just for being so clever. The film is a classic con-artist flick, and those are awesome to watch. They make you think, and they're fun.
John C. Reilly, although he was good as usual, just didn't make a good leading man. It's not only that he doesn't have the right face for it, but it's everything else about him too. Not the right voice, personality and charisma that another actor might. He's a terrific character actor, and perhaps that's why they gave him this role, because it is a character driven part, but, the difference is, that he's carrying the movie basically on his own, and for him, it just didn't work really well. His co-star was excellent, and cute to boot. I saw him in one another film. 'The Terminal' with Tom Hanks, but that's the only other film I've ever seen him in. There is some Spanish in it, too which made the film a little more interesting, and the directing was just artsy enough to give it a little bit of flavor. However, there were times when the film was a little dry and could of used a bit of seasoning, if you catch my drift.
Maggie Gyllanhaal was great, and well casted for this part. I think she is a very overlooked actress and in a way follows Johnny Depp's paths, as a somewhat newcomer to Hollywood, picking films that are more interesting than cliché or stereotypical Hollywood, so to speak.
The film itself though, was well-written, and other than the mistake of John C. Reilly as I said before in the lead, it was well-casted also. There is, other than some foul language from time to time, nothing to be offended by, no sexual content, no nudity, and no violence. With that, I will say it's one of the better interesting films I've seen in a long time, and will keep it in mind for recommending it to people that I see. And, I recommend it, in fact, right now, to you!
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Fish stews are awesome winter meals to make, but considering we’re deep into the summer, I thought I’d add a bit of sunshine to the dish.
In terms of the fish that you add into this recipe, you can be pretty flexible. Next time I make this I’ll add in some prawns and maybe some quid, so give that a try.
Another thing worth mentioning is that this a great dish to make when you’ve got a load of friends or family around. You can cook it all up in one big pot and let everyone help themselves.
Just grill some fresh ciabatta drizzled in olive oil and you’ve got the perfect side to go with the fish stew.
- 250ml fish stock (we use Knorr stock pots)
- 150ml white wine
- 100g salmon
- 100g haddock
- 100g smoked cod
- 100g chick peas
- 300g vine ripened tomatoes (peeled and chopped)
- 1/2 tin of chopped tomatoes
- 250g white fluffy potatoes (maris pipers are perfect)
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1/2 red chilli (chopped)
- 1 orange or yellow pepper (chopped)
- 1 white onion (chopped)
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- Handful of fresh parsley (chopped)
- Glug of olive oil
- In a large saucepan, add the olive oil and fry the onion, garlic and chilli on a high heat until they start to brown.
- Add the tomato puree and the cayenne pepper, then stir it into the onion/garlic/chilli to make a wet paste.
- Once you've created a paste, add the vine-ripened tomatoes, tin of tomatoes, chopped pepper, potatoes (peel and cut them into small chunks), chick peas and the zest/juice of the lemon. Season to taste with salt and pepper then cook on a high heat for 10 minutes.
- Add the chopped parsley, wine and stock and cook for a further 10 minutes. This should reduce down the contents of the pan slightly and bring out all of the flavours of the vegetables.
- Once the wine has reduced, add the fish and cook for another 10 minutes. Make sure you're occasionally stirring the pan at this stage. Also, you don't need to worry about cutting the fish into smaller chunks beforehand because once they've cooked for 3-4 minutes you'll be able to flake them apart with a wooden spoon.
- Take off the heat and leave to settle for 2-3 minutes before serving with some grilled ciabatta.

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Suncor Energy (TSX:SU)(NYSE:SU) is finally catching a tailwind after trailing its peers in the oil rally over the past two years. Investors who missed the recent surge are wondering if Suncor stock is still undervalued.
Suncor generated a record $4.1 billion in funds from operations in the first three months of 2022, nearly double the amount of the same period in 2021. Adjusted operating earnings rose to $2.76 billion compared to $746 million in Q1 last year. Net earnings came in at $2.95 billion, up from $821 million.
The big increase gives investors an idea of how much extra cash flow Suncor generates in current conditions. WTI oil remains above US$100 per barrel and is expected to stay elevated for some time. As a result, the Q2 numbers should be even better.
Suncor is best known for its oil sands production assets, but the company also owns large refineries and roughly 1,500 Petro-Canada retail locations. These downstream assets historically provided a good hedge against drops in the price of oil, but they also took a beating during the lockdowns of the pandemic.
Now that airlines are ramping up capacity and commuters are hitting the highways again, the refining and retail businesses are performing well. The group generated $1.6 billion in adjusted funds from operations in the first quarter of this year compared to $1.17 billion in Q1 2021.
Suncor raised its dividend by 100% late last year and recently announced another 12% hike to bring the quarterly payout to $0.47 per share. This completes the reversal of the 55% distribution cut the company made in the early days of the pandemic.
Suncor’s decision to reduce the dividend in 2020 upset investors and put the stock in the doghouse. The oil giant’s Canadian peers refrained from cutting their payouts and have seen their share prices soar to new all-time highs in some cases.
Suncor also announced an increase to its share-buyback program. The company now intends to repurchase up to 10% of its outstanding stock over a 12-month period compared to the previous goal of 5%. From February 8 to May 6, 2022, Suncor repurchased $1.04 billion in stock.
Suncor’s share price jumped in late April after an activist investor, Elliott Investment Management, revealed a 3.4% stake in Suncor and called for a shakeup of senior management and the board. The market seems to think the company will be forced to put more measures in place to enhance shareholder value.
Should you buy Suncor stock now?
Suncor still appears cheap given the outlook for oil prices through the end of the year and the recovery in the refining and retail operations. The stock currently trades at $48.50 per share. Suncor was $44 per share in early 2020 before the arrival of the pandemic. At that point, WTI oil was only about US$60 per barrel. Today, it is above US$110.
Investors who buy now can pick up a dividend that provides a 3.9% yield and wait for the rest of the market to realize the stock remains undervalued.


Eric Osei Owusu, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Afram Plains South in the Eastern Region, has revealed that Mark Oliver-Kevor, the party’s Regional Secretary, worked hard to undermine him during the 2016 general elections.
Mr Owusu accused Mr Kevor of bribing the electorate to vote against him on the election day.
“Kevor, who was holding huge amount of money, moved from house to house to give money to the electorate to vote against me,” the NDC MP said.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that there was exchange of blows at a meeting held between Mr Owusu, Mr Kevor and his deputy Francis Annor Dompreh.
The party’s National Organizer Kofi Adams and 1st Vice Chairperson Anita Desoso attempted to resolve the impasse at a meeting convened by the Regional Chairman Bismarck Tawiah Boateng.
It would be recalled that three months to the 2016 general elections, then ruling NDC withdrew its parliamentary candidate Joseph Appiah, who was the incumbent MP, from the race over fears that a case of fraud for which he was convicted overseas could be resurface.
As a result, the Regional Secretary Mark Oliver-Kevor, who hails from the Kwahu East Constituency, wanted to contest in Afram Plains South with the tacit support of some NDC gurus.
Eric Osei Owusu lost to Joseph Appiah in the party’s primaries and the MP felt he should be given the chance after his main contender stepped down.
The issue turned bizarre when NDC National Chairman Kofi Portuphy travelled to the area and introduced Mr Kevor to the Electoral Commission (EC) as the main parliamentary candidate for the area, but the party’s General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah also introduced Eric Osei Owusu, who was finally chosen by the party.
There has not been peace since the NDC was booted out of office, as the regional secretary, MP and the constituency chairman Mr Boamah have been at each other’s throat.
The party hierarchy has decided to resolve the impasse before the branch elections of the NDC commence.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that during the meeting, the Regional Secretary and his deputy made references and in the process mentioned the name of the late father of the MP, but the MP did not take kindly to the issue.
“I was angry at the meeting, but never removed my shirt to fight anyone. I wasn’t happy with their posture towards me so I tried to speak my mind at the meeting,” the MP said, adding “Kevor, who is undermining my efforts in the party, accepted his mistakes and apologized for that.”
“He was bribing people to vote against me because he wanted to become the MP and didn’t get the chance. When he was quizzed, he said that he was only giving the electorate money to motivate them to vote for the NDC.”
The MP told DAILY GUIDE that he would not like to use the media to solve his problems since he was satisfied with the outcome of the meeting.
Anita Desoso, in an interaction with Radio One, a private station at Bunso Junction, admitted that there was a misunderstanding at the said meeting but denied that the two exchanged blows.
The Regional Chairman Tawiah Boateng, when contacted by the paper, said “I am at a funeral and can’t speak to any issue for now.”
Mark Oliver Kevor said the misunderstanding resulted in verbal exchanges, but denied that he bribed the electorate to vote against the NDC MP.
“It is never true that I did that. How is it possible for me to carry money from house to house to share to the electorate to vote against our own party member?”
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Former Labour leader and EU Commissioner Neil Kinnock will open the Overcoming Dictatorships exhibition at the University of Birmingham tomorrow.
Overcoming Dictatorships shows 17 works produced by ten artists and is the result of a project involving artists and writers from six European Countries, sharing their experiences of the change from dictatorship to democracy, in particular after the opening of former Communist countries since 1989.
The purpose of the exhibition is to give a better understanding to Western European citizens of the recent history and political experiences of Eastern European countries.
The works in the exhibition deal with processes of mourning, remembering and overcoming the past. They question established perceptions and identify non-geographical dictatorships such as consumerism and globalisation.
Dr Jutta Vinzent, curator of the exhibition, says: “It is not the intention to add another pillar to a proclaimed European Heritage, but rather to contribute to bridging the East and the West.”
Neil Kinnock will open the exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 9th October at 12.30pm.
The exhibition, which closes on 9th November, will then be seen in each of the home countries of the contributing artists.
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"I have an insatiable desire for Cyclamens, & could never have too many, for I know of no other plant that will turn patches of dust under thick trees into stretches of beauty so permanently & thoroughly."
-A. E. Bowles,
My Garden in Autumn & Winter,
C. coum is native to the Black Sea region down to the eastern Mediterranean & as far into the Near East as Israel. It grows in deep forest shade often right up against a tree. An old patch clumps to a twelve inch spread of rounded mottled leaves mid-autumn through early spring, with the height of their bloom in winter.
We have a great many patches of C. coum. The first ones we ever planted were started from seedlings obtained from Heronswood Nursery. The first they labeled 'Shell Pink.' It is is pale violet-pink with touches of white. The March photo above shows its blooms above the faintly tree-patterned leaves under the Azalea twigs, with Golden Club Moss competing for space, & a few black leaves of Mondo Grass poking into the frame. The second photo shows the same plant a year later, in February.
Heronswood had periodically carried what appears to be the full line of cyclamens from Ashwood Nursery in England. From these more recent offerings we obtained a few rarely offered species, plus other C. coum varieties, including evenly pewtered varieties 'Tilebarn Elizabeth,' & the clumsily named but beautiful 'BSBE 518.' Others get added each year since I for one can't resist a leaf that seems a bit different from others already spread about our gardens.
Ashwood has named certain cyclamens 'Shell,' 'Rose' & 'Magenta' to indicate a progression of color intensity. Such names designate color variations rather than registered cultivars. Leaf variety would be the next defining feature. This one is Patternleaf but the pattern is rather faded.
Both 'Shell' & 'Rose' have appeared in catalogs in England & America described as having "variously mottled" leaves, but the mottling is not a high point on either of our specimens, & the most strikingly marked varieties are usually grouped under headings like 'Silverleaf.' The simpler leaves of our 'Shell' with its extremely faint arrowhead pattern framed with yellowish-green, & the almost plain but thinly white-freckled 'Rose Pink,' are very lovely, but many other strains of C. coum are much more extreme in their patterning (such as for example 'White-silver Pattern-leaf Pink').
'Shell Pink' like most C. coums leafs out in October & is very leafy indeed by the time it blooms in January, & continues to be increasingly leafy & flowery up through March. When it is finished flowering, the leaves last longer into spring (April). By comparison the nearby 'Rose Pinks' has very few leaves when it produces many wirey, twining, creeper-like flower stems. It flowers robustly late January through March, but holds back its full production of leaves until March, which isn't typical of the species but is how this one clump has behaved every year.
Cyclamens can live pretty much forever; or, at least, their lifespan is as long as many trees, with the tuber very slowly growing larger with each decade until it can become as big as a kid's head, though flattened.
They require little or no fertilizing. If it is inescapable that they get some fertilizer while taking care of heavier feeders in the vicinity, they may get leafier, but not flowerier. They will do much better if fed nothing other than wholesome, fine, dark compost or leafmold as a thin top-dressing, perhaps even sieved to avoid compost chunks that might retard new growth of tender young leaves & the coiling stems of flowers. This would apply to any of the hardy outdoor species, not just C. coum.
C. coum self-seeds with abandon & will colonize an area after a few years, faster than any other hardy cyclamen, with little seedlings even popping up in pots of nearby containered plants. It is by no means necessary that a tuber be well developed before they leaf & bloom. Seedlings of most other species will take on average three years to be flowery when started from seed, with pleasant leaves in the meantime; but self-seeded C. coum sometimes blooms at the end of its very first year, & inevitably by the second.
Cyclamen coum 'Rose Pink'
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Immerse yourself in the heart of Washington D.C.'s Black culture and nightlife scene with a knowledgeable local guide.
🎶 Discover the birthplace of jazz musician Duke Ellington and learn about his influence on the music scene in D.C.
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Surface chemistry of engineered nanoparticles allows to differentiate cancer stem cells
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Cancer stem cells (CSCs), also called tumor-initiating cells, are elusive and rare cells that can cause cancer to come back even years after the initial tumor has been successfully treated. Although CSCs represent only a tiny fraction of cells in a tumor it only takes one to seed a new tumor when it splits into a cancer cell and another stem cell.
With their ability to resist conventional chemotherapy drugs, CSCs are really difficult to kill and they are considered to be key drivers in metastasis, the spread of cancer via the blood stream.
The underlying cause for this is a process known as mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) whereby CSCs differentiate and become regular cancer cells. Conversely, cancer cells can also gain stem cell properties to become more aggressive by undergoing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT).
Researchers have hypothesized that therapeutic agents that promote differentiation could limit the occurrence of EMT and with it the acquisition of stem cell properties by cancer cells.
If the frequency of CSCs could be diminished, tumors would be rendered less aggressive and more responsive to conventional therapy. This approach is known as differentiation therapy and has considerable therapeutic potential.
"Differentiation therapy presents a potential strategy for 'defanging' CSCs," Vincent Rotello, the Charles A. Goessmann Professor of Chemistry and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, tells Nanowerk. "Specifically, the use of nanoparticles to differentiate CSCs provides a new therapeutic strategy against these particularly dangerous cancer cells."
The crucial issue, of course, is to find the nanoparticles that are effective as differentiating agents.
"Limitations in screening and platform design space have hindered the exploration of nanomaterial-based CSC differentiation, and as such, there is a clear need for methods that feature greater control over chemical diversity and can simultaneously increase throughput," says Rotello.
The team's novel approach uses the precise level of structural control afforded by gold nanoparticles to systematically investigate the effects of nanoparticle surface chemistry on CSC differentiation.
Coupling the gold nanoparticles with a hypothesis-free, array-based nanosensor platform allows access to the resulting cell phenotype in a matter of minutes – a feature highly desirable for high-throughput and high-content screening.
Schematic illustration of the integration of nanoparticle design and hypothesis-free sensing. Chemical structure of the 2 nm core diameter gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) used to stimulate CSCs is shown on the left. After AuNP treatment, cells were washed and incubated with the nanosensor to rapidly collect phenotypic information. An unreported phenotype identified through the sensing screen was further subjected to drug treatment to see if it was more sensitive to chemotherapy. (Adopted and reprinted with permission by American Chemical Society) (click on image to enlarge)
"Our array-based sensing uses a signature-based method to profile an entire matrix of bioanalytes, effectively circumventing the bottleneck of receptor specificity as demonstrated through discrimination of CSCs from non-CSCs," Rotello points out. "With our platform we successfully identified an altered unreported phenotype that is more susceptible to traditional chemotherapeutic treatment. The resulting cells presented an increased level of reactive oxygen species, which could be responsible for sensitizing CSCs to drug treatment."
"The nanoparticle used in our study provides a lead for designing more effective CSC-targeted therapeutics," he concludes. "The mechanistic studies backing up the research also provide new insight into mechanisms that can be accessed to target CSCs."
There will be challenges in moving these results from cell studies into animals. The nanoparticles used, however, have excellent properties for in vivo use.
Going forward, the researchers are currently developing new, more efficient nanoparticles and will be testing them in animal models soon. They are also continuing their fundamental studies into the mechanism(s) of CSC differentiation.

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This review and others are posted at Inspiring Insomnia.
The Troop is not for the squeamish. In fact, much of it is downright disgusting. If you decide to read this book, prepare yourself for graphic, merciless descriptions of oozing sores, bloody wounds, and worms squirming into (and out of) a variety of orifices. In case you’re wondering, yes, I’m recommending this book. I do have to mention upfront several instances of animal torture. It starts off somewhat mildly with the burning of ants, but it gets much, much worse as it moves on to a mouse, a turtle, a kitten, and a chimpanzee. The scenes are written quite gleefully, and in hindsight, I don’t know why I didn’t skip over them. I had to keep reminding myself, “This is fiction,” but it was still awful to read.
In The Troop, a group of five Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster set out for what should be an uneventful weekend of camping on a deserted island. It soon becomes very eventful when a skeletal, obviously sick man lands on the island. Tim, the Scoutmaster, is a doctor, but he has never seen an illness like the one with which this man is inflicted. His healing instincts take over, and he enlists the help of one of the boys to perform what he hopes is lifesaving surgery on the man. Unfortunately, Tim doesn’t take into account how contagious this mysterious disease may be, and it begins to spread among the members of the troop. We learn about the origin of the disease before the characters do, as occasional present-day interviews and news articles are sprinkled throughout the story.
The boys fit a little too easily into convenient cliches: the bully, the fat kid, the angry kid, the peacemaker, and the psychopath. Their interactions help to hammer these cliches home, and they’re marked by heavy doses of bullying and fighting. Still, we care about the ones we are “supposed” to care about, and we’re suitably horrified by the psychopath (who, incidentally, is responsible for some, but not all, of the animal torture.)
I continually thought of Stephen King as I read this story, and I wasn’t surprised to learn afterwards that the author is a big fan. Unlike with King’s books, however, I was never scared, but I was horrified, disgusted, repulsed, and that works just fine for me, too.
Note: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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In 2017 there was a media spat after Conservative MPs rejected an unusual amendment put forward by the Green MP Caroline Lucas. This amendment stated that the UK government would continue to recognise animals as sentient after leaving the EU. When the government eventually published its draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill, it recognised animals as sentient beings.
But the draft Bill was so roundly trashed by the Parliamentary EFRA Committee that it was subsequently withdrawn. Neil Parish, chair of the committee and a farmer himself, was particularly concerned about whether, in accepting their sentience, the government would have a duty to consider the welfare of wild rabbits on agricultural land.
The government turned to the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC) for advice on how to work animal sentience in UK law. In its response, the committee proposed the following definition for the sentience of non-human animals: “Sentience is the capability to experience pain, distress and harm.”
The government published this advice in June 2019 — it was a striking statement. The FAWC is an expert body, but the definition is scientifically illiterate. Sentience, ordinarily and scientifically understood, refers to the capacity to experience both positive and negative mental states. But the committee had only defined it as the ability to feel negative emotion: “pain, distress… harm.”
By restricting the definition of sentience to negative states, FAWC’s proposed definition will effectively limit the duty of government to prevent animal suffering.
A wider definition of sentience, referring also to positive states, would not only be scientifically sound but would confer a broader duty on government to promote positive states.
This matters because the definition of sentience in the animal welfare bill will have an influence on the lives and treatment of billions of sentient British animals. The animal welfare bill will apply to all categories of animals, so FAWC’s proposed definition will affect not only farmed animals but those used in research, for companionship and those in the wild.
The great majority of our chicken, bacon and pork comes from intensive farms. Such pigs and chickens are often in pain, distress and harm. And they are certainly not experiencing pleasure and joy. But according to the FAWC’s definition, this simply does not matter.
FAWC’s definition of sentience conveniently supports intensive, or industrial, or factory farming. Intensive farms do not treat pigs and chickens as sentient beings. They treat them more like machines — insentient units of production, which convert animal feed into human food.
In the 2011 bonfire of the quangos, FAWC was moved within DEFRA, which makes its advice subject to political pressure. DEFRA has a policy objective to increase food production. Recognising that pigs, chickens and other farmed species can feel pleasure and joy puts a spanner in the works if the intention is to maximise agricultural productivity.
It is striking that FAWC includes intensive pig farmers but no individuals from leading UK animal welfare organisations. The RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming are opposed to intensive farming practices, which they rightly claim cause suffering on a massive scale. A large proportion of the public — millions of British citizens — wants better welfare for farmed animals.
The Conservative Animal Welfare Minister Zac Goldsmith recently announced that the remit of FAWC has been expanded. FAWC has been renamed as the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC). The AWC will now advise DEFRA and the devolved administrations on the welfare of farmed, companion and kept wild animals.
It is a serious mistake to widen the remit of FAWC to include companion and wild animals. In the UK we raise and slaughter one billion land-farmed animals each year. There are around eight million dogs and cats apiece. The number of kept wild animals is trivial by comparison. The animal health and welfare advisory landscape in the UK is in desperate need of reform.
Before its absorption by government, FAWC was a public body that was respected throughout the world. Now it must be re-established as a fully independent council. A new Animal Protection Commission, with genuine independence form the government, must be established. The Labour Party’s manifesto pledge to appoint a dedicated Animal Welfare Commissioner goes some way to addressing the problem, but not far enough.


Schmidt rethinking role on Apple's board
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may be moving toward stepping down from his role as a member of Apple's board of directors, a relationship that has come under federal scrutiny for conflicts of interest stemming from the areas in which the two companies compete.
Speaking at a press briefing at Allen & Co.'s annual conference for media and technology moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, Schmidt said he would talk to Apple about his board seat following the unveiling of Google's plans to launch an operating system, according to a Reuters report.
Prior to the OS announcement, the Federal Trade Commission had opened an inquiry into Schmidt's role on the board of a company that already competed with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in mobile (iPhone v. Android OS) and Web browsers (Safari v. Chrome).
Now that Google is developing an operating system geared for netbook computers, the two companies seem headed for competition in a more fundamental level.


Cassper Nyovest works on new album with Abidoza
Cassper Nyovest appears not to be taking a break from the music industry as he announces working on another new project.
Despite previous album success, the rapper says he’s kicked off working on a new album with music producer, Abidoza.
The music producer is known to be the producer of some Amapiano hit songs, hence fans asked if the rapper is cooking an amapiano project, as he’s featured on some piano hit songs.
“New album loading. .@Abidoza_SA on the beats mara wang Costa,” Mufasa captioned post.
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Cassper’s previous album which was released in September 2020, is his 5th album and it’s titled, Any Minute Now. The album bagged him awards.
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BTW you may look out for other tools as well; EASUS is free I think, but I like Acronis Disk Director a lot better. Very irritating. I am experiencing exactly the same issue. Thanks newb • February 16th, 2013 at 10:17 pm Dear James, I looked at S.M.A.R.T Data, I am getting an error saying "Cannot retrieve SMART DATA. this contact form
I know your phone is much faster. your post http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic481048.html came helpful for me.. Boot drive is a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB.)The drive will not format in my system: Period.Upon physically installing the drive, Windows recognized the drive and indicated that it needed to THIS POST IS OUTDATEDTHERE IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST HERE http://html5.litten.com/updated-how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/ A common and befuddling problem with computers is the sudden and seemingly inexplicable disappearance of an external hard https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/67824-unable-access-all-files-4tb-gpt-internal-drive-turned-external.html
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Sounds like the drive i actually working, unsure what the exact problem is. Thanks to the author! Browse other questions tagged windows-7 hard-drive partitioning external-hard-drive gpt or ask your own question. HD capacity is 3TB*, but I cant see / find what the * refers to?
The only version of Acronis I've ever had in this machine is the WD Edition (the one you linked to). Related Resources solved Need Help choosing a 4TB Internal HDD solved Need help with RAID. I think Windows 10 may be able to do that via diskmanagement, but I'm not sure; you may just try, once you have a backup of your files...! Windows 10 Not Recognizing Hard Drive Restarted computer with CD in the tray with bad external drive connected.
Your disk should look different from the example in this post. I have been running two 3.5" hard drives internally in my stationary computer for some time now, one is 2TB and the other is 4TB. The SATA to USB bridge has got a limit on what size partition it can deal with. Would it recover the files or not being able to see any of the files in the partition mean that the data is already lost?
It's just my impression from what you wrote. Convert Gpt To Mbr Without Data Loss That has thrown me an error of Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot, which makes sense given the trouble I'm having formating the blank drive. Hopefully this works for you! I gave my HD for data recovery where the professional formatted it and has recovered a partition which was not actually RAW, but couldnt access the other partition which was RAW
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I have just upgraded to a 3tb drive in this enclosure http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/374 ... ... http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2568438/4tb-hdd.html SzyrsMar 15, 2014, 9:26 AM The above applies just the same, regardless of whether you connect your HDD to your computer via USB, SATA or eSATA. How To Install 4tb Internal Hard Drive All Rights Reserved Tom's Hardware Guide ™ Ad choices Articles & News Forum Graphics & Displays CPU Components Motherboards Games Storage Overclocking Tutorials All categories GPU HIERARCHY CPU HIERARCHY Brands 4tb Hard Drive Not Recognized Windows 7 Should be.
You can also try some of the paid solutions that have a free trial to see if they work. weblink Have you tried looking at the drive with TestDisk yet? But then you still have to build and format your raid-setup first, with just an initial overwrite/throw-away-installation. However, after a few days of on and off copying, I suddenly found that the partition was corrupt and Windows reported it as RAW. Access Gpt Protective Partition
I'll look at the link you've posted and I'll let you know if it works for me. Once you have selected your partition table, you may then partition the disk into one or more partitions, and assign each one with a file system. I used the above method to retrieve them. navigate here I think I had ODD at 0, SSD at 1, HDD 1 at 3 and HDD 2 at 4.
And I do not want this as an external drive.Thanks for all your help. Mbr Vs Gpt Thanks admin • March 4th, 2013 at 8:02 pm Hi Sylvia You may be able to use the Windows version of TestDisk which can be found here… http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download James sulaiman • Are you the guy uploading all these free Linux ISO-images with the fast server at Twenthe University?
This is done by clicking on Hard Disk in the menubar and selecting Convert to GPT hard disk from the context menu.Full access to all 3 Terabytes is provided afterwards.
Well they were both connected by a USB NexStar HDD Dock and my computer supports more than 3TB as I currently have a 3TB HDD inside connected to the motherboard and
It probably stopped working because I forgot to use the Safely Remove Hardware option.
Since this is not your OS drive, try connecting the drive externally ( or hot plugging it, if your motherboard supports it) and running chkdisk on the drive.
Does this mean I have to make changes to my boot drive and my other data drive??? solved Need Help Moving Old HDD and SSD to New Computer solved Help choosing 4TB HDD for RAID1 More resources See also solved What do I need to do to use I've had a look at the Mediasonic enclosure, sadly most brands are not sold in my country (Denmark) and I am stuck with Raidsonic if I want anything with more than Hgst admin • January 14th, 2013 at 4:32 am Hi JP Here is a similar situation that I worked on with a 1TB external GoFlex… http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic481048.html See if what we tried there
I wrote a post about checking a drive's S.M.A.R.T. I just purchased a WD Caviar Green 2.5TB in my the intention to use it as a secondary drive. Press Q to go back a screen and then press enter to get to this screen. http://wisteme.com/hard-drive/unable-to-find-files-on-removed-hard-drive.html I seen all my files that were on there, so that is good, but when following the instructions to back out of that menu screen by pressing "Q" then hit enter
windows-7 hard-drive partitioning external-hard-drive gpt share|improve this question edited May 25 '13 at 3:17 asked May 24 '13 at 2:52 Mawg 65541939 2 Did you just buy a bare drive You should contact a professional data recovery company. In anycase, when I boot with Windows the hard disk can't be used (Window ask for formating it). IIRC I used the eSATA interface to my laptop whilst partitioning and formatting.
aallegreJun 12, 2015, 10:14 AM No. Sorry to trouble you for prolonged period. Default Settings (Runs from RAM) When it finishes booting you will notice that it looks kind of like a Windows desktop. Add partition.
Here are the results for the drive used in this example… Backup important files and run chkdsk Now you should make backups of all important files on the drive in case HDD The Guardian Series: Highly Specialized Internal Drives Rescue We Can Recover Your Files, Just in Case. Can you guide me on this one? UGH MUCH RAGE!
The usb has only 1 file on it when I tried to use the usb at home.


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The National Chamber Choir of Ireland is delighted to announce that it is one of eight selected organisations to participate in the Arts Council’s RAISE initiative.
Eight leading Irish arts organisations are aiming to raise €10 million in private funding over the next five years as part of a new Arts Council initiative. The pilot project is designed to place the organisations on a stronger financial footing and will mean people around the country will be able to experience more high quality performances, exhibitions, film screenings and other arts events.
The Arts Council’s RAISE: Building Fundraising Capacity pilot initiative will provide one-to-one professional support to the eight selected organisations for two years through planning and implementing a tailored fundraising programme. The project will be guided by a specialist team composed of the company 2into3 and Kingsley Aikins of Networking Matters.
Income from fundraising by arts organisations in Ireland is less than 3 percent of total income. This is a much lower ratio than in other countries such as Britain or Australia, where arts organisations secure up to a third of their revenue from fundraising.
The arts organisations participating in the initial pilot are the Irish Film Institute, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Na Piobairi Uilleann, the Galway Arts Festival, the Model gallery in Sligo, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera and the Gate Theatre. As part of the selection process, all demonstrated that they have the ambition, potential and commitment to raise more than €250,000 per annum in private investment.
The initiative came about as a result of a request to the Arts Council from the Minister for Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD. Formally launching the initiative on 2nd October, Minister Deenihan commented:
“Today’s obvious constraints on the taxpayer mean that we have to look for innovative ways to address funding issues. Historically, however, philanthropy for arts and culture has been underdeveloped in Ireland compared to other sectors and other countries. For this reason the Programme for Government sets out a clear commitment that we must develop new proposals to build private support of the arts in Ireland.”
“Following the Philanthropy Leverage pilot scheme I launched earlier this year, I warmly welcome the new Arts Council RAISE initiative as an important step towards building a new culture of private support for the arts in Ireland,” he added.
Arts Council Director Orlaith McBride said the Council was committed to supporting arts organisations in maximising private investment such as donations from individuals, trusts and foundations as well as corporate philanthropy.
“More than 60 arts organisations applied to participate in the project, and the final eight organisations went through a rigorous selection process. With the help of the RAISE pilot project we will give them the tools, skills and resources to increase very significantly the investment they get from private sources,” she said.


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Business going well: Community hub helps Bundy’s battlers
The phrase "business is going well" usually indicates a prosperous economy.
But for the Angels Community Group, that's not necessarily true.
The group is a cornerstone for those in the Bundaberg community who are in need, and business is booming according to the group's Sue Tasker.
"Our minimart is doing really well and that's because people are struggling," she said.
Gail Mole manages the second-hand shop and said the group offered services like school lunches and emergency hampers available for everyone, especially those at risk.
"You can't wait two weeks for food," she said.
"It's becoming a little community hub."

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A stun gun is a self-defense item that can be utilized to stop another person who is assaulting you. It utilizes high voltage energy to quickly immobilize the assaulting person. It is created to transfer the energy into the muscles of the individual at a high pulse rate which triggers the muscles to operate at an extremely fast speed, however on an extremely inefficient basis. This process makes it very challenging for the opponent to operate at all in regard to moving or assaulting. The assaulter will be disoriented and confused for a time, but will not have actually any harm pertained to him in regard to his vital organs.
In this way, the various parts of your body use electrical energy to interact with one another. This is in fact a lot like a telephone system or the Internet. Specific patterns of electrical energy are transferred to provide identifiable messages.
The energy passing to the opponent will not impact the individual who is holding the stun gun. Even if the attacker were to touch the person providing the stun, there will be no effect on the person holding the system.
One to two seconds can cause muscle spasms and a dazed mindset. Over 3 seconds can trigger loss of balance and muscle control, mental confusion, and disorientation. Understand that 3 seconds is quite a very long time when in a physical battle.
First things initially ... the electrical energy from one of these can not eliminate you. It's the amperage, not the voltage that can eliminate you and stun weapons utilize less than 5 milliamps.
There are cases where stun guns and Tasers have actually been investigated as a possible cause or contributing consider deaths. A figure typically estimated is 70 deaths throughout North America, from 1999 to 2003. In all these cases, Tasers and stun weapons were never ever proven to be the cause of death. In many cases, enemies were under the impact of alcohol, cocaine and other drugs that increase risk of heart attack or stoppage.
As a general guideline, a half 2nd contact can fend off and shock the aggressor, with the individual sensation some pain and contraction. One to 2 seconds can trigger muscle spasms and a dazed frame of mind. Over 3 seconds can cause vertigo and muscle control, mental confusion and disorientation. Recognize that 3 seconds is rather a very long time when included in a physical battle. All individuals are various and will respond differently to the impacts of a stun gun. What may put one individual down in 3 seconds could take 5 seconds on another individual.
Stun weapons deliver a non-lethal electric shock in order to impede an attacker. The shock is created to be intensely agonizing and can even interrupt proper muscle and motor function when requested extended periods. The basic stun gun features two exposed electrodes that produce the shock when the trigger is depressed. It likewise brings concealable stun guns that appear like common objects, consisting of the popular stun gun flashlight.
Easy USB cord charging: The consisted of USB cord plugs into the bottom of the unit. The other end can enter into a USB port on a computer system or a block battery charger (not consisted of). Total charging directions enclosed.
There is a typical mistaken belief that stun guns work the same way tasers do, but this is incorrect. A taser is created to shoot electrically charged wires at an opponent as much as 15 feet away. Stun weapons, nevertheless, must be put straight versus an attacker's body for the electrical charge to be reliable.
Anne Arundel County lifted its restriction on stun guns in 2013 and Harford County did so in 2014. Howard County, dealing with a claim over its restriction on stun weapons, rescinded its law on February 21, 2017; Annapolis voted to repeal its ban on February 27, 2017; Baltimore County reversed its local regulation in April 2017; Baltimore city's ban, in reaction to a claim, was rescinded on May 15, 2017. Ocean City retains its ban but exempts individuals with a concealed weapons allow from the ban.
2: in case the person does attack, the Runt can deliver a high output electric shock at close quarters, efficiently triggering uncontrolled muscular contraction and pain on the target website. The shock can likewise result in short-lived loss of muscle control, disorientation and even confusion. These reactions are enough to disarm an opponent for numerous minutes. The effects will wear away, however by then, you would currently have actually escaped or sought aid.
This mini stun gun is easily concealed and fits perfectly on your belt with the consisted of holster or inside your bag or purse for fast and simple access. Comfortable bring in the hands of a guy or a lady.
A stun gun provides a shock upon direct physical contact with the tip of the gun. This device works well for close contact encounters and can be advantageous when an assailant is at arm's length. Unlike the Taser, the Runt does not require cautious aiming considering that it will deliver a shock regardless of the area that the idea is available in contact with.
When your life or property remains in threat, the majority of the time you truly have no other recourse than to combat back. However for many, physical strength can just do so much and presume, which is why there are numerous options for self- defense weapons. Among these is the Runt stun gun, a device that's little enough to suit a handbag or a pocket however provides adequate power to help avoid an attack and conserve your life.
The stun gun is frequently incorrect for a Taser. While their fundamental usage is comparable (they both provide an electrical shock to the target), they differ in the way they are used and how they function. A Taser utilizes a wire and barbs to penetrate the target to provide the electrical shock. The wire through which electrical energy takes a trip is connected to a setting off gadget that is held in your hand and can be approximately 15 feet away.
The stun gun is typically incorrect for a Taser. While their fundamental usage is comparable (they both provide an electric shock to the target), they differ in the method they are utilized and how they operate. A Taser utilizes a wire and barbs to permeate the target to deliver the electrical shock. The wire through which electrical energy takes a trip is linked to a setting off gadget that is kept in your hand and can be up to 15 feet away.
Stun guns do not depend on high amperage for outcomes. They are created to key into the anxious system, disrupting tiny neurological impulses that travel through the entire body in addition to immediately burning blood sugar level by converting it to lactic acid similar to that of extremely energetic exercise.
One: it can operate as a tool to produce psychological intimidation on a potential assaulter. The sight and sound of a stun gun is a warning to any assaulter that there is a high possibility that he/she can get injured.
The energy passing to the aggressor will not impact the person who is holding the stun gun. Stun guns provide a non-lethal electrical shock in order to hinder an opponent. It also carries concealable stun weapons that look like common things, consisting of the popular stun gun flashlight.
A stun gun delivers a shock upon direct physical contact with the idea of the weapon. The sight and noise of a stun gun is a warning to any attacker that there is a high possibility that he/she can get injured.
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Starting in October, biomedical researchers will have to counterbalance their use of male animals and cells with the equivalent in female biological tissues and test subjects. At least that's what they'll have to do if they want to get funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest source of medical-research funding in the world. This change, NIH researchers announced in Nature today, will help close the sex gap that continues to exist in preclinical research — the research stage in which drugs and medical interventions are tested on animals and biological tissues — and will "ensure that the health of the United States is being served by supporting science that meets the highest standards of rigor."
Using male animals is the norm
Over the last two decades, researchers have identified a plethora of differences in the way women and men react to various drugs and develop diseases. Women, for instance, are more susceptible to multiple sclerosis than men, even though their symptoms are less serious. And some drugs, such as the sleeping aid Ambien, need to be prescribed in different doses depending on a patient's sex. But preclinical research continues to include a majority of male animals and tissues. In fact, many trials don't include female animals at all. This, some researchers say, might explain the higher rate of adverse drug reactions seen in women today.
Janine Clayton, co-author of the Nature article and associate director for NIH research on women's health, said in an email to The Verge that "using male animals and cells is by and large the status quo right now," even though a number of studies have shown that "sex is a fundamental variable that should be considered from the very start."
Clayton points to studies showing that women and men respond differently to techniques for smoking cessation, such as nicotine patches. Clayton also points to the fact that men and women show different blood vessel patterns, which explains why women can exhibit very different symptoms than men during a heart attack. "Learning this, and understanding what this means, has allowed us to act fast for women, saving lives," she said. This statement comes off as encouraging, but it also hints to a much starker flip-side, one where scientists might have discovered these differences earlier had they included more female tissues at the preclinical stage.
Blame it on their hormones
Jeffrey Mogil, a pain researcher at McGill University in Montreal who regularly works with animal subjects, says that researchers avoid using female animals because many believe that female test subjects introduce more variability in their data. Clayton echoed Mogil, stating that some scientists "assume that using female animals is problematic due to the fact that female animals cycle hormonally." Numerous studies have disproved these beliefs — including a study published by Mogil's team in 2005 — but the male-centered practice persists.
"I guess if you go back far enough it was sexism," Mogil says, but scientists today mostly just "do experiments the way they were taught to do experiments." This, the researcher explains, includes using mostly male animals — even though the convention is "probably unethical, when you come right down to it."
It's "probably unethical."
The changes mandated by the NIH will be rolled out progressively, because the agency wants to ensure that scientists can properly adjust their experimental designs. "To help scientists understand and adapt to the changing policies, we will create training modules on experimental design," Clayton said. "Of course, we will also monitor compliance with new policies and perform data analysis to track our progress." Researchers will be compliant with the NIH's new policies if they report how they intend to balance the use of male and female cells and animals in their proposals. They may also be compliant if they can demonstrate that "sex-specific inclusion is unwarranted," the NIH researchers wrote, "based on rigorously defined exceptions."
Yet NIH-funded research isn't the only scientific sphere where changes need to occur. "We don't operate in a vacuum," Clayton said. "The entire scientific community has a stake in this game." Scientific publishing should also be reformed, she said, because many journals don't require researchers to consider the effect that an animal's sex might have had on their analyses.
This won't address all sex differences
Furthermore, the NIH changes might not be enough to account for all the sex differences that can influence preclinical research. A study recently published by Mogil's team, for example, demonstrated that male experimenters provoke a fear response in rodents that female scientists do not — meaning an animal killed by a male researcher might present stress-related chemicals in its cells that an animal killed by a female researcher would not. One might therefore argue that the sex of the human who killed the lab mice should also be included in a research proposal, along with the sex of the animals themselves.
"As our biomedical knowledge base grows and technology advances," Clayton said, "smart science reveals gaps." Because sex and gender differences continue to represent a blind spot for many scientists, more research should look into these differences at the preclinical stage, she said. "That's why we are calling on scientists to turn their head, and check that blind spot."


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While followers await the discharge of Brad Pitt’s upcoming films equivalent to Bullet Train, Babylon, and others, a stunning piece of stories just lately surfaced on-line and took the web by storm. While opening up about his retirement plans, Brad Pitt revealed that he’s within the ‘final leg’ of his profession. Read additional forward to know extra concerning the stunning revelation that may make his followers disenchanted.
Brad Pitt planning retirement from movies?
In a current interplay with GQ, Brad Pitt, who’s at present indulged in a authorized battle together with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, talked about his plans to retire and talked about how he thought of himself on his final leg. However, he didn’t point out the date and time when he needed to retire.
“I think about myself on my final leg… This final semester or trimester. What is that this part gonna be? And how do I wanna design that?… I’m a kind of creatures that speaks by means of artwork. I simply wish to all the time make. If I’m not making, I’m dying in a roundabout way.”
Moreover, Pitt even mirrored on the instances he spent throughout the pandemic lockdown and revealed how he got here to phrases together with his low-grade despair whereas attempting to embrace all sides of himself. He mentioned, “I feel pleasure’s been a more recent discovery, later in life… I used to be all the time shifting with the currents, drifting in a approach, and onto the subsequent…I feel I spent years with a low-grade despair, and it’s not till coming to phrases with that, attempting to embrace all sides of self – the sweetness and the ugly –that I’ve been in a position to catch these moments of pleasure.”
On the work entrance, it has been revealed that Lewis Hamilton and Brad Pitt shall be collaborating for Formula 1 film. On the opposite hand, Brad Pitt’s upcoming movie Bullet Train is gearing up for its theatrical launch in India on August 5, 2022. The motion comedy movie shall be launched in 4 languages – English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Apart from Pitt, it additionally stars Joey King, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and others in pivotal roles. He can be producing a few different movies which are set to hit the screens this 12 months.
This article was first printed in www.republicworld.com


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Parts Project has an almost museum-like presentation of works by Jaap van den Ende (1944). It has become a kind of retrospective of Dutch painting since the late 1960s. It starts with works of the late 60s and the 1970s with a stark minimalism,
which transforms to works in which lush brush strokes and the structure of paint is combined with geometry in the late 70s and first half of the 1980s (to me his best known works).
The 2nd half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s are represented by works in which there are overtones of painterly dedication and the suggestion of space.
The most spectacular transformation happened in the late 1990s when Van den Ende found his way of dealing with postmodernism.
It puts the whole show and the whole idea of abstraction in painting into perspective.
The careless viewer might think this is just a show of reverse evolution in painting, but it rather shows that the enlightened, modernist ideas of progress have become a myth, whether we like it or not.
[Click on the pictures to enlarge]
© Villa Next Door 2017
Contents of all pictures courtesy to Jaap van den Ende and Parts Project, Den Haag


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Love Quotes and Sayings
Why did I let you treat me like that for so long, maybe it was love?? Or maybe just stupidity??
Hug me like you’ll never see me again.
I’m imperfect and you’re my picture of perfection
I wanna be the girl to make him give it all up, to make him hang his jersey on the door, and say “I don’t wanna be a player no more”.
He met her in a revolving door and has been going round with her since
Love can be described in many ways
You can have the person and not know what they think about you
They may love you at some point but when??
When a person loves you they would show you how much they care and be with you until the end of time
Love is like a roller coaster you’ll have your ups and downs
Everyone says love hurts, but that isn’t true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts.
Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.
Not looking for love doesn’t mean that love won’t find you.
Theres always this one guy that no matter what he does or what he says yuo will always love him.
i found that guy!
If a hug represents how much I love you, I would hold you in my arms forever.
Sometimes the one you love the most is right under your nose.
People keep asking me, ‘Do you really love him?’, ‘Aren’t you afraid of heart break once again?’, ‘Does he loves you for real?’, ‘How long can you stand with him?’, or ‘Are you sure he is the right one for you?’. I have no other answer instead of ‘He is my LIFE’..
Follow your heart. But read your mind!
You should have really high standards but extremely low expectations when dealing with boys.
Your eyes shine bright, like the headlights of a million speeding cars and i’m obsessed with crashing into you.
I fell in love with you when I saw you. Then I was up high and saw you again among the clouds, then I fell further, back into your arms on solid ground.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
It’s funny how you can say a lot of things and be talking to him in particular, but he still has no idea you’re talking about him!!
There are three things that a guy should want to change about a girl: her last name, address, and her viewpoint on men.
Love is easy and natural when you do it with all your heart.

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Indian PM tells US local weather envoy New Delhi is dedicated to meeting pledges below 2015 Paris local weather change settlement and that it’s on monitor to fulfill them.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has informed the United States’s local weather envoy, John Kerry, that India was dedicated to meeting its local weather change pledges and Kerry stated the US would assist these targets with inexpensive entry to inexperienced applied sciences and financing.
India’s overseas ministry disclosed their feedback after the 2 met on Wednesday in New Delhi.
Kerry is visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India and Bangladesh earlier than President Joe Biden holds a digital summit on local weather change on April 22-23.
Modi stated cooperation between India and the US, significantly on financing innovation and quicker deployment of inexperienced applied sciences, would have a optimistic impact on different international locations, in line with the assertion.
Modi informed Kerry that India was on monitor to fulfill its pledges below the 2015 Paris local weather change settlement.
Kerry, the particular presidential envoy for local weather, stated he spoke with Modi about how the US may assist mobilise finance by bringing “concessionary finance” to the desk to scale back India’s dangers in dealing with first losses on the transition to scrub vitality.
Then the US may “bring more money to the table for a normal commercial investment that could quickly start producing alternative fuel,” stated Kerry, talking in an International Monetary Fund seminar from New Delhi.
India dedicated to chop greenhouse fuel emissions depth of its gross home product (GDP) by 33-35 % by 2030, enhance non-fossil gasoline energy capability to 40 % from 28 % in 2015 and considerably enhance forest cowl to scale back carbon dioxide.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar just lately stated India already has achieved 21 % of its pledge to scale back its greenhouse fuel emissions per unit of financial output by 33-35 % by 2030.
The Paris accord goals to maintain the rise in common temperatures worldwide “well below” 2 levels Celsius (3.6 levels Fahrenheit) in contrast with pre-industrial ranges.
Scientists have stated that any rise past 2 levels Celsius may have a devastating impact on giant elements of the world, elevating sea ranges, stoking tropical storms and worsening droughts and floods.
During her meeting with Kerry on Tuesday, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman underscored the necessity for developed international locations to maintain their $100bn annual dedication in funding for growing international locations to allow them to take vital steps to deal with world warming.


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Background Studies have shown that childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is related to smoking in adulthood, independent of adult SEP. Educational attainment partially mediates this association; however, previous studies suggest three childhood factors which may also be important-childhood cognitive ability, psychosocial adjustment and parental involvement.
Objective To assess whether childhood psychosocial adjustment, cognitive ability and parental involvement are important in the association between childhood SEP and adult smoking status, over and above educational attainment.
Data, Participants and Variables Data on 7709 participants from four sweeps of the 1958 National Child Development Study were used for this study—birth (1958), age 7 (1965), age 16 (1974) and age 42 (2000). Childhood SEP was indicated using father's social class at birth and adult smoking status was taken at age 42 years (categorised as: 1 never/infrequent smokers, 2 ex-smokers, 3 current smokers). All childhood factors investigated were measured at age 7 years. Childhood cognitive ability was measured using score in the Copying Designs Test, psychosocial adjustment was measured using the teacher-assessed Bristol Social Adjustment Guide (BSAG) and parental involvement was based on questions asked of the mother and father regarding the frequency of occasions spent reading and on outings with the child. Confounding variables included were mother's smoking, age at birth of child and educational level, number of siblings and participant's own educational attainment at age 16 years (indicated by exam scores). Those with complete data on all variables used were included in the analysis.
Statistical Methods Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the associations of childhood SEP and childhood factors with adult smoking status, both independently and mutually adjusted, and then adjusted for confounders and participant's educational attainment. Analyses were conducted separately for men and women.
Results Childhood SEP was an important predictor of current adult smoking status, even after adjustment for childhood factors and educational attainment. Also, parental involvement for men (most vs least frequent parental reading OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.94; most vs least frequent parental outings OR 0.55, 95% CI 0.35 to 0.86), and both parental involvement (most vs least frequent parental reading OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.85) and psychosocial adjustment (most vs least maladjusted OR 1.28, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.64) for women, remained important determinants of current adult smoking over and above childhood SEP, other childhood factors and educational attainment.
Conclusions These findings suggest that childhood disadvantage is associated with adult smoking behaviours and the early childhood social environment is important in the development of these.
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So — Trump was supposed to lose big — and now with his victory there is discussion among some that we might be moving into a Post-liberal era. Elections sure matter. Here is Michael Brown writing at The Stream:
In his December 9th article “Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?,” long-time conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan dared to say that, with the Trump presidency, “we may be entering a post-liberal era.” Could it be true?
According to Buchanan, “Liberalism appears to be a dying faith. America’s elites may still preach their trinity of values: diversity, democracy equality. But the majorities in America and Europe are demanding that the borders be secured and Third World immigrants kept out.”
But it is not just political liberalism whose demise Buchanan is tentatively predicting. He also suggests that moral and cultural liberalism could be on the wane as well. He writes, “As Hegel taught, in the dialectic of history the thesis calls into existence the antithesis. What we seem to be seeing is a rejection, and a counterreformation against the views and values that came out of the social and political revolutions of the 1960s.”
What? A counterreformation against the radical cultural shifts and moral changes that came out of the counterculture revolution of the 1960s, a revolution that birthed radical feminism, gay activism, and sexual anarchy?
For years we have been told that liberalism had triumphed and that conservative morality was a thing of the past.
For years we have been told that “progressivism” owned the future and that traditionalists were a dying breed, soon to be replaced irrevocably by a younger, enlightened generation.
Could it be that America’s future is not as set in stone as we have been told? Could it be that the Trumpian triumph is part of a much larger social and cultural shift?
Read more: The Stream
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The battle of Tanagra (426 BC) was a minor Athenian victory won close to the city of Tanagra in Boeotia. Tanagra was located close to the border between Attica and Boeotia, and had been the site of a battle during the First Peloponnesian War. This second battle of Tanagra came at the end of an otherwise unsuccessful Athenian naval expedition during the Great Peloponnesian War. A fleet of sixty ships carrying 2,000 hoplites and commanded by Nicias, son of Niceratus, was sent to attack the island of Melos, to the south-east of Athens.
Melos had never been part of the Athenian Empire, and had no intention of joining now. The Athenian troops landed on the island and laid the country waste, but the Melians refused to come to terms. The Athenian fleet then sailed back to the north-west, around the northern coast of Attica, and landing at Oropus, at the northern edge of Attica. The Athenians then marched to the area of Tanagra, where they met up with the main army from Athens, responding to a prearranged signal. This army was commanded by Hipponicus son of Callias and Eurymedon son of Thucles.
The combined Athenian army spent one day devastating the countryside around Tanagra, presumably in the hope that this would bring on a battle. If this was the plan then it was successful. On the following day an army came out of Tanagra, most made up of local troops, but with a contingent from Thebes. The two sides clashed somewhere near the city, and the Athenians were victorious. They erected a trophy to commemorate the victory, and the army then split up. The contingent from Athens returned to the city, while the fleet moved north-west along the coast to devastate Locris before also returning to Athens.


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By Dr. Peter Saunders
The third worst development it mentions is that of ‘selective reduction’:
“This year we were introduced to the ugly practice of selective reduction, a euphemistic term that describes the killing of one fetus in a multiple pregnancy. Selective reduction is becoming more commonplace because fertility treatments like IVF are creating more and more multiples and doctors are advising patients to “reduce” their quadruplets, triplets and even twins down to two or even one baby. In 2011 the world discovered the truth that abortion is the “safety net” for IVF.”
Selective reduction has actually been common practice for some time but it was brought to international attention in 2011 by an article in the New York Times titled ‘The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy’ which catalogued the rise of the procedure in the US.
An Australian story later in 2011, highlighted on this blog, [Saunder’s] described a situation where doctors had ‘mistakenly’ killed a ‘normal’ twin instead of the disabled one they had intended to eliminate. The ‘unwanted’ disabled twin was also later aborted.
The Telegraph ran a front page story over New Year about the increasing use of ‘selective reduction’ in the UK on which I was asked to comment. This was later picked up by the Daily Mail and Press Association but not, interestingly, by the BBC. PA summarized it as follows:
“Dozens of unborn babies were aborted in 2010 by British women expecting multiple births but who wanted fewer children. Department of Health statistics found that more than 100 babies were terminated by women expecting twins, triplets or quintuplets.
“The statistics, released under the freedom of information law, revealed that in 2010, 85 women aborted at least one foetus while going on to give birth to another baby. This compares to 59 women in 2006. Of the 85 women undergoing selective reductions last year, 51 were reducing a pregnancy from twins to a single baby, up from 30 four years before.
“The data showed that there were 20 abortions to reduce triplets to twins and nine procedures to take a pregnancy from triplets to a single child. Three mothers reduced four foetuses to two, and two mothers reduced five babies to two.
“The Department of Health said 78% of the selective reductions performed in 2010 were because there was ‘a substantial risk that if a child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped’ (ie. ground E abortions) but Professor Richard Fleming, the scientific director of the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine, is reported as saying: ‘I would be surprised if multiple pregnancy through fertility treatment was not a significant component to the increase in selective reductions. One of the components within that is the health of the mother and health of the offspring as well – both are compromised by multiple pregnancy. The more complicated multiple pregnancies lie almost exclusively in the IVF domain.’”
According to the HFEA [Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority] website (see www.hfea.gov.uk/2587.html):
“On average, one in five IVF pregnancies are a multiple pregnancy compared to one in 80 for women who conceive naturally. With approximately 11,000 IVF babies being born each year this contributes significantly and disproportionately to the national multiple birth rate and presents a significant public health concern…. In 2004 the HFEA policy was revised so that now a maximum of two embryos can be transferred to women under the age of 40, with no exceptions, and a maximum of three can be transferred in women aged 40 and over. Since 2004 only 4 in every 100 treatment cycles (4%) performed involved three embryos being transferred.”
Transfer rates in IVF are higher in some other countries:
I was quoted in the Telegraph article as follows:
“There is no doubt that the rising use of IVF has contributed to a rise in multiple pregnancies. If prospective parents are not willing to have twins then they should not be implanting more than one embryo at a time. Parental preference should never take precedence over the right to life of the unborn child.”
But the full quote I gave them was a little longer and also brought in other medical and psychological issues that the Telegraph decided not to include. here are some of the words they left out:
“…there is very little evidence to suggest that parents choosing IVF will be any more successful in having a successful pregnancy implanting two embryos at once rather than one at a time… Furthermore some families who electively abort one of their children go on to experience a lot of grief. At every milestone for the child they decided to keep, there is this ghost in the room, this feeling that there should have been two or more of them. There is an urgent need to educate couples about these matters.”
I was interested to see further support for the idea of transplanting only one embryo at a time in a BBC article this week on the survival of frozen embryos titled ‘IVF: Frozen embryo babies heavier and healthier’
‘Infertility Network UK chief executive Clare Lewis-Jones said the new study supported the move to transferring only one embryo at a time. This cuts down the multiple pregnancy rate – which is higher in IVF than natural conception – with health benefits for mother and baby. She said: ‘These initial findings, if proved accurate following further research, will give the medical profession more evidence to encourage patients to accept single embryo transfer, which reduces the risks of multiple births to both mother and babies. Single embryo transfer gives the best possible outcome – a healthy singleton baby – with the chance of further frozen embryo transfers in the future.’” …
Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. This first appeared on Dr. Saunders’ blog at http://pjsaunders.blogspot.com/2012/01/selective-reduction-euphemism-for.html


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Gibraltar’s vaccination programme against the virus that causes COVID-19 has now entered its final phase. As at Sunday 18th April, 35,901 people have received their first dose of the vaccine in Gibraltar with 30,811 people having received both doses, making a total of 66,712 vaccinations given through the three vaccination centres at ERS, St Bernard’s Hospital and the public vaccination centre at the ICC.
The St Bernard’s vaccination unit closed at the end of March, and the ERS unit completed vaccinating their last few remaining staff and patients last week. The public vaccination centre at the ICC has now reduced its operating days to 2-3 per week prior to its closing altogether towards the end of May.
Two further small batches of vaccine are expected to be delivered from the UK via the RAF, one next week, and then what is currently anticipated to be the final delivery in early May. The ICC vaccination centre is now focussing on category 9 people – cross-frontier workers, and is currently giving the remaining first doses before switching to giving only second doses prior to closing on May 27th.
As the remaining number of doses of vaccine are now limited, anyone who has not been vaccinated who wishes to receive the vaccine MUST register their interest using the on-line form at www.gha.gi/registration-for-gibraltar-residents or www.gha.gi/registration-for-cross-frontier-workers or by phone on 200 66966 before the end of Friday 23rd April 2021. There is no guarantee that anyone who does not register before this date will be able to access the vaccine in Gibraltar in the foreseeable future. Special arrangements are however being made for students returning to Gibraltar in May/June, but these people must also register at www.gha.gi/university-students-register-of-interest-form to ensure we reserve vaccine for them. Anyone who has postponed having their second dose of the vaccine is also reminded that they need to book an appointment for this before mid-May, or a second dose will not be possible.
A number of enquiries have been made to the GHA about vaccinating children. At this stage, the Pfizer vaccine is only licenced to be given to people aged 16 and over, but clinical trials on under 16s are currently underway. If these trials recommend giving the vaccine to children, arrangements will be made to vaccinate in Gibraltar through a schools based programme for which we would hope to receive a further supply of vaccine from the UK.
The Hon Samantha Sacramento, Minister for Health and Care said, “As I walked down Main Street on Saturday and saw life in Gibraltar almost back to normal, it really brought home to me just how successful “Operation Freedom”, the GHA’s vaccination programme has been. The vast majority of people living or working in Gibraltar have now received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine and the latest research shows that 95% of these people will therefore have circulating antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19.
“All of us that have benefited from this amazing programme need to sincerely thank everyone involved – the UK Government and the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office for ensuring that Gibraltar had the vaccine; Public Health England for their advice and support on the vaccination programme; the Royal Air Force, the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and the Royal Gibraltar Police for all their logistical and security support in getting the vaccine to the right place at the right time; Mr Solomon Macias for generously donating the space at the ICC to use as the vaccination centre for four months, and of course all at “Team GHA” for their astonishing administrative, logistical and clinical expertise in vaccinating every member of the population who wanted the vaccine in just over three months. I am incredibly proud of everything that has been achieved with our vaccination programme in Gibraltar, and the way in which we have been able to protect our population”.


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Technology has become an integral part of our lives, driving innovation, transforming industries, and empowering individuals and societies. As technology continues to evolve, embracing its potential and addressing its challenges is essential. By understanding technological advancements, exploring innovation, and harnessing the power of technology responsibly, we can shape a brighter future and unlock new possibilities for progress and human advancement.


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Our Signature Happy sauce, as we like to call it. Made from garden grown chillies, combined with the subtle sweetness of apples and vinegar, make this home made chilli a delicious accompaniment to any dish. Happiness is home made!
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