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John Alexander, Chairman of Crown Resorts and former CEO of the casino operator could not recall being briefed about millions in cash found out in a junket’s private gambling room in the casino. The former media executive, now right-hand man of James Packer, was grilled during the ongoing investigation by the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, assessing the suitability of Crown to hold a casino license for its newly built casino resort near Sydney.
Reports Part of a Deceitful Campaign
Alexander’s role in defense of Crown Resorts regarding allegations the company was turning a blind eye to money laundering was put under the microscope. In June 2019, Crown published a full-page advertisement, arguing that reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age were part of a “deceitful campaign”. The stringent defense was also issued to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).
The press reports also alleged Crown for partnering with junket operators which had close links to organized crime. In some cases, besides sharing the takings from the high-rollers, junkets operate high-roller rooms within a casino, as was the case with Suncity in Crown Melbourne.
Suncity In Focus
Asked by the commissioners whether he was aware that AUSTRAC, the cash transactions monitoring body in Australia, had raised with Crown’s compliance officer, Joshua Preston, the relationship with the Suncity junket, Alexander, who was CEO by that time, did not recall being briefed on the matter. He further pointed out Joshua Preston was not a direct report of his.
John Alexander was then shown an e-mail from Joshua Preston in which the compliance officer updated Alexander about Suncity and informed him that AU$5.6 million in cash had been found in a cupboard in the Suncity high-roller room. The former Crown CEO replied he did not recall reading the email, but agreed that it should have been directed to the risk committee for discussion.
A confidential report by Berkeley Research Group and commissioned by Crown which detailed findings into Crown’s junket partners was the next point of focus for Alexander and the commission. Asked to read a summary on Alvin Chau, the main figure behind Crown’s largest junket Suncity, allegedly a member of the Chinese crime gang 14K triad, Alexander remained poker faced and what the report said was not revealed.
In the 2019 ad Crown claimed it had robust vetting processes for junket partners and defended its relationship with Suncity, and these claims now came full circle to haunt Alexander, who had to agree some of the claims were not accurate. Questioned who vetted the accuracy of the ad, John Alexander responded that it had been vetted by the head of VIP gaming business Barry Felstead and Joshua Preston.
Money Laundering Through Crown Deposit Accounts
Alexander was also asked about an article in the Nine media in August 2019 which claimed two bank accounts, the Riverbank and Southbank, operated by Crown for anonymous cash deposits by patrons, were used to launder funds from drugs.
The former Crown CEO responded that no one made him aware that the Commonwealth bank was prompted to investigate possible money laundering behind the accounts, and that ANZ bank had dropped the accounts due to such concerns, much to the dismay of Patricia Bergin SC, the commissioner conducting the inquiry.
‘‘Your answer is that you didn’t know. If you don’t know, what chance has the regulator got?”Patricia Bergin SC
She also reminded him that the inquiry is about a suitability to hold a casino license for both Alexander and the company, but Alexander will be stepping down from the board at the Annual General Meeting (AGM), October 22.

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The old Grand River Hotel in Preston is rising from the ashes; being renovated and converted to serve the community and its most vulnerable people.
After a devastating fire three years ago at the nearly 200-year-old building, the new owner has big plans to transform the once prominent Preston hotel into supportive and affordable housing units. The hotel was being used as apartments at the time of the fire and several people were displaced because of it.
The new owner, Indwell, is a Christian charity group that provides affordable housing and wrap-around services to its tenants. The group has just obtained the property on King Street and is currently in the development phase.
“We actually just recently purchased the property,” said Mark Willcock, community engagement coordinator for Indwell. “Our goal is to convert that into supportive and affordable housing units for the city of Cambridge.”
The fire-damaged hotel was listed for sale earlier this year for just under $1 million. The total construction cost to renovate the hotel is unknown due to the early stages in planning.
Indwell is currently in eight other municipalities, having two other locations in Kitchener; St. Marks Place on King Street W and St. Peter’s Lutheran on Queen Street. Both of the Kitchener locations are old churches that have been renovated and converted into living spaces.
Part of Indwell's plan for affordable housing is to take old and unused spaces like churches and hotels and completely overhaul them and turn them into livable apartment buildings. This process of up-cycling old spaces makes it easier and cheaper to secure housing in any market.
Since these buildings are 100 per cent supportive housing, they double as the landlords and support workers. This means they have anywhere from five to 10 people working on site to assist tenants.
“We provide different levels of support in different buildings,” said Willcock. “There will be a variety of teams like, nursing care, mental health support, addiction support and general housing support that will all be on site.”
The Grand River Hotel will provide Cambridge with a much needed 40 affordable housing units. This will align with Indwell’s regional goal to add 250 units in the next five years. They are already on their way; with the completion of the Preston location, their total will be brought to 200 units across the region.
The units will be priced around $497 to match the amount given to those on ODSP for living expenses. Willcocks understands the need for housing in the city and wants to create a space where they can afford and live comfortably.
“Most of our tenants that live with us have previously been homeless,” said Willcock. “What we have learned is that when someone has a permanent place to live, and something that they can afford, they can look ahead to tomorrow and not think about where my next meal is going to come from or where I am going to sleep.”
The Christian charity has been in contact with the City of Cambridge to assist them in the conversion of the old hotel.
According to Willcock, city staff helped find the location for their next project and are looking to help financially in any way possible.
“We are talking with the city and they will hopefully waive our development fees which add up a lot,” he added. “We are also going to apply for the affordable housing reserve fund for additional support.”
The affordable housing reserve fund is a one-time grant given by the city to help with the costs of building affordable housing here in Cambridge.
Per city policy, “The applicant must commit to maintaining the units as affordable rental housing for a period of 20 years based on affordable rents adjusted year-to-year.”
Indwell could not comment on how much they are seeking from the city as they have yet to apply.
The city is also unable to comment on this specific project and how much they could receive at this time.
Willcock hopes this is just the first of many projects in Cambridge and throughout the region and looks forward to connecting with the community on how they can provide the best service possible.
“We are always on the hunt for new locations that make sense for us and the community,” he said. “We want to have as much community engagement as possible to build something that us and the community can be proud of.”

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Expert judgement this morning is that there is a 20-40% chance (unlikely) of an eruption occurring that could impact the area beyond the vent within the next 24 hours. The lower bound of this range has decreased slightly compared to yesterday.
On Monday 9 December at 2:11pm an eruption occurred at Whakaari/White Island, with devastating impacts for people on the island at the time, their families, and wider New Zealand.
At 11:00 am 18 December, GNS Science volcanologists reviewed all available data and updated the likelihood of an eruption. Their updated calculation was that there is a 20-40% chance (unlikely) of an eruption occurring that could impact the area beyond the vent (marked in the image below) within the next 24 hours.
Click image to make it larger. The distance between the edge of the crater lake and the ocean at the bottom of the image is about 700m.
How does this compare to previous estimates?
The lower bound of the likelihood of an eruption has decreased slightly since yesterday (Tuesday 17 December 2019).
The table above shows the expert judgement of eruption likelihoods for time periods before and after the eruption. The table shows that the likelihood of an eruption is now about 100 times higher than in early December.
About our expert judgements
Our scientists calculate eruption likelihoods via expert judgement as part of internal staff health and safety procedures for all volcanoes at Volcanic Alert Level 1 or higher. The time periods used for the expert judgements vary depending on the level of activity at the volcano – when activity increases, we do expert judgements more often and for a shorter time window to reflect the changing situation.
Since the eruption on 9 December, eruption likelihoods have been calculated for a 24-hour time period. For 29 October and 2 December (before the eruption), eruption likelihoods were calculated for 4-week and 13-week time windows respectively and have been converted in this table to reflect relevant 24-hour time windows for comparison.
We appreciate that the likelihoods may seem high given (at time of writing) there have been no further eruptions at Whakaari since 9 December. Every day, our team of experts has reviewed all available data and discussed processes likely to be underway at the volcano. Our experts have identified several factors that could lead to an eruption (see VAB), all of which are difficult to forecast. There is considerable uncertainty around the likelihood of any of these factors occurring within a 24-hour period. This ongoing uncertainty is accounted for in our expert judgement and contributes to why the likelihood remains high. Although the volcano is quieter, the likelihood remains unusually elevated.
The Volcanic Alert Level is not linked directly to risk and likelihoods but describes the level of current volcanic activity.
Attributable to: Natalia Deligne, GNS Science Volcanic Hazard and Risk Modeller
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Nine human rights groups in Liberia have expressed fear that they are receiving threats from some ranking security officers of the Liberian Government.
In a statement issued in Monrovia on August 5, 2020, the groups in a collective tone noted that “Credible threats” have been made against a staff of the Global Justice and Research project (GJRP), Hassan Bility, as well as witnesses of alleged crimes by a recent defendant of a war crimes unit in the United Kingdom.
The human rights organizations that include CIVITAS MAXIMA, Center for Justice and Accountability, Center for Civil and Political Rights, Civil Society Human Rights Platform, Human Rights Watch and the Advocates for Human Rights amongst others also indicated in the release that “Credible threats have been made against Adama Dempster, Secretary-General of the Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia, in connection to his human rights work and advocacy for a war crimes court.”
The groups said that Dempster, who led the civil society delegation that traveled to Geneva to report to the United Nations on Liberia’s human rights record, has also received credible information that he is being “targeted for elimination.”
“These threats come from certain leading figures within the Liberian government’s security services, and confidential sources state that they are related to Dempster’s work delivering human rights reports to the International Community and the United Nations against the current Government, as well as his advocacy for a war crimes court,” said the human rights groups.
When Information Minister Eugene Nagbe was contacted yesterday on the allegation, he said: “We cannot respond to a statement that we have not received a copy to read ourselves; that will be unfair. When we receive a copy of the statement, I will respond in a written statement.”
Bility’s GJRP has been actively involved in researching and identifying some key perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s civil war, and some based on the work of GJRP have been prosecuted in the United States while others are detained in Europe awaiting trial for their roles.
Among those prosecuted in the United States under this effort is Mohammed Jabateh (alas Jungle Jabbah). In Europe, Martina Johnson of the defunct National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) with some former fighters of the United Liberation Movement (ULIMO-K) of warlord Alhaji G.V. Kromah has been arrested.
The recently announced threats against human rights advocates come following the release and subsequent coming to Liberia Agnes Reeves Taylor, former wife of jailed Liberian President Charles Taylor.
There are still more warlords and war crimes perpetrators in Liberia who were identified in Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation report, and some are currently serving in the National Security Agency (NSA).
The human rights organization state in their statement that: “The intimidation and threats against GJRP staff and witnesses started immediately after Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was indicted in 2017 in the United Kingdom for torture, returned to Liberia in July 2020. They included multiple threatening phone calls to GJRP staff, including the director, Hassan Bility, as well as against witnesses of her alleged crimes.”
According to the human rights groups, several witnesses have said that people claiming to be Reeves Taylor supporters have threatened their lives — including in person, and claiming also that certain public statements about Bility and the GJRP by Reeves Taylor, who was not acquitted, but whose case in the UK did not go to trial based on a point of law, also raise concerns.
The groups also reminded the Government of Liberia of the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations, issued in 2018.
The UN body said that the Government of Liberian should make certain that “all alleged perpetrators of gross human rights violations and war crimes are impartially prosecuted and, if found guilty, convicted and punished in accordance with the gravity of the acts committed.”
The Human Rights Committee’s Observations required Liberia to report by 27 July 2020 on the implementation of the recommendations regarding accountability for past crimes. Liberia has not met this deadline. “We sincerely hope that Liberia will take its international treaty obligations seriously by implementing the recommendations and submitting its follow-up report to the Committee,” said the groups.
The groups called on the Government of Liberia to ensure that human rights defenders in Liberia are protected from harassment and threats by individuals within the Government security services.

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Particulate CEMs for Wet and Dry FGD applications
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Author: William Averdieck on behalf of PCME Ltd
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This paper overviews the challenges of monitoring particulate in wet and dry stack conditions found after wet and dry FGD arrestment plant fitted to coal fired power plant. It describes the techniques used for monitoring particulate in these applications and provides results and incites from the operation and calibration of PCME’s wet stack PMCEM in a wet FGD installation.
The uptake of wet Flue Gas Desupherisation (FGD) technology in the power industry has created a new demand to continuously monitor particulate emissions due to the challenge of low dust concentration measurement and, in applications without reheat, the need for operation in ‘wet stack’ conditions. Wet conditions are more challenging to continuously monitor than ‘dry or non condensing’ stack conditions due to problems of overcoming interference from water droplets. Traditional particle measurements cannot be used in these applications due to interference from condensed Water vapour. There are essentially two core techniques for monitoring particulate emission concentration with high accuracy in wet stacks and both are extractive in nature (ie a sample is drawn continuously from the stack in a representative fashion) and passed through the analyser before return to the stack.
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2) Extractive light scatter
In the second type, the extracted stack sample is heated to evaporate any residual water droplets. Thus the sample becomes effectively dry so that it may be analysed by a standard dry measurement technique.
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Rain and icy conditions are not expected. However, a Hard Freeze (where temperatures remain below 25 degrees F for several hours) is likely for both Thursday and Friday night.
This is the first freezing weather we have seen this season. Prepare your vehicle and home by midday Thursday, especially if you are traveling for the holidays. Remember to protect the “Four P’s”: People, pets, pipes, and plants.
• Keep warm, stay inside if possible.
• If you need to go out, dress in layers and wear hats, gloves and an appropriate coat.
• Avoid overexertion, as cold weather puts added strain on your body.
• Prolonged exposure to the forecasted temperatures and wind may be fatal to unprotected livestock and pets.
• Bring pets inside, and move other animals or livestock to sheltered areas.
• Keep adequate food and water available.
• Proper winterization of any exposed pipes/plumbing will be needed to prevent damage.
• Disconnect outdoor hoses, drain and store in protected area.
• Wrap exposed faucets and pipes – including those outside the house or in unheated crawl spaces, attics, garages and other areas.
• If leaving out of town for the upcoming holidays, shut off the main water supply and drain pipes to prevent damage should they burst.
• Bring potted plants inside or store in garage near interior wall to provide extra warmth and protection from wind.
• For cold-sensitive outdoor plants, put down extra mulch and consider covering with a cloth fabric of some kind to shield the plants from wind and frost.
• Tropical plants/vegetation will require maximum freeze protection.
Portable space heaters are often used to heat rooms and homes. If not used properly, they can cause fires, severe injuries, and death. If using a portable heater, remember these important safety tips:
• Keep heaters at least 3 feet from anything that can burn, including furniture, carpets, curtains, and people.
• Place heaters on solid, non-flammable surfaces.
• Never block exits with a heater and keep them out of the way of foot traffic.
• Keep children away from heaters.
• Always plug heaters directly into wall outlets – NEVER use an extension cord.
• Turn off and unplug space heaters when leaving a room or going to bed.
Protect yourself from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning by installing a battery-operated CO detector and never use generators, grills, camp stoves, or similar devices indoors.
For more information on how to prepare and stay safe during a winter weather event, visit ReadyHarris.org.


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Swedish-born actor Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) has been announced to star in the Legendary and Warner Bros. monster pic Godzilla vs. Kong. Deadline first reported the news. Skarsgård will be joining Demián Bichir (The Nun), teen actor Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), Kyle Chandler (First Man), Ziyi Zhang (The Cloverfield Paradox), and Brian Tyree Henry (Widows). Millie Bobby Brown, who just completed filming Godzilla: King of the Monsters will reprise her role as Madison Russell in Godzilla vs. Kong. Danai Gurira (Avengers: Infinity War) is rumored to be joining the cast as well. Adam Wingard (Death Note) is set to direct.
Godzilla vs. Kong will be the fourth installment in the MonsterVerse franchise featuring Godzilla and King Kong and produced by Legendary and co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Godzilla was the first installment in 2014, followed by last year’s Kong: Skull Island. Third in the series will be Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which will open on May 31, 2019.
Skarsgård won a Golden Globe this year and an Emmy last year for his supporting role as Perry Wright in HBO’s Big Little Lies. He will be seen next year in the romantic war drama The Aftermath starring opposite Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley (Colette). The busy actor has several other projects in the hopper, including Jonathan Levine’s comedy Flarsky and Dan Krauss’ action drama The Kill Team, both currently in post-production.
Godzilla vs. Kong is set to bow in theaters on May 22, 2020.

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It is to be recalled that the Eritrean government immediately rejected the appointment of the UN Special Rapporteur by the UN Human Rights Council last July.
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| BRUSSELS, Feb 8 (KUNA) -- The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran in the UN Human Rights Council needs to be extended given the ongoing human right violations in the country, according to Tarja Cronberg, chair of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Iran.
A report detailing the significant and concrete steps the UAE has taken to uphold the principles and standards of human rights over the last four years was submitted to the Human Rights Council in October 2012.
Salah bin Ali met, on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council 21 session in Geneva, Head of the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Department Christophe Peschoux, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department at the UN High Commission for Human Rights Faraj Fneish and Mohammed Buharthiya from the Human Rights Council UPR department.
PNN-OHCHR "I wish also to express my deep concern that for the fourth time the Human Rights Council is compelled to convene a Special Session to discuss the situation in Syria.
The UN resolution against Iran came after a negative report by UN Special Reporter for Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed who presented his report on Iran to the UN Human Rights Council based on the allegations made by the western powers and the Islamic Republic opposition parties in exile and without even paying a single visit to the country.
The Human Rights Council will hold a session on May 21-June 4, 2012 in Geneva during which it will examine the second national report on human rights in Tunisia, as indicated in the OHCHR website.
backed resolution was approved Friday in the 47-member Human Rights Council with a 23 to 19 vote, with 3 abstentions, the AP reported.


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The levels of a type of adult stem cells called endothelial progenitor cells are inversely correlated with cardiovascular disease risk.
Levels of a type of adult stem cell in the bloodstream may indicate a person's risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
The study looked at the blood level of endothelial progenitor cells, which are made in the bone marrow and may help the body repair damage to blood vessels. Scientists from NHLBI and Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA, found that cardiovascular disease risk was higher in persons with fewer endothelial progenitor cells. The cells of those at higher risk also aged faster than those at lower risk, as determined by the Framingham Heart Study risk factor score, a standard measurement of cardiovascular risk. Additionally, the study found that blood vessels were much less likely to dilate and relax appropriately in persons with low levels of the cells.
Results of the study, which involved 45 healthy men aged 21 and older, some of whom had standard cardiovascular risk factors, appear in the February 13, 2003, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The two main forms of cardiovascular disease are heart disease and stroke. Standard heart disease risk factors are age, family history of early heart disease, smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight/obesity, physical inactivity, and diabetes.
"Past research on cardiovascular disease has often focused on what causes the damage to the blood vessels," said Dr. Toren Finkel, chief of NHLBI's Cardiology Branch and coauthor of the study. "We looked at the other part of the equation: How does the body repair damaged blood vessels? What does that tell us about the cause of the disease?
"We believe that these endothelial progenitor cells patch damaged sites in blood vessel walls," he continued. "When the cells start to run out, cardiovascular disease worsens. We don't yet know what causes their depletion but it may be related to the fact that the risk of cardiovascular disease increases as people age. For instance, the cells may be used up repairing damage done by other risk factors or those risk factors could directly affect the survival of the endothelial cells themselves.
"Much more research needs to be done to better understand this finding," Finkel added. "But it's possible that, some day, doctors may be able to test a person's risk of cardiovascular disease by taking a blood sample and measuring these cells. If the level is too low, an injection of endothelial cells might boost the body's ability to repair itself and prevent more blood vessel damage."
The decline in endothelial progenitor cells may be due an aging process that has left those stem cells less able to divide and make new cells for blood vessel repair.
In order to test their hypothesis that endothelial progenitor cells age prematurely in individuals with higher cardiovascular risk factors, the investigators studied endothelial progenitor cells from subjects with either high or low Framingham risk scores. After seven days in culture, a significantly higher number of cells from the high-risk subjects had characteristics of senescence, or aging.
"Cardiovascular health is dependent on the ability of the blood vessels to continually repair themselves," says Arshed Quyyumi, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, formerly of the NHLBI, and a member of the research team. "Evidence has shown that cardiovascular risk factors ultimately lead to damage to the endothelial layer of blood vessels. We can now speculate that continuing exposure to cardiovascular risk factors not only damages the endothelial layer, but may also lead to the depletion of circulating endothelial progenitor cells. Thus, the net damage to blood vessels and hence the risk of developing atherosclerosis depends not only on the exposure to risk factors, but also on the ability of the bone marrow-derived stem cells of endothelial origin to repair the damage.
"We will need larger studies to determine a definite cause and effect relationship between a decrease in these cells and adverse cardiovascular events. Our study did demonstrate, however, a correlation between endothelial progenitor cells, cardiovascular risk factors, increased senescence of endothelial progenitor cells, or stem cells, and vascular function. We are hopeful that further research will show that endothelial progenitor cells are a useful marker for cardiovascular disease risk."
Here's part of what might be going on here: in someone who has cardiovascular risk factors the endothelial progenitor cells (which are a type of non-embryonic stem cell) may need to divide at a faster rate in order to repair the damage being done to cells in the endothelial layer of blood vessels. The need to divide at a faster rate basically may be causing the endothelial progenitor cells to age more rapidly.
If the endothelial progenitor cells divide more rapidly in response to damage caused by cardiovascular risk factors then the telomeres on their chromosomes shrink more rapidly and the cells will lose the ability to divide sooner. Short telomeres are a marker for increased risk of mortality. This latest result suggests one reason why: blood vessels can not be repaired as well and this will increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Another reason why some people have lower levels of endothelial progenitor cells may be because they started life with shorter telomeres. Whether the telomeres are shrinking more rapidly or starting out shorter it is likely that short telomeres are at least one of the causes of the senescence of endothelial progenitor cells. It would be very interesting to test the cells of those with lower and higher Framingham heart disease risk scores and see if those with higher risk scores have shorter telomeres in their endothelial progenitor cells and in other blood cell types.
What can be done about this? A direct approach would be to remove stem cells, lengthen their telomeres, and then return those cells into the body. This approach might increase the risk of cancer unless accompanied with other techniques to assure that the cells so treated do not have any mutational damage that makes them prone to become cancerous. Another approach would be to use stem cells from embryos to replace host blood stem cells. But that approach elicits strong ethical objections from some quarters. Its not clear that therapeutic cloning or the harvesting of stem cells from aborted embryos will ever be allowed i the United States.
This latest result is further evidence for the idea that reseeding non-embryonic stem cell reservoirs with more youthful stem cells will be an essential technique for reversing aging.
Quyyumi noted a class of drugs called statins, used to lower high cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of developing heart disease, have been shown to triple the levels of these stem cells.
This is an interesting twist. If telomere shortening was causing the stem cells to become senescent then one wouldn't expect a drug that lowers cholesterol to boost the levels of these cells.
|Share |||Randall Parker, 2003 February 21 07:37 PM Aging Reversal|

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in Oakville, Vanessa has been singing since she was eight years old, she
graduated from Wilfred Laurier in 2011 and signed a record contract in 2012. In
2016, Vanessa won the coveted Emerging Artist Competition at the prestigious Canadian Boots and Hearts Festival.
Vanessa spends a lot of time in Nashville, TN, where she has developed a large
network of industry professionals and writers. There is no question that
Vanessa’s star in on the rise.
“Vanessa Marie Carter is the new girl in the country scene you need to
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Supervised dog training classes are all very well and they provide owners with guidance and confidence, but the way to get the best results from your dog is one-on-one training in a calm, familiar environment.
By ‘calm’ I mean one with few distractions so that you can keep his attention on what you want him to do. For him, concentrating on you when children are playing nearby or there are other dogs being walked is rather like you trying to read a book in the middle of a party.
You must also be calm and focused. Don’t take your dog out to train him if you’re distracted by something, because he will know that your mind is elsewhere and will not respond in the way you want him to. This is something that you have to decide you want to do, not something that becomes a chore.
This is in complete contrast to what is needed for socialisation. Some people make the mistake of thinking that ‘socialisation’ is a term that refers to ‘meeting other dogs’, but it’s not really a good word for what it really means.
Socialisation is the process of exposing your dog to new things so that he can work out how to deal with them. Socialisation is an intensive process because by the time your dog is four months old he will have already formed most of his reactive behaviours and anything new can become a problem. Given that you will probably receive your puppy at nine weeks old, that means you only have a few weeks to socialise him and should take him to as many different environments as you can even if you’re unable to let him walk because of his vaccinations being incomplete.
Socialisation really means ‘environmental exposure’. That means meeting people, other dogs, encountering traffic, trains, shopping trolleys, car parks, cyclists, horses, road works and thousands of other things large and small. It means that your dog has already had as many ‘first experiences’ as you can possibly give him. This will ensure that as few things as possible are going to cause unpredictable behaviour later in his life.
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I am new to this forum, and new to EEs. We purchased 6 EE chicks who are now 5 1/2 weeks old. I am interested in finding out if they are all females. There is one in particular that I am questioning. 5 of the chicks have a single comb that is quite small and are pale yellow/white, in color. The 6th chick has a comb that seems to have the three bumps and is quite pink. I am posting a pic below to see what you all think. Thanks!!
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Recently a survey website ranker.com surveyed for best Pop artists and released a list that contained the best pop artists of 2021 ranked by fans. Here are the results where we have selected only the first 10 of the ranked celebrities.
1. Ariana Grande
Taking the top spot on the list is Ariana Grande. Born Ariana Grande-Butera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress who has acted in many Disney shows. Known for her four-octave soprano vocal range, Ariana Grande has received over 1700 upvotes from her listeners making her at the top of the list.
2. Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell popularly known as Billie Eilish stands second in the list receiving around 1650+ upvotes. She has won 5 Grammys, 2 American music, 2 Guinness world records, 3 MTV VMAs, and 1 Brit, and many awards in her kitty.
A popular musician in recent times Billie Eilish stands 2nd in the top 10 pop musicians of 2021 according to listeners.
3. Dua Lipa
A popular musician from the UK, Dua Lipa recently released a retro disco album Future Nostalgia which is still running at the top of the list. Active from the year 2015, Dua Lipa received around 1050+ upvotes which makes her stand 3rd in the list of pop musicians of 2021.
4. Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes popularly called Shawn Mendes is a Canadian singer-songwriter who gained attention in 2013 by posting videos on vines. The artist caught the attention of Andrew Gertler who helped him to sign a deal with a music label.
Since then he has released 3 studio albums and headlined 3 world tours and several awards. Gaining around 1100 upvotes and slightly more downvotes than Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes is in the 4th list of top pop singers of 2021.
5. Camila Cabello
The Cuban-American Singer Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao popularly called Camila Cabello is 5th in the list receiving around 1050+ upvotes and a little over 1000 downvotes.
As a member of the all-girl group Fifth Harmony, Camila Cabello rose to fame being within a group of Fifth Harmony. She collaborated with artists like Shawn Mendes, Machine Gun Kelly, Pitbull, J Balvin, and many more.
6. Harry Styles
One of the popular artists from the British Boy Band ‘One Direction’, Harry Styles took up a solo artist career after the band broke up in the year 2016 on an indefinite hiatus.
All the members of the band are successful and have left a mark as solo artists where Harry Styles is one of the members who are in the list of top 10 at 6th place receiving 1000+ up and downvotes.
7. Taylor Swift
One of the popular Pop musicians, Taylor Swift started her career as a country singer but slowly rose to become one of the top Pop artists. She now has sold over 50 million albums and over 150 million singles globally and is one of the top artists in the music industry.
She has received over 1050+ upvotes and 1010+ downvotes which made her stand 7th in the list of top 10 Popstars in the year 2021.
8. Selena Gomez
Popular with many Disney fans during the beginning of her career, Selena Gomez is an American Singer, Songwriter, Actress, and TV producer who received wide recognition for her role in the hit TV series Wizards of Waverly Place.
Currently, she has released 3 albums under Selena Gomez and the Scene and 3 solo albums which all reached the US top 10 albums. She has around 950+ upvotes and 970+ downvotes which made her stand 8th in the list of top 10 pop stars in the year 2021.
Robyn Rihanna Fenty, artist, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman is one of the world’s best music-selling artists. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Barbados, Rihanna moved to the USA in 2005 when she signed under Def Jam records.
She has released over 8 Solo albums and has acted in over 7 movies and started a beauty product called Fenty beauty since 2015 and has been a keen businesswoman ever since. She has received over 840+ up and downvotes which makes her take up 9th of the top 10 pop artists of 2021.
Ashley Nicolette Frangipane an American Singer, Songwriter, and activist better known by her stage name Halsey stand in 10th position on the list of top 10 pop artists of 2021 according to Ranker.com.
She started her career in the year 2012 when she began writing music and doing parody and posting videos on popular sites like YouTube, Kik, and Tumblr.
She gained attention from her song Ghost which was released on SoundCloud and later on digital download and was included in her debut album Badlands. She has received over 670+ upvotes and 660 downvotes which make her stand in the 10th position of the top 10 pop artists of 2021.
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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was the 17th annual Nelson Mandela lecturer on 23 November. As his topic, he chose the idea of transformative constitutionalism. The premise was set out early in his lecture: “The Constitution is an instrument for building; building a society within which none would have a reason to be ashamed of his or her state of affairs. So, if you want to know what kind of a South Africa, Africa and the global village ‘we the people of South Africa’ desire and plan to have, examine our Constitution.”
For his pains he was subjected to severe criticism for overstepping the judicial mark by venturing outside of the established judicial terrain.
While the lecture was hardly a dry academic exposition or used the restraint of exposition much favoured by the British Bench, it made key points which are critical to sustaining a constitutional democracy.
The Chief Justice said the following:
“Our society remains toxified by racism, because we have not dealt with the first issues of colonialism and apartheid. Our people have reached a level of desperation; by our people I mean everybody who is poor; now, desperate people resolve to desperate measures and poverty is an instrument for the entrenchment of indignity. When you have been made to lose your dignity, anything is possible. Look at the overwhelming majority of people who rape; look at the overwhelming majority of people who commit crime. We have kept them in a state that allows them to be just where they are; by not giving practical expression to the injustices of the past by using the Constitution as a tool for transformation.”
In summary, a constitution, even one as majestic as ours, cannot lift itself unaided into operation. In a society in which inequality is overlaid by race, where millions live in grinding poverty, no different from conditions that prevailed under apartheid and where the distance between the awe-inspiring promises of the Constitution and the degrading realities encountered by millions each year grows all the greater, the constitutional scheme will be imperilled.
The Chief Justice as head of the judiciary is more than entitled to point this out to the nation, particularly in a lecture devoted to the memory of the founding father of the democratic nation. Indeed, it is a sign of how our legal culture has remained frozen in a colonial grip that the speech should be attacked as an example of judicial overreach. The Constitution and the challenges it poses eschews the continued adoption of the monastic approach to law, legal practice and the conduct of the judiciary as the custodian of the constitutional enterprise which we inherited from Britain.
If there is to be legitimate criticism of the lecture it is that it elides over the meaning of transformative constitutionalism. The term was initially coined more than 20 years ago by the distinguished academic, Prof Karl Klare, from Boston in an article published in the South African Journal of Human Rights.
Prof Klare’s idea was that the South African Constitution was transformative in that it envisaged radical social and economic change being powered by means of and through law. That did not mean that the Constitution itself would do the work of such change as some including a few of the original members of the Constitutional Court appeared to propagate. Rather, the Constitution posed the challenge of aligning the commitments of the Constitution with the political economy of the country. Either these changes would take place through legal means or by way of the diktats of some centralised politburo. We sensibly chose the former route.
In turn, this meant that a democratically elected government was tasked with implementing social and economic policies that could vindicate the vision contained in the Constitution by means of legislation and policy conceived of by the legislature and implemented by the executive. To be sure, the judiciary had an important role of play in all of this – it was to instil a culture of accountability by which the other two arms of the state would do their constitutionally mandated job and, where the existing body of law was an obstacle to such change, it was mandated to change the law.
For this reason, transformative constitutionalism is predicated on the importance of politics buttressed by law. To see the Constitution as a panacea to the problems inherited from colonialism and apartheid is to fail to grasp the fundamental idea. It is to fetishise the Constitution and elevate the judiciary to the government.
Perhaps the Chief Justice sought to steer away from so direct an approach for fear of being criticised of intruding too directly into politics; hence his definition of the role of the Constitution. Yet, when he spoke of poverty, inequality, unbridled corruption and the inability to reconstruct the nation into the truly non-racial and non-sexist society envisaged by Madiba, he was in effect pointing to all of the monumental failures of the past 25 years which continue to threaten the future of constitutional democracy, as is also the case for similar reasons in so many countries today including established democracies like the USA and the UK.
Thus, instead of complaining about style, or lack of precision for which some might have wished, we should rather pay attention to the essential argument of the lecture: without politics helping to align constitutional promise with economic and social policy, the Constitution will come under increasing attack. We dare not allow the promise of transformative constitutionalism to remain stillborn. DM


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He went on to thank IJM Land for coming in as the new super gold sponsor and WOU for its continuous support.
Meanwhile in officially opening the event, Lim shared that one in three people in Penang will be at risk to cancer by 2020. He paid tribute to the survivors “for their sterling example of courage, determination and resilience in fighting cancer”.
He called for early detection, healthy lifestyle, good diet and ‘no smoking’ to reduce the risk of cancer, and also of heart diseases and diabetes. “If everybody stops smoking, we can reduce cancer by 30%,” he added.
Following the launch, Lim together with Dr Chan joined the survivors in the first lap around the field. The other participating teams subsequently carried banners and streamers as they did the walkabout led by the survivors.
There were games, live entertainment, body combat demonstration, exhibitions, free health screening, face paintings, and lucky draws throughout by the Penang Hospital, Penang Adventist Hospital, DISTED College, Celebrity Fitness and the others.
The 16-hour relay organised by NCSM Penang branch and Penang Hospice Society culminated with the closing the next morning by Phee Boon Poh, Penang State Executive Councillor for Health and Welfare, Caring Society and Environment.


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North Carolina’s ‘Moral Mondays’ Crowd has a Wish List that Taxpayers Can’t Afford
North Carolina lawmakers are beginning to understand exactly what the state’s progressives are looking to accomplish with their weekly “Moral Monday” protests at the Capitol, and it’s insanely expensive.
Forbes contributor Patrick Gleason reports that North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger sent a letter to progressive leaders this spring to get a better idea of the associated costs of the actual policy changes sought by the state’s far left leaders.
What soon became apparent is the Moral Monday crowd’s list of demands – which includes permitting collective bargaining for all government employees, expanding Medicaid, state subsidized child care for all, state provided health insurance for all and other measures – would entail an astronomical tax increase the state definitely cannot afford, according to Gleason.
“The non-partisan fiscal staff found that the Moral Monday agenda, if implemented, would require state lawmakers to raise taxes by $7 billion. For some context, such a tax hike would increase the North Carolina general fund by a whopping 35 percent,” Gleason wrote.
Most of the money would have to come from a massive increase in taxes on corporations, which have been driving the state’s economic recovery in recent years, making the plan promoted by North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber and other progressives not only unrealistic, but financially reckless.
“The Moral Monday plan would also necessitate a nearly ten-fold increase in the state corporate income tax, taking the rate from 6 to over 50 percent. Combined with the federal income tax, the highest in the world, if Rev. Barber and crew had their druthers, companies would face a combined tax rate of over 80 percent on profits earned in North Carolina,” Gleason reports.
“The likely result of such an onerous tax would be a mass evacuation of companies from Research Triangle Park, Charlotte, and elsewhere in the state.”
Other estimates for implementing the progressive political agenda put the total cost at closer to $10 billion.
Thankfully, even the state’s most liberal Democratic lawmakers realize that the absurdly expensive demands are impractical, and stand zero chance of passing the Republican-controlled state legislature.
“Just as President Obama’s budgets have garnered a grand total of zero votes in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate, legislative Democrats in North Carolina are showing a similar aversion to putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to funding a progressive budget,” Gleason wrote.
That’s likely because voters would blow a gasket, especially considering how well conservative policies have worked for turning around the state’s economy since Republicans took over the legislature in 2010.
“Thanks in large part to reforms enacted since then – such a regulatory reform, unemployment insurance reform, and the historic 2013 tax reform act that will allow North Carolinians to keep more of their hard-earned income – North Carolina has witnessed a tremendous economic comeback,” Gleason wrote. “With the addition of 200,000 jobs since 2011, North Carolina’s unemployment rate is below the national average for the first time since 2006.
“In fact, since the Moral Monday protests began in April of 2013, there has been a 39 percent reduction in North Carolina’s unemployment rate, dropping from 8.9 to 6.3 percent.”
The conclusion is simple:
“ … (I)t’s now clear that the progressive North Carolina protesters’ agenda, once the actual costs are advertised, won’t find much support even from Democratic legislators, let alone the public,” Gleason wrote.


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Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions has appointed Kevin Yates as CEO. Yates succeeds Paul Schmitz, who steps down after overseeing the transformation of Trulite into one of the largest architectural glass fabricators in the world, according to the company. Schmitz will transition to board member and executive advisor to the CEO and board.
“We are fortunate to have had Paul lead Trulite over the last six years,” says Bruce Roberson, member of the Trulite board. “From day one, he has had an unmatched commitment to continually driving operational improvements, and has also enhanced our customer service and product quality. Paul’s contributions created a solid foundation that we are confident Kevin will continue to build upon as CEO.”
Yates joins Trulite from Siemens where he was most recently president of the energy management division in the U.S. and Canada. In this role, he led operational and commercial activities for Siemens’ complete power distribution portfolio, from utility transmission to end-user distributions.
“I am incredibly excited to assume this role and for the future of the company,” says Yates. “Trulite has an amazing fabrication capability and a strategy that has continued to deliver solid growth, and we intend to continue that growth organically and through aggressive acquisition. I am looking forward to building on Trulite’s success and ensuring we remain focused on delivering the very best quality products and service to our customers.”


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Trip to Guayalejo River located at 1 hour south from Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas, This is our 3rd trip to this amazing river. We begin our journey on Aug 1st,leaving from Monterrey and camping the first night at national park, we start our river journey August 2nd and finishing August 4th.
Sony Tx-20 waterproof, one of my favorite documental cameras, small and very friendly to use.
GoPro Hero 3 - Black Edition: mainly the slow motion footages, also very please with the quality of the image.
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The second single from Spirit was the album's opening track Going Backwards. The song was released digitally and then on two physical formats later on.
As with Where's The Revolution, we got plenty of remixes and we also got a rather enjoyable video. Here's the story of the single.
WE FEEL NOTHING INSIDE - GOING BACKWARDS
Going Backwards was released digitally on 23rd June 2017 as the Global Spirit Tour was getting into its swing in European stadiums. Physical formats, more of which below, would follow in September 2017 which really does seem a curiously long gap between the two types of release.
The song was one that grabbed a lot of attention when Spirit was released with its lyrics being held up as examples of the band's revived political feel following on from Where's The Revolution.
The Quietus said:
"A mid-tempo, two-chord opener, the track’s ominous overtones and sense of dread are given weight, as Dave Gahan intones, “We have no respect/ We have lost control.” As an opening gambit, it certainly sets the tone for what’s to come from Spirit’s remaining eleven tracks. As the song slowly begins to unfurl, the bass drum kicks in followed by the snare as a skittering riff zig-zags its way over the top. “We’re going backwards,” sings Gahan, his voice portentous and devoid of mirth or joy, “to a caveman mentality” before uttering the coda over and over again, “We feel nothing inside."
Clash Music felt the song set the tone for what was to come on the album:
"From the off, with the edgy, slow-building opener ‘Going Backwards’ – with its trademark bass-heavy rhythms and edgy, nagging melody befitting of a classic Depeche Mode set piece – it's clear that ‘Spirit’ is going to be a challenging listen"
Mixmag loved the song:
"This album gets off to a barnstorming start. Going Backwards (is) among the most anthemic things Depeche Mode have done this century, apocalyptic both in sound and lyrics and perfect for these dark times."
Overall then, Going Backwards was positively received. By this point in their career of course, chart hits in Britain were beneath Depeche Mode, so the single didn't bother the charts here. It did reach number 37 in the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart though. Hot rock indeed.
Going Backwards is a cracking song and was a great start to both the album and the live shows on the Global Spirit Tour. It was good to see Martin on spiky lyrical form and the song packed a punch Depeche Mode had been missing for a while. It was played at all 130 gigs on the Global Spirit Tour and was last heard in Berlin on 25th July 2018.
The video for the song was filmed at the band's Highline Session in New York in August 2016 and was directed by Timothy Saccenti. The additional musicians you see bobbing around are Kurt Uenala and Matrixxman.
It's an enjoyable enough take on the song and it's interesting to hear a live version without live drums. Dave growls along with his tour pencil moustache in full bloom, Martin does his Martin thing and Fletch is as lovably Flecthlike as ever. There are moody, arty shots of the band too and, beyond that, there's not a great deal to say about it. If only they could have made it fancier somehow. Wait a minute....
Look at that. It's a fancy 360 degree version of the video. You can use the controller on the screen to watch whatever you want in the video. Fancy 5 and a bit minutes of hot Fletch action? Help yourself. Want to watch Dave and nothing but Dave? On you go. Do you want to keep an eye on Matrixxman? Carry on, but you do know Depeche Mode are in the same room too don't you?
It may seem odd that a song bemoaning people being "armed with new technology" used, that's right, new technology to film its video but it's an interesting watch. Compared to the horror shows of the Sounds Of The Universe videos, it's a bloody masterpiece.
There were once again only two official formats - a CD single and a double 12". The CD single is pictured above.
On the back we see the Mode boys dressed for the cold weather. There are eight tracks on the CD. They are:
1. Going Backwards (Radio Edit) - funnily enough, an edited version of the album track
2. Going Backwards (Chris Liebing Mix) - an enjoyable near nine minute remix by a big Depeche Mode fan.
3. Going Backwards (Solomun Extended Radio Mix) - it's ok I suppose though it doesn't do much and then gets a bit silly at the end
4. Going Backwards (The Belleville Three Full Vocal Mix) - one for what I believe the kids call the clubs.
5. Going Backwards (Point Point Remix) - clever stuff this really. It's a bit like Leave In Silence (Quieter) in many ways and that is no bad thing.
6. Going Backwards (Chris Liebing Burn Slow Remix) - enjoyable again
7. Going Backwards (Maya Jane Coles Remix) - something a bit different again and rather pleasant
8. Poison Heart (Soulsavers Re-Work) - you imagine that this is how Dave wanted the song to sound all along.
The double vinyl 12" comes in a sleeve with a bigger opening that normal to accomodate both records. Sides A and C (above) have a D on them.
Sides B and D have an M on them as keen eyed readers have already spotted. There are 7 tracks in all here:
1. Going Backwards (Chris Liebing Mix)
1. Going Backwards (Solomun Club Remix) - fairly bland really
2. Going Backwards (The Belleville Three Deep Bass Dub) - again, relatively bland
1. Going Backwards (Chris Liebing Burn Slow Remix)
2. Going Backwards (Point Point Remix)
1. You Move (Latroit Remix) - hooray! a remix of an album track. Booo! It's not very good
2. Poison Heart (Soulsavers Re-Work)
All of the remixes on both formats were available digitally. The digital release added three remixes of Going Backwards: Solomun Radio Remix, The Belleville Three Raw Detroit Dub and The Belleville Three Full Vocal Radio Edit. I have no idea what any of them sound like so I have failed you all.
Finally, there was a one track CD-R promo in the UK and that was that. Even Taiwan didn't bother this time round.
Going Backwards was an interesting choice for a single as it wasn't necessarily the most obvious Spirit track for release but it was punchy enough song. As I mentioned earlier, it was a good album and gig opener and I have a lot of time for the song.
There was one more single to come and, as was now tradition, it would be a Dave written song. The last single from Spirit and indeed the last single in this review project is a cracking song. I'll Cover that (ha ha etc) next time.
Their best song, ans best single in so many years (since "Wrong", actually). The remixes are a joy too. Songs like that show we can all growing old and still be good.ReplyDelete
Thanks again from France
Hate to see this series end, been following it since People are People. But do you realize you've cost me about $30 in iTunes purchases of remixes and rare live tracks?ReplyDelete