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In 2018 Yacouba Sawadogo received the „Right Livelihood Award“. The prize presented annually in early December and is donated with 1 Mio. Swedish Crowns.
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to “honour and support courageous people solving global problems”. It has become widely known as the ‚Alternative Nobel Prize‘ and there are now 178 Laureates from 70 countries.
Yacouba Sawadogo is known as “the man who stopped the desert”. Starting around 1980 during a phase of severe drought, he has successfully created an almost 40-hectare forest on formerly barren and abandoned land. Today, it has more than 60 species of trees and bushes and is arguably one of the most diverse forests planted and managed by a farmer in the Sahel.
Sawadogo’s remarkable success builds on experimenting with traditional planting pits for soil, water and biomass retention (“zaï” in local language). He has continued innovating the technique over the years, increasing crop yields and successfully planting trees. Despite facing resistance from locals in the beginning – Sawadogo was called a “madman” and saw his forest set on fire – he never considered giving up. Over time, people came to admire his work. Sawadogo has always been eager to share his knowledge, and has received thousands of visitors from the region and beyond. By organising trainings, he has empowered farmers to regenerate their land. As a result, tens of thousands of hectares of severely degraded land have been restored to productivity in Burkina Faso and Niger.
Those who adopt Sawadogo’s techniques often become food secure, as zaï help to conserve rainwater and improve soil fertility. This allows farmers to produce crops even in years of drought. Trees planted together with the crops serve to enrich the soil, produce fodder for livestock and create business opportunities like bee keeping. This helps farmers adapt to climate change, reduce rural poverty and prevent local resource and water related conflicts. Together with other farmer-managed natural regeneration techniques, Zaï could become an important tool to counter forced migration and build peace.
Read more about Yacouba Sawadogo and traditional planting pits called zaï on the website of the Right Livelyhood Foundation. The article includes a short video with information and footage about his work.
There is also a documentary about Yacouba Sawadogo by Mark Dodd from 2010.

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This week, the Ohio Department of Health reported what may be the state’s first case of monkeypox. As summer kicks into full swing, and large events return after two years of COVID restrictions, now is a good time to highlight the facts about the virus and how it spreads.
Monkeypox — a disease caused by infection with monkeypox virus — is rare, and the risk to most people is low. The virus is rarely fatal, but symptoms can be painful. People might have permanent scarring from the rash.
“What I want to emphasize strongly is that monkeypox does not spread easily between people, and so the risk to Ohioans generally is very low,” said Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health.
Here are some symptoms of monkeypox:
- Rash with blisters on face, hands, feet, eyes, mouth and/or genitals.
- Swollen lymph nodes.
- Muscle aches.
- Low energy.
Monkeypox is spread from person to person by:
- Touching the rash, scabs, or body fluids.
- Touching items that made contact with the rash, scabs, or body fluids.
- Close face-to-face contact with someone who has the virus.
- Kissing, cuddling, or having sex with someone who has the virus.
- Being scratched or bitten by, or eating the meat of, an animal that carries the virus.
- Pregnant people can spread the virus to their baby through the placenta.
Cases of monkeypox have been seen recently among men who have sex with men. It must be noted that monkeypox is not a gay men’s disease. Anyone can get or spread monkeypox, regardless of their sexuality.
If you believe you have symptoms of monkeypox, you should stay home and call your doctor. Monkeypox can spread from the time symptoms start until the rash has fully healed and a fresh layer of skin has formed. This can take several weeks.
To learn more about monkeypox, visit these resources online:
- CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/about.html
- World Health Organization advice for men who have sex with men: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/monkeypox-public-health-advice-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men
- Ohio Department of Health Monkeypox Advisory: https://odh.ohio.gov/media-center/odh-news-releases/odh-news-release-06-13-22
- Cleveland Clinic Monkeypox Homepage: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22371-monkeypox

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You might think a song can’t be a dance, and vice versa, but our song sheet collections show this to be wrong. So here, for your delight and delectation, are some tangos, together with the odd foxtrot and bolero, which are also happen to be songs.
Grosz & Kennedy Tina – a tango-foxtrot ballad (publ. 1934)
I’m not sure how a ballad can be both a tango and a foxtrot. The direction at the top of the music is ‘Tempo di tango’ and it certainly appears to be in a basic tango rhythm. The foxtrot was at the height of its popularity in the 1930s, so maybe it’s just there as a hook. The composer, Will (Wilhelm) Grosz fled his native Austria during the 1930s Nazi takeover. When he arrived in England, his avant-garde music didn’t garner much interest. Instead, he turned his hand to composing music for popular songs. His best known hits were Isle of Capri and Harbour Lights, with lyrics also written by Jimmy Kennedy.

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Jackson 'overwhelmed' by flagbearer honour
Basketball star Lauren Jackson discusses being chosen to be Australia's flagbearer at the London Olympics.
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Here are some tips on how to protect yourself during an electrical storm.
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Tennessee football head coach Jeremy Pruitt announced on Wednesday that suspended sophomore defensive back Bryce Thompson will be allowed to return to practices.
Pruitt released this statement on the decision:
“As university processes have progressed relating to Bryce Thompson, we’ve all taken this situation very seriously. I believe Bryce can grow by following the plan the university has put in place for him. As a result, I am allowing him to return to practice.”
Thompson, who was named to the All-SEC Freshman team last season, was suspended on Aug. 25 after police were called to the scene of a domestic assault case involving Thompson and an unnamed woman at Stokely Hall.
Thompson was arrested and released the following morning. According to witnesses, Thompson shouted, ‘I’m going to slap the (expletive) out of you,’ during an argument and also threatened to ‘shoot up the school.’
A responding officer with the UTPD also reported that property damage has been done, including a metal gate that had been ripped off the hinges among other damages.
Pruitt did not state whether or not Thompson will play in games.
The Vols host Chattanooga at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.

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Despite the positive changes in the side effect profile of antidepressant drugs, the rate of admissions due to antidepressant-associated adverse behavioral effects remains significant.
free online article at The Journal of Neuroscience “Breakthrough” dopamine supersensitivity during ongoing antipsychotic treatment leads to treatment failure over time.
Antipsychotics often lose efficacy in patients despite chronic continuous treatment. Why this occurs is not known. It is known, however, that withdrawal from chronic antipsychotic treatment induces behavioral dopaminergic supersensitivity in animals. How this emerging supersensitivity might interact with ongoing treatment has never been assessed. Therefore, we asked whether dopamine supersensitivity could overcome the behavioral and neurochemical effects of antipsychotics while they are still in use. Using two models of antipsychotic-like effects in rats, we show that during ongoing treatment with clinically relevant doses, haloperidol and olanzapine progressively lose their efficacy in suppressing amphetamine-induced locomotion and conditioned avoidance responding.
The following Department of Treasury document about the national debt limit was published in May 2011, and is as true and factual now as it was then.
Debt Limit: Myth v. Fact
Excerpt from Natural Resources from The Dream of a Common Language
by Adrienne Rich
I am tired of faintheartedness,
their having to be exceptional
to do what an ordinary woman
does in the course of things
I am tired of women stooping to half our height
to bring the essential vein to light
tired of the waste of what we bear
with such cost, such elation, into sight
(— for what becomes of what the miner probes
and carves from the mountain’s body in her pain?)
This is what I am: watching the spider
rebuild— “patiently”, they say,
but I recognize in her
impatience— my own—
the passion to make and make again
where such unmaking reigns
comment #11 by Bijan Parsia responding to the question, Anyone have any thoughts about what sorts of advice one might give to an aspiring male feminist?
“Benefit others more than you benefit.” Esp. if it’s status, material gain, etc. You don’t need to be a martyr, but feminism is, in part, a social movement looking for justice. Activism implies aiming for the greater good.
“Do the shit jobs.” The shit jobs always need doing so why not do them? If you don’t do them, someone else, often with less resources, ends up doing them. But don’t preen or anything. Just do them.
“Speak for yourself among others.” Don’t speak for others, but only yourself. Use your own voice while recognising that it is a voice among others. Think about the voices as much as what’s said. Listen a lot and look for listening opportunities. Be more glad to have heard someone or something new than to have said something awesome. Use your voice to facilitate new voices over extending the reach of your own. I find Joyce Treblicot’s Dyke Ideas very helpful reading here.
“Own and repair your fuckups.” If you mess up, own it fast and make serious efforts at restitution. If that means leaving a scene, then do that. Try hard to do better. If you persistently fail to do better, recognise this and consider whether you are a net good. Ask for help *before* the next big failure. Even if your fuckups aren’t your fault (or you think they aren’t’) think more about fixing them then getting the blame right.
Sexual Harassment Conversations, in Comic Form by Jim C. Chines at his website
Cartoon Versions of Science and the harms they do (in Anthropology) by Eric Schliesser at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
This post opens with an excerpt from –Justin Smith’s review of Napoleans Chagnon’s book the Noble Savages: My Life among Two Dangerous Tribes– The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists .
One can’t help but share in Chagnon’s frustration at the hasty decision of the majority of his disciplinary peers to disown its historical connection to any branch of the complex and variegated scientific tradition. After all, until very recently (and to some extent to this day still in languages such as French and German), a ‘science’ was any relatively systematic body of knowledge, anything the goal or product of which was scientia, and it is only in the very most recent times that the notion has been reduced to the figure of somber men seeking to run the world on the basis of claims of unassailable expertise. Yet the cartoon version of science that Chagnon proposes in response, in its total failure to recognize that there might be special problems of theory-ladenness, power inequality, looping effects, prejudice –in a word, all those factors that make the scientific study of humans a more delicate matter than the study of other domains of nature – , can easily make one wish to take the ‘postmodern’ turn oneself, if only to get away from this astoundingly simplistic pretense of scientificity.
Justin is one of the leading historians of philosophy of my generation. He is also a staunch defender of the fact that “one can in fact approach the subject matter of anthropology naturalistically, using the conceptual tools of European traditions of thought, and still come up with theoretically sophisticated accounts of indigenous beliefs that remain nonetheless sensitive to the actual concerns, to the ‘voices’, of the people being studied.” (He also wants to bring some anthropological methods into the history of philosophy.)
See Karl Popper’s wikipedia page for more information on the philosophy of science.
See Thomas Kuhn’s wikipedia page for more information about paradigm shift.
See Napolean Chagnon’s wikipedia page for more information about Napolean Chagnon and scandal.
Naturalistic Approaches at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
photo by Michael Nagle for The New York Times
Americans Finally Saying No to God Awful ‘McWages’ by Ben Cohen at The Daily Banter
A Glut of Antidepressants by Roni Caryn Rabin
Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed. One in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication; among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is one in four.
Experts have offered numerous reasons. Depression is common, and economic struggles have added to our stress and anxiety. Television ads promote antidepressants, and insurance plans usually cover them, even while limiting talk therapy. But a recent study suggests another explanation: that the condition is being overdiagnosed on a remarkable scale.
The study, published in April in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, found that nearly two-thirds of a sample of more than 5,000 patients who had been given a diagnosis of depression within the previous 12 months did not meet the criteria for major depressive episode as described by the psychiatrists’ bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or D.S.M.).
The study is not the first to find that patients frequently get “false positive” diagnoses for depression. Several earlier review studies have reported that diagnostic accuracy is low in general practice offices, in large part because serious depression is so rare in that setting…
…The new study drew 5,639 individuals who had been diagnosed with depression from among a nationally representative sample of over 75,000 adults who took part in the National Survey of Drug Use and Health in 2009 and 2010. The subjects were then interviewed in person with questions based on the D.S.M.-4 criteria.
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What’s the real story behind the Snowden leak? by Smartypants at Smartypants
We all know that Snowden went to work for Booz Allen in March 2013 for the express purpose of gaining access to classified information he planned to leak.
Initially we were told that Greenwald and Poitras first met Snowden in May 2013 in Hong Kong.
Greenwald then tweeted that he and Poitras had been working with Snowden since February 2013.
The NYT article today says that Snowden first contacted Greenwald in November/December 2012 and Poitras in January 2013.
The NYT also says that Greenwald and Poitras didn’t talk to each other about Snowden until April 2013.
Greenwald said he started getting documents from Snowden in late March, early April 2013. But he also says that Snowden took months to review the documents before releasing them. Snowden didn’t start working at Booz Allen until March 2013.
All these stories can’t be true. It seems clear to me that what we have here are some major omissions with people having trouble keeping their fabricated versions straight.
Published August 14, 2013 at Smartypants http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/08/whats-real-story-behind-snowden-leak.html
U.S. Probes Use of Antipsychotic Drugs on Children from The Wall Street Journal


The new 2010 division into urban areas: 95% of the population lives in the sphere of influence of towns and cities
Sixty-one million people, or 95% of the French population, live in a sphere of urban influence. They mostly consist of people residing in urban areas (aires), characterized by intensive exchanges between places of residence and places of work. The areas are composed of a cluster (pôle)-defined as a town concentrating at least 1,500 jobs-and, generally, an urban ring. Urban areas provide a structure for French territory and encompass one-half of all municipalities (communes): 85% of the population lives in them. Sixty percent of the population, or 37.8 million inhabitants, resides directly in the clusters of large urban areas. These large clusters form the core of the urban territory, with more than 800 inhabitants per square km., eight times the national average. Outside the urban areas, 11,000 municipalities are multipolarized, i.e., under the influence of several areas with no single one prevailing. Ten percent of the population lives there. In a sign of the many interactions between town and country, three-quarters of rural municipalities lie within the sphere of influence of towns and cities, and are home to 20% of the French population. Outside the sphere of urban influence, 5% of the population lives in 7,400 rural municipalities or small towns.


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My Trip to France Essay Sample. Upon arriving in Paris, I first went to see the illuminated Eiffel Tower at night. After waiting on a long line, finally getting on the cramped elevator reminded me of being on a New York City subway at rush hour as I could barely breathe. However, once I got to the top of the Eiffel Tower, looking down at Paris lit up was quite breathtaking and unforgettable.
Essay is situated in the Orne department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 17 kilometres from Alencon, the department capital (general information: Essay is 158 kilometres from Paris). Popular places to visit nearby include Sees at 9 km and Alencon at 17 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and.
Overall, France is one of the earliest countries to develop tourism and is one of popular destination in the world nowadays as France had variety of natural resources for different tourism activities, thus, France’s domestic tourism is huge. French people travel by car mainly, so it causes high volume of traffic during the periods of school holiday as most of them go for domestic tourism.
My first visit to Paris was a remarkable experience, which I will never forget. I booked the Dover-Calais ferry and drove with my wife from London in the cold Christmas weather. We intended to stay until the New Year in a hotel located in a suburb of Paris and visit the city every day.
Travel Essay: Paris, France. Article By: Katie Borts. When I was 14, I took a trip to Paris, France. I had been there once before, when I was 10. The first trip wasn’t as memorable, except for the fact that it had been my first time out of the country. My second trip was meaningful, thought-provoking, and of course, fun. We left on my birthday, when I was in freshman year. I had made up my.
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France boasts metropolitan powerhouse cities that represent the countries accumulation of wealth, evident in the astonishing variety of places to visit, from the Dordogne's prehistoric cave paintings and the Roman monuments of the south, to the Gothic cathedrals of the north, the chateaux of the Loire, and the cutting-edge architecture of the grands projets in Paris.
Essay on France Country Essay about France. You have probably heard of this famous wine, Champaign, the one that people would say, “If it’s not from France, it’s not Champagne!” The wines that were produced in France are mostly reckoned as superior, as if people still think that France is the country of elegance monarchs. France is the largest country in the Western Europe, with the.
The Spring and the Early Autumn are a great time to visit France, if you are not bound by the requirements of school term dates or work. For day trips to France from the UK compare the options available. Continue now with part 2: Choosing a holiday. Holiday travel insurance: It is highly recommended, and in some cases obligatory, to be insured when you travel. Many people have existing.
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Tourism in France directly contributed 79.8 billion euros to gross domestic product, 30% of which comes from international visitors and 70% from domestic tourism spending.The total contribution of travel and tourism represents 9.7% of GDP and supports 2.9 million jobs (10.9% of employment) in the country. Tourism contributes significantly to the balance of payments.
A place I would like to visit.There are a lot of wonderful places I wish to visit.However, most of all I would like to visit Hollywood and I have many reasons to do. So if my rich uncle offered me a trip, it would be great. Because I really want to see how the films are made, meet famous actors and actresses and just have a good time. Firstly, Hollywood is famous place for making films there.
A research paper is an expanded essay that presents your own interpretation or evaluation or argument. When you write an essay, you use everything that you personally know and have thought about a subject. When you write a research paper you build upon what you know about the subject and make a deliberate attempt to find out what experts know. A research paper is any kind of academic writing.
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During my visit to France, I decided to take the time to visit one of the most famous and renowned museums in all of Europe, and, indeed, throughout the world. The Louvre is known and recognized the world over for its wide and ever-growing collection of artful masterpieces gathered from all over the world and throughout antiquity. Built originally as a palace and fortress in the city of Paris.
Visit France is your tourism guide to the incredible country of France. France is the most visited country in the world. Every year, more than 82 million foreign tourists visit France and its regions.

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"Novels" are not "non-fiction." NOVELS are, by definition, FICTION. Please figure out what the hell you're asking, and then try to ask it again. In a non-self-contradictory way this time if you can.
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... of Charles XII was published, a book that tried to explain that Swedish monarch. In 1743 Voltaire...
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... to write travel pieces. research his novel The Financier, and collect material for ... the outsider looking in, he was anxious to book a berth on the big, new boat filled with all kinds...
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...literature produced by this movement. Read a novel by Hurston. Read some poems by... used. There are also many books about the Harlem Renaissance written...
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Charles Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities" introduces the French Revolution as few books have done. Later you can read histories of it.
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Seven Network Ltd. has taken a stake in publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd. as Australian television broadcaster readies for a shake-up of the country's A$12 billion (US$9.5 billion) media industry.
A Seven spokesman confirmed that Australia's second biggest broadcaster, controlled by media mogul Kerry Stokes, had bought shares in Fairfax. But he declined to give details. "Seven's Fairfax stake is less than 5%, the spokesman said, while a Fairfax spokesman said it could be smaller than 2%.
Fairfax is considered one of Australia's four most likely media takeover targets. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought 7.5% of the group in October.
Media groups have been jostling for position before new laws come into effect next year allowing owners of one media platform -- newspapers, radio or television -- to own a second platform in the same market.
Seven, which also grabbed a 14.9% stake in West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd. in October, has over US$3.8 billion to invest after last month's US$5 billion joint venture with private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
In other moves, Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd., controlled by James Packer, sold its TV, magazine and Internet businesses to a new company to be jointly owned by PBL and private equity investor CVC Asia Pacific, raising US$5.7 billion.
Macquarie Media Group bought a 13.8% stake in radio and TV station owner Southern Cross Broadcasting Ltd.

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Bevacizumab does not improve overall survival (OS) among patients with resected early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) when added to adjuvant chemotherapy, according to a study published in Lancet Oncology.1
Evidence from a previous study suggested that adding bevacizumab to platinum doublet chemotherapy improved survival outcomes for patients with advanced NSCLC.
For this open-label phase 3 study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00324805), investigators randomly assigned 1501 patients with completely resected stage IB to IIIA NSCLC to receive chemotherapy alone (Group A) or chemotherapy plus bevacizumab (Group B). Chemotherapy regimens included cisplatin plus investigator’s choice of docetaxel, gemcitabine, pemetrexed, or vinorelbine.
After median follow-up of 50.3 months, the estimated median OS for patients in Group A had not been reached compared with 85.8 months (95% CI, 74.9-not evaluable) in Group B (hazard ratio [HR], 0.99; 95% CI, 0.82-1.19; P = .90).
Patients in Group B had overall higher grade and rates of adverse events compared with Group A; 67% of patients in Group A and 83% of patients in Group B reported grade 3 to 5 toxicities, including hypertension and neutropenia.
As bevacizumab did not demonstrate any survival benefit, the authors concluded that “[t]he overall outcomes of this trial did show improvement in overall survival compared with historical controls, which is indicative of other improvements in lung cancer outcomes for patients with resected early-stage NSCLC.”
- Wakelee HA, Dahlberg SE, Keller SM, et al. Adjuvant chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab in patients with resected non-small-cell lung cancer (E1505): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2017 Nov 9. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30691-5 [Epub ahead of print]

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So everyone has heard about this new HTC dersire HD, The new phone from the sense series of phones being launching by htc with andriod 2.2 and with its own sense UI. Lets take a look at what the htc has to offer.
Display is 800 x 480 with an impressive 4.3″ screen. It also comes with an 8 mega pixel camera(dual led flash) and can shoot 720p video. So i would say videos will look incredible on this screen. The phone has all forms of connectivity from 3g to wifi 802.11b/g/n and obviously Bluetooth. Also just a quick note the desire hd from what i have heard will support divx out of the box which is a very nice feature to have. Now being andriod it of course has 10.1 flash.
Really looking forward to seeing this phone in action. Check out the video below for a closer look.


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Social media 2020: Parlor social-media technology will help businesses and consumers meet their social media needs
Parlor Social Media will offer social media tools that help businesses get more social media followers, follow their customers and stay connected to their customers.
Parlor Social will be able to offer a suite of tools to businesses and users to help them better manage their social platforms and grow their business.
The company is building a suite with tools for businesses to manage their business accounts and social media accounts, as well as for users to manage social media and email accounts.
The suite is available for businesses and for users as part of a suite called Parlor.
Parltor is the name of ParlorSocial.
ParRoom Social is the same suite as Parlor, but it is being developed to be a suite for social media users and businesses.
“ParRoomSocial is designed to help businesses manage their account and social- media accounts in a way that is easy to understand, easy to use and that is also easy to communicate,” Parlor said.
“We are building the suite as part a suite that includes a suite and a suite-based app for businesses.”
The suite will be built to work across platforms.
It will offer a unified set of tools that include a unified dashboard that will help users manage their accounts across all platforms.
The company said it will offer users the ability to set up multiple social media profiles for different platforms.
Users will be encouraged to have multiple accounts on the same platform.
Users can then link multiple accounts to one account.
They can also choose to use multiple accounts for their own personal accounts and then link their own accounts to their own.
Par Room will also offer a new tool that will enable businesses to integrate ParRoom with their existing business, such as in-app purchase capabilities.
ParRoom will allow businesses to track sales and revenue and integrate with their business’s analytics and analytics dashboard.
Parroom will offer tools to enable businesses and individuals to track their followers on social media, whether it is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn or Pinterest.
Par Rooms social-trending posts and events will be available to users as well.
“By integrating ParRoomSocial, businesses will be empowered to build a more complete and holistic social media presence, with a suite based on their own unique set of insights and experiences,” ParRoom said.
“With this suite, businesses can build a better social media experience with ease, and make it more effective for customers and their brand.”
ParRoom will be launching its social-marketing platform in partnership with the social-search platform.
Par Room will provide a suite on its website and ParRoom.com that will allow users to access data from their Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest accounts, plus the data from other social-tech platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn.


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You’re going to get bored of hearing it but this summer is set to be a big one for Everton. It simply has to be if the club is to avoid falling as they have done in the past.
Backed by Farhad Moshiri’s millions, the hope is that the club can finally show some muscle and push themselves forward as genuine top-four challengers next season.
With the top six clubs likely to spend big, Manchester City are already flexing their muscles, the gap between Everton and the rest could end up as a chasm if the Blues do not keep up the pace.
If they are to do so, though, big changes are needed across the board. No more so than when it comes to how they handle their transfer dealings. The move for Jordan Pickford is an obvious evidence of that.
If reports are to believed, Everton have opened the bidding for the highly rated young ‘keeper at £8 million. That’s despite the fact Sunderland have priced him at £30million.
As one North East based journalist put it, the reported bid comes off as an insult rather than a serious offer. While Sunderland fans were laughing at it, Everton fans were breathing sighs of exasperation. It seems like some things never change.
Outwardly the club are insisting they want to make strides and challenge at the top but inside the corridors of power, it seems the same old mantra is in place.
While it would be stupid to bid £30 million off the bat - Pickford is nowhere near worth that price – making a bid as derisory as £8 million just makes a laughing stock of the club.
Why could they not just offer the £15 million the report states they’re willing to go to? Why are they continuing to carefully manage the purse strings when such careful management is supposedly no longer needed?
It was something that was highly frustrating in the January pursuit of Morgan Schneiderlin in which they haggled over pennies in that deal also. Only Ronald Koeman’s outward frustrations appeared to change the tide and get the deal over the line.
By acting in the manner they have, those in power have only raised more questions about the bright new future being sold to the masses. They’re missing a giant opportunity to silence the detractors and make a statement of intent.
It’s easy to imagine that fans aren’t the only ones feeling irritated either. Koeman and Steve Walsh must be wondering what they’ve signed up for.
Both thought they were joining a big club with big ambitions but everything so far has indicated that is far from being the truth. Instead, it’s the same club who are happy to simply be the best of the rest.
If Everton do genuinely have the desire to be a big club then they need to start acting like one. Empty promises from the likes of Robert Elstone and Bill Kenwright just won’t wash with the fans anymore.


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The Howard. Howard Street, City Centre, Sheffield S1 4HP In the twentieth century, this early nineteenth-century hotel and pub added the Tudor-revival timbering. The brick buildings behind, now painted white, formerly contained small works.
Photographs 2011 by George P. Landow You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Sheffield. Harman, Ruth, and John Minnis. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004.
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Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952), Hungarian playwright and novelist, was born in Budapest. Several of his plays were presented on the New York City stage, and all were successes, including The Guardsman, Lilliom, The Swan, The Glass Slipper and The Play's the Thing. In 1928, English translations of his twenty-five plays were published. Rodgers & Hammerstein used Molnar's Lilliom as the basis for the musical Carousel; The Guardsman was adapted into the musical Enter The Guardsman by Marion Adler, Craig Bohmler, and Scott Wentworth. Molnar's plays are characterized by graceful, romantic situations and amusing dialogue.
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UDHAMPUR, Feb 25: Piles of garbage could be seen at the entrance of the office of Additional District Development Commissioner (ADDC) Udhampur and the view at the spot remained the same even as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory, Girish Chander Murmu was on a visit at the DC Office’s Conference Hall which is only 10 meters away from administrative complex.
“The premises were cleaned and in a hush up manner officials were not able to find a suitable place to dispose the garbage and they kept it below the stairs,” insiders informed.
However, it gave a shabby look of ADDC complex main entrance and many officials, employees and others who crossed the place discussed with each other about the negligence of irresponsible officials who failed to ensure cleanliness.
“If this is the case of the complex at the visit of none less that the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory what can be the state of affairs of the town,” another employee of the DC office opined on condition of anonymity.


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Jemsek Golf Design recently redesigned the course reworking the bunkers and expanding the putting surfaces which are now Tif Eagle. They rolled really great the day I played. Staff was excellent and I will be back on my next trip.
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We new it was coming, but now it's got a name - the next Fire Emblem game will be called Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Looks like you'll be able to run around some sort of open world and talk with party members, but the main action will still be tactical battles, though with larger armies than we've seen previously.

It'll also be chock full of gorgeous anime cutscenes, so that'll keep the fans happy. It's out Spring 2019, and you can watch the trailer below.

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At 117+K miles, it's still completely trustworthy (17 city, 20+ highway with a 3.9L V6). I've done the usual scheduled maintenance and replaced a few things along the way (water pump, power steering hose, idle motor, battery, filters, serp belt, shocks, etc.), but nothing extreme. The biggest one was to replace a couple of creaking factory front suspension links with zerk-equipped aftermarket units. The 'shift profile' of the auto tranny IMO upshifts too quickly for the V6, impacting acceleration if you're not familiar with its behavior. It's fine in the flatland, but in hills (particularly on cruise), it downshifts a lot, sometimes drastically. All in all though, I still like it a lot.
Only owning this truck for a year, I can't really say how reliable it's been before me, but it feels like it's been well maintained, has 100K miles now. It is a great vehicle to drive, it feels like a bigger vehicle than it really is and very comfortable and plenty of power. I have had to put all new ball joints on it but that is one of the common problems with Dakotas, the gas mileage is pretty poor, about 15 mpg but it has a 5.2 L V8, you want great gas mileage buy something else, though I understand the newer V6 gets close to 20 mpg. It would probably be smarter get the V6 as the V8 is more power than most people need. Anyway I love this truck and would buy a new one if could afford to.
Bought new in '99, this truck has been great to me so far. It gets up to 26 mpg on the hiway and yet hauls anything I put in the back. I'm easy on vehicles and at 118K I'm still using the original brakes and am on the second set of tires. I went this year to buy another and discovered Dodge doesnt make the 4 cyl in the Dakota anymore. Such a shame! I just have to baby this one some more!
If you're in the market for a mid sized truck the Dodge Dakota is an excellent choice. I disagree the unhappy reviews. Most people don't write reviews if they are satisified. I've had my truck for over a year, and although I have replaced a few things, the truck's overall performance and features well make up for the repairs you may need to do. The truck's size is far less bulky than that of the full size p/u, and allows for easy parking in most situations. The truck's ride, power, and curb appeal are all excellent. Prevenitive maintence eliminates numerous problems listed in other reviews. The Dakota's interior build quality far exceeds that of many other manufacturers, I.E no rattles.


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Dairy farming is more than making a living for Mike Calton. It’s been his way of life his entire life.
“I was born and raised on a dairy farm; this dairy farm,” Mike said, adding that his family settled the original farm in 1857.
Mike and Gail milk 70 Holsteins, with an additional 70 replacement heifers of various ages.
The dairy is pasture-based, meaning cows only get grain twice a day inside the milk barn. The 400-acre farm can pasture all of the cows, as well as supply the majority of the grass hay needed.
“We don’t get record setting production like some of the TMR (total mixed ration) guys, but we have a lot of pasture and hay ground, so that works for us,” Mike said. “We try to keep the labor to a minimum and round bales are about as good as it gets for us. We could do silage and a TMR, but it’s not something we have ever gone to.”
Their herd averages about 50 pounds daily, and it climbing to 60 or 70 pounds in the spring.
For a few years, Mike did plant green graze and wheat.
“We used to plow up and disk a lot of land,” Mike said. “It would take quite a bit now to plow up a good stand of grass.”
The cows at Calton Dairy graze on fescue, orchardgrass, clover and other native grasses. There is a rotational system in place, but Mike said it is not meant to be an intensive grazing system.
“We can move our cattle around the way we want to,” he said. “Right now we have everything off the bottoms because we’re going to hay it. Keeping them off the hay ground messes things up a little, but those Holsteins eat a lot of hay.”
As a forage-based dairy, Mike feels his cows are productive longer and it’s a more economic way to operate.
“I could go for higher (milk) averages, but it costs more to do that,” he said.
Mike’s father Wallace Calton began milking in the early 1950s and was the first farm in the area to incorporate an AI program, which Mike continues today.
“My dad was a big Holstein man and was really the first man to bring top-quality Holsteins into the area, and we’ve been doing it for 70 years,” Mike said.
“I’ve stuck with Holsteins because it would be a shame to change that now.” “If you go to the sale barn, if you have the big, fancy Holstein springer heifers, they bring the most. Mixed little Jersey or crosses will sell well, but the top ones are the big, fancy Holsteins.”
The Calton reputation for quality Holsteins continues today. Mike and Gail sell several breed heifers to fellow dairy producers.
“AI has immensely added to the genetics of our cattle,” Mike said. “We’ve been doing it so long now that we can sell our bulls. My neighbor up the road, I’ve been selling him bulls for 30 years and all of his cows are out of my bulls. When you drive out and look at his herd they are just as nice as ours. We usually sell a group of springers or milk cows a year, but we haven’t the last couple of years because of the price. We have sold a lot of cattle right off the farm; we kind of have a name for that. People can come in, pick out the cows they want and we have had good luck with that. I always tell the local dairymen I sell to if they aren’t happy they can bring her back and get a different cow; I guarantee them. I usually try to sell the best I’ve got because they are all good. I don’t have any problem parting with any cow.”
He hasn’t had a single cow returned.
“People are happy with the cows they have gotten,” Gail added.
Mike has a set pattern he likes to follow with his cattle.
“We want a cow with good udder support, good feet and legs, and I like medium-sized cows that are good grazers,” he explained. “If they don’t have a good udder, they aren’t going to be around for long; a few years and they are done.”
If the quality or health of the cow is low or subpar, so is the quality of the milk, which is why Mike is committed to quality above all.
Last year, Calton Dairy was eighth in the region for milk quality out of 410 dairies.
“We are usually in the top 10 for milk quality,” Mike said. “Our most recent (somatic) cell count was 118,000. The top one in the state was right at that.”
Overall health can also be attributed to a close relationship with the veterinarians at Marshfield Vet.
“They have improved the profitability on our farm. It can be expensive when you call them, but it’s worth it,” Mike said. “If (cows) don’t clean after calving, I hate to call them out for that, but getting that cow cleaned up, taken care of and on the right track is so important.”
The Caltons also utilize the service to preg check cows, as well as for overall herd health, including vaccinations.
They also believe in giving all calves a healthy start.
“We put the calf in a pen right by the milk barn, so the calf has its mother’s milk for three to five days,” Gail said. “Three years from now, that heifer will be milking with her momma.”
Mike and Gail have been dairy farmers for their entire marriage.
The couple recently celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary. They have two sons, Kelley and Chad, and three grandchildren, Jarrett, Carly and Jeffrey.
“I didn’t know anything about dairy farming,” Gail, who moved to the Ozarks in 1972 from St. Louis, said.
“Thousands of calves later, she knows a lot about it now,” Mike added with a laugh.
Gail, who retired three years ago after a 25-year career as a teacher in the Lebanon, Mo., school district, admits she hasn’t spent too much time in the milk barn, but she loves the farming way of life.
“I had weekend duty with calves when I was teaching,” Gail said. “Now I’m in charge most of the time.”
With their roots firmly planted in the dairy business, the Caltons did something few producers have done in recent years. They built a new milk barn.
“It’s so efficient,” Mike said. “Plus, it has heat and air. It’s easy to clean and I love it. Stainless steel stalls with automatic feeders, you just flip a switch,” Mike said. “The very first barn was the barn I milked in with my dad. It just a three on-the-side walkthrough with homemade wooden stalls. It was pretty crude. Down the road, where my son, Kelley, lives, we build a three–on-the-side bypass. Now I have a herringbone and it’s really a nice barn.”
“He deserves it and if that’s what makes him comfortable, then do it,” Gail said.
The dairy industry is a tough one for many producers, especially smaller producers like the Caltons, and they admit there have been struggles, including times when Mike had to take work off-the-farm at the former Mid-Am facility in nearby Lebanon.
“As long as I can scratch out a living, I’m going to keep doing it, Mike said. “I don’t think anyone has enjoyed milking cows more than I have and it’s a steady check. It might not be much, but it comes every two weeks. We’ll keep milking. Small farms like ours are almost a thing of the past.”
“There’s still a place for small dairies,” Gail added.


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Facebook has revealed that for over a year, they have been fighting a court-order which was requiring them to hand over user information for hundreds of its users, the largest it has ever received.
The social network claim that just before last summer, they received requests from the US government to reveal 381 user requests by warrant from a New York court, while only 62 people of this number were charged pertaining to a disability fraud case, according to CNet.
Since then, the company has been under a gag order which refused them permission to discuss the user requests which they have now been able to break and decided to release an official statement on the affair on their blog page.
Titled Fighting Bulk Search Warrants In Court, Facebook’s deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby explained how they were able to break the gag and why they say they wanted to: “Last Friday, we filed an appellate brief in support of our continuing efforts to invalidate these sweeping warrants and to force the government to return the data it has seized and retained.
“Immediately after we filed our appeal, the government moved to unseal the warrants and all court filings, which has allowed us to finally notify the people whose accounts were affected about the warrants and our ongoing legal efforts.”
However, the company feel that despite this, the US lawmaker’s capabilities of accessing such information should be “narrowly tailored” and “proportionate to each case”, something which may be achievable for US citizens at least after this week’s decision to halt funding for all warrantless mobile phone searches by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
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HAVANA, Oct 3 2006 (IPS) — Washington’s embargo against Cuba also has an impact on the United States economy and prevents millions of U.S. citizens from benefiting from Cuban medical progress, according to a report released by the Cuban foreign ministry.
The text of the report will be presented at the United Nations General Assembly, which on Nov. 8 will be examining for the fifteenth consecutive year the need to end the embargo imposed by Washington on Havana more than four decades ago. The document states that “because of the blockade regulations” it has been impossible to begin clinical trials in the U.S. with TheraCIM, a Cuban pharmaceutical product for treating brain tumours in children.
TheraCIM is produced by the Molecular Immunology Centre, which in 2004 made a deal with U.S. company CancerVax to develop and produce therapeutic vaccines against cancer.
This medication is registered in Cuba and other countries for treating cancer of the head and neck, and has been proved to reduce tumour mass. It could benefit children in the United States and other countries with this type of cancer, the report points out.
It also adds that were it not for the embargo, millions of people in the United States suffering from diabetes could benefit from Citoprot P, a unique product and treatment method that accelerates healing of diabetic foot ulcers, reducing the risk of lower extremity amputations.
Citoprot P was developed by the Cuban Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. According to the foreign ministry report, about 20.8 million people in the United States suffer from diabetes, a chronic incurable disease.
The restrictions that Cuba calls a blockade and the U.S. an embargo have cost this Caribbean country 86.1 billion dollars in total damages throughout the period, including four billion in 2005 alone, the document says.
Last year the U.N. approved by 182 votes the Cuban motion in favour of lifting the embargo. The motion was first set before the U.N. General Assembly in 1992, when only 59 countries voted in favour of the resolution.
The report states that the ban on U.S. tourism to Cuba causes tourist agents in the U.S. losses of 565 million dollars per million U.S. tourists who are prevented from visiting the country.
An estimated 1.8 million U.S. tourists could have vacationed in this Caribbean island in 2005, but because of the ban, U.S. tourist agencies lost potential income of 996 million dollars, the report says.
In addition, the U.S. imports about 148,000 tons of primary nickel and some 10,000 tons of cobalt annually “from distant markets.”
But “If the blockade did not exist,” it could purchase these raw materials from Cuba, only 200 kilometres away, the report notes.
At present Cuba produces about 77,000 tons of nickel a year, and output is set to increase through an investment programme agreed with Canada in March 2005 for the expansion and modernisation of a joint venture company to exploit the mineral.
Cuba has proven nickel reserves of 800 million tons, and potential reserves are estimated at two billion tons. The country’s cobalt reserves amount to approximately 26 percent of total world reserves, according to official sources.
In presenting the report, Cuban deputy foreign minister Bruno Rodríquez said on Monday that the George W. Bush administration has created “an inter-agency task force on Cuban nickel,” to monitor and prevent sales of this strategic mineral.
Energy is another good business that Havana says U.S. companies are missing out on, because they are forbidden to participate in prospecting for oil on Cuba’s undersea platform in the Gulf of Mexico, only 137 kilometres from Florida.
The platform to the north of Cuba has an estimated potential of between one billion and 9.3 billion barrels of crude and between 1.9 trillion and 22 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
These estimates in the Cuban foreign ministry’s report are attributed to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which said “the possibilities of success are of the order of 95 percent.”
In 1999 Cuba opened up to tender 112,000 square kilometres of its waters in the Gulf of Mexico, divided into 51 blocks, for foreign exploration aimed at eventual exploitation.
The Spanish-Argentine company Repsol YPF currently has a contract to drill in six of these blocks, with a total surface area of 10,700 square kilometres. This year, however it decided to spread the risk and has sold a 30 percent share in the venture to each of two other companies, from India and Norway, retaining 40 percent itself.
The Canadian firm Sherritt International has also signed a contract for four blocks in this deep water drilling area.
Legislation approved in 2000 by the U.S. Congress permits the sale of foods to Cuba, an exception to the embargo that began to be implemented in 2001.
Between late 2001 and 2004, Cuban purchases from U.S. firms totalled over one billion dollars in cash.
In 2005, Cuba had earmarked between 700 and 800 million dollars to buy food from the United States. But Washington tightened its trading restrictions with Cuba, and the trade dropped to some 474 million dollars.
“Due to the obstacles to trade imposed by the blockade, U.S. agricultural exporters lost income of about 300 million dollars, which were used for purchases in other markets,” the Cuban report said.
The economic, commercial and financial embargo was formally imposed on Feb. 3, 1962. That means “seven out of 10 Cubans have been born and grown up under the blockade,” said deputy foreign minister Rodríguez.
The different generations often have different views with respect to the effects of the embargo. For example, Antonio Díaz, 70, believes that “the blockade is the reason why the country has not progressed,” while a 30-year-old taxi driver who remained anonymous said “(the embargo) is nothing but an excuse to cover up economic inefficiency.”
According to some experts, bilateral trade between the United States and Cuba would reach 20 billion dollars in just five years, if the embargo were lifted.
But Díaz, a retired sugar industry worker, confessed that he agreed with those who think ending the embargo won’t be enough. “I think changes are also needed to straighten out the country. I don’t think we’re working properly, and that’s something we have to fix – with or without the blockade,” he told IPS.
According to deputy foreign minister Rodríguez, the sole aim of the restrictions is to subject the Cuban people to hunger, desperation and suffering, and in his view it constitutes “an act of economic warfare and genocide.”

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A viral image titled: “Masks and Carbon Dioxide Toxicity,” appeared on multiple social media platforms. It says masks could trap exhaled carbon dioxide and cause us to breathe it back in. It claims this process could lead to CO2 intoxication or poisoning which, in turn, can cause breathing problems, muscle twitches, loss of judgment and more.
It's being used as justification for not wearing masks right now. But is it true?
Are facemasks causing people to suffer CO2 toxicity by forcing them to breathe in CO2 that they've exhaled?
Carbon dioxide can be dangerous at high levels, but experts don’t believe facemasks put you at risk.
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Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas in every breath we put out. But, high concentrations of the gas can cause physical health effects.
Documents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture detail how different levels of carbon dioxide affect us. Less than 0.5% concentration will likely have no effects whatsoever. But as the concentrations rise, symptoms including drowsiness, increased heart rate, confusion and even unconsciousness can occur.
It’s important to note that those documents don’t address wearing masks. They talk about the possible effects if workers are exposed to CO2 from workplace hazards.
“The most common exposure to CO2 for Food Safety and Inspection Service employees (FSIS) results from the off-gassing of CO2 gas from the use of dry ice for chilling and packing product,” it reads.
So at higher than normal concentrations, carbon dioxide can cause physical effects. The key question is whether it’s actually building to those dangerous levels in masks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s unlikely in medical masks and even less likely in homemade masks. They said carbon dioxide can build up over time in masks, but not to a dangerous level. At worst, you may get a headache, but not carbon dioxide poisoning.
That’s based on research about medical quality equipment like N95 masks. N95 masks have a tighter seal and allow less air in and out.
Homemade masks, especially cloth ones, aren’t great at stopping air from going in or out, period. And that’s not their purpose. The CDC says their use is to catch droplets that could spread the virus.
Here is the full text of the statement from the CDC:
"In regard to N95 respirators, studies done by Roberge et al. (2010) indicated that hypoventilation did not pose a significant risk to healthcare workers over the course of less than one hour of continuous N95 use. When healthcare personnel are working longer hours without a break while continuously wearing an N95 filtering facepiece respirator (FRR), CO2 may accumulate in the breathing space inside of the respirator and continuously increase past the 1-hour mark, which could have a significant physiological effect on the wearer (Lim et al., 2006), including headache, altered cognitive judgement, and increased breathing frequency, among other symptoms.
To fix the problem of breathing too much CO2 that has built up within the respirator facepiece, a worker can simply remove the respirator. Some facilities practice oxygen supplementation during these breaks from respirator use, but there really is no need for this as the oxygen in the environment is more than enough to relieve most of the symptoms listed above.
Specific to the viral image, it is unlikely that wearing a mask will cause “anoxia,” “asphyxiation,” “hypercapnia,” or “hypercarbia.” While CO2 will slowly build up in the mask over time, any symptoms experienced with low levels of CO2 are resolved upon removal of the mask and breathing room air for a minute."
While high concentrations of carbon dioxide can affect your health, we can VERIFY the claims that masks are causing carbon dioxide poisoning or toxicity are false.
Keep in mind, you shouldn’t be wearing these for long periods anyways.
The CDC only recommends masks when you’re out in public and when you can’t social distance.


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Once you have submitted your documents for disunion and you’ve learnt the laws existing for Nevada Divorce, it’s time to speak with professional Las Vegas divorce attorneys who can help you roll out an annulment in your case. This article will explain the meaning and regimen of annulment in Nevada.
When marriages do not flourish besides puzzled onto a point with arguments ampersand hot flashes taking place every fleeting concerning the day, it is better to get separated from each other and start with a newer and happier life once again. Just legal marriages are not that easy to get dissolved. There are certain de jure proceedings that you have to follow for dissolving a relationship forever.
Annulment is a term used in this case as it dissolves the relationship while if it never existed. At least in the eyes of the legal system, it disappears forever. This procedure takes around six weeks and its fundamentals are a moiety different from that of divorce procedures. Another necessary thing to remember is that the court may not grant the Nevada Annulment to you if you or your spouse does denial belong to Nevada. Else, your marriage must have taken place in the state. In both the cases, a meticulous reason has to be submitted with the authorities so that they could affirmative your marriage void.
Annulment is a full proof way to make your marriage void. As soon as it is granted, you are no more legally married to your spouse. Well, if you are looking forward for Nevada Divorce then it is important to endure clear information about the requirements for filing for Las Vegas annulments. For this, you cannot file a joint complaint or a joint petitionary because initially only one spouse can lodge a complaint. But yes, undivided thing is for indisputable that if both the spouses are in agreement to void the marriage, the process becomes easier and ends up to a considerable extent.
How to file Annulment in Las Vegas
For filing a Complaint for Annulment in Las Vegas, two basic requirements need to be fulfilled by all the couples. First is, Nevada should be your vicinity of marriage else any one of the spouses need to indiging a resident of this state for at least six weeks before filing the complaint. Second requirement says that at least one of the legal grounds should be an designate one for securing an annulment. It is not just mere regret that receptacle abetment you get an annulment in Las Vegas; there has to be a proper legal reason for doing so. Like, if your spouse is a blood relative, or one of the spouses is mentally incompetent or he is not learned to understand to what he or she is giving allowance to.


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The coexpression and clinical significance of costimulatory molecules B7-H1, B7-H3, and B7-H4 in human pancreatic cancer
Authors Chen Y, Sun J, Zhao H, Zhu D, Zhi Q, Song S, Zhang L, He S, Kuang Y, Zhang Z, Li D
Received 25 April 2014
Accepted for publication 9 June 2014
Published 19 August 2014 Volume 2014:7 Pages 1465—1472
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 4
Yan Chen,1,* Jing Sun,2,* Hua Zhao,1 Dongming Zhu,1 Qiaoming Zhi,1 Shiduo Song,1 Lifeng Zhang,1 Songbing He,1 Yuting Kuang,1 Zixiang Zhang,1 Dechun Li1
1Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 2Department of Immunology, Soochow University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Aim: We investigated the expression of the inhibitory costimulatory molecules B7-H1, B7-H3, and B7-H4 in human pancreatic cancer to define their clinical significance and mechanism in a tumor microenvironment.
Patients and methods: Sixty-three pancreatic cancer tissues and 12 normal pancreatic tissues were examined in our research. Patients were enrolled in the study between December 2000 and August 2010. Expression levels of the B7 family of molecules and densities of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in the tissues were characterized with immunohistochemical assays.
Results: More than 50% of the patients expressed B7-H1 and B7-H4, and nearly 100% of the patients expressed B7-H3. B7-H1 expression was correlated with tumor size, B7-H3 expression was correlated with lymph-node metastasis and differentiation grade, and B7-H4 expression was correlated with tumor size, lymph-node metastasis, and invasion depth. High B7-H4 expression was also correlated with poor survival in pancreatic cancer. We determined the value of these three B7 family molecules in the postoperative survival prognosis for patients with pancreatic cancer, and pancreatic cancer patients with less coexpression of the B7 family of molecules had a significantly higher survival rate. B7-H1 expression was found to be negatively related to the intensity of both CD3+ T cells and CD8+ T cells, and B7-H4 expression was negatively related to CD3+ T-cell infiltration intensity, but not to CD8+ T cells.
Conclusion: B7-H1, B7-H3, and B7-H4 are involved in pancreatic cancer progression, and their coexpression could be a valuable prognostic indicator. Negative regulation of T-cell infiltration might be the main mechanism of action of the B7 family of molecules in pancreatic cancer.
Keywords: pancreatic cancer, B7-H1, B7-H3, B7-H4, tumor-infiltrated T cell

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(Yicai Global) Dec. 24 — The Dalian Commodity Exchange, one of four futures exchanges on the Chinese mainland, will begin allowing overseas investors to participate in the futures trading of refined, bleached and deodorized palm olein, a type of palm oil, from today in order to exert more influence on global prices.
China imports all its palm oil, which is used in a wide range of commodities from cooking oil to animal feed. Around half of all the products in a supermarket, both edible and non-edible, are made with palm oil.
The DCE began trading in RBD palm olein…
(Yicai Global) Dec. 14 — BEST, a leading Chinese smart supply chain and logistics services provider, will launch Vietnam’s most productive sortation center to respond to the growing express delivery demand fuelled by Southeast Asia’s booming online economy.
BEST will open a 35,000 square-meter sortation center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, ahead of the approaching holiday season when the corporate and consumer demand for parcel processing is expected to peak, the Hangzhou-based company announced on Dec. 11.
(Yicai Global) Nov. 10 — When Jollybuyer, an e-commerce site selling casual clothing to Southeast Asia from China, held a live-streaming campaign Nov. 7 for its “Double 11” promotion, more than 30,000 consumers from Thailand visited the virtual showroom, triple the number of usual views. This is how heated the Singles’ Day shopping festival is in Southeast Asia.
Cross-Border E-Commerce Shipping
To help e-commerce vendors prepare for the sales peak of the annual promotion, BEST Inc., a leading integrated supply chain and logistics services provider, started working with Jollybuyer on cross-border shipping solutions two months in advance. With warehouses for…
(Yicai Global) July 16 — Cinemas in China’s low-risk regions for Covid-19 can reopen on July 20 after a six-month pause, which is giving a ray of hope for entertainment companies.
Movie theaters will still need to leave 70 percent of their seats empty during each screening to ensure that the safety of their customers, the China Film Administration said in a statement today. Moviegoers need to book online with their real names.
The announcement was welcomed by investors. Shares of China’s biggest cinema operator Wanda Film Holding [SHE:002739] jumped as much as 8.8 percent intraday today, and…
(Yicai Global) July 15 — China will further support the development of fresh business ideas such as those related to e-commerce and live-streaming to create new jobs along with rising consumption.
The government will reduce the cost of starting an online business and hiring, some 13 central government departments said in a guideline issued today. Side gigs and digital transformation are also encouraged.
Editor: Emmi Laine
(Yicai Global) July 14 — Chinese communications equipment maker ZTE recently issued its first fifth-generation wireless network-based indoor router, the MC801A, jointly with Africa’s largest multinational telecom operator MTN Group, ZTE said on its website yesterday.
The router supports non-standalone and standalone 5G networks and is compatible with major 4G and 5G frequencies. It affords access to high-speed 5G networks to users with compliant devices as well as services on 4G smart terminals and Wi-Fi terminals.
Shenzhen-based ZTE has been working with its partners worldwide to accelerate commercial use of its 5G terminals and has reached cooperation with more than 30 operators, Yicai Global has learned.
Editor: Ben Armour
(Yicai Global) July 13 — Chinese tech titan Tencent Holdings is in talks with and has signed a framework agreement to buy out and take gaming firm Leyou Technologies Holdings private, Leyou announced. Its shares rose 3.11 percent to HKD2.99 (39 US cents) as of 11:00 on the news.
Tencent, which is China’s largest video game developer, edged out its rivals, including Japan’s Sony, to secure the right of first refusal for the acquisition, Hong Kong-based Leyou said in a statement it released on July 10.
The buyout may go through, per the statement, which omitted financial details, and hedged with the caveat no certainty exists any agreement will ultimately eventuate. The exclusive option agreement the two signed is, however, valid for three months, Leyou said.
Editor: Ben Armour
(Yicai Global) July 10 — As China deals with weeks of heavy rainfall, flooding in southern parts of the country has affected 30.2 million people and caused a direct economic loss of CNY61.8 billion (USD8.8 billion) as of yesterday afternoon, according to official data.
Editor: Emmi Laine
(Yicai Global) July 8 — More than 10 million tourists should visit Lin-gang Special Area in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone each year in the next three years, according to an official at the local administration.
Lin-gang will become a unique first-choice resort and family destination in the Yangtze River Delta over the next three years, Hu Zhiqiang at the area’s management committee said at a press conference yesterday.
During the recent five-day Labor Day holiday, Lin-gang welcomed about 184,000 tourists, and the highest daily figure surpassed 50,000, Hu added.
The 386-square-kilometer area, located nearby Shanghai’s Pudong International…
(Yicai Global) July 7 — Haidilao International Holding’s shares rose today even though the expanding Chinese hotpot chain said that expects to report a net loss in the first half of this year due to Covid-19.
Haidilao’s stock price [HK: 6862] climbed 3.5 percent to HKD37 (USD4.80) this afternoon.
The firm’s revenue should fall by 20 percent from a year ago, the Beijing-based company said in a statement today. It made CNY11.7 billion (USD1.7 billion) in revenue and CNY911 million (USD129.9 million) in net profit in the first half of last year.
The restaurant chain that also offers…


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Guillermo Del Toro is as much a big kid playing with toys as he is a director, but with each film it feels like he’s inviting the viewer to play with him. Del Toro’s joyful enthusiasm shines through his lightest films, while his grimmest show his gifts as one of the best horror filmmakers working today, someone who plays knowingly with the history of the genre while still making it into something new.
Jean Cocteau would be delighted by director Ulli Lommel’s use of the mirror and reflection in The Boogey Man (1980). While John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) isThe Boogey Man’s most recognized influence,Lommel also seems to draw from Cocteau’s use of the mirror from such classics as Orphée (1950), where mirrors serve as doorways for Death to walk through. Similarly, Lommel’s mirror houses a vengeful spirit and, when this mirror is broken, the spirit is released and begins wreaking havoc. The mirror is as central to Lommel’s plot as it is to all of Cocteau’s work. It is because of this incredible presence of mirrors and their relationship to Death that we cannot overlook or deny Jean Cocteau’s role in creating Lommel’s underappreciated horror masterpiece – The Boogey Man.
Bill Murray. Billy, the Murricane. Bill fucking Murray. The man is a bona fide institution and a hero to gadfly layabouts, eccentric humorists and mayhem enthusiasts alike. We would follow him to the ends of the earth (even up to Canada for TIFF’s Bill Murray Day), not because he actually has the answers but because he’s the one having the most fun without them. With nearly forty years of filmography trailing behind him (discounting the 1973 short “The Hat Act”), Murray has a plethora of roles (and we don’t use the “p” word lightly) with performances that stand the test of time to varying heights.


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NOMADLAND (Opening Film)
One of the Festival’s favourite director discoveries, the rapidly emerging Chloé Zhao (Golden Athena for “The Rider”) returns with a road movie which is already destined for the grand awards of the cinematic season. In the lead is Frances McDormand, in her first role following the legendary Oscar success of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”. A personal journey of self-denial and female empowerment set against the emotive landscape of the modern-day West, during the time of the great depression between 2007-09.
USA | 2020 | COLOR | DCP | 107' | ENGLISH
Zhao's passage from festival recognition to the confirmation of her status as one of the most significant voices of world cinema. A director who handles smoothly the movement from small scale to wide range and from the personal to the general.
Through the story of a modern wanderer, one crossing western States with a camper in search of meaning, Zhao paints a wrinkled portrait of contemporary America an analogy perfectly mirrored in Oscar-winner McDormand's presence, only placed before an insurmountable lyricism, spread in highways, the desert and the vastness of Wild West landscape. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, directly from its world premiere in Venice Film Festival. Th.K.
DIRECTOR: Chloé Zhao
SCREENWRITER: Chloé Zhao
DoP: Joshua James Richards
MUSIC: Ludovico Einaudi
EDITOR: Chloé Zhao
PRINCIPAL CAST: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Bob Wells, Charlene Swankie
Chinese director, screenwriter, editor and producer, born in 1982, based in California. Ιn her third film (her fourth, ‘Eternals’ is almost done), already enjoys a reputation beyond the festival circuit.
2017 The Rider
2015 Songs My Brothers Taught Me


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Economic woes in Europe threaten your retirement savings
Posted By Correy Robertson On May 28, 2010 @ 8:14 am In Money Talk | No Comments
How does that work? Cause we all know we have enough problems at home, so how does the economy abroad affect your savings? John Burgess explains:
For Americans, all this is more than a distant spectator event. Wall Street sell-offs driven by Europe’s troubles have already shaved the value of millions of American portfolios. Interest rates have been driven down, bad news for people who rely on bond and CD income.
And if Europe begins an extended economic slowdown, U.S. efforts to emerge from 2 1/2 years of recession will be at risk. “Europe is one of our biggest customers,” says Stephen J. Silvia, director of doctoral studies at American University’s School of International Service. “If they’re not buying, then we’re not selling.”
Learn more about the problems occurring overseas and how it affects you and yours.
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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have unleashed their brand new music video, “Goat of Departure.”The video, directed by Ben Mayer, was filmed in the band’s hometown of Detroit, MI last month. In typical TBDM fashion, the video is over-the-top and even features the return of a classic TBDM character, and a real, live goat. Watch “Goat of Departure” now at metalblade.com/bdm.
Trevor Strnad adds: “It’s our pleasure to release our latest exercise in music video stupidity to you all at long last… We’d like to thank Guiness the Goat for penciling us in and all of the rabid TBDM fans for getting wild with us. Press the play button and embrace the glory of the goat!”
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s new album, “Everblack,” debuted at #32 on the Billboard Top 200! The album also landed at #3 on the Billboard Current Hard Music Albums chart (behind Black Sabbath and Queens of the Stone Age). Additional chart debuts include #3 on the Billboard Hard Music Albums, #9 on the Billboard Independent Albums, and #30 on the Hits Albums Chart. Additionally, the album peaked at #15 on the iTunes album chart, and #2 on the iTunes Metal chart, second only to living legends Black Sabbath.
The cover art for Everblack was painted by renowned artist Nick Keller with Weta Workshop(nickkellerart.com), whose recent projects include: The Hobbit, Avatar, Chronicles of Narnia, and more. Recording was completed at Audiohammer Studios (lead guitars and vocals), Rustbelt Studios (drums), and Regal Fecal (guitar and bass). Mixing was handled by Jason Suecof and Ryan Williams, mastering was completed by Alan Douches at West Westside. Trevor Strnad’s horror-inspired lyrics persist on Everblack, beginning with In Hell is Where She Waits for Me,a reference to the murder from which the band took for their moniker.
Catch the band in the UK:
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
20th LONDON – Islington Academy
21st MANCHESTER – NQ Live
22nd GLASGOW – Cathouse


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Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney received the American Book Award in the year of publication and tells the story of Alice Rumphius, who wants to travel to far away places, settle down to live by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful — just like her grandfather taught her. Miss Rumphius travels the world seeing islands, mountains, and deserts then comes home to live in a house by the sea. She still wants to do something to make the world more beautiful but doesn’t quite know what. Then one day, her garden full of beautiful blue and purple and rose-colored lupines give her a wonderful idea! Soon Miss Rumphius is planting fields of lupines all along the coast. When the flowers bloom in the spring, Miss Rumphius knows she knows she has fulfilled her wish and made the world just a little bit more beautiful.
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A tax increment reimbursement agreement by the Redevelopment Agency of Tooele City was approved on June 19, which helps pave the way for apartment housing in the former Broadway Hotel.
The agreement allows the developer, Broadway-Heritage Village Apartments 2017, to be reimbursed a portion of the tax increment on the redeveloped property up to $360,000 or 10 years. The reimbursement would be used to meet the debt service coverage required by the bonds issued to fund the project to prevent default.
Tax increment refers to the additional property tax revenue created by an increase in property value. The city’s RDA is entitled to a portion of the tax increment and the resolution approved last month allows the agency to reimburse some of the tax increment to support the project.
According to the RDA resolution, the concept plans for the project include renovation and redevelopment of the former Broadway Hotel to create 30 bedroom units and construction of 18 new units, with a mixture of one, two and three bedroom units.
RDA consultant Randy Sant said the developer will be required to submit a yearly budget including revenue, expenditures, net operating income, and debt service. If the project produces enough revenue to meet the debt service coverage, the developer won’t receive any reimbursement.
Sant said based on projections, the increment will likely only be given for 3-4 years. The agreement also requires the developer to operate for at least five years after they receive the final tax increment payment.
The agreement also requires the developer to begin construction on the project by April 2020. Sant said the developer has a buyer for the bond and an equity partner lined up and intends to begin construction shortly after those agreements are finalized in September or October.
Construction will likely begin with the existing hotel building and is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.
During the work session of the June 19 meeting, RDA chairman Brad Pratt thanked those involved in the Broadway Hotel redevelopment over the course of the project. The RDA board adopted a resolution approving the Broadway Community Development Project Area plan back in September 2007.
“The improvement or rebuild of that hotel will be major,” Pratt said. “That will be a real boost to that area and I also appreciate the fact that it’s affordable housing.”
During the RDA business meeting following the City Council meeting, Tooele City Mayor Debbie Winn said tax increment agreements can be controversial but are necessary for some projects. Tooele County and the Tooele County School District are also involved in the tax increment agreement.
“This will bring to our city some affordable housing … and we are very grateful to everyone that has seen the vision of this project and will help make it work,” Winn said.
The RDA board unanimously approved the tax increment reimbursement agreement on a motion from board member Dave McCall, seconded by board member Steve Pruden.