Oklahoma woman gets early Christmas present; tumor free thanks to new treatment at OU Med
OKLAHOMA CITY – Bonnie Naifeh received an early Christmas present this year. She’s tumor free.
“I had filled my will out, I’d done everything but this was the third time and the radiologist said it was so near the carotid artery and so it was really frightening to me,” Naifeh said.
After a visit to her eye surgeon in 2007, Bonnie found out she had a tumor growing in the middle of her head.
The tumors returned multiple times.
After the third diagnosis, Dr. Michael Sughrue of OU Medical Center gave Bonnie three options; do nothing, go through radiation, or have brain surgery.
She chose to have an endoscopic pituitary gland surgery, a less invasive approach that uses a camera to go up the nasal cavity and remove the tumor through the nose.
The endoscope provides doctors a full view as opposed to the traditional method that gave surgeons a more narrow view.
“The truth is we can get cures for these patients in a large percentage of these cases and so we all feel like there’s an obligation to make up the standard to the point where the majority of the people don’t have to deal with this like she did for years and years and years,” Dr. Sughrue said.
This less invasive approach decreases the threat the tumors will return and it speeds up recovery time.
“The important thing is we set people up for correct healing,” he said. “So we’re not, we don’t think, developing scarring or long-term sinus problems because we’re not destroying the anatomy.”


If I am using the launcher version of UE4 4.7.2, how do I go about adding SQLite? I want to be able to write my own blueprint functions for it and not rely on others people’s plugins.
You procide as normaly in C++. you just need to do some reconfiguration in build script or else you gonna have linker errors, UE4 has it’s own build system so it ignores VS configuration, here tutorial how to set it up
Try to create a wrapper class in UObject enveraiment so it will be compatible with reflection system and UObject. remember to convert any C++ standard types or SQLite types to UE4 types so there wont be any issues with reflection system. aspecially as you planing to incorporate blueprints in to this.
I thought that SQLite was in UE4 and that I would just have to do an include or something to get access. Is this not correct?
I wrote the ‘official’ integration thats included. However it requires a source code build of the engine to use.
If you want to keep using the launcher version, you could put the SQLite code into your project, and not use the official module, but you’d have to write some classes/wrapper functions to make it visible to Blueprint.
We hope this plugin can help you.
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In its Iron Trout program, the German company Saenger offers a wide range of products from reels and rods to the smallest details needed to equip trout rods and spinning rods.
Chakka HCX Premium 3000 is a dream trout for trout fishing that meets the highest standards and is the flagship among the IRON TROUT reels. Very light weight, thanks to the carbon body, handle and rotor, smooth operation of a powerful but very fast mechanism equipped with Japanese bearings NSK , impeccable front friction brake with graphite discs and modern design make this reel unsurpassed among its "classmates" from other brands! This reel is not only a pearl on the water, but also a real workhorse, able to withstand huge loads while weighing the largest fish.
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LSTC was commissioned by SSEPD to provide a cable route to AWE Aldermaston from Thatcham Grid for a 4 x 33kV Circuit. The project itself was a 12km route within areas of rural farmland and commercial districts with major arterial roads in between. The route was intersected by 3 major, linear features: Kennett & Avon Canal, The Great Western Network Rail Line and The River Kennett all requiring crossing and technical consent.
Phase 1 route optioneering focused on feasible crossing points of these features in tandem with the Local Authority due to the traffic sensitivity of proposed routes. Given the strict timeframes, non-highway routes were discounted early on. Phase 1 studies highlighted all areas of engineering difficulty on each route and discounted on the basis of risk.
Phase 2 studies went on to minimize risk and procure consents in all areas identified in phase 1 for the proposed route, which included SGN HP Mains, EA river and flood plain consents, TTROs and traffic planning, HDD design and EHV hotspots for cable design. Following phase 2 detailed design, route costings (QS), cable feasibility reports and relevant consents documents were provided to 4 companies for construction in conjunction with the client (SSEN). This tender process enables competitive pricing focusing on a fully designed project with consenting in place prior to tender, thus minimising risk, construction times and cost. The project was energised in early 2016 with no deviation from the route proposal and detailed design.
To provide a viable route for the installation fully consented to be tendered for construction with highways approval.
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Project management including cost, programme and progress reporting.
Feasibility studies for particular technical solutions.
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Assessment of social/ecological impact based on the preferred route options/corridors or preferred site selection.
Technical Consents, tender package and construction information.


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The purpose of this publication is to provide a resource and reference to assist in the formulation of culturally acceptable cancer prevention and control research projects or programs. Information in this publication may be of assistance to health care providers, tribal health planners, health educators, public health nutritionists, community health representatives, and health professionals working with AI/AN populations.The first section of this publication provides a brief overview of the cancer problem among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations living in urban, rural, reservation, and village sites. The second section describes the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and control. The third section is an overview of the National Cancer Institutes-supported American Indian projects.The information from this publication can benefit researchers working with the AI/AN populations in the development and implementation of cancer intervention programs in urban, rural and/or reservation environments. It can also assist in the development of culturally competent AI/AN survey instruments for collection of accurate data. The information provided may also be useful in the development of culturally sensitive AI/AN cancer education materials and programs to be used in innovative research interventions.Variations in AI/AN culture and lifestyle patterns, i.e., smoking prevalence and access to medical care, pose unique challenges to the development of cancer prevention and control programs. Users of this publication should use appropriate sections to assist in the formulation of cancer prevention and control programs for the local community. Reservation hospitals and health centers, urban Indian health clinics, and other tribal settings are encouraged to collect and record cancer data for their community.
Native American Monograph Series
Burhansstipanov L. Dresser CM Documentation of the cancer needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Native American Monograph Series No. 1; NIH Publication No. 93-3603. 1993

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by Kate Whittle
We hereby present a very special edition of the Party Planning Committee, because your good-time event mistress Calapatra is actually planning a rad backyard party on Saturday. If I have ever crashed a party of yours, y'all are welcome to mine. (Come to think of it, this invites half the town. Oh well.) As for the rest of the week, here are my suggestions—or choose your own path and click here to search our entire events calendar.
Tolstoy says every happy family is alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This might seem a propos during Richard Manning's reading from his new memoir, It Runs in the Family, at Shakespeare and Co. tonight at 7. First, read Erika Fredrickson's review.
You'll come away with serious environmentalist cred if you go to the Shakespeare and Co. reading with Kate Davies and Florence Williams, authors about environmentalism and boobies, respectively. These things are connected, I assure you.
After all that literary fun, might I suggest drinking some whiskey and doing a li'l two-step this evening? You have a choice between good ole Steve Earle or the super-talented Sarah Jarosz. Tough choice, I know, but I personally would opt in favor of seeing the rising star, so you can say "I saw her when."
You could also do both, most likely, since Steve Earle will probably wrap up at the Wilma just as Sarah Jarosz is starting at the Top Hat. That right there is the glory of our downtown.
This is no evening to take yourself seriously. Weird Al plays the Wilma, but if you don't have $40 in bones lying around, there's a Super Valu Show (I just made that up) at the ZACC, with six touring punk bands, including one all the way from France.
Oh! There's also New Belgium's Clips Beer and Film Fest, and Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy at a free show at Monk's. Dammit, I can only be in so many places at once.
On this, Calapatra the Calendar Editor's birthday, nothing seems more suitable than hanging out in the ZACC Below with goofy kids like Buddy Jackson and Bozeman's Party Like Thieves.
To submit an event to the Missoula Independent online and print calendars, email firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Early Friday morning I awoke while an old train whistle sounded from the Fall Creek tracks. It rolled over the waving greens and dead browns to the Cirenaica grounds. It was a sound not heard in cities, and it told me how special this would be. We were in the middle of nowhere, the perfect place for creativity to thrive.
Allyson Loomis grouped the writers together Friday morning to begin the “hard work.” I joined in alongside eleven others as we gathered in a circle in the lodge’s living room. Steaming coffee cups in hand, generously shared donuts, and a calm through the log walls and outside wilderness. Allyson began by offering a lesson that would stay with us all: though nonfiction is often a story about us, it’s important that is speaks beyond us, too. We writers clung to this lesson, and over our three days together, wrote, crafted and, revised our stories with it in mind.
Geoff Carter recounts his first residency as assistant arts administrator at Cirenaica, where Allyson Loomis lead the writers through a weekend of sessions to create their works. Read his full article on the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild website.


One of the displays on my Mac finally died. Apparently the new Apple monitors do not work without a proper graphics card, and those cards apparently do not support my Mac Pro's generation. My Mac Pro: 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB had drive NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT New iMac: 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard drive AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB (I bumped up to an i7. More hard disk space and more memory on the Radeon available in BTO) So, best case scenario it boils down to $999 for a Mac 27" display, plus a graphics card and adapter, if such a thing was feasible. Or.... double my money for a new iMac. I will need a few beers to think this through.


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China and Pakistan offered to include Afghanistan in their $50 billion economic project during talks Tuesday in Beijing.
The three countries announced they plan to discuss ways to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan. CPEC includes highways, railways, pipelines and optical cables being built as part of Pakistan’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters that cooperation could improve livelihoods along border areas.
“In the long run, through Afghanistan, we will gradually connect the CPEC with the China-Central and Western Asia Economic Corridor,” he said.
Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs Khawaja Asif also took part in the trilateral dialogue.
“The successful implementation of CPEC projects will serve as a model for enhancing connectivity and cooperation through similar projects in neighboring countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Central and West Asia,” Asif said.
Wang said the arrangement would be independent of any disputes between the countries.
“The CPEC is an economic cooperation project and should not be politicized,” he said.
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I am an experienced qualified teacher and have taught across the primary age group, from early years and into secondary school to year 11. I have a passion for learning, our environment and for bees!
My partner and I have 9 hives (approximately 500,000 bees in the height of summer) and I also work with the bees at Standens, the National Trust property in East Grinstead. I have also spoken on BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Sussex about what we have achieved and our progress at Standens.
My work with candles and workshops spreads knowledge and information about bees and the essential part they have to play in our world’s survival.
What can you do to help? Using and give products made from natural beesawax or drizzling locally produced honey increases the awareness of the value of this amazing creature.

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Étoile Noire is a creative bilingual musical duo, including Canadian core artists Fabien Melanson and Justin Trudeau, bringing together a unique grassroots charm, and southern twist. Influenced by groups such as: Gordon Lightfoot, Steve Earle and The Strokes, their compositions reflect the root-based styles and techniques that produces the organic feel they strive to achieve.
A tasty mix of southern groove, chicken pickin' licks, alt folk storytelling, and organic beats. Uniquely written in both official Canadian languages, melodies are full of tension and passionate notes.
"It all happened by hanging out and talking about life", says Trudeau of the organic growth of the project. This bilingual Folk, Indie, Country entity was excited for the release of their full length self-titled album, Étoile Noire (Black Star) .
In Nov. 2017, Étoile Noire released their debut album and promoted it in Ottawa as well as 11 cities across the east-coast of Canada. They gained coverage on radio, such as: CHOIX FM in Moncton, NB, and PHANTOM FM in Bathurst, NB. In the same year, Étoile Noire shares the bill with Juno-Award winner Julian Taylor Band, then Jeff Martin of the Tea Party, and later performing at two venues for Marvest/CityFolk Festival. Local radio stations continue to spin their songs, and they are reviewed by many organizations, such as Apt613, Ottawa Life Magazine, Musicoin, etc.
In 2018, they continue to promote and write. A return to the east-coast, festivals across Canada, with a aspirations to tour in Europe.
Justin, formerly of ilvekyo (4 years), performs with Julie Corrigan, Allysa Munaretto, studio work at JohnnyHall Productions Will be representing Etoile Noire, with "The Long War" at LanaLou's in Vancouver.
(From Bathurst, NB)
Singer/songwriter for most of his waking life, notepad at hand, Fabien captures the abundant poetry in the world that moves around him. "There is beauty in the variety of perceptions in each event. There are many ways to look at things. That, is freedom to me". Armed with his acoustic guitar, Fabien records those moments in time; through music, he marks this plane with rhythm and melody.


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2014 Garden: What's Growing On
|From left to right: beans, carrots, lettuce, onions, more lettuce, Brussels sprouts, potatoes. Asparagus in foreground.|
Here’s a synopsis of what’s growing on in my garden this year:
Mixed Variety Radishes: Much to Tom’s chagrin, I decided to plant a variety pack of radish seeds this spring. Some long, skinnier types; white radishes; stripey ones; and some normal types. Well, they didn’t grow so well. I’m not a fan of the long white ones that resemble my white carrots (which I also dislike). The bugs ate most of them anyways. Next time (this fall), I’ll take Tom’s advice and just plant the more normal varieties.
Rainbow Carrots: Speaking of strange varieties, I still had rainbow carrot seeds leftover from two years ago, so I decided to plant some. And decided to pull anything not in Carrot Row, so as to avoid the takeover I had last year. I actually have gotten a good variety of yellow, white, orange, red and purple carrots. I dug some up early because the deer have nibbled many of the stalks down to the ground. Again, if I ever buy carrot seed in the future, it will be a more normal variety, cool as the multi-colored are.
Mixed Leaf Lettuces: Ah, here's a seed blend I actually am glad I purchased! I've done a similar mix every year and I really like it. Last year, my lettuce didn't grow, and I suspect it's because the baby bunny ate it as soon as it sprouted. This year, it did phenomenal! I wish I had eaten more before it started to bolt. But, I did give a lot away, and I'm planning on planting seeds for a fall harvest shortly.
|Baby leaf lettuces!|
Spinach: I tried growing spinach again this year for the second time. It grew okay, but I feel like the season is so short. It bolts at the first sign of heat, and I feel like I didn't get much of a harvest. Perhaps that's just because I had to plant so late this year. I did enjoy what I got, though!
|Spinach, lettuce, and white radishes|
Asparagus: This was the first year that I could harvest my asparagus! What a crazy plant. Spears that grow out of the ground and blossom into ferns. They grow ridiculously fast, so I had no problem with letting some of the spears fern and just harvested the ones I caught at just the right time when they were a good length and the buds were still tight. Yum! I'm looking forward to even more next year.
Snow & Snap Peas: Well, the peas didn't really grow this year. Again. the chipmunk or some other burrowing animal keeps eating all of my seeds that I plant. I'm not sure what to do about that except maybe let my dog loose to eat all of the animals... Just saying.
|I actually started some potted peas indoors, and those did best since they were protected from critters!|
Green Beans: I tried a new variety of bush beans this year. So far, I really like them. They have a good yield and taste delicious! They don't seem to get overgrown as quickly as the previous variety I had. The deer got to a few plants before I put the fortress (er, netting) up, but I think the rest are safe now and are doing well.
Hot Peppers: I had leftover hot pepper seeds, so I decided to try them, even though my success rate has been dismal in the past. I got a few plants that grew to a decent size before transplant time, and I actually have some hot peppers growing! Woo-hoo! I also got some end of the season Thai chili pepper and sweet bell pepper plants. I'm not sure I'll get much off the bell peppers (they never grow for me), but the Thai chiles are doing well!
|I haven't gotten many good tomato pictures yet, but here's the salsa I made with some of my tomatoes!|
|Tomatoes, beans and hot peppers|
Cucumbers: I decided to give cucumbers another go this year. I have a few plants that are growing and just a few cukes. We'll see if I actually end up with any edible ones. I just don't seem to have luck with these. And, I think they picked up some sort of powdery mildew...
Brussels Sprouts: This is my new plant for the year! They are pretty cool to watch grow -- I started them from seeds, but they were tiny little plants when I transplanted them into the garden. They were growing okay, but had some holes in the leaves. I finally discovered the culprits: cabbage worms. No sooner had I picked them all off than the deer discovered my garden, and apparently they LOVE Brussels sprouts. They nibbled what they could reach down to stubs, and I'm left with just a few plants under the netting, recovering from the worm damage. I hope I actually get something to harvest!
Onions: I tried onions again this year. They are not growing well. Again. I'm not sure why some things grow for me and others don't, but I do have a few baby onions. Perhaps I'll get one decent sized bulb this year.
Red Gold Potatoes: I love red skin potatoes. I also love Yukon Golds. So when I discovered Red-Golds, I had to try them! They were not the best seed potatoes. Awful, actually, with hardly any eyes. But, they are growing. The plants didn't flower (same thing happened with my seed potatoes last year), so I'm not expecting a huge harvest. I did plant a few grocery store potatoes that grew eyes, too, and I swear they grow better than the expensive seed potatoes. A few potato plants sprung up around the garden from missed potatoes last year, too, so I will have several treasures to uncover!
Squash: I tried removing all of my squash/gourd remains from my garden (thrown in after Halloween last year) and moving it to the field behind our house. But, obviously, I didn't get all of the seeds. They have sprouted amid my tomatoes, and I decided to let them be. Something amazing happened this year: I didn't get any squash bugs! I don't know if it's because I did such a diligent job of destroying them last year or what, but I haven't seen a-one. There are flowers but no baby squash yet. We'll see what comes.
Hops: These are actually growing at the back of my perennial garden, on strings going up to the roof of our garage. And they are Tom's garden babies, to be used for home brewing! We got three varieties: Cascade, Tettnanger, and Willamette. The Tettnanger took off first, but the Cascade caught up and has overtaken it. They look really cool, and hopefully we'll have some ready to harvest before too long!
Phew! I guess I have been growing quite a bit. You want to know the best part about my garden this year? It's Tom's contribution: he installed an irrigation system for both my vegetable and perennial gardens. It's amazing! We have a timer hooked up to run each of them at set intervals. I've spent far less time maintaining my garden than ever before. I also organized my plants in actual rows this year, which actually does make weeding way easier.
|We started with a sprinkler system, which quickly moved to the perennial garden. We got the sweat-hose drip irrigation for the veggies. Love it!|
Oh, and we got an awesome arbor that Tom installed as the entryway into the garden area. We were going to grow hops on it, but decided it wouldn't work well, so I got a clematis plant instead. It's flowering, but the plant is still pretty small. I've always wanted an arbor with flowers growing up it, so I'm really excited about this!
|New arbor and new lattice! A pain to stain, but loving it now that it's done!|
|We also did some landscaping around the edge of the garden to finish off the look.|
|Home grown flowers!|
Hi there! My name is Dana and I live in West Michigan with my husband, Tom and our dog Happy Gilmore. I created this space as a place to share the things I learn along this journey I call life. I work in marketing and I'm a sort of Jane of All Trades, interested in all things nature, gardening, cooking, exploring and learning new things. This blog is a conglomeration of my interests, hobbies, life and life lessons. Thanks for stopping by!


text: Poultry sector is one of the effervescent segments of agriculture industry in Afghanistan. This sector generates employment and income for about 1.5 million people. Its contribution in agriculture growth is 4.81% and in Livestock growth 9.84%. Poultry meat contributes 19% of the total meat production in the country. The current investment on poultry industry is above 100 billion Af Poultry sector has shown a robust growth at the rate of 8-10% annually, which reflects its inherent potential. The study was design to investigate economic analysis of poultry farm production, major objectives of the study were to asses’ financial gain from poultry production, primary data on poultry farms was collected from the farmers through personal interviews with the help of specially designed questionnaire. A simple random sampling technique was used to collect the data. Statistical techniques like means, comparison of means and frequency distribution was used for production cost and yield analysis. On an average total fixed cost was 51000.00 Af labour input cost includes 83000.00 Af on an average per farm poultry farmer spent labour cost of production. This included 5000.00 Af on Supervision (weekly visit), Electrician (when problem) 2000.00 Af Feedings 20000.00 Af Cleaning 20000.00 Af Watchmen 25000.00 Af Drinkers 11000.00 Af and Spraying (weekly spray) 3000.00 Af respectively. Selected poultry farmers in study area on average per farm spent on marketing cost was 67000.00 Af This included 6000.00 Af for loading 43000.00 Af for transportation and 12000.00 Af of unloading. On an average per farm total cost of production was 339878.00 Af and obtained physical productivity 7212 live birds and 12560 eggs whose revenue productivity was 548250.00 Af and net income was 163372.00 Af cost benefit ratio of the cultivation of poultry at 1:0.48 it means that the poultry farmers obtained Af. 0.48 on each rupee invested by them. High profit was observed in poultry farming.

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Adventure Tales by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Edward Sylvester Ellis – Dime Novel Author
The son of a famous hunter, Edward was a school teacher, journalist, and prolific author during the last part of the 1800′s.
His works are immeasurable because he wrote under various pseudonyms and pen names. Most of his books and articles were adventure stories for boys and historical biographies.
He wrote mostly Dime Novels that were quick to publish and quick to print. The quality wasn’t always great, but these books are a glimpse at an era just after the Civil War. Your family might enjoy reading them and comparing them to your more serious history studies.


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DJ Sneak is an important part of Chicago’s second wave of house music. Do you remember “You Can’t Hide From Your Bud?” That song basically laid the groundwork for the unrelenting wave of French filter-house that came out afterwards. While Paul Johnson’s “Get Get Down” was also instrumental, Sneak ushered in the era of Armand Van Helden and Daft Punk that dominated the mid-to-late-nineties sound. Although he now lives in Toronto, he continues to play internationally to parties brimming with the cool and the beautiful. Don’t take his Chicago appearance for granted! (Jarrett Spiegel)
August 18 at Zentra.

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Northeast Minneapolis, one of the trendiest areas of the city, has long been home to a thriving arts district, great bars and restaurants, and boutique home, vintage, and fashion retailers. Warners’ Stellian, the family-owned appliance specialist, is the latest business to choose Northeast for expansion.
The new location at 2605 Broadway St. NE opened June 18 and brings everything from smart laundry to professional-style kitchen appliances within easy access for city dwellers.
“The response from the neighborhood so far has been amazing,” says store manager Joe Warner. Customers can peruse luxe brands like Sub-Zero, Wolf, Thermador and Liebherr, along with Frigidaire, Whirlpool, GE, and more. “We have talked to many locals already who are planning remodels and pleased to have a local resource,” he says.
The new building provides space for a 70,000-square-foot warehouse and a 10,000-square-foot showroom. Due to growth, Warners’ Stellian needed a second warehouse to supplement the one at its headquarters in St. Paul.
“We identified the northeast corridor of Minneapolis as an area of opportunity,” says president Robert Warner. “Being close to a major artery in a dense area with robust home improvement is very exciting. From a fulfillment standpoint, it’s an attractive location. We are thrilled to have a retail store in the urban core of Minneapolis.”
Warners’ Stellian features in-house customer service, free local delivery, and professional installation. The store is currently offering its lowest prices of the season through July 11.


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Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes ; a new translation by Edith Grossman with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Publication year: 2005
Publisher: London : Vintage, 2005.
ISBN: 9780099469698 (pbk.) : 0099469693 (pbk.) :
This translation originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 2003; London: Secker & Warburg, 2004.
This satirical romance of an eccentric knight-errant in La Mancha, central Spain, follows the adventures of Don Quixote and his rustic companion, Sancho Panza.
Translated from the Spanish.
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So, what’s the Roadie all about and why is aircraft manufacturer, Australian LightWing, building a light weight 2 seat electric motor vehicle ?
Howie and Nick Hughes, backed up by long time Australian LightWing manufacturing engineer Terry Donaldson, are firmly of the opinion that the green revolution will be the dominant industry for this century. Anything- any process, product or service that saves, reduces or stores carbon will be a winner. BUT, as CEO Howie Hughes states, “that does not mean we believe all the proposed or projected Climate Change doomsday scenarios. The Roadie is being developed primarily because of our companies dedication to efficiency in transportation in general, and in this case, road transport in particular, but also on the off chance that the extreme predictions of climate change could just be real, we would like our company to be a leader, not a follower.”
At the time of writing, the Roadie is growing in the corner of the front factory. Anyone calling in will be made most welcome, to view the futuristic 2 seat vehicle and its associated drive train, suspension, Li-Iron batteries and tooling. Occasionally the Roadie has to take second place to aircraft manufacture, the companies core activity— check out www.lightwing.com.au .
Of course, 2 additional objectives of the project are to explore the possibility of electric power for aircraft use and also how do we make a “roadable” aircraft, that is, an aircraft that is capable of folding its wings and driving on the roads, this has been achieved in the US so why not here ?
CEO Howie Hughes explains…. Its all about range, electric cars are all about getting the most energy out of a very small power supply. Compare the energy in a cup of petrol to even the best battery, weight for weight it’s a ratio of about 10 to one in favour of the cup of petrol. To have serious range, an electric car must be very light, like about half the weight of an average small car but it must also half the aerodynamic drag. Thinking about a car like the diesel Ford Focus, its propelled by an efficient diesel motor with a turbo etc., the car will produces on average 2 kg of carbon per 10 km. If you took this efficient diesel out and replaced it with lets say a 40kw electric motor, then the vehicle will produce a similar amount of carbon per kilometre if its batteries are charged from the Australian grid BUT if its owner also has solar or wind generation, then that car / owner can have carbon neutral transport. The point is that because of its innovative design, the Roadie will use less energy and go a lot further at less overall cost.
So, when will the Roadie take its first drive ?
We are taking orders during 2012. Expressions of interest only at this time,
Follow the Roadie’s progress on the net at www.lightwing.com.au call any time (02) 6686 8658
Or visit our factory at 176 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina Airport .
Just because its electric, doesn’t mean it has to be boring
You can view images of the Roadie drawn using Maya movie making software created by Rex Forward. This shows the front wheel covers and mud-guards with indicators mounted on top. Powerful LED type headlights, are mounted in the rear-view mirrors, these mirrors or their nacelle will also hold the pivot points for the doors which will hinge vertically up about this point. The Roadie will have both a 100V DC power supply, but also a 12V dc supply for the vehicles electronics.
The Roadie features a toughened laminated glass windscreen.
The Nose cone of the Roadie opens to allow the battery pack tray to slide in or out through the tunnel that runs the full length of the passenger compartment. The 30 3.6V cells batteries can be swapped or simply removed for periodic service. The vehicle will be totally self contained, carrying its own charger.
The Range of the Roadie with one 10 kw hr pack is estimated to be between 130 and 160 kilometres but with 2 packs, it is expected to be 250 km. 240V charging will take about 6 hours from an exhausted pack and 2 hours using 415V, so, what makes the Roadie work.
Our CNC marching center uses Logitrol and Mac3 software to cut the various components for the Roadie and also produce the 3D shapes that have been used to fabricate the GRP molds for the Roadie’s unique aerodynamic light weight chassis, this machine center and others where developed specifically to form a part of the “organic engineering chain which we have perfected over the past 25 years and than has successfully developed about 10 unique aircraft designs.
A turbo diesel powered Roadie may be available in 2012, watch this space.
Like all the designs that have come from Hughes Engineering located at the Ballina Byron Gateway airport, these include about 10 different aircraft types including the latest super efficient carbon fibre SP-6000 6 seater, the Roadie has “evolved” through a unique process we call “Organic Engineering”. This process permits a rapid transition from concept to real product and we use the latest in PC software and computer aided CNC machining, sounds flash eh ?
Well its not, the CNC machine we built ourselves and cost no more than a few thousand dollars, the driving software is also very simple. We have leveraged the brain power of a unique group of students from Delft university in Holland, these students have been coming to Australia for the past 3 years to work on this project, we swap youthful enthusiasm and knowledge , giving back hands on design expertise and training in our companies unique brand on “Organic Engineering” it’s a great trade-off.
30 of these lightweight (2.5 kg) batteries will provide the Roadies power train with 10 kw hours, enough with average use, to power the vehicle for up to 3 hours depending on use, regenerative braking will be tested soon using an AC brushless motor of similar power.
The Roadie project has many unique attributes, its teardrop or tadpole shape comes from nature, Design cad, a $100 drawing program is used with other more sophisticated cad programs, to generate the body profiles while a US bunch of hardware and software cuts most of the components.
The Roadie is predicted to travel 135 km to 165km using 5 – 8 kw hrs of electricity, this will result in the Roadie generating 0.5 kg of carbon per 10 km. This is a saving compared to a diesel car of about 400%. The downside is that the Roadie has only 2 or 3 seats whereas a diesel motorcar can have up to 5 seats, however diesel is hard for a city dweller to manufacture whereas electricity can easily be generated from solar panels on the roof or from the wind.
If the Roadie is charged from a home solar charging plant, the carbon contribution will be almost zero except for the carbon created in maintaining the vehicle, its manufacture and final recycling.
So why is the Roadie 4 times more efficient than its diesel counterpart ?
The answer is easy, the Roadie weighs half the weight of a normal car (estimated 400 kg), the rolling resistance is proportional to the weight, also the Roadie ie has less than half the aerodynamic drag of a normal car….
Result = Roadie efficiency = x 4 that of a normal 4 seat car.
On a per seat basis, efficiency is a little less.
The Roadie will have some limitations with its range of lets say 150 km to 250 km (with 2 battery packs). The Roadie will not tow your boat to the boat ramp on the weekend and unless you swap batteries, it will not be ideally suited to interstate driving BUT it will be perfectly suited to driving to and from work with range to spare, weekend driving on return trips of 150 to 250 km and town deliveries where charging is available en-route, perfect !
Q. Why doesn’t adding twice the batteries simply double the range ?
A….the battery pack weighs about 90 kg so 2 packs weigh 180 kg and unfortunately, the batteries don’t burn off weight as does power from fossil fuel so the vehicle is heavier.
Q … what is the cost of an extra battery pack?
A.. About $4,500. at present rates, this can be expected to drop as battery efficiency improves and more people drive electric cars.
Q… what will be the projected cost of the Roadie?
A… Unknown at this stage, motor cars are one of the cheapest consumer items available with a per kg cost as low as $10 per kg, good steak costs more than this but we estimate the Roadie will be available for less than $30,000
Q …Why 3 wheels ?
A… by removing a wheel from the rear end, we remove about 200 kg from the vehicle weight, weight and aerodynamic drag are critical factors in determining the efficiency of an electric vehicle. If the Roadie had 4 wheels its weight would increase to about 600 to 700 kg with a substantial reduction in range.
Q… what about stability with 3 wheels compared to 4 ?
A… if your worried about stability, Google T-Rex 3 wheel car 5th gear. On this site you will see the 5th gear team flogging the 3 wheel T-Rex around their airport in the UK, now this vehicle is a little different to the Roadie in that it has a 200 hp motorcycle engine, not a 10 kw electric engine but the design and handling will be the same, no problems with stability at all because the Roadie has a very low centre of gravity and low aerodynamic drag.
Q… what about noise ?
A.. Most noise in a normal car comes from forcing air between the underside of the car (which is usually a horror show in terms of pipes, chassis parts etc) and the road, causing huge amounts of aerodynamic drag and noise. In this area, the Roadie is clean, clean, clean ie very clean so little noise is expected at all. Cities populated by Roadie type vehicles would be way nicer places to live particularly near freeways.
Q.. How fast will the Roadie be off the mark and what will be the top speed ?
A….The DC motor has maximum power at zero revolutions so it will have excellent acceleration aided by its light weight, top speed will be about 100 km /hr
Q… how much room is there in the rear compartment ?
A… enough for a couple of children, shopping or a set of golf clubs.
The Roadie drive train is shown above, its so simple and light.
A 10 kw DC motor is coupled to a BMW rear bike swing axle.
This rear axle has been chosen because of its one sided rear wheel mount. Remember, the Roadie is part motor bike and part car so changing a tyre must be made easy. All the Roadie wheels are the same and a spare wheel will also be carried in the rear compartment along with a small jack, wheel brace etc.
All the suspension will feature spring over shocks which are Australian made and adjustable and yes, the Roadie could go off road with minor modifications, just imagine a totally eco-friendly car rally with no noise pollution whatsoever !
A loan wind generator stands on the ridge line behind our town of Lennox Head and we have talked at length with the owner of this relatively small (diam about 10m) wind generator, it was imported from Europe and is ideally suited to home ownership, it is quiet and very efficient and provides more than enough power to run both a home and a car like the Roadie, the price tag is close to $75k however, its for this reason Hughes Engineering is developing its own wind generator based on the iconic Comet or Southern Cross windmill, this 2 to 3 KW unit will be available for less than $10k . We project / hope.. our gene will also find a market in 3rd world countries also.


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Inevitably there comes a time for every female when her body begins to change, and estrogen levels decrease. This time is referred to as menopause. Unfortunately, with the decrease in estrogen levels, some women may experience certain symptoms if their body struggles to adapt. Some common symptoms women going through menopause experience include hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, memory loss, decreased libido, joint pain and weight gain.
Menopause is not a time women look forward to, due to these potential symptoms and the negative affect that it can have on their lives. Fortunately, there are some natural ways to help decrease the symptoms experienced during menopause, if not completely eradicate any negative effects of menopause for a woman. One such way is through acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
When a woman loses estrogen, it can be like the body is experiencing a loss or malfunction in its innate “cooling system”. Acupuncture can help to stimulate the body’s own “cooling system”, to help reduce or stop symptoms such as hot flashes and irritability. Acupuncture does this by activating the parasympathetic nervous system of the body, which sends signals to various organs to help release hormones like estrogen and others that can help to “cool off” the body. Some researchers argue that acupuncture and Chinese herbs can help to keep or even increase estrogen levels in the body. At the very least, acupuncture can help the body optimally utilize the estrogen that it does have left.
Not only can acupuncture help efficiently utilize the estrogen left, but it can also directly help with the symptoms some women experience during menopause. For example, with weight gain, acupuncture can help to increase metabolism, improve digestion and bowel motility, and build energy. Acupuncture can also help to increase blood and lymphatic circulation, which can help ease aching joints, decrease areas of water retention and regulate areas of irregular body temperature. Acupuncture is also very effective at helping to regulate mood, by activating the release of neurotransmitters and hormones like serotonin into the bloodstream.
Whatever the symptoms a woman might be experiencing during menopause, acupuncture and Chinese medicine are an effective, safe and holistic way of treating any adverse symptoms and increasing the mood, sleep and overall life of the woman. There’s no need to continue to dread menopause.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Tuesday that decisions taken by credit rating agencies were politically motivated, after U.S. agency S&P downgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating to below investment grade.
"They [ratings decisions] are politically motivated, and consequently it's unlikely that wise companies can and should take them into account," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
However, First Deputy Central Bank Governor Ksenia Yudayeva said the S&P decision was largely expected, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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This new GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition is a demanding and creative course, which combines practical cooking skills with an in-depth knowledge of nutrition, food provenance and food science. At its heart, this qualification focuses on developing students’ practical cookery skills as well as a strong understanding of nutrition.
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text: Becky Fawson pursues her passion for art with the same ferocity she did as an 18-year-old first-generation college student. Over the years, as she raised her family, she continued to hone and refine her skills as a graphic designer and illustrator. But it wasn’t until the grandchildren needed better picture books that she found her niche. “There are books that you want to hide from your children because you don't want them to bring it to you one more time,” she says. Great children’s books, she says, will entertain, inspire, and visually delight. Fame and worldly notoriety are not the end game for Becky, but helping others feel valued by illustrating their story is. “I'm working with people, and they need somebody to value them too,” she says. If her art helps another feel their life has meaning, then Becky has lived well. Where some grandmas make quilts for their grandchildren, “I paint portraits,” she says.

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£130bn black hole in pension schemes
THE extent of the crisis facing final salary pension schemes was laid bare today after it was revealed they face a collective £130bn black hole.
Nearly nine out of ten schemes face a funding shortfall, according to a shock report by the Association of Consulting Actuaries. Half of firms said it would take more than 11 years for the schemes to get back into the black.
The organisation blamed the shortfall on the UK's growing life expectancy and poor investment returns of the schemes.
Firms have been increasing the amount they paid into the schemes to address the problem, with a quarter paying in significant lump sums to reduce shortfalls.
However, companies have also been reducing their liability to final salary schemes by closing them to new members. The report, which was based on responses from 392 firms with 2.8m pension scheme members, found the move away from final salary pension schemes was showing no sign of slowing down, with 68% of the schemes now closed to new members.
Annual contributions to final salary schemes are now equivalent to 22% of a member's salary, up from 15.8% in 2002.
Employer contributions have risen most during the period, rising by 5%, while those from workers have increased by 1.2%.
ACA said almost without exception the increase in contributions was not funding benefit improvements, but was going towards reducing scheme deficits.
ACA chairman Adrian Waddingham said: 'This latest survey report shows the immense efforts being made by many firms to meet the cost of pensions, costs that in many cases have increased far beyond what was expected when they set up their schemes.
'In part this is down to increased longevity and weak investment returns, but added regulatory and Government-led enforced benefit improvements have not helped at all.'
He added that the group wanted to see a higher state pension to meet essential living costs, with benefits from occupation schemes built on top of this. According to the report firms are more fearful of the impact of legislation on benefits and funding costs than anything else.
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Are you trying to figure out what the different types of eye doctors do and who you need to see? Are you overwhelmed by what’s available?
Trying to understand if you need to see an ophthalmologist, optometrist, or optician can be a lot. All you want is an eye exam. Now you’re also trying to determine what kind of doctor to see.
Finding the right eye care professional is important for keeping your eyes healthy. This is an important decision because you are trusting them to make sure that your eyes and vision remain healthy. Keep reading to find out more about what an ophthalmologist does!
An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor (MD) or a doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) that specializes in vision and eye health. Ophthalmologists receive training to perform eye exams, treat and diagnose eye conditions, prescribe medications, and perform eye surgery.
They can write prescriptions for glasses, check that glasses fit properly, and prescribe contact lenses. Ophthalmologists are able to diagnose and treat eye conditions connected to other health problems like diabetes and arthritis.
Some ophthalmologists have training in plastic surgery. This allows them to treat conditions like raising droopy eyelids or smoothing out wrinkles.
Many ophthalmologists are part of scientific research on causes and remedies for vision conditions. Ophthalmologists differ from optometrists and opticians based on their amount of training and what they can diagnose and treat.
To become an ophthalmologist, you must complete four years of undergrad, four years of medical school, a one-year long internship, and at least three years in a hospital-based residency program focusing on ophthalmology. This level of education and training is comparable to that of an oral surgeon.
Ophthalmologists can practice medicine and perform surgery. Some eye doctors go a step beyond treating eye problems and conditions and decide to specialize in a specific area of surgical or medical eye care.
These eye doctors are considered specialists. To become a specialist, they usually spend another one to two years in a deeper learning experience or fellowship.
Ophthalmologists can specialize in glaucoma, the retina, pediatrics, the cornea, neurology, plastic surgery, and more. Completing a fellowship in one of these areas makes an ophthalmologist more equipped to treat more complex conditions in specific parts of the eye. It may also make an ophthalmologist more specialized to treat a specific age range.
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Sarah Stage has posted another breastfeeding photo!
The model — who's most famous for having a six-pack throughout her pregnancy — has been giving her followers an inside look at her new life as a mom ever since she gave birth back in April.
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Bass Paul Thompson sang the role of Zelmira’s father King Polidoro, tenor Michael Belle sang Atenore, the general who covets Polidoro’s throne, and baritone Jordan Eldredge sang Leucippo, Atenore’s right-hand assassin. I loved the tonal quality of all of these singers’ voices, which were strong, richly colored and vigorously sung.
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(Originally published in Facebook 13th of February 2014, and now re-run here with very minor edits)
Finland is a tolerable place to live in. Like just about everywhere on planet earth there are good things, and there are bad things. Finland has its share of outright insane things and very very harmful things too. As an entrepreneur I have learned to strive for perfection where it counts, and apply the 20/80 rule everywhere else (20% of effort counts for 80% of results). Finland in many cases isn't putting in even the 20% of effort, and could relatively easily be a much more prosperous place. Thus through this writing I seek to offer input on how to progress things towards that goal of prosperity.
This is a small rant about why Finland could do better than our current sorry state of affairs. This is positive & hopeful constructive criticism with the aim of hoping to collectively do better:
Finland is a control freak country, ultimate nanny-state, wishing to dictate every aspect of life with absurd, unwelcome and overkilled precision. Perfect playground for mentally ill bureaucrats long since gone wild and unchecked. We start with the default of freedom and every new law (about 1 new law per day at current rate) and rule (many more new rules per day than just 1) restricts that freedom and makes life harder and more demented. Finland is not a model country when it comes to upholding human rights, and some of these "new rules" trample all over basic human rights and twist bureaucracy closer to the inhuman absurd level.
The typical consequences are everywhere we look: less variety in choice, higher prices across the board, and lower quality. Overall sluggishness and slowness of things. The absence & opposite of fast and dynamic. Wonderful characteristics, courtesy of regulation. Think for example: food markets, motoring, or all to do with real estate. Everything that possibly can be expensive, is expensive in this country (with virtually no exceptions at all. There are things that are seemingly cheap: like fighting a legal case to the court of appeals, but even in those cases somebody else pays for the cost, and often that "somebody" is the society, as in we all through our taxes..) According to official statistics Finland is the most expensive Eurozone country in consumer prices. And to be precise: everything is regulated, ensured by regulation, to get more expensive in the future as well. petrol, cars, real estate, food, alcohol, tobacco, energy, etc etc.
While simultaneously we have the amazing combination of;
One of the lowest income differences on this planet (there are no "rich earners" in Finland as nobody makes any significant money. Even the best performers among us earn about the same. Remember that I'm talking about income here (as in salary, bonuses, tax free travel daily allowances, etc) and not profit accumulated through risk taking, investing your hard earned wealth and accumulating capital gains from your already taxed money).
Combined with one of the highest decrees of regulated & forced income transfers in Europe (transferring what little extra a high performer earns, away from her to the less performing folks).
And finally trice combined with one of the lowest net purchasing powers in Europe (meaning that people are not wealthy, they have no savings, no huge disposable income, no investments, no net worth, and their net purchasing power is abysmally small - all that while the prices of everything around them are high!).
As an anecdote; a friend of mine has for years asked Swiss and Austrian people (among other Europeans and Americans too) to guess what's the threshold of the top 10% earning salary in Finland. They frequently guess numbers like 14,000€ a month, or 15,000€ a month, some even 20,000€ a month. And they are totally in shock and silence after hearing that with a meager salary of about 4500€ you are already in the national top 10% earning bracket..
The silence deepens and evolves into total disbelief when they realize that simultaneously this country has extremely high taxes overall: If you buy a new MacBook Pro for 3000€ from your hard earned salary; all throughout the chain you paid about 66% of taxes in average. Meaning with zero tax you would have had 3 MacBook Pro's for the price of one, or one for 1/3 the price.. That same system of tax-on-top-of-tax chain with my salary amounts to about 81% Tax if I buy a MacBook Pro with my net salary.. 81% Tax is so much that the only conclusion can be the realization how unfair the punishing system is and how much it is robbing private individuals of their wealth and hard earned possessions.
We are not only low earners (in the eyes of Swiss etc), but also piss poor & broke concerning our wealth & savings, while paying one of the world's highest % of taxes.
Our national debt in relation to our GDP still is nowhere near the level of Greece (at least some light in a dark dark tunnel) - however if you look at our national debt in relation to the wealth of Finnish households (savings, investments, purchasing power) the only conclusion is that we are in deep trouble. Take the Italians for example: they are a lot more wealthier than us, and while it's true that they have even more debt than we do (both in € and in % of GDP) they are still so wealthy that Italian households combined could pay back the debt relatively easily. Extreme example is Japan: truly rich households with a lot of savings, investments and purchasing power. Lots and lots of national government debt too, but so much wealth that it's not really a serious problem for them. Not so much with Finnish households: we are too poor to have this staggering amount of debt! (and just shy of 10bn€ more of it each year, hell yeah!).
We have one of the relatively highest spending public sectors in the world; public spending to GDP ratio is near 60%. Each year we take in massive additional debt, not to invest (no no, that would be too positive..) but to simply eat the money in our running expenses. It is spending gone mad and amok. It's like a startup company applying for a 10M€ round of funding not for product development, market expansion or product launch, but simply to waste the money on strippers and parties by the management and to pay salaries to all those people the startup hired to occupy the very costly office building, not to mention all those fancy sport cars for the managers..
Not only is our public spending world record high, furthermore if you take the number of households where a minimum of any single one family member has ties to the public sector (is a public sector worker in any capacity, is a school kid, daycare student or student in a public school, is in the municipal council, receives grants to businesses or receives grants to agriculture, etc) - it includes almost all households in the nation. There are virtually no households left with zero ties to the public sector: so the resistance to change is irrational and massive. Public sector is "untouchable monster" because everyone's household is a part of it. A system of evil destruction reinforcing itself.
Everybody's playing the same roulette game and thinking that they are the winners and the others who pay for their winnings are the losers. Guess what: it doesn't play out like that. We all lose. We also own the (unprofitable) casino where we play in, and could change the rules if we wanted to..
Solution is obvious: no weak cuts of ~3bn€ are enough to reverse a situation this bad. We need much much bigger structural overhaul and change. Lately the public discussion has been starting slowly to take a turn towards the better and moving away from minor cuts and tweaks to proposing real actual restructuring. This is a "no shit Sherlock? said Captain Obvious" -moment for Finland, as the burning need for a big restructuring is very much apparent & obvious.
Cutting just a few billion and executing no structural change at all solves nothing. "Austerity" alone is a failed road. So is the utterly laughable and mentally retarded Keynesian proposal of doing nothing and just taking more debt and keep on spending like there's no tomorrow. Cutting spending alone is like an alcoholic who is drinking 10 bottles of Koskenkorva Vodka a day, and now we deny him two bottles (he is left with just 8), only to see him drink the full 10 bottles again tomorrow. There NEEDS to be structural change, a proper rehab, dietary-, and lifestyle change for our collective alcoholic state, and in a big way.
Finland cannot increase taxation and tax more (not now, not in the future); because there's nothing to tax. People have low income, low purchasing power, no wealth.. There's just nothing that could be taxed and confiscated to pay this overwhelming level of government expenses. Nor there ever will be more as the current regulations and taxes make sure that nobody can accumulate wealth easily, and certainly not quickly or in any meaningful way as far as the whole economy is concerned. Taking more debt now is simply future taxation spent today (and would have to be taxed back tomorrow). Thus the road of increasing taxation is entirely spent: in fact the state has overstepped already beyond to the territory where it is outright destructive to tax this much (remember my 81% Tax on the MacBook?). The only manageable road can be the change of the entire system - the hard & freefalling road would be not to change and see the whole nation collapse under impossible circumstances.
The UK has a "1 in, 2 out" rule regarding regulation: for every new rule, two old ones must be removed forever. Finland would need a "1 in, 10 out" rule for starters. Getting rid of all that crap forbidding everything and anything, dementing and strangling us.
We live in an absurd country where the state owns a horsemanship school and a catering company for no good reason (how exactly is that free market economy if the state competes with private providers with those entities?). Also if you use a chainsaw in your work you get a -40% deduction in your income taxes just because that's a silly rule.. (almost wrote: "just because, fuck you, that's why" but censored myself ;)) etc there are endless examples of absurd non-justified stuff all around us. To pick a few more: public sector workers have for years been earning leaders in the Finnish economy, getting the biggest salary increases. According to the OECD Finns have 58 healthy years in their life expectancy (lowest in the Nordics), while the Icelanders have 69. The explanation I offer is that; when you punish by tax, make everything healthy very expensive, and dement your people through rules it shows; people live short and miserable lives. Could go on with the examples, but stopping here for now.
Restructuring our broken and sorry state of affairs is the top priority. And a major part of the restructuring effort is to set up a better system that runs lean and costs much much less than our current behemoth of world record high public spending. No cuts to spending only; but rather restructuring that leads to replacing the old and expensive with the new, lean and affordable. Some objectives regarding that:
Public spending to GDP ratio needs to get to a semi-healthy level of below 40% (big cuts in spending, between 15-20bn€, or rocket-fast GDP growth of private sector primarily - I'm aware that public sector productivity is also a part of GDP, tho a minor part), and quickly after that to a much more healthier level of less than 20% (massive cuts in spending, around 30-40bn€, or lighspeed fast GDP growth of private sector primarily). Finland could run lean with a 10-20% public spending to GDP and get great amazing value for that taxpayer money. There are countries out there who do it today and show us the example.
Good benchmark nations for Finland in this would be countries of similar size in population, like: Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, New Zealand and even Denmark to some extent. Also Sweden & Austria, and smaller nations too: Estonia in particular. Perhaps some selective aspects of Ireland too.
Enough of us see what needs to be done - and that's why I'm positive and think we can do better than this! It's about time to start renovating and building a better Finland for us all for all of future to come! Because I hope we haven't given up on our country just yet, right?

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Overcoming fate in Haiti to rebuild the environment and regain hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
In heavenly Haiti, even the forests weren’t spared. Over the past few years, the country’s agroforestry resources had been under growing pressure from all angles such as charcoal production. Hurricane Matthew saw them vanish. The infrastructure and residents of the Grand’Anse department were the main victims of this disaster.
In 2018, the Yves Rocher Foundation pledged to restore 2,759 hectares of depleted soil.
Breaking the vicious cycle of environmental degradation in order to eradicate poverty is paramount. Working with the Grand’Anse cocoa growers’ association (ODEFCAGA), the Yves Rocher Foundation has helped to set up agroforestry fields. These fields, filled with organic cocoa crops and fruit trees, will nourish the farmers’ land and provide an additional source of food for the local communities.
The goal here was to plant two million trees. The ODEFCAGA planters set about planting a total of 23 tree species, including 19 fruit species and four forest species. The 23 species of fruit trees include mango trees, apricot trees, coffea and the well-known cacao trees.
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Propelled by the same can-do attitude that has made the San Francisco native a success, the 42-year-old designer is set to unveil his latest benchmark next month: a 2,800-square-foot boutique at 10-12 Crosby Street on the ground floor of a 19th-century manufacturing building in the lower SoHo district of Manhattan.
This being Lam's first stand-alone retail outlet, the former designer at Michael Kors who started his eponymous line with partner Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann in 2002 wanted to ensure that relevance would be maintained long-term. The solution? Tap internationally esteemed firm SANAA, who as art and architecture buffs will recognize, designed the New Museum of Contemporary Art a little more than half a mile away. In fact, SANAA's chief architects, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, were among Lam's very first customers.
"I am thrilled to work with architects who share my design philosophy and whose work I so greatly admire," says Lam, an industry favorite who won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Perry Ellis-Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent in Womenswear in 2005 and Accessory Designer of the Year in 2007. "SANAA has created a retail environment that is minimalist, functional, intimate, and warm. The store concept will be an important step toward solidifying the identity of the brand."
Lam first met Sejima and Nishizawa in 2005 and immediately began plotting a collaboration to create a space marked by "modern sensibilities, calculated simplicity, and highly perfected detailing."
The results are a transparent canvas of modulating acrylic curved walls that serve to both showcase and illuminate Lam's sensuous clothing. The architect's museum-design prowess is most evident in the original brick walls, which have been painted white to create an exhibitlike atmosphere. Custom-fitted furniture made of wood and aluminum, meanwhile, complement the one-pour concrete floor. To showcase the designs, transparent organic forms crafted of clear acrylic create rooms within the store — podlike, almost — each one housing a different collection. Sunlight floods in thanks to a large front facade of windows facing east.
The store will carry Lam's full array of ready-to-wear and accessories collections (handbags and sunglasses). The T-juncture of Crosby and Howard Streets in Downtown New York City provides Lam with the rare opportunity to be in both art and fashion spheres. Not only is the New Museum minutes away, but so are such fashionable neighbors as jewelry designer Ted Muehling, antiques specialist De Vera, custom furniture store BDDW, and the Jil Sander boutique.
"I am interested in what it means to live a contemporary life," says Lam, who in 2008 sold a controlling stake in Derek Lam International to the luxury-goods holding company Labelux Group. "I always consider what will work for women at this moment, and to me this moment is about luxury without formality. Even at their most feminine, my clothes are not precious or staid."
The DUMBO-based firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu — whose founders, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, are former SANAA employees — realized the two floors above the boutique, which house an atelier, offices, and a showroom.
Lam's boutique represents SANAA's fifth retail project. In the last few years, the firm has created the HH Style boutique (2000) in Tokyo, the Prada Beauty boutique (2001) in Hong Kong, and two projects in Tokyo, the Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa boutique and the Christian Dior building, both completed in 2003. SANAA is currently working on several high-profile projects worldwide, including an extension to the Louvre in Lens, France, museum projects in Oporto and Valencia, and a university campus in Switzerland.
While the store has yet to announce a confirmed opening date — originally slated to open in early April, construction delays forced a postponement — a spokeswoman for the company said it will bow the first week in May. An invitation-only cocktail party will take place on May 6.
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|Title:||Insights into the structure, function, and regulation of human cytochrome P450 1A2|
|Keywords:||Aromatic hydrocarbon receptor|
|Citation:||Zhou, S.-F., Yang, L.-P., Wei, M.Q., Duan, W., Chan, E. (2009). Insights into the structure, function, and regulation of human cytochrome P450 1A2. Current Drug Metabolism 10 (7) : 713-729. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.2174/138920009789895552|
|Abstract:||CYP1A2 is one of the major CYPs in human liver (∼13%) and metabolises a variety of clinically important drugs, such as clozapine, lidocaine, theophylline, tacrine, and leflunomide. CYP1A2 is one of the major enzymes that bioactivate a number of procarcinogens and thus induction of CYP1A2 may increase the carcinogenicity of these compounds. This enzyme also metabolizes several important endogenous compounds including steroids, retinols, melatonin, uroporphyrinogen and arachidonic acid. In the recently published crystal structure of CYP1A2 in complex with α-naphthoflavone, its compact active site is closed without clear solvent or substrate access channels. Not surprisingly, CYP1A2 has a relatively small volume of the active site cavity of 375 Å3, which is 44.2% larger than that of CYP2A6 (260 Å3), but much smaller than that of CYP3A4 (1385 Å3) and 2C8 (1438 Å3). Generally, CYP1A2 substrates contain planar ring that can fit the narrow and planar active site of the enzyme. Like many of other CYPs, CYP1A2 is subject to induction and inhibition by a number of compounds. Similar to CYP1A1 and 1B1, CYP1A2 is primarily regulated by the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a ligand-activated transcription factor and a basic helix-loop-helix protein belonging to the Per-Arnt-Sim family of transcription factors. Knockout of Cyp1a2 in mice has provided a very useful tool for the functional investigation of this gene. Further studies are needed to explore the clinical and toxicological significance of CYP1A2. © 2009 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.|
|Source Title:||Current Drug Metabolism|
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Media Veteran Hired to Manage Aus Readership Metric
In Australia, non-profit body The Readership Works has appointed media specialist Mal Dale for the newly created position of General Manager, responsible for developing, launching, and managing the country's new print readership metric.
The Readership Works, which is a subsidiary of industry association The Newspaper Works, was launched last March to oversee the readership tender and the subsequent development and ongoing provision of the new metric. Dale will work closely with Ipsos MediaCT, the agency selected in September to develop and run the new system, which covers the country's newspapers and magazines.
He joins with nearly 25 years' experience working in the media in the UK and Australia. Most recently, he served as Head of Digital for MediaCom Australia, and before this he was Managing Partner at Mitchells Sydney, and Client Service Director at Carat UK.
'The role of General Manager will be pivotal in the development of Australia's new, state-of-the-art newspaper readership metric, and Mal brings to the position a unique skill set,' comments Tony Hale, Chairman of The Readership Works. 'His outstanding strategic abilities across both traditional and emerging media coupled with his in-depth knowledge and experience of the media agency sector made him the ideal candidate for this position.'
Dale says he is looking forward to contributing to 'revolutionising' the way newspaper advertising is planned and bought in Australia.
Web site: www.thenewspaperworks.com.au .


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By Jim Taylor, Editor MACS ACtion Magazine
On October 16, A123 Systems Inc. filed for reorganization protection under Ch. 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The maker of rechargeable batteries used in a variety of electric and hybrid vehicles had signaled in August that it was uncertain of its “ability to remain a going concern.”
At that time Wanxiang Group, a large Chinese parts maker, had expressed interest in buying controlling rights in the company, but the sale stalled and A123 could not meet its debt obligations. In the October filing, A123 said that it was considering “more than one potential transaction” for the company but that there was still no assurance that the company could stay in business.
However, within hours of the bankruptcy filing came word that U.S battery maker Johnson Controls, Inc.“plans to acquire A123’s automotive business assets, including all of its automotive technology, products and customer contracts; its facilities in Livonia and Romulus, Michigan; its cathode powder manufacturing facilities in China, and A123’s equity interest in Shanghai Advanced Traction Battery Systems Co., A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive.”
The CEO of A123, David Vieau said in the press release, “We determined not to move forward with the previously announced Wanxiang agreement as a result of unanticipated and significant challenges to its completion.”
The new agreement is valued at $125 million, and Johnson Controls has also committed $72.5 million to finance the bankrupt company’s continued operation while the sale is pending. The deal is subject to all the usual legal requirements, conditions and approvals. Interestingly, one item that could stop the purchase is a higher offer from another buyer to purchase the same assets.
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