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Hepatic encephalopathy is a reversible brain disorder associated with liver disease or portosystemic shunts. It may be due to hepatotoxicity of drugs. Clinical manifestations vary from confusion, somnolence, and disorientation to stupor and coma. This article describes the diagnosis as well as management of the condition. Medical therapy may suffice in early and less severe cases, but severe acute hepatic failure may require liver transplantation. As an interim measure, cell therapy by transplantation of genetically modified hepatocytes or hematopoietic stem cells may reduce disease and extend survival until a donor becomes available for liver transplant or the patient's own liver recovers function.
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• Hepatic encephalopathy is a potentially reversible metabolic disturbance of the brain in liver disease.
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• The most common cause is cirrhosis of the liver, but other hepatotoxic agents may lead to hepatic encephalopathy.
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• Manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy range from minimal cognitive deficits to stupor and coma.
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• Most of the cases can be managed medically, but liver transplant is required in some cases.
Historical note and terminology
Hepatic encephalopathy is defined as a metabolically induced, potentially reversible functional disturbance of the brain that may occur in acute or chronic liver disease. It is characterized by disturbances of consciousness and other neuropsychiatric manifestations, which are due to metabolic disturbances associated with liver disease or portosystemic shunts. The association between liver disease and mental disorders has been recognized since the time of Hippocrates (10). Galen, the Roman physician of the 2nd century, described neurologic and psychiatric symptoms resulting not only from brain diseases but also from diseases of other organs, including the liver (48). An oil painting by Rubens (1577 to 1640), The Drunken Silen, is exhibited in Munich, Germany, and shows characteristic symptoms of hepatic insufficiency. Morgagni, the father of pathologic anatomy, described the relation between liver failure and mental disorder in the 18th century (40). The fourth case of his study may have been 1 of hepatic encephalopathy. In this case report, Morgagni described an alcoholic man with a history of abdominal pain and delirium who died in coma. Autopsy showed liver cirrhosis, but the brain was grossly normal. Further studies of hepatic encephalopathy continued in the 19th century. Hepatolenticular degeneration associated with cirrhosis of the liver was described in the early part of the 20th century and was later determined to be a hereditary disorder of copper metabolism (58). The classical works in which the modern concepts of hepatic encephalopathy are based were published in the 1950s (01; 49).
Classification. A simplified classification of hepatic encephalopathy is as follows:
(1) Acute hepatic encephalopathy associated with acute liver failure and characterized by cerebral edema and raised intracranial pressure. This is likely to be manifested as hepatic coma.
(2) Subacute or subclinical hepatic encephalopathy associated with hepatic cirrhosis and associated with abnormal findings on neuropsychological testing.
(3) Chronic hepatic encephalopathy associated with hepatic cirrhosis. This classification of hepatic encephalopathy takes several forms. The most common form of presentation is "precipitant-induced encephalopathy" in which cirrhotic patients develop progressive changes of mental function with several precipitating factors. One type is called portal-systemic encephalopathy because of extensive portosystemic shunting or surgical portacaval shunt. Another form is hepatocerebral degeneration, wherein patients present with dementia and extrapyramidal disorders.
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) consider hepatic encephalopathy to be a continuum ranging from unimpaired cognitive function with intact consciousness through coma and use a grading system of 1 to 3 and recommend classification according to the type of underlying disease, severity of manifestations, time course, and precipitating factors (54). Accordingly, 3 types of hepatic encephalopathy are traditionally differentiated according to the underlying cause: type A as an essential component of acute liver failure, type B as a sequel of porto-systemic shunts in the absence of liver dysfunction, and type C in patients with liver cirrhosis and porto-systemic bypass.
Patients with chronic hepatic encephalopathy may present with delirium. According to the 1994 DSM-IV criteria, delirium due to liver disease or portosystemic shunting belongs to the section on cognitive disorders because deficits of cognition are the primary symptoms of delirium. Prior to the development of predominant cognitive changes, the patients may be evaluated according to the presenting symptoms, which may be mood disorders, sleep disturbances, or personality changes. If cognitive impairment dominates without impairment of consciousness, the patient is considered to have dementia due to liver disease or portosystemic shunting.

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HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 in detail specification comparison is present in this article. Therefore, you can quickly get to know which is the best 13-inches laptop from both top brands. However, HP is operating to defeat Dell XPS 13, one of our inclusively favourite laptops. With HP Envy 13 at quite an affordable price, HP is offering its consumers a more reasonable clamshell choice. On comparing both, we found HP Envy 13 is more affordable ($799) than Dell XPS 13 ($899).
Even though the HP Envy 13 comes with some unique specs, you won’t get on the Dell XPS 13. However, you can never leave out the Dell XPS 13, which endures one of the most solid laptops on the marketplace. Though, the Dell XPS 13 offers full enactment and brilliant battery life. There are so many specs that we can compare to find out which one is the best 13-inches laptop out there. This article has provided the HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 specs comparison in detail. Thus, you can easily pick up the best 13-inches laptop to buy right there.
HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13: Specs Comparison in Detail
Envy 13 vs XPS 13 Performance Comparison
|Specifications||HP Envy 13||Dell XPS 13|
|Design||Dimensions: 12.1 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches|
Weight: 2.8 pounds
|Dimensions: 11.9 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
Weight: 2.7 pounds
|Display||13.3-inch, 1080p or 4K touch||13.3-inch, 1080p or 4K touch|
|Storage||256GB, 512GB, 1TB||128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB|
|RAM||8GB, 16GB||4GB, 8GB, 16GB|
|CPU||Intel Core i5-8265U, i7-8565U||Intel Core i3-8145U, Core i5-8265U, Core i7-8565U|
|Colors||Natural Silver, Pale Gold||Silver with black carbon fiber Rose gold with Arctic White|
|Price||$799 (Core i5)||$899 (core i3)|
- Dell XPS 13 CPU: Intel Core i3 Core i5, Core i7
- HP Envy 13 CPU: Intel Core i5, Core i7
- Dell XPS 13 RAM and storage: 16GB/8GB/4GB RAM with 512GB SSD to 1TB SSD
- HP Envy 13 RAM and storage: 16GB/8GB with 256GB
The enactment you find out of these devices will rely on which configuration you are using. As a whole, both modules are very responsive and have no issues running complex programs. We tried different versions of each laptop: The HP Envy 13 lands with Intel Core i5 and Core i7 CPU, while Dell XPS 13 offers Core i3 Core i5 and Core i7 CPU. Though, the corresponding Core i7 variants performed equally. Whereas the Core i5-fortified HP Envy 13 probably beat the standard Dell XPS 13. The HP Envy 13 has a Core i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM recorded 15,738 on Geekbench performance test. This score has beaten the top-end Dell XPS 13 (14,936), having a Core i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM. That score also topped up the standard HP Envy 13 (15,147) Core i5 CPU with 8GB of RAM.
HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 Design Comparison
- Dell XPS 13 magnitudes: 11.9 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
- HP Envy 13 magnitudes: 12.1 x 8.3 x 0.6-inches
- Dell XPS 13 weight: 2.7 pounds
- HP XPS 13 weight: 2.8 pounds
- Dell XPS 13 looks more elegant than HP Envy 13
- Both have metallic body
Though, it’s clear from just a glimpse that these two devices are top-end laptops of their brands. Both of them are thin, sturdy and lightweight. However, we would prefer the design of the Dell XPS 13 over the HP Envy 13. The first benefit of Dell XPS 13 over HP Envy 13 is the size. The Dell XPS 13 comes at 11.9 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches, dimensions. Due to these compact dimensions, it is one of the thinnest and most dense 13-inches laptops everywhere. It is also smaller than the HP Envy 13 has 12.1 x 8.3 x 0.6-inch dimensions. The Dell XPS 13’s size is due to the razor-shrill bezels that cover the laptop’s screen. Whereas HP did a nice job garnishing the borders surrounds the HP Envy 13’s display. However, the Dell XPS 13’s bezels are remarkably thinner on all four edges.
Both devices are composed of metal. Though you expose the lip of Dell XPS 13, you find its floor covered in deluxe soft-trace carbon fibre. That’s why the Dell XPS 13 is more expensive than HP Envy 13. We were also limited to the XPS 13’s dual-tone black-on-silver shade arrangement over single silver colour on Envy 13. We appreciate the HP Envy 13 keyboard, which we found very responsive and comfy while typing. Plus, the HP Envy 13 has some modish forms, chrome trim, and a mottled triangular configuration on its surface.
Dell XPS 13 comes with various Thunder 3 ports, whereas HP Envy 13 comes with USB Type-A for bequest peripherals. The Envy 13 offers USB 3.1 with Type-A and USB-C ports on the left while a microSD card reader and 2nd USB 3.1 port on the right side. You will see two Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side of Dell XPS 13, together with a lock slot. Generally, the HP Envy 13 has a slim, good-looking design, but it doesn’t keep the similar “wow feature” as XPS 13. Conclusively, in HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 design comparison, the XPS 13 rocks the stage.
HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 Display Comparison
- Size: 13-inches displays
- Pure and rich images on the screen
- Dell XPS 13 offers the best 4k display
- HP Envy 13 has a Full HD display
- Envy screen is brighter than Dell XPS13
The Dell XPS 13 offers 13 inches matte 1080p display, while the HP Envy 13 offers 13 inches glossy pane. Overall, both of these two non-touch screens are nearly alike. Sufficient details were correspondingly noticeable on both displays. Though, the pictures on the net were ironic with well-saturated colours. The Envy 13’s FHD pane replicates 109% of the sRGB colour gamut, slightly less bright than XPS’s screen (126%). Conclusively, HP Envy 13 is slightly brighter than Dell XPS 13, climaxing at 410 nits compared with Dell’s 357 nits.
Battery Life Comparison
- Dell XPS 13 battery life: Core i3: 12 hours and 22 minutes
- HP Envy 13 battery life: Core i5: 11 hours and 11 minutes
If the battery life is a primary concern, you should go for Dell XPS 13. Dell XPS 13 comes with a 1080p resolution display with a Core i3 CPU battery life of 13- hours. Though, in our battery life test, it amazed us by enduring for an exceptional 12 hours and 22 minutes. That excellent result came with nonstop web browsing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits compared.
In comparison, the more prevailing HP Envy 13 with a Full HD display and Core i5 CPU build up a tough fight. But unluckily, it fell about one hour short by showing the battery life of 11 hours and 11 minutes. In comparison, the same-featured Dell XPS 13 (Core i5 CPU/8GB of RAM) lasted for 10 hours and 10 minutes. Comparing HP Envy 13 vs Dell XPS 13 battery life, the Dell XPS 13 is a topper with a long-lasting battery.


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Filipino fans online had an outpour of grief over the death of Robin Williams on Tuesday of an apparent suicide.
But the American actor and comedian's link to the Philippines goes beyond the impact of his movies and television work on Filipino audiences.
For almost 20 years, Williams was married to Filipino-American wife Marsha Garces, allowing the actor to become part of an extended Pinoy family.
After marrying in 1989, the couple divorced in 2008. But in an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 2011, Williams opened up about his ties with the Filipino side of his family.
In the interview, Williams spoke glowingly about his former father-in-law, describing the late Leon Pantaleon Garces, a Filipino who served in the United States navy, as "a great man."
"My ex-father-in-law, Leon, was amazing," said Williams.
Williams met Marsha, his second wife, when she was working as a nanny of his first child Zachary. The couple had two kids Zelda and Cody, who Williams said remained close to their Filipino kin.
"They keep up with the Filipino part of my family," he said.
The partnership went beyond personal too, as Marsha earned producing and assisting credits in several of Williams' top films such as "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Dead Poets Society," "Patch Adams," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
The couple reportedly broke up after Williams suffered a relapse after being sober for 20 years.
After the divorce, Williams married Susan Schneider in 2011. The actor remained close to his children.
Notably, his last post on Instagram was a touching birthday greeting to his daughter Zelda, who is also an actress.
"#tbt and Happy Birthday to Ms. Zelda Rae Williams! Quarter of a century old today but always my baby girl. Happy Birthday @zeldawilliams Love you!" — Bianca Rose Gabu/JST, GMA News

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January 23, 2014
Title: Lucky Number Four
Author: Amanda Jason (Carol Kunz)
Published: January 2014
Pandora Ann Phillips’ life is just normal-crazy
Her mom’s a psychic, her dad’s mom is a snob, her mom’s parental units are “too down to earth” and her best friends are newlyweds. Okay, so her best friends being newlyweds isn’t really abnormal, but living with them in a cramped two-bedroom apartment definitely is. Sex, sex, sex is totally on their minds. Actually it’s not only on their minds, but it’s on the kitchen table, couch, on top of the washer…well, you get the picture.
Being a celibate (not by choice, mind you) full-time college student, and an almost full-time barista, Pandora can’t afford to lose anymore sleep. So, she seeks out a new place to lay her head. Enter three “drool worthy” male models that are looking for a fourth roommate and they want her…and won’t take no for an answer.
Hilarity ensues as Pandora’s life turns completely upside down, and she begins to wonder if it will ever be the same again!
Ana will put Lucky Number Four on her third shelf!
This is a classic story and a quick read. A girl moves in with three guys and, immediately, the drama and romance begins. Where it’s a bit different is that these three guys happen to be male models. Oh, the possibilities for taking the reader on a star-studded adventure!
However, the author took the story down a different road than I had expected. Where I thought there would be glitz and excitement, the real focus was on the romance. In reality, it didn’t matter that these boys were models and, except for the fact that they were gorgeous, because their jobs didn’t really play a large role in the book. For me, that was a missed opportunity. Now, don’t get me wrong, there were other aspects of the story that really worked for me. One interesting twist that made it different and interesting is that the insta-love here is on the part of one of the boys, not the girl…hardly ever seen in books today. The male POV at the end of some of the chapters added to my desire to find out which of the boys had fallen for Dora…and, no, I can’t tell you who it is!
Pandora (Dora) has a crazy family and wonderful friends. She has a humorous inner monologue but can, at time, be too unsure of herself. The models, Colin, Liam and Drew, just want a normal person in their lives. And, once they meet Dora, they know they found what they want. I will admit that the fact that they almost immediately burrowed their way into her life felt a bit stalkerish for me. I think I might have felt differently if there had been a little more background on the boys early on so that I could understand them more.
This book had some great secondary characters. As a matter of fact, Dora’s friends, especially Jeff, were one of my favorite parts of this book. They added depth and rounded out the story in many ways. I enjoyed many of the elements of this book and, even though I had anticipated something different, it was still a fun quick read.

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(New York, NY) -- It's a good bet fans are eager for the "Frozen" story to continue.
The Walt Disney Company announced its teaser trailer for "Frozen 2" is the most viewed animation trailer of all time after getting more than 116-million views in the first 24 hours it was released.
The previous record was held by "Incredibles 2" at 113 million in the first 24 hours. The most ever was another Disney film, "Avengers: Endgame" getting 289 million in its first day.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will strengthen its Baltic fleet in response to U.S. plans to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed senior navy official.
“The surface, underwater and aviation elements of the Baltic Fleet will be strengthened,” RIA quoted the unidentified Russian navy official as saying.
The United States is dispatching the missiles to Poland after dropping an earlier plan to deploy interceptor missiles in the NATO nation as part of an anti-missile system in Europe.
“In connection with the plans to install the Patriots on Polish territory in the next 5 to 7 years, there may be significant changes in the approach to define the tasks and the military potential of the Baltic Fleet,” RIA quoted the same source as saying.
A spokesman for the Russian navy declined to comment.
Warsaw said this week it would station the Patriot missile battery in the northern city of Morag, near Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.
A high-ranking source in Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Warsaw was not overly concerned about Russia’s reported plan.
“Let’s stay calm. Such strengthening, even if it becomes true, is no direct threat to Poland,” the source told Reuters.
“The Russians have known about the Patriots for at least two years. So there is no reason to react to unofficial comments.”
Based in Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost territory, and in Kronstadt near St Petersburg, Russia’s Baltic Fleet includes surface ships, diesel-powered submarines, a military aviation wing, search and rescue vessels and land-based vessels.
The flagship is the destroyer Nastoychivy, which entered service in 1993.
Poland and the United States signed a deal in November that paves the way for the deployment of a U.S. Patriot missile battery on the U.S. ally’s territory.
Poland, perturbed what it says is Russia’s more assertive foreign policy, has long complained that it hosts no U.S. troops or major military installations despite sending troops to help in U.S.-led missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many Poles still view Russia, its communist-era overlord, as a potential security threat, especially after the August 2008 conflict in Georgia.
Moscow has expressed concern about what it calls U.S. military encroachment and threatened to respond to any change in the current military balance on its western borders with NATO nations.
President Dmitry Medvedev had previously warned Moscow would station Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad if Washington went ahead with its original anti-missile plan. U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to revise it pleased the Kremlin.
But the plan to install Patriot missiles has resurrected longstanding Russian suspicions about the motive for the strengthened NATO presence near its borders, said Alexei Fenenko of the Institute of International Security Studies in Moscow.
“Russia was very concerned about the anti-missile system being installed in Poland and the Czech Republic and didn’t understand the need for it in these locations, if it was intended against Iran,” he said.
“If it’s not against Iran, then who is it against? The new missiles will be now be close to the territory of both Kaliningrad and Belarus” (a Russian military ally that borders Poland), he said.
Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Steve Gutterman


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Emma Watson Goes Pantless For W Magazine, Says She Was Never Excited To Be Sexy
Emma Watson may be all grown up, but being a sex symbol certainly isn’t her ultimate goal.
Appearing without bottoms on the cover of W Magazine’s June/July issue, the former Harry Potter star tells the fashion glossy that it was never in her mind to be a sexy star.
“I’ve never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22!” she says. “The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me.”
“I’ve never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.”
Though the 23-year-old recently appeared in British GQ sporting what some considers the epitome of sexiness, Julia Roberts’ famous Pretty Woman getup, Watson says she’s still uncomfortable with all the barely-there costumes she has to wear for her adult roles now.
Case in point: her latest movie, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.
“Who wouldn’t love to go to work in Uggs and very low-slung tracksuit bottoms?” the star says her Alexis Neiers-inspired Pretty Wild attire. “At one point I told the costumer designer, ‘You can see my bra strap in this top; shouldn’t we pin it?’ And she said, ‘No, sweetie — Nicki is all about her bra strap showing.’ I was like, Right, okay, different mind-set.”


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Pharmacies roll with the changes
Modern technology has afforded today's pharmacists a better way to serve a larger and more diverse patient population. (By Joe Crocetta/Staff Photographer)
Customers come and go —but not everyone is there to drop off or pick up a prescription.
Some have come for an influenza or shingles vaccine.
Others are there to have their blood pressure checked.
And many arrive with questions. Will a certain over-the-counter medicine interact with their hypertension pills? What can they do to improve their cholesterol count? What health care supplies are recommended for someone newly diagnosed with diabetes?
This isn't your grandparents' old-fashioned neighborhood drugstore.
Today's pharmacy reflects its expanding role of better serving the customer.
There are drive-through lanes and automated refills.
The sound of a telephone ringing has been replaced by the computer and mobile devices.
And some pharmacies are open 24 hours a day.
Joseph J. Scalese III has seen the changes firsthand.
Scalese said he wanted to become a pharmacist by the time he was in the eighth grade.
"I have many family members who are in health care, so it was a profession that was familiar to me," he said. "My father also had some friends and colleagues who were pharmacists."
Scalese said he received his education at the University of Maryland at Baltimore's School of Pharmacy and while in college, worked as a pharmacy technician at Johns Hopkins and on several FDA projects.
Since graduating, Scalese said he has worked community/retail pharmacy, which he has found to be most rewarding.
He also taught pharmacology at one of the local colleges and is an instructor for both the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and the Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Pharmacy, "which is also extremely rewarding."
A pharmacist with Home Care Pharmacy in Washington County, Scalese said he was a high school student when, in the mid-1980s, he landed a job as a clerk at a community drug store.
"Most pharmacies were either independent pharmacies or part of a small, regional chain," he said. "Many had soda fountains and cosmetic departments Delivery, while still available but now rare, was common place."
And technology, appropriate for that era, was antiquated by today's standards.

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Nashville, TN, March 20, 2021 --(PR.com
)-- The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) is an interfaith association of religion communicators at work in print and electronic communication, marketing and public relations. The Nashville Chapter meets monthly to learn about other faith traditions, learn from fellow communicators and gain professional development opportunities.
The April meeting will not take place but will be replaced with Nashville RCC members attending the virtual National Convention.
The Religion Communicators Convention 2021 has the theme “Opening New Portals, Building Community” and takes place virtually from April 6–9, 2021.
“Opening New Portals, Building Community is designed to help communicators - reporters, editors, publishers, writers, marketers, freelancers, videographers, photographers, graphic designers and more - who work for the religious and mainstream media, denominations, religious and other organizations and nonprofits and more to be supported and encouraged as people of faith and to network and develop and improve their skills,” according to religioncommunicators.org/convention.
Nearly 3 dozen presenters will be part of the convention with topics such as “New Portals to Understanding the Soul: Communicating Spirituality and Faith After Covid,” “The Theology of Podcasting,” and “Including Underrepresented Voices in the Media.”
The RCC has members from every faith group and walk of life including Baha’is, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Scientologists, Sikhs, Hindus and more. The RCC, founded in 1929, is an association of communications professionals who work for and with a diverse group of faith-based organizations in the areas of communications, public relations, advertising and development.
The RCC provides opportunities for communicators to learn from each other. Together, RCC members promote excellence in the communication of faith and values in the public arena. For more information about the Religion Communicators Council, visit religioncommunicators.org/nashville-chapter.


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August 16, 2012
|USD/CAD Open 0.9889-94 Overnight Range 0.9883-0.9900
The Canadian dollar managed to break below 0.9900 yesterday and stay below that level overnight but additional gains were almost nonexistent in an otherwise painfully dull overnight session. The loonie is benefitting from modestly higher commodity prices including WTI oil ($94.29), an improving US economic data and simultaneously on-going expectations of QE3 in September. The FX majors remain mired in narrow ranges trading in full summer vacation mode, content to await the release of today’s US data. The data releases include: Jobless Claims (365K), Housing Starts (756K), Building Permits (769K), GDP (4.3% YoY) and Philly Fed (-0.5) Global Equity indices were mixed and NY equity indice futures are pointing higher to start the day.
The short term USD/CAD technicals are bearish USD. The USD is testing support in the 0.9880-0.9900 range A break below this level will result in a test of 0.9800. Longer term, a move through 0.9880 opens up a test of 0.9440, the 100% fibo retracement of the 0.9440-1.0658 range. For today, USD support is at 0.9880 and 0.9850. Resistance is at 0.990 and 0.9920.
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Today’s Range 0.9860-0.9910


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First Published: Alive Magazine: Literature & Ideology No. 45, November 1975
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Malcolm and Paul Saba
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[Author’s Note]This story, based on the hanging of a seven year old girl for the theft of a few shillings worth of lace (does the value matter?) at the turn of the last century, was inspired by the words of prime minister Wilson in a speech to the House of Commons... That... “The laws of this country, however oppressive, no matter how unfair, must be obeyed until legislation alters them.” For this, in what must have been a mutually gratifying experience, he was applauded by the opposition. They could not have more precisely expressed the spirit of the establishment of that infant-hanging time when my lords, my lord-bishops, parliamentarians and wealthy industralists expressed outrage at the suggestion that the hanging age should be raised to fourteen, while at the same time they demanded that something be done to correct the impertinent disregard of the law shown by some juries who refused to sentence obviously guilty children.
These juries were drawn from a class that had only just been put on the jury list by legislation that required any citizen with a property value of 10 pounds, to attent for jury duty. This class, the first with compassion enough to acquit children who might otherwise be hanged, or, at best transported, was the working class. Craftsmen, artisans, bricklayers, carpenters: from which it may be deduced, rose the impulse to relax the viciously harsh laws that made petty crime a capital offence, and legalised the most enormous crime considerable: the hanging of little children.
Bourgeois historians and biographers love to claim for particular reformers of their class and of the aristocracy, the prerogative of responsibility for legislative changes for the better through their Christian qualities of conscience and compassion. But the fact is that these reforms were due to political conflict between the politically entrenched bourgeoisie and the aristocracy which was trying to re-emerge as a main political force by competing for the support of the recently enfranchised upper strata of the proletariat.
They saw how the voting wind blew, and had they had amongst themselves, ten times more reformers with ten times each a greater portion of conscience and compassion, and there been no pressure of political capital from below, have been no reform. This was something they understood; this was worth conceding that not hanging little be a good thing after all.
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The difficulty of explaining to a seven year old infant that about she is to be executed, though not insuperable would certainly be harrowing for any many of feeling, and the minister of Christ appointed to that task by the state which had through one of its indubitably honourable judges, sentenced the child to be hanged by the neck until she was dead, faced the task with the fortitude that comes from faith and the familiarly that comes from experience. It was not his first child and would by no means be his last, but he did find seven years old a problem; especially girls, for they tended to weep more piteously than boys; but then he had tended always to be too tender hearted in such things.
It was seven a.m. when he passed through the small door of the great gates of Strangeways gaol, which gave him an hour to help her make her peace with her maker, for she to was be hanged at eight. She sat with her hands in her lap, legs dangling from the edge of what was for her a massive chair of solid deal before a chunky table of the same solid wood structure. On it was her last breakfast, and not one of the proverbial select plentitude, but a bowl of porridge, a piece of thick bacon sousing in a wash of pale beans on a tin plate, a cob of bread and a mug of water; and again unlike proverbial report of the condemned man eating a heart appetite. she did not, but sat staring at the wall.
She had not yet been told that this was the day. but she knew from the change in the behaviour of the two warders on death watch, (guarding this dangerous little criminal), and this day had an ominous and sinister portent relating to what the judge had said that day when he had donned the little black cloth and pronounced sentence of death. The woman who had daily attended to her bodily needs was this day absent and that, by its very breach of routine, had a significance that might not otherwise have added to the somber atmosphere pervading a death cell, even more so when the sun shone and the birds sang, but the day before she had both sharper and more considerate than usual, and she had left she had been obviously disturbed; and this remembered.
The prison governor greeted the chaplain from the desk where he sat sipping his third large brandy. Not that it was his habit to drink so early in the morning, except you call drinking on the morning of the execution of a child a habit. Not that there was any doubt in his mind that the execution was just. The child was a thief, and the law decreed that thieves should hang, and it was his duty as administrator of the Law’s decree to see that the sentence was carried out. And yet he had to fortify himself against the coming ordeal. The chaplain had no such need; he had Christ for comfort and Christ to help him ease the child’s last hour. The governor’s good morning was gruff in contrast to the chaplain’s which was almost cheerful as he remarked on the beauty of the morning on such a sad occasion.
The subject of the occasion was sitting as she had been staring still at the wall, but rocking to and fro as if by that she might find some self-comfort, when the chaplain entered. He took her by the hand and led her to the bed where he knelt and asked her to kneel. “This morning Mary you will be in the arms of Jesus if you kneel and humbly pray to God to forgive you for your sins.”
“Can I see my mother?”
“No Mary, you will not see your mother again but you will see Jesus; but only if you search your heart and confess that you are a miserable sinner and ask Christ to receive you–”
“Why can’t I see my mother?” She began to cry softly and to grasp her dress and roll it up between her hands and then to wring it in the way that anguish has of manifesting itself through this action of the hands. “Stop it Mary!” The chaplain, not too harshly, slapped her hands down. It is indecent to so expose yourself and on such a morning. “Don’t you realise; haven’t I explained to you again and again that you were soon to meet your maker? Well, this is the morning. Now, you must kneel with me and pray–”
“I want my mother.” She was crying now in earnest but she knelt in obedience and clasped her hands in the traditional praying gesture. “Now, you know the Lord’s prayer which I taught you. Say it with me. You cannot say it if you continue to weep in this uncontrollable manner. Our Lord Jesus who was as innocent as a lamb was crucified, and you were guilty of a grave crime for which you must pay the penalty. But Christ Jesus is compassionate and loving and he will overlook your sins if you will only pray; and especially in that you are a child, for did he not say, ’Suffer little children to come unto me’’ He is waiting for you; but first you must pray–”
“I only want my mother–”
“Child!” He sighed with impatience and closing his eyes asked God to forgive her and to give him patience to deal with this intransigent child. “Very well, if you will not pray I will pray for you.” And so he did, while the child wept. Almost an hour later, when the governor, slightly drunk, and the doctor who had earlier certified Mary fit to be hanged came to the door of the cell, she was still weeping and the chaplain was still praying with a spiritual intoxication that was the just reward of those who prayed for others. At the door of the cell the doctor parted company with the governor, the first to go to the drop beneath to be ready to certify death, the second to enter the cell where he mumbled the ceremonial announcement of the execution.
Apart from the litanous supplications of the chaplain these were the last words Mary heard, for with professional expertise the hangman swooped into the cell from a side door, the purpose of which she had once asked the warders who told her it was a door that just happened to be there and was rarely used. In between two sobs her hands were tied behind her back, and since she was but a child the ceremonial pacing into the gallows was dispensed with. He simply picked her up and carried her to the trap door where he had no sooner slipped on the noose than he was at the trap release and it was sprung, and no sooner sprang than he was off down below, for it was not quite enough to just hang a child, the weight was not enough guarantee of execution, so out of mercy, he grasped the legs and added his own weight until all movement had ceased.
While the doctor was certifying death and the chaplain was still invoking the mercy of God, and the Governor was anticipating another brandy to dull the intensity of the emotional upheaval, the two warders, their death watch ended still sat, although they now could leave, their duty done. One the younger of the two, had not before been on death watch, and now he was a matter of concern for the other, for he was twitching and grimacing in the most intense effort to control his emotions; but they would not be contained and he broke down in the most complete and utter abandon of coherence and control so that whatever he was saying as he sobbed was just a babble. The older one just sat there patiently, waiting for the moment of emotional exhaustion which, when it came, gave the opportunity to say, more with resignation than any attempt to comfort. “She was indeed a lively child. I could see you growing overfond of her This is something you will learn not to allow yourself But so happens, you’ll get used to it. Who would do it? But a man must eat. Come now, make yourself presentable before we leave.”
On opening the door, the uproar of the prison inmates which the death watch had been barely conscious of as much by habituation as through their preoccupation with the emotional effect of the execution, rampaged down the catacombs of tiered cells in an uproar that made further talk impossible without shouting. Tins, chamber pots, shoes and anything that could be used to make the utmost noise against doors and across bars kept the sound at a crescendo accompanied by a human roar of inarticulate protest that made it seem that no one stopped to take a breath. None of the warders on landing duty made the least attempt to quell it. This was the one noise that appalled and frightened them by the intensity of fury and frustration that reverberated with shock-force from wall to wall, from floor to roof and back again. As was their custom, they merely waited until the noise ended as abruptly as it began. And how it began was for them, an aspect of the experience that added to its intimidating nature. No one, outside the execution chamber could hear the drop; and yet, on the instant of the drop without benefit of clocks or any means of precisely knowing when, then precisely they began the uproar.
The chaplain dabbed his eyes, wet with the emotion of his hour-long prayer, and feeling certain that if the child had repented in her heart, he had not prayed in vain, he looked toward to the hearty breakfast God provided for those who lived a God-fearing life. It was a beautiful morning, and he breathed a few deep breaths of God’s summer air on his way to the gate where he enquired of the gate-keeper if his carrage had arrived. The affirmation that it was waiting he acknowledged with a gentlemanly nod and smile and stepped through the small door which closed behind him before he could step back from the distressed approach of a woman with eyes so red, and hair so disheveled he concluded with distaste that she was drunk or had been drinking and was suffering the well deserved ill-effects.
He froze. These lower classes. What could these possibly have to do with God? They were another species.
“Oh sir –”
“I do beg your pardon, but I have just been through quite an unpleasant experience. You will forgive me but I must be on my way –”
“Madam” His hands were held up in defensive protest as she, having taken a step forward compelled him with an expression of the utmost distaste to step back and to the side and then to hurry round her as he continued. “If there is one thing I never do it is to sully charity by acceding to the soliciting for alms by one who would obviously squander it on alcohol. Be off with you or I will see to it that the law will deal with you.” He was by now at bus carnage door, to which the woman had followed him with a cowed, beseeching look and posture. “Oh sir, I want nothing from you but news of my little Mary. Though God knows what there can be to tell.” She shook her head and stepped back, her arms dangling loosely, her shoulders bowed, and turning away she said, “What is the good now. My Mary is no more. They say I cannot have her body. Which is as well from what I hear. I have no more tears. I wish I was dead.”
“Madam!” The chaplain halted her with an imperative tone that had in it the stridency of anger which compelled her to turn again to protest that she wasn’t begging, but the fury on his face so astonished and intimidated her she backed away without a word. He followed her, pointing a wagging finger as he accused. “Woman of shame! Shame on you that you should rear a child to come to such an infamous end! Shame on you that you should have been drinking spirituous liquor on the very night that ought to been on your bended knees beseeching God to accept the soul of your wicked child! –”
“But sir! How can a child of seven be wicked? She was just seven and –”
“And she stole madam! She was a thief! And the penalty for theft as well she knew, for she was of the age of understanding, is death by hanging. Go, wicked woman, and repent, and pray that God ,” his infinite mercy will not cast you into the fires of hell, which is an end you deserve no less richly than the end met by your child for her wicked crime.” And she went away believing she was indeed a wicked woman because a man of God told her so. And he in his carriage rode away thanking God he was not one of those.
The hangman wrote in the hangman’s log where it may be read to this day, the epitaph for both mother and child.
“She wept piteously for her mother.”

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The Cost of Procrastination
Procrastination can be costly. When you get a late start, it may be difficult to make up for lost time.
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By: Marni Jameson Carey (www.aid-us.org)
The news comes as no surprise: “For the first time in the United States, employed physicians outnumber self-employed physicians,” says a new study released this month by the American Medical Association.
Let’s set aside for a moment that this finding, which the AMA deemed a “milestone,” as if this were an accomplishment, was based on a pretty small batch of doctors: only 36 percent of the 3,500 doctors surveyed responded. That those 1,260 doctors represent the nearly 1 million doctors in the United States may be a statistical stretch. That said, other reports say that only one in three doctors today is independent.
Regardless, the rate of doctors forgoing their independence for steady paychecks is, by all accounts, continuing.
And the trend is not healthy for doctors. It’s not healthy for patients. And it’s not healthy for America.
Why we should worry
When hospitals or private equity groups buy up doctors, costs skyrocket, quality goes down, and, if the hospital doing the acquiring is nonprofit, communities suffer financial harm because all the taxes that independent practice once paid come off the tax rolls.
What’s more, when doctors become employees, they suffer burnout much more often than their independent counterparts. Today, the suicide rate among doctors is the highest of any profession; one doctor dies by suicide in the United States every day. The corporatization of medicine is part of the problem.
Yet hospitals continue to roll up practices for one reason: Money. The more doctors that hospitals or private equity companies own, the more market share they capture, the more bargaining power they have with insurers, the more facility fees they can charge (added costs hospitals charge for outpatient services that independent doctors don’t), and the more referrals they can be sure get driven into their systems.
This adds up. According to a 2019 report from Merritt Hawkins, hospitals make on average $2.4 million a year net for every doctor they employ. No wonder they want – and can afford — to lure doctors into indentured employment. Doctors sign away their autonomy to escape an increasingly burdensome regulatory environment – and often regret it later.
Though many employed doctors will privately tell you they want out, strict non-compete clauses in their employment contracts keep them in shackles.
A pendulum swing
However, this story has another side, a brighter one. While the trend toward doctors becoming employees continues, it has slowed. Meanwhile, another trend is afoot: Doctors are also leaving employment at record rates.
Let’s get back to the numbers for a moment. The AMA study found that 47.4 percent of all patient-care physicians in 2018 were employed while 45.9 percent were their own bosses; this tipped the employed doctors over the halfway mark, by AMA math. The study also noted a 6 percent increase in employed doctors and a 7 percent drop in self-employed doctors between 2012 and 2018.
However, the AMA also reported that more than half of the shift toward employment occurred in the first two of those six years, between 2012 and 2014. Since then, the trend has slowed considerably.
At the Association of Independent Doctors, we believe this is partly because word about the negative impact of hospital/medical group mergers is getting out. Since our association started being the voice for independent doctors six years ago, we have been enlightening consumers, lawmakers, businesses and media about why the survival of independent doctors is so essential, and why consolidation is so harmful.
We are witnessing the move toward employment slowing, and the tide beginning to turn.
Last fall, 88 doctors in Charlotte, NC, ended their 25-year employment relationship with Atrium Health and re-invented themselves as Tryon Medical Partners, an unapologetically independent practice. “As an independent practice, we can better control how we practice medicine and our destiny,” said Dale Owen, MD, the group’s CEO.
Buoyed in part by that success, another large group in the Charlotte area announced in January that they were leaving their hospital employer, Novant Health. The head of the 42-physician group said the doctors wanted to “use their new-found independence to improve the quality of their own lives and the care they provide patients,” according to the Charlotte Observer, further citing the need to make health care affordable.
More recently, in northeast Wisconsin, 15 cardiologists severed ties with ThedaCare, a major health system in the region and the group’s employer since 2011, and started an independent practice in April. Again, they gave as their reason, “a desire to have more control over all aspects of their work.”
In addition to those mass exits, I hear almost daily from doctors who are converting their practices into direct pay models. By opting out of the strangling triangulation that comes from dealing with third-party payors, they are bringing costs way down, greatly eliminating the burdens of data collection, and, unlike their employed colleagues, are happier in their profession.
Beyond an ardent desire to practice medicine without worrying about meeting an employers’ quotas, all of these recently liberated doctors have something else in common: the certainty that they are at the forefront of the new trend in medicine.
Numbers only tell part of the story. The rest of the story is that independence is not a thing of the past. Rather, it is the future.
Marni Jameson Carey is the Executive Director of the Association of Independent Doctors. You may reach her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Reprinted with permission from the author.

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You may think that ponchos and capes are so last season or even a few before but the truth is they never go out of fashion. Now it’s one of the hottest trends and ponchos has become really stylish and chic so you can always feel elegant even when wearing this loose outerwear. I am personally a big fan of this type of coat since you can wear it many different ways and it always looks unique! I also find it a great solution during the cold weather and low temperatures when it’s easier to go for the layering. Ponchos are everywhere right now so you have a lot to choose from! Minimalistic, plaid, futuristic or really colorful and geometric – buy what you like and always feel trendy.
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Srinagar, Aug 27: The first automatic real-time air quality monitoring system set up in the summer capital Srinagar in July this year is helping round-the-clock monitoring of air pollution levels. Two more similar systems for the Valley are on the anvil.
A senior official of the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Board said that the automatic system installed at its Raj Bagh office has been helpful in providing “accurate data of the air quality” in Kashmir.
“Ever since the online automated air quality monitoring system was installed, the accuracy of air quality monitoring has seen a vast improvement,” the official said.
With the ambient air pollution mostly comprising of vehicular fumes on rise, “it was quite important to have an automatic system in place,” the official said.
He said the air quality data of Srinagar sent to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed that “pollution levels had become moderate” during the Covid lockdown. “The reduction in public transport due to pandemic kept a check on air pollution levels,” he said.
It may be mentioned that 11 manual air quality monitoring stations are presently functional in each J&K district while there is a proposal for installation of two more automatic air quality monitoring systems for Kashmir and one for Jammu as well.
“Earlier with manual system we were able to monitor only 2 parameters of air quality which is PM 10 and PM 2.5 but with the sophisticated automatic air quality monitoring we are able to monitor six to eight different parameters,” the official said.
It may be mentioned that the Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System CAAQMS, which was put on trial run for two months before its inauguration, is highly sophisticated equipment that gives real-time (/topic/real-time) air quality data of a particular area especially the key parameters like PM10, PM 2.5, NOX, SOX, Ozone which determine the air quality of that area.
The installation of CAAQMS (/topic/caaqms) has been mandated in all the non-attainment cities across the country, including Jammu and Srinagar (/topic/Srinagar).
As per officials the air quality monitoring network will be established and later extended to all district headquarters of Jammu and Kashmir in due course of time.
The air quality data generated by CAAQMS (/topic/caaqms) has been linked with the CPCB portal and the Air Quality Index (AQI) has been made public enabling any person sitting in any corner of the world to access the Air Quality of Srinagar city.


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The deadline for the Bills to make a decision on matching the Patriots’ offer for RB Mike Gillislee is on Monday.
Defensive help should be coming the Dolphins’ way during the draft.
Would Michigan TE Jake Butt fit with the Patriots?
Five defensive backs who could wind up being drafted by the Jets.
A look at defensive line prospects that may interest the Ravens.
A preview of the Bengals’ draft strategy at linebacker.
QB Mitchell Trubisky’s high school coach thinks the Browns should take Trubisky.
Former Steelers QB Kordell Stewart reminisced about his draft day.
Texans G.M. Rick Smith thinks some of last year’s moves will pay off this year.
The Colts will have some former players involved with their draft events.
Jaguars QB Brandon Allen shared his thoughts on some of the SEC players entering the league this year.
Titans G.M. Jon Robinson had some jokes about mock drafts.
Drafting Terrell Davis was one of the better moves in Broncos history.
A deep cornerback group in the draft is good for the Chiefs.
Contract talks with QB Derek Carr remain on the Raiders’ to-do list.
Some fans are still deciding if they’re moving on from the Chargers.
What can the Cowboys expect from CB Nolan Carroll?
Possible targets for the Giants if they trade up in the draft.
Wide receiver and tight end are areas the Eagles may address in the draft.
Making the case for the Redskins drafting edge rushers.
The history of the third pick in the draft offers some cautionary tales for the Bears.
DT Haloti Ngata’s age could impact the Lions’ draft decisions.
Will the Packers trade down in the first round?
Michigan State DT Malik McDowell might fit in with the Vikings.
Said Falcons G.M. Thomas Dimitroff, “Of course, I’ve said this time and again: We aren’t looking for angels. We are looking for guys who are real. We are looking for guys who ultimately will fit into the brotherhood.”
If the Panthers want competition for K Graham Gano, here are a few choices.
A negative take on the start to the Saints’ 2017 schedule.
Downfield receiving threats could be on the Buccaneers’ shopping list.
The Cardinals have had success in the third round of recent drafts.
The Rams may take a dip in the defensive back pool during the draft.
49ers legends Joe Montana and Jerry Rice are getting streets named after them.
The Seahawks might not be looking far for draft help.


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EXPLAINER: How Uber UK case could foreshadow gig work revamp
LONDON (AP) — Ride hailing giant Uber says it's giving U.K. drivers benefits like minimum wage and pensions, after losing a yearslong court battle to prevent them from being classified as “workers." It's an early sign of what companies like Uber face as authorities get to grips with regulating the app-based gig economy.
Starting right away, Uber's more than 70,000 U.K. drivers will get the minimum wage, equivalent to about $12 an hour for people aged 25 and up, plus pension payments and holiday pay. The company made the changes after the U.K. Supreme Court rejected its appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that drivers should be considered workers, not independent contractors as Uber insisted. That doesn't mean they're considered full-time staff employees, but under U.K. employment law, they fall into a middle category of “workers” who have more casual work terms but are also entitled to benefits and protections.
IS IT GOOD FOR DRIVERS?
Yes and no. San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc. says a driver's minimum wage will be calculated based on the time they accept a trip through the app. The drivers union behind the legal case said it's a step in the right direction but not good enough because drivers should be paid for time spent waiting for rides after logging on to the app, as the court ruled, otherwise they'll be shortchanged by up to 50%.
“If you go to work for Starbucks and no customers come into the shop, should you still be paid? Of course you should," said James Farrar, one of two former Uber drivers who filed the initial claim. “Uber simply has to do this, this is not difficult to understand."
But it may not be so simple. The company has argued that drivers could be logged in to the app while they're sitting at home, and...


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- Mullen Automotive has begun a 1-for-9 reverse split that will start trading at a new price after the split on August 11th.
- MULN’s share price closed at $0.1130 on Thursday but opens Friday at the post-split price.
- Mullen’s stock must remain above $1 for at least 10 consecutive trading sessions to remain compliant with NASDAQ rules.
- Mullen started manufacturing Class 3 commercial electric vehicles in Mississippi.
Mullen Motors (MULN) The stock fell 8.6% at the open on Friday after putting up its new reverse-adjusted share price. MULN needs to trade above $1 for 10 consecutive sessions in order to maintain its NASDAQ listing.
Mullen Stock News: Second reverse stock split puts Mullen above $1
This is already Mullen’s second reverse split to take effect in 2023. In early May, Mullen went through a 1-for-25 split that briefly pushed the share price down to $1.60. But CEO David Misery and the company immediately initiated a massive stock sale policy at the time to raise funds for the fledgling electric vehicle (EV) company that sent the share price down near $0.10.
Since Mullen’s board won the right to trigger the reverse split at a recent shareholder meeting between 1-for-2 and 1-for-100, it’s somewhat surprising that the board didn’t rush for a higher post-split price. The post-hash price is just above the $1 NASDAQ compliance threshold.
Mullen needs to keep the stock price above $1 for at least 10 consecutive trading days but no more than 20. In a press release, the company immediately acknowledged this was the case.
“There is no guarantee that the company will meet the requirements of the minimum bid price,” the statement issued on Thursday read.
The NASDAQ Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(H) has other caveats as well. Rule 5810(c)(3)(h) states:
“Employees may, in their discretion, require the Company (to maintain an offer price of at least $1.00 per share) for a period of not more than ten consecutive business days, but generally not more than 20 consecutive business days, before determining that the Company has demonstrated its ability to Maintaining Compliance for the Long Term In determining whether the Company must meet the (minimum $1 Bid Price Standard) after ten business days, employees will consider the following four factors: (1) the Compliance Margin (the amount at which (the price of Bid is higher than $1 minimum (standard)); (ii) Volume (lack of trading volume may indicate a lack of bona fide market interest in the securities at the stated bid price); (iii) Market Maker Montage (number of market makers who bid at $1.00 or more and the size of their price); and (iv) the direction of the stock price (is it up or down).”
This gives the NASDAQ a large amount of latitude in determining the fate of Mullen’s shareholders. On the bright side, management has reiterated its earlier announcement that it plans to begin buying up to $25 million in shares once it offers its shares in the next 10th quarter, so this policy should raise the share price to a safer level.
Some existing shareholders will also receive additional equity since Mullen has decided not to issue any fractional shares and instead “rounds up” units less than nine shares to the next whole share number. For example, shareholders who have 100 shares on August 10 will be awarded 12 shares on August 11 instead of 11.1 shares (i.e. 100/9).
In other news, Mullen this week announced the start of production of the Mullen Three EV semi-truck cab. Mullen has already received orders worth $79 million for 1,250 Mullen three Series 3 EV trucks from Randy Marion Automotive Group and MGT Lease, with the first batch to be delivered later this month.
The Series 3 commercial vehicle is being built at the Tunica plant in Mullen, Mississippi. Mullen Three has an MSRP of $68,500 before tax subsidies.
Frequently asked questions about Mullen Automotive
Mullen Automotive is a publicly traded electric vehicle company based in Brea, California that typically uses outside partnerships to manufacture its vehicles. The company was established in 2014 and currently sells self-designed electric delivery vehicles. Besides its commercial offerings, Mullen plans to begin manufacturing the Mullen FIVE EV crossover in late 2024 or early 2025. Mullen Automotive will go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger in late 2021.
David Michery has been the CEO of the company since its founding and incorporation in 2014. The current company came from the merger of CODA Automotive and Mullen Motor Cars through acquisition. Joining Michry are Chief Financial Officer Jonathan New, Chief Commercial Officer John Schwegman and Head of Automotive, Calin Popa.
Through a partnership with Randy Marion Automotive Group, Mullen distributes the Mullen One delivery van that has an electric range of 110 miles. Through an agreement with a Chinese manufacturer and distributor based in Ireland, the company also distributes the Mullen-GO Commercial Urban Delivery EV in Europe. In July 2023, Mullen will begin commercial production at its Mississippi facility of its long-haul Series 3 EV cab-chassis truck for immediate delivery. With its 60% stake in Bollinger Motors, Mullen will also reap the benefits of the B1 SUV and B2 pickup trucks, as well as other commercial vehicles in the future. A production date for the Mullen FIVE crossover isn’t set until at least late 2024, but it’s already taking reservations.
Mullen has diluted its shares since going public in late 2021. This is because the company so far has little revenue from operations and no dividend. The stock is down more than 99% since the company’s reverse merger in November 2021, and the rapid dilution is mostly to blame. Taking into account Mullen’s 1-for-25 reverse stock split on May 4, 2023, Mullen had 33,338,727 shares outstanding on September 30, 2022, but 126,281,274 shares on March 31, 2023. The company is permitted to sell up to 200 million shares under the authorization Present.


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June 27, 2017 at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Liverpool.
SUMMER WITH MONIKA
Roger McGough with Ensemble 10/10
‘I spent the summer with Monika and Monika spent the summer with me’.
Roger McGough’s magical, iconic tale of love was published in 1967 and subsequently scored and released on record with music by composer and guitarist Andy Roberts.
Now, for the 50th anniversary, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s new music group, Ensemble 10/10, will play Robert’s original arrangements as McGough reads his epic poem, and will also feature more of his classic poetry set alongside other music.
Roger McGough has quite rightly has been called Liverpool’s own Poet Laureate and these shows also feature more of his classic poetry set to music.
Summer with Monika: Roger McGough with Ensemble 10/10 is part of Liverpool’s city-wide season of performances and events marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Summer of Love, one of the defining moments in modern culture and creativity. Liverpool played a big part in the outpouring of cultural energy and creativity.
1967 saw the release of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra joins forces with The Bootleg Beatles and Roger McGough once again, for an symphonic recreation, arranged by Nigel Osborne, of the famous album (31 May & 3 June).
The best-selling Penguin Modern Poets No.10, The Mersey Sound, which featured the poetry of Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the late Adrian Henri, was published, and our Hope Street neighbours, Everyman and Unity Theatres, will also present events that celebrate the trio.


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This metal incense burner is from Iran. It is cut-out with decorative geometric and floral motifs, possibly influenced by Islamic design as Islam is the predominant religion of Iran.
In Islam the depiction of living beings, and particularly prophets or Allah, is prohibited and regarded as an extension of idolatry. Because of this, much Islamic art utilises elaborate arabic script and geometric and floral patterns.
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Saenger Theatre is Preparing to Reopen
WKRG has reported that Saenger Theatre is preparing to re-open after Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced changes to stay-at-home orders.
Read the full story HERE.
Mary Lee Gay, the senior marketing manager for ASM Global, the company that manages the Saenger said, "Theatre's ready. We've got all the things we need. We've got all the PPE, the cleaning, we've got plans in place for that. It's just talking to the promoters, making sure they can make money. Because they're hurting,"
The theater is planning for every situation, hoping that when the governor's order expires on July 3rd, more people will be allowed inside at the theater.
"We've got a show in August, that it's already sold more than 50%. So how do we handle that? Who doesn't get to come? So, the likelihood is if the occupancy doesn't go up, we'll probably keep moving those shows as we can," said Gay.
Check out the full story HERE.


Hello. Can an AP 15 act as a DHCP server when configured in Router Mode? What I'm trying to ask is the following: Have a customer who has no firewall or DHCP server. If I plug in the cable from the ISP provider in a switch, configures my first AP in Router Mode connected to this switch. Will I get an DHCP adress from the ports in this switch, when i connect other devices to the switch? Was this understandable?
Hi, Is your question about whether the Instant On AP can act as a DHCP server? If so, Yes!
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Associated Press, Published January 22 2009
Bobcat plans to extend six-week shutdown at Gwinner, Bismarck plantsWEST FARGO (AP) – The Bobcat company has told workers it plans to extend a six-week shutdown of its Gwinner and Bismarck plants.
Jeremy Swanson is the vice president of United Steelworkers union Local 560 in Gwinner. He says the company told union workers it will extend layoffs for two more weeks, until Feb. 16.
The West Fargo-based construction equipment manufacturer laid off about 2,000 employees at the two plants in mid-December.
The workers were due to return Feb. 2.
Corporate spokeswoman Nikki Bruce says the company will issue a statement later.
Swanson says Bobcat reports a lack of orders due to the global market slowdown. He says, “things aren’t picking up as fast as we anticipated.”
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.


Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 (IANS) Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac Saturday said the proposed Rs.50,000 crore rapid rail corridor project in the state could become a reality in six years.
Isaac told reporters that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has been asked to prepare the preliminary report for which Rs.50 crore has been set aside in the state budget.
The proposed project would extend from the northern tip of the state to the southern point and the 600-km distance can be covered in six hours, he said.
‘This proposed project is likely to come up with the help of the Indian Railways. This corridor can either pass by the side of the existing railway track. Through this land required can be minimised,’ said Isaac.
He said a separate company, in which the government will have a stake, would be set up.
‘It could be on the lines of the Konkan Railway Corporation,’ he said.
With regards to the funds, Isaac said state Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem has already come up with a proposal where a monetary institution is ready to fund the project.
‘It has now proved beyond doubt that state government companies cannot execute such projects due to various reasons and hence it would be handed to independent corporations who will execute it in a time bound manner,’ added Isaac.


Ayodhya mediation: The 'Muslim' parties have told the Bench they are willing to participate in the process of mediation. But counsel for Ramlalla Virajman and Mahant Suresh Das have opposed the proposal.
How the BJP and RSS are reacting to the Supreme Court deferring the Ayodhya case, why the RBI and the government are at loggerheads and what it means to have a statue worth almost Rs 3000 crores. All that and more in this week’s Eye for Detail.
Union Minister Uma Bharti has said that leaders across party lines must come together and sort out the Ayodhya dispute through dialogue. She also said that those in the government want to build a temple at the disputed site but will need support from
Describing the Ram Mandir as a “sensitive” and “sentimental” issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested that it would be best if the contentious issue is settled amicably. The suggestion from the top court comes after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy sought urgent hearing on the Ayodhya dispute. The court called upon parties concerned to sit […]
Rampur, Jan 10 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Sunday said the Ram Temple issue is being politicized by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) because of the 2017 elections. He said the BJP did not learn from its past mistakes of Delhi and Bihar elections and soon it would meet the same fate as it met in the past. He added that the NDA Government was merely venting out venomous comments and creating a divide among the people of the country.
New Delhi, Jan 09 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member Rakesh Sinha on Saturday alleged that the protest against the Ram Janmabhoomi seminar at the Delhi University (DU) is undemocratic and the people protesting are pro-Maoists as the matter is a cultural issue and not a political one. Sinha further emphasised that the consensus of people to construct Ram Temple can be created without the judgment of the Supreme Court.
New Delhi, Jan 09 (ANI): While speaking at the Delhi University’s seminar on Ram Janmabhoomi here on Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said the re-construction of the Ram Temple holds significance in the whole country. He added the Ram Temple is an invaluable part of India’s history and culture which requires attention. He also stated that the renewal of the Ram Temple is underway and the NDA Government would not back out from this.


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The purpose of this investigation was to advance recent discussion about the relative merits of two alternative instruments involved in the assessment of game orientation. Fourth- and fifth-grade students (N=471) responded to a questionnaire containing both the Game Orientation Scale (GOS) and an adapted version of the original Webb Scale referred to as the “Context Modified Webb Scale” (CMW). CMW and GOS scores were then compared with scores reported in previous studies using each instrument, and the relationship between GOS and CMW scores was investigated using a series of Kendall correlation coefficients. CMW scores behaved consistently with previous results, but a significant gender difference emerged, which had not been seen previously in the GOS. Despite the differences in the way the two instruments approach the specification of play context, and despite the fact that one measures relative values while the other measures absolute values, small but conceptually sensible correlations between the two instruments were found consistently.
Michael G. Lacy and Donald L. Greer
Tara Edwards, Lew Hardy, Kieran Kingston and Dan Gould
Structured in-depth interviews explored the catastrophic experiences of eight elite performers. Participants responded to questions concerning an event in which they felt they had experienced an uncharacteristic but very noticeable drop in their performance, a “performance catastrophe.” Inductive and deductive analyses were employed to provide a clear representation of the data. This paper reports on how the dimensions emerging from the hierarchical content analysis changed from prior to the catastrophic drop in performance, during the drop, and after the drop (in terms of any recovery). Two emerging higher order dimensions, “sudden, substantial drop in performance” and “performance continued to deteriorate” provide support for one of the fundamental underpinnings of the catastrophe model (Hardy, 1990, 1996a, 1996b); that is, performance decrements do not follow a smooth and continuous path. The paper examines the implications of the findings with respect to applied practice and future research.
James P. Corcoran, Lehigh University and Deborah L. Feltz
A formative evaluation was conducted of the Chemical Health Education and Coaching (CHEC) program sponsored by the Youth Sports Institute at Michigan State University. The degree to which high school athletic coaches (a) became knowledgeable about chemical health and (b) were confident in their ability to apply that knowledge to their team were the two primary concerns of this study. Two hundred eighteen high school athletic coaches comprised the experimental and control groups to whom identical pretest and posttest instruments were administered. The CHEC program consisted of three 1-hr sessions. The subjects were asked to respond to one questionnaire that assessed both their knowledge and confidence in that knowledge and their ability to use it with their athletes. The results indicated that the coaches who were exposed to CHEC were more knowledgeable and more confident than control coaches.
Susan K. Kovar and Virginia Overdorf
In this study we examined the influences of graduate training, job characteristics, and collegial support on scholarly productivity across gender. A survey was distributed to 425 graduates from 13 major United States research institutions and 117 responded. Publication rate was predicted by the amount of research support from colleagues, the number of colleagues publishing one or more refereed articles per year, and the number of research projects the respondent (as a doctoral student) was involved in with the major professor. Differences were found in professors’ responses to rejected articles, with females significantly less likely to resubmit a rejected article. Therefore, it appears important to participate in many projects with one’s major professor while in graduate school, affiliate with a productive, supportive faculty, and to rewrite and resubmit rejected articles.
John S.W. Spinda, Daniel L. Wann and Michael Sollitto
In this case study analysis, we explored the motives for playing Strat-O-Matic Baseball (SOMB), a baseball simulation played as a board game or online, from the perspective of the uses-and-gratifications theory. In phase I of the study, SOMB manager narratives (N = 50) were analyzed for motive statements. In phase II, an online survey asked SOMB managers (N = 222) to respond to motive items as well as four measures of Major League Baseball (MLB) and SOMB identification. Overall, eight motives for playing SOMB emerged from the 64-item pool of motive items. These eight motives were nostalgia, knowledge acquisition, social bonding, enjoyment, vicarious achievement, game aesthetics, convenience, and escape. Our findings suggest these motives predicted measures of MLB and SOMB identification in significantly different ways. Theoretical implications, future research, limitations, and discussion questions are presented in this analysis.
Wendy White Morrow and P. Chelladurai
A successful national sport organization, Synchro Canada, was described in terms of three structural characteristics (formalization, centralization, and complexity) and five processes (activities to ensure resources, work flow, control, identification, and homeostatic activities) based on evidence from documents and, to a limited extent, from interviews. Eighty-five subjects from four constituent groups (administrators, judges, coaches, and athletes) responded to a questionnaire that assessed their perceptions regarding the contributions of the selected organizational characteristics to Synchro Canada's overall effectiveness. The analyses showed that the organization's structures and processes were consistent with the literature in organization theory. From an overall perspective, the respondents perceived the structural and process characteristics as contributing to overall effectiveness. However, the coaches as a subgroup viewed the dimensions of activities to ensure resources, control activities, and centralization as detracting from effectiveness.
Dorothy B. Zakrajsek
This commentary responds to an invitation to discuss sport management from the viewpoint of an administrator. My thoughts are segmented into two streams: (a) the interface of a sports-minded public and sport management and (b) the listing of a few issues and concerns confronting sport management today. The first recognizes the high profile of sport in American society and the rising gross national sport product (GNSP), which have placed sport management programs in the enviable position of visibility and attention. The second plays on several themes: continuing to improve the knowledge and research base, establishing an independent identity while sharing technology within HPER programs, and being sensitive to a growing trend toward more graduate students entering from fields outside sport, leisure, and Wellness.
Amir A. Mohagheghi, J. Greg Anson, Brian I. Hyland, Louise Parr-Brownlie and Jeffrey R. Wickens
The effect of foreperiod length on reaction time in memorized (MM) and nonmemorized (NM), precued, delayed responses was investigated. Six subjects participated in one long and one short foreperiod schedule testing session. An aiming task, using elbow supination/pronation, in response to a visual stimulus was employed. In the MM condition, target spatial information was available for a fraction of the foreperiod duration. In the NM condition, target information was available continuously until the subject attained the target position. Subjects responded with a significantly longer latency in the long foreperiod schedule. Within each foreperiod schedule, the shortest foreperiod resulted in significantly longer reaction time. However, the absolute value of foreperiod did not have a major effect on reaction time latency. Memorization and nonmemorization conditions did not affect reaction time.
Yasuhiro Seya and Shuji Mori
We examined simple and choice reaction times (RTs) to a visual target that appears during smooth pursuit. Participants pursued a moving fixation stimulus accurately before a target stimulus was presented either above or below the fixation stimulus. In the simple RT task, the participants responded to the onset of the target as soon as possible. In the choice RT task, they indicated the target position, i.e., above or below the fixation stimulus, as soon and as accurately as possible. The results showed that, in both tasks, the RTs during smooth pursuit at 10°/s were longer than those during stationary fixation, and the RTs decreased as the fixation stimulus velocity further increased to 40°/s. Since pursuit gains (the ratio of eye velocity to fixation stimulus velocity) decreased as the fixation stimulus velocity increased, these results suggest that there is a tradeoff between pursuit accuracy and RT.
Mark R. Lyberger and Donna L. Pastore
This study examined the self-perceived compliance of health club facility operators with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). A 112-item survey was developed to assess; awareness of ADA regulations, knowledge of the ADA and disability function, perceptions toward ADA regulations, and self-perceived compliance with ADA regulations. The questionnaire was administered to a random sample (N = 190) of facility operators in Ohio. Because only 45 (23.7%) responded, surveys were sent to the remainder of the facility operators (n = 180), yielding another 5 usable questionnaires. To verify the questionnaire's subscale structure, item-to-total correlations and internal consistency estimates (a) were utilized, and descriptive statistics and correlations were carried out. The findings suggest that low levels of awareness are associated with low to moderate levels of self-perceived compliance, that facility operators are only moderately knowledgeable and generally perceptive of the ADA, and that they are not fully complying with ADA regulations.

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PETERBOROUGH, ON (October 5, 2019)-Things are about to wrap-up for the 2019 Trailers Plus Ontario Legends Series schedule, as teams head to the tight, tricky bullring on Mount Pleasant Road on October 11th to 13th for the 27th running of the Autumn Colours Classic.
Saturday, 05 October 2019 08:40 Published in Press Releases
MILLGROVE, Ontario (October 4, 2019)--- One point. That’s all that separates Shae Gemmell and J.R. Fitzpatrick at the top of the points standing entering the final 100-lapper on Sunday, October 6 at Flamboro Speedway for the Grisdale Triple Crown.
Friday, 04 October 2019 10:40 Published in Press Releases
GRAVENHURST, ON (October 4, 2019)- At the start of the year, the slate is clean. Every racer believes they have a legitimate chance to win a local track championship or touring division title.
Friday, 04 October 2019 10:33 Published in Driver and Team Releases
CALGARY, AB (October 3, 2019)- Calgary, Alberta racer Brett Taylor and the #46 Wing ‘n it Restaurants/CanTorque Dodge team experienced quite a journey during the 2019 NASCAR Pinty’s Series racing season.
Thursday, 03 October 2019 09:35 Published in Driver and Team Releases
SUN PEAKS, BC (October 3, 2019)- Sun Peaks, BC racer Jason White concluded his 2019 racing season this past weekend competing in the final round of the 2019 NASCAR Pinty’s Series at Jukasa Motor Speedway near Hamilton, Ontario in #21 Mercedes of Kamloops/Zimmer Auto Group Dodge.
Thursday, 03 October 2019 09:30 Published in Driver and Team Releases
THOMPSON, Conn. (October 2, 2019)-- When the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour rolls into Thompson for the 57th annual Sunoco World Series October 11-13, two drivers are going to be in contention to earn the series championship.
Wednesday, 02 October 2019 19:46 Published in Press Releases
Mont-Tremblant, QC, (October 2nd, 2019) – Patrick Dussault looked back at his strong 2019 season, as he finished on a good note last weekend, at Circuit Mont-Tremblant, scoring a podium finish and a top five in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama.
Wednesday, 02 October 2019 16:45 Published in Driver and Team Releases
HAGERSVILLE, ON (October 2, 2019)- Canada’s Best Racing Team (CBRT) with driver Anthony Simone showed moments of excitement along with plenty of speed in the #1 Silverline Tools Dodge during the 2019 NASCAR Pinty’s Series season.
Wednesday, 02 October 2019 16:00 Published in Driver and Team Releases
MILGROVE, ON (October 1, 2019)- In each of the OSCAAR standings, it appears as though the points leader has a sizable gap on the rest of the field. Though with two features on the table for each series, there are still plenty of points up for grabs.
Tuesday, 01 October 2019 08:05 Published in Press Releases
MILGROVE, Ontario (September 30, 2019)- --- Another season of points competition at Flamboro Speedway has come to a close, with five new champions being crowned on Saturday night.
Monday, 30 September 2019 17:48 Published in Results & Points


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Using: Blender V2.79 Cycles Render Engine
After creating a complex interior scene consisting of 3 different texture types, each having 3 associated maps (Diffuse, Gloss, Normal) I noticed the texture and baking options will not successfully combine to create a texture for the exported mesh once I bring it into Unity 3D. The mesh is a single object with the different textures assigned to specified faces.
I've played around with a default cube mesh for testing purposes, using the same 3 textures split among the 6 sides, but have only been able to successfully pull over the color info by baking a diffuse map to my UV and saving the image. When using the other baking options, Blender does not successfully create a map for either my Glossy textures, nor my normal map. Even using the "Combined" baking option, I am provided a flat dull diffuse image for my mesh, no gloss or normal info is saved.
What can I do differently in Blender, to have my assigned UV Diffuse, Normal, and Gloss maps all appear in a single object in Unity?


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Bulgaria’s economy posted 0.7 per cent growth in the fourth quarter of 2019, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a flash estimate on February 14. In real terms, gross domestic product (GDP) in Bulgaria in the last three months of last year was 32.37 billion leva, or 16.55 billion euro.
In annual terms, economic growth in the fourth quarter was 3.5 per cent. NSI is due to announce preliminary growth figures for the fourth quarter and the full year on March 5.
The flash estimate’s seasonally-adjusted data showed an increase of 0.6 per cent in domestic consumption during the fourth quarter (up by five per cent on an annual basis), along with a 2.1 per cent drop in gross fixed capital formation (which fell by 1.2 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2018).
Exports rose by 0.1 per cent during the fourth quarter but were 1.5 per cent lower compared to the same period of 2018), while imports were one per cent down compared to the previous quarter (and 2.7 per cent lower on an annual basis), resulting in a trade surplus of 686.9 million leva or 2.1 per cent of GDP.
Bulgaria was one of 15 EU countries to record economic growth during the fourth quarter, with the EU economy as a whole and the euro zone both expanding by 0.1 per cent, according to a flash estimate by EU’s statistics body Eurostat. In the previous quarter, the euro area and EU28 economy both grew by 0.3 per cent, Eurostat said.
Eurostat figures showed the UK and Germany’s economies recorded zero growth, while French, Italian and Finnish economic growth was negative. Eight countries were yet to report third-quarter data – Croatia, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia and Sweden.
In annual terms, the EU economy grew by 1.1 per cent compared to Q4 2018, down from 1.4 per cent recorded in the previous quarter, and the euro zone economy grew by 0.9 per cent in annual terms, down from 1.2 per cent recorded in the previous quarter.


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(1900) · Chicago
First edition: Following the Civil War, a formerly well-to-do Alabama family struggles to keep the household afloat, with the burden falling largely on steadfast Jean. The sole full-length work of fiction published by Tuscaloosa-born teacher Brown (1855–1923), this novel is => illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (known for his Saturday Evening Post covers), as well as in-text vignettes.
Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, gorgeously stamped in silver and light and dark blue arabesque motifs surrounding a cream title panel, framed in brown; spine with similar motifs. Top edges gilt. Binding as above, spine gently darkened and with a small light spot of discoloration to front cover, otherwise showing very little wear. Pages with a few scattered small spots of light foxing. => A handsome copy of a work offering multiple aspects of interest. (Inventory #: 41394)


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Floods and flood warnings during the last 24 hours reported by national services (European Flood Awareness System - EFAS) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 November 2018)
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- Italy: warning level 3/3 has been issued for Sicilia region and 2/3 for Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Sicilia and Veneto regions.
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we are all surrounded by layers of sounds. it does not matter if they are machine-generated noise or the ones of nature, but all of the sounds around us have their own unique tonalities and rhythms. while some just take them for granted, these artists here find them fascinating and construct music out of the pieces of the best moments of the sounds they encounter.
scenes change, and so do sounds. whatever the scene you may be into now, this is something for you to listen to. this is minimal at its best. you do not have to think about the concept or how the pieces are constructed as the musicians here have already done that for you. you can just let it flow wherever you may be at.
so we now present you our second compilation album as we are ‘movin on.’
Release Date: 2006-06-28
Music Style: EXPERIMENTAL – TECHNO – MINIMAL – ELECTRONICA