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New data presented at the American Academy of Neurology meeting showed that Neupro® (rotigotine transdermal system) improved both motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease
Atlanta (U.S.) - 14 April 2010 - Evidence of Neupro® (rotigotine transdermal system) improving motor as well as non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease were presented at the 62nd American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Toronto, Canada1,2.
"The new data reported this week showed that treatment with rotigotine controlled early morning motor function and improved non-motor symptoms, as judged by the validated non-motor scale, in patients with Parkinson's disease and these effects translated into improvements in quality of life for our patients. RECOVER is the first study carried out in a controlled setting that addresses the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, such as sleep, mood, cognition and pain which can be just as debilitating to patients as the more obvious movement disorder." said Professor Ray Chaudhuri, Consultant Neurologist and Professor in Neurology and Movement Disorders at Kings College NHS Foundation Trust, and Kings Health Partners, London, UK.
These new findings were reported in extensive analyses of data from RECOVER - a multicentre, multinational, double-blind, placebo-controlled study designed to assess the effects of rotigotine in controlling early morning motor function and non-motor symptoms that affect the everyday lives of people with Parkinson's disease.
Of the 287 Parkinson's patients in RECOVER, 190 were randomized to rotigotine and 97 to placebo. The dose of rotigotine or placebo was tailored to individual patient need (2-16mg/24h or placebo) during a titration period lasting up to 8 weeks, followed by a 4 week maintenance period.
Early morning motor function was assessed using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Part III (Motor Examination) and sleep quality was assessed using the Parkinson's Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS). Patients were hospitalized for two nights before assessment at baseline and again at the end of the maintenance period. The co-primary efficacy endpoints were the mean change from baseline to end of maintenance in PDSS and UPDRS Part III scores. Non-motor symptoms were assessed as secondary outcomes.
Key primary and secondary outcomes from baseline to end of maintenance were1,2:
Motor symptoms and primary efficacy endpoints
Rotigotine provided significantly greater improvement in early morning motor symptoms than placebo (-7.0 vs -3.9 points; treatment difference -3.55; p=0.0002) as measured by the UPDRS Part III (Motor Examination), a comprehensive widely used evaluation of motor symptoms as well as cognition, behaviour and mood. Rotigotine also provided significantly greater improvement than placebo in sleep quality scores as measured by the PDSS (-5.9 vs -1.9 points; difference -4.26; p<0.0001).
- Overall patients experienced greater improvements in non-motor symptoms with rotigotine than placebo (-11.4 vs -6.3 points; treatment difference -6.65; p=0.015), as measured by the Parkinson's disease Non-Motor Symptoms assessment scale total (NMST), which measures the severity and frequency of nine categories of non-motor symptoms, including cardiovascular, sleep/fatigue, mood/cognition and attention/memory
- Rotigotine provided greater improvement than placebo in sleep/fatigue (treatment difference -2.03; p=0.002) and in mood/cognition (treatment difference -3.40; p=0.0003) as measured by the NMST
- Rotigotine provided greater improvement than placebo in mood (treatment difference -2.01; p=0.011) as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), a widely used questionnaire developed to measure the intensity, severity and depth of depression
- Rotigotine provided greater improvement than placebo in quality of life (treatment difference -5.74, p=0.0002) as measured by PDQ-8, a short form Parkinson's disease questionnaire
- Rotigotine provided greater improvement than placebo in pain (treatment difference -0.77, p=0.004) as measured by the Likert scale
- There was no change in the number of nocturias (excessive urination at night) in either the rotigotine or placebo group
The most frequently reported adverse events were nausea (rotigotine 21%, placebo 9%), application site reactions (rotigotine 15%, placebo 4%), and dizziness (rotigotine 10%, placebo 6%).
Tolerability and efficacy of rotigotine up to 6 years demonstrated in early stage Parkinson's disease
Rotigotine was generally well tolerated and provided sustained improvement in movement symptoms in patients with early Parkinson's disease treated for up to 6 years, according to new data from an open label extension of an earlier double blind trial, also presented at the congress3.
Of 216 patients who received treatment during the open label phase more than half (52%) received at least five years of rotigotine treatment. Overall, 24% of patients discontinued due to adverse events, of which the most frequently reported (rate per patient year) were somnolence (23% per patient-year), peripheral edema (14% per patient-year), and fall (17% per patient-year). Treatment-emergent application site reactions were reported in 70 (32%) of patients during open label treatment (12% per patient-year). Mean UPDRS (II + III) scores after up to 6 years of rotigotine treatment remained within 4 points of patients' original double-blind baseline scores.
Long term efficacy and tolerability of rotigotine in advanced Parkinson's disease
Continued efficacy and tolerability were also reported in long term follow up studies of over 600 patients who enrolled in open label extensions of two previous double blind trials of rotigotine in advanced Parkinson's disease4.
A four year open label extension trial enrolled 395 patients. While UPDRS Activities of Daily Living (ADL) mean total score improved from double-blind baseline by -4.5 points during the open label titration to rotigotine 4-16mg/24h, it gradually returned to baseline values (+0.8 points) over 4 years. The mean UPDRS Motor Score (MS) improved from double-blind baseline by -10.1 points during titration then gradually declined to -2.8 points of improvement.
Of 258 patients who entered the open label phase of a second study, 68 (26%) withdrew by the end of year 6 because of adverse events. The -4.9-point mean ADL score improvement achieved during titration declined to +4.1 points above baseline over 6 years, and the mean MS declined from an initial -11.4-point improvement to baseline values (-0.2 points). Treatment-emergent adverse effects were typically dose-related dopaminergic effects (such as insomnia, (5-7% per patient-year), dyskinesias (4-8% per patient-year), and hallucinations (4-8% per patient-year).
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About Neupro® in Europe5
Neupro® (rotigotine) is approved in the European Union for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of early-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease, as monotherapy (i.e. without levodopa) or in combination with levodopa, i.e. over the course of the disease, through to late stages when the effect of levodopa wears off or becomes inconsistent and fluctuations of the therapeutic effect occurs. Neupro® is also approved in the European Union for the symptomatic treatment of moderate to severe idiopathic restless legs syndrome in adults.
Neupro® in Europe Important Safety Information5
Neupro® is contraindicated in case of hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of its excipients, and in case of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or cardioversion. Neupro® should be removed if the patient has to undergo MRI or cardioversion.
It is recommended to monitor blood pressure, especially at the beginning of treatment, due to the general risk of orthostatic hypotension associated with dopaminergic therapy.
Neupro® has been associated with somnolence episodes of sudden sleep onset episodes. Patients treated with dopamine agonists including Neupro®, have been reported as exhibiting signs of pathological gambling, increased libido and hypersexuality.
Symptoms suggestive of neuroleptic malignant syndrome have been reported with abrupt withdrawal of dopaminergic therapy. Therefore it is recommended to taper treatment.
Neupro® contains sodium metabisulphite, a sulphite that may cause allergic-type reactions including anaphylactic symptoms and life threatening or less severe asthmatic episodes in certain susceptible people.
Hallucinations have been reported, and patients should be informed that hallucinations can occur.
Cases of cardiopulmonary fibrotic complications have been reported in some patients treated with ergot-derived dopaminergic agents. Neuroleptics given as antiemetic should not be given to patients taking dopamine agonists. Ophthalmologic monitoring is recommended at regular intervals or if vision abnormalities occur.
External heat, from any source should not be applied to the area of the patch. Exposure of a skin rash or irritation to direct sunlight could lead to changes in the skin color. If a generalized skin reaction (e.g. allergic rash) associated with the use of Neupro® is observed, Neupro® should be discontinued.
Caution is advised when treating patients with severe hepatic impairment or acute worsening of renal function, a dose reduction might be needed.
The incidence of some dopaminergic adverse events, such as hallucinations, dyskinesia, and peripheral oedema generally is higher when given in combination with L-dopa. This should be considered when prescribing Neupro®.
Neupro® should not be used during pregnancy. Breast-feeding should be discontinued.
Augmentation may occur in Restless Legs Syndrome patients. Augmentation refers to the earlier onset of symptoms in the evening (or early afternoon), increase in severity of symptoms, and spread of symptoms to involve other body parts.
Adverse drug reactions reported in more than 10% of Parkinson's patients treated with Neupro® are nausea, vomiting, application site reactions, somnolence, dizziness and headache.
Adverse drug reactions reported in more than 10% of RLS patients treated with Neupro® are nausea, application site reactions, asthenic conditions and headache.
All Neupro® supply should be stored in a refrigerator. There is no need for patients to transport Neupro® patches in special containers and they must not be stored in a freezer compartment.
Please refer to the European Summary of Product Characteristics for full prescribing information (Approved 15th March 2010): http://www.emea.europa.eu/humandocs/PDFs/EPAR/neupro/emea-combined-h626en.pdf
About Neupro® in the U.S.
Neupro® (Rotigotine Transdermal System) is indicated in the U.S. for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of early-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
In April 2008, UCB recalled Neupro® from the U.S. market after ongoing monitoring revealed that specific batches of Neupro® had deviated from their approved specification. Neupro® is currently not available in the U.S. UCB is working with the U.S. FDA so that Neupro® can be available to patients with early-stage Parkinson's disease as soon as possible.
Important Safety Information - U.S.
Some patients treated with Neupro® reported falling asleep while engaged in activities of daily living, including operation of motor vehicles, which sometimes resulted in accidents. Some patients perceived no warning signs, such as excessive drowsiness. Hallucinations were reported in 2.0% of patients treated with Neupro® compared to 0.7% of patients on placebo. Neupro® contains metabisulfite. Neupro® should be used with caution in patients, especially those at risk for cardiovascular disease, because of the potential for symptomatic hypotension, syncope, elevated heart rate, elevated blood pressure, fluid retention, and/or weight gain. All Parkinson's disease patients are at a higher risk for melanoma and should be monitored regularly. The most commonly reported side effects in clinical trials were nausea, application site reactions, somnolence, dizziness, headache, vomiting, and insomnia. Some subjects who received Neupro® experienced a decline in blood hemoglobin levels (about 2% relative to subjects who received placebo). It is not known whether this change is readily reversible with discontinuation of Neupro®.
Neupro® is not approved or available in Canada for the treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease or for the treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome
Neupro® is a registered trademark of the UCB Group of companies.
1. Chaudhuri KR, Rudzinska M, Kies B, Fine J, Hill DL, Anderson T, Surmann E, Whitesides J, Boroojerdi B, Trenkwalder C, on behalf of the RECOVER study group. Effect of rotigotine on non-motor symptoms in subjects with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Presented at the 62nd American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (April 10-17 2010)
2. Kies B, Chaudhuri KR, Anderson T, Fine J, Hill DL, Rudzinska M, Surmann E, Whitesides J, Boroojerdi B, Trenkwalder C, on behalf of the RECOVER study group. Effect of rotigotine on sleep quality and control of early morning motor function in subjects with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Presented at the 62nd American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (April 10-17 2010)
3. Watts RL, Boroojerdi B, Jankovic J. Open-label extension to the double-blind SP512 trial to assess the safety of long-term treatment of rotigotine in subjects with early-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Presented at the 62nd American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (April 10-17 2010)
4. LeWitt PA, Boroojerdi B, Poewe W. Long-term treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease with rotigotine. Presented at the 62nd American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (April 10-17 2010)
5. Neupro® European Summary of Product Characteristics (Approved March 15th 2010) http://www.emea.europa.eu/humandocs/PDFs/EPAR/neupro/emea-combined-h626en.pdf
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AUSTIN, TX – The Austin Police Department identified a motorcyclist who died in an accident involving a pickup truck last month.
Police issued a news release on the accident that took place June 26 in the area of South Congress Avenue and Alpine Road in south Austin at 3:20 p.m.
Investigators said the driver of a Jeep Gladiator was making a left turn onto Alpine Road and turned in front of a motorcycle driven by 51-year-old Mitchell Lesley Pitman. That caused Pitman to fall off the motorcycle and fall onto the ground. He was taken to St. David’s South Austin Hospital, where he died on July 6.
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Mercedes-Benz non plug-in hybrids set for return by 2020
Source : Mercedes-Benz non plug-in hybrids set for return by 2020
The German any will be only offering plug-in hybrids on the completely new GLC, yet more conventional types could be along inside the future
Mercedes will only offer plug-in hybrids for the time being on the likes of the completely new GLC, yet that will will be likely to return to more conventional hybrid technology within the next a few years.
Professor Thomas Weber, a Mercedes board member in addition to head of research in addition to development, said that will plug-in hybrids are the next natural step beyond a diesel.
“Do we need [non plug-in hybrids]? I don’t think so,” he said. “Because on high-tech diesels the fuel economy numbers are so low that will if a customer decides to take another step I think the plug-in will be the best solution.”
Mercedes currently offers non plug-in hybrids on types like the C-Class in addition to S-Class, yet the issue remains that will non plug-in hybrids don’t offer a long enough range on electricity alone.
“inside the past we had, not mild hybrids, yet tiny plug-ins, in addition to the missing part will be the electrified driving distance,” said Weber.
However, he said that will as the electric range of plug-ins increases, non plug-in hybrids could return, adding another option to sit next to the conventional diesel in addition to petrol engines.
“Coming closer to 2020 I believe there will be of course an opportunity. Between plug-in, with its more in addition to more extended electric driving range, there will be a gap where we can come back to these hybrid solutions in, for example, the A-Class.”
He did not confirm whether that will would likely be the A-Class that will would likely see the return of hybrid tech, yet said that will the technology itself would likely return.
“that will will be still a question which vehicle This particular technology will go in. that will will come, that will will be in development,” he said.
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Second phase 3 study of CaPre in patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia
Phase of Trial: Phase III
Latest Information Update: 13 Nov 2017
At a glance
- Drugs Omega-3 phospholipid (Primary)
- Indications Hypertriglyceridaemia
- Focus Registrational; Therapeutic Use
- Sponsors Acasti Pharma
- 13 Nov 2017 According to an Acasti Pharma media release, phase 3 program is anticipated to complete in 2019.
- 07 Nov 2017 According to an Acasti Pharma media release, Dariush Mozaffarian will be principal investigator of the phase 3 program. Acasti remains on track to begin activating sites for its Phase 3 program before the end of the year, with patient dosing expected to start in early 2018.
- 06 Jun 2017 According to an Acasti Pharma media release, the company plans to initiate this study in the second half of 2017.


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With the coronavirus pandemic getting worse throughout the United States, movie studios are once more rescheduling “Tenet” and “Mulan”. Indoor movie chains like AMC are postponing reopening from July to August.
Drive-in movie theaters, however, are still open in most areas. The car being the ultimate form of social distancing when seeing a movie in public. Bring your own food and drinks, stay inside the car, and lock the doors to keep Zombie Karen out.
When businesses like drive-ins suddenly revive from the dead, it’s an opportunity for new players to enter the market. Walmart announced that they will open drive-in movie theaters at 160 supercenters across the United States from early August to October.
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Norse Mythology and the Modern Human Being
Translated by Rudolf Copple
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This is a valuable study of a mythology that has as much to do with the future of human evolution as it does with these old stories of the Norse gods. Uehli moves systematically through the major figures in this ancient saga, reflecting on the deeper meaning and showing why they are so valuable for children, especially those in the fourth grade. It will provide insight for teachers, parents, and other adults who hope to answer some of the life questions of today.
The Norse Stories and their Significance
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At first sight, the Norse stories appear to be a weird and wonderful collection of tales, illogical in sequence and with no coherent theme. . . . However that may be, there is in the Norse stories a great depth of knowledge and, fragmentary as they are, they are probably relics of old Mystery wisdom. They present a picture of evolution, of the creation and development of the human being and his connection with higher beings; they show the human being's struggle with adverse powers, the fading of the old world conception and the birth of the ego which leads to new powers of perception.
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Contains 28 stories, beautifully retold, with commentary by the author.
A Retelling of Greek Mythology and History According to the Waldorf Approach for Grades 5 & 6
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Told by a master class teacher, the myths and history in Ancient Greece open the doors to an understanding of the heart of Ancient Greek culture and life. These are stories that are sure to stay with students throughout their lives, the sort of tales that will come back to the adult time and time again. Charles Kovacs did a masterful job in the retelling of each story, and covered well the various aspects of the Fifth Grade curriculum on Ancient Greece.
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Another priceless treasure by Charles Kovacs!
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The latest release stresses integration between design and engineering analysis and introduces the company’s vision for high-definition PLM.
Siemens PLM Software today released NX 8, the latest edition of the company’s flagship CAD/CAD/CAE software. New features include more efficient integration of design and engineering simulation, and an initial implementation of the company’s vision for high-definition PLM (3D PLM).
NX 8 for simulation offers new solutions for optimization and multi-physics analysis, along with new methods for analyzing complex assemblies. Enhancements to NX Nastran include improvements in nonlinear and dynamic analysis, as well as increases in computational performance and modeling ease-of-use. Siemens PLM says the functionality in NX CAE helps reduce the time spent preparing and solving analysis models by up to 70% when compared to traditional CAE tools.
Other simulation and analysis enhancements include:
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Enhancements to the NX 8 manufacturing capabilities include new or extended functionality focused on both machinery and tooling design, such as optimized NC programming for machinery and heavy equipment part production, along with improvements that combine tooling design automation with CAE-based validation tools.
NX CAM enhancements for machinery and heavy equipment extends existing CAD/CAM, programming automation, and integrated machine tool simulation capabilities with new automated, context-specific functions to simplify the generation of smart tool paths for prismatic parts. Siemens says its new volume-based 2.5D milling operations provide faster programming, automatic tracking of uncut material across multi-stage machining processes, and programming automation for multi-part setups.
Enhancements in product design include:
- New “part modules” technology which simplifies modeling and editing of complex designs by allowing users to subdivide designs into functional elements that support concurrent development by multiple designers
- Expanded HD3D and design validation tools provide enhanced interaction, more powerful reporting and enriched visual presentation of PLM information from more sources.
- Synchronous technology (direct editing) enhancements make it simpler and easier to modify models and handle a wider range of geometric modeling problems, while new capabilities have been added for feature-based modeling, sheet metal, patterning, freeform design, routed systems, visualization, and more.
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See also the recent GraphicSpeak article, “Siemens PLM Software sees HD-PLM as design evolution milestone.”


So Im making a sort of modification station for guns. Is their a way for me to take the old gun copy all its values and appearances onto the new gun object. I made an alternate commonpistol. Id like to take in any commonpistol and turn it into this new type. How would I go about doing this? everything is set up besides the idea of getting the alternate commonpistol taking the appearance and some vars of the old common pistol.


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Apparently, the Tories failed to get an overall majority because they’re committed to austerity and the electorate wants to end it.
Surveys bear this out: 48 per cent say the government should raise taxes and spend more, while 44 per cent are happy for things to stay as they are. That leaves a meagre eight per cent for the undecided and those who’d like to see taxes and spending cut.
Here I have to disagree with those who claim that polls are worthless. This one provides two invaluable insights into the state of Britain, one primary, the other secondary.
The primary insight is that 92 per cent of the electorate are economically illiterate morons unfit to vote. The secondary one is that universal suffrage no longer works in a country where 92 per cent of the electorate are economically illiterate morons unfit to vote.
Allow me to elaborate in simple words even those 92 per cent have a sporting chance of understanding: It’s impossible to end austerity for the simple reason that IT NEVER BEGAN.
Austerity means spending less than you earn. This earth-shattering economic discovery was tersely expressed by Dickens’s Mr Micawber: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Now let’s start small and then extrapolate to a larger scale. What are the annual spending options of someone who nets £30,000 a year?
Spending less than £30,000 would spell austerity. And the further he goes below that sum, the more austere he gets.
Spending £40,000 a year would be madness. He’d have to borrow £10,000 every year to cover the difference. Add to this compounded interest, and before long bailiffs will come banging on his door.
But what about spending £33,000? Ten per cent more than he earns? Would that get him into the area of austerity? Of course not. It would still be madness, if slightly less severe than in the previous hypothetical case.
Now according to Adam Smith this homespun economics applies to the state: “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”
So how austere is our great kingdom? The answer is: exactly as ‘austere’ as my last hypothetical man who spends 10 per cent more than he earns. Our government does just that and, like him, it has to borrow the difference.
True, the government won’t receive a visit from a bailiff, but that doesn’t mean it can’t go bankrupt. It will, when it can no longer service the national debt. Ours currently stands at close to two trillion pounds, and it’s rushing towards that new threshold of misery at a rate of £5,170 per second.
Our hypothetical spendthrift would borrow from the bank or credit card companies, and he’d have to pay interest. A government borrows from the money markets, which too charge for that privilege. At the moment it takes HMG 10 per cent of its tax revenues to service its debt.
So where does austerity come in? If you have to ask that question, you aren’t in the 92 per cent. Moreover, you obtusely insist on using words in their real meaning, rather than the one assigned to them in the pernicious jargon of modern politics.
The way all political parties use the word, it doesn’t mean spending less than the government earns. It means continuing to spend more than the government earns, but at a slightly lower rate than before.
We’re now slightly less economically insane than under previous administrations, and the moronic 92 per cent want us to stay at least as insane as we are now, or preferably become more so.
As a result of tax-and-spend insanity, Britain is teetering on the edge of economic calamity, for all the bogus forecasts the government releases, with the words ‘smoke and mirrors’ springing to mind. We’re staying afloat, just, only because our current policies are marginally less insane than before.
A drastic increase in taxation and public spending can easily kick us into an abyss compared to which the 2008 crisis will seem like halcyon days. Our moronic 92 per cent don’t realise that. They think they’ll enjoy the spending while someone else will suffer the taxation.
In fact, extortionate taxes will ruin everybody: those in the high marginal rates directly; others indirectly – by destroying the economy.
In my book The Crisis Behind Our Crisis I describe the destructive mechanisms in quite some detail. Suffice it to say here that the ruinous effect of profligate tax-and-spend policies has been empirically proved in every country they were tried, including Britain.
The pattern recurred over and over again: a Tory government would leave the economy in decent shape by trying to reign in the insanity. Then a Labour government would come in and wreak havoc in a few months or at most years.
Now the situation is much worse. If you look at their economic policies, the Tories are effectively Labour, and Corbyn’s Labour are effectively communist. That means the Tories are running the economy into the ground, while Labour are digging the grave in which they’ll bury it.
Already under Brown the Exchequer went further than even leftwing orthodoxy demanded. Having inherited a reasonably healthy economy from the Tories, they remained almost sane for the first three years.
An economic boom ensued (how real is a different story), but then the Labour economy gurus Brown, Balls and Miliband confounded even the Keynesian rule that a government needs to run a surplus at boom time. Instead those subversive chaps started borrowing at three per cent of GDP, the maximum allowed under EU rules.
That had nothing to do with economics – modern politics only pretends to be about that. Modern politics is solely about politics, which is to say staying in power by any means, no matter how criminally destructive.
Given an electorate utterly corrupted by the culture of something for nothing (otherwise known as the welfare state), that means issuing any promises politicians can’t keep, nor even intend to.
The most calamitous effect of such politics isn’t economic, bad as it is. It’s moral and intellectual: that’s how 92 per cent of the electorate have got to be illiterate morons.
All it took was for a sinister figure like Corbyn to appear on the scene for them to rise in revolt against what’s mendaciously called austerity. They want the state to extort even more money from those who earned it and transfer it to those who didn’t.
Bizarrely the desired recipients of government largesse don’t even include pensioners, those who worked for decades hoping to provide for their old age. They can starve for all the 92 per cent care. The extra money must instead be pumped into the pockets of parasites who haven’t done a day’s work in their lives.
Oh yes, we must also spend more on the NHS, education and just about everything else, you name it. None of this has anything to do with reality; none of it is sane. It’s wicked politicians exploiting the mass idiocy they themselves have fostered for their own nefarious ends.
Mr Micawber, where are you when we need you?

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Leupp Solar Power Information & Peak Sun Hours
Solar Green Energy Summary for Leupp, Arizona
Fixed Tilt Sunlight Hours: 6 hours per day
1-Axis Tilt Sunlight Hours: 8 hours per day
2-Axis Tilt Sunlight Hours: 9 hours per day
Peak sun hours is arguably the most important number to consider before installing your solar panels. Unlike total sun hours, peak sun hours are calculated by looking at the amount of sunlight hours in a 24 hour period that is strong enough to be absorb by a solar panel. One way to imagine peak sun hours is to think about a solar powered calculator you owned in school. If you covered the solar panel with your finger, or tried to use the calculator in the dark, the calculator would not work. As you slowly exposed the calculator to light the calculator would eventually turn on and be usable. The same is true with peak sun hours; these are the hours that your solar panels receive enough sunlight to work. Looking at the average peak sunlight hours of 6 per day can help you determine the amount of solar panels you need to install to power your home or business in Leupp, Arizona.
Your latitude is an indicator of when the sunrises and sunsets and certain times of the year. If you live near the equator with a latitude of near zero, the sun will rise and set close to the same time all year resulting in consistent total sunlight hours per day. If you live near the poles, the time of sunrise and sunset will vary dramatically with each season, resulting in long days for part of the year and very short days at other times. So, locations closer to the equator will have more consistent amounts of peak sun hours throughout the year than locations closer to the poles.
They type of solar panel you use has an affect on the average peak sunlight hours. Some panels allow for movement, so they can track the sun as it rises in the east and sets in the west, or as the seasons change and the sun's path changes. A fixed panel remains fixed and does not have the ability to rotate, whereas a 1-axis and 2-axis panel can adjust with the sun.
The sun is a great ball of gas that rises and sets every day that the earth rotates while in orbit around the sun. Barring any major disasters this is a very predictable occurance every day. Latitude helps predict this even more, narrowing it down to the minute for sunrise and sunset. But some things aren’t as predictable that will greatly influence the efficiency of solar panels. Weather and cloud coverage for example can greatly diminish peak sun hours on any given day. Thick storm clouds will block a high percentage of the sun's rays, resulting in lower output of your solar panels. Weather needs to be factored into deciding when to use your system, or how much output one expects to get.
We can take the latitude of Leupp and use that number to know the amount of total sunlight hours in the region from sunlight to sunset and estimate that with a fixed solar panel, Leupp will receive 6 average peak sun hours per day. This number can be increased to 8 hours by using a 1-axis tracking mount, or 9 hours from a 2-axis tracking mount.


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I still think that one of the best things that God ever did to allow me a better understand of his heart was to allow me to be a mother. God loves us and is hopeful that we will choose good things.
Sometimes I give my kids a directive. And I let them go. I see the child that may not be doing what I asked. And perhaps I don’t say something right away. Then I have another child telling me about the non-obeying child. I tell them ok. I don’t need to explain myself, I’m mom. And then I watch the actions of the non-obeying child break down the attitude of the obeying child who told me what they saw and expected me to act instantly. It saddens my heart.
I never tell the children “no tattling”. That has bothered me since I was a child. You are basically leaving a child feeling powerless against wrongs and sending them back to play with. I do tell my children to come to me. And then I tell them to trust me to handle it. There have been many times that they don’t feel that I am acting quick enough or hard enough. But there are many times that I can see something that they don’t.
This is how God sees us at a much, much greater level. He sees his children doing good. He sees his children doing bad. He tells us to come to him and tell him the things that bother us. But then he tells us to TRUST him that he can handle things in the best way; with knowledge and understanding that we don’t have. And just as a child has difficulty when their sibling is doing wrong and not immediately punished; we, as adults, have difficulty when we don’t have a front row seat to watch God handle someone else.
The Bible is very clear. God is the one whose job is to handle the wrong things. Our job is to love one another. Our job is not to be doormats. Our job is to be prudent, watchful, compassionate, set boundaries, and first and foremost to love one another.
Tonight I am thankful that the blog that I started to write is not the blog that I wrote. I want to whine a little. I want to bring people to light who are choosing petty paths and twisting facts. But, that isn’t my place. And that isn’t my job. So I will pray for them. And I will pray for forgiveness on my first reaction here. My job is to love. My job is to love with compassion and wisdom. I can do that . . . with God’s help I can do that.

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Did You Know?
- Texans have a lower life expectancy and live in poorer health than the rest of the nation.
- Black and Hispanic adults in Texas have higher rates of obesity and diabetes than white Texans.
- Black infants in Texas have a higher mortality – twice that of other races.
- Black women in Texas have a four times higher rate of pregnancy-related mortality than Hispanic women, and two times higher than white women.
- White Texans have higher rates of cancer and depression.
- In 2018, Texas had the highest cost burden attributable to health disparities in the nation – $460 billion for racial and ethnic health disparities and $70 billion for education-related health disparities.
These interactive maps help us understand and compare disparities across Bexar County:
- The City of San Antonio Office of Equity maintains an Equity Atlas.
- CI:Now maintains the Bexar Data Dive.
Taking Action for Health Equity
University Health is committed to identifying root causes of health disparities and implementing evidence-informed solutions to advance health equity and improve health outcomes.
Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health regardless of:
- Gender identity or expression
- Sexual orientation
- Socioeconomic status
- Geographic location
Health disparities aren’t easy to solve. But understanding where disparities exist and connecting people to resources are steps University Health is taking to improve health for everyone.
In March 2024, University Health adopted a Health Equity through Action and Leadership (HEAL) Strategic plan [PDF] with five domains and priorities for 2024. The domains include:
- Advance Health Equity as a Strategic Priority
- Enhance Infrastructure to Support Health Equity Initiatives
- Identify Health Disparities
- Implement Evidence-Informed Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities
- Partner with the Community to Advance Health Equity

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Regardless of which diet program you find yourself deciding upon, remaining mindful of the meals you are consuming is often a have to. Although this does not seem also tough, it can really be pretty simple to lose track of the quantity of energy you've eaten in a working day, which include treats and drinks. This is why, it truly is smart to start-up a foods diary while you can enter everything you've eaten into it, even when it was actually small. When you try this for even a handful of weeks, you may likely be amazed in the slightest degree the extras that slip in. Although you suspect that you will be being on course together with your food plan, you may not be counting each very last matter you take in. You can keep on with any diet regime, or not less than find out if you're cheating, by using a foods journal.
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Vegetarian and vegan diet plans are advisable by numerous experts in excess weight loss and health. Items derived from animals can not be eaten on the vegan diet, but on the vegetarian diet regime it is possible to consume things such as dairy and eggs, just no meat. Both sides of the argument pertaining to and that is much healthier among vegan diets and vegetarian meal plans is usually discovered in numerous publications, sites and articles or blog posts. While you will discover persons who do well on these kinds of meal plans, others don't. You continue to have to watch out with the calorie and carbohydrate consumption on this kind of food plan. You'll be able to prevent taking in meat one example is but nonetheless try to eat a load of sweets, pasta and bread would not be of use to you when trying to get rid of some fat. Receiving inside of a good amount of fruit and veggies is required for equally meat eaters and vegetarians alike, but other resources of protein have to be found for vegetarians.

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Is MTV's 'Skins' Straddling Child Pornography Laws?
By Kiki Von Glinow Posted Jan 20th 2011 09:20PM
But American teens better TiVo the first two episodes before network execs force producers to tone down the heavy petting and nudity. The show has been labeled by some -- including The New York Times -- as a flagrant display of child pornography.
Featuring scenes that simulate masturbation, sex and drug use, it sounds like just another day at the 'Jersey Shore.' But MTV's other scandal-saturated reality shows all feature actors/reality stars who are at least 18 years old. 'Skins' boasts a bevy of fresh-faced actors, some as young as 15.
Check out the full series premiere episode ... after the jump!
The third episode, set to debut on Jan. 31, follows Chris, played by Jesse Carere, who, after experimenting with erectile dysfunction pills, runs down the street naked, exposing his 17-year-old bum. The episode spawned a vehement reaction from the Parents Television Council, who called the show the "most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children." Now it's set to be toned down before it airs.
'Skins' carries a rating of TV-MA (meant for those above 17 years old) and scored killer ratings with its premiere episode, but the Times cites analysts saying at least 1 million of the new 'Skins' enthusiast viewers were under 17.
With allegations of violating child pornography statutes, it seems as though the notoriously envelope-pushing network will not be able to keep up with the show's original plot lines (the premiere American episode was almost identical to its British original) that British audiences enjoyed. The U.K. is famously more accepting of televised eroticism.
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Appeals & Response Plans
Most read reports
- AFD: Sexual health in West Africa: AFD and KfW, a power couple. 19 Oct 2019
- NRC: On-the-record update: Crisis in central and northern Mali. 10 Jul 2019
- IOM: Mali: Flow Monitoring Report - Dashboard No. 44 (Reporting period: 1 to 30 September 2019). 17 Oct 2019
- IPS: Displaced by the Desert: An expanding Sahara leaves Broken Families and Violence in its Wake. 18 Oct 2019
- AFD: Transition démographique et santé sexuelle en Afrique de l’Ouest : AFD et KfW, un couple qui marche. 19 Oct 2019
The Sahel region is the perfect illustration of the interdependent link between climate change, security and sustainable development, said, Sunday in New York, minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita.
In a speech on the occasion of the holding of a consultative meeting of the Climate Commission for the Sahel region at UN headquarters, Bourita stressed that "the Sahel region, like the African continent, is unduly and disproportionately affected by the consequences of global warming to which it contributes almost nothing".
Our analysis shows that millions of ‘people caught in crisis’ - people living in conflict, and/or who are displaced within their own countries or across borders – are in fact being left behind. Failure to take action now means that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be met, undermining the credibility of the international community and leaving millions to die unnecessarily.
By Issa Sikiti da Silva
This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17.
DAKAR, Senegal, Jun 11 2018 (IPS) - Hope, smiles and new vitality seem to be returning slowly but surely in various parts of the Sahel region, where the mighty Sahara Desert has all but ‘eaten’ and degraded huge parts of landscapes, destroying livelihoods and subjecting many communities to extreme poverty.
By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP
Since its inception, the Adaptation Fund has provided critical support for climate resilient development strategies across the globe. Working through agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), governments across the globe have accessed Adaptation Fund finance to reduce climate change risks and build more climate resilient nations.
The El Niño 2015-16 in the Context of Past El Niños
The 2015/16 El Niño Event
An El Niño event was officially declared in March 2015, gaining in intensity until it reached its peak in December 2015. The event came to an end in May 2016, becoming one the strongest on record, together with the El Niños of 1982-83 and 1997-98.
The IASC Alert, Early Warning and Readiness report is produced bi-annually as an inter-agency effort by the Task Team on Preparedness and Resilience (TTPR) for IASC member agencies. The report highlights serious risks that were either identified as being of particular strategic operational concern or as having a high probability and impact on humanitarian needs. In addition to collaboratively assembling the report, the report includes an analysis of the state of readiness, prepared by OCHA, which is compared against each risk.
Snapshot 13-19 August
Yemen: The 9 August Al Jawf ceasefire has been broken. Access to people affected by the conflict in Al Jawf is extremely limited due to persistent insecurity, and it is very difficult to obtain information. Almost 3,000 people have died in violence since the National Dialogue Conference took place on 25 January.
Snapshot 16–22 July
oPT: 583 have been reported killed and over 100,000 displaced since Operation Protective Edge began on 8 July. There are urgent needs for essential drugs, shelter, water, and food assistance in the Gaza Strip, requiring greater humanitarian space.
Snapshot 16–23 April
Central African Republic: Renewed clashes between anti-balaka and Seleka fighters occurred in several locations in central, northern, and southwestern provinces. MISCA soldiers are being redeployed to cover areas previously secured by the Chadian contingent. A Christian religious leader was killed and four were abducted in two northern towns, while 30 Christian civilians were reportedly killed in a central town.
Syria: Violence is intensifying in Damascus, with increased attacks from both the Government and the opposition. In Aleppo, fighting between Syrian troops and opposition fighters is causing further casualties. In the east, infighting between rival opposition factions has led to a reinforcement of Iraqi troops’ positions on the Iraqi side of the border. To date, over nine million people are in need of assistance, and more than 2.6 million have fled the country. In early April, humanitarian assistance was allowed in besieged areas in Aleppo for the first time since June.
Researchers collaborate with health officials to plan vaccination campaigns after discovering how to predict seasonal outbreaks.
Read the full report on the Guardian.
Halting land degradation in Niger helps to tackle African desertification
18 July 2013, Kouloumboutey, Niger – When village people and local authorities in southern Niger won back over one hundred hectares of degraded land, they added one extra piece to a mosaic being laid across the Sahel and the Sahara aimed at tackling desertification and land degradation.
Ibrahim Dan Ladi, a 47-year-old farmer from southern Niger, remembers that his village of Kouloumboutey used to be surrounded by thick forest.
16 April 2013 – Stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, a United Nations-backed programme dubbed the ‘Great Green Wall’ brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the Sahara desert with a swathe of greenery, lessen the effects of desertification and improve the lives and livelihoods of communities.
Special Topic: Disaster Reduction in Africa - UNISDR Informs: Special Issue on Drought Risk Reduction 2012
Knowledge Resources and Networking Opportunities
Event and Training Opportunities
AADP publications Information
Useful Links on Drought Status Updates

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Mpower expands in Bengaluru with the launch of Mpower – The Centre in Indira Nagar
Spearheaded by Mrs. Neerja Birla, Mpower – The Centre will provide a host of best-in-class mental healthcare services
Bengaluru, January 20, 2019: Mpower, a pioneer in Indian mental healthcare from The Aditya Birla Education Trust, in its quest to create awareness and alleviate stigma around mental health illnesses, launched Mpower – The Centre in Indira Nagar, Bengaluru on 20th January 2019. This marks Mpower’s entry into Bengaluru with an aim to provide holistic mental health care solutions to children, adolescents, young people and their families.
The Centre will be led by Dr. Vinod Kumar, a senior psychiatrist based in Bengaluru. He has trained extensively in the UK and has qualifications and skills in various psychotherapeutic modalities. He has trained and worked in the National Health Service (UK), and has completed specialist training in MRCPsych at the Royal College of Psychiatry endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry and Eating Disorders. He has also acquired qualifications in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy.
The Centre will provide top-class services in psychiatric consultation, psycho-educational testing, counselling & psychotherapy, behavior therapy, family therapy, early intervention services, workshops & trainings, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy and special education/remedial services provided by expert mental health care professionals.
Mpower was born to be the Movement to affect change; to promote mental health and well-being in the most holistic manner conceivable. Mpower- The Centre was launched in May 2016 in Mumbai and offers counselling for individuals, couples, families and also provides psychiatric consultation. Mpower also recently launched Mpower – The Foundation that provides quality mental health care at lower rates to all individuals regardless of their socio-economic status. Since its launch in 2016, the movement has touched close to 11 million individuals and encouraged everyone to be a champion of mental health.
Commenting on the upcoming launch of Mpower- The Centre in Bengaluru, Mrs. Neerja Birla, Founder and Chairperson, Mpower, said, "When we first launched Mpower, we had a big mission and a small team. Step by step, we have been making steady and tangible progress, and the launch of the centre in Bengaluru is the next momentous milestone in our journey. The success of the Mpower movement rests on the shoulders of its dedicated team and I look forward to welcoming and working alongside the community of mental health professionals in Bengaluru. Together, I'm sure that we will be able to broaden our impact and make sustainable progress towards our ultimate goal of normalising mental health and making mental health care more accessible. I know that through our collaborative efforts, we will be able to ensure that people value their mental health as much as their physical health and are able to get the support and care they need."
Dr. Vinod Kumar, Head Psychiatrist, Mpower- The Centre in Bengaluru, said, “I’m excited be a part of the Mpower team and head The Centre in Bengaluru. Mpower has pioneered mental healthcare through the best in class services that it provides along with the numerous initiatives under Mpower – the Movement to initiate conversation around this ‘taboo’ subject. Our Centre here in Bengaluru Centre will adopt a motivated multi-disciplinary team, providing international standards of mental health care services for all age groups. Our priority is to understand the uniqueness of each individual and therefore services are customized to suit the individual’s need.”
The National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) released in 2016 states that nearly 150-million Indians suffer from some form of mental health issue and that only about 30 million seek help. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 76-85% people in low-and-middle-income countries receive no treatment for their mental health disorders either because they don’t speak up due to the stigma and lack of awareness about mental illness or because of the lack of access to professionals and to expensive treatment costs. With the certificate issued by the IRDAI on mental health now included under health insurance, conversations about mental health are on the rise. Now, more than ever, the need to sensitize our country is increasing. Mpower has been spearheading the movement to affect change in the society and encourage people to talk more about mental health.
The brainchild of Mrs. Neerja Birla, Mpower since its inception almost 3 years ago, has been at the forefront to affect change and proactively champion the cause of mental health, create awareness, advocate prevention and provide services with a professional, holistic and multi-disciplinary approach in the country.

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Wellington, March 17, 2018
A New Zealand Parliamentary delegation will learn more about the American political system next week during an eight-day exchange programme, Speaker Trevor Mallard has said.
The delegation comprises young Members of Parliament Chris Bishop, Tamati Coffey, Andrew Falloon, Erica Stanford, Chloe Swarbrick and Talani Meikle.
They will visit San Francisco, Sacramento, and Washington DC.
The exchange programme, from March 17 to March 25, 2018, is being coordinated and sponsored by the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL).
“The exchange provides an important opportunity for the delegates to gain more understanding of the democratic processes at both federal and state level in the United States,” he said.
Mr Mallard recounted his experience with the ACYPL in 1988 when he observed the 1988 George Bush (Republican)-Michael Dukakis (Democratic) election campaign, saying that ‘it was an invaluable experience.’
“I learnt more about the American electoral system and campaign techniques and made several contacts,” he said.
The last New Zealand delegation went to the USA in 2015.
An American delegation, mostly from state legislatures, visited New Zealand in 2016.
New Zealand Parliament Press Release


Perhaps the title of this post is misleading. Rematriation hasn’t yet been a widely discussed topic as related to Borikén. This is a revisiting of the term to lift/ open/ deepen/ broaden/ promote a necessary dialogue on what Rematriation means for Borikén and her sister islands.
The entity that two empires have called Puerto Rico is in crisis. A perpetual colonial crisis specifically designed to bring Pedro Albizu Campos’ prophecy to life. The US wants the birdcage, but not the bird. We have been miseducated to view all through a US lens, covet colonizer amenities. The colonizer continues its campaigns denouncing our homelands as uninhabitable, while simultaneously coveting our lands, buying up the schools they closed and our national landmarks to develop them into hotels. The rusting centrales spread across the island stand as deteriorating testament to the colonial destruction of our economy. Transformed from a diverse agricultural economy to a single colonial cash crop later abandoned. Colony held captive mostly consuming costly cabotage food imports. It is hard. It is real. It can be a nightmare to her children. But it continues as colonial playground to the colonizer. It is a crisis. A spinning wheel. The more we fear our homeland and deem it unlivable, the more we flee, stay away, the more space we leave for settlers. Many say we cannot sustain ourselves here, yet many of us are not able to sustain ourselves stateside either. Why aren’t we talking more about this?
Mainstream media focuses on the hoards of people that have flown the coop throughout the twentieth century, and from the 2008 fiscal crisis to the 2017 hurricane season. There is little focus on those returning. This brings us back to rematriation. What does that mean? What is the return?
The return comes in so many forms. Return for so many who have left then decided to turn back. Return for those of us taken as children who chose to return. Return for those who left to study, to work, then came back. Return for those fleeing climate change but finding the other side impossible just the same. Return for those like me who had never even lived here, weren’t even born here but “came back.”
Rematriation was never meant to be a vacation. It is hard work. It is sacrifice, growth: rebirth. Since my 2014 rematriation, the land has revealed herself as the womb. Though born and raised in Brooklyn, this is my womb. She held my mother and all my grandmothers. My maternal abuelas were midwives. Perhaps their ancestral wisdom whispered this knowing into my blood. I returned. Even when my mother was taken from here at the age of one, by her own mother, the egg that would be a future me was already in my mother’s womb. That egg was planted when my mother was developing in my abuela’s womb in Ponce. I returned to my ancestral womb. My mother returned to her womb. Borikén is that womb.
Rematriation as defined by First Nation people of Turtle Island, is a return to the sacred mother, the sacred ancestral lands, imbuing the land once again with the sacred elements that conquest attempted to rob from it.
The return to Borikén is the return to the sacred womb. The return to the ancestral homeland. The honoring of the sacred land. It is taking up our rightful place and space after being evicted by colonialism, only to be evicted stateside again. It is searching deep within for all the ways we were taught to fear this place, fear our own selves. All the ways they preach God in their image and have us measuring the success of our homeland by how well it mimics the colonizer and his ways.
Every rematriation journey however needs to be tailored to one’s own spirit journey. Some arrive to return to the land, work the land towards food sovereignty. Some arrive to raise our ancestral healing traditions and contribute to the collective healing of our people. Some arrive to preserve, celebrate and spread our ancestral traditions. Some arrive to directly fight the empire. But every way in which we preserve these lands, these traditions, our own selves, through genocide, through conquest and continued colonialism, contributes to the decolonial process. Rematriation is a liberatory process. It is dissolving the colonial relationship, eliminating the empire and its influence. Unlearning the miseducation of self-loath. Undoing the erasure of our ancestral legacies. It is embracing and celebrating our authentic essence. It is untying the rope of the oppressor to embrace our greater Caribbean essence of Indigenous and African Diasporas. And it is a process that can happen wherever the children of these lands and their Diasporas find themselves. It is not a matter of packing your maletas and moving overnight. Nor is it a matter to be ignored and omitted from decolonial discussions. It ain’t gotta be you right now or ever, but perhaps you can support someone in their return. Rematriation is a crucial part of an unfolding liberation process, practice, and praxis.
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I spotted the place because of the decoration they have outside of the restaurant. Like the Japanese lanterns and stuff.
It immediately caught my attention and I saw it was an **All You Can Eat** restaurant!
And the prices were really inexpensive that day, for they had just opened that week!
Spontaneously I went to eat there without even knowing if the food was good. But hey! It's sushi!!! And I will tell yaa, it was pretty good! I can even compare it to restaurant "Sumo" and ShabuShabu". Those are two well known sushi restaurants here in Holland.
The restaurant also looked pretty nice! I even saw a old college from the restaurant I used to work for. She just started working there. So that was another coincidence. Or it just was meant to be that I saw that restaurant precisely that day and her O_O. ... Let's proceed.....to pictures!
The green tea they also serve at Kyoto Cafe (also a sushi restaurant, situated in The Hague and Amsterdam).
The environment was pretty nice and decent. You can also sit beside the window and enjoy the view outside. Not that there is a lot to see for except walking people and the shopping center.
Salmon nigiri with cheese.
Trying out all kinds of maki. （人´∀`*）
Wakame salade which I always enjoy eating.
Looks good, doesn't it?
Some ebi tempura.
Yeah, the food was good. Definitely will eat there some other time. That is when the times comes that I will go to Zoetermeer again.. I recommend this place if you want to eat something a bit similar to "Sumo" or "ShabuShabu", but yet want to eat somewhat different.
Thanks for reading and hope you got really hungry from this post THEEHEE! (*≧艸≦) BYE!


Bridging the Gap in Grasp Quality Evaluation and Grasp Planning
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Robot grasp planning has been extensively studied in the last decades often consisting of two different stages determining where to grasp an object and measuring the quality of a tentative grasp. Additionally, because these two processes are computationally demanding, form closure grasps are more widely used in practice than force closure grasps, even though the latter is, in many cases, preferable. In this dissertation, we introduce our framework to improve grasp quality evaluation by increasing the speed of evaluating a grasp and developing more informative metrics. Specifically, we accelerate the computation of the grasp wrench space, used to measure the grasp quality, by exploiting some geometric insights in the computation of a convex hull through identifying a cutoff sequence to terminate the convex hull calculation with guaranteed convergence to the quality measure. Furthermore, we go into detail about the metric improvement for the grasp quality. Specifically, we study how noise at each joint of the manipulator affects grasp quality and how different arm configurations will generate different noise distributions at the end-effector, which has a huge impact in the robustness of grasping. Moreover, we illustrate our method that evaluates arm configurations based on the probability of achieving a force closure grasp. Then we introduce our work taking into account the hand structure and the local geometry of the object to be grasped as the second aspect for improving grasp quality metrics. In particular, for concave objects, we exploit the fact that grasping the concave region can make the grasp more robust. These insights are explored through theory and then validated on an experimental platform. Finally, we present three grasp planners we developed. We constructed two planners taking advantage of the negative curvature feature. The first the planner uses the geometry model of the object and constructs a database for online use. The second planner does not require the model but instead, detects negative curvature features on the fly and calculates candidate grasps in real time. Lastly, our third grasp planner searches through the objects' surface, represented as a triangular mesh, and tries to find the global optimal grasp.


Previously seen opening for punk rock band The Distillers, Starcrawler recently came through town headlining their own tour. As fans of all ages excitedly awaited the band, there was a lot of buzz going around about their set last May. “Such incredible, raw energy!” and “Did you see her choke herself with the mic?!” were just a few of the things I heard while waiting for these young juggernauts to take the stage.
Starcrawler gained many new fans at their performance last May, but this show was nice in that everyone at the show was there for them and had some knowledge of their music and stage presence going into the show. The band played with a wildly contagious and nonstop energy, and the great chemistry between singer Arrow de Wilde and guitarist Henri Cash kept everyone engaged…at least mentally. Cash at one point said to the crowd “this isn’t a standing contest,” which eventually got the stationary crowd to weakly attempt to match the amount of energy that was pouring off the stage. Much like a powerful Category 5 hurricane, this band is unmatched and a force to be reckoned with.
Starcrawler not only puts on a great show, but they have the musical prowess to back it up. To be honest, they restore my faith that rock and roll is not dead to younger generations and that perhaps the best is yet to come!
Photos and review by Abby Walter


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The Tony Award winning musical Rent is coming to Walton Auditorium May 18 and 19, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. Theater students have been practicing for this performance since March and are excited to entertain audiences both nights.
“In times of uncertainty and varying levels of hopelessness in the world, as a director I feel the need to express my absolute gratitude to this production team,” said Director Mo West. “For their willingness to boldly transmit their individual and collective messages of love, resilience, and hope with this work. This marks the end of a season designed to address social issues for which members of arts communities have used their voices and gifts as platforms.”
Twenty years after making its Broadway debut Jonathan Larson’s Rent continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences of all ages. The show follows seven struggling artists over the course of an entire year trying to follow their dreams, without selling out. The musical reminds audiences to measure life using the only scale that truly matters—love.
George School’s performance of Rent stars Christian Brodbeck ’18 as Mark, Eric Ruziskey ’20 as Roger, Elliot Landor ’18 as Benny, Julia Smith ’18 as Mimi, Ike Osenberg ’19 as Collins, Sean Whalen ’21 as Angel, Kat Stein ’18 as Joanne, Kayla McDow ’20 as Maureen, Penzi Hill ’20 as Alexi Darling, Thomas Zeng ’19 as Paul, and Daniel Ortiz ’21 as Gordon. Members of the company include Kelly Banfield ’20, Julia Carrigan ’20, Maggie Popkin ’20, Kira Barich ’21, Georgia Creager ’18, Hana Sparks-Woodford ’20, Will Buxton ’21, Cooper Feiner ’20, Sidney Walters ’19, Abby Byrtus ’20, and Katie Kendrick ’20.
The show’s student production team includes Stage Manager Raven Zhan ’20, Student Directors Sophia Guo ’18, and Susan Robinson-Cloete ’20, Projection Designer Brooke Angle ’18, and Sound Designer Zach Wander ’18.
The orchestra will also perform during musical numbers.
Both performances are free and open to the public.


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Dina Shpungin. Catch And Release, 2007, Video
Usually I just skip the video stuff when I am in a museum. The day I went to the Nash Gallery should have been no different. In fact I was in a hurry and had not even gotten this assignment yet. So I really intended to just look at the ‘pretty pictures’, and be on my way. But when I entered one of the rooms in the Enchanted Exhibition I saw a woman kissing a frog!
This of course was the most interesting ‘video stuff’ I have ever seen in a museum and I just had to write about it. Dina Spungin’s Catch And Release video shows a woman by a pond at night in a billowy nightgown. The woman goes to the pond and grabs a large frog out of the water; she then takes a colored magic marker and colors the frogs white underbelly. She turns the frog over and kisses him and throws it back into the water. She goes back to the pond, catches another frog and does the same thing using a different colored magic marker. The whole video goes through about five or six different frogs. What the hell is going on here?
Because I was struck with how bizarre this video was, it took me a couple of frogs to pick up on the whole ‘kissing a frog to get your prince’ connection. I think the coloring with magic marker on the frog’s bellies confused me. I later read the description of this work and it did mention that the coloring links to finding the frog again or prince. The description also noted that the girl had many tattoos and the artist made a link to her tattoos and coloring the frogs. But I don’t find these links important to why I was pulled into this video.
I was attracted to this video because it was so weird. I thought look at this feminine girl kissing a slimy frog, and she does not seem one bit disgusted. Then she draws in marker on his belly. This made me think ‘poor frog that can’t be healthy for him, does PETA know about this? These thoughts are what made me stay and watch the video until the end and until I finally got the charming prince connection.


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Part of the primary thesis of yesterday's post is that Fox, while seemingly completely in their rights to claim ownership of the distribution rights to Watchmen, should have said something much earlier. Like, when Warner Bros. first announced that they were making Watchmen, Fox should have said, "Um. No."
Well, as it turns out, they did. Not only was the lawsuit under discussion filed in February, but indications are that Fox did, in fact, speak up when WB first announced their intentions to make the Watchmen film. Essentially the conversation went like this.
WB: We're making Watchmen!
Fox: Hold on, we own that. You need to pay the buy-out price.
WB: You don't own it. Go screw.
Fox: Seriously, we'll take it to court.
WB: Try it, we dare you.
Court: Yeah, they own it.
Fox isn't completely off the dick-eating hook here as a studio; they deserve to choke on Dick Mountain for their treatment of Firefly alone. But they're off the hook somewhat for their actions re: Watchmen, since it looks like they did what we the whingers said they should have done. WB should definitely have done their homework a little better on this one.


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(PresidentialInsider.com)- The Senate’s two-week July 4th recess ended over the weekend and Monday Senators returned to Washington to fight against the clock to jam through Biden’s spending plans before the August recess begins.
Opening the session on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that progress was underway in writing the $1.2 Trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan as well as the partisan “everything Democrats want is infrastructure” infrastructure plan.
And on Tuesday, Senate Democrats announced that they had arrived at a staggering $3.5 Trillion price tag for the partisan reconciliation proposal.
On the Republican side of the aisle, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising “a hell of a fight” against tax increases.
Really? That’s all they’re going to fight over? Not a $3.5 Trillion boondoggle Democrats plan to pass using Budget Reconciliation that funds “human infrastructure” instead of actual infrastructure?
Schumer vows that if both bills pass, “the benefits will reverberate across the country for generations to come.”
Well, something will reverberate across the country for generations to come, but none of it will be beneficial.
As it is inflation continues to rise and economists warn that more massive spending by Congress will only increase and prolong it inflation far beyond the “transitory” stage.
Consumer prices are on the rise – so much so that any wage increases amount to nothing.
But Congressional Democrats don’t seem to care.
It’s as if they know they’ll be out of power in less than two years and want to ram through as much garbage as possible before their time runs out.
But Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi seem to forget that their majority is barely that. Democrats hold the House by the smallest majority in decades. The Senate is split 50/50.
And the Democrats want to force through a partisan bill with zero Republican support that has a price tag of $3.5 Trillion. Is it any wonder that some moderate Democrats are getting skittish about losing in 2022?
And as our national debt explodes, Congress will also have to debate raising the limit on US borrowing authority which is set to expire at the end of July.
Maybe the Senate should’ve just stayed on recess.


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Implementation of new regional DAB+ networks in full swing
05.08.2022 - Netherlands
Broadcast Partners is currently busy converting the existing supra-regional DAB+ networks to the new format. After the first channels in Friesland and The Hague were converted to the new channel last week, changes have already been made in Overijssel, Groningen, Noord-Brabant and Zeeland. The new network consists of seven allotments, which collectively have national coverage and better meet the needs of the regional public and commercial radio stations.
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Erected by one man with an axe, Kizhi’s churches and bell towers have survived centuries of harsh weather, and World War II
More than 180,000 people come every year to see these churches on a tiny island in the Republic of Karelia in northern Russia.
Here are seven reasons why you should, too:
- The wooden architecture on Kizhi Island is considered one of the wonders of the world and is included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
- Legend has it that the architectural ensemble on Kizhi Island (situated in Lake Onega, 764 kilometers north of Moscow) — two churches and a bell-tower built in 18th-19th centuries — was constructed by one man, a carpenter named Nestor. According to the legend, the only tool he used was his axe and he did not employ a single nail. When the construction was finished in 1714, Nestor threw his axe in the lake so that nobody could repeat his masterpiece. There are, in fact, nails in these wooden buildings, but they were used only to attach decorative wooden panels to the slopes and not in the original construction.
- In World War II, a Finnish pilot flying over the area was in such awe of the unusual architecture of the wooden churches that he refused to obey an order to bomb Kizhi Island.
- The Assumption Cathedral in the Karelian town of Kem’ (1,105 kilometers from Moscow) is built from logs so thick that no human being could ever wrap their arms around them.
- Kizhi’s Church of the Transfiguration is currently undergoing restoration. The church is being lifted by a special construction device and is literally hanging in the air.
- The skilled carpentry of the Russian North is a disappearing art.
- In contrast to European architecture, Russian wooden churches are built with boards that lie horizontally, not vertically. It is considered to be one of the main secrets of the churches in northern Russia.
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Jamie Foxx is a multi-talented entertainer who has made a name for himself in music, film, and television. He was born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. He began playing piano at the age of five and later attended United States International University on a classical piano scholarship. However, his true passion was comedy, and he began performing at open mic nights in Los Angeles.
Foxx‘s big break came in 1991 when he was cast in the sketch comedy series, “In Living Color.” He quickly became a fan favorite and was known for his impressions of celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby. Foxx’s career took off from there, and he went on to star in numerous films and TV shows, including “Ray,” for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Foxx has also won Grammy Awards for his music and has released several successful albums. With his impressive talent and charisma, Jamie Foxx has become one of the most beloved and respected entertainers of our time.
However, what many people may not know is that he is also a successful entrepreneur who has ventured into various business ventures over the years. Here, we take a look at four businesses owned by Jamie Foxx:

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The Miki Pulley brake opens and allows for free rotation during robot arm movements and snaps closed when power is disengaged thus halting position of the arm. When the robot arm is in position for long periods of time, the brake consumes no voltage. The brake’s internal compression springs mechanically hold the armature plate against the rotor disc, ensuring no movement. When voltage is re-applied, the brake opens and allows for free movement.
These Miki Pulley brakes are a cost-effective safety device for all robot holding arms, joints including cobot systems. They are a positive “halt and hold” device to mitigate potential mechanical damage to an automated system.
An important operating feature: when compared to most other electric brakes, the unique Miki Pulley brake design is one-half the overall size thickness.
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Medi-Gas Check: Medical pipeline gas testing for safety and peace of mind
Bedfont® Technical Instruments Ltd (as it was originally called) was established in 1976 after an incident at a large London hospital, whereby a patient was incorrectly administered Nitrous Oxide instead of Oxygen. In wake of this, Bedfont® produced the TM3 Gas differentiator; a simple device which could differentiate between various medical gases like nitrous oxide, air and oxygen ensuring that there were no cross-connections between these gases and enhancing anti-confusion testing by largely engineers.
This range has developed over the years and now Bedfont’s entire Medi-gas Check range safeguards patients and staff in accordance with the requirements of UK Government Guidance in the form of the Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 02-01, and other relevant legislation.
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The G200 is a low level N2O atmospheric measurement device. It is a fully portable monitor and not only acts as a personal phentermine hydrochloride 37.5 mg for sale alarm, but will also calculate the time weighted average of an individual’s exposure to N2O. The G200 also acts as a leak detection device and will store up to 1,000 readings to be used for graphs and data analysis. The G200 is able to provide readings from 0-1,000ppm in less than 40 seconds and 0-10,000ppm in leak detection mode, safeguarding both health professionals and patients. This product is ideal for dental departments, anaesthetic departments, hospital theatres, as well as recovery, veterinary and X-ray departments.
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The hypocrisy of the left is on full display as they turn a blind eye to a similar border policy they once used to attack Trump. When the policy was actually enacted by their beloved Barack Obama. Here we are 10 years later, it’s a democrat administration and crickets.
The Biden administration is facing criticism for considering reinstating the family detention policy that they previously campaigned against. The return of migrant children in cages at the border is causing concern among Democrats, who were quick to condemn the same policy under the Trump administration. However, their silence on the issue now that Biden is in power is raising questions about their true motivations. Did lawmakers such as AOC who made a big deal out of the policy even care?
As the debate over family detention at the border heats up again, it’s important to understand the facts surrounding the issue.
Here is one of the members of the SQUAD complaining about the same issue then.
Senator Ron Johnson recently took to Twitter to express his dismay at the situation at the border. In a tweet, Johnsonthanked Mark Morgan, Jaeson Jones, and Newsmax for exposing the truth about the situation. The Senator also questioned the mainstream media’s silence and asked where the outrage was.
Under the Trump administration, the policy of family detention was heavily criticized and dubbed “kids in cages” by opponents. The Biden administration initially promised to end the practice and focus on alternative forms of detention. However, with Title 42 expiring in May, the administration is reportedly considering reinstating family detention as a possible solution to the influx of migrants at the border.
Democrats who were vocal opponents of family detention under the Trump administration are now notably silent on the issue. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who previously staged a photo-op at a border detention center during the Trump administration, has remained silent on the issue under the Biden administration.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is struggling to come up with a solution to the surge of migrants at the border. The situation has been called a humanitarian crisis by some, with overcrowded facilities and a backlog of asylum cases.
The issue of family detention at the border remains a controversial and divisive topic. The Biden administration’s potential reinstatement of the policy has raised concerns among Americans tired of political theater. The Democrats and mainstream media’s silence on the issue is hypocritical. Only proving they could care less about what happens to illegal immigrants who smuggle into our country so long as they stay in power. However, come the next Republican administration, the outrage will somehow be revived. Just watch.
Let’s continue this conversation, in the comments below.


Elon Musk and Grimes change their baby’s name to comply with the law.
After catching heat for naming his son “X Æ A-12,” Elon Musk has had the newborn’s name changed to better comply with California law — although most people will likely find the new name no less unconventional than the original.
Musk has changed the baby’s name to “X Æ A-Xii” to comply with a birth certificate law that states legal names can’t be spelled with a number. By changing the number “12” in the name to a Roman numeral, Musk says his offspring’s name is now legal.
Can you pronounce the name of Musk’s son? In what ways does having a bizarre name affect a child?


Gone in 60 seconds: illegal drug use detected by wearable nanomaterial patch
Image credit: Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS)
A wearable sensor that can detect illegal drugs in sweat by using nanomaterial technology has been developed by researchers from the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS).
The technology can trace the optical signal of narcotics using a flexible, body-worn material that enables fast and highly sensitive drug detection.
The sweat patch is attached to the skin for a certain period of time and then irradiated with light for testing in a process that only takes around one minute.
Traditional drug detection processes require a complex method of extracting suspected drug components from biologic specimens - including hair, blood and urine - and then analysing drugs through gas or liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Although rapid kits can detect drugs in urine, they only detect a single component in a single test and have low sensitivity.
The researchers focused on sweat, which is non-invasive, unlike urine tests which can require a skilled technician to observe the process. Only a small amount of substances are discharged in sweat, so a highly sensitive sensor technology had to be developed for better detection.
The team’s sensing utilised the surface-enhanced 'Raman scattering technology', which is capable of enhancing the Raman signal of chemical substances by more than a thousand times.
As the Raman scattering signal includes the specific signal of molecules, intuitive substance identification is possible no matter what drug is discharged. The researchers used a natural protein, extracted from a silkworm cocoon, to make a 160nm-thick film to use as the sensor.
The film was coated with 250nm thick silver nanowire and transferred to the medical patch that can be attached to the skin.
Once the patch absorbs the sweat, the drug substance in the sweat penetrates the wearable sensor and reaches the silver nanowire. By irradiating the Raman laser on the patch, the drug can be detected in real time without removing the sensor.
This technology can help address social problems such as drug distribution and abuse in clubs and other social settings, as well as detecting prohibited substances taken by athletes.
The team believes their patches could cost less than 50p (GBP) each.
“As seen in recent drug-related crimes, Korea is no longer a drug-free country. The developed technology would overcome the technological limitations on identifying drug and prohibited substance use and enable drug detection without invasive and ethical problems,” said lead researcher Dr Ho Sang Jung.
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