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- The effort to secure President-elect Barack Obama's transition office in Chicago could cost the city close to $1 million, according to a Tribune analysis.
The Chicago Police Department is staffing the area around the Kluczynski Federal Building this week with officers from police headquarters and the training division. But beginning next week, the department plans to assign newly hired officers to work the details as "special employment" on their days off, said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the department. The officers will receive time-and-a-half pay, she said.
That overtime tab would run upward of $890,000, with 60 officers covering three shifts and a sergeant for one shift, if all of the officers and the sergeant were at the city's lowest pay grades, according to a Tribune analysis.
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Senegal votes in critical polls
DAKAR-The Associated PressSenegalese have casted ballots yesterday in a tense election that threatens the country’s reputation as one of the oldest democracies in Africa.
The normally unflappable nation on Africa’s western coast has been rocked by protests following the decision of its 85-year-old leader to seek a third term. In doing so, President Abdoulaye Wade is violating the term limits he himself introduced into the constitution. He argues the restriction should not apply to him, since he was elected under an earlier constitution which did not have term limits.
For days before the vote, the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, shuttled between the president and the 13 opposition candidates in an effort to find a solution. His proposal suggesting that Wade should stay for two more years was rejected by the opposition.

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3,000 celebrate International Yoga Day at US' Times Square
Over 3,000 people attended the International Yoga Day celebration at Times Square in US' New York on Monday. Consulate General of India, New York partnered with the Times Square Alliance to host the event under the theme of "Solstice in Times Square 2021". "Yoga was born in India but is part of global heritage today," Consul General Randhir Jaiswal said.
Yoga has provided a ray of hope to the people across the world amid COVID-19 pandemic, said PM Narendra Modi on the occasion of the 7th International Yoga Day. "The enthusiasm for Yoga has only increased over the last two years. We all have seen that in such difficult times, yoga became a great medium of self-confidence," PM Modi added.
To mark the 7th International Yoga Day, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel, deployed at the India-China border, performed Yoga at an altitude of 18,000 feet in Ladakh on Monday. Some ITBP personnel performed Yoga at 16,000 feet in Himachal Pradesh, 14,000 feet along Ladakh's Pangong Tso, at Animal Transport School in Arunachal Pradesh with horses and near Ladakh's Galwan valley.
On the seventh International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mYoga app in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The app will make Yoga training videos available across the world in different languages. "Yoga is a ray of hope amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This will help us in our 'One World, One Health' motto," the PM said.


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Originally published 09/08/2013
The Framingham Heart Study, which has been collecting data since 1948, faces a 40 percent budget cut thanks to congressional deadlock.
Originally published 08/23/2013
The budget ax has fallen on a CIA office that focused on declassifying historical materials, a move scholars say will mean fewer public disclosures about long-buried intelligence secrets and scandals.The Historical Collections Division, which has declassified documents on top Soviet spies, a secret CIA airline in the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis and other major operations, has been disbanded. The office that handles Freedom of Information Act requests will take over the work.
Originally published 12/17/2013
Full article: http://hnn.us/article/139709
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Joe Santoloquito was at the Big East semifinals at Villanova, where Syracuse and Villanova earned wins. Here are his reports from the scene.
Villanova, PA — It’s very difficult in any sport, at any level, to beat a team twice within a short span of time. Within six days. And a good team, among the nation’s best — like Notre Dame.
That’s exactly what was facing John Desko and his Syracuse Orange on Thursday afternoon in the Big East Conference semifinals at Villanova Stadium.
What’s more is that the Orange rolled over the Irish the last time the two teams met—adding more even incentive for Notre Dame.
Knowing an opposing team so well can work against you. It can also work for you—you detect holes and weaknesses, especially in Notre Dame’s intricate spider web of a defense.
For the Orange, familiarity worked wonders. They picked right up where they left off, leaving more track marks on the Irish with an emphatic 9-3 victory over Notre Dame.
It sets up a Syracuse-Villanova final in the Big East championship Saturday 12-noon at Villanova Stadium.
The Orange were faced with a daunting task entering their semifinal game. So Desko challenged his team to rise even higher.
Over the last six quarters, Syracuse outscored the Irish 19-4, including the Orange’s 10-4 domination over Notre Dame on April 27 that concluded the Big East regular season.
In the semifinal game, Derek Maltz, Kevin Rice and Hakeem Lecky led the way scoring two goals each, and Jojo Marasco was an assist machine, collecting a game-high four assists. Goalie Dom Lamolinara made 10 saves and was outstanding, as was the defender David Hamlin, who clamped down on Notre Dame’s dangerous freshman Matt Kavanagh, who was scoreless and 0-for-5 on shots.
“We challenged ourselves, it’s a difficult thing to do when a play a team that you just beat a few days previously and prepare to get the guys up again,” Desko said. “The guys did a good job in being mentally prepared and emotionally prepared to play Notre Dame. I thought the defense once again was superb.
“I think in one way you’re pretty well prepared because you see what worked and didn’t work. Fortunately, we were able to duplicate that again. We were sliding to them. We didn’t give them a lot of those adjacent shots their middies like to take. Hamlin did a great job on Kavanagh, too.”
The Syracuse players admitted that Notre Dame didn’t change too much from the last time they saw them.
“We stayed with the same game plan,” Desko admitted. “We felt we were going to have to adjust as we went.”
“We just got our butts kicked in the course of five days by the same team twice,” said unusually tranquil Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan, who can get pretty excitable after a loss. “Give Syracuse credit. I don’t think we played well in either game, but when you score three goals in the last six quarters. There’s a lot of reasons for that.”
Syracuse did a great job of taking away the middle of the field on Notre Dame’s offense. The Irish were a little impatient with the ball. The Orange forced Notre Dame into making a combined 32 turnovers in both games.
“They jammed the inside, they’re sliding quickly to our dodges at the top, and we’re just being patient enough and disciplined through long enough possessions,” Corrigan said. “When someone packs the middle like that, you have to work to get that shot that you want. We either turned it over or settled. There’s no slight meant to Syracuse, obviously they’re an excellent team. But most of those turnovers are unforced turnovers. That’s us turning the ball over. We just haven’t handled the ball well. You just give away that many possessions against a team like that.”
Villanova, PA—It’s hard to believe that Villanova was once 1-5 this season. The Wildcats, a young team that was learning not only coach Mike Corrado’s system but the speed of major Division I lacrosse, couldn’t get out of the way of their own feet.
They’re not tripping now.
The Wildcats turned a 1-5 start into a nice run at an NCAA Tournament berth by going 5-1 over their last six games, including their 15-12 victory over Georgetown Thursday in the Big East Conference semifinals at Villanova Stadium.
The victory sets up a clash with Big East rival Syracuse, which the Wildcats upset earlier this season, in the conference championship at noon Saturday at Villanova Stadium.
Villanova’s Jack Rice led all scorers with five goals on perfect 5-for-5 shooting, and junior John LoCascio continues to prove he’s one of the nation’s best defenders in making the play of the game late in the fourth quarter with Georgetown mounting a comeback.
The Wildcats scored five unanswered goals to take control of the game.
“It was a very interesting game, a little up and down at times, we made enough plays to win,” Corrado said. “We’re maybe not thrilled with the whole game, but we’re excited to have an opportunity and our guys did enough to play Syracuse on Saturday.”
With 2:31 left to play, LoCascio stepped up and made a crucial play, creating a turnover and racing up the field to feed Remington Pope, who in turn found Rice for his fifth goal of the game.
“The five, six minutes of the second quarter, we began playing better offensively,” Corrado said. “Our defense is growing up, and it took a little while to get used to the speed of the game. The defense has caused a lot of turnovers, and offensively, the emergence of Eric Gartner has been huge. He’s another middie who can break you down, and he’s very unorthodox, if you notice the way he dodges. It’s not your typical dodge. I don’t think he knows what he’s doing when he begins his dodge. He reacts to what’s going on.
“This guy right here [LoCascio] is the best defenseman in the country. Four caused turnovers, four groundballs, an assist, and it happens every game and we’ve played among the best in the country.”
Now the soaring Wildcats will be facing possibly the best team in the nation right now in Syracuse.
“I think our kids are confident, and in the last three or four years, we’ve had great games against Syracuse,” Corrado said “I’m confident because I think we have a good team. But they’re playing great right now. I mean they’re playing great in all facets of the game. We’re going to have to play better than we did tonight, that’s for sure.”


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This month, several New York Plastic Surgical Group physicians were named to Newsweek’s list “America’s Best Plastic Surgeons 2023” in a variety of categories including breast augmentation, facelift, rhinoplasty, liposuction, and eyelid surgery.
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The aim of this project is to develop and test a web-supported programme of constraint therapy for post stroke upper limb rehabilitation.
Conventional therapy to improve upper limb function following stroke is often not effective. Only 5% of people who survive a stroke but have severe paralysis regain upper limb function. No conventional therapy is better than another, but intensity is important Learnt non-use has been identified as an important factor in poor recovery. Constraint Induced Therapy (CIT), proposes that constraint of the unaffected arm and hand, coupled with intensive training of the hemiplegic limb, leads to behavioural changes towards greater use of the hemiplegic limb, neuroplastic cortical changes and return of function]. The theory has been tested in large RCTs which have showed improvement in function maintained at 12 months post-treatment.
Despite this convincing evidence the treatment has not translated into clinical practice. One reason is the cost of intensive (minimum 4 hours/day for 10 days) one-to-one treatment. Healthcare professionals consider the resources required to be a prohibitive barrier. A second barrier to adoption is concern about the comfort and safety of constraining the unaffected limb especially in the home environment. Professor Jane Burridge and the clinical lead at Farnham Hospital (Alison Burns) therefore designed and tested a low-cost, comfortable hand constraint that allowed gross movement such as holding a walking stick, but restricted manual tasks. Burns and Burridge then examined whether clinical benefit would be gained if the C-MIT was used in conjunction with a 2-week home-based exercise programme without intensive one-to-one therapy. In an A-B-A trial they found improvement in upper limb function during the intervention phase after correcting for background recovery, but patients reported lack of motivation to wear the C-MIT and comply with the exercise programme.
A team at the University of Southampton (led by Yardley) have developed a system (‘LifeGuide’) with the potential to address the motivational barriers to home-based CIT. The LifeGuide is a set of software resources that allows researchers and clinicians to create and modify programmes of personalised online support for therapy, without the need for costly dedicated programming. With core funding from the ESRC as part of the National Centre for e-Social Science, the pioneering LifeGuide programme commenced in May 2008 and has already been used to successfully develop a range of self-care and other health-related web-based interventions funded by the MRC, NIHR and EC and currently being trialled. Several of these were successfully designed to be engaging and accessible to people with no previous computer/internet experience, including older people.
The aim is to use LifeGuide to develop a web supported CIT system (‘LifeCIT’) for upper limb stroke rehabilitation, and carry out a pilot RCT across 6 NHS Trusts to test the efficacy of the intervention.
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However, a few cosy date nights and loved up pictures do speak a thousand words... Many famous women have dated Chris Pine, and this list will give you more details about these lucky ladies.According to rumors, Chris Pine is currently dating Sofia Boutella.This list of Chris Pine’s girlfriends includes Zoe Kravitz and Olivia Munn.Seriously, Hemsworth, make sure to take a break every once in a while. While there, he somehow thought it would be a good idea to try and fight an MMA champion.
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Project period: 2018 – 2020
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Ian Robert Maxwell (born 1923)
Robert Maxwell, who died today after going overboard from his yacht off the Canary Islands, fled the collapse of Czechoslovakia in 1939 to become one of the most powerful publishers in Britain and the world, presiding over a multibillion-dollar empire he assembled with brass and bravura over 40 years.
An avowed socialist whose newspapers here supported the Labor Party, the 68-year-old publisher ran his businesses with legendary ruthlessness and attention to earnings, paring by the hundreds the staffs of the companies he acquired and instantly dismissing editors of his newspapers when they disagreed with him.
As a global businessman with interests in scores of countries, he borrowed money on a heroic scale, but kept his bankers, executives and staffs toeing the line by the power of his physical presence and his insistence on having his way.
Despite his physical size -- he was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 290 pounds -- Mr. Maxwell was compulsively active. With his beetling black eyebrows and his booming baritone, he had a talent for self-dramatization and knew how to skirt the edge of scandal. Even after taking large parts of his empire public this year, he kept his own financial affairs well hidden in a multinational web of holding companies, the most closely guarded of them a private family trust in Liechtenstein.
Once described by British Government fraud investigators as unsuited to run a public company, he lost his seat on the board of his first company, Pergamon Press, but eventually won it back. "I have never worried about what the Establishment believes about me or doesn't," he said a few years ago. "I don't give a damn."
5 Family Members Die in Auschwitz
This complex figure who sought and cultivated political and government connections in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Israel as well as in the United States, was born on June 10, 1923, into a Hasidic family called Hoch in the Ruthenian village of Slatinske Doly, then part of Czechoslovakia and now in the Soviet Union, and was given the name Ludvik. He was selling trinkets on the streets of Bratislava in March 1939 when Hitler's allies in Hungary occupied his homeland as the Nazis marched into western Czechoslovakia.
His mother and four other members of his immediate family died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and his father is believed to have been shot either there or during transport to the camp. Only two of Mr. Maxwell's sisters survived it.
Though Mr. Maxwell never made much of his religion, he was an outspoken supporter of Israel all his life. He escaped the Holocaust by making his way to France and joining a group of Czechoslovak volunteers in the French Foreign Legion in March 1940.
After the French defeat that year, he escaped again, being evacuated with other Czechoslovak troops to Britain. He later claimed he learned English in only six weeks. Soon after his arrival he joined the British Army as a volunteer and earned a battlefield commission as lieutenant. His talent for languages then led him into intelligence work.
It was on such an assignment to Paris, just after its liberation in July of 1944, that he met the woman who would become his wife, a French Huguenot named Elisabeth Meynard. Proposing to her in December, he promised that he would win a Military Cross, re-create a family, make a fortune, and become Prime Minister of England. "And I shall make you happy until the end of my days," he said.
The first promise, at least, he kept in 1945, winning the Military Cross for "heroism in the face of enemy action" at the Dutch-German border. When the war ended, he was discharged as captain, a title he insisted on using in civilian life for 20 years afterward. He also acquired his name, Ian Robert Maxwell, at the suggestion of a Scottish officer friend.
Company Is Lost In a Scandal
For the next two years he served in occupied Germany with the British Foreign Office as head of the press section in war-ravaged Berlin. There he would make business contacts that led to the purchase of his first company, a publisher of scientific journals and textbooks that he bought from its German and British owners and renamed Pergamon Press.
With a bank loan and money borrowed from his wife's family and from relatives in America, Mr. Maxwell built it into a thriving company by 1964, when he took a step toward fulfilling his political ambitions by winning a seat as a Labor Party Member of Parliament for the rural constituency of Buckingham, north of London.
His political and business fortunes took a turn for the worse in 1969, when he lost Pergamon in a financial scandal after trying to sell it to Saul P. Steinberg, the New York financier. Mr. Steinberg contended that Mr. Maxwell had misled him about the company's worth, and pulled out of the deal.
The principal shareholders then angrily ousted Mr. Maxwell from Pergamon's board. The next year, Labor lost the elections to the Conservatives, and, embroiled in the scandal, Mr. Maxwell lost his seat.
A protracted British Government investigation concluded in mid-1971 "that, notwithstanding Mr. Maxwell's acknowledged abilities and energy, he is not in our opinion a person who can be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company."
"Not true," Mr. Maxwell responded with fury. Ultimately he recovered, going heavily into debt to buy back Pergamon privately in 1974 after reaching an out-of-court financial settlement with Mr. Steinberg and his investment partners. He sold the company again to a Dutch publisher, Elseviers, last March for $:440 million ($770 million).
He would never again run for public office, but as a newspaper publisher --- one of the few, in the past decade, to back the Labor Party instead of the Conservatives -- he exercised another kind of political influence. He also helped revolutionize the newspaper business in Britain, ruthlessly eliminating the ancient practices of overstaffing and the overlapping jurisdictions that had given Fleet Street unions a stranglehold over management and allowing Conservative publishing rivals like Rupert Murdoch to follow his example.
Newspaper Payrolls Are Slashed
When Mr. Maxwell bought the British Printing and Communication Corporation in London in 1980, it was nearly bankrupt. He told the unions that the only way to save any jobs at all was to cut the payroll from 13,000 to 7,000 workers. Later, as Maxwell Communications Corporation, the company came to be regarded as a model of efficiency.
So, too, was Mirror Group Newspapers, which Mr. Maxwell acquired as a privately owned company in 1984. There he found typesetters earning more than assistant editors and many people working four-hour days and four-day weeks. His arrival as chairman came at 3 A.M. the morning after the sale.
Told that the entire staff of The Daily Mail and The Sunday Record in Glasgow was holding a meeting to decide whether to work for him, Mr. Maxwell replied, "If they don't return to work I will close down their papers and they won't open again."
"Forward with Britain," the Mirror proclaimed under his leadership, and it and its sister papers in Scotland increased their circulation from three million to nearly four million last year, though it fell this year by about 300,000. Mr. Maxwell sold 49 percent of Mirror Group Newspapers to the public this year for $:245.5 million ($421.8 million), more than twice what he had originally paid for them.
His editors would soon learn that having him as publisher was an entirely new experience. "When I fire someone it is like a thunderclap," he told Sebastian Faulks of The Independent, not one of the newspapers he owns, last year. "My primary duty is to hire and fire editors. I treat them like a field marshal."
Magnus Linklater, one editor who worked for him, said, "Balance is not something usually associated with Robert Maxwell." He had a habit, Mr. Linklater said, "of suddenly appearing out of the blue, and woe betide the person who is not at his desk and doing what he's expecting them to be doing."
Mr. Linklater was hired to run a new afternoon tabloid, The London Daily News, that Mr. Maxwell launched in 1987. Asked at the time by a reporter from another newspaper whether he would dismiss Mr. Linklater if he wrote editorials supporting the Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, instead of Labor's leader, Neil Kinnock, Mr. Maxwell paused briefly and then answered:
"He would have my permission to do so. I would have him certified. But he would certainly be able to do it."
Mr. Linklater survived, but the newspaper did not, and the flop cost Mr. Maxwell the equivalent of $50 million. Later, he said, "I made certain that never again would I launch a paper and leave it in the hands of the professionals."
A Weekly Paper For All of Europe
The publisher, who at the end claimed to be able to speak 11 languages, launched a European-wide English-language color weekly newspaper, The European, in May of last year. Visiting its offices one weekend and finding that he had no office in the newsroom, he took the nameplate off the door of the one used by its first editor, Ian Watson, and took over that room on the spot.
Last winter, he replaced Mr. Watson as editor, easing him upstairs to the board of directors. The weekly has reportedly lost money since its inception, and Mr. Maxwell kept it as part of his private business operations.
In recent years, he turned his business eye toward the United States, acquiring the publishing house of Macmillan in 1989 for $2.6 billion and Official Airline Guides for $750 million. The acquisitions came at a price of a heavy debt load that later forced him to sell Pergamon and part of the Mirror Group, but Mr. Maxwell's real interest soon became The Daily News in New York City, which he acquired from the Tribune Company of Chicago last spring, ending a long and costly strike from which the tabloid has not yet recovered.
Mr. Maxwell always insisted that The Daily News was "in danger of becoming profitable" by early next year, and promised to spend most of his time running it. At first, he did, parking the yacht that took him on his last voyage, the Lady Ghislaine, named after a daughter, in the East River off 30th Street and holding court. Hailed at first for saving two-thirds of the paper's jobs, he was made an honorary Grand Marshal at the Salute to Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue. But later he seemed to fade from public view and to spend more of his time in London.
To the members of the sedate British Establishment he said he despised, Mr. Maxwell was regarded as an upstart outsider, the piratical financier the satirical press weekly Private Eye called "Captain Bob." An American author, Seymour M. Hersh, contended in a recent book, "The Samson Option," that he had close ties with Israel's top leadership, and that Nicholas Davies, the foreign editor of The Daily Mirror, was buying and selling arms in partnership with an Israeli intelligence operative.
Mr. Davies denied the charge last month, but later, confronted with evidence that he had met an arms dealer in Ohio despite his denials, he acknowledged that he had not told the truth about the trip and The Mirror dismissed him. But Mr. Maxwell maintained his lawsuit against Mr. Hersh, who has filed a countersuit.
New Interests In Eastern Europe
Mr. Maxwell's critics have often made fun of the fawning biographies he published of Eastern European Communist leaders like Erich Honecker of East Germany, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania and Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria.
After they fell, he pirouetted neatly around and acquired interests in newly democratic newspapers in Hungary and Eastern Germany, and last year formed a $250 million fund to invest in joint ventures in the region. Prime Minister John Major, paying tribute to him today, said he had offered useful advice at the time of the failed coup in Moscow last August.
Mr. Maxwell never took a car when a helicopter would do, and roared in and out of his London headquarters --called, naturally, Maxwell House -- by helicopter every day from the Headington Hill Hall estate he rented from the city authorities in Oxford.
An ardent soccer fan, he owned clubs in both Britain and Israel at various times, but controversy attended his every attempt to buy another one. Last year, he was said to be growing disillusioned with the sport in Britain, saying it "could not be in a sorrier state," and put his interests in four clubs on the market.
Mr. Maxwell is survived by his wife, three sons and four daughters. Two of the sons, Ian Robert Charles Maxwell, 35, and Kevin Francis Herbert Maxwell, 32, are directors of the publishing company. Another daughter died of leukemia in infancy, and another son, the eldest, died in 1968, seven years after an automobile accident.
Correction: November 8, 1991
The obituary of Robert Maxwell on Wednesday misidentified the afternoon newspaper he began in 1987. It was The London Evening News, not The London Daily News.
Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he mysteriously drowned 15 years ago.
Revelations that Maxwell, a captain in the British Army, knew he faced a possible life sentence for murdering an unarmed German civilian in 1945 lend support to the theory that he took his own life in 1991.
A Metropolitan Police file released to The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, weeks before he died, detectives had begun questioning members of Maxwell's platoon and were preparing a case for the Crown Prosecution Service.
Maxwell would have been told about the inquiry and knew that, if found guilty, he would be the first Briton to be prosecuted for war crimes. The War Crimes Act 1991 was enacted just six months before Maxwell's body was found floating in the Atlantic on 5 November after disappearing from his yacht, the Lady Ghislane.
No one has been able to explain how he came to die. But the police file shows that, by that time, officers had been able to establish the location in Germany where Maxwell was alleged to have killed an unarmed civilian. The shooting, which is said to have happened on 2 April 1945, was first disclosed by Maxwell's authorised biographer, Joe Haines, in 1988. Maxwell is quoted in the book describing how he tried to capture a German town by threatening the population with a mortar bombardment, a tactic that had proved successful on a nearby village hours earlier.
In a letter to his wife, published in the book, Maxwell recounts how he asked some Germans to fetch the mayor. He ordered the mayor to go back to town and tell the soldiers defending it to surrender or face destruction. One hour later the mayor returned, saying the soldiers had agreed to his demands. "But as soon as we marched off a German tank opened fire on us," Maxwell wrote. "Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew."
The Met's file says: "The reported circumstances of the shooting gave rise to an allegation of War Crimes. To some extent, the reporting of the shooting incident was confirmed by Mr Maxwell in an interview he gave in 1988 to the journalist Brian Walden [30th October 1988]."
But the police could do nothing until Parliament had enacted the war crimes legislation which had been specifically designed to prosecute Nazi war criminals living in this country.
It was only when a member of the public made a complaint under the new legislation that an official investigation could begin. Two officers from the Met's historic war crimes unit began tracing members of his platoon but had been unable to find a witness to the alleged shooting of the mayor.
Maxwell is presumed to have fallen overboard from Lady Ghislane, which was cruising off the Canary Islands. The official verdict was accidental drowning, though many people, including members of his own family, believe he took his own life. It did not emerge until after his death that he had plundered the Mirror Group pensions' funds to bail out his ailing media empire.
Shortly after he was buried in Jerusalem, the police passed the conclusions of their investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service. The file obtained under the Freedom of Information Act says "it was determined that the case could be progressed no further, and it was closed in March 1992". The file also shows that although a lot of work had gone into the case the police had not been able to find a reliable witness to corroborate the account in Haines's biography. They had also raised concerns about having to rely on the quotes attributed to Maxwell in the book. But Maxwell would not have known this and he may have felt that the net was closing.
Maxwell was immensely proud of his war record. He fought his way across Europe from the Normandy beaches to Berlin, winning the Military Cross in January 1945. He had a hatred for Germans that stemmed from his earlier life, most of his family in Czechoslovakia having been killed by the Nazis. Later in life, he was reported to have said that the two things he hated most were Germans and taxes.
Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch into a poor Yiddish-speaking orthodox Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly (now Solotvino, Ukraine), in the easternmost province of (pre-World War II) Czechoslovakia. His parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz. He had six siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family died in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944, by its former ally, Nazi Germany, but he had already escaped to France. In Marseille he joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile in May 1940.
After the defeat in France and the retreat to Great Britain, Maxwell took part in the protest against the leadership of the Czechoslovak Army, and with 500 other soldiers, he was transferred to the British Pioneer Corps, and later to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was then involved in action across Europe, from the Normandy beaches to Berlin, and achieved the rank of sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945, and was promoted to captain. In January 1945, he received the Military Cross from Field Marshal Montgomery. Attached to the British Foreign Office, he served in Berlin during the next two years in the press section.
In 1945, he married Elisabeth "Betty" Meynard; a French Protestant, with whom he had nine children, with the goal of "recreating the family he lost in the Holocaust". Five of his children were later employed within his companies. His three-year-old daughter Karine died of leukemia and his eldest son, Michael, was severely injured in 1961 (at the age of 15), after being driven home from a post-Christmas party when his driver fell asleep at the wheel. Michael never regained consciousness and died seven years later.
After the war he used various contacts in the Allied occupation authorities to go into business, becoming the British and United States distributor for Springer Verlag, a publisher of scientific books. In 1951 he bought three quarters of Butterworth-Springer, a minor publisher; the remaining quarter was held by the experienced scientific editor Paul Rosbaud. They changed the name of the company to Pergamon Press and rapidly built it into a major publishing house.

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This is a limited edition set of Gillian Travis Orange Peel Templates.
Made from an almost fluorescent orange acrylic plastic these templates are easy to use and see due to their orange colour.
Set of 3 Orange Peel Templates designed by Gillian Travis, produced by Oh Sew Sweet
Small, Medium & Large to allow you to quickly and easily make Orange Peel shapes to turn into Cushions, Quilts and more.
Comes complete with instructions.
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KATERINA JEBB, Fallen White Pigment, 2018 / 2022
Edition of 10 + 1 AP, Numbered
by Henzel Studio
Henzel Studio provides design solutions on any scale and delivers with the utmost quality and precision. As our rugs are handmade we can adapt any of our designs to meet our clients’ requirements regarding size, color, shape, materials, varying pile heights and knot counts.
Henzel Studio is honored to have collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Katerina Jebb, who has devised a system employing digital scanning machines to create works of art, on a limited-edition collection of art rugs, encompassing highlights from Jebb’s archive selected in collaboration with the artist. Through her exploration of the medium in parallel with technological innovation Jebb manufactures composite imagery which contradicts the immediacy of its making. The resulting images have been recognized as a new visual medium and included in museums notably The Whitney Museum New York, The Metropolitan Museum New York, and V&A Museum London. Jebb’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition in 2016 at Musée Réattu Arles, France.
Wool, Linen, Lyocell & Silk
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Ultra-Fast I-V Applications for the Model 4225-PMU Ultra-Fast I-V Module
Ultra-fast I-V sourcing and measurement have become increasingly important capabilities for many technologies, including compound semiconductors, medium power devices, non-volatile memory, MEMs, nanodevices, solar cells, and CMOS devices. Using pulsed I-V signals to characterize devices rather than DC signals makes it possible to study or reduce the effects of selfheating or to minimize current drifting in measurements due to trapped charge. The Model 4225-PMU Ultra-Fast I-V Module for the Model 4200- SCS Semiconductor Characterization System supports many of these high speed source/measure applications.
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From the usual cities.
To the cities of the future.
The iCity luminaires help cities to save electricity, increasing safety and security,
and offering unlimited customization possibilities in combination with the SKOFF Smart City. It is also excellent light parameters, compliance with DALI protocols,
1-10V, 3 DIM and many more.
Innovations. For everyone.
An award-winning product that solves the problems of small and big cities. Available in variants: 40W, 75W, 115W and 150W
The heat sink temperature reduced by approx. 10°C compared to competing luminaires*
Aerodynamic resistance (Cd x S):
Two independent power supply chambers and optics
The luminaire design is submitted to the patent protection
Universal mounting bracket for mounting the luminaire on a pole or boom (Ø42-60mm)
Low weight: 8.9kg
The best power-to-weight ratio on the market: 17W/kg**
Self-cleaning solar reflective construction
IP66 Optics and power supply chamber seal and IK09 toughened glass shade
*Compared to street lighting luminaires with conventional light sources.
**Based on research conducted on a sample of luminaires from leading street lighting manufacturers.
The TripleCooling System® cooling system, based on a patent-pending design, effectively reduces the temperature of the LED modules, resulting in the luminaire achieving the highest power-to-weight ratio on the market.
The heat sink is designed with ribbed construction in mind so that it forces convection of air vertically and horizontally.
Acting as an additional heat sink, the thermocouples dissipate heat from the body to the cover.
Thermal conductive paste
A layer of thermally conductive paste between the LED module and the heat sink facilitates the dissipation of the heat generated by the LEDs.
Triple heat shield system. Heat Shield.
The triple Heat Shield system prevents the luminaire from heating up and effectively dissipates heat from inside the luminaire.
Reflects the sunlight
The bright surface of the top cover reflects the sunlight to prevent the luminaire from heating up.
Makes heat transfer more difficult
The limited number of contact points between the cover and the luminaire minimises heat transfer to the luminaire.
Faster heat exchange
The high thermal conductivity coefficient of the body allows for quick heat exchange.
Highest level of safety
The iCity is a breakthrough in security.
Always in standards.
Arrangement on the inside.
Also without service.
Street lighting is sometimes exposed to dirt inside, so the specially profiled design of the internal intercostal space in the iCity with high efficiency makes it difficult for dust and other dirt to settle, which significantly prolongs the life of LEDs.
Porządek na zewnątrz.
Bez konieczności serwisu.
Unikalna, samoczyszcząca konstrukcja opraw z serii iCity pozwala na zawsze rozwiązać problem z osiadaniem się wszelkich zanieczyszczeń i ciał stałych. Jest to możliwe dzięki zastosowaniu płaskiej pokrywy, która skutecznie odbija liście i inne tego rodzaju zabrudzenia bez konieczności serwisowania urządzenia.
Również bez serwisu.
Oświetlenie uliczne bywa narażone na zabrudzenia wewnątrz, dlatego specjalnie wyprofilowana konstrukcja wewnętrznej przestrzeni międzyżebrowej w iCity z wysoką skutecznością utrudnia osiadanie się kurzu i innych zabrudzeń, co znacznie wydłuża żywotność diód LED.
Easy to assemble.
Even simpler adjustment.
Easy installation and flexible adjustment make the iCity luminaires suitable for almost all conditions.
Universal mounting bracket
The universal holder allows easy installation on a pole or boom (Ø42-60mm).
The simpler, the better, therefore the iCity lighting does not require any adapters.
The level can be adjusted in a wide range from -15° to +15°.
The iCity series combines innovation and original solutions.
We’ve put it all in a small package.
The luminaires from the iCity series introduce a revolution in savings. The low cost of purchase, installation and virtually no need for service make it easy to control your investment.
Long service life
Up to 100,000 hours in continuous operation significantly reduces investment and operating costs.
An integrated power supply controller allows you to manage power consumption by determining light levels over defined periods of time.
With market-leading LED technology, you can cut your electricity costs by up to 25%!*
Thanks to the innovative housing, the iCity does not cause loss of light and inefficient use of electricity.
Reliable and advanced.
The iCity infrastructure lighting works perfectly with the best control systems.
Astro DIM provides a multistage night-time power control based on the on/off time settings of the internal timer.
The Step DIM mode allows you to switch between two power levels to lower the level of illumination and thus the power consumption.
The illumination level is reduced by reducing the rated voltage. The rated voltage is reduced by means of a suitable controller.
DALI provides two-way communication between the luminaire and the control system giving the possibility of, among others, smooth dimming of the luminaire.
The 1-10V interface allows the luminaire to be integrated into a control system, e.g. street lighting control system and power control system.
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Monday, 27 Aug 2012
Canada and Japan to Get Dual-core Galaxy S III with 2GB of RAM and LTE; Korea and Germany Gets Quad-core with LTE (Update)
Canada will be the second country after Japan to get the Samsung Galaxy S III with 2GB of RAM but a downsized 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and LTE connectivity, Android Police reports.
LG's upcoming flagship smartphone, the Optimus G is shaping up to be one of the most powerful Android handsets to arrive in 2012.
Saturday, 25 Aug 2012
LG's new flagship model, the Optimus G is likely to be announced at IFA 2012. It will come with 4G LTE connectivity, a quad-core processor, 2GB RAM and a 13-megapixel rear camera.
Samsung is found to have infringed on Apple's patents and is ordered to pay at least US$1.049 billion in damages. If you think the battle is over, you are wrong. Hit the link to find out more.
Friday, 24 Aug 2012
A new report from Daring Fireball's John Gruber has alleged that Apple will only announce its small tablet option during the first or second week of October and not together with the iPhone 5 on the 12th of Sept as earlier speculated.
Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason has announced that the Unity 4 game engine will support Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.
With the impending launch of Windows 8 which will be ushering in a whole new design philosophy for the tech giants, Microsoft has also unveiled a new corporate logo.
McAfee scrambles to fix a recent glitch found on some of its antivirus updates. The bug has also caused a number of home users to lose Internet connectivity after the updates were applied.
Thursday, 23 Aug 2012
Sony Creative Software has confirmed that its digital audio editing suite, Sound Forge Pro, is coming to the Mac.
More details of Intel's upcoming Haswell architecture has emerged, according to CPU World who reported on the package options that we can expect to see on this new generation of processors based on this new architecture.


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The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio
Fieldwork for Ohio’s second breeding bird atlas started in Spring 2006 and concluded after 2011. The ultimate success of the atlas depended on the active participation and efforts of birders and outdoor enthusiasts from throughout the state. The second atlas for Ohio generated extensive information that is essential for the effective conservation and management of birds. By engaging Ohio’s citizens in this cooperative effort OBBA II fostered interaction among bird enthusiasts of all experience levels and heightened public awareness of birds in Ohio.
Results from the atlas are currently available in The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio (Rodewald et al. 2016), available from Penn State Press. These data have been an invaluable contribution to avian conservation in Ohio and regionally. For more information on atlas methodology, and to request access to the data, visit the atlas website, archived at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/obba2/
The Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative hopes to make results from the atlas available in an online mapping tool in the near future.

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After Kofi Annan’s announcement not to continue the mission in Syria, the parties concerned are blaming each other. Others are already thinking about different options for ending the conflict.
Kofi Annan's announcement that he will not continue his mediating role between the civil war parties in Syria after his mandate ends at the end of August has been received with regret and disillusion worldwide. There are two principal reasons: For one thing, the United Nations, the Arab League and with them Syria's civilians lose an extremely skilful diplomat. Secondly, Annan's resignation shows that the conflict can probably no longer be solved by diplomacy.
There was a "lack of unanimity within the international community" that was making his mission difficult, said Annan, expressing his feeling that he didn't receive enough support from the international community represented by the UN Security Council. "While the Syrian population is desperately calling for action, there is continual finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council," Annan said.
Reactions from Germany
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle took up that point. "It's clear that Kofi Annan put down his mandate partly because of the blockade within the Security Council, which has been caused by Russia and China," said a statement he issued Thursday. Assad didn't fulfill his promises, Westerwelle added. That's why "it's high time that Russia and China withdraw their protective hands." Assad's successor, he said, could only be successful if the international community stands together.
Several German politicians expressed their dismay at Annan's announcement not to continue his mandate. "In my view it's a dramatic signal when a renowned man like Annan who has tried everything says 'I just didn't get anywhere'," Rainer Stinner, foreign policy spokesperson in Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) told Deutsche Welle. "That means that the civil war cannot be stopped from outside with the current means at our disposal."
A battle on two fronts
Some Syrian rebels had been watching Annan's mission with some skepticism for a while. In a mid-July interview with DW, Rafif Jouejati warned against expecting too much of diplomatic initiatives. The spokeswoman for a local coordination commission made the comment after the massacre of Tremseh. She said she didn't know whether you could expect a political solution to the conflict: "It's quite obvious that Assad intends to give up power only if he's forced to do so with violence."
For that reason, the opposition did not want to talk to Assad, severely hampering Annan's diplomatic mission. And the Assad regime added its own obstacles. Political scientist Michael Brzoska, director of the Institute for Peace Studies and Security Policy at Hamburg University, told DW that Annan had to fight a battle on two fronts.
At first, the diplomat did have chances to make his mission a success. Initially, Assad's government showed signs that concessions would be possible. They organized a referendum on a new constitution and announced they would open up the party system. "But those were never truly trustworthy offers. And it was always clear – at least from the opposition's point of view – that essentially the Assad clan and the Alavis supporting this plan intended to stay in power." On the other hand, the opposition tried very early on to achieve a military strength which would make any political compromise superfluous. "That means that the opposition wasn't particularly keen on finding a compromise either."
It's quite possible that the willingness to compromise would have been bigger if Russia and China had decided to exert more pressure on Assad – the opposition could then also have opted for a more careful strategy. But both Russia and China remained fixated on their positions, making it easy for Assad to continue, said Brzoska. Against the background of those two fronts Annan's decision was understandable, he said. "His resignation is a consistent move because there's hardly any chance at all of solving the conflict diplomatically."
This puts Germany and Europe under even greater pressure to try and ease the conflict, said Stinner. It's in their own interest to do so, he added, because a widening of the conflict from Syria into neighboring countries was to be avoided at all costs. "Syria is embedded in the region in many ways, and it would have unforeseeable consequences if the civil war spread from there," he said. "This would destabilize the region even further. That can't be in our interest."
The German way
This attitude will define the course Germany will take in the coming weeks and months. The top priority will be to contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict. "Our position is not to demand a military intervention from outside because that would have further unforeseeable consequences," said Stinner. "All other ways have to be considered. That's the German and the European position."
The upcoming tasks will certainly be difficult. And even Annan hasn't completely given up hope yet, despite his resignation from the mission. "The world is full of crazy people”, he added after his announcement and said that that included himself. "So don't be surprised if Secretary General Ban finds somebody who does a better job than me."


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When you realise all of your dreams have been showcased on a floor plan that is so carefully arranged. The Crowne 24 has delivered a new level of modern living.
Welcome to the Crowne 24 – a new level of luxury living. Offering a grand master suite with generous his and her walk in robes, and a massive ensuite space, certainly suited to both a King and Queen combined. Enjoy separate vanity basins and a large freestanding bath, to wash your daily stresses away. Gaze at the feature tiled wall that frames the bath and hides the wrap around toilet and shower. Your wish for resort living has been answered. There is so much more to love about the Crowne 24.


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a book giving instruction in a subject
"his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"
"the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
"a casebook schizophrenic"
"a textbook example"
He was the author of several successful textbooks on arithmetic.
出自： J. Briggs
The town is like a superb, animated architectural textbook.

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Hair Loss: A Losing Or Winning Battle
Hair Growth and Hair Loss
Each hair follicle has its own life cycle. It is influenced by a wide variety of factors, including age and disease. All hair follicles will undergo three stages in their life cycles. The first stage is the anagen stage, where hair will actively grow between a period of two to six years. The second stage is the catagen stage, where hair growth is in a transitional state for two to three weeks. The final stage is the telogen stage, where hair stops growing for two to three months before it sheds and is replaced with new growing hair.
Hair loss is commonly known as alopecia. It is good to note that there are six types of alopecia caused by different factors. In order to treat hair loss, identifying the type of alopecia will help in finding a suitable treatment.
Types of Hair Loss (Alopecia)
This is a natural condition caused by aging. As a person ages, the hair follicle life cycle will slow down and the hair will gradually thin. More hair follicles will enter the final stage (telogen stage), while the remaining hair follicles decrease in volume and length.
This is a genetic condition that affects both men and women – it is commonly identified as male and female pattern baldness. Men who are affected by this condition will suffer from hair loss in their teens and early twenties. They will experience receding hair from the crown and frontal scalp. Women who are affected by this condition will suffer from thinning hair and hair loss in their forties. The thinning will occur on the entire scalp, while the hair loss will occur at the crown and frontal scalp.
This is a sudden hair loss that causes patches on the scalp, commonly experienced by children and young adults. The hair loss may eventually lead to multiple patches of baldness. Treatment is recommended as early as possible to prevent a worsening of the condition.
This is a condition that causes body hair to fall. It not only affects the hair on the scalp, but the eyebrows, pubic hair, and other bodily hair too.
This is a temporary condition, where hair will thin due to changes in the hair follicle growth cycle.
This is a condition caused by skin conditions and skin disorders that result in scarring – prohibiting hair from regenerating.
Common Causes of Hair Loss
There are several causes that lead to hair loss. These are the five common causes:
Physical and Mental Stress
Stress, illness, and pregnancy can cause temporary hair loss. Physical stress can cause telogen effluvium, while mental and emotional stress can worsen the effects.
Genetics and Hormones
Some people are predisposed to male and female pattern baldness because of their genes. Hormonal changes and abnormal levels of androgens can also cause androgenic alopecia in men and telogen effluvium in women.
Drugs and Medication
Certain medications, such as blood thinners and blood-pressure drugs, may cause hair loss. Drugs that treat rheumatic conditions, skin conditions, bipolar disorder, and inflammation, may also promote alopecia.
Alopecia areata is caused by a sudden increase of activity in the immune system, that affects the hair follicles.
Too much vitamin A, too little protein, low levels of vitamin B, and a calorie-restricted diet that causes dramatic weight loss, can incite hair loss.
Our Available Treatments
At BeauLife, we have a series of treatments and procedures that can help treat hair loss and baldness. These are our popular treatments:
1. Hair Filler
Hair filler is an effective treatment that promotes hair regrowth and prevents hair loss. Suitable for both men and women with alopecia, it increases the size of hair follicles by stimulating the microcirculation of the scalp and nourishing weakened hair.
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Hair-Grow laser uses low-level light therapy, which promotes hair growth in both men and women who suffer from alopecia. It utilises lasers (light energy) that are below a certain energy threshold but within a certain wavelength, to make thin and weak hair thicker and stronger.
3. Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment (PRP)
A Platelet Rich Plasma treatment, or PRP therapy, covers almost all grounds of skin issues. As the growth factors in platelets will activate and rejuvenate the cells in the body, PRP therapy is able to repair skin defects and trigger production of new cells and collagen.
4. Stem Cell Treatment
Stem cells replace cells that are damaged or dead. They have the ability to grow into different cell types and treat problems through targeting.
Consult Our Doctors
If you notice a receding hairline, a thinning of hair on your scalp, and patches of missing hair, schedule a consultation session with our doctors immediately. Hair loss is best treated promptly. Don’t wait with fear and anxiety. Regain your peace of mind in the hands of our professional and certified doctors.

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Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease a GoodCook casserole dish and set aside.
Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots and mince garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes or until fragrant. Whisk in flour to butter mixture and cook until smooth and golden in color, about 1-2 minutes.
Slowly add in the milk and heavy cream whisking as your pour. To cream add in salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme to cream mixture. Cook for 3-4 minutes, the mixture should be thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon.
Remove cream mixture from heat and whisk in shredded smoked gouda, and 1 cup of shredded gruyere cheese until smooth.
In the casserole dish, arrange one layer of thinly sliced potatoes, slightly overlapping each other. Spread one third of the melted cheese mixture over potatoes and continue to layer two more potato layers until you’ve reached the top of the casserole dish.
Cover with foil and cook for 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Remove foil and sprinkle with remaining ½ cup of gruyere. Return potatoes to oven and cook for an additional 20-25 minutes or until cheese is golden brown and bubbly.

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Jackie and Shadow’s second clutch was laid in early February. They will incubate the two eggs for approximately 35 days. In mid March pip watch began on the first egg. A pip is the first small hole in the egg when the chick is working its way out. The chick was working on hatching, but stopped moving. Sadly, the chick in the first egg did not make it through to hatching, reasons unknown. Both Jackie and Shadow are still tending to the nest bringing in food to each other while incubating the second egg. They also continue to carry in twigs, grasses, and branches to the nest. Jackie and Shadow both take turns sitting on the egg. The window of possibility for egg #2 to hatch is less likely with each passing day. As of March 25th egg #2 was in its 42nd day. They haven’t given up even though there’s been no signs of hatching. It is unlikely that will happen. They will most likely continue to care for the egg for the next several days or even weeks.
To follow the progress of Jackie and Shadow go to: friendsofbigbearvalley.org


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Author(s): SchllerGyre M, Kakuda TN, Raoof A, De Smedt G, Hoetelmans RM
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Abstract Etravirine is a next-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) developed for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. It has a high genetic barrier to the emergence of viral resistance, and maintains its antiviral activity in the presence of common NNRTI mutations. The pharmacokinetics of etravirine in HIV-infected patients at the recommended dosage of 200 mg twice daily demonstrates moderate intersubject variability and no time dependency. Due to substantially lower exposures when taken on an empty stomach, etravirine should be administered following a meal. The drug is highly protein bound (99.9\%) to albumin and alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein and shows a relatively long elimination half-life of 30-40 hours. Etravirine is metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A, 2C9 and 2C19; the metabolites are subsequently glucuronidated by uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase. Renal elimination of etravirine is negligible. Etravirine has the potential for interactions by inducing CYP3A and inhibiting CYP2C9 and 2C19; it is a mild inhibitor of P-glycoprotein but not a substrate. The drug interaction profile of etravirine has been well characterized and is manageable. No dosage adjustments are needed in patients with renal impairment or mild to moderate hepatic impairment. Race, sex, bodyweight and age do not affect the pharmacokinetics of etravirine. In the two phase III trials DUET-1 and DUET-2, no relationship was demonstrated between the pharmacokinetics of etravirine and the primary efficacy endpoint of viral load below 50 copies/mL or the safety profile of etravirine.
This article was published in Clin Pharmacokinet
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US e-commerce giant Amazon on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that there were talks for settlement between Amazon and Future Group but there has been no headway in the mediation proceedings on the assets of Future Retail Ltd (FRL).
A bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli was informed by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, who was appearing for Amazon, that even as the top court had ordered to keep hands off, FRL stores “have been taken over” by Reliance.
“Nothing can happen through conciliation, we tried but nothing can happen,” Subramanian told the bench.
He also complained that even when proceedings are pending before different forums the FRL shops “have been taken over by Reliance and not only has Reliance taken over, it has also come in public disclosure”.
“When an order was passed by Emergency Arbitrator, Reliance had made a filing with stock exchange to say that they will enforce their obligations as far as the Future Group is concerned,” Subramanium said.
The senior advocate further submitted that he doesn’t don’t want a message to go that orders of court can be happily flouted.
Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Future Group, submitted that no assets have been transferred and the stores have been taken over by Reliance. He said that not a single store has been surrendered, Reliance came and overnight removed the boards as law permits.
“We have been saying from day one that Amazon is driving us to our knees, they have done it, we are broke. We have no money to fight it,” he added.
Salve submitted that Future Group has been unable to pay the rent for over two years and the landlords are therefore terminating its leases.
“We had no money to pay them, which is what we have been telling all forums. Reliance signed up with the landlords. We were in no position to pay. Rents have not been paid for two years. We are broke, we have no money,” Salve added. He further said the shop takeover started 15 days ago.
“We have no control if Reliance is acting outside this litigation. Reliance is taking over and we can’t do anything. We haven’t signed anywhere. In fact, Biyani went and protested.”
Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi appeared for Future Coupons Limited. The apex court said it will hear arguments further on Wednesday.
On March 3, Amazon proposed before the Supreme Court to have an informal dialogue with the Future Group to settle the ongoing dispute between the parties amicably.
Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC and FRL are embroiled in a legal fight over FRL’s Rs 24,713 crore merger deal with Reliance Retail.
Amazon has been opposing the Future group’s decision to go ahead with the merger deal of FRL with Reliance Retail. It got the Emergency Award of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in its favour which restrained Future group from going ahead with the merger deal. New Indian Express


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f a single statement could summarize the mind-set of Denver painter Trine Bumiller, she says it would be along the lines of “everything connects.” It’s a simple observation about the natural world, but it has provided the artist with inspiration for a growing body of work exploring themes of memory and place.
To Bumiller, the explanation of the whole can be found in the pieces composing it. “What fascinates me about the universe is how small parts make something big,” explains the artist, whose work has been represented by Denver’s Robischon Gallery for more than 30 years. “For instance, thousands of seconds make a day.” Many of her abstract paintings–displayed in places ranging from the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art to the Peninsula Hong Kong hotel–explore minute elements such as a patch of lichen or the flicker of yellow light through branches.
It’s a theme long embodied in portions of Bumiller’s work. As a teenager, she earned money painting 6,000 portraits over a few summers at an amusement park near her Cincinnati hometown. Years later in 2000, after moving to Denver for her husband’s work, she drew 2,000 frogs in honor of the leap year. In 2015, she unveiled 100 paintings commemorating Rocky Mountain National Park’s centennial. Recently, she completed Monumental, 129 paintings of American national monuments on display through August at the Center for Visual Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver as part of the “Pink Progression” group art exhibition.
The Monumental paintings are more expressionistic than abstract, but they maintain Bumiller’s creative use of color. “I get so excited by the colors I see in nature, but I don’t feel attached to their reality,” she explains. “I don’t think the sky needs to be blue.”
In this case, a palette of black, white, red and pink is used to record and honor places of natural beauty and interest. For most of the pieces, executed in the artist’s Park Hill studio, Bumiller first uses thin, black oil paint to sketch scenes on wood panels. She then adds pink and red glazes and white highlights, repeating the process several times for each painting. Although there are no people shown, the works reference human actions. She describes the art as an interesting way of looking at history and memory and of what people choose to preserve–and how they preserve it.
Bumiller is energized by the complexity of these multi-painting projects. “I love working out the numbers and dimensions and thinking about the workflow,” she says, noting it took four weeks of 10- to 12-hour days to complete the Monumental series. “For me, there’s nothing better than having the work all laid out for the next several weeks or months, because getting started is always the hard part.” Once that happens, the painting pulls her along and demands her attention.
Next, Bumiller plans to focus on large pieces that deal with the complexity of the environment. Early next year, her work addressing climate change will be part of a group show at the University of Colorado Boulder. “Whether it’s a lot of parts or large paintings, I like a human-size scale,” Bumiller says. “It’s about making a statement regarding the environment and replicating the feeling of being immersed in nature.”


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After making several lanyards, clients would ask me to make them necklaces that were just as intricate. They come in different lengths depending on the look you want. Short is 18" and is considered chocker style, 22" is a medium length and would fall gracefully on the upper part of the chest, 24" is long and drapes over the breast area. I can also make the piece longer if that is your preference. You tell me how long you want the necklace by using a measuring tape to see where you want the necklace to fall.
This is a beautiful example of a fall-colored necklace that I made. I used a set of hand-made Polymer Clay beads made especially for me along with brown glass crackle beads, burnt orange pearls, Swarovski emerald and topaz crystals, silver spacer beads, and emerald, tortoise and burnt orange seed beads. The crab claw clasp is silver and the necklace is double crimped on each end for extra durability.
Don't you just love this beautiful simple silver and white cross necklace? I started with an unusual celtic type cross and used silver and white Swarovski pearl beads, silver-lined seed beads, silver rice beads, silver round beads, silver spacer beads, and silver bead caps. The crab claw clasp is silver and the necklace is double crimped on each end for extra durability.
Here is another gorgeous example using polymer clay beads. I also used matching pearl beads, Bali style siver bead caps, silver spacer beads of different styles and sizes, Swarovski crystals, and seed beads.
What a beautiful matching necklace and earring set! Swarovski gray and white pearls were used along with Bali style silver bead caps, silver spacer beads, and seed beads. The matching earrings are drop style on fish hook style pierced earring findings.
I love working with polymer clay beads. This one really stands out in a crowd. What beautiful colors in this piece! I used a set of Polymer Clay Beads made by a very talented artist, along with genuine Amethyst round beads, pearl beads in Aqua, light purple and sand colors, and Swarovski and Czech glass crystals with gold accented bead caps and spacers. The closer is a toggle clasp style.
This piece was commissioned for an eclectic wedding. I started with the red rose on black cameo and used blackened brass filegree pieces to create the layered look. The detailed griffons protect the rose cameo. Black and red teardrop faceted glass beads dangle from the main focal piece and the blackened brass chain. The detail of the entire piece is exquisite! Remember with the layered pieces, it takes several days to create as each brass piece has to be secured to the other pieces securely. I use E-6000 Industrial Strength Adhesive to set each brass piece. These creations can contain as few as 2 brass pieces and can grow from there depending on how intricate you want your look. To give you an idea on price, this set sold for $150.
This was created as a Christmas gift for a client. She chose these lovely handcrafted glass beads and I matched them with natural amethyst round beads and natural stone round beads along with gold tone spacer beads,gold tone bead caps and brown seed beads. The clasp is toggle style.
Necklaces start at $85 and if you desire a layered brass design, these start at $100. If you would like something similar to the samples, please contact me for price.


Within the framework of a ZIM project (promotion of innovation in the EU), we developed a modular robot cell in cooperation with EITEC. The aim of the project was the optimization of robot-based handling systems. The Eitec robot cell is therefore an intelligent workpiece magazine where the cycle times can be significantly reduced by the barrier-free design of the unit.
Number, size and construction of the respective magazine chambers in this robot cell are freely configurable and therefore meets the individual requirements. The cell is also configurable as a table version with automated feed line of workpiece pallets.
Besides the modular construction principle of the workpiece magazine, optimising cycle times by raising the robot’s freedom of movement in a very confined space has been another innovative improvement of current solutions.


Maps To The Stars
Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska star in David Cronenberg's Hollywood caricature.
A Los Angeles emergency services operator (Halle Berry) takes a call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) locked in the trunk of a kidnapper’s car, and must talk her through her own rescue.
“Don’t make promises,” veteran Los Angeles emergency operator and instructor Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) dispassionately informs her class of newbies. It’s far too easy, as anyone can see, to get personally involved when scared people call you for help in their most desperate hour. But after one 911 (aka, 999) call goes bad for Turner, she gets personally involved with another - though it would have been difficult to disconnect, emotionally or telephonically, with this one anyway, since the caller is a kidnapped teenage girl who is phoning from the trunk of her abductor’s car.
Cinema is rife with serial killer films, but the standout joy of this one is how it smashes to smithereens the tired trope of woman-as-victim. While similar movies often take pleasure, and hope we will too, in the easily terrorized weaknesses of a “clever” madman’s targets, here we have feisty Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl) refusing to give in to her fate or give up trying to escape. Her Casey Welson is, despite the made-for-melodrama circumstances, one of the most realistic teen girls popular film has offered us in recent memory.
And Berry’s (Cloud Atlas, X-Men) Turner is a model of consummate professionalism: cool, calm, and capable as she talks Casey through trying to determine where the moving car is, where it might be heading, and how to draw attention to herself in a way that might bring nearby help. These are smart, resourceful women who don’t need rescuing: they’ll rescue themselves, thank you very much.
It does all get rather preposterously silly in the end, but director Brad Anderson, taking a studio step up from his previous indie work, never loses the goodwill he gained early on by bringing the same fresh perspective to genre storytelling he utilized in his unsettling films The Machinist and Session 9. This is tense, effective popcorn pulp that doesn’t make you feel that you’ve seen this same story a hundred times before.
The familiar serial-killer flick gets a welcome shakeup, upending the woman-as-victim cliché and offering a bracing new perspective on an oft-told tale.
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On Thursday I was reading the newspaper obituary for Virginia Jo Frazier Gilman, who died Monday, May 2, when this paragraph in it caught my eyes:
“Virginia Jo Frazier is quite a name in some circles in the Chattanooga area, particularly to residents over the age of 80.
Virginia Jo was a media sensation because she was kidnapped and held for four days in 1927. Returned unharmed, she was the subject of many newspaper articles during that time.”
The obituary, which even included a photograph taken of the then 2-year-old after she was returned home safely, seemed a generous way of sharing a dark memory by the family. It also indicated that the incident was apparently a permanent link to this woman who lived to tell about it for an amazing 95 years.
It also made me curious to learn more about this event I had never previously heard of, so I went down to the Chattanooga Public Library to look up some old newspaper articles on it on microfilm.
The incident took place over several days in late March 1927. The trying event apparently began during the early morning of Thursday March 24, 1927, when an intruder or intruders came into the Frazier family home at 701 Greenwood Ave. in Highland Park and left with the young Virginia Josephine.
Her parents, Chattanooga City Commissioner Fred B. and Virginia B. Frazier, were away on a trip to Tampa, Fl., But at the home on Greenwood Avenue were her 5-year-old brother, French Frazier; her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Philo D. Benham; and a 17-year-old nurse-like helper, Ms. Johnnie Peale. Ms. Peale, who was a student at Central High off Dodds Avenue, was helping young Virginia Jo try to get over the winter-long whooping cough.
While an opened door to the nursery was noticed, not until the family maid arrived that morning did those in the house realize young Virginia Josephine was missing.
This created quite an alarm in the city, and suddenly much of the police force went to work on the case, issuing an all-points bulletin. But unfortunately, no sign of the young child was found for the first couple of days.
Her parents had hurriedly returned home from Tampa on a train, and much of the city began looking for the child. Searchers included friends of the Fraziers and local Boy Scouts and schoolchildren.
But no clues could be found as reporters from the Associated Press and the Atlanta newspapers also descended on the city.
“No other case in the history of the city has created so much interest,” said one headline in the Chattanooga Times, which would devote a whole page to the story for several days, although not on the front page.
And then on Saturday, a couple of days after she had been taken, the Frazier family received a little hope. A ransom letter arrived that seemed to be authentic, and Commissioner Frazier said the family would respect the demands and allow the abductor or abductors to flee after the baby was successfully delivered back to them safely.
On Sunday, a black youth had apparently delivered a ransom package with some of Virginia Josephine’s hair and clothing to a Western Union office on Broad Street, and the Western Union official took it to the police headquarters.
In what was a semi-sophisticated operation, Commissioner Frazier – who was also a successful lawyer and his family also had a home on Lookout Mountain – was to deliver $3,333 in the special package to a black man holding a broom in an alley by McCallie and Central avenues.
Commissioner Frazier apparently was still trying to get some money from his brother, Jim Frazier, the sheriff in Rhea County, so he distraughtly told the person he met in the alley to give him a little more time. Commissioner Frazier did come back a little while later with the money.
Then, a short while later, the doorbell rang at the home of the First Presbyterian Church pastor, the Rev. Joseph G. Venable, at 921 Vine St. in Fort Wood. Rev. Venable and his wife had just been home for a little while after Sunday night church activities, and when the doorbell was answered, there was little Virginia Josephine Frazier.
Rev. Venable called Commissioner Frazier, and the family happily rushed over to be reunited with young Virginia Josephine. A doctor said she had been doped up in some way by the abductors, perhaps to keep her quiet, but was otherwise fine, the news reports said.
The next day many well-wishers came by to see the Fraziers, and young Virginia Jo happily posed for a photograph or two. Her mother was reportedly still too full of emotion and rested out of sight.
Young Virginia Jo mentioned hearing trains, so authorities thought she had been kept somewhere near Warner Park and the nearby railroad tracks during her abduction.
About a day after her return, the police announced the apprehension of three white people in connection with the case – nanny nurse Ms. Peale, and a romantically linked couple – former Rhea County police official Frank Baskett and Mrs. Anna Thomison. He had previously been tried in connection with the killing of his brother-in-law but had been acquitted with the help of Commissioner Frazier’s legal counsel, while she had been acquitted in connection with the killing of a former spouse.
Authorities said Commissioner Frazier had later helped Mr. Baskett get on the Chattanooga police force, but when he tried a second time after being dismissed and Commissioner Frazier did not try to help him get reinstated, Mr. Baskett turned bitter toward the commissioner.
Mr. Baskett lived in the East Lake area with his wife, who was not Ms. Thomison, while Ms. Thomison lived in the Lindsay Apartments off Forest Avenue in North Chattanooga.
After the arrest of Baskett and the gathering of an excited crowd outside police headquarters, he was rushed to Knoxville for safekeeping.
Efforts to find details on how their cases played out could not be secured during a quick search, but two younger black men allegedly involved in the kidnapping, including in dealing with Commissioner Frazier, were also arrested about a week later. They were Lewis and Arthur Willis. Lewis Willis was sentenced to 25 years in prison that June.
Commissioner Frazier would live until 1963, when he died at the age of 83. The former Rhea County school official and attorney later was involved in forming a savings and loan association.
His wife, also named Virginia and a native of St. Louis, went on to become a Girl Scout supporter and worshiped at First-Centenary United Methodist Church before her death in 1971.
Virginia Josephine Frazier, meanwhile, went on to enjoy a very rich and productive life, unlike some of those very young children who were also kidnapped without as happy an ending during that unusual and somewhat bizarre time in American history.
Her obituary said she went to Girls Preparatory School, graduating in 1942, and at the end of World War II was helping in the war effort in Florida by signing in returning servicemen, some of whom were former prisoners of war. She could relate with them as someone who had also been held in captivity, although it was likely at an age when it left only a minimal scar on her.
She had married Henry Bouton Gilman Jr. from the Gilman paint and varnish family, and she went on to serve others by teaching Bible in the schools.
Many might say God had quite a plan for her when he helped spare her life during those long-ago days of 1927. And it would be a plan that would last for nearly a century.
And the home where she was abducted long ago is apparently still standing just above Holtzclaw Avenue and the National Cemetery, while the Fort Wood home where she was safely dropped off remains little changed as well.
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I fully and openly admit that when it comes to Autumn-centric beverages, I much prefer salted caramel flavored anything over the immensely popular pumpkin spice flavored drink/food. There’s just something about the perfect mixture of sweet and salty that can satisfy nearly any craving.
Of course, it’s still technically Summer here- and with the temperatures still steadily soaring high- it might be a little bizarre to walk into any coffee shop to order a piping hot salted caramel latte or hot chocolate.
Thankfully, there’s a colder alternative available that takes no more than 2 minutes to prepare, mix and enjoy. Best of all, this recipe can easily be tweaked to become sweeter or saltier based on your own personal preference.
I went ahead and made it the old fashioned way, so the recipe below reflects what I used and how many measurements it’d take to make one smoothie.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
* 1 cup vanilla almondmilk
* ½ frozen banana
* 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
* 1 tablespoon peanut butter (creamy- not chunky)
* ½ cup ice
* 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
* A pinch (or two) of sea salt
OKAY, HERE’S WHAT YOU DO:
1. Blend all ingredients (except the sea salt) until smooth.
2. To garnish, sprinkle the pinches of the salt on top. You can also use chocolate bar shavings and/or caramel sauce to make it look more presentable.
How easy is that, right? I’ve been loving these lately- and they’re a great way to transition from Summer to Fall flavors without burning your tongue.
If you have any Summer-to-Fall recipes (including beverages) that you swear by this time of year- I’d love to hear them!


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Polish Businessman Applies for Offshore Wind Farm Construction
Polish businessman Jan Kulczyk has applied for the permission to construct an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, writes thenews.pl news portal.
Kulczyk’s energy company, Polenergia, is keeping silent about the four offshore wind projects it has.
However, chairman of Polenergia, Dariusz Mioduski, stated that the company has filed an application to the state-owned transmission system operator, PSE Operator, for an offshore wind project which could power 700,000 homes.
Offshore WIND staff, June 7, 2012


May 9, Music Matters. Every song has a story to tell. The music you listen to can make you feel upset, happy, angry, or other emotions. Whether you love Bruno Mars or Beethoven, the one thing that connects all music is a theme. Literary Devices have taken a look at some of the most common themes in famous songs, and have identified these five as the most common. Many songs deal with growing up or growing older.
Coming of Age/ Growing Up
Definition of Theme in Song
Listeners love a good Pop song and radio loves to play them. Basically, a Pop song is one that a lot of people currently enjoy listening to and want to hear again. A Pop song is a combination of something you want to say and something listeners want to hear. Try not to be critical of work in progress. Just let it flow and see what happens. Your message will emotionally connect with listeners if you handle it with honesty and insight. They feature the same kinds of popular themes that work for songs. Just grab a pencil and a sheet of paper and start watching your favorite TV shows. Try writing from the point of view of one of the people in the situation. Most hit Pop songs revolve around the singer or the singer and another person.
Everyone who has tried to write a song or poem knows how frustrating it can be at times. I've had writer's block hundreds of times and I'm sure you've experienced it as well. It's probably why you're here.
If you are on this page looking for ideas, the next step is to own a song writing idea book that will give you all the ideas you need always to hand. Pick a subject. Set the time.