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In Grady v. Brodersen, Colorado Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang granted the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions against the defendant in part for failing to produce a computer that the defendant ultimately acknowledged that he discarded, but denied the plaintiff’s request for a default judgment sanction, opting for the less severe adverse inference instruction sanction.
If you’ve worked with computers for over three decades like I have, you remember some of the old ways we used computers to support litigation. Our colleague, Jane Gennarelli, covered some of those in her recent “Throwback Thursdays” series. But, a 34 year old software application can still be useful today.
In Fox v. Leland Volunteer Fire/Rescue Dep’t Inc., North Carolina District Judge Louise W. Flanagan ruled that a Read Receipt automatically sent from the defendant’s email address to the plaintiff (when the defendant opened an email sent by the plaintiff) was not hearsay.
An Arkansas lawyer representing three Fort Smith police officers in a whistleblower case is seeking sanctions after his computer expert found malware on an external hard drive supplied in response to a discovery request, according to a story by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Over a year ago, we discussed budget calculators available from the Metrics section of the EDRM web site and reviewed the four calculators available at the time. In the past couple of weeks, EDRM added a new calculator. Let’s take a look at that and also other upcoming EDRM events, including a webinar today.
In Engineered Abrasives, Inc. v. American Machine Products & Service, Inc., Illinois District Judge Sara L. Ellis awarded the plaintiff damages, attorneys’ fees and some requested costs, as well as granting the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions and ordering the defendants to reimburse the plaintiff $12,800 for the cost of conducting a forensic computer examination, which the plaintiff maintained was necessitated by Defendants' evasive and incomplete responses and their failure to produce documents during discovery.
Last Friday, we discussed a report in The New York Times that discussed the unwillingness of most big US law firms to discuss or even acknowledge data breaches. But, despite the unwillingness to disclose breach information, more and more law firms are apparently purchasing or considering the purchase of cyber liability insurance to protect against potential data breaches.
In February, we discussed a report about data breach trends in 2014 and how those trends compared to data breaches in 2013. That report provided breach trends for several industries, including the healthcare industry, which suffered the most breaches last year (possibly because stolen health records are apparently worth big money). But, according to a recent report, you won’t see any trends for law firms because the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach.
It’s hard to believe, but ten years ago this past Monday, the verdict was rendered in the Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC case. Let’s take a look back at the case and see what Laura Zubulake is doing today.
Yesterday, we discussed how corporate logo graphic files in email signatures can add complexity when managing those emails in eDiscovery, as these logos, repeated over and over again, can add up to a significant percentage of your collection on a file count basis. Today, we are going to discuss a couple of ways that I have worked with clients to manage those files during the review process.
Many, if not most of us, use some sort of graphic in our email signature at work that represents our corporate logo and many organizations have created a standard email signature for their employees to use when corresponding with others. It’s another subtle way of promoting brand recognition. But, those logos can add complexity when managing those emails in eDiscovery.
In Harrell v. Pathmark et al., Pennsylvania District Judge Gene E. K. Pratter, after a hearing to consider whether to draw an adverse inverse instruction due to the defendant’s possible spoliation of video evidence, determined that “a spoliation inference would not be appropriate here”. Finding that the plaintiff had presented no evidence that the defendant had constructive notice of a dangerous condition resulting in her slip and fall, Judge Pratter also granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment.
If the title seems odd, let me clarify. I’m talking about “fuzzy” searching, which is a mechanism by finding alternate words that are close in spelling to the word you're looking for. Fuzzy searching will expand your search recall, but too much “fuzzy” will leave you reviewing a lot of non-responsive hits.
Early in the life of this blog, we published a blog post called eDiscovery 101: Simply Deleting a File Doesn’t Mean It’s Gone to try to help our readers understand how disk drives keep track of files and how “deleted” files often can still be recovered. Something tells me that basic forensic concept will become a big issue in the coming weeks and months regarding Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.
Last month, we discussed how the number of data breaches was up in 2014, but the number of records breached was down. Of course, this year already got off to a rocky start when health insurance provider Anthem announced in early February that it had suffered what appears to be the largest breach ever in the health insurance industry, affecting about 80 million people. It turns out that those hacked health records are worth a lot in the black market.
In Colosi v. Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court’s judgment to approve a $6,369.55 bill of costs which included synchronization of deposition videos and imaging of hard drives that the defendant submitted after prevailing in the case.
In Lunkenheimer Co. v. Tyco Flow Control Pacific Party Ltd., Ohio District Judge Timothy S. Black ruled that the duty to preserve for the defendant (an Australian company with offices and facilities only in Australia) did not begin until the complaint was filed in US courts in December 2011, denying the assertion of the intervenor/counter defendant that the duty to preserve arose in 2002.
It may not be game time, but the question of what time it really is has a significant effect on how eDiscovery is handled.
A couple of weeks ago, a $384 million class action was filed in Canada against professional services firm Deloitte LLP on behalf of hundreds of lawyers working at a document-review company it acquired last year. Even in Canadian dollars, that’s a lot.
In the case In Re: Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation, California Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu ordered the defendants to comply with the plaintiffs’ proposed qualitative sampling process for keyword search terms, citing DaSilva Moore that keywords “often are overinclusive”.
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Everyone is waiting to hear the cast recording of the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies. Gossip, hopes and rumours are rippling though message boards, social networks and blogs about the recording. Cast member Terri White tweeted about the recording recently, and this production’s Buddy, Danny Burstein, posted on Facebook that the recording will include the complete score on 2 discs. Complete, I suppose, except for “Bolero d’Amour”, which I hear was still not reinstated when this production transferred.
I cannot wait to hear it. Bring it on.


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I’ve been writing about different aspects of the writing process for awhile, but what to do with your finished work? Do you search for a publisher? Self publish? Store your work in a drawer?
There have been so many changes in the world of publishing, that it’s difficult to keep up. My feeling is that […]
I’ve been asked to give a workshop about the first step to publishing. In order to publish a quality book, editing is key. After your own edits and re-writes, it’s important for a professional to edit your book. By doing the initial edits and read- throughs yourself, you’ll save your editor time and yourself a […]
Spring in Salmon Arm, BC means the goldfish, turtles and ducklings are back. It also means that the Word on the Lake writers festival is gearing up. This year is the festival’s tenth anniversary and promises to be an amazing weekend.
With thirteen presenters, there will be something of interest for everyone. New this year […]
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National Sew A Jelly Roll Day is Saturday, September 17th but I just don't think one day is enough to celebrate, so I'm hosting Sew A Jelly Roll Weekend. Join me for a "Jelly-Filled" weekend from September 16th - September 18th as we sew the My Sew Quilty Life Rolling Petals pattern. This pattern is Jelly Roll (2.5" strip friendly) and a blast to sew. The pattern comes in several different sizes and looks amazing in any fabric. I've already made one block for my quilt to help advertise this QAL and I must say, it's taking a lot in me to not finish the rest. The block goes together so wonderfully. I just love it. Come sew with me! Continue reading for more details.
September now - 15th - Gather Supplies (see supplies list below)
September 16th - Cut fabrics/start blocks (YouTube tutorial released)
September 17th - Make/finish blocks
September 18th - Assemble quilt/celebrate
September 19th - Giveaway winners announced
Get Ready! Get Set! Go!
1. Signup for the QAL! Click the button below to signup. You must be signed up in order to be entered to win the QAL prizes.
2. Purchase/gather supplies.
3. Share with a friend.
4. Get ready to have some fun!
In order to complete the blocks for the quilt, you will need to purchase the Rolling Petals pattern which is available in PDF and paper formats on my website. If you order the paper pattern please place your order before September 7th to ensure your pattern arrives on time. The PDF pattern is an instant download. The pattern comes in three quilt sizes. Wall Hanging 38" x 38", Crib 48" x 48", and Throw size quilt 58" x 58". If you would like to make your quilt larger, you can do so by adding more flower blocks. For the sake of time, I am currently planning to make the crib-size quilt, but if I have time I will make more blocks and make the throw size, or larger. Each flower block is 10" finished. There is no sashing, so this is a quick make.
Rolling Petals Pattern:
1 Jelly Roll or 2.5" strips. You can find them at your favorite local or online quilt shop. If you need some ideas CLICK HERE. If you make the wall hanging and crib-size quilt you will not need an entire Jelly Roll. If you make the throw size or larger version you will need an entire 42-strip Jelly Roll. You can always cut up fat quarters or yardage into 2.5" strips if you do not want to purchase a Jelly Roll. Just be sure to have your strips cut before the start date so it's easier for you.
Border, Corner Stones, and Background Fabric (see amounts needed for each size on the back cover of the pattern).
I made my original Rolling Petals last year using Brenda Riddle's Sophie collection for Moda Fabrics. There are also several different beautiful quilts that have been made since the pattern has released. Use the hashtag #rollingpetalsquilt to see more. I will be using a 1930s reproduction Jelly Roll in order to make my quilt for the QAL. My inspiration is my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt. The flowers in Rolling Petals remind me of the flowers in my original flower garden quilt. I just love them. I colored up a crib-size layout for my inspiration. What do you think? The pattern comes with a throw-size coloring sheet for you to be able to color in your fabrics. The other sizes will be sent to you in an email after you have signed up for the QAL.
I will be releasing a video tutorial on my YouTube channel on September 16th for the flower block. Stay tuned for that! I will post a link here when the tutorial is out. Go ahead and subscribe so you don't miss it or any videos from me. I will be adding more block tutorials on my channel for each of my patterns over the next few months.
Rolling Petals Flower Block Tutorial:
In order to be entered into a giveaway, you must be:
1. signed up for the QAL
2. Posting your progress each day using the hashtag #rollingpetalsqal
3. Follow @mysewquiltylife on Instagram.
4. Willing to provide your shipping address for some of the prizes if you are the winner.
The Giveaway winners will be announced Monday, September 19, 2022.
Get ready to have some fun!
Stay tuned for more details.

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Meetings, presentations and interviews are increasingly conducted through the camera lens these days. But communicating through a camera is quite different from face-to-face. I stand in front of the camera every day and give you 5 tips to get your message across powerfully.
It doesn’t come naturally for most people: standing in front of the camera relaxed and confident. Clearly conveying your message in a virtual environment feels different. Often people forget to look into the camera lens and use expression and body language. And that makes communication a lot less powerful.
As with communication in ‘real life’, it is often not about the exact words you use, but HOW you say something. I would therefore like to give you 5 practical tips that you can immediately apply to how you come across in virtual meetings, video interviews and live streams.
1. Harness the power of body language and expression
In video meetings and live streams we are often very focused on the content of the conversation, but don’t you also forget about non-verbal communication? During regular conversations, we often do it automatically: a friendly smile and simply making eye contact, or speaking with your hands. But for a camera this often falls away. So don’t forget:
- Looking into the camera lens to make eye contact. Especially during moments when you want to convey something clearly.
- To smile every now and then. Even when you are not speaking, facial expressions allow you to respond non-verbally to what is being said.
- Keep an open attitude. For example, do not sit with your arms folded, leaned back, but with your arms open and your body leaned forward.
2. Come across as powerful with your voice
One of the best instruments you own? Your vote! With good use of your voice you can attract attention, keep the attention, and convey a message well.
So it is often not in the precise words you use, but how you say something. Good use of voice keeps you captivated as a listener, and the message really gets through. This is usually due to variation in voice use:
- Vary in tempo and volume. Speak faster sometimes, and slow on really important parts. Let the speaking pace also depend on the pace of the meeting and/or the interview. Adjust your pace to someone else.
- Lower voices often come across as clearer and more powerful. Are you nervous and speaking high? Then try to breathe calmly and speak in a low voice (from your lower abdomen).
- Make sure you have the right intonation: a varied melody in your voice. A monotonous story is very difficult to keep up with. Think in advance which words you really want to emphasize.
- Don’t be afraid of silences. It can be very helpful to take a moment of silence right after you say something important. Then the previous sentence comes in extra.
3. This makes you appear more energetic
I am regularly told that I have a ‘nice energy’ in front of the camera. However, I don’t always feel full of energy. If I’m tired, or don’t really feel like a video meeting, I try to get into the right mode beforehand. I then try to boost my energy level, so that I do come across clearly in front of a camera. Here are some ways you can do that:
- Be aware of how you feel beforehand. Are you interested in this meeting, livestream or interview? Or do you not feel like it, and maybe you feel tired?
- When I feel tired, I briefly try to do something that gives me energy: I put on a great music song for 1 minute, or I do jumping jacks for 20 seconds. Being outside for two minutes can also help enormously.
- In addition, I am aware of the first 10-20 seconds of the meeting: precisely then I try to be extra aware of an open body posture, expression, and a warm smile. If the first 20 seconds go well, the rest usually goes a lot better too!
4. Stressed or nervous? Tips to become calmer
In the first few minutes of a live stream, I always feel tension. I am often very aware of what I say and how I say it. Recognizable? Over the years I have found different ways to deal with nerves in front of the camera. A few at a glance:
- Do you feel the nerves running through your body? Stand up, let yourself fall over, and let everything ‘let go’ for a while. Hanging upside down for a while and breathing slowly can help me a lot. Sometimes I do this for 20 seconds, and sometimes for 2 minutes.
- Which can also help enormously, before the camera is on: standing with your arms on your hips or wide up in the air. This ‘power pose’ is used in many professions to appear confident.
- Be aware that almost everyone (especially at the start) has nerves. So give yourself time to land.
5. Practice, practice, practice
How do you ensure that you speak powerfully, appear confident, and that your message clearly reaches the viewer(s)? Especially by practicing this a lot. The only real way to really master all of the above tips is to give yourself time.
I learned a lot myself by making mistakes, I made a lot of bloopers during live news on American television, I was extremely nervous during recordings, and the nerves were screaming through my body when speaking at events.
So are you nervous, do you come across a little ‘awkward’? That is really quite normal. Keep doing it, and allow yourself to experiment and make mistakes. Because that’s how you really learn!
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Hi, I need help with essay on Stock Research. Paper must be at least 1750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!
The line chart provided below supports the findings of the data. The line chart shows that FTSE 100 showed almost regular trend while the stocks of BT Group plc showed high range of volatility. The volatility of the stocks of BT Group plc were especially high during the months of February. March and May 2014. This was due to the fact that during February, 2014 , BT Group plc had a slow pace of business activities as their work of setting up phone fixed lines were hampered and pushed back up to a month due to heavy rainfall and floods in certain areas of UK. it can be seen that the company has given for two times and the valuation of dividend as per DDM model under CAPM is 9.90 per share.
BT Group plc is a company which falls in the Communications sector of industry. It extends its services to not only United kingdom but also other 170 countries across the world. It provides services such as fixed line calling, broadband, television products and even has launched itself into information technology services (networked). The main customers of the company are various multinational corporations, private domestic businesses, and various national and local governments. It presently has a market capital of around £ 31.04 and its head quarters is situated in London.( Hargreves Lansdown, 2014)
Since the analysis has not mentioned any stipulated time frame hence we consider one year as the time period of speculation. The financial year that has been selected for the analysis is financial year 2013-14. The data tables provided below shows the Risk adjusted returns of BT Group plc and FTSE 100 for the past one year 2013-14 and its comparison (Yahoo finance, 2014)
It is seen that mostly BT Group plc has positive returns in comparison to the market except during three instances on the dates 3rd February 2014, 3rd March 2014 and 1st May 2014. The line chart provided below supports the

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In the past year both Google and Facebook have released the remote procedure call (RPC) technologies that are used for communication between servers within their data centers as Open Source projects.
Facebook Thrift allows you to define data types and service interfaces in a simple definition file. Taking that file as input, the compiler generates code to be used to easily build RPC clients and servers that communicate seamlessly across programming languages. It supports the following programming languages; C++, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby.
Google Protocol Buffers allows you to define data types and service interfaces in a simple definition file. Taking that file as input, the compiler generates code to be used to easily build RPC clients and servers that communicate seamlessly across programming languages. It supports the following programming languages; C++, Java and Python.
That’s interesting. Didn’t Steve Vinoski recently claim that RPC and it's descendants are "fundamentally flawed"? If so, why are Google and Facebook not only using RPC but proud enough of their usage of yet another distributed object RPC technology based on binary protocols that they are Open Sourcing them? Didn’t they get the memo that everyone is now on the REST + JSON/XML bandwagon (preferrably AtomPub)?
In truth, Google is on the REST + XML band wagon. Google has the Google Data APIs (GData) which is a consistent set of RESTful APIs for accessing data from Google's services based on the Atom Publishing Protocol aka RFC 5023. And even Facebook has a set of plain old XML over HTTP APIs (POX/HTTP) which they incorrectly refer to as the Facebook REST API.
So what is the story here?
It is all about coupling and how much control you have over the distributed end points. On the Web where you have little to no control over who talks to your servers or what technology they use, you want to utilize flexible technologies that make no assumptions about either end of the communication. This is where RESTful XML-based Web services shine. However when you have tight control over the service end points (e.g. if they are all your servers running in your data center) then you can use more optimized communications technologies that add a layer of tight coupling to your system. An example of the kind of tight coupling you have to live with is that Facebook Thrift requires specific versions of g++ and Java if you plan to talk to it using code written in either language and you can’t talk to it from a service written in C#.
In general, the Web is about openness and loose coupling. Binary protocols that require specific programming languages and runtimes are the exact opposite of this. However inside your Web service where you control both ends of the pipe, you can optimize the interaction between your services and simplify development by going with a binary RPC based technology. More than likely different parts of your system are already doing this anyway (e.g. memcached uses a binary protocol to talk between cache instances, SQL Server uses TDS as the communications protocol between the database and it's clients, etc).
Always remember to use the right tool for the job. One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to technology decisions.
- Exposing a WCF Service With Multiple Bindings and Endpoints – Keith Elder describes how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) supports multiple bindings that enable developers to expose their services in a variety of ways. A developer can create a service once and then expose it to support net.tcp:// or http:// and various versions of http:// (Soap1.1, Soap1.2, WS*, JSON, etc). This can be useful if a service crosses boundaries between the intranet and the Internet.
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Stereo Honey are a four piece from London with an evident love for anthemic rock. The band today reveal their new track Through The Dark which is taken from their forthcoming Monuments EP that drops on December 1st.
Through The Dark is a cinematic and powerful song that is remeniscent of Muse, Nothing But Thieves or New Desert Blues.
The track follows on from the haunting The Bay which was released earlier this Autumn and went to #1 on the Hype Machine ‘Most Popular’ chart and made it’s way up to #3 Spotify’s Hot New Band playlist and #4 on The Indie List.
Pete from the band explains the inspiration for the new track:
Through the dark is about a light at the end of a tunnel, being dragged from a precipice and hauled roughly to your feet. When you shine a light into places you reveal things that you perhaps didn’t expect.
Stereo Honey have been confirmed for The Great Escape and Eurosonic. More dates will be announced soon.
Stereo Honey – Through The Dark
- Sat 2018The Night Café, Darwin Deez, Stereo Honey, Maisie Peters, Asylums, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The Orielles, Sundara Karma, The Lottery Winners, Sports Team, Clean Cut Kid, Kawala, Everything Everything, Spector, Blaenavon, Wild Front, Vistas (CAD), The Pale White, Husky Loops, Elli Ingram, Swim Deep, Temples, CLOVES, The Fling, Teleman
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David Cameron offered the services of supply chain finance group Greensill Capital to a senior German government official as an investigation into his German banking arm gathered pace.
Cameron is at the center of a lobbying scandal over Greensill Capital, whose German subsidiary Greensill Bank went bankrupt last month.
A spokesperson for the former British Prime Minister told the Financial Times: âDavid Cameron participated in a virtual call with the German Ambassador last November with senior representatives from Greensill to discuss the introduction of Earn in the German civil service.
Earnd is a subsidiary of Greensill which allowed employees to withdraw their wages in installments.
According to three people familiar with the matter, Cameron requested a meeting with German Deputy Finance Minister JÃ¶rg Kukies last year. Kukies, Social Democrat and former senior banker at Goldman Sachs, is in charge of financial market and European politics in Berlin. Kukies declined to participate in the meeting, people said.
However, a spokesperson for Cameron disputed that he had requested a meeting and said: [the embassy] appeal, the German Ambassador proposed a meeting for the Greensill team with the German Deputy Minister of Finance, JÃ¶rg Kukies. This meeting did not take place and David Cameron played no role in his suggestion or in the process of his organization.
The embassy’s appeal last November came after German banking watchdog BaFin stepped up its investigation into Greensill’s banking subsidiary.
The bank’s management is under criminal investigation after German regulators began investigating last year over concerns over its exposure to the activities of British steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta.
Documents regarding Greensill released by the German Finance Ministry last month show that BaFin began “regular exchanges with foreign supervisors” in January 2020, after press reports on “the business relationship between Greensill and the group Gupta â.
Over the summer, the German regulator set up a “Greensill task force” to prepare a special audit of the bank after receiving advice from whistleblowers reporting “various allegations of fraud” around “falsified invoices. “, According to the documents.
The investigation ultimately raised concerns about Greensill Bank’s level of exposure to companies linked to metals tycoon Gupta, which drew billions of dollars in funding from the lender. KPMG, which launched the audit in September, has also struggled to verify the existence of certain invoices underlying these funding deals, the FT previously reported.
Cameron started working as a paid adviser to the bank’s parent company, Greensill Capital, in 2018, and was granted stock options that, at one point, could have been worth tens of millions of pounds. .
He made his first public statement on Greensill last weekend, saying he “had no role in the decisions to grant credit, or in the terms of granting that credit.” He said the value of his stock options, which are now worthless after the collapse of the company, was “far from the amount speculated in the press,” but did not offer a specific figure.
Kukies and the German finance ministry declined to comment. Greensill Capital did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Greensill administrator Grant Thornton declined to comment. The German Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cameron’s contacts with German officials have not been reported before and are likely to add to the scrutiny of the former prime minister’s conduct in the Greensill affair.
Jens Zimmermann, a Social Democrats MP in Berlin who is part of the Bundestag committee investigating the fraud of the collapsed German payment company Wirecard, said there were parallels ” between the scandals around Wirecard and Greensill “.
In both cases, the balance sheets appear to have been manipulated and “the massive use of former politicians as door-openers is also evident,” said Zimmermann, deputy chairman of the German-British parliamentary friendship group in the Bundestag.
Kukies faces criticism from his own coalition partners as well as the opposition for visiting Markus Braun, then CEO of Wirecard, at the company’s headquarters in Munich. The visit came after The Financial Times raised allegations of fraud against Wirecard that triggered a special audit of its accounts.
The FT first revealed last month that Cameron lobbied the UK government to increase Greensill Capital’s access to state-backed Covid-19 emergency loan programs, months before the company funding does not collapse and leaves the taxpayer responsible for potential losses.
Cameron is now expected to be called to testify in several UK parliamentary inquiries into the Greensill scandal.
BaFin’s criminal complaint against the management of Greensill Bank concerns a suspicion of balance sheet manipulation, punishable by up to three years in prison under German law.
Additional reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin
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Shepherd's purse is an annual tap-rooted, introduced European species that is found in North America across Canada and in all but one US state (Puerto Rico) (USDA 2011). This species begins to flower early in lowland areas in BC (February/March). It is found in disturbed sites (roadsides, fields and waste places) in the lowland, steppe and montane zones. It is readily identifiable because of the distinctive fruits (heart-shaped silicles).
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General: Annual herb from a taproot; stems simple to branched, 10-50 cm long, with simple and starlike hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves in rosettes, stalked, 3-6 cm long, oblanceolate, more or less entire to pinnately lobed or dissected; stem leaves unstalked and clasping, lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, mostly remotely saw-toothed, with earlike lobes at the base.
Flowers: Inflorescene a many-flowered raceme; flower stalks slender, spreading, 7-15 mm long; petals white, with a distinct stalklike base, 1.5-4 mm long; sepals 2 mm long.
Fruits: Silicles, heart-shaped to triangular, 4-8 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, strongly flattened, broad at tip, squared-off to slightly notched; seeds numerous, minutely net-veined.
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Nothing sophisticated about them! It's an appetizer made with what we find around the house, by the mouth, obviously! :)
- 1 packet of puff pastry dough
- slices of salami (any salami you like)
- cheese slices (any kind)
- black olive paste
- basil leaves
Preparation time: less than 30 minutes
RECIPE PREPARATION Bascute appetizer:
From the puff pastry I cut the dough slices with the mouth of the glass, I put them on the baking tray sprinkled only a little with water, I pricked them with a fork from place to place so that they don't grow too much and I gave them to preheat oven until browned. I left them to cool and then cut them in half. On the first part of the dough I put a slice of salami, and because the cheese slices were too big for these hams, I cut them with the shapes of cookies :) (I really had nothing to do! :)) and I put over a teaspoon of olive paste. Then came the basil leaf, then the lid, which I didn't decorate with anything ... maybe some ketch-up was going on? or a parsley leaf.
That's about it! Good appetite!
Chicken breast salad "Alex" & # 8211 a light appetizer, to everyone's taste!
We present you a delicious salad recipe with chicken breast. It is prepared from a minimal amount of ingredients, being perfect both for family dinner and for the holiday meal. Experiment with your favorite salad sauce and enjoy a new tasty appetizer every time.
-250 g of preserved mushroom mushrooms
METHOD OF PREPARATION
1. Boil the chicken breast in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt. Remove from the pan and allow to cool. Cut it into small cubes.
2. Cut the preserved mushrooms into 2 or 4 parts.
3. Wash the tomatoes. Cut them into cubes.
4. Peel and chop the onion. Pour boiling water into the bowl with onions and leave for 5-10 minutes. Drain the boiled water and wash the onion with cold water.
5. Grate the cheese.
6. Mix the salad ingredients. Add the crushed garlic.
7. Match with mayonnaise and spices to taste. Refrigerate the salad.
Easter Table "in a Circle" & # 8211 Eggs stuffed with avocado
This year, for the Easter appetizers, the nutritionists "înCerc" come to our aid with special recipes, delicious and easy to prepare, recipes that we can use for the rest of the year.
A new “unconventional” recipe for appetizers on the Easter table “înCerc” is proposed to us by nutritionist Larisa Rusu: eggs stuffed with avocado.
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- boiled egg white
- lemon juice
- marinated salmon
- salt and pepper
First, prepare the avocado paste: mix, in a bowl, the pulp of the avocado fruit with lemon juice (so as not to oxidize), garlic, salt and pepper.
The eggs are boiled in boiling water for at least 7 minutes, to be boiled hard. Clean and cut in half. Arrange the egg whites on the plate on which the stuffed eggs will be served, and add the yolks over the avocado paste.
In each egg white arrange a teaspoon of avocado paste, then decorate with a piece of smoked salmon.

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Besides the numerous and widespread utilization of dry ice in mundane household chores, this form of frozen carbon dioxide is also used widely in both commercial and industrial operations the world over. This, for the most part, is due to the fact that dry ice has many unique attributes which make it especially suited for a variety of beneficial applications. This, of course, includes its ability to remain in a frozen state for prolonged periods of time. Also, since it always sublimates into gaseous form, this amazing product never leaves behind any residues. In turn, this makes it a particularly excellent alternative for water ice in numerous commercial and industrial cooling applications. Here then are some of the most notable and widespread uses of dry ice in the corporate world.
Food processing and storage industry
Dry ice has many and varied uses when it comes to the food industry. In the first place, thanks to the rigid regulations put in place in the context of proper food preparation, processing, and storage, dry ice is a constant presence in commercial kitchens. The same is true for eateries, food vendors, and even supermarkets. In this particular scenario, it is regularly utilized in cleaning and sanitizing food preparation equipment and surfaces in kitchens.
This is simply because it can be used to effectively deter bacteria, mildew, and mold growth to ensure foodstuff can be handled and processed in a clean and sterile environment. In turn, this goes a long way in preventing a wide range of food-associated diseases and even potential allergic reactions in consumers.
Additionally, dry ice is utilized in a food processing technique known as freeze-drying that is designed to preserve and extend the shelf life of organic foodstuff. When compared with other traditional dehydration methods of preserving the freshness of food, freeze-drying is much less damaging. This definitely means foodstuff which is freeze-dried doesn’t in any way lose its original flavor and appearance. Best of all, food products that are subjected to this process may be preserved for years at room temperature without suffering deterioration or spoilage. On the other hand, dry ice is often utilized in the processing of minced meat and even in sausages. In this case, dry ice is used to ensure fresh meat can be preserved for longer durations of time and ultimately processed within the desired temperature profiles. Also, it is often included in meat prior to the mincing process being performed. Here, dry ice not only keeps the meat at consistently cool temperatures, but deters the creation of a conducive environment for bacteria and other microbes. At the same time, commercial restaurants along with supermarkets use this product to preserve the freshness of foods that are displayed in open containers for protracted periods of time.
Industrial cleaning industry
Dry ice blasting is an eco-friendly alternative solution that is increasingly supplanting many industrial cleaning methods when it comes to cleaning a variety of machinery. Essentially, dry ice pellets are pressurized to create a pressurized airstream that quickly achieves supersonic speeds and is ultimately forced into the machinery that needs to be cleaned. Once they are within, these dry ice pellets collide with the inner surfaces of the machinery and trap dirt or any other contaminants, leaving the surfaces dry and devoid of abrasion. Lastly, since dry ice sublimates into a gaseous state, there is no need for the disposal of additional secondary and toxic waste in the industrial cleaning process.
Transportation and shipping of goods
Dry ice is a popular solution for transporting and shipping a wide range of perishable and temperature-sensitive products. This includes long haul transportation of foodstuff, medicine, pharmaceutical products to mention but a few. In the healthcare industry in particular, dry ice is utilized in keeping temperature-sensitive materials including transplant organs, medical test samples together with other medical supplies at consistently cool temperatures. Also, as it never leaves any residues when it sublimates, dry ice ensures such materials aren’t exposed to contaminants or bacterial buildup. On the flip side, this product is a popular and economical alternative solution for long-haul cold shipments of fresh foodstuff to supermarkets and other food vendors.
In-process cooling of chemicals
In specific chemical processes, it can be desirable to make a solution cool, chill or freeze rapidly in a reaction. In this scenario, the extremely cold characteristics and cooling energy of dry ice may be leveraged to slow down or even stop certain chemical reactions. Dry ice is as well utilized in chemistry to neutralize alkalis and create cold traps which in turn fashion extremely low-temperature surfaces that are conducive to making certain molecules condense.
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History Thursday: 1955 rollout of polio vaccine resembles COVID-19 era
Thousands of Ohio children who participated in the 1954 polio vaccine trial were given these “Polio Pioneer” buttons. Photo originally appeared in the Mansfield News-Journal newspaper.
The thousands of “Polio Pioneers” in Ohio, one official said, were short in stature but giants went it came to being medical trailblazers.
These were children in Richland and Montgomery counties who participated in a polio vaccine trial in 1954, with a nation desperate for a breakthrough against a disease that killed thousands and left many paralyzed each year.
In Richland County, around 2,700 children received either the polio vaccine created by Dr. Jonas Salk or a saline solution.
About a year later, readers of the Mansfield News-Journal woke up to see this headline on the front page: POLIO SERUM 100% EFFECTIVE IN COUNTY.
Only four children in the Richland County study ended up contracting polio. All four were found to have taken the placebo.
This was one sample of results from a nationwide test of nearly 2 million children in 44 states, with health experts reporting an overall 80-90% effectiveness for the Salk vaccine.
Around the time the Richland County results were publicized, Oveta Culp Hobby, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, approved the vaccine for national distribution.
Just as they would do with the COVID-19 vaccine 66 years later, Ohio’s health experts got to work educating the general public about the new polio vaccine. More than 1,000 doctors gathered at the Loew’s Theater in Cleveland to watch video on how best to administer the vaccine in their communities.
This was before the days of gubernatorial press conferences broadcast live online and on TV stations. Newspapers carried the heavy lifting in explaining what the vaccine was, what experts said about it and how Ohioans could get it.
Throughout April 1955, outlets such as The Circleville Herald published massive spreads about the vaccine. Its April 12 front page included a bold, all-caps headline: POLIO VACCINE SAFE, POTENT — accompanied by a helpful sidebar Q&A about the vaccine as well as another article outlining the vaccine trial results.
State Health Director Dr. Ralph E. Dwork provided reporters with copious information. A handful of firms manufactured vaccines across the country, with Ohio receiving its supply from the Eli Lilley Co. of Indianapolis and the Wyeth Corporation of Philadelphia. Direct shipments went to Cleveland and Cincinnati, with five other cities serving as regional distribution centers: Columbus, Dayton, Bowling Green, Cuyahoga Falls and Athens.
Dwork noted this distribution system relied on the close cooperation of 227 local health departments. This is almost exactly twice as many local health departments as exist now due to consolidation among city and county departments.
Dayton was an obvious choice in Southwest Ohio, with plenty of supplies left over from the Montgomery County “Polio Pioneer” trial a year before.
Or so the local health officials thought. When they returned to the storage center in April 1955, officials discovered that thousands of needles and syringes were stolen sometime after the trial ended.
“We’ve been paying storage for a year on empty cartons,” a secretary of the local polio response chapter lamented.
Dayton wound up receiving enough supplies that month to get the widespread vaccination program going. This was welcome news in nearby Yellow Springs, where officials vaccinated 152 elementary school children on April 26 — including a second-grade student named Mike DeWine. The future governor was pictured on the front page of the Yellow Spring News two days later wincing while receiving his shot.
Rebuilding public confidence
In late April, there were reported issues on the west coast with the vaccine supply from one of the five manufacturers. A number of children in California were found to have contracted polio after receiving the vaccine there.
U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele ordered the vaccines from Cutter Laboratories to be withdrawn while health officials could review these cases.
These troubling headlines made Ohio parents worried about vaccinating their children, even though the state’s supply came from separate companies than the one facing scrutiny.
Vaccine hesitancy grew in the months that followed. Some parents refused to schedule vaccine appointments for their kids or had the children skip out on those that were already scheduled.
Dwork blamed on “lack of understanding” of the situation from families.
“Restoring Confidence Is Biggest Polio Need,” read one headline from columnist Peter Edson in early June 1955. Congressional leaders in Washington held hearings about the “Cutter incident” and discussed ways to rebuild trust in the vaccines.
By the summer, the nervousness surrounding the vaccine had dissipated a bit, though health departments had a difficult time organizing a way to get shots out to students while they were at home on break. In response, Dwork organized another major push for vaccinations in August and September when the students returned to school.
Heading into September, an estimated 6 ½ million children across the country had received at least the first shot.
Besides the school vaccinations, Congress approved a federal program to offer free shots at clinics starting in late 1955. It was deemed important throughout the rollout to make sure the vaccination was available for all families regardless of income.
The repeated coverage touting endorsements from Ohio leaders made a big difference.
“Pickaway County residents, after a skeptical start, welcomed the big advanced achieved against polio — in the form of the Salk polio vaccine,” the Circleville Herald wrote around Christmas-time in recapping the previous year. “With the aid of well-organized programs, school children in Circleville and elsewhere throughout the county received the inoculations that may lead the way to a complete defeat for the child-crippling disease.”
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I feel like a human being today! The few extra (precious) hours of sleep in the morning has finally rejuvenated my tired soul!! This morning we anchored at Edfu. Without wasting any time, we immediately head out to the Horus temple in a horse drawn carriage. The driver was ancient and the horse emaciated! We clip-clopped through the small town of Edfu towards the temple complex. Edfu could easily have been mistaken as old city area of Hyderabad – the only difference is that Edfu is a lot cleaner than Hyderabad! Sonny boy complained loudly at the foul smell the horse emanated – we should take him back to India soon…he’s getting too used to the antiseptic environment in the US.
There were many entrances to the temple of Horus – but all the gates were closed save one – which made us walk through a series of souvenir shops and rather pushy salesmen! It was extremely annoying and sometime down-right nerve-wracking to say the least!!! We finally made it to the temple complex and what a magnificent sight it was! Temple of Horus is probably the most well-preserved archeological site in entire Egypt. In fact so well preserved it is that the temple almost looks like a set from some big budget Hollywood historical! Inside the temple, all the chambers are still there with their roof intact – giving us a glimpse of its actual grandeur!
Though younger in age (built in 237BC) than some of the other sites we saw over the last few days, it is no less awe inspiring or beautiful! Lot of the carvings inside the temple has been defaced by the early Christians in Egypt who were on a crusade of orts against paganism. It amazing to think that vandalism in the name of god has been practiced since time immemorial! Countless works of ancient art has been destroyed in the hands of religious fanatics all over the world! My mind keeps going to the Bamiyan Buddhas and their destruction by the Talibans. I wonder if Egypt, as an Islamic state, would ever consider destroying these temples of pagan gods?! Probably not – billions of dollars coming in from 9 million tourists a year makes it worthwhile to practice tolerance and secularism!
After lunch we sailed for Kom Ombo, another port upriver. We passed the idyllic Egyptian countryside, dotted with lush green farmland and palm trees on the banks of Nile and dry, arid desert land just beyond with dark brown mountains looming in the horizon. We pass villages of mud-huts painted blue – they look dusty and desolate under the hot sun. Fishermen throw nets into the Nile from their white painted sail boats known as Felucca. It makes such a picturesque setting, but life must be really hard for these people. Egyptian countryside is really poor and every year more and more people leave their villages to seek fortune in big cities like Cairo and Alexandria.
We reach Kom Ombo right after sunset. Its supposed to be one of the most important ports on the Nile owing to the large sugar factory located here. But you couldn’t guess that from the state of the dock! It’s a mess!!! Boats were parked 7-8 deep and we again trudged through lobbies of 8 different boats to get to the shore. The temple of Haroeris and Sobek is located right off the dock accessible by a few flights of stairs. This is yet another exquisite example of Ptolemaic architecture and looked even more spell-binding in the evening with all the strategically placed lights on. It was once a famous hospital in ancient Egypt and the very first documented cataract surgery was done in the halls of Kom Ombo. Sculpted wall relief include one showing ancient surgical tools, bone-saws and dental instruments.
Coming back to the boat was yet another nightmare. It seems that the traffic volume dictates the parking spot for the boats. In the one hour that we spent at the temple, our boat had to move away. So when we came back to the dock, the Sonesta St George was nowhere to be seen. The acrid smell of burning diesel hung in the air and the hawkers selling sub-standard souvenir created a terrible racket! Keeping spouse and a half-asleep sonny boy on the lookout for our boat, I decide to go for a walk. That was a very bad decision – I realize within a minute. Hawkers mill around me brandishing their special wares – camel bone jewelry, ghastly belly-dancing costumes, towels with King Tut’s face printed on them, hieroglyph-printed sarongs, Nefertiti’s bust, granite obelisk, fake turquoise scarabs and cheap Galabiyyas – I walked into a nightmare with my eyes open wide! Smelly men in skull-caps and dirty Galabiyyas jumped into my line of vision - so close to my nose that my eyes blurred! “Indiaaah! Namaste! Amitabh Bachchan!” they shouted trying to attract my attention. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and to save my sanity I quickly retraced my steps shaking my head vigorously and screeching “La shokhran! No – don’t want! Don’t touch me!! Get Lost!!”
Finally I find spouse carrying now-asleep sonny boy still waiting for the boat! The Japanese tour-guide who sits at the table next to ours in the dining room finds us – she was herding a gaggle of Japanese tourists to the nearest coffee shop where everyone’s to wait till the boat moors again at the dock. Just few minutes back, we refused Ahmed’s invitation to join him for Turkish coffee – I kept praying that we don’t bump into him at the café. A band of folk musicians were playing loud music and traveling from table to table looking for baksheesh. I already had a pounding headache and that music made the pain so bad that I had to grit my teeth and squeeze my eyes shut in order to ignore the cacophony! An orderly from the boat found us before the musicians could reach our table – thank God! I might have punched them in the face or something! The trudge back to the boat wasn’t terrible, but again we had to cross four other boats in order to reach ours – I’m getting used to it now!
Tonight the dining room hosted an Egyptian themed gala. It totally made my day. The falafel was great; so was the lentil soup, hummous, babaganoush, mousaka and the baklava was simply sublime! After dinner the party shifted to the lounge upstairs where most of the people showed up wearing cheap Galabiyyas bought off the street vendors, pretending to be Arab sheiks! It was surreal – almost like being at the pajama party at a retirement home! Grey haired, moldy old-fogies shook their replaced hips and gyrated to thumping Arabian music wearing long night-shirts!! I was too depressed to linger – spouse was half asleep anyway and sonny boy passed out cold at 7pm…there was no reason to sit around and watch old European women rub themselves against the good-looking young stewards! Ewww! It was time to retire for the night!


Jakarta, NNC - Founder and CEO Xiaomi Lei Jun uploaded a picture of a Xiaomi Mi Max 3's retail box to Weibo.
The post is also accompanied with a short message implying that there's a chance the smartphone might be unveiled soon.
Lei Jun's post confirmed the rumor that the smartphone will be launched in China this month.
Xiaomi Mi Max 3 reportedly will sport a 6.9 inch display with 18:9 screen ratio with 1080x2160 pixel resolution, a Snapdragon 710 with 6GB RAM packed with 5.500mAh battery.
The phone is estimated to reatail at 1,699 Yuan or around IDR 3.7 million.
The Mi Max 3 could possibly hit the market in India on July or August at 18,000-19,000 Rupee or around IDR 3.8-4 million, according to the GSM Arena.


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Out of competition: Shiverstone Castle
Roxy Film, Violet Pictures
As if Stephan’s parents’ constant quarrels weren’t enough, his mother now reveals that he is going to boarding school to improve his grades. But the boys at Shiverstone Castle turn out to be a far cry from teacher’s pets. After initial hesitation, Stephan is admitted into a secret brotherhood, and that’s when the fun begins, since the boys are at war with the girls from the nearby Rosenfels boarding school. While the girls are plotting revenge against the “Shiveries,” the boys are planning their next prank. What they don’t know yet is that they’ll all have to be together at the castle celebration, of all times. A disaster… or maybe not?
Maurizio Magno, Henning Baum, Sophie Rois, Harald Schmidt, Alexander Beyer, Jana Pallaske
Born in Munich in 1954. Studied at the University of Television and Film (1981-1985). CRIPPLES GO CHRISTMAS (1987), his film debut, won a European Film Award. His feature VINCENT WANTS TO SEA (2010) was highly successful with audiences and won many awards, including the Audience Prize at the Bavarian Film Awards in 2010 and Golden Lola for Best Film at the German Film Awards. For his work, he was awarded the first-ever Metropolis Prize from the German Federal Association of Directors in 2011.
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Death of the New Gods SC (英語) ペーパーバック – 2009/8/11
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Created by legendary comics creator Jack Kirby, The New Gods are a group of immortal "gods" from the "Fourth World", which consists of the two warring planets New Genesis and Apokolips. The leader of Apokolips is one of DC Comics most feared villains, Darksied. As the New Gods begin to mysteriously die, Superman and New Gods Mister Miracle and Orion struggle to discover who is eliminating the New Gods and what is Darkseid's role. DEATH OF THE NEWS GODS is a major part of DC Comics' weekly event comic "Countdown".
Jim Starlin is a comics icon, responsible for many of the greatest Batman stories ever told, including the death of Robin! He is also an acknowledged master of 'cosmic' comics, with work including Cosmic Odyssey and Marvel's epic Infinity Gauntlet saga. --このテキストは、ペーパーバック版に関連付けられています。
This was a great book. The art was beautiful and crisp and had all of Starlin's signature touches. The story was well written and engrossing most of the time. As others have said before, ending Kirby's Fourth World and keeping long-time fans happy while still creating something appealing to new readers is an impossible task. Despite this, I think Starlin does a near perfect job.
The strongest point of this book is that Starlin manages to give all of the primary New Gods their moment in an effectual way that moves the story. Old fans can appreciate that Starlin did his research, cares about these characters, and is paying tribute to a man he obviously admires. New readers can enjoy this tale without prior knowledge of the New Gods as it is not confusing at all, even though there are so many characters involved.
The only thing keeping me from giving this book 5 stars is that I feel there were a few missed opportunities. Starlin is known for his melodrama and Shakespearean type stories, which served this book well, but there was very little actual fighting. That's right, not much fighting even though two worlds that have been at war for eons are now slowly being destroyed... and they DO suspect each other. There should have been a scene where citizens of Apokolips and New Genesis are locked in combat signifying the Armageddon that mirrors the fall of the Old Gods (Starlin even showed us the scene of the death of the Old Gods who were locked in combat in a fiery inferno). Starlin could have also made the battle of Scott Free, Superman, and Orion versus the forces of Apokolips a little more interesting. I know that Starlin wanted to move the story along and just have the heroes confront Darkseid but what would an Apokolips free of Darkseid's tyrannical control look like?
Lastly, and most importantly, Starlin could have done a better job showing Scott Free and Big Barda together. It would have been nice if one page was dedicated to flashbacks of special moments they shared together that signify how much these two really love each other. This would have made the reader invest a little bit more in the character before she was killed off. I wouldn't have felt Big Barda's loss that much if I didn't already know the character and I feel that new readers won't care that much about her death either.
Overall, still a great read and it looks beautiful. Starlin, Kirby would be proud!


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Despite his eagerness to remove American troops from Syria, US President Donald Trump has given up on doing so immediately for reasons including the war against jihadists and regional politics.
– Mission accomplished? –
While Trump used the winding down of the war against the Islamic State group as justification for his desire to quickly withdraw US forces from Syria, allies as well as US officials have pushed back.
“Our mission isn’t over, and we’re going to complete that mission,” said Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the international anti-IS coalition.
And the jihadists are not completely defeated: “We see the return of fighters,” and if the coalition is not careful, there is a real threat that IS could “regain ground,” a European diplomat warned recently.
Trump has now promised that the US mission in Syria would come to a “rapid end,” but did not give a timetable.
– The Assad issue –
In January Rex Tillerson, then secretary of state prior to his dismissal by Trump, said that “the United States will maintain a military presence in Syria.”
He linked the issue with ending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, though this is not an official objective of the mission.
“A total withdrawal of American personnel at this time would restore Assad to continue his brutal treatment against his own people,” Tillerson said, while “the departure of Assad through the UN-led Geneva process will create the conditions for a durable peace within Syria and security along the borders.”
This process, however, is at a standstill. In the meantime, the US administration has also stressed the need to stabilize areas “liberated” from IS rule.
“Of course there is a military role in this, certainly in the stabilization phase,” said General Joseph Votel, the commander of US troops in the Middle East.
– Countering Iran –
Tillerson also warned “US disengagement” from Syria would provide Iran — which is backing Assad — with “the opportunity to further strengthen its own position in Syria.”
This is a major concern for experts, at a time when the Assad regime and its Iranian and Russian allies increasingly appear to be on the path to victory in Syria’s brutal seven-year civil war.
Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Iran’s conduct and threatened to withdraw from the international agreement aimed at preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, criticizing it as too lax.
“Containing the spread of the Iranians, their proxies and the development of their military capability in Syria should be the Trump administration’s focal point,” former diplomat Denis Ross wrote in The Washington Post.
“But it is not, with Trump making clear that he wants to ‘let the other people take care of it now,'” Ross said.
– Trouble with Turkey –
Turkey is also a significant source of concern for Washington. Turkey is a western ally that backs Syrian rebels.
But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has joined Russia and Iran in a Syria peace process on the margins of the UN-led one.
Mainly, Ankara has launched an offensive in northwest Syria against Kurds allied with the United States against jihadist forces but accused of terrorism by the Turks. Turkey fears the formation of a Kurdish state on its border.
This operation, which the United States has failed to contain, now threatens Manbij, where American troops are based.
For now, the Americans seem inclined to strengthen their positions in the Manbij region.
Australian diplomat tells Bill Barr’s anti-Russia prosecutor he wasn’t part of any secret plot against Trump
As the impeachment proceedings continue into President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr is hard at work on trying to discredit the Russia investigation and potentially prosecute federal officials involved in it, as U.S. Attorney John Durham helps him conduct a criminal probe into how the FBI began looking at the Trump campaign.
But if Barr is hoping that this investigation helps his boss, he may be in for a disappointment. According to the conservative Washington Examiner, Durham recently interviewed the former Australian diplomat whose warnings to U.S. officials triggered the Russia investigation, and his response did not support the GOP narrative.
Trump trying to fire inspector general is a confession he ‘did something criminal’: Nicolle Wallace
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday explained why President Donald Trump attempting to fire inspector general who validated the White House whistleblower complaint.
"We’re back with breaking news from The New York Times that could have implications for Donald Trump’s impeachment," Wallace reported. "Donald Trump, based on a new report in The Times has considered firing the inspector general -- the one who looked at the whistleblower’s complaint on Donald Trump’s Ukraine conduct and deemed it credible and urgent."
Wallace read from the new report.
"President Trump has discussed dismissing the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, because Mr. Atkinson reported a whistleblower’s complaint about Mr. Trump’s interactions with Ukraine to Congress after concluding it was credible, according to four people familiar with the discussions," The Times reported. "Mr. Trump first expressed his dismay about Mr. Atkinson around the time the whistleblower’s complaint became public in September. In recent weeks, he has continued to raise with aides the possibility of firing him, one of the people said."
Russian official mocks Trump for wanting to go back to Syria for the oil
President Donald Trump withdrew from Syria abruptly and against the advice of those on the ground in the region. It left American Kurdish allies high-and-dry as Turkey began a bombing campaign against them.
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov mocked Trump for the move and then his bizarre decision to go back into Syria "for the oil."
“We’re keeping the oil — remember that,” Trump told a group of Chicago police officers last month. “I’ve always said that: ‘Keep the oil.’ We want to keep the oil. Forty-five million dollars a month? Keep the oil.”


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SimCorp today released a video describing the benefits that Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) has realized since the firm initiated an organization-wide undertaking, known as ‘AIMCo Innovations,’ to modernize its investment systems and processes with SimCorp Dimension. AIMCo is one of Canada’s largest and most diversified institutional investment fund managers with more than $80 billion in assets under management. AIMCo’s 27 clients include pension funds, endowment funds and the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund for the Government of Alberta.
Watch the video to learn how AIMCo:
Saves $500K annually without increasing the FTE (full time equivalent personnel)
Is able to reconcile a single transaction across three different accounting frameworks, taking into account regional practices and multiple currencies
Is able to be a low cost provider to its clients
“As we were transforming as a company, we began doing far more complex investments and we knew that the operating system in place would not support our plans for the future,” said Michael Baker, Senior Vice President, Investment Operations at AIMCo. “We realized that we needed to be a data driven organization with the ability to provide accurate, timely data to our risk and investment professionals to allow them to make sound investment decisions. This concept was the genesis of ‘AIMCo Innovations’. By aligning ourselves with a best in class system, our clients now benefit from one of the most robust decision making platforms in the investment world, and we leverage that data to earn the best risk-adjusted returns on their behalf. AIMCo manages money for 300,000 pensioners and also helps to fund scholarships, so fiscal prudence is critical. It is what allows us to do the best job possible to support our clients.”
“An organization like AIMCo cannot effectively manage risk for its clients without reliable data,” notes James Corrigan, Managing Director at SimCorp North America. ”As a result of ‘AIMCo Innovations’, today, there is high-quality information that is consistent, reconcilable and understandable. Outdated processes and systems have been replaced with modern, effective infrastructure and software, significantly reducing operational risk and increasing efficiency. We are proud to be AIMCo’s partner of choice to help achieve these goals.”
To view the full video, please visit here.
Enquiries regarding this announcement should be addressed to:
Susan Peter, SimCorp North America, 917-546-4654

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DOCTOR WHO--CHOOSE THE FUTURE: Night of the Kraken
Novel. In 18th century England, the Twelfth Doctor meets a roguish time-smuggler and faces terrifying creatures from both land and sea. Can the Doctor concoct a last minute plan to save the world? In this fun series you get to influence the adventure by deciding what the Doctor should do next! Ages 9-12.
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Hey there, stargazer! Introducing the captivating sterling silver and gold plate "Moonbeam Necklace." The stunning textured moonbeam charm sits on a delicate belcher chain, designed to capture the ethereal allure of the moonlit night. But that's just the beginning of the magic.
The moon, with its ever-changing phases, has forever captivated hearts. It's a timeless emblem of transformation, cyclic renewal, and the mystical unknown. Much like the moon's journey, life is filled with ups and downs, yet it keeps illuminating the path even in darkness. Our moonbeam necklace encapsulates this symbolism, serving as a constant reminder that light shines through every phase.
This stunning piece comes in a choice of finishes, each handpicked to resonate with your unique style. The linked cosmo star is a tiny emblem of the universe, shining in unity with your moonbeam. It's not just a necklace; it's a canvas for your self-expression.
We believe that your jewellery should tell a story, and that story should be uniquely yours. Personalise your moon necklace with up to 8 hand stamped characters. Your initials, a meaningful date, a whispered mantra – the choice is yours. And that's not all. The cosmo star craves a spotlight too, ready to showcase a single initial that speaks volumes.
The moonbeam necklace is perfect for layering with your other C&B faves. The finishing touch that elevates your ensemble from ordinary to extraordinary, embracing the art of layering with effortless grace.
As you wear this necklace, let the moon's energy infuse your days and nights. Feel the connection between its tranquil beauty and your inner strength. With every glance, remember that just as the moon waxes and wanes, so does life, and each phase is part of your unique journey.
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All components are Sterling silver and 23ct gold plate.
Moon measures 40mm in length.
The chain comes as standard in 45cm.
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Marea Brennan Thorns, Qutis Nurse Director and co-owner wins the Aesthetic Nurse of the Year at the British Journal of Nursing Awards Dinner on Friday night. Marea was presented with the award by Esther Rantzen and made a short speech thanking all her colleagues at Qutis and MBNS.
Esther Rantzen presents award to Qutis Nurse
accepted the award thanking all the staff and patients who had nominated her, particularly the teams at Qutis and MBNS clinics. Marea went on to say; "the field of aesthetic medicine is full of extraordinary nurse entrepreneurs. Many of whom have stuck with the vision that nurses can be leaders and business owners and still keep patients at the heart of all they do"
Marea is a co-founder of MBNS and Qutis and began practising aesthetic treatments over 15 years ago. She was a former chair of the aesthetic nurse forum and contributed to the training and development now used across the whole of the industry.
We are very pleased to have Marea working with us in Qutis, training staff and treating customers at all three of our clinics in Witney, Thame and Abingdon. Oxford has a long tradition of attracting the best in their field and we believe this applies outside of the university too. Marea has trained many nurses in botox injection
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Woods to Water Real Estate is honored to be partnering with the non-profit, Best Christmas Ever, for our fifth year.
Fundraising is officially underway for the 2023 BCE season!
BCE is a local organization on a mission to provide families in our community with a once-in-a-lifetime “Best Christmas Ever”. Whether it's continued financial burden, illness, physical and emotional stress, a loss in the family, some of our friends and neighbors are in need of someone to lift them up this holiday season.
With the help of our kind, generous, and caring community, we have the opportunity to provide a local family with the Best Christmas Ever. This year, we're sponsoring a family that has been battling a serious medical diagnosis — something no one could…
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Well everyone, it’s time for a special episode of Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun where it contains two stories, starting with the first one where it tells the story of how Minami Nanami and Hanabi Natsubayashi met.
You see, Hanabi or Tama-chan is a very timid girl in which Mimimi is worried that she won’t fit in with the rest of her classmates, although Hanabi felt that Mimimi’s advances are a bit annoying.
That’s until Aoi Hinami invited Hanabi Natsubayashi at the summer festival as she wants to befriend her. Then again, Hanabi felt that it’s a waste of time.
However, it looks like Natsubayashi went to the festival anyway. I have to say that she looks so cute but Hanabi is worried that no one would see her.
Actually, turns out that Aoi-chan and Mimimi are here. Sure that Tama-chan doesn’t want to get close to Mimimi, but I’m hoping that she’ll accept Nanami’s embrace even if it’s annoying.
And so, it’s time for the festivities where the girls saw the fireworks display. Heck, they got lucky that Aoi and her friends found a nice spot.
As for Minami Nanami and Hanabi Natsubayashi, they became friends afterwards. I have to say that it’s nice to see how Mimimi befriend Tama-chan.
Now let’s move onto Fuuka Kikuchi where she’s working at a restaurant as usual. In fact, most of the customers found Fuuka to be the cutest waitress ever.
Well, that’s until Aoi Hinami and her friends are here for lunch. Oh yeah, Fumiya Tomozaki is here along the ride since he’s hanging out with popular kids as part of Hinami’s plan to change his appearance.
Anyways, remember Yuzu Izumi? Well, it appears that she’s feeling a bit disappointed that Shuji Nakamura still ignores her.
You know something, I have a feeling that Nakamura is taking TackFam seriously ’cause he might have a score to settle against Tomozaki-kun. Still. it’s sucks Yuzu is being ignored.
Speaking of Tomozaki-kun, looks like he noticed Fuuka Kikuchi hiding behind the kitchen. I guess she’s too shy to meet up with her classmates.
Still, Aoi Hinami and her friends are pretty much stuffed after eating lunch at a fancy restaurant. It’s sad that they didn’t see Fuuka Kikuchi working even though Fumiya Tomozaki took a glimpse of her.
Oh yeah, here’s Kikuchi where she’s heading home by herself. Seriously, I wish Fuuka would say “Hi!” to Fumiya Tomozaki when she has a chance.
But wait, seems that Fumiya Tomozaki sent an encouraging text message. Glad that he’s keeping in touch with Fuuka Kikuchi.
But that’s about it for this special episode of Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun. Now, I would say that both stories are okay, but I really like the 2nd one because Fuuka Kikuchi is really cute as a waitress.
With that said, when will Shogakukan announce a 2nd season of this show? Then again, we might not get a continuation for a long time!


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The latest edition to the 2K WWE series is set to release on March 14th 2023. The cover superstar for the game this year around is John Cena, and fans all over are excited for this new release.
With John Cena gracing the cover for the second time, the developers have decided to shake things up this year with players facing the 16-time World Champion in the iconic WWE 2K Showcase mode. This is a fresh change from earlier titles where players used to compete as the cover superstar.
2K decided to unveil the DLC roadmap in WWE® 2K23 today. It features fan-favorite WWE Superstars, Legends and several rising NXT stars making their franchise debuts. There will be 5 DLC packs which would be released each month following the game’s launch.
Notable names from the post-launch content updates include Bray Wyatt, The O.C., The Steiner Brothers, Zeus, Wade Barrett, and Eve Torres. The DLC packs would be released each month following the game’s release until August.
The DLC packs will also be available for purchase individually following their release. Players who purchase the Season Pass, Deluxe Edition and Icon Edition of WWE 2K23 would be able to download the full set of packs after their release. The superstars featured in the DLC Packs and their respective release dates are mentioned below.
Steiner Row Pack – Release Date: April 19
B-Fab – Manager only. Not a playable Superstar.
Pretty Sweet Pack – Release Date: May 17
Race to NXT Pack – Release Date: June 14
Revel with Wyatt Pack – Release Date: July 19
Bad News U Pack – Release Date: August 16
Players who purchase the WWE 2K23 Deluxe Edition and Icon Edition would get in on the action early on March 14th, 2023. On the other hand, those who purchase the WWE 2K23 Standard Edition and Cross-Gen would have to wait till March 17, 2023. For more updates, stay tuned to Ringside News.
Are you excited about WWE 2K23? Have you already preordered the game, or do you plan on just sticking around for the glitch footage after it drops? Sound off in the comments!

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Georgia Football: Examining How Successful Bulldogs Defense Will Be in 2012
When defensive coordinator Todd Grantham brought his 3-4 scheme to Athens in 2010, everyone knew the Bulldogs would go through some growing pains in the first year.
But what caught people off guard is how improved the defense was last season. In fact, the defense was so good, many could argue that they were the reason the Bulldogs reached the SEC championship.
With all by one starter returning, the defense has a chance to break records if everyone can remain healthy.
But how good can this defense be? Can they be the best in the SEC? Can they even be the best in the country?
Here's a closer look of how good the Bulldogs defense can be in 2012.
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The combination of nose tackles John Jenkins and Kwame Geathers will be fun to watch. Both players weigh a biscuit over 350 pounds and both can start on any defensive line in the country.
But as good as Jenkins and Geathers are, defensive end Abry Jones could very well be the MVP of the defensive line. Jones played at a high level last year and could be a first-team All-SEC performer if he continues to improve.
Adding former outside linebacker Cornelius Washington to the group was huge. He can shed blocks and get after the quarterback.
The defensive line for the Bulldogs was good last year. But they have a chance to be superior in 2012.
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Michael Gilliard and Alec Ogletree will be the starting inside linebackers and both feed off each other. Gilliard was third on the team in tackles last year with 65 and Ogletree recorded 52 tackles and three sacks despite missing six games.
Ogletree will be suspended for at least the first two games of the year, so Christian Robinson will take his spot. Robinson played a lot last year and while he is not a playmaker like Ogletree, he doesn't make mistakes and is the emotional leader for the Bulldogs.
If the defensive line plays better than they did last year, the inside linebackers will feed off of it and Ogletree, Robinson, Gilliard and even Amarlo Herrera will have success.
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If there has to be an MVP for the Bulldogs last year, it would have to go to outside linebacker Jarvis Jones.
There was no other player on the Bulldogs roster that played at a higher level all season long. Jones, who led the SEC in sacks and tackles for losses last year, is primed to have a huge 2012 season.
His partner-in-crime will be Chase Vasser, who started in three games last year. Vasser should have some big numbers this upcoming season because opponents will try to steer away from Jones, who is everything a coach would want in an outside linebacker.
And while Vasser is not the same athlete as Jones, he is very consistent and always reliable.
It's safe to say the outside linebackers for the Bulldogs will be the backbone of the defense.
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This is where things get a little interesting.
All but one starter return this season, but three out of the four starters will be suspended for at least the first game.
Sanders Commings, Branden Smith and Bacarri Rambo will all be out of action for the game against Buffalo, so players like Malcolm Mitchell, Damian Swann and Connor Norman will have to step up.
Thankfully, the Bulldogs still have Shawn Williams, who did not get enough credit for his play last year. Williams led the team with 72 tackles and also tallied four interceptions.
If there has to be a weak link to the defense, it would be the secondary because of depth. But once they get to full strength by the midway mark of the season, they will be a difficult team to throw on.
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The Bulldogs have all the tools to be the best defense in the country. They have a strong defensive line, an All-American linebacker and a defensive coordinator who knows how to make the right call at the right time.
The thing that may hurt the unit is the depth at secondary. The young guys that will play early in the season will have to grow up fast in order to hang with Smith, Williams, Commings and Rambo.
Fortunately, the Bulldogs will have a not-so-hard schedule to start the season, and the secondary should be at full strength when things get tougher.
Will the Bulldogs be the best in the county if all this happens? Probably not, but it's not out of the question to have them as one of the best three defensive units in the country.


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Application of infrared thermography technique to the thermal assessment of multiple thermal bridges and windows
Lechowska, Agnieszka A.
Harte, Annette M.
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O'Grady, Małgorzata, Lechowska, Agnieszka A., & Harte, Annette M. (2018). Application of infrared thermography technique to the thermal assessment of multiple thermal bridges and windows. Energy and Buildings, 168, 347-362. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.03.034
A major contribution to the global trend in reducing energy consumption can be made by improving the thermal performance of buildings. Minimization of heat loss via the building envelope is key to maximizing building energy efficiency. The building envelope contains different types of thermal bridging that must be accounted for while assessing the overall building envelope thermal performance. Multiple thermal bridges commonly occur and the distance between them determines the degree to which they interact thermally. To avoid overestimation of the linear thermal transmittance, it is important to account for interaction effects. Complex multiple thermal bridging occurs in window systems. The thermal performance of windows depends not only on the window performance itself but also on its installation into the wall. This study demonstrates an application of the quantitative infrared thermography technique to evaluate the heat lost via multiple thermal bridging. It is shown that using this methodology, the heat loss via multiple thermal bridges can be easily estimated in an existing building envelope, without any knowledge of its internal structure or material properties. For windows, it is demonstrated that jointly assessing the additional heat loss through the window and due to the installation of the window into the wall is a practical way to determine the actual heat loss caused by the presence of a window. A window thermal transmittance or M-value is introduced to quantify the total additional heat loss through the building element due to the presence of the window. The methodology was validated against experimental measurements taken on different specimens in a hot box device. Results from the thermographic analysis also co-related well with results from finite element heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics simulations. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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