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Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist weightlifter Sathish Kumar Sivalingam Wednesday said he would resume his training in next 45 days in Patiala as he is fast recovering from a thigh injury, courtesy ayurveda treatment. “I have been undergoing ayurveda treatment. With another 10 days of treatment left, I aim to come back stronger and start training in next one-and-a-half months in Patiala with 2020 Olympics as my goal,” he told PTI here.
Sivalingam (77kg category) had sustained the injury while attempting 178kg lift in his clean and jerk attempt at the Jakarta Asian Games. He took no further part in the competition and eventually finished 10th. “I was shattered to the core when doctors in a hospital in Jakarta opined that I could only start training after a maximum of four months,” he said.
However, soon after returning to India, Sivalingam said he underwent ayurveda treatment at Haoma Wellness under Dr Shaji Kannoth and have been working on sport rehabilitation with Invictus Performance Lab. “Within four days of combined treatment and multiple experts working with me, the pain reduced significantly and I was able to move around freely within 10 days,” he stated.
The inter-disciplinary experts helped him in enhancing his performance capability and recovery management, he said. “I thank my coach, Vijay Sharma and the Indian Weightlifting Federation, Invictus Performance Lab, and GoSports Foundation for all their support and belief in me,” Sivalingam said.
Dr Shaji Kannoth, who is also the Managing and Medical Director of Haoma Wellness, said Sivalingam was brought to him by Invictus Performance Lab for treatment. “Sivalingam had severely injured his left thigh muscle. He was wheelchair bound when he met us on September 4 and was even unable to place his foot on the ground,” he said.
After a detailed diagnosis, the treatment began and within four days, the pain reduced to about 60 per cent and by September 15, muscle injury healed, Dr Shaji said. “He has another 10 days of treatment left to heal completely,” he added.


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Czech Republic: Industrial output drops in May
July 8, 2013
In May, industrial production declined 2.2% over the same month last year, which contrasted the 0.5% increase tallied in April and exceeded market expectations of 2.0% contraction. According to the statistical office, the contraction was led by a deterioration in both mining and quarrying and manufacturing output.
However, a month-on-month comparison does not confirm the contraction suggested by the annual data, as industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.7% in May, which contrasts the 0.6% fall observed in the April.
Meanwhile, the trend halted its downward trajectory, with the annual average variation in industrial production remaining at minus 2.9% in April.
FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panellists expect industrial output to expand 1.3% in 2013, which is unchanged from last month's forecast. For 2014, panellists expect industrial output to accelerate to 4.1%.
Author: Ricardo Aceves, Senior Economist

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Cabaret Casa de Tolerância
Casa de Tolerância is inspired by the New Burlesque style of Cabaret, in which the performing artists use the act of undressing to express and position themselves politically.
All acts embody current political issues, bringing clear criticisms to diverse themes to the stage.
Directed by: Marlon Spilhere
Cast: Alyssa Tessari, Gustavo Alexandre, Iarima Castro Alves, Brisa del Mat, Maíra Wiener, Marco Antonio and Suzana Silveira.
Scenography, costumes, makeup and lighting: Marlon Spilhere
Sound: Cassiano Wirtti
Photo credits: Samanta Daus Silvius
Duration: 75 minutes
Premiered in June 2014 at the Department of Performing Arts of CEART-UDESC.

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Sandra Black and her fellow economist Jay Shambaugh made their way through the meandering hallways of the West Wing. They had just been invited into the Oval Office to brief the president on why wages for low-wage workers have been stagnating in recent decades.
It wouldn’t be the first time Black had met Obama. She had joined the three-member Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) the previous year and periodically discussed the monthly labor reports or unemployment numbers with the president. But this time was different, as it was just the two of them and the president talking about economic research and what economists thought about the relative decline in wages of low-wage workers. Importantly, how were technology and the adoption of artificial intelligence going to affect these workers in the future?
Perhaps Black, who joined the SIPA faculty in fall 2019 (with a joint appointment in Columbia’s Department of Economics) and was recently elected to the American Economic Association Executive Committee, got her start researching labor economics because her mother was an educator. Or maybe she was inspired by a math problem that presented a character with an implausibly high number of apples. It may well have been the unceasing arguments between her and her sister—arguments over their parents’ leniency toward the other.
Whatever it was that led Black to conduct research, her curiosity has sparked countless studies in one-upmanship. Eldest children may claim they were most likely to become successful; Black has examined the notion empirically. You may remember a childhood friend who was always willing to accept a challenge or an audacious dare, but it’s Black who conducted the study on nature versus nurture and risk aversion. And while it may seem obvious to some, Black has repeatedly quantified overwhelming racial and ethnic discrepancies in the college application and admission processes.
“My husband makes fun of me sometimes because I will show what people already knew to be true,” Black says during a Zoom session in late March. In her doctoral dissertation, for example, she demonstrated that people were willing to pay more for homes in good school districts. “People would say, ‘But we knew that,’” she jokes, “and I would say, ‘But I have quantified it.’”
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The elder of two daughters of a lawyer father and her teacher mother, Black didn’t set out to become the prominent researcher in labor economics that she is today. In fact, she didn’t realize her passion for economics until she turned a blind eye on mathematics altogether.
“I was not one of those people who always knew what I wanted to do,” says Black. “So when I went to college, I thought because I was really good at math that I was going to be a math major.”
But Black found that solving problems in a vacuum wasn’t entirely satisfying. It was an economics class, instead, that provided the context she was looking for. Moving from mathematics to economics, Black found a rationale for the problemsolving that had previously left her dissatisfied.
“It was the perfect balance: math and logic, and thinking through puzzles that we care about, problems that we care about as a society,” she says. “That really resonated with me.”
Upon her graduation from University of California, Berkeley, Black worked as a research assistant at Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm, before heading to Harvard. Several grants, fellowships, and research projects and one dissertation (the one on home prices and education) later, Black now had a PhD in economics. The world was hers, and so she left Boston for what seemed like the most important place on earth—New York City.
Beginning her career with a four-year stint as an economist and later a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Black turned to research topics she found most interesting—and knew the greater public would as well.
“What inherently interests me is thinking about how people behave and how people respond,” Black says. “I was really happy to see economists can do really interesting work on the topic. When you think of labor economics, a lot of people just think of unemployment insurance and those types of topics, but what we study is just a lot broader than that.”
One of her recent studies that comes to mind is “Poor Little Rich Kids,” a look at wealth inequality across generations. In it, Black and a team of researchers looked at data from Sweden and found reasons for the high correlation between the wealth of parents and the wealth that their children would go on to accrue as adults. To compare the effects of what is often called nature versus nurture, they studied adoptees—who have one set of biological parents but are raised by another set of parents, which makes it possible to distinguish the effect of the biological parents (nature) from that of the adoptive parents (nurture). The answer, again, provides evidence in “I-told-you-so” fights: wealthy people are not inherently predisposed to become wealthy; rather, they have more access to different types of opportunities, resulting in greater opportunities for their children, and so on.
“That’s the most important part, since it suggests wealthy people aren’t wealthy because they’re better people. They’re wealthy because they have better opportunities growing up from their families,” Black says, putting her 80-page study in a nutshell. “I think that’s such a cool way of thinking about it and trying to answer a question that we think is kind of fundamentally important from society’s perspective.”
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Black, Shambaugh, and Obama discussed the latest economic research on technological change in the bright light of the Oval Office.
“We’re sitting there in the Oval Office, and the president, who is supersmart, was asking what we thought and what we knew about skill-biased technological change and what the research has shown,” Black says with glee. “In a geeky way, [it was] the coolest 10 minutes that we’ve ever spent.”
“When Jay and I left the office, we just stood there and looked at each other,” Black says between laughs. “We were like ‘that was so cool!’ So there were really plenty of great opportunities like that.”
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After Black left the Federal Reserve, she became a professor at UCLA and eventually the University of Texas, where she was quite content with her life conducting research and teaching economics. She knew the chance to join the CEA was not one to pass up lightly but couldn’t imagine that something else would give her the same sense of purpose as her work in Austin.
“As a professor, you think about one thing very deeply and you become an expert in that particular field,” Black says. “When you’re in DC, you have to be a lot broader and you have to know less about more things.”
Black ended up jumping in with both feet, deciding to embrace the challenge as another research topic—a chance to consider why people take such a position to begin with. Working at the CEA turned out to be highly challenging and even more rewarding.
“You’re doing things that matter on a day-to-day basis, even hour to hour,” she says. “It was really life-changing in a lot of ways.”
Black had long considered her research to be quite relevant to public policy, but the visceral experience of seeing how research influenced real-world decision-making was striking: Every time she briefed the president, she knew it could result in policy change that could affect the country.
“Our job, partly, was to disseminate what new research is saying to the policymakers and the people in the White House,” she says. “And it was really eye-opening to see how they incorporated that research into their thinking.”
One such example was the Ban the Box campaign, which proposes to remove a check box asking job applicants if they have a criminal record. While the initiative seemed like a progressive move forward, Black discovered new research by other economists showing that the policy could have unintended negative effects on minority applicants. The research suggested that, in the absence of information on criminal justice involvement, employers would simply assume (based on race and ethnicity) that minority applicants had prior contact with the criminal justice system, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the policy. To date, 35 US states and more than 150 cities and counties have passed Ban the Box laws.
“When we summarized the research for the president and the White House staff, it was our job to evaluate the quality of the work to assess how good it is—does it seem solid?—and then circulate it to the people involved in the policy work,” Black says of the process. “And I really appreciated the conversation that people had as a result of it, and how you can use research to design good policy.”
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After her father died seven years ago, Black was looking for a new hobby when she came across some metalworking classes in Austin. “I had all this mental space that freed up from not worrying and thinking about that and I didn’t know how to fill my time,” she says, “so I took a class on jewelry-making, and since then I have been making jewelry.” In addition to her jewelry-crafting techniques and Pilates workouts, Black squeezes in enough time to read plenty of books—crime fiction is her favorite genre—and avoids checking the news compulsively.
She joined SIPA last fall, she says, “because of the environment— I love the constant activity and the feeling that so much is going on. People say that about New York City, but I think it is also true of Columbia. “I’m looking forward to working with students on a Capstone project, which seems like a great opportunity for students to get hands-on experience working on projects that are important for our community.”
In parting, Black says she hopes others will join her in using analytical tools to tackle societal problems that might seem to have obvious answers. “What happens when workers’ rights are afflicted every day?” she asks, or “What questions have been brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic?” “I’m really interested in how workers are being hurt by the fact that unions are declining and workers have a declining voice in our society and that wealthy people have a disproportionate voice in our public policies,” she says, offering a teaser of what perhaps could be her next research topic. Still, Black hopes others will likewise be curious about the questions she asks every day.
“Being a part of the SIPA community gives me the chance to incorporate both my research as well as my policy experience from my time on the Council of Economic Advisers into my teaching,” she says, “and I can’t wait to share these experiences with the students.”
— Catherina Gioino MPA ’20
This story appears in the most recent issue of SIPA Magazine, published in October 2020.


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GALWAY — Ryan Lovelass carded a 39 to lead Galway to a 15-0 victory over Northville-Mayfield in a Western Athletic Conference golf match at Pioneer Hills Golf Course on Monday.
Josh Lovelass and Matt Smith each had rounds of 43 for the Golden Eagles, while Sam Neahr carded a 46. Brendan Shader posted a 51 for Galway and Miles Shippey added a 66.
George Abdella led Northville-Mayfield with a 49, Jordan Miller finished with a 54, Gavin Bown posted a 56, and James DeRonda carded a 57.
Dillan Salvione carded a 64 for Northville-Mayfield and Lee Smith added a 69.
Middleburgh 10 1/2, Fort Plain 4 1/2
CANAJOHARIE — John Bruno finished with a 37 to lead Middleburgh to a WAC victory over Fort Plain at Canajoharie Golf and Country Club.
John Reinhart posted a 42 for the Knights, Tyler Mann had a 50, and Will Churchill and Andrew Miaski each had rounds of 51. Quin Smith added a 65 for Middleburgh.
Taylor Gifford finished with a 39 to lead Fort Plain, while Evan Crouse posted a 41.
Seth Rivkowich carded a 48 for the Hilltoppers, Troy Butler had a 58, Quinnlan Brown posted a 65 and Jeffrey Wilday added an 85.
Schoharie 10, Fonda-Fultonville 5
FORT JOHNSON — Luke Morganstein carded a 3-over-par round of 39 to lead Schoharie to a WAC victory over Fonda-Fultonville at Rolling Hills Country Club.
Shane Helmstadt finished with a 41 for the Indians, John Polley posted a 44 and Louis Hardendorf finished with a 47. Jared Skinner posted a 51 for Schoharie and Seth Walker added a 65.
Colin Kowalski, Gabe Mormile and Cayden Egelston all had rounds of 46 to lead Fonda-Fultonville, while Noah Moran posted a 48. Alex Saltsman finished with a 49 for the Braves and Colby Monty added a 54.
Fonda-Fultonville is scheduled to travel to Northville-Mayfield today for a 4 p.m. match at Sacandaga Golf Club.


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Is Harvey Specter about to meet his match?
USA Network sources have confirmed that Christina Cole will recur on Suits Season 5 as a Harvard-educated psychiatrist named Dr. Paula Agard.
The character will specialize in high end corporate consulting, becoming the perfect match for Harvey and playing a game of cat and mouse with him throughout upcoming episodes.
It's unclear, however, whether Dr. Agard will actually serve as Harvey's personal therapist.
The veteran actress is best known for roles on Chaos and The Assets and she will debut on the very first episode of Suits Season 5.
Suits Season 5 will premiere on June 24 and focus on a “shaken firm,” according to the official USA synopsis.
Having left Harvey after more than a decade as colleagues, Donna will be working for his long-time rival Louis; while Jessica will adjust to being single and Mike and Rachel will be over the moon after his marriage proposal.
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Johnathan|Christian, the haunting transatlantic project from American composer Johnathan Mooney (The New Creatures) and Swedish dark-rocker Christian Granquist (The Atom) produced two impressive debuts: the full-length album Beautiful Hideous arrived late last year, earning major props across the gothic, industrial, darkwave and other alternative music press; the band followed up that success with a remix of the single “I Walk This Earth Alone,” featuring the talents of Danish industrial music legend Leæther Strip (a.k.a. Clause Larsen), and the two records combined represent some the best of old and new gothic rock/darkwave styles, strongly reminiscent of early death-rock legends Christian Death and '80s goth icons Sisters of Mercy, but with a modern production sheen
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Step 15: Constructing the rear section
* Rear side (C), 14 5/8" x 4½"
* Rear back (D), 39½" x 4½"
* Rear bottom (E), 38" x 5"
On the two side pieces (C), drill two holes 1½" from the bottom and ¾" from the end. Make the holes large enough for the 3/8" hangar bolts.
Drill two more holes higher up on the sides, large enough to accommodate the alignment pegs you'll be using. I used ½" dowels for strength.
Assemble the back section as shown in the diagram. Biscuit joints are best, but screws, dowels, or cleats are acceptable too. If you use screws, plug the screw holes for best appearance.
Be sure to attach one sliding rail to each of the rear rails before screwing the rear rails into place.


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Marco Juare Fatal Crash – On Friday morning, a tragic single-vehicle crash occurred in Flour Bluff, resulting in the death of a 35-year-old man. Corpus Christi police officers responded to the incident at approximately 2:21 a.m. The accident took place in the 10000 block of South Padre Island Drive eastbound. When the officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Marco Antonio Meza Juarez, the motorist involved in the crash, inside the vehicle. Recognizing the severity of his injuries, emergency medical personnel swiftly transported him to a nearby hospital. Unfortunately, despite their efforts, Juarez succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
Upon further investigation by the Traffic Section investigators, it was determined that the driver had been traveling east on the access road. For reasons yet to be determined, the vehicle veered off the road and onto the shoulder. Tragically, it collided with a solid metal highway sign support column, leading to the fatal outcome.
The loss of a life in such circumstances is always deeply saddening. The incident serves as a reminder of the importance of road safety and the need for cautious driving practices. It also highlights the potential consequences of even a single moment of inattention or a lapse in judgment while operating a vehicle.
Authorities will continue to investigate the crash to determine the precise cause and any contributing factors. Such investigations are crucial in understanding the circumstances surrounding the incident and ensuring that appropriate measures can be taken to prevent similar accidents in the future.
In the wake of this tragic event, it is important to extend sympathies and support to the family and friends of Marco Antonio Meza Juarez, who are undoubtedly grieving the loss of their loved one. The community as a whole should come together to offer comfort, assistance, and resources during this difficult time.
This incident underscores the significance of promoting safe driving practices and maintaining vigilance on the roads. By adhering to traffic regulations, avoiding distractions, and being mindful of the potential consequences, we can all play a part in reducing the occurrence of such devastating accidents.


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Successful vegetable growers are skilled at producing vegetables with the high quality demanded by the market place. There are many aspects of production that lead to successful production of vegetables, but nutrient management is a cornerstone practice upon which all other aspects of production sit. Nitrogen is a key nutrient that is taken up in larger quantities than all other nutrients except for potassium. Nitrate and ammonium are the forms of nitrogen that vegetables predominantly absorb; however, in warm soils, ammonium rapidly converts to nitrate with the help of soil bacteria which results in nitrate being the dominant form of nitrogen found in agricultural soils during the summer production season. Unfortunately, nitrate is susceptible to leaching by water from irrigation or rain.
Once nitrate leaves the root zone of the soil and makes its way to surface or groundwater, it is considered a contaminant. Nitrate levels are regulated in drinking water and agriculture is often pointed to as a major source of nitrate contamination of drinking water.
Given the potential high value of vegetables, growers have to balance providing for the needs of their crops and taking care to minimize nitrate losses from production fields. There is no question of the value and necessity of nitrogen fertilization, but the associated issues with nitrate runoff and leaching to groundwater have become front-burner issues for vegetable producers because of the enactment of water quality regulations.
In California, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act established authority of the Regional Water Quality Control Boards to oversee water quality regulation in the state. Nitrate levels in ground and surface water are regulated by this agency and are mandated not to exceed the drinking water standard of 10 ppm nitrate-nitrogen. It is very difficult for growers to meet these regulations at times. For instance, during wet springs with unexpected rainfall, it can be difficult to maintain sufficient nitrate in the root zone to achieve maximum yield.
On the Central Coast of California, water quality regulations were passed earlier this year and it is still not entirely clear how they will be enforced. Certainly growers will also be required to spend more time and money monitoring nitrogen use in their production fields. Furthermore, growers are increasingly utilizing a number of techniques and technologies to help them improve nitrogen use efficiency and thereby assist them in complying with water quality regulations.
Soil tests that measure levels of residual soil nitrate are a key practice to help growers reduce nitrogen fertilizer inputs. This technique is particularly useful in detecting situations when there are robust levels of soil nitrate that can offset nitrogen fertilizer applications. For instance, in the coast production district of California, leafy green vegetables are often double cropped and the second crop of the season can often take advantage of residual soil nitrate left by the first crop.
There is a great deal of research underway evaluating fertilizer technologies such as nitrification inhibitors, slow release fertilizers, foliar applications of nutrients, as well as other techniques to increase the nitrogen use efficiency of applied fertilizers. Rotations with deep rooted crops or cover crop that can take up residual soil nitrate can be very helpful in mitigating nitrate losses to groundwater. However, economically viable rotational crops are not always available and only provide a limited mitigation measure in many areas.
Vegetable growers are pulled by so many factors, it is difficult to find the time for the extra management activities required by the water quality regulations. As a result, growers are increasingly working with certified crop consultants to develop nutrient management plans and to conduct routine soil nitrate tests to better time and manage nitrogen fertilizer decisions. All of these measures cost extra money and it is unclear if consumers are willing to pay their share of the costs of improved nitrogen management.
Growers have confronted many challenges in the past. New water quality regulations are just one of the many new issues. The good news is that there are resources and techniques that can help growers improve nitrogen use efficiency and benefit water quality.

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Pledging to build a new cruise ship terminal on Captain Cook Wharf was an election promise Auckland Mayor Len Brown should have known he'd never be able to keep. Now, barely six months in office, he's had to backtrack, ending up with a double layer of egg on his face. All self-inflicted.
Not only has he had to stand up and embrace the Queens Wharf option he so recently opposed, but by doing it without consultation, he comes across as not having much regard for these democratic processes.
The governing Auckland Council was not consulted. Nor did he wait for the grand waterfront master plan to be completed. This is the new planning tool which, he said back in November, would "confirm our final options for the development of the waterfront, in particular the cruise ship terminal".
In the run-up to the election, Mr Brown succumbed to the $200 million Captain Cook Wharf terminal proposal advocated by architect Gordon Moller.
Whatever its merits, this scheme was never a runner for many reasons, the prime one being the Government, the Auckland Regional Council and Ports of Auckland had already signed a deal over the future of Queens Wharf which incorporated a cruise ship terminal. It was a contract any future Auckland mayor was going to find ruinously expensive to wriggle out of.
Candidate Brown was reminded of this during the campaign, but chose to continue waxing lyrical about his expensive alternative. It was as though if he closed his eyes long enough, the deal already struck on the future of Queens Wharf would somehow not be his to worry about when elected mayor of the new Super City.
To meet Prime Minister John Key's desire for a Queens Wharf "party central" base for the Rugby World Cup, the Government had joined with the ARC in mid-2009 to buy the wharf from Ports of Auckland for $40 million, the cost split equally.
The politicians agreed to fund a new cruise ship terminal on the wharf. In return, the public would be allowed free access to the wharf, as long as it didn't interfere with cruise ship activities. Ratepayers would also pay $4.1 million in annual operating costs, and in return, the port company would accept responsibility for dredging around the wharf and for the long-term maintenance of the under-wharf structure.
For the new mayor to renege on this undertaking would have been setting himself on a collision course with both the Government and Ports of Auckland. The Government could have demanded its $20 million back. The port company could have walked away from its deal to maintain the wharf. The port could also have sought damages for the city's failure to deliver a passenger terminal.
It's easy to argue that as its 100 per cent owner, the Super City could tell the port company what to do. But the 1988 Port Companies Act was enacted to ensure port companies are run on strictly commercial lines and not subjected to blatant political manipulations of that kind. At the time the wharf changed hands, the talk was of a cruise ship terminal that would double as "party central" for the Rugby World Cup.
Auckland City politicians were given a choice of four design options, ranging from a $52.1 million bargain-basement model through to a $141 "iconic" model. They voted for an $84 million conversion of the two existing wharf sheds, then lost interest. Subsequently came a public design contest specifying a budget of $47 million, but after surveying around 260 entries, ARC chairman Mike Lee dismissed the finalists as "lacklustre, underwhelming and mediocre" and called the contest off.
Early last year, with more than a hint of desperation, a cruise ship industry spokesman said they'd be quite happy with a $6 million to $10 million, functional, shed-like facility on the wharf. Which sounded very much like a big nudge to do up the larger of the two remaining wharf cargo sheds.
This now seems to be the substance of Mr Brown's proposal. Which brings him back to square one - but now encumbered with a burden of broken promises.
Perhaps the most damaging legacy is that in initially backing a Captain Cook option, then changing his mind and backing the status quo, all without consulting his colleagues or waiting for a plan to be drawn up, Mr Brown leaves the distinct message that such democratic niceties don't really matter.


HDMI 2.0 is apparently no more, as it is now set to be renamed to HDMI 2.1. This information comes from a TFT Central report that dug into this news and discovered some interesting information. They also got into contact with HDMI.org to ask them several questions regarding this information.
The feature set of HDMI 2.0 will still be available, it just won’t be called “2.0” anymore. Instead, those features will be an optional subset of HDMI 2.1, and devices are now going to have to explicitly state which of these features they support. It’s certainly a bizarre move that doesn’t seem to have too much purpose, outside of confusing consumers even more.
HDMI specs just got a lot more confusing
So, let’s first break down the differences between HDMI 2.0 and 2.1 to see how baffling this decision is. HDMI 2.0 offers up more bandwidth than the previous 1.4 generation of HDMI cables by jumping up to 16 Gbps from the former’s 10.2 Gbps. This is a massive jump in terms of how much data can be processed. However, it’s a far cry from HDMI 2.1, which has a transmission rate of 48 Gbps. This one difference massively impacts the capabilities and features found in these two generations of HDMI ports. This difference alone isn’t enough to truly set them apart just yet, though.
The feature set of HDMI 2.1 is very different from that of 2.0. For starters, it supports dynamic HDR instead of the static HDR found on 2.0 ports. This makes the quality of the image clearer and more consistent, which is a very nice feature for those that use HDR. Then, there are the other features that it supports like variable refresh rates, quick media switching, and a few other things. The biggest feature that it offers, however, is the ability to output an 8K resolution at 60fps and 4K at 120fps. In comparison, HDMI 2.0 can output an 8K resolution at 30fps and 4K at 60fps.
These features are clearly very different and signal that these are two separate generations of HDMI technology. It doesn’t really make sense to combine 2.0 and 2.1 under one name because it makes things a lot harder. It’s asking a lot for consumers to do this much legwork to figure out what they’re buying exactly. HDMI 2.0 is still being used in a lot of displays coming to the market right now. If brands suddenly start to say that a monitors have HDMI 2.1, when in reality the products do not, there will be some nasty surprises in store for new monitor owners.
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Lucas Expressions and Explorer’s Stories made the ideal mix of sentimentality and geekery with the 2005 arrival of Lego Star Wars. This imaginative, cartoony, activity experience game that exploited a multi-generational love for both the Star Wars film establishment and each youngster’s number one toy, Lego blocks. In 2006 the game’s spin-off was more refined, generally on the grounds that it depended on the much cherished unique set of three as opposed to the prequels which some what disheartened the Star Wars fan base. Presently designer Explorer’s Stories has folded the two games into a solitary bundle and delivered it as Lego Star Wars: The total Adventure. At 2 games at the cost of one, particularly with further developed visuals, this is a magnificent delivery. The two games have been exceptionally fruitful and fundamentally generally welcomed and having both in a solitary bundle is an extraordinary arrangement… except if you have played the two games all the way to the end.
The fundamental allure of the Lego Star Wars computer games series is that it lets you the player and fan, showcase probably the most critical scenes from the Star Wars films with charming little Lego individuals, represented the world across as a wellspring of satisfaction. This idea hits such countless different nostalgic recollections, with such merciless accuracy that it nearly appears to be evil. The game play itself is a mix of activity platforming, puzzle settling and center play, changing between at least 2 controllable characters to get around a deterrent déguisement star wars femme. You’ll clear your path through different sceneries of the Star Wars films, for example, Naboo royal residence, the cloning office on Kamino, the roads of Mos Eisley, even the hallways of the Demise Star. There are many characters to be opened both during play and for gathering in game things and trading them like a money for characters, outfits and so on. The actual characters are conveniently divided into proper classes for play, all with remarkable capacities to assist you with passing different obstructions. You have some control over just a single person at a time but you can switch between a party of many following characters to progress past the issues you are given. They all have novel capacities to permit you to explore past large edges, vents and in any event, utilizing the power to make Lego objects to pass laser walls. Obviously, every one of the in game things, characters, vehicles, and even conditions and planned in the 3d programming from Lego blocks and show up in the style actual models in the game making a dreamlike, tomfoolery and generally one of a kind focus on the Lego games. The game splits from the activity platformer classification sometimes for a vehicle themed level. These are less riddle based and more about downright old having a good time, gathering gleaming things and on account of a unit race, getting the best time. They’re seldom pretty much as cleaned or natural as the activity when you’re walking, yet they work really hard accentuating the typical progression of activity of the game. The gathering based game play has made Lego Star Wars ideal for playing with a companion. In The Total Adventure for the PS3 and Xbox 360, you can now play the game helpfully over the Web. This is by a wide margin the best expansion to this bundle, and it has been coordinated smoothly, making it easy breezy for one more player to bounce into your game anytime. The Total Adventure offers a couple of more, less tremendous changes and overhauls. A couple of new levels have been added, while others have been changed. By and large in any case, the games play pretty like the first delivered forms.

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by Lawrence Meyers | November 7, 2011 12:35 pm
There are these little things called “secular trends” that all investors must be aware of.
For example, there is a secular trend toward viewing entertainment on mobile devices and computers, which is one reason why television viewership and the volume of movie admissions have been dropped during the past 10 years.
Another secular trend is that people are abandoning newspapers, and for that reason you should sell all your newspaper stocks. The trend is your friend. Newspapers are not trending toward growth. They are contracting. Here’s why, and a look at the stocks to sell.
Thanks to the Internet, people can get their news whenever they want, wherever they want. Mobile devices are the new instant newspapers — they provide up-to-the-minute news, whereas newspapers provide day-old news. Moreover, content providers are entering the field all the time, and a good story can come from anywhere, not just The New York Times. And in the case of fabulous blogs that published stories that do not hew to the left-wing bias of most newspapers, people have started to realize that the truth is out there — but not in the mainstream media.
Then you have the fact that the actual context and convenience for reading a newspaper is gone. It used to be that you went to the bagel store on Sunday and read the newspaper. Now you go the bagel store and read your iPad. Plus, those newspapers are so bulky.
As a result of all this, eyeballs have migrated away from newspapers to the Internet. Circulation has fallen dramatically. In Q1 of 2010 — just choosing a random quarter — the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed a 9% drop in circulation. That included a 23% drop in circulation for the San Francisco Chronicle. In the past six months, newspapers saw a 5% drop.
When circulation falls, advertising rates follow and advertisers spend their dollars elsewhere. Newspapers are also really expensive to run, whereas websites aren’t nearly as expensive.
How bad is it? Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) hit a high of $983 a share in late 2004. It has never come close since, and today trades at $330. In its most recent quarter, it reported a 20% drop in ad revenue. Even online revenue was down 14%.
New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) was a $51 stock in 2002. Today it trades at $7.50. Third-quarter ad revenue was down 6%. Gannett Company (NYSE:GCI) — well, things there are so bad that the company stopped reporting paid ad pages. The company replaced that detailed information with a simple and embarrassing statistic: national advertising fell 17%. Gannett trades at $11.32 and is not likely to see its 2004 high of $89 ever again.
This is what we call a secular trend. If you own these stocks, or for that matter McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) — which is down to about a buck a share from $70 — get out now. You are holding a highly flammable product with no future. In fact, you may even want to consider shorting. It’s better than watching your money go up in flames.
As of this writing, Lawrence Meyers did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
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Author: Tiffany Reisz “At twenty-three years of age, I would have hoped pouting would be far behind you, Eleanor. ”
Eleanor turned her face to the car window and rolled her eyes. She didn’t pay any attention to the soft winter woods gliding past her; she simply didn’t want him to see her childish response to his rebuke. She was in enough trouble with him already. Him—she wouldn’t even think or speak his name.
“I’m not pouting. . . sir. ” She delayed adding the term of respect for as long as safely possible. “Pouting is what I do when you send me to bed without supper. You’re leaving me for a week and just pawning me off on some stranger. Pouting is not what this is. ”
She heard him sigh and felt a tug of sympathy that she quickly forced aside. She knew she was being difficult, but he was being impossible.
“Then what is it?” he asked.
Eleanor kept her jaw tight. “Righteous indignation. ”
“Righteous indeed,” he said. “You realize that Daniel is only a stranger to you,” he reminded her, but Eleanor only stared out the window again. Daniel. . . something. She didn’t even know his last name or anything about him. He was rich apparently. He’d sent a limo to bring her to him. She’d thought the limo was a little ridiculous, but at least it gave her the privacy to vent her frustration at him during the whole drive. “He is an old and dear friend,” he continued. “One of the best men I have ever known. As I’ve told you before, his wife died nearly three years ago. He’s been something of a recluse ever since. ”
“So giving me to him to fuck for a week is supposed to mend his poor broken heart?” she challenged. “You must think I’m pretty damn good in bed. ”
“Although considerable, it’s hardly your prowess in the bedroom that I imagine will help Daniel return to the outside world again. I merely wish you to keep him company while I’m away. Whether or not he chooses to sample your talents is his decision. ”
“So I don’t get a say?”
Eleanor started at the sound of the tinted window separating them from the driver being raised. But she wasn’t surprised when he grabbed her by the knees and wrenched her toward him. She ended up on her back stretched across the dark leather of the seat, his hands lifting her skirt and prying her thighs apart. With two fingers he penetrated her quick and hard.
“Who do you belong to?” he demanded, his voice quietly threatening.
She forced herself to breathe, forced herself to meet his eyes—eyes gray and ominous as a rising storm.
“You, sir,” she answered through teeth gritting against the sudden violation.
“And this,” he said, spreading his fingers open inside her. She felt herself growing wet at his touch and had to curse her betraying body for being so endlessly responsive to him. “Who does this belong to?”
“You, sir. ”
“Mine to keep?”
“Yes, sir. ”
“Mine to give away?”
She swallowed before answering. “Yes, sir. ”
“And mine to come claim again?”
Tears tried to form in her eyes but she forced them down. She nodded and whispered, “Yes, sir. ”
Slowly he pulled his fingers out of her. She sat up and straightened her skirt while he wiped her wetness off his hand with a black handkerchief.
“Now,” he said without bothering to look at her, “you’ve had your say. ”
Eleanor said nothing else as the limo pulled into the long, winding driveway of a snow-covered colonial manor. At least he’s got a nice house, Eleanor told herself. She’d almost expected it to look like a prison. But still, a pretty home was cold comfort for spending a week alone with a man she’d never met.
The limo stopped at the front door and a man, presumably Daniel, came out to greet them. She stood to the side shivering as she let the old friends exchange greetings and handshakes. Out of the corner of her eyes she studied Daniel. She guessed he was thirty-six or thirty-seven; he certainly looked no older. And, she grudgingly conceded, he was very handsome. Far from the thin pale hermit she’d imagined, he was well-muscled with a face as chiseled as an old Hollywood movie idol. His blond hair made him seem slightly less threatening but when he turned his attention to her, she stiffened in fear. His eyes were neither cold nor cruel, but flush with sorrow. The sadness rendered him immediately human to her and that was the last thing she wanted or needed. To get through this week, she needed to keep her guard up. She’d let him have her body if he demanded it of her. She’d give him nothing else.
“So this is Eleanor,” Daniel said as he offered her his hand. She shook it briskly and quickly before dropping it and pulling her arms tight in around her.
“My Eleanor, yes,” he said with a smile of affection and pride. His obvious love for her didn’t stop her from still thinking of him as just him. Faced with the reality of the week ahead, she was more furious at him than ever.
“It’s very nice to meet you,” Daniel said. “It’ll be nice to have a houseguest again. I’ve been a bit of a Miss Havisham lately. ”
Eleanor bit her lip not wanting to laugh at his astute, if ridiculous, literary reference. She hadn’t expected him to be a Dickens fan.
“I’ll be sure not to eat the wedding cake,” Eleanor said before she could stop herself. She was naturally chatty and even a bad mood couldn’t quite keep her from bantering.
“Ah, she reads,” Daniel said. “Good. I’m trying to reorganize my library this week. An extra pair of hands will be a great help. ”
“Eleanor loves books,” he said. “She even works in a bookstore so at the very least you’ll have a perfectly alphabetized collection. ”
“Oh, it’s already alphabetized,” Daniel said as he ushered them inside the house. “I’m just not sure which alphabet. Certainly not the English one. ”
Eleanor glanced around Daniel’s home as they made their way to what she guessed was the drawing room. The house seemed vast but warm and would have been cozy but for its enigmatic master. In the presence of such pain, Eleanor doubted she could ever feel at home.
Daniel gestured toward a chair and he sat down. One glance from him brought her to her knees at his feet. In private she always sat at his feet. That she was to take the standard submissive posture in front of Daniel meant only one thing—Daniel was one of them. Or had been, at least, before his wife died.
“Could I offer either of you a drink?” Daniel asked, taking a seat on the sofa across from them.
“No, thank you. ” Eleanor let him speak for her. “I really must be going. My flight leaves in three hours. ”
“Back to Rome again?” Daniel asked.
“Again,” he said, sounding tired of it all.
“I’ll walk you out. ”
Usually he would never leave her without a long and intimate goodbye. But this time he merely stood, brushed a finger gently across her cheek and chin, and left her alone in the room. She waited on the floor although she desperately wanted to run after him and beg him to take her with him. But she was far too well-trained to break a submissive posture for the sole purpose of engaging in what she knew would be a futile emotional outburst.
After a few moments, Daniel returned to the drawing room. He said nothing at first and Eleanor could only keep her silence and her eyes lowered.
“Please, sit,” he said, his voice kind and quietly amused. “In a chair. ”
“Oh, a chair. How extraordinarily generous,” she said, unable to maintain her submissive comportment now that she was truly alone with Daniel.
“I understand that you’re upset with this arrangement. ”
Eleanor smirked. Upset?
“I get it,” she said as she sat in the armchair b
ehind her. “This is good cop, bad cop, right? Bad cop works me over and leaves and then good cop comes in and offers me the milk and the cookies and the nice comfy chair. How cute. ”
“He warned me you were smart. He neglected to mention you were a smart-ass as well. ”
She had to give Daniel some credit. He was impressively unimpressed by her sarcasm. Tougher even than he looked.
“He may live to be a hundred and the word ‘smart-ass’ will never pass those perfect lips of his and you know it,” she said.
Daniel half laughed. “He is a bit too proper for that, isn’t he? I suppose he would say you were—”
“Impudent,” she suggested.
“A fair assessment, I think. He could have warned me you were impudent. ”
“I guess he thinks it goes without saying. Since you’re playing good cop, should I expect a big dinner now? A massage maybe? Or how about the sob story about your poor dead wife and how you’re so sad I should blow you nine ways to Sunday?” she asked, deliberately trying to get a rise out of him. But he still seemed unmoved. That scared her even more than an emotional reaction would have. His pain was too deep to be touched. It made him seem far beyond her.
“I think we’ve left the kingdom of impudent and entered the realm of bitchiness. ”
She almost laughed. Bitchiness—another word she would never hear him say.
“A fair assessment,” she said, repeating Daniel’s words.
Daniel inhaled and exhaled heavily. She could tell he was considering his next words.
“I won’t burden you with a sob story,” he said. “But you deserve some explanation for your presence here. I was married, blissfully, for seven years. My wife and I were as you and—”
“If you want to get on my good side, please don’t say his name. I’ll make it through this week a hell of a lot easier if I don’t have to hear about him or talk about him. ”
Daniel nodded. “As you and he are,” he continued. “She was more than my wife. She was my property, my possession. . . and my best friend. She died three years ago. I have been with no one since. When I confessed this to S—to him, he insisted that some time with you would be therapeutic. As you belong to him, there is no threat of romantic entanglement. And as you are already familiar with the specific requirement of the lifestyle—”
“I’m kinky. You don’t have to resort to euphemisms. ”
“Then the transition from celibacy back to sexuality would be far smoother. ”
“So you do plan to fuck me then?” she asked although she knew the answer already.
“When you’re ready and if you have no objection. ”
“I’m here, aren’t I? Nobody’s got a gun to my head. ”
“Force is for amateurs. I will sleep alone for eternity before I would ever take an unwilling partner to bed. He has shared you with others before, hasn’t he?”
“Yeah, of course. But—” she said and took a breath “—he was always there. ”
“I understand. As I said, when you’re ready. And not until then. ”
“So what now?” she asked after a moment’s pause. Daniel stood up and went to the door. She quickly joined him.
“I’m sure you need to unpack and rest. So I suppose for the night I’ll simply send you to your room. ”
“Send me to my room? After what a bitch I’ve been?” Eleanor scoffed. “From good cop to cop-out. Fine, I’ll go to my room. ” She moved to take a step but Daniel caught her by the chin. She gasped at the sudden unexpected movement, shocked by the sudden change in his demeanor.
He forced her to meet his eyes.
“I haven’t played this game in years,” he said, his voice low and forbidding. “That does not mean I’ve forgotten how. ”
Eleanor didn’t dare to blink or breathe. Daniel loosened his grip on her chin but did not let her go.
“I may not touch you again for the rest of this week,” he said. “Or I may fuck you blind, deaf and dumb. But you will be respectful of me while you are here no matter what the sleeping arrangements prove to be. Understood?”

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10 ‘Saturday Night Live’ Cast Members Who Died Way Too Young
With the recent 40th anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Live, there was a small void– ten voids actually–left by the deceased cast members we would’ve loved to see there. So, we’d like to pay tribute to the late SNL greats, many of which left us in their prime, and pick up where Melissa McCarthy left off.
Chris Farley (1964-1997)
One of the ’90s “Bad Boys of SNL,” Farley was the shy but energetic man behind great characters like Matt Foley, over-enthusiastic motivational speaker, and Todd O’Connor, an obsessed Chicago Bears/Mike Ditka fan. No matter what character he played, he always gave it full effort (especially his Chippendales audition) and everyone enjoyed that. Farley died of an overdose of morphine and cocaine in his home. Other popular credits include the films Tommy Boy and Black Sheep.
Phil Hartman (1948-1998)
One year later, we lost NewsRadio star Phil Hartman. He appeared in eight seasons of Saturday Night Live and played more than 20 recurring characters. Hartman was tragically murdered by his wife, Brynn, who took her own life afterwards. Drugs were said to have played a part in the incident. Other popular credits include Captain Carl of Pee Wee’s Playhouse and several voices from The Simpsons.
Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
Radner was among the first cast members, getting her start on Saturday Night Live in 1975. She was diagnosed with cancer in the ’80s, shortly after leaving the show. Radner later released a memoir about her struggles with cancer, “It’s Always Something,” a catch phrase from one of her more popular “SNL” characters, Roseanne Roseannadanna. Bill Murray recalls the last time they all saw Gilda was at a party, and when she tried to leave, he carried her around on his shoulder for an hour saying goodbye to everyone.
John Belushi (1949-1982)
Belushi was another original cast member who started out in 1975. His roles included popular impressions of Marlon Brando and Joe Cocker, and he and Dan Aykroyd were a comedy duo, performing their Blues Brothers skits together. Belushi was found having overdosed on speedball (heroin and cocaine) injections in the famous L.A. hotel, Chateau Marmont. Other popular credits include National Lampoon’s Animal House. He was also originally cast to appear in Ghostbusters as Peter Venkman, a role Bill Murray ended up becoming famous for.
Jan Hooks (1957-2014)
Hooks was a stand-up comedian who joined the cast in 1986 and stayed until 1991, serving up several great female impressions like Hillary Clinton, Sinead O’Connor and Nancy Reagan. Hooks recently passed away in 2014 after a battle with cancer, which she thought she had beaten. Other popular credits include Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and television’s Designing Women.
Tom Davis (1952-2012)
Davis was an Emmy award-winning actor, writer and comedian who joined the original cast of “SNL” in 1975 until his departure in 1980. He worked mostly well in comedy pairs, doing “Franken and Davis” sketches with Al Franken, “Medieval Barber” with Steve Martin and “Nick the Lounge Singer” with Bill Murray. Davis was diagnosed with neck and head cancer in 2009 and passed away in 2012, just weeks before his 60th birthday. Other popular credits include Coneheads and Trading Places, both movies involving former “SNL” castmate Dan Aykroyd.
Charles Rocket (1949-2005)
Born Charles Claverie, he joined the cast in 1980 for only a brief stint but managed to become the “Weekend Update” anchor in that time. He was best known for his skit “The Rocket Report,” where he would take a camera crew out on the streets of NYC. Rocket was infamously fired for saying the F-word on live TV, and reportedly battled depression for years afterward. Rocket committed suicide in 2005, cutting his own throat in his Connecticut home. His other popular credits include 1994’s Dumb and Dumber.
Danitra Vance (1954-1994)
Vance was a stand-up comedian, actress and vocalist who joined the cast in 1985 for only one year. Her popular characters included Cabrini Jackson and LaToya Marie. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and underwent treatment, later performing a solo skit based off the experience, “The Radical Girl’s Guide to Radical Mastectomy.” Her cancer returned in 1993 and she passed in 1994. Other popular credits include Sticky Fingers and Jumpin’ at the Boneyard.
Andy Kaufman (1949-1984)
After appearing on the premiere episode of “SNL” in 1975, Andy Kaufman continued a stint of appearances on the show with unpredictable and unorthodox performances. Despite his popular “Mighty Mouse” and “Foreign Man” sketches, NBC executive Dick Ebersol moved to have Kaufman removed from the show with a viewer call-in vote 900-number, ironically an idea invented by Kaufman himself. He would later die in 1984 from lung cancer, though there are conspiracies that the magical Kaufman faked his own death and will resurface again soon in the comedy world.
Michael O’Donoghue (1940-1994)
O’Donoghue was an original “SNL” cast member, original head writer and part of the show’s first skit, “The Wolverines.” He was fired during the show’s third season for his mocking of the then NBC president, Fred Silverman.” He was brought back two times and fired two more times by different NBC heads. He died in 1994 from a cerebral hemorrhage.


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Howdy! Currently in the Abu Dhabi airport waiting for our flight to India. Yesterday was a long day and this morning was interesting to say the least. So let’s rewind to yesterday morning shall we?
We decided to sleep in since we had not really slept on the plane and we knew we needed tons of energy to get through the heat and to our next destination. Once we were up and about we headed to breakfast and were pleasantly surprised by the enormous buffet. There were more options than we knew what to do with and as we were being seated I had my eyes set on the waffles which caused me to trip very loudly over a step. The entire waitstaff was laughing as I made a giant fool of myself. Glad I could provide some entertainment though the toe that I stubbed probably thought differently. We stuffed ourselves full of food and fresh juice and had to force ourselves to leave. It was the nicest breakfast we’d ever experienced.
After breakfast, I stayed in the room and blogged while Ethan went to check out the waterfront. He came back to report that it was very hot, but closer than we thought. At that point we needed to start packing and head to the airport so it would have to wait for another time.
Once we were packed up we headed out to catch the bus back to the Corniche/Museum so we could get some pictures in the daylight. I was not excited about this idea as it meant more walking in the blazing heat and standing in the sun. We walked along the Corniche taking a few breaks in the shade, then finally reached the museum. Ethan left me at the bottom of the steps and headed to get some pictures. In a few minutes we were back at the bus stop and heading back to the airport. After a last minute gate change and having to take a bus to the plane on the tarmac, we finally boarded. The plane was fairly empty so we got a row to ourselves, which was nice even though the flight was only an hour. Touchdown Abu Dhabi!
We got through immigration pretty fast and planned to use the public bus system as we had heard that it was fairly easy to figure out. Well, it wasn’t quite as easy as we hoped. First, we walked outside to the bus area and asked someone if we could pay cash. He said no, that we needed a card and to go back inside. We turned around and headed back in, but didn’t see anywhere to get said card. We did see an information desk though, so we asked the lady who told us to buy it from the kiosk at the bus stop. She failed to mention that there were two stops (about 40 yards apart) and the kiosk was at the further one. So after a few minutes of circling the closer stop we finally noticed the kiosk at the other stop. Ugh.
We thought we had figured out what we needed at the kiosk, but we clicked through the options and were massively confused because it was a lot more expensive than we had read. We stood there confused for a while and during that time, missed the bus that we needed. Double ugh. Ethan decided to do a bit more research so we headed back inside to use the Wifi. It took another 10 minutes, but we finally thought we had it figured out. Back to the kiosk. More confusion. Finally got what we needed. Phew! Now to wait for the bus. Luckily, the bus stop had an air conditioned sitting area so we hung out in there while we waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, we saw the bus we needed coming. We grabbed our stuff and headed out and it just drove on by. Ethan waved and tried to get the drivers attention, to no avail. Someone noticed us and came to tell us there would be another soon. It was closing in on 8pm and we were both getting pretty tired and hungry. After another 10 minutes, we seriously wondered if another bus was actually coming. It finally showed up and we hopped on with all our stuff. I fell asleep with my fave smushed into the back of my bag and woke to Ethan trying to show me something. It was a long bus ride and we got worried that we weren’t going the right way. Ethan asked a guy and he confirmed that the bus would drop us near the hotel. Thank God he was right! We got off right by the hotel and walked in to air conditioning and friendly people.
To our delight, our room was upgraded to a king suite, but breakfast wasn’t included, which we were pretty bummed about. I’d take breakfast over a king bed any day. We dropped our stuff and headed out for food. We were hoping to find a local type restaurant, but Abu Dhabi is influenced by so many different cultures that we didn’t really know what to look for. So after a small argument, we ended up at McDonald’s of all places. I was not in the mood to wander around looking for food and really didn’t need much.
After dinner we grabbed a couple ice cream cones to go and headed toward Abu Dhabi’s waterfront area. We had to run across a busy highway to get there (of course there was an underground crossing about a hundred yards ahead…),but the breeze off the ocean was worth it. It wasn’t a cool breeze by any means, but it was a breeze and that was an improvement. After checking out the skyline and deciding which sky scrapers we liked the best, we headed back to the hotel and talked about what we would do the next day. We grabbed some fruit from a vendor for breakfast and headed back to the hotel for some much needed sleep.

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If your vehicle needs service, it’s time to get it done now.
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8News Meteorologist Katie Dupree tells us how to make sure our car is ready for winter weather, and gives us driving tips to keep us safe.
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In the UK and US, our population is ageing. Current demographic trends indicate that 1 in 5 adults in the UK will be aged over 65 by the year 2020. The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to more than double from 46 million today, to over 98 million by 2060.
Despite significant progress in understanding how the human brain ages at the anatomical and cellular levels, much less is known about the relationship between structural and neural changes that underlie the decline of cognitive abilities and determine an individual’s functional, rather than chronological, age.
A core challenge in human cognitive ageing is to understand the mechanisms that lead to rapid cognitive decline in some older adults while others maintain high levels of cognitive performance.
BRIDGE Fellow - Dr Magda Chechlacz
“The BRIDGE Fellowship has given me an opportunity to really focus my time on the research questions, and benefit from the expertise from two leading institutions.”
While ageing itself is inevitable, the rate of healthy cognitive ageing and vulnerability to dementia differs from person to person.
Dr Chechlacz, along with colleagues in both Birmingham's Centre for Human Brain Health and the Beckman Institute, is investigating the predictors of variability in age-related cognitive decline.
This BRIDGE funded research has a particular focus on how changes in sleep patterns can affect cognitive decline as we age.
With the difficulty of studying the impact of sleep patterns longitudinally, the team are looking to measure general sleep patterns in elderly and investigate the association with attention functions, a set of key cognitive processes which enable prioritisation of the incoming information and concentrating on the current behavioural goals while avoiding distractions. This is combined with imaging of functional and structural connectivity in the brain.
The team will also use UK Biobank data to conduct a large cross-sectional analysis of the effects of sleep quality, quantity and chronotype on vascular health, age-related brain atrophy (macrostructural changes), white matter microstructure and functional connectivity within brain networks supporting attention function.
Thanks to an optical imaging technique pioneered at the Beckman Institute – NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) based method that assesses cerebral arterial elasticity in humans (Pulse-DOT) – the team will also look into the link between sleep and the vascular health of blood vessels in the brain.
With this access to state-of the art brain imaging and expertise in sleep behaviour, the researchers are not only looking to identify any association between sleep patterns and cognitive decline but also to uncover why some people are more resilient to the effects of sleep loss on cognition as they age, and perhaps why in others age-related sleep loss might lead to dementia.
Find out more about Ageing Research at the University of Birmingham.
The BRIDGE alliance brings together complementary expertise in Neuroscience, MRI Physics and Psychology to develop the next generation of multimodal neuroimaging tools. These new techniques will provide the improved physiological specificity and spatiotemporal resolution needed to characterise the full complexity of the brain.
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China's net gold imports via Hong Kong jumped to a nine-month high in July, data showed on Thursday, with banks snapping up bullion as Beijing works to revive an economy.
Net imports stood at 48.773 tons in July, compared with 40.563 tons in June.
Total gold imports via Hong Kong were up nearly 23.7 percent to 53.91 tons.
A global monetary reset is inevitable, as fiat currencies are being debased due to excessive money printing.
The U.S. dollar will be dethroned as the dominant global reserve currency by currencies backed by a basket of commodities including gold, according to Maxime Bernier, Founder and Leader of The People's Party of Canada.
An International reserve currency based on a basket of currencies is under consideration, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 22 at the BRICS Business Forum.
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In another effort to reduce their dependence on the US dollar, BRICS members have been building their own global payment infrastructures for international transactions that are independent of the US dollar and can serve as alternatives to SWIFT, the leading messaging network for financial transactions worldwide.
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Some BRICS members have independently developed their own cross-border payment mechanisms in recent years.
Both Russia and China have launched their national alternatives to the SWIFT global banking network and introduced their systems to broader global markets. Source: www.cambridge.org
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Even as the benchmark indices hit fresh highs on Tuesday, one out of every two midcap stocks still needed at least 20 per cent jump to revisit its 52-week highs. They included stocks such as Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), PB Fintech, Vodafone Idea, Indian Energy Exchange and Trident, which required a 100-200 per cent rally from the prevailing levels, to reclaim their one-year highs.
Shares of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) needed a 192 per cent rally from Tuesday's close of Rs 99.15 to revisit its 52-week high of Rs 291.05 hit on January 11.
Shares of PB Fintech settled at Rs 459.05 on Tuesday. The stock would require a 184 per cent surge to revisit its 52-week high of Rs 1,308.35 hit on November 29, 2021. Delhivery required a 112 per cent jump over its prevailing price of Rs 334.80 to reclaim its recent high of Rs 708.45.
Vodafone Idea (107 per cent), Indian Energy Exchange (105 per cent) and Trident (101 per cent) were some other stocks that needed strong returns to reclaim their recent highs.
A total of 19 other midcap stocks including Sona BLW Precision Forgings, Nalco, Clean Science, Aavas Financiers, Indiamart Intermesh, Godrej Properties Natco Pharma, Dr Lala Pathlabs, The Ramco Cements and Voltas that are required to gain over 50 per cent to revisit one-year high levels.
Others included , ICICI Securities, Aurobindo Pharma, Tata Elxsi, Max Financial Services, L&T Technology Services, Coforge Macrotech Developers, Hatsun Agro Product and Oil India.
In total, 78 NSE Midcap 150 constituents required over 20 per cent jump to revisit one year high. This is even as the NSE Midcap 150 index it self was just 2 per cent away from its 52-week high levels.
"Since 2022-start, about 70 per cent of NSE Midcap 150 has seen EPS downgrades, with 50 per cent suffering 10 per cent-plus downgrades. Q2FY23 earnings weren’t any different either—more than half of mid-caps faced downgrades. Over past seven quarters, upgrades have slowed, downgrades have risen and consensus is hiding in a neutral zone that is ripe for downgrades," said Nuvama Institutional Equities in a note
The domestic brokerage said the upgrades versus downgrades trend is eerily similar to 2016–17, which was followed by a huge SMID underperformance in 2018–19.
"Further, 80 per cent of mid-caps have FY24E EPS growth expectations that are higher than the FY19–23 CAGR," it noted.
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It is right that anime has introduced us with a lot of charming female characters. However, if we talk about cute anime boys what about them? Have they lost it in that area? Therefore, the answer is certainly Not! In fact, they made some really good looking and sexy characters, also the most stylish looking males. However If we take some examples, then Ichigo from Bleach is certainly a stylish male character. One cannot resist falling for cute anime boys with just one look. And there is actually a range of them like, cool, shy, bad-ass, cute, cold etc.
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- 15 Cute Anime Boys of all the time
- 1. Shou Kurusu from Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love Kingdom
- 2. Haruaki Yachi from C3
- 3. Loke from Fairy Tale Guild
- 4. Yato from Noragami
- 5. Keima Katsuragi from The World God Only Knows
- 6. Mikoto Mikoshiba from Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- 7. Lavi from D.Gray-man
- 8. Kyousuke Kousaka from Oreimo
- 9. Lag Seeing from Tegami Bachi
- 10. Mitsukuni Haninozuka from Ouran High School Host Club
- 11. Makoto Itou from School Days
- 12. Hanabusa Aido from Vampire Knight
- 13. Nagisa Hazuki from High Speed! Free! Starting Days
- 14. Saito from Familiar of Zero: “Rondo” of Princesses
- 15. Shouyou Hinata from Haikyuu!!
15 Cute Anime Boys of all the time
1. Shou Kurusu from Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love Kingdom
Shou is a very easy going character yet keeps himself with the cute looks. He is a very easy person with refreshing killer looks and personality. Anyone can get easily linked or attached with his fashionable stylish looks and positive vibes. Therefore, he is one of the cutest male characters in more than just one way. Moreover, his looks gets so enhanced with his hat which gives him the taller and more killer look.
2. Haruaki Yachi from C3
He is the cute looking teenage character from the C3 anime series. Therefore, he is good looking yet has a good nature character. However, he is not much into fights but still if someone pokes his loved ones or friends then it’s not good. Therefore, if someone would try to pick up fights with his family, loved ones then he will not shy to fight back. He has dark brownish hair which covers his forehead and above the eyebrows. Overall he has a cute boyish look on his face.
3. Loke from Fairy Tale Guild
If you talk about cute anime boys, then Loke will come on the top most. He is the character in Fairy Tale Guild who gets revealed to be the Celestial Spirit. Therefore, he leads the 12 Golden Zodiac keys. Therefore, he looks sober and corporate in the look, with slight golden hair and he wears the glasses.
4. Yato from Noragami
Yato is the perfect character of a young boy with messy hair. However, the unique thing about him is that his eye color keep changing according to what he feels in the moment. For example, if he is serious or angry his eyes will become slit like a cat. Yato seems to be a child because his moods remain uncertain. However, he is content and full of himself, still at some point he seems childish. He is more attractive and cute because of his fun loving personality.
5. Keima Katsuragi from The World God Only Knows
It is impossible that if you watch the series “The world God Only Knows” and do not notice the attractive and cute anime boy. That male character is Keima Katsuragi.Therefore, he is the main character of the series. Keima is obsessed with games and can play them as long as it goes. Moreover, he looks cuter because of his spectacles. His speciality is that he can transform his appearance many times. In fact, sometimes he can also cross dress and turn into a girl, yes it is true!
6. Mikoto Mikoshiba from Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
Whenever we look for anime characters in the series looking at the main character makes it easier to understand. Mikoto has a very handsome face and features it attracts everyone and brings attention. Therefore, his fans follow not just girls but also boys. However, in reality he is timid and because of this nature everyones gets attracted.
7. Lavi from D.Gray-man
Lavi seems to be emotionless and reserved in nature. However, his weird actions and casual nicknaming people make him look cute. However, his joking nature and cheerful personality makes him prominent. Apart from this he is really intelligent in nature. Furthermore, including all these characteristics he is a truly honest, loving and cute male.
8. Kyousuke Kousaka from Oreimo
Kyousuke Kousaka is the male character who is in his late teenage years. Though he is average in looks, he still looks cute and stands out in the series alone. He is very loyal and caring in nature. However unlike Makoto who just talks about sex he is very loyal and loves his sister. He has dark eyes and dark eyes and can go far to help his close ones.
9. Lag Seeing from Tegami Bachi
Lag looks very stunning with his left eye covered and chubby face. He is a very cute ideal anime male. However, on the other hand he is also a cry baby but the factors he has makes him more adorable. He is usually polite, kind, formal and gentle. Overall he is a very cute personality.
10. Mitsukuni Haninozuka from Ouran High School Host Club
His face can attract anyone and everyone with his too much cuteness. He has a sweet tooth and also likes to do new things. Once you watch his nature you will notice that he is too much loaded with cuteness.
11. Makoto Itou from School Days
Makoto Itou has a magnetic personality, he has large eyes and long hair. Therefore, this actually gives him a cute teenager boy look. He looks good in his academic uniform in grey suit, however he is not built out of ordinary. He is considered to have a high sex drive and does not care with who get physical and sleeps with.
12. Hanabusa Aido from Vampire Knight
Hanabusa’s nickname is Idol and it suits him from top to bottom, his looks can give you chill in ways like a fairytale. Hanabusa is a charming and attractive vampire. However, he sometimes flirts with girls to show his charisma. The thing about him is that he is not that careful about keeping his secret of being a vampire.
13. Nagisa Hazuki from High Speed! Free! Starting Days
Nagisa Hazuki is a high class boy with a charming persona and cute nature. His all-time favorite thing is to do swimming with his friends. His friendly nature and personality will attract you so much. Nagisa is really smart and he knows that he is cute. Therefore, he can get what he wants easily with his cuteness.
14. Saito from Familiar of Zero: “Rondo” of Princesses
He is one of the dominating male characters of light novel mega series, The Familiar of zero. He is there and is transported from tokyo to a magical world of the kingdom of Tistrain. However, he is also the main love character of Louise.
15. Shouyou Hinata from Haikyuu!!
Shouyou is cheerful with an energetic personality and he stands out of the other. In the Haikyuu!! tv show his character is fearful in nature, he gets scared and also hides when the situation is fearful. He is very cheerful and he is like sunshine, therefore it makes him the cutest. While his personality is like icing on the cake for his cuteness.
Also read: Shaman King 2021 Reboot Anime Update


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As part of my creative role, I created original graphic content for components of the online game experience, including UI, iconography, load screens and 3D game trophies that were used in game-play for many EA Sports titles. Additionally, I was tasked with creating a new logo/corporate identity for Tiburon. I illustrated the new logomark and created all subsequent print materials for the studio (business cards, letterhead, etc.). Because of my extensive print background, I was tasked with many other publications for the studio, including the single-page ad that ran in Game Developer Magazine, announcing EA's creation of the SUPERMAN RETURNS game.
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Justin Michael was born on February 14, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The UCB Show (2016), Serious Music (2016) and Buddy Thunderstruck (2017).
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Originally built in the late 16th century, Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the Swedish royal family as well as one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions. The palace is also home to the Drottningholm Palace Theatre which was opened in 1766 as the replacement of an earlier theater that was destroyed by a fire. The theatre was forgotten and fell into disrepair for quite some time after the assassination of King Gustav III in 1792. In 1920 restoration work began on the theatre and was completed and re-opened in 1922 and is currently run by a private foundation funded by government and private grants. In 1991 the site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as the “Royal Domain of Drottningholm” because it is a wonderful example of 18th century European royal residences. The amazingly preserved theater is one of the major reasons for Drottningholm’s inscription on the UNESCO list.
The reception halls of the palace are open all year round to the public and guided tours are available. Be sure to check out the new visitor’s center, it has lots of useful information, The Royal Gift Shop which offers unique presents and souvenirs, and even a restaurant so you can grab some lunch or a drink to quench your thirst. Drottningholm Palace is open all year around usually opening at around 11 am, it is closed on New Year’s Eve & Day as well as Christmas Eve & Day as well as Boxing Day. Entrance to the palace will cost adults a little under $12 and about $6 for children 7-18. Tickets during the summer can be purchased which include admission to the Chinese Pavilion and run about $17 for adults and about $9 for kids 7-18. Children under 7 accompanied by a guardian are always free.
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