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MARIETTA – City residents gathered Monday night to brainstorm ways to raise money to save the Strand Theatre by March 1 and learn how they can help.
Mayor Bill Dunaway reiterated his commitment to the Strand restoration and the need to set aside differences with Ward 7 City Councilman and Strand owner Philip Goldstein to save the historic theater.
“I believe in it,” Dunaway told members of Involved Mariettans Planning Actively for the City of Tomorrow (IMPACT). “I don’t give a damn whether it benefits the Goldsteins or not.”
Goldstein has personally donated $100,000 and rolled back the clock four years on a 55-year leasing agreement with Friends of the Strand to give the nonprofit group more time to raise money it needs to begin renovations.
Dunaway and Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens said people could donate or pledge money to the Friends of the Strand online at www.friendsofthestrand.org.
Dunaway called the Strand Theatre, built in 1935, the most important historic structure in Marietta that is not preserved.
“I do look upon this as preserving something historical,” he said.
On Jan. 1, Friends of the Strand launched a 90-day push for $750,000 it needs to begin renovations of the theater. Since, the nonprofit group has collected $100,000 in donations and pledges from untold donors. It needs another $650,000 before March 1.
Some of the 50 people in attendance said they were inspired to get behind the Strand effort after Dunaway’s speech to the Marietta Rotary Club earlier this month when he called on city business and community leaders to step up and pledge money to save the theater.
“I got inspired over the last five days,” said Marietta resident and historic preservation advocate Steve Imler. “If you think there’s value beyond the questions, go ahead and do something.”
Resident Greg Linton said he hopes a restored Strand would inspire Goldstein to renovate many of the other buildings on the Square he owns.
City residents were concerned that there was no guarantee the Strand would subsist for 55 years beyond their donations.
“They have a business plan,” Olens said, describing how the envisioned nonprofit movie theater and community center would be “far cheaper” to run than a traditional movie theater or performing arts center.
Dunaway assured IMPACT that the Strand would be a self-sustaining foundation with “a revenue stream.”
Marietta resident Jane Sherlock said she wants to help as a volunteer at a booth outside the Strand on Saturdays, and added that many people could not afford a $1,000 donation for a seat in the theater.
“Most of us want to help, but I can’t give $1,000 to a seat,” she said, adding she hoped people would make smaller donations if they could.
Marietta Historic Preservation Commissioner and Friends of the Strand board member Becky Paden said 99 of the 438 existing seats have been sold to sponsors.
Olens said he was not in Marietta when the historic courthouse was destroyed in 1969, but added he does not want the same fate to befall the Strand.
“It would really be a lot of shortsightedness to not have this as a community gathering place,” he said.

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Teaching Children to Handle Dissappointment
Insulating children from all disappointment pads their self-esteem to dangerous levels. Two results are likely. First, they will begin to think that the world is something they control. At the least, they will begin to expect life to always turn out according to their predilection. After all, no matter how I perform, someone is going to make me feel good about it. Over indulgence in praise and rewards will condition children to believe that they will always receive something in return. Conversely, that’s not how the real world works. Sometimes, you must do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, not because your will be praised. And in every day of life, you should perform at the top of your game even if you know you are not the best in the world. Children should learn the enjoyment and satisfaction of knowing that they gave it their best.
Secondly, they will fail to learn how to handle disappointments. According to a Kansas State study, anxiety problems among college students rose to 62%. They claim that life for a college student is harder than it was 10 years ago. For me, this begs the question, “Is it really harder, or do they fail to handle stress like students in times past?” Are they accustomed to parents and teachers solving their problems for them? According to the Surgeon General, 1 in 5 children suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Why are these rates so high? The answer is not short and cannot be reduced to one issue. Nevertheless, it appears the national “state of our emotions” indicates a people having very thin skin.
Consider some principles to apply as we deal with children’s disappointments:
1. The Principle of Consequences. Our children need to learn the law of sowing and reaping, not the expectancy that parents and teachers will insure a perfect outcome. Children must learn that actions have consequences – good and bad. This principle applies to school work, friendships, family relationships, athletics, arts, and spirituality. Some practice with dedication; that’s why they can play the violin well, pitch a killer fastball, or create a beautiful painting. Some procrastinate; that’s why they are always disappointed with their grades, stressed about finishing their assignments, and unable to deliver their best work. Others manage their time well; they are able to fit in school work, family time, and enjoyable activities. Kids need to learn that many of their frustrations are consequences of their actions. If we step in, take over, and eliminate the obstacle for them, we have missed an opportunity to teach them the Principle of Consequences. Rather, steer them in the right direction, helping them learn to change their own behavior. Make sure they never become accustomed to expecting someone else to make their life better for them.
2. The Principle of Encouragement. Flattery and false praise can produce two opposite outcomes. Children will believe they always are great or never are great. The outcome lacks balance. Children who see the ridiculousness of false praise can become paranoid, wondering if they are really good at anything. After all, since mom and dad praise everything they do, they can’t be trusted to offer genuine advice. Children who absorb flattery with eagerness begin to think they are great at everything. Then when mom and dad are no longer around to offer praise, the child is unprepared to deal with the fact that no one else thinks they are great. So what is the alternative to praising children? Encourage them. Bring attention to their good behavior, not just their performance. Rather than praising them for being a beautiful, intelligent, talented kid (don’t be fooled into thinking that they really believe you believe that), encourage them to keep up the good work. They will learn that success is its own reward, finding fulfillment in the success rather than the praise of others.
3. The Principle of Unconditional Love. At times, disappointments result from hard luck. He did the best he could but still lost the spelling bee, got cut from the basketball team, or failed his driver’s education test. Sometimes, kids learn from experience that life isn’t fair. Even when it is fair, fair is not always fun. This is why children need parents who express their unconditional love. Homes should be a place where kids find retreat and acceptance, not unnecessary criticism and unrealistic expectations. Their boyfriend may break up with them, their friends may call them names on the playground, or they may get picked last for tag football teams; but home should be a place where they can count on unconditional love. Even when mom and dad are disappointed with them, their love should never be a question.
Remember that the Heavenly Father’s strategy for teaching children about His love is the example of earthly fathers and mothers. Scripture never tells us of a promise that our Father will eliminate disappointments and remove trouble. There are, however, many Scriptures that teach us to cast our cares on Him because He cares for us. Let’s represent our Heavenly Father well to our children. Eliminating childhood disappointments is impossible , and attempting it is unhealthy. Teach them how to handle disappointment and you have taught them a skill they will use for the rest of their life.


MUNICH — 8 decades ago, BMW was just one of the first important automakers to offer a battery-driven auto: The i3 broke floor with its light-weight carbon-fiber system and aluminum chassis.
But lately, the German company, known for its sporty luxurious vehicles and “ultimate driving machines,” has fallen at the rear of in the international race to acquire the next technology of electrical cars.
Compared with Common Motors or Volvo, BMW has not established a date to bury the interior combustion motor. Not like Volkswagen, it has not started providing a whole line of motor vehicles created from the ground up to operate on batteries. As other car executives wax optimistic about an electric long term, Oliver Zipse, the BMW main govt, has criticized options by the European Union to ban gasoline and diesel engines by 2035.
“I’m a tiny concerned about BMW,” mentioned Peter Wells, director of the Heart for Automotive Field Research at Cardiff Business University in Wales. When it will come to committing to a comprehensive lineup of electric cars, he explained, “they have been quite ambivalent.”
The perception that BMW is an electric powered auto laggard allows clarify why traders have started to sour on the company’s shares, which fell even after the organization claimed a wholesome quarterly net revenue this month of 4.8 billion euros, or $5.7 billion. BMW shares have tumbled 18 percent considering that early June.
At BMW headquarters in Munich, firm executives say they will show the critics improper in coming months. In the drop, BMW will commence marketing a battery-driven activity utility car, the iX, in Europe it will arrive in the United States early next 12 months. The iX will be the very first BMW since the i3 made all-around battery ability, fairly than staying a conversion of a gasoline or diesel car or truck.
“Maybe you didn’t see that significantly, but we’ve been doing work challenging,” Adrian van Hooydonk, style and design director at BMW, claimed through an job interview at BMW Entire world, the company’s showcase in Munich.
BMW executives say the iX manifests a motivation to electric powered propulsion that falls small of rivals only on the stage of braggadocio. They cite the devoted research centre in Munich the place BMW is developing its own battery technology. They issue out that BMW is engineering a collection of specialised elements that will underpin a spouse and children of electrical autos starting in 2025, which in their look at is when the marketplace will just take off.
BMW exemplifies the tricky calculations that set up carmakers must make as the sector shifts to electric electricity. It usually takes four or 5 several years to layout a new motor vehicle, to equip a manufacturing facility to construct it and to organize a network of suppliers. Automobile executives have to make billion-greenback bets centered on their very best estimates of what vehicle buyers will want 50 percent a ten years from now, and of what kind of engineering will be obtainable.
The Changeover to Electrical Autos
No a person truly is aware of what form of electric cars will confirm popular as the current market expands over and above early adopters, who tend to be affluent and environmentally conscious. Will they want motor vehicle models that signal a break with the past? Or will they want electric powered cars and trucks that search and complete like the gasoline versions they’re used to?
It’s way too early to tell. Revenue of electrified autos are expanding quickly, but continue to be considerably less than 4 per cent of the whole current market in the United States. The market place is dominated by Tesla, which is building a manufacturing unit in Berlin. Tesla’s Product 3 is the best-providing electric powered vehicle in Western Europe, the place plug-in automobiles accounted for 17 per cent of new motor vehicle income in the initially 50 percent of the yr, or one million autos, in accordance to Schmidt Automotive Investigate in Berlin.
The i3, which BMW commenced generating in 2013, was a lesson in the perils of coming to current market also early. The carbon-fiber body mounted atop an aluminum chassis gained style awards and was an engineering feat, but it was pricey to generate. Not many persons ended up keen to pay out more than $40,000 for what was in essence a hatchback that could travel only about 80 miles on a charge. Later models have improved batteries and can go extra than 150 miles among costs.
BMW proceeds to deliver the i3 and has sold about 210,000 since 2013, but ended gross sales in the United States in July. BMW executives reject the plan that the i3 was a oversight, stating they discovered valuable lessons about electrical auto technological innovation, these kinds of as how to make more productive motors.
“This would not exist without the need of the i3,” Frank Weber, the BMW board member responsible for advancement, claimed as he steered a maroon iX on the streets all over firm headquarters.
BMW waited 8 yrs to present a comply with-up to the i3 mainly because executives realized they wanted a automobile ready to go a lot more than 600 kilometers, or 370 miles, on a cost, Mr. van Hooydonk reported. “With the iX, we have that now,” he said.
Not like Volkswagen and Daimler, which are creating their personal battery factories with associates, BMW is getting batteries from suppliers like Northvolt of Sweden and CATL of China. BMW, like its rivals, is also developing its have technologies. At the Munich investigate middle, the automaker is seeking for chemical recipes that will be safer and lighter and store much more vitality for each kilogram. Suppliers will develop batteries in accordance to BMW requirements.
The center’s labs are outfitted with electron microscopes that make it possible for BMW scientists to observe what takes place to the molecules within battery cells as they are repeatedly charged and discharged. There is a fireproof home where BMW can get the job done on strategies to protect against batteries from overheating.
BMW is even giving its suppliers information on how to manufacture far more successfully. On a table at the analysis center lay three objects that seemed like precision, machined egg beaters. They were being component of a exam to see which most successfully mixed the graphite slurry that will later be painted on a slim layer of copper and dried to variety electrodes — important pieces of a battery.
“We’re tough the suppliers,” Martin Schuster, a vice president at BMW responsible for battery enhancement, explained throughout a tour of the exploration heart. “Otherwise, we get what they have on the shelf.”
Soon after the iX comes at European sellers in the slide, BMW will start off promoting the i4, a high-general performance battery-powered sedan. As a small test trip in Munich shown, the i4 has the type of head-banging acceleration that electric powered electrical power can supply. But the i4 shares factors with BMW designs with gasoline engines, a aspect that has captivated critics.
Right until 2025, BMW’s technique will be to offer battery electric power as an possibility offered on all its major products. Initially, most electric powered BMWs will be adaptations of their inside combustion cousins.
Analysts are skeptical that such conversions will be in a position to compete with autos that are built from scratch to be electrical and can fully exploit the benefits of battery ability. Electrical autos have smaller motors and transmissions than regular automobiles, possibly liberating up room for travellers and cargo.
“BMW is getting a typical vehicle and turning it into an electric automobile,” stated Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, founder of the Center for Automotive Research in Duisburg, Germany. “There will normally be compromises.”
In 2025, BMW designs to start out making automobiles on a platform — a assortment of factors that can be shared by various distinct models — that is optimized for battery power. That is the yr when lots of analysts imagine that electrical autos will turn out to be much less highly-priced to acquire than gasoline models, and revenue will take off.
If so, BMW’s timing could confirm to be great.
So considerably, while, the current market has moved a lot more quickly than predictions. In Europe, product sales of electric powered autos have boomed in the course of the pandemic. In the United States, the Biden administration gave electric powered autos a force this month when it unveiled a prepare to elevate income of electric cars to 50 % of new cars by 2030.
Even BMW’s critics aren’t counting it out. “They’re wonderful engineers,” Mr. Wells of Cardiff Organization School mentioned. “They can do it if they want.”


Sex abuse choirmaster Michael Brewer appeal rejected
A choirmaster jailed for six years for indecently assaulting a pupil has failed in a bid to have his prison sentence reduced.
Michael Brewer, former music director at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, was convicted in February.
He was jailed for abusing Frances Andrade, from the age of 14, between 1978 and 82. She killed herself soon after giving evidence at his trial.
Brewer, 68, from Birmingham, lost his challenge at the Court of Appeal.
'Predatory sex offender'
Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, sitting with two other judges, described it as a "woeful case".
"There is nothing wrong with this sentence. It was an appropriate sentence for the offences committed by this applicant," he said.
He added: "It seems to us that he escaped justice for a very long time indeed and that justice has now caught up with him."
Brewer, from Selly Oak, who claimed his sentence was "excessive", was not present for the ruling in London.
He was convicted by a jury of five counts of indecently assaulting Mrs Andrade and sentenced at Manchester Crown Court in March.
His ex-wife Hilary Brewer, 68, was jailed for 21 months, also for indecently assaulting the teenage pupil.
Lord Judge said Brewer had been a man of "great distinction", who was "publicly honoured for his services to music" when he was awarded an OBE in 1994.
He was a man with "a rare talent for inspiring pupils with, and about, the joys of music and helping them to the fullest flowering of their musical abilities," he said.
But he added he had committed a "gross breach of trust" and "clearly exploited" the vulnerability of his victim which had a "devastating" effect on her.
Lord Judge said: "In his sentencing remarks, the judge of course expressed his deepest sympathy for the fact that the victim had died so tragically after giving evidence and before the conclusion of the trial - so do we.
"But he had to address the offences with which the offender had been convicted.
"He took account of the outstanding musical career that the applicant had enjoyed and the contribution that he had made to the success of large numbers of pupils at the school but, as the judge pointed out, he was also a predatory sex offender."


It was a scene where one member of a gang of five friends, comprising Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Randeep Hooda, Neil Bhoopalam and Angad Bedi, betrays the rest. A very complex sequence as each member displayed a different emotion. There were fights, breaking down, resentment and anger!
Shot over a day and a half at Mumbai’s Atlas mills, the gangs’ headquarters in the film, director Rensil D’Silva describes it as the toughest scene he shot. It was not only in terms of capturing the various emotions of all the actors but was also technically challenging as the lighting had to be used in various hues to enhance the various moods of the characters.
“I cannot divulge which character reacted in what way because that would give the plot away, but we rehearsed the scene for more than half the day. There was a lot of co-ordination, as each actor had to act, or react to the situation differently. Shooting such a scene is also daunting because you have to cover the sequence from several angles with a moving camera. Also in these kind of scenes there is a special kind of mood lighting and a lot of shadow play as you have to go in and out of shadows to reflect the characters’ moods. Co-ordinating several actors, making sure the lighting is right and trying to reflect the mental state of the characters made this sequence extremely challenging,” said D’Silva.
Ungli is produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar and co-produced by Apoorva Mehta. It releases on November 28.


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Thousands of people marched in Australian cities Saturday to protest against Indian mining giant Adani's controversial plan to construct a new coal mine in central Queensland.
In the face of huge public protests and legal action from environmentalists, Adani has already cut its original plan of a massive 16.5-billion-dollar (11.9-billion-US-dollar) mega open cut mine extracting 60 million tones a year.
It will instead go ahead with a self-funded 2-billion-dollar mine extracting 10 to 15 million tones of coal a year from the Carmichael region.
But that failed to satisfy anti-coal and climate change protesters who marched in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns carrying signs with slogans including ‘There is no Planet B’ and ‘The climate is changing, why aren't we?’ Around 5,000 protesters in Melbourne and hundreds in Brisbane called on the state and federal governments to stop Adani's coal mine altogether.
So far the Australian and Queensland governments have welcomed the mine as it will provide many jobs and royalties as the coal is shipped to India.
Melbourne protest organiser Alex Fuller said people were motivated to join the rally after seeing the recent school climate change strikes.
‘People were feeling really inspired that we could create change but they were also feeling really frustrated,’ she told the Australian Associated Press news agency.
Adani Mining, which was founded by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, said in a statement to AAP that the company recognized there are varied opinions about the Carmichael mine project and encouraged everyone to voice them safely and respectfully.
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Chiara Mapelli, Laura Dell'Arti, Giulio Barteselli, Silvia Osnaghi, Elena Tabacchi, Michele Clerici, Roberto Ratiglia, Francesco Viola; Choroidal Volume Variations During Childhood. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(10):6841-6845. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.13-12761.
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We analyzed choroidal volume (CV) variations during childhood using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography, and evaluated its association with age, axial length (AXL), sex, weight, and height.
Imaging studies of the right eyes of 52 healthy children were reviewed and included in this study. Subjects underwent a complete ocular examination and AXL measurement, as well as a raster macular scan using the Heidelberg Spectralis device. The choroid was segmented manually.
Subjects included 21 males and 31 females, with mean age of 9 years (range, 2–17 years) and mean AXL of 22.8 ± 0.98 mm. Mean CV was 0.263 ± 0.068 mm3 for the foveal circle and 8.545 ± 1.822 mm3 for the total Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) grid. The CV of the nasal quadrant was significantly lower than all others (P < 0.001). Total and foveal CV showed significant negative correlation with AXL after adjustment for age (P < 0.001), and significant positive correlation with age after adjustment for AXL (P < 0.001). Total CV was correlated significantly with sex after adjusting for AXL (P = 0.01), while no correlations were found between total CV and height or weight. The CV increased by 0.214 mm3 (2.5%) for every year, and decreased by 1.0 mm3 (11.7%) for every millimeter of axial length. Regression analysis confirmed a trend of higher CV in females than in males (P = 0.056).
The CV increases with age during childhood, but decreases with AXL. This finding supports the hypothesis that the choroid grows progressively during childhood. Intersexual differences of CV also may be present.
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Short Answer: It is generally safe to take iron and B12 together or one after another.
Iron and B12 are both healthy supplements that can help prevent or treat anemia, a condition where the blood does not have enough healthy red blood cells.
Iron is a mineral that is essential for the production of hemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen in the blood.
B12 is a vitamin that is involved in the synthesis of DNA, the maintenance of nerve cells, and the formation of red blood cells.
According to Ayurveda, iron and B12 should be taken together with foods that enhance their absorption and digestion, such as citrus fruits, amla, ginger, black pepper, and honey.
Ayurveda also recommends avoiding foods that interfere with iron and B12 absorption, such as dairy products, tea, coffee, and antacids.
Ayurveda believes that iron and B12 can balance the three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) and improve the quality of blood and energy in the body.
But according to science, iron and B12 may not always be beneficial to take together.
Some studies have shown that high doses of iron can reduce the absorption of B12 in the intestine.
This may be especially problematic for people who have pernicious anemia, a type of B12 deficiency caused by the lack of intrinsic factor, a protein that helps absorb B12 from food.
On the other hand, some studies have suggested that taking iron and B12 together may improve the response to treatment for iron deficiency anemia.
However, more research is needed to confirm the optimal dose and timing of iron and B12 supplementation.
As a nutritionist, my advice is to try first.
If after taking iron and B12 together you experience any side effects, such as nausea, constipation, diarrhea, or stomach pain, then stop combining them. And if you can tolerate them, then continue.
However, you should be mindful of the quality and quantity of iron and B12 you consume.
Because too much or too little of either nutrient can cause health problems.
For example, excess iron can damage the liver and other organs, while excess B12 can cause acne or allergic reactions.
The recommended daily intake of iron for adults is 8 mg for men and 18 mg for women (or 27 mg for pregnant women), while the recommended daily intake of B12 for adults is 2.4 mcg (or 2.6 mcg for pregnant women.
Whether you take them together or not, you should always choose high-quality supplements that are certified by a third-party organization, such as USP or NSF.
Because some supplements may contain contaminants or inaccurate amounts of nutrients.
You should also consult your doctor before taking any supplements, especially if you have any medical conditions or take any medications.
You can store your iron and B12 supplements in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and heat. Do not store them in the bathroom or near the stove.
You should also keep them out of reach of children and pets. Iron overdose can be fatal for children.
The shelf life of supplements may vary depending on the brand and formulation.
You should check the expiration date on the label and discard any expired supplements.
Finally, remember, supplements are not a substitute for a balanced diet. Iron and B12 are best obtained from natural sources, such as meat, eggs, fish, poultry, dairy products, legumes, nuts, seeds, leafy greens, and fortified cereals.
Eating a variety of these foods can provide you with adequate amounts of iron and B12, as well as other nutrients that support your overall health.

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Tamil TV actress and Pandian Stores regular V.J. Chitra was found dead in a hotel room in Chennai, India, on Wednesday morning.
She was 28-years-old.
Indian news sources are reporting that the police suspect she died from suicide. An officer told NDTV that they believe the actress took her own life over financial issues but hadn’t located a suicide note.
The police say Chitra checked into the hotel in Chennai’s Nazrathpet at around 1 am on Wednesday after completing a day’s filming. She was reportedly with her husband.
Approximately two and a half hours after they checked-in, the hotel manager telephoned the police, who began investigating the actress’s death.
Chitra achieved fame playing Mullai Kathiravan, aka Mulla, on Pandian Stores; she was one of the show’s main characters. The Chennai born actress had been acting since 2013.
She had posted to Instagram just hours before her death.
Tributes poured in for V. J. Chitra on social media
Fellow Indian actress Yashika Aannand wrote in the comments section of Chitra’s Instagram: “Miss u da ? RIP! Can’t digest! Gone too soon.”
And a fan wrote, “heard shocking news about [you]” and asked if it was true? And another wrote, “Praying it shouldn’t be true.” And yet another distressed fan wrote: “OMG, you are dead? Why is life is miserable! Can’t believe.”
On Twitter, more actors and fans sent tributes and registered their disbelief at Chitra’s untimely passing.
Fellow Chennai actress Aishwaya Rajeesh wrote about how shocked and saddened she was to hear the news. She referred to Chitra as “a very promising and gifted artist who has gone too soon!”
She added: “People must realize that suicide is not a solution to problems, and as a society, we need to emphasize this fact more strongly than ever before!”
Actress Khusba Sundar wrote that it was “a life full of energy is snuffed away too soon.” She said that she wished Chitra had reached out to somebody and that while she didn’t know her personally, she felt her pain.
Sundar finished her tweet by writing: “Hope you have found what you were looking for, peace. #Chitra #RIP.”
Fans of V.J. Chitra were shocked at manner of her death
Most fans online expressed their sorrow and shock at Chitra’s death.
One fan said that she had been her favorite actor on Pandian Stores and that they were really “shocked and hurting.”
Rest in peace, V. J. Chitra.
Many fans were left devastated when legendary Indian singer SP Balasubrahmanyam affectionately known as SPB, tragically died in September following complications after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
The world of acting is, of course, still mourning the death of Sean Connery, the iconic actor who became famous for playing secret agent James Bond passed away at the end of October.

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Thousands of meals served to needy
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer
The season of giving kicked off yesterday with hundreds of volunteers serving up thousands of Thanksgiving Day meals to what some see as a growing number of needy in Hawai'i.
Such was the case with Darrell Silva, 48, who has been living out of a Honolulu park for the past three months, having lost his Section 8 housing assistance. Silva, a single father, lost more than his home. "I had to give up my three children to their grandma," he said.
Silva said he appreciated the attention he was receiving at the 32nd annual Salvation Army Thanksgiving dinner at Blaisdell Center, one of the largest free holiday meal events of the year in Hawai'i. "I'm thankful for the food I got, even a plate to go," he said. "Long time I never eat turkey."
Still, Silva felt a sense of longing amid the gaiety around him. "I wish my children were here today," he said. "I hope they're having a nice Thanksgiving."
At the River of Life Mission in Chinatown, Wilma Raposa had just finished her meal alongside her husband, Gordon Momon, and was talking to friends outside on Pauahi Street.
Raposa said that she and Momon "have backgrounds we gotta deal with" but are also trying to piece their lives back together again. The couple is working on a permanent residence and a chance to rebuild their family by reuniting under one roof with two children who have had their own problems, she said.
Being at River of Life "just gives me hope that people care."
Among those from whom Raposa draws inspiration is her "spiritual sister," Venus Ah Quin, a former client at River of Life who is now a part-time worker. It's a special Thanksgiving for Ah Quin, whose family had been on the streets for more than a decade before managing to climb out of that predicament last summer.
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Kyle Dilliner, left, Amanda Crowe, center, and Cindy Wendt served turkey lunches yesterday at the River of Life Mission Thanksgiving Celebration in Chinatown for the homeless and needy.
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The Salvation Army spokesman Daniel de Castro said more than 2,100 meals were served at Blaisdell yesterday, about the same number as last year. That translates into 38 pans of turkey, 150 gallons of gravy, 65 pans of rice, 42 pans of stuffing and 16 pans of corn, according to volunteer kitchen helpers Clarence Ing and Gary Cruz.
All of the food, paper goods and other resources for the event are donated by the community.
About 900 people help out with the Blaisdell endeavor, an undertaking that takes three months to plan, according to Salvation Army Maj. Victor Doughty. Schools, churches and community groups from all walks of life contribute their time, in addition to "just individuals, many of whom have had a difficult time in the past and want to give back to the people."
John Little, a member of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Chapel, said his group specifically asks for the toughest and most thankless assignment at Blaisdell each year cleanup crew. "Everybody else does the fun stuff," he said with a smile. "It's giving back to the community. I can afford a Thanksgiving dinner, and I can afford to give up a Thanksgiving meal."
The Rev. Bob Marchant, executive director for the River of Life Mission, estimated that about 500 meals were served at its site and that about 120 more were delivered.
Marchant said while the numbers yesterday were about the same as in previous years, on average more people are seeking meals and help daily than they did last year.
Those sentiments were echoed at the Institute for Human Services men's facility on Sumner Street, where meals were served by more than 100 Hilton Hawaiian Village employees and their families to some 400 to 500 IHS clients yesterday.
IHS, O'ahu's largest emergency homeless shelter, said it is hitting new highs at both the men's and women and families' facilities, according to Elizabeth Stevenson, IHS director of development.
Nonetheless, the Sumner Street dining room was dressed up like a ballroom and guests were treated to service with white linen and silverware instead of the paper napkins and plates that they usually get.
"They usually go through a cafeteria line and then go sit down," said Catherine Graham, IHS manager of public relations and volunteer services. "Today, the volunteers bring the food to them."
The Lanakila Meals on Wheels program was also busy yesterday, delivering more than 1,000 hot meals to homebound senior citizens, also supported by a host of corporations and individual volunteers.


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At the last meeting of the season on May 11, new officers were elected for the September 2016-May 2017 season. They are:
President Kim Morin Weineck
Vice President Patricia Lloyd
Treasurer Nancy Bacevich
Secretary Amanda Sullivan
Also, Kelly Arcacha, the art director for Foxboro High School, acknowledged the David Withers Memorial Scholarship to a well-deserved Adeline Storrs and announced the Street Painting Festival at Patriot Place on Saturday May 21. A rain date is the next day, on Sunday.
There will also be a paint out for artists that same day.
The next meeting will be September 14.

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text: This is a big retro movie theatre that also hosts live concerts. We saw Ziggy Marley here, 8th row center. It was super cool! It reminded me of the old movie theaters we watched movies in years and years ago, like "The Alien" back in the early 80's! This theatre is in the heart of the downtown area so there's lot to see, shop and eat in the immediate area before and after. For a fraction of the price to see a good concert I highly recommend this venue!

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As I researched the consequences of Provincial Nominees (PN) moving to another province, it led me to this article. I found out at the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) website that they have statistics on provincial nominees who moved out to their original province of destination.
Provincial nominees are immigrants nominated by the province or territory of Canada. They have provided skills, education and work experience that can be contributed to the provincial economy. They had stated their intentions to live there permanently .
However, due to XYZ reasons, those nominees have changed their intentions to live permanently in the province that nominated them. As a result, they move and try to settle to another province. But the government can track them if they want.
Here are some charts and statistics regarding the matter:
Just under 20,000 of the tax filers found in the IMDB landed in Canada under the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) from 2000 to 2006 and filed a tax return for the 2006 tax year. Of these, 67% were nominated by Manitoba, 14% were nominated by the Atlantic provinces, 8% were nominated by British Columbia, 6% were nominated by Saskatchewan and 5% were nominated by Alberta. IMDB data for the 2006 tax year reflected that 23% of PNP filers were found in provinces different from their original nominating province11 in the 2006 tax year.
– from CIC, The Interprovincial Mobility of Immigrants in Canada
Although the records are based on the years of 2000-2006, they might update this soon. If you remember, they conducted the recent Census (https://pinoy-canada.com/articles/friendly-reminder-may-19-2016-next-census-deadline/) and recent National Conversation on Immigration (https://pinoy-canada.com/articles/foreseen-changes-canada-immigration-system/). They might release new rules on this matter.
In conclusion, mobility patterns of immigrants analyzed in this statistics mirrored some trends found in the Canada general population. These studies on the demographic and other characteristics of immigrant movers could enrich this analysis and further provide the vehicle for understanding the factors why the provincial nominees are moving out from their nominated province. The uneven spread in retention rates of immigrants across the provinces and the varying flows of immigrant interprovincial migrants based on their original province of destination affect the general population.
Does it mean, a provincial nominee is allowed to move to another province? Are there any consequences? Is this the reason why it’s getting harder and harder to apply thru PNP? Are the provinces making measures for the retention of their immigrants? Stay tuned for my next article and let’s discuss these questions comprehensively.
CIC Website – The Interprovincial Mobility of Immigrants in Canada

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Robotic assistants could be used in nursing and retirement homes to help seniors care for themselves, assist with cleaning, provide emotional support, connect remotely with health care providers, and free up nurses to focus on patient care.
Researchers at Ireland's Trinity College Dublin have developed Stevie, a robot on a rolling base with moveable arms. In tests at Washington, DC's Knollwood Military Retirement Community, Stevie entertained residents so staff could focus on resident care.
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Southern California are working on robots that can provide social interaction by telling jokes or encouraging older people to read or exercise more, while researchers at Diligent Robotics have developed a rolling robot that can move around a hospital and perform tasks that take nurses away from resident care, such as delivering medicine, equipment, patient samples, or linens.
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The first of Thursday’s NBA Trade Deadline moves have been confirmed, and none yet involves a major player.
The Indiana Pacers, who at one point were rumored to be heavily-eyeing Chris Kaman, dealt with the Raptors for Leandro Barbosa. They sent a second-round pick over to Toronto in exchange for the player.
Update: Talks say Anthony Carter will also be heading to Indiana.
Philadelphia’s 76ers, meanwhile, grabbed Sam Young from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for the rights to Ricky Sanchez.
A deal involving Portland’s Jamal Crawford definitely appears to be in the works, although formal specifics have not yet emerged. Most reports suggested he will be moved to Minnesota in a three-way deal with the Timberwolves and LA Lakers that, at the very least, will involve Michael Beasley going to LA and Steve Blake heading to Portland.
The fact that the deal has not yet been confirmed despite all the speculation–which reached a boil when Jamal Crawford was not present on the bench for his team’s Wednesday game against the Knicks–suggests there might be more to it.


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It is very important for you to still register for FSM (Free School Meals) even if your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 and receives a free meal, as the school receives additional funding to help with your child’s education.


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By Jim Pavlidis
No club this season embodies the popular aphorism ‘‘footy is played mainly above the shoulders’’ more than Melbourne.
The stakes couldn’t have been much higher on Thursday night when the Demons, playing for a top-eight spot against a bottom-four opponent, showed up in body but not in mind and put on a shocker.
Some will say they are where they should be – top four in 2018, bottom four in 2019, middle of the table in 2020.
Their fans, however, simply want a more consistent effort from their flaky heroes.
Internationally renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama famously checked into a hospital for mental illness in 1977 and never left.
Her polka dot pumpkin may look innocent and funny, but look closely for a minute and you’ll find yourself falling into the infinite space those dot patterns conjure.
Melbourne have fallen into a pattern of mediocrity, but have the talent to be infinitely better.


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It’s no secret that the world is changing radically; from massive (and righteous) civil unrest to ecological devastation that is being dismissed or ignored, we can no longer be certain that how things appear is the truth, or that anything will remain as it is or seems for any length of time. Alexandra Mattraw’s collection We Fell into Weather balances on the knife’s edge of our current moment—thinking through the connections between environmental catastrophe and the human body in ways that remind us of what it means to experience the world with our sensing bodies rather than our thinking minds. The collection reminds us, too, of what violent thought patterns do on an encompassing scale.
The collection begins by calling forth something almost all of us can relate to: great grandmothers and grandfathers. Their presence in the very first lines of “We are biologically responsible” evokes ideas of inheritance, lineage, tradition: “as in my great grandmother was forced by you / great grandfather or was it flipped either by / skin or word but the outcome the same.” Mattraw writes further:
. . . together, they
travel and sew this thread our bodies without even
trying they spool and slip inside until they become one
piece of cotton : until we become one rocking cradle
: one swinging diagnosis : one arbitrary filler we’ll call
These somewhat-distant relatives (personified throughout the collection as “Lottie”—whom we can assume is the speaker’s great grandmother), the poem insists, are woven into our bodies by the very nature of DNA—we can no more escape from them than we can escape from what our genetics code us for. And what seems at first to be an affirmation of inheritance, of lineage and linking to our pasts, quickly unravels as the poems progress. Mattraw evokes again and again the terrifying reality of climate change that is increasing epigenetic mutation. The plastics in the water that we drink—addressed by the poems titled “GPGP” (Great Pacific Garbage Patch)— change us. Our awareness of our planet’s warming is called to mind via references to the Paris Accords; cityscapes are juxtaposed with imagery of plants and nonhuman animals. The droughts in California rear ugly heads with the reminder that they have distinct causes in the lines:
. . . chime
and spool sage
to know well
how droughts need
And in the midst of all this, we, as readers, know that toxins spilled into all aspects of our environments—as a result of human industrial, consumptive, and chemical activity—are altering our DNA. It’s impossible to ignore, especially within these poems. This being the case, as it also was for our ancestors who lived during and after the advent of industrialization, the collection asks of us: How do we know what in our genetics was inherited and what has been altered? What can we say is familial and what mutation? What of the familial is a result of mutation? When these questions form from the poems—striking most clearly with the question “what else has our DNA/plagiarized?”—the poetic forms begin to unravel. The sentences that hinge on each other with a colon become images jarringly distanced by slashes. The story of family, the connections that are both physically and ideologically fathomed, tie us to who we are as bodies in a storied world. This tie, however, disappears under the knowledge that bodies are now suspect.
But the slashes have multiple uses, and the violence in their acts of severing often points to the ideological root of societal and ecological violence. In “1968 / 2017,” Mattraw uses slashes in a way that draws out the aggression of hypermasculine smash-and-grab thinking. The poem includes direct quotes from Donald Trump regarding his view of the female body and a reference to an unspecified Candy Man—which can be read as, perhaps, reference to serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll, or to how pedophiles lure victims, or even to the promise of someone who makes the world sweeter (and here, “Make America Great Again” rings in our ears). There’s a reference to chokeholds, which are used by the American police to kill members of the BIPOC community regularly, and to the Paris Accords. By putting all of these seemingly insular events, words, and people in the same space, the poem makes it devastatingly clear that sexual violence, police brutality, and environmental degradation are all the product of the same systems.
As a counterpoint to this way of thinking, the collection includes two series scattered throughout: “Neurodivergence” and “Ecodivergence.” Each poem in either series has the same title, respectively, and is placed on the page in a different way than any of the others in the collection—sometimes very close to the bottom, sometimes entirely right-margin aligned and thin up until the final line, and sometimes the narrow stanzas wander from margin to margin. The difference in location on the page mirrors the difference these poems exhibit from the thinking of conquest: each are deeply rooted in the physical experience of the world and resist the urge to write ideology over sensations. In one, the speaker says, “Laughter shimmied hand- / holds. Slip their wonder palm / to palm.” Equally reveling and revelatory, these lines prioritize a way of imagining the body’s place in the world based solely on touch. In another:
Inherited forms. Talc blurry
stars. Blood test tremors
Goodnight Moon. Not
double vision. Her
hand on my chest.
Pills for side effects
of side effects.
Here, the speaker highlights the bodily experience of pharmaceuticals, the role medication plays in all manner of maladies. When one is suffering an illness with potentially epigenetic sources (like cancer—which often leads to the patient taking multitudes of pills to deal with side effects of symptom-fighting drugs), or is taking medication to ensure their brain—their way of thinking about and within the world—falls into line with what is expected from members of our society, the pharmacy becomes a central location in their lives. Neurodivergent doesn’t just mean an alternative way of thinking, but a way of interacting with the world that is deemed unacceptable—which includes all mental illnesses, as well as handicaps, things that we are expected to fix about ourselves in order to be valued by others and valuable to society. Taking all of this into consideration, we have to admit that ecodivergent must refer to environments that have been deemed unsuitable to human society, the ones that must be changed for the sake of our comfort.
In a nod to divergent ways of thinking, the collection ends with a poem called “Dear Alternative Medicine,” a love letter to ways of healing that exist outside our model of prescription drugs and lab coats. The more holistic and non- or anti-Western approaches to medicine are, here, described in ways that seem to work in tandem with natural processes and the body. The poem opens, “You say healing begins at the wrist,” and from here, the methods of making a body feel at ease as things that facilitate healing without the need for excessive pills and endless side effects are laid out. Where the healing provided by drug after drug is unsettling—“A loss of hair. What knots / Celtic in drains”—these alternatives soothe to the point where the speaker asserts, “a dahlia ripples signals through my ankle and out to / the living.” With the ecological and social, as well as the medical, at stake in this book, the return to ways of healing that decenter the pharmaceutical industry signals a return (and it is a return because many holistic, non-pharmaceutical healing methods were eradicated, hidden, or otherwise obfuscated by colonialism) to ways of thinking about our relationship to the world not as one of dominion and violence, but one of what Donna Haraway would call “becoming-with”—an entangled, multifaceted, and ever-mutating living that contains, in its complexity, room for unhindered, mutual flourishing. The lack of colons or slashes in this poem lends to the feeling of reciprocity—free of both hinging (a device that forces relationality) and severing; the images and words flow as if they were meant to be in the same space.
While the speaker is, presumably, an American with American concerns, we can’t ignore the fact that the fallout of environmental catastrophe is spread unequally throughout the world. If this question of epigenetic mutation is a part of living in a Western nation, what must that question mean in countries that have been and currently are being ravaged by the fossil fuel industry, by neoliberal and capitalistic colonialism, by plastic particles in improperly-filtered drinking water? We can’t ignore the fact that in the places most disproportionately and negatively affected by climate change, Western garbage, and the demands of Western comfort, the majority of the population are BIPOC. This collection is so timely and so important because it hits us where it hurts and in a cultural moment when we are primed to imagine how our actions are affecting others negatively, not just how we are affected by others. If this is how frightening it is to live in the world for us—in a cushioned but fraught America, likely also in a space of privilege—how much more terrifying is it to live elsewhere, even in your own city? What more is at stake in being a body that both looks and experiences the world much differently than you do? We Fell into Weather prompts us into asking these questions of ourselves, and beautifully so.
About the Reviewer
Jordan Osborne is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University, where she works as an associate editor and the social media manager of Colorado Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Canary and Rogue Agent.

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Having a Unique Domain Name for Your Business
With changing times, it is important for a business today to have online presence for better performance of its operations. It is the platform on which businesses get an opportunity to reach out to a wider clientele through online presence. On this platform, the business requires to have a domain name. Adequate considerations, however, need to be made in order to ensure that the right names are selected for this purpose.
In selection of the right domain name, there is need to match the same with the registered business name. In this way, it gives similarity in the brand of the business and the domain name. It means that the business clients get the opportunity to find the exact business from where they source for the products desired.
Extension is one of the basic components required in a domain name. The best choice in this respect is to select a name that ends with a .com when the domain name relates to the business in place. Extensions that depict the names of the country of origin sound much better for the select domain name.
Google uses SEO to rank different sites on internet searches. Visitors to the to the internet use keywords that are the basis of the SEO optimization used in the search process. Where possible, it is important to consider having the keyword on the domain name. One however should note that the use of keywords in domain names is not a basic requirement and this can be enhanced through other approaches.
Use of hyphens and numbers and numbers on a domain name is not important. This is, however, a big distraction for potential visitors to the site. The domain name in this respect need to have a simple and easy to use the name. Easy names helps make the search easy and fast.
Businesses are required to be copyrighted or trademarked. Domain names in the same respect should be unique to an individual business. Use of other business names in the domain therefore needs to be unique unless there is right authorization to use another business names.
The length of a domain name is important to be considered. In the instances where the registered business name is long, consideration should be made to shorten the name. Relevance of the business name and the domain name, however, needs to be maintained in this process. Seeking for the domain name in this respect becomes easy for visitors. Privacy of the business domain name is important. This helps in reducing chances of falling prey to the ever-rising cases of fraud prevalent on the online platform. As such it is important to ensure the domain is registered for a name that indicates its ownership.


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Among the angry crowd were armed people who claimed that Republican ballots were being rejected.
Donald Trump's supporters on Wednesday night surrounded the Maricopa County Elections Department in Arizona to protest alleged electoral fraud and demand a recount of the votes. Among them were people carrying firearms and yelling "stop the steal!"
"Wearing Trump gear, the Phoenix protesters filled much of the parking lot at the Maricopa County election center, and members of the crowd chanted, 'Fox News sucks!' in anger over the network projecting Joe Biden the winner in Arizona," outlet Patch reported.
“They waved flags, shouted obscenities… and repeated the false claim that Republican ballots filled out with Sharpie pens were being rejected,” the Daily News reported, commenting their protest “was a surreal spectacle considering President Trump was still trailing in Arizona late Wednesday and needed the vote counting to continue to possibly close the gap with his Democratic challenger.”
Despite the threats, local election officials said the demonstration performed by Trump supporters would not hamper the vote count.
On Wednesday, even though the vote count has not finished at the national level, the Republican candidate proclaimed his victory in the 2020 elections, claimed to be the victim of fraud, and tried to stop the vote count by filing lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
Despite these threats, local election officials stressed that Trump's supporters would not hamper their job. Besides strtessing the electoral process has not been tampered with, they stated that the counting of all votes, whether sent by mail or cast in person, will continue.
"Accurate voting takes time ... This is evidence of democracy, not fraud," said the GOP chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, as reported by Patch.


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26 Jan - 4 min - Uploaded by Chandra Sekar Learn to do Multiple Sequence Alignment analysis in a standalone version of Clustalw in Linux. Installing clustalw package on Ubuntu (Xenial Xerus) is as easy as running the following command on terminal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install. I'm trying to do some changes with the clustalw source code.I'm using . Clustalw -Mpi From Ubuntu Server Runs Slower In Multicpu Mode. Hi, I have one. protein sequence alignment tool. Install on Ubuntu. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install clustalo. Example (command line). Home · About · Publications · Credits · Advisory Committee · Help · Getting Started · FAQ · Documentation · Discussion Mailing List · Other Resources.
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2 Times Steve Jobs Beat the Odds by Using a Forgotten Communication Tool
Steve Jobs is known for his effective speeches and presentations in narrative form, but twice in his career he leveraged the ceremony as a unique communication tool to get his point across.
Nancy Duarte: Ceremonies are a lesser known and lesser utilized communication device in organizations today. So back as far as you can study human behavior, there has been ceremonies in some way. And what we did was we looked at the rights of passage. Even religions have some sort of rite of passage ceremony. What happens is you could be single one moment. You go through a ten minute marriage ceremony and suddenly you’re married. So this moment, this ceremony, transforms you. I am no longer this, I am now that. And when you graduate you go through a graduation ceremony, you know. And there’s these moments – a bar mitzvah or a quinceanera where it’s like, "I was once a young person and now I’m an adult." The only difference is like this small ceremony happened to show transformation. But what that ceremony does is says I am no longer this and I am now that. Especially when an organization is leading really big change they need these moments where they pause and say we’re not that anymore and now we are now this.
One of the great examples from the book that I love is we covered when Steve Jobs was leading the transition from Mac OS9 to Mac OS10. He had just come back to Apple and that was what they needed. That’s why the bought NeXT, his company, was to have the NeXT operating system in place. And the developers were so skeptical. He even did a talk called Apples Hierarchy of Skepticism because everyone was so skeptical that they could actually do it. He had so much skepticism. Then he started to get momentum and there was this moment where he had this new dream where he really wanted everybody connected to a digital hub and he was getting frustrated with the last stragglers. All these stragglers hadn’t made the decision to come on. So there was an opening scene at WWDC, the big developers conference, where he actually had a coffin under the stage. This coffin rises up from the stage, smoke billows out, stained glass slide up there. He walks out with an oversized box of Mac OS9 and a red rose. He puts the box in the coffin, shuts the lid, puts a rose on top and he eulogized the death of Mac OS9. It’s not a speech. It’s not a story. It’s a ceremony.
He never talked about the transition from Mac OS9 to Mac OS10 ever again. He was telling the developers it’s done, move on. Or it’s just done. And it was a really important ending so that they would all understand that, "You know what? I need to begin again." And that’s what a ceremony does. There was another kind of ceremonial thing he did because the developers were so frustrated. They didn’t believe that Apple was going to stick with one single software strategy because they’d been through a decade of confusion and fits and starts and multiple tries at an operating system. So the WWDC before the one he did the actual funeral at, the mock funeral, he had actually done a vow. And he pulled out an oversized piece of parchment paper out and he made a public vow to the developer community that they were going to stick with a single software strategy. So it was very dramatic and he unfurled this piece of parchment paper and made a vow. And a vow is like a wedding vow, right. It’s a covenant and a promise and that’s a ceremony. It’s not a speech, it’s not a story. It’s a ceremony. So it was about endings and beginnings and commitments and that’s what ceremonies do.
Steve Jobs is known for his effective speeches and presentations in narrative form, but twice in his career he leveraged the ceremony as a unique communication tool to get his point across. According to Nancy Duarte, communication expert and CEO of Duarte, Inc., the ceremony is so deeply embedded in our culture that we often forget it's actually a unique medium of communication. Utilizing ceremony to communicate isn't only effective, it's fun and often provides a deeper cultural connection than a speech.
The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
- The spacecraft belong to Russia and two private American aerospace companies.
- Six astronauts are currently aboard the International Space Station to conduct a variety of experiments.
- On Monday, Russian cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk to investigate the nature and cause of a mysterious 2-millimeter-wide hole in a Russian spacecraft.
On Friday, NASA's InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
- The audio captured by the lander is of Martian winds blowing at an estimated 10 to 15 mph.
- It was taken by the InSight Mars lander, which is designed to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky planets, and possibly discover liquid water on Mars.
- Microphones are essentially an "extra sense" that scientists can use during experiments on other planets.
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RIYADH, Oct 26- The recent decline in global oil prices will prove temporary even if it lasts a year or so, since population growth will ultimately bring higher consumption and prices, the chief executive of Saudi Basic Industries Corp said on Sunday. He said China was a big, growing market for SABIC but there were changes in consumption there.» Read More
*Credit Suisse cuts Amedisys Inc to underperform from neutral; target.
Athene was placed on Rating Watch Negative on July 13, 2012 following the company's announcement that it would be acquiring Presidential Life Corporation, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Presidential Life Insurance Company.
Homeowners and renters have received $78 million for housing assistance and $17 million for other types of aid, according to FEMA. FEMA spokesman Ray Perez provided the latest figures Monday. More than 191,000 people have registered for FEMA help.
Benchmark oil dropped 28 cents Tuesday to $92.20 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price international varieties of oil, fell 29 cents to $111.90 per barrel in London. At the pump, the national average for gasoline was unchanged at $3.78 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and the Oil Price Information Service.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 2- South Africa has agreed to guarantee $600 million in loans for troubled state airline South African Airways over the next two years, a move that could put further pressure on the government's strained budget.
Oct 2- Alimera Sciences Inc:. *Credit Suisse cuts Alimera Sciences Inc to underperform from. neutral; price target to $2.75 from $3.50.
LANSING, Mich.-- The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has divided $1.3 million in federal money among a dozen groups for projects designed to boost competitiveness of the state's specialty crops. Michigan State University received $300,000 for six projects. The other grants were smaller, ranging from $22,000 to $75,000.
OMAHA, Neb.-- Warren Buffett's company recently discovered it owns two short-line railroads that it must sell because of its 2010 acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.
ATLANTA-- Georgia Southern University students have endorsed two new fees for athletics and the Georgia Board of Regents now must consider them. In a campus-wide referendum, 70 percent of the 9,400 students voting supported a $25 per-semester fee to expand Paulson Stadium.
Myers said Jamco's annual sales total between $15 million and $18 million. Myers, based in Akron, Ohio, said Jamco's product lineup and relationships with industrial distributors complements its existing Akro-Mils business, whose products include plastic storage bins and metal carts, and is in line with the company's growth strategy.
Oct 2- Standard& Poor's Ratings Services said today that its ratings on Kraft Foods Group Inc.. ,including its' BBB' corporate credit rating and' A-2' short-term corporate credit and commercial paper ratings, remain unchanged following Mondelez International Inc.' s.
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ORLANDO, Fla.-- Florida is getting $9 million to study the citrus greening disease. The $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to the Citrus Research and Development Foundation in Lake Alfred, Fla.. By some estimates, it has cost Florida $3.6 billion in lost orange juice production and jobs.
ST. CHARLES, Mo.-- The former president of US Fidelis has been sentenced to eight years in prison on state charges of stealing and fraud. Darain Atkinson was sentenced Monday in St. Charles. The 47- year-old co-founded the auto service contract seller with his 42- year-old brother, Cory Atkinson.
SEATTLE-- Boeing Co.' s union of engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly rejected the aerospace giant's first contract offer in ballots tallied Monday night. Union leaders for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, or SPEEA, had recommended that the union's 23,000 members say no to Boeing's four-year contract offer.
LONDON, Oct 2- A consortium led by the founder and executive chairman of Redrow is in talks to raise its offer to buy out minority investors in the British housebuilder, as haggling continues ahead of a Thursday deadline.
FRANKFURT/ NEW YORK, Oct 2- Deutsche Telekom's. Deutsche Telekom declined to comment, while MetroPCS was not immediately available for comment.
--Northfield, Ill.- based Kraft Foods Inc. completed the pending spin-off transaction of its North American grocery business, Kraft Foods Group Inc.. Rating Action On Oct. 2, 2012, Standard& Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its ratings on Mondelez International Inc..
NEW YORK, Oct 2- Hedge fund manager David Einhorn again made critical comments about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc, a stock in which he publicly unveiled a short position a year ago. Einhorn, one of the biggest draws at the Value Investing Congress in New York on Tuesday, said he would discuss four investment ideas.


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Balotelli wins Golden Boy trophy
Tuesday 21 December 2010
Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli believes he was a worthy recipient of Tuttosport's Golden Boy trophy as the best player under the age of 21, claiming he does not even know who fellow contender Jack Wilshere is.
Balotelli finished ahead of Arsenal midfielder Wilshere for the Turin sports newspaper's award, and reckons he was a deserving winner.
"I am delighted to receive this award," said Balotelli to Tuttosport.
"Who should have won this award but me? Two years ago I finished sixth and a year ago fourth.
"It was finally my turn.
"I don't know who Wilshere is but the next time I play against Arsenal I will keep a close eye on him.
"Perhaps I can show him (Wilshere) the Golden Boy trophy and remind him that I won it!"
The 20-year-old Balotelli, who joined City in the summer from Inter Milan, hopes this award will be the first of many as he targets domestic and European success in 2011.
"My aim is that this prize will, in the near future, transform itself into the Golden Ball Award," he said.
"To have won this award is a good omen to achieve that."
Balotelli has big ambitions for next year.
"All I ask for is two things: to win the Premier League, in order to continue with the tradition I had at Inter of winning three consecutive league titles, and to clinch the Europa League - a trophy that I have not yet won, and a competition where we are considered favourites," said Balotelli.
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Can Earth Be Powered by Energy Beamed From Moon?
Bijal P Trivedi
for National Geographic Today
|April 26, 2002|
If beaming solar power to Earth by way of the moon sounds like lunacy, consider this: It could provide a clean, emission-free, and unlimited source of energy. And, according to David Criswell, a physicist and Space Age veteran, it could supply all needs of an energy-hungry world in the 21st century and beyond.
"We think of beaming power from the moon as exotic, but it has been done for at least 15 years," says Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston. "Power beaming is like using a big radar."
Criswell proposes a Lunar Solar Power System (LSP), using lunar materials to build bases on the moon to collect solar energy and convert it to microwaves, which would be beamed to a several thousand receivers around Earth. The microwaves would then be converted into electricity to be fed into local power grids.
Successful Earth-moon power beams are already in use, he points out in the current issue of The Industrial Physicist. A radio telescope operating from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico regularly uses a beam of microwaves to produce images of the moon.
"In principle it is perfectly feasible, but the problem is cost," says Paul Lowman, a geologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Criswell's project will need a lot of people up there, and that will be expensive."
"Right now we have trouble funding the International Space Station (ISS), with all of its important research projects," says former senator and astronaut John Glenn. "To go back to the moon, establish and keep viable bases for power generation would be a very, very expensive operation. I would rather see more funding to support ISS."
Moon-Based Power Grid
The proposed LSP System would consist of between 20 and 40 power bases located on the eastern and western edge of the moon, as seen from Earth. Criswell estimates that in 2050, a population of about 10 billion would require about 20 terawatts of power.
The moon receives more than 13,000 terawatts of solar power, and harnessing just one percent could satisfy Earth's power needs, he says.
"I think it is a problem that we haven't been to the moon in 30 years, and we don't have a clear idea how to utilize the moon's resources," says Martin Hoffert, a physicist at New York University and co-author of Beam It Down: How the New Satellites Can Power the World. "But from a technical point of view, it would probably work."
Criswell began pondering lunar-based power systems more than 20 years ago during a decade-long stint at the Lunar Science Institute, now the Lunar and Planetary Institute, which was established in 1967 by Lyndon Johnson to maintain interest in the moon.
While he was at the institute he participated in the administration of peer-reviewed proposals on lunar and planetary science, which gave him constant exposure to lunar-related research and development.
After Criswell got a modest grant from NASA's Langley Research Center for another projectto investigate the conversion of lunar matter into engineering materials, such as bauxite into aluminumhe became confident "that we had the skills as a nation and as the world to use resources on the moon."
Criswell also points out that the moon rocks that received so much publicity weren't just souvenirs. During the 1970s and 1980s, between half a billion and a billion dollars was spent to analyze the rocks collected during the six Apollo moon landings. Analyses revealed an abundance of silicon, magnesium, aluminum, and titaniumthe basic material required for building solar cells.
Road Block on Moon Journey
Criswell says that the machinery to make solar cells could be made from lunar materials or transported from Earth.
"We are not talking about taking a GM factory to the moon," says Criswell. "We are talking about machinery more on the scale of road-building equipmentroughly ten to 20 times the size of the lunar rover." The machines would move dirt around, extract metal from the soil, and produce and lay out the thin glass solar cells.
But lunar power would require a return to the moon, and currently there are no active plans for such a mission, says Glenn.
Lowman adds, "As far as NASA's concerned, the moon has been scratched off. Scientists' interests have shifted to astrobiology, life on Mars, Europa." Only if carbon dioxide is shown to be escalating global warming will there be pressure to move energy production to the moon, he says.
"Between 30 and 40 percent of people on the planet are not connected to a power grid," says Hoffert. "The problem with alternative energy sources, like wind and solar power, is that they are intermittent, and it is difficult to transfer the power to places where you need it and when you need it.
"Beaming energy from satellites or the moon to people in developing countries could be a way of jump-starting power distribution," he says.
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Attention Arizona Voters!November 19, 2008 at 3:46 pm | Posted in Office of the President, Reality Bites | Leave a comment
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Steve Benen over at Political Animal reads Roll Call so you don’t have to:
* Hoping to end speculation about his future, John McCain announced yesterday that he will seek re-election in 2010. If Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) takes him on, as has been rumored, it will certainly be the toughest race McCain has faced in Arizona.
Start your engines!
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Prepare yourself because there’s nothing quite like Mumbai with its energy, pulse and personality unmatched by any other city on the sub-continent.
Our Mumbai food tour guide Shailesh was born and raised in this city and what he doesn't know about the food here ain’t worth knowing. Hop from stop to stop using the city's transport to mop up delectable curries with crispy papads, hit up one of the few remaining Persian bakeries, dig into chaat snacks on Chowpatty and delve into the Muslim quarter to eat lip-smackingly good kebabs. You’ll wander through old markets, ride the famous Mumbai train network and eat ice cream that’s been churned the same way since it opened in the 19th century, all while being entertained with stories of old Bombay.
*Oh, hi there veggies, this food tour's definitely for you. We can happily swap out the meat to suit your palette, after all... this is India.
**Street food vendors take time off too, so we can’t promise every Mumbai food tour will be the same, but fear not, the day will always be packed with good stuff.
"Shailesh knows the food scene in Mumbai better than anyone. Born in Dharavi, they've seen big shifts in old Bombay, but the street food stays delightfully unchanged. Over the years, he's dived into every nook and cranny seeking out the best places to eat in Mumbai. Join him on their daily Mumbai food tour and you’ll be sampling the finest this city has to offer. "
Mumbai is definitely a food lover's paradise. With a platter of local flavours from the diverse cultures that dwells in this city. Mumbai street food is indeed a gastronomical orgasm one must indulge in. I am a Mumbai resident for over 6 years and as a food blogger have tried no. of joints, street food offerings in Mumbai but I take this opportunity to confess that the Mumbai City Food Tour by "A Chef's Tour" was simply outstanding.
To join our Mumbai food tour, use the calendar to select your preferred date and secure your tour with your card. For special requests, private bookings, or dietary requirements, please contact us. Safety of our customers is our first priority, so if you have any allergies, please contact us before booking.
You'll meet Shailesh outside the Residency Hotel in the Fort area of downtown Mumbai. It's easy to reach and we'll send you more details and address on your voucher. Your guide will be wearing A Chef's Tour t-shirt.
This Mumbai food tour is designed for adventurous eaters with an interest in discovering the food Mumbaikars eat. In terms of eating, you'll hit the ground running on this Mumbai food tour. Just be sure to wear extra comfortable shoes and bring an empty stomach, you're going to need it.
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