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Price: Rs. 175/-
Published in: 2016
How did I get it? From the publisher.
The blurb of the book says:
Meet Nishant, Suraj and Sachin, three “unlucky” guys. Finding themselves stuck in the thirty-fifth century B.C after being plunged by a near death experience into a time portal, their luck flips around. They find themselves trapped in a bloody conflict raging between two opposing dynasties. They stumble upon a dynastic princess and her new born baby and resolve to unite her with her prince from the opposing dynasty.
During their quest, they must seek a time locator that could allow them to return to their own time but not before they discover fantastical weapons which give them various supernatural powers. Overseeing the evil in the world, a demonic sorcerer wields the blackest magic and destroys the whole dynastic army.
Can the three stop him or will they, like the army, perish in the attempt?
Will they be able to finally return to their own time?
Can they overcome their bad luck or has destiny planned something else for them?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Self introduction of the author, Nishant Joshi:
"I am a final year engineering student of Electronics and Telecommunication at Mumbai University. I was born in Lucknow, U.P and since my father had a transferrable job, we migrated to various cities. From Lucknow to Bhubneshwar, then to Kanpur, then Delhi, then again Lucknow and then, finally to the city of dreams Mumbai. I have grown in an era that was full of science fiction elements be it television cartoons like Shaktiman and Dragon Ball Z, films like Spiderman and Star Wars or the never ending list of science fiction computer games. Seeing this, I was greatly inspired by them but was unhappy about not finding anything as such in my own country except a handful of such things but which were completely restricted only to epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. Would you call them Science fiction!?! Therefore, I set out on my journey to pen down sci-fi novels since our country is literally void of it. Even if you see other countries, the biggest business comes out of science fiction be it novels, films or computer games as compared to India where love and romance is the only thing. Lame isn’t it!!! The taste of especially the youth of our country is very different and the wise will see that it’s bending towards science fiction. Thus, I feel impelled to contribute as much as possible to science fiction which is going to be the landmark and milestone of the present and the coming future."
Cover: It shows a soldier in the battlefield with a powerful weapon.
Writing: Plain and ordinary.
Plot: Three loser friends travel back in time and recreates history.
Reading the book, I felt as if the author had some story-idea in his mind and he just vomited out his thoughts on paper. Not one character was properly thought out or introduced. The three friends were construction workers earning ninety rupees a day, ate only vada-pavs but had android cellphones. It was never really explained why they had to leave home. As the story began, immediately they traveled back in time through a portal. The threesome did a lot of irritating crying and hugging. They could execute their plans immediately and very easily; "I somehow did it" but never explained how. The book was like movie with a really bad script, anything and everything was happening.
The author had declared in his acknowledgements, "I am sure it (History Revisited) will be a n exciting and an unforgettable journey for all sci-fi fans out there. I am a sci-fi fan and I will not forget to tell my reading friends that they can gladly give this one a miss.
I give "History Revisited" 1 star on a scale of 5.

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More Americans at work in retirement years - especially in Bay Area
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Americans are postponing retirement and working longer, and the trend is especially pronounced in the Bay Area, according to an annual census survey of key social, economic and housing characteristics for the nation, states and larger cities.
Not only are Americans staying healthier longer, they need to earn more to pay for longer retirements, according to experts on the health and finances of senior citizens.
Almost 1 in 4 people between the ages of 65 and 74 nationally - 23 percent - were still in the labor force in 2006, up from close to 1 in 5 at the beginning of the decade, according to data released by the Census Bureau today in its American Community Survey. In the Bay Area, 25 percent of people in that age group were working, up from 21 percent in 2000.
"People are healthier, they want to remain engaged in the community, and they find fulfillment through employment - that's the good news," said Jean Ross, director of the California Budget Project, based in Sacramento. "The bad news is, there are people who don't have the financial resources to live without working, and they need the supplemental income to make ends meet. There are two distinct trends going on."
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Those trends are intensified in the Bay Area, she said. The cost of living here is higher than in many other parts of California and the nation, so people might need more cash to live on in retirement. At the same time, the region's population tends to be better educated on average, and many people might continue to work because their jobs are satisfying and engaging.
The Bay Area is on the leading edge of redefining retirement, with more opportunities for older workers to find a niche in the economy on their own terms, said Susan Hoffman, director of UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
UC Berkeley, for example, has a center that gives its workers a chance to return to work on their own schedule and terms after they retire, whether they work in teaching, administration or service jobs, she said.
In the Bay Area "there's a generally more enlightened culture about having a more flexible workplace that's more accommodating to anybody, be it a working mother or an older adult," Hoffman said.
One factor allowing workers to stay in the labor force is that people are remaining in better health even as they reach old age, said Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford's Center for Health Policy.
"There's been a long-running trend in the elderly population in the United States of decreasing rates of disability," Bhattacharya said. "This is one of the pieces of good news about American health care that is not well known. We're living longer and spending less of that time disabled."
In 1993, overall U.S. life expectancy at birth was 75.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2003, that had increased to 77.4 years.
And as people live longer, they need to support themselves for more years after they stop working, experts say.
"It's very hard to finance a long, long retirement without working longer," said John Shoven, director of the finance program at Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research. "In 1965, men lived an average of 13 more years after retirement. Now it's 19 or 20 more years. At some point, you just can't afford to retire for 25 years."
The financial pressure created by the fact that retirement lasts longer is heightened by the rising cost of health care and a growing anxiety that Social Security might run out, analysts say.
Social Security remains the most important source of income for most older Americans, said Ross, representing more than half of the income for two-thirds of retirees. For one-third of retired Americans, Social Security makes up 90 percent of their income.
Meanwhile, traditional employer-funded "defined benefit" pensions are on the wane, leaving workers to sock away money in investment funds that they aren't necessarily adept at managing.
"You have people who either haven't put enough away on their own or their investment earnings have not been sufficient to support them in retirement," said Ross.
The fact that people are staying in their jobs longer, starting second careers or working part time after retiring isn't necessarily a bad thing, said Shoven.
"I don't believe all these people are unhappy about working," he said. "I think we have to divide these extra years we're being blessed with between work and retirement. We can't spend them all in retirement."

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The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning to drop. The Politico reports that all of the outrage from both Congressional and administrative officials is simply a front. All of them knew.
Watching the coverage the past 24 hours, it would seem AIG just made public its plans to give top employees big bonuses. Wrong.
AIG disclosed its retention-bonus program more than a year ago, including bonuses directed to those handling the exotic derivatives that got the company and the country into this mess.
The bonuses were essentially a nonissue when AIG got its initial bailout money, almost $150 billion under President Bush in the two months surrounding the presidential election. Joe Biden, then the vice presidential nominee, came out strongly against the bailout. Obama did not.
Timothy Geithner, then at the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, was a huge proponent and architect of the AIG bailout. So if Obama had strong private opposition to the idea it did not affect his pick for the person who would oversee all bailouts.
In fact, if you look at the first line in the letter AIG CEO Liddy wrote to Geithner, it is clear he at least knew about all of this before last Friday:
Thank you for the open and frank conversation on Wednesday regarding the compensation arrangements at AIG Financial Products and AIG generally. I admit that the conversation was a difficult one for me.
And there’s more:
You have also asked AIG to rethink our 2008 corporate bonus proposals. The proposals AIG originally submitted to you are part of a deliberate process, recommended by me and supported by the independent compensation committee of AIG’s board of directors.
So what you’re seeing out of the Obama administration is demagoguery at its worst. This was a plan being worked with the previous administration and the present administration, and when AIG payed those monies out last week Friday (they were required by law to do so prior to March 15), it was with the full knowledge and apparent acquiescence of the Obama administration, and, one assumes, key members of Congress.
As to the “why” of the situation, some reading of the AIGFP Employee Retention Plan – written last year – makes it clear that none of this was being hidden from anyone. And it makes for some very interesting reading – here, for instance, is the portion which details the impact of their failure to pay these “bonuses”:
Details Regarding Business Impact of Failure to Pay
AIGFP’s derivatives portfolio stands at about $1.6 trillion and remains a significant risk. Failure to pay the required retention payments therefore could have very significant business ramifications. For example, AIGFP is a party to derivative and structured transactions, guaranteed by AIG, that allow counterparties to terminate in the event of a “cross default” by AIGFP or AIG. A cross default in many of these transactions is defined as a failure by AIGFP to make one or more payments in an amount that exceeds a threshold of $25 million.
In the event a counterparty elects to terminate a transaction early, such transaction will be terminated at its replacement value, less any previously posted collateral. Due to current market conditions, it is not possible to reliably estimate the replacement cost of these transactions. However, the size of the portfolio with these types of provisions is in the several hundreds of billions of dollars and a cross-default in this portfolio could trigger other cross-defaults over the entire portfolio of AIGFP.
There are also substantial risks related to the hedging of AIGFP’s various books. Although we view the large-market risk books at AIGFP as generally well hedged, the hedging is dynamic – that is, it must be monitored and adjusted continuously. To the extent that AIGFP were to lose traders who currently oversee complicated though familiar positions and know how to hedge the book, gaps in hedging could result in significant losses. This is driven to some extent by the size of the portfolios. In the interest rate book, for example, a move in market interest rates of just one basis point – that is 0.01% or one-100th of one percent – could result in a change in value of $700 million dollars if the book were not hedged. It has virtually no impact on the hedged book. There are similar exposures in the foreign exchange, commodities and equity derivatives books.
AIGFP’s books also contain a significant number of complex – so-called bespoke – transactions that are difficult to understand and manage. This is one reason replacing key traders and risk managers would not be practical on a large scale. Personal knowledge of the trades and the unique systems at AIGFP will be critical to an effective unwind of AIGFP’s businesses and portfolios.
In this current environment, any perceived disruption in AIGFP’s ability to conduct business, such as one that would result from the departure of a number of key employees, could also cause parties to limit or cease trading with AIGFP. Obviously, this would adversely affect its ability to continue to cost-effectively hedge its positions.
Departures also have regulatory ramifications. As an example, the resignation of the senior managers of AIGFP’s Banque AIG subsidiary would allow the Commission Bancaire, the French banking regulator, to appoint its own designee to step in and manage Banque AIG. Such an appointment would constitute an event of default under Banque AIG’s derivative and structured transactions, including the regulatory capital CDS book ($234 billion notional amount as of December 31, 2008), and potentially cost tens of billions of dollars in unwind costs. Although it is difficult to assess the likelihood of such regulatory action, at a minimum the disruption associated with significant departures related to a failure to honor contractual obligations would require intensive interactions with regulators and other constituents (rating agencies, counterparties, etc.) to assure them of the ongoing viability of AIGFP as well its commitment to honoring counterparty contracts and claims.
Essentially, as I pointed out this morning, the loss of key players could cost AIG and the taxpayer much, much more than the bonuses. Note the final paragraph where an example is used to point out the danger of seeing key players leave the firm while it continues to “unwind costs”. As pointed out the “personal” knowledge of the trades and transactions is critical. This isn’t necessarily about the “brightest and best”, but instead about those who know where the bodies are buried, how they got there and how to get them out of there and where they’re supposed to be. The possible downside of losing these key individuals is a potential cost of “tens of billions” to the tax payers.
Here’s something else which may interest you:
AIG has taken significant steps to limit overall compensation at AIGFP where it can and has committed to doing more. The 25 highest paid active contract employees have agreed to reduce their remaining 2009 salaries to $1. Salaries for this group ranged up to $500,000, and the average salary was in excess of $270,000. (There are apparently legal limits that may complicate the implementation of this and AIG will likely implement the lowest salary levels we can equitably put in place across the relevant jurisdictions.) The remaining 2009 salary of all other officers – anyone with a title of associate vice president or higher – is being reduced by 10% (subject to compliance with local law requirements).
In addition, other forms of non-cash compensation will be reduced or eliminated. We also believe that there will be considerably greater flexibility to reduce contractual payments in respect of 2009, and AIG intends to use its best efforts to do so. AIGFP intends to sell some of its books of business during the year. The employees related to these books will go with the sold businesses, and we intend to require the buyer to assume going-forward compensation payments.
It is also expected that, over the course of the year, employees will leave voluntarily or be terminated for cause and will therefore no longer be entitled to retention amounts from AIG. Because the plan was designed to provide security for employees, including protection against terminations without cause, AIG is required to pay the amounts owed to employees who are downsized. However, if a downsized employee finds new employment, retention amounts will be reduced by the earnings from the other employer. In addition, for employees in foreign jurisdictions who are not U.S. taxpayers, to whom the limits of Section 409A do not apply, AIG will have the ability to negotiate with employees who are downsized.
With all of these actions and other creative restructuring solutions, AIG hereby commits to use best efforts to reduce expected 2009 retention payments by at least 30%.
To review, the 25 highest paid contract employees are on a $1 a year salary for 2009. 10% salary reduction for all other officers. Non-cash compensation – reduced or eliminated. Selling some of it’s “books”. Downsizing. Retention payments for 2009 reduced by 30%.
As to the payouts themselves, this information is available:
Of the $220 million, about $165 million is required to be paid on or prior to March 15, 2009 and about $55 million was previously paid. In light of the large losses incurred last year, current and former employees will see their deferred compensation accounts reduced to the point where they will have negative balances. As a consequence there is no immediate prospect that employees will receive any payout of the at-risk piece for 2008 (about $93 million) or the remaining approximately $582 million in at risk pay earned from prior years. A senior AIGFP manager therefore worked in 2008 for about 43% of his 2007 expected level.
Did you ever hear about any of that in the phony cacophony that has blown up around all of this? AIG apparently had a plan, one has to assume it wasn’t one done in the dark, and it appears they were literally in the middle of executing it ($55 million having been paid last year and some more millions to be paid after March 15). The plan outlines how AIG planned to cut its costs while fulfilling the remaining contractual obligations they had. You and I may not like the fact that the bonuses are going out there, but if you take the time to read the retention plan, you can understand that there is a legal and financial reason for doing so.
All of this faux outrage, then, is politically calculated theater designed, as usual, to shift blame on the designated bad guy. It’s the usual reversion to populism when caught doing something unpopular. If you think a single politician, up to and including the President, is going to stand up and take blame, well, you have this example to dispel that notion. Insteadof leadership, we get demagoguery.
Once a community organizer, always a community organizer, I suppose – from an email I received recently from the Obama campaign email list:
The current debate in Washington over President Obama’s budget has made one thing clear — ensuring our long-term prosperity won’t come without a fight.
Partisan voices and special interests are showing real resistance to President Obama’s call for making the necessary reforms and investments in energy, health care, and education. That’s why we need to bring the conversation back into homes and communities across America.
Last week, thousands of you pledged your support for the President’s economic plan and encouraged your friends and family to join you in a national display of support. Now I need you to take the next step.
This weekend, supporters like you are organizing Pledge Project Canvasses to talk to people in their communities about this plan and mobilize support in neighborhoods across the country.
The eternal campaign continues with attempts to solicit the same ground support “magic” the campaign was able to solicit during the presidential campaign. However, doing that during a campaign when the focus is a person and his promises vs. attempting to do that when the person in question has gained the office and is now talking about concrete proposals which may or may not be in the best interest of the country isn’t quite as easy.
A couple of thoughts on this sort of an attempt. One – the tie that binds (getting Barack Obama elected) doesn’t necessarily extend to things like the budget or other specific issues. So the group that accomplished the former aren’t necessarily unified on the latter. That tends to promise lower turn out in the community events or, if they show up, some discord.
Two – the assumption is these events will demonstrate the will of the people and put pressure on Congress to act as Obama asks them to act, i.e. pass his budget. But there’s no direct linkage with this sort of activity and Congress like there was during the campaign when this sort of activity could be converted to votes. The Obama campaign used to brag about the “house parties” that were held at a grass-roots level demonstrating the power of his campaign and the promise of the votes to come. None of that translates into the same sort of power when aimed at Congress.
Three – it again demonstrates that the administration still hasn’t managed to get itself out of the campaign mode. Another example of that has been the AIG bonus debacle. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and AIG CEO Edward Liddy discussed the bonuses on the 11th of March. Liddy sent Geithner a letter on the 14th explaining the reason for them and the possible impact of not paying them (explained in the AIGFP Employee Retention Plan). It’s not about “retaining the best and brightest”. In fact, it is a calculated method of hedging their risk and ensuring the tax payer doesn’t end up on the hook for even more billions in bailouts.
Instead of calmly explaining this in a joint press conference with AIG, Geithner and the administration chose to fan the flames of outrage and use it for political gain. That isn’t leadership, that’s politics. And it is also an administration in the campaign mode. That’s a dangerous mode to be in, especially at this time and place. When given the opportunity to have a frank and tough discussion with the public about bonuses it knew were going to be paid and explaining their necessity, the Obama administration reverted to the populist campaign mode of demonizing AIG instead of calming the emotions and fears of the public.
No one with any sense is going to argue that AIG should be doing what it is doing or that the insurance giant isn’t absolutely tone-deaf to the dirge playing within the economy. But the effort and the PR agenda to reclaim the bonus money pursued by our new president just underscores the “confusion and contradiction” his actions and words engender.
President Obama vowed to try to stop the faltering insurance giant American International Group from paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives, as the administration scrambled to avert a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street that could complicate Mr. Obama’s economic recovery agenda.
We’re talking “hundreds of millions” of dollars here. But when confronted by a omnibus spending bill with hundreds of billions of dollars in 9,000 pork projects, meh, no biggie – “last year’s business.”
I mentioned last week that there was a narrative building which could be quite detrimental to the Obama administration. That narrative started with the British press, in a snit about the treatment of British PM Gordon Brown during a visit to the White House, noting that the administration seemed “overwhelmed”. Supporters claimed that was normal for a new administration, and besides, this one had been handed a very difficult crisis as they came into power, one that would test the abilities of even the most seasoned of administrations. But that didn’t stop the narrative from continuing to form. Then we saw others, even among supporters, begin to wonder. Camille Paglia and Howard Fineman were concerned that things seemed “not quite right” even after 50 days. Was this new administration in over its head? Even Paul Krugman carefully mentioned that those things which needed to be addressed immediately weren’t getting the attention they needed or deserved.
A feeling of uneasiness seemed to be settling over even the Obama supporters. Yesterday, Michael Goodwin, hardly someone who would be identified as a rightwinger, wondered out loud if there may indeed be something to the building narrative:
Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, “Do you think they know what they’re doing?”
The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As we talked, I quickly realized his asking suggested his own considerable doubts.
Yes, it’s early, but an eerily familiar feeling is spreading across party lines and seeping into the national conversation. It’s a nagging doubt about the competency of the White House.
As I said then, when I first brought it up, this is a narrative that if it becomes established, then becomes “conventional wisdom”. Speaking of “eerie”, this is very similar to the narrative that developed and established itself about Jimmy Carter. Goodwin goes on:
The tag of incompetence is powerful precisely because it is a nondenominational rebuke, even when it yields a partisan result. It became the strongest argument against the GOP hammerlock on Washington and, over two elections, gave Democrats their turn at total control.
But already feelings of doubt are rising again. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were never held in high regard, so doubts about their motives and abilities are not surprising.
What matters more is the growing concern about Obama and his team. The longest campaign in presidential history is being followed by a very short honeymoon.
Polls show that most people like Obama, but they increasingly don’t like his policies. The vast spending hikes and plans for more are provoking the most concern, with 82% telling a Gallup survey they are worried about the deficit and 69% worried about the rapid growth of government under Obama. Most expect their own taxes will go up as a result, despite the President’s promises to the contrary.
Goodwin is right – the GOP sits on the sidelines for exactly the same reason that the Obama administration and Democrats should be concerned about this building narrative. Voters questioned their competence. And, of course, Democrats hammered the issue. Reid, Pelosi and the Democratic presidential candidates all talked about George Bush’s incompetence, and, by extension, the competence of the GOP. The shoe is now on the other foot and the same charges are beginning to be made about Obama and the Democrats. Warren Buffet has chimed in with criticism. The Treasury Secretary is a Saturday Night Live punching bag. The nomination process has been a disaster.
And it isn’t just the circumstances of a difficult situation which is making this seem worse than it is. No, there’s much more to it than that as Goodwin points out in his conclusion:
Which brings us to the heart of the matter: the doubts about Obama himself. His famous eloquence is wearing thin through daily exposure and because his actions are often disconnected from his words. His lack of administrative experience is showing.
His promises and policies contradict each other often enough that evidence of hypocrisy is ceasing to be news. Remember the pledges about bipartisanship and high ethics? They’re so last year.
The beat goes on. Last week, Obama brazenly gave a speech about earmark reform just after he quietly signed a $410 billion spending bill that had about 9,000 earmarks in it. He denounced Bush’s habit of disregarding pieces of laws he didn’t like, so-called signing statements, then issued one himself.
And in an absolute jaw-dropper, he told business leaders, “I don’t like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government’s role.”
No wonder Americans are confused. Our President is, too.
Confusion and contradiction are not what people expect from strong leadership. It is what they expect from weak leaders. Obama, to this point, has exerted little leadership. He let himself get rolled by Congress on the “stimulus” bill, eventually becoming a front man trying to excuse their excesses and trying to spin the enormous social spending as economic stimulus. He was again pushed forward to pretend that the omnibus spending bill was “last year’s business” and the earmarks were Bush’s fault. Even the most rabid of supporters have had difficulty swallowing that bit of nonsense. Goodwin is right, what the nation and world is presently seeing from this administration is not the stuff of confidence and competence. It is, instead, precisely what those who actually looked at his previous accomplishments or lack thereof said we should expect – an eloquent and likable young man with no executive experience, no leadership experience and precious little legislative experience who appears overwhelmed by the job. The contradictions and confusion are a result of being pulled hither and yon by competing interests among his advisors and Congress as they try to convince him to back their agenda.
There are no timeouts in the job he’s won. Running off to Chicago for a 4 day Valentine weekend doesn’t slow or stop the world or the events always in motion from continuing to unfold. There’s a reason we usually don’t elect legislators to the presidency. And that’s probably even more true about inexperienced ones.
Unless something drastic happens in which the Obama administration is able to blunt and change the building narrative, watch for it to continue to grow.
Glad they finally noticed:
The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President Obama’s agenda.
Of course the greatest stoker of this populist backlash has been the Obama administration. I’ll be the first to agree that some of the financial institutions, such as AIG recently, have played into the populist condemnation by the administration, but instead of being specific about the AIGs of the world, they have instead gone after an entire industry to the point that “banks and Wall Street” are synonymous with crooks, swindlers and liars. Having established that narrative, seemingly purposely, there’s now a huge backlash building which may, in fact, cripple the administration’s efforts pertaining to both.
“We’ve got enormous problems that need to be addressed,” David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, said in an interview. “And it’s hard to address because there’s a lot of anger about the irresponsibility that led us to this point.”
“This has been welling up for a long time,” he said.
Mr. Obama’s aides said any surge of such a sentiment could complicate efforts to win Congressional approval for the additional bailout packages that Mr. Obama has signaled will be necessary to stabilize the banking system.
As it is, there have already been moves in Congress to limit compensation to executives at banks and Wall Street firms that are receiving government help to survive.
Beyond that, a shifting political mood challenges Mr. Obama’s political skills, as he seeks to acknowledge the anger without becoming a target of it. A central question for Mr. Obama is whether his cool style — “in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger,” he said in his address to Congress last month — will prove effective when the country may be feeling more emotional.
And the country is feeling emotional because the administration has been making emotional arguments targeting the industry it wants to help. Not very smart politics. And they’ve now finally realized that.
“Never underestimate the capacity of angry populism in times of economic stress,” said Robert Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and labor secretary under President Bill Clinton. “A big challenge for President Obama will be to maintain a rational and tactical public discussion in the midst of this severe downturn. The desire for culprits at times like this is strong.”
The “culprit” has been identified. In their desire to escape blame, government officials in Congress and elsewhere have almost unanimously used their access to the media to vilify banks and Wall Street while pretending they had no hand whatsoever in this debacle. Unfortunately they’ve been quite successful in the scapegoating. However, having established the narrative, they now have to attempt to reverse it because the public rage they’ve helped stoke may prevent them from doing what they think they need to do to turn the financial industry around.
The entire problem that the administration is now recognizing is one of their own making and another indication of their inexperience and lack of foresight. It’s one thing to demonize such industries when campaigning, it is, as they’re learning, an entirely different thing when you do it as the President of the United States. The administration now has to figure out how to reverse a narrative they helped build and establish. That should be interesting to watch.
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Daniel Larison is trying to smack Ed Morrisey around over a particular story:
There is a non-story making the rounds that the Russian military might base bombers in Venezuela and Cuba, provided that the Kremlin wanted to do this. In the same story that is being circulated, the Kremlin ruled out the idea as hypothetical speculation. Naturally, this had no effect whatever on wild accusations of Obama’s foreign policy failure.
As you can tell, Larison is sure there is no smoke or fire with this particular story, but refuses to let an opportunity go by to blame Bush for something, which he proceeds to do. However it seems Larison’s research into the story must have omitted this CNN version. The lede:
Russia expressed interest in using Cuban airfields during patrol missions of its strategic bombers, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
I put them in bold so they might catch Larison’s eye. You see, when most people see the words “Russia expressed interest” they interpret them to mean the state of Russia – you know, the country?- is interested enough in something to actually express that interest outloud to where a news agency heard it and reported it. And the words “Cuban airfields” usually mean, well, you know, airfields in Cuba – the object of the Russian interest. The thing airplanes fly off of. The fact that a Russian news agency reported the story about Russia’s interest and Cuba’s airfields, while also mentioning strategic bombers, kind of ties it all together and gives the statement some credibility over and above Larison’s hand-wave of dismissal. It certainly makes it more than a “non-story”.
In fact, Russia has obviously done more than just “think” about it. Here’s the scoop on Venezuela:
Zhikharev also told Interfax that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered a military airfield on La Orchila island as a temporary base for Russian strategic bombers.
“If a relevant political decision is made, this is possible,” he said, according to Interfax. Zhikharev said he visited La Orchila in 2008 and can confirm that with minor reconstruction, the airfield owned by a local naval base can accept fully-loaded Russian strategic bombers.
Offer made by Venezuelan head of state. Enough interest to host a visit by Zhikharev (Chief of Staff of Russian Air Force). Further interested enough to scope out the construction necessary to make it suitable for strategic bombers.
Yup – non-story. [/sarc]
But hey, never let the opportunity for a rant get slowed by facts, huh?
A week or so ago, I highlighted a story about the possibility that Democrats were going to tax your employee health care benefits (after all, those among the 95% who are getting a tax cut have to have something to spend it on) and I was assured this particular plan comes up all the time and never gets out of committee. Well it appears those assurances of nothing to worry about were premature. The idea may not only get out of committee this time, but be signed into law as well:
The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system.
So you’ll pay taxes on your private health benefits to pay for health benefits for others, while government tells you how expensive your private coverage is and how they can run it much more cheaply and efficiently if only you’ll pitch in and pay for it.
Question: If taxes on your health care benefits are going to pay for a governmental health care system overhaul, and one assumes the purpose of the overhaul is to bring more and more of the health care system under governmental control, how will government “pay” for all of this in the future when you no longer have private health care benefits to tax?
Read the whole article. It doesn’t even take a double digit IQ to spot the law of unintended consequences laying in the weeds just salivating over this one.
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Why? Because I think it is funny. And yes, I understand that we are still capable of and do teach math well.
But as I chuckled about it, this bit of humor is more about our priorities and some cultural issues than math.
1959-2009 (in the USA )
Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $ 2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters , but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s:
1. Teaching Math In 1950s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?
2. Teaching Math In 1960s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math In 1970s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math In 1980s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math In 1990s
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it’s ok.)
6. Teaching Math In 2009
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?
President Obama and VP Biden are going to be watching you:
Obama and Biden both gave stern warnings yesterday about misuse of stimulus funds. “If we see money being misspent, we’re going to put a stop to it,” Obama told a gathering of state officials at the White House. How? Obama says “we will call it out and we will publicize it.” Biden, meanwhile, scolded: “If we don’t get this right, folks, this is the end of the opportunity to convince Congress that anything should go to the states.”
Of course, these were words spoken to representatives of states getting “stimulus” money.
Lost in the shuffle is the fact that there is no one to shout “BS” to the whole scheme and declare it all “misspent” money. A $787 billion dollar social spending scheme isn’t money “misspent?” Hah!
But other than that, I think Earl Devaney provides us with the ground truth about this upcoming spending debacle:
The chief watchdog for spending from the $787 billion stimulus package says it’s guaranteed there will be waste and fraud.
Earl Devaney, tapped by President Obama to track the giant spending plan, also said it will be at least a year before the government gets recovery.gov, the Web site the administration has touted as a key part of its transparency, up and running properly.
“I’m afraid that there may be a naive impression that given the amount of transparency and accountability called for by this act, no or little fraud will occur.
A “naive impression?”
Heh … nah, you don’t say?
The word “naive” seems to describe a lot of what is going on right now with the Obama administration.

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Who is DCS protecting: Itself or the kids who lived in a house of horrors?
Opinion: The Arizona Department of Child Safety should come clean on whether there were prior reports of abuse in a house where two children had been beaten and one was found dead in the attic.
Two children abused, one child dead in the attic and where, you might wonder, was the Arizona Department of Child Services?
Did the agency set up to protect children have prior reports that the parents, Rafael and Maribel Loera, were abusing or neglecting their kids?
Before the 11-year-old recently called 911 to report that she alone for two days and was hungry, that is.
Before Phoenix police say the father set fire to the house, leading to the discovery of what is believed to be her 13-year-old sister’s skeletal remains in the attic.
Before police found that both the 11-year-old girl and her 9-year-old brother had been repeatedly beaten with an electrical cord and a broom handle.
It's an easy question, DCS
It seems a fairly simple question: Did DCS ever have any reports that these kids were in need of help?
DCS refuses to answer it, citing the need for confidentiality.
Yet the agency threw confidentiality to the winds last week, as it is allowed to do – disclosing that the children already had been adopted by 2017, the year the father says the 13-year-old girl died.
“The Loera’s last adoption was finalized in 2016 which occurred prior to the reported date associated with the remains recently found,” DCS spokesman Darren DaRonco said in a statement issued late last week. “The Department has received no reports on the family since their final adoption in 2016 until we received a report on January 20, 2020.”
OK, but did the department receive reports of abuse or neglect before that final adoption in 2016? (Which, of course, would lead to another question if the answer was yes: What did the agency do?)
Cue DaRonco: “We are working to get as much information to the public as possible under the law. At this time, the specific legal criteria that would allow us to answer your question has not been met.”
Me: "How come DCS can release information about these children’s adoption but not release information about whether or not there were prior complaints of abuse?"
DaRonco: "State law allows DCS to release information if it meets the clarify and correct standard under ARS 8-807. The law states DCS may release information to clarify and correct what has been released publicly. Yesterday, we released information to clarify or correct what had already been published in various articles.”
That's not all the law says
Actually, ARS 8-807 says the agency can “confirm, clarify, correct or supplement information concerning an allegation or actual instance of child abuse or neglect that has been made public by a source or sources outside the department.”
Because the 11-year-old referred to Maribel as her foster mother and it was reported by the media, DCS decided to “clarify and correct” the record to show the agency is off the hook.
But not to "supplement" its report with information the public has a right to know.
Interesting how that works, isn’t it? DCS can tell us the adoption process that would have brought the agency into the home was complete. Nothing to see here.
But it refuses to say whether the agency previously was called to help a group of children who surely needed rescue.
That, we are told, is confidential.
Leading to me to wonder, just who are we protecting here?
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Camille Grammer is getting a ring on it!
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum is engaged to lawyer David C. Meyer, a source confirms to ET. According to the source, Meyer popped the question last week.
Grammer certainly got the wedding bell rumors ringing over Halloween weekend when she shared a picture with her beau on Instagram, rocking what looked to be a seriously blinged-out engagement ring.
Grammer was married to “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer from 1997 until 2011.
In March, Grammer was already smitten by her new love, telling ET in an interview how well things were going.
“There is a man on my arm,” she revealed. “It’s a great thing … It’s going really well. I’m really happy.”
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ISPs got you down? Email full of SPAM? Don't know the difference between a download and an upload? Think DHCP stands for Don't Have Colon Problems? Sounds like you need a dose of comedy, Broadband style! The Verge Theater proudly presents the 4th Annual All-Original Comedy Revue: Take My WiFi....Please! on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm from January 9 - 24.
Written and performed by some of Bozeman's funniest cyberpunks, this year's Comedy Revue (comedy for ages 17+) will feature skits, songs and sassiness about the highs and lows of our technology culture. All tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at vergetheater.com or at Cactus Records in downtown Bozeman. Verge Theater is located at 2304 N 7th Ave (Across from Murdoch's).

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Fresh to the pages of Elevator today is emerging Houston, TX-based rapper DAVESTATEOFMIND with his latest single “Immortal.”
Over the course of the past year, Dave’s been making noticeable waves throughout Houston with his unique combination of rapping and singing. His talent is undeniable and his latest Chris Hayes produced single is proof. With a fan base beginning to amass in H-Town, it’s only a matter of time until the young rapper begins to take over the state.
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Lithuanian mythology includes gods and goddesses. The Lithuanians believed in a pantheon of deities who governed various aspects of life and nature. Here are some examples:
Perkūnas – The god of thunder and lightning, associated with strength, protection, and fertility.
Žemyna– The goddess of the earth and fertility, responsible for the growth of crops and the well-being of the land.
Saulė – The goddess of the sun, associated with light, warmth, and life-giving energy.
Mėnuo (Mėnulis) – The god of the moon, symbolizing the cycle of time and lunar influences.
Laima – The goddess of fate and destiny, often depicted as three sisters who determined the course of human lives.
Gabija – The goddess of fire, protecting homes and ensuring the prosperity of families.
Velnias (Vėlinas) – The god of the underworld, often associated with trickery and temptation, and considered the ruler of the spirits of the deceased.
Besides gods and goddesses, Lithuanian mythology includes various other beings and creatures:
Velnias (Vėlinas) – Apart from being a god, Velnias is also depicted as a devil-like figure associated with darkness, chaos, and the temptations of the material world.
Aitvaras – A dragon-like creature associated with fire, wealth, and guarding treasures.
Laumės – Female spirits or fairies believed to influence human fate, especially the destiny of newborns. They were associated with weaving, spinning, and childbirth.
Ragana – A witch or sorceress with supernatural powers and knowledge of herbs and magic.
These are just a few examples of the diverse range of deities, spirits, and creatures found in Lithuanian mythology. Each had its own role and significance within the belief system, reflecting the connection between the Lithuanian people and the natural world around them.

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Four AIM lecturers in composition, have joined forces with an international collection of award-winning writers, composers, performers and a visual artist to produce a unique concert of science fiction and fantasy stories set to music.
AIM Academic Studies lecturer Laura E. Goodin is co-producing the concert with Houston Dunleavy, and has written one of the stories. “We aimed to put together a performance that would dazzle the audience with utterly new stories and sounds,” she says. “It’s been hugely exciting to work with such innovative artists – there are surprises, laughs, heartbreak, and stunning beauty from start to finish.”
The composers, including Dunleavy and AIM lecturers Joe Dolce, Joe Giovinazzo, Gary Butler, and Andrew Batterham, were each paired with a writer to jointly produce the works. The writers include New York Times-bestselling author Sean Williams, as well as World Fantasy Award winner Robert Shearman, Nebula winner Jack Dann, and other widely published authors.
Monash University’s Peter Sheridan with some of the flutes featured in The Cabinet of Oddities.
Photo credit: Lucia Ondrusova.
The concert, which will be performed on 23 and 24 September as part of the Melbourne Fringe, will involve a range of flutes from piccolo to contrabass flute, a relatively new instrument that is rapidly gaining attention from performers, composers, and audiences. The instruments will be played by an ensemble led by Monash University’s Peter Sheridan, one of the world’s leading performers on low flutes. The concert will also include artwork by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings.
The Cabinet of Oddities will be performed at 8 p.m. on 23 September and 2:30 p.m. on 24 September at the Peter Calvo Auditorium, Australian Institute of Music, 120 King Street, Melbourne. Tickets cost $30 full/$20 concession, and are available at http://melbournefringe.com.au or by phoning (03) 9660 9666.


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Pep Guardiola sounded thoroughly down but not out after his side’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham in the Premier League this evening.
The Spanish strategist hasn’t had the easiest time since moving to England in the summer, Premier League plus the challenge at City proving bigger than many would have expected.
Despite taking a 2-0 lead against Spurs today, City lost their lead and only came away with a point from the Etihad Stadium as they face the prospect of being 12 points behind league leaders Chelsea by the end of the weekend. Guardiola certainly sounded like a man aware of the sinister-looking situation after the game, when he sounded positively fed up of how things have been going for his side.
‘We are not going to achieve big targets, it’s impossible. We will try,’ he said afterwards. ‘We create too much and we get nothing.’


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Based on email exchanges with Edward Tang of Cheetah Stand and various thread posts it appears that Godox is going to add Sony TTL capabilities to its line of speedlites and Witstro flash units. The system includes the X-1 TTL trigger/controller and receives as well.
A recent post on Photography on the Net by an individual that does a lot of testing for Godox and Cheetah stated that Canon and Nikon versions will start shipping after the Chinese New Year and that Sony versions will start shipping awhile later, the delay is apparently difficulty procuring Sony ISO hotshoe components.
The Ving TTL speedlites use Lithium Ion batteries which provide recycle times equivalent to an AA cell powered speedlite with an external battery pack.
If this system does become available it will be the first time that Sony shooters will have a complete line of TTL capable strobes available from speedlite power to 600Ws. All controllable from the camera in either TTL or Manual or a mix by groups.
There are manual only versions of the lights also available that can be included in the mix.
(disclaimer: I did testing for Edward when he and Godox were perfecting the Cells IIc tigger to provide H mode for Canon cameras. I have no involvement in the Sony development.)


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Much of my time in Patagonia is spent waiting for a large weather window to try a difficult objective, and I often let pass many mediocre but nonetheless climbable days, which are suitable only for smaller objectives. However, after festering for a while, and with no properly good weather in sight that could be potentially compromised by not being well rested, I figured I might as well head up to Aguja Guillaumet with a mediocre forecast for Dec. 20th. I had already climbed Guillaumet, one of the easiest summits in the range, three times before, so to make it more challenging I opted to head out alone. I chose to attempt the Amy Route because the first half is a snow, ice and mixed gully, and there was no doubt in the forecast that it would be far too cold to wear rock shoes.
Thus, I left El Chalten in a taxi to Rio Electrico early in the morning, and started the approach up to Paso Guillaumet. After spending a while at Paso Guillamet to eat, drink, and rack up, I finally walked up the short bit of glacier to the bergschrund, and started climbing around 10am. The bergshrund was gaping, and required a bit of tricky climbing up some snow and ice plastered to the right wall of the couloir. The couloir itself was easy, however, with a bit of steep snow, easy ice and blocky mixed climbing.
From the notch at the top of the couloir, I took off crampons and headed up the easy rock ridge above, occasionally taking off my gloves for harder moves. The crux pitch is a short 5.9 dihedral, which with rock shoes I would have been happy to free-solo, but with boots and gloves I decided here to use a rudimentary self-belay. Since I knew I would be rappelling down the same route, I could leave several nuts and cams on this pitch for my self-belay and retrieve them on the descent. I re-donned crampons half-way up the last rock pitch because a wide crack was ice up, and soon was walking up the summit snowfield.
I topped out at about noon, and made quick work of the descent – on schedule for an afternoon return to El Chalten, and a nice, relaxing day in total… However, at the notch at the top of the couloir I found an inexperienced climber, by himself, who was very confused as to the whereabouts of his partner, and did not have means to descend, considering that he had with him only two carabiners, a belay device, a single 50m rope, but no hardware whatsoever. After a lot of shenanigans looking for his missing partner, we rappelled the couloir together and began the hike out. His missing partner was soon found, and no harm done except that I ate a much later dinner!
On this climb I experimented with a new toy: a helmet cam. Through my first, laborious experience of editing video footage, I put together a video of the climb for the Black Diamond website: http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en-us/journal/climb/all/video-bd-athlete-colin-haley-wears-a-helmet-camera-during-a-solo-ascent-of-aguja-guillaumet-in-patagonia

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PickledBrain‘s Shifty will take you to a very unique adventure. In this stealth game, your mission is to steal money from the people while preventing yourself from being caught. The concept of the game may not be suitable for children but despite of its negative influence, Shifty is surprisingly entertaining and fun. The game doesn’t follow any plot which could have made it even more engaging but despite of the missing details, Shifty offers a lot of wonderful features that players will surely enjoy.
One of the game’s most interesting highlights of this game is the visually stunning graphics. It is presented in a well-polished 3D atmosphere with engaging boxhead-inspired interactive avatars (simple people images taken from Unity Asset Store). As soon as the game begins, you will be prompted immediately to an enclosed space. The settings will take place on a crowded park where you’ll find random people walking around. Each of them is provided with limited field of vision that you must be cautious of (just think of the stealth mode in Metal Gear Solid game). If you go near an avatar, a pop up box will appear which will offer you two option. You can pick between Pickpocket or Shift.
As what the term suggests, Pickpocket allows you to steal money from people. It takes 5 seconds before you can earn the money but you have to make sure that no one caught you during the process, otherwise, the alarm will be triggered and the cops will start to chase you. This is where the Shift will become handy. Once the alarm is triggered, the Wanted poster will be shown on the screen showing your physical appearance. Shift allows you to replicate the person’s suit, preventing you from being caught. If there are things needed to be improved in this game, it is most likely the addition of sound or music and also an interactive leaderboard system. Other than that, Shifty is an impressive game that you can confidently include on your game list!


Valve posted a bunch of its 2019 top games lists.
The conflict between Hong Kong and China is affecting the gaming world once more. Players are taking advantage of new items added in GTA V’s Diamond Casino Heist update to look like Hong Kong protesters.
Tencent recently revealed an AI system that could beat teams of pros in its MOBA hit Honor of Kings (aka Arena of Valor).
Analyst platform deltaDNA conducted a study on how its clients, mobile game developers, work with ads in their products.
CD Projekt has posted a return of 21,000% since the end of 2009, the biggest surge by far of any stock in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index.
Epic Games has already invested $13 million in 3D developers and projects on Unreal Engine. In less than a year, 200 teams received financial support from Epic.
It’s that time of year again. With Christmas and New Year’s just around the corner, we caught up with Jehanne Rousseau, CEO at French indie studio Spiders, to reflect on what 2019 meant for the company and its latest…
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- UN RC Angola: United Nations supports voluntary repatriation of refugees to DR Congo. 14 Nov 2019
- World Vision: The number of people affected by hunger in southern Africa ‘will stretch around the world’. 10 Nov 2019
- FAO: As climate shocks intensify, UN food agencies urge more support for southern Africa’s hungry people. 31 Oct 2019
- AfDB: Angola: African Development Bank approves $1 million grant to children’s food and nutrition security programs. 19 Oct 2019
- UNHCR: Angola Repatriation Update #4. 8 Nov 2019
GENEVA, Jan 19 2018 (IOM) - IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is appealing for nearly USD 1.4 billion to address the needs of over 80 million people in 50 countries in 2018. These vital funds will support people displaced within the borders of their own countries, migrants, refugees and the communities that host them, people returning to their areas of origin and people experiencing or recovering from conflict and natural disasters.
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Martin Bernal, whose three-volume work “Black Athena” ignited an academic debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians steeped in the racism of their times, died on June 9 in Cambridge, England. He was 76.The cause was complications of myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disorder, said his wife, Leslie Miller-Bernal.“Black Athena” opened a new front in the warfare over cultural diversity already raging on American campuses in the 1980s and ’90s. The first volume, published in 1987 — the same year as “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom’s attack on efforts to diversify the academic canon — made Mr. Bernal a hero among Afrocentrists, a pariah among conservative scholars and the star witness at dozens of sometimes raucous academic panel discussions about how to teach the foundational ideas of Western culture....
- The Rothschilds, a pamphlet by ‘Satan’ and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories tied to a battle 200 years ago
- How Smithsonian Helped Solve the Twitter Mystery of the Unknown Woman Scientist
- It’s Disturbingly Easy to Buy Iraq’s Archeological Treasures
- Geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people.
- A load of gold worth up to $54 million went missing during the Civil War. There may be a break in the case.
- Historian: The Heavy Burden of Teaching My Son About American Racism
- Teachers are using ‘Black Panther’ to discuss African colonialism and American racism
- Q: “Sir, would you like a history of this monument?” A: “F**k You!”
- Russian gulag historian faces 9 years in prison
- “Civilisations" presenter David Olusoga blames Winston Churchill for war crimes in Africa

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All about bingo for your smartphone, your iPhone or any phone.Bingo is a game of chance that is to cross out numbers as cardboard will be named. When you cross out all shouts Bingo!
Animated gifs and animations of bingo to share on social networks, download or send to other phones for Whatsapp, Line or Skype.
It is said that this type of gambling has existed since the sixteenth century. First cartons numbered before the start of the game sold. Then an announcer takes out balls and calling out the numbers. Players must cross the named numbers that appear in their cartons. It is also possible to call out Line! when you have called all the numbers in a single horizontal row. Still, the jackpot is achieved by deleting all the numbers on the card.


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This amazing photograph shows Wirral & the rest of Merseyside baking in yesterdays summer sun.
The picture was taken by Chris Evans from a flight over the area and reveals how clear yesterdays weather was, temperatures reached 25C across Merseyside.
We were also sent another stunning aerial picture of Wirral from another flight across the area yesterday, check it out below.
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The mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. We work tirelessly to find cures and ensure patients can access the lifes... Read more
The mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. We work tirelessly to find cures and ensure patients can access the lifesaving treatments they need. When someone experiences the fear and uncertainty of a blood cancer diagnosis, we provide hope, compassion, education and support. Our impact is felt beyond blood cancer. The breakthrough treatments we helped advance for blood cancers are now improving the lives of people affected by many types of cancer.
Volunteers are our partners in the crusade to end cancer.
In 2017, LLS volunteers made a significant impact while selflessly dedicating their time and talent to achieve our mission. With countless ways to engage, from fundraising to providing patient support, our volunteers are changing the landscape of cancer.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Washington/Alaska Chapter was founded in 1984 to serve residents who have been touched by one of the blood cancers: leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. The chapter serves patients and families throughout Alaska and Washington.
I will recommend this organization due to various reasons:
1)Its for a good cause
2) I love helping others
3)It will help society
4)IT will add a new skill set to whosoever I am refering to as it is a previlege to work in an organization that supports cancer.
Everyone at LLS is fun to work with and they show their appreciation for volunteers. They give you clear information about where to go, even where to park. The events are always fun, I try to make it to as many as I can!

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Supplementary MaterialsAdditional file 1 Actin mutants affect serum induction of Eplin-. is a novel cytoskeleton-associated tumor suppressor whose expression inversely correlates with cell growth, motility, invasion and cancer mortality. Here we show that Eplin- transcription is regulated by actin-MAL-SRF signalling. Upon signal induction, the coactivator MAL/MRTF is released from a repressive complex with monomeric actin, binds the transcription factor SRF and activates target gene expression. In a transcriptome analysis with a combination of actin binding drugs which specifically and differentially interfere with the actin-MAL Mouse monoclonal to alpha Actin complex (Descot et al., 2009), we identified Eplin to become controlled by monomeric actin primarily. Further evaluation exposed that induction from the Eplin- mRNA and its own AMD 070 inhibitor promoter was delicate to medicines and mutant actins which stabilise the repressive actin-MAL complicated. On the other hand, the Eplin- isoform continued to be unaffected. Knockdown of MRTFs or dominating adverse MAL which inhibits SRF-mediated transcription impaired Eplin- manifestation. Conversely, energetic mutant actins and MAL induced Eplin- constitutively. SRF and MAL were bound to a consensus SRF binding site from the Eplin- promoter; the recruitment of MAL to the region was enhanced upon induction severalfold. The tumor suppressor Eplin- can be thus a AMD 070 inhibitor book cytoskeletal focus on gene transcriptionally controlled from the actin-MAL-SRF pathway, which facilitates a job in tumor biology. Results Epithelial Protein Shed in Neoplasm (known as Eplin) can be a book tumor suppressor influencing cell development, cytoskeletal company and motility [1,2]. Eplin crosslinks, bundles and stabilises F-actin filaments and tension materials, which correlates with its ability to suppress anchorage-independent growth in transformed cells [3-5]. In epithelial cells, Eplin is required for formation of the F-actin adhesion belt by binding to the E-cadherin-catenin complex through -catenin . Eplin is encoded by em Lima1 /em (LIM domain and actin binding-1) and expressed in two isoforms from distinct promoters: a longer Eplin- (confusingly also called Eplin 1 or variant a) and a shorter Eplin- (sometimes called Eplin 2 or variant b) [2,7]. Eplin- mRNA is detected in various tissues and cell lines, but strikingly absent or downregulated in cancer cells . In human breast cancer, its expression inversely correlates with poor prognosis, invasiveness and mortality . Here we show that expression of the em Lima1 /em gene is considerably affected by G-actin AMD 070 inhibitor signalling (Fig. ?(Fig.1A1A). Open in a separate window Figure 1 Eplin- expression is regulated by signalling through G-actin. (A) Four independent Affymetrix probe sets of the em Lima1 /em gene encoding Eplin were differentially regulated by actin binding drugs. G-actin regulated genes were induced by treatment with cytochalasin D ( em CD /em , 2 M, 90 min) and repressed by latrunculin B ( em LB /em , 5 M). Results demonstrated are from transcriptome evaluation of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts as previously referred to . The q-value may be the most affordable false discovery price of which the differentially indicated probe set is named significant. (B) Validation of differential rules of Eplin-, however, not of Eplin-, by actin binding medicines. NIH 3T3 cells had been treated with cytochalasin D (2 M) for 120 min, or with cytochalasin pursuing 30 min pretreatment with latrunculin B (5 M). Settings had been left neglected ( em el /em .). The full total mRNA was subjected and isolated to quantitative RT-PCR as referred to . Shown may be the typical induction of Eplin mRNA after normalisation to em hprt /em . em Mistake bars /em reveal SEM (n = 3) for Eplin-, and fifty percent range for Eplin-. (C, D) Aftereffect of pretreatment with latrunculin B (C) or UO126 (10 M, 30 min) on the common induction of AMD 070 inhibitor Eplin- mRNA by serum ( em FCS /em , 15%, 90 min). em Mistake bars /em reveal SEM of at least three 3rd party experiments. The utilized primers had been (positions of mRNA): Eplin-, (1203GCTGTTTCCGATGCTCCTAC1223), (1382CTCATTGTCGCTCTTGCT TG1362); Eplin-, (183CAAGAACAAGTCATCCGCAAT204), (418AGGAGGGTAGTCCGCTGTGT398). em Asterisk /em , significant activation; em dual asterisk /em , significant repression (p 0.01, unpaired student’s t-test). Monomeric G-actin settings the activity from the transcription element Serum Response Element (SRF) by developing a repressive complicated using its coactivator MAL/MRTF [8-10]. Upon Rho-family induced sign induction, MAL can be released from actin, binds SRF and activates target gene expression [8,11-15]. Actin binding drugs differentially affect this subset of SRF target genes: treatment with cytochalasin D activates transcription by releasing MAL from G-actin, whilst latrunculin B stabilises the G-actin:MAL complex and inhibits gene expression [15-18]. Using this effect, we recently searched AMD 070 inhibitor for G-actin regulated genes in NIH 3T3 cells by microarray expression analysis (GEO dataset “type”:”entrez-geo”,”attrs”:”text”:”GSE17105″,”term_id”:”17105″GSE17105) . Since both.
Glucose homeostasis is primarily controlled from the endocrine hormones insulin and glucagon, secreted from the pancreatic beta and alpha cells, respectively. to identify molecular pathways that can be exploited to stimulate the replication and enhance the function of beta cells. Ideally, therapeutic targets would improve both beta cell function and growth. Perhaps more essential though is to recognize whether a technique that stimulates beta cell development comes at the expense of impairing beta cell function (such as for example with some oncogenes) and vice versa. By systematically suppressing or overexpressing the manifestation of focus on genes in isolated rat islets, one can identify potential therapeutic targets for increasing functional beta cell mass 4-6. Adenoviral vectors can be employed to efficiently overexpress or knockdown proteins in isolated rat islets 4,7-15. Here, we present a method to manipulate gene expression utilizing adenoviral transduction and assess islet replication and AMD 070 inhibitor beta cell function in isolated rat islets (Figure 1). This method has been used previously to identify novel targets that modulate beta AMD 070 inhibitor cell replication or function 5,6,8,9,16,17. strong class=”kwd-title” Keywords: Medicine, Issue 64, Physiology, beta cell, gene expression, islet, diabetes, insulin secretion, proliferation, adenovirus, rat video preload=”none” poster=”/pmc/articles/PMC3471305/bin/jove-64-4080-thumb.jpg” width=”480″ height=”360″ source type=”video/x-flv” src=”/pmc/articles/PMC3471305/bin/jove-64-4080-pmcvs_normal.flv” /source source type=”video/mp4″ src=”/pmc/articles/PMC3471305/bin/jove-64-4080-pmcvs_normal.mp4″ /source source type=”video/webm” src=”/pmc/articles/PMC3471305/bin/jove-64-4080-pmcvs_normal.webm” /source /video Download video file.(56M, mov) Protocol 1. Adenoviral Transduction and Culturing of Rat Islets Prepare a 6-well non-tissue culture coated dish with the addition of 2 ml of press (RPMI 1640 press including 8 mM blood sugar, 10% fetal bovine serum, 50 products/ml penicillin, and 50 g/ml streptomycin) to the mandatory amount of wells. For instance, an average test may need three wells C one each to get a no-virus control, a pathogen control (e.g., GFP-expressing adenovirus), as well as the experimental group. Warm the dish to 37 C by putting it right into a cells tradition incubator for at least 30 min. Pursuing rat islet isolation 18 Instantly,19, place 100-200 islets into specific wells of the 6-well non-tissue culture coated plate. Sixty islets are required for the insulin secretion and thymidine incorporation assays. The remaining islets can be used for RNA isolation for gene expression studies or protein isolation for immunoblotting. [Note: From this point forward, please follow institutional protocols for the handling, use, and disposal of biohazardous materials.] Gently swirl the plate to bring the islets to the center of the well. Pipette the adenovirus directly onto the islets in the center of the dish. Use 100-500 multiplicities of infection (MOI, the ratio of target cells to viral plaque-forming units). Let the islets rest for 5 min. Place the plate in the tissue culture incubator (37 C, 5% CO2). After 24 h, gently swirl the plate to bring the islets to the centers from the wells and transfer the islets utilizing a P200 micropipette to a fresh well containing clean mass media. If the islets become mounted on the dish, they could be dislodged using the pipette tip gently. em [Take note: To verify sufficient transduction efficiency, the usage of a control pathogen expressing GFP is effective, as islets may then end up being imaged via confocal microscopy to verify penetration from the adenovirus in to the islet primary.] /em Lifestyle the islets for yet another 24-72 h, with regards to the preferred timing from the test from marketing pilot studies. For instance, induction of the proliferative response may necessitate times which range from 24-72 h or knockdown from the gene appealing may necessitate 48 or 72 hours. Transfer the islets to fresh mass media each whole time. For the ultimate 24 h from the test, lifestyle the islets in mass media made up of 1 Ci [methyl-3H]-thymidine/ml media (generally 1 l thymidine/ml media). [Note: From this point forward, please follow institutional protocols for the handling, use, and disposal of radioactive materials.] 2. Insulin IL12B Secretion Assay Prepare the secretion assay buffer (SAB) 10X stock answer (1.14 M NaCl, 47 mM KCl, 12 mM KH2PO4, 11.6 mM MgSO4) and CaCl2 100X stock answer (0.25 M CaCl2). These stock solutions may be prepared ahead of time and stored at room heat. Freshly prepare 50 ml of the working SAB (5 mL of 10X AMD 070 inhibitor SAB, 1 ml of 1 1 M HEPES, 0.5 ml of 100X CaCl2, 0.28 ml of 35% BSA, 0.11 g NaHCO3, and sterile water to 50 ml) in a 50-ml conical tube and warm to 37 C by placing in a 37 C waterbath. Pipette 10 ml of the working SAB into a 15-ml conical tube and add 66.8 l of 2.5 M D-glucose to prepare the high glucose (16.7 mM) SAB. Add 44.8 l of 2.5 M D-glucose to the remaining 40 ml of the working SAB to prepare the low glucose.


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The launch of El Salvador’s bitcoin bonds, issued to finance part of the construction of the Bitcoin City in the country, will be delayed again. Paolo Ardoino (CTO of Bitfinex), the platform in which the bonds will be issued, said that it is not yet possible to create the legal framework for digital securities.
El Salvador to Delay Bitcoin Bonds Launch
According to Bitfinex’s CTO Paolo Ardoino reports that the launch of El Salvador’s iconic Bitcoin bonds, which will help to finance the construction of Bitcoin City, has been further delayed. Fortune was able to interview Ardoino, who stated in an interview that the legal framework for this issue is still being developed.
Ardoino however made an prediction about the bond’s launch date. He declared:
If it passes in September, then I expect that everything will be done within two-three months.
According to reports, the bond token was first issued in Bitfinex, with the Liquid network managed by Blockstream as its distribution platform.
Volcano Bonds’ Background
Bitcoin bonds are also known as volcano bonds. This is due to the fact that the bitcoins will be powered by the volcanic energy of the Bitcoin City. The instrument would have a market capitalization of $1 billion, according to President Nayib Bakele. After 60 days, the launch of bonds was expected to occur.
The bond launch was however delayed. To support the January launch of digital securities, 20 bills were drafted by Congress Salvadorana. In May, Alejandro Zelaya, the treasury Minister, informed that the launch of these bonds had been put on hold because of market conditions and European war situation. This hint pointed to a launch possible in May or June.
Zelaya explained that it wasn’t possible to issue bonds at the time due to many factors. These included the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict. He explained at the time that cryptocurrency investors were primarily interested in investments in the arms industry.
The government of El Salvador has been heavily criticized for the losses caused by the investments President Nayib Bukele has done, buying the bitcoin “dip” several times.
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This age is all about media in its different forms and stages and why shouldn’t it be? There are tons of TV shows out there, every day sees the release of a new movie, and then there are educational programs as well as those raising awareness on different issues worldwide.
We are surrounded by media in this day and age, and it is hard to get away, so it is better to become a part of it in one way or another. If you are a movie buff, or someone who’s life revolves around television, you would love this list.
People who are into TV shows and movies are hardly ever satisfied with just watching them. They need information on every aspect of the show that they love, and if you are one of them, or are friends with one them, and own a website or thinking of owning a website catering to these needs, you may want to browse through our list of 30 Cool Movie and TV Website Designs for Inspiration. These designs are absolutely breathtaking, so you may want to look with a keen eye and see if you get inspired. Go through the list and share your ideas with us, and let us know what you think about the following designs. Enjoy the read.


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I am facing eruption of pimples on my back from neck to hip and shoulders and also on belly area. I am facing this issue since last 3 4 years. Pimple erupt and then ot sat off and leaves a dark black scar. I consulted dermatologist and he prescribed me Tretiva 25, Lacsoft lotion and litearm lotion. Both the lotions are unavailable in market. Please suggest me a treatment. Please find the attached pic for your reference.
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Hi Greetings. You are suffering from Acne vulgaris along with Folliculitis. Both the conditions are interrelated. The medicine given is correct with few additions, you may contact the dermatologist and ask him regarding where to get the medicines.Try to reduce your weight, avoid oily and spicy food, decrease the intake of chocolates and milk products for proper management of acne as these all things also attribute to it. For any query, do contact me via messeges. Regards, Dr. Anshul Jain. Nagpur.
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I have had the great privilege of conducting and performing in many of the wonderful concert halls around the country. Each has its own individual sound and atmosphere, its own unique personality; and without a doubt, one of my favourites is the Royal Albert Hall. Ever since I first laid eyes on a piano when I was seven years old, I’ve wanted to hear my music performed in iconic venues like this. I went to the Last Night of the Proms when I was a teenager; standing in the promenaders’ section I looked up at the podium and dreamed of standing there one day as a conductor.
The moment you enter the vast space, it’s impossible not to be awestruck by the tradition; the rich history of wonderful music-making that is woven into the fabric of the building. You sense the spirit, the legacy of the many great composers, conductors, musicians, singers, choirs and performers who have graced this place. Even though it’s a large venue, it still somehow manages to be capable of intimacy – even the quietest moments in the music can be savoured. The acoustics have always been a talking point – the spectacular giant mushrooms were installed in 1969, and in 2019 a £2m, 465-speaker amplification system was unveiled which is designed to give the audience the same sound quality wherever they are sitting.The Royal Albert Hall acoustics © Royal Albert Hall Checking the Royal Albert Hall acoustics © Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall acoustics installation © Royal Albert Hall
I love the backstage buzz as everyone gets ready to perform in that crowded basement semicircle which rings with the sound of instruments being tuned and tested as the anticipation for the concert builds.Royal Albert Hall © Royal Albert Hall
I’ve conducted there many times, as part of Film Music Gala concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and most recently as part of my role as Classic FM’s Composer in Residence, at their regular concert – Classic FM Live. It’s a thrilling feeling whenever I step on to the podium to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall – long may wonderful music be performed and enjoyed in this magical space.Royal Albert Hall © Colin