WASHINGTON (Jan. 6)
Jakob Altmaier, a member of the German Bundestag and one of the first Jewish officials of the German Government in 20 years, has arrived in Washington on a visit. He met with Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, German Ambassador Heinz Krekeler and others.
He said that West Germany today is free from “official anti-Semitism.” A former refugee who returned to Germany to become a Social Democratic deputy in Born, Mr. Altmaier stated: “Officials from the Chancellor down are pro-Semitic, not the slightest anti-Jewish utterance is heard in Parliament. There exists in the population some incurable Nazis, to be sure. For 12 years under Hitler, Germans had been taught that every Jew is a criminal.”
Mr. Altmaier made it known that he is in Washington to release property confiscated from Nazis during the war. He is meeting with various members of the Senate and House.


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Why is the Me Too movement a mere whisper in the music industry compared the movie industry? Watching MTV’s women-power clips on International Women’s Day gave me a big clue.
The wall of women was 620 km long, over 3 million women standing side by side on the streets of Kerala.
This wall of women was created to let people in, not to keep them out.
The older you get, the more real you get. Your tolerance for shallowness, cynicism, and botox infused selfies runs to zero. You think more about an authentic life. You think more about a meaningful death.
“There is no way Jesus was a feminist!” I disagreed. I knew any discussion about gender equality in Christian circles can be fraught with emotional bombs.
Step the wrong way with semantics and watch an explosion of anger and passion blow up. It’s a minefield of mixed definitions and a powder keg of perceptions and paradigms.

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The Quarterly Grain Stocks report shows old crop corn stocks on hand as of September 1, 2020, totaled 2.0 billion bushels, down ten percent from a year ago. Old crop soybeans stored in all positions were down 42 percent, and all wheat stocks were down eight percent from a year earlier.
Released by the Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, the report found that of the total corn stocks, 751 million bushels were stored on farms, down eight percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, at 1.24 billion bushels, were down 12 percent from a year ago. Old crop soybeans stored in all positions totaled 523 million bushels. Soybean stocks stored on farms totaled 141 million bushels, down 47 percent, and off-farm stocks, at 382 million bushels, were down 41 percent. All wheat stored in all positions totaled 2.16 billion bushels. On-farm stocks were estimated at 705 million bushels, down four percent, and off-farm stocks were down ten percent at 1.45 billion bushels.
NASS also released the Small Grains Annual Summary report. The report found All wheat production totaled 1.83 billion bushels in 2020, down five percent from the revised 2019 total of 1.93 billion bushels. Area harvested for grain totaled 36.7 million acres, down two percent from 2019, and The United States yield was estimated at 49.7 bushels per acre, down 2.0 bushels from 2019.

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|The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.|
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K. Allen Griffy of Springfield grew up in the Southern Baptist Convention before becoming a member of the United Methodist Church almost 30 years ago.
A member of Douglas Avenue UMC, Griffy said he came away from the UMC’s special General Conference in St. Louis last February as a lay observer “completely heartbroken” that the denomination upheld prohibitions on same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian clergy. Church policy held that “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.”
But when a proposed agreement for the separation of the UMC, to be voted by General Conference in May, was made public Friday, Griffy saw a glimmer of hope.
“For the first time in my lifetime, I will belong to a denomination that fully supports me and fully recognizes me,” said Griffy, who is gay.
If the proposed agreement, officially called the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation, is approved, it would create a new, more conservative denomination while the UMC would become a more liberal-leaning institution.
Though aware of the behind-the-scenes work over the last few months, local UMC pastors and members are grappling with the fallout from Friday’s announcement. Others are insisting that nothing is set in stone.
The Illinois Great Rivers Conference (IGRC), which geographically covers more than two-thirds of the state, would have until 2021 to decide on whether a vote is taken to separate.
Individual congregations, said Paul Black, a spokesman for the IGRC, could take a different path from their annual conferences. Conferences and congregations would only have to hold a vote to be part of the new denomination, he added.
Some pastors, like Rev. Roger Grimmett of First UMC and Rev. Meredith Manning Brown of Douglas Avenue UMC, addressed the matter from the pulpit during services Saturday and Sunday.
The protocol was agreed upon by 16 church representatives from all over the world, including former IGRC Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer, who served in Springfield from 2008 to 2012. Palmer is now a bishop in Ohio.
Grimmett said the protocol may end up not looking “anything at all like what’s been proposed.”
“It’s a proposal, but there could be other proposals (at General Conference),” said Grimmett, in an interview with The State Journal-Register.
In a statement released Friday, IGRC Bishop Frank J. Beard called the protocol “a suggested pathway" and that the IGRC “will continue to abide by the Book of Discipline (that constitutes the law and doctrine of the UMC).”
Annual conferences, like the IGRC, would need a vote of 57 percent or more to leave, Black said, while it would be up to individual congregations to determine whether a simple majority vote or some other threshold would be required.
“My message to our congregation,” Grimmett said, “is don’t be anxious. Focus on loving God and loving neighbor and be thoughtful. Be prayerful. Be civil. Be respectful to one another so we can model what it means to be Christ to the world.”
During Sunday’s service, Manning Brown said that Douglas Avenue UMC “will continue to be a faith community that welcomes and affirms the gifts of all people — all people — no exceptions.”
“God has created and loved all people,” Manning Brown said in an interview afterwards. “All people are gifted by the Holy Spirit, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. It doesn’t matter — color, sex, age, race. This congregation has been on board with that for a long time.”
Nancy Vereen of Springfield said she didn’t want to turn her back on the UMC, but after last year’s contentious vote at General Conference, “I also wanted to see my church do the right thing. There’s been some real pain and hurt that’s been caused by this vote."
Vereen said she was “excited” when she found out about the protocol.
“I feel pretty strongly that God’s love is for everybody and I’ve been very concerned for people who have been excluded, particularly in this church,” she said.
Griffy, 58, said he was attracted to the UMC because of its liberal stances on social issues. Last February, though, “I honestly thought I was witnessing the death of the church I loved,” he said.
Griffy doesn’t think a split of churches will be amicable, “but I don’t think it will be a huge battle, either,” he said.
“I think,” said Manning Brown, “that we’ll have a much more diverse population that stays together and works together.”
Rev. Kent Lolling said his Laurel UMC congregation has been in a year-long conversation about human sexuality issues and the church. That has included a larger forum and small group discussions.
Like Grimmett, Lolling believes there will be multiple proposals concerning the future of the UMC at General Convention.
If the protocol does pass, the church will get direction from the Council of Bishops, he said, and the IGRC will develop procedures and give churches a timeline.
“That’s a long way down the road,” Lolling said.
Grimmett said church members know the UMC is in the headlines again, but for now he’s intent on keeping First UMC’s mission on task.
“We have folks who have differing ideas and thoughts relative to human sexuality,” Grimmett said. “We don’t have 100 percent unanimity across the board.
“Though we don’t all share the same viewpoint, we do share the same viewpoint that we’re one church under Christ. He is our unity and because he is our unity, we follow him, not our own wishes and wills.”
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In the book, The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health based on his research on the dietary habits and lifestyle practices of the communities that live in areas he’s identified as “Blue Zones”— places where the world’s healthiest people live based on their longevity. If you’d like to live to be a healthy 100, keep reading.
The 5 blue zones identified by Dan Buettner are:
Ogliastra Region, Sardinia
Loma Linda, California
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Buttoner also identifies the “top longevity foods” from each Blue Zone, take a look at the list below. Seems wholesome! Many of you reading this may turn your nose up as there’s no steak on the list:).
Ikaria, Greece: goat’s milk, honey, potatoes, legumes (garbanzo beans, black-eyed peas, and lentils), wild greens, lemons, feta cheese, fruit, and some fish.
Okinawa, Japan: tofu, bitter melons, garlic, brown rice, green tea, and shitake mushrooms
Loma Linda, California: tofu, avocados, whole-wheat bread, salmon, nuts, beans, oatmeal and soy milk.
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: peach palms, eggs, rice, beans, corn, squash, papayas, yams, bananas, and peach palms.
What do you notice that’s common to the dietary habits of all the 5 Blue Zones? There are no processed foods, no sugary foods and no meats (other than fish in one of the zones). The book also recommends eating in moderation, having a small meal in the evenings, eating mostly plants and consuming minimal amount of meat products, restricted to once a week, and drinking in moderation. And of course you need to exercise too! So, here’s to a new healthier tomorrow and taking a proactive step towards being healthy senior citizens, even if we don’t all live to be 100.

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If you’ve played modern Sonic games, odds are you know “Escape from the City [City Escape].” Or “Live and Learn.” Or “Open Your Heart.” There’s a lot of tracks to choose from! But you probably haven’t heard this new Escape from the City remix yet, from Persona 5 singer Lyn.
Released this week on YouTube, you can check out the memorable song in funk remix form, featuring vocalist Lyn Inaizumi (known professionally as Lyn). She rose to fame with Persona 5‘s killer soundtrack, and has been performing for basically every Persona 5 piece of media since, amid other projects like the Lupin the 3rd franchise.
The song is actually part of a project called “Sonic Sessions,” which is a new series of remixes that will arrive “over the coming months.” Sonic is going to have a pretty big 2022 if these continue to be bangers, the Sonic movie sequel is good, and Sonic Frontiers actually hits the 2022 release target!
Having heard this song hundreds of times, I appreciate the new relaxing take here, both from an instrumental and vocal perspective. I’d love to see more unique takes on these songs going forward. I’m going to assume one of them will probably get a metal remix.
If you’re interested, the entire Escape from the City remix track info is:
Escape from the City – Funk RMX
Performed by S.A.M.E. feat. Lyn
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International broker Hub International Limited has announced that it has acquired the assets of Franklin Financial Group and Franklin Investment Group, collectively known as Franklin Financial Group (FFG). terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Maryland-based FFG is a financial services firm that provides employee benefits and insurance services to individuals and businesses. As part of the transaction, William Franklin, Haswell Franklin Jr., James Franklin and Henry Franklin, all managing principals of FFG, will join Hub Mid-Atlantic.
The FFG team will also join Hub Mid-Atlantic, Hub said in a news release.
“The Franklin Financial Group team brings amazing depth of experience across retirement plan management, wealth management solutions and employee benefits and insurance,” said Joe DeNotior, president of Hub Retirement and Private Wealth. “They will be a great presence for us in the Baltimore area.”
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Wildflowers are a wonderful sight in meadows and hedgerows, so why not bring a little bit of the wild into your garden? Not only are wildflowers colourful and easy to grow, they also help wildlife to thrive by attracting butterflies, bees and seed-eating birds. Choose from our great selection of wildflowers.
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KFC is one of the leading brands in the food industry business and we are looking for eager people to apply for our job opening. We have an amazing culture here at KFC. Our team works together to provide our costumers with the friendliest service and giving them the best experience at our restaurant by serving them high quality food. If you are looking for a job where you can meet new people and the work is fun and rewarding then our restaurant if for you. So what are you waiting for? Apply now!
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The main duties include but not limited to:
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Nearly every Western youth subculture in existence eventually gets its own Hollywood film. Like most such films, 1993’s Swing Kids—which tells the story of jazz-loving German youth during the rise of the Third Reich—managed to be both inaccurate and critically reviled. Roger Ebert hated the film’s celebration of “a very small footnote to a very large historical event,” and compared the Swing Kids to “Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned.” Ebert’s reaction is uncharacteristic of him; he writes critically of the film, but he also seemed to find its subject—the kids themselves—repellant.
The review prompts us to ask: Were these kids—dubbed Swingjugend by the Nazis—participating in a revolutionary act of cultural resistance, or were they no more than typical, naive teenagers who preferred to “listen to big bands than enlist in the military”? (After all, writes Ebert, “who wouldn’t?”) But the question about the Swing Kids’ political motivations may be less relevant than one about whether their pursuit of a carefree, jazz-scored lifestyle under Nazism constitutes a “small footnote” in history. Should we know and care about the Swing Kids, and if so, why?
A German site called Swingstyle compiles information about the subculture and admits that “the real Swing Kids were politically unsophisticated.” Despite being seen as a “youth problem” by Nazi authorities, they “actually cared little for contesting official policies toward Jews or other matters. They just wanted to have fun at a dark time in their country’s history, and avoid the war if possible.” Or, rather, most of them wanted to avoid joining the Hitler Youth, mandated for all young people in 1939: “We must remember the age of most swing kids was between 12 and 16 or 17.”
But as you can see in the short documentary clip at the top, the Swing Kids’ resistance to the by-now familiarly disturbing, paramilitary regimentation of German young people (see above), was in its way a radical act. “Their casual, fun-loving attitude made a mockery of Nazi control,” the documentary narrator says. They embraced what was “considered ‘degenerate music’ by Nazi ideology,” writes MessyNChic, “because it was often performed by black and Jewish musicians and promoted free love.”
We cannot assume the Swing Kids’ love of the music extended to a love for the people who made it. It’s more so the case that the Swing Kids “admired the British and American way of life,” and the free-spiritedness universally represented at the time by jazz in American and British films and records, to which German youth had some limited access. But in their battle for “self-determination and freedom,” informal groups like the Edelweiss Pirates, the Traveling Dudes, and the Navajos resisted subordination into a homogenized Aryan mass—the mechanism by which Hitler turned ordinary Germans into loyal abettors of mass murder.
Through fashion and music, the Swing Kid clubs—like the rockers or punks of the U.S. and U.K. in later decades—formed in conscious resistance to social and political conformity. The Navajos wrote the following song, for example:
Hitler’s dictates make us small,
we’re yet bound in chains.
But one day we’ll again walk tall,
no chain can us restrain.
For hard are our fists,
Yes! And knives at our wrists,
for youth to be free,
Navajos lay siege.
The references to violence weren’t purely symbolic. Swing Kid gangs fought Hitler Youth in the streets. Some Swing Kids, writes MessyNChic, became known for “tagging public walls with anti-Nazi slogans like ‘Down with Hitler!’ and ‘Medals for Murder!’. Throwing bricks through windows and sabotaging cars of Nazi officials… raiding military bases… derailing trains… even planning to blow up the Gestapo HQ in Cologne.” And as the educational site Music and the Holocaust documents, the Gestapo fought back “with special cruelty” against Swing Boys and Swing Girls.
In Hamburg, Swing Kids “had to endure discriminating interrogations, torture and detention.” They landed in youth concentration camps, and adult and Jewish “swing members… were deported” to death camps in Bergen-Belson, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and elsewhere. MessyNChic claims that “a file compiled by the Gestapo is said to have contained more than 3,000 names [of Swing Kids] already by the end of the 1930’s in Cologne alone. In terms of numbers, that would mean these youths represented a much larger resistance potential than any other opposition group in Germany made up by adults.”
Again, none of this organized resistance constituted an explicit political program. “The Swing Kids themselves never intended to have any political effects,” writes Swingstyle, “they did not understand politics” and “they turned their backs on the reality around them: the Jewish roundups, the death camps and the steady stream of manpower reserves disappearing into the cauldrons of Russia and France.” Swing was a means of escapism and identification with the more relaxed, permissive “paradises” of America and Britain.
Like teenagers living under any regime, Swing Kids were mainly motivated by sex and the search for a good time. But perhaps the anarchic strength of their most primal instincts made these young people some of the most effective resistance fighters against the Nazi obsession with purity and order. Their lives—choreographed to the tunes of Count Basie and Benny Goodman—were “in complete opposition to the perceived National Socialist concept of youth,” concludes Swingstyle: “To the extent that the Swing Kids assumed American ideals of personal freedom, relaxed living, and appreciation of the ‘lower races’… they were a grave threat to the upside-down philosophy of Nazism that sought to insulate Germany from the rest of the world.”
Their embrace of an international, racially-mixed culture—jazz—was itself a radical political act in Nazi Germany, even if they had no theoretical concepts of what that embrace meant for the future of their country. And their violent rejection of the Hitler Youth makes them even more compelling. It seems to me that the Swing Kids do indeed deserve a celebratory place in history—and maybe they deserve a better film as well.

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The second half of two interconnected buildings designed for the Royal College of Art, the Woo Building in Battersea shares a visual duality with its counterpart The Dyson, while remaining ruggedly distinct
New homes, schools and infrastructure must have design at their heart, says RIBA president
The renovation of the University of Sussex’s arts centre transforms the space beyond an education facility to a fully fledged performance venue
Community land trust beats housing association to develop Lewisham site
Caruso St John’s new gallery for Damien Hirst in the industrial back streets just south of the Thames is one of the practice’s best projects yet, says Ike Ijeh
Monadnock’s new landmark building, cast at the centre of a pedestrianised regeneration of Nieuw-Bergen, purposefully creates a focal point for the Dutch town, without reverting to civic or religious type
Sitting opposite the brash Walt Disney Concert Hall, Diller Scofidio & Renfro’s £90m museum of contemporary art brings a more understated form to LA’s streets with its perforated shell. A marked contrast to its playful interiors, says Ike Ijeh
Glass has resisted the technological advancements in 3D printing, but now a team from MIT has invented a technique for printing fully transparent glass. The breakthrough, says Ike Ijeh, could revolutionise the way we make windows, cladding and even full facade systems
Energiesprong, a Dutch government-supported super-insulation approach, is being transferred to the UK housing market. Could it offer an answer to the country’s environmental and fuel poverty issues?
As a $60m international design competition is launched by Gallaudet, Washington’s specialist university for the deaf, its campus architect Hansel Bauman shares insights from a decade of research into DeafSpace design
Amanda Birch’s study of three distinct examples of interior flooring examines work in London, Zanzibar and India by Amanda Levete, Jestico & Whiles and Project Orange
The first building to be completed in Anssi Lassila’s three-block development in Jyväskylä may now be the tallest apartment tower in Finland, but it’s the building’s innovative construction system that’s the real talking point, writes Hugh Strange
The founder of Make on a building with more lessons for him than any from the 20th century
Amanda Levete, Hopkins, Marks Barfield, Bystrup and Robin Snell hope for public backing
Architect working with Swedish off-site housing manufacturer
Schools building opens after 10 years - and possibly for 10 years
ThyssenKrupp has come up with a lift that not only functions without cables but is also able to move horizontally as well as vertically. So what, asks Ike Ijeh, might this mean for the future of building design?
Following completion of the building renovation works at the Hawksmoor gem in 2004, its organ remained unrestored. Determined teamwork has now led to the renovation and reinstallation of the instrument to its former glory
The former media hub of the London 2012 Olympic Games is presently the focus of a £100m redevelopment and soon to be a creative hub – in what its developers hope is the start of a wider regeneration in the east London region
Ahead of next week’s ceremony, Simon Sturgis takes a critical look at the carbon performance of the six finalists
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
Hugh Broughton knows the Spanish capital’s buildings intimately but the one that really stood out was Rafael Moneo’s magnificent art gallery
Our attitude to rising sea levels remains as defensive as ever. With 20% of British homes now at risk, this is a mistake, says Robert Barker
In parallel with a delicate ordering of its interiors, the exterior focus of this two-storey apartment building on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland is its complex and playful render facade, writes Hugh Strange
LAN’s £12m urban renewal of part of the gigantic Génicart housing estate in the Bordeaux suburb Lormont relies on a radical over-cladding strategy and distinguishes public and private space. Could this model influence British cities?
Based at the heart of a regeneration of Denmark’s second city Aarhus, Dokk1 library rejects tradition for innovative design that borders on science fiction. But is this the library of the future?
Architects working on the £8m refurbishment of York Art Gallery have peeled away decades of callously inappropriate interventions to unlock a wonderland of architectural secrets
Deal dead in water, says UK Green Building Council
Rab Bennetts and Jim Eyre among signatories of industry’s letter to chancellor
The extension to this 1827 Victorian pub relies on natural materials, including its distinctive thatched roof, to complement the original building, despite its noteworthy design


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Jean completed a conjoint degree in law and commerce at the University of Auckland. She practises in the areas of property and commercial law with particular focus on property acquisitions and disposals, due diligence investigations, property subdivisions, property financing and commercial leasing. She has worked with a range of local and international clients from corporates, small and medium sized enterprises and high net worth individuals.
Prior to joining Loo & Koo, Jean worked as an in-house legal advisor for an international F&B chain overseas. Her understanding of the corporate environment and business processes enables her to provide strategic and pragmatic legal advice to her clients.
Outside of work Jean is a keen traveller and enjoys learning about different cultures. Jean is passionate about community work and has served as a volunteer at the Citizens Advice Bureau providing pro bono legal services.

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The Yarra River, Melbourne
Over the last 10 years I have regularly attended conferences in and around Melbourne, Australia with my best friend who is a local girl. Melbourne is a great conference destination so if you get an opportunity to attend one there I’d jump at the chance. There are so many things you can do during conference down times, and wonderful day trips you can take if you have a day or 2 spare when the conference is over.
After a busy conference day in Melbourne I like to rest my brain and go for a walk. My two favourite places to do this are the Fitzroy Gardens and Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. I also like to stroll beside the Yarra River, either checking out the riverside cafes and restaurants at Southbank or a more often a relaxing walk along the river where it runs below the botanical gardens. If I feel like a dose of art another relaxing option is to go to the National Gallery of Victoria International (which has a wonderful international art collection) or the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (dedicated to Australian and indigenous art), both in the centre of the city. I particularly like the colours and fascinating patterns of Aboriginal dot paintings.
Melbourne’s cafe scene is fabulous and my favourite area to browse the shops and have a coffee is the cool neighbourhood of Fitzroy. Melbourne is famous for it’s cuisine and although I have only tried a small fraction of it’s restaurants I can certainly recommend the restaurants along Victoria St in North Richmond. I have had many a great and inexpensive meal there. I’m not a big shopper myself ( I find shopping for clothes and shoes stressful rather than enjoyable) but there’s no doubt that the big department stores (Myer and David Jones) in down-town Melbourne, the boutique shops between Punt Rd and Chapel St in South Yarra, the groovy and grungy shops on Brunswick St in Fitzroy, as well as the direct outlet shops on Bridge Rd in Richmond make Melbourne a shopper’s paradise. During my visits to Melbourne I’ve been very fortunate to be able to stay with my friend at her house in East Melbourne which is very central and within walking distance Fitzroy Gardens and the Richmond cafes.
Each year after the conference is over my friend and I go for a 1-3 day road trip out of Melbourne. As much as I love the city I also enjoy getting out into the countryside to some of Australia’s natural beauty and wildlife.
I would recommend 1-2 days on nearby Phillip Island and watching the Penguin parade (where hundreds of penguins come ashore after a day’s fishing) which is a delight.
I loved our 3 day road trip along the Great Ocean Road and would definitely like to do that again. We stayed the first night at Port Campbell and the second at Apollo Bay on the way back to Melbourne. On your road trip be sure to stop off at Bell’s Beach and watch the boys and girls surfing like we did.
Great Ocean Road
Similarly I loved our 3 day trip to Wilson’s Promontary, a national park with more spectacular coastal scenery where we did bush and beach walks. Another year we drove several hours north-west of Melbourne to the Grampians, an mountain range popular for bush walking and rock climbing. We visited there in Winter, several years after a devastating bush fire had burnt out 2/3 of the national park in 2006. The bush was regenerating well by then but there still wasn’t much shelter from the sun. For that reason I would avoid visiting there in the Summer, but Spring would be amazing for the wild flowers in bloom. If you only have a day then I recommend driving just south of Melbourne to the beautiful Mornington Peninsula with it’s seaside resort towns of Portsea and Sorrento. Another day or half-day option is to visit the Dandenong Ranges where you’ll enjoy scenic drives and walks amongst the Mountain Ash trees. if you’re a wine buff you might to spend a day wine tasting in the Yarra Valley to the east of Melbourne.
Wallaby, Phillip Island

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Imprime PGG Early Clinical Experience
We believe that our initial clinical experience serves to de-risk the ongoing development path for Imprime PGG. Following three Phase 1 studies, defining 4 mg/kg as an appropriate Phase 2 dose, 10 clinical studies were initiated beginning in 2007 in patients with colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. These studies evaluated Imprime PGG in combination with anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies (Erbitux®, Avastin®, Rituxan®, Campath®), with and without chemotherapies. In these trials, Imprime PGG was safely administered in all combinations tested and provided indications of antitumor activity. More than 500 subjects (cancer patients and healthy human volunteers) were treated with Imprime PGG in these studies.
Biothera has chosen not to develop these particular Imprime PGG combination regimens further, due to (1) recent scientific evidence suggesting that the combination of Imprime PGG with CPIs may be a more promising combination strategy, and (2) a more favorable development, regulatory and commercialization pathway with CPIs. However, we believe these trials provide important data that will guide our clinical development plans and may increase the probability of future clinical success. Taken together, the historical clinical trials demonstrate:
- Safety Profile. Imprime PGG has demonstrated a favorable safety profile in more than 500 subjects. Imprime PGG has been well-tolerated in clinical studies and can be administered via IV infusion. Infusion reactions are the most common side effect attributed to Imprime PGG and they are generally manageable.
- Clinical Activity. Imprime PGG has demonstrated promising signals of activity in multiple drug combinations and tumor types.
- Biomarker Development. We have discovered a mechanism-based, patient selection biomarker through our healthy volunteer clinical studies and retrospective analyses of clinical trials in cancer patients. We developed a simple pre-treatment blood test that will identify those patients who are most likely to respond to Imprime PGG and are using this biomarker test in three ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials. We will fully validate the biomarker in future studies as part of our clinical development program.

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||Constitutional economics. This work represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to the issues of constitutional economics of joint efforts of Russian lawyers and economists. The manual covers in detail the constitutional basis of the economic system of the company: basic human rights and freedoms, property issues, the federal structure, the organization of the tax system and the budget system; highlights the basic methods of the monetary policy, organization and functioning of the banking system, the role and place of the Central bank in the implementation of the monetary-credit policy of the state.
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We *had* the whatle-y one with a pink background until it mysteriously found it's way into the washing machine :
Some of the animals are verrrrry bizarre! Reminds me of my older kids Pokemon stuff, but on a generic sort of "not-really-Pokemon" level.
The wool was very soft and wasn't at all scratchy.
I got an email from Karen and she said they DO take custom orders!!


Russian air defence deal with Iran under way - report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is currently fulfilling a contract to deliver S-300 air defence systems to Iran, RIA news agency quoted confidential sources as saying on Wednesday.
In October Russia's Foreign Ministry denied media speculation that Moscow would sell the S-300 system, which could help the Islamic republic fend off air strikes by arch foes Israel and the United States on its nuclear sites.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman at the time said that Moscow had no intention of selling weapons to "troubled regions".
But quoting unnamed sources, RIA said on Wednesday that Russia and Iran were holding talks on sales of medium-range air defence systems.
"Moscow has earlier met its obligations on supplying Tor-M1 systems to Iran and is currently implementing a contract to deliver S-300 systems," RIA reported.
The Tor-M1 is a short-range surface-to-air missile system.
RIA did not elaborate on what it meant by fulfilling the contract and the Kremlin had no immediate comment on the report.
The most advanced version of the S-300 system can track targets and fire at aircraft 120 km (75 miles) away. It is known in the West as the SA-20.
Israel, the U.S. and other states suspect Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, using its civilian nuclear programme as a cover. Iran has denied any such intention.
"Russia's military and technical cooperation with Iran has a positive impact on stability in this region," RIA quoted Alexander Fomin, deputy head of Russia's Federal Military Technical Cooperation Service, as saying on Wednesday.
"We have developed, are developing and will continue to develop this cooperation further. The region's security to a large extent depends on this," he added.
"Military and technical cooperation" is an official set phrase used in Russia to denote arms sales.
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We carry two different milk thistle extracts, this one being standardized to contain a unique nutrient called silymarin. Our other extract is standardized for dihydroquercetin taxifolin. Combining both would be ideal. Dihydroquercetin taxifolin is a powerful antioxidant discovered from Larch trees. It was identified in the 1940's, and by 1958 the Journal of American Pharmaceutical Association published research establishing its safety. Much research has been conducted on DHQ and it hasn't disappointed. DHQ's forte is helping recycle other antioxidants and enhancing certain supplements. It also has anti-cancer, anti-aging (free radical quenching), regenerative, neuro-protective, liver protective properties. DHQ also has pneumonia and HIV fighting properties. (1-3)
Milk thistle may be able to help with certain types of cancer, high cholesterol levels, diabetes, kidney stones and disorders, free radicals, gallstones, and may improve skin health. In 2007, after reviewing multiple studies with milk thistle in relation to cancer, they concluded that there was strong evidence of silymarin's anti-cancer effects. The anti-cancer effects were seen in prostate, skin, breast, and cervical cancer. According to researchers at the University Magna Graecia Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, silymarin acts as a cancer protector because it inhibits the binding of toxins to cell membrane receptors. (4)
Milk thistle also helps to protect and improve the health of several different organs in the body including the liver, kidneys, gallbladder, heart, and brain. It is sometimes used as a treatment for fatty liver, alcohol damage, jaundice, elevated enzymes, hepatitis, and inflammation. Milk thistle actually helps to regenerate damaged liver cells over time. Lowering chronic inflammation and liver health are both extremely important to overall health, and milk thistle accomplishes both. Milk thistle has also been considered an overall success at helping fight diabetes. People with metabolic syndrome and pre-diabetes will also find value in milk thistle. A 4-month, double-blind, clinical study was conducted in 51 people with type 2 diabetes. The results showed significant improvements in fasting blood glucose, HbA1c, triglyceride, total cholesterol, LDL, SGOT and SGPT levels. (5-7)
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ROCK HILL, South Carolina – Hillary Clinton spoke passionately about criminal justice reform at the First in the South Democratic Presidential Forum moderated by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Friday night, even as she defended the death penalty in some instances.
The former secretary of state recently met with the mothers of black people killed by police and gun violence, and spoke movingly of the stories they told her. “I mean, why? It makes no sense why that happened,” Clinton said of the shooting of Walter Scott, who was shot and killed as he was running away from police in North Charleston.
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At the same time, she defended being the only Democratic presidential candidate to support the death penalty. While she said she wants to dramatically restrict its use, she said it would appropriate in some extreme cases, like terrorism like the Boston Marathon bombing or the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Clinton said gun violence in general is a problem, but that it’s especially distributing when it comes from someone in authority, like police officers, who should be held to a higher standard.
Pressed by Maddow on her past ties to Wall Street, Clinton insisted she would not be influenced and called the revolving door between government and corporations "an American problem."
"Anybody who thinks they can influence what I am going to do doesn't know me very well,” she said, calling for legislation that would prevent people from immediately joining some companies after leaving the government.
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She also defended against the notion that she would be a more hawkish president than Obama, saying she would pursue diplomacy while also not ruling out using military force.
In the lightning round, Clinton said she would learn Spanish if she had to learn any language – because more people speak it. And she called herself an “intro-extrovert” who likes to be around people but also needs alone time. Meanwhile, she admittedly dodged a question on which Republican presidential candidate she would pick as her running mate. "I could pick a Republican, but none of them,” she said.


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In recent months, fires of mass proportions have raged across Australia. These blazes come on the heels of the massive fires in the Amazon: some 76,000 wildfires burned across the forest in 2019, an 80 percent increase from the previous year. Closer to home, the United States has seen its own share of damage, with the frequency and intensity of fires rising throughout Western states and Alaska In California alone, wildfires have claimed the lives of over a hundred people and cost billions of dollars since 2017. Climate change is a root cause of this increasing prevalence of mass fires.
This lesson begins with a reading about the scope of the ongoing disaster in Australia, showing how people are connecting the fires to the increasingly hot temperatures brought on by climate change. Students then have an opportunity to share their feelings about what is happening. A second reading discusses some possible responses to the fires, including acknowledging our feelings of grief, supporting relief efforts, and using crises like this one to spur collective action. See this pdf of the readings.
Ask students what, if anything, they have heard about wildfires in Australia. (You might show Australia on a map, and explain that this nation spans a continent that is almost as big as the United States.)
What reactions have they had to this news, including images of the disaster?
If possible, share images from this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/australia/australia-wildfires-photos.html
Ask students: What image strikes you the most? Why?
The Roots of Australia’s Wildfires
Australia is experiencing its worst wildfire season in decades. As of late January 2020, some 33 people had died in the fires, and many more have been wounded. The scope of the damage was reported by Aylin Woodward, a science and environment reporter, in a January 8, 2020, article for Business Insider:
Australia has become an inferno. More than half of the country is choking on smoke, and the skies glow orange as bushfires continue to ravage the continent.
Since the start of the bushfire season in September, an estimated 25.5 million acres have burned in Australia, according to Reuters, and at least 25 people have died. More than 1 billion animals are feared dead, and an estimated 2,000 homes have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate.
The total damage and economic losses will exceed $100 billion, according to Accuweather.
Australia experiences fires every fall, but this year's crisis — which comes on the heels of a heat wave and prolonged drought — is unprecedented….
It's hard to comprehend the size of the affected area in Australia. Added up, the burned land is the size of South Korea or the U.S. state of Virginia. Compared to the amount of land that burned during California's 2018 wildfire season — its most destructive ever — Australia's [burned] acreage total is more than 13 times bigger.
In a January 8, 2020 article for The Nation, Edward Cavanough, an Australian policy researcher, provided a more close-up view of the inferno:
Smoke choked Australia’s cities, and the Sydney Opera House disappeared behind a brown haze. Children wore face masks as the air quality deteriorated, leading to canceled sporting events and mail delivery in Canberra, Australia’s capital. At least 25 people died, and many remain missing, not to mention the more than a billion animals and plants incinerated. Thousands of people stood under blood-red skies on sandy beaches, awaiting rescue by Australia’s navy—the largest peacetime evacuation in the country’s history.
While bushfires in Australia are nothing new, scientists say that climate change is making them worse. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has stated that 2019 was both the hottest and driest that the country had ever recorded. As global temperatures trend upward, annual heat waves and droughts intensify. These more prolonged droughts and heat waves turn the already-dry forests and bush of Australia into the perfect kindling for wildfires.
"Climate change is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires," Dale Dominey-Howes, an expert on disaster risk at the University of Sydney, told Business Insider Australia. "Widespread drought conditions, higher-than-average temperatures — these are all made worse by climate change."
The current crisis poses a challenge for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has long refused to acknowledge the scientifically confirmed link between the fossil-fuel industry and climate change. Instead, during 2019, Australia’s driest year on record, Morrison continued to champion a pro-fossil-fuel policy, including a new coal-fired power plant.
The spread of wildfires is not a problem limited to Australia. Throughout the world, such fires are spreading at alarming rates. Indeed, the fires in Australia come on the heels of increased burning in the Amazon. Some 76,000 wildfires burned across the forest in 2019, an 80 percent increase from the previous year. Much like the burning in Australia, fires are not new to the Amazon, but recent ones have been notable in their ferocity and longevity. Fires have also raged in Northern forests in Russia, Canada, and Alaska. Closer to home, the West Coast of the United States has seen significant damage. In California alone, wildfires have claimed the lives of over a hundred people and cost billions of dollars since 2017. These fires release catastrophic levels of CO2 (carbon dioxide), a greenhouse gas. Thus, fires fueled in part by climate change are in turn further exacerbating the problem. This is called a “feedback loop.”
Bill McGuire, director of the Hazard Research Centre at University London College, described the global scale of the problem in a January 10, 2020, article for BBC ScienceFocus. He wrote:
On our overheating planet, wildfire is now one of the most terrifying and costly of all natural disasters. From California to Russia, Australia to the UK and Greenland to the Amazon, record temperatures and tinder box conditions have, in recent years, driven conflagrations that have taken hundreds of lives and immolated many thousands of properties – in some cases entire communities.
Two years ago, major burns in California resulted in the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season ever recorded, with more than eighty deaths and three-quarters of a million hectares scorched at a cost of $12 billion. In 2019, it was the Brazilian Amazon that burned, helped by fires started deliberately by farmers and loggers.
Rather than considering the fires in Australia and beyond as natural disasters that are inevitable, if regrettable, the evidence suggests that we should examine humanity’s role in furthering climate change and work, as best we can, to limit future calamities.
- How much of the material in this reading was new to you, and how much was already familiar? Do you have any questions about what you read?
- Historically, wildfires have not been uncommon in Australia. What is different about the current fires?
- What role does global climate change have in making wildfires worse?
- What are some of the effects of these wildfires? Which of these effects matter the most to you, and why?
- Wildfires are becoming more common and severe not only in Australia, but in many parts of the world. Have you had experiences that have made you aware of this issue before?
- Is this an issue that feels relevant to your life currently? Why or why not?
A Go-Round About Feelings
Tell students that in addition to the loss of human life, communities, and landscapes, millions of animals have died in the Australian fires. Images of burned kangaroos and koala bears have proliferated across social media. As many as 30 percent of the country’s koala bears have died.
Ask students to share in a go-round:
- What feelings do you think Australians might be having during this time of spreading devastation?
Next, ask students to share:
- What feelings does this situation bring up for you?
Share with students that acknowledging and sharing feelings of sadness or anxiety can be a helpful initial response to crisis and loss. Talking about our pain can be an important step in moving from personal despair to joining with others to take action to address the problem.
Our Responses: From Grief, to Relief, to Political Action
It is impossible to comprehend the total loss and to account for all of the sacred sites, plants, animals, and medicines that have been turned to ash in Australia, the Amazon, and beyond. Given the scale of the crisis in Australia, and the fact that wildfires are intensifying across the globe, feelings of sadness or grief are understandable.
A second common response to this crisis – and to other climate-related catastrophes – is a desire to help in disaster relief efforts. Seeing people come together to fight the fires, rescue wildlife, and support victims can give hope in hard times. In the case of Australia, people have mobilized large-scale relief efforts. Some 195,000 Australians are volunteering with the nation’s eight main fire services. Other people are hosting fundraising events across the country and providing food and shelter to those in need. Tracey Shelton, senior correspondent at the GlobalPost, highlighted some of these relief efforts in a January 25, 2020 article for Al Jazeera:
This year, as fires have raged across Australia, consuming homes, farms and towns, people have rallied to help, raising tens of millions of dollars for affected families, volunteer firefighting units and wildlife devastated by the blazes….
In New South Wales, the Rural Fire Service has received donations that have now surpassed 50 million Australian dollars ($34 million) said RFS spokesman James Morris. The funds have come from everything from fire-helmets and donation buckets placed in local shops to celebrity GoFundMe campaigns, he said….
Children have also been donating pocket money to their local fire brigades and one primary school student from Western Australia raised $500 and delivered half to the Lakes Entrance crew and half to the Save the Koala fund.
James Pendlebury, a call centre team manager in Melbourne, has been finding creative ways to raise funds in his office… Among the initiatives so far have been raffles, bake-offs and an office artisans’ market….
Benefit concerts are also being used to raise funds as local bands play pub gigs and international stars including Alice Cooper, Olivia Newton-John, Queen and popular children's group the Wiggles organize concerts in the coming weeks with all proceeds donated to fire relief causes.
Likewise, CNN has reported that “Acts of kindness, including images of people giving water to koalas and waiting in line for over an hour to donate to the food bank, have been shared across social media. Australian comedian Celeste Barber has raised more than $26 million in under a week to her Facebook fundraiser.”
Moving beyond relief efforts, a third possible response to the fires in Australia and elsewhere is to engage in collective action to combat the underlying challenge of climate change. The gradual warming of the planet is often treated as a problem that is distant and far away, not as an immediate crisis. However, the increase in the number and severity of wildfires illustrates how we are already feeling the impacts of a changing climate. This reality can create urgency around taking steps to reduce CO2 levels now, rather than thinking that the issue is not relevant to our lives today.
The crisis in Australia has led to escalating challenges to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Thousands of people marched in nine cities across the country on January 10, calling on Morrison to resign. “We are running out of time to act on climate,” said Anneke Demanuele, a convener of Uni Students for Climate Justice at a protest in Melbourne.
Australia’s Aboriginal people, who have sustained huge losses in the fires, are speaking out and demanding changes in policy. “We were raised with the knowledge that our ancestors have adapted to changing climatic conditions here for millenniums,” wrote Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation and a professor of Australian literature at the University of Melbourne. “And yet our knowledge of caring for the land is questioned or largely ignored. In the face of catastrophic fires, Australia’s leaders need to recognize the depth and value of Aboriginal knowledge and incorporate our skills in hazard management.” This includes the age-old tradition of lighting small patches of low-intensity fires during the cool season, which can prevent catastrophic fires later.
Among those who have argued that the fires in Australia should be a call to action is Greta Thunberg, whose solo weekly school climate strikes eventually led to #FridaysForFuture, a youth-led movement to fight the climate crisis. On January 3, 2020, her 17th birthday, Thunberg posted on Facebook a horrific image of a kangaroo fleeing flames as a forest engulfed a home. She wrote:
500 million (!!) animals are estimated dead because of the bushfires. Over 20 people have died and thousands of homes have burned to [the] ground. The fires have spewed 2/3 of the nations national annual CO2 emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The smoke has covered glaciers in distant New Zealand (!) making them warm and melt faster because of the albedo effect.
And yet. All of this still has not resulted in any political action. Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and [natural] disasters like the #AustraliaFires… That has to change. And it has to change now.
My thoughts are with the people of Australia and those affected by these devastating fires.
Note: The “albedo effect” refers to albedo, a measure of how much light that hits a surface is reflected without being absorbed. Something that appears white (like snow) reflects most of the light that hits it and has a high albedo. Something that looks dark (like soil) absorbs most of the light that hits it. This produces heat that, on Earth, adds to global warming.
Major youth-led protests are planned across the globe for Earth Day 2020. A large coalition of groups has announced that on April 22, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, young people will follow up on the massive student strikes of September 2019. In that global action, more than 6 million students in 120 countries left their schools for a day to participate in climate actions.
In a call to action for the 2020 actions, posted on MTV.com on January 13, sponsoring groups including the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, and Fridays for Future USA vowed:
Earth Day will launch three consecutive days of massive strikes, fulfilling our promise to take the climate strike movement beyond what we achieved on September 20.
Inaction is not an option…We have had enough of the inaction of government and business leaders. Now is our time to come together and be unified in our demand for change.
However, marching and striking for a day is just a start. It’s now time to take it to the next level and sustain this momentum over time. Indigenous youth and youth of color, who are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, have claimed their rightful seat at the table. We are uniting all youth and adults across nations and movements. We call upon everyone — every single one of you — to join us as we strike for climate justice on Earth Day.
“Anyone who is not grieving is not paying attention,” Lyn Bender, an Australian psychologist, wrote in an article for Independent Australia. “The kids know what the adults try to hide. The activists know what the politicians deny. The time has come to awaken.”
- How much of the material in this reading was new to you, and how much was already familiar? Do you have any questions about what you read?
- In what ways might we feel impacted by the disaster in Australia, even if it is taking place far away?
- According to the reading, what are the various ways in which people are contributing to relief efforts to address the crisis in Australia? What did you think were some of the best responses?
- What do demonstrators hope to accomplish by their actions? Who are they hoping to encourage to take action to slow climate change? Why are they focusing on this group (or groups) of people?
- What are some ways in which you and your peers can take collective action around this issue? What approaches do you think might be most effective?
In a go-round, ask to students to share one idea, image, or feeling they will take away from our discussion today.
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National Enquirer Rep Calls Whitney Houston Open Casket Pic ‘Beautiful’
If you’ve seen this week’s copy of the National Enquirer, you’re already aware of the fact that the tabloid rag devoted its cover to what it’s billing as the final photo of Whitney Houston — a shot, allegedly taken during Saturday’s memorial service, of the recently deceased singer in her casket. Unsurprisingly, the Enquirer’s decision has kicked up a controversy — and perhaps also unsurprisingly, they’re standing by their decision to publish the image.
Speaking to FOX News, Enquirer publisher Mary Beth Wright refused to apologize for the photo, saying, “I thought it was beautiful.”
A number of publications have assailed the Enquirer, including fellow tabloid outlets such as HollywoodLife, whose executive editor, Denise Warner, called the photo “just another disgusting display of how low celebrity obsession can stoop.” Continued Warner, “Regardless of how they obtained the picture — and the likely exorbitant price they paid for it, the Enquirer should have thought twice about this post-mortem portrait. No one needs to remember Whitney preserved in formaldehyde. And it’s certainly not an image that is necessary in the discussion of her life and death.”
Warner’s comments were published by Fox411, who polled their readers to get their opinion on the fracas. As Fox411 later reported, “Forty percent of FoxNews.com readers said that the Enquirer publishing the photographs was a shame, but par for the course for them. Thirty-seven percent said that it was reprehensible and 21 percent said they saw absolutely nothing wrong with it.”


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Emily has worked with a number of international nonprofit organizations and she enjoys program development, storytelling and working with diverse skill sets and cultures. In 2012, Emily worked with The DREAM Project in the Dominican Republic developing arts workshops. In 2013, Emily transitioned to a role as Program Manager for EverGift working with artisan and other small business owners, including Cuídame (see article), across the North Coast of the Dominican Republic.
Emily believes that business is an important path to self-confidence and economic independence for all. Emily now serves as the Director of Venture Development for Social Enterprise Greenhouse. Emily continues to serve as an advisor to the EverGift Board of Directors on strategic partnerships and growth.

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References in this Act to decimal currency were substituted for references to the former currency by section 7 Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).
References to a District Court Judge were substituted for references to a Magistrate pursuant to section 18(2) District Courts Amendment Act 1979.
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
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Protracted problem in the security architecture of Nigeria has lured Ogun State Government to embrace Security Studies as part of the efforts to nip in the bud insecurity in the state.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, announced this at a meeting with the state Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abodunrin, in Abeokuta on Saturday.
Arigbabu who said the state will establish collaborative efforts with necessary stakeholders to include security lessons in the academic syllabus to enhance security consciousness among students, also advised parents to take care of their wards so that they will not go against the law.
“Ogun is doing its best to ensure maximum security in our schools, hence this continuous meeting with relevant stakeholders and security agencies on different ways to curb insecurity and drive unscrupulous elements away from our schools.
“We have met with the commissioner of police and constituted a committee on security in schools. Today’s meeting with NSCDC Commandant will enhance our capacity to identify insecurity in schools and fashion out ways of ending it,” he said.
In his response, the state Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Abodunrin said it is pertinent to inculcate security tips in the students to enable to recognize security threats and to also protect themselves.
Giving solidarity for the initiative, he assured that the corps would organise training for some selected teachers in school across the state, who would, in turn, inculcate the training in their students.


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Google Analytics Launches Individual Qualification Program
Google announced the launch of a new skills qualification program, Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ), which allows individuals to demonstrate proficiency in Google Analytics.
This qualification is probably a good addition to any SEO agency (or individual), as it closely relates with the Google Advertising Professionals adwords qualification.
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1. ECB Monetary Policy Meeting Accounts
European Central Bank Monetary Policy Statement contains the outcome of the ECB decision on asset purchases and commentary about the economic conditions that influenced their decision.
2. U.S. Retail Sales
The US Commerce Department will report April retail sales numbers on Friday. Economists predict that retail sales rose by 1.0% last month. On the other hand, Core retail sales, which exclude autos, are expected to have risen by 0.7%. A higher than expected reading should be taken as positive for the greenback.
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US Michigan Consumer Sentiment for May will be another important release of today. The Index is expected to rise to 90.4 in May from 88.3 in the previous number. A higher than expected reading should be taken as positive for the US Dollar.
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Robots that can cook — from flipping burgers to baking bread — are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to put some distance between workers and customers.
Starting this fall, the White Castle burger chain is to test a robot arm that can cook french fries and other foods. The robot, dubbed Flippy, is made by Pasadena, California-based Miso Robotics Inc.
White Castle and Miso have been discussing a partnership for about a year.
Those talks accelerated when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, White Castle vice president Jamie Richardson said.
The robot can free up employees for other tasks such as disinfecting tables or handling the rising number of delivery orders, Richardson said.
A touch-free environment is also increasingly important to customers, he said.
“The world’s just reshaped in terms of thoughts around food safety,” Richardson said.
Flippy costs US$30,000, with a US$1,500 monthly service fee. By the middle of next year, Miso hopes to offer the robot free of charge, but raise the monthly fee.
Robot food service was a trend even before the pandemic, as hospitals, campus cafeterias and others tried to meet demand for fresh, customized options 24 hours a day while keeping labor costs in check. Robot chefs appeared at places such as Creator, a burger restaurant in San Francisco, and Dal.komm Coffee outlets in South Korea.
Some say that robots might now shift from being a novelty to a necessity.
The US Centers for Disease Control says the risk of contracting COVID-19 by handling or consuming food outside the home is low.
However, there have been numerous outbreaks among restaurant employees and patrons.
“I expect in the next two years you will see pretty significant robotic adoption in the food space because of COVID,” said Vipin Jain, the cofounder and chief executive officer of Blendid, a Silicon Valley start-up.
Blendid sells a robot kiosk that makes a variety of fresh smoothies. Customers can order from a smartphone app and tweak the recipe if they want more kale or less ginger, for example. Once or twice a day, a Blendid employee refills the ingredients.
Only a handful are now operating around San Francisco, but since the pandemic began, Blendid has started contract discussions with hospitals, corporations, shopping malls and groceries.
“What used to be forward-thinking — last year, pre-COVID — has become current thinking,” Jain said.
As salad bars shut down, Hayward, California-based Chowbotics started getting more inquiries about Sally, a robot about the size of a refrigerator that makes a variety of salads and bowls.
Sally lets customers choose from 22 prepared ingredients stored inside the machine. It can make about 65 bowls a day before kitchen workers need to refill the ingredients.
Prior to this year, Chowbotics had sold about 125 of its US$35,000 robots, primarily to hospitals and colleges, but since the novel coronavirus hit, sales have jumped more than 60 percent, chief executive officer Rick Wilmer said, with growing interest from grocery stores, senior living communities and even the US Department of Defense.
Wilkinson Baking Co, whose BreadBot mixes, forms and bakes loaves of bread, has also been getting more inquiries.
Randall Wilkinson, chief executive officer of the Walla Walla, Washington-based company, said the BreadBot serves shifting needs.
Grocery shoppers no longer want self-serve options such as olive bars, but they still want fresh and local food. Seeing how that food is made also gives them more confidence, he said.
Robot cooks have not always been successful. Spyce, a Boston restaurant with a robot-run kitchen, closed in November last year to retool its menu.
Zume Inc, a Silicon Valley start-up that made pizzas with robots, shut down its pizza business in January. It is now making masks and biodegradable takeout containers.
Max Elder, research director of the Food Futures Lab at the Palo Alto, California-based Institute for the Future, is skeptical about the future of food prep robots once the pandemic has eased.
“Food is so personal, and it needs to involve humans,” he said.
Elder is also concerned that focusing on automating food preparation during the pandemic will shift attention from other problems in the food system, such as outbreaks among meat industry workers or produce pickers.
“We can’t automate our way out of the pandemic, because the pandemic affects much more than what can be automated,” Elder said.
Automated food companies say that they are not trying to replace human workers.
At White Castle, Flippy would allow managers to redeploy workers to drive-thru lanes or help them cover a shift if an employee calls in sick, Richardson said.
Chowbotics’ Sally might actually create jobs, as it keeps selling food at times of day when it would not have been available before, Wilmer said.
However, robots can lower the demand for labor. At the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, workers used to spend six hours per day prepping grab-and-go salads in the 24-hour cafe, said Tonya Johnson, the school’s director of nutrition services.
Yet two years ago, the campus installed a Sally, which now makes an average of 40 salads per day. Sally allowed the school to eliminate a vacancy in its cooking staff, Johnson said.
The campus is buying another Sally for students to use when they return in August, which would save four hours per day of grab-and-go salad prep in the college deli, she said.
“I think the pandemic has made us realize how much we need more equipment like Sally,” Johnson said.
UNSTABLE? Downplaying geopolitical concerns, Mark Liu said that Taiwan can help usher in a bright, new era for the chip industry with its tech and manufacturing skills There are probably not many people who believe that Taiwan is unstable because of geopolitical factors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) chairman Mark Liu (劉德音) said yesterday in Taipei in response to comments by Intel’s top executive. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on Wednesday told the Fortune Brainstorm Tech summit in California that the US government should support a sustainable semiconductor supply chain in the US, in part because “Taiwan is not a stable place.” With China sending 27 military warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on Sunday, Gelsinger asked: Does that “make you more comfortable or less if you’re now
‘OUT IN FRONT’: The new investment is part of MediaTek’s bid to expand revenue by 15 percent over the next three years from an estimated US$17 billion this year MediaTek Inc (聯發科) is to continue investing in the development of low-power technologies to maintain its leading position in the industry over the next 10 years, the Hsinchu-based chip designer said yesterday. This year, it would allocate US$3.3 billion to the research and development of technologies related to high-performance computing, low power and advanced chip packaging, MediaTek said. The investment is part of the chip designer’s efforts to enhance its technological capabilities and boost revenue. MediaTek aims to expand revenue by about 15 percent over the next three years from an estimated US$17 billion this year. “We are definitely out in front of
PharmaEssentia Corp (藥華醫藥) shares have jumped 80.56 percent since the company obtained a US polycythemia vera (PV) drug license for its new interferon drug Besremi (ropeginterferon alfa-2b-njft) on Nov. 12. Shares on Friday closed at NT$195 in Taipei trading, up from the stock’s closing price of NT$108 on Nov. 12. PV is a rare, chronic and life-threatening blood cancer linked to a stem cell mutation in the bone marrow that results in an overproduction of blood cells and places sufferers at risk of having a blood clot, stroke or heart attack. PharmaEssentia is preparing to make Besremi available in the US in the
Toyota Motor Corp is to launch an all-electric small sedan in China late next year, having turned to local partner BYD Co (比亞迪) for key technology to finally make an affordable yet roomy runaround, four sources said. Two of the four people with knowledge of the matter described the car as an electric holy grail for Toyota, which has struggled for years to come up with a small electric vehicle (EV) that is competitive on cost in China and does not compromise on comfort. The sources said the breakthrough was chiefly down to BYD’s less bulky lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) Blade batteries and its


Manila cemetery book in the making
The love of genealogy was one of the first steps leading to a cemetery book project underway by sisters Barbara Lasater of Manila and Shirley Peyton of Leachville. Working with the women is Shirley's husband, Clifford Peyton, who is retired from the U.S. Army.
Residents may have been wondering who the people were in the cemetery taking pictures and writing on clipboards. They have been working on the project several months. They decided they wanted to make a cemetery book which will show (as close as possible with information available) who is buried, where they are buried, the date of birth and death.
"While we have been out in the cemetery we have had several people stop and ask us for information on where someone is buried," Mrs. Peyton said. "We took their telephone numbers and when we find the information, we will call. This is something we want to do for the community. We have a lot of relatives buried here."
Chalk is being used on the headstones they cannot read. The chalk will wash off when it rains but it helps to read some of the older stones.
A few headstones have been found that were completely buried.
They are also working closely with Leroy Douglas, cemetery board member. Ray Misner, caretaker, has also been a big help.
"We want to make the findings as accurate as possible," Peyton said.
They are not trying to make a profit from the book they just want to cover the expenses of having it printed. It is hoped to complete the book by mid-June 2012.
They all agree it has turned into quite a job. Each headstone's information is recorded picture taken.
They would also like to have copies of obituaries for the book. If anyone would like to submit an obituary of a loved one buried at the Manila Cemetery they can e-mail it to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org.
"We have found some really old stones," Lasater said. "Some of the oldest records are gone, but hopefully this is a way to preserve as far back as we can go."


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Aero Amo capped his illustrious Augustana wrestling career with his second straight All-American performance at the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Amo finished in seventh at 184 pounds after defeating Tony Vezzetti of Notre Dame College (Ohio). Amo defeated Vezzetti by a 7-0 decision. Amo finishes the 2017-18 season with a record of 17-4.
Amo had fallen in the consolation quarterfinals to Bradley Metz of Findlay. Metz defeated Amo by a 4-2 decision.
Amo finished his Augustana career with a record of 130-31 and is a two-time All-American (fifth at 184 in 2017). Amo will leave Augustana the 19th two-time All-American in school history. Amo will also rank in school history fourth in wins (130), third in dual wins (58) and tied for fifth in falls (46).
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Members of the Dutch art collective Macular have developed four kinetic light installations for this Wood Street Galleries show. Each of the installations deals with the topic of interference within patterns of light and movement. The works are the outcome of the collective’s broader research into the applications of technology and science within art and their perpetual quest to probe the limits of human perception. The exhibition will be an immersive sensorial experience in which the audience can wander about through an abstract world of kinetic light machines.
Macular is an art collective of a group of artists who share a common interest in art, science, technology, and perception. The members of the collective collaborate on the creation and production of multi-sensorial artworks that are presented at media arts festivals, musea, galleries, and other arts institutions around the world. Macular collective consists of artists Daan Johan, Eric Parren, Jeroen Molenaar, Joris Strijbos, Matthijs Munnik & Nicky Assmann
Fading Shadows (2016) is a kinetic light installation by Joris Strijbos and Nicky Assmann which comes forth from their ongoing research project Moiré Studies under which the duo creates installations and performances based on the principles of the moiré effect. The moiré effect is the phenomenon of spatial interferences provoked by the superimposition of two patterns. In this installation the artists tune the phenomena to the limits of human senses and use the effect as a method for composition.
The work Fading Shadows consists of two vertical static grids placed against a white wall. Two kinetic light machines are placed in front of the grids with each their own motion, namely “Circular Motion” & “Pendulum Motion” and thus creating different movements in the visual patterns. The screens are transformed into optical fields of interference showing a choreography of shadow and light.
Parsec (2013) is a kinetic audio visual machine consisting of 16 identical arms performing a generative composition based on swarm synthesis. Each arm holds two LEDs and a loudspeaker which will create abstract audio visual patterns while being rotated. The core of the installation consists of a swarm synthesizer, 16 identical analogue and modular synthesizers. The synths are programmed to perform swarm like behavior which can also be recognized in the movement and light patterns.
Shifting Structures (2017)
Undulator (2010-2017) is an immersive kinetic installation that explores both the color and reflective properties of light and the effects of flicker on our visual perception system. In a similar fashion to Thomas Wilfred's Lumia machines from the early 20th century, Undulator is a cinematic display that celebrates light in its purest form. A pulsating pattern of complementary colors and gradients is projected onto a reflective surface, its undulating movement distorts the rays of light. Upon hitting the screen the light has been folded from a straight beam into a shape that hints at processes that happen at the microscopic level as well as the cosmic scale. The stroboscopic qualities of the projection add a layer of disorientation to the perception of this ever changing shape.


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Tim Hanthorn said:.... Most likely the reason DISH is leaning toward professional installation is simply the increased complication of aiming at three targets.
Tim Hanthorn said:Another consideration here is that SuperDISH is going to come in 2 flavors - one will have the third LNB looking at 105, the other will have it looking at 121 depending on the programming choice. (HD & locals at 105, international programming at 121, I think) That will neccesitate a means of adjusting the location of the third LNB.
Just one more complication.


App related to Manufacturing Simulation in the context of Manufacturing
This application is a decision support tool to adjust moulding parameters of the COVERSATILE silicone mask manufacturing process. It consists of a user interface that allows to perform virtual moulding trials, getting results instantaneously. This is achieved evaluating different Reduced Order Models, one for each result of interest, that have been previously generated. These ROMs are the core of the application and have been developed based on results from a design of experiments of detailed injection moulding simulations in COVERSATILE project with a physically based simulation software, which account for the complex material behaviour and the different transient flow and thermo-chemical-mechanical mechanisms that happen during the moulding of the silicone into the COVERSATILE mould developed by ORP Stampi, ML Engraving and SKM (MS123).
In one hand, companies adopting the COVERSATILE silicone mask solution can use it to get insight of the sensitivity of the moulding relevant variables to different process parameters that the machine operator can change. This allows to the operator to self-train in a virtual environment before the mould is available. Afterwards, the app can be used for the quick setting up, troubleshooting and to help optimising the process parameters. The results are representative for the process injecting a commercial platinum curing silicone from MESGO.
On the other hand, it can be seen as a show case of ITAINNOVA CAELIA solution for manufacturing processes, that is a service consisting of creating physically based digital twins of any manufacturing process based on simulations and reduced order modelling (ROM). A company having a manufacturing process with high focus in material transformations (such as polymer transformation processes) may be interested in checking the app.
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Wickwar is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, located amongst Chipping Sodbury and Charfield. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,943. The Wickwar brewery is a popular local producer of cask ale.
The village is upon the main Bristol–Birmingham railway line, and subsequent to had a station, but this closed in January 1965. To the south, the extraction passes through a tunnel 1,401 yards (1,281 m) long. Wickwar then lies near to the source of the Little Avon River, which rises in woodland to the east.

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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/710/14168
Swindon hospital workers fight bullying
A Unison member.
More than 300 people, mainly Carillion employees and their families, marched in Swindon on 17 March, in a lively and noisy demonstration. They were protesting against the bullying and harassment they have been subjected to by the company.
Carillion is one of the original PFI contract holders for Swindon's Great Western Hospital. It is a private company contracted by the NHS to provide domestic and cleaning services. Its employees are mainly women originally from Goa in India.
Paulo Fernades, a GMB union rep at the Swindon Hospital, told the Socialist: "The management don't recognise our chosen union even though the GMB is the biggest union among the Carillion workers. Now the government want to privatise the NHS as well. For everyone bullying will be worse and so will pay."
I spoke to some of the workers, who told me managers at Carillion had strongly hinted to them that favourable decisions regarding shifts and holiday allocation could be had in return for 'gifts'. Some staff said they had their working hours reduced with no notice or negotiation whatsoever.
Other workers told me that when they had first turned to Unison to help them they got little support, so they approached the GMB instead. While there were a lot of local members of Unison with their banner on the march and they expressed their total solidarity, the union's regional office has complained that GMB are 'poaching their members'.
Joining the march were members of Wiltshire FBU, Unite, NUT, CWU and others. At the closing rally in the shopping centre, Andy Newman of GMB explicitly accused Carillion of 'bribery and corruption'. According to the GMB, the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the HR manager who dealt with the blacklisting organisation that led to the exclusion of thousands of trade unionists, many of whom are construction workers, from employment (see below).
Among other speakers was Anne Snelgrove, Labour's prospective candidate for Swindon. She didn't mention that the New Labour governments' privatisation policies opened the door to unscrupulous firms like Carillion.
The Carillion workers are angry and determined. They have already been on strike earlier this year, taking action in three 24-hour strikes and a three-day stoppage in February and a five-day stoppage earlier this month. 17 March was the start of a seven-day strike.
They have also held demonstrations outside Virgin Telecom, Zurich Insurance and Nationwide Building Society who, the GMB alleges, have all been supplying workers to cover the strike days. It would be great if the courage being showed by the workers was matched by all our union leaders.
In The Socialist 21 March 2012:
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Socialist Party features
Socialist Party news and analysis
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International socialist news and analysis
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Alpine Road Trail Improvements Project
San Mateo County (County) proposes to implement the Alpine Road Trail Improvements Project (proposed project) within unincorporated San Mateo County, California. The proposed project includes rehabilitation of an approximately 1.84-mile segment of the Lower Alpine Road Trail and bank stabilization at three sites along the adjacent Los Trancos Creek. Activities are proposed to occur between the limits of the Town of Portola Valley and the City of Menlo Park.
Below are links to the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) that analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the trail rehabilitation work and bank stabilization work as well as the Bank Treatment Alternatives Feasibility Study.


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Softcat, Computacenter and XMA are among eight resellers to make it onto the East Midlands Commercial Strategy Unit's (EMCSU) ICT framework. The ICT VAR framework was announced in July of this year...
New CRN Essential report examines the appetite for managed and outsourced services among UK IT decision makers
A snapshot of how UK end users really view MSPs and the outsourced services model
But sector still below pre-2017 peak, according to market watcher ISG
SVP of UK sales tells CRN about its 'first of a kind' green financing option and why customers are clamouring for offerings like it
Manchester-based public cloud transformation specialist will join forces with UKFast as Inflexion takes majority stake
UK passes 'major milestone' as number of tech companies valued at $1bn hits 100, according to new data
Research from Tech Nation and Dealroom says the UK has joined the US and China as the only nations with 100 tech unicorns
With just two weeks to go until the 2 July deadline, CRN catches up with some past winners of the Channel Awards who share their own words about why the event is important to them, what winning means and why more companies should bite the bullet and submit...
Alex Ford, EMEA sales director at IT Glue, discusses the opportunities, and challenges, for MSPs post-Covid


Your next vacation will be spent eating in Tucson, Arizona. On the banks of southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz River, hunter-gatherers …
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The legendary rodeo wines and dines feet from the bronc buckin’ action. The Indian relay racers rode too hard and …
On the occasion of the Crow Fair centennial, photographer Erika Haight shares some favorite images from past fairs and highlights from conversations with a Crow family about the big celebration in Montana.
Sip on a preview of the cowboy cocktail dinner and soiree at the historic Far West Texas hotel.
If you love Native American art and culture, the place to be August 18 – 19 is Santa Fe. We talk with Ira Wilson, the new executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.
The popular national park gives visitors a feast of the senses with a series of culinary shindigs — and we have a recipe to further tempt you.
This Vancouver boutique hotel connects guests to the region’s Aboriginal past in modern ways.
The Seneca Art & Culture Center rises to give thanks.
Montana-based fine-art photographer Erika Haight went on assignment for C&I to Wyoming’s Cheyenne Frontier Days — and captured some of the experiences in and out of the arena.
C&I talks to organizers about the successful inaugural rodeo in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Yellowstone National Park is a gnarly, potentially deadly place, and the contrast between the rugged natural beauty and the stark reality of its wild perils only adds to the awesome grandeur.


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Quilem Registre, 39, of Montreal, became the second person to die in Canada in the past week in connection with a police Taser incident.
"If you don't have that Taser gun, you're going to have to use your handgun," said the Quebec municipal police federation's president Denis Cote.
"I'm waiting for the review that's presently underway by the RCMP of how extensive the use is, and are there any things that need to be moderated in the program," Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Thursday.
"Canadians need answers. They need reassurance that the use of Tasers is not routine procedure," said Vancouver MP Hedy Fry.
"In every case in Canada we've been cleared and completely exonerated by medical examiners and the experts including the Canadian police research centre as well that's done research," said Steve Tuttle of Taser International.
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As well as being inspected by Ofsted, denominational schools have a further inspection under section 48 of the Education Act 2005. In Church of England/Church in Wales schools this is referred to as Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS).
Our SIAMS inspection took place on Thursday 13th February 2020. The overall judgement was graded excellent for how effective the school's distinctive Christian vision is, established and promoted by leadership at all levels, for enabling all pupils and adults to flourish. We were also graded excellent for the impact of our collective worship.
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Recipe for Copycat Sara Lee Pound Cake, adapted from Copykat.
(Makes a regular loaf)
113g Unsalted butter, softened
120g Caster sugar
- Allow butter to reach room temperature.
- Cream sugar and butter together until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and mix well.
- Add in flour, powdered milk, baking powder, and corn syrup. Beat each in well. Add juice of half a lemon, salt and vanilla. Make sure everything is well blended, and pour into a greased loaf pan.
- Bake at 170C for 45 minutes, checking for done-ness by inserting a toothpick and seeing if it comes out clean. You almost want to under bake this.


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Antony Farrell is the founder of Lilliput Press. An independent publisher that has been around since 1984. Sebastian Stephenson talks to Antony about the "8 Geniuses" that Lilliput has published, why he will sometime tell potential authors to self publish, and what are their latest books. We also check out the independent comic books scene in the first Dublin Eight Comic Arts Festival and see what projects are looking for crowdfunding at the moment.