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While I would have preferred a gold or platinum coin with Harriet Tubman I think putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 is a fine idea and should be done without delay.
The $20 bill would have honored Ms. Tubman and reminded everyone how far the United States has progressed–going from having slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington on money to emancipated slaves like Harriet Tubman on money.
Harriet Tubman was a woman who didn’t wait for emancipation, she escaped from slavery and risked her life and her liberty to help others to escape as well.
However, I view the whole Harriet Tubman $20 bill outrage as just virtue signaling and/or political posturing. Maybe Donald Trump is a racist even though no one accused him of being racist prior to his run for president.
Frankly I think Trump is stupid for NOT putting Harriet Tubman on the $20. It’s not worth the optics of not doing it. But given my views of the United States dollar, I think that Harriet Tubman would be better honored via other methods.
Why is Jackson on the $20 Anyway?
I strongly suspect Andrew Jackson would have been horrified if he knew he was on a Federal Reserve Note.
I’m not a huge Andrew Jackson fan, but he was very much opposed to a central bank (a topic on which we agree), so it is ironic he was ever “honored” by being put on a Federal Reserve Note in the first place.
President Andrew Jackson actually shut down the United States Bank that was a predecessor to the Federal Reserve Bank the US is stuck with now.
Were the central bankers getting back at Jackson by plastering his visage on the $20? I don’t know but it is ironic either way.
A Better Way to Honor Harriet Tubman
As previously noted, Harriet Tubman was a woman who risked her life, and risked being forced back into slavery to save others.
You don’t put this kind of tough woman on a piece of paper. I think an even better approach would be to issue a gold coin in her honor.

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A Gorgeous Winter Wedding for Kim and Ryan!
It’s safe to say that winter has overstayed its welcome this season, but then I take a look at this gorgeous winter wedding and fall in love with the snow all over again. I am referring to the shots outside of St. Andrews Golf Club that Shterion captured, and although it does look chilly, the snow is so perfect! I love the simple elegance of this wedding, and I wanted to share a little sneak peek with you guys heading into the weekend! Congratulations Kim and Ryan! Thanks for letting us be a part of your amazing day!
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Kim getting ready and looking fabulous
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Kim and her dad- so sweet
I love this very photojournalistic shot during the ceremony!
It’s kind of a cool idea to re-stage some aspects of the ceremony afterwards- like the exchanging of the rings- that way you get just the couple in the shot, and it’s really cute!
What a great idea to do something fun like this with your bridal party after the ceremony. And who doesn’t love a good game of pool! Makes for some fun shots also !
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American Policy and Kashmir Dispute
Vijay K. Sazawal, Ph.D.
26 July 2012
The official U.S. views regarding the Kashmir dispute have remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless separatists, some media outlets, and other related constituencies in the Kashmir valley continually re-interpret the U.S. position on the issue with pronouncements that are based on wild imagination rather than cold reality.
The United States of America (U.S.) and India held their 3rd Bilateral Strategic Dialogue on June 13, 2012 in Washington, DC. As is a customary practice, most think tanks in the town like the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), and others held open forums to discuss the state of bilateral relationship between the U.S. and India, including its positive achievements and major disappointments. In all such meetings, a very senior U.S. diplomat or an official would make a presentation, followed by a question and answer (Q&A) session. There were other presentations as well from South Asia experts. I was invited to such meetings and attended most of them.
I made an interesting observation at these meetings organized at various Think Tanks. Even though there was no mention of “Kashmir” in any of the lectures given by either U.S. officials or third party experts, in every meeting either a Pakistani diplomat or a Pakistani journalist in attendance raised the issue of Kashmir in one form or the other. In each case, the responding official would diplomatically respond without ever saying the word “Kashmir” in his or her reply, but would dwell on the broader context of thorny issues (including trust deficit) between India and Pakistan.
The practice by Pakistani diplomats and journalists to make a point about Kashmir during a Q&A session with U.S. officials is an old one.
The response by the foreign official, irrespective of whether anything significant is said or not, becomes immediate news in Kashmir and Pakistan, re-energizing despondent believers with new hope that Kashmir continues to be an international issue. This practice was curtailed during the time Husain Haqqani was the Pakistani Ambassador, but seems to have been revived by the new Ambassador Shehrbano “Sherry” Rehman.
There are two key points that are vital in understanding the U.S. approach to the Kashmir dispute. First, the U.S. does recognize that it is an international issue, and the final closure will require the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), leading to the removal of the U.N. Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from both sides of the Ceasefire line. This fact has not changed and I do not know why anyone would scour world media daily to catch snippets on Kashmir in order to reassure their psyche that Kashmir issue is still an international issue, when in fact that status has neither changed nor has been disputed by the major powers.
The second point, though, is even more important. The U.S. position on resolving the Kashmir issue has changed over the years. This change is neither dramatic nor topsy-turvy; it is merely a slow evolution that was inevitable given the level of knowledge and the depth of comprehension within the U.S. national security apparatus that existed about the dispute in 1947-1948 as compared to today, as well as by growing stature of the bilateral relationship between the U.S. India. Garnishing that deep chasm between the past and the present official views of the U.S. (and all western major powers) towards the Kashmir issue are changes that have taken place within Pakistan before and after the “9/11” attacks, which end up reinforcing the core reasons that led to a change in the U.S. policy.
So, it should not surprise anyone when President Obama repeated what has been a long standing bipartisan (meaning both Democrats and Republican governments share the same) point of view that the Kashmir issue should be resolved bilaterally by India and Pakistan. It has diminished neither the nature of the issue nor its ramifications, but it has condensed possible options for the final solution of the issue.
Pakistani analysts and separatists in Kashmir have expressed disappointment over President Obama’s statement, some going as far as to say that it was a surprise. But American policy on this issue has not changed for decades now. Even in the “best case scenario,” where Pakistan’s relationship with the West improves to its highest potential again and the U.S. policy on Kashmir “tilts” towards Pakistan, some options on Kashmir are gone for good.
For example, the possibility of an “Independent Kashmir” or an “Independent Jammu & Kashmir” is a thing of the past. This option was not explicit in the U.N. Security Resolutions of 1948, but there was a time during the Cold War when the U.S. (and the U.K.) toyed with such an idea. The “Third Option,” as it was being called, died with the demise of the Soviet Union. Not only did Kashmir lose its strategic significance in the post-Soviet era, but the speed and success with which militant Islam came to fill in the vacuum created by receding communism, made even the Chinese apprehensive about the “Third Option,” given the proximity of Kashmir to their volatile Xinjiang region. So while the “Third Option” has many supporters in Kashmir (some would argue a majority of residents in the valley), it has no international support from the world community that matters. In so far as the U.N. Resolutions go, a line of succeeding Secretary Generals of the U.N. in the last few decades have reiterated over and over again that U.N. Resolutions on Kashmir cannot be implemented without the consent of both India and Pakistan, and are not enforceable without approval from the two countries. So calling for “international intervention” is basically a dead end today. No wonder many separatists in the valley admit that the international community does not care.
Today, all major powers echo the statement made by President Obama that the Kashmir dispute can only be resolved by the two countries themselves. In some ways, this situation represents progress towards resolution that Kashmiris have been seeking, though some (as we have noted previously) may not share that point of view. There are two political schools of thought in the U.S. on how to proceed in the future, given that everyone in authority – from American politicians to bureaucrats to non-governmental experts – generally agree that: (a) the resolution of the issue should be a matter of high priority between India and Pakistan, (b) the resolution will not happen without building trust and creating friendly conditions between the two countries, and (c) people of Jammu and Kashmir should be treated with dignity and fairness in the process of achieving the final resolution of the issue.
The first school of thought has evolved from traditional diplomatic community within the U.S. where many of them were part of the policy- making or contributed to the policy-making represented by the “third option.” Even though these people now realize that an independent Kashmir is unfeasible, they nevertheless see possibilities where perhaps one region (the valley) could have a different political dispensation than other regions of the State. Nevertheless, even this group believes today that the division of the territory of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir should be formalized promptly, with the line of control (LOC) becoming the international border between India and Pakistan. There are a few proposals on the table on how to proceed with providing regional personality to the Kashmir valley and even making the international border in J&K as open as possible, but none of that is likely to happen until the border issue has been settled permanently.
The second school of American thought is of more recent origin having less connectivity with the past history of Kashmir (that has yielded practically no political movement towards the resolution of the dispute in the last 65 years), and more in tune with meeting public aspirations for democracy and justice in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and inter-dependent. This school of American thought has evolved from American experiences in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, putting emphasis on quality of local governance, human rights, ethnic pluralism, law and order, and social justice, which provide key dimensions for judging how public aspirations are being met.
This school of thought considers the Indian approach to the Kashmir dispute to be pragmatic, while not perfect, that could lead to an eventual resolution of the issue. In fact, other major world powers – including China (with some reluctance and reservations) – also share a similar point of view.
American policy makers and political experts, who are taking a fresh look at the Kashmir dispute, find following factors are inhibiting an early resolution of the Kashmir dispute:
- The empowered class (“elites”) in J&K have compelling interests in preserving the political status quo
- India is unlikely to hasten any Kashmir specific talks until it gets some signal from Pakistan that it is willing to accept the LOC as the international boundary
- Pakistan is unlikely to provide for local governance, ethnic pluralism and social justice in their region of Jammu and Kashmir that would meet the regional criteria for dignity and equality.
At least one proposal is evolving where some or all of these inhibitors are being addressed.
In summary, the Obama statement is a reaffirmation of a long standing position of the United States. The Kashmir dispute has dropped from the radar screens of the U.S. as a non-priority issue. While the U.S. Government has kept its hands off the matter, policy analysts outside of the government have maintained some interest. The growing trend recently has been to encourage both India and Pakistan to settle the dispute taking into consideration urgent needs for democracy, peace and justice on both sides of the LOC.
This article appeared in the July 27, 2012 edition of the Rising Kashmir, a major daily English newspaper published from Srinagar, Kashmir. Please click here to read the newspaper article.
FEEDBACK FROM VARIOUS WASHINGTON BASED THINK TANKS
1. Dr. Michael Krepon, Founder and President Emeritus of the Stimson Center, the leading Think Tank in Washington which has been at the forefront of promoting confidence building measures (CBM’s) between Pakistan and India:
Beautifully written. Also has the advantage of being honest and true.
It’s good that this was published in Rising Kashmir.
I miss flying into the Valley. Indelibly beautiful sight.
2. Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who spent much of his 36-year career dealing with U.S. relations with South Asia. He served as Ambassador to Bangladesh (1984-87) and Political Counselor in India (1977-79) and Pakistan (1974-77), and he was twice Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for South Asian affairs. He became Director of Studies at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University in 1995. He is the author of the book,”The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir,” published in 2009.
Vijay — Thanks for sending this. I find minimal interest both within the USG and elsewhere in this country in the Kashmir issue. Witness, most recently, the tiny attendance at Radha Kumar’s talk at Brookings on the Kashmir interlocutors’ report. Sure, if you ask people who have thought about Kashmir in the past they will offer opinions along the various lines you suggest. But you don’t find them volunteering ideas for a settlement, in important part because they recognize that there’s no realistic market for these here — or anywhere else for that matter.
This could change were the present relatively quiet situation in Kashmir to turn violent again. Witness the outburst of interest two summers ago when kids were being shot in the streets of Valley towns. But when things calm down “specialists” and others will again find other more profitable grist for their mills.
In January we posted on southasiahand.com an article I had written for the South Asia Journal, “U.S. Kashmir Policy in the Obama Administration and Beyond.” If you haven’t looked at it, you might usefully do so. I don’t think matters have changed since then. In fact, Obama’s recent interview confirms more plainly than ever that the U.S. will continue to do no more than cheer from the sidelines. The president didn’t even add, as the George W. Bush administration used to do, that Washington would we willing to play a more robust role if both sides wanted us to. (U.S. policymakers always recognized that given Indian views they could be confident that no such request would ever be made.) I can’t imagine a Romney administration taking a different approach.
3. Mr. Scott Bates, President of the Center for National Policy (CNP), a leading Washington based Think Tank devoted to national and international security issues. The former U.S. Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer was the former President of the CNP.
Vijay, Congratulations on continuing your position as a clear, articulate and powerful voice on this issue. Outstanding. Scott
FOLLOW-UP COMMENT BY THE AUTHOR IN THE DAILY RISING KASHMIR
Reality Check on Kashmir’s Political Future
This is in response to the article, “Pakistan’s Reality Check on Kashmir” written by Shujaat Bhukhari in Rising Kashmir. I have read the article with great interest. As much as some Kashmiri commentators and columnists like to fantasize on the political future of Kashmir, the reality is that what will happen at the end, to a large extent, will depend on the deal that India and Pakistan will cook among themselves and get the major powers to endorse. Kashmiris can have a decisive role in the process, but that will not happen unless Kashmiris realize that such a role will only come out of a well thought out political strategy and not because these parties will come begging to Kashmiris to hear their wishes and grant them unconditionally.
Kashmiris have two choices – they can continue to ignore reality and aspire for impossible dreams (in my childhood we would call such wishful thinking as khayali pullao), or we can make the best out of a bad situation. The former approach is not only a favorite of the hard-core lobby personified by Syed Ali Geelani, but I would also lump the JKNC and the PDP with the same lobby, since fuzzy rhetoric apart none of those entities really want to see a change in the political status quo.
The Mirwaiz faction, on the other hand, knows the reality but this group does not command loyalty or passions to the same pitch that leaders of the status-quo lobby do. The media could show its smarts, but prefers the wishful thinking in so far as the solution to the Kashmir dispute is concerned. So Farooqs, Bhats and Lones do not know how to carry masses along. The net result is that the political status quo will continue.
In my commentary on “The American Policy and Kashmir Dispute,” published by this esteemed newspaper about 6 weeks back, I mentioned the prescription that some American policy makers have suggested. I strongly believe that if Kashmiris are proactive in demanding demarcation of the international boundary, many options for self-governance are possible on either side of the international border that will not be finalized without the assent of the major powers who do want to see Kashmiris treated with dignity and fairness. In return, the entire deal – from international border demarcation to quality of self-governance – forms a single package that will involve approval of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). I would like to propose that we move towards that goal now, rather than later, when India has a strong possibility to be a permanent member of the UNSC.
Such an approach will require courage on the part of Kashmiri politicians, and Kashmiri commentators and columnists have to get real to allow such a process to proceed. In my humble view, we can continue as usual or do something remarkable to bring peace and prosperity in the entire region.
Dr. Vijay Sazawal is a policy analyst and a commentator who specializes in local governance and intra-community issues affecting political dynamics within the Kashmir valley. He has written extensively on the current political turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir (commonly referred to as Kashmir), arguing for new and innovative approaches in understanding and resolving the simmering discontent in all communities and regions of the State.

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A ban on autumn muck-spreading is being reviewed by ministers as part of efforts to prevent a slump in food production sparked by a global shortage of fertiliser.
Farmers have called on the Government to change the rules over fears that soaring gas prices could lead to some food shortages and hit their profits.
The National Farmers Union said farmers should be able to use manure as an organic alternative to artificial fertiliser, for which gas is a key ingredient, as it becomes more scarce.
The cost of fertilizer, essential for growing crops and grass for livestock, has quadrupled in the past year in some instances following sanctions on Russia.
The NFU’s wide-ranging proposals were shared with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) last week and discussions are ongoing.
They also asked for gas supplies to be “preserved, protected and prioritized” for food production if food security was at risk.
Farmers are not permitted to spread manure on their fields in the autumn. Doing so would help them build healthier soils ahead of planting next year’s crops, they claim.
Defra expects to publish new guidance on the so-called farming rules for water, including muck-spreading, this spring.
The Environment Agency has previously said the rules were designed to prevent water pollution from agriculture, and the practice could be harmful.
Mark Topliff, a lead analyst at Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, an arms-length body of Defra that works with farmers, said: “The cost of inputs has been increasing for a few months before the Ukraine crisis, so what that has done is continued that trend and increased the price of those key inputs like fertiliser.
“Fertiliser is a big one for farms, one of their main costs. If you bought fertilizer in October, November last year, and if you applied the same amount this year as you did last year, you’d find that your costs have increased by up to £ 200 per hectare, which is significant. “
Mr Topliff said farmers were trying to reduce the amount of industrial fertilizer they can apply to their crops this year to cut costs.
“They’re looking at whether they can use 60pc they’ve bought [for] this year and save 40pc for next year and be able to top that up and prices will hopefully be a bit lower, ”he added.
Using less fertilizer would mean lower wheat yield, however. He added that organic alternatives, such as livestock manure, “could certainly have some influence” in winter time.


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- Select ULT models with integrated or cloud-based temperature monitoring data services.
Other Important Cold Chain Management Considerations
While most think the initial purchase price of a ULT freezer is the most important factor, there are other questions that should be asked when buying a new unit.
- Can custom high-density storage racks and boxes be utilized to maximize the interior cabinet space?
- When electrical supply is disrupted, is there a backup cooling system in place or can one be added to the freezer? Options include liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide.
- Consider the big picture when purchasing a new ULT freezer. The initial purchase price may be lower, but what are the floor space costs, HVAC cost impacts, energy consumption costs and maintenance costs? You might be surprised to find that the cheapest purchase price might not be the cheapest freezer in the long run.
Maintaining Efficacy in Last-Mile Pharma Cold Chain and Patient Point of Use
One of the most significant challenges of pharmaceutical products patient administration is maintaining safe and effective doses over long holding periods in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies. In the past, these facilities have rarely been equipped with ULT freezers. Conventional ULT freezers are typically too expense, bulky and noisy for this type of clinical setting and dry ice does not provide the long-term temperature stability needed to safely store many advanced temperature-sensitive materials like mRNA.
In the last mile of the cold chain management, many are now opting for Stirling undercounter ULTs, benchtop or portable ULT appliances, which are ideal for use in small, rural or remote locations. These smaller units can be easily moved throughout clinical sites, even using alternative power sources, accommodating universal voltage requirements for global deployment by simply changing the power cord. These unique, compact models can provide point-of-use clinics peace of mind with precise temperature setpoint control and the ability to monitor and log dose temperatures for a continuous audit trail. Using these small ULT freezers will also help avoid last mile cold storage bottlenecks and get to patients faster, including populations in developing regions of the world.
The Future of Pharma Cold Chain and Precision Medicine Logistics Looks Bright
With COVID-19 storage bringing ULT freezers to the spotlight, this ultracold storage equipment is becoming an integral factor in all phases of the coming cell and gene revolution. Because the limited life span, supply chain access and temperature control of dry ice is not a reliable method for protecting these biological materials over extended periods of time, innovative ULT storage applications are paving the way for pharmaceutical companies, logistics providers and clinical point-of-care facilities to scale up their ultracold storage capacity.


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Usually when movies use Paris as a romantic backdrop, it's a young couple who gets to occupy the foreground. Not so with "Le Week-End," a tale of two aging tourists - he a professor of philosophy, she a teacher - who've chosen to "celebrate" their 30th anniversary in (where else? ) the City of Lights.
Like many couples who have been together for a long time, Nick and Meg Burroughs often seem to have more things that are driving them apart than bringing them together. Not only have they grown tired of each other's all-too-predictable habits and quirks, but Meg, in particular, feels that now, with the kids grown and gone, it may be time for the two of them to move on and to spend what little time they have left getting to know themselves as individuals rather than as a couple.
Because the screenplay by Hanif Kureishi is clearly focused on an older couple, the film captures the paradox that exists at the core of lasting romantic love: that the very same predictable patterns and dull routines that, over time, work to deaden love are also what enhance intimacy and bind us inexorably to one another over the long haul.
Though Meg and Nick are still clearly sexual beings, even that fact has caused some tension and division between them, namely in an affair Nick had awhile back and for which he is perpetually atoning. Yet, the script is smart enough to know that what is said in the heat of the moment is not always indicative of what is in the heart.
Much of the second half of the film takes place at a posh and pretentious dinner party thrown by an old college buddy of Nick's, an American author and intellectual played by Jeff Goldblum.
Director Roger Michell keeps the tone serious and intimate without becoming heavy-handed or preachy. He allows the characters to reveal their depth through conversation and the way they interact with the world and each other. He is aided immeasurably by the skilled and incisive performances of Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, who make us truly believe that they are a couple who have grown both comfortable and complacent with one another over time. Above all, "Le Week-End" acknowledges that relationships are tricky and complex things and come with no pat or easy instructions to make them easier to navigate our way through.
After "Le Week-End," it may not be necessary for Richard Linklater to make another "Before " movie, after all. I think Kureishi and Michell might have done it already.
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Meg, a teacher, and husband Nick, a philosophy lecturer who may just be about to get the push on the eve of retirement, spend a week-end in Paris to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. He is staid, annoying his foul-mouthed wife who wants to turn the holiday into a series of exciting new experiences, booking into a hotel that stretches their budgets and running off from a restaurant without paying. She is also averse to his touching her and what was meant to be a belated second honeymoon is a depressing affair, full of arguments - including one about the son who has recently left home to live in squalor and whom Meg does not want to return. By chance they meet an old university friend of Nick, Morgan, an American high-flyer who invites them to a party where Meg can still turn men's heads and Nick has a conversation with Morgan's young son, leading him to believe that he is not as badly off as he had presumed. Ultimately there appears to be hope for the marriage.
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Snookums is a cat food for cats with chutzpah; cats that are rough, tough and have had enough of your negligent and embarrassing, human behavior. The objective was to differentiate the Snookums brand from competitors using a unique "un-sugarcoated" portrayal of cats, channelling frustrations felt by cats worldwide and the guilt and flaws of their human masters.
The brand had to also visually stand apart; and does so, due to it's simplicity and "no bull" look and feel, which mimics the Snookums' felines attitude toward the consumer.
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Millennium Godzilla Best is a dazzling soundtrack compilation that shows off some of Akira Ifukube's best and most interesting music -- surprisingly, the music is not limited to the Godzilla movies, or even to Toho Studios' monster movies, but extends to the company's space-oriented science fiction releases, including The Mysterians and Atragon. The 30-track, 73-minute CD opens with the three most familiar motifs from Ifukube's monumental 1954 score for Gojira (aka Godzilla), highlighted by the pounding, piano-driven theme depicting the monster's rampage in Tokyo and the dirge-like score for the shots of the city in ruins. It then jumps to the compelling if less familiar music from Rodan (much of which was replaced for the U.S. release of the movie), with its widely spaced horn parts above shimmering strings, and the rather manic-paced, wild-tempo, horn-driven martial music forThe Mysterians, which also includes music that Ifukube would appropriate for Dagora, the Space Monster and some of his 1990s Godzilla movies. The first treat for scholars and connoisseurs is hearing the original theme from Varan the Unbelievable (complete with chorus) which, in 1965, became Rodan's theme in Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster -- realizing that his Varan music had been virtually unheard outside of Japan, and not wishing to see good material go to waste, the composer found a more prominent place for it. Similarly, in Battle in Outer Space, the composer took his "Japanese Army March" from Godzilla and expanded it in new and startling directions for this story of pilots defending the Earth. The Polynesian-influenced choral music that opens King Kong vs. Godzilla is better than the movie for which it was written, and "Godzilla's Resurrection" sounds like part of a symphony (other parts of his scores seem to show the influence of Stravinsky). His music depicting the volunteer corps entering battle from Atragon is, similarly, an almost symphonic-scale development of the martial elements that appeared in the Godzilla score. Godzilla vs. Mothra (aka Godzilla vs. the Thing) is amazingly lyrical and poignant in its scoring, at least as represented here -- one doesn't remember the movie having as much lyricism as the score reveals. "The Birth of King Ghidorah" from Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster echoes elements of Dimitri Tiomkin in its use of muted horns, with an almost Straussian over-scoring, while the two sections from Frankenstein Conquers the World's score are much darker, more ominous pieces of music, relying heavily on the lower strings and brasses -- until the surprisingly upbeat march kicks in. Monster Zero's score makes use of the same core military march used in the first Godzilla movie and The Mysterians, re-composed yet again. Although it is a march, the first of two such pieces from War of the Gargantuas comes off as almost too complex for what it purports to be, and sounds more like it is part of some lost symphonic work. Destroy All Monsters seems to pick up the same material in its title theme, with more of an emphasis on strings in its orchestration. And Terror of Mechagodzilla's "Resurrection of Godzilla" gives the composer an opportunity to resurrect the main "Godzilla" theme and re-explore the various motifs that he'd established across two decades. The sound quality ranges from good to excellent, despite the somewhat awkward attempts to create an artificial "stereo" effect with some of the mono tracks -- the good, modern digital transfers are adequate compensation. The annotation and credits are almost entirely in Japanese, but the material is sufficiently recognizable to fans so that they'll have little trouble maneuvering around this CD.
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COVID-19 & Pets
We know that pet parents are concerned about COVID-19, especially with cases in humans reported in Louisiana, and we want to make sure that you have the most up-to-date information regarding your pet’s well-being.
If you visit us, rest assured we are following guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are require our guests to do the same. We are practicing enhanced cleaning protocols, social distancing, daily health checks and masks to ensure our visitors and team’s safety. All of our locations are closed for walk-in visitors and every service will require an appointment. Contact us to make an appointment.
COVID-19 Pet Facts
There is currently no evidence that you can get COVID-19 from your pet. If you test positive for the Corona virus and have to self-quarantine, keep your pet with you at home. Your pet does not need to be surrendered to an animal shelter or rescue group. Help us keep pets and people together!
According to the CDC, testing for cats and dogs is now available via some veterinary industry and diagnostic labs – making testing for individual pet owners a possibility. Despite the availability of testing, it is NOT recommended for most owners or shelters except in the very specific situations in which all three of the following criteria are met:
- direct exposure to a known COVID-19 positive person
- pet shows signs of respiratory illness
- diagnostics for other causes of symptoms from URI have been done
Have A Pet Plan
While it’s not fun to imagine, now is an important time to create a plan for your pet in case you get sick. This week, we strongly encourage you gather any members of your household and walk through the following steps to ensure your animals will be well cared for in the event of an emergency.
If you do become too ill to physically care for your pet or you need to be hospitalized, who can take over for you? Is there anyone else in your home who could help? Maybe a neighbor, friend, coworker, or family member who could take them in? Even a groomer, daycare, or boarding facility may be able to help in your time of need with advance notice. But the most important thing you can do today is come up with 2 potential pet plans and talk directly with those people so they’re prepared in case they’re called into action
Prepare a kit with supplies for your pet. It may not seem necessary today, but we promise it will be helpful if you find yourself in an emergency situation without the ability to track down proper supplies. Your kit should include the following, as best as you’re able:
- Name and contact information for the person who can care for your pets
- Name and contact information about your back-up just in case your go-to is no longer able to help
- Food, treats, a leash, a couple of toys, and any other supplies necessary to care for your pet for at least two weeks
- A crate or carrier to transport your pet
- Vaccination records
- Collars with ID tags (and don’t forget to make sure your pet’s microchip information is up to date)
- Medications and prescriptions, along with a list of instructions
- Daily care instructions
- Contact information for your veterinary clinic
COVID-19 Pet Parent Resources
For trusted sources on up-to-date information for pets and people, the Louisiana SPCA recommends the following:
We know so many in our community have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are struggling to care for your pet or possibly facing eviction, we are here to help. In addition to the resources we can provide to help care for your pet, we are keeping a running list of the best resources for pet families who rent during this difficult time.

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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine
In Paris, 1884, George Seurat strives to transform the way we see. While he sketches in a park, preoccupied with composition, balance, light and harmony, his subjects are busy wrestling with life in a changing world - in particular, his muse and mistress, Dot. A century on, another visual artist - also named George - faces a similar dilemma as he attempts to forge a new direction amidst the pressure of high-end commissions and the merciless glare of New York critics. Inspired by Seurat's Impressionist painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Sunday in the Park with George is a masterpiece in its own right. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine bring the past into the present tense, with poignant and painful truths about life, love, the creation of art and the struggle to be seen. This acclaimed Pulitzer Prize, Olivier and Tony Award winning musical from Sondheim repertory company, Watch This, follows a sell-out season of A Little Night Music in 2018.
Duration: 150 minutes including interval
Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia.
Proudly supported by Lyngala Foundation and the generous Friends of Watch This annual giving circle.
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RAD's FCD-IP access unit with integrated router is an E1/T1 or Fractional E1/T1 access device that enables service providers to bundle data, voice and IP access services over a single E1 or T1 access line. The FCD-IP access unit with integrated router supports WAN services such as E1 or T1 over a fibre optic link, Frame Relay with auto learn and ISDN BRI for data backup. An integrated router supports IP routing and transparent bridging.
The FCD-IP an ideal solution for small to medium size companies needing to integrate their voice and data traffic and access the Internet via a Fractional E1/T1 line.
- Simple, low cost solution
- Drop-and-Insert port maximises utilisation of an E1/T1 line and reduces the number of required ports on the access line
- A single IP address reduces costs and increases security
- Filtering reduces WAN traffic
- Integrated firewall increases network security
The FCD-IP is an access unit for full or Fractional E1/T1 services with an integrated router. It can be ordered with one or two independent Ethernet LAN ports or alternatively with an integrated four-port switch that can replace an external hub or switch. An optional data port, sub-E1/T1 drop-and-insert port or four analog ports (FXS, FXO, E&M) are also available. The data port rates are selectable for any multiple of 56 kbps or 64 kbps, up to 1,984 kbps.
The FCD-IP is available with a software selectable internal LTU, and allows direct connection to the E1 network or connection via an external LTU. A built-in CSU/DSU allows direct connection to a T1 network.
The integrated router supports:
The FCD-IP operates with RAD's modular DXC multi-service access node products for multilink star applications, including access to SDH networks. The DXC and FCD-IP units operate under centralised SNMP network management.
Programmable time slot allocation
Times lot assignment is programmable, allowing data from the LAN, sub-E1/T1, analog voice and data ports to be placed into time slots, either consecutively or alternately. The FCD-IP also allows flexible allocation of the data port time slots. Each time slot of the sub-E1/T1 port is placed on the same time slot of the main E1/T1 link.
Data from the data port can either be assigned transparently to the main link time slots or routed together with the LAN data.
Ring and drop-and-insert capabilities
FCD-IP provides up to four fractional E1 links with automatic bypass in case of link failure. This unit can be deployed in ring and daisy chain applications together with the Megaplex multiplexers, to affordably connect smaller sites to the E1 ring, while at the same time offering the same self-healing link protection capabilities as the larger devices. The E1 interface meets all requirements of ITU recommendations G.703, G.704, G.706 and G.732.
The T1 interface is compatible with virtually all carrier-provided T1 services.
Setup, control and monitoring of status and diagnostic information can be done using:
The FCD-IP supports an internal SNMP agent and can be controlled by any generic SNMP station or by the RADview SNMP network management application.
The FCD-IP supports dial-in, which can be used for remote out-of-band configuration and monitoring. Maintenance capabilities include user-activated local and remote loopbacks. The FCD-IP is available as a standalone unit for the desktop or a 19-inch rack shelf.
- IP/IPX routing and transparent bridging
- Optional ISDN backup for data
- Supports Frame Relay (RFC 1490) and PPP protocols
- OSPF support
- Optional data port
- Data interfaces: V.35, RS-530, V.36/RS-449, V.24, X.21
- Selectable sync data rates: n x 56 kbps, n x 64 kbps
- Three optional sub-E1/T1 ports or four analog ports (FXS, FXO, E&M) for PBX/phone connectivity
- Drop-and-insert capability
- Ring capability Fail-safe sub-E1/T1 ensures uninterrupted service
- Dial backup over ISDN/PSTN
- Operates with RAD's DXC multi-service access node for multilink star configuration SNMP, Telnet or control port management
- Management via DTS on E1/T1
Our service portfolio is tailored to each individual customer’s needs. We aim to offer complimentary services to our customers to help them deliver the service level agreements they are contracted to provide.
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The importance of training new employees
Safety and health training should begin as soon as employees are hired, the National Safety Council states, because workers generally will be open to ideas and information about how their new organization operates.
Another reason to begin safety and health training right away? New employees are more likely to experience a work-related incident because of lack of experience, a lack of familiarity with the company’s procedures and an eagerness to work, according to NSC.
The council recommends a number of training topics in the orientation process for new workers. They include safety, health and environmental policies; housekeeping standards; hazard communication; emergency response procedures; care and use of personal protective equipment; incident reporting and investigating procedures; first aid and CPR; ergonomics principles; and fire prevention plans.
Workplaces should develop a formal safety orientation program to “forge a strong link between all employees and the organization’s safety and health policy,” NSC states.
Steps for supervisors
Safety and health training for new employees can be complicated and time-consuming, particularly for busy supervisors. But it’s important to make new employee training a priority. NSC encourages supervisors to stay up to date on training and safety policies to avoid contradicting advice in the organization’s training manual and safety policies. In addition, they should be involved in the development of training programs to help ensure the information is timely. “If [supervisors] disregard or contradict the training manual, the entire program and the company’s image lose credibility with the workers,” NSC cautions.
Show new employees how safety works at the organization – don’t ask them to only read the manuals and policies.
NSC offers the following as an example: If a new worker has been trained on how to read warning labels on chemical containers, enhance this worker’s training by taking him or her on a tour of the building, and pointing out hazardous material and how to properly identify them.
And keep in mind the importance of practicing what you preach. “‘Leading by example’ is a concept critical to the success of the safety and health program,” the council states.


Senator Tim Scott outshines President Biden | Schaftlein Report
1) Biden's Speech - "Higher Taxes, Crushing Debt and Open Borders" - Sen. Tom Cotton
2) The Left attacks Senator Scott as "Uncle Tim" This is an insult the American people will Not tolerate. Why no comment from NAACP and BLM?
3) Border disaster - Never mentioned in speech. Sen. Kelly (D-AZ) "What is the solution" David Axelrod - "Biden offered NO solution"
4) Electronic Security? No Wall No Policy
5) Biden talks about police reform while officers are being killed
6) Biden equates 1-06 Capital Insurrection to worst attack since Civil War. Whoa What about 9-11 with over 3,000 Americans killed. Brain dead comment.
7) $1.8T new spending on "human Infrastructure is a REDISTRIBUTION
8) GDP grows at 6.4%, Unemployment claims at lowest level since pandemic started
9) Biden Administration want to Federalize Voting taking control away from States as the Constitution stipulates
10) QUIT calling everything RACIST - We KNOW it is a LIE
11) Simon & Schuster pushes back against WOKE employees in Trump Administration book publishing - NO Cancellation good for them!


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The Yukpa chief Sabino Romero should be remembered as having staged a 21st century Indian uprising. Having been chased from their ancestral lands in western Venezuela during the last century, the Yukpas under his leadership managed to recuperate a great part of that territory, taking it back from powerful ranchers. Sabino did this with a scrappy group of followers and (to the lasting shame of many of us) with little outside support, including scant support from the revolutionary government that he consistently identified with.
Eventually this led to the inevitable happening: the chief’s being gunned down by a hit-man in the service of local ranchers. In spite of the complicity of the region’s police forces, the ranchers took a long time to achieve their goal: in 2006 they sponsored several assassination attempts, all of them unsuccessful; in 2008 they arrived at his family house but only succeeded in beating up his 97-year-old father, who died two weeks later; in 2012 three of his fellow Yukpa leaders were killed by the ranchers’ men; on March 3 of 2013 two days before Chávez’s death– a news piece that when it came helped to cover up the story – they fatally shot him.
Much of this is documented in a very good, if low-budget film that Carlos Azpúrua has recently completed. The film is critical in an intelligent way. That is, it shows rather than says what happened, letting people, including the ranchers, speak for themselves. This hands-off approach makes Sabino Vive: las últimas fronteras all the more forceful, since the facts are all there and the conclusions unavoidable, including that the government was complicitous in his death, if only through inaction.
Many people, even those whose perspective is not slanted by interest in the Yukpa’s lands – which are of great strategic and economic value – have a difficult time seeing this issue clearly. Some blame the Yukpa for the attitudes assumed by a few anarchist hotheads who support them. But are they really responsible for all of their supporters? Some say that the Yukpa are inveterate cattle rustlers. But do these indigenous people not have a right (like the wood-gatherers that the young Marx defended on the basis of their “customary rights”) to cull from lands that were originally theirs?
One thing that Azpúrua’s film shows is that indigenous cultures are not frozen in time but are often flexible and even dynamic. Far from being passive, Sabino understood the revolutionary goals that Chávez proposed – perhaps better than Chávez himself did on a few important points – and he made them his own with words and actions. Along with his feathered headdress that said “REVOLUCIÓN,” the Yukpa chief typically donned a tricolor sash and Chavist T-shirts. In fact, it makes sense that an indigenous society – a society that does not see the world only in terms of market-values – would have greater clarity about the use-values that a socialist revolution proposes to recover and promote. Such use-values include human dignity, the national “patria,” and the land-as-a-home-and-not-merely-as-a-resource. Sabino consistently (and irritatingly for some) kept his eyes on all of these objectives.
Perhaps the biggest lesson that this film has for us in Venezuela today – apart from the priority of restoring the Yukpa’s lands and rights and punishing the intellectual and material authors of Sabino’s murder (who mysteriously seem to have had their sentences shortened) – is the importance of keeping one’s eyes on the prize and insisting on it. A labyrinth of sophisticated tactics is sometimes necessary in a process of socialist transition, but it can serve just as well for confusing oneself and one’s followers, if one does not maintain a certain simplicity and directness. Here the example of Sabino and other indigenous leaders is marvelous; in the initial shots of Azpúrua’s film the Yukpa chief says very clearly that the problem is capitalists (he uses that word): by contrast, our governors today almost never identify this as the problem without immediately qualifying and confusing the issue.
Chris Gilbert is professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela.


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The Florida Panthers fell to the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0 in a rare day game on Sunday at PPG Paints Arena.
The Panthers play most of their games in the evening hours, and maybe that explains their competitiveness in this one. The Penguins jumped out to a lead in the first period, and only added on from there. At times, the Panthers appeared to be unable to keep up with the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Florida had won two of the last three games it played before this one. With slim playoff hopes remaining, the Panthers need every win they can get. After this defeat, Florida has a record of 31-29-11 and only ten games left in the season.
The Panthers had only 21 shots on goal during the entire course of the game, which made things relatively easy for Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. The Penguins meanwhile had 28 shots on goal, and Florida goalie James Reimer only stopped 24 of them.
Three of Pittsburgh's goals came courtesy of Sidney Crosby. The 29-year old completed the hat trick, despite only taking four shots on goal total in the contest.
Both teams did a good job of stopping power plays in the game, with each squad going 0-4 on their advantages.
The Panthers will hope for better results when they host the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.


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Temple Brown’s main adviser that is legal indicted for and pleaded responsible to usury, exactly the same crime as her customer.
Temple Brown’s primary adviser that is legal indicted for and pleaded accountable to usury, similar criminal activity as her client.
Correspondence between lawyers and their customers is usually protected and privileged from such prosecution. But prosecutors maintained Temple was offering “false advice” in direct breach of brand new York legislation, and therefore she was therefore connected with and instrumental in Brown’s unlawful tasks that her communication had been at the mercy of disclosure. Beaver, the principle officer that is operating Brown’s organizations, managed the payday company on every single day to day basis and took part in most of Brown’s major company choices, prosecutors stated.
Some of the money Brown earned will be returned to his victims in New York, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance under the terms of his plea deal.
“The defendants in cases like this have actually admitted to participating in a scheme to produce usurious loans to New Yorkers,” Vance stated in a news launch. “with one of these responsible pleas as well as the establishment of the settlement investment, we now have taken one step toward righting the wrongs brought by some people of this exploitative industry.”


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VE Day SPECIAL: LOTTE MOORE (Children’s Author, WW2 Evacuee & Friend of WINSTON Churchill)
On this special VE Day, we bring to you an interview between Grow’s own Joff Alexander-Frye and 84-year old author and WW2 evacuee Lotte Moore, who is an inspiration and a mouthpiece for a generation which represents resilience, humility and selflessness. With the challenging backdrop of COVID-19 in mind, which we celebrate this VE Day against, we have arguably never needed to hear the wisdom and example of Lotte’s generation more than now.
At the tender age of just four year’s old, Lotte Moore remembers being told by her parents that she had to pack her bags and move away to Herefordshire immediately, due to the war. She was one of the millions of children who were evacuated during World War Two and she spent two whole years in the countryside, away from her family and her home, with no contact with her parents whatsoever.
Then , at just nine years old, she shared with me her memories of VE Day itself:
“I remember it as clearly as if it were yesterday. It changed everything for the adults in our lives and suddenly everyone was jumping about and singing, the church bells were singing, all of the street lights were turned on. It was an incredible sudden day and none of us children really understood what was going on. Then we heard Churchill’s voice – ‘The war is over!’ – booming out of the radio. My mother suddenly threw a Union Jack flag around her, jumped on a lorry and off she went cheering. Everyone was doing an extraordinary dance called The Conga, all zipping around the village. It was a day of such joy. I shall never forget it.”
She went on to tell me how, before the war began, Lotte and her family would regularly spend time with Winston Churchill and his wife at Chartwell. On one occasion, Lotte’s younger brother got in trouble with their parents when he swam underneath Churchill, who was floating in his pool, and turned him over in the water! Lotte’s mother screamed, “Don’t drown the Prime Minister” and her brother naively replied, “who’s the Prime Minister?”
Lotte wrote her memories down in a book called Lotte’s War (Urbane Publications), which was adapted by Nick Bromley and renamed ‘A Child’s War’ – the play tells the story of a little girl and her childhood in Britain during World War Two. Lotte freely gives her time, when not in lockdown with her 86-year-old husband Chris in their Hammersmith home, to visit schools, read to the children, show them the rations they had to endure (including Spam and tapioca pudding) and answer their questions about WW2. She has visited more than 200 schools and once the pandemic is over, despite a broken back, plans to visit even more!
Her childhood memories include barrage balloons, rationing, living in dorms with many other children, missing her family and her home, returning to West London in total darkness, living by candlelight and in fear for their lives as houses around them were bombed (the moment she realised the truth of what war really meant) and then moving to Chipstead, Chevening in Kent, where the whole village spent hours, sometimes days, in a massive cave underneath their garden which was used as an air-raid shelter.
Lotte’s father, John Pudney, was a pilot and she recalls knowing the war was over when he returned home wearing his own clothes, not his uniform, and the joy she felt at that realisation. John Pudney wrote the famous wartime poem ‘For Johnny’ and her grandfather, AP Herbert was an MP, a close friend of Winston Churchill and a novelist.
I also asked Lotte how she felt that the current COVID-19 crisis has been often likened to ‘wartime conditions’. With a mixture of honesty and grace, she replied:
“With this virus, I find it terrifying. In the war, you knew it was Hitler and you didn’t want him to invade your island and you were very frightened. But this virus is much more frightening for me. It is insidious, it is silent and it is invisible. We’re not allowed out, because we’re ‘oldies’ and I have bad lungs. The end of the war was so special and I think it is so important to pass on our stories to the children of today. We should be called ‘the valuables’ not ‘the vulnerable.’ We are able to pass on so much history to them, for them to tell their children when they are older.”
I’d go as far as to say that Lotte’s generation is an example of the resilience which is embedded in the DNA of our country. We’ve never needed reminding of that as much as we do at the moment.
I asked Lotte what she would be doing to celebrate VE Day and, with an excited grin on her face, she commented:
Tomorrow, i’m going to stand on my doorstep with all of my neighbours who I haven’t seen and i’m going to give them a song sheet and we’re all going to sing a few war songs and wave flags together to celebrate. It is a wonderful time to celebrate together.
In a spontaneous and special moment, our time together drew to a close with Lotte starting to sing a few of the war songs that she so treasures. as we sang the choruses of We’ll Meet Again (made famous by Vera Lynn) and Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag’, I was struck by the lasting impact that Lotte’s childhood has had on her – an indelible imprint infused with both sorrow and joy. How fitting for these strange times that we find ourselves in at the moment.

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FDIC released the hypothetical economic scenarios for use in the upcoming stress tests for covered institutions with total consolidated assets of more than USD 250 billion. The supervisory scenarios include baseline and severely adverse scenarios. FDIC coordinated with FED and OCC in developing and distributing these scenarios.
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The ‘shadow economy’ might affect your business more than you think.
The shadow economy is a large and unruly beast. Whether it’s a customer paying cash for a job, a business altering sales dockets, right through to the sale of illegal goods, or the sale of legal goods in an illegal fashion, it is all part of the shadow economy.
Paying less tax means that businesses engaged in the shadow economy can lower their prices and charges, making it more difficult for businesses doing the right thing to compete.
Paying cash wages means that employees don’t need to declare their wages. That can be a strong incentive to avoid working for those businesses that pay wages according to the regulations set out by the Australian Taxation Office.
Individuals and businesses operating outside legal avenues will not be counted in government statistics, and that means the statistics the government gathers will not be complete.
You might wonder if that is a significant problem. As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) points out, it means that government funding and initiatives may be based on incorrect data. That affects the way policy and programs are run.
The IMF points out that more tax evasion can lead to higher tax rates as governments attempt to balance the books.
Why is the Shadow Economy Growing?
The shadow economy is less likely to occur in countries with lower tax, less regulation and laws and a rule of law that is established.
Countries with higher taxes and social security payments and complex or poorly administered laws add to the cost of labour, and this can drive the shadow economy.
Countries with restrictions of who can enter the official labour market also have larger shadow economies.
What is being done?
The shadow economy (black economy, underground economy) is on the agenda for the Federal government. The 2017-18 budget includes measures that will be undertaken to gain control of tax evasion.
Below are the key points in the budget overview:
- Banning the technology that gives businesses the ability to falsify sales records and reduce their tax.
- Pursuing money generated by criminal activity.
- Reduce tax evasion by multinational companies, including banks and insurance companies, foreign partnerships and foreign trusts.
- Capital gains tax will be applied to all foreign owned property sales.
- Keeping a close eye on GST avoidance.
- Removing the ability to claim deductions for travel costs incurred from ownership of a residential investment property.
Together, the government hopes these measures will target the shadow economy.
Q: Do you think the shadow economy affects your business?
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