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NEW YORK - It's never too late to start exercising, according to a new study that found formerly inactive seniors who took up exercise still experienced health benefits.
The study sheds light on the question of whether the slower mental and physical decline seen among active seniors extends to former couch potatoes who begin exercising later in life.
"Regular physical activity in older age is important to remain healthy. However, taking up physical activity at old age is also beneficial," Mark Hamer told Reuters Health in an email. He led the study at University College London.
These findings "underscore the importance of prevention as well as rehabilitation," said Ursula M. Staudinger, who directs the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center in New York City.
"When you start later in life you can still get gains," Staudinger, who was not part of the research team, said.
For their study, Hamer and his coauthors analysed information on 3,454 healthy seniors involved in the ongoing English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Participants reported how much they exercised at the start of the study, in 2002 to 2003. Researchers then followed them through regular health surveys for the next eight years.
At follow-up, 19 per cent of the seniors were considered to be aging healthily. That is, they had not developed any major chronic diseases or depression and had not experienced any deterioration in their physical or mental status during the study period.
Seniors who were active at least once a week at the start of the study and remained active were the most likely to experience healthy aging. But those who started exercising during the study period benefited as well, Hamer and his colleagues reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.


Soyuz MS-02 launch now targeted for October 19
Russia has re-scheduled the launch of the Soyuz MS-02 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), setting Oct. 19 as the new launch date. The spacecraft assigned to transport the three Expedition 49 crew members to the orbiting lab are scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz-FG launcher, at 4:03 a.m. EDT (8:03 GMT), from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
“It is planned that the primary and backup crews depart for the launch site on October 7. The launch is scheduled for October 19, 11:03 Moscow time (08:03 GMT),” a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told TASS.
The start of the Soyuz MS-02 mission was initially targeted for Sept. 23 but was delayed due to a technical malfunction – a burned cable inside the spacecraft. Last week, the Roscosmos State Corporation announced that the launch would be rescheduled for Nov. 1. It was decided to send the crew back to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow to continue training until the new launch date gets closer.
Soyuz MS-02 will be the second mission of the upgraded Soyuz-MS spacecraft. The crew for this mission consists of NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko.
The first Soyuz MS spacecraft, designated Soyuz MS-01, had also suffered an anomaly that delayed its launch. The MS-01 mission, which transported Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins to the ISS, was postponed from June 24 to July 7, due to a malfunction in the spacecraft’s system of traffic guidance.
Developed by RKK Energia, the seven-metric-ton Soyuz MS spacecraft is a modified version of the Russia’s flagship Soyuz TMA crewed vehicle that is the sole means of access to the ISS.
Some of the modifications incorporated into the Soyuz MS include an improved position control engine and a GLONASS/GPS system. The spacecraft also has a new approach and docking system, a new computer, and more power-efficient solar panels.
Tomasz Nowakowski is the owner of Astro Watch, one of the premier astronomy and science-related blogs on the internet. Nowakowski reached out to SpaceFlight Insider in an effort to have the two space-related websites collaborate. Nowakowski's generous offer was gratefully received with the two organizations now working to better relay important developments as they pertain to space exploration.


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While pay stubs provide a detailed snapshot of your earnings and deductions, the W-2 is an official report that your employer issues detailing your annual earnings and deductions withheld for tax filing purposes.
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- Why Is My Final Pay Stub Different From My W-2?
- 3 Reasons Why the Gross Amount on Your End-Of-Year Pay Stub May Be Different Than the Amount on Your W-2
Why Is My Final Pay Stub Different From My W-2?
At first glance, you might assume that the final pay stub of the year and the W-2 form should mirror each other, given that both document your working days in pay stubs, earnings, and deductions for the year. But this isn’t actually the case, and here’s why.
As per our expertise, your final pay stub is a detailed breakdown of the last payment period of the year, including gross pay, taxes, and other deductions. It reflects the real-time calculations of your salary paystubs hours and withholdings for that particular pay period.
In contrast, the W-2 form is a summary of your total annual earnings and taxes withheld. As such, it essentially accounts for all adjustments made over the year, which might not be reflected in your pay stubs, including:
- other taxable items, like compensation or prizes
Based on our first-hand experience, these two documents often contain similar financial information due to the timing of certain payroll processes and tax treatments.
For instance, certain payroll deductions might be tax-exempt, affecting the final figures on the W-2 differently than they appear on paystubs created by us.
We’ve found that this can cause confusion due to the different categories and boxes found in the W-2 form, which often include various types of incomes and deductions.
These figures may not be immediately apparent on your final pay stub, and this can potentially lead to dates wrong on pay stub as a result.
In short, while your final pay stub and W-2 form both provide similar and critical financial information, their differences lie in the details and purpose. Recognizing these differences is essential for accurate financial planning and tax preparation.
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Understanding the discrepancies between your end-of-year pay stub and the W-2 form can be puzzling. Let’s unravel these mysteries, focusing on three key reasons for the differences in the gross amounts in these documents.
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Firstly, the end-of-year pay stub you make with us at Check Stub Maker may include non-taxable income items that aren’t reflected in the W-2’s gross income.
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Our research indicates that this inclusion in one and the exclusion in the other can lead to a significant variance in the reported gross amounts.
That’s why it’s important to ensure that you create paystubs that reflect all of your financial information as accurately as possible when tax season rolls around.
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Another factor contributing to this discrepancy between end of year pay stubs and the W-2 is participation in company-sponsored retirement plans.
Our investigation demonstrated that contributions to retirement plans such as 401(k) are often pre-tax, leading to a reduction of your taxable income.
Therefore, the amount reported on your W-2 will be less than what appears on your final pay stub for the year simply because your end of year pay stub reflects the total earnings before such deductions.
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This reduces your taxable income on the W-2, but the full gross income, including these premiums, still appears on your Check Stub Maker pay stubs.
Based on our first hand experience, this variance in record-keeping is another reason why your end of year paystubs and W-2 form might not align in terms of gross amounts.
In this blog post, we explored the vital differences between end of year pay stubs and W-2 forms, especially in terms of gross amounts in relation to taxable amounts.
And if you still have questions, we recommend putting your trust in Check Stub Maker. As a leading expert in the payroll industry, we can help you consistently create accurate financial records with our innovative paystub generator, so you can better compare and understand your pay stubs and W-2 forms.
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Established in 1994, Hammer and Hand is a jewellery and metal collective based in the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, Tasmania and the Arts and Industry Estate in Byron Bay, New South Wales.
At both its locations Hammer and Hand is known and loved by locals and visitors alike. Admired for its eclectic jewellery and metal work, ranging through forged iron pieces and stainless steel utensils, to handcrafted leather and metal accessories, polymer and silver clay designs, fine art, sculpture, and art cards, but with the emphasis always on Bench made jewellery and metal smithing.
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Post Office has revamped the range of broadband and phone deals it is offering to consumers in the UK.
The company has reintroduced the Homephone with Broadband Standard deal alongside the Homephone with Broadband Extra package, although it is yet to bring its standalone broadband deal back onto the market.
Homephone with Broadband Standard, which boasts up to 8Mb broadband, a 5GB download allowance and a free modem, is available for £20.95 per month including line rental.
In contrast, the Homephone with Broadband Extra deal is priced at £25.50 a month and includes line rental, a free wireless router, free enhanced security and unlimited monthly downloads.
Details about the broadband and phone offerings have come after Demon announced the launch of its Demon Game Pro package, which is designed to be ideal for serious online gamers.
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For several years, he travelled from Montreal to Moscow with various rock and punk rock bands in which he played guitar. After letting the idea mature, Mike decided to pick up his acoustic guitar to focus on his solo project.
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In 2015, he released a first album entitled ''Safe & sound''.
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For fine motor position control across multiple generation brushless motor controller models, maxon motor has supplied the maxon EC-max brushless DC motor with three modes of feedback.
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Four classic tales of misadventure, full of venerable folk wisdom from around the world, are retold in a celebration of our shared humanity. Presented in a deceptively simple, low tech style, each story is told using a different style of puppetry, and highlights how we humans can overlook the obvious when we worry needlessly about the impossible, take advice without thinking, or use yesterday’s solutions to solve today’s problems.
Each story is told with a different style of puppetry, from human-sized to hand puppet, table-top to kitchen ware. This is a richly imaginative production that kindles creativity, inspires role play and encourages thinking outside the box.
Directed by Sue Miner; written by Sue Miner, Ann Powell and David Powell; built and performed by Ann and David; and with a music-scape created and recorded by Rick Sacks.
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Students loved it! They liked the handmade puppets and using ordinary items. A Teacher, Lockview PS
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Don McDermett represents clients in a wide variety of corporate, securities and transactional matters. Before joining Baker Botts in 2000, Mr. McDermett served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Sterling Software, Inc., an NYSE-listed enterprise software vendor with annual revenues just under $1 billion. With experience both inside a major corporation and as lead outside counsel to major businesses, he brings focused perspective and insight to complex corporate and transactional projects.
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Speaking at a function to launch radio taxi service in 13 cities of the state, Akhilesh slammed BJP's prime ministerial candidate for ‘distorting history and geography’ of the country. (Agencies)
He was pointing towards reported faux pas made by the Gujarat Chief Minister during some of his speeches.
At a recent rally, Modi got confused between the names of Gujarati freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma and Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.
"The fight now would be fought on the ground, some people are presenting history and geography in a distorted manner," Yadav said.
On the excavation work in Unnao village for gold, Akhilesh said that it was the Centre and its ministers who were interested in it.
"We will now see what the saint says, it would be good if a treasure is found in UP, now people from outside the state are also coming here to loot the treasure of UP, you all know about it," he said.
The digging was stopped after the ASI did not find any gold supposedly buried under the ruins of a 19th century fort in Unnao.
Akhilesh also took a dig at former chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati and said that her government used to look for new methods to loot, but now with the SP, there had been a check on it.
On the 75th birthday of his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh laid the foundation stone of a cancer institute, and 'Avadh Shilp Gram' which would showcase the culture and art of the state at one place.
Speaking at a function to launch radio taxi service in 13 cities of the state, Akhilesh slammed BJP's prime ministerial candidate for ‘distorting history and geography’ of the country.

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Happy International Women's Day to all our lovely female E! readers out there! It is the day to celebrate women and all their accomplishments.
In any case, that should be a daily occurrence. If you are a woman who needs words of affirmation and daily inspiration to put yourself in a positive state of mind, you can turn to social media and its network of supportive women. While social media has been painted in a rather negative light, it's easy to forget that there are plenty of positive feminism going around that balance negativity.
Instagram can quickly turn into a monster when we start comparing ourselves to the highlight reels of people we look up to. So today, we are introducing you to nine Instagram accounts that are run by women and practise positive feminism. These accounts are filled with inspirational quotes, humorous illustrations and memes that feature the ups and downs of womanhood. They also become communities that we can be a part of, for additional support.
So, for a boost of confidence and female empowerment, follow these Instagram accounts.
Sad Girls Club
@sadgirlsclub's Instagram feed is all about reducing the stigma of mental health issues from a female point-of-view. Run by a diverse group of women, it features illustrations and quotes that you can easily relate to, indicating that anyone who thinks this way is not alone.
@makerswomen is the account to follow if you want to get sh*t done! They are women's media brand that focuses on feminist messaging and empowering women to dream big and achieve their dreams. The account features quotes and tells the stories of powerful women from every industry, from politics to entertainment.
The Girl Mob
@thegirlmob call themselves a digital sisterhood of women of colour and they are just that. It's a place online where women of all ages, colours and sizes are not only embraced and accepted, but celebrated even. Their feed is a cacophony of badass quotes in cool fonts, clips of successful women giving empowering speeches and more.
Recipes For Self Love
@recipesforselflove is just that, a feel good Instagram space where you can get your daily boost of confidence. The feed features unique illustrations that celebrate real women, alongside uplifting phrases. Aesthetic-wise, this Instagram account has it all. Beyond the gorgeous content they produce, the account has a lot of heart.
@rupikaur is a famous poet who has not only written books, but done tours reciting poetry. She uses her Instagram to share her works and raw life experiences to her audience of 3.5 million. Her poetry is simple, yet impactful. They highlight the plight of women all over the world and celebrate the strength in womanhood. Coupled with her own illustrations, Rupi delivers words that strike deep into the hearts of women everywhere.
Founded by famous model, Adwoa Aboah, @gurlstalk is a safe social media space for people to talk and listen without any judgement or stigma. As a woman of colour, Adwoa has broken barriers in the fashion industry and wanted other women, especially those in the minority to have their voices heard. The feed features female-led campaigns, podcasts and lifestyle photos.
Who run the world? Girls. That's the @girlboss' motto. The Instagram feed considers themselves as a digital community for ambitious women. It is filled with hilarious memes and poignant quotes, striking that perfect balance between both serious and light-hearted content.
@camixvx is an account ran by Brazilian artist, Camila Rosa. Camila uses bold colours with a distinct depiction of women in all shapes and colours. Her feed is all about diversity and acceptance. Her works are easy to digest, yet impactful and she is not afraid to approach controversial issues such as racism and sexism. Not to mention, there is a feminine cuteness to her works that we think many of you will appreciate.
Feminism and self-love doesn't have to be a loud and proud affair. For quiet introspection and oh-so-relatable content, we would point you towards @haleydrewthis. This 25-year-old female illustrator's simple drawings has a chord in the hearts of many. Highlighting issues of anxiety, dating problems and lack of self-confidence, Haley draws from personal experience to connect to her audience.


A prime issue that forces itself on the more reflective sections is whether British Foreign Secretary David Milliband has militated against the norms of constructive international engagement among states by addressing a gathering of overseas-based Tamil groups, which are seen by some as LTTE sympathizers, on current controversial Sri Lankan issues. On the face of it, the British Foreign Secretary could be said to have violated the norm of non-interference in the internal affairs of a friendly state, by speaking on the questions at issue and that too in the British House of Commons, an evocative symbol in the ‘Mother of All Democracies’, where debate should aim at being balanced and constructive in nature.
Britain has right along shown solicitous concern for Sri Lanka over its ethnic travails and this is highly appreciated, but the issues broached and commented on by Milliband are of a highly sensitive nature and are best handled delicately and discreetly on the basis of diplomatic norms and forms, at a state- to- state level, if Britain insists that it needs to discuss them with Sri Lanka. Apparently, Milliband has abandoned all semblances of diplomatic correctness by commenting on the concerned questions with a bluntness and insensitivity that smacks more of big power brow-beating than the conduct of an informed discourse among equal states in the comity of nations. To make matters worse, the speech is suggestive of partisanship and bias – qualities that are most unbecoming of the foremost diplomat in a number one liberal democracy.
By saying this we do not mean to imply that the issues concerned should not be discussed openly by the ‘free world’. They should be commented on intelligently by all those who mean well by Sri Lanka, but it is a different matter when the British Foreign Secretary pitches head-long into them in the manner if a parish-pump politician and that too amid persons who could not be expected to reflect on Lankan issues unemotionally. Whereas one would expect ‘our good friend’ Britain to hold the scales evenly in the thrust and parry of debates on Lankan issues, Milliband’s intervention carries with it more than a whiff of big power involvement in the internal affairs of one of its former colonies.
However, we do not intend to go overboard with what may be called righteous indignation on this issue. We think that right along, the West did not get its act right in addressing issues stemming from the Lankan state’s final onslaught on LTTE lawlessness and terror, in May 2009 and the months preceding it. Whereas, the West should have summed-up all the constructive energies it could muster, in handling the issues flowing from Sri Lanka, it sought to use what came to be seen in some sections in Sri Lanka as the big stick and thereby forfeited the goodwill of quite a few sections of this country. We need hardly say that by conducting themselves in ways that injure the sensitivities of many in this country, countries such as Britain are only firming the foundation for troubled relations between them and Sri Lanka. Even if the possibility exists of co-operatively putting things right in this country, the Big Brother mentality of some officials of the West would only undermine these chances.
That said, we do not intend to take-up the position that we could indefinitely shy away from issues that need immediate handling and resolving. To begin with, it would be patently unfair to claim that all sections of the Tamil Diaspora are seeking to promote the LTTE agenda in Sri Lanka. It is, consequently, not clear whether all those assembled to hear Milliband, were seeking the ruin of Sri Lanka. However, what was abundantly plain was that the issues growing out of Lanka’s ethnic conflict are hardly dead. The military onslaught by the Lankan state was necessary to neutralize the Tigers but one would be naïve in the extreme to take-up the position that the conflict has, therefore, been resolved.
A consrtructive approach aimed at finally resolving the Lankan conflict would seek to engage the goodwill and energies of all Lankans in rejuvenating this land and President Rajapaksa could not have done better than to call on also the Tamil Diaspora to contribute abundantly in the country re-building effort. Our hope is that this call will be heeded. Meanwhile, we hope that the government would spare no efforts to make President Rajapaksa’s vision of bringing ‘peace for all’, a reality.
If the Diasporic community is continuing to be seen as engaging in activities which are not Lankan-friendly, this is because the issues at the heart of our conflict are yet to be resolved and, without doubt, one of these is equality of opportunity and condition, without which it is futile to speak of fostering fundamental rights. The government has pledged itself to accelerated development, but it must also not spare any pains to resolve the political issues at the heart of the conflict, such as, the equal empowerment of all. As long as this programme of work is not actively pursued by the government, we would not have perfect peace.
It is also only fair that we point out that constructive engagement with the world community is a two-way process. While there is no denying that the world should seek a co-operative relationship with Lanka, the latter should seek to do likewise with the West in particular. This is the basis of international and inter-state peace and we urge our foreign policy establishment to base our foreign relations on these time-tested principles.
Besides, Sri Lankan decision-makers need to realize that this country is not India or China – two phenomenal power houses of the global economy. We are likely to have tough times in the future on account of the prevailing uncertain world economic climate. The suspension of the GSP plus facility is no laughing matter and it would be naïve to presume that any economic hardships that come in the wake of this suspension could be easily overcome. We need to forge co-operative ties with the rest of the world to face the imminent economic challenges and anti-social behaviour by those in positions of power locally is something Sri Lanka just cannot afford to have.
This calls for the restoration of our proved and tested principle of Non-alignment. This principle does not only denote neutrality in foreign affairs. It also points to the need for friendly ties with all. That this principle should never be abandoned, is proved by the foreign policy successes scored by India. We too need to orientate our foreign policy in the same direction.


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SK Hynix and Intel jointly announced the signing of an acquisition agreement. SK Hynix will acquire Intel’s NAND flash memory and storage business for US$9 billion in all cash. Both parties expect to obtain the required government agency’s license by the end of 2021, and in 2025 The final delivery was completed in March.
According to the announcement issued by SK Hynix, the NAND flash memory and storage business acquisition agreement signed by both parties includes: NAND SSD (solid state drive business), NAND flash memory and wafer business, and Intel's NAND flash memory manufacturing plant in Dalian, China.
As Intel's leading storage technology-Optane (Ao Teng) business will not be included in the acquisition agreement, but will continue to be retained by Intel.
The entire acquisition process will be divided into two phases: the first phase will start after obtaining government permission. SK Hynix will pay USD 7 billion to acquire the NAND SSD business from Intel, including related intellectual property rights and employees, as well as the Dalian NAND flash memory manufacturing plant ; The second phase will be carried out at the final delivery in March 2025. SK Hynix will pay the final payment of US$2 billion to take over other related assets of Intel, including intellectual property rights related to the production and design of NAND flash memory wafers, R&D personnel and Dalian NAND flash memory Employees of the manufacturing plant.
Intel: Get rid of the shackles and go lightly
Intel’s sale of NAND flash memory and storage business did not actually surprise the industry. It first parted ways with Micron, completely sold its IMFT factory shares, and then gave up the baseband chip business and completely withdrew from the main smartphone-related business. In the past two years, competition Intel's gradual decline in power seems to have only one theme-to reduce the burden and focus on the core.
As the king of the semiconductor field in the PC era, after experiencing a round of strategic mistakes, Intel has not only been slightly fatigued in the mobile Internet era, even its proud main battlefield has also been constantly challenged by industry upstarts, and finally had to A series of mistakes such as the choice of technical direction and execution ability pay for the bill. Under both internal and external pressures, Intel not only gradually lost its original competitive advantage, but also had to abandon the "self-produced and self-sold" model that had been operating for many years, and for the first time this year expressed its willingness to outsource orders.
In the NAND market, Intel has, as always, shown a state of lack of competition and involuntary entanglement. This is because the price of NAND flash memory is greatly affected by market supply and demand, and the R&D and production of flash memory requires a large amount of capital investment. It is difficult to guarantee profits, and selling related businesses is undoubtedly an option to reduce risks.
According to data, Intel’s Dalian factory spent 2.5 billion US dollars to build it after 3 years, and is fully responsible for Intel’s NAND flash memory business. However, Intel, which is burdened by huge manufacturing pressures and has spent tremendous efforts to perfect a complete chip semiconductor industry chain, has found that the return from huge investment is slow and very limited.
● From a technical perspective, Intel is different from other manufacturers. It is currently the only company that adheres to the floating gate structure (Floating Gate) as a manufacturer of 3D NAND Flash, and is unique among the manufacturers that adopt the charge trap structure. ；
● From the perspective of production, Intel only operates a large NAND factory in the Dalian factory in China, which accounts for about 6%-7% of global NAND production;
● From the perspective of market share, Samsung firmly controls the NAND market and occupies a dominant position. Among the six companies dominated by Samsung, Kioxia, Western Digital, Micron, SK Hynix and Intel, Intel has only 11% of the market. , At the bottom. And among these six companies, except Intel, other companies regard storage business as their main business or main profit point. Only Intel's storage business is not the main business, and its revenue share is not high.
● From the perspective of revenue, Intel's market revenue in this area is also not stable. According to the financial report, Intel's non-variable storage solutions business has been in a continuous loss state since 2016. From 2016 to 2018, it lost 540 million U.S. dollars, 260 million U.S. dollars, and 5 million U.S. dollars. It didn't make a profit of 120 million U.S. dollars until 2019 .
Coupled with the eagerness for success and the pursuit of high-profit goals, it seems not surprising that Intel sells NAND-related businesses. According to related reports, as early as July 2019, there was news that SK Hynix planned to acquire Intel's entire Dalian factory and 3D NAND business, and the news also claimed that Intel would only continue to retain XPoint-related memory storage technology.
There is no doubt that the sale of NAND flash memory and storage business will enable Intel to focus more on its core business.
Intel CEO Bob Swan said in a statement, "This transaction will allow us to further prioritize investments in differentiated technologies." Intel will invest in the proceeds of this transaction, focusing on key businesses with long-term growth potential, including artificial intelligence, 5G networks, and edge devices related to autonomous driving.
SK Hynix: Trying the courage and seeking outburst
On the other hand, for SK Hynix, the acquisition of Intel's NAND flash memory and storage business is also traceable. As the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, although its market share of DRAM products is second only to Samsung Electronics, its market ranking for NAND is still relatively low.
Secondly, SK Hynix's internal revenue is extremely unbalanced. According to the financial report, its DRAM business accounted for 73% of SK Hynix's total revenue in the second quarter of 2020, while its NAND business was only 24%.
Through the acquisition of Intel's NAND business, SK Hynix is expected to increase its share of the NAND market to more than 20% in the short term, thereby narrowing the gap with Samsung Electronics, which is in a leading position. At the same time, SK Hynix will also get help in the "arms competition" with Samsung Electronics. It is reported that Samsung announced on August 28 this year that it will invest 7 billion US dollars in the future to expand the production of NAND chips in Xi’an Samsung Electronics. It is natural for SK Hynix to not be left behind. Therefore, it is very important for SK Hynix to obtain the Dalian factory.
In the long run, the industry consolidation caused by this transaction will also help reduce industry competition and help SK Hynix surpass other competitors. Both Intel and SK Hynix have the technology to develop and independently produce NAND flash memory, but their market positioning is different. The former is enterprise-level SSD and flash memory chips, while the main battlefield of the latter is on the consumer side.
However, the interdependence of pros and cons is an unchanging law. While obtaining huge benefits, SK Hynix also bears no small risks.
Cape Investment & Securities analyst Park Sung-soon said for the first time: "In the short term, this transaction will bring financial burden to SK Hynix. Due to oversupply, it is expected that the company will continue to announce its NAND business losses."
In addition, SK Hynix and Intel are also facing technical running-in problems. The two technologies mentioned above belong to the charge trapping camp and the floating gate structure camp. They are both in product storage density, performance and reliability. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although there is not much difference in the manufacturing process and the required equipment materials, it is only the adjustment of the product structure and process parameters, but in the high-precision storage industry, any details have a huge impact.
Therefore, whether it is technological integration or seeking a balance between different product architectures in order to achieve the maximum synergy, it may be the focus that SK Hynix has to focus on.
In the era of great changes in the semiconductor field, industry integration continues, mergers and acquisitions become common practice, and the industry continues to optimize. The veteran giants urgently need to get rid of the shackles and go lightly, fortunately to focus more on the core areas to obtain long-term returns; the industry giants can't wait to arm themselves, strengthen the competitiveness of the industry, and challenge the dominant position of the industry. In the end, is it a win-win or two losses?


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JCB is also creating employment and entrepreneurship amongst youth through its 15 Operator Training Centres in India. It provides a one month certified course on machine operations and maintenance, which includes both, classroom and practical training on how to operate JCB machines safely and productively.
It has a 16 week detailed induction program at the welding training school at the Jaipur facility for ITI and Diploma graduates. Comprehensive skills developed through these programmes have helped young men and women excel in their careers, especially women engineers, who are now making their careers in traditionally male dominated areas of manufacturing such as welding and assembly.
JCB is committed to CSR through the Lady Bamford Charitable Trust. Registered in the year 2000, the Trust has followed an organic and consistent growth with a focus on disadvantaged communities around JCB factories in India. Today its outreach extends to 56 Government schools and nine vocational training centres through which it reaches out to about 12,500 students and trainees. The Trust is active in communities around its three factories in Delhi-NCR, Pune, and Jaipur.
JCB has always remained committed to India. It has launched innovative India centric products and has expanded by way of new factories with Customer Focus and One Global Quality being at the core of its operations.


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De l'art politique et de la politique de l'art
avec Vassilis Salpistis, Eirini Linardaki
et les artistes d'Occupy#2
TABLE RONDE 05/11/2020
Regarder en réseau
avec Vincent Meyrignac (Noucmas),
Fotini Banou et Dimitris Alexakis (KET),
Benoît Durandin (O Meteoritis),
& Delphine Leccas, commissaire.
TABLE RONDE 18/11/2020
Comment l’artiste devient citoyen?
Moderator: Eleni Riga
avec Ex Situ (Theophilos Tramboulis,
Eleni Koukou), Julien Gardair,
TABLE RONDE 02/12/2020
Art and accessibility
Moderated by: Eirini Linardaki and Eleni Riga
avec Mural Arts Philadelphia (Jane Golden),
ArcAthens (Aristides Logothetis),
Onassis AIR (Ash Bulayev, Myrto Katsimicha,
Nefeli Myrodia), Daniela Kostova.
moderated by : Dr. Melanie Levick-Parkin
& Eirini Linardaki
with : Prof. Dr. Em. Uta Brandes
(Co-founder of the international Gender Design Network/iGDN), Elizabeth Reznick (Professor Emerita MASSART), Eleni Riga (Curator), Stefania Strouza (Visual Artist),
Stella Malliaraki (Museum Educator),
Dorota Walentynowicz (Visual Artist)
& the team of Occupy #2
TABLE RONDE 15/12/2020
Women’s visual and material voice making in the public sphere
moderated by : Dr.Sozita Goudouna
(Counselor of Occupy #2)
with : Βill Balaskas (Director of Research, Business & Innovation, School of Art & Architecture, Kingston University, London),
Care Collective (Andreas Chatzidakis, Catherine Rottenberg & Lynne Segal), FILAF Festival: Sebastien Planas (President FILAF) and Rachel Simon (Director FILAF),
Katerina Koskina (Curator, former director EMST), Eero Laine (Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo, State University of New York), Vassilis Salpistis (Visual Artist & the team of Occupy #2)
TABLE RONDE 17/12/2020
(Un)Occupied: On Collective Authorship, Institutions and Care
© Raymond Pettibon. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner
Avec : Yves Citton (Philosophe),
Estelle Baudou (Post-doctorante à APGRD et metteuse en scène),
Cedrick Eymenier (Artiste- Occupy #2),
Julien Gardair (Artiste- Occupy #2),
Athina Ioannou (Artiste - Occupy #2) &
Eirini Linardaki (Artiste et conceptrice de Occupy Art Project)
Coordinatrice : Angeliki Poulou (Medea Electronique), conseillère d'Occupy #2
TABLE RONDE 21/12/2020
L'artiste, entre chaman
TABLE RONDE 04/02/2021
Vulnerability & resistance in
the public space
Moderator : Eleni Riga
With : Maya Juracán, Elpida Karaba, Sandra Monterroso,
Mary Zygouri & the team of Occupy#2
*Crédit: Mary Zyrougi, ”LIQUIDATIONS” IILA, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Rome (IT), Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome. Photographer: Roberto Dell'Orco
Prenant en considération le contexte dans lequel nous travaillons, y compris les entités diplomatiques et bureaucratiques:
Les artistes et les curateurs profitent souvent d’un statut particulier qui facilite leur déplacement pour vivre et créer à l’étranger. Quelle est leur contribution et quelle est leur responsabilité face à la ville et aux citoyens qui les accueille? Comment l’artiste lui-même devienne citoyen?
Il s’agit d’une invitation à partager des méthodologies artistiques et des expériences travaillant de façon permanente ou temporaire avec une culture autre que la nôtre.
Note: Pour référence, la citoyenneté artistique est une métaphore pour l’artiste qui contribue de façon directe et remarquable avec son travail au sein de sa communauté, souvent dans des zones ou des groupes de personnes financièrement ou socialement marginalisées.
Taking into consideration the context in which we work, including diplomatic and bureaucratic entities:
Artists and curators often enjoy a special status which allows them to travel, live and create abroad easily. What is their contribution and what is their responsibility towards the city and the citizens who welcome them? How does the artist himself become a citizen?
It is an invitation to share artistic methodologies and experiences working permanently or temporarily with a culture other than ours.
Note: For reference, artistic citizenship is a metaphor for the artist who contributes in direct and remarkable ways with their work to their community, often in financially or socially marginalized areas or groups of people.
Art and accessibility
Moderators: Eirini Linardaki and Eleni Riga
ArcAthens (Aristides Logothetis)
Daniela Kostova, artist -
Onassis AiR (Ash Bulayev, Myrto Katsimicha, Nefeli Myrodia)
Mural Arts Philadelphia (James Hough)
The conversation will take place in English.
Art et accessibilité:
Nous nous interrogerons sur la manière dont les artistes bénéficient d'une résidence et ce qui fait un bon programme de résidence en tenant compte des deux aspects suivants:
Comment peut-on concevoir des programmes plus accessibles pour les artistes migrants, artistes avec jeunes enfants, artistes anciens détenus ?
Comment offrir aux artistes des espaces de recherche et d'ennui sans être constamment “pourchassés” d'une production cumulative?
Art and accessibility
We will question how artists benefit from a residency and what makes a good residency program considering the following two aspects:
A.How can we conceive programs that give more accessibility to artists migrants, artists with young children and artists ex-convicts?
B. How to offer artists spaces for research and boredom without being constantly "chased" by cumulative production?
Women’s visual and material voice making in the public sphere
moderated by : Dr. Melanie Levick-Parkin & Eirini Linardaki
with : Prof. Dr. Em. Uta Brandes, Co-founder of the international Gender Design Network/iGDN, Elizabeth Reznick, Professor Emerita MASSART, Eleni Riga, Curator, Stefania Strouza, Visual Artist, Stella Malliaraki, Museum Educator, Dorota Walentynowicz, Visual Artist
& the team of Occupy #2
With the support of Institut Français de Grèce.
For women to speak in public has always been a difficult undertaking. To be actually heard is in so many instances still beyond our reach even as we stand at the cusp of the year 2021. In her ‘Women & Power’ manifesto, the Cambridge Classics Scholar Mary Beard (2017) highlights that for the past 3000 years attempts of women to have a voice in public has often been violently opposed and that the Classics are littered with moral examples of how women who dared to speak in public have been brought to heel. These are the very foundations of western culture and philosophy and Beard points out that those foundational values still act upon us, - often unconsciously, hidden and opaque, but also often, loud, clear and violent.
‘Up until now the form-giving subject has always been male. And this structure has, unbeknownst to itself, clearly given form to culture, and to the history of ideas. They are not neuter’. (Luce Irigaray 2002, p.3)
Agency and voice are not just what is spoken or printed, - it is power materialised in the physical fabric of the cities and environments in which we live as well as through the systems that govern us and our production. It is material and it is visual and it has physical consequences. How much agency do we as women have, here and now, when it comes to form giving and meaning making activities in the public realm? Some things have improved for some, some things have never changed for many, and some things have been actively getting worse again in recent years.
With all these things in mind we invite you to this roundtable discussion, to share our thoughts on these questions:
How can we best use our creative agency to amplify women’s visual and material voices in the public sphere?
What are the challenges to women’s visual and material voices in the public sphere?
Who has agency in visual and material voices in the public sphere?
How can we best advocate or make space for those lacking agency in visual and material voices in the public sphere?
(Un)occupied: On the entanglement of Occupiers, Collaborators and Care
(In)occupé: Sur l'enchevêtrement des Occupants, Collaborateurs et des Soins
avec Vassilis Salpistis, Marie Voignier
Our project argues for collaborative authorship and art activism as a way of thinking and performing social and political crises. Written, imagined and practiced collectively by artists, curators and scholars, OCCUPY#2 unfolds along four interlocking sites: political/national identities, institutions/collectives, aesthetic/ethics and caregiving.
At the same time, the juxtaposition of the real with the artful and the interconnectedness of the artwork to a particular environment/location/country is of primary concern, for OCCUPY#2, and in creating a space where aesthetic politics and ethics could be performed. As Lefevre proposed, in actuality, “ideal” space, that has to do with ‘mental (mathematico-logical) categories and “real” space, and the space of social practice are not separate, on the contrary each of these two kinds of space involves, underpins and presupposes the other’ (Lefevre 1991:14).
Can we occupy an institutional space and overcome the various hierarchies? As Frantz Fanon wrote in his book A Dying Colonialism, there is ‘no occupation of territory on the one hand and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual's breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing.’
Our “occupied breathing” and aesthetic “gathering” registers a different kind of conscious, intersubjective occupying that allows for a “collective imaginary occupation” and for a collective processing of perceptions associated with socio-aesthetics. Mobilizing a choreo-social analytic in the public space of the French Embassy to examine techniques of identity making whether national, personal/psychological or political. Aiming to mobilize an “affective response” both from the participants and viewers.
This shared practice, as a collaborative process of spatial (occupying space) transformation, can be seen as a form of ‘commoning’ our means of knowledge production. ‘Commoning’ as response to neoliberal capitalism’s effort to control different forms of life and knowledge, as refusal to see oneself separate from others: ‘if “commoning” has any meaning, it must be the production of ourselves as a common subject’ (Federici, 2012: 145). How do we choreograph commoning? The function and notion of “leveraging this commoning and collectivity” in the face of (power formations) hierarchies becomes a central theme of this initiative. The non-hierarchical and democratic might describe our process and our shared collaborative labor.
Thus, the performance of interdependent care at OCCUPY#2 aims to explore and unravel political sensibilities. The caring subject is attuned to the bodies of others and as Maurice Hamington argues, ‘this does not suggest that caregivers are artists […] but it does suggest that caregivers are artists in terms of being aesthetically attuned to the bodies, actions, and relations of themselves to others’ ( 2015:279).
Our performance of “care” in a public institution like the French Embassy aims to capture the active perceptual engagement of the viewer and also generates an explicit awareness of this activity. Maaike Bleeker introduces the term ‘seer’ for ‘spectator’ in order to denote the activity of the former and the passivity of the latter. Thus, the ‘seers’ are not reduced to a state of unquestioning awareness or a wholly passive relation to the object as a detached subject. Interaction, engagement and response are required for a novel understanding of the notion of occupying. We look forward to your participation!
L’artiste: entre chaman et ouvrier (the artist: between chaman and laborer)
Thème introduit par Angeliki Poulou et Manolis Manousakis
Ça pourrait être créé sous le format d’une œuvre radiophonique. Medea Electronique pourrait s’en occuper.
La discussion aspire à explorer le statut d’artiste d’aujourd’hui à travers l’économie politique d’art, l’anthropologie et la philologie d’art. Quel est le rôle de l'œuvre d’art et de ses créateurs/créatrices?
Pourquoi parle-t-on des projets? Existent-elles les avant-gardes artistiques? Comment s'approprier le “politique” dans l’art et de quelle façon occuper une autonomie et prospérité pour les artistes? Quelle relation à développer avec les institutions? Comment habiter le monde?” - Athina
Cette rencontre virtuelle essaiera de tracer les enjeux et les perspectives potentielles.
The discussion aspires to explore today's artist status through the political economy of art, anthropology, and art philology. What is the role of the work of art and its creators?
Why are we talking about projects? Are there artistic avant-gardes? How to appropriate the "political" in art and how to achieve autonomy and prosperity for artists? What relationship to develop with the institutions? How to inhabit the world? ”
This virtual meeting will try to trace the issues and the potential perspectives.
Être désorienté. (draw a map & get lost. Yoko O.)
discussions à venir :
Borders “after the future” with Christian Oxenius (guests TBO)
Festival du cinéma de Douarnenez


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I’ve been looking forward to this moment for years, and it snuck up on me almost by surprise. I had been patiently waiting for Isadora to turn 5 so that I could start teaching her how to sew, and then it happened and I forgot all about the sewing. No matter – she had her first lesson a couple of weeks ago. How do you begin to teach a 5-year-old the skill of sewing? I wondered. We started slow, and with a minimal understanding of the components. “The most important thing to remember,” I told her, “is that it should really be called Pinning and Ironing instead of Sewing, because those are what we do the most of.” It’s what I would tell anyone just learning to sew, one of the disappointing realizations that hit me like a brick as a young girl learning to sew from my Grandma. We all want to sit down at the machine and make it fly, don’t we?
We began the sewing introduction with a project for her brother – a cowboy-themed pillowcase to go with the new Big Boy Bed he’ll be getting for his birthday in a few months. With this, I’m hoping that she can master the concept I’m still struggling with – allowing ample time. I’m also hoping to share with her the gentle, but omnipresent guidance of Grandma, who taught me impeccable craftsmanship and that the insides of what you’re sewing should look as nice as the outside. With every single thing I sew, Grandma sits on my shoulder, like a cartoon angel, overseeing all that I make and pushing me to be a better sewist. In real life, she laughs at this image I have of her, but I’d guess she is proud of her student and satisfied that the lessons have sunk in. While she doesn’t do much sewing herself these days, I think she can rest assured that the next couple of generations will do her proud.

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“Burlesque” was her first stab at the acting thing, but the critics were far from impressed.
Despite the hateration, Christina says it’s time to try it out again.
“I do want to do more acting. I would want to do something where I could sink my teeth into something more challenging outside of music. I sort of had this personal aspiration to do film (prior to “Burlesque”), but I said I never want to do a musical. If I do it I want it to be honest and genuine, something really different, like a crackhead on the street… something that took me out of myself.”
A new role fit for a big haired queen hasn’t come up yet, but she assures her last opportunity was a chance of a lifetime.
“I learned so much, but that wasn’t an easy set to be a part of. I think all the divas were definitely not me and Cher. Sometimes the men can be divas,” Aguilera told Billboard. “I liked it, but at the same time I felt very confined. To go into acting you have to put yourself aside, and get into your character and your role. It was an amazing experience and Cher was great. She was a great actor to learn from and have girl talk with.”
We ask because frankly, that backside has grown to some epic proportions. If she does get to live her dream to play a crack head, she’d most definitely have to take a dive off the other end of the weight spectrum.


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Mini Bio (1)
Izze Gibson started her performance career in musical theatre, training as a singer, dancer, and actress at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and Los Angeles. After finishing her BFA at The New School in New York, she continued her training with The Barrow Group School under the instruction of Seth Barrish and Lee Brock.
Izze also holds a degree in music business management from Columbia College Chicago, and has worked in music and media licensing at MTV.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: i gibson


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Listening to Adam Torres is a visceral experience. Like taking an early morning walk down a quiet forest trail with sunlight peeking through the leaves. Adam’s ethereal guitar swirls around his pure falsetto while expertly applied strings, percussion, and woodwinds, add subtle nuances and textures to his incredibly poignant brand of folk music. For example, his song “I Came to Sing the Song” begins so quietly and simply it almost evokes Eastern religious music, drawing the listener into a receptive state before unfolding into a broader awareness of music, love, and natural beauty. If painting with music were a thing, Adam Torres would be a master.
Adam Torres dropped by the studio with Thor Harris on vibraphone, Daily Toliver on bass, Elizabeth Warren on violin and flutist Lauren Gould to talk about and play music from his new EP before he took it the Cactus Cafe for an exclusive release show. Dive into the wonderfully beautiful world of Adam Torres in the player below.
3/13 @ Mohawk for SXSW
3/15 @ The Blackheart for SXSW
3/17 @ Quantum Collective for SXSW
3/18 @ Hard Luck Lounge for SXSW
3/18 @ Saxon Pub for OFFICIAL SXSW showcase
3/19 @ Chill Phases for SXSW


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A member of the House of Lords has said York is “seen as something of an outer Mongolia by the general public” – in a discussion about relocating the upper house to the city.
Outer Mongolia was a territory located between China and Russia.
Lord Singh of Wimbledon made the remarks yesterday as members of the House of Lords questioned whether the government is still considering moving the House to York.
They were told the decision is a matter for Parliament – but some members criticised the proposals.
Lord Singh said: “My Lords, York is seen as something of an outer Mongolia by the general public, who view the House of Lords as an outdated institution.”
It has been suggested the House of Lords could move to the York Central site.
Liberal Democrat Lord Wallace of Saltaire said: “Have there been any studies either of the site in York—which has actually been vacant for some time because they find it very hard to get interest from commercial operators for it—or how this will affect the relationship between the two Houses or between Parliament and Government? If not, why not?”
Lib Dem leader of City of York Council Keith Aspden has welcomed proposals that the upper house could move to the city.
Labour Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town highlighted that Henry VIII tried to appease his rebels with a Parliament in York.
She said: “Will the Minister say who, this time, they are trying to placate by suggestions of a Parliament in York?
“It sounds as if he is trying to rid himself of these pesky Lords.”
And Lib Dem Lord Tyler described the proposals as a plan to “banish” the Lords to York – adding: “Would it not be much less disruptive to send the whole Cabinet Office to York?”
Conservative Lord True said the proposals would be considered by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, adding: “I think it is reasonable for all of us to examine how every part of Parliament may find itself closer to the people.
“The relationship between the two Houses and parliamentary procedure will obviously be matters for consideration. Noble Lord will know that the R&R process means that the sponsor body has to consider alternative sites for Parliament. This is a matter on which there will be further announcements in due course.”

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The combination of chillies and chocolate has been popular in South America since the Mayans and Aztecs and we agree that they go together superbly. We have been making chilli chocolate since 2003.
Each box contains at least 80g of handmade chocolate 'wafers'.
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Thanks to the successes of Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios are rushing to cash in on future box office sales from music biopics. On deck soon, the Elton John-based Rocketman. But bubbling in the background, one about David Bowie may be in the works. Duncan Jones, the filmmaker son of the late icon, took to Twitter, polling his followers on who could play The Thin White Duke onscreen while revealing that “They insist I take a meeting on a biopic about my dad.” According to Screen Rant, news of the potential film has come from Jones, with no formal announcement from any studio or producers.
They insist I take a meeting on a biopic about my dad.
Who do I say must play him?
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) December 16, 2018