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There are multiple reasons you may be looking for an OB/GYN who offers robotic surgery. Perhaps you’re interested in the precision factor. Perhaps you’ve heard about the many benefits of this less-invasive form of gynecologic surgery.
No matter why you’re interested in robotic gynecologic surgery, Living Springs Womens Care of Passaic, NJ, is your trusted robotic surgery OB/GYN. Our OB/GYN, Dr. Diane Mustafa, can perform robotic surgery with steady hands and the precision and finesse of a robot for minimally invasive procedures.
With Dr. Mustafa’s experience and robotic technology, your body can heal better and faster after your gynecologic procedure.
How Does Robotic Surgery Work?
Contrary to what the name may seem to imply, robotic surgery does not mean cutting the surgeon out of the operation and placing your body in the hands of a robot.
A surgeon — in this case Dr. Mustafa — controls the robot from a console with wristed instruments and a 3d camera view of the surgical site. The instruments translate her movements to the robot arm to make machine-precise incisions with Dr. Mustafa’s experience and a greater range of motion than even the most agile human arm can achieve.
Why Try Robotic Surgery?
The incisions these robotic systems can make are not only more precise but also can be smaller than those normally used in traditional laparoscopic gynecologic surgery. These smaller, more precise incisions mean less blood loss — which means a reduced need for transfusions and a decrease in the likelihood of transfusion sickness.
In addition, smaller incisions mean you will experience less scarring, which makes the healing process easier for your body in both the short- and long-term. You will have a shorter hospital stay and a quicker recovery period, with less postoperative pain and a decreased chance of infection.


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VIDEO: How to Open a Beer Bottle with a Newspaper
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Beer Styles: The Ingredients (Part Two: Hops)
In the second part of this series on the ingredients of beer, we will examine hops, the additive that provides an assortment of flavours to beer.
Guide to Grilling a Beer Can Chicken
This is an easy method for grilling a flavorful and tender chicken that keeps all eyes on the grill, and provides that “wow” factor for any cookout you host.
Beer Styles 201: Belgian / White IPA
A fruity, spicy, refreshing version of an American IPA, but with a lighter color, less body, and featuring either the distinctive yeast and/or spice additions typical of a Belgian witbier.
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A wireless network is one of the most useful technologies you have in your home or office. Oftentimes, however, it is set up quickly and will have a hard time broadcasting a signal to the corners of your office. Today, we will discuss ways to ensure that your business (or your home) has the coverage you need it to have, and how to get it if it doesn’t.
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Wireless Internet connectivity is an indispensable utility in today’s modern office. However, implementing one that will perform optimally is far from a straightforward task. Here, we wanted to offer you some tips to make the planning process for your Wi-Fi implementation both simpler, and more productive.
If your business uses as much technology as the average business, you will need to ensure that it is properly documented. Today, we’ll go through what a managed service provider includes in their documentation practices.
A business’ computing network is one of their most important tools. Therefore, it’s extremely important that it is managed and maintained properly. Today, we’ll go over a few tips you should keep in mind to ensure that your IT network is managed and secure.
A slow network can be an infuriating problem under any circumstances, but in the business setting, not understanding its cause can potentially be devastating to operations. For this week’s tip, we’ll examine a few of the most common causes of this slowness, and some of the best ways to resolve the issue at hand.
A server is a very important piece of the modern business’ technology infrastructure, and so it is important to understand what it is that could cause it to crash. Here, we’ll go over some of the most common crash causes to help you determine how to best take care of it.
Depending on the company, the Internet connection is perhaps the most important part of its IT infrastructure, especially if it has remote workers or multiple offices connected by a Wide Area Network (WAN). Other technologies such as VoIP, screen-sharing, and webinars also benefit from optimized bandwidth. Today, we’ll talk about bandwidth, what your company’s needs are, and how to get the Internet service that is right for you.
With businesses relying more and more on portability and mobility, it should come as no surprise that businesses also have to devote more time to the proper management of their wireless network. A considerable portion of this management is reliant on the router the business uses, as without the router, the business simply couldn’t have a wireless connection.


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You can do a lot with Alexa. Here you can add skills.
It was the nightmare of every Amazon Echo owner. Alexa, the attached speaker, really listened to your concerns and passed behind her back the record of a private chit chat to someone on her echo contact list.
This actually happened this week, according to the KIRO TV station in Seattle, where the story of the privacy of a Portland woman was told.
Amazon has tried to counter the concerns of "always listening" devices by reminding us that the echo only comes into action when it hears the Alexa wake up word. Ditto for Google and the speaker connected to Google Home. The flaw for the Portland family, according to Amazon, is that Alexa heard the wake-up word, followed by a series of commands that the family member deliberately did not do.
This was also the week when new data protection rules came into force in Europe and our email inboxes were flooded with updates to the privacy policies of websites, apps and newsletters, detailing how they are now using our information. Although the rules are only enforceable for European citizens, Americans can benefit because it is simply too difficult for most technology companies to have different standards.
So, if you would feel better a moment hands of the big tech companies – comes over Alexa.
If you are worried about this scenario, there is a simple solution. Do not set up the echo speaker to make calls like the Portland woman did.
This feature allows you to make Alexa calls through the loudspeaker or the Alexa app and to call landline and mobile phone numbers that are in the contacts of your mobile phone.
Google has a similar calling feature that also works by setting up calls in the Google Home Smartphone app.
More: 6 ways to prevent Alexa from listening to you
Most people play music and ask their wise speakers about the weather, but Bret Kinsella, who Editor of The Voicebot.ai blog, says making calls is becoming increasingly popular.
He interviewed 1,000 people in January and found that 41% tried calls and messages with their speakers, 29% used them monthly and 10% daily.  "That's pretty popular compared to a lot of things," he says.
And for those with the Apple HomePod, the latest of the new connected speakers, yes, you can use the personal Siri wizard to command music selection and get questions answered. However, you can not make outgoing calls but transfer calls from an iPhone to the Apple speaker and use them as speakers.
Just do not tell Alexa during your call and wake up the echo speaker.
In Other Technical News This Week
YouTube's Revised Music Subscription Service bases its referrals on your view story. How does it work? Jefferson Graham Reviews for Talking Tech.
-YouTube has released a reworked music service that was highlighted with a really cool feature that the competition does not have: non-stop music mixes. But often the algorithm gets stuck and plays the same artists again and again. That is, no music service has such an extensive collection of songs. I weigh up here and compare the offers from YouTube with the big 3-Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon.
Samsung owes Apple $ 539 million in damages per long-standing patent dispute.
Siri offered USA TODAY, CNET, Gizmodo and others as it would be new and improved at the upcoming WWDC Apple Developer Conference in June. And we fell for it. Only one problem – these indications were from 2017. Apple had not come to update them. Until after our piece ran.
This week's Talking Tech podcasts
photographer Pete Halvorsen and Jefferson Graham at the Manhattan Beach Pier in Manhattan Beach, California (Photo: Jefferson Graham)  – Photographer Pete Halvorsen tells how to master the Instagram success
Preview: RED's crazy new hydrogen holographic 4D smartphone.
– First attempt: YouTube Music's new subscription service.
-The Siri preview of the Apple Developer Conference.
-music-Smackdown. Rate the Big 3 and the new kid on the block, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and YouTube.
Michael Schneider is the founder of the service app, which saves money on hotels and delays. Taken in the US TODAY Los Angeles office (Photo: Jefferson Graham)
– Save money on hotel rooms and late flights with service. Michael Schneider, founder of the Spar app, talks about how to get money back from hotels and airlines with service.
-The cashless society is coming. Jeremy Allaire, the founder of the Circle Pay app, gives his predictions about when we will not carry a green with us anymore.
-As the Russians tried to devastate US politics even after Donald Trump's 2016 election on Facebook. USA TODAY tech editor Laura Mandaro explains.
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Heinz baked beans and Quaker rolled oats are just some of the unique ice cream flavors that are offered to Londoners.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed that they have been working on a very exciting new digital initiative that builds on our existing industry-leading digital platform in innovative ways.
Eli Lilly is setting up an extension HQ outside of its home ground in Indiana after the state signed the new abortion law.
Pfizer buys Global Blood to have another source that will increase its annual profits as a slowdown in COVID medicine demand is expected.
Samsung wants to provide clients with a variety of services through these NFTs, including rewards like offline discounts at partner retailers.
The number 45 is embroidered on the lace to signify the 45th anniversary of the McDonald's All-American game, despite the fact that this is not an official McDonald's cooperation.
Burger King hasn't publicly acknowledged this significant change yet, and its not known how or if the chicken is any different on the new sandwiches.
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Global hotel occupancy surpasses pre-pandemic levels
Hotel reservations have been on par with pre-pandemic 2019 booking levels since March of this year, according to Amadeus’ Demand360 business intelligence data.
April 2022 was the first month to surpass 2019 occupancy levels and this continued to climb in May hitting a new high of 63 percent, compared to 60 percent in May 2019.
High-performing nations like the US saw occupancy levels of 68 percent for the month, 7 percent higher than 2019 performance, and Canada reached 64 percent occupancy in May, 8 percent higher than the same time last year.
The transient average daily rate (ADR), which hoteliers can obtain in high demand, has been steadily increasing from a global low of $83 in April 2020.
The average ADR globally for June, July, and August 2022 is $200, up just over 11 percent from the same months in 2019, when it was $180, according to forward-looking Amadeus data.
Individual nations are experiencing high summer hotel rates; France is predicted to reach an ADR of $428 in July 2022, a 29 percent increase over 2019 rates.
The remaining restrictions continue to have an impact on where travelers are coming from. In order to identify which nations are booking the most flights to their markets and where additional marketing could help drive demand, hoteliers, destination management organizations (DMOs), and travel sellers are closely monitoring data.
Hoteliers and DMOs can target travelers at the best time and price by having access to real-time market insights, which helps them rebuild their businesses.
According to Francisco Pérez-Lozao Rüter, president of Amadeus Hospitality, they will continue to collaborate closely with their hotel partners to make sure they have the technology and knowledge necessary to provide exceptional guest experiences in the face of persistent labor shortages and last-minute bookings.

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The city of Portland, OR recently announced it is seeking to provide tiny houses to convince people currently residing in Portland’s “tent cities” to relocate to the permanent structures.
An estimated 2,000 of its residents (are) sleeping under bridges, on streets and in empty lots in a variety of makeshift shelters, (so) the city of Portland, Oregon is on a quest to provide more safe housing for those without a permanent address.
The city launched a task force that is set to meet September 4th to assess the viability of using tiny homes as a potential for housing houseless people, says Josh Alpert, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Mayor Charlie Hales. Alpert hopes the first batch of homes will be ready for occupancy by late February 2015.
According to The Tiny Life, a typical American home is around 2,600 square feet, while the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet. Tiny Houses come in all shapes, sizes and forms but they focus on smaller spaces and simplified living.
Portland is not the first city to try this. Tiny houses are about to become housing for the homeless in Austin, TX as well.
Then there’s this guy, who’s turning trash into homes for the homeless in Oakland, CA.
If plans move forward, how would the tiny homes in Portland be funded? According to this KPTV report, the miniature dwellings would require start-up cash, probably in the neighborhood of $1 million. Josh Alpert, strategic initiatives director, had this to say:
Whether it’s city money, state money or federal money, we’re going to try and get creative and figure out all the places where we can bring money into this to try different kinds of pilots for different kinds of housing needs.
Hoping to provide these tiny structures is Tim Cornell, Managing Director of Techdwell LLC, maker of practical, green micro homes. He believes that Techdwell’s small homes are an ideal solution for housing those in need of shelter, especially the disadvantaged.” Techdwell’s website claims micro-home assembly can be accomplished in 2 to 4 days.
Cornell has some experience building micro-homes for those in need. Check out his work in Haiti:
Let’s be honest, tiny houses are cool. They look like socially acceptable adult forts that provide habitants with some truly wonderful benefits including the ability to live a simpler life.
But is Portland’s plan an adorable band-aid wrapped around a much more complex problem?
To help figure that out, let’s look at five key factors with help from homelessness expert Nan Roman, President and CEO of National Alliance to END HOMELESSNESS:
1) Lower Housing Costs is a Good Thing
High housing costs are a root cause of homelessness, and whether you’re buying or renting, housing costs today are more than many people in the U.S. can afford.
Roman points out, “If you’re making minimum wage, you’re really not making enough anywhere in the country for housing.”
The reality is, housing costs are going up a lot more than income, and as a result, Americans are now substantially less able to afford their housing costs than they used to be. CBS Moneywatch confirms “homes are becoming unaffordable for most Americans, a result of stagnating income.”
That makes scary sense.
While the median home price in the U.S. went up 31 percent from 2000 to 2010, median household income went up just 17 percent. So it makes sense that reduced housing costs could be a step in the right direction.
According to National Association of Home Builders, the average construction cost of a single-family home in the 2013 survey they did is $246,453. With Techdwell homes, Cornell claims he can provide Portland micro homes that sleep two people and have bathrooms and kitchens built-in for $20,000 each.
When asked whether tiny houses could solve homelessness, here’s what Roman had to say:
The solutions to homelessness are not real complicated. They’re not easy, but they are not complicated. The most obvious solution to homelessness is housing, and with smaller houses comes smaller costs. If tiny houses can reduce housing costs, then great. That’s a positive.
2) Small Should Not Equate to Sub-Standard
About Portland’s tiny house plan, Roman cautions:
What needs to be watched out for is whether the housing is standard or sub-standard. There’s nothing wrong with tiny houses, but you want it to be real housing. You don’t want places that are ok for homeless people to live in that are not acceptable for others to live in.
The FlexDwell prototype (pictured at top) includes all the basics you’d want in a home, including two sleeping areas joined by a kitchen, bathroom and eating area, just on a smaller scale, measuring 16 feet wide and 12 feet deep.
Of course if plans move forward, whatever micro homes are erected in Portland will have to meet all city and county building codes.
3) Where They Go Is Important
Another point Roman made is that homes allotted for homeless people should not be clumped together in one location, but rather interspersed throughout the city.
That’s just what Portland plans to do. According to Alpert, the idea is to establish the micro communities in various neighborhoods so that no one area is feeling overburdened.
4) Social Services are Key
There are many factors that lead to homelessness, and as Roman points out:
Most people who are homeless are in crisis. So in addition to needing housing, they need to be connected with services; Mental health, substance abuse treatment services, employment services, parenting assistance, budgeting help, youth need family intervention/connection, training and technical assistance, and medical care.
Whether or not Portland has a plan for that is unclear at this time. The concept is still in the very early stages, and the city has formed a task force to examine it. Hopefully when it meets in a few weeks, this important concern will be addressed.
The Bottom Line
When it comes to homes for the homeless, smaller could be better if it reduces housing costs, but not if the dwelling is sub-par, and not if they are tucked off into one separate section of the city. And homelessness will not be solved by new housing alone; support services that address key needs of those who are homeless are essential to its success.
So to the question: can tiny houses in Portland help solve homelessness? It seems like a hopeful step in the right direction, and with the right support services to go along with it, Portland’s efforts will hopefully succeed and who knows, perhaps pave the way for other cities to follow suit.
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If you've ever slagged off Peter Andre for his vocal prowess - or lack thereof - you should take into account that one of the world's best-known rappers once complimented his singing voice.
Of course, it was back in the 1990s and we're taking Andre's word for it - but he told Heat magazine that when he first met Jay Z after he sat in on a recording session in the States, he didn't have a clue who the rapper was.
"I have to be honest, at the time I didn't know who he was because it was just before 'Hard Knock Life' was released. He played us the whole album and I was thinking, 'This is really good'. Then I didn't think any more of it until it became so huge worldwide," he said.
He added: "He will never remember but the words he said to me, which meant more than anything, were, 'You can sing'. And that meant so much from someone like him because I was doing more soul-based stuff then."
Of course, that would have meant little to the 'Mysterious Girl' singer, considering Jay Z was a random rapper in the studio. Who's laughing now, eh?

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Synonyms for dystopia at thesauruscom with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions dictionary and word of the day. The word utopia comes from the greek words ou, meaning no or not, and topos, meaning place since its original conception, utopia has come to mean a place. Dystopia genre: new releases and popular books, including the belles by dhonielle clayton, heart of iron by ashley poston, honor among thieves by rachel. Etimología el concepto de distopía proviene de la cultura anglosajona en cuanto a la etimología, el término se acuñó a partir de los términos del griego. Looking for information on the manga beatless: dystopia find out more with myanimelist, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database i.
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The mountain of Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city, hidden in the Andes of Peru. Located at 2430 meters above sea level, it is often known as "The Lost City of the Incas." It is one of the famous and spectacular ruins in the world. Declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site since 1983, Machu Picchu receives more than one million visitors a year and is one of the 7 New Wonders of the World.
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Description: Adventure is only limited by imagination in this exciting animated fantasy from The Goonies writer Chris Columbus. Warmly welcomed to the Kingdom of Slumberland by the king himself, young Nemo is christened heir to the throne and given a magical key that will open any door in the kingdom. Though Nemo is warned not to open the one door with the power to destroy Slumberland, temptation proves too strong and the king is kidnapped as a black cloud of nightmares washes over the formerly idyllic dreamscape. Now, if Nemo is to reverse his error and bring the king back alive, he must rally his friends and journey deep into Nightmare Land to face his ultimate fear. Will dreams ever return to Slumberland, or has Nemo's folly set into motion an irreversible, eternal echo of nightmares and chaos? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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On-time flight performances announced, Izmir on top of the list
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ISTANBULMar 06, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Throughout 2014, 91 percent of the flights took off on time at Izmir's Adnan Menderes Airport (ADB) and it was ranked 11th among 374 airports in the world according to the On-Time Performance Service Awards of airline statistics company, FlightStats.
Japanese airports stood at the top of the list with their impressive departure performances, while Russian and Chinese airports ranked at the bottom.
In the first four months of 2014, not more than 49 percent of the flights took off on in time at Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport (IST).
Netherlands based KLM was announced as the most punctual airline as it managed to fly 88.66 percent of its flights on time. The Dutch flag carrier was followed by SAS and Iberia Airlines with very close rates.
With only 35 percent of flights on time, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is by far the worst international airline in terms of sticking with its schedule. PIA is followed by their fellow neighbors Air India (AIL), which manages to fly only 51 percent of its routes on time.
Dubai based Etihad, China Eastern Airlines and Israeli El-Al were announced as airlines that were on schedule in less than 60 percent of their flights.
Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) had managed to fly 74.08 percent of their flights on time in 2014, a relatively poor performance compared with its competitors, while it was ranked sixth in the Middle East-Africa category. Turkey's low-cost Pegasus Airlines was ranked eigth in the same category with 72.39 percent flights on time.
German flag carrier Lufthansa, which is viewed as THY's main competitors, ranked fifth in the European category with 86.21 percent flights on time.
Among three airline alliances, OneWorld, the smallest alliance both in terms of flights and seats, performed better with 79.97 percent flights on time. Main competitors Star Alliance and SkyTeam had arespective performances of 77.19 and 76.08.
Alaska Airlines, Finnair, Japan Airlines, Saudia, Copa Airlines and Iberia Express were the winners in 2014 for respective categories of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East-Africa, Latin America and Low Cost.
In 2014, 504.327 flights landed in Turkey with 68,384,759 passengers, ranking sixth in Europe.


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Facing an increasingly out-of-control federal government in Washington, D.C., record numbers of Americans are giving up their U.S. citizenship in an effort to escape onerous requirements enforced by the IRS – which apply no matter where in the world a citizen lives. Because the IRS requirements have already become so bad, a growing number of banks around the world are refusing to even accept American customers in an effort to avoid U.S. government bullying and mountains of regulations. Following a trend in recent times, with citizenship renunciations continuing to hit new records, some members of Congress are slowly starting to take notice.
According to official figures and experts cited by the Wall Street Journal, almost 2,400 people so far this year have either given up their U.S. citizenship or turned in their green cards. That means the numbers thus far are up by at least 33 percent over 2011, when 1,781 did so, more than twice as many as in preceding years. In 2012, meanwhile, almost 2,000 people reportedly decided to permanently sever Uncle Sam’s grip, and experts say the real numbers are even higher. By comparison, just 742 renounced their citizenship in 2009.
The exodus is widely expected to continue or even accelerate – especially among the wealthy and mobile – unless and until Congress takes action to rein in the IRS and reduce the draconian burdens imposed on Americans abroad. The U.S. government, of course, is almost unique in the world in that it demands that citizens pay U.S. taxes and file massive amounts of complex paperwork no matter where on the planet they reside and work. According to reports, the only other government in the world to seek tribute from citizens abroad is the one ruling Eritrea.
“The reality is that the U.S. tax system gives dual citizens a good reason to walk away from their U.S. citizenship or permanent-resident status,” former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Neiman was quoted as saying in a recent CNBC report about the growing trend. “It’s a painful process but easier than staying in compliance with the law.” Other experts echoed those sentiments, saying that, despite the costs, renunciation of U.S. citizenship is an increasingly appealing option – and probably easier than keeping track of the ever-changing American tax code.
The precise motivations for Americans ditching Uncle Sam undoubtedly vary widely from case to case and individual to individual. However, experts say the biggest reasons for the surge in numbers are changes in tax laws, expected higher and much higher taxes, and stepped up “enforcement” activities targeting the millions of Americans living abroad.
“Nothing has changed in immigration law that would make people want to renounce,” immigration specialist Freddi Weintraub, a partner at New York-based law firm Fragomen Worldwide, told the Wall Street Journal. “Current or anticipated changes in tax law and enforcement are driving this increase.” Numerous other experts in the field quoted in media reports echoed those findings, suggesting that the IRS and the U.S. tax code were the primary drivers. Recent income and investment tax hikes certainly did not help.
Another key element in the story behind the accelerating flight is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), passed in 2010 and set to go into effect next year. Under the scheme, which has sparked an outcry among Americans living abroad – as well as with foreign banks that will now have to comply with IRS decrees – financial institutions all over the world are required to report information about U.S. citizens and green-card holders to the U.S. federal government.
Penalties for even minor or unintentional mistakes can be devastating, critics say – potentially serious enough to bankrupt even the very wealthy. “With the new regulations, it’s too … easy to commit errors,” explained immigration and nationality chief Shaoul Aslan at Washington-based law firm Patton Boggs. “People are tired of that – and not as much the saving of taxes as people not wanting to commit an error.”
McClatchy news highlighted the plight of Oklahoma-born Ruth Anne Freeborn, who has lived in Canada with her Canadian husband and son for over three decades. Because of FATCA, her foreign bank was required to hand over all of her family’s financial information to the Obama administration, which her husband, of course, opposed. So, after carefully considering her options, Freeborn eventually decided to renounce her U.S. citizenship in September rather than subject her family to intrusive prying by the IRS and the federal government.
“My decision was either to protect my Canadian spouse and child from this overreach or I could relinquish my U.S. citizenship,” she told the news service, which reported that growing numbers of Americans were “ditching their U.S. passports out of frustration and fear” over FATCA. “It was with great sorrow I felt I had to relinquish, but there was no other choice for me and many like me…. My husband cannot understand why Americans are so offended by having their personal emails and phone calls monitored by the NSA yet are very comfortable requiring a Canadian to hand over their bank account data.”
The increasingly byzantine and oppressive regulations, along with more aggressive government efforts to enforce them, have also led a growing number of banks and financial institutions around the world to refuse to do business with anyone subject to Uncle Sam. As The New American has been reporting for years, Congress and the IRS have essentially made U.S. citizens into pariahs around the world in many respects. In some cases, the U.S. government has even gone so far as to terrorize and threaten governments and nations that refuse to bow to the will of Washington’s political class. Switzerland and the Swiss were among the most recent victims.
For Americans living overseas, it is becoming increasingly nightmarish. “Many banks, foreign financial institutions, are just turning Americans away – it’s easier for them not to have American clients,” explained Marylouise Serrato, executive director of the group American Citizens Abroad, in comments about the effect of FATCA and IRS regulations. “For some people it [renunciation] becomes a solution. But it’s done with a very heavy heart.”
In recent years, the factors highlighted by experts have also driven more than a few wealthy Americans to renounce their citizenship and move to more market-friendly countries, such as Singapore and Switzerland. In response, U.S. lawmakers unveiled a scheme to extract their wealth, too. Last year, Democrats, including Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), were mocked and ridiculed for proposing to tax people such as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who potentially saved tens of millions of dollars by giving up his citizenship in 2012, in perpetuity. Analysts said the proposal, which has not yet passed, was another sign of America moving toward “banana republic” status.
Already, people giving up their citizenship can be subject to an “exit tax,” but for D.C. politicians, more wealth must always be extracted. Responding to a tsunami of outrage among Americans living abroad, however, there are some timid efforts in Congress to begin addressing the growing problem. “FATCA is a textbook example of a bad law that doesn’t achieve its stated purpose but does manage to unleash a host of unanticipated destructive consequences,” explained Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who offered legislation to kill FATCA this year. “Tax evasion is a problem that should be addressed, but not in an egregious way.”
Even some Democrats and original FATCA cosponsors are apparently having second thoughts about the draconian effects of the bill on Americans abroad. So far, though, lawmakers seem far more interested in borrowing, spending, and taxing as much as possible than in helping to stem the growing trickle of U.S. citizens expatriating or easing the burden on Americans living and working in other countries. As FATCA goes into force next year, the disaster is set to get worse, which may eventually prompt Congress to act. In the meantime, though, millions of innocent Americans will continue to suffer.
Source: The New American


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Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) shares rose in value Tuesday Dec 13 with lower trade volume than normal after a number of analysts weighed in on the investing value of the stock with a upgraded rating.
Meanwhile, the Dow DJIA, +0.47% climbed 106 points, or 0.6%, to 19,905. If the Dow finishes higher, it will notch its seventh straight gain.
The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.56% gained 10.45 points, or 0.5%, to 2,267 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.02% added 48 points, or 0.9%, to 5,461.
Both the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.56% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.02% ended lower on Monday, with investors appearing reluctant to push shares higher ahead of the Fed meeting
Analysts at Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) from Sell to Hold today. Zacks Investment Research currently has a rating of Hold on the shares. The one-year price target of $62.85 is above the opening price of $51.83, that has caused a number of other analysts to report on the stock in recent days. Looking back over the last 52 weeks, Nike Inc. stock has a high of $68.19. Stock prices sometimes get a boost to the upside when analysts upgrade a stock.
Shares of Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) opened at $51.83 on Tuesday and has traded in a range between, $51.83 and $52.80, and last traded at $52.77, which is a jump of $1.23 or 2.39% over the previous closing price.
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) currently has a market cap of 87.88B.
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) Average Daily Trading Volume
1,799,653 shares traded hands yesterday, lower than normal, out of a total float 1,332,230,000. Trading volume is likely to increase in the next few days as investors often use increases in trading volume to pinpoint large volume accumulation or circulation by institutional investors.
However, a single day of significant buy side trading is not enough to assert a trend. As such, market traders will continue to look for institutional sponsorship as a cue that financial institutions are moving forward.
Institutional sponsorship is defined by ownership of a stock by mutual funds, banks, pension funds and other large institutions.
These professional investors have substantial teams of analysts that investigate thousands of stocks. So watching their interests is a good way to ensure you are buying the right stocks.
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) Moving Averages
A moving average can also act as support or resistance. In an uptrend a 50-day, 100-day or 200-day moving average may act as a support level, as shown in the figure below.
This is because the average acts like a floor (support), so the price bounces up off of it.
In a downtrend a moving average may act as resistance; like a ceiling, the price hits it and then starts to drop again.
Traders can make more useful judgments on trades when they follow the activity of professional investors.
With that in mind, Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) now has a 50-day MA of $50.97 and 200-day MA of $54.19. It has traded in a 52-week range between $49.01 – 68.19 and today’s last price is 22.62%% lower than the 52 week high of $68.19.
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The Humane Art
Why We Should Write Letters
I recently sent a dozen love letters.
I have the kind of handwriting that is required for graduation from medical school and, after a lifetime of reliance on a QWERTY keyboard, have lost the muscle memory of longhand writing and have to consciously think about how many loops to form in an m versus an n. But I chose, all the same, to write by hand and the medium itself dictated the process. For each recipient, I chose a card and, beginning in small lettering in the upper left-hand corner, filled it evenly with words until I ran out of space, letting the shape and size of the card dictate the length for me and making no drafts, allowing for no corrections, just letting the words flow out in a single stream.
And yes, each letter was, in effect, a love letter: focusing on the recipient and on how I felt about them. I left Australia with three people—Pat, Maia, Mark—embedded so deeply in my heart that it would surely take an emotional earthquake to dislodge them. And a handful of others who give me a warm and tender feeling when I think about them. None of these letters were meant to be the beginning of a correspondence: they were intended as gifts.
I used to be a professional letter-writer. The small company I worked for—simply called Letter—sadly folded a few years ago, for lack of funds. My recent bout of letter-writing has set me thinking about my time there and what I learned. This is the first of two pieces I wrote for them about letter-writing in general. The first one is about why we should write letters. (The second one—on how to write letters—will appear here next week.) A version of what follows was originally published in Areo Magazine.
Why Write Letters?
Scarcely any species of composition deserves more to be cultivated than the epistolary style—Samuel Johnson, 1751
When people try to define what distinguishes letters from other forms of writing, they usually focus on the physical—the movements of the wrist as you write, the ribbon of ink unfurling across the page, an envelope plopping onto a doormat, plump with promise, unfolding a crisp sheet of paper. We’ve lost touch with the genre because we’ve largely abandoned the old material forms of pen, paper and post. Yet the value of letters is not dependent on their physical form.
The one-on-one letter exchange—even in the colder digital form of emails—is ideal for forming, expressing and presenting ideas, can heal rifts and promote mutual understanding and enrich the wider discourse. The genre itself encourages an approach to knowledge and relationships that is uniquely valuable.
Flexing the Writing Muscle
Such [letters] as are written from wise men are of all the words of men the best
—Francis Bacon, 1597
Samuel Johnson points out that “letters are written on all subjects, in all states of mind” and therefore denies that there can be any such thing as a proper epistolary style: “a letter has no peculiarity but its form.” But, even as he denies that there is anything specific about the medium, Johnson highlights the letter’s most salient feature—its subject and style are generally tailored to a specific recipient: “Letters are written to the great and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant … Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity of expression, when the importance of the subject impresses solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence.”
Being able to express yourself well in writing is one of the most useful life skills, in every situation from texting a friend to filling out a job application—and it’s something most people struggle with. A letter exchange is an ideal way to hone that ability because good writing is fundamentally about communication.
Writing can easily become boring, obscure or mannered when writers, lost in their own thoughts, forget who they are writing for and either patronise the reader by stating the obvious—it’s common to underestimate your reader’s intelligence and overvalue your own—or attempt to impress her with jargon and waffle. As Johnson puts it,
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood … [but] when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds … and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.
Some, on the other, simply let the contents of their heads spill out across the page, as if emptying a sack of donated bric à brac onto a jumble sale table.
I empathise. Writing can be terrifying, lonely work: it is really hard to imagine how it would feel to read what you have written. The audience is an abstract concept. Letter writing replaces that abstraction with a concrete person and, when he replies, you get real-time feedback on how your words are received. As I sit here writing this, right now, I am effectively talking to myself. I don’t know if anyone out there will read this: I have to take a leap of faith. Knowing that a correspondent is waiting to read and reply changes the game, inspires you and focuses your message. As Virginia Woolf puts it, “all good letter writers feel the drag of the face on the other side of the page and obey it.”
Since at least Socrates, we’ve known that dialogue is an ideal means of stress-testing ideas. As Richard Feynman says, “if you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.” When you’re forced to present your ideas to another person—especially someone with ideas of her own—you quickly realise which parts of your argument are obscure, even to yourself.
These letter exchanges differ from debates because there is no live audience and therefore far less temptation to pander to listeners, try to own your opponent or score cheap points. Correspondence is a courtship, not a lek. It’s much more equal and two-sided than a talk or an article. Strawmanning or misrepresenting someone’s ideas is far less tempting when you are writing directly to him. Letter exchanges productively harness our deep-seated human instinct towards reciprocation. If you want your own ideas to be taken seriously, you have to persuade your correspondent that you have fully understood and considered hers.
In too many public interactions, we can—and do—avoid being directly confronted by our intellectual and political opponents. People with large Twitter followers can quote-tweet out-of-context sound bites in order to discredit their adversaries, allowing a deluge of admiring remarks from followers to drown out any objections and muting or blocking inconvenient detractors. Writers for partisan papers can misrepresent statistics and cherry-pick experts to present a slanted version of events. We can spot this happening when we know the subject at hand well, but tend to forget when we’re unfamiliar with the topic—a phenomenon Michael Crichton has dubbed the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect. It’s rare for people to contemplate their core disagreements head on. Whenever we can, we slither away, we attack obliquely, we seal ourselves into echo chambers, we barricade our opinions against attack. But knowledge can only advance when we’re willing to face the painful realisation that we might be wrong. Or, worse, that we might be stupid.
Letters make this difficult feat easier for two reasons: they humanise our adversaries and ourselves; and they therefore encourage introspection and mutual exploration over dogmatism.
You can, of course, still write a hostile, petty, ill-informed, disingenuous, conceited or hectoring letter to someone (examples abound). If you’re determined to behave like a wankstain, you can always find a way. And, sometimes, people need to be told harsh truths about their pernicious views or damaging behaviour. But if you’re apt to be overly defensive and dismiss different opinions too quickly, the letter format nudges you in a better direction, ups the volume a bit when the better angel on your shoulder is speaking.
The Humanizing Effect
what more humane an act is there than correspondence itself—the art of mutual response—especially amid a culture of knee-jerk reactions that is the hallmark of most communication today? Letters, by their very nature, make us pause to reflect on what the other person is saying and on what we’d like to say to them in response. Only when we step out of the reactive ego, out of the anxious immediacy that text-messaging and email have instilled in us, and contemplate what is being communicated—only then do we stand a chance of being civil to one another, and maybe even kind.
Popova’s description highlights the pace of letter exchanges. Composing a letter takes less time than writing an article—articles demand too much time investment for most—but it’s slower than the drive-by-shooting pace encouraged by most social media. The extra time allows many of us to override our first, rapid-fire impulses, driven by anger, hurt or anxiety. “When you have written a letter that you feel may possibly irritate … however necessary you may have felt it to so express yourself, put it aside till the next day. Then read it over again, and fancy it addressed to yourself,” counsels Lewis Carroll—advice that is hard to take on Facebook or Twitter, but much easier within a correspondence.
The letter form forces us to address a person with a human face and name. It encourages us to personalise. This can have negative impacts, too. As Samuel Johnson warns, you may be tempted to flatter or cajole, rather than express your honest opinions because,
in writing to the world there is less constraint; the author is not confronted with the reader, and takes his chance of approbation among the different dispositions of mankind; but a letter is addressed to a single mind, of which the prejudices and partialities are known.
But, for the same reasons, letter writing can help you learn diplomacy. Hate mail is usually read and deleted. If you want a correspondence to be ongoing, you have to convince your addressee that you write in good faith. As Carroll puts it, “Excellence in letter-writing requires … above all, tact.”
Unlike an article, in which all your ideas must be carefully marshalled and arranged before you begin, in a letter you can ruminate freely. You don’t have to include all your arguments at once—you can always clarify things in a follow-up letter.
It’s quite rare to encounter people thinking aloud: public discourse is full of posturing, politicking, personal branding, virtue signalling and intellectual peacockery. But when we rush in like fools and stumble around in a thought landscape, we can make some very valuable serendipitous discoveries together. It’s liberating not to have the worry that you’ll be misinterpreted constantly uppermost in your mind. As a nineteenth-century letter writing primer explains,
In other productions there is the restraint induced by the feeling that a thousand eyes are peering over the writer’s shoulder and scrutinizing every word; while letters are written while the mind is as it were in dressing-gown and slippers—free, natural, active, perfectly at home.
One helpful side effect of the interpersonal aspect of letters is that it prompts you to be more autobiographical: to trace the genesis of your ideas in your personality, situation and history. Letters often read like epistemological memoirs. Frequently, correspondents don’t just say here’s what I believe, but here’s how I came to believe this; not this is how I do things but here are all the different ways I’ve tried; here’s what I’ve settled on. This approach makes us less judgemental, more willing to see the views of others in the context of who they are as complete human beings. This kind of introspection can lead to the recognition of some very surprising parallels.
Intimacies Both Real and Imagined
While some letters read like carefully structured essays, in general the genre elicits a style close to that of the spoken word. As Jane Austen tells her sister Cassandra archly, “the true art of letter-writing … we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.” This creates a sense of proximity. Of the prolific letter writer Mme de Sévigné, Virginia Woolf writes,
We are very little conscious of a disturbing medium between us … she is living, after all, by means of written words. But now and then, with the sound of her voice in our ears and its rhythm rising and falling within us, we become aware … that we are, of course, being addressed by one of the great mistresses of the art of speech.
Like a spoken conversation, letter correspondence can seem unplanned, unforced, spontaneous. As Sam Shepard writes to his lifelong correspondent John Dark:
You can just sit down any old morning & have a conversation whether the person’s there or not. You can talk about anything & you don’t have to wait politely for the other person to finish the train of thought … And the great difference to all other forms of writing is that it is dependent to a large extent on the other person … You’re writing in response to or in relationship to someone else—over time.
Reading such an exchange can feel like eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation one table over at a café.
It’s this titillating sense of overheard confidences that made the epistolary novel so popular in the eighteenth century. Its most famous proponent, Samuel Richardson, began his foray into the form with a collection of fictional missives, designed as writing models, “Directing not only the requisite style and forms to be observed in writing familiar letters; but how to think and act justly and prudently, in the common concerns of human life,” as its subtitle announces. Richardson’s sample letters are mostly stilted and formulaic. But, in a few of the exchanges, we can detect the germ of a story—as in the series of letters, “which passed between an Aunt and her Niece, in relation to her Conduct in the Addresses made her by two Gentlemen; one a gay fluttering military Coxcomb, the other a Man of Sense and Honour.”
At the age of fifty, Richardson published his first novel, Pamela, in which he ventriloquizes the letters of a fifteen-year-old maidservant, who is attempting to avoid her employer’s sexual advances. Pamela exploits the illusion of immediacy that letters offer through a technique its author called writing to the moment. Richardson’s graphomaniac characters document events in real time, constantly blurring the boundaries between epistle and writer. “I can hardly write; yet, as I can do nothing else, I know not how to forbear!,” Pamela exclaims in one letter, “Yet I cannot hold my pen—How crooked and trembling the lines!” The letter medium allowed Richardson to fully inhabit the minds of his characters. His second novel, Clarissa, features the most extensive, profound, obsessive, claustrophobically intense exploration of the human psyche in the English language.
I think it’s time we revived this genre. As Andrew Curren has suggested, why not turn the epistolary novel into an e-pistolary novel for the internet age?
The atmosphere of intimacy that letters can create can encourage a candour that is rare in public discourse. This is the kind of honesty Denis Diderot is describing in this letter of 1762, to Sophie Volland, cited here:
One would perhaps accuse oneself more easily of planning a major crime than of some slight obscure feeling that was vile and base. It would be perhaps less painful to write in one’s account-book: I have desired the throne at the expense of its present occupant’s life, than to write, one day while I was at the bath with a large number of young men, I noticed one of surprising beauty and was not able to keep myself from approaching him.
We can find this same openness in Marc Maron’s interview with Louis CK (especially the final ten minutes), a no-holds-barred exploration of a friendship marred by self-destructive impulses on the one hand and envy on the other. This kind of radical honesty is moving because we all harbour the same kinds of petty impulses, the same unspoken desires. The most deeply personal feelings are also the most widely shared. So, paradoxically, someone courageous enough to bare her soul will often find herself speaking for all of us. As Alain de Botton observes, a good writer can speak with “an honesty quite different from what ordinary conversation allows,” and, in revealing his mental world, “give us maps to our own selves, so that we can travel in them more reliably and with less of a feeling of paranoia or persecution.”
In any conversation, a balance must be sought between narcissism and reserve. To treat the other person as an unpaid therapist is self-indulgent. But vulnerability can also be a gift. The most vivid description of this phenomenon I’ve heard is in an interview with singer Amanda Palmer. Palmer describes meeting a breast cancer survivor, who would skinny dip in German lakes and who confessed that she enjoyed the reactions of other nude bathers when she emerged from the water to reveal a deeply scarred, flat chest. Palmer comments:
There is something delicious about … showing your scars and it doesn’t feel narcissistic … if you do it right … it actually feels like a generous act, because you act as a reminder to the other human beings, when you’re getting out of that lake, that any shame they may be feeling is unwarranted, unnecessary, and if they’re feeling discomfort and you’re not made uncomfortable by their discomfort, you can offer them a gift.
We should foster this kind of fearless commitment to the truth in both the private and the political realms. We must, as Salil Tripathi urges, “reflect on the silences, the pauses and the parts that we ignore because it might make us uncomfortable.” One of the things that will give us the courage to emerge, dripping yet unabashed, from our personal lakes, is the knowledge that we are heard, that we are part of a conversation.
Towards a New Republic of Letters
In her review of Horace Walpole’s letters, Virginia Woolf speculates that “the growth of writing as a paid profession” and the demands of the “great gluttonous public” led people to turn away from correspondence in the late nineteenth century. Now, we are living in the post-professional era. Writing has been democratised: anyone can start a blog, make a public viral post on social media, send out a newsletter like the one you are reading now. Many YouTubers also provide essay content, read out to the camera.
But, in our vibrantly multivocal culture, there is a constant danger of talking past, not to, each other. While Woolf’s gloomy prediction that “instead of letters posterity will have confessions, diaries, notebooks … in which the writer talks in the dark to himself about himself” has not come true—more people than ever before are reaching a public audience—there is a felt lack of dialogue, which has surely exacerbated our bitterly entrenched culture wars and political polarisation. The popularity of podcasts and live debates shows that we have a hunger for more conversation.
Samuel Johnson’s words that “this is an age of authors and every man must be content to be his own reader” have never seemed more apt. There is a glut of people expressing their opinions individually, each in isolation. What we lack is the modern day equivalent of the coffeehouse or the salon: a venue where people directly converse. And this time it need not be restricted to bewigged aristocrats or to scholars.
The truth, writes Adrienne Rich, “is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.” It is something we weave together, and “when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet.” We are blind men, each grasping one part of the elephant, the Ganesh who can remove our obstacles—now we just need to compare notes. If we are to become more enlightened, humane and well informed and better equipped to face the complex challenges of the future, we need to communicate with each other in ways that keep us constantly aware of our shared humanity.
The letter medium can provide a framework for that.

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Hydrokinesis is the ability to manipulate water. Aqualad has used hydrokinesis many times, as have many other Atlanteans. Advanced users are even capable of changing the state of the water.
- ↑ Weisman, Greg (writer) & Oliva, Jay (director) (November 26, 2010). "Independence Day". Young Justice. Season 1. Episode 1. Cartoon Network.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Hopps, Kevin (writer) & Oliva, Jay (director) (March 4, 2011). "Downtime". Young Justice. Season 1. Episode 8. Cartoon Network.
- ↑ Weisman, Jon (writer) & Chang, Michael (director) (September 30, 2011). "Homefront". Young Justice. Season 1. Episode 12. Cartoon Network.
- ↑ Weisman, Greg, Kevin Hopps (w). Jones, Christopher (a). Atkinson, Zac (col). Sienty, Dezi (let). Chadwick, Jim (ed). "...Here There be Monsters" Young Justice 15 (April 18, 2012), New York, NY: DC Comics
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Characterization of Flow Asymmetry During the Compression Stroke Using Swirl-Plane PIV in a Light-Duty Optical Diesel Engine with the Re-entrant Piston Bowl Geometry
Flow field asymmetry can lead to an asymmetric mixture preparation in Diesel engines. To understand the evolution of this asymmetry, it is necessary to characterize the in-cylinder flow over the full compression stroke. Moreover, since bowl-in-piston cylinder geometries can substantially impact the in-cylinder flow, characterization of these flows requires the use of geometrically correct pistons. In this work, the flow has been visualized via a transparent piston top with a realistic bowl geometry, which causes severe experimental difficulties due to the spatial and temporal variation of the optical distortion. An advanced optical distortion correction method is described to allow reliable particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements through the full compression stroke. Based on the ensemble-averaged velocity results, flow asymmetry characterized by the swirl center offset and the associated tilting of the vortex axis is quantified.


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We don't pretend to understand the Chinese automotive segment.
Rather, we usually just chose to pass along the latest intel so that those of you who can make sense of what's going on in China have the information that's needed.
With that in mind, here goes:
Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. (the "Company" or "Kandi") (Nasdaq:KNDI), announced today that its subsidiary Zhejiang Kandi Electric Vehicles Co., Ltd. (the "JV Company") signed the Ownership Transfer Agreement (the "Agreement") with Shanghai Maple Guorun Automobile Co., Ltd. ("Shanghai Maple"), a 99% owned subsidiary of Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. ("Geely") on December 23rd, 2013.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the JV Company is required to pay RMB 640,651,000 (approximately USD104,147,186) to acquire 100% ownership of Kandi Electric Vehicles (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Kandi Shanghai") from Shanghai Maple. The JV Company will make the payment of RMB 400,000,000 (approximately USD 65,025,800) within 90 days upon signing the Agreement. The remaining payment will be delivered within 360 days after signing. Both parties agreed to try to complete the transfer process of Kandi Shanghai's entire ownership with local State Administration of Industry and Commerce before December 31st, 2013.
Upon the completion of this transfer, Kandi Shanghai will become 100% owned subsidiary of the JV Company. Through its 50% ownership of the JV Company, Kandi will indirectly own 50% of Kandi Shanghai.
To us it seems this implies that Geely has acquired an electric vehicle division via Shanghai Maple Guorun. That division, known as Kandi Electric Vehicles, will no longer be part of Kandi Technologies. Is this a move that will position Geely as China's EV leader? Probably not, as we still see BYD in the top spot for plug ins, but at least Geely now has access to the tech it needs to start pumping out EVs.
Mr. Xiaoming Hu, Chairman of Kandi and General Manager of the JV Company stated:
"This ownership transfer better consolidates the resources and expertise of Kandi and Geely in R&D, production, sales and marketing for electric vehicles ("EVs"), so we will be able to develop more affordable pure electric vehicles for residents in China to buy and drive, provide efficient services to our customers, and promote the use EVs in China. With the increase of consumer environmental consciousness and urgent demand for urban green public transportation systems, the EV sector will certainly become a main driving force for the green economy for China in the near future. We will work our best to build a strong and reliable urban green transportation system and make Kandi the leader in the EV industry in China."
Seems like it's all about the advancement of EVs, doesn't it?


We are living in historic times. Since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic in 11 March 2020, nursing staff have performed a huge range of vital roles in the COVID-19 response in the UK and beyond.
Now is the time to go beyond the “clap for carers” and better understand what life during the pandemic has been like for nursing staff in different situations and contexts. From first responders and nursing leaders to staff working in care homes and the nursing students who stepped up from their degrees to support the NHS, this series marks the ongoing impact of the pandemic on nursing and nurses.
Each virtual event takes the form of two live interviews with nursing and healthcare staff and students, followed by a Q&A. The interviews will be recorded and added to the RCN archive, making sure these nursing experiences are recorded for posterity.
COVID: First Responses
In this first event, we will hear from two people involved in healthcare in different capacities during the early days of the pandemic. The interviewer is Dame Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, RCN President.
• Chris Carter. Chris was seconded from his role as senior lecturer at Birmingham City University to be the second Matron for Critical Care at University Hospital Lewisham for 3 months during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic
• Rose Gallagher. Rose is the RCN Professional Lead for Infection Prevention and Control and has been supporting the RCN with specialist advice throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. She has experience working with previous epidemics and pandemics, including the Ebola outbreak of 2013-16.
This event is open to all, and will take place online. Please sign up to attend and the link to join will be circulated in advance.
Image: ICU © Helen Jones
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The lymphatic circulation as a drainage system
The lymphatic system has neither a heart nor arteries.
Its microscopic dead-end capillaries extend into most tissues, paralleling the blood
The lymphatic circulation is a drainage system. Its job
in maintaining fluid balance is to:
||collect excess interstitial
fluid and return it to the blood (approximately 3 litres daily).
||return plasma proteins to the
Once interstitial fluid enters a lymph capillary, it is
referred to as lymph.
The three main types of lymphatic vessels are lymph
capillaries, lymphatics, and lymph ducts.
Lymph capillaries are microscopic tubes located between
cells. Lymph capillaries resemble blood capillaries somewhat, but differ in important
ways. Whereas a blood capillary has an arterial and a venous end, a lymph capillary has no
arterial end. Instead, each lymph capillary originates as a closed tube. Lymph capillaries
also have a larger and more irregular lumen (inner space) than blood capillaries and are
The wall of a lymph capillary is constructed of
endothelial cells that overlap one another.
When fluid outside the capillary pushes against the
overlapping cells, they swing slightly inward--like a swinging door that moves in only one
direction. Fluid inside the capillary cannot flow out through these openings.
animation of a section through a lymph capillary shows how pressure in the interstitial
fluid surrounding the capillary pushes open the overlapping cells.
The arrows represent the direction
of flow of the lymph.
Note the internal valve which
allows the lymph to flow in one direction only.
Lymph capillaries branch and interconnect
freely and extend into almost all tissues of the body except the CNS (Central Nervous
System) and the avascular tissues such as the epidermis and the cartilage.
Lymph capillaries join to form larger vessels called
lymphatics or lymph veins. These resemble blood-conducting veins but have thinner walls
and relatively larger lumen, and they have more valves. In the skin, lymphatics are
located in subcutaneous tissue and follow same paths as veins. In the viscera, lymphatics
generally follow arteries and form plexuses (networks) around them.
At certain locations lymphatics enter lymph nodes. These
are structures that consist of lymphatic tissue.
As the lymph flows slowly through the lymph sinuses
within the tissue of the lymph node, it is filtered. Macrophages remove bacteria and other
foreign matter as well as debris.
Lymphocytes are added to the lymph as it flows through
the sinuses of a lymph node. Thus the lymph leaving the node is both cleaner of debris and
richer in lymphocytes. Lymphatics leaving lymph nodes are called efferent lymph vessels
and conduct lymph toward the shoulder region. Large lymphatics that drain groups of lymph
nodes are often called lymph trunks.
Lymphatics from the lower portion of the body converge to
form a dilated lymph vessel, the cisterna chyli, in the lumbar region of the abdominal
cavity. The cisterna chyli extends for about 6 centimetres just to the right of the
abdominal aorta. At the level of the twelfth thoracic vertebra, the cisterna chyli narrows
and becomes the thoracic duct.
Lymphatic vessels from all over the body, except the
upper right quadrant, drain into the thoracic duct. This vessel delivers the lymph into
the base of the left subcIavian vein at the junction of the left subcIavian and internal
jugular veins. In this way lymph is continuously emptied into the blood where it mixes
with the plasma. At the junction of the thoracic duct and the venous system, a valve
prevents blood from flowing backward into the duct.
Only about 1 centimetre in length, the right lymphatic
duct receives lymph from the lymphatic vessels in the upper right quadrant of the body.
The right lymphatic duct empties lymph into the base of the right subclavian vein (at the
point where it unites with the internal jugular vein to form the brachiocephalic)
An example of the pattern of lymph circulation is:
Lymph capillaries lymphatic lymph
node lymphatic cisterna
chyli thoracic duct
Lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes can be visualised by
the process of lymphangiography. A radiopaque (not transparent to x-rays) contrast
material is injected into the a lymphatic vessel. This will show up the vessel and
itís connections to other lymph vessels. The fluid is left in the system for 24 hours
and the lymph nodes can then be observed by X-rays. This technique is quite important in
the treatment of neoplasms and other disorders of the lymphatic system. The technique is
also used to locate lymph nodes for radiation therapy or for surgical removal.

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Ernst & Young LLP, otherwise known as EY US, announced this week that it has launched cryptocurrency application EY CryptoPrep, to assist traders with tax filings in the United States.
CryptoPrep is a Software as a Service (SaaS) web-based crypto tax engine. According to the statement from EY, one of the big four accounting firms, the engine offers step-by-step guidance through the crypto tax process.
The CryptoPrep solution supports most of the major cryptocurrencies and exchanges, the statement said, and through aggregating and reconciling transaction data, the service applies the relevant tax rules to produce an account of crypto capital gains or losses.
After this, the product provides a completed Form 8949, the form used to report sales and exchanges of capital assets, for all applicable tax years. Although the product launched this week is specifically for crypto, the underlining technology is also available for clients through EY TaxChat and the EY Blockchain Analyzer.
Commenting on the product launch, Marna Ricker, EY Americas Vice Chair of Tax Services said in the statement: “Our clients increasingly hold and trade crypto assets, creating the need for an innovative solution to address the evolving complexity around filing crypto taxes. The EY Foundry, our internal corporate venturing unit, created EY CryptoPrep to modernize the crypto tax accounting process.”
Ernst & Young expands crypto services
The latest product from Ernst & Young follows on from the accounting firm launching an accounting and taxation tool for cryptocurrency holdings last year. The tool, which is called EY Crypto-Asset Accounting and Tax (CAAT), facilitates accounting and tax calculations for cryptocurrency transactions and is targeted to both institutional customers and retail investors.
“EY CryptoPrep expands our innovative portfolio of successful new digital businesses,” added Chirag Patel, EY Foundry Leader in the statement. “EY CryptoPrep is another great showcase of our commitment to address the evolving needs of our clients.”


2018-2020 Acura and Honda Models Recalled Due to Potential Fuel Pump Failure
The fuel pump will be replaced on hundreds of thousands of cars, minivans, and SUVs
Fuel pump components in the tank could crack due to exposure to solvents during the manufacturing process. The recalled 2018-2020 cars, minivans, and SUVs may have fuel pumps with defective parts that could prevent an engine from starting or cause the engine to stall while driving, potentially increasing the risk of a crash. A serious problem may cause a warning light to illuminate in the instrument cluster.
This recall is an expansion of recall 20V314 announced in May 2020.
Honda is not aware of any accidents or injuries related to this condition.
Owners will be notified starting mid-May 2021. After which, they can take their vehicle to an Acura or Honda dealership to have the fuel pump replaced free of charge.
Owners who had this condition repaired previously are eligible for reimbursement.
- Acura ILX: 2019
- Acura MDX Sport Hybrid: 2019-2020
- Acura RDX: 2019-2020
- Acura TLX: 2019-2020
- Honda Accord Hybrid: 2019
- Honda Accord: 2019-2020
- Honda Civic Coupe, Coupe Si, Sedan, Sedan Si, Type R: 2019
- Honda Civic Hatchback: 2019-2020
- Honda CR-V: 2018-2019
- Honda Fit: 2019
- Honda HR-V: 2019
- Honda Insight: 2019-2020
- Honda Odyssey: 2019
- Honda Passport: 2019
- Honda Pilot: 2019
- Honda Ridgeline: 2019
The problem: Fuel pump failure can cause an engine to not start or to stall while driving, increasing the risk of a crash.
The fix: Dealerships will replace the fuel pump assembly, free of charge.
How to contact the manufacturer: Owners may contact Honda customer service at 888-234-2138.
NHTSA campaign number: 21V215000. This recall is an expansion of recall 20V314.
Check to see whether your vehicle has an open recall: NHTSA’s website will tell you whether your vehicle has any open recalls that need to be addressed.
If you plug your car’s 17-digit vehicle identification number (VIN) into NHTSA’s website and a recall doesn’t appear, it means your vehicle doesn’t currently have any open recalls. Because automakers issue recalls often, and for many older vehicles, we recommend checking back regularly to see whether your vehicle has had a recall issued.


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Here is a gallery of some mockup projects I do to keep my skills sharp.
Contemporary music player that is driven by the golden proportions and dual use elements.
Equinox is a weather app that has a theme that changes throughout the day.
Clover is a smartwatch app to track users daily health goals.
Here is a monogram logo I made for my talented artist friend, Lissa Mcfarland
Digital storefront for a local bike shop. Vintage textures and fonts to match the store's merchandise.
Responsive travel app for users to find and review the worlds best destinations and trips. Clean, direct, charming.
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