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Montevideo Council takes step forward with Hwy. 212 levee project
MONTEVIDEO -- Montevideo City Council members on Monday approved the acquisition of a parcel alongside U.S. Highway 212 as part of the upcoming levee improvement project.
The parcel is among 40 separate properties the city is acquiring as part of the right of way needed for the levee improvement along Highway 212, according to City Manager Steve Jones.
He said the acquisition process is moving along and he is hopeful of seeing all the needed properties acquired soon.
That will allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to let construction bids and allow for the levee construction yet this year.
In other business at the regular meeting Monday, council members gave their approval to a proposal from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to stock a retention pond behind the Tanglewood/Horizon Trails as a fishing pond for kids.
The small pond is about 8 feet deep and recent netting showed that it already contains some panfish and bullheads. The flow from storm water apparently prevents winter freeze-up.
Council members indicated they supported the proposal to improve the fishing opportunities for youth. A bicycle trail surrounds the pond, but the city will likely seek to develop an access site and fishing dock for the pond.
Also Monday, council members approved a $217,603 bid by GE Healthcare for the purchase of a mammography system for the Chippewa County-Montevideo Hospital.


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The Boys of Tinder
Boys who like me
Boys who don’t
Boys with face tattoos, boys who like magic tricks
Boys who like beer boys who use blushing emojis
unironically, boys with beards boys with mustaches boys who don’t like girls who
like dogs boys who only like girls with dogs boys who play the trumpet boys who think I’m
gorgeboys who want to know where I’m from boys who never get answers boys who think I’m
boys who want help singing Fergalicious boys who were called Tony Soprano in jail boys who
want adventure boys who think I work at The Met boys who want to talk about art while I am in
my PJs on the couch shoving potato chips into my face, rugby-playing boys Irish boys who like
my hair lonely banjo boys accordion boys boys I knew in high school boys I used to love boys
who want “crazy ladies” disney fan boys boys I sometimes see at starbucks who smile at me
and I smile back.
I wonder if the man answering the phone is tired
of me. That’s why he sighs when I ask, in my most
professional lilt, to be transferred. Two weeks in
and still no return call. Has he detected, by now,
the crevice in my voice?
There were a few years when I would sit in my front yard
with goggles and a small hammer, crack open rocks
with a child’s instinct for finding split points. One good whack
and the quartz came spewing out like precious venom. Everything
has its fault, its richness, and I want so badly
to be kind. You can hear it. Sizzling
like peroxide in a cut. You can hear it
in an office somewhere in the city, where the phone
is ringing and ringing and I have almost forgotten
the smell of hot earth and what it’s like
to get everything you want
with a single swing.
Hannah Corrie graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a concentration in creative writing. While there, she was the senior editor of A Barnard Writer’s Life. She is now a graduate student at New York University, and is the co-founder of The NYU Creative Writing Working Group.

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With the same vigor that Paul Arnow battled infectious diseases around the world as a doctor, he restored a dilapidated Wisconsin cottage where he fell in love, married and later died Sunday, March 27, at age 58 of a heart attack.
"He had a long-term passion for old things," said his wife Hilary.
Those who knew Dr. Arnow, a longtime professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and a doctor at its hospitals, said he evolved from a tireless physician to a devoted husband and father.
He died a month before he was to start a teaching job that would have allowed him time to focus on his wife and their 11-month-old son Saul.
Hilary recalled that their first date in 2001 was during the anthrax outbreak. She was sitting across from him in the restaurant and looked up at the TV, where Dr. Arnow appeared as an expert on anthrax in a taped interview.
"I remember thinking it was really smooth," Hilary said.
University of Chicago colleagues recalled the constant pile of eraser shavings on Dr. Arnow's desk--he wrote on yellow legal pads with pencils, rewriting memos to perfection.
Pink erasers were given out as party favors before Dr. Arnow moved in 2002 to Boston, where he became a health consultant for Management Sciences for Health on international projects in Haiti and Afghanistan, university officials said.
"He did everything just right, and it would sometimes drive people nuts. But what you got in the end was really excellent," said Dr. John Flaherty, longtime friend and associate chief of the study of infectious diseases at Northwestern University.
Born in Arizona, Dr. Arnow received his bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University and his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco in 1972.
After an internship, residency and fellowship in infectious diseases at Chicago's University of Illinois Medical Center, he began a fellowship at the University of Chicago in 1978. He became chief of its infectious diseases department in 1993.
At University of Chicago Hospitals, Dr. Arnow was known for visiting patients and staying with them until all questions were answered. He also was known for writing manuscripts without a single error, Flaherty said.
Dr. Arnow was adventurous, forming health policies in Cambodia and caring for Vietnamese refugees in Guam, university officials said. He kept a poster listing Cambodian prison camp rules in his office.
Dr. Alan Leff, a University of Chicago professor of medicine, remembered Dr. Arnow's disarming sense of humor.
"It was like an aftertaste," Leff said. "You would feel the effect of it after things had moved on, which always makes you feel a little foolish."
When advising University of Chicago officials on anthrax, for example, Dr. Arnow wore a gas mask and said his intention was to "head for the hills," his wife said.
Dr. Arnow authored about 70 research papers, articles and textbook chapters, and lectured around the world, officials said. Often set up by friends on dates, Dr. Arnow was considered a confirmed bachelor, Flaherty said, until Dr. Arnow met Hilary. All of a sudden, Flaherty said Dr. Arnow would end his workday with a simple phrase: "Hilary is waiting for me."
Meeting for the first time over lunch, Hilary recalled Dr. Arnow being an especially good listener.
After lunch, she discovered he was the chief of infectious diseases.
"I was like `Wow,'" she said. "He didn't talk about himself."
Dr. Arnow proposed to Hilary in 2003 as they watched the sun set from their cottage in Silver Lake, she said. They married that summer in the same house. The birth of their son brought Dr. Arnow great joy, his wife said.
"Saul was Paul's life," Hilary said.
"Saul is just the happiest, happiest thing that ever happened to Paul."
Dr. Arnow was to start his new job as an Indiana University professor of medicine May 1.
In addition to his wife and son, Dr. Arnow is survived by a sister, Eleanor Gerst. Services have been held.

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Create a second character known as a "mule". With this new character sell all his/her(or its) equip on the Auction House and also trade the Adventurers coupon (given to you by the NPC at the very beginning) to the appropriate NPC.
Then simply send the money to your character. This is a very cheap way to earn gil, but not a lot of it (the most I could get was about 1,000).
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My daughter's name happens to be Ella so these books are special to our family. This is our second Ella book and it's great! I love the upbeat story that shows how you should be kind to your friends. I especially like how all the books seem to build on each other. In the first book, Belinda is not a kind friend. However, a friendship grows between the two little elephants by the end of the book.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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I was not familiar with the ELLA series and picked this book up because I liked the cover. I was looking for a book to give to my niece for Christmas, but I'm going to give this book to my assistant instead since she always invaluably insures that the Show Goes On. I think this book would make a great gift to adults who work behind the scenes, as a token of appreciation. Considering it's written for children, it's probably a great book for kids, too!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.


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NBA and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has been the face of the league for many years. However, there were the talk of Kevin Durant being better than the King in their matchups during the 2017 and 2018 NBA finals.
Recently television personality Nick Wright shared how the notion of Kevin Durant being the better player than LeBron James in those two series was wrong. Wright shared his opinion on ‘On What’s Wright?’ podcast.
Wright shared how despite Kevin Durant winning two Championships changed nothing in terms of quality. He feels that even if Durant and LeBron had switched placed then also the Golden State Warriors would have won.
“The idea that KD was better than LeBron when KD was in Golden State, I understand KD won those championships, does anyone in the world think KD and LeBron switch places and KD was on those Cavs teams and LeBron was on Warriors teams, those finals would’ve gone any different? No.”
Wright in fact shared how without LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers would not be in the 2018 NBA finals. He shared how LeBron James guided a team where he had players like Kevin Love, Jeff Green and others. He did not have the support of Kyrie Irving. So Wright feels that had LeBron been replaced by Durant then the Cavaliers would not have made it to the NBA Championship finals.
“The only difference would’ve been in 2018, when it was LeBron, Kevin Love half the time and Jeff Green, no Kyrie, if that was KD there in place of LeBron in 2018, there’s no chance those Cavs team make the finals.”
The finals matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors happened in the finals of 2017 and 2018. The Golden State Warriors won both years, they won in 2017 in five games whereas they completely swept the Cavaliers in the following year.
LeBron James’ return to Cleveland was a big call after the disappointment of losing the 2014 NBA Finals. It was a major call that could have gone wrong but LeBron never allowed it to happen. With players like Kyrie Irving coming on the roster, it soon became a Championship challenging team. The Akron Hammer had a four-year stint with the Cavs and he had some sensational wins for them on his second stint. He at times single handedly helped the team win matches and guided them to four NBA finals by dominating the Eastern Conference.


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Congressman Tom Petri has issued the following statement:
"House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released the House Republicans' proposed 2013 federal budget earlier today. As my initial reaction, this plan would rein in the deficit without cutting federal programs any more than necessary. It would also reform taxes in ways designed to restore strong growth to our economy. It's all a very difficult balancing act.
"The proposal would force unpleasant choices and make some people unhappy. Unfortunately, that's the way it is when you need to make serious cuts in order to wrestle the budget back to a sustainable course.
"While, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the President's proposed budget would cost $45.4 trillion over 10 years, the Republican plan would spend $5.3 trillion less.
"I note that the Senate has gone for well over a thousand days without fulfilling the legal requirement of producing a budget. It seems the Senate leadership just doesn't want to admit publicly how much they want to spend, how high they want to raise taxes, and how much of a debt burden they are willing to dump on succeeding generations.
"While the Senate's leaders try to hide their intentions, the House this year will once again go on record with a responsible budget plan. We can be proud that Wisconsin's own Congressman Paul Ryan is taking the lead as the House of Representatives makes the tough decisions necessary to control spending."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Demi Lovato’s next stage will be on the page. The singer-actress has agreed to a multi-book deal with Feiwel and Friends. The publisher, an imprint of Macmillan, announced the deal Monday. The first book features tweets she had written about her life. It’s called “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year” and […]
¡Enhorabuena! El guapo presentador con los hoyuelos más famosos de Hollywood le acaba de dar la bienvenida al mundo a su segundo hijo con su esposa Courtney Mazza.
Simon Cowell talked about his impending fatherhood on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” — Cowell’s first TV interview on the subject since the news broke in July. Watch …
Simon Cowell has his priorities straight. “The X Factor” mogul and former “American Idol” judge may admit that he feels a paternal instinct kicking in recently, but don’t expect him to leave any of his $300 million fortune to his unborn son.
Looks like Simon Cowell is going to have a little mini-me! “The X Factor” judge and his pregnant girlfriend, New York City socialite Lauren Silverman, are expecting a baby boy.
British TV mogul Simon Cowell says he’s looking forward to being a father, his first public confirmation that he will be having a child with married New York socialite Lauren Silverman.
Fox star Demi Lovato will reportedly turn up on “Glee” this season in at least six episodes. Latest details …
Forbes released its annual list of television’s highest paid TV personalities, with the top spot earning a cool $95 million. This year actually saw a pair of “winners” as both Simon Cowell and Howard Stern hit the motherload and tied with with an estimated $95 million payday each between June 2012 and June 2013. According […]
Después de tres décadas, Paulina Rubio ha dejado de ser “la chica dorada”. La cantante mexicana, como parte de una campaña de promoción para el tinte de cabello Koleston, se ha convertido en una peliroja.
The subject on everyone’s mind at “The X Factor” panel today wasn’t what changes the show will undergo for its third season, but rather the fact that Simon Cowell is allegedly expecting a baby with Lauren Silverman, the not-yet-divorced wife of the British judge’s friend, New York real estate mogul Andrew Silverman. “I haven’t read […]

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Entering play on May 26, the Detroit Tigers sit at 22-24. If a turnaround does not happen in the near future, the Tigers may look a lot different at year’s end.
According to a report from Jon Morosi, Detroit has given itself until the end of June to get a winning record. If that doesn’t happen, any and all veterans could be on the move.
If #Tigers are still under .500 by end of June, sources say they'll revert to stance from November: All veterans will be available in trade.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) May 26, 2017
Of course, in some cases, trades will be easier said than done.
Ace pitcher Justin Verlander, for example, has a no-trade clause in his contract. Miguel Cabrera has no such clause, but his 10-and-5 rights (which Verlander also has) gives him the same protection. The same is true for veteran DH Victor Martinez.
Now, those are non issues if the players agree to a deal involving them. If the Tigers are looking to rebuild, veteran players like that would likely be willing to go to a contender.
The next problem, then, becomes the salaries. Sticking with those examples, Verlander is owed $28 million in both 2018 and 2019, and could be owed $22 million in 2020, depending on how he pitches in 2019. Cabrera is owed $30 million a year through 2021, $32 million in 2022 and 2023 and has $30 million options in both 2024 and 2025. Martinez’s salary is more manageable ($18 million in 2018), but that’s still a lot for a player in his late 30’s who doesn’t do any more than DH and occasionally play first base.
If the Tigers have a bad month, these are some of the names we’ll hear heading into the trade deadline. But dealing them will not be easy for Detroit.


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Something from the archives.
Why I’m Not Doing Nanowrimo This Year
For the second year running, I am not joining the magnificent, brave and crazy people that give up their Novembers in the pursuit of a novel. Continue reading Why I’m Not Doing Nanowrimo This Year
State Of The Noir Nation
Dark fictions flourish in dark times. As we lurch from financial crisis to social meltdown, our reading habits change and our idea of what constitutes light relief gains some weight. This is a simple truth that the editors of new anthology title Noir Nation understand all too clearly. It’s the perfect time to launch, and the premiere issue is stuffed as full of hardboiled treats as an old fashioned sweetie shop.
A well-curated genre collection will take pleasure in the display of a wide range of voices, opinions and stories. Noir Nation hits all the buttons hard. It’s broad, wide and deep in scope, which suits a journal with a truly international remit. Standout stories for me include Tristan Davies “Surgeons”, which introduces us to a doctor who makes Gregory House look like that nice English actor Hugh Laurie, and RF Warner’s “Dog Of A Different Breed”, the story of a drug run gone bad, an unfortunate incident with a dog, and a serial killer with a yen for poetry and gameplay.
Speaking of poetry, there’s also room for a piece by Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker. Seems like she could shoot better than she could sling a rhyme, but it’s a fascinating curio from a famous gun moll.
The first ish also gives us a fascinating discussion on what constitutes contemporary noir (Alan Ward Thomas, the Eastern Hemisphere editor, pulls together a fascinating take that includes transhumanist SF, Alvin Toffler-style future shock, Cubism and Jung) and a forum on whether the genre has a moral compass. The jury’s out on that one, but there are equally compelling arguments for and against.
The one misfire is Jon Danko and Danda’s graphic novel, Fired On Deadline. It’s muddled, and text-heavy, with none of the bite of the prose pieces. It also, at least in my preview copy, looked as if it had been inserted at too low a resolution, leading to blurry, rasterised artwork. That’s a real shame, considering my predilections. It also does Danda’s lovely expressionistic art (he did the cover, shown above, which is a much better showcase of his talents) no justice. It’s apparently the first part of a larger work, and I’d be interested to see where Danko and Danda take the idea of Flamenco Noir. But for now at least, the whole thing looks like something of an afterthought.
But that’s a minor quibble regarding a strong anthology bulging with good stuff. You can pick it up at the Kindle Store and still get change from a poorly cephalopod. Noir Nation shows a genre that is in very rude health indeed. Live and goddam kicking.
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Nanowrimo – A Sad Announcement
I wanted to make it work this year, I really did. But the pressures of three blogs plus re-write duties on Habeas Corpus and other pipeline works means that something just had to give.
That something, alas, is Nanowrimo.
I will be buckling down and writing, sure, just not on a new 50,000 word project. It will be interesting, I think, to try and do 1700 words a day across all the projects I have on the table this autumn, and this is certainly not goodbye forever.
This will be no break for me. If anything, I will use the Nano excuse to up my game in solidarity with all the word warriors out there. Expect some big posts this November.
To everyone, and especially the Oxfordshire Nanos, good luck and be magnificent. Let’s be verbose out there.
Why I Blog
X&HTeam-mate Rob May asked me one of those questions last night.
I replied with a flippant fob-off, but my blood ran cold. It was too closely related to one of The Big Two Questions That All Writers Hate. One of which is “Where do you get your ideas from?” (stock answer for that one – “there used to be a guy operating out of a lock up under the rail bridge by St James St station in Walthamstow, but now I just do what everyone else does and get them online, ideas4u.ru). The big one is “Why do you write?” And there is never an answer to that one that won’t make you sound like a self-absorbed arsehole. “I knew when I was a child.” “I had to find somewhere to put all the stories.” “It’s a calling.”
The swine of it is, all of these are true to a greater or lesser extent. I’ve written since I was a scrawny, speccy runt. I was always good at it, and I always enjoyed it. Even now, drifting into the fugue state where a tale just seems to present itself and all I have to do is write it down is one of my greatest pleasures. I must have been put on this earth to tell these stories. It’s my mission in life.
See. Told you. Cain’t hep masel. Self-absorbed arsehole.
Of course, understanding the grunt work that comes out of polishing and repolishing my words until they shine is another story, There is a world of difference between the first draft that can be banged out in a six-week period if you’re disciplined (braces for howls of outrage from the Nanowrimo crowd) and making something that people would actually want to read. A story without plot holes, clunky dialogue, cookie-cutter characters, screeds of needless exposition and the hundred thousand little details that can derail a tale if you don’t get them right. Changing eye colour is a good one. Or everyone having the same eye colour. I’ve had heroines that change their age from page to page. The basic misunderstanding of Newtonian physics that sends the engine of your plot off-track and into the trees. I’m writing this on a train, you can see where the metaphors are coming from.
None of which answers Rob’s question. Bear with me.
The thing with writing is that it’s a monstrous, time-eating task that will gobble years like a sugar-starved tween presented with a handful of Haribo. Blogging is very much the opposite. It’s a quick, sharp hit, an espresso instead of a venti moccochoccolattechino with extra whipped cream and sprinkles and three flakes. It’s first draft, front-lobe spillage. It’s 4-track demo, rough sketch, workshop level output. It’s also pragmatic. I can clear out brain cruft that needs to go somewhere, I can work up ideas, try things out. It’s a place to react, to rage, to vent, to roar. It’s the mouth of the gushing hose. Twitter’s great for a lot of things, but it doesn’t let me bend the language in the way that I like. I can’t roll out a run-on sentence in 140 characters. And I LOVE run-on sentences. Blogging is as close to I get to an honest, true immediate response to the world and everyone in it. (As close as I get? Well, take a look at the title of the blog you’re reading…) Broadcasting at the click of a trackpad.
And of course, it’s an exercise in vanity. How could it be otherwise? I’m labouring under the assumption that there are people out there that want to read my views on the AV referendum, on horror, on comics, on beer, on food, on every little thing that pops into my tiny head and gets me to fire up Marsedit. Writers are egoists. They have to be. How else could you blare your opinions at the world if you didn’t think they were worth the world’s attention? Why do it if you didn’t think someone was listening? The blogger that doesn’t check their stats after every post isn’t really a blogger at all.
Rob, I’m sorry, I’m still not sure that i’ve answered the question. X&HT is a huge part of my writing life. It’s a home, a platform, potentially a shop window, a shelter, a stage. It’s me, in some ways, and a weird simulacrum of me in others. It’s a distraction and a workspace. It’s me and the cartoon rabbit-eared, fluff-tailed version of me all at one. It’s an excuse, Rob. It’s a half-truth.
Why do I blog, Rob? Because I can. Because I must. Because.
A Sort Of Anniversary, I Suppose
I don’t know what drew me back to Blogger last night. I changed this place over to WordPress in 2007, pulling over most of the archive over in the process, and have had little cause for complaint. I barely even consider the early years. Nonetheless, I logged in, to find a surprise.
According to the Dashboard, I joined Blogger back in April 2001. Which makes this my tenth year of writing and publishing online. Good grief.
The problem is, I have no way of proving it. In a dick move that I could only ever pull on myself, The Ugly Truth is open to invited readers only. I am not on that select list. I’ve somehow managed to lock myself out of my own blog.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that I joined Blogger and began writing straight away. I have vague recollections of a couple of false starts, vague entreaties of impressive future content followed by months of silence. The Ugly Truth (named after a Matthew Sweet song, not the godawful Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler romcom) was my first serious attempt at a blog, and was closer to a Tumblr than the polished new-content machine you enjoy today. There were a lot of links, and the occasional stab at something heartfelt. It was intermittently updated at best, and no different to a thousand other sites out there. It was, of all things, a post by Warren Ellis on the need for original content that inspired me to ditch that approach and, once Blogger no longer suited my needs, the move to WordPress under a new name.
I have no record of any of this. The earliest post in my archives dates to December 2004, which means my early attempts are lost to the aether. I’m content in this. It’s no great loss to the world of blogs.
But the Blogger years were a start, and they led me here. I think all I can say with any certainty is that April 2011 marks the ten-year anniversary of my intention to blog. And that’s got to be worth something. I suppose. Hasn’t it?
Cerise Sauvage: A History
I’ve mentioned in the past how a long walk will often suggest characters or situations to me. It’s a process I’ve likened to having someone fall into step with me and start to tell their story as we go.
I had a hospital appointment this morning, and afterwards decided to take a stroll back through Southwark, across the river to St Pauls and up the Strand, revisiting a few old haunts. Damned if I didn’t get a companion, murmuring in my head as I strode up Carter Lane. She had a name which I’d heard before.
I wrote down the things she told me in a couple of caffeinated jolts in shops along the river. I haven’t told the half of it. The name Westinghouse is mentioned at one point. Astute members of The Readership might recall I’ve talked about her before.
Meet Cerise Sauvage. She has a soundtrack that you might find appropriate.
Nanowrimo: A Few Useful Tools
There are just under three weeks to go until the start of the 2010 Nanowrimo, and already there’s a sense of real anticipation and nervous excitement. Wordsprints (where you write as much as you can for a given period; say half an hour) and timed exercises are happening on Twitter, with the #nanolove hash getting a lot of … well, love. The forums at the Nanowrimo site have reopened, and are buzzing with activity. It always seems a shame to me that they don’t stay open for the whole year, as for November they are a hive of crazed creativity and overwrought drama. It would be great to get some of that feeling all the time.
The Nano forums are essential for those moments when you just need to bitch about how badly things are going, or crow about your rapidly expanding wordcount, or wail about your lack of inspiration. In the forums, you realise just how many other people are in this with you, and feeling and suffering and exulting in exactly the same way. Nanowrimo puts you in touch with an awful lot of like-minded people, and if you sign up to the regional forums, you could even meet up with some of them face to face!
And of course, software developers are there to help the aspiring writer part with their cash – in the name of productivity, of course. There are a few tools out there that are worth your time, and funnily the good ones are open source and free.
I had great results last year with OpenOffice, which has hella good error correction and auto-complete functions – a boon for sloppy typists. On full-screen mode it’s a good distraction-free option and really helps you bang up the word count. The team behind it have just broken away from their corporate masters at Oracle to create the new LibreOffice, which I will be viewing with interest. I’m also eyeing up FocusWriter, which seems like a neat, prettier version of the Gedit/Notepads of the world. I’m having some issues installing it on my little Linux netbook, as it doesn’t come as a prettily packaged .deb file, but I’ll get there, I’m sure. With a choice of background, word count and daily goals built in, it seems to have been designed specifically for the shenanigans in November. But frankly, I’m happy as long as there’s autocap and a little something to help out my dreadful spelling.
Meanwhile, have you got your Dropbox account yet? and if not, why not? It’s free, it’s 2gigs of storage that seamlessly syncs across all your machines (including your smartphones), it’s a complete no-brainer to set up and use. It saved my butt during Script Frenzy early in the year, and it’s an essential for me now. In fact, if it sounds good, drop me a line. If you go through an invite from me we both get an extra 256mb for free. Used in conjunction with PlainText, I can jot down ideas on my phone and know that they will be waiting in a folder in my Dropbox whenever I need them. If you’re a writer on the go like me, these two bits of free loveliness are my solid recommendations.
And oh look, Scrivener is rolling out a major update in time for November! Scrivener is brilliant for thwacking out a first draft and letting you organise it at the same time. I used it exclusively for my first three Nanoes, and it’s still a favourite. The upgrade will set you back about $25, $45 for a new licence, with a thirty day free trial – just enough time to complete your Nano challenge. Totally worth it.
But these are only tools. When it comes down to it, Nanowrimo is about a very simple act. Writing 1700 words a day for a month, and being consistently surprised at what comes out. I know I always am, and that’s what brings me back year on year.
Want to know more? Feel like giving it a go? then start HERE. And if you need a friend, then this is me.


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Knowing a company’s true sales can help determine its value. Investors, for instance, often employ financial analysts to predict a company’s upcoming earnings using various public data, computational tools, and their own intuition. Now MIT researchers have developed an automated model that significantly outperforms humans in predicting business sales using very limited, “noisy” data.
In finance, there’s growing interest in using imprecise but frequently generated consumer data — called “alternative data” — to help predict a company’s earnings for trading and investment purposes. Alternative data can comprise credit card purchases, location data from smartphones, or even satellite images showing how many cars are parked in a retailer’s lot. Combining alternative data with more traditional but infrequent ground-truth financial data — such as quarterly earnings, press releases, and stock prices — can paint a clearer picture of a company’s financial health on even a daily or weekly basis.
But, so far, it’s been very difficult to get accurate, frequent estimates using alternative data. In a paper published in the Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics Conference, the researchers describe a model for forecasting financials that uses only anonymized weekly credit card transactions and three-month earning reports.
Tasked with predicting quarterly earnings of more than 30 companies, the model outperformed the combined estimates of expert Wall Street analysts on 57 percent of predictions. Notably, the analysts had access to any available private or public data and other machine-learning models, while the researchers’ model used a very small dataset of the two data types.
“Alternative data are these weird, proxy signals to help track the underlying financials of a company,” says first author Michael Fleder, a postdoc in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). “We asked, ‘Can you combine these noisy signals with quarterly numbers to estimate the true financials of a company at high frequencies?’ Turns out the answer is yes.”
The model could give an edge to investors, traders, or companies looking to frequently compare their sales with competitors. Beyond finance, the model could help social and political scientists, for example, to study aggregated, anonymous data on public behavior. “It’ll be useful for anyone who wants to figure out what people are doing,” Fleder says.
Joining Fleder on the paper is EECS Professor Devavrat Shah, who is the director of MIT’s Statistics and Data Science Center, a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, a principal investigator for the MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science, and an adjunct professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Tackling the “small data” problem
For better or worse, a lot of consumer data is up for sale. Retailers, for instance, can buy credit card transactions or location data to see how many people are shopping at a competitor. Advertisers can use the data to see how their advertisements are impacting sales. But getting those answers still primarily relies on humans. No machine-learning model has been able to adequately crunch the numbers.
Counterintuitively, the problem is actually lack of data. Each financial input, such as a quarterly report or weekly credit card total, is only one number. Quarterly reports over two years total only eight data points. Credit card data for, say, every week over the same period is only roughly another 100 “noisy” data points, meaning they contain potentially uninterpretable information.
“We have a ‘small data’ problem,” Fleder says. “You only get a tiny slice of what people are spending and you have to extrapolate and infer what’s really going on from that fraction of data.”
For their work, the researchers obtained consumer credit card transactions — at typically weekly and biweekly intervals — and quarterly reports for 34 retailers from 2015 to 2018 from a hedge fund. Across all companies, they gathered 306 quarters-worth of data in total.
Computing daily sales is fairly simple in concept. The model assumes a company’s daily sales remain similar, only slightly decreasing or increasing from one day to the next. Mathematically, that means sales values for consecutive days are multiplied by some constant value plus some statistical noise value — which captures some of the inherent randomness in a company’s sales. Tomorrow’s sales, for instance, equal today’s sales multiplied by, say, 0.998 or 1.01, plus the estimated number for noise.
If given accurate model parameters for the daily constant and noise level, a standard inference algorithm can calculate that equation to output an accurate forecast of daily sales. But the trick is calculating those parameters.
Untangling the numbers
That’s where quarterly reports and probability techniques come in handy. In a simple world, a quarterly report could be divided by, say, 90 days to calculate the daily sales (implying sales are roughly constant day-to-day). In reality, sales vary from day to day. Also, including alternative data to help understand how sales vary over a quarter complicates matters: Apart from being noisy, purchased credit card data always consist of some indeterminate fraction of the total sales. All that makes it very difficult to know how exactly the credit card totals factor into the overall sales estimate.
“That requires a bit of untangling the numbers,” Fleder says. “If we observe 1 percent of a company’s weekly sales through credit card transactions, how do we know it’s 1 percent? And, if the credit card data is noisy, how do you know how noisy it is? We don’t have access to the ground truth for daily or weekly sales totals. But the quarterly aggregates help us reason about those totals.”
To do so, the researchers use a variation of the standard inference algorithm, called Kalman filtering or Belief Propagation, which has been used in various technologies from space shuttles to smartphone GPS. Kalman filtering uses data measurements observed over time, containing noise inaccuracies, to generate a probability distribution for unknown variables over a designated timeframe. In the researchers’ work, that means estimating the possible sales of a single day.
To train the model, the technique first breaks down quarterly sales into a set number of measured days, say 90 — allowing sales to vary day-to-day. Then, it matches the observed, noisy credit card data to unknown daily sales. Using the quarterly numbers and some extrapolation, it estimates the fraction of total sales the credit card data likely represents. Then, it calculates each day’s fraction of observed sales, noise level, and an error estimate for how well it made its predictions.
The inference algorithm plugs all those values into the formula to predict daily sales totals. Then, it can sum those totals to get weekly, monthly, or quarterly numbers. Across all 34 companies, the model beat a consensus benchmark — which combines estimates of Wall Street analysts — on 57.2 percent of 306 quarterly predictions.
Next, the researchers are designing the model to analyze a combination of credit card transactions and other alternative data, such as location information. “This isn’t all we can do. This is just a natural starting point,” Fleder says.


NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Global economic growth is expected to fall to just over 3 percent in 2019 and 2020 from 3.8 percent in 2018, while easing U.S.-China trade tensions would lead to a "noisy ceasefire" for the U.S. election year, according to a newly released 2020 market outlook report by Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch Global Research.
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The research team projected "a bottoming of economic growth" in the upcoming spring, as trade tensions fade and recession risk remains relatively low. Meanwhile, global inflation will dip to 2.7 percent by 2021, from 3.1 percent this year.
"A trade war ceasefire, a super preemptive Fed and aggressive easing from China together suggest relatively low recession risk in 2020," Ethan Harris, head of global economics at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, told a media event here on Tuesday.
"The new year and decade begin near the tail end of the longest bull market on record, and despite recent strong gains, investor anxiety remains at a high level," Candace Browning, head of BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, said in the report.
"Many of the driving factors - central bank policy, globalization, oil - have peaked, and new economic paradigms are emerging in response to a different set of challenges facing the world's social, environment, political and economic systems," she noted.
As the global economy and U.S.-China trade frictions have been approaching "the eye of the storm," Harris said he expected a noisy ceasefire for the U.S. election year and he remained optimistic over a potential "mini deal," as the trade tensions seem to be de-escalating earlier than expected.
"Right now we're reaching a point where the Trump administration has a strong incentive to do some kind of deal. There's an election year coming up. The economy is slowing down," he elaborated.
"The last round of tariffs is mainly on consumer products, which is a politically risky set of tariffs. So we think the incentive to strike a deal is quite high," Harris added.
"An interim, skinny U.S.-China trade deal should temporarily relieve trade concerns ahead of the U.S. presidential election and pave the way for a midyear, mini-boost in global growth led by U.S. rates and a weaker dollar," said the report.
Yet Harris voiced concern that trade headwind may well return after the U.S. election.
"We think that the trade war will have a ceasefire for the election year, but then some kind of escalation after the election year.
"That's important, because if it's not a conclusive deal, the benefit to the economy is limited. That's why we expect a very modest pickup in growth," he said.
"A lot of companies are still going to be worried about where we are two years from now," the economist cautioned. "The main effect of the trade war is a freezing up of business investment for any company (with) global connections."
CENTRAL BANKS RESORT TO EASING
The lackluster forecast of global growth indicates that the slackness is "broad-based," as nearly every major economy has performed worse than expected this year and the global manufacturing sector has been heavily hit, mainly due to the trade tensions, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research report.
Regionally speaking, the institute forecasts the European economy to grow by 1 percent in 2020 despite challenging external conditions, while its core inflation would inch higher to 1.3 percent in the year ahead.
It also pointed out that the outlook for emerging market economies largely depends on the developments of U.S.-China trade scenarios in 2020.
"Total emerging market returns of 7.1 percent in local debt are forecast, but only 2.6 percent for external debt. Latin America is mounting a cyclical recovery, likely led by Brazil and Andean economies, while Argentina's new government faces extreme economic challenges," said the report.
The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to pull back to trend, with growth averaging 1.7 percent over the next two years, and inflation should be muted, with core Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation at around 2 percent by the end of 2020.
Looking ahead to 2020, the U.S. economy is vulnerable to external shocks and uncertainty caused by the trade tensions and the presidential election, but the baseline is for the economic recovery to continue, according to Michelle Meyer, head of U.S. economics at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
This means that the Federal Reserve will likely stay on hold for the foreseeable future. "Given the Fed's focus on avoiding a recession, the risk of further cutting outweighs hikes," said Meyer.
The research team also found that the world's central banks responded to weakness in growth and inflation by cutting rates, with 24 of 39 central banks covered in the report easing their policies this year.
"Fed actions freed other central banks to ease, and with the exception of China, many are also expected to put rate actions on hold next year," said the report.
Despite having more room to cut rates, central banks in emerging market economies are expected to conduct mild easing next year, except those in a few economies where rates are very high, which might be unwilling to cut too much with the Fed back on hold.


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The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of several critical roads in the metropolis for the upcoming Lagos City Marathon on Saturday, 10th February 2024.
The closure will be in effect from 5.00am to 2.00pm. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, stated that the closure is necessary to ensure the smooth running of the marathon.
The affected routes include Funsho Williams Avenue from Stadium to Surulere, Ikorodu Road to Anthony, Gbagada to Third Mainland Bridge, Third Mainland Bridge (Inbound and Outbound), Dolphin Road to Alfred Rewane Road, Falomo Roundabout to Bourdillon Road, Lekki Bridge to Freedom Way, and Akin-Adesola to Ahmadu Bello Way.
To minimize inconvenience to motorists, alternative routes have been provided. Motorists can drive through Apongbon bridge inwards Eko bridge through Costain Roundabout, Iponri, and Bode Thomas to reach their desired destination.
Alternatively, they can utilize Eko Bridge through Costain Roundabout and Apapa Road to access Oyingbo/Jebba and then connect to Herbert Macaulay Road.
For those traveling through Victoria Island, they can use Independence Bridge and CMS bridge to access Apongbon inwards Ijora-Olopa to Iddo and Oyingbo, and then continue their journeys on Herbert Macaulay Road.
It is important to note that the Third Mainland Bridge will not be accessible to motorists from 12.00 tonight until the end of the marathon.
However, outbound journeys from Ikorodu Road and Funsho Williams Avenue enroute Lagos Island are exempted from the diversion.
To ensure smooth traffic flow and the safety of motorists, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority will deploy officers to the diversion points.
Motorists who do not have any urgent business along the marathon diversion routes are advised to avoid the areas.
Once the marathon is concluded, the 3rd Mainland Bridge will return to its normal status.
This article was updated 2 weeks ago


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A Reflection on the Cultural Implications of Asian Immigrants/Asian-Americans Receiving an HIV/AIDS Diagnosis.
I spent the Thanksgiving weekend studying in depth...for seven hours...about HIV/AIDS, and its implications in the mental health field. I have previous experience at La Clinica de la Raza's department of mental health in Oakland, California, providing mental health treatment services and case management to Latino beneficiaries of the Ryan White Program. Although I do hold prior clinical knowledge about the existentially painful and profound complexity of grief that arises after receiving an HIV/AIDS diagnosis, I sought this opportunity to study some new information.
A little tidbit that I learned...
Six percent of those living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are of Asian cultural heritage...
This is particularly interesting to me, based on my experience working with Asian immigrants and Asian-American clients. Many times when I start psychotherapy with a client who identifies as Asian or Asian-American, I often struggle to gain complete information about whether there is a history of mental health problems in the family. I remember one Vietnamese client shared that she suspects that probably there are plenty of mental health problems, but no one ever talked about it or showed any outward behaviors, "because that's just the way it is. No one would have be caught dead having a panic attack or admitting they were depressed in front of anyone. It's all about looking good." Some Asian immigrants and Asian-Americans have shared in therapy sessions about the nearly impossible expectations and standards there are within their unique cultural community. Honor, wealth, achievement, the display of happiness, and success are values that have been shared with me as culturally important....which also, are often anxiety provoking.
Considering that six percent of at least 168,000 people in the United States living with HIV or AIDS are of Asian cultural identity, I surmise that members of this particular cultural group may experience a uniquely difficult and distressing response to a new HIV/AIDS diagnosis. Receiving this diagnosis as someone with the aforementioned cultural values and norms could certainly lead to profound and severe levels of depression, death-related anticipatory anxiety, isolation from other people, and intense internal self-shaming.
Of course, one cannot generalize about members of a culture or ethnicity, given the high amount of diversity within cultures, countries, families, and individuals. Since I practice psychotherapy from a cultural lense, I always like to expand my knowledge of other cultures, and openly invite conversation regarding the cultural implications of one's mental health, physical health, or situational problems, on one's unique identity and experience.

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Man shot in Knoxville is accused of Oak Ridge attempted murder
A man shot outside of a Knoxville business Monday has been arrested numerous times in Oak Ridge and is scheduled to go on trial for attempted first-degree murder in August.
Harold Otis Williams, 31, was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville after being shot multiple times outside N Touch Communications on North Peters Road in Knoxville. UT hospital spokeswoman Karen Bultman said the hospital had no information on his status.
Williams has a Knoxville address but has used a Maryville Circle address in Oak Ridge on numerous occasions, records indicate.
Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Williams came out of the Knoxville business and was approached by a man who shot him with a handgun while Williams was trying to get into his Dodge Charger. He said Williams also uses the alias Harold August Williams.
DeBusk said the suspect fled to an awaiting vehicle that had at least two other occupants. The car left the area, traveling toward Cedar Bluff Road. DeBusk said the car was described as a silver or blue four-door car, possibly a Infiniti.
DeBusk said the suspect in Monday's shooting was described as a black male, about 6 feet tall and weighing between 280 and 300 pounds. He was wearing a white T-shirt underneath a black shirt, a black hat with a red letter ''A'' and blue jean shorts.
He said the preliminary investigation indicates Williams and the suspect are acquaintances.
Williams was previously charged in Oak Ridge with the shooting of Trian Brishy Booker in December 2007. Booker, who was 19 at the time, was shot once in the chest as he stood outside on the porch of a home located at 18 Irene Lane. A witness at the scene told police the two men had some type of altercation before the shooting.
Police found out about the shooting after Booker went to Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge for treatment. Williams was served with a warrant for attempted first-degree murder while in court in January 2008 on another charge. He was released the next day after posting a $100,000 bond.
Williams was indicted by an Anderson County grand jury in May 2008 and his trial is scheduled for Aug. 2 in Criminal Court at the Anderson County Courthouse.
Williams also has a long history of drug arrests in Oak Ridge, the most recent in May. In that case, Oak Ridge Officer John Thomas and his canine partner Zoej reportedly found crack cocaine in Williams' car during a traffic stop on Oak Ridge Turnpike near Rutgers Avenue. He was taken to the Anderson County jail, and released on bond the next day.
He has also served a prison sentence, which ended in 2004.
In an assault case against him in Oak Ridge, he was accused of hitting a 14-year-old boy in the head outside of an apartment on West Vanderbilt Drive. In another case reportedly involving the same teenager, Williams allegedly pointed a gun at the boy and another boy as they walked on West Lincoln Road. The assault charge against Williams was dismissed after the victim decided not to testify.
Anyone with information about Monday's shooting in Knoxville or who may have witnessed the shooting is asked to contact the Knoxville Police Department's Crime Information Line at (865) 215-7212. Callers can remain anonymous.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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Despite the growing impact of pharmaceuticals on our quality of life, ever-increasing approval cycles, fragmented regulation and stagnating private and public investment stunt further opportunity for innovation in healthcare, according to a recent series of in-depth studies conducted by Deloitte and commissioned by Janssen on Europe’s health R&D investment climate.
Healthcare spending in Europe is estimated to swell a minimum of 5 percent by 2030, accounting for as much as 13-18 percent of Europe’s overall GDP, according to the most recent Deloitte report titled Investing in European health R&D: A pathway to sustained innovation and stronger economies. Despite this imminent increase in spending in the coming decades, government cutbacks in the wake of the fi nancial crisis have fostered a feeling of unease surrounding the biopharmaceutical industry. With the number of patients suffering from dementia alone expected to increase by 48 percent by 2030, and similar spikes in prevalence of cancer, diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, medical advances are needed to improve life expectancies and treatments for patients.
The report High value, high uncertainty: Measuring risk in biopharmaceutical research and other industries, the second in the series of Deloitte studies clearly illustrates the massive payoffs that spur the healthcare industry to pour more time and capital into R&D than other comparable industries. New medical technologies have been shown to simultaneously improve quality of life, build the EU’s knowledge economy and combat the predicted rise in chronic diseases in Europe.
New medicines account for 40% of the increase of life expectancy
The value of pharmaceutical innovation is evident across the healthcare industry. In recent decades, innovations such as vaccines and HIV and cancer medication have drastically altered the patient care landscape. The introduction of new medicines alone also accounts for about 40 percent of the increase in life expectancy between 1986 and 2000.
Productivity in the workplace will likely parallel continued growth in the healthcare sector, as quality of life increases in tandem with the average human lifespan. Currently, up to 20 percent of older employees stop working prior to retirement age due to disability. The improved life expectancy and quality of life that result from further medical innovations will likely result in increased productivity among the working population.
However, this progress in patient life expectancy and quality of care comes at the cost of years of research, clinical trials and a number of successes and many failures. While some industries invest comparable amounts in R&D, it can be argued that few impact the quality of human life in the same capacity as healthrelated R&D.
Although the automotive, aircraft and biopharmaceutical industries spend the most on R&D per new product, the biopharmaceutical sector, however, spends the most on products that do not make it to market at all, as almost a third of molecules that make it to phase III clinical trials – having passed costly earlier stages in the formal approval process for pharmaceuticals- still fail to gain approval as a new treatment for patients. Including the cost of these failed technologies, the biopharmaceutical sector spends in the region of $5 billion on development of a single new product.
Pharmaceutical products also take much longer to reach the market, at 10-15 years compared to 6-8 and 4 for the aircraft and automotive industries, respectively. This high product development time thus increases industry uncertainty and decreases effective patent protection period for biopharmaceutical products.
To maintain this level of innovation, healthcare systems are increasingly challenged to make additional strides in patient care with fewer resources. Since 2008, Europe’s R&D spend in the sector has stopped growing, and in 2011 such investment decreased. Such immobility stifl es Europe’s role as a world leader in healthcare, especially with health-related R&D spending in Europe already representing only one-third of that in the US.
The risks faced by the biopharmaceutical industry are complicated and accumulating, but not insurmountable. It asserts that the level of biopharmaceutical innovation can be sustainable if collaboration increases, the level of uncertainty is reduced and risks adequately rewarded. The establishment and expansion of national and regional e-infrastructures can also serve to supplement this collaboration and boost effi ciency across all stages of health technology development.
Clear policies must be put into place to further incentivise R&D, and governments should strive to decrease time to market in the biopharmaceutical industry. With these advances, the sector will be better positioned to put patients at the centre of R&D and collaboration and continue to revolutionize public health across Europe and the globe.
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text: Bjorn Jorg Walter Steinbach hails from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He graduated from Grey High School in 2002 and then in 2003 attended school at the University of Cape Town to study psychology. In 2005, he was on Fear Factor: South Africa. He left UCT and enrolled in City Varsity in 2006 to pursue acting. He also enrolled in the summer program at the Esper Studio in New York in 2008. His first project was a short film called Small Killing (2008) that was filmed and aired in South Africa. Bjorn got his first U.S. break on a project called Generation Kill (2008), an HBO original 7 part mini-series about the 1st Recon Marine Battallion that was sent in during the first phase of the war in Iraq. He portrayed Cpl. Michael Stinetorf in all 7 episodes. Since then he has worked on the made for TV movie, Natalie Holloway (2009) which aired on USA, and The Philanthropist (2009) which aired on NBC.


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Amidst the violence unleashed by criminal elements on the people of Kaduna State, some commentators have responded by blaming Kaduna state government for asserting that the duty of the state is to uphold the law and not to reward hoodlums for violating the lives, property and liberties of citizens.
Those pushing that kind of narrative are sharing a video clip of a 2014 interview in which Malam Nasir El-Rufai called on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to use all options, including negotiation, to rescue the Chibok girls.
The years since 2014 may have led some people to forget the denial and doubt that defined the F.G’s response to the Chibok abductions, especially the initial refusal to acknowledge that it happened.
That was the context under which civic pressures were brought on the government.
Nigeria’s journey since the 2014 Chibok tragedy has proven that the solution to violent crimes, including terrorism and banditry, is a robust response from the state and its coercive agencies.
The quantum of money paid as ransom following many negotiations with bandits have not stopped kidnappings, reduced their frequency or deterred the criminals.
The experience of many states in the Northwest of Nigeria since 2015 has included cattle rustling, kidnappings, killings and the devastation of communities by criminals.
Several states sought to negotiate their way out of the problems by talking to bandits, paying them money or offering them amnesty.
This has not worked and has only encouraged the criminals to press ahead for a surrender of the public treasury to them. That is clearly not in the public interest.
Mass abduction was like in novelty in 2014.
But the facts have changed since then. Negotiations and ransoms have been undertaken, but these have not stopped the criminals.
It has only encouraged them. It is only prudent to review one’s position when the facts change, and the suggestion made by a citizen years ago cannot be taken as the immutable answer to a serious problem which has evolved since 2014, no matter the viral replays of the said video clip.
The Kaduna State Government has been consistently transparent about its security challenges.
It has supported and continues to resource the security agencies in the state.
We are engaging the Federal Government to have security responses that move away from reactive response of repelling bandits towards a comprehensive, proactive offensive that takes the battle to the criminals and uproots them.
As a sub-national, with no direct control of any of the security agencies, we cannot make this task more difficult by giving criminals the resources to acquire more arms.
Kaduna state government regrets the recent kidnaps and killings of students from tertiary institutions in our state, and we sympathize with their families with whom we share the aim of the safe return of all the students.
We mourn the dead students and we offer our condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
The ruthless and heartless resort of the kidnappers to murdering these young persons is part of their effort to further their blackmail and compel us to abandon our ‘no-ransom, no-negotiation’ policy.
Are people bothering with the consequences of state surrender to hoodlums, or is the continued politicization of security challenges not going to make all of us ultimately victims of the insurgents?
The fact that criminals seek to hold us by the jugular does not mean we should surrender and create an incentive for more crime.
In today’s Nigeria, it has become fashionable to treat the unlawful demands of bandits as worthy of consideration and to lampoon people who insist that outlaws should be crushed and not mollycoddled or availed the resources they can use to unleash further outrages.
@views exclusive right: Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication,
27th April 2021.

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The sound of tiny spikes on our wheels crunching through snow was the only sound we heard for miles. The dark umber landscape was caked in knee deep fresh snow. An obvious glutton for frigid temperatures, I once again find myself adventuring through Lapland not far from the Arctic Circle.
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Femininity, and all its powers, was at the crux of Autumn/Winter 2018 at Roland Mouret. Taking as his muse the 1970s cult film The Eyes Of Laura Mars, this was a collection about a woman in control of her own image, in control of how the world sees her. A theme explored by Mouret throughout his career but for this collection more poignant and potent given the current landscape, it played through dichotomy and juxtaposition, a fluidity of form and fit.
A marked move away from the signature Mouret dress, the designer used draping to create a looser, softer effect, easily wearable for both day and night. True to form, tailoring was key, but this took on more technical masculine structure – a deliberate feminine appropriation perhaps – in Prince of Wales check, sharp double-breasted blazers, trenches and capes with exposed stitching and oversized lapels. Mixing and matching textures, contrasting jacquard silks made up a story of soft dresses and skirts, while lurex georgette and velvet corduroy walked the line between the hard and soft. And, while a heavier, opaque aesthetic prevailed, there was space in Mouret’s world for a little playful sheerness and delicacy, adding to the duality of proceedings.
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Vegetable Pizza / Pizza di Verdure
Makes 2 Large Pizze; Serves 12
Top a basil-and-sesame-seed yeast dough canvas with fresh, seasonal vegetables to create this vibrantly colored pizza. The recipe makes two pizze, enough to serve twenty as an antipasto if cut into small squares.
- 1/4 cup sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon malt extract or sugar
- 2 cups warm (110 to 115F) water
- 5 1/2 to 5 3/4 cups King Arthur Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/4 cup finely minced fresh basil
- 1/4 cup Filippo Berio olive oil
- 1 pound small zucchini, thinly sliced
- 2 pounds tomatoes, thinly sliced
- Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Dried oregano, optional
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Spread the sesame seeds on a cookie sheet and toast for about 5 minutes, until golden. Watch them carefully to prevent burning. Remove the seeds to a small dish and set aside.
- In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast and malt extract or sugar in the warm water and let proof until foamy, about 10 minutes.
- In another bowl, mix 5 cups of the flour and the salt. Add to the yeast mixture along with the basil. Using your hands, form a ball of dough that is smooth and no longer sticky, adding flour as needed. Knead the dough on a floured surface for about 5 minutes.
- Lightly grease a large bowl with olive oil, add the dough, turning it to coat, and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Lightly oil two 15 1/2 by 14-inch baking pans or 15 by 11-inch cookie sheets. Spread the sesame seeds over the work surface. Punch the dough down and turn it out on top of the sesame seeds. Knead the seeds into the dough, adding a little flour to the work surface if necessary to prevent the dough from sticking.
- Divide the dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll out each piece of dough to a rectangle the size of the prepared pans, and fit the pizzas into the pans.
- Brush 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over the top if each pizza. Arrange alternating rows of the zucchini and tomatoes on each pizza, overlapping them slightly. Brush the vegetables with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Sprinkle the tops with salt and pepper, and with oregano if desired.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Cool slightly. Cut the pizze into squares and serve warm.
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