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The Easter Road side was joined by Aberdeen, Hearts, Dundee United, and Dundee in funding the exercise, which was carried out by global finance and risk advisory firm Deloitte and backed by the SPFL.
Despite Dons chairman Dave Cormack suggesting results would be unveiled last month, there is yet to be an update on the review, but Kensell believes it won’t be long before the findings are announced as he discussed the process and chairman Ron Gordon’s role in it.
"Ron's very heavily involved with that, which is great. It's promising, and we're moving forward with it,” he told the Evening News as part of a wide-ranging interview.
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"I think some of the information that was found as a result of that review was really interesting around growth – particularly commercial growth – and the opportunities are there for all clubs to benefit, not just Hibs and the other Scottish Premiership clubs, but all clubs in the pyramid.
"It's moving forward at a slow pace but what we have to remember is that all clubs will be consumed by the same transfer window.
"It was a really good paper and there'll be more coming out on that I'm sure.”
The Hibs owner is unlikely to be back in the country until the latter part of the season, according to Kensell.
"I speak to him quite a lot, but I wouldn't want to speak for his travel arrangements!
"We've got our AGM coming up so Ron will be visible there. He's a brilliant owner and really allows us as a group to be very autonomous.
"He's incredibly supportive, as is the whole board, of what we're trying to do. We have a very clear sense of direction. I'm really proud of the culture that we've built here.
"It's been tested more recently and now it's about trying to get the support to buy into what we're trying to do.
"I know it's tough. Everyone wants us to win and we want to be entertaining, but we are going through a transition, but please, stick with us during the whole process.”


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August 19, 2014
LOS ANGELES (PR Newswire): Dr. Jack Kavanaugh DDS, MD, MBA, founder and former Chairman/CEO of ZetaRx and a physician who has dedicated his career to accelerating disruptive medical technology development, is launching a cancer therapeutic company, Novonco Therapeutics, Inc., in partnership with Dr. David Horne from The City of Hope, Dr. Larry Overman from The University of California, Irvine, and The City of Hope.
Novonco, of which Dr. Kavanaugh is Chairman, builds on his career combining technologies from several globally recognized leading institutions to drive cancer research. In 2008, Dr. Kavanaugh in partnership with The City of Hope and others founded ZetaRX to make generally available a non-surgical, non-chemo and non-radiation treatment for cancer. Through exclusive licensing agreements, utilizing coordinated and assembled technologies from several different leading institutions, Dr. Kavanaugh turned this idea into a reality applying T-cell CAR technology to cancer therapeutics. Before he founded and became Chairman/CEO of ZetaRx, there was little interest in this approach but now T-cell technology, which takes advantage of the cell responsible for destroying potential cancer, has been hailed by many researchers as the most exciting development in cancer therapeutics. The latest report on ZetaRX’s work demonstrates 88% of the terminal patients were in complete remission through T-cell CAR technology.
“The collaboration between Novonoco Therapeutics, and scientists from the City of Hope and the University of California, Irvine hold exciting promise for bringing a new generation of specifically targeted cancer therapeutics to patients.”
Zeta RX was acquired in October 2013 by Juno Therapeutics, which was formed and launched on Zeta RX’s technology as its core. Juno is continuing the work that Dr. Kavanaugh started and recently secured the largest series A raise in biotech history ($145 million) and has raised approximately $300 million in total.
Juno’s (formerly ZetaRx) therapy is specific to each patient. A specific subset of T-cells is isolated from a patient’s blood, genetically altered, and a receptor is added (called a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR), that specifically recognizes the marker on the cancer cells. Cells are then grown in culture, and a few weeks later injected into the patient. The cells find the cancer cells where they are in the body and ultimately destroy them.
According to Dr. Jack Kavanaugh, “Novonco is thrilled about its collaboration with scientists from the City of Hope and the University of California, Irvine. The therapy utilizes two different approaches to cancer therapeutics. One, called epigenetics interferes with the genetic code that creates a specific cancer cell. The other, called kinase inhibitors, interferes with enzymes that lead to the creation of a specific cancer cell. Novonco believes each therapy will be effective in cancer therapeutics as well as providing an opportunity for potentiation with a combined therapy. Juno and Novonco’s approaches have the similarity of having the potential of avoiding radiation and the ravages of chemotherapeutic approaches of today. Novonco’s primary targets will include Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer.”
Dr. Larry Overman, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine said, “The small-molecule drugs being developed are the result of extensive basic research to improve the selectivity and safety of the original natural product lead molecules. The collaboration between Novonoco Therapeutics, and scientists from the City of Hope and the University of California, Irvine hold exciting promise for bringing a new generation of specifically targeted cancer therapeutics to patients.”
Dr. David Horne, Deputy Director of Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center added “We have developed potent, molecularly targeted small molecule drugs that hold much promise for treating patients with refractory disease for which there is no standard treatment. These novel drugs are based on natural products and the result of much research into the medicinal chemistry and cancer biology of both solid and hematological malignant tumors. Using precision medicine, our goal is to apply these new treatments to patients that will receive maximum benefit with the goal of curing metastatic disease.”

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Re: commission deduct
my company deduct 2.5% of our commission for payment overdue 120days from customers. is this legal?
That just may be a way to discourage staff who are slow in collecting payments. Otherwise staff may just couldn't be bothered to do the collection. Ask the Labour Office for an official opinion.
(Feel free to share your experiences)
Best to get official advice, call now!

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How I Learn is a crowd-sourced book about learning styles and experiences. Its aim is to change the way educators, parents and students learn, and how educators teach. It is the brainchild of Helen from the Anseo a Mhúinteoir website. It all started as a result of a tweet she sent looking for a guest post on her blog under the condition that it stuck to the theme of learning styles and experiences. The hashtag #HowILearn became a hugely popular feature on her blog and got a lot of people talking!
After much deliberation, Helen decided to expand on the idea, and “How I Learn” the book was created! There was a Twitter discussion night on the #edchatie forum as well as a Google doc for any submissions that were just too long for a tweet. Some schools got involved and sent in illustrations depicting their learning styles. Adults, or lifelong learners as they like to be called, quickly joined in to share their insights with the world.
As an educator, Helen realised that everybody learns in different ways and it is this simple fact which “How I Learn” aims to exemplify. Times have moved on and it’s not all chalk and talk anymore – we need to be more aware of the individual when teaching. The book also aims to highlight the fact that learners too need to find the styles that work best for them, and cultivate and encourage them to become the best learners they can be, no matter the route taken.
Within this book, readers will find submissions from primary, secondary and third level teachers. They will also read submissions from pupils, students and parents about how they learn and in some cases, where they struggle to learn.
Helen now needs help in getting the book printed. Funding had been in place but unfortunately fell through. She’s now hoping that a Fundit Campaign can help raise some money to print 200 copies of the book, ready to launch on October 4/5th and change the world one learner at a time.
Proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to Barnardos.

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Aadhaar deadline could be extended beyond 31 March, Centre tells SC
07 March 2018
The deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to avail of various services and welfare schemes run by the government may be further extended beyond 31 March, the Union government indicated in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Centre said the government was prepared to extend the deadline since some more time would be needed to conclude the prolonged hearing in the Aadhaar case.
A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan agreed with the suggestion of Attorney General K K Venugopal.
"We have extended the deadline in the past and we will extend the deadline again. We may do it by the end of month to enable the petitioners in the case conclude the arguments," Venugopal said.
The bench said, "It is a very valid point raised by the Attorney General and the court would not allow repetitive arguments made by the petitioners' counsel in the matter."
On 15 December last year, the apex court had extended till 31 March the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various services and welfare schemes.
Earlier senior advocate Shyam Divan, who had led the arguments challenging Aadhaar and its enabling act, said that the deadline of 31 March should be extended as it was highly unlikely that the hearing in the case challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act will be concluded by then.
"The deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various services and welfare schemes is 31 March. This will have all India ramification as various institutions would have to adjust themselves accordingly," Divan said.
Justice Chandrachud said even if the court reserved its verdict on 20 March, banks and other institutions would have only 10 days left to implement Aadhaar verification, which might be difficult.
The bench then called the Attorney General for assistance in the issue.
Toward the end of today's hearing, Venugopal appeared before the bench and made the statement about the possibility of extension of the deadline.
Senior advocate Arvind Datar, who argued against the Aadhaar scheme, said it violated the fundamental rights of citizens.
The hearing would continue on Wednesday.
On 22 February, former Karnataka High Court judge Justice K S Puttaswamy had told the apex court that several deaths had reportedly taken place due to starvation on account of glitches in the Aadhaar-based public distribution system and the court must consider granting compensation for these.


Lamborghini is heading into the future with a systematic lightweight design concept – the intensive application of carbon-fiber materials forms the key foundation for the extreme dynamics and less emissions that will define its future super sports cars. The new V12 model that will debut at the 2011 Geneva motorshow is based on a full monocoque construction made from innovative carbon-fiber technology and superior to anything else on the market – developed and produced entirely by Automobili Lamborghini.
This development sees Lamborghini once again demonstrate its worldwide leading expertise in carbon-fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) technology. The super sports car brand from Sant’Agata Bolognese is the only automaker to have fully mastered the extensive CFRP process across a range of technologies in-house – through design, simulation, engineering, prototyping, testing, validation and production, using state-of-the-art industrial processes to the very highest quality standards. Lamborghini is putting its innovative, in-house developed and patented technologies into series production for the first time with the successor to the Murciélago.
“Systematic lightweight engineering and an optimum power-to-weight ratio are absolutely crucial to the super sports cars of the future, for both the highest levels of driving pleasure and lower emissions,” says Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. “Lamborghini has put a lot of hard work into growing its expertise in the application of CFRP, attaining the leadership position we hold today. With its innovative carbon-fiber monocoque, the successor to the Murciélago displays the full competence of our brand and starts a new chapter in the history of Lamborghini.”


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As the owner of a restaurant you are obligated to insure the restaurant and the employees according to the law. To insure the restaurant and the employees you should begin with ensuring that they have been classified for general liability. The restaurant will also have to be classified well for workers compensation. To get information about the classification process you should visit the states regulating agency . Aside from the regulating agency you can also get more information from the independent carriers near you. To get help from the agencies you should ensure that you provide honest information about the activities of your restaurant.
Once your restaurant has been properly classified you should find the most cost affordable ways of paying for the insurance. For instance to make the payments for workers compensation cheaper you can use the pay as you go technique. Workers compensation is a legal requirement in most states. To make payment for workers compensation, you would be expected to pay at least 25% of the cover.This is a significant cost for the restaurant which can easily be used to cover other expenses. However the system is specifically designed to assist with this dilemma. If you are not certain of the revenues of the restaurant each month you can still get the workers compensation. The cover is also recommended for seasonal o which make their annual revenues within a short time frame. As a restaurant owner you can make the monthly payments depending on the profits of the restraint and the salaries of your employees
You should also get cyber liability insurance to protect the restraint from common data breaches in the digital world. The digital world is marked by an increasing number of attacks which makes it necessary to take the appropriate cover. The insurance is recommended for all restaurants regardless of their scope and size.
You also have the alternative of combining the policies into one policy which would be designed for the restaurant owner. The approach is preferred by the insurance carriers since they create more business opportunities . Buying one policy also allows the companies to provide reasonable discounts. You are likely to get extra credits and lower premiums if you choose a bundled plan.
The bundled insurance covers are highly recommended since they provide the assurance that all parts of the restaurant have been covered .This means that in case an incident takes place the insurance company will only have to verify the validity of the claim before paying for the damages. Although you can always buy each policy individually the process is marked by extensive delays in terms of processing the claims.

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Swarms of middlemen are profiting from outrageous mark-ups on municipal deals.
Leaked documents reveal ANC patronage network of 50,000 scam suppliers of goods at outrageous markups.
The coalition governments that will run South Africa’s municipalities for the next five years face a mammoth task, having inherited bankrupt and corrupt municipalities that have become synonymous with ANC rule.
Tshwane offers a perfect example. Barely-concealed corruption is to be found in most areas of local government, ranging from crony appointments and inflated tenders, to contracts awarded to unqualified middlemen who add no value to the product they supply. Deals are often the result of a single phone-call made by the middleman, or so-called vendor, who only then pops around to the manufacturer, wholesaler or neighbourhood supermarket to buy the required goods. By the time the product is delivered to the municipality, however, the mark-up can be as much as 400%.


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Manfred Welslau, MD, discusses the interim results of the REFLECT trial in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Manfred Welslau, MD, Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Onkologie Aschaffenburg, discusses the interim results of the REFLECT trial in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
The REFLECT study is the first prospective post-approval trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of SDZ-RTX (Rixathon), a rituximab (Rituxan) biosimilar, in patients with untreated CD20-positive DLBCL.
As the field awaits the 24-month progression-free survival data, interim results from the study, presented during the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program, re-confirm the expected safety and efficacy profile of this biosimilar in patients with DLBCL.
Moreover, the overall response rate with SDZ-RTX was 88% with a complete response rate of 57% and partial response rate of 31%.
These real-world data do not suggest there are any significant differences between the biosimilar and the biologic, concludes Welslau.

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Luka Modric rarely grabs the headlines but Real Madrid will need him at his best when they face Barcelona live on Sky Sports on Sunday. Nick Wright examines how the understated midfielder remains a key figure in a team full of Galacticos.
Zinedine Zidane tends to hold his cards close to his chest when he speaks to the media, delivering the carefully measured, deadpan answers of a man who doesn't want to give too much away. But when asked what Luka Modric brings to his team during a recent sit-down with Sky Sports at Real Madrid's training ground, he couldn't hide his enthusiasm.
"It's his tranquillity," beamed Zidane. "It's his tranquillity with the ball. I have the best players and we could talk about any of them, but if you ask me about Luka, I have to talk about his calmness with the ball at his feet. La tranquilidad. That's what he gives to the team when he's playing well. He makes the rest play."
Zidane is not the first Real Madrid coach to appreciate those special qualities. Jose Mourinho was so enamoured by Modric he tried to take him with him to Chelsea. Carlo Ancelotti still rates him just as highly. "I can only tell you Luka Modric is definitely one of best midfield players in the world," the Italian said in November.
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Since overcoming a difficult start at the club in 2012, when Marca readers voted him as the worst signing of the season after his £30m arrival from Tottenham, Modric has quietly become key for Real Madrid, confounding his critics and racking up over 200 appearances in the heart of their midfield. In October, a month after his 31st birthday, he was handed a new four-year contract.
Madrid's recent achievements owe a lot to him. Along with Sergio Ramos and Gareth Bale, Modric is one of only three players to have played every minute of their last three major cup finals. He provided the assist for the crucial equaliser in their 2014 Champions League triumph over Atletico. He was similarly influential when they repeated the feat last year.
But still his work tends to fly under the radar. Modric is a quiet character who likes to keep a low profile. He does not score many goals or even provide regular assists. But there's more to Modric than that. He starts moves rather than finishing them. He makes the rest play, as Zidane puts it.
Modric may be an introvert off the field, but on it he never hides. Against Bayern Munich on Tuesday night, he delivered another big performance when it mattered. He was not directly involved in any of Madrid's four goals, but he had more touches than either Toni Kroos or Casemiro and regained possession more times than any other player on the pitch.
Modric's discipline and tenacity are invaluable qualities for Real Madrid, a team in which even holding midfielder Casemiro likes to bomb forward at every opportunity, but he also provides the link between defence and attack. With his head constantly swivelling one way and the other, he always seems to be one step ahead of the rest.
The moment that best summed him up on Tuesday came late in the first half, when he collected the ball on the edge of his own box following a Bayern attack. With his low centre of gravity and that deceptive acceleration, he breezed past a crowd of red shirts before clipping a perfect pass over the top with the outside of his boot. Cristiano Ronaldo couldn't apply the finish it deserved.
Real Madrid have come to expect these performances from their No 19. "He just always seems to be consistent and he sees passes no one else sees," said Bale earlier this season. "Being with him at Tottenham and at Real Madrid, I've been able to witness it many times."
It came as a surprise, then, that Zidane was recently forced to defend his form. Modric had been substituted in five of his previous seven appearances at the start of April, but his manager's response to the questioning said a lot about how highly he regards the little Croat.
"People saying Modric is playing badly is what worries me," he joked. "Maybe in the last game he gave the ball away a few times, but players cannot always play 90 minutes well, across 50 or 60 games, that is impossible. I am not worried about Luka, I am happy with what he does on the pitch. Everyone can do better of course, but to always play well is impossible."
Modric certainly appreciates that kind of treatment. "Since he came here he has given me huge confidence," he said in a recent interview with Sky Sports. "He talks a lot with me. When you feel that a coach believes in you, it gives you the confidence to perform better. He has improved me a lot as a player."
And so, with Zidane right behind him, Modric remains absolutely fundamental to his team. Tuesday's performance was a reminder that he can still be trusted to deliver on the big stage, and Real Madrid can expect more of the same when they return to the Bernabeu for Sunday's Clasico. His team-mates will be the ones who take the limelight. But it's Modric who will make them play.


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James Fletcher and botany
James Fletcher was born in Ashe, near Wrotham in Kent County, England, in 1852 and was educated at King's School, Rochester. When he arrived in Canada in 1874 he must have brought a considerable knowledge of natural history with him. Certainly in the years leading up to his appointment as Dominion entomologist and botanist he accumulated much information on these disciplines. He was one of the founding members of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club and in the early volumes of that organization's journal, published a series entitled Flora Ottawaensis (Boivin and Cody 1955). He had a personal herbarium numbering about 3000 species by 1886.
When the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa was established, the plans contemplated the formation of an arboretum and botanic garden. Its purpose would be to bring together all the native species of plants in Canada and to test the hardiness and adaptibility of shrubs and trees growing in northern climates in other parts of the world to the climate of Ottawa.
The actual work of the garden was begun in 1889, when 210 species were planted. The direct management, at first in the hands of the entomologist and botanist, James Fletcher, was later transferred to W.T. Macoun, the son of John Macoun. In 1894 the arboretum and garden included 1000 trees and nearly 200 species and varieties of herbaceous plants, but by the close of the year 1895, these numbers had been raised to 1800 and 1000, respectively.
Fletcher carried on an extensive correspondence in the fields of his responsibility. His letters, which are bound in annual volumes, occupy about 2.5 m of shelf space in the Public Archives at Ottawa. He traveled widely across Canada and spoke to many groups on insects and plant pathology as well as on weeds and other plants, and he gathered specimens for the herbarium as time permitted. His publication The Farm Weeds of Canada (1906, 1909), coauthored with George H. Clark and illustrated in color by Norman Criddle, is now a collector's item.
Tributes to Fletcher and a list of his published writings may be found in a memorial number of The Ottawa Naturalist 22(10): 189-234, 1909
James Fletcher and mycology
Even before his appointment James Fletcher was alive to the significance of fungi as plant parasites. In 1882 and 1883 he collected parasitized fruits of Potamogeton natans, P. pusillus, and P. vaseyi. Farlow (1884) identified the parasite as a smut, Doassansia.occulta, previously unreported in the New World. The fact that Fletcher knew Farlow to be the logical recipient of his smutted material indicates the breadth of his reading. Fletcher was also the collector of the only known specimen of a rust, Puccinia arabicola, but the date of collection is uncertain. What seems to have been the phanerogamic voucher was made in 1878, but the rusted leaves seem to have been removed several years later and given to John Macoun who sent part of the collection to J.B. Ellis (Savile 1974).
When Fletcher transferred to the Central Experimental Farm as Dominion entomologist and botanist, he was already well informed on the major crop diseases and their pathogens; and he was dealing with growers' requests for help, as Estey (1983) has noted. How an accountant in the parliamentary library could acquire such knowledge is difficult to explain, but it seems probable that he had access to the American Plant Disease Bulletin in the library. Before the recognition of physiological disorders and virus diseases of plants, plant pathology and applied mycology were essentially synonymous; and Fletcher, a practising plant pathologist for part of his t ' ime, certainly appreciated the role of pathogenic fungi. He wrote on disease control topics in farm newspapers and departmental bulletins, as well as by letter. We cannot claim him as a mycologist, but there is good support for Estey's claim that he was the first Canadian plant pathologist. As far as we know he did not keep a mycological collection, for which he cannot be faulted in view of his manifold obligations. However, through his recognition of the importance of fungal pathogens he laid the foundation for systematic mycology in the department, which began to develop within a decade after his death.
After 1893 Fletcher turned over most of his plant pathology experiments to John Craig, the recently appointed Dominion horticulturist, but he remained involved in plant disease problems and correspondence.
There is on file in the National Mycological Herbarium a list of over 800 plant parasitic fungi in Canada on plants of forest, orchard, garden, field, and meadow, and a few weeds. This substantial list, in Fletcher's hand, was compiled in February 1896. It was perhaps modeled on the more extensive list published by Farlow and Seymour (1888-1891), to judge by its format. It is, of course, much less complete, but it also contains species (or at least names) that are not in Farlow and Seymour, and it is definitely not copied from that work. It is hard to imagine how he came by many of the records, but some may be based on specimens that he sent to Farlow.
With Fletcher's death in 1908 the era of the gifted amateur in Canadian biology came nearly to a close. Inevitably he was replaced by two men: C. Gordon Hewitt as Dominion entomologist and Hans T. Güssow as Dominion botanist, both trained in Europe. We ordinarily date the establishment of these divisions from 1909, when Hewitt and Güssow were appointed. However, it should be noted that although Fletcher held a joint appointment he did not always use his joint title but often split it to suit the subject in hand. This seemingly whimsical action applied not only to letters but to publications. Thus we have on file a pamphlet on potato blights, published by him in 1894 as from the Division of Botany, Central Experimental Farm. Perhaps he was informing William Saunders, his director, that he was doing two men's work, as indeed he was.
Information courtesy of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada


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Fiona the mermaid is looking for a forever home. Can she come live with you? She can be personalized on her tail fin or shell or both.
NOTE: Due to the limited space for personalization only very small designs or words are possible. Birth announcement designs will not be possible on the rag doll.
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Vietnam will gradually reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eventually reach net-zero emission by 2050, according to a decision approving the national program of action on green energy transition in the transport industry recently approved by the Prime Minister.
|From 2025 onward, all new buses and taxis will run on electricity and green energy__Photo: Internet|
Under Decision 876/QD-TTg dated July 22, it is targeted to ensure efficient energy use and promote the use of electricity and green energy in the sectors with sufficient technologies, institutions and resources in order to fulfill Vietnam’s commitments to the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a climate action plan set by the country to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts under the Paris Agreement.
The new decision also sets roadmaps for green energy transition during 2022-30 for the transport sector.
Specifically, for the road transport, electric motor vehicles will be manufactured, assembled and imported to replace fossil-fueled ones. The use of E5 petrol will be expanded, charging stations for electric vehicles will be built, and car parks and rest stops will be built or transformed up to green standards.
As for the railway transport, the program expects to pilot the operation of trains using electricity and green energy in new modernized routes, and invest under a set roadmap in replacing old railway vehicles by new ones that are able to run on electricity or green energy.
Fossil-fueled inland waterway vehicles will also be gradually replaced by those using electricity or green energy. Meanwhile, criteria on green ports and transport routes will be developed to serve as a basis for formulating mechanisms and policies promoting investment in green inland ports.
Regarding urban mass transit, from 2025 onward, all new buses and taxis will run on electricity and green energy.
Under the Decision, by 2025, the mass transit sector will grow by 45-50 percent in Hanoi, 25 percent in Ho Chi Minh City, 25-35 percent in Da Nang, 20 percent in Can Tho, 10-15 percent in Haiphong, and at least 5 percent in other grade-I urban areas.- (VLLF)


Soyuz TMA- 05M is the mission name for the flight of a Russian spaceship Soyuz series of the International Space Station. In the course of the ISS program of flight is called ISS AF - 31S. It was the 31st visit to a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 137th flight in Sojusprogramm.
- Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( fifth space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
- Sunita Williams ( second space flight ), aircraft engineer, (USA / NASA)
- Akihiko Hoshide ( second space flight), flight engineer, ( Japan / JAXA )
- Roman Romanenko Jurjewitsch ( second space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
- Chris Austin Hadfield ( third space flight), flight engineer, ( Canada / CSA)
- Henry Thomas Marshburn ( second space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)
The spacecraft made three crew members of the ISS Expeditions 32 and 33 to the International Space Station. It solved Soyuz TMA- 03M from the rescue capsule.
The launch was originally scheduled for June 1, but had to be postponed due to the test mishap with Soyuz TMA- 04M. Soyuz TMA- 05M finally launched July 15, 2012 2:40 UTC from the launch pad at Baikonur to the ISS 1. Two days later the ship docked one minutes earlier than planned at 4:51 UTC on the Russian module Rassvet on. The landing took place in the early hours of 19 November 2012. It was the first night landing of the Soyuz spacecraft since 2006.


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5.7.2023 | Culture
New Exhibition opens at Põhjala Tehas in Tallinn
Text Mark Taylor
Photo event organizer
A solo exhibition by artist Eliis Kuusk has opened at Põhjala Tehas in Tallinn. The exhibition, the vibrant colours of which contrast with the industrial atmosphere of the new Ankru 10 building, will have an official opening event on July 7.
On July 1, an exhibition entitled “Post-traumatic ecstasy” opened at the new Ankru 10 building in Põhjala Tehas in Tallinn.
The exhibition consists of paintings, which all share the same pairs of opposites: dark and light, motion and stillness, freedom and constraint, stress and ecstasy. The works are very deeply influenced by the subconscious, alchemy, psychology and the contradictions that the artist, Eliis Kuusk, sees in society.
Eliis Kuusk is an Estonian surrealist painter, who graduated from the University of Arts London and the Royal College of Arts. Kuusk also worked as a 2D VFX artist for UNIT Film & TV before returning to Estonia. Her style is almost a counter-reaction to the pixel-perfect and realistic world of film and photography.
“Post-traumatic ecstasy”, which is her second solo exhibition, will be open most days from 9 am to 8 pm (Closed on 06.07, 08.07, 11.07). The closing date of the exhibition is a secret.
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2.10.2023 | Culture
Exciting events in Estonia this week
02.09–25.11, Musica Sacra, Pärnu 29.09–08.10, LGBT Film Festival, Tartu and Rakvere 03–06.10, Voca People, around Estonia 05–06.10, Impact Day, … Read more
1.10.2023 | Culture
The Dire Straits Experience to arrive in Estonia
Chris White, a former member of the legendary Dire Straits, together with The Dire Straits Experience, will bring the … Read more
30.9.2023 | Culture
Female artists who pushed the boundaries in Soviet times
A new exhibition entitled “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė” focusing on the works of three female Baltic artists has opened … Read more
29.9.2023 | Culture
Nils Frahm concert to be opened by ERSO’s Theodor Sink and Tammo Sumera
On October 17, Nils Frahm, one of the world’s most famous and respected contemporary musicians, will perform at the … Read more
28.9.2023 | Culture
Internationally award-winning young pianist to perform at the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa
The pianist Mantas Šernius, who has won several awards, will perform a fascinating solo concert entitled “The Milky Way” … Read more
27.9.2023 | Leisure
The biggest cultural event of the year in Pärnu
For three evenings in a row this week, the city of Pärnu will be ablaze with light and sound … Read more
27.9.2023 | Culture
A more tolerant society through film
Festheart is an annual LGBT film festival that has been organised in Estonia since 2017. For the first three … Read more
26.9.2023 | Culture
The Barber of Seville to appear in Pärnu, Jõhvi and Tallinn
The opera “The Barber of Seville” will be performed this week by the Pärnu City Orchestra in Pärnu, Jõhvi … Read more


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VIDEO: 'Stronger' star Jake Gyllenhaal on his role as a Boston bombing victim: 'It's all I've thought about every day'
VIDEO: 'Stronger' star Jake Gyllenhaal on playing Boston bombing victim: 'It's all I've thought about everyday'
VIDEO: Jake Gyllenhaal offers up a beautiful rendition of Stephen Sondheim's 'Putting it Together'
PHOTO: Peter Travers and Jake Gyllenhaal at the ABC News studios in New York City, Sept. 15, 2017.
This image released by Roadside Attractions shows Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from "Stronger." (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions via AP)

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Three reasons Southampton must sign Salif Sane to partner Hoedt this month
Southampton sold star centre-back Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool in a £75m deal at the start of January, and it appears as though bringing in a replacement for the Dutchman before the January transfer window shuts isn’t a priority.
The Telegraph reported on Saturday that the club are eyeing a £50m double swoop for Spartak Moscow forward Quincy Promes and Monaco striker Guido Carrillo, with no mention of any defensive reinforcements.
However, given Saints currently find themselves in the relegation zone and have conceded 35 goals in 24 Premier League matches this season, perhaps it should be more of a priority.
Harry Kane’s header against them in their 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur at St Mary’s on Sunday was just another in a long line of headed goals against them in recent weeks, and individuals like Jack Stephens and Maya Yoshida have often been caught out in the air.
Meanwhile, Hannover 96 defeder Salif Sane, who is rated at £7.2m according to Transfermarkt, has arguably been his team’s best performer in the Bundesliga this season.
If Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino is looking for a new centre-back before January 31 then bringing the Senegal international to St Mary’s could prove to be a shrewd move.
Here are three reasons Southampton must sign Sane to partner Hoedt this month…


tatami craftsman (Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture) Naoki Ishibashi
The area around Okawa is known for the production of igusa, a type of rush used to weave the covering for tatami mats. Igusa is grown in marshy areas and after harvesting, it is treated with mud to prevent discoloration and give it its distinctive color and smell.
Around 80 percent of the igusa used in Japan is grown in China, but the material that Ishibashi uses for his tatami coverings is all grown in Japan. Ishibashi, who partners with Isao Soejima Shoten, which plans and designs igusa mats, rugs, furniture and sundries, designed the distinctive black tatami with red edging used at Happo-en’s Hakuho banquet hall.


TL;DR – if you’re going to customise your phone, always ensure that the firmware version matches the Android version in the ROM. A mismatch can cause very slight and subtle bugs!
I noticed that my HTC One, customised with the Android Revolution HD ROM (Android 4.3) and the Team7even kernel, had a problem whereby the screen would switch off as soon as I started a phone call (even if I did not bring the phone close to my head) and would not switch back on even after the call completed; I would have to wake it up with the button.
Using a phone tester app from Play Store I worked out that the proximity sensor had stopped responding. I furthermore worked out that it was fine immediately after turning on the phone, but after the first time it entered deep sleep then the problem would express itself.
A lot of digging and testing later I have worked out that it was caused by a mismatch of the phone firmware (Android 4.1-based – v1.29.631.17) and the ROM Android version (4.3). Non-trivial to fix; I had to go back to stock everything (good thing I kept a Nandroid of my stock ROM from when I first got the phone) so as to be able to pick up the OTA upgrade to Android 4.3 (3.22.631.1). This cleanly upgraded the phone firmware, from which I’m now free to install any ROM (just so long as it is based on Android 4.3!).


Even Stephen Colbert was shocked by some of the details about President Donald Trump presented in John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir, The Room Where It Happened.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this: it’s worse than even I imagined,” Colbert said on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show.
Bolton’s book, which the Trump administration has tried to prevent from being released, includes stories about the president that Colbert said ranged from “amoral idiocy to just downright evil.”
“According to Bolton, Trump’s ignorance is near-bottomless,” Colbert said. “Apparently, Trump didn’t seem to know that Britain was a nuclear power and asked if Finland was part of Russia. Now, you can understand his confusion there, because under President Trump, it feels like we’re kind of part of Russia.”
In another part of the book, Bolton claims Trump pleaded with China leader Xi Jinping to help him win reelection. “Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise,” Bolton wrote in an excerpt obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Impersonating Trump, Colbert joked, “Xi, please, buy the wheat or I’m dead meat. Also, Arizona is not looking good for me, so I’m going to need you guys to buy a lot of iced tea.”
According to Bolton, Xi is also a key player in one of the book’s more disturbing anecdotes: when Xi told Trump about his plans to build concentration camps in Xinjiang, Trump allegedly said that was “the right thing to do.”
“I have no doubt that those Chinese concentration camps are horrible,” Colbert said. “But you know, Trump’s a builder. I’m sure he hooked up Xi with a good contractor. Maybe the same guy who built Trump’s baby cages.”
Bolton was appointed national security advisor by Trump in 2018. In the book, Bolton claims he was told on his first day by former Chief of Staff John Kelly that the White House was a “bad place to work” and that Kelly was “desperate” to leave.
“Sounds like working there was like the movie Get Out, except the characters were more hostile to black people,” Colbert said before ripping into Kelly. “While we’re on the subject, boo-fucking-hoo, General. It’s the White House, not Dairy Queen. If it’s this horrible of a place, you’re obliged to tell the world about the crimes and save the nation. Not privately bitch about it with your buddy until there’s an opening at Cold Stone Creamery.”


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Iconic country singer George Jones died at 81 today, Friday, April 26th, at a Nashville hospital. He is known for such hit songs as "White Lightning," "He Stopped Loving Her Today," and "She Thinks I Still Care."
Jones was one of the most admired and imitated country musicians of the last 50 years. Known for songs about heartache and drunk desolation, George Jones was sincerely what many country musicians have aspired to be. In spite of countless ups and downs since his first hit in 1955, Jones continued to sing honest, mournful tunes throughout his career, and became one of the most respected country musicians of all time.
According to the New York Times: “Not everybody needs to sound like a George Jones record,” Alan Jackson, once told an interviewer. “But that’s what I’ve always done, and I’m going to keep it that way — or try to.”
Jones was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
Rest in peace, George.


The Lucenzo biography
A real showman
Author, composer and singer, Lucenzo, a french and portuguese descent,
is a passionate of music, starting piano at 6 and singing at the age of 11.
Today at 28, Lucenzo is a well-know Latino and Lusophone artist who bathed
in the world of Kuduro & Reggaeton since his childwood.
His producer Faouze Barkati discovers this musical trend while traveling the world and decides to know more about this musical phenomenon created 25 years ago. With Fabrice Toigo, his second producer, Lucenzo creates a new and innovative style: the fusion of Angolan and Portuguese music, with songs in Portuguese, Spanish and English. The result is exceptional and gives birth to the Kuduro Dance Floor. The famous hit "Vem Danzar Kuduro" was created, directed and mixed by Lucenzo in Yanis Records Studio.
2010 - Vem dançar kuduro (with Big Ali)
Big Ali & Lucenzo
After several #1 hits like "Emigrante del mundo, Reggaeton Fever and Dame Reggaeton" on Radio Latina, Lucenzo meets with Big Ali on an original and unique artistic collaboration. "Vem Dançar Kuduro" mixing the sounds from Africa, Portugal, Brazil and the US, furiously entertains the dance-floors of the world. The song gets viral in Youtube generating more than 18 millions views
, and rapidly becomes a hit in France and Europe for more than 5 months
. Lucenzo Ft. Big Ali - Vem dançar kuduro (Official video clip)
#1 hit in Clubs in France
#1 on Radio Latina
#2 of the singles sales in France
The channel MTV Idol places the song among the most famous hits of summer 2010. Vem danzar Kuduro wide-spread in Europe enters the European Top 10, and crosses the Atlantic to Canada as #2 on the radio stations.
The success of "Vem danzar Kuduro" creates a real passion. It also led to the set-up of flash-mobs throughout France with public Kuduro dance choregraphies (Eiffel Tower, Malls, etc.). Paris - Eiffel tower (AM Entertainment Group)
Trophy for Best Artist of the night 2010
2010 - Danza Kuduro (with Don Omar)
This new version hits Youtube on August 17, 2010 in the US and South America. At this day, there are more than 250 millions viewers on Youtube only for the official video (Lucenzo & Don Omar - Danza Kuduro) and more than 370 millions (cumulated data) for the work of Lucenzo. The success is instantaneous and conquers the charts of several countries:
USA, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela
# 1 US Latin Pop Song Billboard
# 1 US Tropical songs Billboard
# 1 top 100 Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela The hit dominates the Tropical category in the Latino Billboard.
It also was #1 on the tv channels, MTV3, HTV and MUN2 and the #3 most watched music video on Youtube/Vevo.
Lucenzo & Don Omar wins unanimously awarded "Premio Latin Rhythm Airplay del Año" at Billboard Latin Awards 2011. On the night of April 28 to 29, 2011 at Miami.
2011 - Emigrante del Mundo (Album)
Lucenzo will release his 1st album "Emigrante Del Mundo" which is described as a sparkling mix of rythms and colorful languages following the same successful path as his first singles.
The album is composed of 13 title whose "Throw your hands up" a remix of "Danza Kuduro" with Qwote and Pitbull Throw your hands up - Qwote Ft. Lucenzo & Pitbull (Official video clip), and more ...
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Rethink your lunch schedule
Skipping lunch? Eating lunch at your desk? Stop!
With workloads being what they are today, many of us wind up eating lunch at our desks on a regular basis. A survey from the American Dietetic Association finds that 75 percent of office workers eat lunch at their desks as often as two or three times a week.Â€¨Â€¨
That, says registered dietician and association spokesperson Elisa Zied, can have a negative impact in a lot of ways.
"If you're sitting and eating lunch at your desk, you're not getting outside," Zied points out. "You're not exposing yourself to physical activity, and everybody needs about 30 minutes a day of physical activity."
Even a 10-minute or 15-minute brisk walk at lunchtime can boost your spirits, make your muscles stronger and burn some calories.
"People are staying inside to keep warm, but it's really important to get outside at least two to three times a week for 15 or 20 minutes to help your skin make vitamin D (from sunshine)."
If you’re like me, you probably don’t take a lunch every single day outside of the office. I often tell myself I have too much work to do, and eating lunch or even getting outside is purely a waste of time. But I am the first person to say or think that everyone should get out on their lunch hour, so why don’t I?
Obviously, skipping a meal means skipping any nutrition you would have eaten at that meal. It's hard enough to get in all our servings of fruit, vegetables, dairy, etc. If you skip a meal, how are you ever going to fit all those nutrient-dense foods in later in the day?!
At least 85 percent of the working women I talked to on this subject admitted to skipping lunches at least once a week; and if they weren’t skipping lunches, they were shoving their lunches down their gullets as fast as they could right at their desk — so much for a break in the day.
Skipping lunches really makes the day seem quite a bit longer. The other 15 percent? Well, they take their lunch outside of the office every day, no matter what. They may not eat and choose to work out (now they have got it together!), for instance, but they take an hour break, nonetheless.
Rick Mohr, manager of the Advanced Solutions team at Steelcase, says the two-hour lunch is a thing of the past.
"More people are working through their lunch hours because the nature of work has changed. For example, there is increased pressure to perform and get things done in today's more complex business environment. Also in some organizations, up to 70 percent of the workday is spent working in teams, and those people need to find time to get their individual tasks done during the workday. Lastly, office workers may just want to get home to their families a little earlier at the end of the day in search of some quality time."
The bottom line is, women who are rushing to meetings, glued to their computer or telephone, not leaving their desks — are not making time for a break to re-energize. Start taking the time, ladies — we all deserve it.

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Introducing the Slalom Hat by Swan’s Island. Totally modern, but with a nod to retro styles, this cute hat will keep you warm on & off the slopes!
Even better…the hat pattern comes in a kit. Each kit contains 6 hand-dyed skeins of Swan’s Island sport weight yarn in a reusable tote. The yarn is 100% Rambouillet wool, which is a French breed of sheep renowned for wool that is soft & lofty.
*Slalom Hat, knit with various color combinations of Swan’s Island 100% Rambouillet Wool Sport weight yarn
Each kit has enough yarn to complete at least 3 hats, but you will probably have enough for 4-6 hats (depending on size and color combinations).
The kit is available in 4 different color themes. Give the kit as a gift, knit the hats as gifts, or even share with a friend or family member.

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Small Hotels in Antalya
Antalya is a town situated on the south coast of Turkey - it lies at the innermost point of the Gulf of Antalya. The town itself is built on a limestone terrace which drops sharply in a 75ft cliff below which is situated the old harbour.
A major tourist attraction of Antalya is the beach of Konyaati which lies between the town and a high ridge of hills to the west. Adding to the attraction of this wide sweeping beach is the climate of this area - Antalya enjoys sub-tropical weather and the bathing season lasts from early April until the end of October.
The town of Antalya has seen its fair share of historic events and has had its name changed on various occasions to suit whoever ruled at the time. Those who have been fortunate enough to have Antalya under their rule in the past have included the Greeks in the 7th century, Alexander the Great in 3348B.C and at one time it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Hadrian's Gate (pictured below) was erected in A.D. 130 in honour of a visit by the Emperor Hadrian - it is certainly an imposing structure built from marble with two massive towers flanking a three arched opening. This is just one of the many beautiful sights to experience in this area of Turkey.

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Today GENCI announced a collaboration with IBM aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing. “The collaboration, planned to run for at least 18 months, focuses on readying complex scientific applications for systems under development expected to achieve more than 100 petaflops, a solid step forward on the path to exascale. Working closely with supercomputing experts from IBM, GENCI will have access to some of the most advanced high performance computing technologies stemming from the rapidly expanding OpenPOWER ecosystem.”
Over at NERSC, Linda Vu writes that the SciDB open source database system is a powerful tool for helping scientists wrangle Big Data. “SciDB is an open source database system designed to store and analyze extremely large array-structured data—like pictures from light sources and telescopes, time-series data collected from sensors, spectral data produced by spectrometers and spectrographs, and graph-like structures that illustrate relationships between entities.”
Geert Wenes writes in the Cray Blog that the next generation of Grand Challenges will focus on critical workflows for Exascale. “For every historical HPC grand challenge application, there is now a critical dependency on a series of other processing and analysis steps, data movement and communications that goes well beyond the pre- and post-processing of yore. It is iterative, sometimes synchronous (in situ) and generally more on an equal footing with the “main” application.”
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the completion of the first Plugfest for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions and the publication of the RoCE Interoperability List on the IBTA website. Fifteen member companies participated, bringing their RoCE adapters, cables and switches for testing to the event. Products that successfully passed the testing have been added to the RoCE Interoperability List.
Today Mellanox announced its EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have been selected by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology for use in their PDC Center for High Performance Computing. Mellanox’s robust and flexible EDR InfiniBand solution offers higher interconnect speed, lower latency and smart accelerations to maximize efficiency and will enable the PDC Center to achieve world-leading data center performance across a variety of applications, including advanced modeling for climate changes, brain functions and protein-drug interactions.
Today Dell announced a new business unit aligned around hyperscale datacenters. “The Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group is designed to meet the specific needs of web tech, telecommunications service providers, hosting companies, oil and gas, and research organizations. These businesses often have high-volume technology needs and supply chain requirements in order to deliver business innovation. With a new operating model built on agile, scalable, and repeatable processes, Dell can now uniquely provide this set of customers with the technology they need, purposefully designed to their specifications, and delivered when they want it.”
“SUPER builds on past successes and now includes research into performance auto-tuning, energy efficiency, resilience, multi-objective optimization, and end-to-end tool integration. Leading the project dovetails neatly with Oliker’s research interests, which include optimization of scientific methods on emerging multi-core systems, ultra-efficient designs of domain-optimized computational platforms and performance evaluation of extreme-scale applications on leading supercomputers.”
Many Universities, private research labs and government research agencies have begun using High Performance Computing (HPC) servers, compute accelerators and flash storage arrays to accelerate a wide array of research among disciplines in math, science and engineering. These labs utilize GPUs for parallel processing and flash memory for storing large datasets. Many universities have HPC labs that are available for students and researchers to share resources in order to analyze and store vast amounts of data more quickly.


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* Benchmark yields fall below 2.75 percent to 2-month lows
* Longer-dated yields notch 4th week of decline
* Fed bought $3.30 billion Treasuries due 2020
By Sam Forgione
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries prices rose on Friday with benchmark yields hitting near two-month lows on safe-haven bids for bonds stemming from worries about tightening credit conditions in China and a looming currency crisis in Argentina.
Those worries since Thursday have spurred selling in global stock markets and other riskier investments as investors scrambled into the relative safety of cash and U.S. and German government debt.
“We’ve seen a significant rally on a risk-off sentiment caused by events overseas,” said Jake Lowery, portfolio manager for global rates at ING U.S. Investment Management in Atlanta, Georgia.
Beijing’s effort to rein in its unhealthy growth in high-risk lending has stoked concerns about how that might impede expansion of the world’s second largest economy.
Argentina meanwhile abandoned support of its currency on the open market this week, resulting in the peso’s biggest drop since the 2002 financial crisis. Although chances of Argentina’s woes rippling across Latin America are remote, investors are worried this could hurt the currencies of Argentina’s major trade partners.
Safety bids for Treasuries stemming from concerns about China and emerging markets were mitigated by caution ahead of next week’s $111 billion in longer-dated U.S. government debt supply and the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, analysts and traders said.
Benchmark 10-year Treasuries notes were up 11/32 in price with a yield of 2.733 percent, down 4 basis points from late on Thursday. The 10-year yield fell to 2.706 percent earlier, which was below its 100-day moving average and the lowest intraday level since Nov. 26, according to Reuters data.
Ten-year and 30-year yields notched four straight weeks of declines, a move which has not happened since last March to early April.
On Wall Street, the three major stock indexes stumbled for a second straight day with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index falling 1.6 percent.
The bond market was also supported by the bond purchase from the Fed for its stimulus program. The central bank bought $3.30 billion in U.S. government debt that matures Feb. 2020 to Dec. 2020 for its third round of quantitative easing.
Fed policy-makers will meet next Tuesday and Wednesday and consider whether to further scale back QE3 that is aimed at holding down long-term borrowing costs to help the economy.
In December, the Federal Open Market Committee pared its monthly purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities by $10 billion to $75 billion in January. The Fed’s policy-setting group is expected by some analysts to cut its monthly purchases by another $10 billion at its upcoming meeting.
“Any dovish change in the tone of the Fed statement could move the markets given the preponderance of people who believe there will be a $10 billion taper,” said Ira Jersey, U.S. interest rate strategist at Credit Suisse in New York.


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Huxley – Interview
Interview with Pete Devine of Pete’s Rock News and Views (http://petesrocknewsandviews.com)
PD: What type of artist are you?
H: Some would say rock gods, legendary at our craft, but we would cap it at hard rock.
PD: Tell us the brief history of yourself.
H: We emerged like a Phoenix from the ashes of several other projects to form the beauty that is Huxley.
PD: Who are your musical and non-musical influences?
H: We are influenced daily by all types of music and things. The greatest thing about Huxley is we can appeal to all genres because we honestly like them all.
PD: What are your dreams and goals?
H: We want to be the greatest rock band of our generation. Right up there with all the rock and roll legends. Save us a seat Zeppelin, well see you soon.
PD: Who writes your songs, what are they about?
H: Our songs are a collaborative effort. Every member has thier say and puts thier own unique spin on a track. As far as lyrics go Doug writes the majority of them with occasional help from the rest of the guys. All our songs can be about whatever you take away from them. It’s rock music and you’re old enough interprite them however want. You don’t need to be told how to feel.
PD: How do you promote your band and shows?
H: Aggressive gorilla marketing. We send Robbie out to local malls in a gorilla costume to hand out flyers.
PD: What do you think about downloading music online?
H: It’s how music works. Listen to the songs as much as you need too, it’s not until you see us live will you get the full Huxley. We want you to listen to the songs, however you make that happen is up to you.
PD: What’s your outlook on the record industry today?
H: It’s a tough market to be in. You always have to be willing to work for it. Which is why they are going to all want a piece of Huxley.
PD: What song do you wish you’d written and why?
H: Sweet Caroline. Everyone knows it…
PD: What are some of your pet peeves?
H: That there is not enough love for Huxley. Y’all are going to be so sad when you are behind the game.
PD: What is your proudest moment in music?
H: When Pete’s Rock News determined Huxley was the greatest band they have ever interviewed. I mean we are pretty impressive, so I get it.
PD: Damn right!!!
PD: Tell us about your next shows and why we should be there
H: January 25th in Atlantic City, Nj at the Anchor Rock club. It is going to be our EP release show and it’s going to be huge. The venue is beautiful, the supporting acts are fantastic and ofcourse there will Huxley. It’s going to be biggest show of 2020, we promise nothing less. We’ll see you there.
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How to Get List of Installed applications on Windows Server? There are few methods which you would like to run some commands.
Open command prompt and run command : Wmic
Then run “product” that will list all installed application as below in them image
As a Windows Server Administrator – You need to perform lots of task daily basis and I always think about making it easy or automated with the help of script. Which would be a better option to pull information from other system as well.
I thought about PowerShell commands – but that will be 2nd edition will share with you. This time we will concentrate with the servers Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 which are not much understanding in respect of PowerShell.
First You need to Download tools which is pstools Download PSinfo
Once you download this above package – then extract the files to a folder and look for one exe called “PSinfo.exe”
Copy “PSinfo.exe” file to a specific folder and now create a batch script to run this tool to get information from multiple machines about the software / applications installed in your system.
You can run a command “PSinfo.exe –s” and it will throw the output into the screen.
Run This Above Command with batch script for multiple servers
Create a txt file with name computerlist.txt and put all server/ computer name in that files
Then create a batch file and copy paste this below command
@echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion >nul copy nul %OUTPUT_FILE% for /f %%i in (computerlist.txt) do ( psinfo.exe -s %%i >> softinfo.log )
Run this command and it will pull all information about the systems which are listed in the computerlist.txt.


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Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar offered his birthday wishes and said he's looking forward to see Ashwin spin a web during the T20 World Cup.
Ollie Robinson's suspension an indication of what future holds in social media generation, says Ashwin
Robinson, who made his England debut in the first Test against New Zealand which ended in a draw on Sunday, was suspended from international cricket pending an investigation after his tweets, posted when he was a teenager, resurfaced on the opening day of the match at Lord's in London.
Ashwin hit an excellent 106 in India's second innings and took eight wickets with his off-spin in the second Test against England in Chennai, which the hosts won by 317 runs on Tuesday.
India vs Bangladesh: R Ashwin backs Virat Kohli's five permanent Test centres idea; says day-night Test 'move in the right direction'
Having not played a single game with the pink ball till now, Ashwin is still getting adjusted to the colour, which, at times, looks more orange than pink.
Sachin Tendulkar says Ravichandran Ashwin remains 'integral part' of Indian team despite uncertain recent past
R Ashwin will start afresh, after losing his spot to Ravindra Jadeja in West Indies, when he dons the national colours after 10 months against the South Africa in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
Game Over director Ashwin on signing Taapsee Pannu, and why he wants universal appeal for his bilingual thriller
Director Ashwin says he chose Taapsee Pannu for Game Over because she "is capable of justifying the vulnerability of the protagonist".
IPL 2019, KXIP vs DC: Sam Curran's all-round star turn to Delhi's brain-fade, best moments from the match
Kings XI struggled to score enough runs and a below par 166 always appeared to be well within Delhi's radar. With just 23 needed in 21 balls with seven wickets remaining, Delhi imploded incredibly to fall short by 14 runs. Here are the best moments from the match at Mohali.
IPL 2019, KKR vs KXIP: Skipper R Ashwin's tactical errors, debatable selections headline visitors' loss at Eden Gardens
It was a game that Ashwin can look back at as one of the more cerebral players and take quite a few captaincy lessons back from the Eden Gardens.
Injury in England was very frustrating but wanted to level series, says R Ashwin about his below-par performance in Southampton Test
Ashwin conceded that he didn't deliver the killer blow that would have helped his side in the Test, but did not agree to the fact that wasn't hitting the rough patches as much as Moeen Ali did.
India vs England: Half-fit Ravichandran Ashwin flops; all-round batting failure exposes suspect technique against spin
Ashwin’s ineffective bowling became all the more glaring when his counterpart Moeen Ali walked away with the Man of the Match honours. His incisive off spin bowling made the difference between the teams.
India vs England: Cheteshwar Pujara defends teammate Ashwin, attributes slowness of pitch to off-spinner's under-par show
In contrast to Moeen Ali's five-wicket haul, Ashwin struggled to get going on Saturday and finished with 1-78 in 35 overs despite his good bowling form earlier in the series.
India vs England: 'You can't pick 5-6 wickets every session,' says Jasprit Bumrah after hosts scrape to 246
Bumrah said India were happy to be in the position they are in, and will look to exert further control in the match on day two morning.
As CSK’s title win hogs limelight, it is important not to forget Dhoni’s punt, and the bigger impact it could have in the shortest format of the game.
IPL 2018: Ravichandran Ashwin named captain of Kings XI Punjab, preferred over Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle
Ashwin has two IPL titles during his eight-year stint with Chennai Super Kings and has also played for Rising Pune Supergiant.
India vs Sri Lanka: Hosts nearing victory, but need to send back Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews early on Day 5
Jadeja and Ashwin can be relied upon to wheel away with unerring accuracy, and in all probability, India should end their home season with another win. Stranger things, however have happened on the cricket field, and India will be mindful of that.
India vs Sri Lanka: Ravichandran Ashwin's adaptability, all-round skills augurs well for South Africa
An effective Ashwin, chipping in with bat and ball, would be vital for India’s success in South Africa. Putting him in the right frame of mind ahead of that tour would help get the best out of him.
India vs Sri Lanka: Hosts' top priority should be breaking Angelo Mathews-Dinesh Chandimal partnership on Day 3
India would do well to break the partnership of Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal in the morning to halt visitors' fightback.
Lethal with ball, effective with bat, Ravichandran Ashwin could be India's all-round trump card in South Africa
It is time to stand up and applaud Ravichandran Ashwin, the all-rounder.
Sun has started to set. It has became dark and the umpires are checking their lightmeter. Chandimal tucks the first ball behind square for a couple. Then Chandimal tried to steal a single to mid off. Jadeja ran towards the money and hurled a throw. He missed. Chandimal made his ground and the ball raced away to the fence. Five runs for Sri Lanka! Too many interruptions and the umpires have decided to stop the play due to bad light.
India vs Sri Lanka: Familiarity breeds contest for Virat Kohli’s men as hosts look to continue winning run
India and Sri Lanka have met 91 times across formats since 2007, making it the most regular bilateral bust-up of the decade. That the win-loss record reads 31-8 in India’s favour since 2011 makes it one of the most one-sided one as well.


WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department on Wednesday reversed an Obama-era policy that had limited law enforcement’s power to take cash and other property from individuals who haven’t been convicted of a crime, and in many cases haven’t been charged with one. But the new policy comes with limitations that Justice Department officials say will protect innocent property owners from potential abuse.
The directive concerns the controversial law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture, which allows police to permanently take property, including cash, vehicles and homes, from suspected criminals, all without ever having to secure a conviction or even charge the owner with a crime. Once forfeited, the proceeds of the property flow back into department coffers.
The new policy pertains specifically to adoptive forfeitures, which then-Attorney General Eric Holder halted in 2015. The practice had allowed state and local law enforcement agencies to seize property and pass the cases off to federal prosecutors, thereby evading stricter state laws on forfeiture and deferring to more lax federal standards. These cases typically involved minimal prior involvement with federal agencies, and returned up to 80 percent of the resulting proceeds back to the department that made the seizure.
Critics had claimed the process was an easily exploited loophole that allowed local law enforcement to circumvent state laws on civil forfeiture. Most states have more restrictive forfeiture laws than the federal government, and some have abolished civil forfeiture all together. In many states, the government must meet a higher standard of proof to successfully forfeit property. In others, the proceeds from forfeitures must go to the state’s education fund instead of law enforcement agencies. A total of 24 states have passed laws limiting the practice, with many changes coming since 2015, amid a growing bipartisan push for reform.
The new Justice Department policy goes into effect immediately, laying out updated “safeguards” requiring legal counsel for the federal agency to review all seizures for compliance with the law. State or local agencies that request seizures or “adoptions” of property must now provide additional information about the probable cause determination justifying the confiscation.
The directive also establishes new protocols for seizures of cash totaling $10,000 or less. It holds that such adoptions are appropriate when the seizure is conducted pursuant to a state warrant, or is accompanied by an arrest relevant to the alleged offense. They’re also permissible when a state or local agency seizes related contraband along with the cash, or when the owner admits the property is criminally derived.
But there’s an exception: Agencies can still adopt these smaller amounts of cash even when these conditions don’t apply, so long as the U.S. attorney’s office first approves the transfer.
The new order also seeks to expedite the adoption process, requiring the seizing state or local agency to request federal adoption within 15 calendar days of the seizure. The federal agency accepting the adoption must also inform “interested parties” within 45 days of the date of seizure, notifying them of their right to challenge the forfeiture. The policy clarifies that these timeframes can be extended if the adoption agency can demonstrate “good cause.”
The final piece of the directive involves enhanced asset forfeiture training for federal law enforcement officers, which will begin in 2018 and take place annually.
Taken together, these additional protections mean the adoptive forfeiture program will be “less aggressive than it was in 2014,” before it was halted, deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told reporters shortly before DOJ hosted an event for law enforcement leaders in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ office.
Rosenstein said the new policies would “empower our police and prosecutors” and that the new protocols would ensure innocent people were protected. Asset forfeiture, he said, is “not about criminal convictions,” but about taking the profit out of crime.
While the changes were heavily supported by law enforcement groups, this was “not an effort to appease any particular constituency,” Rosenstein said.
Rosenstein wouldn’t say whether revisions were under consideration before Trump’s February meeting with law enforcement officials, in which Trump seemed to endorse asset forfeiture as soon as he was informed what it was. Trump had a “common sense reaction” when informed about asset forfeiture, Rosenstein said.
Law enforcement officials often claim civil forfeiture is an important crime-fighting tool that gives them the power to home in on the proceeds of criminal activity, even when they may not have direct proof that an individual has committed a crime. When police officers pull over a car and find a large sum of cash that they suspect is related to drugs, for example, they can take the money even if there are no drugs in the car and even though carrying cash is not illegal in itself.
But civil liberties advocates say the practice threatens due process and property rights. And they claim it encourages police to pursue law enforcement activity that is most likely to provide them with revenue, pointing to instances of police departments using forfeiture proceeds to pay for equipment like cruisers, weapons or even margarita machines.
Rosenstein pushed back against the idea that civil forfeiture presents law enforcement with a perverse incentive.
“Law enforcement agencies are motivated by the goal of reducing crime,” he said. “If they’re buying margarita machines, you can make that argument. But I think that if you look at the volume of forfeitures and the money and property that is seized, a very small proportion of those cases are cases that implicate those kind of concerns.”
The federal government and law enforcement use civil forfeiture to great financial effect. The Justice Department paid state and local agencies $4.7 billion in forfeiture proceeds from 2000 to 2013, according to a 2015 report by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm. Of that total, just 18 percent resulted from adoptive forfeitures. The rest came from seizures made by joint task forces and investigations. This system, in which state and local police partner with federal law enforcement agencies and process forfeitures under federal law, has remained largely unchanged in recent years.
Federal agencies themselves are also heavily reliant on civil forfeiture for revenue. The Justice Department inspector general released a report earlier this year finding that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has permanently seized $3.2 billion in cash over the past decade, all from individuals who were never charged with a crime. The report called out lax reporting standards, inconsistent policies and other troubling patterns in the process that could “pose potential risks to civil liberties.” In over half of the 100 cases examined, there was no discernible evidence the seizures advanced law enforcement efforts, the report found.
The new policies were quickly condemned by many civil liberties advocates. Kanya Bennett, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said it was “outrageous” that Sessions wanted to increase the seizure of property from people “who have not been convicted of a crime and are often not given a day in court to reclaim their possessions.” She said the changes would be “devastating for all Americans, but especially for communities of color, who are already subjected to unconstitutional violations and over policing.”
Darpana Sheth, senior attorney for the Institute for Justice told HuffPost the move was disheartening.
“The new forfeiture directive is an assault on private property rights of ordinary Americans, and it seems like everyone but the Justice Department understands the need for forfeiture reform,” Sheth said.
Sheth emphasized the difference between civil forfeiture and criminal forfeiture, the latter of which allows the government to take property only after the owner has been convicted of a related crime.
“Civil forfeiture is inherently abusive, and the only safeguard to protect Americans is to eliminate civil forfeiture altogether,” she added. “Attorney General Sessions has said the point is that no criminal should benefit from illegal activity. We couldn’t agree more, and that’s exactly the point of criminal forfeiture.”
The changes also drew swift pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with some predicting the civil forfeiture policy would fall to a legal challenge.
“Instead of revising forfeiture practices in a manner to better protect Americans’ due process rights, the DOJ seems determined to lose in court before it changes its policies for the better,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in a statement.
Texas state Sen. Konni Burton (R), author of a bill to scale back civil forfeiture in her local legislature, was similarly critical.
In February, Trump appeared to joke to a Texas sheriff that he’d help destroy Burton’s career over her reform advocacy. Burton doesn’t believe Trump was actually referring to her in his comments, she told HuffPost in an email on Wednesday. But she said it’s clear the Justice Department’s effort to expand civil forfeiture isn’t compatible with her conservative beliefs.
“Conservatives are generally skeptical of large government systems. We should be especially skeptical of one such as the criminal justice system that can actually take our life, liberty and property,” she said. “For me, demanding a criminal conviction before the government may permanently keep an individual’s property is the only defensible position for someone who believes in the Bill of Rights and the rights of the people.”
Polling has consistently shown that Americans oppose the concept of civil forfeiture, even if they’re not fully aware of its existence. A December 2016 survey conducted by the Cato Institute found that 84 percent of Americans oppose “taking a person’s money or property that is suspected to have been involved in a drug crime before the person is convicted of a crime.” State polling has shown similar levels of opposition.
Sessions, speaking at the event with law enforcement officials said it was important to protect rights, and that law-abiding people “whose property is used without their knowledge or without their consent should not be punished because of crimes that others have committed.” But he said that was “not an issue” in the “vast majority of cases,” that law enforcement officers “do an incredible job” and that four out of five administrative civil asset forfeitures were never challenged in court. “Even so, we must take every precaution to protect the rights of claimants in that small minority of cases,” Sessions said.


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Most of us are familiar with a few paintings done by Van Gogh. Whether it’s his Starry Night or his Sunflowers series, Van Gogh’s art is meshed with our culture.
Earlier this summer, I visited Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience with two of my friends. It was breathtaking and awe-inspiring! Imagine stepping into a 20,000-square-foot lights and sounds exhibit featuring two-story projections of his most captivating works.
Even though I took an Art History class in college, there was so much that I learns about Van Gogh in this exhibit. There’s something to be said about seeing the artwork in person, whether it’s in an immersive art experience such as this or in a museum. When you take things in visually, it’s different from just reading about it in a book.
After walking through all of the galleries, we came towards the end where you could participate in a VR Experience. NOTE: VIP Admission includes entry to the immersive experience, entry to the VR experience and a poster from the gift shop.
Near the VR experience and gift shop is the studio where you can make your own artwork and have them displayed on the wall. If I ever came back again, I know my daughter would love this part of the experience!
My friends and I loved visiting this exhibit! It’s a great way to introduce art to people of all ages.
- A unique way to discover and enjoy the works of Vincent van Gogh
- Immerse yourself in the artist’s masterpieces with a 360-degree digital show
- One-of-a-kind VR experience: travel through 8 works and their source of inspiration in “A Day in the Life of the Artist in Arles France”
- Digital displays, sound effects, projection mapping and much more!
Thanks, Van Gogh: Immersive Experience and Fever for hosting me and my friends!
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
1345 N Montebello Blvd
Montebello, CA 90640
Disclosure: No monetary compensation was received for this post. I received complimentary tickets to Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience which helped facilitate this review. All images are mine unless otherwise noted. All opinions are 100% my own.