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Margaret, right, and Gabriel Nmah have a 16-month-old daughter, Delores, in her father's lap, whom Francis has never met.
The tears start a slow, steady stream down Margaret Nmah's face almost as soon as she starts talking about the 9-year-old son she hasn't seen for more than two years.
She and her husband, Gabriel, left the post-civil war strife of Liberia with the understanding that their son, Francis, would join them in Toledo as soon as they had enough money to send for him.
But since 1998, Francis has remained 6,000 miles away in the unstable West African country, ensnared by a U.S. immigration law that might keep him separated from his parents for four more years.
"It's very terrible," Mrs. Nmah said as she cried. "Sometimes, I feel like my son is dead. When I talk to him, I feel sick and depressed. I really want my son. I feel like I'm a bad mother."
Mrs. Nmah, who won a visa lottery in 1998 for her family, said Francis would have come to America with her and her husband, but they didn't have enough money. Millions of people from around the world apply for diversity visas, but only 55,000 are awarded each year, and the visas expire if not used.
The Nmahs were not able to raise the extra $1,500 required to bring Francis here. Family and friends urged the couple to move to the states and get jobs so Francis could join them soon after.
But the diversity visa that allowed them entry into the states expired shortly after they arrived in the fall of 1998. A subsequent request for a student visa that the Nmahs hoped would reunite them with their son was turned down in February, 1999.
Through attorneys who work for Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, the Nmahs petitioned the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for humanitarian parole, which allows entry into the country for urgent humanitarian reasons.
That request was denied in July.
A letter from Dennis Peruzzini, acting director of the INS's Rome office, said the facts in the case are unfortunate, but "do not constitute circumstances that would place the applicant in an urgent humanitarian category."
Mrs. Nmah said she never would have left Francis in Liberia with his aunt had she known it would be so difficult to get him into the country.
Apart from longing to have their son under their roof, they also want him out of Liberia, because they fear for his safety in a country where from 1989 to 1996 civil war has claimed 200,000 lives and left an estimated 1 million people homeless.
The country remains unstable. In June, the U.S. Department of State issued a travel warning to American citizens. The department prohibits dependents from accompanying government officials to Liberia.
Mrs. Nmah, who works as a dietary aide at the Sunset House nursing home, said she worries about her son's ending up in a dangerous situation. She also worries about his emotional well-being, because her sister often sees Francis off by himself crying.
His parents try to talk to the boy by phone every few weeks, but it can be difficult to get through. And when they do talk, Francis begs for his parents to send for him.
"I don't know what to tell him, because he's telling me that I'm lying to him," Mrs. Nmah said. "He says, 'Send the money for my ticket.' But he doesn't know what I have to go through."
The Nmahs feel like they're running out of options. ABLE has turned to U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) and Mike DeWine and George Voinovich, Ohio's Republican U.S. senators, to sponsor a special bill that would allow Francis to enter the country.
But while all of the legislators have sympathized with the Nmahs' plight, members of their staffs don't think a private bill offers the best chance for success.
Steve Katich, staff director for Miss Kaptur's Toledo office, said few private bills have a chance of passing.
"I think working with the system that's in place will be more effective than trying to pass legislation, which would be difficult at best," Mr. Katich said.
Miss Kaptur has intervened once by sending a letter to U.S. immigration officials in Rome in July asking them to grant the request for humanitarian parole.
Mr. Katich said Miss Kaptur plans to contact the INS again to ask it to reconsider its decision.
Staffers for Senators DeWine and Voinovich also rejected the idea of a private bill. A letter dated Nov. 7 from the senators' joint Columbus office said it "does not seem to us that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has done anything contrary to its mission in this specific case...."
Mike Dawson, a spokesman for Mr. DeWine, said that not many private relief bills pass Congress each year and those that do are usually "life-and-death situations."
"Otherwise, you'd have [private bills] for every INS case in the country, of which there are tens of thousands a year," Mr. Dawson said.
He said the senator's office will write the INS and push Francis's case. He said the office will try to get the boy a special visa so he can visit his parents during the holidays.
Mr. Voinovich will join Mr. De|Wine's request to the INS, according to Scott Milburn, a spokesman for the senator.
"It's a very unfortunate case," Mr. Milburn said. "As it stands now, it looks like INS has done an accurate following of the rules, but we're going to see what we can do."
Emiko Furuya, a fellow with the National Association of Public Interest Law who works in ABLE's Toledo office, said she thinks involvement by the legislators is crucial to getting Francis into the country.
Mark Heller, an ABLE attorney working on the case, said he's frustrated by the federal agency's stance on Francis's case. After all, he said, the boy will be allowed into the United States in about four years if his parents gain citizenship or through a different type of immigration petition that will take just as long.
Mr. Heller said the delay simply keeps Francis separated from his mother and father during a crucial period of his life.
"So what is the great loss for anybody here to just let him come in and be with his parents?" Mr. Heller asked.
Mark Hansen, district director of the INS office in Cleveland, said Francis's compelling story is one of many that can be told every year. He said the boy's parents and attorneys are not barred from trying to make their case again for humanitarian parole.
"There are only so many visas available, and, obviously, when the demand is greater than the supply, it creates a backlog."
The holiday season is particularly tough on the family, which now includes 16-month-old De|lor|es, whom Francis has not met. Mr. Nmah, who works at Pro-Pak Industries, said shopping trips have been abandoned, because seeing families having fun together triggers painful thoughts of a son who is so far away.

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Actually, the title isn’t quite right. Yes, this is a review of the movie, American Sniper, but first, I want to write about Clint Eastwood. Who would have thought, back in the 60s, watching Rawhide, that quiet, polite, silent Rowdy would have such an amazing career ahead of him. I mean, first, as an actor, Eastwood became a kind of cult hero. Who hasn’t ever muttered under their breath, “Make my day!”? There were the spaghetti westerns, the Dirty Harry movies, but there were also the suspense thrillers, Play Misty For Me, Unforgiven, Escape From Alcatraz, Tightrope, and Beguiled (a really creepy movie I’ll never forget watching). There was The Bridges of Madison County where he was the romantic lead, and Paint Your Wagon, where he sang a song. (He also put out a record album in the early 60s called, Favourite Cowboy Songs.)
Play Misty for Me was his directorial debut, an early female stalker movie which became a precursor for others such as Fatal Attraction, and was a smash hit. He played the lead role. Over 5 decades he has starred in 42 films and directed 35, in many of which he also had a starring role, and has contributed music to them as well. Some of these are unforgettable, such as Absolute Power, Space Cowboys, and Gran Torino. According to a Wikipedia source, Box Office Mojo says that films Eastwood has acted in “have grossed a total of more than $1.71 billion domestically [in the U.S.], with an average of $37 million per film. American Sniper grossed 64.4 million in its opening weekend. It is a hit!
This movie is a true story based on the book written by American navy SEAL vet, Chris Kyle. Chris, a Texan, was first taught to shoot by his father, whose philosophy was that “there are 3 kinds of people in the world — sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs” and the sheepdogs were there to protect the sheep from the wolves. Chris signs up at the age of 30 to do just that: protect Americans from being killed. He completes SEAL training, marries, and is deployed to Iraq. His one goal? To protect his men. How successful is he? He becomes known as “The Legend” and is the prime target for enemy snipers because of a huge bounty on his head. After 4 tours of duty, Chris comes home and has to deal with Post Trauma Stress Disorder. He deals with it by helping vets.
Bradley Cooper (see terrific article in January Vanity Fair) plays Kyle and is totally believable. He even looks a lot like him. He handles the equipment like he really knows what he’s doing and he never takes his job for granted. There is one scene where Kyle’s team has taken over an apartment so they can keep surveillance on the front door of a building across the street where they think The Butcher is located. They are just starting to feel they can trust their hosts when he notices the man’s elbow; Chris knows right away that he’s a sniper. He excuses himself and conducts a silent, meticulous search of the other rooms that uncovers a cache of weapons under the floor.
This is just one example of the tension in the movie; there is a taut undercurrent running all the way through it. We see Chris facing danger, making life and death decisions that will either save lives or kill needlessly, dealing with his failure to be able to protect everyone despite his amazingly high kill rate, and trying to fit back into a civilian life when each tour is completed. Despite being almost a stranger to his family, he won’t quit until he kills the enemy known as “The Butcher”. He is not just an American sniper — he’s an American hero.
This movie isn’t as violent as you might expect, or as violent as it could have been, and there are many very tender, human moments that have you cheering for this husband and father to come through and come home. The ending of the movie is really well played out and very sad, but also extremely moving as Chris is honoured by his family, his fellow-SEALS, and his country. This will become an American classic! * * * * *

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Thirty-year anniversary of Sonics' title brings bittersweet memories
Sonics won last title before Larry Bird and Magic Johnson took NBA into new era
Seattle had gained NBA team with $1.75M expansion fee prior to '67-68 season
Sonics moved to Oklahoma City prior to '08-09 season, renamed itself Thunder
Time didn't necessarily begin for the NBA 30 years ago, but it sure did pivot. If one were to designate epochs in a B.C. and A.D. sort of way, everything up through June 1979 might commonly be known as B.B.J., and each season since then as A.L.M. That is, Before Bird and Johnson, and After Larry and Magic.
It was a simpler and more innocent time then, as different from today's NBA as Fortran punch cards are from Blackberries. Sure, there were superstars back in the league's dark ages, a constellation's worth, but they were players rather than icons and their names rarely went on the marquee distinct and separate from their teams. This was small ball in a marketing sense, which made the 1978-79 Seattle SuperSonics -- the last NBA champions before Showtime, the Celtics' resurgence, the ascension of commissioner David Stern, the arrival of Michael Jordan and lights on at ESPN -- perfect for their time.
"The NBA always has been a star-driven product, but that team's balance meant it wasn't one single name that carried us," said Wally Walker, a reserve Sonics forward then and later the team's president and general manager. "We had a couple of veteran guys and a lot of guys in their 20s. But it was so well-balanced. And we had a really good locker room."
Nostalgia can't obliterate all the pockmarks: This was the era of Finals games televised on a tape-delayed basis on weeknights. Some critics saw the NBA as drug-ridden, defensively lax and even "too black" to assure long-term appeal. Finances were shaky, too; Walker remembers that, for the first month of the 1977-78 season, rosters were reduced to 11 players to cut costs (the WNBA has done that this year for the same reason).
Still, the quality of competition was good, the players had skills and personality, and Seattle's run to the championship -- beating Washington one year after the Bullets had defeated the Sonics in a rare Finals rematch -- was a happy story. It was the first major sports championship in the city's history and, in this big, round anniversary year, it remains so.
And that makes the franchise's move from the Pacific Northwest before the just-completed season sting that much more. With all due respect to Oklahoma and the commitment of fans there and Thunder staffers, swapping SEA for OKC has to rank as one of the worst trades in NBA history, in terms of disappointment and bitter aftertaste.
"Seattle was a little different city 30 years ago," said Jack Sikma, the blond center of that title team and an All-Star for seven consecutive years. "It was still pretty new to the professional sports scene. Unfortunately, the NBA is no longer there. Now generations of fans won't ever know what a special time it was for the city."
The Sonics, in fact, planted the big-time flag when they bought in to the NBA for a $1.75 million expansion fee prior to 1967-68. They came in with the San Diego Rockets, the NBA's 11th and 12th teams, and had a better inaugural record (23-59 to San Diego's 15-67). They got to .500 faster (47-35 in 1971-72) but took eight years to the Rockets' two to reach the playoffs (thank you, No. 1 pick Elvin Hayes to Seattle's No. 3 Bob Kauffman). Lenny Wilkens (as player-coach) and Spencer Haywood were Seattle's early stars and "Slick" Watts got noticed for his steals, his smile and his (rare then) shaved head.
It wasn't until the Sonics started building around Dennis Johnson and Fred Brown, drafting Sikma and acquiring Paul Silas, Marvin Webster and Gus Williams that ambitions turned serious. They started 5-17 in 1977-78, at which point Wilkens was brought back to coach, replacing Bob Hopkins. Seattle went 42-18 the rest of the way, then beat the Lakers, Blazers and Nuggets in the playoffs. In the Finals, it ran into Washington, led by Hayes and Wes Unseld in its "it ain't over till the fat lady sings" spring (coach Dick Motta borrowed that quote from San Antonio writer/broadcaster Dan Cook). The Bullets trailed in the series 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 before beating the Sonics by 36 in Game 6 and taking Game 7 in Seattle 105-99. Johnson famously shot 0-for-14 in that finale and, upon missing his first attempt when the teams met again in October, reportedly heard Motta holler, "Oh-for-15!"
By then, Webster was gone, signed away in a move that was supposed to deliver an NBA title to New York. Instead, the compensation paid by the Knicks per free-agency rules then -- sending burly forward Lonnie Shelton to the Sonics -- helped bring it to Seattle. Also, Webster's intended replacement at center, Tom LaGarde, got hurt, shifting Sikma from power forward to center, where his unusual reverse-pivot move confounded defenders.
No Sonics player finished among the NBA's top 20 in scoring or in the top 10 in assists or blocked shots. Sikma's 12.4 rebounds ranked fifth among individuals, Williams' 2.08 steals eighth. Seattle's offense averaged 106.6 points -- fourth from the bottom in what by then was a 22-team league. But at 103.9 points allowed, it had the stingiest defense by nearly a point over Golden State (104.8) and more than three over any other clubs. The Sonics were one of only two teams with a winning road record (21-20) and tied for second with a 31-10 home mark. Williams' 19.2 points made him the team's high scorer, but six regulars averaged in double figures. The assists leader was "point forward" John Johnson (4.4).
"It was a real smart team," said Walker, who still resides in Seattle, overseeing a hedge fund. "We would make a lot of adjustments during games. Lenny gave the players a lot of leeway."
At 52-30, Seattle reached 50 victories for the first time, won the Pacific Division, earned a bye in the playoffs' first round, breezed past the Lakers in five games and went up 2-0 on Phoenix in the conference finals. Losing the next three, though, brought into focus the challenge facing the Sonics: Anything less than a return to the Finals and a championship, this time, would be failure. Not to worry: They won at Phoenix by a point, then gave up only six points of their 112-104 lead in the final 16 seconds of Game 7.
"The pressure was on that team," Sikma said. "I remember it was almost a sense of relief when we got back to the Finals. We just wanted that chance again, and we played very well against the Bullets.''
Same opponent, different outcome: Seattle dropped the opener, then won four in a row, including 10-point victories in Games 2 and 3 followed by a 114-112 overtime game in which Finals MVP Johnson had 32 points and four blocks. In the clincher on the Bullets' court, the Sonics erased an eight-point deficit in the second half to win 97-93. Johnson (22.6) and Williams (29.0) scored more than half of Seattle's points in the series.
Title in hand, a parade held for the team a year earlier in appreciation for a good season finally felt deserved in 1979.
"It was a huge deal," Walker said. "There was this great outpouring from the fans. People went crazy. ... That's how it was with the fans and that team."
Now it's more like an Ingmar Bergman movie, a grim tale of angst and divorce. With franchise owner Clay Bennett buying his way out of a lawsuit -- Seattle got to keep the nickname and team colors -- and backing up the moving vans, KeyArena stayed dark this year on nights previously reserved for NBA games. Some team employees left Seattle, others waved goodbye to the team. The Thunder media guide does its duty, chronicling the Sonics' era (18 subsequent playoff appearances after the championship year, a return to the Finals in 1996, the career of likely Hall of Fame guard Gary Payton, the one-season tease of Kevin Durant). But there are no keepers of the flame on staff. Back in Seattle, the Web site dedicated to hanging onto the team (http://www.saveoursonics.org/) shows you the current date but its "Latest News" list has nothing posted since March 2008. It feels abandoned, worthy of someone's attic.
Strong sentiments remain, split between those who were and remain NBA fans and those who rooted for the Sonics and feel betrayed. There is limited talk about luring the league back some day -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on board to invest in a team and pay $300 million toward arena renovations -- but in April, a bill in the Washington state legislature for the remaining funds failed. Now an economy that, had the recession begun a little sooner, might have stymied the move to Oklahoma is an obstacle for Seattle, even with several franchises in search of buyers.
Lots of residents understandably feel bitter. Bitter toward Starbucks entrepreneur Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett, toward Bennett, of course, and toward the league and commissioner for allowing it to happen. The gulch between the NBA in June 1979 and the NBA now, at least in Seattle, never has been greater.
"I can't believe 30 years have gone by," Walker said. "I can't believe the Sonics aren't here. This is still a great city. Just not as good."
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By leveraging AI algorithms, medical exoskeletons can recognize different activities and adjust their assistance accordingly. This adaptability allows users to perform a wide range of tasks independently, promoting their autonomy and reducing reliance on caregivers. Whether it’s reaching for objects, climbing stairs, or even engaging in recreational activities, AI-powered exoskeletons offer a level of versatility that was previously unattainable.
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While the potential of AI-powered medical exoskeletons is promising, several challenges need to be addressed for widespread adoption and integration into healthcare systems. One significant challenge is the cost associated with developing and manufacturing these advanced devices. The integration of AI technology requires substantial investment in research and development, which may limit accessibility for certain patient populations.
Additionally, ensuring the safety and reliability of AI algorithms is crucial. Robust testing and validation processes are necessary to minimize the risk of malfunctions or errors that could compromise patient safety. Furthermore, ethical considerations surrounding data privacy and security must be carefully addressed to protect patient information and maintain trust in AI-powered medical exoskeletons.
AI-powered medical exoskeletons represent a groundbreaking advancement in the field of rehabilitation and mobility assistance. By leveraging AI algorithms, these devices offer enhanced mobility, improved safety, and adaptive assistance for daily activities. While challenges remain, the potential benefits are immense, providing individuals with mobility impairments the opportunity to regain independence and improve their overall quality of life. As research and development continue, AI-powered medical exoskeletons hold the promise of transforming the future of medicine and revolutionizing the way we approach patient care.


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I just need to find the right place to submit. Any ideas?

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The trailhead is at Elbow Fork in Mill Creek Canyon. When you arrive at the trail junction, go right on Lambs Canyon Pass Trail. Less than a quarter mile from the junction is a footbridge. After you cross it, the trail stays near the stream, then makes two switchbacks away from it. At 0.82 miles, the trail turns back toward the stream again and crosses it with views of Mount Aire to the north. At 1.27 miles, you arrive at Lookout Point. Across Lookout Point is Gobblers Knob on the left and the jagged rock formations of Mount Raymond on the right. The trail follows the spine of the mountain and makes two switchbacks to Lambs Canyon Pass. At 1.67 miles, you arrive at the pass. To find the trail to Millvue Peak, take about 10 steps west from the trail post and look for a faint trail going southeast. The trail isn't posted and is very overgrown. Hikers need to pay close attention to stay on it. The trail heads southeast for the ridgeline. At the ridgeline, place cairns on the trail junction. With the overgrowth, it's easy to miss this junction on your return. Go left and stay on the spine of the ridge for the peak. At 2.5 miles, you arrive at Millvue Peak. As you head down, watch for the cairns you placed. If you hike past them, backtrack and find them. Don't bushwhack back to Lambs Canyon Pass.
From what I can tell, this trail is incorrectly marked. Millvue Peak is the summit with the man-made building near the top. Travel past this point is possible, but the trails gets increasingly difficult to follow, until it fades and turns into a scramble or bushwhack to further peaks. There is no clear trail (yet) following the trail shown on the map.
With that said, the hike up to Millvue Peak at 8926 ft. is well marked and moderate. There are a couple steeper parts up to the summit, but nothing too long or difficult. It's a nice extension from the Lambs Canyon/Elbow Fork area, and dogs can still be on the Millvue Peak trail.

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BART To Pay $1.3 Million To Oscar Grant’s Mother
The mother of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a transit office in 2009, was awarded $1.3 million from the Bay Area Rapid Transit on Tuesday.
According to reports by CBS News:
The payment to Wanda Johnson, coupled with a $1.5 million payment last year to Grant’s young daughter, Tatiana Grant, settles a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit that Oakland attorney John Burris filed in federal court on behalf of Grant’s family in 2009, reports CBS station KPIX.
The total payment of $2.8 million represents only 5.6 percent of the $50 million that Grant’s family had sought.
At a new conference at Burris’ office, Johnson said she was glad the lawsuit has been settled but added, “No amount of money could replace Oscar, and my heart still grieves for my son,” the station reports.
Earlier this month, former BART officer Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Oscar Grant, was released from prison early for good conduct, after serving just 11 months of a two-year sentence.
Grant’s uncle, Cephus “Bobby” Johnson, said on Tuesday that his family, along with a foundation in Grant’s name, will continue to monitor BART’s police reforms, which include increased officer and firearm training to insure they take place as proposed.
“What’s sad for us as a family is we’ve spoken from day one that we want accountability and an apology,” Johnson said. “There’s many more battles on this front and we’re going to fight it.”
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Netflix has made an outstanding spree of streaming both the seasons of this Israeli series, which gained good response. Now they have almost completed the final talks of renewing the third season. We are talking about the famous series ‘Shtisel’, which will soon get the official announcement made pertaining to the Season 3. It is said that the new season will be aired somewhere by end of this year. Initially plans were made to make it by mid-of-2020, but eventually got delayed due to the stalling of shoot in March with pandemic issues.
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Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani set the Koffee couch ablaze with their chemistry!
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Another Koffee with Karan
episode and another monologue by the host and filmmaker Karan Johar
. “I’d much rather break bones than hearts now”, Karan said while explaining his move to action films and that he has given up on romance. The ‘superhit’ jodi of Preeti and Kabir, Kiara
Advani and Shahid
Kapoor were invited as the guests for the episode. It was Kiara’s debut on the Koffee couch and she was excited about the same, exclaiming that she and her gang in South Mumbai grew up on the show.
- Karan began by speaking about his short in the anthology Lust Stories which featured Kiara’s character having an on-screen orgasm. Interestingly, Kriti Sanon was approached by Karan who said that her mother wouldn’t allow her. He revealed on the show, "I thought everybody's mom would stand in line, not allowing their daughters. It's actually a very empowering story. It's about a woman's right to pleasure.” Kiara explained about her wanting to work with him and how important the topic was as well, “Obviously like I grew up and I wanted to work with him. But now in retrospect, when I look back, I realize, I don’t mean it was bold, but what a brave topic to kind of, to make a film on and to speak of. Because why shy away from women’s sexuality."
- When Karan accused Kiara of being so ‘last season' and denying her relationship with Sidharth Malhotra
, Kiara said, “I’m not denying or accepting”, adding “We are definitely close friends, more than close friends." Karan and Shahid pulled her leg even further and called the both of them as a good-looking couple, Karan going as far as to say that they will have beautiful kids together.
- Kiara then went on to describe her very first meeting with 'Shershaah' co-star Sidharth who happened to be at the wrap party of Lust Stories. She shared, “Funnily, Sid and I knew each other much before we were actually cast for 'Shershaah'. He was, of course, cast. But him and I started talking in… at the wrap party". Karan spoke further, “So, we crashed the shoot wrap party of Lust Stories at a friend’s house. And, Sid also came to that party and that’s where Sid and you met for the first time." Kiara added, “Casually met," to which Shahid responded saying, “Nice that you remember so clearly how you met." Kiara was all heart when she said, “Of course, I’ll never forget that."
- Shahid shared about his marriage to Mira Rajput
on the Koffee couch, calling it “the best thing that’s happened in my life”. Opening up about her own marriage plans on the Koffee couch of manifestation, Kiara said, "I have always believed in the institution of marriage because I have seen a beautiful marriage at home. So it is definitely something I do see in my life, but I'm not revealing that on Koffee With Karan today."
- While discussing how Shahid's ‘Jersey’ didn’t fare well at the box office, the actor and director had an intense discussion. Shahid said, "Cinema has also changed. The kind of movies that we thought would make it to the big screens; certain stories which are of a certain nature; It might be personal or it might not be for the big screen experience visually; We really need to think if we need to take it to theatres." Karan Johar
agreed to that and added, "This entire year, we have not had a good run barring Kiara, Alia, and Kartik. Everyone else has met with a film that hasn't met to expectations. Sometimes you do things and they are for a larger reason."Koffee Bingo
- During the Bingo segment which was introduced this season, Kiara revealed that she bit**slapped Shahid (in her head) as he made her wait on the sets of 'Kabir Singh'. Kiara explained, 'It was my third or fourth day on set and I had just come in and started shooting, and they made me wait for eight hours because there was a discussion on Shahid’s shoes” when they were shooting the ‘bench scene’. Karan supported Kiara in this and revealed he would have had the same reaction.
- Kiara also opened up about an embarrassing story at an industry party that involved Juhi Chawla and Sujoy Ghosh. As Kiara was then yet to make her Bollywood debut, Juhi Chawla, who knew Kiara well, invited her to introduce her to the director. After Sujoy lifted his hand to call someone else during the conversation, Kiara thought he was going in for a hug and went on to hug him
- Shahid Kapoor, on the other hand, revealed that he role-plays in bed and that he has applied makeup to cover up a hickey, and also that he has sent racy texts to the ‘wrong person’. Shahid also revealed that he cringed while watching his performance in the movie ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu’.
- Shahid also revealed more about his marriage with Mira. Karan was speaking about Mira becoming an influencer and Shahid said, "When we got married, I was 34 and she was 20. So I had to approach it very differently. She needed to be cared for, with kid gloves. She had left everything in her life and had come to Bombay.” He added, “I was very established in my space and films in general and this world of films can be very intimidating and judgemental.” Elaborating further he said, “Sometimes, she used to feel like I know too much and I think I can tell her what to do and how to be. But I used to sometimes do it from a place of wanting to protect her. This is because I had been in that place myself. I was this kid from Lokhandwala, who at 21, did well and didn't know how to be”.Rapid Fire
- Kiara revealed during a question on unique talents that Sid has an amazing voice and would make a good singer
- Kiara, whose name is Alia Advani, also revealed that she would tell her pre-debut version that she could have kept her first name instead of changing it for the industry.
- The actor was asked during the rapid-fire round about a celebrity who will definitely be in her bride squad. "I would really love Alia Bhatt to be in my bride squad. I love her, she is so cute. I love her," Kiara said. Karan reacted to Kiara's answer with a confused expression given that she may be marrying Alia’s ex Sid, while Shahid said: 'Maybe it just might be cool."
- She also shared that she has a love-hate relationship with her ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ co-star Kartik Aaryan
with whom she sometimes quarrels.
- Shahid said that he would love to work with Sandeep Reddy Vanga. He also revealed that Mira disliked his film, Shaandaar.
- Shahid shared that he and his wife Mira fight over the speed of the fan every night. Shahid was asked about the silliest thing that he and Mira fight over and he replied with the "speed of the fan every night."
- The rapid fire round was won by Kiara Advani with 57% on her debut rapid fire round while Shahid lost at 43%. Shahid and Karan also discussed towards the end that they will be performing the song ‘Dola re Dola’ for Kiara and Sid’s wedding.Quiz round
- The ‘Hey Karan, it’s me’ segment had Kiara having Sid on the phone along with JugJugg Jeeyo co-stars Varun Dhawan and Anil Kapoor and also Shahid’s wife Mira. Shahid got Mira, Ananya Panday
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The ‘Kabir Singh’ jodi hit all the right notes on their Koffee appearance by being their honest and unfiltered selves. The episode also had some funny revelations and made for a good light watch. It will be interesting to see who Karan Johar will be hosting next on his chat show.
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Anuska's Healthy Dark Chocolate & Date Cake
If you’ve been following my blog you would know by now that Anuska is my yoga teacher who loves luxurious skincare and makeup. She also has her own range of bodycare products called Neven, and one of her most ingrained talents is baking. When we went for our yoga retreat last month Anuska baked a dozen or so banana breads and this dark chocolate cake. We were all going to an ashram and she wanted us to have something delicious and healthy to eat with our tea. This cake contains no added sugar (except for some in the dark chocolate) and just a few spoons of whole wheat flour. Those who think that healthy and delicious can’t coexist, bake this cake and eat your words.
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100 gm coconut flour
50 - 100 gm finely-chopped dates
2-3 spoons of whole wheat flour (atta)
Pinch of baking powder or baking soda (if you want to make it healthier)
2-3 drops vanilla essence
3 tbsp of virgin coconut or olive oil
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2. Break the chocolate and put in a microwave safe bowl. Place in the oven just to melt it slightly - not for too long other wise it will get burnt.
3. Then pour that melted chocolate into the beaten egg whites. Add the egg yolks and vanilla essence. Beat it well with the hand mixer, fork or in the smoothie maker until it turns into a smooth paste.
4. Add three tbsps of coconut or olive oil into the coconut flour with atta and a pinch of baking soda. Stir in the melted chocolate paste with a spoon (NOT the blender).
5. Prepare the baking dish with a few drops of oil spread with your fingers till all the corners, or line it with butter paper. Spread the cake batter into the dish and sprinkle the chopped dates on top.
6. Preheat the oven to 230° and bake for five minutes. After five minutes reduce the temperature to 200° and bake for 25 minutes. To check if your cake is ready take a fork and stick it in the centre - if there is nothing on the fork then its ready. If its not ready then bake it for 5 minutes more and check it again.

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Jiow, H. J. (2012, Nov).Singaporeâs Regulation of Cybercrime. Conference for eDemocracy and Social Media CeDEM-Asia 2012, Singapore, 14-15Nov.
Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Young People and Families: Jiow, H. J. & Lin, J. (2012, Jul). The influence of parental factorsâ on childrenâs receptiveness towards mobile phone location disclosure services 3rd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Young People and Families, Singapore, 11-13Jul.
Paper presented at 2012 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Jiow, H. J. & Lim, S. S. (2012, May). The Evolution of Video Games and Growing Challenges for Parental Mediation Communication and Community: 2012 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Arizona, 24-28 May.
Journal Article in Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society: Jiow, H. J. & Lim, S. S. (2012). The Evolution of Video Game Affordances and Implications for Parental Mediation. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society,32(6), 455-462. DOI: 10.1177/0270467612469077
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Dhanesh, G. (2012). Better stay single? Public relations and CSR leadership in India. Public Relations Review, 38 (1), 141-143.
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Soon, C. & Kluver, R. (Forthcoming). Uniting political bloggers in diversity: Collective identity and web activism. Journal of Computer-Mediated-Communication, accepted for publication on 26 November 2012.
Rao, A. (2012). âSister-groupsâ and online-offline linkages in networked collective action: A case study of the right to information movement in India, The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), 52, 7, p. 1-17.
Lim, S. S., Vadrevu, S., Chan, Y. H.& Basnyat, I. (2012). Facework on Facebook: The online publicness of juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56 (3), 346-361. [2012 Impact Factor 0.603]
Vadrevu, S & Lim, S. S. (2012). Youth, politics and social media in Southeast Asia: Trends, events and implications. In W. Hofmeister (Ed.) Youth: Future agents of change or guardians of establishment? (Panorama 2012/1, pp. 19-28). Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Vadrevu, S.(2012). Character and Moral Education: A Reader. Book review. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 32 (4), 518-519.
Chann, M., Wu, X., Hao, Y., Xi, R., & Jin, T.(2012). Microblogging, Online Expression, and Political Efficacy Among Young Chinese Citizens: The Modeerating Role of Information and Enterainment Needs in the Use of Weibo. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(7), 345-349.


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Edelmann, C. M., Boen, F., & Fransen, K. (2020). The power of empowerment: Predictors and benefits of shared leadership in organizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582894
The word “leadership” is often associated with the leadership of a CEO or team manager. However, research on leadership in sport teams already taught us that also leaders within the team (i.e., team members who actively take on leadership roles) appear to be an essential link for the optimal functioning of their team. Does this also apply then to teams in organisations?
To bridge the gap between the sport field and the organisational context, we asked 146 Belgian employees from various companies to indicate which colleagues occupied the following four roles in their team and what the quality of their leadership was: the role of task leader (who gives strategic advice), the role of motivational leader (who encourages team members to go the extra mile), the role of social leader (who cares about a good atmosphere within the team and acts as a trust person), and the role of external leader (who represents the team towards the outside world). The first analyses showed that in most teams (83%) the leadership qualities in the workplace are indeed spread across different people instead of being centred in just one person.
In addition, it turned out that the best leaders within the team are characterised by the degree to which they succeed in creating a shared sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ within their team (also called a shared social identity). As a result of their leadership, colleagues identify more strongly with their team, they find it more important that they belong to their team, and they will also act more in function of the team's interests rather than their own interest. This shared sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ in turn instigated increased team effectiveness, greater job satisfaction, and reduced burnout.
It is interesting to note that these results did not differ between part-time and full-time employees or between small and large teams. For large teams, shared leadership appears to have an even stronger impact on these outcomes.
Shared leadership and letting go of control can sometimes feel for managers like a leap of faith. Yet, our findings above indicate that good leaders in the team are essential for team effectiveness and the well-being of team members. However, formal leaders may have doubts to start sharing their leadership, perhaps out of fear that this might have a detrimental effect on their own leadership status.
Within this research we examined whether this fear is justified. As it turns out, even the opposite is true. Indeed, our analyses showed that teams with stronger leaders within the team perceived their manager to be a better leader, and this with regard to task, motivational, social and external leadership.
It should therefore come as no surprise that an increasing number of teams want to start implementing a structure of shared leadership. After all, this does not only benefit the team’s effectiveness and the well-being of the team members, but also their own leadership status
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I am actually referencing the Letter of the Day ("Let's have a responsible vote on same-sex marriage") in today's National Post, which is unfortunately behind a subscribers' firewall. Douglas Farrow, associate professor of Christian thought, McGill University, Montreal wrote a rebuttal to the previous day's editorial, "Vote your Conscience".
Friday's editorial was a poorly-written piece in my opinion. It was full of logical flaws and outrageous partisanship, but finally ended on a note urging each M.P. to vote his or her conscience during the free vote in the fall:
It is clear that Canadians remain divided over the issue, a divide that is founded on the basis of individual morality and religious beliefs, but also on the basis of support for equality rights, minority protections and adherence to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Consequently, Canadians would be well served if MPs of all parties were to ignore the agitation of special interest groups and their party leadership, and vote their conscience.
Such a vote should be further informed by the consequences -- or, more accurately, the lack of consequences -- of allowing homosexuals the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals. The issue is an emotional one and has attained an outsized political footprint as a result. But in truth, gay marriages have had a very small effect on life in this country: The fact is that relatively few gay couples have availed themselves of the right. Despite predictions to the contrary, the fabric of Canadian society has not been rent.
Professor Farrow counters:
In point of fact, there is no such thing as purely private morality. Morality, whatever its guiding lights, is by nature public. But in any case -- as every serious participant in this debate knows -- we are faced with here a conflict of very different, and equally public, moral claims. Chai Feldblum, a legal scholar and proponent of same-sex marriage at Georgetown University, was quoted in The New York Times last week to the effect that it is only honest to acknowledge that "we are in a zero-sum game in terms of moral values."
In response to the 'sky hasn't fallen yet' argument:
But who is really so foolish as to suppose that the consequences of a major change in public moral values, or in the social institutions that embody them -- especially marriage -- will appear in the first year or even in the first decade?
And legal consequences like question of parental names on birth certificates:
Many people do not seem even to be aware that C-38, in its consequential amendments, removed the very concept of "natural parent" from Canadian law and, at a stroke, made parenthood a gift of the state -- a legal construct -- rather than a natural right.
Finally, he agrees with the Post that each M.P. should vote his or her conscience but only after diligent study and reasoned debate, as that which occurred in France where a Parliamentary Report on the Family and the Rights of Children concluded that same-sex marriage was not in the best interests of the child:
I'm not sure what will happen in France, but I know what I would like to see happen in Canada. Let our MPs vote their conscience, by all means. But consciences require both formation and information. So ... here's my suggestion: Before holding another vote on same-sex marriage, let the present Parliament act in a more responsible manner than the previous one and follow the French example. Let our MPs sit down and study the issues properly instead of behaving like a university student union. Let them digest the French report, and perhaps even write one of their own. Then let's have the vote.


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Last week BoatTEST sent a crew to Amsterdam to visit the annual METSTRADE Marine Equipment Show. After a COVID-pause of one year, the 2021 METSTRADE show was bursting with two years’ worth of new products. The importance of METS is that the exhibitors’ new products point to the future direction of boating. This year’s show unmistakably pointed to a “sustainable” future. That means electric outboard motors, hybrid diesel and electric inboard drive systems, a move to high energy-density Lithium-ion batteries and stepping away from oil-based products wherever possible.
At METS, we counted no fewer than eight electric outboard, inboard and sterndrive motor companies in their infancy, trying to gain purchase among boat builders and distributors for the aftermarket. These nascent outboards range from 2.5-hp to one company claiming a 270-hp outboard. We counted at least three brands claiming to have the world’s highest horsepower outboard motor. With a single exception (Torqeedo), these electric outboard motor companies are largely being made by small private companies lead by electrical engineers who are often boating enthusiasts, and investors who are betting on the come.


Have you ever been so desperate for dessert that it became an obsession?
It's just like eating a Monte Cristo sandwich in a tempting, pull-apart, melty, cheesy, oh so irresistible loaf of bread.
Most of the country is smack dab in the middle of a cold winter. That means we are craving comfort foods, soups, and hearty dishes. Grilling burgers...
The evidence continues to accrue -- with almost surprising frequency -- that we should, indeed, eat less meat, butter, and cheese (before we even factor in the environmental considerations, which frankly we should do). We just shouldn't replace them with donuts, Snackwells and soda.
If we ban artisinal and traditional food practices like wood board aging on the grounds that they're not sanitary, the only foods we'll be left with are the processed ones.
Apparently the issue began when the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), a branch of the FDA, sent a letter to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets' Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services.
As we clinked glasses of Nero d'Avola and gobbled salty, gooey ricotta and crumbly pecorino atop crusty bread, we agreed somewhere in the world it was happy hour.
Creating high-quality, appetizing-looking, realistic, and publishable photos of food is never, ever that simple.
Sometimes simple is best, and you can't get much more simple than this.
Go ahead, eat more meat, butter and cheese. Let me know how it turns out for you. I certainly won't be joining you, despite the current popularity of the proposition.
The day has finally come where there is no need to choose between both. This time, you can have the best of both worlds.
Skip the grocery store -- this spring, we're making our mascarpone at home.
The U.S. government plays both sides of the obesity street -- admonishing people to eat right while pushing the foods that make them fat -- because of the USDA's double mission of protecting the nation's health and protecting the health of the nation's farmers.
A column entitled "The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease" appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday. To spare you any guessing about where this is headed, I'll tell you right away: the column itself was pretty darn questionable.
Of course, as soon as you think of France, you think of cheese.
I've learned that sustainability needn't be overly expensive or cost prohibitive. And best of all, I've learned that I've only scratched the surface of the green cheese movement.
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Your Solar Hot Water System produces no emissions whatsoever. It operates without any discharge of greenhouse gases or other pollutants. In fact, each kWh produced by solar energy saves 0.24 kg of CO2 emissions.
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An ingenious solution for charging multiple electric vehicles drives the first joint startup from Imperial and University College Dublin.
More people need to be driving electric vehicles, to mitigate climate change and reduce urban air pollution, but that is not going to happen unless access to charging becomes a lot easier. This is where Go Eve comes in, a startup with simple way of creating more charge points.
The company is commercialising a system developed initially by Professor Robert Shorten and colleagues at University College Dublin (UCD). He was an early adopter of electric vehicles, and has worked for many years on the shared economy and strategies to make electric driving more attractive in cities.
In Dublin, around 2015, the main barrier appeared to be insufficient charge points to support an electric vehicle fleet. “But if you looked at the data, that was not entirely correct,” Professor Shorten recalls. “At the time, the Irish government had a scheme that installed a charge point at your home if you bought a plug-in vehicle. So, there were a lot of electric charge points in Dublin, they just happened to be sitting in people’s driveways.”
One becomes many
His first idea was to create a device that could turn these private charge points into public ones. “And a natural extension of that was to have multiple sockets on the device, so you could plug in several vehicles and not just one.” This would also address the ‘charger anxiety’ experienced by electric vehicle drivers, then and now, where charge points are often inaccessible because other vehicles are blocking them. “The idea was to create a system whereby you don’t need to move cars to have access to the charge point.”
Unfortunately, you can’t just plug an extension cable into a vehicle charge point. Electric cars exchange information as well as power when they are charging up. The charger talks to the car, announcing that it has power to give, and the car replies that it has the capacity to accept it, on condition that this is a one-to-one relationship.
So the UCD researchers came up with a way of tricking the charger into thinking it is only ever connected to one car. Similarly, a car can be third or fourth in line on the cable, but it is told that it is connected directly to the charger. This allows the electricity to flow, and to be switched automatically from one car to the next, so that they get topped, one after the other. At no point are two or more cars charging at the same time, which makes the design easier from an electrical point of view.
The researchers built and tested a prototype, which they called DockChain, and a patent application was filed. Time passed, and in 2019 Professor Shorten moved to the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial, together with two colleagues who had worked on the project: postdoc Dr Pietro Ferraro and Master’s student Andrew Cullen.
Divide and rule
The innovation remained on file at UCD until it was brought to the notice of Hugh Sheehy and John Goodbody, two entrepreneurs interested in electric vehicles. They liked notion of multiple car charging, and asked if the system could be adapted from the low-power alternating current (AC) used in domestic charging to work with the high-power direct current (DC) used for roadside charging. The answer was yes, and in early 2021 Go Eve was set up to commercialise multi-vehicle charging for fleets and locations such as office, hotel, and airport car parks.
You can wire a whole car park and run it off an existing high-power charger. John Goodbody Marketing director, Go Eve
“With DockChain, you get a high-power DC charger, with a series of terminals coming off it that look a bit like traditional AC slow chargers, but which are capable of 150-kilowatt high-power charging,” says Mr Goodbody. “That will allow you to wire a whole car park and run it off an existing high-power charger, effectively reducing the cost about 10-fold from the way people are doing it today.”
Go Eve has also developed software to offer different charging configurations for different kinds of customer. “Some people want the average charge to be raised across all their vehicles. Others want certain spaces to be designated as one-hour-only rapid charging spaces, leaving the rest to charge only as and when the power is available.”
In 2021, the company completed and was the overall winner of VentureLaunch, UCD’s dedicated accelerator programme for new startups commercialising intellectual property developed at the university.
“Go Eve’s vision is to enable rapid DC charging for parking spaces at little more than the cost of the current slow AC charging infrastructure,” says Mr Sheehy, who is now the company’s chief executive. ”To support the implementation of this vision, we are currently seeking to raise £2.5 million in seed funding to run a number of pilot programmes later this year, to further accelerate product development and to support expansion of the team, especially in the US market. We aim to have our first production chargers available by the end of 2022.”
For Mr Goodbody, the experience of working with the two universities has been extremely positive. “After graduating I went into industry, and I had no further connection with universities until now,” he says. “And I’m still wondering: why didn’t I? There must have been some great opportunities, ideas and innovations that I should have latched onto, 20 years ago. You guys have got the solutions we are looking for.”
And Go Eve maintains close connections with the universities, both of which are shareholders in the company. At UCD, researcher Ammar Malik is working full time on the DockChain prototype. And the three researchers now at Imperial remain involved, Professor Shorten as Head of R&D, and Dr Ferraro and Andrew Cullen as research engineers. “There are a lot of possibilities and opportunities here to do really interesting things, and we want to look into them,” Professor Shorten says.
Electric vehicles connected to the DockChain system could be used to store surplus power flowing into the electricity grid.
One of these is the possibility of using electric vehicles connected to the DockChain system to store surplus power flowing into the electricity grid at moments of peak production by renewable sources. This stored power can then be fed back into the grid later on. Persuading drivers to support this approach connects with Professor Shorten’s current research on cyber-physical systems.
“Ironically, as battery capacities grow, it becomes harder to use electric vehicles in this way, because you can’t put energy into a car unless it is plugged in. So, you have to incentivise people to plug in their vehicles, even when they don’t need to charge them, so that they can absorb energy,” he explains. “The work I’ve been doing at Imperial has been focused on distributed ledgers and the infrastructure you need to employ digital tools like that, to incentivise and help orchestrate the interaction of humans and technology.”
This research fits in with Imperial’s Transition to Zero Pollution initiative, which aims to create innovative technologies and policies that go beyond single environmental problems to improve entire systems.
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In the tilt position, the window opens at the top with hinges at the bottom. In the turn position, the window is hinged on the side and opens by swinging inward.
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The tilt-turn is the dominant window style in Europe, now gaining popularity among discerning architects, designers and homeowners in North America. This versatile design is three windows in one: an inward opening casement in the turn position, a secure top-venting hopper in the tilt position and a tightly sealed picture window when closed.
With the System 4500 design, tilt-turn, awning, hopper and fixed configurations are possible. Matching doors in a variety of configurations are available.
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