Posted by: Hashim Nauman
The National Library auditorium in Islamabad was the venue for the “World Music Day Concert” organized by CityFm89. What follows is a review of how things shaped up and should have shaped up but didn’t shape up due to certain psychotic fiasco’s on part of the people managing and the people playing. First things first, as one of the performers “Zujj” correctly pointed out before the show even started “.. The management has gotten the demography wrong”.. reason being the invitation cards. Apparently you could only utilize the pass if either:-
a) You were a couple.
b) You were two girls.
So there is an event which features relatively underground acts ( I hate the term but it is what was commonly used so I will do exactly that)… and you can only go in if you either have a “girl”.. (as required by the management.. I swear..) Now as derogatory to the female population as it sounds, it indeed was the case and it indeed is a case at relatively all the concerts which are well, concerts and to me, it makes no sense at all. If there is a concert, instead of relying on the gender derogatory management rule, what can be done is to properly scrutinize the entrants and if there was an incident in which some hormonally imbalanced people got out of their safe zone, security could simply throw them outside.
That was a starting opinion, now on to the exact concert itself. It featured very diverse acts ranging from Zujj to Natasha Ejaz (Brilliant songwriter/singer) who was playing for the first time with a complete band (She is critically acclaimed for her solo acoustic performances), the Islamabad Heavy metal act Saturn and another classically trained vocalist who went by the name of Shan Khan. There was also another band by the name of “Alag The band” who will get a separate exclusive part in this review (Owing to their extremely versatile rock star persona’s, and arrogant rude behavior).
What startled me the most during the initial sound check proceedings was the sheer epiphany that it is very evident that a sound check scheduled for a 5 pm kick off will always manage to start off a couple of hours later but here’s the best part worth a million laughs, the other bands “had no bass guitar”…Yes, the Rock stars HAD NO BASS GUITAR... Here’s the part where all of you can say ” Hein WHAAAAT?”… But let’s leave that part even though I am still “HEIN WHAT-ofying”… The gruesome procedure of the bands sound checking did manage to be done but since the invitation said 6pm, people had already started to come in so the bands were technically “checking their sound check in front of a live audience”…
The concert kicked off with “Alag the band” which technically means “Unique” in urdu, but the only thing unique about them in my humble opinion was how they weren’t unique at all. Just your run of the mill people who think that making original songs on the underlining Roxen/Jal/Every other urdu dipsy pop act is “Cool” and wearing “chains and lockets” makes them a Rock Star. Their Rock star element failed to blossom on stage and all they delivered was an average set which had worse crescendos than Atif Aslam on a bad day (yes that bad)…
Following the rather unique act was Natasha Ejaz, accompanied by her live band which had Parham Faraid (The guitar player of Iranian descent, an amazing friend and someone who has played with the likes of Zeejah and Silversmoke and is a full-time band member of Sketch) playing the bass, Ahmed Ali (The immensely talented ex-vocalist of the ex-brilliant now no more band Nafs, stage play star and the new face of the Ufone family) alternating between the bass and the acoustic guitar, Asfandyar Ahmed (Drummer par excellence who has played with almost everyone from the Islamabad circuit and has an immense amount of concerts to his name) and last but not the least the extremely talented musician from France, Mickael Bon who was playing the keyboard and the acoustic guitar on a few songs.
The set list included a few originals and a few covers. Natasha along with her extremely talented band played a set list that consisted of original songs which went by the name of “Kahan”, “show me the mirror” and “Ankho ko Ankho nay”.. along with a Coldplay cover medley of the songs “Fix you” and “viva la vida (which was performed with a slightly up-tempo rather unique and refreshing arrangement) and a song which went by the name of “Fight for your right”. Her set was the high-light of the show and was very well received by a majority of the crowd present, the minority being the usual “lamers” who have nothing better to do than to hurl abuses at people who take music very seriously and practice all day to put up a good show.
This is the part where Alag the band gets a special mention, apparently one of their mail groupies had the nerve to abuse not only Natasha but also her friends present in the crowd as a reaction of which there was a minor tussle between the lamers and the good people who were only trying to tell the lamers that using the word “Fuck” in a concert is NOT cool and does NOT impraas any gaalz… But Natasha and the band held their nerve and completed their song. Kudos people Kudos.
Following Natasha was Shan Khan who belted out a few covers which were very well sung and got the crowd on their feet. Talent was plenty in that person as Salman Zaidi of the band Saturn said after his first song ” Dude, Dude, DUDE.. (He might not have EXACTLY said these words but the dept of the connotation was pretty much that.)”.
Saturn followed Shan Khan and by this time, mentally as well as physically each and every person waiting for their turn was exhausted but Saturn put up a very decent show and played an original and a few covers (One of which was the Baby national anthem of Pakistan, Dil Dil Pakistan)… Which was I guess the “surprise cover” most of them were talking about. Saturn’s drummer Shahbaz did an amazing job on the drum kit so hats off to you man.
Zujj was to end the show and by the time he got on stage, as it was late and well the crowd wasn’t really the sort who would listen to System of a down or other linked musical acts, the hall was half empty. Due to the torment of not having a drummer to play with and no bass guitar (Due to Asfandyar’s other commitments and the bass required at an adjacent concert venue), Zujj with his band that consisted of Parham Faraid, Zain Ali (Deframed fame and awesome musician) and the bassist without a bass, Saahil decided to go unplugged and sang 2 of his original songs that were to be featured on an upcoming Bollywood film and ended the set with his ever famous “phoonk lay” which is quite quickly becoming a crowd favorite.
Being someone who has had the pleasure of being to amazing concerts and some not so amazing ones, this concert just didn’t cut the cake as it should have done, Natasha Ejaz as I mentioned earlier was the highlight of the show. The sound was “Okay” and the lighting was “annoying” but commendable efforts put in my Cityfm89.
Football was being played in the parking lot and there were CityFm89 finger gloves all over the place and that was something I HAD to mention because today was the first time I ever bought something at a concert… *thumbs up*
Apologies for not taking ample pictures and the two used were the only ones that came out good.


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Pankkara Larrea is a wedding and family photographer who lives with her husband and two Yorkshire terriers in Bolivia. She recorded her postcard on 2 July.
Pankkara revels in the joy and love that comes with photographing big life events so the shift to lockdown, curtailing of work, and sudden sharing of her home workspace, was significant.
In this postcard she talks about how her vigorous pace of creative activity hasn’t let up and why she believes there’s no going back to an old normal.
Pankkara’s website: https://www.pklfotografia.com
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October 10, 2013
Following the footsteps of McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King, SUBWAY® has announced the launch of a cloud based mobile wallet app. The mobile wallet app provides mobile payments, loyalty capabilities and offers to its customers. SUBWAY® has chosen Paydiant to roll out this app. The users of this app will not be aware that Paydiant is involved in the process as they will mostly see SUBWAY’s messaging and branding.
Chris Gardner, Co-Founder, Paydiant said We don’t’ compete with the Google's and PayPal's of the world, we believe big brands will want their own apps, payments and wallets.
Paydiant offers a cloud based white label mobile wallet. Through the mobile wallet, Paydiant offers payment solutions that enables retailers, banks and processors to launch a branded contactless mobile wallet and payment platform without the need for middlemen.
Carman Wenkoff, SUBWAY’s Chief Information Officer said Paydiant offers a platform that makes the most sense for our customers and franchisees. Their mobile capabilities will be a key factor towards providing our customers with innovative services and an exceptional experience.' The mobile wallet app is set to be rolled out later this year according to a press release by Paydiant.
SUBWAY® however is not the first restaurant chain to enter this space. Burger King introduced a mobile payment service for its fast food chain in 2012 with Firethorn Mobile Inc. In April 2013, KFC partnered with Airtag to power their mobile app. Recently McDonald’s also began testing mobile payments with ISIS.
LTP View: Mobile payments could increase the revenue due to the high volume of repeat customers at SUBWAY® outlets. The order ahead facility could see faster sales and fewer queues by allowing customers to build their own subs and pay before entering the outlet. SUBWAY’s mobile wallet can also provide an opportunity to attract customer loyalty, which could drive increased spending.

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OTTAWA, ON, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Canada Border Services Agency
The Government of Canada is committed to keeping illicit firearms from crossing our border and entering our communities. Today, the government announced that it is taking another step forward by asking the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to lead efforts to create a joint Canada–United States (US) cross-border task force to address gun smuggling and trafficking.
This announcement marks the first steps to deliver on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden’s commitment to explore the creation of a cross-border task force. The new task force will ensure that law enforcement partners on both sides of the border benefit from shared intelligence, information, and partnerships, so that they can detect and intercept the illegal movement of firearms at the border.
To kickstart the task force, the CBSA has had initial discussions with partners to outline the scope and structure of the task force. The CBSA will leverage its strong working relationships with both Canadian and US partners, including the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Public Safety Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and various Canadian police forces.
This announcement is the latest in a number of firearms-related initiatives that the CBSA has prioritized over the past 18 months. In early 2020, the CBSA’s Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Region established the Firearms Interdiction Team (FIT), which verifies all commercially imported firearms in the GTA to ensure that only legitimate and authorized firearms and parts enter Canada. The team’s activities have resulted in several significant seizures that have disrupted dangerous criminal networks, and kept our communities safer.
Together with its US partners, the Government of Canada remains committed to tackling illegal cross-border travel and trade, while ensuring that the movement of essential workers and goods continues unimpeded. The CBSA’s efforts to launch this task force, as well as its ongoing work to address firearms smuggling, contribute to the safety of both Canada and the US.
The CBSA will share information and next steps as they become available.
“This new task force will deal with gun smuggling on both sides of our border. It will further use the skills and expertise of law enforcement to keep our communities safe. Our partnership with the United States and the sharing of information will be key to our success in keeping illegal guns out of Canada.”
- The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Security and Emergency Preparedness
- Weapons, including firearms and firearms parts, are high-risk commodities and their interdiction is a top CBSA enforcement priority.
- The CBSA and its domestic and international law enforcement partners work together to prevent illicit firearms and weapons from reaching our communities.
- If you have information about suspicious cross-border activity, please contact the CBSA Border Watch Toll free Line at 1-888-502-9060.
- Travellers are encouraged to leave their firearms at home when seeking entry to Canada. However, travellers with firearms must declare them to the CBSA officer at the first opportunity and meet import regulations.
- Travellers who do not declare their firearms upon arrival can face arrest, seizure, monetary penalties, and criminal prosecution. Failing to declare firearms can also make visitors inadmissible to enter Canada.
- The Government of Canada recently announced Bill C-21, which proposes new firearms measures to combat crime and increase public safety. These measures are part of a broader firearms strategy to increase public safety and build upon previous legislation and policies already in place. This includes the ban on assault-style firearms, significant funding to provinces and territories to combat gun and gang violence, and investments in border security to tackle firearms smuggling.
- CBSA seizure statistics
- CBSA investigation into alleged smuggling leads to 27 charges
- Law enforcement partners dismantle alleged cross border smuggling organization
SOURCE Canada Border Services Agency

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National Show: Crossing Borders
Pictured: Robert Ortiz, "Una De Muchas," photography, 27x21"
The Copley Society of Art is proud to present this year's National Show: Crossing Borders featuring artists from across the United States. Artworks in the exhibition explore how art assists people in seeing the world through multiple perspectives, celebrating diverse visual representations, and embracing the power of discovery.
This exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, July 14th from 4PM - 6PM at the Co|So Gallery, located at 158 Newbury Street in Boston, and continues through AugustView more
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Early Dismissal Clay Owl Program
Kids! If you are in grade 2-6 you can join us on Early Dismissal from 2:45-3:30 with Clay Owl Studio & Boutique to paint your very own clay monster!
Pieces will be fired afterwards at Clay Owl Studio and can be picked up there.
Registration is $15 per child
- Feb 19 2020
- 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
- Winkler Arts + Culture
- 547 Park Street
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This piece was co-authored with nutritionist Jonny Bowden.
To say that our global food supply has undergone major degradations in the past few centuries is an understatement. Our great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize many of the foods we find today in a typical supermarket, including some items in the produce aisle.
But one constant in the way we eat hasn’t changed much ever since early foodies figured out that a hunk of meat tastes way better if you season it before you throw it on the fire. And that’s the use of spices.
Herbs and spices don’t just punch up the flavor; they also boost health and fight accelerated aging. In addition to making your food scrumptious, most spices are high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories — an overlooked and underappreciated weapon in the war against chronic diseases.
Many legendary benefits are linked to certain herbs and spices. Some of them may be tall tales — like vampire-repelling garlic — but there is no doubt that even in this era of Big Food, the integrity of pure herbs and spices remains fairly unchanged. These plant foods hold tremendous value as an untapped source of disease prevention and overall well-being.
In our new book, Smart Fat, we share some of our favorite flavors, which we encourage you to use liberally to enliven your meals:

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The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, known as ARL, is one of seven organizations that make up the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. It is based on the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and evaluated in 2013 the quality of friction stir welds independently to ensure that Army requirements are met regarding ballistic protection level, corrosion resistance and weldability.
The military specifications contain minimum acceptance values for ballistics, mechanical and chemical properties for different plate thicknesses of armour-plates. The analysis has resulted in a significant protective benefit as aluminium alloy AA 7017 has demonstrated a reduction in spallation compared with the legacy AA7039. An armor plate must not only arrest the projectile, but mitigate the kinetic energy before it fatally compromises a protected asset.
The Army Materiel Command's top civilian John B. Nerger, Executive Deputy to the Commanding General of the Army Material Command, was shown the FSW machine at the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center on 14 December 2012.
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RIA-JMTC Commander, Col. James O. Fly, demonstrates the flatness of FSWed plates to the Department of Army Inspector General, Lt. Gen. Peter M. Vangjel, during a visit to the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center on 31 January 2013.
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OSD funds are used to test and evaluate mature technologies or products that the U.S. Army wants to procure. Since 1980, the mission of the U.S. Army Foreign Comparative Testing Program (FCT) has been to find and evaluate "here and now" solutions to meet operational needs regardless of the origin of that technology.
When a projectile strikes the front of the plate, it sends a compressive wave through the plate. The compressive wave hits the back surface of the plate and it reflects as a tensile wave. If the tensile stresses developed by the wave are higher than the tensile strength of the material, a large piece of a material, bigger than the caliber of the projectile, breaks off. Even though the projectile stopped in the plate, a piece of material with residual energy capable of causing damage flies off the back in a process called spalling or spallation.
The weldability of aluminium alloys is vital for achieving the ballistic performance of lightweight military vehicles, because many of the features of an alloy's chemistry and heat treatment that lead to improved strength and ballistic protection typically degrade the weldability. The friction stir welds experience severe stresses that are magnified during a ballistic impact or blast event and need to handle much more than welds do in the everyday world.
The aluminum alloys validated by ARL can be applied to all types of vehicles, depending on the actual needs. These include mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, commonly known as MRAPs, Humvees, and lightweight armored vehicles such as personnel carriers and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
A state-of-the-art friction stir welding machine was installed at Rock Island in 2012, to be used for military applications in collaboration with H.F. Webster.
The U.S. Army and General Dynamics Land Systems installed a large gantry style FSW machine at their Joint Systems Manufacturing Facility (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio, to fabricate military vehicle demonstration structures of aluminum, which were designed with multiple butt and corner joint weld geometries. The experimental work focused on developing production-level, single-pass FSW parameters for thicknesses ranging from 12.7 to 40.6 mm (0.5-1.6 inches) in aluminum alloys 5083, 5059 and 2139.
President Donald Trump inspects innovative military vehicles at JSMC in Lima, Ohio
Friction Stir Welded Hull Prototype Designed by the Ground Vehicle Systems Center and Fabricated by Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC) has received a contract on making and testing a “Friction Stir Welded Hull Manufacturing Prototype” and will collaborate from September 2017 to September 2022 with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), Warren, Michigan on conducting fatigue, ballistic, and other qualification tests on friction stir welds. CTC has a bespoke friction stir welding machine that provides 8 m (26 feet) in the longitudinal x-direction and 4 m (13 feet) in the vertical z-direction. It can weld high-strength 2000-series aluminum plate, up to 82.5 mm (3¼-inches) thick, in a single pass.


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These impressive demonstrations of the self-healing coating and durability of LG’s G Flex smartphone with a curved display will probably make you as sad as we were to find out it’s only being released in South Korea for now.
If the Moto X is a top-tier phone with a mid-range price, the Moto G is a mid-range phone with an entry-level price. It has a 4.5″ 720p screen, a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 5mp rear camera. It will go for just $179-$199 unlocked.
Google cuts out the middleman and the mid-range smartphone tier with the new Nexus 5. It has a 5″ 1080p screen, LTE, a quad-core 2.26GHz Snapdragon 800 CPU, 2GB RAM, 8mp camera and runs on the new Android 4.4 KitKat.
Everyday objects can become a lot more interesting when observed at the microscopic level. Why not give this project by kmyoshino a try and turn your smartphone into a digital microscope with materials costing just $10.
A super-sized version of the HTC One, the HTC One Max has a huge 5.9″ 1080p screen and a fingerprint sensor at the back for unlocking the phone. It still has the same CPU, RAM, UltraPixel camera, stereo speakers and aluminum body.
The iPhone 5C has a glossy polycarbonate case that comes in five colors: green, blue, yellow, pink and white. It has the same specs as the iPhone 5, except it has a slightly larger battery, an improved LTE antenna and Facetime camera.
The 5S comes in slate, silver or champagne tinged aluminum, bests the iPhone 5 with a 64-bit A7 processor, 2x CPU/GPU speed, 15% larger image sensor, multi-hue LED flash, 120fps slow-mo video, and fingerprint authentication.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a 5.7″ 1080p AMOLED screen, a 13mp rear camera, either a 2.3GHz quad-core or hybrid octa-core (1.9GHz quad + 1.3GHz quad) CPU, 3GB RAM and new features that makes its stylus even more useful.
A small button that plugs into the headphone jack of your Android device. Use the Pressy app to set a variety of actions like taking pictures or changing a setting that you trigger by pressing Pressy once or twice.
The Omate is a wristwatch and smartphone that’s significantly cheaper than its majorcompetitors. It runs Android 4.2, has a dual core CPU and 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The Omate is also waterproof and dustproof.
The LG G2 runs Android 4.2.2 and has a 5.2″ 1080p screen, a 2.26GHz Snapdragon 800, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, 13mp rear camera and LTE. Software features include a guest mode and an “audio zoom” option when recording video.
The Motorola Moto X runs Android 4.2.2 and has a 1.2 GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB RAM, 16/32GB storage, 4.7″ 720p screen, 10mp rear camera and LTE connectivity. Its back plate and accents come in a variety of colors.
A cutting edge smartphone that will run on the new Ubuntu for Phones operating system: it has a mobile interface, but if you dock the phone you’ll get to use the full Ubuntu desktop OS. Software overview video here.
An enticing midrange phone, the Lumia 625 is a Windows Phone 8 device with a 4.7″ screen, 4G connectivity, 5mp camera and LED flash. It also comes with unlimited ad-free streaming on Nokia Music. Available Q3 2013 for about $290.
The Lumia 1020 has a 41-megapixel camera sensor and a Xenon flash. Its version of Windows Phone 8 comes with a special camera app that lets you adjust focus, shutter speed, white balance and more. Demo here.
Sony revives the phablet wars with the Xperia Z Ultra. If nothing else, this Android phone is a marvel of engineering: a 6.4″ 1080p screen in a 6.5mm thin body (the iPhone 5 is 7.6mm thin). It’s also waterproof with LTE and NFC support.
A Verizon exclusive, the Lumia 928 Windows phone is for people who love shooting videos and photos. Has an 8.7mp camera, xenon flash and image editing features. It also has a 4.5″ 1280 x 768 screen, NFC and wireless charging.
The LG Optimus G Pro has a 5.5″ 1080p screen, 1.7GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB RAM and 13mp camera. Features include dual video recording, multitasking via widgets and universal remote control. An AT&T exclusive for now.


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How to Select a Reliable Bankruptcy Trustee in Edmonton
If you are unable to meet your loan repayment obligations, you should consider filing for bankruptcy. The process of looking for a competent bankruptcy trustee can, however, be hard for some individuals. This is because there are quite a few bankruptcy trustees in Edmonton. You should, therefore, ask about the competency of the selected bankruptcy trustee before you decide to hire this service. This will allow you to use the most rated bankruptcy trustee in this city. You can also land the best bankruptcy trustee in Edmonton hiring recommendations from friends. This is because selecting the wrong bankruptcy trustee can cost you a lot of money. Make sure to also perform background checks on different bankruptcy trustees available in Edmonton during the decision process. This post will outline some tips to enable you to select the most reliable bankruptcy trustee in Edmonton.
First, consider the eligibility of the selected bankruptcy trustee. You should use a bankruptcy trustee that is fully certified to operate in this city. If the chosen bankruptcy trustee is unable to show their certification, you should consider using another bankruptcy trustee. You can discover more about the certification of the selected bankruptcy trustee by going through their track record. It is also critical to consider the experience of the chosen bankruptcy trustee. You should use a bankruptcy trustee that has been in the market for a long time. You should avoid hiring the services of any bankruptcy trustee that has just established their operations. A good way to make sure that you hire the most experienced bankruptcy trustee in this city is to reach out to their references.
Secondly, put the bankruptcy trustee’s reliability in mind when making your selection. You should choose a bankruptcy trustee with an excellent reputation in Edmonton. You can make sure that you select the most reputable bankruptcy trustee in Edmonton by assessing their online rating. This will help you to understand the advantages and disadvantages of hiring the selected bankruptcy trustee. You should base your selection of a bankruptcy trustee in Edmonton on the opinions of their past clients. It is also critical to hire the bankruptcy trustee with most positive reviews in Edmonton.
The pricing structure of the chosen bankruptcy trustee is the last thing to consider. It is critical to assess the pricing of every bankruptcy trustee available in Edmonton during the decision process. You can discover more about the cost of working with a particular bankruptcy trustee by assessing their official site. It is, however, critical to note that when you are looking to hire the most reliable bankruptcy trustee in Edmonton, their pricing should not be your only consideration.


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Best transit method is Train. The distance is 8.32 Kilometre, costing around JPY 190. The duration of the trip is 16 minutes.Public Transport : Train
Suggested transit method is Train. The distance between the points being 8.79 Kilometre, the time taken for the journey is 17 minutes. The expense of the trip is JPY 200.Public Transport : Subway
The most preferred mode of transport is Subway. The transit will take around 32 minutes, covering a distance of 15.91 Kilometre. The trip will cost you roughly JPY 250.Taxi
Take a Taxi. The total distance will be 13.89 Kilometre costing JPY 6500 and the duration of the trip will be 17 minutes.Car
It is recommended to take Car which will cost you roughly USD 2, taking around 17 minutes. The distance between the two points is 13.89 Kilometre.
Take a Train taking you to Tokyo. The journey will take around 19 minutes. The trip will cost you roughly JPY 220. From Tokyo you can move to Kaihimmakuhari by taking the Train. The duration will be 36 minutes. The transit will cost you JPY 650. The total distance is 41.61 Kilometre.Taxi
It is recommended to take Taxi which will cost you roughly JPY 18000, taking around 28 minutes. The distance between the two points is 39.35 Kilometre.Car
Best transit method is Car. The distance is 39.35 Kilometre, costing around USD 5. The duration of the trip is 28 minutes.
Best transit method is Subway. The distance is 11.38 Kilometre, costing around JPY 220. The duration of the trip is 22 minutes.Taxi
Suggested transit method is Taxi. The distance between the points being 9.47 Kilometre, the time taken for the journey is 9 minutes. The expense of the trip is JPY 4700.Walk
It is recommended to walk. The distance is around 8.34 Kilometre and it will take around 100 minutes to reach the place on foot.

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(CMR) Cayman Marl's Road's sources in Jamaica have indicated that the police commissioner, Derek Byrne, recently made two separate flights to Jamaica using the only available public helicopter on the island.
Our sources shared that the helicopter remained in Jamaica until he was finished with his events and brought him back shortly after.
We understand that he traveled on Saturday, April 13th for the funeral of his colleague's daughter in Kingston. First travelling to Mobay and then onto Up-Park Camp in Kingston, Jamaica. Up-Park Camp was the headquarters of the British Army in Jamaica until 1962. Since then the Jamaica Defence Force has used it as its headquarters. It is located in the heart of Kingston and has a heliport there.
The second trip was made last weekend to accept the 2018 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director's International Achievement Reward in Kingston on Friday, April 28. The ceremony was held at the US Embassy.
According to the RCIP's press release “the award recognizes outstanding leadership, excellence, commitment to the highest standards of ethical conduct, integrity and civic and social responsibility. Commissioner Byrne's contributions to the success of collaborative regional enforcement operations with ICE were among the achievements mentioned in his nomination and selection for the award.”
As CMR began contacting officials today regarding the usage of the helicopter; concerns mounted about the necessity to use the helicopter for business travel to Jamaica given the readily available flight schedule of Cayman Airways to Jamaica. Further, there are concerns that if the helicopter was needed for an emergency rescue or some other official police business it would not have been available.
Recently the Legislative Assembly approved almost $2 million dollars for the operation of second helicopter. The additional appropriation was approved on Wednesday, April 3; after a second replacement helicopter was rushed to the Cayman Islands. The RCIPS sole helicopter was damaged in late February and the governor arranged to have a second helicopter expedited within one month; in time for the recent royal visit.
Shortly after the story broke the public outcry was immense on social media.


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We are glad to announce that "Outdoor Adventure Management" is organizing “Trek to Visapur” on 15th June 2014 in the Lonavla region.
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Visapur was built during 1713-1720 CE by Balaji Vishwanath, the first Peshwa of Maratha Empire. Visapur fort was built much later than Lohagad but the histories of the two forts are closely linked. Visapur Fort is larger and at a higher elevation than its twin fort- Lohagad. Within the fort are caves, cisterns of water, a decorated arch and old houses. The ruins of a large stone-built house are known as the Peshwa's palace. In addition to a huge carving of Hanuman, there are also several temple dedicated to him scattered all over the place. Hanuman (or Maruti) was likely the patron deity of Visapur fort. There is a well which local legend says was built by the Pandavas. In 1885, near the north wall there was an iron gun ten feet long and of four-inch bore, marked with the Tudor Rose and Crown, flanked by the letters E. R. This is probably a gun of Queen Elizabeth's reign probably taken as bounty from an English ship and presented to the Peshwa by Kanhoji Angre or some other commander of the Maratha navy.
It’s a one day trek but just to enjoy more and to be able to spend good time on top and rest we’ll start traveling in night of 14th so we can start trekking early in the morning.
We will be travelling by a private bus which will start from Borivali. Travel route is as follows :
Borivali- 10.15 pm (Chamunda Circle) | Bandra - 11 pm (Kalanagar bus stop) |
Sion- 11:15 pm (Lunch home) | Vashi – 11.45 pm (Shivneri bus stop, under vashi bridge) |
We'll start trekking at 7:00 am on 15th June & we’ll start our journey back to Mumbai at 4:00pm on Sunday and reach Mumbai at around 9.30 pm.
The following are the details of the trek.
Date---------- Sunday, 15th June
Fort Height : Visapur – 3550 ft ASL
Difficulty Level— Easy
Time taken to ascend ---- 1.5 - 2 Hrs
Expenses---- Rs 850 per head
Things to Carry :
1. Lunch & Water (Mandatory).
2. Good footwear= SHOES (Mandatory)
3. Extra pair of clothes, Towels & Napkins (Mandatory).
4. Windcheater (Mandatory)
5. Slippers or floaters (just to relax your feet before & after the trek) (optional)
6. Personal small medical kit. (If u require usually/Optional)
7. Electral/Tang powder.
8. Cap / Gog. (Optional)
9. Other things as per your choice.(Camera, Binocs, etc.)
10. Haversack to put all these things.
**In case you guys are carrying Digi-cam or Cell phone carry enough stock of small poly thin bags, to protect it from moisture.
But no plastic littering on the way or in mountains
P.S.: Please don’t wear floaters or slippers during hiking & STRICTLY wear good shoes or footwear; it’s for your own safety. Carry and wear two pairs of socks to avoid blisters.
For More Details Contact
Sachin Mayekar (0-9769565455)
Rashmi Satam (0-9967353229) (Borivali)
Kunal Bele (0- 9892096723) (Sion)
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Just a quick little update on my current reads. I know, it has been ten dog years since the last time I posted a book review and I am ashamed. This however does not mean I have neglected my favorite pastime. In fact, I have been reading and listening to audio books more than ever. The Superman told me he was going to cancel his Audible account about four months ago. He said this because he never uses it. I was like, fine wha'ever, I have my own. Turns out he didn't do it and there were four credits just sitting there calling for me to use. I obliged, of course. So here you have it. The list of books I could potentially be reviewing in the next week or two.
"Austenland," by Shannon Hale
"Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
"Alice I Have Been," by Melanie Benjamin
"Fly Away Home," by Jennifer Weiner
"Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict," by Laurie Viera Rigler
"If I Stay," by Gayle Forman
I also have about five more yet to be read. Seriously, most people dread being put on baby bed rest, but I am seriously crossing my fingers it will happen to me because what could be better than lounging, blogging, and reading books all day long? I can't imagine, maybe Creme Brulee in bed? Doubt it.

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Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima
Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima by Leslie Sussan ’73 recounts the experiences of the author’s father, who served on the Strategic Bombing Survey film crew that recorded the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Appalled by what he saw, Herbert Sussan spent decades arguing for the release of the footage, classified top secret by the U.S. government. Drawn from an oral history he left behind and interviews with survivors, this book captures the legacy of the atomic bombing through decades and generations. (BookBaby, 2020)
Leslie A. Sussan was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Georgetown Law School. Over a long career as an attorney, she litigated for the U.S. Department of Justice, represented migrant farmworkers and abused children, and has now served for 14 years as an administrative appellate judge for the federal government.

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text: In 1960, James Ivory visited Afghanistan to make a documentary he vaguely conceived as a pendant to a film on New Delhi he’d shot just before. While the latter would eventually be finished (The Delhi Way, 1964), his Afghanistan material remained untouched – until now, when Ivory used it as the backbone for A Cooler Climate (2022). More of an essay on history, memory and the vanities of civilisation-building than an exercise in autobiographical musings, it is perfectly in line with some of his greatest works, ranging from Savages (1972) and Heat and Dust (1983) to Jefferson in Paris (1995). Then again, it is marvellous how he develops a perspective on his own life through the prism of Bābur, founder of the Mughal Empire, and his autobiography, Bāburnāma, which Ivory considers one of the earliest texts on gay desire. The connection he makes at the end with en passant nods to Marcel Proust and Edward Morgan Forster is stunning: Bābur conquered the world but died emotionally unfulfilled – whereas Ivory and his lifelong companion, Ismail Merchant, had taken world cinema by storm and enjoyed a life of gay passions. And maybe that is all one needs to know – everything else is in his films, including Autobiography of a Princess (1975) the blueprint for A Cooler Climate.


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Oil giants ExxonMobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) have accounted for about a third of the Dow’s point losses this month, with Exxon stock falling in 20 of the past 21 trading sessions. However, Raymond James energy analyst Pavel Molchanov thinks things will soon turn around for the two energy stocks thanks to the falling price of oil.
“We think there is quite a bit of downside to oil,” he said. “And in the context of a falling oil price, it is precisely these kinds of high-quality defensive energy stocks that tend to outperform.”
That means holding on to Exxon and Chevron if you own them, and buying them on any weakness, he added.
Right now, Molchanov said the names are suffering, in part, because of the recent bull market.
“They are simply not in favor in the context of a bull market, where investors generally want something more growth, higher beta, more speculative.”
The compressed spread between Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI,) which hasn’t helped Exxon’s and Chevron’s refining businesses, is also a factor, he noted.
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While Molchanov believes there are still opportunities in smaller-cap, higher-beta names that have done well over the past six months, he believes Exxon and Chevron are the place to be if oil prices slide.
“If oil prices do weaken into next year, and … [the] supply-demand analysis we`ve done tells us that, these stocks should do relatively better than most of the smaller, higher-beta energy stocks,” he said.
So how low can oil prices go?
By the end of the year, Molchanov expects WTI to hit the low- to mid-90s, a drop of about 10 percent. By next year, he thinks it could potentially drop into the 70s.
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Crysto Panda’s music has turned out to become a major vibe amongst the youth with catchy choruses, trending dance moves and he does the same on the remix of “Kyoyina Omanya” where he features Sheebah Karungi.
The past period of over a month has been one that Crysto Panda will certainly never forget in his life. A baby born and lost and a super collabo featuring Sheebah Karungi – all within the same month.
The sorrow must be put to the past where it belongs and Crysto Panda knows how best to do that as he releases the visuals of the remix of his banger titled ‘Kyoyina Omanya’ on which he features Sheebah.
Sheebah has been a kingmaker of sorts as most of the rookies she has made collabos with have somehow made names for themselves in the industry including Beenie Gunter and Ykee Benda.
She jumped onto the remix of Panda’s “Kyoyina Omanya” and she added the vibe to the song that was already gaining momentum on most playlists. It can only get better from here with the colorful visuals that were released on Monday night.
The song was produced by Artin Pro and the video was directed by Aaronaire. The styling was done by Dastun and Samali, makeup by Kamara and the choreography by H2C Dance Group and Smash Dance Crew.
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- Received March 13, 2009
- Revision received May 6, 2009
- Accepted May 25, 2009
- Published online September 8, 2009.
- Daniela Poli, MD⁎,†,⁎ (, )
- Emilia Antonucci, MS⁎,†,
- Elisa Grifoni, MD⁎,†,
- Rosanna Abbate, MD⁎,†,
- Gian Franco Gensini, MD⁎,†,‡ and
- Domenico Prisco, MD⁎,†
- ↵⁎Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Daniela Poli, Centro di Riferimento Regionale per la Trombosi, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi, V.le Morgagni 85-50134 Firenze, Italy
Objectives We sought to evaluate the rate of bleeding in relation to age (<80 and ≥80 years), the quality of anticoagulation (expressed as time spent in international normalized ratio therapeutic range), and factors associated with bleeding events.
Background Stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is an increasingly crucial public health target, particularly in patients ages ≥80 years.
Methods We conducted a prospective observational study on 783 patients with AF on oral anticoagulant treatment (OAT).
Results Patients spent a median 14%, 71%, and 15% of time below, within, and above the intended therapeutic range, respectively. No difference in OAT quality was found between patients age <80 and ≥80 years. During follow-up, 94 patients experienced bleeding complications (rate 3.7 × 100 patient/years), 37 major (rate 1.4 × 100 patient/years), and 57 minor (rate 2.2 × 100 patient/years). Different rates of major hemorrhage were observed between patients age <80 and ≥80 years (0.9 vs. 1.9 × 100 patient/years; p = 0.004). Bleeding risk also was greater in patients with a history of previous cerebral ischemic event (odds ratio [OR]: 2.5; 95% confidence interval: 1.3 to 4.8; p = 0.007). A Cox regression analysis confirmed age ≥80 years associated with bleeding risk (OR: 2.0).
Conclusions These results indicate that the rate of major bleeding complications may be kept acceptably low also in very elderly AF patients on OAT, provided a careful management of anticoagulation is obtained.
The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases with age, and increasing numbers of elderly patients are candidates for and could benefit from the use of anticoagulants. This trend is expected to increase in the future (1); therefore, there is a need for reliable information on the bleeding risk of elderly patients. The quantification of bleeding risk and the identification of modifiable factors are crucial for management decisions. The bleeding risk of elderly patients administered oral anticoagulant treatment (OAT) was studied by several authors (1–4). However, data remain scarce on very old patients (i.e., those age ≥80 years). We conducted a prospective observational study on patients with AF receiving OAT that were followed by our anticoagulation clinic to evaluate the following: 1) the rate of bleeding in relation to age <80 and ≥80 years; 2) the quality of anticoagulation; and 3) factors associated with bleeding events.
From June 1998 to December 2007, we prospectively investigated 783 consecutive nonvalvular AF patients referred for OAT management to our anticoagulation clinic. All were outpatients and were enrolled at the beginning of OAT, mainly after hospital discharge and after giving informed consent. All patients were treated with warfarin, and the international normalized ratio (INR) was maintained at the intended therapeutic range of 2 to 3. At each follow-up visit, OAT was monitored by pro-thrombin time expressed as INR, which was determined by the use of a capillary blood test (Thrombotest, Nycomed Pharma AS, Oslo, Norway).
Dose adjustment was performed by a physician by the use of a computer-assisted prescription system (PARMA Instrumentation Laboratory SPA, Milan, Italy) (5). Date of starting OAT and dates of all visits were recorded. We calculated patient/years by our patient database. Time of observation was calculated on consecutive periods of observation. When a patient left the center for >2 months, this interval was excluded from the analysis, and adverse events that eventually occurred during this period were not included in the analysis. For the calculation of time in range, the Rosendaal method was used (6).
Patients' demographic and clinical data were collected. The presence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors and other characteristics associated with ischemic complications in AF were assessed on the basis of patients' interview, echocardiography results, and hospital records. Patients were classified as hypertensive if they had a history of hypertension and were taking antihypertensive treatment. Diabetes was defined according to American Diabetes Association criteria (7). Coronary artery disease was defined on the basis of a history of myocardial infarction or stable and unstable angina. Left ventricular dysfunction was defined as a recent diagnosis of congestive heart failure or a fractional shortening <25% by transthoracic echocardiography (8). History of previous gastrointestinal or cerebral bleeding events, thrombocytopenia, and malignancy was recorded.
Follow-up visits were scheduled every 2 to 4 weeks for INR monitoring. Hospital admissions, concomitant therapies, intercurrent illnesses, bleeding, and thrombotic events during follow-up were recorded. Patients who missed check-ups for >2 months were contacted (personally or through their family or general practitioner) and the reason for interrupting treatment monitoring was recorded. In the case of death, further information about its cause was requested. When this information was lacking, national register of causes of death and autopsy results (if available) were consulted. The use of aspirin in association to OAT was limited to patients with a recent episode of acute coronary syndrome or when they had recurrent episodes. Patients were instructed to avoid the use of aspirin and were routinely asked for occasional or chronic use of aspirin and recorded on electronic files.
Data were censored after the occurrence of transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke, major bleeding, after the cessation of OAT or when the patient stopped being monitored by our center. Stroke, TIA, and bleeding events were defined as previously described (9). When an ischemic or bleeding event occurred, the INR related to the event was recorded. The INR was defined as temporally related to the adverse event when it was obtained at the time of the event or during the preceding 8 days. No patient was receiving hormone-replacement therapy. We classified our patients for stroke risk by CHADS2(congestive heart failure, age, diabetes, previous stroke score) (10).
Incidence rates for ischemic and bleeding events were calculated as the number of events per 100 patient/years of observation. The SPSS statistical software package (software for Windows, version 11.5, Statistical Package for Social Sciences, Chicago, Illinois) was used for data processing. Data are expressed as median and range as the result of to their skewed distribution. Preliminary statistics was performed by the use of the Wilcoxon signed rank test. Statistical analysis was performed by use of the Fisher exact test (categorical data), and a p value <0.05 was chosen for statistical significance.
A univariate analysis and a Cox regression analysis were used to ascertain which factors were significantly associated with the risk of bleeding during follow-up. All odds ratios (ORs) are given with their 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and a 2-sided value of p < 0.05 was chosen for statistical significance.
We performed a prospective study on 783 AF patients (507 men) for a total follow-up period of 2,567 patient/years. The characteristics of patients are listed in Table 1.At enrollment the patients' median age was 75 years (range 37 to 94 years) and 180 patients were age ≥80 years. During follow-up, 147 patients became age >80 years. The overall exposure to warfarin for each patient was calculated in relation to aging, before and after his/her 80th birthday.
During follow-up, 83 patients died (3.2 × 100 patient/years), 9 of them for hemorrhagic complications (0.35 × 100 patient/years). Among these, 45 were age ≥80 years (13.8%), and 38 were age <80 years (8.3%). Ninety-four patients had bleeding complications (3.7 × 100 patient/years): 37 were major (1.4 × 100 patient/years) and 57 were minor (2.2 × 100 patient/years). The INR value related to major bleeding events was <3 in 25 (67.5%) of 37 patients, between 3 and 4 in 7 (19%) of 37 patients, and >4 in 5 (13.5%) of 37 patients. Major bleeding occurred at a median time of 36 months (range 3 to 124 months) after the beginning of OAT; in particular, 9 (24%) of 37 events occurred in the first year. The rates of hemorrhage in patients <80 and ≥80 years are reported in Table 2.
Overall, patients spent a median of 14%, 71%, and 15% of time below, within, and above the intended therapeutic range, respectively. No difference was found between patients age <80 and ≥80 years (data not shown). Mean dosage of warfarin was 27.2 mg/week for patients age <80 years and 21.1 mg/week for patients age ≥80 years (p < 0.001). No difference was found in relation to time spent below, within, and above the intended therapeutic range between patients with bleeding complications and those without, both in patients age <80 and ≥80 years. Twenty-seven patients (3.5%) also were treated with aspirin; no difference in the rate of bleeding events was found between patients treated or not treated with aspirin. Bleeding risk was similar between sexes.
Univariate analysis showed that age ≥80 years, a history of previous ischemic event, and CHADS2score were associated with bleeding risk. Instead, bleeding was not associated with hypertension and history of previous hemorrhage (Table 3).However, among the 8 patients who had a history of cerebral hemorrhage before beginning warfarin, one had a recurrent cerebral hemorrhage. These patients showed a greater risk for developing a recurrent cerebral hemorrhage than those without a previous cerebral bleeding (4.2 × 100 patient/years vs. 0.75 × 100 patient/years), even if not statistically significant (relative risk: 5.4; 95% CI: 0.1 to 34.4; p = 0.2). Cox regression analysis confirmed that age ≥80 years is associated with bleeding (OR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.1 to 4.0; p = 0.05).
Rate of bleeding events by age
In this large prospective observational study on patients with AF administered warfarin we found that, even if greater than in younger patients, the absolute rate of major bleeding of patients ages ≥80 years is acceptably low (rate 2.5 × 100 patient/years). Conversely, Hylek et al. (11), when studying elderly AF patients, found a rate of major bleeding more than 5 times greater than that observed in our study. In the Hylek et al. study (11), 35% of patients experienced coronary artery disease instead of 20% of our cohort, and the concomitant use of aspirin was 40% in those patients and limited to 3.5% in ours. This point could help to explain the lower rate of bleeding recorded in our experience.
In our cohort, all patients were followed from the beginning of OAT; therefore, all events, even the early ones, were recorded. No patient was lost at follow-up, and we actively looked for all bleeding events. We cannot exclude underreporting for minor bleeding because we recorded clinically relevant events. However, we enrolled consecutive outpatients with a good life expectancy to justify warfarin prophylaxis. More frail patients are unlikely to be referred to an outpatient service, which could in part explain the low bleeding rate recorded.
Quality of anticoagulation control
Our study was conducted on patients managed by a devoted agency, providing the best quality of OAT (12). In our patients, the time spent in range was 71%, similar to that recorded in patients analyzed by the European ISCOAT (Italian Study on Complications of Oral Anticoagulant Therapy) and EAA (European Action on Anticoagulation) studies (5,13) but greater than that reported in the cohort followed up by Hylek et al. (11). The use of computer-assisted systems for dose adjustment has been demonstrated to be useful in OAT management (5), which could explain the low bleeding rate in our study.
Factors associated with bleeding
It is increasingly recognized that in patients with AF many risk factors for warfarin related bleeding are also indications for warfarin use (14). In particular a history of TIA/stroke is strongly associated with bleeding risk (15–17). Accordingly, in our study a history of previous ischemic event was associated with a high OR for bleeding during OAT. Instead, hypertension seemed not to be associated with bleeding, probably because all hypertensive patients were receiving therapy with a good blood pressure control. In our series history of previous bleeding event was not correlated with an increased bleeding risk. However, considering only patients who had had a cerebral bleeding before starting OAT, the rate of recurrent cerebral bleeding was particularly high. The small number of these patients limits the statistical significance of these data; nevertheless, it suggests the need for a careful evaluation of the risk/benefit ratio of OAT in patients with a previous cerebral bleeding.
Our study shows that in elderly patients with AF administered warfarin, the risk of bleeding is acceptably low. This finding suggests that patients ≥80 years of age could receive benefit from warfarin prophylaxis when a good quality of anticoagulation is obtained.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- atrial fibrillation
- congestive heart failure, age, diabetes, previous stroke
- confidence interval
- international normalized ratio
- oral anticoagulant treatment
- odds ratio
- transient ischemic attack
- Received March 13, 2009.
- Revision received May 6, 2009.
- Accepted May 25, 2009.
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Murray State Baseball Player Named Freshman All-American
A Murray State University baseball player has joined the ranks of Freshman All-American.
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper honored Grant Wood last week. He has become the third Racer in two seasons to receive the honor.
Wood is also the 2018 OVC Freshman of the Year, ranking fifth in the league with a .376 batting average and second on the MSU team with 47 runs scored. He also ranked fifth in the nation with a .520 on-base percentage.
During the summer Wood will be playing for the Peninsula Oilers in the Alaska Baseball League.

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Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.
J. I. Packer
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.
Henry David Thoreau
People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.
Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.
All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.
J. D. Salinger
Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more piercing because they are more complex and unmixed, changing from corner to corner, with each passing vista, each shift of the light. Breaking up with a city is unclouded by the suspicion that after the affair ends, you'll learn something about the beloved you wished you never knew. The city is as it will remain: gorgeous, unattainable, going on without you as if you'd never existed. What pain and longing the lover feels as he bids farewell to a tendril of ivy, a flower stall, the local butcher. The charming cafe where he meant to have coffee but never did.
and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on and planned out, not even the will of a god seems forceful enough to manage it, if our own will is made in its semblance. It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is never quenched, perhaps because it is a false yearning. Nothing is whole or of a single piece, everything is fractured and evenomed, veins of peace run through the body of war and hatred insinuates itself into love and compassion, there is truce amid the quagmire of bullets and a bullet amid the revelries, nothing can bear to be unique or prevail or be dominant and everything needs fissures and cracks, needs it negation at the same time as its existence. And nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively.
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant


text: |Abstract:||Vibrationally excited oxygen and nitrogen have been long recognized to be of critical importance in nonequilibrium high-enthalpy flows, primarily encountered behind hypersonic shock waves. To date, no direct experimental verification of vibrational state resolved dissociation rates predicted by different kinetic models has been undertaken, in large part due to the difficulty of measuring these rates directly. We present a framework where state specific recombination rates can be inferred from the time-resolved measurements of O$_2$ vibrational populations, such that the state specific dissociation rates can be obtained from the detailed balance. In the present approach, recombination reactions of atomic oxygen are monitored in the afterglow of a diffuse ns pulse discharge burst in an O$_2$-Ar mixture. The time evolution of O$_2$(v) populations in the recombining mixture are measured by ps Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) in the O$_2$($B^3\Sigma_u^-$,v’=0 $\leftarrow$ $X^3\Sigma_g^-$, v”) Schumann-Runge bands, with absolute calibration by NO($A^2\Sigma^+$, v’=0 $\leftarrow$ $X^2\Pi$, v”=0) LIF. By varying the output wavelength of the ps laser / Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) system used for the excitation in the 250-450 nm range, levels from v”=7 to 21 have been detected. Two-photon Absorption LIF (TALIF) at 226 nm has been used to measure the atomic oxygen concentration, with absolute calibration by Xe. Within $\sim$1 ms after the discharge burst, a rapid decay of O$_2$(v) is observed, indicating vibration-vibration (V-V) and vibration-translation (V-T) relaxation of vibrational states populated by electron impact and by quenching of the excited electronic states of Ar. After the rapid initial decay, the vibrational populations level off and remain nearly constant, or exhibit a transient rise, on the timescale of about 10 ms, suggesting the presence of a persistent source of vibrational excitation due to chemical reactions. In addition to O atom recombination to form vibrationally excited O$_2$ molecules, at low temperatures atomic oxygen may also recombine with O$_2$ and form ozone. The latter may well generate vibrationally excited O$_2$ in O + O$_3$ $\rightarrow$ O$_2$ + O$_2$ reaction, which would therefore affect the present results. Ozone formation is controlled by preheating the excited mixture up to 600 K, as well as increasing the pressure and reducing the O$_2$ mole fraction, when the production of ozone is reduced significantly.

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Following 12 consecutive months of sluggish growth, retail sales soared by 6.6% year on year in January. Consumer confidence has recovered, although it remains negative.
In January sales growth was posted by nine of the 16 retail categories surveyed by DANE, the national statistics office. The largest contribution to growth came from automotive sales, which jumped by 26% year on year after contracting by 6% in January 2017. The relative appreciation of the peso is luring buyers to purchase new vehicles, which are mostly imported or require a large imported component even when domestically assembled.
Improved relative prices have also benefitted other retail categories that are heavily dependent on imports, such as computers and telecommunications devices for personal and home use, sales of which also soared by 26% year on year in January. Otherwise, growth in overall retail sales was driven by non-durables, such as food and non-alcoholic beverages, which respectively rose by 7% and 4%.
The categories that dragged down total retail sales the most include books and paper products (which fell by 9% year on year), hardware (-5%), pharmaceuticals (-4%), and alcoholic beverages and tobacco products (-4%). The performance of most of these suggests that consumers remain cautious about non-essential purchases.
We expect retail sales to continue to recover this year as household demand gains pace hand in hand with improved purchasing power. The latter will essentially reflect falling inflation—largely because of currency appreciation—although a recent uptick in the unemployment level has the potential to dampen household income somewhat.
Consumer expectations are likely to keep improving, thus underpinning household demand and, thereby, a recovery in retail sales. The Indice de Confianza del Consumidor (ICI, consumer confidence index) calculated by a local think-tank, Fedesarrollo, and measured as the balance of positive and negative answers, has been improving since it reached an all-time low of -30.2% in January 2017. The ICC went to -5.4% in January 2018—its best performance in 13 months—but fell to -7.8% in February. However, the latter marks a significant improvement compared with the -24.3% posted in February 2017. This relative improvement reflects household perceptions of a better economic position compared with a year ago, as well as higher willingness to buy electronic and automotive goods, and housing.
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The rebound in retail sales and the relative improvement in consumer sentiment are consistent with our GDP growth forecasts which, therefore, remain unchanged.
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A modern reworking of the Oedipus myth, the opera is set in the 1980s in the East End of London. the plagues that beset the city are unemployment, racism and police violence. Greek's seedy, boozy protagonist Eddy is stuck in a rut and longs for more. When his Dad tells him that a fortune teller once predicted that he would kill his Father and marry his mother, Eddy decides he's had enough and leaves home to find love in the unlikely form of the wife of a man he kicks to death. Little does he know that ten years later he will discover his true identity, with tragic consequences. . .Swinging from demotic energy to soulful intensity, Turnage's jazz-influenced score vividly conveys the overt theatricality of the larger-than-life characters, throwing this human tragedy into sharp relief. the stylised spoken dialogue, with its exaggerated intonation of cockney defiance, becomes another aspect of the music. It moves from the rhythmic cacophony of the football chant through snatches of jazz and rock to passages of real lyricism.
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Munich Diennale 1988
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- Verlag: Bolinda Publishing; Auflage: Library. (12. März 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
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Jan Ruff-O'Herne's idyllic childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was just 21 years old, she was taken from the camp and forced into sexual slavery in a military brothel. Jan was repeatedly beaten and raped for a period of three months, after which she was returned to prison camp with threats that her family would be killed if she revealed the truth about the atrocities inflicted upon her. For fifty years, Jan told no one what had happened to her, but in 1992, after seeing Korean war rape victims making appeals for justice on television, she decided to speak out and support them. Before she could testify publicly, though, she had to find a way to tell her family and friends about all she had suffered. Jan's survival is a tribute to her inner strength and deep faith. For the past 15 years, she has worked tirelessly to protect the rights of women in war and armed conflict. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Audio CD.
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So imagine the situation in Java. Here we have the lovely 17 year old Jan Ruff who who wants to become nun. In come the uniformed scum. She and her family are thrown into a concentration camp and starved. Then one day, the prettiest young Dutch girls are rounded up and put in a special prison where they are raped repeatedly by Japanese officiers. Jan is one of them. Her book is an account of all of this and how she managed to keep her sanity and come out the other side and survive to be a teacher and a mother and wife. Her Cathoilc faith helped her tremendously in getting through the ordeal.
The disgusting treatment that the `comfort women' received at the hands of the Japanese military was kept quiet for over thirty years after the war. When the first women began to testify to their ordeals the picture began to emerge of an officially organised system of rape by the Imperial Japanese Forces. It involved over 100,000 girls many just teenagers, and an estimated 80% of these were Korean. Initially the Japanese government denied any knowledge of the `comfort women'. This expression is itself a dirty politcially correct expression which is a cover for the real role of these women which was sex slaves. Jan nails the lie and Jan together with the heroic Korean women broke the silence on this tragic story. Highly recommended.
It's true that the women did not want to talk about that time in their lives. It was a very depressing, sad time.
I recommend this book for everyone, especially those who had family members that went through this awful period in their lives. Very painful to even remember, let alone to talk about it.
By Jan Ruff O'Hearne
"The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was plucked from the camp and her family, and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Her searing account of her time in "the House of the Seven Seas" the Japanese Officers club and brothel in Semarang , uncovers one of the worst human-rights abuses to come out of thr war-abuse that affected thousands of young women who were forcibly removed from their families to provide sexual services as 'comfort women' for the Japanese army between 1929 and 1945
'50 years of silence' is Jan's story.


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There are 10 questions. It took me only a couple of minutes to take the survey.
While I am generally quite cynical about surveys that politicians ask us to take, I think this one is worth doing because of the 3rd question. It asks what we think the next Congress should do with respect to ObamaCare, with the following choices:
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We absolutely must make it clear to the GOP we want ObamaCare repealed!
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CyberTran is short for cybernetic transportation, a system of lightweight computer-operated passenger cars powered by solar energy. More like a high-speed Disneyland ride than a traditional train, the autonomous rail cars stop only at the stations selected by passengers. Each car carries about 20 people.
Neil Sinclair is chairman of CyberTran, based in Richmond, Calif. The company is developing "cybernetic transportation," a system of computer-operated rail cars that some say could revolutionize mass transit in America.