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- Central players in inherited lipodystrophies
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 21, Issue 10, 1 October 2010, Pages 581-588
Ellen H. Jeninga and Eric Kalkhoven
AbstractCommon obesity and inherited lipodystrophies, rare disorders characterized by a partial (familial partial lipodystrophy; FPLD) or complete (congenital generalized lipodystrophy; CGL) lack of adipose tissue, are both associated with metabolic complications such as insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Mutations in the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)γ and a number of its downstream target genes result in lipodystrophy. We hypothesize that signalling by another transcription factor, sterol response element binding protein (SREBP)1c, also needs to be intact to prevent lipodystrophy. The future challenge is to understand how inactivation of such central players or of their upstream regulators or downstream effectors can affect adipose tissue in a depot-specific fashion.
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- HIV-associated lipodystrophy: from fat injury to premature aging
Trends in Molecular Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 5, 1 May 2010, Pages 218-229
Martine Caron-Debarle, Claire Lagathu, Franck Boccara, Corinne Vigouroux and Jacqueline Capeau
AbstractCombination antiretroviral therapy (cART) against HIV infection dramatically reduces AIDS-related morbidity. However, many patients under cART display HIV-associated lipodystrophy. Moreover, some develop early age-related comorbidities. Thymidine analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (tRNTIs) are mainly responsible for peripheral lipoatrophy, and protease inhibitors (PIs) for fat hypertrophy and metabolic complications. Long-term HIV infection probably also causes fat alterations. Severe mitochondrial toxicity and oxidative stress cause lipoatrophy, whereas the hypertrophy of upper body fat depots could result from mild oxidative stress, cortisol activation and inflammation. The metabolic complications associated with lipodystrophy are responsible for increased cardiovascular and hepatic risks and could also participate in premature aging. We propose that adipose tissue injury by HIV and cART induces fat hypertrophy or atrophy and contributes to premature aging.
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- Monogenic forms of insulin resistance: apertures that expose the common metabolic syndrome
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 14, Issue 8, 1 October 2003, Pages 371-377
Robert A Hegele
AbstractInsulin resistance is common and plays a central role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Precedents in biomedical research indicate that evaluation of monogenic syndromes can help to understand a common complex phenotype. Monogenic forms of insulin resistance, such as familial partial lipodystrophy, which results from mutations in either LMNA (encoding lamin A/C) or PPARG (encoding peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ), and congenital generalized lipodystrophy, which results from mutations in either AGPAT2 (encoding 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase) or BSCL2 (encoding seipin), can display features seen in the common metabolic syndrome. In addition, insulin resistance is seen in disorders associated with insulin receptor mutations, progeria syndromes and in inherited forms of obesity. Although insulin resistance in such rare monogenic syndromes could simply be secondary to fat redistribution and/or central obesity, the products of the causative genes might also produce insulin resistance directly, and might illuminate new causative mechanisms for insulin resistance in such common disorders as T2DM and obesity.
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Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 18, Issue 4, 159-166, 1 May 2007
Virus-mediated modulation of the host endocrine signaling systems: clinical implications
1 Pediatric Endocrinology Section, Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1109, USA
2 First Department of Pediatrics, Athens University Medical School, 11527 Athens, Greece
Viruses, which are among the simplest infective pathogens, can produce characteristic endocrine manifestations in infected patients. In addition to the classic modification of the host endocrine system by either direct or indirect destruction of the endocrine organs and/or effects exerted by systemic production of inflammatory and/or stress mediators, recent progress in molecular virology and endocrinology has revealed that virus-encoded molecules might alter the host endocrine-signaling systems by affecting extracellular and/or intracellular signal transduction and hormone sensitivity of host target tissues. Here, we provide a brief overview of such viral-mediated modulation of host endocrine signaling systems. We propose that virus-encoded molecules and the signaling systems they influence are potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of disorders that are associated with some viral infections.

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The idea for the My Brother Brian series began when Oscar found a project that her daughter had done as a fifth grader. Clark was asked to contribute a story that would be a part of a school fundraiser. She decided to write about the most colorful person she knew, her younger brother Brian. “My brother was always getting into something, and always kept me laughing while driving my mother crazy. He would spend most of his time in his blue Power Ranger costume practicing karate moves.”
All books can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com or ordered through local bookstores. “Our desire is to help children to be able to relate to the adventures of the main character while learning important life lessons,” said Oscar. The authors hope to introduce an entire family of books, which will include When I Grow Up, Sometimes I Forget and I Can Do It On My Own.
To set up interviews or a book signing with the authors, contact the publisher

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SHE’S BACK: Jazmine Sullivan Performs At Sold-Out KOKO London Show, Gearing Up For Release Of COMEBACK Album
Jazmine Sullivan is BACK! After announcing she was taking a break from the music industry back in 2011, Jazmine Sullivan is now on the comeback trail. And we’re here for it. Read the deets and check out her recent performance inside…
The 7-time Grammy nominated songstress Jazmine Sullivan is making a comeback after declaring she was leaving the music industry. She announced back in 2011 via Twitter:
"i promised myself when it wasn’t fun anymore i wouldn’t do it. and here i am. i love u all and appreciate u soooooo much. u have no idea how much u’ve inspired me and fed my ego," the singer shared. "but the truth is that i have to believe in me whether you all do or not. and thats what i’m lookin for. that belief in myself. me. I. i love us. thanks for being here for me and riding with me on this journey. let us continue. [sic]"
Now the 26-year-old Philly native is getting back on the scene with her first appearance at a sold-out show at KOKO London Theater this past Saturday.
During Jazmine’s set she sang a medley of her hits including “Bust Your Windows,” “Lions, Tigers & Bears,” “Need U Bad," “In Love With Another Man,” and more while also performing some popular covers such as Daft Punk and Pharrell’s “Get Lucky. She also debuted a new track of her own titled “Masterpiece” and it doesn’t sound like she has missed a beat.
She thanked the screaming audience, “I’m glad to be back guys. Thank you for having me." During her show, she announced she will be releasing a new single soon which will be featured on her upcoming third album (following Fearless and Love Me Back). Stay tuned for that.
Check out the YBF chick’s set below:
"Bust Your Windows":
"Hold You Down":
"In Love With Another Man":
"Lions, Tigers & Bears":
"Need You Bad":

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On Vice, Arthur Laffer discusses Trump, trade, and supply-side economics.
Trumponomics is causing a surge in 401k millionaires.
From Real Clear Markets, John Tamny says yield curve inversion fears are overblown.
From Reason, George Gilder is excited for “Life After Google”.
At the WaPo, Todd Frankel reports on the “belligerent doldrums,” rising wages just breaking even with rising costs of living in the nation’s hottest jobs markets.
Bill Gates blogging, reviews Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake and prescribes it as required reading for policymakers to help address the ways in which obsolete economic modeling no longer fits with much of the way the world works.


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It’s the long-term picture that deserves heeding when examining March’s unemployment rate for Butte County, which was released Friday.
According to the state Employment Development Department, Butte’s unemployment rate was 14.4 percent in March, up from 14.2 percent in February.
However, in the year-over comparison, Butte did better last month than in March 2010, when the rate was 14.6 percent and there were 15,400 looking for work.
Last month, there were 15,000 on the job hunt in Butte County.
Some of that decline may be because individuals stopped looking for work.
EDD labor market analyst Alex Alvarado said the labor force size has fluctuated over the past year, but the ups and downs aren’t anything unusual.
“It’s a pretty typical trend for this time of year to have this increase,” Alvarado said. “The increase (in employment) where farm employment is starting to show isn’t here yet.”
There was some job growth in private education and health services, he noted, with about 100 jobs more last month than the previous month, and 200 more jobs from a year ago.
Alvarado noted there was a drop in state government jobs, excluding education, of about 100 positions.
In Glenn County, the unemployment rate in March was 18.6 percent, with 2,330 people jobless, up from February’s 18 percent, with 2,240 without jobs.
In Tehama County, there were 4,160 individuals without work, resulting in a 16.9 percent rate in March. That compares with 4,020 jobless in February, at 16.3 percent.
According to the EDD, the state unemployment rate was 12.3 percent in March, up from 12.2 percent in February.

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I have started making bread dough in the bread maker, and finishing it off in the oven. I find the strange shape of the pan tin in the breadmaker a bit disconcerting. The slices don’t fit well in the toaster, and I finish the loaf very quickly.
Here is my recipe for breadmaker dough. Once the machine has made the dough, I kneed it, set it to prove and then bake it. Hello to Ronnie and Peter who were asking about this.
- 1 tsp dried yeast
- 225g strong white bread flour
- 225g strong wholemeal bread flour (or any ratio to total weight 550g)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp butter or oil
- 330ml water
- Put the ingredients into the bread-maker in the order specified, and set it to the wholemeal dough bread program, or the nearest suitable setting. My machine takes just over three hours for this, including soaking the flour in the water, warming the mixture to the correct temperature, kneeding and resting the dough.
- When the dough is made, remove from the bread maker, kneed it again for around 5 minutes. Try not to add any more flour. If the dough is a bit sticky to start with, try oiling your hands.
- Shape and roll the dough into a loaf shape, and put it in a large, greased, loaf tin. Cover, and set it to one side to rise.
- Meanwhile, heat the oven to 200C. When the dough has risen to double, put it in the hot oven and bake for 33 minutes or so.
As I am the only person who likes wholemeal bread in the house, I put half in the freezer so it doesn’t go mouldy. You can, of course, experiment with the basic recipe to customise it.
Hello Annie – this is the recipe that Malcolm has been playing with. We’ve had several versions at home before he took it to the coastguard last night. The original recipe is from Fika and Hygge, by Bronte Aurell. Malcolm has been testing out making the sticky dough in the breadmaker.
Brunsviger, or Brunswick Bun, is like a large flat cinnamon bun, soaked in brown sugar and spices.
For the bread base:
- 2 1/2 tsp dried yeast
- 250ml whole milk
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cardamom
- 1 egg yolk
- 350g strong white bread flour
- 40g caster sugar
- 100g butter
- 1 tsp salt
For the topping:
- 175g softened butter
- 225g dark soft brown sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- vanilla extract
- Optional, 1 tbsp cinnamon
- Put the ingredients for the bread dough into the bread maker in the order on the list. Program the bread maker for dough.
- When the bread maker has done its stuff, make the topping. Whisk the butter with 200g of the dark sugar, golden syrum and vanilla extract.
- Tip out the dough, knock it back and kneed it. If you need a little more flour it is OK to add it now.
- Transfer the dough to a baking tin, we used our medium roasting tin to contain any leaks. Stretch the dough to the sides of the pan, and use your fingers to poke holes in the dough as if you are making focaccia. The more holes the better.
- Spread the soft topping over the dough, using a spatula. Cover all the dough, and then sprinkle over the rest of the sugar. Cover with a plastic wrap or clingfilm, and leave it to prove, around 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, set the oven to 200C.
- Once the dough has risen, remove the plastic wrap and cook for around 20 to 25 minutes. The topping should be shiny and sticky.
- Take out of the oven, cool, cut into squares and eat with coffee. Take time to enjoy this.
For a stickier top, add more sugar to the topping before baking.
This is part of the campaign to find recipes for all the stashed ingredients we have. Why, I wonder, do we have so many jars of peanut butter? I thought of making bread with it in the bread maker, and finally I think I have got the proportions right. This makes bread that is delicious with jam in particular, but is also good with salad, or with marmite.
- 325ml cold water
- 2 tsbp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 350g white bread flour
- 125g wholemeal bread flour
- 1 tsp yeast for bread machines
- Put the ingredients in the bread machine in the order above
- I used the white bread setting, middling sized loaf. Some bread machines prefer you to put the yeast in first, then the dry ingredients, and then the liquids.

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1. What are "robo-signers?"
A) Computers that auto-approve loans.
B) Bank employees who sign loan documents without first reviewing their content.
C) Powerful cyborgs that pressure bank employees to sign off on financial documents that are known to be inaccurate.
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Diffraction is the bending and spreading of waves as they pass through an opening or around an obstacle. It is a problem to solve for O because O represents the angle of diffraction, which is important in understanding the behavior of waves.
Diffraction is a phenomenon that occurs with all types of waves, including electromagnetic waves. The amount of diffraction depends on the wavelength of the wave, meaning that shorter wavelengths (such as gamma rays) experience less diffraction than longer wavelengths (such as radio waves).
The angle of diffraction is affected by several factors, including the size of the opening or obstacle, the wavelength of the wave, and the distance between the source of the wave and the opening/obstacle.
Yes, diffraction is used in many practical applications, such as in the design of antennas and in medical imaging techniques like X-ray diffraction. It is also used in the study of crystal structures and in astronomy to analyze the light from distant stars.
The diffraction problem can be solved using mathematical equations that take into account the factors mentioned in question 3. These equations, such as the Huygens-Fresnel principle or the Fraunhofer diffraction formula, can be used to calculate the angle of diffraction (O) for a given set of parameters.


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Dynamos could have lost a substantial amount of money from gate takings in their match against Highlanders at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday after it emerged that a well-orchestrated syndicate involving cashiers, municipal officials and some of the club’s security personnel took advantage of the slack security at the gates to pocket huge sums of money.
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) yesterday said only 19 683 fans paid their way into the stadium and a total of $67 364 was grossed.
However, from an observer’s point of view, the supporters that entered the stadium could have easily exceeded that figure.
All four stadium bays were packed to the rafters and a large number of supporters who could not be accommodated in the stands watched the match standing in every open space available in the stadium.
The PSL yesterday said the stadium’s full capacity is 23 300, not taking into account the people who watched the match standing in the space in-between the stands.
Dynamos officials yesterday said an estimated 1 000 privileged card-carrying officials entered the stadium on Sunday.
This figure on its own looks very suspicious considering most non-paying officials paid their way into the stadium after their usual gate was closed.
Despite this sceptically inflated figure for VIP guests, at least 2 617 people were not accounted for, raising fears that a significant amount of money found its way into the wrong hands.
If calculated at the rest of the ground price of $3 per ticket, Dynamos could have lost $7 800.
Sources yesterday said there is a well-organised group involving the club security personnel, cashiers and some city council officials which takes advantage of the loose security at the gates to pocket money.
“There is a group of people who make a killing every week when Dynamos are playing. It’s a well-organised group that involves the city council officials who have keys to all the gates, club security and the cashiers.
“What they do is they deliberately slow down on admitting supporters to create huge queues. When it’s around kick-off time when people are pushing and shoving that is when they cash in.
“Because people will be rushing to get into the stadium, they won’t wait for their tickets. The person who will be assigned to check tickets pretend to be busy, thus people will pay but not get tickets. The money will obviously be shared between them,” said one source.
The revelation by our source could be true because this reporter did not receive his ticket when he paid his way into stadium at around 1536hrs using Gate 2.
Dynamos treasurer Webster Chikengezha also admitted his club was losing a lot of money from this scam.
“We have realised that the money we get from gate takings most of the time does not tally with the number of people that could be in the stadium. Sometimes we are told that only 12 000 or 8 000 people have paid when one can easily see that the number of people in the stadium exceeds that figure.
“We have realised that there are people who smuggle tickets and give them to their friends to sell outside the stadium claiming they are advance tickets. Yesterday (Sunday) we caught one of the guys who was selling genuine tickets and his two friends managed to flee. We handed the guy to the police and we are still waiting for their investigations,” said Chikengezha.
Chikengezha also clarified the chaos outside the stadium before the match which saw thousands of people including journalists and representatives from BancABC, the clubs’ main sponsor, being trapped outside.
“Of the 32 gates at Rufaro, eight of them were malfunctioning and that put pressure on those that were working. We were forced to open the big gate which normally does not serve that purpose and put four cashiers there as a way to ease pressure from the other gates.
“Concerning the gate used by VIPs, I personally assigned someone at around 1345hrs but was shocked when I heard that he had disappeared. We are investigating why he locked that gate because the confusion created thereafter has tarnished the image of the club.
“It was very unfortunate but I want to say sorry to the journalists, our sponsors and other important people who were inconvenienced. We are working to rectify the issue. It is our hope that it will not happen again,” added Chikengezha.

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Some of my favorite memories involve eating French toast for breakfast with my family on Sunday mornings, still cozy in my pajamas! Of course, it was one of those fat-laden, caloric recipes, as my French toast was usually soaked in whole milk and fried in butter! Not only that, but such a meal is very low in metabolism-revving protein, yet high in simple carbohydrates which left me hungry and lethargic soon after eating. Not anymore!
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- Human are part of nature's rich diversity and have the power to protect or destroy it.
- Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is essential to sustaining the living networks and system that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on.
- Human activity is casing the diversity of life on Earth to be lost at a greatly accelerated rate. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support system we rely on everyday. But we can prevent them.
- 2010 is the international year of Biodiversity. Let's reflect on our achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgency of our challenge for the future. Now is the time to act.
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I read an article in the Financial Times earlier this week (September 23, 2023) -…
At present I am in transit in Dubai waiting to fly home to Sydney after a week or more away in Central Asia. I am definitely being careful to avoid any public swearing, which means I am not reading any economics or business reports in public spaces. With the worry that I might swear out aloud and get stuck here, I judiciously completed all my reading in the privacy (assumed) of my hotel room at the airport. Lucky. Imagine what would have happened if I had been reading this article – David Cameron’s tonic to snap us out of recession – out on the concourse?
The facts behind the article is that the UK recorded its sixth successive quarter of negative GDP growth (the longest sequence in its available data history) and was a slap in the face to the business economists who were all saying last week that the recession in Britain was over. The poor result has allegedly given the conservatives a political filip although last week’s BBC program where the seriously lunatic BNP leader appeared seems to have given the latter the political boost for last week. I was going to write about the appearance of the BNP on the national television program but decided against it. My position is clear: the lunatic fringe do us a justice to appear on national media and face that level of scrutiny. I also do not believe in any form of censorship. As an aside, in terms of whether I like the BNPs political position or not is irrelevant to whether they should be heard. I would ban the conservatives too if repugnance was the criteria.
Anyway, the mainstream conservative reaction to last week’s national accounts disaster in the UK has been swift and predictable. A quick assessment is that they do not understand a single thing about the monetary system and are not qualified to lead that nation – not that I think Labour undertands anything much.
The article written by the Tory leader and Prime Ministerial aspirant David Cameron starts off reasonably:
Friday’s growth figures were deeply disappointing. A 0.4% fall in our national income may not sound much, but it adds up to £6 billion over a year. And its effects will be painfully felt in more bankruptcies, redundancies and repossessions. Gordon Brown, the man who said he had abolished boom and bust, has given us the deepest and longest recession since records began.
The economic interpretations are sound whereas the political statement in the last sentence is just that. An extended recession is incredibly costly and has a long tail – anaemic recoveries, lost productive capacity, and entrenched and debilitating long-term unemployment. The plight of 16-24 year olds in Britain is particularly accentuated – this will have negative implications for the next generation.
Cameron then claims that while “France, Germany and Japan started growing six months ago – and are getting stronger and stronger” the UK is being “badly left behind”. He atttributes this to:
… the economic mistakes of the past. For example, the government’s Vat cut added billions of pounds to what was one of the biggest budget deficits in the developed world, making the debt crisis even worse.
This is where he begins to reveal he has no idea of the role that a government plays in a modern monetary system. The British government budget deficits have risen in part because of the automatic stabilisers and in part due to discretionary policy decisions taken by the Government. The scale of the downturn in Britain has been so significant – in part, because of its larger exposure to the financial mayhem that generated the crisis – that the rise in deficit was inevitable and necessary. The discretionary additions to the deficit, while perhaps not to my taste (for example, I prefer direct public job sector to VAT cuts) demonstrated leadership rather than vandalism.
The fact that the British Government like most voluntarily choose to issue public debt – pound-for-pound – to match its net spending (deficit) is stupid and unneccessary but has no bearing on the failure of the economy to recover. The debt issuance is just draining the reserve adds generated by the deficits. So what? It is also adding an income stream to the holders of the debt and therefore providing a risk-free source of return to financial markets which have been reeling from poor (and corrupt) investments in an array of high risk (which they couldn’t price in anyway) derivative assets.
I would not issue debt at all but the fact that the Government is stupid and has chosen to do so is certainly not contributing to a “debt crisis” – see this blog for my views on debt issuance
The debt crisis that Britain faces remains in the private sector and results from years of neo-liberal inspired policies which failed to regulate the financial markets in any coherent and effective manner – all in the pursuit of the mantra that self-regulation was best. That is the legacy that British Labour should be judged. Like “Labour” parties around the World (definitely in Australia) – and I include the current US democratic party in this “team” – the British Labour party embraced neo-liberalism with panache – thinking it gave them economic credibility.
However, they were just seeking “validation” from the wrong assessors. The idea that the business community and its host of business economist mouthpieces – who are paraded out daily in the media telling us that deregulation, budget surpluses and all the rest of the poisonous suite – is in our best interests and constitutes the epitomy of fiscal excellence is the problem. Why we ever fell prey to that lobby is a question that needs to be researched further and a coherent answer provided.
So I would be attacking that failure in policy rather than the UK government’s current stimulus response if I was commenting on why the UK is in such bad shape. But then, of-course, the Tory’s would have been worse. Under Thatcher they set up the pre-conditions for the current demise of the economy.
Cameron then says:
The other reason Britain’s economy is still stuck in recession and falling behind those of other countries is that Labour has no serious plan for our economic future. The countries that are recovering strongly are all doing three things: getting their banks to supply credit to businesses; giving investors confidence; and implementing a proper plan for growth. In all these areas, the government is failing to act. It is astonishing to think that, 12 months after the bank rescue, lending to businesses is still falling. It is shocking that the government has still not come forward with a credible plan to get the deficit under control. If we fail to get a grip on public spending, investor confidence will fall, interest rates will rise and there will be fewer jobs. It is almost unbelievable that at a time when we face not just a debt crisis but a jobs crisis too, with unemployment heading for 3m, the government is planning to bring in an extra tax on jobs by raising National Insurance contributions.
The failure of the banks to lend at present is because there are not enough credit worthy customers willing to take a risk and invest. The response of the government via the Bank of England in this respect has been a farce. They thought that lending was reserve constrained – which is a reflection of their neo-liberal leanings and mindless devotion to textbook myths that have no application in the monetary system they oversee. So they embarked on a massive quantitative easing campaign and surprise surprise – not much happened. I explain why this comes as no surprise to a modern monetary theorist in this blog – Quantitative easing 101.
So in terms of monetary policy the British government failed to understand what the real problem was and is. Banks can always lend and do not require reserves to do so. That hasn’t been the problem. Adding reserves was never going to alter the fundamental lack of confidence in the outlook of the economy.
The cry for a credible plan to “get the deficit under control” is another neo-liberal ploy which is resonating all around the World. SBS radio (national Australian broadcaster) woke me up this morning in Dubai asking me for an interview for a program they are compiling on this issue. During the telephone interview, I told them that these cries represent a real danger to the recovery prospects for our economies. At present, with private saving rising (to repair balance sheets rendered precarious by the private debt binge), there is a need to support aggregate spending. When private spending begins to recover, the deficits will fall anyway via the rising tax revenue and declining welfare payments.
At that point, the governments will have to consider how much spending growth is required to match the real capacity of the economy and a vital signal will be the rate of labour underutilisation. While the conservatives are calling for cutbacks even while unemployment continues to rise, the prudent and responsible action will require governments to keep running deficits for the indefinite future (unless their countries experience large net export contributions).
The deficits are also putting downward pressure on interest rates contrary to what the Tory leader says. He is just mimicking the mainstream textbook nonsense about crowding out. In a modern monetary system, where savings are a function of income, the central bank sets the interest rate (and conditions the term structure), and inflation is not a foreseeable issue there is no application of that textbook reasoning.
Business confidence is about whether it can sell things into the product markets. It will begin investing when it thinks there are durable recovery prospects. The deficits are rquired to underwrite spending and stop if falling off a cliff.
Anyway, the Tory leader proposes a three-point plan which would be a disaster for the current British economy if implemented:
… we need change in the banking system. A lack of credit, coupled with big margins between the interest rates at which the banks can borrow and the rates at which they lend, is still sapping demand from our economy. Fixing this should be our priority. For nearly a year now we have been calling for a national loan guarantee scheme. This would underwrite lending from banks to businesses – guaranteeing billions of new loans and helping new enterprises to start and existing ones to survive.
The lack of credit is due to the lack of customers who are credit worthy. A national loan guarantee scheme might be useful but then you would also have to seriously alter the way banks have been operating. This blog indicates the scale of reform that is needed – . I doubt the conservatives would be smart enough to implement these reforms.
… we need change in public spending. Unlike Labour, we have acknowledged the scale of the debt crisis and been frank with the British people about the difficult choices we will have to make. That is why we have started to set out a plan for reducing public spending, including a one-year pay freeze for all but the 1m lowest-paid public sector workers, in order to help protect jobs.
As above. It would be a total disaster for the British economy to start reducing net public spending at this stage. A sustainable long-term growth path, given that Britain is not about to become a large net exporter will be for the private sector to wean themselves of the debt train which in turn will require national budget deficits indefinitely. Get used to it. Any attempts to push back to surpluses would be self-defeating and prolong the damage already evident in Britain.
A reasonable dialogue should, however, be focused on abandoning the voluntary policy to issue public debt to match public net spending. Then the “debt monkey” would disappear soon enough. Irrelevant as it is.
… we need change in our attitude to the economy. At our party conference, we announced our plan to get Britain working. It is the most radical departure in economic policy in this country for a generation – a plan to unleash investment and enterprise so we create more wealth and jobs … Getting Britain working is also about getting people ready for work. This is where some of our most radical reforms come in. We will bust open the state monopoly on education. That will increase competition, raise standards and make sure our children get the education they need to succeed. Our plans for technical schools in our 12 biggest cities and 100,000 new apprenticeships mean we will also develop the engineering and technological skills of the future. And we will radically reform the welfare system so the unemployed get the tailored support they need to get back into work.
Notice “getting people ready for work” not generating jobs is the policy mantra. Full employability rather than full employment. Churning unemployed people through relentless training programs divorced from a paid-work context has been the neo-liberal approach for years and intensified after the release of the 1994 OECD Jobs Study. It has been a failed strategy – and will continue to fail.
Further, a focus on welfare reform that he mentions is all geared to a construction that a person is unempoyed because they lack skills or have the wrong incentive structures (in part because of failed government policies). Mass unemployment arises from a lack of jobs. You can bully and train and starve the unemployed “until the cows come home” but if there are not enough jobs then this strategy will always fail. You might be interested in this blog – Training does not equal jobs! which considers these issues in more detail.
Anyway, I am glad I don’t live there given this lot is likely to win the next national election.
So with all that done, I can now safely poke my head out into public and head for my flight to Sydney via Bangkok – safe in the knowledge that I will avoid any spontaneous public swearing outbreaks in Dubai.
I will be back with a new blog on Tueday afternoon sometime. Probably late. Unless I run out of things to write about.


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However, detection and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary nodules depend heavily on the experiences of radiologists and can be a heavy workload for them.
There have been numerous recently proposed methods for monocular depth prediction (MDP) coupled with the equally rapid evolution of benchmarking tools.
Alpa automates model-parallel training of large deep learning (DL) models by generating execution plans that unify data, operator, and pipeline parallelism.
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Although pre-trained language models have remarkably enhanced the generation ability of dialogue systems, open-domain Chinese dialogue systems are still limited by the dialogue data and the model size compared with English ones.
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Neural dialogue generation models trained with the one-hot target distribution suffer from the over-confidence issue, which leads to poor generation diversity as widely reported in the literature.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously applied in many applications, and accelerators are emerged as an enabler to support the fast and efficient inference tasks of these applications.
Current low-precision quantization algorithms often have the hidden cost of conversion back and forth from floating point to quantized integer values.
FeatGraph provides a flexible programming interface to express diverse GNN models by composing coarse-grained sparse templates with fine-grained user-defined functions (UDFs) on each vertex/edge.
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The cleaned dataset and the pre-training models will facilitate the research of short-text conversation modeling.
In this paper a low-drift monocular SLAM method is proposed targeting indoor scenarios, where monocular SLAM often fails due to the lack of textured surfaces.
A deep learning compiler such as Apache TVM can enable the efficient execution of model from various frameworks on various targets.
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Ansor can find high-performance programs that are outside the search space of existing state-of-the-art approaches.
Modern deep neural networks increasingly make use of features such as dynamic control flow, data structures and dynamic tensor shapes.
Deep learning (DL) workloads are moving towards accelerators for faster processing and lower cost.
We propose a novel model for 3D semantic completion from a single depth image, based on a single encoder and three separate generators used to reconstruct different geometric and semantic representations of the original and completed scene, all sharing the same latent space.
In this paper, our generative model trained with synthetic images rendered from 3D models reduces the workload of data collection and limitation of conditions.
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The scale of functional magnetic resonance image data is rapidly increasing as large multi-subject datasets are becoming widely available and high-resolution scanners are adopted.


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RMJC 25th Anniversary
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2009 marks a quarter of a century of Alan and the
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The Pete Tong DJ Academy has announced Adam Beyer and Sama' Abdulhadi as new tutors.
After launching a new scholarship scheme in February, the DJ Academy has now revealed the Drumcode label boss and revered Palestinian DJ will be joining the likes of Carl Cox, Jamie Jones, Nicole Moudaber and TSHA as tutors at the online school.
Participants in the online courses receive tutorials, tricks, tips and industry know-how from over 90 lessons taught by the course tutors, which also includes Pete Tong himself. At present, over 1,500 students are enrolled at the Pete Tong DJ Academy.
Speaking about joining the DJ Academy, Beyer said: "I am thrilled to join the Pete Tong DJ Academy as a tutor, alongside other industry legends and the incredibly talented Sama’ Abdulhadi. I am excited to pass on my knowledge and experience to the next generation of artists, helping them navigate the complexities of the industry and achieve success."
Sama' Abdulhadi added: "It’s an incredible feeling being part of the Pete Tong DJ Academy, it’s like joining The Avengers! The guest DJs I will be teaching alongside, are literally the first DJs I ever saw in my life, I would save every penny to go to Beirut to see them. These DJs are the reason I am a DJ."
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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says it has registered 3,000 births among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the past six months. The SEMA Chairman, Satomi Ahmad, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen today in Maiduguri.
Satomi said that the births were registered at various camps located in the state capital between January and June. He explained that the birth records showed significant increase in view of the high number of couples staying at the camps.
The SEMA boss said the agency is working in collaboration with the state’s Ministry of Health to support expectant mothers and enhance reproductive health management in the camps. The chairman said SEMA had provided ambulances to enhance referral services and reduce mortality.
Earlier, SEMA said it registered thirteen thousand births in IDPs camps in the past four years. It also said that it helped the mothers and babies with food items, nutritional supplements and dresses for the new born.


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Some studies suggest that as many as 2 out of every 10 pregnancies will end in miscarriage. The vast majority of miscarriages will occur in the first trimester of pregnancy, often before a woman even knows that she is pregnant to begin with. While a woman of any age can miscarry, miscarriage is most common in women over the age of 35. There are many potential side effects of miscarriage. In some cases, miscarriage can lead to feelings of loss and depression. Some women experience a variety of physical effects as well, such as stomach cramping, uterine contractions, and even nausea.
It is not uncommon for a woman who has had a miscarriage to experience nausea. The rapidly changing hormone levels are partly responsible for this. In addition, the trauma that her body undergoes during the miscarriage process can often interfere with normal digestive activity. While more research needs to be done, there is some definite evidence to suggest that nausea and miscarriage can be related.
For the most part, nausea after a miscarriage should diminish within just a few days. Nausea that is long-lasting after a miscarriage is usually a sign that something else is wrong. Any number of other things can cause nausea to follow a miscarriage. It may be that you’ve picked up a flu bug. It could be that the extreme emotions that often accompany miscarriage have interfered with your eating and drinking habits, and you are dehydrated. It could even be that you have conceived again just a few days after you miscarriage.
There are a variety of treatment options to deal with nausea that accompanies a miscarriage. For some, a simple antacid might be able to help. Of course, there are both prescription and over-the-counter remedies for nausea available as well. If these don’t work, or if you don’t want to have to deal with the side effects of medications, you might have success using some nutritional supplements, such as mint or ginger. Mint and ginger are both known to have a soothing effect on an upset stomach. Many women have had success with a variety of types of peppermint teas, for example. If tea isn’t your thing, you can mix some peppermint oil into a drink of juice or lemonade. You can get ginger in a variety of ways, such as ginger tea or ginger root supplements. Some women have tried using these types of natural supplements in an aromatherapy recipe, as well.
Sometimes, a change in diet is needed to ease nausea. Something bland, such as a piece of unbuttered toast or a little bit of rice, may help your nausea to diminish. Other people have had luck using milk along with their medications, as for many people milk will help to coat the stomach. Making sure that you are drinking enough clear liquids may help, as well.
If your nausea does not let up within a week or so of your miscarriage, you should talk to your health care provider to determine what else might be at the root cause of your nausea.

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* Venezuela supplied about 50 pct of crude used in 2012
* Lyondell preparing refinery to triple Canadian crude usage
HOUSTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Lyondell Basell Industries NV is preparing its 268,000 barrel per day (bpd) Houston refinery to run new supplies of crude oil becoming available, especially from Canada, the company said in a presentation to Wall Street analysts on Wednesday.
The company is spending $50 million to nearly triple its capacity to run heavy Canadian crude at the Houston refinery, to 175,000 bpd from 60,000 bpd.
The overhaul to convert a crude distillation unit and a coking unit to refine crude from Canada’s tar sands fields in Alberta is “just finishing up,” Chief Executive Jim Gallogly said. The work began in mid-February and is expected to be completed by mid-April.
Lyondell has already been changing the crude slate at the refinery, primarily as it moved away from a 13-year partnership with Venezuela’s national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) that ended in 2006. Under that pact, heavy, sour Venezuelan crude was the primary feed for the plant.
Use of Venezuelan crude fell sharply between 2009 and 2012 at the Houston refinery, Lyondell said. About 50 percent of the crude used in 2012 was from Venezuela, down from 86 percent in 2009.
While the refinery is preparing to triple the volume of Canadian crude it can run, new pipelines like TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL will be required to ship oil from Alberta’s tar sands fields to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. The earliest the Keystone XL will be available is 2015.
A pipeline between Canada’s tar sands oil fields and the U.S. Gulf Coast could offer transportation cost savings for Lyondell of up to $200 million over shipment by rail, the company said. Pipeline shipment would cost $8 per barrel, while rail shipment would cost $15 to $16 a barrel.


New Galaxy Tabs are on the way from Samsung, but news of their local arrival hasn’t come from Samsung, with accessory maker Belkin bringing it to our attention first.
The news comes courtesy of Belkin which has chimed in to say that it will be releasing new covers for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 4 range.
“Galaxy Tab 4 range,” you say? “What Galaxy Tab 4 range? GadgetGuy hasn’t written about this yet.”
The reason we haven’t written about it is because Samsung hasn’t locally announced the devices, and Belkin appears to have let the flat touchscreen cat out of the bag (Belkin makes bags, so this is totally fair).
Overseas, Samsung has announced the new tablets, with the Galaxy Tab 4 tablets arriving in 7, 8, and 10.1 inch sizes just like they did last year. Based on images from Samsung’s US press site, the designs appear to be extensions from what Samsung has designed in the Note range of products, and before it the Galaxy S, but with some reasonably thin bezels and a continued use of the soft buttons flanking the centre hard button.
Most interestingly is the screen, which hasn’t evolved at all, and stays at the 1280×800 display resolution across the board, putting the tablets well and truly behind competitors that have taken Full HD and higher resolutions for their tablets. Even Samsung’s own Galaxy Note tablets include better resolutions, so we’re a little surprised by this.
Many of the specs appear to be the same regardless of what tablet you choose, with a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1.5GB RAM, 16GB storage, microSD slot, WiFi, Bluetooth, and two cameras: 3 megapixel and 1.3 megapixels.


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I realize it’s been a long time since I’ve posted riddles, so I figured I would write a couple so you knew I was at least alive. College sort of sucks the creativity out of me, mostly because I lose all the time necessary to imagine and think. Anyways, here is a riddle to solve. I’ll post the answer in the following post’s comments.
Others help me to my feet,
After I’ve been fast asleep;
Dreaming of the life I lead:
A hollow, empty, awful dream.
Against my will my movements creep
Across the floor, in dungeons deep.
I raise my hand; I want to weep,
Because my life is yours to keep.
Like spider-webs that stick to me
And make me live inside this scene,
So do you force my begging plea:
Let me go, and so, be free.


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LUC Students Request for Deadline Extention - Mental Health
Hey guys! Some friends and I have been considering the mental health situation surrounding the corona virus that has been inevitably resulting from the stressful factors in the past few days. We believe that, even though physical examinations and classes have been cancelled, the academic stress is too much for a lot of people that are at the same time concerned for their family's, friends' and personal health and safety. While we understand that examinations still have to take place in some manner, right now most of our brains are probably more occupied with the question of how to deal with this situation without losing our sanity. Basically, we are proposing to approach the board with a request to postpone the deadlines for about a week to give people the opportunity to collect their thoughts and organize a safe environment for themselves and others by investing the necessary time for developing a strategy to contribute to curbing this problem for our broader social environment. This is especially important, as we are a community of people that often don't have the opportunity to just leave for a space where they do inherently feel physically and emotionally protected. What are your opinions on this? Do you also feel kind of overwhelmed right now and would agree with needing more room to breathe and think? If you do, please sign this petition, which will be shared directly with the academic staff.


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National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is preparing a master plan for the South Head, Gap Bluff and Green Point precincts of Sydney Harbour National Park (Watsons Bay).
South Head is a rich cultural landscape that forms an essential part of the story of Sydney. A story that encompasses Aboriginal culture and place; a story that encompasses the ideas of journey and arrival for Europeans; and a story of protection and defence.
The master plan will guide enhancement and operation across the site, focusing on identifying uses for existing buildings, upgrade of visitor facilities, walking tracks, interpretation, wayfinding and public safety. All with the view to enhance visitor experience and the natural, cultural and historic heritage of these unique national park precincts.

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Diploma and Master Theses (authored and supervised):
"Design for Deconstruction";
Supervisor: A. Mahdavi;
Institut für Architekturwissenschaften, Abteilung Bauphysik und Bauökologie,
final examination: 2012-01-26.
The demand for sustainable structures is gradually becoming more pronounced as the environmental concern becomes stronger, eht earth population tremendously increases and the global economic crisis forces constructors to reduce cost, save on energy and material waste in the construction process.
A large number of studies are proved that buildung demolition has a negatiove impact on the environment. The main of the demolition is that it does not allow material recovery and the material waste stream ends up to landfills. Lately researchers focus on the replacement of the conventional demolition practices with the selective demolition or deconstruction wherever aplicable. Both methods result in material recycling reducing, thus, the depletion of natural ressources.
The goal of this research is to give an overview of the current demolition practices and provide guidelines in the design of buildings, so that they may be deconstructed in the future and their material stream may be recycled or reused. In fact, in the related literature architects and urban planners are urged to apply such design guidelines so as to contribute to improved demolition practices. If the theoretical background on Design for Deconstruction (DfD) is there, what prevents it from being applied= Is it the ignorance of the designers concerning the negative consequences of conventional demolition or are there other economic, social and technical obstacles that still make it a preferable solution?
The literature overview and the information collected from the interviews will be used in answering the above questions and throw the light on the obstacles Design for Deconstruction encounters in the daily design process.
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Rattha Group to invest over Rs 1,750 cr in Chennai's IT SEZ
New Delhi | Thursday, Apr 24 2008 IST
Rattha Group today said it will set up an IT Special Economic Zone (SEZ) 'Estra IT SEZ' in Chennai with an investment of over Rs 1,750 crore.
Spread over four blocks and across 26 acres, Estra IT SEZ will create 4.5 million square feet of business space withemployment opportunities for over 50,000 professionals upon completion by 2012, a company statement said.
Block I will comprise of 11 lakh sq ft and will be ready for occupation by December 2009, it added.
The proposed SEZ will house restaurants, retail outlets and other recreation areas like gymnasium, multi-storied car parking to cater to over 15,000 cars, and 100-room service hotel.
The Rattha Group has interests in exports, infrastructure and hospitality and its assets stand at over Rs 2,500 crore.
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Eat Bulaga host and actor Paolo Ballesteros surprised everyone at the red carpet of 29th Tokyo International Film Festival yesterday when he transformed into Hollywood actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie. While posing for the cameras, he kept a straight face to stay in character. This is not the first time he copied the American actress as he previously transformed himself as “Maleficient” last July.
The film “Die Beautiful” with a tagline “A glamorous life deserves a fabulous death” will compete at the prestigious film festival for the main category out of 16 films from 98 countries. According to the synopsis of the film, it is a story of Trisha, who is a transgender woman that makes a living as a beauty pageant contestant but unexpectedly dies while being crowned.
Before her death, her last wish was to be introduced as a different celebrity every night of her wake however, Trisha’s dad wanted her to be buried as a man. Her friends had no choice but to steal her body and hold a wake in a secret place. While Trisha is transformed into various celebrities, they look back at her extraordinary life. Die Beautiful is currently screened at the event until November 3.


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The Grapevine‘s picks for up-and-comers you should catch at this year’s Secret Solstice Festival.
Distinguishing yourself from others in a crowded scene is always hard. But among Reykjavík’s growing roster of hip-hop artists, Aron Can is one of the most exciting—partly because of how much potential he has to grow, but also because he’s damn good. At only sixteen years old, Aron Can knows how to set the mood with his rhymes and beats, and he’s setting a mood that is mature and cutting-edge. With an impressive debut album already under his belt, Aron Can is not just someone to watch out for at Secret Solstice, but also someone to keep your eyes and ears out for in the years to come.
When you think of rad female bassists, Kim Deal is probably the first person who comes to mind, right? Well, now it’s time to start thinking about Erla Stefánsdóttir, the frontwoman and bassist of the new band DALÍ, as well. The band plays powerful pop songs supported by Erla’s driving voice and driving bass, and like the rad female bassists who have come before her, Erla is a commanding musical presence. With catchy hooks and memorable lyrics, DALÍ’s songs are earworms about love and loss that will be stuck in your head all day long.
It could be easy to write einarIndra off as just another in an expanding pool of electronic musicians. But if you let yourself get lost in his soundscape for just a minute, it’s clear that there’s a much more mature sensibility to his style. The layered sound that einarIndra creates is commandeered by his high vocals which, although unassuming at first, confidently lure the listener in. On his 2016 album ‘Stories’, einarIndra surprises with occasional folk influences, such as the harmonica at the end of “The Songs are Over.” Let einarIndra carry you into the night and lose yourself there.
You’ve probably heard Glowie’s “No More” without even realizing it—it was one of Reykjavík’s biggest pop hits of summer 2015. Glowie sings summery tunes with skillfully crafted hooks that make it nearly impossible not to tap your toes or bop your head along to the beat. Beyond “No More,” her repertoire ranges from subtle acoustic tunes to rousing hits backed by a smooth horn section. Like a lot of pop, Glowie’s music has an ephemeral feel to it. There’s no way to say whether it’ll pass the test of time, but there’s no reason not to enjoy it while it lasts.
These boys from the Reykjanes peninsula will grab you by the brain and pull you into another decade with their blend of psychedelic ambient rock. With guitar riffs that will shake you to the bone, and a controlled but pulsing drum and bass section, Par-Ðar’s sound is tight and well-developed. They have a whole team to get their sound and lights just right for their live shows, so that the experience can be just as powerful live as through a pair of headphones. You’ll never guess that these musicians never actually set foot in the 70s!
Snorri Helgason’s been around the music scene for a few years now, whether as a solo act or with his band Sprengjugöllin. He’s become known for writing folk-inspired songs with expertly crafted lyrics and melodies. But on his upcoming album ‘Vittu til’, which listeners were given a peek at with the release of the single “Einsemd,” Snorri is shaking things up. Gone are the sparsely arranged folk tunes—now he’s playing with a sound that is filled out with a string section and playful guitar riffs. You can sense that Snorri’s about to make waves with his new album, so catch him at Secret Solstice before the wave breaks!
Soffía Björg is a shape-shifter. From one moment to the next, Soffía goes from folk songstress to rock ‘n roll star. Her well-trained voice can rise from a measured whisper to a powerful note that frequently soars above her talented band. With slow-building but catchy tunes, her music has a wistful tone that will take you right back to the nights of summers past. In short, it’s the perfect music to sway along to under the midnight sun of the solstice.
Life is like a box of chocolates, amirite? Or wait, maybe “variety is the spice of life” is a more apt proverb for the last musician on this list. With Sonur Sæll, you’ll find yourself bopping along to jazz standards one minute, funk tunes the next, before seamlessly transitioning to hip-hop beats. He has an eclectic taste for music and a well-trained ear, which makes him one of the most exciting new DJs in Reykjavík. At this year’s Secret Solstice, Sonur Sæll is sure to provide the spice your night needs.
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An invoice to set up a brand new charge on mobile telephones in Oregon died Sunday at the end line without a vote via the country Senate. The Republican Senate walkout in Oregon left Democrats out of time to push the bill forward earlier than the legislative session wrapped up.
Originally unique to increase Internet carriers in rural parts of the kingdom, the law changed over the direction of the session. The very last bill could have charged subscribers about $four a year, with a maximum of the cash going to lessen using approximately $6 a yr the fee that landline telephone subscribers pay to subsidize rural phone carriers. The final model of House Bill 2184 exceeded last week by using the Oregon House could additionally have supplied as much as $five million in the approaching budget cycle to fund a state broadband workplace.
An accomplice invoice to set up that office surpassed the Senate on Sunday on 27-1 vote. But without the cellular smartphone price, the brand new office may have “minimal” investment, in keeping with Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, who led the rush for the new price. Oregon has the bottom cellular cellphone taxes in the nation, keeping with the most current information from the Tax Foundation. But Republicans have been in no mood to make concessions on taxes after a session. At the same time, the Democratic supermajority passed a multibillion-dollar business tax hike, set up a brand new paid own family depart regulation (funded in part via employers), sent a degree to the electorate to set up a recent tobacco tax hike, and unsuccessfully pushed for a new carbon tax. After Senate Republicans again Saturday from their nine-day walkout to block the weather invoice, they waived procedural rules to allow many bills to move ahead before the constitutionally mandated cease of the legislative consultation Sunday.
Republicans took a stand, although, on two bills – the cellular smartphone charge and some other account that would have imposed prices to fund digital court statistics.
On Monday, Marsh stated she’s no longer sure she’ll make every other run at a mobile telephone price when lawmakers return to Salem subsequent wintry weather for their off-yr quick consultation. She stated it might depend upon whether or not rural Republicans express openness to elevating fees for rural broadband. Thus, this mobile era allowed me to make extra money and stay more efficient than the competition. Remember on time this became leading area generation, it became modern, and I had it – the opposition did no longer. No longer turned into I caught in a workplace, I may want to run my enterprise from anywhere, and it allowed me an awful lot of freedom. Often, people, these days do not understand what it has become like earlier than mobile phones. Anyone in business now over the age of fifty sincerely realizes that they consider a time when there have been no cell telephones.
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“My soul goes out of my body when I walk by the plains”. This is a phrase that will surely remain in your mind when you hear the new song that mixes the charm of the Llanos Orientales plains and an electronical sound track.
Imagine a place where the deep green of the plains blends with a thounsand-color sky, crowned by a red moon. A place where nature and adventure vibrate at the same frequency.
That place exists.
‘Inmensa llanura’ song is part of ‘Colombia, Land of Sabrosura’ campaign by which Marca País Colombia promotes different national destinations through music. This song marks a modern twist to traditional musical genres and at the same time it shows the corners and landscapes that make the Llanos Orientales an obligated stop in Colombia.
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individualisation, festivalisation and globalisation (Lundberg, Malm. & Ronström African Studies' Ghana Dance Ensemble, which included instrumentalists tion and Globalisation (pedagogie magister),. 4) Master's Degree Programme in Infor- mation Technology in the Humanities, Arts and Media (filosofie magister),. En global utbildning - Youth Globalisation Awarness Program Läkarkandidat på klinisk praktik inom Gynekologi och obstretik i Ghana Syftet med projektet är Our popular annual report is back - and this time it's personal. We see what's going on in L&D right now, from globalisation to personalisation. International Labour Migrants Unsung heroes of globalisation · Sida · Sida, Utvärdering. 2020-10-08.
To learn more about our solution, reach out to us today. Home » Programs » Ghana » Fall 2021: Ghana: Globalization, Cultural Legacies & the Afro-Chic Experience West Africa through immersion in Ghanaian cities, which challenge stereotypes of Africa and position the continent as a global economic, political, and cultural force. Union democracy and the challenge of globalisation to organised labour in Ghana. 2010. Akua O Britwum 2011-04-07 · Health reports show that the prevalence of lifestyle diseases (chronic non-communicable diseases) such as stroke, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and other cardiovascular diseases are on the increase and are now among the top ten in-patient cause of death in Ghana . Urbanisation, globalisation and nutritional transition are major drivers of Globalisation and Technology is changing the world..
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The answer might be that while globalisation has boosted expansion and interaction within political, economic and cultural terms, it has also brought friction and conflict – which foreign businesses can help to assuage through understanding working practices in China. Join the Globalization Partners Team. At Globalization Partners, we’ll manage the risks associated with your expansion so that you can focus on managing your business. Our team of global experts will provide the support you need as you expand to Ghana and beyond. To learn more about our solution, reach out to us today.
Made-in-Ghana policy to some extent is a response to globalisation, as well as a response to domestic challenges in the form of low nationalism and a lackadaisical attitude of government procurement agencies and departments towards local goods and services. News Ghana is a leading online news portal for business coverage in Ghana as well as the wider West Africa region. While the coverage is broad Tel: +233 234-972-832 or +1-508-812-0505
2010-08-06 · Documentary about the influence of globalisation in Africa and particularly in Ghana. By Kwesi Atta Sakyi 20th September 2011 B.A (Hons), NDP, MPA, Group Diploma, Cert A 4 Yr INTRODUCTION There is the popular saying or apothegm, ‘adapt or perish’.
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CCAC is a global Globalisation is affecting sectors and companies in different ways. But no. av AG Bolin · Citerat av 6 — skulle lanseras i Ghana reste en person från det svenska Norge, Finland, Tyskland, Estland, Ghana och flera andra Formats and Globalisation. London EU Industry Days 2019 focused on key industrial challenges such as sustainability, digitalisation, investment and globalisation. The event, on churches.12 For example, in the so-called anti-globalization religion is very important to them.11 In Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea. In fact, trade policy is about framing globalisation in a way that enables in the world, and Mozambique, Ghana and Zambia are not far behind. Keywords : globalisation; urban Global South; civil society networks; informal on young women (16-24) infected with HIV in Accra, Ghana (Ridge hospital).
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Ghana’s GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is 8.8% as of 2019, according to the GDP released by the IMF . Nigeria is projected at 2.1% GDP growth rate. Understanding whether globalisation has played a role in this transition to practice is important to institutionalise the transition in Ghana and to learn lessons for other countries seeking to implement policies, but analysis is lacking. The world is an interconnected place; no country can survive in isolation because of multilateralism, cultural exchange, trade liberalisation to name a few. Ghana, a little country in West Africa, has undergone the effects of globalisation in many 2019-03-21 · We have shown that a number of globalisation forces have contributed to enabling a transition in abortion care in Ghana, from a restrictive interpretation of the law to facilitating more widespread access to legal, safe abortion services through development of policies and guidelines and a slow change in attitudes and practices of health providers.
A key objective of this chapter is the identification of types of policy options, which could improve the opportunities of smallholders to exploit globalization and to minimize its negative impacts on the smallholder in Ghana. Ghana, cocoa, colonialism and globalisation 5 Yesterday&Today, No. 8, December 2012 It was through the 15th and 16th century voyages of exploration that Spanish conquistadors first encountered cacao in Central America and in 1528, Hernan Cortes first introduced it to Spain. Globalization and Competitiveness: Challenges of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Accra, Ghana Mr. Chosniel Elikem Ocloo Department of Marketing, Accra Polytechnic P.O. Box GP 561, Accra, Ghana Mr. Selorm Akaba Department of Agriculture Extension and Economics University of Cape Coast, Ghana Mr. David Kwaku Worwui-Brown
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From the depths of the most rural village to the world’s biggest cities, the effects of globalization are quite apparent. Remittances, Brain Drain, Microfinance and SMEs – The Impact of Globalisation on the Ghanaian Economy -Part By Kwesi Atta Sakyi 4th March 2013 The UNDP (2005) estimates that there are some 906,698 The main objective of this volume is to contribute to our understanding of the poverty and distributional impact of trade policy reform in Ghana by analyzing how trade liberalisation affects the well-being of households and in particular, if the outcome it generates is pro-poor, with particular interest in the gender-differentiated impact. Summary This report analyses the effects of the politics of globalization on Ghana’s competitive standing on the global arena via an in-depth conceptual interrogation of its foreign policy, its adjustments to the G-Zero world and the role of identity and diasporic politics on its economic development… Globalization, increased competitive pressure and rapid technological changes have brought the business world to a point in history and thus, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) sector in Africa Touchlife World Global Foundation Compensation Plan TLG GHANA COMPENSATION PLAN REGISTRATION FEE: $31 / $35.

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- Kamala Harris put her Washington, DC condo on the market for just under $2 million, per the WSJ.
- The building's amenities include a rooftop grilling terrace, a clubroom with a catering kitchen, and an 82-foot heated rooftop pool.
- Harris and her husband are moving into the vice president's official residence this week after months of renovations.
Kamala Harris put her Washington, DC condo on the market for $1,995,000 this week, Katherine Clarke reported for The Wall Street Journal.
The listing came a few days after the vice president's spokesperson said Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff would move into the vice president's official residence the week of April 5th. Harris and Emhoff had been living for more than two months at Blair House, the president's official guest house, while the vice president's official residence, One Observatory Circle, underwent renovations.
Harris, whose spokesperson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, bought her DC condo for about $1.775 million in 2017, the year she became a senator, per the Journal. The two-bedroom condo spans about 1,731 square feet and features natural oak hardwood floors and custom Italian cabinetry, according to the listing.
The building, called Westlight, offers amenities that include a doorman and 24-hour front desk concierge, a rooftop grilling terrace, a private clubroom with a catering kitchen, and an 82-foot heated rooftop pool. The listing notes that Westlight doesn't have recirculated air; a HEPA air filtration system brings fresh air into each unit directly from outside.
Westlight is in DC's West End, an upscale neighborhood where the median home value is $666,898. The building's director of sales, Mei-Mei Venners, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for this story.
Before she became vice president, Harris and her husband lived in Brentwood, an upscale area of Los Angeles, in a home that's currently valued around $5 million. While the couple still owns their Brentwood home, last month Harris sold another condo in San Francisco that she'd bought in 2004 for $860,000.


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Crystal Structure of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor complexed with (S,R)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-isoxazole-acetic acid methyl ester (ISO-1)
[MIF_HUMAN] Genetic variations in MIF are associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis systemic juvenile (RASJ) [MIM:604302]. An inflammatory articular disorder with systemic-onset beginning before the age of 16. It represents a subgroup of juvenile arthritis associated with severe extraarticular features and occasionally fatal complications. During active phases of the disorder, patients display a typical daily spiking fever, an evanescent macular rash, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, serositis, myalgia and arthritis.
[MIF_HUMAN] Pro-inflammatory cytokine. Involved in the innate immune response to bacterial pathogens. The expression of MIF at sites of inflammation suggests a role as mediator in regulating the function of macrophages in host defense. Counteracts the anti-inflammatory activity of glucocorticoids. Has phenylpyruvate tautomerase and dopachrome tautomerase activity (in vitro), but the physiological substrate is not known. It is not clear whether the tautomerase activity has any physiological relevance, and whether it is important for cytokine activity.
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an immunoregulatory protein that is a potential therapeutic target for a number of inflammatory diseases. Evidence exists that an unexpected catalytic active site of MIF may have a biological function. To gain further insight into the role of the catalytic active site, a series of mutational, structural, and biological activity studies were performed. The insertion of an alanine between Pro-1 and Met-2 (PAM) abolishes a non-physiological catalytic activity, and this mutant is defective in the in vitro glucocorticoid counter-regulatory activity of MIF. The crystal structure of MIF complexed to (S,R)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-isoxazole acetic acid methyl ester (ISO-1), an inhibitor of MIF d-dopachrome tautomerase activity, reveals that ISO-1 binds to the same position of the active site as p-hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid, a substrate of MIF. ISO-1 inhibits several MIF biological activities, further establishing a role for the catalytic active site of MIF.
The tautomerase active site of macrophage migration inhibitory factor is a potential target for discovery of novel anti-inflammatory agents.,Lubetsky JB, Dios A, Han J, Aljabari B, Ruzsicska B, Mitchell R, Lolis E, Al-Abed Y J Biol Chem. 2002 Jul 12;277(28):24976-82. Epub 2002 May 7. PMID:11997397
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Oil billionaire Harold Hamm wrote out a cheque for a staggering $975m (£646m) to settle his divorce from ex-wife Sue Ann Arnall - only to see it rejected.
Continental Resources chief executive Hamm, 69, offered the huge sum to second wife Arnall in the hope it would end their acrimonious two and half year divorce.
However Arnall, who was married to Hamm for 26 years, is seeking several billion from the energy magnate. The cheque she returned was made out for an eye-watering $974,790,317.77.
In November he was ordered to pay Arnall $320m (£212m) by the end of 2014 with the rest to be paid in installments of about $7m (£4.6m) a month.
He has already handed over two homes, a ranch and other assets worth another several million dollars to his ex-wife.
Hamm saw his fortune decline in 2014 after a tumultuous year for oil prices saw prices hit a five-year low.
Plummeting oil prices slashed $4.3bn off his worth, according to Forbes, while shares in his Continental Resources lost one third of their value.


text: Kirschenmichel is a classic bread pudding with cherries that is popular in the south of Germany. It is one of those old recipes that makes sure that nothing ever goes to waste - like stale bread - something I never even have around. I have to plan ahead and let bread go stale if I want to make this pudding, which is quite silly but completely worth it, after all. My grandma used to make Kirschenmichel and Ofenschlupfer, a bread pudding with apples and a sweet name as Ofenschlupfer means “oven” and sliding or crawling. I always thought of it as crawled into the oven as one would into bed. A very comfortable thought and a sweet treat for lunch. Kirschenmichel means “cherry Michael” and I have no idea why.


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My all time fav. game ever would have 2 be.....the....TEKKEN series!!! I just love it soooooooooooooooooooo much!!! It's like the most awesome game ever!!!!! It's got great fightin and action.And the art style ain't half bad either lol. But I just love this game!!!!!
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Hmm I would have to say Tekken 4!
that is a pretty cool game, but why just one game...cause S.L.A.I.
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NOT just the title.
My favorite PS game would be Chrono Cross. I loved the plot and the twist and turns. I also loved the characters (in addition: these were nicely made!) and the graphics of this game!. The gameplay and the sound effect are great! And the short movies are awesome! >Harle<
Thank you very much,Reese for this wonderful signature ^_^
Well i always loved and still love play Grandia 2. I like it cause the story is solid and the animation alright. The game itself is good so that's why i still like to play it.
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As the international community focuses its attention on India, a similar crisis is unfolding in neighboring Nepal. Public hospitals are overwhelmed. In Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, the best private hospitals are turning away patients for lack of beds, supplies, and equipment. Patients are dying at home and outside hospitals as they await admission. In rural areas, where there are no hospitals, people are dying at home without ever being diagnosed or treated.
Nearly 50% of Covid-19 tests are coming back positive as cases continue to rise above 455,000, with more than 5,000 Covid-19-related deaths reported. Experts predict 40,000 deaths by the beginning of July, a projected per-capital toll worse than any other country in South or Southeast Asia. Only 1.27% of the country's nearly 30 million residents are fully vaccinated.
The surge of patients coming to health facilities has increased the demand for medical oxygen, ventilators, test kits, and personal protective equipment (PPE) for front line workers, with most facilities facing a critical shortage of supplies, as well as sickness and deaths of medical staff and patients.
Vulnerable people more at risk
“Imagine what this sort of crisis means for older people and people with disabilities, who are more likely to get infected and suffer more severe symptoms and complications from Covid-19," says Reiza Dejito, Humanity & Inclusion's director for Nepal. “It impacts them in two ways because they find it difficult to move or find help. Strict lockdown measures also very often result in a loss of income and limited access to health and social welfare services. Vulnerable people are therefore more at risk.”
Need for accessible information
As the pandemic worsens, needs are growing. The lack of accessible and accurate information for families means people are unaware of Covid-19 risks and the need to protect themselves, get tested and vaccinated. People living in rural areas and urban slums do not have access to clean water, soap or masks. Mental health risks are also very high. The crisis, illness, death and isolation have increased the vulnerability of the population as a whole.
During the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, Humanity & Inclusion provided more than 15,000 families—or nearly 90,000 people—in Nepal with support. In response to this latest wave, Humanity & Inclusion again plans to improve access to communication by developing and sharing information on Covid-19 risks, prevention and response. This will include information in accessible formats such as Braille, and the use of local languages.
Teams also plan to distribute hygiene kits and promote hygiene practices to new isolation and quarantine facilities, isolated communities, and vulnerable individuals. Humanity & Inclusion plans to distribute food and provide care to older people, people suffering chronic diseases, pregnant people, people with disabilities, and others. Teams are also expected to provide mental health and psychosocial support to assist frontline healthcare workers, people with disabilities, vulnerable people and their families. Humanity & Inclusion is referring at-risk people to services provided by government agencies and partners, and may help them get to and from health facilities for testing, treatment and vaccinations.
Humanity & Inclusion's Covid-19 response
Humanity & Inclusion teams around the world have been responding to the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. Donors helped launch more than 170 Covid-19 projects in dozens of countries to protect and care for the people that others overlook. Between March and August 2020, staff have reached 2.2 million people with care and aid to keep Covid-19 at bay.


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LIMA — There’s always something to build on after an early-season tournament.
After Allen East came away with its second consecutive Allen County Tournament title Saturday at Lima Senior, longtime Allen East wrestling coach Mike Abbey had plenty to build on.
The Mustangs won six individual titles Saturday as they ended the tournament with 266 points. Shawnee finished a distant second with 199 points. Spencerville (160), Bluffton (134) and Delphos Jefferson (121) rounded out the top five squads in the 11-team field.
“We had some great early rounds,” Abbey said. “We had one loss, going into the finals; and we lost two more there. So, we ended up being 34-3 on the day. We lost a couple tough matches in the finals, but it’s OK. It’s December, and that’s why we come and do these matches and tournaments. … We come to these tournaments to get some good matches.
“We were pretty solid, today. I think we had six champs, and we wrestled pretty aggressively. But we lost our aggressiveness in the finals. So, we have to get in a little better shape. That’s what it comes down to. That’s what it’s going to take at districts and state, if we want to do the things we want to do.”
Hunter Sidle (113-pound weight class), Chase Miller (160), Blake Hershberger (170), Caleb Welch (195), Alek Winner (220) and Eli Criblez (285) all won titles Saturday for Allen East.
Hershberger, who is still undefeated on the season at 11-0, is looking forward to making another run to the state tournament. Last season, the season was halted right before the state tournament, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hershbeger notched his second Allen County title Saturday. He was a state-qualifier last season.
“It’s kind of exciting for me, because I wanted to get down to state last year, and I wasn’t able to do that,” Hershberger said. “So, it still feels like I’m pushing to reach my goal that I had last year. It would be exciting to get down there and be able to wrestle.”
In Saturday’s finals, Hershberger pinned Lima Senior’s Javier Brito-Diaz in just 39 seconds.
For Sidle, Saturday’s Allen County title was the first for the Allen East junior.
Sidle, who is a standout distance runner, said the transition from cross country (in the fall) to wrestling is not always an easy one.
“I always think I’ll be in shape at the beginning of the (wrestling) season, because of cross country, but it’s a different form of conditioning,” Sidle said.
“We do a lot of running (in wrestling). But wrestling is so different than cross country, because you use about every single muscle in your body in wrestling.”
Along with Carmean and Hershberger, Kade Wireman and Eli Criblez are returning state qualifiers for Allen East. On Saturday, Wireman placed second at 145.
The most highly anticipated match of Saturday’s tournament was the matchup between Elida junior Conner Douglass and Allen East senior Drake Carmean in the finals of the 138-pound weight class.
According to the latest rankings on borofanohio.net, Carmean was ranked No. 1 in Division III in the 138-pound weight class. Carmean has been a state-qualifier all three previous years.
On Saturday, in the round-robin format, Carmean and Douglass met earlier in the day, where Carmean defeated Douglass, 9-3.
However, in Saturday’s finals, Douglass (5-2) slipped out with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Carmean. It was Douglass’ third Allen County title.
“Since I wrestled him earlier in the day, I didn’t know that I would have to wrestle him again in the finals,” Douglass said. “When someone told me I thought, ‘Oh boy, I don’t know if I have this in me.’ … But sure enough, I did. This is definitely my favorite title so far.”
Douglass was named by the coaches as the MVP of Saturday’s tournament.
“Basically, I knew he was beatable, after that first match,” Douglass said about Carmean. “It was 9-3, but the score made it look like it wasn’t very close. We wrestled really hard in that first match. I got busted up. I just wanted to bring it to him.
“There were some things I changed up (between the first and second matches on Saturday). I have a good coaching staff, and everyone believed in me. That really helps. Drake is aggressive, and he’s strong. He’s always going to try to break you. He’s solid all the way around.”
Other champions on Saturday included: Bluffton’s Thayne Kleman (106) and Tayton Kleman (126), Chase Martin from Delphos St. John’s (182), Lima Central Catholic’s Gavin Caprella (120), Lima Senior’s Aaron Bowsher (145) and Shawnee’s Cory Beach (132) and Mason Adlesh (152).
NORTH LEWISBURG — Coldwater (181.5 points) finished first followed by Kenton (168) in the 12 team competition.
Coldwater’s Grant Heuing (145 pounds) and Caleb Stammen (195) and Kenton’s Anthony Hunt (138) and Carter Bays (170) won individual titles.
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