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Steve Hilton has attracted flak across the old and new media following the FT’s revelations about his suggestions for stimulating economic growth. The proposals that hit the headlines included the abolition of maternity leave, labour market policies that contravened European law and the suspension of all consumer rights. Many have criticised the proposals for a range of offences including apparently overlooking the rule of law. Others have defended the utility of blue skies thinking when seeking ways to deal with the challenges that face us.
Personally I’m not averse to blue skies thinking. But the idea that off the wall thinking is central to the role of a strategy director is curious. One would have thought strategy should entail something rather more concrete and grounded, at some point in the process at least. And as someone more disposed to bottom up decision making and a Parliamentary party that is charged with representing the collective will of its members, I’m not so keen on the idea that one unelected, unaccountable and largely anonymous individual should have such influence over policy in the first place.
But the main thing that strikes me about these revelations is that they are not very “Blue Skies” at all.
The ideas are certainly more far reaching than suggestions being made elsewhere. But otherwise they come straight out of the economic liberal playbook. For a period, following a global economic crash brought about in large part by inadequate regulation, the deregulators were cowed. But it appears that they are back again and making some noise.
A recent post at ConservativeHome pursued a similar theme in reviewing growth proposals from right wing think tanks. It argued for a range of deregulatory measures, including exempting small businesses from all employment law or the Institute of Economic Affairs’ proposal for regionalising – for which we can read ‘reduction’ in most cases – of the minimum wage. This week Vince Cable launched the first phase of his red tape challenge. The initial media response from the business lobby was to argue that he was tinkering around the edges rather than dealing with the big bureaucratic burdens like the minimum wage or employment protections.
The message is simple. Sluggish growth? The answer is deregulation. Suggestions that previous doses of deregulation have not notably delivered prosperity are met with what I have elsewhere termed the ‘deregulatory dismissal’. Deregulation may not yet have been as effective as promised – indeed it may appear positively harmful – but that is not because it is the wrong prescription. Rather it is because policy hasn’t gone far enough fast enough to deliver its putative benefits. This is an article of faith rather than an evidence-based proposition.
The only thing about the Hilton prescription is that, given a free hand, it would appear that he’d propel us back to a nineteenth century system of social protections and social rights rather faster than the current Government feels is politically feasible.
There are at least three specific responses to the Hilton proposals.
First, to suggest that the wholesale suspension of consumer rights, for example, would boost economic activity shows a breathtaking failure to understand how markets in developed economies actually work. Many markets only work because of such protections. Where information is asymmetric it is only through systems such as kitemarking or guarantees that consumers can have any confidence in what they are buying and they will be compensated if the product turns out to be inadequate. The market may well fail without such regulatory intervention. Of course there are some regulations that are not necessary or that have outlived their usefulness. That would appear to be the focus of Cable’s initiative. But the idea that all such regulation is unnecessary is crass. In some markets – such as pharmaceuticals – regulation can be constitutive. Without it the market just would not exist.
I am constantly surprised by the way some of the most vociferous advocates of markets have such a weak understanding of how markets actually work. But then zealotry for any cause rarely requires close critical engagement. That is its strength and its weakness.
Second, we need to challenge the idea that the UK economy is oppressed by an excess burden of regulation. As Rick at Flipchart Fairytales pointed out in a post last month, drawing on OECD product market regulation index (reported here), the UK already ranks as one of the least regulated countries in which to do business. The idea that bureaucracy is imposing an excessive burden upon business and holding back the economic recovery is just not credible. Developed economies facing a much more complex and intrusive burden of regulation are emerging much more strongly from recession.
Employers will claim that regulation is the problem. Of course they will. It is in their interests to have as little constraints in the arbitrary exercise of their discretion as possible. And if a Government is willing to buy their arguments then they will hardly object. But that has little or nothing to do with fostering economic recovery. In fact, I would go further and argue that reducing employment protections is completely the wrong strategy. Seeking to compete by degrading the labour market means that there is less incentive to seek to enhance competitiveness through technological innovation or genuine enhancements to technical efficiency. It’s lazy and it will increase inequality and impact negatively upon the welfare of the many to the benefit of the few.
Third, the whole premise of this approach is that the problem lies on the supply side. Yet, the current sluggish growth is surely a problem with demand. Increases in taxation, continued employment uncertainty generated by Osborne’s deficit strategy, significant deleveraging by households, weakness in the Eurozone are all contributing to weak demand. If we rewind to the good old days – all the way back to pre-2008 – the economy was performing well within the current regulatory structure. Labour and product market regulation were not a barrier then. Deregulation is near the bottom of the list of things that are likely to help in the current context.
There is certainly a need for supply side action to rebalance the economy away from property and financial services, but that is a whole different issue.
The Hilton prescription is just the same old same old from the Right. Only more so. It should be treated as such. Surely what we need is some genuinely novel thinking to move the economy onto a healthier and more sustainable trajectory.

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Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) is a term associated with Microsoft products that refers to the SPNEGO, Kerberos, and NTLMSSP authentication protocols with respect to SSPI functionality introduced with Microsoft Windows 2000 and included with later Windows NT-based operating systems. The term is used more commonly for the automatically authenticated connections between Microsoft Internet Information Services, Internet Explorer, and other Active Directory aware applications.
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2023 Elections; “If they postpone it, something may happen”-Popular Cleric
Following reports of an alleged plan to postpone the 2023 election, an evangelist has issued a warning to the federal government.
Samson Oluwamodede predicted that if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, attempts to postpone the upcoming general election, there will be consequences.
Oluwamodede was adamant that moving the election from its current dates would plunge the country into chaos and unrest.
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According to the popular cleric and General Overseer of the Prayer Centre Church of God, PCCG, everything must be done to ensure that peace does not elude the country at this critical juncture.
“Nigeria may postpone the general election. If they postpone it, something may happen. I repeat, something unbearable may happen.
Oluwamodede in his prophecy during a church programme said, “So, we don’t want them to postpone it. We don’t war. We don’t want a crisis. We don’t want chaos. Let there be peace in Nigeria.”
In the last 24 hours, there have been speculations that the polls could be cancelled or postponed owing to the growing wave of election-related insecurity across the country.
Chairman, Board of The Electoral Institute, TEI, INEC’s training arm, Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru also made the observation on Monday in Abuja at the validation of election security training resources.
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Here is WxCaster PAT’s final video update on Tropical Depression Bopha (Bagyong Pablo).
The system is now dissipating over the South China Sea, just west of Ilocos Norte in Luzon Island. Very little convection remains although the low-level center is still intact. The proximity of the remnants of Bopha, combined with the surge of Northeast Monsoon (Amhinan) will continue to bring breezy conditions and occasional rains across Northern Luzon.
Baguio Doppler Radar from PAGASA
Looking at the latest doppler image from Baguio City, we can see some rain showers still impacting parts of Luzon. Fortunately, most of them are isolated and should not really amount into anything significant.
The remnants of Bopha will be fully absorbed into the frontal boundary and should not be a cause of concern anymore. Hopefully, this will be our last storm this year.
Continue to check with us here at Western Pacific Weather for the latest updates on the Tropics and also out in Eastern Asia. Stay safe!


- How to distinguish inferior LED lights: the brightness of LED light beads
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- How to distinguish inferior LED lights: FPC board quality
FPC boards are divided into double panels and single panels. Needless to say, double panels are definitely better than single panels, mainly reflected in thermal conductivity is much better, and the quality is definitely more stable, the corresponding price is also higher.
- How to distinguish inferior LED lights: cleanliness of solder joints and surfaces
The LED light strips produced by the regular LED light strip manufacturers are produced using the SMT patch process, using solder paste and reflow soldering processes. Therefore, the solder joints on the LED light strip are relatively smooth and the amount of solder is not much. The solder joints extend from the FPC pad to the LED electrode in a circular arc shape. However, the amount of solder in the solder spot of the cottage version of the LED light strip is uneven, and there is more than one round dot to surround the solder foot. At the same time, there will be different degrees of tin tips, which is a typical phenomenon of manual welding. The home is produced by the placement machine. In addition, the cleanliness of the surface of the LED light strip produced by the SMT process is very good, and no impurities and stains can be seen. If the cottage version of the LED light strip produced by hand welding process, no matter how to clean the surface, there will be stains and traces of cleaning.
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Regarding the color temperature difference, due to the fact that the light bead manufacturer debugs the LED chip, there will be some deviations. It is normal for the color temperature difference to exist, but the LED light strips produced by the regular LED light strip manufacturers basically cannot be seen by the naked eye in the same batch. . The color temperature difference of the same batch of inferior manufacturers is obvious.
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Emirates has now restored its full Japanese network with the resumption of its passenger services to Tokyo-Haneda on 2 April 2023, further building on the airline’s continued expansion in the Southeast Asia region.
Operated by one of Emirates’ latest Boeing 777 “Game Changer” aircraft, flight EK312 departed from Dubai on 2 April at 7:50hrs, and arrived in Haneda at 22:35hrs. The return flight EK313 departed from Haneda on 3 April at 00:05hrs and arrived in Dubai at 06:20hrs. All times are local time.
Satish Sethi, Emirates’ Country Manager in Japan, said: “We’re very excited for the continued development of our Japanese network and are especially thankful to the local authorities and our partners for their support and for working with us on providing seamless global connectivity for Japanese travelers. We’ve been present in the market for more than 20 years and are thoroughly pleased to finally return to Tokyo-Haneda, as we look forward to supporting the increasing demand for international travel. The night flight from Haneda offers valuable connectivity for travellers to access Emirates’ points beyond Dubai, in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East regions.”
In addition to Tokyo-Haneda, Emirates also operates daily services to Tokyo-Narita and Osaka. From these points, the airline offers passengers access to 24 additional domestic cities in Japan through its codeshare partnership with Japan Airlines. Japanese travellers can also benefit seamless access to more than 130 destinations across 6 continents via Dubai, including popular destinations such as Italy, Spain, US, France and UK.
From First Class through to the Business and Economy Class cabins, the latest Emirates Boeing 777 aircraft features ergonomically designed seats, and the latest version of the airline’s award-winning ice inflight entertainment system across all cabins. Designed with an emphasis on exceptional customer comfort and ultimate privacy, Emirates ‘Game-Changing’ Boeing 777 private suites feature floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and ultra-modern design features. Offering up to 40 square feet of personal space each, the spacious, fully-enclosed private suites are laid out in a 1-1-1 configuration, for a total of six suites equipped with virtual windows that display HD projection of the outside world.
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Who Knew That Kristin Cavallari Had A Cute Son?
The former reality TV star was spotted in Los Angeles today grabbing lunch at Urth Cafe with her super cute son, Camden. This is only the second time we’ve gotten a good look at Camden–the last time being in November–and boy is he growing up to be adorable.
Sure Kristin is a pretty girl, but I won’t lie, I didn’t think her baby would be this cute. Also, I really enjoy when mothers and sons match patterns, à la Rachel Zoe and Skyler Berman, so Camden and Kristin in their stripes is pretty cute.
We know she’s a huge fan of doing that, and a cute baby is sure to get some paparazzi swarming.
Launch the gallery to check out all the photos of Kristin and her baby boy. I’m still amazed that she and Jay Cutler had such a cutie. Who else is amazed by this with me? Sound off in the comments!


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PG Raymond Felton (8/15, four-game suspension) will be eligible to return 11/6 against Portland.
F Paul George (8/1, right leg surgery) is out indefinitely.
C Joel Embiid (7/5, right foot surgery) is out indefinitely.
G Pierre Jackson (7/5, torn right Achilles) is expected to miss the entire season.
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MCLEANSVILLE – A project to widen a portion of U.S. 70 in Guilford County is set to begin this week.
Contract crews are widening the highway between Mt. Hope Church/McLeansville Road and Sun Lake Drive east of Greensboro.
The $11.1 million project was awarded in March and is being paid for in part with Build NC Bonds.
Work is scheduled to be substantially complete on this 1.5-mile stretch in late 2021, but various lane closures will be in place throughout the work zone through spring 2022. Drivers should slow down and be mindful of the crews at work in this area.
This is one of four segments making up a broader project to widen U.S. 70 between Penry Road and Rock Creek Dairy Road. The section between Penry and Willowlake roads is already complete. The eastern sections are being considered for future funding.


"Who's Jeff Bezos?" asks a student as Jeff Bezos enters a high school class in US
No matter how big a name you are, if you are not active on social media, it's highly likely that the kids of today's age will not recognize you. Something similar happened inside a classroom at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon walked into the class and started talking about his "Future Engineer programme". A student at the same time asked another student twice, "Who's Jeff Bezos?"


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Visionary leaders in six Northeast Ohio counties collaborated in late 1995 to establish the Northeast Ohio Joint Office of Economic Development (JOED), and in early 1996 formed NEOTEC to carry out the JOED’s regional economic development agenda to elevate Northeast Ohio’s position in the global marketplace.
Since its inception, NEOTEC has grown dramatically through expansion of membership and programs, and has assumed a leadership role in connecting the Northeast Ohio region to the world. NEOTEC—a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization—is now 8 counties strong, including Columbiana, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, and Trumbull counties. Major cities in the NEOTEC region include Akron, Canton, Cleveland, East Liverpool, Kent, Mansfield, Medina, Warren, and Youngstown.
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Flanked by representatives from LeisureCorp, Don Foster, MP, (Toiletmen) receives his award for championing piers, parks and leisure areas. Honest, not invent.
Don Foster, the Lib Dem MP for Bath, admitted this weekend that members in his constituency had resigned over the coalition and he predicted more would "walk away" from the party. "Of course, it will be difficult for Liberal Democrats, including me, to swallow having to work with the people we were campaigning against, but the electorate asked us to do that and that's what we will have to deliver," he said.
When was that, then, Don, that the electorate asked you to join the Sam 'n'Daves?
Translation: a hung parliament has enabled us to grab power and with our friends, the Tories, embark on a massive legislative programme which wasn't in our manifestos and which nobody has voted for and which we have only just dreamed-up to take people's minds off the cuts which we are about to impose on their standards of living. But not ours, although some of us have taken a five per cent cut in salaries on jobs which we shouldn't have, can't do and nobody elected us to. The New Politics is great, better than the old politics. Or worse.


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Scientists have discovered how to predict earthquake-like events in pulsars. These are explosive episodes that likely crack a pulsar's dense crust and momentarily bump up its spin rate.
Using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, the team has tracked about 20 "starquakes" on one particular pulsar over the past eight years and uncovered a remarkably simple, predictive pattern.
For a pulsar called PSR J0537-6910 the time to the next quake is proportional to the size of the last quake. With this simple formula, scientists have been able to turn the Rossi Explorer to the pulsar a few days before the quake to watch the event unfold.
Dr. John Middleditch of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., led the discovery and presents this finding today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Calgary.
"By monitoring the pulsar spin rate and changes in the spin, we can pin down a starquake event to within a couple of days," said Middleditch. "These and other details have helped to simplify what has, until now, appeared to be a bewildering assemblage of facts about starquakes in pulsars. If only predicting earthquakes were this straightforward."
Middleditch's colleagues include Drs. Frank Marshall and Will Zhang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Dr. Eric Gotthelf of Columbia University in New York; and Dr. Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
A pulsar is the dense remains of an exploded star once several times more massive than our sun. A pulsar contains about a sun's worth of mass compacted in a sphere only about 20 miles across. A pulsar is so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh two billion tons on Earth. The pulsar is so named because from our perspective it pulses with radiation from its two magnetic poles as it spins, sending two lighthouse-like beams through space.
PSR J0537-6910 is located in a 4,000-year old supernova remnant called N157B in the crowded Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy near our Milky Way galaxy. This is about 170,000 light years away and visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
PSR J0537-6910 is known for its frequent quakes, which scientists call glitches. Pulsars are born spinning but gradually slow down. During a glitch, the spin rate increases slightly. PSR J0537-6910 spins at a rate of about 62 times per second, or 62 hertz. During a glitch, this pulsar's spin jumps up as much as one cycle every 25 seconds, a greater gain than what is seen in any other pulsar. Then the pulsar proceeds to slow down again.
After about ten glitches since monitoring began in 1999, the scientists saw a pattern. The amount of increase in spin with each glitch could be translated directly into the number of days until the next glitch. Larger glitches meant a longer wait until the next one.
The predictive nature of glitches in PSR J0537-6910 is so strong that it firms up the leading theory on what causes glitches. Pulsars have a solid crust, about a kilometer thick, with a neutron superfluid in its lower regions, which also permeates into the rest of the interior. The crust's spin slows down more quickly than its own superfluid. At some point, the differential rotation reaches a tipping point. A glitch occurs when the superfluid transfers its angular momentum to the crust, bumping up its speed. That maximum differential rotation between superfluid and crust in PSR J0537-6910 appears to be one cycle every 25 seconds. Almost all other pulsars, including the famous Crab pulsar, which spins more slowly and has fewer glitches, do not exhibit much of a predictive pattern.
Predicting glitches can be fruitful because the biggest glitches likely entail a massive cracking of the pulsar surface and a terrific outpouring of energy. By studying these larger and rarer events, scientists can gain key insight into the nature of pulsars. Pulsars are laboratories of extreme gravity, exhibiting energy and pressure far beyond the reaches of humanmade experiments, and the study of pulsars might lead to a better understanding of fundamental physics.
"A month ago we were watching the pulsar get the 'jitters' before the big quake," Middleditch said. "Then, by May 7th, the big one had happened. We can only predict one glitch at a time."
Middleditch noted that his team also found evidence the pulsar's magnetic pole is migrating away from its rotation axis by a degree every two centuries, or a few feet per year. Although a known feature on Earth, where the magnetic north pole is a moving target many kilometers from the North Pole, this is the first strong case for magnetic pole migration on a pulsar.
For a visualization of what a pulsar undergoing a starquake might look like, see this computer animation.(Credit: NASA)
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Lot 340 is dramatically marked by ripe stone fruits, marmalade, citrus flowers and quinine. The texture is succulent with intertwined fruit flavors and lively acid on the palate. Fabulous.
Appellation: Santa Maria 100%
Grape: Chardonnay 100%
Alcohol by volume: 14.2%
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Lot 340 Santa Maria Chardonnay is another stellar release of wine again produced for us by a legendary vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley. The same vineyard, in fact that produced Lot 341 Syrah for us. Prices for these wines range from about $25 and up. 40% new French oak.
Salt-Baked Sea Bass with Crispy Lemon Potatoes
Sea Bass 1 sea bass (about 1.5 lbs) 1 cup kosher salt 2 egg whites 3 fresh rosemary sprigs half a lemon, sliced
To Serve lemon olive oil flat-leaf parsley, torn coarse sea salt freshly ground pepper
Crispy Lemon Potatoes 4 medium-sized, starchy potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch wedges 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 cup chicken stock 2 cloves garlic, minced juice of 2 lemons 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano sea salt freshly ground pepper fresh oregano to garnish (optional)
1. Pre-heat oven to 400°F.
2. In a large bowl, whip egg whites until foamy. Slowly, whisk in the salt, using your hands to incorporate when the mixture becomes too thick to whisk.
3. Arrange a thin layer of the salt mixture on a baking sheet for each whole fish, just long and wide enough to fit the fish.
4. Lay each fish on top of the salt and stuff cavity with lemon slices and rosemary sprigs. Top fish with remaining salt mixture, in the shape of the fish, patting down with your hands to form a sealed, smooth mound, ensuring the fish is completely enclosed by the salt. (Sometimes it's fun to leave a little bit of the tail and mouth peeking out).
5. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Let rest for five.
6. Present to guests as is (and allow them to ooh and ahh).
7. To serve, crack the shell with a back of a spoon, peel away the salt and debone. Drizzle with sea salt, pepper, good quality extra virgin olive oil, lemon and parsley.
Crispy Lemon Potatoes
1. Preheat oven on to 425°F.
2. Place all ingredients (except for garnish) in baking pan and toss to coat. Place in oven.
3. Roast for 20 minutes and remove from oven quickly to baste the potatoes with the juices. Place back in oven and cook for another 20 minutes, removing again to baste once more. Roast for another 20 minutes or so, until brown and crispy.
Cameron Hughes suggests pairing this dish with Lot 340, a Santa Maria Chardonnay which is aromatically rich with stone-fruit, orange marmalade, and citrus blossom all carried on a bright beam of crisp minerality. On the palate the rich fruit/mineral notes are kissed with butterscotch in a long finish.
Cameron Hughes wine pairing/tasting notes
We were not able to find whole Sea Bass. We did all our shopping at the local San Francisco Whole Foods, two different locations with large fish departments. We decided on Branzino as it is closest in texture to Sea Bass. So we had discussed this fish to pair with the Chablis but this fish is perfect with the Lot 340, 2010 Santa Maria Chardonnay. The lemon, citrus notes of the wine complemented the lemon garnish as well as not overpowering the delicate fish. This is the best pairing, though in a pinch, the Chablis would be fine. The Lot 326, 2010 Sonoma Pinot does not pair with this dish.
DOUBLE GOLD - Lot 400 2010 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon SILVER - Lot 345 2010 Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon SILVER - Lot 404 2010 Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon SILVER - Lot 340 2010 Santa Maria Valley Chardonnay SILVER - Lot 279 2009 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

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The device measures up to 395 feet with 1/16 inch accuracy. You can use the smart horizontal function, min/max, stake out, painter, Pythagoras, and many more features to measure and calculate whatever you need. Importantly for contractors, handymen, and other professionals, the E7400x has a 2-meter drop rating and is resistant to water and dirt. This is a hardy little laser meter that can withstand pretty much anything you throw at it. It’s also user-friendly – the unit has a few buttons that are intuitive to use and a backlit LCD display that ensures proper visibility in both light and dark rooms.
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Orphan Black was a huge hit for BBC when it came out it 2013. The engaging sci-fi clone saga starring the brilliant Tatiana Maslany playing multiple versions of herself was a cult hit. It recently ended its 5 year run in 2018, but the series might be getting new life on AMC.
Temple St. Productions, which produced the original series, is on board to produce the series, which we hear is not a reboot or spinoff, but will be a new story set in the Orphan Black universe.
Orphan Black, which helped put BBC America on the original scripted series map as its first homegrown hit, aired for five seasons. It starred Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany as multiple clones in the Peabody Award-winning series that all started on a train platform. A troubled woman, Beth Childs (Maslany), locked eyes with an unknown identical woman, Sarah Manning (Maslany), before jumping to her death. From that day on, they were inextricably linked to a clone conspiracy that came to rule Sarah’s life. The cast also included Ari Millen, Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Skyler Wexler, Kevin Hanchard, Evelyne Brochu, Kristian Bruun and Josh Vokey.


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Dan Rockhill’s Studio 804 purchased 44 solar panels from us to install on the building that students designed and built themselves. View of the rooftop panels at JCCC’s Galileo Building.[/caption]
It’s unusual for us to only sell solar panels. Energy’s a complicated beast. We focus on making it simple. And as an integrated solar provider, we offer financing, installation, and maintenance – all under one roof. We also make sure the location we’re installing the panels is in the right condition for panels. For example, if they are being installed on a roof then we will get a roofing company Winston Salem to repair any issues the roof has to make sure it’s structurally sound before installation. Or, if the panels are being installed at ground level, we ensure there isn’t anything near that can damage them.
But Studio 804 is not a typical client. They’re not a typical architecture firm.
Led by J. L. Constant Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill and run by senior students at the University of Kansas, Studio 804 designs and builds one building each year – no outsourcing involved. Everything from laying out the building design to the point of foundation to electrical wiring was completed by the students, giving them a different experience, says Studio 804 graduate Thomas Nguyen, “than with any other internship or firm.”
“Most architects don’t know how what they draw comes together on-site,” says Nguyen. He’s speaking with me in the lobby of his class’s design, the Galileo Building – a classroom and meeting space for Johnson County Community College’s Center for Sustainability. Later, as we talk, the quiet rush of water filters in, as the building’s three living walls are watered – giving me the sense of being in an open arboretum, when in fact, the ceilings are 11 feet tall.
The green wall in the lobby of the JCCC’s Galileo Building is framed by LED lighting and skylights, that allow for daylight and air flow.[/caption]
Nguyen and his classmates spent the fall semester working to integrate individual design ideas together into what they would then start construction on in the spring semester – two weeks before the spring semester started, actually.
And because the Galileo Building is built for education, it was very important to its architects that “people were able to see the systems,” Nguyen explains. “A passive system,” he says, “is anything that happens without needing power or assistance.” Such as the building’s concrete floor, aided by the “double-envelope louver” system.
As we sat in the lobby at midday, the room was well-lit with daylight – each room incorporates skylights for additional light, as well as cross-ventilation – but still cool, and comfortable. Nguyen explained that at that moment, the louvers were angled in such a way so that there’s no direct sunlight inside, which helps with cooling.
In the winter, they’re angled so that the sunlight streaming in heats up the concrete floors which radiate up at night, warming the interior. The outside concrete areas may benefit from a waterproof membrane for concrete fluid solution that can protect it from the outside elements.
The louver system Studio 804 designed for the Galileo Building is a passive system that controls the amount of heat and light the building interior receives from solar energy.[/caption]
Up on top of the building, soaking up more direct sunlight, are the 44 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels – an active system. A green roof space borders the system. Combined with the building’s wind turbine, these two active systems will offset an estimated 70% of its energy consumption.
With the advisement of an electrician, Nguyen himself was in charge of installing the panels. (Before this project), “I was interested in PV,” Nguyen says, “but I didn’t exactly know how they work – I never understood the balance, how they sit on a flat roof without penetrating.” He pauses and smiles. “I also always thought it was all one system, all one string – I didn’t know I’d be attaching each string.”
He shows me the monitor meant as a display for JCCC students, faculty, and visitors to see how much energy the building is producing from it’s solar and wind electric systems. At 12 p.m. in early September, the 44 solar PV panels are putting out about 5100 watts.
We get to talking about sustainability in design, which Nguyen defines as “designing responsible. I don’t like the word green – we’re not doing anything green, we’re just doing something with sustainable systems.” Meaning, Nyugen and his peers at Studio 804 created a building that runs efficiently, with minimal waste – and it’s a thought process Nguyen says architecture programs around the country are turning their focus to.

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Mississippi appealed a federal judge’s ruling blocking a new state law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat who is running for governor, filed the notice of appeal June 21 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The law signed in March by Gov. Phil Bryant (R) bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Georgia, Kentucky, and Ohio passed similar bans this year. Missouri approved an abortion prohibition after eight weeks, and Alabama banned virtually all abortions in that state.
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Strategically located in the heart of the city, this 3-star hotel makes for an ideal base in Paris. It is located a brief stroll from Notre Dame de Paris and Seine.
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With no traffic, the 0.4 mi drive between Hotel Residence des Arts and Paris All airports (the nearest airport) will generally only take about . If you’re staying in a metropolitan area, you may see your drive time increase due to busy roads.
Rideshare apps and taxis remain a very common solution for Hotel Residence des Arts guests. This is often the most cost-effective method of transportation when visiting Paris.
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Hotel Residence des Arts does have a restaurant. There is also a bar and lounge area in the hotel.
Hotel Residence des Arts does have a laundry service. Contact the property for details. Guests also have access to an iron and an ironing board during their stay - either in the room, or by asking the front desk.
The popular Champs-Elysées is just over 1.6 mi from Hotel Residence des Arts.
Hotel Residence des Arts is a good choice to stay at if you want to visit Notre Dame, which is 0.4 mi away.
Hotel Residence des Arts is 0.2 mi away from the center of Les Halles, Paris. Consider visiting Eiffel Tower, a popular landmark that can be accessed from Hotel Residence des Arts by various forms of transportation.

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Brute Force (1947) is an American film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, and Charles Bickford. The film also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, and Ella Raines. The screenplay was by Richard Brooks, the cinematography was by William H. Daniels, and the music was by Miklos Rozsa.
After returning from solitary confinement, Joe Collins (Lancaster) plans his escape from Westgate Prison, along with some of his fellow prisoners. Along with his plans for escape, are his plans to get even with Captain Munsey (Cronyn) the sadistic chief of security.
Jules Dassin (1911 – 2008) was an American film director. He got work as an assistant director at RKO and then moved to M-G-M where he directed short subjects. Dassin directed the film noir classics Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), and Thieves’ Highway (1949). He was blacklisted because of his once being a member of the Communist Party so he left the United States for Europe where remained for the rest of his life. He was married to Greek film actress Melina Mercouri.
Burt Lancaster (1913- 1994) was an American actor and producer. He won a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry (1960). Lancaster made his film debut in The Killers (1946). After the release of that film, he was on his way as a leading man, starring in quick succession Desert Fury (1947), Brute Force (1947), Variety Girl (1947), I Walk Alone (1947), All My Sons (1948), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Other popular films starring Lancaster include The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Jim Thorpe All-American (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Rose Tattoo (1955), and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).
Hume Cronyn (1911 - 2003) was a Canadian film and stage actor, as well as a writer. He and his wife Jessica Tandy often worked together on stage, film, and television. Cronyn's first film role was in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which began a long working relationship with the famed director. Cronyn appeared in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) and worked on the screenplays of Rope (1948) and Under Capricorn (1949). In 1944 he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in The Seventh Cross. Other Cronyn films include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Sunrise of Campobello (1960), and Cleopatra (1963).
Charles Bickford (1891 - 1967) was an American actor who is best remembered for his supporting roles in films like The Farmer's Daughter (1947), Johnny Belinda (1948), A Star is Born (1954), and The Big Country (1958). Bickford was nominated for three Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards between 1943 - 1948. During the 1950s and 1960s, Bickford staring appearing on television on shows like Wagon Trian, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and The Virginian.
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- We see a superstar in the making, Burt Lancaster in only his second film role.
- One of director Jules Dassin's best films.
- There are several actors who made their film debuts and went on to long careers in film and television including Howard Duff and Whit Bissell.
- We get to see Ann Blyth play sweet and innocent after playing the daughter from hell in Mildred Pierce.
Brute Force trivia
- Inspired by an incident at Alcatraz in 1946. A riot at the prison lasted for two days.
- The film was considered shocking in its day due to the on-screen violence.
- The movie the prisoners watch is The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray which was released the same year as Brute Force.
- Film debuts of Whit Bissell and Howard Duff.
- What was your overall impression of the film?
- This was Burt Lancaster's second film; what did you think of his performance?
- Was Hume Cronyn believable as the sadistic Captain Munsey?
- Did anything about the film surprise you?
- Did this film check most of the film noir boxes?
Good stuff, Stephen! I didn't realize that the movie was inspired by a real-life incident. It's interesting to note that the violence was shocking back in the day -- I think it's just as shocking in 2022! I can't think of many classic films that have so many films of horrible deaths.ReplyDelete
I'll be interest to see how other folks react to the violence. It is not as explicit as films today but it is still pretty shocking. As you said, many horrible deaths in this film. And you know they just tore Hume Cronyn's character limb from limb! Thanks for stopping by!ReplyDelete


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Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A youth allegedly committed suicide as he was upset at not getting salary for six months, police said on Thursday. He was employed in the blood bank in MY Hospital and had borrowed some money from someone. The police are taking the statements of his family members to know the exact reason for his suicide.
According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Gaurav Tahar, a resident of Musakhedi area of the city. He was found hanging by one of his family members after which he was taken to the hospital but he could not be saved.
Younger brother Neeraj said that Gaurav was employed in the blood bank in MY Hospital and was not getting his salary for six months. He had borrowed Rs 3 lakh and was upset as he was unable to repay the loan. Miffed at not getting salary for so long, he had left the job a few days ago. Family members alleged that he took such an extreme step due to the same.
Police said that no suicide note was recovered from the spot so the reason for his suicide has not been established as yet. Information is being taken from his family members and his workplace.
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Europe’s richest and most prestigious race, the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, takes place over the first weekend of October each year in Paris. We’ll enjoy all the best the week has to offer with a tour of Paris, visit famous Chantilly racecourse and palace before we head to Longchamp Racecourse.
The new four-storey grandstand opened in time for the 2018 event offers 360 degree panoramic views of the city of Paris and is a fantastic vantage point to take in Europe’s most prestigious horse race.
PAYMENT – $200 Deposit on booking, $1000pp instalment in August 2022, balance due 45 days before the tour begins.
Arrive in Paris and make your way to our four-star Le Meridien hotel. Our hotel’s location facilitates discovery of Paris’s luminous attractions; we’re a short walk from the Champs Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe.
We’ll then meet up t the bar to enjoy a few drinks before we head out and enjoy a nice welcome dinner at a local French restaurant to get to know everyone and hear our plans for the week.
After a morning of leisure, we’ll be taken on a half-day guided tour of beautiful Paris, taking in all the key sites including the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre and more.
The evening is then yours at leisure to enjoy some fabulous restaurants and the amazing Paris nightlife.
Today we’re off to the heart of French racing in Chantilly where we’ll take in the stunning surrounds, visit a local stable, check out the amazing gallops and forest sand tracks, drop by the racecourse, enjoy a tour of the famous palace and indulge in a tasty country luncheon. The surroundings for training at Chantilly are amazing and a day you soon won’t forget.
Today is a day of leisure for you to explore more of Paris, do some shopping, visit some more famous museums or just wander the streets and soak up the city of love. There is also the option to attend the races at Saint-Cloud (30 minutes away), a casual Friday afternoon race meeting.
We’ll meet for a nice evening dinner cruise along the beautiful Seine River to take in all the views, including the lit-up Eiffel Tower, and prepare for a great weekend of racing ahead.
After a relaxing morning, we’re off to Longchamp for the opening of the Arc weekend. We have a ticket in the Finish Line Enclosure which gives you access to the Ground Floor and Level 1 of the main stand with a view of the Parade Ring. This is a day to explore the course, visit the parade ring, hit the gift shop and see the horses up close.
After the races, we’ll head back to the hotel for evening drinks with Frankie Dettori and a few other special racing guests; they’ll talk us through their rides at Longchamp and hopefully tip us into a winner or two.
After breakfast, we get into our finest racewear and head back to Longchamp for the highlight of the European racing calendar, the Arc. We’ll enjoy a gastronomic lunch at the Michelin-starred restaurant La Cascade, an amazing local restaurant opposite the track. Then we’ll be transferred across to the track and into our lounge located in the grandstand with a reserved seat.
With a complimentary bar and dessert canapes throughout the day, you don’t have any reason to leave…you can see everything from this area and being higher up in the stand offers some fantastic views of the famous Eiffel Tower. You’ll also have access to the paddock and the lawn which runs along the finish line and the Arc Gardens.
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The utilization of continuous rectangular shaped reinforcing materials (known here as ribbons) in advanced composites has been studied on a feasibility basis for more than a decade. The main difficulty discerned by these studies was the absence of ribbons possessing mechanical properties similar to contemporary filament reinforcements. Recently in the research and development of metallic glasses, glassy metal ribbons have been manufactured in a continuous manner with aspect ratios (width to thickness) up to 500; these ribbons are available commercially. Depending on the alloy used, some metallic glasses possess high strength, good magnetic properties, and chemical resistance. Accordingly, the objective of this article is to determine some of the advantages and limitations of advanced composites reinforced with glassy metal ribbons.
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UPI: This week’s tightly controlled presidential election in Iran marks an opportunity for U.S. officials to make an evidence-based assessment of the Tehran regime and its most worrisome opposition. United Press International
By Ivan Sascha Sheehan
BALTIMORE, June 13 (UPI) — This week’s tightly controlled presidential election in Iran marks an opportunity for U.S. officials to make an evidence-based assessment of the Tehran regime and its most worrisome opposition.
Data presented in the 2011 book “Terror Tagging of an Iranian Dissident Organization” provided impetus for U.S. policymakers to revise their dossier on the primary Iranian opposition movement to reject clerical rule, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, and remove their politically motivated terror status.
But misconceptions and misinformation — some of it explicitly repeated by the regime’s loyalists — remains and limits the opposition’s full potential.
Contrary to the regime’s unsubstantiated claims that the PMOI is responsible for recent violence in Iran, the evidence suggests otherwise.
A study titled “Assessing and Comparing Data Sources for Terrorism Research” involved a comparative analysis of existing terrorism incident databases used in Terror Tagging. The peer-reviewed paper validated the data sources used in the book and determined them to be credible and among the most widely referenced sources of terrorism events data.
To the regime’s dismay, PMOI’s profile in terrorism incident databases was — and remains — thin. The group simply hasn’t been involved in political violence in more than a decade.
Neither the Global Terrorism Database nor the Rand Database of Worldwide Terrorist Incidents chronicles a single terrorist incident involving PMOI after February 2001. The World Incident Tracking System database, available through 2011 at the National Counter-terrorism Center, also provides no confirmation of responsibility for attacks by the group since 2001.
By contrast, the U.S. State Department issued “Patterns of Global Terrorism” and its replacement, the “Country Reports on Terrorism,” lists the Islamic Republic of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism every year.
As world leaders revisit Iran policy in the aftermath of this week’s elections in Tehran, they would be wise to consider the facts on PMOI and the implications for policymakers looking for fresh ideas on Iran.
During a period January-February 2001, eight months before the United States was awakened to the problem of terrorism, PMOI — whose long campaign of opposition has been directed squarely at dislodging Iran’s clerical rulers — was credited with four attacks on Iranian government and military installations. Three incidents are captured by GTD and one additional incident is captured by RDWTI.
Following a February 2001 incident, GTD doesn’t chronicle a single act of terrorism that is attributed to PMOI through 2011, the last year for which terrorist incident data are available. Neither does RDWTI document a single act of political violence through the end of their data in 2010. GTD doesn’t even chronicle a single incident for which PMOI is alleged to be a perpetrator or for which there is credible evidence but some doubt.
Out of an abundance of caution, the author of “Terror Tagging” included even unsubstantiated claims of terrorist violence documented in open-source terrorism incident data compiled by the Worldwide Incident Tracking System when it was still available in 2011. Allegations of incidents in 2009 and 2010 — despite being marked as unsubstantiated — were presented in order to allow readers to make decisions for themselves as to the credibility of the charges presented.
But in every instance the allegations against the PMOI in the WITS database were made by Iranian government authorities (including affiliates of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps), state-run entities or Iraqi officials with questionable ties to the Iranian regime. In no instance did WITS confirm PMOI as the perpetrator and in many cases WITS researchers indicated that there was in fact a “lack of evidence of (PMOI) involvement.”
Simply put: There isn’t a shred of evidence that individuals associated with the PMOI have been involved in violent activity since February 2001 — eight months before the 9-11 attacks and the onset of U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism and more than 12 years ago.
Since 2001, the PMOI’s appeals to freedom, democracy, the rule of law and equal protections for all of Iran’s citizens have been grounded in fierce but peaceful calls for resistance to the regime’s tyranny.
The U.S. State Department, which removed the PMOI’s terror tag in September 2012, also found no evidence of terrorist activity that would justify a continuation of the terror label. Neither did the judiciary. In fact, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s formal delisting of the group was necessitated by a decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington that found no legal basis for maintaining the group’s terror status.
False charges have long been a favored tactic of the Iranian regime. But, as the saying goes: One has a right to their own opinions, not their own facts.
Later this week, U.S. officials will have additional evidence with which to make informed decisions on future relations with the Iranian regime. The presidential elections will be over and, if predictions hold, the credibility of the regime’s clerical rulers will be badly damaged by government interference designed to subvert the will of the Iranian people. Internal rifts will have also weakened whoever emerges.
Meanwhile, the Iranian opposition will be laying plans for a massive democratic gathering June 22 in Paris that will call for a non-nuclear, 21st-century republic that respects human rights and embraces a plurality of voices — including women’s.
To prepare for this reality, U.S. officials should act swiftly to reject Tehran’s sham elections and strengthen the hand of the opposition to promote regime change from within. An Iranian Spring is possible but not if the world repeats their shameful silence of 2009 when massive election year protests were crushed as Western powers stood by.
Policymakers should also act to protect the vulnerable Iranian dissidents detained in Iraq at Camp Liberty by insisting on their designation as refugees and expediting their transfer back to Camp Ashraf, their home for decades, while they await safe resettlement to third countries.
Challenging the regime by acknowledging the facts is the first step toward providing ordinary Iranians what they will be denied at the ballot box Friday: An opportunity to exercise self determination armed with credible information.
On the eve of the elections, U.S. officials should consider the evidence and act accordingly.
(Ivan Sascha Sheehan is director of the graduates programs in Negotiation and Conflict Management and Global Affairs and Human Security in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. Raymond Tanter served on the senior staff of the National Security Council in the Reagan White House, is professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and is president of the Iran Policy Committee.)


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After a year and a half long hiatus or so, plans for the Okan Group‘s mixed-use 70-story Okan Tower have resurfaced and appear to be back on track. In a recent article from Miami Today, the company’s CEO Kasim Badak is quoted saying the pandemic halted all operations, but that they are back in business and moving forward. Designed by Coral Gables-based Behar Font & Partners, the 902-foot-tall skyscraper was originally planned to include 293 Hilton Hotel rooms, 389 residential units, 64,000 square feet of Class-A office space and 2,915 square feet of retail space.
Addressed as 555 North Miami Avenue, the development site currently sits relatively vacant and fenced off from the public, bounded by North Miami Avenue to the west, Northeast 6th Street to the north, Northeast 5th Street to the south and Northeast 1st Avenue to the east. Melo Group’s twin 51-story Downtown 5th towers and development site for the proposed Downtown 6th are on the same block.
Okan Tower’s design is truly unique and a major departure from the common architectural trend of flat rooflines and flat rectangular elevations in Downtown Miami. It is said that the gracefully curved crown and rippled glass façade was inspired by the subtle beauty of a tulip blossom. In fact, it’s a nod to the national flower of Turkey, where the developer is based.
During the initial announcement for the project, Okan Tower was projected to become the new tallest tower in Miami, eventually surpassing the 862-foot-tall Panorama Tower. However, with the time that has passed, several newer projects have been proposed with greater heights. PMG’s Waldorf Astoria Miami is on track to become the tallest at 1,049-feet, but Okan Tower will come up right behind it and still remain amongst the tallest structures in the city.
“Many cities are identified by their architecture and skylines, who’s silhouettes give a lasting expression. The Okan Tower’s beauty and majestic form, will be instrumental in creating an image in our skyline, that will always be associated with Miami.” – Robert BEHAR / Principal – Behar Font & Partners P.A.
As noted on the official website for the development, units would come in studio through three-bedroom floor plans, and 4 penthouse units as well. Residences would range anywhere between 445 square feet and 2,075 square feet. 236 of the residential units will be condo-hotel hybrids, which correlates with the on-going trend of short-term rental towers in the city; the remaining 149 units will be purely residential condominiums. The residential component sits atop the 64,000-square-foot office, the 293 hotel units managed by Hilton Hotels and a multi-story parking garage.
Until further notice, the developer is still going to invest $300 million of their own funds to develop the project. Plans and details are still subject to change.
Suffolk Construction is listed as the general contractor from the permit filing back in 2019.
YIMBY estimates Okan Tower realistically reaching completion some time towards the end of 2023 or early 2024 if the developer begins construction within the remainder of this year.


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***I will update the transcript below over the coming days, it changed a lot with narration.
Rocky’s traumas all came at once…
Young Frank had a big day, when to his… and Rocky’s surprise, a large tuna and chicken casseroled cake, covered in turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing, was placed in front of him.
Rocky was shocked. His birthday cake appeared to be less than tasty than the one in front of the ‘special boy’. Desperate for just a lick of that turkey, tuna and chicken gravy icing, Rocky tried to position himself in-line for the tasting. Surely some of it was for him? However, young Franks mum was no cats fool when it came to Rocky’s dining habits.
He positioned himself closer to the cake but Wendy, young Frank’s mum noticed and shot him a hairy eyeball. Rocky felt pained, unloved, and pitiful. He was certain a slather of white foam had gathered around the corners of his mouth as he salivated over the scrumptious cake, but it was out of his control..
He began to shake his fluffy bottom, wriggle his hind end, and moments before he could pounce and bathe in that turkey, tuna and chicken gravy icing, Wendy picked him up.
‘I don’t think he needs any cake,’ she said to Rocky’s mum and he was devistated to hear her reply.
‘You’re not wrong there.’
Then they laughed. I was plonked onto my humans lap and they started to sing, ‘Happy birthday young Frank, we hope you love your cake, happy birthday young Frank–‘
‘Oh dear,’ Wendy said and laughed. Rocky looked up to see young Frank was wrapped around the cake scraping the turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing with his claws up to his mouth. Rocky wriggled and squirmed and not being a small cat, leapt from his humans arms to frolic with him, but Wendy, always a step a head, saw what he was about to do and caught him mid air.
‘Not for you,’ she said holding him tight. ‘Oh dear, I think I just hurt my back.’
Rocky looked to his human for rescue but none was coming. He was wondering, if the cake wasn’t for him, ‘Why am I here?’
Marley had heard the commotion from outside. Rocky saw her peering in through the front window. Her eyes said it all. ‘Get me some too,’ she pleaded with Rocky, but Rocky had no control over the situation and young Frank was decimating the cake from the outside in.
‘Mmm,’ Rocky heard young Frank say, then saw him lift a long strip of red slimey liver and suck it down his throat like Rocky’s human did with spaghetti, and cringed.
Rocky was rethinking the whole situation.
‘Just pick the liver off,’ Rocky thought. ‘No, that won’t help, it may have all ready contaminated the cake… but one good jump…. yes that might do it?’
With a plan formulating in his mind, Rocky relaxed in Wendy’s arms. He lay still and purred. He let her stroke him and pretended to ignore the cake, and what young Frank was doing to it. It didn’t take long for Wendy to stand up and carry Rocky to his human and he went into action.
As Wendy let go, Rocky twisted, kicked off his humans lap with his back paws, flew through the air, and before either human knew what was happening, he landed smck bang in the middle of the cake. The sumptuous tuna and chicken casseroled cake, covered with the turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing flew everywhere.
The humans tried to stop him, but began to slide in the mess all over the floor. The walls, and young Frank, were covered in it, but Rocky, like he’d just found a dead bird, rolled his big white fluffy body in the cake. He was enthralled by the feast beneath him.
Remembering Marley’s pleading eyes, he made sure there was enough turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing on his coat for his neighborhood friends to share.
‘I’m so sorry Wend… oh dear, the mess–‘
‘Don’t worry about the mess, are you able to get him?’ Wendy asked.
‘Oh dear, the vets not going to be happy with you young man,’ Rocky’s human said. ‘You’re on a diet! Now look at you… and look at this mess!’
Rocky’s human sounded upset, and as she finally got her arms around him she wrenched him up under her left arm, apologised again and carried him out the door.
‘I don’t know what gets into you sometimes Rocky. I’m so upset… and Wendy,’ she said and when they reached the front door to Rocky’s house his human was crying. He wanted to give her some head noogies, but could only hang over her arm.
Rocky looked back to see a trail of turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing on the ground and Marley was gobbling up as much as she could. Rocky was put straight into a bath and his human smothered him with shampoo and began the long task of washing all the cake away. He had it between his claws, up under his neck and his tummy was a matte of brown gravy covered white fur.
After he was towel dried, then blow dried, brushed and de-matted his human put Rocky into their laundry, slid in a kitty litter, some bickies and a bowl of water, then she shut the door. Rocky then heard his human leave the house. She slammed the front door as she left. Tabitha, Rocky’s human, was so ashamed of the mess Rocky had made and went to help Wendy clean up.
Tabitha arrived home late. It was dark and Rocky meowed loud and long, but she never opened the laundry door. Fearful he would have to sleep the night on the cold tiles, Rocky had just curled up into a white fluffy ball when the door opened. He started to get up, but the light didn’t go on. While Rocky was wondering what was happening, an old cushion was slid into the laundry and the door was closed again.
Rocky had a fitful sleep. He didn’t know how long his human could stay upset with him, ‘But it wasn’t my fault,’ he thought.
Young Frank knowingly deprived Rocky of the prize he so desperately craved, until his belly could take no more. Only when he launched into is plan did he get to taste the turkey, tuna and chicken gravy soaked biscuit icing. A bit of liver slid in his mouth, but he spat it out faster than it went in. As Tabitha was carrying him out, he saw the liver had hit the white wall and was sliding slowly down to the floor again.
Rocky may have been at the party, but he felt like a food deprived Hippo, penalised by the vet, a stranger, who told his human he had to lose weight. His human had taken away his treats, his favorite foods and biscuits. He was put outside everyday and only let back in, in the afternoon.
‘It wasn’t my fault,’ Rocky thought as the door opened, then closed.
Tabitha stood in the small laundry with him. Rocky kept his head low and began to rub his furry body around her legs and loudly purred his apologies, ‘But feed me, for the love of all that’s good and decent, feed me!’ he begged.
‘I’m sorry you had to sleep in here last night, Rocky,’ Tabitha said. The usual warmth in her voice was missing, ‘but you did a bad, bad, thing last night.’
Rocky’s human opened the door to the back yard. She walked out and Rocky followed. Tabitha filled up a water bowl then walked back into the house and shut the door behind her, shut the door on Rocky. He was caught up in some horrific scene from one of his nightmares.
‘Young Frank’s usually so nice,’ Rocky thought. ‘So why? I know, I’m going to find out.’
Rocky held his head high and began a prance towards the back gate when Marley stopped him.
‘Thank you for the cake,’ she said, ‘but your human is so upset. I watched her cry when she knocked on young Franks door last night.’
‘I know,’ Rocky said as a tear slipped from his eye, ‘she cried when she gave me my bath, and when she locked me in the laundry. I don’t–‘
‘You got locked in the laundry?’ Marley asked. ‘Goodness. Is she going to start treating you like young Frank?’
‘I don’t–‘ Rocky stopped in shock. ‘you don’t think… do you think?… Marley what am I to do?’
‘I don’t know Rocky–‘
‘Liver, will she start to give me liver?’ Rocky asked in horror.
‘It’s possible,’ Marley said, ‘I did hear young Frank’s mum telling her what she does with young Frank… Oh Rocky. What’s going to happen?’
Rocky stopped in his tracks and thought about it.
‘I’m going to beg,’ he said. ‘I’m going to be the sweetest, nicest, huggable pussycat if ever there was. I’m going to make it up to her–‘
‘But she didn’t get this upset when we broke her arm,’ Marley said. ‘She wanted to lie down with you and snuggle, but the laundry… and liver–‘
Stop saying that,’ Rocky spat.
‘What?’ Marley asked in wide eyed shock.
‘Liver!’ he said. ‘I can take the laundry until she forgives me, but I will never eat the liver… remember Salty the slug down the back garden?’
‘Yeah,’ Marley said.
‘Well before I knew what a slug was–I thought it was snail who’d lost its house–I picked him up with my claw and he wriggled but couldn’t speak yet, remember?’ Rocky asked.
‘So I put him in my mouth and spat him out real quick.’
‘Oh, that’s right. Your human had watered the grass and Salty was all shiny and slimy–I understand why you were attracted to him–‘ Marley said and laughed remembering the whole scene.
‘Why?’ Rocky asked, not getting the joke.
‘He was shiny… you like shiny things,’ Marley said but Rocky had a blank stare. ‘Anyway, Salty was extra slimy that day because of the water, and when you put him in your mouth, he wriggled and learned to speak real quick. He scared you senseless.’
Marley was rolling around on the ground with laughter, when she saw the moment Rocky remembered.
‘Oh right! I tried to spit him out and away, but my claw was stuck around him,’ Rocky said getting with the laughter then. ‘It took a bit of time to detach my claws and for Salty to speak a language we could understand.’
‘So there’ll be no liver then?’ Marley asked with a cheeky grin.
‘No, no liver. Lots of purring, snuggles and rubbing up against my humans legs until she forgives me, and if I have to stay in the laundry until she does, then so be it!’
‘That’s the spirit Rocky,’ Marley said.
‘Have you seen young Frank today?’ Rocky asked.
‘He’s not allowed out today,’ Marley said, ‘I heard his human tell him he wasn’t to play with you for a whi–‘
‘What?’ Rocky asked, almost becoming speechless. ‘Why not?’
Rocky hung his head low and he felt very sad, but knew the fault lay with that lovely young human who clipped his nails and told his human he was too fat!
‘Guess I’ll just stay in my yard today,’ Rocky said. ‘Want to hang with me Marley?’
‘I can’t today,’ Marley said.
‘It’s going to be a cold night tonight and I have to collect some food from somewhere else since we can’t get into your house. Want to come with me?’
‘No,’ Rocky said, ‘guess I’ll just sit right here and wallow in my misery.’
‘Cheer up,’ Marley said as she climbed under the gate. Sticking her head back under, she said, ‘At least it’s not liver,’ she said, then disappeared.
Rocky knew that young Frank would’ve eventually feel the pity a popular pussycat some times does and allow him the special privilege of licking the crumbs from his chin, but Rocky was to impatient and knew he had caused a mess, and must take the punishment. He walked to a sunny spot near his water bowl, walked around in circles, then finally laid down.
He watched crickets play and snails slither by and waited for his human to get home so he could say sorry for making her cry.

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Clinical studies of amyloid-β-targeting therapies in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have revealed that the treatments after disease onset have little effect on the cognition of patients. The main strategies proposed in tau-based drug discovery, are approaches to ameliorate tau-associated neuronal death. These include inhibitors of tau phosphorylation, aggregation blockers, and promoters of tau clearance. However, recently new disease models have shed light on a new proposed molecular mechanism, the tau prion hypothesis, which could be a promising therapeutic target for tauopathies.
Tauopathies feature progressive intraneuronal deposition of aggregated tau proteins. In Alzheimer’s disease, tau aggregates deposit in a stereotypical manner along anatomically connected networks from the transentorhinal cortex to neocortical areas. Along with this classical observation, intracerebral injection of brain extracts containing aggregated tau or recombinant tau seeds induces tauopathy in tau-transgenic mice and wild-type mice. The induced tau lesions propagate from the injection site to other regions in aconnectome-dependent manner. This phenomenon strongly supports the view that tau protein has the ability to transfer as “prion-like”particles from one cell to another, similar to the aggregated form of prion protein in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. The cell-to-cell “prion-like” transfer of misfolded tau aggregates involves release from one neuron, uptake by nearby or remote neurons and finally, seeded assembly of the misfolded host protein in recipient neurons. Extracellular release of tau could occur actively from live neurons, including through extrusion in membrane vesicles or as free tau protein, or it could occur passively as a result of its release from dead cells. Active release may be modulated by physiological cell functions, such as lysosomal exocytosis, Golgi dynamics, or stimulation of neuronal activity. Cells could internalize aggregated tau protein through an endocytotic mechanism or macropinocytosis. These internalized tau fibrils could then induce seed-dependent aggregation of endogenoustau protein.
To provide a more complete picture of tau protein propagation, this Research Topic invites contributions of studies or reviews from areas including cell culture experiments, tau protein structure, animal models, human neuropathology and establishment of fluid biomarkers associated with tau protein propagation.
Keywords: Tau protein, prion, propagation, aggregation, filament
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We all know the relative fact that as the economy of a country improves, the health of its citizens improves. But with the advent of digitization it has been proved that the opposite is also true—improving the health of a nation’s citizens will directly result in the economic growth of a nation, promoting wellness and preventing diseases, and enabling the citizens to put combined efforts for the development of their nation.
Today, no one can undervalue digital health’s ability to enable people to lead healthier lives. Increased patient safety, reduced rate of hospital-acquired infection, more efficient nurse workflow patterns and process, greater staff satisfaction and retention, are the benefits that patients and doctors alike continue to receive through digitization.
These key benefits not only improve patient outcomes and increase staff effectiveness and morale, but also help administrators meet their safety goals, reduce costs, and increase market share. Also, the new forecasts from industry experts suggest that digitization can save $ 300 billion spend in the sector, especially in the area of chronic diseases.
Many hospitals and clinics have taken numerous measures to provide improved patient care in response to the demands and industry’s new trends exposed through close communication with patients. However, the major driver impacting healthcare overall, are healthcare technology service providers.
The optimization of Telemedicine to better manage chronic diseases, easy access to medical records through smart phones and mobile apps, wearable and IoT devices to perform ECGs and DIGS, and recommended preventative treatments to automatically identify risk factors in patient’s health—all that were once unfeasible became feasible with the service of healthcare technology providers. That’s not all. From a patient checking in at reception to treatment tracking and from online patient-record review to how doctors offer treatments, today healthcare service providers have fully revolutionized the industry improving the quality of care and patient satisfaction and leading the industry entirely to a new era: patient empowerment.


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After waiting so long EA Dice finally Reveal the next Battlefield Series Its Battlefield 2042 . The Game was announced through Trailer.
Battlefield 2042 is an upcoming first person shooting game by EA Dice. It's a 7th part of Battlefield Franchise.
The Release Date for Battlefield 2042 is November 19, 2021 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and PC.
Gameplay Of Battlefield 2042
Battlefield 2042 is a Multiplayer - First Person shooting game. As the game is set in the near future, it features futuristic weapons and gadgets like deployable turrets and drones and Players can now request a vehicle air-drop to any location.
Battlefield also introduces a new "Plus" system which allows players to customize their weapons on the spot. The class system was significantly overhauled. Players can select to assume control of a specialist who falls under the four gameplay classes of Assault, Engineer, Medic and Recon. These characters can wield all the weapons and gadgets players have unlocked. Each of them also have their own unique skills and gadgets. One of the specialists is equipped with a wingsuit while another is equipped with a healing pistol.
The Battlefield 2042 will come with 10 specialists. Levolution and destructive environments from Battlefield 4 include extreme weather effects such as tornadoes and sandstorms which can lift players into a vortex and drastically reduce the visibility.
Features Of Battlefield 2042
EA Dice give features in Battlefield 2042 three main gameplay modes. "All-out warfare" encompasses "Breakthrough" and "Conquest", two staple modes of the series.
1. In Breakthrough, one team must try to capture another team's control points, while another team must defend them
2. In Conquest, two teams combat against each other in order to capture control points. Once control points in a sector are captured, the team will control said sector.
Both modes can be played with and against artificial intelligence The PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X and Series S versions support 128 players, whereas the PS4 and Xbox One versions only support 64 players.
3. Another modes included in the game include Hazard Zone and a third mode developed by DICE.
Price And Pre - Orders in India of Battlefield 2042
EA has also revealed the pricing of Battlefield 2042. The Price of Battlefield 2042 in India give below.
PlayStation 5 Rs. 3,499
PlayStation 4 Rs. 4,499
PC Rs. 3,999
Xbox Series X/S Rs. 4,499
Pre order is already start in India and Other Countries. You can give pre order on Amazon, Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation Store, Origin and Xbox Store.

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It is known news that mega Power Star Ram Charan is doing a special role in his father megastar Chiranjeevi starrer upcoming much hyped movie Acharya, which is carrying social message and is being helmed by Koratala Siva. SS Rajamouli has already given permission to Ram Charan to join the sets of Acharya in which he is playing extended cameo.
There have been reports going around that Ram Charan will get a makeover for Acharya and he will gain his weight to suit his role. But now the sources close to Ram Charan have busted this fresh biggest fake news by saying that there is no makeover of actor in this film.
The sources added that the movie lovers who are thinking that Ram Charan will be seen in a ripped manner or in a special way in Acharya, will be disappointed. The reports are coming that Ram Charan will make his screen presence only for 30 minutes and will enter in the pre-interval episode and creates a huge impact on the story.
Chiranjeevi will play the role of Ram Charan’ mentor in it. We hear that the scenes between Chiru-Charan will be a treat to watch out for. The film Acharya has Kajal Aggarwal a leading lady.


Turkey unveils space agency's strategic plan for 2022-26
Breaking News Turkey and agencies
The Turkish Space Agency's strategic plan for 2022-26 was unveiled in a report on Wednesday, setting out its aim of making Turkey globally competitive through developing the aerospace sector.
The report contains the basic principles and policies of the space agency, medium- and long-term goals, and performance criteria.
TECHNOLOGY MINISTER'S COMMENT ON THE REPORT
Commenting on the report, Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank said besides its economic benefits, the aerospace sector will create added value for Turkey such as sensitive monitoring of the earth and smart transportation applications.
SPACE STRATEGY REALIZED
"For this reason, our country realizing its space strategy in an efficient, safe and sustainable way carries great importance," he argued.
Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım, the head of the Turkish Space Agency, said Turkey is in the running to become an important player with its space industry and infrastructure, which has gained great capabilities through communication and earth observation satellites.
A 10-YEAR PLAN OF SPACE PROJECTS
The space agency established back in 2018 has a 10-year plan regarding space projects that announced by the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Establishing a space technology development zone, sending a Turkish citizen into space and creating a trademark that can compete with the world in the field of next generation satellite development are among the targets of the plan.