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Kybella™ in Peabody | Boston, MA
The FDA has approved KYBELLA™ (deoxycholic acid) injection, which contours and improves the appearance of moderate to severe submental fullness due to submental fat. Submental fullness, also known as “double chin,” can affect adult women and men of all ages and weights, and is influenced by multiple factors, including aging and genetics. Submental fullness is often resistant to diet and exercise, and according to a 2014 survey conducted by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, 68 percent of people said they are bothered by their double chin.
KYBELLA™ is a formulation of a naturally occurring-substance (deoxycholic acid) that targets and destroys fat cells in the area where it’s injected. Once those cells are destroyed, they can no longer store or accumulate fat. Once the aesthetic response is achieved with KYBELLA™, re-treatment is not expected to be required.
The most common side effects are typically local to the treatment area and most commonly include swelling, bruising, pain, numbness, tingling, hardness and redness. KYBELLA™ can cause serious side effects, including trouble swallowing and nerve injury in the jaw that can cause an uneven smile or facial muscle weakness.
Talk to Dr. Shanthala to determine if KYBELLA™ might be right for you or to learn more about KYBELLA™ visit www.mykybella.com.
At 41, I’m feeling more confident in my appearance than I did before Kybella™. Now, when I look in the mirror, I’m happy with how I look and feel. I don’t feel like I’m trying to hide something anymore.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is submental fullness?
Submental fullness, sometimes referred to as “double chin,” is a common yet undertreated facial aesthetic condition that can impact a broad range of adults, including both men and women.
How does Kybella™ work?
The active ingredient in Kybella™ is deoxycholic acid, a naturally occurring molecule in the body that aids in the breakdown and absorption of dietary fat.
When injected into the fat beneath your chin, Kybella™ causes the destruction of fat cells. Once destroyed, those cells cannot store or accumulate fat.
How is Kybella™ administered?
Kybella™ is typically given in a 15 to 20 minute in-office treatment session. Dr. Shanthala will give you a series of injections into the fat under your chin at each treatment session.
Dr. Shanthala will customize your Kybella™ treatment based on the amount of submental fullness you have and your treatment goals. Together you will decide the treatment plan that is right for you.
How many treatments will I need?
Many patients treated with Kybella™ experience visible contouring of their chin profile in 2 to 4 treatments. Some people require up to 6 treatments in order to achieve results. Once your chin profile has improved, you may not need to be treated with Kybella™ again.
Is there downtime?
For most patients, downtime was minimal and occurred most commonly after the first treatment session. When scheduling your treatments, keep your social plans and work commitments in mind.
If you’re looking to reduce submental fullness or double chin with Kybella™ performed by a physician in and around Peabody and Boston, request a consultation online, or contact us at (978) 854-5035 to schedule your appointment.


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And, sadly, it came to pass. It is well predicted that most countries blessed with natural resources, even in the best of times, perform worse economically than countries not so endowed; and that, when times are tough, countries that are dependent on natural resources come to an assured grief. There is a popular name for this strange but common condition: resource curse. It sounds metaphysical, it seems counter-intuitive even, but it is a position supported by enough evidence. And there can’t be better evidence than this: a Nigeria that is in the choke-hold of economic recession right after fifteen years of consistently high oil prices and over N70 trillion of oil revenues earned by the federation.
A recession might be a dramatic inflection point, but the brutal fact is that our country has never really been in sound economic health. A long spell of rising oil prices in much of our over four-decade addiction to oil had put us on a permanent high, masked the hollowness of our economic well-being, blind-sighted us to the dangers dancing in plain sight, and induced a costly work-avoidance in our leaders. Now that we are at this terrible pass, it will be tempting to just focus all our energy at getting growth back to positive zone. Without a doubt, getting out of recession should be the first order business. But doing only that will show us up, again, as a people eternally incapable of learning. This should be the time to finally wean ourselves of the unhealthy dependence on crude oil for most of our exports and government revenues; a time to reset the foundations of our economy and even of our politics; a time to get a permanent cure for what deeply ails us.
Clearly, natural resources do not come embedded with supernatural curses, as the positive experiences of Norway, UAE, Malaysia and Botswana have shown. But it is also clear how natural resources end up as blights, and not blessings, just as it is clear what to do to reverse the curse. So the problem is not lack of knowledge. The problem is that resource-endowed countries either do not do enough to prevent the sad prophecy from fulfilling itself or do not do enough to ‘cure the curse’ after it has manifested. And these countries fail to take both preventive and curative measures because countries blessed with natural resources are prone to certain risks and disposed to certain choices that create delusions, dependencies and distortions, which inexorably turn natural resources to impeders, rather than enablers, of development.
One known risk is that the prices of natural resources fluctuate. This creates revenue instability for countries that depend on resource rents to fund their budgets. Since this is known, the sensible thing would be for such countries to save enough when the prices are up as insurance against when the prices are down, and to use the windfall to create other more stable streams of income and to invest in the productive capacities of their people. But most resource-dependent countries rarely do that, as a surge of easy money induces the delusion of everlasting riches. Such countries get unreasonably high when prices of their natural resources are high and set themselves up for an inevitable fall when prices inevitably tumble.
Three episodes in four decades of our history provide good illustration. In 1972, a barrel of crude oil sold for a yearly average of $1.82. By 1974, oil price leapt to $11 per barrel, then to $29.19 in 1979, and then to $35.52 in 1980. But by the time the price of oil marginally dropped to $29.04 in 1983, our economy was already in trouble. It is important to look at the figures again: we were not in trouble when oil was $1.82 in 1972, but we were in a deep mess eleven years later when oil was $29.04.
A second episode: at the outset of democracy in 1999, oil sold for less than $20 per barrel (in actual fact, our Brent sold for a monthly average of $15.23 in May 1999) . In the 15 years between 1999 and 2014, oil prices rose steadily (except for 2008/2009), soaring to almost $150 per barrel at a point. However, by the time oil prices fell just below $100 in September 2014, we were on the way to distress district, close to the dark place we were just thirty years earlier. It is important to underscore this again: when oil was selling for $20 per barrel we got by but when it started selling for a little below $100, it was another season for weeping and gnashing of teeth, with most states and even the federal government struggling to pay salaries. What happened with the two episodes is that we got deluded into thinking high prices would last forever, we stretched public finances to breaking point, and we saved little for the rainy day.
But there is a third episode: oil prices tumbled from a high of $147 in June 2008 to $38 in December 2008. Yes, the dip was short. But we survived that slump largely because we had reserves in excess of $60 billion, which tied us over that bust time. Interestingly, the savings were largely accumulated at a period when oil never rose above $70 per barrel, when our oil supply was constrained on account of militancy in the Niger Delta and when $12 billion was paid to get debt forgiveness. But crude oil per barrel sold for an average of $77.38 in 2010, $107.46 in 2011, $109.45 in 2012, and $105.87 in 2013. However, by the time oil prices slipped to yearly average of $96.29 in 2014 and $49.49 in 2015, we did not have the kind of cover we had six years earlier not just because we didn’t save enough but also because we had also over exposed ourselves, as will be illustrated shortly. If the time between the first and the third episodes is long enough to induce amnesia, the space between 2008 and the onset of the current slide in oil prices is short enough to remind us of the risk we are constantly exposed to. But we failed to learn.
Another known risk that turns natural resources to curses is that resource-rich countries are prone to corruption, low levels of accountability, and high incidence of profligacy. Because of the nature of resource rents, it is easier for those in authority in extractive economies (as opposed to tax economies) to corner and capture public resources and expend them anyhow. Beyond the predisposition to graft and the wastefulness, resource rents concentrate and consolidate public resources in a few hands, nurture a ruling elite more interested in private gains than the common good, foster a rentier, patronage, and predatory political ethos, fuel intense competition for power, conflicts, poverty and inequality, inverse the relations between citizens (the principals) and those in authority (the agents), and distort the interaction between state and society. All these conduce to opaque and unaccountable management of the revenues from natural resources. Even before the ongoing revelations and probes, reports by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) had provided more than ample evidence of the mind-boggling mismanagement of Nigeria’s main source of revenue.
The other well known risk that resource-rich countries are exposed to is a dependency condition called the Dutch Disease. It manifests this way: massive inflows of foreign exchange on account of the high price of a natural resource raise the comparative value of the local currency and turn the economy into a high-cost one. This means that other sectors, like manufacturing and services, that the country can earn foreign exchange from become uncompetitive and are crowded out; and imports also become cheaper, eventually knocking off local industry. A double but dangerous dependency is thus created: the country depends solely on the natural resource for foreign exchange; and depends on imports for almost all its needs. While consistently high prices will mask the trouble, onset of low prices will burst the bubble. This is where, sadly, Nigeria has found itself today. The 1,851% increase in the price of oil between 1972 and 1980 infected us with the Dutch Disease, so much so that we depend on crude oil for 85% of government revenues and about 95% of exports. And we import almost everything, including, shamefully, refined petroleum products (which constitute about 40% of forex demands.)
This composite picture should show why Nigeria is in trouble today: little savings from a long boom time, and a 75% plunge in the price of a product that accounts for more than 80% of government revenues and foreign exchange in a country where so much revolves around government and in an import-dependent economy; fall in monthly forex earnings from $3.2 billion to about $400m sometime this year; decline in oil production from 2.2 million bpd to a little over 1 million bpd; and the growth in monthly import bill from N148.3 billion in 2005 to N917.6 billion in 2015 (519% increase). While it can be validly argued that recession could still have been averted, the oil and dollar dependence created a downward spiral: fall in the value of the Naira, cost-push inflation (since most things including industrial inputs are imported), drop in disposable incomes, which is compounded by the fact that most states are owing salaries, and the resultant negative impact on demand and ultimately on production. True, oil and gas sector now accounts for only 9% of our GDP, but our unhealthy dependence on it for government revenues and foreign exchange imbues the sector with a disproportionate heft. This we need to fix in a systematic and sustainable way.
We can easily spend our way out of this recession or bump up production in high growth areas. Oil prices and production may even rise again, making the get-out-of-recession task easier. But all these will not cure us of the oil curse. Hopefully, the present pain will permanently bury doubts about the need for a robust stabilization fund and the imperative of strengthening transparency and accountability mechanisms like NEITI. But we also need to permanently puncture the lie that we are a rich country just because we have oil. It is a trite fact that the wealth of nations is not buried under the soil. Countries become rich when their people and their companies produce value-adding, highly-sought, cutting-edge goods and services. But beyond fixing the defective structure of our economy, we also need to reinvent our politics. A governance model that is defined by extraction, sharing and consumption surely cannot lead to development. And by the way, development doesn’t happen: it is created. Rahm’s Rule should thus be our article of faith: “you never want to let a serious crisis to go to waste.” The crisis of this recession has thrown a massive opportunity our way, the opportunity for a total reset. It will be a shame if, again, we fail to seize this chance to heal our country.
* Adio is the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI)

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Project Hope Foundation was founded in 1997 by Lisa Lane and Susan Sachs, after discovering that each of their children was diagnosed with autism. Together they have built an autism foundation that is dedicated to supporting South Carolina families and individuals with autism, while creating awareness in the community. Through their school Hope Academy to their successful hands-on therapy program Hope Link, they have touched and changed thousands of lives. Project Hope Foundation is making a difference and continues to find new ways to lead the way in autism education and advocacy.
Project HOPE leads the way in serving children with autism in South Carolina through four programs, each focusing on a particular aspect of our mission to:
Hope Link. Hope Link is a program of HOPE Foundation designed to help families deal with the challenges of autism by providing information about autism spectrum disorders, including symptoms, therapies, interventions, services, funding options, and coping skills. Since 1997, Project HOPE Foundation has assisted over 1,000 families by providing them with hands-on attention.
Hope Reach. In our Hope Reach program, we open minds by providing 25-40 hours per week per child of intense Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy focusing on language, behavioral, social, and cognitive skills. We currently average over 1,000 hours of therapy each week. Hope Reach provides both home-based and clinic-based services. It is the only nonprofit provider of this therapy in Upstate South Carolina.
Hope Academy. We promote inclusion through Hope Academy, a school specifically designed to provide children with autism the opportunity to learn in classrooms with typical peers and a typical curriculum. Since its inception in 1997, this unique school has served over 1,000 children, building relationships that have changed lives. Hope Academy currently has a waiting list of over 80 children with autism.
Hope Alive. Our newest endeavor, Hope Alive, is an innovative approach to expand potential of children, youth and young adults with autism who need continued, creative support in the areas of academics, life-skills, interests, vocational opportunities and experiences.
Project Hope Foundation was founded in 1997 by Lisa Lane and Susan Sachs, after discovering that each of their children was diagnosed with autism. Together they have built an autism foundation that is dedicated to supporting South…

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When blacksmith's daughter Kitty Doyle catches the eye of her grocer employer it seems her troubles are over - but there are still dramas to come...
In Far From Home, Lyn Andrews travels between both Ireland and Liverpool in this engrossing saga of new beginnings, new tragedies and new loves. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Annie Murray and Dilly Court.
As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home.
Luckily there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's, where she also catches the eye of the owner.
With Kitty's input the business is soon thriving - but tragedy lies ahead, and she must endure many trials and tribulations before she can find true happiness...
What readers are saying about Far From Home:
'A very good read, enjoyed every page. A typical Lyn Andrews book, riveting to the very end. Thoroughly recommend this book'
'Another enthralling read from Lyn Andrews, I couldn't put it down from start to finish. You will not be disappointed'

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John's family has a great tradition and we were so excited to be able to do it here in Virginia this year. Did you know that if you hit two eggs together only one will crack....every time! His family hard boils their own eggs and decorates them-they are very serious about this-and then they have a tournament to see who's eggs beats all the eggs. John made a bracket sheet similar to March Madness! We had 18 people participating so it was a blast.
These are all of the cracked eggs....the losers you could say! The little purple egg was the winner! Go Amelia! She is almost two years old and she did a great job! Her dad, Markus, sure was a great helper!
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Monte Carlo simulations for micellar encapsulation
The solubilization of solutes in surfactant aggregates (micelles) is studied using lattice-based Monte Carlo simulations. Various properties such as the size and shape of the micelles, the critical micelle concentration, the locus of solubilization, and the partition coefficient of the solute are obtained, and the implications of the results for the thermodynamics of solubilization are examined. The presence of contaminants in the solution affects micellar properties by promoting micellization and stabilizing micelles. The ratio of head group size to tail group size for the surfactant is found to greatly affect both micellar properties and contaminant solubilization. The partitioning of the solute is found to be independent of surfactant concentration, but increases with solute concentration. The results show that contaminant partitioning is controlled primarily by enthalpic contributions.
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Talsania, S., Wang, Y., Rajagopalan, R., & Mohanty, K. (1997). Monte Carlo simulations for micellar encapsulation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 190 (1), 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcis.1997.4868

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Restoring hope through artAmán - Jordan
There is a lack of art and culture that enrich the human experience of young Syrian refugees in Jordan. Young people have developed a sense of hopelessness and low confidence in themselves and their ability to change their lives.
Total raised €100%raised
Ticketmaster clients 3.899€
Those people who have naturally benefited from the project's interventions.
Those identifiable people who will potentially recieve an effect from the project's activities.
- Materials 1.000€
- Staff 2.899€
- Total 3.899€
As the conflict in Syria enters its sixth year, the situation continues to deteriorate with the recent increase in violence on the ground and without a clear road map towards peace. The people of Syria are experiencing the biggest refugee and displaced crisis of our era. Over the past three years, the number of Syrian refugees in Jordan has remained constant.
Plan International has perceived the existence of significant shortcomings in the lives of Syrian refugee adolescents in Jordan. There are few structured activities for young people to participate, and many of them receive a low-quality education or do not directly attend school. There is also a lack of art and culture that enrich the human experience and there is no chance that the voices of the refugees will come out into the world in a positive way to tell their own stories.
Young people have developed a sense of hopelessness and low confidence in themselves and their ability to change their lives. This project will be able to address this problem and help them to regain their self-confidence, focusing their efforts on providing useful life skills and artistic and creative learning opportunities (art, music and photography), psychosocial support for boys and girls and adolescents and support sessions for mothers and fathers.
- Establish teen clubs in the host communities, where psychosocial activities (life skills) will be carried out and will include topics such as art, music, theater, sports and computer science.
- Organize bimonthly workshops for teenagers to acquire social skills, and at the same time carry out literacy and storytelling activities that include the English language, among others.
- Distribute recreational kits so that they can develop the activities developed in the clubs of ICT, music, crafts, sports, theater, etc. adapted to the needs of the beneficiaries, age, gender and disability.
Who will benefit?
Through the activities developed in the framework of this project, 600 boys and girls from 6 to 9 years old will be attended.
- Contribute to the improvement of the well-being and psychosocial condition of Syrian children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years old and to their families of the host communities of Jordan.
- Provide improved access for girls and teenagers to a space of safe and participative expression and immediate relief through art and music.
Plan International fully complies with the 9 Principles of Transparency and Good Practices analyzed by the Lealtad Foundation
Updates & Links
Plan International (website in Spanish)

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Bedding .Mandel Aubin.Thursday, November 09th 2017, 12:34:59 PM.
Everyone loves to have an eyeful of sleep. But it needs favorable conditions. When mercury is scaling up, you have to negate the negative effects of the temperature with suitable bedding material in the bedroom. Especially in the summer months, people find it difficult to sleep for a long time due to perspiration and heat. Not only the mattress but also the bedding impacts the sleep pattern. So, choose the proper bedding and linen that absorbs your stress and also refresh the body for the next day. Here are a few points that should be taken into account while shopping for Bedding material.
The first important factor you are going to have to take into consideration is the material you choose. Duvet cover sets come in a choice of materials from poly-cotton blends, which are the cheapest option to one hundred percent cotton to the more expensive one hundred percent Egyptian cotton options. Obviously if you‵re looking for sheet luxury and comfort, then you want to choose Egyptian cotton in a high thread count.
First and foremost, be sure your crib is a standard size. Like full-size bedding, baby bedding is designed to fit a certain size crib. You might want to buy the bedding first and design the room around it - this will avoid clashes or impossible-to-match wallpaper and/or paint. Baby bedding should be made of durable, washable fabrics and be well-constructed. If you choose a crib that‵s neutral in color, it will be easier to coordinate the bedding with it.
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DFRobot released its latest high-precision analog infrared arduinoط¢آ CO2 sensor. The effectively measuring range is from 0 to 5000ppm. This sensor is based on non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) technology and has good selectivity and oxygen-free dependency. Besides, its service life could up to 5 years! It integrates temperature compensation and support DAC output. Most importantly, the product is easy to use; it is compatible with all types of microcontrollers such asArduino with ADC function.
In addition, this Gravity: Analog Infrared CO2 Sensor For Arduino (0~5000 ppm) is a high-performance sensor that combines technology of mature infrared absorption gas detection with precision optical circuit design as well as sophisticated circuit design. It has characteristics such as high sensitivity, high resolution, low power consumption, fast response, anti-water vapor interference, no poisoning, high stability and long life.
This Gravity: Analog Infrared CO2 Sensor is able to directly compatible with the DFRobotArduino IO expansion board thanks to its external DFRobotGravityinterface. This character simplify the use of the sensor as it is plug and play and no need additional wiring.
This CO2 Sensorط¢آ could be widely used in HVAC, indoor air quality monitoring, industrial process and security protection monitoring, agriculture and animal husbandry production process monitoring.
DFRobot provides detailed tutorials and code, please check theproduct wiki.
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I just got this bag as a present from my husband. It is officially my favourite bag ever! It's so lovely, practical and a great size.... I have wanted a santoro bag for ages now.... And I am officially hooked! Can't wait to get my next item now!!!!
Gorjuss Girls are truly beautiful thought-provoking artworks. Santoro stock a unique and exclusive Gorjuss collection, choose from the amazing Gorjuss bags, stationery, accessories, Gorjuss dolls and many more items in your favourite designs.

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slim mini-tower designed for users who require more space and style
19 August 2010, Keelung, Taiwan - Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd. today announces the PC-Q11 under its Mini-Q Series. Compact and light, the PC-Q11 is designed for users who require space and convenience for mini systems. The new Mini-Q series is now available in four different colors, including black, silver, red and the eye-catching piano white - definitely one of the Lian Li models that power users shall not miss.
Dimensioned at 200x326x260mm(W.H.D.) and weights only in 2.42kg, the new Mini-Q PC-Q11 series supports Mini-ITX/Mini-DTX motherboards. For an ultimate convenience sake, users can easily remove the HDD cage, undo the thumb screw, as well as upgrading all the standard parts including one 5.25" optical drive, two 3.5"/2.5" hard drives and ATX PS/2 power supply units. Lian Li once again leads the industry by offering the maximum quality and user-friendly design on its mini tower series - PC-Q11.
The PC-Q11 is made of 1.5mm aluminum alloy panel - thick and solid enough offering no vibration problem. The side panel secured with screws also reduces vibration and lowers the noise level. Last but not least, the PC-Q11 case stands are padded with rubbers to absorb vibration.
For an ideal thermal solution, the Mini-Q PC-Q11 incorporates one 140mm intake fan at the front to output high air flow volume with lower RPM to push the cold air through the HDD rack. There are vent holes at the top and on the side panels, allowing air to enter and cool the system down. Additional vent holes for CPU cooling are located next the slot for the rear motherboard panel connectors. Users can place can easily install a standard ATX PS/2 power supply with 120mm cooling fan facing the motherboard for more passive cooling. What is more, there are vents holes on the PCI brackets, providing even extra cooling to the VGA cards.
For more details on features and extras availabilities, please visit the Lian Li Mini-Q PC-Q11 webpage.
Highlights for PC-Q11A / PC-Q11B / PC-Q11R / PC-Q11W
• Supports Mini-ITX/Mini-DTX motherboards
• Two 3.5" HDD & two 2.5" HDD
• One 140mm system fan at the front
• Two PCI expansion slots
• One standard 5.25" optical drive
• Standard ATX PS/2 power supply units
• Support two USB3.0 / HD audio multimedia I/O ports
• Available in four colors: black, silver, red and (New!) piano white
• Availability: Arriving at local distributors end of August
• MSRP (VAT not included): US$94.99 for PC-Q11A/B (silver/black), US$114.9 for PC-Q11R (red), and US$174.99 for PC-Q11W (white)
About Lian Li
Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd is an Aluminum Chassis and Chassis peripheral manufacturer and provider of industrial wholesale as well as OEM & ODM services for the PC industry as required. With over 20 years of service excellence, ISO 9001 certification and a team of professional staff willing to do the utmost to deliver durable, superior quality products, all backed by a *2 year guarantee; your satisfaction is guaranteed.(*conditions apply)
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Hong Kong-based K2 Investments invests in IoT and SaaS startup TempoGO
TempoGO, an IoT and SaaS-based solutions provider for commercial transportation, has raised its seed round of funding from a clutch ......
Online grocery ordering app BigZop raising $600K in seed funding
Gurgaon-based hyperlocal grocery delivery startup is raising around Rs 3.9 crore ($600,000) in seed funding from a group of investment ......
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Orexin excites GABAergic neurons of the arcuate nucleus by activating the sodium--calcium exchanger.
Burdakov D., Liss B., Ashcroft FM.
The neuropeptides orexins/hypocretins are essential for normal wakefulness and energy balance, and disruption of their function causes narcolepsy and obesity. Although much is known of the role of orexins in sleep/wake behavior, it remains unclear how they stimulate feeding and metabolism. One of the main targets of orexinergic neurons is the arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus, which plays a key role in feeding and energy homeostasis. By combining patch-clamp and RT-multiplex PCR analysis of individual neurons in mouse brain slices, we show that an electrophysiologically distinct subset of ARC neurons coexpress orexin receptors and glutamate decarboxylase-67 and are excited by orexin. Acting on postsynaptic orexin type 2 receptors, orexin activates a sodium-calcium exchange current, thereby depolarizing the cell and increasing its firing frequency. Because GABA is a potent stimulus for feeding, in both the ARC and its main projection site, these results suggest a mechanism for how orexin may control appetite.


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The track, “On A Evening Like This”, was initially recorded by Pandora in 1999
Pop tune, “On A Evening Like This”, was written by Steve Torch, Graham Stack, Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling of manufacturing workforce METRO, and was recorded by Swedish singer Pandora (actual title Anneli Magnusson) for her sixth studio album, “No Regrets”, in 1999. The track and the album have been typically bypassed however Pandora has since carried out it dwell, little doubt owing to the eye the track was to be given on the flip of the brand new century…
Simply twelve months later, “On A Evening Like This” was given to Kylie Minogue for her comeback album, “Gentle Years“. It was really a final minute addition and it was scheduled because the second single, as a substitute of “Your Disco Wants You”, in September 2000. With a horny video that includes Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, Kylie took “On A Evening Like This” to the highest of the Australian singles chart and to No.2 within the UK, the place it acquired a Silver certification whereas globally “On A Evening Like This” turned an enormous hit and in addition a staple of virtually each Kylie tour launched into ever since.
Pandora ‘reclaimed’ the track in 2007 when a brand new combine with manufacturing workforce United DJ’s was launched for her better of, “Celebration”. This was launched commercially and reached No.3 on the Swedish singles chart. Extra just lately, in 2022, former Norwegian Eurovision stars Keiino have recorded the track as one among various cowl variations the group are amassing following their earlier successes with Whitney’s “I Wanna Dance With Any person” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers Licence”.
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I just posted this on Radio National Facebook Page. I’d like the whole world to read it and get back to me. How many millions of us feel the same? Many, I think. There’s blogs everywhere with people trying to give us the benefit of their best deliberations. Too many. Far too many. A hubbub a clamour a deafening chaotic tumult of noises.
Well here’s my contribution, nevertheless:
I think it would be nice if we got some real coverage of the brexit thing.
Like what ‘deals’ are actually in question?
All I’ve heard about is the Ireland thing.
By now I”d expect to be au fait with all the major ‘deals’ ( or existing arrangements) that will suddenly terminate at the end of March and what the significance of those terminations will be.
Most I’ve heard is of shipments on the way to England not knowing what forms they are going to have to fill in when they get there.
Come on. Isn’t it all largely about tariffs and free trade? I don’t know but isn’t that it? Well then what are the major tariff agreements that will suddenly disappear at the end of March if there is no agreement?
And so on. A run down on what products will be effected and how.
And work – the freedom to work and live in Europe for the poms. Well what happens at the end of March? Suddenly thousands of them lose their jobs? Have to suddenly go back to U.K. ? What?
All that sort of stuff. Elementary. Rudimentary you’d think. Stuff fit to serve up to simpletons such as I, but I get nothing, we get nothing.
Then let’s get a little more sophisticated. The UK and Europe are really merely theatres of action for the money manipulators, the banks, the super rich, etc… We all know that, don’t we? By now?
Well what deals are worrying them? I believe a major part of the U.K.’s GDP nowadays comes from the financial sector and that’s because it is a major world financial centre.
i.e. Money is big deal. Money is probably what it is all about at bottom.
So how about some investigative reporting and tell us how the City sees the whole thing. They’re too smart to be caught with their pants down.
There’s nothing at all happens, even world wars, that they don’t make a dollard or a trillion from. So what are they doing while the clowns in parliament and our clown journalists are occupying themselves with these shallow discussions?
What are they up to? There’s the real interesting story.
There’s the real life blood and centre and backbone of England. In the City.
I don’t even know what factors of a Brexit might effect them. Maybe none. In which case the whole Brexit thing is a storm in a teacup.
But if there are some factors then what are they and what are they doing about them?
We all should know – but don’t – that the EU is mainly a de facto state of thousands of unelected bureaucrats waxing fat and powerful whilst leeching off the populace.
That’s just a simple fact. Entertaining to start quantifying and identifying all of them and contemplating their discomfiture when their sinecures suddenly disappear, wouldn’t it be?


Grammy-nominated and platinum selling rockers Skillet has announced an autumn European tour which will see them perform more than 20 tour dates including London, Zurich, Stockholm, Warsaw, as well as multiple dates in Russia, where the band's popularly is growing exponentially.
The tour follows a summer European run, which saw Skillet rocking multiple festivals throughout the continent, performing for thousands of fans. The summer and autumn tours have seen the band gain a solid European following, all subsequent to last year's tour supporting mainstream rockers Nickelback.
The tour kicks off with 4 UK dates, Glasgow (12th October), Wolverhampton (13th), London (14th) and Norwich (15th). The band then head to Belgium, followed by Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, before ending with 8 dates in Russia during November.
Last year Skillet released their latest album 'Rise', the highly anticipated follow-up to their mega-selling project 'Awake', which was certified platinum for sales in excess of one million copies in the US.
October 12 - The Garage, Glasgow, UK
October 13 - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, UK
October 14 - Islington Academy, London, UK
October 15 - Waterfront, Norwich, UK
October 17 - Trix Hall, Antwerp, Belgium
October 18 - O13, Tilburg, Netherlands
October 20 - Komplex Klub, Zurich, Switzerland
October 21 - Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany
October 25 - Bygningen, Vejile, Denmark
October 26 - Debaser Strand, Stockholm, Sweden
October 28 - Stodola, Warsaw, Poland
October 29 - Loftas Concert Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
October 30 - Melna Concert Hall, Riga, Latvia
November 1 - Rock Café, Tallin, Estonia
November 3 - Stadium Live, Moscow, Russia
November 4 - Stadium Live, Moscow, Russia
November 5 - Capitoliy, N. Novgorod, Russia
November 7 - Emeritage Concert Hall, Kazan, Russia
November 8 - MTL Arena, Samara, Russia
November 10 - Expo, Novosibirsk, Russia
November 12 - Sport Palace, Ekaterinburg, Russia
November 14 - A2, St. Petersburg, Russia


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You should talk to your doctor about possible treatments. You may want to talk to other patients who have had the treatment planned for you. You also may want to seek a second doctor's opinion about surgery before making your decision. You may find it difficult to talk to your doctor about impotence. You will want to find a doctor who treats this condition and will help you feel comfortable talking about the problem and choosing the best treatment. You can also get more information by contacting your local National Kidney Foundation affiliate.
If you have unstable heart disease of any kind, heart failure or unstable, what we call angina, contraindication to using the medications. All right? So if you’re in an unstable medical state, these medications are not a good idea. Now, there are relative issues. If you may be taking a blood pressure medicine or a medicine for your prostate which dilates your blood vessel a little bit– you know, the typical ones are what we call the alpha blockers– you may have an additive effect from the medication. But for the most part, the medicines are incredibly safe.
Get past your dislike of the doctor's office. Millions of men who experience erectile dysfunction (ED) each year are too embarrassed to talk about it with their doctor. ED is a very common disorder, but it is not considered to be a "normal" part of aging. ED is often a signal that there is an underlying problem that needs to be treated. Before attempting to overcome ED on your own, it's very important to make an appointment with your doctor and clear up any other issues that might be affecting your ability to sustain an erection.
There are also alternative treatments, such as using a penis pump or a penile injection. Penis pumps work by creating a vacuum and thereby causing more blood to flow to your penis. Penile injections need to be used shortly before intercourse. They contain a medication which widens your blood vessels. A doctor’s prescription is needed for the injections.
Alteration of NO levels is the focus of several approaches to the treatment of ED. Inhibitors of phosphodiesterase, which primarily hydrolyze cGMP type 5, provided the basis for the development of the PDE5 inhibitors. Chen et al administered oral L-arginine and reported subjective improvement in 50 men with ED.  These supplements are readily available commercially. Reported adverse effects include nausea, diarrhea, headache, flushing, numbness, and hypotension.
Can’t or don’t want to take ED drugs? The vacuum pump method is the next most common choice among men with erectile dysfunction who pass on pills, says Dr. Bennett. To create an erection, you place a plastic cylinder over the penis and pump the air out of the cylinder to force blood to flow into the penis. An elastic ring that you slide onto the base of your penis holds the erection. This ED treatment device is effective for about 75 percent of men. Side effects include numbness, bruising, and weak ejaculation — and the ring must be removed after 30 minutes.
Sildenafil has been previously suggested as a treatment option for ED in men with epilepsy (77,78). However, Matos et al. warned that PDE5i are potentially pro-convulsant and should be used with great caution in men with epilepsy (79). Animal studies in rat and mice overwhelmingly suggest PDE5i can reduce seizure threshold. In human trials, seizures were rare but reported. PDE5i exerted their proconvulsive effect by lower seizure threshold possibly by worsening sleep or obstructive sleep apnea, causing cardiovascular changes, or leading to EEG changes specifically with tadalafil use.
Finally, gene therapy and stem cell research has widened the frontier of ED treatment proposed as possibility to even reverse ED. Specifically, gene therapy pertains to repairing the cause of ED by restoring defective gene function and/or altering the expression of the mutant gene (32). Most of the available data on gene therapy are in the animal model. However, a phase I clinical trial in men with ED undergoing intracavernous injection with a DNA plasmid carrying the alpha-subunit of the corporal smooth muscle Maxi-K channel showed promise in increased erectile function based on IIEF assessment sustained throughout the 3-month study period (122).
The mechanisms by which testosterone plays a role in erectile function are not completely understood. A study evaluating the effect of testosterone on erections in surgically castrated rabbits and control animals, in which the rabbits’ intracavernosal pressures were compared after cavernosal nerve stimulation, determined that castrated rabbits had much lower pressures after stimulation than control rabbits did.  Notably, the pressures increased when castrated rabbits received exogenous testosterone replacement.
"Medications that create blood flow to the penis can't help when an erection is blocked by the fear or anxiety of the fight-or-flight response,” says Feloney. “This type of erectile dysfunction probably has a lot to do with evolution — men didn't need an erection when a dinosaur was chasing them." The best way to treat erectile dysfunction caused by performance anxiety, depression, a poor relationship, or stress may be with a combination of ED drug treatment and sex therapy, individual therapy, or couples therapy from sexual health professionals.
Vacuum devices for ED, also called pumps, offer an alternative to medication. The penis is placed inside a cylinder. A pump draws air out of the cylinder, creating a partial vacuum around the penis. This causes it to fill with blood, leading to an erection. An elastic band worn around the base of the penis maintains the erection during intercourse.
Pay attention to your vascular health. High blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides can all damage arteries in the heart (causing heart attack), in the brain (causing stroke), and leading to the penis (causing ED). An expanding waistline also contributes. Check with your doctor to find out whether your vascular system — and thus your heart, brain, and penis — is in good shape or needs a tune-up through lifestyle changes and, if necessary, medications.
Erectile dysfunction can occur as a side effect of medication taken for another health condition. Common culprits are high blood pressure meds, antidepressants, some diuretics, beta-blockers, heart medication, cholesterol meds, antipsychotic drugs, hormone drugs, corticosteroids, chemotherapy, and medication for male pattern baldness, among others.
Much of the emphasis on erectile pathophysiology has been placed on penile smooth muscle function and cavernosal hemodynamics. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of erection can be characterized but its full extent is poorly understood. Neurologic disease does not always reproducibly affect erections in a uniform manner compared to other types of sexual dysfunction (SD). This offers many obstacles to understanding the role the nervous systems plays in SD and consequently obscures what treatment options readily optimize erections specific to the neurologic insult.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is commonly called impotence. It’s a condition in which a man can’t achieve or maintain an erection during sexual performance. Symptoms may also include reduced sexual desire or libido. Your doctor is likely to diagnose you with ED if the condition lasts for more than a few weeks or months. ED affects as many as 30 million men in the United States.
Viagra is available in three strengths: 25 mg, 50 mg, and 100 mg. Viagra works best if taken on an empty stomach about 30-45 minutes before sexual activity. Optimal results may not be realized until the medication has been tried six to eight times. Viagra may be used cautiously with alpha-blocker medications as long as sufficient time has passed between their dosing.
As with most other organ system in the human body, changes and loss of function is normal consequence of the ageing process. This is also true of the endocrine system, specifically the levels of testosterone production from the Leydig cells of the testicle. Accompanying the decrease in testosterone is a decrease in erections which also has a component in decrease in the blood supply to the penis making erection not as frequent and not as rigid compared with a young man’s erectile function. Although these changes are in itself not life threatening, they can impact a man’s relationship with his partner, and also ED may be a harbinger of other undiagnosed conditions such as coronary artery disease (CAD), hypercholesterolaemia or diabetes mellitus.6
Moemen et al. compared the effectiveness and satisfaction associated with use of several ED therapies including sildenafil alone, intracavernosal injections (ICI) followed by sildenafil after ICI discontinuation and vacuum erections devices (VED) followed by sildenafil therapy after VED discontinuation (60). Seventy percent of men receiving vasoactive medications preferred sildenafil to ICI, even though rigidity was superior in the ICI group. All men using VEDs were dissatisfied with that form of therapy.
The great majority of ED cases in diabetic men have a physical cause, such as neuropathy or circulatory problems. In some cases, however, the cause of ED is psychological, including depression, guilt, or anxiety. With a thorough exam, the doctor should be able to determine whether the ED is psychological or physical in nature. If the cause is psychological, your doctor may refer you to a psychiatrist, psychologist, sex therapist, or marital counselor. Do not view such a diagnosis as an insult. Most psychologically-based ED is easily and successfully treated.
The primary nerve fibers to the penis are from the dorsal nerve of the penis, a branch of the pudendal nerve. The cavernosal nerves are a part of the autonomic nervous system and incorporate both sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers. They travel posterolaterally along the prostate and enter the corpora cavernosa and corpus spongiosum to regulate blood flow during erection and detumescence. The dorsal somatic nerves are also branches of the pudendal nerves. They are primarily responsible for penile sensation.
Your Ro physician may recommend trying the medication under different circumstances. Using the medication the first time can be anxiety provoking so they may suggest using it alone until you are familiar with its effect or side effects. If you’ve been prescribed ED medication on the Ro platform, please contact a physician if you have any questions. You are not alone. Use every tool you can and asking questions when you need answers is one of them.
L-arginine, an amino acid that is naturally present in the body and helps make nitric oxide, supports a successful erection. Nitric oxide is responsible for making the blood vessels relax, which helps sustain an erection for men. A 1999 study, observed the effects of six weeks of high-dose (5 grams/day) orally administered nitric oxide (NO) donor L-arginine on men with organic ED. Thirty-one percent of those who took 5 grams/day of L-arginine experienced significant improvements in sexual function. Burns told Medical Daily, “l-arginine and deer antler velvet” have been the most popular go-to natural treatments for men.
This entire is the full list of the most useful tips on how to treat impotence at home naturally that might be what a lot of readers of VKool.com and other people who are also suffering from the impotence impotence problem are looking for and want to make use to stop this embarrassing and hateful sexual health problem as soon as possible without the need for using any type of harmful pill, drug, or medication.
Examples of common neurologic conditions that can lead to ED include cerebral vascular accident, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury. Microvascular disease associated with diabetes is thought to compound the endothelial and neural injuries associated with this disease. Pelvic surgery may disrupt both neural and vascular pathways, resulting in ED.
Oral therapies via the PDE5i sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil have been proven to be generally safe and effective in select NED populations. The majority of the treatment effectiveness data has been generated in the SCI population. Data regarding the use of PDE5i outside of the SCI population is lacking (58). Furthermore, the ED that exists in the population with neurologic disorders is often multifactorial and may be caused by psychogenic, psychosocial, hormonal, medication-related and disability-related factors. A careful evaluation of each patient must be performed to isolate these factors prior to initiating vasoactive therapy.
Although not proven, it is likely that erectile dysfunction can be prevented by good general health, paying particular attention to body weight, exercise, and cigarette smoking. For example, heart disease and diabetes are problems that can cause erectile dysfunction, and both are preventable through lifestyle changes such as sensible eating and regular exercise. Furthermore, early diagnosis and treatment of associated conditions like diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol may prevent or delay erectile dysfunction, or stop the erectile dysfunction from getting more serious.
Positron emission tomorgraphy (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have led to a greater understanding to which center are activated during arousal. These imaging studies measure increases in cerebral blood flow or changes in cerebral activity on a real-time basis. Studies are performed when male subject are aroused by visual cues (usually sexual explicit photos or videos) and compared to images obtained during exposure to sexually neutral cues differences can be measured. Several studies have identified that the inferior frontal lobes, inferior temporal lobes and insular gyrus, and occipital lobes are involved with processing arousal cues, although each are likely to process different stimuli (20-23).
According to whom? What's the source of your statistic? Because it sounds astonishingly high, for me to get erections and then lose them. If what you are talking about is men not being able to get erections, why don't you be honest and say that normally this is completely associated with age (say, over-60, and especially over 75), and that the Viagra-class of medications is the simplest and easiest response.
ED usually has a multifactorial etiology. Organic, physiologic, endocrine, and psychogenic factors are involved in the ability to obtain and maintain erections. In general, ED is divided into 2 broad categories, organic and psychogenic. Although most ED was once attributed to psychological factors, pure psychogenic ED is in fact uncommon; however, many men with organic etiologies may also have an associated psychogenic component.
A vacuum erection device is a plastic tube that slips over the penis, making a seal with the skin of the body. A pump at the other end of the tube makes a low-pressure vacuum around the erectile tissue, which results in an erection. An elastic ring is then slipped onto the base of the penis. This holds the blood in the penis (and keeps it hard) for up to 30 minutes. With proper training, 75 out of 100 men can get a working erection using a vacuum erection device.


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Eastbound Off-ramp at Declo Interchange to Close for Reconstruction
DECLO, Idaho – Work continues on the Snake River twin bridges project on Interstate 84, but this time crews will be working to reconstruct the eastbound off-ramp at the Declo interchange.
Work on the eastbound off-ramp will begin on Monday, Sept. 11, and is expected to last about two weeks, according to the Idaho Transportation Department.
All eastbound traffic will be directed to exit I-84 at the Heyburn interchange (Exit 211) to access Idaho Highway 25 to Minidoka County and Idaho Highway 81 and Idaho Highway 77 to toward Declo. Both westbound ramps and the eastbound off-ramp at the Declo Interchange will remain open during this phase of construction.
A 65-mph speed limit remains in effect through the work zone. ITD says there also is a 15-foot width restriction for oversize loads.


text: With sadness, I just discovered the Asian market, Kui's, on Dorset Street has closed. :( If you got there Friday afternoon, she'd have fresh tofu from Boston, and had great frozen dumplings as well. Got everything I needed to cook my Chinese New Year's dinner. I know there is a shop on North Street, or at least there used to be. Does anyone know if this particular store moved or if there is another one on the south side of town? Thank you!

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The brainstorming is coming to an end this weekend, as I flesh out the story idea and begin actually writing a plot synopsis.
"Sysopsis?" you say. "I thought authors started with a plot outline."
Not me. I just don't work that way. I've tried to stick with outlines, but I always end up writing actual sentences and paragraphs because that's just how my brain works. An outline simply isn't detailed enough for my taste.
So, for the next few weeks I will be focused on writing an essay of 20-30 pages, which outlines the plot, characters, central themes, conflict, and whatever else I can think of. When I start writing the actual book, that 20-30 pages will be expanded by a factor of about 20, so the final book is 400-600 pages.
Now, if you're wondering about the title of this blog post... all I can say is that it's your first hint of what the next book will be like. But don't take the hint too far -- you won't be finding any rainbows or ruby slippers in this story.


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CHESHUNT, England — Tesco here said yesterday it plans to open between 60 and 70 new Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets this year in additional cities in the Western U.S., although it expects losses in the U.S. to continue until the economy recovers.
Speaking with investors in a conference call here, Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive officer, said Tesco could reduce the losses “if we wanted to, but it's important to keep pushing on into the recession to keep our momentum up because that will give us a strong growth platform when the upturn comes, which it will.”
For the fiscal year that ended Feb. 28, the loss for Tesco's 115 Fresh & Easy stores increased to $208.5 million (U.S.) at actual rates — equal to $180.6 million at constant rates — compared with $91 million a year ago. Sales were $305.4 million, and same-store sales rose 30%.
The company said the loss for Fresh & Easy was higher than the guidance it had previously provided, “reflecting the more challenging trading environment in the Western states and our decision not to open stores in Northern California for the time being. The U.S. trading losses reflect the fact the U.S. business has been built with the necessary infrastructure in place from the beginning to support hundreds of stores. At this stage, therefore, it is operating with high overhead and other costs in relation to the scale of the business, while also trading from immature stores.”
The company said overall sales at Fresh & Easy were lower than it anticipated at this time a year ago “as a consequence of our previously announced decision to maintain, rather than accelerate, our rate of new-store expansion during the second half, given the severity of the economic downturn in some geographic markets in the Western U.S.”
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As noted, WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair stays in a sanatorium after undergoing medicine this week.
Sports Illustrated reported progressing this week that Flair had an abdominal blockage that resulted in a partial of his bowel being removed. Flair’s complicated celebration reportedly exacerbated his issues. The medicine led to other serve complications and Flair could be hospitalized for over a month.
According to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer, Flair had an outmost pacemaker extrinsic to assistance his heart. His heart is now violence normally, that Meltzer remarkable “is a positive.” While things are looking improved than progressing this week, he’s on kidney dialysis and it’s still going to be severe for awhile.
Meltzer combined that Flair still has an infection that hasn’t been disclosed. There have been issues giving him antibiotics since of Flair’s enervated condition, so it’s still “a bad situation.”
Meltzer also reliable that Flair never had a heart attack. The initial pain Flair was feeling was due to a deterrent in his bowel. Flair went to a sanatorium on Friday night and he underwent medicine to have a deterrent removed. Flair was in unequivocally bad figure on Saturday and Sunday and there was a genuine fear about what would occur with a medicine on Monday, though Flair pulled through.
“It’s not [smooth sailing], though it was a good pointer that he got by Monday,” Meltzer said.
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This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star marking the shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter.
The Hubble image reveals a huge ultraviolet atmosphere with a mysterious hot spot on the stellar behemoth's surface. The enormous bright spot, which is many hundreds times the diameter of Sun, is at least 2, 000 Kelvin degrees hotter than the surface of the star.
Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI), NASA and ESA


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This Friday, March 22, 2013 begins the 19th Annual Black Women’s Conference. The theme this year is Voices of Resistance: Black Women and the Power of Song. The speakers are Dr. Renita Weems, Dr. Bettina Love, Dr. Judith Casselberry and UK’s own, Dr. Angelique Clay.
Schedule of Presentations:
Dr. Renita Weems: Call for the Weeping Women: Women, Resistance, and The Blues (12 pm, Student Center, 3/22)
Dr. Angelique Clay: Songs of Forgotten Voices: African-American Women Composers of American Art Songs (2 pm, Student Center 3/22)
Dr. Bettina Love: Black Girlhood, Hip Hop and the New South (3:30 pm, MLK Cultural Center, 3/27)
Dr. Judith Casselberry: The Amazon 35 Project: Race, Coalition Politics, and Lesbian Musical Culture (5:30 pm. Lyric Theater, 3/28).
The theme for this conference is unbound by discipline and time. The speakers were called on to use their intellectual and personal gifts to discuss the ways in which song, singing spaces, and places where black women gather to hum or moan have been powerful and necessary to the survival of black women. In the 19th year of the conference, we gather women/scholars/sisters/girlfriends and discuss the meaning, uses and importance of music in the lives of black women. We will discuss music from hip hop to gospel to folk to whatever moves and motivates people to keep on keeping on. The work and voices of these scholars draw from the wide span of black culture, history and spirituality.


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When we talk about the Rodney King riots of 1992 – the multi-ethnic race riots that rocked Los Angeles, California, for six whole days – most people only seem to remember the looting in South Central LA. The sudden explosion was instigated by the acquittal of two police officers on brutality charges and involved countless acts of violence that were concentrated among inner-city communities.
Both during and after the conflict, the popular media focused its attention mostly on black neighbourhoods, and occasionally Hispanic, but the violence inflicted on LA’s Asian population is often forgotten. At the time, Hyungwon Kang was the only Korean-speaking journalist on the LA Times staff. He covered the havoc from his unique perspective: through the eyes of his friends and family in Koreatown, who had their shops disproportionately attacked, looted, and burned and their children murdered in the streets. In this video from Reuters TV, Kang discusses the experience then, and how its effects are still being felt today:
In all, the rioting cost 53 lives, 2000 injuries, 1,100 burned buildings, and up to $1 billion in damages. Los Angeles has been festering with racial tension since its creation, during the great California gold rush of the 1840s. It is impossible to imagine the conditions that can breed a population that feels so utterly betrayed by the myth of law and order. There is no real reason that Koreatown and other Asian communities were specifically targeted (they suffered the brunt of the looting, with over 1,600 stores damaged), which can only make the ordeal more confusing and senseless to those affected.
The silver lining, though, is that the shock of the incident instigated a new wave of political involvement, in a bold and coordinated attempt to raise their collective standing, both among other minority populations as well as within the establishment.
The incident that began the rioting was the case of the arrest of Rodney King, a young African-American man who was pulled over by a husband-and-wife police unit. King was on parole and feared the stop, fleeing in a high-speed pursuit across freeways and through neighborhoods. When the officers finally caught him, they tasered, kicked, and beat him for almost 10 minutes – an act which was caught on video by a local resident. They reasoned that he was on PCP – a claim which was later proven false.
With the officers’ acquittal of their assault and excessive force charges, minority residents believed that the law had turned its back on their suffering. The riots were historical in that they were the first large-scale civil eruption to get national 24-hour media coverage from several different sources. Korean-American media, particularly the Korea Times newspaper, was a very influential source for balanced reporting of the events.
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RMP restructuring, closing N.J. plant MUNDELEIN, ILL — Rexam Medical Packaging plans a $25 million restructuring during the next two years that will close one plant and beef up its four remaining North American factories.
RMP, a unit of Rexam plc, announced April 12 that it plans to close its Mount Holly, N.J., converting plant by mid-2002, and transfer and add equipment at its other plants so that each specializes in particular products.
The Mundelein headquarters plant will produce film roll stock, bags and pouches; Madison, Wis., will make coated and laminated roll stock; Ashland, Mass., will turn out die-cut lids, labels and short-run roll stock; and Guadalajara, Mexico, will make hospital pouches and paper bags.
The $25 million will include investments in tandem coextrusion coating and laminating equipment, additional blown film coextrusion capacity and custom-designed bag and pouch making equipment.
Company officials said details will be released later. Todd Hurd, project director for the restructuring, said the company is announcing the expansion early to give customers time to react, and is willing to make changes in its plan.
The Mount Holly plant will close in several phases, and its 135 employees will be given the chance to apply for other jobs in the company, Hurd said. RMP will also offer severance packages.
Company officials said the investment reflects increased business, and said it continues consolidation of customer service, bag and pouch making and blown film production in the last three years.
Visteon to gain independence from Ford
DEARBORN, MICH. — Automotive parts maker Visteon Corp. will be spun off from its parent, Ford Motor Co., later this year and become an independent company, the automaker announced April 14.
Dearborn-based Visteon was created in September 1997 from Ford's automotive components division. The company, a major molder of plastic parts, had 1999 sales of $19.4 billion, ranking it among the largest 100 companies on the Fortune 500 once it is separated from Ford.
The spinoff is expected to take place this summer. Current Ford shareholders will receive an equal amount of Visteon stock.
Phillips, ExxonMobil PE-patent trial opens
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Phillips Petroleum Co. is seeking more than $150 million in damages from ExxonMobil Corp. for alleged violations of a Phillips patent used to make metallocene-catalyzed linear low density polyethylene.
The case went to trial in U.S. District Court in Wilmington on April 6 and is expected to conclude later this month.
"Our position is that we're not infringing on the patent," ExxonMobil spokesman Russ Roberts said. "We'll continue to enforce and protect our very significant investment in polyethylene technology."
The suit, filed in 1998, specifically addresses Houston-based ExxonMobil's production of hexene copolymer grades of metallocene LLDPE, which is used in plastic films. ExxonMobil produces the material at its Mont Belvieu, Texas, plant.
The case won't slow down the commercial development of the metallocene PE market, according to Don Brady, manager of Phillips' polymers and materials division.
Brady also disputed an April 6 Reuters story that said James Randle, a former Phillips scientist hired by Exxon in 1985, was involved in the patent infringement.
Tredegar sheds Fiberlux profile unit
HOUSTON — Vinyl profile extruder Fiberlux has been sold to Westech Windows Inc., a subsidiary of Westlake Group of Houston.
The deal tosses Fiberlux's former parent company, Tredegar Industries Inc. of Richmond, Va., out of the vinyl profile manufacturing business, said Tredegar spokesman Edward Cunningham.
"We have exited that business," he added, because Holmes, N.Y.-based Fiberlux was only a small part of Tredegar's overall sales, which mainly are attributed to aluminum profile extrusions and plastic films.
In fact, Tredegar, which posted 1999 sales of $230 million, did not even mention vinyl extrusion in its latest annual report.
Tredegar plans to focus on expanding its aluminum and plastic film businesses, Cunningham said. Westlake Group officials could not be reached for comment.


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Cuz no one knows me no one ever will
if I don’t say something, take that dry blue pill
they may see that monster, they may run away
But I have to do this, do it anyway…
I Can’t Keep…QUIET
I had this nightmare that turned into a victorious dream. I was reenacting things that happened in my childhood, but then I would flip the script in my dream. So, I was getting hit, and there was someone watching me get hit. It was a very theatrical look. It was this black, New York theater. It was like, the spotlight. And the abuser and I were in the spotlight. The observer was on the side. As I was getting hit, I looked up at the observer like, “We have to do something. This isn’t right.” That never happened before. I’ve never said, “This is not right. We need to do something.” And the observer said what I had heard my whole life: “Don’t say anything. You’re going to make things worse if you say anything. So just let it happen and then you’ll be OK in a little bit.”
I looked at her, and I was like, “I can’t keep quiet.” And then I woke. It was such a vivid and violent dream, but then at the end, it was kind of this positive dream.

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A Guide to Italian Cooking with Giuliano Bugialli. Producer/director: Lee Kraft. Videocraft. 100 minutes. $49.95.
Making fresh pasta is more easily learned by watching a demonstration than reading a recipe. It is the valuable highlight of this cooking video by the well-known teacher and author, which emphasizes techniques and ingredients essential to classic Italian cooking.
Mr. Bugialli is a purist and has little patience for Americanizations when it comes to Italian food. There is much to be learned, including proper terminology, which becomes easier to understand as you master the chef's accent as well as his wit. There are segments on vegetables, veal and desserts in addition to pasta. The ingredients printed on the screen are sometimes not in the same proportions as the demonstrations, and it is also necessary to stop the tape to copy them down.Continue reading the main story


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Cecil Township officials sent a letter to local legislators after a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection – requesting a meeting to discuss a Marcellus Shale water impoundment – went unanswered.
Township Manager Don Gennuso sent a letter to the DEP July 10, explaining the township had concerns and questions about Cecil Impoundment 23, formerly known as the Worstell impoundment. Some supervisors said they wanted the DEP to test groundwater at the impoundment in light of a leak at the Jon Day impoundment in Amwell Township. Both impoundments are operated by Range Resources.
After two weeks had passed without a reply from the DEP, Gennuso sent a leter to state Sen. Tim Solobay, D-Canonsburg, and state Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, seeking assistance.
Gennuso wrote, “The lack of response is especially frustrating given the recent findings of Auditor General Eugene DePasquale regarding the DEP’s performance and responsiveness.”
The performance audit of the DEP, released last week, sharply criticized the DEP’s handling of oil and gas development and its “poor” communication with complainants.
“Given the recent high-profile problems at other similarly constructed wastewater impoundments in the area (Jon Day, Yeager, etc.), it is completely reasonable for Cecil Township to pursue their constitutional obligation to protect the health, safety and welfare of their residents by ensuring the integrity of the Worstell impoundment,” White said in a letter he sent to the DEP Monday.
The impoundment was the subject of several private meetings last year between supervisors and the DEP – and, separately, with Range Resources. It also caused an ideological divide on the board as to whether officials should accept a private meeting if it appeared to be the only way to get answers.
DEP spokesman John Poister said the impoundment can operate indefinitely as long as it is servicing wells. He said there have been no recent issues at the site.


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Everyone loved this recipe, even those that don't like corn. Great flavor. Would not change a thing.
Serve with tortilla chips. To add flavor without more heat, increase the fajita seasoning by 1/2 Tbsp.
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Chill: 30 Minutes
- 4 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels
- 1 tablespoon fajita seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1/2 jalapeño pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/4 cup fresh chopped cilantro
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 ripe avocados, diced
- 1. Sauté first 3 ingredients in hot oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat 6 to 8 minutes or until corn is slightly golden. Remove from heat; let cool.
- 2. Stir together corn mixture, bell pepper, and next 6 ingredients. Cover and chill at least 30 minutes. Stir in avocado just before serving.
- Note: For testing purposes only, we used Badia Fajita Seasoning.
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Keith Fulton, Associate Architect with RPS Consulting Services Limited, the Lead Designer for the new OMC depot commented,
“In addition to securing the building, there were a range of practical issues that were critical in the design of these doors. The major factor was accommodating live overhead electrification lines (OLE) which meant vertical opening doors would have been impractical.
“These were eight extremely large openings so effective thermal and acoustic insulation was important for the doors to ensure compliance with TfL’s strict environmental requirements.”
For visibility when closed, each door panel incorporates a 600 x 600mm argon filled, toughened glass, double glazed vision panel, and is fitted with multi-wall rubber seals to all edges to reduce water, air and dust ingress.
The doors are operated by a powerful, centrally mounted SEW drive unit, combined with a purpose designed control panel incorporating inverter control for smooth starts and stops.
Fulton added, “This is a high-profile flagship project and as Jewers are a tried and tested company in the rail sector, we were confident that the doors would be of the highest quality, fully meet the spec and provide reliable service for many years to come.”
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Marty has been in the mechanical contracting industry for the past 35+ years starting in Boston, MA as a project engineer for a major engineering and construction firm. Prior to taking his current role with Tucker Mechanical, he held a multiple executive positions at a variety of large and diverse contractors around the country.
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Walk Best Site
I can be contacted at E-mail address:-
Walk best Repeater site:-
Derby Raynet run Emergency Communications Exercises to support Charity Events in the (UK) Derbyshire Peak District.
The map shows checkpoint locations for an annual 'British Heart Foundation' 18 mile Winter Challenge Walk.
Sponsored Entrants for the Nov. 2004 event number 1500, with Raynet required to provide communications from the control point to Emergency vehicles, Check Points, and also the Transport fleet.
The original Repeater station had been located by choosing high ground from a map and producing paper path profiles, but access to the site was via two miles of farm tracks and open moorland!
Site access problems with a 4x4, due to the November weather, prompted a search for a more accessible Repeater site.
This became possible using Radio Mobile when the 3 arc-second elevation dataset for the UK was released on the 1st November 2003!
A new repeater location location was found on the elevation map (with roads merged), by using a 'Move and Test' procedure. A click on the map at a proposed position to produce the Cursor, followed by 'right click' on the Repeater to select 'Move unit to Cursor Position' produced the relocation. A click on the 'Show Networks' button then produced graphical evidence of signal paths for all the Links enabled. This procedure was then repeated to find a 'good' location for the repeater near a road for access.
The resulting 'Repeater 2' site with its network are shown below :-
Detailed analysis of the signal paths showed improvements to all check points, with CP4 being worst at S3. This site was used for the 2003 event where the predictions were confirmed in practice! Access to the roadside site via Farm roads was a great benefit, reducing system setup time.
Just after this event, the Find Best Sites feature was added to Radio Mobile by Roger. which simplified the placing of these stations!
The continuing work on Radio Mobile has made the preliminary planning of these events possible, and reduced the checking of site locations to a mornings work!
To see more screenshots produced by the program, look at RM Screenshots
An additional 'Route' feature has been added to the program which eases the procedure of checking radio paths along a defined route. See below for all the Links!
The picture below shows the actual Route taken by the walkers. The colour of the plot gives an indication of the Radio Performance from the new Repeater A location to a Hand Held radio unit traversing it.
Detail of the Route Performance, in the linear plot below, gives details of the signal levels and radio path between the selected Units. The background Elevation plot is Brown, changing to Blue where a 'Line of sight path' exists between the Units.
The actual performance of the link at the cursor location is indicated in the top data area, with the radio link and Route being displayed on the main map. To gain additional information the 'Radio Link' pane can be opened.
For more information see :-
Please keep checking back for updates/additions.
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1st February 2016

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Human rights activists have warned that eight teenagers from Saudi Arabia’s Shia-populated Qatif region in Eastern Province will soon be executed, as the House of Saud is adamantly pressing ahead with a heavy-handed crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against dissidents and anti-regime activists.
The activists have mounted a campaign under the Arabic hashtag “Stop the Slaughter” to demand the abolition of death penalties handed down to minors.
They identified the defendants as Abdullah al-Howaiti, Abdullah al-Derazi, Ali al-Sabiti, Hasan Zaki al-Faraj, Jalal Al Labad, Mahdi al-Mohsen, Javad Qariris, and Yousef al-Manasif.
The activists pointed out that the General Prosecutor's Office has sentenced Manasif, and at least five others, including a teenager named Sajjad Al Yassin, to death for apostasy – abandoning their Muslim faith, according to trial documents.
They went on to note that these six people are under trial in Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) since September 2019.
Manasif was violently attacked and arrested back in April 2017, near the so-called Qatif Court of Justice. He was walking in the street when Saudi forces opened fire and detained him, without providing an arrest warrant or any reason for the measure.
Saudi authorities allowed Manasif's family to meet him only six months after his detention, and he was kept in solitary confinement during that time. He was tortured several times by Saudi officers, beaten unconscious, and then taken to hospital.
Among the charges leveled against him are participation in the funerals of political opponents, taking part in anti-regime demonstrations and chanting slogans against the Riyadh regime, attempts to incite sedition and disturb national security, encouragement of sit-ins, protests and gatherings with the intent to harm the country’s stability, affiliation to terrorist outfits and shooting at security forces.
Eastern Province has been the scene of peaceful demonstrations since February 2011. Protesters have been demanding reforms, freedom of expression, the release of political prisoners, and an end to economic and religious discrimination against the oil-rich region.
The protests have been met with a heavy-handed crackdown by the regime. Security forces have increased security measures across the province.
Since bin Salman became Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader in 2017, the kingdom has arrested hundreds of activists, bloggers, intellectuals and others for their political activism, showing almost zero tolerance for dissent even in the face of international condemnation of the crackdown.
Muslim scholars have been executed and women’s rights campaigners have been put behind bars and tortured as freedom of expression, association, and belief continue to be denied by the kingdom's authorities.
Over the past years, Riyadh has also redefined its anti-terrorism laws to target activism.
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Friends or Foes? AV, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians: What Do We Need to Know, and How Will We Learn It?
3 CM/LU Pending
This workshop will cover what is known about the myriad ways that automated vehicles (AV) may impact the safety, equity, mobility, health, and right to the city of bicyclists and pedestrians (e.g., Sandt & Owens, 2017; Owens, et al., 2017). Following the overview, workshop participants will brainstorm research gaps and work together in small groups to flesh out research ideas. Participants will develop a clear problem statement and methodology, and brainstorm about potential funding sources and partners for the work. They will leave the workshop with a clearer understanding of how AVs may impact pedestrians and bicyclists, concrete ideas about how to further investigate these potential issues, and relationships with future collaborators to ensure that pedestrians and bicyclists are considered at every level as AVs become more commonplace.


Figure 43. This is the GenRight Offroad Universal Transmission Crossmember. We are not going to use the stock skidplate so a transmission mount must be installed. This will allow the flat skidplate that will be installed to be dropped when needed without dropping the transmission. This is a weld together kit. The pieces are all cut very nicely and fit together decently. One of the outrigger tubes had a burr on the cut end that had to be filed off so it would fit in the center tube. It uses urethane bushings in the frame attachments. When the frame returns, this and the motor mounts will be installed before painting.
Figure 44. The chassis has returned from sandblasting. They did very nice work, not a lot of debris in the frame rails, and the metal is very clean.
Figure 45. Here is a shot of the front of the frame. You can see a spot they could not get one hundred percent clean during the blasting, on the driver side frame rail. This spot is where the factory shock mount bolts to the frame. The way it is designed, it traps debris and moisture against the frame, causing the damage you see here.
Figure 46. In this image, some damage that was not noticed until now is visible. On the passenger side frame rail, the frame is pushed in about two and a half inches right at the front body mount. This was not good news. This will have to be fixed. We could buy a replacement frame, but then we would have to have it blasted, and it would cost as much to ship as the repair will cost. We are going to opt for having the frame straightened at a local body shop.
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It was Autumn, when I arrived among a group of 19 boys in a European country, with a big agenda. All the nineteen boys had been groomed, following a qualification to enter the University, through “an ideological awakening”, which was mandatory, until after Nkrumah's overthrow, and programs like that, including the “Young Pioneer” died a natural or unnatural death.
Nkrumah must have been consumed by self-importance, a kind of assertion, that he was just as good as anybody else, irrespective of color, or race, (not including creed).
Many believe he must have at some stage during his stay as a student in America, -the late 30s, till the early 40s, when he came to England, suffered the racial injustices, so common then: Rooms to let for whites only, and public places barred to blacks, who had “been sent to America forcibly”, centuries earlier, to make the whites rich, by offering cheap labor on cotton and sugar plantations. He met people like George Padmore, Prof. J.W.B. Du Bois, and Jomo Kenyata, later.
These were people, who had “black-sufficiency awareness burning inside them, and this torch was a lot hotter, in the much younger brash Kwame Nkrumah, from the Gold Coast. His utterances, most of which had kindled fire in Africans and some non-Africans alike, were full of Negritude. An example being, “……the black man is capable of managing his own affairs.”
Even so, people “as tall as” Abraham Lincoln had contended a century previous to Nkrumah's time, that, “the white race stood taller in human qualities, than people of the darker complexion,” He therefore was of the opinion, “when it came to supremacy, the place in front belonged to the white man”. Nkrumah must have studied with “some white men”, but schools and Universities were not by law desegregated in America, at his time.
The mix was not very big, and not an easy one. “That day in Autumn in Europe”, I was among five boys out of nineteen, who had gone to take extra-classes in the German language.
There was the husband of the language teacher, (a German, and American in turns, as rumored).
He requested that we help him get a sofa across, to a flat on the compound we shared, into an abode, he and his family had just moved in. It was a heavy apparatus, made in some wood they claimed had been imported from the Belgian Congo.
That country was called Zaire at the time of the episode, and a dictator called Sese Sekou Mobutu, was in charge. Whilst we struggled as adolescents to get the sofa across, the man with sadistic remarks walked behind us, teasing; “come on, move on faster. In the colonial days, a white man would be sitting on top.”
We all laughed, and that was it. Our destiny, as regards passing out of this language place with credits, which one needed to move on to the University, could be influenced, either way, by this man of chameleonic nationality, and moods.
So, who would challenge him? “In the colonial days, a white man would be sitting on top-of the sofa, and the Negroids would carry him”, I later saw filmstrips, of the German Forays into Africa almost two hundred years ago.
I watched the films, and saw truly, how white men were being carried over rough mountain terrain in Palanquins within, and across Tanganyika.
The film-strip said, the young tall Africans carried the wealthy, Germans with blue blood, (mostly from Bremenhafen), for handsome daily wages. It did not say, how much was “handsome.”
This narrative may not serve (should not be seen as trying to portray any race adventuring into Africa then as with antic intentions). Profit, is usually the aim of any adventure. Adventure, is an anthropomorphic instinct, and it is believed to have shaped every civilization.
Perhaps, it might take away some boredom, if I did my honored readers the favor of skipping a couple of centuries, and refer to my article in The Chronicle of May 14 and continued on the May 21, 2008.
Mention was made of South African citizens of Indian origin, whom I share a trade with, (practicing Neurosurgeons), who, much as they may not lack patriotism), are increasingly apprehensive, by the day, of their fatherland, under the rudders of a South African of Negritude.
As a result, such professionals, and you may add professions, other than mine, mentioned above, ARE TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THE FATHERLAND. South Africa, which was a haven for highly skilled professionals, even before the fall of Apartheid, but especially so, since it became the “Rainbow Republic, according to Rev. Desmond Tutu, (Nobel Prize Laureate for peace), has now become a land out of which fifteen years after Independence, the cream are emigrating, in droves.
For a reminder, just recollect that, there was much apprehension, coming from the quarters of intellectuals, among whom were staunch supporters of the ANC, and personal friends as well as admirers of the “World Icon”, Nelson Mandela. Fifteen years after independence, the economy has so shrunken, that the natives have turned guns on African immigrants, who, in Europe, not too long ago, were also the victims of assaults, for the same reason. They are the cause of the economic down-turn.
Cause for lamentation is; for men and women my age, (and I mean those who received primary and secondary education and even to the University level at Nkrumah's time), we saw how Nkrumah, the Pan-Africanist, supported Africans fleeing Apartheid South Africa, and gave them either jobs, or education in Ghana. The Educational Trust Schools, (and some one hundred and sixty were built), supported the Influx. (To be continued)
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Filed under: electronic, goth, music | Tags: ambient, electronic, music, Neil Smith, synthpop
Released July 26 is Fralick, a twelve-song, instrumental electronic album. It’s a collection of music Neil has putting together for the past year or so. The tracks range from mellow and ambient to upbeat and happy-synthy.
Fralick is now available via Bandcamp for $5. Please share the link! Have a listen below.
Also note that the music is published under a Creative Commons license and is available for your podcast, film or other project under Attribution, Noncommerclal, Share Alike. More info. on the license is available here.

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