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Australia is a vast country of sophisticated cities and beautiful landscapes. On the southern shores, follow the Great Ocean Road to enjoy a celebrated scenic drive. Visit Bells Beach, home of a World Championship Tour surfing competition.
Drive farther on to see the 12 Apostles natural rock sculptures rising dramatically out of the sea. In Melbourne, watch cricket and rugby matches, visit the Royal Botanic Gardens and sample Yarra Valley wines.
Continue north to Canberra, Australia’s capital, to see impressive government buildings, monuments and galleries. Farther north, Sydney is noted for its striking opera house and harbor bridge, beautiful beaches, the Taronga Zoo and Hunter Valley wines. Learn about Australia’s indigenous people at the Australian Museum.
The Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast are known for surfing. See this for yourself in the town named Surfers Paradise. Nearby Brisbane is a sophisticated city straddling a winding river. Enjoy the koala sanctuary and venture into hinterland wilderness.
Visit Port Douglas and Cairns in the far north to see the Great Barrier Reef, ideal for snorkeling, diving or viewing colorful fish and coral from a glass-bottom boat. See kangaroos, cassowaries and other animals at the Wildlife Habitat and exotic birds in the Daintree Rainforest.
New Zealand is actually two islands. On the North Island, visit Auckland to sail from its lovely harbor and appreciate multiethnic culture and food. Drive to Rotorua to experience sulfur springs, cooking corn on the cob over the hot steam eruptions or relaxing in a natural hot tub. Continue to the southern city of Wellington, the capital, to enjoy a beautiful harbor surrounded by cultural attractions.
The South Island has mountains, glaciers, fjords and blue-green glacial lakes that provided Mount Cook and other locations as fantasy film settings for The Hobbit. Visit Christchurch where the indomitable spirit of its residents has helped to maintain colorful gardens and rebuild the city after a devastating earthquake. Queenstown has an eclectic community of backpackers, artists and adventure seekers. Ski, rock climb and bungee jump. Enjoy New Zealand wines throughout the country.
Elsewhere in the South Pacific, explore islands that were described by James Michener as having “endless ocean” with “coconut palms nodding gracefully” and “lagoons, lovely beyond description.” Find this beautiful scenery at Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia. Learn about the Polynesian explorers who once sailed the high seas in outrigger canoes.
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Since the emergence of human beings on this blue planet, our existence has been battling with various deadly viruses. For some of these infectious agent-borne diseases, medicines and drugs have taken great strides in the past several decades, to give us protection from the illnesses. But some viruses like Coronavirus, Influenza, and Ebola continue to devour humans as a life-threatening monster.
In the recent times, the novel coronavirus /Covid-19 pandemic has triggered consternation across the world, limiting contact between people, implementing emergency lockdown, and massive quarantines. The deadly virus was officially discovered as a SARS-CoV-2 virus only about 4 months ago, and it has already infected millions of people worldwide, and till the date, over 200 countries have been infected by its bloodcurdling effects.
Due to the coronavirus’s scare, the entire world has cocooned itself. But with the collective battle, we will emerge unscathed as we have, in the history of time.
Several deadly viruses have jumped from animals to humans and triggered massive prevalence, rising higher mortality rates. Before the novel coronavirus, the world has faced many virus borne pandemics like Spanish flu or influenza, Hantavirus, HIV-AIDS, Dengue, Zika, Swine Flu, and Ebola, that completely switched the path of human history, killing people at large-scale.
Here’s a list of most dangerous viruses that claimed countless lives:
Spanish Flu or Influenza
One of the most dangerous viruses in history, Spanish flu was caused by a lethal subtype of the H1N1 virus. The flu leads to about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness (mainly afflicting young adults and people without a weak immune system) and about 500,000 deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is believed to be the worst virus in modern history.
AIDS is an auto-immune disease, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus destroys a particular type of white blood cell (WBC) that performs a major activity in our body’s immune system. About 35 million people worldwide have died from this sexually transmitted virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) related illnesses since 1981, according to a survey by WHO. It was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the year of 1976.
Since it was first identified in 1976, Ebola virus has infected over 30,000 people, and killed more than 13,000 people worldwide, according to the WHO. Unlike other viruses, Ebola is animal-borne. The bats initially bore the virus, transmitting it to other animals, and then spreading it to the human population. Ebola is rare, but the 2014–2016 Ebola virus outbreak that occurred in West Africa was the most dangerous, and largest outbreak since its identification. Another similar virus to Ebola, called the Marburg virus, is also an animal transmitted virion. Researchers identified the Marburg virus in the year of 1967 when small outbreaks originated among lab workers in Germany.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) first occurred in New Mexico and Arizona in the year 1993. During the Korean War, a deadly subtype of hantavirus had infected more than 3,000 troops and killed at least 350 soldiers (according to a paper published in the journal- Clinical Microbiology Reviews). This virus is not airborne and can only be transmitted to people if a mouse with hantavirus bites a human or an individual comes in contact with its feces, urine, and saliva. It has a mortality rate of 38%, according to the CDC.
We all know about the swine flu outbreaks that killed roughly 284,500 people in 2009. But, did you know how they died? Among those lives, over 80,000 deaths occurred due to cardiovascular diseases, and over 200,000 deaths due to respiratory tract failures. Caused by the H1N1 influenza virus, swine flu was first identified in central Mexico in March 2009 before it spread to countries across the globe.
Japanese Encephalitis Virus
The encephalitis virus, which better known as the ‘Japanese encephalitis virus’, is the most common risk factor to the humans in many countries across Asia. According to WHO, the Japanese encephalitis virus has an estimated 68,000 clinical cases annually. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain caused by the virus.
Variola major and Variola minor are the two major virus variants that are responsible for an infectious disease, Smallpox. This is also a transmitted disease that is spread via contaminated objects. But the fortunate thing is that the World Health Assembly declared that the world was officially free from smallpox in 1980. More common in children, the last case caused by smallpox was diagnosed in October 1977. In the 20th century, smallpox killed over 300 million people.
Dengue fever is an Aedes mosquito-borne disease caused by the dengue virus. It was first identified in the Philippines and Thailand in 1950, and since then it is spreading throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Zika is also a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Zika virus, which is spread through insect bites or stings. The virus first appeared in French Polynesia in the year of 2013. Although Zika is not a life-threatening virus, it has evolved twice in the past decade. In its second outbreak, the virus began to circulate in Brazil in 2015, and after that WHO declared the Zika virus fever as an epidemic.
Like SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, the MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) belongs to the same large family of viruses, known as coronaviruses, and was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. The virus has spread twice in the past decade – first in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and the second in South Korea in 2015. Being a part of the coronavirus family, MERS-CoV has infected 2,499 people and killed 861 people across the world, according to the WHO. Unlike COVID-19, MERS-CoV infected camels before passing onto humans and shows symptoms like fever, cough, and shortness of breath in infected people.
These were some deadly viruses that humans were inflicted to, in the past. But we conquered them and emerged successful in saving ourselves from mass-extinction. With the current challenging time, the threat has again been posed in front of us. However, we are optimistic that our collective strength and the will to fight, will help us overcome present medical, economic, social challenges.

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- Top Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White is reportedly under investigation for misusing her staff by sending them to run her personal errands, according to CNN.
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The top Pentagon spokeswoman is reportedly under investigation for misusing her staff, CNN reports, citing four sources familiar with the situation.
Dana White, a Trump political appointee who reports directly to Secretary of Defence James Mattis, allegedly sent staff members to handle her personal chores, including fetching her dry cleaning, picking up snacks, driving her to the Pentagon, and even helping her with her personal finances.
There are accusations that she retaliated against those who complained by transferring them inappropriately. These allegations have not been independently substantiated or corroborated by Business Insider.
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Remember the story from last summer where roving gangs of Somali ‘youths’ got into a “brawl” with locals in the city park in Lewiston, Maine. I wrote about it here. A local Maine man died after being hit by a brick.
Breitbart also reported the news, but the story was written before Donald Giusti died from his injuries.
Last week, locals returned to the park for a vigil for Giusti, and the Bangor Daily News headline says,
Lewiston vigil turns violent
It is really an incredible story as it explains that Giusti’s friends and family were attacked again by a “group” who drove up and got out with “bats and stuff” and began hitting the attendees.
One man was taken to the hospital, but not one word about who the people in the “group” were! Police say they are investigating.
Oh, and by the way, they have never been able to make any arrests or solve the mystery of who killed Giusti even as there is video available of the June fight with the group of Somali ‘youths.’
This latest “brawl” happened on December 27th and I am not seeing any other stories, so if you do, send me a link! I’m curious to see if the ‘S’ word is mentioned.
On Tuesday, Alpha News trumpeted this headline,
Large Violent Crime Increase in Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood
Star Tribune reports that largely driven by a surge in robberies, and assaults the Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has seen over 60% increase in violent crime in 2018.
This increase in crime comes at a time when Minneapolis is having trouble recruiting police officers.
Authorities put the blame on a violent rivalry between St. Paul and Minneapolis East African gangs.
The rise of Somali gangs is not new to Minnesota. In 2009 CBS reported that somewhere between 400-500 Somali youth were active in gangs.
Some of the active gangs include Somali Hot Boyz, the Somali Mafia and Madhibaan with Attitude.
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So glad to see you back, Ann. You were sorely missed!
Thanks! Glad to be back (I think)!
Great. Published: http://bit.ly/2TsNAAZ
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Frauds, Crooks and Criminals wrote:
> Ann Corcoran posted: ” Remember the story from last summer where roving > gangs of Somali ‘youths’ got into a “brawl” with locals in the city park in > Lewiston, Maine. I wrote about it here. A local Maine man died after being > hit by a brick. Breitbart also reported the n” >
It is really sad when the police won’t follow up on a murder just because of who did it. Our Republic is doomed if this continues to happen.
Yep. Just like so many countries in Europe.
Get it straight, democrats will gladly allow our murders in exchange for the votes of the newly arrived. There is video of the murderer(s), yet no arrests, this vigil was attacked, as fully expected, yet no police presence. There is only one way out of the dystopic multicultural future that will end in in civil war and it is nationalism/populism. It’s not what I’d wish for, but those who are forcing this flood of unassimilable migrants upon us leave us no choice.
My 2 grandchildren were caught up in a 100 Somali gang fighting riot at the Valley Fair amusement park (“Valley Scare”) this past September..
15,000 people had to be evacuated over the course of almost 2 hours, by 6 police departments, MN State Troopers, a police helicopter, and additional first res-ponders.. The Mall of America is a very dangerous place now. Women are being chased off of inner city Minneapolis lakes, and being threatened by up to 30 Somali males, with “Kidnap & Rape”, while they brandish ISIS flags (I have the police reports – and they are gut wrenching to read). “Dine & Dash” thugs are raiding restaurants throughout the Twin Cities, and bragging about on Twitter… ..And there is so much more..
The local WCCO (CBS News) TV news called the Valley Fair riot a “minor incident”, which amplifies the other problem we have here in Minnesota. Almost zero reporting that is truthful.. This is high stakes “Liars Poker”, and people are dying, people are getting stabbed, raped, shot, and being terrorized..
Everybody connected to the so-called “public authority”, The Courts, far too many in Minnesota law enforcement, public health departments, mayors, MN DHS, city council members, many in CHURCH LEADERSHIP, and MEDIA are lying through their teeth about all this, all across the State of Minnesota now… …And it is getting worse every day..
Minnesota is in deep trouble these days, and now that Waltz is the newest corrupt MN Governor, Keith (AKA: “Hakim” – “X” – “Mohamed”) Ellison is the new Marxist/Anarchist MN Attorney General, Ilhan Omar having taken his place in OUR US Congress, Amy Klobuchar, and so-called republicans like Tom Emmer, as OUR representation in Washington DC, we are almost done for..
Add to all this the mass migration (secondary migration) from other US States to Minnesota now, to steal anything that isn’t tied down, nailed down, or guarded by an armored tank division, atop the most out-of-control welfare distribution system breached by thieves already in the past ten years (ANNUALLY approximately $700 Million Dollars – all social services program(s) FRAUD combined), PLUS continued Refugee Resettlement, and the State-wide SANCTUARY State program costing MN taxpayers a net/net BILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY, and what we have here as a result is a brewing cultural, societal, and economic Armageddon…
$65 Billion Dollars of personal wealth has already exited Minnesota permanently in the past 3.5 years, and business are bugging out also, or closing their doors..
“15,000 people had to be evacuated over the course of almost 2 hours, by 6 police departments, MN State Troopers, a police helicopter, and additional first res-ponders” I’d like to see the rare honest portrayal of this, can you direct me to as I’ll share it widely.
All you have to do is Google “Valley Scare” riot/brawl September 22nd 2018, Shakopee, Minnesota..
Media covers up riot at Valley Fair.
I wrote all about it then.. There is video..
Thank you, will do, and will share it too.
I found this in depth and in person account of the horror inflicted by the Somalians, and how the media and Facebook worked to cover it all up!!! https://www.facebook.com/peggy.t.tierney/posts/2151315991553874
This is a sickening and frightening recount of events. The situation in MN is a result of deliberate actions / policies taken by politicians that are destroying our beloved communities and our country. My heart goes out to you and to all of the law abiding AMERICANS whose families sacrificed to make our country great.
To all, Watch the movie ‘July 22’ It is about the Norway white right wing terrorist who killed those kids at the summer camp. The heroine is a refugee. Whoever produced it wants to portray all refugees like her and that all right wingers are hateful crazies. Granted he was, but all refugees are not peace loving people who only want to assimilate into the culture of the country they now live in. I think it is on Netflix but it shows how brain washing has infiltrated every avenue of our lives.
I’ll pass, but it is a good point to make how nearly all MSM is full time propaganda, whether it’s mixed/gay marriages, mass migration, or Islamophilia there’s an axe being ground in our faces each time.
It was a pretty good movie though to see what those kids went thru.
Sad how the mainstream media never wants to completely report it.
Communists hate racists, but when has diversity worked out anywhere?
Communists hate pollution, but the USSR was environmental catastrophe.
Communists hate businesses and love welfare, but who would want to work if work is punished with taxes and regulations and laziness is rewarded with welfare?
Communists hate guns, but how do you resist tyranny without a gun?
Communists hate morality, but why?
Utterly sickening. And let us not forget who the prime sponsors of these “refugees” in Minnesota are: the Lutheran Church. These self-righteous holy men, brimming with pathological intergroup altruism, pay contractors to do the dirty work of bringing these reprobates here. But it’s the churches that make all this possible. To bring such people in is an act of contempt toward our country.
By the way, I attended your lecture a few years ago at an annual writer’s workshop of The Social Contract. You really delivered the goods. It’s a shame the journal is no more, but at least the meetings will continue once this COVID-19 virus is under control.
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Henkel to exit its business in Russia
April 19, 2022 Düsseldorf / Germany
Against the background of the current developments of the war in Ukraine, Henkel has decided to exit its business activities in Russia. The execution process is now being prepared. Henkel will work closely with its teams in Russia on the details to ensure an orderly process. In the meantime, Henkel’s 2,500 employees in Russia will continue to be employed and paid. The expected financial impact for Henkel resulting from the planned exit cannot be quantified at this time.
“Henkel condemns the Russian war against Ukraine and the violence against innocent civilians. Our priority remains to do everything we can to support our colleagues in Ukraine,” said Carsten Knobel, CEO of Henkel. “We are providing extensive support to our employees and the people in Ukraine and neighboring countries by offering financial donations as well as food and material donations. Many Henkel employees are also helping at the borders by distributing urgently needed goods or offering people from Ukraine a place to stay.”


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“Kizuna”, a home-visit program for a foreign student
This program receives foreign students from all over the world as a city resident living in the same community and promotes mutual multicultural understanding and international exchange. Specifically, the program involves family-based exchange activities including having meals at home, going out together, etc. This is not a home stay program. “Sleeping over” is not involved. “Kizuna”, a volunteer group operating the home-visit program, also hosts cross-cultural events as necessary. “Kizuna” collects host families from July to September and February to March. Contact MAFGA for more information.
Sekai o tsumami-gui (Picking up world food!) Challenging cafe
With people from different nations living together in Minoh city, local foreign residents cook meals of their own countries. Staff members, with foreign residents being the core members, are in charge of this project from menu planning, sample tasting, publicity including flyer productions. You can enjoy lunch and drinks of different countries that are hard to find. Please come and try. MAFGA also wants chefs and staffs who are willing to be a part of this project. Contact MAFGA for more information.
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100th anniversary of the Republic of Karelia. It will take an hour to get from Petrozavodsk to Helsinki
Regular flights from Karelia to Finland will start in the spring. International air traffic is being resumed on behalf of the State Commission for the preparation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the republic.
Modern jet airliners “Bombardier CRJ-200” of “Severstal” Airlines will connect Petrozavodsk and Helsinki from the first decade of May to the end of the year. The flights between the capitals of Karelia and Suomi will be provided twice a week - on Monday and Friday. The travel time will be one hour. Thus, it will be convenient to get to Helsinki fourteen or fifteen times faster than by bus. The estimated cost of a flight ticket between the capitals of Karelia and Finland will be 5500 rubles.
It should be reminded, that the international air traffic from the capital of Karelia is resumed after a long break thanks to the joint work of the Government of Karelia and “Severstal” airline staff, carried out on behalf of the State Commission for preparation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the republic.
In the framework of the federal target program “Development of the Republic of Karelia until 2020”, the construction of a new terminal building continues in Petrozavodsk. The capacity of the complex will be 300 passengers per hour. The modern construction will provide a high level of passenger service that meets the Russian and international standards, as well as it will provide conditions for their comfortable and safe stay at the airport of the capital of Karelia. It is assumed, the existing building of Petrozavodsk airport terminal will be used as an international terminal after the airport complex construction completion.
More information about the work of the air harbor of the capital of Karelia is available on the website of Petrozavodsk airport: http://karelavia.ru/ and in the VKontakte social network group: https://vk.com/karelavia/.

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A man has been banned from keeping dogs after failing to get treatment for his pet’s tumour.
Christopher Stewart Higgins, 52, of Maes Hyfryd, New Rhosrobin, Wrexham, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his Jack Russell terrier cross called Scooby at Wrexham Magistrates Court.
The court heard he had failed to provide the necessary veterinary care for his dog’s ulcerated, infected and maggot infested tumour.
Magistrates were told how on July 22 of last year, Higgins took Scooby to a layby and pretended he had discovered the unwell canine.
A vet who happened to be driving by stopped and took the dog back to her surgery.
However, Scooby had to be put to sleep on veterinary advice that same day to prevent any further suffering.
RSPCA inspector Jenny Anderton, who attended the veterinary surgery where Scooby was taken to, said: “This is such an awful case which involved the serious neglect of a dog, who was suffering unnecessarily."
She added: “The pictures of the tumour are very graphic and show the horrific condition of Scooby. The tumour had become ulcerated and during the hot weather had become infested with maggots and seriously infected. The vet also found Scooby to be very thin.
“It is just so sad that it came to this and Scooby wasn’t able to be saved. Mr Higgins is very remorseful.”
As well as a three year ban on keeping dogs, magistrates ordered Higgins to pay costs of £375.60, a fine of £120 and a £30 victim surcharge.

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RISMEDIA, Nov. 6, 2008-ShowingTime, a leading showing management technology provider, announced it will release a significant update to its Web-enabled ShowingDesk Web Edition software that will include a new module, ShowingVoice, one of the real estate industry’s first ‘text-to-voice’ automated calling systems.
Available to offices using ShowingDesk Web Edition, ShowingVoice will eliminate up to 80% of outbound manual calls by enabling offices to essentially “hand off” showing confirmation and notification calls. According to the company, ShowingVoice makes calls for offices, ensuring a fast response and more confirmed showings, which can lead to quicker home sales.
“ShowingVoice will redirect staff and agents from making outbound showing confirmation calls toward more productive tasks,” said ShowingTime Executive Vice President Michael Lane. “It calls the seller for you, giving the seller the option to confirm the showing by pressing a key on their phone. It then calls the requesting agent to let them know their showing is confirmed, all in a matter of minutes,” Lane said. “In many instances offices will be able to reduce expenses.” ShowingVoice is set up on a per-listing basis; offices decide when calls will be made, if a confirmation is required or if leaving a message is OK to confirm.
The ShowingDesk Web Edition 2.1 release – currently in testing and being used by select customers – will include other enhancements and features designed to further automate the showing management process:
• Automated price change e-mails can be sent to showing agents
• Automatic uploading of listing photos from the MLS (in most markets)
• ‘Activity on Comparables’ report
• Improved HTML e-mails with listing photos
• Improved tracking of text messages, e-mails and alerts
• Take a Message functionality
The release will be systematically rolled out to existing customers over the next several weeks and will be made available to new customers who license ShowingDesk Web Edition as soon as mid-November.
“Our engineering team has been working diligently on this release and has incorporated insights gained from customers,” said ShowingTime CEO Scott Woodard. “We’ll continue pursuing our objective to make ShowingDesk Web Edition the de facto standard for real estate offices nationwide to manage showings.”
For more information, visit http://www.showingtime.com.


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Oil on canvas
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Provenance: Private collection, Rumsford, NJ, 1996-2007
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1873, no. 140 (as Summer Afternoon on the Connecticut Shore); Artists' Fund Society, New York, 1874, no. 56 (as Summer Afternoon on Connecticut Shore).
Literature: "Art. Annual Exhibition of N. A. of Design," The Aldine 6, no. 6 (June 1873), 127; Janice Simon and Ann Y. Smith, Images of Contentment: John Frederick Kensett and the Connecticut Shore, exh. cat. (Waterbury, Connecticut: The Mattatuck Museum, 2001), 29. Sold INQUIRE MORE
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Doctors Support Proposition 29, Question Colleague
Some doctors who attended the Black Physicians Forum are supporting Proposition 29 ,which will appear on the June 5 ballot.
More than 200 doctors attended the forum, held Fridday at the University of California Davis School of Medicine.
Several doctors said they are questioning why Dr. La Donna Porter is not supporting Proposition 29.
Prop. 29, if it passes, would add a $1 sales tax to tobacco products, which would go toward cancer research.
Dr. LaDonna Porter specializes in family medicine at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp.
In a commercial against Prop. 29, Dr. Porter said the proposition does not guarantee any new funding for cancer treatment.
"Doctors who are opposing Prop. 29 have misled themselves and the public. It's not right," said UC Davis Cancer Researcher Dr. Frederick Meyers.
Porter was expected to attend the forum, but did not show up.
The No on Prop. 29 campaign sent a statement to KCRA on behalf of Porter stating that the proposition lacks real accountability and allows California tax dollars to be spent outside the state.
Voters will decide if Prop. 29 passes on June 5.

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The Law on Amendments to the Law on the Policy of FDI in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been published on March 16, 2015 in the Official Gazette of BiH 22/15. In consultations to amend this Law were involved the representatives of the Foreign Investors Council BiH.
The amendments provide that “the foreign investor has the right to invest, reinvest profits of such investments into any sectors of the economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the same form and under the same conditions defined for the residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the applicable laws and regulations of BiH, Entities and Brcko District of BiH “.
Foreign direct investment will be exempted from payment of customs duties, unless otherwise prescribed by the provisions of the Law on Customs Policy.
Recommendations from the FIC ‘White book” which provide abolition of certain restrictions on foreign investment in the media, have been incorporated in new Law.

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KHARKHORIN ANCIENT CAPITAL
Kharkhorum was an ancient capital of Mongolian Great Empire in 13th century. There is Buddhist first monastery in the country called Erdenezuu that was built in 1586 and was sacked during the purges in 1937. Only walls and 3 temples remain. Also, there is Boovon had–men’s secret statue which is stone of men’s penis and made by monks of temples in 18 century for reason to shame of young monks who do not follow rules)
TSENKHER HOT SPRING
Tsenkher hot spring is sulphur spring that emerges from the ground at 85 Celsius degree. It is located on 1860m above from sea level. It is rich with different stones of Mesozoic in the spring and you can see chalk, white stones, boulder flint and kidney stones. And, many people come to under traditional medical treatment.
ELSEN TASARKHAI SAND DUNES
Elsen Tasarkhai sand dunes are situated in a terrain of Uvurkhangai, Bulgan and Tuv provinces, stretching west side of Mount Khugnu Khan from west of Mount Batkhaan. The main road separates the sand dune into two parts, Mongol Els on the south and Khugnu Tarnyn Els on the north. Elsen Tasarkhai is surrounded by Mount Khugnu Khan on the north and Mount Ikh Mongol on the south.
Orkhon Waterfall is 24m high in the volcanic landscape. The black volcanic rocks that carpet the landscape exploded 20-30 thousand years ago. It is situated on connection between of Ulaan Tsutgalan which is local name of the waterfall, and the Orkhon River which is the longest river in Mongolia with length of 1120km.
Eight Lakes is the area of Naiman Nuur (Eight Lakes), which was created by volcanic eruptions centuries ago and 3,163 metres above sea level Khuisiin Naiman Nuur (Navel Eight Lakes) is located on over 2,400 metre above sea level. The lakes are named Shireet, Khaliut, Bugat, Khaya, Khuis, Onon, Doroo and Bayan-Uul.

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The issue of how to fund the city's share of the Pineview Terrace construction costs was raised at last week's executive meeting.
This weekend I was sick with the flu. Really, really sick – the kind of sick where if you move your head your whole body rebels.
paNOW.com staff Josh Morrissey was already tabbed a franchise player within moments of being selected in the first round 6th overall by the Prince Albert Raiders in the 2010 Bantam draft.
Our government is keeping the promise we made to help find answers for MS patients and their families.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a – wait a minute: calling it a duck may be politically incorrect. The 'Society for the Preservation of Ducks Which Aren't ' will send the Quackers Police after you.
With only five returning players to this year’s roster, in theory, this season should probably be a rebuild year for the Prince Albert Mintos. That has certainly not been the case.
It is a universally known truth that there are few things in life as fine as a fresh, garden raised tomato; that it is a delicacy to have locally grown, grass-fed beef.


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Black Women are Leading Student Governments With Intention
This article originally appeared in Forbes and is reprinted with permission.
In 2020, vast changes in higher education due to racial justice movements and the impact of Covid-19, resulted in colleges and universities clamoring to respond with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. One aspect of this response came in the form of newly elected African American student body presidents and student leaders. Whereas the majority of these posts had been held by White students for decades, the “interlocking” of COVID-19 and racial justice turmoil prompted Black students to create platforms for change on their campuses, and as a result their classmates elected them to leadership positions.
Leslie Ekpe, a doctoral student at Texas Christian University (TCU), is one of these students. She serves as the president of the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) at the Fort Worth, Texas-based institution. Although Ekpe had been active in student government in the past as the Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the GSS, she didn’t envision herself as the president — mainly due to a historical lack of diversity in student leadership at TCU. In 2020, she was nominated by the board members of the GSS to serve as president and she accepted the nomination, feeling it was the right time for her to lead.
According to Ekpe, “Being the first Black woman to serve as the GSS president is truly an honor. I do not take it lightly.” However, as she explained, “It took over 140+ years for this change to occur. While I may serve as the first Black GSS president, I am surely not the first who has wanted to be in the position. I am the first that has been afforded the opportunity to do so.”
Ekpe out of positions of student leadership. Now that she is in this leadership position, she sees it as her “duty to continue to open doors for marginalized students across campus and dismantle barriers that are keeping these students out of leadership roles.” She added, “I am Black and a woman. These identities have shaped me into who I am today. I bring these identities into every room I occupy and I hold true to these identities.”
Although some African American leaders have not felt supported in their leadership roles at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) across the nation, Ekpe feels a great deal of support. TCU is 68% White in terms of the student population and only 5% African American, but Ekpe says that “the graduate student body has been receptive to [her] new role” and “alumni have also reached out asking how they can be supportive.”
Despite the warm reception, Ekpe, says that she is continually grappling with issues of racial injustice happening throughout the nation and how they play out on her campus, noting that she won’t be able to fix everything at her institution. She is optimistic about the change to come. She warns, however, that TCU and other colleges and universities have to stay focused on DEI issues. As she explained, “Being that TCU is a PWI, for years, many of the policies and procedures were ones that benefited the dominant race. As the world continues to change demographically, so will the world of higher education.”
In order to be successful as a college student leader, it helps to have the support of the administration, especially at the highest level. According to Ekpe, “The Chancellor — Victor Boschini Jr., who has been an integral part of my growth, has an open-door policy and has truly made it his duty to establish a relationship with me as the president, in order to understand the needs of graduate students.” She added, “What I value is that our relationship is reciprocal.” Ekpe and Boschini are working towards a more inclusive environment for graduate students but also for the community as a whole. As Ekpe explained, “We ask questions such as who is benefiting from our decisions? Who is being left out? What are the practices and policies that enable privilege while preventing justice?” Ekpe stressed that there is a lot of work to be done at TCU and that she is appreciative that Boschini supports the efforts in “organizing true inclusivity.”
Of note, Boschini is known for his student-focused outlook, having served as a Vice President of Student Affairs earlier in his career. Of Ekpe, he said, “I think she has virtually limitless potential as an educational leader.” Boschini believes that having Ekpe in the position is important for multiple reasons. He shared, “First, as a woman of color she provides an amazing role model to all of our other graduate students and the undergrads as well. Second, as an individual of enormous talent she also serves as an inspiration for our other students on campus. Finally, her high innate intelligence gives her the ability to quickly assess new situations and construct a plan of attack when needed to get the job done.”
Many student government leaders become prominent national leaders once they graduate. For example, voting rights activist Stacey Abrams was the president of Students for African American Empowerment while a student at Spelman College and is now running for Governor of Georgia. From Boschini’s perspective, Ekpe “will definitely one day – and maybe not too far from now – be the president of a college or university. Her amazing skill set is just perfect for that role. She connects with people at such a genuine level in such a short period of time. She works well with others and is wise enough to solicit their ideas and thoughts as each new project evolves.”
In her role as president, Ekpe has been focused on the mental health and financial support of graduate students. As she shared, “The pandemic has exacerbated inequities for us (graduate students) in ways that we could never imagine. This has increased mental health issues across the board. We want to ensure that resources that meet the mental health needs of graduate students are available at little or no cost. Financial issues are also important, and we have established resources (grants) that graduate students can apply for to support them throughout their academic journey.”
As president of the GSS, Ekpe, has the ability and capacity to make changes and as she noted, “she’ll do just that.”
Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.


Sometimes political and social messages are best said on tangible paraphernalia such as a coffee mug, notepad, or T-shirt. Other times, it’s best left out of product development, where it can lead to sensitive matters that evoke a huge issue of offensiveness and doubt. Forever 21 is the latest clothing retailer to come out with something I’d argue as the latter.
The company released a men’s T-shirt to be sold online and in stores, plastered on the front with, “Don’t Say Maybe If You Want to Say No”, clearly referencing the idea that has been circulating heavily around in the media on a women’s right to say no about sex, the sensitive (and many times, dismissed) topic of rape culture, and of course, the touchy subject of consent and if a woman (or man, to be fair) can renege on consent at any time.
Critics have surfaced online, stating that the T-shirt supports or advocates the idea of rape because one shouldn’t have said ‘maybe’ in the first place, or that the shirt pre-blames victims for whatever consequences they are left to face after their ‘maybe’ is used as consent for sexual activity.
While the argument can be understood that perhaps the shirt aims to suggest that if you don’t want sex in the first place, one can merely say no, I think it was insensitive and completely offensive to even make a suggestion that a ‘maybe’ justifies, in any way, shape or form, action that can not be forfeited once someone says no. I also feel it’s a true slap in the face for all victims of rape, who have had something of theirs taken from them unwillingly, and yet, it was okay because they initially agreed to some level or degree.
Forever 21 has since removed the shirt from their inventory, publicly stating that, “Forever 21 strives to exemplify the highest ethical standards and takes feedback and product concerns very seriously,” Forever 21 said in a prepared statement to The Huffington Post. “With regards to the T-shirt in question, upon receiving feedback from our customers, we took immediate action to have it removed from our website. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by the product.”
How do YOU feel about a T-shirt that references, subtly or not so subtly, the idea of rape culture that so many women and have men have vocalized in the field of consent and rights? Is the shirt victim-shaming, or is it really not that serious? Sound off!


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The number 1107 in white appears on recto. The photograph is titled "The cemetry of the Guebres" in French on verso, in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin.
This image is reproduced on page 740 in the book "Persia past and Present" which was published in 1906 by the Macmillan Company. The image is titled "The Zaroastrian Tower of Silence at Rei".
The image is reproduced on page 249 of Volume III of “Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris: trois mois de voyage en Perse” by Henry-Rene D’Allemagne published in 1911 by Hachette, Paris, France. The image is titled "La tour du silence aux environs de Teheran a l'interieur, le champ de repos".


text: the facility is nice and with a bit more service mind this hotel could be one of the best in this area. They had no staff available because of Songkran festival hence we didnt get breakfast or any other service during our stay. Moreover i didn't expect that the room is so "noisy". Even the hotel is 50m away from the road you can clearly hear any car or motorcycle past. If you dont mind to get wacked up at 5am, either from the next door chicken or other noisemakers this hotel is a good choice. For us it will be the first & last time because I'd like to get my breakfast in the place I stay and doesn't want to go somewhere else to get "local breakfast". Conclusion is the hotel is reasonable but the service requires urgent improvement as well for the room cleanness which could be much better.


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The man they call Madigan–a tough retired Cavalry officer–finds himself drawn into an intriguing but dangerous game of Cat and Mouse with a formidable gang of outlaws searching for the hidden Aztec gold of Montezuma in the old Southwest. Soon the race is on to find the treasure and save the inhabitants of a Lost City, while Madigan is forced to use his deadly aim with his Sharps buffalo rifle to stay alive and save the woman he loves.
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Bridge Inspector. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Bridge Inspector
Equal parts western, mystery, and adventure, Madigan will take you on a fantastic ride through the mountains and deserts of the old Southwest in search of love, riches, and an understanding of human nature.
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AZDPS Receives $14,000 From GOHS To Fund Seatbelt Safety Campaign
Arizona — The Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) has been awarded a $14,000 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to enhance DPS’ participation in Buckle Up Arizona…It’s the Law!, enforcement campaign. The campaign will be worked by law enforcement agencies statewide from May 22, 2017, through June 4, 2017.
AZDPS will utilize the funding to conduct saturation patrols, increase trooper presence on the highways and increase education efforts to drive home the message: “Buckle up Arizona…It’s The Law.”
Major Bill Beck of the Highway Patrol Division said, “About one third of those killed in traffic crashes on Arizona highways are unrestrained. This alone should cause drivers to ensure everyone in their vehicle is properly restrained before moving a vehicle, regardless of the distance being traveled.”
In 2016, troopers issued 27,686 citations for restraint violations. In 2016, troopers investigated a total of 255 fatal collisions. Of those 255 fatal collisions, nearly half resulted in fatal injuries to at least one occupant of the vehicle due to lack of seatbelt use.


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So, I am a mum of 2 and I have just now married the love of my love – and by doing that I have completely lost my identity – the what made me, me. The thing I have had my whole life, I have never known life without it – My Name.
For the past 6 years of being a mum I have got used to not having a forename. I either answer to ‘mum’ or ‘toms mum’ or ‘lucy’s mum’. I accept this as for some reason it’s much easier to remember children’s names than it is adults. I do exactly the same back to most of my children’s friends mums.
And now after having the most perfect day of my life I wake up the next day and I have a different name. I am a Mrs and not a Miss. It all feels very strange as I have been Miss Sarah Bourn for 32 years and after a fantastic party with family and friends I am now Mrs Sarah Johnson – Just like that!
I remember signing my marriage certificate as Miss Sarah Bourn so how did this happen? It seems to have instantly happened with no official ceremony – where was ‘Sarah Bourns’ goodbye ceremony?
Don’t get me wrong I am happy to have the same name as my husband, the children have it also, so it does seem to make our little family complete. But this is a very strange feeling that I am going to have to get used to. When your given your name as a child you obviously have no ‘getting used to it’ – you get what you are given and most of us don’t dislike our name or even think much about it – Okay, as a child I found the name ‘Sarah’ a bit popular. There were three Sarah’s in my year in school, so I was always known as Sarah Bourne – teachers, friends, parents, even invitations always said ‘Sarah Bourn’, never just Sarah. I’ve never really thought about my surname before – whether I liked it or not – it just seemed to work, kinda rolled off the tongue – Sarah Bourn!
So now I’m wondering how much of a ring ‘Sarah Johnson’ has to it?
I’m sure I’ll get used to it! In fact I know I will. It’ll just take time. The more I hear it called out at the doctors, see it written on letters, I sign it on cheques – It will soon feel like me!
So now I’m off to change my name on all official documents.


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Is male menopause real? Catchy as it sounds, “male menopause” is actually a misnomer. Men do not go through the same experiences as women during menopause. Any parallels that are implied aren’t actually there. The more accurate term for men experiencing hormonal changes—typically between the ages of 40 and 60—is andropause.
Andropause occurs when the body’s production of testosterone decreases. This drop in testosterone levels is, however, not sudden and drastic like what typically happens during menopause. Rather, testosterone production typically sees a steady decrease from age 30 onwards.
Statistically, more than half of men aged 60 to 70 would have experienced andropause and its accompanying symptoms. These symptoms are often subtle, given the gradual decline in testosterone levels. Still, they are noticeable. Common ones include lower cognitive functioning and energy levels, reduced muscle mass, increased mood volatility, greater chances of depressive moods and lower libido.
To be fair, the jury is still out on whether these symptoms are a direct result of just reduced testosterone production or if ageing and other lifestyle choices also have a part to play. Nevertheless, there are very real effects of lower testosterone levels in older men.
Mood changes, in particular, feature very strongly in andropause. It may be tempting to write someone off as a “crabby” or “grumpy” old guy and chalk it up to a natural part of ageing. But the gruffness that we see may be an indication of depressive symptoms. Know this: depression presents itself variedly according to the individual. A person may be more irritable than usual. They display anger more quickly than in the past or lose interest in daily activities altogether. These are all symptoms of depression—the condition is much more than just “being blue”.
For many, the symptoms that come with andropause can be a big blow to their self-esteem and sense of self. What compounds the issue is how andropause can be a tricky topic to navigate. Especially with all the misconceptions surrounding it. Being a source of support for someone experiencing andropause is similar to that for someone with a chronic illness or disorder. In that a great deal of patience, understanding and tact is necessary. Hence, respecting someone’s need for space and reluctance to speak can be just as important as letting them know about the consistent support that they have.
The good news about andropause is that many of its symptoms can be better managed with healthier lifestyle choices. By extension, support for an individual with andropause can also come in the form of modelling healthier habits yourself. Whether as a caregiver, a family member or a friend, this includes working out more regularly, making better food choices, as well as cutting down on smoking and drinking. These are are the typical yet oh-so-important things we know but choose to ignore. Participating more actively in social activities can also help with mood regulation, as well as to combat any lowered self-esteem.
As a parting note, having clarity in whatever we might be struggling with will almost always help with how we cope with it. Providing resources for medical and mental health professions can also be a very valuable helpline for those struggling to make sense of what they might be going through.

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KYLE Lowry and Demar DeRozan led the way as the Raptors stretched their win streak to four with a 120-105 victory over the undermanned Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday in Toronto (Thursday, Manila time).
Lowry scored 29 and DeRozan added 24 points as the Raptors notched their 12th win in 18 games.
DeMarre Carroll had 17 points for Toronto, while Cory Joseph came off the bench to score 16.
Andrew Harrison scored 21 points for the Grizzlies, who were without the injured Mike Conley and Chandler Parsons. Zach Randolph is also out indefinitely after his mother’s death.
The Grizzlies suffered their second straight loss and eighth in 19 games.


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Vegetation diversity of conventional and organic hedgerows in Denmark
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Aude E., Tybirk K. & Pedersen M.B. (2003) Vegetation diversity of conventional and organic hedgerows in Denmark. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 99, 135-147.
Published source details Aude E., Tybirk K. & Pedersen M.B. (2003) Vegetation diversity of conventional and organic hedgerows in Denmark. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 99, 135-147.
Organic farming, which primarily aims to avoid the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers, is one method by which it may be possible to reduce the effects of intensive farming on the environment.Â This study investigated plant diversity of comparable hedgerows within organic and conventional farming systems in Denmark.
Thirteen organic hedges on five organic farms and 13 conventional hedges on eight conventional farms (in the same district) were sampled in the southwestern part of Jutland or Weichelian outwash plains in Denmark. All hedgerows had been established 10-14 years ago by the same company; organic hedges were cultivated without pesticides. Fields adjacent to hedges (ley, barley, rape and vegetables) had been managed organically or conventionally since hedgerow establishment; no headlands or unsprayed field margins were present. Farming types only differed in the use of pesticides.
Three pairs of plots (0.5x20 m), one in the centre of the hedgerow and one 0.2m from the field edge, with pairs 20m apart, were sampled per hedge in August 2001. All plant species and species abundance were recorded. A total list of species from 120m on one side of the hedgerows was also obtained by noting supplementary species between plots.
A total of 144 plant species were found, 101 of which occurred in conventional and 128 in organic hedgerows. One protected species was found in an organic hedgerow (broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine).
There was a significantly greater number of hedge bottom species in organic hedgerows (24-53) than in conventional hedgerows (20-36). Average species richness was significantly higher in organic (15) compared to conventional (13) hedgerows. However, examined separately, boundary samples were more species rich in organic (17) compared to conventional hedges (13), but samples within the hedgerow were not (organic: 14; conventional: 12). Organic hedgerows were significantly richer in weedy, ruderal and semi-natural species; there was no difference in abundance of bryophytes or forest species.
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The New York Knicks have a pre-draft workout scheduled with one of 2019’s most intriguing prospects.
NBA draft prospect Tacko Fall was expected to work out for the New York Knicks in May, per Marc Berman of the New York Post. It was postponed, however, for a later date, as the June 20 selection show nears.
Weeks later, Fall will finally have his pre-draft workout with Knicks brass, according to Josh Robbins of The Athletic. That will offer the chance to watch perhaps this class’s most unique prospect.
The modern-day NBA focuses on wings or players who can shoot the three-pointer exceptionally. Big men are still prevalent, but the prerequisite for them to play is an outside game. Otherwise, they find a spot on the bench.
Then, there are the players who stand out in one area, so much that it negates the standard. Fall stands 7-foot-7, has an 8-foot-2 wingspan and a 10-foot-2 standing reach, each of which is eye-popping for an NBA player.
While athleticism might not land in his favor, the Central Florida product is a massive body to plug in front of the rim, to alter and blocks shots. His presence nearly knocked off No. 1 Duke in the NCAA Tournament, when potential top-10 picks Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett had difficulties finding their shots around the hoop.
That game was intriguing since it happened against some of college’s top draft prospects. It may not make Fall a first-rounder, as he was a potential undrafted player before that, but it should have done enough to push him into the second round; NBADraft.net has him 41st overall.
The Knicks are not the only team interested in Fall, seemingly, given Robbins’ tweet. Six others have workouts scheduled, so clearly, other organizations have their eye on this towering rim protector.
Frontcourt depth featuring Fall and Mitchell Robinson would provide an intriguing look for the Knicks to throw at opponents. Either player’s shot-blocking ability consistently covers the hoop, leaving ample protection in case the defense breaks down and even shies off ball handlers driving.
Fall will have his suitors, and the New York Knicks are hardly guaranteed his services. Whoever he joins, it will make for an interesting watch to see how his game translates to the next level.


The 19-year-old is currently plying his trade at German giants Dortmund and is regarded as one of the most promising young midfielders in world football.
Liverpool have been linked with interest in Bellingham, while many believe a host of European heavyweights will be lining up for his services next summer.
Reds legend Carragher believes that an auction could be set off for the Dortmund star’s signature following this season and he backed Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City to be in a race with other top clubs to snap him up.
Carragher stressed that Bellingham has a lot of potential and could reach the levels of Citizens star Kevin De Bruyne, who in his eyes is the best player currently in the Premier League.
The former Liverpool man admits he is hoping when push comes to shove that the Reds win the auction.
“It’s not just Liverpool, I’m sure Man City, Man United are looking at him, all the other top clubs, when you’re buying him you’re thinking we could have a player for the next 10 or 12 years, I think that’s the thinking”, Carragher told Football Daily.
“His ability is really good and it’s almost the potential of what he could become, could he become like Kevin De Bruyne is now basically – which is for me – the best player in the Premier League, you look at him in that midfield position and you just think wow.
“Maybe Man City are thinking he could replace De Bruyne or Liverpool could bring him in and he can add something or revolutionise Man United’s midfield.
“I think he’s the one that stands out for everybody, I think there will be an auction next summer and I hope Liverpool win it, fingers crossed.”
Bellingham has ruled out the possibility of leaving Dortmund this summer but he could be on the move a year from now.


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Playboi Carti is rarely at a loss for words. Publicly, the young rapper projects a sense of perpetual ease. But this wasn’t that. “That was one of my happiest moments…” he began, before trailing off. He flipped his braids back and ran a hand through them pensively, revealing the birthmark on his left cheek, which has become a trademark. “I was broke as f—! I didn’t have anything growing up. I was wearing whatever I had. And then…”
He was having a hard time recounting the occasion when A$AP Rocky, his mentor and frequent collaborator, brought him to New York Fashion Week this February. That’s where Rocky introduced him to Raf Simons at his debut Calvin Klein show. “I met Raf! Not even like some streetwear designer, but Raf!” Carti shook his head.
It was a crowning moment that capped off everything good that’s befallen Carti over the last few years, from signing with A$AP Worldwide (with co-signs from Drake and Kanye) to emerging as Atlanta’s next big thing to, one day last week, sitting on the 24th floor of One World Trade Center, the New York skyline laid below him.
Still only 21, Playboi Carti, born Jordan Carter, has never released a full-length project. He started rapping in earnest only about three years ago as a high schooler, and has already been featured on a handful of tracks by Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert, and his A$AP Mob family. But unlike his contemporaries Uzi and Lil Yachty, who constantly churn out mixtapes and loosie singles, Carti’s musical output has been remarkably scant. Still, he boasts over half a million followers on Instagram and a fan base so rabid and obsessive that Carti’s comments section has turned into a battleground of sorts, with fans alternatively pleading for new music (“DROP A F—ING TAPE I LOVE YOU”), and berating him for never releasing (“I been waiting like 8 years for this tape. What if I die and never get to hear it?”).
“My fans try to troll me,” Carti said warily, even though he likes to playfully troll them right back. For example, he made the cover of his highly-anticipated debut project supposedly titled Cash Carti, a collage of angry fan comments. Then, last week, he threw gas on the fire with a mysterious countdown clock on his website, ticking down to Friday, April 14. Would it finally be #CartiSeason? Or was this simply another Carti ruse? Is it even an album?
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The move is part of the organization re-design P&G announced
in February, in which the marketing organization becomes "Brand
Management" with "single-point responsibility for the strategies,
plans and results for the brands," a P&G spokeswoman said in an
Eliminating marketing from the title and the organization
doesn't really mean marketing is a thing of the past, she said.
It's meant to signify the broader purview of marketing directors
and the organization they're part of now.
Brand Management at P&G now encompasses four functions --
including, of course, brand management (formerly known as
marketing), consumer and marketing knowledge (a.k.a. market
research), communications (known as public relations at some
companies and up until a couple of years ago as external relations
at P&G), and design (known as design pretty much everywhere,
except where it's called visual brand identity and such).
P&G's Brand Management organization will now be housed
entirely within its global business units rather than parts
residing in reconfigured regional units.
Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller has pointed out in recent
presentations that this move doesn't mean everything will be run
from one place in the world. Much of the brand management
organization remains focused regionally, such as in North America.
Rather, the "single point" business is supposed to eliminate
overlapping responsibilities between the global and regional
organizations in such areas as shopper and local marketing
initiatives. Media planning and buying remains within the regional
"These changes will help us unify brand-building resources to
focus on delivering better brand and business results, clarify
roles and responsibilities to make faster decisions, and simplify
our structure to free up time for creativity and better execution,"
the P&G spokeswoman said.
It's also a big change, title-wise, in an industry that's gotten
used to marketing directors. P&G seems well out in front of the
rest of the marketing world -- or what used to be known as the
marketing world -- on this. A search on LinkedIn shows nearly
73,000 marketing directors and associate marketing directors,
including more than 100 P&Gers who haven't updated their info
yet, but only 1,350 brand directors or associate/assistant brand
The marketing director title has existed at P&G since 1993,
when the company did away with the more linguistically restrictive
"advertising manager" title in a world that clearly was moving
beyond advertising as the only way to build brands. Indeed, P&G
Global Brand Building Officer Marc Pritchard made that title
transition himself in 1993, becoming one of the company's first
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CORRECTION: An earlier
version of the story referred to P&G Chief Financial Officer
Jon Moeller as Chief Marketing Officer


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Calathea Medallion: A Gorgeous Foliage Marvel for Your Space
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This Mod inverts the second Crane Arm Axis of the Ponsse ScorpionKing.
– Version with rotatable unit to add trees again.
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In this way you have the same Crane Controls like the Ponsse Bufallo and other Cranes in the Game. This Mod creates a buyable duplicate of the original ScorpionKing. Nothing is changed, original Model and original Prices etc. Only the Axis is inverted. You can still buy the original Ponsse Scorpion King. This method does not need any changes in the inputBinding.xml or other Files. But you need to buy the inverted Version separately.
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(Featured Image: Sales brochure for the 1982 Chevrolet Corvette; stolen from the GM Heritage Center.)
Upon his return to Chanhassen from Los Angeles in May of 1982, Prince’s first task was to upgrade the basement studio in his home on Kiowa Trail: replacing the original 16-track console with a new 24-track Ampex MM1200 machine. According to biographer Per Nilsen, this project took about two weeks, overseen by Prince’s go-to home studio tech and engineer, Don Batts. Astonishingly, within hours of the new studio’s setup, Prince had recorded the basic track for one of his most enduring songs, “Little Red Corvette.” “It was incredible to build the studio in that short time and then come up with that tune so quickly,” Batts recalled. But, as he also acknowledged, “That’s how fast it generally went” (Nilsen 1999 100).
Indeed, much about “Corvette” seemed to emerge with almost supernatural ease, as if Prince had merely plucked it from the ether fully-formed. According to legend–and like other 20th-century pop standards, the Beatles’ “Yesterday” and the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction”–the song first came to him in a dream, while he was dozing off in the front seat of keyboardist Lisa Coleman’s 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauder. “I bought this vintage pink Mercury at a car auction,” Coleman told The Guardian in 2008. “It was so bitching-looking that Prince used to borrow it and dent it, which I’d make him feel bad about. He slept in it one time and came up with ‘Little Red Corvette’… even though it was a pink Mercury” (Elan 2008). Prince wrote in his unpublished liner notes for the 1993 compilation The Hits that he “always considered the song a dream because it was written between 3 or 4 catnaps and he was never fully awake” (Dash 2016).
(Featured Image: With an old friend at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, January 25, 1982; that’s Steve Fargnoli in the background. Photo stolen from Consequence of Sound.)
Prince’s Los Angeles sojourn in mid-January 1982 concluded with–and was most likely scheduled around–the ninth annual American Music Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium on January 25. He attended as a guest, not a nominee: the “Soul/R&B” category, for which he would have been nominated, was led by old-guard artists like Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson–as well as his rival of two years prior, Rick James.
Since the conclusion of the Fire It Up tour in May 1980, Prince’s and James’ career fortunes had diverged in unpredictable ways. Prince, as we’ve seen, had become a critics’ darling, trading the commercial success of his second album for the underground credibility of Dirty Mind and Controversy. James, meanwhile, had faltered with 1980’s flaccid Garden of Love–the album he’d allegedly recorded with a synthesizer stolen from Prince–but bounced back with the following year’s Street Songs: a masterpiece that finally made good on his “punk-funk” credo while leapfrogging his one-time usurper on the charts. Prince may have won 1980’s “Battle of the Funk,” but at the AMAs it was beginning to look like he’d lost the war, with James nominated for three awards–Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist, Favorite Soul/R&B Album (which he won), and Favorite Soul/R&B Single for “Give It To Me Baby”–plus a proxy Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist nomination for his protégée, Teena Marie.
It’s thus intriguing that only a few days before the awards, on January 21, Prince recorded a song that both satirized and propped up his critics’ darling status, while also lightly mocking the cultural rivalry between L.A.–home of Sunset Sound, Warner Bros. Records, and the AMAs–and its older, snootier cousin to the East, New York City. The song, one of the highlights of his fifth album 1999, was called “All the Critics Love U in New York.”
dance / music / sex / romance is fast approaching its third year, so to celebrate, we’re going…backwards? That’s right, to mark the 40th anniversary of Prince’s debut album, I thought now was the perfect time to go ahead with an idea I’ve been toying with for a while: our own sub-series of review podcasts looking at each of Prince’s albums in isolation.
I’m doing this for a few reasons. First, it’s a way to bring those of you who have been listening to the podcasts but not reading the blog into the loop on my chronological Prince project–and also a way for me to work through some of these albums before I can get to it with my glacially paced writing schedule.
Second, I’ve known from the beginning of this project that if I really wanted to do Prince’s catalogue justice, I would need to incorporate more voices and perspectives than just my own. We all have our biases and blind spots, and as a Prince fan I am acutely aware that one person’s sentimental favorite can be another’s unlistenable mess (and vice versa). That’s why I asked my friends Harold and KaNisa, both of whose encyclopaedic knowledge of Prince’s career dwarfs my own, to join me. I think you’ll find that our tastes and opinions both intersect and diverge in a lot of interesting ways, which allowed us–and hopefully, will allow you–to take a different perspective on some of these songs and the context in which they were created.
I hope you enjoy this new approach to an album that remains underappreciated in Prince’s catalogue. If you do, I hope you’ll subscribe to the podcast on your streaming app of choice (iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play), and if you’re so inclined, leave a review! No matter what, thanks for listening, and see you again soon.
Note: Following last month’s post on “Do Me, Baby,” I knew I wanted to give André Cymone another, proper sendoff before he disappears from our pages until 1984. So, here’s the latest in my series of thought experiments, imagining an alternate reality in which André, not Prince, was the Grand Central member who went on to greater solo success. For anyone just dropping in, the idea here is to bring attention to the web of contingencies that shaped Prince’s career; to shake up our sense of inevitability and offer a glimpse at one of the many possible alternatives had things gone even slightly differently. It’s also, in this case, an opportunity to reevaluate Cymone’s legacy beyond his friend’s deceptively long shadow. As always, have fun and don’t take this too seriously. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week!
For a brief but significant period in the 1980s, the cutting edge of R&B and pop could be found in the unlikely locale of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Known as the “Minneapolis Sound,” this unique hybrid of funk, rock, and nascent electronic and New Wave styles emerged almost organically from the Twin Cities’ small but vibrant Black communities in the late 1970s. It thus wouldn’t be fair to give a single artist credit for “inventing” the genre; but the fact remains that when most music fans think of Minneapolis, one man in particular comes to mind. I’m talking, of course, about André Cymone.
Note: Just in case there is any confusion, the below is entirely made up, albeit with perhaps an excess of dedication to historical plausibility. See my previous “Alternate Timeline” post on For Youfor a better explanation of the concept. And have fun!
The late 1970s and early 1980s punk scene in Minneapolis and St. Paul played host to a number of noteworthy groups: Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, the Suburbs. But none were as eclectic, or as underrated, as the multi-racial, gender- and genre-bending act known as the Rebels. A far cry from a conventional “punk” band, the Rebels were a motley crew of disaffected Northside funksters, suburban bar-band escapees, and even a few seasoned pros, whose wild live performances made them the first group from the Twin Cities underground to be signed by a major label. Their self-titled 1980 debut for Warner Bros. was both critically acclaimed and hugely influential for a generation of genre-agnostic musical provocateurs, but internal tensions kept them from fulfilling their full potential. Still, almost four decades later, the mark of the Rebels remains evident across the contemporary pop landscape, from alternative rock to electronic music and hip-hop.


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Spicy salsa verde and crushed almonds. Happy hour $5
Tico, Washington DC
This was a really lovely salad. The cabbage was fresh and crisp and it was dressed perfectly (not too heavily). I really liked the crushed almonds for added crunch.
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The KONG Window Teaser Cat Toy promotes healthy exercise and fulfills your cat’s instinctual desire to chase, hunt and capture. This toy affixes to smooth surfaces, creating an active challenge for your cat even when you’re not available to play. The Window Teaser Cat Toy includes KONG Premium North American Catnip, bright feathers and a crinkle sound for added stimulation.
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Theses currently in progress
Anita Meraviglia - Low-energy neutrino physics and neutrino properties with the JUNO experiment.
Nikhil Mohan - Neutrino Physics with the JUNO detector - Determination of Neutrino Mass Ordering.
Apeksha Singhal - Solar neutrinos and next generation neutrino experiments
Luca Pelicci - Measurements of astrophysical neutrinos and neutrino properties in liquid scintillators
Mariam Rifai - Reconstruction in large volumes of liquid scintillator
Runxuan Liu - The event builder of the OSIRIS experiment
Cornelius Vollbrecht - Hardware development and data analysis for the JUNO and OSIRIS detectors
Michaela Schever - Towards the energy estimators and pulse shape variables in JUNO experiment
Completed theses from the group
Alexandre Göttel - Solar neutrino detection: CNO discovery with Borexino and preparations for success in JUNO and OSIRIS (2022)
Antonia Weßel - Directionality measurement of solar neutrinos CNO solar neutrino analysis with Borexino (2022)
Lukas Brusa - CNO solar neutrino analysis with Borexino (2021).
Lars Ebsen - Study of track direction reconstruction in liquid scintillator detector (2018)