This data set is the measurement of the depth of Mapam Yumco Lake during the River and Lake Source Investigation in 2017. It can be used to map lake isobath, to estimate the water quantities in lakes and to study water balance of the basin. The data observed time is from September 5, 2017 to September 7, 2017. It was measured by the Lowrance HDS-5 sonar depth finder. The original measured data contains a lot of invalid depth data, which has all been eliminated in the post-selecting process. The selected measuring line is reasonable, and the data covers various depth gradients. The data is stored as an excel file.
This is the water quality multi-parameter data set of Mapam Yumco Lake during the River and Lake Source Investigation in 2017. It is used to acquire basic physical and chemical indices of lakes. And it can prepare for the following modern observation studies of lakes. The data observed time is from September 4, 2017 to September 7, 2017. It is measured by the YSI EXO2 multi-parameter water quality instrument. Instrument calibration is made before each measurement based on the altitude of the lake and the local pressure. The measuring interval is 0.25s. To ensure the data is frequently and continuously acquired, the instrument is slowly released. The original data includes data measured above the water surface, which is exposed to the air, and it has all been eliminated in the post processing. The data is stored as an excel file.


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In this notebook, Mathematica was applied to a set of problems in biomedical signal
processing. Echocardiosignals of the left ventricle, left ventricular posterior wall, and
septum were interpolated by means of the Mathematica function Fit.
In addition, velocities and accelerations of the heart chamber's walls were calculated and
graphed. These velocities and accelerations carry potentially useful clinical information; in
particular, the upstroke of the ventricular diameter curve and the minimum diameter
achieved are important for noninvasive heart transplant rejection surveillance.

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Zinc and selenium are important micronutrients required for the immune system to function effectively along with vitamins A, C, E, B6, B12, C, D, E and folic acid and the trace elements iron and copper.
Both insufficient and excessive intakes of zinc and selenium can have negative consequences on the immune status.
For the majority of people, low selenium intake is not a major issue. Whole-grains provide provide a more than adequate supply for vegans.
A serum selenium test shows a short-term status of selenium whilst red blood cell selenium reflects a long-term status.
Before consuming large amounts of selenium in foods or supplements, it is important to know the true status of your selenium.
B12 is a group of cobalt-containing vitamins. Hydroxocobalamin and cyanocobalamin are synthetic forms of vitamin B12. The two forms of vitamin B12 naturally occurring in foods are methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. These forms are biologically equivalent.
B12 is produced by a number of different species of bacteria which is found in the soil, on the surface of some plants and some red and green algae.
Lack of vitamin B12 can have serious consequences as does high levels of homocysteine. Determining the status of vitamin B12 and homocysteine can be difficult and can be determined by measuring serum vitamin B12, homocysteine and methylmalonic acid (MMA).
A number of products contain riboflavin, pyridoxine, folate, B12 and methionine way in excess of dietary requirements in an attempt to resolve B12 metabolism problems.
Many magnesium supplements contain pyridoxine which is usually unnecessary and possibly detrimental.
Most people are under the impression that starchy foods such as bread and potatoes make you fat. This is not the case - unless you cover your bread and potatoes with high-fat foods such as cheese, butter or sour cream. Excess sugars and carbohydrates are stored as glycogen - not fats. Carbohydrates are not converted to fats. Animals, bacteria and fungi convert glucose to glycogen which is the form that glucose is stored. Except in abnormal, extreme conditions, carbohydrates are not converted to fat in humans. Fats make you fat - not carbohydrates.
It is not uncommon for people to claim that they have tried a vegan diet and it simply did not work for them. Not all vegan diets are healthy.
Much publicity is given to the longevity of the people of Japan and Okinawa (an archipelago that stretches from southern Japan to Taiwan). However, the population with the longest lifespan and the highest levels of health on the planet is the vegan Californian Seventh-day Adventists.
People are not predisposed to vegan diets or otherwise. When it comes to nutrition, we are pretty much the same – allergies being one significant difference.
Below are components of a healthy whole-food, plant-based diet. Many people on a unhealthy vegan diet are missing a number of important components of an optimal diet.
Iodine is a major component of the thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4), and triiodothyronine (T3). They are based on the amino acid tyrosine. T4 contains four iodine atoms and T3 three iodine atoms. The only known function of iodine is for the production of the thyroid hormones. Excess iodine is secreted in the urine.
Thyroid hormones are required for normal growth and development of the brain and central nervous system. It is required for energy production and oxygen consumption in cells and the maintenance of the metabolic rate.
The regulation of thyroid hormone synthesis, release, and action is a complex process involving the thyroid, the pituitary, the brain, and peripheral tissues.
Sea foods and iodine added to table salt are the highest contributors of iodine to our diet which is why vegans often resort to supplementation which can have unintended consquences.

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Lemon Cream Scones
I don’t like scones, which is, of course, why I set out to make a scone that I like. These Lemon Cream Scones are it.
Before you give me a hard time about not liking scones, just know that I’ve tried many, even at world class bakeries, and they almost always feel dry to me. Even when they are not bad dry. I guess it’s just a texture thing.
It might also be that I’d always rather be eating cake over scones.
But still, I felt challenged to make a scone that I’d like. That I might even choose over cake (depending on my mood, of course).
This recipe was inspired by the scones at Pop’s, an old fashioned sweet shoppe in a small town on the Oregon coast that visit every summer (well, most summers). They are the only scones I’ve ever really enjoyed and are apparently a variation of a traditional cream scone. So that’s what my recipe is too.
(I should’ve known that cream was the answer to all my scone problems.)
I’m thrilled to report that Pop’s is still open and I cannot wait to go back to support a long-time, small food biz that made it through the pandemic. In the meantime, I’ve got these Lemon Cream Scones.
Lemon Cream Scones
Makes 10 scones
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup, plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons chilled, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon vanilla
Adjust your oven rack to the middle position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Add flour, 1/4 cups sugar, baking powder, and salt to the bowl of a food processor and pulse to combine. Add butter, distributing evenly around the top of the dry ingredients. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
Add cream, zest, and vanilla. Pulse a couple of more times, until a dough just comes together. Use a spatula to pull the dough from the walls of the bowl of the food processor and then turn the dough out onto a very lightly floured work surface.
Knead the dough until it comes together into a ball. Divide the ball into three 3/4-inch thick rounds—the first two should be roughly 4-inches, the third may be a little smaller. Using a butter knife, cut the first two rounds into four wedges and the smaller round into two wedges. Place the scones on an un-lined, un-greased baking sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes, until golden brown.

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Evercom, with offices in Madrid and Barcelona, has been appointed by UNILEVER to provide communications and public relations support for one of the multinational’s most important market sectors – margarine.
The consultancy’s health department will set the strategy for all UNILEVER’s margarine brands in addition to coordinating the programme, which will be overseen by its Barcelona office. Particular attention will be paid to Flora, Flora pro.active and Tulipán brands.
Activity will encompass lifestyle and consumer as well as health and medical audiences. In the consumer sphere Evercom will work to increase the three brands visibility and projection in addition to improving its social perception through linking to a series of values attributed to each product line.
“It is our intention to eradicate the myths surrounding margarine by informing the medical and scientific communities of its benefits in terms of vital functions – like looking after the heart and reducing cholesterol,” said Alberte Santos, managing partner at Evercom.
He continued, “We welcome the challenge working on this business represents as it combines two separate areas of communication. We will develop a campaign for the National Cholesterol Awareness Day, and our multi-disciplinary team will maximise news coverage in, mainly, the consumer press but also the medical and health press.
“We will bring to the attention of all our target audiences awareness of the cholesterol condition through harnessing the information found in various scientific studies. We will heighten peoples’ knowledge, and thus awareness of this ‘silent disease’ which can cause heart attacks, strokes, angina and circulation problems which can lead to serious health complications.”


Amsterdam February 10, 2003 Business intelligence provider SAS, in response to customer requests for help in creating efficiency and profit in their supply chains, announced a new suite of solutions, as well as a consulting practice, that is meant to address supply chain needs.
According to the provider, SAS Supply Chain Intelligence anticipates customer demand and improves procurement strategies by identifying actions that achieve set customer and quality service levels.
"Increasingly, customers are asking us to address the shortcomings of enterprise resource planning and supply chain management systems," said Jim Davis, SAS' senior vice president and chief marketing officer. "To solve their business challenges, SAS has developed an offering that combines technology with consulting services. SAS Supply Chain Intelligence enables organizations to generate insights, deliver them to decision makers at the right time, and take the actions necessary to enable performance improvements."
SAS Supply Chain Intelligence is based on the SAS Intelligence Architecture. Including data access, warehousing, cleansing and data mining, this foundation allows customers to generate intelligence from their existing transactional supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. SAS Supply Chain Intelligence is comprised of four solutions: SAS Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), SAS Value Chain Analytics, SAS Demand Intelligence and SAS Process Intelligence. Customers can deploy all or use them individually to solve their specific supply chain problems.
SAS said Alcon, an eye care company, has already selected the Supply Chain Intelligence suite for its Houston-Texas manufacturing plant. Alcon explained that its goal is to ensure high customer service levels for its Custom Pak and Consumables products, and its plant has already developed a SAS-based forecasting solution that has reduced back orders, saved staff time and optimized inventory levels. "SAS is the linchpin of our supply chain management strategy," said Gary Keathley, Custom Pak materials manager. "SAS brings integrity to the whole process. Whether we're negotiating with suppliers over price or working with customers on delivery, SAS delivers essential time and cost saving efficiencies."
SAS also announced a new SAS Supply Chain Analytics Consulting Group to eliminate the hurdles that have been keeping many companies from achieving their supply chain goals. According to the March 2002 Forrester report, "Bite-Sized SCM Projects," 64 percent of companies surveyed said supply chain implementations were more difficult than expected. And, among others, companies complained that traditional SCM implementations take too long.
The Supply Chain Analytics Consulting Group applies SAS' market-leading technology to address the complex needs of supply chain customers. Under the direction of Mike Haydock, vice president of supply chain intelligence, the group uses SAS' local consulting services organization to reduce implementation time and drive return on investment.
Haydock previously served as president, CEO and member of the board of directors at Cray Inc., a supercomputer company based in Seattle. He also worked for a number of years as a vice president at IBM.


Large-leaved plants for bioclimatic architecture projects
Armando Maravilla presents “Large-leaved plants for bioclimatic architecture projects”.
One of the key elements in bioclimatic architecture is vegetation.
It is essential to have a selection of plants that achieve a harmonious integration between the building and its external environment.
Plants with large leaves visually provide freshness and vitality, as well as serving as plant barriers that allow defining spaces or creating intimate environments.
From the early stages of the project, it is essential to consider the vegetation that will be retained or incorporated to ensure sound and sustainable planning.


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Author Toni Morrison got swallowed up by a Manhattan traffic jam this morning.
But don’t worry, she’ll join us on Friday.
ISIS and the battle for control of the Syrian town of Kobani. The Kurds have it. ISIS wants it. The US is bombing. We’ll look at the lessons of the battle for Kobani.
What makes a good place to live in America today? We’ll talk with the people who size up our cities and towns.
Latino America. It is very large and growing very fast. How will it move the country?
China, democracy and Hong Kong. They’re in the streets in Hong Kong with their “Umbrella Revolution.” What now?
A partial transcript of our panel conversation with experts on the modern American police force.
Entrepreneur Peter Thiel on innovation, technological failure and humanity’s uncertain future.
A transcript from our September 25, 2014 conversation on the Islamic State and sexual violence.

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Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, Tennessee
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Though the drinks and food are a little pricey, in my opinion, the atmosphere, the crowd and the live music just makes for everything that you might see negatively in there. Try to book a table in advance so that you wouldn't have to sty on your feet the whole time! :)
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- Profit, M.P. de., et al. Show all 2 Author
- Plant cell, tissue, and organ culture 1996 v.46 no.3 pp. 211-218
- viability; cultivars; dose response; seed set; explants; flowers; culture media; fertilization (reproduction); light; photoperiod; genetic variation; embryogenesis; pollination; roots; Cichorium intybus
- ... Formation of viable seeds of Cichorium intybus L. was achieved in an in vitro system. Flower formation, pollination, fertilization, embryogenesis and seed development occurred in vitro on chicory root explants on culture medium lacking plant growth regulators. After flower induction under a 24-h daylength treatment, the explants were transferred to a 16-h daylength at 40 microeinsteins m-2 s-1 irr ...
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- ... Fragments of vernalized chicory roots (Cichorium intybus L.) cultured in vitro under continuous light flower almost 100%. When chicory roots were placed in hydroponic forcing before in vitro culture, flowering percentage was reduced by half. The build-up of inhibition during 3 weeks of hydroponic forcing was studied in detail. The third week, in which growth of the chicory head is the strongest, w ...

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Our November Smoothie of the Month is Apple Crisp! Stop by the cafe to try this seasonal smoothie today.


According to CSO data, unemployment is rising slowly, but it will probably accelerate at the end of this year. As prof. Jacek Męcina from the University of Warsaw, a consultant of the Confederation of Lewiatan, forecasts, the unemployment rate in December will amount to 8-9 percent, and the one-digit level can be considered a success.
“Pandemic severely chilled the economy, which fortunately lasted quite a short time and coincided with a period of recovery in the labor market and seasonal work. Crisis shields were also of considerable importance. Almost everyone in need: both the entrepreneurs – especially micro and small, as well as the citizens who was in quarantine or lost his job due to closing the company or stopping his activity, could find himself in the benefit system. However – although the latest CSO data on employment and wages are not at all pessimistic, unfortunately it seems that the worst on the labor market is yet to come,” prof. Jacek Męcina stressed.
At the moment, the Polish economy is at the stage of gradual defrosting after the lockdown caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, it will not soon return to its full potential. First, the demand crisis is clearly visible due to the fact that households are not willing to spend and invest money, keeping cash for a "rainy day" in fear of an expected recession. Breaks in supply chains also cause that many industries defrost their activities very slowly, and due to government restrictions that have been maintained for fear of further spread of the coronavirus, the efficiency of manufacturing or service companies is not as high as before a pandemic.


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||Part-time OB/GYN Opportunity in Beautiful Coastal Maine Blue Hill Hospital in Blue Hill, Maine is seeking a BC/BE OB/GYN to join its' well respected and established Northern Light Woman's Health practice. The practice has a midwifery program with 2 midwives, and a part time OB/GYN. The schedule is four days per week, with 8 days of call a month, which includes 1 weekend. Experienced staff supports the practice which is located on campus at the hospital. This position will be employed by the hospital with a competitive salary, as well as a complete range of benefits including health, life and professional liability insurance, allotment paid time off plan, relocation, and assistance with medical education debit. Blue Hill Hospital is a 25 bed critical access hospital, serving a small rural population which expands in the summer months. It offers a full range of surgical services, primary care practices located throughout the peninsula, hospitalist program and ED with physician coverage 24/7. Our OB patients deliver at our affiliated hospital, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, 14 miles away. If you are seeking a more balanced lifestyle, in a beautiful location, with a variety of cultural and recreational options, you will want to explore this opportunity! The Blue Hill community is nestled on the scenic Maine coast, surrounded by Penobscot Bay, mountains and exceptional year-round recreation including hiking, biking, boating, fishing, skiing, golf and more. Our neighbors are safe, friendly and have outstanding schools, active libraries, art, culture, rich history, theater, music, local restaurant and shops make this town a unique place to live. We are 40 minutes from Bangor, Maine's third largest city.Northern Light Health -Provider RecruitmentProviderjobs@NorthernLight.org207-973-5358 (Office)
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Where is Claire France in Drummondville near you?
3/5 (60 %), 1 vote
Total number of Claire France stores in Drummondville, Quebec-Canada: 1
The biggest shopping centre/mall in Drummondville with Claire France store: Promenades Drummondville (95 stores)
Online list of Claire France stores in Drummondville - get information about largest Claire France stores in Drummondville, Quebec near you, opening hours, address and phone and contact information. Select Claire France store in Drummondville from the list below or use Claire France store locator to find nearest store in your area. Stores are also displayed on the map with GPS.
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Read Journal #1 here first.
Well, my journey through a revamped Pandora is finally complete, my first one, that is. Borderlands, like Diablo before it, has always been about multiple playthroughs with different characters on different difficulties, trying to reach max level where the greatest gear lies.
But you know, I’m just not sure I’m up for that.
The original Borderlands had a problem. It was relatively short, and felt like you had to play the game through twice to get the full experience. Borderlands 2 no longer has that issue, but it has a different one instead. It’s not short in the least, rather it’s quite long for a single player (or co-op campaign) game, and I believe my playthrough clocked in at about 25 hours with every sidequest I could find completed. Compare that to the 10-11 hour length of an Assassin’s Creed or Dead Space, or the 4-6 hours of Halo or Call of Duty.
And you know, that’s great. Because of the length, Borderlands 2 actually feels like a complete game, where the first one didn’t. By the end, you feel satisfied with the journey you’ve made spanning dozens of huge areas of the map, and it’s perfectly acceptable when your time with the game comes to an end.
Well this hardly seems fair.
But that said, the prospect of playing the entire thing over again from the beginning is one that’s a little too daunting to think about right now, be it to max level my Assassin, Zero, or start a new campaign for one of the other three classes which I truly do want to try out. When the game was 10 hours long, beating it twice seemed perfectly fine, but when it’s more than double that? I’m not so sure.
Finishing the game at level 34, it would have been nice if the game progressed a bit more quickly in terms of leveling. I don’t really want to start all the way over just to get 16 more levels over the course of a 25 hour campaign. Rather, if I had just hit the cap of fifty by the end, I would have been perfectly content doing boss runs for cooler gear, or starting a new character knowing that it would only take one playthrough to max out. Perhaps this is my own view of gaming changing, as I willingly played the original Borderlands through a half dozen times a few years ago, but I do think the extended length will make the prospect more daunting for players this time around.
When I last wrote about the game, I was only working with day one impressions, and now I have the opportunity to discuss the good and bad in greater detail. I’ve shared my thoughts on the leveling system, but I have to say the core game is a solid step-up from the original in almost every way. The areas are way, way more diverse, and far from simple collections of rocks and bandit camps. The guns, as I’ve professed my love for previously, are incredibly designed, even if their functionality does start to blur together over time.
And man, is this game funny. Far and away the biggest improvement over its predecessor is the fact that Borderlands 2 is very, very well written. Some may not appreciate the over the top absurdity of the humor, but I couldn’t get enough of it. The script by Anthony Burch and Mikey Neumann is probably the most hilarious since Portal 2. Burch you may know from the web series “Hey Asha, Whatcha Playin?” and his sister, Ashly, makes a cameo voicing the boisterous Tiny Tina, far and away my favorite new character.
“Yo yo yo yo let’s get some explosive up in this BIZZ-TCHH!”
Yes, the game is well scripted from a comedy perspectives, and I particularly enjoyed Jack’s myriad of taunts, and his view that HE was the hero of the game and WE were the bandit scum trying to mess up his valiant quest to civilize Pandora. The sub-missions are perhaps some of the funniest bits of the game with ones like “attend Claptrap’s awkward birthday party” or “shoot Shooty McFace in the face.” But humor that’s not the only reason the story works.
Surprisingly, it hits some great dramatic beats as well. There are a few moments that are actual tearjerkers when major characters meet their end, and I really appreciated that the original quartet of heroes made their way back into the game as major pieces of the story. We learn far more about them than we ever did in the original game, but still we run into the same problem of knowing next to nothing about our OWN character, something that I suppose will have to be saved for the third game.
The end had a lot riding on it, as the first game’s finale defined “anti-climax” for the entire medium. Here, the final boss makes sense from a plot perspective, but I was expecting a surprise or two that never came. In terms of difficulty, I must have been a bit overleveled from sidequests and boss runs by the time I reached it, because I took both halves of the boss fight down in about 20 and 60 seconds a piece without even coming close to dying.
I was a bit disappointed with the loot I found throughout the 25-hour plus game, which is a bummer, as loot is supposed to be the main driving force behind the title. Perhaps this changes at higher levels, but it was frustrating that in that many hours, I only found one legendary (orange) weapon that wasn’t given to me as a quest reward. Just one, and only two “dark purple” guns that were the next best thing. I understand having low drop rates of good items in a game like Diablo 3 where there’s a trading system and auction house that needs to keep supply of high end items low for the economy to work. But in Borderlands 2? There’s no such system in place, and loot drops and chest openings were almost always overwhelming. Again, perhaps this changes in the second playthrough, but it was noticeable in the first.
Aren’t you a little short for a vault hunter?
I liked the way Zero’s skill tree evolved over time, as it was hard to see it making much of an impact at the beginning. Once you can get your Decepti0n skill to increase movement speed, start regenerating life or have it allow you to threw explosive ninja pellets, it’s quite fun. I haven’t respeced into sniper mode yet, and the other melee skill tree seems like an inferior version of the one I used. It’s kind of like playing Mordecai in the first game. Why on earth would I want any other skill set other than the one that has my bird whipping around eating six different people?
I want to try out the Gunzerker and Siren classes to see how their trees pan out, but once again, I don’t really care about another boring soldier with a turret. I hated playing as Roland in the last game, and I can’t see myself enjoying Axel, with the same exact skill, this time around either.
Borderlands 2 makes many improvements over its predecessor, most notably in length and story. Unfortunately, I’m so satisfied with it at the moment, I don’t really want to play it again. That will likely change down the road and we may see another journal installment yet. It’s not perfect and as a sequel, it inherently doesn’t seem as original and genre-busting as the first game, but it’s a solid title nonetheless, and full of a solid few dozen hours of fun for any FPS or RPG fan.

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President Donald Trump expressed his elation after a letter summarizing the Mueller probe concluded the special counsel didn’t find any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The letter was written by Attorney General William Barr and was sent to members of Congress. In a tweet sent from Palm Beach, Florida, the president reiterated what he has said many times before that there was “no collusion.” He even went as far as considering the findings of the probe a “total exoneration.”
The response was largely expected though. Trump had been a very tough critic of the Mueller probe calling it a “witch hunt” in a number of occasions. The president was also able to rally his support base against the probe. Just a week before the final report was released, the president, in fact, sent a tweet saying that “very few people think it’s legit (the probe).” But it seems he’s quite happy with the overall findings.
A confidential copy of the Mueller report was submitted late on Friday to Attorney General William Barr. The AG summarized the report and delivered what he called “the principal conclusions” of the investigation to Congress. The conclusions didn’t provide any details about the investigation or what made the special counsel reach his conclusion. It was summarized in four pages only.
Barr noted that even though there was no evidence the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, there were many offers on the table from Russian operatives. The investigation didn’t yield any conclusive findings on whether the president obstructed justice or not.
But there was one important statement in the final letter. Barr told Congress that while the investigation didn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing by the president, it doesn’t exonerate him. The White House appeared to have missed that based on Trump’s tweet. In addition to this, a statement released by the press secretary Sarah Sanders also noted the findings of the Mueller report were a “total and complete exoneration” of the president.
Nonetheless, the completion of the Mueller report doesn’t mark the end of the investigation. There are still a number of investigations underway by the Southern District of New York and also Congress. But most GOP leaders were happy with the conclusions of the probe. They too felt the president had been exonerated after two years of uncertainty. Democrats, on the other hand, have called on the Justice Department to make the full report public.
In a joint statement released by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the party thinks that the American people deserve to know the underlying evidence on the probe. Some Democrats are also calling on Attorney General Barr to testify under oath in front of Congress.
It’s not clear whether the president will be facing campaign finance violation charges in light of the hash money paid to two women who said they had an affair with him. This matter is now being handled by the Southern District of New York and more intrigues could still come in the coming few weeks.


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Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($25)
by Michael Lindgren
This diffuse, frustrating, and occasionally brilliant book continues in the vein of cultural criticism that Greil Marcus has made his own over the last thirty years. Starting in 1975 with the now-classic Mystery Train, Marcus has spent his entire career working variations on one fairly simple idea: that the story of American culture, its central truths, are communicated in diverse, sometimes public, sometimes private ways. By finding common ground in the voices that speak from the margins of art and society, he hopes to uncover truths that are inaccessible to the mainstream.
The Shape of Things to Come brings the same strategy to a different set of voices. Marcus's themes tend to resist compression, but the organizing principle here is the delineation of a peculiarly and identifiably American voice that speaks in the Puritan tradition of prophecy—not as a prediction of future events, but as an apocalyptic expression of the sometimes contradictory promises the nation has made to itself. With the freedom that comes with these promises ("life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness") also comes a sense of terror and dislocation as they are broken; these promises and their betrayals comprise a chain, a narrative that Marcus traces through an idiosyncratic mix of high and low cultures and media. Late in the book, near the end of the chapter on David Thomas of Cleveland avant-punk band Pere Ubu, Marcus gives a succinct description of his credo:
Movies, records, concerts, novels, poems, paintings, can seem to vibrate with an energy repressed but not stolen by time . . . you begin to create a personal culture of maps and talismans, locks and keys, within the greater culture of which you are a part...when you approach the greater culture with a personal culture, you do so with the knowledge that the greater culture can never satisfy you.
The texts in which Marcus chooses to locate the "personal culture" germane to this particular narrative are the Puritan pastor John Winthrop's sermons, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches, Philip Roth's mid-1990s novels, David Lynch's films, Thomas's music, and Allen Ginsberg's long poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra." It is quite a list, defiant in its heterogeneity; such sources seemingly have little in common, and indeed Marcus has mixed success in tying them together.
The book starts out promisingly, with the comparison between Winthrop, Lincoln, and King, who share the Puritan idea of America as a "city on a hill." Through close reading of Winthrop's sermons, Marcus shows that the city on a hill was a utopian ideal, a challenge and test from God, not a blanket endorsement. The same idea manifests itself in Lincoln's speeches, which viewed the horror of the Civil War in radically eschatological terms, with failure or success equally in the balance. King picks up on the theme, not least by force of the rolling Biblical cadences of his peroration, emphasizing how deeply short of the covenant American society has fallen. The chapter is a brilliant piece of synthesis and a radical reclaiming of the image of a "city on the hill," hijacked by Ronald Reagan and his conservative successors as a symbol of untrammeled American exceptionalism—a fundamental misreading of a covenant that could be, and has been, repeatedly broken, with grim consequences. This section of the book is nearly as fine as anything Marcus has written, and is worth the book's price and the reader's time alone. Unfortunately, he drops this particular thread when he moves on, and never really picks it up again.
The examination of the stubborn, haunted characters of Roth's novels I Married a Communist and American Pastoral and the surreal, violent landscape of Lynch's Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me is the heart of the book, yet it is here that the reasoning becomes chaotic, somehow both repetitive and difficult to follow. Marcus faces here a very basic and probably unconquerable problem. Since he can't assume that every reader of this book has read all of Philip Roth and seen all of Twin Peaks and loves Pere Ubu, he is forced to expend a lot of his energy—and the reader's patience—in exposition and recapitulation. Reading a blow-by-blow encapsulation of a book or film that one has not read or seen, even from a critic as articulate and expressive as Marcus, is rarely engaging. At bottom, it is a conundrum of intention and of audience: if this were an academic work—Marcus is a professor of American Studies at Berkeley—then his audience would be familiar with his sources, but in a commercial publication intended for broad readership the sources are too obscure to be common pop-culture property. Thus does he try to split the difference, ending up with the worst of both worlds.
The long rehashes are not the only drawbacks, either. Marcus tends to repeat himself, suggesting that parts of the book were stitched into place after the fact; much of the Philip Roth material, for example, had originally appeared in nascent form earlier this year in The New York Review of Books. In addition, Marcus is fond of overreaching hyperbole: is a shot he remembers of Chris Isaak as an FBI man in Lynch's Fire Walk with Me really "one of the most complete and uncanny images of America ever produced"? Is it accurate to say of an early Pere Ubu single that "there were holes in the music and there was room in the sound: it made its own gravity, and it pulled you in"? Such grandiosity has the effect of dulling the passages where he reaches more legitimately for profundity.
Reading The Shape of Things to Come, one comes to understand that Marcus's intellectual existence--his whole life, one imagines—consists of mentally absorbing and cataloguing an ongoing set of impressions from a wide variety of sources, from Melville and Lincoln to forgotten rock 'n roll songs and bad B movies, and then searching out the themes that unite them. His method, then, is essentially inductive—trusting that the diverse cultural artifacts that compel his interest will yield a telling pattern—rather than deductive—applying a set of presumably objective standards to a finite work at hand. Marcus's writing is thus a poetic act of self-expression, not an evaluative or analytical one, and its effectiveness rests on whether one finds his intuitive selections fruitful, and whether one perceives that he has successfully united these extremely disparate elements into a coherent narrative. If your sensibility is not in tune with his, if your personal barometer registers a different stratus of cultural atmospherics, then you're probably not going to be willing to follow him very far along the path of The Shape of Things to Come.
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It is true that texting and talking on the phone are not the only distractions drivers encounter while driving, but hand-held device use is very widespread, and statistics show that it’s growing.
Common sense would support this. Have you ever noticed how many people are either talking on their cell-phones or texting as they walk, exercise, drive, and even while walking next to their significant other while both are on separate phones?
If that’s true, which of course it is, why would we think that technological distractions will not increase as technology increases? It is certainly a disturbing trend and shall likely continue until it affects us as individuals and unfortunately, it will indeed affect most of us that see this video.
Further, based on observation studies, the federal government has concluded that at any given time 11 percent of all drivers are likely to be using a hand-held or hands-free cell phone.
Hand-held phone use alone translates to 812,000 vehicles or more on the road at any given time just during daylight hours. Imagine the increase of distraction and risk of car accidents when driving at night!

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So this is something I experimented with about two weeks ago. I have one of Rainbow Dash that I will upload at a separate time.
I'm kind of happy with how it turned out, but I don't really know what to do with it. I wanted to draw each of the main six ponies in this style but I have too much to do.
Maybe this would make a good shirt design? I'd have to play with it a bit.

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You will walk into an elegant, bright entrance hall with an illuminated clothes cabinet, large mirror wall, optical fireplace, romantic four-poster bed and flat-screen TV.
Above the open spiral staircase you will find a comfortable sofa and another large television on the mezzanine floor. On the concealed attic terrace you can enjoy the view and fresh air.
Then, a few steps further, you will reach the highlight of the hotel: on the gallery balcony on the third floor of the tower suite you can enjoy a unique 360-degree panoramic view of the Chiemsee and the Alps. Inside the tower there is also a rattan bar with stools and a sofa set to relax on.
The luxurious bathroom is equipped with a whirlpool bathtub with underneath lighting, hairdryer, radio, telephone and a large wash basin, into which water flows from the beak of a golden swan!
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Everyone loves a Choc Ripple cake, but what if it could be elevated enough to serve on the Easter table?
Aussie food TikToker Tigga Maccormack aka Tigga Mac has shared an easy, no-bake cake hack, an adorable treat that is perfect to make the centrepiece of your Easter table.
A twist on the Aussie classic Choc Ripple cake, Maccormack shared a video making a "Choc Ripple Butternut bunny" cake using Arnott's Choc Ripple and Butternut Snaps for that nostalgic flavour, all in the shape of an adorable bunny, in a collaboration with the biscuit company.
Watch the clip above
She began by layering biscuits with whipped thickened cream, to which she included a dash of vanilla and icing sugar for some flavour.
Maccormack did this in a circle shape for the bunny's face before moving onto two ear-like shapes above the circle.
After she levelled off the cream, Maccormack made sure to refrigerate it overnight before adding decorations. She piped all over with white cream to make the bunny look like it has fur, crumbled up pink wafer biscuits to add colour to the ears, and finally added chocolate buttons for eyes and a pink marshmallow for the nose.
Cutting into it, the finished result looks just like a baked cake.
Commenters immediately added the recipe to their Easter menu. "So clever!" one commenter said
"Cuuuute! I'm sooo making this for my kids," said another.
"I feel like you could make the next Women's Weekly cakes for the next (generation)," one commenter complimented Maccormack.
Some commenters had suggestions to elevate the no-bake dessert even further.
"Chocolate chip biscuits are the go! Used them for Christmas (because) the ripple was sold out. Omg so much better!" one commenter suggested.
"If you want adults only one add baileys to the cream. 'Freaking amazing," said another.
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Love Letters by the Sea
A Siren's Retreat Novella
Book 4 in the Siren's Retreat Novella Quartet series
What happens when the proprietress of Siren’s Retreat discovers the charming romantic she’s been corresponding with is same villain turning her beloved property into a gaming hell? Find out in LOVE LETTERS BY THE SEA!
This book will begin shipping in Spring 2022
Love Letters by the Sea is available in the following formats:
April 12, 2022
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"The best songwriter you've never heard of?"
So reads the headline for a 2003 Los Angeles Times review of David Olney's album, The Wheel. However, quite a few people have heard of the Nashville, Tenn.-based musician. Steve Earle once called Olney "one of the best songwriters in the world." Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt have both covered his work, and legendary troubadour Townes Van Zandt numbered Olney among his four favorite songwriters (the other three were Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins and Mozart).
Olney's album High, Wide and Lonesome features contributions from The Band's Rick Danko and Garth Hudson, as well as from the Flying Burrito Brothers' Sneaky Pete Kleinow.
So now that you've heard of David Olney, go see him at the Riverside Hotel.
With John Hansen. 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $10 general, $13 preferred seating. The Riverside Hotel's Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise.com.


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Much of the text is meant only to be read, with exercises interspersed that students or instructors can choose from to help solidify the knowledge through manipulation of the vocabulary. Smeltings Academy, the all-boys Muggle school Dudley goes to and that Uncle Vernon attended in his youth, seems to channel the Victorian schools that originated this trope.
However, there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that Dickens unfairly maligned Shaw — the incident with the blinded boys, for example, has been attributed by some historians to an illness which arrived in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and Shaw is recorded as having employed an eye specialist at great expense to try and cure them.
The school's conditions are all in the name of tradition rather than any desire to be cruel. At first it doesn't seem so bad: He appears to Scrooge as a ghost condemned to wander the world bound in heavy chains.
It is heavily implied worst punishments can be and have been inflicted. Child's Play 3 has the boy from the first two movies in a military school, showcasing how brutal such schools can be in real life. It can also be translated as "Remember Your Mortality" which also indicates, that you aren't anything more than a human.
Sadist Teachers abound and an Absurdly Powerful Student Council is brought in to do something to students who make a B or lower on exams. Troubled Soulsthis is the type of school Ox attended before the Academy and met Harvar here. It is the context that helps to explain why people acted as they did and which helps us to understand that history is not a story of actions but rather a series of reactions.
The force of character she showed in keeping up his spirits would have been used to hide a lover from her husband if they had been living quietly in Rome.
Belle broke off their engagement after Scrooge became consumed with greed and the lust for wealth. At twelve, his father was arrested and sent to debtors' prison.
They also do not accept Muggle-born students. If not, well, this is where the nasty stuff comes in. It helps that we get the sense that the school's better than her situation at home.
Satan's School for Girls.
A Christmas Carol takes the form of a relatively simplistic allegory--it is seldom considered one of Dickens' important literary contributions. The author has remarkably assigned the appearance of these characters to be in sync with their nature.
A Christmas Carol rounds out the Charles Dickens hat-trick: It's Harry's favorite place in the world, most of the teachers seem to care about the students and try to teach them, and it's generally protrayed as an Academy of Adventure full of friendship.
He notifies Scrooge of the three Spirits that will be visiting him the following three nights, and that only through their visit, can Scrooge hope to have a better fate. The Oakhurst foundation from the Shadow Grail series takes Hogwarts and carefully removes everything fun and most of the sheer good fortune that kept the school from having a running body count every year.
Bell or Tommy Traddles, it would've been even worse.
Her latter years there are Hell at the hands of both unkind peers and head-teachers who are closely watching her for any further infractions. Then again, we are talking about the Sith. The ghost of Marley teaches his former partner the lesson of materialism, as Marley is condemned to drag an enormous chain attached to cash boxes: This is presumably the case at St.
The spirit then shows Scrooge scenes related to the death of a "wretched man": This book is part of a series. The protagonist, Scrooge is a cold, miserly creditor whose redemption to kindness and selflessness forms the arc of A Christmas Carol.
Scrooge represents the Victorian rich who neglect the poor and think only of their own well-being.
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Falcons even divisional record at expense of SHAPE
The Vilseck Falcons earned the signature wins of their DODEA-Europe boys basketball season this weekend, blasting the Division I rival SHAPE Spartans 68-29 on Friday and 55-24 on Saturday.
Four Falcons scored in double digits on Friday, led by Jonas Matthews with a game-high 12. Joseph Draper added 10-point, 13-rebound double-double for Vilseck.
Chris Graveley-Rosado took the offensive lead on Saturday with a game-high 15 points. Xxavier Bynes chipped in 11 points and five steals.
Vilseck pulled back to .500 in Division I play entering the toughest portion of its schedule. The Falcons face Wiesbaden next weekend and Ramstein a week later.
Wiesbaden 59, Black Forest 41: At Wiesbaden, the Warriors earned a sweep over defending Division II champion Black Forest Academy.
Tyrese Harris turned in a masterful all-around performance on Saturday, notching a double-double with 23 points and 10 assists and adding seven rebounds and six steals.
Jacob Fortune scored a game-high total of 32 points.
Brussels picks up close wins: The host Brussels Brigands earned a pair of hard-fought victories over the weekend as they hosted three other Division III schools.
The home team edged Sigonella 52-50 on Friday behind a 25-point effort from Jalen Pollard. The Brigands followed that up Saturday with a 52-46 defeat of Alconbury. Pollard again led the way, pouring in 31 points.
Sigonella also took a 55-28 loss to Spangdahlem but claimed a 61-49 win over Alconbury on Friday.
Rota 50/51, Aviano 30/33: At Rota, the Admirals opened DODEA-Europe play for the season with two double-digit wins.
Antonio White totaled 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists in Friday’s victory, then poured in 26 points on Saturday. Teammate LJ Chester scored 14 in each game and grabbed 10 boards in a Friday double-double.
The games represented the whole of the Admirals’ DODEA-Europe home schedule. The rest of their regular-season games are in Italy, followed by the Division II European tournament in Germany.
Kaiserslautern 53, Baumholder 14: Saturday at Kaiserslautern, the host Raiders routed the Division III Bucs.
Four Kaiserslautern players scored at least seven points, led by a 12-point outing from guard Ervin Johnson. Chandler Pigge scored nine for the Bucs.
The win came a night after the Raiders took a raucous 62-59 decision against divisional rival Lakenheath.
Baumholder is in the midst of a tough run of Division I opponents, including next weekend’s visit to Lakenheath.


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Contacts: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661
Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162
Project will create 10 jobs
MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Appleton Papers Inc. in Portage, Columbia County, has received $300,000 from the Community Development Block Grant-Economic Development Program administered by the Department of Commerce (Commerce). The grant will enable Columbia County to assist the company in purchasing additional equipment at its plant in Portage.
“Wisconsin has the highest-skilled workers and the highest-quality manufacturers in the world,” Governor Doyle said. “My top priority this year has been to continue to invest in our companies and create good-paying jobs for Wisconsin families. I’m proud we are investing in Appleton Papers Inc. and assisting the company in purchasing equipment for its encapsulation business in Portage.”
Appleton Papers Inc. is a paper manufacturer. The company’s Portage plant specializes in encapsulation of chemicals to encapsulate perfumes, cosmetics, vegetable oils, pesticides, and dyes. Appleton Papers Inc. will invest $15 million in new equipment for the encapsulation process and will create 10 jobs over a three-year period.
For more information on Commerce programs and services, contact the Commerce area development manager at http://commerce.wi.gov/BD/BD-AreaDevManagers.html.


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All roads lead to Killarney this weekend for the Lakes!
Killarney will play host to the the 36th running of Rally of the Lakes which is also the fourth round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship this weekend. The event, one of the most iconic in European rallying, will also feature the FIA European Historic Rally Championship.
The three-day event will begin with a ceremonial start in Killarney town centre on Friday May 1st before the crews tackle some of the most spectacular roads Ireland has to offer. Declan Boyle and Donagh Kelly head an impressive an entry list in their respective Subaru and Ford and both drivers will be looking to put a disastrous 2014 Rally of the Lakes behind them. Both Boyle and Kelly led the rally last year until crashing out on the final day. Last year’s Killarney winner and current Tarmac Championship leader Sam Moffett has elected to miss Killarney this year as he
is preparing for a number of European Championship events. Sam’s brother Josh will also miss Killarney for similar reasons. One driver who isn’t missing the rally though, is Dubliner Robert Barrable. After a sensational drive on the recent Circuit of Ireland Rally, many feel the former Billy Coleman Award winner has a real chance of victory this weekend in the Patch Tyre Equipment/Airport Hire Subaru. Daragh O’Riordan and Garry Jennings are both previous winners of the event and are seeded at 4 and 7 respectively with the top 10 also including recent Circuit of Kerry winner Alan Ring and talented Monaghan driver, Stephen Wright.
Former National Rally Champion Aaron McHale is the top Group N seed at number 16 and will resume his season long battle with fellow Group N driver, Brendan Cumiskey. Declan Gallagher heads the modified entry in his Toyota Starlet and he will have to fend off local drivers Fergus O’Meara, Vincent O’Shea and Charlie Hickey if he is to take a second consecutive national win in Killarney. Denis Moynihan will lead away the historic section of the rally in his Mark 1 Escort while there will be particular interest on the third historic car on the road. Frank Cunningham will debut his Sierra Cosworth and it is a very special car having won the 1991 Rally of the Lakes in the hands of legendary driver, Bertie Fisher. Local driver Rob Duggan is the top seed in the junior section which has attracted almost 30 entries.
Saturday will see the competitors tackle some of Ireland’s most famous stages with Moll’s Gal, Tim Healy Pass, Ardgroom, Cods Head and Kilmakilloge all included. After the overnight halt the crews will once again attack Moll’s Gap before moving on to Beallaghbeama, Shanera and Rockfield with the winning crew arriving back at the Gleneagle Hotel at around 4pm.
The event comprises of several championships in one:
Round 4 Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
36th running of the Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes.
PlasticBags.ie Southern 4 Rally Championship
FIA European Historic Rally Championship.


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Which Is Better Mutual Funds Or Stocks?
- Investing for the future can seem like a very intimidating task.
- With a wide variety of options and purposefully jargonistic language to cover these options, it might seem like you need the help of a financial consultant to make any sense of investment strategies.
- However, with some patience and dedication to understanding financial products and policies, you too will be able to traverse the field of investments.
- When you begin to plan for your financial health, and in particular look for investment opportunities, the products that are recommended immediately are stocks and mutual funds.
- As a traditionally conservative financial society, it can be very hard to find good and reliable information on these recently popular financial products.
- Here, we will discuss what stocks and mutual funds are, the differences between the two, and which product is most suited for your investment plans.
What Is A Stock?
- Essentially, a stock represents a fraction of the ownership of a corporation.
- When you own a stock of a company, also known as equity, you own a fraction of said company’s profits and assets.
- These stocks are traded on a stock exchange or even over-the-counter.
- Trading here refers to the buying and selling of stocks.
- Why do companies choose to offer stocks to the public?
- It isn’t out of any altruistic sense of sharing their profits.
- Rather, it is a move that allows them to access capital from the public.
- So, instead of waiting on a bank to give them a loan or liquidating an asset, the company can quickly access capital from its stockholders.
What Are The Different Types Of Stocks?
Stocks can be classified based on a number of factors which includes ownership rules, dividend payment, risk, and fundamentals.
- Preferred Stocks– These stocks come with the promise of a fixed amount to be paid every year. They are given priority over a company’s income. However, the holder of these stocks does not enjoy any voting rights.
- Common Stocks– A common stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation and enjoys voting rights when it comes to electing board members. These are the types of stocks people are most familiar with.
- Hybrid Stocks– These are preferred stocks that come with the option of converting to common stocks after a set period of time.
Market Value-Based Classification
- Stocks are also classified based on the market value of the corporation which is derived by multiplying the price of a single stock by the total number of shares issued by the corporation.
- Large-Cap Stocks– These are the stocks of the biggest companies in the market like Apple, Amazon, Tata, and Reliance.
- Mid-Cap Stocks– Mid-cap stocks belong to corporations with a market value of around Rs.200-4000 crore.
- Small-Cap Stocks– These stocks represent small companies with a market value of around Rs.250 crore.
- This type of classification is crucial when you are planning your investment strategy.
- Since some stocks are considered riskier than others, you have to know their potential and their possible risks.
- Blue-Chip Stocks– These are considered safe and reliable stocks, usually representing large companies with stable growth and low debt.
- Beta Stocks– These stocks are riskier. Beta stocks usually represent small or new companies that depend heavily on the volatility of the market.
- Now that you know the basics of what stocks are, we can discuss mutual funds.
What Are Mutual Funds?
- A mutual fund is a slightly more complex financial product than stocks.
- Think of it as a pool of money, sourced from various investors, and is managed professionally.
- The entire pool of money is then invested in various securities like bonds, stocks, and other assets.
- Each mutual fund is individually designed with its investment objectives.
- The professional money management works towards investing the fund, or pool of money, to achieve these objectives.
- You must read the investment objectives before investing in a mutual fund.
- The returns you enjoy from a mutual fund is proportional to the amount that you have invested in the pool.
- Most mutual funds operate either based on an annual fee or charge a commission on the returns.
- You must consider this when making your investment plan.
Stocks Vs. Mutual Funds
- Stocks and mutual funds are equally valid investment opportunities whether you are a novice or an investment expert.
- However, it is important to understand the difference between the two to know which one of these financial products will suit your financial plan best.
- Here are the key factors of difference between mutual funds and stocks.
- Since a mutual fund is managed professionally, the charges you pay for the services are higher than those you would for trading stocks.
- You should keep this in mind particularly if you are not investing a large sum of money and do not want your returns to be eaten up by charges.
- Investing in stocks is riskier than investing in a mutual fund.
- A mutual fund has a diverse portfolio of investments that range from stocks to bonds to FDs.
- Since you have to buy at least 10-15 stocks of a corporation to make it a worthwhile investment, your investment is subject to the volatility of the stock market as well as the individual performance of the corporation you choose.
Since stocks are riskier, the potential of a better return is higher. Many people like Warren Buffet have made most of their wealth through the stock market. However, it is important to note that you will make money through stocks only if you do diligent research and follow the market closely. This is why most people lose money on the stock market. Mutual funds have a lower risk and the chances that you will make a profit through them are higher.
- Certain mutual funds are given a tax exemption and even if certain parts of the portfolio are sold, you do not have to pay any tax if you still hold the fund.
- On the other hand, there are no such exemptions offered to stocks.
- You are required to pay capital gains tax on any returns you make on stocks.
- A mutual fund is managed through professional money managers, and you will have a hands-off experience with the actual investment procedures.
- With stocks, you will have to research the markets, find suitable companies to invest in, give instructions to your stockbroker to invest.
- Even if your stockbroker provides advice and deep financial advice, you are ultimately deciding where and how much to invest.
- However, most mutual funds are long-term investment products with most funds having a period of 5-7 years.
- Stocks can be either short or long-term depending on the company you are investing in and the market volatility.
- With stocks, you are fully in the driver’s seat.
- You get to decide which stocks to buy, when to buy, when to sell and how many to sell according to your needs.
- This feature is not available for mutual funds.
- At most, you can decide which mutual fund to invest in.
- You must also keep in mind that a mutual fund is only as good as its manager.
- Stocks and mutual funds are two very different, but entirely viable, options for investors with any degree of experience.
- Deciding on whether to invest in either requires that you do your due diligence and research the products to your best capacity.
- A healthy investment portfolio will usually have a mix of both these products since they can fit into different aspects of a robust financial plan.
1) What are some differences between property tax & wealth tax in India?
2) How are crypto-currencies taxed in India?
3) How to get your business listed on the Stock Exchange?
4) How does the share market work?

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Director : Abhinay Deo
Music : Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonca
Lyrics : Javed Akhtar
Starring : Abhishek Bachchan, Kangna Ranaut, Sarah Jane Dias, Jimmy Sheirgill, Gauhar Khan, Shahana Goswami, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher
One of the bollywood's next big releases is Abhinay Deo's Game starring Abhishek Bachchan and Kangana Ranaut in the lead. A movie under the category of strong action thriller, the music too has to be similarly thrilling. The team of Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy and Javed Akhtar has already given huge success to the movies like Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Don, Rock On, Luck By Chance and Karthik Calling Karthik. The song tracks of Game look promising when keeping in mind this musical team. Let's have a detailed review of the songs of this movie :
1. "It's a game"= Vishal Dadlani's vocal chords mixes well with electronic arrangements. Earlier also, the music in Dhokha and Johnny Gaddar was awesome and this one too makes a place in people's head.
2. "It's a game(female)"= The female voice is given by Sunita Sarathi who sang My Wish Come True(Kisna) and Khuda Hafiz(Yuva). Have you heard Tina Turner's Golden Eye?? This one sounds much closer to it.
3. "Kab Maine Ye Socha"= Shaan sings well again similar to his song Kya Maine Soch Tha (Hindi version of Blue's One Love) with the saucy female vocals of Anusha Mani. This one lacks novelty factor but mixes well with the romantic shots of the movie. You can expect this number in the Valentine's day collections.
4. "Mehki Mehki"= Shreya Ghoshal's seductive voice in this track takes you back to the 60s era. Genre ranging from jazz to arabic grooves. With Shreya is Kshitij singing the male part. His voice is appealing and sounds similar to KK's.
5. "Kaun Hai Ajnabi"= Now, this one makes us travel to the 1970s. A situational soundtrack, this one is voiced by KK and Aditi Singh.
Besides these five, there are two remix versions each of "Mehki Mehki" and Kaun Hai Ajnabi. You will not be dissapointed by the seven songs. But, they are not of the type which really display Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's best.
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Meanwhile, according to the 'Cameron McKenna Property Survey 1998' published this week in response to the Government's summer transport white paper called 'A New Deal for Transport - Better for Everyone' 73% of respondents agreed that road taxes should be levied only to reduce existing congestion or prevent future congestion.
Other results of the survey revealed that 80% of respondents felt that the present level of Government subsidies for public transport from central taxes were too low, 28% believed that bus services should be improved to reduce the amount of private vehicle use in towns and cities, and 57% agreed that the Government should subsidise public transport from existing tax revenues to increase the attraction of other types of transport when compared with roads.
'This Government claims to champion modernisation and reform. Our survey shows that many leading industry voices consider that there is little evidence of this in the white paper,' said Charles Romany, head of Cameron McKenna's Property group. 'An integrated transport system must be more than a Utopian dream for some future generation; it is a pressing need today and we are already some way behind many continental European countries.'


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back after 15 years, want to climb
Good to see the old familiar UI on this forum, which was real community to me in Seoul 2008-2009. I heard that much has changed in recent years, but I just wanted to post and see if any response. I'll be back in the country from 9/15-10/8 2022, and looking to do / re-do some of my favorite classic ridge routes including Daedunsan New Millenium, Seorak Ulsanbawi Nadeuri-gil, one or two of the ridge routes at Bukhan/Dobong in Seoul, etc. I also need some chapters of my 2006 즐거운 암릉길 which pages I recently discovered I didn't bother replacing after ripping them out for those trips. So anyone interested in a trip or have seen this book around their gym etc?

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According to the World Health Organization an estimated 6 percent of the global population is vitamin B12 deficient. This means that more than 400 million people do not get enough of the nutrient in their diets. While vitamin B12 deficiency is most commonly seen in developing countries, it can also occur in developed countries.
This deficiency can also lead to anaemia, a condition in which the body does not have enough red blood cells. Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the organs and tissues of the body. Without enough of them, the body cannot function properly. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause other health problems, such as neuropathy, a condition that affects the nervous system.
There are several symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, including anaemia, fatigue, weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, and weight loss. People who are at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency include those who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet, pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers, and the elderly.
While most people get enough vitamin B12 from their diet, some people may need to take supplements. This is especially true for people who do not eat meat or poultry, which are some of the best sources of the nutrient. Vegetarians and vegans can get vitamin B12 from eggs, milk, and certain fortified foods.
There are several ways to get more vitamin B12 in your diet. One is to eat foods that are high in nutrients. Some good sources of vitamin B12 include meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, and fortified cereals. Another way to increase your intake of vitamin B12 is to take a supplement.
A lack of vitamin B12 can have serious consequences. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also lead to problems with bone health and increase the risk of heart disease. If you think you may be deficient in vitamin 12, talk to your doctor. He or she can order a blood test to check your levels and make sure you are getting enough of the nutrient.


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I, along with many people, had some initial concerns about the MTV “Scream” series. It was hard to imagine MTV managing to pull off a good “Scream” series especially when they revealed their horrendous new version of the mask which looked like it was giving a blow job.
However, I personally thought the show was pretty damn entertaining and the mask quickly became a non-issue. And then we found out this year that the series was getting a reboot and it looks like that while we’re getting a whole new cast and story, we’ll be seeing the return of a familiar face.
Director Dennis Widmyer (“Starry Eyes”) is returning for directorial duties on the new “Scream” series and on his instagram page he showed off a behind the scenes picture which reveals the return of the Ghostface Mask and you can check it out below.
Season three of “Scream” will premiere in March 2018 and will have a six episode run. Stay tuned for more details.

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Make a style statement with this majestic Astoria Deco Basin and Tall Pedestal from Imperial Bathrooms with the striking geometric styling and glossy black finish capturing the glamour of 1920s. This traditional pedestal basin is manufactured to Imperial’s high standards and comes with a choice of one, two or three tap holes to suit your choice of basin taps.
- Period-style basin and pedestal
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- Size of sink: Width 640mm, Height 880mm, Depth 485mm
- Available with 1, 2 or 3 tap holes
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Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web for you. Today you’ll find a tribute to movie strippers; the real cause of the black out at this year’s Super Bowl; an L.A. Noire gag reel; Gollum stalking his Precious; and George Lucas welcoming JJ Abrams to the Star Wars universe. All that and more on this edition of SR’s Geek Picks!
To kick things off today, ScreenCrush has a gif mega post of Alison Brie to get you excited for season 4 of Community.
Empire has some great Avengers movie poster mashups.
Bane is revealed as the culprit behind the Super Bowl blackout.
A Tribute to Movie Strippers
JoBlo.com presents a 5-minute MovieHotties Video Tribute to Movie Strippers including such hotties as Jessica Alba, Rose McGowan, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Cameron Diaz, Olivia Wilde, Salma Hayek and others!
Bobby Chicago: Eugene Hitler
Above Average Presents – Bobby Chicago: Eugene Hitler
L.A Noire Gag Reel
This is a clip from the video game L.A.Noire published by Rockstar Games. L.A.Noire is a trademark and copyright of Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive Software Inc. The clip was put together by Sam Henman and features out takes and bloopers from the game and shows the level of performance and humanity captured by the MotionScan process
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Baby Wakes Up When She Hears Her Favorite Song
Fast asleep on a little car ride, she can sleep thru anything…anything but her favorite song!
Two-Year-Old Boy’s Basketball Trick Shot Video
Amazing shots from a kid (Titus) between 18 and 24 months old. He began shooting baskets shortly after learning to walk, we started filming some, and then got totally carried away.
This is the trick shot video that makes other trick shot videos look like a bunch of old guys who should have something better to do — like retire, turn up their pacemakers, or join an assisted living facility.
Honest Movie Trailers: Skyfall
His name is Bond, James Bond… and everyone in the universe seems to know it. Seriously, can this guy keep anything secret?
Downton Sixbey: Episode 3
With Downton facing tough times, Questlove shocks the family with a marriage proposal.
A friendly game of H-O-R-S-E turns into a cutthroat series of competitions between actor Dave Franco and LA Clippers center DeAndre Jordan.
An online relationship quickly unfolds after the two meet in-person for the first time. Nev and a team from MTV catch the whole thing on video.
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Publish Date: 25 Jan, 2023
Shahrukh Khan’s Pathaan was slated for release on January 25th 2023, the film is currently one of the most talked and gushed over topics among the fans online, the first reviews of SRK-Deepika starrer is also garnering a lot of positive reviews and is currently hailed as the blend of everything Bollywood was craving for. However, unfortunately a day ahead of its release I.e on 24th January 2023, it was reported that Pathaan full movie in HD print was leaked online on various social media platforms and torrent websites. Read the full report.
Pathaan full movie in HD print leaked online
A few reports since yesterday are constantly claiming the leak of Shahrukh Khan’s comeback movie Pathaan a day ahead of it’s grand premiere in cinemas. According to Zoom, websites such as Tamilrockers, Filmy4wap, Filmyzilla, Mp4movies, Pagalworld, and Vegamovies are responsible for the same.The film is reportedly available for download in 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, and HD.
Further it was also quoted that the film was released in HD format which means people who were eager to watch Pathaan and might not have got a chance to book the ticket maybe due to the rush in advance booking or any other reason can have the access to the movies for free. This was indeed a major concern for the makers of the film who left no stones unturned in making Pathaan a theatrical hit before releasing it on OTT platforms.
Additionally, industry insiders predict that if the movie is leaked online, it will significantly alter its box office results. The websites where the film was leaked could face harsh legal actions from the makers. Pathaan's trailer leaked a few days ago, and talk about the movie's leak had already begun to circulate. But it appears that not even the concern about piracy can stop the great appeal of Pathaan in this country. There was a roar of excitement when Pathaan's pre-booking began. 'Pathan,' starring Shah Rukh Khan, is expected to earn between Rs 45 and Rs 50 crore at the box office, according to industry insiders.
Piracy is illegal
Say no to piracy and pirated content. We urge our readers to not fall for such pirated content online. The Copyright Act of 1957 defines piracy as a crime. According to the Cinematograph Act of 2019, anyone caught leaking a film without the producers' agreement is subject to a fine of up to Rs 10 lakh and a prison sentence of up to 3 years.

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Nokia said that all services under Ovi umbrella will be re-branded to as Nokia, with no planned disruption to the service roadmaps. Nokia aims to centralize all its services under one brand and to unify their brand architecture.
"We have made the decision to change our service branding from Ovi to Nokia. By centralizing our services identity under one brand, not two, we will reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia and unify our brand architecture – while continuing to deliver compelling opportunities and experiences for partners and consumers alike," Nokia"s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jerri DeVard said on Nokia Conversations blog.
Nokia explained that the re-branding will begin in Jul 2011 and is expected to complete it across all countries and all services by the end of 2012. New Nokia smartphones and mobile phones will be equipped with the new branding and the current users will be updated through future software updates.
"The reasons for this decision includes the fact that Nokia is a well-known and highly-loved brand the world over. Our mobile experiences are tightly integrated with our devices – there is no longer a differentiation," Jerri explains. "For example, if consumers want the best mobile navigation experience, they know it"s a Nokia that they can rely on. These last few years, and moving forward, our mission remains unchanged: we will continue our work to deliver compelling, unified mobile service offerings and next-generation, disruptive technologies," he further added.
Nokia assured that the re-branding is only a name-changing and the services will continue as before. The only difference consumers can expect to see is the replacement of the word Ovi with Nokia.


The Israeli air force is not used to failure. Thus the corps, which had become synonymous with excellence and meticulousness, has been in a quandary for the last 10 days: On July 17, it launched two Patriot missiles at the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that penetrated Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights zone, and the two Patriots missed their mark. An F-16 fighter jet was also dispatched against the mysterious UAV and launched an air-to-air missile at it, but also missed the target. To the air force’s great consternation, the aircraft succeeded in turning around to disappear into Syrian territory, as fast as it came.
Until now, the air force does not know the answers to key questions: What kind of UAV it was, who launched it and why they were unable to intercept it. Al-Monitor received information that the UAV hovered above Israeli territory for about 30 minutes. In air force terms, this is practically an eternity.
“The investigation is underway,” a high-placed source in the air force told Al-Monitor this week on condition of anonymity. “It is still in Operations Research. At the moment we cannot publicize its findings. We hope that we will know what exactly happened and how, and that we’ll be able to draw the appropriate conclusions.”
The source added that the incident took the air force by surprise. “Patriot missiles have a proven ability to intercept UAVs. They accomplished this successfully in training exercises and also in real incidents in the Protective Edge campaign,” he added. “This time we didn't accomplish our mission, and the most important thing is to understand why.”
This was the first embarrassing failure of the Israeli Patriot missile battery that has long protected the country’s north. On Sept. 23, 2014, an Israeli anti-aircraft missile shot down an Su-24 Syrian attack plane that had penetrated Israeli airspace above the Golan Heights. The month before, a Patriot missile had intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle, apparently the property of the Syrian air force. At the time it seemed that the Patriot provides Israel with immediate response capabilities even more efficacious than interception aircraft. Then, along came the current failure.
In certain respects, the interception of unmanned aerial vehicles is viewed as more challenging than bringing down fighter planes. The reason: These aircraft are smaller than fighter planes, sometimes considerably so. Their slowness makes them a difficult target for fighter plane missiles and also interception missiles that are designed to lock onto much larger and faster bodies. These qualities (or ostensible weaknesses) give UAVs certain advantages.
The more important question that is now being asked in the Israeli air force is: Who operated the UAV that was not intercepted? Was it a tool of the Syrian air force, which — while trying to collect intelligence on the rebels in the Golan zone — penetrated Israeli airspace by mistake and turned back? Or perhaps it belonged to the Russian air force that came to assist Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and accidentally crossed the border?
But there is another, though remote possibility: that it was a Russian aircraft that tried to probe Israel’s borders and perhaps collect intelligence on Israel’s massive, sophisticated deployment in the Golan Heights. In such a case, it is still not completely clear to the Israeli air force what its response should be.
It has already been reported in Al-Monitor from the mouth of a very senior Israeli military source that a Russian plane penetrating Israeli airspace will not be shot down. This policy is a stark contrast to the ironclad rules and permanent orders in the Israeli interception deployment that anything crossing the border will be shot down, no questions asked, as Israel is a small country and its response time is extremely short. But in the event that a Russian plane crosses the borders, the orders are no interception, period.
“We won’t make the mistake that [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan made [downing a Russian warplane in November 2015],” an Israeli military contact told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “The Russians are not our enemy, and a Russian plane does not threaten Israel. We are talking about a mistake, and there is no need to shoot down a plane.”
On July 17, it was not known who had launched the UAV that penetrated the Golan Heights airspace. Nevertheless, Israel fired two Patriot missiles at it. What would have happened if the aircraft had been downed and it turned out afterward that it was Russian? Israel doesn’t really know the answer to that. A UAV is not in the same category as a fighter plane manned by Russian pilots, like the one that was downed last year by Turkey. One way or another, the air force will not rest until it reveals why two Patriot missiles missed their target, as did the F-16 air defense fighter jet. Israel’s well-known record of maintaining absolute aerial superiority and zero tolerance for allowing foreign aircrafts to penetrate the State of Israel’s airspace must be restored.
In the early days of Russian involvement in the fighting in Syria, Israel had hopes that some kind of ongoing coordination and connection would be maintained between the Russian forces (especially the Russian air force), and the IDF and the Israeli air force. Now it is clear that such coordination simply does not exist. There are no channels of communication between the two air forces, and the Russians do not always transmit notices to Israel before they embark on aerial activity in regions tangential to Israeli borders or Israeli air force activity. This is despite the well-publicized meetings between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of which had been attended by Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot in September 2015.
The alternative mechanism created between the sides is a de-confliction mechanism in which Israel tracks Russian activity on its radar and attempts to avoid being active in the same regions at the same time. Thus, Israeli activity is carried out much more meticulously now than in the past to avoid possible friction with the Russians.
Israel is not especially worried about this state of affairs, mainly because the Americans are keeping close, stringent tabs on the contacts between the Israeli and Russian armies. “We cannot allow any doubts to form regarding the identity of our strategic ally,” an Israeli military source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “Russia is a friendly foreign agent operating in the area, and we do not interfere in its activities. The United States is our strategic ally.”


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Yahoo-owned photo community Flickr has launched a new program today called Flickr for Good. The site will be a place for nonprofits or other photojournalists to pool together their photography. In order to get the ball rolling Flickr has teamed up with non-profit organizer TechSoup to donate 10,000 one-year Flickr Pro memberships (which normally cost $25 a pop) to nonprofits and public libraries to let them upload as many shots as they want to the popular photo hosting community.
Each nonprofit can grab up to five memberships to distribute among its staff. Details on how the groups are supposed … Read more


LG Premier L62VL, another big size Android smartphone that use Tracfone service with plenty features to satisfy most user and will help people to stay connected with friends, family and relative.
Tracfone keep adding new phone into the line of Android smartphone that support their service. LG Premier LTE L62VL is one of the new additions and it is one of the big screen size phones that Tracfone user will love.
With its 5.3 inches screen size, LG Premier is bigger than the most common 5 inches smartphone from Tracfone. It is big enough but still fit nicely in user’s palm. It is also slim and light, which makes some user feel the need to use phone cover/case to make it bulkier and heavier for easier handling.
As it said before, this phone comes with plenty features to satisfy most user. It runs using Android Lollipop with 1.2 GHz quad core processor, which lead to better performance and of course better means of communication. It also means that people can use it for multitasking without have to worry for lag in performance.
Just like most smartphone this day, this phone also comes with 2 cameras, the 8 MP rear cameras and 5 MP front cameras. Both camera able to produce decent shot and both can be used to record video as well. User can use simple command to take a picture from rear camera and for the front camera; user can take sefies with simple gesture.
The manufacturer boasts about this phone battery life. They claimed that this phone has up to 14 hours of talk time and 11 days of standby time. The battery talk time is what matter the most and if this phone is really capable of stay on for 14 hours, then it means that people can use it all day long with single charge. It makes the phone really effective where user doesn’t have to waste any time to charge it in the middle of the day.
Other feature that can be found in this phone is the connectivity system. This phone support 4G LTE for faster internet connection, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth version 4.1 that compatible with wide range of Bluetooth device and in the same time deliver faster transfer, and also A-GPS that will enhanced location accuracy.
Sadly this phone only equipped with 8 GB internal memory. It is big enough for most user, but the thing is, only 2.86 GB that is usable where the rest of it was used by the phone system and pre-installed app. It means that people must use external memory micro SD card if they want to store more data in the phone.
Tracfone LG Premier L62VL Specs and Features
|Size:||5.77″ x 2.95″ x 0.35″|
|Standby time:||Up to 12 days|
|Talk time:||Up to 14 hours|
Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
5.3″ HD touchscreen
Battery talk time up to 14 hours
Standby time up to 11 days
Internal memory 8GB (device only)
Access to over 1,000,000 apps and more on Google Play
Supports microSD memory card up to 32GB (not included)
8MP camera/5MP front-facing camera/video recorder
1.2GHz quad-core processor
Bluetooth 4.1 wireless technology
Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC) Rating: M4/T4


About Pilot Things
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Pilot Things designs solutions that are perfectly adapted to your context using our software components. Their StudioT server will be able to support all your future connected applications.
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Big City Afternoon
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Oil on Linen
This is a painting about the magic of the city. I’ve used a big circle of light to frame the monuments of the soaring skyline. These are the buildings of our imagination – how we imagine the city to be rather than how it actually is. This is about the spirit of the place with its strength and reaching up towards the sky.
This work can be viewed at Applecross Gallery. Look under our 'Galleries' menu for details, or contact us.

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