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The Health Benefits of Coffee â€“ Can a Couple of Cups Be a Good Thing?
For decades we have been hearing about the perils of drinking coffee, mostly due to the caffeine content.Â All of the dangers of increased heart rate, stroke, circulation and nervous system damage have been proclaimed over and over, at length. However, today scientists are claiming caffeine, or coffee to be more specific, may actually have some beneficial properties for the human body and brain. This new information has been most welcomed by avid coffee drinkers, as well as by people who lost hope and had finally given up coffee. There is a good possibility coffee does not have to be eliminated totally after all.
Alzheimerâ€™s Disease Studies
Whilst we know scientific evidence has shown there is something in coffee that may actually keep the brain functioning properly for a longer period of time, we donâ€™t know exactly what that something is. That is, no one has ever really mentioned the exact chemical in coffee, but still, conclusive data released in studies performed through many prestigious medical testing centers has emerged. What we do know is whatever this wonder chemical is, it boosts levels of GCSF (Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor), thereby helping lab mice fend off Alzheimerâ€™s disease. If Grandma seems to be slipping into a forgetful state, give her some coffee and see how she does.
Enhanced Attention to Detail
We coffee drinkers know not to try to think much before we have had our fix. In fact, the people who love us dearly know this too, and this is why they tend to steer clear until the dose has been administered. We have known for as long as coffee has been around that it is a picker-upper, but we havenâ€™t known there is actual substantiality to just how powerful coffee is. Proofreading is a great example of just one of the activities that is enhanced quite nicely by coffee. In studies, people who drank coffee in the morning were much more likely to pick up on small details, those who hadnâ€™t missed.
Coffee Could Keep Mum Happier
This one is great, as no one likes to see a woman depressed!Â In fact, when the woman of the house is depressed, many negative things happen. It is almost safe to say some households become totally unglued. The esteemed Harvard University in Boston, MA thought so too, and as a result performed its own study that showed conclusive and even remarkable results in relation to lower depression rates in women who drink coffee, as opposed to those who donâ€™t.
So, what does all of this mean? It means that coffee, when consumed in moderation may have health benefits that up until now were unknown. Of course, too much of anything is a bad thing so no one is saying a pot of coffee a day is good for the body because it probably isnâ€™t. Nevertheless, we know a couple of cups a day may keep specific conditions way. To find out more about the many benefits of drinking coffee, do your own research and see what other sources are saying.
Laura is a writer for a well-known healthy coffee website.Â To read an honest review of the health benefits of Organo Gold Coffee visit healthycoffeecentral.com today.

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By Robyn Banks
Content warning: fascism, mass state violence
Last week the Spanish government approved the exhumation of the body of General Franco, the fascist dictator who ruled over Spain for most of the 20th century. Whilst this may not seem like a huge deal on the face of it, it is massive news in Spain and to those with an awareness of Spanish politics. Franco’s ‘legacy’ has been hanging over Spain since his death in 1975. This decision marks a major point of departure for the country.
Francisco Franco rose to prominence during the Spanish Civil War, leading the fascists to a slow but destructive victory to control the whole of Spain. Despite being supported by Hitler during the civil war, he chose to remain neutral during the second world war, in a move that is still praised by his supporters. In the Cold War period Franco was regularly praised by Churchill for his support of Europe and his slow liberalisation of the Spanish economy in order to avoid its collapse. During this period he also continued to oppress the people of Spain, running concentration camps for those who opposed him and, most infamously, murdering Catalonian Anarchists and leaving their bodies in mass graves. This continued up until his death in 1975, when Franco reinstated the Spanish monarchy. That moment marked the beginning of the transition towards democracy in Spain, but it remains a huge point of contention for many in Spain, especially those who suffered under Franco. His decision to appoint the monarchy as his successor is seen by many as a mark of his continued impact upon the function of Spanish democracy and the future of the country from beyond the grave.
The violence and arrest of political leaders that followed the referendum in 2017 opened many old wounds
Whilst Spain has moved towards being a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy, this transition took years, with many different parties and kings looking to influence the process. And until recently, with the arguable exception of the socialist governments of 1982-90, they were all still working in the shadow of what Franco left behind.
The dictator left Spain torn into the regions he supported, most notably Naverre and Álava, and those which he heavily oppressed, such as Catalonia and the Basque region. Those he oppressed continued to rebel in different ways long after his death. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna continued to fight for the independence of the Basque Country, committing numerous violent acts for the liberationist cause, until they disbanded in April of this year. The struggles of the Catalonian movement for independence from Spain are now well-known following its high profile referendum in 2017. Whilst pro-independence feeling had been widespread in both these regions since long before Franco, it was his actions and his legacy that has motivated the Catalonian struggle to reach the head that it did last year. The violence and arrest of political leaders that followed the referendum in 2017 opened many old wounds in the region. The sight of protestors being beaten by the police was something people often saw under the Franco regime. The continuation of state violence in Spain speaks to many of how comfortable the current establishment is to exist in the dictator’s shadow
Although some of Franco’s supporters have described the exhumation as ‘petty and vengeful‘, it has potential to be a significant step in resolving the deep divides in modern Spain. Franco’s body currently resides in Valle de los Caídos. Despite his claim it was built to reconcile the country and honour those who died in the civil war, the mausoleum acts as a symbol of the decadence he kept for himself and his supporters whilst depriving and oppressing so many of his detractors. For many of those detractors, the tomb is little more than a tourist site for the supporters of fascism, where they can visit the grave of the last dictator in Western Europe. Its uniqueness in the fact that his tomb is accessible makes him stand alone compared to his counterparts, and glorifies his actions despite the cruelty that lay behind them.
Whilst the removal of Franco’s body won’t instantly make Spain a better, more connected society, it will go a long way to healing the wounds that he has left deep within the country. Nowhere else in Europe are fascist dictators’ graves marked and celebrated in the same way as Franco’s is. With this simple gesture, Spain is not only changing the way it will remember and confront its past, but also building a better present and future for its people.
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TOPEKA (KSNT) – President Barack Obama will visit Kansas on Thursday, January 22nd, two days after delivering his State of the Union address.
Kansas Democratic Party Chair Joan Wagnon confirmed to KSNT News the party got an e-mail Friday advising of the trip, but providing no detail.
“We got the e-mail he’ll be here Thursday, but we don’t know where or when or what he will talk about,” Wagnon said.
Friday evening a White House spokesperson issued the following statement: “Next week, the President will hit the road to discuss the themes he’ll lay out in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. On Wednesday, January 21, the President will travel to Boise State University in Boise, Idaho to deliver remarks. On Thursday, January 22, the President will travel to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas to deliver remarks. Further details on the President’s travel next week will be available in the coming days.”
Shortly after, the visit was also noted by KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who stated “Our community will be honored to welcome President Obama to the University of Kansas.”
“This is an exciting time for KU,” she said “and to welcome the President of the United States and have an opportunity to share our bold aspirations with him only adds to that excitement.”
The university noted that Obama will be the fourth sitting U.S. president to visit KU, with the last being a visit by William H. Taft in 1911. Previously presidents Ulysses S. Grant visited in 1873 and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Gorge H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton all visited the campus after leaving office.
The president was last in Kansas in 2011. First Lady Michelle Obama last spring.

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Without any mounting needs the new DIP modules are fixing itself. Just put it into pcb and solder. There are no more srews, pin header or cable necessary. Soldered means mounted. As this is a absolute new design there are some more advantages: active area is an optimum for these outline dimensions. At this moment there are 6 different modules in 2 sizes available. The smaller ones, EAÂ DIPS, do have 40x20mm outline dimensions and provide 1x8 and 2x8 characters with 7.15mm and 5.01mm font size. The bigger size series got 4 members: a dotmatrix 1x8 with large 11.48 font, a 2x16/6.68mm and a 4x20/3.72mm as character displays. The graphics version has a resolution of 122x32 dots and an integrated controller SED1520. All modules of same series do have same pinout and can be replaced by each other. STN technology provides a wide viewing angle and the bigger modules were shipped with LED backlight. All modules are standard and available ex stock.
Helpful link: DIP modules, Data Sheets: 1x8 EA 8081-A3N, 2x8 EA DIPS082-HN, 1x8 EA DIP081-CNLED, 2x16 EA DIP162-DNLED, 4x20 EA DIP204-4NLED, 122x32 EA DIP122-5NLED
April, 25th. 2002 Ralph Tischer
For price sensitive products ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY offers it's new Control Unit with integrated touch panel. The EA KIT160-7CTP combines a display, a key pad and switches at a single unit. The advantages are immediately clear: cheap, compact and flexible. Labeling of up to 56 key pads is made by customers software. So even for smallest quantities different product version and languages can be supported quickly without any additional cost. Using a STN display from BlueLine series Control Unit provides an excellent contrast with the colors blue and white together with a bright backlight. By the way, surface of touch panel is non-scratchable and anti-reflex for best contrast of lcd. Display itself got enough space for text, icons an graphics. Many graphics functions and fonts are already built in. This makes connection with various systems absolute easy. Text and graphics function can be used in parallel - accurate to the pixel. Outline dimensions are very compact with 140x102mm for a viewing area of 5,1" (101x102mm). Data transmission is done by RS-232 or RS-422 with a coordinate based language. Macros and pictures can be stored in onboard EEPROM. Power supply is 5V or 9..35V. Two mounting bezels made of anodized aluminium are available as an accessorie in black and blue.
Helpful link: User Manual (785kB), more Control Units from 120x32 to 320x240 dots.
April, 8th. 2002 Ralph Tischer
All prices for dotmatrix BlueLine series are going down for 15-20% each. Because of the high volume production ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY is able to forward the purchaseing advantage even for small quantities. No wonder this series impress by a new look: blue LCD with white characters. At a second glance you will recognize that contrast and viewing angle is excellent. Even technical details make the engineer happy: low power consumption for backlight (e.g. 15..60mA for 2x16 LCD), operating temperature range is 0..+50°C or optionally -20..+70°C. Made with this new technic there are a lot of different modules at different sizes available. All of them are compatible to the market standard with controller HD44780. Everybody who is interested in graphics displays will find many different modules from 128x64 up to 320x240 dots - absolute compatible to market standard in hard- and software.
Helpful link: BlueLine, BlueLine DIP, Data Sheets: Character (652kB), 128x64 (309kB), 160x128 (103kB), 240x64 (343kB), 240x128 (215kB) und 320x240 (324kB) (german language only).
March, 19th. 2002 Ralph Tischer


Flycarpet Inc focuses on innovation in industial system design software, novel high speed/quiet compressor research & development, and other projects with revolution potential in the field of energy and propulsion system.
Here are some projects from FlyCarpet Inc.
1. Flycarpet, the software platform for rapid & visual system design/optimization, is created from deep rethink. Instead of one program for one system, it makes one platform program for all systems. The mechanism is to put all system part models into library/packages, the platform just picks up models and connects them to form any system you need in a time counted by seconds.
2. The orbiting/translating rotor compressor. With multiple lobes around the rotor and chamber, and forms compression chamber, the novel structure runs smoothly at high speed and the centrifugal force can be fully balanced. The new innovation also includes a radial compliance design that can balance the fluid force from any given radial direction, and a design that can balance the fluid torque to the rotor, this ensures the minimum leakage and friction loss.


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Reconstructs an intimate portrait of life in Washington during the Civil War, bringing to life the men and events which dominated the capital in a critical era of American history.
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Workers of the Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clashed in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal, police said. According to reports, workers of both the parties hurled petrol bombs at each other.
Visuals show offices of both the parties in the area were vandalised and set ablaze. Police resorted to cane-charging in order to bring the mob under control. Several people have received injuries in the incident.
A specialised wing of the Indian CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) along with the Rapid Action Force (RAF) were called in.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has urged the Union Home Ministry to reconsider its decision of entrusting the CRPF with the security of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a senior official said on Wednesday.
The state government has, in a letter to the MHA dated October 21, also sought to know why it was not consulted before the decision was taken to hand over the governor’s security to the CRPF.
“It is the responsibility of the state government to look after the security of the governor since he is the constitutional head of the state.
“The state government has provided him with ‘Z’ category security since the first day of his appointment. Then why did the MHA suddenly decide to entrust the CRPF with his security without consulting us?” a senior state government official told PTI, wishing not to be named.
Sources in the governor’s office said a communication was sent to the state government to upgrade his security from Z to Z+ category after his vehicle was blocked at Jadavpur University by students when he had gone there to ‘rescue’ Union Minister Babul Supriyo in September.
Supriyo was shown black flags, heckled and mobbed by students of Left-leaning organisations who tried to prevent him from addressing an event of the ABVP, the students wing of the RSS.


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The sentencing of 24-year-old Ruth Kamande to death has once again rekindled the debate on capital punishment.
On one hand, there are those who have called for the commuting of the sentence to life imprisonment, which allows for the rehabilitation of offender.
Others laud the sentence as appropriate given the nature of Kamande’s crime.
Kamande committed a grisly murder. Transcripts from the judgment hearing state that she stabbed her boyfriend Farid Mohamed 25 times, leading to his death.
She ignored his cries for help and deliberately blocked his exit from the house, even as neighbours gathered and urged her to stop and open the door.
“The accused inflicted each stab, not in a frenzy as she alleged in her defence, but deliberately and intermittently.
“Her action was calculated to inflict pain and cause death slowly but assuredly. That is clear proof of malice, of spite, callousness and hatred,” Justice Jessie Lessit said in her judgement.
She said that the nature of Kamande’s crime, and her perceived lack of remorse, contributed to her death sentencing.
But human rights group Amnesty International on Friday asked that Kamande’s death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.
AI Executive Director Irungu Houghton said in a statement that there is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime any better than other lawful punishments, and asked the court to call for Kamande’s rehabilitation instead.
Amnesty International is not alone in this position.
In 2007 the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNHCR) wrote a paper on the abolition of the death sentence, terming it “the ultimate violation of human rights”.
“It is a violation of the fundamental right to life, which the Government has pledged to protect under the Constitution and other international human rights instruments that it has ratified. Similarly, the death penalty amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” KNHCR stated.
QUALITY OF LIFE
The death penalty, the commission argued, is irreversible and disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged Kenyans who cannot afford good lawyers.
In addition, upholding it bucks a worldwide trend that has seen over two thirds of the countries in the world abolish the death penalty in favour of life imprisonment.
Prisoners on death row have the same quality of life as other prisoners and are able to take part in work and study programmes, the only difference being that they are not deployed for work outside the prison.
RIGHT TO LIFE
The mandatory death sentence was declared unconstitutional in the supreme court in December last year when two convicts on death row, Karioko Muruatetu and Wilson Thirimbu Mwangi argued that it impugned their right to life.
This means that judges still retain the discretion to hand down the death penalty, but that there is room to sentence convicts to a lesser punishment instead.
Crimes for which one can be sentenced to death include murder, robbery with violence, attempted robbery with violence and treason.
In light of the Supreme Court ruling, the government was ordered to review all current death sentence cases, meaning that convicts on death row will get another day in court.
The last execution was conducted in 1987 and Kenya currently has no active hangman.


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We thank C.-H. Moeng and Peter Sullivan for providing the original LES code and for helpful discussions. We are very grateful to Peter Gent for his help in running the Gent–Cane model and for insightful discussions. Assistance from Brian Kaufman in running the Gent–Cane model is greatly appreciated. We thank Ren-Chieh Lien and Hartmut Peters for providing their observational data, for helpful comments, and sharing unpublished results. William D. Smyth made helpful suggestions and comments. Helpful comments by Eric Firing are greatly appreciated. Comments by the anonymous reviewers were helpful in clarifying some points and in improving the presentation of the manuscript. During this study, D. Wang was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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From Tribune-Review: Lynne Bangsund and her daughter Krista wanted to go to Cuba, but they didn't want to go with the standard guided tour.
"We both speak a little Spanish, and we didn't really want to go with 30 other people," Bangsund said.
So, when they found travel site ViaHero online, they decided to give it a try. They got a personalized itinerary prepared by a bona fide Cuban guide for a fraction of the cost of a travel agent, Lynne said.
"It was amazing, we had the entire trip planned," she said. Not only did they get to see sights they wouldn't otherwise have known about, Bangsund said the pair felt like they had an edge over other travelers. As they made their way around Havana, they encountered other tourists at restaurants. "They would be waiting but we had all our reservations planned ahead of time."
When it launches in Japan in May, East Liberty-based travel startup ViaHero will add a third island country to its small but growing portfolio.
An AlphaLab alumni company, ViaHero creates customized travel guides that allow travelers to experience their destination like a local. Rather than compensating the hotel or airline trying to sell the most expensive trip, ViaHero relies on the person providing the expert advice (the "heroes," if you will) to create the best possible travel experience.
"People really value the local insight they wouldn't have access to otherwise," said ViaHero CEO Greg Buzulencia. "You'd have to go through thousands of reviews on a site like TripAdvisor to get this depth of information."
ViaHero has started small, launching in Cuba and Iceland as its first markets. The company uses a blend of Airbnb hosts, freelance tour guides and local travel writers, many of whom come with their own audiences, to help plan the trips for customers.
With Cuba a relatively new destination for American travelers and Iceland becoming a more popular destination due to low-cost airfares, ViaHero has found a niche within the very crowded online travel space.
Buzulencia says the typical customer for ViaHero is an experienced international traveler, who might have visited a place with a tour guide in the past but wants a more authentic and independent experience.


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Today, the imminent climate change crisis demands a shift from conventionally used fossil fuels to efficient sources of green energy. This has led to researchers looking into the concept of “personalized energy,” which would make on-site energy generation possible. For example, solar cells could possibly be integrated into windows, vehicles, cellphone screens, and other everyday products. But for this, it is important for the solar panels to be handy and transparent. To this end, scientists have recently developed “transparent photovoltaic” (TPV) devices–transparent versions of the traditional solar cell. Unlike the conventionally dark, opaque solar cells (which absorb visible light), TPVs make use of the “invisible” light that falls in the ultraviolet (UV) range.
Conventional solar cells can be either “wet type” (solution based) or “dry type” (made up of metal-oxide semiconductors). Of these, dry-type solar cells have a slight edge over the wet-type ones: they are more reliable, eco-friendly, and cost-effective. Moreover, metal-oxides are well-suited to make use of the UV light. Despite all this, however, the potential of metal-oxide TPVs has not been fully explored until now.
To this end, researchers from Incheon National University, Republic of Korea, came up with an innovative design for a metal-oxide-based TPV device. They inserted an ultra-thin layer of silicon (Si) between two transparent metal-oxide semiconductors with the goal of developing an efficient TPV device. These findings were published in a study in Nano Energy, which was made available online on August 10, 2020 (ahead of the scheduled final publication in the December 2020 issue). Prof Joondong Kim, who led the study, explains, “Our aim was to devise a high-power-producing transparent solar cell, by embedding an ultra-thin film of amorphous Si between zinc oxide and nickel oxide.”
This novel design consisting of the Si film had three major advantages. First, it allowed for the utilization of longer-wavelength light (as opposed to bare TPVs). Second, it resulted in efficient photon collection. Third, it allowed for the faster transport of charged particles to the electrodes. Moreover, the design can potentially generate electricity even under low-light situations (for instance, on cloudy or rainy days). The scientists further confirmed the power-generating ability of the device by using it to operate the DC motor of a fan.
Based on these findings, the research team is optimistic that the real-life applicability of this new TPV design will soon be possible. As for potential applications, there are plenty, as Prof Kim explains, “We hope to extend the use of our TPV design to all kinds of material, right from glass buildings to mobile devices like electric cars, smartphones, and sensors.” Not just this, the team is excited to take their design to the next level, by using innovative materials such as 2D semiconductors, nanocrystals of metal-oxides, and sulfide semiconductors. As Prof Kim concludes, “Our research is essential for a sustainable green future–especially to connect the clean energy system with no or minimal carbon footprint.”

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NEED that more kids should eat yogurt to boost their weight loss, doctors exposed.
They say that these probiotics could reduce the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
A new study found that when eating obesity among children – an effective “yogurt” strategy for eating yogurt – all the scientists believe is the gut microbe.
The research, conducted in Fuzhou Fujian Hospital, China, looked at the impact of probiotics on obese children's health, between 6 and 14 years of age.
All 54 of the children involved had a reduced calorie diet in addition to a fitness system.
Its body weight and metabolic health markers were measured as blood sugar levels and insulin levels before and at the end of the 12 week study.
The results showed that the children who were treated with probiotic supplements, which are found in some yogurts, lost more weight and had lower levels of markers showing poor metabolic health.
Scientists believe that the probiotics help to boost levels of good bacteria – which helps to maintain a healthy weight.
Professor Rui-Min Chen, who led the study, said: "Our findings suggest that probiotic supplementation may help to lose weight and improve metabolic health in obese children, and that this could be an effective strategy. T to prevent and treat obesity in the future. "
Despite this, Professor Chen warned that more studies are needed to confirm the benefits.
He said: "Further work is needed to confirm these results, the number of participants was small and limited to the Fuijan area.
"Other studies also reported that there was no advantage in the treatment of obstetric treatment in obese children but these were much shorter.
"Therefore, further investigation is required before any medical recommendations can be made."
Its team now plans to carry out larger trials examining the effect of the prosomes on the metabolic health of obese children, and to expand their investigations to analyze how they change the gut, as it is. aim to better understand the link between stomach bacteria and obesity risk.
Professor Chen said: "Childhood obesity requiring early intervention is a growing problem to prevent long-term health problems, microbial-based treatments may be a new and more effective strategy to tackle the epidemic. T this serious. "
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It is also a great source for vitamins and minerals, with zinc, iodine, potassium and vitamin B5 all active within yogurt.
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Up until it see, we hardly ever really sensed Ethiopia for trekking and you will thrill, but all of our feel on the Simien Mountains and you can Gheralta Mountains away from Tigray put one straight.
Not only does the room amaze and you can stun having its Utah-reminiscent purple rock background and you will outcroppings, but guides to help you 1500-yr old cave places of worship such as for instance Korkor and you will Daniel Korkor get off zero adrenaline unexploited because they force tricky climbs upwards absolute sandstone wall space and you can precarious guides together slim high cliffs.
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Close by brand new old internet sites that comprise the modern day north town of Aksum, stone tablets dating back to many thousands of years are frequently inscribed caffmos Dating from inside the three languages: Greek, Arabic, and you can Ge’ez, a historical Semitic words one predates Ethiopia’s establish-big date local dialects. Giant stone obelisks stay, lean and possess fell. Some know the fresh old civilizations out of Egypt, Persia, Rome and you can Greece among the greats, pair know of your furthermore cutting-edge Aksumite culture and that produced their name in trade along the Middle eastern countries, Mediterranean and you can Asia of eight hundred B.C. so you’re able to 800 An excellent.D.
All the monks and you may priests have to see Ge’ez and you may services are still held contained in this old words. In early era of day, Ge’ez chants and you may melodies mirror from slopes. Eerie, breathtaking and you will bed-problematic, particularly within the high holidays.
With more than two hundred signs, Ge’ez– a mesmerizing spaghetti off symbols into inexperienced — now serves as the fresh new phonetic alphabet getting Amharic, the state language out of Ethiopia.
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There is nothing more disappointing than simply a java-promoting nation that does not positively consume and you can enjoy exactly what it develops. No proper care associated with when you look at the Ethiopia: they not only build the new kidney beans, but they including carry a competence inside the roasting, so much so you to coffee roasting appears an excellent rite regarding passing getting ladies across the country. Unsurprising given that Ethiopia’s Kaffa area is where coffee is considered to possess started.
This new Ethiopian coffees ceremony is actually intentional, a process that could have been passed through generations away from Ethiopian women for years and years. It’s got a close magical way of seeming to slow-time, if you don’t prevent it completely.
Coffee was central in order to Ethiopian life and you may speed. You can find java ceremonies happening regarding country when you look at the cafes, on roadway sides, within the segments and more than notably for the belongings. Fronds and you may vegetables scattered on to the floor, frankincense alight along with a cooking pot, younger eco-friendly espresso beans roasting from inside the a little pan over an excellent charcoal kitchen stove, a flaccid passing of water from the grounds before most readily useful strength is achieved.
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Within our experience, Africa hardly garners an enthusiastic “Ooh, very restaurants!” huge difference. Ethiopian cuisine was an exception, one of many high cuisines of the world, I might venture. Anyway, they stands out up against the residents that have many steeped and hot stews.
Query an Ethiopian the most important section of any buffet and you will she will respond to injera, the new spongy, elastic pancake-for example flatbread created from fermented tef (a good gluten-free grains native to Ethiopia). Injera variations the origin of any Ethiopian buffet. You are able to usually see a spherical out-of injera dispersed for example a great sheer platter atop and that many different hot stews made from lentils, beef and you will vegetables combined with spices blends like berbere (floor chilies blended with up to 15-20 meals) was loaded.
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GO: What is your favorite dress in this collection and why?
AL: In the EDEN 2019 collection, my favorite gown is the “Jackie” wedding gown with its matching bolero. The reason I love this dress so much is that it gives a very luxurious, timeless, and feminine feel on one hand, and a fashion-forward, fresh take on the other. I believe brides who choose to wear this gown will be able to enjoy its timeless beauty while standing out and making a bold statement that is still very feminine, romantic, and powerful.
GO: What did you like about designing this collection?
AL: As the head designer of both a ready-to-wear and bridal line, I decided to put an emphasis on the high-fashion aspect of the collection and bring my creative signature to each gown. I’m bringing something much more modern and fashion-forward than the bridal wear you see nowadays – less tacky and heavily laced gowns, and more clean, chic, and elegant designs.
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GO: Where did you draw inspiration from this season?
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In this collection, I was inspired by the innocence and fragility portrayed in the story of Genesis, along with the femininity and empowerment following the revelation of sexuality caused by Eve tasting the forbidden fruit. I was trying to tell that story with each design I made. All the gowns are made from luxurious Italian silk in various forms – silk satin, crepe, organza – and Chantilly lace.
GO: What trends are you looking forward to seeing on brides?
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GO: Do you offer custom designs?
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News headlines about Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) have trended positive on Wednesday, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Chatham Lodging Trust earned a news impact score of 0.27 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news headlines about the real estate investment trust an impact score of 46.6535632471915 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next few days.
Shares of CLDT traded up $0.17 on Wednesday, reaching $21.33. The stock had a trading volume of 151,080 shares, compared to its average volume of 254,755. The stock has a market cap of $970.64 million, a P/E ratio of 9.97 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.67, a current ratio of 1.39 and a quick ratio of 1.39. Chatham Lodging Trust has a twelve month low of $17.90 and a twelve month high of $23.91.
Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 1st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.06 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.35 by ($0.29). The firm had revenue of $74.03 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $70.78 million. Chatham Lodging Trust had a return on equity of 3.69% and a net margin of 9.12%. research analysts expect that Chatham Lodging Trust will post 1.93 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently declared a monthly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 27th. Investors of record on Friday, June 29th will be issued a $0.11 dividend. This represents a $1.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 6.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 28th. Chatham Lodging Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 61.68%.
A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Chatham Lodging Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 12th. ValuEngine cut Chatham Lodging Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 2nd. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the stock. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $21.00.
Chatham Lodging Trust Company Profile
Chatham Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly-traded real estate investment trust focused primarily on investing in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels. The company owns interests in 135 hotels totaling 18,518 rooms/suites, comprised of 40 properties it wholly owns with an aggregate of 6,020 rooms/suites in 15 states and the District of Columbia and a minority investment in two joint ventures that own 95 hotels with an aggregate of 12,498 rooms/suites.
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Tech N9ne has released twenty-seven studio albums, one collaborative album, one live album, one compilation album, one extended play (EP), seventy-six mixtapes, thirty-seven singles (including eleven as a featured artist), and twelve music videos.
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Tech N9ne’s History
Tech N9ne is an American rapper who has released twenty-seven studio albums, one live album, one compilation album, one extended play (EP), thirty-six mixtapes, four hundred and four singles (including one hundred and fifty-six as a featured artist), and ninety-two music videos.
Early life and beginnings in the music industry
Tech N9ne was born Aaron Dontez Yates in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 8, 1971. He began rapping at a young age, and his first performance was alongside fellow Kansas City rapper Kutdown. In the early 1990s, Yates joined a group called Black Mafia, which also included rappers such as Jessie Dolce and Manny B. After the group disbanded, Yates continued to pursue a career in music, and he eventually released his debut album, The Calm Before the Storm, in 1999.
Yates’ second album, Absolute Power, was released in 2002. The album’s success led to a record deal with Strange Music, a label founded by tech entrepreneur Travis O’Guin. Since signing with Strange Music, Tech N9ne has released a total of 20 albums, includingCollabos albums and EPs. He has also been featured on numerous songs by other artists, such as Lil Wayne’s “My Homies Still” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright.”
Tech N9ne is known for his rapid-fire delivery and complex rhyme schemes. He has been credited as an influence by many hip hop artists, including Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. In 2013, he was included on XXL’s list of the “25 Greatest Rappers of All Time.”
First album release
Tech N9ne’s first album was released in 1999 and was called “The Storm”. It was not a commercial success and only sold around 2,000 copies.
Tech N9ne’s Albums
Tech N9ne is an American rapper who has released twenty-seven albums to date. He has also been featured on six albums. His album, All 6’s and 7’s, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, making it his highest charting album to date.
Tech N9ne has released a total of twenty-seven albums, including thirteen solo studio albums, seven collaboration albums, five compilations, four EPs, and one live album. He has also released eighty-six singles, including forty-eight as a lead artist and thirty-eight as a featured artist.
In addition to his solo work, Tech N9ne is known for his numerous collaborations, having released nine collaboration albums. His first album of this kind was The Calm Before the Storm in 1999, which featured Aqua, JL of B. Hood and Big scoob of D-loc. After the release of Absolute Power, Tech N9ne released Misery Loves Kompany in 2007,featuring Krizz Kaliko, Big Scoob and Makzilla. the following year saw the release of Killer featuring Twista, T-pain and mystic. Tech N9ne’s ninth and most recent collaboration album is Dominion, which was released on March 3, 2017. It features guest appearances from B.o.B., Abstract Rude, Mackenzie Nicole and Krizz Kaliko.
Tech N9ne has released ten compilation albums, the first being The Calm Before the Storm in 1999. It was followed by Black Sunshine in 2002, Gang Related Soundtrack in 2003, MISERY LOVES KOMPANY in 2008, K.O.D. in 2009, Bad Season (Mixed Plate) in 2010, The Lost Scripts of KOM (with ¡MAYDAY!) in 2011, Welcome to Strangeland in 2011, Strangeulation Vol. II in 2015, and Strange Reign in 2017.
Tech N9ne’s Legacy
Tech N9ne is an American rapper who has released twenty-seven studio albums, five collaboration albums, and two EPs. He has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games. Tech N9ne is known for his high-speed delivery and his often dark and violent lyrics.
Influence on other artists
Tech N9ne’s influence on other artists is undeniable. His unique style and delivery have inspired many Hip Hop and Rap artists over the years. But just how many albums does Tech N9ne have?
As of 2020, Tech N9ne has released a total of 27 albums, including 4 collaborative albums. He has also released 5 EPs and 3 mixtapes. This impressive discography is a testament to Tech N9ne’s dedication to his craft and his passion for making music.
Tech N9ne’s music has resonated with fans all over the world, and his reach continues to grow with each new release. With so much great music to choose from, it’s hard to know where to start. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Check out our list of the Top 10 Tech N9ne Songs of All Time to get started on your journey into the world of Tech N9ne.
Critical reception of his work
Critical reception of his work has been mostly positive, as he is often praised for his unique lyrical style, complex flow, and storytelling ability. His first nationally released album, Angels with Dirty Faces, peaked at number 79 on the Billboard 200. In 1999, his second studio album The Calm Before the Storm was released; it debuted at number 188 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 700,000 copies.


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Is it so hard to be kind? to support people, keep their feelings in mind.
You don’t have to be everyone’s mate, just be considerate, respectful, no need to hate.
That person is somebody’s father or mother, son or daughter, sister or brother.
You may never see eye to eye, but when you see them just nod, maybe say “Hi”
Then walk on by.
You see, one small act of kindness just grows and grows, touching everyone with sparkle wherever it flows.
Today, be that person who smiles, who hugs, who is warm.
And do it again tomorrow until it’s the norm.
Don’t leave it all to someone else, you do it, you be kind.
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‘Sam & Cat’ Cancelled: Ariana Grande Speaks Out In Letter To Fans
Sam & Cat will air its final episode on July 17. Rumors have swirled for months that the show would be over soon as major scandals, including naked photos being leaked of Jennette and buzz that the two young stars are pretty much enemies, took over the internet.
Ari has spoken out. Here’s what she confesses about the show:
“So the news is out about Sam & Cat. I felt it wasn’t my place to make any sort of announcement so I kept quiet until now. I want to thank Nickelodeon for making a childhood dream of mine come true, for being a family to me, for being so accommodating and supportive of my multitasking with my music career, and for of course introducing me to many of my fans however many years ago.
I want to thank Dan Schneider (@DanWarp) for allowing me to play such a special, beautiful character who I hid behind for so long. What I mean by that is when I was younger, people loved Cat so much I used to pretend to be more like her. It took me a long time to be brave enough to separate myself and show people how different we actually are…. I think that’s honestly because I admire her so much. Her appreciation for life and everybody she encounters. Her passion and genuine excitement for the little things that most people dread like school projects and work. She always saw negative obstacles as opportunities to make things good.”
The letter continues on much further. You can read the entire heartfelt message right here. She ended by thanking her devoted fans.
‘Sam & Cat’ Is Officially Cancelled After Only One Season
While gossip was rampant that the show MIGHT be over, the quick ending must be a shock for fans.
The show will air an episode called “#GettinWiggy,” Deadline confirms — and that will be the last. “Nickelodeon will not be producing more episodes of Sam & Cat,” the Nickelodeon told Deadline in a statement. “We are very proud of the show and its very talented cast and we wish them all the best.”
The spinoff show, which had Jennette coming from iCarly and Ariana coming from Victorious, was confirmed for a 20 episode set for its first season — and then it got 20 more! Instead of shooting and airing 40 full episodes, fans will only get to see 36.
Do YOU appreciate Ariana’s message to fans, HollywoodLifers? Let us know if you watched the show in the comments below!
— Megan Ross
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- ‘Sam & Cat’ Cancelled: Ariana Grande Show Over After One Season
- ‘Sam & Cat’ Cancelled? Jennette McCurdy Pics Threaten Show
- Ariana Grande Rushes To Ailing Grandpa’s Side & Begs ‘Please Pull Thru’


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More than 100 people have lost their lives through suicide in prisons in England and Wales so far this year, an all-time record.
Stowmarket: Man Charged After Hit and Run
A man's been charged after a suspected hit and run in Stowmarket injured a teenager.
The 19-year-old was hit by a car as he walked along Navigation Approach in August.
He suffered hip and facial injuries.
24-year-old Stuart Bass, from Steeles Road, Woolpit has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent and perverting the course of justice, he will appear before Bury St Edmunds Magistrates Court on 4 January 2013.
The survivor of a serious crash in Norfolk has become the face of the Norfolk PCC's new awareness campaign.
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Photo Book: ‘England’s Seaside Heritage from the Air’ – The Aerofilms Collection
Historic England has a new book out this week which illustrates England’s rich seaside heritage as few holidaymakers ever see it – from the air – from Aerofilms Collection, held by the Historic England Archive.
Various images of Blackpool, Lancashire tell the story of the Pleasure Beach, Britain’s first amusement park, Blackpool Tower, the Winter Gardens and a now-lost open-air swimming pool, almost five times as large as an Olympic Swimming pool.
• The Aerofilms Collection in the Historic England Archive includes over a million urban, suburban, rural, coastal and industrial aerial photographs of Britain. It was created by Aerofilms Ltd, a pioneering aerial survey company set up in 1919 by First World War veterans, including Claude Grahame-White. The Aerofilms Collection was acquired by Historic England and other national partners in 2007, and a tenth of the Collection was digitised in a project called Britain from Above, which ran from 2010-2014
Author Allan Brodie, Senior Architectural Investigator at Historic England said: “While writing this book, locked down and unable to visit the seaside, it was a pleasure to wander along England’s coast via the thousands of images in the collection. The photographs in the book hopefully capture the joys of our coastal resorts, including some fascinating features that alas no longer survive, as well as passing moments in the story of our seaside holidays.”
The images also offer insights into the relationship between transport and resort development. The train was still the dominant means of going to the seaside in the interwar years, and the images illustrate how railway lines and stations shaped the fabric of many seaside resorts. A photograph of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, for example, shows the Tendring Hundred Railway having a big impact on a small resort.
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The first production was located in Oslo. In 1969 an additional factory was opened at Flisa. The Oslo factory was closed in 2000 and toothbrushes moved from Flisa to England in 2002. Flisa still produces toothpicks and cleaning equipment. Mainly through daughter companies, Jordan also controls production in India, China and Malaysia as well as a sales company in Malaysia. Jordan was itself acquired by the Orkla Group in 2012.
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Pimm’s ride bikes in the rain for their Like a Sunflower MV.
The track is available digitally now and also as part of their 2nd mini-album titled LOVE AND PSYCHO which will be released on October 8th.
LOVE AND PSYCHO will be released on a new label from Colombia called Palme Music. It will contain 5 new songs in addition to their previously released digital singles Kimi to Boku and Moo!
Pimm’s have quickly become one of my favorite groups, and with good reason, Their rock idol sound is pretty catchy, and they have an energy that is hard to match. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait for more new music since we’re only months away from a new mini album.
To promote it, we got a new MV that is packed to the brim with scenes of the members doing anything but the typical dance shot. They play basketball, run through the streets, and practice some choreography in front of the mirror throughout the video, with most of the scenes not making much sense together.
But, that changes when all of the members look up into the sky and meet up to go for a bike ride together. It’s pretty sweet seeing all of the members having fun and riding together through the rain.
Like a Sunflower is slower than their previous songs, but it still has that catchy rock feel throughout the instrumental. There’s the rapping lines near the end of the MV but throughout we get to see all of the members singing their hearts out as the guitars play in the background.
It’s a relaxing release from Pimm’s and a sign that they are still among the best rock idol groups out there. Grab your bike and get ready for a trip in the latest Pimm’s MV!
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SLH Buy Inhumans h/c and read the Page 45 review here A beautiful book, the most moving and compelling articulation of grief I have ever read. Anyway, I’ll butt out now, and hope these blatantly artificial extra paragraphs have done their job.] DK Buy The Whale and read the Page 45 review here If sales of SIEGRIED VOL 1 proved anything, it’s that Alex Alice is an artist’s artist: we sold so many copies to comicbook creators, and I’m far from surprised.
The eye-candy on offer is breath-taking: vast panoramas of mountains bathed in blue mist, their jagged, craggy summits clawing a sky at sunrise or splintering under the weight of an impossible, land-locked tidal wave; the forbidden forest with its treacherous, Manara-like swamps or the witch Völva’s cavern, the Valkyrie and her pure white steed all reminiscent of Charles Vess.
What follows is a breathless race Siegfried cannot possibly win. Like the first, this second of three volumes also comes embellished with a sixty-page art section featuring Alice’s own landscape atmosphere studies in multiple media, preparatory character designs, shots from the animated feature film and a double-page spread of Albert Bierstadt’s ‘Storm In The Rocky Mountains which you could devour for an hour and still discover new detail.
All this is interspersed with with an extensive interview about Alex’s influences and creative decisions in combining his sources into a fresh and thrilling new narrative in which the Valkryie’s role remains unchanged, for example, but is transposed into a completely different context, inextricably linked to the success or failure of Siegried’s quest.
It can be fun, terrible, exciting, hard — the adjectives used to describe it are endless.
He has therefore recalled the instruments of his will, less that law be broken.£29-99 may sound like a lot but it’s twelve chapters long and a hardback with exquisite reproduction values.That’s less expensive than buying the individual issues separately. Purely to make room for the cover on our blog, then, I would only add that Anders Nilsen’s DON’T GO WHERE I CAN’T FOLLOW and, later, THE END did the same thing for me.Meanwhile the Valkyrie has made a bargain with Völva: prepared to pay the price of her immortality to look into the scrying pool, she watches her own future – Siegfried’s present – unfold.She watches Siegfried and Mimé traverse the forbidden forest to scale the land of the giants and its insurmountable mountains, and those giants are about to wake up…


Georgia Tech Welcomes Early Action Admits
Jan 12, 2019 — Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech welcomes 4,000 students from around the world today as it issues decisions for Early Action applicants for the incoming class of 2019.
As was the case in 2018, a record number of students applied for admission this year. Georgia Tech saw a 12 percent increase in Early Action applications for a total of 20,289.
Some students got their early action decisions early.
Members of Georgia Tech’s Undergraduate Admission team traveled across the state Friday to personally hand-deliver acceptance letters to more than a dozen students. They visited high schools in Atlanta, Warner Robins, and Winder and invited the students’ families and friends to join in on the celebration.
The school visits allowed the admissions team to meet some exceptional students in person, after spending months reading thousands of applications.
At Charles R. Drew Charter School in Atlanta, four students received their admission packets. They ripped open the envelopes, read “Congratulations!” and beamed. Their families and counselors applauded.
Chris McCrary hugged his mom, Jennifer, who was in tears. She gave him a Georgia Tech sweatshirt. He took off the Drew Charter sweatshirt he was wearing and put on the one that represented his future.
“This is amazing,” Chris said, overwhelmed. “I’ve worked so hard to get here and get to a place where I can succeed.”
He plans to major in architecture and hopes to build mixed-use developments with an emphasis on affordable housing.
“I am melting, I’m just so proud of him,” Jennifer McCrary said. “You want your child’s hopes and dreams to be fulfilled, and this is where he wants to go.”
At Atlanta’s Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy, Ayanna Prather was surrounded by her mother, uncle, and closest friends when she opened her acceptance letter.
“Thank you. This is so special,” an emotional Prather said. “Georgia Tech is the difference between getting an education and getting a quality education.”
Prather is her school’s valedictorian and was admitted through the Atlanta Public Schools Scholars program. Georgia Tech will cover tuition and fees for four years.
This year’s Early Action admit pool also includes 300 Georgia Tech Scholars — students who are either valedictorian or salutatorian of their class at a Georgia high school.
Prather is already familiar with Tech through Project Engages, which brings high school students to campus, where they conduct research in labs and learn more about engineering, science, and technology. Prather discovered her passion for science through the program and plans to major in psychology. She hopes to fight the stigma against mental illness, particularly in African-American communities.
Prather is one of the thousands of Georgia residents who were admitted this round. The admit rate for Early Action this year is 20 percent — 39.6 percent for Georgia residents, and 14 percent for non-Georgia residents.
This year, the Institute is offering a new way for first-generation, in-state students to come to Tech through its Georgia First Pathway Program. The program is for first-year applicants who are Georgia residents and whose parents have not completed a bachelor’s degree. This program becomes the sixth pathway option for students who may not be admitted initially but want to pursue transferring to Georgia Tech.
Between Early Action and Regular Decision rounds, a total of 37,000 students have applied for admission, an increase of nearly 4 percent. Two notable increases came from women applicants — an increase of 5 percent — and first-generation students — an increase of 8 percent.
This is the second year Georgia Tech has seen a larger jump in applications during the Early Action round, a trend that’s happening at universities across the country and recently made news in the pages of the Washington Post.
Applicants for Regular Decision admission to Georgia Tech will be notified Saturday, March 9.


Liverpool are sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League and former Anfield ace Phil Babb reckons the club’s faith in Brendan Rodgers is finally being rewarded.
The rampant Reds crushed Tim Sherwood’s Tottenham 4-0 on Sunday to overtake Chelsea and Manchester City in the race for the title.
Rodgers has overseen a dramatic rise to the top on Merseyside, having led the club to a seventh-place finish in the league last term.
Babb, now cutting his teeth in management with non-league Hayes & Yeading, is a keen student of the game and admires the work the Northern Irishman has done.
“It’s a joy to watch,” said the former defender , who spent six seasons at Anfield between 1994-2000.
“The possession they had was unbelievable, they were putting 20 or 30 passes together. Don’t get me wrong, Spurs didn’t offer much resistance yesterday but it really was men against boys.
"Liverpool are a team brimming with confidence and scoring goals.
“Brendan has instilled a philosophy and hasn’t changed it, he just keeps hammering it into the boys. All of a sudden it has clicked and everyone has bought into it and knows their jobs and the style of play.
“That system they use is very hard to play against and is designed to confuse the opposition. When you’ve got forwards on fire, with the movement they’ve got, it makes it even harder to play against.”
Liverpool will entertain both City and Chelsea at Anfield in April in two massive games that could determine the destination of the title.
Babb will be back on his old stomping ground for the second of those two clashes and believes it could go right to the wire, in scenes reminiscent of City’s epic last-day fireworks in May 2012.
“It will be tough,” Babb said of the task that Liverpool face. “You look at Man City and the way they’re playing and they really are a joy to watch as well.
“Yaya Toure has been immense and really is the complete midfielder in the modern game. He can look like a big lump but then he can bang one in the top corner. How do you mark him?
“You do wonder whether there will be another moment like the one Aguero had as well - last-kick in the last-minute of the season to win it
“It’s certainly interesting and everyone is waiting with baited breath to see what happens.
“I’m heading up to Anfield later this month for the Chelsea game, which could be the title decider really. It will be massive.”


Frigid Fang G
Also see: Frigid Fang, Frigid Fang Z
Power Level: 148
Price: 13,058,727 Gold
Sellback: 6,529,363 Gold
Location: Frostval 2012 War
Damage: 24 - 39
Damage: 319.87% Base and Random each
Stats: No normal stats; 240.91% Lucky Strike damage each
BTH: +63 each
On all normal Player attacks, it has +3 BTH and deals *85/88 damage. (Not Factored in)
This icy dagger is a chillingly accurate weapon, with an even more accurate special that sends a flurry of ice shards at your foe!
Numbers thanks to In Media Res. Description and image thanks to Avalonmerlin. Basic stats thanks to Rising Darkness and ShadowShifty.
Special starts out with 1430% Base, 1430% Rand, and 1077% Stats plus 53 BTH.
The Special has +10 BTH and deals *85/95 damage.
With 4 equally powerful hits, each hit does 25% damage.
All this has ALREADY been factored into the above numbers.
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OLAN (real name Luzana Flores) is proud to release her debut album Contra, out now via independent record label Anjunadeep. As a queer woman of color, hailing from the state of Georgia, OLAN is used to standing out. However, it is her capacity for creative production, dynamic songwriting, singing and instrumentation that really sets her apart from her contemporaries.
“Contra is an album I wrote as a way to find some peace with my life having no definitive purpose at the time. I often try to attach meaning to everything I encounter. I force myself to re-live memories. I’ll try to unpack them and see how I could change my reality if I had just been a better person.”
The album features three powerful singles from the Atlanta-based artist --“Wake And Return,” “Promise To Keep,” and “Ultraviolet” which have garnered support from the likes of KCRW, Jody Wisternoff, Dosem, Eelke Kleijn, Made In Paris, Steven Weston, and Braxton to name a few.
Musically, Contra is inculcated with a variety of electronic styles from melodic house, breakbeat, downtempo and drum & bass, to ambient and hip-hop. Influenced by the likes of Maribou State, Little Dragon, T.E.E.D and Bonobo, as well as the cult video game Outer Wilds, the sound of Contra is fluid and alluringly hard to pin down. OLAN’s penchant for textural soundscapes is showcased in atmospheric tracks such as “Push” and “Submerge” and the buoyant Balearic vibes of “Material.” Conversely, the jungle rhythms and acid basslines on “Promise To Keep” and “Reckoning” demonstrate how raw, energetic dance-inducing songwriting comes naturally to the Atlanta-based producer.
This songwriting versatility is also showcased in OLAN’s colorful catalog, which includes co-writing credits for “Bussit” with Ari Lennox, collaborations with Mat Zo on his 2020 album Illusion of Depth, the single release of “In Motion” with rising star Nourey, and “Push,” first released on Anjunadeep’s Reflections series.
In Contra, themes of self-awareness and self-acceptance are persistent throughout and realized in OLAN’s considered lyrics. Opening track “Submerge” contemplates the cyclical nature of life’s lessons, exclaiming “there’s no limit to the depth that I can relive it all.” Other tracks such as “Promise To Keep” and “Ultraviolet” raise questions about fulfillment and where it comes from - "I'm asking more questions / Taking no secrets / But is there a message / When nothing is sacred?". Each song presented a cathartic moment for Lu, as she explains:
“Making this album was the first time I could be present with the grief, loneliness, or isolation I felt when my expectations didn’t match my surroundings. It made me realize how much happier I am when I detach from stories or specific outcomes.”
Given she learned her craft as a classical musician between orchestra classes and worship bands, OLAN prominently incorporated her own live instrumentation and vocals whilst recording the album. Suitably, she will be taking Contra on tour live this year, with previous performances at Beyond Wonderland, Ultra, and Ben Böhmer’s North American tour, and upcoming shows at The Gorge Weekender, and a soon to be announced album tour.
Stream Contra or order the vinyl now: https://anjunadeep.ffm.to/contra


After 11 years of partnership, Sandisk and Toshiba's timing could not have been better. Just seven days after losing the NAND crown to Intel and Micron (IMFT) they announce they will have 19nm NAND samples rolling off their fabs as we speak. This one upmanship is normal for this industry but the announcement coming so soon after IMFT's 20nm announcement was a surprise to many. Like IMFT, they expect to start mass production during the second half of this year, and finding homes for their latest NAND in the next wave of tablets, smartphones and SSDs.
Toshiba NAND on display on the Kingston SSDNow V+100
Anand and I had the opportunity to speak with representatives from Toshiba and SanDisk who sounded quite optimistic about the competitiveness of their 19nm products. Like IMFT, they expect to see similar endurance as their 24nm products, around 3,000 program/erase cycles. This is owing to ever improving ECC and wear leveling algorithms, ensuring as few wasted p/e cycles as possible. SanDisk and Toshiba did not publish die size for this iteration, but did state a decrease of approximately 25%. Previously, their 24nm die size was published as 151mm2, so this iteration should bring that down to about 113mm2, besting IMFT's 118mm2 at 20nm. Page and block sizes remain at their 24nm levels of 8 KB per page and 256 pages per block.
While the benefits for SSDs are the main focus of our NAND coverage, consumer electronics are where the vast majority of readers interact with NAND products. Flash memory is a key component of smartphones, tablets, media players and set-top boxes, in addition to the USB drives and memory cards. Different calibers of NAND are used in these products, with the fastest (SLC) going into enterprise-class SSDs, the mainstream NAND (2-bit MLC) going into your consumer and enthusiast SSDs, phones and tablets and slower products (3-bit TLC and 4-bit 16LC) going into products like jump drives and SD cards. Drawing from Anand's SSD Anthology we recall that the functional difference between SLC and MLC is the amount of data per NAND cell, 1-bit or 2-bits. Adding that extra bit to SLC to make MLC decreases speed and reliability; the same holds true in producing 3-bit NAND. With controllers and ECC algorithms improving, it is likely that 3-bit NAND will be produced in this venture that will end up in more consumer electronics devices, perhaps not your next SSD, but certainly some tablets and smart phones (note that there are 3-bit SSDs floating around in beta form). The benefit for consumers is larger capacity with little price increase and relatively little impact on performance and reliability since consumer electronics devices rarely tax the limits of NAND speed and are designed to endure less than even a conservative estimate for how long the NAND inside should last.
Within the consumer electronics space, however, NAND can be configured in various ways. Above is a block diagram of your average SSD; SATA interface leads to the Controller which uses DRAM to coordinate operations and reads/writes to/from the supply of MLC NAND. Some consumer electronics devices use this exact configuration, as in the Acer Iconia W500 windows tablet. In other devices a similar configuration is used but in an embedded format, where controller and NAND are in a single package soldered to the device's PCB. Still others use raw NAND and utilize the device's own silicon to read/write to the NAND itself, as in all iOS devices. In nearly all of these configurations, volatile memory (DRAM) is used as cache for pending operations (Intel and SandForce excluded, they cache in SRAM); which means that a sudden loss of power could lead to the loss of data that had been waiting to be written to NAND. SanDisk-Toshiba NAND has learned a new trick, apparently present even in the currently shipping 24nm products, that eliminates this risk while also adding a few new options for OEMs.
In the block diagram above, gleaned from SanDisk marketing and discussions, DRAM is abandoned in favor of designating a portion of NAND as cache. Data is stored here initially, to be written to MLC during time the controller would otherwise be idle. This area designated as cache isn't just regular MLC NAND, however; it's what was described to us as "pseudo-SLC," treated at the hardware level like SLC but with the narrow voltage deltas of MLC. The benefits are obvious, an increase in speed and reliability, the former of which should mitigate any speed lost from not using SDRAM. Further it seems this pseudo-SLC feature can be used to fill other roles. In its iSSD products, intended for larger consumer electronics devices, SanDisk uses this pseudo-SLC NAND as in the diagram above. A conversation with Toshiba, however, revealed that other OEMs will use psuedo-SLC as speedy reliable storage for firmware (OS) and system files. The technology is manipulated at the block level, and with each block's capacity halved by treating it as SLC, OEMs have a 1MB granularity with which to designate this SLC space for use as cache or as an OS partition.
In their respective press releases, SanDisk and Toshiba both highlight the smartphone and tablet spaces as motivating factors in their drive towards smaller process nodes. Indeed this has been the focus of much of their marketing of late. Their innovations in ECC and this pseudo-SLC technology are tailor made for this space and though no specific devices were named, we are no doubt benefiting from their implementation already.
The iPad 2 Mainboard featuring Toshiba NAND, courtesy of iFixit
There are costs to this approach, the main one being . . . well, cost. DRAM is cheap relative to NAND, so sacrificing several blocks of NAND is more expensive than adding 512MB of RAM. Further, though faster than MLC, the writes to SLC NAND are slower than they would be to SDRAM, so a performance penalty is paid. With cost and speed being the driving factors in the consumer SSD space, SanDisk-Toshiba's new trick seems ill suited to the PC space. Enterprise-class SSDs could benefit from the data resilience but these applications are typically laden with power redundancies that provide their SSDs sufficient power to complete any pending writes before losing power. Only in the consumer electronics space is there a strong and growing market for just fast enough, incredibly reliable NAND.


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The Journal has learned that legendary EC writer/editor Al Feldstein and the estate of Mad editor/cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman have filed notices to reclaim the copyrights on their work. Feldstein confirmed the filing and told the Journal he has already reached a settlement with the William M. Gaines Agency, which owns all the EC horror, science-fiction and crime properties that Feldstein worked on as editor and writer in the early 1950s. Those titles include the classic Crypt of Terror, Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. Gaines agency administrator Dorothy Crouch confirmed the agency has reached an agreement with Feldstein, but declined to comment further.
Harvey Kurtzman was the mastermind behind the launch of Mad, which began life in 1952 as a comic book before changing to a magazine format with its 24th issue in 1955. Literary agent and publisher Denis Kitchen confirmed that papers have been filed to reclaim the copyrights for the Kurtzman estate. The Gaines agency no longer owns Mad, however, having sold the property to Time/Warner/DC. Kitchen told the Journal the relevant parties are in early stages of negotiation, but declined to make any further public comment.
The claims filed by Feldstein and the Kurtzman estate are based on the Copyright Law of 1976, the same law that allowed Jerry Siegel’s estate to reclaim its share of the Superman copyrights. The law was intended to address the fact that, over the years, the terms of copyrights have been extended again and again, giving them a value far beyond the compensation originally paid to authors. The extensions have kept properties like Mickey Mouse from falling into the public domain. When Siegel and Shuster sold their rights to Superman, the initial term of a copyright was 28 years. When that term expired, the copyrights could be renewed for another 28 years. The Copyright Law of 1976 and the 1992 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act allowed copyright terms to be further extended, but provided that authors could reclaim their copyrights whenever they came up for renewal by the corporate owner.
That opportunity, however, is only extended to authors who created the property independently and then sold the rights. If a property is created under the direction of an employer, then it is considered work for hire and the employing company is considered the “author” of the work for copyright purposes. In recent cases, creators or their estates, including Marv Wolfman and the Jack Kirby estate, have found it hard to prove their work was created beyond or outside the terms of their employment. Even Siegel’s estate, which obtained a ruling in its favor in 2009, is still fighting appeals by Time/Warner/DC.
The papers filed by the Kurtzman estate call for the termination of DC’s copyrights for the entirety of Mad #1-7. The termination of the copyrights on issue #1 is to take effect in July of 2013, with the terminations for each subsequent issue taking effect every two months until the rights assignments for issue #7 are terminated in July of 2014. All such terminations are pending the outcome of negotiations. The Journal asked Time/Warner/DC about its legal position regarding the Kurtzman copyrights, but the company declined to comment.
Feldstein told the Journal his filing covered “everything I did for them [EC]” prior to the Mad issues that Feldstein took over editorially from Kurtzman. His work from that period was excluded from the claim, he said, because he was by then an employee of EC. According to Feldstein, at the time he was editing the EC horror, science-fiction and crime books, he was a “subcontractor” and the same was true of Kurtzman when he launched Mad. “There was a stamp on the backs of our checks that gave the copyrights to Gaines and EC,” he said.
Feldstein’s settlement with the Gaines agency entitles him to a percentage of the agency’s income from his EC work. He described the percentage as “small,” but said the settlement also allows him free use of his EC art and scripts for his upcoming autobiography, which had been a major goal of his negotiations. “They were saying I was an employee [at the time of the EC work],” he told the Journal, “and I didn’t have the money I’d need to bring a full suit against them. It would’ve cost an awful lot of money to go to trial with it. Most of the cream was already off the crop anyway.” Feldstein identified that cream as the money received by EC for licensing rights to HBO for its Tales from the Crypt series. Since the copyrights were held by EC, Feldstein and the other EC creators received no share of those profits.