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In 1910, Vienna’s recently founded Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs opened its inaugural exhibition, aptly titled Die Kunst der Frau (The art of women; November 5, 1910–January 8, 1911). Erica Tietze-Conrat (1883–1958), Austria’s first woman with a PhD in art history, observed that this showcase of women’s art across the ages failed to advance contemporary women’s cause because it created a separate category of “feminine art” (weibliche Kunst) that was still measured against “masculine art” (männliche Kunst; “Die Kunst der Frau,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 46, no. 22, 1911: 146). To a certain extent, this conundrum lies at the heart of Megan Brandow-Faller’s new book, The Female Secession, which critically examines the multilayered institutional history of women’s art education and exhibition initiatives in early twentieth-century Vienna.
Brandow-Faller’s publication comes on the heels of a series of high-profile exhibitions and critically acclaimed publications on the contributions of women artists to Viennese modernism between circa 1895 and 1938. (These include City of Women at the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, 2019; Julie M. Johnson, The Memory Factory [Purdue University Press, 2012]; and Rebecca Houze, Textiles, Fashion, and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary before the First World War [Routledge, 2017]. Such work is indebted to Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber’s seminal research, especially Künstlerinnen in Österreich 1897–1938 [Picus, 1994].) Access to state education at the Academy of Fine Arts or the Applied Arts School was closed to women until 1920, and they were denied membership to Vienna’s three big art exhibition societies, the Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler Wiens (1861), the Secession (1897), and the Hagenbund (1899). And yet, central European women managed successful careers and created their own professional opportunities and networks that firmly anchored them in Vienna’s cultural landscape. Their wide-ranging contributions to Viennese modernism must finally be acknowledged and historicized. Vienna’s women artists and designers were influential and valued by their contemporaries. Like their male counterparts, they hailed from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and embraced divergent political positions, sexualities, and career strategies. Their effacement from institutionalized histories of modern art began with Adolf Hitler’s Anschluss (annexation) of Austria in 1938 and after World War II, women artists—many of whom were Jewish—were not so much forgotten as deliberately erased from the modernist canon (see Johnson, Memory Factory, 1–18).
The Female Secession forms part of ongoing scholarly efforts that seek to intervene in the commercially valuable story of the cultural-historical period known as Vienna 1900, covering the final decades of the Habsburg Empire, which were kickstarted by Carl E. Schorske’s foundational book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (1979) and Kirk Varnedoe’s compelling exhibition Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (1986). Brandow-Faller offers an eloquently argued and expertly researched recalibration of firmly entrenched accounts of Viennese modernism from a candid perspective based on gender that expands the temporal parameters of Vienna 1900 to cover the 1920s. The term “female Secession” used in the book’s title is intriguing and might suggest that the author adheres to a “separate spheres” model drawn from 1970s cultural feminism. But Brandow-Faller’s methodology is nuanced, sophisticated, and rooted in meticulous historical research. She explains at the outset of her book that the expression “female Secession” was coined in 1927 by the Viennese art historian and critic Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven (1883–1962), who commented on the progressive artistic trends in the recently founded collective of women artists called the Wiener Frauenkunst (2). Brandow-Faller adopts the term to signal how her subjects used craft-based media and the decorative arts as powerful (artistic) strategies within modernist discourse and practice.
The book evocatively “tells the story of how the female secessionists reclaimed and reinvented stereotypes surrounding women’s art and the decorative” and in the process displaced “fixed oppositions between art and craft, between the decorative and the profound, and ultimately between what was assigned as masculine and feminine in art” (5). The nexus of craft, gender, and modernism thus lies at the heart of Brandow-Faller’s project and recalls Martin J. Power’s conception of style as a “means whereby social groups project their constructed identities and stake their claims in the world” (“Art and History,” Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 [September 1995]: 382–87). Brandow-Faller does not shy away from using the term “craft” in place of “design,” which has been more widely used by historians of Vienna 1900 to align themselves, and by extension their historical subjects, more closely with modern art and architecture.
It goes without saying that Vienna’s women artists embraced competing aspirations and visions. Brandow-Faller teases apart some of the “generational struggles and diverging artistic philosophies on art, craft, and Raumkunst [that] drove apart the conservative and radical wings of the women’s art movement in Austria” (5). Indeed, the author’s shrewd uncovering of previously unmined archives and publications marks one of the book’s considerable contributions to the field. The Female Secession tells the fascinating stories of women artists and designers who were active in Vienna 1900 through an institutional lens that starts with the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen, founded by Adalbert Franz Seligmann in 1897 as a private teaching institution, and concludes with the radical women’s art collective Wiener Frauenkunst, whose members disseminated Austrian Expressionism through craft (ceramics, glass, textiles, toys) rather than the painting more conventionally associated with art history’s Expressionist “superstars,” such as Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.
Brandow-Faller methodically dismantles well-rehearsed modernist precepts like “function,” “truth,” and “rationalism” and posits a counterhistory that offers a more nuanced and complex picture of Viennese modernism’s multipronged genealogy. Her book is divided into two roughly chronological sections. In part 1, Brandow-Faller presents the institutional parameters within which central European women could receive an art education. The Wiener Frauenakademie occupies center stage in this narrative. In part 2, she focuses on Vienna’s female avant-garde during the interwar period to explain how their education informed their aesthetic vision and how a new generation of women artists started to push a more radical agenda in the 1920s. Each part features three substantial chapters that present new research to either shine fresh light on familiar events (e.g., the 1908 Kunstschau) and/or bring fascinating new discoveries to the reader’s attention (e.g., the Adolf Böhm school). Two overarching themes bind the book: Brandow-Faller’s interest in members of the female Secession’s ongoing engagement with early twentieth-century “primitivism” and her protagonists’ strategic adaptation of historically gendered discourses on ornament and handicraft.
In fact, the 1908 Kunstschau exhibition in Vienna brought child art to the attention of international audiences and critics—but the point that just over one-third of the exhibitors were women regularly escapes our attention. Brandow-Faller convincingly argues that female Secessionists reclaimed the creative potential of child art, toys, and folk culture in an effort to create a viable modernist language that negated prevalent dismissals of the decorative as modernism’s “other.” It is important to note here that primitivist art (meaning, untutored and thus “authentic”) has a distinct and longstanding history in the multiethnic Habsburg Empire. And yet, the female Secessionists’ rigorous critical engagement with child art, for example, has been virtually written out of mainstream histories of the 1908 exhibition, which repeatedly focus on Kokoschka’s artistic debut. Vienna’s most radical “decorative women,” on the other hand, were “variously condemned to the margins of Central European modernism and collapsed with tropes of feminine fashionability” (159). In chapter 6, Brandow-Faller asserts that this avant-garde strategy anticipated second-wave feminist art, which strikes this reviewer as a slightly tenuous claim in an otherwise robustly argued and researched chapter.
The Female Secession is a beautifully designed book that features sumptuous color illustrations in addition to a large number of black-and-white photographs. For some, this might simply represent the book’s high production value. But Brandow-Faller’s commitment to giving her historical actors a visual presence is integral to her project of reinstating women modernists who were actively removed from art historical accounts of Vienna 1900. But this represents a potentially fraught enterprise. How can historians legitimately speak of a female Secession without falling into the dangerous trap of creating a separatist category for women artists and designers? Brandow-Faller sidesteps this minefield by using the evocative analytical concept of “separate but equal” (73). This enables her to show that the women artists and designers at the center of her study were deeply integral to the city’s cultural fabric and recognized as modernists. They had public profiles and were valued by contemporary critics as well as fellow designers, painters, and sculptors. Their critical and commercial success imbued these female Secessionists with agency that ranged from living financially independent lives to inspiring the next generation of modern designers, painters, and sculptors.
Brandow-Faller uses gender as a powerful critical tool to interrogate the complex cultural-political dynamics of Vienna 1900. But her book does not simply restore women makers and craft practices to a modernist canon. Instead, she deploys her critical analysis based on immaculate research to reframe the critical parameters of Viennese modernism in the first place. The Female Secession offers a valuable recalibration of Vienna 1900 that should be of great interest to scholars in the field and design historians more generally, as well as to gender historians and anyone troubled by the persistent (scholarly) elisions of historical women. There is very little to fault in Brandow-Faller’s elegant and persuasive analysis, but one question remains unanswered—namely, how did Vienna’s female Secessionists relate to and/or interact with possibly similar initiatives in other artistic centers across central Europe? Admittedly, this is a big ask and exceeds the aims of Brandow-Faller’s study. But it is this reviewer’s hope that The Female Secession opens up new interpretative possibilities that extend well beyond Vienna.
Lecturer in Art, Architecture & Design, History of Art, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow


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Naomi Campbell does not tolerate irreverence for high fashion.
“With couture, there’s a certain respect you have to have,” she says sternly to a nervous designer on the chopping block. “I mean, it goes back centuries. I feel like you disrespected the whole entire word.”
Prior to joining the judging panel of “Making the Cut” — Amazon Studios’ new unscripted fashion design competition series, hosted by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn — Campbell had thought she was done with reality TV. But the supermodel and philanthropist was drawn back in by a comrade from her ‘90s modeling days.
“Heidi. Heidi, Heidi, Heidi. I have a great respect for Heidi – she’s a really hardworking woman, and I [think it’s because] we’re both Geminis,” Campbell tells Variety with a laugh. The friends have made guest appearances on each other’s programs: Campbell on “Germany’s Next Top Model,” and Klum at Campbell’s Fashion for Relief in Cannes.
Her judging ethos — Campbell wants “every stitch, perfection” — underscores how seriously the designers (and by proxy, we the audience) are to take the sartorial endeavor on a show that boldly strives to not just pit established designers against one another but to nurture the eventual winner into an international fashion brand. “Making the Cut” is the spiritual successor to “Project Runway,” the series that made Klum and Gunn a household pairing, and intertwines Amazon’s expansive studio and retail arms. Essentially, it is the tech giant’s synergized take on fashion design TV; after each episode, viewers are encouraged to flick over from the show to Amazon’s apparel portal to buy the winning look.
The “Making the Cut” panel of judges is a name-check of today’s sartorial ruling class, including former French Vogue editor-in-chief and CR Fashion Book founder Carine Roitfeld, CFDA award-winning designer Joseph Altuzarra, actor and designer Nicole Richie and digital entrepreneur and influencer Chiara Ferragni.
“I think with this show, they really dreamt big because they really selected people that are key players in the fashion industry right now,” says Ferragni, whose business is bolstered by a legion of social media followers. “The whole show is at a very high level. The designers are very talented, all of them. And I think Amazon Fashion is setting up a new standard for fashion and to think differently.”
It might seem unusual to see Roitfeld — Anna Wintour’s French counterpart — on a reality show, but she has long been working to put this exclusive industry within reach of a mass audience.
“We’re a very small world, elitist world, and I’d like to push the gate and show it to a larger [audience],” she says, adding that the show is likely to attract viewers outside of the fashion industry. The seriousness with which the show takes apparel design is also potentially helpful in elevating the social status of Amazon Fashion, which up to this point has largely been known for offering basic shirts and socks, not accessible luxury.
“This means a lot, because they gain the respect of the fashion world,” says Roitfeld of the Seattle-based e-commerce titan. “So at the same time, we have the respect of the fashion world and the visibility of an entire new world. So it’s two things at the same time [that] have never happened before.”
Even before the coronavirus gripped the global public health and economy, fashion has always been a cutthroat market. For Richie, the appeal to join the show stemmed from the chance to offer these 12 established designers further relationships within the industry.
“If I could put at the top of my list something that’s been so valuable to me in the journey of my business, it’s been getting advice or mentorship or just talking to other people in the business about this business,” says Richie. “I don’t think it’s a beginner thing. Joseph [Altuzarra] and I do it all the time with each other. It’s just something that has been so important to me and plays such a big role. I feel like asking to give your time to somebody very creative that’s coming up in this industry, it’s something that you should do too.”
Plus, with the advent of Instagram influencers and the constant hum of Twitter chatter, the market is more crowded than ever. Altuzarra typically creates high-end garments, but has also previously collaborated on a mass-market collection with Target. He is well-acquainted with the obstacles that the next generation of designers face.
“One of the biggest challenges that young designers are facing that I don’t feel I had to face in the beginning, is we’re living in the age of social media and over-stimulation and overload of images and the customer’s attention span is short,” says Altuzarra. “We’re living in this era of – everything is branded, and everyone is branded. And what I found kind of interesting about a big part of this competition was to help the designers story-tell. And that’s not necessarily something I felt I was so focused on when I started my business… I just wanted to make beautiful clothing.”
“Making the Cut,” whose lavish set pieces across the world indicate that Amazon Studios was willing to pay a pretty penny to set up shop, also offers a larger purse than any of its fashion design show peers: $1 million.
“You need it,” says Richie. “You need financial stability on some level. And I don’t think there’s a way to do it otherwise. And to have that many eyeballs on you — Amazon now is the biggest department store. Even with your own website, it’s hard to get that traffic to your site every day.”
The winning designer will be even further challenged by a looming recession. In the meantime, the show’s hosts and judges are focused on mitigating the impact of a global pandemic.
“Making the Cut” is donating more than $600,000 to the World Health Organization and to local charities in New York, Paris and Tokyo — cities in which the designers spent the summer of 2019 filming and competing. And Klum has spearheaded #StrutForTheCut, encouraging fans to record themselves strutting in their homes in a bid to raise awareness for the WHO and charities such as the NYC is Food Education Fund. (“Making the Cut” is not the only one contributing to the war effort; “Project Runway” alum-turned-host Christian Siriano has begun using his fashion house to sew masks for hospital staff, in coordination with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.)
As for who ultimately wins the series, all will be revealed on April 24. After a runway finale on the rooftop of the Hudson Mercantile in New York last August, the judges mulled over their decision into the wee hours, weighing not just who was the best designer, but who would make the best entrepreneur.
“It was very hard for me,” says Campbell. “I don’t want to say what I did, but it was hard, because I come from the creative side. I chose, when I was younger, designers who couldn’t pay me, but I loved what they did creatively, so I said I’m going to work for you for free. I came from that side of thinking. But at the end of the day – it’s a business. You’ve got to make your money and you keep turning it around to put into your business.”

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I can't recall any fighters who have asked the UFC for their own division and received it until Nate Diaz did so. Not only did Diaz create the BMF division, but the UFC designed and manufactured a BMF title belt. That title is on the line on Saturday when Diaz faces Jorge Masvidal in the main event of the UFC 244 pay-per-view card, which streams on ESPN+ from Madison Square Garden in New York City.
So, how and why did the BMF title become a thing?
The title existed in Diaz's mind until he spoke it into reality after his win over former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis at UFC 241.
"This is the fight game," Diaz said. "Quit acting like this is a professional sport. (Take) whatever they want to give me? No, I'm going to take what's mine. That's what I'm talking about, the baddest mother(expletive) title. I need that belt made as soon as possible."
Diaz had called for the fight against Masvidal during his post-fight press conference. The UFC seemingly liked Diaz's proposal because it booked the contest and created a actual physical title belt for Saturday's event. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will wrap that belt around the victor's waist.
Diaz's win over Pettis came nearly three years after he lost a majority decision to Conor McGregor at UFC 202. That contest was a rematch of their UFC 196 bout, which Diaz won by submission in the second round.
Masvidal is one of the hottest fighters of 2019. He is 2-0 this year with two knockout victories. Masvidal has scored three-fight night bonus awards for a total of $150,000 in those two bouts. In March, he knocked out Darren Till. Masvidal followed that with a five-second flying knee knockout of Ben Askren in July. The Askren KO stands as the fastest stoppage in UFC history.
These two have been nothing but respectful toward each other in the lead up to this fight. However, you can rest assured that when the referee signals the start of the battle, which is scheduled for five rounds, both men will be entirely focused on adding another stoppage victory to their record.
It's hard to think of a recent fight that was more anticipated than the matchup between these two veteran competitors.
UFC 244 takes place Saturday at New York's Madison Square Garden. The pay-per-view card airs on ESPN+ following prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+.
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Millions of pounds of investment has been made into a Hull business which plays a vital role in the region's offshore wind sector.
MMS Offshore Renewables Services, based at Hull’s Alexandra Dock, provides support vessels for the booming renewables industry.
It has now secured a £2.3m lending package from Yorkshire Bank, and has used the investment to add a new ship to its fleet.
The new vessel, named MMS Supreme, will operate in a number of ways, from transporting crews to offshore wind farms, to moving equipment.
Rob Langton, managing director at MMS Offshore Renewable Services, said: “Our investment in this state-of-the-art vessel signals the next stage of our growth strategy and will allow us to improve our overall service and increase our presence in the market. “We have worked with Yorkshire Bank for over 20 years and their ongoing support has been hugely appreciated.”
The new ship will double MMS Offshore’s capacity to support the wind sector.
MMS Offshore Renewable Services Ltd is a subsidiary of MMS Ship Repair and Dry Dock Co. Ltd, which was established in 1988 and provides a complete repair and refit service for ship owners across Hull.
The offshore arm of the company was founded to support the growing renewables industry.
Daniel Ruston, corporate and commercial relationship manager at Yorkshire Bank, said: “We’re proud to be backing a well-established business with a rich heritage of supporting the maritime and marine sector in its native Hull, which is one of the city’s most important industries.
“Investment in the Humber’s offshore wind sector is steadily growing and the management team at MMS Offshore Renewable Services are in a prime position to capitalise on this trend.
“As a Bank, we’re committed to supporting SMEs across the region and look forward to working with the business into the future.”
Earlier this month, the government released its offshore wind sector deal.
Included in it was a target to triple the number of highly-skilled workers in the industry, and increase the number of women working in it to at least a third.
The Humber took centre stage in the sector deal, and was described as being “a model for the world” as businesses including Siemens Gamesa and Rix Shipping received praise.
Claire Perry, Energy & Clean Growth Minister said: “This new Sector Deal will drive a surge in the clean, green offshore wind revolution that is powering homes and businesses across the UK, bringing investment into coastal communities and ensuring we maintain our position as global leaders in this growing sector.”

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An executive representing generation and transmission cooperative interests is urging Congress to help clear bureaucratic and legal barriers that add burdensome delays and increase costs for transmission projects connecting population centers to new sources of renewable energy.
“There is tremendous opportunity to utilize federal lands for both generating renewable electricity, and moving that electricity to load centers,” said Pius Fischer, Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s vice president of transmission, during Tuesday’s virtual hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
“We support the role that federal lands can play in expanding the deployment of renewable energy,” Fischer said. “If beneficial electrification is the goal, driving up the cost of electricity due to increased time and costs for transmission is self-defeating.”
Fischer cited Basin’s deployment and operation of 2,500 miles of high voltage transmission and its 1,800 megawatts of owned or contracted wind power as evidence of its support for renewable energy and noted that the G&T now has approximately 300 MW of solar generation under development. He added that systemic challenges complicating transmission design and deployment could be resolved by Congress.
“The federal government should approach transmission development with a coordinated interagency approach,” Fischer said, after recounting the three years it took for Basin Electric to complete the environmental impact statement needed for an essential transmission project serving oil and gas fields in the Bakken Formation.
Fischer said meeting National Environmental Policy Act requirements can take years, in contrast with state siting requirements that can be met in a matter of four to six months. He also cited Basin’s experience with permitting challenges brought under the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act as factors complicating vital transmission projects.
“The additional time and cost of constructing transmission on federal lands becomes a measure of last resort for electric utilities and transmission developers,” he said.
Fischer offered the committee several recommendations to minimize barriers to linking renewables with energy-hungry population centers:
- Provide clear guidance and analysis timeframes for NEPA compliance and encourage the use of categorical exclusions for projects with minimal impact.
- Provide regulatory protections for utilities engaging in lawful activities, such as power transmission for bird strikes subject to endangered species or migratory bird regulations.
- Ensure that the costs of transmission development are borne by users commensurate to the benefits from development of renewable energy projects and the transmission connecting the projects to those areas.
Derrill Holly is a staff writer for NRECA.

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December 24, 2018
After a day of collecting many different wildflowers in the Grand Tetons, we returned on a whim the next morning to gather this one last flower, because it felt important to the collection.
I remember while sitting next to the flower that its essence felt like a crone, or an old woman, the kind that tells you like it is because there’s nothing to lose.
Silky Fringe grows along mountainsides in Canada and the U.S. at subalpine to alpine elevations - you can only find it growing above 5000 feet elevation!
Visually the flower looks like a meteor explosion. Particularly exquisite when viewed up close, it looks like hundreds of purple fireworks on one stem. It’s called ‘silky’ because of the velvety little hairs that grow on the leaves and stem. It blooms during summertime and some say it looks like a bottle brush.
If you’re drawn to Silky Fringe, you may be an introvert longing to be more fearlessly direct. Alternatively, you may have a habit of withdrawal or avoidance in specific situations that would benefit from a more electric way of being ‘you’ and speaking up.
If there are any situations in life that trigger you into backing away or sidestepping vs. ‘taking the bull by the horns,’ take a look at those areas and apply the electric wisdom of the Silky Fringe flower essence.
Silky Fringe sparks a burst of energy and joyous expression. It helps us speak directly. It creates space for unexpected wisdom to arise. We speak more electrically and bluntly. We feel we have nothing to lose. There are sudden insights. We experience a newfound sense of clarity. It becomes easier to reach out to others in a more extroverted way. We allow ourselves to be eccentric and to dance to a different tune than that rest.
Silky Fringe dissolves nostalgia, sadness, loss and loneliness. It disrupts habitual patterns of withdrawal, isolation and introversion. It cuts through anger, avoidance and running away.
Note: as with all flower essences, you may experience a purification of the ‘imbalance’ state in the beginning, so it’s perfectly normal that during the first few days of working with this elixir that you feel unusually quiet or withdrawn.
Magnifies: Directness; addressing priorities head on; sudden insights + illumination; vitality + energetic expression
Dissolves: Isolation; withdrawal; introversion; nostalgia; sense of loss
Illuminate your greatest purpose through self-healing. Unveil your sacred offering & clarify your expression. Attract community & magnify your powerful presence.
Along with being one of the flowers featured in the Divine Truth Collection, Silky Fringe is also available as a single elixir.
Because each flower has its own unique specialty, single flower elixirs can target very specific patterns. The effects of single flower elixirs are often more subtle, yet they go deeper, hitting the bullseye. While it may take longer to discern the shifts taking place, the effects can be profound.
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Many locations across Central, South and East Texas have reported thick smoke and haze in the air. We have been behind the dry line and have escaped this for the past several days.
With a strong southeast flow setting up the next couple of days, it is possible we could be very hazy Thursday and Friday.
We believe it may be smoke from fires in Mexico and Central America.
Every spring, farmers burn their land to revive its nutrients for the planting season. This has been going on for years. The smoke is prevalent from late March through early June. If smoke arrives here, it will likely affect those with respiratory conditions such as asthma.
It will also cause itchy, watery eyes and if you are allergic to smoke it may give you a headache, literally. If people are complaining of sinus issues, it may simply be smoke from the fires in Mexico and Central America.
You can check Texas air quality here: http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=45
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What do you mean by a cold war had started against SriLanka? It is an open secreat that western countries are going to punish srilanka. If we Srilankans pull together ,cold war will be ineffective. Cold war or hot war ,there is no other option than to have strong knees and a strong spine to face the music without bending our knees to the west and to the Tamil diaspora
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In the 148th year of his birth let us not forget that Rabindranath, born in the family of the ‘greats' – was himself like a sun shining brightly over the firmament of India. From his birth on 7th o May in the year 1861 to his demise 1941 he spanned 80 years of the most important and glorious years of Indian life in him.
A poet's life of ivory towers was not for him. The Partition of Bengal brought him out to the streets, singing patriotic songs and selling swadeshi goods on his head! The movement could not draw the Muslims and the downtrodden in its fold. Rabindranath found the drag to consist in illiteracy. So he started his Brahmacharyashrama at Santiniketan. Education, literacy –enlightenment – were his cries and that is why he was so impressed with the mass education policy of the Soviets when he went there on his ‘pilgrimage'. His ‘Gitanjali' won him the Nobel Prize in 1913 and at once the German scholars called him the 'World Poet'. At home his voice thundered against all injustice of the British Government and he denounced militarism everywhere – be it in Japan or in Germany. Even in his deathbed he blessed the Soviets and expressed confidence in their ultimate victory.
Picture of – Ranindranath Tagore
Picture of – Rabindranath Tagore & Hellen Keller.
In the year 1883 Rabindranath got married to Mrinalini Devi Roychowdhury and he had 2 sons and 3 daughters. In the year 1890 Rabindranath Tagore went to East Bengal (now Bangladesh), where he collected local legends and folklore. In between 1893 and 1900 he wrote 7-volumes of poetry, including Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat), 1894 and Khanika, 1900.
Picture of – Lyrics of Rabindrasangeet
Rabindranath was great as a Poet . He was great as a Philosopher . He was great as an Educationist. He was great as a Humanist . As a member of great Bengalee race we are proud that we had in our midst one like Rabindranath.
Government of West-Bengal decalred a Holiday and a festival date of the Birth day of Rabindranath Tagore, named Rabindra Jayanti on 25th Baisakh.

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Why are there no celebrated trans ballerinas or gymnasts? Easy: They are males.
November 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Where are the graceful transgender ballerinas dominating the world of ballet in the same way that trans “women” are crushing real women in sports? We haven’t heard about them because there are none. And why do we hear about “trans women” — men who present themselves as females — competing and winning against actual females in cycling, track, rugby, and boxing but not in gymnastics? So far, there are no men claiming to be females competing with women on the uneven parallel bars, balance beam, vault, and floor exercises. Have you noticed that men who identify […]


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Proposition 114’s lead on Wednesday was hovering just above the automatic trigger for a recount. Opponents of the measure call the tight race “a moral victory.”
Proposition 114 explained: What’s at stake with the effort to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado
The question on Colorado’s November ballot marks the first time that voters, not the federal government, would direct state wildlife managers to script a recovery plan for wolves.
Colorado election officials take aggressive new approach to policing campaign violations
For the first time, a legal team in Secretary of State’s Office is filing complaints, which is generating questions from critics
Wolf supporters say they gathered 200,000 signatures, enough for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot
Opponents of Colorado wolf reintroduction are preparing a public education campaign as the battle over the animals shifts into a new gear
Colorado question pitting ranchers vs. wolf advocates is heading for supermarket parking lots
Supporters will need 124,632 signatures by Dec. 13 to ask voters next year whether the predator should be reintroduced to the Western Slope. They’ll start gathering them this week.
Colorado wildlife officials are reluctant to OK gray wolf reintroduction. So advocates want voters to do it.
Colorado's Western Slope is a keystone to connect wolf populations from the Arctic to Mexico, advocates say. But ranchers, hunters expected to fight back against their reintroduction.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed legislation today extending for 25 years the Voting Rights Act.
The historic 1965 law opened polls to millions of black Americans by outlawing racist voting practices in the South.
Bush signed the bill amid fanfare and before a South Lawn audience that included members of Congress, civil rights leaders and family members of civil rights leaders of the recent past.
It was one of a series of high-profile ceremonies the president is holding to sign popular bills into law.
The Republican controlled Congress, eager to improve its standing with minorities ahead of the November elections, pushed the bill through even though key provisions were not set to expire until next year.


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ABOUT 87 per cent of unfair dismissal cases brought to the attention of the Employment Ministry had been resolved through successful mediation.
This was told to Parliament by Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations Jone Usamate, while responding to a question by Government MP Howard Politini yesterday on how well the mediation services have been, in effectively resolving workplace employment grievances.
“For the cases of disadvantage where people felt they have been unfairly disadvantaged, about 64 per cent of the cases have been mediated successfully,” Mr Usamate said.
“For discrimination, about 83 per cent have been successfully mediated; the success rate is very good.”
He said over the past four years, on average, the success rate for the service was 80 per cent.
“For 2017, we noticed a number of cases that were mediated rose from 1128 to 1436, that is an increase in the number of cases by 27 per cent, but the succession of coming up with solutions increased from 82.4 per cent to 83.4 per cent.”
Mr Usamate added in mediation, it was important to keep the people constantly involved in the mediation.
He said in the case of the Air Terminal Services impasse, there were substantive movement forward, but ultimately in the end, it did not move.
“They were not able to come up with a resolution so the matter was referred to the tribunal.”


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Embraer today announced it signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the aerospace companies ASTG (Aerospace Technology of Global), EMK (EM Korea Co.), and Kencoa Aerospace, all from South Korea. The objective of these MoUs is to strengthen collaboration with Korean defense industry partners for the future supply of parts for the C-390 Millennium aircraft. The C-390 Millennium aircraft is competing in the Large Transport Aircraft II Program being run by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
The potential supply of South Korean manufactured parts contributes to the offset requirements of the LTA II Program. The MoUs create long-term business relationships between the parties which will endure for the LTA II Program and beyond. Local industry capabilities can also be part of future developments within Embraer’s existing platforms such as the C-390 Millennium as well as new aircraft, vehicles, and systems.
Since its first delivery to the Brazilian Air Force, the KC-390 Millennium has proven its capability, reliability, and performance. FAB’s current fleet consists of five KC-390s. This fleet has exceeded 7,000 flight hours in operation, with a 99% mission completion rate.
These MoUs are potentially more important than they appear. Although it is focused on the C-390 Millennium and KC-390, it could be interesting to see if there is any connection with other Embraer projects. For example, their next-generation turboprop which it plans to launch at the 2023 Paris Airshow. Embraer has been looking for partners for some time to share the risks and costs. The airframer has been silent on to whom it is talking, but President and CEO of Commercial Aviation, Arjan Meijer, said at the Farnborough Airshow that things are progressing well.
South Korea has its own aerospace ambitions. Starting with KAI. The US Trade Administration describes the aerospace industry as “a best prospect industry sector for this country”. The link provides an excellent overview of the interaction between the US and South Korea in this industry. Plus the data tables indicate the potential of the market. South Korea has been involved in various Boeing programs like the 787 wingbox through Korean Aerospace Industries.
Reviewing the firms Embraer signed MoUs with we note they are all defense-oriented, as is Embraer’s KC-390. This clearly the basis and foundation of the current phase. But aerospace is an industry with many tentacles. For example, Kencoa clearly interests in eVTOL and commercial. Indeed, Kencoa has a substantial US facility that is highly commercial aerospace-focused. ASTG also appears to be focused on commercial aerospace. EMK, on the other hand, is a defense firm. It is the armor supplier to the Polish military, a deal that attracted a lot of attention.
In summary, Embraer is going to cooperate with big firms with similar interests. There appears to be good synergy.


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U.S. & RUSSIA ‘KURDS’ UNITE TO ‘LIBERATE’ RAQQA IN SYRIA, LAUNDER MOSUL OIL DEAL, PORTRAY IRAQ WAR AS LEGAL IN EUROPEAN UNION THEY DO NOT BELONG TO ? (18.03.2017)
The two faced UN Security Council’s weapons supply line of mass disinformation will presumably see U.S & Russia et al publicly ‘unite’ under their murky ‘Kurdish’ banner of all sorts to ‘liberate’ Raqqa in Syria, to launder their Mosul oil deal in Iraq to try and portray the Iraq war as legal.
... june 2003 ... the matryoshka's cayman islands 'hidden' stash ?...
When Rexxon Mobil incredibly claimed, significantly late in the day, on October 18th 2011, that his shareholders had greater legal rights than Iraqi people, he was considerably over-egging the pudding, about much, certainly in any legal sense.
It is as ridiculous as Team Trump’s patently false claim that people in the European Union owe the lawless U.S. military who fly under the radar of the European Court of Human Rights in the European Union.
This is the same Team Trump who has recycled Iraq War criminals as ‘revolutionaries’ much like Blair and Stake-knife Corbyn simply traded places in pretending they oppose war and Brexit.
Most people can understand the considerable legal difficulty Team Trump would have trying to back up any false claim in the European Court of Human Rights they don’t belong to, in a European Union they are also not a part of.
This is evidence of a demonstrably false claim Team Trump Towers 'babble-y-on' have publicly made they could not back up in the European Court of Human Rights:
... babble-y-on... tall tales from team trump towers who are unelected occupiers...
[Any 'contributions' to NATO are obviously 'voluntary' albeit they don't really pass any sniff test legally, let alone making anything belong to the U.S. military who are unelected occupiers]
... murdoch is such a fraud...
The Iraq War was when all decent and civilized law abiding civilians definitively parted company with politicians and all their MSM & alt ‘news’ liars who are nothing more than apologists with all their war propaganda, all of which is a crime against humanity and the peace and harmony of the rule of law.
... a different kind of 'clothing range'... hanging out westminster's dirty washing for everyone to see...
The overt fascism of Brexit’s ‘will of the people’ woo proves there is no difference between Westminster, Washington and Moscow selling the obvious lie that anyone can arbitrarily vote to do whatever they like to anyone else.
All of Westminster have misrepresented how the European Union really works because the real showdown is with British nationals over the EU Charter of Fundamental Freedoms.
The fact politicians and MSM and alt ‘news’ ALL dishonestly claim anyone can vote to do whatever they like to anyone else obviously does not mean that is either true or legal.


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‘Guys, dolls’ take stage at Lyric
By Shelley Koppel
STUART — The musical “Guys and Dolls” is one of the best-loved in musical theater. A Tony-winner for Best Musical when it debuted in 1950, it has had several successful Broadway revivals. The book is by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows and the lyrics, those wonderful lyrics, are by Frank Loesser.
The Lyric Theatre will stage a concert version of the musical April 10-13 with a cast of Lyric favorites including Lorrianna Colozzo as Sarah Brown, Karin Leone as Adelaide, Nestor Torres as Sky Masterson and Sarge as Nathan Detroit. Local celebrity Greg Rice will play Big Jule. The Lyric’s executive director, John Loesser, has dubbed them “The Lyric All-Stars.”
If the name Loesser sounds familiar, John Loesser is, indeed, Frank Loesser’s son and he knows something about staging this show.
“I’ve produced versions of it before, but this is the first time in concert,” he said. “It will be the whole show without sets and costumes. It will be all the music, with an orchestra, and all the dialogue. Only a narrator is added to tell us why we’re going where we are.”
Veteran journalist Knight Kiplinger, head of the Kiplinger financial media company and a singer in the Washington Chorus, will serve as narrator. Loesser said there will also be surprises along the way.
“We intend to embellish it a little bit,” he said. “Nestor Torres, who is known for his flute work, does sing. We are going to give him some liberties with the Havana number to jump on his flute. Nestor is very musical and should do a great job. The minute I met Sarge, he was a natural Nathan to me. I designed the casting with local hometown favorites and he’s been playing at the Lyric for many years. He’s making his musical comedy stage debut.”
The two female leads, Lorrianna Colozzo and Karin Leone, are also well-known to Lyric audiences. Colozzo, who is an opera singer, has given concerts at the Lyric for several years. Leone, the Lyric’s director of operations and education, has appeared in many area productions.
Colozzo is excited about playing Sarah Brown, the prim and proper missionary trying to save souls in New York City.
“I get to be a singer and play a part,” she said. “Lately, I’ve been in my own shows. Out’s nice to be in a well-written musical like “Guys and Dolls. Sarah Brown is a role I’m so excite to take on. She’s a great character, as strong woman who believes she knows what she wants. Who wouldn’t love to play that? She learns a lot about herself and gets what she wants.
“I’ve always loved that musical and Frank Loesser’s music is some of my favorite. To work closely on this project with his son is really an honor. It’s a great role for my vocal range. I love, ‘If I Were a Bell.’ It’s so
beautifully written, it brings you back to the great American Broadway writing. I’m (also) going to be working opposite some great people.”
Karin Leone, who plays Adelaide, has some of the best songs in the show, including “Adelaide’s Lament,” and “Take Back Your Mink.” It’s a role any female performer would relish, as she struggles to get Nathan Detroit to end their lengthy engagement and marry her.
“She’s fun,” Leone said. “She’s a tortured woman in a difficult sort of way.”
John Loesser noted that just as an organization like the Salvation Army is integral to the plot, so will it be integral to this production.
The Martin County Salvation Army will be on stage,” he said. “It’s a partial fundraiser for them. This was a natural and we’re happy they’re participating.”
Just before this production’s rehearsals take place, Loesser will be going to New York City for a concert version of “Guys and Dolls” at Carnegie Hall. It’s a benefit concert and he sees this as a trend.
“Musicals are expensive to produce,” he said. “It’s a way of getting them out there. It’s for more economical and contained. I might pick up a trick or two.”
Loesser said that the emphasis in the show is on fun and good music.
“I’m thrilled with the cast,” he said. “I’m very happy we were able to cast it with hometown favorites at the Lyric. It will be a lot of fun.”
The Lyric Theatre, 59 S.W. Flagler Ave., Stuart, presents the Lyric All-Stars in a concert version of the Frank Loesser musical, “Guys and Dolls” from April 10-13.
Performances are April 10-12 at 7 p.m. and April 12-14 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $45. Call the box office at (772) 286-7827 or order online at www.lyrictheatre.com.


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The UGT1A isoforms 2 act as negative modulators of their isoform 1 homologs in microsome preparations, revealing a new regulatory mechanism of the glucuronidation pathway. Findings further provide the first direct evidence of a novel alternative splicing mechanism at the 3′ end of the UGT1 locus that further increases the number of proteins derived from this single gene.

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MTNL Outage in Rānchī, State of Jharkhand
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I had some pelvic floor problems after both of my daughters’ births. Each time postpartum, I had to see a physical therapist to correct my problem. This time, I am trying to do things differently.
It is a best practice to see a physical therapist before and after giving birth in order to prevent pelvic floor problems. What I am sharing about here is my personal experience, so you may or may not find a benefit to what I share. It is my recommendation that you see a physical therapist who specializes in the pelvic floor area if you are having problems or anticipate problems. Personally, I think it is a good idea to visit a physical therapist at least once before and after birth. You may need to have more visits than that. However, I think once before and after is a good starting point and may help prevent problems.
I was active and exercised during all of my pregnancies. That being said, there are some exercises that target the pelvic floor in order to strengthen it. The exercises that were given to me were targeted for postpartum. Therefore, some exercises would not be appropriate during pregnancy. Here are some exercises targeted for the pelvic floor specifically during pregnancy.
I tend to have SI joint problems on my lower right side in and out of pregnancy. What I feel is not exactly pain, but discomfort. I am pleased to report that after doing specific exercises consistently, the discomfort has disappeared.
The “bird dog” (reach out opposite arm and leg) exercise was given to me for stability. This one is fine while pregnant or postpartum. The exercise did not help with my SI joint pain, but it is good to practice anyway. The quadruped hip sweep is another exercise given to me and helps with strength and stability. Bridges (marching) were also assigned to me, but they should not be performed after 19 weeks in pregnancy. Clamshell and sidelying hip abduction exercises were also assigned to me. I recently picked these exercises up and did them consistently every night while putting my girls to bed. The good news is that my SI joint pain has completely disappeared!
90/90 heel tap exercises were assigned to me postpartum as well. However, I am not sure if they would be okay to do after 19 weeks pregnant as you need to lie on your back. Donkey kicks were another exercise given to me. I think all of these are beneficial. However, I would always recommend that you see a physical therapist yourself to determine the appropriate exercises targeted for your needs. Cat/cow was also given to me to do and alternate back and forth. This definitely helped alleviate back pain I had. It is safe during pregnancy. I was given the instructions to alternate between child’s pose and upward dog. However, that is not good to do with a large belly. It is more appropriate to do postpartum. Squats are another great exercise during and after pregnancy. I have been adding these more consistently into my daily routine. Other instructions I was given was to always tighten my abdominal wall and to tighten my butt.
Lastly, transverse abdominis activation is very important to do during and after pregnancy to strengthen the pelvic floor. This exercise can be applied to your general posture and to other physical therapy exercises.
If you are feeling pain in your pelvic floor area, please see a physical therapist as soon as possible! With my first child, I went for several months without seeing one because I thought the pain was normal! I thought it may be due to breastfeeding, but I shared at a La Leche League meeting and several people recommended that I see a physical therapist because they knew it was not normal. I am so thankful for their recommendation. It is my hope that my experience will help others prevent this happening to them. Please let me know in the comments if you know of other helpful pelvic floor exercises during pregnancy!

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Posts for June, 2009
Visitors to N. Old World 3rd St. in Milwaukee know the Wisconsin Cheese Mart as a fixture on the same block as Usinger's Famous Sausages since 1938.
Pending inspection and finishing touches, the store will open a new cheese bar seating 110 by next weekend, June 13-14.
The bar will sell cheese flights (groupings), beer flights and wine flights and suggest wine-and-cheese and beer-and-cheese pairings.
Since Ken McNulty bought the store six years ago, he's made the switch to all-Wisconsin cheeses (about 160 at present). The bar will feature only Wisconsin beers (about 60) and Wisconsin wines will be among the wine selections.
Space for the expansion was acquired with the purchase of the Chocolate Tree next door.
Hours for the store are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. The cheese bar will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in summer, Thursday through Saturday the rest of the year.
Read more about the new cheese bar in the Food section on June 10.
Men need not apply: This beer sampler is just for women.
Local beer expert and cookbook author Lucy Saunders will host a Pils Party, featuring a selection of the "spritziest summer pilsners," from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 7 at the Sugar Maple, 411 E. Lincoln Ave., in downtown Bay View. Among the offerings: the evocatively named Mama's Little Yella Pils from Oscar Blue Brewery of Colorado.
The tasting is $15. Call the Sugar Maple at (414) 481-2393 to reserve a spot.
Saunders is the author of three books on beer and food. The latest: "The Best of American Beer & Food: Pairing & Cooking with Craft Beer”, Brewers Publications, 2007).
Dream Dance Steak, the new incarnation of the fine-dining restaurant Dream Dance at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, opens Tuesday night with a menu emphasizing steaks.
Dream Dance closed with the end of dinner May 30. The change in concept came after an a la carte menu began accounting for 60% of sales.
Chef Jason Gorman still will offer his multiple-course tasting menus, but the new menu is definitely steakhouse, with Wisconsin twists here and there. Instead of team service, a single server will wait on tables, supplemented by runners and other staff.
Here's a sampling from the new menu: a "share plate" of Wisconsin cheese curd fritters with cranberry pepper jelly ($9); an iceberg lettuce wedge with Wisconsin blue cheese dressing, sweet peppers and maple bacon brittle ($9); walleye with asparagus and citrus brown butter ($26); and dry-aged New York strip steak ($38).
Dream Dance Steak is at 1721 W. Canal St.; paysbig.com/dining.
If you're a fan of Facebook, and you love to cook, check out this free social networking Web site launched last week by a Madison couple.
Sharecipe.com, started by Alex and Katie Colbert, offers a place to share recipes and cooking tips, and to stay connected with family and recipes through food.
The site asks users to create a profile and then build a network of friends in the same manner as Facebook. The profile includes basic facts and “fun facts,” such as favorite book, favorite restaurant and favorite vacation destination.
Once you create a profile, you can search for friends already in the network and begin sharing recipes. You also can invite others to join.
“The goal is to be a place where people can share recipes with families and friends — people you already are connected with,” said Alex Colbert. “We think there’s a market for people to share recipes that have connections with the people in their life. This isn’t a place to make friends or randomly search for recipes.”
To read more about it, check out next Wednesday's Food section, June 17.
The craving hits most people in January, and it doesn't stop until March, when those tenacious little Girl Scouts deliver the cookies.
Now you can satisfy your craving for the iconic, addictive cookies starting in July, as Dairy Queen once again teams up with the Girl Scouts to flavor its Blizzard treats for a limited time. Peanut Butter Patties make their debut in July, and Thin Mints make a return Blizzard appearance in August. The Thin Mint Blizzard, new last year, grabbed the honor of "most popular limited-time Blizzard flavor ever" with 10 million served, according to Dairy Queen.
DQ's "Blizzard of the Month" flavor for July, using Peanut Butter Patties (also known as Tagalongs) will blend the popular cookie pieces with peanut butter topping and vanilla soft serve. For August's Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard, cookie pieces are blended with vanilla soft serve and Creme de Menthe topping.
Prices vary by DQ location, but both special cookie Blizzards will sell for an average $3.09 for the 12-ounce size, $3.49 for the 16-ounce size, and $3.99 for the 21-ounce size. The cookies also can be made into customized cakes.
Looking for an exceptional bratwurst to grill, now that summer weather is finally showing up?
One possibility: the Green Pepper & Onion Fresh Bratwurst produced by Fox Bros. Piggly WIggly of Oconomowoc and Hartland.
At the annual convention of the WIsconsin Association of Meat Processors, held in Madison this spring, the brat took a Grand Champion award in the fresh specialty bratwurst class. Piggly Wiggly was the only Milwaukee-area store to receive an award in the competition and the only conventional grocery store to earn a Grand Champion award.
The competition is the largest of its kind in the United States, according to a statement. Meat-processing plants and meat markets from around the state entered 959 products this year in 35 categories. More than 40 judges evaluated the meat products on a 1,000-point scale.
Smyth, the restaurant in the Iron Horse Hotel, is throwing its first wine dinner on June 24, with a focus on Australian wines.
Sam Clarke, a sixth-generation vintner from the Thorn-Clarke winery in Australia's Barossa region, will be on hand to discuss the six wines to be served.
Here's the four-course menu:
Mussel-cilantro soup with lime and andouille, served with Milton Park Riesling; seared sea scallop with petite field greens and grapefruit supremes with white balsamic Canton vinaigrette, served with Milton Park Chardonnay; short rib ravioli with Swiss chard and sweet potato mousse, served with Terra Barossa Shiraz and Milton Shiraz; Pinn-Oak Ridge Farms lamb rack, blackberry balsamic reduction, wilted spinach and wild rice cake, served with Terra Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon and Milton Merlot.
Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.; cost is $75. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Smyth at (414) 831-4615.
The hotel is at 500 W. Florida St., just off the Sixth Street Viaduct.
Got cookie dough? Don't eat it. At least, not if it's Nestle Toll House brand.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7, a bacterium that causes foodborne illness.
The FDA is advising consumers to:
- Throw away any prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products you may have in your home.
- Not cook the dough because you might get the bacteria on your hands and on other cooking surfaces.
- Contact your health care professional immediately if you or your family have recently eaten the dough and have had stomach cramps, vomiting or diarrhea, with or without bloody stools.
- Contact Nestle consumer services at (800) 559-5025 or visit the company’s Web site if you have additional questions about the recalled products.
Nestle has voluntarily recalled all varieties of prepackaged, refrigerated Toll House cookie dough and is cooperating with the investigation by the FDA and CDC.
The CDC is conducting an ongoing study with the help of several state and local health departments.
Since March, there have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states. Of 25 people who were hospitalized, seven have a severe complication called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. No one has died.
About E. coli O157:H7
- The bacteria cause stomach cramping, vomiting and diarrhea, often with bloody stools.
- Most healthy adults can recover completely within a week.
- Young children and the elderly are at highest risk for developing Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, which can lead to serious kidney damage and even death.
JBS Swift Beef Co. of Colorado is voluntarily recalling fresh ground beef and other beef products that might have E. coli contamination.
Locally, the meat would have been purchased at stores operated by Roundy's Supermarkets Inc. between April 25 and May 30, according to a posting by Journal Sentinel colleague Doris Hajewski at her Shop Talk blog.

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|Reviews for Dissonance|
| g chapter 28 . 10/11
Please write more I wish to know what happens to kurama dows he end up dead or arrested?
| Tiki chapter 28 . 9/30
It's sad that you haven't updated this story. I was really getting good. Hopefully one day, you will able to finish your story.
| update chapter 28 . 7/30
Plz update i can't take the suspence but love the story
| GunGale015 chapter 28 . 7/4
You're a very good writer, everyone in "Dissonance" has connections! OMG I would never be this smart of a writer. :)
| GunGale015 chapter 26 . 7/4
Now this is exciting...
| GunGale015 chapter 25 . 7/4
It really surprises that there's such thing as an electric violin! Well I'm not a musician so yeah.
P.S. This is getting way much more interesting that I thought it would!
| GunGale015 chapter 24 . 7/3
YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT I WAS EVENTUALLY SCREAMING WHEN THE SONG 'SHATTERED', CAME OUT IN THIS CHAPTER! Sorry for over-exaggerating but the part where I screamed was true, since I love that song and I can sing it (not so that good but average), I was so excited I even sang along.
P.S. Nagato's coming out wow I wonder what's it gonna be like _
| GunGale015 chapter 23 . 7/3
Wow Nagato's gonna be introduced next chapter :O Surprising yes!
| GunGale015 chapter 20 . 7/3
I guessed it! The kiss YASS!
| GunGale015 chapter 18 . 7/2
From reading the lyrics of each song, I'm pretty sure that these songs are truly beautiful!
| GunGale015 chapter 17 . 7/2
Wow, I love the ItaNaru fluffy scenes; they're so cute and supportive. How I wish I have friends this close :P
| GunGale015 chapter 13 . 7/1
OHMAGOD! NARUTO IS SO DENSE! I'M LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY (good thing I'm alone...)
| GunGale015 chapter 12 . 7/1
YAY INO'S HERE! She's rockin'!
| GunGale015 chapter 10 . 7/1
I knew Amazing Grace from Detective Conan and this song is very promising! Such great meanings and I nearly cried when I first heard it. :)
| GunGale015 chapter 8 . 7/1
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Actress Bronagh Waugh joins Citybeat Radio
Hollyoaks and The Fall actress Bronagh Waugh has joined Citybeat Radio in Belfast to host a new weekend show.
She’ll be on the CN Group station each Saturday with the Saturday Night Party Show.
Bronagh, who played Cheryl Brady in the Channel 4 soap and the wife of 50 Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan in the BBC drama The Fall, starts on-air this weekend.
“Citybeat is my favourite radio station and this show is a fantastic chance for me to get the party started across Belfast and beyond. As a girl that loves to have fun there’s no better place for me to be playing all those great hits on a Saturday night,” Bronagh said.
Citybeat Managing Director, Brian Commins, added: “We are very excited to have Bronagh join the
Citybeat team, she has the perfect personality to host our Saturday night celebrations. As well as
all of her acting experience Bronagh is no stranger to presenting music having worked for MTV in
Asia. We are all looking forward to the local girl coming home to party!”
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Call for inquiry into impact of no-fault insurance schemes
16th Jun 2012
The Australian Lawyers Alliance is calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry into no-fault schemes and the impact of such schemes on the lives of injury victims, following the presentations of keynote speakers and panel experts at its SA Conference in Glenelg yesterday.
Barrister David Hirsch’s keynote presentation on no-fault schemes discussed concerns about the way such schemes were being framed and the deliberate adoption of selective emotive language to distort the truth.
It was a rallying call that used examples such as the United States financial collapse of prime mortgage lenders, the 9/11 attack, and even medical insurers deliberately losing a high profile case to distort reality and reduce the number of people who can claim for compensation.
His presentation was followed by a panel discussion on the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the National Injury Insurance Scheme, which included presentations from himself and compensation experts Rod Hodgson, Pat Boylen and ALA NSW president, Jnana Gumbert.
The resulting consensus was a need for an Inquiry as no-fault schemes such as WorkCover were failing and close examination was needed before the government embarked on the National Disability Insurance Scheme and National Injury Insurance scheme ahead of the recommended schedule.
ALA SA president, Tony Kerin, said people with severe disabilities, whether caused by negligence of others or not, should be provided with sufficient support and access to services such as to be able to live their lives with dignity.
“The truth is that historically governments in Australia have underfunded disability support services and there is no doubt this must be corrected,” Mr Kerin said.
“But the funding of appropriate disability support services does not have to come at the expense of removing the right to be compensated when physically wronged by another; and taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for injuries caused by such carelessness, particularly when insurers are raking in profits of up to 25%,” he said.
“We can level up and improve the safety-net by carefully modelling affordability and sustainability, without slashing the rights of those whose lives have been damaged through no fault of their own.
"A pure no-fault scheme to cover all injuries, as in New Zealand, doesn’t work and there is a limit to how much the taxpayer should be made to fund in the interest of sustainability if nothing else. Its effective bankruptcy and miserly benefits compared to other Australian schemes furthers this argument,” he said.
Mr Kerin said the first piece of funding to pilot the proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme, at a cost of $1billion was expected to deliver only $350 million across four years for up to 50,000 people. The rest would go to administrative costs as such schemes always spawned huge and costly bureaucracies.
The ALA believes that the acceleration of the Productivity Commission’s original time frame by a year for the NDIS showed dangerous haste in a policy area requiring much more analysis of eligibility criteria, cost, affordability, workforce planning, Commonwealth-State funding interaction, the delivery of disability services, and dispute resolution – on this basis, a Parliamentary Inquiry was imperative.


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RISK ASSETS GAIN AS TRUMP THREATENS TO IMPOSE TRADE TARIFFS
Financial markets quickly moved to risk-off trading sentiment this week, as United States President Donald Trump imposed trade tariffs for steel and aluminum imports on a selected number of countries. Traders sold the U.S dollar, stocks and riskier assets classes on the news, and quickly moved money into the perceived safety of spot gold and the Japanese yen currency. The U.S trade tariffs are seen by many as a clear message to China, who have been the main beneficiary of steel and aluminum exports over the past decade. The Trump administration also imposed trade tariffs on Europe, provoking threats of counter-retaliation from some European Union politicians.
Bitcoin suffered double-digit losses this week, after the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission issued a severe warning to Cryptocurrency investors. The SEC announcement centered around the risks of dealing with unregulated exchanges, triggering a broad-based sell-off in the Bitcoin markets. The BTCUSD pair had suffered repeated technical failure around $11,500 in early week trading, and plunged over ten percent in the hour after the announcement from the SEC. In the broader Cryptocurrency market, Dash, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin suffered from low trading volumes in early week trading, whilst later incurring heavy losses following the SEC's warning to investors.
- The BTCUSD pair remains bearish while trading below the $10,150 level, further losses towards $8,100 and $7,300 seem possible.
- If the BTCUSD pair trades above the $10,150, an upside recovery towards the $10,800 and $11,500 level may occur.
The Canadian dollar fell to a new 2018 trading low against the U.S dollar this week, as the United States administration threatened to impose trade tariffs on some Canadian imports. The USDCAD pair performed a major upside technical break-out on the news, with price-action breaking above the key 1.2915 level, and promptly heading towards the 1.3000 handle. The Bank of Canada also added to the Canadian dollar's woes, as they kept interest rates on hold, and voiced concerns about the potential impacts of U.S trade tariffs on the broader Canadian economy.
- The USDCAD pair is strongly bullish while trading above the 1.2915 level, further gains towards 1.3050 and 1.3160 remain likely.
- Should the USDCAD pair trade below the 1.2915 level, price-action may correct back towards the 1.2800 and 1.2740 level.
The euro currency looked past the uncertain outcome of the Italian election result in early week trading, as investors choose to focus on eurozone growth and Angela Merkel's fourth-term as German Chancellor. The euro also gained ground against a basket of top-tier currencies, as the European Central Bank removed the easing bias from its scheduled policy- statement. The overall more hawkish stance from the ECB failed to support EURUSD buying above the 1.2400 level for long, as ECB President Mario Draghi voiced strong concerns about U.S trade tariffs, sending the EURUSD pair back towards the 1.2300 level.
- The EURUSD pair remains bullish whilst trading above the 1.2278 level, further upside towards the 1.2470 and 1.2555 levels seems possible.
- Should the EURUSD pair trade below the 1.2278 level for a sustained period, a correction towards the 1.2230 and 1.2060 levels seems possible.


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In this new 4-week eCourse, you’ll learn how to administer and promote over 40 types of revenue-generating methods designed to help your organization attain a better financial position.
Why the Operating Agreement is important, how it is implemented and how everyone benefits. It is our hope that Member-Leaders will find this webcast informative.
Each library's budget is unique; however the importance of providing information about the budget is common across all libraries and is a critical factor in how the library is perceived by its constituents. This program will illustrate how one academic library informed librarians and teaching faculty about the budget realities in order to provide financial transparency and minimize concerns about budget decisions.
This course is designed to familiarize the participant with the basic principles of library financial administration, including budgeting and planning within the mission and goals of the organization. Upon completion of the course the student will understand and be able to construct program, line item and capital budgets, understand the methodology involved in cost/benefit analysis, be able to read and decipher library financial and auditing documents, and work with library accounting personnel.
This course is not currently being offered as part of this year’s course schedule; however, for groups who have 20 or more individuals interested in taking the course, we can offer it exclusively to your organization! Participants in this course will learn a two pronged approach to building and growing a young adult services budget. Students will learn how to advocate for the YA budget to important library stakeholders, and students will learn how to gain financial support for teen services from grant-funded sources.
The ALCTS Board of Directors approved a three-year strategic plan at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. The new plan, similar in design to its 2011 predecessor, is not meant to encompass the whole of ALCTS activities, but rather those areas where increased focus is needed. This e-forum, hosted by the ALCTS Executive Committee, will allow attendees to ask questions about the plan, make suggestions for achieving its objectives, and offer ideas for additional areas where strategic focus should be placed.
In an age of dwindling budgets and rising expectations, librarians must constantly be on the lookout for inexpensive ways to improve their libraries. This webinar equips librarians with inventive strategies for enhancing their library’s atmosphere at minimal to no cost. The presentation recounts how—with the help of eager student volunteers— presenter Jennifer Holt was able to re-design, re-shelve, and reinvigorate Willoughby South High’s library to create an organized and aesthetically pleasing information commons.

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REGENERATIVE MEDICINE THERAPIES
Regenerative Medicine (RM) is a game changing field in medicine which allows the natural healing process in the body. Using platelet rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell induction therapy, regenerative therapies are used in various medical conditions including musculoskeletal conditions such as arthritis of all types, tendinopathies, sports related injuries, neuropathy, fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases and anti-aging.
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Hormonal imbalance and age-related hormonal changes can cause many different symptoms in both men and women, but with proper hormonal therapy you can restore hormone balance and vitality.
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For this spring/summer season, we worked with Paris based fashion company Inouitoosh to create a capsule collection of light weight scarves featuring art by our own Don Carney! This blooming botanical fills the length of the scarf with a rabbit, snake, pipe and crown.
Colors: Yellow, antique white and black.
90% wool, 10% silk. About 28" x 75". Dry clean. Imported.
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