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Jakub inherited everything from his father. His dark eyes and stubby fingers. The little house in Stare Mesto, with the front room that his father had turned into a restaurant. Even the recipes that kept the place popular enough that Jakub could hire another cook and a girl to wait tables.
He’d inherited the gold-filled fusee pocketwatch that his father had carried throughout Europe while he collected those recipes. And he’d inherited the curse that came with it.
Every fall, as the chill retreated in a welcome respite to all but him, Jakub hid in his rooms, lips cracked and torn by a thousand arachnid legs, screams muffled by a thousand swollen abdomens, jaws stretched wide to let them pass.
Babi Leto. Those weeks in September when the days were warmer than the calendar should have allowed. Those weeks when Jakub locked the watch in a steel-strapped trunk, and locked that trunk in the restaurant’s storeroom, and prayed it would help.
The weeks when spiders crawled out his mouth.

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By Danica Davidson
For all of you who grew up with My Little Pony, it’s finally happening: a My Little Pony comic book series. Yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con IDW Publishing and Hasbro, Inc. announced that they’ll be coming out with "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" comics later this year.
As one can tell from the title, this comic will be based on the current My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon, but the comic will offer new stories instead of repeating ones already on the show. IDW also says the series will be written so that older readers can enjoy it as well.
“My Little Pony is a highly successful brand and we’re incredibly excited to have the opportunity to extend the franchise through this collaboration with Hasbro,” said Ted Adams, the CEO and Publisher of IDW. “We look forward to providing new stories for the fans and launching their favorite ponies into comic book form.”
The comic will be hitting shelves this November, and it’s being written by Katie Cook (Gronk) with Andy Price (DC Legacy) doing the art. Special covers will be done by Jill Thompson (Sandman) and Stephanie Buscema (Womanthology), with more names yet to be announced.

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A Dubai-based food and beverage company said it has secured the rights to sell an energy drink branded with the richest football club in the world, Real Madrid.
Eurostar Group will have exclusive rights to sell the blue and white cans decorated in the Spanish La Liga team’s colours and baring its emblem.
Real Madrid has the largest annual revenue of any football club in the world and is the second most valuable, worth US$2.35bn.
UAE residents consumed 16.1m litres of energy drinks last year, worth US$122m, according to Eurostar.
The UAE will be one of 14 countries with rights to sell the Real Madrid energy drink. Others include Egypt, Tunisia, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Algeria.
Last year, Real Madrid announced plans to build a US$1bn resort in the UAE emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, as well as a branded football academy in Dubai.
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Mileage rate for all cars would be a single flat rate of 40p a mile to replace the three tiers as at present. This rate would to be in accordance with that approved by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) before it becomes taxable. Although at present magistrates are exempt from that requirement the MA were told HMRC were considering it again. This rate would provide a slight increase for the smallest cars from last year but a reduction for most.
Subsistence is to be removed altogether and replaced with claims for expenses actually incurred up to maxima rates. HMCTS will require receipts for any claims, although they acknowledged that they only had the resources to check about 10% of claims. The maxima will be as follows:
5-10 hours £4.25,
10-12 hours £9.30 all claims.
The MA representatives were not happy. A lot of JPs will not be happy either. Some will be furious at a reduction of one-third in their mileage rate as petrol hits 135p a litre, while others are not going to like changes to subsistence and loss of earnings rates. On the other side, I have already had an email from a colleague who is unhappy at the MA's concern with expenses rather than with the myriad other changes faced by JPs.
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UPDATE: 1/4/17 — Police say 44-year-old Lanxter L. Kuykendall was the victim in Wednesday’s fatal shooting on East Little Creek Road. There is no suspect information at this time.
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk detectives say they’re investigating after a man was fatally shot on Wednesday night at an apartment complex in the Denby Park section of the city.
When police arrived at 423 E. Little Creek Road at 6:10 p.m., they found a man lying on the ground suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives have determined the shooting happened in the apartment complex’s parking lot, but haven’t released any more information.
Police encourage anyone with information about the incident to contact the Norfolk Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
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Former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray has been tapped by the state Department of Justice to review the investigation of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha last month, and will consult with the district attorney before any decision is made on whether to file charges against the officer in the case.
Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back on Aug. 23 by Kenosha officer Rusten Sheskey after Blake walked away from officers who were trying to arrest him and then reached into his vehicle. Authorities have said a knife was found in the vehicle and DOJ has said Blake told investigators after the shooting that he had a knife, but it’s not clear what, if any, role it might have played in Sheskey’s decision to open fire.
The shooting was captured on video and posted online, sparking several nights of protests and unrest in Kenosha, a city of about 100,000. Blake has been left partially paralyzed.
Wray, who like Blake is Black, will review DOJ’s report on the shooting before it is forwarded to Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley, who will be responsible for making any decision on whether to charge Sheskey, who is white, with a crime.
Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wray’s help was solicited after Graveley asked for an “independent expert” to review the results of DOJ’s investigation.
“(We) both believe that having an evaluation of the facts conducted by a consultant who can evaluate those facts in light of standard policing practices and explain where they’re consistent with those practices or where they differ from them will help reach the most just outcome in this case,” Kaul said during a press conference Monday in Kenosha.
Graveley said he did not help pick Wray.
“I actually asked that I not be a part of the selection process, and I did that because I wanted the maximum confidence for whatever decision results in this case,” he said.
DOJ said its Division of Criminal Investigation “is in the final stages of its investigation” into Blake’s shooting but did not provide a specific timeline, nor did it provide an estimate of how long it would take Wray to review the report or when Graveley would make a decision on whether to file charges. DCI does not make charging recommendations in its investigations of officer-involved shootings.
The report will be made public if Graveley decides not to charge Sheskey and there are no other reasons to not release it, according to DOJ.
Wray retired from the Madison Police Department in September 2013 after 29 years with the department, the last nine as its second Black chief. A Milwaukee native, he was heavily influenced by former chief David Couper’s community-policing philosophy.
At the time he retired, and for the second time in six years, the department had been named a finalist for the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing’s Goldstein Award for its years of work in turning around problems in the South Side Broadway-Simpson neighborhood, where Wray served as the department’s first neighborhood officer. Wray was also lauded for increasing diversity in the department.
Since his retirement, Wray has served as a consultant, including for a U.S. Department of Justice initiative to help police improve their relationships with communities and in the department’s work in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police shooting of Michael Brown.
He also served as the interim CEO of the Urban League of Greater Madison in 2014.
Wray had wanted to retire earlier in 2013, but decided to stay on to handle the aftermath of the fatal Madison police shooting of Paul Heenan in November 2012.
Heenan, 30, was intoxicated when he entered a neighbor’s home, then struggled with the homeowner and an officer responding to a reported burglary in process. The department and Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne cleared Officer Stephen Heimsness of wrongdoing in the shooting, but Heimsness later agreed to resign after Wray sought to fire him for unrelated allegations.
Both Heenan and Heimsness were white.
Heenan’s death was one of several high-profile killings by police that led to a state law in 2014 that requires outside investigations of such deaths. It’s under that law that state Justice Department investigators, and not Kenosha police, are investigating Blake’s shooting.
The Madison Police Department’s decision under Wray to clear Heimsness was heavily criticized by Heenan’s friends and family and police-reform activists, and the city later reached a $2.3 million settlement with Heenan’s family, although it did not admit any wrongdoing.
But Wray denied that decisions he made in the Heenan case would hurt his credibility in assessing the Blake case.
“You can’t be a police chief for 10 years and not have questions come up about some of the things that you have done,” he said. “I think that actually helps.”
Police sought to arrest Blake after getting a call from a woman who said her boyfriend was not supposed to be there, DOJ has said, and two attempts by police to subdue him with a taser were not successful.
The Kenosha police union has said the caller complained that Blake was attempting to steal her keys and vehicle, and union attorney Brendan Matthews has said officers were aware that Blake had an open warrant for felony sexual assault before they arrived and that Blake fought with officers, including putting one of them in a headlock.
Blake’s attorney, Ben Crump, has said that Blake was only trying to break up a domestic dispute and did nothing to provoke police. Crump has called for Sheskey’s arrest and for the two other officers at the scene — Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek — to be fired.
Three of Blake’s children were in the back seat of the car when he was shot.
Sheskey, Arenas and Meronek are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Kenosha News reporter Dan Truttschel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Printing Expo opens inkjet arena
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Virtual print industry exhibition Printing Expo has added the Inkjet Integration Arena to its 3D show floor
Virtual print industry exhibition Printing Expo has added the Inkjet Integration Arena to its 3D show floor.
Opened as part of the expo’s Zone 2, The Inkjet Integration Arena allows attendees to connect with companies that cover all aspects of inkjet printing technology. Those featured as part of the Inkjet Integration Arena include:
- Heraeus Noblelight (drying technologies);
- Crown Van Gelder (inkjet substrates);
- Simply Inkjet (technology and project configuration);
- O&PM Europa (coatings and primers);
- Memjet (printhead technology);
- Colordyne (inkjet digital print engines); and
- Inkjet Insight (market analysis).
The arena will be hosted by Elizabeth Gooding from Inkjet Insight, who will be supplying regular updates, videos and information.
Also at the show are Meteor Inkjet, Global Graphics Software and Xitron, who offer inkjet technology and front-end options.


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Beacon of Light is set to welcome the next generation of digital experts through its doors following the opening of the new Foundation of Light eSports area.
Foundation of Light is championing the need to support and develop the skills of young people in this growing industry sector, thanks to significant investment from the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) through the Local Growth Fund VCSE Capital Grant programme. Help the digital sector contribute to supporting young people and the skills required to be more work-ready.
Esports is a very popular recreational activity that also offers many job and career opportunities. The new eSports area at Beacon of Light will use digital education to create pathways for young people seeking careers in eSports and other closely related digital industries, as well as creating a wealth of e-career advice.
Beacon of Light’s newest addition hosts eight dedicated areas, complete with esports furniture, esports management software, and more.
What makes all this possible is North EAST LEP – a partnership in the public, private and education sectors. Responsible for promoting and developing economic growth across the region, they also produce the Sunderland Strategic Plan, which serves as a blueprint for the activities that need to take place to improve our economy.
Nicola Labrique, North East LEP investment program manager, officially opened the eSports zone on Wednesday. Sharing her thoughts on the eSports region and what it means for the region’s young people, she said: “Helping young people develop skills in emerging sectors such as eSports will help us build our region’s economy and create a strong and sustainable North East for all. We look forward to seeing the education hub the new one in action and to follow the progress of the young people who will train here”.
There are currently 10,000 NEET young people in Sunderland alone, with employers already revealing a lack of skills that local people have to meet industry needs.
Recently released national statistics indicate that 700,000 young people have now left education and are looking for work and there are already 250,000 unemployed under-25s.
Leslie Spolher, CEO of the Or Foundation added: “We understand that electronic sports is a growing industry and we are eager to provide more opportunities for our young people, who will hopefully develop into a certification or even a career in the industry, while also promoting a balanced and healthy lifestyle.”
Providing training in a new world of work will engage some of the hardest to reach young people through an activity they enjoy. Through this, the fund will support young people to develop their skills by working with Innovation Esports and Sunderland College to deliver workshops on topics including games journalism, video production, coding, journalism, marketing and social content. Foundation of Light are also very excited to work closely with British Esports when the Center of Excellence opens at Stadium Park.
For more information about the Light Fund and the programs we deliver, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn or to keep up with all the latest news, go to our website.


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When Craig Spanz continued to suffer from headaches after being infected with COVID-19 in March, he suspected that he might be experiencing some long COVID symptoms. A Vancouver resident expected his doctor to tell him how to deal with his constant headache, but instead he was diagnosed with diabetes.
“It was like when I found out I had diabetes a little over two weeks after COVID-19 officially ended,” Spanz said.
As new concerns emerge, there is growing conviction among medical professionals that the virus may be causing diabetes. Two studies backed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that COVID-19 causes severe damage to beta cells in the pancreas and limits the amount of insulin that can be produced. When you lack insulin, your blood sugar spikes and you become diabetic.
Dr. Remi Labasa, an endocrinologist at the University of Montreal, said:
There are at least two other ways in which the virus can cause damage to the inside of the human body that can lead to diabetes. When infected with COVID-19, the virus can replicate to the pancreas and other cells surrounding beta cells. The virus can also cause cells to malfunction and fail to regulate blood properly.
Diabetic coronavirus patients are more likely to die from the virus: study
49-year-old Spants admitted that he had some markers of prediabetes, but said the match against COVID-19 was horrifying. As a result, he suffered from dyspnea, severe chest pain, and loss of sensation in his limbs, and was hospitalized.
Spanz described a severe infection that Rabasa described as “potentially limiting the ability of insulin to act in tissues,” and “COVID-19 can cause diabetes.” It’s just one of the ways.
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A September 15 study published on cell.com found that elevated blood glucose levels were common among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Patients required longer hospital stays and were at increased risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome and increased mortality.
Researchers in this study concluded that hyperglycemia, a spike in blood sugar, is caused by COVID-19 interfering with the production of adiponectin, a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar in fat cells. ..
Don’t ignore the symptoms of diabetes, doctors say, because you’re afraid to get infected with COVID-19
Rabasa, who also works at the Center Hospitalier del’Université de Montréal, said he sees patients dealing with bad cases of COVID-19 exhibit hyperglycemia. He said there was “evidence that short-term COVID leads to diabetes.”
He added that hyperglycemia can only be seen for a short period of time. This means that some people do not develop diabetes immediately, but their effects on beta cell and tissue damage may be prolonged and they may be more susceptible to diabetes. Later it.
According to a Harvard Medical School study, nearly half of the 551 patients admitted with COVID-19 in Italy had hyperglycemia. Patients were followed for 6 months after the initial infection, and researchers found that hyperglycemia remained in about 35 percent of people.
Experts say the concern is not only that patients have diabetes from COVID, but that anyone who already has diabetes who has obtained COVID is at higher risk. According to a Scottish study, people who already have type 1 or type 2 diabetes are already at increased risk of worsening results if they are infected with COVID-19.
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“The overall risk of COVID-19 treated with a fatal or critical care unit was significantly increased in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes compared to the background population,” the study said. ..
How COVID-19 is changing diabetes treatment
Infection can be one of the concerns that cause diabetes, but Labasa said COVID-19 also indirectly affects the likelihood that someone will have diabetes. He said that a “lack of exercise and a sedentary lifestyle” due to a pandemic that limits more people to staying at home could also contribute to it.
“If you’re not very active and don’t eat as well as you think, COVID causes you the stress of eating your emotions, they cause type 2 diabetes,” he said. rice field.
What does the data teach us?
It has been 100 years since the discovery of insulin, a medical advance that has allowed diabetics to constantly regulate their blood sugar levels. According to Dr. Seema Nagpal, Vice President of Science and Policy for Diabetes, “People who push the newly diagnosed diabetes forward, despite the understanding that medical breakthroughs, exercise and proper nutrition can help prevent diabetes. There is a tendency to increase. Canada.
“It’s a concern that we already have a very high percentage of diabetes, which could be another factor,” she said.
100 years after the discovery of insulin, Canadian scientists are pushing for new diabetes treatments
A 2020 analysis by McMaster University found that nearly 15% of patients with severe COVID-19 developed diabetes.The authors of the study pointed out that they may have already been at risk of diabetes before they were infected with the virus...
Nagpal said no data have been collected in Canada on the current incidence of diabetes since the outbreak of the pandemic. As a result, she said, Diabetes Canada could not confirm whether the potential spike in diabetes rates was directly caused by COVID-19.
A New York-based study of patients admitted to the relevant campuses of the New York Elderly Hospital / Weil Cornell Medical Center and Queens and Lower Manhattan Hospital between March 1 and May 15, 2020. 49.7% of the 3,864 patients diagnosed in New York were found. In 2020, I had hyperglycemia.
Health problem: 100 years since the discovery of insulin
Almost half of the patients suffering from hyperglycemia are staggering, but the number has risen to “91.1% and 72.8% between intubated and dead”. People with hyperglycemia were hospitalized for 10 days, while those without hyperglycemia were hospitalized for 5 days.
The authors of the August 2021 study by Stanford University categorically concluded that “SARS-CoV-2 may directly induce beta cell death.”
Outside of vaccines and masks, which are ways to limit COVID-19 infections, and thus potential cases of diabetes, there are ways to reduce the risk. Diabetes Canada states that lifestyle changes can reduce the chances of developing diabetes.
“A healthy diet, increased physical activity, and weight loss if you’re overweight are the most effective ways you can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes,” they write on their website.
Spanz said he was able to incorporate better nutrition and exercise into his diet to control diabetes and is grateful for the early diagnosis of his recovery path. He said he monitors the amount of carbs, fats and sugar he eats and is generally better aware of his dietary choices.
As he made the changes, Spants said he had less frequent headaches and he felt much better physically.
“I feel like I’ve suddenly been depressed since mid-October,” he said.
— Using files from Jamie Maraucher and Leslie Whyte
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Author Maeve Binchy will be remembered for her humanity and great sense of humour, says Declan Burke
WITH the death of Maeve Binchy at the age of 72, Ireland has lost one of its leading literary lights.
“I don’t think that Maeve was ever accorded the same kind of respect that some of the novelists who are considered more literary received,” says her colleague, Sheila O’Flanagan, “but I think her storytelling, certainly, set a benchmark for commercial fiction that is very high and rarely surpassed.”
Born in 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, and educated at UCD, Binchy became a teacher and a journalist. She moved to London and married children’s author Gordon Snell, before publishing her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, in 1982. Binchy had published three collections of short stories by then, but her fifth collection, The Lilac Bus (1984), was a bestseller. She is best known for the novels Circle of Friends (1990), Tara Road (1998) and Nights of Rain and Stars (2004).
Five of her books were adapted into films, and Binchy’s prizes include the British Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (1999), the WH Smith Book Award (2001), the PEN/AT Cross Award (2007), and the Irish Book Award’s Lifetime Achievement (2010).
Her place in the pantheon of great Irish writers has long been secured, but Binchy was another kind of leading light, a literary pathfinder who guided and inspired a younger generation.
“It was simply the fact that she made it okay to write about Ireland,” says Marian Keyes. “I remember reading The Lilac Bus., I suppose I was about 17, and that was back in the days when nothing Irish was any good.
“All our things were just crap versions of US or UK TV shows or bands or books, or whatever. And, suddenly, somebody was writing about the Ireland we all knew. So that gave me confidence when I came to write, to think, ‘I don’t have to pretend to be English or American’.”
Nor was it necessary to want to emulate James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, et al.
“That was it, as well,” Ms Keyes says. “The way she wrote was so conversational, and it was so true to how people talked, how Irish people are.”
Ms O’Flanagan says: “I think the biggest influence Maeve had on me — and probably many other Irish women writers — was in making us believe that it was possible, and acceptable, to write about Ireland and women in Ireland in a contemporary way.
“Her success certainly made me feel that I had a faint chance of one day being published — if only I could write the book in the first place.”
As well as being inspirational and ground-breaking, Binchy’s legendary sense of humour endeared her to the younger generation.
“She was really, really funny,” says Ms Keyes. “I mean, I know she was funny in her books, but in real life she could be — and I hope this is okay to say — quite ribald. I don’t mean that in a disrespectful way, she was just extremely funny.”
That offbeat sense of humour can be glimpsed in a questionnaire she completed for the Guardian newspaper in 1995. Asked how she would like to die, Binchy replied, “On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.”
In the same questionnaire, she said she would like to be remembered, “As a storyteller and a good friend.”
“I admired her humanity and storytelling skill,” says Ruth Dudley Edwards. “I think she changed the Irish literary landscape by popularising decency, focusing on ordinary people, and having no traditional Irish literary love of smart-arsery. Mind you, her sense of humour was ubiquitous.”
In the latter stages of her life, unable to tour as before, due to arthritis, she was uncomplaining.
“I had a letter only a few weeks ago, and she was so nice,” says Ms Keyes.
“She admitted in the letter that she was in an awful lot of pain, but then she ended by saying, ‘Well, sure, aren’t we so lucky we can have a job that we can do in our pyjamas.’ But she was always upbeat, such a glass-half-full person.”
Binchy’s personal touch was legendary. In a World Book Day poll conducted in 2000, she finished ahead of Charles Dickens, Stephen King and Jane Austen, among many others, and was recognised for her “total absence of malice”.
She was also a dispenser of practical advice.
“I read a piece of advice from her, which was that if you wrote a page a day, you’d have a book written in a year,” says Ms O’Flanagan, “and it was so practical and down-to-earth that the idea suddenly became less daunting.
“Of course, I never did write a page a day, but whenever I get overwhelmed by the task ahead, I remember that advice.”
“She did persuade me to be less apologetic about speaking well of my own books,” says Ms Dudley Edwards. “I was having lunch with her at the Merriman summer school when the waitress said, ‘Oh, Miss Binchy, I love your books.’ Maeve asked her which was her favourite and discussed it with her. Afterwards, I said, ‘Maeve, I would have been frozen with embarrassment and just said the literary equivalent of ‘Oh, that old thing.’ ‘If you don’t like your own books,’ she said, ‘why should anyone else’?”
In the long-term, Binchy’s reputation will rest on her ability to tell timeless, universal stories. For the moment, however, it’s the personal touches people are remembering, the wicked sense of humour, the selflessness on behalf of others.
“I know she always laughed when people said she was a national treasure, but she really was,” says Ms O’Flanagan.
“Not just because of the brilliance of her books, but because of her generous spirit and personality.”
“There was this one time,” says Ms Keyes, “when Maeve was going through Heathrow, she was changing planes and had some time to spare. So she went into a bookshop and entirely rearranged their stock, so that there was a whole wall of Irish writers facing out, like Cathy Kelly, Patricia Scanlan, Sheila O’Flanagan, Edna O’Brien, me.”
“She was just this woman bumbling around and no one really noticed what she was at,” Ms Keyes says, delighted at the memory, “but there she was, quietly doing this really subversive thing.”
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Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that MyLife MyFinance has gone live with Temenos’ front-to-back digital banking platform delivered as Temenos SaaS.
Using Temenos Country Model Bank methodology, the new front-to-back system simplifies processes, enhances the customer experience, and replaces legacy systems.
MyLife MyFinance is an Australian bank offering its customers a range of savings and lending solutions. Temenos cloud technology allows MyLife MyFinance to create hyper-efficient cost models for its suite of products. The reduced costs from Temenos SaaS will enable MyLife MyFinance to deliver more competitively priced products to its customers.
As a result of the build-and-migrate implementation, MyLife MyFinance has reduced complexity by moving to one central core banking system to store and run all of its processes and data, Temenos Transact. Combined with Temenos Infinity and Temenos Analytics, the end-to-end solution, increases automation and straight through processing (STP), completing conditional decisions for 90% of applications. Temenos’ end-to-end SaaS solution also reduces cost and complexity, and paves the way for innovation. The bank now benefits from secure, scalable technology built to meet Australian requirements today and in the future, including creating an open banking ecosystem to enhance services like customer verification, digital wallets and fraud monitoring, to deliver a differentiated customer experience. The project was completed using a phased approach, supported by Syncordis.
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The site is located at 960 Prospect Avenue and 941 Rev. James A. Polite Blvd in the Morrissania section of Bronx CB 3. The site zoned R7-1, is about 20,420 SF in an oblique L-shaped configuration along the Rev. James A. Polite Blvd. frontage.
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Why Not Find Out isn’t just an online platform, it’s also a campaign that tours the UK visiting colleges, universities and other public events such as festivals and carnivals. WNFO promotes greater knowledge and insight into the evolving drug landscape through a series of awareness stalls; last year we... read more →
Authors: Ian Hamilton, Lecturer in mental health and addiction, University of York Harry Sumnall, Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University Suzi Gage, Lecturer, University of Liverpool. This article first appeared on The Conversation. For centuries, musicians have used drugs to enhance creativity and listeners have used drugs to heighten... read more →
With counterfeit Xanax readily available on the dark web, a generation of teenagers have found out the hard way that the pills aren't as easygoing as they first thought. Dan lives with his parents in a beautiful four-bedroom house in Surrey, England, the type with polished granite kitchen surfaces, ankle-deep... read more →
Drug dealers are increasingly using social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat to sell illegal substances to young people, some as young as 13. Experts have warned the "disturbing" trend rapidly growing in the last year and a half according to youth workers who expressed concern that young people... read more →
Moderate alcohol intake before the festive season kicks off to improve your health & wellbeing “‘Tis the season to be jolly” is a line from a popular carol song too often taken to heart by some Brits who drink excessively over the festive period. Last year, the sale of beer,wine and spirits... read more →
It all comes down to policing where we get our pleasure, says Max Daly of VICE. There is a question at the heart of the drug debate that often gets forgotten amid all the talk of prohibition vs legalisation.... read more →
The main motivation for people using steroids and other similar drugs in the UK is to enhance their image, a survey has shown. More than 680 people who use image and performance-enhancing drugs took part in the National IPED info survey. It found that although motivations for use of those... read more →
Students are more likely to be spending on exercise classes than nights out, new research suggests iStock/Getty Images By Emma Featherstone Independent News Health-conscious students are cutting back on alcohol and spending almost four times more on fitness than they were a decade ago, new research suggests. Student letting app SPCE, which is... read more →
For over half a century, various activist groups in the UK have launched campaigns to legalise cannabis, but with little success. One of the most effective arguments used by those opposed to reform is the absence of any existing regulated legal markets for selling cannabis. This is no longer the... read more →
Five years ago this week a new website, Why Not Find Out, was launched by the Angelus Foundation. Its target audience was young people, mainly 14 to 18 who may have been exposed to the relatively new phenomenon of ‘legal highs’ now called new psychoactive substances. It was the first... read more →
A study by University College in London has shown signs that the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, can be effective in treating people with depression. Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial College London, said: "We have shown for the first time clear changes in brain activity... read more →
BBC report that Thai authorities have just introduced a new law banning any smoking on its beaches punishable by up to a year's imprisonment. Full article here.
Police are reportedly investigating the 'nasty and predatory' incidents which have struck new students as they arrive at university By Caroline Mortimer Students at a top university have been warned not to leave their drinks unattended after a spate of “nasty and predatory” drink-spiking. Police are reportedly investigating a string... read more →
'Pot' otherwise known as cannabis, is having negative health effects due to increased potency Smoking cannabis has been part of counter-culture for over 50 years. In the 60s cannabis became a ‘lifestyle choice’ for some ‘hippies’ who rebelled against post-war traditions and opted for a post-modernist worldview that pushed boundaries,... read more →
Pills contain more MDMA than ever at the moment, which is obviously going to have some repercussions. This article is part of "Safe Sesh", a VICE harm reduction campaign produced in collaboration with The Loop and the Royal Society for Public Health. Ecstasy is a lot stronger than it used... read more →
BBC web article published 22 August 2017. What is in cannabis that can make it dangerously powerful? And what about claims of medical benefits? Newsbeat hears from two scientists who study the drug. Remember these letters - THC and CBD Cannabis plants contain a substance called Cannabigerol that forms three... read more →
Newsbeat Gang members can make £26,000 in just two days by selling drugs over apps including Snapchat and Instagram. A new BBC Three programme also highlights dealers as young as 15 claiming they can make £300 a day by using social media. Stacey Dooley Investigates: Kids Selling Drugs Online found a... read more →
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Article by Global Drug Survey team The recent interest in drug checking at facilities in the UK comes on the back of a rise in purity of many drugs including MDMA and cocaine – with associated increases in acute risks of harm associated with these drugs. Drug checking can play... read more →
Man dies after taking 'potent' crystallised Spice, not MDMA Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES A man thought to have been killed by the drug MDMA had taken a "much more potent version" of Spice, Greater Manchester Police has said. Police now believe that the 26-year-old man from Rochdale took a crystallised and... read more →
Seven hospitalised amid Oldham drug warning Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionPolice say the type of MDMA, known as "magic" or "pink champagne", is highly potent Seven people have been hospitalised after taking a "particularly potent" form of the drug MDMA, police said. Four men became seriously ill on Saturday, with two... read more →
By Michael Baggs There's a call for UK festivals to provide drug-testing services, in an attempt to reduce deaths. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) says stronger ecstasy in the UK is resulting in "serious health harm". They want festival-goers to be able to test their drugs on site... read more →
Below is an article published by Volteface.me The findings of the 2017 Global Drugs Survey were released this week, which gathered data from 115,000 people around the world. Although, by looking at the demographics (and additionally considering that taking the survey requires having Internet access), we can see that this... read more →
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Welcome to the 'Use of Novel Psychoactive Substances/Legal Highs and Ketamine' Survey. This survey aims to evaluate the level of knowledge and awareness of the use of Novel Psychoactive Substances/Legal Highs and Ketamine. The survey is completed anonymously, can be saved part way through and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. All data collected in... read more →
A memorial gig is being held on 2 March, at Nambucca, Upper Islington for Louise Cattell who died exactly six years ago in March 2011. The proceeds for the event will fund work progammes for the drugs and alcohol prevention charity Mentor UK. Louise Cattell was a much-loved figure on the London gig scene until her... read more →
In this episode of Drugs Map of Britain we meet students born in the 90s who call themselves The Children of Ecstasy. Once associated with rave culture, students like Marc are now using ecstasy and MDMA to help them socialise, and open up to their friends. But, with the pills and... read more →
From EDM Sauce PINK “SUPERMAN” PILLS DANGEROUS TO USERS Oct 23, 2016 Drugs are a popular topic when it comes to the dance music scene. There are those who support the drug use, while there are others who oppose it. For those who choose to take these drugs, it is... read more →
Link to Article by Patrick Hinton - Mixmag 22 September Fiona Measham's charity The Loop is spearheading drugs safety Fiona Measham is the Durham University professor at the heart of pushing UK drug policy into the 21st century. She’s the co-director of charity The Loop, an organisation which approaches drugs... read more →
People attending a UK festival have been able to test drugs on site for the "first time ever". Campaigners say the practice known as "front of house testing" will help users know what they are taking. Critics have always argued open testing encourages people to take illegal drugs. But those in... read more →
This episode follows police and paramedics dealing with the effects of legal highs, from a regular user coughing up blood in a bus stop to a grandad who's reacted badly to legal highs he bought online. Click here for a link and to login.
By Max Daily @narcomania Ketamine is that crazy wobbly leg drug. The wacky student drug, the post club chill-out aid, the new gen LSD that gives users the power to become – according to 1970s K-hole explorer and dolphin whisperer John C Lilly – "peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity". But... read more →
Police in Manchester have issued a warning about pink/red ecstasy pills with dangerous high levels of MDMA. The MasterCard E tablet often contains in excess of 200mg of MDMA where the 'normal' dose is more like 100-120mg. High doses can lead to raised body temperature where people find it hard... read more →
An analysis centre in Wales has identified some ecstasy pills with very high strength that can be very risky to take. Walesonline spoke to a programme leader Josie Smith who said, “Ecstasy tablets, way back when rave culture was happening in the late ‘80s, were 70 to 80 milligrams per... read more →
A 70 year old man, Nigel Mentzel, from Cardiff has died after taking up smoking 'spice' or synthetic cannabis. His partner Julie Garner told the inquest into his death: "He would get very defensive and angry and we would argue because I disagreed with his use of the highs. Cardiff... read more →
The new law which would outlaw the sale of legal highs has been delayed for a few weeks. The Home Office has had to put the legislation back because it has not established exactly how new substances will be tested for 'psychoactivity'.
Northumbria Police filmed the effects of synthetic cannabis on people in Newcastle City Centre.
Three boys from Salisbury, all 15, were critical in hospital yesterday after taking spice on the way home from school. They smoked the product in a local park before becoming overcome by the effects of the legal high.
Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt, admitting being a user of poppers during debate on Psychoactive Substances Bill. He said: "There is sometimes a moment ... when something is proposed which becomes personal to you and you realise the Government is about to do something fantastically stupid and I think in those... read more →
VICE travelled to Manchester to meet some more vulnerable users who have become addicted to these over-the-counter substances and discovered that solving the problem won't be as simple as making legal highs illegal.
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KENT MONKMAN "MONTCALM'S HAIRCUT" ETCHING, 2011
Over the last 15 years, Monkman has developed a distinct visual language that hijacks traditional landscapes and pictorial scenes, adding homoerotic revisionist anarchy to Canadian colonial images.
In this artwork Monkman showcases his iconic alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testicle, who is stealthily trimming General Montcalm's hair while he lies naked, fast asleep. Perched on the edge of the bed, Miss Chief meets the viewer's gaze with typical brazen confidence, despite being caught in the act.
Monkman frequently fuses historical or mythological narratives with First Nations' elements or characters. Here one can wonder whether Monkman is reimagining the Samson and Delilah story from the bible (a popular Old Master painting subject) and situating it in 18th century New France (aka Quebec).
This etching is an intimate alternative version of a painting with the same name in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. "Montcalm's Haircut" is one of the artist's earliest etchings and was produced in a notably smaller edition size of 35. (Typically, Monkman etchings are created in editions of 75 or even 100.)
The National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian are just a few of the institutions that have Monkman's work in their permanent collection.
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The atmosphere is crackling with the sound of history being rewritten. Hardly a week goes by without some columnist or other telling us about the wonders of Thatcherism, and, not so long ago, my old friend Sir Alan Budd delivered a lecture in which he argued that our membership of the European exchange rate mechanism, including the timing of entry and exit, was a success after all.
Sir Alan was a Treasury official at the time; he did not appear so sanguine in 1992. And the release last week of Treasury papers relating to Black Wednesday has reminded us just how dark those days were, and how the Prime Minister John Major, his Chancellor Norman Lamont and the Treasury were seething at what they regarded as the Bundesbank's treachery in not doing enough to help the pound, and, indeed, allegedly sabotaging it.
The post hoc justification for the 1990-92 period of ERM membership is that it enabled the UK to get inflation out of the system and prepare the way for the longest period of 'low inflationary growth' since 1588, when, as older readers will recall, we saw off the Spanish armada.
Inflation was wrung out of the system by a prolonged application of very high interest rates (mort gage rates averaged 11.39 per cent in 1991, the only full calendar year of ERM membership). As one of the released Treasury papers concedes: 'Looking at our period of ERM membership in retrospect, we are most conscious of the extent to which it required UK monetary policy to be tighter than warranted by domestic conditions.' The Treasury had failed to take into account the impact of handing decisions on British interest rates to the Bundesbank. Having envied low German inflation and having decided 'if you can't beat them, join them', the Treasury threw in its lot with the Bundesbank at just the time when German unification was producing an inflationary boom.
Years later the consensus was that we had joined at the wrong time, at the wrong (exchange) rate and for the wrong reasons. This was not the consensus at the time. Most commentators and institutions were in favour, indeed many had been pushing the government to do the deed for ages.
At the time of entry I wrote in this column: 'I cannot believe that the exchange rate will hold for more than two years and advise the Labour Party and Thatcher's potential successors to be wary of making commitments that they will be unlikely to be able to honour.' Some, including Mrs Thatcher, wanted a higher rate; and, as the Treasury papers remind us, the whole tone of the approach was to administer discipline on a British economy whose inflationary proclivities Thatcher and her colleagues had failed to assuage.
Or, rather, they had assuaged them once and then allowed everything to get out of hand again. Having inherited an inflation rate of 10 per cent in 1979, which they had intended to halve, they managed to preside over a doubling of inflation. With the assistance of the biggest recession since the Second World War (in 1980-81) the Thatcher government managed to bring inflation down to 3.5 per cent in 1983 (at the cost of misery to millions). It then proceeded to fall for its own rhetoric about 'economic miracles' and allowed inflation to rise above 10 per cent by 1990. The policy response, intensified by the dictates of the ERM, brought us the second worst recession since the war and, again, misery to millions.
Here we come to another item of rewritten history. Last week the airwaves were replete with references to a rise in interest rates to 15 per cent on Black Wednesday. It never happened. What happened was that rates were first raised from an already crippling 10 per cent to 12 per cent (in a vain effort to prop up the pound) and later it was announced that they would rise to 15 per cent the next day.
But that same evening, the game was up and the towel thrown in. It was too much and everybody knew it. It would have taken the already damaged economy straight back into recession, even depression.
The absurd thing was that some officials knew the game was up at 8.10am that day. But at the insistence of the Prime Minister (and other officials) they honoured the rules of the ERM by intervening to support the pound when they should simply have said enough was enough. Incidentally, for all the loose talk surrounding the 'cost' of Black Wednesday, the Treasury papers broadly confirm what we already knew. But it was even worse than that.
I recall asking an official at the time whether it was true that we had spent most of the reserves. 'Most?' he replied, with the clear implication that we had lost the lot. In fact the Bank of England, on instructions from on high, sold $28 billion of reserves on Black Wednesday alone, making the loss in August and September nearly $40bn. We not only lost the lot, we borrowed a further $16bn.
Although the loss of all the reserves (and net borrowing) qualifies as Wildean carelessness, there was also the little matter of selling the reserves cheap and buying them back more expensively after sterling's decline.
The real cost of the intervention (compared with what would probably have happened if the Bank had not intervened) is put by the Treasury at £3.3bn - which is not far from estimates that have been around for years. This was disaster on a grand scale,.
The Treasury and the Bank of England were up to their necks in defending the indefensible, but it was the Treasury that suffered more, and saw the beginning of a shift of power to the Bank. It was right that the Conservative Party should have lost its reputation for economic competence (which it did not regain), although Major is equally right to say that this was only one factor behind the defeat in 1997; the Tories knew that, by winning in 1992, they had 'stretched democracy's elastic too far'.
At one stage, earlier in 1992, when the writing was already on the wall, Lamont himself (who believed in floating exchange rates) told me he kept asking his officials, 'Why are we doing this?' When I asked them myself later, the reply was that 'the Treasury has lost one Chancellor and we cannot afford to lose another'. But in due course they did.
So the official line now - I heard Major echoing Budd on the wireless - is that ERM membership was a great triumph, eliminated inflation from the system, and led to a British economic miracle.
Some people say it was not Black Wednesday but White Wednesday, because of what eventually followed. The truth is that it was Black Wednesday, but followed by a series of White ones.
But whether all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, with inflation targets and an independent central bank, is open to question. The Bank was rather late to wake up to the asset price boom, and there is still a lot of nervousness around, for all the recent perceived economic successes.
An important consequence of Black Wednesday is that it transformed Gordon Brown's view of the ERM and the prospect of joining the single currency, on which he had been very keen. Britain has the best of both worlds in the opportunity to remain in the European Union by signing up to the constitutional treaty without any obligation to join the deflation-orientated eurozone.
Oh, and by the way: perhaps we have the Germans to thank after all. I understand that it was because Thatcher opposed unification that Chancellor Kohl was not prepared to help the pound on or before Black Wednesday.

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Disagreements among shareholders are often focused on issues of control of a corporation.
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You may be planning what is known as a derivative action, suing one or more shareholders or third parties on behalf of the corporation itself. The third parties might be suppliers, customers, directors or officers. Any legal claim that the corporation has against an individual or entity may be material for a derivative action. If you are successful, the corporation will pay your legal fees.
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Top Television Shows On Netflix To Binge Watch
UPROXX has created a top 50 list of which television shows to watch on Netflix including Dexter and Gilmore Girls.
Dexter is a big show on Netflix about a man who works as a blood splatter analyst for the homicide section of the Miami Police Department. However, at night he feeds his guilty pleasure by murdering criminals who have gotten away with their crimes. While his personal time mixes with his career, he attempts to keep his two lives separate. This show is best for the adults who are watching Netflix and may be a bit too graphic for the children.
— Variety (@Variety) December 27, 2015
Gilmore Girls is about a single mom, Lorelei, raising her over-achieving daughter, Rory, who strives to go to Harvard one day. Lorelei could have had the same opportunities as Rory, but struggled with a teen pregnancy instead. Possibly due to their closeness in age, the two are best friends and the show is full of their witty exchanges as they navigate their lives. This show is great for everyone in the family; Netflix did a great job with this decision!
Top Movies To Watch On Netflix
— Vulture (@vulture) December 27, 2015
Netflix is largely used to watch television shows and movies. Some of the most watched movies on Netflix are: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dumbo, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is about cartoon characters that interact with the real world. Roger Rabbit is one of the cartoon characters and is framed for murder. “Dumbo” is a classic Disney movie based on an elephant with extraordinary ears. The movie shows how he is able to make this feature work in his favor through his life. The Nightmare Before Christmas is another Disney movie based on the different holidays and an idea of what might happen if characters from Halloween took over Christmas. All of these movies are kid friendly and Netflix did a great job with these picks.
What Is Netflix
Netflix is an app used to watch movies and television shows. the Netflix app is free and subscriptions start at approximately $8 per month. The Netflix app can be used on televisions, phones, and tablets. The Netflix app can also be downloaded on consoles such as Xbox, Wii, and Play Stations. Netflix is easy to use and is widely available. Occasionally, Netflix will update the list of movies and television shows on the app and some are taken off to make room for newer shows. Netflix also has shows and movies organized by genre, making it simpler for you to find the type of movies or television shows you are looking for. Netflix is family friendly. There is a section in Netflix just for children. Netflix has a search engine and you can find out if a specific movie or television show is on Netflix. Netflix does not, however, censor what they show. The children’s Netflix page is clean, but the rest of Netflix should be monitored if children are watching.
Worst Netflix Movies
Netflix mainly shows the latest movies that have just left the big screen. However, not all of the movies and television shows on Netflix are worth watching. Some of the worst Netflix movies are “The Interview” and “Scary Movie Five”. “The Interview” is about two friends who work as reporters. They are so famous that they are hired by the U.S. Government to sneak into North Korea under the guise of doing a live interview with the country’s dictator. The real reason they are there is to see what the dictator is really doing and find out how he is treating his people. The movie is fairly crude and is supposed to be comedy, but does a poor job at being funny. Many movie theaters would not even show the movie. It is surprising that Netflix has continued to have the movie on the app.”Scary Movie Five” is a joke on the horror genre and some other famous movies such as “The Hunger Games”. The movie makes fun, but has crude jokes and much nudity. None of the “Scary Movie” series was played in movie theaters, and it is surprising that people watch them on Netflix.
Worst Television Shows On Netflix
While Netflix has many family friendly television shows and movies, Netflix also has many adult only shows as well. Some of Netflix’s less appealing television shows are Parks and Recreation and Bob’s Burgers. Parks and Recreation is a television show about adults who work for the city and keep the community areas safe and clean. The show is filmed like a documentary with the characters giving their opinions and stories. Netflix gave into the fans of the show with this choice due to the inappropriate language and dirty jokes. Bob’s Burgers is an adult cartoon about a family man who owns a restaurant. The show has no point or order to it. The show jumps from one point to another and has no story to it. Netflix made a bad decision adding this one to the app.
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i think / hope one of you can fix my problem or give me a hint.
i did a 3 col layout which is made out of tables… i know you hate tables but i did it with tables because of the browser comp. so… the left and right col has longer content than the center col. in the center col i got another table and this should have the height of the parent tables… normal html height=“100%” did the job. so now is there a solution for this?
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The sudden deaths of two children could not be explained by an underlying genetic condition, their father’s murder trial has heard.
Jordan Monaghan, from Blackburn, is alleged to have murdered his 24-day old daughter, Ruby, on New Year’s Day in 2013 and eight months later killed his son, Logan, 21 months, both by smothering them, Preston Crown Court has heard.
He is also accused of murdering his new partner, Evie Adams, 23, in October 2019, by poisoning her with prescription drugs tramadol and diazepam.
The jury has heard both children had suffered a “collapse” but recovered prior to a final fatal event.
Both had been seen by medics in the days and months before their deaths but other than usual childhood illnesses, no serious medical condition was found.
Professor Ruth Newbury-Ecob, a consultant in clinical genetics and inherited cardiac conditions, looked at the background, medical history, post-mortem examination results and expert reports of other clinicians to look whether a genetic condition could explain the sudden deaths of the children.
Duncan Smith QC, prosecuting, asked Professor Newbury-Ecob about “family history, medical history and findings at post mortem”.
“Taking those three sources of information together, did you identify any underlying genetic condition that could have accounted for Ruby’s collapse and, or, death?”
“No,” Professor Newbury-Ecob replied.
The jury heard in Logan’s case there was also a “molecular autopsy” of genetic testing carried out looking for genes sometimes linked to unexplained, sudden deaths.
Nothing was found likely to support a diagnosis of a cardiac genetic disorder, the witness said.
Mr Smith continued: “So, clinical history, no evidence. Post-mortem testing, no evidence. Genetic testing, no evidence.
“Did you identify any underlying genetic disorder which could have accounted for Logan’s collapse and, or, death?
Professor Newbury-Ecob replied: “No.”
Laura Gray, 28, the children’s mother, told police Ruby was “absolutely fine” just hours before her death after she was left alone with the defendant, who had offered to do the night-time bottle feed for the first time.
Eight months later, on August 17, 2013, Logan’s mother, Laura Gray lost her second child, finding the boy dead in his pushchair in the family home after his father had taken him out.
Monaghan, a digger driver with a gambling problem and debts, had rowed with his partner Miss Gray, who had said she was leaving him, the court heard.
The jury has heard of reported instances of “cot death” in both parents’ families but these were “unverified” instances and two or more generations back.
Prof Newbury-Ecob said infant deaths were more common in the past and the more distant in past generations when it occurred, the less important it was regarded.
She said: “The likelihood of a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, all being well, carrying the gene that is sufficient, sufficiently deleterious, sufficiently harmful, to cause early infancy death does not fit with our models of inheritance.”
Ben Myers QC, defending, asked the witness, as genetic testing was at the forefront of scientific discovery, just because the current knowledge we have does not identify a genetic cause for a death, does not mean one might be found in the future as the science advances.
“That is correct,” the witness replied.
Mr Myers asked if it was possible a “silent” genetic condition could be carried across generations but only materialise two or three generations down the line.
He added: “For example, in this case, the fact that there might be conditions historically and then not repeated for a generation or two, doesn’t rule out the possibility of a condition emerging at the point of the children we are looking at?”
Professor Newbury-Ecob replied: “Yes.”
Monaghan, of Belgrave Close, Blackburn, denies three counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of cruelty to a third child, who cannot be identified, all between January 1, 2013 and October 24, 2019.
The trial was adjourned until Tuesday morning.
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Meryl Streep, Cast Iron for Oscar
William Hill have trimmed the price of Meryl Streep winning the Best Actress Golden Globe from 4/7 to 1/2 as punters pile on what appears to be the certainty of the award season. Hills offer 11/8 that she does the Globe/Oscar double. George Clooney is 1/2 to win best Actor with the Descendants 8/11 to win best Picture.
"99.6% of our customers who have bet on the best Actress Globe have placed their money on Meryl Streep, they obviously believe she is a cast iron certainty," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.
Best Actress Drama: 1/2 Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), 15/8 Viola Davis (The Help), 10/1 Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), 12/1 Tilda Swinton, (We Need To Talk About Kevin), 12/1 Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
Best Actor Drama: 1/2 George Clooney (The Descendants), 3/1 Leonardo Di Caprio (J Edgar), 4/1 Brad Pitt (Moneyball), 9/1 Michael Fassbender (Shame), 10/1 Ryan Gosling (The Ides Of March)
Best Picture Drama: 8/11 The Descendants, 5/2 Hugo, 4/1 War Horse, 14/1 The Help, 16/1 The Ides Of March, 16/1 Moneyball
Best Director: 4/9 Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), 11/4 Alexander Payne (The Descendants), 9/2 Martin Scorsese (Hugo), 20/1 Woody Allen (Midnight In Paris), 25/1 George Clooney (The Ides Of March)
Best Actress Musical/Comedy: 1/5 Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn), 11/2 Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), 6/1 Charlize Theron (Young Adult), 9/1 Jodie Foster (Carnage), 14/1 Kate Winslet (Carnage)
Best Actor Musical/Comedy: 1/7 Jean Dujardin (The Artist), 13/2 Ryan Gosling (Crazy Stupid Love), 10/1 Joseph Gordon Levett (50/50), 12/1 Owen Wilson (Midnight In Paris), 14/1 Brendon Gleeson (The Guard)
Best Picture Musical/Comedy: 1/6 The Artist, 6/1 Midnight In Paris, 6/1 My Week With Marilyn, 14/1 Bridesmaids, 20/1 50/50


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We’re delighted to announce that multiple UC Press titles have been recognized at this year’s Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards! Celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing, the KKF Awards are the UK’s leading prizes for books published in the fields of photography and the moving image (including film, television and new media).
This year, we’re pleased to share that Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship, edited by Jacob Smith and Neil Verma, has been selected for the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book award for 2017.
“At long last, the most important radio auteur of the twentieth century (and a gifted screenwriter to boot) has received the attention he deserves. This book is not only an indispensable guide to Norman Corwin’s work but also a foundational study of the aesthetics and politics of radio and screen.” —James Naremore, author of An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema
Other UC Press finalists include:
- Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood by Miriam J. Petty (shortlist)
- Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor edited by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson (longlist)
These titles, along with the other Moving Image award finalists, will be among the books exhibited at the Somerset House during the Photo London Exhibition this month.
Many congratulations to our authors, and to all other authors recognized at this year’s awards!
See the selection of UC Press titles that were recognized last year.


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Feel free to share your solutions, ideas and creations below. If you get stuck, you can find some ideas here for completing this challenge.
Here’s my mini game (v 2.0)
That was awesome!
I finally finished my version of this quest. Added a ton of mechanics and turned into small puzzle FPP game. Hopefully you enjoy it and it isn’t too broken
I really like the atmosphere of this one. Very calm and relaxing. I had trouble landing the jumps but that’s probably just a skill thing. Couldn’t get past the cloud level because I kept falling.
Different being light and peaceful!
Lots to do.
But I couldn’t get to grips with the movement whilst jumping or lack there of so I had to give up after a dozen jumps in the sky area getting no where (bar 1 accident).
I saw one diamond in a tree (that I wasnt going to get to from the roof jump) and a fake one but that was a about it?
Does it work better full screen? I didnt seem to have that option on itchio but you can put it there.
Yeah, the trick is that you can change the trajectory of your jump while in the air by holding movement keys(like holding back arrrow key/s key to so you fall down earlier). Might see into some better ways to explain this midair movement mechanic to the player. Thanks a ton for playing the game!
I didn’t put the fullscreen option for itch.io webgl game since II was worried whole UI would break but there is a download for desktop windows/macos version, which should be fullscreen.
The diamond in the tree can be earned by finding the jump pad hidden by the grass near the tree. Most of the puzzles are either using jump pads or finding hidden stuff in the level(like the other 2 puzzle rooms hidden in the start of the level). I probably should allow player to go back to the main level if they are stuck on the jumping/cloud part though.
And with jump pads it’s all about still using movement keys in the middle of the jump, like holding the s/dow arrow key, to slow down and fall earlier. Might need to add some easier jumps at start that explain this mechanic more.
Thanks for giving it a shot
I’ve not had any trouble full screen in itchio with my games if anything they play better.
I dont have the time or the space to down load games.
I got the diamond in the tree and managed a few better jumps in the sky but sending back to the start and then mucking up the next stopped me again. I want left and right movements with the arrows but dont seem to get much/any. Too used to playing mine I expect.
Still lots of good stuff in there
Will try and see the itch.io full screen and if it works correctly for me gonna add it.
Will also add some helpful tips to explore around the first section and the tip about using all movement keys midair for aiming, pushing or slowind down your bounce. With that gonna also add 1 more checkpoint for the bouncy section to make it less rage inducing.
Thanks a ton for feedback!
Come to think of it there may be two full screen option things. One may be within Unity, which is the one i use, and one in itchio which i didn’t use as the Unity one was showing already…
Hi, so this is my very first time putting anything out there… it is pretty simple and mostly based around what was provided by the"quest" material but I have added at least one mechainc of my own… please provide feedback!
Cool - I can see there is a puzzle element to it but the jump to the main building is too frustrating and I missed too often for it to be fun to get to the end. i did see the exit button and made it to the high platform once but didnt know if/where to go from there.
Thanks Eddie, I appreciate the feedback… it was tricky judging the jump distance as I didn’t want it to be too straight forward.
It is a leap of faith kind of thing if you don’t adjust the mouse and keep pushing forward you will make it (will take a look at making it easier).
Help on what to do once on the high platform below (marked as a spoiler in case others want to work it out).
Once on the high platform use the jump pad but don’t go the obvious route.
Realy like the feel, certainly alot to do!
But I do have to say I found the maze quite annoying to the point I couldn’t get out even when it seemed I had found the way.
This was really fun, a few of the jumps were really challenging and I had to so them a few times other than that it really showed me how you can elevate a simple game!
That plays better now though jumps still quite tough and checkpointing definitely helps . Did, however, get stuck in the maze after getting the gem - couldnt see a way out…
Tried to click the link but the game wouldn’t load. Maybe it’s just me? Grats on finishing this challenge though!
Thank you, that is a shame… would appreciate the feedback.
Seems to work okay for me, maybe I will look at itch.io if it continues to be an issue.
Just got it working a few minutes after I posted. No idea why it suddenly worked lol. I had a hard time doing that first jump but I eventually got it working. Got lost in the little maze soon after but this looks like a solid start to your game.


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Looking for an easy and delicious chicken recipe that the whole family will love? Creamy Garlic Chicken is perfect! This dish is simple to make and can be ready in under 30 minutes. Plus, it’s loaded with flavor. If you’re looking for a new dinner idea, give Creamy Garlic Chicken a try. You won’t be disappointed.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about four)
- garlic cloves
- heavy cream
- parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
Start by preheating your oven to 400 degrees. Then, melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant. Next, add the chicken breasts to the skillet and cook until browned on both sides and cooked through. Once the chicken is cooked, remove it from the skillet and set it aside on a plate.
To the skillet, add the heavy cream, parmesan cheese, and parsley. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir until the sauce is smooth and bubbly.
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While there is no count of the number of trees and tree limbs downed along Boston's Emerald Necklace park system from this past weekend's storm, officials today called the damage significant and cautioned parkgoers to watch for loose hanging branches.
"They can come down very quickly and can be lethal," said Emerald Necklace Conservancy senior project manager Ray Oladapo-Johnson by phone after touring much of the park space to get an initial idea of Tropical Storm Irene's aftermath.
No injuries have been reported in the park system thus far, he said, and no sections of the six-park system, which comprises half of Boston's parkland, are closed, but residents are asked to keep an eye out when venturing through the 1000-plus acre Emerald Necklace.
The system stretches five miles from the Charles River through part of the Back Bay, extending over the city's border with Brookline where it runs along the Fenway and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods before reaching Roslindale and Roxbury and bordering parts of Mattapan and Dorchester.
"As you're going under any canopies, keep your head up," said Oladapo-Johnson, adding that any branches that are broken, but still hanging overhead can be reported to officials from the various agencies involved in cleanup efforts.
That crew includes the conservancy, state conservation and recreation officials, along with Boston and Brookline parks officials. Workers plan to tackle the most dangerous situations and damage done in the busiest areas first, the project manager said.
"They're being pretty efficient and reactive," Oladapo-Johnson said. "They were prepared and ready. I'm pretty impressed."
He said the edges of the park system were hit hardest by the former hurricane's weakened, but still-powerful wind and rain. He said any trees and debris that fell onto adjacent roadways had been cleared before Monday morning's traffic rush.
Deeper into the parks, the damage was more sporadic.
"Wind and rain can be pretty effective at bringing a tree down," he said. "It was a bad storm but not a terrible storm," adding that the park system has seen similar amounts of damage done by weather systems in recent memory.
He said the various agencies that oversee the system, which is made up of the Arnold Arboretum, Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, Jamaica Pond, Olmsted Park, and the Riverway, will likely consider replanting some of the lost vegetation perhaps as soon as this fall or next spring.
But, the size and scope of a replanting efforts will depend on the final tally of how many trees were destroyed or damaged, he said.
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