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So, when it's the weekend, the family is all snuggled in for a movie night together and they grab their bowls of ice cream how do I not cave to temptation? (I mean... it IS ice cream!!) I whip up a bowl of this in as much time as it takes them to get their hot fudge heated and ice cream scooped! (Note, this is also a DELIC post-workout meal, see slight alteration suggestions below!)
What do we need? 170 gr of Non-Fat Plain Greek Yogurt
1 serving of Vanilla Protein Powder (dry)
1 1/2 TBS of PB2 Protein Powder (dry)
40 gr Banana (this is about 1/2 medium size)
1 TBS Bake Believe or Lilly's Stevia Sweetened Dark Chocolate Baking Chips
1 pk Truvia
1/4 tsp Vanilla
1/4 tsp Coconut Extract
1 TBS Torani Sugar-Free Carmel Syrup Blend yogurt, protein powder, flavoring, and baking chips until smooth and creamy. Slice banana, stir in and serve!
I am always coming up with alternative desserts or treats that are really just a delicious way for me to get my protein in. If you have a request of a certain treat you'd like me to "convert" (LOL) post it below and I will see what I can do! OPTIONS: *Based on your goals and your macro needs for the day you can replace half the chips and the PB2 with 1 TBS of sugar-free peanut butter and it would be similar in calories, but the macros would change slightly. *You could also remove half the chips and add a full banana this would be a nice post-workout meal! *You could also lower this protein by just using 1/2 scoop protein powder, adding 2 oz of low-fat cottage cheese and blending it until smooth (rather than stirring) You may need to adust Truvia to accommodate the lack of sweetness from the removed protein powder.)
All of these adjustments will change the nutritional info below. 1 Serving Nutrition (using Tromega protein powder, Fage yogurt and Bake Believe chips) Calories: 350
Carbs 30g Fat 8.5g Pro 43
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Fresh out! Tee Pride hits us with another banger featuring Doro Music Frontier Lyta, this beautiful song is titled Oyinlomo.
The song was produced, mixed and mastered by Chilly Ace.
Listen & Download “Tee Pride & Lyta – Oyinlomo” below:-
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|Title:||Cross-sectional associations of albuminuria among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults: the eGFR Study.|
|Citation:||Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) 2018-01; 23(1): 37-45|
|Abstract:||To describe the detailed associations of albuminuria among a contemporary cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to inform strategies for chronic kidney disease prevention and management. A cross-sectional analysis of Indigenous participants of the eGFR Study. Clinical, biochemical and anthropometric measures were collected (including body-circumferences, blood pressure (BP); triglycerides, HbA1c, liver function tests, creatinine; urine- microscopic-haem, albumin: creatinine ratio (ACR), prescriptions- angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor II antagonist (ACEI/ARB). Albuminuria and diabetes were defined by an ACR>3.0 mg/mmol, and HbA1c≥48 mmol/mol or prior history respectively. Waist: hip ratio (WHR), and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were calculated. ACR was non-normally distributed; a logarithmic transformation was applied (in base 2), with each unit increase in log2-albuminuria representing a doubling of ACR. 591 participants were assessed (71% Aboriginal, 61.6% female, mean age 45.1 years, BMI 30.2 kg/m2 , WHR 0.94, eGFR 99.2 ml/min/1.73m2 ). The overall prevalence of albuminuria, diabetes, microscopic-haem and ACEI/ARB use was 41.5%, 41.5%, 17.8% and 34.7% respectively; 69.3% of adults with albuminuria and diabetes received an ACEI/ARB. Using multivariable linear regression modelling, the potentially modifiable factors independently associated with log2-albuminuria were microscopic-haem, diabetes, WHR, systolic BP, alkaline phosphatase (all positive) and eGFR (inverse). Albuminuria is associated with diabetes, central obesity and haematuria. High ACEI/ARB prescribing for adults with diabetes and albuminuria was observed. Further understanding of the links between fat deposition, haematuria and albuminuria is required.|
|Click to open PubMed article:||https://www.ezpdhcs.nt.gov.au/login?url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed//29250918|
|Journal title:||Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.)|
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If you are reading this, today or later, you are gonna buy an e-scooter for sure. That's why we have sorted the best electric scooters under 1 lakh for you.
For decades, we have been living with the fact that water and electronics do not mix. But it's impossible to resist the temptation of riding in the rain on an electric scooter.
In the last couple of years, the electric vehicle market has been growing steadily. In India alone the E bike market is expected to reach a value of INR 17.43 billion by FY 2024, from INR 2.92 billion
The Indian automobile industry is ushering into a new and advanced era, and we are glad to be a part of it!
With the technological developments; the move made by the government towards zero-emission


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(TibetanReview.net, May23, 2015) – The local Chinese government of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is to invest one billion yuan this year to build pilot sites for 20 small towns as a part of its plan for further urbanizing of the region, reported China’s online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn May 22, citing, www.xzxw.com. The report said that while the year 2015 will be the preparatory phase for the project, 2016 will see its full implementation and 2017 its completion.
The report said this will be the first provincial-level pilot sites of Tibetan-style small towns, with the sites being chosen along transport routes, rivers and borders with stable economic and social foundations as well as industrial advantages.
Based on these criteria, the report continued, there will be three small town pilot sites in Lhasa City and four in Shigatse City, including Gyirong (Tibetan: Kyirong) Town. There will be three sites in Lhoka Prefecture, three in Nyingchi (Nyingtri) Prefecture, three at Chamdo City, two in Nagqu (Nagchu) Prefecture and two in Ngari Prefecture.

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Terri Butler MP honoured long-term volunteer John Evans OAM at a delayed Australia Day Presentation in Bulimba Community Hall, Sunday 29th November.
John has been volunteering for the environment for the past 30 years. Originally an animal carer, John went on to work assisting bushcare and catchment care in the area of Bulimba Creek and even further afield. He was one of the B4C founding members.
B4C Catchment Manager Wayne Cameron congratulated John and explained that his work encompassed starting groups, running bushcare programs and engaging the wider community.
“Today John is the volunteer Nursery Procurement Manager at B4C and works six days a week sourcing nursery stocks and organising the propagation of native plants by volunteers at the Community Nursery.”
“His contribution to B4C cannot be understated and he deserved his recognition at the Federal level,” Wayne said.


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Berkeley's shoreline: From reptiles to a park
Steps away from Berkeley's elegant Fourth Street shopping district is a different side of the city. Instead of strolling by upscale restaurants and shops selling jewelry, lingerie and iPads, explore exotic reptiles and public art near Berkeley's shores.
Visit the East Bay Vivarium, the art installation at the Amtrak station and scenic Aquatic Park.
Located at Hearst Avenue and Fifth Street is the East Bay Vivarium (1827-C Fifth St.), one of the nation's largest collections of reptiles, amphibians and arachnids. You can see snakes, frogs, lizards, turtles and even tarantulas up close.
Although the creatures are for sale, browsers are welcome. Get an eye-to-eye look at a rattlesnake, baby iguana, baby tiger reticulated python and more types of boas than you ever imagined.
Not ready to own a snake? You can invite a giant boa or a black-throated monitor to your next birthday party. The vivarium's Traveling Reptile Program will bring its animals to you, with programs adjusted for any age group.
The East Bay Vivarium is open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, go to www.eastbayvivarium.com.
Underpass, Amtrak station
When you leave the vivarium, walk south on Fourth Street, past Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto and under the University Avenue overpass. This once dark and somewhat dismal spot has been made into an art venue for painting and poetry. "Mak Roote," a vast installation by muralist John Wehrle and poet Betsy Davids, adorns the walls. Look up at the concrete beams above the columns to see evocative lines of poetry while listening to trains rushing by.
Continue under the overpass to the West Berkeley Rail Stop and Transit Plaza. This was once Berkeley's shoreline. Enjoy the mural showing Wavy Gravy walking his fish, and also see a moving memorial to Scott Slaughter, who was killed crossing the tracks in 2007.
Continue south on Fourth Street or cut through at Brennan's, an old-fashioned hofbrau, (700 University Ave.) and look at the artwork honoring the Ohlone in the concrete panels in front of the restaurant. The rest of the block is mixed-use apartments.
At Addison Street, turn right and carefully cross the tracks (a designated crossing), continuing to Bolivar Drive. (This part of the walk is a little grungy.) You shortly arrive at Aquatic Park, with the graceful arc of the pedestrian overpass in front of you.
Constructed between 1935 and 1937 by Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the park is an excellent place to see shorebirds - egrets, herons, avocets, dowitchers, willets and lots of ducks. Look for black-crowned night herons roosting in the trees. The central lagoon was carved out of San Francisco Bay when the Eastshore Highway was constructed. Walking down Bolivar, you pass some structures, after which you can pick up the pedestrian-bike trail right by the water. The total distance around is about 2 miles, but for a shorter walk, just continue to Dream Land for Kids, a children's playground complete with castles. Adjoining the playground is the Butterfly-Hummingbird Ecology Garden.
The Frisbee golf course is very popular. Rowing, motorboating, canoeing and water-skiing are allowed, but fishing is prohibited. Volunteers from the nearby animal shelter walk dogs around the park.
The Berkeley Pedestrian Bridge opened in 2002 to allow bikers, walkers and wheelchair users to cross over Interstate 80 and get to the Berkeley Marina and Eastshore State Park. Once over the bridge, walkers and bikers can connect with an 8.5-mile path that runs along the bay from Emeryville to Richmond.
In 2009, two mammoth sculptures, "Berkeley Big People," were added, one on each end of the bridge. Created by artist Scott Donahue, the statues were controversial at first but have become accepted as part of the Berkeley landscape. The stainless steel, fiberglass, concrete and bronze sculptures are almost 30 feet high and celebrate Berkeley's activist history with fist-waving protesters.
Cross the bridge to get a better look at the artwork. On the other side, stop at the Sea Breeze Market & Deli for snacks and coffee.
By public transportation, take BART to downtown Berkeley. At the corner of Shattuck Square and Center Street, catch the 51B and get off at University and Sixth Street. Walk one block west to Fifth.
By car from San Francisco, take Interstate 80 to University Avenue (exit 11). Keep right at the fork, following signs for Frontage Road. Then keep left at the next fork onto Eastshore Frontage Road and shortly turn right onto Hearst Avenue. Turn left onto Fourth Street. There are free parking lots along Fourth Street. You can also park on Bolivar in Aquatic Park.
Urban Outings are presented by Greenbelt Alliance, the Bay Area's advocate for protecting open spaces and creating vibrant places. To suggest an Urban Outing, contact Gail Todd, tour leader for S.F. City Guides and author of "Lunchtime Walks in Downtown San Francisco." To find out more about Greenbelt Alliance's work, visit www.greenbelt.org.
Gail Todd is a freelance writer. email@example.com

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Ryan-Kilcoyne School of Irish Dancing
Please sign up for our upcoming dance outs!
What is a "dance out"? It is your dancer's chance to perform with Ryan-Kilcoyne at local events and festivals! Venues vary from assisted living residences to restaurants, churches, and schools. ALL dancers are welcome and encouraged to participate in dance outs!
Check the SignUpGenius, and check it often for ongoing additions and any possible time changes. Dance outs marked as TIME TBD are very likely to change as the date gets closer.
At least 5 dancers make a dance out; we need your help to achieve this!
Each event will have a teacher or experienced dancer's parent there to run the event. After you sign up, they will contact you to coordinate. Please contact Margaret Mayorga (Fiona M's mom) with questions, at [email protected] or at 215-478-2543.
Christina & Molly
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Local activism comes in many forms. Two contrasting public events tonight demonstrate that range.
The campaign to curtail or ban taser use has gained considerably support across Canada, where the RCMP is being pressured to change its policies with marches, such as this one, and legislative inquiries.
Sonoma County 's October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality has organized a march on Friday, February 13th at 5:30pm in Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, calling on the Sheriff's Department to immediately end their use of the Taser.
Friday, February 13, 5:30 PM
California is second only to Florida in the number of taser-related fatalities charted by the Seattle Post-Intelligener.
Candlelight Vigil for Male Victims of Domestic Violence
Join in a candlelight vigil in memory of the men who recently lost their lives to domestic violence here in Sonoma County. We will honor and remember all male victims of domestic violence in a show of strength and peace.
Friday, February 13th , 6pm-7pmRedwood Lodge / Odd Fellows Hall
16219 1st Street, Guerneville
at intersection of Church & First Streets


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The Naked Lunch: Disguised Espionage
I like to think of The Naked Lunch as more of an espionage device than a book, or maybe an espionage device disguised as a book. The main purpose of the book/device is to infiltrate: the readers, the bureaucracy, the system, the paradigm, etc., and disrupt quotidian processes. It does this with a variety of mechanisms built into its structure: moments of discrete parataxis between sentences and paragraphs, nonlinear treatment of chronologic time, phantasmagoric imagery, a vertiginous depiction of protagonist as double agent. These mechanisms cause trigger responses in the reader that reveal the nature of the Naked Lunch book/device.
Take for example Burroughs’s comment that “Certain passages in the book that have been called pornographic were written as a tract against capital punishment in the manner of Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal.” The “pornographic” scenes in the book are a microcosm of the book/device’s function. The ostensible “pornographic” aspect of theses scenes acts like a trigger device: their sexual intensity, their violence, their fantastic imagery arrest the reader. Whatever response follows, whether nausea, excitement, embarrassment, etc., the reader is hooked; the mechanism has ruptured.
In a sense, the book was predestined to cause a censorial response, programmed, as it was, to infiltrate and disrupt. It seems likely that Burroughs, along with his editors and co-conspirators, Ginsberg and Kerouac, had anticipated the Boston censorship trail. Whether or not an attempt to ban the book would be successful, Burroughs et al. knew the book/device would perform its function successfully by garnering attention to its publication. This is another function of the book/device: its ability to utilize the mechanisms of control against the bureaucratic entities that wield them. The trail to ban the book becomes a marketing device.
Even today, it is difficult to find a recent printing of Naked Lunch that does not include a recounting of its censorship trial in an editorial note or introductory statement. In a sense, the trial of Naked Lunch helped usher it into the cannon of popular literature. Despite this, Naked Lunch is still a book read and handed off by interlopers and double agents. Much like the Boston obscenity trail, the content of the book has also managed to subvert the persistent, parasitic marketing mechanisms attached to it (i.e. the way in which the marketing of the book has inevitably come to include a recounting of its censorship; the labeling of the book as “Beat” literature). This resilience is a testament to the integrity of Burroughs’s work.
For me, the integrity of the Naked Lunch is one of its most important aspects. Had the book/device been poorly constructed, its function would have dissipated over time. But, even now, reading the book I can feel glitches in the code: the pulsating gore beneath the morning news, the junk dealer beneath the gray mask of the politicians face. Suddenly, again, the surface no longer hides “what is on the end of every fork.”

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Monday, November 19 (6 pm supper) to Wednesday, November 21 (6 pm)
Aging is a challenge unless, as the poet William Butler Yeats writes,
“Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress…”
Many folks in our congregations are in the stage of life in which they are experiencing the “tatters in their mortal dress.” This workshop is designed to help ministry people and lay leaders understand the spiritual and psychological work of aging. Together, we will learn how to assist the elder members of our congregations in empowering their souls to “sing, and louder sing”, despite the losses and challenges of their elder years. In circle and individually, we will learn about and try the soul practices that lead to a heart of wisdom in old age. Through scripture, poetry, guided meditation, art, the sharing of stories in circle, and insights from the workshop leader, we will begin to understand the inner work of becoming conscious in elderhood and how best to facilitate it for others.
Rev. Dr. Anne Beattie-Stokes has been an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada since 1979 and is presently in ministry with the people of White Oaks United Church in London, Ontario. Anne is passionate about the transformative journey of Christian faith, and loves to use art, metaphor, story, wisdom circles, and nature to help people connect to their own deep gifts and calling. Anne is the author of A Heart of Wisdom: Inspiration and Instruction for Conscious Elderhood. Through photography, art, poetry, and simple prose, her book offers instruction in the various spiritual and psychological tasks of the elder years of life, and inspiration for waking up to the depths of one’s own journey in elderhood.
Contact Staff: Marg Janick-Grayston
Decision Day: October 29
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I simply loved a great deal of films that were screened this semester. "Les Cousins," "400 Blows," and "My Night at Maud's" are just a few. "Bonnie and Clyde" however has to be my favourite film that we watched this semester. I believe that I like this film so much because it had a lot of the same qualities films that I am accustomed to watching have. This film was easy to follow and understand, simple, direct, and it had a wonderfully entertaining plot. When I compare "Bonnie and Clyde" to other films I have watched this semester, I really wonder why I liked this film so much better than 85% of the other films screened if "Bonnie and Clyde" is a film that was directly influenced by the French New Wave.
I was surprised to find out that Francios Truffaut was originally approached to direct this film. However, he declined the offer and Arthur Penn directed it. When I watched this film I did notice a few stylistic similarities between "Bonnie and Clyde" and other New Wave films. I think the similarities between the films lies in the relaxed editing and the storyline. A few times in this film, I noticed jump-cuts. When I saw the jump cuts, I was reminded of Godard, the director who is known for including jump cuts in his editing techniques. Also, when I was watching "Bonnie Clyde," I was reminded of Ferdinand and Marianne from Godard's "Pierrot le Fou." I consider Ferdinand and Marianne the French "Bonnie and Clyde." Both of the couples are criminals and both die at the end. Being influenced by the French New Wave is without a doubt one of the main things this film is known for. However I think it is even more famous for the sex and the violence that appeared in the film.
Since the 30's the Hay's Code strictly monitored what Hollywood was putting in their films. The Hay's Code outlines many guidelines for filmmakers, but the fact that it strictly regulated sex and violence is probably what it is best remembered for. By the 1960's the Hay's Code was fully revoked. "Bonnie and Clyde" is one of the first films to break all the rules of the Hay's Code. This film was full of sex and violence right from the beginning when audiences see a naked Bonnie in her bedroom. There are also a few scenes where the audience sees Bonnie and Clyde making love. Furthermore there are countless gunfight scenes with the police and the film has an explicitly violent ending. In the final scene, Bonnie and Clyde are brutally shot by police forces. For someone who watches the film today, I would imagine they would not consider the last scene very violent, but for someone living in 1967, it was shocking.
Aside from the fact that this film broke all the rules of Hay's Code and was influenced by the French New Wave, it is considered a "great" film simply because it was well done. Although the film is full of sex and violence, it is very funny as well. The scene when the Barrow gang steals the car of a wealthy undertaker hilarious. The steal the man's car, but the gang also welcomes the man and his girlfriend. Together they laugh and eat together for a while. This scene is funny but I found that it foreshadowed the death of Bonnie, Clyde and Buck. As soon as Bonnie discovers the man is an undertaker she becomes angry and kicks them out of the car. The ending of the film is also very interesting to me. Although Bonnie and Clyde obviously die in the end, I feel as if they will live forever due to the poem Bonnie had published in the newspaper a few scenes prior to their death. I felt as if that poem had an immortalizing effect.
This film intrigued me greatly. It was funny, well-done, and easy to follow. Throughout the course of the semester, my definition of film has been challenged so many times, especially with the viewing of Godard films such as "Weekend" and "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her." It was a relief to see a film like "Bonnie and Clyde." This film gave me reassurance that my definition of film which is essentially "a visual form of expression that has artistic value and tells a story," is somewhat accurate.


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Millions and millions of theories thrive in this world that claim to have the understanding of one of the hottest debatable emotion, love. Somewhere through the paths of evolution, we didn’t come to realize as to what this horrific interaction of neurons and neurotransmitters beget the illusions and dreams; of the root of all evils and ironically, everything that is good. Like the conscience that each person houses, this maiden, Love, too has two sides to her. Her fairy supervisor, Affection, and her devious twin from the hot hells, Addiction.
While studying the most studied and yet the most mysterious part of the human body, the brain, my brain fascinates how each of the mental illnesses classified and identified throughout the world, becomes just an exaggeration and more obvious form of the relatively normal behaviour.
Affection. It is the most ‘warm’ feeling that a person feels, and not just the person, but also the person for whom it is felt for. Quoting Robert A. Heinlein, from Stanger in a Strange Land, “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” It seems that all you aim to do after that is to keep your significant other happy. You make sure to remember that they do not find anything upsetting and you try to be the bundle of joy for them. After-all they are your bundle of joy!
And sadly, in that process we forget that we aren’t happy anymore. Though Addiction is the evil twin, she still cares about her vulnerable twin, Affection and jumps in to save her. “You accept the kind of love you think you deserve.” Addiction doesn’t believe in this philosophy. She goes after that person even if she thinks they’re unattainable.
Affection is willing to take all the pain caused by the other person and still enjoy it. Sounds like Masochism to me! And yet, this manifestation of the neurological interactions is accepted as normal, even is sought after, because in a very subtle amount all of us have suffered at the hands of Affection and have enjoyed being vulnerable to the person we assume to love.
The natural histories of diseases have been a great help to us. We don’t realize this, but due to the restless and tireless toil of the researchers and doctors over the world, we have been able to fairly predict the outcome of an infection. Needless to say, over the years, and observing various ‘love-stories’ around me, I’ve been able to identify, the evolution of this emotion (read infection). Much like the widely loved characters Pokemon.
Suddenly this emotion starts to sound like a disease! And indeed it becomes one when Affection evolves into Addiction. This is a quote from one of the messages I received in a group text from one of our very own Lexiconian:
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not, it is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of, sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependant on the other, without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will still be happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
I never bothered to look up the source. Irrespective of the source, a truth is a truth and that’s all that matters. While this ‘normal’ emotion evolves into the disease, we see it closely resembles addiction to a substance.
Addiction essentially fulfils all the criteria.
- Tolerance: you want to spend more than justifiable amount of time with the other. A long time with them does you no good and you end up complaining, “You don’t have time for me!”
- Withdrawal: Addiction also suffers withdrawal symptoms. In this era of electronizing the emotion, it occurs as threat and intimidation mails, and all the antisocial behaviour one may seem to imagine.
- Increase in dosage : a consequence of tolerance, the person essentially becomes a leech of the other’s life.
- Cut down : an addict will try to avoid the other person. It is just a cry for help, because both of them know the addict is going to come down crawling to the other in no time.
- Time lost : you start dedicating a large portion of time just for the other. You want to make sure that their coffee has that exact amount of sugar that they like, and if that small thing goes wrong, you beat yourself up for it.
- You lose your touch with reality. Even after the other person treats you degree lesser than you’re supposed to be treated, you keep with them. You fight with your friends and family just to get high on the other person.
- You know the other is destroying your life but you still keep them in your life.
Ah well! I seem to have diagnosed many of the ‘relationships’ around as a mental disorder; an addiction, only the substance here is another person. But in the end it’s all a matter of perception. If you think, as I do, it is a disease and if it sends a warm feeling to your pericardial space and causes an enjoyable palpitation, (defying the whole definition, of course) it is same joy that made Meera dance in the praise of Lord Krishna.
Keep up with me, and sure as I know, there’s always a way where I can see these conection of the diseases to a relatively normal behaviour! J
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Excited to be part of this show coming up this Saturday June 22, 2019 in Franklin, Indiana.
For this year’s Plein Air event in Delray Beach, I was happy to have my long-time artist friend, Margie Homan join me in Florida. For the practice day, it rained, and I managed to paint a street scene from the trunk of our car! … And ended up selling it too! Margie made a very lovely painting as well.
Margie & I with our rainy day paintings
Thankfully, the day of the competition was beautifully sunny. Here are my entries for this year’s one-day competition.
Morning at Sundy House
There will be a dozen of my new small 2014 flower paintings soon at the DVAC gift gallery. But this year, I’m bringing something new to the table – Salad! I wanted to study greens closely so I could be better prepared in landscape painting. The fact that this still life project is leafy and very temporary is also an added bonus.
It is good to have the painting “Landmark for Home” displayed in the new owner’s entryway. What was once a landmark for our home, now greets them at their lovely home.
Here is a day by day progression of a small painting. Day 1
Some of my art friends thought I ought to try making those small flower paintings much larger. So, I blew one up!
Here is my entry for the short show at DVAC, “If a Tree Falls” June 21-28, titled,
“Tree Company”. There was an article in the news about a staircase structure at Cox Arboretum that looked incredible. It was! and gave me a great vantage point to do this painting in the late evening sun.
Here is my entry for the Ohio State Fair in Columbus July25 – Aug 4.
The painting,Twisting Truth has about as many kinds of twists as I could manage. I liked bringing in multicultural elements to accentuate this universal dilemma that tells this ancient story.
Home is the place where dreams germinate.
Hopes and dreams are magical and bring forth life.
“Dream Home” is now completed with more defined
movement in the composition. I enjoyed the study of the way the leaves turned and layered, and infused them with my life. (28″H x 22″W)


Yesterday, the Times front page featured an article headlined “Former Security Chiefs Trade Blame For Lapses In Guarding The Capitol.” It was more evidence that the Times, supposedly the role model for American journalism, allows biased innuendo, veiled editorializing and deliberate misinformation to corrupt what it is supposed to be reporting.
Here are some examples:
- “It also showed that the overlapping jurisdictions of the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia government and other agencies created utter confusion that hindered attempts to stop the most violent assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812.”
That’s a deliberately false and inflammatory comparison. The Capitol was burned in 1812, and it was a war. The attackers were also an invading foreign force. It is also bad history. On July 2, 1915, a former German professor at Harvard, Erich Muenter, planted a package containing three sticks of dynamite in the Capitol near the Senate Reception room. The explosive detonated around midnight and during a time when the Senate had been on recess. I’d say the explosion of a bomb qualifies as a “more violent” assault on the Capitol, but if you disagree, how about March 1, 1954, when four Puerto Rican-Americans fired guns in the House of Representatives, injuring five congressmen? Or is that not “an attack on the Capitol”?
The Times line was either quickly added to Wikipedia’s entry on the January 6 event, or the Times reporters cribbed the comparison from Wikipedia. This is how bad reporting becomes “fact.”
- Here’s an example of how the Times lets others do their propaganda for them:
“None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred,” the former Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund told senators. He called the riot “the worst attack on law enforcement and our democracy that I have seen” and said he witnessed insurrectionists assaulting officers not only with their fists, but also with pipes, sticks, bats, metal barricades and flagpoles. These criminals came prepared for war,” Mr. Sund said.


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Netflix is getting another animated series in Bad Crimes. The dark comedy procedural comes courtesy of the creators of The Office and King of the Hill, Greg Daniels and Mike Judge, which will reportedly star Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus.
Most people know of Judge and Daniels as the brains behind King of the Hill. However, the duo has concocted other border-line genius shows since and before as well. Case in point, Silicon Valley, Parks and Recreation, as well as Beavis and Butt-Head (only Judge). But, as much pedigree these two might bring to the table, this is arguably the first animated series that the two will work on that will feature two female leads.
Byer and Lapkus are Netflix alums with multiple appearances in Netflix's slate of original films and shows under their belt. Byer, in particular, has been nominated twice at the Emmy awards for her work on Nailed It!. Meanwhile, Lapkus played a key role for several seasons in the streaming platform's hit show, Orange is the New Black, as well as The Wrong Missy, among others.
In Bad Crimes, Byer and Lapkus will voice Kara and Jennie, respectively, FBI agents who travel across the United States solving crimes while trying to live a normal life. So far, Netflix has only ordered 10 episodes, but if Bad Crimes ends up becoming a hit, who knows? Judge and Daniels will likely want Bad Crimes to deliver the numbers it will deserve as the debut series from the duo's new production company, Bandera Entertainment Company.
In addition to Judge and Daniels, Bad Crimes will see Full Frontal with Samantha Bee's Nicole Silverberg as an executive producer alongside Erica Hayes.
Unfortunately, Netflix did not announce an official release date for Bad Crimes. Since the streaming platform only just ordered Bad Crimes, don't expect to see it hit the library soon. Most likely, Bad Crimes won't arrive on Netflix until late 2022, but we're learning more towards an early 2023 premiere.
In other Netflix news, the world's biggest streamer just confirmed that it plans on producing back-to-back Red Notice sequels. The Cuphead Show! also recently got its first trailer ahead of an February 18 launch. Unfortunately, it appears that Netflix's commitment towards providing quality content literally comes at a cost, with subscription prices going up in the United States.


RAWALPINDI, MAY 12 (DNA) — Rioters who attacked Lahore Corps Commander’s house and other Army installations have been identified by the law enforcing agencies as the probe moves forward.
Protestors stormed Lahore Corps Commander’s house after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case. Few rioters who attacked Army’s installations have been identified and legal action against those has been initiated.
The law enforcement agencies have identified attackers of the Lahore Corps Commander’s house and booked them under terror changes. Owais Mushtaq, Ibad Farooq, Muhammad Hashi Khan and Jahanzeb Khan have been identified so far for their involvement in vandalism and torching properties.
Army installations and Corps Commander’s house in Lahore came under attack during a protest of PTI workers. It was also reported that Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Ali Nasir Rizvi sustained severe injuries while clearing the Lahore Corps Commander’s house.
As per details, DIG Operations Ali Nasir Rizvi was hit with stones by the protestors during the clearance operations at the Lahore Corps Commander’s house. — DNA


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THE TRAGEDY OF SLAVERY: ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC AND THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT OF NATURAL LAW
Abstract:This article focuses on the history of the concept of natural law and the role which Aristotle, and especially his Rhetoric, has to play within it. It is sometimes suggested that the origins of the concept of law are to be located in the writings of Plato and Aristotle in the fourth century BCE. The article argues that there is evidence both in Aristotle's Politics and in his Rhetoric to support the view that this is not the case. In these texts Aristotle suggests that the origins of the concept of natural law lie in the writings of the Sophists in the fifth century, some of whom used natural law arguments to question the legitimacy of slavery.
Keywords: Aristotle; Greek political theory; Natural law; Sophism; Sophocles; history of concepts; history of political thought; natural rights; political concepts; political philosophy; political theory; politics; rhetoric; rights; slavery
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Economics and Politics, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU., Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Trump Asked Deputy Attorney General If He Was “On My Team”
Yet another demand for a loyalty pledge from a law enforcement official by a President under investigation.
CNN is reporting this afternoon that President Trump appears to have asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a loyalty pledge in what appears to be yet another attempt to undermine the investigation into his 2016 campaign and Russian interference in the election:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump’s help. The top Justice Department official in the Russia investigation wanted Trump’s support in fighting off document demands from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes.
But the President had other priorities ahead of a key appearance by Rosenstein on the Hill, according to sources familiar with the meeting. Trump wanted to know where the special counsel’s Russia investigation was heading. And he wanted to know whether Rosenstein was “on my team.”
The episode is the latest to come to light portraying a President whose inquiries sometimes cross a line that presidents traditionally have tried to avoid when dealing with the Justice Department, for which a measure of independence is key. The exchange could raise further questions about whether Trump was seeking to interfere in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into potential collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia and obstruction of justice by the White House.
At the December meeting, the deputy attorney general appeared surprised by the President’s questions, the sources said. He demurred on the direction of the Russia investigation, which Rosenstein has ultimate authority over now that his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has recused himself. And he responded awkwardly to the President’s “team” request, the sources said.”
Of course, we’re all on your team, Mr. President,” Rosenstein told Trump, the sources said. It is not clear what Trump meant or how Rosenstein interpreted the comment.
The Justice Department declined to comment for this story. The White House did not comment.
Rosenstein’s meeting with the President came as Rosenstein prepared to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Trump appeared focused on Rosenstein’s testimony, according to a source briefed on the matter, and he brought it up with the deputy attorney general.
As a further sign of the President’s focus on Rosenstein’s testimony, one of the sources said Trump also had suggested questions to members of Congress that they could ask Rosenstein.
One line of inquiry Trump proposed lawmakers ask about was whether Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election because Mueller was not selected as FBI director. CNN has reported that Trump has been venting to his aides about Rosenstein in recent weeks and even raised the possibility of his removal. Sources say Trump believes Rosenstein was upset Mueller wasn’t selected as FBI director and responded by making him special counsel. It does not appear those questions were asked of Rosenstein at the hearing.
Rosenstein’s December 13 appearance before the committee included strong backing for Mueller. He also pushed back at Democrats’ questions about the President’s demands for loyalty.
“As long as you are following your oath of office, you can also be faithful to the administration,” he testified.
At the hearing, Rosenstein repeatedly declined to say whether Trump had ever asked him about the Russia Investigation. But he testified that he never received any “improper orders” from Trump and denied that anyone ever asked him to pledge his loyalty, dating back to his time in the Bush administration.
“Nobody has asked me to take a loyalty pledge, other than the oath of office,” Rosenstein said.
Rosenstein, of course, is a key player in the ongoing Russia investigation and has been ever since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from supervising the investigation due to his involvement with the Trump campaign and the fact that he had contact with the Russian Ambassador to the United States prior to Trump becoming President. When Trump fired F.B.I. Director James Comey, it was Rosenstein who drafted the memo that purported to justify Comey’s firing based on his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and her handling of classified material. Within days, of course, Trump essentially admitted that he fired Comey due to the Russia investigation. It was subsequent to these events that Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russia matter, and there have been numerous reports since then that Trump was particularly frustrated with that decision as well as the fact that Sessions had originally recused himself to begin with. Additionally, in recent weeks Rosenstein has come under attack by Trump and Trump surrogates and there have been some suggestions that Trump was considering removing him from office.
This isn’t the first time that President Trump has shown an obsession with loyalty from people who are tied to the legal system. In February of last year in an Oval Office meeting, Trump asked F.B.I. Director James Comey for a loyalty pledge a conversation that made Comey uncomfortable enough to begin memorializing his conversations with the President up until the point he was fired. Over the summer we learned that he considered withdrawing the nomination of Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch because he was concerned about his loyalty to the White House, but ultimately backed off at the urging of his White House Counsel. And, most recently, we learned that he asked Associate F.B.I. Director Andrew McCabe, who had briefly served as Director in the wake of Comey’s firing and took early retirement this week after coming under fire from Trump, who he had voted for in the 2016 Presidential election. All of this shows an unhealthy obsession with loyalty on the President’s part, especially when it comes from people who are in positions in which it would be entirely inappropriate for them to pledge such loyalty. On some level, you would have thought that someone would have had a discussion with Trump about this already. Of course, maybe they did and he just isn’t listening.

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I set up the rigid sphere reduced collision integral, W(1,1)*. I attempted to set up the reduced collision integral based on the Lennard-Jones potential, but I need more help to do the numeric integration. To that end, I requested "The transport properties of non-polar gases" by J. O. Hirschfelder, R. B. Bird, and E. L. Spotz. from the Journal of Chemical Physics volume 16 p968-81 via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). In particular, I have trouble setting the reduced radius of minimum effective intermolecular & centrifugal reduced potential when it is a function of reduced collision velocty, reduced impact parameter, and reduced radius.

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Have a gen2 Drobo on Vista SP2 64-bit (via USB). I have been using it for nearly a year on Vista with zero problems so far. Yesterday, I upgraded to 1.3.7. When the upgrade finished, it said I had to reboot Drobo, I clicked Reboot Now, but it said it couldn’t because it was in use. So, I shut down Windows, and Drobo rebooted (lights went out, came back up with the blue trailing lights thingie showing it was booting up, came up successfully, then shut back down). When I started Windows back up, everything seemed OK. I accessed files successfully, and all appeared well.
Today, in the middle of me doing nothing but surfing the web, Windows suddenly gave me a “this device will perform better on a USB2.0 port…” even though I had done nothing (Drobo IS on a USB 2.0 port). When I tried to launch an explorer window, Windows locked up on me. I unplugged my USB devices one-by-one, and nothing happened until I unplugged Drobo, then everything started working fine.
I rebooted Windows, and could not get it to come up cleanly (explorer.exe “stopped responding” – I’d close it and it would just lock up again – could never get to a workable state). I unplugged Drobo, and everything immediately starts working normally. If I plug Drobo back in, I get the “…will work better on a USB2.0 port” message, and Windows becomes unresponsive. I’ve tried every port on my PC and get the same result. I’ve also tried different USB cables.
I moved Drobo to another laptop (Vista SP2 32-bit) and it does exactly the same thing - if I plug it in, it gives me the “USB2.0” error message and locks up explorer.exe. Unplug it, and all is well.
Any ideas? Have I lost all my data? I can unplug the power and plug it back in and it boots up without any error lights. It successfully lights my drives green and correctly identifies the amount of data via the blue lights, but I can’t get it to come up in Windows as it always kills explorer.exe.


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Famous Gazelle, best known for its trade-in program, will be ending the very business from February 1st 2021.
The company emailed its customers saying, “we will no longer be offering our trade-in option on Gazelle. If you have a trade-in that is in process right now, your trade-in will continue as planned. You can also still log in to your account here to view the status of your current trade-ins.”
Of course this doesn’t mean that Gazelle is going out of business, but the company will be focusing on its ecoATM kiosks which pays immediate cash for used devices.
If you are disappointed like us, and want to explore other alternatives, we recommend a few good trade-in businesses in our feature listing for best websites to buy refurbished devices and best places to sell used devices for cash.

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Genres: Indie & Art House, Educational, Musicals & Performing Arts, Documentary
Winner of a Locarno jury prize in 2002, FORGET BAGHDAD tells the forgotten story of four Baghdadi-Jews, all former members of the Iraqi communist party who were forced to emigrate at Israel s founding. Iraqi-born, Zür... more »
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A story of Arab Jews in Israel . . .
Ronald Scheer | Los Angeles | 02/11/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This remarkable documentary tells the little-known story of Arab Jews whose families had lived for generations in Baghdad before they were forcibly resettled in Israel in 1948. Four of them, all elderly men at the time they were interviewed for the film (shot in 2000 and released in 2002), were active members of the Communist Party when they were young and still have some of that contrarian and anti-materialist spirit. Their political views, however, are incidental to the main purpose of the film, which is to reveal not only their personal stories but the status of a large minority of Jews in Israel who are ethnically Arab and thus torn in their identities between the Arab and Israeli worlds. The film takes Israeli society and the government to task for the racial bias in its neglect of these immigrants and social attitudes which are reflected in the stereotypes of them found in Israeli film. This subject is discussed by a fifth interviewee, Ella Shohat, an Israeli-born Arab who has emigrated to the U.S, where she was teaching at the time at New York University.
Most striking is the film's complex structure, which breaks the screen surface into multiple "windows" that permit us to simultaneously watch interviews, archival footage, film clips, old photographs, and text in Arabic and Hebrew. An interesting short film on the DVD explains the mathematically precise rationale for assigning areas of the screen for each type of image to appear. The film is rather hauntingly fixed in its moment of history by the view of the WTC towers seen outside the office window of Ms. Shohat. This is a richly detailed and informative film that necessarily deepens our understanding of the Middle East at a time when so much is over-simplified by the news media."
Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Washington,DC USA | 03/18/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Forget Baghdad is one of the best documentaries on the history of the immigration of Arab Jews from their native countries to the newborn State of Israel in 1948. The film is focused on four mid-aged Jewish Iraqis who left Baghdad in their youth in 1950.
The four men, Moussa Houri, Samir Naqqash, Shimon Ballas, and Sami Michael, were all members of the Iraqi Communist Party before they left Iraq. As they confessed their love to their homeland, they said that the primary reason why they left was because life in their country of origin could not be tolerated anymore. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jewish Iraqis lost their job, saw their assets confiscated and were subject to extreme social discrimination measure. Hence, they were left with one option: to leave Iraq. Yet, the only destination they could go to was Israel, and that was what they did.
But coming to a European-built Israel, the Iraqi Jews (the Sephardi or Mezrahi Jews) were treated as savages. They talk of how they were sprayed with DDT upon arrival, how they were first received in tents and how the European Ashkinazi Jews were repelled of them, their behavior and even the smell of their food.
The producer of the film, identified by his first name Samir only, cleverly uses parts of the early Sephardi comedy on discrimination while at the same time he uses Israeli propaganda film targeting Jews and inviting them to start a new life in the new country.
This film is excellent."


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The growing demand for organic food products is fueling Italian organic agricultural production.
Over the past 10 years, sales of organic food in Italy have increased by 133%. Similarly, exports of Italian organic products increased by 181% in value during the same period.
Eighty-one percent of these exports are food, with the rest made up of cosmetics and other agriculture-related health products.
See also:Champion of the European Organic Farming Awards
According to the latest data published by Nomisma, a consultancy firm, the value of exports of organic agricultural products has increased from 1.2 billion euros in 2012 to 3.4 billion euros in 2022. organic food in 2022 will exceed €2.7 billion, a 16% year-on-year increase.
Today, organic exports represent 6% of the overall value of Italian agri-food exports. According to Nomisma, Italy is the second largest organic food exporter behind the United States, whose exports exceeded 2.98 billion euros in 2021.
Wine is by far the most popular organic food product sold by Italian companies on the international market, accounting for 19% of all export sales of organic products. In comparison, total wine sales represent 13% of Italian agricultural exports by value.
Nomisma estimated that Italian organic food exports are expected to increase over the next three years, mainly to Germany (+53%), northern European countries (+32%) and the United States (+25%). %).
In international and domestic markets, interest in organic extra virgin olive oil is also growing. In a recent report, the Institute of Services for the Agricultural and Food Market (Ismea) said that the production of organic extra virgin olive oil reached 46,000 tons in 2019, valued at around 200 million euros.
Ismea said sales of organic extra virgin olive oil have been fueled by growing public demand and the higher prices producers can charge for organic oils, traditionally between €0.20 and €0.40 of more.
Outside of Italy, interest in organic extra virgin olive oil has also increased recently. Organic olive oils won about one in three awards at the 2022 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, the world’s largest olive oil quality competition.
In its report, Nomisma said organic food consumption is mainly driven by household consumption – as opposed to restaurant or hospitality consumption – increasing by 4% between 2020 and 2021 to almost 3, 9 billion euros.
In 2021, 89% of Italian families bought at least one organic product. In 2012, about 50% of families did the same. Today, 54% of Italian families consume organic food products at least once a week.
Quality and health benefits are the most relevant drivers of organic food purchases. Thirty-nine percent of consumers surveyed by Nomisma also cited sustainability and respect for biodiversity as influencing their decisions. Twenty-eight percent of consumers demand that organic food containers be 100% recyclable.
According to Nomisma, large retailers account for 56% of all organic food sales to families and restaurants, with a total value of €2.2 billion in 2021.
However, the report highlights an 8% growth between 2020 and 2021 for the sales of specialized organic food retailers, which now represent 26% of the market. Growth of 5% is also expected for other organic food sales channels, such as pharmacies, fairs and local markets.

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GL Communications has added POLQA (Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis) to its voice quality testing software.
The company’s enhanced VQuad and stand-alone Voice Quality Testing (VQT) software both incorporate support for POLQA, also known as ITU-T P.863.
POLQA is the successor to PESQ and supports the latest HD voice codecs and network transport technologies with higher accuracy for 3G, LTE, and VoIP networks.
Ericsson and China Mobile have demonstrated the first “dual mode” HD voice call between TD-LTE and LTE-FDD, the two different types of LTE.
The demonstration included ST-Ericsson’s Thor LTE modem, Renesas Mobile quad mode chipsets, and Ericsson’s LTE TDD/FDD radio solution and IMS platform and was conducted at China Mobile’s booth at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona.
TD-LTE has found favor in China and the U.S.’s Clearwire LTE deployment while the majority of operators are deploying LTE-FDD.
D2 Technologies announced its IR.92 VoLTE software will be going on the NVIDIA Icera family of LTE modem chipsets for mobile devices.
D2’s software enables carrier-grade voice and SMS-over-LTE capability. The two companies also plan to collaborate on a reference design for RCS, Wi-Fi calling and IR.94 video calls that uses D2’s vPort 4G+ advanced API for IMS features in conjunction with D2’s mCUE 4G mobile client software running on NVIDIA’s mobile processors.
NVIDIA’s i500 LTE modem is the second one to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA’s software defined radio baseband processor, offering category 4 data rates up to 150 Mbps plus 4G HSPA+, 3G and 2G compatability.
ZTE has conducted a Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) for Hong Kong mobile operator CSL, reports Telecom Lead.
The VoLTE call handoff was done to a 3G HD voice network with an ”eSRVCC based pre-commercial network,” according to the story,
Expect more SRVCC-news out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, as carriers and vendors want to demonstrate progress in moving calls between 3G and 4G networks.
GSMA plans to promote its HD voice activities as a part of the Rich Communications Innovation area at Mobile World Congress 2013.
Located at the GSMA stand in Congress Square CS80, live demonstrations will be conducted along with presentations by Audience, Deutsche Telekom, Head Acoustics, Orange and Samsung.
Look for vendor shirts with the GSMA trademarked HD voice logo if you’re at MWC.
Telefonica has become the first network operator to demonstrate the ability to transfer voice calls seamlessly and without interruption from an LTE network to a 3G network. However, the handover was conducted in a test lab environment simulation – not in the real world.
The handover was conducted in Germany at the labs of Telefonica Deutschland and is the first announced demonstration of handoff between LTE to 3G using SRVCC (Single Radio Voice Call Continuity), a standard for call handoff. Handset and network components involved in the demonstration included pieces from Acme Packet, Ericsson, Huawei, NSN, Qualcomm – no surprise there, since they’ve baked SRVCC into chipsets – and Sony Mobile.
Publicly traded Telefonica says it will be conducting Voice over LTE (VoLTE) demonstrations at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this month.
There’s been angst in the South African trade press regarding the lack of mobile HD voice service. So I’m annoyed about playing semantics for cheap PR.
“Contrary to popular belief – HD voice services are here (and sounding great)” issued by DUO Marketing + Communications for client Vox Telecom makes this biiiiig stretch that all is good because Vox supports HD voice over a broadband wireline connection, the Vox Suprafone.
“All that’s needed to support the service is an ADSL line Internet account, and a modem/router,” says the product manager. Why, you don’t even need a PC to make calls!
The ongoing discussion within the South African media has been about mobile HD voice service on a cellular network. Not what you can plug into a broadband connection…
It’s almost as annoying as the “HD sound” vs “HD voice” ambiguities that continue to pollute a discussion on wideband telephony.
- Doug Mohney
Chunghwa Telecom (CLP), the largest carrier in Taiwan, has launched HD voice service on its 3G-based network, according to a recent news report.
Around 500,000 subscribers today can get HD voice service with 21 compatible (i.e. AMR-WB using) devices including the Apple iPhone 5, Sony, Nokia, and HTC handsets. Both subscribers need to be on CLP’s network with compatible devices (as is typical). The carrier expects by 2016 that more than 70 percent of devices (on its network? Google Translate makes it hard to say) will support HD voice.
Chunghwa Telecom has over 10 million mobile subscribers, according to Wikipedia.
The 2013 HD Voice News third annual report is now being created.
Companies that want to contribute and/or update information may email the editor at firstname.lastname@example.org
Current deadline for accepting information is March 1. The report should “close” on that day for final editing with a targeted mid-March release date.
Local media in South Africa have no idea when operators will deliver HD voice in that country.
“South Africa seems to be lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobile HD voice,” writes MyBroadband editor Rudolph Muller. “This includes African countries like Uganda, Mauritius and Egypt which have HD voice services.”
MyBroadband says Vodacom is “still investigating” mobile HD voice and has “no specific launch plans” to share at this point in time, while Cell C, MTN and 8ta did not comment on their plans.
HD Voice News is willing to speculate that Vodacom is a good candidate to offer HD voice since a couple of Vodafone subsidiaries; Ireland comes immediately to mind.


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Reforms threaten to swamp the coalition's legislative programme
David Cameron is battling to save the coalition's legislative programme from being swamped by months of debate on House of Lords reform, with potential Tory rebels being warned that voting against the Government will harm their chances of promotion.
Downing Street is desperate to prevent defeat in a vote on Tuesday that will decide whether or not the Government is able to impose a time limit on debate on the plans for a slimmed-down second chamber of around 450 elected senators.
Labour has said it will vote against the motion, arguing the reforms should be debated fully. However, it would pave the way for weeks of late-night sittings reminiscent of the Maastricht Treaty debates in the early 1990s. Up to 100 Tory MPs were said to be ready to rebel, although that number is thought to have fallen in recent days.
The issue has sparked a row, with Richard Reeves, who left his job as Nick Clegg's adviser last week, warning that if Tories blocked the reforms they could not count on Lib Dem support for plans to redraw constituency boundaries which would benefit the Conservatives. Tory MPs lined up to condemn the "blackmail".
Last night a senior Lib Dem source hit back: "Being accused of treachery by some of these serial rebels on the Tory back benches is like being accused of being over-theatrical by Mario Balotelli. These people who rarely vote with the Government are now trying to complain about betrayal."
Tory rebels have seized on the wording of the coalition agreement, which promised to "establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation".
However David Laws, the Lib Dem former cabinet minister who negotiated the deal, insisted the agreement was not just to draw up but also to pass such legislation. He told The Independent on Sunday: "There was no confusion in our talks on this. There was strong agreement from both sides that Lords reform needed to happen. A deal is a deal. Once you get a situation where a party is going to pick and choose from the coalition agreement, it is very destabilising." It would be "madness" for the Government to become stuck in a "swamp" of never-ending debates on a policy promised in both the Tory and Lib Dem manifestos, he added.
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Sometimes just a sentence or two long, the 122 stories of Lydia Davis' latest collection,
Can't and Won't
(Picador, 304 pp., $16), may make readers wonder what makes a story a story.
The shorter pieces are like Zen koans, as in "Bloomington," where Davis writes, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence I have never been here before."
"The Cows" collects poetic observations about a neighbor's three pet cows, noting that "just because they are so still, their attitude seems philosophical."
In "The Seals," one of the collection's longer stories, the narrator discusses the way the death of her older sister leaves her feeling that "the choice wasn't so simple: either alive or not alive. It was as though not being alive did not have to mean she was dead, as though there was some third possibility."
It does little good to zip through Davis' stories at full speed as she addresses minor dissatisfactions ("Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer"), explores social anxieties ("Eating Fish Alone") and captures the surrealism of dreams ("The Grandmother").
Occasionally, the effect is uneven, but the weirdness and ambiguity of these stories are haunting, offering much to contemplate and savor.
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(Back Bay, 784 pp., $20)
Tartt's third novel begins a bit like her first, "The Secret History" - her narrator reveals that he is in the midst of the consequences of something that has evolved out of his control, and then the story shifts backward for a few hundred pages to work readers up to that opening moment.
While "The Goldfinch" starts with an adult Theo Decker holed up in a Dutch hotel room, the novel's story begins when Decker is 13, living in New York City. On the way to a school meeting to discuss his suspension, Theo and his mother go into the Metropolitan Museum of Art to get out of the rain.
There, chaos ensues when a terrorist sets off a bomb. Half-dazed, misunderstanding the instructions of a dying victim of the bombing, Theo takes "The Goldfinch," a 1654 painting by Carel Fabritius, leaving the scene, hoping to meet his mother back at their apartment.
Only when two social workers show up at his door does he understand that his mother is among the victims. The rest of the novel follows Theo as he contends with his grief and he and his secretly held painting are moved around.
"The Goldfinch" occasionally reaches the heights of "The Secret History," but at times, the plotting can drag, and, admittedly, the writing isn't as tight. Theo, at his most annoying, is prone to rattling off strings of rhetorical questions, especially when he's feeling philosophical.
That said, "The Goldfinch" is far more ambitious in scope than Tartt's debut, and, for the most part, a rousing success. Whatever complaints I have, no other book over the past year has made me feel as propulsive a need to turn pages to know what happens next.
"The Goldfinch" won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Writing for the New Yorker, critic James Wood was highly critical of "The Goldfinch," concluding that the novel's "tone, language, and story belong to children's literature." He found the novel to be marked with "too much straightforward genre stuffing" and "wildly uneven sentences," demonstrating the way "the worked sheen and consistent density of 'The Secret History' and Tartt's second novel, 'The Little Friend' (2002), have here surrendered to patched anarchy."
Other notable voices also came down against the book. Lorin Stein, editor of the Paris Review, told Vanity Fair that "a book like 'The Goldfinch' doesn't undo any cliches - it deals in them." And Francine Prose, in the New York Review of Books, was left wondering, "Doesn't anyone care how something is written anymore?"
Those critics, however, were in the minority, as Tartt's novel garnered tremendous praise.
In The Plain Dealer, Laura DeMarco considered "The Goldfinch" to be Tartt's "most emotionally fully-realized book to date" as it explores "mysteries of the heart - and
the mystery of how, when almost everything you love is taken, do you carry on?"
Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Stephen King called the novel "an extraordinary work of fiction," the type of "rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind."
King acknowledged that Tartt makes "a few missteps," especially in the way that the novel offers "a lot more about furniture restoration than I needed." Still, he found that while "surprisingly few novelists write well of grief," Tartt "does it as well as it can be done," with language that "is dense, allusive and so vivid it's intoxicating."
He also praised the way Tartt depicts friendship between adolescent boys with "a clarity of observation I would have thought next to impossible for a writer who was never part of that closed male world: the interminable talk and speculation, the endless TV watching and pizza eating, the dope smoking and small thefts, the kind of rapport in which a single cocked eyebrow can provoke howls of helpless laughter."
In her review of "The Goldfinch" for NPR's "Fresh Air," Maureen Corrigan, like many other critics (King included), described the book as "Dickensian." She admitted that the adjective "is one of those literary modifiers that's overused," but she wanted "to give it one final outing, because no other word will do."
Corrigan explained that "Tartt's grand new novel" is "Dickensian both in the ambition of its jumbo, coincidence-laced plot, as well as in its symphonic range of emotions."
"The Goldfinch," Corrigan concluded, is a "crowded, exuberantly plotted triumph of a novel" that "far exceeds the expectations of those of us who've been waiting on Tartt to do something extraordinary again, ever since her debut novel, 'The Secret History,' came out in 1992. Hell, I feel like I've been waiting for a novel like this to appear not only since I read 'The Secret History,' but also since I first read 'David Copperfield.' "
(W.W. Norton, 320 pp., $16.95)
Lewis, who has previously examined bond trading ("Liar's Poker"), the explosion of opportunity and wealth in Silicon Valley ("The New New Thing") and the recent mortgage crisis ("The Big Short"), offers a look at the manipulative grip high-frequency traders (HFTs) have on the stock market.
As Lewis explains, through the use of speedy servers and algorithms, HFTs are able to insert themselves "into the middle of the stock market not just as an unnecessary middleman but as a middleman with incentives to introduce dysfunction into the stock market." HFTs skim their profits by artificially increasing stock prices incremental amounts before large stock trades.
While some people may still have old images of men shouting frenetically on the trading floors of major stock exchanges, Lewis notes that "over the past decade, the financial markets have changed too rapidly for our mental picture of them to remain true to life.
"The world," Lewis writes, "clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so."
"Flash Boys" is Lewis' attempt to draw that picture, one "built up from smaller pictures - of post-crisis Wall Street; of new kinds of financial cleverness; of computers, programmed to behave impersonally in ways that the programmer himself would never do personally."
In The New York Times, James B. Stewart observed that "when it comes to narrative skill, a reporter's curiosity and an uncanny instinct for the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lewis is a triple threat." But while Lewis has demonstrated his skills in "The Big Short" and "Moneyball," Stewart said, "those formidable talents are only intermittently on display in this ultimately unsatisfying probe of high-frequency traders, who may (or may not) be ripping off investors and destabilizing the global financial system."
For Stewart, "Flash Boys" especially falls short as a work of balanced journalism. For example, Lewis discusses a mutual fund manager who "singles out Goldman Sachs as among the most egregious offenders" and says he was ignored when he took his concerns to the Securities and Exchange Commission and reporters from the Wall Street Journal.
As Stewart explains, "One of the frustrating aspects of Lewis's reporting is that readers never hear anyone else's side to a story. No one from Goldman, The Journal, the New York or other stock exchanges, or the S.E.C. offers any explanation, and it isn't clear whether Lewis gave them the opportunity."
Reviewing the book for the Wall Street Journal, Philip Delves Broughton observed that while "Flash Boys" is "not as larky as 'Liar's Poker' " or "as accessible as 'The Big Short,' " this book "may end up more important to public debate about Wall Street than either" for exposing "the 'Pandora's box of ridiculousness' that financial exchanges have become."
Broughton, though, agreed with Stewart in his assessment that "Flash Boys" is "a decidedly one-sided book," as "Lewis gives the reader extensive insight into how his heroes see the market, but the alleged villains of the piece -
HFTs themselves - are all but silent in their own defense."
Broughton went even further to explain that "there are reasonable arguments to be made that the frenetic trading by HFTs leads to greater liquidity and more efficient pricing. Or, God forbid, that they are not nearly so harmful to investors' returns as Mr. Lewis makes out."
He continued, "It is not hard to imagine a different book by Michael Lewis, one celebrating HFTs as revolutionary outsiders, a cadre of innovative engineers and computer scientists (many of them immigrants), rising from the rubble of 2008 and making fools of a plodding financial system."
While Broughton acknowledged that "Flash Boys" "makes no claim to be a balanced account of financial innovation" as "it is a polemic, and a very well-written one," he also concluded that, behind the book's outrage "lies nostalgia for a prelapsarian Wall Street of trust and plain dealing, which is a total mirage."
The Empire of Necessity
(Picador, 400 pp., $18)
Grandin last book, "Fordlandia," recounted the story of "the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city," 2.5 million acres of Brazilian rainforest that Ford bought in 1927 with the intent of building a town, creating a massive rubber plantation and launching what Edsel, Ford's son, called a "widespread sanitary campaign against the dangers of the jungle."
Grandin's latest work, subtitled "Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World," opens up the compelling story of the Tryal, a Spanish ship carrying scores of West African slaves, and Amasa Delano, a New England captain who boarded the ship thinking it was in distress and unknowingly watched what was "in effect a one-act, nine-hour, full-cast pantomime of the master-slave relation performed by a group of desperate, starving, and thirsty men and women."
Two months prior to Delano's boarding the Tryal in the South Pacific, the West Africans managed to seize control of the ship through a rebellion led by two of the slaves. They executed most of the crew and passengers, including the slave trader that had been transporting them to Lima, Peru, and ordered the captain, Benito Cerreno, to sail to Senegal.
Cerreno stalled, sailing up and down the Chilean coast, and when Delano approached the vessel, the West Africans decided that, instead of fighting or fleeing, they would allow him to come on board and act as if they were still slaves, with one acting as the captain's servant to ensure that Cerreno stuck to the script.
The West Africans' charade held up long enough for Delano to leave and return with food and supplies, but as he prepared to leave for good, Cerreno leapt overboard, joining Delano in his away boat.
As Grandin writes, "It was at that point, after hearing Cerreno's explanantion for every strange thing he saw on board the Tryal, that Delano realized the depth of the deception. He then readied his men to unleash a god-awful violence."
In the Chicago Tribune, Kevin Nance said: "Grandin's book is impressive for many reasons, not least of which is its accessibility to general readers who might be daunted by its complex exploration of dark historical themes. Although it's a rigorously sourced work of scholarship, 'The Empire of Necessity' has clearly been crafted to appeal to the popular readership for best-sellers such as those by Simon Schama ('Citizens'), Stacy Schiff ('Cleopatra'), David McCullough ('John Adams'), Doris Kearns Goodwin ('Team of Rivals') and others.
"With idiomatic, non-academic writing and a suspenseful narrative structure that boomerangs back and forth through time," Nance observed, "Grandin has delivered a page-turner. You read it as if it were a thriller novel by Scott Turow or Lee Child."
In the Wall Street Journal, David S. Reynolds also complimented "The Empire of Necessity." Reynolds observed that as Grandin frequently switches "between topics and perspectives in successive chapters," he "ranges so freely through history that his book has a zigzagging course, like a schooner tacking constantly with the wind," though "the voyage he takes us on is hardly directionless."
Grandin, Reynolds went on to say, "describes his unsettling panorama in a restrained manner, avoiding exaggeration and allowing facts - many of them horrific - to tell the story. In doing so, he has produced a quietly powerful account that Melville himself would have admired."
An Exaggerated Murder
(Melville House, 336 pp., $16.95)
Cook's debut novel offers a comedic mystery, filled with the sorts of digressions and lunacy that will entertain readers wondering what an episode of Benedict Cumberbatch's "Sherlock" series might be like if it were written by Quentin Tarantino.
Like Sherlock, private investigator Trike Augustine is brilliant and arrogant, though he is also desperately fighting against his urge to smoke. Investigating the case of a missing billionaire, he makes little progress, despite his need of the reward money to make some of his own bills disappear.
The mystery deepens when, for no reason he can deduce, he finds a dead pig bleeding on his apartment floor in the middle of the night.
Publishers Weekly found that "the spectre of Pynchon looms over this entertaining novel." While the magazine's reviewer thought that "Cook occasionally has trouble getting the zaniness and the hardboiled tone to gel," he "makes the kitchen-sink approach work more often than not."
Kirkus Reviews gave "An Exaggerated Murder" a starred review, calling it "a beautifully written postmodern novel of deduction that merrily, wittily blows up its genre's conventions while at the same time re-energizing possibilities for the 21st-century detective story."
Enjoying the novel's "quicksilver references" to James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter," the magazine's reviewer noted that "such literary gamesmanship may exasperate the traditional mystery lover, but the writing throughout is so crystalline, the dialogue so acerbically funny and the characters so engaging as to make the pages seem as though they're turning themselves."
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson and Jenny Robb
(Andrews McMeel, 160 pp., $19.99)
While museum exhibition catalogs don't normally find a place in this column, I can make an exception for "Exploring Calvin and Hobbes," which pulls from an exhibition on Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip presented by Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in 2014.
The book offers a look at some of Watterson's early work for his college paper and Sun Newspapers, a collection of representative "Calvin and Hobbes" strips, and some rare gems, including the cover page and original strips Watterson, who hails from Northeast Ohio, submitted to press syndicates with the hope of getting published.
In those, Watterson describes Calvin as a rambunctious 6-year-old "with a rampant imagination. The kind of kid who wants plutonium for his birthday" and has "a passion for excitement untempered by common sense."
The main draw for fans, however, is a 30-page interview the normally press-shy Watterson conducted with Jenny Robb, the exhibition's curator.
In the Washington Post, Michael Cavna called the book "a 152-page beauty," though he was especially enthusiastic about Watterson's interview, calling it "one of the best bound cartoonist Q&A's in recent memory." For "any true fan of cartooning," Cavna said, "it is a must-read, a must-buy, a must-pick-up."
As Cavna explained, "For years, the cartoonist didn't make public comments. Now, in a single wide-ranging and revealing and illuminating and engrossing and self-deprecating and poignant and, of course, deeply funny interview, Watterson has proved more generous than we perhaps could have ever hoped for." He delivers "a gift, a trip down memory lane that is populated densely on each side with personal and professional insights - some grippingly specific, some that ring universal, many that resonate as both."
Turakhia teaches English at Orange High School in Pepper Pike.


Kingston Frontenacs left-winger Francesco Arcuri was listed earlier this week by NHL Central Scouting as a player to watch for the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
Arcuri was one of 46 Ontario Hockey League players who made the preliminary list. Players were ranked as A, B or C prospects, with Arcuri given a C rating.
Five OHL players were given an A rating, including Arcuri’s former Don Mills Flyers under-16 AAA teammate defenceman Brandt Clarke of the Barrie Colts, while another former Flyers teammate, forward Brennan Othmann of the Flint Firebirds, was given a B rating.
Arcuri’s rating means he would likely be drafted between the fourth and sixth rounds. He was selected in the second round, 27th overall, in the OHL Priority Selection in 2019 after a season in which he collected 34 goals and 98 points in 72 games with the Flyers.
Arcuri said in an interview on Thursday that he’s confident he can rise in the rankings with the continuation of his off-season training and then having a strong, but shortened, sophomore season in Kingston. The OHL has announced that the 2020-21 season will not begin until at least Feb. 4.
“My confidence is up there, and with me playing a lot more this coming year, the sky is the limit for me. I can prove a lot of people wrong and I can make a jump to be a really high pick,” Arcuri said.
“For this draft, there’s not a No. 1 pick consensus like there was in the past draft, so I think the spot is wide open for any pick.”
Arcuri’s weekdays consist of getting up at 5:30 a.m. and taking a ride on his stationary bicycle in his bedroom in his Woodbridge home. He then goes to early morning intense training sessions with Frontenacs teammate Zayde Wisdom and trainer Derrell Levy.
“It’s getting me stronger for the season,” he said. “It’s been fun, especially with Zayde. We’re always pushing each other so it’s been good.”
By 9 a.m., Arcuri is ready to start his Grade 12 online classes out of Kingston with his high school-age teammates.
Arcuri, six feet tall and 182 pounds, scored seven goals and added 13 assists in 60 games in 2019-20, as well as going a perfect 5-for-5 in shootout attempts. He said he misses not playing competitive hockey.
“I miss it a lot. I can’t wait to get back. … It’s been pushed back longer, and it just means I have to work harder in the off-season, and time will tell when it comes time to play.”
Arcuri said he’s making the best of the delay.
“It gives us more time to keep working hard, especially myself to get stronger and faster for my draft season coming up. I can’t wait to show a lot of people,” he said.
Arcuri is also on the ice with skating coach Don Braid doing skating conditioning, skill development and battle drills.
If the season does start in February, Arcuri believes the team will be much improved from 2019-20, when in a regular season shortened by the pandemic, the Frontenacs finished eighth overall in the Eastern Conference with a 19-39-2-2 won-lost-overtime lost-shootout lost record for 42 points in 62 games.
“Our team is moving to the better, and we have great coaching and great staff and they all want the best for us players, and I think we’re really going to be a top team in this upcoming year,” he said.
“We have to work hard in every game and every shift, and the hard work is going to pay off.”


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The global microcontroller market is expected to reach USD 26,984.8 million by 2020. Growing demand from end-use industries such as automotive and consumer electronics is expected to drive the global market over the forecast period. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with declining microcontroller prices is also expected to drive the industry over the next six years.
Development of microcontrollers integrated with NFC (near-field communication), Bluetooth, and ZigBee among other wireless interfaces is expected to positively impact the global market. Favorable regulatory scenario for the installation of smart grid systems is expected to boost microcontrollers demand over the forecast period. This is also expected to be a key growth opportunity for major industry participants.
Further Key findings from the study suggest:
Global microcontroller market was estimated at 17,393.6 million units in 2013, and is expected to reach 39,108.5 million units by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 12.3% from 2014 to 2020.
32-bit microcontrollers accounted for over 34% of the market in 2013; the segment is further expected to dominate global market revenue over the next six years. It is also expected to be the fastest growing product segment, at an estimated CAGR of 13.0% in terms of volume from 2014 to 2020.
Automotive accounted for over 30% of the market in 2013, and is expected to remain the largest application area over the next six years. Consumer electronics occupied over 20% of the global market share in 2013. Increasing proliferation of these devices and technological advancement are expected to give impetus to the market over the forecast period.
Asia Pacific is expected to be the largest and fastest growing regional market over the next six years. It accounted for over 35% of the market volume in 2013, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.8% in terms of revenue from 2014 to 2020.
Key companies operating in the market include Renesas Electronics Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Microchip Technology, Inc., Atmel Corporation, Fujitsu Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies and STMicroelectronics among others.
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UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry, has revealed the five winners of its 2017 UFI Next Generation Leadership Grant, chosen by an international judging panel.
The judges, led by UFI president Dr. Andreas Gruchow selected the winners for their exceptional initiative in driving change and innovation in their area of the exhibition industry.
The winners of the 2017 UFI Next Generation Leadership grant are:
• Selin Cakici, vice-chair of the board – HKF TRADE FAIRS (Turkey)
• Katharina Keupp, project consultant – Messe Munich (Germany)
• Neo Mohlatlole, business development director – Seven Colours Communications (South Africa)
• Thomas Revell, sustainability manager – GES (UK)
• Diana Salman, HR strategic change manager – IFP Expo (Lebanon)
“We’re strongly committed to giving next generation leaders a voice and a global platform to further thrive,” commented UFI managing director Kai Hattendorf. “At UFI we meet a lot of dedicated young people worldwide who are putting their energy, ideas, initiative, into the exhibition industry: the NGL grant recognises, and celebrates the best of these talents.”
This year’s UFI Next Generation Leaders will now embark on an investigation into the future of exhibitions, working closely with the team at UFI headquarters in Paris. They will present their findings in a special session at the 84th UFI Global Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa on 1-4 November 2017.