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Chris Young Gets a Black Eye
Chris Young may have proved some people wrong over the weekend, but not on purpose. Sunday afternoon (July 15), the singer posted the picture seen here, which shows his eyelid all red and purple, bruised after a little accident which apparently involved his guitar.
Danny Gokey and Wife Expecting First Baby in January
And baby makes three! Danny Gokey and his new bride, Leyicet, have announced they are expecting their first child together in the first part of the coming new year. The Gokeys made the baby news public over the weekend through the singer’s official Facebook page.
JT Hodges Lets Fans Pick Next Single
JT Hodges is going a million miles a minute these days, between writing songs, living on the road and preparing for the release of his debut self-titled album. To help take a load off his shoulders, Hodges has turned to his fans for a little bit of help in picking the third single that he will relea…
Tim McGraw, ‘Truck Yeah’ – Lyrics Uncovered
We all knew when Tim McGraw delivered new music, he would come armed with something that would make an impact. The ‘Truck Yeah’ lyrics, penned by Preston Brust and Chris Lucas of LoCash Cowboys, along with Chris Janson and Danny Myrick, do just that.
Josh Thompson Gets Naked in ‘Comin’ Around’ Video
Fans who have watched Josh Thompson‘s ‘Comin’ Around’ music video may be seeing a bit more than they realize. In a recent interview with radio station Big Frog 104, Thompson reveals there is a quick clip showing a photograph of him in his birthday suit.
Kenny Chesney Steams Up ‘The Tonight Show’ With Performance of ‘Come Over’
Kenny Chesney took a brief break from his Brothers of the Sun Tour to stop by ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ on Thursday (July 12), where he performed his latest hit single, ‘Come Over.’
Tim McGraw’s ‘Truck Yeah’ Marks Highest-Charting Career Debut
‘Truck Yeah’! That’s exactly what Tim McGraw is thinking, saying and singing these days. His latest single, which officially impacted country radio on Monday (July 9), racked up a whopping 80 adds on top of last week’s 19 early adds, totaling 99 …
Gloriana Postpone Shows After Tom Gossin Is Placed on Vocal Rest
Gloriana‘s lead vocalist Tom Gossin will need to keep quiet for a few days after being placed on vocal rest. The band shared the news broke late last night (July 11) through the band’s social media sites. As a result, Gloriana has been forced to postpone concerts scheduled…
Greg Bates, ‘Did It for the Girl’ – Lyrics Uncovered
Greg Bates‘ ‘Did It for the Girl’ lyrics are simple, sweet and just what country music fans eat up. The heartfelt tune was penned by the newcomer — along with Lynn Hutton and Rodney Clawson — and will be found on Bates’ debut album on Republic …
Gloriana’s Hit Single ‘(Kissed You) Good Night’ Strikes Gold
With their latest single, ‘(Kissed You) Good Night,’ inching closer and closer to the Top 5 on the country singles chart, Gloriana have a whole new reason to celebrate. Their radio-loved song has recently been certified gold for digital sales exceeding 500,000 copies sold.
Darius Rucker’s New Album Will Feature ‘Wagon Wheel’ Duet With Lady Antebellum
Fans who tuned into the Grand Ole Opry last Friday (July 6) not only were able to hear Darius Rucker sing a couple of his hit songs, but also get a sneak peak of what’s to come from him later this year. During Old Crow Medicine’s set, the former Hootie and the Blowfish singer joined the band for a s…
Brantley Gilbert Scores Second No. 1 Hit With ‘You Don’t Know Her Like I Do’
Brantley Gilbert has yet another reason to smile these days, as his latest single, ‘You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,’ has topped the country singles charts. The tune is Gilbert’s second-consecutive No. 1 hit, following in the footsteps of his previo…

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According to a report citing anonymous sources, a former FTX executive allegedly purchased discounted FTX tokens, FTT, at $0.05 per unit before they were released to the public, benefiting charitable causes Ruairi Donnelly, FTX’s former chief of staff, is accused of donating the tokens to Polaris Ventures, a Switzerland-based charity, and then selling the FTT for millions of dollars.
An anonymous source claims Polaris Ventures got the bulk of its wealth from the FTT transfer in 2019
According to a Tuesday Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, FTX executives and related charities profited from obtaining ftx tokens (FTTs) at discounted prices. The charity in question is Polaris Ventures, a Swiss organization that claims to support artificial intelligence (AI) and effective altruism, anonymous sources familiar with the matter told the WSJ.
One particular AI organizationbacked by Polaris Venturesis the Cooperative AI Foundation, which received $15 million to support its aims and research.WSJ reporter Alexander Saeedy, a former FTX Chief of Staff Ruairi Donnelly cites an anonymous source who claims to have purchased FTX tokens (FTT) at a discounted rate of $0.05 per token, which is said to be the FTX employee discount at the time.
The source claims that Donnelly used $562,000 of his own salary to acquire FTT at this rate; Saeedy’s report states that Donnelly then donated the funds to Polaris through a grant and that “Mr. Donnelly still began trading publicly for $1 in 2019 and 2020 when he was working at FTX, then suggested that the foundation made millions of dollars selling the tokens.”
Donnelly’s lawyer stated that the FTT in question did not belong to FTX and was intended to pay his client’s outstanding wages.” To be absolutely clear, the FTTs that Mr. Donnelly directed to be donated to Polaris on his behalf are not FTX funds,” the lawyer said. The lawyer also pointed out that $30 million of Polaris’ funds are trapped in the FTX and that the foundation is a major creditor in the FTX’s bankruptcy case.
An anonymous source cited in the report further suggests that most of the foundation’s wealth initially came from the 2019 FTT transfer. The same source concludes that Donnelly is currently trying to sell the bankruptcy claims for a fraction of their value.
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Ecology Seminar Series: Dr. Rebecca Irwin
- Thursday, November 12, 2020 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Please join the Department of Ecology for a talk by guest speaker Dr. Rebecca Irwin from North Carolina State University. The title of Dr. Irwin's talk is “The Role of Floral Traits in Pollination and Bee Disease Transmission” All are welcome to attend!
- Ecology Club

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Around 1 in 5 people diagnosed with cancer in the UK take part in a clinical trial.
A trial of EMD 525797 for bowel or ovarian cancer that has spread to the liver
Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available.
This trial is looking at a new drug called EMD 525797 for bowel cancer and ovarian cancer. It is for people whose cancer has spread to their liver and has got worse despite having other
Doctors use treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy for bowel or ovarian cancer. But sometimes the cancer spreads to the liver. Researchers are looking for new treatments to help people in this situation. In this trial, they are looking at a drug called EMD 525797.
EMD 525797 is a type of biological therapy called a monoclonal antibody. It attaches to proteins called integrin
Doctors will use a type of MRI scan called a dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) to see how the drug affects blood vessels in the cancer. The aims of the trial are to
- Find the highest dose of EMD 525797 that you can have safely
- Learn more about how the drug works and what happens to it in your body
Who can enter
You may be able to enter this trial if you
- Have bowel cancer or ovarian cancer that has spread to your liver and has got worse despite having
- Are well enough to carry out all your normal activities, apart from heavy physical work (performance status of 0 or 1)
- Have satisfactory blood test results
- Are willing to use reliable contraception during the trial and for 3 months afterwards if there is any chance you or your partner could become pregnant
- Are at least 18 years old
You cannot enter this trial if you
- Have cancer that has spread to your brain
- Have already had a drug that blocks integrin receptors (your doctor can advise you about this)
- Have had another drug that blocks blood vessel growth (an anti angiogenic drug) in the last 6 months
- Have had an allergic reaction to another monoclonal antibody
- Have had any other cancer treatment, or an experimental drug as part of another trial in the last 30 days
- Have had a
biopsyin the last 2 weeks
- Have taken drugs to thin your blood (anti coagulants) such as warfarin in the last 10 days
- Take aspirin tablets each day, unless it is a low dose – the trial team can advise you about this
- Have problems with bleeding or have ever had a blood clot
- Have high blood pressure that cannot be controlled with medication
- Have severe narrowing of the blood vessels in your legs (peripheral vascular disease) or leg ulcers
- Have had a heart attack in the last 6 months or have any other heart condition that is a cause for concern
- Have an infection that cannot be controlled with medication
- Have any other medical condition or mental health problem that the trial doctors think could affect you taking part
- Are known to be HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C positive
- Cannot have MRI scans, for example because you have some metal in your body or you have a
- Are pregnant or breastfeeding
This is a phase 1 trial that will treat about 40 people in Europe.
Everybody taking part will have EMD 252797. You have it through a drip into a vein once every 2 weeks. It takes about an hour each time.
The first few patients taking part will have a low dose of EMD 252797. If they don’t have any serious side effects, the next patients will have a higher dose. And so on, until they find the best dose to give. This is called a dose escalation study.
As long as you don’t have bad side effects, you can carry on having EMD 525797 for as long as it is helping you.
During the trial, you have up 10 DCE-MRI scans to see how the drug affects blood vessels in your cancer. You also have regular blood tests.
The researchers will use some of the blood samples to learn more about what happens to EMD 252797 in your body, how it affects cancer cells and whether your immune system reacts against the drug. They will also look for substances called
The trial team will get a sample of your cancer that was removed when you were first diagnosed. Researchers will study this sample to see if contains integrin receptors and other proteins.
You will see the trial team and have some tests before you start treatment. The tests include
- Physical examination
- CT scan
- 2 DCE-MRI scans
- Heart trace (
- Blood and urine tests
The first time you have EMD 525797, you will be at hospital for at least 4 hours. You then have 4 more hospital visits that week. They won’t last as long as the first day, but you have DCE-MRI scans during 3 of them.
Each DCE-MRI scan takes about 40 to 50 minutes. On the days you have these scans, you cannot drink anything that contains caffeine beforehand.
When you have your next treatment 2 weeks later, you have the same number of hospital visits, but you only have a scan on the day you have EMD 525797. After that, you go to hospital once every 2 weeks for as long as you have the trial treatment.
You have regular blood tests throughout your treatment and more ECGs. You have a CT scan every 6 weeks for the first 6 months and then every 12 weeks until you stop having EMD 525797.
When you finish treatment, you see the trial team 4 weeks later. Depending on how many weeks of treatment you’ve had, you may have another DCE-MRI scan.
As EMD 525797 is a new drug, there may be some side effects we don’t know about yet. The possible side effects include
- Feeling warm or flushed
- Redness and pain at the site of the injection
- Changes in your blood pressure
- Feeling or being sick
- Constipation or diarrhoea
- Tummy (abdominal) pain
- Allergic reaction or flu like symptoms
- Blood clots
Before you agree to take part, the trial team will talk to you about the side effects that people had in earlier trials of EMD 525797.
How to join a clinical trial
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Professor Gordon Jayson
Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)


VISHAY Intertechnology, represented by Braemac , has announced a new series of 150V high barrier-height Schottky rectifiers offering a low forward voltage drop and leakage current under high temperature operating conditions.
Intended for use in high-frequency inverters, freewheeling, SMPS, and polarity protection applications in power supplies and adapters, the MBR Series 150-V H-type dual-rectifier devices provide industry-leading specifications not only with respect to forward voltage and high reverse energy, but also for maximum average forward rectified current - 10A in the TO-220 package outline.
Built on a proprietary Schottky barrier technology, the new devices offer a typical forward voltage drop as low as 0.65V, typical leakage current as low as 0.15mA at 125°C, and high maximum operating junction temperature of 175°C.
A reverse surge capability of 25kV ESD and inductive reverse avalanche energy ratings up to 20mJ enhance reliability. Forward voltage options of 10A, 20A, and 30A are available for devices in TO-220, ITO-220, and TO-262 package outlines.
These specifications represent an order of magnitude improvement over previous-generation Schottky rectifiers, with a reduction of leakage current by as much as half and a four-fold improvement in avalanche energy.
The new devices are the latest in the Vishay "H" series, which takes advantage of a phenomenon known as conductivity modulation to achieve low leakage current and a high operating temperature in a Schottky rectifier without increasing barrier-height and thus worsening voltage drop performance.
The result is a device that combines low leakage current, a high operating temperature, and low forward voltage drops to allow efficient operation with low losses even during high-frequency and high-temperature operation.
H-type series devices' metal-silicon junction is built using a proprietary sputtering process that guarantees a well-controlled barrier-height.
The resulting majority carrier conduction causes a forward voltage drop that is lower than a p-n junction rectifier, with negligible reverse recovery time.
An ion-implanted guardring technology provides excellent reverse energy capability, thereby ensuring overvoltage protection.


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I do love a chocolate tea so I had high hopes for DAVIDsTEA Mint Chip Sundae when I heard about the Malt Shop Collection. It is described as a sweet frosty green tea combining peppermint, cocoa and creamy white chocolate. I have seen others compare it to Snow Day but personally I don’t think it tastes nor looks like it. If I had to choose one, I milder version of White Chocolate Frost with a slight green tea edge.
DAVIDsTEA Mint Chip Sundae Ingredients & Steeping Instructions
Ingredients: Cocoa nibs, green tea, peppermint, white chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, whey powder, lactose, soy lecithin, natural vanilla), cocoa powder, stevia extract, natural flavouring.
Allergy Alerts: Milk and soy – also contains stevia if you have a sensitivity
Steeping Instructions: 1 perfect spoon per 16oz hot (167℉ – 176℉ or 75℃ – 80℃) water for 3-5 minutes
Unlike the other green tea in the collection, this one has plenty of flavour in 2-3 minutes and any longer, the green tea starts getting bitter. The chocolate is shavings so melt fairly quickly. If you didn’t read my review of Strawberry Shake, the water from Keurig 2.0 machines when poured into a cold cup is around 170℉. That makes it perfect for green tea if you don’t have a variable temperature kettle.
DAVIDsTEA Mint Chip Sundae Review
Despite my issues with Stevia Extract in Vanilla Swirl and the green tea in Strawberry Shake, I thankfully enjoyed Mint Chip Sundae. The Stevia Extract is not as noticeable and just gives it a sweetness without the aftertaste. The mint is strong enough to drown out the green tea while the chocolate gives it that creaminess expected from the Malt Shop collection.
Brewed, DAVIDsTEA Mint Chip Sundae tea is a bit darker than the regular green teas I drink and does have some crumblies. Probably a good idea to give the infuser a good shake to get rid of them before steeping. FYI if you nibble on the chocolate swirly pieces, they are minty white chocolate. Anyway, I miss White Chocolate Frost and this is as close as any of their mint teas have come to it so I am enjoying this one,
White and mint mug from President’s Choice, cupcake from Dufflet bakery.

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IoT and IIoT technology deployment using edge sensors and devices succeeded in making Smart Farming possible. Techniques and knowledge are now available to those wishing to implement industrial automation that guarantees excellent results in the agriculture business, or in this case, indoor orchids cultivation.
Detecting flaws by employing machine vision systems is commonplace across a wide range of industries, including semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and automotive manufacturing, because machine vision systems not only lay bare all contamination, scratches, cracks, blemishes, discoloration, gaps and other imperfections undetectable by human vision, they also make available faster TTM and better resource optimization while at the same time lowering both the cost of ownership and the product fail rates.
This shift means that devices like IoT gateways and industrial PCs are being deployed en masse, in order to bring processing power closer to the data. And Gartner estimates that by 2020 at least 90% of all IoT projects will include gateway devices. Beyond the staggering scale of growth, managing these devices results in a myriad of challenges for organizations:
Nowadays the variety of beverage types is almost endless. They can roughly be categorized into sports drinks, energy drinks, bottled water, tea, coffee, carbonated beverages, wines/spirits and beers. Each category can be further sub-categorized based on flavors, sizes and where they are produced.
While most have yet to grasp the concept of Industry 4.0, Lanner has long completed its Industry 4.0 product roadmap and is now introducing its intelligent manufacturing solutions for MES, machine automation and vision inspection, enabling early adoption and system testing for Lanner’s strategic partners in preparation for developing smart manufacturing controllers and for realizing the implementation of smart factories.
While software-based thin client computing has now become ubiquitous in production automation, so too have the hardware appliances that can be customized and tailored for all industrial automation applications found at processing plants and manufacturing factories. Together with the availability of a variety of thin client management software, hardware appliances have evolved and changed in terms of their flexibility and capability.
Machine vision uses cameras, computers and software algorithms for carrying out inspection tasks that require precise and repetitive verification and testing in high speed. Accomplishing such tasks with human vision is extremely difficult, if not impossible, because while human eyes are capable of making precise measures in details, they aren’t equipped to do so in a rapid and repetitive manner; human vision, by comparison, is error-prone and could deteriorate irreversibly when made to perform such visually intensive tasks.


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“Each album is a page of your life and this is the season of Jonathan Butler season of me,” said the South African singer-songwriter-guitarist about his just releasead “Living My Dream.” The two-time Grammy nominee and crossover chart-topper has always worn his heart on his sleeve while ruminating about his colorful life in his musical tales. He puts it all out there lyrically and on emotionally-charged instrumentals with the new set of original songs that he produced chronicaling his struggles over the past couple of years.
Embodying his native land’s sound and spirit, “African Breeze,” the first instrumental serviced to radio from the new session, has landed No. 6 on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Singles chart. The tune featuring Butler’s crafty nylon string guitar work was originally penned by the artist 30 years ago for “The Jewel of the Nile” soundtrack and was completly overhauled for the new disc. Fans of Butler’s impassioned vocal numbers will soon hear “Heart and Soul” on the air at urban adult contemporary radio stations. His music has been a staple at multiple radio formats ever since he inked with Jive Records in the mid-1980s. But Butler’s recording career dates back even earlier to when he grew up under Apartheid and won two South African Grammy awards as a child star, the first black artist played on white radio stations.
“Living My Dream” is a balanced mix of soulful R&B vocals and expressive guitar poetry – love songs, spirituals and melodic mediations on family, country and faith. Butler has come through the fire tested yet never more aware of his blessed life thus the material conveys a profound sense of gratitude. The tracks were recorded using a live band in the House of Blues studio in Los Angeles and includes collaborations with George Duke, Marcus Miller and Elan Trotman.
Butler is performing music from the new release while touring the U.S. with Gramming winner Norman Brown and keyboardist Alex Bugnon. He’s also appearing on PBS’s Tavis Smiley Show. Check local listings for dates and times. And to catch Jonathan’s tour schedule visit JonathanButler.com.

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At least nine automotive brands, one automotive retailer, a travel assistance company, and an automotive accessory company planned to air ads during the Super Bowl. They include: Auto Club Group, Audi, Carmax, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar/Land Rover, Kia, Toyota , Volkswagen and WeatherTech.
Many automakers released ads early to create buzz around their actual Super Bowl ads. Chrysler, GM, and Ford all held back at least one surprise for the game.
Here's a look at two of Chevrolet’s ads -- one serious and one light-hearted.
Chevrolet had two 60-second commercials in this year’s Super Bowl and the ad for the Silverado heavy duty truck was the first one. Chevrolet Chief Marketing Officer Tim Mahoney said almost all of the people in that ad are actual Chevrolet Silverado owners.
Mahoney said the goal of the Silverado ad was for “a wink and a smile.”
The ad showed a stud bull finding romance to the tune of Hot Chocolate’s “You Sexy Thing,” as he is dropped off in a meadow filled with cows.
The second Chevrolet ad is a touching view of a husband and wife driving a Silverado across a flat state while dealing with cancer. The couple holds hands as the sun sets. This was a touching and powerful commercial, which is hard to do in the middle of all of the game action.
■ Automakers go all in for Super Bowl: Click here to watch ads and follow updates


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Integrated residential development with villas & apartment blocks designed in a traditional architectural context in terms of the planning and the architectural style of the facade. The layout has been designed with greens spaces, play areas offering the residents a garden of their own and also giving them an ambiance to bask in luxury.
The layout has been primarily designed in a street concept derived from the inspiration of a city within a city.
The residential units have been spaciously designed and high end finishes have been used in the development.
28 Residential villas,
56 Apartment Units of 1BHK and 2BHK,
Ample car parking.


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SANTA ANA – The U.S. Postal Service is eyeing a sprawling mail center in north Santa Ana for possible closure as it reels from budget losses in the billions of dollars.
The building at 2201 N. Grand Ave. has been a part of the neighborhood for more than 40 years and at one time served as a major mail-processing center for Orange County. These days, though, it houses a retail counter, post-office boxes and lots of empty warehouse space.
The Postal Service has put it on a list of several hundred post offices around the country to be studied for possible closure or consolidation. “It’s just something that’s on the table, being discussed,” Postal Service spokesman Richard Maher said.
“That is an important location, still, for our customers,” he said. “We would maintain some kind of retail presence in the area.”
Maher said he doesn’t know how long it will take to decide the future of the Grand Avenue post office. But he said the Postal Service isn’t wasting time as it looks nationwide for costs to cut and offices it could consolidate.
The Postal Service reported a net loss of $8.5 billion in its 2010 fiscal year.
It has considered closing two other Orange County post offices in recent years. It got as far as surveying customers about the possibility of shutting an office in east Irvine, but has since set aside those plans. It also decided against consolidating an office in south Laguna Beach.
For now, no other Orange County post office is on the list for possible closure, Maher said – although the Irvine office could get another look. “As we move forward, we will be taking a look not only in Orange County, but around the nation,” he said.
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2019 Lamborghini Huracan Review & Changes – Flush with Audi technology and playing the Urus will double company sales, Lamborghini is ready to radicalize the Huracán above a common supercar invigorate. When an up to date Huracán comes in delayed 2018 or very early 2019, it might adjust rear-wheel steering from the Aventador S and a 48-volt electric subsystem very similar to these in the Audi SQ7 and Bentley Bentayga. As we have knowledgeable, Lamborghini’s rear-wheel steering decreases the Aventador’s impossibly wide, truckish footprint to that of a lighter in weight, smaller sports car, so picture what it really could do for the less heavy, smaller Huracán. In accordance to an older Lamborghini professional, the matter of cost-even in a Lamborghini-has manager wavering considering that the Huracán is intended to be the “entry-level” supercar.
As for the better voltage, next-generation Lamborghini models will use a 48-volt subsystem that goes at the same time with the major 12-volt system. Because the Urus will reveal very much of its hardware with Bentley, it is probable that the 200-mph SUV will feature adaptive anti-roll bars that style by implies of high-powered electric motors.
The Huracán may expose these feature-or other individuals powered by the 48-volt subsystem, these kinds of as Audi’s electric rotary dampers-well before it is substituted, even though the intricacy of introducing a supplementary battery, a buckle-alternator beginner, and a lot more cabling may not fit so perfectly in a mid-engined Lambo. If the designers cause it to become work, never count on the Huracán to use a hybrid assist as on the 2019 Audi A8. Lamborghini is a lot more focused on wringing every single last pony from the 5.2-liter V-10, despite the fact that our supply shows us that engine-which started out daily life in the Gallardo and peaks at 631 horsepower in the Huracán Performance-is achieving its restriction.
Nevertheless of regardless of whether Lamborghini improves power and rewires the whole car, the team is also contemplating a GT3 version that might be a lot more difficult core than the Performance unveiled this year. Lamborghini professionals started off guaranteeing rear-wheel-drive Huracán versions as quickly as the car debuted for 2019, and when the LP580-2 and Performance are as uncooked as actually, a correct Superleggera is in the cards. Snapshot a street-legal version of the most up-to-date Super Trofeo Evo race car in the vein of the Porsche 911 GT2 RS, and you are not much off. But like all of these proposals, the GT3 has not been okayed for manufacturing. No matter what final type the rejuvenated Huracán usually takes, it will certainly continue to keep us out of the air for several much more years.


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p53-mediated suppression of BiP triggers BIK-induced apoptosis during prolonged endoplasmic reticulum stress
CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
Authors: Lopez, Ignacio; Tournillon, Anne-Sophie; Martins, Rodrigo Prado; Karakostis, Konstantinos; Malbert-Colas, Laurence; Nylander, Karin; Fahraeus, Robin
Physiological and pathological conditions that affect the folding capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) provoke ER stress and trigger the unfolded protein response (UPR). The UPR aims to either restore the balance between newly synthesized and misfolded proteins or if the damage is severe, to trigger cell death. However, the molecular events underlying the switch between repair and cell death are not well understood. The ER-resident chaperone BiP governs the UPR by sensing misfolded proteins and thereby releasing and activating the three mediators of the UPR: PERK, IRE1 and ATF6. PERK promotes G2 cell cycle arrest and cellular repair by inducing the alternative translated p53 isoform p53.N40 (p53/47), which activates 14-3-3 sigma via suppression of p21(CDKN1A). Here we show that prolonged ER stress promotes apoptosis via a p53-dependent inhibition of BiP expression. This leads to the release of the pro-apoptotic BH3-only BIK from BiP and activation of apoptosis. Suppression of bip mRNA translation is mediated via the specific binding of p53 to the first 346-nt of the bip mRNA and via a p53 trans-suppression domain located within the first seven N-terminal amino acids of p53 Delta N40. This work shows how p53 targets BiP to promote apoptosis during severe ER stress and further illustrates how regulation of mRNA translation has a key role in p53-mediated regulation of gene expression during the UPR.
Osteopontin-stimulated apoptosis in cardiac myocytes involves oxidative stress and mitochondrial death pathway: role of a pro-apoptotic protein BIK
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Authors: Dalal, Suman; Zha, Qinqin; Singh, Mahipal; Singh, Krishna
Increased osteopontin (OPN) expression in the heart, specifically in myocytes, associates with increased myocyte apoptosis and myocardial dysfunction. Recently, we provided evidence that OPN interacts with CD44 receptor, and induces myocyte apoptosis via the involvement of endoplasmic reticulum stress and mitochondrial death pathways. Here we tested the hypothesis that OPN induces oxidative stress in myocytes and the heart via the involvement of mitochondria and NADPH oxidase-4 (NOX-4). Treatment of adult rat ventricular myocytes (ARVMs) with OPN (20 nM) increased oxidative stress as analyzed by protein carbonylation, and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels as analyzed by ROS detection kit and dichlorohydrofluorescein diacetate staining. Pretreatment with NAC (antioxidant), apocynin (NOX inhibitor), MnTBAP (superoxide dismutase mimetic), and mitochondrial K-ATP channel blockers (glibenclamide and 5-hydroxydecanoate) decreased OPN-stimulated ROS production, cytosolic cytochrome c levels, and apoptosis. OPN increased NOX-4 expression, while decreasing SOD-2 expression. OPN decreased mitochondrial membrane potential as measured by JC-1 staining, and induced mitochondrial abnormalities including swelling and reorganization of cristae as observed using transmission electron microscopy. OPN increased expression of BIK, a pro-apoptotic protein involved in reorganization of mitochondrial cristae. Expression of dominant-negative BIK decreased OPN-stimulated apoptosis. In vivo, OPN expression in cardiac myocyte-specific manner associated with increased protein carbonylation, and expression of NOX-4 and BIK. Thus, OPN induces oxidative stress via the involvement of mitochondria and NOX-4. It may affect mitochondrial morphology and integrity, at least in part, via the involvement of BIK.

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Saudi Women Look More to E-commerce than Election
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia became the latest—and last—country in the world to grant women suffrage in elections highly celebrated as a major milestone victory for women’s equality.
There’s no question that increased rights are a change in the right direction. But how much does suffrage really matter?
Political participation has been a hard-fought struggle for Muslim women over the last few decades. Afghan, Iraqi and Moroccan women have all won quotas in government, and Turkish, Libyan, Yemeni and Syrian women have all pushed for increased female presence in political spheres in one way or another.
But in most of these countries, women’s freedoms so far have an inverse relationship with their political empowerment. In Iraq, women’s rights have rolled backwards since they won a quota of 25% representation in parliament in 2003. Afghan women’s rights, won a decade ago, are wobbling as U.S. troops withdraw. In Turkey, women’s political power is barely providing a bulwark against the rising tide of anti-feminist agendas. And in countries consumed by conflict—Syria, Yemen, Libya—earlier gains won by women have become irrelevant.
In Western democracies like the U.S. and the U.K., political emancipation plays a critical role in the narrative of women’s march forward. But is a different narrative emerging for Saudi women? Women are rising in business much faster than in politics, and that may ultimately prove to create much more effective, long-lasting effects on women in society.
Take, for example, the booming number of Saudi women e-commerce entrepreneurs. Since the Saudi King granted women limited permissions to work, the number of women employed has increased by a whopping 48 percent since 2010, according to Bloomberg. Many more are creating at-home e-commerce businesses. Instagram and Facebook are the marketplaces of choice for female digital entrepreneurs, who otherwise might be restricted from employment because they can’t drive or be seen in public with men. Saudi men and women resoundingly agree that social media is a tremendous force for women’s economic empowerment.
“A new generation across Saudi Arabia have access to technology, and are using it to learn, engage and build enterprises,” says Christopher Schroeder, a venture investor and author of LINK Startup Rising.
Women are becoming more educated, as well, and that’s driving their growing ambition, and ability, to earn. In recent years, Saudi women have entered and graduated from university at a much higher rate than boys, thanks in part to the opening of universities for women and the expansion of courses available for women. Their literacy rate stands now at above 90 percent, stunning given that only 2 percent of Saudi women could read in 1970.
“15 years ago we didn’t have any excitement about women’s empowerment, but now it’s different. If you don’t have a job, you can start your own business,” says Hiba Alzamil, chief fundraising officer at the Saudi nonprofit AlNahda and a former banker.
How much women can do with their bank accounts, even when they lack sufficient political representation, can be seen in Turkey, where fewer than 1-in-5 elected officials are women, however the country has more female CEOs than any other European or Arab nation.
Even as leading Turkish government officials such as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan make sexist comments towards women, some of the country’s richest female CEOS are launching programs to promote women within their own ranks. The female publisher of a large newspaper funds educational and job-training efforts for women in rural areas, as well as anti-domestic violence initiatives. These initiatives are highly effective in changing the lives of women.
This is all particularly good news for Saudi women given that even with restrictions lifted on political participation, women’s gains in the mid-December elections were miniscule.
Saudi women won 20 seats, representing only one percent of the roughly 2,100 municipal seats. About 130,000 women registered to vote, which is a lot, but only a fraction of the 1.4 million registered men. And the elected seats come with limited power, as Saudi is an authoritarian regime, guided by Sharia law— the King and the religious leaders still call the shots.
As women business leaders gain in stature and power in Saudi Arabia, one can hope they will push to lift some of the barriers in a workplace laden with the expectations of Saudi society and law. Women can’t drive and so are reliant on costly drivers to go to work. They can only work in sectors deemed appropriate for women, separate from men, and maintaining a strict dress code. This, and pervasive discrimination against women, is why there are at least seven unemployed women for every one unemployed Saudi male.
To be sure, it’s not an either/or situation for women. While women still haven’t got more than breadcrumbs in the monarchy’s local councils, they are making a meal out of their market share. Indeed for some, prowess in business has translated to the political sphere—take Lama Al Sulaiman, a businesswoman and mother of four, who was elected deputy chairwoman of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce before parlaying her private sector successes into a seat on the Jeddah municipal council.
International groups like the International Labor Organization (ILO) hold sway with the monarchy—the ILO is widely credited with the Kingdom’s recent decision to open up more jobs to women previously deemed not feminine. Supporting advocacy for women’s rights, and ensuring women have access to financing for their small business start-ups, are two ways to help women build their economic might.
“Not all men are supportive, but my husband is and sees my success as our shared success,” said AlNahda’s Alzamil.
As Saudi women continue to have financial success, no doubt other men will agree.
Reporting for this article was contributed by Molly Bernstein, an FPIR fellow, and formerly a CASA fellow in Cairo and Amman @mollybern1
Christina Asquith is the Founder of the Fuller Project for International Reporting (FPIR) and author of Sisters in War : A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq (Random House) @FullerProject
Dr. Xanthe Ackerman is Executive Director of FPIR and an expert in gender and international education @XAckerman


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A Gambling E-Nation?
THE House of Representatives voted this week not to ban Internet gambling. That is, a fairly large majority of members voted for the ban, but under a rule for bringing the measure to a vote without amendments, a two-thirds majority was needed.
That was more than proponents could muster. So arcane House procedures helped shelve efforts to close off yet another frontier of gambling, for this year at least.
This subject won't go away, however. Online gaming has exploded in recent years, growing from virtually zero into a $1.2 billion business. Over the next two years, it's expected to balloon to more than $3 billion. Some 700 Web sites are devoted to gambling, and that number grows daily.
Considering the potential for fraud and other criminality posed by this online industry, to say nothing of the possibility of increased compulsive gambling as the home computer becomes a virtual casino, legislative action is called for. The potential impact on children, who can't legally participate in other forms of gambling, is itself reason enough to act.
The House bill, unlike its Senate counterpart that passed rather quietly last November, brought a flood of opposition. The increasingly potent online gaming industry itself fought against the bill, of course. But so did state governments, which want to use the Internet to market their lottery tickets. Many high-tech firms, who either help write the gambling software or just don't want government intrusion on the Web, chimed in with nays.
On the other side were antigambling, pro-family groups, as well as established casinos concerned about online competition. Some sports interests too, such as the NCAA, wanted a ban. They're worried, for good cause, that e-wagering could undermine the integrity of athletic contests.
Horse and dog tracks became major backers of the bill when they were exempted from the online ban. This was a weakness in the bill, since it would have been a boon to those betting industries, giving clearer legal status to their ongoing electronic wagering practices.
All of which points to how difficult it has become to draw a clear line to limit the growth of gambling. Not just the politics are hard, but the technical aspects of controlling Web gaming operations, many of which originate off-shore, are daunting.
Still, it's a line worth drawing. Congress should keep trying.
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After six months of intense investigations, the FBI has concluded that no criminal charges are merited for Internal Revenue Service employees who subjected applications from mostly tea-party nonprofits to extra scrutiny, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday afternoon, citing unnamed FBI officials.
According to the leaks, investigators are more likely to wrap up the probe in a few months and characterize the actions mostly by a Cincinnati-based unit of the IRS Exempt Organizations division as bureaucratic mismanagement.
The story drew another protest from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who released a joint statement.
“Anonymous -- and apparently politically motivated -- leaks from unnamed law enforcement officials further undermine the public assurances by the current and former FBI directors that this is a legitimate investigation. These leaks come after the Justice Department, citing the confidential nature of the investigation, refused to brief Congress on its progress and congressional investigators independently discovered that a high dollar contributor to the Obama administration failed to recuse herself,” the two lawmakers said. “These revelations further undermine the credibility of Attorney General [Eric] Holder and the Justice Department under his leadership. Given the circumstances, there is little reason for the American people to have confidence in this investigation.”


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£50m of taxpayers’ money spent annually on non-existent operations in private medical clinics
Labour Party contracts for private medical clinics cost the taxpayer more than £50million a year for surgeries that never happened.
Agreements with minimum payment guarantees meant independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) were paid fixed amounts, regardless of the number of operations undertaken, it has been reported.
Two centres in Derbyshire and West Yorkshire were paid £21million more than the work they carried out between 2005 and 2010 and it is estimated that nationwide the overspending could exceed £250million.
Value for money? Private medical clinics have been paid more than the value of the operations they carried out
The claims come after a Freedom of Information Request by the Daily Telegraph found an ISTC in Barlborough, near Chesterfield, was paid £98.3million in the five years to April 2010, but carried out operations worth £84.6million.
A clinic near Bradford, meanwhile, was paid £7.3million more than the work it had undertaken.
The overspending has been linked to the five-year contracts awarded to ISTCs after they were established by the Labour government in 2003.
Scrubbing up: Private medical clinics were paid a higher premium than the NHS tariff as part of minimum payment contracts
The privately-owned clinics serve NHS patients exclusively and were intended to lessen waiting times by referring patients to ISTCs for routine procedures.
The centres were paid an 11 per cent higher premium higher than the NHS rate and the new Government is now considering a 14 per cent premium for private health firms.
After the new claims of overspending, the British Medical Association and the Unite union has criticised government reliance on the private sector.
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chairman of the British Medical Association’s GP committee, said the new figures showed the ‘poor value for money’ of ISTCs.
‘The idea by both the previous Labour government and the Coalition that by using the private sector, it will somehow reduce costs and drive up quality is completely at variance with the evidence,’ he told the newspaper.
‘The evidence is that costs go up and quality goes down.’
Unite health policy specialist Nick Parrott warned the introduction of a 14 per cent premium could cost taxpayers billions.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health said the Government intended to move away from fixed contracts that led to the overspending reported today.
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The comic book vigilante is returning to Netflix in a new original series.
Netflix has announced a full season order for Marvel's 'The Punisher.' The series will star Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle. Steve Lightfoot ('Hannibal') is on board as Executive Producer.
"We want to thank the fans who are clamoring for more of Jon's stunning and powerful performance as Frank Castle from ‘Marvel’s Daredevil," said Executive Producer/Head of Marvel TV, Jeph Loeb, "Now combined with Showrunner Steve Lightfoot's compelling writing, we're thrilled to bring Marvel's The Punisher to Netflix."
Frank Castle previously made his Netflix debut in the second season of 'Daredevil.' 'The Punisher' is now the sixth Marvel Netflix series to be announced, joining 'Daredevil,' the Peabody Award-winning 'Jessica Jones,' the upcoming 'Luke Cage' and 'Iron Fist,' and the team-up mini-series 'The Defenders.' Executive Producer Steve Lightfoot will also serve as showrunner and is set to write the series' first two episodes. Marvel's 'The Punisher' is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix. An exact release date has not been announced yet.
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This flow of life is why our Semi-Religious, Capitalistic Socialist, Confused Democratic Republic Monarchy has sustained so well.
The following was written in response to a TED Talk shared with me sometime back – “Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming.” In summary, the haves of America are warned that something must be done to close the gap with the have nots; otherwise, we should expect revolution. The talk goes on to promote an increase in minimum wage as a step toward this goal.
My thoughts are as follows:
The capitalistic economy of the United States has outlasted the economic structure of any other country in history. This structure has worn many various masks through the years:
- We have sometimes gone through periods of heavy regulation followed by step-backs and deregulation.
- Our current socialistic trend is nothing new. Similar trends led to our public school system which is widely accepted by most modern conservatives.
- We have gone through multiple recessions and at least one significant depression. At times government aid assisted in the bounce back (FDR) and at times similar aid has deepened the dependency of the weak and perpetuated the current low state of affairs (GWB – Obama).
- We have experienced horrific crimes on humanity resulting in wars, which had the side effect of kicking the economy back to its feet.
All this to say that I don’t believe it is simply our capitalistic economy that has allowed the United States of America to prosper for so long. It is the collective heart of a great mass of people who truly believe they are part of the greatest country in the world. That belief causes a person to respond and act to every situation in a certain way. Those responses and actions allow some to rise to the top. Those who rise offer solutions, products and opportunities which the whole inevitably benefits from. This flow of life is why our Semi-Religious, Capitalistic Socialist, Confused Democratic Republic Monarchy has sustained so well.
Does this mean we will last forever? Of course not. Nothing does. Are we headed for a down-fall? History says “yes, sooner or later”; however, it is not because of the growing fissure between the haves and have nots. That is simply a symptom of the fact that a deeper, cultural change has taken hold. That spirit that has defined Americans is losing its swagger. This is due to many things not the least of which is our government’s transition from lending a hand to those in need toward entrapment into dependency on that same hand.
Apart from a genuine patriotic revival in the spirit of America, we will eventually fall regardless of how many Bandaids we put on the wound along the way (e.g. raising minimum wage).


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If you ever feel lonely, know that you’re not alone. Loneliness is so prevalent it would seem as if it’s an inescapable human condition. But what exactly is loneliness? Where does it arise from and how is it overcome?
Loneliness is a deep pervading, and often unshakable feeling, a sense of disconnectedness, a craving for affection and companionship. Loneliness is an overwhelming feeling of emptiness, and the desire to fill that void through relation and intimacy with other human beings.
It’s not enough to share physical space with someone. It is not enough to merely be acquainted or to have a healthy sexual relationship. It’s not enough to be in the company of others. Even in the company of good friends or a lover we can often feel a deep sense of loneliness.
Relationship means to relate; to share an intimate connection with someone that goes far deeper than casual acquaintance. But many relationships don’t go so deep. Communication remains shallow and there’s a lack of genuine intimate connection. And so, deep within there is a lack of fulfillment, and the craving for intimacy continues to go unquenched.
Even in long-term relationships, many couples find it difficult to develop and maintain this deep level of intimacy. They may rarely speak to one another, apart from the kind of casual conversation you might have with a stranger. It’s often uncomfortable to open up to one another because we’re not even comfortable with ourselves. There may be things about us that we feel are inadequate or which we feel shameful about. Speaking openly may bring up heavy emotions which we would rather not face or which we would prefer not to burden the other with. We might discover things about one another that trigger discomfort and can lead to conflict. So to avoid all of this we remain closed. We remain like strangers living in the same space, never truly connecting beneath the surface. And even if two people grow to resent one another, they will often remain together simply because of attachment. They will learn to simply tolerate one another. Clearly the relationship is not working. Both are unhappy and there’s always some sort of unresolved tension. And yet they remain together because it is better to be with someone—anyone—than to be alone.
We are so afraid of being alone. And so we’re always searching for someone to fill the void, to distract us from feeling lonely. As soon as one relationship ends we are already searching for the next. Or we go on holding onto the old relationship, even though the other person has long moved on. We cling like rats to anything that floats by in order that we don’t drown in loneliness.
And is it any wonder that our relationships suffer when they’re poisoned from the start? When we pursue a relationship from a place of loneliness, the other person is little more than a means to satisfy our craving, to fill an overwhelming sense of emptiness we’ve been carrying for so long. That person is simply a distraction. And if both feel empty, neither will be capable of fulfilling the other. In time they’ll realize that the other is incapable of satisfying them, and often we grow to resent one another because of that.
This kind of relationship is founded upon fear; the fear of being alone. But there’s only so much room for a genuine loving exchange, because love does not arise from fear, and where there is fear, there is little room for love. Even while the relationship persists, the fear tends to remains, if even just in the background. We’re always concerned that the other may leave us. We become paranoid and suspicious. We become possessive and jealous. We always want to know where the other one is, what they’re doing and who they’re doing it with. We’re so certain that they’re going to abandon us that we begin to push them away. We don’t even realize when we’re doing this. But because we’re acting out of fear, rather than love, we make the other very uncomfortable. We create unnecessary tension which causes us to become disconnected. Whereas love unites, fear divides. And often we’re left feeling more disconnected, more lonely then we were to begin with.
Loneliness makes us desperate, and when we are desperate we make poor decisions. We don’t think things through clearly and rationally. We tend not to be realistic or discerning. We rush into relationships without taking time to get to know the other person. Many people are so desperate to be married. They want to secure a partner so they’ll have someone to spend their life with, or someone to give them children. And even the desire for children is often fueled by the need for emotional fulfillment which arises from that sense of loneliness. The thought of spending the rest of one’s life alone is very frightening. So the first person who shows up and shows a little interest, we latch onto and then rush into the relationship without really taking the opportunity to get to know the person intimately. And it may be that we never reach that level of intimacy, even long into the relationship.
There is so much fear in being alone, and the craving for intimacy is so strong. This very craving itself is what we call loneliness. It’s extremely unsettling and so we try desperately to avoid having to feel it. We distract ourselves with friends, with sexual partners, television, games, drugs and drinking and so on. But in the end we find that we must once again face the reality of being alone.
And the reality is that we are born alone and we die alone. Such an idea may seem bleak to some, but that reaction is nothing more than one’s resistance to that very reality. And if it is a reality, then the only way to be at peace with it is to accept it. When I say that we’re always alone, I’m not talking about a physical phenomenon. How can I say that we’re born alone? The mother is there. The nurse is there. Many people may be there. So in what sense are we alone?
We each experience this life from a unique, individual perspective. It ‘s from this unique point of observation that we find ourselves alone. No one else can enter into that space. No one can sit with us in our mind and percieve the world through our eyes. It’s only for us to experience. In that space resides all of our greatest inspiration as well as our darkest fears. And it’s for the latter reason that we try so hard to avoid it, why we struggle so desperately against it.
Aloneness is our natural state. And when we embrace it, we find that there’s a completeness in it. It’s being content with oneself; no longer relying upon others for validation; no longer relying upon others to fulfill our psychological or spiritual needs. Aloneness is self-sufficiency. There is no dependence upon anyone for love or happiness. All is contained within the Self already. One need only open up and allow it to arise spontaneously and without obstruction. Aloneness is the complete acceptance of oneself, and the full radiance of love and joy that arises from within one’s own heart.
Through aloneness one discovers who he really is in relation to the universe; in relation to others. He comes to understand his fears and desires, and by thoroughly understanding them, they gradually dissolve. What is left is stillness, peace and clarity.
The feeling of loneliness arises from our resistance to our aloneness. And we try to resist that feeling by distracting ourselves. But ultimately nothing seems to work. Like quicksand, the more we struggle against it, the more we find ourselves stuck, sinking ever deeper.
I use this analogy because it is commonly understood that in order to become free of quicksand you must remain calm and passive and do not try to resist it. It is because of fear that we panic and begin struggling desperately to free ourselves. But doing so only causes us to sink deeper, making the situation worse. To become unstuck we must first realize that struggling is counterproductive. To escape the quicksand you must lie down. To escape loneliness you must surrender to being alone.
To go from a state of loneliness to aloneness means confronting your loneliness. It’s because we are always running from it that we never escape it. Regardless of circumstances, it remains with us. Even amongs friends, or with a lover, it somehow creeps back in. All the things we do to escape loneliness are really only temporary distractions at best. It’s like covering the symptoms of a disease without really curing it. If you want to cure the disease you don’t try to cover it up. You examine it. You find out what it is and what’s causing it. You go to the root of it and pluck it out.
The most effective way to overcome loneliness is to simply be with it; to go deeply into it. We resist it because when we’re alone there is no one to distract us from our own thoughts. And in our minds there is so much fear and insecurity that we’d rather not face. There’s so much uncertainty and discomfort. This is why being alone is so difficult and painful. But if we can embrace aloneness, and face these inner demons, we can overcome that discomfort and and actually find joy in being alone.
Aloneness offers one many opportunities, such as the opportunity for deep reflection and reassessment of one’s goals and desires, or the opportunity to find strength and courage, and to cultivate a deeper sense of self-acceptance. It offers one time and space to delve into the depths of one’s being; to overcome fears and feelings of inadequacy, and to develop the qualities we most desire for ourselves.
It is an opportunity to release attachments and relinquish expectations; to no longer require the praise and support of others, but to find inspiration and validation from within. It is an opportunity to discover wisdom and beauty within oneself; to find peace and contentment in solitude; to find stillness; and to discover completion and wholeness.
Embracing aloneness offers us the opportunity to love others more deeply, because love can flow freely when it’s not inhibited by fear and desperation. It’s when we’re able to be content in aloneness, and to love ourselves unconditionally, that we can then offer our love to others without attachment or expectation.
By embracing aloneness one is able to discover and cultivate the most important relationship; the relationship one has with oneself.

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By Kotie Geldenhuys
It is the duty of SAPS officials to serve and protect the citizens of the country. But policing is a risky job and we easily forget that police officials are also human and often find themselves in situations where they too become victims of violence. Interestingly, there is a lot of research about crime committed by police officials, but not that much about police officials who have become victims of crime.
Although police officials are exposed to many dangers on the job, society seldom consider police officials as victims. When looking at the most common definition of a victim, it refers to “a person who experiences crime”. Researchers into victimology, such as Eliasson (2021) argue that being a victim can “expand beyond experiencing a crime and apply to a person who experiences harm”. Research indicates that police officials experience different types of victimisation on the job which can have a direct and indirect physical, mental and economic impact on a police official. As a result of violent and non-violent victimisation in the line of duty, these have negative consequences for their well-being. Despite the fact that they can be victims too, their stories of victimisation are seldom “headlined in the media, placed on political agendas, or discussed in local communities. Due to the lack of inclusion on these platforms, police officials are invisible victims” (Eliasson, 2021).
There is no doubt that there are some police officials who act violently and engage in police brutality. And although there are no excuses for their inappropriate behaviour, one must remember that South Africa is one of the most violent countries in the world, where police officials are under attack daily. According to Gallup, the global polling group, South Africa is ranked the fifth most dangerous country out of 144 countries (Business Tech, 2020). I still remember that many years ago a police official who worked at one of the Gauteng Flying Squads told Servamus that they almost have to duck and dive to avoid flying bullets or endure verbal abuse from community officials on a daily basis.
A large part of police officials' job comprises "dealing with drunks, with the insane, with the dead, with the vice-ridden, with the ill" (Mawby and Zempi, 2018). Therefore, it can be said that the police's role is a necessary but "an exceedingly unpleasant and in some sense a degrading one" (Mawby and Zempi, 2018). The policing functions of crime prevention, protecting the public and maintaining public order ensure that police officials are placed in conflict situations in which they encounter hostility, aggression and violence (Emsley, 2014). One such an incident happened on 6 July 2021 when an angry mob swarmed around police after a routine drug bust in the Florida area of Gauteng's West Rand. The police searched a drug house where the occupants kept two pit bull terriers as security. While the police searched the house, one suspect released one of the dogs which attacked one of the police officials. The dog bit the ankle of the police official's protective boot and subsequently gained a vice-like grip on the police official's calf. As the police official's colleagues were unable to free him from the dog's jaws, they were forced to shoot the vicious dog. All this commotion drew the attention of onlookers and those connected to the suspects, who started protesting angrily about the arrest of the suspects. The police called for back-up and several police and private security companies arrived at the scene to disperse the mob. The police arrested the three suspects while the police official who had sustained the dog bite, was transported to hospital (Westerdale, 2021).


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University of Southern California women’s basketball recruit Aaliyah Gayles was shot multiple times at a house party in Las Vegas late Saturday night, according to multiple reports. Gayles, 18, is a senior at Spring Valley High School. She underwent two emergency surgeries Sunday morning, according to sources close to the situation. A man reportedly from her father, Donald Gayles, took to Twitter in the aftermath.
“I know there is some that will say it’s my fault and I take full responsibility for it but please please keep my baby girl in your prayers Las Vegas,” an account registered to D.Gayles tweeted. “I will give everyone that support Aaliyah an update but she’s ok she go make it like always thank you all.”
I know there is some that will say it's my fault and I take full responsibility for it but please please keep my baby girl in your prayers Las Vegas. I will give everyone that support Aaliyah an update but she's ok she go make it like always thank you all💔🙏🏾 true warrior pic.twitter.com/NxtSFc5Wyv
— D.Gayles (@DGayles3) April 17, 2022
An argument reportedly broke out at a north Las Vegas home on Saturday night in the 4900 block of Support Street, near Lone Mountain Road and Simmons Street, according to police. Gunshots were fired at about 11:15 p.m. Four people, including two minors, suffered gunshot wounds.
The Las Vegas shooting was another in a weekend of gun violence that rocked the nation.
Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub in Charleston early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. This followed a shooting in a mall in Columbia hours earlier in the day on Saturday. In Pittsburgh, two minors were killed early Sunday during a shooting that left at least 31 people wounded.
Gayles, a point guard, is the No. 8 recruit in the class of 2022, according to ESPN HoopGurlz rankings, and recently played in the McDonald’s All American Game and Jordan Brand Classic.
Another tweet from @DGayles3 in the aftermath of the shooting was posted.
“I love you 3 just come back home to me baby girl I got you I promise.”
I love you 3 just come back home to me baby girl I got you I promise 🤞🏾💔 pic.twitter.com/MMoL4vUdvw
— D.Gayles (@DGayles3) April 18, 2022
No arrests have been made in connection to the shooting, and police say an investigation is ongoing. According to Gun Violence Archive, there have been 144 mass shootings in the United States in 2022. A reported 10,157 people have been injured; 202 of those injured are between the ages of 0-11 and 930 are between the ages of 12-17.
Gayles had decommitted from USC following the retirement of former coach Mark Trakh before recommitting to the Trojans under coach Lindsay Gottlieb last August.
“Aaliyah is one of the strongest, most resilient young people I have ever known,” Gottlieb said in a statement to ESPN on Sunday night. “I have no doubt she will continue to face this unfathomable situation with courage and resolve. We will continue to support her and her parents in every way that we possibly can.”
If the gunshot wounds are not serious and there are no complications from surgery, Gayles should make a healthy recovery and be able to play again. Right now, it’s wait and see.
A GoFundMe page was set up for Aaliyah Graves and her family by someone named Sally Blair. The stated goal is $10,000 and organizers were more than halfway there within about 12 hours.


Norwalk has hired El Monte top administrator Jesus Gomez as its next city manager.
Gomez has served the city of El Monte for the past eight years. He first joined as the economic and redevelopment director in 2009. He was eventually appointed to the assistant and then interim city manager positions before becoming the city's top executive in 2015.
“I am honored to congratulate Jesus Gomez on his appointment,” said El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero. "He will be sorely missed. He leaves our city in a much better place and for that we will always be grateful.”
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King’s Lynn C their way clear to maximum roller hockey points return
The youngsters in the Lynn C roller hockey team played their vastly experienced B team in the first ECRHA Senior League Division 2 game of the day at Alive Lynnsport.
With both teams knowing each other’s strengths, it was a struggle for either team to break the deadlock, however, the C side were first to score from a quick counter attack.
They then added another before the veterans pulled one back. One more well worked goal was added to make the final score 3-1 to the C team.
The second game was against a very strong Cottenham team. Once again it was a close game, with both teams attacking fast, and playing some great hockey.
Lynn took the lead just before half-time with an excellent team goal. In the second half they then added another, before Cottenham pulled one back.
Their opponents were desperate for an equaliser and were bombarding Lynn’s goal with shots, but a great performance from goalie and captain, Eilidgh Clague, made sure Lynn collected all the points. Final score 2-1 to Lynn C.
Last game of the day was against Cambridge, and a much more comfortable victory to give Lynn maximum points for the day, with a fine performance from Harvey Dugdale (four goals), in a 7-2 win.
Overall, the whole team were excellent and played some fantastic hockey, arguably the best performance as a team for some time.

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Ceramic dielectrics were prepared by dispersing a high dielectric constant phase in a beryllium oxide matrix. The dispersant phases were doped futile (Ti02) 'rod strontium and calcium til:anate. The microwave dielectric constants varied from 10 to 23 as a function of the amount of dispersed phase. The room temperature thermal conductivity of the same mixture-compositions varied from 0.27 to 0.6 cal/(cm, sec. °C). Mixture equations proved inadequate tcpredict the dielectric constant and thermal conductivity with any significant degree of accuracy. Loss tangents were generally 0.0007, or lower, except for strontium titanate which undergoes a relaxation at microwave frequencies, titus the mixture-loss was raised to 0.0024. The ceramic mixtures sintered to densities typically higher than 97% of theoretical and yielded flexural strengths of the order of 38 000 lbf/in2. These values compare favorably with those of single phrase BeO ceramics.


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The course content for Third Grade Humanities (Gifted Support) is social studies based and focuses on these essential questions:Þ What does citizenship mean?
Þ How do people support a community?Þ How does geography impact the life of a people?Þ How does history influence the lives of people?
Areas of study will include:World Geography, Our Community and Communities Around the World."It is not enough to have a good mind;the main thing is to use it well."-Rene DescartesVisitWorking with MapsThis set of lessons from the United States Geological Survey reinforces the map skills children are introduced to in Lesson 3. Children follow along on a balloon ride to learn about the differences between visualizing objects on the ground and visualizing them from the overhead view used by most maps. Map symbols and grid lines are also introduced.Place that State50 StatesLearn about the interesting state you live in! This site offers students a plethora of information and interesting facts about each of the fifty states. This can be a resource for students as they learn more about the United States.

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Prodding for a more benign agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was always going to be central for the bilateral meeting scheduled for last Tuesday between President Alberto Fernández and his Washington counterpart and host Joe Biden but its indefinite postponement due to Biden testing positive for Covid-19 with Economy Minister Silvina Batakis representing Argentina stateside last week made the IMF agenda even more exclusive. She was greeted on Thursday as she touched ground in Buenos Aires with a major cabinet reshuffle, seeing Sergio Massa anointed “superminister” in charge of Economy, Production, and Agriculture, while she was appointed to lead Banco Nación.
Arriving in Washington on Sunday (accompanied only by Economic Policy Secretary Karina Angeletti), the new minister had the difficult mission of attempting a renegotiation of the IMF agreement only four months after its conclusion without being able to offer much in the way of austerity, given the potential resistance from most of the Frente de Todos administration. But she had scant margin for avoiding renegotiation with the fiscal deficit reportedly around four percent of Gross Domestic Product (as against 2.5 percent as per the IMF agreement) and Central Bank reserves way below target when they should be peaking between the harvest season and winter energy requirements.
On Monday Batakis already met up with past and present IMF chiefs –current Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and key United States Treasury advisor David Lipton (who briefly filled the gap between Georgieva and her predecessor Christine Lagarde). In only 20 minutes the two women ran through both the current business cycle of Argentina and its future economic programme.
“Another productive meeting with Minister Batakis. We welcomed her initial efforts to reinforce fiscal sustainability and agreed on the importance of the implementation of a programme to confront the socio-economic challenges of Argentina,” ran Georgieva’s less than conclusive Twitter summary of the meeting.
Even less was divulged about the meeting with Lipton although he was more generous with his time, giving Batakis an hour.
“Mission accomplished,”was the minister’s verdict.
A third meeting was with the IMF’s new Western Hemisphere Department director, Brazil’s Ilan Goldfajn.
The day’s most concrete result came not from the IMF but the World Bank where the minister’s meeting with its Executive Director Axel van Trotsenburg was followed by announcement of a US$200-million loan to back the investments of PyME small and medium-sized firms in technology and innovation.
Yet this good news was offset by an even larger loan of half a billion dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank (BID in its Spanish acronym) being pegged by its Florida-born president Mauricio Claver-Carone to Argentina meeting all its commitments with the IMF.
Furthermore, Fundación Mediterránea president Carlos Melconian forecast that the IMF tranche of US$4 billion due in September would not be forthcoming without austerity while the Financial Times spoke of “evaporating confidence.”
Rounding out her Washington swing on Tuesday, Batakis ratified both the sustainability of the current agreement with the IMF and the political support of the ruling coalition in its entirety for fiscal austerity (which, she assured a Cabinet meeting prior to her departure, would not be applied to “sensitive” areas such as social spending and public works). The new minister blamed the 36 hours between her predecessor Martín Guzmán’s exit and her own confirmation for much of the volatility. Incredibly, rumours of her replacement ran like wildfire while she was still in Washington, confirmed on Thursday with Massa’s appointment which also counts with the support of the ruling coalition in its entirety.
The IMF described the situation in Argentina as “very worrying,” demanding stern action against inflation as an “absolute priority” since it was not “anchored,” in the words of IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, who met with Batakis on Tuesday. Nevertheless, despite its dim view of the situation, the IMF stood by its forecasts of four percent growth this year and three percent next.
Batakis spent much of Tuesday on Wall Street, talking to a score of bank and investment fund executives, many of them Argentina’s creditors, while her return flight on Wednesday was delayed, bringing her back on a day ending with her move to the helm of Banco Nación.


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Antigua and Barbuda prime minister Gaston Browne has shared a plan for the re-organisation of LIAT.
The regional air carrier is facing possible liquidation mostly due to operational losses.
The plan dated July 13 was submitted by the government of Antigua and Barbuda for consideration by the majority shareholder Governments of LIAT 1974 limited.
It outlines that the reorganisation of LIAT requires new capitalisation up to EC $108 million of which the government of Antigua and Barbuda is prepared to underwrite up to 50 per cent.
It is expected that the remaining $54 million will be shared by other private and public sector entities including existing shareholder governments.
Also noted was the proposed lowering of airport taxes throughout the region, which should result in at least a 20 per cent increase in intraregional travel.
The plan points out the reorganisation will preserve the value of LIAT for the airline and its stakeholders, unlike a disorderly liquidation and the chaos and confusion that will come with the latter.
The document urges reconsideration of the proposed liquidation and adoption of the reorganisation plan in the interest of preserving safe and reliable air transportation and the integration movement.


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The sisters stepped out together at Macy's South Coast Plaza while supporting their joint venture, Jessica Simpson Girls collection, in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Saturday.
Six months after welcoming daughter Maxwell with her fiancé, Eric Johnson, Jessica, 32, flaunted her slim figure in a blue blouse and black pants for photographers. Ashlee, 28, mother to son Bronx, almost 4, proudly posed next to her big sis and showed off their matching blond 'dos.
In late October, Jessica told Us Weekly she'd already lost 60 of the 70 pounds she gained during pregnancy with the help of Weight Watchers' PointsPlus program and four-times-a-week workout sessions with celebrity trailer Harley Pasternak.
"I feel positive about how I've done so far and really good about the goals I have set," she told Us.
"Most people can tell a difference every time they see me," Jessica said, "which lets me know I'm making progress."
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