I had a Walther PPS at one time. I bought it years thinking it will be my ccw pistol. After taking it to the range, it was difficult to hold comfortably as the grip is kind of boxy and the magazine release was difficult to access with large hands. It shot good but I didn't care for it and mags were expensive at the time,around $40.00 for a 6 round mag and went up from there.
I then bought the P290, Sig put out and loved the ergonomics and the trigger pull. Unfortunately, the darn thing wouldn't fire when the trigger was pulled and it was recalled. I wanted to like that pistol but wouldn't trust it and wound up trading it in after it had the recall for quite a loss.
I now have a Glock 43, had a 42-which is another excellent pistol, but I wanted something with a little more power. I was impressed by the 43 and was curious about slide bite, as every Glock I shot without some sort of extended beaver tail would chew my hands up but he 43 did not. The 43 has a slightly longer tang/beaver tail and fits my hands perfectly. It has fired everything I put through it without any issues. The Glock is kind of plain looking but the things just work. Parts can be found everywhere and mags won't cost you an arm and a leg.
I don't have any experience with the PPS 2 or 365 but after having the p290 and the p250- a great gun but Sig dropped the ball on that one. They never really produced any frame options and magazines were hard to find and quite pricey. I had a 320, one of the earlier ones and had issues with it. Mine had the older frame/slide lock and the newer frames weren't compatible,seemed to have a lot of trigger slap due to the original trigger and eventually they were recalled on top of that. I wound up spending more on the base gun to replace the slide stop and trigger for something Sig should have done right from the beginning. Due to parts availability, it took a while to finally get what I needed, as they were hard to find and were made in what seemed like small batches. I am not impressed with Sig and their polymer guns at all. Their metal framed guns are nothing short of amazing but I will never own another polymer Sig.
2100+ rounds on my PPS M2, and currently 1800+ on my PPS M1. I put the M1 in the safe when the M2 came out. Carried and shot it for a year or more. Then recently got to thinking about the M1 and got it out and shot it. Lo and behold, I actually like it better than the M2! Didn't see that coming. Both are Talon Gripped, and I carry the 8rd mag in both. The M1 just sticks like glue in my hand; M2 is a close second.
Don't care for the ergos of the G43 personally, but everybody I know who has one reports they're terribly reliable, as have been both of my PPS. No peening, with 4000 rds through the two of them.
Unlike others, I had issues with Walthers: PPS M1, PPQ M1 and PPQ M2 5-inch. They were terribly unreliable. I was a beta-tester of Sig P320 and got rid of it after 2 trips to Sig. So for carry, I have G43. Light, superbly reliable and accurate. Does not hurt my fingers. That is the only pocket carry gun for me. Not waiting for P365.
Just to set the record straight, Sig has tweaked the P365 and solved both the front issue and the peening problem. Guns that are being delivered now has been factory corrected. I did see however, one or two online dealers still have a few of the original issue guns.
I have no relationship with Sig but I now have a tweaked P365.
Sorry I meant to say front Sight issue.
I'm just quoting myself here (because I generally like what I say best of all )
Anyway, I shot both PPS last night, 100 rounds each, putting my totals at 2205 (M2) and 2160 (Classic.) Other than getting confused on fast mag drops when switching back and forth, I again had zero problems. Used 4 different boxes of ammo, including some low-rent MaxTech (I think that's the name) that has caused FTFs in other pistols.
The reason to come back on here though is that I finally held a 365. Didn't shoot it because it was just one of the range managers' personal guns. But I was first of all interested in handling it before worrying about shooting.
I went into the store with the knowledge I would likely order a 365 from them after handling, and the attendant excitement a new gun always brings. And I left satisfied the Walthers (either of them) are still my daily carry guns.
I am mid-sized (185, 34" waist, Medium shirts, 5-11) and have zero trouble concealing the Walthers AIWB, even under a thin tee shirt. So going smaller has no discernible advantage for me unless you get down to LCP/P380 size, where I can carry in a leather wallet in my back pocket (used only rarely, when I need to wear a tucked in shirt.) But going smaller, in the case of the 365, has my hand fumbling in fast handling situations. It's just not as satisfying in the hand for me. Thinner grip in nearly all dimensions made it feel less secure in hand.
At any rate, the dimensional differences are small enough that they don't matter (to me) for concealment, but big enough that they do matter (to me) in the way the guns handle.
I'd love the knowledge that I'm carrying 10+1 or even 12+1 in a small single-stack, but not at the expense of the superbe ergonomic qualities of both Walthers.
Actually... contentment with currently owned guns/holsters is kinda a groovy feeling! I never have that!
I have owned all. Still have the 365. For me the 365 is the clear winner due to capacity to size ratio. The PPS was probably number 2 for me. Walther released a PPS M2 that comes from
The factory mulled and with a Shield RMSc red dot. These red dots cost $400 so for the $650 I have seen these guns sell for it’s a solid deal. I would have given a second thought about my 365 purchase if I had known about the PPS M2 Shield deal. I never really warmed up to the 43. I customized it but still wasn’t my favorite.
Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes.
I haven't seen it on the P365 yet, but I don't have that many rounds through it so far.
My G43 has had no issues. Fantastic pistol.
I have several Kahrs, and all in .40, and several of them practically destructed themselves through peening, to the point that the factory had to replace barrels, slides, and even the frame in one case. I had several that were in rotation, going back to Kahr. I never had those problems with the steel frame K40, but the polymer P40's all had issues.
I've had no issues at all with my XDs in 9 or 45, both 3" and 4." Reliable. Not a great trigger, but still reliable.
The subcompact Glocks have run without a hiccup, and the subcompact P320, as well. In fact, all my P320's have run without malfunction, I believe. The triggers on all are consistent and very good.
I do not own the micro Walther, though I own several larger Walthers, and they have had zero malfunctions, outstanding triggers, and are very ergonomic. One of these days I'll try the micro walther.
The G43 was mentioned as having a bad trigger. Out of the box, mine didn't have a great trigger; I put in a ghost connector and it improved substantially. When Glock released a minus connector, I put that in, and have run it that way ever since. I'll never compete with it (I'll probably never compete at all), but I have zero doubt about hitting whatever I'm shooing at with the G43 and am not concerned with reliability (which is the most important factor for me when carrying a firearm).
I hope the P365 proves as reliable. So far it's fairly new to me and tickles me pink when handling and shooting. I still can't get over the novelty of just how trim it is. In the big picture, it occupies about as much space in my pocket and uses the same holster as the Glock; it doesn't seem possible to have squeezed the extra rounds into the magazine, though, and it's a very ergonomic pistol with a trigger that feels like a P320. Thus far, I really like the pistol.
I have to agree with Sig Sauer’s marketing of the P365. It’s brilliant. The 365 is noticeably thinner and shorter in the slide than the 26, but with the same capacity.
And, while not a true single stack like the 43, the 365’s dimensions are much closer in comparison to the 43 than the 26. This little gun is going to put a serious dent in the 43/Shield marketshare.
I think Sig hit it out of the park with the 365, especially when it comes to marketing it against the 43 and Shield. Brilliant.
Have a PPS M2 and a 43.
Each has run flawlessly well past 500 rounds.
No peening on the Walter, but until Walter ceases being tone-deaf with its customers, I won't buy another.
Handled a friend's 365. Nice, but perhaps too small for my largish hands. Haven't ruled it out yet, but I'm content to listen to reports from the field for another year.
Don't put me in fear for my life.
A PPS M2 LE has been my EDC for at least a year. I've also shot several IDPA matches in BUG with it as well. Never a failure of any kind, even with lax maintenance. Buddy was looking for a new EDC so we go to the range so he can shoot the Walther. He also rented a P365. Gun felt good in the hand, but I didn't shoot it worth a damn vs my PPS. He had never held or shot either before, and also shot and preferred the PPS better. I rented an XDS and a G43 before I bought the PPS and preferred the PPS grip, trigger, and accuracy. Not that it mattered to me, but you can steal a PPS M2 vs all the other options as icing on the cake.
IDPA ESP SS
Of the 9mm pocket autos I have owned Kahr PM9s, SIG 290s, several Shields, a GLOCK 43, Beretta Nano and now a SIG 365. Only the GLOCK 43 and the 365 remain in the stable.
Keep your weapon handy, live free and prosper.
The wife is planning to get her LTC soon. We bought a G43 and a Shield for her to practice. I put Hogue slip on grips on both of them. After shooting both of those, I prefer the G43. That grip made the Glock fit my hand perfectly. It does what a J-frame did for me, but with a much better round. I handled a 365, seemed a little top heavy, unloaded. I'm sure it's a great pistol, I don't see me selling something to get it.
Re: small pistols.
Only have shot the p365; have nothing to compare. It is a wonderful pistol. It is as nice to shoot as the 220, 229, and 227 pistols. It is very accurate. Have shot it a lot at 10 yard, some at 25 yard, and 50 yard. Great fun to smuck water bottles at 50 yard. It is 100% reliable thus far, using every magazine; 115g, 124g, and 147g bullets.
After about 600 maybe 700 rounds, there is nothing about it that irritates me when i carry it or shoot it. Have used all of the three available magazines. If there is a better pistol, i won't know about it, because i won't look for it.
Finally had the chance to shoot a SIG P365 this weekend. Keystone Shooting Center had an event going on and the SIG rep brought some guns, one was a P365. Purchased a box of Federal White Box 9mm ammo from the range (requirement to use in the loaner guns) and ran my trigger press drills with the P365.
First impressions, the trigger is FANTASTIC, loved it – I had dry fired a P365 at Aces a while back and liked the trigger, today I dry fired it again and shot it, fantastic trigger.
My first 5 rounds were pretty much a one hole group at 7 yards. Good enough for me. I then ran some two shot/controlled pair drills, some 3 shot drills, and some failure to stop drills – from the ready at 7 yards. Ended up with 5 rounds slow fire at 10 yards.
During the 3 shot drills, I experienced a failure to feed; a tap/rack/bang cleared it. I recovered the live round and re-inserted it into the magazine, it fed no problem. Who knows why?
Perceived felt recoil: this is what I wanted to really see for myself; honestly the P365’s felt recoil felt like the Glock 43 to me, maybe – a little softer. I’ve gone through some 43s (7 in the last year and a half). I shoot the gun good, but don’t enjoy shooting it… after 50 rounds I am ready to put it away. The P365 didn’t make me want to put it away after the first box, but then I wouldn’t want to attend a training class with it where I would have to fire 300 or so rounds in a day through it either.
Would I buy a P365 – maybe down the road when I feel that the peening problems and striker breaking problems are resolved I will pick one up. For now, I'm back to my Front Serrations Gen 4 Glock 19 or Glock 26 with a grip reduction/stippling job.
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice.
FWIW, my friends PPS is amazing, it's incredibly accurate and easy to handle at 7yrds.
It's fun to shoot too!
I always look forward to shooting it when he comes to the range with me.
He has most of the Walther handguns.
I really like my PPS M2. My total-of-one experience with Walther customer service has been very good. I sent them an email after I first bought it and complained about the 8-rd mag. They contacted me within two hours and said if I'd scan the receipt and email it back they would send me a floorplate and keeper to convert the 8-rd back to 6-rd. Received the package a couple of days later. I'm patiently waiting for a later-production P365 but I have no intention of parting with the PPS...
I like my PPS M2 in 9mm. It’s been totally reliable and it’s in my pocket as I type this. If I didnt already have it and a Glock 26 I would probably be interested in the P365. I think I’ll wait a few years for the beta test to be completed on the P365 then maybe pick one up and see if it’s all that.
I’m getting very close to packing away or selling off my striker CCW pistols, and going the P938 or Springfield XD-E hammer route. An HK P30SK might be another option.
I holding on to my problem-free (so far) P365 to see what shakes out, but not carrying it.
"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ? Winston Churchill
I own a PPS M2. I preferred the feel of it to the G43. I won't buy a P365.
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Over the past decade, I've met with senior leaders at big energy companies and solar, wind, and renewable energy firms, and with government leaders weaning their countries away from fossil fuels. I've always been left with one thought: Solving the climate change problem is far, far more complex than most people realize.
Luckily, Gates is a noted student of communication. He's known for using creative strategies to help people understand complicated, stubborn problems.
And in that newsletter, he shows it. His explanation of climate change is brilliant--and his approach can help you explain information that people have a hard time understanding.
The 80-Second Squishy Explainer
In a video embedded in the newsletter, Gates spends 80 seconds explaining the challenge of solving climate change. He begins by picking up a foam squishy that looks like a windmill.
"People say we're getting solar panels and windmills to get a lot less expensive," he says. "And isn't that helping reduce greenhouse gases? The answer is absolutely. But there's a lot more to do than just taking electricity to zero emissions. There's a variety of things that emit greenhouse gases."
Gates then pulls out squishies that represent agriculture (pigs, cows, chickens), transportation (cars, trucks, and cargo ships), and manufacturing, which Gates says makes up nearly one-quarter of all emissions. "Everything we make--even a cute little squishy like this--is emitting 21 percent of greenhouse gas emissions," he says.
Next up, Gates adds squishies that look like buildings. As he keeps piling up buildings, he says, "The number of buildings in the world is going to double by 2060. That's like building a new New York City every month for the next forty years. It's a gigantic amount of materials. Steels, cements, wood, all emitting greenhouse gases."
His point is that solving the problem will require a lot of change and a lot of innovation to bring the emissions from all those areas down to zero. Does he use the newest cutting-edge technology to illustrate that?
No. He uses cute little squishy toys.
Why Retro Is Better
I'm a fan of going retro to explain new, abstract, or complex ideas. The squishy toys are a great example.
You'll notice that neither Bill nor Melinda Gates uses PowerPoint in their newsletter videos. There's nothing wrong with effectively designed PowerPoint presentations, but sometimes, complexity requires jarring people out of their comfort zones and giving them new ways to understand the problems.
In a Harvard University executive education class that I teach every year, I challenge the students to think differently about presenting their ideas. Recently, I've found that going retro helps people understand abstract ideas.
The classrooms in the Harvard law building where I taught last year have both the latest digital education equipment and old-fashioned chalkboards. I suggested to the students with the most complex subjects that they should sketch out their ideas on the chalkboard. At the end of the class, students in the audience gave better reviews to the chalkboard presentations than to most of the PowerPoint presentations.
Going retro forces you to simplify your idea. People cannot act on something they don't understand. If anything, they'll tend to ignore it.
Gates knows that, which is why he uses creative communication strategies to get you to pay attention. Did it work on you?


Iran’s FM, British PM Hail Progress in Bilateral Ties
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and British Prime Minister David Cameron held talks on Thursday, during which the two highlighted the progress in Tehran-London relations, and called for expansion of trade ties.
According to a spokesman for the British administration, Cameron had a brief conversation with Zarif in the margins of the Supporting Syria conference in London on Thursday.
“The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Zarif agreed that progress had been made on the bilateral relationship, and there was an opportunity to do more to boost trade links,” the spokesman said.
The spokesman also noted that Cameron has raised concerns over the dual Iranian-British nationals held in Iranian prisons, and called for swift progress in their cases.
Zarif, who is in London to attend a conference to raise money for Syrian refugees, also held a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry on the implementation of the recent nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.
He also met with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
During the meetings, bilateral ties, mutual and regional cooperation, and the Syrian crisis were discussed.
Earlier, Zarif had separately met with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Elisabeth Wallstrom, and discussed bilateral relations and the latest regional developments.
He also held talks with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, during which Zarif voiced Iran’s support for the process of Geneva peace negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition, stressing that a political solution is the only way out of crisis in the Arab country.
He also urged a serious push for the battle against terrorism by all regional and international parties.
Zarif further strongly dismissed the “instrumental use” of terrorists in Syria by certain foreign players.
The UN chief, for his part, admired Iran’s constructive role in supporting the political process of Syrian-Syrian peace talks, and called for concerted action by the regional governments in the fight on terrorism.
Zarif arrived in London on Wednesday evening where representatives from 70 countries are meeting to discuss raising billions of dollars for the Syrian refugees.
The London conference is being jointly hosted by Britain, Germany, Norway, Kuwait and the United Nations.
The event is built on 3 previous conferences that have been held in Kuwait.
The 2016 UN inter-agency appeals for the Syria crisis are an estimated $7.73 billion. An additional $1.2 billion in funding is required by affected regional governments as part of national response plans.
One of the aims of the conference in London is to ensure there are school places for all refugee children in the region by 2017, as well helping the host countries to provide places for their own children.


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Two-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Kathleen Turner brings her one woman show Finding My Voice to London. Tickets are on sale now.
Lending her voice to classic tunes from the American songbook, Kathleen interweaves songs including Let’s Fall in Love, I’d Rather be Sailing, On the Street Where you Live, Every time we Say Goodbye and many more, with stories from her remarkable life and career.
Kathleen Turner supplied the voice of temptress Jessica Rabbit in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was nominated for Tony’s in 1990 for playing Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in 2005 for her performance as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opposite Bill Irwin. She’s also known for her role in Friends as Chandler’s Mother/Father.
Kathleen turner will be accompanied in Finding My Voice by Mark Janas. The show is directed by Andy Gale.
Kathleen Turner’s ‘Finding My Voice’ will run at The Other Palace from 17 April to 6 May 2018.
The show will then tour to the following venues.
8th May Quays Theatre Salford
9th May The Apex, Bury
11th May Horsham Capitol
12th May Mercury Theatre Colchester
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Brooke Law. She’s written the powerful song ‘Fight Like A Mother’, which is described as a “ballsy feminist song”. Brooke is all about female empowerment and equality and has performed at International Women’s Day.
She recently played to a packed London venue, The Finsbury, as the official launch of the single. The video is pretty striking for the song.
Brooke Law is a London-born British singer and songwriter, hugely influenced by her diverse multi-ethnic family: Eurasian on her maternal side, and mixed Jewish on her paternal side.
It is from this bedrock of family ‘unity-through-diversity’, strength, and positive action that inspires Brooke to express her own values and beliefs through music.
She started song-writing at the age of 15. While studying a music degree at the Institute of Contemporary Music, Brooke was also writing with leading producers who have worked with Ellie Goulding, Dua Lipa and Lana Del Ray. Here she fine-tuned her musical prowess and style to find her own identity.
Brooke describes her persona, and indeed her sound, as fun, driven, empowering, caring and above all gutsy. Her music encompasses an era of awareness and empowerment very prevalent today, but is equally influenced by the likes of Janis Joplin, Annie Lennox, and Sia.
Her music does not shy away from hard hitting subjects: feminist issues, equality, societal pressures as well as her own experience of love and disappointment. Her first song “Hidden” was released on International Women’s Day in March 2018, as a way of “commemorating the contribution women have made throughout history that is often not recognised”.
It also celebrated inspirational women from “our everyday lives”. Brooke performed the track at the Million Women Rise March, to stand with those who have experienced gender-based violence. “Fight Like A Mother” is about nurturing and giving everything you have to love your child.
Brooke explains: “I’m not a mother, but I know being a mother is the hardest ‘job’ in the world. No one is taught how to raise someone, and everyday mothers are making choices for their kids. Mothers make these choices with all their heart and power. If women were recognised more, maybe there would be equality within the sexes”.
Music Republic Magazine thinks Ms. Law has something pretty special with her music and deserves to be heard far and wide. A bit of a Shakira thing going on, perhaps. Another artist we really dig and Brooke reminded us of, is French star Tal.
The single is really polished and commercial, but credible. Great vocal, full of passion and emotion. She’s certainly got the chops as a triple threat; singer, song writer and performer.
So we invited Brooke to complete an Artist Q&A for our new “Undiscovered Zone” to introduce herself, her music, this superb new single and its impressive video, to our sizeable global readership.
So without further ado……………………………
- Your name and your age?Brooke Law… just turned 23.
- . Where you were born and where you are based now?
I was born and grew up in Barnet and now I’m still a North London gal
3. Instruments you play?
I play keys and guitar. But only for writing. I like to put all my energy into performing the song and I love to dance while SINGING!
4. Age when you started in music and what was your first public performance?
I will always Love You- Whitney Houston was the first song I sang on stage. I was 12. The adrenalin rush I got was the best feeling ever.
5. What song or artist lit the flame inside you to want to be a musician/artist.
Beautiful- Christina Aguilera
6. First song you wrote, at what age and what was it called, and what inspired it?
The first song I wrote was about my local bus 307. ‘Where is my 307, it’s already past 11’.
7. Do you write alone or with co-writers? If co-writers, who?
Both. I enjoy co-writing more, it’s so exciting to bounce off each other’s ideas and really explore different concepts. Songwriter Peter Cunnah once told me ‘co-writing is the only time 1+1=3’. SO TRUE.
8. Do you write lyrics and music? Which comes first?
At the moment, I think about the concept first, so the lyrics and melody will naturally come first and then I’ll add some chords and work on the music.
9. Bullet points of your music career/achievements to-date?
* Performing on stage at a TEDx Houses of Parliament Talk.
* Singing my song “Hidden” live on stage at the Million Women Rise end of march celebrations @ Trafalgar Square.
* And finally releasing my first single Fight Like A Mother.
10. What music has been released so far? And what format and dates?
I’ve just self-released my first single, which is part of a soon to be released EP.
11. Name your 3 main influences?
12. How do you describe your own music style to a stranger who asks: “what kind of music do you play/sing”?
Gutsy Pop with an Indian vibe
13. Who are you listening to right now; bands/artists?
14. What is the most personal song you have written and its background?
The Edge- it’s about whether you could love someone enough to make you wanna give up and risk everything
15. Who would be your dream collaboration as a songwriter and as an artist; naming one living and one deceased person to write with and to record or to perform on stage with?
16. What do you want your music to say about you?
That I’m honest. I hope people connect with the lyrics.
17. Best compliment you have read or heard about you and your music so far?
Through my part-time job I worked with some amazing people on a tech conference. One of my colleagues had said they used to sing, and since releasing my song they realised how much they missed it and wanted to start again!
18. What is the dream for your music?
To have people choosing my songs to play to feel inspired and empowered.
19. Who is your biggest fan?
My mum, straight up
20. Do you want to be famous?
I used to say I just want to make it, fully knowing that ‘making it’ meant being famous. At the moment I’m writing music I’m proud of and enjoy the process, I’m working with musicians who are my friends and who inspire me. I have a part time job which I really enjoy, it’s a different experience to music but it’s inspiring and I also get to work with amazing people.
21. How many gigs have you done and where (countries or towns and cities if only UK).
I used to gig the London circuit regularly with my band but then I took some time out for writing.
We literally had our first gig with my new music last week, so I feel like I should say 1.
(But I’ve gigged enough to know it’s the thing I enjoy MOST)
22. Strangest gig you have done?
Strangest because it was so last minute but so cool. I was asked the night before to play at Gumball Rally before Pixie Lott. When we got to the stage, we realised we were then being filmed and aired on screens all along Regents Street in London.
23. Funniest or most dramatic thing that has ever happened to you?
(More funny) I once fell down from the top of the stairs and went to A&E before a gig which I had made my boyfriend do on Valentine’s Day.
24. Best moment in music so far?
Singing at Trafalgar Square for Million Women Rise
I started doing this dance move on stage whilst singing. I felt really cool and natural. Totally new move- but I kept on with coz I thought I looked great. When I came off stage, everyone who knew me said I looked like I needed a wee the whole time.
26. A: X Factor?, B: The Voice? C: Britain’s Got Talent? D: Gouge your own eyes out with a rusty spoon?
All sound pretty painful.
27. Day jobs you have done…………………?
I make ice cream with ‘Lick Me I’m Delicious’
Behind the bar at Love Box
Handing out protein bars at the winter run
28. Pet hate?
People holding their umbrellas a metre behind them…
29. Guilty secret?
I still listen to Justin Bieber-Boyfriend for a feel-good tune.
30. Plans for rest of this year and next year?
Archetypes EP. The concept of the EP is each song represents a different archetype of a women. ‘Fight Like A Mother’ represents the ‘nurturer’.
Single 2: Maiden Single 3: Queen Single 4: Lover


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HCMC – A land plot inside Gia Dinh Park is being considered as a potential bus terminal for the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC.
The HCMC Management Center of Public Transport, under the HCMC Department of Transport, suggested parking buses servicing the airport’s passengers on a 1,476-square-meter land area near Hong Ha Street.
The proposed plot has a concrete floor and was once used as an airport bus terminal.
The HCMC Management Center of Public Transport will collaborate with the airport’s administration to allow passengers to check-in for flights directly at the terminal.
According to the agency, increasing bus lines connecting the airport would require vacant land to park buses in the surrounding areas.
In response to the rising demand, the Southern Airports Authority (SAA) and the HCMC Transport Department, in July, proposed a new parking lot at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
The 3,500-square-meter planned location is close to the airport’s international terminal, along Bach Dang, Truong Son and Hong Ha streets. The SAA is now in charge of the plot.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam recommended that the site be reclaimed from the SAA and leased to the airport for a parking lot.
The current eight-story parking building at the airport has a total floor space of 67,000 square meters and can house 6,000 motorcycles, 1,500 vehicles and 700 taxi cabs.
On average, around 6,600 motorcycles and 4,500 cars visit the airport daily. During the two summer travel months, the facility has been overwhelmed as it serves up to 9,500 motorcycles and 6,500 autos daily.

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The centre the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev forces shifts in Bashkiriahas dismissed yesterday 58 - the summer Minister of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria Rafaila Divaeva. In the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs it explain submitted mister Divaevym the official report “ about dismissal in connection with age limit achievement “. Experts, in turn, do not exclude political underlying reason of resignation, believing that it can signal about possible leaving from the post of the president of Bashkiria Murtazy Rakhimov.
the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria Ruslan Sharafutdinov has informed “ “ that the general - the lieutenant of militia Divaev has submitted the official report about dismissal “ in connection with achievement of a deadline of service “ two weeks ago. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs have explained that age limit for officers of the higher command link of 55 years, after which achievement the contract prodljajut annually. To general Divaevu last time the contract has been prolonged only in August of current year. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria have informed that since October, 15th Rafail Divaev is registered in holiday from which on the post it will not return any more, and temporarily fulfilling duties of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs deputy minister Arthur Ahmethanov is appointed.
General Divaev has come to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria on a post of the first deputy of the minister in 1995 from a post of the chief of the Department of Internal Affairs of Neftekamsk. In 1996 he has headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, having held on in a ministerial armchair almost 12 years in spite of the fact that department repeatedly appeared in the centre of loud scandals.
in particular, in July, 2003 the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov has signed the order about “ incomplete office conformity “ general Divaeva for creation under the aegis of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the National house of social protection which were engaged in commercial activity on “ to closing “ debts of the enterprises against the local budget and trade in oil products. Scandal with listening of telephone conversations of some local deputies and politicians of which those have convicted the local Ministry of Internal Affairs has the same year burst. But the biggest resonance was received spent in December, 2004 by order of mister Divaeva in the Bashkir small town Blagoveshchensk by power special action of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and local OMON “ on suppression of street criminality “ in which course by suffered from actions of militiamen it has been recognised more than 340 citizens. However, all these scandals at worst came to an end with resignations of assistants to mister Divaeva.
In August of this year of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria has filed criminal charges about a bribe ostensibly received by the former head of Presidential Administration of republic Radiem Habirovym. Thus about business excitation it became known in day when it has been appointed by the head of department in management of internal policy of Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. According to the head of coordination council of the Bashkir opposition of Ramilja Bignova, this time the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “ Has paid for that operated counter with instructions of the Kremlin and too zealously carried out will of a management of republic “.
Experts consider that by the head of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs will be appointed “ the person from Moscow “. Recently in region already has passed some such key appointments. In particular, the Orenburg official Peter Kapishnikov, the public prosecutor - the former first deputy of the public prosecutor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Hurtin, the head of the Supreme court - the Taganrog judge Michael Tarasenko became the main federal inspector across Bashkiria. In September the higher qualifying board of judges of the Russian Federation recommended the judge of Federal arbitration court of the Ural district Igor Arsenova for a post of the chairman of arbitration court of republic. All of them have replaced the Bashkir officials that has sharply weakened Murtazy Rakhimov`s influence and made active hearings about its fast resignation.
an analyst of Institute of a regional policy Alexey Titkov believes that “ Change of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs the Kremlin shows again the intention to centralise the power in region “. “ This process is characteristic not only for Bashkiria, it goes across all Russia. Change of shots in power structures in this or that region as practice shows, after any time results and in change of its head “ - the political scientist considers.
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Matthew Robinson leaned in close so I could better hear him over the raucous, stream-of-consciousness harmonica solo being played by Mike Milligan, the charismatic front man for local Austin workhorses the Altar Boyz. Although modest when discussing his own considerable talent, Robinson is not one to rein in the praise when he hears some good blues. After a hearty deep-bellied laugh, infectious although barely audible over Milligan’s amplified harp, Robinson exclaimed: “Oh, man! He’s really puttin’ some juice in that thing now!”
Blues music and integration have been long intertwined in Austin, according to Roger Gatchet, a doctoral student and blues enthusiast who is hooked on oral history. Gatchet interviewed east Austin musicians Matthew Robinson, Donald “Duck” Jennings and Henry “Bluesboy” Hubbard as part of an oral history project. Robinson, Jennings and Hubbard played in east Austin in the 1950s and 1960s, an era Gatchet has described as “one of the liveliest blues scenes in the Lone Star state.”
Gatchet’s work was part of the Interpreting Texas Past (ITP): African Americans Oral History Project, conducted under the Intellectual Entrepreneurship consortium, which is part of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and was featured in Living Blues magazine.
ITP was an oral history project started a decade ago by Dr. Martha Norkunas, a public historian and a lecturer in the Anthropology Department. Spurred by the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act in 2004, Norkunas began to concentrate on capturing the stories of African Americans. Norkunas and the students enrolled in her oral history seminars have collected 110 oral histories — 58 of those from east Austinites.
“The role of east Austin in shaping the City of Austin as we now know it is immense — the Austin music scene is a perfect example,” said Dr. Gregory Vincent, the university’s vice president for diversity and community engagement. “Preserving east Austin’s history continues to be important especially as plans for the African American Cultural Heritage District develop.”
The east Austin music scene thrived in large part because it was one of several communities in Texas that were part of the Chitlin’ Circuit. The circuit was a tour that included big-name African American musicians like B. B. King and Ike and Tina Turner. The tour began around Chicago and worked its way South, playing in venues where African Americans were able to listen to music.
Though big-name musicians played only in well-established east Austin clubs, many of the businesses frequented by east Austinites who loved music were informal spaces.
“So what a lot of them did was take their home, and little old box houses, it was kind of like a little living area and a bedroom, right here, and they’d knock this wall out, and block this right here, and they had a club,” Jennings told Gatchet. “They lived, put a room back here maybe, if the house was big enough they wouldn’t have to do nothing. Just move all that back here, and they had a club. And several houses did that.”
Other businesses were better known such as Charlie’s Playhouse, Ernie’s Chicken Shack and the Victory Grill. Hubbard and his band, “Bluesboy” Hubbard and the Jets, were regulars at Charlie’s Playhouse and the Chicken Shack, both owned by Charlie Earnest Gildon. Young Matthew Robinson would sneak into the clubs to listen to the music and sometimes jam with his father Matthew Robinson Sr.
“All it is is a conversation,” Robinson said. “That’s what music is, communicating a way of life. And it’s a lifetime thing if you love it. And if you don’t love it, it’s going to beat you down. [laughs] So, I realized that I was a bluesman, after many years of doing all kinds of things I finally realized it and I’m just going to accept my path and keep it going.”


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Oat Blueberry Waffles
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
- 2 cups buttermilk pancake mix
- 1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1-1/2 cups 2% milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- In a large bowl, combine the pancake mix, oats and sugar. Whisk the milk, egg and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until combined. Fold in berries.
- Bake in a preheated waffle iron according to manufacturer's direction.
Editor's NoteIf using frozen blueberries, use without thawing to avoid discoloring the batter.
Nutrition Facts2 each: 214 calories, 5g fat (1g saturated fat), 33mg cholesterol, 516mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.
Jul 27, 2012
Tasty recipe. Since there are only two of us, I froze remaining waffles and toast them when we want a quick breakfast. I use the pancake mix for another TOH recipe called "Kids Favorite Blueberry Muffins" which is also a favorite and easy recipe.

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Georgia High School Soccer - Thomasville held off by Crisp CountyApril 16, 2021: Thomasville, GA 31792
In Friday's non-league battle, the visiting Crisp County Cougars soccer squad scored a close 1-0 triumph over the Thomasville Bulldogs.
The Cougars (6-6) will now prepare for their battle against Southeast Bulloch (Brooklet, GA). The Yellowjackets come into the non-league battle with a 8-4 record. In their last battle, Southeast Bulloch was nudged by Pierce County (Blackshear, GA), 1-0, in a non-league battle.


For repairing broken-down satellites or removing space debris, autonomous capturing of tumbling objects in space is recognized as one of the most important technologies in future space activities. This paper proposes a novel capturing method that adjusts the chaser's attitude motion to the target's one before grasping it. This method can solve the problem that the manipulator alone can not grasp a target with fast or complicated rotational motion. Several required techniques are mentioned too, such as motion estimation, chaser's structure, etc. The validity of this method is demonstrated by same computational simulations.
The objective of the present study is to experimentally make clear the mechanism of aerodynamic interaction, in particular pressure interaction, due to a jet located off-center at the base of a blunt body with angle of attack in subsonic to transonic flow. The correlation between change in pressure drag and local pressure distribution by issuing the jet toward the downstream is obtained in terms of four parameters: the jet deflection angle, the jet mass flow rate, the freestream Mach number, and the angle of attack of model. Results indicate that the interacted flow field is characterized by three components: jet entrainment, vortex, and turn of main flow round the corner of the model base. At lower angle of attack than 15 degrees, the interacted flow shows different mechanisms between the inner and the outer regions at the base. In the inner region, pressure increases due to a vortex produced by jet entrainment, in which the circulated flow yields a stagnation point at the base. This is a favorable effect in terms of thrust. However, larger deflection of jet decreases the pressure in this region due to breakdown of the vortex. On the other hand, in the outer region, pressure decreases due to disappearance of a vortex produced in the case of no jet. At higher angle of attack than 15 degrees, more main flow comes to turn to the base round its corner. Consequently, the base pressure tends to have a uniform distribution with increasing the angle of attack. Moreover, increase in the jet mass flow rate makes this trend prominent, where the pressure in the outer region decreases to a certain level. Meanwhile, this pressure interaction increases with the freestream Mach number, which is caused by two effects:turn of more main flow to the base due to compressibility and jet expansion due to decrease in the ambient pressure.
A wind tunnel test was conducted to study the mechanism of a flight of a flying disc which flies while rotating. A Flying disc is a rotating disc without blades, being different from the rotor of a helicopter and the like and its cross sectional shape is a unique upward convex. Using a production flying disc used at an official game, wind tunnel tests were performed. Forces were measured to investigate aerodynamic characteristics of an object of such a shape. In addition, a flat disc was also experimented for a comparison. Free flight tests of the flying disc were carried out to obtain base line data to experiment in the wind tunnel test. Flight data of the flying disc in free air was reduced by analyzing the flight path from the video tapes which recorded the flights of the flying disc. Smoke visualization tests were also made to visualize the flow pattern around the flying disc.
Many criteria for longitudinal short term flying qualities of higher-order-system (HOS) airplanes have been proposed, but these are based on the response characteristics to pilot's control input. However, the response to gust input, which is independent of the feed-forward loop in the flight control system, will also influence the flying qualities. Not only the response characteristics to pilot's input, but also the response characteristics to gust input should be included as one of evaluation parameters in the criteria. Simple application of this idea to Neal-Smith criterion is shown as example.
We calculate the two-dimensional unsteady reactive flow to study the body-force effect on the lateral movement of cellular flames. The equation used is the compressible Navier-Stokes equation including an exothermic one-step irreversible chemical reaction, where the hydrodynamic effect caused by thermal expansion is taken into account. We superimpose the disturbance with the peculiar wavelength on a stationary plane flame and simulate the evolution of the disturbed flame front. The disturbance superimposed grows initially with time, and then the flame front changes from a sinusoidal to a cellular shape. After the formation of a cellular flame, cells on the flame move laterally when the Lewis number is lower than unity. Because, the diffusive-thermal effect and the nonlinear effect of the flame front play a primary role in the appearance of the lateral movement of cells. The body-force effect has a great influence on the lateral velocity of cells. When the flame is propagated upward, i.e., the body-force effect has a destabilizing influence, the lateral velocity becomes smaller as the acceleration increases. When the flame is propagated downward, on the other hand, the lateral velocity takes the maximum value at the specific acceleration and becomes smaller with an increase in the acceleration. The change in the lateral velocity is due to the increase and decrease in high-temperature regions and to the variation of the maximum flame temperature at the convex flame front toward the unburned gas.


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Honeycomb pasta also known as rigatoni pie otherwise known as pasta pie is having a second.
Individuals are considering it an attack against food and Italians are bristling with frustration. I particularly like the image where somebody is in a real sense just *screaming.*
In any case, why? That is to say, honeycomb pasta is rigatoni piled up in a spring form dish, finished off with sauce and cheddar and heated up into a pie. You could say that it’s sort of like a lasagna however with rigatoni. Or on the other hand smaller than usual upstanding manicotti or cannelloni.
I’ve made a rigatoni and cheddar pie path some time ago without stacking the rigatoni into a honeycomb shape and I adored it. I needed to check honeycomb pasta out and see what all the quarrel was about. Spoiler alert, I cherished it!
What is honeycomb pasta?
Honeycomb pasta is the thing that individuals are calling rigatoni pie or pasta pie. Basically, it’s rigatoni – a medium estimated tube molded pasta – that is stacked upstanding in a dish, finished off with sauce and cheddar and heated. In the viral honeycomb pasta video that is going near, every rigatoni is loaded down with mozzarella string cheddar.
Step by step instructions to make pasta
- Make a meat sauce: saute some ground hamburger until softly earthy colored however not firm, at that point eliminate from the pot. In a similar pot, sauté onions with carrots and celery in olive oil until delicate and delicate. Add the hamburger back into the pot and mix in tomato glue, meat stock, and cream. Let stew, decrease, and air pocket away while you prep the pasta.
- Cook the pasta: heat up the pasta in salted water 2-3 minutes not exactly the bundle headings and channel well. Throw with parm on the off chance that you need an extra messy pie.
- Honeycomb: Lightly oil a springform skillet and pack the rigatoni, vertically, inside the container. Slide in sticks of low dampness mozzarella into half (or the entirety) of the rigatoni.
- Sauce: Top the rigatoni with the meat sauce, ensuring it gets into every one of the openings.
- Cheddar: Top with cut or destroyed mozzarella and a sprinkling of parm.
- Heat: Bake for 30 minutes in the broiler, or until the cheddar is brilliant earthy colored and fresh.
- Cool and appreciate: Let cool in the search for gold 15 minutes, at that point cut and appreciate!
Honeycomb pasta fixings
- rigatoni – rigatoni are straight containers of pasta with straight cut edges. They’re basically normal at all supermarkets, once in a while fluctuating in size by a tad.
- ground meat – utilize lean ground hamburger or in the event that you have it at your supermarket, a 50-50 blend of lean ground meat and pork.
- onions, carrots, and celery – these three aromatics make up the exemplary Italian soffritto and will add such a lot of flavor to your sauce!
- tomato glue and pureed tomatoes – tomato glue is concentrated tomato flavor, sweet and extreme. For the pureed tomatoes, go for very straightforward sauce where the can fixings are simply tomatoes.
- hamburger stock and cream – the meat stock will help the meat y flavors and add umami and the cream adds a pleasant layer of lavishness.
- cheddar – we’re going for low dampness mozzarella, which, by chance is the thing that string cheddar is! 3D square it up as indicated by what will find a way into your rigatoni. Low dampness mozzarella is too wiry, melty, and basically the ideal cheddar for prepared pastas.


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Former President Donald Trump does not plan to change the date of a Nov. 15 announcement despite the results of the midterm elections, sources close to Trump said.
The sources said chatter that the Republican Party’s performance was tied specifically to Trump is cheap and that his political advisers believe the media is trying to raise the profile of re-elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
“It was a big night for President Trump’s endorsed candidates. Out of the races that have been called, President Trump has racked up over 215 wins for his endorsements – a truly unprecedented accomplishment and something only possible because of President Trump’s ability to pick and elect winners,” a spokesperson for Trump told Fox News.
The spokesperson also said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “abandoned winnable races in New Hampshire and Arizona.”
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Sources close to the former president said Trump spoke multiple times with JD Vance, who bested Democratic opponent Tim Ryan in Ohio’s Senate race, and that he continues to watch the results in Arizona and Georgia, which the Fox News Decision Desk has said are too close to call as of Wednesday morning.
In a Monday night interview with Fox News Digital and four other reporters onboard his private jet, Trump said if he formally announces a 2024 White House bid and is re-elected, he would return to the nation’s capital with experience and a new perspective.
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Goal No. 1 would be to “seal up the border and stop crime.”
Trump is also calling for GOP leadership change in Congress, specifically pointing at McConnell.
“McConnell has been very bad for our nation,” Trump said. “He has been very bad for the Republican Party. I would be in favor of somebody else – McConnell has done a very bad job.”
He also warned potential Republican presidential candidates, like DeSantis, against opposing him for re-election.
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If he does run, Trump said he would tell the media things about the governor that “won’t be very flattering.”
“I don’t know if he is running. I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly. I really believe he could hurt himself badly,” Trump said. “I think he would be making a mistake, I think the base would not like it – I don’t think it would be good for the party.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.


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By Jonathan Kong
The story of how I started volunteering began last year when I saw the events of the Boston Marathon unfold on television. After that day, I felt a strong need to help others, so I decided to volunteer at Food Bank For New York City.
My first project was on Coney Island, packing pantry bags at an elementary school for children to take home as part of Food Bank's ongoing Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. That was just the beginning. I've also helped out at Food Bank's Community Kitchen and Food Pantry in Harlem and I volunteer regularly at other charities within Food Bank's network. At Cathedral Community Cares I help clients get clothes from the Clothing Closet, and at Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger I help make compost and plant seeds in the vegetable gardens. I even appeared in Food Bank's public service announcement, which aired on the NASDAQ building in Times Square throughout the month of September.
When Food Bank issued its "30 For 30 Challenge" last year, challenging volunteers to complete 30 hours of service within the 30 days of September, I decided to take it on in honor of my grandfather, who was in extremely poor health at the time. The first volunteer to reach 30 hours would win a Caribbean cruise--and I won! The cruise exceeded my expectations. There were so many fun activities on board, from Zumba to stage shows to late night dance parties. I had a wonderful time.
Winning a vacation because I volunteer is great, but simply being able to help other people is the real reward.
Jonathan Kong has been a Food Bank For New York City volunteer for nearly a year.

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Barnes' bad move in Philadelphia
Now, as just one more downtown tourist site lined up on the Ben Franklin Parkway, the Barnes "presents itself more as a historical artifact in an artificial, and not especially resonant, environment."
— LA Times
Now that the Barnes Foundation has been in its conventional, museum-like new building in downtown Philadelphia for more than a year, one local critic is having second thoughts about the place. View full entry


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One of the requirements of successful neuronal regeneration is for newly-grown axons to establish functional connections with their downstream synaptic partners. To do this effectively, presynaptic neurotransmitter release needs to be reconstituted. In the adult mammalian central nervous system, where regeneration is generally only possible through experimental manipulation, we know very little about how regenerating pre-synaptic terminals re-establish contact with target circuits.
Lorcan Browne (now a scientific advisor to the UK government), Andres Crespo (now at the Francis Crick Institute) and Matt Grubb set out to study this process of presynaptic maturation using a model of entirely natural regeneration. Following injury from toxin exposure, olfactory sensory neurons in the adult mouse olfactory epithelium can completely regenerate and send axons via the olfactory nerve to re-establish synaptic contact with postsynaptic partners in the olfactory bulb. Exploiting this, Browne et al., available now in Cell Reports, used electrophysiological recordings in acute slices of the adult mouse olfactory bulb to understand how regenerating axons re-connect with their downstream targets.
The authors found that after initial re-contact, functional connectivity in the system was rapidly established. Intriguingly, presynaptic terminals that were reconnecting after injury had functional properties similar to their mature counterparts, such as a strong capacity for presynaptic inhibition and high release probability. In further experiments, Browne et al. found that release probability in these terminals develops remarkably quickly - the re-established terminals were indistinguishable from controls just a week after initial contact was made.
Browne et al., using a natural regeneration model, demonstrate the speed and efficiency of synaptic regeneration in the adult mammalian brain and liken it to a ‘plug-and-play’ process. They provide a comprehensive functional perspective on maturation in regenerating olfactory sensory neuron presynaptic terminals and show that presynaptic terminals undergo a rapid phase of functional maturation as they re-integrate into target networks.


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Best and worst FCW’s second annual best — and worst — IT agency survey shows that although some things change, many stay the same
Airborne dataHere’s how to sort through the options for broadband wireless services
GSA wants to add SEWP to its plate
Some GSA supporters question whether the timing is right, given the agency’s challenges
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It wasn’t all technical driving while on the Gazelle Rally. There were times where we were driving on roads. Of course, we couldn’t go faster than 50 km/hr, so we had a lot of time to kill. Sabrina is a professional singer and I have dabbled in musical theatre, so we often sang. We sometimes rapped.


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Ida Nerina binti Hussain
13 January 1964
|Occupation(s)||Actress, producer, director, host|
|Parent||Marina Yusoff (mother)|
Ida Nerina binti Hussain (born 13 January 1964), better known by her stage name Ida Nerina, is a Malaysian actress, producer and director.
Ida Nerina's career in TV and films began in the early 1990s. In 1992, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 10th Malaysian Film Festival for her portrayal of E.J. in Shuhaimi Baba's Selubung, her first ever performance in feature film. Ida Nerina has since been nominated and awarded several times, including the Best Actress award at the 13th Malaysian Film Festival for her portrayal of Ena Manja Lara in Shuhaimi Baba's 1997 film Layar Lara,  which also won awards at the Brussels Independent Film Festival in 1997.
Ida Nerina's other Malay film roles include Mimpi Moon, Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam , Sepet , Gubra , and most recently 1957: Hati Malaya , a Shuhaimi Baba film depicting the struggle of the Malaysian founding fathers to free the country from British colonial rule, in which Ida Nerina plays Datin Halimah, wife of Dato Onn Jaafar.
In 2008, Nerina and friend Tania Khan were selected to race in the reality TV Show The Amazing Race Asia , season 3, where they finished third in Phuket, Thailand.
Throughout her career Ida Nerina has collaborated with people such as Aziz M. Osman, Yasmin Ahmad, Datuk Yusof Haslam, Shuhaimi Baba, and Datuk Lat. On 21 June 2009, Ida Nerina fractured her spine in a fall at a condominium in Persiaran Syed Putra.  The incident prompted Ida Nerina to move into directing.
|1992||Selubung||E.J||Debut film appearances|
|1995||XX Ray II||Seri Bayu|
|1997||Layar Lara||Ena Manjalara|
|2000||Mimpi Moon||Miranda Cordoba|
|2002||Gerak Khas The Movie II||Carina|
|2004||Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam||Sitam|
|2005||Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam 2||Bayang|
|Baik Punya Cilok||Sergeant Wan Nor Azlin|
|2007||Waris Jari Hantu||Bank Teller||Cameo appearance|
|2008||Wayang||Mak Cik Esah|
|Los dan Faun||Serina Mysterina|
|2013||Tanda Putera||Jah Steno|
|2018||The Outsider||Store Manager|
|2022||Spilt Gravy on Rice||Salamiah|
Sepet is a 2005 Malaysian teen romantic comedy-drama film set in Ipoh, Malaysia. Directed by Yasmin Ahmad, it tells a tale of a love that blooms between a Chinese boy and a Malay girl. Sepet is a Malay word which, in this context, refers to the 'slit eyes' of the Chinese.
Erra Fazira, is a Malaysian actress, singer, fashion model, TV host, film producer, as well as beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Malaysia World 1992.
Aziz M. Osman is a Singaporean-born Malaysian actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is currently the director general of his own production company, Ace Motion Pictures Sdn Bhd.
Yasmin binti Ahmad was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for being humorous and touching. Her work crossed cross-cultural barriers, particularly her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. In Malaysia, her films were highly controversial due to their depiction of events and relationships, which have been considered 'forbidden' by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam. She was a central figure of the "first" New Wave of Malaysian cinema.
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, also known as Pontianak Scent of the Tuber Rose or Fragrant Night Vampire, is a 2004 Malaysian horror film directed and written by Shuhaimi Baba. The storyline of the film is a restless female ghost wants to avenge her death.
Maya Karin Roelcke is a Malaysian film actress, television host and singer, known for Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, Anak Halal, Ombak Rindu and Munafik 2. She holds the Malaysia Film Festival record for the actress with most nominations in the category of Best Actress Award (11), and is among the few actresses who have won the award twice. She is also the first of only two Malaysian actresses to have won the prestigious Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
Waris Jari Hantu is a 2007 Malaysian horror film directed by Shuhaimi Baba. The film won Rusdi Ramli, one of its lead actors, The Best Actor award at the 20th Malaysia Film Festival.
Amy Mastura Suhaimi is a Malaysian singer and actress.
Nur Fazura Binti Sharifuddin, better known as Fazura, is a Malaysian actress, singer, television Host, VJe began her career in the Malaysian entertainment industry by hosting a television show and several minor acting roles. She was the host of a television show called Teens World. In 2004, she launched her film career by playing the leading role in Bicara Hati which became her break-out role and earned her an award nomination. Later in 2005, she starred in the film Gol & Gincu.
SUSUK is a 2008 Malaysian horror film which was released on 7 August 2008 in Malaysia. The film is directed by Amir Muhammad and Naeim Ghalili. The story concerns Soraya, who uses the forbidden practice of susuk to be famous.
Muallaf is a 2008 Malaysian drama film directed by Yasmin Ahmad. It tells a tale of three souls finding solace in religion. This is Yasmin Ahmad's fifth film after Rabun, Sepet, Gubra and Mukhsin.
Liyana binti Jasmay is a Malaysian actress, singer, producer and director.
Noraishah "Nasha" Abdul Aziz is a Malaysian model and an actress. She was born in Kampung Pandan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Farid Kamil bin Zahari is a Malaysian actor, director and screenplay writer. He is a well-known male model turned actor who has made a big reputation of himself as one of Malaysia's most famous actors since Rosyam Nor in the 1990s for several of his outstanding performances in drama series and movies alike.
Nasrul Suhaimin bin Saifuddin, known professionally as Bront Palarae, is a Malaysian actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.
Tanda Putera is a 2013 Malaysian history film directed by Shuhaimi Baba. The film chronicles the relationship between Tun Abdul Razak, who was the second Malaysian Prime Minister, and his then deputy Tun Dr Ismail set around the time after the 1969 racial riots. The film was intended to be released in Malaysian cinemas on 13 September 2012 but the release was delayed until 29 August 2013 due to some controversy regarding the portrayal of the racial riots being the plot point of the film. It is Shuhaimi Baba's sequel film to 1957: Hati Malaya in 2007.
Kris Law, born Chin Chiang is an internationally and critically acclaimed film actor of Chinese and Thai descent from Malaysia. Law gained global prominence when he became the first ASEAN Actor to debut in India – starring with Academy Award nominated Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan in the Incredible India ad campaign. In Malaysia, Law was most known for his breakthrough role named Christien, being the first openly gay character on Malaysian media and primetime TV broadcasting drama series Ampang Medikal. Law has appeared in Malaysian, Singaporean, Bollywood and Hong Kong films including "Anak Mami Kembali", 1957: Hati Malaya and A House of Happiness which combinedly grossed over RM 900 million in box-office with over 20 international TV commercials.
Sangeeta Krishnasamy is a Malaysian actress and model. She did a small role in Kollywood movie after making an appearance in Venkat Prabhu's hit Goa and as the female lead in ZHA among famous South Indian film actors. In 2015 she was the female lead for two hit Malaysian Tamil movies Vetti Pasanga & Vennira Iravugal. Vennira Iravugal became an acclaimed Malaysian Tamil movie after it was screened in several film festivals around Europe and won a special jury award at the Norway Tamil Film Festival in 2014, subsequently taking home all 5 awards in all categories at the Malaysian Kalai Ulagam Awards in 2015. She is amongst the top actresses in the Malaysian Film Industry.
Castello is a Malaysian action film, written and directed by Bade Hj. Azmi. The film, which had wide release on January 9, 2006 in ninety-one cinemas across Malaysia, including Singapore and Brunei, stars Rosyam Nor, Erra Fazira, Que Haidar, and Liyana Jasmay. The main character is played by Nor, and represents the actor's first foray into film production.
Salina Saibi is a Malaysian actress and model. Known for her role in police procedural television series, CID 3278 and Gerak Khas, Saibi made a breakthrough role as Amy in her debut film, Bohsia: Jangan Pilih Jalan Hitam (2009) directed by Syamsul Yusof, wherein she won the Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Malaysia Film Festival.

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Outline of Showa Denko
The Showa Denko Group is a group of chemical companies that produce individualized products in various fields including petrochemicals, chemicals, inorganics, aluminum, and electronics.
We shall listen more to customers and further hone our technologies, and shall thereby
Ａct to create products and services that touch “the heart” and
Ａct to offer solutions that make “society” better
*As of December 31, 2018
The Showa Denko Group has 10,476 employees, including 1,871 female employees.
History of the SHOWA DENKO Group
The Showa Denko Group started its operations by focusing on the future possibilities of the electrochemical industry, which utilized one of Japan's important resources: abundant water energy.
We aim to contribute to the realization of society where affluence and sustainability are harmonized.
Business & Products
We will realize dreams for the future with Power of chemistry × Power of technology
We develop individualized product groups that realizes your dreams by utilizing our unique ideas and reliable technologies that make the most of the potential of chemistry.
The Petrochemicals segment provides basic petrochemicals such as ethylene and propylene, organic chemicals derived from them including acetyls and allyl alcohol, and synthetic resins.
The Chemicals segment provides industrial gases and chemicals, high-performance chemicals, elastomers, high-purity gases and chemicals for the semiconductor industry, and resin composites.
The Electronics Sector provides HD media, SiC epitaxial wafer for power devices, compound semiconductors such as ultra high-bright LEDs rare earth magnetic alloys, and lithium-ion battery materials.
The Inorganics segment provides ceramics products such as abrasives, refractories, and carbon products such as graphite electrodes for electric steelmaking furnaces.
The Aluminum segment provides aluminum materials such as rolled products, extrusions, and forged products, and high-value-added aluminum products such as heat exchangers, and aluminum cans for beverages.
The Others segment sells chemicals, resins, metals, and electronic materials, and provides building materials.
Mobile phones, Smart phones
Solar power panels
Showa Denko's Advantages
Wide-ranging technologies, products, and businesses
Starting from electrochemistry, the Showa Denko Group expanded the scope of its technologies to cover inorganic and organic chemistry, and metal materials. Through the use of these technologies, the Group now supplies materials and components to the information communication and automobile industries, and also provides various products that are indispensable to people's lives.
In addition to these, we produce various products with our original technologies.
Products derived from electrochemistry have limitless potential.
Showa Denko's "Only one"/"No.1" products
The Showa Denko Group pioneered in commercial production of aluminum in Japan, and also produced ammonium sulfate fertilizer with home-grown method for the first time in Japan. Thus the Showa Denko Group has been providing society with useful products as a pioneering company since its foundation. We will continue contributing to the sound growth of society as an individualized company that create "Only one" and "No. 1" products and technologies.
High-purity gases for electronics
No.1 share in the world
These gases are used for etching, cleaning and membrane formulating processes in production of semiconductors and LCDs.
Our high-quality large-diameter electrodes occupy No.1 share in the world
Graphite electrodes are used in electric steelmaking furnaces to melt scrap steel, and contribute to recycling of steel.
High-purity aluminum foil for capacitors
No.1 share in the world
This aluminum foil is used to produce aluminum electrolytic capacitors to be used in cars and power plants.
No.1 brightness in the world
We produce our proprietary red LED chips that emit 660nm wavelength light which is optimum for plant-growth at the top brightness in the world.
The first commercialization in the world
VGCF is an additive to anodes of lithium ion batteries. It improves charge and discharge performance, life and capacities of LIBs.
In-house developed production technology unique in the world
We produce various petrochemical products which are used as printing ink for food packages, solvents for paints, etc., with our original technologies.
Intellectual property strategy
We position the intellectual property strategy as one of our crucial management strategies. We make every effort to secure our superiority based on intellectual property rights, especially in the principal businesses and newly developed important products by establishing patent networks.
Overseas bases 41bases
*as of December 2018
Our ammonia production process was certified by Eco Mark, first in the world
Eco Mark certified
Process to produce ammonia through recycling of plastic containers
Kawasaki Plant, Showa Denko
On July 17, 2015, SDK's proprietary process to produce liquefied ammonia was accredited by Japan Environment Association, which sponsors the "Eco Mark Program" to praise environment friendly products/processes, to be eligible for Eco Mark, as the first case of production process in the world.
Aluminum can recycling activity
Since 2001, the Showa Denko Group and its cooperative companies have been promoting aluminum can recycling activity with the participation of their employees.
Medium-term Business Plan "The TOP 2021"
Showa Denko Group's Mission, Vision and Value
|Mission (The meaning of our existence):||We will satisfy all stakeholders.|
|Vision (Our goal):||KOSEIHA Company
= "KOSEIHA Company" is "an aggregate of KOSEIHA Businesses that can maintain high levels of profitability and stability."
|Value (Means to realize Vision):||Maximization of CUSTOMER Experience
= Change our business model and offer solutions beyond manufacturer's limits
“KOSEIHA Company,” which is our Vision, is an aggregate of KOSEIHA Businesses that can maintain high levels of profitability and stability. The Group aims to make half or more if its businesses KOSEIHA Businesses by 2025. Therefore, in The TOP 2021, the Group will change its course toward long-term business growth, thereby establishing a stable foundation which will continuously support the Group’s growth far into the future.
1) Dramatic improvement in existing businesses
2) Creation of new businesses (Create)
To realize continuous growth of the Group, we must create new businesses. Therefore, we will take strategic discontinuous measures such as M&As, in addition to R&D to realize organic growth of the Group.
3) Inter-business cooperation
We will aim to offer solutions adapted to changing in market requirements for materials, with backcasting from the future of industries.
4) Strengthening base of strategy
The Group will promote various measures which will also be incorporated into the next medium-term consolidated business plan starting in January 2022, including strengthening of R&D functions and marketing functions, and introduction of AI/IoT.
Performance targets (3-year total)
Note 1: ROA is based on operating income, and the simple average of 3 years.
Note 2: ROE is the simple average of 3 years.
To realize continuous growth of the Group, we must invest in a timely and appropriate manner. The Group sets clear criteria for capital investment, and carefully select investments. We use cash flow for investment to improve productivity, and improve business efficiency through use of Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) as management tool.
We will pay dividends in a stable manner, and promote financial policy, keeping increase in return to shareholders in mind, while executing M&As and other discontinuous investment.
*Gross D/E ratio
Investment policy (3 year total)
Research and development (R&D)
We will focus our R&D resources on 10 technical fields corresponding to 7 priority business domains, and accelerate creation of value-adding pipelines for businesses.

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Jameela Jamil will play the Marvel villain Titania in She-Hulk
Oct 4, 2019; New York, NY, USA; Portrait of Jameela Jamil who talks about her new TBS game show "The Misery Index," the fourth and final season of NBC's "The Good Place," and her popular body positivity movement on social media, "I Weigh" during an interview in New York on Friday Oct. 4, 2019. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Loki is currently burning up the charts at Disney+, but Marvel is already planning the next wave of MCU TV shows. One of the most exciting is She-Hulk, starring Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany as title character Jennifer Walters, who gets super strength and green skin after getting a blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner.
Or at least that’s how it happens in the comics. Also, unlike the Hulk, Jennifer never loses her calm when she hulks out; she’s always the She-Hulk, even when she’s plying her trade as an attorney.
But she’s still a superhero, which means she’ll fight supervillains. One of her oldest foes is Titania, who is very strong and very mean. Variety reports that The Good …
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I haven't posted for a little while as I have been busy working full-time (boring) as the audio tech specialist at Billy Hyde Music (not so boring). I'm still on muso time and not coping with the lack of sleep too well. I have heaps of great projects on the go, but hardly any time to do them. Recently I was asked to compose 4 hours of ambient music for a series of tantric sex meditations CDs (Ooh yeah, baby!). I couldn't refuse. Playing with synths is something that Trilbies do best.
I have gone through a few cheap watches, so I decided to get a decent one. After some thorough research I found one, but first here is some of the research. Most are utterly unobtainable. Click to enlarge:
I ended up getting a watch by the Swiss company Wenger (the maker of the original Swiss army knife). The main reason being that It was a great deal. The rrp was US$350 and I got it for AU$150 delivered (AU$45 of that being shipping). It's a decent, reliable Swiss chrono. I was wanting something more chunky but I also wanted something formal, so this would be my formal watch. Here is a pic:
On to the inspiration
Here is a great creative collab between designer Fluorescent Hill, rapper Cool Keith and Tom Waits.
I work on a lot of electronic music. This brilliant documentary explained a lot about where it all came from and why I like it so much.
Who needs religion, when you have balls
This bit of community art for Christmas has had a good effect on everyone. It's simple and moving.
Last but not least, some MIND BENDING music from the beloved 'Rodrigo y Gabriela'. They take a track or so to warm up, but by about 4:30 they are on another planet. Really groovy.
..well about 37 degrees at the moment.
Yes it's an Aussie Christmas.
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$16 Million to save a RAT????
|1||It's worse!!!! CBO Report: New Ryancare Saves Less than Previous Version, 24 Million Still Lose Insurance by 2026||03/23/17|
|2||Trump does it again! Saves over $700 Million dollars on F-35 deal||02/04/17|
|3||Trump is helping to save 30 million women from obesity||01/24/17|
|4||How many millions of muslims will be saved by President Trump wiping out ISIS?||02/09/17|
|5||So trump stops Obama's 221 million to save freezing Palestinians, but doesn't stop NDAA 2017 which funds isis and Ukraine||01/29/17|

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Although 2019 is coming to an end and many of the Fall anime hits are reaching their finales, it can feel like it's all over. But with the new year (and new decade) comes a whole new wave of anime as the Winter 2020 season is upon us in a couple of weeks. With the Winter anime season fast approaching, Funimation has revealed its first batch of licenses that fans will want to keep an eye out for in January! With both old and new favorites premiering, it looks like there's something for everyone!
Not only are there new takes on classic anime series such as Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, sequels to fan-favorite series with Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and interesting brand new series such as ID: INVADED. Here's the break down of series coming to FunimationNOW for the Winter 2020 season so far:
- Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Subbed)
- A3! (Subbed and Dubbed)
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Subbed and Dubbed)
- Smile Down the Runway (Subbed and Dubbed)
- ID: INVADED (Subbed and Dubbed)
- Plunderer (Subbed and Dubbed)
- If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to Budokan, I Would Die (Subbed and Dubbed)
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Subbed and Dubbed)
- Isekai Quartet Season 2 (Dubbed)
- Infinite Dendrogram (Subbed and Dubbed)
While there are many major original anime series coming to FunimationNOW as part of the Winter season, there seems to be a lot of fan anticipation building up toward the remake of Sorcerous Stabber Orphen. A celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the original light novel series written by Yoshinobu Akita with illustrations by Yuuya Kusaka, this new anime series will be the third anime take on the franchise overall. In the 25 years of its run, the franchise has spawned numerous anime, manga, video games, and more, but this will be the first time many fans are introduced to the series.
Funimation describes the new Sorcerous Stabber Orphen as such, "From Studio DEEN (Fate/stay night) comes a remake celebrating the 25th anniversary of the series! Orphen is a powerful sorcerer who is notoriously lazy. Everything changes when he finds a way to save his sis, who was turned into a dragon during their days at magic academy. Betrayed by friends who refused to help, Orphen will stop at nothing to track her down, even if he has to go it alone." These series are joined by continuing series such as My Hero Academia, Radiant, Black Clover, and more!