DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Miami Dolphins coach Joe Philbin maps out his team's hourly schedule months in advance, begins most interview sessions by praising that day's practice, and reads postgame locker-room speeches from index cards.
He prefers the predictable, and working from a script. But when this season strayed from the planned outline, and a bullying scandal accelerated the team's tailspin, Philbin responded with steady leadership that has won praise from his players and assistants -- and kept Miami in the playoff race.
"Joe Philbin has done a phenomenal job to get us to this point," offensive coordinator Mike Sherman said.
Given the Dolphins' disarray six weeks ago, it's remarkable they're 7-6 and in contention for the AFC's final wild-card berth heading into their game Sunday against New England.
Tackle Jonathan Martin left the team Oct. 28 and alleged he was harassed daily by teammates, including guard Richie Incognito, who was suspended. The resulting furor threatened to divide the locker room during a stretch when the Dolphins were playing poorly.
Sherman, a former head coach at Green Bay and Texas A&M, empathized with the challenge Philbin faced.
"I never had to endure what he's had to endure with the distractions that we had," Sherman said. "You have no idea what a task that is to keep a team together and not splinter amid the adversity. I have to give Joe Philbin tremendous credit for the focus that he demanded from all of us to stay on task. We wouldn't be in this position if he wasn't able to pull us all together, coaches and players alike."
Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who knows a thing or two about off-the-field distractions, credited Philbin for steady improvement by the Dolphins despite the scandal.
"I think the media blew a lot of that out of proportion -- all the hype and everything," Belichick said. "But that didn't derail them in any way. They've been on track."


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Gout & Alcohol The Myths Explained
Alcohol has been consumed for many years and undoubtedly is to blame for many things. Certainly it has been linked to increasing the risk of gout attacks. However consider the picture here, can one say that this was the result of the alcohol shown on the pavement?
Uric acid build up in your system can be caused by a number of things, however consumption of alcohol seems to be the leading factor and cause of gout. That’s not to say that anyone with a modest consumption of a few drinks, even on a regular basis, will get gout. Added to this research shows that different types of alcoholic drinks contribute in different ways, with different impacts on the levels of uric acid.
Historically researchers have always thought that diets containing large amounts of red meat and salt, washed down with alcohol contributed significantly to the onset of gout. In Europe gout was sometimes known as “the disease of kings”. Hey let’s face it at that time only kings could afford such a diet.
With the advance in science made over the last century, research has shown that certain drinks are more likely to cause gout, especially in men. It is my sad duty to tell you that the worst offender and one that greatly increases your risk of developing gout attacks is –BEER. I guess I won’t be getting a grant from Budweisser any time soon.
Sadly there is a double whammy when it comes to alcohol, one that was only discovered fairly recently. Apparently alcohol not only causes the production of uric acid, but also hinders the removal of that acid from one’s body. This is because alcohol is changed into lactic acid once consumed, which needs to be removed by your kidneys. So in effect your kidneys have to remove both the uric acid as well as the lactic acid. Unless you have twice as many kidneys as the rest of us this will mean that less uric acid is removed.
Gout Remedies (well some good news at least)
Ok so what’s the good news from all this research into gout? Well happily for all you wine lovers I can confirm that a moderate intake of wines and spirits has been shown to have little to no increased risk of causing gout. Maybe I should rephrase that last sentence, as I don’t wish to imply that you should mix wines and spirits.
So what’s the deal on beer? I will admit that here the scientists are divided as to why beer should be red flagged. Some postulate that it is because beer is the only alcoholic beverage that contains purines and that is the build up of excessive quantities of these purines in the body that lead to increased production of uric acid. However there are others (probably beer drinkers) who don’t believe that having purines in beer does indeed cause an increased risk of getting gout. They point to research conducted in Taiwan on vegetarians who were given a diet high in purines. This study showed that actually these people had a lower risk of developing gout.
If however it is not the purines in beer then some “experts” believe it may be due to the lifestyle of “excessive beer drinkers” – They hint that when drinking beer people often also eat fatty snacks such as peanuts and chips, as well as often spending hours on the couch watching TV. Therefore it may be the lack of exercise together with the rather good but unhealthy diet that is the major factor in the increased risk of gout.
So whatever alcoholic beverage you like, you can reduce your risk of gout by indulging modestly (about 1 glass of wine per day). If you musthave 2 glasses then make sure you do some exercise before you drink. Also if you slip once it’s not so bad, however regular excessive drinking may eventually lead to a seriously painful big toe.
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Women who consume more than two alcoholic drinks a day have a higher risk of getting the most common type of heart rhythm disturbance, which can raise the chances of having a stroke, researchers said on Tuesday. Previous research had shown that men who drink three or more alcoholic beverages daily have an elevated risk….
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One part of the prenatal brain that may be particularly sensitive to alcohol’s effects is white matter, nerve fibers through which information is exchanged between different areas of the central nervous system. A recent study has demonstrated that alcohol consumption during pregnancy can alter the microstructural integrity of developing fetal cerebral white matter in the….
Like the term teetotaler, the notion that Jews can’t be alcoholics is a bit quaint. It’s also a myth that can be an obstacle on the often painful but ultimately exhilarating path to recovery. “I think it can make it more difficult,” says a Camden County businessman and Reform Jew who, at 51, has been….
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took aim at the upcoming drug companies on Sunday Price increases for COVID-19 vaccines and generally high prescription drug prices. He told Face the Nation that he believes there is room for bipartisanship to lower costs for working-class Americans.
The independent senator recently called on Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel to testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), of which he chairs. Sanders called the hearing after the company proposed quadrupling the price of COVID-19 vaccines once shots move to the private market.
On Sunday, Sanders noted that the US has given Moderna billions of dollars to develop its vaccine. US officials have said stockpiles of government-bought vaccines could expire in the summer.
“What happens after the government vaccine stockpile runs out? These people are saying we’re going to quadruple the price of the vaccine,” Sanders said. “The truth is that (the) pharmaceutical industry is enormously greedy and charges us outrageously high prices. We have to deal with it, as chairman of the responsible committee I will do what I can.
Last week, Bancel agreed to testify before the Senate HELP committee during a March hearing. A day later Moderna called it would develop a program to ensure uninsured and underinsured people could get the vaccines for free. The vaccines will also remain free for those insured, as required by the Affordable Care Act. Pfizer and BioNTech have also confirmed their plans to increase vaccine prices to at least $110 per dose, more than triple the cost per shot that the Biden administration will incur for a bulk purchase of COVID-19 boosters in the summer of 2022 has paid.
Sanders said Sunday that members of the HELP committee “want to take a look at Moderna’s patient assistance program,” calling it “a step in the right direction.” Still, he underscored the need for decisive action in Congress as drug companies continue to initiate price hikes that often make healthcare and prescription drugs unaffordable and inaccessible.
The senator, whose forthcoming book It’s OK to Be Angry about Capitalism examines the growing divide between the rich and the working class, noted that “One in four Americans cannot afford the drugs their doctors prescribe.” while about two-thirds live paycheck to paycheck. Sanders also pointed to wide disparities in the cost of the same drugs in countries with public health systems, such as Canada versus the United States
“You tell me why we pay ten times more for some drugs sold in the United States than, for example, in Canada or other countries, while the pharmaceutical industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profits every year and their CEOs pay exorbitant salaries,” said Sanders.
“So obviously we want the pharmaceutical companies to do the research and development,” he continued. “By the way, this country’s taxpayers were spending $45 billion a year through the NIH to help with this research and development, including Moderna and the vaccine.”
When asked if he saw any possibility of a bipartisan agreement on prescription drug costs in Congress, Sanders replied, “Yes, I do.”
Citing polls of Republicans showing that high prescription drug costs “was a top priority that they were addressing,” he said he believed legislation like the Anti-Inflation Act and proposed legislation could “form the basis for bipartisan work.” The Anti-Inflation Act, which President Biden signed into law last August, reformed the way Medicare sets drug prices. Proponents have said it could serve as a guide and precursor to further, broader legislation regulating the cost of prescription drugs.
“So I think we have the basis for a bipartisan work to tell the pharmaceutical industry that they really need to stop ripping off the American people. There are a number of ways you could do that,” Sanders said Sunday. “The Inflation Mitigation Act began with Medicare negotiating prices with the pharmaceutical industry. It won’t come into force for a couple of years, so I think we should speed that up.
“Number two of all people, my good friend Donald Trump, with whom I disagree on everything, had the idea that maybe Medicare shouldn’t pay prices higher than the average of what countries around the world pay. It’s a good idea and we want to pursue it further,” he continued. “And there is the concept of re-entry. … This is simply saying if you can buy a drug in Canada, the same drug but at a tenth the price that meets FDA specifications, it should be sold at a lower price in that country.

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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
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The second volume of Giovanni Bellucci’s Beethoven cycle for Brilliant Classics takes the listener on a journey of six eventful years, from Op.22 of 1800 to the ‘Appassionata’ Sonata of 1806. During that time Beethoven established himself as Vienna’s pre-eminent pianist-composer. He came to regard Op.22 as the best of his ‘early’ sonatas but a sea-change in the deepening of his expression is already evident in the piano-writing of Op.26, with its funeral march ‘in memory of a hero’. There follow the remarkable formal innovations of the Op.27 pair – No.2 immortally inscribed on the popular imagination as the ‘Moonlight’ – and then the smooth, undulating rhythms of the ‘Pastorale’ Op.28. The trio of Op.31 sonatas present a study in contrasts, from the graceful profile of No.1 in G major to the sound and fury of the ‘Tempest’ No.2 and then the hectic momentum of No.3, presaging the concision of works at the end of his ‘middle’ period such as the ‘Serioso’ Quartet and the Eighth Symphony. The proportions of the two-movement Op.54 are even more tautly circumscribed, before the reach of Beethoven’s expressive range for his instrument expands to hitherto undreamt heights in the ‘Waldstein’ Op.53 and the ‘Appassionata’ Op.57. Giovanni Bellucci is among the most strikingly individual of modern pianists. Described by Italian critic Piero Rattalino as ‘a force of nature, vast and palpitating’, he cultivates an old-fashioned richness of piano timbre while still attending to the letter as well as the spirit of Beethoven’s scores. According to Le Monde, ‘he takes us back to the Golden Age of the Piano’. His recordings have been showered with prizes such as Diapason d’Or, Choc, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, CD Maestro etc.


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Popular Television Actress Of Bollywood Industry Vibha Anand Career Profile
Vibha Anand is an Indian television actress who shot to fame for playing the role of Sugna in Colors popular serial “Balika Vadhu”. She has done many daily soaps and became popular amongst the viewers. She was also seen in 2010 film “Isi Life Mein” as Nupur along with talented actors Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar. She was last seen in Karmaphal Dataa Shani which airs on Colors.
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Date of Birth : 8 September 1990
Age : 26 years
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Popular Show : Kaisi Yeh Yariyaan
Vibha was born 8 September 1990 in India. She starred television acting in Colors’s serial Balika Vadhu and has also done a hindi film Isi Life Mein as Nupur.
Vibha is the very talented girl. With her natural acting, she already won many hearts. In 2010, she worked in a movie si Life Mein” as Nupur along with talented actors Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar. She also did MTV Kaisi Yeh Yariyaan. Currently, she is seen in the daily soap Begusarai which airs on &Tv.
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Our Government Assisted Populations (GAP) Clinic, a community outreach initiative serving Nova Scotia’s immigrant and refugee populations, provides students with invaluable real-world experience. We owe students every opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and passions that motivate them, so that they become fierce advocates for the health and wellness of all people.
Every gift to the Faculty of Dentistry — no matter the size — will have a direct and lasting impact on students’ immediate needs and their long-term success and expand access to oral health care for vulnerable groups. Help dentistry students make the most of this formative time. Make a gift to the Dentistry Initiatives for Nova Scotia Immigrants fund today!
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Despite having a blockbuster career in Bollywood, talented dancer, Nora Fatehi has again landed into trouble. As the infamous money laundering case of conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has taken a host of new developments, the actress has been called yet again by the ED and has been questioned for her involvement in the same.
A source close to Nora has revealed that the actress had been called on the basis of material evidence found on her part in the case. For the unversed, Nora had been previously questioned multiple times by the ED during the proceedings of the same case, for reportedly receiving gifts of hefty amounts from Sukesh.
While the Rs. 200-crore money laundering case has become a big matter over the couple of months, Nora is not the only actress who has been called by the ED in suspect of the case. Previously, it was glamour queen, Jacqueline Fernandez who had been summoned to the Patiala court in New Delhi for her reported involvement in the same case. The case worsened for Jacqueline even more when some intimate images of her with the conman, Sukesh had surfaced on the internet. However, soon enough as Jacqueline had proved her innocence, she was awarded bail by the court.
For the unversed, Nora Fatehi is a Canadian native by birth and had made her big Bollywood debut with the film, Roar: Tigers of Sundarbans. However, she gained massive popularity after her iconic dance number Dilbar in the film, Satyamev Jayate, opposite John Abraham.
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Jacqueline Fernandez and Nora Fatehi are both speculated to have received expensive gifts worth crores from the conman with criminal records, Sukesh Chandrasekhar. The Bollywood divas, Jacqueline and Nora have been grilled by the Enforcement Department for months. However, as Nora filed a severe defamation case against Jacqueline, the eventsRead More

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Green Bay Shallow dive with an easy entry. Perfect for beginners. Lots of life to see. Max. depth 12m
Green Bay 2 This dive site is great for Open Water divers and with the large cave at 12-17m one not to be missed.
DeCosta Bay Ideal for Open Water with max. depth of 13m. Good chance to see turtles and stingray here.
Crystal Cove Nice dive with max depth 15m and a great chance to see moray eels and octopus.
Kaliva Easy entry, shallow start with a max depth of 16m
Konnos Point Spectacular underwater topography. Depth 12m to 40m
The Chapel Great dive for experienced divers. Depth 20m to 40m
The Caves Beautiful underwater caverns and tunnels (see right) with max. depth 15m
The Canyon You can frequently see stingrays here. Max. depth 20m
Nemesis/Liberty Two wrecks just off Protaras area. 28m depth and 5 minute swim between them.
In December 2013 the Nemesis III was sunk in the crystal clear waters just off Protaras. This 24 metre trawler is lying at a depth of 25m and is really fun to dive! It is just a few minutes by boat from Protaras.
This wreck dive is one of the best in the world due to it's size, depth, visibility and the water conditions. The vessel is a 172m long Swedish ferry boat that sank in 1980 on her maiden voyage due to technical problems that affected its stability. The boat was loaded with over 100 trucks and trailers, The wreck is lying between 42m and 16m. Many of the trucks are visible either lying on the seabed or still inside the vessel. The wreck lies just a few minutes boat journey from the shore. Because of it's size we usually do two dives on each trip.

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AGE, TOTAL PSA, PSA DENSITY AND GLEASON SCORE, TAUS AS PREDICTIVE FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER
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Giannarini G, Scott C, Moro U, Pertoldi B, Beltrami CA, Selli C. Are PSA density and PSA density of the transition zone more accurate than PSA in predicting the pathological stage of clinically localized prostate cancer. Urology Oncology: Seminars and Investigation; 2008. p. 353-60.
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Block I/O has been the mainstay of computer storage for the best part of five decades. In that time, we’ve seen error-detection codes used to fix block corruption, SCSI invented as a way to use drives with much higher defect counts, and redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) as a way to nail drive failures at the macroscopic level.
All of these storage technologies deserve a place in an IT Hall of Fame. They each allowed the storage industry to move to a new plateau of stability. But simple error-correction codes no longer correct errors on drives; we’ve moved on from SCSI to newer interfaces (though SCSI still forms the background for most of them) and now RAID is moving into its twilight stage.
RAID uses either mirroring or parity blocks to protect data integrity. Basic RAID is designed to tolerate a single drive failure, but drive densities have reached the point where the window to rebuild a failed drive is so long that another failure could occur and cause data to be lost.
More advanced RAID solutions have attempted to solve the problem, but there are hardware costs and much longer write times involved. Worse, the added protection means that two drives can fail, but since both are on the same appliance, a relatively long loss of access to data is unavoidable. RAID 6, as this version is called, also mandates that all drives had to be replaceable, which adds a lot of cost.
The arrival of very fast SSD on the scene changed the picture even more. Even single-parity RAID 5 slows writing to SSD drives to an unacceptable level, and RAID 6 is slower than molasses. Clearly, something had to give, and new integrity systems such as replication and erasure coding have offered a way forward.
Replication uses multiple copies of a data object to provide protection. The subtle difference to RAID is that the copies are on different storage appliances, and may even be geographically dispersed. That protects against appliance failures, fire and flood, and major power outages, among other things.
Erasure coding uses a sort of “super-RAID” to add extra blocks to a data set. These blocks can also be dispersed over a number of appliances and the resulting protection can allow three or more drives or appliances to crash before data is unavailable. One common form adds six extra blocks to every 10 of data; this allows up to six failures to occur before the data is unavailable. That’s really powerful protection!
Just as importantly, the new replication approaches don’t need super-expensive RAID arrays to achieve results. Most of the RAID vendors have charged whopping amounts for each drive; the advent of the cloud approach meant that cloud service providers like Google and Amazon had to look for alternatives.
Replication and cheap commodity drives proved to be the answer. Inexpensive consumer drives worked really well in replicated storage systems. The world didn’t end because of any drive durability issues, which turned out to have been overstated.
Taken together, low-cost drives, simple controllers using COTS servers as head nodes, and a much lower price point are making RAID arrays look like IBM’s mainframes did in the 1980s. We are seeing a UNIX-like revolution in storage, with inexpensive COTS-based gear taking major market share from traditional vendors.
The revolution is only just beginning. The cloud has opened the door for very low-margin Chinese vendors to take the same machines they’ve been delivering in the millions to AWS and Google and sell them to the commercial marketplace.
But even these ODMs are caught up in a tsunami of change. We are beginning to evolve to a software-defined storage model where the hardware is somewhat undifferentiated commodity gear, while the configuration and differentiation migrates into software.
The combination of cheap hardware and flexible software means the end of the road for simple, staid, but slow RAID. It won’t happen overnight -- there are still mainframes 30 years after UNIX's arrival -- but RAID development will stop and existing gear will move to a secondary role.
It’s worth noting that there are some subtle differences in the storage revolt compared with the UNIX revolution. SSDs will make hard drives obsolete in just a couple more years, and mainframe hard-disk drive RAID arrays will be like two-horse carriages in a land of Ferraris. The mainframe never faced that level of obsolescence. Likely, the demise of the RAID array will be quick.
Still, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci will be retiring just before RAID's decline accelerates. EMC went years without permanently losing a bit of data. That’s a superb record and a fitting swan song for the RAID array!


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Man Mutilated And Tortured To Death In Houston
Body Of Man Found In Bayou Endured Torture Before Death
Official: 15 Holes Cut Into Body Were To Help Body Sink In Bayou
HOUSTON -- Police want to track down the relatives of a 50-year-old man who investigators say was mutilated and tortured before being killed.
"This man's last 30 minutes were terrible, terrifying, horrible," Houston Police Department homicide Sgt. Jim Binford told the Houston Chronicle for its Tuesday editions. "He was horribly mutilated and tortured before he was killed."
A pedestrian spotted Luis Manuel Munoz's body in Brays Bayou on Aug. 15. Binford said that Munoz died from gunshot wounds, which only told part of the story.
Binford, who declined to detail the mutilations for investigative reasons, said 15 large holes cut in Munoz's torso and abdomen was evidently to help the body sink. A heavy weight was fastened to one of Munoz's ankles with chain.
Binford said the measures to make the body sink might have worked had the killers gotten the body into deep water rather than leaving him near the bank.
A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Cuba, Munoz came to Houston in 1986 and his local criminal record began the same year. By 2002 Munoz, known by several other names as well, had accumulated nearly a dozen convictions for burglary, theft, auto theft, evading arrest, as well as other misdemeanors.
On Monday, Munoz's body had been at the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office for a week. Binford said no one had reported him missing or come forward to claim his body.
"We need to find his family, to find out what he was doing in the days before he died," Binford said.
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My Karma ran over my Dogma
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I'm suffocating in what's become of me...
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Tizway, the expected favorite for the next weekend’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I), will miss the race, according to trainer Jimmy Bond.
The 6-year-old son of Tiznow spiked a fever Wednesday evening, Sept. 21, forcing him to miss his scheduled work Sept. 23 at Saratoga. Though the fever has subsequently subsided, Bond said pushing him to make the Oct. 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup is not in the horse’s best interest.
Tizway will instead train up to the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.
“His temperature broke this morning at about 3:30, four o’clock,” Bond said Friday morning. “He was a little lethargic yesterday. I needed to get a hard work into him today, but I didn’t want to push him at 70%. At this point, he’s not going to go.
“I would love to win the Gold Cup; I’m a New York boy and it’s a race I’ve always wanted to win. But the ultimate goal is the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and my job now is to make it there.”
Bond said he considered pushing Tizway’s work back to Saturday, but decided against it, especially since there is steady rain expected in the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., area this weekend.
Tizway has won two consecutive grade I races, including the Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) and Whitney Invitational Handicap (gr. I), and is the top-ranked handicap horse in the country. He races for William Clifton Jr.
Bond said he is still confident Tizway will be ready to run a big race in the BC Classic.
“This horse trains hard and has run well off a layoff before,” Bond said. “It’s a deep track up here at Saratoga, and I can still do what I need to get him ready.
“I’ll keep my fingers crossed. My father always said, 'If you do right by the horse, they will do right by you.' ”
Havre de Grace owner Rick Porter said Friday morning he still plans to run his filly in the Beldame Stakes (gr. I) Oct. 1, not the Gold Cup.
“We thought about it even before Tizway was out, but we think it would be asking too much of her to go a mile and quarter against the boys and then come right back and do it again (in the BC Classic),” Porter said.

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Review: Man in the Mirror
For Michael Jackson fans, it’s a thriller
Grand Theatre, Leeds
Clever choreography is accompanied by adequate singing in this Michael Jackson tribute
This is, without doubt, the Michael Jackson tribute show for those who remain wacko about Jacko.
At this performance, the faithful in the audience roared as the lights went down, before a note had even been played. And they were on their feet roaring again through the final medley.
Small boys dressed in Jackson-style waistcoats and a single white gloves were going wild in the aisles. Talk about not stopping till you get enough.
Unlike some other tribute shows which tack a storyline onto the songs, Man in the Mirror is nothing more, or less, than an evening of crowd-pleasing Jackson numbers, energetically performed and pumped out at high volume. No words, as such, to trouble the audience, save for a few soundbite tributes on a huge screen from Janet Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Justin Timberlake, Quincy Jones, and Whitney Houston.
The stage is populated with dancers wearing little and writhing a lot (the girls), and clutching their groins as though their lives depended on it (the guys). The choreography is clever and the singing, for the most part, OK.
Executive producer David King is an old hand at this kind of show — he is the man behind Rock Around the Clock, Dancing Queen, Solid Gold Motown and Twist and Shout — and one might think that Man in the Mirror, with its UK premiere in Leeds after a run in the USA, was another one off the production line — were it not for the fact Michael Jackson was such a talented songwriter who lived an extraordinary life.
A tear-jerking ballad — Gone Too Soon — reminded us just how talented and extraordinary, set as it was to pictures from the Jackson family photo album — Michael with Nelson Mandela, Michael with Princess Di, Michael with Prince Charles (separately, that is).
And there was a throwback to the impish, pre-surgery Jackson, with a performance from the precocious Dylan Allen, an 11-year-old look-/sound-/dance-a-like. When he moon-walked, the audience erupted. And when he reminded them that Jackson was “gone, but still in our hearts,” they gasped. Corny, but still affecting.
As a non-Jackson fan, I have to admit I enjoyed it. I chuckled when the screen helpfully displayed the words “Nah Nah Nah” for the audience to sing along to Pretty Young Thing. I also laughed when it seemed as though they were going to show the famous baby-dangling moment, but stopped just short.
I may have joined in, quietly with Blame it on the Boogie. And it was good to be reminded how good Jackson was at his best with hits like Beat It and Thriller. But what a jolt it was, to be dumped back in the real world with the projection of the haunting photographs of the pills and medication found in the bedroom where a very talented man died.
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Complex Instruction Set Computer
A Complex Instruction Set Computer (usually abbreviated to CISC) is one from a school of CPU architecture which was the default approach until the rise of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer approach.
CISC dates to the period when computers were usually programmed in assembly language - although not the very earliest computers, when the focus was mostly on getting something running, and when people were still very much 'feeling their way' in terms of design. Once past that, though, designs were to some extent biased toward making the programmer's life easier; so machines included instructions which 'did more', so that the programmer would have to write fewer lines of source code.
Another way of looking at CISC, especially in its later years, is that it tried to maximize the instruction density - i.e. minimize the number of memory bits needed to hold a given set of programming functionality. This maximized the efficiency of the main memory, both in space, and bandwidth - these having been the principle bottlenecks in older computers (particularly those using core memory).
Most computers of that generation were performance limited by the speed at which they could get data and instructions from memory; and they were also often had limited address spaces - particularly in machines with smaller word sizes, such as 12- and 16-bit machines. Having high instruction density was therefore critical on what were then quite expensive machines (even the small ones).

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Clad in a "no excuses" knit hat and black cut-off gloves, the original Queen of Pop hit Cycle House in West Hollywood, Calif., for spin classes on both Friday and Saturday, according to People, with her 17-year-old daughter, Lourdes Leon, joining her for the 45-minute Friday workout.
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Madonna, 55, recently announced on Instagram that she'd totally recovered from a recent fall and would be able to perform at Sunday's Grammy Awards, writing, "It's official! I'm off my crutches and I'm looking for the perfect pair of heels to wear to the Grammys."
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Madge is slated to join Macklemore & Ryan Lewis onstage in a segment that also reportedly includes 34 marriages and a cameo by Queen Latifah. It will be Madonna's first Grammy performance since 2006.
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Prescreening potential subjects in oncology clinical trials is one of the most significant limiting factors in identifying eligible participants which requires trained medical professionals to apply manual effort and resources to flag prospects, scan charts and confirm eligibility. The process of screening large number of patients and evaluating results is time consuming and expensive.
An effective pre-screening AI-enhanced tool can allow clinical trials of potentially lifesaving treatments tested by principal investigators to be more accessible to patients. There has been significant progress in pulling information out of large data sets by developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools. There is a need for automated AI method utilized to assist in clinical trial prescreening. The challenges faced include developing sophisticated algorithms to effectively deal with unstructured clinical oncology data; integrating clinical AI into practices, procedures, data flows and administrative clinical setting.
Patient Pre-screening Problems
80-90 percent of unstructured medical data consisting largely of scanned documents, pathology or lab reports and clinical images is legible only by humans but not machines making patient pre-screening a highly manual process. Prescreening is conducted by trained medical professional to scrutinize traditional chart reviews, medical records, extracted relevant matching attributes and physician notes of prospective subject’s for flagging potential match during the course of regular treatment. This costly and slow process imposes significant challenge by excluding possible eligible patients, burdening clinics and hospitals.
To meet increasingly complex and specific eligibility criteria of identifying appropriate patients for a specific oncology clinical trial requires understanding the disease state by screening large number of potential patients. Electronic medical records (EMRs) were originally designed to document provider assessments activities, facilitate billing and treatment plans. EMRs can be used to analyse and provide structured diagnostic data while AI and natural language programming can automate the pre-screening process. Most of the attention needs to be focused in sorting AI complexity of the clinical system.
Challenges with AI solution
The five specific factors essential for an effective AI-supported prescreening process are obviously neglected and surprisingly difficult to accomplish.
The fundamental need of AI is researched to extract information from unstructured mass of clinical data in medical records.
Natural Language Programming
The extracted and de-identified information needs to be fed into an oncology-specific engine for natural language processing (NLP) pertinent for trial matching. The clinical language is vague, ambiguous and implicit compared to ordinary language. AI must be specific to oncology therapeutic area to continuously train and improve these models. Domain-specific AIs can perform well with specialized data type and specific tasks of moderate complexity.
Guidance by clinical staff
The purpose of AI tool is to augment human abilities of clinicians experienced in oncology by refining and guiding AI recommendations.
Access to large clinical data sets
AI needs large amounts of healthcare and patient data from useful heterogeneous sources which is difficult to acquire. Healthcare data is stored in variety of formats in difficult-to-access locations guarded by a wide range of accessibility rules. Useful AI system for oncology clinical trial prescreening will need large number of hospitals and clinics to securely acquire, transfer, store and process reliable clinical data.
Process and contract integration
AI already has an intimate relationship with contracting, IT, finance and other stakeholders. AI must be an integral part of normal operations carried out in hospitals or clinics pertaining to security reviews, IP assessments, slotting budget cycle and entire IT on board process.


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16th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest
Skyline Arch - Arches National Park, Utah
Arches National Park was the last stop for my husband and me (and our Siberian Husky) before heading back home after a 3 week road trip in September and October. We visited 16 states, 2 Canadian provinces and traveled 6307 miles. The one place I would go right back to is Arches. I'd love to spend more time hiking through the magnificent natural arches and the area around them.
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Woodbridge project highlights state plan to add housing, jobs
WOODBRIDGE - Gov. Chris Christie and Charles Richman, commissioner of the state Department of Community Affairs visited Woodbridge on Friday to announce the new construction and rehabilitation of more than 4,450 rental units in the state that will generate more than $1 billion in development investments and create 9,500 construction-related jobs.
The program also will create housing for people with special needs, seniors and low-income families.
They visited the Jacob’s Landing redevelopment in Woodbridge to highlight the second phase Woodbridge Garden Apartments, a 150-unit public housing complex to help preserve and rehabilitate federally subsidized units.
The second phase involves the construction of 60 new units in five buildings, 46 of which will cost tenants only 30 percent of their incomes and five of which are set aside for homeless individuals or families. All units will be affordable to those earning under 60 percent of area median income (AMI).
“My administration remains committed to creating high-quality affordable housing opportunities in New Jersey in all areas where it makes sense for everyone, and that is essential to our comprehensive effort to attract and retain generations of families and employers,” said Christie.
“We continue to find creative ways to leverage federal, state, local and private resources to accomplish this from Atlantic County to Bergen County, and everywhere in between, for tens of thousands of people.”
The Christie administration will have created nearly 36,000 housing opportunities throughout the state by the end of this year, including about 26,000 units of multifamily rental housing, 2,000 housing units for special needs populations and roughly 8,000 for-sale home ownership opportunities through HMFA’s single family mortgage products and single family construction loan programs.
“The state is proud to have helped steer these projects to completion through our financing and various partnerships,” Richman said. “Today the state takes an additional step to address affordable housing. The developments funded by these programs will enhance the quality of life for New Jerseyans while supporting job growth and aiding low-income families in their time of need.”
Included in Friday’s announcement is the award of nearly $40 million in federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) through the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA). These competitive awards, which represent the single largest announcement of awards in New Jersey since the inception of the program, will fund 2,175 units within 29 projects in 14 counties across the state.
“The steps that the NJHMFA has taken to broaden the impact of using tax credits as a development tool to create affordable housing across the state have opened the door to thousands of residents, not only improving their lives, but the greater community as well,” said the agency's Executive Director Anthony L. Marchetta.
In addition, $250 million in volume cap (tax exempt bonds) is being awarded to finance construction costs of 2,275 units. This mortgage financing will be leveraged with the final portion of $60 million in Fund for Restoration of Multifamily Housing (FRM) under Superstorm Sandy Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) to construct 304 units in the nine most impacted counties.
Previously this year, the administration announced $150 million in volume cap awards to construct or rehabilitate over 1,860 units. These 11 projects have total development costs which exceed $425 million.
In total, more than 6,300 rental housing units have been awarded by this administration in 2017 alone. Over 5,600 units will be affordable to individuals and families earning under 60 percent of area median income (AMI); 3,800 will be affordable for families, 1,400 will be affordable for seniors at least 55 years old, and 400 will be affordable to individuals and families with special needs. An additional 700 rental housing units will be market rate housing.


Hello, i tried to add default loading screen when app only opened, but i cannot see the splash screen i tried a lot but on start not works.. With the blueprints yes all work and ok, but not from OculusVR plugin on startup apk in the Oculus Quest.
I download Oculus version 4.24
of Unreal engine 4 from repo:https://github.com/Oculus-VR/UnrealEngine/tree/4.24
Image with my plugin setup:
Do some on knows for to fix it ?


The Luxury & Blockchain Industries: The Top 5 Highlights Times in 2021
The luxury industry is one of the most well-established sectors of the global economy, and it has proven itself to be an industry always up to adapting to changes and always open to new technologies. Now the question is, will blockchain technology and NFTs disrupt the luxury industry again after e-commerce? Well, since counterfeiting is undoubtedly one of the major issues for the luxury industry, it is clear that blockchain will surely have an impact and a major one.
The key benefits that blockchain technology can provide the luxury industry with include the authentication of physical assets as well as detailed and transparent product history and information. As expected, we are already witnessing a revolution: luxury brands slowly get out of their comfort zone and take steps to bridge the gap between their world of physical assets and blockchain by tying their products to NFTs.
It’s no secret that 2021 has been filled with a multitude of highly-promising NFT projects, and there are so many of them that we have decided to break down the top 5 highlights from the year. Prepare some coffee (or a glass of wine) and let’s have a look together.
Aura Blockchain Consortium
In April, LVMH and Prada — together with Cartier, a part of Richemont — announced the creation of the Aura Blockchain Consortium to promote the use of a single global blockchain solution that is open to all luxury brands worldwide. Aura’s technology enables direct-to-consumer access to product history, materials used, details on craftsmanship, and information on proof of authenticity.
Through this unprecedented collaboration, LVMH, Prada Group and Cartier have paved the way for luxury brands in their adoption of blockchain technology, and as such have together raised the industry standards, working to increase customers’ trust in the brands’ sustainable practices.
Louis Vuitton’s NFT game
In celebration of the LV founder Louis Vuitton’s 200th birthday and in honour of his legacy, the brand rolled out Louis the Game. The goal of the game is to find 200 collectible candles and reach the in-game festive birthday destination journeying six vibrant imaginary worlds with Vivienne, the protagonist.
The most exciting thing about the game portends to be the 30 exclusive NFTs designed by a digital artist Beeple. All NFTs are collectibles and cannot be sold.
Auction Houses & NFTs
If it is true that in the physical art market, artists’ primary sales are generated via galleries and auction houses that are themselves focused on secondary market sales, that is clearly not the case for digital artists. With digital art, auction houses prefer sourcing NFTs directly from the crypto artists.
In 2021 alone, the world-famous British-founded American broker of fine and decorative art, Sotheby’s, sold $65 million worth of NFTs. There’s an even more impressive number… Christie’s, a British auction house, did one better and sold over $100 million worth of NFTs.
In March, Beeple sold an NFT of his work, Everydays; The First 5000 Days, at Christie’s for an astonishing $69 million (we were shocked, too). That was the first piece of artwork — art which does not physically exist — sold by a major auction house.
Later in November, Christie’s sold Beeple’s new NFT, Human One, for $29 million.
Chito x Givenchy NFT
Givenchy is keeping up with the times as well. Earlier this year the brand teamed up with the Mexico-based artist Chito in order to create an exclusive NFT collection totaling 15 unique items. The Chito x Givenchy collaboration is a follow-up to Givenchy’s Spring 2022 pre-collection, in which the brand’s Creative Director Matthew M. Williams had Chito’s graphic prints on for clothes, accessories and RIMOWA suitcases.
The collection was released on the NFT marketplace, OpenSea, on November 23. One of the collectibles, PITTY (Bloody), was sold for 250 ETH (approx. $1.1 million).
First Patek Philippe NFT
Last but not least is Patek Philippe’s famous Nautilus.
In November, SM-ART, in partnership with a private collector from the Middle East, announced that it would auction off a Patek Philippe NFT, the first one in history. The platform’s users will be able to buy shares of the physical watch, as the watch will be converted into multiple non-fungible tokens. Future owners of these NFTs will have access to the Nautilus 5711/1A-010 full history, from its designer Gerald Genta’s first napkin sketches all the way through to its introduction to the public in 2006.
LuxFi is the world’s first asset-backed NFT marketplace for luxury assets, where people can buy, sell and invest in luxury assets using cryptocurrencies and traditional payments. We eliminate counterfeiting while minting an NFT on a multi-chain blockchain network, with a focus on luxury assets that hold value well and have a high resale value. Leveraging our big data intelligence system and unique algorithm for automated data collecting and data processing, the value of each NFT on our platform is backed by real-world data.
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I got about a week ago a hifonics amp hfi1500d mono and two kickers cvr aluminized (800 watts/ 400 rms).
The amp is mounted to the back the speaker box and the amp is at 3/4ths of its power.
What happens is when I turn on my truck the amp light is green and works but then goes red into protect mode after a minute, but when I turn my truck off and back on, the amp starts working but turns into protect mode again after a minute having to turn on and off my truck 3 times before the amp finally stays on.
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All data of the applicant is stored on household bases, from the application to the payment.
In social assistance application, the whole process, from the acceptance of the application to the payment, is maintained electronically.
Social assistance and employment integration is activated via this system. During the social assistance application also Turkish Employment Agency is alerted about unemployed person. So protection to promotion approach is used and nearly 19 thousand of social assistance beneficiaries are get a job and nearly 50 thousand of them get a course to get a job.
Reliable statistics are produced to plan effective social policies.
In January 2012 Income tests of General Health Insurance is done by using this project. By the end of 2012, 14.6 million of people are registered by using this system.
In social assistance application, bureaucracy is eliminated, thus a big step in the social inclusion is achieved
Giving reiterated assistances by public institutions has been thwarted; it has been provided that social assistances are delivered to really needy citizens and larger masses.
The workloads of public institutions from which the citizens request documents about their situations, have been decreased.
The workloads of SAS Foundations have been diminished; the time, which the personnel of the Foundations allocate for social investigation, has been increased.
Bureaucracy has been minimized by abolishing the correspondence between public institutions in order to prevent reiterated assistances and this contributes using the public resources effectively. Becaouse of the reduced bureaucracy 96 million page paper is not used and 132 million TL paper and transportation expense is saved in a year.
According to a simulation done by 50.000 household, %25 of the social assistance is canceled because of the duplicated assistance. Since the total expanse in this area is 10 billion TL, this amount is notable.
Neediness-poverty of citizens applying the social assistances has begun to be determined by the state itself by using the central databases; citizens have been unburdened from proving their neediness. It has been prevented that citizens applying for social assistances collect documents about their situation by going to public institutions one-by-one; it has been started to determine whether citizens deserve assistances or not by submitting only their identity cards. Access period to assistances of poor citizens has been shortened.
Because all the process is done electronically, 96 million pages of paper saved thus 479 tons of paper is not being produced, 210 tons of water and 3 million 640 thousand Kw electricity is not used.
Only necessary steps which are the basics of the social assistance structure are integrated to the system.
The importance of the on system training approach is used to obtain the users support.
In order to eliminate duplicated databases by using a Web Service Gateway. By doing so a distributed data architecture approach is chosen instead of a central data base model.
In General Directorate of the Social Assistance is the first government agency whose applications are all running in a virtual environment. Cloud Computing model is being used.


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Alizilla says that the digital economy will drive global growth, and level the business playing field for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Business owners who want to ride this bullet train are investing on talent development, technological breakthroughs, and data analytics. However, the following article points out that one neglected fuel that can accelerate your participation in the digital economy is application security. The current landscape runs on tech, app, and software – and a company is strong and impervious to outside online threats only in so far as its applications have been tested and protected. If you want to power up your organization and claim your place in the digital sun, amp up your app security. Read on for more. – Cora Llamas.


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Based on the cooperative virulence index (c.f.) and LC50 of fipronil, the interaction effect between short-term heat pretreatment and fipronil on 2nd instar larvae of diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus), was assessed. The results suggested that pretreatment of the tested insects at 30 °C for 2, 4 and 8h could somewhat decrease the toxicity of fipronil at all set concentrations. The LC50 values of fipronil increased after heat pretreatment and c.f. values in all these treatments were below zero. These results indicated that real mortalities were less than theoretical ones and antagonism was found in the treatments of fipronil at 0.39 and 0.78 mg/L after heat pretreatment at 30 °C at 2, 4 and 8 h. However, pretreatment at 30 °C for 12h could increase the toxicity of fipronil at all set concentrations, the LC50 of fipronil decreased after heat pretreatment and c.f. values in all these treatments were above zero, which indicated real mortalities were higher than theoretical ones. Pretreatment of the tested insects at 35 °C for 2, 4, 8 and 12h was found to increase the toxicity of fipronil at all set concentrations which resulted in the decrease of LC50 values of fipronil and c.f. above zero in all treatments with only one exception. Most interactions were assessed as synergism. The results indicated that cooperative virulence index (c.f.) may be adopted in hormetic effect assessment.
Gu, Xiaojun; Tian, Sufen; Wang, Dehui; Gao, Fei; and Wei, Hui
"INTERACTION BETWEEN SHORT-TERM HEAT PRETREATMENT AND FIPRONIL ON 2nd INSTAR LARVAE OF DIAMONDBACK MOTH, PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA (LINN),"
Dose-Response: An International Journal: Vol. 8
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White Kurma Recipe or White Veg Kurma Hotel Saravana Bhavana Style as the name says is a hotel recipe. In hotels, they serve different dishes like parotta, poori, idiyappam, and chapati. It is creamy mild spice kurma.
We make this kurma without using coriander seeds or turmeric powder. So this kurma is white in colour and tastes very creamy with the nuts, lentils added like cashews, fried gram along coconut. Even though I have similar recipes already, I referred few more sites like Hebber's for confirmation.
We always make the Tamil Nadu Kurma with coriander powder added. However, this particular popular kurma across hotels is famous for its creamy texture. They always serve this with idiyappam, layered Tamil Nadu Parotta and in some hotels, they serve with poori as well.
en I made it, I first served it with pooris, though it tasted great, with parotta that I made later was the ultimate combination. When it comes to vegetables, we add regular mixed vegetables like carrot, beans, peas, cauliflower, etc. Yet another vegetable that is very common in hotels is the turnip or Knol Khol. This adds another texture and taste to the kurma.
This is part of the A to Z Side Dishes, for W it was quite a challenge until it struck me that this White kurma is a popular side dish served across hotels in Tamil Nadu.
Hotel Saravana Bhavan is famous for its different side dishes like the most popular Sambar. So enjoy this as well.
Other delicious kurma recipes you can try, check this Veg Kumar, Xacuti Chana Masala.
Other Kurma Recipes you can try:
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To Make the Masala Paste
Take all the ingredients listed under the masala and grind to a smooth paste using water as required. Keep aside
To Make the White Veg Kurma Hotel Saravana Bhavana Style
Heat a nonstick pan with oil, temper with cumin seeds, bay leaves.
Next add the finely chopped onions, saute till it turns colour.
Add ginger garlic paste and saute well.
Add chopped vegetables and add 1 cup water.
Cover with a lid and cook on low flame till the vegetables are well cooked.
When the vegetables are cooked, add the ground masala paste.
Add salt and cook until the masala is cooked well.
Next add coriander leaves and bring to a boil.
Finally just before switching off, add lemon juice and mix well.
Serve with Parotta, Poori and Roti. Even idiyappam tastes great with this vellai kurma.
White Kurma Recipe | White Veg Kurma Hotel Saravana Bhavana Style
For Masala Paste:
- 1/2 cup Coconut
- 1 tablespoon Fried Gram / Pottukadalai
- 8 Cashew Nuts
- 3-4 Green Chilies
- 1/2 inch Cinnamon
- 3 Cardamom
- 1 teaspoon Fennel Seeds
- 1 tablespoon Poppy Seeds
- Water as required to grind to a smooth paste
For making the Kurma:
- 2 tablespoon Cooking Oil
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1 cup Onion sliced
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste
- 2 cups Mixed Vegetables Carrot, Potato, Beans and Peas
- Salt to Taste
- Water as required
- Handful Coriander Leaves
- 2 teaspoon Lemon Juice
To Make the Masala Paste
- Take all the ingredients listed under the masala and grind to a smooth paste using water as required. Keep aside
To Make the Kurma
- Heat a nonstick pan with oil, temper with cumin seeds, and bay leaves.
- Next add the finely chopped onions, saute till it turns colour.
- Add ginger garlic paste and saute well.
- Add chopped vegetables and add 1 cup water.
- Cover with a lid and cook on low flame till the vegetables are well cooked.
- When the vegetables are cooked, add the ground masala paste.
- Add salt and cook until the masala is cooked well.
- Next add coriander leaves and bring to a boil.
- Finally just before switching off, add lemon juice and mix well.
- Serve with Parotta, Poori and Roti. Even idiyappam tastes great with this vellai kurma.
This is one of our favorite! Your kurma looks just like the restaurant ones. Delicious!
Suma Gandlur says
Kurma is a popular side dish at restaurants through out south India and I am sure this version tastes yummy as well.
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan says
I love vellai kurma and the addition of fennel and kasa kasa takes it to vera level kind. Kurma is a weekly affair in our household and I always look out for varieties and a few ingredient change makes it a whole new dish. I will try this version of yours soon.
I like this kurma ! It sounds ao delicious, though the word kurma always takes me back to our first BM meet where you had prepared tomato kurma and we loved it to the core .


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Poet, author, feminist, professor, critic and activist Gloria Jean Watkins died on December 15th at the age of 69 after a lengthy illness. She adopted the pen name of bell hooks in honor of her great grandmother, always using lower case letters to ensure the emphasis was on her books, not on herself.
Born in Kentucky and educated in segregated schools, she went on to receive degrees from Stanford and the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She taught at Stanford, Yale, Oberlin and CCNY, eventually returning home to Kentucky to teach at Berea College, home of the bell hooks center.
The first of her more than 36 books, a poetry collection, And There We Wept, was published in 1978. In the early 1980’s, she published two works addressing feminism and the experience of African American women. The best known of these was Ain’t I a Woman: Black Woman and Feminism, established a correlation between American slavery and the modern societal status of Black women. The other, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, critically examined the feminist movement’s tendency to be more focused on white women’s privilege and experiences. Her writings went on to be wide ranging, covering race, gender, socioeconomic class, sexuality and geographic place. Her words have been influential and life changing for many readers.
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

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Glasgow, 18 November 2023 (TDI): The Head of Palestine Mission to the UK, Dr Husam Zomlot, warmly received by the First Minister, Humza Yousaf, at Bute House on Friday. During their meeting, they engaged in a fruitful discussion regarding the pressing requirement for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
Humza stated I heard from Husam details of the devastating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. I assured him that the Scotland government would continue to call on the UK Government and international community to push for an immediate ceasefire.
The primary objective of this ceasefire to safeguard the lives of countless innocent individuals who are currently at risk. Further, he stated that Hamas carried out border raids on Israel on October 7, which resulted in 1200 dead bodies.
This led to a heavy response by the Israeli military, with thousands of Palestinians dying as a result of attacks on Gaza. The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has prompted international appeals for an immediate ceasefire of violence in the area.
A demonstration advocating for Palestine has been scheduled to take place at Glasgow Green this Saturday at 1 pm. This event aims to raise awareness and support for the cause, highlighting the ongoing conflict and its impact.
On the other hand, Humza Yousaf convened a meeting with members of the Jewish community at Bute House on Friday. He addresses their apprehensions regarding the rise of antisemitism amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
During their conversation, he discussed the concerns surrounding antisemitism. Moreover, the unease experienced by the Jewish community due to escalating tensions triggered by the ongoing war.
In recent weeks, several religious leaders have addressed the media, highlighting a noticeable surge in antisemitic sentiments following Israel’s declaration of war against Hamas.
Yousaf, on the other hand, focused on exploring potential avenues through which the Scottish Government could collaborate with Jewish communities. Furthermore, other faith-based organizations foster unity and solidarity.

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Unhinged -- a Young Adult tale by A.G. Howard
a book review by The Ol’ Book Buzzard, Barney Basin
Lewis Carroll’s original story, Alice in Wonderland, is the tale of the misadventures of a curious Alice
Alice in Wonderland
. Alyssa Gardner was crowned a queen in Wonderland. However, she chose to reject her crown and remain with her friends and family in the human realm. She has been trying to be normal Alyssa with her boyfriend, Jeb, and her mom, who has escaped shock treatment in the mental hospital. Her life is now filled with proms and a future in London with Jeb.
But Morpheus--the manipulative, seductive, Wonderlander-- won’t let her leave her legacy behind. During her absence, the evil Red Queen has caused calamity and Wonderland is suffering from Alyssa’s neglect.
Alyssa is torn between the two worlds. While suffering from indecision as to which course to take, Wonderland invades the real world and Alyssa must find a way to keep a balance or lose everything she loves.
If you are a fan of Howard’s first book, “Splintered,” then you must read “Unhinged.” Over half of this book takes place in the “real” world, so the dark does not appear as heavy at first--but it is there.
All three of books in the trilogy are available at the Pahrump Library.
Contact author Barney Basin at


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US ethanol producers likely face an industry shake-out as record corn prices
driven by the alternative fuel boom are set to last into the foreseeable future,
squeezing profits for small distillers.
Washington has offered producers hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives
in an attempt to reduce foreign oil imports while supporting the agriculture
But that has had the unintended consequence of helping to boost corn prices to a
record of more than $5.40 a bushel. New distilleries are gobbling the grain as
US ethanol production capacity has nearly doubled in 13 months to more than 8
billion gallons per year.
High corn prices are unlikely to fade as new plants keep opening. Energy
analysts at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co, Inc, for instance, recently raised
their 2008 to 2010 corn price forecast from $3.75 to $5.00 bushel.
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After a successful first stop in Munich in October 2017, there are now 13 further training dates announced. The FAZUA Service team will be in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain.
In addition to Cube-, Focus-, Bianchi- and Pinarello-dealers who are already offering bikes running with FAZUA drive system, the training is open to all interested dealers.
The events are divided into a theory and a practical part. During the training we will focus on the correct handling of the new FAZUA evation drive system. Additionally, diagnosis options and the correct handling in case of service will be taught.
Oliver Piesch, Head of Service, stated: "An outstanding product alone is no longer enough to gain acceptance in our marketplace. Therefore, a key pillar of ours is to build a Europe-wide service network to build trust and provide end users with a competent source. "


District shuffles 2010-2011 instructors
The Haakon School District 27-1 Board of Education has finalized the contract distributions for next school year, except for one.
Jerry Rhodes is retiring as the Philip High School social studies instructor. His position will be filled by Kory Foss, previously from Mobridge, who will also be the head boys' basketball coach and assistant football coach. Danielle Foss will be taking over the teaching responsibilities of Theresa Deuchar at the Milesville rural learning center. Deuchar will be replacing Judy Longbrake as the instructor at the Cheyenne rural learning center. Longbrake is leaving the school district, having taken a position at Takini. Current sixth grade teacher MaryLynn Crary will teach second grade next school year. The sixth grade position has yet to be filled.
The new high school science instructor will be Kali Leitheiser, who has just finished student teaching in Mitchell. Leitheiser will also be the assistant high school track coach and will coach the resurrected oral interpretation program. She has been in the Army and is in the National Guard, headed the karate club at South Dakota State University and enjoys exploratory spelunking. Current PHS instructor Tom Parquet will be the head track coach. Tony Reder and his family are moving to the Philip area for him to fill the elementary special education position and be the junior high football coach.
The board approved its five year capital outlay plan. The reserve and taxes will remain the same. Business Manager Britni Ross said, "As far as the pension goes, for the first time ever we will be able to cover everything without any transfers." Superintendent Keven Morehart said, "We are doing really well in capital outlay. But, keep in mind, as student enrollment goes down, our capital outlay goes down." As a very rough estimate, $30 to $40,000 will still have to be taken out of reserves for next school year. This actually works well, in that the South Dakota Department of Education has mandated that the districts must spend down any reserves in compliance with the excess fund balance statute. The general fund must be 40 percent or less than the total expenses for that year.
The preliminary fiscal year 2011 budget is just that, preliminary. Morehart said, "The biggest factor that is stopping us from solidifying numbers is the current tax explanation. There is guidance supposedly coming down the line. Sixteen million of federal money has to go somewhere, but nobody seems to know where. South Dakota is saving money, with the schools not getting any more than they would have gotten without the national aid. The state just refigures the state aid."
The 2010-2011 student handbooks for secondary and elementary are very similar to last year's. Some wording has been clarified, mostly to be in accordance with federal and state clarifications.
The district will continue to be part of the protective trust workman's compensation agreement with the Associated School Boards of South Dakota. The annual insurance is $12,570. The district will also continue in contracting for school health services with the South Dakota Department of Health. The county health nurse holds annual vision, hearing and mental screenings.
Two school board seats are still open after the candidate application deadline. Interviews will be held in preparation for appointing people to those seats.
The next board of education meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. Monday, June 14, in Room A-1 of the Philip High School.


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From the very onset of “Dexter” season 8, it will be clear that Deb no longer has some of the same romantic feelings that she once did for her brother. For those of you who hated the idea of her feelings coming out of nowhere when they first surfaced during season 6, you’ll see this as very good news, indeed. As for everyone else, you’ll probably be spending more time worrying about these two characters’ mortality to wonder if there is any way that the two can get back to where we were.
While we’re not promising that the idea of “Debster” (yes, there is a shipper name for it) ever happens, it does at least look like there will be some measure of forgiveness coming for the character. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on the subject of if these two will ever find some sort of understanding between them, executive producer Sara Colleton has an answer that may surprise you:
“Deb comes to an understanding about herself and about who Dexter is based on the series of options he was given and the parameters of information that he was given. She will eventually come to realize that yes, Dexter has done best he could with what he has. No one is perfect.”
Colleton also suggested that while there are some characters (clearly Dr. Evelyn Vogel) who will take at times an adversarial position on this season, she balked at the idea of there being another “Big Bad.” This seems to ultimately just be a season where we try to learn if there can be closure of some of the characters that we’ve come to love and support, and what this closure could look like.
Want more on all things “Dexter”? Then we have a couple of resources for you. Click here to check out some more scoop from Yvonne Strahovski on Hannah, and you can also watch the video below to learn more on the show’s premiere via our “CarterMatt Chat” video series.


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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class center for basic research in life sciences. It was founded in 1970 as a joint effort of two Basel-based pharmaceutical companies. The FMI is devoted to the pursuit of fundamental biomedical research. Areas of expertise are neurobiology, mechanisms of cancer, which includes signaling pathways and DNA stability, and the epigenetics of stem cell development and cell differentiation. The institute counts 320 collaborators. It offers training in biomedical research to PhD students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world. In addition, the FMI is affiliated with the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research and is an affiliated institute of the University of Basel. The Director of the FMI since 2004 is Prof. Susan Gasser.
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Tous les matins du monde
Presented by Harvard Film Archive
Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World). Director Alain Corneau collaborated with viol virtuoso and early music expert Jordi Savall and writer Pascal Quignard—who had written a novel imagining the life of Sainte-Colombe—to portray the power of emotion and art to transcend this earthly existence. Consequently, the music from the celebrated film took on a life of its own, helping to bring the enchanted sounds of a remarkable, obscure existence out of the shadows of time to enrapture audiences today.
Tickets: $9 - Regular Admission; $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens


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DymaxionMap: From the XScreenSaver Collection, 2016.
- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2016
- Buckminster Fuller's map of the Earth projected onto the surface of an unfolded icosahedron. It depicts the Earth's continents as one island, or nearly contiguous land masses.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2016.
XScreenSaver is a collection of hundreds of free screen savers for X11, MacOS and iOS. Download them all here:
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Who are First Responders?
Psychotherapy and Psychology for first responders is a new service that Holistic Medical Clinic has to offer. A first responder is somebody who has specialized training that enables him or her to quickly arrive at the scenes of the emergency and offer emergency assistance, including medical treatment to victims. First responders usually include emergency medical technicians, EMTs, paramedics, law enforcement officers and firefighters. A first responder has an important role to play in keeping our communities safe. They are trained to deal with all types of emergencies. First responders often deal with emotionally stressful situations that involve trauma, fear, panic, anger, sorrow, and helplessness. These situations require quick thinking, quick decisions, and a strong emotional reaction. Many first responders have undergone training to become effective mental health professionals, but sometimes first responders should take care of their own mental well-being and focus on their own mental health.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is an increasingly popular area of mental health care. It is used by many psychologists, counsellors and therapists. Psychotherapy helps to treat emotional, behavioural, social, psychological and neurological aspects of human behaviour. Also called talk therapy, psychotherapy seeks to help a person know their thoughts and arm them with the skills to face new stresses, both in the here and the future, affecting their mental health. Some psychologists prefer a hands-on approach by working with the individual in person, while others prefer to use a combination of in-person and online counselling. Online counselling is very popular today due in large part to the accessibility of internet technology to people who previously had no access to such services. During psychotherapy sessions, the therapist will help you understand and confront your negative thoughts and feelings. You’ll also learn how to manage these thoughts and feelings, so they do not become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Psychotherapy for First Responders
Psychotherapy can be very helpful for first responders who experience trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to the Journal of Emergency Medical Services study, 41.11% of police officers during one year of experiencing a traumatic event were classified at a high risk of PTSD. Psychotherapy and psychology can assist you in gaining a feeling of self-control. If you are experiencing symptoms of PTSD, you may feel nervous and overwhelmed. You may be afraid of going out in public or afraid of talking to others. This is a common feeling that many people have, and it is usually caused by the experience of trauma. Triggers for this condition can be anything, from accidents on duty, to the death of a loved one, to natural disasters. The key to treating PTSD is learning to identify triggers that make you experience these symptoms and then learning how to overcome them. It is worth noting that psychotherapy is really useful in releasing tension and distress while expressing and sharing the feeling with a professional.
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There is a modern day pet population crisis is happening right now that drastically needs to be brought under control as soon as possible. Our best weapon against this trend is having our pets spayed and neutered. Our recognition of this crisis is the reason we have made contributing to a solution a huge part of our overall mission. We provide affordable, high-quality wellness procedures including spays, neuters, micro-chipping and vaccinations performed by highly trained, expert veterinarians who care about your pets just as much as you do.
Get your pets spayed and neutered early in life to maximize the benefits of the procedure.
We offer several packages that can include any or all of the procedures we perform in order to help pets and pet owners enjoy life with sound peace of mind. Many clinics price their procedures at price points that are financially intimidating which can persuade pet owners to forego potentially beneficial procedures and in effect being put in a position to have to choose sacrificing their pets health to maintain financial well-being. We would never want to put ourselves or anyone else in a position to have to make a choice like that, which is why we take a wholesome approach to our relationships with pets and their owners. Our philosophy on overall wellness has made us a leading clinic in the Phoenix area as our clients routinely return and recommend us to others!
There are several benefits to having your pets spayed and neutered aside from helping reign in the overpopulation crisis, including:
Benefits of Spaying Female Cats & Dogs:
- Prevents your pet from contracting testicular cancer
- Reduces the natural urge for your pet to mark its territory by spraying urine
- Can reduce aggressive behavior and the pet’s instinct to roam
Benefits of Neutering Male Cats & Dogs:
- Prevents uterine cancer and infections
- Greatly reduces the chance of breast cancer
- The cost of having your animal spayed or neutered is far less than the costs incurred by treating the conditions they prevent
We also partner with local rescue shelters to help keep their rescues healthy and adoptable. We perform spays and neuters for shelters every year in addition to performing many in our animal hospital annually.

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Dec 2, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
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Mike Rizzo and Davey Johnson will have their hands full this week in Nashville.
The baseball world converges today on Nashville, with executives, managers, coaches, trainers and more from every franchise, a phalanx of agents, minor-league officials, regular folks seeking work in the sport and — of course — media members taking over the gargantuan Opryland Resort and Convention Center for the next five days.
The annual Winter Meetings are quite a spectacle, so many people affiliated with the game of baseball hunkered down in one location, and they're quite often the scene of some major news. (Anyone remember the Albert Pujols extravaganza last year in Dallas?)
Slowly but surely over the years, the Nationals have become a more significant force at the meetings, their biggest splash coming two Decembers ago at Disney World when they shocked the industry by signing Jayson Werth to a $126 million contract.
Now that they're coming off a 98-win season their first-ever playoff appearance, the Nationals won't sneak up on anyone at theRead more »
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