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Retail finance and microfinance enjoy attractive currency on the Indian financial markets today.
There are a number of reasons for this.
One, in a country where formal financial inclusion is nominal, this business represents an attractive multi-year growth opportunity estimated at B1.40 lac crore to B2.50 lac crore at penetration levels of 50-70% and average transaction size of B35,000-40,000 per household.
Two, as India''s economy accelerates, we see a larger capital appetite, which inspires the optimism that the sector has addressed only a fraction of its potential.
Three, much of India''s capital appetite has been addressed at a level where the borrower is considered creditworthy through conventional appraisal filters; there is a considerably larger grassroots opportunity that has been largely unaddressed.
Four, micro-finance companies have, by and large, demonstrated their competence - through business growth and more importantly, through their non-performing assets being considerably lower than the country''s corresponding bank sector average.
Five, there is a growing recognition that by addressing women through micro-finance, the business is not only addressing a financial grassroots need but also addressing a long unmet social gap that can completely redress the inequity of the centuries.
In view of these realities, the big moment for the business of micro-finance has arrived in India.
I am pleased to state that Arman has risen to this occasion, which is reflected in its numbers for 2015-16.
Our disbursements of B247 crore were 47% higher than in the previous year.
Our income from operations grew by 37%, outperforming the NBFC industry average.
Our net profit grew by 30%.
Our Assets Under Management grew by 50%.
Our profitability is one of the highest in the industry, with an ROA of 4.8% and ROE of 18.6%
At Arman, the growth in these numbers means just one thing: that we are making a perceptible difference in the lives of Indians at the grassroots. We are empowering, we are financing, we are enhancing confidence, we are educating and we are graduating. The success of this complement makes it necessary - even mandatory - for Arman to extend into new geographies, touch more lives, widen opportunities and strengthen nation-building.
At Arman, we painstakingly built our micro-finance business in the Gujarat laboratory. This is where we learnt the business, this is where we built systems and processes, this is where we studied diverse consumer needs, this is where we took prudent risks, this is where we created a resilient business model.
The time has come then to grow the learning’s from this model across the other parts of India in our quest to emerge as a successful pan-India micro-finance company. During the last 15 months, we extended our presence from one state to four. We entered Madhya Pradesh towards the close of 2014-15. Towards the close of 201516, we entered Maharashtra and began work to enter Uttar Pradesh. Besides, in our traditional market, we extended deeper into North Gujarat (Kutch) and South Gujarat. In doing so, we expanded our branch network: 29 as on March 31, 2014 to 60 as on March 31, 2016.
A number of our stakeholders are inclined to ask whether a widening of our geographic footprint will translate into a dilution in all the values that we hold dear.
My answer is that Arman has been a ''quality asset'' organization; we have prided on the quality of our business and this reality will remain unchanged.
We will grow our business to the extent that our Balance Sheet integrity will permit; we will walk away from business that could enhance our business throughput but erode out long-term competitiveness.
My optimism on this count has been derived from a number of business-strengthening initiatives that we undertook in the last few years.
We made the branch and village selection criteria more stringent, which ensures that our new branches service only the deserving. We are implementing a new MIS to drill down to brand and individual performance with alerts for deviations. We engaged expert business consultants to undertake business process benchmarking with the best industry standards. In doing so, we expect to improve service quality even as we extend wider and deeper. As we mentioned in previous communications, we will invest significantly in IT and other infrastructure requirements as and when required.
Our asset-financing business grew at a healthy 13% due to growth in the two-wheeler financing segment. To counter competition, we leveraged the micro-finance model in rural two-wheeler financing, which should catalyze growth in the current year.
To address our need for growth capital in the subsidiary Namra, we tapped the Tier-II equity market, issuing Rs.5 crore Redeemable Preference Shares in 2015-16, which will allow us to raise more debt and increase our portfolio. We expect more Tier-II transactions to follow in the coming year.
Message to shareholders
At Arman, we are optimistic that our cautiously aggressive approach will continue to strengthen our asset portfolio and drive best-in-class profitable growth.
This will be made possible by Arman''s dedicated team, whose diligence has made year-on-year growth a reality.
Vice-Chairman & Managing Director


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A New Song! - "Tired Stray"
This week I wrote a new song titled "Tired Stray". It's about a recurring dream where I visit my grandmother's street in Guatemala only to wake up before she answers her door. Check it out in the video below!
I'm excited at the things I'm discovering by writing in English and exploring the influences that have defined me on that side of things. Hope you like the new song!

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This is the second time I have visited Great Yarmouth on business and this experience was so much better that the last! I called beforehand to check on parking and was given all the info I needed. I arrived after a long drive, parked right outside the hotel and had a wonderful welcome. Mandy on reception heard me arrive and came out to greet me. I had booked a single and was very kindly upgraded to a double. Mandy showed me around the bar, restaurant and a nice comfy seating area. All were clean, tidy and looked very inviting. Mandy then took me to my room which I thought was a nice touch, it was a little chilly but she just suggested putting the radiator on. My room was perfect, matching furniture and a lovely comfy bed. It was probably the best nights sleep I have had in a hotel. There was plenty of tea & coffee and a huge TV. Ideal when away on your own. Dinner was very good and Ashley looked after me very well. My only slight criticism and what made it a 4 & not 5 was the choice of food. Everything I had was delicious but sometimes it is nice to be able to choose something simple. Also at breakfast time, cooked breakfast comes at an additional cost, it is not a lot of money and the quality was excellent but could maybe be included in the room rate. Overall this was a brilliant experience and I would definitely recommend Andover House and will always book here when I return to Great Yarmouth.
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While I haven't had time to read it and digest it fully, it looked interesting enough to post. I was talking about the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting with friends last weekend during our tasting party, and the article covers that event (plus others):
But some may say this is natural. Isn't French wine the best in the world? Knowledgeable people haven't believed this myth since the Paris Wine Tasting in 1976, at which time French wines were pitted against California wines, in that tasting, a California red took first place and California Chardonnays won first, third and fourth place in the white wine category. And many other countries around the world similarly produce award-winning wines as well. (Details of the Paris Wine Tasting in 1976 are found below.)
Automaker Henry Ford is reputed to have said that customers could buy any color Ford car they wanted so long as it was black. The attitude of French wine producers similarly seems to be "if we don't produce it, you don't need it." Unfortunately, it's the innocent French consumer who is deprived of choice.


text: Entertainment TV Lala Kent Locked Herself in Her Bedroom for 1 Week After Learning of Randall Emmett's Infidelity "I was very closed off," Lala Kent said during the Vanderpump Rules season 9 reunion By Dory Jackson Dory Jackson Instagram Twitter Website Dory Jackson is an Associate Editor for PEOPLE's digital TV team. While at the brand, she's had the opportunity to interview a long list of celebrities, from Kate Hudson to Pierce Brosnan to Billy Porter. She also recaps popular TV shows like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules.The New York-based Maryland native graduated from Randolph-Macon College in May 2016 with a focus in Communication Studies and Journalism. She came to PEOPLE in March 2021 after working at a number of major news companies, including Newsweek and Us Weekly. She also previously co-hosted a podcast called "Idol Nation." People Editorial Guidelines Published on January 27, 2022 11:49 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Lala Kent is providing new insight on how her relationship with Randall Emmett unraveled after learning of his infidelity. During the second half of Vanderpump Rules' season 9 reunion on Wednesday, Lala, 31, opened up about when she first noticed signs of trouble in the relationship. "Randall was never ever home and he would always say that it was work-related. He was always on his phone. It was non- f------ stop on his phone and I still didn't even register it," said the Give Them Lala Beauty founder. "Honest to God, it was when Katie [Maloney-Schwartz] called me on October 15th and said, 'There's two pictures that have come out with Randall and two girls.' I just got the biggest pit in my stomach. I just knew Randall is not who I think he is." "I thought I knew that he was loyal to me. That's all I wanted," she continued through tears. "I was like, 'I know how dudes are and I can trust him and I know he's not f------ around on me.' And the fact that this man, he knew what he was out doing and he made me feel safe enough to bring a child into this world. I feel disgusted." Lala Kent Claims Randall Emmett's Alleged Cheating Was 'Repeated,' with 'Not Just One Person' Asked "what lengths" Randall, 50, went through to get her to stay with him, Lala admitted: "There wasn't much for him to do." "I was very closed off," she continued. "For about a week, I stayed in the bedroom with the door locked. So he decided he needed to go to Miami. I packed five years' worth of my things and I got the f--- out." Lala added that she believes Randall has "led a double life for a very long time." "I believe Randall will stop at nothing to make sure that his double life is not exposed," she said. "When I found out that things were not as they seemed to be, which, by the way, I'm still finding out things from back then when we met. In my mind, I thought, life is not cookie-cutter. We were soulmates. We fell in love. And of course, I didn't think that he was going to be doing this to me. ... I believe that my five-and-a-half years with Randall is a lie." Lala Kent (L); Randall Emmett. Ethan Miller/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Lala and Randall got engaged in September 2018 but had to delay their April 2020 wedding to sometime in 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The now-exes — who welcomed daughter Ocean last March — called off their engagement in October 2021. The Utah native's castmates also weighed in on rumors of Randall's cheating and the pair's subsequent split during Wednesday's episode. Beginning with Tom Sandoval, the 38-year-old claimed Randall was apparently hitting up a woman connected to someone they all know. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. James Kennedy, for his part, said he heard "some sexual rumors" but he also allegedly witnessed Randall "buying drinks with two of the hottest girls" at Lisa Vanderpump's SUR restaurant. The former couple's child "was already born at this point," the 30-year-old added. Expressing her disappointment in learning about the rumors well after the fact, Lala said she "wished" her costars would have brought this to her attention sooner. Raquel Leviss said she hadn't heard of any cheating rumors, though she admittedly "wasn't surprised" that the former pair's breakup was tied to that. The 27-year-old then claimed Lala "was a mistress" when she began seeing Randall, who was previously married to actress Ambyr Childers from 2009 to 2017. Lala Kent. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty But Lala swiftly denied such speculation: "When I met Randall, he told me he was separated." "We were on the road for two months straight. We didn't come back one time," she said. "What wife would allow their husband to leave for two months and not come back one time?" Lala added, "I have only seen successful marriages. I didn't know people rolled that way." On a different note, Scheana Shay revealed Lala previously "confided" in her ahead of the breakup. At the time, Lala felt she didn't have a "partner" like Scheana, 36, does in fiancé Brock Davies. "That was the first time that I really realized that there were any issues in their relationship," said Scheana. "They always put on this front of, you know, everything was great. I'm the queen of that club, so I get it. But that day, my heart really broke for her because I couldn't imagine having a child with someone who isn't a 50/50 partner."

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McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center
The McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center (MPSTOC) is a 147,000 sq. ft. facility located in the heart of Fairfax, VA. A partnership between Fairfax County and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Operations Center is home to multiple agencies, including Fairfax County’s 9-1-1 Call Center, Office of Emergency Management, Fire and Rescue Department, and Police Department, as well as the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Northern Region Transportation Operation Center and Signal System and the Virginia State Police. In total, the combined organizations serve approximately 1 million area residents.
Over the years, Trinity Video Communications has provided a multitude of A/V solutions to MPSTOC, including large video wall systems, multiple displays, controls, pro audio, and video projectors. MPSTOC recently relied on Trinity Video for system upgrades to its Emergency Operation Center and Police Situation Room. Trinity Video installed a 1.9mm tile Christie video wall with Jupiter processor, new 50” HD LDC displays, and audio system.


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Great staff, free water and juice, coffee, snacks, and light breakfast food. Free and easy to use laundry services.
Could have been more amenities for the price.
Complimentary snacks at the lobby, convenient location.
Provide conditioner for hair in the shower would help a lot. Thank you.
The service is very nice. the snack bar is a very thoughtful idea. the cleaning person is very friendly. It is quite convenient for the transportation.
The location is not suitable for family. It is a bit noisy at night. The small refrigerator is not working properly. It is too humid so the humidifier has to work all day long. the bathroom water is leaking out when you take a shower.
Simple hotel, good value for money, strategic location
Hotel ammenities were great. There is a mini lounge with complimentary snacks, drinks and desserts just by the hotel's lobby. Room came with a back massager which is a first for me! Hotel is located a reasonable distance from the nearest train station (approx. 8mins walk), and a 15mins walk from Ningxia Night Market to satisfy any late night cravings!
Aircon and water heater temperature fluctuates. One minute it's hot and the next it's freezing. Hotel staff refused to allow even just a slight early check in of 30minutes. Though this is reasonable due to hotel policy, most hotels these days would be more flexible.
With a stay at Via Hotel Loft, you'll be centrally located in Taipei, within a 5-minute drive of Ningxia Night Market and National Taiwan Museum. Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and express check-in. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
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- Affordable food
- Good snacks
- Great desserts & fruits
Policies vary by room type and provider.
FAQs when booking at Via Hotel Loft
Where is Via Hotel Loft located?
Via Hotel Loft is located at 2F, No. 42, Sec. 1, Minsheng East Road in Zhongshan District, 2.5 km from the centre of Taipei. Hsing Tian Kong is the closest landmark to Via Hotel Loft.
When is check-in time and check-out time at Via Hotel Loft?
Check-in time is 15:00 and check-out time is 12:00 at Via Hotel Loft.
Does Via Hotel Loft offer free Wi-Fi?
Yes, Via Hotel Loft offers free Wi-Fi.
Does Via Hotel Loft offer free parking?
No, Via Hotel Loft does not offer free parking.
Does Via Hotel Loft offer free airport shuttle service?
No, Via Hotel Loft does not offer free airport shuttle service.
How far is Via Hotel Loft from the airport?
Via Hotel Loft is 2.7 km from Taipei Sung Shan. Via Hotel Loft is 29.4 km from Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan Intl.
Can you bring pets to Via Hotel Loft?
No, pets are not allowed at Via Hotel Loft.
Does Via Hotel Loft have a pool?
No, Via Hotel Loft does not have a pool on-site.
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- Hsing Tian Kong 1.1 km
- EcoARK 1.4 km
- Guanghua Market 1.6 km
- Huashan Culture Park 1.6 km
- Ximending Shopping Area 2.4 km
- Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall 2.6 km
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Thermal imaging (or infra-red imaging) captures thousands of surface temperature measurements and converts them into an image. The service can identify air leakages, badly insulated areas and other construction problems. Therefore, it is often complimentary to air tightness testing. Thermal imaging has a wide range of applications in the building industry.
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The Reagan administration has decided to delay by one year its target date for removing all price controls from natural gas, Energy Secretary James Edwards said yesterday.
Edwards said President Reagan will propose in February or March that Congress act to accelerate decontrol of natural gas prices beginning Jan. 1, 1983, with all price controls removed by Jan. 1, 1986. Such a plan might be approved by June or July, he added.
The administration chose to delay the start of the price rises until after the 1982 congressional elections in hopes of dampening fears of some congressmen about voting for price increases for the country's most popular heating fuel in an election year, Edwards said.
There was no indication Reagan will propose a windfall profits tax on gas producers. Numerous members of Congress have told the administration a faster decontrol schedule is unlikely to be approved, particularly in the House, unless such a tax is part of the package. Reagan has promised publicly to veto any bill imposing such a tax.
The latest version of the administration plan actually would extend controls on some gas for longer than they currently are scheduled to be in effect. Under the decontrol timetable set up by the 1978 Natural Gas Policy Act, controls on supplies of newly discovered gas are scheduled to expire Jan. 1, 1985.
However, this gas from wells that began producing after April 20, 1977, represents only about 60 percent of U.S. supplies. The remaining supplies of gas discovered earlier are scheduled to remain under price controls until the gas is depleted.
Originally, the Cabinet Council on Natural Resources recommended that Reagan seek removal of all price controls by 1985. However, the president chose to delay submitting that plan to Congress for several months in the face of strong opposition.
The plan Edwards outlined in a speech yesterday differs only in timing from the package approved last July by the Cabinet Council.


I started to create a homepage (https://jonny2019.github.io/) and I hosted it via github pages.
The Index.html is a password query.
If you click at “absenden” the formular is send to “home.php”. I want it to display the usernam and the password to
test it, but it is not working. There is displayed “405 Not Allowed”.
Is it caused by GitHub pages?


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Similarities Between Some Brexit Voters and Donald Trump's Core Supporters
The world was surprised to see Britain vote to exit the European Union (EU), a term that we have come to know as Brexit (Britain and Exit). The 'Leave Campaign' argued for Britain's right to leave the European Union while the 'Remain Campaign' naturally wanted Britain to remain a part of the European Union. There are so many elements to Brexit, so I'm going to try and simplify the argument. Please don't throw tomatoes but here's the gist of it all.
The EU was developed to form a single internal market. In other words, free movement of people, goods, and services for the benefit of capital gains. Mostly, the EU was created as an economic block under the premise that conflict between these states would be deterred. Moreover, it was intended as a peace mechanism post-WWII between the founding member states of France and Germany. Over time, the EU opened membership to other European countries and evolved in a manner in which some believe ( Leave Campaign) that it had overstepped its boundaries and therefore infringed on the sovereignty and rights of the individual member states (mainly Britain). Others may not have agreed entirely with the current state or the direction of the EU but they understood that the overall benefits outweighed the problems and therefore wanted to remain in the EU (Remain Campaign). Additionally, some believed Britain should have stayed in the EU and worked on trying to amend the system instead of bowing out. However, there was little indication on whether the EU would reform, so it was presented in a way that, either the UK remain in the EU and accept the terms or leave. Thus the referendum happened, and by a very narrow margin, Britain chose to leave.
Many try to compare Brexit to the 2016 American Presidential election by predicting Donald Trump could become president. Thankfully, the polls are suggesting otherwise and hopefully they remain that way until SHE is elected Madame President. Although, having British politician and vocal leader of the Leave Campaign Nigel Farage, retire from politics in the UK to join Donald Trump on the campaign trail in America doesn't look good.
While I do not believe there will be an upset or surprise in the outcome of the U.S Presidential election this year, I do, however, find a striking resemblance between some of Brexit voters and Trump's core supporters. When I refer to Trump's core supporters, I'm not talking about the Republicans who don't actually like or support Trump fundamentally or personally but only stand by him for their own political ambitions and or because of party loyalty. Trump's core supporters are those who truly believe Washington is broken and only, "He alone can fix it." In other words, Trump's core supporters are only a fraction of his supporters.
As an American living in London without voting rights; I saw the Brexit argument from both ends of the spectrum. My main concern on the matter was that many broken systems within the UK require a larger budget; mainly the National Health Service (NHS) and I don't think raising the already high taxes in the country is the answer. However, post-Brexit, we have learned that the budget that was once used for the EU membership will not necessarily be allocated to the NHS and other areas as was originally sold to the public by the 'Leave Campaign.' Additionally, I respect state sovereignty and yes I agree the EU needs to be reformed, but it is a tough decision to be left with the public alone on the matter of Brexit. I mean, isn't this why we elect intelligent, policy-makers who have the knowledge and expertise on these matters? Aren't we suppose to trust politicians to make the best decisions for the overall good of the country? Personally, I don't think a binding referendum on Brexit was a good idea. Maybe I'm blinded by the form of democracy that I grew up with in the States and have been brainwashed by processes such as the Electoral College and the role of superdelegates in the Democratic Party . Perhaps Brexit is democracy in its purest form and maybe I haven't been privy to such a system before.
Another aspect of the Brexit argument that I hadn't consider was the element of racism, xenophobia, and classicism. I had many conversations with my London friends (FYI, London voted to remain)--who have helped me understand the history of racism and classicism in the UK and the implications of Brexit. The aftermath of Brexit has proven my friends' concerns to be right.
Allow me to explain the similarities between some Brexit voters and Donald's Trump's core supporters.
Generally speaking, Trump's core supporters are industrial workers and or entrepreneurs, non-college-educated people in rural communities. These supporters believe Washington have let them down by establishing multinational trade agreements that have direct effects on their livelihoods. For example, the U.S industrial production falling and mining activity weakening is a result of spending cuts in the energy sector in line with environmental progressions and trade agreements that increase job outsourcing. All of which may serve as an overall good for a globalized economy but for the fourth-generation miner in Ohio who is no longer making ends meet, this is detrimental.
Similarly, in the UK, EU regulations and the freedom of movement of people into the UK provides opportunities for the financial, legal, and tech industries largely based in London but for people living in the Northern, Eastern, and Midlands of England, where many are also farmers, entrepreneurs, industrial workers; and where job opportunity has fallen, they might not agree with the EU. One example is in the East of England, where there was a large number of Brexit voters, 33 percent youth unemployment, and people in that region believe uncontrolled European immigration has caused the decline popular tourist areas which historically have brought economic growth. Additionally, folks are feeling left out of the benefits system as UK nationals because such resources have been spread across to accommodate other EU members migrating to the UK as required by EU regulations.
I understand both groups grievances-- trust me I do. The threat of not having economic security scares us all. History has shown us that in these times, the majority tends to place blame on marginalized communities. Hatred behavior towards immigrant, migrant workers, or any foreign culture is a convenient and easy mask from the real issues. Since Brexit, there has been a reported rise in hate crimes against others. Similarly, in addition to the police killings of Black people in the U.S, there has been so many hate crimes inspired by Donald Trump's rhetoric .
Let's be clear, not everyone who voted for Brexit and not all of Trump's core supporters are racists but perhaps we can agree that there is a level of xenophobia within voting patterns. The very ideals of Brexit and a Trump's presidency with slogans like, "Take Back Control"-- for Brexit and "Make America Great Again" for Trump; insight hate and divide within and among countries. It is important for us to recognize what these movements represent-- Brexit and a Trump Presidency alike so that we can develop ways to address the impact on our societies.

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One of the smallest yet most significant parts of a bathroom has to be the sink faucet. Why? This little fixture is both necessary for functionality, and perfect for showcasing your own design style.
Are you going with a sleek and modern look, for example? You can get a faucet that complements it. Have you chosen black finishes in other parts of the bath? Then you might try matching bathroom sink faucets to the color scheme you like.
Because today’s market has such a wide selection of bathroom sink faucet finish styles and types, there are plenty of possibilities to complete your space. To give you a sense of what is available, here is a look at some of the main types of bathroom sink faucets you could choose.
One of the most common types of bathroom sink faucets is the center-set style. Made for basins with three cut-outs, these fixtures typically have a spout in the middle and a handle on each side. Available in a range of finishes, these faucets are a good choice when you’re looking to keep it simple and timeless.
Exactly as the name suggests, single-handle faucets have one handle or lever with which you control water temperature and pressure. These spigots typically go in sinks with one or two holes. However, they can also work with basins that have additional openings — you just need to cover them with a mounting plate.
If you like the look of traditional bathroom sink faucets, one option you could consider is the bridge faucet. This style is good for industrial or rustic designs, as it combines old-fashioned taste with a touch of modern. It’s defined by having all the components — levers and faucet — connect to one segment. Popular with undermount sinks, the bridge faucet installs right to the counter and can be easier to clean.
The crowning jewel of any modern bathroom is what contemporary bathroom sink faucets it includes. Complement the finishes you’ve already chosen by picking a faucet that coordinates and brings the whole room together. From squared and minimal to matte and black, each contemporary fixture offers incredible style for your space.
If you’re drawn to a timeless, classic style in the bathroom, you will want to explore the many traditional bathroom sink faucets that are available. These pieces come in a range of finishes, from sterling to brushed nickel. Get inspired and pick the one that works best for your design scheme.
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The beauty of changing bathroom fixtures is that even a small and simple swap can make a big difference to your room’s aesthetic. If you’re thinking about refreshing your bathroom by choosing new contemporary or traditional bathroom sink faucets, come check out our products at Modern Bathroom. We’re pleased to offer a large range of options, priced affordably, with free shipping to all 48 contiguous states.
What are the different types of sink faucets?
There are four different faucet styles – compression faucets, disc faucets, ball faucets, and cartridge faucets – and knowing how to fix each one could come in handy the next time you find yourself facing a plumbing problem.

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Conscious creation is the act of making conscious effort to create the life you want. It does go deeper than just changing your life, however. Conscious creation actually refers the very act of creating your own reality.
One of the tenets of conscious creation is that we each have a separate reality that other people cannot know or really understand. And that each of us has the ability to create that reality into anything we want it to be.
Every day when we get out of bed, we set into motion the creation of a certain reality, good or bad. And through conscious, also sometimes called deliberate, creation, we can shift that reality in either a better or worse direction.
At the root of this belief system is the idea of channeling. This can be interpreted two ways. Some use it to mean channeling your own deep-seated ideas and desires, while others see it as channeling other spirits or entities that have some sort of knowledge to impart. Many use it to mean both types of channeling.
Also at the heart of this conscious way of living is the belief that we all create our own reality, even though we don’t realize it. So that when something bad happens to you, it was actually your choice to have that thing happen.
If you suffer serious illness, believers will tell you that you have brought that into your life through choice, whether you know it or not. But that by gaining control of your reality, you can change things and bring what you want into your life, whether it is health, prosperity or overall happiness.
Through the act of deliberate creation, you start each day with a goal. Rather than the goals you might wake up to now like getting the kids to school on time or completing a project at work, you look at the bigger picture. Those will still be part of your goals of course, your daily life must continue. But you will choose different goals that will help define your reality.
The first step in creating your own reality is through your beliefs. Let’s say that right now you believe that most people are selfish and only out to get what they can for themselves without regards to other people. Your belief is creating that reality in your life, so most people in your life will be just this way.
If you shift your belief to one that says that most people are good at heart and want to do the right thing, most people in your life will fit that description. If you believe that you will never get out of debt, you probably never will. But if you wake up each day using conscious creation to believe you will get out of debt, you can make it happen.


(Yicai Global) May 26 -- Qualcomm opened its first innovation hub for intelligent connected vehicles in China yesterday, the US chip giant’s sixth innovation center co-built with a Chinese partner.
The internet of vehicles technical innovation center was set up by Qualcomm and Thunder Software Technology, an operating systems provider, in Suzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu province.
The center will provide technical services for the development of smart connected vehicles, including research and development, application scenarios, roadside facility development, and ecosystem partners integration, Qualcomm China Chairman Frank Meng said at the opening ceremony.
With the development of intelligent connected vehicle technology, Qualcomm put forward the concept of digital chassis technology, which includes communication connectivity, smart cockpit, assisted and autonomous driving, and cloud-vehicle collaboration technologies, Meng noted, adding that it is also in line with the firm's development goals in the auto chip market.
Beijing-based Thunder Software will supply the operating system for intelligent connected vehicles and software support for the project, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Zhao Hongfei said.
"Chips, communication, and OS are the three biggest ecological elements of IOV," Zhao added. "Only through optimizing software, toolchain, and OS can chip capabilities be maximized.
“Full cooperation between OS developers and chipmakers can lower IOV's threshold across the industry," Zhao noted.
On May 18, Intel, another US chipmaker, unveiled two smart connected vehicle demonstration jointly developed with Chinese computer maker Lenovo in Chongqing. Intel provides hardware products and software development kits, while Lenovo is responsible for smart transport and IOV solutions.
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Refugees 'occupy' Paris area school for shelter
Around 300 refugees will be temporarily moved to other locations until permanent solutions are devised by government
Around 300 homeless refugees sought shelter in an empty school building in an upscale area of Paris on Sunday as their demands for accommodation went unheeded by French authorities.
A group of undocumented migrants and refugees who have been forced to live on the streets amid the peak winter season and a raging coronavirus pandemic entered the premises of the school building in the 16 arrondissement of Paris.
Police reached the site as the group, accompanied by a collective of NGOs, cleaned and settled in the classrooms of the former school with their tarpaulin sheets and tents.
Paris Deputy Mayor Ian Brossat, who is also in charge of housing, emergency accommodation and refugee protection, visited the site and agreed to temporarily accommodate them in two gymnasiums located in the 5th and 16th arrondissements. He said for security reasons, it was not possible for them to stay in the school.
“Usually this is a responsibility of the national government, but Parisian authorities will provide gymnasiums for the homeless, which have heating arrangements and are more secure, temporarily until the government finds a solution,” he said in a video clip posted on his Twitter account.
The partially destroyed nursery school building was declared dangerous and has been vacant for the last two years. It is one of 489 structures listed as free for sheltering by the State.
NGOs Utopia56, Right to housing (DAL) and Coordination of Undocumented Migrants (CSP) have made a collective request for “requisition” from the authorities. The order of October 1945 allows for administrative authority in the general interest to impose, transfer or order the requisition of vacant private property in lieu of compensation.
Brossat added that there was a proposal to construct 80 social housing units including 25 units for the homeless in place of the school building, but the work has been delayed for administrative reasons and opposition by some to housing low-income groups in the upmarket area of the 16th arrondissement.
“Hundreds of exiled people survive on the streets, constantly harassed by the police…As asylum seekers, they have a right to be accommodated...A dignified reception policy that respects fundamental rights is urgent,” Utopia56, a citizen’s initiative that works for people in exile, posted on Twitter.
Yann Manzi, founder of Utopia56, said the important thing is to protect these invisible populations and give them shelter.
“The goal is not to stay put but to obtain shelter for those on the street. We will ensure that these gymnasiums are followed by real accommodation solutions.”
In November, police forcefully dismantled a camp for refugees and migrants in the heart of Paris at the Place de la Republique, forcing hundreds on the run to seek shelter under bridges or in parks.
Similarly, in recent weeks, law enforcement agencies have intensified action in the “jungle” in Calais, northern France, a camp of undocumented migrants trying to illegally enter the UK, demolishing their tents and shelters every 48 hours.
Manzi said today’s action was to give a message to the government that no one must be left on the streets and everyone must be accommodated, especially during this period of COVID.
“It is the government’s decision to leave them in the street. All the hostels in Paris are empty. Why can’t the migrants be accommodated there?.”
A number of elected representatives who visited the school supported the actions of the migrants and the NGOs.
“They do what the state should do, especially in winter: enforce the requisition law,” tweeted Eric Coquerel, a politician of a left-wing party from Paris.
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Gold continued lower as expected. Today, Fed Chair, Janet Yellen gave her testimony to the Joint Economic Committee. And as to no surprise she was relatively upbeat about the outlook of the economy, even though Q1 GDP scraped by at a mere gain of .01% growth. She did mention that the housing market is a concern at the moment, due to new building permits presenting a dismal 2.4% growth in March. She added that the housing market will be watched carefully and accommodative policy will amplified should growth continue to slow.
No changes in economic stimulus packages were made today and Yellen foresees a continued tapering of Quantitative Easing. I believe gold will continue it's downward trend, and we will see the breach of my main price target of 123 within a few days time. If GLD happens to move sideways the breach could take up to a week, but this is not my primary presumption at this time.
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The Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in Zhengzhou, Henan province — where Foxconn's Apple iPhone assembly plant is located — ended seven days of static management on Wednesday to resume normal life and work.
Communities in low-risk areas and where all residents have tested negative since Nov 2 can return to normal, according to a notice released by the local COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters on Wednesday.
Residents can travel with a negative nucleic acid test result obtained within 24 hours and a green health code, but they should not leave the zone unless absolutely necessary.
Dine-in services have not restarted, but restaurants can offer takeout services, the notice said.
Schools and training institutions should continue to provide online teaching. Confined spaces such as gyms, pools, cinemas, KTVs and chess and card room are not open. Group gathering are suspended.
Businesses that work to guarantee basic life of people such as supermarkets, fresh markets, pharmacies and barber shops can resume operating, it said.
The Apple iPhone assembly plant, the world's largest, released a recruitment advertisement on Monday, saying that new employees are needed until Feb 15 next year. It said the wage would be 30 yuan ($4.10) per hour.
Many of the plant's workers had returned home because of the outbreak, which posed challenges to production. To encourage people to come back, it said those who resigned from Oct 10 to Nov 5 can be given a subsidy of 500 yuan if they are willing to join the company again.
A person from Foxconn who asked not to be named told The Paper on Monday that the outbreak in the compound is expected to be under control next week, and it aims to resume full production in the last 10 days of November.
Apple said in a news release on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions have temporarily impacted the primary iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max assembly facility in Zhengzhou, which is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.
It expects lower shipments than anticipated and customers will experience longer wait times to receive their new products.
"We are working closely with our supplier to return to normal production levels while ensuring the health and safety of every worker," Apple said.
The human resources departments in several regions in Henan began to help the plant recruit employees. Registration is currently open for people who want to work there, Chinese news outlet Cls.cn reported on Tuesday. Local authorities will provide transportation.
Zhengzhou reported 159 new locally transmitted confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, and 884 asymptomatic carriers.


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A consortium of Dutch companies plans to develop a hydrogen-powered medium-sized passenger aircraft that will fly between the Netherlands and London within six years.
The aircraft, designed to operate over distances of up to 750 kilometres, has the backing of the Dutch government, which has invested 100 million euros in the project.
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In total, 17 companies and organisations are participating in the initiative, including Fokker and TU Delft.
The consortium says it will be able to make commercially profitable flights between cities such as Rotterdam and London using aircraft with capacity for 40-80 passengers.
A Hydrogen Aircraft Powertrain and Storage System (HAPSS) will see a hydrogen tank fitted into the tail of the aircraft. The hydrogen will be transported to the engine and converted into electricity, which is then used to drive the propellers.
Michel van Ireland, involved with the project, said there were currently around 1,500 aircraft that were suitable for the technology.
He added that the new aircraft would be useful for short-haul flights in the Caribbean and Scandinavia where there are islands that need connecting.
The consortium said ticket prices were likely to rise by up to 10 per cent, but suggested that passengers would be willing to pay the higher fees if they knew they were helping to improve aviation sustainability.


Based on social media rumblings, it seems like there’s a big appetite for converting now-empty San Francisco office buildings into housing. Using the Covid-induced vacancies to help solve the city’s housing affordability crisis and meet state mandates to plan for more than 80,000 new units appears to be a no-brainer.
But while San Francisco’s downtown core appears rife with opportunity, with a record 24% of office space currently vacant—particularly within San Francisco’s bread-and-butter industry, tech—the city’s planning department currently has no pending applications for downtown office-to-housing conversions.
Turning offices into homes may seem like an obvious solution to the city’s housing crisis—Elon Musk even jumped into the fray with a (presumably tongue-in-cheek) pitch to turn Twitter’s headquarters into a homeless shelter—but longtime housing developer Oz Erickson cautions that it’s not so simple.
Behind the Scenes of a Successful Conversion
Erickson is chair of the San Francisco-based development firm Emerald Fund. His company’s 400-foot, 418-unit tower at 100 Van Ness is the most significant project in the last decade to successfully convert downtown office space into housing.
“It takes a really special building and you have to be willing to give up the current rent of the office space,” said Erickson. “We had an excellent skeleton and it was still quite costly, but way cheaper then than it would be now. It’s hard for me to believe anything pencils nowadays.”
Erickson has built thousands of units across the city over his career, but the conversion posed its fair share of unique challenges. For one, the development team had to remove the massive stone facades that encased the former headquarters of the California State Automobile Association.
On the plus side for Erickson, the building’s relatively high standard of construction made it an attractive candidate for conversion. And, by reusing an existing structure, the Emerald Fund was able to skirt height limits for residential buildings and fit more units into the project, which raised their profit margin.
Where’s the City in All This?
When it comes to conversion projects, it’s not the city’s planning process that’s getting in the way. Dan Sider, chief of staff at the San Francisco Planning Department, said a conversion with no complicated exemptions—an optimistic but not unrealistic scenario—wouldn’t even require a planning hearing and could take as little as three to six months to secure approvals. And even those requiring exemptions don’t face many added hurdles.
“The process through our office is fairly straightforward,” Sider said. “The controls are actually set up very well to accommodate housing in the downtown core.”
Jason Ward, a RAND Corporation economist who has studied the feasibility of commercial-to-residential conversions also pointed to an added advantage, particularly in a market like San Francisco: less community opposition.
“It’s a lesser issue than we’re going to knock down these single-family homes and build a 60-unit building,” Ward said. “It’s already there, it usually has parking and it looks more or less the same as it did before.”
Case in point, developers of The Pacific in Pacific Heights were able to build a 76-unit condo building in a neighborhood with a history of anti-development activism by adapting a former medical office building.
Why Aren’t Conversions Happening?
Here’s the big “why not” when it comes to office-to-housing conversions: Gutting a building and rebuilding the inside as housing is expensive, especially in San Francisco and especially while construction costs are high.
Asking rents for downtown commercial leases have dropped around 15% from pre-pandemic peaks, but haven’t dipped further because of the relatively long lease terms signed by commercial tenants, as well as market optimism that the return to office will continue at a gradual pace.
Essentially, the city and the market aren't convinced that empty offices downtown are here to stay.
“People would need to believe that office uses are going away,” said Louis Cornejo, president and CEO of Urban Group Real Estate. “You talk to 10 people you get 10 different comments. Are we really going to take a chance on our economy based on: ‘Well, it worked for a year or two?’”
What gets built and what doesn’t comes down to a calculation of dollars and cents. The first issue that’s nearly always raised in discussions about office conversions is seismic retrofitting, which can quickly multiply construction costs.
Older buildings would have to be gutted entirely. As compared to office space, housing requires more kitchens and bathrooms—and the plumbing and power that comes with them. And then there’s city code that requires that every apartment look out onto an open area and include access to open space like a deck or a rooftop. In the case of 100 Van Ness, the designers added a common rooftop for residents to use. These modifications, Sider said, can be difficult to achieve.
“Most modern office buildings would require a tremendous amount of work,” Sider said.
In some cases, adaptive reuse projects turn into money pits as developers open up the building and find structural issues, environmental damage and other challenges in bringing older buildings up to code. The Brockman Lofts conversion in downtown Los Angeles, for example, saw its budget balloon from $16 million to $40 million and took seven years to complete.
Trey Clark, the head of U.S. investments for Chinese developer Vanke, said the conversion process to residences also leads to less usable square footage because of the addition of corridors and other living spaces.
The Other Case for Conversion
But the considerations of how and whether to rebuild downtown should not be strictly financial, and there are clear benefits to such projects beyond housing, said RAND’s Ward. There is also an environmental and social case for adaptive reuse projects that should be weighed by policymakers thinking through how—or if–they should incentivize these projects, he said.
These include the environmental benefits of constructing more housing closer to job centers and the desire to activate the city’s downtown core into a more vibrant neighborhood with a greater mix of uses.
In order to tip the scales toward conversions, experts say developers would need to buy into a new vision of the future of downtown in the post-Covid world. It doesn’t appear the city is pivoting in that direction. Over the past few months, Mayor London Breed has made bringing workers back downtown a key part of her economic recovery strategy.
“In a way the effect of Covid on real estate prices has yet to fully play out. It’s going to be a while until we see what happens when people start trying to sell these buildings off or if they can’t bring in long-term leases,” Ward said. “In the long term these things will make a more favorable environment for (conversions) but it hasn’t happened as quickly as I might have expected initially.”
Some Spaces are Better Than Others
So what structures would be the best candidates for conversion? Class A office spaces like Salesforce Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid are generally considered to be out of the question because of market demand and the high existing revenue they bring in.
That leaves lower-rise, older and less valuable offices with ideal characteristics like modern seismic safety engineering, repetitive floorplates and a narrow and rectangular form that makes it easier to meet light and air requirements for housing.
While it hasn’t been tried yet in San Francisco, Sider said perhaps the best projects for office-to-housing conversions in terms of design may be group housing—dorm-like buildings where residents share kitchens and common space—because their layouts mirror many current office plans and expensive elements, like plumbing and electricity, may not have to be reconfigured entirely.
“That works more from an infrastructure perspective—whether it pencils is another question,” Sider said.
Those projects tend to be affordable housing. That’s specifically where San Francisco is falling behind in its state housing target. But Sider said it’s even less likely developers would pursue affordable housing projects for costly conversions because they tend to be less profitable.
Setting an Example in SoCal
For a model of how it could promote these sorts of projects, San Francisco would do well to look south. Los Angeles passed an Adaptive Reuse Ordinance in 1999 that was responsible for helping to build some 14,000 units in the city’s downtown core over two decades by streamlining approvals, removing minimum parking requirements and putting into place alternative building codes.
Ward noted a few structural factors that set Los Angeles up for a massive wave of conversions, including a ready supply of largely moribund and distressed commercial buildings downtown left by companies moving to more newly constructed buildings.
The rules put in place by the city, including relaxed egress standards in the case of fires and loosened building requirements around seismic retrofitting, meant “a lot of buildings that would have been unaddressable became more feasible,” he added.
Since then, Los Angeles has proposed an even easier building process to open up more candidates for conversion, removing minimum and average unit size requirements and even exempting certain eligible projects from additional fees. But, like in San Francisco, costs are the biggest barrier.
As a point of comparison, the average per unit cost in Los Angeles for new housing is around $580,000, one of the highest marks in the state. In San Francisco, that number has breached $700,000.
“These conversions are such a potentially risky process financially that seeing them flourish is probably going to require San Francisco to adopt policies like Los Angeles’ to reduce the uncertainty around costs and timelines,” Ward said.
Slow-Going State Solutions
Clark, of Chinese developer Vanke, pitched a California version of New York’s 421a affordable housing program as another potential incentive to promote housing development. The policy provides a property tax exemption that lasts for 15 to 25 years to developers who build multifamily residential housing.
There is some work being done at the state level. In California, state officials are trying to ease the pathway for turning underused commercial property into housing.
Legislation introduced by East Bay State Sen. Bob Wieckowski, would essentially enshrine Los Angeles’ adaptive reuse policy into state law and prohibit a city or county from imposing various requirements on an adaptive reuse project. The bill, SB 1369, also includes a provision to require statewide building standards to facilitate the development of adaptive reuse projects.
Gov. Gavin Newsom also added $100 million in his proposed 2022-23 state budget for adaptive reuse incentive grants that would remove the cost barriers to repurposing commercial and other buildings as housing, with a particular focus on downtown areas.
Sider said the city’s “hands are tied” on most of the controls that could make building cheaper—like tax incentives or abatements—due to Proposition 13, an amendment to the state constitution that reassesses property when new construction happens. But even if the state were to help, Sider said, government intervention can only go so far.
“This is one of those things where I think the government has limited powers to cause this to happen,” Sider said. “It really is a function of the dollars and cents here. And construction costs and building typologies are not supportive, at least right now, of these types of conversions.”
Necessity Breeds Invention
If the city’s hands are truly tied in controlling building costs, as they say, there may be an opportunity for intrepid entrepreneurs to take on the challenge.
San Francisco seed-stage startup Kit Switch is aiming to lower the construction costs for conversion projects by pre-building flexible panels with kitchen and bathroom appliances for quick assembly on site. CEO Armelle Coutant said the inspiration behind Kit Switch was to enable existing structures to be more adaptable to changing needs.
The company offers upfront pricing for its kits, which cut down on potential cost uncertainties and overruns. It is currently working with Habitat for Humanity in Los Angeles to explore the possibility of turning smaller commercial buildings into affordable housing using the company’s components.
Kit Switch has yet to have a project in San Francisco, but said they are in conversations with the city’s planning department on how it can potentially utilize their products. As the city stays in its holding pattern waiting to see how Covid and the market shake out, Coutant and her colleagues are building for a future they see as inevitable.
“We are at an inflection point in terms of adaptive reuse, especially emerging from the pandemic as people realize this is an important strategy for the Covid-19 economic recovery and for addressing our housing deficit,” Coutant said.


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A Distant and Different World What was the sound world of Ireland like during the fractious 1500s? A recent album by the Irish Consort directed by Siobhán Armstrong, 'Music, Ireland and the Sixteenth Century', provides us with a range of musical insights. Adrian Scahill reviews.
The Retelling of Female Desire The premiere of Amanda Feery and Megan Nolan's new opera 'A Thing I Cannot Name' took place online in July. Anna Murray reviews.
Healing and the Music of Damien Dempsey 'Love Yourself Today' – centred around a 2019 Damien Dempsey concert at Vicar Street – premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh last week. Shannon McNamee reviews.
Exploring Loss Under Lockdown A new short film about the passing of the great fiddle-player Ben Lennon during lockdown last year, as narrated by his brother Charlie, was premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh. Adrian Scahill reviews.
Gathering and Scattering Sounds The Galway orchestra Luminosa recently premiered a new adventurous work by Sam Perkin as part of its second 'Arcadia' concert. Brendan Finan reviews.
Personal Departure Danny Diamond's recently released album with Brian Miller, 'Let Fly', marks a change from earlier recordings. Kevin McCullagh reviews.
Between Oppositions In July, the Dutch Ragazze Quartet premiered Garth Knox's new work 'Four Into Twenty' as part of the online West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Adrian Smith reviews.
Elusive Sounds Saint Sister recently released their second album 'Where I Should End'. Andrea Cleary reviews.
Midsummer Reinvention The world premiere of David Fennessy's 'Rosewoods' for guitar and orchestra took place on Monday 21 June as part of the Dublin International Chamber Music Festival. Adrian Smith reviews.
Within the Stillness Released in March, 'Lipids' features three works by Barry O'Halpin performed by Crash Ensemble and the composer. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.


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March 25 is the next big date for marijuana legalization in New Jersey. Gov. Phil Murphy and top state lawmakers formally announced this week they had struck a deal on a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana.
Murphy and lawmakers are trying to come up with enough votes in the Legislature for legal weed to pass before the end of the month.
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Background: Despite its highly specialized nature, articular cartilage has a poor reparative capability. Treatment of symptomatic osteochondral defects of the talus has been especially difficult until now.
Methods: We performed autologous chondrocyte transplantation in twelve patients with a focal deep cartilage lesion of the talus. There were seven female and five male patients with a mean age of 29.7 years. The mean size of the lesion was 2.3 cm2. All patients were studied prospectively. Evaluation was performed with use of the Hannover ankle rating score, the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle-hindfoot score, a visual analogue scale for pain, and magnetic resonance imaging.
Results: All patients were available for follow-up at a mean of sixty-three months. There was a significant improvement in the Hannover score, from 40.4 points preoperatively to 85.5 points at the follow-up examination, with seven excellent results, four good results, and one satisfactory result. The AOFAS mean score was 88.4 points compared with 43.5 points preoperatively. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a nearly congruent joint surface in seven patients, discrete irregularities in four, and an incongruent surface in one. The patients who had been involved in competitive sports were able to return to their full activity level.
Conclusions: The promising clinical results of this study suggest that autologous chondrocyte transplantation is an effective and safe way to treat symptomatic osteochondral defects of the talus in appropriately selected patients.
Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
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Investigation performed at the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Radiology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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WAO Press Release
For Immediate Release
January 21, 2009
WAO MEETING TO YIELD POSITION STATEMENT ON SUB-LINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY
MILWAUKEE -- Delivery of immunotherapy by the sub-lingual (SLIT) route is an exciting therapeutic strategy, gradually being adopted by allergy communities throughout the world. The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host a meeting in Paris, 22-23 January 2009, to develop the first global Position Statement on SLIT. Both the meeting and the Position Paper are being led by Professor G.W. Canonica, President, WAO, a global umbrella organization serving the needs of allergists and clinical immunologists world-wide.
The meeting aims to:
- Develop and propose a state-of-the-art review on SLIT based on the findings from the meetings
- Prepare guidelines for SLIT based on the World Health Organization (WHO) model of recommendations
- Develop practice parameters
- Define unmet needs as identified in the analysis of recent and ongoing SLIT clinical trials; further studies will be needed to accomplish this task
- Make recommendations for the methodology of future SLIT clinical trials worldwide
To fulfill the envisioned global scope of the meeting, WAO has invited its Regional, National and Affiliate Member Societies to participate by sending representatives. In addition, NGOs, such as Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA), European Federation of Allergy and Airway Diseases Patients Association (EFA), International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG), World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have also been invited to send no more than two representatives to serve as delegates to the meeting.
About Professor G.W. Canonica
G. Walter Canonica, MD, FAAAAI, is professor and chairman of Allergy and Respiratory Diseases at the Department of Internal Medicine, Genoa University, Italy. Canonica is an internationally renowned expert on immunotherapy and allergic respiratory diseases and has authored over 350 full papers in international journals. His main research interests encompass investigation of different subsets of T lymphocytes and their functional role in basic and clinical research (allergy, organ specific autoimmunity, CNS degenerative diseases and cancer); molecular events and interactions between immunocompetent cells, inflammatory cells, epithelial cells in allergic inflammation and airways remodeling; new antiallergic drugs and new strategies in the treatment of allergic disease; and clinical and immunopharmacological activities of biological response modifiers such as cytokines, monoclonal antibodies, allergen specific immunotherapy and corticosteroids.
About the World Allergy Organization
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) is an international federation whose members consist of 77 regional and national allergology and clinical immunology societies from around the world. By collaborating with member societies, WAO provides direct educational outreach programs, symposia and lectureships to members in 92 countries.
The organization was founded in 1951 and has successfully organized 19 major congresses. WAO also sponsors scientific symposia in developing areas throughout the world and jointly sponsors postgraduate programs on allergy and clinical immunology during professional, non-allergy association congresses. Additional information can be found at http://www.worldallergy.org


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Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on the 39th General Election of January 23, 2006
May 12, 2006
The Honourable Peter Milliken
Speaker of the House of Commons
House of Commons
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I have the honour to provide my report on the administration of the 39th general election, held on January 23, 2006, and the administration of my Office since the publication of my previous report. I am submitting this report in accordance with subsection 534(1) of the Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2000, c. 9.
Under section 536 of the Act, the Speaker shall submit this report to the House of Commons without delay.
I also wish to inform you that the Thirty-ninth General Election 2006: Official Voting Results will be published on May 12, 2006, following the tabling of my report. Pursuant to paragraph 533(a) of the Canada Elections Act, the Chief Electoral Officer must publish, after each general election, a report that sets out the voting results by polling division and any other information he considers relevant.

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Embarking on a journey often entails delving into the vibrant tapestry of local food scenes and embracing novel culinary experiences with open arms. However, as a vegetarian, the prospect of discovering plant-based gastronomy while traversing the globe might seem daunting. Yet, armed with a modicum of research and an intrepid spirit, the realm of exceptional vegetarian dining experiences becomes tangible and tantalizing.
Cody Moxam, a healthcare professional and ardent advocate of vegetarianism, holds insights gleaned from his journeys. Moxam elucidates, “Several nations boast flourishing vegetarian culinary landscapes. Destinations like Singapore, Australia, and Germany offer a plethora of delectable vegetarian options. Regardless of your chosen sojourn, harness the power of online research to unearth commendable dining establishments that cater to plant-based palates.”
As you scour the digital expanse, refrain from settling for the first vegetarian eatery you encounter. Rely on authentic appraisals from reputable sources, such as well-established vegetarian food blogs. Furthermore, endeavor to acquaint yourself with the culinary traditions of your chosen destination. It’s conceivable that the region boasts a quintessential dish woven entirely from plant-derived ingredients.
The culinary panorama extends beyond the realm of restaurants. Cody Moxam expounds, “Local markets unfold as veritable treasure troves of plant-based delights. Hand-picked, freshly grown produce embellishes these markets, delivering flavors more vibrant and nuanced than their store-bought counterparts.”
Intertwined with this gastronomic expedition is the spirit of adventure, urging you to transcend your comfort zone and embrace novel flavors. Cody Moxam counsels, “A nation’s vegetarian fare might diverge from your accustomed palate, yet yielding to culinary exploration during your travels is essential. Embrace the opportunity to savor the unfamiliar, especially if it’s endorsed by local connoisseurs.”
Amidst your quest for vegetarian epicurean delights, ensure effective communication with servers and food vendors, articulating your dietary preferences to safeguard adherence to your culinary choices. Through it all, cherish the adventure that international travel brings forth, weaving connections with fellow travelers who share in your quest for gastronomic gratification.
In the realms of plant-based dining, the world unfurls as an expansive tableau of flavors, inviting the vegetarian traveler to partake in a sensory symphony that transcends borders and resonates as an ode to culinary exploration.


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Katharine McPhee: 'Smash' Premiere Ratings Down From Last Season
Katharine McPhee leaves a taping for the Today show on Tuesday (February 5) in New York City.
The 28-year-old actress went on the show to promote her television show Smash, which premiered its second season that evening.
The ratings for Smash‘s premiere were down from last year, however. The series brought in 4.5 million viewers and a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, according to EW, which is down 71 percent from last year’s premiere and down 47 percent from NBC’s performance average in the same time frame.
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Missing Idaho County Woman Mary Smith Found Safe
Idaho County Sheriffs Office
GRANGEVILLE - The Idaho County Sheriffs Office has located missing woman Mary Smith after she was reported missing Tuesday morning.
The Idaho County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking for Mary Sirman. Her sister reported she left her residence outside of White Bird yesterday afternoon around 1:00 pm to run errands in Grangeville and did not return.
Mary is 5'08" with blue eyes and grey hair. She is driving a blue 2014 Subaru Outback.
Her family claims she gets confused at night. If anyone has seen Mary or has information regarding her whereabouts, please contact Idaho County Dispatch at (208)983-1100 option 1.


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Nokia ready to launch Lumia 920 phone in China
Nokia, the Finnish mobile-phone maker trying to win back customers of Apple's iPhone and devices using Google's Android, is set to unveil a version of its flagship smartphone for China's largest wireless carrier, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Nokia plans to announce an agreement with China Mobile to sell a Lumia 920 compatible with the country's homegrown TD-SCDMA technology that powers the carrier's network, said the person, who asked not to be identified before an official release. The handset, which comes in black, white, yellow and red, will go on sale in China before the end of this month, the person said.
Nokia, which has seen its smartphone market share plummet in the past five years, is depending on the success of the Lumia line to help it rebound from six consecutive quarters of losses. A deal with China Mobile, which isn't able to sell the iPhone because of its network standard, will also widen the Hong Kong- based carrier's range of more expensive smartphones to battle for market share.
China Mobile, the world's biggest mobile-phone company, had 703 million subscribers at the end of October, including 79.3 million users of high-speed, third-generation services that allow smartphones faster Internet access. The carrier competes with China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. and China Telecom Corp., both of which sell subsidized iPhones.
James Etheridge, a Nokia spokesman, declined to comment on plans for the Chinese handset. Rainie Lei, a China Mobile spokeswoman, couldn't immediately be reached after regular business hours in Hong Kong.
Li Yue, China Mobile's chief executive officer, said in August that he would boost handset subsidies by 30 percent to 26 billion yuan ($4.2 billion) this year as he fights to maintain its lead in smartphone customers, who typically download more videos, games and music.
A faster connection and Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Phone 8 software are among the features Nokia is touting as the handset maker tries to lure back consumers.
Apple and Android now control almost 90 percent of Europe's smartphone market, according to Strategy Analytics.
Nokia's shipments in China slumped 64 percent to 5.8 million units last quarter from a year earlier as consumers abandoned handsets based on the Symbian software the manufacturer is phasing out. The Espoo, Finland-based company's third-quarter net loss widened to 969 million euros ($1.3 billion) from 68 million euros a year earlier.
Nokia shares have fallen 33 percent this year, giving the company a market value of 9.5 billion euros. The stock climbed 0.4 percent to 2.53 euros on the Helsinki exchange yesterday.
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Competition: Commission welcomes judgments of the European Court of Justice in Seamless steel tubes cartel case
The European Commission welcomes today’s judgments by the European Court of Justice (Joined cases C-403/04 P and C-405/04 P, Case C-407/04 and Case C-411/04 P) dismissing in its entirety the appeals by Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd, Nippon Steel Corp, Dalmine SpA and Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH, formerly Mannesmannröhren – Werke AG in respect of the seamless steel tubes cartel. The Court confirmed the existence of an illegal market sharing cartel and the participation of these companies in this cartel. Moreover, it confirmed the Commission's approach as regards the calculation of the fines imposed on the companies. The fines of the companies which have been reduced by the Court of First Instance (from initially €10,8 million to € 10,080 million for Dalmine SpA, from initially €13,5 million to € 12,6 million for Salzgitter Mannesmann, from initially €13,5 million to €10,935 for Nippon Steel and Sumitomo respectively) were maintained by the Court. All four companies have to pay the Commission's cost of the appeals.
On 8 December 1999, the Commission fined eight producers of seamless steel tubes (the four European companies British Steel Limited, Dalmine SpA, Mannesmannröhren – Werke AG and Vallourec SA and the four Japanese companies Sumitomo Metal Industries, Nippon Steel Corporation, Kawasaki Steel Corporation and NKK Corporation) for operating a market sharing cartel. The fines imposed were totalling €99 million. (see IP/99/957)
Seven of the eight companies concerned appealed to the Court of First Instance which upheld the Commission's decision in substance, but reduced the fines on those companies appealing the decision by €13 million as the Commission had not produced sufficient evidence covering the entire duration of the infringement.
Four companies (Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd., Nippon Steel Corp., Dalmine SpA and Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH, formerly Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG) appealed this judgment to the Court of Justice.
The judgments of the European Court of Justice
The Court held that as regards evidence of the existence of the infringement, the Court of First Instance did not err in law in concluding that there was a cartel designed to share domestic markets and having an appreciable effect on trade between Member States.
Furthermore, the Court of First Instance was correct to rely on consistent case-law according to which there is no need to prove the actual existence of harm to intra-Community trade for the purpose of the application of competition law, since it is sufficient to prove that an agreement is potentially capable of producing such an effect.
As regards the Japanese producers' participation in the infringement, the Court confirmed that the judgment of the Court of First Instance in concluding that they participated in the infringement.
Finally, as regards the calculation of fines, the Court confirms the Commission's approach, which was consistent with its "Guidelines on fines" of 1998 aimed at defining the context of its margin of discretion in setting fines.
The Commission's investigation
The product concerned by the cartel agreements were "standard" steel borehole pipes (commonly known as "oil country tubular goods", or OCTG) and "project" transportation pipes (commonly known as "line pipe"); both varieties are used in the exploration and transport of oil and gas.
The Commission decision found that during 1990-1995, the main producers of seamless steel tubes set up a cartel, the so-called "Europe-Japan club", requiring that the domestic markets of the different producers should be respected: the supply of seamless tubes to Member States of the Community where a national producer was established was limited by the other producers party to the agreement refraining from delivering tubes to those markets.
The Commission considered that an agreement aimed at the observance of the domestic markets of the participating firms constituted a very serious infringement of Article 81(1) of the European Union Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement.
The judgment of the Court of First Instance
Seven of the eight companies subject to the Commission decision of 1999 appealed against the decision to the Court of First Instance, requesting in particular a reduction of their fines (Cases T-44/00, T-48/00, T-50/00 and Joined Cases T-67/00, T-68/00, T-71/00 and T-78/00). The Court of First Instance, in its judgment of 8 July 2004, upheld the Commission decision in substance but annulled the contested decision to the extent which it found that the infringement predated 1 January 1991 and, in the case of the Japanese companies, had continued after 30 June 1994, and it reduced the fines imposed on the companies accordingly.


I am using NFS to export my mycloud disk to my raspberry PI running Xbian.
Everything works as expected, no problem so far.
But if i connect an USB disk formated in ntfs, i have a problem with NFS.
No problems on mycloud everything works, but trying to acess the volume via NFS will result in a freeze on the raspberry.
Reboot will not solve the problem.
The only way to fix it, is to access the mycloud via ssh and restarting the nfs service with:
service nfs-kernel-server restart
once done that everything works as expected again.
it would be nice if in the next firmware everytime a new disk is mounted or unmounted this comand could be run automaticly.


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Ultrasound may help scientists to unlock the brain’s secrets noninvasively, and perhaps create new treatments for illnesses, new research suggests. Neurons – the cells that make up the brain, nerves, and spinal cord – communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials, but their interactions are complicated and hard to understand.
Just getting access to the brain itself is difficult:inserting devices through the skull into the brain requires surgery, researchers said. But work by American Technion Society Professors EitanKimmel and Shy Shoham, and PhD student Misha Plaksin, may advance our ability to unlock the brain’s secrets noninvasively using sound, and perhaps create new treatments for illnesses.
Scientists have known for a while that ultrasonic waves can affect cells in many ways. For instance, physicians use ultrasound to stimulate the production of blood vessels and bone; it’s also used in heat therapy.
When applied to neurons, ultrasonic waves can change how the neurons generate and transmit electrical signals. According to Kimmel’s model, when the ultrasonic waves encounter a cell, the two layers of the cellular membrane begin to vibrate. Cell membranes also act as capacitors, storing electrical charge. As the layers vibrate, the membrane’s electrical charge also moves, creating an alternating current that leads to a charge accumulation.
The longer the vibrations continue, the more charge builds up in the membrane. Eventually, enough charge builds up that an action potential is created. The team was able to use the model to predict experimental results that were then verified using brain stimulation experiments performed in mice.
According to Shoham, this is “the first predictive theory of ultrasound stimulation.” All of these results mean that scientists might be on the verge of finally understanding how ultrasound affects nerve cells, researchers said. The findings were published in the journal Physical Review X.


Police seek public assistance in identifying break and enter suspect
We are asking the public for their help in identifying a woman who is believed to be involved in a residential break and enter attempt that occurred earlier this month in the southwest community of Kelvin Grove.
On Friday, April 14, 2023, at approximately 12:35 p.m., an unknown man and woman were seen in a parked vehicle in an alleyway behind a residence located in the 900 block of Kerfoot Crescent S.W. A witness reported that the woman, who was driving the vehicle, honked the horn to alert the man who was allegedly attempting to break into the home.
The man then entered the vehicle and the two suspects fled prior to police arrival in a grey Acura MDX.
The home was unoccupied at the time of the incident. Investigators found signs of forced entry on the exterior door leading into the garage.
Police have identified the male suspect but are asking the public for their help in identifying the woman who was driving the vehicle. The woman is described as having black hair and was wearing black and gold sunglasses with a black long-sleeved T-shirt.
A composite sketch of the woman is available on The City of Calgary Newsroom.
Anyone with information about this incident or the identity of the woman is asked to contact police by calling police at 403-266-1234. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers through any of the following methods:
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Urban Wine Walkers will get the chance to whet their whistles in Phoenix this Saturday.
That succulent smell wafting up 1st Street? That’s the slow-cooked barbacoa at Vitamin T.
Make plans for a sugar coma following an order of this pizza joint’s sinfully sweet treat.
A north Phoenix favorite has descended upon Downtown.
Was it armadillo meat or buffalo meat in this sloppy joe? Read on to find out.
It’s hard to go wrong with a fresh hunk of fry bread, especially when it’s paired with a hearty red chile stew.
At the intersection of Fillmore Street and 7th Avenue, I found the source of the exciting smells: Azteca Bakery & Mexican Fast Food.
Want to channel the fall weather? This drink makes your mind go positively autumn.
Tradition and melted cheese collide at this Downtown mainstay.
Lots o’ toppings and cheese, cheese and more cheese. This is a new kind of pizzeria in the Arizona Center.