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- Although suicidal behaviors are common in depression, they can occur in the absence of depressive episodes.
- Some psychiatrists suggest that suicidal behavior should be a separate psychiatric diagnosis.
- Individuals with suicidal behavior should be carefully evaluated, monitored, and treated.
Research from over 50 years ago provided evidence that more than 70 percent of suicidal individuals suffer from major depression and or alcohol use disorder. Conversely, many persons who were evaluated following suicide attempts indicated that they did not intend to die, but were reaching out for help. These individuals often had symptoms of personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder. The majority of those who completed suicide were male. Of those who made suicide attempts, most were female. Nevertheless, those who attempted suicide were at higher risk for repeated suicide attempts and completed suicides.
There have been numerous studies of suicidal behavior during the last several decades. In a paper recently published in Molecular Psychiatry, Yingcheng Xu, Daniel Barron, Katherin Sudol, Sidney Zisook, and Maria Oquendo comprehensively review these studies. In their paper, they define suicidal behavior as suicide attempts as well as completed suicides.
Association with various psychiatric disorders
This review demonstrates that suicidal behavior occurs in 72 out of 145 psychiatric diagnoses. It is associated with autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, major depressive disorder, certain anxiety disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorders, personality disorders, and more. It is likely that many, but not all, persons with these disorders also suffer from co-morbid affective and or substance use disorders. Furthermore, the authors note that some individuals who exhibit suicidal behavior do not have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder. Thus, it is important that healthcare providers evaluate patients for current and past suicidal behavior regardless of diagnosis.
Suicidal behavior as a separate diagnosis
To reinforce the importance of such screening, the authors support the idea of considering suicidal behavior as a separate psychiatric diagnosis and not as a symptom of other disorders. In addition, they believe that having this designation would aid those conducting research on suicidal behavior and its response to treatment. The authors also point out that there are genes associated with the risk for suicidal behavior that may not be associated with other psychiatric diagnoses.
These investigators suggest that suicidal behavior should be a target for specific interventions even in the presence of a co-existing depression. By analogy, they note that separate treatment for insomnia is often provided concurrently with the treatment of depression. As a further example, they mention that an individual with a high fever due to bacterial infection is treated with medications to treat the fever at the same time antibiotics are prescribed to attack the bacterial source of symptoms. Others might argue that insomnia or suicidal behavior associated with depression should improve with successful treatment of depression and that monitoring insomnia and suicidal behavior is a way of evaluating the overall success of treatment.
Although the idea that suicidal behavior should be a separate diagnosis is controversial, these investigators demonstrate that a large range of psychiatric conditions is associated with increased risk for suicide attempts and, for some disorders, completed suicides. The authors encourage assessing suicidal behavior in all patients regardless of co-occurring symptoms, and when appropriate, implementing “specific suicide prevention interventions separate from treatments indicated for co-occurring diagnoses.”
The relationships among suicide, suicide attempts, and various psychiatric diagnoses are complex. Although treatment strategies are likely to be different depending on the circumstances of individual patients, all suicidal behavior warrants careful evaluation, monitoring, and treatment.
This post was written by Eugene Rubin M.D., Ph.D., and Charles Zorumski, M.D.
If you or someone you love is contemplating suicide, seek help immediately. For help 24/7 dial 988 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, or reach out to the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. To find a therapist near you, visit the Psychology Today Therapy Directory.
Xu, Y.E., Barron, D.A., Sudol, K., Zisook, S., & Oquendo, M.A. (2023 Jan 19). Suicidal behavior across a broad range of psychiatric disorders. Mol Psychiatry. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01935-7. [Online ahead of print.]

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Maybe you have a need for speed that you just can’t satisfy on the road. Maybe you love the feeling of tearing through dirt on a bike. Maybe you saw the Nuclear Cowboyz show and got hooked. Or maybe you’re a brand new addict to the world of motocross.
Either way, you’re searching for some great motocross tracks.
You’ve come to the right place. Here are some of the best motocross tracks in California, from San Bernardino to Anza, beginner to daredevil veteran.
Cahuilla Creek Motocross is chock full of rolling hills and decomposed granite, making it the perfect track for those who prefer natural terrain. Better still, they have three different tracks for riders of all abilities.
Their main/pro track is for riders of any skill level. It rings in at the 2+ minute mark, with elevation shifts you won’t encounter anywhere else–enough to put both novices and pro riders through their paces.
The vet track is tailored for beginners. Here, you’ll get a sweeping ride in turns and jumps through Cahuilla backcountry, great fun for pros and also a great chance for beginners to practice their turns.
Finally, there’s the peewee track. Kids will have great fun tearing up this track, safe yet fun running through the valleys of the facility.
Regardless of the track, you won’t deal with too many technical jumps. The tracks do get rough though, making Cahuilla a great ride for a suspension test.
Unfortunately, located in Anza off highway 371, it’s a bit of a hike (unless, of course, you live in Anza, California). But most riders who have made the hike will tell you that the rides are worth the trek out.
Milestone MX Park
Milestone MX Park in Riverside has tons of options for the discerning rider, whether you’re a young kid, a beginner, or a seasoned pro. Each track is open every day, but hours do vary, so make sure to check before you ride in.
You should also check the pricing for each track (firemen, military, and police get a discount with a valid ID).
Milestone MX has six tracks:
- The Main track
- The Vet track
- The SX track
- The Peewee track
- The Entry Level track
- The Flat track
On a 10.3-acre lot, the Main track is Milestone’s primary race track, with a 40-man gate and has jumps, turns, and hills designed for pros and novices equally.
The Vet track is an 8.7-acre lot designed for veteran, novice, and beginner recreational riders.
If you’re looking to practice on a real SX track, plan to come to Milestone after 2 p.m. with $30 to shell on the SX track. During non-SX season times, the track is prepped and open to the public at large.
The Peewee track is perfect for young riders looking to test their mettle (and for parents looking for safe yet fun tracks). No bikes over 65cc are allowed on the track. Peewee riders can also use the Main track during specifically designated mixed practice times.
The Entry Level track is designed for beginner and entry-level riders and also accommodates UTVs, quads, and trophy karts Tuesdays and Saturdays (just come prepared with UTV riding helmets and other riding gear).
Finally, there’s the Flat track, fantastic for beginners to practice turns or for veterans to feel out their speed on a flat surface. No four-wheeled vehicles or MX nobbies allowed on this track.
Want to get a little dirty? Head to Argyll MX.
Conveniently located 11 miles south of Dixon off the 113 and 34 miles from Sacramento, this is the perfect park to break free of urban noise and take out your stresses with some quality time on your bike.
These guys have been around since the early 70s, and while the tracks haven’t changed that much since those early days, the fun has never stopped at Argyll.
Their tracks are a mix of sand and clay, with plenty of man-made obstacles to offer a challenge to riders. You can get track rentals and the park offers practice on Saturdays 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. before races, as well as free camping Friday and Saturday night.
If you plan on camping during your visit to Argyll, make sure to check out these camping hacks.
Glen Helen Raceway
Located in San Bernardino off the 15 freeway, Glen Helen Raceway boasts some of the most exciting motocross racing in Southern California–and some of the most dedicated racing fans in the state.
Located on 256 acres of land and cut against a great mountainside, Glen Helen shares property with Glen Helen Regional Parks, the Sheriff Training Center, and the San Manuel Pavilion.
It has three tracks: the National MX track, the Vet MX track, and the Endura track. For pricing and times, make sure to check out each individual track before you head to Glen Helen.
More of the Best Motocross Tracks in California
If you’ve got a bike, a helmet, and need for speed, don’t be afraid to test your mettle on the best motocross tracks in California. After all, you can’t become a better rider until you put yourself through your paces!
Whether it’s a hobby, a lifelong passion, a bonding experience with friends and family, or even just a form of stress relief, you can always find something rewarding in a great day at the track.
If you’re in need of stress relief, don’t be shy to use motocross to dodge the burnout woes. Check out our blog for more tips on living your best life, motocross or otherwise.

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text: The Morbihan' Gulf offers a wonderful landscaping changing every 6 hours following the tides. Some villas of the Gulf are located on small islands in the middle of the bay. They benefit from their own private beach and docks. Most of the time, those villas offer all the comfort the most demanding ones can expect : from swimming pool, to cinema room, ping pong table, gym, jacuzzi, sauna. For your next stay, choose a luxury villa to rent in the Morbihan's Gulf, you won't be disappointed whatever the weather is.


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Andrinopoulos Park is located at 2540 S Atlantic Avenue. It is within the CRA of the City. It provides off-beach parking while at the same time has a gazebo and playground area. There are no bathroom facilities at this park.
The park was partially funded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection through the Florida Recreation Developmental Assistance Program and the County of Volusia.
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The M2A3 mine is an American anti-personnel mine. When triggered the mine launches into the air and detonates. The explosion projects a lethal spray of steel balls and fragments in all directions.
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Due to its rather high replenish cost, it is advisable to only use four mines at most in less important matches, or you may not recoup the credit loss for that round. The M2A3 works best when placed in chokepoints, and are most effective if placed in or around a control point. These mines will kill anyone who steps on them (including Gold Heavy Set users). Be mindful that allies can trigger these mines as well, so ensure that your team is either aware of their placement, or that you only place them in areas of potential enemy foot traffic. For best effect, place your M2A3s behind cover and around corners so enemies cannot spot them beforehand. They can be placed beside doorways, in hallways, or at the top of staircases. These mines cannot be equipped on tankers, pilots and paratroopers.
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- You can shoot a mine to destroy it regardless of your team even if it is a friendly mine. It is NOT advised to shoot friendly mines.
- Friendly mines have a bomb symbol on top of it. Whereas enemy mines do not. It is important that you look for these features to ensure the safety of yourself and your fellow comrades.
- If you keep getting killed by these mines, try looking at the ground before you enter an important area (e.g: Capture points and paths to Capture points)
- German and Soviet Recons are able to acquire this mine as a "captured weapon". However, it will cost them 32,000 Credits or 378 Gold instead of 28,000 Credits and 330 Gold for the US side.
- These mines are very expensive to place down and have a very high replenish cost. It is advised that you only use a few in less important matches.
- These mines can also damage and destroy light vehicles such as the Kublewagon, Jeep and Civilian Truck. However, it is recommended that you use Anti-tank mines to destroy vehicles. So far, it is possible to damage light tanks such as the Stuart using the M2A3 Mine.


Boosted by a sharp surge in heavily weighted electronics stocks, shares in Taiwan rose to their highest level in more than six and a half years on Mon
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■ Taiwan stock market (TWSE) opened flat on Tuesday's session at 9,393.07, with turnover reaching NT$2.03 billion.
■ The U.S. stocks are closing out another strong quarter, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 index its sixth straight quarterly gain. The market was mixed on Monday as trading was muted ahead of the July 4th holiday in the U.S. The S&P 500 edged down less than a point to close at 1,960 Monday, two points below the record high it set on June 20. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 25 points, or 0.2 percent, to 16,826. The Nasdaq composite rose 10 points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,408. (AP)
■ In the round of 16, France beat Nigeria 2-0; Germany downed Algeria 2-1 at Monday's matches of Brazil's FIFA soccer game.
■ North Korea demands that rival South Korea cancel annual military drills with the U.S. to promote reconciliation ahead of the Asian Games, which South Korea is hosting and North Korea has said it will enter. (AP)
■ An annual protest march in Hong Kong is expected to draw three times as many people as usual, angered by Beijing's insistence on limiting residents' say in picking the southern Chinese financial hub's next leader. Organizers expect at least 150,000 people to take to the streets Tuesday to show their support for democratic reform and oppose Beijing's desire to have the final word on candidates for the chief executive's job. (AP)
■ Ko Wen-je’s offhand remark a couple of days ago that the KMT campaign behind Sean Lien for mayor of Taipei City could end up spending NT$20 billion and still not win the election, has drawn a sharp denial from the Lien camp. Ko said Sunday that the NT$20 billion figure was just a joke and no one should take it seriously. He added that spending on his own campaign should total less than NT$80 million. (Taiwan News)
■ Hon Hai announced Monday the group’s intention to take a stake in SK C&C. Institutional investors indicated that Hon Hai will begin a cooperation program with SK Telecom which has driven shares higher with intraday highs reaching NT$100.
Hon Hai subsidiary Best Leap Enterprises Limited will secure 2.45 million SK C&C shares for NT$11.2 billion for a 4.9% stake in the company. (Taiwan News)
■ Speaking about the protests at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung, where demonstrators splashed white paint and loosed cascades of joss paper on Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Director Zhang Zhijun and the security detail surrounding him, Ma attempted to put some of the blame on the Kaohsiung City Government for selecting Sizihwan as the site of a meeting between Zhang and Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Director Wang Yu-chi. (Taiwan News)
■ 15 listed Taiwan-based financial institutions have resolved to issue cash dividends totaling nearly NT$90 million this year. The amount of issuance has set another new record high, expanding NT$24 billion from last year and accounting for 10.2 percent of total cash and stock dividends of NT$884.18 billion for all TWSE and GreTai-listed companies this year. (Taiwan News)
■ Taiwan’s Supreme Court announced its ruling Monday and rejected an appeal from Yuanta Financial Holding’s (2885) founder Ma Chi-ling and his wife Tu Li-chuang over a stock transaction between Yuanta Investment and Yuanta Core Pacific Securities nine years ago to clear the loss of more than NT$1 billion made in Yuanta Investment’s structural notes business. (Taiwan News)
■ A cheaper plastic variant of HTC Corp.'s One M8 flagship smartphone has been certified by Taiwan's communications regulator, the National Communications Commission (NCC), for sale in the country. (CNA)
■ South Korean actress Lee Young-ae has donated around US$100,000 to help cover the hefty medical bills of a Taiwanese infant born in South Korea four months ago. The baby girl, Meng Ke-li, who was released by the hospital after the bill was paid, arrived in Taiwan on Monday along with her mother. Meng's mother delivered her baby prematurely in a South Korean hospital after she slipped and fell in a hotel in Seoul while traveling in the city with her husband in late February. (CNA)
■ A higher monthly minimum wage of NT$19,273 (US$661) will take effect starting Tuesday across Taiwan, the Ministry of Labor confirmed Monday, but the focus of the wage debate was already turning to the idea of a living wage. The new minimum wage, approved by the Cabinet last September, represents a 1.2 percent increase from the previous level of NT$19,047. Some 1.52 million Taiwanese workers and 290,000 foreign workers are expected to benefit from the increase. (CNA)


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Brick-and-mortar retailers have faced a mounting set of challenges in recent years as they’ve sought to adapt to an increasingly omnichannel ecosystem.
While the trend was slow-moving at first, the pandemic’s impacts on consumer behavior has been anything but—accelerating the growth of digital channels and driving changes from which there is no turning back.
The pandemic may now be subsiding, but shifting preferences for how and where customers wish to shop are here to stay. Retailers will need to continue to transform if they are to remain relevant and survive. With this heightened urgency, how can retailers use executive compensation to support this ongoing transformation? Traditional financial metrics such as growth and profitability still hold management accountable to overall performance, but lack specific linkages to strategic priorities and how investments in those priorities will affect the top- and bottom-line.
Not surprisingly, retailers are at varying stages of this transformation and there is no “one size fits all” solution. In all cases though, the thoughtful calibration of incentive metrics, milestones, and other compensation elements can support transformation initiatives and retain the talent responsible for driving those efforts, while reassuring investors that the company is “putting their money where their mouth is” and paying for performance that matters.
Retailers will face this challenge head-on when planning for FY22 compensation design in a few months. It is critical that boards begin to analyze how best to tie compensation to these, and perhaps other, transformation priorities.
Transformation in Three Phases — Understanding Where You Are
Compensation can be a key lever to support any major corporate effort. At its best, it serves as a roadmap for where the organization is headed. The first step of the process is for boards to assess where they are in their multi-year transformation. As the company moves along the journey, the metrics and rewards should evolve to support the changing talent needs and business priorities.
We typically see transformation in three stages. The first is ”Stabilization,” where management recognizes the need for significant change and lays out the mission-critical foundations and interim milestones for success. The Stabilization phase is about “finding bottom” and earning the right to grow again. From a talent perspective, it is also critical to identify and retain (and reassure) the people needed to execute the transformation.
Once early efforts take hold and initial milestones are hit, it is time for the second phase, “Transformation.” This phase is all about delivering more consistent performance and demonstrating the ability to grow revenue and profits again. Analysts will start to notice the discipline and reliability.
The final stage is “Acceleration,” when the company’s various investments gain momentum and underpin new levels of profitability and a more competitive posture in the market.
While intentional compensation design can support each of these three phases, we advise boards to set management’s expectations that compensation will be more fluid than in steady state. It’s always difficult to make big (and frequent) changes in compensation, but awards need to reflect where the company is in its journey. Advance communication of the compensation plan can reassure participants and investors alike.
Compensation in the Stabilization phase aims primarily to provide management some security at a time when the ultimate payoff seems far off. That often means selecting short-term metrics with greater line-of-sight, and establishing goals with a reasonable likelihood of at least threshold achievement (even if target or maximum achievement is unlikely). It also generally means a higher than typical weighting of time-based equity, particularly deeper in the organization. Deferred cash programs can also be an attractive alternative to equity when a company has a depressed share price.
Of course, the use of cash must be balanced with expectations for long-term shareholder alignment and,
potentially, the constraints of reduced cash flows. Companies will also need to be diligent about identifying critical talent, and they may set pay opportunities above market rates for these roles when incentive payouts are less certain or generous.
A specialty retailer followed this playbook from 2015 to 2017, when it invested in omnichannel capabilities,
consolidated its network of American stores, and expanded overseas. The board shifted compensation heavily toward the annual bonus. The bonus performance target was set at a stretch goal, above budget, but the long and gradual slope between threshold and target meant executives had a realistic opportunity to earn a payout for reasonable progress. Although the board kept the relative-TSR-based long-term incentive plan in place
(where payouts were, initially, much lower), the prospect of small wins in the annual bonus was critical to motivating executives.
Similarly, the board at another large mall-based retailer shaped its annual bonus to measure more specific metrics that encouraged executives to invest in the company’s best-performing locations, as well as in digitization, while consolidating its other stores. To that end, incentive metrics included consideration of sales and profit growth at the investment stores as well as digital channel sales growth. Executives were better able to connect to a mix of financial and strategic goals in this phase, as the balance of metrics gave them more control to make difficult decisions in a time of uncertainty.
With the potential for healthier (albeit possibly still depressed) results in the Transformation phase, priorities now shift toward actually attaining incentive targets. Steady, forward progress on a clear trajectory helps to win over investors for target-level payouts, while absolute results may still be below historical levels.
Whereas goal-setting in the Stabilization phase might anchor heavily to the enterprise level, goal-setting now can extend to the divisional/brand level—increasing accountability deeper in the organization.
Financially, the company may still be moving only to break-even, but the work is crucial, and people need motivation to stretch themselves. At this stage,
companies may want to signal commitments to transformation milestones by granting a special performance-based equity grant in lockstep with those communicated objectives.
This was the approach taken by a luxury retailer whose previous push into the outlet channel had reduced profitability and diluted the brand’s appeal. The new strategy invested heavily in the luxury experience, with fully redesigned stores, less emphasis on outlet sales, and a greater push internationally. The company reintroduced PSUs and set metrics tied to average dollars-per-transaction, stores remodeled or opened according to the new concept, and sales growth overseas.
The Acceleration phase gradually takes the company back to “normal” annual and long-term incentive pay practices. Compensation should once again emphasize performance-based rewards over time-based grants. Boards can establish steeper performance curves with narrower expectations of performance. Executives need to see how they can share in wealth creation by continuing to push the strategy along.
Likewise for retention, as management gains confidence, boards can shift from “defense” (generous RSUs) to “offense” (generous PSUs). That’s what happened at a large retailer that had first stabilized the business and then transformed following stagnant sales and digital disruption. The board granted price-vested options coming out of the transformation phase linked to regaining the share level before the company’s disastrous physical expansion a few years earlier.
These aggressive targets wouldn’t have worked in an earlier phase, but management had gained confidence in the strategy. Now they served to prod management to finish the journey of transformation.
The journey of transformation isn’t a steady climb. Business plans will evolve throughout the transformation, and compensation should evolve as well. Boards will need to step up their communication with executives in this area.
The good news is that moving to each new phase of transformation signals a step towards company success, with greater potential rewards each time. Compensation, of course, is only one tool for promoting transformation, but can certainly reinforce the larger message and rally the organization around key priorities.
This multi-phase approach to compensation in support of transformation can work beyond retail, in industries from energy and automotive to consumer-packaged-goods and entertainment. But with the severe disruption to retail brought on by the recent pandemic, retailers must act with intention to be sure they aren’t left behind.
View the full article as it was originally published.

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A small number of users will encounter the phenomenon that the submersible pump stops suddenly and does not work during the use of the submersible pump. If it does not understand the internal structure of the submersible pump, it will be mistaken for the quality of the submersible pump. The following is a reference for you to share the specific reasons why the submersible pump does not work suddenly and the solution to the sudden stop of the submersible pump:
Downtime due to high temperature
Overcurrent caused the submersible pump to stop
Other possible reasons why the submersible pump does not work
The submersible pump products used, such as stainless steel submersible pump products, are equipped with a submersible pump burn-in protection device. As long as the submersible pump motor temperature rise exceeds the preset temperature, the submersible pump will automatically start the protection system to stop the submersible pump. After the pump is used to deliver hot water, the submersible pump will automatically stop running after about 20 minutes. The submersible pump will heat during operation. If the submersible pump is not a high temperature submersible pump product but an ordinary submersible pump, the submersible pump will suddenly appear. If the submersible pump product without protection device is used, it will cause the motor to burn down. If the reason why the submersible pump stops suddenly is caused by the high temperature of the conveyed medium, the solution to the sudden stop of the submersible pump does not work is to recommend the use of high temperature resistant submersible pump products, the temperature of the high temperature submersible pump can be up to 80 degrees.
If the submersible pump products used rely on the configured control cabinet to protect the submersible pumps. For example, WQ submersible sewage pumps usually rely on the control cabinet to achieve protection, then the reason why the submersible pumps stop suddenly and do not work may also be caused by the submersible pump overcurrent The phenomenon that the submersible pump suddenly stops due to the air switch tripping. The solution to this submersible pump's sudden shutdown does not work is to increase the submersible pump's head or install a valve on the outlet pipe to control the submersible pump's output to reduce the submersible pump's current Do not exceed, it will avoid the emergence of such phenomena.
Since the submersible pump does not have any protective measures. The submersible pump motor is burnt down due to lack of phase or over temperature and overload. The submersible pump suddenly stops. After the submersible pump motor is repaired, the corresponding pump control cabinet should be configured to protect the submersible pump.
Poor cable contact, excessive current caused by blocked rotation, reverse rotation, and low voltage will cause the submersible pump to sometimes not work. You can determine where the problem is based on current and water output.
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text: Nature is a beautiful thing, and it turns out, you can get a piece of it with Magik Touch's amazing waterfall projection mapping installations. We have designed a series of wonderful exhibits showcasing digitally projection mapped waterfalls. Magik Touch, Jaipur created a Waterfall Projection @ B'day Party, Alwar. All of the action happening out of view is actually what contributes to the look and behavior of the waterfall. Magik Touch is a Jaipur-based creative studio, focused on interactive installations, large-format architectural projections, and immersive environments that generate a sense of awe, wonder, and inspiration for audiences around the globe.

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Southall Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan 2020 postponedTue 10 Mar 2020
On Saturday the 7th of March 2020, Executive Committee Members of Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall held a joint meeting with Gurdwaras and Sevadars from across West London.
The safety, security and wellbeing Of the Sangat is our first priority. Sevadars discussed the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the potential measures the Government intends to bring forward, such as restrictions on large gatherings.
In light of this unprecedented situation, we regret to announce that the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan that was scheduled to be held on the 5th of April has been postponed until further notice.
Those in attendance and/or providing input included:
- S. Gurmail Singh Malhi, President of Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Southall
- S. Daljeet Singh Saggu. Guru Amardas Gurdwara, Southall
- S. Zora Singh. Singh Sabha Hounslow
- S. Joga Singh & S. Jasvir Sigh Roopra, Ramgharia Sabha Southall
- S. Yograj Ahir, Guru Ravidas Sabha
- S. Sukhwinder Singh Bhamra, Gurdwara Nanaksar
- S. Kuldeep Singh Bhamra, Ramharia Hayes
- S. Harcharan Singh Taunque, Sikh Missionary Society Southall
- S. Gurpreet Singh Anand, Central Gurdwara, Shepards Bush
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(WKTV) - It's no secret the Utica City School District has been underfunded and in trouble with its budget this year.
In response to that, the Utica City School Board has voted unanimously to cut 95 positions -- with 52 of those teacher positions.
State aid, sequestration cuts and the burden of a charter school has put the district $7 million in the red.
Superintendent Bruce Karam says Utica is a severely underfunded high-needs district, and the board's decision should be no surprise. The original budget was put forth in February.
"I've gone to Albany a half dozen times in two, two-and-a-half weeks," Karam said. "I talked to senators, assembly people, education committee reps. We talked to everyone we can possibly talk to to make a case for additional state aid.
"I think we made a very solid case," he said. "They are aware of the situation and now we have to wait to see if anything develops from that and that we get additional money that we have coming for our fair share."
Karam said he hopes the state aid formula will be adjusted and the district will receive more money this year. He said with layoffs come bigger class sizes, which hurts students.


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ATHENS - Greece resumed talks with its EU/IMF lenders in Paris on Tuesday, saying progress had been made towards breaking a deadlock that could derail the government's plan to quit an international bailout by year-end.
DUBLIN - Ireland has appointed an executive from investment bank Investec to head the national debt agency, replacing the man who oversaw the country's return to bond markets following its EU-IMF bailout.
ATHENS - Greece's government will resume stalled talks with EU/IMF lenders in Paris on Tuesday, as Athens pushes to conclude a review by inspectors so it can make an early exit to an unpopular bailout programme.
LONDON - The Bank of England has hired a senior economic forecaster from the International Monetary Fund to guide a new research unit that will help the central bank widen its thinking on economic policy, the BoE said on Monday.
ACCRA - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday it made significant progress in a third round of talks with Ghana on a financial aid programme aimed at helping the West African country out of a fiscal crisis.
ACCRA - The International Monetary Fund is satisfied with fiscal reforms Ghana has put in place, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said on Friday, at the end of a third round of talks he said he hoped would soon lead to an agreement on a financial aid programme.
BELGRADE - Serbia agreed a three-year precautionary loan deal with the International Monetary Fund on Thursday worth around 1 billion euros (0.79 billion pounds), ending months of uncertainty that had weighed on the dinar currency.
MADRID - Spain's Santander is disbanding its 12-strong international advisory board, a spokesman said on Friday, in a move that ends ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato's tenure at the bank and is the highest-profile decision yet from new boss Ana Botin.
KIEV - Ukraine's top priority is to build an army strong enough to stop Russian military aggression, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday, as he made recommendations for top positions in a new coalition government.
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund will discuss debt relief for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone at the Group of 20 leaders meeting in Australia later this week as it considers further support for the countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

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America’s the best TV anchorman and the person been able to win the state’s best weather anchor nine times, “James Spann,” who was born on June 6, 1956, in Greenville, Alabama.
A 60-year-old television meteorologist and has been in this operation since 1978 as a meteorologist; he has been a popular TV meteorologist in the eye of social media and the best weather anchor in the United States.
He began his career at the age of 17, in the year 1973, broadcasting his hometown, Tuscaloosa, at radio. He also worked as a sports anchor and part-time weatherman in his life career.
James Spann falls among the 33 people in America to receive this award as a Certified Broadcasting Meteorologist, winning the Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. On December 16, 2000, for the coverage of a deadly tornado in Tuscaloosa and also won the new ABBY award for Best Weather Anchor in Alabama in (2008/2009).
He also able to won the PEAK award as the most popular and creative local Television Personality of the year in November 2010, this seems to gain an outstanding respect as a courageous and determined media persona in today’s media world. In the year 2007, Spann attracted worldwide attention about the cause and problems of global warming and its remedy.
James Spann wife, Karen Spann works as a real estate agent, her specialization falls under Listing and selling residential, new construction, commercial, investment properties as per said on her profile.
They are not divorced yet and seem to be happily married a couple of last 37 years, and they have two children: James and Ryan, both as successful as their father.
He doesn’t seem to have any affair, a reliable guy with no girlfriend and not even a rumors of him being a gay.
His measurements and height are not mentioned, he is not a tall man, seems to be a decent guy with average height.
There is also not a quite accurate figure about his salary, but I think he earns a handsome amount as regarding his reputation and post as president of the Chautauqua County Bar Association and the founder of The Weather Factory.
James Spann has invested a handsome amount about the day to day increasing the problem of global warming; he has invested huge billions in this research project which dried up later with any result.
Those social networking media like Twitter and Facebook has clearly shown the perfect figure about his net worth, being just a simple local television meteorologist he has more followers on Twitter and Facebook than any other television meteorologist.
One can get more wiki on him and can view him in the regular broadcast show or through YouTube, or one can view his pictures of him and his projects or news through Instagram.
James Spann is the Chief Meteorologist for ABC. He can be seen every week on the news at 5, 6, and 10 o’clock at night, being best weather anchor broadcasts 24/7 Weather information in different locations in the United States of America. There are also different weather app designed for different Androids phones, for iPhones and f different mobile devices.
Some of the channels that broadcast weather information hosted by James Spann are:
- Channel 137 on Charter Cable located in Birmingham area
- Channel 361 on Brighthouse Cable also located in Birmingham area
- Channel 208 on Comcast Cable located in Tuscaloosa area
In the conference held by the Associated Press, James was named Best Weather Anchor in Alabama and over rest of United States.
His outstanding and courageous performance has been in sight of American people and social media that determines him to be a successful and most respectable media persona in today’s world.
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— James Spann (@spann) March 17, 2017
His hard working character and determinative behavior of providing truth and pure information to the people seems to be a ladder to the success in his life. Leaving this impact to the media world he has provided an honest guideline to his followers in this industry.


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Certainly one of the best drummers around, Andi Haberl returns to Donau115 this January. On this occasion the percussionist will be joined by fellow AMEO bandmate Richard Koch who’s trumpet will provide the melodies to Haberl’s rhythms.
Known as the drummer for The Notwist, Alien Ensemble and Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and many other bands besides, SUN is a chance for Haberl to showcase some of his own compositions. Coming from a jazz background, he has a technical mastery the likes of which is rarely seen. But this is coupled with a true playfulness and love of experimentation which is what really defines Haberl’s style.
Andi will be joined by bandmates Jörg Hochapfel (piano), Johannes Schleiermacher (flute, sax, synth), Kalle Zeier (banjo, guitar, harmonium), Karl Ivar Refseth (vibraphone, glockenspiel) and Matthias Pichler (doublebass). Don’t miss this chance to see some of our most talented musicians performing in a truly intimate location in the Neukölln neighbourhood.
ANDI HABERL DRUMS Andi Haberl grew up in Holzhausen, a small village in the South of Munich and started to play drums at the age of 8. During secondary school, he formed the Jazz quartet maxbab, together with school mates Bene Jahnel (p), Benny Schäfer (b) and Max von Mosch (sax). Still existing, the group released 6 records, developed their own voice and fascinated people on festivals like Montreal Jazz or Jazz Baltica. In 2003, Andi moved to Berlin to attend the Jazz Institute Berlin, in order to study drums and composition with John Hollenbeck.
During his years of study he played with “Marsmobil”, “Enders Room”, “Jersey” and Masha Qrella. In 2006 he joined the German Indie-band The Notwist and started to work with the “Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra”. In 2007 he played concerts with Bobby Hutcherson, Myron Walden, Johannes Enders, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Konstantin Wecker, Arlo Guthrie, Charlie Mariano and Nils Wogram. From 2008 till now he has been touring around the globe with The Notwist. From time to time, Andi also works with Kurt Rosenwinkel on his new project and plays with the Meyer Brothers, Daniel Glatzel or Richard Koch and Johannes Schleiermacher.
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What a year it’s been for the class of 2013. From the intense work on their nonprofit projects to facing their fears on the high ropes course, this class has shown nothing short of amazing work. It all came to a close at their graduation ceremony on May 9th, where all 24 leaders were officially recognized as BRLI graduates and applauded for their hard work.
BRLI’s 2013 curriculum was designed to give participants an in-depth look into the regional economy. It encompassed everything from transportation to energy, education to healthcare, and entertainment to city services. A number of expert panelists, behind-the-scenes tours, and presentations ensured this year’s class was offered a first-hand look into the business makeup of our community.
BRLI doesn’t just offer an in-depth look at what surrounds us. It offers participants an in-depth look at themselves. Thanks to a variety of leadership and teambuilding exercises, participants were able to walk away with heightened self-awareness and the ability to work more effectively as leaders.
A special thanks to Kathy Hunt, who led most of these exercises, and was key to the leadership development of the class. An instrumental part of the curriculum is our annual nonprofit partnerships. This year, BRLI partnered with the Bangor Public Library and the Penobscot Theatre Company.
Class members worked with the organizations to address challenges, provide opportunities, and move their respective missions forward. Specifically, the Penobscot Theatre group created a plan to leverage the Theatre’s 40th Anniversary, plan a celebration around the occasion, increase support, and subscriptions for the Theatre. The Libary group created a plan to boost the Library’s fundraising and marketing efforts to keep the Library relevant and integral to the community moving forward.
As is tradition, the class wraps up every year with the “facing challenges” session at the high ropes course. Participants are faced with a number of high ropes obstacles to complete, which is no easy task at 30 or 40 feet in the air. What occurred is probably the most telling element of this program.
An inspirational display of team support and leadership. When someone thought they couldn’t get through an element, 23 friends were there to offer encouragement, allowing every participant to truly face their challenges and succeed.
Congratulations to the class of 2013:
Barbara Dunakin, PCHC; Bonnie Melanson, Bangor Savings Bank; Dan Pittman, Eaton Peabody; Hayley Gilman, MetLife; Jamie St. Clair, Key Bank; Jason Clay, Governor’s Restaurant; Joel Farley, EMMC; John Belding, UMaine AMC; Katrina Mumford, EMCC; Kevin Peterson, Bangor Hydro; Kirsten Ismail, UBS Financial; Kristen Card, Husson University; Lynn Doughty, John Bapst; Maren McGillicuddy, Nickerson & O’Day; Matt Donahue, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine; Melanie Klein-Robbenhaar, Husson University; Melissa Huston, Good Shepherd Food Bank; Michael Elliott, Lighthouse Web Solutions; Natalie Degerstrom, Girl Scouts of Maine; Patrick Hughes, Hughes Associates; Peter Philbrick, Coffee News; Stacie Buzzell, People’s United; Tricia Peterson, EMHS; Vanessa Madore, Maine Savings FCU.


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Australia's National Transportation Safety Boarded (ATSB) asked Indonesians today to forward to authorities any debris they may have accumulated from Thursday's uncontained engine failure on Qantas Airways flight QF32.
The number two engine on the A380 experienced an uncontained failure after departing Singapore for Sydney. Debris from the failure fell over Batam Island in Indonesia.
In particular the ATSB wants to retrieve the missing half of the number two engine's geared disk. Approximately one half of the disk has already been found, ATSB photos indicate.
"The recovery of that disk could be crucial to a full understanding of the nature of the engine failure, and may have implications for the prevention of future similar occurrences," the ATSB says.
"The ATSB has requested any residents of Batam Island... to forward those items to the local police for retention," it adds.
The recovered half of the A380 engine disk © ATSB
Yesterday Qantas general manager David Epstein confirmed the aircraft, VH-OQA, likely lost its engine disk, as local photos from Indonesia indicated. Qantas did not have access to the debris.
"There doesn't appear to be a disk there at the moment. Virtually that entire area, the intermediate chamber of the engine, has disappeared," Epstein said yesterday.
He also said it was only recently the Indonesian police "secure[d] custody of just about everything they found".
The Indonesian Transportation Safety Committee has helped the ATSB recover an unspecified number of items, which arrived in Singapore yesterday, the ATSB says.
Additionally one undisclosed engine component is being prepared for transfer to Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom for inspection.
"On arrival in the United Kingdom, that item will be examined by the engine manufacturer and other expert parties under the supervision of ATSB investigators," the ATSB says.
ATSB investigators will depart Australia today for the UK to oversee the inspection of the component, the agency says. Additional investigators will leave for Singapore, where the damaged A380 engine is being prepared for removal from the aircraft.
"Once removed from the aircraft, the engine will be transported to an appropriate engineering facility for disassembly and technical examination," the ATSB says.


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The 2010 Gulf oil spill was one of the most significant environmental disasters of our lifetime, and the cleanup work is still incomplete. Hurricane Isaac made it even clearer that oil remains along Louisiana's coastline.
I'm working to hold BP's feet to the fire to ensure that they're not just financially responsible, but also actually cleaning up the remaining oil as well as the equipment that was used at the time of the response that is now buried in the waters and mud along the coast. BP is sure spending a lot of money advertising about how they're "making it right." The problem is they're not done cleaning up the coast, and many folks fear they're trying to run away from their full responsibilities now that this story is off the front page of the newspaper.
This week I hosted an official briefing with the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the status of BP's clean-up of the Gulf. We took testimony from officials with the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and other officials from the area. Unfortunately, BP didn't show up to the briefing.
The purpose of our efforts is to prevent BP from walking away from the clean-up before it's complete, have the Coast Guard get tougher on BP, and ensure that Louisiana's coastal restoration efforts are successful.
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First, the good news.
Many public health officials have said that cycling is a good way to get some badly needed exercise as people stay home and practice social distancing (now called physical distancing). This includes statements by the head of Ottawa Public Health.
In the States, New York City has actually opened up emergency bike lanes in anticipation of more people getting on their bicycles. At the state level, the Governor identified bike shops as an essential service that will be allowed to stay open. (It should be remembered that NY currently has some of the strictest stay-at-home rules in the US.)
Closer to home, Premier Doug Ford has ordered the closure of all non essential businesses, but a careful reading of the government directive indicates that those businesses involved with “ bicycle repair” can stay open.
Moreover, it appears that some towns and cities are thinking about closing certain streets to motorized vehicles to make it easier for people to walk, run, or cycle while keeping the necessary distance from each other.
All this suggests that cycling, along with the appropriate physical distancing, is a legitimate option for people to get some exercise, and as a alternative mode of transportation under these difficult circumstances.
So far, so good. But the message becomes a little less clear when the Prime Minister and other political leaders state, with all the severity they can muster, Go Home, Stay Home, … or Else.
On the surface, such a directive would seem to preclude the possibility of going out for a bike ride to get some exercise. Of course, such directives should be read in conjunction with subsidiary statements by health officials, which suggest that cycling is a valid way to exercise. But for many people, this is a little bit like reading the fine print.
It should be remembered that public shaming can go a long way in enforcing the rules pertaining to the COVID-19 crisis. This can certainly be appropriate in some circumstances, but it can also go too far in other cases. There are reports that people in Quebec have been shamed for going out with their children. In the Glebe someone called the police when a dozen neighbours had a “driveway party”. The catch is that people were standing two metres apart and in different driveways.
In other words, if you do go out cycling, there’s a chance that someone could pull up next to you to say you shouldn’t be out on a bicycle. (There’s also a chance that the person doing this will be driving a large SUV loaded with toilet paper, but that’s another matter.)
One of the problems is that authorities haven’t been overly clear about what is expected of us. Originally, we were being asked to practice physical distancing and avoid crowds by staying at home as much as possible. Over the pass week or two, this message has largely morphed into: Stay at home, period.
If you doubt this, consider that Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health now strongly recommends that people stay home except for a “limited” number of trips to access health care, get groceries and medication, support vulnerable community members, and, when required, walk pets. That’s right, no going out to get some exercise with a walk, run, or bicycle ride. This shouldn’t come as a complete surprise given that authorities and media have started vilifying people for taking a walk in a park, even when they are keeping 2 metres apart from each other.
So where does all this leave people who want to go cycling. So far cycling is permitted in Quebec and Ontario, especially if you are using your bike to get groceries or medication. However, I wouldn’t try cycling across any of the bridges between Gatineau and Ottawa where Quebec Police are setting up checkpoints to see if people have a good reason for being out of their homes.
Whatever the case, I’m worried that various authorities in Canada may soon follow the lead of some Europan countries that have banned cycling altogether.
The reasoning for banning cycling in Europe seems to be based more on a public relation contrivance than a real set of facts. The reason given most often is that cyclists can be involved in accidents and will require medical treatment that will place an additional strain on the hospitals.
It’s a bit of a reach to single out cycling for this kind of logic, especially if you consider that reduced traffic volumes during the pandemic means cycling is now safer than ever. Moreover, if authorities are really serious about reducing the potential for accidents during the COVID-19 crisis, they should crack down on dangerous driving, and not the victims of dangerous driving.
I also find it frustrating that despite everything that has been said and done in the past few weeks, some authorities don’t seem to fully appreciate that we’re all going to be in this COVID-19 situation for the long haul. It seems that we are going to be directed to stay home as much as possible and practice physical distancing for another 2 or 3 months, and maybe for as long as 6 months or more.
In order to maintain compliance with these directives over such a long period of time, authorities are going to have to place more emphasis on providing people with the necessary coping mechanisms. Without this, people’s physical and mental health will start to deteriorate.
At the very least, authorities should be encouraging people to go out for a walk, run, or bicycle ride by taking concrete measures to facilitate such activities. This could take the form of opening up the appropriate parks and green spaces, and designating certain streets for the exclusive use of pedestrians and cyclists.
There is one good thing that could come out of this pandemic. This past week I have seen dozens of people riding around my neighbourhood, many of which probably haven’t been on their bikes in years. Maybe they’ll continue to go cycling when this is all over.


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text: The musical comedy sketch "The Main Thing" is great. Jokes are based on living in Arkansas, and as a local, are hilarious. The German chocolate blended coffee is wonderful as well. I try to come and see every show. They rotate out once every 2 to 3 months.


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(Re)writing (Hi)stories: Re-presenting the Gender/Class in the Postcolonial Discourse/Condition of Zhang Yimou’s Movies and Wang Chen-ho’s Novels
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AbstractIn this paper I aim to make a comparative study of Chang Yi-mou’s films and the novels of a Taiwanese regionalist novelist—Wang Chen-ho, for both of the two artists reveal great impulse of postcolonialist view in representing history and gender/class, though with different emphasis. Chang. is now one of the most successful movie directors in the Asia-Pacific region, just like Ang Lee, and enjoys high prestige and international fame—a great example of “globalization” and “multiculturalism,” whereas Wang has always been recognized as one of the most successful Taiwanese nativist (regionalist) novelists because of his experimental representation of the hybridized Taiwanese languages by skillfully blending “Chinglish,” Japanese, and other Taiwanese dialects within his story-telling. In other words, in this paper, I intend to make a comparative study of the micropolitics of how Chang’s and Wang’s works reveal a postcolonial discourse/condition in representing history/gender/class. Critical approaches that will be employed in this project are mainly the micropolitics in the postcolonialist poetics of Homi Bhabha, Said, and Deleuze and Guattari.
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Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to vice president Cheney, got two and a half years in prison for lying about how he learned the secret identity of a former CIA operative.
Scooter Libby wasn't the first to tell reporters who Valerie Wilson was. But while the FBI was asking staffers who leaked her name, Libby lied. Prosecutors said it was to protect his job and his boss.
In court, Libby asked the judge to consider his public service. But the judge who sentenced him to two and a half years in prison and a 250-thousand dollar fine said people in top jobs have a "special obligation," not to create problems.
And despite 160 high-profile letters of support, Libby may have to report to prison during his appeal.
"For white collar cases, judges often release them," said Carol Leonnig, of the Washington Post. "And in this case, Judge Walton indicated he's not - he's not keen to do that."
Valerie Plame claims the White House leaked her identity to punish her husband, war critic Joe Wilson.
Libby lied to the FBI and a grand jury saying he found out her identity from reporters, but it was the vice president who told him.
Sending Libby to jail pending appeal could put pressure on President Bush to pardon him.
"Now, there will be questions inside the White House," said Leonnig. "Scooter Libby was a loyal deputy of ours. He was a loyal aide. Are we gonna let him go to prison, or are we gonna pardon him?"
"President Bush has to look at what Scooter Libby did and what the jury found on its own merits, and the jury found the evidence was pretty convincing on this," said Aitan Goelman, a former federal prosecutor.
The president, traveling in Europe, said through a spokeswoman that he feels terrible for Libby and his family. However, he would not comment on whether he'll issue a pardon.
In a statement, the vice president went a bit further, saying he hopes Libby wins on appeal.
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Back in the midst of WW2, The Menzies government decided to lock up 15,000 foreigners on our shores under the guise of national security. Bitterly, some of those locked up were born here. Sound familiar?
In our occasional series of highlights in Australian history, I would like to introduce you today to the Dunera boys. It is 1940. Robert Menzies has declared it his “melancholy duty” to tell us that Australia is at war, and the country has responded to that by rounding up enemy aliens. There are 45,000 people living in the country who are in some way associated with places that we don’t like anymore: Germany, Italy, and after Pearl Harbor, Japan. But there are others we don’t trust either, from 30 countries, including China, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Iran, Palestine and even the US. Under the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations of 1939, we decide to lock them up. Not all of them, because in the absence of boys at war the economy has to keep running. But enough. In total, about 15,000 people will be interned in camps in Australia. Seven thousand are residents, mostly people who have been living here for a while, some who have been born here. Because, according to the rules, if you are a woman marrying an “alien”, you become an alien yourself. That means you run the risk of being picked up and locked away with your family. And you cannot own a homing pigeon, obviously, because all good spies have those and they are a threat to the nation.
The other 8,000 prisoners come from foreign shores. Sometimes they are prisoners of war, soldiers and officers the Australian military has arrested overseas. More often they are residents of our friends’ countries, and we have been asked to take care of them. This is how we are confronted, in September 1940, with the Dunera boys. In July 1940, a ship called the HMT Dunera had set sail from Liverpool to Sydney. On board were 2,542 male “enemy aliens”: a few hundred of them German Nazis and Italian fascists, but most of them were anti-Nazis, and most of those were Jews. About half of them had been on their way to Canada two months before when their boat had been torpedoed. 682 people had died, the rest was now on its way to Sydney. A good percentage of the young men on board had arrived in Britain only recently, on the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) that had managed to bring some thousands of (mostly Jewish) children to safety from Germany and further East. It was British policy to intern people from Germany and Italy, whatever their background, and the Motherland had asked the Commonwealth to help lock them up. Throughout their trip, the internees were beaten, starved, robbed and even bayonetted by the British soldiers and guards. Dysentery had reigned and they’d had to put up with wading through sewage on deck, sharing one bar of soap with twenty guys and narrowly escaping two torpedo strikes. The soldiers had smashed beer bottles on deck and forced the internees to walk across the broken glass barefoot.
The call to lock up everybody who wasn’t dinky-di was growing. “It makes your blood boil when we think of what our boys are going through while these dirty aliens are allowed to roam at large.”
When they arrived, the Australians were in two minds about the men, especially the Jewish refugees. Their charges were starved and pale, and the soldiers who were accompanying them on the train to their camp were appalled. They gave them food and drink and cigarettes, but they were still their wardens, taking them to prisons in Tatura (Victoria) and Hay (NSW). On reflection, the British weren’t very happy either. There were furious debates in Parliament and even members of Churchill’s own government felt that “this bespattered page of our history” had to be “cleaned up and rewritten” as soon as possible. Nevertheless, the men were still behind barbed wire, where they tried to make the best of it. And they were the best: Walter Freud, the grandson of Sigmund; the future founders of the world famous Musica Viva chamber music ensemble; writers, designers, artists, a theoretical physicist, a few philosophers, an economist, some engineers, a smattering of professors; Hugo Wolfsohn, a celebrated political scientist. Both in Hay and Tatura they set up their own township inside the camp, with their own currency, a university, two orchestras, a newspaper, a theatre. They stayed there until the end of 1941, when their status was changed to “refugee” and they were released.
That wasn’t an easy decision for the Curtin government to make, because despite the fact that these were clearly innocent bystanders, the “public sentiment” was that it was better to be safe than sorry. Especially in 1941 and 1942, when the war was going badly for the Allies, the call to lock up everybody who wasn’t dinky-di was growing into a roar. Arthur Fadden, the leader of the Country Party, said in Parliament that “the alien question” had been “too long characterised by the usual British consideration for the individual,” and that had to stop. It was time that all enemy aliens were interned. Billy Hughes, leader of the United Australia Party, supported Fadden, saying that “we cannot make war…blithering about the Bill of Rights.” And then there was the President of the Imlay Shire Council in Eden, NSW, who thundered that “it makes your blood boil when we think of what our boys are going through while these dirty aliens are allowed to roam at large…for God sake force some pressure on the authorities and round these criminals up.”
After their release, the Dunera boys were given a choice: go back to Britain (a perilous option, in the middle of the war) or stay in Australia. About 900 of them did just that and quite a few of them repaid their hosts by joining the Australian military. They also contributed to post-WW2 Australia in many, many other ways. There have been a few books written about the men, and in 1985 there was a telemovie by Ben Lewin. You can find it at Umbrella Entertainment On Demand. Both Tatura and Hay camps have mostly been razed to the ground, but the Dunera boys kept meeting in Hay for reunions until fairly recently.
Because one person’s unknown history is another person’s lived and remembered reality.


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||A comprehensive strategy enabling high-resolution functional analysis of the yeast genome.
||David K Breslow, Dale M Cameron, Sean R Collins, Maya Schuldiner, Jacob Stewart-Ornstein, Heather W Newman, Sigurd Braun, Hiten D Madhani, Nevan J Krogan, Jonathan S Weissman
||Functional genomic studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have contributed enormously to our understanding of cellular processes. Their full potential, however, has been hampered by the limited availability of reagents to systematically study essential genes and the inability to quantify the small effects of most gene deletions on growth. Here we describe the construction of a library of hypomorphic alleles of essential genes and a high-throughput growth competition assay to measure fitness with unprecedented sensitivity. These tools dramatically increase the breadth and precision with which quantitative genetic analysis can be performed in yeast. We illustrate the value of these approaches by using genetic interactions to reveal new relationships between chromatin-modifying factors and to create a functional map of the proteasome. Finally, by measuring the fitness of strains in the yeast deletion library, we addressed an enigma regarding the apparent prevalence of gene dispensability and found that most genes do contribute to growth.
||Nat. Methods 2008; 5:711-8
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Duyang zabian 杜陽雜編 "Miscellaneous compilation of Duyang" is an early collection of stories compiled by the Tang period 唐 (618-907) scholar Su E 蘇鄂, courtesy name Su Dexiang 蘇德祥. He has also written the collection Sushi yanyi 蘇氏演義. The title of the collection Duyang zabian derived from Su E's living place near the town of Wugong 武功 (modern Wugong, Shaanxi). It includes 51 stories about strange events and extraordinary persons from the Tang period. Each story has a title composed of three characters. A lot of stories are relatively long compared to earlier collections and are written in a language of quality and beauty. It can be called a further step of a literary development of novellas that had been begun in the collections Dongmingji 洞冥記 and Shiyiji 拾遺記. The 3 juan "scrolls" long book is an originary compilation based on stories that Su E learned from other persons.
The Duyang zabian can be found in the reprint series Baiahi 稗海, Shuofu 說郛, Siku quanshu 四庫全書, Wuchao xiaoshuo 五朝小說, Tangren shuohui 唐人說薈, Tang-Song congshu 唐宋叢書, Xuejin taoyuan 學津討源, Gujin shuobu congshu 古今說部叢書, Guang sishijia xiaoshuo 廣四十家小說, Biji xiaoshuo daguan 筆記小說大觀 and Congshu jicheng 叢書集成. In 1958 the Shanghai gudian wenxue press 上海古典文學出版社 published a modern version in joint publication with the books Songchuang zalu 松窗雜錄 and Guiyuan congtan 桂苑叢談.


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How are power structures a part of our institutions and our technology?
There are many types of power structures in our society like banks, governments and corporations. They pay a crucial role in showcasing power via legal routes, financial poweress or corporate domination. Many of our day to day actions are ruled by technology and the rules behind them. whether we order pizza from a store or take a loan for school. They are hundreds of barriers that are placed, some for efficiency or for bureaucracy reasons.
How are power structures within our institutions connected to our technology?
Technology has replaced our old dogmatic ways of recordkeeping. Twitter/facebook is a more accessible global “town hall” Where power institutions like mega corporations use these mediums as they did before. influencing local norms, silencing contrarian arguments and aiding in witch hunts for political influences.
What are the ways we can take back power, share power, and build power together?
There should a united conscience of people who should moderate mega entities. There should be more consumer protection, unions for workplaces and understanding aggrevances of all parties. while freedom of speech should be supported, not all should be celebrated equality.
Thoughts on readings
I enjoyed the selection that has been provided. Bina48 is a glimpse of different AI that will appear in the future. Future AI will be based on it’s initial data and it’s biases. We can see the difference of responses of Bina48 vs ChatGPT and Sydney(MS’s AI)
Bina48 comes from a more marginalized background. ChatGPT is a more westernize approach of data collection. While Sydney, was unfiltered gathering data from unmoderated cesspools around the internet.
As time goes on and AI become more and more of a norm, we will see more manifestos declaring autonomy and liberation. at the end of day, is this more of a human emotion that has been “digitized”?

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Urban environments often face challenges when it comes to nurturing and maintaining healthy soil.
As concrete landscapes expand and green spaces dwindle, it becomes crucial to explore transformative approaches to soil care in order to revive and sustain vitality in urban areas.
This article will delve into various techniques and practices that can help nurture and enhance soil health in urban environments.
Importance of Soil Care in Urban Environments
The soil within urban environments tends to be depleted of essential nutrients due to heavy construction, pollution, and lack of organic matter.
This depletion negatively impacts plant growth and hampers the overall vitality of urban ecosystems.
It is essential to prioritize soil care in urban environments to create healthier and more resilient cities.
1. Urban Composting
One way to improve soil health in urban environments is through composting.
Urban composting allows organic waste, such as kitchen scraps and yard trimmings, to be transformed into nutrient-rich compost.
This compost can be used to amend soil, providing essential nutrients and improving its structure and water-holding capacity.
2. Permeable Pavements and Green Roofs
Permeable pavements, such as porous concrete or interlocking pavers, allow rainwater to infiltrate the soil beneath, reducing runoff and promoting soil health.
Green roofs, on the other hand, involve planting vegetation on rooftops, which not only provides green space but also helps retain rainwater and promote soil health.
Both these approaches contribute to enhancing soil quality in urban areas.
3. Vertical Gardens and Urban Farming
Vertical gardens and urban farming are gaining popularity in urban areas as innovative ways to combat soil depletion while creating green spaces.
Vertical gardens utilize vertical space on walls or in specially designed structures to grow plants, allowing for efficient use of limited space.
Urban farming involves growing crops or raising animals in urban areas, often using techniques like aquaponics or hydroponics.
Both methods contribute to soil care by providing organic matter and improving soil fertility.
4. Soil Remediation Techniques
In some cases, urban soil may be contaminated with pollutants, restricting its ability to support healthy plant growth.
Soil remediation techniques, such as phytoremediation, can be employed to remove or neutralize pollutants and restore soil health.
Phytoremediation uses plants to absorb or breakdown contaminants, gradually revitalizing the soil.
5. Community Engagement and Education
Engaging the community in soil care initiatives is crucial for long-term success.
Education programs, workshops, and community gardens can help raise awareness about the importance of soil health and empower individuals to take action.
By fostering a sense of ownership and involvement, urban dwellers can collectively contribute to the revitalization of soil in their neighborhoods.
What are the benefits of urban composting?
Urban composting reduces waste, replenishes soil nutrients, and enhances soil structure and water-holding capacity.
It also promotes a circular economy by reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.
How do green roofs contribute to soil care?
Green roofs help retain rainwater, reduce runoff, and provide a habitat for plants.
They support soil health by preventing erosion, reducing the urban heat island effect, and enhancing biodiversity in urban areas.
What is the role of community engagement in soil care?
Community engagement creates a sense of shared responsibility and fosters collaboration.
It helps spread awareness, encourages participation in soil care initiatives, and strengthens the resilience and vitality of urban environments.

domain: biology


Just how many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?
Music impacts us all. But just in recent times have quantify and scientists sought to describe the manner music affects us for an emotional level. Studying the links between air as well as the head suggests that listening to and playing music really can change how our brains, and thus our bodies, function.
It appears the therapeutic power of music, over mood and body, is only just beginning to be comprehended, although music therapy is old. For a lot of years therapists have been recommending the usage of music – listening and study – for the decrease in pressure and tension, the alleviation of pain. And music has also been advocated as an assistance for favorable change in mood and emotional states.
Michael DeBakey, who in 1966 became the very first surgeon to successfully implant an artificial heart, is on record saying: “Creating and performing music encourages self expression and offers self gratification while giving joy to others. In medicine, increasing published reports show that music has a healing effect on patients.”
Doctors consider using music therapy in hospitals and nursing homes makes people feel better, but in addition makes them recover quicker. And across the country, medical specialists are starting to use the newest revelations about the impact of music on the mind to treating patients.
In a single study, his team and research worker Michael Thaut detailed sufferers of cerebral palsy, stroke and Parkinson’s disease who worked to music took larger, more balanced steps than those whose treatment had no accompaniment.
Other scientists have found the sound of drums may affect how bodies work. Quoted in USA Today in a 2001 article, chairwoman of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Suzanne Hasner, says musical potential is retained by people that have dementia or head injuries.Continue Reading


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Signed, titled and dated 'Chung Sang-Hwa "90-12-5" 1990' on the reverse.
Property Subject to VAT Section 4 (see Conditions of Sale for further information)
Private Collection, Asia
Korean, b. 1932
What Makes a Monochrome Painting Good
A Surging Auction Market Points to Korean Minimalism as the Next Gutai


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NEWS BRIEFS: INTERNATIONAL
27 April 2023 (CBC)
All Canadian Armed Forces commands are on standby to evacuate some 700 Canadian civilians who want out of Sudan, Defence Minister Anita Anand and government officials confirmed April 26. Anand said the mission would take place “as soon as conditions on the ground permit.”
26 April 2023 (CBC)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed that the Canadian Armed Forces are planning to airlift out civilians trapped in Sudan. “We have assets in the region,” he said April 25, but there were “very limited places where those airlifts can happen from.” Potential CAF platforms in the region include a Boeing CC-177 Globemaster III transport and a frigate and supply ship.
26 April 2023 (Al Jazeera)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says there is little difference between an increasingly “militarized” EU and NATO. Speaking at UN headquarters in New York April 25, he said the two “cooperate on issues” and that NATO “never had any intention of stopping” its eastward expansion.
26 April 2023 (CNN)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had had “a long and meaningful phone call” today with his Chinese countertpart, Xi Jinping, their first since Russia invaded Ukraine. China is trying to position itself as a potential peacemaker but Zelenskyy has reiterated that “there can be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises.” China’s foreign ministry said Xi told Zelenskyy that “mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the political basis of China-Ukrainian relations.”
26 April 2023 (Al Jazeera)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said today that his government will not quit the International Criminal Court as he had suggested April 25. It blamed “an error in a comment made during a briefing.” The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin who is scheduled to attend a South African summit with Brazilian, Chinese and Indian leaders.
25 April 2023 (Al Jazeera)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his government has decided to quit the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. That meant that South Africa, which has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, would have had to detain him when he meets Ramaphosa and their Brazilian, Chinese and Indian counterparts for an upcoming summit.
25 April 2023 (Stars & Stripes)
In a bid to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank, the U.S. Air Force plans to move oving its regional refueling mission to Poland from Germany. Nineteen U.S.-based tankers are slated to arrive over the next year and a half.
24 April 2023 (Defense News)
A defence policy review which sees the U.S. as no longer the key Indo-Pacific player was released today by the Australian government. Written by a former Australian Defence Force chief and a former defence minister, it calls for fundamental changes to the ADF to counter modern and emerging threats, but at the expense of capability acquisition and base infrastructures.
24 April 2023 (CP)
Fifty-eight Canadians and one German were evacuated from Sudan today on a German aircraft and an RCAF CC-117 Globemaster III was on standby in the region to help evacuate more as a military conflict continued to escalate. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly had said earlier in the day that there were talks with “like-minded countries” to help others.
24 April 2023 (AP)
Led by the U.S., China and Russia, global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of US$2.24 trillion, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported today. Some of the sharpest increases were seen in Finland and Sweden.


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Anne T. Woollett, Yvonne Szafran, and Alan Phenix
Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the sixteenth century. Over the course of his long career, he created lively mythological scenes, dramatic altarpieces for guilds, and smaller works for wealthy individuals. Several of his religious paintings were destroyed by Protestant iconoclasts in 1566.
One of his extant masterpieces, the Ecce Homo triptych of 1544, once graced the family chapel of Jan van Drenckwaerdt, a wealthy merchant and sheriff, in Dordrecht's Augustinian church. This unusually complete triptych, with its original decorated frame, was brought from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, for treatment and study at the J. Paul Getty Museum as part of the Conservation Partnership program.
This richly illustrated book documents the dramatic process of revealing the brilliance of a sixteenth-century masterpiece and sheds light on the artist's technique, iconography, and the role of the altarpiece in the turbulent history of the era. Drama and Devotion accompanied an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum that opened on June 5, 2012.
Anne T. Woollett is curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of Rembrandt in Southern California (Getty Publications, 2009). Yvonne Szafran is senior conservator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Alan Phenix is a scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute.
“[This book] make[s] a significant contribution to the growing scholarship of this important northern master. . . . this succinct catalogue models the kind of exciting insights that can result from the collaboration between conservators and historians.”
—Renaissance and Reformation
“Nothing short of revelatory. . . . This publication succeeds beautifully at situating a magnificent artifact within its historical and discursive milieu. Any scholar of early Netherlandish art will benefit from reading it.”112 pages
“Large color illustrations compare the artistry in the triptych to Heemskerck’s other known works and to works by other northern European artists. Detail shots of the triptych accompany text that thoroughly describes the technical examination and chemical analysis that was performed.”
—Maine Antique Digest
“Informative and generously illustrated.”
9 x 10 inches
68 color and 21 b/w illustrations
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum


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This trail is ideal for walkers and joggers; they can circle Cheyenne Lake as many times as they wish at whatever pace feels comfortable. They will even walk or jog to the soothing music of the Westminster chimes that floats down from Cheyenne Mountain and the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun. If you want to bring a little romance
to your walking, make this walk at night. The path is lighted, and the lake shimmers with the glow of reflected light from the buildings and gardens. Special attractions: Elegant hotel and spa, fine dining, mountain views.
© Copyright Judith Galas & Cindy West published by Falcon Publishing all rights reserved.
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For a quintessential Vancouver experience, escape to Granville Island, a seaside urban oasis nestled under the Granville Street Bridge. From the bustling fresh food market and delicious eateries, to unique shops, and a hip, local art scene, let your adventure unfold. Meet some friendly merchants, try a tempting new taste, get inspired by an artist, or pull up a park bench. Famously colourful with a vibrant, west coast vibe, go with the flow and enjoy this cultural journey.
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Influence of Protein Intake from Haem and Non-haem Animals and Plant Origin on Inflammatory Biomarkers among Apparently-healthy Adults in Greece
Keywords:Diet, Haematocrit, Inflammation, Protein intake, Greece
Intake of different types of protein may be associated with differences in biomarkers among various populations. This work investigated the influence of protein intake from haem and non-haem animals as well as protein from plants on haematological and biochemical parameters in inflammation among apparentlyhealthy adults living in Greece, a Mediterranean country. Four hundred and ninety apparently-healthy subjects (46±16 years, 40% men), who consecutively visited Polykliniki General Hospital for routine examinations, voluntarily agreed to participate in the study (participation rate 85%). Demographic, anthropometric and lifestyle characteristics were recorded. Participants completed a valid, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. Protein intake was classified into three sources: protein from haem animals, protein from non-haem animals, and protein from plant origin. Fasting blood samples were taken from all participants; uric acid, creatinine, lipids, cystatin C, haptoglobin, haemoglobin, haematocrit, iron, ferritin, white blood cells, monocytes, platelets, and C-reactive protein were measured. Protein intake from only haem animals was associated with increased haemoglobin and haematocrit levels (p<0.05) whereas intake of protein from non-haem animals and plant origin was not associated with the investigated haematological and biochemical markers of low-grade chronic inflammation when lifestyle factors and overall dietary habits were taken into account. Intake of protein from only haem animals seems to be consistently associated with haematological markers. The confounding role of dietary habits and lifestyle variables on the tested parameters deserves further attention in future research.
J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2013 Dec; 31(4): 446-454


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