U.S. stocks closed higher on Monday as investors cheered an election in Japan and extended a jobs-report rally.
The benchmark S&P 500 index closed at a new all-time high and also posted a new all-time intraday high of 2,143.16. At the close, information technology led the S&P, with health care and utilities lagging.
"What we've seen in the leadership is what you want to see, ... and what you see lagging is what you want to see," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities.
"I've been expecting a record close for a while," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab. "It's a good thing because it cements this 7-year-old market, which is the second longest in history."
The Nasdaq composite ended up more than half a percent, and posted its best close of the year. The index also broke above the 5,000 mark for the first time since Dec. 31.
"I think what we're seeing is the successful election for [Shinzo] Abe ... is fueling the rally here," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial. "Basically, it's a post-labor report rally helped by the elections in Japan."
Abe's coalition notched a landslide victory for the upper house in Japan's parliament. Abe had cast the election as a referendum on his "Abenomics" recipe of hyper-easy monetary policy, spending and reform. With signs the strategy is failing, the government plans to compile a post-election stimulus package that could exceed 10 trillion yen ($99 billion).
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On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. economy added 287,000 jobs, easily beating expectations.
The jobs-report beat boosted U.S. stocks Friday, leaving the S&P 500 within striking distance of its all-time intraday high.
"Friday was probably light [on] volume, so it's nice to see more gains with more volume," said Mariann Montagne, senior investment analyst at Gradient Investments.
This week, Wall Street will brace itself for an array of speeches from Federal Reserve officials.
"We get bombarded with Fed speak this week just as the fed funds futures market is saying the Fed won't definitively raise rates again until December 2018. The last Fed dots had the expected fed funds rate at 2.4% by the end of 2018 vs 3% seen in March. The disconnect and disbelief continues," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, said in a Monday note to clients.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George said the U.S. economy has proven to be "resilient," adding she expects to see "fairly steady pace of growth."
Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester is scheduled to speak after the close. Other Fed officials scheduled to speak this week include St. Louis Fed President James Bullard and Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.
Investors and traders will also digest a slew of economic data sets this week, including the latest jobs opening and labor turnover survey (JOLTS) and wholesale trade data, both due Tuesday, and import-export prices, due Wednesday.
Also on deck this week is the start of earnings season, with Alcoa set to report quarterly results Monday after the close. Later this week, a slew of financial firms will post results, including JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup.
"I'm not expecting anything good [from earnings]," said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. "The economy is not growing fast enough" and margins "aren't getting fatter."
The Fed will also release its latest edition of the Beige Book, a summary of current economic conditions, on Wednesday.
Global bond yields have been under pressure recently, amid global growth concerns, with 10-year yields trading near all-time lows. On Monday, the benchmark yield held near 1.43 percent, while two-year note yields traded around 0.65 percent. Investors digested a $24 billion auction of three-year notes which saw weak demand.
"I think the flight to quality is based on a number of things," including uncertainty surrounding the U.K. leaving the EU and he U.S. elections, said Seth Crystall, senior credit analyst at Debtwire. "I think everybody gets the sense that the Fed is not going to move very soon."
The dollar index held about 0.25 percent higher, with the euro near $1.106 and the yen about 2 percent lower versus the greenback. The British pound briefly spiked after U.K. lawmaker Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the race to become the country's prime minister, clearing the way for Interior Minister Theresa May.
Current U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said later on Monday he'd stand down from his post Wednesday.
European stocks rose broadly, with the Stoxx 600 index gaining more than 1.6 percent.
In Asia, stocks surged, as the Nikkei 225 rose about 4 percent.
The closed up 7.26 points, or 0.34 percent, at 2,137.16, with information technology leading seven sectors higher and health care the greatest decliner.
The Nasdaq gained 31.88 points, or 0.64 percent, to close at 4,988.64.
The CBOE Volatility index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, traded lower, near 13.5.
About tow stocks advanced for every decliner on the New York Stock Exchange, with an exchange volume of 798.53 million and a composite volume of 3.197 billion at the close.
U.S. oil settled 65 cents lower, or 1.43 percent, at $44.76 a barrel.
Gold futures for August delivery were settled at $1,356.60 per ounce, down $1.80.
On tap this week:
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Earnings: Fastenal, Adtran
6 a.m. NFIB survey
9:15 a.m. Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo on shadow banking
9:35 a.m. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard
10 a.m. Wholesale trade; Jolts
1 p.m. 10-year note auction
6:30 p.m. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari
9:30 p.m. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on financial stability
Earnings: CSX, Yum Brands
8:30 a.m. Import prices
9 a.m. Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on economy
1 p.m. 30-year bond auction
2 p.m. Federal budget; Beige book
6 p.m. Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker on economy
10:30 p.m. Cleveland Fed's Mester on economy
Earnings: JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, Delta Air Lines, Taiwan Semiconductor, Progressive, First Republic Bank
8:30 a.m. Initial claims; PPI
10 a.m. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard
11:15 a.m. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart
1:15 p.m. Kansas City Fed's George on economy
7 p.m. Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan on economy and policy
Earnings: Citigroup, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp, PNC, Shaw Communications
8:30 a.m. Retail sales, CPI, Empire State survey
9:15 a.m. Industrial production
10 a.m. Consumer sentiment; Business inventories
1:15 p.m. Minneapolis Fed's Kashkari and St. Louis Fed's Bullard in discussion
—Reuters contributed to this report.


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Nina is a free spirt and a young woman that captures the beauty of the moment. A gourmand fruity floral where calbrian lemon and caipirinha lime embrace, for a stunning freshness. Smooth gardenia is draped in a delicious veil of toffee apple. Then cedar wood wraps itself around caressing white musks. Delicate and radiant sensuality. An iconic bottle dedicated to Nina, her delights, her youth, her recklessness.
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NTT’s center will focus on cloud security, big data applications, and mobile technologies. A spokesperson told me that the company will be eyeing startups for potential acquisitions.
JumpStartFund is an online portal that solicits new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and other organizations around the country. Selected ideas are put into the system for the community to vote on, offer input, find cofounders, and crowdfund.
Your dual-core phone’s gonna look like a Big Wheels tricycle next to a Harley Davidson when this 48-core chip hits the market.
Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis, who created the BlackBerry smartphone, has donated $100 million to a new center pursuing radically small computing innovations.
In Microsoft’s vision of the future, Kinect sensors are everywhere: In your living room, your kitchen, at school, and even in the supermarket, above the fruit display.
And why not? The $150 motion-sensing device provides a cheap way to add gesture and voice controls to any application.
Nokia announced today that it will cut its workforce by 4,000 employees by the end of year 2012. The majority of the reductions will be made in Nokia’s home country Finland, Denmark and in the UK. Nokia will also refocus its research and development operations.

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NEW YORK (AP) The few minutes of their talk show where Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan engage in the “host chat” segment about the day”s hot stories should be particularly interesting on Tuesday Ripa”s first day back after learning Strahan is leaving.
Ripa has been off “Live with Kelly and Michael” for four days after the news broke last Tuesday that Strahan will leave to join “Good Morning America” full-time. Friday and Monday”s absence were for a pre-planned vacation.
She hasn”t addressed her absence, which came after she was told shortly after Tuesday”s show about Strahan”s switch. But she”s also made no effort to refute stories that she was angry and felt blindsided about the move, which will force her this fall to likely spend months conducting on-air tryouts with potential successors.
Ripa alerted staff members of her return in an email sent late Friday.
At least until it was overshadowed by Prince”s death, Ripa”s absence was a hot news topic, with debates raging about whether Walt Disney Corp. officials were being sexist by engineering the change without Ripa”s participation, or whether Ripa”s had responded to it appropriately.
It becomes very emotional for any employee if they believe their trust in their employers has been violated, said Paul Tesluk, acting dean of the school of management at the University of Buffalo.
“The professional thing is to go back to the show and have these side discussions as quickly as you can and as professionally as you can,” Tesluk said.
Strahan, a former football player with the New York Giants, replaced Regis Philbin as host of “Live” in 2012. Ripa has been on the show since 2001.


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A Columbus technology company has its eyes on a 2.25 acres along Chester Avenue in Cleveland, where it hopes to build its first data center for $35 million to $40 million, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Superior Technology Partners LLC wants to buy a slice of a 14-acre site on which the city of Cleveland spent millions in preparation for a state regional psychiatric hospital, the newspaper reports. But in 2009, the Ohio Department of Mental Health instead decided to renovate a hospital in Summit County, the newspaper reports.
The 80,000-square-foot data center would create 40 high-paying jobs, the newspaper reports, with the possibility of expansion. The city is still determining the market value of the land, but the company has not asked for city incentives, the newspaper reports.


As of this Monday (2nd), the City Hall of São Paulo resumes the municipal rotation of vehicles in the traditional molds, which had been suspended for cars since March 22 this year. The rotation for light vehicles will again be valid in the morning (7am to 10am) and afternoon (5pm to 8pm) peak hours.
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Motor vehicles, including trucks, with the following license plates may not circulate in the regions and times established by the rotation:
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Tuesdays: final digits 3 and 4;
Wednesdays: final digits 5 and 6;
Thursdays: final digits 7 and 8;
Fridays: final digits 9 and 0.
The capital of São Paulo adopted a night shift rotation for light vehicles between March 22 and July 30, following the restriction decreed by the State Government. With the announcement, by the State, of the end of the restriction touch, the rotation will return to the traditional format.
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Did you ever think that the Roman empire was amazing? That the knowledge they gathered from all corners of the earth and took to Rome allowed the Romans to be highly erudite and further developed than other rising nations?
Meet Lydia, the beautiful and feisty daughter of a Roman senator and watch her grow old in a land before Christ and see how she developed into a lovely young woman, been through two marriages and ended up in Antioch trying to escape the law that kills a family into its entirety if found guilty of treason. One of her four brothers, envious of the success of his older brothers and wishing to have the fortunes of the family into his hands has betrayed their name and declared their father as a conspirator with Julius Gaelicus who was next in line for the throne.
He got a third of the fortune and disappeared away into the big world before the guards could get to him.
Lydia got home that day to see her father dressed in his full armor telling her that she must travel with some friends of his that will take her to safety across the sea. He then dies by his own sword, too proud to be caught captive by the soldiers.
Lydia goes aboard a ship with two Jews, friends of her fathers, and assumes a new name, Pandora – in order to start a new life somewhere else.
She is a woman to my liking. Free, highly educated, opinionated into every matter and never backing down in the face of adversity.
She takes a lover on the ship and then leaves him in Alexandria to continue her journey. She is left alone in Antioch along with a small fortune gathered by her father during the years. She goes slave-shopping and picks up two lovely young girls and a Greek, Flavius, whom I found fascinating. Their exchanges and the deep trust that forms between them is one of my favourite points in the book.
If you take away the supernatural element, the vampiric dreams, the calling of the dark and the burnt beasts, you are left with a gorgeous book about the life of an emaciated woman during Roman times. I would have loved to learn more of their customs, to have a glimpse into the daily life of a busy city on the edge of the Mediterranean.
The second part of the book is Pandora’s encounter with her young crush, Marius, who is now a vampire, having in his charge the king and the queen of the vampires (Akasha and Enkhil), known as Isis and Osiris in Egypt.
In a turn of fate, Pandora gets turned into a vampire and becomes Marius’s Wife on the dark side. She loves him but quickly after their blood marriage, she finds out that they are truly incompatible. She is a creature of fun and mysticism, loving the raise of the new religions and philosophies, always looking for something to believe in.
Marius is her opposite – driven by logic and facts, a true Roman at heart, always questioning everything and looking at the myths and superstitions with the eyes of a wise man.
After decades together, she is keen to be free of him even though she loves him very much still.
An attack from some Christian Vampires leaves them divided and lonely over the course of the many centuries, and when they do meet again (as the fates are intertwined), she is the consort of an “aggressive Asian” vampire who was able to keep her safe during the eons, and he was in French lace at a ball during the 18th century.
She wanted to go with him but her plea for rescue never got delivered and they met again 200 years afterwards at Lestat’s head.
What I liked about the book
The description of the rise and fall of the Roman empire, the life of young Lydia, the mentions of the Greek and Roman poets and philosophers.
What I didn’t like about the book
We know that Pandora was independent. The way she describes herself as an accessory to a man’s life, a decorative piece at his hand, was a bit disappointing. I would have loved her to have roamed more, explored more, be more active! But hey, temperaments differ.

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All the billionaire wants for Christmas...
Is Jess, in his bed!
Smoldering Dante Acosta has got to be physiotherapist Jess’s sexiest client yet. Even injured, the playboy polo champion exudes a raw power that makes Jess giddy…until she discovers he’s bought her parents’ farm out from under her!
Jess’s indignation only adds fuel to the fire raging between them as they try—and fail—to resist each other. Dante is prepared to fight for their chemistry this Christmas—is he prepared to fight for Jess’s heart?
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From desire on the high seas…
To royal duty at the altar?
Savoring his last taste of freedom, reluctant Prince Luca Fortebracci escapes to the Mediterranean on his lavish yacht. He’s destined to wear a crown and wed a flawless royal bride, so mysterious British beauty Samia is everything he shouldn’t want—but everything he craves…
Samia’s thrilled by the longing Luca awakens within her but knows a temporary fling is their only option. A future with him is impossible. For the shadows of her past make Samia wholly unsuitable to be Luca’s princess…don’t they?
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He commanded the advanced guard of General Lomakine's column from Kinderly Bay, in the Caspian, to join General Verefkin, from Orenburg, in the expedition to Khiva in 1874, and, after great suffering on the desert march, took a prominent part in the capture of the Khivan capital.
The former connexion between the Caspian and Aral by means of the gulf now represented by the Sary Kamish depression seems to be admitted by Russian scientists, nor would there appear to be much doubt about the connexion between the Khivan oasis and the northern extremity of the Sary Kamish.
At the same time another branch of the same gulf protruded northwards in the direction of the Aral, probably as far as the Sary Kamish depression, which lies to the west of the Khivan delta of the Oxus, separated from it by wide beds of loess, clays and gravel, covering rocks of an unknown age.
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text: Experts in many fields approach a new problem by identifying the general principles involved before starting work on details. Do expert musicians similarly begin work on a new piece with the big picture, an artistic image of the piece, in mind? To find out, a concert pianist recorded her practice of the third movement, Presto , of J. S. Bach's Italian Concerto , commenting as she did so about what she was doing. The behavioral record of where playing started, stopped, and slowed down indicated the musical dimensions affecting practice, while the comments indicated the main focus of the pianist's attention. An artistic image for the piece was already evident in the initial sight-read performance, guided work on technique in sessions 1-6, and was transformed into a plan for performance by practice of performance cues in sessions 7-8. Interpretive details were added in sessions 9-10 and remaining problems touched up in session 11-12. Despite its pervasive effects on practice, the pianist's artistic image was mentioned only indirectly in comments about technique in sessions 1-6 and about structure, memory, and interpretation in later sessions.


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Welcome to The #FridayReads Review, a regular Friday segment where I share what I've been reading the past week, and what I'm planning to read next! Want to join the Friday fun? Post your own #FridayReads Review and leave the link in the Comments below, or just Comment with what you've been reading!
>> CURRENTLY READING <<
Marissa Meyer recommended this in her e-newsletter and just by glancing at the cover I knew it was a book for me. I've taken to reading a chapter a day and I'm already feeling more motivated and engaged both at work and at home!
>> JUST FINISHED <<
Zero Day by Jan Gangsei (HBK)
3 Stars. An engaging story with decent drama but predictable twists. Review to come.
Dimension W vol. 1 by Yuji Iwahara (PBK)
3 Stars. An interesting future story of bounty hunters, robots, and Iron Man-esque Tesla coil batteries. The art is a little more rugged than I normally prefer, but there's a lot of great detail and some cute-ish characters. While it didn't quite grab me as I'd hoped, the book ended in the middle of an engaging arc so I might try the next volume.
The library finally got in the next volume! I've been really enjoying this intriguing alien action story.
So what are you reading this week?


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QLARO IS A DIGITAL HEALTH COMPANY When patients receive a cancer diagnosis, the most common reaction, apart from shock, is an attempt to gather information – 80% search the internet weekly, and nearly half search daily. Unfortunately, these searches, along with anecdotal stories provided by friends or family, usually yield large amounts of inaccurate, outdated or irrelevant information. Consequently, most patients are not well informed about their disease or their options, feel overwhelmed and helpless when it comes to their cancer care, and are not able to advocate well for themselves. This was our experience when caring for loved ones diagnosed with cancer, and the reason we created qlaro – to change the way cancer patients choose therapies and manage their condition. qlaro is a mobile app that uses a cancer patient’s own medical data to deliver a highly personalized cancer planning and management experience. The app acquires patient data through an intuitive interview process that tells the patient what questions to ask their doctor. The app then takes the answers collected by in the app and creates a unique clinical profile and that is used to match the patient with highly relevant information, people, and other patient experiences. The app is integrated with a proprietary data warehouse that was purpose built to improve the efficacy of machine learning in healthcare applications (built by co-founder Andrew Nguyen, BS UCSD, PhD UCSF) – the result: the app knows what information patients need, and when they need it. qlaro intends to monetize by anonymizing the data we collect from cancer patients and providing real-time, real-world data to therapeutics companies, insurers, and healthcare providers. Collectively, these organizations spend billions to measure changes in market share, duration of treatment, and clinical pathways across all cancers. Today, this analysis is based on claims data, doctor surveys, and the emerging use of data from electronic healthcare records. However, all of these methods are expensive and none track patients across all providers or present companies with the ability to use a neutral third-party platform to survey actual patient needs. We are currently involved with early customer development conversations with four large bio-pharma companies. The app taps into two powerful tailwinds in healthcare today: consumerization and the emergence of precision medicine therapies. At qlaro, we believe these trends will drive the 14m patients living with cancer in the US to adopt solutions that empower them to seek more personalized therapies. From a commercialization perspective, the companies who make those therapies for the $130B+ US cancer market are looking for better insights on highly segmented populations of cancer patients. We are currently designing a pilot study with a large integrated care provider in Northern California for 20 ovarian cancer patients to trial the app. The study is being structured to measure patient satisfaction, engagement levels, and assess the quality and accuracy of clinical information captured in the app. We expect to onboard patients in 1H2018. We are seeking $400k of angel/seed financing to support our pilot, the hiring of clinical analytics support, and software development that address new features and functions and the deployment of the app across all major technology platforms (iOS, Android, Windows).
Primary Industry Sector: Software and Services
Funding Status: Preseed

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Following on from my post recommending Róisín Murphy’s Hairless Toys album, I went through her singles and remixes on Spotify – there was a lot of stuff I’d missed since 2007’s Overpowered.
Maurice Fulton takes House of Glass into disco territory with a seriously big bass line!
Keeping it disco, Severino & Nico De Ceglia remix Róisín’s cover version of an old Italian easy listening sleaze-fest with grand results. Again Again Again indeed!
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hello! i'm lindsey. i grew up in maine and naturally spent a lot of time outdoors, especially in my mother's flower garden. living in new england has allowed me to appreciate all four seasons. each season has a special offering from lilacs in the spring to dahlias in the fall. there is beauty to be found at every stage from a flower developing and maturing to aging gracefully. each season brings new beauty and new life. i incorporate seasonality, source locally when possible, and am passionate about floral sustainability. flowers + plants continue to inspire me. they are a form of self-expression that i hope to showcase in my designs.


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This month we’re talking Heroes and Supervillains, so in the spirit of the new Suicide Squad movie, I’m bringing you a makeup look based on one of the most iconic villains of all: The Joker! This is a pretty simple tutorial; The Joker is fairly straight forward. Let’s get started!
I always start with color correcting and concealing, but you can do these in whichever order you normally do them. Find the lightest foundation you can near your own skin tone and use that. Try to make your face as naturally light as you can: this man is a clown after all. This step is impossible for me because I am using the lightest foundation I could find and it still matches my skin.
Next prime your (laser) eyes. I’m using the Urban Decay Primer Potion in Minor Sin. This is just the best eyeshadow primer I’ve found. After that I took a sparkly black and applied that to my outer corner and blended into my crease.
Next I took a dark purple and applied that next to the black.
Next I used a pale, pastel kind of green and applied that to the middle of my lid. That gives this look the iconic Joker colors!
Last on the eyes (for now) I used my red lip liner and added it to the inner corner. While I had it out I lined my lips too.
When doing my liner, I made the creepiest smile I could and followed the lines of my mouth to make a creepy, clownish smile. This is where you can make it bolder or more subtle if you’d like; you can even skip this step and go to the next one if you want true subtle.
After that I filled it in with bright red lip color.
Back to the eyes. I lined my eyes and winged my liner. If you, too, decide to do this style, make sure your wings are sharp enough to kill the Batman. I also applied a bit of black under my eyes.
Lastly I applied my favorite mascara. Don’t forget setting spray if you have it!
Now go out and kill the Batman!*
What other characters would y’all like to see? I’m planning on doing Harley to go with this Joker!
*Or don’t. It’s your life, you do what you want.

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Mumbai: Woman molested and assaulted on train as passengers watched silently
A woman travelling on a Mumbai local train was assaulted and molested by a man last Thursday night. Footage of the incident had been recorded and diffused on social networks. The video shows how the man cornered his victim in the handicapped compartment on a moving train. The incident happened on a CST train Kalyan to Dadar route, between 11 pm and 11.22 pm.
Passengers on board just watched the scene and did not intervene. According to witnesses, the woman and the man are two friends and were sitting side by side. An argument led the man to act violently towards the woman.
Some passengers, however, contact the police, and the man identified as Rafique Shaikh, was allegedly accused of molestation and attempt to commit murder. As Rafique tried to strangle the woman, co- passenger and on-board police raised the alarm but could not intervene as they were in the train’s next compartment.
Forwarding the accused arrest, the woman had been questioned by the police. She declared that the man owed her a huge sum of money and was unwilling to pay her back.

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I wanted to choose a cause close to my heart, so I've focused my project on the gender pay gap. I wanted to create a campaign that spanned across a number of platforms and which the audience could interact with and generate their own content. I wanted it to make a difference and be personal so it would not only evoke a reaction but provoke action. My campaign ‘#DoYouMINDTHEGAP’ helps raise awareness of the pay inequality and uses its power to help women bridge the gap.
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Early this week, Global Brokerage firm Mindtree has hit low falling 10 percent. This made a whole new 58 week low closing at RS 752 at Bombay stock exchange. As per the reports from MONEY EXCHANGE, an extra 50 percent fall of profit was in last month.
With the global brokerage firms being at its rivals, this new low has upset mind tree maintain the ratings on the street. The company has reported the fall from RS 810 to Rs 620.52. This fall is planned to recall in the missing quarter 1.
Their FY20 guidance has been ended up lowering to above IND REV growth. With the notice of loss, they ended up reporting a revenue growth till the end of this year. New plans are being made to raise up the margins of quarter 2.
Prediction report by the GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANK claims this business is expected to continue for a short interval. A slash of 9 – 13 percent ends up FY20-22 EPS. This low fall in 10% made a plethora of companies to reduce the call on mind tree.
Earlier BNP Paribas reduced the call on Mindtree by reducing the target price to RS 650. They had recently cut their cost to Rs 810, with the goal that was another significant drop. While the organization stays confident about their advancement before the current year’s over, we are yet to preceive what the market produces for Mindtree.


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AMY NW is a small close knit environment. The principal and teachers REALLY care about the children's well being and academic progress. They are also very repsonsive towards the parents, rather in person, telephone or internet.
In our experience so far, the school's principal and teachers work as a dedicated team, going above and beyond for the students. They have helped my child and I'm sure all the other children, to realize their potential, so that they leave AMY NW with not only high school in mind, but with college aspirations.
There is a new sheriff in town! The new principal is no-nonsense, yet fair. As is the case with most public schools (as opposed to private/parochial) he doesn't get to choose his student body. Nearly every student transfered to this school because their family recognized the student wasn't getting what they deserve at their local school. My observation is that the teachers DO care. The school is small enough that the teachers and administration know all the kids' names and their strengths/weaknesses. Why kids don't achieve or (seemingly) don't want to achieve can't be hung on the teachers. If you wish to know about the school, schedule a visit. Don't base a decision on my impressions AND certainly don't make a decision based on the observations of an ex-student (teen-ager?)
Well, I use to go to the school and it was much better than then it is now. When I graduated in 2002 I already saw that the school was losing it's potential. I felt as some of the teachers should call it in. I beleive the school needs younger teachers to keep up with the students. Just an idea.
This school needed to looked at very closely. We have children in this school that want to learn and it's not happening. The disruption in the class room, the teachers cannot control the students which makes this bad for the student that wants to learn! in addition the Principal is not strong in keeping order in this school. Overall quality is very poor. Parent in Need of Help


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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Reviewed for Film Factual by Abe Friedtanzer
Director: Anthony Fabian
Writer: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Anna Chancellor, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Rose William
Screened at: Peacock, LA, 12/13/22
Opens: July 15th, 2022
How big the world feels depends on your perspective, and many other things. Those who travel internationally on a weekly basis for work or who take lavish vacations to expensive tropical destinations may see a lengthy flight as a common and unremarkable thing, while others have never ventured far beyond the small towns in which they grew up. When unexpected fortune arrives, how a person acts will be very much influenced by what they’ve previously had. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a light, endearing tale of what happens when sincerity and dreams collide.
Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) has worked as a cleaning lady in London for years, and finds herself in an unexpected state when her long-dead husband’s war pension is finally awarded to her. Taken with a Dior dress that she has seen, she flies to Paris intent on purchasing the fanciest piece of clothing she has ever owned. Dismissed by the demeaning Claudine (Isabelle Huppert) as unworthy of even entering the premises, Mrs. Harris quickly makes friends and shows that she has a valuable perspective as the perfect dress is designed for her.
This film is based on the 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, whose title emphasizes the accent of its protagonist. Mrs. Harris is unassuming but also opinionated, and she is upset by the treatment she receives upon arriving at Dior in Paris, unhappy that others can simply walk in and cut in front of her when she has been waiting politely. She has plenty to learn about high society but has no intention of changing who she is, with just as much to teach those who had only just recently looked down on her based on nothing more than her appearance.
Manville is a wonderful actress who also shines this year in season five of The Crown, taking over the role of Princess Margaret from Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter. She has delivered acclaimed performances in films like Another Year and Phantom Thread, and, though this role isn’t nearly as serious, she still infuses it with everything she has, delivering witty lines as she shows those who believe they are high-class that their self-important attitudes are serving no one, and that she has carved out a perfectly satisfactory life for herself without wealth or cruelty.
The supporting cast is also well-populated. Huppert is properly cast as Claudine, who enjoys the cast to be haughty but also evolves over the course of the film. Lambert Wilson exudes charm and charisma as the Marquis de Chassagne, who welcomes Mrs. Harris in to a new world while others only seek to exclude her. Lucas Bravo, who plays young chef Gabriel in Emily in Paris, gets serious as a Dior employee, while Warrior Nun star Alba Baptista is compelling as Natasha, who is best able to understand Mrs. Harris’ life experiences and warmly responds to her right away. Jason Isaacs also appears in an atypically light and jovial part as Archie, a local friend of Mrs. Harris.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is also notable, unsurprisingly, for its costumes. The way in which the dresses that are worn by models walking down the runway while Mrs. Harris watches in adoration are presented gives them an air of magic, only enhanced by Mrs. Harris’ reaction to seeing them. The effort and work that goes into each stitch also makes up a good deal of the film’s plot as Mrs. Harris comes to relate to those whose contributions go entirely underappreciated. This film celebrates the unseen and underpraised, and it’s a warm, light experience that is fittingly pleasant and fleeting.
Story – B
Acting – B+
Technical – B+
Overall – B


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Good Morning Beautiful Souls.
I hope you’re all doing well.
Today I just wanted to share some thoughts with you.
I know there haven’t been many updates on this blog of late and I do apologise about that..
When we break Self-Love down to it’s core… It’s a reminder that Self-Love is so simple yet so complex to master… at the end of the day.. Self-Love is all about YOU.
When you begin to master the art of unconditionally loving yourself.. You are taking your power back. Your true power that dwells within your authentic self.
Self-Love causes a huge shift in perspective (or at least it did for me… I know everyone’s self-love journey is different and there are no right or wrong ways on this journey).
Recently, I’ve learned through self-love that you are in total control of your life. (take a moment to read that again and let it sink in).
Nothing in this world can affect your emotional state unless you allow it to.
You are the creator of your life, you have the power within you to overcome any and all hardships in life.
You are only responsible for your own actions, your own responses to situations, You cannot control anything outside of you.
When this truly starts to awaken your ability to love yourself unconditionally, you step into your true power, your whole purpose of being comes into focus, you are here on this earth with a purpose and that purpose is unique to you as an individual. No one call tell you how to live your life, your choices are your own and you are in complete control.
In short, you are a magnificent being, made with Divine purpose and you embody the light of the Divine and should allow that light to shine through in all that you do.
Self-Love… always starts with YOU.
With All My Love,


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The BBC has been accused of being a ‘cheerleader for assisted suicide,’ after promoting the issue in the popular TV soap EastEnders
Editor’s note. This appeared in Scottish Catholic Observer.
In an episode that aired last week, and was watched by seven million people, long-standing character Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, took a fatal overdose of medication after learning that she had terminal cancer.
Pro-life campaign groups said it was just the latest example of a BBC programme that sympathetically portrayed ill people wanting to end their own life. Assisted suicide is illegal in this country, resoundingly rejected by the last Scottish Parliament, but Dignity in Dying—formerly known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society—immediately used the storyline to call for the law on assisted suicide to be relaxed. A statement from the pro-life organisation Care Not Killing (CNK), however, said it was ‘extremely disappointing to learn that yet again the BBC is acting as the cheerleader for assisted suicide and suicide.’
CNK highlighted that the EastEnders episode was the seventh pro-assisted suicide programme aired by the BBC in recent years, adding that ‘the alternatives—quality palliative and hospice care along with home care—continue to be ignored.’
“It is depressing that yet again the BBC has missed an opportunity to share with the nation the work of the army of volunteers, doctors and other health care professionals who support the overwhelming majority of the half million people who die every year in this country,” the group said.
A BBC spokesperson said that ‘EastEnders has a rich history of tackling difficult social issues and Peggy’s story is one of these.’
“We have worked closely with leading medical experts and various charities, including the Samaritans, to ensure that this storyline is portrayed as sensitively and responsibly as possible,” the spokesperson added. “At no point do we glamourise or romanticise the issue of suicide, in fact we have taken great care to show the audience not only Peggy’s perspective but the many different views of those around her.”
CNK said that the BBC’s continual promotion of suicide as a solution to terminal illness was concerning.
“Terminal illness and suicide are serious issues that warrant measured and informed debate,” the group said. “We welcome the fact that that the programme makers appear to have sought advice from the Samaritans, but this should not obscure the simple fact that this is the seventh pro-killing programme which promotes assisted suicide and euthanasia, while the alternatives, quality palliative and hospice care along with home care continue to be ignored.”
In his exhortation Amoris Laetitia, released earlier this year, Pope Francis again stresses the Church’s opposition to any unnatural end to life.
“Euthanasia and assisted suicide are serious threats to families worldwide,” he writes. “The Church, while firmly opposing these practices, feels the need to assist families who take care of their elderly and infirm members.”


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Count on Blueberry Dessert Wraps to wrap up a meal Blueberry Dessert Wraps are nicely packaged blueberries, easily prepared and festive-looking. Tortillas are the wrapping material, the filling includes cream cheese.
Blueberry Dessert Wraps
3 tablespoons sugar
11D2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 cup orange juice
11D2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries, divided (see note)
1 package (8 ounces) light or lowfat cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 (7-inch) flour tortillas
2 tablespoons butter
To prepare sauce: In a small saucepan combine sugar and cornstarch; stir in orange juice. Cook and stir over medium heat until sauce is clear and thickened, about 5 minutes; stir in 1 cup blueberries; return to a boil; boil and stir for 1 minute.
In a mixing bowl beat cream cheese until light. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth and creamy.
Spread each tortilla with about 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture. Place about 6 blueberries across the center of each tortilla. Roll jelly-roll style.
In a medium skillet, melt 1 tablespoon butter over medium heat; place half of the wraps seam side down in skillet and cook, turning occasionally until evenly browned, about 3 minutes.
Repeat with remaining butter and wraps. Serve topped with blueberry sauce.
Makes 8 wraps.
(Note: you may use either fresh or frozen blueberries according to season and what is available in your market; you do not need to thaw the frozen berries.)
Nutritional information per serving with 2 tablespoons sauce: 234 cals., 6 g pro., 10 g fat, 31 g carbo, 27 mg sodium.
-- From the Blueberry Council
BERRY WRAPS: Blueberry Dessert Wraps are easily prepared and festive-looking.

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Taenarum is the legendary entrance to the Greek Underworld. Hades, the god of wealth and the underworld, covets the souls of mortal heroes, and his undead minions have created sprawling dungeons along the road of the dead, promising fantastic treasures and ready death. Heroes from around Greece sojourn to Taenarum to test themselves against the death god's minions and the chance to loot Hades' wealthy vaults.
The great heroes and kings of the Trojan War have faded to obscurity, leaving behind petty city states and grasping kings. It's a landscape ripe for a new generation of heroes , where a strong sword arm and a hefty purse can raise an army and allow one to start their own conquests.
The gods themselves are deeply divided. Slights and insults from the war years have created rifts across the pantheon, rivalries that are echoed amongst their mortal followers. When angered, the scornful gods send terrible monsters to punish disrespectful followers. Apocalyptic oracles warn that the known world is on the verge of a new Dark Age…
Next are the maps I'm using for the world. This view of the world came from the Greek historian Herodotus; if you google "Herodotus world map" you can see what I mean. Imagine if the world really looked like this! There are decadent and ancient city states in the lands beyond Greece, crumbling and corrupt centers of old civilization like Carthage, Memphis, and Babylon. Somewhere in the far north dwell the bizarre and otherworldly Hyperboreans with their alien science and magic. This map of the world is far enough away from the real world that it's easy to "fantasy it up" and place Mythic Greece at the center of it all.
|Oikoumene, the Known World|
|Taenarum, in southern Laconia|
Assumptions for 5E
I plan to run 5E using most\all of the core assumptions and keep it "by the book", interpreting races and classes through a mythic lens where warranted. Customization will mostly be new monsters, magic items, and artifacts.
The following core classes all work fine as is for Greek adventurers - Bard, Fighter, Cleric, Paladin, Rogue, and Wizard. All the wild lands north of Greece are filled with Barbarians. Druids and Rangers can hail from the Celtic wilds of Iberia, and Sorcerers and Warlocks can be from any number of the decadent civilizations to the east. I'm sure the players will generate additional ideas, and I plan on taking in some player suggestions, too.
The dwarves of mythic Greece are forge-bound followers of Hephaestus; elves and the fey races are be outsiders from the wilds of Europe and the north - though keeping with the Greek theme, the natural world is somewhat split between the portfolio of Artemis (order) and Pan (chaos). Keeping with the swords & sorcery vibe, Tieflings hail from the decadent east and demon-plagued cities of night, and perhaps Dragonborn are from some distant part of Asia (although there's also the mythic "Spartoi", the men grown from dragon's teeth by Cadmus). I could go either way on Dragonborn. I'm not a fan of Half-Orcs - there aren't any orcs in the game, they're "pig-men" instead - but perhaps the Half-Orc represents a human cursed by the gods - like Caliban from the cheesy "Clash of the Titans" movie. A Half-Orc is made when a god takes a clay statue of a man, and warps it into something twisted and grotesque as punishment for a slight or insult. I'm not 100% sure how the Drow are going to fit into the Greek mythos yet, I just know that I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Drow.

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The Washington Post reports this week that the nationwide push to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide on demand has stalled despite a well-funded national effort and some victories.
While California, Colorado, and the District of Columbia have legalized DPS, joining Vermont, Oregon, Washington and Montana, everywhere else the push by Compassion and Choices and other pro-suicide groups has not had the results they have wished.
DPS bills were proposed in 27 state legislatures this year, with none of them passing so far. In most, the bills died in committee or did not receive support in the both houses of the legislature. In Massachusetts, we are still waiting to hear how the Joint Public Health Committee will vote following hearings at the State House last month. They have until the spring to decide whether to approve or decline.
Moreover, we saw a definitive decision in New York state by their highest court upholding their law banning the practice. And the US House of Representatives is considering a resolution expressing their opposition to legalization.
The article also notes that most major doctors’ groups remain opposed, or at most neutral.
However, all is not rosy as some polls find that Americans do support legalizing DPS. But the question remains: What do they think they are supporting? Most Americans want people to be able to die without suffering and pain. When it comes to specific bills and how they place the elderly and the vulnerable in danger, they often change their minds. When they see how such a law could be used by doctors, families, and insurance companies to pressure the sick to die already, they don’t support that. When we can explain the advances in palliative care that have been made and are available, they see that would be better.
Compassion and Choices has targeted Massachusetts as low-hanging fruit to get the momentum back on their side for a nationwide push and they’re turning out all their vast resources to make it happen.
All that stands in their way are the pro-lifers of Massachusetts. Will you stand with us? Become a member of Massachusetts Citizens for Life and lend your voice. If you are a member, support our combined efforts with a new donation. The time to stop the expansion of doctor-prescribed suicide is now and the place to do it is right here in Massachusetts.

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Author(s): Drew Bale
Dane is a popular, athletic and well respected young man, and decides to throw his hat into the ring to become a school leader.
His world is turned upside down, for both good and bad, when he discovers that he has the power to do so much more than he ever thought possible as a role model to his friends and peers. Dane then has to make a choice: to do what is easy, or to do what is right. His choices will take him away from everything he loves but with the hope that there will be a much greater outcome at the end.
Dane will go on a journey that tests his understanding, his friendships and what he believes. He must continue to grow or he will fail, which is something he can't do as there is so much at stake.


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Uranium companies have separately announced plans to make strategic purchases of physical uranium. Denison is aiming to buy about 2.5 million pounds U3O8 (962 tU) through the spot market as a long-term investment, while Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) has entered into agreements to purchase 400,000 pounds. UK-based Yellow Cake plc has also announced further purchase plans under its agreement with Kazatomprom.
Toronto-based Denison said yesterday it had entered into a strategic financing agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation to raise about USD$75 million, which will be used to fund the strategic purchase of uranium concentrates to be held by Denison as a long-term investment intended to support the potential future financing of the advancement and/or construction of its 90%-owned Wheeler River uranium project in Saskatchewan, Canada. The purchase is expected to strengthen the company’s balance sheet and enhance its ability to access future project financing.
The purchased uranium could also provide increased flexibility for Denison to negotiate long-term uranium supply arrangements with future customers, it said. Its physical uranium holdings will eventually be marketed to its future customers along with the mine production from Wheeler River, should a future decision be made to advance the project to construction.
Denison President and CEO David Cates said the physical uranium holdings will represent a “sizeable portion” of Denison’s share of the expected CAD290 million initial capital costs for Wheeler River.
“As a result, we expect this transaction to enhance the long-term financial stability of the company, as we advance towards a definitive development decision. From a project finance standpoint, the physical uranium holdings could potentially de-risk the process by representing a meaningful source of collateral. Similarly, we expect that our future customers will value, as part of potential future discussions regarding off-take or long-term contracting arrangements, the fact that our company will already have a sizeable base of physical uranium before achieving first production from Wheeler River,” he said.
With the transaction, Cates said, Denison has “broken the conventional equity dilution model for mining development companies – as our shareholders will benefit from the additional financial stability of our Uranium holdings, while remaining fully leveraged to any future appreciation of uranium prices during the balance of the environmental assessment and feasibility study processes currently planned for Wheeler River.”
US uranium producer UEC today announced its plans to establish a physical uranium inventory “to take advantage of spot purchases below most industry production costs.
“Holding an inventory will also provide “greater marketing flexibility” while freeing up production from the company’s domestic mines production for the US Uranium Reserve, and “other US-origin specific opportunities,” the company said.
UEC CEO and President Amir Adnani said the Texas-based company is investing to build the next generation of low-cost and environmentally friendly uranium projects.
“Despite our focus on low cost in-situ recovery mining with its low capital requirements, we see a unique opportunity to purchase drummed uranium at prevailing spot prices which are below most global industry mining costs,” he said. “Hence, we are establishing a physical uranium inventory initiative and have entered into initial agreements totalling USD10.9 million to purchase 400,000 pounds of US warehoused uranium at our account with the ConverDyn facility in Metropolis, Illinois.”
This initiative, he said, will support three objectives: to bolster UEC’s balance sheet as uranium prices appreciate; provide a strategic inventory to support future marketing efforts with utilities that could compliment production and accelerate cashflows; and increase the availability of production capacity from the company’s Texas and Wyoming operations “for emerging US origin specific opportunities which may command premium pricing due to scarcity” such as supplying the US Uranium Reserve.
Establishment of the reserve was recommended in April 2020 by a presidential working group tasked with analysing national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain.
Yellow Cake increases holdings
Yellow Cake, which specialises in buying and holding physical stocks of uranium, yesterday said it has informed Kazakh uranium company Kazatomprom that it has elected to exercise its full 2021 USD100 million uranium purchase option and expects to take delivery of the 3.5 million lb of U3O8 at Cameco’s Port Hope/Blind River facility in Ontario, Canada between April and August this year. This follows the completion of a USD140 million share placing earlier this month.
The company has also agreed to purchase a further 440,000 pounds U3O8 at a price of USD27.34 per pound for total consideration of USD12 million, it said, taking delivery later this month. These purchases will increase Yellow Cake’s U3O8 holdings from 9.3 million to 13.2 million pounds U3O8. “To the extent that additional uranium can be sourced for value, Yellow Cake intends to continue with further uranium market purchases,” it said.
Yellow Cake has the option to purchase up to USD100 million of U3O8 per year from Kazatomprom at an undisturbed spot price under a framework agreement between the two companies.
“We believe there is a clear shift in sentiment around the outlook for uranium,” Yellow Cake CEO Andre Liebenberg said. “Significant investor demand enabled us to considerably increase the size of the share placing. We now see real opportunity for shareholders to benefit from the pending rebalancing of the uranium market. The larger placing also provides strategic benefits to Yellow Cake.”
Source: World Nuclear News

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The Untapped Cities shop showcases the illustration and photographic talent of the contributors in the Untapped Cities network, from the New York-inspired doodles of the Downtown Doodler, to the fashion sketches of Kat Mills, our Art for Style columnist, to our famous Paris NYC mashup map, to the San Francisco modernist illustrations of Michael Murphy. We'll be adding new art regularly so check back often!
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Despite widespread panic over privacy concerns, a new infographic from GlobalWebIndex shows that the adoption of Facebook Messenger continues to grow in many countries. This may be somewhat unsurprising, given that Facebook has unbundled messaging from the main app and pushed that feature into its Messenger app.
GlobalWebIndex notes that Facebook Messenger is now the world’s second-most-popular messaging app, behind another Facebook entity — WhatsApp. In the U.K., the percentage of mobile users with Facebook Messenger rose from 27 percent at the end of 2013 to 40 percent midway through 2014.
Here’s a look at Facebook Messenger’s top markets internationally, ranked by the share of mobile audience.
Top image courtesy of Shutterstock.


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And the Nominees Are...
People's Champ Award
Say 'Hola, ¿Cómo Estás?' to the Man With the Song of the Summer
'The Get Down' Should Be Your New Favorite Series ASAP
B(l)ack to School Movies
The Cast of Living Single: Where Are They Now?
Too Much! Twitter Drags Shad Moss to Hell With #BowWowAintBeenPoppinSince
XXX: Five Signs That You Might Be Addicted to Porn
10 Celebrity Pregnancy Style Secrets
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President Obama Visits Baton Rouge After Criticism That He's Late
Justin Gatlin vs. Usain Bolt
First White President
Hip Hop Awards
Real Husbands of Hollywood
How to Rock: Denim
HIP HOP AWARDS
REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD
HOW TO ROCK: DENIM
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Eva Longoria shares her story of how she got engaged to Jose Antonio Baston.
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These stars had some harsh words for the reality TV family.
It's the first child for the San Antonio Spurs player.
Plus, looks from Iman, Naomi Campbell and more.
Eva Longoria and Matt Barnes have been sharing some steamy e-mails and The Basketball Wives has two new stars.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) — On what was supposed to be the last day of indoor season for the Downtown Bloomington Farmers’ Market, Saturday’s market went outside anyway.
People enjoyed the market outside of the McLean County Museum of History, while the typical indoor site Grossinger Motors Arena is being used as a COVID-19 vaccination site.
“We kind of got bumped from our normal location due to the COVID vaccinations, so we just decided to put a fun spin on it, and make it a spring fever market,” said Samantha Mlot, Downtown Development Specialist.
Drue Van Meter, who sells gluten free products with her business ‘The Recipe Girls,’ said the farmers’ market is important, especially for those looking to grow their business.
“Without the farmers’ market, I wouldn’t have been able to start my business whatsoever,” said Van Meter.
She said the market helped her get her businesses name out, and grow her customers.
“I now have like a thousand likes on Facebook, just so much activity here, and so much marketing is available here too,” said Van Meter.
Drake Parker, with Middle Fork Farm, sells vegetables at the market, and said being able to interact with customers, is often what brings them back.
“This is our fourth year being here, from that first year we’ve had a lot of the same, repeat customers, they come back every weekend, you’re on a first name basis with these people and it’s always nice when spring comes back around and you get to see faces you haven’t seen in months,” said Parker.
Outdoor season for the Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market starts in May.

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The rover touched down on Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012
The rover touched down on Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012. “Since touchdown, the rover journeyed more than 14 miles (23 kilometers), drilling 26 rock samples and scooping six soil samples along the way as it revealed that ancient Mars was indeed suitable for life,” said NASA in a statement. “Studying the textures and compositions of ancient rock strata is helping scientists piece together how the Martian climate changed over time, losing its lakes and streams until it became the cold desert it is today.”
The Curiosity Rover in a selfie taken on Martian Sol 2082 -June 15, 2018 Earth time. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Last year, the rover detected an “unusually high” level of methane on Mars, and in 2018 NASA revealed that it had found organic molecules.
Meanwhile, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launched last week on its epic mission to the Red Planet, a journey that is expected to take seven months. The rover is scheduled to land on Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb 18, 2021. The mission’s duration on the Red Planet’s surface is at least one Martian year or about 687 days.
NASA’s long-term goal is to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s. However, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin thinks that a slightly later target date of 2040 is more realistic.
In an interview in 2016, the Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut told Fox News that he believed astronauts could visit Mars’ moon Phobos by 2040, which could serve as a sort of stepping stone to the Red Planet.


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UK money transfer service Transferwise has said the number of transactions it process on a monthly basis rose 50% over the last six months, with the total value transferred now hitting a combined £800m ($1.06bn).
The London-based group, which on Monday (5 September) publicly released its monthly transaction volumes and values for the first time, said revenue in the 12 months to March rose to £28m, almost three times the amount it recorded the previous year.
Transactions in the half-year period rose 50% year-on-year to £600,000, with an average of £1,333 being sent per transaction. However, pre-tax losses grew to £17m from £11m a year earlier as the startup, which was launched five years ago, continued to invest in a bid to expand its growth further.
"When we launched five years ago, we only offered transfers between the UK and Estonia," said chief executive and co-founder Taavet Hinrikus.
"Now we have 645 routes globally and we can send money to 90% of the world's bank accounts,"
"We've really hit our stride in the last two years as we expand beyond Europe. We're constantly working hard to improving the service for our customers, whether that's by introducing new currencies or making transfers even faster."
Earlier this year, Transferwise became the first fintech startup to be granted access to the Bank of England's Real Time Gross Settlement service, which means approximately 90% of transfers will take place on the same day by the end of the year.


Victor Prus was the architect darling who came up with this structure at the Mount Royal metro, approved by Montreal executive council in 1963, a few years before the station opened.
Prus, born in Poland in 1918, didn't get his Mount Royal metro building plan but a number of other structures he dreamed up became real, so he - unlike so many other architects - didn't end up weeping into his Canadian Club when he died in Montreal in January 2017 at the age of 99.
This tiny bit of green space on the west side of the current metro is known as Gerard Godin Square, named after a separatist poet who was a Plateau media darling of in the Parti Quebecois cabinet before dying of brain cancer.
Around 15 triplex/duplex residential structures on Rivard and Berri were demolished for the metro as well as a number of a series of larger buildings and storefronts along Mount Royal, which included Quebecois-owned businesses like Bernard Lemaire and Brothers, Pineau and Son, Mutuel Lucerne Adjusting, Laurentide Insurance and Pastor Patisserie, according to the 1958 Lovells Director.
Various activities now take place where those buildings once stood, including the occasional mini farmers market and so forth.
But seems that the area got a little shortchanged considering it's the most notable metro station in the booming artsy-district, now one of the city's hottest real estate markets.
Mayor Jean Drapeau, one might have assumed, might have made it a priority to see something more dynamic built on his beloved east-side property.
Provincial Public Security Minister Robert Perrault proposed building a tunnel from the Caisse Populaire to the metro from the northwest corner of Rivard and Mount Royal. But that $6 million proposal never bore fruit. *
|1997 proposal to create a tunnel under Mount Royal|
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Advantages of water-soluble fertilizersRelease time：2023-05-26 Click：212
With the popularization of water-soluble fertilizers and the realization of their advantages, more and more farmers are starting to use water-soluble fertilizers. Water soluble fertilizers are also constantly emerging in the market, and the quality of water soluble fertilizers varies from good to bad. So, what is the relationship between the quality of water soluble fertilizers?
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Buying a less efficient solar panel now will likely result in a poor long term outcome for consumers, as it will prevent them from expanding their solar system in the future, when one needs to create more electricity for batteries and electric car. Solar panels come as a 60 cell version and a 72 cell version and the inefficient panels have a rating of 250 to 270W in the 60 cell (1m x 1.6m) or around 320W in the 72 cell (1 m x 2m). To buy a future proof system now one needs to consider keeping reserve capacity available on the roof for future expansion.
The reason is that residents will have solar on their roof in future years and will not only be able to generate electricity but also to charge the battery system for their home electricity consumption at night, and to generate electricity for their electric cars.
One of the quickest and easiest ways to act on climate change will be to move from fossil fuelled cars to electric cars in the next 5-8 years. It will only make a CO2 difference if the power for these electric cars is gained through renewable energy, otherwise they would just be shifting from oil to coal powered electricity. It therefore comes as no surprise that many car manufacturers now have an electric car in their model line-up. LG most recently has signed up with 14 out of the top 20 car manufacturers for future battery supply for their electric vehicles under development. It goes without saying that Tesla is very active in this space.
Most people would need a range of around 80 -100 km per day for their electric car, and using the current electric car as an example that would need a minimum of 12-14 kW/h of electricity to travel this distance. So, most homes, especially the ones with 2 cars would need to generate at least 24KW/h for the cars and they would also aim to get a further 20-25 kWh for use in their home, as this is the average home’s electricity consumption.
In the near future people are likely to have battery storage charged by their solar energy system during the day which would then recharge their cars at night. Many people may actually choose to be disconnected from the grid or operate within micro grids. So, if we add up the minimum energy requirements with a comfortable buffer for cloudy days etc. in the future one would need a solar system that can generate at least 50 kW/h per day.
To create 50kW/h of electricity one needs a 10-14 kW solar system, depending on the location in Australia. Today most solar systems sold are around 3 to 5kW. The advertised and very cheap 250-275 Watt panels (as they offer old technology) will not allow such a big system to be installed on many local roofs. One would need to install over 50 panels to get to the ideal system size and most residential roofs are simply not big enough to have so many inefficient panels fit.
So by choosing the highest output panel today, when you just buy a solar energy system, before batteries and electric car, getting a highly efficient panel means customers will be preserving valuable roof space for future expansion. It’s a bit like buying a more expensive upgradable computer, rather than a cheaper one that becomes obsolete quickly, the next time Windows does an update.
Some manufacturers are already working towards 360/400 Watt 60 cell panels and 400 plus 72 cell panels in the very near future and one of the stand out companies having poured money into research for batteries and high efficiency panels is LG Electronics. From an initial model of 60 cell – 215W in 2011, LG via house research is currently offering a 320W NeON2 on the same physical size as the 260 watt panels. In 2017, they launched a new step forward: the 60 cell – 360W – NeON R.
LG also has some very good battery storage products coming in the RESU range, which are designed to last 20 years and which have just started to arrive in Australia. If you do the math, the increased efficiencies start to make sense. Let’s assume a family drives about 15,000 km per year, that’s about $22,000 in fuel costs over 10 years, and if they face an annual electricity bill of $2,000 for their home, that is a further $20,000 spent in that period, giving them a $42,000 expenditure over 10 years. If they invest this sum into solar and batteries and electric vehicle charging there could be savings even at today’s pricing.
Buy a high efficient solar panel now, save roof space to expand in the future with batteries and even then keep some roof space reserve so when electric cars come you can get fuel from the sun. The future energy revolution is much closer than many people imagine. So get an efficient panel now and save your valuable roof space, for future system and battery expansion.
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The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín
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The Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jeláleddín Rumi (1207-1273) found his own religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. His Sufi poems are amongst the most compelling and memorable spiritual works of world literature. Their diversity and profoundness had entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped culture and literature. To many modern Westerners, Rumi's poems are one of the best introductions to the philosophy and practice of Sufism. Rumi's teachings are considered to transcend religious, national and ethnic borders. With these translations, other cultures and people in the world are now also approaching and understanding Rumi more deeply. His poetry touches the seeking and sense of wonder present in every human being.
1/ The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Complete 6 Books) translated and annotated by E. H. Whinfield.
2/ The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín translated and annotated by William Hastie.
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Stringing Together Stories is a project that was born from a series of seedling ideas planted by myself and those around me. The ideas melded together to become what they are now, which I think is best described as a multi-medium, resistance through art, education, activism, and community awareness "thing".
It started as an idea for a play. A series of monologues based on the real stories of people who have experienced violence. A way of creating a theater experience to incite dialogue and community awareness in the Deaf community. Culturally, violence is not talked about in the Deaf community. There are no statistics on domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, or childhood abuse which are specific to the Deaf community. It is a largely hidden experience with little true awareness.
From there I realized the importance of not only creating dialogue in the community but also building bridges and a foundation for the continued dialogue and resistance. It was then decided that this should be a broader project, encompassing minority communities and recognizing that we all hold multiple identities and may experience overlapping oppressions. I also realized the potential and wonderful activism and advocacy skills hidden away in the Deaf community and realized just how strong we, and other minority communities, could be if we all came together to address violence within our individual and overlapping groups.
At the same time I began my own project to tell my story through yarn- my personal medium of choice. I found the experience of crocheting this blanket to be so therapeutic and as I crocheted the squares I found myself putting parts of myself and my experiences into each one. I thought about combining the two projects and creating a simultaneous multi-medium product. We will be collecting squares from people who have experienced violence and creating a series of blankets, which will be displayed in an art show alongside the monologues.
There will be donation boxes in communities across Ontario, and possibly beyond that. People can submit squares to the donation boxes, with the only requirements being that the squares are 4"x4", 4"x8", or 8"x8". They can be knit, crocheted, or even quilted. The yarn or material is up the creator. They can be solid with something embroidered, a "granny square" or simply a solid square. Every donation will be used.
The culminating product will be displayed in roughly a years time. We will display the blankets and have performances of the monologues. From what is created we hope to develop an educational program in coming years to help combat violence. We want to present it in schools and community settings.
Now for the best part - how YOU can help!
- If you would like to create a square for the blankets, you will be able to donate it (or them) to a community based drop box in a series of locations that are still being determined.
- If you have a group which would like to create a blanket on your own and submit it please email firstname.lastname@example.org
- If you would like to submit your story to be part of the project, there will be an anonymous website to do so that will not identify you in any way.
- If you want to have a donation box for you workplace, agency, school, etc. please email email@example.com
- If you would like to volunteer in putting together the blankets please email firstname.lastname@example.org
-If you have donations of yarn, food for the final events, printing for promotional materials, or if you would like to help establish donation boxes in your community please email email@example.com


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The brewery that owns the pub was co-operative at first and tried to fix it. For eight months all was quiet until, in the past month, the noise returned. The landlord/licensee on site is affable — when asked, he gets the staff to turn off the machines when not in use. But lately we have had to constantly remind them to do this. We fear that we are getting a reputation for being a nuisance, even though we are the ones who are suffering.


The Phosphorus project is addressing some of the key technical issues to enable on-demand, end-to-end network services across multiple domains in an optical Grid environment. In our work we have focused on the design and evaluation of innovative architectures and algorithms to efficiently manage optical Grid infrastructures. Since the solutions obtained in our studies can not be easily deployed in the testbed, a simulation environment is developed.
This simulator allows to make comparisons between different architectural and algorithmic proposals, and assists in evaluating them in a rapid and straightforward way.
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