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Janet Malcolm and Katie Roiphe in conversation at NYU, 2012. Photo courtesy of Roiphe.
In one of my last email exchanges with Janet Malcolm, in one of the darkest parts of the pandemic, she wrote to me, “I can only try to imagine the hard time you and the children are having. How can you not be stalled on writing? I wish there was something I could do to help.” Her response warmed me, elevating my state of general stagnancy into something almost socially acceptable. The idea of her in my house, helping with my son’s online schooling—his teacher was reading out “rat facts” during his daily forty-five minutes of Zoom—was so incongruous that it made me laugh.
Before I met Janet, she was the only living writer who terrified me, because I loved her work so much. I had devoured The Silent Woman in graduate school, and then read everything else. I was in awe of her brutal precision, her sharp inquiries into the production of stories, her moral wrangling with journalism and biography. H. G. Wells once said that Rebecca West wrote like God, and I always felt a little like that about Janet Malcolm.
The Paris Review had tried to interview her twice, but she had pulled out of the process both times. She was not comfortable being recorded by an interviewer in a ranging conversation, and only agreed to my interview if we conducted most of our exchange in writing. We wrote our questions and answers back and forth over months. We came to love the nineteenth-century, evening-post rhythms of our exchange, and at some point in the course of our emails we became friends. I noticed that she had none of the usual writer’s vanity, exhibitionism, need for attention. She constantly deflected the conversation away from anything too personal. She was more interested in craft, in the exchange of ideas. As our interview went into proofs, Janet noticed that my questions and observations had been radically whittled down in the edit. She objected. “You become characterless,” she wrote to me. She threatened to pull the interview once again. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that she was serious.
In the interview, I asked her to talk, among other things, about the conflicts between motherhood and work. “I have indeed felt the pull between the ruthlessness of the writer and the instincts of the mother,” she said. “But this may be too deep a subject for an e-mail exchange on the art of nonfiction. Probably the place to discuss our struggles with the art of mothering is a dark bar.” I never got to have that conversation with her, or to go to a dark bar. Instead, we’d have lunch at Choshi, the now-closed sushi restaurant near her house, where we talked about my messy life (never hers, despite my best efforts) and writing and work. She gave me tips on my hopeless interviewing style. “You don’t have to be friends with everyone you interview!” she would say. “If someone suggests going off the record, tell them you don’t want to hear it. They’ll probably talk to you anyway.”
She was known for her sharp eye, her gorgeous sentences, her frightening brilliance, her astonishing reporting, her fierce intellectual presence, her ability to cut through people’s pretensions with a single phrase, but she was also generous, warm, supportive, and kind. Months after our interview, she offered to participate in an afternoon of live Paris Review interviews at NYU. She dreaded public conversations, but she knew that I was embroiled in a fraught tenure process, and that the conversation might help make me seem valuable to the university and its endless committees. I had somehow managed to corral Gay Talese and Lorrie Moore into the evening as well, and the idea was that they, too, would be informally interviewed onstage. Janet, set against the dangerous spontaneity of casual conversation, insisted that she and I read our interview like a play. There was something sublime and deranged about this arrangement, but there was also an elegance to her solution: she had found a way to be both present and not, at the same time. We sat there and read our parts.
Katie Roiphe is the author, most recently, of The Power Notebooks, and the director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University.
Read Janet Malcolm’s Art of Nonfiction interview, which was conducted by Roiphe.
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American Idol is geared toward finding the next singing sensation. The reward for the winner is a $1million record deal.
So You Think You Can Dance is a search for outstanding dancers. Same producers, same network, but the grand prize is only $100,000.
The disparity is illustrative of more than just the difference between summer and regular-season TV programming. It also epitomizes the show business pecking order.
"Dancers are always underpaid and underappreciated," said Kameron Bink. The 20-year-old from Coral Springs wishes there were more equality between the two arts, but dancing is the life he chose and he has no regrets. He's hoping So You Think Can Dance provides the opportunity to realize his dream to make dancing his life's work.
"You can't buy the national exposure the show gives you," he said. "It opens all kinds of doors - Las Vegas stage shows, Broadway, pop tours."
He knows the odds are stacked against any individual but he was shocked by how much so when he drove to Atlanta for the first round of auditions. "There were 3,000 people lined up. I didn't think it was going to be so many."
And Atlanta was only one of several cities the show visited testing would-be contestants. What made it more daunting was that Kameron, who grew up in Margate, recognized some of those he had to compete against; they were well known in the business.
Nevertheless, he breezed through the auditions in Atlanta, then Las Vegas, and his performance on the show last Wednesday won prescient praise from judge Nigel Lythgoe, an executive producer of the Fox series as well as American Idol. "You'll be here next week, no problem." Sure enough, Kameron pushed through to the round of 18.
He has been preparing for the opportunity almost his whole life. "I've been dancing since I was 5," he said. He has been entering various competitions and going to auditions almost as long. His major credit to date came on the Latin Grammys.
Kameron caught a break last week when he and his partner, Lacey, pulled contemporary dancing as their category. That and hip-hop are his two specialties.
Before the series is over, each of the dancers will be challenged to strut his or her stuff across the range of dance: ballroom, tap, Broadway, etc.
"You have to be able to pick up any style, perform tricks you've never tried," Kameron said.
Even if he doesn't win, Kameron has made sure he'll be noticed by the professionals monitoring the show for new talent: He has dyed red streaks and stars into his Mohawk hairdo. "But I don't want that to be the only thing people notice about me."
So far, so good.
Tom Jicha can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Motor trade poised to gear up
Prospects for the motor trade will rev up this year, according to brokers Old Mutual Securities and ING Barings. Shares in quoted motor companies look relatively cheap, trading at an average of eight times likely earnings, following five years which have left the sector exactly where it started.
The UK's 16 quoted motor companies have a combined stock market value of only £801m. In the last full year they made £420m profit on sales of £12bn. More than half the profits came from Inchcape which has a large importing and distribution business.
Last year saw the sector under pressure from a slump in used car values and a Government probe into new car prices. Dealers also suffered from the impact of cheap imports from Europe and the threat of fierce discounts from web competitors.
The result was that many buyers held back in the hope that showrooms would offer better deals on new models. Forecourts groaned under the strain of a glut of second-hand vehicles.
Despite consumer groups' complaints of higher prices, manufacturers struggled to keep supply in line with demand - prompting recent job cuts at Ford and Vauxhall (General Motors).
A string of companies saw profits hit by a flood of cars bought on the Continent at big discounts. That fuelled calls for the Government to curb UK prices, reflected in the Competition Commission's New Cars Orders which came into effect on 1 December. It means that retailers can buy in bulk at the same discounts as those enjoyed by company fleet managers.
Analysts think it will take time for the new prices to feed through, but the hope is that the changes will accelerate sales, bringing more customers into the showrooms and allowing more efficient retailers to squeeze out additional profits.
Despite all the uncertainties, 2000 was not a bad year for the vehicle distribution sector, with shares up 17%, a record most dotcoms would envy.
Winners included Pendragon, valued at £104.5m, which rose from 128p to 171 1/2p, and Sanderson Bramall, up from 120p to 141p and valued at £53m.
European Motor Holdings, up from 48p to 61p and valued at £33m, was helped by its focus on new cars and its car-wash business, while Dixon Motors, up from 129p to 169p and valued at £61m, benefited by the expansion of its motor cycle division from which recently-floated Bikenet was spun off.
Reg Vardy started at 220p and rose to 353 1/2p, but after a December warning about falling used car profits ended the year at 237p, valuing it at £1.37m.
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On February 4 2020, the Indian government clarified that it is still weighing in its options, on whether it will implement country-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC). This comes after more than a month, after Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a rally in New Delhi asserted that there had been no discussions on implementing nation-wide NRC. This statement was in complete contradiction with that of Home Minister, Amit Shah, who has reiterated again and again, that NRC will indeed be implemented, despite the large protests that have rocked India since the government began discussion over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), NRC and the National Population Register (NPR).
Protests – From Assam to Shaheen Bagh
Protests have been raging in India and abroad against the CAA, which was enacted into a law on December 12, 2019. The protests are also against the proposal to enact a nation-wide NRC. Protestors throughout India, view the new law as discriminating against the Muslims and the poor who do not proper access to valid proofs of citizenship. Their major demand is that the amendment to be scrapped and the nationwide NRC to not be implemented. The major concern is that the Muslim citizens of India, along with the poor may be rendered stateless by the proposed nationwide NRC in combination with the CAA. It is believed that all citizens of India will be affected by the bureaucratic exercise of the NRC, where they will have to prove their citizenship for inclusion in the registry.
The protests began in Assam on December 4, 2019 after the bill was introduced in Parliament. This was followed by protests in other parts of north-east India. The north-eastern states do not want Indian citizenship to be granted to any refugee or immigrant, regardless of their religion. They fear that it will alter the region’s demographic balance. By the middle of December, the protests had spread to almost throughout the country, mostly led by civil society and students.
The epicentre of the anti-CAA protests have been at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, a neighbourhood in Delhi. It is an on-going 24/7 sit-in peaceful protest led by women. The protest site is a major highway in Delhi and the protest have been going on for more that 50 days now. It has become the longest on-going continuous protest against CAA-NRC-NPR. It is a leaderless protest, which draws people from all faiths and walks of life. This protest has inspired similar Shaheen-Bagh style protests across the country, such as in Gaya, Park Circus, Bihar, Allahabad, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
Protests and Politics
This blockade by the protestors at Shaheen Bagh has become a political issue for the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, scheduled for February 8 2020. These protestors have been used by the ruling dispensation to polarise the voters of Delhi, by alleging that they are being funded by the opposition parties in Delhi, namely the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress. Regardless of these allegations, the fact remains that the real intent and scope of Shaheen Bagh protests, and for that matter, all anti-CAA protests are much bigger than being acknowledged by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
Almost all the protests are led by the youth, students and women. These protests have proved that the youth and the citizens of the country are much politically aware, than being earlier thought to be. The tenacity of the protests and relay-protests attest to this fact clearly. Also, the victory of the BJP under Narendra Modi in 2014 and 2019, had made many political pundits in India and around the world, to see a distinct halo of invincibility around the Prime Minister. Slowly but steadily, that aura has been dispelled by these protests. The magnitude of the protests, and the abrasive and brazen attacks launched by the party leaders in the election rallies in Delhi, definitely point out that the party has been rattled by the continuous protests.
India’s and the image of Prime Minister Modi has taken a beating with the CAA-NRC issue. With a slump in the economy, and India sliding down all the parameters of growth and development, the misplaced priority of the Modi-government on implementing CAA-NRC and the heavy handed manner, in which the protests have been tackled, has come under scanner by national and international agencies.
In its reports, the United Nations has taken a note of the excessive use of force by the security agencies and urged the government of India, to respect the freedom of expression and opinion, and freedom of peaceful assembly. The United States think-tank, Congressional Research Service expressed concerns that the CAA along with the NRC may affect the status of the Indian Muslim community. The Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has expressed their concern about the present situation of CAA-NRC and urged the government of India, to ensure the safety of the Muslim minority and to follow the obligations of Charter of the United Nations. Various International Human Rights organizations like the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International have expressed their concern over CAA- NRC and the excessive use of force used against the protestors. The protests also had an effect on the tourism sector of the country, with countries like, Canada, France, Israel, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, US and UK issuing travel advisories for its nationals against traveling to the north-eastern states of India. The protests also led to a 60 percent decline in tourists visiting the Taj Mahal, in Agra, in December.
On February 8 2020, Delhi will vote for its Legislative Assembly. State legislative elections are always fought on local and state-level issues, and are generally different from the general elections. However, this time the Delhi elections are different, as they will be impacted by the larger contentious issues and the polarised environment of the country. After bearing the brunt from the national and international agencies, it will be interesting to see if the voters of Delhi will use their vote to verdict for or against the CAA-NRC plan of the government.
By – Anupama Ghosh, from India


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Charlotte’s sellout streak ends at 364 games
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ The Charlotte Hornets’ nearly nine-year run of home sellouts ended Tuesday night when they drew 22,617 for a contest against the Detroit Pistons.
Charlotte, which went into the game looking to build on the best start in franchise history, had sold out 364 consecutive games at the 24,042-seat facility, a run that began Dec. 23, 1988.
The Hornets’ home sellout streak was the second-longest in the NBA. The Chicago Bulls have sold out 465 consecutive home games.
The Sacramento Kings’ run of 497 straight home sellouts ended earlier this month.
The Hornets drew 985,722 fans last season when they won a club-record 54 games and led the league in attendance for the seventh year in a row and the eighth in the club’s nine-year history.
``We still have hopes of leading the league in attendance for the ninth time and are still pleased about having a league-high 20,000 season tickets,″ said Sam Russo, the Hornets’ executive vice president.
Tuesday night’s crowd represented just the sixth time in 376 home dates that every seat in the coliseum was not sold.

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Mason Sports Roundup
Posted: April 30, 2008 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
Golf, softball, baseball, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s track and field and women’s lacrosse teams were in action over the weekend.
Golf Finishes Sixth out of 21 Teams at Cavalier Classic
The Mason’s men’s golf team finished tied for sixth place with Maryland at the Cavalier Classic in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend.
Senior J.J. Amoruso led the Patriots with a four-over par two round score of 148. Tyler Frank finished the first round with a one-under par 71, but carded an 80 in the afternoon to finish tied for 37th with teammate Clark Bixler (76-75=151). Marshall Tinsley finished 30th overall with a two round 150 (77-73). Greg Brouse ended up with a 152 and tied for 75th.
The Patriots finish up the spring season with the Rutherford Invitational at Penn State University next weekend.
Softball Drops Series Finale to James Madison, 3-0
In its final home game of the season, the Mason softball team was unable to counter James Madison as the Dukes defeated the Patriots, 3-0, in Colonial Athletic Association action Sunday. Mason (19-28, 6-10) ended its home schedule with a 12-10 record at home.
For Mason, sophomore Becky Anderson (14-15) took the loss, allowing three runs (two earned) on 12 hits in a complete-game outing.
Mason’s offense was led by 2-for-4 performances from sophomore Shaniqua Steele and junior Kelsey Mack. The Patriots’ lone extra-base hit of the day came off the bat of junior Dee Murray, who doubled to right-center field in the sixth inning.
Mason will close out the regular season next weekend at Hofstra, beginning with a noon doubleheader on Saturday.
No. 11 Men’s Volleyball Falls to No. 1 Penn State in EIVA Championship
Playing in the EIVA Championship Match for the first time since 2005, no. 11 Mason was unable to defeat top-ranked Penn State for the second time this season. Penn State won the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men’s Volleyball Championships next weekend in Irvine, Calif. The Nittany Lions defeated the Patriots by final scores of 30-24, 33-31 and 30-23 to capture their 10th consecutive EIVA title and 20th in the history of the program.
With the loss, Mason, the second seed in the conference tournament, ends its season with a 20-8 overall record. The only school to knock off the Nittany Lions all season long was the Patriots, who beat the Penn State 3-1 on March 7 at the Field House, giving Mason its first victory over a no. 1 team in the 34-year history of the men’s volleyball program.
The loss ends the careers of seniors Hudson Bates, Mark Burik and R.J. Goubeaux. In his final match, Bates finished with seven kills, four digs and three blocks. Burik totaled four kills, five digs and three blocks. Goubeaux recorded four kills, one ace and two blocks.
Despite the loss, Mason was ranked in every single CBS College Sports Network/AVCA Division I-II Men’s Coaches Top-15 Poll during the season, reaching a high of no. 11. Six Patriots were named to the EIVA All-East Team. Bates, Goubeaux and Gramit were all named to the First Team, while Burik, sophomore setter Ryan Kwiatkowski and sophomore libero Luke Maloney were all named to the Second Team. Mason head coach Fred Chao took home EIVA Coach of the Year honors.
Bour Named to Howser Watch List in Baseball
Justin Bour is one of 50 players in the country named to the Dick Howser Watch List, the award given by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association to the nation’s top player. Bour continues to lead Mason in batting. He’s hitting .430 on the year with 12 homers, 52 RBI and a .500 on-base percentage. He has reached base safely in every game this year, and he currently has an 11-game hitting streak.
The Howser winner will be announced on June 14.
The Patriots improved to 22-21 on the year after taking two of three from Delaware over the weekend.
Mason Women’s Lacrosse Downs JMU 11-10, Clinches Second Seed in CAA Championship
No. 13 Mason (12-4, 5-2 CAA) took a late three-goal lead and held off the James Madison Dukes (7-9, 3-4 CAA) for an 11-10 victory in a back-and-forth affair on Saturday at James Madison. With the win, the Patriots clinch the second seed in next weekend’s CAA Championship Tournament.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sara Longobucco was rewarded for her stellar play in the victory with the first CAA Player of the Week honor of her career. Longobucco played all 60 minutes between the pipes and recorded nine saves.
Mason will play Towson in the CAA semifinals on Friday.
Mason completed the finest regular season in school history with 12 wins. The Patriots have scored a school-record 201 goals this season while holding opponents to only 156.
Track and Field Takes Part in Penn Relays
The Mason men’s and women’s track and field teams came away with a number of outstanding performances at the Penn Relays this past weekend.
Four women’s performances met ECAC qualifying standards. Murielle Ahoure ran the 100-meter dash in 11.80, while the 4×400 relay of Ahoure, Tiara Swindell, Marie Fields and Crystal Lawrence also met the qualifying mark with a time of 3:46.74. In field events, Ryann Hendricks met the ECAC qualifier with a 5.83-meter jump in the long jump. Another 4×400 relay, composed of Swindell, Fields, Latasha Rivers and Crystal Lawrence, met the qualifier with a 3:46.06 time.
On the men’s side, Dwight Webley won the long jump with a season-best distance of 7.50m, which met both the NCAA regional and IC4A qualifiers. Mason’s 4×800 relay of Anthony LaMastro, Sam Horn, Ryan Murphy and Michael Pachella also met the IC4A standard with a time of 7:33.27. In the 5,000-meter run, John Crain ran the fastest time by a Patriot this season, finishing in 14:46.85.
The Patriots will next host the Mason Outdoor Invitational on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. at George Mason Stadium.


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Growing Edible Mushrooms Using Food WasteJun. 24th 2020
To help divert organic materials away from landfills, Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law, Act 148, bans food scraps from landfills starting July 1, 2020. Food waste can be composted by residents at home or taken to compost facilities throughout the state. As an alternative to composting, food scraps can also be combined with dairy manure and broken down by microorganisms in the oxygen-free environment of an anaerobic digester. Anaerobic digestion produces biogas, a clean, renewable source of energy. Fifteen anaerobic digesters currently operate in Vermont.
Along with biogas, anaerobic digestion produces liquid and solid digestates, the materials remaining after digestion. Farmers commonly use the liquids to fertilize agricultural soils and the solids for animal bedding, which is eventually redigested and converted to liquid fertilizer. Unfortunately, repeated spreading of liquid digestate over time can potentially raise nutrients to excessive levels in soil. The excess nutrients can then run off into streams and lakes and cause eutrophication of surface waters and production of toxic cyanobacterial blooms.
Researchers at the University of Vermont (UVM) experimented with an alternative strategy to divert nutrients from farmland and incorporate them into valuable food products. Brendan O’Brien and Eric Roy of the UVM Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources tested the use of solid digestate to grow edible mushrooms. The two scientists teamed up with experts at two New England mushroom-producing companies and added solid digestate, from the co-digestion of dairy manure and food waste, as an ingredient to the substrate on which cultivated mushrooms grow.
The research team cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, one of the easiest and most cost-effective species to produce. A rich source of carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and vegetarian protein, the mushroom of the genus Pleurotus is the second most widely cultivated edible fungus in the world. The large, cream-colored to brown, shelf-like clusters of the mushroom usually grow on dead hardwood trees and logs in the forest. The fungus breaks down, or rots, the cellulose and lignin tissues in wood and thus, can be easily grown on sawdust blended with nutrient-rich materials.
O’Brien and Roy used solid digestate from two dairy manure anaerobic digesters in New England. They investigated how well different concentrations of digestates from dairy manure or both manure and food waste worked with traditional ingredients (sawdust and hulls from soybeans) to grow oyster mushrooms at UVM and at a mushroom growing facility in New Hampshire.
The researchers showed that both the dairy manure-only digestate and the manure plus food waste digestate ingredients can be used in combination with sawdust and soyhulls to produce mushroom yields comparable to commercial recipes using sawdust and soyhulls alone. This strategy could help to replace non-local substrate ingredients, such as soyhulls, in mushroom cultivation. On a dry matter basis, concentrations of 15% of each digestate in the substrate recipes in combination with 35% soyhulls and 50% sawdust yielded the same weight of mushrooms as did the traditional 1:1 soyhull to sawdust substrate recipe.
The researchers found the chemical composition of the oyster mushrooms produced on the test substrates to be safe for human consumption based on safety standards set by the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board.
“Using solids produced from anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure and food waste to grow mushrooms helps to divert digestate nutrients away from land and into safe, protein-rich food,” said O’Brien.
“This approach represents an ‘upcycling’ of excess ‘waste’ nutrients to create valuable products and is one of several different strategies we are testing in the Nutrient Cycling and Ecological Design Lab at UVM,” said Dr. Roy, a finalist in the Vermont Phosphorus Innovation Challenge to develop technologies to separate and extract phosphorus from the state’s waste streams.
The mushroom cultivation process also produces “spent mushroom substrate” often regarded as a waste product. O’Brien and Roy found that the spent mushroom substrate from their oyster mushroom cultivation had properties that could likely support both soil health and fertility. In addition to a soil amendment, the spent mushroom substrate may also be recycled as a composting ingredient or digester feedstock. Further research is needed to better understand the potential value of spent mushroom substrate.
Solid digestates produced from anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure and food waste can be used in mushroom farming to recycle nutrients back into the food system. Commercial oyster mushroom growers can offset non-local nitrogen supplements, such as pelleted soyhulls, in sawdust-based recipes with solid digestate amounts of approximately 15% dry matter, especially in settings where digestate solids are readily available and cost less than imported ingredients. O’Brien and Roy recommend that mushroom growers continue to experiment with digestate materials in a variety of substrate combinations and to test their use for cultivation of other high-value mushroom species.
This research was supported by Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

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An official of the state Department of Transportation will provide the latest information on the future of the Manette Bridge in Bremerton tonight.
Dean Moberg will address a meeting of the Local Neighborhood Information Network at the Sheridan Park Recreation Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., at 7 p.m.
The bridge was to have been closed for a month or more this summer for repairs, but that project recently was rescheduled for 1995 because of scheduled work on the Warren Avenue Bridge this year.
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Haridwar Dharma Sansad case: SC extends interim bail to hate speech accused
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the interim bail granted to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi in connection with the Haridwar Dharma Sansad case involving alleged inflammatory speeches made against Muslims. A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and C T Ravikumar provided relief to Tyagi till August 22.
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the interim bail granted to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi in connection with the Haridwar Dharma Sansad case involving alleged inflammatory speeches made against Muslims. A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and C T Ravikumar provided relief to Tyagi till August 22.
"Interim bail is extended till the next date of hearing," the bench said.
The apex court on May 17 granted three months of interim bail to Tyagi, formerly known as Wasim Rizvi, on medical grounds and directed him to give an undertaking that he would not indulge in hate speech and not give any statement on electronic or digital or social media.
The case against him and others had been lodged on the complaint of Nadeem Ali, a resident of Jwalapur Haridwar at Haridwar Kotwali on January 2, 2022.
He had alleged in his complaint that Dharma Sansad or religious Parliament was organised in Haridwar by Hindu sages from December 17 to 19 last year and in the garb of this event, the participants were instigated to wage a war against Muslims.
Objectionable words were used against the holy Quran and Prophet Mohammad, Ali had said in his complaint, adding these provocative statements had later gone viral on social media.
These videos were circulated by Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, Yati Narsinghanand, and others, he had alleged.
The FIR also alleged that an attempt was made by Prabodhanand Giri to spread violence against the people living in Haridwar's mosques.
On Nadeem Ali's complaint, Narsindhanand Giri, Sagar Sindhu Maharaj, Dharamdas Maharaj, Parmanand Maharaj, Sadhvi Annapurna, Swami Anand Swaroop, Ashwani Upadhyay, Suresh Chavan along with Swami Prabodhanand Giri, Jitendra Narayan were booked under Sections 153A, 295 and other relevant sections of the IPC for allegedly delivering hate speeches in the name of religion at the conclave. PTI PKS

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Oh, panic! Nile Rodgers and Chic caused a stir at this year’s City Parks Foundation Benefit Dinner and Concert at SummerStage in Central Park on Thursday, September 29 with an electric performance. The band performed “Le Freak”, “Le Freak” from Chic’s Hot 100, “Get Lucky” from Daft Punk (co-written by Rodgers) and ended with “Good Times”, with a little interlude of “Rapper’s Delight” of the Sugarhill Gang (which, of course, is built on Chic’s “Good Times”).
CPF, through its Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Festival, is “one of the largest providers of free arts and culture programs in New York City parks. It serves 300,000 New Yorkers each year through arts, educational, athletic and community development initiatives,” a press release read.
“We make people happy,” said Heather Lubov, the association’s executive director. Billboard. “We bring people to the parks so they can enjoy their neighborhood parks, whether it’s listening to music at SummerStage, playing tennis, or learning how to grow their food in a community garden. Everything we do is aimed at getting people into the parks and keeping them.
Rodgers, who brought a “DiscOasis” disco rink to Central Park this summer after a successful run in Los Angeles, said the festivities have “been really amazing.”
“I wish I could spend more time skating, but I’ve been touring so much this year,” Rodgers said. Billboard at the event.
Rodgers isn’t the only star to rock the mic at DiscOasis in Central Park. On August 10, Madonna celebrated the release of her remix compilation album Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones at the outdoor rink. The Roots’ Questlove acted as DJ, spinning Madonna hits and disco classics for the skaters to show off their groovy moves. Madonna and Rodgers reunited at the funky and fun event and spoke to the public about 1984’s making like a virgin together.
“Madonna. She’s great. She’s one of the hardest working artists I’ve ever worked with,” Rodgers said. Billboard. “Besides, it’s with her that I earned the most money. Biggest album of my life. »
Rodgers noted that he met Madonna early in his career, and now the megastar has achieved so much. ” She’s great. I’m very proud of her,” Rodgers said. “She did exactly what she said she was going to do – rule the world!”
Other stars at the CPF dinner and benefit concert included Sheryl Crow, who performed her hit singles “If It Makes You Happy” and “All I Wanna Do.” She closed her set with a cover of “Live With Me” by the Rolling Stones.
The event in the spotlight CBS News senior cultural correspondent Anthony Mason with the SummerStage Icon Award and the NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund with the People & Parks Award. CPF raised $1.3 million in donations, making it its most successful benefit yet, according to a press release.
The DiscOasis takes place in New York until Saturday (October 1).


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A FORMER Applebee's employee has alleged some pretty disturbing details about the chain restaurant and it'll make you think twice about going back.
They stated that they would never eat there themselves.
Taking to social media, Jasper Lee claimed that most of the food that is served at Applebee's is heated in a microwave.
That's right, they alleged that everything has already been portioned and pre-packaged, ready to pop into the microwave and eat.
The US Sun has reached out to Applebee's for comment but didn't get an answer at the time of publication.
"As a server, I got to see everything that happens in the kitchen but the only things that were not microwaved were the fried chicken, mozzarella stick, buffalo wings, the steaks, the grilled chicken, and the burgers," they claimed.
Everything else, including the kid's menu, the sides, and appetizers were frozen and cooked in the microwave, Lee claimed.
They further claimed that the mac and cheese that kids are served is actually Kraft's mac and cheese that you can buy for $2 at your local supermarket.
"Not a good place, don't recommend," they concluded.
Following Lee's video, many took to the comment section to talk about how they avoided eating at Applebee's or already knew about these allegations.
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One woman wrote: "One time my husband got broccoli and they forgot to take it out of the plastic steam bag and just served it like that."
A second commented: "I've always hated Applebee's and never understood why people liked it.
"I could literally taste that it was all frozen before."
And a third added: "It literally taste like it too. How do people still like to eat there?"
However, one mom revealed why she buys the mac and cheese for her children and it had nothing to do with how it's made.
"As a parent, we know the mac and cheese is Kraft," she said.
"It's just ppl will judge us if we don't order them something even though we know they're not gonna eat."
Previously, a Dollar Tree employee revealed that you can trust the pregnancy tests they sell – they're also a great deal.

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Lee Munson of Portfolio Wealth Advisors on recent market weakness, and what trades he likes in this environment
ADAM SHAPIRO: Lee Munson is the Portfolio Wealth Advisors President and CIO. It's good to have you here. And we were joking before we came into the stream about the Federal Reserve's BS, the balance sheet. No taper in sight. That's what they keep telling us. And one of the things in your notes to us that you said, OK, pay attention to-- because I think a lot of investors are trying to find, OK, where do I go right now-- you said pay attention to gold, to silver. Why?
LEE MUNSON: Well, if I had 100 bucks for every CIO that comes on and says it's not a good investment or they would stay away from it, but they're not really experts, I'd be moderately wealthy right now. I think that you have to understand that what moved gold in the past is not what's moving it now. We've had a regime change. So generally what-- how I see gold is something that tends to go up when the Fed's balance sheet expands. And I get it. Some people think that balance sheet cannot expand anymore, and that's what I think is BS.
The second thing is the amount of energy it takes to actually produce gold. Remember, we can only get a little less than 1% a year in new gold coming out of the ground, and that type of discovery is going to be limited going forward. Anybody in the gold markets know it's getting harder and harder to discover. So it has kind of that appeal to people who want something that has a limited amount of production going forward. So as energy prices ramp up and the Fed balance sheet continues to spiral out of control, that's why you see gold getting a bid.
Some technical traders say, well, it was just a double bottom, and it's just having a surge up. I think that there's a fundamental reason why. And I think a lot of millennials eventually-- they're interested in what money is, and gold is eventually-- you know, everybody turns into their parents. I think even the crypto people are eventually going to look at gold as an alternative to the debasement of the dollar that we're going to continue to see because the Fed is not going to stop the purchases, like the ECB or England or Canada. They're going to keep going. They got to steepen the yield curve.
SEANA SMITH: Well, Lee, I mean, help us make sense of the action that we're seeing today, for example, because we started the day with the NASDAQ off just around 2%. Everyone was talking about that inflation was to blame. But now we're seeing the NASDAQ, what, not too far from the flat line with less than an hour to go. Is there other dynamics at play in the market today and over the last several trading days?
LEE MUNSON: Well, I think today's noise-- you know, a big hat tip to JC over at All-Star Charts, a buddy of mine. He sent out some notes today and said, the NASDAQ are the bag holders, and his notes were that, you know, we want to thank those people for being the bag holders. And I think you're seeing that today. A lot of people-- I remember back 21 years ago when the NASDAQ kind of peaked at 5,000, it'd go down. Everybody just thought, hey, this is the time to buy. It's going to keep rolling. So I think that's all we're seeing today.
Yet, right, the market action is weird. Jared was saying if rates are going up, why is small cap off? You know, if the procyclical stuff is happening, you know, you're seeing materials do well. So I think today is a non-event. I do think it's weird today, and I'm using this as an opportunity to do a little buying for some clients that, you know, have some cash to invest. So I would be a general buyer here of, you know, my usual reflation suspects. I don't think today's movement in the NASDAQ tells us anything.
And again, the NASDAQ had a big correction in March. It's down 6%, you know, over the last few weeks. So it's natural that people are going to try to keep feeding the beast, and we need those people to sell into. But I don't think this tells you anything other than maybe some relative outperformance in growth maybe for a few weeks. But between here and the end of the year, you better be long in cyclicals. You better be long in industrials, financials, materials. Just buy a small cap value basket. You'll be fine. It goes higher.
ADAM SHAPIRO: Listen, we hear you loud and clear about being long on those that you just said. But what-- when you say about cheap tech, that if you want to go in, you know, to this and deal with commodity inflation-- as we know, copper, we're going to be talking about this with the guest coming up. Copper prices at all-time highs. What is cheap tech? And where would I find it? I'd have to go overseas for that, wouldn't I?
LEE MUNSON: Oh, you got to go way overseas. And please do not go across the pond to Europe. It just is a value trap, OK? You need to get over to where you have e-commerce four times the size booming, young people, some GDP growth. And so I like to go to China for that. And I understand that we got a trade war and we got all this stuff. It just backs up.
When you have a market that size and you have this wall between Amazon and Google versus, say, Alibaba and Baidu and Tencent and all those things, you can go to China. And not only does it give you, you know, a fraction of the multiple in the big name tech stocks, but you also have a country that is growing not necessarily with the same type of largesse that the Fed and Congress is doing the fiscal and monetary supply.
Also, you have to remember that when you're putting money over there, when people start talking about diversifying against the dollar, I'm not talking about against the euro. I want to own that Chinese currency. And that's a natural way if you're doing EM, if you just want to, you know you want a value trap-- I'm being self-effacing. But if you want a value trap and just go straight Chinese index-- I like MCHI-- then that's a way that you get some currency diversification. That's where you can get some good dividend yield that's higher than the S&P.
And that's also where you can get some big tech names that, you know, are always going to be a little discounted to the US, but there are a lot discounted to the US on a relative basis. That's where I think that you should put the marginal dollar, not necessarily into NASDAQ or growth. I think the days are numbered. I think February was the top.
SEANA SMITH: Hey, Lee, help us make sense of what's going on in the energy market. It's one of the worst performers sector-wise today. We haven't really seen that big of a bump in gasoline yet. The Colonial Pipeline remains shut down. How is the market looking at this? And I guess at what point do you expect to see a larger reaction in gasoline and crude prices?
LEE MUNSON: I think this is going to be transitory. Of course, you know, the Fed likes that word too. What do we know, right? I understand what's at stake here. Ever since 9/11, we've been talking about the integrity of pipelines, chemical companies. And so now our worst fear is here. We always think it's going to be a bomb. It's not. It's the hacking. So as long as we don't see more of this, I think this is going to be sort of a one-off event.
I think if you're looking at energy names and you're looking to add to them, I think you can can do that here. But all in all, I think that this is-- we're hyping this up. And it's important to talk about national security and how it relates to cyber hacking and so on, but I think that this is generally a non-event. I'll eat my words if over the next couple of weeks all these other pipelines start getting shut down. But I think it only goes to say, if you want some yield in this market and you're willing to take some risk, I think master limited partnerships-- I like AMLP. That's a little ETF you can buy. Everybody has their own way. I'm not saying to buy that or not. That's just what I like to do.
But I think that those pipelines, it's very clear we don't have enough of them, and they've got to push through. I like toll roads when the toll roads are limited. The government is going to regulate them so they're very hard to build more of, and we absolutely need them. So I think it's a place where I like to have a small amount of my bond money to hop up the yield. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Lose money in a 10-year? I still own those, but less these days.

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Part of what makes all children unique is that each one is born into this world with their own unique style or temperament that determines how they react to the world. An individual’s temperament profile consists of ten traits, one of them being adaptability, which will remain consistent throughout life.
Understanding these traits can help you to parent your children in the most effective way possible so you are able to meet each individual child’s needs.
What is Adaptability?
Adaptability, one of ten innate temperament traits that makes every child unique, refers to how easily or quickly your children adjust to changes in their environment after their initial response has occurred.
Some children are very flexible and are able to progress smoothly and quickly after they encounter a change in schedule or routine. They are also able to accept new items or ideas easily and without much fuss. Other children, however, have a more stressful time transitioning.
This temperament trait is closely tied to the trait of approach/withdrawal, which refers to children’s initial response or reaction to new things, ideas, places and people. Most children who are slow-to-adapt are also more likely to withdraw when first confronted with new ideas and those who are quick to adapt initially tend to be more receptive.
How can you determine how adaptable your children are?
Use the following questions to help you identify how adaptable your children are. Track your answers on the following scale from one to five:
Do your children cry and get upset when you ask them to finish an activity and move on to something else?
Do surprises upset your children?
Do your children find it stressful to change ideas or routines?
Do you feel like you have to coax or beg your children for days to get them involved in new activities?
Is it difficult for your children to make decisions and when they do, do they agonize over their choices?
1 __ 2 __ 3 __ 4 __ 5
Adapts quickly Adapts slowly
Less adaptable children
If most of your answers fall to the right side of the scale, then you have children who, temperamentally, are slower to adapt. This means that your children have a more difficult time coping with changes in routines and schedules.
They tend to be more rigid when it comes to making adjustments in their daily lives and often tantrum or cry when asked to conform before they are ready or have had a chance to get used to the change.
These children may be more resistant to and uncomfortable with the introduction of new activities or ideas or outings. This can feel disappointing if you are excited about something but your slow-to-adapt children are not.
It helps to keep in mind that slow-to- adapt children eventually warm up to new ideas; they just need a little more time to feel comfortable than their more quick-to-adapt peers.
Slow-to-adapt children also are less comfortable around new people, new ideas and new items, like the new neighbor who moved in next door or the new pajamas that they just got for their birthday.
The good news about slow-to-adapt children is that they thrive on the predictability of routines. They are also less likely to rush into dangerous situations and are less influenced by peer pressure.
More adaptable children
If most of your answers fall toward the left side of the scale, then you have children who, temperamentally, are more adaptable.
They tend to move smoothly from one activity to another and adjust more quickly to changes. in schedules and routines.
These children are easier to parent because they “go with the flow” and are more flexible.
They are more likely to enjoy the novelty of new schedules, activities and ideas.
Because these children seem almost too quick to react, they can be impulsive and may need encouragement to slow down and think before they act.
Things Parents Can Do
Know that adaptability is a part of your children’s temperament.
Be aware of how your children react to transitions.
Use this information about their reactions to change to help engage their cooperation.
Monitor when changes or transitions become too overwhelming.
Help your children find ways to calm down and adjust.
Give fore-warnings and information before transitons.
This will help to make transitions smoother because he knows what will happen next and what behavior is expected. These children need to learn to become more flexible so that they can adjust better to changes; small changes a little at a time can ease them into being more comfortable with new routines.
Explain the sequence of events for outings or trips.
This allows your child to know what to expect.
Give your child time to get used to a new situation.
Don’t expect immediate compliance.
Use the idea of watching the clock or having a timer.
Allow these devices, rather than yourself, to determine when activities have to be changed. This will cut down on power struggles and resistance.
Bring a snack or a favorite toy with you on outings.
This will help your child feel more comfortable when you have to quickly change tasks.
Encourage children to join activities.
Balance that with avoiding putting any pressure on.
For quick-to-adapt children, teach them to think and use caution.
Help them to consider consequences before jumping in or going along with new ideas or changes. They need to learn to think independently and to assert themselves if they don’t want to do something.
Teach children words to use to express how they are feeling.
You can empower them by increasing their vocabulary so they can more accurately and appropriately communicate their feelings.
Learn to work together.
Understand how your own temperament, including your own adaptability, fits or does not fit with your children’s temperament and create strategies to help each other.
Identify and value your children’s unique temperament.
Help them to understand the value of their uniqueness.
Send messages to your children that help them to feel good about who they are, messages such as:
For example, if you are planning a trip to the store, you can verbally warn the child you will be leaving in 15 minutes, and/or you can set a timer and let them know that when it goes off, it will be time to leave.
“Change is difficult for you.”
“You like to know what to expect before you have to do it.”
“You can learn to be flexible.”
“You enjoy activities.”
“You can stop and think before you act.”
For more information about temperament, check out the following books. Purchasing from Amazon.com through our website supports the work we do to help families do the best job they can to raise their children.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A payroll problem is solved. On Friday morning, employees of Perkins Restaurants woke up without their direct deposit.
“I was like, ‘Oh no. How am I going to pay my rent?'” one local Perkins employee said. “How am I going to pay my bills?”
The restaurant chain had a company-wide payroll problem, and it left their employees scrambling.
“My money wasn’t in my account,” she said. “I looked on the ADP app that I have. It said that I was supposed to get paid today, November 8th. Then it had the amount of what I should receive, but in my bank account there’s no transaction that it was even deposited or anything or nothing.”
The woman, who didn’t want to be identified, called the company office only to find out even the corporate staff was waiting for their checks.
Hour after hour ticked by without a word.
Employees wondered if it could be because Perkins filed for bankruptcy back in August. Around a month later, the chain of nearly 350 stores was purchased by Huddle House.
In the $51.5 million deal some restaurants have closed, and others have changed branding. Huddle house is still in the process of absorbing the stores and deciding their futures.
“I want to know that we’re safe in our job,” she said. “It’s not going to be shut down all of the sudden and we have no way of knowing that.”
The company issued a statement about the payroll glitch:
This morning, we were notified of an error in our payroll service company’s system, resulting in a delay of weekly pay being posted to employees’ bank accounts and/or pay cards. As soon as we became aware of the situation, we immediately moved to resolve the matter.
As of 11:30 a.m. ET, the issue has been rectified and employees should begin to see their pay post to their accounts according to their banking guidelines. We thank our employees for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
This employee did get her paycheck later in the day and was glad to know the company took care of the problem so she could get her bills paid on time.
“We count on that money,” she said. “We are what makes Perkins. We are the face of Perkins. They don’t own the company now, but we work very hard.”
Perkins said it works with ADP for its payroll processing. FOX4 reached out to ADP for a comment about the glitch, but did not receive a response.


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If you are looking for a fun and tasty Valentine drink, consider making this quick and easy Cupid Float. This afternoon the kids were bored (they had off from school again today) so I wanted to make them an afternoon treat. I looked in the freezer and noticed I had bought some ice cream on sale at Remke last week. It has been bitter cold outside this past week why on earth I bought ice cream is beyond me ha ha. The kiddos noticed that I had moved it aside when looking for ingredients for an afternoon treat. They then insisted on ice cream. It was hard to think about something with ice cream. I recalled having some strawberry soda in the downstairs fridge and quickly thought about a quick and easy Strawberry Float.
When working at the ice cream stand as a teenager (yup I had two jobs in HS and college lol) my friends and I would always make strawberry floats to enjoy when we had no customers. If you have never tried one…. now is the time. You have really been missing out. The yummy strawberry soda mixed with vanilla ice cream is amazing. I had the kids make their own as they are so simple, just loads of ice cream and then slowly pour on the sod. I like to tip my glass a bit to create less foaming.
Vanilla Ice Cream
Whipped Cream (optional)
Maraschino Cherries (optional)
Place 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a glass.
Slowly add strawberry soda (it will foam a lot!)
Optionally you can add whipped cream and a cherry to the top.
Serve with long spoon and straw.
Do not be afraid to dip up some ice cream for Valentine’s day and add on some strawberry soda. These make adorable Cupid Floats (that’s what we call them around here). Even with all the cold weather these floats were so yummy! If you are looking for other Valentine’s Day treats be sure to check out my Valentine’s Day Strawberry andWhite Chocolate Cheesecake bars, 2 Ingredient Strawberry Fudge, and also my Strawberry Cookies. If you are looking for a Valentine’s Day breakfast idea consider making some Strawberry and Cream Cheese French Toast Roll-ups that I shared with you here.


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Slowly slices of Britain’s hidden history are being revealed as the public learns more and more about the activities of undercover police officers.
The full story of many important historic events probably cannot be written until the true extent of state infiltration is known.
One of these could be a dispute that centred on a photo-processing factory in north-west London called Grunwick. It was one of the most iconic industrial disputes since the Second World War.
Now evidence has emerged to show how the controversial Metropolitan police undercover unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), obtained inside information about the tactics and movements of the strikers and their supporters.
Two former policemen have described the intelligence as being important at a time when the Met was struggling to police the dispute.
From its small beginnings, Grunwick evolved into a hugely significant national dispute 40 years ago. It became a trial of strength between workers and managers over their right to be represented by a trade union.
As this article describes, the dispute is remembered because it was the first time that Asian women challenged the stereotype of being silent and subservient. In one famous confrontation with a Grunwick manager, Desai told him :”What you are running here is not a factory, it is a zoo. In a zoo, there are many types of animals. Some are monkeys who dance on your fingertips, others are lions who can bite your head off. We are those lions, Mr Manager.”
During the dispute between 1976 and 1978, the Grunwick strikers - mainly Asian women - were joined on picket lines and rallies by thousands of trade unionists from across the labour movement who supported them in solidarity.
There were frequent clashes between police and trade unionists, leading to hundreds of arrests and complaints about the violent treatment of the pickets. The police were criticised for mobilising large numbers of officers to defend the Grunwick managers and the workers who crossed the picket line.
A brief glimpse of the work of the SDS during the dispute has been given by two retired policemen who were employed for many years by the Metropolitan police’s Special Branch, Ray Wilson and Ian Adams, in a recent book.
Special Branch was the secretive division within the police responsible for monitoring political movements and countering threats to the state.
The SDS, which infiltrated hundreds of political groups during its 40-year existence, was run by Special Branch and was tasked with collecting advance intelligence about protests and demonstrations.
In their book, Special Branch : a history 1883-2006, Wilson and Adams say that during the Grunwick dispute, “Special Branch played an important role in police endeavours to preserve the peace”.
They describe how the police found it “extremely difficult” to establish how many people were going to demonstrate outside the Grunwick factory and what tactics they were going to use. The demonstrators, for instance, were “changing their battle order from day to day,” write Wilson and Adams.
They add :“It was the much-maligned Special Demonstration Squad that was able to supply the uniform branch with up-to-date information on what they were likely to encounter.”
“On most days an early-morning telephone call was made from the senior officer of the SDS to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of ‘A’ Department, responsible for public order, giving him the latest available intelligence on the extremists’ plans for the day”.
Where did this information come from? It appears that some, or all, of it was supplied by an SDS undercover officer who was embedded in one of the left-wing groups that supported the strikers.
An SDS officer was interviewed (with his identity obscured) for the 2002 BBC documentary series “True Spies” that looked at how the police spied on political groups.
This officer, using the pseudonym “Geoff”, describes how he was present at a Grunwick demonstration when miners - accompanied by Arthur Scargill, one of their leaders - came to show their solidarity with the strikers (see here and here). “Geoff” also describes how he infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (see here and here) when he was a young undercover officer.
In its assessment of the dispute, Special Branch believed that groups they deemed to be extremist - such as the SWP - sought to turn what were intended to be peaceful pickets into confrontations with the police.
Journalist Solomon Hughes has obtained documents chronicling how police extensively monitored the strikers and their supporters, although any mention of the SDS is absent from the papers.
Worth reading is his article in the Morning Star. He describes how the police released the documents to him under the freedom of information act, but have since “tried to bury the papers, refusing all other requests for the documents” from other members of the public.
Forty years on, there is a campaign to raise money to commemorate the strike (see this). Trade unionists are holding a public meeting about the strike on Friday - details are here. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn talks here about the importance of the strike.
Several trade unions are taking part in the public inquiry into undercover policing, led by Lord Justice Pitchford, opening up the possibility that the histories of other industrial disputes may need to be re-evaluated.

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I found this B&B to be very good. I stayed for a week and felt right at home. I'ts a short drive to St Andrews and there is a good restaurant close by.
Location: United Kingdom > Scotland > Fife > Dairsie
Ranked #3 of 3 B&Bs / Inns in Dairsie
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Expression of three pRAS1 plasmid mobility genes in intestinal samples from adult zebrafish 48 h post treatment (72 h post experimental infection) relative to placebo treatment. Error bars represent ± SEM (based on variation between 6 adults per treatment group). Differences were considered significant at (*) p < 0.05, (**) p < 0.01 and (***) p < 0.001 for mobility gene expression levels of tetracycline vs. other antibiotic treated zebrafish in each intestinal tissue analyzed.
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Panic disorder is increasingly becoming a very common complication. The fast lifestyle of today can be termed responsible to a great extent as it has increased the overall stress level which has often led to people panicking in situations where they should not.
Panic Disorder Causes
There are various reasons for panic disorder and most reasons can be found through types of depression tests. It is important to be aware of panic disorder signs. There are many panic disorder causes. Let us go through some of them that seem to occur more commonly.
This is probably one of the worst panic disorder causes you will come across. It is genetic in nature and hence you can do very little in order to avoid it like depression and trauma as well. Your family members are probably prone to panic disorders. Unfortunately, in such situations, you can only hole that the complication does not hit you.
Environmental reasons for panic disorder are very commonly seen. Stressful upbringing, troubled childhood, insecurity and overprotective nature of parents are some of the aspects that tend to lead to panic disorder in many individuals. A number of surveys state that individuals who experience childhood abuse are more likely to suffer from this complication. There are specific panic disorder signs associated with this particular cause of panic disorder. Usually, such individuals press the panic button the moment some individual gets physically close to them. For instance – a person trying to give a hug can trigger panic in such individuals.
One of the reasons for panic disorder that will probably leave you shocked is the use of certain medication. Ultimately, medicines do contain chemicals. Certain chemicals tend to make an individual anxious. However, panic attacks triggered due to medication do not stay for a long time. It is only till the time your body gets used to the medication. If the effect tends to continue for a long time, you should visit your medical expert. If possible, you should discontinue with the medication.
This is one of the most common panic disorder signs. Almost every individual has a certain phobia in life. For instance – some individuals are scared of heights while some get paranoid when they come across lizards. The best way to get over such a situation is to get rid of the phobia itself. Phobia has a lot to do with the way you think. The best way to get rid of your phobia is to actually go ahead and do what scares you the most. For instance – if you are scared of heights, you should ideally go paragliding.
Amongst different panic disorder causes, situational aspects also play a key role. For instance – some people are scared to go into over-crowded areas. They moment they find themselves in a place with lots of crowd, they start panicking. It is important to make note of different panic disorder signs as early as possible. This way, you give yourself a good chance to treat the disorder.


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Usually I just pick one out and set them next to another Betta. That usually gets them to flare better than a mirror.
I agree! And I've noticed they flare quicker if you hold them next to one of their same color or a female.
Problem with LPS is that the fish can already see eachother so it's no novelty when you hold them close. It's better to go on shipment day or the day after,it's when you'll see the fish most active.
Ask someone at the store (or call like I did) when they get their bettas, it's usually one specific day a week.
I go almost every Friday to Petco to see the new fishies because they arrive on Thursday.

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Laura Pierre postponed college to work full-time at Chipotle. But the 18-year-old Miamian says she's realized that saving up for higher education is an impossible dream given Florida's $8.05-per-hour minimum wage. Her mother, a health-care worker who also makes less than $10 an hour, relies on Pierre to contribute to the rent and other utilities.
“I care about my future and want to prevent this from happening to the next generation of workers,” Pierre says.
That's why she is one of hundreds of low-wage workers planning to rally in Miami tomorrow to support a push for a $15-per-hour minimum wage.
“This is something that would affect so many families," Pierre says. "I know [if the minimum wage were raised to $15 an hour], I’d get to spend more time with my mom and go to college.”
Tomorrow's rally comes on the heels of numerous cities — including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and most recently New York — passing $15-per-hour minimums. Miami's workers will meet at Government Center, listen to a speakers and legislators, and then march throughout the financial district. It’s all part of a National Day of Action, being held in more than 500 cities across the country, including Tampa and Tallahassee.
Florida's minimum wage was raised 12 cents this past January because of a 2004 state amendment adjusting the rate for inflation. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 — and a recent study found that 42 percent of American workers make less than $15 an hour.
Last fall, a United Way report concluded that Floridians need $15 an hour to make ends meet. It also showed that 3.2 million households in Florida are struggling to afford housing, child care, food, health care, and transportation.
Tuesday’s rally has been planned by SEIU Florida and Fight for 15 Florida, with support from Dream Defenders, Power U, and other local activist organizations. Sen. Dwight Bullard and Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine-Cava will also speak. Underpaid workers in the fast food, health care, and airport industries will also attend.
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The rally is meant to raise awareness about this issue as Florida’s legislative session and presidential primaries approach. A poll by the National Employment Law Project of workers making less than $15 an hour found that 69 percent of unregistered voters would register if there was a candidate who supported a $15-an-hour wage. Similarly, 76 percent of underpaid workers said they’d vow to vote for a candidate who supported the $15 wage.
While organizers hope that these numbers will bring living wages to the forefront of legislative debate, they know it won’t be easy. Democrats in the Florida Legislature have stated they’d like to raise wages to $10.10 — a number President Obama has also called for the federal minimum wage. But with Rick Scott and the Republicans in control, it seems unlikely that will happen before 2016.
If the wage is raised to $15 an hour, Pierre says she’ll be able to work fewer hours and finally enroll in college. She says her experience campaigning with the Fight for 15 has motivated her to study political science and management.
“It might not seem like it, but we’ve made a lot of progress already,” Pierre says. “This has been such an amazing experience.”

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Funa Tonaki opens Japans gold medal rush
23 Nov 2018 14:00
Japanese lightweight Tonaki Funa struck gold at home in the first final at the Osaka Grand Slam 2018. Former world champion Munkhbat Urantsetseg (MGL) showed off her ne-waza prowess in the earlier rounds but made a mistake on the ground in the final when she miscalculated a turnover and World Championships silver medallist Tonaki took full advantage as she applied a mune-gatame for 20 seconds to take gold in less than a minute.
The win provided Tonaki with her second Grand Slam title and gave her the edge of Munkhbat in their head-to-head series which now stands at 4:3 in the favour of the former owner of the red backpatch in the U48kg category.
In the first semi-final Munkhbat held down Paris Grand Slam silver medallist Kang Yujeong (KOR) for 10 seconds to score her second waza-ari. The Mongolian led by a waza-ari score and then put on a ne-waza clinic which culminated with osaekomi in the favour of Munkhbat. In the second semi-final Tonaki beat teammate and former World Judo Masters winner Endo Hiromi (JPN) who was penalised with her third shido for passivity with one second left on the clock.
The first bronze medal contest was won by Endo who surged past Tbilisi Grand Prix bronze medallist Melanie Clement (FRA) in 44 seconds. Two-time Grand Slam bronze medallist Clement did not get a look in as Endo, who will remain third choice after today’s results, threw for a waza-ari and wrapped up her victory on the ground with osaekomi-waza for 10 seconds.
The second bronze medal was won by Olympic bronze medallist and former world champion Kondo Ami (JPN) who bested Kang. The Japanese judoka won on shidos in golden score after Kang was penalised with her third penalty for passivity in a result which will not help the 2014 world champion who remains behind Tonaki in the eyes of the Japanese.
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French youngster Shirine Boukli shone in the women’s lightest weight category in Düsseldorf as the fast-rising star shocked former world champion Tonaki Funa (JPN) to claim gold. In only her third Grand Slam outing Boukli countered Tonaki with her patented sumi-gaeshi for a waza-ari score. Read more
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Former world champion Tonaki Funa of Japan defeated Marrakech Grand Prix winner Julia Figueroa (ESP) with a professional performance as she scored twice without reply to increase her advantage over the chasing pack in Japan. World number two Tonaki illustrated once again that she is her country’s best judoka in judo’s lightest weight category and is now within touching distance of selection for her first Olympic Games. Read more
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Staying in Business means staying relevant. Staying relevant in turn means Innovating. Only the most Innovative Travel Companies are going to stay in Business in the future. Those who have stopped Innovating might as well shut shop and go.
If we take a look around us we see how the Mighty have fallen, how the “David has Slain the Goliath“, Back in 1980’s and 90’s if you wanted to do Business with India and the UAE there were really only a few companies one considered and these were the key players in the market.
These were the days of the Telex Machines and Faxes, there was little or no technology available, mobile phones hadn’t made it to the mass market and one was restricted to the offerings from the few companies and people were also loyal as the Consultants knew the clients and their likes and dislikes.
Travel Consultants knew a little more and customers a little less and sales happened. Companies got away by making 20% or higher margins and all was good. Communication was difficult and expensive and awareness was limited. Word of mouth played a critical role and if someone you knew recommended you to a Travel Agency you knew you could trust them.
The real shift happened when iPhone was introduced, it changed the way we interacted with the world around us, You did not need a computer anymore and you could do things from the Palm of your hand.
As the data became affordable and easily available we had access to all the information no matter where we were. There were Innovators who were quick to recognize the potential of the small screen and Innovated and profited by investing into a Website and a Mobile site model.
A decade ago we saw that the Mobile Websites and Apps became the norm and once again those who were quick to innovate and launch the mobile-friendly websites profited.
A lot of companies decided to go all in with Mobile and move away from traditional websites model. If we just look around us we see how much we have come to rely on our apps. There is literally one for everything. The way we shop has changed completely.
So why should travel be any different?
Tourism Industry saw people moving away from traditional travel agents to online sites, to sites which had an app, as this made life easy. With an app, one could, from the comfort of their house check availability and book.
The game changed again with Booking.com bringing inventory to consumers directly, No More waiting for the rates, no more pre-paying as Booking.com gives people the option to pay at the Hotels at the time of check-in or check-out.
This also brought transperancy and meant that the Travel Agents couldn’t get away by charging 20% now and had to scale down on profit margins. “Booking.com” took on the Global Travel Agencies and won big, It made even the biggest names run for cover and align the markups.
What are you doing in your Business to Innovate?
What is your Strategy to stay relevant?
The pace at which the Technology is changing literally on a daily basis, over 50% of the companies would not exist 5 years from now. Some of the Biggest names like Thomas Cook UK and Cox and Kings India have fallen.
Blockchain, AI, Virtual Experiences, are all very real and would be game changers, and these are just technologies we are familiar with. There are things on the Horizon which would change how the Airlines are booked, how the Hotels are booked and how experiences would be easily accessible to all.
Dynamic packaging is already happening and in a very short time we would be seeing travel websites having capabilities to dynamically create packages for the clients. (HolidayME in UAE which is just 3 years old does this already and has a huge customer base)
Experiences are becoming key drivers, whether its Northern Lights or Safari in Kenya, Travel is today more activity based.
People are travelling more and more for Short breaks. There is competition and this leads to price transperancy. Innovative Travel Companies are today using Technology, to provide seamless experiences.
With so much choice and easy access the loyalty of customers would remain in question unless you have a way to delight your customers by delivering to them what you have promised.
More and more tech drive innovative Travel companies are making their presence felt, One of the best examples I have seen in the recent times is a startup called Pick your Trail, by helping customers build their entire itinerary online they are solving a huge problem for the end customers and have grown from 1500 Travellers in 2016 to over 10,000 in 2019
If you wish to stay in Business then It is imperative that you take a hard look at your Innovation levels and decide what your next step is. Are you future ready? Because the clients are.


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Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky (Available exclusively on the PlayStation Portable)
ESRB Rating: T
Number of players: 1
Developer: Nihon Falcom Corp
Release Date: March 29th, 2011
Parent Talk: Trails in the Sky is a Japanese role-playing game with colorful characters and a thoughtful story. There are abundant alcohol references and some mildly suggestive content, but this is a game that is suitable for almost any player. Younger players may not like all of the reading that is necessary though. You do not need to play other games in the Legend of Heroes series to understand or enjoy this game.
Plays Like: Trails in the Sky is a mixture of classic roleplaying games like Final Fantasy and strategy games like Growlanser. In combat, players must move characters around a battle field screen and plan out attacks in turn-based order. Outside of battle, players talk to characters and take on quests.
Review Basis: Completed the main adventure and all quests. Played for roughly 50 hours.
The Great: A wonderful adventure. A decent role playing game may engross you in an adventure, keeping you occupied for hours just because the gameplay is fun or you feel compelled to “beat” the game. A great role playing game compels you to finish because you want to finish the adventure, because it actually pulls you into the experience, making you feel attached to the characters and the world. Trails in the Sky is the latter. Many people today criticize modern Japanese role playing games of losing touch with gamers, especially compared to the masterpiece JPRGs from previous console generations. While I don’t fully agree with that claim, Trails in the Sky does bring to mind the great old adventures from the SNES and PlayStation 1 era.
The story is about personal growth and family, which makes it personal and relatable. Estelle Bright is the daughter of legendary Guild Bracer Cassius Bright, a man who has made a legacy out of helping people across the land. Bracers are sort of like mercenaries, people who are paid for their services. However, they take the creed to help those in need whenever they are able, prioritizing helping over reward. When she was young, Cassius brought home a boy named Joshua, who soon became a part of the family. Now, Estelle and Joshua are traveling across the country, visiting different Bracer Guilds to gain enrichment, learning about the people and the customs of the land and to grow as Bracers. It’s an adventure worth playing because the characters are rich and they grow over the course of the game.
+ A long game. The game’s packaging advertises that it takes about 50 hours to complete, which is no exaggeration. This is a lengthy game! Seeing all of the different lands, taking on all of the different quests, and tackling all of the challenges takes quite a bit of time. Of course, reading through lines and lines of text also takes a while, so don’t expect that you will be enjoying 50 hours of straight play. Old-school enthusiasts should feel right at home though. If you’re looking for a portable game you can commit to, this is an excellent choice.
+ Wonderful characters. Most of the game is dedicated to exploring and developing Estelle and Joshua Bright, a brother-and-sister pair who are traveling across the country to become Bracers like their father. They meet a variety of interesting teammates, each of which brings unique personalities and perspectives. The journey is really about Estelle’s feelings, her family, her relationship with her adopted brother Joshua, and how she grows. Seeing characters develop so well makes the game more fun to play. Even the other characters, like the seemingly cold-blooded Agate and the eccentric young inventor Tita, make their mark without wasting much time. Every character is important.
+ Colorful artwork. Character portraits really help bring the game to life. The animated cutscene in the beginning of the game and the character portraits featured in battles/menus help give the adventure more personality. The character design is definitely one of the game’s strong suits.
+ A deep but not overly complex battle system. Trails in the Sky adopts an easy-to-learn turn-based combat system with some twists. Characters take turns attacking and moving, with the turn order displayed on the battle screen. During that character’s turn, he or she can move across the field, attack, use an item, use magic, or use a special attack. You can move and attack in the same phase if an enemy is in rage, but you cannot move and use an item or special ability. Certain spells and abilities can be used to stop enemies from moving around the board or using attacks.
The game gradually increases the difficulty, giving you plenty of time to figure out all of the nuances to battle. As you progress in the adventure, you learn new magic skills (depending on what gems you equip onto your character) and new abilities. Characters can even equip super moves, which can be performed at any time once they fill the “CP Meter.” By mastering super moves, magic, and arts, you can handle a variety of enemies in a number of ways. The game isn’t held back by complicated information systems, making it easy to jump into.
+ Character customization and management. Besides giving characters the standard weapons, armors, helmets, shoes, and accessories, players can also outfit characters with orbments. Orbments are basically magic gems, like Final Fantasy VII’s materia system, that gives characters magic spells and statistic boosting effects. Depending on where the orbs are placed and what orbs are paired with them, characters can gain access to new spells or different power boosts.
+ An abundance of quests. In each area of the country, there are different Bracer Guilds. By checking the bulletin boards at the guilds, you can read about and accept a number of odd jobs. They offer extra incentive to explore the towns more thoroughly before moving on to the next part of the story.
+ Great writing and dialog. Some gamers hate reading lines and lines of text, but you shouldn’t dismiss Trails in the Sky. The plot is well done and the characters show a wide range of emotion. Characters can be genuinely endearing or funny, which makes reading through the dialog all the more fun.
+/- The music is good, but not much else can really be said about it. I didn’t find many of the tracks memorable.
+/- The graphics are decent, but lack the punch and vibrancy of other PSP role playing games. The art style is wonderful though.
+/- The orbments system is robust, but it’s difficult to figure out the pattern for how magic and stat boosts work. I played around with equipping different orbs on characters (in varying order) and never found a concrete pattern, but perhaps I just didn’t understand it properly.
-This may contain some spoilers for the game’s story, but it should be known that the game ends rather abruptly with a serious cliffhanger. Trails in the Sky is intended as the first chapter of a trilogy. There is no word on whether or not the sequels will be localized and released in English though. Supposedly, XSEED is working on the Second Chapter though.
-The pacing is kind of slow. Some parts of the game tend to drag on, but the end result is worth it.
Trails in the Sky is a great throwback to classic role playing games, with excellent characters, witty writing, and a fun combat system. Gamers who dislike lots of reading or a slower, turn-based combat system may be turned off by this adventure, but if you want a seriously long, committed adventure, then Trails in the Sky is a wonderful choice. Just as long as you don’t mind waiting for future installments.
Final Score: 8.5/10


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Feb 21st, 2012, 11:49 AM
Roll Call, Carnival Breeze, August 14, 2012
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Departs From Barcelona, Spain on August 14, 2012
visiting Monte Carlo, Monaco
>> Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy
>> Olbia, Sardinia
>> Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy
>> Naples, Italy
>> Messina, Sicily
>> Dubrovnik, Croatia
>> Venice, Italy
My wife and I are very, very excited to get back to the Mediterranean again, and be on a brand new ship.
Feb 25th, 2012, 09:41 AM
Re: Roll Call, Carnival Breeze, August 14, 2012
The 130,000-ton, 3,690-passenger Carnival Breeze, the third ship in Carnival's Dream class.
Much of what's found onboard Carnival Dream and Carnival Magic will be on Carnival Breeze, including the adults-only Serenity area; Seaside Theatre; "Cloud 9" spa; WaterWorks aqua park with a 303-foot-long, corkscrew waterslide; and family cabins designed to accommodate five passengers. It'll also have the smattering of offerings introduced on Magic, from the SportSquare outdoor fitness and adventure area to the RedFrog Pub, a Caribbean-style bar serving Carnival's private label, Thirsty Frog Red, on tap.
But big design and amenity changes are also afoot for Breeze. Carnival has dispensed with Joe Farcus, its wildly imaginative, wildly divisive lead designer for the last three decades. This time, Hamburg-based firm Partner Ship Design is leading the way with a toned-down vibe and tropical theme throughout. Amenity-wise, the ship will feature a slew of new attractions offering burgers, burritos, booze and George Lopez. The changes come by way of the line's $500 million FunShip 2.0 initiative, a program that also calls for the retrofitting of older ships with the new stuff. Some of the Fun Ship 2.0 spaces that will be found on Breeze include:
Guy's Burger Joint, which is being overseen by Guy Fieri, will highlight the merging of big slabs of beef, cheese, toppings and bun. Hand-cut fries are on the menu, too. The venue will be free of charge.
The EA SPORTS Bar will feature lots of beer, big screens to watch the Big Game and, of course, video games. Check out the EA SPORTS Bar drink menu.
The Caribbean-themed RedFrog Rum Bar will sit on the edge of the pool deck. Check out the RedFrog Rum Bar drink menu. The Mexican-themed BlueIguana Tequila Bar will be situated across from the rum joint. Check out the BlueIguana Tequila Bar menu. The BlueIguana will have a separate dining component, the BlueIguana Cantina, a free eatery that will serve burritos and tacos on ship-made tortillas.


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My machine has been running for about 4 months. One driver was DOA. Today, another may have bitten the dust...in the middle of a job. That's a 60% success rate in less than half of a year. I start up for the first time of the day. I try to home and the A axis isn't moving. All of my signals are fine. The wiring is intact. There is no dust or foreign objects anywhere. The steeper works fine on any other channel. Any other stepper fails on the A channel. Instead of being locked, the connected stepper can now be rotated by hand. It does not rotate as easily as a completely disconnected stepper, but it still rotates. So tell me, is this normal? Oh and my green led is out on that driver alone.


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Learning all that there is to know about travel can be a daunting task at first; however, it can definitely pay off in the long run. It takes patience and a wealth of knowledge to get started on the right foot. This article will provide specific tips and hints on how to make the most out travel.
Use an ATM instead of a currency exchange when traveling abroad. Banks frequently offer more advantageous exchange rates. This will save you some money.
When traveling out of the country, it is advisable to drink only bottled water. This is especially important in countries where the quality of their tap water may be questionable. It’s better to possibly pay a bit more and be safe than risk getting sick because of contaminated tap water.
When traveling it can make a big difference to travel when it is not a holiday or popular vacation time. If one goes on a time that is unlikely to be a popular vacation time they can avoid many hassles. There will be less crowds and waits for attractions. One can have a much more relaxed time.
When traveling overseas to other countries it can be very critical to know the culture of the area one is going to. This knowledge can prevent situations that may be akward, embarrassing, or even downright dangerous. Potential disasters can be avoided and one will have a better experience with the people in the area they are traveling in.
Make sure you understand all the laws of the destination you are traveling to. Some laws may seem very odd to you, however in that region, that is the way it is. Disobeying laws in a certain area can cause some extreme consequences and you may get more of a punishment than you are prepared for.
In conclusion, you learned not only some basics about travel but also some specific ways that you can apply it to your own situation. As long as you are committed and have a goal to work toward, the tips in this article should help you find much success and enjoyment.


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Researchers from Peking University discovered that graphene-silicon solar cells can be made more efficient by coating it with an anti-reflective layer (they used Titanium Dioxide).
The researchers say that normal silicon solar cells have an efficiency of about 15%. Adding graphene (as an electrode and also as the charge-carrying layer) can make the cells cheaper, but these are less efficient (at 8.6%). Coating the graphene-silicon structure with a 65-nm-thick layer of titanium dioxide decreases the reflected light from over 30% to less than 10%, which means that more light is converted to electricity - and the efficiency of these new cells is 14.6%.
Currently the cells that the researchers are using are only a few square millimeters in area. Larger graphene films are required before this technology can be used to make real PV cells. In addition, the cells are not stable - after 20 days the efficiency starts to decrease.
Interestingly, titanium dioxide, used in dye-sensitized solar cells, also gets an efficiency boost from adding graphene. In April 2012 Michigan Technological University researchers discovered that the addition of graphene augmented the conductivity of titanium dioxide, thus increasing the electricity production in a dye-sensitized solar cells by 52.4%.

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