The loss of crucial data due to an unexpected and unpredictable disaster can severely disrupt business continuity and operations, ultimately affecting the bottom line. This is why MSPs need Veeam data protection, backup, and disaster recovery plans —they allow IT departments to recover enough system functionality and data to allow a business to continue operating.
Now more than ever, companies rely on cloud-based and virtualization services for their backup and recovery plans. This has led managed service providers (MSPs) to seek high-end services to offer quality solutions to their clients.
Veeam is a vendor that has emerged as a leader in backup technology; it serves as the ultimate data protection and disaster recovery solution through affordable and efficient image-based VM replication.
What is Veeam?
Veeam allows backup, replication, and restoration of data on virtual machines (VMs) as part of its Veeam Availability Suite. The company is recognized as a pioneer in disaster recovery technology, designed to provide VM-specific backup software. Veeam enables MSPs to provide data protection to any type of infrastructure, whether it is virtualized data center components, physical servers, or cloud-based infrastructure.
The Veeam Availability Suite, with the backup and replication software, is compatible with the most frequently used hypervisors, including vSphere by VMware and Hyper-V by Microsoft. It also runs smoothly with a large number of cloud backup services.
Veeam is both agent-based and agentless software that runs on a virtualization layer and offers a recovery time of 15 minutes, regardless of the cloud service being used. Its built-in WAN optimization works to replicate data to off-site servers at speeds that are up to 50 times faster than raw data replication.
Why do MSPs need Veeam?
Veeam is the answer to all data protection, backup, replication, and restoration needs and is well suited to assist MSPs that are looking to offer cloud-based data solutions to their clients.
With the Veeam Availability Console, MSPs have the ability to create and manage separate client profiles through a single portal. These customer accounts can be customized by service providers to include customer information, specifications, requirements, and each client organization’s recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO).
Veeam also allows providers to establish customized data retention policies, allocate client privileges, and assign specific infrastructure per their requirements. With Veeam, you can:
- Recover data from cloud backup as a part of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), from remote and on-site servers.
- Offer clients infrastructure as a service (IaaS), as well as software as a service (SaaS) data protection for second-party cloud servers.
- Transfer data across different cloud centers in multiple regions.
What does Veeam do?
In a nutshell, the Veeam Availability Suite protects data and applications hosted across hybrid and multi-cloud servers.
Veeam enables users to establish secure socket-layer or transport-layer security (SSL/TLS) protocols that allow data identification, authentication, and communication between enterprises and MSPs. The SSL and TLS protocols ensure data confidentiality and maintain the integrity of data being backed up on cloud.
Through Veeam, MSPs can pre-schedule routine backups and customize their frequency (e.g., daily) to meet clients’ needs. This allows for quicker data recovery in case of mishaps or disasters, where data can be routed to either the client’s virtualized environment or to the MSP’s data servers.
Notably, Veeam has partnered with 18,000 MSPs, along with cloud services like Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and can restore data directly to their servers.
Key capabilities of Veeam
Catastrophic data loss can be prevented using Veeam Cloud Connect Backup, which offers the following features.
Veeam enables cloud backup at hosted physical and virtual off-site locations through an SSL protocol without requiring any additional licensing.
Transparency and control
Veeam allows data visibility and access to easy recovery from remote cloud repositories via the backup console. It also helps users track the cloud storage consumption rate, as well as receive and respond to reminders about storage upgrades.
Modern backup architecture
The advanced backup technology offered by Veeam allows routine backups over built-in WAN acceleration. The GFS (grandfather-father-son) preservation protocol retains data for longer periods of time while using minimal storage space.
Asymmetric encryption, also referred to as end-to-end encryption, secures data before it leaves the source network and maintains that encryption until the data reaches the cloud network.
Advantages of Veeam
The Veeam End User License Agreement restricts businesses to directly back up their own data without MSP involvement. This allows providers to create managed service offers around the Veeam software without the worry of competition.
Ease of use
Owing to its data transparency and ease of access, Veeam can be configured to manage data, control backup, and customize retention policies for every client.
Veeam’s built-in wide-area network (WAN) optimization allows for data transfers that are faster than raw data transmission, thus allowing data to be restored and backed up in just 15 minutes.
Veeam provides discounted prices for software and storage, allowing MSPs to set market competitive charges for their customers while still generating revenues.
Veeam Cloud Connect licensing
Through the Veeam Availability Suite, MSPs can access software such as Veeam Backup Essentials, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, all with a single license and no additional charge.
Veeam: the future of disaster recovery
Veeam is the perfect solution to all of your disaster recovery needs; its robust Availability Suite allows data backup, replication, and restoration for a variety of virtualized, physical, and cloud-based platforms. Additionally, Veeam respects the complex dynamic that exists between MSPs and their clients and enables providers to meet their customers’ needs efficiently.
Through Sherweb, you can have a VPN-less backup destination on our servers—all you need to do is add Sherweb as a service provider to your Veeam management console.


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|Tensions rising as presidential campaigns get under way
IRIN - October 17, 2006
|Three days into presidential election campaigns, tensions remain high in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as supporters of candidates Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba burn effigies and stone vehicles involved in the campaigns.
|Cabinet reshuffles an attempt to entrench Kabila's power, critics say
IRIN - October 13, 2006
|Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's replacement of some civilians in his cabinet and provincial governors with military officers is an attempt to entrench himself in power, critics said on Thursday.
|Officials trade blame for delaying elections
IRIN - January 12, 2005
Since an announcement on Friday that the electoral commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo may not be able to hold elections by 30 June as scheduled, various political groups and officials involved in the transition have been accusing each other of causing the delay.


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The recently completed restoration of the Grade II* Listed (Chinese) Pagoda Fountain at Alton Towers Resort, Staffordshire. The 3 month restoration involved specialist surface blasting, iron work restoration and painting.
The (Chinese) Pagoda Fountain was completed c. 1832, designed by Robert Abraham. It is a three storey, octagonal shaped, painted cast iron structure with Chinese hanging lamp bells, on an octagonal White Hollington sandstone base. The cast-iron structure was modelled on the To-ho pagoda in Canton, Southern China and made by the Coalbrookedale Iron Company.
For further information on the design and history of the Pagoda Fountain follow this link to the Alton Towers Resort Heritage website.
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The first thing one must do before reading a book is to recognize from which library shelf it came—that is, its literary genre. For example, if one is reading a satire one will misunderstand its contents if one takes it for history or politics. (Thus Swift’s A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, which proposed that poor Irish peasants might ease their lot if they sold their children as food for the rich, and which was intended as a satire, was misunderstood when taken as a serious political proposal.) The Book of Genesis was not written as a scientific textbook or even as an historical chronicle. In the words of one person, it was not written to tell us how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven. It provides the theological backstory to the narrative of the patriarchs and the People of Israel, since the Genesis story flows seamlessly into that of Exodus and the rest of the Pentateuch.
A verse-by-verse commentary of those chapters of Genesis is beyond the scope of a blog. For that commentary you are invited to buy my book on the topic, assuming you can find it. But I would like to mention three basic lessons from the first chapter of Genesis.
The first lesson may easily be missed since our culture takes the concept of a universal Creator for granted. Not everyone is a theist, of course, but the concept of creation is tied to that of monotheism, and it is understood that the Creator (if such exists) is not a specific and named deity like Marduk, Molech, or Horus, but a single, universal deity, usually going by the generic name “God”. It was otherwise in the culture in which Genesis was written. A quick comparison with other creation stories reveals that deities such as Marduk figured prominently in creation. Genesis, on the other hand, makes a point of not mentioning other deities at all, demoting them to effective idolatrous non-existence by refusing to utter their names. It declares that Elohim, the God of the Hebrews, is alone the creator of heaven and earth. He sometimes goes by the name “Yahweh” (e.g. Genesis 4:1) and sometimes by the compound name “Yahweh Elohim” (e.g. Genesis 2:4). But by whatever name, the narrative clearly identifies Him with the God of the Hebrews the descendants of Abraham, and with the God of Moses whose presence was accessed at the Ark of the Covenant and (later) in the Temple at Jerusalem. The deities of the other stronger nations surrounding and threatening Israel are not in the picture. Thus Genesis is not only theology, but theological polemic. It declares in its first sentence that the Hebrew God in the heavens does whatever He pleases, whereas the gods of the nations are mere silver and gold, incapable to thought, speech, reaction, or power (Psalm 115:3-7), and should be dismissed like the non-entities they are.
This polemic is part of our inheritance as Christians. Like Israel of old, we also declare that the God of Israel, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the source of the consubstantial Trinity, is the only God who exists, and that all other deities are idols and phantoms. That is, we confess a radical inequality between our religion and all other religions. This confession is tremendously unpopular and will result, if made publicly, in the confessor being treated as a kind of theological pariah. A more popular confession is that Christianity is but one way to God among many, and that all religions have more or less the same value and will yield the same fruits. Or, in the words of Patriarch Bartholomew (in his book Encountering the Mystery), the goal of the Christian Faith is “to promote a peaceful resolution of disagreement about how to live in this world, about how to share and use the resources of our planet”. This is a worthy goal, but it is not the mandate of the Church. We have found the true faith, and we call all people everywhere to come and find it as well, turning from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God (Acts 26:18). Marduk, Molech, Horus, and all their modern counterparts can be dismissed from consideration. They did not make the world, and cannot save it.
The second lesson found between the lines of the sacred text is that the same God who manifested His power in making the world also manifested His power in speaking to us in the Law and the Gospel. In the pagan creation stories the pagan gods exerted an immense amount of sweat, strain, and even warfare in creating the world. Not so our Elohim. Like the true sovereign He is, He merely had to speak a word of command and life sprang obediently into existence. He merely said two words (in the Hebrew), “Light—exist!” and immediately there was daylight and time began. When one adds up the number of times He spoke in creating the world, we find that He spoke ten such words of command. This foreshadowed the Ten Commandments, (literally the “Ten Words”, Hebrew dabarim, Greek logous). The message, hidden in the text, was that acknowledgment of God as Creator also involved loyalty to Him as Lawgiver and Lord. Acknowledging His power in creating the world counted for nothing if one rebelled against His Law. The demons acknowledge that He is their Creator, but this will not save them (James 2:19). As the Lord Himself said regarding this saving union of faith and works, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not do what I tell you?” (Luke 6:46). If we acknowledge God as our Creator, we must also strive to fulfill His Law and do what He commands. Belief in God is barren without obedience.
Thirdly, the first chapter of Genesis reveals the towering dignity of the least of humanity. In saying that mankind is made in God’s image, Genesis democratizes something which was once only the possession and prerogative of kings. The Hebrew concept of image involves representation and authority. The word for “image” in Genesis 1:26 [Hebrew tselem] is also the word used to describe the images of the pagan gods. Those images were not regarded as reminders of an absent deity, but as the way the deity was present. It represented the deity and manifested its power in the world. As one scholar put it: “In ancient Near Eastern texts only the king is in the image of God. But in the Hebrew perspective this is democratized to all humanity…‘exercising royal dominion over the earth as God’s representative is the basic purpose for which God created man’.” In Egypt, for example, the gods ruled the earth through the Pharaoh. But the Israelites knew that all men everywhere were meant to rule the earth in God’s name—and that included all women! Obviously the one charged with this high dignity had to be different from the animals, so that by extension the imago Dei could legitimately be described as found in man’s freedom, rationality, and capacity for love and self-transcendence. But this does not change the first insight of the sacred text that God’s image consisted of being charged with representing God and ruling in His name as His visible co-regents.
This dignity is found in all people everywhere. In democratizing the imago Dei the sacred author did not merely take the prerogative away from kings and give it to mankind in general. If the imago Dei does not depend upon royal power but is the irrevocable gift of God to all, then it also does not depend upon gender, age, colour, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or intellectual gifting. Infants in the womb, devoid of present social utility, are adorned with His image, as are the mentally handicapped and the old and senile. Each human being who draws breath was created to represent and manifest God in the world. Our spectacular failure to obey Him does not erase that calling or that dignity. Everyone—absolutely everyone—must be treated with love and respect because all share that divine image.
We see that when closely read, the first chapter of Genesis is not simply an historical record, but a theological testament. It gives us lessons that even now we have not yet learned. All the more reason to read again what it really says, and strive to obey.

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Fashion and beauty icon, Joji Felix Velarde died last Thursday, May 21. She was 73 years old. Joji Felix Velarde has been a prominent face in the fashion and beauty industry as the vice president for external affairs of Carousel Productions of the Miss Philippines- Earth and Miss Earth beauty pageants.
Joji Felix Velarde was a ballerina, child actress and fashion model. She has been looked upon by a lot of beauty queens all over the world. She was crowned Miss Caltex RPM in the 50’s and her face was the image model of Caltex in the country back in those times. She later became active in Mutya ng Pilipinas and Miss Philippines-Earth. She lived up to her beauty title to the very end. Even after she left the ramp, she was always close by. Made herself available to influence and encourage aspiring beauty queens.
Beauty experts from all over could easily tag her as a woman of substance. Indeed she is. Through the years she has made an impact to the generations after her. From the disciplines of a beauty queen to the vast life lessons she shared from what she learned through the years. Through her numerous contributions in the fashion and beauty industry, Joji Felix Velarde will always be remembered.

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My Kids Know Mommy Has Bipolar Disorder
We don’t have a plan.
Chances are it will happen again. Mania will overtake my brain to the point where I’ll need to be forced into treatment. No matter how hard I work at staying mentally healthy, the statistics show that most people who live with my type of bipolar will relapse many times. This can be due to meds ceasing to work, life events, or changes in sleep patterns.
We probably should write down a plan.
That was the advice given to us as we sat in a dreary office speaking with a new psychiatrist one month before I would give birth to our first child. My entire pregnancy had gone so smoothly. My bipolar disorder appeared to be in remission as I indulged in ice cream every night and marveled at my growing belly.
Not even the loss of my laid back, corporate recruiting job, the same month we closed on our new house, rattled my mental health. We had conceived, sold our townhouse, found a new place to live, packed and moved, went through my job loss, and I was still okay. I was more than okay. I was so happy with how our life was going.
So when Ben and I met with the psychiatrist, I naturally was not really focused on preventative measures. Frankly, I was questioning whether I even had bipolar given how well I had been doing off medication. The meeting was meant for us to have someone in our back pocket, should we need her in an emergency. My ego ached for her to shower me with praise for how well I had been taking care of myself.
Instead, she focused on the inevitable hospitalization she predicted I’d face. That’s all I heard. “You’re going to fail at mothering with bipolar, so we need a plan for when that happens.”
Well, fuck you, lady.
Ben didn’t have the same visceral reaction I did. He told me later that he thought it was good she was preparing us to be prepared. We may not have had a plan written down when we left her office that afternoon, but at least we had her card.
Eight weeks later my husband was frantically dialing her number as I frantically reorganized our kitchen. I had been getting by on tiny bits of sleep ever since our son was born, and my brain was starting to unravel. I had a grocery list notepad filled with scrawls and scribbles documenting the baby’s nursing stats. 20 minutes – Right, 15 minutes – Left. How much he slept in between. There were even notes kept on the contents of his dirty diapers. To say I had a touch of OCD probably wouldn’t have been inaccurate.
I was unable to sleep. Napping when the baby fell asleep during the day simply wasn’t happening. Despite the serious lack of shut-eye due to breastfeeding, which turned out to be incredibly hard, I felt dizzy with momentum, and found tons of “urgent” things to attend to while my son napped. At night I’d get a few hours here or there, but waking up four to five times a night with a newborn was not conducive to my brain getting any real rest.
And so it went haywire.
I could feel the sand in the hourglass beginning to slip through. I began gathering all of my journals which held the glimpses of my story since the initial diagnosis two years prior — piling them all in front of the blazing gas fireplace in our family room as an offering of my legacy. Standing near the flames I felt the heat build against the back of my legs. In my mind I’d rather go to hell than back to the mental hospital, so why not get a jump on the journey?
I had postpartum psychosis when my son was four weeks old. I knew it was coming on from the moment I first held him, but I was too afraid to tell anyone. I remember being completely and utterly exhausted, yet I couldn’t take my eyes off this precious, tiny life. I was in awe. Maybe even in shock a little. I felt the exhaustion begin to curl and twist into the exhilaration of hypomania. How could it not? I was on cloud nine having just given birth to our first baby.
Adjusting to life with a newborn was harder than I ever imagined. Our days and nights revolved around feedings, diaper changes, and laundry. However, my days and nights also included auditory and visual hallucinations, that started three weeks after coming home from the hospital with our newborn. At one point I remember being on my cell phone with my dad, and suddenly I felt like he was so far away — like on another planet. And I believed the CD/radio player in my son’s nursery held the frequency to beam me up to that planet my dad was calling me from. I was terrified of my thoughts, and yet, even more fearful of saying something. They might take my baby from me.
Thank God my husband didn’t share my same fears. He was anything but afraid of reaching out for help when he realized my mental health had severely deteriorated. He immediately picked up the phone, as painful as I’m sure it was for him. He was my lifeline.
It’s hard for him to talk about my manic episodes. I can feel the trauma left in his eyes when I try to encourage him to open up about those four times he had to have me hospitalized. It’s like he wants to erase those memories. I don’t blame him. I probably would feel the same if the roles were reversed.
I looked up from the sandwiches and fruit I was tossing into lunch sacks for the kids to check the time. 8:15. From the other room, I heard her big brother giving a lesson on Lego firemen and how they help people in trouble while sister “ohhhed and ahhed” and asked questions here and there. For the most part, they were playing happily together while I rushed about the kitchen assembling healthy lunches. I was grateful in that moment. With the lunch task completed, I ushered the kids upstairs so that we could all get dressed and ready and out the door.
The kids couldn’t agree on a show to watch together on the iPad while I got ready. He wanted Lunar Jim and she wanted Calliou. There was no compromising and so I took the privilege away. Arguing ensued, followed by a whole lot of yelling — ugly, horrible, rage-filled yelling on my part. I yelled with fury at my young children, something I am utterly ashamed to admit. That’s when it happened.
My little man told me, in the middle of our angry, rotten argument over the fact that I took the iPad away, that he was going to get rid of me. The kids were still in their jammies, I had no time to take a shower, and it was apparent we weren’t going to get there on time. I should have just given up on trying.
“I’m going to get rid of you, Mommy!” he threatened, with all the power and might of his little four-and-a-half-year-old voice. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did.
“Oh, really? How are you going to do that, bud?” I retorted as I pulled my sweater over my head.
“I’ll put you in the trash can!” he screamed as hot tears spilled down his cheeks.
I could feel his anger squeeze my heart and wring it out. I had become so worthless to him that he wanted to throw me away. I couldn’t blame him. If I had myself for a mommy, I’d probably want to throw her away, too.
I knew in that moment that I was failing him as a parent. He and his sister didn’t deserve to be on the receiving end of my raging temper. There was no way I was going to continue to expose them to my hurtful, cruel, pathetic attempt at discipline. I knew I needed to learn to parent them differently so that their memories of childhood weren’t fraught with what I considered this nightmarish scene that I wished I could erase.
Right then and there, in my mind, silently to myself I vowed to make some serious changes. I’d find ways to control my anger. I’d learn how to cope. I’d try harder to manage the symptoms of my illness so they didn’t tear my family apart. I finished getting dressed and then got down on my knees and pulled him to me, wrapping him with all that I had left. I cried with him, and we both whispered over and over again our vows to stop fighting and yelling. Baby girl timidly walked over with open arms and joined in on our big hug.
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This is where the healing begins. I dropped them off at school and came home to start writing. There’s something about taking pen to paper, taking the time to write out what happened, that helps me to understand how to do things better next time.
The kids are seven and almost five now, and there are still days when I wish I were better at controlling my emotions. But that morning three years ago was a huge wake up call for me. I’ve learned that self-care does wonders for keeping my rage in check. Rage is a symptom of my illness, that, because of my commitment to taking better care of myself doesn’t pop up all that often anymore. I’m the first to admit that I am most certainly not a perfect parent or wife or friend, by any means. I’m human and I’m flawed. It’s the ability to forgive myself and apply the knowledge gained from mistakes that makes me the mother, spouse and friend that I’m proud to be.
My husband and I met at the age of 18 as college freshman. I had this weird intuition that he’d be my husband someday. I’m sure he never dreamed that only two years into our marriage he’d be watching me sleep in a psych ward, holding my hand, tears streaming down his face. Or that he’d have to make the decision to hospitalize me three more times. No one ever warns you about these things when you decide to put a ring on it.
Ben is the most calm, loving, honest, loyal, and intelligent man I know. He’s so humble that I never know he’s received a raise at work until it hits our bank account. And we complement each other perfectly. I’m driven, he’s laid back. I’m more serious, he’s funnier. I get stressed out, he’s cool as a cucumber. Through it all, his gentle support has been the force behind my ability to recover and rejoin society after each manic or depressive episode.
I’ve asked him before if he ever felt like leaving me when I got sick. “Never,” he said. But how did you do it? How were you able to stay? I was a miserable wreck. “I love you, honey. And I knew you’d get better.”
I talk with my kids about my mental illness often. They know Mommy has bipolar disorder.
They know that I take medicine every day to keep my brain healthy. They know that Mommy needs to get good sleep to be a good mommy (don’t we all, parents?). I talk with them about how I’m helping people who live with mental illness to share their stories through my non-profit. I’m teaching my children that it’s okay to talk about mental illness the same way people talk about other medical conditions. My son knows there are illnesses he can see, like his classmate’s broken arm, ensconced inside a bright blue cast, and that there are illnesses he can’t see, like his Poppy’s heart condition, and his mommy’s bipolar.
Someday I’ll tell them about the time our son was four weeks old and an ambulance and several police cars showed up at our house, and I was handcuffed and taken away from my baby for a week.
Someday I’ll tell them about how I was so over the moon about our second pregnancy that I barely slept for a week. Instead of rest coming at the end of a long day taking care of a toddler, I’d lie in bed for hours after kissing my son goodnight.
Someday I’ll tell them how my daughter was just a five-week old embryo in my belly when she and I were admitted to the psych ward.
For now, we talk about it in spurts. Like when my little girl fetches the mail and my Lithium prescription arrives. I remind them that my medicine keeps me healthy. I’ve shown them the bottle and the pills to teach them that medicine is not candy. When I have a bad day and my patience wears thin causing me to yell a little too nasty at their misbehavior, I know that I’m in need of a time-out. Those are the times when I realize I haven’t been mindful of my self-care, and so I get back on track and take some time to myself. Doing so helps me to be the mommy I want to be for them.
There may come a day when I recognize mental illness in one of my kids. I’m not afraid. I know we’ll get through it together. I hope that if they ever suspect it in themselves before I do, they’ll have had enough exposure to mental illness to know how to reach out for help. And they can rest assured that their father and I will do everything in our power to get them the treatment they need to get well.
My mental illness told me I wasn’t strong enough to handle motherhood. “How will you take care of both of us? I control your life now, and a new baby will demand everything of you. You won’t make it.”
I wasn’t willing to let my illness stand in the way of my dream of having babies, having a family. I spent a long, hard year working closely with my psychiatrist and therapist, trying many different meds and combinations of meds until I found one that worked for me. And even then, I knew finding the right med was only one piece to the puzzle.
There is no magic pill to banish one’s mental illness. Meds only assist in the journey to recovery. The other pieces which needed to come together for me were my support network, protecting my sleep, monitoring my stress level, and eating well and exercising regularly. And they didn’t all link up at the same time.
My heart wanted children more fiercely than my illness had control over me. It was at that moment when my husband and I decided to go for it. We took a leap of faith and never looked back. Were we scared? Of course. Was it worth it? A million times yes.
My mental illness hid under my veil of joy and anticipation for the new life growing inside me. So much so I questioned the disorder was ever really there. Maybe those first two episodes were simply excruciating nightmares brought on by lack of sleep and the stress of a demanding job? Only the game of hide-and-seek didn’t last long. Fighting for my recovery during my early years of motherhood wasn’t what I envisioned as a new parent. My passion for advocacy has developed as a result of my experience, and if I had the ability to wave a magic wand and dissolve away my condition, I’d have to take a pass. My life, my kids, my family — have all become richer and full of empathy because we’ve been touched by mental illness. An illness which has taught me how to protect and cultivate my mental health.
Being a mom who struggles with mental illness was never something I expected out of motherhood. But as author Alexandra Elle has said, “I’m grateful for my struggle because without it, I may never have found my strength.”
With this strength, armed with the knowledge of a decade’s worth of experience managing my bipolar illness, it’s about time I write that plan. For my kids. For my husband. For myself.
Just in case.


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"For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another."
All city tax revenue from most properties that a government, nonprofit or religious organization sells to a private buyer in the future — meaning those parcels begin to generate property tax dollars — would go toward affordable housing under a proposal from Austin City Council Member Kathie Tovo.So Councilmember Tovo's solution to Austin's housing cost related challenges is to divert general revenue into a dedicated account with a complicated funding formula?!? We find our post-Prop. 1 vow to speak in an edifying manner towards all members of the council being challenged, as the phrase "political slush fund" does come to mind. Suffice to say, Councilmember Tovo's 'affordable housing' proposal has many similarities to the way the state of Texas funds transportation.
At a minimum, maintaining city services under such a scenario might be difficult:
But city officials said that, in future years, Tovo’s proposal would mean a “significant” redirection of money from the city’s property tax-supported general fund that pays for city services such as parks, police and libraries. Without knowing what properties might be sold in the future, officials said they couldn’t give a specific estimate.
Council Member Ellen Troxclair wondered out loud at Tuesday’s council work session about taking money away from other departments that provide city services that new developments require.
“Those people are going to need city services, police response and water service, all the other things we use property taxes to provide,” Troxclair said. “So how do you argue for the loss of that revenue to other parts of the budget?”Fortunately, Tovo had a well thought out answer to Troxclair's concerns:
Tovo said the council could choose in any year not to send the new property tax revenue to affordable housing and instead put that money toward other purposes.So the solution to the funding challenges created by Councilmember Tovo's 'affordable housing' proposal is to ignore Councilmember Tovo's 'affordable housing' proposal!
Bottom Line: We commend Councilmember Tovo's good intentions but find her proposal excessively complicated and unlikely to achieve its stated objective.

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Not during NICU stay, but DD (32 weeker) had a chest tube for 4 days after having half of her lung removed when she was 15 months. I also deal with chest tubes on a daily basis as I work in ICUs. It really depends on the reason the lung collapsed in the first place and how much fluid is draining. It's usually a matter of a few days just to make sure they don't risk having to reinsert. Good luck and congrats on your new LO!
Loving life with our very energetic 2 year old b/g twins!

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Trick-or-treat yourself to a DIY night.
Scrolling through Instagram and TikTok this time of year, you’re bound to see an increase in adorably decorated homes for Halloween as Oct. 31 approaches. You want to get into the spirit of things as well, but let’s face it, buying a bunch of spooky decor can be expensive AF. If you’re on a budget, you can still achieved the haunted home vibes you crave with all the best TikTok dollar store decor hacks for Halloween.
Actually, a Halloween DIY night sounds like the perfect way to kick off the season. Go for a quick run to your local dollar store to pick up some Halloween decor before spending the night at home with your roomies or partner making cute decorations to add to every room. You could even turn on a Halloween movie to watch while hot glueing. Get your craft on while watching The Craft or turn on Hocus Pocus as you focus on some DIY.
Whether you’re just looking for a statement piece for your coffee table, a place to display your fall scented candles, or a revamp of your mantel with spooky spiderwebs, these 12 TikTok dollar store Halloween decor ideas are just what you need. Don’t forget to share the makeover with a before and after TikTok video. You never know, you could inspire even more witches to get into the Halloween spirit as well.
While TikToker @averagebutinspired has a fun video with a bunch of different Halloween decor ideas, you’ve got to try the first hack. You can replicate the spooky spell books by taking some dollar store books and spray painting them black. Stack them on your shelves to make it look like a pile of spell books is just laying around. TikToker @missiekr has a similar idea, but paints their books orange, yellow, and white to give them a candy corn feel.
If you’re not much of a DIYer, this dollar store Halloween hack from TikTokers @craftylumberjacks is right up your alley. All you need to do is get some creepy fabric from the store and drape it along your mantel or even coffee table. Add some dollar store spiders, and you’ve got yourself a Halloween-inspired space with very little effort involved.
This skeleton hand wall sconces hack from TikToker @jboom80 is genius from start to finish. First, you’ll want to take a serving tray and spray paint it black. While that is drying, cut up a plastic skeleton hand to hot glue back together to look like it’s holding something. You’ll also want to melt a red crayon on top of a fake candle to give it a bloody good look.
When the hot glue has dried on the skeleton and the serving tray is ready to go, glue the skeleton hand to the tray so that you can place the candle on top of the hand. Hang it up on your wall, and you’ve got yourself a creepy wall scone to light your hallways.
Everyone seems to love this Halloween shirt hack on TikTok. Just grab some black or orange tees from the dollar store along with some festive cutouts, like TikToker @graphicandsilk does. Using a spray bottle that you can also find at the dollar store, spray some bleach onto the shirts with the cutouts on top. Once that’s dried, you have some festive bleach-dyed wear.
For a mantel statement piece, grab some skulls from the dollar store and spray paint them black. Hot glue them on top of each other to give yourself this stacked skull stand. You could also glue a tray on top to make it a candle holder. TikToker @kaylah.lopez shows you how to make a spooky terrarium with a glass case, fake moss, and tiny skeletons as well. Whatever you decide to do, you’ll have a super skele-fun display.
For #WitchTok vibes, make yourself this crystal ball for your coffee or dining table. Just take a plastic DIY snow globe from the store and fill it with tons of glitter. TikToker @jboom80 also fills their ball with baby oil, craft glue, and blue paint. For the base, spray paint a plastic mini bowl and glue your crystal ball right on top. When it’s all assembled, you’ll be ready to call in the spirits in no time.
The skulls from the dollar store can be used in variety of ways. While you can always glue them together to get a base for a serving tray or candle holder, they can also be used to make a creepy cage. Using two laundry baskets that are spray painted black, glue your skulls inside like TikToker @hometalk does before glueing together. Add some chains on top, and you’ve got yourself a skull cage you can hang up in a tree outside or in your living room.
A simple way to instantly give your home Halloween vibes is to add a giant spiderweb to your wall. Just take some black yarn and tape it to your wall in a web form like TikTokers @craftylumberjacks. Add a fake spider to give it the final touch it needs. You could also use some colorful yarn if you want more of vibrant Halloween aesthetic.

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iQOO U5e debuts with dual cameras, 5,000mAh battery: Check price
Chinese smartphone brand, iQOO has introduced its latest 5G offering, the U5e, in its home country. As for the key highlights, the device features an LCD display, dual rear cameras, a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor, and a 5,000mAh battery. The handset carries a starting price of CNY 1,399 (nearly Rs. 16,300) for its base 4GB/128GB configuration.
Why does this story matter?
- Vivo, through its sub-brand iQOO, continues to flood the entry-level 5G smartphone segment in China where it faces stiff competition from Samsung and Xiaomi.
- The U5e is the latest and most affordable model in the U5 series and comes with a MediaTek processor.
- The handset is a rebranded version of the Vivo Y33s 5G, which had debuted in China in March.
The device offers an LCD screen
The iQOO U5e bears a waterdrop notch design with slim bezels and a power-button integrated fingerprint reader. On the rear, it has a blacked-out, rectangular camera island. The handset boasts a 6.51-inch HD+ (720x1600 pixels) LCD panel with a 20:9 aspect ratio, a 60Hz refresh rate, and 269ppi pixel density. Dimensions-wise, it measures 8.25mm in thickness and tips the scales at 193g.
It offers a 13MP main camera
On the rear, the iQOO U5e houses dual cameras that include a 13MP (f/2.2) primary shooter and a 2MP (f/2.4) macro lens. The device features an 8MP (f/2.0) front-facing camera for selfies and video calls.
A MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC powers the device
The iQOO U5e is backed by a MediaTek Dimensity 700 chipset, paired with up to 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. The handset boots Android 12-based OriginOS Ocean. Under the hood, it packs a 5,000mAh battery with 18W charging support. Connectivity options on the device include 5G, dual-SIMs, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.1, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a Type-C port.
iQOO U5e: Pricing and availability
The iQOO U5e bears a price-tag of CNY 1,399 (nearly Rs. 16,300) for its 4GB/128GB model. The 6GB/128GB variant of the device costs CNY 1,499 (around Rs. 17,500). It is up for grabs from Vivo China's official website.


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How we’ve missed this. Here are the last chance exhibitions to see in London before 2022’s spring overhaul.
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s to now
Spanning an ocean and half a century, this celebratory landmark exhibition will focus on the work of artists from the Caribbean who have made their home in Britain, and other British artists who have been influenced by the region’s culture. With paintings and fashion, film and photography, Claudette Johnson, Peter Doig, Sonya Boyce, Grace Wales Bonner and Alberta Whittle are just the start.
Tate Britain, to April 3
The annual jamboree kicked off late this year for obvious reasons, but co-ordinated this year by Yinka Shonibare CBE, it feels fresh, fun and significantly more diverse with a strong thread of textile throughout (don’t worry, if RAs doing the same thing they’ve been doing for years is your thing, there’s plenty of that too, that’s part of the joy).
Royal Academy, to January 2
A compelling and uplifting exhibition about the thrillingly experimental Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, whose stunning work spans sculpture, architecture, dance, design and landscape, driven by humanist values and using materials from ceramics to paper to light.
Barbican, to January 9
Hyundai Commission: Anicka Yi
This dreamy installation, the 20th to be commissioned for Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall, is bound to be a hit, comprising as it does gentle, jellyfish-like forms floating through the this industrial cathedral, propellers whirring on their sides, so they buzz as they drift through the perfumed air above you. Ahhhh.
Tate Modern, to Jan 9
Poussin and the Dance
The first London exhibition of Nicholas Poussin’s work in over 30 years focuses not so much on his celebrated landscapes as the riotous raving that’s taking place within so many of them, showing his work in the context of the great pieces of classical art that first inspired them.
National Gallery, to January 2
I’m not going to lie, I always think of Constable as a bit… twee. All those white highlights on pastoral scenes. This exhibition, though, sets out to show just how radical this famous Royal Academician actually was, with the expressive, free paintings of his later career.
Royal Academy, to February 13
Hogarth and Europe
William Hogarth captured and commented on the British contemporary experience in an age of change and enlightenment - but his colleagues across Europe were doing the same thing in their own countries. This excellent exhibition puts the artist in his European context for the first time.
Tate Britain, to March 20
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
As usual, this exhibition of great photography is a bit too small to really do justice to the work that it’s showcasing, but it’s a good way to get a snapshot (sorry, accidental) of what’s going on in contemporary photography - and the world.
Cromwell Place, to January 2
Peru: a journey in time
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Peru’s independence, this landmark show will highlight the history, beliefs and cultural achievements of the peoples who lived in the remarkable landscapes of the central Andes from 2000 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s.
British Museum, to February 20
Waste Age: What Can Design Do?
This exhibition looks at the sheer unbelievable waste generated by our contemporary way of life (shame!) and, crucially, sets out to show how ingenious designers can mitigate it. So it’s not all bad, but don’t stop recycling.
Design Museum, to February 20
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer’s Journey: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
Through paintings (by Dürer and other masters), drawings, prints and letters, this show follows in the footsteps of the great German Renaissance artist as he travelled across Europe taking in the Alps Italy, Venice (then independent) and the Netherlands, exploring his influences and those he had on those he encountered.
National Gallery, to February 27
Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
Fifteen Imperial Easter Eggs - the largest collection to go on display together in a generation, many of which have never been seen in Britain before - sit in royal glory in the final room of this glittering exhibition. They’re worth the wait, but it’s what comes before - a neatly put-together show that highlights not just Peter Carl Fabergé’s glorious creative vision but also the genuinely stratospheric heights to which his artists and artisans rose in the pursuit of beauty - that actually blows your mind.
V&A, to May 8
A major exhibition for the Turner Prize-winning artist which takes in recent work and a selection from across her career that will unfold (appropriately for someone initially trained in theatre design) via a sequence of scenes.
Tate Modern, to May 22
Amy: Beyond the Stage
Too much is perhaps written about the undeniable tragedy that marked Amy Winehouse’s life, and certainly not enough about the glory of it and the inspiration that is her musical and aesthetic legacy. This new exhibition at the Design Museum aims to change that, celebrating her by unravelling the creative process behind her music with hand-written lyrics, teenage notebooks, iconic looks and fantastic photographs.
Design Museum, from November 26
A Year in Art: Australia 1992
This free exhibition brings together artworks that reflect debates around Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander land rights in Australia. Taking as its starting point the 1992 High Court ruling in favour of Torres Strait Islander land-rights activist Edward Koiki Mabo, which overturned terra nullius (‘land belonging to no-one’ - the British justification for colonising the land now known as Australia), it explores artists’ response to the relationship Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have with their lands, as well as the ongoing impact of colonisation in Australian society today.
Tate Britain, to spring 2022
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms
Expect the socially distanced queues to snake round the building for this always magical pair of installations by the celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Deploying mirrors, lights and crystal chandeliers, Kusama creates a wondrous experience that can’t fail to enchant visitors of all ages. You’ll definitely need to book well in advance, but the good news is that these two rooms are in situ for a year, so plenty of time to get to them.
Tate Modern, to June 12, 2022
Alice: curiouser and curiouser
It may feel like an impossible thing to believe, even before breakfast, but this long-awaited show only has a month left to go. Looking at the huge cultural impact of Lewis Carroll’s curious tale it explores its influence in art, fashion, design, photography, performance and more. Highlights include paintings from the American surrealist Dorothea Tanning, photography from Tim Walker and Julia Margaret Cameron, fashion from Vivienne Westwood and designs from Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet based on the story.
V&A, to December 31


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Aston Villa have been linked with a surprise swoop for a Sheffield Wednesday defender.
Claude Dielna is among Tim Sherwood's summer targets, according to the French press.
The 27-year-old, who can play at full-back and centre-back, has two years left on his contract, having signed for the Owls on a free transfer from Olympiakos a year ago.
Dielna was linked with West Bromwich Albion in January, during a hit and miss season for him at Hillsborough.
Villa, who are braced to lose free agent Ron Vlaar, are close to completing the signing of Micah Richards following his release from Manchester City.

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The Metropolitan Opera in New York has reached a landmark in its movie-theater broadcasts from the stage to the world: 10 million tickets sold since the series started.
``Live in HD‘’ ended its sixth season this weekend, beaming Verdi‘s ``La Traviata’‘ via satellite to 1,500 movie screens in North America and more than 40 countries.
Almost a quarter of a million people saw Saturday’s live performance directed for screens by the man who leads Macy‘s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Gary Halvorson. The simulcast grossed $2.4 million in North America.
Delayed showings in Asia and elsewhere are boosting spectators for the season finale by an additional 100,000.
Starting in October, a dozen operas -- one more than this season -- are scheduled for ``Live in HD.’‘ (AP)


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Will Lady GaGa & Cher’s Greatest Thing Be Dropping In The Next Two Days???
And. we. just. stopped. breathing.
All month, we have been waiting patiently, counting the milliseconds until someone told us something about Cher and Lady GaGa’s impending and world changing duet, The Greatest Thing. Aaaaall month, we’ve been watching every tweet, checking every source, begging every person we met for information about the duet, but no one would tell us anything. No one has any clues.
But the deadline is almost upon us. The girls have one more day to bless us with their music. And according to the producer of the track, RedOne, it will be worth the wait :
“I think it’s timeless. The beautiful thing about this song is, it’s very uplifting, very uplifting. It’s emotional, but it has dance on it, and it has a dance vibe on it,” he explained. “It’s just a timeless song. You can play it with the guitar, the piano, with whatever instrument you want. You can sing it a cappella, you know what I mean, it’s that kind of song.
I’m very excited about that song,” Red added. “And it’s an event. Cher and Lady Gaga: How big can it get?”
WE DON’T KNOW YET! WE HAVEN’T HEARD IT!!!!
This is the definition of pain! Please, great goddesses of pop music, GIVE US YOUR SONG!!!

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About – Jassa Dhillon
With a zest of music in heart from early life Jassa Dhillon has made a mark in Punjabi music industry. Since his inception in the Punjabi music world, Jassa Dhillon has developed a diverse and successful music career scoring a hit with “Pyar Bolda” in 2019.
“Pyar Bolda” was definitely a start with a Bang and he has never looked back ever since. In February, he released the first song from the album “Above All” named “Raule”, which later appeared on YouTube’s weekly Global Music Chart. He is well known for his songs like Talja, Raule, Pyar Bolda, and Bhalwani Gedi. The song “Talja” from the album was featured on the UK Asian Music Chart. The album proved to be a breakthrough in Jassa’s career.
Jassa Dhillon has always treated Stumbling blocks as Stepping stones. More success has only brought more humility to this artist. No doubt his fans love him so much for that.
Born in Assandh (Haryana), Jassa Dhillon completes his school education at a local high school Assandh, then he gets admitted to JPS Academy The best CBSE school in Assandh for higher education. He completed his graduation from Canada.

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OLDHAM will have to beat Workington Town the hard way following the shock news from training last night that Richard Lepori, Jack Spencer and Lewis Foster will be unavailable.
Hooker Foster’s extended loan agreement contained a call-back clause which Leigh Centurions have activated.
Full-back Lepori, who sustained a badly gashed hand in Workington’s 32-30 win at Bower Fold two weeks ago, had stitches removed early this week and has since told the club he can’t play for another two weeks.
It was thought prop Spencer would be fit after shoulder trouble but he also withdrew last night because the injury is causing him more concern.
Add Adam Clay (shoulder) and Michael Ward (suspended) to the list of absentees and coach Scott Naylor will have to pick a side to do battle in Sunday’s Bower Fold relegation showdown with the Cumbrians (3pm kick-off) without four who played last time and a fifth (Spencer) who was expected to return after several weeks on the casualty list.
Said Naylor: “We can’t let injuries become a distraction. We have to focus on the boys who will be giving everything they’ve got for the club and the badge.”
New-boy winger Scott Turner looks sure to make his debut, but his fellow beat-the-deadline signing James Mendeika is said to be a couple of weeks off after playing little rugby this season.
There’s no shortage of forwards to cover for Ward, Spencer and Foster, though Naylor could opt to switch Gareth Owen back to his original spot at hooker to work in tandem with in-form Kenny Hughes, who scored two late tries last time as Roughyeds threatened to pip Town at the post in a thriller.
As for full-back, there could be a chance for either Sammy Gee or Lewis Palfrey to step into the breach.
Naylor is left with 18 to pick from plus dual-reg youngsters from partner club Huddersfield Giants.
Team (from): Blagbrough, Briscoe, Burke, Chisholm, Files, Gee, Gill, Grimshaw, Hewitt, Hope, Hughes, Joy, Langtree, Middlehurst, Owen, Palfrey, Thompson, Turner plus dual-reg personnel.
Town are without two who played last time — injured winger John Patrick and suspended utility man Karl Olstrum.
Coach Phil Veivers must also decide between Carl Forber and Callum Phillips to partner Jarrod Sammut at half-back.
Prop Marc Shackley said: “Self-belief counts for lot and after three wins in a row we’ve got piles of that.
“Oldham are good on their own patch. It’s on a slope and they know how to use it. They also have two good hookers who’ll we’ll have to keep our eye on”.

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MARYSVILLE — At least 37 people experienced car problems after filling up their vehicles Sunday at a Chevron station, according to a company spokesman.
A delivery driver accidentally put diesel fuel in an unleaded fuel storage tank at the station, said Sean Comey who works for Chevron Corp.
Customers pumping gas from the unleaded pumps at the station at 1206 Fourth St. were actually putting diesel into their cars and trucks from about 12:30 a.m. until the problem was discovered at roughly 9:30 p.m.
“First of all we’re sorry they are experiencing a problem,” Comey said. “This is a very unusual circumstance. Making sure that our customers get the highest quality fuel is very important to us.”
Harris Transportation Co., of Portland Ore., is responsible for paying for any car repairs that need to be made or any other arrangements associated with mix-up, he said. The company on Thursday did not return calls asking for comment.
Calial Lyon, 21, of Bellingham, stopped for gas Sunday at the station on her way to coach at a basketball tournament at Bonney Lake High School. A few blocks away from the station, her 1995 Toyota Tercel started having trouble running and eventually died in the parking lot of another gas station.
Her car was towed Monday to Bud’s Transmission Service and Auto Repair in Marysville. Mechanics told her what she thought she pumped into her car wasn’t gas but diesel.
“I was frustrated,” Lyon said. “I was hoping that they could fix it easily. It was mostly frustration that I wasn’t going to be able to use my car any time soon.”
Lyon said she isn’t sure yet how much the bill will be to fix her car. She was told her car is running again but doesn’t expect to be back in its driver’s seat for another day or two, when she can get a ride to the shop.
The severity of damage caused by diesel being put into a gas tank varies from car to car and depends on the dilution and how long it ran in the vehicle, said Steve Moa, a manager and owner at Bud’s.
“The case we have, it just stopped the car from running and you can get that fixed,” Moa said.
The fuel in Lyon’s car was taken out and the fuel injection system was cleaned. New spark plugs and motor oil were put into the vehicle, Moa added. He said he has only seen the problem a few times.
“We’ve had customers do their own sabotage by accident,” he said. “I’ve never experienced it from a station mix-up.”
Lyon’s parents are letting her use their car for now.
She’s happy she won’t have to pay for repairs on the car she’s owned since her senior year of high school. She just wants her car to work properly again.
“I know everyone is human and we make mistakes,” Lyon said. “I’ve never had this happen before so I don’t feel it’s going to happen again.”
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XB-ART-52894J Physiol April 15, 2017; 595 (8): 2569-2585.
Bicarbonate sensing in mouse cortical astrocytes during extracellular acid/base disturbances.
The present study suggests that the electrogenic sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter, NBCe1, supported by carbonic anhydrase II, CAII, provides an efficient mechanism of bicarbonate sensing in cortical astrocytes. This mechanism is proposed to play a major role in setting the pHi responses to extracellular acid/base challenges in astrocytes. A decrease in extracellular [HCO3(-) ] during isocapnic acidosis and isohydric hypocapnia, or an increase in intracellular [HCO3(-) ] during hypercapnic acidosis, was effectively sensed by NBCe1, which carried bicarbonate out of the cells under these conditions, and caused an acidification and sodium fall in WT astrocytes, but not in NBCe1-knockout astrocytes. Isocapnic acidosis, hypercapnic acidosis and isohydric hypocapnia evoked inward currents in NBCe1- and CAII-expressing Xenopus laevis oocytes, but not in native oocytes, suggesting that NBCe1 operates in the outwardly directed mode under these conditions consistent with our findings in astrocytes. We propose that bicarbonate sensing of astrocytes may have functional significance during extracellular acid/base disturbances in the brain, as it not only alters intracellular pH/[HCO3(-) ]-dependent functions of astrocytes, but also modulates the extracellular pH/[HCO3(-) ] in brain tissue. Extracellular acid/base status of the mammalian brain undergoes dynamic changes during many physiological and pathological events. Although intracellular pH (pHi ) of astrocytes responds to extracellular acid/base changes, the mechanisms mediating these changes have remained unresolved. We have previously shown that the electrogenic sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter, NBCe1, is a high-affinity bicarbonate carrier in cortical astrocytes. In the present study, we investigated whether NBCe1 plays a role in bicarbonate sensing in astrocytes, and in determining the pHi responses to extracellular acid/base challenges. We measured changes in intracellular H(+) and Na(+) in astrocytes from wild-type (WT) and from NBCe1-knockout (KO) mice, using ion-selective dyes, during isocapnic acidosis, hypercapnic acidosis and hypocapnia. We also analysed NBCe1-mediated membrane currents in Xenopus laevis oocytes under similar conditions. Comparing WT and NBCe1-KO astrocytes, we could dissect the contribution of NBCe1, of diffusion of CO2 across the cell membrane and, after blocking carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity with ethoxyzolamide, of the role of CA, for the amplitude and rate of acid/base fluxes. Our results suggest that NBCe1 transport activity in astrocytes, supported by CA activity, renders astrocytes bicarbonate sensors in the mouse cortex. NBCe1 carried bicarbonate into and out of the cell by sensing the variations of transmembrane [HCO3(-) ], irrespective of the changes in intra- and extracellular pH, and played a major role in setting pHi responses to the extracellular acid/base challenges. We propose that bicarbonate sensing of astrocytes may have potential functional significance during extracellular acid/base alterations in the brain.
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The United States Military Courts Martial trial of Major Nidal Hasan has ended today with a sentence of death, one of only two options open to jurors.
From the Fort Worth Star Telegram:
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death on Wednesday for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, giving the Army psychiatrist what he believed would be a path to martyrdom in the attack on unarmed fellow soldiers.Prosecutors say this will not make a martyr of the former Army doctor and correspondent of Anwar al Au-laqi, who coldly planned (over the jump)
The American-born Muslim, who has said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression, never denied being the gunman. In opening statements, he acknowledged to the jury that he pulled the trigger in a crowded waiting room where troops were getting final medical checkups before deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The same jurors who convicted Hasan last week had just two options: either agree unanimously that Hasan should die or watch the 42-year-old get an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.
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the attack in an effort to protect, he said, Taliban leaders from US troops. Prior to the shooting rampage he conducted in a clinic full of unarmed US GIs, his superiors had questions and concerns about Hasan's fitness; indeed, he had been at Fort Hood only a few months before the murders.
From 2003 to 2009, Hasan was stationed at Walter Reed Medical Center for his internship and residency; he also had a two-year fellowship at USUHS completed in 2009. According to National Public Radio (NPR), officials at Walter Reed Medical Center repeatedly expressed concern about Hasan's behavior during the entire six years he was there; Hasan's supervisors gave him poor evaluations and warned him that he was doing substandard work.In early 2008 (and on later occasions), several key officials met to discuss what to do about Hasan. Attendees of these meetings reportedly included the Walter Reed chief of psychiatry, the chairman of the USUHS Psychiatry Department, two assistant chairs of the USUHS Psychiatry Department (one of whom was the director of Hasan's psychiatry fellowship), another psychiatrist, and the director of the Walter Reed psychiatric residency program. According to NPR, fellow students and faculty were "deeply troubled" by Hasan's behavior, which they described as "disconnected", "aloof", "paranoid", "belligerent" and "schizoid".It is difficult for me to find any empathy toward this man. It is impossible for me to argue that he should not pay for the lives he took so callously with the forfeit of his own.
Once, while presenting what was supposed to be a medical lecture to other psychiatrists, Hasan talked about Islam, and said that, according to the Koran, non-believers would be sent to hell, decapitated, set on fire, and have burning oil poured down their throats. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience raised his hand, and challenged Hasan's claims. According to the Associated Press, Hasan's lecture also "justified suicide bombings." In the summer of 2009, after completion of his programs, he was transferred to Fort Hood.
Whatever else happens, I hope he is never revered as a martyr.
The automatic appeals process begins now. There has not been a single execution of a US military prisoner since 1961, although there are other prisoners awaiting execution.


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Among Robbins' early work are notable studies comparing contemporary and historical controversies, such as the mass suicides among the Russian Old Believers and those that occurred in Jonestown in 1979, or present-day agitation against "cults" and similar controversies surrounding Catholicism, Mormonism and Freemasonry in the early nineteenth century. From the mid-1980s, Robbins became increasingly focused on legal and church-state issues related to new religious movements. He has written extensively on the legal and social-science issues related to the alleged use of mind control by therapeutic and religious groups. Together with his colleague, the psychologist Dick Anthony, Robbins has been one of the most prominent critics of the anti-cult movement's views on brainwashing.
Articles and book chapters
D. Anthony and T. Robbins, "Law, Social Science and the 'Brainwashing' Exception to the First Amendment," Behavioral Sciences and the Law 10(1992):5-30
D. Anthony and T. Robbins, "Religious Totalism, Violence, and Exemplary Dualism," in Terrorism and Political Violence 7(1995):10-50
T. Robbins, "Religious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown," Sociological Analysis 41(1986):1-20
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EUXEINOS - Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region.
"Beetls". Drawing from the notebook of Oleg Grin, a 13-year old boy from Vatutino (Cherasky Region, Soviet Ukraine), written in May 1972. The inscription on the drums probably refers to the Polish skiffle band No To Co. Private collection Sergei I. Zhuk.
Nr. 25-26 - 12.2018: Pop and Politics in Late Soviet Society. Ed. by Peter Collmer and Carmen Scheide.
Zur Aktualität von Jacques Ranciere. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2016.
Das Buch bietet einen hervorragenden Einstieg in die Arbeiten von Jacques Rancière. Zentrale Theorieannahmen werden dargestellt und deren Bedeutung für die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften der Gegenwart aufgezeigt. Ist es notwendig, angesichts der Rezeptionsflut der letzten Jahren, überhaupt noch Worte bezüglich der Aktualität der Arbeiten von Jacques Rancière zu verlieren? Tatsächlich gibt es wahrscheinlich gegenwärtig wenige Philosophen, die in ganz unterschiedlichen Kontexten so stark aufgegriffen und zitiert werden wie der französische Denker Rancière. Dieses Buch führt - mit einem durchaus kritischen Impetus - in das Denken und in die Arbeiten Jacques Rancières ein.
Ko-Autoren: Dietmar J. Wetzel und Thomas Claviez
The Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community. New York: Fordham UP, 2016.
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
Contributors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Thomas Claviez, Robert J. C. Young, Homi K. Bhabha, Djelal Kadir, Jacques Rancière, Paul Gilroy, Nancy Fraser, Dietmar Wetzel.
The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible. New York: Fordham UP, 2013.
Hospitality is a multifaceted concept that has been received by, and worked into, various academic realms and disciplines, such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies. The essays collected in this volume, by a wide range of international contributors, examine how, in the wake of the work of Levinas and the late Derrida, this concept has entered into and transformed the thinking of these disciplines.
Contributors: Pheng Cheah, Thomas Claviez, Anne Dufourmantelle, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ulrik Pram Gad, Bonnie Honig, Luce Irigaray, Nikos Papastergiadis, Mireille Rosello, Paola Zaccaria.
“Globalization has brought us instant forms of communication and diverse networks of connectivity. But has it made us better neighbors to one another? Have we evolved new ethical and political forms of hospitality to accompany the crossing of borders, the subduing of national and regional sovereignties, as we take our first, faltering steps toward an international civil society? These essays raise questions fundamental to our political condition. But they do more than that. They make a compelling case for an aesthetic and ethical enhancement of our sense of political rights and responsibilities.”
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University.
“This volume does something new with hospitality, reanimating and redeploying it in ethical, political, and aesthetic directions. Its effect is prismatic: It brings together and then reflects, refracts, and redistributes hospitality across the intellectual spectrum of philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies.”
William Robert, Syracuse University.
“A timely constellation of trenchant statements on one of the most ancient and most sacred human conventions. In an increasingly inhospitable world, this is an opportune and eloquent volume on hospitality as institution, as political act, and as ethical practice. An invaluable touchstone for interdisciplinary study of the subject.”
Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University.
Aesthetics & Ethics: Moral Imagination From Aristotle to Levinas and From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008.
In recent years, American Studies have taken a turn toward the political. However, although poststructuralism and deconstruction have undermined numerous of the moral-philosophical dogmas of the Western metaphysical tradition, many of the political claims that the revisionist turn in American Studies has voiced still rest, if tacitly, on these moral and ethical assumptions. As the latter often collide with the theoretical axioms that inform these revisionist works, some resort to what one could call the “pathos of marginality” and rather vague concepts of “otherness.” Moreover, these political-ideological readings often completely blot out aesthetic aspects, as these are suspected to be carriers of implicit and hegemonic strategies of representation.
In the first part, this study analyses what role “otherness” plays in the most influential moral-philosophical approaches to date - from Aristotle and the Neo-Aristotelians (Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum) via Kantianism and its deconstructors (Jean-François Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller) to the works of Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas - and sheds light on its highly problematic status in Western notions of justice. Moreover, on the background of these analyses it examines the role that aesthetics plays not only for, but within these approaches, with a special focus on what task literature is accorded to dramatize the clash of sameness and otherness.
Starting from a revised notion of the sublime, the second part “applies” the different approaches to four American novels: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, and examines how far the moral-philosophical systems carry to elucidate these texts. What becomes clear is that none of these works can be captured in their complexity by either one moral philosophy or one political agenda, in that every literary “exemplification” of such theory inevitably falls prey to the treacherous dynamics of the example - a dynamics that inhabits literature and haunts ethics, and that defies literature’s instrumentalization by either ethics or ideologies.
Claviez’s book is a notable contribution to the field of ethics and aesthetics. The author moves with ease between the leading representatives of the two main trends within the ethical turn, spelling out their theories on alterity and analysing with rigour their different stances on the particular otherness of the fictional text… a must for scholars and advanced students of ethics, aesthetics and American studies, interested in exploring the synergies between ethics and literature.
Aesthetics and Ethics avoids sketchy presentations and provides the reader with a thorough and highly elaborated exposition of the theories… Claviez has produced an excellent book, impressive in its scope and a perfect blend of theory and analysis. His mastery at unravelling dense theories is patent throughout. He guides the reader smoothly through the intricacies of ethics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Paul Ricoeur. The most refreshing aspect of the book is Claviez’s wit, a rarity in academic writing.
Bárbara Arizti, Atlantis
Through his spirited confrontations with major thinkers like Nussbaum, McIntyre, Ricoeur and Levinas, Claviez provides insightful answers to complex moral conundrums and at the same time explores and highlights literature’s openness to a wide range of modern ethicophilosophical interpretations. Aesthetics & Ethics is a notable read that will appeal not only to scholars with an interest in the field of Ethics and Literature, but to all those interested in the current status of literary theory and/or moral philosophy.
Lefteris Kalospyros, European journal of American Studies
Grenzfälle: Mythos – Ideologie – American Studies. Trier: wvt, 1998
Obwohl die Begriffe “Mythos” und “Ideologie” für sich genommen Gegenstand zahlloser Untersuchungen in den Bereichen der Wissenssoziologie, Anthropologie, Politik- und Literaturwissenschaft geworden sind, so existiert bis heute keine umfassende Analyse des Verhältnisses dieser beiden Konzepte. Diese Lücke schließt die Studie Grenzfälle: Mythos - Ideologie - American Studies.
Anhand der bedeutendsten neueren Beiträge zur Mythos- und Ideologietheorie - u.a. von Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno, Hans Blumenberg, Kurt Hübner, Giambattista Vico, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Karl Mannheim, Louis Althusser, Juergen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu und Clifford Geertz - entwirft der Autor einen positiven Mythosbegriff, der der weitverbreitenen Tendenz, den Mythos qua Mystifizierung der Ideologie gleichzusetzen, entgegentritt. In einem zweiten Teil wird auf der Grundlage eines geschärften definitorischen Instrumentariums das sich ändernde Verhältnis dieser beiden Konzepte in der Geschichte der American Studies - von der Myth & Symbol School bis zum New Historicism - erstmalig untersucht. Zu den hier untersuchten Ansätzen zählen die Beiträge von Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, Richard Slotkin, Annette Kolodny, Will Wright, John Cawelti und Sacvan Bercovitch.
Durch die stark interdisziplinär angelegte Ausrichtung der Untersuchung ist dieses Buch nicht nur für Amerikanisten, sondern auch für Soziologen, Politologen, Philosophen und Kulturwissenschaftler von Interesse.
“It is obvious that both Claviez’ notion of what his study is to achieve and the extraordinary number of complex approaches he considers demand great care and analytical competence … However, [he] proves to be always in full command of his material… Hidden assumptions and implications are revealed, scientific disputes are commented upon with great expertise, and the contribution of every scholar is critically appreciated… Claviez’ critical revision reveals a great deal of self-confidence, a high intellectual level, and is refreshingly combative… [A]n impressive and significant contribution to the field of American Studies.”
Georg Schiller, Amerikastudien/American Studies


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Recipe by Dena G.
"Quick and easy salad that eats like a meal. Jalapeno and cilantro can be added for a Southwest flair. Any meat can be substituted for the salmon."
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2 (6 ounce) fillets
butter, melted and divided
salt and pepper to taste
fresh mushrooms, sliced
grape tomatoes, halved
olive oil, divided
leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
avocado - peeled, pitted, and cubed
fresh cilantro, chopped
fresh jalapeno pepper, chopped
distilled white vinegar
feta cheese, crumbled
This was really good! I'm a huge salmon fan but not the biggest avacado fan, but the two went really well together! I grilled the mushrooms with red onions instead of sauteing them with butter to save on fat. I also used Cilantro only, subsituted baby spinach for lettice, and added green olives. I highly recommend.
Not bad, but I wasn't keen on the mushrooms with the other flavors. Also, I used white balsamic instead of distilled white vinegar as I find the latter way too tart. If I were to make this again, I would throw in some red onion and maybe even some sweetcorn kernels. Thanks, Dena!
This was so delicious! The only changes I made were I omitted the mushrooms, used a baby greens salad mix, and used red wine vinegar instead of white vinegar. This was very fast to prepare and the flavors went together very well. I can't wait to make it again. Thank you for a great recipe!
This was a great salad. It had a great taste, I really liked how the avocado complemented the other ingredients. With my changes it was a bit different from the original recipe - I omitted cilantro and jalapeno (I didn't have them) and instead of adding feta and a vinegar sauce, I added a honey dijon sauce (1 part butter, 1 part dijon mustard and 2 parts honey - like what is used for the baked dijon salmon recipe on this site). It was fantastic like this!
I left out the mushrooms and jalapeno, used roma tomato (and more of it), and substituted lemon juice for the vinegar. I already loved combining salmon and avocado. The cilantro and feta were interesting and tasty additions. I am sure I will make this again, perhaps with the mushrooms next time (I didn't have any on hand.)
This salad was very good. I used red onion instead of the mushrooms. I did not use the vinegar but used lemon juice with the olive oil. I also did not combine the lettuce and instead just plated it. The salmon was still warm when I added it to the bowl so next time I will cook the salmon ahead of time. It may be even better if it all melds in the fridge for awhile. Will make this again. Yummo!
Pretty good, but I added another big tomato and used pickled Jalapenos (about 2 TBSP)instead of fresh because my fresh ones are still on the vine. My avocado was a big one also. Put a bunch of arugula in with the lettuce to give it a more peppery flavor as well. Will make again!
Very tasty and very easy! I added shredded carrots for extra nutrients, but didn't have mushrooms to add. I only used half a fresh jalapeno and that was enough. My husband said it added "just enough" surprise to his tastebuds! I liked the oil & vinegar dressing because it makes it lower caloried, but if I had fresh mangos I would add some to this salad. The mango would help take the bite out of the jalapenos. I'll will make this one again. Thanks!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Salmon Avocado Salad
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 423
** Calories from Fat: 320
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Certainly how long this expansion can last is an open question, particularly given weakness in Europe and the slowdown in formerly fast-growing developing countries. But one thing is clear: the industrial resurgence is reshaping the economic and employment map in often unexpected ways.
Now rather than being pulled down by manufacturing, our Best Cities For Jobs survey, conducted by Pepperdine University’s Michael Shires, found that many industrial regions are benefiting from their prowess.
From 2010 through March, manufacturers added 470,000 jobs and enjoyed a rate of job growth 10% faster than the rest of the private economy. In the past many areas suffered from having too many industrial workers. Now it looks like we will have too few skilled ones, even in hard-hit sectors like the auto industry. In 2011 there were 50,000 unfilled U.S. job openings in industrial engineering, welding, and computer-controlled machine tool operating, according to the forecasting firm EMSI. If the revival continues, this shortage could worsen.
To determine the cities that are leading the manufacturing revival, we assessed manufacturing employment growth in the 65 largest metropolitan statistical areas. Rankings are based on recent growth trends, as well as job growth over the past five and 10 years, and the MSAs’ momentum.
Where Technology Meets Manufacturing
In an era of excitement over the Internet, it is often forgotten that a majority of the country’s scientists and engineers work for manufacturers, and that industrial companies account for 68% of business R&D spending, which in turn accounts for about 70% of total R&D spending.
Nowhere is this linkage between technology and industry more evident than in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area, which ranks first on our list of the metropolitan areas leading the manufacturing revival. Over the past year the region was No. 2 in the nation in manufacturing growth, with employment expanding 7.9%. The aerospace sector, led by Boeing, accounted for roughly half this expansion.
The growth in aerospace and high-tech employment creates precisely the kinds of high-wage jobs, including for blue-collar workers, that are lacking in many parts of the country. In 2010 the average factory wage in the area was $64,925, up 9% from 2007. Most critically, manufacturing activity drives growth in other sectors of the economy. About one in six of all private-sector jobs depend on the manufacturing sector, and every dollar of sales of manufactured products generates $1.40 in output from other sectors, the highest of any industry.
As manufacturing employment overall has dropped, the percentage of higher-wage, skilled industrial jobs has been climbing over the last decades, particularly in high-technology related fields Overall, according to EMSI data, the average American factory worker earned $73,000 in 2011, $20,000 more than the average job.
Seattle is not alone in creating high-tech-oriented industrial jobs. Over the past two years Salt Lake City, Utah, which ranks third on our list, has seen significant growth in both electronics and aerospace employment, including a new Northrop Grumman facility. Firms connected to the medical device industry such as Biomerics are also expanding in the area.
Manufacturing is also rebounding in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas, which ranks eighth on our list and No. 1 on our overall list of Best Big Cities For Jobs. Last year industrial employment in the Texas state capital area jumped 5%. Semiconductor firms are a big force, employing over 10,000 workers. Although more known for its high-tech electronics, Austin has also enjoyed an expansion in automobile-related employment as well as medical devices.
The largest grouping of manufacturing stars have emerged from the Texas-Oklahoma energy belt. With the shale drilling boom unlocking ample supplies of natural gas and lowering prices, petrochemical companies have undertaken major expansions. The rise in drilling and exploration has also sparked greater demand for industrial products such as pipes, drill rigs and other machinery. No surprise that the biggest backers of shale gas exploration are prominent CEOs of industrial firms. A recent study by PwC suggests that shale gas could lead to the development of 1 million industrial jobs.
The shale drilling revolution is making an impact across the country, in places like North Dakota and Youngstown, Ohio, but the epicenter of this boom remains firmly in the oil patch. The Thunder you hear in Oklahoma City is not just on the basketball court — energy growth has propelled a 1,500 person jump in manufacturing employment, a 6.1% increase, with another 1,000 new jobs expected this year. Oklahoma City ranks second on our list.
Other energy capitals are also thriving on the industrial front, including Houston (fourth place), San Antonio (seventh) and Ft. Worth-Arlington (ninth). Although energy is the main driver, manufacturing has been on the rise in a broad array of areas, including aerospace, biomedical and food processing. The surging export economy — Texas is easily the nation’s number one export
has further bolstered this growth.
The high-tech and energy economies may be fast-breaking in terms of industrial growth, but manufacturing’s comeback has put some new bounce in the step of many long forlorn parts of the nation’s “rustbelt.” Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich., epitomizes this trend. Unlike Detroit, which has suffered mass disinvestment, this more suburban area a half hour drive away has become the epicenter of a new, more tech-oriented auto industry.
The Warren-Troy area’s rich concentration of skilled tradespeople and industrial engineers has been described as America’s “automation alley.” It continues to attract high-industrial firms from abroad such as Brose, a German car parts manufacturer, which has recently announced a $60 million investment in the area. Even housing is on the rebound, with rents rising at the fourth highest clip in the country, just behind such standouts as San Francisco and Miami.
Nor is the Midwest manufacturing rebound limited to Michigan. Over the past year sixth-ranked Cincinnati enjoyed 5.4% growth in industrial employment. Manufacturing growth was also strong in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisc., a center for the production of machine tools and other precision equipment that ranks 10th on our list.
Who’s Falling Behind
Of course not all regions have benefited from the industrial resurgence. For example, the nation’s largest industrial area, Los Angeles, ranks a miserable 49th. The area lost some 20% of its industrial jobs since 2006, and the losses continued over the past year. This goes a long way to explain the area’s continued underperformance before, during and, now, in the early days of recovery from the financial crisis.
Some other large regions did even worse, including such one-time industrial powerhouses as Philadelphia (55th) and New York (59th). Some may argue that these, and other areas, which have been losing manufacturing jobs for decades, no longer need to engage in the messy business of making stuff. But that long fashionable way thinking may be outdated itself, as seen by the improving fortunes of our industrial top 10.
Full List: The 10 Cities Leading The U.S. Manufacturing Revival


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Just when I thought, “My favorite gelato place is now in my favorite city, I don’t need to find my way back to Sydney anytime soon,” BOOM! Gelato Messina opens a new experience that, of course, I
want need to try.
Introducing The Messina Dessert Bar. The make your own adventure / sundae bar featuring two flavors of soft serve gelato weekly, flavored waffle cones, crepes, donuts, sauces, coulis, candies, foams, cream, cookies, floss . . . the list goes on and on. And if you can’t decide for yourself what to concoct, they have suggested combinations to choose from. All as inventive as the unique flavor combinations they are known for in their original gelato shop.
Waffle cone filled with fanta sorbet, redskin custard, strawberries & cream jellies then dipped in chocolate & topped with fairy floss
Honey I Burnt The Kids
Burnt vanilla gelato, burnt honey mousse, smoked butter popcorn, smoked chocolate fudge served in a cup
Raspberry waffle cone filled with burnt vanilla gelato, raspberry jellies, passion fruit curd, raspberry coulis & topped with raspberry meringues
6 months now and no Australia for me, none of my favorite gelato. Oh, the horror! You can bet, that one of these days I’m gonna be back in OZ and this is where you’ll find me:
MESSINA DESSERT BAR
243 Victoria St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
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Developer proposing Baltimore Inner Harbor tower
Questar Properties hopes to building tallest building in Maryland
A developer is planning what could be Maryland's tallest building by Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
The Daily Record reported that Questar Properties' proposal for the 40-plus story building on the site of the former McCormick plant will debut before a city design review panel next week.
The Transamerica Tower is currently the state's tallest building, standing at 35 stories tall and more than 500 feet high.
Questar CEO Stephen Gorn said the new building will have an "elegant, sophisticated look" and will incorporate 370-380 luxury apartments and street-level retail space. He said construction could begin late this year and take about 30 months.
McCormick's facility was razed in the 1980s. An ARC Wheeler Equities affiliate bought the property in 2006 with plans for a 59-story skyscraper, but those plans were later abandoned.