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The Open House London festival takes place every September, and in previous years I’ve enjoyed showing visitors round the Royal Society’s home in Carlton House Terrace.
Circumstances mean that we can’t throw our doors open in September 2021, although you can still get a glimpse inside our building – and take a virtual tour – by visiting our Open House Online 2021 webpage. Meanwhile, to stave off my tour guide withdrawal symptoms, I thought I’d take a walk around the neighbourhood, virtual umbrella raised high, and map out an architectural route for you to follow:
(map created using onthegomap.com)
There are eight stops on the tour, taking in a total of ten buildings. You can stroll them virtually, or walk the 1.7-mile route in an hour or so at a leisurely pace.
So what do the buildings on the tour have in common? The answer may surprise you: they were all designed by Fellows of the Royal Society. Architecture isn’t really one of the disciplines that gets you elected to our Fellowship these days (and since 1837, architects have had a distinguished ‘Royal’ body of their own, now usually referred to as RIBA), but there were several notable names in the first couple of centuries of our existence. See how many you recognise as you take the tour – and if I tell you that it ends at a seventeenth-century church, that should give you a major clue to the identity of our most famous ‘Fellow architect’.
Your starting point is in John Adam Street, just south of the Strand and number 1 on the map above. The street itself is named after a member of a noted Scottish architectural family, but it’s his younger brother Robert Adam FRS (1728-1792) who concerns us here. Elected to the Fellowship in 1761, the same year in which he became Architect of the King’s Works, Robert’s ideas had been strongly influenced by his exposure to classical architecture during a four-year ‘Grand Tour’ to the continent.
The area south of the Strand became the site of the Adam brothers’ great (though ill-fated) neoclassical block, the Adelphi Buildings, built between 1768 and 1772. At the same time, a comparatively new institution, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, was looking to move into its own premises, and commissioned a house at number 8 John Adam Street:
(all building photos taken by the author)
This was designed by Robert and a third Adam brother, James; a plaque on the wall gives the precise dates of foundation and completion:
The Royal Society of Arts or RSA, as it’s now generally known (and yes, there is a steady flow of redirected enquiries between our library and theirs!) has been in the same building ever since. This represents a far longer period of stability than ‘our’ Royal Society – see the Gallery on our Open House Online 2021 webpage for further information on our many London homes over the centuries.
Crossing the Strand and heading to the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square, you’ll reach your second stop: the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, designed by another Scottish architect, James Gibbs FRS (1682-1754). Schooled in the Italian Baroque tradition during his own extended travels around Europe, Gibbs won a competition in 1720 to design a new church on the site, which already had ecclesiastical links going back to the medieval period:
Completed in 1726, St Martin’s – now a long way from any fields – is both a thriving community church and a familiar sight to tourists. It remains Gibbs’s most celebrated London work, and likely played a part in his election to the Fellowship in 1729. His best-known later commission is the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.
A short walk across the top of Trafalgar Square and along Pall Mall to Waterloo Place leads to map location 3, a three-for-the-price-of-one view of the exclusive private members’ clubs of St James’s:
Starting on the right of the photo, the two north-facing buildings are the Reform Club and, sandwiched in the middle of the block, the smaller Travellers Club. Here’s a side-by-side view of their front elevations in morning shadow:
The Travellers (L) and Reform (R) clubhouses are both the creation of another of our architect Fellows, Sir Charles Barry FRS, albeit a while before his election to the Fellowship in 1849. His election certificate describes him as ‘Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Architecture’, and indeed he was: launched on a career by friends and aristocratic connections made on the obligatory Grand Tour, Barry rose to be a leading figure in the Italianate style first popularised in Britain by John Nash. The Travellers clubhouse (1832) is considered to be Barry’s first major work in this style, and the Reform (1841) one of the finest, influenced by the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. By this latter date, Barry also had another small project on the go, of course: the Houses of Parliament.
Returning to the photo-before-last, the east-facing frontage in full morning sunlight is that of the Athenaeum, whose Neoclassical clubhouse at 107 Pall Mall was designed by Decimus Burton FRS to occupy a plot of land made available after the demolition of Carlton House. It was completed in 1830, making it the earliest in this distinguished Pall Mall block. Decimus himself was something of an early starter: the tenth child (hence the name) of Regency property developer James Burton, he was only 26 when he began work on the Athenaeum, and was soon elected to our Fellowship at the age of 32, proposed by such luminaries as Michael Faraday, Marc Isambard Brunel and Charles Lyell.
A short walk across Waterloo Place to Carlton House Terrace takes you past the Royal Society’s front door (we’ll let you in for Open House 2022, fingers crossed!) to the fourth stop on the tour route. Here you can see numbers 3 and 4 Carlton House Terrace, now home to the Royal Academy of Engineering (above). The overall scheme for the Terrace – also built on the gardens of the old Carlton House – is generally attributed to Nash, assisted by Decimus Burton, but these two houses are exclusively Decimus’s work, commissioned by Lord de Clifford and Lord Stuart de Rothesay respectively.
The tour route now returns to Pall Mall, heads west past St James’s Palace, and follows Cleveland Row as it narrows to a small passage between railings into the eastern side of Green Park. Just before you reach this cut-through, at point 5 on the map, you’ll see an imposing portico on your right, with the inscription ‘Restituta Anno Domini MDCCCXLIX’ above the doorway:
This is Bridgewater House, another of the works of Sir Charles Barry FRS, who rebuilt the house in 1840-54. It’s now in private hands, so the front door will likely remain closed to you, though a local history society I’m acquainted with via Royal Society tours does seem to have managed a visit. And if you’ve watched more Downton Abbey than me (not difficult – a single episode will do), then the exterior might be familiar to you as the fictional Grantham House…
Once you’ve turned right into Green Park, you’ll see the best view of Bridgewater House when you look back east. Here it is (L), with my apologies for not leaving work a bit earlier, allowing the late summer afternoon shadows to creep up the front before I could take my snaps:
Carry on up the side of Green Park, towards the tube station, to glimpse another stunning mansion facade: Spencer House (R), number 6 on the map and open to tour groups on Sundays. While the facades of Spencer House were done by a non-Fellow, John Vardy, the interiors were the creation of his successor on the project from 1758, James ‘Athenian’ Stuart FRS.
Another eighteenth-century architect with Scottish origins, Stuart was from a much humbler background than his contemporaries – I doubt the Adam brothers had to walk to Italy on their Grand Tour, as Stuart is said to have done on his. Elected to the Royal Society in the same year as his Spencer House commission, Stuart’s election certificate notes that he ‘particularly applyed himself to the study of antiquity, during a long residence in Greece and Italy’, and his published work on his return to London helped to inaugurate the Greek Revival movement in Britain.
OK, we’re nearly there now, but the route briefly gets trickier: continue through Green Park and keep an eye out for a small alleyway to your right. This goes via a narrow covered passage – breathe in if anyone’s coming in the opposite direction – into St James’s Place, where the front door of Spencer House is situated. Walk on to St James’s Street, turn left and slightly uphill, then left again into Park Place, a short street which dead-ends at the gateway to the Royal Over-Seas League, tour stop number 7. Here it is, as viewed from Park Place (L) and Green Park (R):
The building – much older than the organisation it accommodates – consists of two houses, Rutland House and Vernon House. The former is another creation of James Gibbs FRS (St Martin-in-the-Fields, remember?), and you can read about it in this Open House blogpost I found on their website.
To conclude the tour, you’ll need to retrace your steps back along Park Place, and then zig-zag up to 197 Piccadilly. This is the eighth and final tour stop: St James’s Church, Piccadilly, consecrated in 1684:
The church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren FRS, Founder Fellow of the Royal Society, President 1680-82, and definitely the most famous architectural name on our roster. It was rebuilt following heavy damage in WWII; if you seek Wren’s original monuments elsewhere, of course, there are plenty of other churches to choose from, including a pretty impressive cathedral which you may know.
That’s outside the range of this tour, however, as are many other London buildings designed by Royal Society Fellows: the Royal Observatory, Sir John Soane's Museum, Somerset House and the Monument, to name but a few. I hope you’ve enjoyed my starter walk, anyway, and are feeling inspired to venture further in the footsteps of our ‘Fellow architects’.

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WORCESTER – A cohort of new food entrepreneurs will be celebrated at a graduation ceremony next month as they complete the Launching Diverse Food Entrepreneurs in Worcester program.
Implemented by the Worcester Regional Food Hub and developed in partnership with the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, the program was funded by a $65,000 Urban Agenda Grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development. Supplemental funding was also provided by The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts.
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While the Food Hub initially planned for 20 participants, the program was so popular, eliciting more than 50 applications, they eventually enrolled 24 participants. Representatives from Central Mass Housing Alliance, the City of Worcester, MassHire Central Region Workforce Board, Worcester Community Action Council, and the Worcester Housing Authority assisted with the recruitment and selection of participants, which include women, minorities, and immigrants.
Hosted by the Food Hub at the Greendale People’s Church, the site of the organization’s commercial kitchen, this event is open to media coverage and will take place on Monday, Oct. 7 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. If attending, please RSVP to Emily Gowdey-Backus.
Additional details and contact information for these new food businesses can be found on the Worcester Regional Food Hub website at www.worcesterfoodhub.org.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is the director of communications at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce. She can be reached via email.

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Few, if any, twentieth-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. The personality of Hitler himself, however, can scarcely explain this immense popularity or his political effectiveness in the 1930s and '40s. His hold over the German people lay rather in the hopes and perceptions of the millions who adored him.
Based largely on the reports of government officials, party agencies, and political opponents, Ian Kershaw's groundbreaking study charts the creation, growth, and decline of the "Hitler myth." He demonstrates how the manufactured "Fuhrer-cult" served as a crucial integrating force within the Third Reich and a vital element in the attainment of Nazi political aims. Masters of the new techniques of propaganda, the Nazis used "image-building" to exploit the beliefs, phobias, and prejudices of the day. Kershaw greatly enhances our understanding of the German people's attitudes and behavior under Nazi rule and the psychology behind their adulation of Hitler.
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The Making of the 'Hitler Myth', 1920-19401: 'Fuhrer of the Coming Germany': The Hitler Image in the Weimar Era
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A miniature from 1331 illustrated in this book encapsulates what the author means by "documentary culture." A woman holding a sealed writ confronts a roughian brandishing a club. She is the allegorical figure of Reason and he is "Rude Understanding" by which is meant no true understanding. The writ, which is addressed by God himself to Lady Reason, is an injunction naming Rude Understanding, who is to be given a day "at the assizes of judgement" if he fails to listen to Reason. Legal documents had become so famililar in England by the fourteenth century that authors used them as representations of Christian salvation. A Franciscan preachers' manual from the 1320s likens the Creed to a charter of feofment: if anyone holds a charter from a lord for some piece of land, the lord will protect him and warrant him as long as he serves his lord faithfully. Charters issued in Christ's name, replete with legal terminology, develop as a literary genre and are illustrated in books as letters patent complete with seals. They open with the familiar address Sciant presentes et futuri and they conclude with: "Written, read, confirmed and given to mankind on Good Friday on Mount Calvary in perpetuity."
Such uses of legal documentary forms in literature addressed to the general lay public are certainly of interest to historians of English law, as they demonstrate a respect for due legal process as well the pervasiveness of documentary culture. Lady Reason expects her injunction against Rude Understanding to be effective because it is enforceable at the next justices' assizes. Similarly Christ's charter to mankind will be honored, just as a lord (according to the Franciscan preacher) duly warrants his tenant. But would the general public have really been so familiar with the forms of charters? The answer is "Yes," if my From Memory to Written Record is correct. By 1300 many peasants possessed documents entitling them to property and those that did not heard charters being read aloud at the frequent meetings of manorial and other local courts. A difficulty with this is that before the fifteenth century charters were written in French or Latin and not in English. Authors writing in English, who use legal documents as metaphors, often make play with translating or explaining the text to their nonclerical audience.
As a professor of English literature, Emily Steiner is concerned with the significance of these documentary allegories at a much deeper level than simply demonstrating the existence of a legalistic documentary culture. The most important and problematic text is Langland's Piers Plowman, which uses a profusion of documentary metaphors and allusions. Steiner devotes nearly half her book to "Langland's documents" and especially to the significance of Piers tearing apart the letter of pardon which Truth has given him. This is a crux in the poem that has never been adequately explained; possibly Langland intended it to remain a mystery. By approaching this question from the forms of legal documents, Steiner has come up with a solution, though it is a contentious one. She suggests that the letter of pardon was in the form of a bipartite chirograph. Piers's tearing of the letter was constructive not destructive: "by tearing his chirograph, Piers simultaneously declares his faith in its terms and awards to each his or her portion." The practical objection to this is that a chirograph had to be cut with care, so that the two parts could be rejoined if required, whereas Piers is described angrily tearing or pulling his document asunder. Steiner does have good theological evidence, however, for Christ's redemption of mankind being interpreted as a compact that both sides enter into, as in the making of a chirograph.
Steiner carries her study beyond Langland into the fifteenth century, when Lollardy made devotional documents in English highly contentious. Charters issued in Christ's name became potentially subversive, once they began to be contrasted with the legalistic forms of papal indulgences. One accused Lollard, Margery Baxter, purportedly claimed that she had a charter of salvation in her womb. William Thorpe in 1407 used English to powerful effect in his Testimony as a counter to the official version of his trial for heresy. The Testimony is addressed like a letter patent "to all men that read or hear this writing." Those suspected of subverting the Scripture, like Margery Kempe, needed legal documents to protect them. When the arresting officer read the archbishop of Canterbury's letter, he became more polite and asked: "Why did you not show me this before?" This encounter, like that between Lady Reason and Rude Entendement, suggests a respect for due legal process.
The significance of all this for the understanding of English literature is complex and controversial. For historians of law, on the other hand, Steiner's evidence unequivocally suggests that legal documents were widely understood and respected. This contrasts with the disrespect for the law documented in court records and chronicles. The historical records deal with remarkable events and particular cases and they will therefore tend to emphasize lawlessness. The evidence from literature of a deeply imbedded legalistic documentary culture is a useful counterpoint to historians' generalizations about medieval lawlessness. The set forms of documents laid down pathways for obtaining justice and this was well understood.
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Ahhh Santorini…that stunning island in Greece…with pretty stone houses on the cliffs overlooking the picturesque caldera…where sunset casts a spell…where the breeze smells romance... Before Keith and I met, we both heard about all these mesmerizing things about Santorini and fueled the romantic in us to visit that dreamy island someday. We both had opportunities to do so – friends going there wanted us to tag along – but we both held off. We felt it was an extraordinary place that we had to save for something special. After we got engaged in Marrakesh, we both realized what we were saving Santorini for — our wedding.
Arriving in Santorini
We climbed to the deck and checked out the breathtaking view.
The sight of the of the cobalt-blue water of the caldera from the deck took our breath away.
The honeymoon suite at Anastasis, our home for our week stay in Santorini.
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They said that the sunset in Santorini was beyond spectacular. They were not kidding!
The infinity pool at Anastasis lit up at twilight. The cluster of lights in the upper right is the village of Oia.
For our first evening in Santorini, we enjoyed a lovely dinner at To Steki tou Nikou, a traditional Greek taverna recommended by our wonderful hostess, Despina. The restaurant sent a car to pick us up from the hotel and drop us off:) The food was simple but fresh and delicious. And we indulged ourselves a bit (ok, more than a bit) with cold ouzo, a Greek digestif similar to sambuca. It gave us a good night sleep!
The day before the wedding.
The day before our wedding, we set out for what became our favorite activity in Santorini – hiking! It’s a great way to see and experience the island. It was also a great way to get some tan before our wedding:) There’s a spectacular hiking trail that hugs the caldera side and stretches from the villages of Fira to Oia. Imerovigli, our home base, is in between these two villages. On this day, we hiked to the direction of Oia on the north side of the island.
We were surprised to see a lot of chapels along the trail. This chapel hanging on the cliff was dedicated for the safety of sailors.
The dramatic view of the volcanic landscape along the trail, a relic of one the biggest recorded volcanic eruption in history.
A crevice on a cliff.
Another chapel on the trail. The village of Oia can be seen on the background.
We took a break on the terrace of the chapel and enjoyed the scenic view of Oia and the sea.
Pretty cluster of homes that sit on the steep cliff of Oia.
One of the many traditional churches in Oia.
This deep-blue domed church dominates the skyline of Oia.
Exploring the charming narrow streets of Oia.
We stopped for lunch and a beer at one of the tavernas overlooking the caldera. I looked at Keith’s hand and realized that it was his last day without a ring on his finger!
A bougainvillea vine clinging on a whitewashed wall is a typical sight in Oia.
View of the village on the cliff from the tip of Oia.
The Bay of Armeni.
Boats on the tiny port of Ammoudi that lies 300 steps below Oia.
Donkeys and a boat resting on the steps that lead from Oia to the port of Ammoudi.
Colorful boats docked on the port of Ammoudi.
Excellent traditional tavernas lined the port of Ammoudi.
Stunning view of the port village of Ammoudi and the village of Oia on top of the hill.
We followed a path on the left side of the port that led to a swimming hole teeming with bathers.
Bathers resting on top of a rock.
We climbed back up to Oia from Ammoudi and waited for the sunset at one of the outdoor bars.
While waiting for sunset, we witnessed a wedding taking place just below the bar. It looked romantic! We were happy for them. It would be our turn the following day – only ours would be more private, with no hundreds of tourist gawking at us from different directions. Such was the advantage of our rather private location in Imerovigli.
Sunset and twilight in Oia.
Our Wedding Day!
The stunning view of the caldera with its cobalt-blue water as we look back from the trail.
The view of Oia from the trail.
We were thrilled to finally see the view of Fira from the trail.
Perched on an impressive cliff, Fira is the capital of Santorini and is the largest among the villages.
We walked around Oia exploring its charming narrow streets lined with cafes and cozy shops.
We explored the shopping streets of Oia as we searched for…a lipstick! I realized I was getting married and didn’t have a lipstick. I don’t normally wear one and didn’t own one but I thought it would be nice to wear one for the wedding pictures:)
…and at 7:15 pm, with the sunset as our guest of honor, we got married.
A town official officiated our wedding. He conducted the touching ceremony in both Greek and English. He took his time and made the ceremony really special.
Our wedding was as special as we wanted, it was just Keith and I, just all about the two of us. It was not about the wedding dress, or the flower arrangements, or the guest list and seating arrangements, etc. It was all about us getting married and not about having a wedding. A month after we got home from Greece, we had a very intimate and fun wedding celebration with close family and friends. We ate glorious food, we drank fine wine, we danced and danced and laughed until we dropped. No stiff ceremonial stuff. Our wedding in Greece and wedding celebration back home were both very meaningful, memorable and stress–free. We wouldn’t have done it any other way.
How to get married in Greece: Wedding in Greece is universally accepted. Both civil and religious ceremonies are considered legal by the state. According to U.S. Statutes, marriages performed abroad, which are valid under the laws of that country, are generally accepted as valid by any state in the U.S. We found the requirements for non-Greek nationals pretty reasonable. The following are the required documents for a civil wedding (note that religious weddings require additional documents):
- Copy of passport
- Certificate of no impediment (proof that you’re free to marry and can be obtained from city hall)
- Original birth certificate
The certificate of no-impediment and birth certificate should be notarized and affixed with Apostille stamp (in the U.S. this stamp is obtained from city hall or local state department).
All the documents must be translated in Greek. In our case, we sent all the documents to our hostess Despina, the owner of Anastasis Apartments, and she took care of the translation for additional fee outside of the wedding package. Once they were translated and as part of the package, she then took care of the other requirements such as obtaining the marriage certificate, posting the announcement in the local newspaper, scheduling the ceremony with the mayoral office, and arranging for witnesses (herself and her sister). Despina also took care of the photographer, flowers, music, cake and champagne. Really, we just showed up at our wedding!
If you’re interested to get married in Greece and have a lovely and stress-free wedding, we recommend that you contact Despina at Anastasis Apartments.
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Serrapeptase is a protein enzyme isolated from the non-pathogenic enterobacteria Serratia E15 found in silkworms. Once the silkworm has completed its transformation into a moth, it uses this substance to “melt” a hole in its cocoon, thus that it can escape. This enzyme is absorbed through the intestines and transported directly into the bloodstream.
Serrapeptase Benefits and Medical Researches
Serrapeptase enzyme, particularly in Asia and Europe it is clinically used for anti-inflammatory problems such as arthritis, atherosclerosis, fibrocystic breast disease and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Serratiopeptidase is able to dissolve the fibrin and other dead or damaged tissue without harming living tissue. This could enable the dissolution of atherosclerotic plaques without causing any harm to the inside of the arteries. Hans Nieper, German doctor, has reported important improvements from serrapeptase therapy in the circulation of a number of patients with previously compressed arteries. Especially, advises the use of this enzyme to treat blocked carotid arteries when classic surgery is too risky. Because the enzyme digests non-living tissue and leaves live tissue alone, it may be efficacious in removing the deposits of fatty substances, cellular waste products, cholesterol, calcium and fibrin on the inside of the arteries. The fibrinolytic activity of serrapeptase may also be able to help with thickened blood, increased risk of stroke, and phlebitis.
In his researches, Dr. Nieper proved that serratiopeptidase was capability of dissolving and digesting the substances that cause plaque formation on the arterial walls, such as cholesterol, calcium, cellular wastes, various fats, and fibrin, a clotting agent. Excessive plaque results in partial or complete blockage of blood flow through an artery, resulting in arteriosclerosis which could cause a heart attack or stroke. Dr. Nieper explained that serratiopeptidase digests non-living tissue, blood clots, cysts, arterial plaque and inflammation in all forms. It protects against strokes and has been found to be more effectual and fast than EDTA chelation therapies in removing arterial plaque. Serrapeptase acts to safely and effectively reverse chronic inflammation. In recent years, a growing number of sresearchers have come to realize that one of the primary causes for the deposits of deleterious, plaque-forming substances inside arterial walls is chronic, low-grade inflammation.
Serratiopeptidase is a strong therapy for pain and inflammation. Various researches confirm its anti-inflammatory effects, and it has been used for this reason in the reduction of chronic sinusitis and other chronic or acute inflammatory conditions. Serratiopeptidase anti-inflammatory effects are similar to those of the ibuprofen, salicylates and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Unlike NSAID pain drugs, serrapeptase does not cause risky internal bleeding nor is it addictive like other pain drugs. In a study 2008; compared serrapeptase and its anti-inflammatory effect with aspirin and two human pancreatic proteolytic enzymes (chymotrypsin and trypsin). Though all groups were effective at reducing inflammation, serrapeptase was the most effective.
In various studies serratiopeptidase has significantly reduced the elasticity and viscosity of nasal mucus offering great help to people with chronic sinus problems. Serrapeptase reduces the thickness and viscosity of the mucus and improves the elimination of it through bronchopulmonary secretions. Patients treated with serrapeptase for sinusitis and laryngitis experienced a significant decreased in severity of pain, rapid improvement of symptoms after 3-4 days, as well as decreased in nasal stuffiness, infected secretions, and fever. In a study conducted in Italy, gave serratiopeptidase to 193 participants suffering from acute or chronic ear, nose or throat problems over a period of 3 to 4 days. The scientists rated therapy as excellent or good for 97% of participants taking serratiopeptidase compared with just 21% in the placebo group. A study in Japan investigated the efficacy of serratiopeptidase on sputum properties and symptoms in individuals with chronic airway diseases. After four weeks of serratiopeptidase therapy, sputum output, viscosity and sputum neutrophil count decreased significantly. A study reported in the March 2008 edition of Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery demonstrated that Serratiopeptidase supplement reduced pain and inflammation following dental surgery.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is an inflammatory disease of the hand and wrist that is characterized by intense, longlasting pain, inflammation and disability. CTS is usually the result of a combination of factors that increase pressure on the median nerve and tendons in the carpal tunnel, rather than a problem with the nerve itself. Symptoms mostly start gradually, with frequent burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the palm of the hand and the fingers, particularly the thumb and the index and middle fingers. Scientists in India conducted a study to assess the response of serratiopeptidase in people with carpal tunnel syndrome. 20 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome were evaluated clinically after six weeks taking serratiopeptidase. 65 % demonstrated significant clinical development, which was supported by improvement in electrophysiological parameters. While surgery had been considered the first therapy, new researches reveal that the use of serratiopeptidase in conjunction with bromelain and Vitamins B2 and B6 is also useful.
Serratiopeptidase has proven invaluable in accelerating the healing process for leg ulcers, torn ligaments, sprained muscles, and other traumatic injuries, edema as well as post-operative inflammation. A study was conducted on the effect of serratiopeptidase on post-operative pain of the ankle and swelling. In the serratiopeptidase group, the swelling decreased by 50 percent on the third post-operative day, while in the control groups no reduction in swelling occurred. Another double-blind study, reported in the “Pharmatherapeutica“, found that serratiopeptidase reduced swelling in patients who underwent surgery to treat empyema. A cyst or a benign fibrocystic lump that moves freely within the breast tissue characterizes fibrocystic breast disease, a condition that affects millions of women. In a double-blind study, serratiopeptidase was found to decrease breast pain, breast swelling and induration in 85.7 percent of the patients taking the supplement. Experts concluded that serratiopeptidase is a influential and safe remedy for the therapy of breast engorgement.
The enzyme activity is measured in units and are based on the ratio of 10 mg of serratiopeptidase equaling 20,000 units of activity. According to Dr. Nieper, just 3 three 5 mg tablets of serrapeptase daily for twelve to eighteen months are sufficient to remove fibrous blockages from constricted coronary arteries, as confirmed in many of his patients by ultrasound examination. For pain, start with 10 mg daily and work up to 20 mg if necessary. Serrapeptase capsules and tablets are enteric coated and are taken on an empty stomach to ensure that they are activated in the small intestine, rather than in the stomach. Non-enteric coated capsules or tablets are rapidly destroyed by the stomach acid.

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In today's "why didn't we think of that first?" and "wow, sometimes people can be so nice" news, Food and Winereports on a Everytable, a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles, that is doing something special with the prices for its food. Fast food has recently become healthier, which is great, but also causes prices to rise. For low-income households, this can be a problem, which is why Everytable has decided to vary its prices by local income levels.
Set to open with two locations in L.A. this summer, a Jamaican jerk chicken bowl with coconut rice and plantains, the most expensive meal on the menu, will be sold for just $4.50 at their South L.A. location. Across the city in downtown L.A., the same meal will be offered for $9, double the other price.
While the "first two locations are only about two miles apart ... the needs of each community are so different," explains co-founder David Foster. The South L.A. location has more of a grab-and-go vibe than the Downtown location, meaning that it doesn't require as many employees and can keep costs down in that sense.
"I think it's similar to Toms," co-founder Sam Polk said, but instead of a someone somewhere in the world getting a free pair of shoes when you make a purchase, a person only a few miles away from you will be able to afford a healthy meal. Faith in humanity = restored .
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ROCK SPRINGS – Representative Stan Blake, D-Green River, stopped by the Rock Springs City Council on Tuesday night.
The budget session convenes Feb. 8 as Blake prepares to head for Cheyenne. This will be Blake’s ninth session with his first in 2007. With Wyoming seeing significant decreases in revenue streams, mainly from a huge drop in oil and gas, Blake knows they are going to have to make some hard decisions.
Blake also made mention they will convene in a different location for the first time in over 100 years. The session will take place at the Jonah Business Center as the capital goes through renovations.
Rock Springs Councilman Clark Stith asked Blake if they were going to see the $300 million price tag on the renovations come down. Blake said he could envision it “going north” of $300 million. The representative told the council they probably should have handled the renovation project differently. He said the project should have been done in phases and should have not included the Herschler Building.
Another issue on the minds of local elected officials is Abandoned Mine Lands money. Blake said he has fought hard against spending these funds for other projects other than what they are intended for.
“This part of the state right here needs it more than anywhere else,” Blake said.
Councilman Rob Zotti also commented on the issue. He said when you start using the funds for other things, it sends a message to those who provide the funds that there is no need for it.
“I’m really concerned, if we start using those funds for things other than mine reclamation, we’re going to lose that money.”
Another issue brought to Blake’s attention came from Councilman David Halter. He said it was his understanding there will be a charge adding WyoLink user fees. His concern was not only was the legislature making budget cuts, but they are also then turning around and charging a user fee. He urged Blake to watch any program that starts doing this.


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The dedicatory graffiti from the excavations of the Southern Temenos in Olbia provide indisputable evidence for the existence in that district not just of an Aphrodite temenos but also of the existence at the same time as the earlier of her sanctuaries of one for the local Hero Angelos. Despite their fragmentary nature, it has been possible to divide up the graffiti into a number of separate groups and then analyse them accordingly. The largest number of graffiti relate to the early sanctuary of Aphrodite. Worthy of special attention is the graffito (Ἀφροδίτ)ης Δήμιης – “Aphrodite Demia (of the People)” similar to Aphrodite Pandemos well-known in the Hellenic world. Using the information from all available sources it is clear that in the city of the pre-Getic period there existed two sanctuaries of Aphrodite: in the Western Temenos for Aphrodite Urania and in the Southern Temenos for Aphrodite Demia (Pandemos).
Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia – Brill
Published: Nov 13, 2015
Keywords: Pontic Olbia; graffiti; cult of Aphrodite Pandemos, Urania, Demia and Pontia; cult of the Hero Angelos


This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Washington • All three of Utah's House members were waiting around the Capitol on Monday, spending their New Year's Eve awaiting word that they might be called to vote to halt the tax increases on Americans.
Instead, they ended up popping the nonalcoholic sparking cider and hoping for a new year's resolution between President Barack Obama and Congress that could avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
With the House calling off any potential votes Monday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz flipped between "Braveheart" and college football and decried the impasse that curtailed any meaningful deal.
"It's terribly frustrating," Chaffetz said. "I blame the United States Senate for being pathetically slow and I don't think the president did anything to help the process."
The GOP-controlled House passed a bill in August that would protect all current tax rates, but the Senate never took up the Republican measure. All three Utahns in the House including Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson voted for it.
For his part, Matheson says it's a complete failure of the democratic process to be facing the tax increases without congressional action.
"I've been disappointed this wasn't addressed several weeks ago," he said Monday night. That said, he notes, "I don't think there's some precipitous change to our economy that happens at the stroke of midnight."
Matheson, who spent the day with his family in Washington at the Newseum and the National Museum of the American Indian, says the House could be voting Tuesday or Wednesday the last day of the congressional session but so far there isn't any legislation to even look at.
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, followed his Republican colleagues' censure of the Senate for not passing anything before the deadline.
"I really don't want to sound like I'm putting the blame on one person because I certainly would not do that [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid but, bottom line, the House had actually passed its work," Bishop told KSL Newsradio's Doug Wright. "The Senate actually has to do something. Finally."


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By Borja Suarez
MADRID (Reuters) – Five people were arrested when a fishing boat carrying a reported two tonnes of cocaine was intercepted off the Canary Islands, Spanish police said.
The Akt1 was stopped by a Spanish coastguard vessel in waters south of the Spanish archipelago on Saturday and escorted to Las Palmas in Gran Canaria.
Spanish local newspaper El Dia reported that police seized at least two tonnes of cocaine, estimated to have a street value of 50 million euros ($54.03 million).
A spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard said: “We are trying to confirm the amount of drugs on board”.
The five detainees were remanded in custody in Las Palmas.
($1 = 0.9254 euros)
(Reporting by Graham Keeley; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the third virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Ministries of Defence, Environment, Works and Housing as well as Finance, Budget and National Planning are expected to make presentations during the meeting.
Others Ministers present along side with the President at the chamber, and are expected to make presentations include those of Water Resources, Justice, and Aviation while the remaining ministers would be participating in the meeting from their respective offices.
Those in attendance of the meeting included Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President and Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.
NAN gathered that a special documentary programme on the efforts being made by the military in tackling security challenges would be presented by the Ministry of Defence during the meeting.
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A dynamic, talented musician who is experienced in playing in a wide range of styles as a soloist or as part of a section. If your recording project requires the added lift of a saxophone solo, an extra layer of sound or that final flourish, Nicholas Webb should be your first port of call.
Nicholas (Nick) Webb has been playing music since a very young age, first picking up an alto saxophone at the age of 9. Almost immediately he was seen as a promising talent in his schools, being picked as the only student musician to play in bands comprised of teachers and professional musicians for various school productions and shows. He later picked up a clarinet a few years later and also received his first tenor sax, which led to the ability to play a wider range of styles and increase his repertoire. He has been a constant member of various Big Bands, Swing Bands, Concert Bands and Orchestras throughout his years playing, as well as performing solo and as a member of smaller groups. In his college years he performed in a Jazz Quartet which played in many venues, including a concert in the Royal College of Music. He also gained experience playing Chamber Music in Wind Trios and Quartets.
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Inspire your heart with art
My discovery of art as a means to well-being
At school, I was studious and scientific and I suspect my art teacher sighed with relief when I finished his class to start my ‘o’ level options. I left arty, quirky and fun to my brother. In 2015 my dad was suddenly taken severely ill whilst on a break with my mum. I travelled across the country to support my mum for what I thought would be a couple of days. I ended up spending 2 weeks in a travel lodge with her visiting dad daily in the hospital. I bought myself a grown-up colouring book to while away the time. I was soon bored of colouring. In my mind’s eye, I saw C S Lewis’s Aslan the lion telling my dad to take courage. I felt I wanted to draw it for him. I googled a photo of a lion and drew for my dad:
I was surprised by how well I drew. My dad was blown away. He was touched deeply and said he felt I’d been given a gift. I continued drawing whilst we were away but when dad was transferred home my drawing dwindled to very infrequently.
It was 6 years later, after joining the Parenting Mental Health Community, that I began consistently creating artwork again. The group ran some creative connections sessions that coincided with my having therapy for recently diagnosed cPTSD. I remember the first session really well. We divided our paper in two and illustrated our now and our hope for the future. I’m going to share that work with you here. I think it demonstrates what a difficult time I was in. It makes me so grateful to have come so far, over to the other side of the page in just 18 months. The art session helped me acknowledge and process just how challenging things were at that time for me at the same time drawing my attention to possibilities for the future.
The following week I found the subject of the creative connections session challenging as it was a trigger for a traumatic memory. Somehow I stayed in the session and just went off-piste. My therapist had been encouraging me to imagine a compassionate friend. I imagined my little dog Rafi and what he would say to me. I drew the illustration at the beginning of this blog post. My reality was that I felt rubbish but Rafi’s compassionate voice encouraged me to hope that things would get better. That was the first of my ‘her little dog’ illustrations. At this point, I have done about 60 different illustrations. I have a number available to buy as cards, canvases, or prints here in my shop
I loved taking part in the creative connection sessions. They were a lovely peaceful, safe, and relaxing place. They distracted me from the hard work I was doing in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) therapy, they were a break from the mental distress and in some way also aided my processing.
As I continued my journey of recovery from cPTSD art became for me, both self-care and a tool for processing.I drew, scribbled and coloured what I didn’t have words for (I’ve kept these private). I also illustrated lots of Rafi wisdom, that I loved to share. From the place, I am now in, of much improved mental health I have launched Rafiki Art. My tagline is Inspiring hope. That is exactly what I want to do. If you or someone you love is struggling with poor mental health I want you to know that things can get better. Maybe art will help you too.


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This article appeared in Chinese in the Shanghai Book Review on 25 September, but I didn’t see it until I woke up on the 26th, my birthday as well as T. S. Eliot’s. It’s wonderful to have it in Chinese, of course, because I’ve already heard from colleagues in China who saw it, but for those who don’t read Chinese and would prefer something other than the Google Translate version, here’s our original English exchange, which Qiu Xialong then translated. The Chinese version includes photographs I provided.
QIU Xiaolong: It’s such a pleasure to talk to you again, Karen. [We previously spoke on the podcast “QIU Xiaolong on poetry, detective fiction, & a search for cross-cultural understanding.” We have long talked about the possibility of doing something together. Among others, something for Eliot. And for Valerie too. Eliot’s one of the most popular western modernist poets in China. It was a surprise to myself that in the mid-eighties some young people actually put a copy of Chinese translation of Four Quartets on top of dowry in the delivery tricycle parading through the streets. It was considered as modern or modernist at the time. A Chinese friend of mine, Yu Guangming, even memorized the whole poem of The Waste Land in translation. So I would like to start by asking you to introduce yourself to Chinese readers as Valerie Eliot’s secretary, as a literature publisher in your own right with a focus in China, and as a scholar working on a project about T. S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot.
Karen CHRISTENSEN: I’m an American, but I lived in England for over a decade after graduating from the University of California Santa Barbara. I was looking for a part-time job after having a baby, and happened to notice a small boxed advertisement in The Times. Valerie Eliot interviewed me at Faber & Faber a few days later. I was awed, but surprised because I had expected her to be about a hundred years old—I hadn’t realized there was a second Mrs. Eliot! She liked the fact that I shared her husband’s birthday, and that my baby son was named Tom. (Incidentally, he lives in Beijing.)
For Valerie, I was a companion and assistant as well as a secretary. For Fabers, I was the one who was supposed to keep pressure on to get a first volume of the TSE letters done in time to publish for his centenary in 1988. It’s a good thing that I am deadline driven, because she was reluctant to finish – it was hard for her to let go.
I was eager to make a writing career and when I got a contract to write a book I couldn’t wait to tell her and immediately telephoned. But from her point of view it was probably not a great thing, though she was kind enough to offer me TSE’s old desk when she bought a new and much more attractive one. I had to contain my excitement, as you can imagine.
I became an environmental author, and then a publisher of academic books, known for a focus on China. In fact, we publish the Dictionary of Chinese Biography, which has become part of the Oxford University Press biographical collection.
I never intended to write about Eliot, but people often asked me about my experience working on the letters. This led to my writing a long cover feature, entitled “Dear Mrs Eliot,” in the Guardian Review in 2005. When Valerie died in 2012, I was quoted in various newspaper obituaries because no one else who knew her well had written about her, and she gave only three interviews during the entire period of her widowhood. I became curious about who she really was, as a woman, and what it had meant to become the guardian of the flame for so many years. This led me to begin work on a book that will be in part her biography.
QIU Xiaolong: In 2015, John Hopkins University Press published The Annotated Text, The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Volume I, Collected & Uncollected Poems, Volume II, Practical Cats & Further Verses, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It was in accordance to the request made by Valerie that some hitherto unpublished poems could not come to light until three years after her death. In the new collection, we can read and a number of Eliot’s poems for the first time. They are quite personal, in sharp contradiction to his impersonal theory. In fact, some of them are very passionate, almost erotic love poems he wrote to Valerie. So what do you think of the contradiction?
Karen CHRISTENSEN: I think, and everyone seems to agree, that they are dreadful poems. His “Dedication to my wife” is much more impressive and touching. I have read many descriptions now of what Eliot was like, over the decades, and it seems clear that he had a public face that was quite impersonal and austere, but a private character that was very different. Beyond that, he was transformed by his late marriage. He didn’t write anything of significance then, but he was happy in a way I don’t think he had been since he was a little boy. Valerie refers to him as being like a little boy and she treated him rather like a nanny sometimes, and they played practical jokes and obviously enjoyed each other’s company. I’m personally doubtful that there was much in the way of physical passion, and I’ve always wondered if Valerie had hoped to have his child. You might be interested to hear that the intense religiosity that he is known for seems not to have been much of a factor in his life after marriage. Perhaps personal contentment changed his perspective on religion as well as on impersonal theory.
QIU Xiaolong: I’m a huge fan of Eliot, so I cannot help feeling grateful to Valerie for all the work she did for Eliot, such as the editing of the 1974 facsimile of The Waste Land, and the compiling of the two volumes of Eliot’s letters, not to mention her foresighted decision of letting Andrew Lloyd Webber turn Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats into a musical, which she believed would have delighted her husband T. S. Eliot. And in the personal life, she made him so happy in his late years, as is evident in these poems. I remember you once mentioned to me that Valerie was a shy woman. So can you tell us a bit more about Valerie?
Karen CHRISTENSEN: She was shy and quite insecure, which always surprised me. But I have learned that she did very poorly at school and didn’t have many friends, so I think she didn’t have much confidence with people in general. But she was also remarkably determined and persistent. Think how she must have felt, in a time when women married at 20, to have been approaching 30 as a humble secretary with no professional future, hoping against hope that Eliot would return her love. And after they married many people were quite dismissive of her because she came from an ordinary background. Even when I knew her, she was defensive about her social class. (As an American, I found the English class system fascinating!) She must have been very self-critical, too. She found it very hard to write letters and would do them over and over again. She was afraid of the critics, probably one reason she kept delaying publication of the letters.
The fact is that she was only relaxed and talkative was when she had been drinking. Her family were very heavy drinkers, and she unfortunately became an alcoholic, which may have contributed to her decline into dementia. I feel very sad about this, knowing how happy she made Eliot but that she also paid a heavy price.
QIU Xiaolong: The interest in Eliot has never waned among Chinese readers. As early as the thirties of the last century, the well-known translator Zhao Luorui published the first Chinese translation of The Waste Land, and just recently, there’s a Chinese translation of Eliot’s biography T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon. I do not want to say too much about the biography, as I’ve read two earlier biographies by Gordon, Eliot’s Early Years and Eliot’s New Life, so the new biography reads more or less like a rehash of the previous two. On the other hand, the Chinese translation is quite well-done and readable by a young Chinese scholar, and it was named as one of best books for the year, which in itself speaks of Eliot’s popularity among Chinese readers. In this biography as well as in some others, however, there seem to be a popular tendency to present Eliot as an exploiter—though probably not in comment sense of the word—of the women in his life. For instance, some lines in The Waste Land are supposedly said by Vivien: My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. / Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak./ What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? /I never know what you are thinking. Think. That might have come from Vivien, but it’s way too much to claim that Eliot exploited her. As it seems to me, a poet’s achievement lies in rendering the personal into the impersonal. What do you think?
Karen CHRISTENSEN: I prefer to think of what the poet does as rendering the personal into the universal, speaking to all of us, finding common meaning and feeling. Is that impersonal? I know that Eliot did not want a biography written, and I can sympathize with that. He burned many letters, too, feeling that it was his life, not something that belonged to future scholars and writers. (Valerie would no doubt feel the same about being written about.) But we humans look to other lives for understanding, and we’re curious about other people. I think it’s no wonder that we are now so curious about the women in Eliot’s life. For an austere man who took a vow of celibacy when he separated from Vivien, it’s quite intriguing that there were so many women. There are four who are now getting attention, and there were others who loved him and at least one asked him to marry her.
When I was working with Valerie, I spent a lot of time with the letters from the 1920s, and I got to know Vivien Eliot quite well, in a way, from all those hours transcribing her handwritten letters. She was a troubled, erratic, ambitious woman, and Eliot obviously thought her judgment of his poetry was significant. And she contributed to it in various ways: certainly with her vivid voice, her way of looking at the world, but also in her edits to The Waste Land. I was looking at the copy of the Facsimile that Valerie gave me on my first day working for her (I am sure she was very proud of it). I didn’t notice then that while she indicated Vivien’s edits, she, nor Fabers, credited Vivien: only Ezra Pound. I think today in a similar publication, Vivien would be more clearly acknowledged.
The idea, however, that she was somehow a coauthor seems to me rubbish. Every writer picks up ideas, stories, and phrases from other people. I should note that Eliot tried hard to get Vivien’s writing published, and was very angry with Marianne Moore for rejecting a piece. I used to wonder if that too was hard for Valerie, to think that Vivien had been more talented. She joked about it, saying that she had “majored in ironing,” but she really wanted to be respected for the scholarly quality of her editing.
QIU Xiaolong: Perhaps what we are discussing can also be applied to the movie Tom and Viv , and to the recent uproar about the relationship between Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot with the letters unearthed. And in a New Yorker article titled “The Secret History of T. S. Eliot’s Muse”, such a tendency is more pronounced. Chinese readers are also very much interested in the letters unearthed in Princeton University. My daughter registered for me at the university, so that I could have a close look at these letters, but due to the pandemic, I was unable to make the trip. So you may be able to tell more about it.
Karen CHRISTENSEN: I was there on the morning the library released the letters to Emily Hale and it was unforgettable. The most dramatic event, however, was the release of the letter Eliot had left at Harvard, saying that he’d never really loved Hale and that Valerie was the only woman who really mattered to him. Since we were there reading his passionate letters to Hale, his letter was not very convincing. And it was mean-spirited. There is considerable suspicion that the letter was written to reassure Valerie, and perhaps partly crafted by her. It’s not a pleasant part of the story, but I suppose it’s one that most of us can understand. Valerie wanted to be the only woman in his life.
QIU Xiaolong: We’re ushering in the centenary of Eliot’s The Waste Land. People are arranging various activities and celebration for it. A Dutch movie company is making an Eliot documentary, in which I shall participate. You’re more informed us more about the various events for the occasion. In this global age, in one way or another, some Chinese readers would love to participate
Karen CHRISTENSEN: The US and UK T S Eliot societies are doing a great deal more via Zoom, including a conference in two weeks. But I’m sure there will be more in 2022. I wonder if Chinese readers would want to join these organizations and get their publications? It isn’t expensive and I’m sure would be happy to have more Chinese members.
QIU Xiaolong: There are so many questions I would like to ask you, but given the time limit, I have to contend myself with sharing a real story with you. When the movie Tom & Viv was shown in St. Louis, it took all my persuasion power, plus a promise that I would wash dishes if the movie failed to move her, to finally bring my wife to the theater. Believe it or not, in the hometown of Eliot, there were only four people watching the movie, my wife and I, and an old American couple. It turned out to be a movie that disappointed me too, and I had no choice but to keep the word to wash dishes. Indeed, I am more of an idiotic fan than of a “perfect” critic and interviewer, though it gave me the inspiration to rhyme “Eliotic” with “Idiotic” years later in a poem supposedly penned by Inspector Chen.
Karen CHRISTENSEN: I always smile when I realize that I am writing about Tom and Val. There’s one more thing I’d like to tell you. I was in Beijing shortly after Valerie’s death, thinking about her. I walked into a subway station and saw that the columns were wrapped in advertisements for Cats. That would have pleased her very much and I wished she could see it. [Photograph included in the Chinese version.]


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Vietnam and Belarus have agreed to beef up economic and commercial ties, striving to raise two-way trade to US$1 billion next year.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, reached consensus on the issue during their talks, following an official welcome ceremony held for the Vietnamese leader in the capital city of Minsk on May 13.
President Triet said Vietnam always attaches importance to strengthening and developing its friendship and multifaceted cooperation with traditional friends, including Belarus while implementing its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification, multilateralisation and positive and proactive international integration. President Lukashenko spoke highly of the Vietnamese people's great achievements in the process of renewal and national construction and their efforts to improve Vietnam's prestige in the region and the world at large.
The Belarusian leader said he hopes that Vietnam will work as a bridge for Belarus to expand relations with Southeast Asian nations and in return, his country will serve as a gateway for Vietnam to enter Europe.
Both host and guest expressed pleasure at the fine development of the bilateral relationship in recent times past and agreed upon directions and measures to step up friendly and cooperative ties, especially in economy and trade.
The two presidents said economic and trade relations have seen huge progress in recent years, with two-way trade in 2009 recording a four-fold increase over 2005.
They agreed to expand cooperation in producing MAZ automobiles, diesel engines, electric generators, pullers and heavy trucks in Vietnam, and boost cooperative ties in other fields, including culture, education-training, oil and gas, agriculture, banking, tourism, health care and labour.
The two leaders said they believes that the results and agreements reached during President Triet's visit will create a new momentum to foster multi-faceted cooperation between the two nations, particularly in economy and trade, in the years to come.
Triet and Lukashenko also discussed regional and international issues of mutual concern, noting with pleasure that Vietnam and Belarus have cooperated effectively and supported each other at the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement and other international forums.
President Triet took this occasion to thank the Belarusian government and people for their huge assistance to overseas Vietnamese who are living and studying in Belarus. He also thanked President Lukashenko for his decision to permit Vietnamese citizens who had previously worked and studied in Belarus during the former Soviet Union duration to enjoy long-term residence in the country.
President Lukashenko applauded the Vietnamese community in Belarus and pledged to provide further support for them to serve as a bridge to the close friendship between the two countries.
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The others include a cooperation agreement between Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus, an inter-government memorandum of understanding on mutual recognition of each other's market economy status, an agreement on information sharing and supervision of banking operations between the State Bank of Vietnam and the National Bank of Belarus, and a deal between Vietnam's Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park and the national Hi-tech Park of Belarus.
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Throughout the 1980s Lana Rigsby was perhaps best known for creating delicate, Beaux Arts-style architectural paintings. Working with Lowell Williams Design for developers like Houston’s Gerald D. Hines and Toronto-based Cadillac Fairview, Rigsby interpreted iconic buildings of the decade’s most celebrated architects: Philip Johnson, IM Pei, Cesar Pelli, and others. Based on these paintings, TimeLife Books commissioned Rigsby to render architecture through the ages for its encyclopedic series, TimeFrame.
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With even the “entry level” Ferrari F430 now making 483 horsepower, Aston Martin knew it was time to give its flagship Vanquish more power. Thus, in Paris, the English automaker unveiled the Vanquish S, a supercar capable of exceeding 200 mph.
Like the standard Vanquish, the S is powered by a 6.0-liter 48-valve V-12 engine. In the S, however, power has increased from the standard’s 460 horsepower to 520 and a hike in torque from 400 pound-feet up to 425. Engine enhancements include revised mapping, new fuel injectors, and new cylinder heads with fully machined inlet ports and combustion chambers. The Vanquish S has received subtle changes to complement its muscular body, including a more rounded grille, an aerodynamic splitter for improved high-speed stability, and a redesigned trunk lid for reduced lift and improved balance and stability.
All the exterior body panels are constructed from aluminum with each individual panel hand tailored to the central structure to ensure a perfect panel fit. Revised steering geometry provides 20-percent quicker response, enabling the driver to be more precise with inputs and receive more accurate feedback from the chassis, according to Aston. The Sports Dynamics package—stiffer springs and dampers and shorter steering arms—is now standard on the Vanquish S. Plus, the brakes have been upgraded to incorporate bigger six-piston calipers and larger grooved and ventilated front discs.
Perhaps the best reason to purchase a Vanquish S is that customers will be eligible for a complimentary Performance Driving Course, a comprehensive one-to-one driving experience that can be taken at one of three proving grounds—Millbrook in the UK, Lommel in Belgium, or Romeo, Michigan, in North America.


Manchester City travel to Turin this week to play Juventus in their penultimate Champions League group match, with the Italian side facing something of an injury crisis.
Former Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra came off after 28 minutes in Juventus’ 1-0 win over AC Milan on Saturday evening and won’t play, with Sami Khedira, Hernanes and Martin Caceres also likely to miss out.
“His [Evra’s] condition will be monitored over the course of the coming days," the club stated.
“Also on the sidelines was Hernanes, who reported discomfort in his adductor muscle and will undergo tests tomorrow.
“Finally, Martin Caceres’ condition will continue to be assessed on a daily basis as he bids to shake off a thigh strain.”
Roberto Pereyra and Kwadwo Asamoah have already been ruled out, leaving Juventus looking somewhat short on numbers ahead of City’s visit on Wednesday.
The Blues are not at full strength either. David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Wilfried Bony and Samir Nasri are all set to miss the game.
City have already qualified for the knock-out stages, but if they beat the Bianconeri they will confirm their status as winners of Group D and guarantee themselves a last-16 tie against a runner up from another group. A draw would leave them needing in a win in their final match at home to Borussia Monchengladbach to secure top spot.
Juventus know a win for them will see them join City in qualifying for the last 16 and put them in pole position to finish as Group D winners.


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By Shuli Ren
The S&P 500 briefly broke through the 2,000 level, a psychologically important landmark, during Monday trading.
Analysts are turning bullish towards Korea’s shipbuilders, saying the worst is over. Year-to-date, Hyundai Heavy Industries (009540.KS) slumped 48.1%, Samsung Heavy Industries (010140.KS) dipped 32.2%. Bloomberg reports:
While a strengthening won and falling ship prices spurred the industry’s biggest second-quarter loss since at least 2010, bulls from Hana Daetoo Securities Co. to JPMorgan Chase & Co. say the worst is over as new container-vessel orders replace older unprofitable contracts. China, the world’s biggest exporter, reported a bigger-than-estimated jump in overseas shipments last month while a measure of commodity shipping rates has jumped 50 percent from this year’s low.
The shares trade at 0.7 times net assets, versus 1.1 for the Kospi 200 and the Bloomberg World Shipbuilding Index.
“The only way they can go now is up,” said Park Moo Hyun, an analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities in Seoul. “Earnings can’t get any worse than the second quarter. The bright side to this is that there is still strong demand for new ships.”
China has set up a 20 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) investment fund to help bolster its civil aviation industry. New York listed China Eastern Airlines (CEA) jumped 4.3%. China Southern Airlines (ZNH) rose 3.3%.
China’s largest real estate developer China Vanke (2202.HK) has teamed up with Alibaba Group offering discounts to home buyers who also shopped on Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Taobao.


The Health Research Authority moves to make research transparency the norm
16th September 2021
New reporting standards have been implemented to ensure that all researchers fulfil their responsibilities to make their research open and transparent - this is in line with the commitments set out in the Make it Public research transparency strategy
From Wednesday 15 September health and social care researchers are expected to submit information at the end of their research study to the Health Research Authority (HRA) online, explaining how they have fulfilled their transparency responsibilities. This is part of a set of changes that make it easy for researchers to be transparent and enable the HRA to know whether they are meeting the requirements.
A key responsibility is that researchers plan at the outset of their study how they will communicate the results to participants at the end of the study. The new reporting requirement will help the HRA check that this has been done. Researchers are also expected to submit a lay summary of results, which the HRA will publish on its website, ensuring research participants and the public can easily find and understand the outcome of the studies.
The changes have been developed by the HRA, in discussion with NHS Research Scotland, Health and Care Research Wales and Health and Social Care Northern Ireland and will apply to all studies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that are yet to submit a final report.
Juliet Tizzard, Director of Policy and Partnerships at the HRA, said: "When we were developing the Make it Public strategy, many research participants told us that they had taken part in studies but never heard about the results – whether directly or through public information. They felt undervalued and frustrated and were less willing to take part again. We made a commitment to change that – to make it clear to researchers was is expected of them, to help them be transparent and to monitor how well they are doing.
"Today’s changes to reporting at the end of research studies - coupled with changes we have already made to help researchers plan at the start how they will inform participants at the end – fulfil that commitment. We know that most researchers want to be transparent and just need help to do that. Our published guidance on writing a lay summary of their results can support them in doing this."
The full Make It Public strategy and implementation plan can be found at www.hra.nhs.uk/makeitpublic


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Gold futures settled higher for a fourth straight day Monday, after fluctuating for most of the day on hopes of further stimulus measures ahead of the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve policy meet later this week. Investors were also upbeat after the stand taken by the French and German leaders, and the ECB chief on protecting the eurozone.
Gold for August delivery, the most actively traded contract, gained $1.70 or 0.1 percent to close at $1,619.70 an ounce Monday on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Gold traded at an intraday high of $1,625.80 an ounce and a low of $1,613.10 an ounce.
Last week, gold gained over 2 percent as eurozone worries after assurances from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande to extend support to the euro at any cost, close on the heels of a similar pledge from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.
The euro traded lower against the dollar at $1.2259 on Monday, as compared to $1.2298 late Friday in North America. The euro scaled a high of $1.2310 intraday and a low of $1.2226.
The dollar index, which tracks the U.S. unit against six major currencies, traded at 82.826 on Monday, up from from 82.343 in North American trade late Friday. The dollar scaled a high of 82.99 intraday and a low of 82.71.
In economic news, eurozone economic sentiment deteriorated in July with lower confidence in all sectors, data from the European Commission showed. The economic sentiment index came in at 87.9, down from 89.9 a month ago. The reading was also below expectations of 88.9.
Elsewhere, the Spanish economy in the second quarter contracted 0.4 percent quarter-on-quarter, but was in line with Bank of Spain estimates, data from the statistical office INE showed. Separately, the statistical office said Spain's harmonized inflation rose to 2.2 percent in July from 1.8 percent in June.
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